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Speaker 1: is a breakdown of every Week eighteen game, along with
Speaker 1: the recap of how our ten person panel expects each
Speaker 1: game to turn out. The game preview guy here to
Speaker 1: drive the bus. We begin with the big Sunday night
Speaker 1: football game in Green Bay. When is the last time
Speaker 1: a Detroit Green Bay game late in the year had
Speaker 1: this kind of a vibe? As far as where we're
Speaker 1: at right now, get better than this. Lions at Lambo
Speaker 1: to face the Packers, who make the dance if they win.
Speaker 1: When you start to believe something strongly that some reculous
Speaker 1: things can happen, the pack the only ones who control
Speaker 1: their destiny in the NFC. When it comes to unwrapping
Speaker 1: the last golden playoff ticket, I'm so proud of you, guys.
Speaker 1: I'm getting really emotional right now. Lions have to win
Speaker 1: this one and hope for an upset on the West Coast.
Speaker 1: Motivation not an issue for either team. Let's go Lions,
Speaker 1: winners of seven of their last nine, Packers winners four straight.
Speaker 1: A A run is cool and all but most of
Speaker 1: the credit to green Bay's run goes to its defense.
Speaker 1: They haven't allowed more than twenty points during their streak.
Speaker 1: The rushes on the type pocketings justin Hollans mis Detroit's
Speaker 1: success tied to an offense fifth and points per game
Speaker 1: in two so let's get ready to rumble. Indeed, Detroit
Speaker 1: showed Chicago what its O face looks like on till
Speaker 1: last week. Forty one points Jared Goff, three touchdowns, no
Speaker 1: interceptions over two hundred and fifty yards, a rating near
Speaker 1: one thirty five, twenty nine touchdowns against seven I and
Speaker 1: ties this season, rating of a hundred point one. What
Speaker 1: a year. Got a bet out there into the ads
Speaker 1: out touch that Detroit lion. The challenge he faces this
Speaker 1: week like a really good madam player beating me, and
Speaker 1: then right away having to face a fourteen year old
Speaker 1: who knows what they're doing. The d Goff faces this
Speaker 1: time around an entirely different east. Green Bay's defense absolutely
Speaker 1: clamped locked, strapped the mighty Vikings offense last week, picked
Speaker 1: off Kurt Cousins three times, Ruddy Ford with a deep interception.
Speaker 1: That's eight turnovers Kurt Hackers defense in the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: And then there was the statement by JayR Alexander that
Speaker 1: likely had she heads out of their chairs screaming no
Speaker 1: he didn't, Yes he did, and then yes they did.
Speaker 1: They backed it up by holding justin Jefferson too. One
Speaker 1: catch fifteen yards on five targets of sideline, and he's
Speaker 1: got a little gritty next to Jefferson. This week Alexander
Speaker 1: and company face an attack that uses a different recipe.
Speaker 1: Detroit's top four in receiving yards of this season all
Speaker 1: white outs Aman Ross st. Brown doesn't gritty, so not
Speaker 1: sure how he'd mock him, but he has over a
Speaker 1: hundred receptions over eleven hundred yards, six touchdowns on the season.
Speaker 1: He's been goffs go to dj Chart though has also
Speaker 1: come on strong the last six weeks. The battle in
Speaker 1: the trenches will be big. Golf had all sorts of
Speaker 1: time versus Chicago. He's had good protection all year. Detroit's
Speaker 1: line is legit right. They take on a very aggressive
Speaker 1: pass rush green Bay with a plus thirty. Pressure rate
Speaker 1: over thirty is high, and when a blitz rate is
Speaker 1: over thirty it is two. And there's is press Pitt
Speaker 1: Smith so Goff versus five plus pass rushers this year
Speaker 1: a hundred and five point one rating fifteen touchdowns against
Speaker 1: four I n T s. Not too shabby. Touch down Lions.
Speaker 1: Lions run game very underrated part of their offense. Keep
Speaker 1: in mind they are eleventh and rush attempts this year.
Speaker 1: Last week, Jamal Hinckle Mcringleberry Williams a hundred and forty
Speaker 1: four yards six point six yards per carry, another celebration
Speaker 1: in the paint and check it out kept it to
Speaker 1: two thrusts, no flags. His partner in crime, DeAndre Swift,
Speaker 1: seventy eight yards seven point one an attempt a touchdown.
Speaker 1: The Lions ran for two hundred sixty five yards total
Speaker 1: last week. The five touchdown Packers defense versus the run.
Speaker 1: While they held Dalvin Cook in check, they still gave
Speaker 1: up some big runs to Alexander Madison, allowed over five
Speaker 1: yards a run to Minnesota. Overall, have given up five
Speaker 1: yards per attempt to running backs. In Park said for
Speaker 1: the touchdown. How Green Bay's own run game fairs is
Speaker 1: also a huge key in this matchup. Aaron Jones a
Speaker 1: hundred and eleven yards seven point nine yards per carry
Speaker 1: last week, five point three per run for the season.
Speaker 1: Now you get too from to the end to put
Speaker 1: the touchstown a J. Dillon will get his two. Green
Speaker 1: Bay ran for a hundred and sixty three yards last
Speaker 1: week on four point nine a run A couple of
Speaker 1: touchdowns gifted telling to the left side of the for
Speaker 1: the Tuchtown. Detroit's defense light green Bays isn't strong versus
Speaker 1: backs either four point eight or run allowed to the
Speaker 1: position plowing right side. Unlike green Bay's defense, though, Detroit's
Speaker 1: play versus the past hasn't been good. Rating allowed in
Speaker 1: the mid nineties eight yards per attempt allowed. He's gonna
Speaker 1: fire right, Yes, gay day off bar cold blooded. Sure,
Speaker 1: they did play justin fields the passer well, but even
Speaker 1: a Rogers with limited weapons is more challenging. Rogers hasn't
Speaker 1: thrown for two hundred forty yards in any of the
Speaker 1: four games they've just won, hasn't had a hundred plus rating,
Speaker 1: hasn't thrown for two t ds in any of the games.
Speaker 1: He doesn't seem to care they're winning. He's still there lurking.
Speaker 1: The fact that we came back from four and eight
Speaker 1: then put ourselves into the to make the playoffs is
Speaker 1: pretty special. Lions did rack up seven sacks versus the Bears,
Speaker 1: just no, Packers line is significantly stronger than Chicago's. Green
Speaker 1: Bay quarterbacks have had the luxury of facing pressure just
Speaker 1: eighteen points seven percent of the time. A few teams
Speaker 1: have been better Rogers Watson Touchsdow. Now Detroit did beat
Speaker 1: Green Bay earlier this year. It's what sparked their turnaround.
Speaker 1: It's a weird one though they won fifteen to nine
Speaker 1: and week nine. Jus what it looked like the Packers.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get back in this thing, he says. Uh.
Speaker 1: Rogers versus Stafford last week of the year, Green Bay win.
Speaker 1: That's the last time Rogers faced Detroit with both teams
Speaker 1: playing for something late. Only one believer in the pride
Speaker 1: on the ten person panel, NFL dot Com writer Mark
Speaker 1: Sessler taking the Lions, the other nine Green Bay. This
Speaker 1: is a playoff game loser has done for the year.
Speaker 1: Winner moves on along with the a f C South
Speaker 1: Crown Hey Crowns of Crowns. Titans sat plenty of their
Speaker 1: guys last week and prep for this matchup. The Jaguars
Speaker 1: did not, but then eventually they did. So. Let's rewind
Speaker 1: a Week fourteen number of relevant takeaways from that Jags
Speaker 1: win over Tennessee keeps it on its own rate. Tries
Speaker 1: to get to the corner died for they had touched
Speaker 1: down Trevor Lawrence. He was hot three t d s
Speaker 1: when it was all over. Za Jones had a pretty
Speaker 1: big game Evan Ingram and even bigger outing a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty two yards and two touchdowns for the touchdown
Speaker 1: by Evan. Titans might not have had incentive last week,
Speaker 1: but they still gave up two touchdowns to Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 1: A ninety five rating allowed to tight ends for the year,
Speaker 1: plenty of time fires touchdown leaping grabbed by Dalton Schults.
Speaker 1: Only one team is allowed more passing yards per game
Speaker 1: than Tennessee. Very few teams have allowed a higher rate
Speaker 1: to wide receivers. In two their dial turned all the
Speaker 1: way up to one oh two point six. They gave
Speaker 1: up a hundred yards to Seedee Lamb last week. Time
Speaker 1: firing into Tennessee territory ced Lamb. He battled in the
Speaker 1: Titans pass rush against the Jags O line. Tennessee's secondary
Speaker 1: needs someone to hurry Lawrence. Titans pass rush has Denico Autry,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons, DeMarcus Walker, Rashad Weaver, all of them have
Speaker 1: five and a half sacks or more. Five Jones flushed
Speaker 1: in trouble down goes Lawrence, though one of the least
Speaker 1: sacked qubs in the game this season, but for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: Titans rushed defense one of the best versus running backs.
Speaker 1: Three point for per run allowed, one point nine per
Speaker 1: carry allowed to Zeke on nineteen tries third and short.
Speaker 1: She can't get away from Jack Gibbons. They get Travis
Speaker 1: eat In this week. Another big outing from him last
Speaker 1: week over a hundred yards and to score there he
Speaker 1: goes when he faced the Titans, though they stone Walden.
Speaker 1: The run game will clearly be more important to Tennessee's offense.
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry didn't play versus Dallas. He would have had
Speaker 1: a fine outing versus the Jags save two fumbles, but
Speaker 1: he was over a hundred yards against him. Has been
Speaker 1: over the century mark in his last three games five.
Speaker 1: Jacksonville is capable of making things tough on him. They're
Speaker 1: holding running backs to four a run. The hole is
Speaker 1: there momentarily, but just can't plant get it quickly. Titans
Speaker 1: still had Ryan Tannehill when they played Jacksonville. They don't anymore.
Speaker 1: Malik Willis took over but was only able to throw
Speaker 1: for ninety nine yards and got picked off twice by
Speaker 1: Houston in Week sixteen, So they started Joshua Dobbs last week.
Speaker 1: You know the ad where the kid's band is trying
Speaker 1: out slash Titans are like, you threw for more than
Speaker 1: a hundred yards and a touchdown stop, you have the job.
Speaker 1: The past defense he faces has some respectable digits versus
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that fall is picked off, It is picked off
Speaker 1: the right ticket. Nine Jaguars votes, one for Tennessee from
Speaker 1: m J D, who I believe has been employing reverse
Speaker 1: psychology with his last few Jags picks, so take it
Speaker 1: for what it's worth. The Baltimore Ravens are on the
Speaker 1: road to conclude their regular season. They faced the Bengals
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, which means their players and fans returned to
Speaker 1: the site where they just endured an emotional experience difficult
Speaker 1: to describe, so let's just start here. When the two
Speaker 1: teams take the field, it'll be two teams that are
Speaker 1: playoff bound no matter what. The a f C North
Speaker 1: title could be on the line, and that's because Baltimore
Speaker 1: beat Cincinnati earlier this season. Across the middle, Andrews has
Speaker 1: it the five turns and is in for a touched
Speaker 1: up was Week five, So it's been a while that
Speaker 1: Baltimore one nineteen seventeen. Their defense held Joe Burrow to
Speaker 1: two seventy yards, picked him off, held Jamar Chase to
Speaker 1: fifty yards. Such a touch or cui, it was very
Speaker 1: much Ravens football. Ravens football this season built on good
Speaker 1: defense first and foremost third fewest points per game allowed, second,
Speaker 1: best in the red zone, fourth and goal par rolls
Speaker 1: to play. Baltimore secondary has been healthier lately to under
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifteen yards passing aloud, and four of
Speaker 1: their last five games broke it up Clark. Bengals fans
Speaker 1: might counter, when is the last time they faced an
Speaker 1: upper tier type QB Week twelve? Trevor Lawrence. Maybe he
Speaker 1: hung two hundred ninety four yards on them. Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: certainly qualifies as upper tier. He's had an upper tier year,
Speaker 1: thirty four touchdowns, a completion rate right under seventy, a
Speaker 1: rating over a hundred. Joe has the ball, fakes to
Speaker 1: Vixi from the pocket, throws into the end zone. Higgins
Speaker 1: bakes the catch for the Bengals touched up. Baltimore Secondary
Speaker 1: hasn't faced a group of US catchers like there's since
Speaker 1: well since they faced them. T Higgins a one K
Speaker 1: guy already, Jamar Chase knocking on the door despite all
Speaker 1: that time, miss and the unsung hero of the group,
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd has over seven hundred yards. Broke wants to
Speaker 1: throw pass caught by Boyd, tackled at the five. Burrow
Speaker 1: looking his throw caught by Chase heads for the end
Speaker 1: zone touch. The Burrow throws a slant Higgins with a catch,
Speaker 1: he breaks a tackle. Pit's thence the ball touch do again.
Speaker 1: The Ravens are like, yeah, we locked all that up
Speaker 1: and can do it again. And they'd love to see
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson do what he did in that game again
Speaker 1: because that would mean he was back on the field,
Speaker 1: keep still on his speed. Bengals forty five, forty it's
Speaker 1: anyone's guess how bad his injury is. A shot at
Speaker 1: a playoff home game and a division crown would seem
Speaker 1: like enough incentive, but injuries don't care about incentive. If
Speaker 1: it's Tyler Huntley again, that's problematic. He's have to throw
Speaker 1: for a hundred and forty yards in any of his
Speaker 1: four starts throwing across the ten yard line. That would
Speaker 1: seem like easy pickings for Bengals defense, with the lowest
Speaker 1: completion percentage allowed in the NFL, the sixth lowest rating allowed.
Speaker 1: Righty pouncing in the pocket his throw intercepted. Baltimore isn't
Speaker 1: a past first team, but they need something from it.
Speaker 1: J K. Dobbins is doing his part still. He's been
Speaker 1: giving them four point nine a run over the last
Speaker 1: four games since returning from his injury. Trademark of this
Speaker 1: offense kick out, get to the second level, get down
Speaker 1: on those linebackers. Dobbins and Jackson were both efficient in
Speaker 1: that Week five win two. Bengals run defense has gotten
Speaker 1: better sense thing though, holding quarterbacks to four point four
Speaker 1: yards per carry. That's respectable. Running backs to three point
Speaker 1: nine to carry that's fifth best look at that play
Speaker 1: up front for the Cincinnati defensive front. All ten voters
Speaker 1: sided with Cincinnati in this game. Clean Bengals suite the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots off to Buffalo for the last week
Speaker 1: of the year. Playoffs are on the line for them,
Speaker 1: taking on the Bills, who have to try and focus
Speaker 1: after going through an emotional experience that can't really be
Speaker 1: put into words. The Patriots win this week, they make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. These two played each other about a month ago,
Speaker 1: recent enough, it's still somewhat relevant. Bill's defense led them
Speaker 1: to the win twenty four to ten in Week thirteen,
Speaker 1: the key holding New England to three for twelve on
Speaker 1: third down. They packed the line to the Bills and
Speaker 1: the blows on the ground. Stevenson's the fumbles, but they'll
Speaker 1: have to kill Bills. Past defense held mac Jones to
Speaker 1: a hundred ninety five yards under five and a half
Speaker 1: yards per attempt, and they only allowed one play over
Speaker 1: twenty yards all game to the Patriots go a yard
Speaker 1: or two beyond the first down Barker, even if he cats,
Speaker 1: he's he's short by a yard or two. Since then,
Speaker 1: New England has gone two and two, though the two
Speaker 1: losses could have easily been wins save two late game fumbles.
Speaker 1: Buffalo hasn't lost a game since. They're on a six
Speaker 1: game win streak, still hoping to lock up home field,
Speaker 1: advantaged to fires into the end don in it is
Speaker 1: Cape Davis now. Matt Jones is playing better recently compared
Speaker 1: to when he played the Bills coupled t ds last
Speaker 1: week point for rating two hundred three yards back to
Speaker 1: back good games for him, four t d s and
Speaker 1: zero picks, probably the best two game stretch he's had
Speaker 1: all year. Jones swings it off Hi and handled for
Speaker 1: the touchdown that hats Passing attacks still isn't fueled by
Speaker 1: any one guy, game by game wide receiver Jacoby Myers
Speaker 1: tight end, Hunter Henry running back where mondre Stevenson are
Speaker 1: the most consistent recipients of max targets. Really good protection
Speaker 1: allows Mac Jones to spot his target and boys he
Speaker 1: on target. Beautiful throw to an open Jacoby Myers. Bills
Speaker 1: past defense has given up three hundred plus yards four
Speaker 1: times this season, but they've held teams under two hundred
Speaker 1: thirty five eleven games. Not once has anyone landed between
Speaker 1: two hundred forty and three hundred against them. That's weird.
Speaker 1: Held the last five teams under two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: five yards passing have some of the best stats versus
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in playing hunting two get the throwing tip to
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and falls into complete Patriots pass
Speaker 1: defense it's been just as tough their neighbors and just
Speaker 1: about every category his passes afflicted and intercepted. They might
Speaker 1: have more pressure to contain Buffalo's passing attack early. The
Speaker 1: Patriots don't want to chase points because it's harder to
Speaker 1: incorporate Stevenson as a runner. Nine hundred and eighty six
Speaker 1: yards for the year four point eight or one. Look
Speaker 1: at the fidget cut, cut, usually again with another cut,
Speaker 1: and then it gets up feel vertically not terrible, not
Speaker 1: good either. That's Buffalo's defense versus running backs four point
Speaker 1: three yards per carry allowed, and the Jets strike to
Speaker 1: begin the third quarter with a touchdown rout. Still, Jones
Speaker 1: and company face a Buffalo defense that's the second hardest
Speaker 1: to score on, hardest to score on in the red
Speaker 1: zone top ten, and yards per game allowed. And on
Speaker 1: third day target ball comes out in complete and Milano
Speaker 1: came over to make it difficult. New England's defense, meantime,
Speaker 1: faces an offense top ten in the big four categories,
Speaker 1: points for game, yards for game, third down in red
Speaker 1: zone TD scoring jock Head to the end zone is
Speaker 1: in rips down. Josh Allen had a clean game in
Speaker 1: their win over New England, a couple of touchdowns, a
Speaker 1: hundred and six point zero rating. Stefon Digs the star
Speaker 1: pass catcher in that game seven catches ninety two yards.
Speaker 1: Let's get the ball to our guy one on one
Speaker 1: matchup and he just turns Jonathan Jones around. Allen has
Speaker 1: had a good season, but he's had some trouble since
Speaker 1: hurting his elbow in Week nine. Starting with that game,
Speaker 1: only three plus one hundred rating games, five sub ninety
Speaker 1: rating games, including his last full game versus Chicago. New
Speaker 1: England's defense is good enough to hold him to a
Speaker 1: six stands in far side rips off Gordon Digs. Production
Speaker 1: has been down recently as a result, but still thirteen
Speaker 1: hundred twenty five yards on the year or a hundred
Speaker 1: and one catches ten touchdown just no more than sixty
Speaker 1: yards in three straight games. Name what about the trenches.
Speaker 1: Bills have allowed the ninth few of sacks with time
Speaker 1: throwing too play across midfield Pie Dawson knots. They take
Speaker 1: on a pass team in love with gardening planted fifty
Speaker 1: two hubs, second most in the NFL. Spin three New
Speaker 1: England players get there. Those rush attack can't be overlooked
Speaker 1: in this matchup. They don't run a ton, but James Cook,
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary, and Alan have led the Bills to a
Speaker 1: five point three run yard per carry average, second highest
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Big Hole. You get him running downhill,
Speaker 1: he puts a lot of pressure on those safety is
Speaker 1: trying to come up and to run support. Ten person
Speaker 1: panel all took the Bills to sweep the Patriots. It
Speaker 1: all comes down to this week. Eighteen Jets licking their wounds,
Speaker 1: playing for pride in the potential role of spoiler on
Speaker 1: the road in Miami. The Dolphins still alive, but stumbling
Speaker 1: in on a five game losing street. Jones swims it
Speaker 1: up and handled for the touchdown to make the dance.
Speaker 1: The Fins need this win, combined with Buffalo beating New England.
Speaker 1: Their team's offense driven by the pass. But who is
Speaker 1: going to be behind the wheel. The guy behind the
Speaker 1: guy got hurt again last week, so the guy behind
Speaker 1: the guy behind the guy was in again. Skyler Thompson,
Speaker 1: the rookie had a Kansas State rushes on the way
Speaker 1: his passes deflected and intercepted. Skyler Thompson and Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: last week each a touchdown pass each and I n
Speaker 1: T each with a sub ninety rating. The cheetah and
Speaker 1: the penguin both held to under sixty receiving yards. Rich
Speaker 1: water comes it intercepted, picked up by Kyle Tucker. It's
Speaker 1: not inconceivable that Tah returns, but Tungua volois concussion issues
Speaker 1: make it tricky. He clearly would give them their best
Speaker 1: shot at winning. Hill and Waddle become much harder to contain.
Speaker 1: Both guys have put up monster years. He's got still
Speaker 1: a touchdowf for Waddle. Hold on guts, jail and Waddle.
Speaker 1: We got the penguin in the ant gets it off,
Speaker 1: goes deep field diary kill, got behind everybody in took
Speaker 1: gleat it rip whoever gets the knot at QB. For
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, they've got a tough task, though, facing the
Speaker 1: league's second best past defense and the Jets Sauce Gardner
Speaker 1: four passes defense last week. He's the leader in that category.
Speaker 1: Defensive Rookie of the Year my so developed for a
Speaker 1: young player. Watch that left hand come inside there knocked
Speaker 1: that thing away. Miami's quarterbacks have to remain upright long
Speaker 1: enough to throw the football to Given the Jets forty
Speaker 1: four sacks this season, seventh best in the NFL not
Speaker 1: the match up these Dolphins need trying to eke into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Ch spin, pick sacks, three New England players
Speaker 1: get there. Maammy could copy a page from Seattle's playbook.
Speaker 1: The Jets got gashed on the ground in their loss
Speaker 1: to Seattle last week. Hundred ninety eight yards on five
Speaker 1: point to a carry could demonstrate a late season weakness.
Speaker 1: Socker the roof, look her rush. Maybe that's an opening
Speaker 1: for Raheem, who has provided most of the Dolphins rush
Speaker 1: yards this season. What do you want for me? I
Speaker 1: have to read like two hundred and fifty of these.
Speaker 1: I have to amuse myself at times. Most Dirt and
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson, though both do average over four point five
Speaker 1: a run, they just don't get used. A tone to
Speaker 1: the test. Five touched out Dolphins defense could very easily
Speaker 1: lead them to victory. The Jets have gone their last
Speaker 1: eight quarters without a touchdown. Mike White came back and
Speaker 1: got the starting nod this past week against Seattle. No touchdowns,
Speaker 1: two interceptions appears this is a team that will be
Speaker 1: QB shopping this offseason. White rolls stamp it with something's
Speaker 1: got to give them. The Dolphins defense allows almost twenty
Speaker 1: five points a game, sixth worst in the league, and
Speaker 1: they allow the sixth most passing yards a game. Jokes
Speaker 1: twin pass touchdown asked for when these first two met
Speaker 1: If Skyler Thompson gets the nod, he would be seeing
Speaker 1: the Jets for a second time. He was nineteen of
Speaker 1: thirty three one pick no scores. That was back in
Speaker 1: Week five, a contest that saw the Jets dismantled the
Speaker 1: Dolphins to a tune of forty to seventeen frac The
Speaker 1: Berril Spronts left turns the park a TEG five pot
Speaker 1: Lucky for Miami. The Jets offensive output versus them in
Speaker 1: Week five was in admiration. Those forty points the most
Speaker 1: they've scored by far this year. Winds up Betty's from
Speaker 1: Behind The follows out It's Rule of Fumball panel was
Speaker 1: split on this game. Five Miami votes five for the Jets.
Speaker 1: The l A Rams end their season by heading north
Speaker 1: to Seattle. The Rams don't have anything on the line,
Speaker 1: but Seattle does thanks to a big win over the
Speaker 1: Jets in Week eighteen. On the run, Eryl Taylor brought
Speaker 1: him down. That's time expires. Seahawks gotta beat l a
Speaker 1: hope Detroit beats Green Bay. If those two things happen
Speaker 1: onto the playoffs, they go, and if they can play
Speaker 1: as complete a game as they did last week, they
Speaker 1: could take care of things fairly easily on their own end.
Speaker 1: Cloaks one for the ends a Shaw, Gino Smith two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no I n t s against an elite secondary, a
Speaker 1: rating over a hundred. They made it tough on him
Speaker 1: to find his two main guys, so he adapted top
Speaker 1: three past catchers last week tight ends and a running
Speaker 1: back Smith wide open. That's his tight end again. Rams
Speaker 1: have not been strong against the past this season. They
Speaker 1: didn't play it well last week. They've allowed a ninety
Speaker 1: five point nine rating to white outs overall in two
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey's rating allowed a cartman like a hundred and
Speaker 1: eleven point five. It ain't just big bones your's. Harvard
Speaker 1: Is completed seventh straight up the same make it eight
Speaker 1: in a row, Kedallen. Last time these two teams played
Speaker 1: Week thirteen, three Seattle win who had the big games
Speaker 1: Gino dk Metcalf Tyler Lockett hundred and twenty seven yards
Speaker 1: and a TD for one guy a hundred twenty eight
Speaker 1: yards and a t D for the other Smith three
Speaker 1: hundred sixty seven yards. Three tdo takes the snap, four
Speaker 1: man rush, got a half roll, throws back inside rich
Speaker 1: and you got catch touchdown. Seattle's run game was in
Speaker 1: the hands of Kenneth Walker at the time. He got
Speaker 1: hurt in that game. He's back and back to looking good,
Speaker 1: back to back a hundred plus yard rush games for him. Walker,
Speaker 1: the rookie who's walk her rushman Field down the side.
Speaker 1: Blody goes. The Rams defense he faces just allowed a
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty two yards to Austin Ekeler and two
Speaker 1: t ds on just ten attempts to throw the same
Speaker 1: Heckler touchdown. Hawks defense comes in off a nice outing
Speaker 1: to Jets aren't offensive scoring connoisseurs, but Seattle picked off
Speaker 1: Mike White two times, no touchdowns allowed, held the Jet
Speaker 1: to six points by throws. A blog was a bit
Speaker 1: of a flukey showing though Seattle's bottom ten and points
Speaker 1: per game allowed this season, how much of a difference
Speaker 1: is there between White and Baker Mayfield. Baker himself hasn't
Speaker 1: been horrible individually for the Rams, four t d s
Speaker 1: against one I N T point to rate in, but
Speaker 1: the Rams offense, since he took over seventeen or fewer
Speaker 1: points in three of the four games. Mayfield looking a
Speaker 1: soone talking up dutifully done by Michael Davis. Seattle's pass
Speaker 1: rush can help its back end out. Rams have allowed
Speaker 1: to plus thirty pressure rate fifty four sacks taken. As
Speaker 1: a young Sarah Lynn would say, that's too much man.
Speaker 1: Before here they till the blitz. Mayfield initially escaped Puddy's
Speaker 1: buried Seattle forty sacks on defense and a pressure rate
Speaker 1: just under thirty sack up the thirty five f Fhite
Speaker 1: was looking around. Cam Acres is the real threat to
Speaker 1: Seattle's defense. They've given up four point six along into
Speaker 1: backs this year. Acres back to back games over a
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen yards Russians. This is Acres breaking three
Speaker 1: Acres still going. Nine votes have Seattle taking care of business.
Speaker 1: M j D the lone dissenter calling for a Rams upset.
Speaker 1: The Cleveland Browns finish off their year on the road
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. The Steelers with hope still but no matter what,
Speaker 1: also playing for their coach. Hey man, I am never
Speaker 1: apposed to talking. I just like talking to that cooling
Speaker 1: through the vote. These two clubs aren't overly fond of
Speaker 1: each other. The Browns would love to be the team
Speaker 1: that sealed Mike Tomlin's first sub five hundred season. Ever,
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't be flirting with the line if t J.
Speaker 1: Watt hadn't gotten hurt. He won't get any awards this season,
Speaker 1: but you can argue there isn't a more valuable player
Speaker 1: or a better defensive player gets the staff. He sacked
Speaker 1: the inside the forty yard line. Just what we were
Speaker 1: talking about it. D J. Watt up glassnig off the
Speaker 1: ads for his fifth sack up the year Pittsburgh one
Speaker 1: and six when he was hurt, seven and two with
Speaker 1: him on the field, three and a half sacks in
Speaker 1: his last four games, Crumblings what those first full Cup
Speaker 1: It's fifth game back from being out eight weeks on
Speaker 1: our r sixth straight games now Pittsburgh has held their
Speaker 1: opponent to seventeen or less. Lots impact on the secondary
Speaker 1: evident as well. Steelers haven't allowed more than a hundred
Speaker 1: ninety yards passing and any of those six games, what
Speaker 1: gots taken down got back up and got more pressure
Speaker 1: on Huntley as that passed when in completed So here
Speaker 1: comes to Shaun Watson. He comes in off his best
Speaker 1: game as a Brown. Not a ton of yards, but
Speaker 1: three td s no I n t S rating of
Speaker 1: one two point five. Chuck stays at help with the
Speaker 1: pressure opening up Watson to find him. Ari Cooper Coopa
Speaker 1: steak s for the touchdown. For what it's worth, Washington's
Speaker 1: secondary not great. Brown's offense with Watson has scored twenty
Speaker 1: plus twice versus the Commanders and the Texans, against the
Speaker 1: likes of Baltimore in New Orleans, Cincinnati, all much tougher defenses,
Speaker 1: no more than thirteen points. It comes death to the
Speaker 1: Watson all day to throw. Now here they come. Bill
Speaker 1: Watson didn't play when these two met earlier in the season,
Speaker 1: when the Browns beat Pittsburgh seventeen. What was gone by then?
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb played though, and hit Pittsburgh for a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirteen yards on the ground, had a hundred plus
Speaker 1: last week five yards per carry on the year fourteen
Speaker 1: hundred forty eight yards. Such a waste your Posnick shot.
Speaker 1: What a move that was to get a head a
Speaker 1: scheme off a cut in the backfield. Steelers aren't stalwarts
Speaker 1: against backs. Four point to per run allowed to the
Speaker 1: position overall, gave up five point five a carry to J. K.
Speaker 1: Dobbins last week on seventeen tries. Dobbins, he's his balance,
Speaker 1: chase five Fitzpatrick a balance around midfield. Pittsburgh's own run
Speaker 1: game should play a prominent role in this matchup. Nag
Speaker 1: Harris and Jalen Warren led the offense to the win
Speaker 1: over the Ravens. Lauren seventy six yards six point three
Speaker 1: an attempt Barren down the side of the side of
Speaker 1: twenty to the ten. Warren out of owns. Harris a
Speaker 1: hundred and eleven yards five a carry, best game of
Speaker 1: the year for him, first a hundred plus yard rush
Speaker 1: game of the year. First down, run about Harris Good
Speaker 1: took to the outside Harris dead leg give you everything
Speaker 1: of that rug. Those two are lined up for another
Speaker 1: big game on paper, at least the Browns allowing five
Speaker 1: point one a carry to RBS. We're gonna slip away
Speaker 1: be able to slip away again. He picked up fourteen yards.
Speaker 1: Harris the pass catcher, was the one that hauled in
Speaker 1: the game winner. Kenny Pickett didn't do a ton versus
Speaker 1: Baltimore except come up big when it counted back to
Speaker 1: back weeks. The kid has thrown the game winner in
Speaker 1: the waning moments, pick it plus pressure throws up the
Speaker 1: round Harris for a touchdown the play the Steelers take
Speaker 1: the lead. He faced a pretty tough pass defense last week,
Speaker 1: will again this week. Browns holding for her backs to
Speaker 1: a mid eighties rating under seven yards per attempt, completion
Speaker 1: percentage allowed low sixties. And Went's deep shot, and it's
Speaker 1: another Carson went center. This time it's Grant Tilpin. Picket
Speaker 1: like Watson will be pestered by an elite pass rusher
Speaker 1: Myles Garrett one and a half sacks last week, fifteen
Speaker 1: for the season. Here it comes Garrett, Here it comes Garrett.
Speaker 1: There's Garrett right like you with the sack. A divided
Speaker 1: channel for this one, six votes for Pittsburgh, four saying
Speaker 1: the Browns will upset them. The Washington Commanders finished their
Speaker 1: year at home. They get the Cowboys, who now have
Speaker 1: incentive to finish the year on a seven and one
Speaker 1: runs Scotland funny a time Fire's touchdown leaping grabbed by
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz. Classic NFC East rivalry. Cowboys beat the Commanders
Speaker 1: five to ten back in week four, didn't even have
Speaker 1: Doc at QB. Washington did have Carson Wentz, though he
Speaker 1: was picked twice, rating under sixty. Wentz decides to go
Speaker 1: for it all, going deep in intercepted Trayvon dag STIs too.
Speaker 1: Wentz started last week versus Cleveland, who only had competitive
Speaker 1: spirit on the line. Went Scott picked three times, no touchdowns,
Speaker 1: rating of thirty one point four. Wents deep shot under
Speaker 1: a phone call and it's an out of Carson Center
Speaker 1: sets up fans chance to crack a Heineken weren't answered
Speaker 1: mid game. Have to assume Taylor Heineke is back out
Speaker 1: there this week, though. Thing is when he got pulled,
Speaker 1: it was due to back to back turnovers in the game,
Speaker 1: but he had a one fourteen point six rating with
Speaker 1: two touchdowns in that contest. Overall, his last three outings
Speaker 1: for all ninety eight plus rating games got the clock
Speaker 1: from Mirkers clock touchdown crap fight Doutson in the back
Speaker 1: of the end zone. Commander's passing attack is wide out driven.
Speaker 1: Johan Dotson has three touchdowns in his last four looking
Speaker 1: for the end zone touchdown. Dotson Terry McLaurin the league
Speaker 1: guy over a thousand yards on the year. Now going deep,
Speaker 1: He's got him. Mcclaw what a touch at the five
Speaker 1: brings up but he one on one matchup Trayvon dig
Speaker 1: sub ninety rating aloud, still good. They're fourteen passes defense
Speaker 1: that's tied for sixth most Losting it down the sideline,
Speaker 1: it sticks again. Dallas secondary overall is going to be
Speaker 1: a tough nut for Washington to crack. They're a top
Speaker 1: ten group against quarterbacks. Slings one over the middle and
Speaker 1: it's intercepted. Curse has got it. Wins got sacked three
Speaker 1: times by the Browns. Miles Garrett was a problem for
Speaker 1: their line. Plenty of pass rushers have been a problem
Speaker 1: for them. In two, here comes Garrett, Here comes Garrett.
Speaker 1: There's Garrett right on cue with the set which plays
Speaker 1: in the Dallas's biggest defensive strength. Five guys with five
Speaker 1: plus bags, Micah the leader with thirteen. Lawrence pressure right
Speaker 1: up the middle and he is sacked. Micah Parsons gets
Speaker 1: home for his cursed of the game. Speaking of pass rushes,
Speaker 1: Washington's comes in off a five sack outing. Watson gets
Speaker 1: pounded and then ripped down to paid. Commanders have three
Speaker 1: guys with seven plus sacks. And Chase Young is back,
Speaker 1: but Jonathan Allen left last week's game with a knee injury.
Speaker 1: Cowboys lines top five insects allowed makes her beef battle
Speaker 1: firing op CD Lamb. Washington secondary is also hurting, part
Speaker 1: of why they were the first team to let DeShawn
Speaker 1: Watson looked like a star QB again. Commander's defense comes
Speaker 1: and shaken. They gave up three touchdowns d wats No
Speaker 1: I n T s are rating over one twenty, opening
Speaker 1: up Watson to find them. Apart for the touch Scott,
Speaker 1: Watson hadn't been tearing it up prior to facing them.
Speaker 1: That's good news for Dak Prescott because he hasn't been either.
Speaker 1: He threw a couple of I n T s versus Tennessee.
Speaker 1: He's thrown a pick six games in a row, and
Speaker 1: despite having missed games this year, has fourteen total. Now
Speaker 1: Prescott retreats again protection. He did throw two touchdowns two
Speaker 1: two yard yards. Both scores went to Dalton Schultz wide
Speaker 1: open shut so the touchdown Ceedee Lamb eleven catches a
Speaker 1: hundred yards a hundred plus in three straight, now over
Speaker 1: th hundred yards on the year. Dak Prescott and Ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb or have as good a chemistry as any quarterback
Speaker 1: and receiver in the NFL. Washington could use Benjamin st
Speaker 1: Juice back. He's their best corner. He was missing last week.
Speaker 1: Washington gave up over a hundred yards and two touchdowns
Speaker 1: to a Marie Cooper. They've given up a ninety eight
Speaker 1: point one rating to wide receivers. Not many have been
Speaker 1: more generous to the position. Lots of looking down field.
Speaker 1: He's got load. Manders also need to play better against
Speaker 1: the run. Seven point four a carry allowed to Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb last week, a hundred four yards, a lot of
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb earlyer this game, and a lot of Nick
Speaker 1: subven yards earlier in this game. Boys will pick him
Speaker 1: with Zeke and probably Tony Pollard he sat out last week.
Speaker 1: Elliott had a quiet game. Neither run game comes in
Speaker 1: on a roll. Brian Robinson eighty seven yards three point
Speaker 1: six AC carry last week, and for what it's worth,
Speaker 1: Dallas is allowing four point three a carry to backs.
Speaker 1: Dallas takes all ten votes from the panel. Big shot.
Speaker 1: The Eagles are gonna find themselves playing what they opened
Speaker 1: there wouldn't and that is a meaningful Week eight team
Speaker 1: game against the Giants. The Philadelphia Eagles are at home
Speaker 1: to wrap up two. They have some unfinished business after
Speaker 1: losing their second in a row, and I'm not ever
Speaker 1: gonna be somebody that's gonna hit a panic button. They
Speaker 1: host one of their most bitteriest rivals, who are also
Speaker 1: now fellow postseason dancers, the New York Giants. There is
Speaker 1: a giant field bake it to the postseason as the
Speaker 1: sixth seame. Nobody and I mean nobody thought this giant
Speaker 1: team to do that. The Eagles care about this game,
Speaker 1: The forty Niners care about it. The Cowboys care about it.
Speaker 1: The one team that doesn't the Boys in Blue. Their
Speaker 1: win last week not only punched their golden ticket as
Speaker 1: we're in the playoffs right, it locked them into the
Speaker 1: sixth seed. No matter what especial moment with those guys. UH,
Speaker 1: proud of this team, proud of what we did today.
Speaker 1: So how does Brian Dable choose to handle it? It's
Speaker 1: the age old debate. Rest the starters or play them
Speaker 1: and keep them fresh? And our goal is never just
Speaker 1: doing you know, it'll never be just to make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Dabl spent lots of time under Bill Belichick. He generally
Speaker 1: doesn't rest his guys, and the incentive not to rest
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. You can argue he's coming off his best
Speaker 1: two game stint of the year. A standing Ovay shift
Speaker 1: with the Giants quarterback. Well earned, young man. Yes, give
Speaker 1: that man nice cold give to his rocker, So why
Speaker 1: not try and keep it going? Hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: point to rating last week two touchdowns No I n
Speaker 1: t s second rustic cuts down for Daniel Jones and
Speaker 1: let the party begin at that life stad. His chemistry
Speaker 1: with Richie James and Isaiah Hodgens continued again as well.
Speaker 1: Hodgens with a touchdown that's four in his last five games.
Speaker 1: Now fires it like to pre for the goal loft
Speaker 1: for Hodges because you haven't touchdown Giants. James also scored
Speaker 1: last week seventy five plus yards and back to back
Speaker 1: games for him releases. He was right looking for somebody
Speaker 1: on put down Giants. He did a heck of a
Speaker 1: backflip after scoring. Oh and how about a clean Jersey game.
Speaker 1: Jones wasn't sacked once and the Colts have a decent
Speaker 1: pass rush too. Good job by your offensive line. Anterior
Speaker 1: three Bob given him a clean pocket to step up
Speaker 1: into dj also shined along the ground against Indie one
Speaker 1: yards eight point three a run in two scores. Don't
Speaker 1: take snap, He's gonna keep it and run around the
Speaker 1: left side. He's got a lead block Jons for fifty.
Speaker 1: Don't the tad, don't for the five shoulder Did he
Speaker 1: get in Yes, put down Daniel go sa kwan fifty
Speaker 1: eight yards along the ground four point eight or run
Speaker 1: before he got put on the shelf, getting off left
Speaker 1: side of the boundary to sake golf five and prets
Speaker 1: it outside. He's at the thirty, he's at the twenty five.
Speaker 1: All that makes them sound like a much better team
Speaker 1: than the one that lost to Philly, Sorry, the one
Speaker 1: that got dominated by Philly in Week four. Team this
Speaker 1: is officially at two Eagles sacking Giants QB seven times
Speaker 1: in the blowout. As soon as he sets his sake
Speaker 1: to row to football, Josh Switts already there beating the tackle.
Speaker 1: That front is on a major sack bender right now
Speaker 1: another six or last week. No hams for this bunch.
Speaker 1: They're too good for that. Five straight games now they've
Speaker 1: bagged a QB six plus times. Dalton looks to throw
Speaker 1: He's sacked again number six and has Reddick what number
Speaker 1: sixteen this year? So why put Jones in the line
Speaker 1: of that kind of fire? Do you want to boin
Speaker 1: shower handle or quatro quatro out there? If he hurts
Speaker 1: his ankle, there's always the go between where the starters
Speaker 1: play for a quarter or a half to flags Black,
Speaker 1: let's go. Just as much curiosity surrounds the Eagle starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: We'll see, We'll see what happens, and it would be
Speaker 1: obviously be good to have him back. How hurts his
Speaker 1: Jalen's shoulder and Jalen is able to go? Will he
Speaker 1: play and will he really be healthy enough to be
Speaker 1: at the same level we've now come to expect from him.
Speaker 1: Hurts his back, he's gonna run. He comes to the
Speaker 1: five touchdown, James hurts the Eagles, laying it off the
Speaker 1: Giants today. Gardner Minshew has kept the ball moving in
Speaker 1: his steady A. J. Brown had ninety seven yards last
Speaker 1: week and a touchdown. He's been on a tear for
Speaker 1: about five weeks now, touchdown and goals. Savante Smith a
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen yards last week, a hundred plus and
Speaker 1: four of his last five fires it's complete. It's the
Speaker 1: fun ta splin. He'll come through for you because he
Speaker 1: ever hurts the runner, if he plays, will he be
Speaker 1: willing to take another hit? How often and when does
Speaker 1: he bowl? They really have missed his legs. He keeps
Speaker 1: it off. No he takes, he runs, he's across the
Speaker 1: thirty five twenty f o bounce of the clot Him
Speaker 1: and Miles Sanders gashed the Giants in that win, too well.
Speaker 1: They are ashen the Giants on the ground, but no
Speaker 1: different than their Oh who knows who the Giants play
Speaker 1: on d and even when their starters have gone, they've
Speaker 1: allowed the last five higher scoring offenses they've faced to
Speaker 1: put up twenty seven or better. Justin said, can't help
Speaker 1: but think, Hey, a couple of years ago, when the
Speaker 1: Giants needed the Eagles to care the very last week
Speaker 1: of the season and they sud filled in it looks
Speaker 1: like he might be finishing out this football game. They
Speaker 1: had this young QB who could have won that game
Speaker 1: and sent New York to the playoffs, and then for
Speaker 1: some strange reason, Philadelphia pulled him, lost the game, kept
Speaker 1: the blue out. Seemed like a real Frankfurter or University
Speaker 1: Bumbles was slapped and the Giants plans are absolutely furious.
Speaker 1: I don't know what would happened, So you know, maybe
Speaker 1: this is a chance for some karma. Yeah, buddy, you
Speaker 1: wanted to see what you had in Nate Sudfeld. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. Nine votes for the Eagles. NFL dot On
Speaker 1: writer Mark Sessler, the one who thinks the Giants want
Speaker 1: to prove something. He has them. We're running in overtime.
Speaker 1: The Arizona Cardinals get their season over with on the road,
Speaker 1: off to San Francisco to face a freight train. He
Speaker 1: hasn't there, and it is good. The forty Niners have
Speaker 1: beaten the Raiders in overtime, doesn't matter how they picked
Speaker 1: it up. The forty Niners have one nine times in
Speaker 1: a row. Now, there aren't any layups in football, but
Speaker 1: this game is as close as it gets if you're
Speaker 1: San Francisco. The Cardinals have nothing on the line and
Speaker 1: they've lost sixth straight snaps. Good falls down, the kick
Speaker 1: is up, and a kick is perfect. Carticals are now
Speaker 1: four and twelve for starters. Lots of the Cardinals starters
Speaker 1: aren't playing, and even when they did, their defense ranked
Speaker 1: at the bottom and points per game, allowed, yards per game,
Speaker 1: third down, et cetera. Everyone is treated like a v
Speaker 1: I P by their defense. Great faith, and the Cardinals
Speaker 1: completely fit their offense. They trotted out their fourth quarterback
Speaker 1: of the season. De Hop did in play last week,
Speaker 1: so you know the forty niners are facing a lot
Speaker 1: of stunt doubles. So to speech play baked by blow.
Speaker 1: Now it's the pocket. He'll be sacked. J. J. Watt
Speaker 1: is no one's backup though, and this in theory is
Speaker 1: his swan song. Dude was a monster and by all
Speaker 1: accounts a really good guy picked up a sack last week.
Speaker 1: So double digits to end no matter what that is,
Speaker 1: J Chan what and has season numbers Six of ten
Speaker 1: sacks are board. Getting the brock Purty won't be easy.
Speaker 1: Max Crosby and Company failed to sack him once last week.
Speaker 1: Four starts now only been planted four times. Purdy get
Speaker 1: a throw and it's a jump ball up black jocks
Speaker 1: kettle in the back of the end. Soon Purdy had
Speaker 1: his one hundred plus rating streaks snapped by Vegas. Still
Speaker 1: the kid went for two hundred and eighty four yards
Speaker 1: over eight yards per attempt amid nineties rating. He came
Speaker 1: up big late in the fourth too quick throwback Ray,
Speaker 1: Ray mcclock rocket blockers up in the front, Trent He's
Speaker 1: inside the Brandon au, CMC George Kittle all featured in
Speaker 1: their offensive outbursts against Vegas fifth straight game, with a
Speaker 1: touchdown for McCaffrey by Brandon I and the toe tap
Speaker 1: batchwards two. McCaffrey also had a hundred and twenty one
Speaker 1: yards on the ground, six point flour, a carry, a touchdown,
Speaker 1: a hundred plus rush yards, and three of his last
Speaker 1: four Now forty Niners plenty happy with their O face,
Speaker 1: They do want to rEFInd their footing on defense before
Speaker 1: the playoffs start, though they gave up thirty floor to Vegas,
Speaker 1: almost three t d s more than they typically allow.
Speaker 1: The five price into the Tommy Ted touchdown letters not
Speaker 1: one sack either. Their performance more baffling being it with
Speaker 1: Jaris Stidma quarterback. No surprises here ten votes, ten votes
Speaker 1: for the San Francisco team. Even though the Raiders are
Speaker 1: out of the playoffs, the Kansas City Chiefs her step
Speaker 1: carefully this week. Vegas is equipped with a new QB
Speaker 1: who gave the hottest team in football a run for
Speaker 1: its money last week in the pocket gets out of
Speaker 1: the eyes out feel black fly. He's thrilled as he
Speaker 1: droves alive right into the drawing touchdown. Kansas City, though,
Speaker 1: has plenty of incentive to play their best. They need
Speaker 1: this win if they want a chance at the number
Speaker 1: one overall a f C this postseason. The Chiefs passing
Speaker 1: attack on paper has a massive edge in this game. Wow,
Speaker 1: what a bold statement. But breaking down their offense sometimes
Speaker 1: feels like an exercise and why bother we get it?
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is their quarterback. They find a way. YadA, YadA, YadA,
Speaker 1: put down forty touchdown passes on the year. Though for Mahomes,
Speaker 1: Mahomes comes in as the league's leading QB and passing
Speaker 1: yards for game and passing touchdowns. He's already faced the
Speaker 1: Silver and Black once he threw four touchdowns and against
Speaker 1: them in Week four, Travis Kelsey went al Bundy and
Speaker 1: caught all four Chiefs one thirty to twenty nine biggas is.
Speaker 1: Play against quarterbacks has not really improved since then either.
Speaker 1: Four So much job of a night Travis Kelsey was wide.
Speaker 1: There was not a Raider player with the three yards
Speaker 1: of him Mahomes connected twenty nine times to nine different
Speaker 1: receivers in Week five. Eleven different players have caught touchdowns
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs this year, so there's no question Andy
Speaker 1: Reid is ready to find a weakness and exploit it
Speaker 1: greater Tiding Corks have three chances to bring him down
Speaker 1: Patty stepped three. Casey's offense top three in points per game.
Speaker 1: But why this contest could be tricky for them? They
Speaker 1: are twenty in points per game allowed on defense. They
Speaker 1: faced Denver and Houston three times in their last four weeks,
Speaker 1: both teams significantly offensively challenged. The Chiefs gave up twenty
Speaker 1: four plus to them in each game. It's why they've
Speaker 1: played in ten one score games this season. Plenty of
Speaker 1: time bounces around. Now can run Russell to the five
Speaker 1: pumps once he's in the zone touchdown then for that
Speaker 1: cuts the Kansas City late to so bring on Jared Stidham.
Speaker 1: He impressed in his first NFL start against the forty
Speaker 1: niners of all teams, I didn't feel like I had,
Speaker 1: you know, really any nerves um at all this week
Speaker 1: twenty three or thirty four, three hundred and sixty five yards,
Speaker 1: averaging more than ten yards in attempt three touchdowns. The
Speaker 1: actions did up rollout to the rights towards the touchdown.
Speaker 1: Ste hums first drive as a starter lines up in
Speaker 1: the ends. We're waiting for that all season where he
Speaker 1: did throw two picks, but he did figure out a
Speaker 1: way to look good. Throw it anywhere near that taco
Speaker 1: bell owner. I just tried to, you know, put the ball, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, somewhere where he can get it and touch it.
Speaker 1: Davante Adams torched one of the best secondaries, seven catches,
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty three yards, two touchdowns, fires down
Speaker 1: the near sidelike the pote, Addams back to the justment
Speaker 1: and all out eight got a round the mard and
Speaker 1: somehow brought it on his right shoulder while he was
Speaker 1: falling to the turf. And in week five when these
Speaker 1: two faced, Adams scorched k C only three catches but
Speaker 1: a whopping a hundred and twenty four yards receiving along
Speaker 1: with drawing a couple of huge flags field for Adams
Speaker 1: at the shoulder touchdown. And it wasn't just Adams. Josh
Speaker 1: Jacobs had a day shredding the Chiefs rushing defense twenty
Speaker 1: one times for a hundred and fifty four yards seven
Speaker 1: point three per carry. There's a reason he's the NFL's
Speaker 1: rushing leader. There's a reason that game was so close.
Speaker 1: Here's a nice cut back by Jacobs one on one
Speaker 1: and delivers the blow. Chiefs have given up four point
Speaker 1: three a run two backs. Overall, nobody is confusing them
Speaker 1: with a defense that's dominant. But one thing they do
Speaker 1: especially well is get after the quarterback. Forty nine sacks
Speaker 1: this season, fourth most in the NFL. Chris Jones picking
Speaker 1: up his thirteenth the last week. Now for the right
Speaker 1: forearm of Russell Wilson, and he's gonna be Chris jo
Speaker 1: Chris Jones just took the game in his own hands.
Speaker 1: Makes for a good dog fight in the trenches. The Raiders,
Speaker 1: allowing the seventh few as sacks this season, stid him,
Speaker 1: not take him down once by Nick Bosa and the
Speaker 1: forty Niners fierce pass rush stid him with time opened,
Speaker 1: the lots Adams and Adams dancing out the sideline. The
Speaker 1: Raiders are the most dangerous non playoff team. A playoff
Speaker 1: team with something on the line could draw Vegas in
Speaker 1: on four ot games. Nine straight one score games makes
Speaker 1: the prow of the tutter top down Riders, absolutely perfect class.
Speaker 1: They've also blown leads five times. The Raiders have given
Speaker 1: up a lead of ten or more, including that loss
Speaker 1: to Kansas City. Kansas City grabbed all ten votes from
Speaker 1: the panel. Nothing to see. The Chicago Bears are putting
Speaker 1: a wrap on their season at home. They have an
Speaker 1: outside shot at the number one pick. Still, that's how
Speaker 1: their year is gone, has picked off by ain't it Hutchinson.
Speaker 1: They take on the Minnesota Vikings, who also come in
Speaker 1: off an embarrassing loss of their own. There's the beast
Speaker 1: down the bed all that's broken off. Another sad day
Speaker 1: got blocker said front on my cousins of stop there,
Speaker 1: he won't get him. Minnesota is like an actor unsure
Speaker 1: how to act. What's my motivation here? They're the three
Speaker 1: seed and less. Arizona beat San Francisco. So the primary
Speaker 1: reason they'd roll out their starters to get the taste
Speaker 1: from last week out of their mouths. That felt they
Speaker 1: have a tip there was said Amos has it. The
Speaker 1: Vikings offense comes in wobbly. It was a disaster versus
Speaker 1: Green Bay. Dalvin Cook got bottled up justin Jefferson couldn't
Speaker 1: get free just one catch fifteen yards, Kirk Cousins lost
Speaker 1: a fumble. Three I n T s whose Cousins launched
Speaker 1: a long line of days intercepted. The Bears at this
Speaker 1: point or the perfect team to get right against gave
Speaker 1: up forty one points last week. They set at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the charts and points per game allowed overall.
Speaker 1: Jared Goff had a field day against their secondary three
Speaker 1: touchdowns a hundred and thirty three point five rating over
Speaker 1: two hundred fifty yards. What swift? What other touchdown? This
Speaker 1: could very easily be a game where Minnesota's offensive guys
Speaker 1: play a half or so. Justin Jefferson leads the league
Speaker 1: in receiving yards. He would need to have some playing
Speaker 1: time if he wants to hold off Tyree Kill. Jeffer
Speaker 1: said us play the day, and when he faced Chicago
Speaker 1: earlier he went for over a hundred and fifties, so
Speaker 1: you can see why he might want to go. Justin
Speaker 1: Fields also has a personal reason to start twelve though
Speaker 1: six that's Lamar's record for QB rush yards in a season.
Speaker 1: Fields ran for over a hundred yards last week. He's
Speaker 1: sitting at eleven forty three overall sixty four or to
Speaker 1: steal the crown. Phil takes off picks up the first
Speaker 1: stile across bed field, still going just the fields inside
Speaker 1: of twenty out for the tag Vikings defense seems like
Speaker 1: the perfect team to get those yards against, being they've
Speaker 1: allowed five point seven per run to quarterbacks and if
Speaker 1: there's nothing there, that means you take off and pick
Speaker 1: up the first out as usual, one vote for the
Speaker 1: Bears Adam Rank. The other nine went to Minnesota. The
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons are at home to finish off the two season.
Speaker 1: They get Tampa Bay, who clinched the NFC South last week.
Speaker 1: Deeper sideline he makes to cut to the ten FID
Speaker 1: puck to one touch stop Tampa Bay Fire. Look, cans,
Speaker 1: there really isn't anything to play for if you're the
Speaker 1: Bucks now. But if you're Tom Brady, you have that
Speaker 1: one big box you'd like to check off, you know,
Speaker 1: the one tied to the number on the left being
Speaker 1: bigger than the one on the right. And all his
Speaker 1: playing years, not once as he finished with a five
Speaker 1: hundred record or worse over the middle good pass had
Speaker 1: a catch shin a first down four of the Bucks
Speaker 1: plus remember Brady rarely skips a game no matter what,
Speaker 1: but I'm guessing he wants nothing to do with being
Speaker 1: even steven, so he's probably out there. It's also an
Speaker 1: opportunity for them to try and build actual momentum with
Speaker 1: their passing game. Finally, seventeen weeks in, we saw lots
Speaker 1: of downfield deep balls from Brady looks field throws the ball,
Speaker 1: Look he's got. Evan Evans makes of the trolley touch
Speaker 1: top on touch stops hap of by my Covage has
Speaker 1: two today thirty four for forty five four hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty two yards. Three touchdowns are rating over one, but
Speaker 1: most important nine point six yards per attempt. The first
Speaker 1: time all year Brady cracked the nine barrier. Mike Evans
Speaker 1: was his primary target. On his bombs. He went bonkers.
Speaker 1: Three touchdowns, ten catches over two hundred yards those toward
Speaker 1: Evans start the ends one, Evans makes the hats touch
Speaker 1: stops have a by Evats has three fire the cats
Speaker 1: fire Chris Godwin nine targets, nine hatches a hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty yards. Brady slingers it in there. They got the
Speaker 1: two point to Godwin. Doesn't matter. Carolina was without its
Speaker 1: top corner. Tampa Bay has played plenty of basic secondaries
Speaker 1: and did not come close to a showing like that.
Speaker 1: Part of it possibly tied to Brady getting knocked around
Speaker 1: quite a bit. Stay with Me took three sacks, got
Speaker 1: hit eight times last week. Let's coming third and three
Speaker 1: Bradies down, but taking a few bumps and bruises also
Speaker 1: means he was holding the ball longer, allowing Evans and
Speaker 1: Godwin to get down field. Brady hit as he throws,
Speaker 1: Evans comes back to help Mountain grabb it. That trio
Speaker 1: now takes on a Falcon's defense bottom five and rating
Speaker 1: allowed to the wide out position, So it's the perfect
Speaker 1: team to potentially keep things rolling against Let's it riff
Speaker 1: a little bit high, but Hollywood Brown takes it in.
Speaker 1: If Falcons didn't have anything to play for last week,
Speaker 1: they still came out on top. Atlanta's rookie quarterback Desmond
Speaker 1: Ritter nothing eye popping but a ninety point one rating.
Speaker 1: His rating has gone up in each game he's played.
Speaker 1: That's always good to see. You asked what you want
Speaker 1: to see from both these quarterbacks? These sorts of throws,
Speaker 1: second level throws into some tighter windows. Might he see
Speaker 1: it rise again to close out the year. He's taking
Speaker 1: on a defense that let Sam Donald throw for three
Speaker 1: touchdowns three forty one yards in a rating year one
Speaker 1: tent Donald floating one more. He's got it and he's
Speaker 1: in for the touchdown. Tampa Bay played the run well
Speaker 1: at least versus Carolina, and they'll get tested plenty again
Speaker 1: this week to Tyler Algier eighty three yards four point
Speaker 1: to a carry in a touchdown last week. He's one
Speaker 1: hundred yards shy of a thousand yards season. There's a
Speaker 1: first town round and score Tyler al chair touchdown Atlanta.
Speaker 1: A little surprised. Four voters took Atlanta to send Brady
Speaker 1: to his first regular season losing record six siding with
Speaker 1: the goat. The Carolina Panther are off to New Orleans
Speaker 1: to put the finishing touches on their year. The Saints
Speaker 1: in the same boat. They're out of the playoffs two
Speaker 1: despite winning their last three. He's in for the Saints
Speaker 1: touchdown seven straight games now. New Orleans has held their
Speaker 1: opponent to twenty or fewer points the last five games
Speaker 1: in a row, eighteen or fewer sixty three point to
Speaker 1: rating aloud over their last four games. They got Marshawn
Speaker 1: Lattimore back last week, he was easy to spot put
Speaker 1: up pick six in his first game back. This week,
Speaker 1: Lattimore could spend a decent amount of time with d J. Moore.
Speaker 1: He cought six passes for a hundred and seventeen yards
Speaker 1: in a touchdown last week, and he scored in three
Speaker 1: straight games. D J. Moore, it's a touchdown, and while
Speaker 1: the Saints held Gardner Minshew to a low eighties rating,
Speaker 1: they did give up ninety seven yards and a touchdown
Speaker 1: to A. J. Brown, a hundred and fifteen yards to
Speaker 1: Davonte Smiths on touchdown. Eagals Hey. Moore is a white
Speaker 1: out too, and he's far and away Sam Donald's favorite target.
Speaker 1: Ten times he threw to him last week. No one
Speaker 1: else even saw five targets. Donald made that recipe work
Speaker 1: comes in off one of his best showings. Three touchdowns
Speaker 1: over three forty yards rating year one ten stands in
Speaker 1: delivers end zone. Let's talk for the touchdown. If the
Speaker 1: Saints defense can keep up its mojo, then it's offense
Speaker 1: need to scratch out just enough to win. That's been
Speaker 1: a problem for them though. Andy Dalton no touchdowns last week.
Speaker 1: I pick same as the week before. Dalton protected that pass,
Speaker 1: deflected and pricked off. Still, he's had some nice showings
Speaker 1: this year enough to think he and their white out
Speaker 1: driven passing attack could do a little something against the
Speaker 1: Panther secondary That got torched by Tom Brady, Mike Evans
Speaker 1: and Chris Godwin. But deep Evans is open peace, got
Speaker 1: it and for the touchdown. No, the Saints don't have
Speaker 1: that level of q BE wide receiver combo, but that
Speaker 1: Buck's trio hadn't done anything like that to any secondary
Speaker 1: this season. A hundred and twenty yards allowed to Godwin,
Speaker 1: over two hundred and three touchdowns to Evans, over four
Speaker 1: hundred allowed to Brady. They just do not have an
Speaker 1: answer today for Mike Evans. Panthers are not great versus
Speaker 1: the run four point for per carry allowed the running backs.
Speaker 1: What might Album Camara be able to do with that
Speaker 1: seventy four yards four point six to carry last week?
Speaker 1: Seventy plus rush yards in three straight games, come here
Speaker 1: looking for more. Panthers also have to contend with Kyson Hill.
Speaker 1: He scored last week. That's back to back games in
Speaker 1: the paint for him. Tell someone Hill and he pigs
Speaker 1: it in for the seats touchdown. For what it's worth,
Speaker 1: Carolina is allowing him easily three point one per carry
Speaker 1: to quarterbacks. Seven votes for the Saints, three for the
Speaker 1: Panthers in this one. The Denver Broncos will end what
Speaker 1: turned out to be a terribly disappointing season at home
Speaker 1: this week again to the l A Chargers, who right
Speaker 1: in on a four game win street Kyle Fairnoy charted
Speaker 1: loose and the Chargers have it. Last week's win over
Speaker 1: the Rams pretty much vintage Chargers. Justin Herber snapped out
Speaker 1: of a mini slump two touchdowns rating near one twenty
Speaker 1: Herbert dropping it in a pucket masterfully. He utilized his
Speaker 1: three favorite targets. Mike Williams seven catches ninety four yards,
Speaker 1: got that toe drag swag going first of all to
Speaker 1: pass his ridiculous only and let me get my fulf
Speaker 1: feeding bounce. Keenan Allen shipped in with sixty yards. Austin
Speaker 1: Ekeler caught his hundred pass. Only a few backs have
Speaker 1: pulled that off in a season. One hundred of catch
Speaker 1: for Eckler on the season. Heckler also took ten handoffs
Speaker 1: for a hundred and twenty two yards and two touchdowns
Speaker 1: the touchdown machine Austin Heckler. That's it. It's what they
Speaker 1: want to carry over into the playoffs. But how long
Speaker 1: that quartet stays on the field is anyone's guest. This week,
Speaker 1: l A is either five or six in the seed rankings,
Speaker 1: so there's a risk reward component to their approach in
Speaker 1: this game. Whoever is out there faces what seems like
Speaker 1: a tire defense. Denver'se D has kept them in so
Speaker 1: many games this season, but the last two weeks not
Speaker 1: so much. Though that Ram's performance wasn't all on them really,
Speaker 1: Still a hundred plus rating allowed to the last two
Speaker 1: qbs they faced over three hundred yards and three touchdowns
Speaker 1: allowed to Patrick Mahomes last week. On the other side
Speaker 1: of things, you'd expect to see Russell Wilson out there,
Speaker 1: being he's played the last two games and they didn't matter.
Speaker 1: Two D twenty two yards in Week seventeen and interception
Speaker 1: under six yards per attempt sacked four times. I guess
Speaker 1: the field is too far away from the fans. All
Speaker 1: those white towels they've been throwing haven't been making it
Speaker 1: into the ring. Nine votes for the Chargers NFL Dot
Speaker 1: com writer Grant Gordon believing the Broncos pulled the upset.
Speaker 1: The Houston Texans finished the year on the road. They're
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, tricky for each fan base. They may not
Speaker 1: want to win, messing up the twenty three draft slot,
Speaker 1: but neither head coach is guaranteed of returning, so what
Speaker 1: do they care? Bring that dog out, Odds big up.
Speaker 1: This game is the ultimate book end. They played in
Speaker 1: Week one. Little did we know that them tying was
Speaker 1: a foreshadow of things to come for both and that
Speaker 1: will end the ball game we will finish at So yeah,
Speaker 1: this isn't so much the Heart Foundation versus the British Bulldogs.
Speaker 1: It's a job or special like Iron Mike Sharp versus
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Brawler. Both offenses points per game, yards per game,
Speaker 1: third down, passing yards per game, rushing yards per game.
Speaker 1: Bottom Dweller and now Mills will scramble it gets across
Speaker 1: the fifting the balls out, the ball is out, will
Speaker 1: it gates? Junior Rick covers a fall moll at Overtime
Speaker 1: defense is not much better, but each does have a
Speaker 1: strength or two at least. Colts have been pretty tough
Speaker 1: to run on most games, trying to swerve and there's
Speaker 1: nothing there. Loss of the yard being the Texans have
Speaker 1: only rushed for a hundred yard words in a game
Speaker 1: once in their last seven doesn't seem like the avenue
Speaker 1: they'd take. That hole is there momentarily, but just can't
Speaker 1: plant and get through it quickly enough. In these skills,
Speaker 1: stopping aerial attacks are not great. The Minnesota Vikings down
Speaker 1: thirty three have come all the way back. For the
Speaker 1: Texans to take advantage through the air, they need to
Speaker 1: be able to keep their QB upright, their middle of
Speaker 1: the pack and sacks taken. But the Colts have one
Speaker 1: of the highest sacked totals in the NFL. Right here's
Speaker 1: back on all plants of Harvard is sacked by Buckner.
Speaker 1: The texans own pass rush not as robust, but they
Speaker 1: do have Jerry Hughes and Colts quarterbacks some of the
Speaker 1: most planted in the game this season. Took it all
Speaker 1: to shack. A little pressure could go a long way
Speaker 1: in this game. The Texans have been pretty tough to
Speaker 1: pass on little that one is accepted. Houston, though, has
Speaker 1: not been very good at stopping ground games, so that
Speaker 1: could spell a heavy load for Zack Moss there's mass
Speaker 1: has got the first down on the Cary. I'm game
Speaker 1: of ten. Hey, it's an NFL game. Nonetheless, you know,
Speaker 1: the Broncos rams on Christmas crushed the Celtics and Bucks,
Speaker 1: and the ratings facts are facts. We still all like
Speaker 1: to see leaping Landy Papo get in the ring with
Speaker 1: the Italian Stallion if it's on the NFL. Core votes
Speaker 1: went to the Colts, six to the Texans and this
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