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Speaker 2: Welcome. In episode one oh three, What's Right with Nick Bright,
Speaker 2: I am fresh off a plane from Vegas landed this morning,
Speaker 2: and I know many of you watch this show because
Speaker 2: you like me, you appreciate me, you love demanse. But
Speaker 2: some of you watch or listen despite me not to
Speaker 2: spikee me. But does spite me? Meaning you Maybe you
Speaker 2: like me, maybe you don't, But what you really like
Speaker 2: is when I'm in pain. So I'm gonna give you
Speaker 2: a little present today before we even get into what
Speaker 2: happened in the Chiefs Game, I'm just gonna set the
Speaker 2: template for you. Got to Vegas middle of the night
Speaker 2: Thursday night, Friday morning, played in one of the bigger
Speaker 2: poker games I've ever played in in my life. On Friday,
Speaker 2: put it on Instagram. Won a great deal of money,
Speaker 2: was feeling great about it. Saturday played in that game
Speaker 2: that had somehow gotten even bigger overnight, lost a little bit,
Speaker 2: was still way ahead Sunday then rolls around. I'm in
Speaker 2: Las Vegas. Remember, and I do believe I told you
Speaker 2: guys that the Chiefs Bengals game was my game of
Speaker 2: the year. Loved it more than a game on the
Speaker 2: board all season. I also gave you guys six picks,
Speaker 2: including the Prince that was promised, including the Falcons, including
Speaker 2: the Colts plus ten and a half too many points.
Speaker 2: Colts trying to tie the game up going into the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter, they get outscored thirty three to nothing in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, to which I tell you after the
Speaker 2: morning slate didn't go great. I wasn't going to be
Speaker 2: in the casino for the four pm Eastern games because
Speaker 2: I was actually invited to the home of Doyle Brunson,
Speaker 2: poker legend Texas. Dolly had me into his home to
Speaker 2: watch these games, so I took I broke all my
Speaker 2: gambling rules. Demonsey took all that poker prophet, everything we
Speaker 2: had for the weekend, and said, you know what, this
Speaker 2: is going to be a great day in my life.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna win maybe my biggest sports bet ever, alongside
Speaker 2: the biggest poker legend ever in his own home, Doyle Brunson.
Speaker 2: And we got Chiefs minus two. And then the game started,
Speaker 2: and you know what, the best bets all year have
Speaker 2: been live Chiefs bets when they fall down big. So
Speaker 2: they're down fourteen to three and I check, They're getting
Speaker 2: three and a half Chiefs plus three and a half,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, okay, my minus two is not looking great,
Speaker 2: but I can get the Chiefs plus three and a
Speaker 2: half right now. And I had a lot of money
Speaker 2: in that online account from that parlay from a few
Speaker 2: weeks ago, so I log in not able to use
Speaker 2: it because I'm not in New York state. I'm in Vegas,
Speaker 2: so I couldn't place the bet and the plus three
Speaker 2: and a half would have hit. They lost by three,
Speaker 2: So I am up I am upbeat. It was fun weekend,
Speaker 2: saw a Gucci Man live in concert, you got to
Speaker 2: hang out with Doyle Brunton played in a great poker game.
Speaker 3: With all that.
Speaker 2: Said, your little sister's school tuition monthly school tuition gets
Speaker 2: auto withdrawn on the fifth of each month. And I'd
Speaker 2: be lying to you if I didn't check the old
Speaker 2: account this morning and figure out if I wasn't gonna
Speaker 2: have to do a shadow, a fringe transfer from Demanse's
Speaker 2: account to mine to cover the tuition before I could
Speaker 2: replace it, hopefully without him knowing. I did that once
Speaker 2: upon a time by accident, and then it really I
Speaker 2: realized I was, like, you know, in an odd way,
Speaker 2: Demonse's account is like my backstop if things ever go
Speaker 2: really poorly. So that was my weekend. We'll get into
Speaker 2: all the games here. First, let's talk about what missed
Speaker 2: the cut. Here's what is not on today's show, College
Speaker 2: Football Playoff set, and they got it right. Listen. I
Speaker 2: wanted USC to be in there at four, and I
Speaker 2: would have argued strongly that USC should not be penalized
Speaker 2: for losing a conference championship game at Ohio State, which
Speaker 2: didn't make their conference championship game getting in however, because
Speaker 2: USC ended up getting dog walked at the end by Utah,
Speaker 2: that game was in Vegas. By the way, I can't
Speaker 2: argue at TCU deserved stay at three. The playoff committee
Speaker 2: got it right. Oddly, this would have been a year
Speaker 2: where we just needed the old BCS system. One versus two.
Speaker 2: Georgia and Michigan have nothing to prove but to play
Speaker 2: each other. They're the only undefeated teams. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: Brown's win. Deshaun Watson looks like a guy who hasn't
Speaker 2: played in two years. Will continue to monitor that story.
Speaker 2: And Dion Sanders I went to I went to Mississippi
Speaker 2: or Memphis this year to watch Deon Coach in the
Speaker 2: Heritage Classic. If you remember Dion going to Colorado. We
Speaker 2: might have a guest appearance by my wife, Demonsey's mom
Speaker 2: on Thursday to briefly give a take on Dion leaving
Speaker 2: Jackson State Jackson, Mississippi, where Danielle lived for a little bit,
Speaker 2: because she has I think the best take of anyone
Speaker 2: I've heard on it. None of that is on the
Speaker 2: show today, though. We're gonna start with and by the way,
Speaker 2: is stop buying the chat ask some questions. We'll get
Speaker 2: to him later in the show. A reminder we wrap
Speaker 2: up book Club on Thursday for this book, Little History
Speaker 2: of the World by Age Gone. Breck will do that
Speaker 2: on Thursday today. All right, let's get to it. Chiefs Bangals,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm sorry you went all the way to
Speaker 4: Vegas to see USA, the Jags, and last but not least,
Speaker 4: your Chiefs lose.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the USA is the only one. I didn't lose
Speaker 2: money on the Yeah. I thought the Netherlands would win,
Speaker 2: but the Chiefs, well, I lost money on the others.
Speaker 3: Go ahead. The Chiefs have.
Speaker 4: Five losses in twenty twenty two, and three of them
Speaker 4: are to the Bengals.
Speaker 2: That is, that's an odd way to put it, but
Speaker 2: it is accurate. You mean the calendar year twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: They've lost three times to the Bengals, once to the Bills,
Speaker 2: once to the Colts. That's right, Go ahead.
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow obviously remains undefeated versus Patrick Mahomes in his career. Yep,
Speaker 4: Casey had a shot late but ended up being the
Speaker 4: only favorite to lose in Week thirteen.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. I didn't realize that until I saw that
Speaker 2: in today's rundown. The only favorite to lose. Almost as
Speaker 2: crazy as I think I went one in five on
Speaker 2: my picks this week.
Speaker 3: Go ahead and the Bills, Yeah, are now the one seeds?
Speaker 3: I don't care. Are the Bengals the best team in
Speaker 3: the in the AFC?
Speaker 4: And can Mahomes be considered the MVP of Joe Burrow
Speaker 4: keeps beating him and playing like this?
Speaker 2: Okay, so so much here, First, let me before I
Speaker 2: answer your questions, my apologies for I will answer them,
Speaker 2: but I want to talk about the game itself. The
Speaker 2: right team won yesterday. Now could the Chiefs have won? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey doesn't fumble? He fumbled here they're driving to
Speaker 2: go up two scores, put the game away? Am I
Speaker 2: beside myself? Was I in real time beside myself with
Speaker 2: the decision to kick that field goal, which, first of all,
Speaker 2: far from a sure thing you're gonna make it, as
Speaker 2: evidenced by the fact that he missed it, also to
Speaker 2: fifty five yarder. Bucker is an excellent kicker, but in
Speaker 2: his career is like seventy fifty five yards. But most damningly,
Speaker 2: it takes the ball out of Mahomes's hands. And even
Speaker 2: if you make it, you still need your defense to
Speaker 2: stop Cincinnati, which he hadn't been able to do throughout
Speaker 2: the game. So I understand the Chiefs had many opportunities,
Speaker 2: but so did Cincinnati. Cincinnati dropped a touchdown pass, just
Speaker 2: a perfect pass drops and the Chiefs got a goal
Speaker 2: line stand with a great play by Dunlap that took
Speaker 2: you know, at least maybe seven points off the board.
Speaker 2: So the game was close, coin flip game. I think
Speaker 2: the right team won. I want to give Cincinnati credit.
Speaker 2: That's first of all. Second of all, what is most
Speaker 2: disappointing to me, other than taking the ball out of
Speaker 2: Mahomes's hands on that fourth down, which Flatley should never happen,
Speaker 2: Andy Reid, you trusted him to go for the fourth
Speaker 2: down earlier in the game of the goal line, He's
Speaker 2: supermanned it and got into the end zone. Leave the
Speaker 2: ball in his hands there. What frustrated me so much
Speaker 2: was the Chiefs defense did not show up in a
Speaker 2: huge spot. After talking trash the Chiefs defense. The way
Speaker 2: to slow down Cincinnati is to beat the hell out
Speaker 2: of Burrow, and they got two sacks on the day.
Speaker 2: One of them Burrow kind of gave them on that
Speaker 2: odds second down play call, which was a Bury odd
Speaker 2: decision by Zach Taylor late in the game with two
Speaker 2: four left that gave the Chiefs an opening. And after
Speaker 2: all that, they're in a third and eleven with two
Speaker 2: minutes left, no timeouts, Cincinnati's up three. If you stop them,
Speaker 2: you are getting the ball back, maybe with a minute
Speaker 2: fifty left, if it's an incompletion with a minute fifteen left,
Speaker 2: if it's a completion short of the first down, or
Speaker 2: a sack with a chance to go win, and you
Speaker 2: couldn't get off the field. So credit to the Bengals.
Speaker 2: That's first of all. Second of all, the Chiefs now
Speaker 2: have a rival in the AFC. Everyone has tried to
Speaker 2: say it's the Bills. It is not. It is the Bengals.
Speaker 2: And I know some folks, if you want to be
Speaker 2: a smart ass, will say it's not a rivalry. Chiefs
Speaker 2: have never beaten them. Okay, I think all of us
Speaker 2: recognize how close these games have been. Yes, the Bengals
Speaker 2: have gotten the upper handed it and Bengals deserve bragging rights.
Speaker 2: See this is I am not afraid to give teams credit.
Speaker 2: I just don't like premature credit being demanded. And the
Speaker 2: national media and Bills fans demanded that I give the
Speaker 2: Bills credit and Josh Allen credit for things he has
Speaker 2: not yet done. Joe Burrow has done them. Joe Burrow
Speaker 2: has stared Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs down three times
Speaker 2: in his career and beat them all three first team
Speaker 2: to ever beat them three in a row, the first
Speaker 2: the only quarterback to have three wins against Mahomes. The
Speaker 2: other one is Tom Brady. I give the guy credit,
Speaker 2: and Joe Burrow. I know it's cliche at this point,
Speaker 2: call him Joe Cole. The guy's bleeping cool, like not
Speaker 2: just in a you know how he carries himself off
Speaker 2: the field, but he was under pressure throughout the night.
Speaker 2: They weren't getting the sex, but they were getting pressure.
Speaker 2: And he's calm in the pocket and he makes plays.
Speaker 3: Sounds like you just like Joe Burrow more than Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: Well listen, that is true. But I also was skeptical
Speaker 2: of Burrow coming out of LSU. I didn't see why
Speaker 2: he was the number one pick of the draft. I
Speaker 2: understood he had this one unbelievable season, so it's not
Speaker 2: like I've always liked him, but he's proven it. The
Speaker 2: guy has a eighteen point second half comeback in the
Speaker 2: AFC Championship game against the Chiefs. He had a fourth
Speaker 2: quarter comeback yesterday. He's he's been excellent, and that team
Speaker 2: with Chase and those guys, is scared, especially if you
Speaker 2: can't get to the quarterback. So I just it's not
Speaker 2: about anything other than I give them the respect that
Speaker 2: they have earned. Now to the MVP conversation. They have
Speaker 2: a brutal they being the Bengals schedule the rest of
Speaker 2: the way, but now that Lamar is hurt and the
Speaker 2: AFC North is open, if the Chiefs stumble, of course
Speaker 2: Burrow should be in the MVP conversation right now. He's
Speaker 2: not there. I shouldn't say he's not there. He's in
Speaker 2: the conversation right now. He's not the MVP right now.
Speaker 2: The MVP is still Mahomes and the Vegas odds makers
Speaker 2: agree with me barely on that they have a slight
Speaker 2: favorite over Jailen Hurts. Jalen Hurts was excellent yesterday. We
Speaker 2: can talk more about that in a moment, but Burrow
Speaker 2: absolutely can get there. With all that said, here is
Speaker 2: my proclamation of my guarantee that I am going to
Speaker 2: make and there's gonna be the big thing I do
Speaker 2: on television today, So let's not put this up on
Speaker 2: social media until after the TV show if we could.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs are not losing again this year, and the
Speaker 2: Chiefs are still going to be the one seed. So
Speaker 2: everyone's oh Buffalo right now is the one seed. Let
Speaker 2: me make something very clear about what the Chiefs have
Speaker 2: the rest of the way. They were on the longest
Speaker 2: winning streak in the NFL that is now snapped, obviously
Speaker 2: in credit to the Bengals for doing it, But the
Speaker 2: Chiefs the rest of the way have the Broncos, Texans,
Speaker 2: Seahawks at home, Broncos all of a sudden, Frisky Raiders
Speaker 2: final week of the year. They haven't loss to the
Speaker 2: Broncos since before Mahomes was the quarterback. They don't lose
Speaker 2: to the Raiders Seattle. I give them credit. They're not
Speaker 2: coming in d Arrowhead and winning. So the Chiefs are
Speaker 2: going to finish this season fourteen to three. What does
Speaker 2: that mean? That means the Buffalo bill must go undefeated
Speaker 2: the rest of the way to be the one seed.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati already has four losses, so Cincinnati's got the tie
Speaker 2: breaker on Kansas City, but the Chiefs would have to
Speaker 2: lose again and Cincinnati would have to go undefeated. The Bills, Jets, Dolphins, Bears, Bengals,
Speaker 2: Patriots three divisional games and a game at Cincinnati and
Speaker 2: a game at Chicago, which, again Chicago can't win games,
Speaker 2: but is an unbelievable stat from our friend Danny Parkins.
Speaker 2: Justin Fields has more fifty yard touchdown runs than any
Speaker 2: quarterback in NFL history already. Already He's got three of
Speaker 2: them this season. That's the most of any quarterback in
Speaker 2: the NFL history. Also, we have some breaking news that
Speaker 2: I find really interesting the pant are It's this from
Speaker 2: me and Rapport moments ago. The Panthers are releasing Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 2: He'll hit waivers when it's finalized later today. That oddly
Speaker 2: fits very well into our next discussion and right, pardon me,
Speaker 2: our poll question, Uh, who's the best team in the AFC?
Speaker 2: Forty five percent say the Chiefs, thirty one percent say
Speaker 2: the Bengals, twenty two percent say the Bills. But demon's
Speaker 2: a what team all of a sudden might need a quarterback?
Speaker 2: Go right ahead of the forty nine ers. They did
Speaker 2: make a statement against Tua and the Dolphins. Yeah, Jimmy
Speaker 2: g is likely done for this season. With a broken foot,
Speaker 2: brutals is probably gonna need surgery. Yeah, this means San
Speaker 2: Francisco has lost two starting quarterbacks this season. However, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two, mister irrelevant Rock Purdy looked great in relief
Speaker 2: meanwhile to a aggravated a lingering an ankle injury. And
Speaker 2: as he's as he struggled against the San France his
Speaker 2: school defensive line.
Speaker 4: Yep, what happens to San Francisco? Mm hmm and Miami
Speaker 4: from here? Should San Francisco get Fitzpatrick or Drew Brees
Speaker 4: or Baker Mayfield?
Speaker 2: Well, listen, Drew Brees no, either he is done and
Speaker 2: Fitzpatrick no. Look brock Birdy yesterday played really well and
Speaker 2: I'm not the guy was a good college player. Now
Speaker 2: he was the final pick of his draft. He's mister
Speaker 2: irrelevant is what they always call, the guy who's picked
Speaker 2: lessons draft. So I will give him the opportunity to
Speaker 2: show he can do something. The odds are he's gonna
Speaker 2: be very limited. The Niners are so good everywhere else, though,
Speaker 2: that you've got to consider them still. I still consider
Speaker 2: them strong contenders in the NFC. The question is can
Speaker 2: they have a quarterback now? Who's gonna make a ton
Speaker 2: of plays, but isn't gonna make a lot of mistakes.
Speaker 2: The Baker thing is interesting. They just signed off the
Speaker 2: Broncos practice squad Josh Johnson. This is his fourteenth different
Speaker 2: stop in the NFL. He's been now some of the teams.
Speaker 2: He's been on the Niners three times, but he's been
Speaker 2: change teams fourteen times in the league. They're on their
Speaker 2: third string quarterback. Does Kyle Shanahan. Now, the way waivers
Speaker 2: work is you claim him, you claim his contract, but
Speaker 2: it's reverse order. It's the same order as the draft order.
Speaker 2: So like if the Texans were to want Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 2: they would get him, they would claim him. Do you
Speaker 2: understand what I mean? Like, so if a guy, if
Speaker 2: a guy gets cut at.
Speaker 4: This point in the careers, exactly right.
Speaker 2: So the Eagles would have the last waiver priority because
Speaker 2: they have the best record, the Texans have the best
Speaker 2: and the Niners have pretty damn good records. So I
Speaker 2: don't I don't have in front of you, but you know,
Speaker 2: twenty five teams have to pass on something like that.
Speaker 2: But I don't think that. Now. The Texans are an
Speaker 2: interesting one. They don't have a quarterback and they but
Speaker 2: do they even want to be in the Baker Mayfield business.
Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to that. The Niners are
Speaker 2: in a very tricky spot. I would put a claim
Speaker 2: in on Baker if I were them, if nothing else,
Speaker 2: then to be the backup and see what party does
Speaker 2: the Niners though, that defense is so god dog good
Speaker 2: that defense is. They gave up a seventy five yard
Speaker 2: touchdown first play of the game and then just shut
Speaker 2: the Dolphins down even though Tyreek still got off right,
Speaker 2: and then we get to the tuas stuff.
Speaker 3: You can't wait to jump on this one.
Speaker 2: Well, everybody was very very quick to demand that to
Speaker 2: get apologies from everyone that doubted him. I want to
Speaker 2: see how the remainder of the year goes. Weather's about
Speaker 2: to get colder, that'll be interesting. Schedule's not going to
Speaker 2: get very soft for them, that'll be interesting. So Miami,
Speaker 2: if we want to go over what they have the
Speaker 2: rest of the way. As they sit at eight and five,
Speaker 2: they are at the Chargers on Sunday Night Football next weekend.
Speaker 2: The Chargers can't get out of their own damn way.
Speaker 2: They're still a dangerous team. They are then at the
Speaker 2: Bills they are then home for the Packers. They are
Speaker 2: then at the Patriots and home for the Jets. So
Speaker 2: the easiest game the rest of the way is home
Speaker 2: for the Packers. For Miami, the Packers all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: By the way, Christian Watson, the kid's got eight touchdowns
Speaker 2: the last four games. There are some obvious limitations that
Speaker 2: Tua has that to me, showed up glaringly yesterday. Now,
Speaker 2: to be fair, Miami was without both of their starting tackles.
Speaker 2: You're playing a ferocious defense. I believe, the best defense
Speaker 2: in football in San Francisco. And that's why San Francisco
Speaker 2: almost no matter who the quarterback is, you still have
Speaker 2: to considered andrus they have a top three running back,
Speaker 2: they have All Pro first team All Pro running back,
Speaker 2: wide receiver, tight end, left tackle, and the best defense
Speaker 2: in football and a great coach I feel. So the
Speaker 2: question is how big of a drop is it from
Speaker 2: Jimmy g to Rock Purty. But this, by the way,
Speaker 2: Rock Purty playing well for them would be such a
Speaker 2: blow for the quarterback. Wins dopes. The folks are like
Speaker 2: wins are a quarterback stat that is, that's how they're
Speaker 2: all that foolishness that has become. And I shouldn't say
Speaker 2: dopes because some of my favorite people in the media
Speaker 2: believe this, most notably my co host Chris Broussard. But
Speaker 2: they're obviously wrong about that. And I'm very curious to
Speaker 2: see what the Niners look like with just a guy
Speaker 2: playing the guy. Yeah, with Brock Perdy, he was their
Speaker 2: third stringer to start the year. He was the two
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty second pick or whatever it was, doing
Speaker 2: a fifty second pick of his draft. And Miami, on
Speaker 2: the other hand, this is this is the time where
Speaker 2: things could go south for it. Absolutely they they one
Speaker 2: hundred percent. What do you think the line is for?
Speaker 2: Who tell me what?
Speaker 3: Miami.
Speaker 4: It's just like everybody's saying, oh, it's Toula's got limitations,
Speaker 4: he's got limitations, and he's been playing well for a
Speaker 4: while now, and then like when it starts to come, they're.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, yep, I told you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's like, listen, that's fair.
Speaker 3: Eventually gonna have a bad game.
Speaker 2: That's that's totally fair. It is totally fair to say
Speaker 2: is that's the first game all year he has played
Speaker 2: the whole way through and they've lost, right, so that
Speaker 2: it is a fair critique, and that I am basing
Speaker 2: this analysis on my prior beliefs on him. But those
Speaker 2: prior beliefs on him I feel very strongly about, and
Speaker 2: I do think that if you're Miami and you caught
Speaker 2: people off guard early in the year, Okay, you beat
Speaker 2: the Patriots, whose offense was you score seven points. You
Speaker 2: have that unbelievable game against the Ravens where you're thoroughly
Speaker 2: outplayed for three quarters and in a perfect fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: You didn't have that very weird game against the Bill
Speaker 2: where the Bills double you up in yardage but Josh
Speaker 2: Allen keeps screwing up the clock and goal line. Okay,
Speaker 2: since then, this is what they have done. They lost
Speaker 2: to the Bengals, they lost to the Jets, they lost
Speaker 2: to the Vikings, they beat this those thah, those are
Speaker 2: the games without Tua. So then to his back, here
Speaker 2: are their wins. They beat the Steelers sixteen to ten,
Speaker 2: They beat the Lions, they beat the Bears, they beat
Speaker 2: the Browns, they beat the Texans. So now, with a
Speaker 2: full season's worth of tape of what you're doing on offense,
Speaker 2: you play real teams again, and one of those real
Speaker 2: teams just kick your teeth there, and so I'm interested
Speaker 2: to watch where this goes for Miami moving forward, just
Speaker 2: like I'm you know, the team right now that and
Speaker 2: I don't mean to step on the rest of the show.
Speaker 2: I'll just do this quickly. If I were a fan
Speaker 2: of them, I would be up at night just like
Speaker 2: You've got to be kidding me about so many of
Speaker 2: our losses. The Raiders who are sitting at five and
Speaker 2: seven and have to feel like, if we had one
Speaker 2: of those games we gave away, the Cardinals game, which
Speaker 2: they flatly gave away, the Chiefs game, which they had
Speaker 2: multiple chances to win and they did, if they had
Speaker 2: the Jags game that they gave away, if they had
Speaker 2: won one of those games and they were six and
Speaker 2: six right now, they got to feel like they have
Speaker 2: to run the table. Now, as far as running the
Speaker 2: table goes, they're not gonna run the table. But they
Speaker 2: have the Rams on Thursday. They then have the Patriots
Speaker 2: at home the next Sunday night, then the Steelers. The
Speaker 2: Raiders could before they played the Niners and the Chiefs
Speaker 2: at the end of the year. That's brutal the Raiders.
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna finish game or two out and
Speaker 2: feel like God, dog it, we should have been right there,
Speaker 2: all right? Next, no no poll for this.
Speaker 3: One, all right.
Speaker 4: Both NFC East powerhouses made statements this weekend the one
Speaker 4: loss Eagles blew out the Titans, Dallas embarrassed the Colts
Speaker 4: on Sunday Night football. There are three clear top teams
Speaker 4: in the NFC, Philly, Dallas and Minnesota. How do you
Speaker 4: rank them? Is Dallas better than Philly regardless of the record.
Speaker 2: Okay, they're not three. Clearly, there are three clear best
Speaker 2: teams in the NFC, but Minnesota is not one of them.
Speaker 2: Give me a break on Minnesota. Yeah, I'm very happy
Speaker 2: for you with your ten and two record. You are
Speaker 2: not a very good team. I shouldn't say you're not
Speaker 2: a good team, not a very good team. You got
Speaker 2: incredibly lucky to beat the Jets yesterday. You're nine to
Speaker 2: zero one score games. Give me a break. Including Minnesota.
Speaker 2: Then Philly, Dallas and the Niners are the three best
Speaker 2: teams in the NFC, hands down. I was all right.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing on Philly, and I know Eagles
Speaker 2: fans hate me, and that's fine and I'll deal with it.
Speaker 2: And Jalen Hart, they ran for three hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: yards the week before this. This week, Jaalen throws for
Speaker 2: damn near four hundred credit where it's due an AJ
Speaker 2: Brown revenge game against the team used to be on
Speaker 2: the Titans. They didn't want to pay him, they traded him,
Speaker 2: and he dominated that football game. The way right now
Speaker 2: to go after Philadelphia is vertical passing game and Tennessee
Speaker 2: can't do it. Tennessee, especially once Treylon Burks went out.
Speaker 2: Did you see the Traylon Burks touchdown highlight? It's one
Speaker 2: of the best plays of the year. He got knocked
Speaker 2: unconscious on the catch and held onto it while unconscious
Speaker 2: in the night. That was I mean, it was a
Speaker 2: scary play. But once he went out for the game,
Speaker 2: Tennessee can't beat you vertically and Philadelphia seized on it. Dallas,
Speaker 2: on the other hand, it's one of the most bizarre
Speaker 2: games ever because Indy is going for two to tie
Speaker 2: that football game late in the third quarter and they
Speaker 2: end up losing by a thousand. Dallas outscores him thirty
Speaker 2: three to nothing in the fourth quarter because Indy can't
Speaker 2: stop turning the ball over to me. Dallas was the
Speaker 2: more impressive performance yesterday, even though Tennessee is a better
Speaker 2: team than Indy, because the Dallas's ability to be explosive
Speaker 2: is to me really frightening if you're anyone else in
Speaker 2: the NFC, because you know how good that defense is.
Speaker 2: And so Philadelphia deserves credit for everything they've done this year.
Speaker 2: I still well, I got to see what happened with
Speaker 2: the Niners at the quarterback position and the Cowboys. The
Speaker 2: problem is, I don't trust the head coach right now,
Speaker 2: if you're in the NFC, if you're Seattle right now,
Speaker 2: you got to feel like we could win the conference.
Speaker 2: And I know people are the Philadelphia fans are yelling
Speaker 2: at their computer screens or into their phones saying what
Speaker 2: more do we have to do to show you we
Speaker 2: are that dominant team? And I have been consistent on this,
Speaker 2: and you can say it's unfair, you can say, but
Speaker 2: having that awful of a showing in the postseason last year,
Speaker 2: when it's the only playoff experience your coach or your
Speaker 2: quarterback have ever had, I cannot get that out of
Speaker 2: my mind until I see you play in a playoff
Speaker 2: game again. There is literally nothing you could do this
Speaker 2: for me. Nothing you could do this regular season to
Speaker 2: where I don't have a yeah but about that game.
Speaker 2: You then add to it that I didn't I thought Philly,
Speaker 2: as dominant as they were early in the year, that
Speaker 2: Philly later in the year was not playing their best football,
Speaker 2: as evidence by the fact that when they played the
Speaker 2: Texans a few weeks ago or a month ago, I
Speaker 2: thought that was a mediocre performance. They lose to the Commanders,
Speaker 2: they steal one against the Colts, they are in a
Speaker 2: dogfight against a Packers team that I don't think is
Speaker 2: any good, and then they dominate the Titans. They get
Speaker 2: back on track against the Titans yesterday. But to me,
Speaker 2: that game shitted entirely when Traylon Burke's went out, And
Speaker 2: now that was early in the game. So am I
Speaker 2: judging Philly by an unfair standard? Maybe, But I just
Speaker 2: my obligation to the audience is to be honest, and
Speaker 2: my honest opinion is it would not shock me if
Speaker 2: Philadelphia ends up the one seed, gets the buy and
Speaker 2: then loses its first playoff game. Next ISAs oh, is
Speaker 2: Dallas better than Philly? Is the pole question?
Speaker 4: Seventy say yes, seventy nine say no.
Speaker 2: So seventy nine percent of the audience thinks Phillies better
Speaker 2: than Dallas. We'll get to see them play again here soon.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, all right.
Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson went down early yesterday with knee injury and
Speaker 4: did not return and screwed a couple of my parlays.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, guys hurt.
Speaker 4: Luckily for Baltimore, they were playing the Broncos and won
Speaker 4: by a point.
Speaker 3: But the Bengals are clearly the class of this division.
Speaker 4: Is this injury more devastating for Baltimore or Lamar considering
Speaker 4: his contract situation.
Speaker 2: I think it's more devastating for Baltimore. Remember Baltimore last
Speaker 2: year was what were they? Eight and three? And then
Speaker 2: Lamar got hurt and they missed the playoffs. They're now
Speaker 2: eight and four and Baltimore now what they have going
Speaker 2: for them this year is Baltimore's schedule the rest of
Speaker 2: the way Steelers, Browns, Falcons, Steelers, Bengals. So now the
Speaker 2: Steelers won a few in a row and the Browns
Speaker 2: will see what they look like when Deshaun gets the
Speaker 2: rust off. But they that was a very important win
Speaker 2: for them yesterday and they are lout the only team
Speaker 2: in the league. Yesterday. I think they could have beaten
Speaker 2: is the Broncos, and so Lamar is gonna get some
Speaker 2: version of a good contract no matter what. But Lamar
Speaker 2: since the first month of the season has not played
Speaker 2: great and now this is the second straight year has
Speaker 2: gotten hurt.
Speaker 3: Those are I think it's pretty devastating for Lamar.
Speaker 2: Well, until you realize that if the Ravens were so
Speaker 2: to me, his worst case scenario is they just franchised
Speaker 2: tag him for forty million bucks. Because if you don't
Speaker 2: think there's a team out there, and I've said it,
Speaker 2: use them for I use them again like the Jets,
Speaker 2: that would give Lamar forty five million a year guaranteed.
Speaker 2: Of course they would. So his downside is relatively limited
Speaker 2: because his if he was amazing this year, they might
Speaker 2: franchise tag him ayway because they don't want to gi
Speaker 2: him fully guaranteed deal. If he's bad and hurt, they're
Speaker 2: still going to franchise tag him. Baltimore, on the other hand,
Speaker 2: Cincinnati's win over the Chiefs is really damaging for Baltimore
Speaker 2: and the fact that Cincinnati gets to play Baltimore again
Speaker 2: later in the year. Baltimore needs to find a way
Speaker 2: to win these games without Lamar. Luckily the schedules soft.
Speaker 2: But the Steelers are a live team right now and
Speaker 2: you got to deal with them. You can't imagine they're
Speaker 2: gonna sweep the Steelers. So it's not quite as easy
Speaker 2: as maybe we thought the schedule was gonna be a
Speaker 2: few weeks ago. To me, the bigger story not bigger story,
Speaker 2: but an equally big story from that game is it
Speaker 2: is impossible how bad the Broncos are. I was skeptical
Speaker 2: of them. I was the biggest Broncos skeptic I think
Speaker 2: in the national media. I said I thought they were
Speaker 2: going to be eight and nine, and people killed me
Speaker 2: for it. They would if they win out. Is that
Speaker 2: they would have to win out to be eight to nine.
Speaker 2: They have the Chiefs twice the rest of the way
Speaker 2: they the Broncos. This is what they have done as
Speaker 2: far as points scored this year. And keep in mind
Speaker 2: there are some games with a defense score sixteen, sixteen, eleven,
Speaker 2: twenty three nine, sixteen nine, twenty one, ten, sixteen ten nine.
Speaker 2: How is that possible?
Speaker 3: Were they up six to zero or was it three zero?
Speaker 3: Was there only they were up six to zero at
Speaker 3: some point yesterday?
Speaker 2: I feel like, no, they no, they but they were
Speaker 2: up nine to three before Tyler Huntley drove them all
Speaker 2: the way down the field for a touchdown. I how
Speaker 2: maddening must it be to be on this Broncos defense. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Russ has eight touchdowns this year. Eight. I gotta I'm
Speaker 2: sorry to do this in real time, but it's just
Speaker 2: it where I gotta find other quarterbacks that are similar
Speaker 2: when it comes to passing touchdowns. I'm sorting by touchdowns
Speaker 2: right now. Uhh okay, here are guys with Okay, Baker
Speaker 2: has six, he's been benched. Taylor Heineke has nine. He
Speaker 2: wasn't the starter the first six weeks. Carson Wentz has ten.
Speaker 2: So Washington, which switched quarterbacks this year in both both
Speaker 2: of their quarterbacks have more touchdown passes than Russ. Davis
Speaker 2: Mills has eleven. He's been benched. Jacoby Brissett has twelve.
Speaker 2: The guy he has Matt Ryan, has been benched and
Speaker 2: has come back. He has thirteen. Russ has eight. He's
Speaker 2: got eight. Jameis Winston hasn't played in two months. He's
Speaker 2: got four eight. I can't. I thought Russell Wilson was
Speaker 2: overrated coming into the year. I thought the Broncos made
Speaker 2: a big mistake. I never in a million years thought
Speaker 2: it was going to look like this where they are
Speaker 2: the worst offense in football. His passer ratings eighty three,
Speaker 2: that is twenty ninth in the league, ahead of only
Speaker 2: Davis Mills, Kenny Pickett, and Zach Wilson and Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 2: So a rookie and three guys who have been benched.
Speaker 2: That's it. It's unbelievable. All right, take quick break, come back,
Speaker 2: continue to talk week twelve in the ear whatever week
Speaker 2: this was Week fourteen in the NFL, and talk a
Speaker 2: little World Cup. That's next, what's right?
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Speaker 2: Welcome Back. In What's Right with Right? Episode one oh three,
Speaker 2: during the show, breaking news that Baker Mayfield is getting released,
Speaker 2: and I do wonder if the Niners are gonna try
Speaker 2: to claim him. If you're Baker, you've got to do
Speaker 2: everything you can in your power to make sure nobody
Speaker 2: you find out if the Niners have interest, right, and
Speaker 2: if they do, try to poison the water so nobody
Speaker 2: else picks you. So the let me just before we
Speaker 2: get to our FIFA forecast, Uh let me, I said,
Speaker 2: I didn't have the full list in front of you
Speaker 2: as far as who would have waiver priority, but I
Speaker 2: can obviously get it in front of me. So if
Speaker 2: we do the league standings, so Houston has a first priority,
Speaker 2: they might claim So Chicago definitely wouldn't, The Rams wouldn't,
Speaker 2: Denver wouldn't, Jacksonville wouldn't. New Orleans maybe because they don't
Speaker 2: have a quarterback at the present or future and they
Speaker 2: don't have their pick Arizona, no Indie, no Green Bay
Speaker 2: of course, not Atlanta Indy. No, They're they're rolling with
Speaker 2: Matt Ryan like they that's who Jeff Saturday wants. Atlanta
Speaker 2: drafted a guy who they haven't played yet, So no Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: no Cleveland. That would be hilarious, but no, the Raiders know,
Speaker 2: Lions know Tampa, No Chargers, Patriots maybe probably not because
Speaker 2: they have ZAPPI. I was just thinking about teams that
Speaker 2: might want him as a backup. Washington, No Seattle, and
Speaker 2: the Jets know Tennessee, Giants, Miami, and now we're up
Speaker 2: to San Francisco. So you really need to make it
Speaker 2: clear to the people in Houston that you will be
Speaker 2: a culture killer agent. Just Baker right now should tweet
Speaker 2: out how much Texas barbecue sucks and how how much
Speaker 2: he enjoyed kicking the Longhorns ass when he was at Oklahoma,
Speaker 2: and do everything he can to poison the water about
Speaker 2: the Texans, potentially claiming get away from the Texans. It's
Speaker 2: the very now. By the way, I don't know that
Speaker 2: the Niners would claim it, but I think it would
Speaker 2: be if they are claiming Josh Johnson off dudes, practice squads.
Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan, I would imagine, would want to see what
Speaker 2: he could do with Baker.
Speaker 3: So I got around him, of course.
Speaker 2: I mean it would be what an unbelievable story it
Speaker 2: would be if Baker ends up falling ass backwards into
Speaker 2: being the Niners quarterback. In that situation, it also would
Speaker 2: be such a wonderful litmus test of what it takes
Speaker 2: to be successful in the league. If Baker had just
Speaker 2: been terrible, you know, his last year in Cleveland, awful
Speaker 2: with Carolina, but then gets to the Niners and looks
Speaker 2: good again. It also should be noted that is there
Speaker 2: a connection between Stefanski and Shanahan. Maybe not. I was
Speaker 2: gonna say, was Stefanski part of that tree, But I'm
Speaker 2: not sure Stefanski was the coach in Cleveland, obviously. All right,
Speaker 2: let's get to soccer.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, all right, you did all you could at
Speaker 4: the aria Sports Book, but it wasn't enough for the
Speaker 4: US to beat the Dutch.
Speaker 2: All right. That was funny, by the way, real quick,
Speaker 2: I was at the Arias Sportsbook, US down to nothing,
Speaker 2: they didn't get a goal. Make it to one. Now,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, it's a game, and we can
Speaker 2: put the tweet up there. This guy, you're gonna see
Speaker 2: me in a moment, pounding the desk right there in
Speaker 2: the white shirt. I'm pounding the desk. He wasn't like
Speaker 2: videoing me. He was videoing the sports book and then
Speaker 2: caught me on there. I was every day in Vegas.
Speaker 2: I got up at six forty five in the morning,
Speaker 2: went downstairs, got a cup of coffee and watched the
Speaker 2: World Cup. But the US of course lost.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Oh yeah, any last words for the USA?
Speaker 4: And are you still sticking with Brazil to win it all?
Speaker 2: All right, I'm still sticking with Brazil. Naymar is supposed
Speaker 2: to come back. Namar also flew his barber or hairstylist
Speaker 2: into Qatar to give him a new hair do for
Speaker 2: today's game. That's exciting. Also, as we're on the air
Speaker 2: right now, Croatia is trail. Oh no, they just tied
Speaker 2: it up literally a moment ago. Crous should tied it
Speaker 2: up against Japan. This is the first World Cup game
Speaker 2: I'm missing because I'm doing this show live right now.
Speaker 2: So Japan took a one zier lead right before halftime.
Speaker 2: Krous should tied it up right now. France, Spain and
Speaker 2: Brazil looked like the classes of the tournament. And what
Speaker 2: Imbape did yesterday was so phenomenal to watch. I know
Speaker 2: everyone says he's the best player in the world. He
Speaker 2: clearly is the best player in the world. And he's
Speaker 2: just brilliant. I am sicking with Brazil obviously they need
Speaker 2: Aymar to be healthy. And Argentina is still lingering clearly.
Speaker 2: And you know they also have advanced already to the quarters.
Speaker 2: And so we have a great quarterfinal matchup already on
Speaker 2: you know, on deck with the Netherlands against Argentina. Netherlands
Speaker 2: which is on the longest unbeaten streak of any team
Speaker 2: in international soccer. We also have a really good quarterfinal
Speaker 2: matchup locked up in England and France. I thought England
Speaker 2: could lose to Senegal and said they crushed him. Here's
Speaker 2: the last words on the US. You can't call this
Speaker 2: tournament a disappointment. So they did exactly what they were
Speaker 2: supposed to do for second in the group, make the quarters,
Speaker 2: lose to Netherlands, that's clear. But you can't call it
Speaker 2: a rousing success either, because I would argue they didn't
Speaker 2: play a single great game the whole tournament, right. Their
Speaker 2: best game was a game they scored zero goals against England,
Speaker 2: the nil nil draw. It was nice that they beat
Speaker 2: a run, but they almost gave it away at the
Speaker 2: end against the Netherlands. They had no business that game
Speaker 2: should have been one to one or two to one
Speaker 2: US at the half. Instead it was too nothing Netherlands.
Speaker 2: And I understand that they were the one of the
Speaker 2: youngest teams in the whole tournament. The next World Cup
Speaker 2: is in the United States. I get all of that,
Speaker 2: and there are reasons to be optimistic, but if you're
Speaker 2: giving them a grade for this World Cup anything more
Speaker 2: than a B is being far too generous. And it
Speaker 2: is clear I didn't want to say argued I disagreed
Speaker 2: with Rick Buker a bit on this when Rick was like,
Speaker 2: anyone that's calling them an elite team doesn't know what
Speaker 2: they're talking about, and I just said to him, well,
Speaker 2: you got to defy elite. Are they one of the
Speaker 2: ten best teams in the world, clearly not. Are they
Speaker 2: one of the twenty best? I would argue, clearly, yes,
Speaker 2: closer to twenty than to ten. But that jump between
Speaker 2: where they are right now to actually competing in a
Speaker 2: World Cup is such a massive jump that even with
Speaker 2: the youth on the team and these guys getting experienced,
Speaker 2: it is impossible to see them making that type of
Speaker 2: jump unless they all of a sudden get a transcendent
Speaker 2: talent or two that right now does not appear to
Speaker 2: be in the pipeline or on the US roster. So
Speaker 2: it wasn't a disappointing World Cup, but it obviously was.
Speaker 2: It felt to me like they left some meat on
Speaker 2: the bone. All right. Next, let's play a game.
Speaker 3: Are playing a game right or wrong? First?
Speaker 4: When we've got a maybe I've been watching a little
Speaker 4: bit too much soccer for the Commander's Giants game, tye
Speaker 4: actually ended up being good for both teams.
Speaker 3: Get wrong, the Giants tie, save your season.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to say it's save their season,
Speaker 2: but I do agree with you that I don't think
Speaker 2: a tie was a terrible result for either of these
Speaker 2: teams because of how the playoff situation is shaking out.
Speaker 2: So now, for they're in a situation right right now,
Speaker 2: we know in the NFC there's going to be two
Speaker 2: playoff spots for three teams, Giants, Seahawks, and Washington. They
Speaker 2: all have seven wins right now. Giants are seven to
Speaker 2: four and one, Washington seven to five and one, and
Speaker 2: Seattle is seven and five, and they all kept pace,
Speaker 2: if you will, both of them with the tie with
Speaker 2: Seattle to a degree to where now if either of
Speaker 2: them finish with the same number of wins as Seattle,
Speaker 2: they will go to the playoffs over Seattle because Seattle
Speaker 2: would be say ten and seven, and they would be
Speaker 2: ten six and one, and so the tie is helpful there.
Speaker 2: So the question is how many wins do we think
Speaker 2: Seattle has left in them? So Seattle is hosting the
Speaker 2: Panthers next week, that should be a win. They then
Speaker 2: host the Niners. That should be a loss. We get
Speaker 2: the Niners though of the big question a quarterback. They're
Speaker 2: then at the Chiefs. That should be a loss. They
Speaker 2: then host the Jets. That's a coin flip game, but
Speaker 2: the Jets, going all the way across country, call that
Speaker 2: a win. And the final week of the year they
Speaker 2: host the Rams. So I do believe Seattle is going
Speaker 2: to get to ten wins. So then the question is
Speaker 2: for the Giants do they have three more wins in them?
Speaker 2: Their games are hosting the Eagles, at the Commanders, at
Speaker 2: the Vikings, hosting the Colts, and then at the Eagles
Speaker 2: in a game that the Eagles might have everything locked up,
Speaker 2: So that's key for them, right if the Eagles, because
Speaker 2: if the Eagles beat Dallas, then they will essentially lock
Speaker 2: everything up because they'll have the full tiebreaker over Dallas.
Speaker 2: Alas would have four losses. They already have the head
Speaker 2: to head with Minnesota, so even if Minnesota and then
Speaker 2: finished with the same record, Philly would get the one seed.
Speaker 2: So can the Giants get to ten wins? In fact
Speaker 2: of the matter is this and then Washington? What do
Speaker 2: they have left? Let me look at the same thing.
Speaker 2: They have a bye week then, because they only have
Speaker 2: four games to get there the ten wins we're talking about,
Speaker 2: they host the Giants, then they're at the Niners, host
Speaker 2: the Browns, and then host Dallas. That's brutal. I think
Speaker 2: that playoff spot is gonna come down to that Giants
Speaker 2: Commanders game. They both have the tie that will determine
Speaker 2: the tiebreaker. So save their season. It even if they
Speaker 2: had lost, they probably would still have to go beat Washington.
Speaker 2: But now there is the slim chance if Seattle because
Speaker 2: of the tie, if Seattle slips up, that both Washington
Speaker 2: and the Giants could make the postseason. So save their season.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say wrong, but I think the tie was
Speaker 2: not a terrible result for them.
Speaker 4: Next all right, AJ Brown had a monster or revenge
Speaker 4: game against Tennessee. Tyreek Kal and Devonte Adams put up
Speaker 4: huge games as well. Their former teams definitely missed it.
Speaker 4: Even you gotta admit that you missed Tyreek Hial after
Speaker 4: you saw MBS drop that touchdown pass.
Speaker 2: NBS then did make a couple good catches.
Speaker 3: But yeah, go ahead, yeah, right or wrong? Never trade
Speaker 3: starr receivers.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna say wrong, because how did the Vikings
Speaker 2: get Justin Jefferson. They traded Stefan Diggs and with the
Speaker 2: pick they got for him, they use it on Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 2: What I would say is, unless you have Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 2: do not trade away star receivers unless you have someone
Speaker 2: ready to immediately replace them. So the PA didn't have
Speaker 2: someone to place Devonte. Now, Christian Watson's playing well the
Speaker 2: last month, eight touchdowns. Last month, I mentioned the second
Speaker 2: time on the show I heard my buddy Danny Parkins
Speaker 2: speculating whether or not could or maybe even Andrew Philiponi
Speaker 2: was listening to their podcast First In Pod, which is
Speaker 2: really good NFL podcast, about whether or not Christian Watson
Speaker 2: could win Offensive Rookie of the Year seemed unfathomable a
Speaker 2: month ago, but eight touchdowns eight touchdowns. So I guess
Speaker 2: it's on the board. It is teams that trade away
Speaker 2: their number one receiver unless again, unless you have Mahomes
Speaker 2: where it doesn't seem to matter. The Chief's still the
Speaker 2: highest scoring team in the league. Yeah, it seems like
Speaker 2: a problem for you. And so I'm gonna I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna say it's right. I'm gonna say it's it's right
Speaker 2: that you never trade them away without someone ready to
Speaker 2: step in right there, And the Vikings got a little lucky.
Speaker 2: I mean, they traded Diggs before they knew who they
Speaker 2: were gonna be able to draft with that pick and
Speaker 2: all of that, but it worked out brilliantly for him. Justin,
Speaker 2: Jefferson's one of the two best receivers in the whole league.
Speaker 4: Next, all right, Mike White and the Jets barely lost
Speaker 4: the ten and two Vikings on the road.
Speaker 3: Still, this team looks pretty legit. Right or wrong, Mike
Speaker 3: White is the Jets' future.
Speaker 2: Oh that's wrong. It's not the Jets.
Speaker 3: If Baker Mayfield want say anything to do with.
Speaker 2: No, that's not what I think. I listen. I I
Speaker 2: think they probably signed Jimmy even though Jimmy's coming off
Speaker 2: another injury and a broken foot. Mike White is a
Speaker 2: good story, and he's good because he's not Zach Wilson,
Speaker 2: who's been was such an abject disaster and now you're
Speaker 2: actually getting your weapons involved and the Jets should have
Speaker 2: won that game. But he's not their future. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna write him off as having no chance of being
Speaker 2: their future, but I'd say it's ninety ten against my
Speaker 2: If Mike White your Week one starter next year, either
Speaker 2: he goes on a really spectacular run these last five weeks,
Speaker 2: or something disastrous has happened this offseason where you didn't
Speaker 2: figure it out next.
Speaker 4: All right, Aaron Rodgers pulled out a close win against
Speaker 4: Chicago then rubbed it into the Bears fans by saying
Speaker 4: Soldier Field has always been a second home to me.
Speaker 3: Right or wrong, Aaron Rodgers is back wrong.
Speaker 2: Everybody stopped. They were very lucky to win this game,
Speaker 2: and I think it is bad for the Packers that
Speaker 2: they won. Had they lost, you could no longer continue
Speaker 2: with this illusion or delusion. Maybe I should say about
Speaker 2: you potentially making the postseason and you could play Jordan
Speaker 2: Love so you could determine whether or not you want
Speaker 2: to pick up his fifth year option in the offseason. Instead,
Speaker 2: they won, and so now they're gonna pretend like they
Speaker 2: have any chance of making the postseason. So the fact
Speaker 2: of the matter for green Bay is this, they cap
Speaker 2: out at nine wins. If they run the table nine
Speaker 2: to eight, that would lose any tiebreakers with Washington or
Speaker 2: the Giants if they get to nine one. We just
Speaker 2: talked about those teams getting to ten, right, so we
Speaker 2: already know that San Francisco, Dallas, Minnesota, and Philly are
Speaker 2: all getting to nine or more wins. There's also the
Speaker 2: NFC South team, right, So green Bay would have to
Speaker 2: win the rest of its games and would have to
Speaker 2: also hope that Seattle falls apart and Washington or the
Speaker 2: Giants one of them only win one game the rest
Speaker 2: of the way. It's not happened. And so I think
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers played well against a terrible Bears defense. I
Speaker 2: do not think he's back, and I do not think
Speaker 2: the Packers have any hope. I think that win was
Speaker 2: actually bad for them.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, next, are you bet on the row
Speaker 4: favorite Jacks this week? After your betting band was lifted
Speaker 4: and they got blown out forty to fourteen. Right or wrong,
Speaker 4: The Jags band must return, Amen. I warned you said,
Speaker 4: it's the Lions at home. I remember, just like you
Speaker 4: just can't. You never know what the Lions are gonna do.
Speaker 2: Man, the Jags band has to return. We have to.
Speaker 2: It has to come back. That was the most say.
Speaker 2: Zay Jones just kept dropping passes, Travis ettin fumble, and Jerry.
Speaker 3: Golf probably had his best game as a quarterback ever.
Speaker 2: Certainly in a long time. That was I mean, they
Speaker 2: lost forty to fourteen. That game was so disheartening. I
Speaker 2: mean it was so frustrating to watch. Trevor didn't even
Speaker 2: play poorly and they just got annihilated. So yeah, put
Speaker 2: the band back on. That's so disappointed. You know, it's
Speaker 2: not disappointing that Anthony Davis might be one of the
Speaker 2: three best players in the Again, we'll answer your questions
Speaker 2: in the chat, one of which I know is on
Speaker 2: the Lakers. We'll do that next. We'll try welcome back
Speaker 2: in what's right with Nick Wright As I'm monitoring Japan Croatia,
Speaker 2: which is in the seventieth minute tied at one apiece.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna go through this quickly. So I can
Speaker 2: see the end of that match. All right, demons, let's
Speaker 2: read the questions from the chat Batman asked.
Speaker 4: Can Lebron and Anthony Davis both finish this season as
Speaker 4: the top five player in your opinion?
Speaker 2: No, I listen, I don't think Lebron's top five guy anymore.
Speaker 2: And we just have to now we can talk more
Speaker 2: about the Lakers in just a moment. What are you
Speaker 2: laughing about?
Speaker 3: I mean, Batman, he watches our show.
Speaker 2: It's pretty dope. Oh yeah, that is cool. So Giannis, Luca,
Speaker 2: Steph KD, Tatum right now all have a claim that
Speaker 2: they are unquestionably top five. Right Anthony Davis is trying
Speaker 2: to push one of them out, and the way he's
Speaker 2: been playing lately, he would be pushing one of them out.
Speaker 2: But so let's just say eighty's at six.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Eighty So you have to me. You have Giannis is
Speaker 2: a clear best player in the world. I believe Luca
Speaker 2: a clear second best player in the world. You then
Speaker 2: have three guys who have an argument for the third
Speaker 2: best spot, third best guy, Steph KD and Tatum right now.
Speaker 2: You then have the next group of guys, which are Jokic,
Speaker 2: Ja and Anthony Davis. To me, the way Ad is
Speaker 2: playing right now, those are the guys six through eight.
Speaker 2: I'm going off the top of my head, Lebron is
Speaker 2: in that very next tier nine through twelve, somewhere in there.
Speaker 2: So Lebron is I mean, listen, he almost you know,
Speaker 2: once a week he has the best game anyone's ever
Speaker 2: had other than himself for you know, at this point
Speaker 2: in his career. But he's not. I mean, he's in
Speaker 2: year twenty. He's he just passed magic and assists and
Speaker 2: he's still doing these types of things. But what's interesting
Speaker 2: for the Lakers is this. If Ad keeps this up,
Speaker 2: they are not a team that can be discounted. If
Speaker 2: Lebron is your second best guy, you're in amazing shape.
Speaker 2: And credit word's due. Russ has played really well since
Speaker 2: he started coming off the bench. He's not turning the
Speaker 2: ball over, he's being smarter. And when it comes to Lebron,
Speaker 2: I told you guys, everyone's like, oh, Lebron the worst
Speaker 2: three point shooter in the league, which he was the
Speaker 2: until he got hurt and missed that little bit of time.
Speaker 2: And I told you guys, he's gonna have a stretch
Speaker 2: where he shoots forty five percent. While I was from three,
Speaker 2: I was wrong. It's a strutch where he shoots fifty percent. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And so now he's up to thirty four percent for
Speaker 2: the season, which is right around his career average. He's
Speaker 2: going to finish the year round thirty five percent from three,
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be despite the fact he'll never really
Speaker 2: shoot thirty five percent from three. He'll shoot. You'll have
Speaker 2: some one for eight games and some five for seven games,
Speaker 2: and it will even out in that regard. But the
Speaker 2: Lakers are interesting again, and that game against the Bucks
Speaker 2: was their best win since Game three of the first
Speaker 2: round the year of their title defense against Phoenix, the
Speaker 2: game that Anthony The next game, Anthony Davis got hurt
Speaker 2: and the whole thing went to hell.
Speaker 4: All right, next, all right, Jackson says, I need to
Speaker 4: understand the double standard with teams like Miami and Buffalo
Speaker 4: two had one bad game in two months and everyone bounces.
Speaker 3: Josh Allen has several in the last month and no
Speaker 3: one cares.
Speaker 2: All right, First of all, I care now the Josh
Speaker 2: Allen thing, but this is it is preconceived notions cause
Speaker 2: analytical bias, but sometimes they're for a good reason. We
Speaker 2: cannot act as if what you have been up to
Speaker 2: this point in your career should not factor into whether
Speaker 2: or not we believe stretches of excellent play or stretches
Speaker 2: of awful play are concerning or calls for optimism or neither.
Speaker 2: So Mahomes last year had a month where he played poorly.
Speaker 2: I was never concerned about him because he had prior
Speaker 2: to that three and a half years of quarterback play
Speaker 2: at the highest level we've ever seen. Tua had two
Speaker 2: years as a bad starting quarterback, then he had this
Speaker 2: stretch start the year. It's going to need to be
Speaker 2: more than eight games for us two for at least
Speaker 2: for me to say, Okay, he's one of those guys.
Speaker 2: He's a great player. Josh Allen, we have seen what
Speaker 2: his highs are, so we know Josh Allen can be
Speaker 2: the quarterback of one of the best teams in football,
Speaker 2: So you give him more benefit of the doubt. Now,
Speaker 2: what I also think with Josh Allen is we have
Speaker 2: seen throughout his entire career high highs and low lows,
Speaker 2: And I'm one of the only people in the media
Speaker 2: that seems to care about the low lows. But they've
Speaker 2: been there, so I do think body of work really matters,
Speaker 2: and that I mean, that's to me, that's not really
Speaker 2: a double standard, or it is a double standard, but
Speaker 2: it is a fair double standard. It is uh, it
Speaker 2: is have you earned the benefit of the doubt yet
Speaker 2: or not? Next?
Speaker 4: All right, King of Fedora's asks. Will Brandon Staley be
Speaker 4: fired after this season?
Speaker 3: No reason? No reason.
Speaker 4: A defensive minded head coach should have one of the
Speaker 4: worst defenses in the NFL back to back years.
Speaker 2: Okay, if they missed the pas, I do wonderful fire
Speaker 2: him now. Chargers ownership is pretty cheap by nature, doesn't
Speaker 2: like to move on from coaches early. I think probably
Speaker 2: he gets another year, and they've been so injured. But
Speaker 2: that loss against the Raiders was unacceptable by any measure. Unacceptable.
Speaker 2: And it's gonna be if the Jets or the Patriots
Speaker 2: make the playoffs and the Chargers don't. And by the way,
Speaker 2: that's what would happen. If the Chargers miss, it will
Speaker 2: be because the Jets or the Patriots take their spot,
Speaker 2: or I guess the Raiders you know, went out and
Speaker 2: do it. That is going to be I've liked Staley previously.
Speaker 2: He obviously hasn't done a great job this year, and
Speaker 2: that team if your Brandon Staley, what you're worried about
Speaker 2: is that Chargers ownership is going to for the first time,
Speaker 2: maybe ever, not be cheap and go out and hire
Speaker 2: Sean Payton. Because if I'm Sean Payton coaching Justin Herbert,
Speaker 2: and that's what would concern me as a Chiefs fan,
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert getting Sean Pater as a head coach.
Speaker 4: Next, Tony ass are the Raiders better than the Chargers
Speaker 4: despite their record?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think they're better. I think they have
Speaker 2: similar issues. I do think the Raiders, though, when it's clicking,
Speaker 2: look like a good team. Josh Jacobs looks like the
Speaker 2: best running back in football, Devonte's doing great things. I
Speaker 2: don't trust their coach, and I don't really trust their quarterback,
Speaker 2: and I don't love their defense, but at times they
Speaker 2: can look really good. Next.
Speaker 4: All right, Marco's asked Nick, do you think one day
Speaker 4: soccer will be as big in the US as the
Speaker 4: other great as the other great American sports? How much
Speaker 4: of a fan how much of a fan number increase
Speaker 4: do you expect until twenty twenty six?
Speaker 2: I don't know. About in the short term. On a
Speaker 2: long enough horizon, do I think soccer could become the
Speaker 2: third most popular sport? Could it pass baseball? I think
Speaker 2: it could. I think what it is going to take
Speaker 2: is a Lebron level star, meaning one of the very
Speaker 2: best players in the world, maybe not Lebron level, KD level,
Speaker 2: one of the best players ever, even if he doesn't
Speaker 2: have to be the best ever being an American. What
Speaker 2: it is going to take is an American with charisman
Speaker 2: personality starring for one of the best clubs in Europe.
Speaker 2: The way to make soccer popular here is not necessarily
Speaker 2: the MLS, because Americans like to watch the best of
Speaker 2: the best. But if an American can go over to
Speaker 2: the premier league and kick ass that player does not
Speaker 2: yet exist. It's not gonna be Poolicit, who's great for
Speaker 2: an American but is not one of the twenty best
Speaker 2: players in the world. It is going to take someone
Speaker 2: that is as good as maybe don't have to be
Speaker 2: in Bope, but as good as Benzoma is right now
Speaker 2: as an American. It's gonna be hard to do next.
Speaker 4: All right, Alan says, why does demands they have pants
Speaker 4: on under his pants?
Speaker 2: Well, why don't you answer that.
Speaker 4: It's called outside, dude. These are long John's. They're like
Speaker 4: or you can call them thermals. I learned that thermals
Speaker 4: are or like wind patterns in the air that like
Speaker 4: certain birds follow. Okay, like when some people go paaras sailing,
Speaker 4: they use like these vultures or something to find the
Speaker 4: thermals so they'll be able to glide smoothly.
Speaker 2: What does that do with your pants?
Speaker 3: They're called thermals, but.
Speaker 2: I understand that. But they but so it's just they're.
Speaker 3: The same name name. But it's also got something to
Speaker 3: do with the weather, so they're kind of related.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I got you. Listen. Monte has done hard
Speaker 2: work in his life. Used to build fences, was briefly. Uh,
Speaker 2: well it doesn't matter. I had other work that was outdoors. Uh.
Speaker 2: And will not dress in a way to where he's
Speaker 2: uncomfortable no matter what people think of the fashion. Did
Speaker 2: you see the picture someone Texas of mahomes. Yeah, mahomes
Speaker 2: wearing the shorts and the hoodie that demans special. I mean, listen,
Speaker 2: you and mahomes are around the same age. It might
Speaker 2: be a gen Z thing.
Speaker 3: It's not a gen Z thing. Man, what you gotta
Speaker 3: stop saying that. What do you mean it's not a
Speaker 3: gen Z people wear hoodies in shorts.
Speaker 2: I think gen Z guys do. I don't think it's
Speaker 2: a bad thing.
Speaker 4: I think I just saw Petrushka's husband Nick outside with
Speaker 4: a with hoodies in a hoodie low in shorts.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'm to check that real quick. Also, the
Speaker 2: audience doesn't know Patrushka and Nick own the ice cream
Speaker 2: shop right next door to where we do this podcast
Speaker 2: from sugar Hill Creamery, which is the best ice cream
Speaker 2: shop in the world.
Speaker 4: But go ahead, Dave just as all up and said,
Speaker 4: why not just get pants that cover up your legs? Well,
Speaker 4: because I've worn the one pair of pants that I
Speaker 4: have that cover up my legs for the last three
Speaker 4: episodes of the podcast, so I wanted to switch it
Speaker 4: up a little bit.
Speaker 2: Demonse doesn't have an expansive wardrobe, and he recently bought
Speaker 2: a piece of clothing on the internet. Yeah, and it
Speaker 2: has not yet been delivered. It was six weeks ago,
Speaker 2: and he's so angry about it. He refuses to spend
Speaker 2: money on any other clothes. Is that about right?
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I do think that I'm going to
Speaker 4: request my money at this point, it's yo. On the
Speaker 4: top of their website, it says basic shipping takes five
Speaker 4: to seven business days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I ordered only like ninth of November.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you're getting it, buddy, I think
Speaker 2: they screwed you.
Speaker 3: I'm getting something. You're okay, all right?
Speaker 2: So Gabe Goodwin says, we'll send some pants along with
Speaker 2: the big hat. Yeah, do that. And by the way,
Speaker 2: Joy Taylor tried to bite our stuff, saying she wants
Speaker 2: one of those big hats. So it's a race to
Speaker 2: see if the Blue Duck production company or a Fox
Speaker 2: Sports production can get a big hat in our hand
Speaker 2: before Joy gets hers. Because if Joy gets it before us,
Speaker 2: everyone's gonna say we're biting Joy's style and that's unacceptable.
Speaker 2: Today was a great show. You did great. It's wonderful
Speaker 2: to be back. I'm gonna watch the end of Japan Croatia. Also,
Speaker 2: by the way, real quick, let me go ahead and check.
Speaker 2: We are still on the hunt for one hundred thousand
Speaker 2: YouTube subscribers. We are sitting presently at right under eighty
Speaker 2: eight though, yep, So let's get to ninety thousand this
Speaker 2: week and then have a big December push to try
Speaker 2: to get to one hundred thousand so demons can get
Speaker 2: the thousand dollars bonus. On the flip side, maybe we
Speaker 2: come just short, so I have to give them that
Speaker 2: thousand dollars bonus because I don't know if you've heard
Speaker 2: the beginning of the show, but this was not a
Speaker 2: great weekend for me from the gambling perspective. All right, everybody,
Speaker 2: wonderful show. Talk to you guys on Thursday for our
Speaker 2: next show. Oh, what's right,