WEBVTT - Football and Turkey Day with Ahmad Bradshaw 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:08.480 From the King of Sports Books comes the Key Sports 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:18.880 podcast Unleashed, presented by the MGM. Here's your host, Jerry 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:32.320 Ferrara and Olivia Harlan Decker. Welcome to Unleashed and Happy Thanksgiving. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.159 If you're listening to us on Thursday, we appreciate all 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.199 of you listening all the time, and we love our 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:39.800 Thursday listeners because you guys really can get the best show. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.360 You get all of the NFL weekend preview, especially this 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:46.600 week three amazing games on Thursday. If you're listening to 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.960 this late, I apologize, We've got to dig into a 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.839 little bit. Jerry Ferra, your Giants are playing in a 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.760 big game against the Cowboys, and it's in the middle, 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.960 like right in the middle of when you're hosting a 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.360 thirty person thanks Giving. Yeah. I did not sign up 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:04.240 for this. I mean we were talking off air you 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.520 said I sort of did when we moved to the Midwest. 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.520 My wife has a large family. They're great. I love them. 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.440 Were like the default Thanksgiving house. Now. I don't know 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.440 how this happened, but yeah, this is the first meaningful 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.959 Giants game, probably the best Thanksgiving slate in a very 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.920 very long time in general. Also on my birthday on Friday, 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:27.520 like the perfect time to offload children, responsibilities and just 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.480 eat and watch football and chill. And now people are 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:32.440 gonna be asking me where everything is in my house. 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.480 I'm just gonna sell the house after this house going 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.000 on the market Friday. Yeah, there you go. Hey, I 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.200 might be interested. I'd love to have them to be 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.320 back down here. Just when you have people over, you 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.280 can set out the bar, you can get the ice, 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.200 the lines cut the you can have everything out, you 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.440 know what I mean. And people still come up to hey, 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.920 do you have a you know, extra napkins or where 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:58.240 the straws or you're just like, oh my god, you people. Yeah, oh, 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.360 here's all the lemons for the Do you have like 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.960 a whole lemon? Why they need a whole lemon right now? 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.960 And you know what, just find it, find it yourself. Yeah, 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.040 this is gonna be really really interesting. The good thing 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:10.799 is I have a lot of TVs in the house, 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.440 and I think I'm more scared about the seven little 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.200 kids that are going to be in the house that 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.560 because they're the destroyers, they will destroy they get destroy 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.960 everything in minutes. They're all under five five and under 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.040 and overall fan base. I think you're the only New 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:27.760 Yorker if this is a lot of your wife's family. 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.280 Are you the only one who cares about the giants? 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.520 The only one who cares about the giants? What's so 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.440 funny about those Browns? Though? I someone also broke our rule. 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:40.519 I had to attend a Sunday kid's birthday party that 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:46.440 started at one pm. Nope, no, thank you, unacceptable one pm. 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.480 Now it's our neighbors and there their two sons. Their 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.320 birthdays are really close together. We love them, Our kids 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:54.640 are like best friends with their kids. They're great people. 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.880 I took Jacob myself because I also I started having 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.800 football guilt. You know, we can. I've in week twelve. 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.600 I'm like, god, I've kind of taken Sundays to myself 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.920 for ten weeks. Let me take the kid and let's go. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.480 So uh yeah. But what the point of me saying 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.960 is these Browns fans are all hollowed around the TV 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:17.320 watching that game like it mattered. Yeah, because it does 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.120 to them, you know it does. But yeah, I don't 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:21.639 even I don't even want to go to my own 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.519 kid's birthday party on a Sunday. I just and here 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.640 for a little spoiler out there. There are two things 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.320 people don't want to go to, baby showers and kids 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.919 birthday parties. You just don't want to go. I said 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.560 to my mom. She was hosting my baby shower. I said, Mom, 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.400 I hate going to baby showers. Like, let's make this 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.160 pain less. Let's have it at a restaurant at night 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.400 with an open bar. Just because I can't think, doesn't 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.720 mean other people can't. Okay, that is a tangent That 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.000 is a huge tangent um overall, though, as you look 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.480 forward to this game, and again some people will be listening, 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.320 it'll have already been played. But you know, what are 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.440 your thoughts? Are you confident? Because the Cowboys are hot 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.400 right now and if you ask anyone, they're winning the 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.520 Super Bowl. So this is actually good because yes, you're 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:00.440 listening on Thursday, this will be relevant. And then if 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.920 you're listening on Friday or after, you'll get to hear 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.160 the psychology of a Giants van. First of all, Dallas 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.880 has owned us for I don't know eight years at 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:10.920 this point, I don't remember the last time you've beat 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.960 the Cowboys, let alone in Dallas. Number two was an 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.960 awful loss to the Lions that was for the Giants, like, 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:19.960 no disrespect to the Lions who are on a three 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:24.279 game winning streak going into Thanksgiving. That was terrible. And yeah, 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.560 Dallas had that one screw up against your packers, and 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.200 you see what happens when they get piste off. Now 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.279 I think they see the Eagles or maybe coming back 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.040 to the field a little bit. Yeah, terrified at this game. 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.359 Daniel Jones finally had a Daniel Jones game against the Lions, 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:42.039 which we've been avoiding all year. So I will say though, 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.560 I believe in dable to keep this one close and 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.200 maybe if we get the Cowboys into deep waters, we 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.480 could steal this one. I do think the steel is 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:54.560 in play. But yes, this is that defense is absolutely terrifying. Okay, 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.120 I don't know if it scares you a little bit, 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.680 but Vegas is giving the edge to Dallas in a 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.680 big way. Minus No. Nine. We record on Tuesday, so 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.200 that that might change a little bit. But Jerry, that's horrible. 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.440 And then forty four and a half is the point total? 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:07.680 What do you think of that one? Do you like 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:11.200 any play here that makes me happy? If you've noticed too, 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:16.279 every time the Giants seemed to become a real pick like, oh, giant, 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.440 know what Giants are? For real? They're good. Had that 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.000 going into Seattle lost, had that going into that first 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.760 Dass game, Cooper Rush, Giants could easily win this game, 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.040 and we had that going into the lines. It's all 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.000 the games that the Giants are disrespected in is the 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:31.400 ones that they show up. And I feel like that 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:37.039 line is very disrespectful. That's that's that's high for a 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.400 six and seven and three t that's high. That's a 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.320 high number right there. Well, it's not the highest of 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.920 the day. Bills are nine and a half point favorite 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.120 at Detroit. I get that one. I get that one. 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.520 I'm not on this Detroit hype. Come on, it's the Bills. 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.760 They'll get back. And and Josh Allen too. I I'm 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.480 not buying that he's broken. I'm not buying that this uh, 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.200 this offense is broken. I like, I like everything that's 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.599 coming Josh Allen's way moving forward. As long as he's healthy, 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.920 which he seemed okay in that Browns game. As long 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.280 as he's healthy. The Bills I still think are the 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:12.840 biggest threat to the Chiefs. And we'll get to this, 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.440 we'll talk about your your Chiefs at some point. But 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.320 I don't know, though, Olivia. Those two nine minus nine 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.799 for the Cowboys minus nine and a half of the Bills. 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.440 I do think that taking the points on Thanksgiving certainly 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.280 sounds like something to do. And you know what we have. 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:32.840 We have a football player on today. We have speaking 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.560 of my giants, one of my favorite all time Giants, 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:37.880 and I think he has played on Thanksgiving and I 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.800 definitely want to ask him is that a bummer or 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.280 is that incredible? Are you thinking about how much you're 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.240 gonna eat at half time when you're done with this game? 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:50.000 So if you get the big turkey leg on the field, 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.120 those are a lot of points though on Thanksgiving. So 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.320 I'm already looking at a little Lions Giants even maybe 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:00.360 a teaser. But we'll talk to Peter Andrew about that. Well, 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.360 he needs to get back to Pete. Let's take it 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.920 easy on Peter. It's the holidays. I guess we must write, 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.720 but he really deserves a talking to, a stern talking 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.040 to Oh my god, did you get a chance to 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:15.760 watch much of the Monday night game in Mexico? I did. 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:17.880 I got a little woozy there on the Monday night 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:22.080 game around him Jerry, I missed it. I was in 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:25.160 bed last night at eight pm. I'm gonna I'm gonna 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.880 blame the jet lag. But my kids given me like 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:29.960 a run for my money right now with his jet lags, 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.160 So I put him down at eight. I got in 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.360 bed right after. We're both sound asleep. I mean, so yeah, 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.200 I missed it. When I watched the highlights, I watched 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.400 with a little bit of interest because my knicks were 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.720 also on. But the Niners are getting scary. Yeah, Niners 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.040 look great. And I don't just mean Jimmy G. As 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.160 he walked into the stadium and that g Q pink suit. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.160 He is a handsome looking dude. And then and then 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.640 they show Cult McCoy walking it after and he looks like, 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.040 you know, the guy who's selling you a blockbust skirt DVD. 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.680 Jimmy G looked incredible. Four past touchdowns, zero interceptions. They 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.880 evenly distribute the ball. I feel like everyone was involved 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.360 because as I'm looking at the box score after, I'm like, man, 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.440 look at these four running backs, each with at least 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.240 three carries. Look at these five receivers, each with a 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.560 couple of catches and brand and you had two catches, 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.680 two of them were touchdowns, and kidd All with a 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:19.600 pair of touchdowns as well, so that was awesome. They 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.160 have won three straight there, six and four, first in 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.400 the NFC West, and they've beaten every division rival. So 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.720 I don't think this record six and four indicates who 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.120 they really are now because they went through the adversity, 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.120 they lost their quarterback. Then they signed Christian McCaffrey, which 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.520 was as big of an acquisition as anyone has done 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.880 and will do until we know where O. B. D goes. 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.160 And then you know, as I'm looking at the NFC 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.520 between Philly, Dallas, and San fran if we kind of 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:46.960 narrow it down to those three, I don't know if 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.200 we were saying that the Vikings are dead, but who's 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.480 the toughest team now in the NFC When you look 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.600 at those three, couple of things to unpack with that 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.319 number one, I'm officially looking at my Seahawks division win 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.160 ticket saying maybe this is the time to sell it. 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.640 The Niners looked really good, and the Niners already beat 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.040 the Seahawks, and that is the only threat in the 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.600 NFC West to the Seahawks. I'm gonna hang on for now. 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.960 But the thought after that Monday night game realized, maybe 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:16.280 I should sell that ticket that I have. Plus I'm 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.640 gonna answer that question the second. But this really occurred 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.480 to me today when I was looking at teams like 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:26.440 the Jets, the Browns, the Broncos, several teams that defensively 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.680 are really really good Browns maybe not really offensively. There 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.680 are weapons, but they are only held back by their quarterback. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:38.440 Jimmy G. Really might be the most interesting offseason thing 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.760 that's about to happen. But here's my question for you, 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.800 The Niners. Easy of all those teams, to me, the 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.199 Niners are the I think the sneakiest threat to win 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.920 the Super Bowl. If they won the Super Bowl with 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.760 Jimmy G, do they then say goodbye? Or do they 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.240 run it back? That's such a such a weird thing, 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.000 like they did it with full Like what happens if 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.160 Jimmy G and the Niners in the Super Bowl. You're saying, 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.360 get rid of I guess you don't have to get 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.120 rid of them, but you just you're gonna have to 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.120 sit one more year because we got to defend this title. 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.160 You know, because uh, would you think they would run 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.840 it back? You know? Flacco got that huge contract from 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.400 the Ravens after we won the Super Bowl, much younger 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.559 flac Oh. I just wonder what happens with Niners and 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.079 Jimmy g in success if they win the Super Bowl. 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.240 I don't know if we I think they almost have 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:24.880 to run it back, right, But yeah, to me, the 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:29.199 Niners are the sneakies team. But I still think the Eagles. 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.800 I think they're going through their little hiccups now and 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.560 they're still winning. They only lost one game. I still 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:36.360 think the Eagles of the team to be I'm with 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.199 you on that. I think we'll learn about the Cowboys 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.160 learn a lot about them on Thursday Night as well. 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.760 So yeah, overall, it wasn't a very sexy NFL weekend. 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:45.280 I feel like every week we get on here and 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:46.920 we're like, oh, that was the best week at that 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.280 for blah blah blah and Chiefs. Chargers did a lot 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.040 to sell the weekend as a whole, But the fact 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.439 that we had two teams held to just three points 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.120 Jets and Vikings, and that really that Jets Patriots game 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.440 is really pretty good. Just what you looked at, there 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:04.559 wasn't a single offensive touchdown scored, just the return touchdown 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.760 and everything that you look at at the aftermath with 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.720 the Jets. What stands out to me, Jerry, and where 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.640 I'm not hot on Wilson is when he's asked after 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.120 the game, you know, do you feel like you let 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.840 the defense down? I think was the question, and he says, no, No, 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:23.520 we don't. I hate a quarterback. Part of playing quarterback 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.560 is falling on the sword, don't you think, especially if 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.280 you play bad? Josh Allen in his postgame press conferences, 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.960 is Mr falling the sword? I need to be better. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.640 I played badly, blah blah blah. Aaron Rodgers time to 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.880 time will take credit. No, the best will take credit 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.679 for it, because the ship goes as you go. And 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.120 I really didn't like Wilson after a dogshit game. And 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.839 I'm using Robert Sala's words there that he didn't really 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.440 seem to man up to it or feel like he 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.360 let the defense down? The defense who played great? What 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.600 do you think? Look, we all have a TV, Zach, 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.840 we all have a television. We saw the game. We 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.480 watched the game, so it was like an arbitrary question. 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.800 We were basically I feel like whoever asked him that 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:11.960 question was giving him the opportunity to show some leadership. Okay, 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.400 it wasn't really like what you know, do you think 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.240 you let the d That to me was more of 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.240 a statement and we're giving you a chance here to 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.960 take some of the heat. We all have a TV zacht. 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.560 We saw it, and we know the answer to the question, 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:26.960 and no is not the answer. The answer is yes, 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:28.640 should have took some of the own ship. I know 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.400 Jeff fans are there in an uproar, all the Jeff 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.520 fans of my life, crushing him, and maybe it should 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.680 be time for the hot seat. But people are talking 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.040 about giving up on Zach Wilson already. I don't think 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.040 that should be the case either. He's still extremely young 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:47.120 in his second year. Yes, it looks really bad. Yes 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.199 he's not showing leadership. He's a kid, and I mean 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.320 that would all due respect, he's very very young. So 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.600 but yeah, I don't know. Are they better with Flacco? 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.160 Between the Broncos and the Jets. They easily could be 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.640 leading the FC if they could just score more than 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:07.000 twelve points. I mean, yeah, Jets could have been first 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.760 with a win over New England. They've lost four teams straight. 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.199 That's that's crazy to wrap your mind around. Now, their 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.280 last in the division I mentioned two teams were held 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:19.280 at just three points. So the Vikings, obviously Cowboys just 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:23.600 shut them down in the defensive love of forty Cowboy 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.160 points forty points. I'm just it's it's crazy as you're 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.400 flipping through scores and you're on red zone and you 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.920 see that keep coming across your screen. So the Vikings 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:36.679 two losses Jerry combined fifty four points. And here's here's 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.040 where I'm confused on the Vikings too, because all their 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.200 all their wins have been so close. Obviously, they haven't 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.320 knocked anyone out right. The reason I didn't even ask 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:46.920 you about them earlier when I was talking about the 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.680 NFC is because I think that the Vikings very best 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.560 isn't their best, isn't as good as anyone else's best, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.439 you know what I mean. I think this is a 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.559 team who will disappear quickly in the playoffs. Um their 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.880 left run out. You know, when we when we look 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:05.240 at the Justin Jefferson catch on fourth and eighteen, I 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.400 mean that that was the game winner. Really get no 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.480 business making that catch, and that's how they won the 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.600 previous week. So I just feel like the Vikings are 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.800 flukey and their record doesn't reflect who they are. Well, 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:18.560 if there was ever a time that was one of 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.320 my picks of the week. As much as it pains 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.720 me to pick the Cowboys, it was so obvious. I 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.480 mentioned last week how me and my good buddy Max 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:30.240 love storylines and narratives coming off that Bill's win. Really 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.960 where the Viking is gonna just go thrash the Cowboys 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.720 to or steal at three point when no, uh, Look, 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.360 I do think the Vikings are a very very good team, 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.440 and they have been executing and getting lucky and sometimes 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.520 that's all you need. I do think they may go 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.320 away for a little while, and the question will be 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.200 can they get hot again at the right time, because 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.280 they do have great chemistry a team as great chemistry 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.480 as we know. We all seen the photos from the 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:58.160 jet So yeah, I think that as far as like 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:02.840 real threats in the NFC, they'll like four on my list, 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:08.200 I think it goes Cowboys, Eagles, Niners, and then I 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.240 think you could maybe start talking about I'm you have 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.320 to because after that, who who do you got left? Yeah? 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.000 That's it, that's it. You start talking giant Seahawks. Really 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.560 that that's that's it. You know who is hot at 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.520 the right time. My god, it's the Kansas City Chief 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.480 straight win in November and December. It's funny. My father 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.280 in law, I went to the Packer game right on 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.440 Thursday night. It was freezing. It was a lot of 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.400 fun until it wasn't. And my father in law the 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.360 next day says, oh man, it sucks. You know the 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.560 season's over. I said, not if you have two teams. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.560 Not a few have two teams. And now I'm teaching 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.480 my son. We we retire some of our green until 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.120 next fall. And now we go to Alread. We are 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.520 Chiefs fans. Baby. They have their sixth straight one score 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.320 game between the Chargers. I love when these two teams meet. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:57.600 I love young quarterback first, young quarterback Herbert Homes. A 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:01.000 minute forty left on the clock, way more than enough time, 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.480 even when they're shorthanded. I mean, this was magic. Like 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.600 I said, not a very sexy weekend, This was a 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.120 sexy game. I mean this was so good. Chargers covered 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:15.160 overheit Kelsey with the hat trick. This game delivered. It 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:19.920 did shoutouts to Cadarius Tony. I didn't really know how 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.960 I felt once the Giants basically traded you away, and 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.240 you're hurt again, and your hamstrings hurt again. Everyone doing 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.680 the Giants are gonna regret the Cadarius. Yeah, he's a 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.920 very talented player. When he played even last year for 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:34.400 the Giants, he was great. And then we saw him 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.000 with that touchdown with the Chiefs doing the limp down 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.040 the sideline, and then he's hurt again one week later. 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.960 And that's been the story. Outside of that. I know 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.000 I've been on here ranting and raving every week on 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.960 Unleashed about give Justin Jefferson entirely kill their respect for 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.880 m v P. Yes, they should get a few votes. 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.000 I still stand by that Patrick mahomes the m v P. 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.080 He's the best player in the world. He's the offensive 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:00.520 player of the year. It's done, we get it. I'm 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.680 starting to now look ahead and say, all right, it's 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.040 the Chiefs. Really it should go through Kansas City at 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.600 this point, and the one seed will be very important 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.960 to them. You've been to many Chiefs games, I'm sure, 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.560 so you know that that weather is going to really 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.960 affect teams like the Dolphins, who I'm looking at right 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.320 now trying to find the threat to the Chiefs, and 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:24.840 I do think it might be Tennessee. Obviously it's Buffalo, 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.639 but they see you know I I I in the playoffs. 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:30.920 I just gotta see it. Tennessee would worry me a 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.159 little bit and the Dolphins. But the Dolphins to me, 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.880 would have to get the one seed, and I don't 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.280 think that's humanly possible. When I look at the schedule, 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:45.520 Chiefs go, Rams, Bengals, Broncos, Texans, Seahawks Broncos again Vegas. 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:51.080 That's the Chiefs coming home schedule. Yeah, maybe there's one 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.800 loss in there, maybe too, but they can afford it. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:59.000 They could afford it. Dolphins go Texans, they go at Niners, 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.760 at charge, at Bills, and they get to beat your packers. 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.200 But here's what I think will be really interesting about 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:11.280 the Dolphins New Year's Day. They're on the road in 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.120 New England. It's going to be freezing cold. I listened 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:15.760 to Mike Lombardi a lot. I hope we get to 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:17.720 have Mike Lombardi on the show. He brought up great 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.879 points about we need to see two in cold weather 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.080 to really get a sense of how far this Dolphins 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:26.280 team could go. That might be the litmus test. Right, 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.720 we'll get a little taste at Buffalo. But then yeah, 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.280 New Year's Day at New England, which is a very 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.000 good defense. We're gonna learn a lot about the Dolphins. 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.080 I want to go back to what you're saying about 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.720 the Chiefs and who can beat them. And I was 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:41.240 looking at their two losses. First one to the Colts, 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.600 remember that when they made so many states and miss 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:46.760 ques and Indie just got the better of him that day. 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.800 That game, that was the one going off final drive 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:51.840 of the half when they went for a field goal. 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.040 Mahomes was pissed and he went over to the sideline 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.199 and had some words with the enemy. Okay, so that 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:58.439 was that game. And then it was the Bills obviously 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:02.000 beating them at Arrowhead, where Josh Allen gave one of 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.200 his best performances. He was fantastic, but Mahomes was also 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.919 fantastic that day. So it's tough. You look at anyone 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.040 who can just slow down their passing game. The best 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.399 passing attack in the NFL, I was looking at that. 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.160 The best past defenses in the a f C. Well, 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.200 that's Denver in New England, and I don't think they're 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.119 even in the conversation because they can't compete on the 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.680 other side of the ball anyways, So I think Kansas 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.600 City is safe. I really do Bills in the playoffs though. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.560 Those two teams match up well for whatever reason, and 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:32.560 they always give us a thriller. So again, if there's 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.359 someone who can cut their season short, you get a 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.240 really good night from Josh Allen as he heals up. 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.520 They meet in January. I don't know, but yeah, you 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.960 said earlier, Mahomes MVP favorite coming into the weekend with 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:46.920 Josh Allen struggling in the last couple of weeks, and 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.600 he put up a performance to stay that way. His 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:54.040 odds are minus one. Alan hurts to uh. They're all 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.240 tied next at plus six hundreds, So it seems like 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.880 it's Mahomes trophy to win here. Yeah. The real concerns 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:03.760