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Great? 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:48.440 Episode two seventy eight, Demonde and the producers worried that 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.440 I was so quiet in the pre show run up. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.960 Bill Barnwell just dropped an opus, as he is wont 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:01.040 to do, and it the headline of it is can 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:02.800 the Chiefs go undefeated? 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.840 How they're winning? What's next? 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.200 And you know, I mean, it's a Barnwell article, so 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.400 it's just great. It's all different sections, and the different 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.920 sections are how the Chiefs have gotten here. I've read 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.760 that part is their start actually sustainable? I just read 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.240 that part and I just got to this section, are 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:26.000 they the worst nine to O team ever? And I 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:30.600 got irrationally angry before even reading it, And so I 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.959 haven't gotten to the other sections. What has sunk the 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.880 previous unbeaten teams? And will the Chiefs improve and go seventeen? 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:39.920 And oh, I'll get to that. But Barnwell's articles are 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.760 like four or five thousand words, so you really, you 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.759 really got to sink your teeth into him. So that's 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:47.720 why I was so quiet, and the pre show run 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.080 up is I was trying to get through as much 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.280 of this as I could before we because I know, 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:59.000 Chiefs Bills Game of the Year, four twenty five CBS 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:04.400 and no counter programming. There's not another CBS game and 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.640 there's not another four to twenty five games, so I 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:10.200 don't want to step on our a block. But at 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:15.600 the this week in Slate starting tonight, I mean there 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:22.720 are some A plus games, Commander's Eagles, NFC East leadership 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:28.480 on the line one PM Sunday, some good games and 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:33.520 one A plus game Raven Steelers. I mean, listen, I'm 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:37.040 a Fox guy, but shout out CBS. Going from Raven 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:41.200 Steelers at one to then Chiefs Bills at four to 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.320 twenty five, pretty sick. And the only other four o'clock 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:50.280 games Falcons Broncos, which will be watched by dozens and 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:54.800 dozens of people, and Seahawks Niners, which is not a 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:56.959 bad one Seahawks and I is actually a good game. 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:01.200 But those are both four five starts, and so the 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.840 nation's eyes are gonna be on Mahomes and Allen. I 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:11.840 would imagine this will be the highest rated non Thanksgiving 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:17.240 regular season game of the year, and I can't wait 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.560 for it. So we'll get to that in a moment. First, 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:24.880 what missed the cut in surprising absolutely no one? Anthony 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:30.240 Richardson back being the Colt starter. Poor Jalen Rose relives 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:34.320 the fab five thirty plus years later, the timeout they 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.440 didn't have when Spoe called that when he was sitting 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:41.400 courtside and Jake Paul only a two to one favored 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.200 against Mike Tyson. I don't want to spend a ton 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.119 of time on this listen. I'm rooting for Tyson. I'm 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:51.760 not really a Jake or Logan Paul guy that you 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.000 call it my age, whatever it is. I'm not into 0:03:55.560 --> 0:04:01.600 their brands, but I'm worried about Tyson. I'm shocked Jake 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.800 Paul's only a two to one favorite. I mean, Tyson's 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:10.640 older than Brew Like, Tyson's damn near sixty, and I 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.760 just don't know if he's gonna have enough go ahead. 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.200 I just don't know if he'll be able to keep up, 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.919 And so nothing would thrill me more then for a 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:26.440 Mike Tyson flurry to lay Jake Paul out. I just 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:30.560 don't think it's realistic. But I would have thought Jake 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.359 Paul was gonna be minus three point fifty. So the 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.840 fact that he's minus two ten means Vegas is saying 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.520 Tyson has a chance. Also, if you're wondering, as Demonsday was, 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.080 if you're watching on YouTube, why I'm wearing a hat 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.600 today when I never wear a hat on the pod. 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.359 No TV show today. We're preempted by a soccer match. 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.400 We'll be back tomorrow, and so since there's no TV show, 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.400 I don't have to do my hair. I don't have 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.599 to do my hair. I can wear my Royals hat. 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.880 Shout out Bobby wit Junior. I don't even know if 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.240 the voting has come out yet, but second in al 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.920 MVP voting, I'm sure of it all right, Demanse, let's 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:06.080 get to Chiefs Bills. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.280 Yeah. So we talked about on Hell on Tuesday. It's 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.839 crazy that the Bills were favored in this Chiefs game 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.160 that they came. That's coming up here soon, and America 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.320 clearly agrees. The books have eighty percent of the money 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.560 on the Chiefs plus two and a half. Yet the 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.960 line is still standing there. So does Vegas know something 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:25.520 that we don't. 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:32.599 Well, so the Sharps like the Bills, and the Sharps 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:37.440 don't like the Chiefs in this spot. And so I 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:41.640 understand that to a degree. In this regard, the Chiefs 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:47.600 metrics are not overly impressive. They're on the road, you know, 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.680 the Bills. This is a bigger game for Buffalo than 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.920 Kansas City. The Bills have won all of no, not 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.559 all of the Bills have won three of the four 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:02.040 regular season meetings between Mahomes and Allen. 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:03.800 So all those things. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:08.159 And if you remember Demanse, before the year, when I 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.719 picked the Chiefs to go fourteen and three, the one 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:16.320 specific game I said I thought they would lose was 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.400 this game. I said I thought they would lose one 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:24.120 divisional game, one dumb game like to the Browns or 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:28.600 the Panthers one dumb game and to the Bills an 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.400 Orchard Park in week eleven. 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:32.359 That's what I said. 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:38.839 I don't quite feel the same way right now, and 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:40.520 the reason is. 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:43.440 Multi layered. 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:48.839 One is, I really do think the Chiefs got a 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:56.360 real emotional boost from the way they beat Denver, and 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.560 while they won't talk about it, I do think the 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:09.800 whole can we go undefeated is a thing. Also, given 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.760 how the offense looked in that Denver game. Now, Denver's 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:14.840 got an excellent defense. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:15.640 I give them credit. 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.960 It did feel to me, like I had said leading 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:21.960 into the Denver game, I thought might be the case 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:26.280 that some of Kansas City's focus last week was on 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:30.840 the Broncos and some of it was on preparing for Buffalo, 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:36.640 because if the Chiefs win this game, they essentially lock 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.560 up the one seed, unless you think Pittsburgh's running the table, 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.360 which I don't think anybody thinks pittsburghs running the table. Hell, 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.720 Pittsburgh's an underdog this weekend to Baltimore. If the Chiefs 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:54.200 win this game, in order for Baltimore or Buffalo or 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:59.280 Houston to catch them for the one seed, the Chiefs 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:03.360 would have to go h three and four the rest 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:07.280 of the way, and any of those teams would have 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:11.880 to go undefeated. Think about that. For the Chiefs to 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:17.679 for any of those teams to catch Kansas City, Kansas 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:21.680 City would have to lose four times and those teams 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.080 would have to go undefeated. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.280 That is not gonna happen now. 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:31.720 Conversely, if the Chiefs lose to Buffalo, then all Buffalo 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:33.880 has to do is finish with the same record as 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:38.360 Kansas City because they would have the tiebreaker and they 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.520 would be sitting at two losses in Kansaity to be 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.000 sitting at one, So it'd be a real dog fight 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:47.240 for the one seed potentially if Kansas City loses, as 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:52.280 opposed to putting it away. The other reason that I 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:58.320 am not quite as bullish on Buffalo right now as 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:03.360 I was in the preseason for this matchup is who 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.480 is injured and what it means for them. So we 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:12.080 know Keon Coleman isn't playing, Okay, that's fine. We don't 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.079 know if Amari Cooper is or isn't playing. My guess 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:21.480 is Amari Cooper is gonna play, but Dalton Kinkaid not. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:26.120 It has not practiced yet this week. The one spot 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:30.560 on the Chiefs defense that has been really susceptible is 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:35.439 defending tight ends. So if King Kaid is out for Buffalo, 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.880 that is a huge loss for them and the one 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:44.240 that the Chiefs can have two things right now. They're 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:49.880 struggling at the left tackle position, which is a legitimate concern. 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:56.160 But Wanya Morris luckily practiced in full yesterday at Kingsley Sumteya. 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.480 The rookie is just not ready, so he should be back. 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:04.000 He left last week's game with injury, and then defending 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.559 tight ends has been a bit of a problem. If 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:11.000 Dalton Kincaid's out, that's a tough spot for Buffalo. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.520 So I have been. 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:22.800 Consistently respectful and consistently correct about the Bills this year. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:27.920 Wilds yesterday said to me that my Bill's opinions confusing 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.959 the audience because I've been such a Bill skeptic in 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.800 years past and this year I'm a Bill's believer, and 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.760 I somewhat annoyedly said to Wild's, my Bill's confusing is 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.160 My Bill's opinion is not confusing at all. It's very 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:48.440 very simple. It's correct consistently year over year. When other 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.000 people thought they were a Super Bowl team, I was 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.280 correct in saying you're overrating them, and when other people 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.719 thought the Jets were gonna win that division, I've been 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.480 correct in saying they're un underrating them. I think the 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.719 Bills right now have an argument right alongside Detroit as 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:06.880 the second best team. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:07.240 In the league. 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.960 I do think that now Baltimore is a weird one 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:15.880 because Baltimore beat Buffalo by twenty five. But Baltimore also, 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:20.439 to me, has a glaring weakness that pass defense is awful. 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.080 I don't think Buffalo has a glaring weakness, and so 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:28.000 I think Buffalo's really good. But Patrick Mahomes as an 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.880 underdog is twelve one and one against the spread and 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.319 eleven and three straight up. This is a huge game 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:41.000 for Kansas City and it allows them to really kind 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.840 of play with how they approach the final seven weeks 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.400 of the year. I don't think the offense is happy 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.679 with how they played last week. Buffalo, in my opinion, 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:58.640 is due for a bit of a poor offensive performance. 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:03.920 They've scored thirty plus in four straight games. I thought 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:08.760 last week against the Colts that they had some shaky moments, 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.360 but Joe Flacco made it to where that was not 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.040 gonna matter. He was just addicted to turning the ball 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.720 over in that game. I thought Buffalo played with fire. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:22.240 A couple weeks ago against Miami. I do like the 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:26.080 Chiefs in this spot, even though all offseason I said 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.199 this was a game I thought the Chiefs would lose. 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:34.080 I think the emotional boost that they got from the 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:38.120 blocked field goal, to go along with Mahomes being annoyed 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:42.319 that he missed Kelsey to win that game outright essentially 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:43.360 put the game away. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.160 All of those things to me, going the Chiefs favor 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:47.320 go ahead, demanse. 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.280 Feel like I'm surprised. Well, I'm not gonn feel like 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.120 I'm surprised, but I am surprised that you're going in 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.920 the opposite duration. He felt like the Bills were gonna 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:55.480 win this game, the Chiefs were gonna lose this game 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.720 the whole time, and then I guess the time and 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.720 they're coming off of that emotional side, and I feel 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:02.439 like that's more of a reason that they should lose 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:04.520 because they did just at. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.880 It's like, yeah, unless it's kind of like a team 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.679 of Destiny Field and no, no, no, I get I 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.439 understand what you're saying, but the I just that was 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:21.680 it was such a you know, Mahomes celebration in that 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.760 was telling to me, Like the way he ran onto 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.760 the field and was so excited that that was because 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.680 the Chiefs, Let's be honest, they could have afforded to 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.400 lose that game. Like It's not like the vision comes 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.680 into question. It's not like they'd be like, oh man, 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.680 what woe is us? He was hype, which makes me think, 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:46.400 even though they won't talk about it, that they they 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:51.320 want to see how far they can run up this, uh, 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:53.200 this win streak. 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:57.840 And I also think that they are gonna be able. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.960 To score some points on this Bill's defense, which has 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.199 been good to their credit. Listen, Bill's defns has been good. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.480 But the Chiefs have not allowed twenty eight points in 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.920 what is it now, thirty straight games since the Super 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:21.360 Bowl against Philadelphia. And I wouldn't be shocked if Kansas 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:25.360 City gets to twenty seven in this one, twenty eight themselves. 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:30.160 So I'm gonna go ahead and say twenty seven Chiefs. 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.600 Let me think of the right number for Buffalo twenty 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.800 three Buffalo and the Chiefs win by The Chiefs win 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.080 by four and get to ten and zero, and Buffalo 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:45.760 falls to eight and three. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:46.680 All right, next. 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.000 So Tonight's game is huge for your season long bets. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.920 You bet Washington to win that division, and you also 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.040 bet Philly under ten and a half wins, So that 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:02.320 really awesome. Yeah, say, but Philly last year lost five 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.480 of their last six. Do you see that happening again 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.520 or is it more likely that they exposed the Commanders tonight. 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:14.560 Well, listen, I don't think Philly's gonna collapse. And I've 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:17.840 got to give Philly credit where it's due. They've won 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:23.240 five consecutive games now. Four of those five have been 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:28.640 against truly dreadful teams Browns, Giants, Jags, Cowboys. But one 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.720 of them was a dominating second half performance against Cincinnati, 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:39.680 and they the way they obliterated Dallas Cooper rush through 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:45.360 for forty yards is impressive. And that defense has turned 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:49.720 a corner under Fangio. And so listen, Jalen Hurts has 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.640 been good on the big plays. They're letting him run 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.960 a little more again. He seems healthier. I have to 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.960 be fair. I picked Philly to miss the playoffs right now. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:05.000 That looks super shaky, I said Philly. I thought that 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.280 Siriani could have been fired during the year. 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.040 That's not gonna happen. 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:15.720 With that said, Philly is about to have four of 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.840 their next five, or I'm sorry, five of their next 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:30.520 six brutal spot like. You're playing some real teams now, Commanders, Rams, Ravens, Panthers, Steelers, Commanders. 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:36.040 So that's five games of your next six against seven 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.280 win teams plus the Rams, who I think are a 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.680 good team, even though they haven't played quite up to 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:48.040 that standard. The Commander's thing. I don't think the Commanders 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:55.760 are gonna get exposed. Here is my slight concern. Throughout 0:16:55.880 --> 0:17:06.040 Cliff Kingsbury's entire coaching career at Texas Tech, at Arizona, everywhere, 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:12.240 his offenses have gotten off to these excellent starts and 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:19.960 then cooled significantly, significantly, and a few weeks ago against 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:24.800 Chicago eighteen points. The last couple of weeks they've scored 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:29.399 twenty seven Jaden. However, this past week was the worst 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:33.240 game I think he's played this season, the game against 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.920 Pittsburgh and that twenty seven you know they had the 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.680 Steelers did that ridiculous fake punt, and they had some 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:44.600 short fields. So I'm a little concerned, not major, a 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:49.919 little concerned that Washington is going to cool off offensively 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:58.359 as Cliff Kingsbury teams historically have done. And I will 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:02.399 be for my bets and for my own you know, 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:09.040 priors rooting for Washington tonight, Demonsey, but I actually like 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:14.359 Philly in this spot. I hope Washington wins, but I 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:20.080 could I can see a scenario certainly where Philly beats 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:24.840 Washington and covers the three and a half h Philly 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.280 or Washington will be fine either way because after this 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.159 they get Cowboys, Titans, Saints, So I mean they have 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.760 they have four games left against the Cowboys, Titans, and 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.280 Saints because they played the Cowboys twice. So since they 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:43.800 already have seven wins, Washington to me is like almost 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:49.960 locked into the postseason. But tonight's game is the kind 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:56.040 of divisional swing game. If Washington wins tonight, they are, 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:00.440 in my opinion, a significant favorite to win the division. 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:06.000 If Washington loses tonight, it feels like Philly is probably 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.520 gonna take care of that division. Take, you know, take 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:13.600 that division, and that'll be a shame for my preseason gambling, 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.440 because Washington eleven to one was gonna be one of 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.639 my best preseason divisional picks. 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.720 And if Philly wins tonight. It's a bad spot for me. 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:23.080 Go ahead. 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:27.600 It looks like probably the most complete of teams that 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:30.760 the Philadelphia Eagles have faced on this run. No, I 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.360 mean they did just face the Cowboys. They dominated them. 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:35.639 No, you're absolutely right. 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:37.120 That one's got like a little bit of an astress 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:37.359 on it. 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.760 Oh no, no, no, you're one hundred percent right. Like 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:45.280 as far as on this run they've played, the Eagles 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:50.879 have played the Browns with the Shawn starting, the Giants, 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:56.520 the Bengals, who have just a dreadful defense, not that the great, 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:57.040 but it's not. 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.119 The but that team's not complete. 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:04.040 Yeah, right, exactly, the Jags, who's got one of the 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:06.440 worst defenses in the league. In the game I think 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.000 that was the game Trevor got hurt in. And then 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:13.760 the Cowboys with Cooper Rush, and so yes, there is 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:18.480 there's no question that this will be This is the 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:24.320 best team Philly has played by a lot since Week 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:31.000 one in Brazil against Green Bay. Like the Eagles this 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:38.080 year have played I think four good to very good teams. 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:40.800 The Bengals I think are good even though the record 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:43.200 isn't and they you know, it was seventeen to seventeen 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:46.720 Philly scored twenty straight. Give them credit the Bucks when 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:49.679 the Bucks were fully healthy, and the Bucks trashed them. 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.960 The Falcons which came down if you remember, that was 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:56.240 the game Saquan dropped the ball, and the Falcons when 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:58.800 they you know, on the little swing pass. And the 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:02.320 Packers in week one and Brazil. But so I still though, 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:06.320 I'm not putting any asterisks on it, because you gotta 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:11.080 take care of business. And Philly. Philly looked really shaky 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.840 that first month. They beat the Packers, then they blew 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:18.240 the Falcons game. The Saints had them dead to rights 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:22.639 in week three, and then Goddard got loose on like 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:27.200 a seventy yard little tight end leak play up the sideline. 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:30.880 There's no Saints defender within a mile, and that won 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:33.880 them that game. And then they got blown out by Tampa. 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.719 And then the Browns game. That was the game that 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:40.880 they escaped and Sirianni was yelling at his own fans 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:45.840 against the terrible Browns. But since then, beat the Giants 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:49.320 by twenty five, beat the Bengals by twenty, beat the 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:52.640 Jaguars by five, but they were up twelve. 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:53.240 With five minutes left. 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:55.639 Jags got a you know, a late back door touchdown 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:58.159 and beat the Cowboys by twenty eight. So if you're 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:01.680 gonna play bad teams, crush, that's what they've been doing, 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:04.440 and I give him credit for that. I'm very interested 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:08.199 to see. The other thing to watch tonight is Jaden 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:12.520 gonna run because and I understand this is me maybe 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:16.080 confirmation bias, because I was so worried about Jaden's health. 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:20.480 But since Jaden got those ribs cracked, he hasn't been 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:22.960 the same runner. And last week he ran the ball 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:26.479 three times for five yards. So I'm really interested in 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:30.800 watching that. Also, the Eagles two rookie secondary players, Quinyan 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:34.640 Mitchell and Cooper dejan have been excellent. They've both been 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:37.560 the last few weeks in particular, have been excellent, So 0:22:37.680 --> 0:22:38.560 shout out to them all. 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:38.800 Right. 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:42.240 Next, Cincinnati was one of the teams you had in 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:45.520 the conversation for the AFC seven seed. You said this 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:48.720 on Tuesday. But they're flying across country to face Justin 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:51.719 Herbert and the Chargers, and that defense has been allowing 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:52.960 thirteen points per game. 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:56.439 So the Bengals lose. 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:59.639 That, yeah, that's insane. But if the Bengals lose, is 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:04.560 there and over and if so what else changes for them. 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:09.359 So I oddly don't think the Bengals season is over 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:13.040 with a loss, and I know that sounds crazy because 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:17.199 they would be four and seven, But this is the 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:23.360 reason for this demansa is that the seven AFC playoff teams, Like, 0:23:23.760 --> 0:23:27.680 if the Bengals lose, that would mean the Chargers get 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:31.960 to seven wins and you would have essentially six of 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:37.440 your seven AFC teams locked. As we talked about Kansas City, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Houston, Baltimore, 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:40.600 the Chargers, all those teams would have seven plus wins 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:43.560 except for Houston, which is in the AFC South, so 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:46.040 that they have six wins, but they're fine because of their. 0:23:45.920 --> 0:23:49.040 Division that eighth spot. 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:52.920 Denver is sitting on five wins, the Colts and Bengals 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:56.560 are sitting on four wins, and then your two Miami, 0:23:56.640 --> 0:23:59.080 the Jets, the Patriots, who have three wins. 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:01.640 One of those teams is getting in. 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:06.160 And so even at four and seven, I would think 0:24:06.240 --> 0:24:10.280 the Bengals are alive, when you know they would at 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:12.879 some point they gotta win games. But they still have 0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:17.760 games left against Dallas, Tennessee, the Browns, a game against 0:24:17.800 --> 0:24:21.080 the Broncos that could be for the final playoff spot 0:24:21.160 --> 0:24:24.000 and two games, and this is important against the Steelers. 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:27.920 I want to talk more about the Chargers, however, because 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:33.880 the Chargers to me have been an awesome story and 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:40.520 Herbert's playing really well and that defense has been great. 0:24:41.160 --> 0:24:48.000 With that said, they have played three teams that are 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:52.840 we think are good, and they're zero to three and 0:24:52.880 --> 0:24:57.800 they have played six of their seven other games are 0:24:59.160 --> 0:25:03.280 maybe the six worst teams in football. And then the 0:25:03.320 --> 0:25:05.639 other one is they beat the Broncos, who's like the 0:25:05.680 --> 0:25:13.080 definition of league average. So their losses are Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Arizona. 0:25:14.119 --> 0:25:17.600 So three teams that are all division leaders right now. 0:25:18.640 --> 0:25:28.399 They're Wins, Raiders, Panthers, Saints, Browns, Titans, plus Denver and 0:25:28.440 --> 0:25:31.160 again give them credit for Denver, that was a road 0:25:31.240 --> 0:25:32.280 divisional victory. 0:25:32.800 --> 0:25:34.240 You give them credit. 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:39.040 I am really interested in what the Chargers are gonna 0:25:39.040 --> 0:25:47.119 look like over these next half dozen games. Sincy, Baltimore, Atlanta, 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:51.760 Kansas City again and then Tampa with Mike Evans back 0:25:51.800 --> 0:25:56.480 at that point before they finished the season. Broncos, Patriots, Raiders. 0:25:56.720 --> 0:26:00.320 But if you remember before the year, when we picked 0:26:00.359 --> 0:26:03.160 the Chargers to make the playoffs, one of the reasons 0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:06.280 we picked them was they had that last place schedule. 0:26:06.760 --> 0:26:09.040 They had a worst record last year than the Raiders 0:26:09.560 --> 0:26:12.400 or the Charge or the Broncos did. That's how they 0:26:12.440 --> 0:26:15.160 were able to draft Joe Alt with what the fifth sixth, 0:26:15.200 --> 0:26:17.240 the fifth overall pick, I think it was. You know, 0:26:17.280 --> 0:26:20.040 they were a four win team last year, and so 0:26:20.119 --> 0:26:24.920