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Speaker 2: Welcome In what'ch driving Me? Great?
Speaker 3: Episode two seventy eight, Demonde and the producers worried that
Speaker 3: I was so quiet in the pre show run up.
Speaker 3: Bill Barnwell just dropped an opus, as he is wont
Speaker 3: to do, and it the headline of it is can
Speaker 3: the Chiefs go undefeated?
Speaker 2: How they're winning? What's next?
Speaker 3: And you know, I mean, it's a Barnwell article, so
Speaker 3: it's just great. It's all different sections, and the different
Speaker 3: sections are how the Chiefs have gotten here. I've read
Speaker 3: that part is their start actually sustainable? I just read
Speaker 3: that part and I just got to this section, are
Speaker 3: they the worst nine to O team ever? And I
Speaker 3: got irrationally angry before even reading it, And so I
Speaker 3: haven't gotten to the other sections. What has sunk the
Speaker 3: previous unbeaten teams? And will the Chiefs improve and go seventeen?
Speaker 3: And oh, I'll get to that. But Barnwell's articles are
Speaker 3: like four or five thousand words, so you really, you
Speaker 3: really got to sink your teeth into him. So that's
Speaker 3: why I was so quiet, and the pre show run
Speaker 3: up is I was trying to get through as much
Speaker 3: of this as I could before we because I know,
Speaker 3: Chiefs Bills Game of the Year, four twenty five CBS
Speaker 3: and no counter programming. There's not another CBS game and
Speaker 3: there's not another four to twenty five games, so I
Speaker 3: don't want to step on our a block. But at
Speaker 3: the this week in Slate starting tonight, I mean there
Speaker 3: are some A plus games, Commander's Eagles, NFC East leadership
Speaker 3: on the line one PM Sunday, some good games and
Speaker 3: one A plus game Raven Steelers. I mean, listen, I'm
Speaker 3: a Fox guy, but shout out CBS. Going from Raven
Speaker 3: Steelers at one to then Chiefs Bills at four to
Speaker 3: twenty five, pretty sick. And the only other four o'clock
Speaker 3: games Falcons Broncos, which will be watched by dozens and
Speaker 3: dozens of people, and Seahawks Niners, which is not a
Speaker 3: bad one Seahawks and I is actually a good game.
Speaker 3: But those are both four five starts, and so the
Speaker 3: nation's eyes are gonna be on Mahomes and Allen. I
Speaker 3: would imagine this will be the highest rated non Thanksgiving
Speaker 3: regular season game of the year, and I can't wait
Speaker 3: for it. So we'll get to that in a moment. First,
Speaker 3: what missed the cut in surprising absolutely no one? Anthony
Speaker 3: Richardson back being the Colt starter. Poor Jalen Rose relives
Speaker 3: the fab five thirty plus years later, the timeout they
Speaker 3: didn't have when Spoe called that when he was sitting
Speaker 3: courtside and Jake Paul only a two to one favored
Speaker 3: against Mike Tyson. I don't want to spend a ton
Speaker 3: of time on this listen. I'm rooting for Tyson. I'm
Speaker 3: not really a Jake or Logan Paul guy that you
Speaker 3: call it my age, whatever it is. I'm not into
Speaker 3: their brands, but I'm worried about Tyson. I'm shocked Jake
Speaker 3: Paul's only a two to one favorite. I mean, Tyson's
Speaker 3: older than Brew Like, Tyson's damn near sixty, and I
Speaker 3: just don't know if he's gonna have enough go ahead.
Speaker 3: I just don't know if he'll be able to keep up,
Speaker 3: And so nothing would thrill me more then for a
Speaker 3: Mike Tyson flurry to lay Jake Paul out. I just
Speaker 3: don't think it's realistic. But I would have thought Jake
Speaker 3: Paul was gonna be minus three point fifty. So the
Speaker 3: fact that he's minus two ten means Vegas is saying
Speaker 3: Tyson has a chance. Also, if you're wondering, as Demonsday was,
Speaker 3: if you're watching on YouTube, why I'm wearing a hat
Speaker 3: today when I never wear a hat on the pod.
Speaker 3: No TV show today. We're preempted by a soccer match.
Speaker 3: We'll be back tomorrow, and so since there's no TV show,
Speaker 3: I don't have to do my hair. I don't have
Speaker 3: to do my hair. I can wear my Royals hat.
Speaker 3: Shout out Bobby wit Junior. I don't even know if
Speaker 3: the voting has come out yet, but second in al
Speaker 3: MVP voting, I'm sure of it all right, Demanse, let's
Speaker 3: get to Chiefs Bills.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So we talked about on Hell on Tuesday. It's
Speaker 4: crazy that the Bills were favored in this Chiefs game
Speaker 4: that they came. That's coming up here soon, and America
Speaker 4: clearly agrees. The books have eighty percent of the money
Speaker 4: on the Chiefs plus two and a half. Yet the
Speaker 4: line is still standing there. So does Vegas know something
Speaker 4: that we don't.
Speaker 3: Well, so the Sharps like the Bills, and the Sharps
Speaker 3: don't like the Chiefs in this spot. And so I
Speaker 3: understand that to a degree. In this regard, the Chiefs
Speaker 3: metrics are not overly impressive. They're on the road, you know,
Speaker 3: the Bills. This is a bigger game for Buffalo than
Speaker 3: Kansas City. The Bills have won all of no, not
Speaker 3: all of the Bills have won three of the four
Speaker 3: regular season meetings between Mahomes and Allen.
Speaker 2: So all those things.
Speaker 3: And if you remember Demanse, before the year, when I
Speaker 3: picked the Chiefs to go fourteen and three, the one
Speaker 3: specific game I said I thought they would lose was
Speaker 3: this game. I said I thought they would lose one
Speaker 3: divisional game, one dumb game like to the Browns or
Speaker 3: the Panthers one dumb game and to the Bills an
Speaker 3: Orchard Park in week eleven.
Speaker 2: That's what I said.
Speaker 3: I don't quite feel the same way right now, and
Speaker 3: the reason is.
Speaker 2: Multi layered.
Speaker 3: One is, I really do think the Chiefs got a
Speaker 3: real emotional boost from the way they beat Denver, and
Speaker 3: while they won't talk about it, I do think the
Speaker 3: whole can we go undefeated is a thing. Also, given
Speaker 3: how the offense looked in that Denver game. Now, Denver's
Speaker 3: got an excellent defense.
Speaker 2: I give them credit.
Speaker 3: It did feel to me, like I had said leading
Speaker 3: into the Denver game, I thought might be the case
Speaker 3: that some of Kansas City's focus last week was on
Speaker 3: the Broncos and some of it was on preparing for Buffalo,
Speaker 3: because if the Chiefs win this game, they essentially lock
Speaker 3: up the one seed, unless you think Pittsburgh's running the table,
Speaker 3: which I don't think anybody thinks pittsburghs running the table. Hell,
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh's an underdog this weekend to Baltimore. If the Chiefs
Speaker 3: win this game, in order for Baltimore or Buffalo or
Speaker 3: Houston to catch them for the one seed, the Chiefs
Speaker 3: would have to go h three and four the rest
Speaker 3: of the way, and any of those teams would have
Speaker 3: to go undefeated. Think about that. For the Chiefs to
Speaker 3: for any of those teams to catch Kansas City, Kansas
Speaker 3: City would have to lose four times and those teams
Speaker 3: would have to go undefeated.
Speaker 2: That is not gonna happen now.
Speaker 3: Conversely, if the Chiefs lose to Buffalo, then all Buffalo
Speaker 3: has to do is finish with the same record as
Speaker 3: Kansas City because they would have the tiebreaker and they
Speaker 3: would be sitting at two losses in Kansaity to be
Speaker 3: sitting at one, So it'd be a real dog fight
Speaker 3: for the one seed potentially if Kansas City loses, as
Speaker 3: opposed to putting it away. The other reason that I
Speaker 3: am not quite as bullish on Buffalo right now as
Speaker 3: I was in the preseason for this matchup is who
Speaker 3: is injured and what it means for them. So we
Speaker 3: know Keon Coleman isn't playing, Okay, that's fine. We don't
Speaker 3: know if Amari Cooper is or isn't playing. My guess
Speaker 3: is Amari Cooper is gonna play, but Dalton Kinkaid not.
Speaker 3: It has not practiced yet this week. The one spot
Speaker 3: on the Chiefs defense that has been really susceptible is
Speaker 3: defending tight ends. So if King Kaid is out for Buffalo,
Speaker 3: that is a huge loss for them and the one
Speaker 3: that the Chiefs can have two things right now. They're
Speaker 3: struggling at the left tackle position, which is a legitimate concern.
Speaker 3: But Wanya Morris luckily practiced in full yesterday at Kingsley Sumteya.
Speaker 2: The rookie is just not ready, so he should be back.
Speaker 3: He left last week's game with injury, and then defending
Speaker 3: tight ends has been a bit of a problem. If
Speaker 3: Dalton Kincaid's out, that's a tough spot for Buffalo.
Speaker 2: So I have been.
Speaker 3: Consistently respectful and consistently correct about the Bills this year.
Speaker 3: Wilds yesterday said to me that my Bill's opinions confusing
Speaker 3: the audience because I've been such a Bill skeptic in
Speaker 3: years past and this year I'm a Bill's believer, and
Speaker 3: I somewhat annoyedly said to Wild's, my Bill's confusing is
Speaker 3: My Bill's opinion is not confusing at all. It's very
Speaker 3: very simple. It's correct consistently year over year. When other
Speaker 3: people thought they were a Super Bowl team, I was
Speaker 3: correct in saying you're overrating them, and when other people
Speaker 3: thought the Jets were gonna win that division, I've been
Speaker 3: correct in saying they're un underrating them. I think the
Speaker 3: Bills right now have an argument right alongside Detroit as
Speaker 3: the second best team.
Speaker 2: In the league.
Speaker 3: I do think that now Baltimore is a weird one
Speaker 3: because Baltimore beat Buffalo by twenty five. But Baltimore also,
Speaker 3: to me, has a glaring weakness that pass defense is awful.
Speaker 3: I don't think Buffalo has a glaring weakness, and so
Speaker 3: I think Buffalo's really good. But Patrick Mahomes as an
Speaker 3: underdog is twelve one and one against the spread and
Speaker 3: eleven and three straight up. This is a huge game
Speaker 3: for Kansas City and it allows them to really kind
Speaker 3: of play with how they approach the final seven weeks
Speaker 3: of the year. I don't think the offense is happy
Speaker 3: with how they played last week. Buffalo, in my opinion,
Speaker 3: is due for a bit of a poor offensive performance.
Speaker 3: They've scored thirty plus in four straight games. I thought
Speaker 3: last week against the Colts that they had some shaky moments,
Speaker 3: but Joe Flacco made it to where that was not
Speaker 3: gonna matter. He was just addicted to turning the ball
Speaker 3: over in that game. I thought Buffalo played with fire.
Speaker 3: A couple weeks ago against Miami. I do like the
Speaker 3: Chiefs in this spot, even though all offseason I said
Speaker 3: this was a game I thought the Chiefs would lose.
Speaker 3: I think the emotional boost that they got from the
Speaker 3: blocked field goal, to go along with Mahomes being annoyed
Speaker 3: that he missed Kelsey to win that game outright essentially
Speaker 3: put the game away.
Speaker 2: All of those things to me, going the Chiefs favor
Speaker 2: go ahead, demanse.
Speaker 4: Feel like I'm surprised. Well, I'm not gonn feel like
Speaker 4: I'm surprised, but I am surprised that you're going in
Speaker 4: the opposite duration. He felt like the Bills were gonna
Speaker 4: win this game, the Chiefs were gonna lose this game
Speaker 4: the whole time, and then I guess the time and
Speaker 4: they're coming off of that emotional side, and I feel
Speaker 4: like that's more of a reason that they should lose
Speaker 4: because they did just at.
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, unless it's kind of like a team
Speaker 3: of Destiny Field and no, no, no, I get I
Speaker 3: understand what you're saying, but the I just that was
Speaker 3: it was such a you know, Mahomes celebration in that
Speaker 3: was telling to me, Like the way he ran onto
Speaker 3: the field and was so excited that that was because
Speaker 3: the Chiefs, Let's be honest, they could have afforded to
Speaker 3: lose that game. Like It's not like the vision comes
Speaker 3: into question. It's not like they'd be like, oh man,
Speaker 3: what woe is us? He was hype, which makes me think,
Speaker 3: even though they won't talk about it, that they they
Speaker 3: want to see how far they can run up this, uh,
Speaker 3: this win streak.
Speaker 2: And I also think that they are gonna be able.
Speaker 3: To score some points on this Bill's defense, which has
Speaker 3: been good to their credit. Listen, Bill's defns has been good.
Speaker 3: But the Chiefs have not allowed twenty eight points in
Speaker 3: what is it now, thirty straight games since the Super
Speaker 3: Bowl against Philadelphia. And I wouldn't be shocked if Kansas
Speaker 3: City gets to twenty seven in this one, twenty eight themselves.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go ahead and say twenty seven Chiefs.
Speaker 3: Let me think of the right number for Buffalo twenty
Speaker 3: three Buffalo and the Chiefs win by The Chiefs win
Speaker 3: by four and get to ten and zero, and Buffalo
Speaker 3: falls to eight and three.
Speaker 2: All right, next.
Speaker 4: So Tonight's game is huge for your season long bets.
Speaker 4: You bet Washington to win that division, and you also
Speaker 4: bet Philly under ten and a half wins, So that
Speaker 4: really awesome. Yeah, say, but Philly last year lost five
Speaker 4: of their last six. Do you see that happening again
Speaker 4: or is it more likely that they exposed the Commanders tonight.
Speaker 3: Well, listen, I don't think Philly's gonna collapse. And I've
Speaker 3: got to give Philly credit where it's due. They've won
Speaker 3: five consecutive games now. Four of those five have been
Speaker 3: against truly dreadful teams Browns, Giants, Jags, Cowboys. But one
Speaker 3: of them was a dominating second half performance against Cincinnati,
Speaker 3: and they the way they obliterated Dallas Cooper rush through
Speaker 3: for forty yards is impressive. And that defense has turned
Speaker 3: a corner under Fangio. And so listen, Jalen Hurts has
Speaker 3: been good on the big plays. They're letting him run
Speaker 3: a little more again. He seems healthier. I have to
Speaker 3: be fair. I picked Philly to miss the playoffs right now.
Speaker 3: That looks super shaky, I said Philly. I thought that
Speaker 3: Siriani could have been fired during the year.
Speaker 2: That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: With that said, Philly is about to have four of
Speaker 3: their next five, or I'm sorry, five of their next
Speaker 3: six brutal spot like. You're playing some real teams now, Commanders, Rams, Ravens, Panthers, Steelers, Commanders.
Speaker 3: So that's five games of your next six against seven
Speaker 3: win teams plus the Rams, who I think are a
Speaker 3: good team, even though they haven't played quite up to
Speaker 3: that standard. The Commander's thing. I don't think the Commanders
Speaker 3: are gonna get exposed. Here is my slight concern. Throughout
Speaker 3: Cliff Kingsbury's entire coaching career at Texas Tech, at Arizona, everywhere,
Speaker 3: his offenses have gotten off to these excellent starts and
Speaker 3: then cooled significantly, significantly, and a few weeks ago against
Speaker 3: Chicago eighteen points. The last couple of weeks they've scored
Speaker 3: twenty seven Jaden. However, this past week was the worst
Speaker 3: game I think he's played this season, the game against
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh and that twenty seven you know they had the
Speaker 3: Steelers did that ridiculous fake punt, and they had some
Speaker 3: short fields. So I'm a little concerned, not major, a
Speaker 3: little concerned that Washington is going to cool off offensively
Speaker 3: as Cliff Kingsbury teams historically have done. And I will
Speaker 3: be for my bets and for my own you know,
Speaker 3: priors rooting for Washington tonight, Demonsey, but I actually like
Speaker 3: Philly in this spot. I hope Washington wins, but I
Speaker 3: could I can see a scenario certainly where Philly beats
Speaker 3: Washington and covers the three and a half h Philly
Speaker 3: or Washington will be fine either way because after this
Speaker 3: they get Cowboys, Titans, Saints, So I mean they have
Speaker 3: they have four games left against the Cowboys, Titans, and
Speaker 3: Saints because they played the Cowboys twice. So since they
Speaker 3: already have seven wins, Washington to me is like almost
Speaker 3: locked into the postseason. But tonight's game is the kind
Speaker 3: of divisional swing game. If Washington wins tonight, they are,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, a significant favorite to win the division.
Speaker 3: If Washington loses tonight, it feels like Philly is probably
Speaker 3: gonna take care of that division. Take, you know, take
Speaker 3: that division, and that'll be a shame for my preseason gambling,
Speaker 3: because Washington eleven to one was gonna be one of
Speaker 3: my best preseason divisional picks.
Speaker 2: And if Philly wins tonight. It's a bad spot for me.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: It looks like probably the most complete of teams that
Speaker 4: the Philadelphia Eagles have faced on this run. No, I
Speaker 4: mean they did just face the Cowboys. They dominated them.
Speaker 2: No, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 4: That one's got like a little bit of an astress
Speaker 4: on it.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, you're one hundred percent right. Like
Speaker 3: as far as on this run they've played, the Eagles
Speaker 3: have played the Browns with the Shawn starting, the Giants,
Speaker 3: the Bengals, who have just a dreadful defense, not that the great,
Speaker 3: but it's not.
Speaker 4: The but that team's not complete.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, exactly, the Jags, who's got one of the
Speaker 3: worst defenses in the league. In the game I think
Speaker 3: that was the game Trevor got hurt in. And then
Speaker 3: the Cowboys with Cooper Rush, and so yes, there is
Speaker 3: there's no question that this will be This is the
Speaker 3: best team Philly has played by a lot since Week
Speaker 3: one in Brazil against Green Bay. Like the Eagles this
Speaker 3: year have played I think four good to very good teams.
Speaker 3: The Bengals I think are good even though the record
Speaker 3: isn't and they you know, it was seventeen to seventeen
Speaker 3: Philly scored twenty straight. Give them credit the Bucks when
Speaker 3: the Bucks were fully healthy, and the Bucks trashed them.
Speaker 3: The Falcons which came down if you remember, that was
Speaker 3: the game Saquan dropped the ball, and the Falcons when
Speaker 3: they you know, on the little swing pass. And the
Speaker 3: Packers in week one and Brazil. But so I still though,
Speaker 3: I'm not putting any asterisks on it, because you gotta
Speaker 3: take care of business. And Philly. Philly looked really shaky
Speaker 3: that first month. They beat the Packers, then they blew
Speaker 3: the Falcons game. The Saints had them dead to rights
Speaker 3: in week three, and then Goddard got loose on like
Speaker 3: a seventy yard little tight end leak play up the sideline.
Speaker 3: There's no Saints defender within a mile, and that won
Speaker 3: them that game. And then they got blown out by Tampa.
Speaker 3: And then the Browns game. That was the game that
Speaker 3: they escaped and Sirianni was yelling at his own fans
Speaker 3: against the terrible Browns. But since then, beat the Giants
Speaker 3: by twenty five, beat the Bengals by twenty, beat the
Speaker 3: Jaguars by five, but they were up twelve.
Speaker 2: With five minutes left.
Speaker 3: Jags got a you know, a late back door touchdown
Speaker 3: and beat the Cowboys by twenty eight. So if you're
Speaker 3: gonna play bad teams, crush, that's what they've been doing,
Speaker 3: and I give him credit for that. I'm very interested
Speaker 3: to see. The other thing to watch tonight is Jaden
Speaker 3: gonna run because and I understand this is me maybe
Speaker 3: confirmation bias, because I was so worried about Jaden's health.
Speaker 3: But since Jaden got those ribs cracked, he hasn't been
Speaker 3: the same runner. And last week he ran the ball
Speaker 3: three times for five yards. So I'm really interested in
Speaker 3: watching that. Also, the Eagles two rookie secondary players, Quinyan
Speaker 3: Mitchell and Cooper dejan have been excellent. They've both been
Speaker 3: the last few weeks in particular, have been excellent, So
Speaker 3: shout out to them all.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Next, Cincinnati was one of the teams you had in
Speaker 4: the conversation for the AFC seven seed. You said this
Speaker 4: on Tuesday. But they're flying across country to face Justin
Speaker 4: Herbert and the Chargers, and that defense has been allowing
Speaker 4: thirteen points per game.
Speaker 2: So the Bengals lose.
Speaker 4: That, yeah, that's insane. But if the Bengals lose, is
Speaker 4: there and over and if so what else changes for them.
Speaker 3: So I oddly don't think the Bengals season is over
Speaker 3: with a loss, and I know that sounds crazy because
Speaker 3: they would be four and seven, But this is the
Speaker 3: reason for this demansa is that the seven AFC playoff teams, Like,
Speaker 3: if the Bengals lose, that would mean the Chargers get
Speaker 3: to seven wins and you would have essentially six of
Speaker 3: your seven AFC teams locked. As we talked about Kansas City, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Houston, Baltimore,
Speaker 3: the Chargers, all those teams would have seven plus wins
Speaker 3: except for Houston, which is in the AFC South, so
Speaker 3: that they have six wins, but they're fine because of their.
Speaker 2: Division that eighth spot.
Speaker 3: Denver is sitting on five wins, the Colts and Bengals
Speaker 3: are sitting on four wins, and then your two Miami,
Speaker 3: the Jets, the Patriots, who have three wins.
Speaker 2: One of those teams is getting in.
Speaker 3: And so even at four and seven, I would think
Speaker 3: the Bengals are alive, when you know they would at
Speaker 3: some point they gotta win games. But they still have
Speaker 3: games left against Dallas, Tennessee, the Browns, a game against
Speaker 3: the Broncos that could be for the final playoff spot
Speaker 3: and two games, and this is important against the Steelers.
Speaker 3: I want to talk more about the Chargers, however, because
Speaker 3: the Chargers to me have been an awesome story and
Speaker 3: Herbert's playing really well and that defense has been great.
Speaker 3: With that said, they have played three teams that are
Speaker 3: we think are good, and they're zero to three and
Speaker 3: they have played six of their seven other games are
Speaker 3: maybe the six worst teams in football. And then the
Speaker 3: other one is they beat the Broncos, who's like the
Speaker 3: definition of league average. So their losses are Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Arizona.
Speaker 3: So three teams that are all division leaders right now.
Speaker 3: They're Wins, Raiders, Panthers, Saints, Browns, Titans, plus Denver and
Speaker 3: again give them credit for Denver, that was a road
Speaker 3: divisional victory.
Speaker 2: You give them credit.
Speaker 3: I am really interested in what the Chargers are gonna
Speaker 3: look like over these next half dozen games. Sincy, Baltimore, Atlanta,
Speaker 3: Kansas City again and then Tampa with Mike Evans back
Speaker 3: at that point before they finished the season. Broncos, Patriots, Raiders.
Speaker 3: But if you remember before the year, when we picked
Speaker 3: the Chargers to make the playoffs, one of the reasons
Speaker 3: we picked them was they had that last place schedule.
Speaker 3: They had a worst record last year than the Raiders
Speaker 3: or the Charge or the Broncos did. That's how they
Speaker 3: were able to draft Joe Alt with what the fifth sixth,
Speaker 3: the fifth overall pick, I think it was. You know,
Speaker 3: they were a four win team last year, and so
Speaker 3: they've reaped those rewards and thirteen points of games, thirteen
Speaker 3: points a game, I mean the Chargers, here's what they
Speaker 3: have allowed this season ten three, twenty seventeen, sixteen seventeen, eight,
Speaker 3: ten seventeen. That's awesome, man, Like that is they they
Speaker 3: have of opening the season with nine straight games not
Speaker 3: allowing twenty one points is literally historic stuff, Like I
Speaker 3: don't think it's been done in twenty years, and so
Speaker 3: you give them a ton of credit. I do think.
Speaker 3: I think this is a coin flip game. This is
Speaker 3: not one of my picks. I don't you know. I
Speaker 3: don't think Cincinnati's got traveling fans. Usually LA home games
Speaker 3: are actually road games because the other team travels. I
Speaker 3: don't think the Bengals are a big national fan base.
Speaker 3: But that's a I mean Sunday football man, Like I
Speaker 3: was saying, Steelers Ravens at one, Chiefs Bills at four
Speaker 3: point thirty, Bengals Chargers at eight point twenty on NBC,
Speaker 3: which should be a really fun one. That one's too
Speaker 3: close to call my opinion, but I think that I
Speaker 3: give the Chargers a ton of credit. But I also
Speaker 3: need to see them beat some teams with a pulse
Speaker 3: which were yet to.
Speaker 2: See, but they haven't had to really go ahead?
Speaker 4: What was yours? There's a Bengals win there and them
Speaker 4: eventually going on to lock up that seventh seat. It's
Speaker 4: that a nightmare scenario for you in Kansas City.
Speaker 2: So a lot of people think that.
Speaker 3: Because this scenario obvious would be the Bengals are the seven,
Speaker 3: they then upset the two seed in round one, and
Speaker 3: then they would be playing the one seed, like if
Speaker 3: the seven seed wins in round one, they play the
Speaker 3: one seed because the NFL reseeds.
Speaker 2: And my answer to that is.
Speaker 3: No, it wouldn't be, because first of all, that would
Speaker 3: mean the Bengals clip Buffalo in round one? Are they
Speaker 3: who's the two seed? Is it gonna be Buffalo? Is
Speaker 3: it gonna be Baltimore? I guess if it's Pittsburgh, I'd
Speaker 3: probably rather Pittsburgh go ahead and you know, and move on.
Speaker 3: But at that point, if Pittsburgh's earned the two seed,
Speaker 3: it means Pittsburgh's beaten Baltimore at least once Pittsburgh's beaten,
Speaker 3: you know, it means Pittsburghs pretty damn team.
Speaker 2: And TJ.
Speaker 3: Watt against the Chiefs left tackle is not a scenario
Speaker 3: that I look forward to. So I don't I yes,
Speaker 3: obviously i'd rather as a Chiefs fan, the Colts get
Speaker 3: the seven seed and win in Round one, but the
Speaker 3: two seed getting eliminated is typically not bad for the
Speaker 3: one seed super Bowl chances, And so I don't, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't hate the idea of a Bengals team that
Speaker 3: maybe has to win four straight just to make the playoffs,
Speaker 3: does that, then has a crazy emotional road playoff victory win,
Speaker 3: and then with the Chiefs having been rested for a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks, comes into Arrowhead with that defense, and
Speaker 3: the Chiefs you know, get to knock them around a bit.
Speaker 3: So no, it's not the ideal scenario. And I think
Speaker 3: it really has to do with who is the two seed.
Speaker 3: If Buffalo is the two seed, I'll take Cincinnati as
Speaker 3: the seven.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: To me, that's a win win. Either Buffalo's got to
Speaker 3: really expend a lot of emotional and real energy to
Speaker 3: beat them, or Cincinnati knocks the Bills off for us
Speaker 3: don't even have to deal with them. And so now
Speaker 3: if somehow Houston is the two seed or Pittsburgh is
Speaker 3: the two seed, then I'd rather one of those teams
Speaker 3: beat Cincinnati because I don't think either of those teams
Speaker 3: are good. Like the thing about Houston, and I'm not
Speaker 3: trying to disrespect them, the interior of their offensive line
Speaker 3: is so bad that I just think that's a game
Speaker 3: Chris Jones can win by himself. I think when you
Speaker 3: have the best d tackle in football and you're up
Speaker 3: against one of the worst guard center guard combos in football,
Speaker 3: that game can just be over. And so that's.
Speaker 2: Cee J.
Speaker 3: Stroud in Arrowhead like that's that's a tough spot for him,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 4: Last one the Jets has been The Jets season has
Speaker 4: been the joy to watch for everyone, especially you, I
Speaker 4: feel like, but not for Jets fans. When asked if
Speaker 4: he was coming back to play next year, Rogers said,
Speaker 4: I think so, yeah, So not sure how much to
Speaker 4: read into that with everything that's gone on with Aaron
Speaker 4: Rodgers and the Jets this year. What do you think
Speaker 4: is more likely he comes back, retires, or the Jets
Speaker 4: cut it?
Speaker 3: So am I out to lunch on this that I
Speaker 3: was shocked. I'm I'm shocked Aaron might want to come back,
Speaker 3: And I'm even more shocked that there seems to be
Speaker 3: the general media reaction that the Jets would want him back.
Speaker 3: In what world is it good for the New York
Speaker 3: Jets to bring back Aaron Rodgers? Like, demon call me
Speaker 3: on my shit here if you think I'm being unfair
Speaker 3: or right like that, it's that I'm missing it. But
Speaker 3: I they're going to be hiring a new head coach.
Speaker 3: When you're interviewing the best head coaching candidates, do you
Speaker 3: think saying you'll have one more year of forty one
Speaker 3: year old soon to be forty two at the time,
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers is a proer a con as to why
Speaker 3: that coach would want the job. And if you're trying
Speaker 3: to build up a culture and a new program, why
Speaker 3: on earth would you want Aaron Rodgers to be a
Speaker 3: part of it. And then you add to that's just
Speaker 3: the intangible stuff. Then you add this factor which is
Speaker 3: I just think people are living in a in a
Speaker 3: make believe world.
Speaker 2: He's terrible, He's really bad, Like.
Speaker 3: He's just as a football player, he's sixty two percent
Speaker 3: passing six point four yards per carry or yards per carry,
Speaker 3: yards per attempt. Pardon me, I he cannot escape at
Speaker 3: all to save his life. I just why would the
Speaker 3: the Jets have if if the speculation is correct and
Speaker 3: Trump is gonna reappoint Woody Johnson to be the ambassador
Speaker 3: to either England or some other ambassadorship, and what he
Speaker 3: has to once again hand over control of the team
Speaker 3: to his brother Christopher wo He made this deal with Aaron,
Speaker 3: not Christopher. Shouldn't Christopher Johnson look at it and be like,
Speaker 3: we're gonna have a top five pick, new head coach,
Speaker 3: new GM. We've got our three young guys, Quinn Sauce
Speaker 3: and Garrett Davante. You can go, Aaron, you can go,
Speaker 3: Tyrone Smith, you can go. We're gonna start Olufashanu our
Speaker 3: first round pick, and we're gonna try to be an exciting,
Speaker 3: fun young team with cam Ward or should or Sanders
Speaker 3: or whomever. Like, isn't that the obvious plan? Why would
Speaker 3: the Jets want Aaron Rodgers back and you don't owe
Speaker 3: him anything. It's been an unmitigated disaster, so I he
Speaker 3: can want to come back all he wants, like that's
Speaker 3: a player.
Speaker 4: The question from a reporter of the media, the Jets
Speaker 4: probably don't want him back, right, like it was like.
Speaker 3: But everybody seems that the general I guess this is
Speaker 3: why I send him I out to lunch. The general
Speaker 3: impression that I get from the media is that covers
Speaker 3: the team is this is Aaron's decision, meaning if he wants,
Speaker 3: if he doesn't retire, he's the Jets quarterback next year.
Speaker 3: And my response is him retiring has nothing to do
Speaker 3: with the fact they've got to cut him, like he's
Speaker 3: he's a bad, aging, injured, distracted player who has sucked
Speaker 3: all of the life out of that building. And so
Speaker 3: it cap wise, here's the deal next year, if he's
Speaker 3: on the team, it's a twenty three million dollar cap hit,
Speaker 3: and it's fifty million dead if he's not. But you
Speaker 3: just you made that deal already. Like the way his
Speaker 3: contract is currently set up is if he plays next year,
Speaker 3: he's twenty three million on the cap, and then the
Speaker 3: following year when he's out of the league. He's twenty
Speaker 3: one million dead in twenty twenty six. If they make
Speaker 3: him a post June one cut, he's fourteen million on
Speaker 3: your cap next year and thirty five million on your
Speaker 3: cap the following year. So by making him a post
Speaker 3: June one cut, you save nine million cap dollars for
Speaker 3: next season, and you lose twelve million cap dollars for
Speaker 3: twenty or twenty six. But you just got to deal
Speaker 3: with it like that's the move, and so I don't.
Speaker 3: I am constantly surprised at how much of the media
Speaker 3: is with Aaron Rodgers nonsense and the we never really
Speaker 3: we've never gotten an answer about if he thought they
Speaker 3: fired Robert Solid too early, and he claimed to love
Speaker 3: Robert and have this great relationship. But then I heard
Speaker 3: him yesterday when he was talking about coming back, talking
Speaker 3: about how much he loves Olbrick and wants to play
Speaker 3: for Olbrick, which would be a disaster, Like, no dispect
Speaker 3: Jeff Olbrick, but the defense has been a train wreck
Speaker 3: since you've been there, and the offense doesn't move like
Speaker 3: I just think the Jets are gonna go five and twelve,
Speaker 3: And to be like, let's run it back is baffling
Speaker 3: to me. I think this is as obvious of a
Speaker 3: hey man, Sorry this didn't work out out, but we're
Speaker 3: moving on as we've ever seen.
Speaker 2: But maybe I'm wrong. Now.
Speaker 3: The counterpoint to maybe I'm wrong is I have been
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Speaker 3: All right, so demanse, let's recap my picks from last
Speaker 3: week three and two, twenty five, twenty four and one
Speaker 3: on the year. Cincinnati plus six against Baltimore on Thursday
Speaker 3: Night Football. That was a weird one because it looked,
Speaker 3: I mean, they were up twenty one to seven. I
Speaker 3: looked like I was in great shape. Then all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, with a minute left, they're down seven and
Speaker 3: it's like, oh my god, I'm gonna lose this, and
Speaker 3: then score the touchdown, go for two, lock in the bet.
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh plus three against Washington. That's another weird one. Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: dominating that game and Washington can't move the ball at all.
Speaker 3: Then they do the fake punt some other weird stuff.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, Washington has a significant lead, but
Speaker 3: a couple Russell Wilson moonballs later, Pittsburgh wins outright. Arizona
Speaker 3: plus one against the Jets. That was the definition of
Speaker 3: not a weird one. Arizona annihilated the Jets. That was
Speaker 3: the dumbest line of the week, thirty one to six.
Speaker 3: I think Detroit plus three and a half at Houston.
Speaker 3: That would have been stealing if I had won that one.
Speaker 3: Jared Goff threw five picks. But if Jake Bates doesn't
Speaker 3: hit that field goal at the end and we're going overtime,
Speaker 3: and I have a chance for Detroit to win by six,
Speaker 3: but I deserve to lose it. And the Rams minus
Speaker 3: one against Miami. Shout out to Miami's defense for showing
Speaker 3: more fight than I thought it could. Anti shout out
Speaker 3: Sean McVay. I love you McVeigh, but kicking a field
Speaker 3: goal down eleven from the four yard line is just
Speaker 3: coaching malpractice. Six minutes left in that game.
Speaker 2: Kick.
Speaker 3: When you kick that field goal, what you're saying is
Speaker 3: we're gonna make the field goal, get a stop, get
Speaker 3: a score, get the two point conversion, win in overtime.
Speaker 3: That's your path. That is your that's your path if
Speaker 3: you go for it. What you're saying is, we're gonna
Speaker 3: get these four yards, get a stop, get a touchdown,
Speaker 3: win the game. So you need like a six way
Speaker 3: parlay to come through when you opt to kick that
Speaker 3: field goal, all it does is delay your loss.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 3: It's like, well, but if we get stopped on fourth down,
Speaker 3: we lose the game.
Speaker 2: Got it.
Speaker 3: But when you kick the field goal, what you are
Speaker 3: saying you need the following to happen. You need to
Speaker 3: get a stop, You need to go score a touchdown,
Speaker 3: which you have evidently so little confidence you can do that.
Speaker 3: You are kicking a field goal from the four yard line.
Speaker 3: You then have to complete a two point conversion. You
Speaker 3: then have to win the game in overtime. You need
Speaker 3: all those things to happen. If you go for it. Yes,
Speaker 3: if you don't get it, you lose. But if you
Speaker 3: do get it, need two things to happen, you can
Speaker 3: And by the way, if you go for it and
Speaker 3: get it, you can still play the dumb two point
Speaker 3: conversion overtime game because if you go for it and
Speaker 3: get it, you're gonna go for two. If you get
Speaker 3: the two point conversion, you're down three. Now you can
Speaker 3: do field goal overtime if you want, and but a
Speaker 3: touchdown wins you the game either way.
Speaker 2: Just stupid, but regardless.
Speaker 3: Last week, eleven of fourteen underdogs covered, which is funny
Speaker 3: because two weeks ago, fourteen to the fifteen of the
Speaker 3: favorites one straight up. All right, Deman's first pick, and
Speaker 3: I know you like this one. I gotta think you
Speaker 3: like this one.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, You've got Pittsburgh plus three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Pittsburgh plus three at home against Baltimore. I mean
Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin as a home dog, Mike Tomlin as a dog,
Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin as a divisional dog. First of all, in
Speaker 3: this series the last twenty years, the underdog twenty eight
Speaker 3: and ten against the spread twenty eight, ten and three,
Speaker 3: So three pushes. I mean, if you're all of these
Speaker 3: games come down to a field goal, you're giving me
Speaker 3: a field goal. Tomlin as a dog is in fifteen
Speaker 3: straight up against Harball. Wait, hold on, he's been that camp.
Speaker 3: He hasn't been an underdog thirty five times? Okay, yeah, sorry,
Speaker 3: he's twenty and fifteen straight up as a dog. I
Speaker 3: was gonna say he hasn't been an underdog thirty five
Speaker 3: times against John Harbough.
Speaker 2: That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3: And and I think Pittsburgh absolutely can win this game outright.
Speaker 3: We've talked about Tomlin as a dog overall sixty two,
Speaker 3: thirty five and two. He doesn't cover big numbers, but
Speaker 3: he absolutely as a dog, wins outright and covers the spread.
Speaker 3: And so the fifteen of their last eighteen matchups have
Speaker 3: been one score games. I think Pittsburgh can win, and
Speaker 3: I think that the Steelers secondary is gonna have a
Speaker 3: hard time covering George Pickens on those Russell moon balls.
Speaker 3: I like the Pittsburgh special teams more. I like the
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh defense more. Obviously I like the Baltimore offense way more.
Speaker 3: But this is I mean, this is a game TJ.
Speaker 3: Watt's going to be flying around, and this is where
Speaker 3: I remind everyone and I understand that we all must
Speaker 3: kneel at the altar of Lamar Jackson. He's beaten the
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Steelers once plays him twice a year, theoretically every year,
Speaker 3: but he's missed a bunch of them. Lamar Jackson has
Speaker 3: beaten the Pittsburgh Steelers as a starting quarterback one time
Speaker 3: in his career, and I think that one game was
Speaker 3: against Duck Hodges. So the Lamar wins eighty percent of
Speaker 3: his games if you remove the games against the Chiefs,
Speaker 3: the Steelers in playoff games, so the like against everyone else,
Speaker 3: he's as good of a bet as there is. I
Speaker 3: like the Steelers in this spot, and I and I
Speaker 3: got I've got to think that the I've got to
Speaker 3: think that this game comes down to the final possession.
Speaker 3: So I'll take the plus three points. All right, Demons,
Speaker 3: go ahead.
Speaker 4: You've got New England plus four and a half versus
Speaker 4: the Rams.
Speaker 3: New England plus four and a half against Oh on,
Speaker 3: real quick, before I even do that one, did you
Speaker 3: not like my Steelers Ravens analysis?
Speaker 4: No, it's just unfortunately it makes sense. Like I do
Speaker 4: think Russ is gonna be able to light up the secondary.
Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson's obviously going to do what he wants. But
Speaker 4: I do think that the Ravens defense will be the
Speaker 4: biggest hindrance. I think it's the biggest weakness of the game,
Speaker 4: and I think it'll come back to bite them. I
Speaker 4: do think the Ravens are gonna win, but I do
Speaker 4: think it will be a close game. See him winning
Speaker 4: by three, and I can also see them losing. Unfortunately,
Speaker 4: I'm realistic.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, fair enough, all right, the Patriots in
Speaker 3: the Rams. I've got the Patriots plus four and a half,
Speaker 3: So obviously I don't think the Patriots are good and
Speaker 3: You guys know, I like the Rams, so I would
Speaker 3: understand why this pick seems silly. However, the Rams played
Speaker 3: on Monday night. They are a West Coast team going
Speaker 3: cross country. It is a one o'clock East coast start.
Speaker 3: It is they are laying, you know, more than a
Speaker 3: field goal. The Patriots are going to, you know, try
Speaker 3: to just at run Drake May run Remandre not let
Speaker 3: this game, you know, get into the twenties. The Rams
Speaker 3: defense has actually, to its credit, been good. The Rams
Speaker 3: offense is what has struggled as of late. I just
Speaker 3: think this is a ugly, boring, twenty to seventeen, seventeen
Speaker 3: to fourteen, twenty one to seventeen type of game. I
Speaker 3: think the Rams control the game, but I do not
Speaker 3: think they run away with it. Four and a half
Speaker 3: points is just too many points for a Rams team
Speaker 3: on a short week going West coast to East coast
Speaker 3: for a one o'clock kickoff. Patriots feeling great right now,
Speaker 3: coming off you know, their best defensive performance.
Speaker 2: Of the year.
Speaker 3: I don't love it. I will be honest. Four of
Speaker 3: my five picks were easy. I'm not saying they're gonna
Speaker 3: none of this is easy, but my point is four
Speaker 3: of the five games, I instantly knew which what I wanted,
Speaker 3: and I searched long and hard for a fifth. This
Speaker 3: was the fifth I landed on. So I don't feel
Speaker 3: great about it, but I feel like this is the sharp. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is the Sharp's side of this bet. I just
Speaker 3: think the Rams haven't earned the right to lay more
Speaker 3: than a field goal on the road against a team
Speaker 3: that has shown a pulse, particularly going Monday to Sunday
Speaker 3: at one o'clock. So I'll take the New England plus
Speaker 3: four and a half.
Speaker 4: Next thanks, you have Cleveland minus one at New Orleans.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so the Saints goot hear me out here,
Speaker 3: Demansey because Demonsey doesn't like this one. The Saints got
Speaker 3: the fired coach bounce.
Speaker 2: They hated Dennis Allen. He got out of there. They
Speaker 2: get the win.
Speaker 3: If you watch that game at Atlanta, it had a
Speaker 3: lot of opportunities to win that football game and blew
Speaker 3: it and Coop had a tough game. Cleveland, coming off
Speaker 3: a bye, had shown signs of.
Speaker 2: Life with Jamis.
Speaker 3: I do not think New Orleans offensive line is going
Speaker 3: to it is gonna be able to handle the Brown's
Speaker 3: defensive front front especially Miles Garrett looking better and playing
Speaker 3: better the pre buy after being not great at dealing
Speaker 3: with some injuries earlier.
Speaker 2: So you have.
Speaker 3: Cleveland off of By, you have a Saints team that
Speaker 3: I think is truly bad, not gonna have Chris Olave,
Speaker 3: no one on the outside to really threaten you down
Speaker 3: the field at all, Derek Carr having, you know, getting
Speaker 3: skittish in the pocket thanks to Miles Garrett, and a
Speaker 3: Cleveland team that since they made the change to Jamis
Speaker 3: Winston or you know, since the win did what's the
Speaker 3: game Deshaun got hurt? Did Deshaun get hurt in the y?
Speaker 3: He got hurt? Deshaun got hurt in the Bengals game,
Speaker 3: and they went to Dorian Thompson Robinson and then to
Speaker 3: Jamis in They Cleveland beat Baltimore and then played poorly
Speaker 3: against the Chargers. I don't believe New Orleans is gonna
Speaker 3: have the level of energy they had last week, and
Speaker 3: I think Cleveland's better than them. I'm just picking a
Speaker 3: winner here and post by Cleveland's the healthiest they've been
Speaker 3: all year. Stefanski three to one in this career off
Speaker 3: of Bye and the Saints since the last six years
Speaker 3: they're one of the worst teams in the league against
Speaker 3: the spread, at home, all those things. I like Cleveland
Speaker 3: win this game. I'm only laying a point. This is
Speaker 3: a game. I'll be honest. I don't plan to watch
Speaker 3: if I can help it, I won't watch a second
Speaker 3: of this game. But I like Cleveland minus one at
Speaker 3: New Orleans next, all.
Speaker 4: Right, So thank she got Atlanta plus two and a
Speaker 4: half at Denver.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't This is a weird one because
Speaker 3: Atlanta can't get up pass rush at all. So you
Speaker 3: do feel like bo Nicks is gonna be able to
Speaker 3: move the ball a bit. And Denver's defense, obviously is excellent.
Speaker 3: It's been excellent all year. However, Atlanta has won. Going
Speaker 3: into this past week against New Orleans, had won five
Speaker 3: of six. Offense had been explosive. The Saints game, again,
Speaker 3: as I mentioned, I think they blew it. The Saints
Speaker 3: got that, you know, had the energy of getting rid
Speaker 3: of Dennis Allen, but Atlanta still had plenty of chances there.
Speaker 3: I think Atlanta is a good team. I think at
Speaker 3: Denver is the best of the bad teams, but Atlanta's
Speaker 3: actually a good team. And Atlanta bounce back spot Denver.
Speaker 3: I think the there is a real psychological aftershock of
Speaker 3: the way they lost to the Chiefs, and I was
Speaker 3: not in pressed by the Denver offense. I was impressed
Speaker 3: by the Denver defense. And I know people want me
Speaker 3: to give Bo Nicks more credit. I just think he's
Speaker 3: been fine. But Atlanta getting two and a half points
Speaker 3: in a game that feels like is a coin flip
Speaker 3: game and absolutely could be, you know, a down one
Speaker 3: field goal at the gun type of game for either team,
Speaker 3: like a lot of these Atlanta games are, is the
Speaker 3: right side of it. Atlanta also is in a position
Speaker 3: where they they are in a good position in the division.
Speaker 3: But Tampa's schedule the rest of the way is the
Speaker 3: worst in football. Tampa the rest of the way Giants, Panthers, Raiders, Chargers, Cowboys, Panthers, Saints.
Speaker 3: So Tampa, aside from the Chargers game, plays six games
Speaker 3: against the worst teams.
Speaker 2: In the NFL.
Speaker 3: So Atlanta knows, even though they have a cushion in
Speaker 3: that division, Tampa's gonna start stacking wins. I like it
Speaker 3: Lanta to win this game. I certainly like him plus
Speaker 3: two and a half. And that's the fourth pick and
Speaker 3: the fifth one is going to be pretty obvious given
Speaker 3: what we discussed at the top of the show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've got a Kins City plus two and a
Speaker 4: half against Buffalo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean so. Mahomes has been an underdog fourteen
Speaker 3: times in his career. He's eleven and three twelve one
Speaker 3: and one against the spread. The three losses are the following.
Speaker 3: Twenty eighteen against New England. That game at the two
Speaker 3: minute warning was forty to forty. New England hits a
Speaker 3: field goal at the gun.
Speaker 2: To beat them.
Speaker 3: Twenty eighteen, the famous Monday Night football game against the Rams.
Speaker 3: That game at the two minute warning was fifty one
Speaker 3: forty seven Kansas City and the Rams score a touchdown
Speaker 3: with a minute left to win. And twenty twenty two
Speaker 3: against Buffalo. That game at the two minute warning was
Speaker 3: twenty to seventeen Chiefs and Buffalo scored a touchdown in
Speaker 3: the waning moments to win the game. Point is this,
Speaker 3: fourteen times Patrick Mahomes has been an underdog. Eleven times
Speaker 3: he has won outright. The other three he has either
Speaker 3: been tied or leading with two minutes left. It is
Speaker 3: just an absurdity to go against Mahomes in this spot.
Speaker 3: And here is the really remarkable thing about this, Demanse.
Speaker 3: This will be the fifth time Mahomes and the Chiefs
Speaker 3: have been underdogs since they last lost a game. They
Speaker 3: last lost a game on Christmas Day. They were underdogs
Speaker 3: in the Divisional Round against Buffalo, in the Championship game
Speaker 3: against Baltimore, in the Super Bowl against the Niners a
Speaker 3: few weeks ago against the Niners, and now against Buffalo.
Speaker 3: So they don't lose but a third of the time.
Speaker 3: Vegas thinks they will all take the Chiefs plus two
Speaker 3: and a half and.
Speaker 2: I'll feel really good about it.
Speaker 3: So our five picks this week are as follows, Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: getting three at home against Baltimore, New England getting four
Speaker 3: and a half at home against the Rams, Cleveland laying
Speaker 3: one on the road at New Orleans, Atlanta getting two
Speaker 3: and a half at Denver, and Kansas City getting two
Speaker 3: and a half at Buffalo. Now for the main event,
Speaker 3: Demonse's teaser, having won six of seven, just Red Hot
Speaker 3: last week hit his first three teamer new I mean
Speaker 3: you deserve it. You hit a three teamer and not
Speaker 3: only did you hit it, Demanse have won as a
Speaker 3: parlay you got you bought all these points you didn't
Speaker 3: need them. You had Cincinnati teased up to plus thirteen.
Speaker 3: They covered the six, Pittsburgh teased up to plus ten,
Speaker 3: they covered the three, Tampa Bay teased up to plus thirteen,
Speaker 3: they covered the six. That is what we call an
Speaker 3: a plus teaser. What are you going with this week?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: This week, we've got a two teams seven and a
Speaker 4: half point teaser minus one sixty three. So the obvious
Speaker 4: Kansas City, we're teasing them up to ten and then
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh up to ten and a half versus Baltimore. So
Speaker 4: that that's the teaser we're going with.
Speaker 3: And then we have a supermoval one of the super teaser,
Speaker 3: the Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: Even though I like Pittsburgh plus three.
Speaker 4: It me your picture in here. I just teased them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but even though I like Pittsburgh plus three, I
Speaker 3: oddly don't love them as a teaser, leg only because
Speaker 3: Baltimore has shown the ability to blow people out and
Speaker 3: so like the I'm always a little afraid of teasing
Speaker 3: against Baltimore because at times they just dog walk you.
Speaker 2: But all right, so that's your teaser. I'll give that
Speaker 2: a minus.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The but you said you have something else as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we've we've got a super teaser for week
Speaker 4: eleven for those that like live dangerously. We've got a
Speaker 4: fourteen seven and a half point teaser at plus one
Speaker 4: seventy and.
Speaker 2: It's the same.
Speaker 4: We're gonna keep Kansas City and Pittsburgh in there, but
Speaker 4: we're gonna add Jacksonville plus twenty one against Detroit and
Speaker 4: then Seattle plus fourteen at San Francisco. Yeah, listen, I
Speaker 4: don't like this one.
Speaker 2: I don't like this one.
Speaker 4: This one doesn't count against my record. This is just
Speaker 4: a uh, this is a fun one. The one, the
Speaker 4: one that you guys count me on is the first
Speaker 4: one that's fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I just the mac Jones Mac Jones.
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like Detroit could score twenty four
Speaker 3: and cover the twenty one that they'd be laying in
Speaker 3: this scenario. And the Seattle it's just consistently has a
Speaker 3: lot of trouble with Shanahan's.
Speaker 2: Niners, Sam Franners moving the ball on them. Uh.
Speaker 4: I thought you were just seeing like the Niners are
Speaker 4: aggressing a little bit. Though, even even with you.
Speaker 2: No that I agree with you entirely.
Speaker 3: I thought you were gonna have uh, the Texans teas
Speaker 3: down to a pick them against Dallas and Cooper.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and that's fair. The yeah, to not get
Speaker 4: exploited like the other team. I don't think Baltimore.
Speaker 2: They do.
Speaker 4: They show the ability to bow teams out, but I
Speaker 4: can't see them doing that to the Steelers. I think
Speaker 4: they've got something real going on over there. And it's
Speaker 4: divisial that ye.
Speaker 3: No, that's I obviously like it because I've got him
Speaker 3: plus the three. It just makes me nervous as he'ser like,
Speaker 3: all right, what's the offer this week?
Speaker 4: Uh So, we are heading into the NBA Cup this week,
Speaker 4: and we're picking a couple of group winners, So New
Speaker 4: York not New York'll go Nick's Cleveland, okay, see to
Speaker 4: win their groups is a plus seven hundred and yeah.
Speaker 2: Do you have any I don't.
Speaker 3: Actually, I'll be honest with you. I don't have any
Speaker 3: NBA Cup predictions. I will I'm gonna do a different
Speaker 3: offer this week, the which is not NBA Cup related.
Speaker 3: Travis Kelcey anytime touchdown he scored last week, he could
Speaker 3: have scored twice. He the he's you know, the bane
Speaker 3: of the Bills. Existence. I like a Kelsey anytime touchdown.
Speaker 3: I assume that's probably like plus one thirty would be
Speaker 3: my guest. The producers can tell me in my ear,
Speaker 3: that's the offer that I'm presenting to the audience. I
Speaker 3: don't really do player props, but that's the one I'll do.
Speaker 3: All right, quick plus one forty, So it's about what
Speaker 3: I thought.
Speaker 2: Quick break.
Speaker 3: Answer some listener questions. Next, what's right? All right, welcome
Speaker 3: back in What's right?
Speaker 2: We think? Right, Demanda, let's answer some listener questions.
Speaker 4: AJ Figs is, well, the Chiefs try to go seventeen
Speaker 4: and oh where they start Carson Wentz for Christmas?
Speaker 3: I hope they start Carson Wentz on Christmas? And you
Speaker 3: still try to go seventeen. Oh, try to win that game.
Speaker 3: But I you're playing one pm on a Wednesday. If
Speaker 3: you're fifteen to oh to chase the record is not
Speaker 3: worth it when you're going for a three peat in
Speaker 3: my opinion.
Speaker 4: Next, Danny Tanner, do you think the cart Oh? Wait, no,
Speaker 4: not Danny Tanner? Hordon GMR is this seven and four?
Speaker 4: Lakers start? Vilebar? Is it fools? Gold? Lebron keep up
Speaker 4: this pace?
Speaker 2: I mean Lebron's playing unbelievable. It's a little fool's gold
Speaker 2: in that. I just don't.
Speaker 3: I think they have some of the worst depth of
Speaker 3: any team that's trying to be a real team. I mean,
Speaker 3: the Gay vincent Is just can't play. They're playing Coloco.
Speaker 3: The Jackson Hayes got hurt, and that's like a big
Speaker 3: loss for them. He's barely an NBA rotation guy. But
Speaker 3: Lebron and ad have been unbelievable.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: Next now, Danny Tanner, do you think the Cardinals could
Speaker 4: be a sleeper team in the NFC? Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually do, and I said it earlier this week.
Speaker 2: We'll say it again.
Speaker 3: I think that they're gonna be in that divisional race
Speaker 3: the rest of the year. I think Week eighteen is
Speaker 3: gonna be Cardinals Niners Sunday Night football with the division
Speaker 3: on the line.
Speaker 4: Next Alex Perdrovik for Petrovic vitz Nick. A lot of
Speaker 4: people are out on the Texans. They already beat the
Speaker 4: Bills and should have beaten the Lions with the healthy Nico.
Speaker 4: Could you see them having a twenty twenty one Bengals
Speaker 4: type run.
Speaker 3: I don't think they're gonna have a twenty twenty one
Speaker 3: Bengals get all the way to the Super Bowl type
Speaker 3: of run. But I do think Nico Collins coming back
Speaker 3: is gonna make the offense look a hell of a
Speaker 3: lot better. And when Joe Mixon is healthy and Nico
Speaker 3: Collins is healthy, that offense is elite and you and
Speaker 3: so I think people maybe are a little too down
Speaker 3: on Houston right now. I just think they're I think
Speaker 3: they're a B plus. I don't think they're an A
Speaker 3: level team. I think they're a B plus. And I
Speaker 3: think that's solid, Like you're just building something there next.
Speaker 4: Adam Dell guides Geez the names today, I'm sorry, guys,
Speaker 4: yea names. Would you rather be a Super Bowl winning
Speaker 4: quarterback who is average like Flacco, Brad Johnson, Jeff has
Speaker 4: hostas hostetler or at all time hostetler, Yeah, or an
Speaker 4: all time great quarterback who never want a ring like
Speaker 4: Mike like Marino or Jim Kelly.
Speaker 2: I mean, to me, that's no question.
Speaker 3: You'd rather be an all time great like I mean,
Speaker 3: Dan Marino is one of the greatest players in the
Speaker 3: history of the league. You don't like Brad Johnson is
Speaker 3: just a guy who was.
Speaker 2: On the Bucks when they won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: So like that is like, to me, it's more like
Speaker 3: the more interesting question is would you rather be to
Speaker 3: go to the NBA like Charles Barkley, one of the
Speaker 3: greatest players ever.
Speaker 2: But who never won a championship?
Speaker 3: Or Clay Thompson, you know, a Hall of Famer but
Speaker 3: not all all timer, but you have a handful of championships.
Speaker 3: That's a real question, you know what I mean? Like that,
Speaker 3: to me, there's a real pro and con to that.
Speaker 3: But being just a guy that happened to win a
Speaker 3: Super Bowl versus being a Hall of Famer all time
Speaker 3: legend is to me, it's not.
Speaker 4: Even Thompson or Charles Barkley, obous see it's Charles s Maarkley.
Speaker 4: But it's like, but that's the question I feel.
Speaker 2: Like, right right, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: That's a real debate, and so the like, would you
Speaker 3: let me think of another NFL.
Speaker 2: Well, that's an off season discussion.
Speaker 3: But like, to me, just being a guy who happened
Speaker 3: to be on a team to win the Super Bowls
Speaker 3: not nearly the same. Jammer is one of the ten
Speaker 3: greatest quarterbacks of all time. All right, great job today,
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