WEBVTT - Chiefs MUST-WIN vs. Giants, Packers TEAM TO BEAT? Rams-Eagles MORE TO PROVE? | Nick Wright NFL 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.480 Welcome in this episode of What's Driving The Great is 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:08.000 brought to you, as always by our great friends at 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:13.360 boost Mobile Demons. Great to see you. A little note 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:16.520 for the audience. We are as we said on Tuesday. 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.439 If you're watching here today, thank you by the way, 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:21.919 like great subscriber review do all that stuff that helps 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:27.600 us out a ton if you are expecting my up 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:31.920 to this point in the season, decidedly average picks for 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:36.280 this weekend and Demandsday's up to this point on the season, 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:41.000 absolutely sparkling undefeated teaser that is actually coming to your 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:47.120 inboxes or feeds or podcast channels, YouTube, all of that Friday. 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.920 So we are going to, like like when we originally 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.480 did the show, today's show is going to be kind 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:58.200 of storylines, games, all of that, but our picks will 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:02.880 come Fridayday, and I actually, full disclosure, we'll be doing 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.920 them today, but we're doing it. We're separating into two 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.520 kind of more digestible episodes because when we do it 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:13.000 all together, one of two things happens. Either we race 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.080 through the picks, which I don't want to do, or 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.319 the pod becomes an hour and a half, which nobody wants. 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.440 So and so the so that will be our plan 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.920 moving forward, and so you will get those it. Also, 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.160 the only thing it prevents is the only downside, so 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.119 to speak, is it does not allow us to pick 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:36.200 Thursday Night as part of our picks. But that's fine 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:40.880 with me. We don't typically bet the Thursday night game anyway, 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.200 so that's no big deal. Everything good with you, Pale 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:45.920 out in La. We haven't checked in in a while. 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:47.720 Snake's good, life good, everything good. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:51.560 Snake's good. Life's good. It's raining out here when that's rare, 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:52.640 so that's nice. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.640 That's probably good. Yeah, it's definitely good. The snake like, 0:01:57.920 --> 0:01:58.800 oh wow, how about that? 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.360 Didn't know? Oh sure, see I learned something new from 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.720 you every day, all right, straight to voicemail, brought to 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:07.360 you by boost Mobile. Some quarterback injuries this week lead 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.120 to some uncertainty. We'll get to that later in the show. 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.800 One that we'll get to right now. Justin Fields out 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.160 against Tampa Bay with a concussion to Rod Taylor. His 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.079 name is Tarrod Taylor, not Tyrod Taylor. That's a name 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.240 we all mispronounced. I don't know how big of a 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.760 downgrade that is. I know Fields was awesome in week one. 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:28.920 We didn't see much in week two because he got hurt, 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.200 but he'll be in. Shoyotani creates a new fifty to 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:36.000 fifty club, fifty home runs and fifty strikeouts, not as 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.959 in him striking out, but as in him striking out 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.800 fifty batters and Adam Silver talking about NBA Europe in 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:46.920 twenty seven or twenty eight. Adam Silver, however, might have 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:48.960 a little more on his hands to worry about right 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:53.240 now thanks to Pablo Torre's kind of intrepid journalism on 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.880 what was or wasn't going on with the Los Angeles Clippers. 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:02.520 Shout out to once upon my rival and now a 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.520 guy who I think just legit probably doesn't like me, 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:09.480 but I earned it. Pablo Torre for his tore pardon 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:13.600 me for his great journalism on this and seeing he 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.280 and Cuban go back and forth. It's been pretty good. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:20.320 And Pablo released new information this morning. Reminder to everybody 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:25.079 like great, subscribe review to the pod and on YouTube, 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:28.520 and before we get into it, and I'll go full 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:36.640 here fellas a note to everyone out there in the 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:41.760 Takes world, which honestly is not these days just media members. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.600 It's obviously media members, but it's also anybody with any 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:50.720 type of following. We joke on first things first, that 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:54.200 they call me mister Consistency. And while it is a 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.080 joke that that is what they call me, it is 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:04.240 not a joke that I try really really hard, and 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:09.760 one of my north stars of media and opinion and 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:16.120 kind of character is to try to be consistent that 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.680 what I claim to represent, what I claim to care about, 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:27.320 what the stances that I have sought out, that those 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:33.640 logically align, and I don't pick and choose. And so 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:39.640 let me give you a four instance. We talk more 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:43.800 on this show and the TV show about the Chiefs 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:53.440 than just about any team. If Sunday night the Chiefs 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.560 were to lose to the Giants, or this past Sunday 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.440 when they did lose to the Eagles, all of a 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:05.720 sudden on Tuesdays, what's right, we don't get to the Chiefs, 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:11.479 then I'm a fraud. Then I am picking and choosing 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.960 when I want to, you know, do what I have 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:19.360 made part of my brand. Right when it's good, when 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.880 I'm winning, I'm all about it, and when I'm not, 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.680 I run from it. Right that would be everyone would 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:30.320 look at that, obviously and clearly as fraudulent, maybe even cowardly. 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:37.880 The reason I say that kind of oddly, as I'm 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.440 sure some of you are wondering where this is going 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.280 before we get to the first big regular season game 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.200 the Chiefs have played in years, this Sunday Night against 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:54.120 the Giants is because of this if over the last 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:59.839 few years. And this applies to a lot of people, 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:05.520 be it a comic, be it a politician, be it 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:11.320 a talk show host, be it an internet personality. If 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:18.360 you have made part of your brand your allergy and 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:33.640 your discussed of and opposition to cancel culture, and you 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:38.200 are what many of you have called yourself a First 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:47.160 Amendment absolutist, and you haven't found the time to respond 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:52.640 or to talk about what is, at least at the moment, 0:06:54.040 --> 0:07:03.240 one of the most direct and undeniable, outright attacks on 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:10.640 free speech by a direct state actor that we've seen, 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:20.920 certainly in my adult lifetime, then you're aphomy. And everyone 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:26.240 does not have to have an opinion on everything, and 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.840 I think it is problematic when everyone feels like they 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.920 have to chime in on everything. But if you have 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:43.800 made part of your brand, I am starting the free 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:50.440 press and I am going to rail against censorship on 0:07:50.760 --> 0:08:00.760 college campuses and cancel culture, and you maybe correctly went 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:08.480 after previous administrations for trying to tamp down information that 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.240 is disseminated on social media. If that is what you're 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.000 known for, if you're one of these comedians who half 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:21.840 your bit these days is can't tell jokes anymore because 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:32.920 they'll cancel you. And you've decided to sit out what 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:37.640 we've seen and we'll see how it plays out. But 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:42.280 from the very top down of the administration, down to 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:53.640 the FCC, down to the temporary what's the word, not 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:58.720 cancelation at least as of yet, but dismissal of Jimmy Kimmel, 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:06.040 then you're just a fraud. And that's fine, as Wild says. 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:10.240 Everybody can't be mister consistency. And again, I want to 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.720 make this clear. If you have sat out a lot 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:19.240 of the First Amendment, cancel culture, that those conversations on 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:23.160 whenever it's happening, you're like, ah, not my purview. I 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.960 am not. I do not think you have a responsibility 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.320 right now to be like this is where I take 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.880 my stand. I do not feel that way. But if 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:42.920 that's been your brand and you are more concerned about 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:55.440 folks paying a potential private life penalty because of things 0:09:55.480 --> 0:10:01.040 they've said. By and by private life, I mean being 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:05.560 publicly criticized or not getting booked at a theater, and 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:18.280 less concerned with what is outright state actor induced attempted censorship. 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.839 Then did you ever really believe it to begin with? 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.720 Or were you all just either part of a grift 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.280 or did it really only bother you when you felt 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.839 like your side was the one under attack. I don't know, 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.240 But the thing is, you do so question out there. 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.920 And by the way, I have tried to do a 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:45.560 really good job of staying off the internet the last day, 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.480 so I don't this is You're gonna have to take 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.319 my word for it. I don't know who I am 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.760 or who I'm not talking about here. This isn't like 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:59.240 a subtweet directed at some single person. Far from it. 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.240 It's just my gut tells me that a lot of 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:07.360 the folks who have been like more than anything, first Amendment. 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.600 That's it, that's the most That's why it's first. Okay, 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.800 there's a good test to that, and I'm curious for 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:18.160 everyone falls on it. With that said, demonse, welcome back in. 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.240 You want to talk Chiefs Giants. 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.640 Let's talk Chiefs Giants. A big game for your boys 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:25.760 over there in their own head. Yeah, so they got 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.280 the Giants this Sunday. They are zero and two for 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:32.319 the first time in the Mahomes era they faced the Giants. Obviously, 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.440 they are one and eleven in the last twelve at 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:38.280 Met Life. What is at stake for Kansas City here? 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:47.520 Well, I if they were to lose Sunday, I or 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.320 they're one and eleven in the last twelve night. 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.040 Game night games. So it Met Life. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.720 Yeah, I was gonna say it wouldn't that was like that. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.120 That number surprised me. I'm sure it's not that. I 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.200 wonder what their record is the Giants in their last 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.640 twelve last it can't be really good. Might be four 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.199 and eight, but one in eleven in the last twelve 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:11.880 night games. Here's the deal. If I'm being honest, I 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:17.320 will not if they lose Sunday, I won't feel in 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:22.000 my bones that they can't rally and make the playoffs. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.400 And if the Chiefs make the playoffs, I'm sure by 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:26.960 the you know, if they were to fall to Owen 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.400 three and then make the playoffs, I'm sure by the 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:33.319 time the playoffs are all around all really like their chances. 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.800 But I am now saying sober minded before the game. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:44.480 If they lose Sunday, it will signal that this team 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:49.760 is not a true contender the way every Chiefs team 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:53.960 has been since Mahomes got there, not because they can't 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:59.959 rally from zero to three, but because if you can't 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.760 beat the New York Giants in a game, you've got 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:09.200 to have without and you should have Xavier Worthy back 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.880 for it. I would think, so the only super key 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:16.840 player you're missing is Rashi Rice, then you're not going 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:20.160 to be good enough over the course of the season 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:25.640 to be a real super Bowl contender. So for Giants, 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.560 by the way, five and twelve at home since twenty 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.720 twenty three, So it's about what we would have thought. 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:36.319 So that's what's on the line. I have joked, not 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:45.760 really joked, that Mahomes has never had to play a 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:53.280 meaningful regular season game, and that is a little hyperbolic, 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:57.320 but in fact, I think what I've said is Mahomes 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:01.760 has never lost a meaningful regular season game, and that 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:07.439 to me was literally true until two years ago when 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.720 they actually had to go on the road in the playoffs. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.840 With my argument having been the whole point of the 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.240 regular season is to get the best seat as possible 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.000 and to get home field in the playoffs. And if 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.040 the Chiefs have never gone on the road in the playoffs, 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.280 then none of the losses have ever hurt them. Two 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.880 years ago, when they did have to go on the 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.760 road in the playoffs, some of those losses I suppose 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:32.560 did hurt them, but none of those games demons felt 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:39.720 like they had the stakes of Sunday Night that you can, 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:46.680 I think explain away. The first two weeks. Week one, 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:51.440 whole game plans thrown off by Worthy getting hurt. They 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.600 you know, they they don't play well, they can't. Herbert's 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.920 playing out of his mind, you know. And the Chargers 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.960 win a neutral sight game okay, you know what I mean, 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:07.120 not what you'd hope for, but okay. Game two, the 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.040 Chiefs again can't really get the passing game going without 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:16.400 their two star receivers or potential star receivers. Despite that, 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.240 and despite missing a kick and despite failing on a 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:24.280 fourth down early in the third quarter, they're on the 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.720 precipice of taking the lead and having control of the game. 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.760 And Kelsey makes a mistake. You know what, I mean, 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:34.760 and you're playing a great team in Philadelphia. Fine, again, 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.640 not good and not excuses and not saying the Chiefs 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:42.040 deserve to win either game, but neither one of those 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.920 in a vacuum. If either one of those games had 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.680 happened in Week five or Week eight or week twelve, 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.280 no one be concerned about it. You know what I mean. Okay, 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.680 you lose a one score neutral site game to a 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.600 contender in the Chargers. You lose a three point hard 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:02.600 fought game to the Eagles, so be it. Because they 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.200 happen in weeks one and two, and they're on the 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.120 heels of the Chiefs getting dog walked in the super Bowl. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:15.120 It feels seismic, but in reality it's understandable. Losing to 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:19.480 the Giants this weekend would not be understandable. It would 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:26.840 mean that they are there are some systemic issues with 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:33.080 the team for this season that are not fixable to 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:37.560 the tune of going on a Super Bowl run. And 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:41.320 so that's what's on the line for Kansas City in 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.240 this game. I know you have some follow ups. 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:47.120 Here, Yeah, are you still worried at all about the 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.160 pass rush and Russ coming off of probably his best 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.120 game or one of his best games in his career. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.360 Yeah, I mean, I don't know how you can. I 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.920 don't know how you cannot be worried about the pass rush, 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:04.640 to be totally honest with you, Like Chris Jones tends 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.199 to get better as this season goes along. I know 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:11.120 he's an older player. I still believe he's the best 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:15.399 de tackle in football. He hasn't been dominant the first 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:23.679 two weeks, but I believe in Chris. The Carloftis just 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:28.480 got paid. Carloftis was a first round pick. Carloftis needs 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:33.320 to be better. And then the other guys Mike Dana 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:38.560 who's hurt now, Charles Amenahu who has been disappointing and 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.199 been wholly ineffective thus far this season. And then you 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:48.560 have Ashton Gillette Jellette my apologies a rookie, Omar Norman rookie. 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.159 They've got to be able to create some type of 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:59.879 pressure without sending a blitz. With that said, I Russ 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.840 having four hundred and fifty yards last week, to me, 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:09.120 does not play into this at all. Like I last week, 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:13.520 Russ was unbelievable. I don't think that was him all 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.679 of a sudden turning back the clock permanently. I think 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:20.280 that was him turning back the clock for an evening. Now, 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:32.119 let me give you the bright side of if they win. Okay, 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.480 if they win, and I believe they will win, I 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.440 don't necessarily think it'll be pretty. I don't necessarily think 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:43.520 it'll be easy. But I am narrow deep confident they'll win. 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:52.840 They win all of a sudden, they are playing a 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:58.320 Week four game to totally flip every narrative that's existed 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.000 thus far. Because you know who come to Kansas City 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:08.600 in Week four? Your Baltimore Ravens and the so the 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:10.120 the what are you shaking your head about? 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:11.760 Tell me, no, boys need to be worried. 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.080 Oh the Chiefs need to be worried. Maybe, but but 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.320 just follow me down this path. The point I'm making 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:24.080 is the Chiefs then will have in front of them 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:29.440 the ability, if they win Sunday, to say, we win 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:34.400 this home game against a team we literally always beat, 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:39.280 and they're the AFC contender everyone's worried about. We get 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.800 the whole people freaked out about the Chiefs. They had 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:46.560 this brutal opening schedule. You know, they dealt with an injury, 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:49.600 dealt with the suspension. They're two and two anyway, and 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:53.639 Baltimore leaves that game at best too and two, and 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.360 we'll see what happens in Baltimore Detroit on Monday night 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:58.800 or I don't know if that's Monday or Sunday whatever, 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:00.000 Sunday night. 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:01.560 They actually it is Monday, what I know. 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.000 It's a night game. Oh no, the Chiefs Monday Sunday 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:07.639 night obviously, so it's Monday night. And maybe Baltimore is 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:12.080 the team everyone's freaking out about, right, And so certainly 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.520 if Baltimore loses to Detroit, people will be freaking out 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.080 if they fall to one and three, so they just 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:23.000 have the opportunity to turn the whole thing. It will 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:29.280 not feel that way at all if they lose to 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.680 the Giants. If they lose to the Giants, they will 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:35.520 just feel like a bad team with a great quarterback. 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.600 And I don't believe that's what they are, but they 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:41.240 got to go prove it Sunday night. 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:46.400 So you have seven teams above the Chiefs right now, 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:47.159 and the Tears. 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:48.399 I know that has to kill you. 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:50.800 Is this the worst that you felt about the Mahomes 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:53.159 the worst that you felt about the Chiefs in the 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:53.800 Mahomes era. 0:20:54.880 --> 0:21:02.800 No, the worst I felt about them was post It 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:08.000 was the twenty twenty one season. They had just gotten 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:14.440 annihilated by the Bucks in the Super Bowl, and that 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:19.520 next year, not only did they start three and four, 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:24.800 but some ugly moments. Week one, they were playing Cleveland 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:33.000 and escaped with a win. Week two, Baltimore goes for 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:38.400 a fourth down late and beats them. Week three the Chargers, 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:43.920 if I beat them at the buzzer essentially, and then 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:49.600 week five they get annihilated by the Bills. And then 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:56.280 week seven they get annihilated twenty seven to three by 0:21:56.440 --> 0:22:04.399 the Titans. The Titans, and and so that team fell 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:08.359 to three and four, and you know, at that point, 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:11.000 I guess you include the Super Bowl, had lost five 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:15.960 out of eight and it was up until that Super 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:19.960 Bowl against the Bucks, Mahomes had never lost a game 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:23.120 by more than eight points. And then all of a sudden, 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:25.760 they get blasted in the Super Bowl. They get beat 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:28.920 by eighteen by Buffalo, they get beat by twenty four 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:31.920 by Tennessee, and a span of you know, two months 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:35.960 or two football months, that was the low point. Now 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:39.520 that team ended up going from three and four to 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:43.200 twelve and five, and then in the AFC Championship game 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:45.639 up twenty one to three at a half time before 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:49.239 that second half meltdown against Cincinnati. And that was the 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:52.880 only year in this six year stretch they haven't made 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:56.480 the Super Bowl. But that was the worst I've ever 0:22:56.560 --> 0:23:01.320 felt about them. This this so this the Giants. 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:03.840 Okay, yeah, I was a let's say, with the Giants 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:05.760 win on Sunday, it's getting. 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:08.600 Oh no, no, no. A Giants win puts us in totally 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:10.440 new territory. 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:11.040 All right. 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:15.040 Reminder to everybody, we are so excited to be partnered 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:19.400 with hard Rock Bet. 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Who do you 0:25:13.960 --> 0:25:16.399 think has more to prove this time come around? 0:25:17.640 --> 0:25:19.840 Which one might be boring? Are you saying. 0:25:19.640 --> 0:25:22.280 Detroit Philly Rams? Oh? 0:25:22.320 --> 0:25:24.080 Why would Philly Rams be boring? 0:25:24.840 --> 0:25:26.280 They might not throw the ball, dude. 0:25:26.520 --> 0:25:28.080 I mean they might go a little bit or do 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:30.560 with everything that they need to do to get the game. 0:25:30.600 --> 0:25:32.200 But I don't think it's going to be a light 0:25:32.200 --> 0:25:33.200 show or anything like that. 0:25:33.640 --> 0:25:36.600 All Right, No, I agree with you. I don't think 0:25:36.640 --> 0:25:39.440 this is going to be a recreation of Baltimore Buffalo 0:25:39.520 --> 0:25:42.720 Week one, which, by the way, as did you hear 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:49.640 what I think it was? DraftKings said about that Week 0:25:49.680 --> 0:25:53.840 one Baltimore Buffalo game. It was the single worst game 0:25:54.280 --> 0:25:59.600 for them, No, the single the single biggest loser for 0:25:59.680 --> 0:26:04.760 them ever. Okay, because if you guys remember what I 0:26:04.800 --> 0:26:10.800 talked about all the early money was Baltimore plus a 0:26:10.840 --> 0:26:13.440 point and a half. All the late money was Buffalo 0:26:13.880 --> 0:26:16.080 plus a point and a half. You then, so they 0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:18.880 lost both sides of it, with Buffalo winning by one. 0:26:19.240 --> 0:26:23.240 You then add to it, demons, when when you have 0:26:23.320 --> 0:26:27.320 that many touchdowns and that many points, nobody's betting unders 0:26:27.320 --> 0:26:29.480 on player props. You know what I mean. People are 0:26:29.520 --> 0:26:34.400 betting overs and touchdown scores, and in game betting, they're 0:26:34.400 --> 0:26:40.320 betting underdogs live betting. You know, yeah, exactly right. So 0:26:40.400 --> 0:26:45.840 they said that was their single worst result ever. When 0:26:45.840 --> 0:26:48.360 you put it all together, it's not surprising, all right, 0:26:49.040 --> 0:26:57.760 Rams Eagles. Who has more to prove? This is tricky 0:26:57.840 --> 0:27:01.280 because I think the Rams. I think the Ram the 0:27:01.280 --> 0:27:03.359 only team to beat the Rams. D I have this right, 0:27:03.400 --> 0:27:05.520 I'm gonna double check. I think the only team to 0:27:05.560 --> 0:27:10.720 beat the Rams when yeah, since week eleven of last year, 0:27:11.240 --> 0:27:17.359 when when they've played their starters, is the m is Philadelphia, 0:27:17.720 --> 0:27:22.760 and Philadelphia's beaten them twice. The Rams since week eleven 0:27:22.840 --> 0:27:26.720 of last year have beaten New England, New Orleans, Buffalo, 0:27:26.760 --> 0:27:33.720 San Francisco, New York, Arizona, UH Minnesota, and then Houston, Tennessee. 0:27:34.240 --> 0:27:38.760 And they're zero to two against Philly. So and this is, 0:27:38.920 --> 0:27:41.960 you know, they're the defending NFC champs. Obviously they're defending 0:27:41.960 --> 0:27:47.280 Super Bowl champs, so one would think the Rams Philly, 0:27:47.359 --> 0:27:52.560 on the other hand, has been really weird this year 0:27:53.600 --> 0:28:00.719 because they are so unwilling to throw the ball and 0:28:00.800 --> 0:28:04.840 when they do throw it, they are so unwilling to 0:28:04.920 --> 0:28:09.400 throw it more than three yards past the line of scrimmage. 0:28:09.640 --> 0:28:18.600 And the only reason I feel that this has not 0:28:18.760 --> 0:28:22.400 and this is understandable, this has not been more of 0:28:22.440 --> 0:28:27.040