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Just some issues 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.160 on the block where the story is preventing us from 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.000 being able to record. But what you missed out on 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.680 was hopefully follow us on Socials was Demid giving out 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:05.160 another winning teaser. This is a true Oh. By the way, 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.600 here's what missed the cut. Demonse hit his fourth teaser 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.120 in a row. There was a second Monday night football game. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.840 Listen the Cardinals won, Chargers lost, and Deshaun Watson's out 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.280 for the season. I might touch on that in today's show, 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:20.120 I might not. I'm debating it. It feels like it 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.119 feels like most of the takes have been that need 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.720 to be said have been said. And it'll really depend 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:27.680 on my mood how much I want to get into 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.200 the vociferous defense. You know what, screw it, I'll just 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.280 start the show with it very quickly, and then we'll 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.480 get to the fun stuff. So pop Demanse off the 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.080 screen if you don't mind, because we're gonna get the 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.039 fun stuff with him in a moment. Here's what I'm 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:46.160 gonna say. Uh, the reason people are so galled at 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:54.440 the vociferous defense of Deshaun Watson after he pops his 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:58.360 achilles at it's very you know, I shouldn't say people 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.920 are so galled. The reason I was so galled is 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:06.120 the very simple fact of this. And this is the 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.840 only thing that I think people haven't put real voice 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.840 to where if they have, I missed it, So I'll 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.040 say it, and if someone else said it before it 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:21.000 before me, my apologies. The only class of people Deshaun 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:26.120 Watson could have been accused of doing what he did 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.680 to those people or women. And you might be like, well, 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.399 how many classes of people are there. Here's what I mean. 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:39.519 If Deshaun Watson was credibly accused of abusing two dozen children, 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:44.359 his teammates would not embrace him. And if Deshaun Watson 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:52.320 was accused of using his power, influence and physical stature 0:02:53.600 --> 0:03:00.560 to sexually abuse two dozen male masseuses, his teammates wouldn't 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:08.040 embrace him. That's why it's so galling is you can say, oh, 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.240 it's a family, they're not worried about off the field. 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.320 I am here to tell you right now, and everyone 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:22.240 listening and watching knows it that if what Deshaun Watson 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:27.160 was accused of doing and settled lawsuits and there's new 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:34.120 lawsuits and incredibly credible allegations if any of that, if 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.680 it involved children, no team would have touched him. And 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.520 if it involved men, no team would have touched him 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:48.040 because they'd have been worried will the locker room accept him? 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:55.080 But because it involved grown women, there was an understanding, Eh, 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.480 if he's good, I think they'll I think it'll be okay. 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.760 I ain't guys, we'll be fine with it. And then, 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.800 as it turned out, even though he was the worst 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:09.760 quarterback in the league, when the guy pops's achilles and 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:15.720 fans have a unfortunate reaction. We got folks standing up 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.200 there saying he's been a model citizen for most of 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:25.920 his career. Okay, I mean John Wilkes Booth was a 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.839 model theater patron for most of his life. I mean, 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.320 I mean, what are we talking about? Model citism for 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.880 most of his career except for those two or three dozen, 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.160 you know times. So I think that's I think, at 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:43.120 its core, it is about the lack of regard and 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:50.280 respect people have for women as a human class. And 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:55.080 that's that's my takeaway on it. I didn't actually, like 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:56.520 I said, I wasn't even sure if I was gonna 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.200 talk about it, but we talked about it. Now will 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:03.040 flip things around a bit because we weren't here Tuesday. Demond, 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.159 welcome back in so you might be the best football 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:14.719 better in America right now. This is really one of 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:19.839 the most shocking turn of events I've ever seen. But 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:25.400 you so demands people don't know does this? Obviously you 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.400 know that. But also works on the Fox Sports lot 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:33.479 in LA for the studio shows, doing a lot of 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:38.560 different things. But you are you occasionally ir regularly cut 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.400 tape for the herd. Correct, Like we don't really talk 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.960 about this much. But that's a fair job, part of 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:49.040 your job description. So you were included in the herds 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:53.040 Picks contest, and they the format tell me if I'm wrong, 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:57.000 is exactly like I do my picks. Five picks against 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:58.039 the spread a week. 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.479 Correct, he's actly fuck week. 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.440 So I demonte didn't want me to talk about this, 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:10.000 but it's too remarkable, not too He's twenty seven and 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:16.080 eight documented twenty seven and eight through seven weeks. His 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:19.800 record by the week has been four and one, two 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.480 and three in week two, and then four and one, 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.720 four and one, four and one, five and oh four 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:35.000 and one correct. I'm reading this properly. Yeah, so it's 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.920 not just it's not just that the teasers you've hit 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.400 four in a row, but you're twenty what is twenty 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:47.920 seven and eight? That's twenty seven times three is seventy one? 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:52.719 The no, it's not twenty seven times three? Holy shit, 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.599 is eighty one? Twenty seven times three is eighty one. 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:00.200 So you're probably seventy eight percent against the spread to 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.760 check real quick, twenty seven over thirty five, seventy seven 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:08.200 percent against the spread. Second place in this contest is 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.640 Jaymack Who's twenty two and thirteen. Twenty two and thirteen, 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.640 by the way, is an awesome record. I'd killed for 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.000 it this year, You're twenty seven and eight. 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:23.360 So I'm betting Gods, I don't know what's going on 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:27.560 right now, but I'm hoping it continues. I Mean, my 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.920 biggest mistake in the last three or four weeks is 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.680 putting the Jets in anything. I mean, because I had 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.840 them in the blazon and then I had them in 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.000 a parlay that I actually put money on this weekend. 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:43.679 But listen, I'm just gonna tell America demanse last week 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.600 and then we'll get to Monday night football demand last 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:51.720 week text me, uh. 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.280 And that is put in the missed Yeah. 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.000 The hold on wait wit no, because you hit one line. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.280 You yeah that one to two weeks ago. I hated 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.480 the one that I just placed. It was I think 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.120 it was like this second Yeah, was the one that 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.680 I saw. It was a six legger, all five legs 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.080 hit except for the Jets one Jets. 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:16.920 So last last week, Demonse put this in Bears plus 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:20.760 one and a half and then and the Bucks minus 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:24.200 three and a half and then Ravens, Falcons Eagles money 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.600 line it was plus seven sixteen, a seven to one 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:32.960 five team parlay. It hit yes or this weekend Demonse 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.280 put this in. It was a seventeen to one six 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:40.440 leg parlay, Broncos minus two and a half, Chiefs money line, 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:45.240 Commander's money line, Bengals money line, Raven's money line, and 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.160 the Jets minus a point and a half. I mean, 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:54.079 it's an all time run. And I'm just proud. This is. 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.960 You know, I wasn't there for you to learn how 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.040 to walk, but this is. I imagine what it felt 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:05.440 like like seeing it from the beginning, like starting to 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.040 crawl and then like. 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.840 Stumbling over what this means and yeah, like oh. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:16.360 Oheu and now and now you're twenty seven and eight 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.520 on the year. It's just fantastic. All right, let's get 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:22.040 to the actual show. Go ahead, bell. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:24.839 Oh, so, after a hot start in the beginning of 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.520 that game, Baker and Tampa Bay and I keep up 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.120 with Lamar and the Ravens. They were humming and firing 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.360 on all cylinders. Lamar is now number one in MVP 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:37.120 Odd's by a sizeable margin. After another meteorcre performance from 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.640 your guy Mahomes. You said it would be hard for 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.400 Lamar to win another MVP due to voter fatigue, but 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.720 who else would they give it to besides Lamar? Right now? 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:50.160 Look, right now, Lamar is running away with it and 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:56.080 we're in a really so this is and I'm going 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.600 to this is going to be the story of today, 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:04.800 which is I kind of have a theory that I'm 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:11.640 going to end up being sports Twitter's main character today. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.680 And you never want to be the main character on Twitter, 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.840 but sometimes sometimes you accidentally do it. Sometimes you know 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:24.000 it's going to happen, and sometimes you feel like you 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.520 have an obligation to do it, which is, I'm going 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:32.960 to be the only person to remember what everyone said 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:38.880 eight months ago, every single person who covers sports, which 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:45.280 was we're done giving Lamar MVPs until he doesn't fall 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:52.440 apart in the playoffs. That was that absolute consensus, accepted 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:58.040 opinion in January. And now we're seven games into the 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:02.439 year and Lamar's looking like he's going to win MVP, which, 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:06.199 by the way, I'm actually fine with. I don't actually 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.320 care about the NFL MVP the way I care about 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:13.040 the NBA MVP. I think one has much more historical 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:17.319 resonance than the other. But what I am not going 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:22.240 to allow for is everyone to pretend we have not 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:26.960 been here before. And I saw I'm gonna do this 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.320 on the show, and you know this in theory should 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:34.280 give Kevin Wilds a head start to think of a rebuttal. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:38.000 But Kevin Wilds doesn't watch the podcast. I saw Kevin 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:42.720 Wilde's tweet yesterday that is a great one. But the 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:48.400 only problem is it word for word applied to last year. 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:53.040 From the Ravens perspective, Lamar's the MVP and playing better 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:57.000 than ever. Patrick Mahomes is playing the worst football of 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.880 his life. If Lamar can't make the Super Bowl this year, 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:04.360 it will literally never happen. This is literally what everyone 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.120 was saying at the end of last season and then 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.560 and last season, by the way, it's Mahomes was playing 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.760 worse than he is now and the Chiefs were losing. Oh, Nick, 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:20.959 Lamar nep didn't have a game like last night last year? 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.160 Two hundred and eighty yards, five touchdowns a one fifty 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:28.400 eight rating. Hey, Siri, what was the final game of 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:33.000 Lamar jackson season last year? Oh, three hundred and twenty yards, 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.640 five touchdowns a one fifty eight rating. The exact thing 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:41.320 he did yesterday as many touchdowns as in completions more 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:45.800 than ten yards per attempt. Guys, we've been here before. 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.120 Now I can hold upple thoughts in my head at 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.319 one time. What'd you say, go ahead. 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:52.760 To the new year. We've been here before. But I 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.800 think this team is a little bit more complete. No, 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.160 the defense isn't great, but Derrick Henry's there and. 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:03.120 Eric Henry is that. But the defense is far worse 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.240 last years. So I'm gonna push back on you on 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.920 this now. By the way, here's gonna be the downside 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.520 to you being America's sharpest football better no more kid 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.000 gloves on some of these football arguments. If you're gonna 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:16.720 beat me in picks, I'm gonna have to beat you 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.640 in some of these arguments. You can't say they're more 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.360 complete team. You can say they're a scarier offense. But 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.800 last year they had the best defense in football to 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.160 go along with this offense. This year they the offense 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:35.640 is even better, but the defense is as of this moment, 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.280 not nearly the caliber it was last year. So again, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.120 I want to make this clear. I'm fine with Lamar 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:46.240 winning MVP. I'm also fine with having a real discussion 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:51.520 of is where does Lamar Jackson rank on the all 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:57.640 time regular season quarterbacks list? Because his winning percentage is unbelievable, 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:02.960 His numbers, his the numbers are weird because he's never 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:08.080 thrown for four thousand yards and he's only thrown for 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:12.360 thirty five hundred yards once. But his passer rating is great, 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:16.320 his efficiency is great, his yards per attempt is great, 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:20.440 his touchdown intercession ratio is great. And obviously he adds 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.520 this amazing running threat. But and this is what is 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:29.600 going to make me sadly the main character of sports 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:36.040 Twitter today. None of this gives me faith that he 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:41.320 will be anything like this in the playoffs. And if 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.760 you want to say, then why play the games? What's 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:48.680 the point? It's totally fair response. And my answer is, 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:53.320 and again I feel like a jerk, and the listeners 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.400 and viewers might be saying, it's because you're being a jerk. 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.320 I want to make this clear. He has been sensational 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:04.520 this year. I think he has been dramatically better than 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:08.600 he was last year. Last year I thought I didn't 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.520 I didn't care that he won MVP, but I didn't 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.800 love that it was to me, it was like, okay, 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:16.960 the Ravens are the best team, so I guess it's 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.520 got to go to their quarterback. Like I didn't. I took. 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.480 I didn't love it, but I didn't really care because 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.720 there wasn't anybody else that took a stranglehold of it. 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.240 Dak didn't Purty fell apart at the end. I liked 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.040 Christian McCaffrey, but he is a running back, like there's 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:36.960 a lot of So it was fine this year. The 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:41.120 last five weeks in particular, he is playing close to 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:46.280 perfect football. In fact, what is what are Lamar's numbers 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.800 the last five weeks? So I and I'll I'm gonna 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.320 tell it to you real quick. Last five weeks, Lamar Jackson, 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.560 He's got to be completing over seventy percent of his 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.440 passes and his ratings gotta be in the one thirties. 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:05.560 So I'm gonna pop it up right now because and 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.680 he's probably averaging two hundred I'm just talking about passing 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.800 two hundred and fifty yards a game, so the damn 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.400 Football Reference will let me do it in quickly. But 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:19.480 he has thirteen touchdowns one pick. Gotta be a rating 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:24.080 in the one thirties. Over two hundred and thirty yards 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.800 a game passing and everything he's doing on the ground. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.280 He's playing as well as you can play over the 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:36.800 last five weeks, and last night he was absolutely brilliant, 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:46.040 Absolutely brilliant. I still okay, here's the numbers over the 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.760 last five weeks. I got it, finally, two hundred and 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:53.880 fifty eight passing yards a game, thirteen touchdowns, one pick a, 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:59.160 one thirty seven rating, seventy two percent completions, and has 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:03.280 added sixty or fifty seven yards a game rushing and 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.120 two touchdowns, So a total of three hundred and five 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:10.359 total yards per game, seventy two percent completions, ten and 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.560 a half yards per attempt, five and a half yards 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:20.640 per rush, thirteen or fifteen total touchdowns, one interception, and 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:28.560 three fumbles lost. So nobody, nobody can question how good 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:37.119 he's been. Everyone has not only a right, I would argue, 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:42.760 if you're going to be consistent with how we talk 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:49.040 about athletes, has an obligation to be highly skeptical that 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.840 he will be anything like this in the playoffs. And 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:54.960 if you want to say no, it's fair to do 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.200 that to James Harden and Joe el embiid to first 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:02.360 ballot Hall of famers to league MVPs two all time 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.040 regular season guys, but unfair to do it to Lamar Jackson. 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.680 I just disagree with you, and he's not the same 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.800 caliber of player. But every of you want to be like, well, 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:19.240 basketball is different than football. Fine, everyone does this exact 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:24.520 math to Dak Prescott, everyone and last year who came 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.240 in second in MVP to Lamar, Dak Prescott so and 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:29.640 Dak's and I having a great year, so it doesn't 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.600 apply this year. But I'm saying, if Dak right now 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.360 had these numbers, demons, let me ask, if he had 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.919 these numbers and was looking like League MVP, do you 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:44.119 think the second clause of the conversation would be but 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.240 we got to see him do it in the playoffs 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.600 or just be like man, time to give this man 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:51.320 his flowers? 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.520 No, one thousand percent, Dik gets that same rep. But 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:58.159 I do think people would be easier, easier hand it 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:02.119 off to Dak Prescott getting it. But yeah, not a 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:03.200 thousand percent. 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.080 So do you listen? I right now, the MVP odds 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.280 Lamar is a big favorite. He's plus two to twenty five. 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.040 And the reason he's a big favorite one is not 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.760 only because he's been brilliant, But because the guys in 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:20.600 second and third are having really odd years, Mahomes makes 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:24.639 all these clutch plays and the teams play the hardest 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:28.920 schedule and they're undefeated, but his numbers are awful. Josh 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:34.000 Allen has totally stopped turning the ball over, just doesn't 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.440 do it after it being a huge problem last year 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:40.560 or throughout his career. But three of his games this 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.879 year he's been or two of his games, pardon me, 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.959 had been two of the worst games of his career, 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.000 So you know what I mean, he's in a weird spot. 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:54.600 And then there's your guy Demons Jared Goff, who has 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.800 a real case to be made because he's been just 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.760 as hot as Lamar since the first two weeks of 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:04.639 the year. Both those guys have been brilliant since the 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:06.800 opening two weeks of the year, yea. 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:10.600 Was looking great. I mean one of those losses was 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:12.840 to the Raiders five straight. 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.680 Yeah, to the Raiders when they were up to ten 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:22.480 points in the fourth quarter. So the I do want 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:26.600 to say what to the Bucks In one second, I 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:30.840 want to say one thing about about Baltimore the team, 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:38.200 And I said this for the year and a Classic one. 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:44.640 Sorry to say it instantly correct, It was totally unfair 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:48.480 for the NFL to make the AFC Championship Game rematch 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:54.320 week one because, as I said then, and it's being 0:20:54.359 --> 0:21:00.480 proven out now, if they put Baltimore in a position 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:06.360 where if they lose that game, there is nothing they 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:09.960 can do the rest of the regular season to feel 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:15.120 fully confident going into this postseason. And now what you've 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:17.719 seen is they lost that game, there was a bit 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:21.000 of a hangover effect. They lose the next game. Since then, 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:27.920 they've been brilliant, But if we are being honest, there 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:31.040 is this cloud looming over them, which is the Chiefs. 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:34.480 I think it would have been better for the league 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:38.000 and for them if that was a later season matchup. 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:40.080 Now for them, it would have been way better because 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.000 the Chiefs are so banged up, and because in that 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:45.920 first game they didn't seem to be fully invested yet 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:49.040 in Derrick Henry or the Chiefs just have the best 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:51.280 run defense in the NFL, which they of course do. 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:56.399 But it's just a weird. Yeah, but going on with 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:59.160 Baltimore this year, all right now? 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:02.120 The follow up the month, Yeah, so the Bucks, they 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:04.840 obviously had a really good start for their season that 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:07.960 they're now down to their top top two I receivers. 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:10.280 Do you think but do you think Baker has enough 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:13.760 to get it done with the rest of this roster man? 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:18.080 Yesterday was as devastating of a loss as a team 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:21.080 can suffer. And I don't know how closely people were 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:24.760 watching this game, Demanse. What you look confused about something. 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:26.800 Really is devastating as a losses. They could it because 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:29.520 they came out to oh. 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:36.680 Like no, because of because because of the I'm saying 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:43.880 that the context of how it was so see it. Well, 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:46.000 there's just so many pieces to it. So if people 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:49.960 didn't see it. The Bucks go down, score a touchdown 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:53.399 seven to nothing. They then get a stop, go down, 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:58.680 immediately score another touchdown. It's called off due to a 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:02.240 very shaky holding penalty, but it would have been fourteen 0:23:02.240 --> 0:23:08.920 to nothing, so it should be fourteen to nothing. Everyone's healthy. Instead, 0:23:09.640 --> 0:23:13.720 they then have the holding penalty, throw a pass to 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:17.120 Mike Evans that is a perfect not a perfect pass, 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:21.080 but it could be caught. Evans drops it and it 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:25.280 looks like pulls his hamstring. So now instead of being 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:28.320 up fourteen to nothing, you're up ten to nothing and 0:23:28.400 --> 0:23:31.400 Mike Evans, who came into the game. Gimpy is out. 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:36.320 You then that next time down have another chance to score. 0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:40.159 Baker throws a terrible interception in the end zone and 0:23:40.240 --> 0:23:45.000 it's off to the race's Baltimore. You then have kind 0:23:45.040 --> 0:23:49.280 of a fake comeback. Lamar makes a his one bad 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:53.119 mistake of the game, the backwards pass. They score a touchdown. 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:56.880 They then get an onside kick, score a touchdown, and 0:23:56.960 --> 0:23:59.919 now find themselves and I'll defend Todd Bowles on this 0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:04.560 down ten with a minute left. The game is not over. 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:10.480 You're in trouble, you're a huge, huge, huge dog, but 0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:14.560 it's not over, and you've recovered an on side kick, 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:19.080 so you should be trying to win if you're My 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:24.200 general rule of thumb is if you are down less 0:24:24.240 --> 0:24:29.159 than three scores and there is more than twenty seconds left, 0:24:29.440 --> 0:24:33.400 the game's not over. I can you know what I 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:37.520 If the situation exists where field goal, touchdown or touchdown 0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:41.520 field goal or even touchdown touchdown can win or tie 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:45.119 you the game and you have a reasonable amount of 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:47.880 time left, you should still be trying. And so that's 0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:50.480 what they did. So I don't blame Todd Bowles for 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:53.720 leaving his guys, and if they were down seventeen it 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:56.160 would be outrageous, but down. 0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:58.600 Two scores think they were actually doing something. 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:04.760 Moving the ball right, And so I thought what I 0:25:04.840 --> 0:25:07.600 thought before Godwin got hurt was gonna happen is I 0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:11.040 was like, Oh, they are going to kick a field 0:25:11.040 --> 0:25:13.640 goal to make it a seven point game and then 0:25:13.680 --> 0:25:16.119 go for an on side kick with thirty seconds left, 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:19.520 and again a million things have to happen, but you're 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:23.000 not dead. So they left the guys in, so I didn't. 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:26.160 And I'm watching closely also because I have Tampa plus 0:25:26.200 --> 0:25:30.239 three and a half on the show Picks, So I 0:25:30.359 --> 0:25:32.960 when they're down ten, I'm like, if they don't kick 0:25:33.000 --> 0:25:35.760 the field goal, if they just go score, and then 0:25:35.800 --> 0:25:38.760 now they're down three, and then on like I get 0:25:38.800 --> 0:25:44.040 a weird back door cover and Godwin suffers a terrible 0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:47.520 ankle injury. So now you have no Evangs, you have 0:25:47.560 --> 0:25:49.760 no God. When your defense hasn't been good all year 0:25:49.800 --> 0:25:53.720 because of the injuries, you're your real, real, real trouble. 0:25:54.560 --> 0:25:59.600 And do I think that they could still make the playoffs? 0:25:59.720 --> 0:26:05.320 I actually do because now their next three you have 0:26:05.359 --> 0:26:10.680 the Falcons huge game and then Chiefs Niners. But then 0:26:10.720 --> 0:26:19.160 after that, Demons. Here's what they have Giants, Panthers, Raiders, Chargers, Cowboys, Panthers, Saints. 0:26:20.359 --> 0:26:25.000 So you have four games, five games against some of 0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:28.679 the worst teams in football, Giants, Panthers, Raiders, Saints. You 0:26:28.720 --> 0:26:32.080 already have four wins. So I don't think they're dead, 0:26:32.720 --> 0:26:35.160 but I think that any hopes they had of having 0:26:35.240 --> 0:26:39.359 a great season are dead with no godwin, and we 0:26:39.440 --> 0:26:42.160 don't know how long Mike Evans is gonna be outful. 0:26:42.480 --> 0:26:45.040 So that's where I'm at. That was very long first 0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:47.160 few topics, and we haven't even gotten to the game 0:26:47.160 --> 0:26:48.480 of the week. So go ahead. 0:26:49.080 --> 0:26:52.080