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Speaker 3: In episode one eighty three, What's Right with Nick Right?
Speaker 3: A ton to do. It's our gambling show, guys. I'm
Speaker 3: gona be honest with you. The picks have been, as
Speaker 3: Demonse would call him, mid this year, we're three and
Speaker 3: two or two and three every week, which means we
Speaker 3: don't have such a hole we can't pull ourselves out of.
Speaker 3: But we're not making anybody money. What are the teasers
Speaker 3: Demonse one and three not great. Yeah, I mean so
Speaker 3: the and so Demanse's not doing great. I'm not doing
Speaker 3: great unlike last week. However, I love the board. This
Speaker 3: week there were four. To me, I only really even
Speaker 3: had trouble on one of the games. There were four games.
Speaker 3: I loved. It feels like a five and oh, now
Speaker 3: you might say, Nick, they always you always say it
Speaker 3: feels like five, and oh no, I don't because it
Speaker 3: doesn't always feel like five. And oh last week I
Speaker 3: did it and I was like, I'm hoping for three
Speaker 3: and two. Last week there were so many one and
Speaker 3: a half and two and a halfs. It was brutal
Speaker 3: and I got you know, in some ways I got
Speaker 3: unlucky last week in not getting three and two because
Speaker 3: mahomes slide at the one is what cost me that game.
Speaker 3: But I mean smart play, but that's what costs me.
Speaker 3: But so we'll get into the gambling show or the
Speaker 3: picks in about twenty minutes, but first we must get
Speaker 3: to what missed the cut. On today's show, James Harden
Speaker 3: reporting to the Sixers camp a day late. The Lakers
Speaker 3: can't stop talking about the Nuggets and Kelsey in the
Speaker 3: NFL overdoing it with swift. Hold on it real quick.
Speaker 3: It is not the Lakers that can't stop talking about
Speaker 3: the Nuggets. The Nuggets started all of this, and now
Speaker 3: Michael Malone is trying to distance himself from it. You
Speaker 3: can't have the play by play guy call Mike Malone
Speaker 3: the Lakers, daddy, have Michael Malone mott Lebron James and
Speaker 3: say I'm considering retiring too, and then all of a
Speaker 3: sudden be like, why won't they stop talking about us?
Speaker 3: That's not how this works. And I don't put it
Speaker 3: on jokic't put it on Jamal Murray. But Michael Malone
Speaker 3: made this bed and now he's like, oh no, we're
Speaker 3: focused on right now. It's a bunch of nonsense if
Speaker 3: you ask me. But I am still in football mode.
Speaker 3: So let's get to the NFL.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Demonsey, All right, San Francisco and Dallas face
Speaker 4: off in the game of the year and a potential
Speaker 4: NFC championship preview this Sunday. We know you aren't going
Speaker 4: to give party his credit, but let's talk about a
Speaker 4: guy by the name of Christian McCaffrey. He's gotta be
Speaker 4: playing the best at his position than anybody else?
Speaker 5: Right now? What do you do? What are your thoughts
Speaker 5: on Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 3: I think he's been exceptional and I listen, Christian McCaffrey's
Speaker 3: playing like the best running back in the league. I
Speaker 3: know we're gonna get into some potential MVP talk for him,
Speaker 3: but I want to talk about what you said at
Speaker 3: the front end, which is that I won't give Brock
Speaker 3: Purty any credit. I let me ask you this, demonse,
Speaker 3: Let's put this conversation on its head for a moment.
Speaker 3: Do you think right now, Pooka Nikua is one of
Speaker 3: the two or three best receivers in football that right now,
Speaker 3: Pooka Nikua, take Tyreek Hill, Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase, Devonte Adams,
Speaker 3: Ceedee Lamb, Is, Stefan Diggs, all these guys. Is Pooka
Speaker 3: Nikouah better than all or at least the vast majority
Speaker 3: of them?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: Or no? No, But we need more time to figure
Speaker 4: that out.
Speaker 3: Okay, the answers no, Everyone would say the answers no.
Speaker 3: But why look at his numbers? Are you holding against
Speaker 3: him that he was a fifth round pick? What? He
Speaker 3: has more catches than everyone, He has more yards than everyone,
Speaker 3: but justin Jefferson, Oh, your contextualizing how he is getting
Speaker 3: those yards and catches and saying, despite the numbers, I
Speaker 3: don't think he's as good as the number of suggests.
Speaker 3: What more do you want him to do? Every game
Speaker 3: he's playing the league. He's an excellent he's not making mistakes.
Speaker 3: We do this all the time. And when I say
Speaker 3: take brock Purdy off the Niners, put him somewhere else,
Speaker 3: flip flop Trevor Lawrence and Brock Purty and what teams better?
Speaker 3: What teams? Y wou said, Well, that's not fair. Why
Speaker 3: is it not fair? Demonse? Let me ask you a question.
Speaker 3: Who do you think is better? Jamal Murray or Damian Lillard?
Speaker 3: Who do you think is better?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: You can't put me on the spot there. That's that's
Speaker 4: not an easy question in my opinion.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm not saying it. Okay right now, but tell
Speaker 3: me who do you think is better? Jamal Murray or
Speaker 3: Damian Lillard. I'm not saying either's bad. Obviously they're both excellent.
Speaker 3: Who do you think is better? If Jamal Murray were available?
Speaker 5: Go ahead, I'd say, dame, Okay, you'd say Dame.
Speaker 3: Everyone would say Dame so, but hold on a second.
Speaker 3: Jamal Murray's been to multiple conference finals. Since Dame Lillard's
Speaker 3: won a playoff series, Jamal Murray has won a championship.
Speaker 3: How can you say Jamal Murray's better? Well, because we
Speaker 3: believe if you put Dame on those Nuggets and Jamal
Speaker 3: on those Blazers, the Nuggets don't miss a beat and
Speaker 3: the Blazers are not any better. Why do we think so?
Speaker 3: We do this all the time. Why do we think
Speaker 3: Dame and Giannis are gonna fit great together? Because we
Speaker 3: are projecting what a guy would look like in a
Speaker 3: different situation we've never seen him in. We do this
Speaker 3: across sports all the time. We add context and our
Speaker 3: eye test to then apply it to what we're seeing
Speaker 3: from the athletes. And so people are so frustrated with
Speaker 3: me about not giving brock Purty credit, And what I
Speaker 3: am saying is I am frustrated that the vast majority
Speaker 3: of the rest of the sports world is taking away
Speaker 3: the credit earned by Christian McCaffrey, Deebo, Samuel Brandon, Ayuk,
Speaker 3: Trent Williams, Kyle Shanahan, Nick Bosa, Hafanga, Fred Warner, Dre Greenlaw,
Speaker 3: Javon Hargrave, Chavarius Ward, all these guys and just giving
Speaker 3: it to the quarterback. And what is extra maddening about
Speaker 3: it is I had this exact same argument four years
Speaker 3: about Jimmy Garoppolo, and folks were like, Nick, Nope, you
Speaker 3: gotta give Jimmy his credit. You got to give Jimmy
Speaker 3: his credit. And then Jimmy went out and now we
Speaker 3: are seeing Jimmy and he stinks, just stinks outside of
Speaker 3: San Francisco, and Jimmy got replaced with literally the last
Speaker 3: player picked in the draft. The team is even better,
Speaker 3: and people are like, well, that guy must be a star. No,
Speaker 3: he must not be. It is we actually got the
Speaker 3: real life experiment of what if you replace Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 3: with a random college quarterback that was fringe NFL? What
Speaker 3: would happen? We're seeing it, and the entirety of the
Speaker 3: sports media's reaction has been, well, that guy's awesome. And
Speaker 3: by the way, the added evidence of Jimmy Garoppolo now stinks.
Speaker 3: Do we think he just all of a sudden got
Speaker 3: bad or do we think it's the so I I
Speaker 3: will give Purty credit in this regard. I think brock
Speaker 3: Purty is better than Mac Jones. I think brock Purty
Speaker 3: is better than Canny Pickett. I think brock Purty is
Speaker 3: better than right now Bryce Young. I think he's better
Speaker 3: right now obviously than Desmond Ritter. I think brock Purty
Speaker 3: is better for the Niners than Daniel Jones would be
Speaker 3: because he doesn't make the critical error. I think brock
Speaker 3: Purty is better than Ryan Tannehill would be. But if
Speaker 3: you are asking me, am I convinced that right now
Speaker 3: the Niners wouldn't be better off with Kirk Cousins. No,
Speaker 3: I am not, and Kirk Cousins right now people are
Speaker 3: down on am. I convinced that the Niners would be
Speaker 3: Do I think brock Purty is better than Matt Stafford.
Speaker 3: Absolutely not, under no circumstances. Do I have any stats
Speaker 3: to back that up? Nope. But I watch the games,
Speaker 3: so I want to give Brock. I want to give
Speaker 3: the Niners credit. I want to give the awesome players
Speaker 3: on their team credit, and instead we are just laying
Speaker 3: it at the feet of the quarterback when we did
Speaker 3: the exact same thing with Jimmy Garoppolo. And some folks
Speaker 3: refuse to learn their lesson on it. So it is.
Speaker 3: It is an incredibly frustrating thing now one of the
Speaker 3: and we'll get to see it this weekend. I think
Speaker 3: the Cowboys win this weekend. I love them plus three
Speaker 3: and a half and I think they win assuming Micah
Speaker 3: Parsons plays, and he's been limited in practice, but I
Speaker 3: would imagine he's going to play. I think it is
Speaker 3: totally fair if against this cowboy Boys defense in a
Speaker 3: close game, if brock Perty goes out there and makes
Speaker 3: some big time plays on Sunday night, that I come
Speaker 3: back on Tuesday and say that's an added data point.
Speaker 3: Maybe I sold him short. But for a guy who
Speaker 3: has played two minutes and fifty two seconds of his
Speaker 3: NFL career while trailing in the fourth quarter, I am
Speaker 3: allowed to say I want to see him in an
Speaker 3: adverse situation before I just say he's one of the
Speaker 3: greatest draft picks ever. Because right now, the the and
Speaker 3: one last point on this, because demand say, what's the
Speaker 3: what's the follow up question about? You?
Speaker 5: Stole Christian McCaffrey Shine again.
Speaker 4: Christ McCaffrey has around the same odds as Trevor for MVP.
Speaker 5: Right now, do you see any value in that.
Speaker 4: Maybe go ahead a little added one, what about Shanahan
Speaker 4: for plus one thousand for Coach of the year.
Speaker 3: Maybe they usually actually give Coach of the Year not
Speaker 3: to the coach of a great team, but to the
Speaker 3: coach of a team that like overachieved or surprised people.
Speaker 3: And so the and right Demiko Ryans. That would be
Speaker 3: if like the Texans were to somehow win a wildcard
Speaker 3: spot get a wildcard spot, I think Demiico would definitely
Speaker 3: win Coach of the Year. On the Christian McCaffrey MVP thing.
Speaker 3: That to me, now, I think he has a chance.
Speaker 3: But that is more insulting to brock Purty than anything
Speaker 3: I say. The fact that brock Party leads the NFL
Speaker 3: in passer rating has not thrown an interception, and the
Speaker 3: question is is the running back of his team the
Speaker 3: MVP of the entire NFL tells you everything you need
Speaker 3: to know about what people actually think. And this is
Speaker 3: the other reason this is such a frustrating conversation for me.
Speaker 3: I think the vast majority of my colleagues across the
Speaker 3: networks on television agree with me on brock Party. They
Speaker 3: just don't want to say it because it makes them
Speaker 3: sound either mean or the numbers say different. But our guy,
Speaker 3: our number one listener of What's right Show, Dusty, he
Speaker 3: just texted this in the You know how, when a
Speaker 3: quarterback goes out demands the point spread changes. So as
Speaker 3: a for instance, what quarterback do you think is worth
Speaker 3: the most according to the point spread? Mahomes er Mahomes
Speaker 3: Mahomes is right. Mahomes is worth seven and a half points.
Speaker 3: There are two other There are two quarterbacks that are
Speaker 3: worth six and three quarters of a point six point five.
Speaker 3: This is according to Ben Fox. Who do you think
Speaker 3: those guys are?
Speaker 5: Uh? Burrow? Maybe not right now?
Speaker 3: Is very healthy Burrow? Is there a healthy Burrow? And
Speaker 3: who's the other one?
Speaker 5: You think? Josh?
Speaker 3: Or is it Josh Allen? Okay, so so thus far
Speaker 3: you having not seen this, you're perfect on it. Who
Speaker 3: do you think the next three are? Give me the
Speaker 3: names of who you would think the best the according
Speaker 3: to the points.
Speaker 5: This guy's out, Herbert Hurts.
Speaker 3: Herbert's next, Herbert's next, Aaron, but that doesn't really count,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Aaron Rodgers the and then
Speaker 3: Lamar Laar, Yeah, you would have said, Lamar, You just
Speaker 3: forgotten what I think definitely forgot oddly oddly after lamar
Speaker 3: Is DeShawn. But I think that's actually in part because
Speaker 3: they we saw the Brown's backup this week, Dorian Thompson Robinson.
Speaker 3: He was so bad that he's ready from UCLA that.
Speaker 5: It kills him.
Speaker 3: Okay, on that scale, according to that, what number do
Speaker 3: you think brock Party ranks the drop of his so
Speaker 3: a point and a half, by the way, is almost right.
Speaker 3: It's it's two points. But I'm saying where his rank
Speaker 3: is amongst starting quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: So thirty two, Uh yeah, twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3: Twenty three, he's twenty three. He's sandwich Mac Jones and
Speaker 3: Derek He's sandwich between Mac Jones and Derek Carr, which
Speaker 3: is just about right, by the way, really disrespectful to
Speaker 3: to Josh Dobbs because he's ranked thirty second because his
Speaker 3: backup's Kyler Murray, and they're saying Dobbs is worth a
Speaker 3: negative four and a half points again the spread, but
Speaker 3: that just means Kyler and Josh Dobbs been awesome. Well,
Speaker 3: that just means it's Kyler, because they're saying it's really
Speaker 3: Kyler's worth four and a half. You follow it because
Speaker 3: Kyler is the actual guy. So the guys in the twenties,
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones, Jordan Love, Mac Jones, Brock Purty, Derek Carr,
Speaker 3: Kenny Pickett, Baker Mayfield, Bryce Young, c J. Stroud, Desmond Ritter,
Speaker 3: Sam Howell, Anthony Richardson, Josh Dobbs. Again, guys, that's just
Speaker 3: about right now? Is part of that that the Niners
Speaker 3: have a competent backup in Sam Darnold? Sure that they
Speaker 3: don't have, you know, a rookie backup or disastrous backup shore,
Speaker 3: But I I cannot wait for Sunday Night Football because
Speaker 3: we're gonna see Brock Perdy, I think, in a close
Speaker 3: game against an excellent defense. And I'm gonna ask the
Speaker 3: audience the same thing that I asked him the last
Speaker 3: time there was a Rock Party game on a standalone
Speaker 3: game on national TV. Just grab a little post it
Speaker 3: note and just have a little two columns wow and yikes.
Speaker 3: And every time he makes a throw that you say, Wow,
Speaker 3: that's a hell of a throw, give him a check mark.
Speaker 3: And every time he makes a throw you say yikes.
Speaker 3: Could have been disaster or it was disaster, But the
Speaker 3: check mark, my guess is you're going to end this
Speaker 3: game with a whole bunch of neithers. Like, there's Deebo
Speaker 3: Samuel running across the middle with no one within six
Speaker 3: yards of him in any direction. Pitch and catch a
Speaker 3: couple wows and five or six yikes, and we'll see
Speaker 3: all right next to Monsey.
Speaker 4: All right, Kansas City's one's three straight. But Mahomes thinks
Speaker 4: that he can play better and has taken the blame.
Speaker 4: It doesn't seem fair to put this on him, considering
Speaker 4: his lack of death at the receiver position.
Speaker 5: Or is it absolutely fair?
Speaker 3: Patrick Patrick gets it in a way a lot of
Speaker 3: people don't. There is the reason the Chiefs can get
Speaker 3: by with anyone playing receiver, with rotating new and young
Speaker 3: receivers in throughout the game and trying things out, is
Speaker 3: because they have the most talented quarterback ever to live,
Speaker 3: and the best quarterback in the league. If Patrick is
Speaker 3: not playing like that, the offense is not going to
Speaker 3: look great. Thus far, he has not been playing like that.
Speaker 3: It's not that complicated. It's also why I am so
Speaker 3: confident in the team because the defense has been excellent.
Speaker 3: Pa Checko has really popped in year two, and Kelsey
Speaker 3: is getting himself back into shape and back healthy, and
Speaker 3: they're three to one, with the one loss being by
Speaker 3: a single point in a game. Actually, I think Patrick's
Speaker 3: best game of the year was that game against the Lions.
Speaker 3: They just got but deviled by drops. He will be fine,
Speaker 3: he will get it right. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: everyone that is arguing, oh my god, the Chiefs, miss Juju,
Speaker 3: the Chiefs, Miss McCole Hardman, are gonna realize they have
Speaker 3: about the same type of receiving core they had last year,
Speaker 3: and they scored the most points and had the most
Speaker 3: yards and hung thirty eight in the Super Bowl against
Speaker 3: arguably the league's best defense with a quarterback on one leg.
Speaker 3: But yes, the answer for the Chiefs problems is the
Speaker 3: best player I've ever seen playing better, because right now,
Speaker 3: the best player I've ever seen is playing like about
Speaker 3: the seventh best quarterback in the NFL. That will not
Speaker 3: get it done. This Chief offense, if they had Justin
Speaker 3: Herbert at quarterback, would be screwed. And Herbert's excellent. They
Speaker 3: need a uh, transcendent player at quarterback for this offense
Speaker 3: to do what it needs to do. And that's what
Speaker 3: they're gonna get.
Speaker 4: Go ahead do you think Mahomes can fix these issues
Speaker 4: by the time the season actually starts in November?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely. I think that that's what this is about,
Speaker 3: is working these things out. And by the way, there
Speaker 3: is I mean, there's here's the Here is the scary
Speaker 3: thing for the Chiefs. They could look like they fixed
Speaker 3: the issues without having fixed the issues and to have
Speaker 3: some work to do at the end of the season.
Speaker 3: By that, I mean next four games before the Dolphins game,
Speaker 3: Vikings Broncos, Chargers Broncos. You don't have to have fixed
Speaker 3: your offense to light up those defenses. Like so, they
Speaker 3: could still have some problems, but almost have tricked themselves
Speaker 3: into thinking they don't when they go into that Brea,
Speaker 3: that Dolphins game seven and one. And by the way,
Speaker 3: you can light up the Dolphins without having necessarily fixed
Speaker 3: your issues. You can you know, the now you're gonna
Speaker 3: the Dolphins offense can light you up, So you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to but that that Dolphins defense can get God
Speaker 3: is the defensively exactly. And so listen, the if I
Speaker 3: were to tell you, you know, the Chiefs play this
Speaker 3: year the Bengals and the Bills and the Eagles at home,
Speaker 3: the Dolphins in Germany, you would say, Okay, those are
Speaker 3: your toughest games on the schedule. All of those games
Speaker 3: are after November, and they have the buye between Dolphins
Speaker 3: and Eagles. So yeah, I'm pretty confident Mahomes will get
Speaker 3: it right and they'll be fine next all Right.
Speaker 4: The Bucks look far and away like the best team
Speaker 4: in the NFC in the NFC South thanks to your
Speaker 4: guy Baker. But he's only he's on a cheap one
Speaker 4: year deal. Do you think the Bucks have seen enough
Speaker 4: to invest in Baker or what do you see?
Speaker 5: Having?
Speaker 3: No? Well, so I think that if he keeps this up,
Speaker 3: the Bucks should do what the Giants should have done,
Speaker 3: which is you franchise Tag. I'm gonna be right, you know,
Speaker 3: fair and consistent here. If you have a quarterback who
Speaker 3: had very concerning returns at various points in his career
Speaker 3: and then in the contract year pops like crazy, this
Speaker 3: prudent move is to franchise Tag him and see if
Speaker 3: he can string together consecutive excellent seasons. That's what the
Speaker 3: Giants should have done with Daniel Jones, and it's what
Speaker 3: the Baker, the Bakers, the Bucks should do with Baker.
Speaker 4: What's your follow up there, He's got the six best
Speaker 4: best odds to win Comeback Player of the Year at
Speaker 4: plus two thousand ish.
Speaker 5: Is that worth a bet?
Speaker 3: No, Listen, Tomorrow Hamlin's going comeback player. Yeah, I was
Speaker 3: about the Yeah, I mean every every other comeback player
Speaker 3: of your bet is insane. Like Tua can't win, Baker
Speaker 3: can't win. None of these other Damar played in a game.
Speaker 3: Once Damar was active in a game, which he was
Speaker 3: last week, he won the go ahead.
Speaker 4: I think so would go ahead honestly think Tua like
Speaker 4: I think Tua's got the best chance besides Tomorrow Hamlin.
Speaker 4: He's the best possible candidates to go up against go
Speaker 4: up against him. You think that there's no chance that
Speaker 4: anybody other Tomorrow Hamlin wins it.
Speaker 3: The guy's hurts up on the field, I mean we
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean the guy was you know, I
Speaker 3: think the I think he's medically died on the field
Speaker 3: and they brought him back and now he's playing. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think that he doesn't have to play well and
Speaker 3: I and that's that sounded cutting. I don't mean it
Speaker 3: to him. I'm saying it's not It's not based on
Speaker 3: how well he plays it's based on that he's playing
Speaker 3: that so I think that he he's just gonna win
Speaker 3: the award. So under normal circumstances, maybe someone else would
Speaker 3: have a chance, and Baker would be a great candidate.
Speaker 3: To me, Baker would be a better, a potential better
Speaker 3: candidate than Tua, because Tua is gonna be You don't
Speaker 3: tuas in like the MVP discussion. You're not usually in
Speaker 3: the MVP and Comeback Player of the Year discussion. So
Speaker 3: Baker to me, is a great candidate for it, but
Speaker 3: it's gonna be DeMar Hamlin.
Speaker 4: All right, next, all right, the Prince is a five
Speaker 4: and a half point underdog to the Bills in his
Speaker 4: kingdom of London. You gave up on Jacksonville and moved
Speaker 4: up move MVP, MVP favor Josh out On ahead of
Speaker 4: Trevor on Magic, Mahomes Mountain, whatever you want to call it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: what will it take for the Prince to reclaim is
Speaker 4: thrown behind Mahomes NFL's quarterback number two or second basketball
Speaker 4: A lot?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, listen, he's gonna I mean, it's gonna
Speaker 3: take months of excellent football. I mean, that's just the
Speaker 3: I already was ahead of everyone on it, and then
Speaker 3: Trevor's been good but not great. Now I do think
Speaker 3: here is where if I were the Bills and the Niners,
Speaker 3: I would be a little nervous this week. The teams
Speaker 3: this year that everyone has been like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: they're the it team have almost immediately gotten their come up.
Speaker 3: And almost immediately Week two, the Lions had gone to Arrow,
Speaker 3: had beaten the Chiefs. People are saying it's the Lions time,
Speaker 3: and and they lose at home to the Seahawks. Week three,
Speaker 3: when everyone is who was the falling all over themselves
Speaker 3: about what was it? I'm trying to there was a
Speaker 3: specific Week three game, No, no, no, oh the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Week three this year the Cowboys, they beat the Giants
Speaker 3: forty to nothing, the Jets thirty to ten. They're talking
Speaker 3: super Bowl their ten point favorites. The Cardinals kick their teeth.
Speaker 3: In Week four, Oh my god, the Miami Dolphins might
Speaker 3: have the greatest offense we've ever seen in NFL history.
Speaker 3: They lose by four scores to the Buffalo Bills. So
Speaker 3: this week there's two teams that fall in the everybody
Speaker 3: falling all over themselves to give them credit. Camp one
Speaker 3: is the San Francisco forty nine ers on universally on
Speaker 3: top of everyone's power rankings, except for, of course, you know,
Speaker 3: the Committee's NFL tiers on first things first, and the
Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills. Both of those teams face very live opponents
Speaker 3: that all of a sudden, despite people kind of I
Speaker 3: don't want to say, forgetting about them, but not being
Speaker 3: so worried about them. With the Jags win this weekend,
Speaker 3: the Jags are ahead of the Bills in the standings.
Speaker 3: They'll both be three and two, and the Jags will
Speaker 3: have the head to have victory. With the Cowboys win
Speaker 3: this weekend, they will be ahead of the Niners in
Speaker 3: the standings. They'll both be four and one, with the
Speaker 3: Cowboys having the head to head victory. And so, not
Speaker 3: to spoil Nick's picks, but I like both of those
Speaker 3: teams in those spots there more so than all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, the Prince, you know, becoming accepted the second
Speaker 3: best quarterback in football. I think, I honestly think it
Speaker 3: would take months of excellent football before the national media
Speaker 3: thought that, And right now I don't think that right
Speaker 3: now now, I you know, I think he has that ability,
Speaker 3: but he hasn't performed up to that level. All right,
Speaker 3: do you want to do the Drew Holiday Lauren Holiday thing? Yes?
Speaker 3: Or no?
Speaker 5: You call it now, we can do it. We could
Speaker 5: definitely do it.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, let's do it. Go ahead.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, yesterday I sent a little tweet that I
Speaker 4: found on Twitter about Drew Holliday's wife.
Speaker 3: Oh you sent that to the group chat?
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 3: I didn't know you sent that to the group chat. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right?
Speaker 5: That makes me or what was that?
Speaker 3: I would have yeah, I would have been more. I thought,
Speaker 3: we have a let me displain this real quick. We
Speaker 3: have a What's right group chat. It's got like twelve
Speaker 3: people on it, and people send story ideas sometimes throughout it.
Speaker 3: I saw that and I was like, I don't think
Speaker 3: we're gonna talk about it. And then when you didn't
Speaker 3: respond to it, I was like, oh, Demonse's not interested
Speaker 3: in it either. Perfect, So I was we don't have
Speaker 3: to worry about it. But you didn't respond to it
Speaker 3: because you were the one that sent it. So that
Speaker 3: makes more sense now I understand why you're into it.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, crickets in the chat. D No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 4: Jew Holiday's wife is is upset with the NBA for
Speaker 4: dropping jew holiday without any type of warning. They had
Speaker 4: to move their kids and and she feels like they
Speaker 4: were they were slighted. How do you feel about that?
Speaker 3: I think it would be incredibly difficult. I think the
Speaker 3: the part of this that people forget about we don't
Speaker 3: have and she sent she put out a long I
Speaker 3: g post. We don't have to people can go find it.
Speaker 3: She did the we don't have to put it up
Speaker 3: right now. You gave a good synopsis of it. I
Speaker 3: think the thing that people do forget about is the
Speaker 3: kids changing schools. And I think that is a brutal
Speaker 3: spot that I have real empathy for. I so I
Speaker 3: went to remember how I said. I went to a
Speaker 3: curriculum night the other night for Deanna's school. One of
Speaker 3: her classmates, I don't want to say the name, but
Speaker 3: one of her classmates that her dad or his dad.
Speaker 3: Her classmate's father played in the NBA for fifteen years, okay,
Speaker 3: and just retired a few years ago. He played in
Speaker 3: the same place for eight seasons, and then from twenty
Speaker 3: twelve till twenty nineteen he played one, two, three, four,
Speaker 3: five six, played for six teams in eight years Okay,
Speaker 3: and the process of having to pick up and move
Speaker 3: your kids, and the kids having to make new friends
Speaker 3: and start new schools. All of that, I imagine is
Speaker 3: incredibly difficult. And if you ever go to like NFL
Speaker 3: Coaches Wikipedia page, So let me try to think of
Speaker 3: like a good example of it. So let me the
Speaker 3: if you go to I'll do Wink Martindale, who is
Speaker 3: the defensive coordinator? Wait, Wink Martindale. Oh wait, that's the
Speaker 3: hold on Don Martindale. Sorry, Wink Martindale was a here,
Speaker 3: so was a television host. So some of these guys
Speaker 3: their careers. So like Wink Martindale, here's what he did
Speaker 3: from ninety four till twenty twelve, So that is what
Speaker 3: is that eighteen years he went Notre Dame, Cincinnati, Western Illinois,
Speaker 3: Western Kentucky, Oakland Raiders, Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens. And that,
Speaker 3: to be honest, is like par for the course. So
Speaker 3: I do have a lot of empathy for what that
Speaker 3: means on people and their families. I also think it's
Speaker 3: part of the deal and it just is what it is.
Speaker 3: There is there are pluses and minuses to every job
Speaker 3: in the world, and some have bigger pluses, bigger minuses,
Speaker 3: and across the spectrum. If you are a professional athlete,
Speaker 3: one of the trade offs is your entire life can
Speaker 3: be upended and you can be forced to move to
Speaker 3: a place you've potentially never lived in the blink of
Speaker 3: an eye. We can have empathy for that without having
Speaker 3: a lot of sympathy for it. I can feel for
Speaker 3: you while not feeling badly about it. It's just the deal.
Speaker 3: And I think Lauren Holliday, uh, you know, I think
Speaker 3: was upset that Drew didn't get a lot of notice. Well,
Speaker 3: that's a tough one because, as you mentioned Demanse, Let's
Speaker 3: say they knew this was a possibility and they give
Speaker 3: him a heads up about it, and then all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, the Blazers end up taking the offer from Miami.
Speaker 3: Then what happens. They've told Drew we might trade you,
Speaker 3: we want to let you know, get your family in order,
Speaker 3: and then they don't trade him. What happens then?
Speaker 5: True?
Speaker 4: I mean true, Yeah, It's it's a slippery slope. I
Speaker 4: also don't see Drew Holliday as the type of guy
Speaker 4: to keep that in his back pocket and like play different.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't. I tend to agree with you, but
Speaker 3: it damages the relationship. Even if he's gonna to play
Speaker 3: just as hard, it damages the relationship. It's like, wait,
Speaker 3: you were thinking of moving on for me? Does that
Speaker 3: mean Yannis didn't want me? Or was it? You know,
Speaker 3: there's the there are real potential problems, and I just
Speaker 3: you know, I think that there are. There are a
Speaker 3: lot of things that just is the cost of doing
Speaker 3: business and being a pro athlete. One of them is
Speaker 3: you're not necessarily going to have control over where you
Speaker 3: live and who you work for.
Speaker 5: It sucks.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean to be honest, yes, or Kevin
Speaker 3: Durant the best of the best. Well, Bradley Beal, to
Speaker 3: his credit, got a no trade clause, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean? Like, and Dame's better than Bradley Beal, but
Speaker 3: didn't have a no trade like the there's a cost
Speaker 3: to this stuff, and so I I understood what she
Speaker 3: was saying, but I I just think that that's kind
Speaker 3: of the deal. The there are.
Speaker 5: My buddy, last little won the finals.
Speaker 3: Won them a finals? Are they better with.
Speaker 5: Dam We will see.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean on paper, on paper, when when
Speaker 4: we map it out in our heads and think about
Speaker 4: what this player would look like next to this player.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, on paper they are. And you know what,
Speaker 3: the GM of the bucks, you know what, he doesn't
Speaker 3: want to have to do change his kids' school move
Speaker 3: because he got fired because the championship was as high
Speaker 3: as they got. And then Yannis left seriously like that
Speaker 3: is that is a real thing, and so the I
Speaker 3: understand the argument of that. But also the flip side
Speaker 3: to this is this is why I when players have leverage,
Speaker 3: I don't ever begrudge them using it because you can
Speaker 3: win a team a championship and two years later be
Speaker 3: traded without being told like that is the that you know,
Speaker 3: as as they say in The Godfather, this is the
Speaker 3: business we have chosen like that, that is that is
Speaker 3: the deal here, and so I I And by the way,
Speaker 3: Lauren Holiday and Drew Holiday, she was a great athlete
Speaker 3: in her own right. She then God, I don't want
Speaker 3: to get this wrong, but hold on, let me make
Speaker 3: sure I hold on. Lauren Holiday. Yeah, she had a
Speaker 3: brain tumor, and Holiday took time away from his career
Speaker 3: to take care of her and support her, and she
Speaker 3: ended up, you know, fully healthy. Now there's like eight
Speaker 3: years ago and she was an all time soccer player.
Speaker 3: So they have a really great relationship and they're a
Speaker 3: great story and so I'm I'm not casting Aspersions at all,
Speaker 3: but I just think this is good. This is the deal. Yeah, No,
Speaker 3: they and they have a I think they have a
Speaker 3: great story. They have a great story. And she was
Speaker 3: and I can't imagine. But you know, again, I don't
Speaker 3: want to make it too about me. But what I
Speaker 3: will say is I'll give you a four instance that
Speaker 3: is an exact not one to one, but a close one.
Speaker 3: At some point over the last seven years, there was
Speaker 3: a time when I thought that I might have to
Speaker 3: move to la for the television show. This was not
Speaker 3: and it was not in the last two years that
Speaker 3: this happened. This is a while back ago, and I
Speaker 3: thought that there was I thought that that was not
Speaker 3: only on the board, I thought it was going to
Speaker 3: happen that I was going to be moving to Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: In that moment, I had a choice to make, which
Speaker 3: was is it worth it uprooting my family, my kids,
Speaker 3: moving them across country. I'm all start over or do
Speaker 3: I you know, do I quit? Do I just look
Speaker 3: for work here in New York? What would I do?
Speaker 3: Now I ended up not having to ended up not
Speaker 3: having to go, and we stayed and it was all fine,
Speaker 3: and it would have been fine either way. But the
Speaker 3: reason I bring that up is the other option at
Speaker 3: always is you can quit. And I don't mean to
Speaker 3: be harsh about it, but if it, if it really
Speaker 3: is like I don't want to uproot my wife and kids,
Speaker 3: like you're not drafted into the military, you can just
Speaker 3: do that. Well, you can quit, or you can try
Speaker 3: to be you know, by coast. You can say, hey,
Speaker 3: five months a year, you know, Daddy's gonna work and
Speaker 3: we're gonna be here, like you have. You have a
Speaker 3: choice in the matter, even if it's not a perfect choice.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll do the gambling show next. What's right?
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Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 3: I went two and three last week. We can show
Speaker 3: you the record, or we can show you the picks
Speaker 3: and go through them. Pittsburgh minus I gotta get off
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh for a bit. I you know, I have been
Speaker 3: riding with them. They are such a depressing team to
Speaker 3: have bet on when the it's just clear, oh, they're
Speaker 3: not gonna be able to move the ball. They were
Speaker 3: laying two and a half at Houston. That one, that
Speaker 3: was a bad one. These other picks, I'm going to
Speaker 3: defend Cleveland minus two and a half against Baltimore. I
Speaker 3: made that pick with Deshaun Watson playing now, Deshaun I
Speaker 3: have been very down on you guys know that, but
Speaker 3: it was a fifth round rookie making his first start
Speaker 3: that no one expected to show in, practiced all week,
Speaker 3: was cleared by the doctors, and then on game day
Speaker 3: was like, I can't go, So that one not my fault.
Speaker 4: But by the Waity, yeah, Sean Watson would have had
Speaker 4: had Deshaun Watson would have had to have.
Speaker 5: His best game that game in order to win it.
Speaker 3: I agree with you with this caveat how much did
Speaker 3: it impact the way the rest of his team played
Speaker 3: that the morning of the game, the quarterback who's was
Speaker 3: cleared and you expected to play was like, ah, guys,
Speaker 3: you know my contract is fully guaranteed and I'm just
Speaker 3: not feeling it today. Like how many downstream effects did
Speaker 3: it have? And then Kansaity might have signed and a
Speaker 3: half against the Jets again, they're up seventeen to nothing
Speaker 3: and Mahomes is running into the end zone to cover
Speaker 3: and then takes a knee. But whatever, I lose. Tampa
Speaker 3: plus three and a half against New Orleans they win
Speaker 3: by seventeen outright. Seattle plus one and a half against
Speaker 3: the Giants, they win by twenty one out right, So
Speaker 3: I actually feel better about last week's picks and the
Speaker 3: record suggests, but I'm still nine and eleven over the
Speaker 3: course of the year. So let's now get to the
Speaker 3: five picks this week, four of which I feel awesome about,
Speaker 3: one of which I'm a little squeamish about.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Wait, did it go from five to four
Speaker 4: in the matter of a block?
Speaker 5: It is no.
Speaker 3: I said I loved four of my five picks and
Speaker 3: one of them I'm not sure about. But I still said,
Speaker 3: it feels like five and oh, it feels like five
Speaker 3: and oh minimum of four in one. All right, go ahead,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 4: So first off, we've got Jags plus five and a
Speaker 4: half versus Buffalo in London, though, which is key.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it is key. The Jags have been there
Speaker 3: now for two weeks, the Bills flying maybe a little two.
Speaker 3: What do we know, demanse about the Bills and Josh
Speaker 3: Allen in particular, what typically comes at right after the
Speaker 3: highest highs, A nice little dip. That's why that's why
Speaker 3: you have nicknamed him, you know, Magic Mountain Allen the
Speaker 3: roller coaster. That's your nickname, not mine. And Jacksonville is
Speaker 3: in an odd spot in that they got the win
Speaker 3: this past week, but it was I think the fourth
Speaker 3: straight game. They can't be thrilled with how they played
Speaker 3: Week one against the Colts. They needed to come back
Speaker 3: against the Chiefs and Texans. They played terribly. They defensively
Speaker 3: did well against the Falcons, but offensively, I felt left
Speaker 3: a lot of meat on the bone. And I think
Speaker 3: they are in a spot in this In this game,
Speaker 3: they absolutely can win out right and certainly can cover
Speaker 3: the five and a half. So I'm getting five and
Speaker 3: a half points from a team that I think can
Speaker 3: win outright, is going to be able to move the
Speaker 3: ball on Buffalo through the air, assuming their offensive line
Speaker 3: can hold up to a degree. So for all those reasons,
Speaker 3: I like the Jags. By the way, favorites are twenty
Speaker 3: ten and one against the spread in London games, so
Speaker 3: that part is not good for me. What is good
Speaker 3: for me Doug Peterson is thirty and twenty three against
Speaker 3: the spread as an underdog, and Trevor Lawrence is two
Speaker 3: and one straight up and against the spread in London games.
Speaker 3: So I like the Jags. They can win outright. I'm
Speaker 3: getting five and a half points. I like the Jags
Speaker 3: plus five against Buffalo.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, you got Arizona plus three and a half
Speaker 4: versus Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I just think that right now Arizona's
Speaker 3: at home and right now has the better quarterback. I
Speaker 3: mean the idea that since is still getting priced like
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow is their quarterback, as someone wearing that jersey
Speaker 3: and by that name is the quarterback. But Joe Burrows
Speaker 3: is the low It has a lower passer rating and
Speaker 3: fewer yards per attempt this year than Zach Wilson. Joe
Speaker 3: Burrow is two of twenty one on passes traveling more
Speaker 3: than fifteen yards in the air. He is an injured
Speaker 3: player that his team keeps putting out there. They cannot
Speaker 3: score in the first half of any of these games,
Speaker 3: and the the market, I guess, just doesn't know what
Speaker 3: to do with them. And so go ahead. It looked
Speaker 3: like you wanted to say something there.
Speaker 4: Well, I would stay away from betting on any Cincinnati
Speaker 4: Cincinnati games. I don't even trust the Cardinals plus three
Speaker 4: and a half. It is Joe Burrow. At the end
Speaker 4: of the day, he might be hurt, but I think
Speaker 4: there's no telling where Like he starts to vibe well
Speaker 4: with this slight injury, like he could still go off
Speaker 4: and destroy the Cardinals in my opinion.
Speaker 3: But well, the thing is this, it's not like he's
Speaker 3: been getting better. He's been The Titans game was almost
Speaker 3: as bad as Week one. The Bengals this year in
Speaker 3: two road games have scored a total of six points
Speaker 3: and in the first halfs of their games this year.
Speaker 3: Week one zero first half points, Week two, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: first quarter, I should say zero first quarter points. Week
Speaker 3: two zero first quarter points, Week three zero first quarter points,
Speaker 3: and Week four against the Titans, three first quarter points
Speaker 3: and then zero points the rest of the game. They
Speaker 3: have been incredibly slow starting team. They were very fortunate
Speaker 3: to get that win against the Rams. I know they're desperate.
Speaker 3: I think Arizona can win outright, and certainly can cover
Speaker 3: three and a half. I like it, and it started
Speaker 3: it by the way, this line opened at four and
Speaker 3: a half, got bet all the way down to three,
Speaker 3: and is now sitting around three to three and a
Speaker 3: half in a lot of spots. I like Arizona plus
Speaker 3: the points, all right.
Speaker 4: Next, all right, you've got the Rams plus four and
Speaker 4: a half versus Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: All right, So this is the one that I am
Speaker 3: a little squeamish on. But it should be noted that
Speaker 3: aside from that game at Tampa on Thursday Night Football,
Speaker 3: the Eagles the last two years, while they win, they
Speaker 3: don't typically blow people out on the road. Last year
Speaker 3: on the road beat Detroit by three, beat Washington by sixteen.
Speaker 3: That obviously, blowout Arizona by three, Houston by twelve, d
Speaker 3: by one, that the Bears by five, the Cowboys they
Speaker 3: lost by six, and then they did blow out the
Speaker 3: Giants by twenty two. The Eagles have been dominant at
Speaker 3: home and good enough to win on the road. So
Speaker 3: and then this year obviously the Patriots game was a
Speaker 3: five point game. You then add to it that Rams
Speaker 3: might be getting Cooper Cup back. Jalen Hurts is not
Speaker 3: used to going to the West Coast, only played one
Speaker 3: game on the West Coast up to this point in
Speaker 3: his career. And Jalen Hurts is eight and thirteen against
Speaker 3: the spread outside of Philly, which which is to the
Speaker 3: point I was making, which is they don't blow people
Speaker 3: out on the road. So the Rams getting four and
Speaker 3: a half against a Philadelphia team that my opinion is
Speaker 3: still working through some things I like, but this is
Speaker 3: the one I'm the least confident in by the Rams
Speaker 3: getting four and a half points. All right, next.
Speaker 5: Kansas City minus four at Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I picked the Chiefs last week, but I typically,
Speaker 3: and you know this, Demanse, do not pick the Chiefs
Speaker 3: and knicks picks like historically. It's not something I've done
Speaker 3: a ton of. They aren't a great covering team the
Speaker 3: last couple of years with Mahomes. In fact, they're six
Speaker 3: and twelve. They're last eighteen against the spread, but this
Speaker 3: line is only four points. I do not trust at
Speaker 3: all the Vikings defense, and I think the Chiefs defense
Speaker 3: can force some of those Kirk Cousins turnovers. I think
Speaker 3: Trent McDuffie on Justin Jefferson should be an awesome matchup
Speaker 3: the entire game, and I know he won't be like
Speaker 3: just manned man on him, but I think the Chiefs
Speaker 3: defense will be able to get to Cousins. The Chiefs
Speaker 3: need to have a game where the offense gets rolling.
Speaker 3: I think they absolutely can do this, and this feels
Speaker 3: like one of those games the Chiefs are up a
Speaker 3: touchdown basically start to finish. I don't think the Chiefs
Speaker 3: necessarily like blow them out, but I do think that
Speaker 3: they're up a full score the entire way, and I
Speaker 3: like the their ability all of a sudden to salt
Speaker 3: games away with Pacheco on the ground, like they did
Speaker 3: this past week where they had the ball for the
Speaker 3: final seven and a half minutes. For all those reasons,
Speaker 3: I like Kansas City minus four.
Speaker 5: It's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Okay, thanks go ahead.
Speaker 5: Wait what, No, you're good. I appreciate it. Wait that
Speaker 5: was sharp to another sharp. I'm just telling you, no,
Speaker 5: I appreciated it.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Dallas.
Speaker 4: Dallas plus three and a half at San Francisco, you
Speaker 4: can get four.
Speaker 3: Now apparently it's moved to four. Well, I liked it
Speaker 3: at three and a half. I certainly like it at four.
Speaker 3: The Cowboys are ten and four straight up and eleven
Speaker 3: and thirteen against the spread in their last fourteen night,
Speaker 3: which is the best in the league over that stretch. Now,
Speaker 3: the Niners are covering machines. The Niners the last nine
Speaker 3: regular season games they've covered. They obviously also have won.
Speaker 3: You take out the NFC Championship game. They've won like
Speaker 3: fourteen or thirteen straight games, and they've scored thirty points
Speaker 3: in every game this year. I understand that factor. I
Speaker 3: just think that this is a field goal game in
Speaker 3: either direction. I think Dallas has the better defense and
Speaker 3: the better quarterback, and I'm getting the four points. And
Speaker 3: so I understand no one's been able to slow down
Speaker 3: brock Perty in this Niners offense except for Dallas in
Speaker 3: the playoff game last year. Now, the Niners defense made
Speaker 3: Dak look terrible in that game, so the Niners won anyway.
Speaker 3: But this Niners team has scored thirty plus in if you,
Speaker 3: I mean you look at what they've done again, take
Speaker 3: out the NFC title game where they were out of quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: This year they have scored thirty, thirty, thirty, and thirty five.
Speaker 3: And last year, leading to into that Cowboys game, the
Speaker 3: Niners had scored thirty seven, thirty seven, thirty eight, forty one,
Speaker 3: and then nineteen points against the Cowboys. So I think
Speaker 3: the Cowboys defense and dan Quinn can slow down the
Speaker 3: Niners offense. Keep in mind, dan Quinn was the decordinator
Speaker 3: for Atlanta when Kyle Shanahan was the offensive coordinator for
Speaker 3: Atlanta and that Super Bowl season, the year they blew
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. I think Dallas wins. I certainly think
Speaker 3: it's a field goal game, and so I like the
Speaker 3: Cowboys go ahead to Masey.
Speaker 4: Oh so something of note party was six and oh
Speaker 4: straight up at home in night games at Iowa State.
Speaker 3: So okay, Well that I didn't know that, I a
Speaker 3: so don't care all that much about. But now I'm
Speaker 3: not taking it. I mean the fact that he was
Speaker 3: excellent at night at Ohio State. He's been excellent at
Speaker 3: night in the pros. I think he's three and zero
Speaker 3: straight up and against the spread in night games as
Speaker 3: a pro. This is the game of the year up
Speaker 3: to this point. As you mentioned earlier, I believe Dallas
Speaker 3: wins if they lose, I do not think they get
Speaker 3: blown out. So Dallas plus four works for me. All right,
Speaker 3: So here are the picks for the week. I've got
Speaker 3: Jacksonville getting five and a half in London. I've got
Speaker 3: the Rams getting four and a half at home against Philly.
Speaker 3: I've got Arizona getting three and a half at home
Speaker 3: against Cincinnati, Casey laying four on the road in Minnesota,
Speaker 3: and Dallas getting three and a half at home. All
Speaker 3: Right'm sorry in San Francisco. And really now it's Dallas
Speaker 3: getting four in San Francisco. So we have two straight
Speaker 3: up home dogs, one home, one neutral site dog, one
Speaker 3: road favored in Kansas City, and one road dog in Dallas.
Speaker 3: All right, demons, let's talk about the teaser didn't go
Speaker 3: the way we had hoped, we'd go ahead, tell us about.
Speaker 4: It, all right, So we went too and one last week,
Speaker 4: those those of you guys that have been trailing me,
Speaker 4: I apologize. I just want to let you know that
Speaker 4: I'm actually trying with these things.
Speaker 5: Uh, it's is U.
Speaker 4: And if you notice, this teaser was actually dead the
Speaker 4: day that we put the teaser.
Speaker 5: On the on the internet.
Speaker 3: Uh, that's what made it tough. To lose your teaser
Speaker 3: on Thursday night. Football is always painful.
Speaker 4: So we had we had Green Bay plus seven and
Speaker 4: a half versus Detroit that obviously failed. Houston plus nine
Speaker 4: at Pittsburgh looked pretty well. Chicago plus nine and a
Speaker 4: half versus Denver. I was super wary of that bet
Speaker 4: that also hit. So here's this week's I'm gonna get
Speaker 4: us back in track fin a rally. Here, this one's
Speaker 4: gonna hit. I'm looking you guys in the eyes and
Speaker 4: telling you this one is going to hit. This hit
Speaker 4: this week.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: Uh, so we've got a three team seven point teaser
Speaker 4: at plus one twenty. We've got Baltimore at plus three
Speaker 4: versus Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5: I don't have what the original line is.
Speaker 4: But the teaser seven points, which is seven point is
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Pittsburgh exactly on the fly math while being nervous
Speaker 4: doing this podcast just doesn't work for me. All Right,
Speaker 4: we got Miami minus three and a half versus the Giants,
Speaker 4: and then we got Houston plus nine at Atlanta. This
Speaker 4: is an A plus teaser. I don't know what you're
Speaker 4: great is, but it's it's an A plus. You know
Speaker 4: very good about this teaser. Didn't Yes, I didn't. I
Speaker 4: teased through the zero on what Baltimore?
Speaker 5: Yes? And then Miami Miami? Yeahs. Houston was great the
Speaker 5: Houston Eyes.
Speaker 3: I I think you're probably gonna win this one because
Speaker 3: the gambling gods like to reward bad process. But this
Speaker 3: is this is the first, this is the first one
Speaker 3: that I had to do this to you. This is
Speaker 3: an F grade. This isn't an F grade graded teaser.
Speaker 3: I'm grading. I'm grading it as an F. You take
Speaker 3: your Baltimore from minus four to plus three, so you're
Speaker 3: teasing through the zero and you're not even getting the
Speaker 3: full three, meaning it pushed that leg pushes if they
Speaker 3: lose by three. Miami, you're teasing and not getting the
Speaker 3: three at all, and Houston at least is better. But yeah,
Speaker 3: this is an teaser.
Speaker 5: Hold on, okay, mister f teaser. Every single teaser that
Speaker 5: you've given me a good grade on, I've lost.
Speaker 4: This was this, This was my week of not taking
Speaker 4: your process I wanted to do.
Speaker 5: My process was.
Speaker 4: I'm not worried about teasing through the zero. I'm not
Speaker 4: worried about key numbers. I'm just going off of vibes
Speaker 4: in the way that I feel about these games. All right, Okay,
Speaker 4: going crazy es, all right, crazy, This teas is gonna hit.
Speaker 5: It's gonna hit, you.
Speaker 3: Know, I think it will. I might bet it myself
Speaker 3: just to support you. But it's terrible process. It's just
Speaker 3: terrible process. All right, Demonse, what's the offer this week?
Speaker 5: Uh? This is the offer. Uh.
Speaker 4: After two less than optimal weeks at the casino, we're
Speaker 4: going back to the basics.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: The offer this week is called Demons's moving on. Uh.
Speaker 4: So we got party over one and a half touchdowns
Speaker 4: and Daniel Jones to throw an interception at plus two
Speaker 4: ninety one.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, Okay, so this.
Speaker 3: Is you just just abandoning Daniel Jones moving on to
Speaker 3: Brock Party. Yeah, I'm not gonna take that offer because
Speaker 3: I don't think Brock Party is gonna throw two touchdowns
Speaker 3: and the Daniel Jones I don't know that he throws
Speaker 3: a pick because that Miami defense is not super you know,
Speaker 3: opportunistic on that. So I actually don't like either side
Speaker 3: of this. But I do like the fact that you
Speaker 3: are moving on from Daniel Jones and attaching yourself to
Speaker 3: Brock Party. That's more fun. I think I think that
Speaker 3: one's pretty good. So I'm I'm happy about that. All right,
Speaker 3: here's what we're gonna do. Take quick, go ahead, demant
Speaker 3: say sorry, you kind of said.
Speaker 4: Something about Daniel Jones like replacing Brock Pardy on San
Speaker 4: Francisco and not being better. Like you said that you
Speaker 4: didn't think Daniel Jones would be a Yeah, he'd be
Speaker 4: able to do the same thing.
Speaker 5: That Brock Pardy does. I think he would, but that's fair.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's as accurate as Purty, and I
Speaker 3: think he now I think Pardy would maybe be worse
Speaker 3: than Daniel Jones on the Giants giant because he can't
Speaker 3: run for his life. But I think for the Niners,
Speaker 3: Purdy is better than Jones would be. All right, take
Speaker 3: quick break, come back, answer your questions. What's right? All right, demonse,
Speaker 3: Let's get to these questions before I got a run
Speaker 3: and go do television. Go ahead, all right.
Speaker 4: Austin Hackett asked, do you think the NFL should have
Speaker 4: a draft lottery like the NBA? What if the Bears
Speaker 4: done to deserve another great quarterback to ruin?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: I don't think a draft lottery. I like the way
Speaker 3: the NFL does it. But I also would support this
Speaker 3: idea that if you had a top three pick this year,
Speaker 3: you are ineligible for a top three pick the next year.
Speaker 3: You follow me, so, like if you were draft if
Speaker 3: you're the Bears drafting number one this past year, the
Speaker 3: best you can draft the following year is number four.
Speaker 3: That you shouldn't be able to have consecutive number one picks,
Speaker 3: and you shouldn't be able to throw a consecutive seasons.
Speaker 3: But I the draft lottery part of it, I think
Speaker 3: is if you're a terrible team that's never had a quarterback,
Speaker 3: I think that what gives you hope is that, all right,
Speaker 3: if we are so terrible, we can get a quarterback.
Speaker 3: So I don't think the I don't think the draft
Speaker 3: lottery is what the NFL needs, all right?
Speaker 5: Next, alec heavily? How many teams highly highly? Yeah? Sweet?
Speaker 4: How many teams could you put Caleb into their into
Speaker 4: their starting lineup and they be contenders?
Speaker 5: Would anyone besides Kansas City.
Speaker 4: Get worse with Sea week Caleb abbreviation quarterback?
Speaker 3: You're all right? Well, no, a lot of so like
Speaker 3: right now this moment. Of course, there are some teams
Speaker 3: other than Kansaity that would get worse, but not not
Speaker 3: all the teams. I mean, I think the Bills right
Speaker 3: now this moment would get worse. Not long term, but
Speaker 3: right now, this moment. I think that the Bengals, if
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow were healthy right now this moment would be worse.
Speaker 3: But with Caleb. But if you put Caleb on the Cowboys,
Speaker 3: the Niners, the Eagles, the three best teams in the NFC,
Speaker 3: throw the Lions in there as well, the four best
Speaker 3: teams in the NFC or four of the five best
Speaker 3: teams in the NFC, and mik you know, what I
Speaker 3: add the Seahawks, the five best teams in the NFC,
Speaker 3: all of them get better. I do believe Caleb right
Speaker 3: now this moment is better than Dak Purdy, Jalen Geno,
Speaker 3: and Golf. And I think all of those teams would
Speaker 3: be better. I do think he's that good. You looking
Speaker 3: at me like I'm crazy because I included Jalen. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think caleb' is that good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 3: I think Caleb is that good and that refined already.
Speaker 3: I think all of those teams would be better right
Speaker 3: now with Caleb.
Speaker 5: All right, next, don't you all right?
Speaker 3: So Richard, you can ask me whatever you were gonna ask,
Speaker 3: go ahead.
Speaker 4: I noticed that college quarterbacks have like so much time
Speaker 4: to pass the ball in the pocket, Like I've noticed
Speaker 4: that they like sometimes they'll get like Dame near a minute,
Speaker 4: and like that's not just I just don't think flies
Speaker 4: in the NFL and from extended plays you get pocket
Speaker 4: all that good stuff.
Speaker 3: That is one hundred accurate. I just think Caleb, even
Speaker 3: without that, is such a talented thrower of the football
Speaker 3: and such a smart player. I think and every team
Speaker 3: I just mentioned there that I'd be dropping him into
Speaker 3: has good to excellent offensive lines, so like we'd be
Speaker 3: dropping him into a terrible spot. All right.
Speaker 4: Next, No, that's fair, Richard Winston asked Nick, Why do
Speaker 4: you believe the Seahawks are better than the Lions?
Speaker 5: Even though the Lions lost the matchup, they did be
Speaker 5: your chiefs and they have the same records.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't, By the way, I haven't said that
Speaker 3: I think this moment the Seahawks are better than the Lions,
Speaker 3: or if I have, it's very very close. I think
Speaker 3: by the end of the year the Seahawks will be
Speaker 3: considerably better. Seahawks are now. Lions are also playing a
Speaker 3: lot of young guys, But the Seahawks are playing more
Speaker 3: first or second year players than any team in the league,
Speaker 3: and they're only getting better as the year goes on.
Speaker 3: Plus they've dealt with a lot of injuries. And yeah,
Speaker 3: the head to head victory in Detroit does tip the
Speaker 3: scales in their favor.
Speaker 4: All right, Next, Mitch will be said pacheck Oll looked
Speaker 4: great last week and the running game sealed the win
Speaker 4: for Kansas City. Will Kansas City look to exploit against
Speaker 4: Floor's Vikings this weekend?
Speaker 3: Oh, listen, I think they're gonna be able to Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're fine. I think they're gonna be able to throw
Speaker 3: the ball all over the field on them, and I
Speaker 3: think Pachek will have a big second half when the
Speaker 3: Chiefs have the lead. Also, Keith asked, where's the best
Speaker 3: spot for a great slice of New York pizza? There's
Speaker 3: great pizza plays everywhere. My favorite spot you can't they
Speaker 3: don't have tables, it's just takeout. But there's this place
Speaker 3: called Pops Pizza on fifty seventh right before Columbus that
Speaker 3: I think fifty seventh, just south of Central Park, fifty
Speaker 3: seventh and eighth essentially, that I think is exceptional. It's
Speaker 3: my favorite pizza spot. All right, Well, that's it for
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