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Speaker 2: Welcome in Watch Right with Nick Wright episode two eighty one,
Speaker 2: and I actually oddly have some Daniel Jones news that
Speaker 2: hasn't been reported elsewhere that somehow came across my desk
Speaker 2: that we will get into momentarily. But for Demons, it's
Speaker 2: the last pod before Thanksgiving, which means for sports media
Speaker 2: consumers across America, you get served up this week some
Speaker 2: of the absolute worst, laziest, most banal content there is,
Speaker 2: which is all you a sweet potato pie or a
Speaker 2: pumpkin pie? Guy, let's draft the side dishes. You know
Speaker 2: what's not great? Turkey nobody eats it except for on
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving all the same. You call it stuffing or what
Speaker 2: do you what do you guys call it? Or dressing?
Speaker 2: What do you do like the So are you you
Speaker 2: eat at one o'clock or four o'clock? When do you
Speaker 2: take your nap? All it has been rinse and repeat
Speaker 2: since the begin since the first sports radio Mike was
Speaker 2: cracked on WFAN forty years ago that people were like,
Speaker 2: you know what America wants During one of the busiest
Speaker 2: sports week of the year college football rivalry games, Thanksgiving Football,
Speaker 2: the NBA is going all of it. You know what
Speaker 2: they want to hear. So you like the cranberry stuffing
Speaker 2: that shaped as a can or the actual authentic Nobody
Speaker 2: wants to hear it, and every I guarant it is terrible.
Speaker 2: It's and you're gonna see it on every pod but
Speaker 2: this one. My tradition is every year during this show,
Speaker 2: making fun of that thematic that exists across the industry.
Speaker 2: Put this on the internet. Please, all right, here's what
Speaker 2: missed the cut. I told you guys, Tommy DeVito was problematic.
Speaker 2: I told you that him and his agent having the
Speaker 2: whole thing be Hey, guess what it's funny that we're
Speaker 2: Italian was gonna come back and bite us, and by
Speaker 2: us I mean US Italians. And now all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield, who I love but is about as waspy
Speaker 2: as it gets, is out there doing the a baison,
Speaker 2: which again a little appropriation. Baker, you're my guy, but
Speaker 2: don't love it. Dallas, are they a playoff contender? Probably not.
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers banned from the show. Did I ban him
Speaker 2: from the show? Maybe? I'm not sure, Okay, I banned
Speaker 2: him from the show. All right, before we get to
Speaker 2: Monday night football demons some news, Yeah, what's going on?
Speaker 2: I don't know if anyone else has, So this is
Speaker 2: impeccably sourced. However, I totally understand if people hear this
Speaker 2: and they're like, what are you kidding me? Like, since Win, Nick,
Speaker 2: are you a newsbreaker? And if you are a newsbreaker,
Speaker 2: since Win doesn't have to do with Daniel Jones. So
Speaker 2: this is just gonna have to be something you guys,
Speaker 2: trust me on or you don't. The it's the information's free.
Speaker 2: So a bunch of teams inquired about Daniel Jones, including
Speaker 2: the Raiders, who not only inquired but basically said like,
Speaker 2: hey man, you can start for us almost immediately because
Speaker 2: Gardner broke his collar bone. He said no, thank you
Speaker 2: to that. And by the way, I think that is
Speaker 2: smart by Daniel Jones. I don't think playing for a
Speaker 2: terrible team, a new game plan, new offense, all of
Speaker 2: that will help him. So he has narrowed it down
Speaker 2: to four teams. All four of these teams would sign him,
Speaker 2: so it truly is his choice. The teams are Baltimore, Miami, Minnesota,
Speaker 2: and San Francisco. Now, from what I understand, there are
Speaker 2: people I guess what's the verbiage people use in his
Speaker 2: camp that want him to go to Baltimore he would
Speaker 2: prefer or is leaning towards San Francisco or Minnesota. That's
Speaker 2: the report, and Miami is there as well as a
Speaker 2: possibility the So that's the reporting. That's the news. And
Speaker 2: if that has been by the way, i'ven't scoured Twitter
Speaker 2: the last ninety minutes. If that has been reported elsewhere,
Speaker 2: then credit to those people. But this is my own.
Speaker 2: You know, about twice a year I put on my
Speaker 2: reporter hat uh and this one I didn't really I
Speaker 2: didn't really even.
Speaker 3: Have basically free huh.
Speaker 2: Correct, it'll be for the league minimum or close to it,
Speaker 2: right for the rest of the year. So the arguments
Speaker 2: for the teams would be quickly. Baltimore would be if
Speaker 2: something were to happen to Lamar a kind of power
Speaker 2: running quarterback offense with Derrick Henry. He knows how to
Speaker 2: run that. The argument for Miami is they almost if
Speaker 2: he comported himself well over the final part of this season,
Speaker 2: they almost assuredly would bring him back next year because
Speaker 2: their backup quarterback situation has been such a disaster. The
Speaker 2: argument for Minnesota is is Sam Donald banged up? Might
Speaker 2: you actually get to play? And even if you don't,
Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell has said great things about him, and we've
Speaker 2: seen what Kevin O'Connell has done for Sam Donald. The
Speaker 2: argument for San Francisco and this is if I were
Speaker 2: talking to Daniel Jones, where I would tell him to
Speaker 2: go is brock Perty shoulder might be messed up.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: There's now reporting he has had two different MRIs. They've
Speaker 2: been very You can never trust the Niners about injuries
Speaker 2: because they told us Christian McCaffrey was probable for Week one,
Speaker 2: then he missed ten weeks and the and the Achilles
Speaker 2: ten tonight has spread from one leg to another like
Speaker 2: a fungus. And so when the Niners are like, ah,
Speaker 2: we're not sure about Purty should be better, he's throwing.
Speaker 2: So I would personally say to Daniel Jones San Francisco, Miami, Minnesota, Baltimore,
Speaker 2: because if I were him, I would want to go
Speaker 2: somewhere with a great offensive minded head coach, legitimate weapons,
Speaker 2: a passable if not better, offensive line, and a chance
Speaker 2: to play. And those three play San Francisco. The quarterback's
Speaker 2: already hurt. Minnesota, the quarter you know they're the Oh.
Speaker 2: The other thing about Minnesota is this real quick before
Speaker 2: I move on. They expect Darnold to get a legitimate,
Speaker 2: real contract from someone next year. They're obviously invested in
Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy, so they Minnesota won't be signing JJ McCarthy,
Speaker 2: but JJ McCarthy will essentially be a rookie coming off
Speaker 2: multiple knee surgeries, so Daniel Jones might be able to
Speaker 2: play for them next season. The argument for Miami is
Speaker 2: kind of a sad one, which is Miami's backup quarterback
Speaker 2: is on alert at all times because of too a situation.
Speaker 2: So I again people in his camp for reasons I
Speaker 2: don't totally understand think Baltimore is the best option. I
Speaker 2: think those other three places are better options. But it's
Speaker 2: gonna be one of those four. San Francisco, Minnesota, Miami, Baltimore.
Speaker 2: And if I end up being wrong, I'm retiring from
Speaker 2: the Daniel Jones beat forever. But I think I've got
Speaker 2: this one buttoned up. Take that Adam Schefter. I don't know,
Speaker 2: got nothing to get shifty, but yeah, so there it is.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: So there's your news off the top of the show.
Speaker 2: Now let's get to the news everyone knows. Monday night football,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 3: So Lamar Jackson balled out against the Chargers last night.
Speaker 3: They came out with a dub. I think they scored
Speaker 3: the most points on that Chargers defense in anybody this season.
Speaker 2: For sure. That Chargers evens was allowing fourteen a game.
Speaker 2: It was the number one scoring defense in football. They
Speaker 2: scored thirty. It was definitely the most Stay've allowed all year.
Speaker 3: Yep, when they're a drop thirty. But somehow I feel
Speaker 3: like you're gonna say this doesn't mean anything. Did this
Speaker 3: game show you anything about Lamar? Do you have any
Speaker 3: thoughts on.
Speaker 2: It well, so I'm not gonna say it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2: It was actually a super important game for Baltimore. So
Speaker 2: here's why it was important. The if Baltimore had lost
Speaker 2: this game, not only would their chances of getting the
Speaker 2: winning the division be hurt, but if they don't win
Speaker 2: the division, their chance of being the top wild card
Speaker 2: would have been crippled. Because if they lose this game,
Speaker 2: and then of course the Chargers win it, the Chargers
Speaker 2: get to eight and three, the Ravens drop to seven
Speaker 2: and five, and the Chargers have the tiebreaker. So the
Speaker 2: Ravens would you know, they have to finish with a
Speaker 2: better record than the Chargers. Why does that matter? Man?
Speaker 2: The difference between the five and the sixth seed is enormous.
Speaker 2: The five seed gets to go to Houston almost assuredly,
Speaker 2: and Houston right now is a wounded animal. The offensive
Speaker 2: line is cooked. CJ. Stroud, Oh, you want to know
Speaker 2: a you want to know a fun little fact, Demonsey
Speaker 2: that's gonna be featured on the television show today. This
Speaker 2: is not the topic. But as far as wanting to
Speaker 2: be the five seed and getting Houston, remember how CJ
Speaker 2: after Week two put his arm around Caleb Williams and
Speaker 2: was like, let me, let me teach you something, young fella.
Speaker 2: Since then CJ Stroud eleven touchdowns, nine picks, an eighty
Speaker 2: three rating, two hundred and thirty eight yards per game.
Speaker 2: Since then, Caleb Williams eleven touchdowns, three picks, a ninety
Speaker 2: two rating, two hundred and thirty two yards per game. Oh,
Speaker 2: has the student become the teacher so fast? My friend
Speaker 2: is either here, okay, I'm just telling you. I'm just
Speaker 2: telling you facts or facts. Maybe maybe you know as
Speaker 2: the as the wise man once set two years one
Speaker 2: mouth for a reason. Maybe a little more listening, a
Speaker 2: little less advice giving, CJ. But that's either here nor there.
Speaker 2: So you want, if you're gonna be a wild card,
Speaker 2: you want to be the five. So at both lost,
Speaker 2: not only would their chance of winning the division be hampered,
Speaker 2: they would their chance of if they don't win the division,
Speaker 2: being the five seed would have been kneecapped. Again, Chargers
Speaker 2: would have been eight and three. They would have been
Speaker 2: seven and five, And the Chargers have the head to
Speaker 2: head and the six seed's a tough spot in the
Speaker 2: AFC because the sixth seed is either going to be
Speaker 2: playing the winner of the AFC East Buffalo or the
Speaker 2: winner of the AFC North, whoever that is. So it
Speaker 2: was a big game, and I don't think folks are
Speaker 2: actually confused by my Lamar Jackson take. I think they're
Speaker 2: frustrated by how accurate it is, so they try to
Speaker 2: argue with me about it. Lamar wins seventy five percent
Speaker 2: of the games in his career. He's a two time MVP.
Speaker 2: His stats are historically great. He does things on the
Speaker 2: football field that maybe no other player has ever done.
Speaker 2: Everyone knows this. He was a road favorite last night
Speaker 2: against an excellent excellence, probably too strong, against a good
Speaker 2: Charger team, and they won convincingly, and no one is
Speaker 2: that surprised, which is why it's so disappointing that in
Speaker 2: not big games, but the biggest spots, he's so consistently bad.
Speaker 2: That's all. It's not that Lamar is like, Oh, he
Speaker 2: only beats the bad teams. He's not Tua. It's not that, oh,
Speaker 2: Lamar can't handle the bright lights. He's not Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2: Nobody thinks that he's a future first ballot Hall of Famer,
Speaker 2: which is why it's so disappointing that against his divisional rival,
Speaker 2: the reigning dynasty, and in the playoffs he's so bad.
Speaker 2: Do I think that's gonna be that way for his
Speaker 2: entire career? Probably not. It kind of was for Peyton Manning.
Speaker 2: Now Peyton won two Super Bowls anyway, but Peyton I
Speaker 2: went through it today, like Peyton's numbers, there's just no
Speaker 2: way around it of how much of a massive drop
Speaker 2: it is regular season to postseason. Dan Marino the same
Speaker 2: way regular season to postseason. And there's two quarterbacks, ever,
Speaker 2: whose numbers get not only better, but significantly better regular
Speaker 2: season to postseason, Patrick Mahomes and Joe Montana. That's it.
Speaker 2: Even Brady's drop a little bit. But Brady had so
Speaker 2: many huge moments. So I just I what is frustrating?
Speaker 2: And Demons, you can tell me if you think I'm
Speaker 2: being unfair here. I thought the best player on the
Speaker 2: Ravens last night was Derrick Henry. I thought he was
Speaker 2: the difference in the game. But it seemed but it
Speaker 2: was close. Lamar had some unbelievable plays. He also pulled
Speaker 2: out his high school touchdown move of where he stopped
Speaker 2: right before the goal line lets the guy run past him. Sick.
Speaker 2: What is frustrating for me is hit the deep ball.
Speaker 2: And by the way, he played well after that first quarter,
Speaker 2: I think he completed two passes like they you know,
Speaker 2: it's not like it was smooth sailing from the beginning.
Speaker 2: It was like, ooh, what's wrong with the Ravens offense?
Speaker 2: And then they got rolling. What is frustrating for me
Speaker 2: and makes it feel like we're not really being consistent narratively,
Speaker 2: is every single time the Ravens win, the talk show
Speaker 2: topic is my god, Lamar is he the MVP? Or
Speaker 2: is he the MVP? And every time they lose, the
Speaker 2: narrative is why didn't they run Derrick Henry Moore? Why
Speaker 2: didn't they run JK Dobvins to the playoff game? More
Speaker 2: That to me is a little frustrating. And so that
Speaker 2: and I and I said going into yesterday's game that
Speaker 2: I thought the Ravens would win and the topic on
Speaker 2: our show would be is Lamar the MVP? And that's
Speaker 2: where we are. And so I people think because I
Speaker 2: refuse to couch my honest opinion, because I'm not actually
Speaker 2: like I think some I'm gonna really get in the
Speaker 2: weeds on this to a degree. I think some media
Speaker 2: folks really want the athletes to like them, when the
Speaker 2: reality is like Lamar Jackson and I are not gonna
Speaker 2: be buddies. Like not that I wouldn't if you know,
Speaker 2: if there was a world in which we happened to,
Speaker 2: you know, across it path socially, I think we'd get
Speaker 2: along great. But we don't. We're like Whether or not
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson thinks I'm a jerk, a great guy, or
Speaker 2: anything has very very very little impact on my life.
Speaker 2: And I'm not rooting against him because I actually find
Speaker 2: him to be one of the most likable players in
Speaker 2: the league. I don't think he's fake at all. I
Speaker 2: think compared to the vast majority of high level quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: it would appear I agree with him on political and
Speaker 2: social issues more than I do most of these guys.
Speaker 2: His teammates adore him. He's an incredibly tough competitor. He
Speaker 2: never he almost never and I think never, intentionally throws
Speaker 2: teammates under the bus. I like the guy, so I'm
Speaker 2: not This isn't like an Aaron Rodgers thing, where there
Speaker 2: I have my criticisms and I also dislike him. I
Speaker 2: I so I'm not rooting for him to fail, but
Speaker 2: I'm also not gonna lie to the audience about what
Speaker 2: I think is a at this moment James Harden and
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge esque trajectory, and so that like, that's where
Speaker 2: it is. And so no, I was not shocked at
Speaker 2: all about last night. You know what I was shocked by.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, you go ahead.
Speaker 3: I was gonna ask if I mean you said this
Speaker 3: is a huge game. La Mark can't win games in
Speaker 3: huge spots, the biggest games. Would you not say this
Speaker 3: is a big game and he won it? Like and
Speaker 3: you say it's not an excellent Chargers team, but it
Speaker 3: isn't excellent.
Speaker 2: It was a very big game. I've seen Lamar win
Speaker 2: big games. It is very very clear. This is what's
Speaker 2: frustrating to me. Folks want my take to be something
Speaker 2: it's not, because if it were something, it's not, it
Speaker 2: might be wrong. Instead, my take is what it is,
Speaker 2: which is correct. It's not that he doesn't I saw
Speaker 2: him beat the Niners on Christmas Day last year. It's
Speaker 2: not that he doesn't win big games. It's that if
Speaker 2: we were power ranking bigness of games, do we all
Speaker 2: agree the number one draft pick for biggest games or
Speaker 2: playoff games? Yes, we do do we all agree the
Speaker 2: number two draft pick for biggest games for an AFC
Speaker 2: contender is when you play the Cheaps, And do we
Speaker 2: all agree that the number three draft pick for biggest
Speaker 2: games when you're the Baltimore Ravens, are your against the Steelers.
Speaker 2: I think objectively we all know that's true. Those are
Speaker 2: the three spots he stinks. In every other scenario, he's
Speaker 2: one of the greatest players ever. That's that's the take. Now,
Speaker 2: folks can say I'm cherry picking, but what I'm cherry
Speaker 2: picking is the three biggest spots he plays in, and
Speaker 2: everyone agrees with that. Playoffs, trying to knock off the
Speaker 2: dynasty and quarterback of the era hated divisional rival. In
Speaker 2: literally any other scenario, he's one of the greatest ever.
Speaker 2: In those scenarios, he's four and twelve with more turnovers
Speaker 2: than touchdowns. So I can't I can't unsee how good
Speaker 2: he is in spots like last night compared to how
Speaker 2: predictably bad he is in those three spots I've laid out,
Speaker 2: And I think the argument folks want to make is
Speaker 2: its coincidence. Okay, I don't think that. Now. What I
Speaker 2: was surprised by is my dear friend Colin Cowherd with
Speaker 2: the subtweet drive by that I'm gonna have to bring
Speaker 2: up on the Herd today. Cowherd tweets, this feels like
Speaker 2: a big game, right, So does this count for Lamar Jackson?
Speaker 2: Just trying to keep track again. People can be intentionally
Speaker 2: obtuse about the take, and I'll talk to Colin about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's uh.
Speaker 3: I mean, I didn't see the tweet, but that was
Speaker 3: exactly what I was thinking. That was exactly what I
Speaker 3: was thinking, did you So?
Speaker 2: Can I tell you how? I how I replied to it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: of course. I quote tweeted it with three pictures. The
Speaker 2: picture was they're all game recaps. The first one was
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge caps huge may By hitting two more home
Speaker 2: runs to lead the Yankees past the Giants. Then one
Speaker 2: from December of twenty three, Joel Embiid scores fifty one
Speaker 2: points as the Sixers beat the Timberwolves one twenty seven,
Speaker 2: one thirteen, and then one from February of twenty one,
Speaker 2: Harden scores thirty eight NAT's rally from twenty four down
Speaker 2: to stun the Suns one twenty eight, one twenty four.
Speaker 2: So I mean I think, sure, the so that just
Speaker 2: you know it is what it is. We can uh
Speaker 2: all right, so we uh, I know.
Speaker 3: You basically touched on the Lamar. Yeah, so how does
Speaker 3: anybody support Justin Herbert and he hasn't won anything? Lamar
Speaker 3: Jackson obviously has the two MVPs. Herbert can't get over there.
Speaker 2: I don't listen. Danny is the only Danny Parkins the
Speaker 2: only person that I know of that thinks Justin Herbert
Speaker 2: is better than Lamar. I mean, I don't again, like
Speaker 2: when people like, how does anyone still support him? Like
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert is obviously a good player, but he's not
Speaker 2: an all time great, he's not a legend, he's not
Speaker 2: an MVP, and in order for him to move up
Speaker 2: those ranks, he's got to win some big games and
Speaker 2: play good in some big spots. So I think that
Speaker 2: I actually think the general Justin Herbert opinion is the
Speaker 2: correct one. He's obviously a very talented quarterback who up
Speaker 2: to this point in his career has at least slightly underachieved.
Speaker 2: There that can be blamed purely on coaching. I don't
Speaker 2: think that's fair to blame it purely on coaching. He
Speaker 2: hasn't played his best ball in the biggest spots. The
Speaker 2: two biggest games of his career the winning your in
Speaker 2: game against the Raiders in Week eighteen a few years ago,
Speaker 2: and then the second half of the playoff game against Trevor.
Speaker 2: Those obviously were not his finest moments. And this year's
Speaker 2: a big year for him because he's got a great
Speaker 2: defense and a great head coach. So I think that
Speaker 2: that is the I think most people's Justin Herbert opinion is,
Speaker 2: you know, within the bounds of that. I think the
Speaker 2: people who think Tua is better than him are out
Speaker 2: of their mind. And I think the people that think
Speaker 2: he's better than Joe Burrow or out of their minds.
Speaker 2: Like I think, you know what I mean, He's he's
Speaker 2: right there. Like what is if we wanted to have
Speaker 2: an actually interesting Justin Herbert conversation, the Justin Herbert, who
Speaker 2: who would you rather have? Comp the best one actually
Speaker 2: demands or the most interesting one is Jalen Hurts. And
Speaker 2: the reason I say that is Jalen Hurts has the
Speaker 2: playoff wins, the far better regular season record, the best
Speaker 2: individual season any of them have had is his, you know,
Speaker 2: his near MVP or a couple of years ago, all
Speaker 2: of that, and I think there's a lot of people
Speaker 2: my hands up as well, that would say, yeah, I
Speaker 2: still probably think Justin Herbert's better. So that's like a
Speaker 2: that's a that's about like eye test weapons, all, you know,
Speaker 2: these different things. But that's a fair that's a fair discussion.
Speaker 2: But I don't think many people are putting Justin Herbert
Speaker 2: in Lamar's class. And I don't think many people are
Speaker 2: putting Justin Herbert in the Kirk Cousins Tua class. I
Speaker 2: think most people have a fair reading of Herbert. All right,
Speaker 2: let's move on to the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so another week, another close call for your Chiefs,
Speaker 3: except this time it was against the Panthers. You guys
Speaker 3: won by three points. You almost called this one exactly.
Speaker 3: You said it'd be a four point victory for the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: After the game, Mahomes said, you want to have some blowouts.
Speaker 3: I would love to win a game before the very
Speaker 3: last play. So even Mahomes sounds a little worried that
Speaker 3: they can't jump up on these teams, you seem to
Speaker 3: not be worried about it. Is there something there?
Speaker 2: Well? I don't think he's worried. I think so. Wilds
Speaker 2: also said he was worried. I disagree with that. I
Speaker 2: think he's maybe a little annoyed. I don't think he's worried. No,
Speaker 2: I mean this, there was a great tweet that I
Speaker 2: wish I could give credit to who wrote it, but
Speaker 2: it's exactly correct, and it was so well worded and
Speaker 2: so fun, and it said, I don't care if you're
Speaker 2: the best team in the NFL, an average NFL team,
Speaker 2: an awful NFL team, a college team, or just your
Speaker 2: local high school football team. There isn't a single team
Speaker 2: in the world the Kansas City Chiefs can't beat by
Speaker 2: exactly three points. And I was like, yeah, that's right, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's uh, that's exactly right. And it doesn't like the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl against the Niners, Beacha by three, game against
Speaker 2: the Panthers with Bryce Young comeback, Beacha by three, and
Speaker 2: so I have we have growing, growing evidence that when
Speaker 2: the Chiefs need to score, they score, as evidenced by
Speaker 2: the fact that it's not even a story that once
Speaker 2: again Mahomes gets the ball with a minute left and
Speaker 2: did every just did everyone expect them to immediately drive
Speaker 2: down the field and score or just me. Oh wait,
Speaker 2: everybody did they? I I can only say this so
Speaker 2: many Now, the defense the last two weeks has played
Speaker 2: the two worst games it's played in two years. So
Speaker 2: that needs to tighten up. Like there's they allowed thirty
Speaker 2: and twenty seven. That's the most and second most points
Speaker 2: they've allowed in two years, and it's in consecutive weeks.
Speaker 2: Against the Bills, you can say you're playing a great offense. Fine,
Speaker 2: against the Panthers, it's not a great game.
Speaker 3: But I.
Speaker 2: No. So here's the thing that compared to whom do
Speaker 2: I think the Chiefs are clearly head and shoulders the
Speaker 2: best team in the league. Yeah, So what would I
Speaker 2: be worried about? Like, I just it is so much
Speaker 2: of the Chiefs concern trolling is based on in order
Speaker 2: to be concerned, people need to pretend things that didn't
Speaker 2: happen did happen. So like, oh, I would be really
Speaker 2: worried that Mahomes isn't gonna be the same player without
Speaker 2: Tyreek Kill if he hadn't won League MVP the first
Speaker 2: year without him. Oh, when they're kind of struggling and
Speaker 2: not really struggling. They have the best record in the NFL,
Speaker 2: but not wildly impressive in the regular season. I'd be
Speaker 2: really worried about that if they hadn't been ten times
Speaker 2: worst last regular season and won the Super Bowl. Oh,
Speaker 2: they're playing all these close games against some mediocre teams.
Speaker 2: I'd be really worried about that if they didn't always
Speaker 2: literally win like people want them to have lost one
Speaker 2: of these games, haven't now Listen, Buffalo is not Nobody
Speaker 2: thought they played some terrible game in Buffalo. People like, hey,
Speaker 2: Buffalo played a great game and beat them. That's another
Speaker 2: excellent team. That's not what we're talking about talking about. Whah,
Speaker 2: my goodness. Why did they almost lose to Denver but
Speaker 2: they didn't. Why did they almost lose to Atlanta but
Speaker 2: they didn't. Why did they almost lose to Cincinnati but
Speaker 2: they didn't? And this, this Panthers game, is what I
Speaker 2: would call demon's a fake close. And by fake close,
Speaker 2: I mean this And this is a good just barometer
Speaker 2: for any football game. Does the other team ever in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter in this in the Panthers game, it
Speaker 2: would applied to the second half. It's called it fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: Do they ever have the ball with a chance to
Speaker 2: take the lead? So, is there ever a time that
Speaker 2: the Panthers had the football where it's like, oh, if
Speaker 2: they score a touchdown here they take the lead, and
Speaker 2: they answer that question was no, not for the entire
Speaker 2: second half. It was like the AFC Championship game against Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Baltimore never once had the ball with a chance to
Speaker 2: take the lead. So even if the final score is closed,
Speaker 2: it's kind of fake close. You have the team at
Speaker 2: arms distance the whole way, and I'm just I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna listen to people saying here is how a team
Speaker 2: going for a three peat is supposed to look. The
Speaker 2: Patriots were last team to try to go for a
Speaker 2: three peat. They went ten and six that year. It
Speaker 2: was the worst regular season Brady had in twenty years. Okay,
Speaker 2: the only team to come close to a three peat
Speaker 2: the nineteen ninety San Francisco forty nine ers. They also
Speaker 2: started ten to one. They all they middle of their season,
Speaker 2: they had a field goal at the gun victory over
Speaker 2: a three win team. They went four fourteen and two.
Speaker 2: Seven of their wins were by four or fewer points.
Speaker 2: There is no precedent for what the Chiefs are trying
Speaker 2: to do, and they are discussed as if they haven't
Speaker 2: simultaneously had one of the hardest schedules in football while
Speaker 2: having the best record in football. They have beaten playoff
Speaker 2: teams Chargers, Broncos, Ravens, Falcons. Only one team in the
Speaker 2: league has more victories over playoff teams. No team in
Speaker 2: the league has fewer losses. And so no, I'm just
Speaker 2: I am And if there was any concern early, it
Speaker 2: was like, what's up with Mahomes and riddle me this
Speaker 2: since they acquired DeAndre Hopkins twelve touchdowns, three picks, a
Speaker 2: one zero three rating, one of the best quarterbacks in
Speaker 2: football immediately again, and they're not even playing DeAndre that much.
Speaker 2: That's the other reason that the Chiefs are just playing
Speaker 2: by a different a different game than everyone else. The
Speaker 2: Chiefs traded Demands a fifth round pick for DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 2: That turns into a fourth round pick if he plays
Speaker 2: sixty percent of the snaps and they make the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: So you know what the Chiefs are not doing playing
Speaker 2: DeAndre Hopkins sixty percent of the snaps. He had fewer
Speaker 2: snaps than Justin Watson this week. Anybody think Justin Watson's
Speaker 2: better than DeAndre Hopkins or with the Chiefs, like, let's
Speaker 2: keep his snap count down. They are wild. Yeah, they
Speaker 2: just added a left tackle. They're getting Pachecko back. They're
Speaker 2: gonna get Hollywood Brown before Christmas. They're getting Charles a.
Speaker 2: Minahu back. They're gonna have the best team up that
Speaker 2: they've had all year in December. They have the best
Speaker 2: record in football they've had. They've already gone through the
Speaker 2: tough part of their schedule.
Speaker 3: Now, with all that said, oh go ahead, Sorry, yeah,
Speaker 3: because I tell you the can.
Speaker 2: No and then and then you go ahead. With all
Speaker 2: that said, I'm very, very excited for on Black Friday,
Speaker 2: Aid and O'Connell to have the Raiders tied at halftime.
Speaker 2: I can't wait for it. I really can't wait for it.
Speaker 2: But what were you about to say go ahead?
Speaker 3: I think what kills people? What kills people about your
Speaker 3: chiefs taken? You're not worried this, that and the third?
Speaker 3: You always say there's this gear that they can tap
Speaker 3: into when it just doesn't seem like I get they're
Speaker 3: winning the games, but do they truly have control? I
Speaker 3: think there has to be something said about them not
Speaker 3: having the ability to do it and to not blow
Speaker 3: or not be in a close game with the Panthers
Speaker 3: at the end, Like it's.
Speaker 2: Like, go on, why I just listen. I until the NFL,
Speaker 2: and I haven't checked. I know they changed the kickoff
Speaker 2: rules until they changed to where margin of victory matters
Speaker 2: like it's used to in college football. I don't know
Speaker 2: what the fuck people are talking about like that. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just they And if people question do they have
Speaker 2: an extra gear? I don't know. Man, how much time
Speaker 2: was left when they got the people like, people can
Speaker 2: question it, but the proof is in the putting of
Speaker 2: whenever they have to score, they score. They got the
Speaker 2: ball back with a minute and a half left, and
Speaker 2: guess what, Oh my goodness, mahomes, you mean that scramble
Speaker 2: was there the whole game? Like people think these things
Speaker 2: are coincidence, like Chris Jones all of his sacks coming
Speaker 2: in high leverage spots or in the fourth quarter, or
Speaker 2: it does one of the greatest players ever. Understand all
Speaker 2: sacks are not created equal. And if I'm playing this
Speaker 2: right tackle or left guard in the first quarter and
Speaker 2: I see, oh, I can beat him on this move
Speaker 2: and then he'll adjust, I'm gonna wait and let him
Speaker 2: think he's got me. Clyde Fraser used to say that
Speaker 2: he would if he saw the guy he was guarding
Speaker 2: had a ball handling weakness, he wouldn't exploit it early
Speaker 2: because then the guy would adjust and then in a
Speaker 2: high leverage spot, he wouldn't be able to go get
Speaker 2: the steal. You guys think it's just coincidence that every
Speaker 2: great Mahomes run you've ever seen comes in the fourth
Speaker 2: quarter or on fourth down or on a critical third down,
Speaker 2: or does he see it available and say, might not
Speaker 2: need it, but if I do, I'm not wasting it
Speaker 2: here that every Chris Jones play. I said going into
Speaker 2: this week's game, my assumed stat line for Chris Jones
Speaker 2: against the Panthers with zero tackle, zero sex. You know what,
Speaker 2: he finished with zero tackle, zero sex. The other thing
Speaker 2: is this when you're every year you're playing a twenty
Speaker 2: game season and everyone else is planning for a seventeen
Speaker 2: or eighteen game season. It's different. And so what actually
Speaker 2: annoys people demands about my Chiefs take is last year,
Speaker 2: because last year they actually lost games, and last year
Speaker 2: they actually had problems, and last year they actually had
Speaker 2: to go on the road, and last year the Bills
Speaker 2: were red hot, the Ravens were the best Ravens team
Speaker 2: of the lamar Era, and the Niners had a top defense,
Speaker 2: top offense, almost MVP at quarterback check check check. And
Speaker 2: so what annoys people is that last year I was
Speaker 2: confident they had another gear and I was right, And
Speaker 2: this year people are like, why isn't the team that's
Speaker 2: ten to one better? And I think they're dumb. That's
Speaker 2: the answer to those questions. Next. Oh, and by the way,
Speaker 2: Bryce played well. Bryce played well. Good for him, he
Speaker 2: made some high level throws, and I listen, I hope
Speaker 2: that he can. You know my take on Bryce, it
Speaker 2: is too small, but everybody loves him, so I hope
Speaker 2: that he can, uh, you know, build something right.
Speaker 3: Next, So you are no longer an NFC bachelor. You
Speaker 3: settled down with the Eagles. They got that doub over
Speaker 3: the Rams. But love is blinded you to come out
Speaker 3: and say that Saquon Barkley should be the front runner
Speaker 3: for MVP. Is that real love? Or are you just
Speaker 3: fading Josh Allen on the MVP.
Speaker 2: No, I listen, I right now, I think the MVP
Speaker 2: should go like this. I think is here. I think
Speaker 2: Josh is right on his heels beneath him. Here and
Speaker 2: then I think there is a massive gap. I I
Speaker 2: don't know who would be third. You could make an
Speaker 2: argument for golf. You can make an argument for Derrick
Speaker 2: Henry people, or you can make an argument for Lamar
Speaker 2: No the you can make an argument is there anybody
Speaker 2: else the there's one other person that I had just
Speaker 2: said that I'm forgetting. But regardless like those are, you
Speaker 2: can maybe sneaky make an argument somewhere on your ballot
Speaker 2: for TJ. Watt for carrying that. You know the Steelers
Speaker 2: where they are, so those are the but I am
Speaker 2: not I'm not anti Josh. This year is I think evidence.
Speaker 2: I just think Saquon, who I was dead wrong about,
Speaker 2: is having a historic, all time great season. And this
Speaker 2: Eagles team right now is really scary. Vic Fangio did
Speaker 2: turn that defense around. So now you have an offense
Speaker 2: that was good last year that until it all fell apart,
Speaker 2: that's way better because of Saquon. You then have the
Speaker 2: f defense and those rookie secondary guys in Quinn and
Speaker 2: Mitchell and Cooper Dejen playing great, and man oh man,
Speaker 2: that's a scary team.
Speaker 3: Keeps again in the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: That's my pick right now. So here's The other thing
Speaker 2: that nobody that I tried to get into yesterday that
Speaker 2: I just think warrants. I just want to remind the
Speaker 2: audience here is what the Eagles have going for him.
Speaker 2: Their floor of a seed is at this point, Demond's
Speaker 2: the two seed. Like the NFC West in NFC South
Speaker 2: Division winner is not gonna have a great record, and
Speaker 2: with Washington having fallen apart, they are going to win
Speaker 2: that division, so it might be tough for them to
Speaker 2: get the one, but they can't fall past the two.
Speaker 2: Detroit is in a different spot because right now Detroit
Speaker 2: is the favorite for the one, and they should be,
Speaker 2: but Minnesota is one game behind them and plays them
Speaker 2: in the final game of the year. If Minnesota were
Speaker 2: to catch them, Detroit falls to the five seed. So
Speaker 2: like Detroit probably will be the one, but pretty easily
Speaker 2: could if they just slip up for two games go
Speaker 2: all the way to the five. And Jared Goff's road
Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl being by Dome game, Dome game
Speaker 2: versus what it would potentially be, which is no bye
Speaker 2: on the road, you know, in lost, you know whoever
Speaker 2: wins the NFC West and then on the road in Philly.
Speaker 2: That's a and just to get to the NFC title game.
Speaker 2: That's a different story. And so Detroit has looked awesome,
Speaker 2: but Minnesota staying right on their heels at nine and
Speaker 2: two makes Detroit a little more tenuous, while Philly has
Speaker 2: no one on their heels because Washington's falling apart. So
Speaker 2: I just think that that's another reason I like where
Speaker 2: Philly is.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, pal, Oh yeah, So on TV, you were
Speaker 3: a jersey an Eagles jersey. Yeah, you just said something
Speaker 3: weeks ago about not wearing jerseys as an adult. Yeah,
Speaker 3: your job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a performer. Yeah. I also don't believe in
Speaker 2: wearing you know, like fat suits and fake noses. But
Speaker 2: I don't mind Colin Ferrell on the Penguin doing it.
Speaker 2: He's playing a character. I mean, what are we talking about? Yes,
Speaker 2: I was. I didn't wear that walking the streets of
Speaker 2: New York.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 2: I was playing a role on television which was really
Speaker 2: trying to bother Brew and it worked because Bruce Bean
Speaker 2: Eagles guy, Bruce Bean, the Saquon guy. But all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, I'm wearing a set one jersey and I'm
Speaker 2: picking them to go to the Super Bowl. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean this is like the well, except he picked
Speaker 2: the Packers to win the super Bowl and you're to
Speaker 2: go to the super Bowl and he's not coming off it.
Speaker 2: So I mean, he maybe had the foresight, but he
Speaker 2: left that corner unguarded, and I came and snatched it
Speaker 2: up from him. All right, let's talk a little CJ.
Speaker 2: Stroud and some Thanksgiving bets. Take quick break, come back,
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Speaker 2: let's talk a little CJ. Stroud before we get some
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving bets the folks have cooked up for us. Also,
Speaker 2: by the way, uh, we're gonna we've got to submit,
Speaker 2: Demonse before tomorrow evening, our picks for this week and
Speaker 2: your teaser. So I went four and one on the
Speaker 2: Gambling Show by the way back above five hundred. Uh.
Speaker 2: Demonse's teaser fell a little short. That's okay, it happens
Speaker 2: both legs, one truly awful leg and one barely right.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs were the barely half point. Yeah, and then yeah,
Speaker 2: it's I mean pretty much. I mean yeah, the Dolphins
Speaker 2: got passed. I mean they they're just cooked there the Patriots.
Speaker 2: So I was when I saw I remembered that you
Speaker 2: had the Chiefs minus three and a half, and it
Speaker 2: made me because I didn't remember what the other leg
Speaker 2: of your teaser was.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 2: Hoping when I checked the document that it had lost
Speaker 2: because I didn't want the Chiefs to have cost you
Speaker 2: by yeah, because they especially Oh but hey man, yeah,
Speaker 2: if only someone who told you it was gonna be
Speaker 2: a three or four point game. All right, let's go ahead,
Speaker 2: let's do CJ. Stroud.
Speaker 3: So we hit on CJ slump a little bit earlier. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: he's had a rough month without Nico Collins. New cons
Speaker 3: is back, but he's in the AFC South, so he's
Speaker 3: got a little bit of a cushion there. But before
Speaker 3: the year, we had talked about green Bay and Houston,
Speaker 3: in which team we thought was more likely to take
Speaker 3: a step back or digress. You bought staking the Texans
Speaker 3: and faded the Packers, who are now eight and three.
Speaker 3: Do you regret your choice or do you think that
Speaker 3: people are reading into the the CJ slump too deeply
Speaker 3: right now?
Speaker 2: No, I mean I think it's a real thing. I
Speaker 2: I think that he's not playing great. He almost went
Speaker 2: fuller lofski in the end zone run out the back.
Speaker 2: He was lucky he got tackled because he was gonna
Speaker 2: run out on his own, and the tackle made it
Speaker 2: less embarrassing. Also, the offensive line's been brutal. I also
Speaker 2: don't think the Packers are quite as good as their
Speaker 2: eight and three records suggests. I think they're good, but
Speaker 2: I don't think they are I don't think that the
Speaker 2: Packers feel great about their last few weeks of football,
Speaker 2: so like, obviously they feel great about the way they
Speaker 2: annihilated the Niners, but the previous week they needed the
Speaker 2: block field goal against the Bears. The Lions beat him
Speaker 2: pretty soundly. The Jags game was super close, the Texans
Speaker 2: game is super close, So I think they are maybe
Speaker 2: a little shake year, and it's because Jordan Love hasn't
Speaker 2: played quite to the level he played last year. So
Speaker 2: I just thought it was people were. I thought super
Speaker 2: Bowl for either of these teams was premature. Now, I
Speaker 2: thought the Packers could missed the playoffs because I thought
Speaker 2: the Bears were gonna be a playoff team in that division.
Speaker 2: That obviously was wrong. You look confused, Monty.
Speaker 3: I mean, put, Ye're talking about people that picked the
Speaker 3: Texans in Green Bay to go to the super Bowl,
Speaker 3: where premature. I mean you picked the Bears.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, well I was wrong about the Bears, I
Speaker 2: mean the I mean, what what what what do you mean?
Speaker 3: No? I was just like all right, yeah, no, I'm
Speaker 3: sorry that the tone I got confused. My apologies.
Speaker 2: No, I'm saying that I'm trying. Actually, I don't think
Speaker 2: that the Packers or the Texans have like massively regressed.
Speaker 2: I think they're very similar to the actual Caliar teams
Speaker 2: they were last year. I just think because they both
Speaker 2: won a playoff game in impressive fashion, they people thought
Speaker 2: they were maybe gonna be a little ahead of the schedule.
Speaker 2: They're actually on That's the only point that I'm making.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying like it was a ridiculous, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, I'm just I'm just saying that if if
Speaker 2: you're judging either of these teams based on the they're disappointing.
Speaker 2: If they're not a Super Bowl contender standard I gotta
Speaker 2: kill this mosquito, then you're disappointed. If you're judging them
Speaker 2: based on you know, they were on this great trajectory.
Speaker 2: Did they level off a bit? But there are they?
Speaker 2: Do you still feel good about them? Then it's different. Listen,
Speaker 2: the Texan's got to clean a lot of things up,
Speaker 2: and they need to spend some real resources on an
Speaker 2: offensive line that's been a disaster this year. That's been
Speaker 2: their biggest problem is their offensive line, and it's led
Speaker 2: to some of CJ's skittishness. If you will, all right,
Speaker 2: let's do the Thanksgiving uh whatever Thanksgiving game we're doing here.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, So much like at the Thanksgiving table, there
Speaker 3: isn't enough room on your plate for every dish, So
Speaker 3: we're gonna pass around some dishes aka bets, and you
Speaker 3: saw what you want to put on your plate? Plate one?
Speaker 3: Bet one, We've got a Caleb Williams props over two
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty nine and a half pass yards at
Speaker 3: minus one fifteen or over twenty nine and a half
Speaker 3: rush yards at minus one fifteen.
Speaker 2: Listen, I I actually would I like both of these
Speaker 2: because he is running the ball more and I think, listen,
Speaker 2: I think Chicago's gonna have to throw a lot. They're
Speaker 2: playing Detroit on Thanksgiving. Detroit's gonna put up some points,
Speaker 2: and so I wouldn't even mind parlaying these two. If
Speaker 2: if I had to pick just one, I guess I
Speaker 2: would probably pick the rushing yards. But I think he
Speaker 2: could have a big statistical game. But that you expect
Speaker 2: the Bears obviously to lose, all right.
Speaker 3: Next bet two nap time New York Dallas. Either team
Speaker 3: to score three unanswered times. Yes at minus one sixty
Speaker 3: five and No at plus one twenty five.
Speaker 2: So the three straight scores bet. That's always seem like
Speaker 2: NO should be the favorite, and Yes is always the
Speaker 2: favorite because it happens more often than people think. I
Speaker 2: actually would go with No on this one because I
Speaker 2: just think this is gonna be a lot of punts
Speaker 2: and quick drives, because both I know the Cowboys offense
Speaker 2: look good this week, but Tommy DeVito Cooper rush is
Speaker 2: not exactly gonna be a scoring bonanza. And by the way,
Speaker 2: the Kleeb thing, I can get plus two fifty if
Speaker 2: I parlay them both it's not the greatest odds in
Speaker 2: the world. That's fine, but go ahead.
Speaker 3: Bet three werecalling this one fading two in the cold
Speaker 3: got two at under two and forty one and a
Speaker 3: half yards and under one and a half touchdowns at
Speaker 3: plus one fifty.
Speaker 2: So I would I'm not gonna do the under tds.
Speaker 2: I would do the underyards. Here's what I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: about two in the cold. It is up to Mike
Speaker 2: McDaniel to set the standard that it's gonna not bother
Speaker 2: his team. So Mike McDaniel can't be bundled up like
Speaker 2: a snowman. Mike McDaniel's gotta gotta set the tone, and
Speaker 2: in that Chiefs playoff game, he looked so miserable that
Speaker 2: it set a tone for his team that the weather's
Speaker 2: going to be an excuse and he needs to set
Speaker 2: a different tone here. So I know that sounds crazy,
Speaker 2: but there was a real difference between Andy Reid wearing
Speaker 2: just his regular winter clothes, even though he had literal
Speaker 2: icicles forming on his mustache in that playoff game, and
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel looking like he wanted to be anywhere other
Speaker 2: than where he was. Now, I understand that was one
Speaker 2: of the coldest games ever, I understand. And Andy Reid's
Speaker 2: got more natural I get it, I understand, But it's
Speaker 2: still he needs to It's such a thing for his
Speaker 2: team that he has to shake no pun intended the
Speaker 2: snow globe a bit here, all right, Let's do a
Speaker 2: couple of these other special bets from DraftKings. See if
Speaker 2: I like any of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Lamb Cutlets Ceedee Lamb and Tommy DeVito to combine
Speaker 3: for four hundred plus passing, receiving and rushing yards at
Speaker 3: plus three fifty.
Speaker 2: I hate that bet. I hate it.
Speaker 3: I hate it. I hate it.
Speaker 2: I will not be a part of that bet. So
Speaker 2: what would that mean that? Let's say Ceedee Lamb has
Speaker 2: a monster game, he has one hundred and fifty yards.
Speaker 2: I need two hundred and fifty yards from Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 3: No thanks, Next, invite the neighbors mylik neighbors to have
Speaker 3: two plus receptions in each quarter at plus twenty two hundred.
Speaker 2: Hey, no, I don't like that bet, I either like Again,
Speaker 2: that's relying too much of it there, Tommy DeVito. And also,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say something. I'm gonna give an old man
Speaker 2: take real quick, Malik Neighbors is too young to already
Speaker 2: be a deva wide Receiverlik the Molik Neighbors can't be
Speaker 2: lighten his coach up, lighten his quarterback up. You've been
Speaker 2: in a league a dozen games. I think he's gonna
Speaker 2: be a great player, and I think he's excellent. I
Speaker 2: understand his frustration, but that is also a cultural problem
Speaker 2: for the Giants that they that he thinks that's allowed. Like, sorry, man,
Speaker 2: you're you're you haven't yet done, and you I understand,
Speaker 2: Like diva wide receiver is almost like something that's just
Speaker 2: totally accepted and we're fine with it. You're not Jamar
Speaker 2: Chase yet. Bro, You're just not And the your your
Speaker 2: teammates weren't lighting you up whenning I think it was
Speaker 2: Game two, you dropped a pass that would ice the
Speaker 2: game and they lost. Like you got It's too early,
Speaker 2: too early in your career for that, in my opinion.
Speaker 3: All right, Next, the meat sweats Montes sweat to have
Speaker 3: two plus x plus eight.
Speaker 2: Hundred at eight to one. I'll take a little taste
Speaker 2: at that. I don't mind that. See if the see
Speaker 2: if you can get a Lion's got a great offensive line.
Speaker 2: But see if Montes Sweat can get going. I don't
Speaker 2: mind that one, but go ahead.
Speaker 3: Uh for Black Friday Raiders Chiefs, will the team that
Speaker 3: scores last win the game? Yes? At minus two eighty
Speaker 3: five and no at plus two oh five?
Speaker 2: I mean I would, I I know, I'm not interested
Speaker 2: in that bet, Like that's to me, that's I guess
Speaker 2: I if I know there's two from minus two eighty
Speaker 2: to plus two five. No, yeah, no, no, no, I'm
Speaker 2: not interested in that bet. All right, real quick, let's
Speaker 2: play this game because then I got a run. We'll
Speaker 2: do some listener questions too, but we're gonna roll through
Speaker 2: this demanse.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So we're deep enough into the seasons to know
Speaker 3: how teams, how good teams really are aren't but there
Speaker 3: are still a few mysteries out there. What is the
Speaker 3: biggest question mark you still have for each of these contenders?
Speaker 3: First off, Lamar is in the thick of the MVP
Speaker 3: discussion still, but even at eight and four, Baltimore shown
Speaker 3: there is shaky at times. What is the biggest question
Speaker 3: still facing the Ravens.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, I don't We've talked enough about Lamar. The
Speaker 2: biggest question is for the Ravens is the defense that
Speaker 2: showed up last night gonna be their real defense, because
Speaker 2: if it is, they got a fighting chance. Like the
Speaker 2: defense have been brutal last night, the defense showed some
Speaker 2: real fight even without Rokwan Smith, so that was a
Speaker 2: very positive sign.
Speaker 3: Next h San Francisco is now plus four hundred to
Speaker 3: make the playoffs. It's crazy, but they're only a game
Speaker 3: back in the crowded West. Answering a big question or
Speaker 3: two could turn things around for them. But what is
Speaker 3: the big question still facing the Niners? Well?
Speaker 2: How healthy is Party? And then the other the big
Speaker 2: question is if they missed the playoffs, do they pay
Speaker 2: Party this offseason or do they wait? You is unsurprisingly no,
Speaker 2: I would wait and see what he looks like next year,
Speaker 2: see if we you know, if he looks more like
Speaker 2: this year or more like he did last season. And
Speaker 2: the reason that their playoff odds are so bad is
Speaker 2: because they're in such a bad shape from divisional tiebreakers.
Speaker 2: Is if they are tied with any team atop the division,
Speaker 2: they're gonna lose that tie breaker. So they need to
Speaker 2: finish with the best record with nobody having the same record,
Speaker 2: and that's gonna be tough for them, especially with the
Speaker 2: schedule they have. I mean they have a game against
Speaker 2: Buffalo coming up this weekend next.
Speaker 3: The Yeah, so the forty nine Ers are the only
Speaker 3: struggling team in the ANFC West. The Rams are in
Speaker 3: the same boat after falling apart on Sunday night versus
Speaker 3: the Eagles. What is the big question still facing the Rams?
Speaker 2: I mean, can they have a second half the way
Speaker 2: they did last year? Terrible open to the season last year,
Speaker 2: then we're red hot going in the playoffs. I still
Speaker 2: want to believe in the Rams because I believe in
Speaker 2: Stafford so much. But they're digging themselves quite the hole.
Speaker 2: And it's not just that they lost to Philly. It's
Speaker 2: that they you know, they let go of the rope
Speaker 2: and let Saquon kill them next.
Speaker 3: Washington has gone from being the eighteen to falling apart
Speaker 3: over the last month. On this past week, they even
Speaker 3: blew it to to the tanking Cowboys by missing the
Speaker 3: point I'm sorry, the extra point. Yeah. What is the
Speaker 3: big question still facing the Commanders?
Speaker 2: I mean, how close are they to bottom? Because they
Speaker 2: should still make the playoffs and their next two are
Speaker 2: the Titans and the Saints, and the Saints are after
Speaker 2: a bye, so they should be able to steady themselves.
Speaker 2: But if they lose against the Titans and they go
Speaker 2: into the bye at seven and six after starting seven
Speaker 2: and two, then could be real trouble. And also Jaden
Speaker 2: could lose Rookie of the Year to bow Nicks. So
Speaker 2: there's that piece of it as well.
Speaker 3: All right, next, Uh you one time NFC sweetheart pairs
Speaker 3: have collapsed with many left pointing the finger at Caleb
Speaker 3: Williams Chicago. Isn't the continder you thought they were? We
Speaker 3: expect them to clean the house. So what do they
Speaker 3: then do? What is the biggest question still facing the
Speaker 3: Bears going forward?
Speaker 2: Uh? Who's gonna be their next head coach? And that's
Speaker 2: the only question that really matters because ebra Flus is
Speaker 2: gonna get fired And can they probably Ben Johnson away
Speaker 2: from the Lions, weaken the Lions and make themselves better?
Speaker 2: That's that's the big question. Like that to me is
Speaker 2: no question that that is their single biggest question. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break, right back? What's right?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's right with Nick right Demansey, Let's
Speaker 2: answer a few listener questions.
Speaker 3: Scott Murphy, should the NBA try to encroach on Thanksgiving,
Speaker 3: like the NFL is done with Christmas. There's always at
Speaker 3: least one bad game that they could have potentially steal
Speaker 3: viewers from.
Speaker 2: I No, I don't. I don't think that would be
Speaker 2: a good idea. I think that would be a big
Speaker 2: owl for the NBA. And listen, the NFL is just
Speaker 2: taking people's corners. There's nothing you can really do about it.
Speaker 2: So no, I don't. I don't think that they should
Speaker 2: uh try to encroach on Thanksgiving. I think it's smart
Speaker 2: to not try to start a fight they can't win.
Speaker 3: Next Alex Magley despite the poor coaching from Tomlin and
Speaker 3: Arthur Smith against Cleveland, do you see the Steelers as
Speaker 3: a potential opponent for the Chiefs or Bills in the
Speaker 3: AFC Championship game?
Speaker 2: Listen, I don't. I don't think the Steelers can be
Speaker 2: dismissed because every game is gonna be close. And listen,
Speaker 2: the Steelers are gonna play a low scoring, close game
Speaker 2: against the worst teams in the league, the best teams
Speaker 2: in the league, and the mediocre teams, and TJ. Watt
Speaker 2: can wrect games. Listen. I find this steel I think,
Speaker 2: But I think Kansity is clearly the best. I think
Speaker 2: Buffalo is clearly the biggest threat. But I put the
Speaker 2: Steelers on the same level as the Ravens and the
Speaker 2: Chargers though as like, I don't think they're worse than
Speaker 2: those teams personally. All right, next.
Speaker 3: Travis Rodgers. What does Jared Goff need to do to
Speaker 3: win win MVP? Keep maintaining and hope the others slip.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, yeah, he has to maintain and I think
Speaker 2: he does need Josh Allen to slip up quite a bit.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, because the MVP has become something you
Speaker 2: know what, I'm gonna amend my answer. He probably what
Speaker 2: he needs to do to win MVP because I don't
Speaker 2: think they're gonna give it to a running back. Maybe
Speaker 2: they will, but it's been a dozen years. They play
Speaker 2: the Bills on national TV in three weeks December fifteenth,
Speaker 2: the and if they win that game, honestly, it'll probably
Speaker 2: be Jared Goff's award, Like that's just kind of how
Speaker 2: this goes. And so they play the Bills. If he
Speaker 2: plays well in the win that game, I think he
Speaker 2: can win MVP. I don't love that. It just kind
Speaker 2: of like, oh, they played late and this guy won,
Speaker 2: but that's how the voting went last year, and so
Speaker 2: it might go like that again. All right, last one, WX.
Speaker 3: You always criticize Siriani, but to quote you, I don't
Speaker 3: believe in quarterback wins, but I do believe in coaching wins.
Speaker 3: In quote, why won't you give him credit for how
Speaker 3: much he's won?
Speaker 2: Listen, it's a good argument. I always say wins are
Speaker 2: a coaching stat and he's one of the winning as
Speaker 2: coaches ever, so that is a great argument using my
Speaker 2: own definitions against me. So well done, sir. The answer
Speaker 2: that question is I just don't think he's very good.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, like I I think, I just don't think
Speaker 2: he's very good. But you're right, by the way I
Speaker 2: judge coaches, I should think he's excellent. I just don't
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