Speaker 1: Welcome to the Best of the Week for What's Right
Speaker 1: with Nick Right the best takes and moments from this
Speaker 1: week on the show. Enjoy. I want to recap what
Speaker 1: we've done and then get to demand's picks and my
Speaker 1: final picks. So we did six official If you want
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Speaker 1: for all thirty two teams. But there are six bets
Speaker 1: that we are making. Okay, we are betting the overs
Speaker 1: for the following teams with the following Juice Jags over
Speaker 1: seven and a half minus one twenty five. I think
Speaker 1: the Jags are going to make the playoffs. I think
Speaker 1: Trevor is going to have a bounce back year. I
Speaker 1: also think he knows this is kind of a make
Speaker 1: or break year for him. He luckily already got paid,
Speaker 1: but as far as him being concerned, are like a
Speaker 1: no doubt franchise quarterback. They've got to be good. I
Speaker 1: think they will be, and they only have to win
Speaker 1: eight games. The Bears over eight and a half at
Speaker 1: plus one point fifteen. I like everything about the team.
Speaker 1: I love the coach at least this. I love their
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator who's also their head coach. I can't yet
Speaker 1: say if I know Ben Johnson will be good at
Speaker 1: the head coaching stuff. I know he's good at the
Speaker 1: play calling stuff. I don't mind the tough love on Caleb.
Speaker 1: So they'ren over. I have Kansas City. You just bet
Speaker 1: the Chiefs over every single year. I mean it's since
Speaker 1: Andy's been there pri Ma Homes. It has failed to
Speaker 1: hit one time, and they if they only win, if
Speaker 1: they go twelve and five, people would consider that a
Speaker 1: bit of a disappointment and it would hit their over.
Speaker 1: Tampa over nine and a half is probably my favorite
Speaker 1: bet of all of these. I think the Bucks have
Speaker 1: a real shot to be the one seed in the NFC,
Speaker 1: and I think that they are going to win at
Speaker 1: least eleven games, maybe twelve or thirteen. That's minus one twenty.
Speaker 1: The Raiders over six and a half at minus one
Speaker 1: forty five. They're the team everyone thinks it's going to
Speaker 1: be bad that I think it's going to be good.
Speaker 1: And Atlanta over seven and a half at minus one
Speaker 1: forty Again, they won eight games last year with Cousins
Speaker 1: falling apart, and I think you know year or two
Speaker 1: of Raheem Morris with the defense. Those are my overs demons.
Speaker 1: Of those six, what is your favorite and what is
Speaker 1: your least favorite of my six overs?
Speaker 2: Then favorite, I gotta say, man, I think it's the
Speaker 2: Jags over seven and a half. Least favorite. Uh, I
Speaker 2: don't really. I guess if like, if I had to
Speaker 2: choose one, my least favorite would be the Bears.
Speaker 1: But like I like, I don't, but you don't hate it? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right? Now? The unders six unders as well, Bengals
Speaker 1: under nine and a half at minus one fifteen. I
Speaker 1: just don't see a team with those. I think they
Speaker 1: have real question marks on the O line and obvious
Speaker 1: question marks all over the defense. And I think Zach
Speaker 1: Taylor's seat is very hot. I don't think they're getting
Speaker 1: to double digit wins. The Colts under seven and a
Speaker 1: half at minus one thirty. This is my favorite of
Speaker 1: the unders. I think they could end up with the
Speaker 1: number one pick of the draft. I think that is
Speaker 1: absolutely on the board. The Broncos under nine and a
Speaker 1: half at plus one ten. I I think the Broncos
Speaker 1: are going to get out to a decent start, people
Speaker 1: are going to be crowing. I think the final two
Speaker 1: months of the season are going to be brutal for them.
Speaker 1: I also think people have overestimated what they're going to
Speaker 1: get from bo Nicks this year, and they're two major
Speaker 1: Their two major defensive editions are such injury risks of
Speaker 1: me that I don't think. I don't know that they're
Speaker 1: going to get the boost from them that people expect
Speaker 1: under ten and a half weeks. Oh, if they get
Speaker 1: off to a good start, Yeah, sure, absolutely, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: on the board. Cowboys under eight and a half minus
Speaker 1: one forty five. I did this before the Parsons trade.
Speaker 1: I assume you know, odds have shifted on this, but
Speaker 1: we've made these bets already. Vikings under nine and a
Speaker 1: half minus one twenty five. I just think it's a
Speaker 1: lot to ask in that division for de facto rookie quarterback.
Speaker 1: And I just think the Niners win totals wrong. I
Speaker 1: think the Niners are looked at miners in the schedule
Speaker 1: soft as like a Tier two Super Bowl contender. I
Speaker 1: don't look at them that way. I think that they are,
Speaker 1: you know, a seven to eight win team, so I
Speaker 1: will take under ten and a half for the Niners.
Speaker 1: My favorite there is, as I mentioned, the Colts demands
Speaker 1: your your favorite, your least.
Speaker 2: Favorite, least favorite, there is angles favorite favorite. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: agree with the Niners. Yeah, the forty nine.
Speaker 1: It's just a big number, man. They can win the
Speaker 1: division and hit there under like that. It's just a
Speaker 1: big number, all right, make miss playoffs, do it quickly.
Speaker 1: Jags plus one eighty, Chiefs minus three eighty Raiders plus
Speaker 1: three forty for a half unit, Giant Giants five to
Speaker 1: one for a quarter unit, and the Bucks minus one seventy.
Speaker 1: Those are make playoffs, miss playoffs. Steelers minus one forty,
Speaker 1: Colts minus two sixty, Broncos plus one thirty, Cowboys minus
Speaker 1: two to ten. Again, that one has moved, but I
Speaker 1: got it in time. The Vikings plus one hundred two
Speaker 1: units on that one, and the Cardinals minus one forty
Speaker 1: and then a miss playoffs parlay. I did a few
Speaker 1: of these last year. That screwed me. I'm only doing one.
Speaker 1: Four teams that I think are likely to finish in
Speaker 1: dead last in their division, Saints, Jets, Brown's, Colts all
Speaker 1: to miss the playoffs minus one thirty five to two units.
Speaker 1: I am acutely aware, demons that the Colts have a
Speaker 1: chance to be the Jags for me this year or
Speaker 1: two years ago. You remember, two years ago, I would
Speaker 1: have had a hugely profitable preseason, you know, gambling shows.
Speaker 1: But I had the Jags involved in four separate bets.
Speaker 1: I lost them all, and because the Jags weren't as
Speaker 1: good as I thought the Colts if the Cults are
Speaker 1: really good, I lose this. I lose to miss the
Speaker 1: playoffs bet and I lose. They're under Luckily, Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: is greatly involved, so I'm not worried about that.
Speaker 2: I'm still I'm still getting accustomed to the betting and stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: parlaying four things to is just getting minus one? Is
Speaker 2: that not terrible odds? Oh no, no, no, it's terrible value.
Speaker 1: Okaym yes, you you're you're you are correct in telling
Speaker 1: me that is a square wager. Okay, together, putting four
Speaker 1: things together just for the opportunity that lay minus one
Speaker 1: thirty five is terrible process.
Speaker 2: But I'm seeing I just.
Speaker 1: Feel yeah, no, you're right. I just feel like Saints, Jets,
Speaker 1: Browns are just do a for the playoffs, and so
Speaker 1: it's it's I have the Cults to miss the Platoves
Speaker 1: at minus two sixty and then I have them basically
Speaker 1: again to miss the playoffs at minus one thirty five.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the way I'm doing it. It's not
Speaker 1: good process. You're right, all right. The new picks. Before
Speaker 1: we get to Demands's picks, which were wildly profitable last year,
Speaker 1: we are only doing three division winner bets. And I
Speaker 1: can't believe the first two of these demands are only
Speaker 1: minus one fifteen. Tell the audience the first one.
Speaker 2: All right, no surprise here. We got the Chiefs to
Speaker 2: win the West of the AFC West, sorry, at minus
Speaker 2: one fifteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they win it every year. Mahomes is thirty five
Speaker 1: and five in his career in the division. They win
Speaker 1: it by an average in Mahomes' career by four games.
Speaker 1: Last year, the AFC West had three playoff teams. It
Speaker 1: was such a tough division. They won it by four games.
Speaker 1: Despite throwing week eighteen, minus won fifteen. I'll take the
Speaker 1: Chiefs over the field. The next one. Another team, Demonse
Speaker 1: that wins their division every year, only minus won fifteen.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 2: We've got the Bucks to win the NFC South at.
Speaker 1: Minus one fifteen, like the Saints and Panthers to me
Speaker 1: are no shot no shotters, and the I just think
Speaker 1: the Bucks are gonna be really good. And then the last,
Speaker 1: So that's I love. I might like that even more
Speaker 1: than I like the Chiefs one. But I the just because.
Speaker 2: How weak the division is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly right. And then I found I found a
Speaker 1: plus money parlay here Demons only two teams.
Speaker 2: So we got a division winner. We got Baltimore plus
Speaker 2: Buffalo at plus one oh six. I'd say that's another
Speaker 2: safe one.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's really to me, just fading the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong. I'm not worried about the Steelers. It's
Speaker 1: just maybe, you know, maybe the defense somehow with the
Speaker 1: new decordinator is average. The offense is the same, and
Speaker 1: they have an awesome year. But Baltimore and Buffalo are
Speaker 1: such regular season juggernauts that putting them together at plus
Speaker 1: one oh six to me makes sense. And then our
Speaker 1: annual tradition Super Bowl EXACTA. Three years ago we had
Speaker 1: Chiefs Niners, and the Niners found themselves in the conference
Speaker 1: championship game. Last two years ago we had Chiefs Cowboys
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys found themselves with twelve wins. Last year
Speaker 1: we had Chiefs Bears, and the Bears had a season
Speaker 1: from hell and missed the playoffs. This year, the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl EXACTA at fifty five to one is drum roll please, Demonse.
Speaker 2: We got Kansas City versus Tampa Bay and the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl exact plus fifty five hundred.
Speaker 1: How about the and then obviously spoiler Super Bowl exactly
Speaker 1: with the winner.
Speaker 2: Right, Kansas City defeat Tampa Bay at plus eleven thousand.
Speaker 1: Indeed, So, Demanse, here's something I didn't even think about
Speaker 1: when I made this pick. Brew mentioned it. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: with Mahomes have been to five Super Bowls, all rematches,
Speaker 1: played Philly twice, played San Francisco twice. The one other
Speaker 1: team they played Tampa Bay, another Super Bowl rematch bake
Speaker 1: show against Patrick revisiting the greatest, the craziest college football
Speaker 1: game ever played. Do you know about their college game.
Speaker 2: Demonse, against each other? Yeah, I'm sure they each other up.
Speaker 1: Hold on, well, let me, Demonse, so let me just
Speaker 1: tell you real quick twenty sixteen, because they have played
Speaker 1: in the playoffs before. All right, so the final score, Tomanse,
Speaker 1: let me, I'm just actually hold on, let me just
Speaker 1: go to Patrick Mahomes college stats. Final score was sixty
Speaker 1: six to fifty nine, so that gives you a little
Speaker 1: bit of a preview. It was Texas Tech where Baker
Speaker 1: started against Oklahoma, and hold on, where is it here?
Speaker 1: It is? The final stats are as follows. Uh. Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon was in the game. He ran for two sixty okay,
Speaker 1: and four touchdowns, but that wasn't the story. The story
Speaker 1: was Baker. Baker was twenty seven of thirty six only
Speaker 1: through thirty six passes for five hundred and forty five yards,
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns, no picks.
Speaker 2: Jesus okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Patrick Patrick was fifty two of eighty eight for seven
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four yards five touchdowns running well, No,
Speaker 1: they did have running back go twelve carries for eighty
Speaker 1: five yards and two touchdowns. That running back's name was
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. So Mahomes in that game combined for eight
Speaker 1: hundred and ten yards, seven touchdowns, one pick. Bake Show
Speaker 1: in that game never ran the ball through for five
Speaker 1: forty five and seven touchdowns on just thirty six attempts.
Speaker 1: Mahomes threw at eighty eight times. It is an all
Speaker 1: time legendary college football game. Yeah, yeah, October twenty second,
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen all timer. And so they've played in the
Speaker 1: playoffs before Patrick got hurt against the Baker was there
Speaker 1: in the Browns and yeah that's my uh, that is
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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty four regular season, you went forty eight forty
Speaker 2: and two, and your overall record was fifty six forty
Speaker 2: four and three, and that also we got in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: You also went undefeated in touchdown Genie. Now this wasn't
Speaker 2: every week, but we were undefeated.
Speaker 1: I was very picky with when I went with the
Speaker 1: Bruisers love a good touchdown, Genie. They love an octopus
Speaker 1: bet in the Super Bowl. They we'll have a touchdown, Jeannie.
Speaker 1: They love all these things. I was very choosy on
Speaker 1: when I wanted to do it, and I didn't realize it,
Speaker 1: but I did go undefeated on it. All right, five
Speaker 1: picks every week? What's my first pick?
Speaker 2: First pick? We've got Kansas City minus three versus the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a neutral site and they're only laying three.
Speaker 1: It's not I think the Chiefs are the best team
Speaker 1: in football. I think the Chargers are around the fourteenth
Speaker 1: best team in football. I do not think any team
Speaker 1: is more used to handling odd environments than Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Patrick is five and two against the spread and openers.
Speaker 1: I understand Herbert is a really good against the spread
Speaker 1: quarterback early in the season ten and five, but part
Speaker 1: of that is Patrick being five and two is even
Speaker 1: more impressive when you consider the fact that the Chiefs
Speaker 1: have become such a public team. Those lines are usually inflated.
Speaker 1: Chargers in the other direction. You know, they haven't had
Speaker 1: a ton of early season high high level expectations. I
Speaker 1: just think I do not see I think that Trent
Speaker 1: McDuffie is going to be able to neutralize Lad McConkie.
Speaker 1: And with if that happens, how else are the Chargers
Speaker 1: who are they throwing it to? Like? How are they
Speaker 1: moving the ball? And don't I know hardball is going
Speaker 1: to want to run the No Rashwan Slater is a
Speaker 1: big deal. The Chiefs minus three against the Chargers is
Speaker 1: my first bet of the year and spoiler a bit.
Speaker 1: It is the only favorite I am taking in Week one.
Speaker 1: Next pick Demonse, next Weick.
Speaker 2: You got Miami plus one at Indian.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a pretty simple for me. You get
Speaker 1: the Dolphins indoors, controlled climate, obviously fast track like that,
Speaker 1: You get too a healthy like that, You get Tyreek
Speaker 1: something to prove early in the year like that, and
Speaker 1: then you get a team in the Colts that I
Speaker 1: believe might end up being the worst team in football
Speaker 1: this year. It's certainly it's possible. I am getting a
Speaker 1: point now. Obviously getting one point doesn't help you a lot.
Speaker 1: It's you're really just picking a winner. Excuse me, I apologize,
Speaker 1: But if the Dolphins, the Dolphins have any chance of
Speaker 1: having a better season than I think the general public expects,
Speaker 1: from them. They must start fast, Colts, Pats, Bill's tough, Jets, Panthers, Chargers,
Speaker 1: Browns like that. That's their opening slate because late in
Speaker 1: the year we go, you go Ravens, Bill's Commanders, Saints, Easy, Jets, Steelers, Bengals, Bucks,
Speaker 1: Pats like and a lot of cold weather games in there.
Speaker 1: This is a as close to a Week one must
Speaker 1: win for a team's playoff hopes as exist. I don't love, obviously,
Speaker 1: the the Colts quarterback in Daniel Jones. I think Miami
Speaker 1: wins the game outright, and I think Miami's gonna be
Speaker 1: able to move the ball in the Colts defense. I'll
Speaker 1: take Miami plus one at.
Speaker 2: Indy, and next you've got Cleveland plus five or Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: I do I love this? I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Does it feel good including the Cleveland Browns and my
Speaker 1: Week one picks? Of course not. However, what was lost,
Speaker 1: what's lost in the shuffle about the Browns in Week
Speaker 1: one is this, they'll be fine at quarterback this week now,
Speaker 1: once Flacco starts taking some hits, once the season starts progressing,
Speaker 1: you know how fine are they going to be? Probably
Speaker 1: not at all, but this will probably be the best
Speaker 1: quarterback situation they have all year. Cincinnati has Trey Hendrickson
Speaker 1: coming off missing most of training camp, Shamar Stewart rookie
Speaker 1: pass rusher, missed a lot of the offseason, the first
Speaker 1: game for a new defensive coordinator, and maybe most importantly,
Speaker 1: and this is a point I have been trying to make.
Speaker 1: I have real concerns about since he's offensive line and
Speaker 1: you got Miles Garrett, since he also so just desperately
Speaker 1: needs a win, that I don't think this is at
Speaker 1: any point going to be a style points type of game.
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be a man, if
Speaker 1: we're up three late, suck the air out of the stadium,
Speaker 1: get out of there with a win. So I think
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, twenty one to seventeen Cincinnati
Speaker 1: is a pretty likely outcome for this game. I'll take
Speaker 1: the five points. I'm it's a home divisional dog against
Speaker 1: a team that is awful every single year in Week one,
Speaker 1: and so Cleveland plus five against Cincinnati is the way
Speaker 1: I'm going. It's not calling a Cleveland win. I just
Speaker 1: don't think Cincinnati is gonna dominate the game because they
Speaker 1: never dominate early in the season.
Speaker 2: Next to look there to you, pops, we got Vegas at.
Speaker 1: Plus two and you don't like that one.
Speaker 2: It's it's yeah, because what if Cincinnati does what if
Speaker 2: they don't come out slow like they usually do.
Speaker 1: Well, then I'll lose the bet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Divisional.
Speaker 1: I will also say, is here's the other thing we
Speaker 1: know about Flacco. Flacco loves chucking it deep and going
Speaker 1: for a back door cover like that is that's the
Speaker 1: other piece, Like could this be Cincinnati up twenty seven
Speaker 1: seventeen with ninety seconds left and Flacco is you know,
Speaker 1: throwing bombs and we end up stealing a back door
Speaker 1: cover for sure? All right?
Speaker 2: Next next you've got a Vegas plus two and a
Speaker 2: half at New England.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So this is, you know, basically just going with
Speaker 1: my preseason feel that the Raiders are better than people
Speaker 1: think they are now. I also think New England could
Speaker 1: be good, but iing New England is going to have
Speaker 1: real trouble scoring points this year. I like the rookie
Speaker 1: running back, I like Drake may I don't like the
Speaker 1: receivers at all. And where the Raiders are gonna be
Speaker 1: in trouble is against teams with explosive offenses. The Patriots
Speaker 1: do not have that, So I think that this is
Speaker 1: one of the few matchups all year where the Raiders
Speaker 1: defense is not going to be exploited. I think Max
Speaker 1: Crosby could have a big impact on that Patriots offensive line.
Speaker 1: And if I know Vrabel, he's going to game plan
Speaker 1: to just not let Max Crosby stripsack flip the game,
Speaker 1: which leads to conservative play calling and a lot of
Speaker 1: what he did at times in Tennessee, which is just
Speaker 1: keep it close and try to out execute them late.
Speaker 1: I think Geno is gonna come out firing. I obviously
Speaker 1: really like Ashton genty and I think the Raiders win
Speaker 1: this game. And I'm getting two and a half points.
Speaker 1: This feels to me like twenty one to twenty Raiders.
Speaker 1: So I'll take the Raiders plus two and a half. Also,
Speaker 1: Patriots won four games last year teams that won four
Speaker 1: if you were the previous year, and our Week one
Speaker 1: favorites are zero to five against the spread and the
Speaker 1: last five it's it's a rare thing that happens, and
Speaker 1: so I will go with the Raiders plus two and
Speaker 1: a half.
Speaker 2: Last, lastly, you've got Buffalo plus one versus Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, here's the thing. This is not anti
Speaker 1: Lamar at all. He's a great player and a great, great,
Speaker 1: great regular season player. No, it's it's simply this. If
Speaker 1: Buffalo is at home, they shouldn't be underdogs, that's all,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like Buffalo is too good
Speaker 1: of a team to be a home dog, and I
Speaker 1: think that that is I also saw Baltimore last year
Speaker 1: when people thought, oh, they have an extra chip on
Speaker 1: their shoulder because that's the team that knocked him out
Speaker 1: of the playoffs in the Chiefs and the Chiefs controlled
Speaker 1: that game. And so this, by the way, is a
Speaker 1: very similar situation. Last year, it was Kansas City minus
Speaker 1: one and a half? Was it minus no? Yes, it
Speaker 1: was Kansas City minus one and a half against Baltimore
Speaker 1: in Kansas City. And that was why that likely play
Speaker 1: was almost such an awful beat because I had KC
Speaker 1: minus one and a half, case was up seven. They score,
Speaker 1: they think they score that touchdown, and then they're gonna
Speaker 1: go for two, which would have killed the bet. You know,
Speaker 1: Like if they go for two and they make it,
Speaker 1: they win. If they go for two and they miss it,
Speaker 1: they lose. Either way, the Chiefs couldn't win by a
Speaker 1: point and a half. But I just don't think Buffalo
Speaker 1: should be home dogs. And this'll be the only time
Speaker 1: where do they play the Chiefs, And by the way,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be home dogs against they play the Chiefs
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, but they'll be favored in that game. Like
Speaker 1: this is also a little too much, a little too
Speaker 1: much respect for Baltimore. Like anytime this year, Buffalo is
Speaker 1: a home dog all betam which means right now is
Speaker 1: the only time. This is the only time all regular
Speaker 1: season they'll be a home dog. So my five picks,
Speaker 1: and a lot of this does have to do with
Speaker 1: preseason priors, but what else can you do in Week one?
Speaker 1: Kansas City minus one in Brazil against the Chargers, Miami
Speaker 1: plus one at the Colts, Cleveland getting five at home
Speaker 1: against Cincinnati, Las Vegas getting two and a half in
Speaker 1: New England, and Buffalo getting one at home against Baltimore.
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Speaker 1: Hamm and Lawrence Taylor and all the North Carolina royalty
Speaker 1: in the stadium got absolutely dog walked for three hours.
Speaker 1: Because here's the truth, more than anything about college football,
Speaker 1: scheme matters, to a degree, talent matters more than anything.
Speaker 1: Why is college coaching so important for the recruiting for
Speaker 1: the in this day's NIA, the ability to acquire the talent,
Speaker 1: and it is colored. I looked at yesterday's game and
Speaker 1: I said, TCU has a veteran quarterback who's been with
Speaker 1: the program for three years. North Carolina is starting a
Speaker 1: kid that transferred from South Alabama. I don't care that
Speaker 1: it's at North Carolina. That is not exactly a super
Speaker 1: scary or intimidating place to play. And I thought TCU.
Speaker 1: I didn't think they were gonna win by thirty, but
Speaker 1: I thought they'd cover the three and a half. And
Speaker 1: I think folks that expected Belichick to come in and
Speaker 1: do a snap turn them into a contender turnaround were foolish. Now, oddly, Demonse,
Speaker 1: I think this actually makes it more likely that Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick is the North Carolina head coach in a year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because the only way he wasn't going to be the
Speaker 1: North Carolina head coach in a year was if this
Speaker 1: went so well that an NFL team was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's he's had his time off, we
Speaker 1: now want to bring him in. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to go that way, and I do think that
Speaker 1: it is totally fair and totally in bounds to ask
Speaker 1: the question, does seventy something year old Bill Belichick have
Speaker 1: his eye on the ball here? That how much of Belichick,
Speaker 1: mister no distractions? Do your job, keep the main thing,
Speaker 1: the main thing? How much of that has been weakened
Speaker 1: by this three plus year at this point relationship with
Speaker 1: wanna be starlet Jordan Hudson. That's fair, that's not out
Speaker 1: of bounds. That isn't I you're bringing up the guy's
Speaker 1: personal life because they have made their relationship super public
Speaker 1: via Instagram posts, podcast interviews, the CBS Morning News, and
Speaker 1: via the weirdest business run of trademarking attempting to trademark
Speaker 1: gold Digger and other weird stuff that you just know
Speaker 1: is going to shine the spotlight on the coach and
Speaker 1: his girlfriend. Who is the coach is older than Demonse's
Speaker 1: grandmother and the girlfriend is younger than Demonse. That's all fair,
Speaker 1: and the only way to knock that out and have
Speaker 1: it just be a side thing is to be great.
Speaker 1: And not only do I not think they're going to
Speaker 1: be great, I think they are going. I think the
Speaker 1: expectations were a touch too high. You watch that game
Speaker 1: last night and you said to yourself, Oh, are they
Speaker 1: going to have competent quarterback play? That's a fair question.
Speaker 1: Then you watched that game last night and you said
Speaker 1: to yourself, oh, does that defense. You've got to assume
Speaker 1: the defense is well coached, So how do we explain
Speaker 1: what we saw? Do they just really not have the personnel?
Speaker 1: Then you ask yourself the question of how long has
Speaker 1: it been since we have known Bill Belichick is a
Speaker 1: an above average talent evaluator. All those things come together
Speaker 1: for some very nervous times. So now listen, they get
Speaker 1: Charlotte Richmond and then UCF. I'll be totally honest, I
Speaker 1: don't know how good UCF is supposed to be this year.
Speaker 1: They will beat Charlotte and Richmond, and they don't have
Speaker 1: because they're in the ACC and because of the draw,
Speaker 1: they have the only juggernaut on their schedules, Clemson. But
Speaker 1: in a month when they host Clemson, it's going to
Speaker 1: look like the TCU game but works. And if TCU,
Speaker 1: a team on the fringes of the top twenty five
Speaker 1: but outside of it, can do that to you, then
Speaker 1: you really worry about what any of the legitimate power
Speaker 1: five programs are going to do to them. And so.
Speaker 2: I think that anything that happens throughout this season is
Speaker 2: going to affect his legacy. Can it do that positively
Speaker 2: or negatively? Or is it too early?
Speaker 1: No. Listen, if he went to college football and was awesome,
Speaker 1: that would positively affect his legacy. Him going to college
Speaker 1: football and being awful will not, in my opinion, negatively
Speaker 1: affect his legacy, except it will be it will affect
Speaker 1: it like this in thirty years demonse, when you're talking
Speaker 1: sports with young people and they're talking about the greatest
Speaker 1: coaches of all time and they're like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: and Bill Belichick at that point is like Vince Lombardi,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, where they act like what
Speaker 1: was you know, what made him greater? Whatever? You'll be
Speaker 1: like and really weird end for him, Right, he went
Speaker 1: and coached college and dated this twenty year old and
Speaker 1: like it kind of.
Speaker 2: You know, it's the last thing you remember about him.
Speaker 1: Right. But it won't be a thing. My point is this,
Speaker 1: It won't be a thing that actually sticks to the legacy.
Speaker 1: It will just be a thing that people who were
Speaker 1: here for it remember, bring it, that's it. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, but it won't it won't stick to
Speaker 1: it for those in the history books. Now here's where
Speaker 1: it does hurt his legacy to a degree, at least
Speaker 1: in my mind. And sorry, if we're taking some internet hits,
Speaker 1: we got nothing open but the script. So there's I
Speaker 1: got no way around that. Oh there is one thing
Speaker 1: I can do, hold on the he needed to be
Speaker 1: really good at North Carolina Demandsay to have a chance
Speaker 1: to get back to the NFL and run down Shula. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that part, you know what I mean, That part
Speaker 1: hurts him. But no, this is not his NFL legacy.
Speaker 1: And listen, I know people are gonna throw up the
Speaker 1: record with Brady, record without Brady. The problem for that
Speaker 1: is we all saw, like those of us that saw
Speaker 1: those first three Patriot Championships understand how great they were
Speaker 1: defensively and that Brady wasn't Brady yet. And those of
Speaker 1: us that are being fair also remember the final Patriot
Speaker 1: Championship where they scored thirteen points in the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: and Belichick's defense made Sean McVeigh and Todd Gurley and
Speaker 1: Jared Goff look totally inept on the biggest stage. So
Speaker 1: like that, I'm not gonna allow like the revisionist history
Speaker 1: on that, But this is a really a very auspicious
Speaker 1: inn or beginning to the final chapter.