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Speaker 2: Welcome In Episode two O seven, What's right with Nick Wright?
Speaker 2: Oh what a day to have a platform, to have
Speaker 2: a microphone. In the last twenty four hours, Pete Carroll out,
Speaker 2: Nick Saban retires, Stephen A. Smith goes scorched earth on
Speaker 2: my only sworn enemy in the media, and that dates
Speaker 2: back twenty years For me, I was a little upset
Speaker 2: I wasn't included in the list of associates and enemies
Speaker 2: on Steven A's grant last night. And now the goat
Speaker 2: head coach is gone in New England. So we will
Speaker 2: get into all of that. But first what missed the
Speaker 2: cut on today's show, Kawhi Leonard, Listen, whenever a guy
Speaker 2: shows you you can stay healthy for three months, you
Speaker 2: gotta triple down with a three or one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty three million dollar extension. That's not in the show.
Speaker 2: Victor windbin Yama records his first career triple double. That's
Speaker 2: on the show. And some stupid tweet comparing two quarterbacks
Speaker 2: that is beneath us and beneath the show and does
Speaker 2: not need to Jesus Man. Trevor Lawrence mac Jones get
Speaker 2: out of NFL on CBS saw that their Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones tweet did so well, so they doubled down
Speaker 2: with him Daniel Trevor Lawrence mac Jones tweet. So before
Speaker 2: we get to be and Hi, Demanse look great. Love
Speaker 2: the sweater. I I'm not gonna because of the news
Speaker 2: and because of everything, I'm not gonna get into the
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers thing today. The Belichick news is more noteworthy.
Speaker 2: And listen, he did exactly what we said last week
Speaker 2: we thought he would do. Who me what? Huh? No?
Speaker 2: Never uh? How could you believe it? And the and
Speaker 2: if you want to hear my full deeper thoughts on that,
Speaker 2: not to promote a different podcast on this podcast, but
Speaker 2: I joined Ethan Strauss last night for an hour on
Speaker 2: his house of Strauss's new YouTube page.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I know his substack is subscription, but I think the
Speaker 2: YouTube thing is not paywalld. I'm not sure. I'll see
Speaker 2: if Ethan can, if there is a paywall for it,
Speaker 2: if he can take it down for this episode. If
Speaker 2: you want to hear my reaction to Ethan's articles and
Speaker 2: to what Aaron said on two that, you can listen
Speaker 2: to it there. But there's actual sports news to get into.
Speaker 2: So demanse go right ahead.
Speaker 3: All right, breaking news. Legendary head coach Bill Belichick and
Speaker 3: the Patriots look like they are officially split in ways.
Speaker 3: You kind of called it this internet for like the
Speaker 3: last three or four months. What are your instant reactions
Speaker 3: and thoughts on his legacy as a whole.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he's the greatest NFL coach ever, and that's
Speaker 2: almost a universally held opinion. But I think there are
Speaker 2: some really interesting angles here and thought exercises, and that's
Speaker 2: what I want to spend the bulk of this first
Speaker 2: twenty minutes of the show.
Speaker 3: On.
Speaker 2: So I went back this morning after the news broke
Speaker 2: to Belichick's famous grand opening, grand closing press conference. And
Speaker 2: one of the fun thing with the Jets, and one
Speaker 2: of the fun things about doing this show with Demanse,
Speaker 2: and this is not a shot at all at Demanse
Speaker 2: is some of this stuff that people my age know,
Speaker 2: chapter and verse. This happened literally when Demanse was months old.
Speaker 2: And this will be kind of probably breaking news to him.
Speaker 2: But Bill Belichick in nineteen ninety nine was named the
Speaker 2: head coach of the New York Jets, and at what
Speaker 2: was supposed to be his introductory press conference, jotted down
Speaker 2: on a napkin, I resign and his introductory press conference,
Speaker 2: He's like, actually not taking the job. And I went
Speaker 2: back and then, yeah, Demonse knows nothing of this story.
Speaker 2: And the reason I went back and watched it, and
Speaker 2: the Patriots then traded for him to be their head
Speaker 2: coach and they went on. The reason I went back
Speaker 2: and watched it was because that was the last time
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick spoke representing in other than the Patriots. It's
Speaker 2: been a quarter century of him doing these press conferences
Speaker 2: in front of Patriot logos, in front of Patriot stuff
Speaker 2: as a Patriot head coach, and after today's farewell press conference,
Speaker 2: the next time he speaks will be with another team.
Speaker 2: And one part of that jumped out to me, which
Speaker 2: is during that press conference he says, listen, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take the rest of today to spend time with my family,
Speaker 2: but tomorrow I'll do all the interviews you guys want.
Speaker 2: He's like, if you give me today and don't inundate
Speaker 2: me with it, tomorrow, I'll be as available as you want,
Speaker 2: because I know you're gonna have a lot of questions.
Speaker 2: And he's like, so that means newspaper, TV, radio, and
Speaker 2: then pause for a moment and says internet. And the
Speaker 2: assembled press laughs and they laughed because it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: talking about the Internet. You're gonna do interviews with the Internet.
Speaker 2: And it was such like a silly throwaway thing, and
Speaker 2: I was like, God, dogget man. Belichick's career with the
Speaker 2: Patriots spanned the time to wear the Internet was thought
Speaker 2: of as a throwaway whatever to where we are today.
Speaker 2: The entire growth and breadth and change of the media
Speaker 2: landscape in reference to the Internet happened while Bill Belichick
Speaker 2: coached the Patriots. So that's one hell of a run,
Speaker 2: one hell of a career. And the other thing that
Speaker 2: I thought about today was we have the greatest football
Speaker 2: coach ever in Belichick and one of the best coaches
Speaker 2: of the modern era in Pete Carroll, both being forced
Speaker 2: out essentially from their jobs within twenty four hours of
Speaker 2: each other. And the symmetries are not just that Bill
Speaker 2: Belichick succeeded Pete Carroll in New England. Pete Carroll was
Speaker 2: the last Patriots head coach before Bill Belichick. The symmetries
Speaker 2: are also what allowed those guys to become who they
Speaker 2: were was bold, unprecedented at the time, decisions regarding their quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: So when Bill Belichick took over the New England Patriots,
Speaker 2: Drew Bloodsoe, former number one overall pick who had taken
Speaker 2: the Patriots to a Super Bowl, was their quarterback. Bill
Speaker 2: Belichick had coached the Cleveland Browns intermittent success, but no
Speaker 2: great run been fired there. Coached the Patriots, they were
Speaker 2: a five win team. Bloodsoe got the biggest content, the
Speaker 2: first one hundred million dollar contract in NFL history, and
Speaker 2: then early in the one season Moe Lewis hit on
Speaker 2: the sideline, collapsed as lung and he had to go
Speaker 2: to Brady and then and then Drew Bludsoe was healthy
Speaker 2: month later, and Bill Belichick said sticking with Brady, and
Speaker 2: that decision then was the single biggest domino in the
Speaker 2: next twenty years of a dynasty. Pete Carroll was a
Speaker 2: head coach of the Seattle Seahawks. He had been a
Speaker 2: head coach in New England, had been fired, had not succeeded,
Speaker 2: got the Seahawks job. They went out and signed Matt
Speaker 2: Flynn to a massive off season contract. They drafted Russell
Speaker 2: Wilson in the third round, and Pete Carroll, staying true
Speaker 2: to his mantra of we compete every day at training camp,
Speaker 2: said third round, rookie has the job. He gives us
Speaker 2: the better option. And that then led to that Seahawks'
Speaker 2: mini dynasty or run. And then what happened to Bill
Speaker 2: The marriage with the quarterback fell apart. He didn't have
Speaker 2: the right answers after and it led to his ouster.
Speaker 2: And what happened with Pete The marriage with the quarterback
Speaker 2: fell apart. He didn't have the right answers and it
Speaker 2: led to his ouster. And I find the symmetry of
Speaker 2: those things very interesting because it is such a.
Speaker 3: Good Are you in any way coaches?
Speaker 2: No, So that's not what I'm saying. I know some
Speaker 2: people will say that what I'm saying is this, but
Speaker 2: allowed Belichick to be Belichick was courage in his convictions.
Speaker 2: I do not care what the outside world believes. I
Speaker 2: think this is the right choice. It might frustrate my bosses,
Speaker 2: it might be unpopular, but I Am going to stay
Speaker 2: true to what I believe is best and plow ahead.
Speaker 2: That was the key moment for he and Carol when
Speaker 2: at that moment in time when Carol went to Wilson,
Speaker 2: when Bill stuck with Tom Brady, not only were they
Speaker 2: not Hall of Fame coaches, not only were they not champions,
Speaker 2: they had not succeeded. They had both been fired at
Speaker 2: their first job. They both had intermittent at best results
Speaker 2: at this job, and they were probably on their last
Speaker 2: opportunities to be head coaches in the NFL. And they said,
Speaker 2: bleep it, I'm doing what not the easy thing, the
Speaker 2: tough thing. Everyone expects me to go with the quarterback
Speaker 2: we signed to the massive deal. No one expects me
Speaker 2: to go with the unproven rookie or first year or
Speaker 2: second year guy, and Brady I believe in it. That's
Speaker 2: what opened the door to having success available what made
Speaker 2: so that is a lesson for everybody. It's a lesson
Speaker 2: for everyone that if you really believe in something, go
Speaker 2: with it, trust your instincts and sink or swim on that.
Speaker 2: Don't fail because you didn't go with what you believed in.
Speaker 2: But the second lesson is this, no matter how great
Speaker 2: you are, man, it takes help. Everything in life is collaborative.
Speaker 2: Everything in life you are going to succeed more if
Speaker 2: you have a great partner, if you have a great
Speaker 2: either number two or one A or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: And the last and that's so the I'm not saying
Speaker 2: Brady made Belichick or Belichick made Brady. I truly believe
Speaker 2: they made each other. That they are the sum is
Speaker 2: greater than the individual parts one hundred percent. And then
Speaker 2: the last lesson for both of these guys is when
Speaker 2: you have that success, don't let ego and both be
Speaker 2: the reason it ends earlier than it's supposed to. And
Speaker 2: I think with Pete, Carroll and Russ it was more
Speaker 2: Russ's Eagles egos than Pete. I think with Tom and
Speaker 2: Bill it was more Bill's ego than Tom. But the
Speaker 2: fact of the matter is, and even though Tom winn
Speaker 2: and won that Super Bowl, it didn't this. It was
Speaker 2: not the ending anybody exactly wanted. And for Bill it
Speaker 2: ended up being the end of his run. For Pete
Speaker 2: it being the end of his run. And so there
Speaker 2: are go.
Speaker 3: Ahead, you're saying that they're done.
Speaker 2: They're done with those teams exactly, Yeah, and so, and
Speaker 2: we'll talk about where Bill could go in a moment,
Speaker 2: but it is those are all real big macro life stuff, right.
Speaker 2: And Belichick's career, if you're a football fan, spans so much.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: He figured out as a defensive coordinator how to slow
Speaker 2: down the best offense of an era when he was
Speaker 2: with the Giants and shut down the Bills in that
Speaker 2: Super Bowl the Giants had no business winning. He figured
Speaker 2: out defensively how to slow down the greatest show on turf,
Speaker 2: how to slow down mcveigh's rams, how to slow down
Speaker 2: Andy Reid Mahomes Chiefs. He figured these things out defensively
Speaker 2: unlike anybody we've ever seen. And then offensively, how many
Speaker 2: reinventions did they have? The we're gonna be a run
Speaker 2: oriented quarterback don't make mistakes, lean on the defense team.
Speaker 2: In the early two thousands, we are going to have
Speaker 2: the highest scoring, highest flying offense in the history of
Speaker 2: football with Randy Moss. In the late two thousand oughts,
Speaker 2: we are going to use the numbers against the defense
Speaker 2: by having two dual threat tight ends like no team
Speaker 2: has ever had. In the early twenty tens, with Gronk
Speaker 2: and Hernandez, we are going to make the slot receiver
Speaker 2: a deadly weapon in way nobody has. With Welker Edelman
Speaker 2: a mindola finding new ways, finding different things. When the
Speaker 2: rest of the world is zigging or zagging, we are
Speaker 2: going not necessarily going to zig, but we are going
Speaker 2: to figure out what opportunities their zags allow for. Oh,
Speaker 2: everyone's worried about the pass, so they are putting more small,
Speaker 2: fast people on the field instead of trying to out
Speaker 2: small out fast them. Should we Maybe then we'll be
Speaker 2: the team that has more big people on the field
Speaker 2: and we'll try to beat them up. It's just a
Speaker 2: brilliant career that kind of had a snding because yet
Speaker 2: didn't make it work at the end with your partner.
Speaker 2: And that, by the way, is the story of basically
Speaker 2: every band that's ever existed at a high level. It's
Speaker 2: the story of so many television shows in MySpace where
Speaker 2: it's like, man, you guys had a great thing. What happened? Well,
Speaker 2: who gets the credit, who gets the most money, who
Speaker 2: gets to be on the front of the poster or
Speaker 2: all those things. That's what happens. And no matter how
Speaker 2: great you are, and maybe the greater you are, you
Speaker 2: can fall prey to it. Now, I will say this,
Speaker 2: there is not You cannot write the Belichick story without
Speaker 2: acknowledging that the cheating scandals are a real piece of it.
Speaker 2: They just are, and it's not the biggest piece of it.
Speaker 2: But Belichick being more than slapped on the wrist multiple
Speaker 2: times throughout his career in New England is part of
Speaker 2: his legacy. Is it enough to knock him out of
Speaker 2: the goat conversation? No?
Speaker 3: No, he cheated multiple times. Well I knew about this.
Speaker 2: So spygate was the real one beforehand. Spygate of surreptitiously
Speaker 2: recording your opponent, and that got him twice. That got
Speaker 2: him once early in the run, and then happened again
Speaker 2: late in the run. Recently, when he was taping the
Speaker 2: Bengals reportedly, and they got in trouble for it. The
Speaker 2: flight gate got laid at the feet of Brady. Then
Speaker 2: there was also a bunch of other hm, it doesn't
Speaker 2: feel right, which was the always saying their coach to
Speaker 2: quarterback communication system would go out randomly, but at the
Speaker 2: key moments of football games, when they were playing in
Speaker 2: Gillette and stuff that that. Now that's a different bucket.
Speaker 2: That's more speculation then we can prove it. But it
Speaker 2: was just enough there where you're like, hmmm, so that's
Speaker 2: a piece of it. And if we're gonna be fair
Speaker 2: to a guy, if a guy dies, you're not really
Speaker 2: supposed to talk about this stuff unless the guy was
Speaker 2: just like an evil bad guy. The day after retiring
Speaker 2: or stepping away from a team's different. He's not dead,
Speaker 2: he's gonna go get another job. And we can tell
Speaker 2: the full true on a story of it. And so
Speaker 2: that combined with the fact that at the end the
Speaker 2: modern offense seemed to pass him by and at the
Speaker 2: end he seemed to only want to hire his sons
Speaker 2: or friends, that is a piece of the legacy. And
Speaker 2: if and when someone were to approach his h his success,
Speaker 2: then can that be a goat tiebreaker. Sure, yeah, if
Speaker 2: the if, for instance, Andy Reid wins this year's Super
Speaker 2: Bowl and another one in two years, and then it's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: he's Belichick's first or right now second in all time wins,
Speaker 2: but Read is fourth. Belichick went to nine one six. Andy,
Speaker 2: by the math that I'm doing right there would be
Speaker 2: went to six one four, but did it without ever
Speaker 2: losing draft picks for cheating and had high levels of
Speaker 2: success with non Hall of Fame quarterbacks and then a
Speaker 2: dynasty with a Hall of Fame quarterback. Then that can
Speaker 2: be part of the discussion. But right now he's so
Speaker 2: far far past the field in the coach goat stuff
Speaker 2: that this stuff is not enough to drag him down.
Speaker 2: But it is part of the story, and it is
Speaker 2: a fascinating career. It is a one of a kind career,
Speaker 2: and it all started with him believing in himself. I
Speaker 2: believe this is right, and I am willing to expend
Speaker 2: real capital with my boss, with the fans, with the
Speaker 2: media because I think on the other side it will
Speaker 2: be the right decision and I have massive respect for that.
Speaker 2: And then at the end, ego and stuff gets in
Speaker 2: the way a bit and It's not that I disrespect
Speaker 2: for that, but it is a good lesson for all
Speaker 2: of us that And you know, if you guys think
Speaker 2: I'm talking about my personal or professional life, I of
Speaker 2: course am. I am worried than the next couple of years, Demons,
Speaker 2: The more and more he gets recognized at you know,
Speaker 2: at Equinox and things like that, is going to come
Speaker 2: to me and be like, listen, man, I need a
Speaker 2: bigger title on the podcast and more money or I'm
Speaker 2: breaking this thing up. And so I just there. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: So if you're thinking that I am you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm projecting a bit. Yeah, maybe I am?
Speaker 2: All right, So demonse, what are the follow up questions here?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So with everything being said, uh, do you think
Speaker 3: with him, with Belichick and Pete Carroll being the two
Speaker 3: oldest coaches in the NFL, don't you think it's more
Speaker 3: likely that they walk away then come back and continue
Speaker 3: to coach.
Speaker 2: Pete Carroll? Yes, Belichick. No, Belichick wants Shula's record and
Speaker 2: he needs, you know, fifteen wins for the record, and
Speaker 2: so no, I do not think he's walking away, which
Speaker 2: then leads us to where should he go? Right? Right?
Speaker 2: And my answer to that question is, I think wherever
Speaker 2: he's going, the job is not open yet. Some of
Speaker 2: these playoff teams are gonna fire their coach. They just
Speaker 2: are happened.
Speaker 3: Every year McCarthy after Jordan Love goes out there and
Speaker 3: slings it on him.
Speaker 2: So if the Cowboys lose this weekend, yes, that is
Speaker 2: where Belichick should go. McCarthy will be fired for that,
Speaker 2: and that is the perfect spot. We've talked about this
Speaker 2: on a month on the podcast ever since Nora Princiatti
Speaker 2: first brought it up on The Ringer, And people might
Speaker 2: wonder why I keep referencing that. I think it's important
Speaker 2: in our business. If somebody says something that is way
Speaker 2: out of left field and then all of a sudden
Speaker 2: and they're the only one saying it, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden it starts to gain momentum wherever it is.
Speaker 2: I think they deserve, if you know, credit for being
Speaker 2: the first person to throw it out there. Nobody was
Speaker 2: talking about that. She mentioned it a month ago, and
Speaker 2: it's nestled inside my brain is like, Oh, that's fascinating.
Speaker 2: You have the talent, you have the quarterback, you have
Speaker 2: the offensive weapons, you have all this other talent on defense.
Speaker 2: You could get that record in two years and you
Speaker 2: could maybe win a Super Bowl and be like, ah,
Speaker 2: could Bill work for Jerry A It wouldn't be long
Speaker 2: term be his mentor. Bill Parcells worked for Jerry and
Speaker 2: so yeah. And by the way, that's another one when
Speaker 2: I'm talking about you collaborate, you come together, it's great.
Speaker 2: Then egos get in the way. Jerry Jones and Jimmy
Speaker 2: Johnson they won two super Bowls, were amazing, it was great,
Speaker 2: and then egos and everything it blows up. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's a story of a lot of a lot of teams,
Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of there's a lot of
Speaker 2: examples of that. I don't think though, that the Cowboys
Speaker 2: are gonna lose in round one. I'm not certain that
Speaker 2: McCarthy would get fired for losing in round two. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty damn confident he wouldn't get fired for losing in
Speaker 2: round three. But that is the job Bill should hold
Speaker 2: out hope for. Do you know what I'm gonna say?
Speaker 2: The other one is a team.
Speaker 3: I know exactly what you're gonna say, and it's completely
Speaker 3: you're gonna You're gonna say, You're gonna yes, Hey, you're
Speaker 3: gonna say Philly in Sirianni.
Speaker 2: I am, and it's not fueled by hate. It is
Speaker 2: the to me totally sober logical analysis of I am
Speaker 2: not saying Sirianni should be fired if they lose to
Speaker 2: Baker in round one. I am saying this, if Bill
Speaker 2: Belichick would take the job, you fight flatly, flatly and
Speaker 2: for Eagle, and I don't even think Egle fans.
Speaker 3: Would you would you say the same? Wait? Wouldn't you
Speaker 3: say the same thing about McCarthy? Hey, even if they
Speaker 3: win in round one, round two, gets fired at what's
Speaker 3: the job?
Speaker 2: Yeah, if McCarthy loses at home in round one or two, yes,
Speaker 2: I don't think you. I think it's a weird look
Speaker 2: to fire him. If he makes the first conference championship
Speaker 2: game the teams made in almost thirty years, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? Or if they make the super Bowl,
Speaker 2: you can't fire him. But yeah, but the distinction between
Speaker 2: McCarthy and Sirianni or Bellichick, McCarthy, Sirianni and Belichick is this,
Speaker 2: Let's just say Belichick's already out. Let's say Sirianni were
Speaker 2: fired today, McCarthy were fired today. Belichick is a definitively
Speaker 2: getting a job as a head coach somewhere. McCarthy is
Speaker 2: probably getting a job as a head coach three straight
Speaker 2: twelve win seasons. If Nick Sirianni gets fired, what job
Speaker 2: is he being offered? Just tell me it's not a
Speaker 2: head coaching job, I promise. And no, No, it's just
Speaker 2: and so maybe an offensive coordinator. The Panthers don't have
Speaker 2: their new head coach. They don't have one yet. They
Speaker 2: have the interim coach. Am I tripping? What?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think you're probably You're probably right. The Panthers,
Speaker 3: I'm sure, would like their jobs at Nick Sirianni.
Speaker 2: No, they would not. Okay, he's not gonna if you
Speaker 2: were fired, he's not gonna his next jobs. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be a head coach. I'm just telling you.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: If I were Belichick, I would wait and see what
Speaker 2: happens in those spots. Uh the other playoff? Now, I'll
Speaker 2: give you one more that. Bruce Ard mentioned that if
Speaker 2: I were Belichick, I would be interested in what if
Speaker 2: the Steelers beat Buffalo? Are we one hundred percent certain
Speaker 2: Sean McDermott's safe one if Buffalo loses his ten point
Speaker 2: favorite at home to Mason Rudolph after having to fight
Speaker 2: and claude to get into the playoffs. I'm not so
Speaker 2: if this is like if I'm Belichick, I am waiting
Speaker 2: and seeing because some of these jobs are going to
Speaker 2: be open. They just are, and so I would I
Speaker 2: would be very I would not go to Atlanta or Washington.
Speaker 2: I just wouldn't. Now, I'd love to go to Chicago,
Speaker 2: but Chicago's keeping eber Flus for reasons I don't understand.
Speaker 2: All right, So go ahead, you.
Speaker 3: Do you think the Pats are gonna get anything in
Speaker 3: return for Belichick? Like, how does that eat work? Okay?
Speaker 2: No, So if they were to try to trade him,
Speaker 2: they could, but that's not what's happening here. So they
Speaker 2: are gonna have to start over. And everybody thinks they're
Speaker 2: gonna get Verbel. If I'm Verbel, I don't want that job.
Speaker 2: I understand there's history there. He won the Super Bowls there.
Speaker 2: I get all that. That team stinks, that team stinks
Speaker 2: is in it. And here's the thing about looking at divisions.
Speaker 2: If I'm looking for a head coaching job, I don't
Speaker 2: need to be in a division like the NFC South,
Speaker 2: where there's not any great team but I don't want
Speaker 2: to be in a division where there's clearly two. So
Speaker 2: like the AFC West is not those are not. The
Speaker 2: Chargers job is not a bad job. People are like, ah,
Speaker 2: you gotta compete with Mahomes. Yeah, but you that's the
Speaker 2: only one in the division you gotta compete with. So
Speaker 2: I would be more nervous about, like going to the
Speaker 2: NFC West right is take Seattle's job, Like, God, dog it,
Speaker 2: I gotta compete with Shanahan and McVeigh. I gotta compete
Speaker 2: with the Niners and AFC East. You feel like, gosh darning,
Speaker 2: I gotta compete with the Bills and the Dolphins. That's
Speaker 2: a tough you know, for whoever comes into New England
Speaker 2: the AFC North, you feel like you gotta compete with
Speaker 2: four teams and so uh, if you're brable, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: want that gig. And here is the other interesting thing.
Speaker 2: Did Robert Kraft just make the same mistake with head
Speaker 2: coach that Bill Belichick made withquarterback? I moved on from
Speaker 2: the goat without having a clear plan on how I'm
Speaker 2: replacing it. It's on the board. Let's see if they
Speaker 2: get fable. And I know Drod Mao's there. We'll see
Speaker 2: if that were to work, he'd be a rookie head coach.
Speaker 2: I do know this that the Patriots are now the
Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans in the sports talk world. The Patriots are
Speaker 2: now the let me find another, the Atlanta Falcons. They're
Speaker 2: just not on the list of relevant teams there. They
Speaker 2: are a team that used to be great but now
Speaker 2: has no star power and doesn't have the coach, which
Speaker 2: was the reason we cared about them, Like they are
Speaker 2: out in the willed feness of just the others. And
Speaker 2: I don't know again, like that shouldn't impact craft or
Speaker 2: any of that, But I'm talking about from a list
Speaker 2: of teams that it's like, oh man, they're talked about
Speaker 2: on shows like mine all the time. The Patriots are
Speaker 2: now at the bottom of the list. They are as
Speaker 2: irrelevant of a team as there is now. We'll see
Speaker 2: if they draft the right quarterbacks, see if they get
Speaker 2: the right coach, But for the time being, that's where
Speaker 2: they're at. Okay, So that's where you know. I think
Speaker 2: that was really good. Thirty minutes on Belichick on life
Speaker 2: on Demonsday's ego one day being the downfall of the
Speaker 2: What's Right podcast. Uh, we have a gambling show. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: a couple final Belichick points that I forgot to bring up.
Speaker 2: Demon's one of your follow ups. You were gonna ask,
Speaker 2: was am I worried about Andy Reid? Then you know
Speaker 2: the older coaches are retiring, so Andy Reid I do
Speaker 2: not believe is retiring anytime soon. Florio keeps throwing out
Speaker 2: there Reid retire after this season. That's another place that
Speaker 2: if I were Bill, I'd want to wait and see, like, Okay,
Speaker 2: maybe it's not. I don't see it at all, but
Speaker 2: I'm saying it's out there. I don't see it at all.
Speaker 2: But yeah, if you're Belichick and you're like, yeah, i'll
Speaker 2: go coach Patrick Mahomes offense, pretty well, I'll go the
Speaker 2: And then here's the other thing. Is Gabe here, our
Speaker 2: resident Jets fan Patriot hater who today he's so happy about.
Speaker 2: And I'm not trying to bring Gabe down, but I
Speaker 2: do want some context here. So Bill Belichick in the
Speaker 2: last three years went, I want to make sure I
Speaker 2: have this math, right, Yeah, I do. He went twenty
Speaker 2: two and twenty nine, Is that right? Yeah, twenty two
Speaker 2: and twenty nine, with one playoff appearance, and the Patriots said, Nope,
Speaker 2: don't care that you've won six Super Bowls. That's not
Speaker 2: good enough. You're out here. Mike Vrabel, who just got fired.
Speaker 2: In the last three years, Mike Vrabel went nineteen twenty five,
Speaker 2: went twenty five and twenty six with one playoff appearance,
Speaker 2: and the Tennessee Titans said, don't care, you've been to
Speaker 2: a conference championship game. Don't care we traded away our
Speaker 2: best player. You're out here, Pete Carroll. The last three
Speaker 2: years went also twenty five and twenty six with one
Speaker 2: playoff appearance, and the Seattle Seahawks said, don't care, you
Speaker 2: want a super Bowl here went to another one. You're
Speaker 2: out here, big. Bob Salah over the last three years
Speaker 2: has gone eighteen and thirty three, has won a two
Speaker 2: total divisional games, and the New York Jets are like,
Speaker 2: come on back, Bobby, you got unfinished business here. So
Speaker 2: all these Jets fans being like, oh, we put bella
Speaker 2: check out. His final game was losing us. Every other
Speaker 2: team that has had massively more success with massively more
Speaker 2: established coaches are like, you're out. Meanwhile, Bobby Salah can
Speaker 2: sit there and just look angry on the sideline and confused,
Speaker 2: and the Jets are like, you know what, he hasn't
Speaker 2: had enough time. So andie, I'm not here. Listen, I'm
Speaker 2: not here for Jet fans victory laps today. I'm just
Speaker 2: not all right. So sorry, Gabe had to do it too.
Speaker 2: You didn't really have to, but wanted to, all right,
Speaker 2: So before the year, we do a gambling show and
Speaker 2: we'll get to my actual bets that I make in
Speaker 2: real life. The Gabe just come in. Does Gabe want
Speaker 2: your microphone?
Speaker 3: Yeah, gab. Gabe gave me the finger, but I think
Speaker 3: he was trying to give it to me to then
Speaker 3: give you. Oh, he's in here taking I don't okay, Now,
Speaker 3: I don't want to derail the podcast. I want you
Speaker 3: to talk about gambling. I just give us thirty seconds
Speaker 3: of enjoyment. That's all we want.
Speaker 2: I gave you thirty minutes, and then I had to
Speaker 2: bring you back down to earth. Jets fans, I'm just
Speaker 2: letting you know. I'm sorry, all right. So before the year,
Speaker 2: I look at all the possible futures and I give
Speaker 2: my lean on them, and then I make my actual
Speaker 2: bets on the ones I had the most conviction on,
Speaker 2: and I didn't do great on the future's bets I made.
Speaker 2: We'll get to those in a moment. But what makes
Speaker 2: it more painful is how perfectly I did on the
Speaker 2: bets I didn't make. And I have the document, so
Speaker 2: I am going to go through it. Cardinals total four
Speaker 2: and a half. This bet is an under, but it
Speaker 2: feels too square to make underhit Bill's ten and a half.
Speaker 2: What I wrote this is the perfect line. Well, they
Speaker 2: had ten wins going into the final game of the year,
Speaker 2: and they had a second half comeback to win it,
Speaker 2: so it was the perfect line. Broncos under eight and
Speaker 2: a half feels like an under, but maybe there's Sean
Speaker 2: Payton magic. There was Sean Payton magic, and it wasn't under.
Speaker 2: Lions nine and a half. I said, this line's exactly right,
Speaker 2: so I was off on that, but I didn't bet it.
Speaker 2: Texan six and a half. This is what I wrote.
Speaker 2: I like the under, but maybe Demico Ryans does something great,
Speaker 2: so I didn't bet it. My head was correct. Raiders
Speaker 2: six and a half. This is what I wrote. The
Speaker 2: over is the bet, but we won't ever bet on
Speaker 2: Josh McDaniels and Jimmy G. The over hit because they
Speaker 2: fired McDaniels and bench Jimmy G. So I got it
Speaker 2: exactly right and so all right. Next I wrote Chargers
Speaker 2: nine and a half, perfect line. I was wrong on that.
Speaker 2: It wasn't perfect line. Vikings eight and a half. I wrote,
Speaker 2: this is the exact right number. Saints nine and a half.
Speaker 2: Love the under, but a little too much juice on it.
Speaker 2: At minus one forty they were finished with nine wins. Okay.
Speaker 2: I then called the Bucks, Titans, and Commanders all stay aways.
Speaker 2: Then there was this category, and this is the one
Speaker 2: that is real pain, true true pain. The category was
Speaker 2: would bet but there's a better way to make this bet.
Speaker 2: And this is where I outsmarted myself. Okay, Steelers eight
Speaker 2: and a half over. I wrote, love it, but there's
Speaker 2: a better bet. We'll get to what that was in
Speaker 2: a moment. Dolphins nine and a half over, love it,
Speaker 2: but there's a better bet. The Steelers won ten, the
Speaker 2: Dolphins won eleven, Packers seven and a half over. Love it,
Speaker 2: but there's a better way to make this bet. The
Speaker 2: Packers won nine games or ten, Falcons oh, eight and
Speaker 2: a half over, there's a better bet here that one
Speaker 2: they missed on the final day of the season, and
Speaker 2: Jets nine and a half under. We love this bet.
Speaker 2: We love this bet, but there's a better bet. Is
Speaker 2: what I wrote on these. Okay, So that was five
Speaker 2: bets that I went four and one on that I
Speaker 2: didn't make because I thought I had better versions of them,
Speaker 2: and then spoiler alert on the better versions of them.
Speaker 2: Instead of going four and one, I went one and four,
Speaker 2: just the bleeping worst. Now two our actual wagers, Demonse.
Speaker 3: And we'll do a lot of the red.
Speaker 2: And we'll do the math here.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, all right, so we got wind totals where
Speaker 3: we start off win totals.
Speaker 2: You had Bears me congrats on being the Bob solav picks.
Speaker 2: All right, Gabe, that's enough out of you. But go ahead.
Speaker 3: You had Bears under seven and a half at plus
Speaker 3: one hundred. That one cashed. That go through the whole.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do the math here, No, go one by one.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: You got Chicago they went seven and ten. Oh no, sorry,
Speaker 3: you got the Cowboys over nine and a half at
Speaker 3: minus one sixty two.
Speaker 2: That also, no, that's not it though, look look at
Speaker 2: the screen. Though it was the Dallas over I changed that,
Speaker 2: remember to Dallas over ten and a half at the
Speaker 2: which was the better number, and I won that one.
Speaker 2: So now okay, we are plus all right, okay, god
Speaker 2: dog go ahead. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, Jaggs over ten and a half plus one forty five.
Speaker 2: So that one, that one I actually feel a little
Speaker 2: bit better on because the Jags, what I wrote in
Speaker 2: the doc was Jags over nine and a half at
Speaker 2: minus one forty four. Let's get a better number and
Speaker 2: go Jags over ten and a half at plus one
Speaker 2: forty five, they were eight and three. Trevor got hurt
Speaker 2: and it derailed me. But so I lost money there.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Next, Kansas City over eleven and a half. I would
Speaker 3: have thought that would have been good, I.
Speaker 2: Said, I wrote locked. Every year they finished eleven and six,
Speaker 2: missed it by a half game. Yeah, so go all right.
Speaker 3: Next, you got Patriots over seven and a half at
Speaker 3: plus one sixteen yep.
Speaker 2: So I don't know why what I was thinking there,
Speaker 2: And I mean I do know what I was thinking,
Speaker 2: which was last year they won seven and they had
Speaker 2: the worst quarterback play in the league. Why would they
Speaker 2: not win more? That was a terrible bet. But what
Speaker 2: are you gonna do? Next?
Speaker 3: You got Eagles under eleven and a half at minus
Speaker 3: one twenty eight. You said we love.
Speaker 2: Winter winter chicken dinner. Teams started ten and one and
Speaker 2: somehow hit the winner. Give me that one I deserve.
Speaker 2: That's snack insane, by the way.
Speaker 3: But forty nine ers, forty nine ers under ten and
Speaker 3: a half at plus one thirty two, you just said
Speaker 3: we're fadie nine ers because they have rock party yep.
Speaker 2: And they ended up winning twelve games, So that one
Speaker 2: didn't work out, well, go.
Speaker 3: Ahead, you got Seahawks over eight and a half at
Speaker 3: minus one forty two.
Speaker 2: Okay. So look, I just did all the math based
Speaker 2: on what I said before the year was I was
Speaker 2: putting a thousand bucks all on each of these. So
Speaker 2: the plus money ones, you bet a thousand to win
Speaker 2: whatever the plus money is, and the minus money ones,
Speaker 2: like if it's minus one twenty eight, I bet twelve
Speaker 2: eighty to one one thousand, so on the win totals
Speaker 2: over unders, believe it or not. Thanks to the sharp
Speaker 2: you know, plus minus stuff, I won seven hundred and
Speaker 2: ten bucks, okay, which then had I just gone with
Speaker 2: my good bet would bet situation there, I would have
Speaker 2: then had one two three four plus four thousand minus
Speaker 2: thirteen twenty.
Speaker 3: Or had you believed in Brock, I'd be up. I'd
Speaker 3: be up.
Speaker 2: Thirty shut up, shut up, I'd be up thirty four
Speaker 2: hundred had I just done the wood bet. Instead, I
Speaker 2: did these truly disastrous division winner bets. And let's go
Speaker 2: through them, because they they absolutely obliterated the chest.
Speaker 3: You know, they just obliterated the chat saying you also
Speaker 3: you also have the you probably also have the winning
Speaker 3: lottery ticket number, but you just haven't placed it yet.
Speaker 2: I did check the archives. I did that. This is
Speaker 2: all on video. Go back and check the preseason gambling show.
Speaker 2: I said all this stuff, and now we're about to
Speaker 2: see a ton of red. Just give me the division
Speaker 2: winner bets.
Speaker 3: So division winner bets, you got Miami.
Speaker 2: Let me, let me, let me, let me take over
Speaker 2: here for a moment. These are all losers, okay, Miami
Speaker 2: plus two ninety. At one point they were minus six hundred,
Speaker 2: and then they totally collapsed. Green Bay plus three point fifty.
Speaker 2: I don't think that was a terrible bet. I think
Speaker 2: it was decent value. They finished second lines better than
Speaker 2: I thought they were gonna. Pittsburgh plus four seventy is
Speaker 2: a bad bet. Green Bearer Baltimore's better. I thought Seattle
Speaker 2: plus thirty that was a bad bet. Atlanta plus two ten,
Speaker 2: I mean they were alive on the final day of
Speaker 2: the regular season. They could win the division on the
Speaker 2: final day of the regular season. That wasn't a terrible bet,
Speaker 2: but it didn't work. And then the one that really
Speaker 2: really brutalized me, the Jags in Kansas City at plus
Speaker 2: one fifty. By the way, Miami was plus two ninety,
Speaker 2: green Bay was plus three fifty. Pittsburgh was plus four seventy.
Speaker 2: So at I just won the Miami bet, which I
Speaker 2: should have. It would have taken care of three of
Speaker 2: these other ones. Seattle was plus two thirty, Atlanta was
Speaker 2: plus two ten, and then Jags Kansas City. I didn't
Speaker 2: need the Jags to not full blown collapse, and that was,
Speaker 2: if you remember, a two unit bet at plus one
Speaker 2: fifty six. And then Pittsburgh Miami Green Bay was a
Speaker 2: quarter unit bet at ninety nine to one. So that's one, two, three, four,
Speaker 2: five six seven for Jags. Case Jesus seventy two fifty
Speaker 2: on Division winter bets. Sweet Christ, all right.
Speaker 3: You've got after Jas bets in here in totality and
Speaker 3: all read.
Speaker 2: I know the Jags cost me all of it, all
Speaker 2: of it. There's I'll do the math in a minute,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna prove it to you. The Jags losing
Speaker 2: that final game of the year, how much it cost
Speaker 2: me is what will I'll show you. But right now, now,
Speaker 2: after the Division winter bets, I'm stuck sixty five hundred
Speaker 2: and forty dollars on my preseason bets. And I make
Speaker 2: these bets by the way this is there's real money
Speaker 2: out the door. Now to the make miss playoffs bets.
Speaker 3: All right, you got Kansas City, Dallas, and Jacksonville to
Speaker 3: all make it at plus one sixty.
Speaker 2: Jacksonville will and that was another two unit bet. That
Speaker 2: was another two unit bet. Okay. And again Kansas City
Speaker 2: locked with weeks to goo, Dallas locked with weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Jacksonville was eight and three and fell apart. So that's
Speaker 2: minus two thousand, all right, the Jets to miss, thank
Speaker 2: Christ finally a winner at plus one ten. Should have
Speaker 2: put a one hundred units on it. It's just so maddening.
Speaker 2: Uh And then this last one Cleveland Jets and Detroit
Speaker 2: to miss. Obviously I went only one for three, but
Speaker 2: that was only a quarter unit, so that is uh
Speaker 2: so this is so that is that cost me two fifty.
Speaker 2: So now, so I finished the year with this minus
Speaker 2: seventy six ninety. I though, want to show you what
Speaker 2: I would have finished if the Jags had won the
Speaker 2: final game of the year. If the Jags had won
Speaker 2: the final So Monzi, just remember the number seventy six ninety.
Speaker 2: It's well, it's easy. If the Jags had won the
Speaker 2: final game of the year they would have made the playoffs,
Speaker 2: which would have meant instead of losing two thousand, I
Speaker 2: would have won thirty two hundred on that two unit bet.
Speaker 3: Right, Okay?
Speaker 2: So that is so? That is a fifty two hundred
Speaker 2: dollars swing on just that bet. And then the Jags
Speaker 2: Chiefs parlay Jags to make the playoffs instead of Jags
Speaker 2: and Chiefs both to win the division. Pardon me, instead
Speaker 2: of losing two thousand, I would have won plus one
Speaker 2: fifty six. So I would have won three thousand one
Speaker 2: twenty so right? Is that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Thirty one to twenty so plus? So how much did
Speaker 2: I say I lost demons on the year seventy six
Speaker 2: ninety seventy six ninety Instead I would have been up
Speaker 2: twenty six thirty. So when I say that that game
Speaker 2: was a swing, that game represented the Jags Titans game
Speaker 2: when Trevor reached for the goal line and wasn't, in short,
Speaker 2: represented a swing of how much that one game? I
Speaker 2: can't read twenty dollars? Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I think you should probably start listening to
Speaker 3: your instincts like Belichick and Pete Carroll.
Speaker 2: My instincts, My instincts were bet the Jags. I didn't
Speaker 2: know Trevor was gonna get hurt all right. Last thing though,
Speaker 2: because despite all of it, still sneaky alive for a
Speaker 2: huge year. I just need to get the super Bowl right.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, those aren't green red, which means they're both alive.
Speaker 2: I got the two seed in the three seeds Kansas
Speaker 2: City Dallas to make the super Bowl at plus thirty
Speaker 2: fifty and Kancity defeat Dallas in the super Bowl at
Speaker 2: fifty to one. So if we get at Kans City
Speaker 2: Dallas super Bowl on the year, I win just over
Speaker 2: twenty three. And if we get Kancity beating Dallas on
Speaker 2: the year, I win just over eighty three. So we're
Speaker 2: not dead yet. And the Jags killed me and be
Speaker 2: trying to outsmart Vegas killed me. That's the reality of it.
Speaker 2: And we're accountable on this show. We're not gonna be
Speaker 2: out here be in some tout that's acting like we
Speaker 2: every year we have winning years. This was a tough one.
Speaker 2: I don't need this recap screen on the screen. Let's
Speaker 2: move on to last week, which was the final week
Speaker 2: of the year, my chance to get at five hundred,
Speaker 2: and we went two and three.
Speaker 3: God dogg it.
Speaker 2: This was frustrating.
Speaker 3: YEP got Cleveland seven to.
Speaker 2: New England minus one and a half total loser, Detroit
Speaker 2: minus three and a half. Great bet the Jet the
Speaker 2: Giants plus five and a half they won out right
Speaker 2: and Miami, how they didn't cover three? They win the
Speaker 2: whole game super Punk Return. But that's okay. Now we
Speaker 2: get to our actual wild card picks. Demons. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: tell you right now. The first two I don't feel
Speaker 2: great about, but I take every game. My dream of
Speaker 2: going thirteen and zero in the playoffs stays alive, at
Speaker 2: least until the game's kickoff. The first two I don't
Speaker 2: feel great about. Give me the first one.
Speaker 3: Your first one's Cleveland minus two and a half at Houston.
Speaker 2: Okay, I really don't like taking a road favorite, and
Speaker 2: I really don't like going with the worst quarterback. So
Speaker 2: you might say, why would I not take Houston. I
Speaker 2: do not think Houston's front is going to be able
Speaker 2: to block Cleveland's front, and Houston, if you can, because
Speaker 2: of their wide receiver injuries. If you can take away
Speaker 2: Nico Collins and I think Jim Schwartz's defense is going
Speaker 2: to be able to you can make that offense grind
Speaker 2: to a halt. So you have a Cleveland team that
Speaker 2: is rested because they sat every one of importance in
Speaker 2: Week eighteen against a Houston team coming off a massive
Speaker 2: emotional win that they maybe got a little lucky on
Speaker 2: at the end. I don't love it, but I'll take
Speaker 2: Cleveland minus two and a half in round one at Houston,
Speaker 2: and so that that's where I'm at on that. Demond's
Speaker 2: the next one, and I'll tell you why I don't
Speaker 2: feel great about the next one.
Speaker 3: Kansas City minus four and a half versus Miami.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's why I don't love this one, because I'm
Speaker 2: just getting a terrible number. This line opened at one
Speaker 2: and a half, instantly got bet up to two and
Speaker 2: a half three, and now as the weather reports have
Speaker 2: come out throughout the week and more Miami injury reports,
Speaker 2: the line has creeped all the way to four and
Speaker 2: a half. So as the show makes fun of me
Speaker 2: for though while I don't always bet on the Chiefs,
Speaker 2: if I bet a Chiefs game, it is always on
Speaker 2: the Chiefs. I never go against them in these spots.
Speaker 2: I also think Miami is gonna be too cold to
Speaker 2: play football. I don't think they're prepared for these elements,
Speaker 2: and I think the elements are gonna play a major
Speaker 2: factor in a number of games this weekend. I think
Speaker 2: the Chiefs resting last week is super helpful. Miami's obviously
Speaker 2: playing it's worst football of the year. Mahomes is, without exaggeration,
Speaker 2: the greatest statistical playoff quarterback of all time. He is
Speaker 2: first all time in winning percentage, completion percentage, yards per game,
Speaker 2: passer rating, touchdown interception ratio. I think Miami is while
Speaker 2: the Chiefs offense is not great. Miami's defense is so
Speaker 2: banged up. I think the Chiefs offense could look good
Speaker 2: against them. And I don't love swallowing the full four
Speaker 2: and a half points, but I will my Kansas City
Speaker 2: minus four and a half against Miami, and that's they're
Speaker 2: the home team, they're the better team, they're playing better
Speaker 2: as of late.
Speaker 3: Next you've got Pittsburgh plus ten at Buffalo. F good
Speaker 3: about that one. It's just.
Speaker 2: Well, it's just way too many points for what's gonna
Speaker 2: be a wind snowstorm. I mean, it's go there's gonna
Speaker 2: be a foot of snow, there's gonna be massive wins.
Speaker 2: It's just too many points for a game played in
Speaker 2: those conditions, and so I Buffalo blow them out. No, No,
Speaker 2: I mean I think more likely. It's like thirteen to
Speaker 2: six is more likely, and not six because of two
Speaker 2: field goals, six because of a touchdown by Pittsburgh and
Speaker 2: a missed extra point. Like I mean, these conditions are
Speaker 2: going to be brutal, but Buffalo oddly is not as
Speaker 2: good as you would expect in terrible conditions given where
Speaker 2: they play. Also, we know Tomlin as an underdog is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Josh Allen hasn't covered seven straight games as a double
Speaker 2: digit favorite, and Josh Allen is always over Josh Allen's
Speaker 2: two and six against the spread in his playoff career.
Speaker 2: He's always overvalued come the postseason. I'm getting the better coach,
Speaker 2: I think, And you can't say the better defense because TJ.
Speaker 2: Watts out for the game. But I'm getting the better
Speaker 2: coach and a team that wants to run the ball
Speaker 2: in these terrible conditions. I will take the ten points next.
Speaker 3: Dallas minus seven and a half versus Green Bay. I
Speaker 3: gotta tell you this one's kind of disrespectful. But what's disrespectful? God?
Speaker 3: Jordan Love on Green Bay. He's good.
Speaker 2: I like Jordan Love, Yeah, but he's The Cowboys are
Speaker 2: gonna score thirty eight points. So can Jordan Love in
Speaker 2: his first playoff start ever break thirty. That's what he's
Speaker 2: gonna need just to cover because the Cowboys are scoring
Speaker 2: thirty eight points in this game. The Cowboys offense at
Speaker 2: home against that brutal Green Bay defense and Joe Barry
Speaker 2: coordinating it no chance. So the Cowboys are gonna move
Speaker 2: the ball at will. A bit of a revenge spot
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy, the team that fired him, Dak chip on
Speaker 2: his shoulder that he at least should be in the
Speaker 2: MVP conversation instead of it just being handed to Lamar.
Speaker 2: All those things, the Cowboys getting the exact draw that
Speaker 2: they want. This is my second favorite bet of the weekend.
Speaker 2: The first three games of the six games this weekend,
Speaker 2: I am least confident in Cleveland minus two and a
Speaker 2: half against Houston. I am next least confident Pittsburgh plus
Speaker 2: ten at Buffalo, and the I am next as far
Speaker 2: as you know, confidence level kensity minus four and a
Speaker 2: half against Miami. The last three games are the three
Speaker 2: games I like the most. Dallas minus seven and a
Speaker 2: half against Green Bay is my second favorite bet of
Speaker 2: the weekend. I understand the Cowboys are three and twelve
Speaker 2: against the spread in the playoffs in their last fifteen games.
Speaker 3: And thirty seven and a half. I don't know if
Speaker 3: you had already known that.
Speaker 2: But no, no, no, no, it's not. There's no chance that
Speaker 2: it is. That's got to be at plus a bunch
Speaker 2: of money.
Speaker 3: Oh, Cowboys the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Cowboys. No, the Cowboys scoring over thirty seven
Speaker 2: and a half points is plus two sixty five? Is
Speaker 2: what they is? What it is? Oh, so the Cowboys
Speaker 2: team total is plus two over if I'm right. What
Speaker 2: he's saying is, if I'm right, I can get them
Speaker 2: plus two six and five on that. My guess is
Speaker 2: the Cowboys actual projected total for the game is twenty
Speaker 2: nine and a half, thirty and a half. That's that
Speaker 2: would be my I mean, I can look, I don't
Speaker 2: have to guess. I can just look or go ahead
Speaker 2: and just Daniel just put it in the dock for
Speaker 2: us so we can see what their actual team total is.
Speaker 2: Thirty and a half. Yeah, yeah, so that makes sense,
Speaker 2: all right, Demand the next one because this is my
Speaker 2: favorite bet of the weekend.
Speaker 3: You got the Rams plus three at Detroit. Gonna be
Speaker 3: a good game, revenge game.
Speaker 2: I don't know about that. Who's got the better coach
Speaker 2: the Rams. Who has the better quarterback the Rams? Who
Speaker 2: has the better defense the Rams now that Laport is out.
Speaker 2: Who has the better skill position guys the Rams? Aside
Speaker 2: from offensive line? What is one edge the Lions have
Speaker 2: They don't have one. Wrong team's favored the Rams right now.
Speaker 2: I yeah, no, of course, I mean that is, and
Speaker 2: that is an obvious edge, But you don't get the
Speaker 2: home field edge of like, oh, and now the Rams
Speaker 2: got to play in the elements. It's a Dome team, obviously.
Speaker 2: I think that the Rams right now. I think the
Speaker 2: Rams are the fifth best team in the NFL right now.
Speaker 2: The only teams I would have ahead of the Rams
Speaker 2: are the Chiefs, Cowboys, Ravens, and Niners. I think the
Speaker 2: Rams right now are better than Buffalo. They are just
Speaker 2: as hot as Buffalo. By the way, They've won seven
Speaker 2: of eight. Their one loss was an overtime loss to Baltimore.
Speaker 2: The team's healthy and playing great. So I love the
Speaker 2: Rams in this spot, all right. So that's my favorite
Speaker 2: bet of the weekend. That my second favorite bet is
Speaker 2: the Cowboys minus seven and a half. And then number
Speaker 2: three is this go ahead to Monsey Tampa.
Speaker 3: This spiteful bets. What we're gonna call it Tampa Bay
Speaker 3: plus three versus Philly.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I don't like the how Tampa looked
Speaker 2: in Week eighteen, and Baker's clearly hurt, so that's not good.
Speaker 2: But Philly is right now this moment. Philly's a bottom
Speaker 2: five team in the NFL. They have the worst defense
Speaker 2: of any playoff team. Their quarterback is banged up and
Speaker 2: not playing well, their coach doesn't know what he's doing,
Speaker 2: and both of their star wide receivers are hurt. Like
Speaker 2: what what does Philly do well right now? And be
Speaker 2: like the tush push, Well, you gotta get to third
Speaker 2: and short or fourth and short. For that the defense
Speaker 2: can't stop anyone. Patricia un't know what he's doing, Like
Speaker 2: I Tampa now, because Tampa's far from a great team,
Speaker 2: they're barely even a good team, and their quarterback's hurt.
Speaker 2: You're nervous about this spot. But Tampa plus three come on,
Speaker 2: And so I love Tampa. I shouldn't say love. I
Speaker 2: really like Tampa in this spot, but the Rams plus three,
Speaker 2: Dallas minus seven and a half, Tampa plus three are
Speaker 2: my three favorite bets. Less confident in Pittsburgh plus ten,
Speaker 2: Kansas City minus four and a half, and Cleveland minus
Speaker 2: two and a half. And my dream of going six
Speaker 2: or thirteen to zero in the playoffs. You know it
Speaker 2: starts this weekend, all right? What's the offer?
Speaker 3: All right? So it's gonna be super cold in Kansas
Speaker 3: City for that game. So we're gonna check out the
Speaker 3: running back who runs harder than anybody in the league,
Speaker 3: Isaiah Pacheco one hundred plus rushing yards at plus three seventy.
Speaker 3: You taken it.
Speaker 2: Plus three seventy makes it somewhat attractive, will he Andy
Speaker 2: doesn't love sticking to the run, and so it's it's
Speaker 2: worth a little flyer at plus three seventy.
Speaker 3: I certainly like heavy than they have any other time
Speaker 3: throughout this year. I mean, I feel like they're they're
Speaker 3: not run heavy right now. I feel like they keep
Speaker 3: it balanced. No, but they are going to be running
Speaker 3: more in this game. I would think, you would imagine.
Speaker 2: I would think the flip side of that is in
Speaker 2: Miami's pass rush is so decimated. I'll tell you who's
Speaker 2: with blind bet every game of the playoffs Mahomes rushing total,
Speaker 2: Mahomes rushing overs every game. I'm gonna bet it. Mahomes
Speaker 2: is as effective of a scrambling quarterback, not punishing like
Speaker 2: Josh Allen or elusive like Lamar, but as far as
Speaker 2: I can get the yardage I need as any quarterback
Speaker 2: in the league. And he doesn't do it much in
Speaker 2: the regular season because he's trying to stay healthy. In
Speaker 2: these playoffs, he's gonna be running Mahomes rushing overs. I
Speaker 2: love maybe a little taste on Pacheco there as well.
Speaker 2: All Right, quick break, demonse, right back, come back and
Speaker 2: answer listener questions. That's next, What's right? All right, welcome
Speaker 2: back in What's Right with Nick? Right demonse. Let's get
Speaker 2: through some of the listener questions from the chat quickly
Speaker 2: before we move on.
Speaker 3: Scott asks, Uh, Nick, do you think like I do,
Speaker 3: that this is Mike Tomlin's last game in Pittsburgh?
Speaker 2: No, absolutely not. That's not a team that I think
Speaker 2: is gonna fire their coach if they lose in Round one.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna be his last game. I
Speaker 2: think if there was any questions, he answered them at
Speaker 2: the way they ended the season.
Speaker 3: All right, Next, Michael Curtis, should Lakers go all in
Speaker 3: for someone like Levigne or stick with the current roster
Speaker 3: and make marginal moves?
Speaker 2: Well, they stick with the current roster, they're drawing dead.
Speaker 2: I don't think you have to go all in for
Speaker 2: I think you have to go partially. And I don't
Speaker 2: think you're gonna have to give up a ton for
Speaker 2: Zach Levine. Probably give up DeAngelo Ruey in a first
Speaker 2: round pick and be able to get Zach Levine. Bulls
Speaker 2: have played better without him. But yeah, the Lakers need
Speaker 2: to make a significant change, a significant change. Next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe bring the end season tournament back play a
Speaker 3: little bit harder. Class Onion twenty five said, really curious
Speaker 3: to see how beat who's.
Speaker 2: Bebe Bill Belichick?
Speaker 3: Bill? Oh yeah, Bill Belichick does on another team. Well,
Speaker 3: his coaching style work with a new organization that isn't
Speaker 3: used isn't used to his old school ways.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think it'll work. Listen, I think Belichick's
Speaker 2: style still works. He's just had terrible, terrible quarterback play,
Speaker 2: and I think that he's he hasn't necessarily had the
Speaker 2: best picks of offensive coordinators and he's had bad quarterback play.
Speaker 2: It's simple as that, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Trevor Barber asked, Nick, do you do you have
Speaker 3: any poker tournaments coming up? I enjoy watching you play
Speaker 3: the pros and taking their money.
Speaker 2: Well, last time I played the pros, they took my money.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that, Trevor. I so I have an opportunity
Speaker 2: to play on Poker Go shortly after the super Bowl,
Speaker 2: but I don't know if I'm gonna be doing that
Speaker 2: or not. Uh So, I'm not sure. I hope once
Speaker 2: football is over that world opens up to me more again.
Speaker 2: I had an opportunity to go to Houston a few
Speaker 2: weeks ago, but I couldn't. There's a great tournament series,
Speaker 2: it wouldn't be on TV right now going on in
Speaker 2: Atlantic City that I would be going to. But your
Speaker 2: mother not shockingly, you know, it's been a couple months.
Speaker 2: So she's going on a nice little Caribbean vacation for
Speaker 2: the weekend while I am, you know, just at home
Speaker 2: in the cold with your baby, sister. Your I thought
Speaker 2: demonse that my mom was gonna be helping out with
Speaker 2: Deanna this weekend, so I wasn't really tripping about your
Speaker 2: your mom, your mom is going to uh locations I
Speaker 2: don't unknown in the Caribbean for her best friend's birthday.
Speaker 2: And I just assumed, I guess that she had worked
Speaker 2: out with my mom that Deanna would be with my mom.
Speaker 2: My mom's going out of town. It is wild card weekend.
Speaker 2: Deanna doesn't even have school Monday because it's Mlkday and
Speaker 2: it's just me and her. I'm like, I'm legit. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna lie to you. De Monsey. You would have
Speaker 2: been so annoyed me. I looked in to plane tickets
Speaker 2: of either you coming here or more likely me sending
Speaker 2: her to you her first ever flight by herself. But
Speaker 2: they I couldn't get it done. I have to watch
Speaker 2: football all weekend and the Chiefs play Saturday night. Can
Speaker 2: you imagine if the Chiefs lose, which they're not going to,
Speaker 2: but if they lose, the mood I'm gonna be in
Speaker 2: Sunday it's not good. I'm nervous about this whole week.
Speaker 3: We've got to got a couple options. We got Patrushka,
Speaker 3: we got you know, we got.
Speaker 2: No no, it's just let's all on. Let's not name names.
Speaker 2: I don't like to publicly say people's names. Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3: I felt weird about it. I thought about saying ice
Speaker 3: cream lady, but I didn't want to be disrespectful.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, but Trusha is but you did the
Speaker 2: right thing. Butatrushka is fine. She's a public figure, she's
Speaker 2: a social media influencer and ice cream magnate. Next door. Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe for a day, maybe a day.
Speaker 3: Make the iPad charged.
Speaker 2: And I love Deanna, don't get me wrong. And I
Speaker 2: love spending time with my daughter.
Speaker 3: But it's when football is going on. I've been in
Speaker 3: that room when Deanna's dude, she just it's a question
Speaker 3: every ten seconds, like.
Speaker 2: It's oh my gosh, well there we go. Good luck
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