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Speaker 1: Michael Penix really really rough. Year two's for Michael Pinnix
Speaker 1: and for JJ McCarthy in particular. Pinis the worst of
Speaker 1: it as he, after an injury riddled college career, is
Speaker 1: undergoing season ending knee surgery. The NFL my play game
Speaker 1: in Paris in twenty twenty six would be sick and
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers planning to practice today despite having a broken
Speaker 1: left wrist. Let me tell you, guys, as someone who
Speaker 1: had a broken left wrist not that long ago, seems
Speaker 1: impossible that one could play an NFL game with it.
Speaker 1: I'm very interested in how this plays out. Obviously, fractures
Speaker 1: are different. Everybody's body heals differently, but Aaron Rodgers doesn't
Speaker 1: seem super fond of getting hit as is. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine what it will be like if he's playing a
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Speaker 1: am inundated because Kevin Wilds is, so we're going to
Speaker 1: start talking about the Lakers and Lebron's debut, but a
Speaker 1: little inside baseball, if you will. To first things first,
Speaker 1: Kevin Wilds only wanted to discuss a potential of Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis trade if there was a possibility that Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: would be able to be traded back to the Lakers.
Speaker 1: And I told Wilds that was not possible, and it
Speaker 1: was a dumb idea. And so he has now spent
Speaker 1: the last thirty minutes trying to create a fake trade,
Speaker 1: and he now has done it involving the Brooklyn Nets
Speaker 1: being a third team where they for some reason that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to ask Wilds to explain trade away
Speaker 1: multiple of their own first round picks so they can
Speaker 1: get a couple second rounders and Jared Vanderbilt in order
Speaker 1: to facilitate the Lakers getting Anthony Davis back. K W.
Speaker 1: I know you don't listen to the pod, but if somebody, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. Then he then writes, I didn't create it,
Speaker 1: but you have to believe somebody else did for him. Okay,
Speaker 1: neither here nor there. Now to the actual show. kW
Speaker 1: stays a dufus forever Lebron's back, and I have a
Speaker 1: lot of takes. So no athlete in my lifetime has
Speaker 1: generated more idiotic and immediately self refuting opinions than Lebron.
Speaker 1: And it's because I think it's because he's been for
Speaker 1: basically as long as daily sports television has existed, Lebron
Speaker 1: has been one of, if not the main character, and
Speaker 1: because he has played, you know, throughout the entirety of
Speaker 1: this medium and because he has been at the eye
Speaker 1: of the NBA storm, which while the NBA has never
Speaker 1: in his career been the country's most popular sport, but
Speaker 1: it has been at various times in his career the
Speaker 1: country's most talked about. When it comes to sports debate
Speaker 1: and sports TV and sports talk radio, Lebron is the
Speaker 1: Lebron commentariot has spawned just some truly ridiculous and upon reflection,
Speaker 1: hilarious moments. And these are for me, friends and foes alike.
Speaker 1: I mean, we are twelve twelve. Is that right? No,
Speaker 1: it's not right. Thirteen years ago, my dear pal Dan
Speaker 1: Lebtard announced Lebron was on the downside and Miami had
Speaker 1: gotten the best of him. That was thirteen years ago.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to talk about guys that I love
Speaker 1: and adore, so it doesn't seem like I'm trying to
Speaker 1: take cheap shots here. Famously, the owner and founder of
Speaker 1: this company, my mentor Colin, eight years ago said Lebron,
Speaker 1: hang it up whenever you want. We've got the NBA's
Speaker 1: got it from here. It was actually nine years ago,
Speaker 1: and that that's an all time clip a because Lebron
Speaker 1: would go on to win multiple championships after that, but
Speaker 1: b because he was saying that Ben Simmons is gonna
Speaker 1: take over. I listen, Colin, I was as high on
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons as about anybody. I have to hold that
Speaker 1: l as well. And there, of course is all the
Speaker 1: skip stuff with the clutch, and then the latest steven
Speaker 1: A stuff with the real personal I don't like that
Speaker 1: guy so much of it just outright silliness. And then
Speaker 1: we got an unexpected dose of it in The Wee
Speaker 1: Leader in the week or so leading up to Lebron
Speaker 1: making his debut, which was, hey, will Lebron be able
Speaker 1: to fit in with the Lakers even though we saw
Speaker 1: Luca and Lebron and Austin Reeves play together last year? Hey,
Speaker 1: will Lebron actually make the Lakers worse? Will he screw
Speaker 1: up what they have going on? These were real conversations,
Speaker 1: real discussions about the most malleable, most flexible as far
Speaker 1: as how he can help your team player in NBA history,
Speaker 1: about arguably the only guy in the history of the
Speaker 1: league that can legitimately and has literally made an All
Speaker 1: NBA team at all five positions on the court. Check
Speaker 1: his Basketball Reference for that was an All NBA center
Speaker 1: one year for the Lakers and an All NBA point
Speaker 1: guard the year after that for the Lakers. Late stage,
Speaker 1: Lebron was an All NBA shooting guard as a young
Speaker 1: player early and then obviously All NBA small forward and
Speaker 1: power forward throughout his career. That that guy that can
Speaker 1: play all five and certainly the younger version of him,
Speaker 1: and to a degree, the older version of him can
Speaker 1: guard all five, that that guy was gonna screw up
Speaker 1: a team. And then Lebron comes in keeps his double
Speaker 1: digit point streak alive, which is going to be a
Speaker 1: very fun and funny thing to watch this year because uh,
Speaker 1: it's obviously an untouchable record and we'll get more on
Speaker 1: the Lebron untouchable record stuff in a moment. But he
Speaker 1: wants to keep it going. But he is, I believe,
Speaker 1: going to play a very different style this year. That
Speaker 1: game Tuesday night, that's the fewest shots he's ever taken
Speaker 1: in a game he didn't leave with injury. And speaking
Speaker 1: of the double digit point streak, one of those games
Speaker 1: that he left with injury, because there's only been two
Speaker 1: games in his career he took fewer than seven shots,
Speaker 1: which is what he took Tuesday Night one, he didn't
Speaker 1: play the second half because he took an elbow from
Speaker 1: to Kim Big Matumbo, and one he left early when
Speaker 1: Solomon Hill fell into his ankle and derailed the Lakers
Speaker 1: title defense the twenty twenty one season. But that game
Speaker 1: involves one of my favorite Lebron moments of all time,
Speaker 1: which is Solomon Hill falls into his ankle, Lebron recognizes
Speaker 1: he has suffered the first truly significant injury of his
Speaker 1: entire career up to that point and is going to
Speaker 1: be out months and is sitting at seven points and
Speaker 1: the streak is dead, And despite suffering an injury that
Speaker 1: is going to knock him out for the next two months,
Speaker 1: he pretends he's not hurt badly, stays in the game,
Speaker 1: gets the ball, takes a corner, three hits, it keeps
Speaker 1: the double figure point streak alive, and then is out
Speaker 1: for the majority of the rest of the season. But
Speaker 1: that's sidebar Lebron being dropped in as a team's ultimate
Speaker 1: Swiss army knife and Lebron taking pride in that ability,
Speaker 1: and Lebron then saying after the game with a smile, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard what was being said. I've been a you know,
Speaker 1: you could put me on any team and I would
Speaker 1: make it work. Is just obviously true. And people's you know,
Speaker 1: people say that about Kevin Durant all the time, like, oh,
Speaker 1: you just drop him in anywhere, And yes, that's true
Speaker 1: about other players, great players. You drop him in and
Speaker 1: they would make any team better. The distinction is can
Speaker 1: you drop a player in and can they instantly do
Speaker 1: at a high level the exact thing that team needs
Speaker 1: them to do. This Lakers team right now might need
Speaker 1: Lebron to be more facilitator, cutter, screener than scorer. Unlike
Speaker 1: some of the other great players in this league. He
Speaker 1: has the skill set at forty in year twenty three
Speaker 1: to be excellent at all at anything. Now, is he
Speaker 1: the best player in the league anymore? Of course, not
Speaker 1: see a top five player in the league anymore. No,
Speaker 1: But is he still have a legitimate show at being
Speaker 1: right around top ten And is he, assuredly when he's healthy,
Speaker 1: still a top fifteen guy in the league. Yes, And
Speaker 1: that guy with that malleability helps any team in the
Speaker 1: history of basketball. Now, is it all right? Now? A
Speaker 1: moot point for the whole NBA because of who and
Speaker 1: what OKC is maybe everybody might be playing for second
Speaker 1: this year, but we'll see things happen, and there's an
Speaker 1: element of, I don't want to say lack of appreciation,
Speaker 1: but numbness to what we are seeing at this moment.
Speaker 1: And this is something that you know I've said before,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that people like fully take it in.
Speaker 1: And especially because you know Steph is playing at such
Speaker 1: a high level at an advanced age. Durant is playing
Speaker 1: at such a high level at an advanced age. But
Speaker 1: see whether you want to focus on the age forty
Speaker 1: part or the year twenty three part. The it being
Speaker 1: without precedent is such a wild understatement. Like Kobe Bryant,
Speaker 1: the late great Kobe Bryant. How old do you think
Speaker 1: Kobe was when he played in his final playoff game
Speaker 1: with the Lakers. I'm gonna give it a pause so
Speaker 1: you can actually think about it. How old was Kobe
Speaker 1: in his final career playoff game? Are you shocked when
Speaker 1: I tell you the answer to that is thirty two.
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant did not play in a playoff game with
Speaker 1: the Lakers after the age of thirty two. Like a
Speaker 1: little context to that, Lebron joined the Lakers when he
Speaker 1: was thirty four. So obviously Jordan stop with that was
Speaker 1: done with the Bulls at thirty five, thirty six. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we've never seen a player play in a year twenty three,
Speaker 1: and the only one to get to a year twenty
Speaker 1: two was Vince It's I said this a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago and people laughed. I think we are now
Speaker 1: seeing it in real time. He'll simply never be bad
Speaker 1: and he could easily play at again, not an MVP level,
Speaker 1: but a high level throughout his forties barring again, barring
Speaker 1: a you're always at this age of a catastrophic injury away.
Speaker 1: But he's ducked that up to this point in his career,
Speaker 1: and people can have the argument about the greatest player
Speaker 1: of all time that is going to age so well
Speaker 1: on my end and so poorly for so many other folks,
Speaker 1: because it is when it does come to And this
Speaker 1: isn't the whole discussion, but it is at least a
Speaker 1: piece of it. The record books. With the way things
Speaker 1: are going right now as far as injuries, load management,
Speaker 1: guys not being able to make it through a full season,
Speaker 1: Lebron's longevity records are going to when people look back
Speaker 1: on him in forty years. It's going to be like
Speaker 1: if you look at complete games in baseball right now
Speaker 1: and you're like, wait, a guy had forty in one year.
Speaker 1: Like all of these games, minutes, points, the playoff records
Speaker 1: are going to be shame Mberlin esque, untouchable and farcical
Speaker 1: in the numbers to future generations. And I'm very, very
Speaker 1: interested to see the full role Bron takes on with
Speaker 1: the Lakers, because in Game one of year twenty three,
Speaker 1: he was like, Okay, I'll be late stage Magic Johnson,
Speaker 1: and that's pretty damn good. There's one other Bron adjacent
Speaker 1: thing I wanted to talk about, and this is one
Speaker 1: of those things that I imagine will do well on
Speaker 1: social media or YouTube or and might cause me a
Speaker 1: little grief, but I I just I can't leave it unaddressed,
Speaker 1: and I don't. I'm not trying to start anything, but
Speaker 1: this is so it was maddening when I heard it.
Speaker 1: So the greatest sports podcaster of all time, the guy
Speaker 1: who in some ways invented the medium, and a guy
Speaker 1: I like a lot, Bill Simmons brought the mail bag back,
Speaker 1: which is awesome. It's vented Simmons. It's part of the
Speaker 1: reason that he's who he is and it's awesome, and
Speaker 1: because I'm a fan, I was listening and he gets
Speaker 1: asked about the biggest sliding doors moments in NBA history,
Speaker 1: and he goes to the Draymond Groin shot of Lebron
Speaker 1: in Game four of the twenty sixteen Finals, which is
Speaker 1: a legitimate sliding doors moment, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: And he talks about how if the Warriors win that title,
Speaker 1: Durant can't go, you know, to Golden State. So then
Speaker 1: who wins the next two? Does Lebron ever win in Cleveland?
Speaker 1: Does Lebron ever go to the Lakers? There's that is
Speaker 1: you know, what does it mean for Steph? Back to
Speaker 1: back championships? He and Lebron then at that moment would
Speaker 1: have been two to two. He would have had back
Speaker 1: to back league MVPs, including a unanimous there are it's Clay,
Speaker 1: He's Simmons talks about all of it, and he's correct
Speaker 1: about that being a sliding doors moment. But there's two
Speaker 1: pieces of the commentary that are just one is enraging
Speaker 1: and it's not about Bill, and the other one is
Speaker 1: I he just must talk to very different NBA people
Speaker 1: than me, because what Bill said was the conspiracy theory
Speaker 1: that people believe more than any other conspiracy is that
Speaker 1: the NBA suspended Draymond because they wanted Cleveland to win
Speaker 1: the title. And I've literally never heard that. Now, I
Speaker 1: certainly have heard the conspiracy that they suspended Draymond because
Speaker 1: they hoped the series would go longer than five. But
Speaker 1: the idea that in real time, anyone outside of the
Speaker 1: Calves locker room, me and Zach Lowe, we're all on
Speaker 1: the record during this, everyone's doing media. Nobody else when
Speaker 1: that suspension came down said oh, well, now I think
Speaker 1: the Calves are going to win. That Warriors team was
Speaker 1: considered the greatest team of all time and had dominated
Speaker 1: the Calves through the first four games of that series.
Speaker 1: So the first point is the idea that it is
Speaker 1: widely thought in NBA circles that the Draymond suspension was
Speaker 1: going to lead to the Calves winning the championship. We
Speaker 1: were all there in real time that was not a thing.
Speaker 1: And then and then to the opinion piece of it,
Speaker 1: nothing is more maddening for me as a bron fan.
Speaker 1: Then the fact that when that happened, and then the
Speaker 1: Calves win Game five by fifteen and Lebron scores forty
Speaker 1: one points. The entire media asserts that would have never
Speaker 1: happened if Draymond was there. The Calves winning by double
Speaker 1: digits and Lebron scoring forty plus never happened if Draymond's there.
Speaker 1: And then in Game six, when Draymond is there, Lebron
Speaker 1: scores forty one and the Calves win by fifteen points.
Speaker 1: Game five of those finals, No, Draymond, Bron scores broncos
Speaker 1: I'll give you his exact stat line, just so we
Speaker 1: all are on the same page. Forty one, sixteen and
Speaker 1: seven on fifty five percent from the field, sixty three
Speaker 1: percent from three, and the Calves win by fifteen. So again,
Speaker 1: forty one sixteen to seven, fifty five sixty three splits,
Speaker 1: fifteen point win. Game six of the finals, Forty one
Speaker 1: eight eleven on sixty five seventy five splits and the
Speaker 1: Calves win by fourteen. Like, what are we talking about?
Speaker 1: What are we talking about? Oh? Hold on, I gotta
Speaker 1: do that, because I'm sure I have to fix that.
Speaker 1: I have to fix that. I apologize I gave you
Speaker 1: the wrong field goal percentages. Let me do that again,
Speaker 1: because I want this to be accurate. I gave you
Speaker 1: so Game five of the Finals, No Draymond forty one
Speaker 1: sixteen and seven on fifty three fifty splits in a
Speaker 1: fifteen point win. Game six of the Finals with Draymond
Speaker 1: forty one, eight to eleven on fifty nine fifty splits
Speaker 1: in a fourteen point win. It's just revisionist history. And
Speaker 1: it's the only other reason that's relevant to me right
Speaker 1: now is that game happened ten seasons ago and this
Speaker 1: guy's still playing. It's just a career that will never
Speaker 1: be even remotely approached. And it's if you're if you're
Speaker 1: listening to this right now and a sports fan of
Speaker 1: this era. The fact that we got to experience Tom
Speaker 1: Brady going more than twenty years of elite in the
Speaker 1: mix every single year, ten Super Bowl appearances across multiple teams,
Speaker 1: while experiencing Lebron doing the exact same thing in the NBA,
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Speaker 1: or Virginia. All right, so, Chief, season on the line
Speaker 1: Sunday at Arrowhead. I don't like it. It's not what
Speaker 1: I expected. I thought they were going to give themselves
Speaker 1: a bit of a margin of error and be right
Speaker 1: back in the thick of the divisional race by beating
Speaker 1: the Broncos. That did not happen. And now, as we
Speaker 1: talked about on Tuesday, it's very very simple. Run the
Speaker 1: table and you might win the division. Amazingly you'll definitely
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. Go six and one and it would
Speaker 1: be very difficult to miss the playoffs, and you'll be
Speaker 1: super dangerous going into the postseason. Go five and two
Speaker 1: and you're probably out. Go four and three and you're
Speaker 1: definitely out, and it's a true disaster of a year.
Speaker 1: That's where they're at. Okay, I am not going to
Speaker 1: be quite as chesty about my feelings and predictions for
Speaker 1: this game given what we saw last weekend. Now in
Speaker 1: the despite the Sauce Gardner trading, the fact that they
Speaker 1: might have Tavarious Wardback obviously does not have the defense
Speaker 1: that Denver has. This game, you know, is in Arrowhead,
Speaker 1: not on the road. There is no deforce Buckner, and
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones has been shaky his last few appearances. All
Speaker 1: of that makes me feel as confident as I can
Speaker 1: given how I feel after that Denver game. Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: is a great, great player. The Chiefs tend not to
Speaker 1: get gashed by like they're pretty good at at least
Speaker 1: not shutting down but slowing down great backs. But Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones is better than bon Nicks, and bo Nicks carved
Speaker 1: the Chiefs up so and this is the Colts off
Speaker 1: a bye. With all that said, as important as this
Speaker 1: game is for the Chiefs, it is greatly important for
Speaker 1: the Colts as well, because what the Colts all of
Speaker 1: a sudden have is seven straight games to end their
Speaker 1: season against teams fighting for their playoff lives to one
Speaker 1: degree or another. So they're at the Chiefs. They then
Speaker 1: get the Texans, who will be on extra rest themselves
Speaker 1: after tonight's Bill's Texans game, and the Texans will either
Speaker 1: be six and five coming off their best win of
Speaker 1: the year, or five and six in a de facto
Speaker 1: playoff game. They then go to Jacksonville, then to Seattle,
Speaker 1: then home for the Niners, home for the Jags, and
Speaker 1: at the Texans. Really odd for the Colts that they've
Speaker 1: only played two divisional games up to this point in
Speaker 1: the season. They're both against the Titans, so we haven't
Speaker 1: really seen well not really, we have not seen the
Speaker 1: Colts play the other two legitimate AFC South teams. So
Speaker 1: a loss here and things maybe get a little shaky
Speaker 1: for Indy. A win here and they're like, hey, why
Speaker 1: can't we be the one seed? So I obviously like
Speaker 1: the Chiefs in this spot, but they have lost for
Speaker 1: the short term, the supreme confidence that they'd had that
Speaker 1: they would have had in this spot at any other
Speaker 1: moment of the Mahomes EUO and the inability to get
Speaker 1: off the field in third and long is the number
Speaker 1: one problem for me with the defense and offensively obviously,
Speaker 1: and I've talked about it. Patrick needs to be more precise,
Speaker 1: particularly on the deep balls. But the biggest systemic issue
Speaker 1: with the offense right now is teams basically play the
Speaker 1: pass at all times against Kansas City, and Kansas City
Speaker 1: doesn't make him pay for it by running the ball.
Speaker 1: It's just that it's just the truth that the total
Speaker 1: lack of any threat of the under center run game
Speaker 1: has made it to where Patrick in the passing offense
Speaker 1: is up against really onerous defensive looks at all times
Speaker 1: that should be easy to run on, but they won't
Speaker 1: run the ball. Now, maybe with Pacheco likely back, that changes,
Speaker 1: one would hope. I also got to acknowledge lou An Arumo,
Speaker 1: the former Bengals decoordinator who's now with the Colts, has
Speaker 1: cooked up some really good stuff against Patrick in his career.
Speaker 1: So that's the concerning pieces of it, the bright sides
Speaker 1: of it. So to speak or this a week from now,
Speaker 1: they could be at seven and five a week from today,
Speaker 1: take care of business at home against the Colts, go
Speaker 1: to Dallas on Thanksgiving and they'd be seven and five
Speaker 1: with two games remaining against the Titans and the Raiders
Speaker 1: saying okay, there's nine and then we have a We
Speaker 1: have Houston, the Chargers, the Broncos, all in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Win two out of three of our home games, and
Speaker 1: you become the most dangerous likely seven seed in the
Speaker 1: history of the NFL playoffs. That's where we're at. But
Speaker 1: it has to start with a win against the Colts
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and it has to start with Patrick being better,
Speaker 1: Chris Jones being better, and the Chiefs ability to get
Speaker 1: off on the field on third and long being better.
Speaker 1: One of the other huge stories this week and is
Speaker 1: obviously Shadoor making the first start of his career in Vegas,
Speaker 1: Dylan Gabriel out with a concussion. Amazingly, he is the
Speaker 1: forty second person to start at quarterback for the Browns
Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety nine. Just a remarkable number. I think
Speaker 1: in that same timeframe the Packers have had farv Rogers
Speaker 1: love Willis, I believe are the only four. Maybe there's
Speaker 1: like a Sean Manyon mixed in in there, but it's
Speaker 1: certainly not more than five, and I think it's just four. Sure,
Speaker 1: last week was terrible. You don't need to argue with
Speaker 1: people on the internet about why he was terrible. He
Speaker 1: was terrible. And it is not an overstatement to say
Speaker 1: this game right here is by a wide margin the
Speaker 1: single biggest moment of Schador's football life. It is not
Speaker 1: an ideal circumstance. It is a somewhat ideal opponent, but
Speaker 1: it is what it is. And Schador does not have
Speaker 1: to be excellent in this game. But if he's awful,
Speaker 1: there's a world that exists where this is the only
Speaker 1: start he ever gets for any team. Because we know
Speaker 1: definitively no team, no team loved him coming out of school, nobody.
Speaker 1: There is not a player that teams love that is
Speaker 1: available in the fifth round. So we know that. We
Speaker 1: also know that if people were concerned that through no
Speaker 1: both of Shador's own, he would there would be a
Speaker 1: lot of other stuff, media wise and nonsense social media
Speaker 1: stuff that other players are more importantly coaches on the
Speaker 1: team have to deal with. If you take him as
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback. Those concerns have been fully validated, and
Speaker 1: so does a world exist where if Shadoor is really
Speaker 1: bad on Sunday, he does not start again this year.
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski is fired in Cleveland after this year. The
Speaker 1: new head coach comes in with multiple first round picks,
Speaker 1: takes his quarterback of the future, has Dylan Gabriel as
Speaker 1: the backup, and says, we are not dealing with more
Speaker 1: chatter surrounding our third string quarterback, and they cut it.
Speaker 1: And if that were to happen based on what teams
Speaker 1: thought about him going into the draft, do I think
Speaker 1: it's more than on the board. It's potentially likely that
Speaker 1: no team would sign up for that bringing in that
Speaker 1: guy to be your third third string quarterback. I I
Speaker 1: could see that happening, and that would feel unfair. But
Speaker 1: there's plenty of guys that were fifth round picks in
Speaker 1: this league that got that. If they got a shot
Speaker 1: or two and it didn't go, well, it's just over.
Speaker 1: It's the NFL. And so I'm by the way, I'm
Speaker 1: not predicting that he'll be terrible. I think this is
Speaker 1: actually a pretty good spot for him in this game
Speaker 1: against this opponent. I am predicting though, that if he's terrible,
Speaker 1: and he was terrible last week, that more likely than
Speaker 1: not this game is the only game he starts in
Speaker 1: his career. So as Marlow Stanfield would say, do it
Speaker 1: or don't, But I got places to be. The league's
Speaker 1: gonna keep moving. This is Shititor's moment. Now. The flip
Speaker 1: side is if he's excellent, then maybe he just keeps
Speaker 1: starting for Cleveland this year and you see if he
Speaker 1: can rekindle some of that Colorado magic. But if he's terrible,
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Speaker 1: full participant in Bengals practice on Wednesday. That was shocking
Speaker 1: to me. Here is my prediction on Burrow's status because
Speaker 1: keep in mind they play Thanksgiving against Baltimore. So I
Speaker 1: don't think Burrow is going to come back this early.
Speaker 1: This would be early no matter what. Come back on
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving would be crazy. But I'm good for him if
Speaker 1: he can do it. But I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: come back earlier than Thanksgiving and then play in a
Speaker 1: game four days later. But do I now think it's
Speaker 1: possible he comes back on Thanksgiving and then has ten
Speaker 1: days before their next game and tries to just obviously
Speaker 1: play the rest of the year. Yes, that's what I
Speaker 1: think is likely. I think he misses the Patriots game
Speaker 1: and his back for the Ravens game. Now, do I
Speaker 1: think that the Bengals that gives them a shot to
Speaker 1: get back in it? No? Is that because I think
Speaker 1: the Steelers are about to run away with it? Nope,
Speaker 1: it's simply that I think that Bengals defense. I think
Speaker 1: the Bengals, had Joe Burrow not been hurt, they'd be
Speaker 1: in the mix for the playoffs, but they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: that much better of a record than they do right
Speaker 1: now at three and seven, because the problem hadn't been
Speaker 1: the offense. The problem's been the defense, which they never fixed.
Speaker 1: This does, however, make me feel like the Ravens' chances
Speaker 1: of winning the division just went down significantly, because if
Speaker 1: Burrow comes back and they just go their first three
Speaker 1: games Baltimore, Buffalo, Baltimore. When you were looking at how
Speaker 1: the Ravens could win the division, a lot of the
Speaker 1: math was sweeping. Sinceyet that does get a lot harder,
Speaker 1: and now, all of a sudden, if you're Baltimore, you
Speaker 1: obviously have the Jets this weekend, that's a win or
Speaker 1: should be. But then your final six games Sincy Pittsburgh, Sincy,
Speaker 1: New England, Green Bay, Pittsburgh. So four winning teams plus
Speaker 1: or four games against winning teams plus two against Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1: And if you're the Steelers, you're like, man, we duck Tim.
Speaker 1: Now they did lose one to Joe Flacco anyway, But
Speaker 1: still the other piece of this that if I were
Speaker 1: a Bengals fan, I wouldn't be able to I just
Speaker 1: couldn't get over is why did we have to blow
Speaker 1: the Jets game and the Bears game the way we did.
Speaker 1: We lose thirty nine to thirty eight to the Jets,
Speaker 1: who we had, We had a fourteen point lead on
Speaker 1: the Jets in the fourth quarter and lost to the
Speaker 1: Ozho to seven Jets. And then the next week we
Speaker 1: had we were down fourteen at the two minute warning
Speaker 1: to the Bears and a minute later had a one
Speaker 1: point lead and then blew that one too. Had they
Speaker 1: won one of those and we're sitting at four and six,
Speaker 1: they'd be alive. Had they won both of them and
Speaker 1: were sitting at five and five, they might be the
Speaker 1: co favorites in the division when Joe gets back based
Speaker 1: on the strength that offense alone. But they didn't and
Speaker 1: they blew it just the reality of the situation. So
Speaker 1: now they can just play spoiler and now Joe. Also,
Speaker 1: here's the other thing for Burrow, because I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know. Obviously last year he was unbelievable in losses.
Speaker 1: This year he played Week one against Cleveland, played really poorly,
Speaker 1: they won seventeen sixteen because it's the Browns. And then
Speaker 1: week two he barely played in a game they ended
Speaker 1: up winning against the Jas. I just think for Joe
Speaker 1: it'll feel good to get back out there and play
Speaker 1: like Joe Burrow again and remind people how good he
Speaker 1: can be. I don't think that's going to be this weekend.
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Speaker 1: pick from before the year. Buccaneers Rams, that is Sunday
Speaker 1: Night Football are flying the highest they have all year.
Speaker 1: The Bucks are flying the lowest they have all year.
Speaker 1: We will discuss that game much more during our Week
Speaker 1: twelve is it Wow Week twelve NFL gambling show tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Real quick here, though, I do want to spend a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes on Bills Texans, because I I think
Speaker 1: this is a very important. Obviously, let me say something
Speaker 1: about the Texans. I do not believe the Texans are
Speaker 1: in the playoff mix. And I know that technically they've
Speaker 1: got the same record as the Chiefs. I get that.
Speaker 1: I think the fact that they are home for the
Speaker 1: Bills than at the Colts than at the Chiefs, and
Speaker 1: then still have a game left at the Chargers and
Speaker 1: home for the Colts, I just don't think. I and
Speaker 1: given how awful their offense has been all year and
Speaker 1: that CJ is still not back, I just do not
Speaker 1: think Houston is going to be able to play anything
Speaker 1: but spoiler. The Bills, on the other hand, are still
Speaker 1: in the mix for the division, but also are just
Speaker 1: a loss tonight away from feeling like they are, you know,
Speaker 1: right back in the swirl of Hey, what the hell's
Speaker 1: going on? With games remaining at Pittsburgh home for the Bengals,
Speaker 1: at the Patriots, and home for the Eagles. I have
Speaker 1: been encouraging Josh to be Josh. It's gonna make some mistakes,
Speaker 1: You'll take it because of the wild stuff tonight. Tonight
Speaker 1: is not a night you should need that. Tonight is
Speaker 1: a night that you should be able to win on
Speaker 1: the strength of James Cook and not turning the ball over.
Speaker 1: And so this is a good test of can Josh
Speaker 1: throttle We saw him last week throttle up? Can he
Speaker 1: throttle down? That's what i'ma be watching for tonight. I
Speaker 1: expect the Bills to win, and I think the Texans
Speaker 1: only path is multiple Bills turnovers. So we'll see the
Speaker 1: thing throttle down tonight. Listener questions w asked, if you
Speaker 1: can flip the result of one lebron play or game,
Speaker 1: what would it be for me? It's finishing the dunk
Speaker 1: over Draymond in Game some of the twenty sixteen Finals.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, that would be the lebron play that
Speaker 1: I would flip to be the greatest dunken NBA history.
Speaker 1: The actual play I would change is Kyle Korver hitting
Speaker 1: the corner three in Game three of the twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: NBA Finals or George Hill making his free throw in
Speaker 1: what became the j R. Smith Game. Those would be
Speaker 1: the two that I would change. Danny asks if the
Speaker 1: Chiefs win all of their remaining games, could the Broncos
Speaker 1: loss become the loss that led to the loss that
Speaker 1: led to the the loss that led to Lombardi. That's
Speaker 1: pretty good. I'll keep that in my back pocket. Q
Speaker 1: asked if the Chiefs missed the playoffs, wouldn't the Bills
Speaker 1: and Josh be under the most pressure by a country mile,
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. And we'll talk about if the
Speaker 1: Chiefs end up losing this weekend, we'll talk about what
Speaker 1: that does for the rest of the AFC playoff picture.
Speaker 1: But they're not gonna lose this weekend. Will they be
Speaker 1: one of my week twelve picks? Find that out on
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