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Speaker 1: that's sad. I wonder what Dan Campbell's up to. I'm
Speaker 1: just I love that for you, coach, and I love
Speaker 1: these games. Six rematches. She knows in the playoffs, you know,
Speaker 1: Greg loves that. I love that they're playing the forty Niners,
Speaker 1: the team I picked to win every single week this season. Wait,
Speaker 1: does that mean me a Niners? Feels like Claybone's Ravens
Speaker 1: have a chance to knock off last year's ANFC champs.
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Speaker 1: ring if the Bills go all the way and do
Speaker 1: the whole thing? Come on, I'm we need to talk
Speaker 1: to my agent. I did not negotiate that there's still time.
Speaker 1: What was that scooter and why we're at that's Josh
Speaker 1: Allen scooter and he gave one of them to each
Speaker 1: one of his offensive linemen and we did that in
Speaker 1: training camp, and then he got a discount because we
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Speaker 1: Allen a ring? There you go. Okay, let's let's take
Speaker 1: a look at what happened last week. We had our chance, guys.
Speaker 1: Gregg came out and basically had a perfect week. Eighteen week.
Speaker 1: You lost only one game. He's four up on Patrick
Speaker 1: with thirteen games to go. That means I think this
Speaker 1: means he gets a pizza party. Little teezers, we'll hook
Speaker 1: it up. I probably should have checked with them first,
Speaker 1: but I said it, I've said it on live. Has
Speaker 1: to happen, Greg, any words, I missed pizza parties, no speech,
Speaker 1: don't try to jink, and don't try to say this
Speaker 1: news that I had a good week through such gritted teeth,
Speaker 1: gritted at all. Look at we're twins East today. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to get a little bit of this, like
Speaker 1: a magical winning power to rub off. All right, let's
Speaker 1: start picking some games here, let's start with the Seahawks. Niners.
Speaker 1: San Francisco won both games in the regular season. Patrick,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with you. Will they make it a
Speaker 1: clean sweep this weekend? They came out and the past
Speaker 1: rush was a real problem. In that first match of
Speaker 1: Abraham Lucas and Charles Cross were playing in their second
Speaker 1: NFL game, Nick Bosa had five quarterback hits on Geno Smith.
Speaker 1: Then we fast forward towards the end of the season. Yes,
Speaker 1: Bosa does get one sec, but he hits Geno three times.
Speaker 1: I think having two tackles that are both young, they're
Speaker 1: going to get better. It's not like they're they're gonna
Speaker 1: be worse. I think the Seahawks do cover, but they
Speaker 1: lose the Seahawks defense. Honestly, they've given up five almost
Speaker 1: five hundred more rushing yards after contact than the forty
Speaker 1: Niners have given up just playing rushing yards all season.
Speaker 1: I can't take the Seahawks in this one because of
Speaker 1: that defense, but I do think they get the This
Speaker 1: is a much closer score than I would have I
Speaker 1: would take that. As someone who wants good things for Gina,
Speaker 1: I would take that. I don't have it as close.
Speaker 1: I have the forty Niners winning this game thirty four
Speaker 1: to seventeen. The thing I want most for Gino is
Speaker 1: is time, and you're right, Patrick, the tackles got better,
Speaker 1: but on the interior that's where the problem was. In
Speaker 1: the second matchup, Gino Smith had no hope and the
Speaker 1: Xiaox aren't really good at the things that could possibly
Speaker 1: beat the forty Niners, like quick game in screen game,
Speaker 1: and they want to throw the ball deep down the field,
Speaker 1: and Gino Smith can only get that done if they
Speaker 1: have time. Ken Kenneth Walker can only run if he
Speaker 1: has some room to operate, and I just don't expect it.
Speaker 1: Rick Armstead came back late in the season made a
Speaker 1: huge difference. They're great with their stunts. They're just big
Speaker 1: and scary. And I don't like the forty Niners. I'm
Speaker 1: just sick of them just beating up on everyone, especially
Speaker 1: the seas. I think it's a terrible man seen such
Speaker 1: a mean score, almost as mean I have to seventeen.
Speaker 1: I think that the game is going to come down
Speaker 1: to all of the different weapons at Brock Purty's disposal,
Speaker 1: or maybe I should say at Kyle Shanahan's disposable, and
Speaker 1: we don't really talk enough about Eli Mitchell, who since
Speaker 1: the beginning of last season has averaged four point two
Speaker 1: yards after contact per rush against stacked boxes. So you've
Speaker 1: seen Brock Purtty use lots of stiffs and motions. In fact,
Speaker 1: he has twelve touchdowns using those which leads to the
Speaker 1: league since Week thirteen. And when I'm watching this, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: now you've got Eli Mitchell as well. So you've got
Speaker 1: to remember, in a game where there's potentially torrential downpours
Speaker 1: and lots of bad weather, the run game is going
Speaker 1: to be even more important. We already know what Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey can do, so you've got the duo now of
Speaker 1: christ McCaffrey Andyli Mitchell. So that's what I'm looking at.
Speaker 1: You know, since this might be the last time we
Speaker 1: get to talk about Gino on the show, and you
Speaker 1: and I have loved talking about the Seahawks all season long,
Speaker 1: I just want to take a little walk down memory lane. Okay,
Speaker 1: remember I don't even remember what week it was because
Speaker 1: it feels so long ago now so much has happened,
Speaker 1: But the Seahawks went on a four game winnings. Greg,
Speaker 1: do you remember this. We were geno, this geno that
Speaker 1: we were even talking about their deep ends at times.
Speaker 1: It was fun and this economy was so long ago.
Speaker 1: And then they went to Munich and they lost to
Speaker 1: the Box and it's just not been the same ever since.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to take the forty Niners as well,
Speaker 1: but in the same tone as Patrick, I am keeping
Speaker 1: it a little bit closer. I think they are going
Speaker 1: to cover the Seahawks post to this, like really wholesome post.
Speaker 1: The other day, all these kids from the Seahawk region
Speaker 1: wrote letters and drew pictures, and one of them was
Speaker 1: just like, just try your best. Even the kids don't
Speaker 1: believe the Hawks. We just go out there and have fun.
Speaker 1: But the forty Niners are probably gonna win twenty. Okay,
Speaker 1: it is time to play this guy or that guy. Greg.
Speaker 1: The line is one and a half touchdowns for Gino
Speaker 1: and Purty. Who is more likely to go over to
Speaker 1: the fun question, Well, I'm going both. They're going over
Speaker 1: and no way, I'm going Gino under. I think Purty
Speaker 1: is more likely because I have them scoring thirty four
Speaker 1: points even in the rain. He get the ball out
Speaker 1: of his hands quickly, and I think Kyle Shanahan will
Speaker 1: look at replacement middle linebacker for the Seahawks Tanner Muse
Speaker 1: and think that's the guy I'm picking on this week.
Speaker 1: With passes over the middle, whether it's the George Kittle
Speaker 1: or whether it's to the running backs, he always picks
Speaker 1: one or two guys. Maybe it's Jonathan Abram, Remember the
Speaker 1: Raiders safety now playing snaps for the Seahawks. Kyle Shannon
Speaker 1: will pick on the mismatch pretty gets a couple of
Speaker 1: touch times. Cynthia Kittle went off in Week fifteen against
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Who is more likely to have over forty
Speaker 1: five receiving yards in this game? Kittle or Brandan You
Speaker 1: He said forty five, and I'm saying both in this one.
Speaker 1: Even though I do think that maybe we should talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about the secondary for the Seahawks. They
Speaker 1: could be getting a little bit healthier. They could have
Speaker 1: the safety back. Obviously, it's really better for them if
Speaker 1: they have Ryan Neal. We have a good picture of him,
Speaker 1: like stopping George. I don't think that happens in this
Speaker 1: matchup forty five yards or just too few. I think
Speaker 1: both of them surpass it. Okay, Patrick, in this game,
Speaker 1: you need the Lions in this game. That would have
Speaker 1: been really fun. You wait, would have put up a fight.
Speaker 1: Come on, belief Patrick. On the flip side, you've got
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett Dk Metcalf, who has over sixty one receiving
Speaker 1: arts well. Like Greg and Cything, I wish I could
Speaker 1: take both here, but the forty Niners are very good, uh,
Speaker 1: And I will take Dk Metcalf because the way that
Speaker 1: Demiko and the forty Niners approached him in the last game,
Speaker 1: it was a lot of Jimmy Ward one on one,
Speaker 1: and I think DK is more likely to get one
Speaker 1: big play. Tyler Lockett of course open deep a whole
Speaker 1: lot playing with nine fingers essentially still great. But if
Speaker 1: I had to pick one, I would take dk Metcalf
Speaker 1: in this because I think he's going to get more
Speaker 1: singled up covers in real quick. Greg mentioned the rain.
Speaker 1: Do you have like a rain adjustment in your model?
Speaker 1: Does the does the model say like, hmm, smells like rain?
Speaker 1: And then it's usually teams with good defenses have the
Speaker 1: advantage in that matchup, which means especially defensive fronts, because
Speaker 1: that the most likely time for something bad to happen
Speaker 1: is either when the ball is snapped or when the
Speaker 1: ball is caught. So if you can stop the pass,
Speaker 1: you have a major advantage. Model Soon everything it's doing
Speaker 1: it all, folks. Okay, moving on to this next game.
Speaker 1: Back in Week three, the Jet Eggs blew the doors
Speaker 1: off the Chargers thirty eight to ten, the biggest win
Speaker 1: for Jacksonville in five seasons. That's actually crazy. The offense
Speaker 1: had over four hundred yards held the Chargers to a
Speaker 1: season low twenty six yards rushing in what was also
Speaker 1: one of Justin Herbert's worst games of the season. It's
Speaker 1: time to talk. Who's punching their ticket? Presented by ticket
Speaker 1: Master Patrick, The Charges are favored in a close one
Speaker 1: on Saturday night. Do you agree with the desert here?
Speaker 1: I do not agree with the desert here. I think
Speaker 1: the marquee player for me in this game is going
Speaker 1: to be Travis cy T, and he's having a great
Speaker 1: season over five point one yards per carry. You know
Speaker 1: who else is having a great season running the football? Literally,
Speaker 1: anybody playing the Los Angeles Chargers. They have given five
Speaker 1: point four yards per carried this season. Barry Sanders only
Speaker 1: hit that number once in his career. NFL MVP seasons
Speaker 1: by Terrell Davis, Emmett Smith, La Danian Tomlinson. They never
Speaker 1: hit five point four yards per Essentially, you're a Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer if you're playing the Los Angeles charges at
Speaker 1: the running back position. I have the Jags winning by
Speaker 1: two in a fun game, but if you can't stop
Speaker 1: the run, I'm not going to pick you on the
Speaker 1: road in the playoffs. You know what happens when you
Speaker 1: can run the ball really effectively, you can use play
Speaker 1: action really effectively too. And you know what the key
Speaker 1: for our quarterback his hair so beautiful. Trevor Lawrence gets
Speaker 1: play action when play action has been working for him.
Speaker 1: That has been like this trick the secret, and that's
Speaker 1: been how they've been in each game. It seems like
Speaker 1: it's a different pass catcher that they're targeting, sometimes this
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk, sometimes it's even Ingram, but ultimately it is
Speaker 1: the play action, especially missing their left tackle. Obviously, pressure
Speaker 1: is going to be a big factor in that last matchup.
Speaker 1: They didn't necessarily have to see as much of Abosa.
Speaker 1: He did not play that game where he left early
Speaker 1: from that game with an injury. But I think if
Speaker 1: you can keep it nice and easy, that's how the
Speaker 1: upset happens one point one just one as really is
Speaker 1: the hair battle. It's not just Trevor Lawrence just hair
Speaker 1: wise have some similarities. And that's a compliment. You know
Speaker 1: both of you that I feel complimented. I am taking
Speaker 1: the Chargers in this game. It's partly out of self interest.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear all off season that Mike
Speaker 1: Williams's injury he's not playing in this game is the
Speaker 1: reason the charge I just can't deal with the discourse.
Speaker 1: So I want to imagine a word that Justin Herbert
Speaker 1: overcomes it all, and you know what he can do
Speaker 1: it He is the chosen one. You look at Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence and people think he's the god. Right, he's the
Speaker 1: number one over I'll pick Trevor Lawrence. He does all
Speaker 1: the things about no Justin Herbert has been a better
Speaker 1: player since the moment he entered the league. In a
Speaker 1: matchup like this, where I don't think there's much separating
Speaker 1: these two teams, similar defenses, similar offenses, I'm going with
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert. I choose him. Rachel chosen before the season
Speaker 1: when she was looking for it to bring this. He
Speaker 1: can do special things on the move, in a way
Speaker 1: that I don't think Lawrence can. He wouldn't have just
Speaker 1: had one first down in his last five drives like
Speaker 1: the Jaguars did a week ago. I trust Justin Herbert
Speaker 1: to save us for a terrible discourse off. Some may
Speaker 1: say Trevor Lawrence has overcome more in the last season
Speaker 1: the coach he had last season. He's younger, Greg. I
Speaker 1: was with you this morning, but I've changed before. The
Speaker 1: change my mind did is now four. They have been
Speaker 1: so fun the last few weeks watching these guys. I
Speaker 1: know that Trevor Lawrence has improved a lot. Right before
Speaker 1: the bye, he kind of started making these changes. He's
Speaker 1: looked way better. He's also matured. I was watching him
Speaker 1: in like a postgame presser last week and I was
Speaker 1: just like, he has like grown five years in the
Speaker 1: last twelve months. He's going to lead his team here
Speaker 1: four first playoff game in Jacksonville. Seen he loved to
Speaker 1: see it. Okay, it's I'm more more or less. Patrick,
Speaker 1: We're starting with you. Josh Allen had over three hundred
Speaker 1: yards in both games against the Dolphins. Van Duel has
Speaker 1: his number at two sixty and a half. What say
Speaker 1: you more if it was crazy, but obviously I would
Speaker 1: take more. But the problem is I think that there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot Bill's running game in this one.
Speaker 1: I will take less. Of the option here is to
Speaker 1: Josh Allen perhaps be less at risk against an offense
Speaker 1: that really should struggle in Skyler Thompson. Or perhaps there's
Speaker 1: a chance that we get some Teddy Bridgewater. But either way,
Speaker 1: with backup quarterbacks and Dolphins have not been what they
Speaker 1: have been with two, I'm taking less for Josh Allen. Okay,
Speaker 1: up next, Stefan Diggs had a hundred yards in two
Speaker 1: of his three career playoff games at high Mark Stadium.
Speaker 1: Will he have more than seventy nine and a half
Speaker 1: yards against Miami. I am gonna go more here because
Speaker 1: I don't know what's on the other side of this pill.
Speaker 1: Also because it's Stefon Diggs. Why wouldn't you go more
Speaker 1: with Stefan Diggs one of the best route runners I
Speaker 1: have ever seen, and he's gonna be mashed up a
Speaker 1: lot in this game against Xavian Howard. I watched Howard
Speaker 1: a week ago against the Jets. He was not the
Speaker 1: same Xavian Howard we're used to. He is playing through
Speaker 1: an injury clearly not at a hundred percent and fighting
Speaker 1: through it. Like so much of this Dolphins teams, I
Speaker 1: think Diggs picks on them. I love that the last
Speaker 1: two weeks without two a, Tyreek Hill had only six
Speaker 1: catches for seventy yards. Sin, will you have more or
Speaker 1: less than sixty one and a half? Can you that pillow?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Alright? Perfect? Going with more here? Why because
Speaker 1: when you give Mike McDonald enough time to be able
Speaker 1: to orchestrate something great to happen, he's going to get
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill in space. When you have Tyreek Hill in space,
Speaker 1: you've got a problem. So it's less about the opportunity
Speaker 1: for with the quarterback. Yeah, that's that's not ideal. But
Speaker 1: the reality is is if you can get some space
Speaker 1: for Hill, he can do after the catch and he
Speaker 1: can make him probable catches next to the staff ranks
Speaker 1: him highest and kind of both of those metrics. So yes, more, okay,
Speaker 1: love it, less time to piss, time to pick the game, Gregg.
Speaker 1: That spreads almost two touchdowns yea yeah, can Miami keep
Speaker 1: it closer? Do you expect the Bills to pull away?
Speaker 1: I think the Bills win this game easy because of
Speaker 1: their defense, and because Skyler Thompson is starting for the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: if Teddy was starting to give them a chance story.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, on the other hand, is starting for the Bills,
Speaker 1: and last week I think he got back to world's
Speaker 1: destroyer Josh Allen mode. It's sort of got lost in
Speaker 1: the shuffle because of the kickoff returns and because the
Speaker 1: game was very competitive when the Bills had the ball
Speaker 1: and the Patriots had the ball and everything. But Josh
Speaker 1: Allen played one of the best games I think any
Speaker 1: quarterbacks played all season. He had six or seven throws
Speaker 1: in that game that were just outrageous, and it reminded
Speaker 1: me of Week eighteen a year ago against the Patriots
Speaker 1: and then the playoff run that Josh Allen went on.
Speaker 1: I think he's healthier, I think he's throwing the ball better,
Speaker 1: he's gonna run the ball more, and I just do
Speaker 1: not want to get in this dude's way at this
Speaker 1: time of year. When to eleven, Okay, so I have
Speaker 1: right now an eleven point win in this so when
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this one to eighteen, I think that
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are gonna have to do some yolo things
Speaker 1: here to kind of figure out what's going on, which
Speaker 1: means we saw in their first matchup they blitzed Josh
Speaker 1: Allen a ton. We saw in their second matchup they didn't.
Speaker 1: So I think Dawson Knox, who has had a touchdown
Speaker 1: reception in four straight games, is going to be another
Speaker 1: crucial factor here because if they going to do some
Speaker 1: wild yolo things on this defense, than like blitztart bringing
Speaker 1: extra Russian or social disguises, things that maybe we haven't
Speaker 1: seen before, like go to your resourceful outlet, that guy
Speaker 1: that's been so absolutely stable for you, especially over the
Speaker 1: past four games. So I loved Austin Knox in this matchup.
Speaker 1: I like a lot of people away as well. He
Speaker 1: scored touchdowns in four games. Right, you're right, that's right,
Speaker 1: I'm right, thank you for Cynthia is right. I agree
Speaker 1: with Cynthia, except I'm gonna shave a couple of points
Speaker 1: off that nine for me in this one, because honestly,
Speaker 1: this matchup is depriving us of what we really enjoyed
Speaker 1: the first two times with two a ton of volos
Speaker 1: on the field. This is a much better football team,
Speaker 1: severe hampering of the offense without him, And I'm looking
Speaker 1: at a Buffalo team that's probably going to lean on
Speaker 1: that top ten rushing attack a lot in this one.
Speaker 1: And we've seen a lot of James Cook in the
Speaker 1: past few weeks. Uh snap percentage has gone up every
Speaker 1: single week. He's actually outtouched Devin Singletary in weeks seventeen
Speaker 1: and eighteen. Wasn't because it was late in the season,
Speaker 1: was because he's come on, he's on the field, That's
Speaker 1: all I know. I think we're going to see a
Speaker 1: heavy dose of him and Singletary as well, maybe a
Speaker 1: little Josh Allen, not too much, but loads of scoring
Speaker 1: game Bills. I agree with you Patrick, it's such a
Speaker 1: bummer that we're not able to enjoy two out there.
Speaker 1: He's so much fun to watch. I'm glad he's not playing, though.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Bills thirty one, I will say. I mean,
Speaker 1: like betting on a backup quarterback in the regular season
Speaker 1: is one thing. Betting on them in the playoffs against
Speaker 1: a Bills team that got their playoff dreams ripped away
Speaker 1: from them by a coin last season. They are going
Speaker 1: into this postseason with like, oh my goodness, everything that
Speaker 1: they've been through in the last two weeks and then
Speaker 1: the memory of that last season. I have the Bills
Speaker 1: going all the way to the super Bowl and maybe
Speaker 1: even winning the whole thing. They should be terrifying to
Speaker 1: everybody that they meet in the next few weeks. So
Speaker 1: Bills all the way and it's more tip of the
Speaker 1: cap presented by new era. Patrick. You have picked the
Speaker 1: Vikings every week since Thanksgiving. Every single week, Patrick has
Speaker 1: been on the Vikings. Are you gonna do it? Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do it again. Skull everything. And here's
Speaker 1: something people need to understand about Kirk Cousins. People love
Speaker 1: to get jokes off. It's one of the It's one
Speaker 1: of Twitter's favorite things to do. Jokes are good. It's
Speaker 1: not necessarily reality that people, oh, what times the game.
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins is Kirk Cousins. He's going to perform and
Speaker 1: what he did a few weeks ago when Wink Martindale
Speaker 1: was blitzing all of the time. He comes out, goes
Speaker 1: fourteen to twenty one, has over a passer rating, and
Speaker 1: throws two touchdowns and a comeback win in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Kirk is Kirk. The Vikings win four to nineteen. They
Speaker 1: do it again easy. I'm actually going to call for
Speaker 1: the upset here. I'm very popular in Minnesota these days.
Speaker 1: I have the Giants winning this one. Why because of
Speaker 1: their past rush We've seen Kirk Cousins have weird results
Speaker 1: when he's pressured. What's been going on by the way,
Speaker 1: you know, winks gonna pressure that he blitz. It's like
Speaker 1: it's it's like the time, that's just what he does. Right.
Speaker 1: But between Cavon Thibodeau really coming on and Dexter Lawrence,
Speaker 1: who does not get enough love for being kind of
Speaker 1: right up there among the league's best, only trailing and
Speaker 1: like he writes, maybe number two or number three in
Speaker 1: almost every single pressure metric that we have, does not
Speaker 1: get enough love, does not get enough respect or admiration
Speaker 1: for him. Between the two of them, I think it's
Speaker 1: going to be very difficult, especially if their center who
Speaker 1: has been banged up and not playing, especially if he's
Speaker 1: not a hundred percent, which even if he's out there,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that makes makes him percent, even
Speaker 1: if he's playing right. I sometimes trying to come up
Speaker 1: with like a different point than Cynthia, to like be diversified,
Speaker 1: but sometimes Cynthia just has the right point. And the
Speaker 1: Giants are winning this game, and it is because of
Speaker 1: their defense. Two Giants. I've been guilty of saying, Oh,
Speaker 1: the Giants aren't that talented. They've been getting lucky. Like,
Speaker 1: look at this defensive line. It might be the most
Speaker 1: talented defensive line in the NFL. Dexter Lawrence is an
Speaker 1: All Pro. You mentioned how great Thibodeau has been. Azizolari
Speaker 1: got hurt in that first game. He's back and playing great.
Speaker 1: Like the fourth best line the year is Leonard Williams,
Speaker 1: who's been an All Pro in the past two and
Speaker 1: they're going against an offensive line who's let Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: be hit more than any quarterback in the entire NFL.
Speaker 1: He was sacked eighteen times more this season than a
Speaker 1: year ago. And Kirk's great. I hear you, Patrick, but
Speaker 1: you don't want to just get brutalize all game long.
Speaker 1: I think it's an offensive game, and I think Danny
Speaker 1: Dimes is ready for this moment. Wow, Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: play that back next week. I know Patrick made this
Speaker 1: like new role on the show. No more jokes about
Speaker 1: the Vikings. Remember the Vikings website this morning, And I
Speaker 1: gotta say there was something that made me really laugh.
Speaker 1: The headline on the front page of the Vikings website say,
Speaker 1: experts say close game expected. What is it a close
Speaker 1: game with the Vikings? When have we not expected that
Speaker 1: all season long? And I am choosing another close win
Speaker 1: by the Vikings twenty. They are going to continue to
Speaker 1: give Minnesotan's the heart attacks that they do not deserve.
Speaker 1: One good thing here. The Giants were not able to
Speaker 1: figure out Justin Jefferson the first time that they've late
Speaker 1: and hopefully they won't do it again. Jefferson had sixteen targets,
Speaker 1: twelve receptions, a hundred and thirty three receiving yards, most
Speaker 1: receiving yards and second most receptions allowed to a player
Speaker 1: by the New York Giants this year. That is the
Speaker 1: wrong person to let run wild all over the field.
Speaker 1: So hopefully he's able to do it again. Okay, coming
Speaker 1: up next, we're talking Ravens Bengals. Baby coming up next
Speaker 1: up play it again? Okay to Sad for pizza. Pizza
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Speaker 1: the other people this is and said, I think this
Speaker 1: is a bread I because I love We had a
Speaker 1: good laugh. Okay, we all Rode with the Bengals last
Speaker 1: week against the Ravens. Not sure much has changed in
Speaker 1: the last seven days, but let's check and find out. Greig,
Speaker 1: I am changing my mind that it's gonna be close.
Speaker 1: I think this week the Ravens defense keeps the Bengals
Speaker 1: score low. It's twenty to sixteen. Bengals win the game,
Speaker 1: but the Ravens defense will be the toughest matchup this
Speaker 1: Bengals offense faces in the entire postseason. I think they
Speaker 1: are built to stop the Bengals. And what I mean
Speaker 1: by that is they have a lot of fast range,
Speaker 1: athletic players in their secondary, whether it's Marcus Williams you
Speaker 1: brought in, Kyle Hamilton's Chuck Clark, Marcus Peters is returning
Speaker 1: for this game. They have just so many different options
Speaker 1: that they can take away the players on the perimeter.
Speaker 1: When I watched this Bengals Ravens game a week ago,
Speaker 1: I was kind of stunned that the Ravens defense gave
Speaker 1: it to him. Now, Tyler Huntley starting at quarterback for
Speaker 1: the Ravens, we assume and I don't think they'll score
Speaker 1: enough to keep up. And the Bengals are a great,
Speaker 1: great team, But I think this is a big time
Speaker 1: challenge playing a division opponent again. So I have a
Speaker 1: seven point when to nineteen in this matchup for the Bengals,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the right side of the is that
Speaker 1: right whatever, the right side of their old line where
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins isn't and then there's even more injuries now.
Speaker 1: So when I'm looking at Joe Burrow and what's going
Speaker 1: on with a sack situation for him, people say very
Speaker 1: nicely he's turned into a kind of more of a
Speaker 1: checking down quarterback, which is a good thing because you
Speaker 1: don't get sacked as often. Only forty one sacks in
Speaker 1: the regular season, which is down from ten more fifty
Speaker 1: one last season, so he's also not taking as many sacks.
Speaker 1: I just think that with this rebuilt old line, who
Speaker 1: actually has been playing better, it's going to be a
Speaker 1: much bigger challenge against this defense, and it's something that
Speaker 1: going into further in the playoffs. I got a special
Speaker 1: eye on that one. I'm I'm a little concerned about.
Speaker 1: I want Joe Burrow to be upright. Please, Yes, I
Speaker 1: like upright quarterbacks. I wish number eight was playing for
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens and guys know the trend, uh, Lamar
Speaker 1: know me as far as I'm concerned. And I don't
Speaker 1: know why we thought a quarterback with torn ligaments was
Speaker 1: going to be making a quick bounce back and playing
Speaker 1: in the regular season or the playoffs. But the running
Speaker 1: back j K. Dobbins is the reason that I think
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens are gonna get seventeen points at all.
Speaker 1: I have seventy Bengals and not a close game. But
Speaker 1: if you're looking at the game for daily fantasy purposes,
Speaker 1: in weeks fourteen through seventeen, j K Dobbins led the
Speaker 1: NFL in rushing. Took week or eighteen off because rest
Speaker 1: is good. It's something that helps when when you're not
Speaker 1: playing football to be rested. Disagrees, it's too sad. Let's
Speaker 1: not talk about that. Yeah, it's it's nice to have rest,
Speaker 1: and I think j K. Dobbins is gonna have a
Speaker 1: good week after a week of rest. You said, no, Lamar,
Speaker 1: no me. How about no, Lamar no me? Sorry about that.
Speaker 1: I'm playing. I'm ruining the Bengals big time. Thirty to ten.
Speaker 1: You know what can be interesting here to think about
Speaker 1: though all of these Ravens players who are going to
Speaker 1: be left behind by Lamar not playing, whether he's choosing
Speaker 1: to do it or because he's actually very much hurt.
Speaker 1: We were just discussing this in the commercial break. You know,
Speaker 1: they might have a little bit of a chip on
Speaker 1: their shoulder. The past few weeks, everyone has been like
Speaker 1: counting the Ravens out because they have not had Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson as their quarterback. They've had backups. I could see
Speaker 1: them playing a little bit into overdrive to be like,
Speaker 1: we're here too. We still got into the playoffs. They've
Speaker 1: been talking at am I in the last two years,
Speaker 1: a lot of trash who had a Cincinnati the Bengals
Speaker 1: that smack. What is a bummer, because otherwise this game
Speaker 1: is gold. I would have picked Baltimore. Okay, it's time
Speaker 1: for mistakes were made, folks. We gotta do it all right. Look,
Speaker 1: you pick almost three games, you're gonna have some duds,
Speaker 1: some line spots. I couldn't figure out the Raiders for
Speaker 1: most of the season. Who could Greg was constantly wrong
Speaker 1: about the Jags. The Packers were not great for Patrick,
Speaker 1: but Cynthia, Cynthia, Cynthia, Cynthia. Literally every week we would
Speaker 1: beg plead Greg would cry and just ask you to
Speaker 1: pick the Lions, and he refused. Yes, I think to
Speaker 1: say this year the Lions broke gook you for breaking.
Speaker 1: If a team's gonna do it like Lions and Jets,
Speaker 1: good ones. Do you see yourself picking more Lions games
Speaker 1: next season if they get better players than yes, drafty draft. Well,
Speaker 1: the Lions broke the model and Cynthia broke their heart.
Speaker 1: Put that on a T shirt. I'll wear that, Tom
Speaker 1: right against the Cowboys. WHOA this shouldn't be good America's
Speaker 1: team up against Man America, America's Man America. It is
Speaker 1: time for in It to win It. Presented by into
Speaker 1: a Turbo Tax. We kicked off our very first show
Speaker 1: this year talking about box Cowboys. It was a clean
Speaker 1: sweep for Tampa back in Week one, Patrick, who do
Speaker 1: you like this time around? I like the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: in this matchup. And there's been so much discussion about
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott in his predilection for throwing interceptions since Dad
Speaker 1: came back. He left that game in Week one. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys have had the number one offense in the NFL.
Speaker 1: They've scored thirty two points per game. I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about the interceptions. But what I do think that we
Speaker 1: will get is Dak running the ball in the postseason,
Speaker 1: especially considering the problems that the defense has had since
Speaker 1: early December when Anthony Brown left that secondary dan Quinn
Speaker 1: has struggled to replace him. They've gone to the streets
Speaker 1: to pick up this on some guys to play cornerback.
Speaker 1: I think Dallas is gonna score twenty five points, and
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna need every single one of them
Speaker 1: in Tampa who Sometimes the show is predictable and it's
Speaker 1: me and Patrick defending Dak Prescott's honors. They gave all
Speaker 1: the rest of the country is zaggy. I'm taking the
Speaker 1: Cowboys as well, twenty one to twenty. Dak Prescott's the
Speaker 1: best quarterback in this game. It hurts me to say
Speaker 1: that as a as a longtime Patriots fan and Brady fan,
Speaker 1: but Dak Prescott's average game is better than Brady's average game.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's best game is way better at this point
Speaker 1: than Tom Brady's best game e p a per play
Speaker 1: since Dak Prescott returned. That's offensive efficiency. The Cowboys are fifth,
Speaker 1: the Bucks are eighteen. I look at all the things
Speaker 1: that can do, not only with his legs, but before
Speaker 1: the snap, and I think he's not gonna get pressured.
Speaker 1: And the numbers when Dak Prescott does not get pressured
Speaker 1: and the Bucks do not have much much of a
Speaker 1: pass rush since losing Shack Barrett are outrageous. Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: gets it done well. So far, you guys have picked
Speaker 1: one point wins and I'll keep that trend going. But
Speaker 1: the other side Bucks, in this one, Man America, he
Speaker 1: is going to pass the ball to Mike Evans. You
Speaker 1: know why because Man America knows how to target the
Speaker 1: correct corner and Man America will find the corner that
Speaker 1: is not named treyvon Dick. They have been getting guys
Speaker 1: off of the streets and Man America he will find
Speaker 1: the matchup for Mike Evans and that will be the
Speaker 1: difference maker in this one. Those deep passes to him,
Speaker 1: we saw three touchdowns just two weeks ago, and you
Speaker 1: know what, I think we see that again. Chris Godwin
Speaker 1: also very very good. But Man America to Mike Evans,
Speaker 1: that's what I like to see. Okay, So for those
Speaker 1: of you that are just tuning in, I meant to
Speaker 1: call Tom Brady my sister America. I called him Man America.
Speaker 1: Didn't know what we're gonna go with it. It's a
Speaker 1: great nickname, it's a really good one. I'm on the
Speaker 1: box as well. I'm taking the Man America seven and
Speaker 1: twenty four. I think this might be a little bit
Speaker 1: higher scoring. It's Tom Brady. It's in Tampa that he
Speaker 1: has never lost to the Cowboys before and after the
Speaker 1: body this latter half of the season, after the Cowboys
Speaker 1: put up like a fifty burger on the Colts and
Speaker 1: then they were favored by a lot in that next
Speaker 1: game against the Texas. Remember we called it a cheese game.
Speaker 1: They'll take the cheese. They kept that game very close.
Speaker 1: They lost the Jags, they lost the Commanders. There's been
Speaker 1: some weird games for the Cowboys here in the second
Speaker 1: half of the season. Their holes okay, and Brady is
Speaker 1: going to expose them. Man America all the way, go
Speaker 1: okay in this time for more or less greg Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard had his first career one thousand yards season. Will
Speaker 1: you have more or less than forty five and a
Speaker 1: half fresh and year. I'm gonna say more because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try to speak this into existence. I know Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy watches the show. Please. Tony Pollard is one of
Speaker 1: the best running backs in the league per play efficiency,
Speaker 1: big plays, all of it. He can do it all.
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott is not. And Ezekiel Elliott has not been
Speaker 1: playing as well over the last half of the season
Speaker 1: as he was early in the season. The whole point
Speaker 1: of Ezekiel Elliott was to keep Tony Pollard fresh for
Speaker 1: this game. I think he will be Patrick. This next
Speaker 1: question goes to you if not for last week, Week
Speaker 1: one would have been Dak's worst game of the season.
Speaker 1: Will he have more than two and a half? He will?
Speaker 1: And Greg brought it up when he mentioned Shack Barrett
Speaker 1: and Shack Barrett's absence, Dac had no time. He also
Speaker 1: didn't have a thumb, had to leave the game in
Speaker 1: that first matchup. I think Dak Prescott goes over to
Speaker 1: forty one. I think it's a solid game again at
Speaker 1: one point win. But I think Dak plays splendidly. And
Speaker 1: all these questions, all the consternation in Dallas sports talk radio,
Speaker 1: they have to find something else to complain about. Okay,
Speaker 1: So in my favorite prop of the season, I really
Speaker 1: lit up this morning when I heard this one, Mr
Speaker 1: Man America and Tom Brady had a career load negative
Speaker 1: one yard rushing this year. His longest run two yards.
Speaker 1: Will you have more or less than half a yard rushing?
Speaker 1: Mandam America gets the ship right, he had the half
Speaker 1: of a yard, Man America. He's not gonna let that
Speaker 1: negative one yard America doesn't stand for that. Man America
Speaker 1: doesn't stand for that. And Tom Brady half a rushing yard,
Speaker 1: by the way, some sometimes that some people think that's
Speaker 1: maybe not the favorite for him to have more. But
Speaker 1: the great qbakers of all time? Do you not like fun?
Speaker 1: Who doesn't like you have like three whole rushing yards?
Speaker 1: Man America. I'm gonna be watching for that alright. The
Speaker 1: over under in Santa Clara this weekend is forty two
Speaker 1: and a half. Will the mess defense in the NFL
Speaker 1: keep the score low? The four of us dain't so sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we will see you all weekend long. We can't wait.
Speaker 1: Only one game in wild Card weekend last year had
Speaker 1: fewer than forty five points. Three of the games this
Speaker 1: year are currently listed under that. Giant Spiking is expected
Speaker 1: to be the highest scoring of the games, with the
Speaker 1: charges Jags just behind at forty seven and a half.
Speaker 1: Let's fin a little over runner. Let's start with the
Speaker 1: first game of the weekend. Seahawks Niners. Over under is
Speaker 1: forty two. I've got twenty seven and twenty. I am
Speaker 1: going over. This forty Niners defense is very good. The
Speaker 1: Seahawks defense is not. Forty Niners are gonna put up points.
Speaker 1: That means Geno's just gonna have to sling it. You know,
Speaker 1: He's gonna just have the ball out right. He's still
Speaker 1: the best quarterback in this game. That's one of the
Speaker 1: reasons I've got the pillow out, Like what, I don't
Speaker 1: have this pillow out to go under. Uh. The running
Speaker 1: game might be a bigger factor in the rain, but
Speaker 1: I still think both of these offenses can get it done.
Speaker 1: We go over. I still have over. I think forty
Speaker 1: two and a half is too low. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna around forty five points in this matchup. I'm with you.
Speaker 1: The rain does bring everything down just a little bit,
Speaker 1: but not too much. The run game is strong for
Speaker 1: both teams of it. Yeah, the rain is not enough
Speaker 1: to bring me down. Let's make an unanimous love this.
Speaker 1: Seahawks are people who expect, and yes, the forty honors
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks run defense do not work out well
Speaker 1: for Seattle. So yes, over over, over love it. Okay,
Speaker 1: Chargers Jags is up next. Forty seven and a half.
Speaker 1: That's pretty high, and I am going over first playoff
Speaker 1: game in Jacksonville since seventy thousand people are gonna watch
Speaker 1: Herbert versus Lawrence. It's the game of hair, folks. Okay,
Speaker 1: buy in, I'm going out. I'm buying in. It will
Speaker 1: be a great game, but I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a defensive game. I don't really trust Joe Lombardi, the
Speaker 1: Chargers offensive coordinator, to outscheme his opponent. But I do
Speaker 1: trust Brandon Staley. We've picked on him this week for
Speaker 1: making some bad decisions and who is playing last week.
Speaker 1: He knows he's got to come up with a beautiful
Speaker 1: game plan. He is good at doing that, coming up
Speaker 1: with one plan to slow down Trevor Lawrence, low scoring
Speaker 1: game under You talk about that, but I think we
Speaker 1: go he's gonna come up with a good plan. We'll
Speaker 1: probably see more man defense, but it's still going to
Speaker 1: go over this game. You gotta remember we've seen Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson figure this one out. And we've seen these teams score,
Speaker 1: so I'm going over in this one. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: brand Say was a good coach, but I feel like
Speaker 1: if he had a secret plan to stop the run,
Speaker 1: he would have used it at some point. I've got
Speaker 1: about the run. We'll see, we will see. Look there,
Speaker 1: all right, Finally, Giants Vikings forty eight and a half.
Speaker 1: I am going under. Forty eight and a half is
Speaker 1: high close game expected. As the experts say, this just
Speaker 1: doesn't really scream a high scoring game. To me, I
Speaker 1: totally disagree. I'm going with the foam finger here, old school.
Speaker 1: I think it goes way over. I trust both of
Speaker 1: these offenses more than I trust the defenses. I know,
Speaker 1: I said Kirk Cousin is gonna get hit a lot
Speaker 1: in this game, but I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: game where there's a lot of passing to keep up
Speaker 1: with each other. I feel great about this, I'm going.
Speaker 1: I mean you can feel great about that's good. I
Speaker 1: like justin Jefferson. I think he's really valuable. But I
Speaker 1: think that this one comes out to you. I mean,
Speaker 1: we saw Danielle Hunter like really give it to Evan
Speaker 1: Neil last time. So I think under. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of defense in this one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to get all the points they had that both teams
Speaker 1: have to combine for twenty eight points in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Last time it was sixteen. Him going into that, I'm
Speaker 1: taking under as well. All right, that's that. Write this down.
Speaker 1: Rihanna's halftime performance is going to be the best of
Speaker 1: all time. Literally, the best concert I've ever been to
Speaker 1: in my life is Rihanna. But real quick, before we
Speaker 1: get into this, write this down. What is your favorite
Speaker 1: halftime performance? And you wouldn't have have to be there? Okay?
Speaker 1: Which one have I been to? I mean, also, my
Speaker 1: favorite concert I've ever been to Prince Prince was incredible.
Speaker 1: Prince was incredible. I saw him at the Joe Louis
Speaker 1: Arena in Detroit, like amazing and the best half Hatrick.
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite halftime? Yeah, I've only I
Speaker 1: got to go with the one across the street. It
Speaker 1: was pretty good. I loved everything. I guess I gotta
Speaker 1: go with the obvious choice stuff for a concert. What
Speaker 1: is it? It's Janet Jackson, right, and that was like
Speaker 1: a great moment. Bestbo is gonna be this one. Coming up, Brianna.
Speaker 1: I'm calling it right now. Okay, it's time for write
Speaker 1: this down for Super wild Card weekend. I'm going gino here.
Speaker 1: I'm going gino all the way, baby. That tough forty
Speaker 1: Niners defense. Like I said, you know, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: in the rain. Okay, listen, people wrote him off. He
Speaker 1: hasn't written back yet, and he plans to write back
Speaker 1: this weekend. They can't surprised us. Here is all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. You can right back from the Pro Bowl. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying he made the Pro Bowl. That's where
Speaker 1: he can be writing trying to support you. Maybe he'll
Speaker 1: make the Super Bowl. I don't think the Ravens are
Speaker 1: gonna win, but I think their defense is gonna play great.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go Bengals under twenty five and a
Speaker 1: half points this weekend. Since ro Kuwan Smith showed up.
Speaker 1: This group is tough, and one thing I love about
Speaker 1: the playoffs just the physicality that some of these defenses
Speaker 1: bring is on another level, and I think Baltimore is
Speaker 1: going to be that defense. It's a division matchup, back
Speaker 1: to back week's third time this year. These teams know
Speaker 1: each other. Well, I just think this is going to
Speaker 1: be a defensive game. That number is way too high
Speaker 1: for me. Well, you can say under things if you want.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say Dawson, not over everything. I like
Speaker 1: the reception, I like the yard. I have said a
Speaker 1: couple of ms today that the Chargers run defense is
Speaker 1: not very good. And then I saw that some people
Speaker 1: thought perhaps seventy eight and a half yard rushing yards
Speaker 1: against the Charges. With the number for Travis et N
Speaker 1: I say he's going to do better than that, because
Speaker 1: again I'm glad to be able to work with Ladanian Tomlinson.
Speaker 1: In his MVP season, he didn't average five point four
Speaker 1: yards per carry the Chargers give that up to everybody. Yes,
Speaker 1: take Travis Etn way over seventy eight and a half.
Speaker 1: You know what just made There's really made makes me
Speaker 1: laugh right now. It's like we're the show leading into
Speaker 1: the big show on NFL Network. You know, a couple
Speaker 1: of you guys just tuned in, you're getting ready for
Speaker 1: the big pregame, and then there's this guy. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: trying to make a serious like pizza. We're journalists. Someone
Speaker 1: should just go over and take a bite a wise
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