Speaker 1: Welcome to the Best of the Week for What's Right
Speaker 1: with Nick Right the best takes in moments from this
Speaker 1: week on the show.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the season from Hell becomes more hilatious. You guys
Speaker 2: lost Patrick, You guys lost your backup quarterback in Garda Minshew,
Speaker 2: and you lost the Titans. And it seems like Kansas
Speaker 2: City Chiefs are no longer going to be in Kansas City.
Speaker 2: They might be moving over to Kansas in twenty thirty.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about this development?
Speaker 1: All right, first, let me explain to people what it means.
Speaker 1: Kansas City Kansas City for all intents and purposes. When
Speaker 1: people hear about Kansas City, they're talking about the Missouri side.
Speaker 1: It is where I'm from, so weird kind of border
Speaker 1: rivalry Missouri or Kansas. But I grew up one block
Speaker 1: off State Line Road. That is exactly what it sounds like,
Speaker 1: the line between Missouri and Kansas. Now, confusingly and oddly,
Speaker 1: the Missouri side of State Line Road is Kansas City.
Speaker 1: The Kansas side of State Line Road is not Kansas City, Kansas.
Speaker 1: That's a different part. Like there is a small part
Speaker 1: of Kansasity, Kansas that's touches State Line Road, but most
Speaker 1: of it that touches State Line Road is like uh
Speaker 1: Leewood or Oleitha or different municipalities. Okay, you guys don't
Speaker 1: care about that, what you What does matter is this
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are moving about twenty minutes west of where
Speaker 1: they currently play. So this has no impact on them
Speaker 1: being the Kansas City Chiefs because they were in Kansas
Speaker 1: City proper. Yes, but they are still in the greater
Speaker 1: Kansas City area. Just like the San Francisco forty nine
Speaker 1: Ers play in Santa Clara. The New England Patriots, which
Speaker 1: people consider Boston's team, play in Foxborough. Like this is
Speaker 1: the Detroit Pistons used to play at the Palace at
Speaker 1: Auburn Hills. This happens. This is not a team moving
Speaker 1: the way teams move, like Baltimore going to Cleveland, that
Speaker 1: type of the Cleveland going to Baltimore. Either, That's not
Speaker 1: what this is at all. Now it does for me
Speaker 1: as a native Missouri and someone who's lived lived his
Speaker 1: whole life might have its Kansas Missouri firefighter. I lived
Speaker 1: in on the Missouri side and whenever people say to me, oh,
Speaker 1: you're from Kansas, I correct them say no, I'm from Missouri.
Speaker 1: I hate that the Chiefs are leaving. I don't hate
Speaker 1: that Missouri was not held hostage by pro sports owners.
Speaker 1: And this is where we get into a little bit
Speaker 1: of tricky stuff. And then we will talk about the
Speaker 1: football piece of it, because there is a real football
Speaker 1: piece of it. But this is so teams because the
Speaker 1: state of Kansas, via star bonds and other stuff, is
Speaker 1: going to pay more money for this Chief stadium than
Speaker 1: any local government, which means taxpayers have paid for any
Speaker 1: stadium in the history of America one point eight billion dollars.
Speaker 1: And I have always believed that the call it fifteen
Speaker 1: biggest cities in the country, all of the mayors slash
Speaker 1: governors of those states should have gotten together a long
Speaker 1: time ago and said, folks, we need to have an
Speaker 1: agreement amongst ourselves. We are not going to pay for
Speaker 1: pro sports team stadiums because they want to be in
Speaker 1: our cities. So New York, LA, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco,
Speaker 1: that your major markets pro sports teams want to be there.
Speaker 1: The idea that they are going to leave is a bluff.
Speaker 1: If you are a major, major market, so you should
Speaker 1: never pay. Never pay. If you're in one of those markets.
Speaker 1: If you're in a smaller market, it does get trickier
Speaker 1: because we have seen teams leave smaller markets. And one
Speaker 1: can argue, and I have argued for a long time
Speaker 1: to use my hometown as a example, that the thing
Speaker 1: that distinct that makes Kansas City different from Des Moines, Iowa,
Speaker 1: or Omaha, Nebraska is that we have the chiefs and
Speaker 1: the royals. That's it. We're a two sport pro sport
Speaker 1: city and there is real economic and civic pride benefit
Speaker 1: to that. And Kansas City is not a huge market,
Speaker 1: so you you can't just dare a team to leave
Speaker 1: the way LA could or New York could or Washington,
Speaker 1: DC could, because they might leave. The Kansas City has
Speaker 1: lost teams before, and so I don't think it. While
Speaker 1: I understand the argument of there are better things to
Speaker 1: be putting paying taxpayer dollars for that is correct, I
Speaker 1: agree with that in general. I also understand why if
Speaker 1: you're Memphis, losing the Grizzlies as scary as shit, and
Speaker 1: it might be worth taxpayer dollars to make sure they stay.
Speaker 1: And so I think the math is not the same
Speaker 1: for mid market and small market teams as it is
Speaker 1: for major market teams. That's just my opinion. I think
Speaker 1: I have data to back that up, but it's my
Speaker 1: gut feeling on how having grown up in one of
Speaker 1: those places and feeling like I'm from somewhere, and because
Speaker 1: we have pro sports teams and so this doesn't change
Speaker 1: that for Kansas Citians, they will still be the Kansasity Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Nobody half the country thought they played in Kansas already anyway,
Speaker 1: And I don't think I understand the gut reaction people have,
Speaker 1: and I'm with you politically on this, that it is
Speaker 1: shameful the public subsidies we will give billion dollar sports
Speaker 1: teams when I mean the city the state of Kansas
Speaker 1: has no public transportation none. Don't get mad at me,
Speaker 1: Governor Laura Kelly, Like, I'm sure there's a few bus routes,
Speaker 1: but like there are there's there are things that money
Speaker 1: could be used for that probably would help a greater
Speaker 1: group of people. I get that, But I also do
Speaker 1: think that if you're in a city the size of
Speaker 1: one that a team might leave, losing that team can
Speaker 1: be devastating to the community. So I do think you
Speaker 1: have to weigh that the the problem for the cheap
Speaker 1: for that the Chiefs were able to play into specifically
Speaker 1: is because they're on a state line. They could play
Speaker 1: one state against the other and get basically demanse the
Speaker 1: benefit that you normally only get this type of I mean,
Speaker 1: one point eight billion, it's the biggest public subsidy ever.
Speaker 1: You normally only get that something like that if you
Speaker 1: are threatening your fan base with we are moving like
Speaker 1: we are going to the Seattle SuperSonics are going to
Speaker 1: become the Oklahoma City Thunder. Because Kansas City that is
Speaker 1: on a state line, they were able to get the
Speaker 1: benefit without ever having to threaten. They were never threatening
Speaker 1: to move to San Antonio. It's just like we'll just.
Speaker 2: Whoever is going to the game.
Speaker 1: Right, You still get to play the states against each other.
Speaker 1: And this has been a problem for border cities. This
Speaker 1: is a bigger problem when it comes to business taxes
Speaker 1: and municipal funding. And again, this is the part that
Speaker 1: could be boring, but I'm going to give a very
Speaker 1: simplistic story of what's happened in my hometown. Because it's
Speaker 1: on a state line, you'll have a business, not a
Speaker 1: sports team, a business that is based in Kansas, and
Speaker 1: then politicians in Missouri because they want to say, we
Speaker 1: added jobs to our community, will give that business insane
Speaker 1: tax breaks to move its headquarters fifteen minutes east over
Speaker 1: to Missouri, and that business can then not pay the
Speaker 1: taxes it was once paying. It has no impact whatsoever
Speaker 1: actually on who has the jobs. You're not adding jobs
Speaker 1: to your community. You're just stealing them off the books
Speaker 1: of Kansas to Adam and Missouri, or Missouri to Adam
Speaker 1: and Kansas, vice versa. But it's the same human beings
Speaker 1: working there, and that has, you know, been That's a
Speaker 1: problem for mayors and city councils of border cities all
Speaker 1: the time, like how do we because it ends up
Speaker 1: being a not a zero sum game again, a zero
Speaker 1: sum for the overall community, but a huge win for
Speaker 1: the a zero sum for the employment of the overall community,
Speaker 1: while being a huge win for the bottom line of corporations.
Speaker 1: That's a sidebar. Now to the football piece of it,
Speaker 1: because here is the te angible effect. The Chiefs are
Speaker 1: going to play in a dome stadium starting in twenty
Speaker 1: thirty one.
Speaker 2: Hey, that's awesome. I don't know how you feel about that.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. I love the domes.
Speaker 1: I hate it.
Speaker 2: So the snow games, that real effect of the weather. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I like that passion. I'm going to the man, so the.
Speaker 1: Other homes here's the so very short term, very selfish.
Speaker 1: I like the dome for Patrick's late thirties.
Speaker 2: Oh and then the new guy is going to be
Speaker 2: playing in the dome the whole time.
Speaker 1: So if we are just talking about maximizing like Mahomes' career,
Speaker 1: having the fact that his age thirty five in old,
Speaker 1: old seasons will be in a dome is probably good. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's probably good. That to me is not worth the
Speaker 1: trade off of football slowly but surely eliminating weather as
Speaker 1: a component, Like I think we are moving towards a
Speaker 1: reality of in a decade, there are maybe three or
Speaker 1: four stadiums in the country where weather plays a part,
Speaker 1: and I don't like that for football. I think football
Speaker 1: is a game made to be played in the elements.
Speaker 1: I don't mind domes in warm weather places because it
Speaker 1: feels like that's actually like the elements aren't going to
Speaker 1: be a big issue there anyway, and so it allows
Speaker 1: you to host more events. Fine, And I don't mind
Speaker 1: the Dome in Minnesota only because that specific place can
Speaker 1: get so Maybe it's just because I'm used to it,
Speaker 1: but it can get so much snow that they have
Speaker 1: like canceled games. But I guess Buffalo. So it's probably
Speaker 1: just because I'm used to it. But I don't like
Speaker 1: football removing the elements and the idea that because they
Speaker 1: build this stadium, Kansas City is going to get a
Speaker 1: bunch of super Bowls. It's just not true. I think
Speaker 1: they will probably get one, and people will complain about
Speaker 1: the super Bowl being in Kansas City, and you know what,
Speaker 1: they should because the super Bowl should not be in
Speaker 1: Kansas City. The super Bowls shouldn't. I'm from there. I
Speaker 1: love it. Super Bowl should not have ever been in Minneapolis,
Speaker 1: it shouldn't have ever been in Indianapolis. It shouldn't be
Speaker 1: in Kansas City.
Speaker 2: The super Bowl sho, what does it need to be
Speaker 2: in New Orleans? Or wait, what happened?
Speaker 1: New Orleans? Miami, Vegas, LA? That's where the super Bowl elitist? Okay,
Speaker 1: no cities, it's yeah, I guess. I mean New Orleans
Speaker 1: isn't a big market. It's just awesome and the and
Speaker 1: so I think we have seen cities that can do it,
Speaker 1: and I'd be honestly Okay, with La not being included,
Speaker 1: I'd be fine with it just being Vegas, Miami, New
Speaker 1: Orleans like that, that being the rotation. You can make
Speaker 1: the argument for Phoenix, but I just think they're not
Speaker 1: the idea that Kansas City is because they're add this
Speaker 1: is going to be a part of a Super Bowl rotation.
Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be every ten years the biggest sporting
Speaker 1: event in the country, Headcore in wyan Dot County for
Speaker 1: in February. It's just not happening. But the big my
Speaker 1: biggest thing is on the field. I don't like I
Speaker 1: like that weather matters, and I like that the Buffalo
Speaker 1: in Kansas City and Baltimore and Pittsburgh and New England
Speaker 1: have to be able to play in multiple settings. And
Speaker 1: I just I so, yes, I think it'll be good
Speaker 1: for Pat the end of you know, the last quarter
Speaker 1: of Patrick's career. But it's to me a bit of
Speaker 1: a bummer. And the other bummer is this, You're gonna
Speaker 1: go from eighty thousand seats to about sixty eight thousand,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to be very interested and I really
Speaker 1: hope that they that they find to wait because I
Speaker 1: think the tailgating will be great no matter what. One
Speaker 1: thing Clark HNT said yesterday that's true is parking lots
Speaker 1: don't tailgate people do. That's correct. I think the tailgating
Speaker 1: pregame stuff. I trust they will make sure that stays sacrisanct, because, like,
Speaker 1: if there's ever a reason to go to an NFL game,
Speaker 1: going to Arrowhead to tailgate before the game is one
Speaker 1: of the greatest things in the NFL. And I think
Speaker 1: that will stay. But I wonder if they're going to
Speaker 1: be able like and but the other thing Clark said
Speaker 1: is seats and concrete don't make noise, fans do. That
Speaker 1: is true, but certain stadiums are more conducive for noise
Speaker 1: than others. And Arrowhead has been the loudest open air
Speaker 1: stadium in the country forever. And I just hope they
Speaker 1: are able to recreate.
Speaker 2: That is is it going to have a new name, Well.
Speaker 1: I would imagine they'll still call it Arrowhead. They've already
Speaker 1: kind of sold on that because it's technically ge J
Speaker 1: Field at Arrowhead. And I've never totally understood naming right sponsorships,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know that anyone has paid more attention
Speaker 1: to the Kansas City Chiefs. I really don't know that
Speaker 1: anyone in the world has paid more attention to the
Speaker 1: Kansity chiefs than me, certainly, uh since because the stadiums
Speaker 1: don't even named that for like five years of the
Speaker 1: field in that time. Prater and I still don't. But
Speaker 1: I still don't know what GHA is. Yeah, if you
Speaker 1: were like that, I have no idea. I have no
Speaker 1: clue what the I don't know. Do they sell insurance?
Speaker 1: Is it are they? I have no consult I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is. So it's it's always arrowhead to me.
Speaker 1: But that's the the positive and the negative. That's what
Speaker 1: it is. Now, will Kn't City get a Final four? Maybe?
Speaker 1: Like will they're like having a domed stadium? There is
Speaker 1: there are benefits for it.
Speaker 2: Eha is Government Employees Health Association.
Speaker 1: Still don't know what it means. Does that mean they
Speaker 1: they they? Does that mean they compete with the company
Speaker 1: that Gronk advertises for So it is they're the competitors
Speaker 1: of Gronk's company. What's that? What's the Gronk insurance company?
Speaker 1: Where he's like, I wasn't in the military. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so g eh and USAA are competitors, all right, good
Speaker 1: for them.
Speaker 2: And do you think there's I'm sorry, just cut you off.
Speaker 2: Do you think there's going to be any teams that
Speaker 2: hold out on this open air stadium closed team? Like
Speaker 2: could you see green Baby? And like the last team
Speaker 2: with an open open stadium in thirty.
Speaker 1: Years Buffalo's building a new stadium, and Buffalo's new stadium
Speaker 1: doesn't have a roof, right, fact check me on that.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's good for something then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and but and it's Buffalo, But I I
Speaker 1: don't know. The Chiefs playing in a dome feels weird
Speaker 1: to me. I'm sure I get used to it. And
Speaker 1: if and if Old Mahomes is just lighting people up,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll be fine with it.
Speaker 2: But maybe because I'm not a savant and like a
Speaker 2: football historian, I just don't see why you would want
Speaker 2: like and this is like I hear a lot of
Speaker 2: people that's their take. They want there to be snow,
Speaker 2: the incluent weather. Why would you not just want them
Speaker 2: to perform to their best ability like any other sport,
Speaker 2: Like I feel like there's no.
Speaker 1: Beau that's so that's where that's where I disagree with you.
Speaker 1: Know what you're saying, a lot of people feel that
Speaker 1: it just it just depends on how you look at it.
Speaker 1: I look at being great at football intrinsically, meaning that
Speaker 1: you can have different types of game plans and different
Speaker 1: abilities in different weather because I think that is part
Speaker 1: of building a team. I think part of building a
Speaker 1: team is teaching them how to exploit different weather conditions.
Speaker 1: I think that is as intrinsic to the game as
Speaker 1: kick returning, Like that's part of it. And I think
Speaker 1: removing it people a lot of people feel like, oh,
Speaker 1: you remove it and that then makes it more pure.
Speaker 1: I feel like it makes it less pure. And I
Speaker 1: understand in basketball that doesn't exist. Everything's the same, all
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: Like soccer. I mean, I don't know if they played it.
Speaker 2: Definitely they play soccer in the snow or like light snow.
Speaker 2: They obviously heavy rain.
Speaker 1: That's fair, but the soccer is an outdoor sport and
Speaker 1: being able to handle heat is a bigger thing in soccer.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, yeah, the yeah, yeah, I guess I'm always
Speaker 2: looking for the light show I've seeing these games. That's
Speaker 2: fair and by the way, that's the.
Speaker 1: Way the that's the way the NFL is moving that
Speaker 1: it just bums me out. I mean, but again, I'm
Speaker 1: a grand pall now.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry to those historians that stuff is changing.
Speaker 1: No, it's fine. Just so many of the like the
Speaker 1: great moments in NFL history are playoff games in the elements,
Speaker 1: and that'll be a bummer for me. But you know,
Speaker 1: nothing to cry about. I just I don't love it.
Speaker 1: That to me matters a lot more than the fact
Speaker 1: that they're moving twenty minutes west across state lines. I
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Speaker 2: Ravens hanging by a thread. Drake May was looking poor
Speaker 2: in the first half. Rallied Lamar Jackson came out of
Speaker 2: the game with I think like a rib injury. We
Speaker 2: lost the game. Now we have a seven percent chance
Speaker 2: of making the playoffs. Yeah yeah, how yea? Who do
Speaker 2: you think this is big wrong? The Ravens or Patriots?
Speaker 1: I think, well, listen, I think it's a Let me
Speaker 1: start with the Patriots. And what was I'm trying to
Speaker 1: remember because there was a clip from last week's show.
Speaker 1: Was it about Lamar? What was the clip? Maybe the
Speaker 1: producers saw it as well. There is a clip of
Speaker 1: I did some take that I don't even know if
Speaker 1: Demonse agreed with, but it was massively aggregated, and it
Speaker 1: was aggregated with Demnse and I split screen. And I
Speaker 1: always find this funny because I wasn't do you guys
Speaker 1: remember what I'm talking about? Was it my last week
Speaker 1: from it was from Thursday show. I can't even remember
Speaker 1: what we talked about on Thursday.
Speaker 2: But regardless Lamar's health, Nike will and sickness and stuff, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was something else other than that. Probably That's why.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember what our If I had our
Speaker 1: rundown from last week in front of me, I could
Speaker 1: I could think of it. I'm trying to think if
Speaker 1: it's Lamar because the reason I thought of that is
Speaker 1: it might happen again this week, but uh the let's
Speaker 1: start with the Patriots. I think that was a growing
Speaker 1: up moment for.
Speaker 2: Drake Drake.
Speaker 1: I think that Drake was playing one of his worst
Speaker 1: games of the year and for him to rally the
Speaker 1: way he did and make the I mean, he obviously
Speaker 1: had the one great deep pass that was robbed from
Speaker 1: him on the miss DPI, but didn't matter. He had
Speaker 1: already the touchdown passing threw to the front corner of
Speaker 1: the M zone. Yeah, was unbelievable. I thought that was great,
Speaker 1: and I I think that on top of that, uh,
Speaker 1: hold on, I think Paul just texted to me, Oh,
Speaker 1: this is what it was. Sorry, it was the thank you, Paul.
Speaker 1: It was the whimby stuff. It was me saying I
Speaker 1: don't need to be lectured.
Speaker 2: By a twenty year old French kid.
Speaker 1: That the people got super mad at that take and
Speaker 1: you're just sitting there like listening. It's just super funny.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Paul. The no the people got mad at
Speaker 1: I think my Lamar h takes from TV. But sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm interrupting myself. I thought the Drake may touchdown pass
Speaker 1: was unbuild. The bomb was unbelievable. The fourth and two
Speaker 1: play which kept them alive to go win the game.
Speaker 1: It was just past the sideline, but it was an
Speaker 1: absolute laser that I thought was gonna be knocked down.
Speaker 1: He was excellent, and Drake made is the real deal.
Speaker 1: He is the real and uh, the Patriots they had
Speaker 1: to win that game because while I thought sometimes the
Speaker 1: schedule stuff got a little overblown, if they had played
Speaker 1: that soft schedule and then lost to Buffalo and Baltimore,
Speaker 1: it'd be like, Okay, you know what I mean. They're uh,
Speaker 1: they're a real Yeah, they're oh, they're ahead of schedule.
Speaker 1: They're better than all the JV teams, but they're not
Speaker 1: an A lister, And I think they proved they're A listers.
Speaker 1: And so I think that is that's the Patriots piece
Speaker 1: of it. And they've got.
Speaker 2: They got their quarterback. The guy looks like. I think
Speaker 2: that guy's gonna be in the league for a really
Speaker 2: really long time. Yeah, yeah, I solid, man.
Speaker 1: I think he is just going to be a top
Speaker 1: five quarterback moving forward. He's legit. He is, without a
Speaker 1: doubt legit. And then you get to the Ravens and
Speaker 1: there's a lot here they blew another big lead. Everyone's
Speaker 1: blaming Harball. They didn't give the ball to they didn't
Speaker 1: have Derrick Henry on the field for their last two possessions.
Speaker 1: People are understandably blaming Harball. Another can I call it
Speaker 1: without people freaking out? Weird injury thing with Lamar I do.
Speaker 2: I do feel strongly that he could have came back
Speaker 2: in the game. Watching the like and it's and it's
Speaker 2: a ribbonery. I do think he could have come back
Speaker 2: in that game. And I don't like doing that or
Speaker 2: like being like so I don't know what the guy
Speaker 2: was feeling, but I don't know, like he was moving around,
Speaker 2: he's like on the side, like like I've had a
Speaker 2: ribbagery before, and I just I don't know. I felt
Speaker 2: like he could have kept playing, especially in that situation.
Speaker 2: We have the game, we just need you to manage.
Speaker 1: But I so listen, I hate that you're the one
Speaker 1: that said that instead of me, because and I want this,
Speaker 1: if this gets aggregated, people to understand he could. This
Speaker 1: is Demonte's favorite team and the guy he's ridden with
Speaker 1: more than anybody. Yeah, but I was shocked he didn't
Speaker 1: go back in and when he didn't go back in.
Speaker 1: Let me rephrase that, I was not shocked he didn't
Speaker 1: go back in. We didn't go back in. I assumed
Speaker 1: we were going to get the news yesterday that he
Speaker 1: broke his ribs, that he had cracked ribs, that even
Speaker 1: though the hit didn't the need didn't look that bad.
Speaker 1: But you never know, you know how that is. And
Speaker 1: so I just assumed, like, oh man, there's he like
Speaker 1: he's he probably isn't gonna play this coming week, and
Speaker 1: that's it's a rap. And when Harbaugh came out yesterday
Speaker 1: and said it's just a bad contusion and he's day
Speaker 1: to day, I was stunned. Now again, it's weird because
Speaker 1: Lamar is obviously tough, and obviously he's playing care care
Speaker 1: so I so that's why I'm saying, it's just another
Speaker 1: weird injury thing with Lamar, where now he has suffered
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury that nobody saw when it happened, but
Speaker 1: obviously was a real one, like a not real as
Speaker 1: opposed to real or sus fake. I should have said
Speaker 1: a significant one to where he missed multiple games, including
Speaker 1: a game after a bye that his coach thought he
Speaker 1: would be back for, and then had knee, ankle toe
Speaker 1: injuries that made him miss practice but not miss any games,
Speaker 1: but he then wasn't effective in the games. Then his
Speaker 1: you know, annual December cold had him miss practice, and
Speaker 1: now what looked like a relatively banal play knocked him
Speaker 1: out for the most critical half of their season, basically
Speaker 1: playing an elimination game. It's just weird. And I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to be like KG with my analysis here. I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to hint at anything, but I'm also not
Speaker 1: going to act like it's not weird. And it's very,
Speaker 1: very hard not to go to the other quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: Lamar's tax bracket and echelon, and I'd ask yourself, do
Speaker 1: we think they would have an injury that the next
Speaker 1: day their coach calls day to day and expects them
Speaker 1: to play the next week, that we wouldn't have seen
Speaker 1: them back on the field at least trying seeing giving
Speaker 1: it a go and then maybe Okay, this isn't gonna work.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I feel like you would have, and
Speaker 1: so it's just odd. And I go.
Speaker 2: Back to Baltimore. See so with the situation, Harball, whatever
Speaker 2: it is, let me tweak that.
Speaker 1: There you go I don't because I said this a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. I only think he wants out. I
Speaker 1: think he might be over Harba and this has run
Speaker 1: its course, and that Lamar is resigned to the fact
Speaker 1: that this is a lost season, and it is a
Speaker 1: lost season, and this was the biggest thing I said
Speaker 1: yesterday on TV that I think people maybe took issue with.
Speaker 1: But again, we won't know for five years, but I
Speaker 1: will I think this will age well. I am not
Speaker 1: saying Lamar will never make or win a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: What I am saying is I think when his career
Speaker 1: is over, we will look at the best chances he
Speaker 1: had were these past three years. They were the solitary
Speaker 1: super Bowl favorite at multiple points in each of the
Speaker 1: last three seasons. They were the super Bowl preseason favorite
Speaker 1: this year. And to come out of these three years
Speaker 1: with two total playoff victories, come out of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenties so far twenty one, two, twenty three, twenty four
Speaker 1: to twenty five with two total playoff victories is stunning.
Speaker 1: And now I think you start a new era with
Speaker 1: a new head coach Demons. Before we move on to
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh's side of it, I want to give you
Speaker 1: some news. Zay Flowers named to the Pro Bowl this morning.
Speaker 1: Now go ahead, I know you have a potentials eight
Speaker 1: flowers take.
Speaker 2: Just run straight, man, please just run straight, and just
Speaker 2: be a little bit tighter with the football. I just
Speaker 2: think that there there have been a couple of big
Speaker 2: situations and the biggest point of the season. I think
Speaker 2: the guy is loose with the football. He's trying to
Speaker 2: play like backyard football or something, making these cuts backwards.
Speaker 2: And that's not like the only time that I've seen
Speaker 2: him do that, but just in the bigger instances, it's like, dude,
Speaker 2: just just be tirer with the football. Don't try to
Speaker 2: get it all one play to go down or something.
Speaker 2: It's just kind of frustrated.
Speaker 1: And he has said he was gonna do that, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then he has not done that.
Speaker 2: He's loose, just loose.
Speaker 1: And it's the end. He doesn't fumble a lot, but
Speaker 1: you remember the fumbles. Yeah, you're there are big moments.
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Speaker 1: do them quick all lines from hard Rock Bet. The
Speaker 1: first pick to Mon'sday is my favorite pick of the weekend.
Speaker 2: You've got Dallas minus six and a half at Washington.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I listen. I think Josh Johnson's playing quarterback for Washington.
Speaker 1: I don't know this, but I think it. And if
Speaker 1: that's the case, they just can't move the ball, Dall.
Speaker 1: I understand that Dallas. You might feel like, oh, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be demoralized because they're eliminated from the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: don't know that. I think they've kind of felt they
Speaker 1: were eliminated from the playoffs for a while. They're gonna
Speaker 1: move the ball, Dallas is gonna blow out the Commanders.
Speaker 1: I love the Cowboys minus six and a half and
Speaker 1: Dak owned the Commanders in his career twelve and two
Speaker 1: straight up, and they've covered five in a row.
Speaker 2: Next, you got Jacksonville minus six and a half at Indy.
Speaker 1: So listen, Philip Rivers. Credit to him for playing obviously,
Speaker 1: way way way better than I expected. But their season
Speaker 1: ended Monday night and he came back to try to
Speaker 1: make a playoff push. The Jags are playing for a
Speaker 1: lot as far as locking up the division, staying alive
Speaker 1: for the one seed. Jags have been crushing against the
Speaker 1: AFC South five and oh against the spread in their
Speaker 1: last five against the AFC South. The culture falling apart again.
Speaker 1: The Jags game and the Cowboys game are games I'm
Speaker 1: picking here. I don't know if I'll be able to
Speaker 1: pick Friday on TV because I don't know if the
Speaker 1: Lions will have moved up to you know, above the seven.
Speaker 1: But I'll take the six and a half.
Speaker 2: Next. Next, you got Pittsburgh minus four at Cleveland. This
Speaker 2: was originally at four and a half. It's just dropped
Speaker 2: to four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I listen, I know laying more than a field
Speaker 1: goal with Tomlin and divisional games is it hasn't been
Speaker 1: the best, but I just think Shador has been really
Speaker 1: bad and the last two weeks. It's fine for a
Speaker 1: fifth round rookie, but for a Pittsburgh team that knows
Speaker 1: we take care of business here, we get give ourselves
Speaker 1: a bye week eighteen doesn't matter, and win the division.
Speaker 1: I'll lay the four points with Pittsburgh. I got no
Speaker 1: problem with that.
Speaker 2: Next Buffalo minus two and a half versus Philly, I.
Speaker 1: Think Buffalo is a lot better than Philly. They're at home.
Speaker 1: I'm only I'm playing less than a field goal. And listen,
Speaker 1: Philly getting Jalen Carter and Lane Johnson back this week.
Speaker 1: I think it's something Philly also, though they locked up
Speaker 1: the division, they're not gonna be the one seed. So
Speaker 1: it's not that I think they're not gonna care, but
Speaker 1: they just they they have no chance of being the
Speaker 1: one seed. They have no chance of not winning the division,
Speaker 1: so they have a slight chance at the three, at
Speaker 1: the two seed, but they can't be the four. Philly
Speaker 1: right now cannot be the one, four, five, six, or seven.
Speaker 1: They're either. No matter what happens to the rest of
Speaker 1: the way they're the two or the three seed, and
Speaker 1: they are probably the three seed, So I just think
Speaker 1: Buffalo's better, Buffalo needs the game. Buffalo's at home. I'll
Speaker 1: take Buffalo and then our one underdog, We're.
Speaker 2: Taking Chicago plus three at San Francisco. This got bumped
Speaker 2: up from to and a half.
Speaker 1: I just think the Bears run game, Bears offense against
Speaker 1: that Niners defense, I think they can win. And I'm
Speaker 1: getting three full points. So the Bears, by the way,
Speaker 1: played on Saturday. The Niners played Monday, so that's not
Speaker 1: like a mini buy, but it's a difference in that
Speaker 1: I think the Bears can win that game outright. So
Speaker 1: my five picks are Dallas minus six and a half,
Speaker 1: Jacksonville minus six and a half, Pittsburgh minus four, Buffalo
Speaker 1: minus two and a half, Chicago plus three. Again, if
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