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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright Episode two oh nine,
Speaker 2: and we are days away from my favorite sports weekend
Speaker 2: of the year, the best sports weekend of the year,
Speaker 2: Divisional Round playoff weekend. Two game Saturday, two game Sunday.
Speaker 2: Oh boy. Speaking of two game Saturday, let's bring de
Speaker 2: monse in real quick before we get to what missed
Speaker 2: the cut. This is an old I don't know what
Speaker 2: videos Instagram sends you if you're like scrolling their reels
Speaker 2: or whatever, but I'm sure it's different than the ones
Speaker 2: the algorithm sends me, because the algorithm sends me gambling
Speaker 2: videos and then parenting slash marriage videos, a bunch of
Speaker 2: like this is how dumb my husband is videos, and
Speaker 2: there is a whole cottage industries who's strung a word,
Speaker 2: but a whole genre of you know my reaction when
Speaker 2: you know I tell my wife I can't find something,
Speaker 2: and then she gets up and looks for it, and
Speaker 2: it's the guy with sweat pouring down his face a
Speaker 2: variation of that, and a whole genre of you know,
Speaker 2: my wife telling me about the plans today that she
Speaker 2: has told me about seven different times over the previous
Speaker 2: two months, and the guy's like, what plands? I am
Speaker 2: here to tell you. Though, those two genres could not
Speaker 2: be more accurate to my lived experiences. And I had
Speaker 2: one of those moments today when your mom says to me, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm so excited for Ashley's painting reveal Saturday. I said, huh.
Speaker 2: She was like, we talked about it, Ashley was here,
Speaker 2: she told you how excited you were. I'm like, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: And when she said I was like, oh yeah, I remember,
Speaker 2: I was like, but when is that? She's like Saturday.
Speaker 2: I'm like, when Saturday said six o'clock and I gave her.
Speaker 2: She said, is there football? I'm like, and now I
Speaker 2: have turned it on her because her telling me plans
Speaker 2: it registers in my brain the same place that the
Speaker 2: NFL playoff schedule registers in her brain, which is nowhere.
Speaker 2: And so I was like, yeah, there's football's visional weekend.
Speaker 2: She was like, at six o'clock a bad time. I'm like,
Speaker 2: it's the worst time. Originable couldn't pick a worst time.
Speaker 2: Six o'clock guarantees I would miss the second half of
Speaker 2: the Ravens game and the beginning of the Packer game.
Speaker 2: She was like, so, what are we gonna do? And
Speaker 2: I was like, well, I know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna watch the games. Like I don't know. I
Speaker 2: don't know how I can make this up to anyone,
Speaker 2: but this is there's no possibility I can miss it now.
Speaker 2: She was very nice. She was like, I understand, it's fine,
Speaker 2: you can come meet up with us after. And I
Speaker 2: don't know that she fully registered that there's the four
Speaker 2: thirty game, but then there's another game after, so this
Speaker 2: event starts at six. She said, I can come meet
Speaker 2: up with her after. The after is like midnight, but
Speaker 2: we sold her on, so listen, I am super excited
Speaker 2: about this weekend and the final game is the game
Speaker 2: of the weekend or what people would have you believe
Speaker 2: is the game of the weekend. Chiefs Bills will get
Speaker 2: to all of that in a moment. First, what missed
Speaker 2: the cut Pacers trading for Pascal Siakam? I don't think
Speaker 2: you could have found a more perfect pairing of good
Speaker 2: but not great player going to good but not great
Speaker 2: team that creates precisely zero buzz. It's like a mad
Speaker 2: libs of fringe All Star Fringe contender combined forces. That
Speaker 2: is it? Okay, who is the player and the team
Speaker 2: we could put together that might make zero of the
Speaker 2: talk shows? And the answer is, well, what if we
Speaker 2: want Pascal Siakam on the Indiana Pacers? They're like perfect?
Speaker 2: Do it? Kyrie wanted to reunite with Lebron. There will
Speaker 2: be more discussion about Kyrie's you know, fever dream about
Speaker 2: maybe joining the Lakers than Pascal Siakam actually joining the Pacers.
Speaker 2: Modern media and Girl Scout Cookie season begins. Are you
Speaker 2: guys trying tell me in my ear? Producers the Girl
Speaker 2: Scout Cookies thing? Are you guys trying to get me
Speaker 2: Have I done my Girl Scout Cookies rant on this
Speaker 2: show before you guys trying to bait me into that
Speaker 2: or is that an honest question? Oh? I haven't done it. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, stay for the end of the show. I'll
Speaker 2: do my girl Scout Cookies rant because there's I have
Speaker 2: strong opinions on this, and it's not about what the
Speaker 2: best flavors. I agree with you De Monsey. I like
Speaker 2: thin mints, but thin mints and the freezer delicious. So
Speaker 2: we'll do all of that. But first demand let's get
Speaker 2: into the actual show. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: After getting absolutely embarrassed at home last week by the
Speaker 3: Green Bay Packers, the Dallas Cowboys are keeping McCarthy. Everybody
Speaker 3: thought he was gonna lose his job, including me, maybe you.
Speaker 3: But with so many quality coaching candidates opening up, why
Speaker 3: does it make sense for Dallas to keep McCarthy.
Speaker 2: I mean, I only it does. And I've now come
Speaker 2: to aation that maybe others came to before, and maybe
Speaker 2: some think I'm wrong on That's fine. And the realization
Speaker 2: is I don't think Jerry Jones' number one goal is
Speaker 2: to win a Super Bowl. I think Jerry Jones' number
Speaker 2: one goal is to be the face, voice and have
Speaker 2: full control of his franchise. And he'd like to win
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl. But he has to have that because
Speaker 2: if your number one goal is to win a Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: and Jim Harbaugh might be available, Bill Belichick is available,
Speaker 2: Mike Vrabel is available, hell Pete Carroll is available, maybe,
Speaker 2: just maybe Mike Tomlin could be available, all those things,
Speaker 2: and you decide to run it back with Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 2: It's because your number one objective is to have unquestioned,
Speaker 2: full control of your franchise, be the unquestioned voice and
Speaker 2: face of the franchise. And I think it's a bad decision. Now.
Speaker 2: I understand that, you know, Greg Olsen, who I think
Speaker 2: has been awesome and I have massive respect for that.
Speaker 2: Greg Olsen during the broadcast and since the game, you know,
Speaker 2: via Twitter, has been very adamant that the smart move
Speaker 2: is to keep Mike McCarthy. That it's too reactionary, it's
Speaker 2: too prisoner of the moment he to keep Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 2: I vehemently disagree with that take. I think people probably
Speaker 2: thought that when the Denver Broncos uh three years in.
Speaker 2: Was it three years or four years? I'm gonna check
Speaker 2: it to be because I want to be exactly right here.
Speaker 2: But with John Fox in Denver, what'd you say.
Speaker 3: It's been a long moment too as well, you know,
Speaker 3: prisoner of the moment, this keeps happening.
Speaker 2: Oh well, sure, the very fair point. But so John
Speaker 2: Fox in Denver, he was the coach there for four years,
Speaker 2: but he was the coach with Peyton for three. In
Speaker 2: those three years, they went thirteen and three, lost in
Speaker 2: the divisional round their first playoff game, went thirteen and three,
Speaker 2: lost in the Super Bowl, went twelve and four, lost
Speaker 2: in the divisional round their first playoff game. They had
Speaker 2: the bye every year, they made a Super Bowl. So
Speaker 2: he was forty six and eighteen three and four in
Speaker 2: the postseason, won a playoff game with Tim Tebow as
Speaker 2: his quarterback, made the playoffs with Tim Tebow. Once he
Speaker 2: got Peyton, they won twelve or thirteen games and had
Speaker 2: the bye every year and made a super Bowl, and
Speaker 2: they fired him because they said, we need to get
Speaker 2: over for the hump, we need to be better. And
Speaker 2: by the way, the next year they won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: And so I don't think. I do think there are
Speaker 2: certain losses that wipe away all the good work you
Speaker 2: did in that regular season. And when I evaluate coaches,
Speaker 2: I ask the very simple question because my coach and
Speaker 2: my GM evaluation is very different. With a the better
Speaker 2: the job the GM does, the higher expectations the coach has.
Speaker 2: The worst job a GM does, the lower expectations a
Speaker 2: coach has. Which is why Belichick was in such a
Speaker 2: weird spot at the end of New England because it's like, well,
Speaker 2: he is making the most with a roster that doesn't
Speaker 2: have any talent, but he picked the talent, so that
Speaker 2: obviously then works for him as a coach against him
Speaker 2: as a GM. I think the Cowboys were tremendously talented,
Speaker 2: and I think the Cowboys were once again unprepared for
Speaker 2: the postseason. The Cowboys in two of the last three
Speaker 2: years losing home playoff games to Jimmy Garoppolo and Jordan Love.
Speaker 2: And no disrespect to Jordan because he's been excellent, but
Speaker 2: they were the seventh seed. They were fighting for their
Speaker 2: playoff lives in the final week of the year. It's
Speaker 2: his first ever playoff start, so losing those home playoff
Speaker 2: games as significant favorites is firing worthy. It just is.
Speaker 2: And when you look at Mike McCarthy, if you are
Speaker 2: a team that is as Brew has been saying all year,
Speaker 2: super Bowler bust and I have been arguing, well the
Speaker 2: very least NFC Championship game or Bust. You do need
Speaker 2: to ask yourself when is the last time in the
Speaker 2: postseason one of his teams overachieved or met expectation? When
Speaker 2: is the last time the Green Bay Packers or the
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys with Mike McCarthy, once they got to the postseason,
Speaker 2: got to where they were supposed to be. So in
Speaker 2: twenty ten, they win the Super Bowl as the wild card.
Speaker 2: It's why it's amazing. It's a great job by all involved.
Speaker 2: Since then we can go through the years, guys, and
Speaker 2: in fact, we will go through the years. The very
Speaker 2: next year, the Green Bay Packers were fifteen and one,
Speaker 2: and in their first playoff game at home, they don't
Speaker 2: lose to the Giants. They get blown out out by
Speaker 2: the Giants. In twenty twelve, they're eleven and five. They
Speaker 2: win their first playoff game against the Vikings, and then
Speaker 2: they play the Niners and they don't lose to the Niners.
Speaker 2: They get blown out by the Niners. The next year,
Speaker 2: so that to me getting the divisional round. That year,
Speaker 2: they weren't as good as the Niners. That's a road
Speaker 2: playoff game, that's I guess meeting expectation. But you got
Speaker 2: blown out. The next year they sneak into the playoffs
Speaker 2: eight seven and one. They lose the Niners again. Okay.
Speaker 2: The next year they are the one seed, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: the two seed. They get the bye, They are in
Speaker 2: the NFC Championship game against Seattle, have a two score
Speaker 2: lead with minutes to go and blow the game. Now
Speaker 2: they reached about as far as they were supposed to go.
Speaker 2: They were the two seed. They lost to the one seed,
Speaker 2: but they lost in horrific fashion. The very next year
Speaker 2: they lose. It takes two Aaron Rodgers Hail Mary's to
Speaker 2: force overtime against the Cardinals and you lose. And the
Speaker 2: next year they play I would say to their seed,
Speaker 2: maybe above their seed, get to the NFC Championship game
Speaker 2: and get blown out by the Falcons, and then we
Speaker 2: know the story in Dallas. So I think Jerry decided
Speaker 2: it was more important to have a coach that he
Speaker 2: could control, that he could be the voice of the franchise,
Speaker 2: all of that. Then that he could give themselves the
Speaker 2: best chance to win a championship. Now, folks will make
Speaker 2: the argument, what did Andy Reid's postseason resume look like
Speaker 2: before he got packed Mahomes? And I understand that argument
Speaker 2: because Andy had a lot of years where they were
Speaker 2: good but not great, couldn't get over the hump. The
Speaker 2: difference is Andy did not have nearly as many absolute
Speaker 2: flameouts and Andy most notably did not have these years
Speaker 2: where he had the better quarterback in a playoff game
Speaker 2: and kept losing. And people are like, oh, look at
Speaker 2: the Andy with the Chiefs before Mahomes got there, they
Speaker 2: lost to the Colts. Blew a twenty said that one
Speaker 2: was painful. Flew his twenty seven point lead to the
Speaker 2: Colts in the playoffs. Yeah, I understand that it was
Speaker 2: Alex Smith versus Andrew Luck that the next time they
Speaker 2: were in the playoffs lost to the Patriots, it was
Speaker 2: Alex Smith against Tom Brady. The next time they were
Speaker 2: in the playoffs lost to the Steelers, it was Alex
Speaker 2: Smith against Big Ben. That was a tough one too.
Speaker 2: Chiefs scored two touchdowns, Steelers scored zero touchdowns. In the
Speaker 2: Chiefs I lost that game eighteen to sixty two field
Speaker 2: goals for the steel six field goals for the Steelers.
Speaker 2: Pardon me, now the next year Alex Smith last year
Speaker 2: lost to Marcus Mariota. Now that's a terrible one. Up
Speaker 2: twenty one to three, loose to Marcus Mariota, And so yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean that that's a really, really bad one. But
Speaker 2: you also were not a true Super Bowl contender that year,
Speaker 2: and then Mahomes takes over and you reach these heights.
Speaker 2: The point, the reason to me that Andy Reid Mike
Speaker 2: McCarthy analogy doesn't quite fit is Mike McCarthy had his
Speaker 2: version of Patrick Mahomes. It was Aaron Rodgers, and he
Speaker 2: made one Super Bowl in a decade. So I think
Speaker 2: it's a bad job.
Speaker 4: It's a bad job by Jerry keeping him all right. Next,
Speaker 4: so you laid out on your show. How Yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: coming down. That's something I'm sorry for all the listeners.
Speaker 4: Voice is gonna be a little.
Speaker 2: You're right, don't worry about it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you laid out. This is the biggest game
Speaker 3: for nearly everybody on the Bills, most notably Josh Allen.
Speaker 3: They're the favorites at home and have the momentum on
Speaker 3: their side. Would you say that the biggest edge for
Speaker 3: the Chiefs right now is how big this game is
Speaker 3: for Buffalo.
Speaker 2: You know, the biggest edge for the Chiefs is that
Speaker 2: they're better. And I say these things and people immediately
Speaker 2: they're like, oh my god, what a Homer. And I
Speaker 2: laid this out on the TV show Yesterda. I'm going
Speaker 2: to lay it out again. The Bills win eleven and
Speaker 2: six and won their division and were considered terrifying. The
Speaker 2: Chiefs went eleven and six and won their division and
Speaker 2: it was considered disappointing. In a failure, Josh Allen had
Speaker 2: a worse passer rating than Patrick Mahomes, touchdown interception ratio
Speaker 2: than Patrick Mahomes, yards per attempt than Patrick Mahomes, completion
Speaker 2: percentage in Patrick Mahomes, and yards per game than Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2: Every single passing statistic Allen was worse than Mahomes. This year,
Speaker 2: Josh was considered an MVP candidate Mahomes. It was considered,
Speaker 2: what's wrong.
Speaker 3: Slightly with the passer rating that the passing numbers are
Speaker 3: they slightly better Mahomes.
Speaker 2: It's all very close. It's all very close. And so
Speaker 2: if the answer is because Josh is running if the golf,
Speaker 2: if you think the golf between Mahomes and Allen in
Speaker 2: how they were discussed this year, is equivalent to Josh
Speaker 2: is a better runner, I disagree, Mahomes. The it was
Speaker 2: we were Nobody was saying Josh Allen is broken as
Speaker 2: a passer. The offense is broken for the Bills. Nobody
Speaker 2: nationally and Mahomes across the board had better passing numbers.
Speaker 2: And it's just again, it's how we discussed the teams.
Speaker 2: The Bills have the number nine defense in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Nobody thinks it's a glaring weakness. The Chiefs, believe it
Speaker 2: or not, have the number nine offense in the NFL.
Speaker 2: It's their Achilles heel. So I am here to tell
Speaker 2: you it is. It is not that, oh, Nick, But
Speaker 2: they played before and the Bills won. They did, and
Speaker 2: you give them credit for that. The I think if
Speaker 2: you remember that game, it was a Cadarius Tony game.
Speaker 2: That to me is the definition of a coin flip game,
Speaker 2: a game that could go either way. And in that game,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs were without both of their starting linebackers, their
Speaker 2: left tackle and their running back, and the Bills were
Speaker 2: coming off a bye. The Chiefs were not in this game.
Speaker 2: The injury advantage is on the chief side rather than
Speaker 2: the Bill's side. The Bills played Monday, the Chiefs played Saturday,
Speaker 2: and all those guys the Chiefs were missing her back.
Speaker 2: So the biggest edge the Chiefs have is they're a
Speaker 2: better football team. And there are a lot of interesting
Speaker 2: elements to this game. And I'm wearing my no Gamble,
Speaker 2: No Future sweatshirt in part because I love it, but
Speaker 2: also because that is my buddy, Buffalo, Brent Hanks's television show,
Speaker 2: and I want him to have some you know, good
Speaker 2: vibes and good feelings leading up to Sunday, because Sunday
Speaker 2: is going to be so painful for him. Because when
Speaker 2: Sunday comes around and when the Chiefs win that game,
Speaker 2: what is Buffalo's next move? If you can't beat the
Speaker 2: Chiefs this year in this spot in your building, when
Speaker 2: are you going to? And credit to Bill Simmons because
Speaker 2: he he brought up this analogy and I thought it
Speaker 2: was really smart. He said, if the Bills don't win
Speaker 2: this game, are they the Atlanta Hawks of the nineteen
Speaker 2: eighties with Josh Allen being Dominique Wilkins. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 2: that's good. So once Dominique got to the Hawks, you know,
Speaker 2: once he was really really great. They lose to the
Speaker 2: Celtics in round two. Then the next year they lose
Speaker 2: to the Pistons in round two. Then the next year
Speaker 2: they lose to the Celtics in round two again. Eventually,
Speaker 2: you know, they lose to the Bulls. Once they lose
Speaker 2: to the Pistons. Can they never even make a conference final.
Speaker 2: The other reason that one works is one of their
Speaker 2: Round twos against the Celtics. That Game seven is one
Speaker 2: of the greatest NBA games ever played. They lost by
Speaker 2: two points in heartbreaking fashion, and Dominique, some would argue,
Speaker 2: outplayed bird. Dominique had forty seven and they lose by two.
Speaker 2: That's kind of the divisional round game. You could argue
Speaker 2: from a couple of years ago, the thirteen seconds game.
Speaker 2: So if they don't win this year, I don't know
Speaker 2: when they're winning. But I also don't like this bullsh
Speaker 2: that this is a rivalry. Not yet. It could be.
Speaker 2: If the Bills win Sunday, it's not a rivalry. If
Speaker 2: one team wins every big spot, it's not a rivalry.
Speaker 2: If the Chiefs in this era demans, what's the Chief's
Speaker 2: worst year in this era that you don't have to
Speaker 2: give me the year, but the worst result the Chiefs
Speaker 2: have had since Mahomes has been there.
Speaker 3: They lost some play lost in the playoffs of the Begels.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly right. The overtime AFC Title Game lost
Speaker 2: two years ago was the Chief's worst season since Mahomes
Speaker 2: took over. What's the Bill's best year getting blown out
Speaker 2: in the AFC title four years ago by Kansas City.
Speaker 2: If we were to line up the best and worst
Speaker 2: of the Mahomes Allen era and rank them, the number
Speaker 2: one seed the Chiefs last year League MVP, Super Bowl Champion,
Speaker 2: number two seed the Chiefs in twenty nineteen Super Bowl Champion,
Speaker 2: the number three seed the Chiefs in twenty twenty went
Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl and lost. The number four seed
Speaker 2: the Chiefs in twenty eighteen League MVP, losing overtime in
Speaker 2: the AFC Title Game to Brady the number five seed
Speaker 2: the Chiefs in twenty twenty one, losing overtime to Joe
Speaker 2: Burrow in the AFC Title Game. The five best seasons
Speaker 2: for the Chiefs and Bills since they've had Mahomes and
Speaker 2: Allen are all Chiefs years. The best Bill's year would
Speaker 2: be the sixth seed losing in the AFC title game
Speaker 2: to the Chiefs and getting blown out, which is the
Speaker 2: long way of saying this the Chief's best year of
Speaker 2: this era. I'm sorry. The Chief's worst year of this
Speaker 2: era is better than the Bill's best year of the
Speaker 2: era by any definition, by any metric. So they lose
Speaker 2: this year, Buff And just think about even the context
Speaker 2: of how they've been discussed this week. The Chiefs win
Speaker 2: by nineteen against an eleven win team that had a
Speaker 2: fringe MVP candidate at quarterback. Eh, it was called out,
Speaker 2: What does it really matter. The Bills win by fourteen
Speaker 2: against a ten win team that made the playoffs on
Speaker 2: the final day of the year with their third string quarterback.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the Bills are terrifying. Folks are trying
Speaker 2: to speak this into existence, but it does not yet exist.
Speaker 2: And so I'm excited to see the game. But the
Speaker 2: fact of the matter is, since Mahomes took over Chief
Speaker 2: season start, Conference championship game weekend. A great season you
Speaker 2: go to and zero. A disappointing season you go one
Speaker 2: and one, and an awful season you go zero to one.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs have had two great seasons, one disappointing season,
Speaker 2: and two awful seasons. The season this weekend will be
Speaker 2: a nice preamble to it for Kansas City, but that's
Speaker 2: what it is. And so we'll go out and see.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna say one other piece of this because people,
Speaker 2: and by people, I mean my television co host, say Nick,
Speaker 2: so much of your argument is the history. And it's
Speaker 2: not just the history. It's that I just saw Mahomes
Speaker 2: play the best negative degree playoff game anyone's ever played.
Speaker 2: Rashi Rice is turning into a star, and they the
Speaker 2: best defense in the NFL. It's not just that, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I am looking to Mahomes's postseason history. Because Mahomes' postseason history,
Speaker 2: how has he lost? Well, I can tell you because
Speaker 2: it's only happened three times. He lost in twenty eighteen
Speaker 2: in the AFC title Game. In that game, the Chiefs
Speaker 2: were down ten points going into the fourth quarter. Mahomes
Speaker 2: led back to back touchdown drives. They're up twenty one
Speaker 2: to seventeen. The Patriots score with three and a half
Speaker 2: minutes left. Mahomes gets the ball back leads another go
Speaker 2: ahead drive. They're up twenty eight to twenty four. The
Speaker 2: Patriots score with thirty nine seconds left to take the lead.
Speaker 2: Mahomes leads another drive to tie the game. They lose
Speaker 2: the toss the Patriots the ball went in overtime. So
Speaker 2: that game, to beat Mahomes, you had to overcome the
Speaker 2: fact that he had three fourth quarter comebacks in the
Speaker 2: same game. The next time he lost was in the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, got his ass kicked throughout the game. Bucks
Speaker 2: were better. Bucks deserved it. If you watch that game,
Speaker 2: Mahomes played kind of brilliantly despite the Vegas down four
Speaker 2: offensive linemen, but they got absolutely rolled. The only other
Speaker 2: game he's lost was the only time in his career
Speaker 2: he's played poorly in the postseason, which was over the
Speaker 2: second the overtime loss to Cincinnati when in the second
Speaker 2: half he semi melted down if you will, made the
Speaker 2: big mistake before halftime. It seemed to short circle him,
Speaker 2: and he played poorly in the second half. That's it.
Speaker 2: So what's the the reason that I think the history
Speaker 2: here matters is Patrick Mahomes in his career has played
Speaker 2: a dozen playoff games before the Super Bowl, He's ten
Speaker 2: and two, both losses in overtime. And it's thirty one
Speaker 2: touchdowns and three picks. I'll say that again. He has
Speaker 2: thirty one touchdowns and three picks. Patrick Owens has played
Speaker 2: seven Divisional Rounder wild card games. He's seven to zero
Speaker 2: with seventeen touchdowns and one pick. Seventeen touchdowns, one pick
Speaker 2: in the Divisional round of wildcard round. So yeah, the
Speaker 2: history there matters a lot to me. And I think
Speaker 2: the Chiefs have the better def right now, going into
Speaker 2: this week. Chiefs have the better quarterback, they have a
Speaker 2: better coach, they have the better defense. They've been a
Speaker 2: running back, they have a better tight end, and sneaky,
Speaker 2: they might have the better number one receiver, and it's
Speaker 2: gonna get real nervous up in Orchard Park, real nervous
Speaker 2: up in Orchard Park. And Demons, I saw you kind
Speaker 2: of grimace when I said they might have the number one,
Speaker 2: the better number one receiver. You go make some money
Speaker 2: on FanDuel. FanDuel projected totally. Well, I'm just saying, projected
Speaker 2: total yards for Digs sixty five, projected total yards for
Speaker 2: Rice seventy five. So the book makers, whether whoever they
Speaker 2: think is better, they think where she Rice is gonna
Speaker 2: have the bigger game, So take for that what you
Speaker 2: will next.
Speaker 3: They have to think where they think the quarterback's more
Speaker 3: likely to get the ball to them. But I hope,
Speaker 3: for your sake, the Chiefs win this game. So the
Speaker 3: Packers and Jordan Love are obviously coming off that upset
Speaker 3: versus the Cowboys, and now they're headed in to play
Speaker 3: the Niners. So what's your lack of your lack of
Speaker 3: faith in brock Party. You probably think there's a chance
Speaker 3: they could upset them. Correct, I don't know what if
Speaker 3: they come out there, you know, score a touchdown immediately, Rely,
Speaker 3: bron Party's playing from behind. No, No, I don't. So
Speaker 3: you think brock Party is good?
Speaker 2: Here you go the okay, go ahead, just keep going.
Speaker 3: I mean that's that's the question. What's the script for
Speaker 3: green Bay to pull off the upset? Oh?
Speaker 2: I don't think there's really a script. I don't think
Speaker 2: green Bay this game, So I don't listen. I no,
Speaker 2: I said, I don't think green Bay can win the game.
Speaker 2: I don't think green Bay can win the game. The Yes,
Speaker 2: you're right, I'd love it if they did, but I
Speaker 2: don't think they can. I would be shocked, really shocked,
Speaker 2: more shocked than Green Bay beating Dallas. If Green Bay
Speaker 2: were to win this game, I don't think the Green
Speaker 2: Bay defensive personnel can deal with the Niners offensive personnel.
Speaker 2: No again, the I don't. I'm not going to. I'm
Speaker 2: not really interested in continuing a five month long brock
Speaker 2: party argument. I'm not if people watch like that, we
Speaker 2: could have been having the same exact argument about TUA.
Speaker 2: It's the same thing. I'm not interested in having the
Speaker 2: argument the I do not and people people are treating
Speaker 2: credit like it is an infinite resource. It's not. It's
Speaker 2: a finite resource, and so people want me to give
Speaker 2: brock Purty more credit. But I view credit as, like
Speaker 2: I said, a zero sum game. In order to give
Speaker 2: to someone, you must take from someone. So I when
Speaker 2: I look at the Niners, I just look at a
Speaker 2: bunch of people who are, you know, first up at
Speaker 2: the credit pie before brock Purty, Kyle Shanna and Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 2: a hand Ayuk Debo, a lot of guys. With that said,
Speaker 2: the only chance the Packers have to win this game
Speaker 2: is Purty melting down, and I don't think he will
Speaker 2: melt down. So if is that credit, I don't know
Speaker 2: if that's credit or not. I don't think brock perty
Speaker 2: is gonna come out and be bad. I think that
Speaker 2: Jordan Loves sh be good. This is not a shot
Speaker 2: at Jordan Love, but I don't I did not believe
Speaker 2: in the Packers defense before the Cowboys game. I don't
Speaker 2: believe in him now, even though they played well against Dallas,
Speaker 2: that to me was more about Dak melting down than
Speaker 2: it was anything Green Bay did. And so credit to Brock.
Speaker 2: I don't think he'll melt down, but I do not
Speaker 2: think it is realistic to believe in Green Bay this weekend.
Speaker 2: They've had a wonderful season and credit to them, and
Speaker 2: they are a scary team moving forward. But they are
Speaker 2: I mean, we'll get to my pick shortly. They are
Speaker 2: near ten point underdogs for a reason, for an absolute reason.
Speaker 3: Next so it is a do or die time for
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson against the Texans rookie quarterback coach Combo. But
Speaker 3: we obviously know that Lamar was in this exact same
Speaker 3: position once upon a time ago won the MVP. He
Speaker 3: got the by got bounced out of the first round.
Speaker 3: Does anyone have more to lose this weekend than Lamar Jackson? Oh?
Speaker 2: Uh No? I mean, it's Lamar and it's a rough spot,
Speaker 2: but it's what it is. If it's not the same.
Speaker 2: But remember I always said on Tuesday that Dak's MVP adjacent
Speaker 2: season actually worked against him because of how he played
Speaker 2: in the postseason. The exact same story for Lamar. Lamar
Speaker 2: being so great this regular season actually will be weaponized
Speaker 2: against him if he plays poorly in the postseason and
Speaker 2: he doesn't have to win the Super Bowl. I don't
Speaker 2: even know that he has to make the super Bowl,
Speaker 2: Honest to god. If Lamar makes the AFC title game
Speaker 2: and just gets outdueled by Patrick Mahomes, then I don't
Speaker 2: think anyone's gonna kill him. I think people, I think
Speaker 2: the story coming out of that or even if you
Speaker 2: were out dueled by Josh Allen, which I don't think
Speaker 2: they're gonna play that game, but so be it, the
Speaker 2: story coming out of that game will be, Oh my god,
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes is freaking thanos Man. Even with this team
Speaker 2: this year, he's back in the Super Bowls.
Speaker 3: But if yeah, why did you pronounce it? If how
Speaker 3: do you say it thos?
Speaker 2: What do you mean? I thought that's what his name was.
Speaker 2: I'm not into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: I've read it. I've seen the memes with the Infinity Stones.
Speaker 2: I didn't know it's Thanos. Okay, so they'll think he's Thanos.
Speaker 2: Just the my apologies. Uh So. I don't think he
Speaker 2: has to win the super Bowl or even make the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, but he has to win this game, has
Speaker 2: to and needs to play well in it. Right now,
Speaker 2: of the eight playoff quarterbacks remaining, Lamar has the lowest
Speaker 2: career playoff passer rating by far, the lowest career win
Speaker 2: percentage by far. It's a problem. And he cannot fall
Speaker 2: to one in four and have another bad passing game
Speaker 2: in the postseason at home, rested healthy as the one
Speaker 2: seed can't happen, and that's why there's more pressure on
Speaker 2: him than anyone. Here's the other thing. If it were,
Speaker 2: I know, Lamar is the gonna be the league MVP
Speaker 2: if it were to happen, Demanse, where does he start
Speaker 2: next year in AFC quarterback rankings?
Speaker 3: Are you saying if you were to like, are you
Speaker 3: just saying, if you were to get bounced out in
Speaker 3: the first round?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this round, I guess not the first round, So yeah,
Speaker 2: bounced bounced out by c J. Stroud and the Texans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: The answer is.
Speaker 3: Fifth, right outside of five?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, I mean mahomes, CJ. Burrow, and Allen
Speaker 2: will all be if CJ is a rookie beats him
Speaker 2: on the road. Yeah, I mean Burrow has been awesome
Speaker 2: in the playoffs throughout his career, had big moments. Josh
Speaker 2: Allen obviously has had some amazing moments in the postseason.
Speaker 2: You're not the no one's even gonna be able to
Speaker 2: make a credible argument that he's in the top four,
Speaker 2: and so it's a tough spot for him, man. And
Speaker 2: now again this is.
Speaker 3: The most equipped they've ever been to do it.
Speaker 2: In my opinion is you're right, and Mark Andrews is
Speaker 2: coming back.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if that's I don't know if
Speaker 3: that's good or bad, to be honest, but uh, trying
Speaker 3: to stick with why.
Speaker 2: You think he might go to him too often?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we should stick to what's been working.
Speaker 3: And you know, obviously Andrew's gotta play ork him in there,
Speaker 3: but the likely situation is it's been working.
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, that's fair.
Speaker 3: It's so in practicing moving around he still doesn't look one,
Speaker 3: which is.
Speaker 2: I No, I mean, I'm it's not guaranteed that he's
Speaker 2: gonna play this weekend, but I'm saying he's eligible to
Speaker 2: be able to play this weekend, all right, last one?
Speaker 3: All right. So arguably nobody's riding higher than the Lions
Speaker 3: right now. But Tampa's got something brewinged with Baker in
Speaker 3: that defense? Would the Niners? Would the Niners sneaky rather
Speaker 3: play Detroit than Tampa, I think.
Speaker 2: But no, No, Listen, if the Niners path to the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl is the nine and eight Packers followed by
Speaker 2: the nine and eight Bucks, they're pretty happy. Detroit, on
Speaker 2: the other hand, could present some problems in this regard.
Speaker 2: Detroit might be able to truly get in a shootout
Speaker 2: with him. Detroit, I don't think could stop San Francisco,
Speaker 2: but I think that Detroit could, in the right circumstances,
Speaker 2: could score with San Francisco if that offensive line can
Speaker 2: block it up. And so, No, the Niners would much
Speaker 2: much rather play Tampa. It would be a great story
Speaker 2: for Baker to be in the NFC title game, but
Speaker 2: that's a tough putt. I think the Eagles, being so
Speaker 2: poorly coached and seemingly being so just over the season
Speaker 2: made us maybe slightly overstate the personnel Tampa has. So listen,
Speaker 2: this is a hell of a year by Baker, a
Speaker 2: very successful season by Tampa, but they're in a rough
Speaker 2: spot against Detroit. Go ahead to Monte.
Speaker 3: I just want to say that the Bucks are going
Speaker 3: to win this game, and I'm on the record saying it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Whose that's a perfect segue.
Speaker 2: We'll do our pick segment next What's Right? Welcome back
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Speaker 2: All right, so demands. We can show you last week's picks.
Speaker 2: For me, I went three and three, but in reality
Speaker 2: I went three and two. We'll call it three and three.
Speaker 2: But the Pittsburgh plus ten if you listen to the show,
Speaker 2: there is a lot of snow wind Blizzard analysis. The
Speaker 2: game then got moved. It's so three and three is
Speaker 2: the real record, because if they would have somehow gotten
Speaker 2: that backdoor cover, we would have gotten the win. But
Speaker 2: still not really. I feel like I got two games
Speaker 2: dead well. I got two games dead wrong this weekend,
Speaker 2: one game semi wrong that I ended up winning. I
Speaker 2: thought the Rams were gonna win outright. I think I
Speaker 2: picked twenty seven to twenty four Rams. The Rams end
Speaker 2: up losing butt covering Kansas City and easy cover against
Speaker 2: Miami and Tampa, which I said was gonna win out right,
Speaker 2: And I can't, you know what. I'm not one to
Speaker 2: demand credit, but I'm gonna demand credit on this. I
Speaker 2: said on television on Friday Demanse that we're going to
Speaker 2: know the Nick Sirianni era in Philly is dead when
Speaker 2: in this game against Tampa they go for two via
Speaker 2: tush push and don't get it. And then in the
Speaker 2: game they went for two via toush push and didn't
Speaker 2: get it. And that's not that that might be the
Speaker 2: best sports prediction anyone made all year. I just is
Speaker 2: it called that specific thing happening?
Speaker 3: And yeah, go ahead, I don't remember. I thought you.
Speaker 3: I know you said something about the toush push and
Speaker 3: the and the Bucks stopping, and I didn't know you
Speaker 3: said anything about it being on a two point conversion.
Speaker 3: I remember that part of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's the It's check my Twitter. I put
Speaker 2: out the video, all right, Demanse. Also, by the way,
Speaker 2: my Super Bowl Exact is dead, which means my preseason
Speaker 2: bets were terrible. All right, we'll just move on. It's okay.
Speaker 2: We don't need to show it. We know it's red,
Speaker 2: we know Dallas is out. All right, let's go to
Speaker 2: the games this weekend.
Speaker 3: All right. You've got Houston plus nine and a half
Speaker 3: at Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think Houston can win the game, outright, and
Speaker 2: I certainly like them getting almost ten points. Lamar sneaky bad.
Speaker 3: Win the game outright, Yeah, the game out right. I've
Speaker 3: actually made sacrifices for Lamar. I've got a cold right now,
Speaker 3: so he could not get one.
Speaker 2: But oh, okay, oh that's good. I appreciate that. But
Speaker 2: Lamar on extra rest one in six against the spread,
Speaker 2: Lamar one in eight against the spread is a favorite
Speaker 2: of greater than seven and a half. But now one
Speaker 2: of this year. Now one of those I don't know
Speaker 2: if that's just this year. By the way, one of
Speaker 2: those games was against Houston Week one, but I'm gonna
Speaker 2: throw out the Houston Week one game entirely anything that
Speaker 2: happened the first I mean, that's the first game of
Speaker 2: Stroud's career, the first game with Damiko as head coach.
Speaker 2: I don't care about that. Lamar. Obviously, CJ. Stroud currently
Speaker 2: has a far better playoff resume than Lamar Jackson, and
Speaker 2: I need to see it from Lamar. And so I'm
Speaker 2: getting nine and a half points from a team that
Speaker 2: I think absolutely can win. Out right, I'll take Houston
Speaker 2: plus nine and a half. The Ravens are your team,
Speaker 2: go right ahead?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, geez man, I just it's crazy how
Speaker 3: you take the Houston plus nine and a half and
Speaker 3: didn't and you don't want to take Green Bay plus
Speaker 3: nine and a half. It's telling me, obviously you got
Speaker 3: more faith in CJ. Stroud than Jordan Love. So I
Speaker 3: guess it's fair, but uh no.
Speaker 2: It's also it's also the teams they're going against. And
Speaker 2: I think the Niners are a better team than Baltimore
Speaker 2: from top to bottom, and I trust the Niners in
Speaker 2: the playoffs more than I trust Baltimore. All right, next,
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: Fair enough, go ahead? Yeah, my bad. Next, you got
Speaker 3: San Francisco minus nine and a half versus Green Bay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this just feels like a game that
Speaker 2: San Francisco gets out to a fourteen to three lead
Speaker 2: and does exactly what they want to do. This feels
Speaker 2: like a game that San Francisco controls.
Speaker 3: If we win that toss in a second way.
Speaker 2: Listen, if it's close in the second half, I think
Speaker 2: Jordan Love can throw a real scare into San Francisco.
Speaker 2: I don't think it'll be close in the second half.
Speaker 2: San Francisco ten times this year or eleven times this
Speaker 2: year is won by double digits. That's the most in football.
Speaker 2: Green Bay struggles to run the ball, so they're gonna
Speaker 2: be in a drop back passing game against this Niners
Speaker 2: pass rush and Kyle Shanahan. How about this is the
Speaker 2: only coach since nineteen ninety to be undefeated against the
Speaker 2: spread as a playoff home favorite. And so I just
Speaker 2: the I would obviously like if Green Bay, you know,
Speaker 2: made this a game. This is why you fight all
Speaker 2: year for the one seed. So you can get the
Speaker 2: seventh seed if they upset the two. You can get
Speaker 2: the team that just had their mini super Bowl by
Speaker 2: winning that game against Dallas while you've been resting, and
Speaker 2: you get the worst team remaining in the bracket. That's
Speaker 2: your reward of being the one seed. San Francisco earned it.
Speaker 2: I like San Francisco in that spot.
Speaker 3: Next, you got Tampa Bay plus seven at Detroit.
Speaker 2: So I don't think Tampa wins outright, but I think
Speaker 2: this a can be a close game and b great
Speaker 2: backdoor cover potential. Uh Baker has covered every playoff game
Speaker 2: of his career. He's two to one. The only team
Speaker 2: to eat Baker Mayfield in the playoffs they can't say
Speaker 2: Chiefs remember that. I also think there is a potential
Speaker 2: for a slow start from Detroit because of the emotional
Speaker 2: letdown of last week, their first home playoff game, playing
Speaker 2: Stafford all of that, where Tampa can jump out to
Speaker 2: maybe a seven to nothing lead and Detroit all of
Speaker 2: a sudden's in a dog fight throughout the game. I
Speaker 2: do like Detroit to win this game, but it feels
Speaker 2: like a twenty three to twenty type of game. I
Speaker 2: think that a lot of the blitzes Todd Bowles and
Speaker 2: the Bucks did last week are not gonna work against Detroit.
Speaker 2: But seven points is too many points, and so I'll
Speaker 2: take Tampa plus the seven.
Speaker 3: Next next you got Kansas City plus two and a
Speaker 3: half at Buffalo.
Speaker 2: Listen. So there's this funny thing going around these terrible
Speaker 2: NFL aggregators. You know, there's like been this all of
Speaker 2: a sudden surplus of these NFL accounts that are like
Speaker 2: a couple initials in the word football, and they do
Speaker 2: none of their own reporting, none of their own anything.
Speaker 2: They just fire out other people's thoughts, tweet stats or
Speaker 2: whatever so they can gain followers and make money off,
Speaker 2: you know, Musk's Twitter. So one of them tweeted out unfair.
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes is eight and two in his career with
Speaker 2: the ref for Chiefs Bills like oh basically the fixes
Speaker 2: in and that is such a hilarious tweet because eight
Speaker 2: and two means he wins eighty percent of his games
Speaker 2: refed by this guy, Patrick Mahomes wins eighty percent of
Speaker 2: his games.
Speaker 3: I saw that tweet.
Speaker 2: Literally, He's eighty six and twenty five in his career,
Speaker 2: which means for every ten games he wins eight of them,
Speaker 2: and so like the So mahomes as good as his
Speaker 2: winning percentages overall as an underdog, He's only been an
Speaker 2: underdog ten times in his career. He's eight one and
Speaker 2: one against the spread, seven and three straight up, Andy Reid.
Speaker 2: Now you guys are calling this extended rest. I don't
Speaker 2: call this really extended rest. It's one day more than
Speaker 2: you normally get, but it's two more days than Buffalo got.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs are the first time the Chiefs played the Bills.
Speaker 2: They not have their left tackle, their running back, they're
Speaker 2: starting inside linebacker, or their backup inside linebacker, and they
Speaker 2: still had the game one if it wasn't stolen from
Speaker 2: them in a theft of the ages on the Kadarias
Speaker 2: Tony play. I spent twenty minutes discussing this game earlier.
Speaker 2: I don't need to do it here. Kansas City's the
Speaker 2: better team, Kansas City's going to win outright, and the
Speaker 2: Bills are gonna have a really, really long offseason. Ask themselves,
Speaker 2: how do we ever beat this team? All right? So
Speaker 2: my picks for this weekend are Houston plus nine and
Speaker 2: a half, San Francisco laying nine and a half, Tampa
Speaker 2: plus seven, and Kansas City plus two and a half.
Speaker 2: All right, what's the offer this week?
Speaker 3: Oh? All right, this one's called Demon Day's Guys Lamar
Speaker 3: party and love all to have over one and a
Speaker 3: half passing touchdowns at plus four hundred and you can
Speaker 3: even throw thank you? Okay, So I'm guessing if you don't,
Speaker 3: I'm guessing you don't have faith in Lamar to throw
Speaker 3: two passing touchdowns.
Speaker 2: That's correct. Yeah, and listen, and McCaffrey might end even
Speaker 2: if the Niners score thirty five, It could McCaffrey could
Speaker 2: snipe a lot of those touchdowns. But yeah, listen, I
Speaker 2: gotta I gotta see it to believe it, Lamar. Sorry,
Speaker 2: we play a new game called blindly Right. Plus I
Speaker 2: give my girl Scout cookies. Rant we'll do all that next.
Speaker 3: What's right?
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in What's You Everything?
Speaker 3: Great?
Speaker 2: Episode two nine? We'll get let's right now, get to
Speaker 2: a new game. It's called blindly Right, Demons, Can you
Speaker 2: explain it to the audience?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we've got a new game called blindly Right.
Speaker 3: So we all obviously know that you're super confident in
Speaker 3: your takes, but we want to see if you can
Speaker 3: do them without looking. So I'm going to give you
Speaker 3: five potential outcomes to the Chiefs Bills game, and you
Speaker 3: tell me which one you would like the best or
Speaker 3: will be the best for you. The ketchet is right,
Speaker 3: but I.
Speaker 2: Don't know what all the possibilities are.
Speaker 3: Right, The catches that you're not going to know what
Speaker 3: the next thing is that I say. So we're gonna
Speaker 3: start off by giving you two totally totally polar opposites
Speaker 3: just to set it up. So, first off, you've got
Speaker 3: up I'm sorry, guys. First off, you got Chiefs that one, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, you've.
Speaker 2: Got seeing it right there, Casey blows out the Bills
Speaker 2: and the Bills blow up. The Chiefs is seven. So
Speaker 2: now you're gonna throw stuff at me and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: rank it. But I have to try to figure out
Speaker 2: what you know. Okay, I understand the game. I've seen
Speaker 2: this on the internet before. They do this sometimes for
Speaker 2: like player rankings, but they don't tell.
Speaker 3: Your favorite song. Okay, go ahead this that yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: So first we've got Bills win, but you hit a
Speaker 3: plus twenty thousand dollars parlay twenty thousand. Sorry, Bill, you
Speaker 3: want to put that one out?
Speaker 2: If the Bills win. I won't give it about the parlay.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're putting that at six.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put that at five.
Speaker 3: Five, I'm gonna put that at five.
Speaker 2: Bills win, but I make some money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, next, all right, So it's next we
Speaker 3: have Chiefs win, but the ref's hand them the game.
Speaker 3: That's so stupid.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just there is so dumb. Uh. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna put that at uh. I mean, I know how
Speaker 2: you guys work, so I think you guys are gonna.
Speaker 3: Have more.
Speaker 2: More Bill's win outcomes than Chiefs win outcomes. So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna put that at three.
Speaker 3: At three, Okay, it's a controversial call. So next, off,
Speaker 3: we've got Chiefs lose and you get blamed for jinxing them.
Speaker 2: M that's four.
Speaker 3: That's four chiefs. Yeah, that's four, all right? Next next
Speaker 3: you got Chiefs win. Wait what Yeah, cause you explained
Speaker 3: your thought process on that being four. Yeah, you wouldn't
Speaker 3: want to put that at last.
Speaker 2: It's just four. No, I'm not explaining it. Just go explain.
Speaker 2: I want to see how this goes.
Speaker 3: The Chiefs win, but Alan out plays my home skill,
Speaker 3: little anxious.
Speaker 2: Don't give a ship number two okay.
Speaker 3: Bills win and then they mentioned you as bullets and
Speaker 3: more material.
Speaker 2: There you go, perfect. I nailed this. I nailed this
Speaker 2: exactly right. I mean I I got this exactly right
Speaker 2: as to where I where I would want this. So
Speaker 2: I wasn't really the the stuff like this like I'm
Speaker 2: not really I'm not giving analysis about this because it's
Speaker 2: a theoretical of a theoretical of a theoretical. I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to outsmart the producers. And I did. I knew
Speaker 2: exactly how you guys would line this up. I did
Speaker 2: not have a single Bill's win at higher ranked than
Speaker 2: the Chiefs winning. I got a perfect score on that.
Speaker 2: So that's so I feel gratified and satisfied. Daniels in
Speaker 2: my air saying, explain it, trying to throw me off. No,
Speaker 2: I won't explain it. I'm just going to nail it.
Speaker 2: That's what's gonna happen there, all right. You guys wanted
Speaker 2: my girl Scout cookie rant. So here's what it is.
Speaker 2: Kids should sell their own damn cookies. What is the
Speaker 2: whole idea? It's you don't post it at work, you
Speaker 2: don't send out an email, you don't tweet the link.
Speaker 2: It is not a contest of hey, girls, girls out there,
Speaker 2: which of your parents has the biggest social media following
Speaker 2: or has the biggest job at work, to where people
Speaker 2: feel pressure that they have to buy from this person.
Speaker 2: The whole I listen, if we're being honest here, the
Speaker 2: whole thing's kind of a little scam adjacent to begin with.
Speaker 2: If I'm Keebler, I'm super pissed about this thing even existing, Like,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what the tax status is any of
Speaker 2: this stuff. But the reason that it's gotten a that
Speaker 2: we've all agreed with it is it's like, oh, a
Speaker 2: little entrepreneurship, go knock on some doors, cute kids for
Speaker 2: the neighbors, all of it. And then all of a
Speaker 2: sudden people were like, oh, guys, reply all email that
Speaker 2: time of year again, who wants to order for my kid?
Speaker 2: Like huh? And then yesterday I saw people you like
Speaker 2: on Twitter like, hey, here's the link to my kid's
Speaker 2: Girl Scout stuff. That's not the point of this. If
Speaker 2: the ultimately we all know this, the girl the Girl
Speaker 2: Scout cookies, you know, are enriching someone. We'll call it,
Speaker 2: you know, the Big Girl Scout Corporation.
Speaker 3: Aches Girl Scouts can you get Girl Scout cookies outside
Speaker 3: of Girl Scout Girl Scouts Cookie Season? Like can you
Speaker 3: just buy them anywhere?
Speaker 2: I don't know the answer that I don't know.
Speaker 3: People like what if when that email gets sent, its like,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, like it's finally that season again, gotta
Speaker 3: get my Girl Scout cookies like they wouldn't have otherwise.
Speaker 3: I'm saying that some people probably get happy, Okay, And.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is because you are a generation that
Speaker 2: thinks like, oh, you wouldn't know it's Girl Scout Cookie
Speaker 2: season without the email, because for the last decade, the
Speaker 2: way people for all of time found out it was
Speaker 2: a Girl Scout Cookie season, someone rings their door, or
Speaker 2: you go to the grocery store, there's a little stand
Speaker 2: set up. It's like, oh, it's Girl Scout Cookie Season. Sweet.
Speaker 2: I'll take either a couple of boxes because I don't
Speaker 2: really like it, but I appreciate your ingenuity and I
Speaker 2: appreciate your stick touitiveness, or I'll take one hundred boxes
Speaker 2: because I love it. No, and then take that off
Speaker 2: the gosh darned screen. I do not hate Girl Scouts.
Speaker 2: I actually am. I dislike parents, uh, working the system
Speaker 2: against the idea of it, the whole idea here, the idea.
Speaker 2: The reason Girl Scout Cookies exist as a thing is
Speaker 2: not because we all decided years ago, you know what,
Speaker 2: not enough sweet treats available to us, we need something
Speaker 2: like why it's the It would be like to me,
Speaker 2: the Girl Scout cookies are like Pinewood Derby cars for
Speaker 2: boy Scouts. Right, the idea there is not this. The
Speaker 2: market has demanded this void be filled. We as a
Speaker 2: society need more wooden cars made by poor engineers. It
Speaker 2: wasn't that, it was hey, the kids are gonna learn
Speaker 2: something from this. So if all of a sudden Pinewood
Speaker 2: Derby cars you just saw everywhere, it's like, hey, Pinewood
Speaker 2: Derby season. If anyone knows somebody in the Mario Andretti
Speaker 2: family that'd like to make this for my kid, I'd
Speaker 2: like to win the contest, we'd say, well, that's dumb.
Speaker 2: That's not the point. The idea of Girl Scout Cookie
Speaker 2: Season was these girls take pride in it, have to
Speaker 2: put in work, and the winner is the one who
Speaker 2: knocked on enough doors, was cute enough to get someone
Speaker 2: to buy some extra All these things. It has now
Speaker 2: been perverted to the winner is the one whose parent
Speaker 2: has four hundred thousand followers on Instagram and everybody buys
Speaker 2: from them. It's dumb, it's wrong. It defeeds the purpose.
Speaker 2: So that's my rant.
Speaker 3: I had to sell chocolate bars at Liatoba once upon
Speaker 3: a time and I just ate them all. So it's
Speaker 3: probably probably would have been good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, but you did I I that happened, and
Speaker 2: you know what, And there is always like this whole
Speaker 2: thing of my kid needs to raise money for X.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna basically do a go fund me for It
Speaker 2: defeats the purpose. The purpose is the selling, not the sales.
Speaker 2: The reason they get prizes is because it's supposed to
Speaker 2: reward the kid who worked the hardest, not the one
Speaker 2: whose parent works in a big enough office that they
Speaker 2: can pressure the other people. Like what if Gabe sent
Speaker 2: out to all a Blue Duck. It's Girl Scout Cookie season.
Speaker 2: Gabe's the boss Girl Scout Cookie Season, and what if
Speaker 2: and it's like, all right, I'm not saying who you're
Speaker 2: gonna buy from, but it's Girl Scout Cookie season. Here's
Speaker 2: the link to my kids thing. And then what if
Speaker 2: new Father Matt also as a kid selling Girl Scout
Speaker 2: Cookies and it's like, well, gosh darn it, now it's
Speaker 2: not gonna get the brand new twelve speed. Gabe's kid
Speaker 2: is because Gabe trump me on this. That's nonsense. It's
Speaker 2: not how it's supposed to go.
Speaker 3: What somebody Caden Wolf said, bros like Aaron Rodgers versus
Speaker 3: Big Pharma, but it's Nick versus Big Cookie.
Speaker 2: Well no, I actually think Big Cookies should be pissed,
Speaker 2: like I uh if I again like, and I'm not
Speaker 2: and I assume this is a tax dodge to begin with.
Speaker 2: I should have researched this, but I didn't even know
Speaker 2: it was coming up. Girl, I'm I'm googling it real quick.
Speaker 2: Girl Scout Cookies tax tax right off? Hold on, is
Speaker 2: my purchase of Girl Scout Cookies tax deductible? If you
Speaker 2: buy Girl Scout Cookies and take the cookies home to
Speaker 2: consume them, you purchased probably a fair market value. For
Speaker 2: this reason, they're not tax deductible. Oh hold on, this
Speaker 2: is okay, So that's good. Are Girl Scout Cookies somehow
Speaker 2: a tax scam? I'm uh, let me se see that.
Speaker 3: Scouts.
Speaker 2: Oh but there, listen, I'm just letting you know there's
Speaker 2: something I I haven't done the research on this. Now
Speaker 2: I am gonna sound like Aaron Rodgers. You know what
Speaker 2: I mean. I've done one cursory Internet search and pretend
Speaker 2: like I'm an expert. I'm not sure, but I feel
Speaker 2: like Keebler should be pissed about it. Oh, you know,
Speaker 2: that's what I want to find out. Actually, hold on
Speaker 2: who actually makes Girl Scout Cookies. Currently, two commercial bakers
Speaker 2: are licensed by Girl Scout Cookies, ABC Bakers and Little
Speaker 2: Brownie Bakers. This is again from Girl Scouts Dot Org.
Speaker 2: So they're in on it, like I want to know. Oh,
Speaker 2: there go nine things you didn't know about Girl Scout Cookies.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna read that report back. Here's what I do know.
Speaker 2: I'm not buying them from your list serve. I'm buying
Speaker 2: them from a child that knocks on my door and
Speaker 2: takes your check that I give to them, and I
Speaker 2: may or may not ever get them.
Speaker 3: That's you're gonna give them a check?
Speaker 2: Typically, I think I buy his Girl Scout Cookies via
Speaker 2: check in my mind, not handing this cash all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, they could get rolled in the streets like
Speaker 2: I'm giving them a check. The check's gonna get cashed
Speaker 2: and I may or may not ever get them. That's
Speaker 2: the idea.
Speaker 3: He's gonna cast that check for their Parents shouldn't be involved.
Speaker 2: The parents can help. Let the parents walk with them,
Speaker 2: parents help them set it up. The parents don't use
Speaker 2: their social media clout or work pressure to get other
Speaker 2: people to buy them. It's very simple. I don't I
Speaker 2: think this is something everyone should agree with. All right,
Speaker 2: what are the questions?
Speaker 3: All right? So producers asked, did you see Lloyd's retarding
Speaker 3: to Jeopardy. I think we're gonna show a link. I
Speaker 3: think that we got a picture of them. This guy's
Speaker 3: always on Jeopardy, Man, what's going on.
Speaker 2: I'm so happy for Lloyd because he's awesome, because Louis
Speaker 2: I know. I'm not sure. I just know that I'm
Speaker 2: car There was a whole bunch of sports media people
Speaker 2: on Celebrity Jeopardy and I wouldn't one of them. So
Speaker 2: I'm like, legit bitter about that. But I also want
Speaker 2: to get on Real Jeopardy. But in the meantime, since
Speaker 2: I haven't been able to, I'll take Celebrity Jeopardy and
Speaker 2: I will kill folks like don't like I'm gonna sound
Speaker 2: arrogant here. I don't mean it. I would a Ken
Speaker 2: Jennings style run if they let me on Celebrity Jeopardy,
Speaker 2: like me against other just dopey media people for in
Speaker 2: a in a knowledge competition. Oh my goodness? All right? Next?
Speaker 3: Uh Dwight of the Dead asked how do I spend
Speaker 3: on How much do I spend on Girl Scale cookies
Speaker 3: this year?
Speaker 2: What are they? Four bucks a box? If if you're
Speaker 2: buying them via someone at work sending an email, buy
Speaker 2: one box just to be like I saw your email.
Speaker 2: I'm buying one box. Don't send it to it again.
Speaker 2: If you're buying it from a child that knocks on
Speaker 2: your door, twenty five boxes, minimum one hundred bucks. That's
Speaker 2: the answer.
Speaker 3: Next, all right?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Nora arigezs a question for Deman, say, what would the
Speaker 3: house be like during the Super Bowl if it was
Speaker 3: for if it was for your guys Jordan Love versus
Speaker 3: Nick nixt Guy Mames. Well, I wouldn't be there. That
Speaker 3: might be a situation where we have to end up
Speaker 3: watching that together, but it'd be pretty crazy, and I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't think I would feel great about it. Win
Speaker 3: or lose but he'd have to eat a lot of words.
Speaker 2: That answer is no, no, no. The answer is we'd both
Speaker 2: be rooting for the Chiefs. It would already be a
Speaker 2: win for Jordan Love, and so you would be obligated
Speaker 2: to root for the Chiefs or I couldn't watch it
Speaker 2: with you. I want to leave it on this. I
Speaker 2: got an email from a guy named Mel Springs that
Speaker 2: wrote this. The headline was your boy, Demonse Nick. I've
Speaker 2: noticed a personality trait which is common among us all,
Speaker 2: in particular with Demonse. He likes or plants his flag
Speaker 2: for players that somehow resemble him. His hilarious take about
Speaker 2: Jordan Poole averaging thirty, and now how he's all in
Speaker 2: on Jordan Love. What's the same In these situations they
Speaker 2: both somewhat resemble Demonse Love. And then it was a
Speaker 2: very nice rest of the message about the podcast, and
Speaker 2: we appreciate that, Mel. But I thought about it. I
Speaker 2: was like, you know what he might be onto something
Speaker 2: he might like Jordan. I mean, listen, Jordan Poole legit
Speaker 2: reminds me of you. Jordan Love not so much, but
Speaker 2: there is I guess I'd put it like this, of
Speaker 2: all the starting NFL Corps backs. He looks the most
Speaker 2: like you the available options.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm secretly doing that and like I just don't
Speaker 3: know it, but no, I mean.
Speaker 2: That guy that guy was saying was is that it's subconscious.
Speaker 2: Is that people What that guy was saying is that
Speaker 2: people do it without even knowing they're doing it, That
Speaker 2: it's subconscious.
Speaker 3: Oh, copy psychological thing exactly. Yeah, man, I want to
Speaker 3: see the guy that looks like me, but be great,
Speaker 3: let's I get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there, the chiefs are going to roll the bills.
Speaker 2: I hope everyone enjoys it. Talk to you guys on Tuesday.
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