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Speaker 2: Welcome in episode one nine, What's Right with Nick Wright?
Speaker 2: Apologies for not being here on Tuesday. I was a
Speaker 2: little under the weather and was trying to save my
Speaker 2: voice for the television shows, so I didn't mean to
Speaker 2: put the podcast second. But you gotta make trade offs
Speaker 2: at times. So apologies for not being here Tuesday. We
Speaker 2: got a huge show for you today though, and it's
Speaker 2: our gambling show. And as listen if you're new to
Speaker 2: the Gambling Show, here's how it goes. I go too
Speaker 2: and three and Demande loses his teaser. That's just what
Speaker 2: it's been all year long. So I you know I've
Speaker 2: in the last week I felt optimistic. I said, it
Speaker 2: feels like a five and oh week. We started out
Speaker 2: two and oh and then lost loss, loss. Demonse once
Speaker 2: again went two for three on his teaser legs, which
Speaker 2: he has done I think seven weeks in a row,
Speaker 2: which of course turns into a loss. So i'd last
Speaker 2: year we made a lot of money and we had
Speaker 2: a fifty to one futures bet that was alive until
Speaker 2: the final weekend. It could be alive in our Niners
Speaker 2: Chief super Bowl. This year. Our preseason gambling show might
Speaker 2: have given out you know, ten units of winners. But
Speaker 2: our week by week picks have been pathetic. They've been awful.
Speaker 2: Demonde declared himself a teaser guy, and right now is
Speaker 2: you know, historically bad at it. I'm not picking on
Speaker 2: your pal, I'm rooting for you, but it's I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean, of all media personalities. If we were to
Speaker 2: do this like we do sports stats, it's like of
Speaker 2: everyone with it this at least this many games played.
Speaker 2: This guy is ex of all media personalities, of which
Speaker 2: you are one who have given out to a nationwide
Speaker 2: audience at least eight teasers. I think you are the
Speaker 2: worst in history, I think. I think twelve and a
Speaker 2: half percent winners is the worst. And so the bright
Speaker 2: side is can only go up from there. And the
Speaker 2: bright side is you maybe don't have quite the the
Speaker 2: following that you know I have to where you're not
Speaker 2: being mocked as relentlessly as I am for just going
Speaker 2: two and three every week, and two and three every
Speaker 2: week on the podcast somehow is turned into one and
Speaker 2: two or zero and three on TV. It's really been bad.
Speaker 2: There's just no way around it. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Somebody, somebody straight up tweeted me the other day like,
Speaker 3: you know, love the show, love what you guys are doing,
Speaker 3: but I can't listen to Demanze's teasers anymore, Like I
Speaker 3: just can't follow you and like you just said it. Finally,
Speaker 3: he wasn't trying to make fun of me. He was
Speaker 3: like very serious, which made it hurt a little bit more,
Speaker 3: but I respect it. Dude. I'm not trying to no listen.
Speaker 2: At this point, everyone's got to do what's best for
Speaker 2: themselves and their families, and right now that is not
Speaker 2: following Demonse's teasers. It's not following my picks either. Listen.
Speaker 2: I am not if you had the opportunity from an
Speaker 2: ev perspective of going two and three against the spread
Speaker 2: every week or just losing one teaser every week. It
Speaker 2: costs you a little bit less to just lose a teaser,
Speaker 2: cause you're only losing one unit a week. I'm losing
Speaker 2: one point three units a week because of the big
Speaker 2: So that regard you have been you know less. I
Speaker 2: don't want to say more profitable, but less negative than me.
Speaker 2: But it just feels embarrassing for both of us. And
Speaker 2: we're gonna do better right now. You know, right now,
Speaker 2: we simultaneously have the best father son gambling show and
Speaker 2: the worst. Because we're the best because it's the best.
Speaker 2: We're the worst because we just can't win any bets it.
Speaker 2: We're going you know what, I take that back. I'm
Speaker 2: not promising we're gonna turn it around. We're gonna do
Speaker 2: our best. That's all I can say at this point.
Speaker 2: We're just gonna do our best. I can't make false
Speaker 2: promises to people anymore. I have a five year streak
Speaker 2: on the line of being profitable against the spread publicly.
Speaker 2: Actually that's not right. Five of the last six and
Speaker 2: that is in dire straits right now. It's in dire Straits.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, like we're the Raiders of Betty. You know,
Speaker 3: we gotta tear it down research.
Speaker 2: Does that mean we have to Does that mean we
Speaker 2: have to fire Gabe and Matt. I don't think that
Speaker 2: would be right. It's not on them bench. You fire
Speaker 2: Gabe and Matt, and I'm just Mark Davis, like, I
Speaker 2: don't know what you want from me. By the way,
Speaker 2: shout out to Matt who's not here today because he
Speaker 2: is a new father, happy, healthy wife and baby, the
Speaker 2: our fearless leader, Matt Ford, who I can now say,
Speaker 2: by the way, because he's hopefully not watching this show.
Speaker 2: He's just you know, covered in marital and baby bliss euphemistically,
Speaker 2: of course. I finally rewatched Top Gun for the first
Speaker 2: time since I was a child. Start to finish not good.
Speaker 2: I love Tom Cruise. I'm the biggest Mission Impossible fan
Speaker 2: in the world. And now I've not yet seen Top
Speaker 2: Gun Maverick and I will watch it. But I watched
Speaker 2: Top Gun and I said, this is a bad movie.
Speaker 2: And I know we have to get to the sports
Speaker 2: business very quickly, like at there is in that movie.
Speaker 2: Are we just supposed to suspend disbelief that the culminating
Speaker 2: the culminating scene. Wasn't the beginning of World War three
Speaker 2: like there was? We had we had hot warfare between
Speaker 2: the US and another nation state. There were jets shot
Speaker 2: down and then they like smashed cut to like the
Speaker 2: news coverage. They're like, oh, they're covering it up, Like huh,
Speaker 2: I think there'd be nukes dropping. Okay, time for the show.
Speaker 2: Here's what missed the cut? Uh we made demanse. We
Speaker 2: did it. We made it through all of baseball season
Speaker 2: without doing a baseball topic. I don't know if that's
Speaker 2: good or bad, but at least it's honest. But hey,
Speaker 2: shout out to the Rangers they win their first World
Speaker 2: Series ever. Shout out what Oh, yeah, you're right, we did.
Speaker 2: Talk to Otani, and shout out to Bruce Bochie, who
Speaker 2: now has won a remarkable fourteen of his last fifteen
Speaker 2: postseason series as a manager. Four World Series rings for
Speaker 2: Bruce Bochie, and also shout out to you might say,
Speaker 2: how can that be the case? Bruce Bochi since he
Speaker 2: took over the Giants, basically either misses the playoffs or
Speaker 2: wins the World Series. He has managed in the last
Speaker 2: twenty or in the last fifteen years, he has managed
Speaker 2: five teams to the playoffs. Four of them won the
Speaker 2: World Series, one lost in the NLCS to the Cubs.
Speaker 2: One of those World Series he won in seven games
Speaker 2: over my beloved Kansaity Royals. Klay Thompson last night hit
Speaker 2: a game winner against my beloved Kings, and the NBA
Speaker 2: in season tournament pool play begins Friday. I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: totally honest, I still don't totally understand how this thing works,
Speaker 2: but I'm excited for it. I suppose what I'm definitely
Speaker 2: excited for, Demons is to talk about a game I
Speaker 2: stayed up for, watched the entirety of, and that is
Speaker 2: last night's Lakers Clippers game. For the well, you go
Speaker 2: ahead and walk us through it.
Speaker 3: So the Lakers managed to not lose twelve games in
Speaker 3: a row to the Clippers. They won Lebron scored thirty
Speaker 3: five and played in forty two minutes. But the Clippers
Speaker 3: weren't playing James Harden and they obviously have no depth.
Speaker 3: Is this a problem moving forward that the Lakers, you know,
Speaker 3: are barely hanging around with these types of teams.
Speaker 2: I guess I don't know if the Lakers are right now,
Speaker 2: a great team. In fact, I don't think they are.
Speaker 2: Austin Reeves needs to play better now. As far as
Speaker 2: depth goes, I understand the Clippers traded away a lot
Speaker 2: of their depth for Harden, and Harden didn't play, but
Speaker 2: the Lakers were without four of their top nine rotation pieces.
Speaker 2: Jared Vanderbilt still hasn't played, Gabe Vincent didn't play, Torrian Prince,
Speaker 2: who's been a starter, didn't play, and Ruey Hotchramura didn't play,
Speaker 2: which is why Cam Reddish was in the close lineup.
Speaker 2: It's why Max Christy got real minutes, and they won
Speaker 2: the game despite being down nineteen at one point, despite
Speaker 2: not having beaten the Clippers since the beginning of the bubble.
Speaker 2: They won the game for one reason and one reason only.
Speaker 2: We've never seen an athlete like Lebron. And I'm not
Speaker 2: being hyperbolic. I'm not being over the top here and
Speaker 2: I'm not even trying to have a goat conversation. And
Speaker 2: I tweeted this last night at it says ten o'clock.
Speaker 2: That's on the West coast because our producers that's where
Speaker 2: they are, but it was one am out east. Well,
Speaker 2: Lebron is doing right now. Is without president sports history,
Speaker 2: impossible still be this athletic, this productive, and this good
Speaker 2: at this stage, just impossible. Lebron was on the court
Speaker 2: last night Demonse with three other no doubt first ballot
Speaker 2: Hall of famers in Kawhi Russ and Anthony Davis. One
Speaker 2: guy who will have have a fringe somewhat controversial Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame case in Paul George. Those guys, just for
Speaker 2: some context here, Kawhi Leonard came into the league. Lebron
Speaker 2: came into the league in two thousand and three. Kawhi
Speaker 2: Leonard came into the league in twenty eleven. Paul George
Speaker 2: came into the league in twenty ten. Russell Westbrook came
Speaker 2: into the league in two thousand and eight, Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: came into the league in twenty twelve. Lebron was better
Speaker 2: than all of them, and this year has been better
Speaker 2: than all of them. Lebron is less than four hundred
Speaker 2: minutes shy of having played the most minutes of any
Speaker 2: player in the history of basketball playoffs in regular season combined,
Speaker 2: and yet he still has the energy athleticism two in
Speaker 2: his four first minute of play in overtime, galvanizing a
Speaker 2: twenty point comeback, he can catch that lob from Austin
Speaker 2: Reeves and have his head even with the rim. I
Speaker 2: I really want folks to have the context for what
Speaker 2: he's doing at this point, which is if you go
Speaker 2: through the games this year, and prior to yesterday, Lebron
Speaker 2: hadn't played great throughout the bulk of the season. Despite that,
Speaker 2: he's twenty five points, nine rebounds, seven assists on fifty
Speaker 2: seven percent shooting, and in the clutch. This year he
Speaker 2: has been unbelievable. He's scored the winning baskets against Phoenix,
Speaker 2: he hit the go ahead three against Orlando, and he
Speaker 2: made the biggest plays of the game against the Clippers
Speaker 2: on both ends. He blocked Russ, he had another block
Speaker 2: that was ridiculously called a goaltend. And it's not just
Speaker 2: that he turns thirty nine in less than two months.
Speaker 2: It's the minutes. It's that I don't you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna check this real quick. I think Lebron has
Speaker 2: let me see if I can even prove I should
Speaker 2: have done this before the show, I apologize. I think
Speaker 2: Lebron has more minutes than Kawhi career minutes. Then Kawhi
Speaker 2: and Paul George combined, and so let me just see
Speaker 2: if Kawhi is even on this well he the I
Speaker 2: mean yes, I mean because Kawhi is Notawhi is not
Speaker 2: in the top two fifty all time as far as
Speaker 2: minutes played. Let me see if Paul George is, Paul
Speaker 2: George might be. Paul George is at one night, Paul
Speaker 2: George is at thirty one thousand, and wherever Kawhi is,
Speaker 2: it's not in the top two to fifty. So it's
Speaker 2: under twenty eight thousand. So Kawhi and Paul George combined
Speaker 2: are well shy of sixty thousand. Lebron is about to
Speaker 2: be at sixty six thousand, and still at the end
Speaker 2: of these games, has more left in the tank. They
Speaker 2: said he's going to be on a minute restriction. It's
Speaker 2: the third game in four nights. He's on no type
Speaker 2: of minutes restriction. He has gone Sunday night thirty nine
Speaker 2: minutes in overtime, Monday night thirty three minutes, Wednesday night
Speaker 2: forty two minutes. And right now, and this is not
Speaker 2: just Lebron. Right now, while you have Devin Booker can't
Speaker 2: get on the court, Kyrie has already missed a couple games,
Speaker 2: Bradley Beal can't get on the court. The three icons
Speaker 2: of this generation of basketball really of last generation of basketball,
Speaker 2: Lebron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant are showing up to
Speaker 2: work every night, bawling out, carrying, otherwise at this moment
Speaker 2: somewhat underachieving, supporting casts. And Katie's had some rough moments
Speaker 2: at the end of these games, but part of that's
Speaker 2: because he's out there without Beal, without Booker, and Katie's
Speaker 2: old ass with you know, post Achilles surgery and foot
Speaker 2: surgery and all of this is like, I'm ready to
Speaker 2: come to work. Steph Curry, I'm ready to come to work.
Speaker 2: And Lebron James ready every damn night to come to
Speaker 2: work and deliver. And now listen, the new generation yokichenianis
Speaker 2: also been ready to come to work and been yacht.
Speaker 2: The Bucks are. The Bucks might have a little more
Speaker 2: issues than some of us thought. The NUGG it's despite
Speaker 2: losing last night, clearly do not. And but those guys,
Speaker 2: I'm not taking anything away from them at all. But
Speaker 2: those guys are in their late twenties, the two best
Speaker 2: players in the league. They're supposed to be the two
Speaker 2: best players in the league. They're doing what's expected. I
Speaker 2: almost think because Lebron is doing this, folks are under
Speaker 2: selling how crazy it is that Durant and Steph are
Speaker 2: doing what they're doing.
Speaker 3: That we think he's very heartwarming. By the way, Sorry,
Speaker 3: you've you've You've come so far. Gave him his props.
Speaker 2: Well, and I didn't even call him second best. I
Speaker 2: said he's one of the two best. I do think
Speaker 2: he's the second best, but I'm not. I don't argue
Speaker 2: with people anymore. If they say he's the best, I
Speaker 2: mean that the guy is. The guy's done everything you
Speaker 2: could ask a guy to do. But I just just
Speaker 2: some context for people. Kobe Bryant one of the greatest
Speaker 2: players by any definition. I want to get his make
Speaker 2: sure I have his birthday right. So he was born
Speaker 2: in January of I'm sorry, in August of seventy eight.
Speaker 2: In August, Okay, Kobe Bryant's last great season, he was
Speaker 2: thirty four years old. That was the year he snapped
Speaker 2: his achilles He played after turning thirty four. Kobe played
Speaker 2: a total of one hundred and seven games, zero playoff games,
Speaker 2: and after turning thirty five, I should say after his
Speaker 2: thirty four year old season and was by you know,
Speaker 2: by any definition, you know, was not good average less
Speaker 2: than twenty points per game on well under forty percent shooting.
Speaker 2: And nobody was like, oh what happened to Kobe? They're like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: I mean, what do you want from him? He's thirty five,
Speaker 2: thirty six, he's coming off an injury. Steph is thirty
Speaker 2: five years old. Kevin Durant is Kevin Durant thirty five?
Speaker 2: I think he is. Kevin Durant is, yeah, thirty five
Speaker 2: years old, just turned thirty five. He also came off
Speaker 2: in Achilles. Lebron is about to be thirty nine, like
Speaker 2: Kareem is the greatest ever prior to Lebron on longevity,
Speaker 2: on like this guy was awesome latent to his career.
Speaker 2: And I understand and folks are not wrong when they
Speaker 2: mentioned with Kareem that he has the four years of
Speaker 2: college basketball, which you know, obviously there's a wear and
Speaker 2: terror factor there. I understand that. But Kareem's last great well,
Speaker 2: his last great great season, like MVP caliber season he was.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's not won his last MVP at thirty two.
Speaker 2: His thirty two year old season, he won a Finals
Speaker 2: MVP at thirty seven and Kareem it was considered the
Speaker 2: gold standard for old guys still contributing. At thirty eight,
Speaker 2: he was twenty three point six rebounds a night Lebron.
Speaker 2: If Lebron this year put up twenty three and six,
Speaker 2: everyone would be like, man, father time got it. Like
Speaker 2: that father time finally caught up to him.
Speaker 3: He's you can't help yourself. What what do you mean
Speaker 3: you can't help yourself. This is definitely a broad as
Speaker 3: the debate. This wasn't supposed to be. Oh, he's no.
Speaker 2: I I again, I listen some people, I'm I'm almost
Speaker 2: post that. Like if some people want to just Michael
Speaker 2: Jordan in a way that they there and the six
Speaker 2: for six, I get it.
Speaker 3: I it.
Speaker 2: The The thing is at if people aren't moving it is.
Speaker 2: What is frustrating to me on that note is it
Speaker 2: feels like a lot of people's opinions on that argument
Speaker 2: have not moved in the last five years, despite Lebron
Speaker 2: adding more and more to the resume, including another championship,
Speaker 2: another Comper files appearance five more all NBA teams over
Speaker 2: the last five years. So they're not gonna move that's fine,
Speaker 2: but that that debate shouldn't distract us from appreciating the
Speaker 2: fact that this old ass dude last night was on
Speaker 2: the court with Anthony Davis, Kawhi, Leonard Russell Westbrook, and
Speaker 2: Paul George and he had the most in the tank
Speaker 2: at the end, he was the best player. He was
Speaker 2: the one people were showing up to see. It's just remarkable.
Speaker 3: And he takes care of his body. He's huge.
Speaker 2: Well he's just like, yes, the the take care that
Speaker 2: takes care of his body part. And this is where
Speaker 2: like it is a little frustrating when you see a
Speaker 2: great player in Devin Booker, like you're you were able
Speaker 2: to play the first game of the year and now
Speaker 2: you're just out. You're just out, just not available. Kyrie,
Speaker 2: he played a few games, now you're just out, Like
Speaker 2: I do. There is a level of and I've made
Speaker 2: this point before and then we'll get to football for
Speaker 2: the rest of the show. And by the way, shout
Speaker 2: out to Demonse Celtics. They did hang one and one
Speaker 2: fifty when last night, yeah yeah, yeah, one fifty five.
Speaker 2: They look really good. There is and I've made this
Speaker 2: point for I just want to make it again. People
Speaker 2: talk about, oh, you know, Lebron doesn't have this skill
Speaker 2: or the bag of certain other guys. And my argument
Speaker 2: there it's, first of all, I think that's a little overstated.
Speaker 2: But second of all, let's just say it's true. Like
Speaker 2: he doesn't have the handle of certain guys, there's no
Speaker 2: doubt about it. He doesn't have the pure shot of
Speaker 2: other guys, no doubt about it. All that's true. Despite that,
Speaker 2: of course, he's you know, he's scored more points than
Speaker 2: anyone ever AND's gonna play all that doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Set that aside.
Speaker 2: Here is Here is the I think the obvious point there.
Speaker 2: There are only so many hours in the day. Lebron
Speaker 2: has chosen to prioritize in a way we have never
Speaker 2: seen from an NBA player, to use his time making
Speaker 2: sure his body is ready and available, rather than spending
Speaker 2: all the time working or a disproportionate time working on skill.
Speaker 2: And so there is a trade off there. His hand
Speaker 2: is not as tight as other guys, even his size, right,
Speaker 2: But how useful is a tight handle or a silky
Speaker 2: jump shot if you're not available. Lebron's going to end
Speaker 2: up being the most available player in sports history, and
Speaker 2: it's going to be because that is how he prioritized
Speaker 2: his time. And there is a lesson in that, which
Speaker 2: is if. And he said it after the game last
Speaker 2: night when they were like, you know, there's the most
Speaker 2: points anyone's ever scored in year twenty one, and he
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I don't care about that. I think
Speaker 2: he does a little bit. But he said, listen, I
Speaker 2: spend a lot of time making sure my body and
Speaker 2: my mind are ready to go. And because of that,
Speaker 2: he has this extended sub prime because he's not peak Lebron,
Speaker 2: but he is this lesser version of peak Lebron that
Speaker 2: is still at damn near forty, unequivocally one of the
Speaker 2: eight best players in the league. And we've never seen
Speaker 2: anything like it. All Right to football, Go ahead.
Speaker 3: All right, guten talk. What's right, fans? The Chiefs and
Speaker 3: Dolphins are heading to Germany for a face off. Yep,
Speaker 3: Kinsey's practice games are over and all that. Taylor Swift's
Speaker 3: Boyfriend's really mad about the offensive production and says that
Speaker 3: it needs to come to a stop before things get
Speaker 3: out of hand. If these struggles continue and this offensive
Speaker 3: production continues to lack, how are they going to keep
Speaker 3: up with the Dolphins. Well also struggles they yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean go ahead nine points on a defense that allowed
Speaker 3: seventy points just earlier this year. Is I don't really
Speaker 3: know how you what do you say about that?
Speaker 2: Okay, so the so a few things on the Broncos game. Obviously,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs looked terrible offensively and scoring nine points, and
Speaker 2: by the way, in the game they won against the Broncos,
Speaker 2: they only scored nineteen. Now, it should be noted since
Speaker 2: that seventy point debacle, the Broncos defense has been far
Speaker 2: far better. People are like, oh, the Jets scored thirty
Speaker 2: on them. No, I mean Russell Wilson had a fumble
Speaker 2: six in that game. The Jets scored twenty four. The
Speaker 2: Packers scored seventeen. The Broncos defense has, you know, improved
Speaker 2: from the seventy, but it's not a great defense. I'm
Speaker 2: not arguing that. But I also think that two things
Speaker 2: are happening with the with the Chiefs discourse right now.
Speaker 2: One is we are our memories have never been shorter.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs offense looked terrible on Sunday. Okay, sure, the
Speaker 2: week before, Mahomes had over three hundred yards at halftime.
Speaker 2: The one week ago. The question was, is Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: going to set the single game all time record for
Speaker 2: passing yards, which Norm Van Brocklin has held for seven years.
Speaker 2: So that's first of all, second of all. In this
Speaker 2: Broncos game, the offense moved the ball, but they had
Speaker 2: five turnovers. No one wins with five turnovers. In NFL
Speaker 2: history games, you have five turnovers, you win six percent
Speaker 2: of the time. In NFL history games you lose the
Speaker 2: turnover battle by four or more, which the Chiefs did,
Speaker 2: you win less than three percent of the time. Last year,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs when they got in the red zone got
Speaker 2: a touchdown more than seventy percent of the time, best
Speaker 2: in the league. This year, the Chiefs when they get
Speaker 2: in the red zone they score a touchdown fifty percent
Speaker 2: of the time, dead middle of the league, like seventeenth.
Speaker 2: Everyone right now, except for me, it would seem is
Speaker 2: freaking out about the wide receivers. They will be fine.
Speaker 2: You have the same group as last year with Rashi
Speaker 2: Rice in for Juju Smith Schuster Nick, what about the
Speaker 2: red zone stuff? Juju had three total touchdowns last year.
Speaker 2: He was not the red zone answer. So a couple
Speaker 2: things are going on with the Chiefs. One is Mahomes
Speaker 2: needs to play better. I know no one wants to
Speaker 2: say it, but the reason the Chiefs believe they can
Speaker 2: get by with this group of skill position guys is
Speaker 2: because they believe they have the head and shoulders best
Speaker 2: player in the world. They do. Thus far this year,
Speaker 2: he has simply played like a fringe MVP candidate rather
Speaker 2: than the head and shoulders greatest quarterback we've ever seen.
Speaker 2: That is a big responsibility to put on him. He
Speaker 2: can handle it. That's the first part of it. The
Speaker 2: second part of it is and people can say, Nick
Speaker 2: your wish casting here. I know I'm right on this.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs have different I don't want to say different playbooks,
Speaker 2: but Andy Reid has the red zone packages and plays
Speaker 2: that he would rather not use early or often against
Speaker 2: bad opponents because he wants to keep them under wraps
Speaker 2: for the bigger games and for later in the season.
Speaker 2: And you know how I know this because last year
Speaker 2: they when they were playing a mediocre opponent, they were
Speaker 2: so they were so bored in the red zone they
Speaker 2: did the damn ring around the Rosie play that the
Speaker 2: players had drawn up earlier in the week. The idea
Speaker 2: that Andy Reid doesn't have certain things he's holding in
Speaker 2: reserve is nonsense. Now it bit them against the Broncos,
Speaker 2: there is no doubt about that. But the idea one
Speaker 2: week ago, the discussion was Patrick Mahomes is the NFL's MVP.
Speaker 2: After the Charger game, he was the Vegas favorite. We
Speaker 2: couldn't even do the topic on first things first because
Speaker 2: everyone agreed. And now a week later, the sky's falling. No,
Speaker 2: it's not Rashi that Now. What I do think they
Speaker 2: need to do with the receivers is this they were
Speaker 2: using the first couple months of the season. I called
Speaker 2: it practice, but it was also kind of tryouts. Who
Speaker 2: is going to earn the actual spots? And the answer
Speaker 2: has been Rashi. Rice has earned it, Sky Moore has not.
Speaker 2: So Sky's snaps are gonna go down, Rashi's snaps are
Speaker 2: gonna go up. But this this idea that the Chiefs,
Speaker 2: who if the playoffs started today, would be the number
Speaker 2: one seed, the Chiefs, who Vegas right now has as
Speaker 2: the favorites to win the Super Bowl. Apologies guys that
Speaker 2: the idea that that team is in dire straits is lunacy.
Speaker 2: So here's a prediction for you. The Chiefs are gonna
Speaker 2: go to Germany and win. They're gonna beat the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: You know why, because the Chiefs defense can slow down
Speaker 2: the Dolphins offense, and the Dolphins defense is not going
Speaker 2: to have its way with the Chiefs offense. The Chiefs
Speaker 2: aren't gonna have a bye and then at home off
Speaker 2: of bye, they're gonna beat Philadelphia and in three weeks
Speaker 2: everyone's going to be you know, the topics on the
Speaker 2: talk shows are gonna be God, that was stupid when
Speaker 2: everyone panicked about the Chiefs. They're going to be fine.
Speaker 3: Go ahead to my topics. Probably they're kind of in
Speaker 3: the same situation that the Bills are in when they
Speaker 3: want to go face Trevor Lawrence, and Trevor Lawrence is
Speaker 3: already a week prior. The Chiefs are getting there after
Speaker 3: the Dolphins. And you always say that the checks with
Speaker 3: the flight and all that stuff, you know, groggy tiredness.
Speaker 3: Are you worried about that at all with the Chiefs?
Speaker 2: So no, And I want to be clear on what
Speaker 2: I said about that. I thought the fact that the
Speaker 2: Jags had been over there a full week earlier was
Speaker 2: going to be a real advantage. And I don't know
Speaker 2: if it was or it wasn't. The Jags ended up winning.
Speaker 2: The Dolphins went over on Tuesday. The Chiefs are going
Speaker 2: over today. I am going to read you some tweets
Speaker 2: from Bobby Stroup. Apologies if I'm Bobby, If I'm saying
Speaker 2: your last name wrong, He's Patrick. If you watched quarterback,
Speaker 2: he's Patrick Mahomes's trainer, his personal trainer. The guy who
Speaker 2: works with Bobby writes this, there's a lot of talk
Speaker 2: about NFL schedules to Germany this week. I would like
Speaker 2: to put out some information that is relevant. There are
Speaker 2: many ways to do this and experience coaches with Olympics,
Speaker 2: less frequent foreign competitions that have trialed options. And then
Speaker 2: he includes in there a research paper on this. He
Speaker 2: goes on to write, general consensus from research is seven
Speaker 2: days is the best usually not an option for the NFL.
Speaker 2: Three and five days before present problems for reasons cited
Speaker 2: in research. Arrival two days before works great if players
Speaker 2: stay on us time with their schedules. This is just
Speaker 2: the information. This is a big part of the overseas
Speaker 2: game outcomes and it does matter how this is managed.
Speaker 2: This is not an opinion on how any team has
Speaker 2: managed it years past, present or future, just my own
Speaker 2: research on the topic and reaching out to Olympic level coaches.
Speaker 2: So I say all that to say this, there is
Speaker 2: not a perfect way to go about this. The Chiefs going.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs could have gone on Tuesday like Miami did.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs are choosing to go on Thursday. According to
Speaker 2: what Bobby wrote three and five days present problems. Well,
Speaker 2: Miami went five days ahead, the Chiefs went three days ahead.
Speaker 2: I don't think there is going to be a significt
Speaker 2: different in this game on the jet lag factor for
Speaker 2: Miami or Kansas City. It's if one of the teams
Speaker 2: has been over there.
Speaker 3: By the way, say it again, you slandered Buffalo for
Speaker 3: going on a Friday.
Speaker 2: No, here's the thing. No, I didn't brew did I
Speaker 2: did not? I know that's in the script. I know
Speaker 2: that that. But if find the tape of me slandering
Speaker 2: Buffalo for going on a Friday, what I did do
Speaker 2: the what I did do was say beforehand that the
Speaker 2: Jags being over there for a full week I thought
Speaker 2: was going to be an advantage. And the point that
Speaker 2: I am trying to make here is that I don't
Speaker 2: know what the what the correct uh, perfect travel plan
Speaker 2: is I do know that this is not done haphazardly.
Speaker 2: My Miami clearly thinks that having to do their week
Speaker 2: of practices and having to spend more time out of
Speaker 2: their homes is worth the tra in Germany is worth
Speaker 2: the trade off of getting there, you know, way early
Speaker 2: so their bodies are fully adjusted. The Chiefs clearly believe
Speaker 2: they would rather have more time on a regular week schedule,
Speaker 2: and the trade it's worth the trade off of having
Speaker 2: less time to have their bodies be adjusted. I don't
Speaker 2: think that will be the story of this game. I
Speaker 2: also think, because it's a story at all, it's a shame,
Speaker 2: a bit of a shame that a game this big
Speaker 2: is happening at nine thirty in the morning eastern six
Speaker 2: thirty West coast time with this added variable.
Speaker 3: All right, next, all right, Speaking of elite quarterback matchups,
Speaker 3: the Bills play Cincinnati Sunday night. We always know you'll
Speaker 3: choose Mahomes over the field. So I'm going to give
Speaker 3: you three remaining elite quarterbacks, and you tell me what
Speaker 3: you want out of the three for all all weeks,
Speaker 3: just this week or no weeks between. Tua. Okay, go ahead, Oh, Tua,
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow, and Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: So for all weeks, it's Joe Burrow with no question whatsoever. Uh,
Speaker 2: for just this week, I'm going to go Josh Allen
Speaker 2: because I think that Alan can have Listen, Josh Allen
Speaker 2: has not played well in his last few couple games
Speaker 2: against Cincinnati and this is a massive game for them,
Speaker 2: So I think Josh Allen can have some success. And
Speaker 2: this is really unfair. I mean, the only one left
Speaker 2: I guess is Tua with no weeks. But my feeling
Speaker 2: on Tua is very simple compared to those other two guys.
Speaker 2: I believe. I know Joe Burrow can work anywhere and
Speaker 2: into any system. I know Josh is going to be
Speaker 2: Josh Allen anywhere and in any system, the good, the bad,
Speaker 2: the highs, the lows. I don't know that about Tua,
Speaker 2: and there is I know there is a level of
Speaker 2: folks that will say that is unfair. I think it
Speaker 2: is incredibly fair and I think it's very consistent. Tua,
Speaker 2: to me, is a good quarterback who is not as
Speaker 2: good as his numbers this year suggest. And if the
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins, well, I'm not saying Tyreek Hill is carrying him,
Speaker 2: But I do think Tyreek Hill is clearly the most
Speaker 2: important player on that team. And people can say, well,
Speaker 2: if Tua goes out, they fall apart like last year,
Speaker 2: that part true because there aren't enough solid quarterbacks in
Speaker 2: this league. What I would say is, who is give
Speaker 2: me a guy that this is gonna be hard, But
Speaker 2: who is the definition of like the median league average corps?
Speaker 2: Like if you replace that might be you know, Kirk
Speaker 2: actually had been playing so well that he might be
Speaker 2: a little better than that. It's a shame popped his achilles,
Speaker 2: so someone. But yeah, so I don't uh right now,
Speaker 2: what's tough is there really isn't a league average quarterback.
Speaker 2: There's like twelve good ones and then a bunch of
Speaker 2: either media, well you will. This is the we don't
Speaker 2: even have to talk about the Jimmy g thing. I've
Speaker 2: taken my victory laps on that I told everybody he
Speaker 2: was a product of Kyle Shanahan's system entirely, and now
Speaker 2: he leaves Kyle Shanaan's system. All he has DeVante Adams,
Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs, and he's benched and he leads league picks.
Speaker 2: So let me put it, like, let's say C J. Stroud.
Speaker 2: Let's use c J. Stroud is like right now, league average,
Speaker 2: If you replace Tua with c J. Stroud, how different
Speaker 2: would the offense look versus who is a league average
Speaker 2: number one receiver? Not a league average receiver league average
Speaker 2: number one Terry McLaurin. Let's say that he's probably like
Speaker 2: the sixteenth best number one receiver. If you replace Tyreek
Speaker 2: with Terry McLaurin, I think the offense drops way more
Speaker 2: than if you replace Tua with CJ. Stroud, if that
Speaker 2: makes sense. Now, if you replace Tua with his backup,
Speaker 2: that is a different story because now you're replacing so
Speaker 2: Tua is the guy they could least afford to have injured.
Speaker 2: Tyreek is the guy they could least easily replace. If
Speaker 2: that makes like, if Tyreek left and you had to
Speaker 2: go get another number one, nobody could do for them
Speaker 2: what he's doing for them. All right, next, All.
Speaker 3: Right, So the Raiders got rid of everybody except for
Speaker 3: DeVante Adams, the poor guy, man, poor guy. As a
Speaker 3: Chiefs fan, you've got to be, it's gotta be very
Speaker 3: great news for you. So it's time to figure out
Speaker 3: the Raiders' future with a game of likely maybe or
Speaker 3: what if gave Las Vegas options for their future, each
Speaker 3: more galaxy brained than the last one.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm actually not gonna because we've gone so long,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna give them three options. I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: tell them exactly what they should do. What the Raiders
Speaker 2: should do is in the offseason, everyone's gonna try to
Speaker 2: hire Ben Johnson. Let's assume they can't because he's gonna
Speaker 2: have his options. They should hire Eric b Enemy, who
Speaker 2: I think has done quite well outside of Kansas City,
Speaker 2: making Sam Howell look like a legitimate quarterback. They should
Speaker 2: use the seventh pick of the draft, which is about
Speaker 2: what they're gonna have on Shad Or Sanders, which will
Speaker 2: a give them a quarterback of the future and b
Speaker 2: give them real juice in Vegas, so all those home
Speaker 2: games are not simply opposing teams fans trap to Vegas
Speaker 2: where they don't have a home field. You would have
Speaker 2: some real star quality there. And then see they should
Speaker 2: trade away Devonte Adams. Maybe trade away and this one
Speaker 2: would hurt a lot Max Crosby. You would get two
Speaker 2: first round picks for Max Crosby because he's young, awesome
Speaker 2: and on a great contract. You would get one first
Speaker 2: round pick for Devonte Adams and you would start over
Speaker 2: and you would say, Okay. In twenty twenty four, we
Speaker 2: are cleaning up our cap, cleaning up our books, and
Speaker 2: drafting young talent. In twenty twenty five, we hope to
Speaker 2: be competitive, and in twenty twenty six we hope to
Speaker 2: be contenders. Because if you draft the right quarterback and
Speaker 2: you build the right pieces around him, by that quarterback's
Speaker 2: third year, you can be a contender. That should be
Speaker 2: the plan. Now, I don't know that they'll listen to me.
Speaker 2: What's the other one.
Speaker 3: They're Lincoln Riley guy. There's talks of him wanting a
Speaker 3: coach in the NFL move up, and maybe they get
Speaker 3: him and Caleb Williams.
Speaker 2: The problem is they're gonna be They're not gonna have
Speaker 2: I mean, they already have three wins. They're not gonna
Speaker 2: be able to get Caleb. And by the way, I
Speaker 2: don't know that I want Lincoln Riley as my head coach.
Speaker 2: Nobody's gonna trade the Caleb pick. I mean Lincoln Riley
Speaker 2: I don't think has done a great job at USC
Speaker 2: this year. I mean once for his for his seventh
Speaker 2: straight year. He can't field a defense. I think USC
Speaker 2: is underachieved somewhat. People are trying to put that on Caleb.
Speaker 2: I think that's ridiculous May and the and the Daniel
Speaker 2: Wrights in there. That Drake May is on the top
Speaker 2: of some people's boards. Yet idiots. Anybody that is going
Speaker 2: to argue that you should not take Caleb Williams with
Speaker 2: the number one overall pick doesn't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 2: There is the idea that we are going to somehow
Speaker 2: twist ourselves into knots and say saying, you know what,
Speaker 2: maybe Caleb isn't the number one pick is lunacy, But
Speaker 2: they're not gonna be able to get Drake May either.
Speaker 2: They're like, they're not gonna have a top two pick,
Speaker 2: and the top three picks of the draft are going
Speaker 2: to go Caleb, Drake, Marvin Harrison. That we know the
Speaker 2: rest is yet to be seen. All right, let's go
Speaker 2: to the Eagles Cowboys this weekend.
Speaker 3: Dallas and Philly face off in a potential NFC championship preview.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a great game. That's assuming Brock Party
Speaker 3: is still bad and the Niners aren't the equation for
Speaker 3: the sake of your Cowboys Super Bowl prediction. How important
Speaker 3: is it that Philly steals this game, that Dallas steal
Speaker 3: Dallas steals his game in Philly.
Speaker 2: Sorry, well I don't. I don't think Dallas has to
Speaker 2: steal this game for them to be alive Super Bowl contenders.
Speaker 2: But if they do win this game, they are in
Speaker 2: great shape because Philly the Dallas is next three games
Speaker 2: after this are Giants, Washington and Carolina the Eagles. Next
Speaker 2: five games after this Cowboys game are the Chiefs, the Bills,
Speaker 2: the Niners, at the Cowboys, and at the Seahawks. That
Speaker 2: Chiefs games in Kansas City. So if Dallas Dallas wins
Speaker 2: this game, they're they're de facto tied for first in
Speaker 2: the conference. And then all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 2: they they can actually create some space. What's so interesting
Speaker 2: about the NFC right now is you've got five teams
Speaker 2: that are at the midway point of the season essentially
Speaker 2: locked into the playoffs, that are just fighting for seating.
Speaker 2: So Dallas and Philly are gonna be in, Detroit's gonna
Speaker 2: be in San Francisco, and Seattle are gonna be in.
Speaker 2: That's five teams. You then have the NFC South winner
Speaker 2: whoever that is. That's six, and then who the hell
Speaker 2: is the seventh team? Gonna be Washington that just traded
Speaker 2: away it's best two edge rushers, Minnesota who's quarterback just
Speaker 2: popped his achilles, the Rams who just got rolled by
Speaker 2: the Cowboys, or someone else from the NFC South. So
Speaker 2: no matter what happens to any of those five good
Speaker 2: NFC teams, they it's almost impossible for them not to
Speaker 2: make the playoffs. So all they're playing for at this
Speaker 2: point is the number one seed winning their division home
Speaker 2: playoff games. We'll get to more on the Dallas Philly
Speaker 2: game in our pick segment. Uh, but I think Dallas
Speaker 2: is in a really good spot here. We're not gonna
Speaker 2: do the wimb conversation because this segment went forty minutes.
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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome back in Watch Drive with Nick write
Speaker 2: Episode one, ninety demands before we get to our picks,
Speaker 2: the producers say that they've pulled the tape of me
Speaker 2: talking about how the Bills lost because they went on Friday.
Speaker 2: Let's hear the tape and let's see what I said.
Speaker 3: Isn't the travel of the main thing you're always saying
Speaker 3: is like a big factor.
Speaker 2: It is a big factor, of course, and grown up teams,
Speaker 2: teams that have a level of consistency and emotional maturity,
Speaker 2: they either understand how to deal with it or they
Speaker 2: don't fly to London on Friday. Why did you do that?
Speaker 2: Why did you fly there on Friday for a Sunday
Speaker 2: morning game?
Speaker 3: Dude, that's bad, that's bad. I mean you, you, like
Speaker 3: ten to fifteen minutes ago, you said that you literally
Speaker 3: didn't do exactly what we just saw you do. You
Speaker 3: made fun of the Bills for leaving on a Friday
Speaker 3: for a Sunday morning game.
Speaker 2: I said you either, I said, hold on just a
Speaker 2: second year. This is why it's important to pull the tape. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I said, you either understand how to deal with it,
Speaker 2: or you fly earlier. You don't fly late, and they that.
Speaker 3: So you're just saying so, you're just saying the Bills
Speaker 3: didn't know how to deal with it, and the Chiefs
Speaker 3: magically do. The Bills are the dumb guys.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, what's today? I'm just curious what's today? Today,
Speaker 2: Thursday or Friday? Okay, when's the game?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, when's the game? Tell me?
Speaker 3: So, the way to deal with it is to leave
Speaker 3: a day before the Bills do. That's the way you want.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know. I mean the Chiefs
Speaker 2: are getting there today, which is Thursday. The Bills got
Speaker 2: their Friday, and I don't see what the real issue
Speaker 2: here is. Like I did not say they lost because
Speaker 2: they went on Friday. I said, either you know how
Speaker 2: to deal with it, or if you don't know how
Speaker 2: to deal with it, you leave earlier. I think the
Speaker 2: chiefs know how to deal with it, and they're leaving.
Speaker 2: Earlier Friday did seem like maybe a touch close, but
Speaker 2: just know how to deal with it. You're shaking your head.
Speaker 2: I stand by everything I said then and everything I
Speaker 2: said now. I think it is one hundred percent consistent.
Speaker 2: Let's go on to the picks. Let's go on to
Speaker 2: the picks. Last week started out great, den did not
Speaker 2: end great. Last week's picks, we can show you the recap.
Speaker 2: We won on Thursday night thanks to Baker Mayfield heroics.
Speaker 2: We won on Sunday morning thanks to Trevor Lawrence being awesome.
Speaker 2: Atlanta minus two and a half. I thought that Malik
Speaker 2: Willis and Will Levis were gonna split snaps instead will
Speaker 2: Or Malik Willis barely played and Will Levis was awesome.
Speaker 2: I thought Indy could hang with New Orleans. New Orleans
Speaker 2: hung almost forty on them, and I said nine points
Speaker 2: was just too much for the Chargers to be laying
Speaker 2: to anybody. And the Chargers blew out the Bears pretty
Speaker 2: thoroughly throughout. So it started out great, went in terribly.
Speaker 2: We are you know still because it's just two and
Speaker 2: three basically every week with a few three and twos
Speaker 2: mixed in. We're still just one great week away from
Speaker 2: having our head above water. But at this point, I
Speaker 2: can't guarantee that great week. I just can't. I wish
Speaker 2: I could. I'm hoping for the best. I'm not proud
Speaker 2: of how the clips have gone so much, so so
Speaker 2: much lately. But we move on from there. What do
Speaker 2: we got this week? Demanse?
Speaker 3: You got Kansas City minus one and a half versus Miami.
Speaker 3: This one surprises me.
Speaker 2: Why does it surprise you?
Speaker 3: Why Miami probably win that game? Chiefs in Offensive Production?
Speaker 3: Can I ask questions out there?
Speaker 2: Can I ask question? What? What's Miami's good? Like? Wow,
Speaker 2: they're They're a legit contender. Look who they beat? Performance
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 3: I'm just cured they have right. They have not had
Speaker 3: the toughest lady games, I'll admit.
Speaker 2: Well, well, they've had two very tough games and they
Speaker 2: got blown out in both of them. They Week one,
Speaker 2: they played the Chargers and that's a good win, but
Speaker 2: that's a win. They also needed a fourth quarter comeback
Speaker 2: to execute and they win by two. Week two, they
Speaker 2: play the Patriots and they win by seven. The Patriots
Speaker 2: butcher the end of the game when they have a
Speaker 2: chance to tie it. Week three, they embarrass and annihilate
Speaker 2: the Dolphins hang seventy on them. Week four, they play
Speaker 2: Buffalo and get annihilated. Week five they beat up on
Speaker 2: the Woebegone Giants. Week six they beat up on the
Speaker 2: just as wobegon Caroline Panthers. Week seven they play a
Speaker 2: big boy team, the Eagles. They get annihilated. And last
Speaker 2: week they beat the Patriots again thirty one to seventeen.
Speaker 2: I the Dolphins with Jalen Ramsey I am more interested
Speaker 2: in because he came back last week immediate impact. I
Speaker 2: don't think I think the Dolphins are good. I think,
Speaker 2: despite everyone saying the sky is falling, I think the
Speaker 2: Chiefs are great. I think the Chiefs defense will be
Speaker 2: able to handle as much as anyone can handle Tyreek Kill.
Speaker 2: They're familiar with him, they have the best pair of
Speaker 2: corners in the NFL, and McDuffie and Sneed, and the
Speaker 2: Chiefs are pissed off. Mahomes is clearly upset with what
Speaker 2: happened last week for all of those reasons, and I'm
Speaker 2: laying less than a field goal and one other note
Speaker 2: that I think is relevant in the Mahomes era, the
Speaker 2: Chiefs have lost back to back games sparingly few times.
Speaker 2: So if we go through it, the Chiefs have. Last
Speaker 2: year they lost back to back games zero times. In
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, they lost back to back games one time.
Speaker 2: One was a one point loss to Baltimore and then
Speaker 2: a final possession lost to the Chargers. In weeks two
Speaker 2: and three twenty twenty, they never lost back to back games.
Speaker 2: Twenty nineteen, they lost back to back games to Indy
Speaker 2: and Houston and that was it. In twenty eighteen did
Speaker 2: they ever lose back to back In twenty eighteen, oh,
Speaker 2: at the very end of the season. So mahomes six
Speaker 2: years career as a starter, they've lost back to back
Speaker 2: games three times. Ever, all of them involved at least
Speaker 2: one of those games, either the loss coming on the
Speaker 2: final play or in overtime or by one point. They're
Speaker 2: not losing this week, I and so I like the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: If it were three and a half, I'd feel differently.
Speaker 2: At one and a half, I like Kansas City. I
Speaker 2: don't typically put the Chiefs in Knicks picks because they're
Speaker 2: not a great covering team, but they are also not
Speaker 2: typically favored by less than a field goal. And by
Speaker 2: the way, but the producers put in there. Two has
Speaker 2: won eleven consecutive games straight up versus Super Bowl winning
Speaker 2: head coaches. Fun fact, here's the other fact. Touah's only
Speaker 2: loss against the Super Bowl winning head coach came against
Speaker 2: Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 3: Next, all right, Tampa Bay plus three at Houston. I
Speaker 3: love that one.
Speaker 2: The you do love that one? Yeah, okay, So Houston
Speaker 2: is a good story. Houston also last week you saw
Speaker 2: it a bit doesn't have a ton of talent on
Speaker 2: the roster. The Carolina is a bad loss. Tampa is
Speaker 2: coming off a bye. Tampa is in a spot where
Speaker 2: they absolutely I shouldn't say coming off a bye. Pardon me, Tampa.
Speaker 2: The is had the mini by because they played on Thursday,
Speaker 2: so they're not coming off a bye, but they have
Speaker 2: the extra rest. I should say Tampa getting three points
Speaker 2: when they are a desperate team. They are the more
Speaker 2: veteran team. And Houston right now is coming off its
Speaker 2: worst loss of the year, not because of the margin,
Speaker 2: but because who they lost to and the fashion that
Speaker 2: they lost to. Also, Houston's offense since the beginning of
Speaker 2: the season, offense was rolling hung thirty seven on the Jags,
Speaker 2: thirty on the Steelers. Since then, nineteen against the Falcons,
Speaker 2: twenty against the Saints, thirteen against the Panthers. The Bucks
Speaker 2: have a good defense, They're a desperate team. They're getting
Speaker 2: three points. Think they went out right. I like Tampa
Speaker 2: the spot. Next Atlanta minus four and a half versus Minnesota. Okay,
Speaker 2: so here is the thing.
Speaker 3: I mean, I have the quarterbacks. Kirk Cousins is the logic.
Speaker 2: I have the last two weeks lost picks that I
Speaker 2: have based purely on who the quarterback is. I lost
Speaker 2: the Tyson Bagent game and then I lost the Will
Speaker 2: Levis situation. So why am I laying four and a
Speaker 2: half with Atlanta?
Speaker 3: Don't do this?
Speaker 2: And it is why are you shaking your head to Mirrow?
Speaker 3: I don't think you should do this? I think this
Speaker 3: is why shouldn't I do? You know how you say,
Speaker 3: like the hot team or whatever a week by week
Speaker 3: you're doing, You're doing it with quarterbacks. First it was
Speaker 3: the Bears, and then you went for the Bears, and
Speaker 3: now you're going over here in Minnesota because Kirk Cousins
Speaker 3: is missing. I would not give Atlanta any bit of
Speaker 3: fit the doubt to be laying for and a half points.
Speaker 3: That's just where I stand on it. You're probably gonna
Speaker 3: go even hard.
Speaker 2: On it now, but no, I'm not gonna go into
Speaker 2: even harder on it. And what you're saying does theoretically
Speaker 2: make sense. And I understand the point you're making, and
Speaker 2: four and a half is a tricky line, and it
Speaker 2: does feel like that I am this is a very
Speaker 2: square pick. I get all of that. The counterpoint is,
Speaker 2: I think that Heinike is better than Ritter and so
Speaker 2: Atlanta going to their backup quarterback, I think they actually
Speaker 2: get an upgrade. Minnesota told us a lot about their
Speaker 2: confidence level in Jaren Hall by the fact that they
Speaker 2: traded for Josh Dopps. So Minnesota has seen Jaren Hall
Speaker 2: and they know they have Mullins coming back at some point,
Speaker 2: and they're still like, we've got to get another quarterback
Speaker 2: in here, and we've got to get it's someone who
Speaker 2: can start for us at some point. Minnesota with no
Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson, with no Kirk Cousins that actually believe it
Speaker 2: or not, does have a bit of a margin for
Speaker 2: error because of like I said in that NFC, who
Speaker 2: you know at four and four right now their position
Speaker 2: to be a wildcard team, and they have after this week.
Speaker 2: They have the Saints, the Broncos, the Bears, the Raiders.
Speaker 2: They have a bit of a runway. Jordan Addison's been awesome,
Speaker 2: but with no Justin Jefferson, with no Kirk Cousins, and
Speaker 2: with the emotional kind of atrophy of losing your quarterback
Speaker 2: for the season just a week ago, I don't mind
Speaker 2: laying the four and a half in Atlanta with Jaren
Speaker 2: Hall making his first career start as a fifth round
Speaker 2: rookie out of BYU, and so I like Atlanta minus
Speaker 2: the four and a half. I understand that there are
Speaker 2: a lot of trends against this. They opened as an underdog,
Speaker 2: now they're the favorites. The producers tell me teams are
Speaker 2: forty three and eighty three against the spread since twenty
Speaker 2: nineteen in those situations, I get that. But a fifth
Speaker 2: round rookie making his first career start on the road
Speaker 2: without his best weapon, I am gonna go ahead and
Speaker 2: go with Atlanta. And then demons read what the producers
Speaker 2: are writing about.
Speaker 3: The question why why aren't you gonna bet against the
Speaker 3: Cardinals as well? Since they're starting Clayton tune.
Speaker 2: Well for two reasons. One is I don't know who's
Speaker 2: starting quarterback opposite him, because the Browns right now, we
Speaker 2: don't know if it's PJ. Walker or if it's going
Speaker 2: to be Deshaun Watson. I don't even know what's the
Speaker 2: better option there for them. And that would be laying
Speaker 2: eight points. So that would be I would be relying
Speaker 2: on a team who's often struggles mightily to cover by
Speaker 2: more than a touchdown. That is a different situation than
Speaker 2: a team that I feel just upgraded at quarterback, going
Speaker 2: from Ritter to Heineke. Laying four and a half next.
Speaker 3: Dallas plus three at Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: You don't like this one.
Speaker 3: I think Dallas is gonna get destroyed.
Speaker 2: Okay, So here's Dak has lost once to the Eagles
Speaker 2: since twenty seventeen. Dak is the fifth best quarterback in
Speaker 2: NFL history against his own division. Last year, Dak hung
Speaker 2: forty on Philadelphia in a game Jalen Hurts wasn't playing.
Speaker 2: But Jalen Hurts doesn't play defense that Philadelphia secondary. Last week,
Speaker 2: let Taylor Heinike, I'm sorry, let Sam Howell look like
Speaker 2: a star. For all those reasons, I think Dallas absolutely
Speaker 2: can win this game, and I'm getting a full three points.
Speaker 2: And Jalen Hurts is a little GIMPI which makes me
Speaker 2: question whether or not they're gonna be as gung ho
Speaker 2: on running the Brotherly shove, which has been such a
Speaker 2: valuable weapon for them. And listen, Dak is a twenty
Speaker 2: five and ten in his career against the spread in
Speaker 2: the NFC East. Dak is eight and three in his
Speaker 2: career against the spread and straight up against the Eagles.
Speaker 2: And Dak's never lost to Nick Sirianni for three and
Speaker 2: oh against the spread against Sirianni, And yeah, three and
Speaker 2: oh straight up. For all those reasons, I like Dallas
Speaker 2: plus the three points.
Speaker 3: Next, Chargers minus three and a half at the Jets. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think the Jets performance last week was one of
Speaker 2: the worst performances in a win I've ever seen. I
Speaker 2: understand they got the win against the Giants, that was
Speaker 2: a truly pathetic performance on all fronts. And if I
Speaker 2: know anything about the Chargers, what the Chargers will do
Speaker 2: is beat the Jets and look impressive, only to have
Speaker 2: everyone be like, oh, did we write off the Chargers
Speaker 2: too soon? Only to then have the Lions absolutely annihilate
Speaker 2: them next week in Los Angeles, and so the Chargers
Speaker 2: laying less than a field goal on and by the way,
Speaker 2: Zack Wilson has pretty quickly gone right back to being
Speaker 2: Zach Wilson. I know we gave him his flowers for
Speaker 2: you know, acquitting himself decently against the Chiefs. Since then,
Speaker 2: he's he has a seventy five rating, one touchdown, one
Speaker 2: pick in three weeks of football. Remarkably, the team is
Speaker 2: three to zero in those games. I do not think
Speaker 2: I think that is sustainable. I will admit I don't
Speaker 2: love laying the extra half point here. And it's the
Speaker 2: Chargers going cross country. I understand all of that. But
Speaker 2: Zach Wilson on National TV, I think this is gonna
Speaker 2: be one of those games that the Chargers pass rush
Speaker 2: gets home and gets to him. That Jets offensive line
Speaker 2: has not been good. The Jets are one and fourteen
Speaker 2: straight up in home night games since twenty eighteen, and
Speaker 2: you give Robert Salah extra rest, it's not good. He's
Speaker 2: O four and one against the spread in that spot.
Speaker 2: And Herbert's actually pretty damn good at night nine and
Speaker 2: six against the spread. For all those reasons, I like
Speaker 2: the Chargers in this spot, you seem quizzical, you seem
Speaker 2: questioning me.
Speaker 3: There no charges minus three and a half. Rust the Jets,
Speaker 3: I definitely trust. But how do you feel about Zach
Speaker 3: Wilson having his best game against your defense? How you
Speaker 3: feel is that ud good for him?
Speaker 2: If you want to question the Chiefs defense number two
Speaker 2: defense in league, allowing fifteen points per game, you can
Speaker 2: go ahead and have phone with that. Folks want me
Speaker 2: to be worried about the Chiefs. It's like there is
Speaker 2: whether it's on this show or the TV show, there
Speaker 2: is Like people act like my faith in the Chiefs
Speaker 2: is like a Cowboys fan faith in their team or
Speaker 2: something like it's out of nowhere. They have been the
Speaker 2: best team in the league for a half decade. Now,
Speaker 2: they're the defending Super Bowl champs, they're the current one seed,
Speaker 2: and they have the best defense they've had for this
Speaker 2: team in twenty five years. I think the confidence is
Speaker 2: well founded, all right. Recap of the picks. Five picks
Speaker 2: for the week. Kansas City landa point and a half,
Speaker 2: Tampa plus three, Atlanta Lang four and a half, Dallas
Speaker 2: plus three, and the Chargers laying three and a half.
Speaker 2: All Right, Demons. Last week, the teaser once again goes awry.
Speaker 2: Miami was a good leg, Minnesota was a good leg,
Speaker 2: and then the Rams just get their teeth kicked in.
Speaker 2: They're down thirty three to three at halftime. It's just
Speaker 2: a disaster.
Speaker 3: It's I know. Now, that was like a fifteen point teaser,
Speaker 3: but there was probably like ten minutes total of that
Speaker 3: of that game where I was like, all right, we
Speaker 3: might cover give it a lot. Yeah, it gave them
Speaker 3: a lot of points, dude, but yeah, yeah, they got
Speaker 3: they got dominated.
Speaker 2: All right, demonte can you explain this tweet from last
Speaker 2: night before you give your teaser?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I've got a gift for everybody I thought
Speaker 3: about deleting sweet the gifts. It's a winning teaser. Oh
Speaker 3: I got you got something. And like somebody came to
Speaker 3: me in my dream and told me that this is
Speaker 3: the right teaser. I had the chance to change this
Speaker 3: this morning. But this this teaser is gonna hit. It's
Speaker 3: a okay, the three, the three team seven pointer we got. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're teasing Miami up to eight and a half. Okay,
Speaker 3: teasing this one. This It's gonna kill me if it
Speaker 3: comes back to Byby. But there's just no way this
Speaker 3: Seattle plus twelve and a half versus the Ravens, and
Speaker 3: then the questionable leg Cleveland minus a half point. They're
Speaker 3: playing the Cardinals.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's a question. I like Cleveland. I
Speaker 2: like Cleveland straight up to win against Clayton. Tune that
Speaker 2: defense against Clayton. Tune in Arizona. I like that leg.
Speaker 2: I the I demonse. I'm not trying to talk you
Speaker 2: out anything. Didn't you lose a teaser two weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Because you've faded the didn't believe in the Ravens? Yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah I did.
Speaker 2: I did, and now you're and now you're doing it again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'm last time it was what was it
Speaker 3: Ravens was Ravens Lions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, It's just.
Speaker 3: I just don't I don't see I don't see Seahawks
Speaker 3: losing this game by more than ten points. I mean,
Speaker 3: I just I think they'll be able to hang in
Speaker 3: to I trust it, I trust it. I think the
Speaker 3: are a good team. I think the Ravens are really
Speaker 3: good and I think, and honestly it's my team. I
Speaker 3: think they're on a little bit of a high right now.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit right now.
Speaker 2: Here's a bright side. Here's a bright side for it. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: the hot team corollary maybe applies to the Ravens. Now
Speaker 2: here's a bright side for you. When the Chiefs blow
Speaker 2: out the Dolphins and this teasers dead before you wake
Speaker 2: up on Sunday morning on the West Coast, you'll have
Speaker 2: enough time to put in a fresh one once. Like
Speaker 2: at least it won't be like the Dallas game where
Speaker 2: it's the last leg of your teaser and you're like,
Speaker 2: damn it, I don't even have time. You'll be able
Speaker 2: to put in a fresh one. When the Chiefs beat
Speaker 2: the Dolphins thirty one to seventeen. All right, what's the
Speaker 2: offer this week?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: And I give this teaser is a seat? I give
Speaker 2: it a seat. He's going against his team, he's going
Speaker 2: against my team. I give it a seat. All right,
Speaker 2: what's the offer?
Speaker 3: All right? For today's offer, we're gonna head over to
Speaker 3: Germany in a fade a former chief We're calling this one.
Speaker 3: Tyreek plays his brought worst. I want to broadsworst right now.
Speaker 3: Tyreek hill under under ninety one and a half yards,
Speaker 3: plus under six and a half receptions at plus one
Speaker 3: forty four.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna decline the offer because there's just not enough
Speaker 2: value there the idea. And I understand those two things
Speaker 2: seem correlated, like, oh, if he goes under one, he'll
Speaker 2: go under the other. But I don't know that that's true.
Speaker 2: I think you could hold Tyreek to four catches and
Speaker 2: he could have one hundred and ten yards if he
Speaker 2: breaks one. I also think there's a scenario where the Chiefs,
Speaker 2: because they're a great tackling team, rally and tackle and
Speaker 2: cloud coverage Tyreek and he could have eight catches and
Speaker 2: not hit ninety yards. So I know I'm gonna decline
Speaker 2: this offer. I will. We will take a very quick break,
Speaker 2: come back, answer a few questions before we go, because
Speaker 2: this show's gone too long. Quick break, right back, what's right?
Speaker 2: All right? Welcome back. In What's Drive with Nick Wright
Speaker 2: Episode one ninety demons read us some of these listener
Speaker 2: questions and comments.
Speaker 3: All right, Dussy said, this is one take I've always
Speaker 3: agreed with Nick on awful movie all about Top Gun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just didn't quite get it. I didn't get
Speaker 2: it all right.
Speaker 3: Next one, Colin Nincher asked, overreact and go all in
Speaker 3: on Little Levis tonight or fade the rookie in his
Speaker 3: second start against a sad defensive secondary.
Speaker 2: No, I'm gonna I'm staying away from this game. It's
Speaker 2: it's Titan Steelers, it's two of the best coaches against
Speaker 2: the spread the I'm just staying away. I would say,
Speaker 2: you know what, keep your powder dry. You don't have
Speaker 2: to bet every game, all right.
Speaker 3: Next talking, Cordon oh Finley said, my Seahawks are poised
Speaker 3: to make a playoff push, but you ranked them in
Speaker 3: the next year category on the TV show yesterday. What
Speaker 3: needs to improve? What needs to proved to move them
Speaker 3: into the contention this year?
Speaker 2: Well, I listen, I think they are fringe contenders. I
Speaker 2: think the problem is I just think they are such
Speaker 2: a young o line in defense that they need another year.
Speaker 2: I believe in their coach, I believe in their quarterback,
Speaker 2: and I like their weapons, but I think they're probably
Speaker 2: a year away, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Kigaboo Slide asked how does trading for Josh Dobbs
Speaker 3: snuff out any chance of the Vikings getting a draft
Speaker 3: pick getting them a real contingency plan at quarterback?
Speaker 2: Well, listen, I think that the Vikings are gonna try
Speaker 2: to find a way to sneak into the playoffs. And
Speaker 2: the fact of the matter is, you have four wins.
Speaker 2: You weren't gonna you already weren't gonna get one of
Speaker 2: the top three quarterbacks in this year's draft, so you're
Speaker 2: not like a tank eligible team, and you want to
Speaker 2: kind of keep the some positive momentum going that you
Speaker 2: built up over the next year.
Speaker 3: All right, next this one, I think we might have answered,
Speaker 3: Austin R. Said, with the hot team losing every week? Sorry, Chiefs,
Speaker 3: what is this week's hot team that is destined to
Speaker 3: lose by this new trend this week?
Speaker 2: Well, the hot team the team of the longest winning
Speaker 2: treats the Jags, but they're on a buy so they
Speaker 2: maybe have avoided it. Baltimore would be a prime candidate.
Speaker 2: But the other one would be Philly, which is a
Speaker 2: top every team's power rankings right now, is the only
Speaker 2: one loss team left and they're playing you know, they've
Speaker 2: got a brutal game against Dallas. The shocking loss would
Speaker 2: be Baltimore. If Baltimore found a way to lose, I
Speaker 2: guess that wouldn't be shocking because they're playing a good
Speaker 2: team in Seattle. But that would be the probably more
Speaker 2: surprising than Philadelphia. But I think Philadelphia is the answer
Speaker 2: to that question. All right, de Mon's a great job today.
Speaker 2: I gotta go. We're running late. See you guys on
Speaker 2: TV at three o'clock. See on Tuesday on the show
Speaker 2: What's Right.