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Speaker 1: I feel like we've been walking in the desert for months.
Speaker 1: We've been doing episodes from the Combine, We've been doing
Speaker 1: episodes from the draft, and then there was that long
Speaker 1: summer of just projections and hypotheticals and contract holdouts and
Speaker 1: long explainers on the Dynamic Kickoff. There's been long explainers
Speaker 1: on Hassan Reddick. We're here. Football is here. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: if I didn't spend three weeks doing fantasy football prep
Speaker 1: with you guys. I know that probably didn't help the listenership.
Speaker 1: I know I could have had you know, Matthew Berry
Speaker 1: or the underdog Fantasy guys on or someone, and we
Speaker 1: could have pumped up the numbers. But I wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: do you like that. You go elsewhere for that. You
Speaker 1: find your fancy Fault podcast. If you're listening to this podcast,
Speaker 1: it's for hardcore football, it's for analysiss for some of
Speaker 1: the best guests, and it's for my man, Aaron wang Kaufman. Aaron,
Speaker 1: we're here. It's football season, and it is as we
Speaker 1: record this on a Tuesday. We are now forty eight
Speaker 1: hours away. Are you excited or are you nervous and dreading?
Speaker 1: As a Bills fan, I can imagine this is an
Speaker 1: interesting time considering the offseason you guys had.
Speaker 2: I mean I'm a little bit of both, partly because
Speaker 2: later this evening, late this evening, I have my New
Speaker 2: York City Fantasy League draft. Okay, so I haven't gotten
Speaker 2: any any sleepers from.
Speaker 1: A sleeper Shakir. I like him this year.
Speaker 2: I mean, as a as a Bills fan, It's not
Speaker 2: asleep because I've been all in on Sheer. No, I'm stoked.
Speaker 2: I can't wait. I I'm really excited. I mean, just
Speaker 2: from the Bill's perspective, playing against the Cardinals, who have
Speaker 2: Marvin Harrison Junior, getting to see Trey McBride some more.
Speaker 2: It's an exciting first week. I think there are a
Speaker 2: lot of really exciting first games.
Speaker 1: That first game is a trap game written all over it, Dude,
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, right Arizona. Arizona comes in everyone expecting Buffalo
Speaker 1: to have an easy like that one's got trap game
Speaker 1: written all over it. I hope they're not gonna take
Speaker 1: that one for granted. That. By the way, those those
Speaker 1: two teams. One of my favorite games in recent memory
Speaker 1: was the Hail Murray Hail Murray. Those two teams went
Speaker 1: at it, no doubt, I think that's cool, but.
Speaker 2: One of my least favorite games. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Whatever, the Bills figured it out that year. They were fine.
Speaker 1: You guys went pretty far that season. All right. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you one thing that was funny. You like this
Speaker 1: and I can't out who it was and whatever. One
Speaker 1: thing that I find it's very personal to me. Once
Speaker 1: a year, I'll hear from people and it's like, yeah, bro,
Speaker 1: I got my fantasy draft tonight, Like, give me some sleepers.
Speaker 1: You okay, that's my response, bleep it if you have
Speaker 1: to aaron you like I I hear you from you
Speaker 1: once a year, dude, Like my fantasy draft tonight, got
Speaker 1: any sleepers? Like there's nothing more insulting this, Like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't and don't text me the day of your draft.
Speaker 1: Do I have to know what? Do I what I
Speaker 1: look like? No, so one guy did it and I
Speaker 1: don't even know this guy. Well, like it's one of
Speaker 1: those guys who like got my memories and he wasn't
Speaker 1: even friendly in the text. He was like, got any
Speaker 1: sleepers for my fantasy draft, and I wrote back draft
Speaker 1: bo Williams late, no such player, no such player as
Speaker 1: Bo Williams. I don't know anyone. And he didn't respond,
Speaker 1: and then he wrote back thumbs up. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if he took bo Williams. But that was my
Speaker 1: favorite thing I did this week. So yeah, that was
Speaker 1: that was good. That was a win. Some people just
Speaker 1: didn't respond to And if you listen to the podcast,
Speaker 1: I apologize, like I just it just it's it's really insulting.
Speaker 1: The only thing worse is when someone texts me and says, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm going to Bengals Chiefs. Can I on the field?
Speaker 1: It's like a golf like. No, I don't do like
Speaker 1: I don't work in the ticket office. No. Anyway, that's
Speaker 1: my airing of grievances. If I'm seeming a little bit
Speaker 1: on edge, it's because I am, once again in one
Speaker 1: of these sleepless weeks. I am in Los Angeles and
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football starts at five am local. My alarm
Speaker 1: goes off at two forty five am local. I am
Speaker 1: blessed to do it. I get it. But when you
Speaker 1: get to the middle of the week, and the world
Speaker 1: just seems upside down. I don't think I have vertico,
Speaker 1: but I might. And I also, you know, I can't
Speaker 1: just go to sleep at three o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: So I'm here, I'm delirious. We're recording this. I'm in LA.
Speaker 1: Good morning. Football has been awesome this week Aaron's in
Speaker 1: New York. I did have one cool experience, cool ass experience.
Speaker 1: And you know, you might say you might not want
Speaker 1: to share that with everybody. It's I met a guy.
Speaker 1: The guy came up to me say he's a fan
Speaker 1: of the show. His name is Kunall. Great dude. Kunall
Speaker 1: was like, I'm living La. If you ever want to
Speaker 1: play an amazing golf course, I'm a member at a
Speaker 1: golf club. You're welcome to play with me. And not
Speaker 1: a moment too soon with I said, yeah, I'm actually
Speaker 1: coming to La Monday, Like, can I play this golf course?
Speaker 1: I got to play bell Air on Monday, which is
Speaker 1: one of the top courses in the entire world. I
Speaker 1: didn't play well, but as a novice golfer, this was
Speaker 1: like like check mark another bucket list moment. I loved it.
Speaker 1: Kunal and two of his buddies and me. I probably
Speaker 1: shot a one fifty horrible, but this was the coolest
Speaker 1: course I've ever played on. Can I explain? There are
Speaker 1: tunnels throughout this thing. There is a bridge called the
Speaker 1: Swinging Bridge that is like a shaky bridge that connects it.
Speaker 1: Awesome course, ton of history, many famous members. I don't
Speaker 1: know how these country club rules work. I'm allowed to
Speaker 1: mention the members. I don't know. But I was there
Speaker 1: for the golf baby and it was great, and then
Speaker 1: I had a delicious chopsalad afterwards in the clubhouse. Again
Speaker 1: no pictures allowed and no social media, which I think
Speaker 1: it was kind of cool. I wish the world was
Speaker 1: more like that sometimes, so I have no picture of
Speaker 1: me like putting in a cool shot. It also didn't happen.
Speaker 1: I didn't make any cool putts. I played pretty terribly,
Speaker 1: but again, very fun. The one thing was, you know,
Speaker 1: I would have preferred probably taken a cart. I walked
Speaker 1: the whole thing. It's a ton of hills and I
Speaker 1: didn't bring my golf shoes our golf club. So couonall
Speaker 1: great dude, couonall hooks me up and it's like I
Speaker 1: got you same size shoe you'll wear mine. I was
Speaker 1: in so much pain. I walked twenty six thousand steps yesterday.
Speaker 1: It seems like a lot, right, it seems like a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's that's maybe. Uh. I don't know
Speaker 2: how many miles. About twelve miles.
Speaker 1: Is that right? I walked twelve miles. Yeah, that's a lot.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of walking. Yeah. It's good. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it was fun. But like I'm toast today, we did
Speaker 1: the show Good Morning Football. Was great, and then I
Speaker 1: did Chris Russo Mad Dog Radio. I did a spot
Speaker 1: with him I'm gona be doing on Tuesdays and that
Speaker 1: was an absolute blast. Remember we had him on our
Speaker 1: podcast back at.
Speaker 2: Super Bowl Yeah, super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's been really cool. It's been a busy
Speaker 1: time and it all leads up to a wild NFL
Speaker 1: schedule of Thursday night Chiefs Ravens on NBC with our
Speaker 1: boy tar Rico and our guy Collinsworth. Friday on Peacock
Speaker 1: out of South Paulo, Brazil, Eagles, Packers, Friday night game,
Speaker 1: Sunday full Slate Sunday Night Rams Lions awesome matchup in Detroit,
Speaker 1: and then Monday night you have a doubleheader on Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football or no you have one. I'm sorry. It's
Speaker 1: just Niners versus Jets with Troy and Joe on the
Speaker 1: call and the return of Aaron Rodgers. But if you're
Speaker 1: listening to this podcast, you know I'm mister Crystal Ball
Speaker 1: and I like to give you some predictions. I want
Speaker 1: Aaron to participate and did it as well. What we're
Speaker 1: gonna do is we're gonna go through our season long addictions,
Speaker 1: not our Bowl takes, not our hot takes, not our
Speaker 1: fantasy football wide receiver sevens that you have to draft,
Speaker 1: no information on Bo Williams, not a real player, although
Speaker 1: I hope he's on at least one fantasy team somewhere.
Speaker 1: And what we're gonna do is we're gonna give him
Speaker 1: on this podcast, but then on Thursday after I announce
Speaker 1: it on Good Morning Football. And I understand that everyone's
Speaker 1: watching Good Morning Football on Thursday. Some of you work
Speaker 1: and you can't be in front of a television, which
Speaker 1: is respectable. I appreciate employment in this world. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do a little separate pod and I'll talk about my
Speaker 1: Super Bowl pick, which as we know, has taken on
Speaker 1: a life of its own and there's great pressure behind
Speaker 1: it before I even get to the super Bowl. Pick Aaron.
Speaker 1: I have two like alternate approaches to this, one of
Speaker 1: them being this crazy off the waw off like the like,
Speaker 1: I have two teams I really like that are not
Speaker 1: everybody like. I kind of want to put them in
Speaker 1: the playoffs and just fine, and then I kind of
Speaker 1: want to put them in the super Bowl and just
Speaker 1: shock everyone, oh and be like drop the mic. You
Speaker 1: want to know who knows something? I know something. I'm
Speaker 1: a soothsayer. I get it right every year. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you these two teams. And then I've got
Speaker 1: two picks, two safer choices still to pick the right
Speaker 1: super Bowl. There's no Yeah, I've done it last several years,
Speaker 1: but I've got two more safer ones. And you know,
Speaker 1: career wise, is it better to keep this thing going
Speaker 1: and pick maybe the more or is it better take
Speaker 1: the big ass swing and say is it. I'm going
Speaker 1: with this one because I just feel like this year
Speaker 1: is going to be crazy and these two teams are
Speaker 1: the ones I'm into. And everyone just blow their mind
Speaker 1: and say, Shreger's crazy, but Shreker's always right. But Shreker's crazy,
Speaker 1: but Shreker's always right. What do you think? Eron where
Speaker 1: do I go?
Speaker 2: I mean, I would suggest getting a good night's sleep,
Speaker 2: maybe making the pick, not on a day that you
Speaker 2: just walk twenty six miles yep or twenty two miles
Speaker 2: whatever it was yep, Because yeah, I think it's cool
Speaker 2: to make an exciting choice, but you are You're known
Speaker 2: for making the right one, so I know, you know,
Speaker 2: I think I think it's if you believe that these
Speaker 2: two outlandish choices actually could be correct, and like there's
Speaker 2: a good chance. Yeah, I mean that could go for it.
Speaker 1: But okay, so I'm going to think about you, right,
Speaker 1: take a good night's rest. It's like I'm in one
Speaker 1: of these hotels that's on the highway, uh and as
Speaker 1: glam as glamorous as that sounds like, I go Table
Speaker 1: for One for dinner at four thirty when I'm in
Speaker 1: LA because I got to get to sleep somehow and
Speaker 1: it's bright out and it's like I tonight, I'm planning
Speaker 1: on walking across the street to a chain restaurant that
Speaker 1: I will not mention that we all know and love
Speaker 1: Table for one and like seriously sitting down and writing
Speaker 1: with a pendon pad table for one sat as it
Speaker 1: could be, and like pros and cons of like which
Speaker 1: way to go of going big swing and you know,
Speaker 1: trying to make headlines but also believing in both these teams,
Speaker 1: or let's try to get this thing right and knowing
Speaker 1: that there's a far greater chance that these two other
Speaker 1: teams are gonna make it. We'll see, you know. Uh,
Speaker 1: fortune favors the bold, but fortune also favors getting things
Speaker 1: right five years in a row. Whatever else. All right,
Speaker 1: let's do some awards, let's let's do some let's do
Speaker 1: some suits saying let's do some predictions. Aaron, here's how
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it. I'm gonna set this up and
Speaker 1: I will break the fourth wall. I was debating do
Speaker 1: we want to bring on a guest this week? And
Speaker 1: like preview the season, I was thinking, do I want
Speaker 1: to bring on a coach? Because I could have gotten
Speaker 1: a bunch of coaches this week because it's early in
Speaker 1: the week and they don't play all Sunday, and like
Speaker 1: we could have done the big you know, deep dive
Speaker 1: on you know, Brian Callahan or Zach Taylor and really
Speaker 1: gotten to it. But then I'm like that's so focused
Speaker 1: on one team usually when we have on those guests, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't think we're looking to do that. Instead, let's
Speaker 1: go big picture, let's go predictions, and let's you and
Speaker 1: me do it. I think it's enough of a cool
Speaker 1: episode where it's Aaron and Peter Peter and Aaron's predictions
Speaker 1: and I don't know what you've got up your sleeve.
Speaker 1: I know you've spent all day to day going through
Speaker 1: these things, and I've been doing the work myself over
Speaker 1: the last several weeks. Let's start off with my offensive
Speaker 1: rookie of the year. I just got done spending the
Speaker 1: entire summer on the phones with all of these coaches,
Speaker 1: and I've been so dialed in on a lot of
Speaker 1: the rookie performances that I think this might be one
Speaker 1: of those rare, really good rookie classes. That's not a shocker,
Speaker 1: but I'm talking like one that was as good as
Speaker 1: like that class that had Herbert and two and Jefferson
Speaker 1: and Cede Lamb. Like, I think we're looking at one
Speaker 1: of those psycho classes. Yeah, forgot Burrow. He was the
Speaker 1: first pick in that draft. It's been a while, though,
Speaker 1: like we've had a bunch of drafts with a bunch
Speaker 1: of quarterback whiffs. I don't think we're gonna get it.
Speaker 1: I think three quarterbacks in particular are going to be
Speaker 1: very good this year. I think Caleb's going to be good.
Speaker 1: I think Nicks is going to be good, and I
Speaker 1: think Jayden Daniel is going to be good. But I
Speaker 1: think one of them is going to be the better
Speaker 1: one of all of them. And that's my breakout player
Speaker 1: of the year. It's a guy, no secret I've fallen
Speaker 1: in love with. He's got crazy joints that he can
Speaker 1: do these wild dances with his elbows. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels and Washington. That's my offensive rookie of the year.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna uplift everybody in that market. And
Speaker 1: what's gonna be an interesting thing. There's gonna be a
Speaker 1: duality going on. You're gonna have this great story of
Speaker 1: the Commanders being a surprise team in the NFC, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if they go to the playoffs, but
Speaker 1: they're gonna be good this year. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: be better and Daniels is gonna wow you every weekend, and
Speaker 1: then you're gonna have this bat crazy election going on
Speaker 1: at the same time in DC. So you've got great
Speaker 1: football story and likely wild election season going on, and
Speaker 1: it's all gonna be going on in the Beltway. I
Speaker 1: think Daniels might steal some headlines from both presidential candidates
Speaker 1: and their vice presidents. I think it's gonna be the
Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels show in DC. And we've been through this.
Speaker 1: Robert Griffin. That rookie year was a sensation and it
Speaker 1: was a blast to watch, and it was such a
Speaker 1: thrill and we know how it all went down afterwards.
Speaker 1: But that first year, right out of the gates New Orleans,
Speaker 1: he throws the touchdown, he's on his back, he does
Speaker 1: that whole thing. I think Jayden Daniel is gonna be
Speaker 1: something similar in his first year. And I think in
Speaker 1: his first game he might come out of the out
Speaker 1: of the gates just firing away and making things happen.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go Jaden Daniels as my offensive rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year. Aaron, you're on the clock, who do
Speaker 1: you say?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go a little more chalk. I think I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go with Caleb because I think he has There's
Speaker 2: been plenty of narrative already about he has such an
Speaker 2: incredible setup on the offensive side. He's got all these
Speaker 2: weapons to play with. Dj Moore, Keenan Allen, who you
Speaker 2: know used to be We mentioned him earlier justin Herbert's
Speaker 2: safety blanket, and now Caleb has him. And I just
Speaker 2: think the connection between Caleb and Rome. I think we're
Speaker 2: gonna be talking about it a lot as the year progresses,
Speaker 2: and I I just can't wait for Caleb to get
Speaker 2: a couple short passes in and then take a long
Speaker 2: bomb down to Rome on the sideline and like just
Speaker 2: some highlight plays. So I I think Caleb is my
Speaker 2: choice for Offensive Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: I love it all right, Defensive Rookie of the Year,
Speaker 1: not as not as glamorous of a gig. I couldn't
Speaker 1: tell you offhand, and maybe you can google it for me.
Speaker 1: My brain is fried who won it last year? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like it's probably a household name,
Speaker 1: but you know, as you google, it was it ya
Speaker 1: ya d Yabi? Was it Brian was young?
Speaker 2: It was with Houston's Will Anderson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, solid, Like no one's got Will Anderson winning Defensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Year This year. It's not like he was.
Speaker 1: It's really hard as a rookie to like be a
Speaker 1: huge breakout player on defense. I think Chase Young was
Speaker 1: a few years ago. Michael Parsons was, But like offensive
Speaker 1: is like every kid's buying your jersey. Defensive, it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, that was a good start to your career.
Speaker 1: It's really hard to dominate. Year one. My defensive rookie
Speaker 1: of the year. I go to the La Rams. I
Speaker 1: go Jared Verse, the pass rusher out of Florida State.
Speaker 1: Cool story with him. Started off at Albany as a
Speaker 1: Great Dane his first two years at the University of Albany,
Speaker 1: transfer to Florida State, had an awesome career. Two time
Speaker 1: All American, two time All acc goes without saying, and
Speaker 1: he was the nineteenth overall pick and was outstanding during
Speaker 1: the summer workouts and I was at practice for the Rams.
Speaker 1: He's flying all over the field. Interesting draft in that
Speaker 1: the first fifteen players, I want to say, maybe the
Speaker 1: first fourteen players were all offensive players. So this isn't
Speaker 1: a big defensive rookie class. As far as household names go.
Speaker 1: There are guys which makes it wide open for defensive
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year and Aaron. If I'm going Jared Verse,
Speaker 1: who are you going? That's yours?
Speaker 2: So I'm going with Terry and Arnold. Okay, cornerback for
Speaker 2: the Detroit Lions. I think that that is a position
Speaker 2: that they really blatantly needed, and I think if he
Speaker 2: can step it up and that defense plays well, there
Speaker 2: will be such a great narrative for him. Because everyone
Speaker 2: is so hyped about the Lions already that if they
Speaker 2: can clean up some of their weaknesses from last year,
Speaker 2: I think it will really stand out. I I do
Speaker 2: really like Jared Verse. I'm a little worried that he's
Speaker 2: going to get compared to Aaron.
Speaker 3: He's outside, He's outside. It's totally I know, I know,
Speaker 3: but they're losing. They lost the chat. The specter of
Speaker 3: Aaron Donald hangs over that defense. Fair I almost picked
Speaker 3: Quinny on Mitchell, so I don't know. If maybe I'm
Speaker 3: just a cornerback guy. I do think that he also
Speaker 3: could do really well. But I think there's a lot
Speaker 3: more we're concerned about on the offensive side for the Eagles,
Speaker 3: whereas like with the Lions, we kind of know what
Speaker 3: that offense is and I think we're going to be
Speaker 3: really excited about they that's the most good.
Speaker 1: All right. So we've got our offensive rookie of the year,
Speaker 1: our defensive rookie of the year. The next will be the
Speaker 1: defensive player of the year. Last year it was Miles Garrett.
Speaker 1: He had an outstanding season. Many thought it should have
Speaker 1: been t J. Watt. Others said it should have been
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons. There are so many good defensive players in
Speaker 1: this league, So where are we going to go for
Speaker 1: defensive player of the year. I'm going to go with
Speaker 1: a long shot. Sometimes you have to swing big and
Speaker 1: a guy who's just physically gifted in a way that
Speaker 1: few guys are, and someone who I think is gonna
Speaker 1: put up huge sack numbers this year as he's finally
Speaker 1: fully healthy. My defensive player of the year pick, I'm
Speaker 1: going to Green Bay. I'm going with Rashan Gary as
Speaker 1: my defensive player of the year. A sack machine and
Speaker 1: a guy who's finally gonna put it all together. He
Speaker 1: was one of Matt Lafleur's first ever draft picks. And
Speaker 1: I think Rashawon Gary, who I don't see listen in
Speaker 1: the top twenty names on these lists, is going to
Speaker 1: win Defensive Player of the Year. That is my pick. Ooh.
Speaker 2: I like that. That's another team where I feel like
Speaker 2: everyone is in love with Jordan Love and the offense
Speaker 2: and bringing up a defensive guy like that is great.
Speaker 2: I'm very into.
Speaker 1: That, Okay. So that tells you how I feel about
Speaker 1: the Packers this year. If I'm thinking Rashawn Gary would
Speaker 1: be Defensive Player of the Year, that was way off
Speaker 1: the board. Sometimes you got to do that who you taking.
Speaker 2: So I was tempted by Miles Garrett again yep, and
Speaker 2: also TJ Watt. I think that you know, those two
Speaker 2: are are gonna be on this list of potential defensive
Speaker 2: Player of the Years for years to come. And I
Speaker 2: think the other guy on that list is Michael Parsons.
Speaker 2: And I think this year I'm gonna go with Michael Parsons.
Speaker 2: I think we have a lot of discussion about DAK
Speaker 2: and CD just signed. Finally, what's gonna happen with Dak's contract?
Speaker 2: And I think Michael Parsons is gonna come out and
Speaker 2: he's gonna remind everyone that there's another side of that
Speaker 2: team and they are very very good.
Speaker 1: MICHAEH. Parsons is like also in that contract like negotiation thing,
Speaker 1: and you've got this situation where it's like CD got his,
Speaker 1: DAK got his. Is Mike gonna play with his, you know,
Speaker 1: with his ass on fire? He might like he might,
Speaker 1: he might just be completely on him. But I thought
Speaker 1: last year he kind of got lost a little bit
Speaker 1: in the TJ. Watt Miles Garrett discussion. Was kind of
Speaker 1: considered a third guy, and you know, I wonder if
Speaker 1: that motivates him as well.
Speaker 2: All right, who do you have for your Offensive Player
Speaker 2: of the Year.
Speaker 1: That's such a silly Yeah, I'm gonna say Bjeon Robinson
Speaker 1: his mind. But like, I don't even care about this award.
Speaker 1: I don't care, Like I think this award is dumb.
Speaker 1: You've got your MVP, and then you know the MVP
Speaker 1: is not going to be defensive player. Lawrence Taylor was
Speaker 1: the last one to actually like win MVP and that
Speaker 1: was in eighty six. And then you have your defensive player.
Speaker 1: But like, here's the MVP, and then you have your
Speaker 1: offensive player, which is basically like everyone the second place,
Speaker 1: but like not a quarterback. And then some years they
Speaker 1: give it to quarterback. So I'm gonna say this is
Speaker 1: a dumb award. They should do away with it, or
Speaker 1: they should call it non quarterback best non Quarterback. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go be Jeon Robinson, who I've already told
Speaker 1: you I think is going to like tear up the
Speaker 1: league this year.
Speaker 2: I love Bijon. He's one of my favorite players. I
Speaker 2: love him in interviews. I love watching him run the
Speaker 2: I think I even mentioned this last time when you
Speaker 2: brought him up the skycam.
Speaker 1: We get to watch him the catch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god, amazing. I'll just really quickly. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go with a guy I just mentioned. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go with Ceedee Lamb. I think, Okay, the Cowboys. I
Speaker 2: think he especially in a time when the other kind
Speaker 2: of premiere wide receivers. You got Jefferson, who's going to
Speaker 2: get used to Sam Darnold, and you've got Jordan Addison,
Speaker 2: You've got t J. Hopkinson, he's got other guys flanking him,
Speaker 2: and then you've got Jamar Chase who is not practicing yet.
Speaker 2: Burrow is back from injury, but we'll see how long
Speaker 2: he lasts. Higgins is going to be fighting for his contract.
Speaker 2: I think CD is just going to go out there
Speaker 2: and be He's it. He's that often. I love it,
Speaker 2: so I think he's gonna step it up.
Speaker 1: Are you at all concerned about the fact he didn't
Speaker 1: have a proper training camp that like the first three
Speaker 1: weeks he comes in out of shape and maybe isn't
Speaker 1: what he was at the end of last season where
Speaker 1: he was unstoppable.
Speaker 2: Yes. Do I wish that Jerry Jones had just gotten
Speaker 2: all that done right away? Seed he could have had
Speaker 2: the training camp?
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, Okay, now we're getting into a different position,
Speaker 4: which is basically an indicator of how you're feeling on
Speaker 4: the season.
Speaker 1: Coach of the year. My coach of the year is
Speaker 1: Mike McDonald of the Seattle Seahawks. I think not to
Speaker 1: be confused with Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers and
Speaker 1: his own solo career which was so magical. What a
Speaker 1: full believes I'm gonna say, Mike McDonald Seahawks, I've done
Speaker 1: this spiel before. I think they've got a real different
Speaker 1: spirit going. And Pete was great. Pete was an energy guy.
Speaker 1: Pete was a vibes guy. Everyone love Pete. But this
Speaker 1: is like a different deal. They bring it in a
Speaker 1: younger guy thirty seven years old, He's got with him
Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator from the college game and Grubs, and like,
Speaker 1: what I love is that he comes in and he's
Speaker 1: gonna solidify this defense in a way that he did
Speaker 1: with the Ravens last year and he did with Michigan
Speaker 1: two years ago. I'm already hearing great things from you know,
Speaker 1: from camp on Kenneth Walker, but also Jackson Smith, Ninjigba,
Speaker 1: and of course you have your usuals Lockett and Metcalf. Defensively,
Speaker 1: they were pretty pretty down last year. That's why you
Speaker 1: bring in a defensive coach, and that's why you give
Speaker 1: a guy who's thirty seven years old the reins. I
Speaker 1: think the Seattle Seahawks are my surprise team in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and I've got Mike McDonald as my coach of the year.
Speaker 1: I will say this though, for as good as I
Speaker 1: have been aaron on Super Bowl picks, and I have
Speaker 1: taken many a victory laugh. And my coach of the
Speaker 1: year three years ago was Cliff Kingsbury, he got fired.
Speaker 1: My coach of the year two years ago was Nathaniel Hackett,
Speaker 1: he got fired. And last year I had Sean Payton
Speaker 1: where his team fell apart down the stretch and they
Speaker 1: missed the playoffs and it was a great disappointment, so
Speaker 1: bad that you know, Russell Wilson's out of town. So
Speaker 1: my Coach of the Year picks have not exactly been
Speaker 1: spot on. So, Mike McDonald, as much as it might
Speaker 1: feel good to see your name in a September Coach
Speaker 1: of the Year pick, that means it means nothing. There's
Speaker 1: a good chance that this actually backfires completely because I
Speaker 1: have a horrible history and track record with finding that's
Speaker 1: a prize team that's going to suddenly shock everybody.
Speaker 2: Well, he is a first year coach, so maybe that
Speaker 2: gives him a little bit of a cushion there to
Speaker 2: protect him from any sort of you know, curse or
Speaker 2: anything you might have going on. I also thought about
Speaker 2: a first year coach and someone who we've talked about
Speaker 2: a lot on the show, Rahiem Morris. Oh, but at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, I think I'm going to
Speaker 2: go with Dimigo Ryans, who I think the.
Speaker 1: Tech What better could they do than last year. Last
Speaker 1: year was the year he would have won it, and
Speaker 1: he didn't win it. Stefanski won it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that the Texans still have room
Speaker 2: to grow on defense, which is a place that he
Speaker 2: will really make himself known. And I think that they
Speaker 2: they've got room to grow there. So I do really
Speaker 2: think they can continue this ascent. They're not just like
Speaker 2: a young, little upstart team. They've got these vets are
Speaker 2: really there to perform well for them, and I think
Speaker 2: this year we get a continuation. He keeps that momentum
Speaker 2: going and he gets like he gets award that's also
Speaker 2: a little bit for last year, but also you kept
Speaker 2: going this year. Here's the catch with.
Speaker 1: That, And anyone who picks like Dan Campbell or on
Speaker 1: the floor like last year was the big bump. Anything
Speaker 1: short of like the one seed and like a dominant
Speaker 1: season for these guys, it's hard. Usually like giving Coach
Speaker 1: of the Year to the guys who surprise and shock
Speaker 1: or who come out of nowhere in the first year.
Speaker 1: So I would say, yes, he might be the best coach,
Speaker 1: but odds are against anything short of Houston going like
Speaker 1: fifteen to two, them suddenly giving to Miko the award.
Speaker 2: That might give a little indication of what my future
Speaker 2: thoughts of Houston are too.
Speaker 1: Okay, So all right, all right, so let's get into
Speaker 1: it now. We get into the nitty gritty. Let's get
Speaker 1: in to our playoff teams. I'll do my AFC, you
Speaker 1: do your AFC. I'll do my NFC, you do your NFC.
Speaker 1: How we're gonna do it is this. We're gonna give
Speaker 1: our four division champions in order you see them, see them. Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: So as you know playoffs, the four division champions are
Speaker 1: always the top four seeds, no matter what the wild
Speaker 1: card records are, and the first team has a buy
Speaker 1: the next three host playoff games in the wild card round,
Speaker 1: and then we go from there, no further ado. I
Speaker 1: kind of did this spiel on Good Morning Football. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do it again. I want to talk to my
Speaker 1: boy Danny Glazer in Tribeca, my boy Eric Ziff in Tribeca,
Speaker 1: my guys the band Chicks, one in Tribeca, one out
Speaker 1: there in Long Island. I'll talk to my to my
Speaker 1: friends in Freehold, New Jersey, Matthew Nay and Joshua Levin
Speaker 1: and all these guys. And I want to talk about
Speaker 1: all people on the street that I see, everyone who
Speaker 1: I've come across who is a die hard fan of
Speaker 1: the New York Jets, and I want to tell them
Speaker 1: to take a deep breath, exhale, take out that coheba,
Speaker 1: you know, cigar, and enjoy a dream season. It's okay
Speaker 1: to believe in the New York Jets. I've got the
Speaker 1: New York Jets as the number one seed in the AFC,
Speaker 1: and I have them having a buy in the first
Speaker 1: round of the playoffs. It's a little bit on a ledge,
Speaker 1: you know what. The more I thought about it, I
Speaker 1: really like this team. I really like a lot of teams,
Speaker 1: but this one. I felt like there's something special about
Speaker 1: how quiet they've been and how many haters there have
Speaker 1: been this summer, Like the amount of fake Rogers BS
Speaker 1: stories that I've seen come out that it's been like discord,
Speaker 1: Like I don't see it, I don't hear it, and
Speaker 1: I'm there, like I actually go to the practice and
Speaker 1: then I actually called the games and actually talked to
Speaker 1: the coaches, like I would think that maybe I wouldn't
Speaker 1: publicly say like, oh, Rogers's been a real tough cookie
Speaker 1: this year, or Rogers and Sala aren't getting along, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't maybe necessarily come and broadcast that. But I certainly
Speaker 1: wouldn't put my name on the Jets if I felt
Speaker 1: that was true. So I'm going to say the Jets
Speaker 1: are my one seed in the AFC. My two seed
Speaker 1: are the Kansas City Chiefs. Say no more. I think
Speaker 1: they loaded up. I think they're going to be better
Speaker 1: than they were a last regular season when they were
Speaker 1: a five seed. Have to win two road playoff games
Speaker 1: to get to this. Well, three's the Ravens, all right again.
Speaker 1: Best team in the AFC North in my eyes. They
Speaker 1: got Derek Henry. I think there were some big losses,
Speaker 1: including McDonald and the three offensive linemen that were all veterans.
Speaker 1: That they're losing. Number four is a shocker. Number four,
Speaker 1: I've got the Jacksonville Jaguars winning the AFC South. I
Speaker 1: don't have the Texans. I want to zag a little bit.
Speaker 1: I like the Texans, but I feel like the Jaguars
Speaker 1: had a really down year with a lot of bad
Speaker 1: things happen to them. But like coming into the season,
Speaker 1: the Jags were a hot team at one point and
Speaker 1: then it all fell apart once Trevor Lawrence's ankle went
Speaker 1: to put I've got the Jags as my four, my
Speaker 1: three wild cards. And as I say this, remember here
Speaker 1: are teams we have not mentioned. The Bengals, the Browns,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, the Bills. We haven't mentioned the Texans. We
Speaker 1: haven't mentioned the Broncos, haven't mentioned the Raiders, the Chargers,
Speaker 1: the Steelers, we haven't mentioned the Patriots. Like there's here's
Speaker 1: the beauty of this or the misery of this when
Speaker 1: you do playoff predictions and not just ah, my super
Speaker 1: Bowl pick this year is this. Oh, but I love
Speaker 1: every team like you gotta put your name on it.
Speaker 1: I said this on Chris Russo Show today, like every
Speaker 1: show is like, here's my super Bowl pick. But for
Speaker 1: the last three weeks they've been saying I really like
Speaker 1: the Cardinals.
Speaker 2: I really like it.
Speaker 1: I actually, I actually really think that this is the
Speaker 1: year the Falcons are a sneaky pick. We gotta put
Speaker 1: your name on it. And when you actually name the
Speaker 1: playoff teams, eighteen teams don't go, only fourteen go. So
Speaker 1: as I say this, here are my three Aaron the
Speaker 1: five seed from the great state of New York, from
Speaker 1: the wonderful city of Buffalo. I've got the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: It's the five seed at the sixth seed in Sean Payton.
Speaker 1: I trust he's got a full year now with his guys,
Speaker 1: and he's already completely transformed this roster with George Peyton
Speaker 1: his colleague. I'm going way out on a limb. I've
Speaker 1: got the Denver Broncos as a sixth seed, meaning I've
Speaker 1: got them winning big games, and I've got them beating
Speaker 1: the Chiefs in some instances, in beating the Chargers and
Speaker 1: beating the Raiders, and of course having to win big
Speaker 1: games against opponents that are really good. And my seventh team,
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins still on the board, and the Steelers
Speaker 1: still on the board, and the Bengals still on the board,
Speaker 1: and the Browns still on the board, and your Houston
Speaker 1: Texans still on the board, I'm going with the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Chargers as my seventh team, and I have Texans
Speaker 1: missing the playoffs. Sorry, I just is what it is.
Speaker 1: Bengals missing the playoffs, Browns missing the playoffs, and maybe
Speaker 1: the craziest of all, to the reaction that I got
Speaker 1: when I first said this, I have the Dolphins missing
Speaker 1: the playoffs after what was a summer's worth of just
Speaker 1: Super Bowl hype and paying Tua and paying Tyreek and
Speaker 1: everyone going all in on the Dolphins. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't like how it ended last year, and I
Speaker 1: know they had injuries. I just I don't feel like
Speaker 1: what they ended on last year, that Tua was like
Speaker 1: this guy who's gonna suddenly go into the playoffs and
Speaker 1: win a bunch of games. I win a bunch of
Speaker 1: games late in the season. I still don't. I have
Speaker 1: to see it to believe it. They lost that Week
Speaker 1: eighteen game and then they lost in the playoffs in
Speaker 1: what was just you know, blah fashion to the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: So those are my seven in descending order again, will
Speaker 1: do it? Jets? Your one, Chiefs, Ravens, Jaguars, five Bills,
Speaker 1: six Broncos, seven Chargers. Aaron wan Kaufman, your thoughts.
Speaker 2: Big on the AFC West. I mean, I think anytime
Speaker 2: you're looking at this, it's going to be really easy
Speaker 2: to want to throw three teams in from a single spot.
Speaker 2: And you know it's tough. We haven't we haven't even
Speaker 2: mentioned the Chargers yet. And and like their entire coaching change,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, their whole rebranding. I mean, that's that's an
Speaker 2: exciting one. I think. You know, it's funny when I
Speaker 2: look at your list versus my list, you are so
Speaker 2: tuned in with coaches and with the the front office
Speaker 2: and what you're hearing from them, Whereas to me, it's
Speaker 2: like I consume you know, different kinds of media, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, who, who who do the Chargers have
Speaker 2: as a weapon anymore? Like, I don't know if I
Speaker 2: can pick them to go that high and to take
Speaker 2: out teams that have legitimately incredible weapons on offense. So
Speaker 2: that's the one I think is almost the spiciest. I
Speaker 2: do think the Denver take is spicy one too.
Speaker 1: How about Okay, let's get to yours. I always value
Speaker 1: your opinions as well. Let's hear all right. So I
Speaker 1: have the one seed of Kansas City. I think this
Speaker 1: is the kind of thing until proven otherwise, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna not ever going to doubt Kansas City at Mahomes
Speaker 1: and Andy Reid and the two seed I have Houston.
Speaker 2: I do really think that there's a lot of room
Speaker 2: for them. And I you know, I saw what Diggs
Speaker 2: did for Bills. Yeah, and if he can, if he
Speaker 2: can elevate Stroud just a little bit, that's amazing. Nico
Speaker 2: Collins is great, Tank Dell could be the best of
Speaker 2: all three of them. Who knows the three seed I
Speaker 2: have Baltimore similar to you, and for the four seed,
Speaker 2: I have to stick with Buffalo, So I'm keeping.
Speaker 1: The Bills Buffalo another as title.
Speaker 2: Yep, and then wild card I have Jacksonville. At five,
Speaker 2: we both have the Jacks. Also, I also think that
Speaker 2: they had a really unlucky season last year. And look,
Speaker 2: I think Trevor Lawrence has it and we just haven't
Speaker 2: really seen it. He had a good second year, but
Speaker 2: he hasn't had like the elevation from that, and I
Speaker 2: think we could see that this year, and I'd be
Speaker 2: really excited to see that a team that you didn't have.
Speaker 2: For six, I have the Cleveland Brown.
Speaker 1: Okay, good.
Speaker 2: I still think that the talent on that team is
Speaker 2: standing Judy. They they have obviously some questions, but I
Speaker 2: think that they could make.
Speaker 1: On paper there as good as anybody. And Watson should
Speaker 1: be a significant upgrade from Joe Flacco, just objectively, And
Speaker 1: yet I don't feel like that's necessarily the case. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I got to see it, Yeah, they got
Speaker 1: to see it.
Speaker 2: And and and at seven, I have the Jets because
Speaker 2: I do think you know, I mean, you don't. You
Speaker 2: can't predict health or injury. But with this team, if
Speaker 2: they're the conversation for everyone is if they're healthy. Another
Speaker 2: team that just has an incredible amount of talent. That
Speaker 2: defense has been consistent, which is very difficult. And god,
Speaker 2: if you know, if Mike Williams could be a half
Speaker 2: of what he used to be for Rogers and Rogers
Speaker 2: can be eighty percent of what he knows MVP season
Speaker 2: Like whoa right? And Breeze Hall?
Speaker 1: You know, is the all these guys here's the thing?
Speaker 1: Right the Jets? Yeah, all these guys did that last year.
Speaker 1: They won I think seven games with no quarterback. They
Speaker 1: had twenty different offensive linemen. Like it's real. Like, if
Speaker 1: you just tell me that Rogers is out there, it
Speaker 1: it's the great deodorant. Like I think they might win
Speaker 1: Week one in San Francisco. That's how confident I am them.
Speaker 1: I think they're really good. Here's what's interesting. Neither of us,
Speaker 1: neither of us, if I'm not mistaken, tell me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. Neither of us took the Bengals to make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Is it the Burrow injury stuff? Because he's
Speaker 1: apparently healthy.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think there's got to be some concern
Speaker 2: with a guy who has kind of had to remake
Speaker 2: his throwing motion a little bit multiple times so early
Speaker 2: in his career. This might just be purely off vibes,
Speaker 2: but I don't like I love seeing the bleach blonde hair.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that instills confidence in me, like
Speaker 2: this guy's ready to go out and get it. I
Speaker 2: love the look, but I don't know if that's making
Speaker 2: me think like, oh, they're hungry for it. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that's I don't have them because of that. I think
Speaker 2: I am concerned with Burrow.
Speaker 1: All right. So you have the Jaguars and Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: is the playoff team, but you also don't have the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: do you?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I I Hey, I'm a huge to a fan. I
Speaker 2: would love him to above all else stay safe and
Speaker 2: keep you know, proving people wrong that he's that he
Speaker 2: is a really top tier quarterback at some point. I
Speaker 2: just have They are so exciting in the beginning and
Speaker 2: they just never last. And I don't know if that's
Speaker 2: going to change.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, NFC, shall we let's do it. The
Speaker 1: one seed in the NFC are the Detroit Lions. Steamroll
Speaker 1: through this regular season harder schedule than last year with
Speaker 1: the first place schedule. I just think they're really good.
Speaker 1: All the hype, like they lived up to it last year,
Speaker 1: and I think they're better this year, and they're healthier
Speaker 1: than they were at the end of last season when
Speaker 1: they were playing great football. There's a very good arguments
Speaker 1: we made that they should have won that NFC Championship
Speaker 1: game up what they were in San Francisco, and they
Speaker 1: just could not close. What happens with the young teams
Speaker 1: as you get older and you learn to close and
Speaker 1: you get over the hump. I think they're gonna learn
Speaker 1: to close out a lot of these games, some that
Speaker 1: they lost at the end of last year. That's your
Speaker 1: one seed. Two seed. I have a shocker. I got
Speaker 1: the Rams over the Niners. The vibes of the Niners
Speaker 1: just off right now. I think from Afar, like, what
Speaker 1: do I know. Maybe they come out and they're fifteen
Speaker 1: to two and it's like, everyone shut up, We're the
Speaker 1: best team in the conference on paper. Of course, the
Speaker 1: Niners and they went to Super Bowl last year. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm zigging what everyone else's zagging. I'm going Rams to
Speaker 1: two seed. I was at practice. It might be a
Speaker 1: recency bias. I'm in La I see a lot of
Speaker 1: this stuff. I just feel like the vibes are right
Speaker 1: with the Rams under the radar. No one's talking about them.
Speaker 1: I think they are a surprise two seed, three seed
Speaker 1: Atlanta pains me because I really like Tampa Bay and
Speaker 1: they brought everyone back and they're like, we could do
Speaker 1: it again. I've got Atlanta. They just added so much,
Speaker 1: whether it be Kirk Cousins or Justin Simmons or just
Speaker 1: the head coach and the offensive coordinator a being different.
Speaker 1: I will say this and I'll break the fourth wall
Speaker 1: within seconds. I picked Atlanta on Good Morning Football. Got
Speaker 1: a text from a very high ranking Buccaneers official with
Speaker 1: just a visual of a receipt, so people listen, people
Speaker 1: watch it. I just like groveling, like.
Speaker 2: I really like your team.
Speaker 1: I just thinking, you know, in week seven, if you
Speaker 1: look and it's like that was it. There was no
Speaker 1: back and forth. I was like sixteen texts in a row.
Speaker 1: It's like when a you know, I never had this happen,
Speaker 1: but if a girl was to catch you cheating, and
Speaker 1: then like on text, you're just like texting back and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, and there's just no response,
Speaker 1: like that's what this was. But I am not swayed.
Speaker 1: I will stick with the Falcons the fourth seed. I
Speaker 1: went Eagles in the East, though also not feeling one
Speaker 1: hundred percent about that team after what was a weird offseason.
Speaker 1: You know, on paper, you're like, all right, they added Saquon,
Speaker 1: they added Quiney on Mitchell, they added Cooper dejene like,
Speaker 1: they added all these great players, and then you know,
Speaker 1: everything you hear is like there might have been disconnects
Speaker 1: between the coaching the quarterback and then you've got two
Speaker 1: new coordinators. That does that always work out? Still got
Speaker 1: them winning the East over the Cowboys, which leads to
Speaker 1: our wild card teams. The number five seed in the NFC,
Speaker 1: I am going with the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: They might not win the division, but there ain't missing
Speaker 1: the playoffs. It's not going to be a total collapse,
Speaker 1: you know. If anything, I think it might just take
Speaker 1: them a couple of weeks out of the gates. It
Speaker 1: was a really, really weird offseason with the Ayuk situation
Speaker 1: and the Trent Williams situation. Look, I don't want to
Speaker 1: make this very serious, but like what happened with Ricky
Speaker 1: Piersoll is a crazy, crazy situation and that like that,
Speaker 1: that's something that has to be addressed to the team.
Speaker 1: And he was also their first round pick and now
Speaker 1: he's dealing with that. So look, they could go like
Speaker 1: I said, sixteen and one, fifteen to two, and I'll
Speaker 1: just say I was wrong. I'm not. They're not missing
Speaker 1: the playoffs. They're in the mix. They're going to be
Speaker 1: in the mix in January. I just got the Rams
Speaker 1: having the division this year, the sixth seed. I'm going
Speaker 1: with my coach of the year and the Seahawks. I
Speaker 1: already did the pitch about why I'm excited about them
Speaker 1: and the seven I like lost sleep last night over
Speaker 1: three different teams here, the Buccaneers, who I don't have
Speaker 1: making it. And then it was like, all right, if
Speaker 1: I'm putting the Seahawks in and I got the Eagles
Speaker 1: winning that division, I got the Lions winning that division,
Speaker 1: there's an odd team out here. So it was Packers
Speaker 1: or Cowboys. Packers are Cowboys, and I went with the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers as the seventh seed over the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: So the Cowboys out of the playoffs entirely in my eyes.
Speaker 1: The Buccaneers miss it as well, but Dallas missing the
Speaker 1: playoffs after having one of the best regular seasons scoring
Speaker 1: wise last year, And I don't know, I just there's
Speaker 1: too many questions in the vibes and the vibes, guy,
Speaker 1: I don't know if the vibes feel like Super Bowl
Speaker 1: right now. Maybe I'm wrong. I always couldn't be wrong,
Speaker 1: but I am not taking the Cowboys as a playoff team.
Speaker 1: And guess what, I stood up there a national television
Speaker 1: sident and I'm taking a beating online and it's not
Speaker 1: great when you're on television and ratings matter, and we
Speaker 1: choose not to pick the Cowboys. But I just feel
Speaker 1: like there's a lot of good teams in the NFC,
Speaker 1: and I don't have them winning the division and I
Speaker 1: don't have them having a good enough record to be
Speaker 1: a wildcard. Aaron, your thoughts.
Speaker 2: The Cowboys omission is a shock, But really the thing
Speaker 2: that made me visibly like my jaw dropped when you
Speaker 2: had Atlanta had three really really division.
Speaker 1: I think that division is winnable, like the Saints and
Speaker 1: the Panthers. I don't know, like that's a quick you
Speaker 1: know whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, I think that it's just it's it's
Speaker 2: funny to think of that team that is in a division,
Speaker 2: Like you said, that's so winnable, and yet last year
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay beat them out for it. And yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean picking them at three is is you are more
Speaker 2: brave than I.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get your picks and then let's dissect
Speaker 1: them with a fine tooth comb and then we'll wrap
Speaker 1: this sucker up. All right, Aaron, your seven playoff picks,
Speaker 1: including your one seed that gets a bye in the
Speaker 1: first round. Mine was the Lions. What about you?
Speaker 2: My number one is the Lions. I really yeah. I
Speaker 2: think you pointed it out. There are a lot of
Speaker 2: great teams here in the NFC, and the Lions seem
Speaker 2: to be the only one that has both an incredible
Speaker 2: wealth of talent as well as positive vibes like there's
Speaker 2: there's just good things going on right now with Detroit,
Speaker 2: and so I have them as an easy number one.
Speaker 2: At number two, despite the contract issues, despite the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl hangover, I have the forty nine ers. I think
Speaker 2: they could get off to a slow start. You know,
Speaker 2: we got CMC was injured earlier and UK wasn't practicing.
Speaker 2: You know what doesn't matter. They just restructure debo They're
Speaker 2: They're a great team.
Speaker 1: They're the Niners. They're the team of the generation in
Speaker 1: this conference, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean number three, I have the Eagles.
Speaker 2: I think that another team that just has an incredible
Speaker 2: wealth of talent and let's get into the season. Anything
Speaker 2: that may have been, you know, Jason Kelsey coming out
Speaker 2: and saying it just wasn't a good hang in the
Speaker 2: locker room, like we'll see, let's let's get on the
Speaker 2: field and everyone remember what you're doing here. I think
Speaker 2: that they're gonna be okay, okay. And at four, I
Speaker 2: have Atlanta, so I do South. Yeah, wild card is
Speaker 2: a little mixed up from yours. I have green Bay
Speaker 2: first or as the fifth seed. I'm really excited for
Speaker 2: green Bay and I think that they they uh, I
Speaker 2: don't know. In some yeah, in some ways, green Bay's
Speaker 2: like the NFC version of the Texans, where we have
Speaker 2: this quarterback who really showed out last year with young receivers,
Speaker 2: has an up and coming defense. So I'm excited about
Speaker 2: green Bay. At number six, I have the Rams, another
Speaker 2: team that you know, they they sort of in some
Speaker 2: ways mimic the Jets for me, and that you've got
Speaker 2: some fragility to it, but when it's working and firing
Speaker 2: on all cylinders, the pieces of that are incredible. And
Speaker 2: Cooper cup did had a bit of a down year.
Speaker 1: Last He's gonna be back this year.
Speaker 2: He's amazing. He's an amazing player. He's going to be
Speaker 2: so good again. And then at number seven, I have Dallas,
Speaker 2: all right, I yeah, so I picked I mean, I
Speaker 2: picked Lamb and I picked Parsons for you know, offensive
Speaker 2: and defensive players of the Year, because I do think
Speaker 2: they're going to do well. I don't think they're necessarily
Speaker 2: going to have any success in the playoffs, but I
Speaker 2: think they're going to get there.
Speaker 1: All right. So we have very similar similar as teams
Speaker 1: in the NFC. Neither of us have the Buccaneers. Neither
Speaker 1: of us went with the Bears, which is a hot
Speaker 1: pick right now, and neither of us went way off
Speaker 1: the board with something crazy as like the Vikings or
Speaker 1: the Cardinals or anything like that. Our only difference was
Speaker 1: Cowboys for you, Seahawks for me. The seedings are different.
Speaker 1: So now I need you to work for the next
Speaker 1: forty eight hours and preparing your Super Bowl pick. So
Speaker 1: take some time figure out your sup rollo pick. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give my but let's leave it here as we
Speaker 1: finished this at four pm Pacific on Tuesday, seven pm
Speaker 1: Eastern Tuesday your time. I'm such a mess. I literally
Speaker 1: am seeing like stars in my eyes right now. And
Speaker 1: it's day two of a week that I'm here through Sunday.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna get this sleep in order. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go to bed after this. I might have my my
Speaker 1: dinner at the chain restaurant across the store. I'm excited
Speaker 1: for the chain Restaurant'm not gonna lie. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna fore bro dinner for one with a book. I'm
Speaker 1: listening to an audio book, uh, the book about Mike
Speaker 1: Nichols by the great writer Mark Harris, which is fascinating.
Speaker 1: Mike Nichols of course, The Graduate and so many other
Speaker 1: films and a legendary guy, and like, I love listening
Speaker 1: to that kind of stuff. Yeah. No, I'm not listening
Speaker 1: to sports stuff. I'm listening to the The Almanac. Note
Speaker 1: I'm listening to that.
Speaker 2: If you do want a good audio book, the please
Speaker 2: sports related. There's a really good biography of this NFL legend,
Speaker 2: Bo Williams.
Speaker 1: Bo Williams went in the fourteenth round of some draft
Speaker 1: in like you know whatever. I don't even want to
Speaker 1: reveal where it was, but yeah, didn't talk to this
Speaker 1: guy for a year and my last Texas from the
Speaker 1: draft last year he had where he's like, got any sleepers?
Speaker 1: Hits me up again? Oh my, gott any sleepers? Like,
Speaker 1: I'm not some booty call for your fantasy football draft.
Speaker 1: You get Bo Williams and you get whatever disease comes
Speaker 1: with him. That's what you're good. All right, Thanks, that's it.
Speaker 1: On that note, we'll have another pod coming out I
Speaker 1: think Thursday. But I appreciate everyone listening. Aaron, You're the
Speaker 1: man for hopping on and doing this. I'm delirious. Let's
Speaker 1: get out of here. Enjoy week one. We'll talk to
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