1 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: Welcome in. We'll driving the great Episode four fifteen. This 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: episode has always is presented to you by our great 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: friends at boost Mobile. We are on the precipice of 4 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: my favorite sports weekend of the year, NFL Divisional Round weekend, 5 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: typically four absolutely unbelievable games. Usually you have at least 6 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: six of the best eight teams in the league over 7 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 1: the course of the season playing this weekend. This year, 8 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,840 Speaker 1: one could argue you have all eight of the eight 9 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 1: best teams in the league playing this weekend, with the 10 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: one exception being my Jags not making it. But I 11 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 1: don't know who you'd put them over, the Bills who 12 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,279 Speaker 1: just beat them, the Texans, maybe the Niners in their 13 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: current form. Whatever it is. Basically, all the right teams 14 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: are playing and I can't wait to get to it. 15 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: We also have coaching news from overnight and from since 16 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 1: we last talk, so let's get right to it. We'll 17 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: go to straight the voicemail brought to you by our 18 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: friends at boost Mobile. Anthony Davis evidently out weeks and 19 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: not months with a hand injury, not gonna have surgery. 20 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 1: Yanna's booed by the Bucks fans, and then greats back 21 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: that you're saying the fans. 22 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 2: Are ungrateful, grateful. 23 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, here's here's the thing on that quickly, I don't 24 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,759 Speaker 1: I know Yannis took it as if they were booing him. 25 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: I don't think they were booing him. I think they 26 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: were booing the twenty twenty six Milwaukee Bucks. And I 27 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: think that part of their frustration is that that team 28 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:47,199 Speaker 1: can be that bad despite having Yannis. But it sure 29 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: seems like that relationship has run or is, you know, 30 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: run its course, and that it could be the best 31 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 1: for all parties to move on. But that was a 32 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: I didn't like any of that. Yan looked really sad 33 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: on the bench, and then afterwards he was like, I 34 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: always boo when I get booed, but those are road games, 35 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: Like I don't know. Also, just now, Jonathan Kaminga demanded 36 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: a trade. That's he's never been happy there. And the 37 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 1: really cool one point Slam sixty four person tennis tournament 38 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: winner gets a million bucks. They played one point each 39 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 1: game and an amateur ended up winning the whole thing. 40 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: He beat Center in the round of sixteen because Center faulted, 41 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 1: and then beat a young lady when she hit it 42 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: out on in the championship. He won a million bucks. 43 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: I actually watched that. It was pretty sick. Demons, how are. 44 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 2: You, Cinema. I'm good. I'm doing pretty good this morning. 45 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: No complaints right after you, either on the air or 46 00:02:54,800 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: off the air. Last recording mentioned some stupid Twitter meme 47 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: about like four pictures one picture or whatever, and all 48 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: of us were like, we don't We weren't really familiar 49 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:12,239 Speaker 1: with what you were talking about. And you said, well, 50 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 1: maybe this I'm showing my own immaturity or something. This 51 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: is my algorithm. Yeah, the White House did one, so 52 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: I don't know. Man, We're just living in the dumbest timeline. Reminder, 53 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: everybody like rate, subscribe review to the show again, the 54 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: thumbs up, the hitting the bells on YouTube is helpful, 55 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: get leaving us a nice review. We appreciate that. But 56 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: what literally pays the bills are the subscriptions. And the 57 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: cool thing about the subscriptions to this is it's totally free. 58 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: So if you would subscribe on YouTube, it would be 59 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 1: greatly appreciated. Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify, it would be 60 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: greatly appreciated. All right, let's get to the overnight news 61 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: of John Harball going to the Giants. 62 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 2: John Harbaugh agreed to go to the Giants last night, 63 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 2: and a little bit before that, and shortly after our 64 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 2: last show, Tomlin had stepped down as the Steelers coach. 65 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 2: We'll talk about that in a little moment, But what 66 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 2: do you think about Harble going over to the Giants. 67 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: I I don't say this often, but I totally agree 68 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 1: with Dan Orlovsky. This is the best thing to happen 69 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: to the Giants since they won the Super Bowl. They 70 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 1: sincerely there are There are two things now. There are 71 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 1: three things that really matter in the NFL to being 72 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: a perennial contender and avoiding being a perennial laughing stock. 73 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: The first one is avoid having atrocious ownership. So the 74 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: Giant Stadium mates the Jets, they just have atrocious ownership 75 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,280 Speaker 1: that will always be in their way. I think the 76 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: Browns have atrocious ownership that will always be in their way. 77 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: The Giants have had one of those three kind of 78 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: benchmarks down and they have good to very good ownership 79 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: in the Maras. The second thing you need is a legitimate, 80 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 1: true professional head coach. They now have that for the 81 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: first time since Tom Coughlin. Obviously the third leg of 82 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 1: that stool. If you will is the quarterback. I don't 83 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: think they have that, but maybe they do, and if not, 84 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: you'll see how you can paper it together while you 85 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,480 Speaker 1: try to find the quarterback. But if ownership will stay 86 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 1: out of the way and you have a legitimate head coach, 87 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 1: once you have the quarterback in place, you can instantly contend. 88 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 1: The Bears and Patriots are showing you that right now. 89 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: That and I've said this before, I will say it again. 90 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: If you have the right coach and the right quarterback, 91 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 1: the rebuild is somewhat instant. And if you have had 92 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 1: the same coaching quarterback for two years, not four years, 93 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: not six years, two years, and the team is not 94 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: competing at the very least where playoffs are the expectation, 95 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 1: then you don't have the right coach or you don't 96 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 1: have the right quarterback. There are no instances of awesome coach, 97 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: awesome quarterback, but it took us four years to get 98 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: it together. That flatly doesn't happen. And so the Giants 99 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: got the best coach that was truly available. And I 100 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: say that because I don't think Tomlin is truly available. 101 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: I think Tomlin's going to take a year off and 102 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: survey the landscape because none of these jobs are great jobs. 103 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: I ranked him on the TV show yesterday, but nine 104 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: to one the way I had it. Let me pull 105 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: up my exact list. Number nine was the Browns because 106 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: of that ownership problem, because of the cap issues created 107 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: by the Watson contract, and because they don't have a quarterback. 108 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: Number eight is the Titans. To me, now, if you 109 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: love cam Ward, then that job moves up the list. 110 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: But even if you love cam Ward, they only have 111 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 1: one other player on the roster you could love in 112 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: Jeff Simmons. And ever since Amy Adams Strunk took over, 113 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: they have just been a revolving door of front offices. 114 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 1: They move off for abel that it's been a disaster. 115 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: Number seven's the Dolphins, again no quarterback. They have not 116 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: had a head coach there since Don Shula, lasts longer 117 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: than four years, and they're in a rough cap position. 118 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 1: The Cardinals I put it six because I think it's 119 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: a very tough division and they don't have the quarterback. 120 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 1: The Falcons are an interesting one, super soft division have 121 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 1: won seven or eight games each of the last in 122 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 1: seven of the eight last years. They do have some talent, 123 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 1: and I don't think Blank's a terrible owner, so that 124 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: you know it makes that a decent job. I put 125 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: the Giants at four. They've got money, They've got a 126 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: D line, they might have a quarterback. I'm skeptical, but 127 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: that also is a I think not the hardest division. 128 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 1: The Raiders. I put a three purely because I think 129 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: if you believe in Mendoza, that number one pick plus 130 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 1: the fact that, uh, you have a ton of money 131 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: to spend makes that somewhat attractive. But that to me 132 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: feels like a better job for a young, offensive minded 133 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 1: guy that wants to grow with Mendoza than sixty two 134 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: year old John Harbaugh. Now the flip side of that is, well, 135 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: the Raiders don't mind paying coaches. The Raiders since Art Shell, 136 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: which was nineteen ninety four. In the last thirty years, 137 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 1: they have had two head coaches get more than three 138 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: get at least three years, Jack del Rio and John 139 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 1: Gruden twice, and they have had a dozen other coaches 140 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: get less than three years. So they will that Hamster 141 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 1: will will spin. And then the Steelers two Ravens one. 142 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: Obviously Harball wasn't going to the Ravens. The Steelers, I 143 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: think that they were not going to hire a coach 144 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 1: his age, and because they want that coach to be 145 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:00,040 Speaker 1: there for fifteen some years ideally, And so I I 146 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: think Giants are a great job for him. I don't 147 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:08,959 Speaker 1: expect a snap contention, but I do think that all 148 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: of a sudden, the Giants could be a five hundred 149 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: ish team next year. I think that's a legitimate possibility. 150 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: And I want to see what Jackson Dart looks like. 151 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: Don't love Scataboo and Neighbors both coming off major injuries. 152 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: But this is a great day for Giants fans. Flatly, 153 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: this is probably the happiest you've been since the Boat 154 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: Party playoff game against the Packers with Odell and Eli 155 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: at the end of ELI. And it's the best day 156 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: for your franchise since you won a Super Bowl. All right, 157 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 1: let's talk a little Tomlin here, Demonsey. 158 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, so Reid is now the longest tenured coach over 159 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 2: there in camp the city. Do you think that Tomland's 160 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 2: potentially waiting to take over Kansas City? 161 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 1: So here's I don't think that necessarily, but I also 162 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:19,199 Speaker 1: don't think that's crazy. So the last head coach of 163 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: the Steelers was Bill Kauer. Bill Kwer left after fifteen years, 164 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 1: went to CBS and for about five consecutive coaching cycles. 165 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 1: Demonsey Bill Kauer was the number one candidate, and he 166 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:42,319 Speaker 1: never left the job. He's still doing TV on CBS. 167 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: He just stayed there. I do think it's on the 168 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: board that Tomlin goes and does TV and never stops. 169 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 1: And it's like, I can make I'm not making coaching 170 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 1: money doing this. I mean, he was making twenty five 171 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: million dollars a year reportedly from the Steelers, but I'm 172 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: making millions and millions of dollars for two percent of 173 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: the work. I love it. So I think it's on 174 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: the board. It wouldn't be my bet, but I think 175 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,839 Speaker 1: it's on the board that Tomlin does not coach again. 176 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 1: I think that's possible, okay, And because he's going to 177 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 1: have such a great job, he can be and because 178 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: he's young enough, he can be very choosy. So for 179 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin, my if I had to bet on the 180 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: next job for Mike Tomlin, my bet would be the 181 00:13:52,840 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles a year from now. I think that the 182 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: is a job that will come open in the next 183 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: few years, and that Tomlin that's a that's a great job, 184 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 1: so when we're thinking of it. So the reason I 185 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: don't think the Chiefs thing is a ludicrous idea is 186 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: because at some point during Patrick's career, Andy's going to retire, 187 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: and the moment that happens, that becomes one of the 188 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 1: greatest job openings of all time. Again, assuming Patrick comes back, well, 189 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 1: I mean Andy's older than you think, and so I 190 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: mean Andy is in two months he turned sixty eight. 191 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: So you know, again, the reason I think it's not 192 00:14:55,240 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: far fetched is because or not insane, is because I 193 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: could see Tomlin staying in TV for more than one year. 194 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: Sean Payton stayed for one year and then the Broncos 195 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: traded a pick to the Saints to get him. If 196 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: Tomlin comes back in the next two years, his team 197 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: would have to trade do some type of compensation with 198 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: the Steelers. I don't think the Steelers, they would throw 199 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: up too many roadblocks, but I could see. You just 200 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 1: got to think about what are great jobs that realistically 201 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: could come open. The Packers are a very good job, 202 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: and it looks like Lafleoor's, you know, a little tenuous 203 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: at the moment. The Eagles I expect to come open 204 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: the Bills at some point, let's see, let's see how 205 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: this year goes. And like the though, like McDermott is. 206 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 2: Is Baltimore, Like I know, we don't have a coach 207 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 2: right now, maybe we get a coach. 208 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: Does well, that's the thing. So I mean, I think 209 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: Baltimore is insane because it's open now. No, I just 210 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: think because it's open now and he's not Taeo. He's 211 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: not going there right right now. And so the what 212 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 1: I was saying about McDermott is McDermott's kind of on 213 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: the perma warm seat, and he could end that this 214 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: year they win the Super Bowl, he'll be the coach 215 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 1: there for probably the rest of Allen's career. Zach Taylor 216 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: and the Bengals. The problem there is, I don't know 217 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 1: that that's a good job, even though Joe Burrow is 218 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: awesome because of ownership and so you just you look around. 219 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: But my money would be that Mike Tomlin is going 220 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: to be the coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in a year. 221 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: That's where I that's where I would put my money. 222 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: But I don't think. I also, I think there is 223 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: a chance that in three years he's still doing TV 224 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 1: and he come and what pulls him away from that 225 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: is Andy Reid retiring. I think that's possible, all right, 226 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 1: I know you got one more follow up. 227 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:20,879 Speaker 2: Do you think this eliminates any chance of Rogers coming 228 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:22,639 Speaker 2: back or at least at the start of the season 229 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 2: for next year. 230 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 1: He's definitely certainly eliminates any chance of him coming back 231 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: to the Steelers, certain And I don't think Roger's gonna 232 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: be a Week one starter for anybody next year. I 233 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 1: still think he might play again, but it would be, 234 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 1: you know, a mid season edition after an injury. All Right, 235 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: Before we get to my favorite sports week end of 236 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:49,479 Speaker 1: the year, today's show is brought to you by our 237 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 1: presenting sponsor, hard Rock Bet. Miami's made the National Championship. 238 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: Hard Rock Stadium is gonna be rocking, And if you're 239 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,439 Speaker 1: going to the game, hard Rock Bet is giving you 240 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 1: a ten dollar bonus bet to get in on the action. 241 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,679 Speaker 1: If you're watching the game out in Miami, head to 242 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: the hard Rock Cafe, Miami, Duffies, North Miami Beach, American 243 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 1: Social Miami or Batch Brickle. Hard Rock Bet is dropping 244 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: ten dollars bonus bets there too. You can turn that 245 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,640 Speaker 1: free ten dollars bonus bet into a big win by 246 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: placing a same game parlay, or even if you're just 247 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,159 Speaker 1: watching the game at home. Soon no better place to 248 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: bet the National Championship than hard Rock Bet because it's 249 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: Florida's sportsbook and they're going crazy with promos for this one. 250 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: So if you're late to kickoff, don't worry. Hard Rock 251 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: Bet is live in game betting, so you're never too 252 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 1: late to the action. Find a winner, live bet between 253 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:43,880 Speaker 1: snaps and just fuse he taps. If you haven't tried 254 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 1: your first bet on hard rock Bet, there's still time 255 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: for you to get one hundred fifty dollars in bonus 256 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 1: bets if you win. Just place a five dollar bet 257 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:53,479 Speaker 1: and if it hits, you get not only your winnings, 258 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 1: but also an extra one hundred fifty dollars in bonus bets. 259 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: Even if your team is out of the playoffs, that 260 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 1: doesn't mean you have to see on the sidelines between 261 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: same game barlay's live betting. Can't miss welcome off for 262 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 1: a new promos dropping every day. Hard Rock Bet has 263 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 1: you covered all postseason along hard Rock Bet, Download the 264 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 1: hard rock Bet app and make your first deposit today. 265 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,640 Speaker 1: Payable and bonus bets, not a cash offer offered by 266 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: the Seminole Tribe of Florida. In Florida offered by Seminal 267 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:25,399 Speaker 1: Hard Rock Digital LLC and all other states, must be 268 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: twenty one plus and physically present in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, 269 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:35,400 Speaker 1: New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, or Virginia. To play. Terms and 270 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 1: conditions apply. Concerned about gambling in Florida, call one eight 271 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: three three play wise In Indiana. If you or someone 272 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: you know is a gambling problem wants help, call one 273 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,120 Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine with it. Gambling problem Call one 274 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:56,119 Speaker 1: eight hundred Gambler Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia. 275 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: All right, let's talk Rams. Bears, Demons. 276 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:03,719 Speaker 2: See your MVP Matthew Stafford escaped Carolina last week and 277 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 2: now they get to go and play the Spicy Bears 278 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 2: who keep getting these improbable wins. Do you think the 279 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 2: last week's game was too emotional of a too emotional 280 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 2: of output for Chicago Bears and the fans this week 281 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 2: to overcome I'm sorry. 282 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 1: No, You're fine. I mean I do think there is 283 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:31,360 Speaker 1: an element of that game validated their season, and there 284 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:36,920 Speaker 1: was such a catharsis from that stadium to come back 285 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 1: the way they did, to do it against that team, 286 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: the hated rival, And I don't I thought the state. 287 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 1: I thought the Bears crowd played a real factor in 288 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: the comeback, and I just don't know that I expect 289 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: the crowd to be a twelve out of ten again. 290 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 1: I also think that the Bears injuries during that game, 291 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: a banged up defense, losing another linebacker and the left 292 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,399 Speaker 1: tackle being out, maybe for next year as well, but 293 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: certainly the rest of this postseason. With a blown ACL, 294 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 1: they were already behind the eight ball here and now 295 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: I listen. I think people know how much I like 296 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:36,920 Speaker 1: the Bears, how much I like Caleb, and how impressed 297 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 1: I've been with Caleb's late game heroics. But I feel 298 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: like they're going up against the best team in the NFL, 299 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:51,880 Speaker 1: and I I think, Demonse, they are going to need 300 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 1: to score forty to win this game. I think the 301 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: Rams are going to be able to move the ball 302 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 1: at will against this Bears defense. I think what you 303 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:09,360 Speaker 1: saw Green Bay doing in the first half against the Bears, 304 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:11,959 Speaker 1: the Rams are going to be able to do the 305 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 1: entirety of the game, and I think Davante Adams now 306 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 1: knock some of the rust off in the last game, 307 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 1: he will be a bigger factor. Puka is simply unguardable, 308 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: and if I'm a Bears fan, I am just worried 309 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:33,920 Speaker 1: that it is. There are going to be guys running 310 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: wide open all throughout the game. And like what we 311 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:45,479 Speaker 1: saw in that game for the Packers, even in the 312 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 1: second half when who was the number six, oh, Kyler 313 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:55,879 Speaker 1: Gordon was getting picked on repeatedly. I think that Sean 314 00:22:55,960 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 1: McVeigh is going to a big red circle around Kyler 315 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 1: Gordon and hunt him. They probably can. The Rams have 316 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 1: enough weapons they can stay away from Jail and Johnson. 317 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 1: I don't know that the Bear's pass rush is going 318 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:18,679 Speaker 1: to be able to disturb Stafford that much because Stafford 319 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:24,639 Speaker 1: was Stafford was you know, pretty somewhere from pretty good 320 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:30,159 Speaker 1: to super exceptional in almost any scenario, but he was 321 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 1: unbeatable if you didn't get pressure on him. I don't 322 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,239 Speaker 1: know if they're gonna get pressure on him. And I 323 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 1: think this is a really tough game for Chicago. It 324 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: would be remarkable if they win it. If they win it. 325 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: They either are then hosting the Niners in a rematch 326 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 1: of the forty two thirty eight classic that we saw 327 00:23:55,840 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 1: in Week seventeen, except this one's in Chicago, or they're 328 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: going to Seattle feeling like we've got the better quarterback. 329 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: Let's see what the hell happens. 330 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 2: But if Carolina could score thirty one, they could score forty. Huh. 331 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 1: I actually don't think so. I think the Panthers game 332 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 1: was misleading on the overall quality of that Rams defense. 333 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:39,919 Speaker 1: And I also still don't totally understand how the Panthers 334 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 1: scored all the points they did. I the I mean, 335 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 1: Bryce threw for two sixty, but they only ran for eighty, 336 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 1: and it it was just good. 337 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 2: They scored that, literally, that exact same amount of point. 338 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,640 Speaker 2: It's the last time they played them, so I mean 339 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:04,920 Speaker 2: there's something. 340 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,360 Speaker 1: And the Rams. The Rams defense, after starting the year 341 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 1: off great, gave up thirty one to the Panthers, twenty 342 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,640 Speaker 1: to the Cardinals, twenty seven of the Falcons, thirty eight, 343 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: and overtime to the Seahawks, thirty four to the Lions. 344 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 1: As you mentioned, thirty one a couple weeks before that 345 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:28,440 Speaker 1: to the Panthers. The first time I think the Rams 346 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,400 Speaker 1: pass rush is going to have more of an impact 347 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 1: in this game with that injury to the Bears starting 348 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 1: left tackle again, I think kalab will play well. But 349 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 1: and again we'll do our pick show tomorrow, but this 350 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 1: feels like forty two to twenty seven to me. 351 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 2: Like I I know, I mean, I do believe the 352 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 2: offense is gonna be having for the Rams. I don't 353 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 2: think there are too many problems. 354 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:01,160 Speaker 1: I just yeah, I just don't. I don't know how 355 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 1: the Bears shut him is slow him down? Forget shut 356 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: him down, slowhim down. This would be a to me, 357 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 1: a remarkably impressive win. And the only way the Bears 358 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: win that I can see is if Caleb plays the 359 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: best game he's played as a prop. If you get 360 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:26,679 Speaker 1: late game Caleb for the entirety of the game, And 361 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,880 Speaker 1: I think that's just hard. It's a hard ask. 362 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 2: So you hinted at if Stafford retired out of the 363 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 2: NFC this this year, that Caleb would be the best 364 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,439 Speaker 2: quarterback in the NFC. How important is this head to 365 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 2: add matchup in that theory. 366 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 1: Well, I think that if he were to win this game, 367 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: some folks would argue he doesn't need Stafford to retire. 368 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,679 Speaker 1: He's just going into next year the best quarterback. But 369 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: I and I don't think Stafford's retiring, to be clear, 370 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:10,399 Speaker 1: But I right now would rather have Caleb than Dak 371 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:17,919 Speaker 1: or Jaden or Jalen Hurts or Jordan Love or Jared 372 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: Goff or Baker or Purty or Donald. The only guy 373 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,439 Speaker 1: in the conference that I would rather have as my 374 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: quarterback is Stafford. And I think that the only hole 375 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 1: in Caleb's game right now is accuracy on easy throws, 376 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 1: Like that's the one part of his game that is 377 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 1: below average at this point. And I'm gonna give him 378 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:58,920 Speaker 1: credit that from year one to year two, the biggest 379 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 1: thing he needed to improve on was not taking awful sacks, 380 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 1: and he fixed it. And then during from the beginning 381 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,439 Speaker 1: of year two to the end of year two, the 382 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: biggest thing he needed to improve on was the pre 383 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,400 Speaker 1: snap operation, getting out of the huddle on time, not 384 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: having these procedural penalties, and he fixed it. So now 385 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,679 Speaker 1: the biggest thing he needs to improve is that the 386 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 1: accuracy on what I would call simple passes. So I'm 387 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,399 Speaker 1: going to give him credit that he'll be able to 388 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: fix that. So I I, you know, I am as 389 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 1: bullish as one can be on Caleb, and I think 390 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: he's just scratching the surface on who he can be. 391 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the next game. 392 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 2: Uh, Niners and Seahawks face off of the third time 393 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 2: this year with the NFC Championship game on the line. 394 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 2: We know San Francisco has been played with injuries and 395 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 2: Darnold's teams to tense up in the bright lights. Which 396 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 2: one do you think is a bigger liability in this game? 397 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 1: I think it's the Niners injuries because I just I 398 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 1: don't think Donald is going to need to have a 399 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: huge game. I mean, these two teams have played twice, 400 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,479 Speaker 1: once in Week one, once in Week eighteen, and the 401 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: final scores were seventeen thirteen Niners in Week one and 402 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 1: thirteen to three Seahawks in Week eighteen. No George Kittle, 403 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 1: poor Christian McCaffrey just being run into the ground usage wise, 404 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 1: pardon me that Niners defense so incredibly banged up. I 405 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: think Seattle, as long as Donald doesn't truly melt down. 406 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: The rest edge is also so substantial for Seattle that 407 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 1: you know, getting having the buye versus the Niners playing 408 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:10,440 Speaker 1: Sunday a Sunday war into a Saturday game. This has 409 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: been a ten out of ten brilliant coaching season for 410 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan. But I feel like the end of the 411 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 1: road is this weekend and it would them in back 412 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: to back weeks, both games essentially without George Kittle. We'll 413 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: see about Pearce all this week, but last week they 414 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:46,479 Speaker 1: didn't have him. Going to the defending champion Eagles and 415 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 1: then going to Seattle and getting two wins would be 416 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 1: all time stuff for an underman team. And I think 417 00:30:55,120 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 1: Seattle has earned our respect. On their resume is they 418 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: beat the Jags, they beat the Texans, they beat the Rams, 419 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 1: they beat the Panthers, they beat the Niners. Their losses 420 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: are a two point loss to the Rams, a three 421 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: point loss to the Bucks, and a four point loss 422 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: in Week one to the Niners. So two of their 423 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,800 Speaker 1: three losses they played that team again later in the 424 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: year and beat them. That Rams loss, Darnold had five 425 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 1: turnovers and they were still right there. Or four turnovers, 426 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 1: I'm not sure. And I just think that Seattle is 427 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 1: too well rounded of a team, too healthy and too 428 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,760 Speaker 1: rested to lose this game. All right, What are your 429 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 1: follow ups here? 430 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 2: Did the committee hesitate or struggle at all to put 431 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 2: a team with a shaky quarterback atop the tiers? Yeah? 432 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 1: I mean, listen, Seattle has earned the right to be 433 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 1: considered the best team in football. 434 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, but if. 435 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 1: They play the Rams, I'll pick the Rams, and if 436 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: they play the Bills, I'll pick the Bills. I mean, so, 437 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: I see Seattle has earned the respect that they get 438 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 1: that that spot atop you know, everybody's power rankings. But 439 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 1: when push comes to shove, I'm not gonna there is 440 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 1: a level of trust I'm just not gonna be able 441 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 1: to have in a Donald Stafford playoff matchup or a 442 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 1: Donald Josh Allen Super Bowl matchup? What else you got here? 443 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,960 Speaker 2: So, Party, it sounds like you've kind of been changing 444 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 2: your tone a little bit on your thoughts on him. 445 00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 2: If he goes and balls out against his defense, are 446 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 2: you officially ready to give him a new conversation? 447 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 1: Well, listen, I the games and how you play in 448 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:14,320 Speaker 1: the games have to matter. And even though Party had 449 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,520 Speaker 1: those you know, one really bad and one kind of 450 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 1: bad pick against Philly, I thought, all things considered, that 451 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 1: was an impressive, gutsy performance by him. If he follows 452 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 1: that up and plays well and they beat the Seahawks, 453 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,600 Speaker 1: then of course then I have to I mean, I 454 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,479 Speaker 1: can't have. 455 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,240 Speaker 2: Where is he like top five? 456 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 1: He would I don't know. I don't know, but I 457 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 1: do know that I have been impressed impressed with how 458 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 1: he played that Seahawks game, not at the end of 459 00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,960 Speaker 1: the season, notwithstanding down the stretch of the season that 460 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 1: Seahawks game, it was a rough one for him in 461 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 1: nineteen or twenty seven for a buck twenty five and 462 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:15,120 Speaker 1: through the pick at the end, But I really liked 463 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:20,640 Speaker 1: his overall performance in that Eagles game, even though that 464 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,440 Speaker 1: pick near the end was really really bad. I thought 465 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:27,480 Speaker 1: the pastor McCaffrey was awesome. I thought his escapability and 466 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 1: scrambles were really important. I was impressed by him in 467 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:36,120 Speaker 1: that spot. Like the games, particularly playoff games, weigh very 468 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:41,000 Speaker 1: heavily in how I feel, and doing it shorthanded and 469 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:46,759 Speaker 1: undermanned is wildly impressive. All right, let's talk about the AFC, A. 470 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,360 Speaker 2: Team that you have not believed in whatsoever playing a 471 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 2: team that you have believed in through and through throughout 472 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,280 Speaker 2: the season, the Bills and the Broncos. Are you putting 473 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 2: the Broncos on fraud watching this game. 474 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:05,320 Speaker 1: I don't think the Broncos are frauds. I do think, however, 475 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:14,799 Speaker 1: that if they lose this game, there will be a 476 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:19,800 Speaker 1: lot of looking through their season with a fine toothed 477 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,960 Speaker 1: comb and the question being asked, how good were they really? 478 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:29,040 Speaker 1: And I think that'll be fair. They are playing a 479 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:33,760 Speaker 1: shorthanded Bills team, they are at home, they are healthy, 480 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 1: they had the bye, and this Broncos team that they 481 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:49,920 Speaker 1: had moments of wildly impressive play, but they also down 482 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:54,400 Speaker 1: the stretch of the season, they had one excellent game, 483 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:58,239 Speaker 1: the Packers game. They got blown out at home by 484 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:02,239 Speaker 1: the Jags. They're tied thirteen thirteen against what was left 485 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:07,080 Speaker 1: of the Chiefs. They are a two point conversion from 486 00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:11,000 Speaker 1: Josh Johnson away or was it Marioda, I don't remember 487 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: in that game who it was from losing to the Commanders. 488 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:20,719 Speaker 1: They beat the Raiders ten to seven. They beat the 489 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,560 Speaker 1: Texans eighteen fifteen in a game they knocked out CJ. 490 00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:29,520 Speaker 1: Stroud Jets. Game came down to a potential field goal 491 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:35,359 Speaker 1: at the end. They they their holy shit. Look at 492 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:40,440 Speaker 1: the Broncos moments this year were the twenty one straight 493 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:44,399 Speaker 1: points to come back against Philly back in early October 494 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 1: beaten the Cowboys forty four to twenty four. And that 495 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 1: Packer game when bow Nicks played out of his mind 496 00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,800 Speaker 1: and they beat the Packers thirty four to twenty six 497 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:03,000 Speaker 1: with you know, a late touchdown to ice the game 498 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 1: when it was twenty seven to twenty six. It's not 499 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:13,240 Speaker 1: that that's not nothing, and the fact that they found 500 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,759 Speaker 1: ways to win matters. But if they lose to buff 501 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,600 Speaker 1: Last year they played Buffalo in the playoffs, they started 502 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,400 Speaker 1: the game up seven nothing, they lost the game thirty 503 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:31,200 Speaker 1: one to seven. The Bills, you now have a banged 504 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:38,600 Speaker 1: up Bills team. If you are the team, your fans 505 00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:42,000 Speaker 1: and your coach more on him in a second, have 506 00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:46,799 Speaker 1: sworn you are all year, you'll win this game. I 507 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,640 Speaker 1: have major doubts about it. And if they don't win 508 00:37:50,719 --> 00:38:01,719 Speaker 1: this game, win there. I had this U Sorry, let 509 00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:07,920 Speaker 1: me pull it up real quick. When you add the 510 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:13,560 Speaker 1: one seed and you add all of these things kind 511 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:20,720 Speaker 1: of working for you and next year, demonse. The Denver 512 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:28,240 Speaker 1: Broncos play in no particular order, the Bills, the Rams, 513 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:35,440 Speaker 1: the Seahawks obviously, the Chiefs twice, the Chargers twice, the Niners, 514 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 1: the Jags, the Panthers, the which I get are a 515 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:43,560 Speaker 1: playoff team, not a great team. Of the playoff team. 516 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:49,840 Speaker 1: The Steelers, I'm leaving some. I left out one of 517 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:50,760 Speaker 1: their tough games. 518 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:52,440 Speaker 2: Oh, I mean I think that. 519 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:56,920 Speaker 1: Life can come like, yeah, life can come at you fast. 520 00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:03,640 Speaker 1: Now the and oh the oh I left The Patriots 521 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:13,160 Speaker 1: are another one, and so big difference in how we'll 522 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:17,480 Speaker 1: view the Broncos if they win this game and losing 523 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:22,440 Speaker 1: the conference championship game, Sir, obviously, anything past that make 524 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,960 Speaker 1: the super Bowl, win the super Bowl. It's a thirty 525 00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,319 Speaker 1: out of ten great season, but just winning the one 526 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:37,000 Speaker 1: playoff game, getting that the getting that monkey off your 527 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:45,960 Speaker 1: back is so important. And Sean Payton's been writing checks 528 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:50,920 Speaker 1: all year and up to an including this week when 529 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:54,120 Speaker 1: he was a total jerk to that reporter for asking 530 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:59,840 Speaker 1: about dra Greenlaw coming back for no reason whatsoever. I don't. 531 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,800 Speaker 1: I mean, a reporter asked him about dra Greenlaw attacking 532 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:07,759 Speaker 1: Downhill in the run game, and Trumpeton's like, what do 533 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:09,800 Speaker 1: you know about attacking downhill in the run game? You 534 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:14,320 Speaker 1: don't know anything about that. He's just when he feels 535 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:18,040 Speaker 1: like he's in the catbird seat, he doesn't appear to 536 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:22,719 Speaker 1: treat people that well and you win this game. You've 537 00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:24,920 Speaker 1: been talking all year about this team being a super 538 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:29,560 Speaker 1: Bowl caliber. Last year you said, had you not gotten 539 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:32,080 Speaker 1: curb stomped by the Bills, you thought you were gonna 540 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,000 Speaker 1: beat the Chiefs, the team that then went to the 541 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,360 Speaker 1: Super Bowl. You now have them in your building and 542 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,640 Speaker 1: you're rested, and the Bills have three receivers left. So 543 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:46,320 Speaker 1: we'll see again the Pick show tomorrow, but I'm leaning 544 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:50,600 Speaker 1: strongly Buffalo, and we'll talk more about the Bills side 545 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,640 Speaker 1: of things in tomorrow's show. Are you thinking about upgrading 546 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,520 Speaker 1: to the all new iPhone seventeen pro design to be 547 00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,680 Speaker 1: the most powerful iPhone ever, but you're also thinking about 548 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,839 Speaker 1: traffic on your way to the store, transferring all your data, 549 00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,520 Speaker 1: the hassle of all that. Good news. When you order 550 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,200 Speaker 1: a new phone online with boost Mobile, they'll send an 551 00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:10,719 Speaker 1: expert to your homer work to deliver your brand new 552 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,520 Speaker 1: iPhone seventeen Pro and get you all set up on 553 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:18,040 Speaker 1: boost Mobile within minutes, no hassled. Visit boostmobile dot com 554 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:21,799 Speaker 1: to get started. Delivery available for select devices purchased at 555 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:27,040 Speaker 1: boostmobile dot Com. Terms do apply, all right, last game 556 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:31,239 Speaker 1: demand before we play game the producers put together and 557 00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,879 Speaker 1: get some of the questions from earlier in the week 558 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:34,520 Speaker 1: go ahead. 559 00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,120 Speaker 2: Uh. Yeah, So we saw Drake May struggle a little 560 00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:38,799 Speaker 2: bit against the charges of the big thing on them 561 00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,480 Speaker 2: was their strength to schedule, and they haven't played anybody, 562 00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,400 Speaker 2: and they played somebody, they struggle a little bit. So 563 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,880 Speaker 2: the challenge gets a little bit harder this week in Houston, 564 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,480 Speaker 2: and they have that hilatious defense coming at them. So 565 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,880 Speaker 2: how are you feeling about New England going up against 566 00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:52,840 Speaker 2: Houston this weekend? 567 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,920 Speaker 1: Listen, I think that Houston defense has a chance to 568 00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:58,960 Speaker 1: carry them all the way to the Super Bowl. 569 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:00,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, but. 570 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:13,520 Speaker 1: That Houston offense is so inconsistent it allows eat as 571 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:19,799 Speaker 1: bad as the Steelers offense was on Monday Night. That 572 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,839 Speaker 1: game seven to six entering the fourth quarter, It's ten 573 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:29,800 Speaker 1: to six before the strip sack touchdown. The Houston earlier 574 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:34,400 Speaker 1: this year forced Josh Allen into one of the worst 575 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:42,040 Speaker 1: games of his career and dominated the Bills. And despite that, 576 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:49,440 Speaker 1: with let me twenty five seconds left or with you 577 00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:54,040 Speaker 1: no more than that, with I'm looking at it right now, 578 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:59,160 Speaker 1: with forty seconds left, the Bills have the ball at 579 00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:04,520 Speaker 1: Houston's down four points, meaning even though the Texans played 580 00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:08,680 Speaker 1: basically as well as you can play defensively, the Bills 581 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:12,480 Speaker 1: had a chance to steal the game. It's just such 582 00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:19,440 Speaker 1: a hard way to do business when your path to 583 00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:24,359 Speaker 1: winning these games is our defense is going to carry us. 584 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:33,799 Speaker 1: And while we have seen teams do it, I the 585 00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,680 Speaker 1: games feel like they are gonna consistently be in the 586 00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:41,239 Speaker 1: balance at the end the face. 587 00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:41,520 Speaker 2: You know. 588 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:45,879 Speaker 1: The most famous example of a team's defense in the 589 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:49,759 Speaker 1: modern Ish era carrying them to the Super Bowls the 590 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:55,200 Speaker 1: two thousand Ravens. That two thousand Ravens team allowed twenty 591 00:43:55,320 --> 00:44:02,239 Speaker 1: three points total in four playoff games. They won their 592 00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:06,160 Speaker 1: four playoff games twenty one to three, twenty four to ten, 593 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:11,800 Speaker 1: sixteen to three, and the Super Bowl thirty four to seven, Demons. 594 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,640 Speaker 1: And that seven, by the way, was a kick return. 595 00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:25,360 Speaker 1: So it's not even it's it's not even that. So 596 00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,440 Speaker 1: I said they allowed twenty three, they really allowed sixteen, 597 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,799 Speaker 1: And so the what are the other instances that I'm 598 00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:35,600 Speaker 1: gonna pull it up right now? The two thousand and 599 00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:40,719 Speaker 1: two Bucks would be the other another instance of a 600 00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:47,080 Speaker 1: team's defense just dominating. That Bucks team allowed six points 601 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:51,319 Speaker 1: in Round one, ten points in Round two, and then 602 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:55,439 Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl they won forty eight to twenty one, 603 00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:03,279 Speaker 1: but there were multiple UH defensive so the defense, so 604 00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:10,120 Speaker 1: that that Bucks defense that allowed twenty one points. Also 605 00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:16,040 Speaker 1: Demanse had three pick sixes to score twenty one itself 606 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:21,799 Speaker 1: in the supermow Wow, and so, and the one other 607 00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:27,120 Speaker 1: example would be, oh sorry, hold on, just real quick. 608 00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:32,640 Speaker 1: The one other example would be the twenty The twenty 609 00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:41,080 Speaker 1: fifteen Broncos UH defense was dominant, but they had Peyton 610 00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,800 Speaker 1: at the helm, and even though Peyton was not really 611 00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:48,840 Speaker 1: Peyton that year, it was still Peyton manning and it 612 00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:50,960 Speaker 1: felt like he could at least put the offense in 613 00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:56,520 Speaker 1: good positions. The twenty thirteen Seahawks are a team that 614 00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:02,040 Speaker 1: comes to mind, and they might be a better example 615 00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,879 Speaker 1: of kind of what I'm worried about for Houston, that 616 00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:13,080 Speaker 1: twenty fifteen Seahawks team. They're twenty thirteen as dominant as 617 00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:20,240 Speaker 1: that defense was. The Niners have the ball down six 618 00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:25,359 Speaker 1: inside the ten yard line in the final moments of 619 00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:29,560 Speaker 1: the game, and that's when we got You try to 620 00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:34,640 Speaker 1: test me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree. That's what 621 00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:39,200 Speaker 1: you get from Richard Sherman. They were still one pass away. 622 00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:43,920 Speaker 1: It's just a hard way to do business. And so 623 00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,600 Speaker 1: I also think the Pats, on the other hand, are 624 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,480 Speaker 1: so much more dangerous now that Drake May got those 625 00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:56,279 Speaker 1: first playoff game. Jitters kind of out out of the 626 00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,120 Speaker 1: way because you saw him play better in the second half. 627 00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:02,960 Speaker 1: What was your I interrupted you. What was your question? 628 00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:05,479 Speaker 2: Oh? No, I was saying, were you arguing that those 629 00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:09,720 Speaker 2: defense were more dominant than this Houston's this Houston Texans defense, 630 00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,160 Speaker 2: because I mean it sounds like those scores are pretty crazy. 631 00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:15,720 Speaker 1: Well, I mean, the two thousand Ravens most dominant defense 632 00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,239 Speaker 1: in forty years, right, I mean that's a that they're 633 00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:25,000 Speaker 1: in a separate category entirely. So with us described it, 634 00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:28,640 Speaker 1: I think it might be on par with the Legion 635 00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:34,960 Speaker 1: of Boom defense. And but the Legion of Boom at 636 00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:40,760 Speaker 1: least had good Russell Wilson and Marshawn Lynch and CJ. 637 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:42,759 Speaker 1: Stroud's just been so bad. 638 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,640 Speaker 2: Do you think he's still a franchise quarterback or and 639 00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:47,919 Speaker 2: he just lost his wide receiver? One? Is Nico even 640 00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:48,799 Speaker 2: playing right? 641 00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,960 Speaker 1: I mean, Nico's probably I would be shocked off Nico place. 642 00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,080 Speaker 1: It's weird because Stroud and Josh Allen are the only 643 00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:03,040 Speaker 1: quarterbacks to both win. They're the only quarterbacks in the 644 00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,160 Speaker 1: league to have won a playoff game each the last 645 00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:10,480 Speaker 1: three years. But Stroud was bad Monday night. Yeah, his 646 00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,440 Speaker 1: previous playoff victories, he hadn't been bad. He was bad 647 00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:14,040 Speaker 1: in that one. 648 00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:17,439 Speaker 2: What do you think is on the board with Drake 649 00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,960 Speaker 2: May and a good performance against his defense? 650 00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:25,319 Speaker 1: I mean that would vault him if Drake is I 651 00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:27,560 Speaker 1: think there are ways for New England to win without 652 00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:31,280 Speaker 1: Drake being really good, because I think the Texans defense 653 00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:35,000 Speaker 1: is so shaky or Texans offense, part of me is 654 00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:39,080 Speaker 1: so shaky. But if Drake lights up this defense, that'll 655 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:43,040 Speaker 1: be the performance of the postseason so far. We'll give 656 00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:47,920 Speaker 1: you our picks on the Picks Show, which comes out tomorrow. 657 00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:53,279 Speaker 1: But evidently there was a the Olympic ticket draw for 658 00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:57,880 Speaker 1: LA residents yesterday. To Monsey, explain this to how this worked, 659 00:48:58,040 --> 00:48:59,600 Speaker 1: and then we'll do this before you get to the 660 00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:00,719 Speaker 1: listener questions. 661 00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:03,799 Speaker 2: So yesterday LA residents were able to enter into the 662 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,319 Speaker 2: ticket raffle for the twenty the ticket draw for the 663 00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,239 Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight Olympics. If you get drawn in March 664 00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:11,040 Speaker 2: in April, you get a you get a shot at 665 00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:14,840 Speaker 2: buying first tickets. Yeah, you're able to pick from five sports. 666 00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:19,480 Speaker 2: I picked four sports. You're gonna guess what my sports were, 667 00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:23,680 Speaker 2: and then you'll take it. And then you'll you'll tell 668 00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:26,279 Speaker 2: me what I should pick fill my final spot with. 669 00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,160 Speaker 2: And then lastly you'll tell us what you're looking most 670 00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,400 Speaker 2: forward to in the twenty twenty twenty eight Olympics. 671 00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:40,600 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, you definitely your four two were obvious. 672 00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:48,600 Speaker 1: You definitely picked basketball, bear, You definitely picked track and field. 673 00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:51,000 Speaker 1: Am I wrong? 674 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:51,759 Speaker 2: I did not? 675 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,600 Speaker 1: You didn't Track and field should have been the number one? Okay, Well, 676 00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:58,880 Speaker 1: then that has to be your fifth pick. That's the 677 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:00,000 Speaker 1: single best ticket. 678 00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:03,040 Speaker 2: I like tracker field. I just when I was going 679 00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,320 Speaker 2: through and seeing all on the list, there were somems 680 00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:09,040 Speaker 2: that popped out more to me than others. But but yeah, 681 00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:10,680 Speaker 2: I did not pick track in the field. 682 00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:14,200 Speaker 1: All right, Well, that one that has to be your fifth. 683 00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:19,000 Speaker 1: I think you might have picked flag football. I did, Okay, 684 00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:24,839 Speaker 1: I thought you might say flag football. I think you 685 00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:26,200 Speaker 1: might have picked boxing. 686 00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:29,560 Speaker 2: I thought about that one pretty heavy. I did not 687 00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:31,520 Speaker 2: pick that one, but yes I would have. 688 00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:37,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, did you pick three on three basketball? No, I 689 00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:42,480 Speaker 1: wouldn't either. I think that's smart. This is interesting. 690 00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:47,480 Speaker 2: They got flag football, basketball, and then there's two more. 691 00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:50,880 Speaker 1: Beach volleyball. 692 00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,000 Speaker 2: No. I thought about that one too. 693 00:50:57,800 --> 00:50:59,800 Speaker 1: Did you pick any combat sport? 694 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:02,360 Speaker 2: No? 695 00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:08,719 Speaker 1: No, I thought you might have gone taekwondo or judo, skateboarding. No, 696 00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,000 Speaker 1: all right, I'm not gonna get closer to home than 697 00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:16,920 Speaker 1: what did you pick? One of them was diving. I 698 00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:20,000 Speaker 1: like diving, and I just think it's so hard and 699 00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,759 Speaker 1: just seeing them pull that type of stuff off. And 700 00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:26,160 Speaker 1: then lastly, lastly, we got tennis. 701 00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:28,839 Speaker 2: They got tennis. 702 00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:30,200 Speaker 1: No, I love tennis. 703 00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,359 Speaker 2: You know all the talk about it throughout the show, 704 00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:36,879 Speaker 2: I've I've gained a liking to it, you know mevv Djokovic. 705 00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,880 Speaker 1: All right, mine, here's what I would not have picked 706 00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:47,520 Speaker 1: tennis because I can see tennis elsewhere. 707 00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,600 Speaker 2: Okay, this is the Olympics. It's not the not the 708 00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:52,240 Speaker 2: best guy. 709 00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:55,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, but the best guys playing all 710 00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:59,800 Speaker 1: the majors. So I if I could, if so, here's 711 00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:03,200 Speaker 1: what I would have picked. Track and fields my number 712 00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:05,160 Speaker 1: one pick with a bullet. 713 00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:08,240 Speaker 2: I mean, because isn't that just like a large umbrella 714 00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:10,520 Speaker 2: of a bunch of a bunch of stuff. I'm gonna 715 00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:10,839 Speaker 2: eat there. 716 00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:15,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all the Yeah, but that's the The field 717 00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:17,960 Speaker 1: stuff is not as fun, but just the track one 718 00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:21,840 Speaker 1: hundred meter, the four by four, all of it. So 719 00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,919 Speaker 1: i'd pick track and field. I think I would pick 720 00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:36,759 Speaker 1: water polo, okay, which is awesome. I would pick gymnastics. 721 00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,000 Speaker 1: The two hottest tickets are going to be track and 722 00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:42,160 Speaker 1: field and gymnastics every time, no doubt about it. 723 00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:43,160 Speaker 2: Okay. 724 00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:47,120 Speaker 1: And I would pick swimming. 725 00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:50,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't that one. I can't get on the 726 00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:53,879 Speaker 2: other ones. I do find exciting watching as well. 727 00:52:54,760 --> 00:53:02,360 Speaker 1: Diving not really, but maybe it's because I can't do 728 00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,960 Speaker 1: a regular dive, so I'm not as the impressed by 729 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:10,120 Speaker 1: it as you are. But I like stuff that I'm 730 00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:12,480 Speaker 1: not going to be able to watch elsewhere. So like 731 00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:21,120 Speaker 1: I would consider rugby boxing is interesting because it's so 732 00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:26,640 Speaker 1: much purer than than regular boxing. Lacrosse is a great sport, 733 00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:31,200 Speaker 1: but I can watch that elsewhere. But if you get 734 00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:34,719 Speaker 1: these tickets to Monsey, I'll buy them, Like if you 735 00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,759 Speaker 1: get selected, but you have to put track and. 736 00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:42,200 Speaker 2: Field crazy, But yeah, no, I'm down for track and field. 737 00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,239 Speaker 1: Well, to be clear, I didn't mean I'll buy him 738 00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:46,680 Speaker 1: and give them to you. But I mean him saying 739 00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:51,239 Speaker 1: if you get well, maybe maybe I don't know what 740 00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:55,200 Speaker 1: I'll do, but I'm saying, if you get selected, don't 741 00:53:55,239 --> 00:54:00,760 Speaker 1: say oh no, I can't afford them. We'll figure it out. Okay, 742 00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:05,239 Speaker 1: all right, let's get to some of the listener questions 743 00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:10,040 Speaker 1: from this the it was from Tuesday and then Thursday. 744 00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:13,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, Anaki says, one question from a fan in Spain. 745 00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:16,320 Speaker 2: Do you think the Bills could beat Denver or Houston 746 00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,279 Speaker 2: with the type of methodical drives they had in Jacksonville? 747 00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:22,160 Speaker 2: I can't see Shakir with sixty one yards after catch. 748 00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:28,360 Speaker 1: No, I think that against either of those defenses, Josh 749 00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:30,480 Speaker 1: is gonna have to run a little more. But I 750 00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,520 Speaker 1: also think they wouldn't need twenty seven points to beat 751 00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:34,799 Speaker 1: either of these defenses. 752 00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:41,960 Speaker 2: All right, Next, Acuity says, if anyone not named Stafford 753 00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:44,239 Speaker 2: or Allen win the Super Bowl, can we avoid the 754 00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:47,960 Speaker 2: whole Hurts is the top five quarterback thing again just 755 00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:49,320 Speaker 2: because he wins the Super Bowl? 756 00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:56,680 Speaker 1: Listen, I think the I think that Jalen Hurts had 757 00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:59,600 Speaker 1: legitimately had a claim after last year Super Bowl was 758 00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:02,280 Speaker 1: top five quarterback. He is a couple of years removed 759 00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:06,000 Speaker 1: from finishing top three and MVP voting. He was unbelievable 760 00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:08,480 Speaker 1: in the final two weeks of the playoffs. Last year 761 00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:12,120 Speaker 1: they won the Super Bowl, like that was Mahomes Allen 762 00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:16,839 Speaker 1: Lamar Burrow. Hurts was a fine opinion to hold. He 763 00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:23,600 Speaker 1: then fell some this year obviously, so the like he's 764 00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:30,479 Speaker 1: you are not like if Bo Nicks wins the Super Bowl, 765 00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:32,600 Speaker 1: I don't think or Sam Darnold. I don't think people 766 00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:35,680 Speaker 1: are gonna say that guy defended that guy's top five quarterback. 767 00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,600 Speaker 1: Hurts had a bigger body of work, including a previous 768 00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:43,359 Speaker 1: Super Bowl appearance. Yeah. Absolutely. 769 00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:47,680 Speaker 2: Khalil asked do you think Houston is scarier now since 770 00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:51,880 Speaker 2: they won? Like that was CJ playing bad. 771 00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:59,280 Speaker 1: I would feel that way if they if I thought 772 00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,120 Speaker 1: CJ was a about to start playing well. But I 773 00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,400 Speaker 1: just think that's what CJ is going to be doing. 774 00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:07,200 Speaker 1: Like so no, I don't think they're scarier, all right. 775 00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:11,240 Speaker 2: Next, the lilte Man asked question for Demons when healthy, 776 00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:14,359 Speaker 2: based on the playoff runs you've seen this far, who's 777 00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,120 Speaker 2: having the more magical year Caleb Williams this year or 778 00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:20,560 Speaker 2: Jaden Daniels last year? And I'd had to say Jayden 779 00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:23,200 Speaker 2: Daniels last year. 780 00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:27,120 Speaker 1: I think Jayden last year was more impressive up to 781 00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:32,360 Speaker 1: this point. And what Caleb's done, what Caleb's doing feels 782 00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:37,919 Speaker 1: sturdier for me than Jayden. And you know, we'll see 783 00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,319 Speaker 1: and we'll see how much of this for Jaden was 784 00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:42,640 Speaker 1: just injuries and whether or not he's going to be 785 00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:45,359 Speaker 1: able to fade those injuries moving forward. All right, let's 786 00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:46,760 Speaker 1: go to some of the questions from today. 787 00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:50,360 Speaker 2: Curtis asked, out of the remaining playoff teams, who is 788 00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:53,040 Speaker 2: most likely to miss the playoffs next year? And who 789 00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:55,120 Speaker 2: do you think could get even better next year? 790 00:56:56,719 --> 00:57:01,879 Speaker 1: Out of the remaining playoff teams. Out of the remaining 791 00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:06,120 Speaker 1: playoff teams, the team I think is most likely to 792 00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:12,040 Speaker 1: miss the playoffs next year is Denver. Is that schedule 793 00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:14,520 Speaker 1: that I just laid out to you. Yeah? And the 794 00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,160 Speaker 1: team that I think get better next year is the Bears. 795 00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:20,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely. 796 00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:28,840 Speaker 1: The Yeah, though the Niners should be healthier, but I 797 00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,320 Speaker 1: don't you know, they won twelve games anyway, and so 798 00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,120 Speaker 1: I don't know how much better they'll be, all right, 799 00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:34,720 Speaker 1: last one? 800 00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:39,600 Speaker 2: And then Scott asked Nick, who goes after Malik Willis Cleveland, 801 00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:41,720 Speaker 2: Pittsburgh or do you see him elsewhere. 802 00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:54,240 Speaker 1: Not Cleveland. I think Pittsburgh's a possibility. I think Arizona 803 00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:59,440 Speaker 1: is a possibility. I think that Miami is a possibility. 804 00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:04,840 Speaker 1: And I think the Jets are probably the favorites for 805 00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:08,200 Speaker 1: him because now that Dante More is going back to school, 806 00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:11,400 Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do. All right, Demanse 807 00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:14,640 Speaker 1: beat me in picks last week. He has been the 808 00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:20,280 Speaker 1: gambling stage of the show this year. There is teasers crushed, 809 00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:22,760 Speaker 1: and then in his picks against the spread he went 810 00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:25,880 Speaker 1: four and two. We will get to our picks from 811 00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:30,920 Speaker 1: last week and our four picks for my favorite sports 812 00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:34,440 Speaker 1: weekend of the year in tomorrow's show, which we're about 813 00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:38,680 Speaker 1: to do right now, So we appreciate everybody listening. Check 814 00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:43,200 Speaker 1: out the feeds, YouTube, Spotify, iTunes for the pod that 815 00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:47,760 Speaker 1: will drop tomorrow morning with our divisional weekend picks. Huge. 816 00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:49,880 Speaker 1: Thank you to Volume and to hard Rock and of 817 00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:52,160 Speaker 1: course our great spot. I'm sorry Volume in Blue Duck 818 00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:55,200 Speaker 1: and our great sponsors hard Rock and Boost. Talk to 819 00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:58,240 Speaker 1: you guys tomorrow for our divisional round pick show. See 820 00:58:58,240 --> 00:58:58,920 Speaker 1: you then we'll try