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By the way, Demonsee didn't know 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:51.120 we were playing for real stakes in that Madden game. 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:56.600 He's about to find out, however, because uh, you know 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:00.680 the wonderful people that own the ice cream shop next door. Yeah, 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.920 you know their three wonderful children. Yeah, well they're all 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.680 spending the night at the house tonight. That's fine, but 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.639 they're also getting dropped off to the house about three 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:17.519 point thirty and your sister's joking. I'm not joking. Your 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.640 sister's not home, your mom's gonna be working at this 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.080 very store, and my show's still going to be going on. 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:30.000 So for about ninety minutes, you and those three wonderful well, 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.200 I'm Sorryddy, I'm sorry. There's nothing I can do about it. 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.280 I found out this morning. So it's gonna be old 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:40.600 mister babysitter Demanse for about ninety minutes. I hope they 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.640 enjoy watching Call of Duty. All right, time now for 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:48.160 the show. We just talked about what one of my 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.600 son's plans for today is. Let's sorry about what my 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.800 other son did a couple of days ago. De Monsey. 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.440 You must be the proudest father. Oh you have no idea. Luka. 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.520 Doncice put up one of the wildest stat lines NBA 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:05.160 history with sixty twenty one and ten against the Knicks 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:05.840 on Tuesday. 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:07.880 All right, real quick, before we even get to it, 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:12.360 when I texted you that screenshot of his box score. 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:16.560 Could you believe it? No, it's a I mean. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.840 That was wild, and I think especially seeing the the 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.040 the missed free throw buzzer well not a buzzer beater, 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:26.839 but a buzzer beater. 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:28.520 Yeah. Yeah, So we'll get into that right now. 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:29.000 Go ahead. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.480 You said this game needs to be talked about in 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.440 the same vein as will two hundred point game. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.679 In Kobe's eighty one point game. I'm sure we're gonna. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:39.719 Yeah tweet, yeah, but yeah, there we go. I'm greatest 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.880 regular season performance is in NBA history, alongside Will's hundred 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.279 and Kobe's eighty one. Go ahead, what's the question? 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.920 And what world is this even close to those? 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:54.040 Well, it's better than kobe'sh have twenty rebounds or ten assists. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.800 Okay, so here's my argument. 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.880 We're either of those game and a loss Kobe's eighty 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:02.560 one point game. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:04.680 But this wasn't a loss either. 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:05.480 No, I know you. 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.040 I was saying, no, they weren't in a loss. So 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:13.160 I think the best regular season performances ever are in 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:18.839 this order, Wilt's one hundred, what Luca did two days ago, 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:27.120 Kobe's eighty one point gameron No Jordan Jordan had sixty nine, 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:32.200 eighteen and six in an overtime win against the Cavs 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.200 in nineteen ninety, a game that gets forgotten, but by 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.720 Basketball Reference game score that's actually the best game ever 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:44.600 by their game score metric. So here's why I Kobe's 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:49.360 eighty one point game is more iconic. This was harder, 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.479 and it was harder for a number of reasons. First 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:56.320 of all, let me ask you this demonse, do you 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:01.559 think in the next decade, some one else will score 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:07.000 eighty because I do. We saw Devin Bookers score seventy. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:13.440 We saw Klay Thompson score sixty without playing the fourth quarter. 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:18.280 We have seen James Harden score sixty without playing the 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:23.080 fourth quarter. We saw Kyrie score sixty while barely playing 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.600 in the fourth quarter. We also saw Kobe before the 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.920 eighty one point game, score sixty two against the MAVs 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:33.280 without playing the fourth quarter. Meaning we have seen guys 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.640 come within the realm of an eighty point game if 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:42.560 that's what they were gunning for, right, Okay, the sixty 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:48.440 to twenty ten no one has ever approached it, including Wilt. 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.120 It's an impossible status. 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.520 I think about considering will have this body frame that 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:56.120 he did well. 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:01.719 It's and it's crazy. Almost every NBA individual game record, 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:07.680 it's the first player to do X since Wilt, who 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.400 did it fourteen times like Wilt is his own record book. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.600 Wilt never did this, so sixty points in and of 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:20.320 itself is wild. Twenty rebounds, for the context of that, 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:26.080 Lebron playoffs or a regular season has never had a 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:31.600 twenty rebound game. Jordan never had a twenty rebound game. 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:34.600 Uh what about my guy Jokic. 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:40.160 Jokic absolutely has had multiple twenty rebound games. Jokic getting 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:46.960 the sixty points seems highly unlikely. So Jokic, Jokic, I 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:50.440 think would be the guy you'd say, maybe Jokic could 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.040 do this. I'll believe it when I see it. Sixty 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.480 is a tough number, as James Harden, who has a 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.200 sixty point triple double in his career, the only other 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:03.320 one in NBA history, has never had a twenty rebound 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:07.320 game playoffs for a regular season, So I don't think 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:11.320 this will ever be done again unless Luca does it again. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.520 So that's first of all. Second of all, they were 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:20.920 down nine with thirty seconds left. They won the game. 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.720 Play by play data goes back twenty at least twenty years. 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:31.040 In the last twenty years thirteen prior to this game, 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.960 thirteen thousand, eight hundred and eighty four teams had been 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:39.480 down nine or more I guess with or No. Nine 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.080 with thirty seconds left. How many of those thirteen thousand, 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:44.920 eight hundred and eighty four do you think won the game? 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:50.800 One or zero or zero? So it was an unprecedented comeback. 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:57.280 Then there is the intentional missed free throw get the rebound, 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:02.720 make the putback aspect of it incredibly hard to execute, 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.599 and then the victory in overtime. All of that, and 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:12.520 he did it on sixty eight percent shooting. All of 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.920 that to me makes it more impressive than Kobe's eighty one. 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.959 It is not. Again, there's a difference between what is 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:26.960 more iconic and what is more impressive. What is more 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:33.080 as far as when NBA fans think of and Kobe's 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.920 a more iconic player, and Kobe was on such a 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:41.199 historic scoring run that season that it culminating in the 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:46.160 eighty point game is unbelievable. This was harder, and this 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:51.800 was by definition more unprecedented. I know we're splitting hairs here, 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.600 but scoring eighty one at a basketball game had been 0:09:56.679 --> 0:10:02.080 done before one time by Wilt Ten had never been 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.880 done before. So for all those reasons, I think Kobe's 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.480 eighty one point game, it's dropped one. Yeah, is third. 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:14.080 And Luca just had the greatest game in the regular 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.920 season that was ever televised because Wilt's game famously was 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:19.640 on on. We got a lot of fans in here 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:23.719 that disagree with that a lot. Okay, well, here's the thing. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.520 They don't it's not that much that disagrees who had 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.640 the best all time game? Fifty three percent say Will. 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:32.520 Question's not the who had the hardest, well most impressive. No, no, no, 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.559 this is fine. But I agree it's Wilt. I have 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.360 Wilt at number one. So twenty seven percent say Kobe, 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:43.120 nineteen percent say Luca. So more people disagree with me 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.200 than agree with me. But it's not it's not a route. 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:51.760 And I listen, Wilt's one hundred point game stands on 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:56.480 its own. It's it's one hundred points. It's one hundred points. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:10:59.520 We have no video of it. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:00.600 I know wasn't on TV. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.040 It's kind of strange if you ask me. 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:05.600 Demont's conspiracy corner. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.080 All right, next, all right, the NFC clearly has three 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.439 top dogs. Sorry Vikings, Yeah, I agree with that. 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.240 The Cowboys look strong after taking down the Eagles, and 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.839 despite Philly's loss, they stuffed the best record in the 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.640 NFL at thirteen and two, and the forty nine ers 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.800 are rolling with Rockport Party in of won eight straight. Yeah, 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.240 we still got a lot of holidays spirit left in us. 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.559 So let's play a game with these teams. Okay, this 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:30.959 week is when you can return presence you don't like. 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.960 So if these teams were gifts, who are you keeping 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.720 and who are you regifting and who are you returning? 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:37.760 Okay? 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:42.120 So I'm keeping the Niners? Okay, then are this is 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:43.719 not just because I picked them before the season to 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:48.079 go to the Super Bowl. The Niners have been dominant 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:54.280 for two months. The Chiefs crushed them, and since then 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:59.120 they have been absolutely rolling. And they've done it despite 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.720 the fact that they have a rookie seventh rounder at quarterback. 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:09.320 I am regifting the Cowboys. I think the Cowboys right 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.160 now are very dangerous and getting healthy at the right time. 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:18.440 And I'm returning Philly. Listen, the two most important players 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:23.600 on Philly's offense are their quarterback and their right tackle, 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:28.160 Lane Johnson. Lane Johnson is done, they say us for 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.720 the regular season. They hope for having back in the playoffs. 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:37.480 I'm skeptical. And their quarterback. His injury is to his 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:43.520 throwing shoulder. The idea that he is going to come 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:47.360 back and just be the guy he was before is 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:55.240 to me overly optimistic, especially because so here's so, I'm 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:59.800 glad you mentioned that Demise. I would be incredibly nervous 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:03.559 if I were Philly with my designed runs with him 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.400 that you know what I mean? So it's it's it's 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:11.400 just the worst case scenario that your quarterback, who was 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:16.040 in some people's minds the league MVP, has an injury 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:20.040 to his throwing shoulder. They are the most effective third 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.600 and one and fourth in one team. Why because they 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.520 do that rugby scrum where he runs into the line 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.480 of scrimmage and gets pushed by his own teammates. Are 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.079 you gonna be comfortable doing that with this guy? So 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.440 the injury you suffered to your shoulder is an ac 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:40.440 joint spring. He suffered what's called an sc joint strain, 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:46.480 which means sterno clovicular. So I'm obviously not doctor, but 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:51.640 the sternum and you're clavigal that area that concerns me. Man. 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:56.960 So their secondary is banged up, their right tackle is out, 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:01.400 they're quarterbacks currently. They have no playoff experience with this 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.600 roster and this coach except for one game last year 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.800 when they got crushed. I think Philly is the peak 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.839 too early team, unlucky injury team. I'd be very nervous if. 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.840 I were them. What would we do with the vikings? 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:15.920 Sorry if you no you're fine, go ahead. What are 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:17.880 we gonna do with the Vikings? We throw them away? 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.840 Vikings are tough because here's how I see it going. 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:24.480 For the Vikings. It's very simple. 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.160 I think the Vikings in the first round of the 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:34.680 playoffs are playing either the Giants, Washington, Detroit whomever should 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:38.560 win that game. Then they play San franciscoing round two 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.000 and get annihilated. That's what I think is gonna happen 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.200 with the Vikings. And by the way, the Giants just 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.080 played them as close as you can play a team. 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:54.240 They beat the Giants in Minnesota on a sixty one 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.640 yard field goal at the gun. So I don't think 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.440 the Vikings are a lock if they play the Giants. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.840 Are the Lions for that matter, to win in round one? 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.080 I think I would pick them to win, but I 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.240 don't think they're a lot is But I think they're 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:08.880 dead to the Niners. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.440 Go ahead. Is Rock Purty quarterback come playoff time? Well? 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:17.200 I believe so. I mean, listen, Jimmy is still hurt, 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.080 but with Purty playing the way he's been playing, even 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.480 if Jimmy got healthy, I think I'd roll with Brock Purty. 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.000 But right now he's their only quarterback option. Josh Johnson 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:27.760 is their backup. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.880 So if say, in a crazy world, the Vikings beat 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.480 the Niners because Rock Purty is nervous in the playoffs 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:35.440 or something that. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:39.760 Could happen, go ahead, you can't see that. 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.800 No, Well, listen, if they get past the Niners, then yeah, 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.440 then absolutely, you've got to open up a possibility they 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.040 go to the Super Bowl. I don't think they could 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.080 get past the Niners, all right, I just don't. I 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:52.840 think that Niners defense is too good. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:53.200 All right. 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:57.680 Next, there's no poll for that one, or at least 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:58.160 I don't see it. 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.480 If there is no all right Down in Tampa, Tom 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.920 Brady didn't even let the ink the ink on his 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.480 obituaries drive before he pulled off another comeback in overtime 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:09.360 and after beating Miami. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.280 On Christmas, Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay are. 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:14.640 Still very alive. Did you foolishly write off Rogers and 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.560 the Packers too early? And if they both make it, 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.120 who has the better shot to lead a deep playoff 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:21.800 from the Bucks? Yeah? 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:27.680 So, Rogers has not played well all year, and during 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:31.480 this winning streak, he's been worse than he was the 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.560 previous dozen games. During the winning streak where they have 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:40.240 beaten the Bears, who can't beat anyone, the Rams, and 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.960 then a good win against Miami, but they didn't play 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.440 that well. Tua just melted down in that game. Rogers 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.080 has three total touchdowns, two picks, and an eighty five 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.960 FASc rating. It'd be one thing if the Packers all 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.680 of a sudden, were alive because Rogers turned a corner. 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.760 But that is not what has happened. Rogers has turned 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:05.520 no corner. He's been mediocre all year. And Christian Watson, 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:09.800 who's been huge for them, absolutely huge for them, has 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:14.840 a hip injury and that is highly concerning. He's going 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.000 to be able to play this week or not. And 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.359 so listen, I think the Packers lose this week, but 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.000 if they were to get in, I don't believe in them. 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:28.080 The Bucks. Listen, the Bucks in round one would play 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:32.920 the Cowboys. I'd be picking the Cowboys. However, the Bucks 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.600 did beat the Cowboys nineteen to three earlier this year. 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:40.320 And if the Bucks were to beat Dallas, would I 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.760 give them a shot to go to Philadelphia? With all 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.720 the injuries we're talking about, Tampa would by definition be 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:47.720 coming off its biggest win of the year. 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:48.840 Yeah, I would. 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.760 Let me say one other weird thing about the NFL's 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:57.119 playoff formatic. If the Bucks win Sunday against Carolina, okay, 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:04.159 they lock up the division. Because if you win your division, 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.400 you're guaranteed a home playoff game and a top four seed. 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.440 If the Bucks win, they will be eight to eight 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.320 and have locked up the four spot. I'm saying I 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:18.920 want to I'm ninety nine percent sure I'm correct on that. 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.320 Let me make sure, just double check. If they win, Yes, 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.480 if they win on Sunday, they win the division. So 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:31.560 here's why that's relevant. The Bucks, having been mediocre all 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:37.080 year long, can give themselves a buye they win Sunday, 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.919 they are They can't fall below the four line, they 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:45.360 can't raise above the four line. Week eighteen becomes totally 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.359 meaningless for them, and all of a sudden, you can 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:52.320 give Brady and Mike Evans and your defense and everybody 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.600 a week off in Week eighteen, even though you have 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.520 not earned a bye. You will be locked into your 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.760 playoff seed, playing for nothing, and can go into the 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:06.800 postseason rested in healthy. Dallas, on the other hand, if 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:11.240 they win this week and Philly loses, Dallas will have 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:15.040 to play everyone in week eighteen. Why because they will 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.800 still be alive for the one seed and the division. 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:22.960 So it's a weird spot where Tampa, despite being mediocre 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:27.440 or bad all year, if they win Sunday, can just 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:29.080 rest in week eighteen. 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:29.760 All right? 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.720 The who will go further in the playoffs? Twenty eight 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:35.800 percent on our poll question for people watching live on YouTube, 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.480 No forget to put your questions and comments in the comments. 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:39.640 We'll get to them at the end of the show. 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.360 Twenty eight percent say the Packers. Seventy two percent say 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:42.760 the Bucks. 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:43.080 All right. 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.879 Last, the Broncos finally ripped off the band aid with 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.680 nad Hackett. Yeah, turns out you're right about Denver and 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:51.440 also about Russ this entire time. 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.320 Yep. Oh, yeah, let's not gloss over that. Let's not 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:56.639 gloss over the fact that I had to listen to 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.639 people tell me, Oh, Nick, oh, you're hating on the 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:04.240 bron Goes because you're afraid demons the you're Oh, you 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.479 can't actually think the Broncos aren't gonna be good? How 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.479 could they not be good? They added? Russell Wilson. Oh, 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:11.880 it's the toughest division ever. 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.280 Supposed to know, Russell Wilson would be this bad. 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:19.920 Listen to your boy, listen to me. I tried to 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:20.800 warn everybody. 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:22.800 All right, go ahead, fair enough, all right. 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:24.359 As a reward, you get to watch. 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:26.840 Mahomes and the Chiefs feast on the remains. 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.360 Yeah, that was a good time as ever for Mahomes 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.439 to make his MVP MVP statement game and lock up 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:34.399 the one point two five million dollar bonus. 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:36.639 I didn't even know he had that he gets. He 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:38.359 gets one point two five million for one of the 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:40.440 League MVP. So it's not like the same thing as 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.200 like the clause with Kyler Murray and like the studying 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:47.280 Like no, well, I mean it's it's not the same thing, 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:51.640 but it's similar. It's like in addendum to the contract. Yeah, 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:55.000 there you go, it's like a two ko Yeah, there 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:57.439 you go exactly, except it's League MVP and it's one 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:01.000 and a quarter million bucks. It actually, so here's a 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.879 weird thing. And then I'll let you get to your questions. 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:09.080 It's minuscule against the cap, so it's not a big deal. 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:12.280 It's low key, though a tiny bit bad for the Chiefs. 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:16.480 So the way you put contract incentives in into contracts 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.639 in salary cap sports is there's likely to be earned 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:22.840 and not likely to be earned. 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:24.080 Okay, so. 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:28.080 The reason you have to have those is likely to 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:33.479 be earned. Incentives count against the cap before you earn them. 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:37.760 Not likely to be earned count against the cap retroactively. 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:40.720 So here's let me give you an example. You sign up. 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:44.720 Let's just say you sign Tyreek Kill with the Dolphins. 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:48.959 If they say you get an extra million bucks if 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:55.280 you get fifty catches, that million dollars automatically instantly counts 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:59.720 against the cap because he gets fifty catches every year. 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:04.840 If you put on there, if you are if you 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:08.240 lead the league in touchdown catches, you get a million bucks. 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:11.719 That's unlikely to be earned because he's never done it. Right. 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:16.800 So anything that is win the super Bowl you get X, 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:21.560 win League MVP you get X is considered unlikely to 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:23.840 be earned because only one guy does it, only one 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:26.480 team does it right. But then once you earn it, 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:30.280 it counts against the cap. So Mahomes winning League MVP 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.280 takes one point two to five million away from the 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:36.240 Chiefs cap for next season. Not a big deal, and 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:38.560 he's earned it, but it is a little interesting nuance, 0:22:38.600 --> 0:22:40.960 at least interesting to me. Might be boring to other people. 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:41.600 What's your question? 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:43.959 The more you know, Yeah, is Mahomes prime to win 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:45.879 back his place in your heart from Luca with a 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:48.159 performance for the Ages this week in Arrowhead? 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:51.119 All Right, I don't want a Mahomes performance for the Ages. 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:57.920 I don't flatly. I just want the Chiefs to get 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:04.240 out of these next two weeks help. So, sometimes injuries 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:10.200 are a combination of skill, coaching, and luck. Some injuries 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:17.560 are just bad luck. And sometimes teams clearly coach with 0:23:17.800 --> 0:23:21.480 injuries in mind and call plays with injuries in mind. 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:28.879 And the Chiefs are in a position where, while the 0:23:29.040 --> 0:23:32.040 Eagles are getting banged up and the Bills are getting 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:35.679 banged up and the Bengals just lost their right tackle, 0:23:36.119 --> 0:23:41.080 the Chiefs quietly have been incredibly healthy the last few weeks. 0:23:41.960 --> 0:23:45.080 They're getting McCole Hardman back. They're about to get Clyde Edwards, 0:23:45.119 --> 0:23:47.440 a lair back, which I don't really care so much about, 0:23:47.480 --> 0:23:50.199 his third best running back on the team. They are 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:56.080 going to be super conservative in their play calling and 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:59.000