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Speaker 2: Welcome in Watch Driven the Great episode two ninety three.
Speaker 2: It is the divisional Round preview episode my single favorite
Speaker 2: sports weekend of the year. It also doubles Demons as
Speaker 2: you're on Nicole's birthday weekend so very often this weekend,
Speaker 2: my single favorite sports weekend is a weekend your mom
Speaker 2: is out of town that is happening this weekend as well,
Speaker 2: which means it triples as a weekend where your baby
Speaker 2: sister is just totally unsupervised for about thirty six hours.
Speaker 2: Like I mean, I she her iPad might overheat by
Speaker 2: how much she's gonna be on roadblocks and FaceTime with
Speaker 2: her friends just up in her room. She's basically gonna
Speaker 2: be like a latchkey kid this weekend. But there's what
Speaker 2: do you want me to do? Hey, we get we
Speaker 2: gotta play it. We got the four best football games
Speaker 2: of the year coming up. Your mom's gonna be on
Speaker 2: a beach somewhere needing a passport, and I there's nothing
Speaker 2: I can do. So, I mean, it just is what
Speaker 2: it is. I cannot wait, and let's get right to it.
Speaker 2: Here is what missed the cut for today's show. A
Speaker 2: Quinn Yours has declared for the NFL Draft that is
Speaker 2: not on the this week's show. A Trevor wants a
Speaker 2: young offensive coach that's on the show, and Nick Sirianni
Speaker 2: allegedly has no issue with aj Brown reading I do
Speaker 2: not believe him. That is not on the show either.
Speaker 2: I just think they are just like, man whatever, like
Speaker 2: you're just gonna do your thing. I suppose so all
Speaker 2: of that missed the cut today. He uh sure, Yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: he's just trying to keep it rolling. I would say
Speaker 2: better coaching would be having enough firm control of your
Speaker 2: team that your star player doesn't weak in week out,
Speaker 2: even when you're winning, cause a media malstrom around him
Speaker 2: being disgruntled. But you know, to each their own. All right,
Speaker 2: let's get to the game of the weekend, Game of
Speaker 2: the year. Baltimore Baltimore Buffalo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Baltimore Baltimore Buffalo set to face off this weekend
Speaker 3: in a game that they're saying that probably the winner
Speaker 3: will take the Super Bowl. Do you think that the
Speaker 3: quarterbacks are overshadowing this game or is there something or
Speaker 3: is there more to it that we're overseeing or overlooking?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I the story obviously is gonna be
Speaker 2: Lamar and Josh, and it should be. They're gonna finish
Speaker 2: one two or two to one. In MVP, they were
Speaker 2: first team and second team All Pro. They have been
Speaker 2: the non chief story of the year. Here is what
Speaker 2: I find really interesting and also a little vexing or
Speaker 2: frustrating about some of the Lamar MVP arguments, which I understand.
Speaker 2: But the key to this game is probably Derick Henry,
Speaker 2: and I think most Ravens fans and Ravens betters want
Speaker 2: this to be a game that Derick Henry is the
Speaker 2: star actor of rather than Lamar Jackson. Now Lamar was exceptional.
Speaker 2: In round one and round one they were both awesome.
Speaker 2: But in this game, when you look at in particular
Speaker 2: the edges that Baltimore has, it's their giant, powerful offensive
Speaker 2: line up against a somewhat undersized Bill's defense. Additionally, when
Speaker 2: you don't have to say flowers and listen, he hasn't
Speaker 2: been ruled out, but he didn't practice yesterday, it is
Speaker 2: going to have to be a Dereck Henry game. And
Speaker 2: I think that what makes you nervous if you're a
Speaker 2: Ravens fan is we have seen a tendency in the past,
Speaker 2: particularly if Lamar is up against another elite quarterback, that
Speaker 2: they seem to call a game plan that says, Lamar,
Speaker 2: go throw for throw with this guy, and that's not
Speaker 2: their best way to win. Their best way to win
Speaker 2: is the way they played last week, where they utilize
Speaker 2: the fact that Lamar is as devastating a rushing threat
Speaker 2: as any quarterback in NFL history. You then add you
Speaker 2: have a first ballot Hall of Fame running back, and
Speaker 2: then you can take advantage of downfield passing because the
Speaker 2: other team is so concerned about what you can do
Speaker 2: in the running game. That's their best path. The way
Speaker 2: they played the Chiefs in the AFC title game, the
Speaker 2: way they played the Chiefs in Week one of the
Speaker 2: season was no, we're gonna have Lamar be a pure
Speaker 2: pocket passer, and when they do that, that offense is
Speaker 2: not as terrifying. I understand that Lamar's passing numbers are elite.
Speaker 2: I absolutely get that. I also understand the games are
Speaker 2: televised and he as he is as brilliant as any
Speaker 2: player in league history at melding the threat to run
Speaker 2: while also staying a willing passer and taking advantage of
Speaker 2: the fact that the defense has caught in between two
Speaker 2: bad options. But we also know that win and that's
Speaker 2: why I thought that third and thirteen touchdown on the
Speaker 2: opening drive against Pittsburgh was such a big play for him.
Speaker 2: He has not historically been as effective in spots where
Speaker 2: there's not the threat to run at all, the defense
Speaker 2: can purely play the pass. That's when the Ravens offense
Speaker 2: has been stymied. Now it wasn't that in the few spots,
Speaker 2: the few third and longs he had against Pittsburgh, he
Speaker 2: came through repeatedly, and so that Derrick Henry is the
Speaker 2: key kind of focal point when the Ravens have the
Speaker 2: ball and when the Bills have the ball, it's actually,
Speaker 2: oddly I don't want to say similar, but it's also
Speaker 2: about the running game, except for the Bills, it's more
Speaker 2: about Josh Allen's running, which is, the Bills are not
Speaker 2: going to be able to create enough plays, big plays
Speaker 2: through the air or James Cook in order to beat
Speaker 2: the Ravens unless the Ravens offense just falls apart. The
Speaker 2: only way they can create enough big plays is if
Speaker 2: Josh Allen has at least three, if not four, devastating
Speaker 2: scrambles where it's third and medium or third and long,
Speaker 2: it is a pure passing situation and Josh Allen surveys
Speaker 2: the field it's not there, and then goes and does
Speaker 2: Josh Allen things with his legs. Because the Bills do
Speaker 2: not have the talent on the receiving corps to exploit
Speaker 2: the Ravens secondary, which has been really good the second
Speaker 2: half of the season. What the Ravens, what the Bills
Speaker 2: do have is the best offensive line in the AFC.
Speaker 2: In fact, the two offensive lines in the AFC might
Speaker 2: be playing in this game, and so this should be
Speaker 2: an all time game. I think the Zay Flowers injury
Speaker 2: really matters because when the Bills defense has looked vulnerable,
Speaker 2: it's been because that back end can't hold up. I
Speaker 2: also think that, and I love this part about playoff football.
Speaker 2: I know other people don't. I think the weather is
Speaker 2: a huge factor here. It is supposed to be a
Speaker 2: real feel. It's supposed to be eight degrees with a
Speaker 2: real feel of negative three. Now, the other really unique
Speaker 2: thing about this demanse is not that Lamar's you know
Speaker 2: well documented does not like the cold Florida kid, but
Speaker 2: also that I the Ravens this week have been practicing
Speaker 2: indoors because their field, I guess, is frozen, and I
Speaker 2: want to get you, so I'm gonna read you directly
Speaker 2: from Baltimore Ravens dot com. Though the Ravens are in
Speaker 2: store for an ice box at high Mark Stadium, they
Speaker 2: did not practice outdoor with outdoors Wednesday for a very
Speaker 2: simple reason. The ground is frozen. We got it as
Speaker 2: cold as we can in here right now. It will
Speaker 2: be even colder tomorrow when I get all the water
Speaker 2: shut off in here so the pipes don't freeze, Harball said,
Speaker 2: so we'll have it cold. Would love to be outside
Speaker 2: but we just can't. The fields are too hard and
Speaker 2: they're frozen. I don't love that.
Speaker 3: Man at the game.
Speaker 2: I mean, no, no, no, no, no, I understand the rationale.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is it's bad fortune that I guess
Speaker 2: their practice fields aren't heated from the bottom like you
Speaker 2: can do in certain facilities. Maybe you can't really do
Speaker 2: that outdoors. I don't I'm not listen. I'm not a landscaper,
Speaker 2: but you are not preparing as well as you could
Speaker 2: for the elements by practicing indoors. Flatly, You're just not
Speaker 2: And the idea that like, oh we're gonna get it
Speaker 2: really cold in here, not as cold as it is
Speaker 2: outside of right now. And however cold it is right
Speaker 2: now in Baltimore, it is much colder in western New York.
Speaker 2: So that's now people can say that that's gonna make
Speaker 2: it harder to tackle Derrick Henry, and it might like
Speaker 2: that is that is a thing that could happen where
Speaker 2: people don't want to tackle Derrick Henry. Derrick Henry has
Speaker 2: you know, he hasn't played in one of these spots
Speaker 2: prior to the Pittsburgh game in quite some time. His
Speaker 2: last three playoff games before the Pittsburgh game. We're all
Speaker 2: bad by his standards. Now, that was teams where every
Speaker 2: single person on the opposing defense, like we stopped Derrick Henry.
Speaker 2: We win. But he went twenty for sixty two against
Speaker 2: the Bengals, he went eighteen for forty against Baltimore, and
Speaker 2: he went nineteen for sixty nine against the Chiefs in
Speaker 2: the AFC Championship game. What's unique about that three game
Speaker 2: stretch is his playoff career prior to that was thirty
Speaker 2: for one to ninety five against Baltimore, thirty four for
Speaker 2: one point eighty two against the Patriots, twelve for twenty
Speaker 2: eight against the Patriots in a loss, and twenty three
Speaker 2: for one point fifty six against the Chiefs in a win. So,
Speaker 2: Derek listen, Derek Henry for his playoff career has eight games,
Speaker 2: three of which four of which, pardon me, are A
Speaker 2: plus games, and four of which were bad games. It's
Speaker 2: really he's never had like an average playoff game. He
Speaker 2: has gone for either more than one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: yards or less than seventy yards in all eight of
Speaker 2: his games. It's a really unique game. Like so when
Speaker 2: you look at it, you're like, oh, he's played in
Speaker 2: eight playoff games, has nine hundred rushing yards. He gets
Speaker 2: you about one hundred yards a game, but that that's
Speaker 2: not true going from in kind of ascending order his
Speaker 2: rushing yards per playoff game or twenty eight forty sixty two,
Speaker 2: sixty nine and then one fifty six, one eighty two,
Speaker 2: one eighty six, one ninety five. So it really is like,
Speaker 2: you're not again. The past is not necessarily an indication
Speaker 2: of the future, but based on the past, you don't
Speaker 2: get B plus Derrick Henry playoff games. You get C
Speaker 2: minus or worse or holy that guy was dominant and
Speaker 2: by the way his team now again it is not.
Speaker 2: He was on a Titans team with Ryan Tannell as
Speaker 2: the quarterback, so that is not the situation here. But
Speaker 2: the four games he didn't hit seventy yards zero to
Speaker 2: four and the four games he had at least one
Speaker 2: fifty four and oh like now those are that's not
Speaker 2: surprising to anyone. And this Ravens team is far better
Speaker 2: built than any of those Titans teams to be able
Speaker 2: to win even if he doesn't have a monster game
Speaker 2: because they have Lamark quarterback, not Derrick Henry. But that
Speaker 2: is something I'm sorry, not Ryan Tannehill. That is something
Speaker 2: I'm super excited to watch, and we'll get to the
Speaker 2: pick part of it later. But the Bills being a
Speaker 2: home dog is noteworthy. They weren't a home dog against
Speaker 2: the Chiefs last year. They haven't been a home dog
Speaker 2: in the playoffs since anyone have the year I'll tell
Speaker 2: you nineteen sixty seven, and they haven't been a home
Speaker 2: dog in the regular season in their last forty some games.
Speaker 2: So it's surprising to me that Buffalo is a home dog. Now.
Speaker 2: We shouldn't disregard. We can't talk this game without acknowledging
Speaker 2: the fact these two teams did play earlier this year
Speaker 2: and it was not a classic. It was a route
Speaker 2: thirty five to ten, Buffalo up, I'm sorry, Baltimore up
Speaker 2: twenty one to three at the half was Baltimore Derrick
Speaker 2: Henry ran twenty four times for a buck ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Lamar only had to pass the ball eighteen times. Run
Speaker 2: of those eighteen pass attempts through for one sixty couple
Speaker 2: touchdowns a one thirty five rating. Baltimore ran for two
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy yards and Josh Allen didn't do anything
Speaker 2: Josh Allen ran the ball five times for twenty one yards,
Speaker 2: threw at sixteen to twenty nine for a buck eighty,
Speaker 2: no touchdowns, no picks at seventy four rating. So they did.
Speaker 2: Now that was back in September. But they played and
Speaker 2: it was a true role and so that is And
Speaker 2: by the way, it wasn't a game. Let me make
Speaker 2: sure I'm right about this. I don't think the turnover battle. No,
Speaker 2: the turnovers were one to one, so you got a
Speaker 2: true route in the game when turnovers didn't really play
Speaker 2: a factor. So that's a big check mark in Baltimore's favor.
Speaker 2: They doubled them up in yards and they just Derrick
Speaker 2: Henry had his way with them. So we'll see. I
Speaker 2: said it before, I'll say it again.
Speaker 3: They already played. Oh go ahead, I mean because McDermott
Speaker 3: had said that this is what everybody's been waiting for,
Speaker 3: Lamar going up against Buffalo. Would you consider that a
Speaker 3: bulletin board material or is it what everybody's been waiting for?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean no, I mean it is Lamar versus
Speaker 2: Josh because of the MVP stuff is what people have
Speaker 2: been waiting for all year. And I'll listen, all go
Speaker 2: a step further than Sean McDermott. I hope this is
Speaker 2: the greatest game in NFL history. I hope this is
Speaker 2: our first ever triple overtime playoff game. I hope people
Speaker 2: are telling their kids about what an absolute war this
Speaker 2: football game was. I hope it goes deep into Sunday
Speaker 2: night and whomever wins comes out limping and battered and
Speaker 2: bruised to get ready to come to Arrowhead the following week.
Speaker 2: I will I will give my pick during our gambling
Speaker 2: portion of the segment in a few minutes. But let's
Speaker 2: move on to the next game.
Speaker 3: Yes, the Chiefs, the starters are playing for the first
Speaker 3: time since Christmas. We thought that the winner of that
Speaker 3: Chargers Houston game was just going to be a blowover
Speaker 3: for the Chiefs. But with how Houston handled that game,
Speaker 3: did you do you see them being a potential problem
Speaker 3: for the Chiefs in the next round.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: I think this is kind of the best case scenario
Speaker 2: for the Chiefs because while I don't think the Chargers
Speaker 2: would have been a problem either, the familiarity of it
Speaker 2: there is that, and the Chargers played the Chiefs much
Speaker 2: tougher in their two matchups than the Texans did. And listen,
Speaker 2: the Texans salvaged what had been a somewhat disappointing season
Speaker 2: with that win last weekend. And the thing about that
Speaker 2: win last weekend is offensively, I did not think Houston
Speaker 2: played that well. I thought that Houston was like if
Speaker 2: Herbert had played anywhere close to what his standards supposed
Speaker 2: to be, that game should have been seventeen to nothing
Speaker 2: early second quarter and the Texans should have just been
Speaker 2: dead in the water. Instead, the Chargers let the Texan
Speaker 2: stick around six nothing for an hour, and then finally
Speaker 2: Houston made a couple plays. Then Herbert throws the pick six,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, the game is flipped entirely.
Speaker 2: I this Chiefs team you're about to see on Sunday
Speaker 2: Saturday is the first time all year long they're anywhere
Speaker 2: close to hole. Okay, so here's how it's gone for
Speaker 2: the Chiefs this year. Before the season even starts. But uh,
Speaker 2: Hollywood Brown breaks his collar bone. He's out less than
Speaker 2: a month. Then Rashi Rice goes down. Now take him
Speaker 2: out of the picture entirely because he's not coming back.
Speaker 2: Pa Checko makes his ankle or something out of his legs, ankle,
Speaker 2: whatever it was, he's out. Charles Amene, who their big
Speaker 2: free agent acquisition from a year ago, had torn his
Speaker 2: ACL in the AFC Championship game last season. He doesn't
Speaker 2: play the first three months of the year. Then Jalen Watson,
Speaker 2: the second best corner on this team, breaks his ankle.
Speaker 2: At the midway point of the season, they are shuffling
Speaker 2: in left tackle after left tackle, trying to figure it out.
Speaker 2: Bringing DJ Humphries in his first game. He pulls his
Speaker 2: hamstring and now, oh yeah, and by the way, Travis
Speaker 2: Kelce was, you know, on a bit of a pitch
Speaker 2: count all year and really trying to amp up for
Speaker 2: this moment. And now they enter the postseason with DJ
Speaker 2: Humphreys back and healthy, with Hollywood Brown back and healthy,
Speaker 2: with Isaiah Pacheco back and healthy, with Charles Aminehu back
Speaker 2: and healthy with I left something out there, the oh,
Speaker 2: Jalen Watson back exactly right, thank you, practicing in full
Speaker 2: and Mahomes. In the two games with Hollywood Brown, the
Speaker 2: Chiefs averaged twenty eight points a game. Mahomes had a
Speaker 2: one to ten Basser rating, six touchdowns and no picks.
Speaker 2: You saw a glimpse of what the Chiefs were gonna
Speaker 2: look like come the playoffs. In that three games in
Speaker 2: eleven days, win these three games, get the one seed.
Speaker 2: And it was the best three games they played all year.
Speaker 2: And now you're going to see a rested, hungry, ready
Speaker 2: Chiefs team. I'm the they might throw it back in
Speaker 2: second gear in the second half if the Texans don't
Speaker 2: put up a fight. But I'm telling you right now,
Speaker 2: here's one little prior to the gambling show note, Chiefs
Speaker 2: over first half points might be the best bet of
Speaker 2: these NFL playoffs. The producers can tell me what it is.
Speaker 2: My guess is it's probably fourteen and a half. You
Speaker 2: guys can put in the dock real quick. If you
Speaker 2: guys want to look up what it is exactly, I'm
Speaker 2: trying to find it right now as I'm talking to you.
Speaker 2: But the Chiefs over first half points? And is there
Speaker 2: what's the first half spread? First half spread is Kansas
Speaker 2: City minus four and a half. I like that. What
Speaker 2: I love is the well, I mean, I can probably
Speaker 2: game it out. What the first half? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: Vegas thinks that this game is gonna basically be thirteen
Speaker 2: and a half? Is the Chiefs first half point spread,
Speaker 2: point total. I'm telling you right now they might have
Speaker 2: if they if the Chiefs receive the opening kickoff, they'll
Speaker 2: have the thirteen and a half by the end of
Speaker 2: the first quarter. That much is so again, Like now,
Speaker 2: I do think we might get Andy Reid's shutdown mode
Speaker 2: in a playoff game if like the halftime score is
Speaker 2: twenty to three. But no, I'm not gonna see the
Speaker 2: Chiefs a week from Sunday. Say it again to manse nothing.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you said already I said it
Speaker 3: was minus one five, said the odds on it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so it's yeah, So it's actually it's not
Speaker 2: even full ten sent juice, just five sent juice. So
Speaker 2: it's slightly tiny bit juice to the under I I mean,
Speaker 2: that is as good of a bad as you're gonna find,
Speaker 2: is the Chiefs over thirteen and a half in the
Speaker 2: first half. I want to make this clear. Next week,
Speaker 2: next Sunday against Baltimore or Buffalo is going to be
Speaker 2: a war. And I am not gonna be as headstrong
Speaker 2: about that game this week. You let me remind the
Speaker 2: audience one other thing before we move on. So Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes has suffered, there's been three injuries in his career
Speaker 2: that he has had to leave the game because of.
Speaker 2: One was the quarter back sneak years ago that he
Speaker 2: didn't miss two weeks because he dislocated his kneecap got
Speaker 2: carted off the field. I thought I was gonna collapse.
Speaker 2: The other two both happened in playoff games. In the
Speaker 2: Chiefs first playoff game of the year against the Browns
Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty season, they thought he suffered a concussion.
Speaker 2: He actually got choked and passed out, and so they
Speaker 2: he was out and they wouldn't let him come back in.
Speaker 2: It was a crazy play because like he blacked out temporarily,
Speaker 2: so his knees buckled, So they said no concussion, but
Speaker 2: he had no If you watch the play and I
Speaker 2: talked to him after the fact, there was no head injury.
Speaker 2: It was just they tried to tackle him and got
Speaker 2: their arm around his windpipe and he passed out. And
Speaker 2: that was the Henny thing as possible, Chad Henny moment
Speaker 2: where he runs for it on third and seventeen and
Speaker 2: then they throw the pass on fourth and one to
Speaker 2: beat the Browns and Baker the other one. He came
Speaker 2: back in this game but was the Jags game when
Speaker 2: I think it was arden Key did the hip drop
Speaker 2: tackle he'd sprained his ankle. The other three the other four,
Speaker 2: So in his career, two of his six first playoff
Speaker 2: games he hasn't played the whole game. The other four,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs have won thirty one to thirteen, fifty one
Speaker 2: to thirty one after being down twenty four to nothing,
Speaker 2: forty two to twenty one, and twenty six to seven.
Speaker 2: They have won them all by at least nineteen points
Speaker 2: or eighteen points, pardon me, In fact, they have won
Speaker 2: them by that's so fun. They beat the Browns, they
Speaker 2: beat the Colts by exactly eighteen, They beat the Dolphins
Speaker 2: by exactly nineteen, they beat the Texans by exactly twenty,
Speaker 2: and they beat the Steelers by exactly twenty one. So
Speaker 2: eighteen nineteen twenty twenty one they had scored the They
Speaker 2: have scored thirty one, fifty one, forty two, and last
Speaker 2: year twenty six in negative twenty degree weather. That vintage
Speaker 2: Chiefs team that you've been looking for all year, you're
Speaker 2: gonna see Saturday afternoon. I don't know if it will
Speaker 2: be for the full game, because I don't know if
Speaker 2: the Texans Dolphins is gonna keep it close, but certainly
Speaker 2: for the first half.
Speaker 3: All right, next, Yeah, so you changed your NFC Super
Speaker 3: Bowl pick this time to the Rams. You initially had Philly.
Speaker 3: So the Rams end up losing this game, will you
Speaker 3: shamelessly go back to Philly?
Speaker 2: H No, I think if the Rams lose this game,
Speaker 2: I won't be allowed to have an NFC Super Bowl pick.
Speaker 2: To be totally honest with you, I don't think you're
Speaker 2: allowed for And what I will tell you is this,
Speaker 2: and we'll spend more time on Rams Eagles in the picks.
Speaker 2: It's very, very rare that one team has a decided
Speaker 2: advantage at coach and quarterback and that team is the
Speaker 2: underdog I and it is incredibly rare that one team
Speaker 2: has the decided advantage at coaching quarterback and that team loses.
Speaker 2: And that's what the Rams have now. One instance of
Speaker 2: the team having the decided advantage at coaching quarterback and
Speaker 2: losing is actually the Chiefs to the Bengals in the
Speaker 2: AFC Championship Game in overtime in twenty twenty one. On
Speaker 2: Another example would be I we now would say the
Speaker 2: Vikings to the Giants, but at the time I don't
Speaker 2: know if people thought Kevin O'Connell was better than Brian Dable.
Speaker 2: Brian Dable just won Coach of the Year, and so
Speaker 2: I just this Rams team is really really dangerous. And
Speaker 2: again we can move off that here because we're gonna
Speaker 2: talk more about them in the picks segment. Let's go
Speaker 2: to the last game. Uh yo.
Speaker 3: So Detroit is obviously rested off the buy they're catching
Speaker 3: Washington and we don't know what's gonna happen there as
Speaker 3: a young, feisty team, and we obviously know Detroit's going
Speaker 3: to be able to compete with Super Bowls in the future.
Speaker 3: But is it crazy to say that Washington is going
Speaker 3: to be their their best competition in the NFC for
Speaker 3: years to come?
Speaker 2: So that's interesting. I hadn't thought about this game under
Speaker 2: those terms. So I do think is positioned incredibly well. Right,
Speaker 2: So let's just say Detroit's the class of the conference
Speaker 2: for the time being. Who else is right there with them?
Speaker 2: I think we've got to give Philadelphia credit for what
Speaker 2: they've been able to do year after year and put
Speaker 2: them right there. I would put Washington in the same
Speaker 2: bucket that I would put Green Bay. Young quarterback you
Speaker 2: really like, you know, a lot of flexibility cap wise,
Speaker 2: very young defense and trying to build it out. You know,
Speaker 2: obviously I would love to put the Bears in there
Speaker 2: because of Kleb, but they haven't proven that at all,
Speaker 2: so I can't. I would say it. I love what
Speaker 2: Washington has put together. I also in this game, and
Speaker 2: you know you'll hear about it when you do our
Speaker 2: picks in a minute. But this was the one game
Speaker 2: I struggled with demonse from a picks perspective, because I
Speaker 2: would be listen, I'd be shocked if Washington won the game.
Speaker 2: But Detroit's defense had been truly horrible to close the year.
Speaker 2: And when we look at it, they I mean, they
Speaker 2: allowed thirty one to the Packers, forty eight to the Bills,
Speaker 2: thirty four to the Niners. But then we saw them
Speaker 2: hold the Vikings and Sam Donald to nine points, and
Speaker 2: we're like, Okay, they figured something out. But then we
Speaker 2: saw the Vikings and Sam Donald immediately get held to
Speaker 2: nine points again in the next game they played, and like, oh,
Speaker 2: maybe it was that Donald just pumpkin moded it. So
Speaker 2: I do think Washington is gonna be able to move
Speaker 2: the football. I also I said this, I think on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: I'll say it again. Three quarterbacks ever as a rookie
Speaker 2: have won road playoff games. Mark Sanchez who then also
Speaker 2: won on the road in round two and went to
Speaker 2: the conference championship game. Joe Flacco, who then also won
Speaker 2: in round two and went to the conference championship game.
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson, who I'm gonna put that game is like
Speaker 2: a game that gets forgotten to history. Russell Wilson's second
Speaker 2: career playoff game. It was an old timer. So it
Speaker 2: was Seahawks Falcons in Atlanta halftime score twenty to zering
Speaker 2: Atlanta going into the fourth quarter, Demons Russell Wilson to
Speaker 2: rookies on the road going into the fourth quarter, twenty
Speaker 2: seven to seven Atlanta. The Seahawks then score three consecutive touchdowns,
Speaker 2: including a Marshawn Lynch touchdown with thirty one seconds left,
Speaker 2: uh to take a twenty eight to twenty seven lead,
Speaker 2: and they can't hold it for those final thirty seconds.
Speaker 2: I'm checking that was there a kickoff out of bounds?
Speaker 2: What happened? So they take the lead twenty eight to
Speaker 2: twenty seven. It wasn't a kickoff out of bounds, but
Speaker 2: there's a kick return to the twenty eight, and so
Speaker 2: there's twenty five seconds left. Atlanta has the ball down
Speaker 2: one on their own twenty eight. Matt Ryan to Harry
Speaker 2: Douglas for twenty two yards to get it to midfield.
Speaker 2: Then Matt Ryan to Tony Gonzalez. How about that for
Speaker 2: nineteen yards? Uh, and they're kicking a field goal. That's
Speaker 2: on believable. They got the ball twenty five seconds left,
Speaker 2: they kicked their field goal with thirteen seconds left. They're like,
Speaker 2: we don't even want to run anymore plays and Matt
Speaker 2: Bryant bangs a forty nine yarder and they win. So
Speaker 2: point being only three rookie quarterbacks ever have won a
Speaker 2: road playoff game. Two of the three then won the
Speaker 2: next round, and the other one had a lead with
Speaker 2: thirty seconds left kicking off and they lost. So it
Speaker 2: would be an unbelievable story if Jaden can win. But
Speaker 2: everything seems to come up. The NFL and the AFC
Speaker 2: Championship weekend as long as the Chiefs win is sets
Speaker 2: up an all time game. Mahomes trying to reach his
Speaker 2: third straight Super Bowl? What would be the sixth? Is
Speaker 2: that right?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Sorry? The fifth Super Bowl of his career and his
Speaker 2: fifth in the last six years, while going for a
Speaker 2: three peat against either Lamar or Josh doesn't matter who.
Speaker 2: Both of them had their seasons ended in their building
Speaker 2: by Patrick last year. For those guys to reach their
Speaker 2: first ever Super Bowl, that'd be one side of the bracket.
Speaker 2: The other side of the bracket. If it's Lions Eagles,
Speaker 2: you get the two best teams in the conference all year.
Speaker 2: Out of its Lions Rams, you get an all time
Speaker 2: storyline game, the Lions trying to reach their first Super
Speaker 2: Bowl ever with the best team they've ever had against
Speaker 2: their guy Matt Stafford, who they traded away to the Rams,
Speaker 2: and he instantly won a Super Bowl and could deny
Speaker 2: them their own trip. It'd be a pretty epic conference
Speaker 2: championship weekend. How do I see that going? And who
Speaker 2: do I have in the College Football National Championship? We
Speaker 2: do all that next What's Right? All right? Welcome back
Speaker 2: in What's Right with Nick? Right before we get demon's
Speaker 2: a two our divisional weekend picks and another winning weekend
Speaker 2: for yours truly, and I got on your corner. He
Speaker 2: even gave out a great teaser. Let's do a little
Speaker 2: college football just for a moment, because the National Championship
Speaker 2: game is on Monday.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, your favorite sports weekend of the year is
Speaker 3: going to be capped off with the National Championship game
Speaker 3: between Ohio State and Notre Dame. So you're not usually
Speaker 3: a college football guy, but would you say anything in
Speaker 3: this game is catching your eye?
Speaker 2: Listen, I love what Notre Dame's done. Marcus Freeman's made them.
Speaker 2: Like Mikable, I said on the TV show a few
Speaker 2: weeks ago that I thought they were gonna win the
Speaker 2: National Championship. Now Ohio State's better. There's no there's no
Speaker 2: denying Ohio State's the better team. I just feel like
Speaker 2: Notre Dame it's gonna have a little something extra for him.
Speaker 2: This is not I'm gonna say this on the front end.
Speaker 2: You will get better, more in depth game analysis of
Speaker 2: this game elsewhere. But here is what made me even
Speaker 2: more confident about my Notre Dame gut feeling. Every gambler
Speaker 2: in America, and this has been uh vouched for by
Speaker 2: sportsbooks and places that report on these types of things,
Speaker 2: have a two team teaser going this weekend Demons or
Speaker 2: a two team moneyline parlay, and it is the Chiefs
Speaker 2: parlayed or teased with Ohio State and Winever. Ever, everyone
Speaker 2: has one of those going. It doesn't bode well for
Speaker 2: one of the legs. And I'm here to tell you
Speaker 2: the Chiefs aren't losing to the Texans on Saturday, So
Speaker 2: that just leaves Ohio State and I just think Marcus
Speaker 2: Freeman and Notre Dame are gonna win. And I think
Speaker 2: that there is going to be I wonder if Ryan
Speaker 2: Day is gonna be able to ignore the devil on
Speaker 2: his shoulder saying falling into the same trap he fell
Speaker 2: into against Michigan, which is, Oh, they think they're the
Speaker 2: physical team. We're gonna show them who the physical team is.
Speaker 2: Ohio State should lean into who they are, which is
Speaker 2: you've got three first round wide receivers, throw the ball.
Speaker 2: Notre Dame just wants to run the hell out of
Speaker 2: the ball and play good defense. I can't wait for it.
Speaker 2: I think again, it's not the greatest analysis in the world.
Speaker 2: Just have a gut feeling. I think Notre Dame wins.
Speaker 2: Great analysis has been my picks all year. Just another
Speaker 2: great weekend. Really, in my opinion, only one game I
Speaker 2: was on the wrong side of. We can go over
Speaker 2: who it was last week in Demonse, another four and
Speaker 2: two week, Houston plus three against the Chargers went out right.
Speaker 2: Buffalo minus eight and a half against Denver, spot them seven,
Speaker 2: score thirty one straight. Tampa minus three against Washington. Again,
Speaker 2: I don't feel I was on the wrong side of
Speaker 2: that one. That was not only a coin flip game,
Speaker 2: a coin flip point spread game, because if Tampa would
Speaker 2: have punched it in on the drive win they screwed
Speaker 2: up the snap, they would have been up four. So
Speaker 2: I feel fine about that. Pittsburgh plus nine and a
Speaker 2: half against Ball, the more bat wrong side of it
Speaker 2: a bad pick. Philly minus four and a half against
Speaker 2: green Bay. Philly didn't even play that well and easily covered.
Speaker 2: And the Rams plus one and a half against Minnesota.
Speaker 2: That thing was never a doubt from the word go.
Speaker 2: It also did allow the teaser I gave America the
Speaker 2: Rams plus seven and a half and the Bills down
Speaker 2: to two and a half that came in, and I'll
Speaker 2: tell you right now, I I placed teasers that teaser
Speaker 2: this past weekend, and then Monday morning I placed another
Speaker 2: teaser involving the Rams. I teased the Rams up to
Speaker 2: plus seven and a half in that game, along with
Speaker 2: the Chiefs down to minus one and a half, and
Speaker 2: I give you another. So I half that's already in,
Speaker 2: and I'll give you another one. I did. I teased
Speaker 2: the Chiefs down to minus one and a half and
Speaker 2: the bill this weekend up to plus seven and a half.
Speaker 2: So we got playoff teasers galore coming. And so one
Speaker 2: of them, one of them's in, one of them's halfway in.
Speaker 2: One of them hasn't kicked off yet either leg obviously,
Speaker 2: So there we go. Let's start with our picks this weekend. Well,
Speaker 2: it's a playoff football, man, we gotta playoff football. Also,
Speaker 2: remember that screenshot I sent you up that bet I
Speaker 2: made on the Rams at seventy five to one I've
Speaker 2: got If we have a Chiefs Rams super Bowl, I
Speaker 2: am obviously I will be devastating if the Chiefs make
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl and lose. But if we have a
Speaker 2: Chiefs Ram Super Bowl, I will be locked into the
Speaker 2: single biggest gambling win of my life in either direction.
Speaker 2: And so now, if we have a Lions Chiefs super
Speaker 2: Bowl and the Lions win, it will it might be
Speaker 2: the single biggest gambling loss.
Speaker 3: In my life.
Speaker 2: It would be bad. It would be bad, but you
Speaker 2: know that's what we you know, that's what we live
Speaker 2: for for the action. All right, let's go, let's go
Speaker 2: in order, first game of the weekend. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: First off, you've got Casey minus eight and a half
Speaker 3: versus Houston.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think this one's close, guys. I laid
Speaker 2: it all out earlier in the show. I think Casey's
Speaker 2: I think this will be the first game all year
Speaker 2: the Chiefs score more than thirty points. I think the
Speaker 2: Chiefs will have twenty points at halftime. I think Mahomes
Speaker 2: is gonna get the ball out of his hands quick
Speaker 2: and neutralize that Houston pass rush. He is not going
Speaker 2: to throw make the types of throws that Justin Herbert
Speaker 2: did and let Houston pick him off four times. Patrick
Speaker 2: Mullos in this round in his career is six and oh,
Speaker 2: they score thirty two points a game. He has sixteen touchdowns,
Speaker 2: zero picks. They're historically blowouts, the one that well, that's
Speaker 2: not fair. Two of the six have not been blowouts.
Speaker 2: But in the divisional round they have beaten the Colts
Speaker 2: by eighteen, the Texans by twenty, the Browns in a
Speaker 2: I guess you know what I Let me take that back,
Speaker 2: because I forgot that the Browns game was the divisional round.
Speaker 2: Obviously the thirteen seconds game was the divisional round. So
Speaker 2: they haven't all been blowouts. That's incorrect by me. Their first,
Speaker 2: but the first game of the playoffs. That's what I
Speaker 2: was thinking. Four of the six times Mahomes been in
Speaker 2: the playoffs, that first game they played after the bye
Speaker 2: or after rest was a bl the two that what
Speaker 2: weren't he got dinged up in? I just I think Houston.
Speaker 2: This is around the Chiefs never lose in. And it's
Speaker 2: around the Texans literally have never won in. They've never
Speaker 2: played in the conference championship game.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Mahomes in his career with extra rest is thirty one
Speaker 2: and seven straight up. Mahomes in his career with thirteen
Speaker 2: or more days of rest is nineteen and three straight
Speaker 2: up and thirteen and nine against the spread. The Chiefs
Speaker 2: last three regular season games that Mahomes played in, they
Speaker 2: won by an average of thirteen points. And they we
Speaker 2: just saw them play Houston and handle Houston pretty easily
Speaker 2: as they were getting Hollywood Brown back in the game.
Speaker 2: That's the game you and I watched together, right, demanse
Speaker 2: was it the No, the Steelers game was on Christmas? No? No, No,
Speaker 2: the Houston game was You weren't You weren't in New York.
Speaker 2: Yet we watched Chiefs Raiders together over Thanksgiving and Chiefs
Speaker 2: Steelers together on Christmas. This was the Saturday before Christmas.
Speaker 2: But I like the Chiefs minus the eight and a
Speaker 2: half next and.
Speaker 3: She've got Washington plus nine and a half at Detroit.
Speaker 2: This was the one that I struggled with the most.
Speaker 2: I feel really good about the other two picks. This
Speaker 2: one I ended up landing on. I just think Washington
Speaker 2: is gonna be able to score a bunch of points.
Speaker 2: The reason I struggled with it is I could see
Speaker 2: a scenario where Washington scores twenty eight and doesn't cover
Speaker 2: like I think Detroit might score every time they have
Speaker 2: the ball, and so I do not trust Washington's defense
Speaker 2: against the Lions at all. But Jaden's been so good
Speaker 2: in big spots. Washington somewhat neutralizes the Lions fourth down
Speaker 2: edge that they have on thost teams because Washington goes
Speaker 2: forth on fourth down as aggressively and as much as
Speaker 2: any team in the league, and there obviously will be
Speaker 2: backdoor cover potential where even if Detroit is up fourteen points,
Speaker 2: Washington's gonna be fighting to the very end. I'd really,
Speaker 2: really would love if this thing could touch ten points,
Speaker 2: so you can you know if they're down seventeen, your
Speaker 2: BET's not dead because of the back door cover. But
Speaker 2: I again, I do not have as much conviction in
Speaker 2: this game as I do in the other three. But
Speaker 2: we pick every game of the playoffs because I think
Speaker 2: Detroit's defense is a truly beleaguered unit. Right now, I
Speaker 2: will take Washington plus the points. But as you can hear,
Speaker 2: i'm my heart's I don't this is I don't have
Speaker 2: a great feel for it, and full disclosure to the audience,
Speaker 2: this is a game I will not be better. So
Speaker 2: the deal I have with the audience during the regular
Speaker 2: season is we have a full slate of games. I
Speaker 2: pick my five favorite and I bet all five games.
Speaker 2: In the playoffs, I pick every single game, so I
Speaker 2: don't feel the obligation to bet every single game if
Speaker 2: I don't have a good feel for it. This is
Speaker 2: the hardest one for me, but I'll take Washington plus
Speaker 2: the points. Next.
Speaker 3: Next, you've got the Rams plus six at Philly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the Rams are gonna win the game.
Speaker 2: How about this? Fir A stet since two thousand and three,
Speaker 2: Super Bowl winning quarterbacks are sixty two and twenty five
Speaker 2: against the spread when they're an underdog in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: sixty two and twenty five when they're an underdog in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. Sean McVeigh is sixteen and seven in his
Speaker 2: career against the spread on short rest and seven and
Speaker 2: one against the spread in his last eight games. In
Speaker 2: this spot, the producers ask me if I'm interested in
Speaker 2: the Rams money line at plus two thirty five. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just I'm betting the Rams to win the game.
Speaker 2: So yes, I think the Rams are going to win
Speaker 2: the game. Now, the Eagles at home in the playoffs
Speaker 2: under Jalen Hurts just blow people out. They're three and
Speaker 2: zero against the spread, and they they, however the spread
Speaker 2: by an average of seventeen points per game. They have
Speaker 2: just been an absolute wagon at home in the playoffs
Speaker 2: with Jalen.
Speaker 3: But you see them.
Speaker 2: There are three playoff wins with Jalen Hurts. He's never
Speaker 2: thrown for one hundred and forty yards in any of
Speaker 2: these games, or more than one hundred and fifty yards.
Speaker 2: He's never rushed for more than forty yards in any
Speaker 2: of these games. And I just think McVeigh and Stafford
Speaker 2: getting six points is a great side to be on.
Speaker 2: And I like the Rams to win outright, And I
Speaker 2: do think a Lions Rams NFC championship game just sets
Speaker 2: up amazing drama and it's an amazing story for the NFL.
Speaker 2: And now, lastly, demonte the game of the weekend.
Speaker 3: Buffalo plus one and a half versus Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I I think Buffalo is the slightly better team
Speaker 2: and they're at home. I think this line should be
Speaker 2: Buffalo minus two and a half, and so I would
Speaker 2: not listen. I would not be shocked at Baltimore won.
Speaker 2: But I think the line opened a little too short
Speaker 2: when it opened Buffalo minus one and a half, and
Speaker 2: the fact that it flipped all the way to the
Speaker 2: other side is crazy to me, and so listen. I
Speaker 2: understand Lamar is an underdog or as a small small
Speaker 2: favorite is dominant twenty six and nine against spreading his career.
Speaker 2: I just I think the conditions favor Buffalo. The home
Speaker 2: field obviously favors Buffalo, the fact that they there is
Speaker 2: immense pressure on both of these guys. Obviously, Lamar's yet
Speaker 2: to have a great playoff run. Josh has lost in
Speaker 2: this round three straight years, and he's lost in this
Speaker 2: round at home two straight years. I just think the
Speaker 2: Bills have been the second best team in football this
Speaker 2: year and the second most complete team in football this year.
Speaker 2: As far as Offen steve, it's not necessarily all the talent,
Speaker 2: and so I like Buffalo plus a point and a half. Demons,
Speaker 2: I assume that you are big on the Ravens here, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Take the I take the Ravens. Mind well, in a
Speaker 3: close game like this, kind of like getting the points,
Speaker 3: but it's it's one half point. I think the Ravens
Speaker 3: are gonna win. So it's just no and if they do.
Speaker 2: Right, if you think this is really right, this is
Speaker 2: not a pick them, but it's close to a pick them.
Speaker 2: Do you agree with me that? Well? Who do you
Speaker 2: do you think this is a Lamar game? Or if
Speaker 2: the Ravens win, is it a Lamar game or Garret?
Speaker 3: It's more likely to be Derrick Henry. He's more likely
Speaker 3: to be wouldn't say. I wouldn't say I would be
Speaker 3: shocked if it were Lamar. But yeah, I think that's
Speaker 3: what the game plan should be.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so all right, So my four picks for
Speaker 4: the week, Kansas City laying the eight and a half,
Speaker 4: and then three underdogs Washington plus nine and a half,
Speaker 4: the Rams plus six, the Bills plus.
Speaker 2: One and a half. I don't feel the need to
Speaker 2: recap your picks from last week, Demonse. I don't think
Speaker 2: that's well, I mean, I don't. It feels mean. I mean,
Speaker 2: we can show it to you. Demonse decided to stray
Speaker 2: from his teaser comfort zone and it really didn't go
Speaker 2: great somehow. Yeah, I mean, go ahead if you want
Speaker 2: to defend yourself here. It just didn't go great.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I mean this it's really you know, defense,
Speaker 3: it's unfortunate. I was doing really well on the pick
Speaker 3: them league on the side. That seems like I was
Speaker 3: lying the entire time I make picks. This one time,
Speaker 3: how did you finish in that, pops, I didn't make
Speaker 3: my picks when I went out to Christmas vacation, so
Speaker 3: that put me in a really bad you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: really really it was. I gotta say, like, you know,
Speaker 3: it's like a series that made me finishing third, I was,
Speaker 3: I was, I was actually like a little like, bro,
Speaker 3: what come on dude. But but yeah, I can't believe
Speaker 3: were you in when you was in second? I was one,
Speaker 3: I was one, I was one pick behind first. It was.
Speaker 2: Did you still finish? I had a j mac Yeah.
Speaker 3: Honestly, Wait, hold on that that might not be true.
Speaker 2: You know wow you went O for five on a week. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and and.
Speaker 3: Then got two picks. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: Yeah that devastating. We're back next year.
Speaker 2: Uh but uh but yeah.
Speaker 3: I means damn near didn't allow me to make picks
Speaker 3: this time. They actually kind of pushed me over to
Speaker 3: the teasers.
Speaker 2: But no, I no, screw that. Yeah, you just do them.
Speaker 2: We don't need graphics. Yeah minus eight and a half
Speaker 2: for Houston plus eight and a half.
Speaker 3: Oh uh yeah, So I am gonna my teaser. It's
Speaker 3: a three team this seven and a half.
Speaker 2: Oh no wait wait wait, wait, hold on, you can
Speaker 2: do your teaser as well your four game picks. I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna go through them real quick. James minus eight
Speaker 2: and a half or Houston plus eight and a half.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take Houston plus eight and a half.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're going against me there, Washington plus nine
Speaker 2: and a half. Or Detroit, UH.
Speaker 3: Minus Washington plus the nine and a half.
Speaker 2: All right, we're on the same side there, Rams plus
Speaker 2: six or Philly minus.
Speaker 3: Six Rams plus the six there and then there and then.
Speaker 2: And then you already said Baltimore minus one and a half.
Speaker 2: So we're opposite on Kansas City, Houston and Baltimore Buffalo.
Speaker 2: We're the same on the others. Now, let me hear
Speaker 2: this teaser. Let's see if we can get back on
Speaker 2: the right side of things.
Speaker 3: Three team seven and a half point teaser. Sitting at
Speaker 3: plus one oh five. We're teasing Kansas City down to
Speaker 3: minus one versus Houston.
Speaker 2: Just to win.
Speaker 3: Okay, yep, exactly, they're a pick up. And then we're
Speaker 3: teasing Washington up to plus seventeen. And then we've got
Speaker 3: the Rams plus fourteen at Philly. And as far as
Speaker 3: h did you know, what do you call it? Baltimore Buffalo?
Speaker 3: Leaving those games out. As far as the teasers, just
Speaker 3: want to enjoy it, it's gonna be a great game.
Speaker 2: All right. I love this teaser. I'll give this teaser
Speaker 2: an a. You get the Chiefs through all the key numbers,
Speaker 2: you get Washington up to seventeen, which I love you
Speaker 2: get the rams up to fourteen, which I love. That's
Speaker 2: a great teaser. They want the touchdown Genie. The Bruisers
Speaker 2: tried to get us Jalen McMillan. I rejected it smartly.
Speaker 2: I do like this week for touchdown Genie. Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey in the playoffs is a dominant performer. He
Speaker 2: is rested. Went on, you know, did the podcast rounds
Speaker 2: this week made it sound like he does not plan
Speaker 2: to retire, which I love to hear. So Kelsey plus
Speaker 2: one fifty five anytime touchdown? I like that one a lot.
Speaker 2: And the producers have an offer for me, demonte so
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 3: Uh So, Travis Kelcey to score a touchdown in the
Speaker 3: super Bowl is plus five point fifty right now? Would
Speaker 3: you take that?
Speaker 2: No? I wouldn't. I think that. I think you probably
Speaker 2: can get better if you believe that's going to happen.
Speaker 2: I bet you can get better odds by simply so.
Speaker 2: It's not that I don't think you'll score touch down
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. It's that if you do the following,
Speaker 2: you're betting the same thing, and I bet you get
Speaker 2: like plus six hundred, which is bet the Chiefs on
Speaker 2: the money line this week, because in order for the
Speaker 2: Chiefs to win the Super Bowl, they are for Kelsey
Speaker 2: to score touched on the Super Bowl. The Chiefs obviously
Speaker 2: have to win this week and win next week, and
Speaker 2: then Kelsey has score touchdown. So what I would say
Speaker 2: would be the better way to make that bet be
Speaker 2: bet the Chiefs on the money line this week. Then
Speaker 2: take every single dollar that you bet on that and
Speaker 2: that you won, put it on the Chief's money line
Speaker 2: next week. Then take every single dollar that you put
Speaker 2: on that and that you won on Kelsey to score
Speaker 2: a touchdown come the Super Bowl. My guess is those
Speaker 2: three things put together, you end up with like a
Speaker 2: plus six hundred ultimate you know, wager, so to speak.
Speaker 2: So I do like the idea of Kelsey scoring touchdown
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. I don't like betting it right now
Speaker 2: at plus five fifty because I think you can do better.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, answer some listener questions. Then I
Speaker 2: got to get out of here. What's right? All right,
Speaker 2: Demon's let's get right to it. Let's answer some listener questions.
Speaker 3: Please, uh Blue, as the sports media. As the sports media,
Speaker 3: I'm budsman. I need you to ask why the NFL
Speaker 3: broadcasts have been talking about running backs, misstackles forrest rather
Speaker 3: than just broken tackles. It's a stupid change.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't like it either, and I don't
Speaker 2: get it. I'm sure there's some like the way that
Speaker 2: that's being graded by the league or maybe it's an
Speaker 2: official stat but I like broken tackles more as well.
Speaker 2: All right, Next one.
Speaker 3: Scott, would the floor be fired or on the hot seat?
Speaker 3: Without the seventh seed? But the old format, the Packers
Speaker 3: would have missed the playoffs three seasons in a row.
Speaker 2: That's an amazing I had never thought. Listen, I love
Speaker 2: Matt Lafleur, but that is a really interesting wrinkle that
Speaker 2: the last year with Rogers they missed the playoffs. Last
Speaker 2: year they were the seventh seed and then won that
Speaker 2: game which really made them everyone love them. And this
Speaker 2: year they were the seventh seed. That's that's interesting. I
Speaker 2: maybe would be on the hot seat if they had
Speaker 2: gone three straight years without making the playoffs. Wow, maybe
Speaker 2: that's interesting. All right?
Speaker 3: Next, Ethan Nick, what's your favorite part of living in NYC?
Speaker 3: If it's not for first things? First? Would you stay
Speaker 3: or would you move somewhere else? Uh?
Speaker 2: My favorite party about living in New York is without
Speaker 2: question the food. It's not like the food by a mile.
Speaker 2: It's the best food city in the world. With respect
Speaker 2: to Tokyo in Paris. It's the best food city in
Speaker 2: the world. I actually watched football with my buddy Maverick
Speaker 2: this weekend and he was trying to argue for Los Angeles'
Speaker 2: food scene, and LA's got a good food scene, but
Speaker 2: it's not New York. I don't think I'll live here
Speaker 2: for the rest of my life. But what I I mean,
Speaker 2: my wife's store is here. I so, if not for
Speaker 2: the TV show, would I live here? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I certainly listen. If not for the TV show, I
Speaker 2: don't think I would spend winters here. I know I
Speaker 2: sound like an old man when I say that, but
Speaker 2: I if not for the the if when Deanna graduates
Speaker 2: high school, I think i'll I think i'd probably split
Speaker 2: time between Vegas and New York, is what I think
Speaker 2: I would do. Uh, And I think maybe I will
Speaker 2: do maybe LA and New York. But I'm not sure
Speaker 2: that's what DeMont no.
Speaker 3: I guess, yeah exactly for seasons, yeah.
Speaker 2: Not not like regularly. Uh. All right, so let's uh oh,
Speaker 2: you guys erased the question read that.
Speaker 3: One read that, David Nick, how excited was your wife's
Speaker 3: when she found out she was going to get to
Speaker 3: throw a mug of water on your face on live TV?
Speaker 2: That wasn't my wife, that's a that's our friend of
Speaker 2: ours named Seanna. Listen, the audience is not obligated to
Speaker 2: know what, uh, my wife looks like. And so I'm
Speaker 2: not bothered. A lot of people thought that, and I
Speaker 2: think they just saw a pretty black woman with big
Speaker 2: the hair. Yeah, but uh yeah, My godmother texts me
Speaker 2: and said that a lot of her friends text her
Speaker 2: saying Nick's wife's on the show, but she knew it
Speaker 2: wasn't to her and like, no, so no, that's our
Speaker 2: friend Sean o'harley. Shout out to her. She did a
Speaker 2: great job with that, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Noah Nick, if the Eagles win this weekend, will
Speaker 3: this flip fop go down worse than your Warrior Celtics
Speaker 3: Celtics one?
Speaker 2: No, because this one, the Warriors Celtics one, was such
Speaker 2: a weird one, and Draymond got mad and all that.
Speaker 2: My heart was never with the Eagles. Everyone knew that.
Speaker 2: It was pretty clear.
Speaker 3: Next, one Luke question for Nick, is it possible your
Speaker 3: problems with early Lamar actually at Greg Roman problem. We've
Speaker 3: seen him coach unmitigated disaster playoff games with two generational quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Maybe, I mean, listen, we'll see. The problem with that
Speaker 2: line of thinking is last year's AFC Championship game when
Speaker 2: they scored ten points and Lamar really struggled. Greg Roman
Speaker 2: wasn't there. But maybe listen, if Lamargo's on a great
Speaker 2: playoff run, then maybe you can lay it at Greg
Speaker 2: Roman's feet and we'll see what happens with Harball. I
Speaker 2: cannot wait for this weekend. I said, we'll see what
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