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Speaker 2: Welcome in episode one nine two. What's right with Nick Wright?
Speaker 2: Starting promptly and on time. Great job by our tech
Speaker 2: staff today making sure we didn't have to deal with
Speaker 2: some of those tech things we dealt with on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Apologies again for that fact wrong time. I forgot to
Speaker 2: tweet out the link. Now I've done it, thanks to
Speaker 2: Jake and Victor and Daniel and everyone making sure that happened.
Speaker 2: Ton to do today. I was at MSG last night.
Speaker 2: I went there to watch Wimby. Instead I just watched
Speaker 2: how terrible the Spurs are. We'll discuss that in a moment,
Speaker 2: we have our gambling show. One of the two of
Speaker 2: us is coming off not only a winning week, but
Speaker 2: what really could have been, should have been, would have
Speaker 2: been a five and oh week. The other one is
Speaker 2: on the third longest teaser losing streak in recorded sports
Speaker 2: media history. I'll let you guys guess who's who, but
Speaker 2: we will discuss later in the show. All right, here's
Speaker 2: what missed the Cup. For today's show, Kyler Murray set
Speaker 2: to return with a question about that. Carson Wentz signs
Speaker 2: with the Rams and the Nets fans boo Harden at
Speaker 2: Barclays Demansey, I actually want to talk about Kyler coming
Speaker 2: back for the Cardinals for just a moment, because what
Speaker 2: what do you what are you all gotting?
Speaker 3: I'm getting it. By the way, are you gonna say
Speaker 3: something about the call of duty that's coming out Friday?
Speaker 2: Oh No, I didn't even know there's a call of
Speaker 2: duty coming out of Friday.
Speaker 3: Friday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh my goodness, what a bad beat for Kyler
Speaker 2: comes out right when he's got to go back to work. No,
Speaker 2: I didn't know. I did not know that, But that's hilarious.
Speaker 2: Here's what I was going to say, So Jonathan Gannon.
Speaker 2: If he can, he's the coach of the Cardinals, rookie
Speaker 2: head coach. If he can thread the following needle, then
Speaker 2: I think maybe he should get Coach of the Year consideration.
Speaker 2: And then what they are and this is what I mean,
Speaker 2: Jonathan Gannon. The Cardinals obviously had a plan going into
Speaker 2: this year be terrible draft Caleb Williams and that's the plan.
Speaker 2: And also, by the way, have the Texans draft pick
Speaker 2: and the Texans are better than we expected, to draft
Speaker 2: another guy and then hopefully get another good draft pick
Speaker 2: for Kyler Murray. Now, because he's a new coach, I
Speaker 2: don't think he wanted to come in and immediately have
Speaker 2: it be like this team has no hope, they got
Speaker 2: no chance. So they beat the Cowboys in Week three,
Speaker 2: throw everyone off the tanking scent, and now all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, we wake up in week ten and they're like, wait,
Speaker 2: they haven't won since then. So now what the Cardinals
Speaker 2: need to do is bring Kyler back, have him play
Speaker 2: well enough that he is worth a first round pick
Speaker 2: to someone while maintaining the number one pick. So they
Speaker 2: need to have their quarterback play pretty well and look healthy,
Speaker 2: not win any games, and If they do that, they
Speaker 2: are set up beautifully for the future, and all believe that,
Speaker 2: all believe in Jonathan Gannon despite his odd who took
Speaker 2: the Boss press conference. I'm very interested, and I'm interested
Speaker 2: if Kyler comes back, looks great or looks good even
Speaker 2: and they end up with the third pick, and then
Speaker 2: it's like, do you pivot entirely and instead of going quarterback,
Speaker 2: stick with Kyler, draft Marvin Harrison Junior and go from there.
Speaker 2: It's a very fascinating situation in Arizona. So a quick
Speaker 2: little take there on what missed the cut. Now let's
Speaker 2: get into the show.
Speaker 3: Demansey, all right, so you were really low on Wimby
Speaker 3: at one point, and it seemed like this season, okay.
Speaker 2: I not hauled on, so you can't start the show
Speaker 2: off with lies. I thought that Folks putting his floor
Speaker 2: at a chem Olajuan was maybe gonna be a little
Speaker 2: too much pressure on the nineteen year old French kid.
Speaker 2: I was never low on Wimby. I just wasn't as
Speaker 2: astronomically high as others. Now go ahead.
Speaker 3: One might argue that's kind of low, but uh.
Speaker 2: Well so in reference in comparison to others, Shore Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you went to the game last night and
Speaker 3: he did really poorly. Did seeing him in person and
Speaker 3: put up that performance give you a different type of
Speaker 3: perspective on him or are you still at the same.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, he he had a by a rookie standards,
Speaker 2: a legendary performance one week ago.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 2: The game he had against Phoenix out playing KD going
Speaker 2: thirty eight and ten, being a monster defensively made I
Speaker 2: think all of us stop and be like, oh my god, like,
Speaker 2: what is this guy not going to be eventually? What
Speaker 2: is he right now? Because and Wilds made this point.
Speaker 2: They played Durant in back to back games, and you
Speaker 2: kind of saw in the first game he was a
Speaker 2: little shaky in the first half and then by the
Speaker 2: second half had figured some things out. And then when
Speaker 2: they played him again a couple days later, all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, he's the best player on the court. And
Speaker 2: it's like is he learning in real time? Like artificial
Speaker 2: intelligence and like you know all the you know, like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: so this is how you play Kevin Durant when I
Speaker 2: get him again, and people were really I mean, Tom Haberstrow,
Speaker 2: where I have a lot of respect for, was talking
Speaker 2: about how there was great value on him to be
Speaker 2: the NBA's MVP this year at like forty five to one,
Speaker 2: So we all did get maybe a little ahead of ourselves.
Speaker 2: We did a game on the show where I put
Speaker 2: up jail would you rather have not for the future,
Speaker 2: but for this season, and the names I wimby or
Speaker 2: and we did. Jalen Brown, we did Kevin Durant was
Speaker 2: one of them. The we didn't do Tatum. I tried
Speaker 2: to do guys that I thought I'm trying to think of.
Speaker 2: We didn't do Lebron, we did Kawhi uh and it
Speaker 2: is but it was like that caliber of player we did,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of everyone that with Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, we did like guys in
Speaker 2: that seven to twenty five range in the league. And
Speaker 2: I mean Brew took him over KD. After that game,
Speaker 2: It's like, how could you not? Okay? So he since then,
Speaker 2: he and the Spurs have not been good at all.
Speaker 2: They haven't won. Last night, he came out firing, he
Speaker 2: didn't hit his early shots, and then he seemed to
Speaker 2: lose a bit of confidence. But all so, here are
Speaker 2: my big takeaways from watching him on every single possession,
Speaker 2: he goes seven eight possession stretches without touching the ball.
Speaker 2: The Bill Simmons made this point prior to yesterday, and
Speaker 2: he's one thousand percent right. The Spurs desperately need a
Speaker 2: point guard. They have Jeremy Sohan, who's a small forward
Speaker 2: running point for them. No one knows how to get
Speaker 2: wimby the basketball, and that's a little frustrating. The other
Speaker 2: thing that is true is this he he does right
Speaker 2: now despite his size, He just has no inside offensive
Speaker 2: game whatsoever other than rim runs and putbacks, Like you
Speaker 2: can't give him the ball and just have him go
Speaker 2: to work, and we know he can't lean on people.
Speaker 2: But what I found so interesting watching him, at least yesterday,
Speaker 2: is maybe because he missed those first or few shots,
Speaker 2: he was when he did get the ball on the perimeter,
Speaker 2: he seemed to be trying to go by people when
Speaker 2: it felt like the whole idea of why he's going
Speaker 2: to be so transcendent is he can just shoot over everyone.
Speaker 2: And he either was hesitant to last night or it
Speaker 2: just didn't have it. And I don't want to overreact
Speaker 2: one night, but what it definitely did do was took
Speaker 2: him out of the game a bit. Defensively, he didn't
Speaker 2: make an impact defensively that one could see in that game,
Speaker 2: and offensively he was a negative. Now you remind yourself
Speaker 2: he's nineteen years old and that was his eighth career
Speaker 2: NBA game. But for people that were arguing, should the
Speaker 2: Spurs have been a little more aggressive this offseason, I
Speaker 2: didn't think they should because you don't want to try
Speaker 2: to microwave this. But for his development, them having an
Speaker 2: actual adult point guard I think could be incredibly useful,
Speaker 2: like a guy like a Mike Conley, or it doesn't
Speaker 2: have to be a great player, just someone that can
Speaker 2: come in and orchestrate things, because I mean, Doug McDermott's
Speaker 2: out there running and gunning, so hand is trying to
Speaker 2: play out a position. I mean, the Spurs are a bad,
Speaker 2: bad team. So it was fascinating to watch the most
Speaker 2: stunning moment of the night, honestly, because when you're watching
Speaker 2: the game, because of like guys at different depths and
Speaker 2: perspective or whatever. You can tell who the tallest guy is,
Speaker 2: but it's you don't really have the exact right perspective
Speaker 2: on it. The most stunning moment was the national Anthem.
Speaker 2: I know it sounds ridiculous, but it's because all the
Speaker 2: guys are lined up next to each other and Wimby
Speaker 2: looked make believe, he looked like how one of the
Speaker 2: like NBA guys look when they go to like see
Speaker 2: people at a school and they take a picture with
Speaker 2: the administration. It's like, oh, there's Kevin Durant and then
Speaker 2: there's regular people. But he was standing next to well, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's really that part was remarkable. He
Speaker 2: had a really rough game. But listen, I picked Scoot
Speaker 2: Henderson for Rookie of the Year and we haven't talked
Speaker 2: much about him. And the reason we haven't talked much
Speaker 2: about him is because he hasn't got it going. Scoot
Speaker 2: so far this year is I'll give you his numbers exactly.
Speaker 2: He's only played five games because he got hurt. He's
Speaker 2: given you eight points, four and a half assists on
Speaker 2: thirty five percent from the field and nine percent from three.
Speaker 2: So it's listen, tough life for ye long season, tough
Speaker 2: early on for rookies. There have been some rookies. Derek
Speaker 2: Lively for the MAVs has been really good. There have
Speaker 2: been some the obviously the thunder of two excellent rookies.
Speaker 2: Caseon Wallace and then Chet, who's like a rookiecause he
Speaker 2: didn't play last year but was let the previous year's
Speaker 2: draft class. Chet's been excellent. Now Chet is a guy
Speaker 2: I was very down on who thus far has been excellent.
Speaker 2: And so we'll see all right next.
Speaker 3: All right, So it seems like the longer lebron On
Speaker 3: stays in the league, the more disrespect he gains. He's
Speaker 3: getting disrespect from players, panelists. The refs of Dylan Brooks
Speaker 3: held him to eighteen points last night, locked him up.
Speaker 3: Like you said, if he's still playing at a high level,
Speaker 3: why is the disrespect only growing from fans?
Speaker 2: So think all right, so let's talk about the refs
Speaker 2: thing for a moment. This is not even a controversial opinion.
Speaker 2: This is backed up by the data. One of the
Speaker 2: I forget which site it was, but actually just compiled
Speaker 2: the in the last eight years. You know, the NBA
Speaker 2: does those last two minute reports. What player has been disadvantage,
Speaker 2: what player has had more calls be wrong calls by
Speaker 2: the NBA's own reports, No players had more calls go
Speaker 2: against them than Lebron James at the end of these games,
Speaker 2: and even when you do well, how many did he.
Speaker 3: Have go for him?
Speaker 2: He is more in the negative than any player in
Speaker 2: the league. I think Embiid set Embids the opposite. Embiids
Speaker 2: had more things go his way that the refs then say, hey,
Speaker 2: he got the wrong whistle in his favor. There is
Speaker 2: a level of and last year the data back this
Speaker 2: up as well of if you take all the play
Speaker 2: and people are like, well, it's because Lebron's shooting so
Speaker 2: many more threes. If you take all the players, the
Speaker 2: league leaders, and either points at the rim, points in
Speaker 2: the paint, or shots in the paint, Lebron last year
Speaker 2: and the year before and this year it's very early,
Speaker 2: was the lowest and free throw rate, so you're talking
Speaker 2: about attacking guys, guys going to the basket. He just
Speaker 2: hasn't been getting calls, and there is an element of
Speaker 2: that he has lost. I think some of the luster
Speaker 2: of this is the down best player in the game.
Speaker 2: He needs a beneficial whistle, like every best player. Jordan
Speaker 2: got it, Kobe got it, Yeah, anyone in the discussion
Speaker 2: for all time legend at their apex, Giannis can get
Speaker 2: it to an agree he doesn't get that anymore because
Speaker 2: he's older, but he's still so physically imposing that guys
Speaker 2: slap him on the arm when he's going up for
Speaker 2: a layup and it doesn't seem like it affects him
Speaker 2: the way it would affect other guys. So that is frustrating,
Speaker 2: and I think it's incredibly frustrating for Lebron and the
Speaker 2: Lakers are right that it's not just like Laker fans
Speaker 2: being like, oh, the refs are against us. By the data,
Speaker 2: he has had a very tough whistle for his entire
Speaker 2: Lakers tenure. That's first thing as far as player's going
Speaker 2: at him, it's the only player that's really going on
Speaker 2: this years Dylan Brooks, and guy's a clown. This is clown.
Speaker 2: Dylan Brooks has lost the right to be taken seriously.
Speaker 2: He lost it in the series against What what are
Speaker 2: you wincing about? Tell me, tell me why.
Speaker 3: Dylan Brooks isn't having a bad year.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, He's actually having an excellent year. But when
Speaker 2: you Dylan Brooks, when you say the things he said
Speaker 2: in the playoff series against the Lakers and then run
Speaker 2: from the media and then cry saying I don't know
Speaker 2: why everyone is calling me a villain. The media has
Speaker 2: done this, and then introduce yourself repeatedly, is Dylan the villain?
Speaker 2: And or the last time you played Lebron you got
Speaker 2: kicked out of the game for punching him in the balls,
Speaker 2: and then this time you're like, I'm gonna lock him up.
Speaker 2: You're a clown. You're a clown, and you don't deserve
Speaker 2: to be discussed. Like, the only reason we talk about
Speaker 2: Dylan Brooks more than one hundred and fifty other guys
Speaker 2: in the league is because he just talks like he's
Speaker 2: a star. He's just the obvious manifestation of the evolution
Speaker 2: or I should say evolution of Patrick Beverley. Exactly right,
Speaker 2: It's a clown. Now we the media stuff. I don't know,
Speaker 2: like everyone was. It seemed like on a lot of
Speaker 2: shows the would Lebron have been the same guy with
Speaker 2: or without Miami? Did he need Miami? Everyone was a
Speaker 2: lot more interested in that discussion than I was. Like,
Speaker 2: what I do think is it is possible that without Miami,
Speaker 2: Lebron's career would not have gone this long. I think
Speaker 2: that if those four years in the apex prime of
Speaker 2: his career he didn't have. He didn't go to Miami
Speaker 2: learn what he learned from that organization, be around Spolstra
Speaker 2: and maybe most importantly, for the only four year stretch
Speaker 2: of his entire career, could was he on a team
Speaker 2: that if he went to the bench, they could survive
Speaker 2: and he didn't have to play these crazy minutes things
Speaker 2: like that. I don't know if he'd still be at
Speaker 2: this level in year twenty one. He was already one
Speaker 2: of the greatest players ever before he went to Miami.
Speaker 2: Before he into Miami, he was a two time League MVP,
Speaker 2: four time All NBA First Team, two times second Team,
Speaker 2: and had taken a team to the finals at age
Speaker 2: twenty two and had had a playoff run where he
Speaker 2: averaged thirty five points a game. Now, he wasn't a
Speaker 2: champion yet, and if people believe well, he wouldn't have
Speaker 2: won any championships if he hadn't gone to Miami. I
Speaker 2: think that's crazy. Would he have had the same number?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: He won two in those four years, but everything about
Speaker 2: his career changes after that. Does he go somewhere else?
Speaker 2: Does he stay in Cleveland? If he stays in Cleveland,
Speaker 2: they never get Kyrie Irving. They don't get you know,
Speaker 2: Kevin Love. It's the whole thing's different. So I don't know.
Speaker 2: What I do know is there are certain guys across
Speaker 2: sports history, particularly in the NBA, that we're going to
Speaker 2: be all time great legends no matter what. Lebron obviously
Speaker 2: is on that shortest of short lists. Now, like let
Speaker 2: me be, people could say, what would Kareem's career have
Speaker 2: been if he didn't go to the Lakers. Well, it's
Speaker 2: an interesting question because Kareem had already won won one
Speaker 2: championship and won one finals MVP, and won multiple MVPs
Speaker 2: with the Bucks. But he then won what four more MVPs,
Speaker 2: five more championships, and went to nine more finals with
Speaker 2: the Lakers. So I don't know what you know the
Speaker 2: career would have been. I do know that Lebron's career
Speaker 2: could not have possibly worked out better. In my opinion,
Speaker 2: he's the greatest athlete ever and so every decision along
Speaker 2: the way, I don't think you could have been like
Speaker 2: this decision it would have worked out better for him.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think there could be a
Speaker 2: better outcome than the story of you get drafted to
Speaker 2: your hometown team. You're within a year in the discussion
Speaker 2: for the best player in the league. Take him to
Speaker 2: the final, lose to a legend in Tim Duncan. The
Speaker 2: Boston Celtics, a legendary organization, creates the first modern super
Speaker 2: team because of you, because you're there and they need
Speaker 2: to get past you. You then can't get past that
Speaker 2: super team that was created to defeat you. You go
Speaker 2: to Miami, a team that has a guy, a friend
Speaker 2: of yours in your draft class, who had already teamed
Speaker 2: up with a legend in Shaquille O'Neil to win a championship.
Speaker 2: You guys, immediately make the finals and you have the
Speaker 2: one and only true failure of your career. It humbles
Speaker 2: you to a degree, it makes you a better basketball player,
Speaker 2: and then from that moment on you reel off the
Speaker 2: greatest decade of basketball anyone's ever played. In the next
Speaker 2: ten years, you can squint, you can argue, But in
Speaker 2: the next nine years, I should say, you make the
Speaker 2: NBA Finals eight times games. You have the longest winning
Speaker 2: streak in the history of the league. You or in
Speaker 2: the second longest wing streak pardon me, in the history
Speaker 2: of the league. You are involved in one of the
Speaker 2: greatest game sixes in game sevens of the finals ever.
Speaker 2: You then go back home, you have the greatest comeback
Speaker 2: in Finals history. Sandwiched around the greatest comeback in Finals history,
Speaker 2: you have the greatest series in a losing effort in
Speaker 2: Finals history, the thirty six, thirteen and nine with your
Speaker 2: teammates injured, and then on the back end of it,
Speaker 2: the single greatest game in Finals history, the fifty one
Speaker 2: to eight to eight in Game one against Durant and
Speaker 2: those guys, the greatest individual playoff run in NBA history,
Speaker 2: the twenty eighteen playoffs where he had eight to forty
Speaker 2: point games. You then go to the greatest organization in
Speaker 2: the history of the league that, for the first time
Speaker 2: in its seventy year career or you know, seventy year existence,
Speaker 2: is in a downswing, hasn't made the playoffs in six years,
Speaker 2: and within a year you win a title for him,
Speaker 2: And then in that uniform, you become the NBA's all
Speaker 2: time leading scorer, breaking the record of a legend from
Speaker 2: that organization. And now in you're twenty one, you're still
Speaker 2: the best player on your team and one of the
Speaker 2: best players in the league. There is no, it's not like, well,
Speaker 2: but if he'd have gone to Chicago, Wuddy would have
Speaker 2: not that, not that, and so uh I think it
Speaker 2: worked out pretty well. All right.
Speaker 3: Next, I guess I just listen.
Speaker 2: It's just an accurate telling of this tale. It's just,
Speaker 2: you know, I I am if nothing else, I am,
Speaker 2: you know, an arbiter of truth and fairness, and uh
Speaker 2: it's important to be you know, have somebody out there
Speaker 2: that is going to tell the true story. And what's
Speaker 2: a better story than a guy being immediately great, can't
Speaker 2: get over the hump, tasting real failure, reaching the absolute pinnacle,
Speaker 2: going back home over what was considered an insurmountable deficit,
Speaker 2: and then saying new challenge, going to the greatest organization
Speaker 2: ever that was in total shambles and instantly delivering them
Speaker 2: a championship, and now being literally the oldest player in
Speaker 2: the league and still one of the best players in
Speaker 2: the league. Never seen anything like it.
Speaker 3: Next, all right, So the forty nine Ers and Jags
Speaker 3: are gonna face off. Both teams are coming off of bye.
Speaker 3: The Jaguars are obviously on the five game winning streak
Speaker 3: and the forty nine Ers are on the three game
Speaker 3: losing streak. So is this the ultimate setup for a
Speaker 3: Nick was right situation with Perty facing off versus Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 2: It feels like it, doesn't it. I mean, if after
Speaker 2: this weekend and it's the biggest game of the weekend,
Speaker 2: this weekend slate is not great at all. Last weekend
Speaker 2: had an amazing slate. This weekend slate is not a
Speaker 2: group of great games. It's the it's the marquee game.
Speaker 2: And if the Jags get to seven and two while
Speaker 2: the Niners fall to five and four, and it's because
Speaker 2: Trevor cooks and Purty struggles and all of a sudden
Speaker 2: within a month the same you know what's gonna be
Speaker 2: glorious if and when this happens. By the way, it's
Speaker 2: a tough game. Niners still an excellent team. They're coming
Speaker 2: off the by they should be healthier. You know, this
Speaker 2: is a big test for the Jags. No team in
Speaker 2: the league this year has had a winning streak longer
Speaker 2: than six games. They're trying to get it to six
Speaker 2: like they're yeah, they're trying to what are they? Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're trying to get it to six games. That would
Speaker 2: be right. So listen, this is by no means is
Speaker 2: this like, oh a layup win. The Niners are still
Speaker 2: a really good team, but nothing will be more satisfying
Speaker 2: for me then if the Jags win. Watching the same
Speaker 2: my same colleagues, some of which I host a show with,
Speaker 2: many of which you know what I mean, or on
Speaker 2: other networks that I like and respect, having on Monday
Speaker 2: morning a month after they were talking on their shows
Speaker 2: or on our show, is brock Perty the NFL's MVP.
Speaker 2: The topic will be is Trevor Lawrence the NFL's MVP,
Speaker 2: And the follow up question is could brock Perty be benched?
Speaker 2: I'm letting you know right now we are one Jags
Speaker 2: win away from that being a conversation. Now. I also
Speaker 2: want to make this clear, I do not think Trevor's
Speaker 2: the NFL MVP. I do think if they win this
Speaker 2: game and get to seven and two in a year,
Speaker 2: there is no standout runaway MVP favorite. It will be
Speaker 2: a discussion. And I am not saying you should bench
Speaker 2: brock Party for Sam Darnold, but I am saying if
Speaker 2: you're the Niners and you've lost four in a row.
Speaker 3: EP by the way, but who is Sorry Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 3: but I get it like they do the whole mate.
Speaker 2: I mean Lamar right now, right now, I think Lamar.
Speaker 2: If the voting were today, I think Lamar would win it.
Speaker 2: It would also be an the reason for a quarterback
Speaker 2: who has nine passing touchdowns through nine games, you can say, oh,
Speaker 2: well running two okay, so fourteen total touchdowns because he
Speaker 2: is five rushing through nine games. That would be a
Speaker 2: below average MVP season. Does that make sense? Like if
Speaker 2: you look at guys who've won MVPs over the last
Speaker 2: few years, there's not one. There's not an Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: with thirty eight touchdowns, six picks, Mahomes leading the league
Speaker 2: in points and yards and touchdowns. There isn't one, no
Speaker 2: doubt candidate, you could make a great Lar. I'm not
Speaker 2: arguing against it. I actually we talked on the show
Speaker 2: because there's no standout candidate. Could Joe Burrow get back
Speaker 2: in the conversation even though he was terrible for five
Speaker 2: weeks because he was hurt. The answer is probably yes.
Speaker 2: Like everyone talked about how bad the Chiefs offense has been,
Speaker 2: Mahomes right now is the favorite to win the award
Speaker 2: because there's no standout. So that that's why Trevor despite
Speaker 2: his numbers. I think he has eight touchdowns passing touchdowns
Speaker 2: this year, maybe nine, Like his passing numbers have not
Speaker 2: been super gaudy, and he obviously doesn't run as well
Speaker 2: as Lamar. I do think with the Ravens, the biggest
Speaker 2: story of the Ravens season so far is and we're
Speaker 2: I guess we'll get to it in a second, but
Speaker 2: is their defense more than Lamar as good as Lamar
Speaker 2: has been. Point I'm making is if the Jags win,
Speaker 2: first of all, Trumpeters live and in person on first
Speaker 2: things first, Second of all, uh is Trevor Lawrence the
Speaker 2: NFL MVP will be a talking point, and should the
Speaker 2: Niners give Sam Donald a look will be a talking point.
Speaker 2: By the way, I won't argue for either. I don't
Speaker 2: think Trevor's the MVP even if they win, not yet,
Speaker 2: And I don't think that the Niners should go to
Speaker 2: Donald even if Party plays terribly, But that will be
Speaker 2: a talking point from the very same people that are
Speaker 2: trying to convince me brock Perty was the NFL's MVP.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you one other question before we move on.
Speaker 2: If Party fully falters and also given what pre and
Speaker 2: you know sad he got hurt, but what Daniel Jones
Speaker 2: was looking like before he got hurt. If both of
Speaker 2: those things happen next football season, if we're fortunate enough
Speaker 2: to still be doing this, will you take my quarterback?
Speaker 2: I need to see more. I don't don't quite trust
Speaker 2: them opinions a little more seriously, or will you still
Speaker 2: just think I'm an unrepentant hater. I'm asking you specifically
Speaker 2: storing both of these.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be that'd be very fair. I feel like
Speaker 3: I wouldn't call it stupid, but it'd be kind of
Speaker 3: ignorant to ignore that. But uh but yeah, no, I
Speaker 3: definitely I might kind of where I need more test samples.
Speaker 3: But but yeah, there you go. I like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So does does it offend you or all? Or
Speaker 3: like a little hurt that Trevor Lawrence has no idea
Speaker 3: that like you call him the prince that was promised
Speaker 3: like he kind of like shows me.
Speaker 2: I didn't like that. I got listen. I'll be honest,
Speaker 2: I I didn't like any part of it. I listen now.
Speaker 2: Sam Pepper used to produce He used to produce My
Speaker 2: TV show. He now works for Omaha productions, and I
Speaker 2: think he don't know, but I think he probably had
Speaker 2: a hand in that question being asked. Was trying to
Speaker 2: do me a solid every single part if people didn't
Speaker 2: see it. Peyton asks Trevor Lawrence a question and he
Speaker 2: says Nick right from Fox. And by the way, the
Speaker 2: way he said it, it was not like the next
Speaker 2: words out of his mouth were gonna be like, Oh,
Speaker 2: I love that guy. It was more like who is this?
Speaker 2: Like that was from like it was very clear Peyton.
Speaker 3: Peyton also said when Trevor said that he had no
Speaker 3: idea about it, or does he go by that? And
Speaker 3: Trevor said no, and Peyton was like, good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he was. He asked him if so, Peyton says,
Speaker 2: Nick Wright from Fox Sports, you know, has called you
Speaker 2: the prince that was promised. It's also your nickname on
Speaker 2: Pro Football Reference? Has this name called on in the
Speaker 2: locker room? And Trevor said, knowing that he'd never heard it,
Speaker 2: and Peyton said good, and then they left. And I
Speaker 2: will admit, at first demonse that was sad and disappointing,
Speaker 2: and then I realized he's just a humble prince, which
Speaker 2: we need more of. He didn't you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: He did.
Speaker 2: He was humble and didn't want to draw more attention
Speaker 2: to himself, so I understood.
Speaker 3: All right, next, All right, then, Currently the entire AFC
Speaker 3: North holds a playoff spot, with the Ravings leading the way.
Speaker 3: Obviously a predicted team that fits for each of these
Speaker 3: categories by the seasons in division winner strong five seed,
Speaker 3: fighting for the seven seed, or misses playoffs completely.
Speaker 2: All right, the the smart the logical order would be this,
Speaker 2: The Ravens hold on to win the division, the Bengals
Speaker 2: are a terrifying five seed, the Browns get the fight
Speaker 2: for the seven, and the Steelers miss the playoffs completely.
Speaker 2: That's the logical smart if you've been watching them up
Speaker 2: to this point order of how it's going to go,
Speaker 2: I do not think it's going to go that way.
Speaker 2: I think that something funky is gonna happen with either
Speaker 2: Baltimore or Sinsey. I don't know which, but I just
Speaker 2: I feel like right now people are getting a little
Speaker 2: ahead of themselves that we know.
Speaker 3: Like speak it into existence. I think something's funky gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Come on, dude, well, I just I've been doing this
Speaker 2: too long to not have my antenna go up when
Speaker 2: everyone in the media this prematurely has the same opinion,
Speaker 2: and everyone in the media has.
Speaker 3: Essentially prematurely I means just prematurely to the posts.
Speaker 2: And yet well, it's just a ton of football left,
Speaker 2: a ton of football left. We played half of the
Speaker 2: season remains half like as much has been played, that
Speaker 2: much is left. And there is when everyone is in
Speaker 2: agreement seemingly that the AFC North is gonna come down
Speaker 2: to Baltimore in sensey, and when it's it's one thing
Speaker 2: if these two like if you were to be like, well,
Speaker 2: the nfcast is gonna come down to Philly in Dallas,
Speaker 2: it's like, well, the Giants are you know, almost mathematically
Speaker 2: eliminated already, and Washington's trading away its players. Got it.
Speaker 2: But when the Steelers have underperformed as much as they
Speaker 2: have on offense and are still five and three, it
Speaker 2: makes you pause. When the Browns are getting d level
Speaker 2: play from the quarterback position and are still right there,
Speaker 2: you pause. And when you recognize that the Ravens have
Speaker 2: been six and three or better every year. Lamar has
Speaker 2: been a starter and it has gone sideways on them
Speaker 2: multiple times. Now, people are like, well, that's because of injury. Agreed,
Speaker 2: but I think that is just one of the concerns.
Speaker 2: But the other reason that I'm just pumping the brakes
Speaker 2: on it a bit is this, here is the Ravens,
Speaker 2: and I'll then do the Bengals remaining schedule. And by
Speaker 2: the way, the same can be said about the Browns
Speaker 2: and the Steelers to a degree. But here's my question
Speaker 2: for you, Demanse, because I'm gonna read it off to you.
Speaker 3: I see him, so I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna read it off and my only question is how
Speaker 2: many easy spots do they have? So they are home
Speaker 2: for the Browns, home for the Bengals, at the Chargers,
Speaker 2: home for the Rams, at the Jags, at the Niners,
Speaker 2: home for the Dolphins, home for the Steelers. How many
Speaker 2: easy spots do you count there? Because I know how many,
Speaker 2: I can.
Speaker 3: Say, like kind of one and a half. I think
Speaker 3: will take care of that, But Chargers, I'm not like,
Speaker 3: I feel like we'll take care of that. But same time,
Speaker 3: it can be a little frisky.
Speaker 2: Exactly that is that is the exact math I did.
Speaker 2: The Rams are the one game where you're like, the
Speaker 2: Rams are cooked. They cannot block Baltimore. They cannot And
Speaker 2: then the Chargers. You want that to be an easy game.
Speaker 2: But that was at the Chargers, right, And so it's
Speaker 2: like Baltimore going all the way to the West coast,
Speaker 2: weird spot the Chargers. You just never know what you're
Speaker 2: gonna get to them on a week to week basis.
Speaker 3: We don't know who the Dolphins are yet, and I mean,
Speaker 3: and we're a good team. So it's like when the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Oh that's fair and that's correct, and that's in Baltimore, right,
Speaker 2: So in Baltimore in January or yeah, into December or January.
Speaker 2: But you follow me that. It's not a there are
Speaker 2: no like, oh, okay, lock up three wins, all right, now,
Speaker 2: we're gonna do Cincinnati do the same thing. Tell me
Speaker 2: the easy games home for the Texans, at the Ravens,
Speaker 2: home for the Steelers, at the Jaguars, home for the Colts,
Speaker 2: home for the Vikings, at the Steelers, at the Chiefs,
Speaker 2: home for the Browns. So how many easy games do
Speaker 2: you count?
Speaker 3: There? About two and a half maybe with so actually
Speaker 3: with the Tech, I mean, Texans be in the half.
Speaker 3: Vikings and Colts I've seen them easily get.
Speaker 2: But Vikings and Colts are the easy are the two games.
Speaker 2: I counted the Texans spot and we'll get to it
Speaker 2: when we do our picks in a minute. You don't know.
Speaker 2: And when you when you're the Bengals and you had
Speaker 2: basically four consecutive season on the line games one in
Speaker 2: three and you're in Arizona, You're season's on the line,
Speaker 2: even though it's early because you're playing the Cardinals. You're
Speaker 2: one and three. You get that win? Yeah, then two
Speaker 2: and three, okay, home for the Seahawks, get that win,
Speaker 2: and then I guess season one on the line anymore.
Speaker 2: But massive spots at the Niners home for the Bills,
Speaker 2: and next week the division is on the line because
Speaker 2: you've already lost to Baltimore at the Ravens. The Texans
Speaker 2: are like the vintage trap game spot and Jamar Chase
Speaker 2: is banged up and all of a sudden, T Higgins mispracticed.
Speaker 2: So I don't consider the Texans right now an easy
Speaker 2: spot at all. Texans meanwhile flying so high off there
Speaker 2: insane win. So moral of the story is, I think,
Speaker 2: to use a you know, a term from political parlance,
Speaker 2: I think it's too early to call the AFSCO. I
Speaker 2: just think, yeah, and and here is the other thing
Speaker 2: that and I know you don't You're gonna say I
Speaker 2: shouldn't speak this into existence, and I'm not trying to.
Speaker 2: But the other thing that would concern me if I
Speaker 2: were any of these four AFC North teams is having
Speaker 2: games this man, if well, the Bengals in particular, having
Speaker 2: Raven Steelers, Steelers Brows four games remaining against divisional rivals,
Speaker 2: all of which that have awesome defenses and want to
Speaker 2: hit the you would really give me anxiety about what
Speaker 2: is even if my team can get rolling, what shape
Speaker 2: are we going to be in physically by the time
Speaker 2: the playoffs start? And for if you're the Bengals, your
Speaker 2: final three games of the year being at Pittsburgh at
Speaker 2: Kansas City home for the Browns, three of the best
Speaker 2: defenses in the league in cold weather, it's a tough spot,
Speaker 2: man well, and so take.
Speaker 3: Care of the next three games. I feel like if
Speaker 3: they if they can come out of the next three
Speaker 3: games two and one, maybe I'd say we're in pretty
Speaker 3: good shape. And honestly, I think my fear to bench
Speaker 3: lamar towards the end of the year.
Speaker 2: Well, probably not if you're trying to get the one seed,
Speaker 2: but maybe the you know I have. I've always thought
Speaker 2: actually the best thing that for a team, that a
Speaker 2: team could have going for him if they can't get
Speaker 2: the one seed is to actually be eliminated from contention
Speaker 2: for it. So in week eighteen, what you don't want
Speaker 2: in week eighteen. Let's say you're the Ravens and you're
Speaker 2: in this scenario in week eighteen, if we win and
Speaker 2: Kansas City loses to the Chargers, we get the one seed.
Speaker 2: You don't want to be in that, se Anario. I
Speaker 2: it's I understand you're like, oh, well, it could happen,
Speaker 2: But then you go all out play all your guys.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs win anyway, you're in the two. You'd almost
Speaker 2: now what you'd rather is it flatly be if we win,
Speaker 2: we're the one seed. We don't need anything else. We win,
Speaker 2: we're the one seed, or have it locked obviously, But
Speaker 2: the next best thing is this, we can't be the
Speaker 2: one seed. The Chiefs have it locked. We're not getting
Speaker 2: the buye. And then you give yourself your own buy
Speaker 2: in week eighteen and rest your guys like, who cares
Speaker 2: if we fall to the three? We just don't you
Speaker 2: know what I mean? We want to give ourselves a
Speaker 2: bye week. And what you don't want is to think
Speaker 2: you're playing for something, go all out and then you
Speaker 2: know then not get it and have.
Speaker 3: To play the very next week.
Speaker 2: But the AFC North point of the story is the
Speaker 2: AFC North is gonna be. I mean, it's the most
Speaker 2: interesting and tightly contested division and I don't know what's
Speaker 2: gonna happen there. All right, quick break to our gambling
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Speaker 2: Nick Wright Week ten Gambling Show. I told you last week, Demons,
Speaker 2: I felt good about the picks. We not only had
Speaker 2: a winning week, but zero bad picks. Let me, well,
Speaker 2: you know the the I mean, I understand what you're saying,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean the royal We Kansas City minus
Speaker 2: a point and a half against Miami. They're of twenty
Speaker 2: one to nothing at a halftime, or covering the entire game.
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay plus three at Houston. I thought that was
Speaker 2: going to be a disgusting push. Did you see, Demonse?
Speaker 2: What so Houston is winning? Baker leads an amazing drive
Speaker 2: down the field, throws a strike. Tampa is now all
Speaker 2: of a sudden up four with forty five seconds left. CJ.
Speaker 2: Stroud then drives Houston down. They score, But Houston in
Speaker 2: that game, their kicker had gotten hurt, so they were
Speaker 2: going for two. They had the backup running back kicking
Speaker 2: field goals. All thing well, right, he had a field goal,
Speaker 2: but up to with six seconds left. Demigo ryans, this
Speaker 2: is not just because he got me the cover. Did's
Speaker 2: this right thing, which was he was nervous to kick
Speaker 2: an extra point because he is a backup kicker, and
Speaker 2: he didn't want to go for two because if you
Speaker 2: you're up to, if you turn it over, the other
Speaker 2: team can return it for two points and it's a
Speaker 2: tie game. So he did something that has rarely been
Speaker 2: done in NFL history, but is smart, even smarter than
Speaker 2: kicking the extra point there because it could be blocked
Speaker 2: and returned. He took a knee on the extra point,
Speaker 2: so which you never see but was the sharp play
Speaker 2: and made my Tampa plus three cover now Atlanta minus
Speaker 2: four and a half against Minnesota. DeMont, Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: he's been excellent. Demond's eight. You know, tried to talk
Speaker 2: me out of He's like, you keep fading these quarterbacks
Speaker 2: just based on the fact their quarterbacks you keep losing.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal. The quarterback I was fading, Jaren Hall
Speaker 2: immediately got injured, and then Josh Dobbs comes in and Cooks.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have laid four and a half points with
Speaker 2: Taylor Heineke against Josh Dobbs. Josh Dobbs is legit. Aila
Speaker 2: was laying four and a half points with Taylor Heineke
Speaker 2: against Jaren Hall. Jaren Hall got injured. Not fair, but whatever.
Speaker 2: Dallas plus three against Philly. If Dak doesn't step out,
Speaker 2: you know we're covering. They still have a chance to
Speaker 2: win outright. I don't feel badly about that pick. I
Speaker 2: feel like taking the points to the right side there.
Speaker 2: And the Chargers minds three and a half against the Jets.
Speaker 2: They annihilated him, so that's three and two. So that
Speaker 2: means despite the fact that on TV it's been shaky,
Speaker 2: and despite the fact that we have not you know,
Speaker 2: had the monster weak yet Demanse, we're just twenty one
Speaker 2: and twenty four, which means we are minus five point
Speaker 2: four units on the year, So one perfect week away
Speaker 2: from being above five hundred and the picks and being
Speaker 2: right at even almost in the actual dollars. And this
Speaker 2: is the exact situation we found ourselves in last year
Speaker 2: before we got red hot to finish the year. I
Speaker 2: do believe last year, after nine weeks we were twenty
Speaker 2: one and twenty four. Now we've gotten here this year
Speaker 2: on a somewhat circuitous path. Last year I think we
Speaker 2: had some own five, some five and oh's. This year
Speaker 2: it has simply literally been, I believe two and three
Speaker 2: or three and two every single week. If we go
Speaker 2: four and one, we're at five hundred. If we go
Speaker 2: five and oh, we're above five hundred. Let's get going.
Speaker 2: What's my first pick of the week.
Speaker 3: First pick is Jacksonville plus three versus San Francisco.
Speaker 2: All right, so they're both coming off of bye, so
Speaker 2: that's a wash. San Francisco traveling cross country for a
Speaker 2: one o'clock start, tough spot. Brock Purdy has not been
Speaker 2: a good road quarterback this year. Doug Peterson seven and
Speaker 2: one last eight games against the spread as an underdog,
Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence whenever he has extended rest, three and oh,
Speaker 2: straight up and against the spread. And I simply think
Speaker 2: that this Niners defense right now is a touch overrated
Speaker 2: now and I think that there are right right now
Speaker 2: real cracks in the armor for that Niners offense. Now,
Speaker 2: obviously this is a game where the injury report is
Speaker 2: going to matter a ton if you check the forty
Speaker 2: nine ers injury report, and this is where doing the
Speaker 2: picks Thursday morning is tough. But Trent Williams is still
Speaker 2: not practicing, so that is highly concerning for San Francisco. Now,
Speaker 2: fortunately for them, uh Deebo Samuel was a full participant,
Speaker 2: so he will be back. The Jags injury report is
Speaker 2: pretty damn clean. I think the Jags win the game outright.
Speaker 2: I certainly like them plus three. The Jags defense has
Speaker 2: been underrated and that Niners offense has not been humming
Speaker 2: the Jags running game. People are gonna talk more about
Speaker 2: Travis etsy In after this game. I like the Jacksonville
Speaker 2: Jaguars coming off of bye at home getting the full
Speaker 2: three points against San Francisco. Your thoughts, demons.
Speaker 3: I like that one. I honestly do not believe in
Speaker 3: I don't. I'm not. I don't want to say I
Speaker 3: don't believe in Brock Party.
Speaker 2: But wow, wow you've come around. Wow all right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah, three three three game. I'm losing
Speaker 3: streak coming off of by I mean, but next you've
Speaker 3: got Cleveland plus six at Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is not me picking the Browns to
Speaker 2: win out right. This is me saying the Brown this
Speaker 2: is statistically the two best defenses in football, and it's
Speaker 2: a divisional matchup and I'm getting six points. Now, I
Speaker 2: know the Ravens Demonse have blown out the Lions and
Speaker 2: the Seahawks. So here is an importance, man. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: here is an important note on this. Lamar is now
Speaker 2: I think eighteen and one in his career against the NFC,
Speaker 2: which tells you a few things. Most notably is if
Speaker 2: you don't face Lamar often or you almost never face
Speaker 2: him as these NFC teams, you can't. You can't deal
Speaker 2: with him if you see him twice a year. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying he's easy to deal with, but you at
Speaker 2: least have some familiarity. You can draw upon game plans
Speaker 2: that you previously had. Now, Baltimore played Cleveland earlier this
Speaker 2: year and annihilated him twenty seven to three. But if
Speaker 2: you remember, that was the game that Deshaun Watson mourning
Speaker 2: of was like I can't play sorry, guys, Dorian Thompson, Robinson,
Speaker 2: good luck buddy. So I'm not throwing that one out,
Speaker 2: but I am putting a little mini asterisk just on
Speaker 2: how much of a blowout it was I'm getting six points.
Speaker 2: Lamar over the last three years is four and fourteen
Speaker 2: against the spread when he's favored by more than three,
Speaker 2: and he's three and eight at home against the AFC
Speaker 2: North against the spread in his career. And so Cleveland
Speaker 2: getting a full six points in a game that feel
Speaker 2: very twenty to seventeen ish to me, I'll take Cleveland
Speaker 2: plus the six go ahead.
Speaker 3: I don't like it. I'm never I'm never gonna do
Speaker 3: this again, betting straight up line teaser. I'm not betting
Speaker 3: against the Ravens. I just think that on any given
Speaker 3: Sunday they are liable to blow a team the hell
Speaker 3: out of the water, and I just am not going
Speaker 3: that's fair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, I understand. I just it's a divisional game,
Speaker 2: tough opponent. Six points is too much.
Speaker 3: Next, all right, you got Houston plus seven at Cincinnati?
Speaker 2: All right, I'm getting a full seven. Jamar Chase did
Speaker 2: not practice yesterday and T Higgins all of a sudden
Speaker 2: popped up on the injury report, limited the While the
Speaker 2: Bengals right now they need every game. They really must
Speaker 2: have next week's game against Baltimore, So why does that matter?
Speaker 2: I think they will be extra cautious demanse, certainly with
Speaker 2: Chase and maybe also with Higgins. Higgins it's a soft
Speaker 2: tissue thing. So if they are worried, if we push
Speaker 2: him to go this week and he can't play against Baltimore,
Speaker 2: they could be cooked for the division. Jamar Chase hurt
Speaker 2: his back, I don't expect him to play. He had
Speaker 2: the massive win against San Francisco, huge win against Buffalo.
Speaker 2: Next week you have Baltimore. So this is a spot
Speaker 2: that I think Cincinnati could trip up. It certainly is
Speaker 2: a spot that they are not going for style points.
Speaker 2: They are not gonna if they get a lead, they
Speaker 2: will just try to hold on to it for dear life,
Speaker 2: get everyone healthy and get to next week. So I'm
Speaker 2: getting a full seven points with a quarterback that I
Speaker 2: like a lot. They've shown you in Houston. The back
Speaker 2: door cover is alive. At they canna be down thirteen points,
Speaker 2: They're gonna be, you know, throwing it to try to
Speaker 2: just keep in rhythm, and I think Houston could win outright.
Speaker 2: I definitely think they can at least keep this relatively close.
Speaker 2: They're healthier, they are you know, this is a massive
Speaker 2: spot for them where to kind of announce themselves as
Speaker 2: a real playoff can.
Speaker 3: Contention, Who's Who's this a bigger game for it? It's
Speaker 3: got to be Cincinnati, right, Well would be.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, yes and no, yes, and that Cincinnati is,
Speaker 2: you know, trying to be a super Bowl contender, so
Speaker 2: all their games are bigger.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: In this regard, for Houston, you could argue this is
Speaker 2: one of their biggest games of the year, and for
Speaker 2: Cincinnati it's their least big game of the last month
Speaker 2: or the games moving forward because they have Baltimore they had,
Speaker 2: but you know what I mean, And so in that regard,
Speaker 2: this game just means more for Houston. And I'm getting
Speaker 2: seven points, and so I'm going with Houston go ahead.
Speaker 3: This one directly contradicts my teaser. I hate it when
Speaker 3: that happens, but sorry sticking it out. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: think it's a good to logical bet. So next, you've
Speaker 3: got Detroit minus three at the Chargers.
Speaker 2: All right, This was the one I struggled with the most.
Speaker 2: But Detroit coming off of Bye Detroit in a spot
Speaker 2: where I feel like, because they got rolled the way
Speaker 2: they did by Baltimore, people you know, kind of were like, oh Okay,
Speaker 2: that's not that's not a real, you know, contender team.
Speaker 2: But as we then saw Balton more Roles Seattle know,
Speaker 2: maybe Seattle's not a real contender team either. There are
Speaker 2: some things Baltimore can do that no one else can.
Speaker 2: The Chargers we're a little too happy with themselves with
Speaker 2: the win over the Jets in a game where once
Speaker 2: again their offense didn't look great. The Detroit is off
Speaker 2: a bye the Chargers played Monday. I always hate when
Speaker 2: the NFL does that to teams, like it's not only
Speaker 2: does the other team have an extra week, but the
Speaker 2: Chargers don't even have the full week. The Lions, aside
Speaker 2: from that Ravens game, have been a covering machine, and
Speaker 2: the Chargers are not a trustworthy team in my opinion.
Speaker 2: And so for all those reasons, do I think Detroit's
Speaker 2: going to win? And I listen, Do I love laying
Speaker 2: the full field goal on the road? I don't, But
Speaker 2: it's what the line is. I'll take all tepidly. Take
Speaker 2: Detroit minus three.
Speaker 3: Next, got Dallas minus sixteen and a half versus the Giants.
Speaker 2: Okay, I understand that in theory, laying sixteen and a
Speaker 2: half points is super square. I mean this sincerely doubt.
Speaker 2: If Dallas gets to twenty four, it is impossible they
Speaker 2: don't cover. If they get to twenty they might cover,
Speaker 2: and at seventeen they could cover. The New York Giants
Speaker 2: offense with Tommy DeVito playing quarterback with their offensive line injuries,
Speaker 2: I would and I might make this bet. I bet
Speaker 2: the Dallas defense outscores the Giants offense. I bet the
Speaker 2: Dallas defense has more defensive touchdowns than the Giants offense
Speaker 2: has offensive touchdowns. The Giants are right now, given the injuries,
Speaker 2: the worst team in the NFL, and Dallas is what
Speaker 2: they have shown us this year. Whether the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: contender or not, we can argue about is they annihilate teams,
Speaker 2: annihilate them. They beat the Giants forty to nothing already
Speaker 2: this year, and that was with the Giants having Daniel
Speaker 2: Jones at quarterback. They are now have Tommy DeVito at
Speaker 2: quarterback with Matt Barkley signed the team. I think that
Speaker 2: Dak owns THENOT. I think I know Dak owns the
Speaker 2: NFC East. The Giants right now are the worst team
Speaker 2: in the league. It's a big number, all lay the
Speaker 2: big number. This is a Cowboys blowout. This feels like
Speaker 2: thirty to three Dallas. I'll lay the sixteen and a half.
Speaker 2: Your thoughts, Demant, say.
Speaker 3: My thoughts is Dallas minus sixteen and a half. That's
Speaker 3: a huge number those are.
Speaker 2: It is a huge number. It is. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: no doubt about that.
Speaker 3: I think that little rant that you just went on
Speaker 3: might have been more disrespectful than any other rant that
Speaker 3: I've heard you go on. And there was the time.
Speaker 2: Listen, the Giants are. The Giants are with.
Speaker 3: It's seventeen points, but.
Speaker 2: I mean they can shut them out. All right. So
Speaker 2: here's my five picks for the week. We're taking three dogs,
Speaker 2: two favorites. One of them is a massive favorite. Jags
Speaker 2: plus three against the Niners. I think they went out right.
Speaker 2: Cleveland plus six at Baltimore. I think they keep it close.
Speaker 2: Houston plus seven at Cincinnati. Sneaky trap game spot for Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Detroit laying three at the Chargers. Don't love it. Dallas
Speaker 2: minus sixteen and a half against the Giants. Love it.
Speaker 2: There are the five picks for the week. All right now,
Speaker 2: Demonse's teaser.
Speaker 3: So energy seemed to go down when you when you
Speaker 3: were all right?
Speaker 2: So, first of all, our producer.
Speaker 3: I got the Miami one right.
Speaker 2: The Miami one, you got right. It's in red, but
Speaker 2: it should be in green. Demonse's teaser was Miami plus
Speaker 2: eight and a half, which covered see we can put
Speaker 2: it on the screen. Guys, it's all right, Seattle plus
Speaker 2: twelve and a half, which I warned him against. I
Speaker 2: told him the Ravens screwed him before. He didn't care.
Speaker 2: It didn't cover, and in Cleveland minus a half point
Speaker 2: against Arizona that did cover. Demond's season record on the
Speaker 2: years one to eight. So the bright side is, uh,
Speaker 2: you can still finish above five hundred. The downside is
Speaker 2: to finish above five hundred, you have to go undefeated
Speaker 2: the rest of the way. So it's unlikely, but it's
Speaker 2: on the board. What are we doing this week?
Speaker 3: All right, it's time to make a comeback, guys. I've
Speaker 3: got some And just look at it as like, you
Speaker 3: know how when you learn a new language, like you're
Speaker 3: learning Spanish, they tell you to behave or act as
Speaker 3: if you were a baby and you're a sponge and
Speaker 3: just like trying to take it in solely. That's what
Speaker 3: we're doing on these teasers, guys. I've got new rules
Speaker 3: and principles that I'm gonna as the season goes on,
Speaker 3: and then hopefully, like like my dad said, if we
Speaker 3: have the graciousness to be doing this next year, we'll
Speaker 3: get better. But hey, this is not me being down myself.
Speaker 3: This is this is a winning teaser right here. This week,
Speaker 3: you got a three team seven and a half point teaser.
Speaker 3: Know you love those half points at plus one oh five. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we got Jacksonville. We're teasing them up to plus ten
Speaker 3: and a half. We got Minnesota, we're teasing them up
Speaker 3: to plus ten. We got Cincinnati, and we're just basically
Speaker 3: making them a pick them versus the Texans. Hey, man,
Speaker 3: go ahead, Yeah, the whole little Texans, the whole the
Speaker 3: no the Texans talk that you had. I don't want
Speaker 3: to say it got me down, but Texans plus fourteen
Speaker 3: and a half would be sweet versus the Bengals. But
Speaker 3: I'm very confident that the Bengals are gonna win that game.
Speaker 3: As far as Minnesota, I've got no worries that they'll
Speaker 3: go out there and be within ten points of the
Speaker 3: New Orleans Saints and then Jacksonville. Like I said, I
Speaker 3: just trust Trevor Lawrence A little bit more than I
Speaker 3: trust Brock Party. They're on the winning street. Brock parties
Speaker 3: on the losing street. They're both coming off a bye.
Speaker 3: What do you want to say? I feel like he
Speaker 3: got something to say about Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: The Vikings one worries me a bit. I stayed away
Speaker 2: from that game. I just wonder if there's a bit
Speaker 2: of an emotional let down there still playing a quarterback
Speaker 2: that just got in the building. Saints have been playing well,
Speaker 2: it's not terrible. You obviously know where I stand on
Speaker 2: not only teasing across the zero, but the Texans Bengals
Speaker 2: game in general. I don't love it. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: lie to you there. If I were to construct a
Speaker 2: teaser for the weekend, I am, I am, I'm trying
Speaker 2: to This is not a great teaser weekend. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna lie to you on that front either.
Speaker 3: All right, Wait, hold on, I'm hijacking the teaser boath.
Speaker 3: Hey take Cincinnati out play US one. We're doing Texans
Speaker 3: plus fourteen and a half.
Speaker 2: Wait you're wait, You're just keeping the same game and
Speaker 2: switching it.
Speaker 3: One thousand percent. What's the problem.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm with you. You know what? Good for you? Pal,
Speaker 2: This is how you turn it around. I thought you
Speaker 2: were gonna be like putting the Cowboys to minus nine
Speaker 2: or something. No, duh, oh, that's not a bad one.
Speaker 2: By the way, Texas Cowboys down to minus nine, and
Speaker 2: I'm saying, but they always down to my sign is
Speaker 2: not a bad one.
Speaker 3: No hundred percent. No, As you were saying that they could.
Speaker 3: The whole rant that you went on made me think
Speaker 3: about putting the Cowboys. But I mean, no, I'm not
Speaker 3: going to carry away from the game entirely. I want
Speaker 3: to keep the Texans in there.
Speaker 2: I was thinking of it. Okay, all right, so we
Speaker 2: got Jacks plus ten and a half, Minnesota plus ten
Speaker 2: and a half, using plus fourteen and a half. This
Speaker 2: is how you turn it around. What's the offer this week, demons?
Speaker 3: The offer this week is called Nick was right? Uh
Speaker 3: prety under one and a half touchdowns under two hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty nine and a half yards and the over
Speaker 3: one and a half touchdowns over two hundred and forty
Speaker 3: one and a half yards odds are plus eleven hundred.
Speaker 3: You want that? So you don't want that because of
Speaker 3: the San Francisco defense, and we're not sure.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, I'm a little worried if the
Speaker 2: Jags are winning the game. It's always if you think
Speaker 2: the Jags can win the game out right, you're a
Speaker 2: little nervous of the underpassing yardage numbers for the opposing quarterback. Uh,
Speaker 2: here's the deal. I'm gonna decline that offer, but I
Speaker 2: am going to create a nice same game parlay for
Speaker 2: this exact game that i'll tweet out. All right, we've
Speaker 2: got We'll answer your chat questions quickly, take quick break,
Speaker 2: come back. What's right? All right, quickly, let's do the
Speaker 2: questions because I gotta get to work. Demons. What's the
Speaker 2: first one?
Speaker 3: First question is from Dusty demonte A. You're gonna play
Speaker 3: the new Call of Duty with me again? On the
Speaker 3: new one. We can get in by joining Zealand Lobbies
Speaker 3: right now, Dusty, I get paid this Friday tomorrow, so
Speaker 3: it won't be playing tonight, but it might be able
Speaker 3: to get on tomorrow after I got that.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right?
Speaker 3: Next next one, Jack Fisher asked, why do you think
Speaker 3: the Eagles don't use the push to the push toush
Speaker 3: for two point conversions? Seems like they could get it
Speaker 3: almost every time. That's disgusting.
Speaker 2: Oh so you're coming around on me on this with
Speaker 2: me on this.
Speaker 3: No, I've never said that the play looks good, but
Speaker 3: like if you can't be stopped doing it for two point.
Speaker 2: Conversions, I honestly think the Eagles smartly understand we've gotta
Speaker 2: be that with how we utilize this, we don't want
Speaker 2: it to get banned. And I thought there when they
Speaker 2: were doing it. They did it on first and ten
Speaker 2: when they were backed up on their own one, and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, they always could do this, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like, but it was a big
Speaker 2: spot in a big game, So I listen, I would
Speaker 2: not rule it out of the realm of possibilities that
Speaker 2: they do something like that in the playoffs. They're saving
Speaker 2: it for the playoffs and be like, stop it, what
Speaker 2: are you gonna do? I think that's on the board.
Speaker 2: I absolutely think it's on the board next All right, season,
Speaker 2: I don't I don't have to takes in the NBA
Speaker 2: and season tournament.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, actual, we still love you. Brian Reyes said,
Speaker 3: if CJ. Stroud continues to play at this high level
Speaker 3: for the rest of the season, do you think he
Speaker 3: has a chance at MVP.
Speaker 2: We'll see if the Texans make the playoffs. I mean,
Speaker 2: the guy's got what fourteen touchdowns one pick if they
Speaker 2: make the playoffs and his numbers are amazing, it's on
Speaker 2: the board, like this is a weird MVP year. I
Speaker 2: made a case yesterday on TV that Miles Garrett should
Speaker 2: be getting consideration. The Browns of the best evens in
Speaker 2: the league has been awesome every single week, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do? All right? There was the
Speaker 2: show the oh do you.
Speaker 3: Want to do?
Speaker 2: The last question? I didn't know if you had.
Speaker 3: I mean, you kind of brought me to the last
Speaker 3: question perfectly. The Texans are my underdog, my underdog playoffs.
Speaker 2: Playoff that would be so much fun. It would also
Speaker 2: mean a team with very high expectations in the AFC
Speaker 2: gets left out. That would be really fun, really interesting.
Speaker 2: All right, I'll see guys on TV today at three.
Speaker 2: See you guys for the pot on Tuesday, Round ten thirty.
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