WEBVTT - Rams-Seahawks BATTLE for 1 seed, Lamar’s LAST SHOT, Jaguars SUPER BOWL caliber? | Nick Wright NFL 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:05.240 Welcome in What Driving nick Wright Episode four oh five, 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:10.960 as we are officially one week out from Christmas. This 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.680 episode is always of What Drivin nick Wright is presented 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:17.000 to you by our friends at boost Mobile. And I 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.639 should have asked to find out whether or not I'm 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.320 supposed to be talking about this or not. And since 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.920 I didn't ask, I'm just going to you know, wink 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.400 and not and hint at something. But our friends at 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:32.280 boost Mobile, who have been amazing partners for twenty twenty five, 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.120 I think they're gonna be even better friends with us 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.000 in twenty twenty six. 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I gotta I 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.319 gotta say something and then I'll get back to the show. 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:30.520 And I'm not gonna reveal details on this, but there's 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:36.080 sneaky proud parenting moments, and I have a lot of them. 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.400 I have a lot of proud parenting moments that aren't 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:40.400 like sneaky that it's just like, oh, that's when you're 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:45.880 supposed to be proud. But the other day demands hit 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:50.920 me up because there had been I'm just gonna it'll 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:55.320 be as vague as possible, Uh, an issue with his 0:01:55.360 --> 0:02:00.120 bank account and money wasn't missing, but money was not 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.960 where it was supposed to be. And the fact that 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:08.960 you were so it now, I don't want to say nonchalant, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:13.320 but that it was not like, man, if this money 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.160 doesn't show up, like I can't pay my car payment, 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:23.720 that's right, And that's like really, uh the buffer for real, 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.800 that's like a real part twenties. Having enough of a 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:32.239 buffer that if you know, if city banker whomever screws 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:36.680 something up, that it doesn't cause a catastrophe in your 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.200 life is like a real It's like a real moment in. 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:42.800 Feeling. Yeah. 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.360 Absolutely, And it wasn't an it wasn't a you know, 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.800 enoughing sum of money. It was a real amount of money. 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:49.839 But it was like no, I mean, you know, I'm 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.280 not I'm not paycheck to paycheck, which, by the way, 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.919 no judgment on that for folks who are like it's 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.760 hard out there. I was, shoot, I think I was 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.200 paid check to paycheck the whole time we lived in Houston. 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.560 But that was really more of a spending issue than 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:09.320 a money making issue regardless, So it was that that 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.160 was really cool. It made me very happy, and I'm 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.400 very happy you're gonna get the first Christmas here in 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:18.240 a week with your daughter. I was saying, our friends 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.440 boost Mobile, they not only sponsor the show, they sponsor 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:24.680 our straight to voicemail segment, which typically we can throw 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:29.560 it up there. Typically are the stories that we're not 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.280 going to spend much time on because we have too 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:35.480 many other things to do today. Because I like at 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.080 least two of these stories, and has a little hat 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.760 tipped our friends of boost Mobile a little extra time 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.560 on those. So the Knicks win the NBA Cup, they 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:48.560 won't hang a banner. I have two, I have three 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.520 NBA Cup takes first one is this. It was nice 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.360 to see someone could beat the thunder. Shout out to 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.680 the Spurs for doing that and maybe giving, even if 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.520 it's false, hope, some hope to the rest of the league. 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.560 My other Spurs take is and I guess I'm gonna 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.560 be a man on an island on this. It seems 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.760 like me and the great writer Jay Caspian Kang are 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.200 the only people that feel this way. But I don't 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:18.200 need to be talked down to or lectures about ethical 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:23.640 basketball or which teams have sophisticated offenses from a twenty 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:28.560 year old French kid who's never wanted anything and and 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:36.039 so like I, Wemby has shown more than flashes of greatness. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:40.320 He is, you know, bordering on just being a great 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:45.880 player already full stop. He obviously has seemingly limitless potential. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:51.800 But I'd love to see the guy, you know, accomplish 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:56.839 literally anything before he's telling us about which teams have 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.480 a sophisticated offense and which teams play up back to 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.359 the well. He was asked about the Knicks and he 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.240 was like, well, listen, they don't have, you know, the 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.000 sophisticated offense like the heat or the thunder, but they 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.719 play really hard and it was like a nice sat 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.719 on the head. And then he was asked about the Thunder. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.360 He was asked about the Spurs, and he talked about 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:25.360 how they play an ethical brand of basketball and that 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:30.200 it's the Spurs way and he thinks tactically correct. Listen, 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.800 call me and Neanerthal. I think a slightly more tactically 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.279 correct thing for the Spurs to do might be get 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.520 wimby the ball more so he can at seven to 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.480 six dunk on people a bit more. That's just my take. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.160 He also had some spicy takes about the best player 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.440 in the league and whether or not it could be 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.760 Jokic because of the defensive end, like. 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.560 A lot, he said, once I get back, it's me. 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:54.800 Yeah, a lot of talking. 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.280 I mean, the world loves him. Can you blame the guy? 0:05:58.320 --> 0:05:59.719 I mean it's I don't want to say it's gotten 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:01.640 to his because I don't think Womeny's that type of guy. 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.680 But it's like he's no. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:07.800 He is. He is espousing wisdom like the Shaolin monks 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.040 he spent time with. The Thing is those guys are 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:15.320 sixty and so that's all right. So that's first. That's first. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:19.440 From straight to voicemail. Second one is dolphins benching to 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:25.520 a tongue of Iiloa, and here is so obviously this 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.479 is a move that had to be made. Obviously, folks, 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.040 the old tuann folks and the folks that were really 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:36.359 in no, Actually, do you guys remember some of the 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:40.560 Tua arguments. It was stuff like no, you don't understand 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:45.440 how he moves defenses with his eyes. There were so 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:50.920 many now in retrospect, ridiculous to it defenses. Folks were 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:55.640 really convinced if he were right handed, you'd respect him more. 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.279 They showed us those flipped videos and they're like, no, 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:04.440 when in reality, it was always that he was an undersized, 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:10.360 not very strong armed player who tragically, because of the 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:17.920 injury history, became totally immobile and that drastically limited his effectiveness. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.720 You then added to it that he might be the 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:25.680 worst quarterback I've ever seen behind a podium at press conferences, 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:30.400 and what you had was a fifty four million dollar 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:35.960 a year albatross. And here would be Here's where I 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:45.520 think people haven't gotten there on what's next for Tua, 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:52.080 because Miami's going to have to either cut him and 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.120 eat ninety nine million dollars of a dead cap hit, 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.680 they can split that up sixty seven and thirty two 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.440 for next year in the year after, or Demonse, when 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:05.360 he has a fifty four million dollar guaranteed salary next year, 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:10.480 they can trade him. But in order to trade him, 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.200 in order to get someone to pay fifty four million 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:17.440 dollars for a backup quarterback, you probably have to attach 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:23.680 multiple second round picks, like I, and so I don't 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.840 know if mya. I think Miami'd rather eat the dead 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.400 cap hit than lose the draft capital. So if they're 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.360 just if no one's gonna trade for him and they're 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:36.679 just gonna cut him, I think it's on the board 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:46.479 that he's done. And here's why. I the quarterback reclamation 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:51.079 projects for the most part, Demonse, those guys had never 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:54.280 been paid, so they still had something to go. Chase 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.680 Baker hadn't been paid, Gino obviously hadn't been paid, Darnald 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.440 hadn't really been paid. Daniel Joe Zones had been paid. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:06.840 But he also, you know, maybe correctly, felt like, you know, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.720 I just got hurt a bunch. I'm good, I just 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:15.160 got hurt a bunch. Tua got paid top of market, 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:21.520 So will he be interested in playing for four million 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.959 dollars the when. 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:26.320 Yeah, I mean, if that's what it takes if he 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:27.040 wants to play. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.640 But I so that's the thing. I don't when he's 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:36.040 been paid like that and been a starter, interested in 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.559 making the least money you've ever made, And there might 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.400 even be an offset in it where he makes the 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.839 same amount of money no matter what, Like if someone 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.720 pays him four million, then the fifty four million Miami 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.040 os and just drops to fifty. So I'm not even 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.160 sure if he makes an extra dollar be a backup. 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:58.120 And here's the other thing. For other teams, there's a reason, 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:03.880 and for you know, simplistic, I'll use this example like 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.600 Tyler Huntley is Lamar's backup, because you usually want your 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:12.160 backup quarterback to be a poor man's version of your 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:16.640 starting quarterback. There's no starting quarterback in the league like 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:21.360 to him, like he doesn't seamlessly step in. First of all, 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.440 he's left handed, which does hurt him as far as 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:29.880 being a backup. Yes, Pinnix is a lefty. Right Pinnix 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.840 is a lefty, But so the left handed thing already 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.400 is going to work against him a bit. As far 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.959 as being a backup just in that the way your 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.800 play action works, the way your runs were, like everything 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.920 is reversed. The other one is because of his size 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:49.560 and the limitations on his mobility and all that, there 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.559 is a very specific style of offense he must run 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.360 that nobody else is really running. So like, could he 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:02.440 be the backup in San Francisco? Sure, Like that's where 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:06.000 Mike McDaniel came from. Except for this part of it. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:13.600 The one trait you really need of backup quarterbacks is terribility. Yeah, 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:17.040 because if you're like you, nobody wants to go to 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.360 third string, you have to go to third string. All 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.839 of a sudden, you're pulling Philip Rivers out of retirement. 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.160 So I just I don't know what's next for Tua, 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.439 but I think this is a This is a tough one. 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.480 And then the last thing from the straight to voicemail 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:35.280 brought to you by our friends of Boost Mobile. I 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.439 didn't tweet about this, but I appreciate the show putting 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:43.559 it in there. Awful announcing, which last year gave first 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:50.120 things first their annual award for Best Debate Show, gave 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:55.800 me the award for Best Debate Personality and the here's 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.600 thank you to the people AFO announcing it's very nice. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.319 Here is what I will say. Do you want to 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:02.160 say something demant say? 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:03.600 It looked like no, I was gonna say, it's pretty 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.120 freaking cool. I mean, I read through this. 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.160 It was very nice write up. It was a very 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.160 nice write up, and I and I don't want to. 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.160 I don't want to act like it it's nothing. It's 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.880 not nothing. I also don't I also felt like tweeting 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.160 it out would be I'd look like a dork, like, hey, 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.560 work this thing, and so I didn't want to do that. 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.120 But what I do want to say is this is 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:31.000 very I have I have been very honest with you 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:35.599 guys and uh with anybody when they talk about like 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:40.080 career goals and that when I got into this field, 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:45.840 I had a very it wasn't nebulous, but it wasn't 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.560 It was going to be very difficult to ever prove 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.520 I achieved it, which was for there to be a 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:56.800 moment in time where if you asked family feud style 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.160 And this is what I've always said, one hundred sports fans, 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.320 who who's the biggest sports talk guy in the country 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:06.800 that I get the most votes? You know that I'm 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:11.560 the plurality, if not the majority. I want to be 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.920 very clear, not only have I not achieved that, it's 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.760 undeniable that I have not achieved that that question. If 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.760 it was asked right now, steven A would win it, 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:31.320 and win it rightfully. But I do think maybe that 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:36.199 if that were asked right now, I might come in second. 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.040 I certainly would be one of the handful of people 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.840 that would get you know, that I'd show up on 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:47.040 that board and that maybe that's shallow, maybe that's vapid, 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.439 maybe that shouldn't matter, but it's a career goal and 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:55.560 so awful. Announcing stamping me as you know, the best 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.960 was very nice and it was touching, and it was 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.480 like it was kind of the culmination of last week 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:04.200 ended up being a pretty random but very cool week 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.240 for me. Oh I, you know, I mentioned it. On Tuesday. 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.400 I was on Bill's pod for the first time ever, 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.520 which was a career goal. I had the little moment 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:16.720 on Levitard show that people seemed to really like, and 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.840 so I started the week in a hospital bet on 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.440 the show. So it was all really cool. So I 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:26.160 appreciate that. So a fun kind of end of twenty 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.120 twenty five. And you know the only thing that can 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:31.160 make it better to Monday. If people subscribe to our 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.360 YouTube channel and subscribe to us on iTunes and spot only, 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.480 we would great. It's the only thing. We would greatly 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:42.640 appreciate that, So thank you guys so very much. And 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.480 then I might at some point in today's show or 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.760 maybe it'll be better for next week. Oh, I'm glad 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.920 I'm doing that as well. Next week's schedule the next 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:56.760 two weeks because we usually do shows on Thursday. This year, 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.920 Christmas Day is Thursday and New Year's Day is a 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.680 course of Thursday. So each of the next two weeks 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:08.440 we're gonna do our regular Tuesday show and then Wednesday 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.920 we will drop our weekly gambling show, and so there 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.320 will be two episodes a week instead of three episodes 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.480 a week each of the next two weeks. But this 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.360 week we have this show, obviously, and then tomorrow's gambling show. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.880 With all that said, let's get into one of the 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:24.040 games of the year tonight. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:27.520 In the NFL Massive Game tonight, Rams Seahawks, with the 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.920 one seed on the line, Rams are potentially playing without 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.840 Devonte Adams. I think they should be playing without Devontae Adams, 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:35.520 but with the stakes. 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.800 Well, his hamstring three days ago, EI ask him to 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:39.600 play on a Thursday be insane. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.240 With the stakes being clear, who would make a bigger 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:43.240 statement in a win here? 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:52.440 So, whoever wins this game will become the favorite in 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:57.400 the NFC, whether they should or not, they because what 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:01.480 it will mean for the one seed, And if the 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:07.120 Rams win it, Seattle is basically eliminated from anything but 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:13.080 a wild card, and they obviously would get a wild card. 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:17.720 If Seattle wins it, it's a little trickier because then 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:22.160 they'd have a split the they would have the same 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.720 divisional record, and so we wouldn't know, you know, what 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.720 would happen, except the Seattle would have the upperhand record wise. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:34.440 Here to me is the story of tonight's game. The 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:43.280 story of tonight's game is Sam Donald must play well 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.040 because Seattle's a really good team. I think they have 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:52.920 an excellent coach. I know they have an excellent defense. 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:57.640 Jackson Smith and Jigba's been the best receiver in football 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:01.600 all year long, and Donald, to his credit, has been 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.760 for the majority of the season excellent. Like he was 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:11.639 excellent last year, he's been excellent this year. With that said, 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:19.399 if Donald plays poorly tonight, absolutely no one will believe 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:23.440 in the Seahawks, and I wonder if even internally there 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:29.879 will be some doubt because and it's not fair entirely, 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.680 it's not entirely unfair, but it's also not entirely fair 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:44.479 that for Donald because Week eighteen last year, with the 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:48.040 division on the line, you know, all of that on 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.800 the line from Minnesota, he played poorly and then had 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:57.000 the disastrous playoff game, and then this year their first 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.639 game against the Rams, which is who the playoff game was, 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:04.879 again he threw four picks. People are just ready for 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:09.600 him to go pumpkin, and if he plays poorly again, 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.480 no one's gonna believe in Seattle. But the flip side 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:19.439 to that coin is this, if he tonight at home, 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:26.199 in a standalone window, can bounce back and play not 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:30.439 just fine, but really good, then you have to start 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:34.560 looking at Seattle and saying, hold on a second, they're 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:39.680 in the driver's seat for the one seed. They Darnald 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:44.840 just kind of slayed the one team he has had 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:50.840 so much struggle with, in the Rams. That defense at 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:56.960 home in the playoffs with that crowd is going to 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:01.240 be a monster for teams to deal with in one 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.760 of the only stadiums left that has a real home 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:10.480 field advantage, and that defense has been since they lost 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.920 to the Bucks thirty eight to thirty five. They allowed 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:18.200 twelve to the Jags, nineteen to the Texans, fourteen to 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:21.399 the Commanders, twenty two to the Cardinals, But that's a 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:27.679 misleading twenty two because that game they were up thirty 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:32.000 eight to seven at half, and so you know they 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:35.960 were in coast mode the rest of the way. Twenty 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:39.800 four to the Titans. But another game that's a little 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.840 misleading because they were up seventeen to three at the half, 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:48.199 zero to the Vikings, nine to the Falcons, sixteen to 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.920 the Colts, and the one loss in that stretch they 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.800 allowed twenty one to the Rams in a game the 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:59.400 defense was awesome to only allow twenty one because Darnold 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:03.840 was so bad with the four picks. So that, to me, 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:10.240 demand's is the flashing red light story for tonight. Can 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:16.240 Donald play a high level game in a high leverage 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:24.000 spot and really stamp Seattle as legitimate a list Super 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:24.960 Bowl contender. 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:29.320 It's the biggest question on the field, no doubt. 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:31.520 So I know we got some follow ups here, so 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:31.960 go ahead. 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.520 So we've got the gambling show tomorrow. But in this game, 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.520 where would you lean? With the line being Rams at Seahawks. 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:39.200 Seahawks is one and a half my favorites. 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:41.879 With all that said, I'd take the Rams because I 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:47.680 don't trust Darnald, but like I A, the no DeVante matters, 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:52.639 but the and the Rams had some travel issues which 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:56.080 I don't love, especially on a short week. They had 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:59.800 some issue with their playing. But I would I wouldn't. 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:04.320 I'm not going to bet this game tonight. I don't 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:08.040 feel so for the better quarterback here, but that yeah, 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:10.359 and I do think the Rams are the better team. 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:12.480 I think Seattle's excellent. I think the Rams are the 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:14.639 best team all year. Keep going on this. 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:17.200 Could do you think Stafford could lock up MVP before 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.080 he even get to the Sunday of week fifteen or sixteen? Sorry? 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:28.880 A monster Stafford game tonight in a win, and I 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:33.760 think MVP is his Okay, the I mean his numbers 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:41.479 this year are stunning in the overall. I mean thirty 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:47.400 seven touchdowns, five picks he should hit or four thousand 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:51.680 yards tonight, A one to twelve rating for a team 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.960 that if they win. Demonsee is gonna have the best 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:59.080 record in the entire NFC by themselves. 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:02.280 That to me, I mean they came in and they 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:03.879 were saying, the guy's shoulders messed up. 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:09.320 Yeah, No, it's back shoulder, but mostly is back. 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Denver and Jacksonville are in the top 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:05.439 teams of the AFC. You tie that in with Kansas 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:08.240 City and Cincinnati missing the playoffs? Is there a new 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:10.119 class of the AFC. 0:24:11.400 --> 0:24:16.239 So I listen, I don't. I think this is a 0:24:16.240 --> 0:24:20.960 weird year. Yeah, and in a lot of different ways, 0:24:21.160 --> 0:24:24.040 because it's not just the Chiefs, and we've talked of 0:24:24.600 --> 0:24:29.639 and every year there's big turnover, but there's not typically 0:24:29.760 --> 0:24:36.680 this level of turnover year to year. Where the the 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:40.800 best teams in the NFL last year the teams and 0:24:40.840 --> 0:24:45.920 we've talked about this a bit, the twelve plus win 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:50.720 teams last year, Detroit one fifteen. They're on the outside 0:24:50.760 --> 0:24:54.440 looking in on the playoffs. Kansas City won fifteen, they're 0:24:54.480 --> 0:24:59.440 eliminated from the playoffs, Minnesota one fourteen, they've been terrible, 0:25:00.160 --> 0:25:03.080 the More one twelve, they're on the outside looking in 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:06.879 on the playoffs. The Commanders won twelve, They've had season 0:25:06.960 --> 0:25:10.639 from hell. The two to twelve plus win teams that 0:25:10.760 --> 0:25:14.560 have maintained some level is Philly, which I think it's 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:17.040 fair to say is not the caliber of team they 0:25:17.040 --> 0:25:21.000 were last year. And Buffalo, which might be you know, 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:23.920 Buffalo surging at the end of the year. So that 0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:27.760 part is uh. I have talked a lot about how 0:25:29.040 --> 0:25:35.800 This year reminds me a lot of eight sadly, in 0:25:35.840 --> 0:25:40.600 that the Patriots coming off the undefeated season, Brady blows 0:25:40.640 --> 0:25:47.040 out his knee, they missed the playoffs. Peyton Manning the 0:25:47.520 --> 0:25:51.399 with the Colts, they're a wild card team because the 0:25:51.440 --> 0:25:54.720 Tennessee Titans. God, I think that was the carry, was 0:25:54.720 --> 0:25:59.520