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Speaker 2: Welcome in. We'll drive you nick great Episode two o four,
Speaker 2: our first episode of twenty twenty four, and we have
Speaker 2: a ton to do. We are up, we have finished,
Speaker 2: We have passed through the NFL's penultimate weekend. We are
Speaker 2: going in to the final weekend of the year. We
Speaker 2: have a college football championship game. We have resolutions to do,
Speaker 2: so much do Demonte will join us in just a
Speaker 2: moment before that, though, here will Demonsee join us right now?
Speaker 2: But before we hear from him, here is what missed
Speaker 2: the cut on today's show. Not on today's show. The
Speaker 2: Piston snapping their twenty eight game losing streak, Mike Tomlin
Speaker 2: above five hundred for the seventeenth straight year, and Michigan
Speaker 2: and Washington headed to the College Football Playoff Final. The
Speaker 2: reason we're not going to spend a lot of time
Speaker 2: on that is because we haven't spent hardly any time
Speaker 2: on college football on this show, so I don't want
Speaker 2: to parachute in right before the national championship game. I
Speaker 2: thought the Michigan Alabama game last night was thrilling theater.
Speaker 2: I thought Washington was going to lose last night in
Speaker 2: the most excruciating fashion possible if you didn't stay up
Speaker 2: late to watch that game. Just quickly on it. Washington
Speaker 2: is up six. They have handled the entire second half
Speaker 2: thanks some Texas fumbles. Washington is up six with fifty
Speaker 2: five or fifty eight seconds to go on a third down.
Speaker 2: Texas is out of timeouts, so they're gonna run the ball,
Speaker 2: take the clock down punt with about twenty seconds remaining,
Speaker 2: and then Texas gonna go have to go the length
Speaker 2: of the field in fifteen seconds. The Washington running back
Speaker 2: gets injured on the play. No mistake, no penalty, no fumble,
Speaker 2: but gets injured so there's an automatic timeout, which then
Speaker 2: gives Texas an extra forty seconds, which they make the
Speaker 2: most of and get it in the red zone with
Speaker 2: a few shots at the end zone, including a pass
Speaker 2: to the end zone with one second on the clock
Speaker 2: that gets broken up. But the right team won that game.
Speaker 2: The right teams are in the National Championship game Washington,
Speaker 2: which has been the story of the college football season,
Speaker 2: and Michigan Start to Finish, which has been the best
Speaker 2: team of the college football season. We will see that
Speaker 2: in a week. For more coverage on that game, watch
Speaker 2: or listen to any of the shows that have been
Speaker 2: talking college football year. We're gonna stick with the NFL demons.
Speaker 2: What are we starting with.
Speaker 3: We're started with my Ravens man up the one seed
Speaker 3: with a dominant win over the Miami Dolphins, and Lamar
Speaker 3: is now a heavy favorite to win MVP. So you're
Speaker 3: saying at this point, if the Ravens don't win a
Speaker 3: Super Bowl that Lamar is just the NFL's version of
Speaker 3: James Harden.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, that's not quite what I've said. That's not
Speaker 2: quite what I've said, But go ahead and finish the question,
Speaker 2: and then I will explain exactly what I've said.
Speaker 3: I was gonna ask you if you're willing to bet
Speaker 3: on that. But the follow up is, uh, if he
Speaker 3: does end up making a deep playoff push and wins
Speaker 3: a Super Bowl, will he just become the NFL's version
Speaker 3: of the Jokich where the best guess not continuous MVPs
Speaker 3: but you know.
Speaker 2: The no, no no, But still, okay, I want to
Speaker 2: make this very clear. I am not saying that if
Speaker 2: the Ravens, any result other than winning the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: is gonna mar Lamar Jackson season. I am saying one
Speaker 2: very specific result Wilmar the season, and that's one and
Speaker 2: done in the playoffs and another bad playoff game by Lamar.
Speaker 2: That is the scenario that I think the Hardened comp's
Speaker 2: fair like. We don't like the Harden Lamar comp because
Speaker 2: one guy is wildly respected, the other guy is considered
Speaker 2: a quitter and a clown. One guy has near universal
Speaker 2: approval rating, the other guy has essentially no fans left,
Speaker 2: one guy seems to uh in James's case, have the
Speaker 2: big moments freak him out, and Lamar just hasn't played well.
Speaker 2: So I'm not saying I am not comparing them as
Speaker 2: athletes or people. What I am saying is if Lamar
Speaker 2: gets a second MVP and then for the second time
Speaker 2: in a year he wins MVP, his team is the
Speaker 2: one seed, and in that playoff game they lose their
Speaker 2: first playoff game and he plays poorly. The Lamar Jackson
Speaker 2: regular season phenom playoff flaker, which is what James Harden is,
Speaker 2: those comps will be there, so I don't think like there.
Speaker 2: Let's look at every other Raven scenario. They win their
Speaker 2: first playoff game, Lamar plays well, and then in the
Speaker 2: AFC title game they lose to the Chiefs and mahomes
Speaker 2: no One's killing Lamar. Or if they make the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl and lose, no One's Killing Lamar, they you winstemanse,
Speaker 2: they might feel like a bit of a missed opportunity.
Speaker 2: But I even though the Chiefs and.
Speaker 3: The super Bowl is fine, But I think to the Chiefs,
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to down talk, I do think that
Speaker 3: would be a disappointment given how the season is gone
Speaker 3: the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: But you've got it. But you have to recognize in
Speaker 2: that world, the Chiefs aren't the team that people are
Speaker 2: looking at them as right now. They will been a
Speaker 2: team that just won three straight playoff games and made
Speaker 2: another super Bowl, their fourth and five years. In that scenario,
Speaker 2: no one's looking at the Chiefs like, ah, this crummy
Speaker 2: Chiefs team. They're like, oh my god. If the Ravens
Speaker 2: lose the Chiefs in the AFC title game, it's not
Speaker 2: gonna be about oh my god, gag job. It's going
Speaker 2: to be about the bleeping Chiefs. Man. Even this year.
Speaker 2: You couldn't kill them. You follow me there, And I
Speaker 2: know people are like and so the and if they
Speaker 2: if the Ravens make the super Bowl and they lose,
Speaker 2: nobody killed Joe Burrow for that they anointed rightfully. So
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow for that exact scenario, making the super Bowl
Speaker 2: and losing. But if Lamar plays poorly and the Ravens
Speaker 2: are in a weird spot, like, let me ask you this, Demanse,
Speaker 2: would you play Lamar in Week eighteen against Pittsburgh they
Speaker 2: have the number one seed locked up? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I was thinking about this. There's no there's no cons
Speaker 3: to losing, right like, if we lose everything secure, everything
Speaker 3: is locked up.
Speaker 2: Yet now here the one seed no matter what.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think there's any I don't think a
Speaker 3: couple of guys should play to be honest, But yeah,
Speaker 3: definitely hut Lamar.
Speaker 2: So I think that's correct, and I think that's what
Speaker 2: they'll do all But the here is the potential con
Speaker 2: you are rolling. You just came off probably your two
Speaker 2: best most dominant games, not just of the season, maybe
Speaker 2: of Lamar's career, the Niners win in San Francisco and
Speaker 2: then the ovisceration more touchdown passes than incompletions. By the way,
Speaker 2: that's the third time in Lamar's career he has had
Speaker 2: a perfect passer rating and more touchdown passes than incomplete passes.
Speaker 2: Really unbelievable. When he's rolling his A plus, he is
Speaker 2: the only guy who's on eye level with Mahomes of
Speaker 2: will you get their one hundred out of one hundred game.
Speaker 2: Lamar is the only quarterback I think in the league
Speaker 2: that if Mahomes plays his APEX game might not beat them.
Speaker 2: Like people tried to say that was Josh Allen, but
Speaker 2: we saw Josh Allen play's APEX game against Mahomes in
Speaker 2: that playoff game, Mahomes won. Lamar's APEX game is just
Speaker 2: so when he's hitting from a passing perspective and still
Speaker 2: has exactly. So the sorry I interrupted myself. Oh, I
Speaker 2: was saying about how they're rolling. So he is the
Speaker 2: Niners game in this perfect game against Miami. You now
Speaker 2: are in a situation where that game against Miami was
Speaker 2: December thirty first, and his next game he plays in
Speaker 2: would be January twentieth or twenty first.
Speaker 3: So you're saying to the legs fresh and just like
Speaker 3: repetition fland it.
Speaker 2: No, I'm saying I would sit it. I'm agreeing with you,
Speaker 2: but I am saying it is not without some nervousness
Speaker 2: of it's not just one week off because you have
Speaker 2: the actual buye. It's two weeks off. Like if you
Speaker 2: had locked up the two seed and you have to
Speaker 2: play wild card weekend, it's a no brainer to rest guys.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs have locked up the three seed, and I
Speaker 2: want them to sit everyone that matters, throw that game away.
Speaker 2: They can't be anything but the three. Give yourself a
Speaker 2: week off. The two weeks off thing gets a little tricky.
Speaker 2: And by the way, the Niners are in the same
Speaker 2: spot where they have the bye locked up. Are they
Speaker 2: gonna play their guys in round you know, in week eighteen?
Speaker 2: So that now to the flip side of this conversation,
Speaker 2: if the Ravens go on and win the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: does Lamar get to be called the best player in
Speaker 2: the league. It would be fair now, I and I
Speaker 2: think some others will still say if Patrick mahomes in
Speaker 2: his prime, he is perpetually the best player in the league.
Speaker 2: But similar to when Lebron was in his prime. But
Speaker 2: Steph won an MVP and a championship, some people the
Speaker 2: next year said he's the best player. And it even
Speaker 2: if you disagree with it, it's not an outrageous take.
Speaker 2: It is not at all outrageous. If you come out
Speaker 2: of this year, if Lamar wins everything and it's not
Speaker 2: like he came out of nowhere, He's won an MVP four,
Speaker 2: and then say he's the guy. But that's why there's
Speaker 2: so much go ahead.
Speaker 3: This, I mean, if you want to continue on that.
Speaker 3: But with all that said, do you think that there's
Speaker 3: any more pressure on anybody than Lamar Jackson in league
Speaker 3: to win the Super Bowl this year?
Speaker 2: No? Well, there might be more pressure on the Niners
Speaker 2: to win the Super Bowl because they've been banging on
Speaker 2: the door. There's more pressure on Lamar to have a
Speaker 2: great playoff game. Lamar's played in four playoff games. Here
Speaker 2: are his passing numbers. Game one fourteen of twenty nine,
Speaker 2: two touchdowns, one pick a, seventy nine rating. Game two
Speaker 2: thirty one of fifty nine, one touchdown, two picks a
Speaker 2: sixty three rating. Game three seventeen of twenty four one
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy nine yards, zero touchdowns, one pick a
Speaker 2: seventy five rates. They won that one. Game four, that
Speaker 2: was Game three. I might have misspoke. Game four fourteen
Speaker 2: of twenty four, zero touchdowns, one pick a sixty one rating.
Speaker 2: His team's points in those games seventeen, twelve, twenty and three.
Speaker 2: So we are zero for four on quality playoff games.
Speaker 2: That's why it is incumbent on him to play well.
Speaker 2: And I'm not trying to like I'm there's no extra
Speaker 2: pres it's just the reality of it. Now.
Speaker 3: People bring up there before you gotta get there, say maybe,
Speaker 3: what do you mean. I was just saying, no pressure.
Speaker 3: They haven't been to the Super Bowl before with Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but they've obviously been to the playoffs three times, right,
Speaker 2: I'm talking about I'm just talking about that first playoff game.
Speaker 2: If Lamar plays great, coming off the bye and he
Speaker 2: makes his first conference championship game. He's almost free rolling.
Speaker 2: Just a little context real quick, because people bring up
Speaker 2: Peyton Manning because he struggled throughout his playoff career. And
Speaker 2: Peyton's first three playoff games zero touchdown, zero picks a
Speaker 2: sixty two rating, one touchdown zero picks an eighty two rating,
Speaker 2: zero touchdowns two picks a thirty one rating. Those are
Speaker 2: his first three playoff games, all three losses. The problem, though,
Speaker 2: is Peyton's fourth playoff game five touchdowns, zero picks, a
Speaker 2: perfect rating, his fifth playoff game three touchdowns, zero picks,
Speaker 2: a one to thirty nine rating, and then the sixth
Speaker 2: was against the Patriots. He played poorly again and when
Speaker 2: they won the Super Bowl. He actually wasn't great in
Speaker 2: any of those playoff games when he won his first
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. The point is, yes, Peyton struggled early, but
Speaker 2: he also his fourth and fifth career playoff games was
Speaker 2: objectively awesome, and then struggled again later. Lamar's yet to
Speaker 2: have one of those. All right, next, all.
Speaker 3: Right, this time last year, the Chiefs and the Eagles
Speaker 3: of the one one seed. Now Philly is doing pretty bad,
Speaker 3: losing four of their last five games, including last week
Speaker 3: to the Cardinals. Last time Kansas City beat a starting
Speaker 3: quarterback was two in the Dolphins in November. What do
Speaker 3: you think is better positioned to overcome their slump and
Speaker 3: make it to the super and make a Super Bowl push.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, everybody knows what I'm gonna say Kansas City here,
Speaker 2: but I don't even want to spend time on the
Speaker 2: Chiefs right now. The people know where I stand on that.
Speaker 2: We'll see if I end up being right. The Eagles
Speaker 2: are cooked, They're finished, and they're absolutely finished. They they
Speaker 2: have a bottom five defense in the NFL. The way
Speaker 2: people I will say this about the Chiefs, the Chiefs
Speaker 2: right now have the number seven offense in the league
Speaker 2: and from a yards perspective and number twelve in a
Speaker 2: points perspective. And the way people talk about the Chiefs
Speaker 2: offen as if it's just awful and irredeemable, is the
Speaker 2: way the Eagles defense actually is. The Chiefs have a
Speaker 2: good but not great offense that we're used to being
Speaker 2: the best, and so it's jarring the Eagles defense. Just
Speaker 2: let Kyler cook him up doing whatever he wanted. Let
Speaker 2: Drew Lock beat him. Purty played a perfect game, Dak
Speaker 2: played a perfect game. They almost lost to Dyrod Taylor. Like,
Speaker 2: I this idea that the Eagles because they had giants, Cardinals,
Speaker 2: giants to finish the year, and everybody was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: no matter how bad they are, they'll be three, and
Speaker 2: oh they're going to be the two seeds. And I
Speaker 2: kept saying, they can lose to anyone. When your defense
Speaker 2: is that bad, you can lose to anyone. And then
Speaker 2: you add to it that offense ain't that great right now.
Speaker 2: And the short term concern is the defense is cooked.
Speaker 2: The medium term concern is your coach might just be
Speaker 2: a bit of a front runner and not really know
Speaker 2: how to deal with adversity. When things are going good,
Speaker 2: he's mother f and chiefs fans and mean mugging the
Speaker 2: camera and doing all this foolish, childish bullshit. But when
Speaker 2: things aren't going well, I mean, I just wouldn't like
Speaker 2: it if with this podcast, you and I comported ourselves
Speaker 2: like Jalen Hurts and Jason Kelsey, and then Gabe who
Speaker 2: runs Blue Duck, the company that produces it, was out
Speaker 2: here given quotes like to the trade publications like oh,
Speaker 2: we got the best podcast team in the world, we
Speaker 2: go in your house and beat the sh I just
Speaker 2: would be like, Gabe, this isn't who we're trying to be.
Speaker 2: And Jalen Hurts and Jason Kelcey are consummate pros, and
Speaker 2: Sirianni is he's got his you know, his body gout
Speaker 2: her on the sideline.
Speaker 3: Got to cut it out with the inspirational quotes, but
Speaker 3: go ahead.
Speaker 2: Okay, well but he is that well, so let me
Speaker 2: finish what I was saying. Though, short term concern defense
Speaker 2: is terrible, medium term concern? Can your coach lead from
Speaker 2: behind long term concern? And this is the one you
Speaker 2: just got to kind of whisper did they pay the
Speaker 2: aberration year? In regards to Jalen Hurts, Jalen Hurts in
Speaker 2: his college career did not look like an NFL franchise quarterback.
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts his first two years in the NFL did
Speaker 2: not look like an NFL franchise quarterback. Jalen Hurts this
Speaker 2: year has not looked like an NFL franchise quarterback. And
Speaker 2: I guess I shouldn't say look because what what's the.
Speaker 3: At recency bias? The old recentcy bias poking out on
Speaker 3: the west right podcast.
Speaker 2: How so, how is it recent.
Speaker 3: Just the last I guess it's if you want to
Speaker 3: say it's the last few games last season. I think
Speaker 3: we need more. Let's let's see what he does in
Speaker 3: the playoffs before we start calling him.
Speaker 2: Well, you're not gonna have a lot of time because
Speaker 2: they're not gonna last thanks to the defense.
Speaker 3: And he started off the season a little banged up,
Speaker 3: didn't he like he's going well?
Speaker 2: So okay, so listen, this is why he said you
Speaker 2: have to whisper it. Let me just let me finish
Speaker 2: my point. John Hurt's post high school has had one
Speaker 2: year that he looked like he was either going to
Speaker 2: be or already was a top flight NFL quarterback. It
Speaker 2: was last year, and they gave him the contract to
Speaker 2: go along with it. Now, I supported that. I thought
Speaker 2: the way he played in the Super Bowl was out
Speaker 2: of this world, the way he conducts himself, how tough
Speaker 2: he is, all of that stuff. But if you're Philly,
Speaker 2: there's a little nervousness that lack that it wasn't It's
Speaker 2: not recency bias right now, that's happening. Last year was
Speaker 2: an outlier season, and who he is is a pretty
Speaker 2: good quarterback pretty good but not great, and they they
Speaker 2: have paid him now like he's great. That is the
Speaker 2: long term concern. Now. I don't think injuries are an excuse.
Speaker 2: I think injuries are often an explanation. I don't like
Speaker 2: when people are like, oh, don't use injuries as an excuse.
Speaker 2: It's like, it's not an excuse, it's an explanation. And
Speaker 2: I do think he's hurt, which then brings me back
Speaker 2: to Sirianni, stop having forty percent of your offense be
Speaker 2: your injured franchise quarterback lowering his shoulder or doing the
Speaker 2: tush push. And these people that are like, oh, the
Speaker 2: tush push, the way they do it is safe. Okay,
Speaker 2: maybe it's safe. But here's what I know. I need
Speaker 2: to steal a line from Kevin Wilds demands. If Demanse
Speaker 2: had a banged up knee that he was wearing a
Speaker 2: brace on, and he went to go to his doctor's appointment,
Speaker 2: the doctor's like, well, what have you been doing? It's like, well,
Speaker 2: my regular stuff, plus four or five times a week,
Speaker 2: I collect twenty of the biggest strongest people I know,
Speaker 2: and I run into the middle of them and have
Speaker 2: them all push me from different directions. I don't think
Speaker 2: the doctor would be like, oh, okay, smart, that's the
Speaker 2: quickest way to get healthy. Like keep doing that. That's
Speaker 2: a good part of your rehab. And so even if
Speaker 2: it's not incredibly dangerous, it isn't the fastest way to
Speaker 2: get a healthy knee. And so I the when a
Speaker 2: quarterback is hurt some typically you would like to see
Speaker 2: the team protect him a bit. They don't do that
Speaker 2: in Philly, and so I don't know, but I do
Speaker 2: know this Philly is drawing dead to win multiple playoff games.
Speaker 2: Maybe they go on the road and beat the NFC
Speaker 2: South winner, maybe, but then after that they will either
Speaker 2: be in San Francisco, in Dallas, or in Detroit. Those
Speaker 2: are the only three possible Round two options for a
Speaker 2: team that's going to be the five seed, and they
Speaker 2: will get cooked. That defense will get cooked on the
Speaker 2: road against Jared Goff, Dak Prescott, or Kyle Shanahan's offense.
Speaker 2: See what I did there? I did quarterback quarterback Kyle
Speaker 2: Shanahan offense. All right? Next, all right?
Speaker 3: The NFL season is wrapping up this Sunday night with
Speaker 3: the Bills playing the Dolphins. Buffalo has like some weird
Speaker 3: scenario where they could be the two seed or be
Speaker 3: dropped out of the playoffs completely.
Speaker 2: So let me explain that scenario real quick. It's very simple.
Speaker 2: If the Jags beat the Titans, and if Pittsburgh beats Baltimore,
Speaker 2: which sounds really hard, but then you realize bal Lamar
Speaker 2: is probably not playing and Baltimore's resting people. So if
Speaker 2: the Jags win and the Steelers win, the Bills go
Speaker 2: into the final game of the year with two possible
Speaker 2: outcomes the two seed or miss the playoffs. That's it,
Speaker 2: which is just a perfect micro cosm for the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2: Either you're in great shape and a huge threat, or
Speaker 2: you finish in fifteenth place in the NFL. Go ahead,
Speaker 2: sor right.
Speaker 3: So the Dolphins are banged up in the Bills. As
Speaker 3: you just explained to the Bills, which team do you
Speaker 3: think will have a better set of excuses when they
Speaker 3: get bounced out of the first round of the playoffs?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think the Bills are making the playoffs, okay,
Speaker 2: and the now some of that again. I for that
Speaker 2: to be correct, the Jags and Steelers both have to win.
Speaker 2: If if it doesn't go that way, then the Bills
Speaker 2: can make the playoffs with a loss. But I think
Speaker 2: that is gonna happen. And I don't think the Bills
Speaker 2: are gonna beat Miami it as I Sometimes I do
Speaker 2: wonder are people watching the games did beat So? Last
Speaker 2: week we saw Josh Allen and the Bills play Easton
Speaker 2: stick and Gift Smith and the last second field goal
Speaker 2: to win. This week, we saw the Patriots self immolate
Speaker 2: in the first twenty minutes of this game, four turnovers
Speaker 2: inside their own thirty, including a pick six, and despite
Speaker 2: that it's a six point game. The entire fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: the Bills almost lost to Bailey Zappi with four turnovers.
Speaker 2: So the idea that the Bills like people are like, oh,
Speaker 2: the Bills are coming on strong. No, they're not. And
Speaker 2: here's the other thing. During this winning streak, it's four games. Demonse,
Speaker 2: how many passing touchdowns do you think Josh Allen has
Speaker 2: in these four in this four game winning streak?
Speaker 3: Give it a guess, call it six, seven, three?
Speaker 2: How many passing yards do you think he has in
Speaker 2: this four games? So obviously three hundred a game would
Speaker 2: be twelve hundred, a two fifty game would be a thousand.
Speaker 2: How many passing yards do you think he has in
Speaker 2: the four game winning streak?
Speaker 3: Call it six seven hundred six seven.
Speaker 2: Seven seven thirty three, one hundred and eighty yards a game,
Speaker 2: three touchdowns, three picks. One hundred and eighty yards a
Speaker 2: game is seventy five or rating. He's not exactly coming
Speaker 2: on strong. Uh and Stefan Diggs has been Mia and
Speaker 2: so listen, Miami, they're Super Bowl hopes. Took a kill
Speaker 2: shot this weekend against the Ravens because of the defensive
Speaker 2: injuries Xavian Howard and Bradley Chubb being carted off. That's
Speaker 2: just worst case scenario.
Speaker 3: But I go ahead, Demansey, with everything you just said,
Speaker 3: Miami's still a three point home dog after they were
Speaker 3: destroyed by the Ravens.
Speaker 2: Ye Vegas, Vegas.
Speaker 3: You think it's one of the bills.
Speaker 2: Public can't quit the Bills. I mean, the Bills were
Speaker 2: thirteen point favorites over easton Stick. They won on the
Speaker 2: last second field goal. They were fourteen point favorites against
Speaker 2: Bailey Zappi. The Patriots had four turnovers instantly and they
Speaker 2: won by six. Like the the fading the Bills has
Speaker 2: been good business so far this year. All right, let's
Speaker 2: move on all right.
Speaker 3: The Bears are locked into the number one pick after
Speaker 3: the Panthers picked up their fourteenth loss. Chicago has won
Speaker 3: four of their last five, and Justin Fields is definitely
Speaker 3: making his case to stay on the team. But obviously,
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams is in the draft, and we know how
Speaker 3: you feel about that guy. Does Chicago have a difficult
Speaker 3: decision ahead of him?
Speaker 2: What would you do?
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna man. I would draft twohigh receivers.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but not, but not number one.
Speaker 3: You train the two offensive positions, either something on the
Speaker 3: old line and with a wire receivers, just something to
Speaker 3: cater to Justin Fields, because I do think there's something there.
Speaker 3: I think he's got the he's got the bones.
Speaker 2: So listen. There is an argument to be made that
Speaker 2: if you have the number one pick, if you're Chicago,
Speaker 2: you call New England, who's going to have the number
Speaker 2: three pick, and you say, we'll trade you the number
Speaker 2: one pick for the third pick and a future first
Speaker 2: rounder and something else, and see if they'll do it.
Speaker 2: And you draft Marvin Harrison, you get extra draft capital,
Speaker 2: you rode with Justin Fields. I don't think you can
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 3: I Caleb got the first and the tenth pick though, right,
Speaker 3: like not they've got right yeah.
Speaker 2: But my point is if you're not gonna draft Caleb,
Speaker 2: you can you can get multiple first round picks for it.
Speaker 2: Staying at one and not drafting a quarterback is not
Speaker 2: an option. It's either you draft the quarterback or you
Speaker 2: trade it to a team that will give you the
Speaker 2: type of deal Carolina gave the Bears last year, which
Speaker 2: is what they did last year, and you get all
Speaker 2: the extra draft capital. Right, so that those are your
Speaker 2: two the two doors you can walk through because Justin listen,
Speaker 2: he's look good lately, but you're about to have to
Speaker 2: pay him. And Caleb, to me is a transcendent guy,
Speaker 2: and you can get something for Justin Like, would let's
Speaker 2: use New England again. Would New England give you the
Speaker 2: thirty fifth pick, the third pick of the second round
Speaker 2: for Justin? I think so, and then you can start
Speaker 2: on the rookie quarterback contract, clock all of it. If
Speaker 2: it wasn't to me such a transcendent prospect in Caleb,
Speaker 2: then I would.
Speaker 3: This same team that didn't want Lamar Jackson last year.
Speaker 3: You're saying that Justin Field is eventually gonna have to
Speaker 3: be paid. I get Lamar's contracts, probably a little bit higher,
Speaker 3: but they seem to be. Well.
Speaker 2: Then it planned, well, all those listen, all those teams
Speaker 2: that passed on Lamar, Someone's gonna trade for Justin Fields Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Maybe someone's gonna trade for him, and someone's gonna pay him.
Speaker 2: The Lamar things almost in its own box. It was
Speaker 2: so clear and obvious collusion amongst the owners, and we
Speaker 2: just all pretend like it's not. I mean, that's clearly
Speaker 2: what it was. But I personally I would draft Caleb
Speaker 2: and I'd feel great about it. And if you're Ryan
Speaker 2: Poles in Chicago, can you for two consecutive drafts have
Speaker 2: the number one pick and in two consecutive drafts pass
Speaker 2: on taking a quarterback? I don't think you can't. Now
Speaker 2: people look at it, they're like, oh wow, well Bryce
Speaker 2: wouldn't have worked. Yeah, but CJ would have number one pick.
Speaker 2: You can take whoever you want, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like they could have stayed there and drafted CJ. Instead,
Speaker 2: they traded back and it worked out great. They got
Speaker 2: the number one overall pick. Again. I don't think you
Speaker 2: can do that again. All right, quick break right back,
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Speaker 2: Let's get back to the show before we do rights resolutions.
Speaker 2: We got a Russell Wilson topic.
Speaker 3: We've got a Russell Wilson's We missed a lot in
Speaker 3: the two weeks that we weren't here. Yeah, Russell Wilson
Speaker 3: was benched and all signs are pointing towards him being sick.
Speaker 2: Category two opinion by me, where's your guys sizzle reel?
Speaker 2: Remember how when I get something wrong, you guys put
Speaker 2: together these fun videos of me being wrong repeatedly, and
Speaker 2: it so rarely happens. I don't know how you guys
Speaker 2: have it. Where's all the tape of all the time
Speaker 2: you were like, so, are you gonna give Russell Wilson
Speaker 2: his flowers? Are you ready to admit he's playing? Well,
Speaker 2: here's Russell Wilson's number, here's Malmes's numbers? Oh are you?
Speaker 2: Are you scared of the Broncos? Where's all that? I
Speaker 2: told you?
Speaker 3: Guys?
Speaker 2: Watched the games?
Speaker 3: Hold on, But isn't Russell Wilson like the one thing
Speaker 3: that they kind of had going for him? I don't
Speaker 3: think he was playing poorly?
Speaker 2: Well, that's interesting because he's not playing for the team anymore.
Speaker 2: That's a really interesting take because they're about to cut
Speaker 2: him and they just pinched him. Uh so, you know what,
Speaker 2: maybe it was actually that it wasn't as simple as
Speaker 2: here's his touchdown inner upter ratio. Guys, I told you
Speaker 2: all that Russell Wilson was playing a selfish brand of football,
Speaker 2: and people were like, what does that even mean? Nick?
Speaker 2: How can you do it? And the point I was
Speaker 2: making because I watched the games was Russell Wilson was
Speaker 2: protecting his personal numbers to the detriment of the team
Speaker 2: and taking sacks he shouldn't take checking the ball down
Speaker 2: when he needed to push it down the field. And
Speaker 2: it was odd watching him play this way, and then
Speaker 2: we find out that right around the time he started
Speaker 2: doing it, the team went to him and said, we're
Speaker 2: gonna cut your ass this offseason if you don't agree
Speaker 2: to change your contract. And you know what that might
Speaker 2: lead someone to do protect their numbers. If all of
Speaker 2: a sudden we told demons a buddy, you're fired in
Speaker 2: a month off the podcast, you know what demonse might do.
Speaker 2: Demonsey might all of a sudden start firing off takes.
Speaker 2: He's like, I gotta create a highlight reel of my takes.
Speaker 2: I gotta do something, but I don't care if it's
Speaker 2: good for the show or not. I'm gonna tell Nicky's
Speaker 2: full ass. I'm gonna do these things because I gotta
Speaker 2: worry about number one. That's what was happening. I saw
Speaker 2: it because I'm watching the games. But all right, that's
Speaker 2: my own little victory lap.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Sean Payton, Wait, do you still are we
Speaker 3: going to right resolutions?
Speaker 2: Or because no, no, no, keep going.
Speaker 3: Okay, who's bright? Whose future is brighter in Denver? Uh?
Speaker 3: Russ or Sean Payton?
Speaker 2: I mean uh, I mean well, Russ has no future
Speaker 2: in Denver. I don't know if Sean Payton's is that bright,
Speaker 2: but it's brighter than Russ's in Denver. The interesting question
Speaker 2: is where's Russ gonna play next year? Where's Russell Wilson
Speaker 2: gonna play next year? If if Belichick stays, I could
Speaker 2: see New England. If Belichick stays, I could see New
Speaker 2: England being an interesting fit.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: If Belichick they you know, if they draft Marvin Harrison,
Speaker 2: that defense kicks ass, I could see that being an
Speaker 2: interesting fit. And I could see that semi working other like,
Speaker 2: this is a tough one man. What is the team
Speaker 2: that is going to want to get in the Russell
Speaker 2: Wilson business. Let's just go through them. The Dolphins obviously not,
Speaker 2: the Bill's obviously not the Jets. He would make a
Speaker 2: ton of sense to come in and be Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: quote backup unquote, but there Rodgers would never allow it.
Speaker 2: So that's not an honest.
Speaker 3: Wesel Wilson would want to go in as a backup.
Speaker 2: Well, here's my let's just let's let's find the team.
Speaker 2: So the Patriots, the Ravens obviously not, the Browns know
Speaker 2: they're tied to Deshaun The Steelers. Steelers, that's a maybe.
Speaker 2: So now we're at too. The Bengals obviously not correct.
Speaker 2: The Jags know, the Colts know they drafted their guy.
Speaker 2: The Texans know the Titans drafted their guy in Levis.
Speaker 2: They at least want to see it. The Chiefs know
Speaker 2: the Broncos are getting rid of him. The Raiders maybe,
Speaker 2: but I don't. Would you know that's staying in the
Speaker 2: AFC West. The Chargers obviously know, So now we have
Speaker 2: three maybe's right? No, No, I'm just going team, but
Speaker 2: I'm going down the whole list, all right. The Cowboys
Speaker 2: obviously know. The Eagles obviously know the Giants. It wouldn't
Speaker 2: be a bad idea, but they owe Daniel Jones money
Speaker 2: next year. They're giving him another chance, so they're no.
Speaker 2: The Commanders Demons are going to draft a quarterback. That
Speaker 2: seems you know what I mean? That seems incredibly obvious.
Speaker 2: So let's assume they're drafting a quarterback, right. The Lions
Speaker 2: obviously know, the Packers obviously know the Vikings. It looks
Speaker 2: like Cousins is coming back. He's out there beating the
Speaker 2: drum doing scold with the shirt off. He's brother, so
Speaker 2: let's assume he's back. The Bears obviously know. Okay, the
Speaker 2: Bucks are gonna bring back Baker, the Saints have said
Speaker 2: they're gonna bring back car the Falcons maybe now we're
Speaker 2: at four maybes. The Panthers are rolling with Bryce, the
Speaker 2: Niners have Purty, the Rams have Stafford Seattle as Gino,
Speaker 2: and they already did it. Arizona is either drafting a
Speaker 2: quarterback or keeping Kyler. Okay, so that's four maybes. But
Speaker 2: here's the problem. Some of those maybies are gonna draft
Speaker 2: a quarterback, right, so we are the the idea that
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson might have to be a backup is not crazy.
Speaker 2: There's not gonna like we set a Santa crazy, right,
Speaker 2: but we he said Atlanta. Atlanta could draft a quarterback,
Speaker 2: could trade for Justin Fields, right, like the there are
Speaker 2: We're in a weird spot right now. There's not a
Speaker 2: lot of Now, what Russell has going for him is
Speaker 2: this because of the way his contract is with Denver
Speaker 2: next year and next year only whatever someone pays him
Speaker 2: Denver then doesn't have to pay him, So he's essentially
Speaker 2: going to be playing for free. So he'll get the
Speaker 2: same amount next year whether he plays or he doesn't.
Speaker 2: Now he's going to play, but The reason I bring
Speaker 2: that up is he could. It would almost make sense
Speaker 2: for him to sign for as little money as possible
Speaker 2: because his take home money is the same. So what
Speaker 2: I'm describing as an offset. So let's just say Denver,
Speaker 2: I've rowed him thirty million bucks next year. If he
Speaker 2: signed for five million with a new team, then Denver
Speaker 2: only owes him twenty five million. If he signed for
Speaker 2: ten million, then Denver only owes him twenty Now I'm
Speaker 2: making those numbers up, but it's gonna be the same
Speaker 2: amount of money. So the smart thing would be, I'll
Speaker 2: play for the league minimum. Yeah, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: keep the cap as low as possible. So he does
Speaker 2: have that going for him. But uh, it is a
Speaker 2: unique spot. He's in a very precarious position right now.
Speaker 2: And the Broncos got the biggest dead cap hit ever
Speaker 2: in NFL history. Was forty point five million. Was Matt Ryan.
Speaker 2: Number two was Tom Brady forty point three million. This offseason,
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson's is eighty five million dollars. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: thirty five million next year and fifty million the following year.
Speaker 2: All right, let's do the resolutions.
Speaker 3: All right, we are doing rights resolutions. Unfortunately, we couldn't
Speaker 3: do this on the New Year exactly. So you're gonna
Speaker 3: tell teams are players their resolution for twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: First off, we got your boys, the Chiefs. If Kansas
Speaker 3: City wins the Super Bowl, they aren't set up for
Speaker 3: long term success with how they are currently constructed. If
Speaker 3: you truly believe they are a dynasty, then what is
Speaker 3: their next move to extend it? The Chiefs resolution should
Speaker 3: be to not.
Speaker 2: Have dumb Chiefs questions asked on this show. Okay, if
Speaker 2: the preface of this question is if they win the
Speaker 2: super Bowl, they're not set up for long term success.
Speaker 2: If they win the Super Bowl, guys, then they are
Speaker 2: more better set up for long term success than any
Speaker 2: team maybe ever. If they win the Super Bowl when
Speaker 2: everything is broken on offense, and they win it anyway
Speaker 2: because they have invested in their young defense, which is
Speaker 2: the number two defense in football at betting on that
Speaker 2: their quarterback can make it all work, and they have
Speaker 2: the quarterback under contract and one of the best rookie
Speaker 2: witers in football, then I think they're gonna be just fine.
Speaker 2: The question should have been if the Chiefs go out
Speaker 2: in Round one, how do they reboot things. But you guys,
Speaker 2: you guys, you guys fumbled the ball on that one,
Speaker 2: and I saw it in the rundown. I was like,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm gonna let these guys have been
Speaker 2: controlling me on the Chiefs all year long. It's not
Speaker 2: even in the show. They've won eight straight divisional titles.
Speaker 2: How about that? Seems like noteworthy, seems pretty impressive. Inn
Speaker 2: FC said, a different division winner for twenty straight years
Speaker 2: years in a row. Well maybe maybe, yes? Maybe? No?
Speaker 2: What what if?
Speaker 3: What if? What you're about to get you a little
Speaker 3: map out with the strings?
Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm just gonna listen. I understand, I apologize.
Speaker 2: I understand that back in twenty nineteen, that was so
Speaker 2: long ago, you weren't yet watching football regularly. But in
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, demase, the numbernumber one seed was the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 2: And where was the AFC title game held Arrowhead Stadium?
Speaker 2: Because the Ravens went out in round one. So the
Speaker 2: idea that Kansas City can't it can't still be hosting
Speaker 2: the arrow At Invitational, Let's just wait and see. Let's
Speaker 2: just wait and see how it all plays out. Because
Speaker 2: there is a scenario, And the scenario is quite simple
Speaker 2: where the Chiefs do have to go on the road
Speaker 2: these playoffs, but it's not for the AFC Championship. The
Speaker 2: scenario is this the in round one, the Dolphins win
Speaker 2: and beat whoever is the seventh seed, the Chiefs win
Speaker 2: beating the sixth seed, and the Browns and Flacco beat
Speaker 2: the AFC South winner, and that would then mean round
Speaker 2: two is Chiefs. You know, these aren't Demond say, I'm
Speaker 2: just saying the favorites win. These are not. Those will
Speaker 2: be the two seed and the three seed are the favorites,
Speaker 2: and the Browns would be the favorites in the wild
Speaker 2: card round. It's really one thing that need to happen.
Speaker 2: But then and then round two, the divisional round, would
Speaker 2: be the Chiefs going to Miami, so they would have
Speaker 2: to go on the road, and the Browns going to
Speaker 2: Baltimore with Baltimore's old quarterback. The Brown's one of the
Speaker 2: only teams to beat the Ravens this year. The brown
Speaker 2: could win.
Speaker 3: That Brown situation, yeah, make you a little nervous.
Speaker 2: And if that happens, then the Arrowhead Invitational would be
Speaker 2: back on for the record, all right, or the other
Speaker 2: scenario is this that I am wrong about the Bills,
Speaker 2: that the Bills lose this weekend. But what the Steelers
Speaker 2: scenario or the jag scenario doesn't fall in and the
Speaker 2: Bills get in as the seventh seed, and then the
Speaker 2: Bills are just red hot and beat the two seed
Speaker 2: in round one and Baltimore in round two. In that scenario,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs never have to go on the road. They
Speaker 2: just host the winner of Cleveland AFC South and then
Speaker 2: they host Buffalo in the AFC title game.
Speaker 3: All right, doctor strange? What happens if they don't win
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl? All right? All right? The refs, the
Speaker 3: refs is the next one. Hasn't been a good year
Speaker 3: for refs. At the end of the Cowboys Lions game,
Speaker 3: the black and White guys messed up and gave the
Speaker 3: Cowboys a win. On Lebron's thirty ninth birthday, the refs
Speaker 3: gifted him a bad call, saying his foot was on
Speaker 3: the line on a game tying three. The way that
Speaker 3: Lebron was pointing at the monitor, he would have thought
Speaker 3: that his foot was a couple of inches off of
Speaker 3: the line. But hey, or like maybe a cinema or
Speaker 3: maybe a half inch or something. But to the naked eye.
Speaker 2: Man that there was no naked eye. Though it's a
Speaker 2: it's a video replay, it doesn't need to be the
Speaker 2: naked eye.
Speaker 3: You look at the naked eye on the camera, whatever
Speaker 3: you want to call it. I saw the picture. I saw.
Speaker 3: I've seen many angles of the picture. It it looks
Speaker 3: it's it's it's not an egregious call by the reps,
Speaker 3: is what I'm saying. Like Lebron made it seem like
Speaker 3: it was so obvious, but he's a crybaby. But let
Speaker 3: you go.
Speaker 2: Okay, you do know that with that scenario I laid
Speaker 2: out where I was like, you're fired in a month,
Speaker 2: and so then you need to, like, you know, get
Speaker 2: your own little hot take reel together. That was a
Speaker 2: fake scenario. We can make it a real one, but
Speaker 2: it was a fake scenario. But go ahead, what's the
Speaker 2: question here?
Speaker 3: Uh? The ref the rep's resolution should be.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, just be better. The This is the
Speaker 2: point the Cowboys Lions thing and everyone killed me. This
Speaker 2: was the point I was making when the refs called
Speaker 2: that that Tiki tak off sides on Kadarius Tony in
Speaker 2: the Bills Chiefs game. That was trying to make when
Speaker 2: I said they haven't been good enough, they haven't earned
Speaker 2: the right to make that type of call, And I
Speaker 2: was like, what are you talking about? The man the
Speaker 2: refs can't even figure out the difference between sixty eight
Speaker 2: and seventy. Now, some of that is on Dan Campbell.
Speaker 2: Some of listen, you are putting your you know, the
Speaker 2: refereeings bad. The idea behind the play is we are
Speaker 2: trying to trick people, and they tricked the wrong people. Also,
Speaker 2: the referees in that Cowboys Lions game did announce over
Speaker 2: the loudspeaker number seventy has reported eligible. The Lions knew
Speaker 2: they were trying to have number sixty eight report eligible.
Speaker 2: So two things they're One is the Lions either didn't
Speaker 2: notice that the refs had gotten it wrong or didn't
Speaker 2: care and thought it would be fine. But the other
Speaker 2: one is the Cowboys might have defended it differently because
Speaker 2: they were told seventy can go out for a past,
Speaker 2: sixty eight can't. For the refereing has just been bad, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Speaking of Dan Campbell, go ahead, Yeah, so that
Speaker 3: cow that lines Cowboys game? Uh, Dan Campbell getting tilted
Speaker 3: and going for a two point conversion from the seven
Speaker 3: yard line. Only down to point there's been some aggressive
Speaker 3: there's a there's a difference between being aggressive and pointless gambling.
Speaker 3: Dan Campbell's resolution should.
Speaker 2: Be just calm down, buddy, let's take a deep seven.
Speaker 2: The two point conversion attempt from the seven yard line
Speaker 2: is legit one of the worst things I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: In the It's a Madden play. It is.
Speaker 2: It is one hundred percent of Madden play. And it's
Speaker 2: a Madden play by a little kid. It's not even
Speaker 2: a Madden play by an adult. It's it is a
Speaker 2: It is the football version of what you see in
Speaker 2: like movies where someone's in court and the judge is
Speaker 2: like contempt of court, thirty days in jail, and they're like,
Speaker 2: gimme more. It's like six years, Like I can do
Speaker 2: it standing on my head. I'll take ninety. Like he
Speaker 2: was so mad at the refts there, He's like, bleep you,
Speaker 2: I'll show you, and then Goff throws a pick and
Speaker 2: then they get bailed out because there's a penalty on that.
Speaker 2: Then you could have taken a deep breath and still
Speaker 2: kicked the extra point from the four. It was legit
Speaker 2: one of the worst coaching decisions I've ever seen. So
Speaker 2: just take a deep breath. Dan, all right, Uh, let's
Speaker 2: skip the NFC South one. Apologies, just we're shut on time.
Speaker 2: Let's do the Dave Tapper one.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty three was not the best year for Panthers
Speaker 3: owner David Tepper. All right. So first off, he handpicked
Speaker 3: the head coach that he fired after eleven games. He
Speaker 3: traded a war Chaz for the number one pick, then
Speaker 3: reportedly pushed for drafting Bryce Young over CJ. Stroud and
Speaker 3: the cap it off he tossed his drink on a
Speaker 3: Jaguars fan from his little suite. David Tepper's resolution should be.
Speaker 2: Fallback, buddy, Like the throw in the drink thing is
Speaker 2: wild crazy. I mean it's wild, and there aren't many
Speaker 2: things in life whereas an adult like let me, let
Speaker 2: me put it like this, uh, demanse if if you
Speaker 2: found out that I got in a fight, me at
Speaker 2: my age or the real life that I got in
Speaker 2: a fight, I would imagine the vast majority of explanations
Speaker 2: that I could give you, You're going to still in
Speaker 2: your head be like, shouldn't have done that? There are
Speaker 2: a handful though, where you'd be like I get it.
Speaker 2: There's the obvious ones, like something happened to like, you know,
Speaker 2: a family member. Uh, if I said I was out
Speaker 2: and someone grabbed their drink and threw it in my face,
Speaker 2: so I hit him, would you think that was a
Speaker 2: reasonable response by me? Yeah, me too, Me too. I
Speaker 2: totally that That's That's the reason I say that David
Speaker 2: Tepper did something to me so egregious that if he
Speaker 2: had been punched in the face for it, I would
Speaker 2: be on the puncher's side. It's not spitting in someone's face,
Speaker 2: but it is a first cousin of it. It is,
Speaker 2: and you did it from his suite. And it also
Speaker 2: was a cowardly way to do it because the guy
Speaker 2: it's not like the guy. He's in a suite and
Speaker 2: the guy came even get up there. I can't get
Speaker 2: up there. I mean really, it's really just an outrun.
Speaker 3: Nobody's on David, nobody's in David Tepper's corner. Do I
Speaker 3: hear a little I'm not.
Speaker 2: Your public defender. No, No, I'm not. I reject it.
Speaker 2: I'm not defending this clown. I'm just not. I rejected
Speaker 2: your honor. I need to recuse myself from the case.
Speaker 2: I rejected. All right, last one?
Speaker 3: All right, twenty twenty three was a great year for
Speaker 3: the pod.
Speaker 2: You broke one.
Speaker 3: Hundred case ups, your chiefs won a Super Bowl, and
Speaker 3: we got to keep doing the show with me moving
Speaker 3: over here and you being in New York. Yep, what
Speaker 3: is twenty twenty four having store for us? Our resolution
Speaker 3: should be.
Speaker 2: Let's win some bets. I mean maybe next year I
Speaker 2: do the teasers and you do the straight picks. I
Speaker 2: don't know, man, We're gonna have to get hot in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. We gotta get red hot in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: We changed the format of the gambling show, and I
Speaker 2: gotta be honest, maybe I need to reformat it again
Speaker 2: next year.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Uh, I gotta say, Ben, last year's playoffs
Speaker 3: is where my teasers got hot.
Speaker 2: Uh so you hit like okay? All right? Uh, drop
Speaker 2: your chat question, drop your questions in the chat. We'll
Speaker 2: do those quick quick break right back.
Speaker 1: What's right now?
Speaker 2: All right? Welcome back in What's right? We think right
Speaker 2: Episode two oh four, Demonse go to the chat questions
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 3: Christian Lazzo says, let's skip the awful Baker game. How
Speaker 3: convenient rolling eye You mode.
Speaker 2: That with the NFC South question was not about Baker.
Speaker 2: It was about the NFC Celts resolution for next year.
Speaker 2: Christian Lazzo, See what do you want me to say?
Speaker 2: Baker didn't play well in that game? Doesn't matter. Baker's
Speaker 2: out here playing five D chess. You know why, because
Speaker 2: win or lose that game, all they gotta do is
Speaker 2: beat the Panthers and they win the division. They couldn't
Speaker 2: move up to the three line anyway, So why would
Speaker 2: they lose to the Saints Because they likely saw the
Speaker 2: report before the game. The same are leaning towards bringing
Speaker 2: back Dennis Allen and Derek Carr. And what better way
Speaker 2: to ensure the Bucks stay atop that division than the
Speaker 2: Saints bring back Derek Carr and Dennis Allen. So you
Speaker 2: think Baker plays poorly, I see Baker already planning for
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. All right, next.
Speaker 3: Hey, carving it up with Bryce and Carver ass what's
Speaker 3: the greatest category to take of your career?
Speaker 2: Well, there's so many good ones. Never believing in the
Speaker 2: Clippers the year everyone said they were gonna take over
Speaker 2: LA and then they blew a three to one lead.
Speaker 2: That was good. Never believing in the Nets every single
Speaker 2: year and then they imploded. That was good, never buying
Speaker 2: into Jimmy Garoppolo being anything other than a Kyle Shanahan creation.
Speaker 2: And then the moment he gets out of the cocoon
Speaker 2: of Shannay and he instantly getspence for Aidan O'Connell. That
Speaker 2: was pretty good. I mean, there's a lot of them.
Speaker 2: Brock Purty will end up being the best, but we're
Speaker 2: gonna have to wait a little bit longer on that.
Speaker 3: Next Caleb W has a question what if this is
Speaker 3: because we get a lot of questions from this Caleb
Speaker 3: W guy, What if Caleb Williams is watching the What's
Speaker 3: Right podcast and it's like, it's not It's.
Speaker 2: Not Caleb Williams unfortunately, But I do like Caleb. But
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on La versus Detroit being a
Speaker 3: potential wildcard matchup? Howard Electric would that game be?
Speaker 2: I mean to be unbelievable. I like LA in that
Speaker 2: spot and that would be really painful for Detroit their
Speaker 2: first home playoff game in thirty years and Matt Stafford
Speaker 2: comes in their building and beats them. I mean, that
Speaker 2: would be a hard one to swallow. But I could
Speaker 2: absolutely see that being I'll tell you right now who
Speaker 2: is not rooting for the Rams to play Detroit and
Speaker 2: the Rams to win the Niners. I am telling you
Speaker 2: right now that Kyle Shanahan, and I understand shannan has
Speaker 2: had success against McVeigh. I get that. I'm telling you
Speaker 2: right now, they don't want the Rams to be their
Speaker 2: first playoff opponent, a divisional opponent who they've played before,
Speaker 2: the Rams being red hot, because if the Rams win,
Speaker 2: they would almost assuredly be the team that if they
Speaker 2: were the sixth seed that goes to San Francisco, unless
Speaker 2: the seventh seed were to beat Dallas, which won't happen
Speaker 2: all right, next, Scott.
Speaker 3: Frazier, do you think, uh, do you think like I do,
Speaker 3: that Cleveland goes to Baltimore and Joe gets his revenge.
Speaker 2: Okay, listen, I think that's another game. I think I
Speaker 2: think Baltimore would rather play in the first round of
Speaker 2: the teams they could play depending on how the you know,
Speaker 2: Week seventeen go eighteen goes. They could play Miami, they
Speaker 2: could play Buffalo, they could play Jacksonville, they could play Houston,
Speaker 2: they could play Indy, they could play Tennessee. All of
Speaker 2: those are possible. I'm sorry not Tennessee. The pott in
Speaker 2: Tennessee's out obviously, but in theory, the only teams that
Speaker 2: the only team that Baltimore that can make the playoffs
Speaker 2: that it is impossible Baltimore plays in round one is
Speaker 2: the three seed, the Chiefs. They also can't play the
Speaker 2: two seed in round one, but we don't know who
Speaker 2: that's gonna be. So Baltimore's potential opponents are Miami, Houston, Jacksonville, Indie, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland.
Speaker 2: I guarantee you the team Baltimore at least wants to play,
Speaker 2: as Cleveland of those seven teams be a divisional opponent,
Speaker 2: and the Flaco part that's seen, they at least want
Speaker 2: to play. Great job today to Monsey, I thought you
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