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Speaker 3: Welcome in episode one twelve of What's Right with Nick
Speaker 3: Ray the podcast in YouTube. Char our first episode of
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, and we now have some real clarity
Speaker 3: on the NFL playoff picture. And not surprisingly, you wake
Speaker 3: up this morning, you check the old NFL standings. You know,
Speaker 3: sitting there with the best record in all of football,
Speaker 3: the thirteen and three Kansas City Chiefs. Who'd have thunked that,
Speaker 3: and with no Tyree kill And I'm just telling you,
Speaker 3: they're just sitting there with the best record in the league.
Speaker 3: The Eagles are tied with them, and the Bills, to
Speaker 3: be fair, have not played.
Speaker 4: Yet this week.
Speaker 3: However, we will see the Bill. We'll talk about that
Speaker 3: game later. It's the game of the year. Bill's Bengals.
Speaker 3: Big Joe Burrow fan over here this morning, Joe Burrow wins.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, Chiefs are the one seed by themselves.
Speaker 3: All they gotta do is take care of Jared Stidham
Speaker 3: and they get the buye the NFL. Everyone is trying
Speaker 3: to bend things to the Bills favor. Let me tell
Speaker 3: you real quick before we start the show. The NFL
Speaker 3: announced Saturday's schedule and it's interesting the Saturday nightcap is
Speaker 3: the Prince that was promised with a chance to win
Speaker 3: the division. Saturday afternoon is Chiefs Raiders. Here's why this
Speaker 3: is noteworthy. If the Bills were to win tonight and
Speaker 3: the Chiefs were to somehow lose to the Raiders on Saturday,
Speaker 3: the Bills then could rest everyone on Sunday because they
Speaker 3: would have locked up the one seed and that would
Speaker 3: be huge for the Patriots, who need to win to
Speaker 3: get in. But the point being, Bills and Chiefs should
Speaker 3: be playing at the same time, so nobody has unfair information.
Speaker 3: But I get it all. There's been the year of
Speaker 3: Buffalo all year long, trying to make everything happen for him. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: tonight Joe Coole's gonna kick their ass. Chiefs are gonna
Speaker 3: be the one seed, control their own destiny. Get a
Speaker 3: nice week off, but we're rolling into the postseason. We'll
Speaker 3: talk a little bit about that later in the show.
Speaker 3: Here is what is not on the show, The Chargers
Speaker 3: when the Battle of La doesn't celebrate Jared Sidham dazzles
Speaker 3: in his debut loss. Nobody has lit up the Niners
Speaker 3: defense like that, since, of course, Patrick Mahomes and Major
Speaker 3: Tuddy Fuels nightmares. I'm gonna tell you, I don't know
Speaker 3: what that is. Oh, that's the Commander's mascot. I like it,
Speaker 3: even though it's kind of a weird time for them
Speaker 3: to debut him, because the actual Hogs. The Hogs is
Speaker 3: what they call their offensive line in the eighties demase
Speaker 3: that the actual members of the Hogs are suing the
Speaker 3: Commanders for copyright use. Okay, and now they're debuting a
Speaker 3: mascot based off them. Maybe part of the reason they're
Speaker 3: suing them. I'm not sure. None of that's in the show.
Speaker 3: How have We will start with the NFC's current one seed,
Speaker 3: but I don't know how much longer do the one seed?
Speaker 3: The Philadelphia Eagles Demons go right.
Speaker 5: Ahead, I've just starting thirteen and one Phillies and now
Speaker 5: loss two in a row. It might not get the
Speaker 5: number one seed. Allison, San Francisco both are within shouting distance.
Speaker 4: Now yep. Each of these three teams.
Speaker 5: Have somewhat alarming problems with Hurts health, Dack's turnover problems,
Speaker 5: and brock Perty might eventually lose a game.
Speaker 4: Who wins the one.
Speaker 5: Seed or is a healthy Hurts? The only thing that
Speaker 5: really matters at this point.
Speaker 3: All right, So who wins the one seed could have
Speaker 3: a lot to do with what the Giants, how the
Speaker 3: Giants view Week eighteen. So the Giants play the Eagles
Speaker 3: in Week eighteen, right, If the Eagles win, they're the
Speaker 3: one seed no matter what. If they lose, a lot
Speaker 3: of things can happen. Right, The Giants are locked in
Speaker 3: to the sixth spot. Whether they win or lose in
Speaker 3: Week eighteen does not impact their seeding. They are the
Speaker 3: sixth seed no matter what. And by the way, feel
Speaker 3: pretty good about being the sixth seed right now, because
Speaker 3: that looks like that means they're going to be playing
Speaker 3: the Minnesota Vikings, a team that they showed they can
Speaker 3: play close just the other day, and the Vikings coming
Speaker 3: off their worst performance of the year. So the Eagles
Speaker 3: might be able to hold on for the one seed,
Speaker 3: particularly if the Giants rest everyone that is even questionable
Speaker 3: with an injury super conservative in the game. But that
Speaker 3: doesn't change anything. The Eagles are in huge trouble. I
Speaker 3: said it earlier in the year, people, the producers of
Speaker 3: this show and the producers of the TV show, when
Speaker 3: the Eagles were undefeated, when the Eagles were looking like
Speaker 3: the best team in the league saying Nick, we need
Speaker 3: talk more Eagles, and I was like, eh, I'm not
Speaker 3: sure I believe in them. You got a little you
Speaker 3: got a little cross with me saying, well, I want
Speaker 3: you to give the Eagles their respect. I understand their quarterbacks hurt.
Speaker 3: We'll do with that in a second. This team had
Speaker 3: some obvious potential issues that could be exploited. One of
Speaker 3: them is they're the best pass rushing team statistically in
Speaker 3: league history. But if they don't get to the quarterback,
Speaker 3: if they don't force the turnovers and force the sacks,
Speaker 3: their back end can get god. All of a sudden,
Speaker 3: now the injuries are mounting, most notably the right tackle,
Speaker 3: not just the quarterback lane Johnson being out at least
Speaker 3: for the rest of the regular season and maybe the postseason.
Speaker 3: And then there is the quarterback injury. And this is
Speaker 3: where I am not going to give the ah, there's
Speaker 3: nothing to do about injuries, excuse that a lot of
Speaker 3: people would give or do give. When you play the
Speaker 3: style of football that Philadelphia has insisted on playing, where
Speaker 3: your quarterback is your power running back, where your quarterback
Speaker 3: is more or just as lethal with his legs as
Speaker 3: he is with his arms. You are flirting with disaster
Speaker 3: and it is not a coincidence that the guys who
Speaker 3: run the most Lamar. We haven't seen him in a month, Jalalen,
Speaker 3: we haven't seen him in a couple of weeks. Josh Allen,
Speaker 3: We've seen him, but he's been banged up. Keeps being
Speaker 3: listed on the injury reports. Are teams that go into
Speaker 3: the postseason with injuries at quarterback, and.
Speaker 4: So with Jalen Hurts, theory will be scared again.
Speaker 3: No, no, I won't. I think the Philadelphia Eagles, when
Speaker 3: when it looked like they were going to be the
Speaker 3: one seed is I thought they were gonna be one
Speaker 3: and done. Now if they end up falling to the
Speaker 3: five seed, that actually might because if they lose in
Speaker 3: Dallas wins, they don't win the division, then they're in
Speaker 3: Tampa for the first round. Or if they fall to that,
Speaker 3: they could also fall to the two or the three.
Speaker 3: They could fall to the the two line as well.
Speaker 3: If they were to lose and Dallas were to lose
Speaker 3: in San Francisco were to win, I think they can win.
Speaker 3: Obviously your first playoff game if they're the two seed,
Speaker 3: the seventh seed in the NFC we're talking about with
Speaker 3: Green Bay, Detroit or Seattle. My point is this, to me,
Speaker 3: is on a Super Bowl caliber team and one and
Speaker 3: done losing in the divisional round or winning the wild
Speaker 3: card round and then losing the divisional round. I don't
Speaker 3: believe they're gonna see the conference championship game. I think
Speaker 3: Dallas would beat them if they played again. I am
Speaker 3: fully confident San Francisco would beat them if they played again,
Speaker 3: or if they played pardon me. And I think Tampa,
Speaker 3: who knocked them out of the playoffs last year, could
Speaker 3: cause real problems for and so there is Bill Simmons
Speaker 3: calls it the rabbit team, and we see this repeatedly
Speaker 3: in the NFL. Last year. Who was the rabbit team?
Speaker 3: The Arizona Cardinals started ten to two looking like the
Speaker 3: one seed. Injuries holes on the roster caught up to
Speaker 3: them at the end of the year. They get annihilated
Speaker 3: in their first playoff game. The year before, who was
Speaker 3: the rabbit team? The Pittsburgh Steelers started eleven and zero.
Speaker 3: They get knocked out quickly in the postseason. A couple
Speaker 3: of years prior, Who was the rabbit team? Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 3: They lose their first playoff game that I don't know why.
Speaker 4: I don't think that SMS Philly, though, what do you
Speaker 4: think is gonna happen?
Speaker 5: Tell me, I think Jalen hurt is gonna come back
Speaker 5: and maybe they win two games in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Will win two games in the playoffs if they get
Speaker 3: the buy that means they're in the Super Bowl. Listen,
Speaker 3: Eagles fans are don't like me ever since five years
Speaker 3: ago when I said when wins went down, they couldn't
Speaker 3: win the Super Bowl, and they ended up winning the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl to Nick Foles.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 3: If I'm Philadelphia, I'm highly concerned right now because it's
Speaker 3: not just by the way that and then we'll move on.
Speaker 3: I just want to pull up their schedule. It's not
Speaker 3: just that they've lost these two games without Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3: It's that you started to see some of the potential
Speaker 3: ways to exploit them before Jalen went down. They lose
Speaker 3: to the Commanders. They need a furious comeback to beat
Speaker 3: the Colts. The touchdown at the end of the game
Speaker 3: the Packers, when the Packers weren't playing well, scored thirty
Speaker 3: three on them. Then they annihilated the Titans and the Giants.
Speaker 3: You give them credit for it. They played the Bears
Speaker 3: closer than you would like. Then they lose to the Cowboys,
Speaker 3: then they lose to the Saints. If you're if you're
Speaker 3: a super Bowl team, also when you have a chance
Speaker 3: to lie everything up, even with your backup quarterback, I
Speaker 3: need you to score more than ten points against the
Speaker 3: New Orleans Saints. I just do. Sorry. So yeah, I
Speaker 3: think the Eagles are in real trouble. And I think
Speaker 3: that's even if Jalen comes back next all.
Speaker 5: Right, tom Brady's going back to the playoffs after a
Speaker 5: win over the Panthers. Finally, the Goat put on a
Speaker 5: vintage for Brady performance. It's crazy to say it, but
Speaker 5: the Bucks can easily be back in the super Bowl mix.
Speaker 5: You predicted last week that the Bucks would win in
Speaker 5: Week eighteen, that'll win and Week eighteen is basically a
Speaker 5: bye week.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 5: Brady's road to the super Bowl might go through Minshew
Speaker 5: party and then Cousins.
Speaker 4: Oh oh shoot.
Speaker 5: Sorry, is Tom Brady about to luck himself into the
Speaker 5: super Bowl again?
Speaker 3: So listen his road to the super Bowl. I don't
Speaker 3: think Cousins is gonna be on there. And as the
Speaker 3: final round bass because that would mean Cousins won back
Speaker 3: to back playoff games. But I've told you guys all year.
Speaker 3: If there's anything I've been right about, and let's be honest,
Speaker 3: this NFL season, aside from the gambling picks, I've been
Speaker 3: right about a whole hell of a lot of it,
Speaker 3: none more so than this writing off the Bucks when
Speaker 3: they were going to finish the year with the slate
Speaker 3: of teams that we knew they were finishing the year
Speaker 3: with Arizona, Carolina, Atlanta. We knew they were going to
Speaker 3: go into the postseason hot, we knew it was going
Speaker 3: to give them a home playoff game. We didn't know
Speaker 3: until last week that they were actually going to be
Speaker 3: able to be rested. Because they now are locked into
Speaker 3: the four seat. There's no way they play their guys
Speaker 3: in Week eighteen. They will give them a bye. And
Speaker 3: they are coming off their best offensive performance, a defensive
Speaker 3: performance that forced some turnovers, and they are gonna be scary.
Speaker 3: I'm deell, listen. I believe if the Cowboys don't catch
Speaker 3: Philly and the Cowboys are the five seeds, I believe
Speaker 3: the winner of Cowboys Philly. I'm sorry the winner of
Speaker 3: Cowboys Bucks will go to Philly and beat them. I
Speaker 3: believe the winner of Cowboys Bucks, if they end up
Speaker 3: having to go to Philly and not to San Francisco,
Speaker 3: San Francisco's is gonna crush everybody in the NFC side
Speaker 3: of the bracket.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: The winner of Cowboys Bucks can go to Philadelphia, win
Speaker 3: that game and be in the conference championship game, and
Speaker 3: Brady be one game potentially from the super Bowl. All
Speaker 3: of a sudden, that deep ball to Mike Evans was clicking.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, the defense started swarming and forcing turnovers.
Speaker 3: And this team that I it is so frustrating how
Speaker 3: many times this team could have been killed off and
Speaker 3: nobody did it. So look at the times this season
Speaker 3: where Tampa should have just been dead, okay, just flat dead.
Speaker 3: Since I mean, my god, since week whatever week they
Speaker 3: played the Rams. They're playing the Rams. There's nine minutes left,
Speaker 3: they're down thirteen to six. There's in fact, that one's
Speaker 3: even worse because the Rams had let me, let me
Speaker 3: pull this up real quick. The Rams had the ball
Speaker 3: up four with a minute fifty two left up four
Speaker 3: minute fifty two, and the Bucks don't even have all
Speaker 3: their timeouts, they can't get a first down. They pumped
Speaker 3: with fifty four seconds boom boom, boom, boom boom, Brady touchdown.
Speaker 3: That's the first time this team could have just been
Speaker 3: killed off Saints Bucks. You guys, remember that one. The
Speaker 3: Saints are up sixteen to three with three minutes left
Speaker 3: in the game, and what happens. Brady scores a touchdown Tampa.
Speaker 3: Then I don't even think they did on They went
Speaker 3: on side kick because they didn't have to know. They
Speaker 3: kick it away. You need one first down, New Orleans, you,
Speaker 3: of course, just go backwards seven yards eleven play, eleven play,
Speaker 3: touchdown drive, boom boom, boom, boom boom. The Bucks win
Speaker 3: seventeen to sixteen against the Cardinals. Last week Christmas Night,
Speaker 3: it is sixteen to six in the fourth quarter, Arizona's ahead,
Speaker 3: Brady scores ten straight. They went in overtime. And then yesterday,
Speaker 3: what was the score in the fourth quarter yesterday? Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: eleven to twenty one ten twenty one ten in the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter and the Bucks get three consecutive touchdowns. Guys,
Speaker 3: this team could have been killed the NFC didn't. Now
Speaker 3: they're your problem. Now they're the NFC playoff problem. They
Speaker 3: have a Tom Brady feeling good, Mike Evans coming off
Speaker 3: his best game of the year, and a defense that
Speaker 3: potentially is clicking, and they get a weak arrest. I
Speaker 3: what what an perfect set of circumstances for the worst
Speaker 3: team Tom Brady's ever been on to potentially be a
Speaker 3: legit dangerous playoff team.
Speaker 4: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 5: Next, Uh, the Lions and Packers will play for the
Speaker 5: last playoff spot. Somehow I knew that, and Ron Rivera
Speaker 5: didn't uh the Packers winning. There in the Lions and
Speaker 5: need help from Seattle but could still get in.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 5: Both are great comeback stories. But the Lions are the
Speaker 5: heroes and the Packers of the villains. What's more fun
Speaker 5: the Lions making the playoffs or Rogers missing them?
Speaker 3: Oh listen, I think the Lions making the playoffs would
Speaker 3: be a great story. I think it'd be a great story.
Speaker 3: That's what I.
Speaker 5: Want to see Aaron Rodgers go to the playoffs just
Speaker 5: so he has no like God excuses. I just want
Speaker 5: to see him, you know, get there and then.
Speaker 3: Well, so, here's the thing. If the Packers end up
Speaker 3: making the playoffs, obviously it would be as the seventh
Speaker 3: seed right now, that would mean they play San Francisco,
Speaker 3: and I think San Francisco would crush them. I think
Speaker 3: San Francisco would absolutely crush them. Now, potentially there is
Speaker 3: a scenario where if Dallas loses this week, Philly loses
Speaker 3: and San Francisco wins, that that Philly's the two seed,
Speaker 3: and I think Philly also would present real, real problems
Speaker 3: for green Bay. Here's the deal. I'm I said a
Speaker 3: month ago that the Packers should have gone to Jordan well,
Speaker 3: let him play, and now Packer fans are all after
Speaker 3: me saying, see this is why we stuck with Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 3: and I will ask now the question I asked, then,
Speaker 3: are you in green Bay still in the business of
Speaker 3: winning Super Bowls? Because if you are, even if you
Speaker 3: sneak into the playoffs, this last month was wasted time, effort,
Speaker 3: and energy as opposed to getting eyes on Jordan Love
Speaker 3: seeing you if you want him as your quarterback next year,
Speaker 3: if you want him as your quarterback in two years,
Speaker 3: seeing if he all of a sudden for a league
Speaker 3: that is gonna have more quarterback openings or more teams
Speaker 3: that need a quarterback, then have the ability to sign
Speaker 3: a quarterback if one of those teams wants to trade
Speaker 3: for either Love or Rogers could have done all of
Speaker 3: that this last month. Instead you said, nope, we got
Speaker 3: a one percent chance, than a four percent chance, and
Speaker 3: now than an eight percent chance, and now all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, you control your own destiny. If you beat
Speaker 3: the Lions, you're into the playoffs. Reason that I feel
Speaker 3: it is such waste just oh, I don't want to
Speaker 3: say wasted.
Speaker 4: Time, waste money, but it's.
Speaker 3: Well, it's the reason that I think it's a fool's
Speaker 3: errand is because it's not as if, oh, they're in
Speaker 3: this position and Rogers is dealing and they're scary rushers
Speaker 3: through FO one hundred and sixty yard. Just the only
Speaker 3: reason the Packers would be a scary playoff team is
Speaker 3: if Rogers had reclaimed his MVP form. He's done nothing
Speaker 3: of the sort. And so yesterday they get the kick
Speaker 3: return touchdown, then the pick six. They did, to their credit,
Speaker 3: have a great game plan for Justin Jefferson and totally
Speaker 3: shut him down. And I will give them credit for that,
Speaker 3: but I would prefer to see the Lions in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: I would prefer to see the Lions. That what did
Speaker 3: they start one and six or two and six and
Speaker 3: then found their way? All I think they started two
Speaker 3: and six and then are six and two over their
Speaker 3: last eight and a legit d I don't want to
Speaker 3: say dangerous team, but a fun team. I'd rather see
Speaker 3: the Lions in. I also think it'd be fun to
Speaker 3: be honest, if Gino and Seattle get in, Seattle wins
Speaker 3: its final game, then they need the Lions to beat
Speaker 3: the Packers and they get in. The only way the
Speaker 3: Lions get in is if Seattle loses and they win.
Speaker 3: The Packers, on the other hand, of course, just need
Speaker 3: to win the game. But I will not be believing
Speaker 3: in the Packers even if they make it to the postseason.
Speaker 4: All right, you heard that Packers fans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Packers, that's all right. I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 3: Go ahead next, all right?
Speaker 4: According to you, tonight is the game of the year.
Speaker 5: The Bills traveled to Cincinnati to take on Joe Burrow.
Speaker 4: With the Chiefs.
Speaker 5: Struggling against the Jerry Rope against the Jerry Rossbury Broncos,
Speaker 5: it's refreshing to see to finally see some good AFC football. Sorry,
Speaker 5: you're Adamant Mahomes is the MVP, but he hasn't beaten
Speaker 5: a playoff team since November.
Speaker 3: Me, hold on a second, Hold on a second. That
Speaker 3: is the dumbest before you even get to it.
Speaker 4: Texans, Broncos that but he's beating them. I think what
Speaker 4: I said was I understand.
Speaker 3: But the point is this, they have so in December
Speaker 3: they have played the Bengals, who they lost to, the Broncos,
Speaker 3: who they beat, the Texans, who they beat, the Seahawks,
Speaker 3: who they beat, and the Broncos, who they beat again.
Speaker 3: Seahawks might be well, Seahawks might be a playoff team,
Speaker 3: and that this idea. Let me just make this clear.
Speaker 3: I don't think any team in the a f C
Speaker 3: has more victories over teams that would currently be in
Speaker 3: the playoffs. The Chiefs have a victory over Jacksonville, two
Speaker 3: victories over the Chargers. Well, I understand, but you when
Speaker 3: you say they haven't been a playoff t since November,
Speaker 3: is that they've they've played one. They beat, they crushed
Speaker 3: San Francisco. By the way, they beat Tampa, who's a
Speaker 3: playoff team. It's a nonsense, stupid stat you just gave me.
Speaker 3: It's just stupid. All right, go ahead.
Speaker 5: Meanwhile, if Burrow wins to have beaten Kansas City in
Speaker 5: Buffalo and could be the one seed, are you scared
Speaker 5: Burrow's resume in late push may shake Pat off the
Speaker 5: top of the ladder?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: So listen, I said this on TV that anyone that
Speaker 3: is trying to act like there is no chance that
Speaker 3: someone comes and steals the MVP from Mahomes is not
Speaker 3: paying attention to the way this narrative thing is gone.
Speaker 3: All year, people have been dying to find uh someone
Speaker 3: else to give the MVP too. And one hundred percent
Speaker 3: it's not just Burrow. If Borough whoever wins tonight's game,
Speaker 3: if they play great, the narrative on Monday will be, well,
Speaker 3: this quarterback beat Mahomes and he beat it Allen, or
Speaker 3: he beat Mahomes and he beat Burrow. His team's potentially
Speaker 3: the one seed. Why isn't he the MVP?
Speaker 4: And he played well in the Game of the Year? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And he played well in the Game of the Year
Speaker 3: National TV, and the Chiefs haven't been on national TV
Speaker 3: lately because they've been all their National TV games were
Speaker 3: early in the season and they had the Broncos Chiefs
Speaker 3: game was supposed to be on National TV a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks ago, got flexed out because the Broncos are
Speaker 3: so bad. Here's the problem with any argument for anyone
Speaker 3: other than Mahomes to be MVP. He is the league's
Speaker 3: highest rated passer. He has the most yards by four
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty over Brady, who's second. As far as
Speaker 3: over Burrow, he has eight hundred more yards than Borough.
Speaker 3: He has forty touchdowns Burrow as thirty four. They have
Speaker 3: the same number of interceptions. He has a better yards
Speaker 3: per attempt. He's been flatly better. He also is doing
Speaker 3: it by throwing touchdowns to Blake Bell and Jarrick McKinnon,
Speaker 3: well Joe Burrow as Jamar Chase and T Higgins. So
Speaker 3: it's it would I'm trying to see if.
Speaker 4: What the guards per attempt?
Speaker 5: You said, Yeah, what probably big and like a lot
Speaker 5: of that player has lots to do with Kelsey.
Speaker 4: He's got like a lot of yards after catch.
Speaker 5: It's not just put it on Mahomes for throwing it deep, Okay,
Speaker 5: running around and stuff after they get the ball, you.
Speaker 3: Know, yeah, and Joe Burrow as Jamar Chas and T
Speaker 3: Higgins and Tyler Boyd. I listen. I'm not I'm not
Speaker 3: anti Joe Burrow, but it is. It would be criminal
Speaker 3: if Patrick Mahomes, who's going to lead the league in
Speaker 3: everything and who currently has the best record in the league,
Speaker 3: does not win League MVP. But the winner of tonight's
Speaker 3: game is going to have serious media momentum. There is
Speaker 3: no question about that.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: You you annoyed me with that second. I don't even
Speaker 3: think you believed it. I think the producers are feeding
Speaker 3: you stuff to try to make you annoy me. I
Speaker 3: think that you know, we see who Malmes is playing with,
Speaker 3: and the fact that he just he has thrown twenty
Speaker 3: seven touchdown passes this year to tightens and running backs
Speaker 3: because none of the receivers have popped. His number one
Speaker 3: receiver has been out six weeks and nobody seems to
Speaker 3: know about it or care about it but me. His
Speaker 3: number one running back has been out a month and
Speaker 3: no one seems to know about it or care about
Speaker 3: it but me. And he's just making it work each
Speaker 3: and every week.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, a percent of our audience agrees with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course they do. They're smart people. I forgot
Speaker 3: we had poll questions we have one.
Speaker 4: Okay, that was.
Speaker 3: The only pole question. All right, drop your comments or
Speaker 3: questions in the chat. Coming up, We're gonna take quick break,
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Speaker 3: Welcome back in episode one twelve, What's Right with Nick
Speaker 3: Right in the podcast, I just checked. By the way,
Speaker 3: Mahomes is now on the only place that has it
Speaker 3: listed that I could find as DraftKings. Mahomes is minus
Speaker 3: eight hundred to win MVP, So that calms me down.
Speaker 3: Burrows at like plus six hundred, Josh Allen like plus
Speaker 3: fifteen hundred, Moms at minus eight hundred, so it probably
Speaker 3: helps him that he's got to play in Week eighteen,
Speaker 3: got some to play for, and it's on national TV.
Speaker 3: He already threw for five thousand yards this year, becoming
Speaker 3: just the second quarterback ever to have multiple five thousand
Speaker 3: yard seasons, And if he has a monster game in
Speaker 3: Week eighteen, which I don't necessarily expect, he could break
Speaker 3: Peyton Manning's all time record for yards in a season.
Speaker 3: Little unfair because that was a sixteen game season and
Speaker 3: this would be in a seventeenth game. But in the
Speaker 3: sixteen games he did become just the second quarterback ever
Speaker 3: to throw for five thousand yards. Brady's done it twice,
Speaker 3: or the second quarterback ever to throw for five thousand
Speaker 3: yards multiple times. Pardon me, Brady's on it twice and
Speaker 3: Drew Brees did it five times. All right? What are
Speaker 3: we doing here?
Speaker 4: All right? Start off with Luca for the VP.
Speaker 5: Over his last six games, Luca's been unleashed, averaging that
Speaker 5: point triple double.
Speaker 4: The MAVs haven't lost.
Speaker 5: During that stretch either, boosting them to a four seed
Speaker 5: in the West. Luke was putting up ridiculous numbers on
Speaker 5: a bad team. But now he's actually winning the mass
Speaker 5: if the MAVs keep pacing the West. Is he a
Speaker 5: lock for MVP?
Speaker 3: Well, listen, he's not a lock. There are some great
Speaker 3: MVP candidates, but it's not. I mean, you said in
Speaker 3: his last six he's averaging a forty two point triple double.
Speaker 3: That is true, and that is the six game winning streak.
Speaker 3: In his last five, he is averaging forty five eleven
Speaker 3: and ten. Is that right? I thought it was more
Speaker 3: than Oh yeah, that's right. In his last five he's
Speaker 3: averaging forty five eleven and ten. Is last three, he's
Speaker 3: averaging a fifty point triple double because he has the
Speaker 3: sixty point game mixed in there. Uh, his numbers have
Speaker 3: been unbelievable. He has three fifty point games in his
Speaker 3: last five games, and the MAVs winning is the key here. Now,
Speaker 3: it's way too early to talk locks for league MVP.
Speaker 3: But because Kd's got a really good case, really good,
Speaker 3: Tatum's got a really good case, Giannis has a really
Speaker 3: good case, Yo Kicic if he hadn't won the last two,
Speaker 3: what have a really good case. And Luca's got a
Speaker 3: really good case where the voters helped Luca was the last.
Speaker 3: They've made it clear with the MVP last year going
Speaker 3: to Jokic that they don't care about winning the way
Speaker 3: they used to. It used to be to win League MVP,
Speaker 3: you basically had to be on one of the very
Speaker 3: best teams in the league. That paradigm broke with Russell
Speaker 3: Westbrook winning his but it was like, wow, well he
Speaker 3: led the league in scoring and average triple double and
Speaker 3: did it without KD. So fine, But then they continued
Speaker 3: it with Jokich last year, and so now the MAVs
Speaker 3: as the four seed, just three and a half out
Speaker 3: of first place. The first place Nuggets, by the way,
Speaker 3: got decent gates for the record. If MVP voting had
Speaker 3: gone the way I said it should have and two
Speaker 3: years ago Chris Paul won it and last year Luca
Speaker 3: won it, then this year Jokich would be a no brainer.
Speaker 3: His numbers are unbelievable and he's on the best team
Speaker 3: or the best team in the West, second best team
Speaker 3: record wise overall. But because they screwed it up and
Speaker 3: he won back to back, he's now potentially going to
Speaker 3: be in a similar position. Giannis won back to back
Speaker 3: his third year. He got one first place vote. Nash
Speaker 3: won back to back his third year, he didn't win it,
Speaker 3: even though it was his best year because guys after
Speaker 3: all year yelling at me that, oh, it has nothing
Speaker 3: to do that he won the previous year. It's just
Speaker 3: about this season. You watch and see how many voters like, Okay,
Speaker 3: but we're not going to give him three in a row?
Speaker 3: Are we?
Speaker 4: We can't.
Speaker 5: Well, you shouldn't do that, man, that's how too kpaking.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry whatever, I try to make it a little analogy.
Speaker 5: Always bring up the video. No, that's fine, But just
Speaker 5: because I hit two shots in a row doesn't mean
Speaker 5: that I should miss my third one because I'm so hot.
Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4: If the guys should get it, you should get it. Man,
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter. But there is.
Speaker 3: But you have to have respect for the history of
Speaker 3: the game and the history of the award, and there's
Speaker 3: shouldn't even from here. You know, that's fine, but the
Speaker 3: voters need to recognize that there is a precedent here.
Speaker 3: Was there a time when Kareem deserved three in a row?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Was there a time when Jordan deserved three.
Speaker 4: In a row?
Speaker 3: Yes? Was there a time when Shack deserved three in
Speaker 3: a row. He only won one, by the way, Yes,
Speaker 3: was there a time when Lebron deserved three in a row,
Speaker 3: No doubt about it.
Speaker 4: You just want to make it harder to make history.
Speaker 3: No, I just I just think they have they they
Speaker 3: have made it clear. One guy has won three in
Speaker 3: a row in the last fifty years. It was Larry
Speaker 3: Bird in the eighties. And to just continue breaking our
Speaker 3: historical MVP norms for this one guy is silly. We've
Speaker 3: broken enough. We've just broken enough. And it's and it's
Speaker 3: not like he's a no brainer. Oh my god, you
Speaker 3: said it seem stupid if you didn't vote for him.
Speaker 3: If it's close, Historically ties go to guys who haven't
Speaker 3: won it yet. Luca's got a great case.
Speaker 4: All right, Next, talk about these collapses, man.
Speaker 5: Just weeks ago the Jets, Dolphins, Seahawks, Titans, and Commanders
Speaker 5: seemed like playoff looks. Now all of them have had
Speaker 5: big losing streaks and might miss out who's collapse was
Speaker 5: the worst.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go through them all so I the Commanders,
Speaker 3: to me, it's not a collapse as much as it
Speaker 3: is self inflicted idiocy. And sorry to Matt Ford, A
Speaker 3: great producer and resident Commanders fan. But I have never
Speaker 3: seen Listen. I'm not a big why what He's from
Speaker 3: d C, so that's why. Uh So, here's the deal.
Speaker 3: At least I hope he's If he's not from d C,
Speaker 3: then God only knows. But I think he's from d C.
Speaker 3: Uh So, here's the deal with the Commanders.
Speaker 4: All right, They.
Speaker 3: They weren't that great of a team. And I think
Speaker 3: Taylor Heineke the media likes him a hell of a
Speaker 3: lot more than people that actually watch the games like him. However,
Speaker 3: going back to Carson Wentz in what could be an
Speaker 3: elimination game when he got kicked out of Indie for
Speaker 3: his performance in their elimination game against the Jags is
Speaker 3: one of the wildest decisions I've ever seen, and WinCE,
Speaker 3: of course rewarded them by optly throwing three interceptions and
Speaker 3: losing to the Browns, who completed nine passes. So the Commanders,
Speaker 3: you tied the Giants, fine, you then have a bye
Speaker 3: week and lose to the Giants. That was the crushing one.
Speaker 3: Everyone knew you were losing to the Niners, but then
Speaker 3: you were gonna be potentially okay in that all right,
Speaker 3: beat the Browns and then hope Dallas has nothing to
Speaker 3: play for. Now Dallas does have something to play for it,
Speaker 3: so you're probably gonna lose that game anyway, But losing
Speaker 3: to the Browns because wins went full wins is just unforgivable.
Speaker 5: What's up, man, I think that we're gonna put up
Speaker 5: like a commander's graphic or something.
Speaker 4: Why why are we going to Oh wait, it might
Speaker 4: be the.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just gonna okay, Oh, We're gonna do the
Speaker 3: commander's thing later. Okay, So the my apology, the we
Speaker 3: and so the Commanders were in the show later. I
Speaker 3: asked for them to add this part here and then
Speaker 3: I went off on them my bed. Sorry, sorry, Matt,
Speaker 3: Sorry Commanders. Now to the Titans. The Titans collapse is
Speaker 3: underrated in how horrific it is. Okay, by the way,
Speaker 3: Bryce Young just announced he's entering the draft. So Bryce
Speaker 3: Young is going to go be playing in Houston next year. Uh,
Speaker 3: the Titans collapse. The Titans were seven and three. They
Speaker 3: were seven and three and beat the Packers and played
Speaker 3: a close game with the Bengals that if you remember
Speaker 3: that game, the Titans were in it to the very end.
Speaker 3: But they lost. Then the Eagles crushed them, Then the
Speaker 3: Prince that was promised crushed them. Then they played a
Speaker 3: close game with the Chargers that the Chargers pulled out
Speaker 3: of the fire at the very end. Then they lost
Speaker 3: to the Texans, and then the Cowboys annihilated them, and
Speaker 3: they've gone to Malik Willis. This all coincides with their
Speaker 3: quarterback going down, but for the Titans to go for
Speaker 3: seven and three to seven and six is this is
Speaker 3: how epic the collapse has been. Demils. They have lost
Speaker 3: six in a row and still control their own playoff destiny.
Speaker 3: They've lost six in a row. At seven and three,
Speaker 3: the only way for them to miss out on the
Speaker 3: playoffs was to lose out, and they've checked six of
Speaker 3: the seven boxes. That's really bad. That's really bad. And
Speaker 3: then we get Seahawks Dolphins, Jets. I don't view the
Speaker 3: Seahawks as a full on collapse. The seed well, listen,
Speaker 3: they all the overtime loss to the Raiders hurts them.
Speaker 3: They came right after their London game. But losing back
Speaker 3: to my weeks to the Niners and Chiefs as they
Speaker 3: did a couple of weeks ago, there's no shame in
Speaker 3: that the loss to the Panthers was a tough one.
Speaker 3: I think the Seahawks were a team that has overachieved.
Speaker 3: They're still alive for the playoffs, and we'll see what
Speaker 3: happens now they're in it. It's they need obviously Detroit
Speaker 3: to win, and they need to beat the Rams in
Speaker 3: the final week of the season, which they should. But
Speaker 3: so I think the Seahawks are fine. The Jets and
Speaker 3: Dolphins are a different story. The Dolphins collapses an all
Speaker 3: timer eight and three to eight and eight, eight and three,
Speaker 3: and a team that people thought was like a real contender. Oh,
Speaker 3: they beat the Bills, they beat the Ravens, and I
Speaker 3: understand the last couple games coincide with well, this past game,
Speaker 3: tool wasn't there and Teddy then gets knocked out of
Speaker 3: the game. But you got to be able to beat
Speaker 3: the Patriots if you want to be a playoff team,
Speaker 3: you just got to.
Speaker 4: And then what.
Speaker 5: I just feel like, I just wonder what would happen
Speaker 5: if Patrick Mahomes got hurt and like the Chiefs were
Speaker 5: just getting destroyed by teams that you would feel like
Speaker 5: they otherwise shouldn't be destroyed by.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but two is not Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 5: I mean the chief, he's their starting quarterback gets injured,
Speaker 5: and then their backup quarterback gets injured, and you're like, yo,
Speaker 5: you guys got to be But.
Speaker 3: The reason that the backup got injured when he was
Speaker 3: trying to make a tackle on a pick six in
Speaker 3: a close game. You gotta be better. Look, you've got
Speaker 3: to be better.
Speaker 4: And Mac Jones did.
Speaker 3: No, you should have not thrown the pick six. You
Speaker 3: shouldn't be in that spot, like and the Jets. The
Speaker 3: the Jets also dealt with quarterback injuries, and I get it, uh,
Speaker 3: But the issue if you are in the AFC right
Speaker 3: now and the Titans, Jets, Dolphins are all showing is
Speaker 3: you either have one of the quarterbacks or you don't.
Speaker 3: And if you don't, you can build your roster, your defense,
Speaker 3: your skill guys as well as is possible. And even
Speaker 3: if you do all that, we're closed right now.
Speaker 4: Sorry.
Speaker 3: Even if you do all that probably should lock the door.
Speaker 3: Even if you do all that, you are not gonna
Speaker 3: be able to sustain a seventeen week season. And so
Speaker 3: the Jets, they didn't think they'd be this good right now,
Speaker 3: and so I'm not going to kill them for going
Speaker 3: into the season. Zach Wilson and Mike White. I get it,
Speaker 3: and they were trying to develop Zach Wilson. But the
Speaker 3: Jets should be a playoff team. Quarterback position killed them.
Speaker 3: The Dolphins should be a playoff team. The last five
Speaker 3: weeks the quarterback position injuries and otherwise killed them. And
Speaker 3: the Titans should be a playoff team. Their quarterback got
Speaker 3: hurt and they're just dead, just dead. And all of
Speaker 3: those teams, though, even if the court, even if Mike White,
Speaker 3: Tua and Tannehill never get hurt, the collapse doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: Probably they sneak into the playoffs, but they are threats
Speaker 3: to no one. So it's a nice level set for
Speaker 3: everyone that those teams need to upgrade that position. And
Speaker 3: I also wonder what Miami does. Are they gonna let
Speaker 3: to a play again this year? They win this weekend,
Speaker 3: they're in the there in the play well, no, they
Speaker 3: they need to win and have the Patriots lose and
Speaker 3: they're in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: There's also the Steelers are very life for the playoffs.
Speaker 3: But the I mean, these are some all time collapses
Speaker 3: all happening. The Jets losing five in a row, is
Speaker 3: it five in a row for the Jets, the Dolphins
Speaker 3: losing five in a row, the Titans losing six in
Speaker 3: a row, the Commander's losing three in a row. All
Speaker 3: time collapses. All right, let's play a game.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 5: We have one last holiday in game, usher in the
Speaker 5: to usher in the new year. Sorry, and it's called
Speaker 5: rights resolutions. Yep, all right.
Speaker 4: First off, we've got Lebron.
Speaker 5: James celebrated his thirty eighth birthday with a forty seven
Speaker 5: point win over the Hulks. With clearly so much left
Speaker 5: in the tank, Lebron's twenty twenty three resolution.
Speaker 3: Should be to figure out if he wants to play
Speaker 3: for the Lakers next year and what the path is,
Speaker 3: because listen, I think he does. I think he wants
Speaker 3: to be in la I don't think he wants to
Speaker 3: be somewhere. I think he wants to leave. You know,
Speaker 3: let Bryce be in high school there. That's his younger son.
Speaker 3: I get all of that, but Lebron had forty seven,
Speaker 3: ten and nine on his thirty eighth birthday. It is
Speaker 3: it is not believable or realistic what he's doing, and
Speaker 3: yet we're watching him do it demanse guys in year twenty.
Speaker 3: There's only been eleven guys ever make it to year
Speaker 3: twenty four. Guys have averaged ten points per game in
Speaker 3: year twenty Okay, Dirk average ten, Kareem average twelve. That
Speaker 3: might be flip flopped. It might be Kareem average in.
Speaker 4: Dirk average twelve. Whatever.
Speaker 3: Kobe averaged seventeen on thirty five percent shooting. Okay, that
Speaker 3: was the best year twenty. Kobe's seventeen points per game
Speaker 3: on thirty five percent was the best year twenty. Lebron
Speaker 3: is twenty eight eight and six on fifty percent. He
Speaker 3: is still one of the best players in the entire league.
Speaker 3: He's the oldest guy in the league that plays regular minutes.
Speaker 3: He's one of the old He's in year twenty, which
Speaker 3: again I there is no there, There is no context
Speaker 3: for what he's doing. And the fact that he's doing
Speaker 3: all of this and the Lakers are pacing to miss
Speaker 3: the playoffs makes you really debate whether or not he
Speaker 3: should spend more years of his career there. This year
Speaker 3: might be a wash as it is. We'll see next
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 5: For the second year in a row, Michigan made the
Speaker 5: College college football playoffs football playoffs, only to immediately choke.
Speaker 3: Okay, that wasn't a choked. That's unfair to TCU.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 5: Now, Reports are the Broncos are reached out to Harball,
Speaker 5: who always could return to the NFL after another meltdown
Speaker 5: in a big game. Jim Harball's twenty twenty three resolution
Speaker 5: should be he should definitely go and coach the Broncos.
Speaker 3: Sorry, okay, I really hope he doesn't. Just selfishly.
Speaker 5: He's a great coach, and you think that the Broncos
Speaker 5: should be left to get out of that mess.
Speaker 3: And I just don't want out there. I don't want
Speaker 3: Harrball there.
Speaker 4: I think Harball would.
Speaker 3: I think he would find a way to get the
Speaker 3: most out of Russ. They would become they would focus
Speaker 3: on defense and running, they would. I do not want.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 5: So, you don't think it's gonna go there and stress
Speaker 5: him out. You think he's gonna go in there and
Speaker 5: actually do something and be good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, Yeah, Jim Harboll is awesome.
Speaker 4: This guy's a hater.
Speaker 3: He's a Why am I hater saying Jim Harball is awesome?
Speaker 4: Not that Jim Harvell Obviously, not that Jim Harbo is
Speaker 4: awesome thing.
Speaker 5: But what you just said was like you woke up
Speaker 5: and you just decided to be a hater just now.
Speaker 3: No, I don't want the Broncos to be good. They're
Speaker 3: the Chiefs rival. I want the Broncos to be miserable.
Speaker 3: They made my life miserable all my childhood. I had
Speaker 3: to deal with stupid John Elway and my colleague and
Speaker 3: now friends, stupid Shannon Sharp and beating me and Terrell
Speaker 3: Davis and all of that, and Neil Smith, great chief
Speaker 3: going and signing with the Broncos and winning Super Bowls
Speaker 3: and now and then I thought I was doing with them,
Speaker 3: and they signed Peyton Manning and they get to a
Speaker 3: couple more super Bowls. Now you're in NFL. Hell, Broncos fans,
Speaker 3: you haven't beaten the Chiefs in seven years, ever beaten Mahomes.
Speaker 3: And I don't want I don't want Harball to pull.
Speaker 4: You out of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I root for their misery. So I hope Harball
Speaker 3: stays at Michigan or goes somewhere else. Next question, doesn't
Speaker 3: make me a hater, makes me a sports fan.
Speaker 5: Next question, Mike Tomlin Steelers are somehow in the playoff
Speaker 5: hunt after beating Baltimore last night. That's despite no offensive line,
Speaker 5: a rookie quarterback, and a tough schedule. But he still
Speaker 5: probably won't get one Coach of the Year vote When
Speaker 5: everyone counts Tomlin out in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: I resolved to remember this and remember that Tomlin is
Speaker 3: a dog is almost a must bet. And the Steelers
Speaker 3: path the playoffs, by the way, is not complicated. This
Speaker 3: here's all it is. They beat the Browns okay, the
Speaker 3: Bills beat the Patriots okay, and the Jets beat the Dolphins,
Speaker 3: and Skyler Thompson might be the Jets quarterback. That's it,
Speaker 3: and the Steelers make the playoffs. Now, there is a
Speaker 3: wild scenario out there that the Jags and Titans make
Speaker 3: the playoffs. That one is the Steelers lose to the Browns,
Speaker 3: the Jets beat the Dolphins, and the Bills beat the Patriots,
Speaker 3: and then if the Titans beat the Jags, the Jags
Speaker 3: get the final wild card spot, which is I want
Speaker 3: to check real quick. Actually, there's one scenario that I'm
Speaker 3: unaware of, which is if the Jags beat the Titans,
Speaker 3: but then Steelers, Patriots, and Dolphins all lose, who gets
Speaker 3: in the playoffs in that scenario, So I'm gonna do
Speaker 3: that real quick. So if the Jags beat the Titans,
Speaker 3: they obviously win that division and the Titans are illuminated.
Speaker 3: But if the Patriots lose, the Dolphins lose, and the
Speaker 3: Steelers lose, the Patriots getting So if everyone, if the
Speaker 3: Patriots can get into the playoffs with a loss to
Speaker 3: the Bills, they just need the Dolphins and the Titan,
Speaker 3: or the Dolphins and the Steelers to lose. In the
Speaker 3: Jags beat the Titans, that would be a wild scenario,
Speaker 3: a truly wild scenario if that one happens. The Jags
Speaker 3: also being alive for a wild card is kind of
Speaker 3: hilarious if the AFC South were to get two playoff teams.
Speaker 3: But what Tomlin's done this year is unbelievable. And I
Speaker 3: wouldn't trust the Steelers in the playoffs obviously, but the
Speaker 3: fact that he might keep his never been under five
Speaker 3: hundred streak alive with this team. And by the way,
Speaker 3: the team is seven and two, demis win. TJ. Watt plays.
Speaker 3: They's seven and two win TJ. Watt plays. And let
Speaker 3: me tell you one other thing that's on the board. Okay,
Speaker 3: the Bengals win tonight, okay, and the Steelers get in.
Speaker 4: Let me talking about no, no, no no.
Speaker 3: If the Bengals win tonight, they become the two seed
Speaker 3: in the AFC. Okay, because they would have the same
Speaker 3: record as Buffalo and have the head to head, you
Speaker 3: could get Bengals Steelers in Round one, and as good
Speaker 3: as the Bengals are, I don't think they want that
Speaker 3: game the Steelers. You know, it's a divisional game. They've
Speaker 3: played them twice already this year. Obviously, they played them
Speaker 3: in Week one and beat them. I think that would
Speaker 3: be a real bummer for Cincinnati if they and what
Speaker 3: happened the second Cincinnati Steelers game, Uh the it was
Speaker 3: a close game there too, thirty seven thirty. So the
Speaker 3: Steelers beat them in Week one in that crazy game
Speaker 3: all of a sudden. Also, by the way, the Bengals
Speaker 3: don't have Liyol Collins sousoul have TJ. Watt back. That
Speaker 3: would be an interesting Round one playoff matchup. The Steelers
Speaker 3: as the seventh seed coming out of nowhere playing Cincinnati
Speaker 3: a red hot Bengals team. That would be an interesting one.
Speaker 3: All right. Lastly, what's the last one?
Speaker 4: All right? I don't know if this is the last one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh no, it's not. There's two more. Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 5: The prince that was promised is one win over Josh
Speaker 5: Dobbs away from his first play from over Josh from
Speaker 5: his playoff debut. Then he'll have a chance to keep
Speaker 5: growing during during his sophomore year next year.
Speaker 4: Because you decided this was that his rookie year didn't happen.
Speaker 3: It didn't happen.
Speaker 5: After turning the corner in twenty twenty two, Trevor Lawrence's
Speaker 5: twenty twenty three resolutions should be to.
Speaker 3: Be a consensus top five quarterback. What's it going into
Speaker 3: next year? Mahomes, Burrow, Allen will be consensus top three.
Speaker 3: There will be a couple of spots open. Some will
Speaker 3: say Jalen Hurts, some will Grandfather and Tom Brady and
Speaker 3: or Aaron Rodgers. Some will say Justin Herbert. Here's the
Speaker 3: thing about Justin Herbert. I think Justin herbert first career
Speaker 3: playoff game is going to be against Trevor Lawrence in Jacksonville.
Speaker 3: I think that's gonna be the four or five. And
Speaker 3: if that's the case, I think Jacksonville can win. If
Speaker 3: they win that game, it's gonna be hard to make
Speaker 3: the argument. Herbert's better than Lawrence, so be it consentso's
Speaker 3: top five quarterback. That's my answer, all right?
Speaker 4: Last, all right, Ron Rivera put on a clinic for.
Speaker 3: Having we're skipping that one. I think we're skipping that one.
Speaker 3: That one's crossed out. Just go to the I think
Speaker 3: we're skipping that one. Yeah, we're doing our resolution, so
Speaker 3: skip that one. All right, are already I already talked
Speaker 3: about updated Doctors.
Speaker 5: After an incredible twenty twenty two building this show, the
Speaker 5: sky is the limit for us.
Speaker 4: Your twenty twenty three resolution for what's right.
Speaker 3: Is, oh, well, that's the listener doesn't care about that.
Speaker 3: That's a personal thing. Uh. Let me let me check
Speaker 3: our YouTube page. Let me see where we're at in
Speaker 3: the old YouTube page, and then I can give the
Speaker 3: answer better. My personal resolution for this show is all right,
Speaker 3: so we're at ninety one thousand subscribers, we're at almost
Speaker 3: eleven million views total. Here's my resolution. I want to
Speaker 3: get one of these episodes played on FS one like
Speaker 3: as a like to Eric, you know, when we have
Speaker 3: a gap in programming, I want to get one of
Speaker 3: these episodes on FS one. That's my resolution for the show.
Speaker 3: Even though I love the podcast and the YouTube audience.
Speaker 3: I think that'd be really cool. I think that'd be
Speaker 3: really cool for both of us. So that's that's the resolution.
Speaker 3: All right. All right, put your comments in the dock,
Speaker 3: your questions, take a very very quick break, come back
Speaker 3: and wrap the show. What's Right?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Welcome back in episode one twelve, What's Right with Nick? Right?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Demante, let's read these fan questions that I got to
Speaker 3: get to the TV show.
Speaker 5: All right, good boy asked between Cooper Rush, Stidham, Party,
Speaker 5: Mike White, Zapi, and the rest of the Shining backups,
Speaker 5: whom most likely to land a starting job somewhere next season.
Speaker 3: Uh, none of them. None of them are gonna get
Speaker 3: a starting job next year. So Cooper Rush, nobody's gonna
Speaker 3: make him their starter. Uh, they're just not. He's good
Speaker 3: as a backup. Stidham, I guess has the best chance.
Speaker 4: Being that we've seen the least from no Well.
Speaker 3: And because he's in Vegas and they don't have a
Speaker 3: they're gonna release car. So what if they get left,
Speaker 3: you know, without a quarterback in the game. Musical chairs,
Speaker 3: pardy Oh, I shouldn't say none of them.
Speaker 4: I guess I was about to say.
Speaker 3: Yeah, party could be the starter in San Francisco if
Speaker 3: Trey Lance has a terrible off season. I think they're
Speaker 3: gonna air towards Trey Lance. But it would be a chance,
Speaker 3: especially if they make the Super Bowl, which I think
Speaker 3: they will. So I guess Purdy is when you say
Speaker 3: the reason I said none of them, because when you
Speaker 3: said Land a starting job, I was thinking, like, someone
Speaker 3: signs them be the starter, right White. Nobody's gonna make
Speaker 3: him the starter. We know that Zappi is still under
Speaker 3: contract in New England, and they like mac Jones for
Speaker 3: reasons I don't understand. So I guess Perty's got a
Speaker 3: real shot, and Stidham might might luck into one almost
Speaker 3: but the other guys no chance whatsoever?
Speaker 4: Next? All right, Regieve?
Speaker 5: Regieve Rogavon asked if someone told you only wanted one
Speaker 5: of Mahomes or Luca in is their career as the
Speaker 5: consistency consensus goat, who would it be?
Speaker 2: Mahomes?
Speaker 3: I don't think Luca has great chance of being considered
Speaker 3: the greatest player of all time. Really weird thing, what
Speaker 3: because having a foreign guy be the greatest player.
Speaker 4: Of all time, but it would just really different. Something
Speaker 4: is a.
Speaker 3: Foreign guy, but the rea I don't think Luca. Here's
Speaker 3: the thing. The guys who are considered in the conversation
Speaker 3: for greatest ever Lebron, Jordan Ad Kareem at Wilton Russell,
Speaker 3: if you want to go way old school, I don't
Speaker 3: think that Kobe is in the conversation, but throw Kobe in.
Speaker 3: All those guys, they were all at their peak A
Speaker 3: plus defenders. They all had moments of wait, is he
Speaker 3: the best offensive and defensive player in the league. Russell
Speaker 3: was never gon to the best offensive player, but was
Speaker 3: the best winner. Luca will never be that, right, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean? Like, so Luca's you know by
Speaker 3: Luca's like everybody says, you know, he's like Larry Bird.
Speaker 3: He's nothing like Larry Bird, but he's similar to Larry
Speaker 3: and Magic Johnson in that because of his limitations defensively,
Speaker 3: it's not that he's a bad defender, He's not going
Speaker 3: to be able to reach the goat conversation. The reason
Speaker 3: Yannis can is because of his dominance on both ends.
Speaker 3: And so Mahomes, on the other hand, I think I
Speaker 3: think Mahomes could be five years away from people arguing
Speaker 3: he's the best quarterback ever. If Mahomes were to win
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl this year and then win two more
Speaker 3: before in the next five seasons after this, I think
Speaker 3: people might say, Okay, listen, he didn't have Belichick, he
Speaker 3: didn't have that defense, he doesn't have the ring count
Speaker 3: of Brady.
Speaker 4: Andy Regan would be the new Belichick.
Speaker 3: Well maybe, and so Mahomes has a real real shot
Speaker 3: at it. I don't think Luca probably does. Next.
Speaker 5: Zach Bromfield asks should the Giants re sign sign Saquan
Speaker 5: and DJ?
Speaker 3: It's really tough. I it depends on what type of
Speaker 3: money they each want. I would not be comfortable giving
Speaker 3: Saquon a long term deal because of the position and
Speaker 3: the injuries and all of that. Daniel Jones, I'd want
Speaker 3: a franchise tag and make him show it to me
Speaker 3: one more year. But I give Daniel Jones credit, like
Speaker 3: his issue was he was a turnover and fumbling machine,
Speaker 3: and he's cut that out now He's still obviously very limited.
Speaker 3: But the question is how are you going to upgrade
Speaker 3: and who are you going to upgrade with? And so
Speaker 3: in a perfect world, you would get Saquon On like
Speaker 3: a in a perfect world, you'd franchise tag Saquon and
Speaker 3: get Daniel Jones on like a three year, seventy five
Speaker 3: million dollar deal twenty five million a year. But I
Speaker 3: don't know that he takes that, so I and you
Speaker 3: only have the franchise tag for one guy, so I'm
Speaker 3: not sure what you do there to be totally honest,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 5: Next, cadan Wolf asked, hey, oh yeah, all right, cadan
Speaker 5: Wolf asked, Hey, Nick, did you watch the college football playoffs.
Speaker 4: And have any takeaways for the National Championship game? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think George is going to annihilate TCU. In fact,
Speaker 3: you know what, I want to check and see if
Speaker 3: the lines moved. I bet I hit a great bet
Speaker 3: during I bet at halftime of the Georgia game Georgia
Speaker 3: to win by one to six points. So georgiaould win
Speaker 3: by one, two, three, four, five, six, by one right
Speaker 3: yeah at plus three ten, And I immediately then took
Speaker 3: the winnings and betted on Georgia minus thirteen, purely because
Speaker 3: I thought the line was gonna move to like fifteen
Speaker 3: and I could then middle it and then bet TCU
Speaker 3: plus fifteen and then try to hit it where because
Speaker 3: Fourteen's obviously a key, key number in college football especially,
Speaker 3: but the lion has stayed there, and so I'm surprised
Speaker 3: by that. I think that TCU deserves credit, but I
Speaker 3: do not think TCU can hang with the athletes of Georgia.
Speaker 3: I think Georgia had their hiccup game. They had it
Speaker 3: against Ohio State, and they found a way to win anyway,
Speaker 3: and so I like Georgia in that spot, big, big,
Speaker 3: big time. All right, last one.
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 5: MK Badlands asked what's demand's shoes look like? His outfit
Speaker 5: is fire wearing like pick.
Speaker 4: Your feet up air Forces?
Speaker 3: Yeah, air Forces with some orange and some black. I
Speaker 3: don't think they really want to see the soles of
Speaker 3: the shoes. I think they wanted to see the sides
Speaker 3: of the shoes. There you go. Uh yeah, there's a
Speaker 3: good looking shoes.
Speaker 4: Oh thank you man, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: And the shirt I got you as a Christmas present?
Speaker 3: Yeah wow, look at that, Demonse. His outfit is fire.
Speaker 3: What a way to end the show, right, well, thank you,
Speaker 3: MK Badlands also known as the Demonse Burner account. I
Speaker 3: don't know how you set that in while we're doing
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Speaker 4: What's right,