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Watch Unstoppable now exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:16.119 Welcome in episode one twelve of What's Right with Nick 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.240 Ray the podcast in YouTube. Char our first episode of 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.880 twenty twenty three, and we now have some real clarity 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:27.560 on the NFL playoff picture. And not surprisingly, you wake 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:32.640 up this morning, you check the old NFL standings. You know, 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:36.039 sitting there with the best record in all of football, 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.200 the thirteen and three Kansas City Chiefs. Who'd have thunked that, 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.240 and with no Tyree kill And I'm just telling you, 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.800 they're just sitting there with the best record in the league. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.320 The Eagles are tied with them, and the Bills, to 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:49.920 be fair, have not played. 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:50.480 Yet this week. 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.600 However, we will see the Bill. We'll talk about that 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.640 game later. It's the game of the year. Bill's Bengals. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:02:00.520 Big Joe Burrow fan over here this morning, Joe Burrow wins. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.720 All of a sudden, Chiefs are the one seed by themselves. 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.560 All they gotta do is take care of Jared Stidham 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.480 and they get the buye the NFL. Everyone is trying 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.919 to bend things to the Bills favor. Let me tell 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.320 you real quick before we start the show. The NFL 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:21.840 announced Saturday's schedule and it's interesting the Saturday nightcap is 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.120 the Prince that was promised with a chance to win 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:28.720 the division. Saturday afternoon is Chiefs Raiders. Here's why this 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:33.240 is noteworthy. If the Bills were to win tonight and 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.760 the Chiefs were to somehow lose to the Raiders on Saturday, 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.600 the Bills then could rest everyone on Sunday because they 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.119 would have locked up the one seed and that would 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.280 be huge for the Patriots, who need to win to 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.880 get in. But the point being, Bills and Chiefs should 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:53.360 be playing at the same time, so nobody has unfair information. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.480 But I get it all. There's been the year of 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:01.000 Buffalo all year long, trying to make everything happen for him. Unfortunately, 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.799 tonight Joe Coole's gonna kick their ass. Chiefs are gonna 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.200 be the one seed, control their own destiny. Get a 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.880 nice week off, but we're rolling into the postseason. We'll 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.920 talk a little bit about that later in the show. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.519 Here is what is not on the show, The Chargers 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:21.639 when the Battle of La doesn't celebrate Jared Sidham dazzles 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.919 in his debut loss. Nobody has lit up the Niners 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.920 defense like that, since, of course, Patrick Mahomes and Major 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.840 Tuddy Fuels nightmares. I'm gonna tell you, I don't know 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:36.280 what that is. Oh, that's the Commander's mascot. I like it, 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.200 even though it's kind of a weird time for them 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:43.080 to debut him, because the actual Hogs. The Hogs is 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.640 what they call their offensive line in the eighties demase 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.440 that the actual members of the Hogs are suing the 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.960 Commanders for copyright use. Okay, and now they're debuting a 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.680 mascot based off them. Maybe part of the reason they're 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.280 suing them. I'm not sure. None of that's in the show. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.280 How have We will start with the NFC's current one seed, 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:05.800 but I don't know how much longer do the one seed? 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.240 The Philadelphia Eagles Demons go right. 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.040 Ahead, I've just starting thirteen and one Phillies and now 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.680 loss two in a row. It might not get the 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:17.839 number one seed. Allison, San Francisco both are within shouting distance. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.240 Now yep. Each of these three teams. 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:24.560 Have somewhat alarming problems with Hurts health, Dack's turnover problems, 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:26.880 and brock Perty might eventually lose a game. 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:28.679 Who wins the one. 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.599 Seed or is a healthy Hurts? The only thing that 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:31.760 really matters at this point. 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.640 All right, So who wins the one seed could have 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:36.599 a lot to do with what the Giants, how the 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:40.520 Giants view Week eighteen. So the Giants play the Eagles 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.880 in Week eighteen, right, If the Eagles win, they're the 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.279 one seed no matter what. If they lose, a lot 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:51.040 of things can happen. Right, The Giants are locked in 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:54.159 to the sixth spot. Whether they win or lose in 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.960 Week eighteen does not impact their seeding. They are the 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.360 sixth seed no matter what. And by the way, feel 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.520 pretty good about being the sixth seed right now, because 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.080 that looks like that means they're going to be playing 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.760 the Minnesota Vikings, a team that they showed they can 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.440 play close just the other day, and the Vikings coming 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:14.000 off their worst performance of the year. So the Eagles 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.479 might be able to hold on for the one seed, 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:21.320 particularly if the Giants rest everyone that is even questionable 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:25.479 with an injury super conservative in the game. But that 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:31.800 doesn't change anything. The Eagles are in huge trouble. I 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:36.159 said it earlier in the year, people, the producers of 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.720 this show and the producers of the TV show, when 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.520 the Eagles were undefeated, when the Eagles were looking like 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.280 the best team in the league saying Nick, we need 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.599 talk more Eagles, and I was like, eh, I'm not 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.240 sure I believe in them. You got a little you 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.400 got a little cross with me saying, well, I want 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:56.240 you to give the Eagles their respect. I understand their quarterbacks hurt. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:00.360 We'll do with that in a second. This team had 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:06.680 some obvious potential issues that could be exploited. One of 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.159 them is they're the best pass rushing team statistically in 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.320 league history. But if they don't get to the quarterback, 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.279 if they don't force the turnovers and force the sacks, 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.520 their back end can get god. All of a sudden, 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.280 now the injuries are mounting, most notably the right tackle, 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.440 not just the quarterback lane Johnson being out at least 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.560 for the rest of the regular season and maybe the postseason. 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.560 And then there is the quarterback injury. And this is 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:41.320 where I am not going to give the ah, there's 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:45.520 nothing to do about injuries, excuse that a lot of 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:49.920 people would give or do give. When you play the 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:55.160 style of football that Philadelphia has insisted on playing, where 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:59.840 your quarterback is your power running back, where your quarterback 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.000 is more or just as lethal with his legs as 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:07.560 he is with his arms. You are flirting with disaster 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:13.840 and it is not a coincidence that the guys who 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.720 run the most Lamar. We haven't seen him in a month, Jalalen, 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.880 we haven't seen him in a couple of weeks. Josh Allen, 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.520 We've seen him, but he's been banged up. Keeps being 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:26.200 listed on the injury reports. Are teams that go into 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:30.840 the postseason with injuries at quarterback, and. 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.000 So with Jalen Hurts, theory will be scared again. 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:39.119 No, no, I won't. I think the Philadelphia Eagles, when 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:40.840 when it looked like they were going to be the 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.360 one seed is I thought they were gonna be one 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.760 and done. Now if they end up falling to the 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:51.240 five seed, that actually might because if they lose in 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:55.240 Dallas wins, they don't win the division, then they're in 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:59.080 Tampa for the first round. Or if they fall to that, 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.640 they could also fall to the two or the three. 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.920 They could fall to the the two line as well. 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:07.800 If they were to lose and Dallas were to lose 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.640 in San Francisco were to win, I think they can win. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.239 Obviously your first playoff game if they're the two seed, 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:18.040 the seventh seed in the NFC we're talking about with 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:23.040 Green Bay, Detroit or Seattle. My point is this, to me, 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.200 is on a Super Bowl caliber team and one and 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.840 done losing in the divisional round or winning the wild 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.120 card round and then losing the divisional round. I don't 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.839 believe they're gonna see the conference championship game. I think 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.760 Dallas would beat them if they played again. I am 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.400 fully confident San Francisco would beat them if they played again, 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.319 or if they played pardon me. And I think Tampa, 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.360 who knocked them out of the playoffs last year, could 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:51.640 cause real problems for and so there is Bill Simmons 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:58.079 calls it the rabbit team, and we see this repeatedly 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.480 in the NFL. Last year. Who was the rabbit team? 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:06.120 The Arizona Cardinals started ten to two looking like the 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:11.439 one seed. Injuries holes on the roster caught up to 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.800 them at the end of the year. They get annihilated 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.400 in their first playoff game. The year before, who was 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:20.320 the rabbit team? The Pittsburgh Steelers started eleven and zero. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.320 They get knocked out quickly in the postseason. A couple 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.120 of years prior, Who was the rabbit team? Baltimore Ravens, 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:34.600 They lose their first playoff game that I don't know why. 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.480 I don't think that SMS Philly, though, what do you 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:39.280 think is gonna happen? 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.240 Tell me, I think Jalen hurt is gonna come back 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.600 and maybe they win two games in the playoffs. 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.480 Will win two games in the playoffs if they get 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:50.160 the buy that means they're in the Super Bowl. Listen, 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.240 Eagles fans are don't like me ever since five years 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.800 ago when I said when wins went down, they couldn't 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.599 win the Super Bowl, and they ended up winning the 0:09:58.600 --> 0:09:59.559 Super Bowl to Nick Foles. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:00.440 I get it. 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:06.600 If I'm Philadelphia, I'm highly concerned right now because it's 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.720 not just by the way that and then we'll move on. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.360 I just want to pull up their schedule. It's not 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:18.239 just that they've lost these two games without Jalen Hurts. 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:24.160 It's that you started to see some of the potential 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:28.840 ways to exploit them before Jalen went down. They lose 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:33.199 to the Commanders. They need a furious comeback to beat 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.760 the Colts. The touchdown at the end of the game 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.240 the Packers, when the Packers weren't playing well, scored thirty 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.920 three on them. Then they annihilated the Titans and the Giants. 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.880 You give them credit for it. They played the Bears 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:51.040 closer than you would like. Then they lose to the Cowboys, 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:55.439 then they lose to the Saints. If you're if you're 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.400 a super Bowl team, also when you have a chance 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:04.960 to lie everything up, even with your backup quarterback, I 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:06.920 need you to score more than ten points against the 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:11.600 New Orleans Saints. I just do. Sorry. So yeah, I 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.480 think the Eagles are in real trouble. And I think 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.880 that's even if Jalen comes back next all. 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.320 Right, tom Brady's going back to the playoffs after a 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.720 win over the Panthers. Finally, the Goat put on a 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.800 vintage for Brady performance. It's crazy to say it, but 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.000 the Bucks can easily be back in the super Bowl mix. 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.200 You predicted last week that the Bucks would win in 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.480 Week eighteen, that'll win and Week eighteen is basically a 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:33.000 bye week. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:33.400 Yep. 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.360 Brady's road to the super Bowl might go through Minshew 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:37.760 party and then Cousins. 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.000 Oh oh shoot. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:44.000 Sorry, is Tom Brady about to luck himself into the 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:44.800 super Bowl again? 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.920 So listen his road to the super Bowl. I don't 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.120 think Cousins is gonna be on there. And as the 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.200 final round bass because that would mean Cousins won back 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.720 to back playoff games. But I've told you guys all year. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.240 If there's anything I've been right about, and let's be honest, 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.760 this NFL season, aside from the gambling picks, I've been 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:06.719 right about a whole hell of a lot of it, 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:14.320 none more so than this writing off the Bucks when 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:18.160 they were going to finish the year with the slate 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.360 of teams that we knew they were finishing the year 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:26.640 with Arizona, Carolina, Atlanta. We knew they were going to 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.600 go into the postseason hot, we knew it was going 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.040 to give them a home playoff game. We didn't know 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.800 until last week that they were actually going to be 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:39.160 able to be rested. Because they now are locked into 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.880 the four seat. There's no way they play their guys 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:46.800 in Week eighteen. They will give them a bye. And 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:51.320 they are coming off their best offensive performance, a defensive 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.360 performance that forced some turnovers, and they are gonna be scary. 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:02.400 I'm deell, listen. I believe if the Cowboys don't catch 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:06.319 Philly and the Cowboys are the five seeds, I believe 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:11.720 the winner of Cowboys Philly. I'm sorry the winner of 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:15.920 Cowboys Bucks will go to Philly and beat them. I 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.720 believe the winner of Cowboys Bucks, if they end up 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.600 having to go to Philly and not to San Francisco, 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.080 San Francisco's is gonna crush everybody in the NFC side 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:24.520 of the bracket. 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:25.360 Uh. 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.520 The winner of Cowboys Bucks can go to Philadelphia, win 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.040 that game and be in the conference championship game, and 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:36.320 Brady be one game potentially from the super Bowl. All 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.720 of a sudden, that deep ball to Mike Evans was clicking. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:44.319 All of a sudden, the defense started swarming and forcing turnovers. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:49.440 And this team that I it is so frustrating how 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.160 many times this team could have been killed off and 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:57.559 nobody did it. So look at the times this season 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:04.640 where Tampa should have just been dead, okay, just flat dead. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:11.520 Since I mean, my god, since week whatever week they 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:16.920 played the Rams. They're playing the Rams. There's nine minutes left, 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:21.480 they're down thirteen to six. There's in fact, that one's 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.440 even worse because the Rams had let me, let me 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.240 pull this up real quick. The Rams had the ball 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:33.840 up four with a minute fifty two left up four 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.760 minute fifty two, and the Bucks don't even have all 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:41.800 their timeouts, they can't get a first down. They pumped 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.240 with fifty four seconds boom boom, boom, boom boom, Brady touchdown. 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.880 That's the first time this team could have just been 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:54.720 killed off Saints Bucks. You guys, remember that one. The 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.760 Saints are up sixteen to three with three minutes left 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:05.000 in the game, and what happens. Brady scores a touchdown Tampa. 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.320 Then I don't even think they did on They went 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.920 on side kick because they didn't have to know. They 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:14.320 kick it away. You need one first down, New Orleans, you, 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:19.360 of course, just go backwards seven yards eleven play, eleven play, 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.640 touchdown drive, boom boom, boom, boom boom. The Bucks win 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:29.680 seventeen to sixteen against the Cardinals. Last week Christmas Night, 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:36.080 it is sixteen to six in the fourth quarter, Arizona's ahead, 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:42.080 Brady scores ten straight. They went in overtime. And then yesterday, 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.120 what was the score in the fourth quarter yesterday? Oh yeah, 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:51.880 eleven to twenty one ten twenty one ten in the 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:58.480 fourth quarter and the Bucks get three consecutive touchdowns. Guys, 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.440 this team could have been killed the NFC didn't. Now 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:06.520 they're your problem. Now they're the NFC playoff problem. They 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.120 have a Tom Brady feeling good, Mike Evans coming off 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.560 his best game of the year, and a defense that 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.320 potentially is clicking, and they get a weak arrest. I 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:25.840 what what an perfect set of circumstances for the worst 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.760 team Tom Brady's ever been on to potentially be a 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.360 legit dangerous playoff team. 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:31.240 It's unbelievable. 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.320 Next, Uh, the Lions and Packers will play for the 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.560 last playoff spot. Somehow I knew that, and Ron Rivera 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:41.200 didn't uh the Packers winning. There in the Lions and 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.600 need help from Seattle but could still get in. 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:44.000 Yep. 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.600 Both are great comeback stories. But the Lions are the 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.360 heroes and the Packers of the villains. What's more fun 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.120 the Lions making the playoffs or Rogers missing them? 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.720 Oh listen, I think the Lions making the playoffs would 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.200 be a great story. I think it'd be a great story. 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:58.240 That's what I. 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.640 Want to see Aaron Rodgers go to the playoffs just 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.120 so he has no like God excuses. I just want 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.119 to see him, you know, get there and then. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.800 Well, so, here's the thing. If the Packers end up 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:11.879 making the playoffs, obviously it would be as the seventh 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.840 seed right now, that would mean they play San Francisco, 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:18.320 and I think San Francisco would crush them. I think 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:23.240 San Francisco would absolutely crush them. Now, potentially there is 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:27.240 a scenario where if Dallas loses this week, Philly loses 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:32.359 and San Francisco wins, that that Philly's the two seed, 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.679 and I think Philly also would present real, real problems 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:43.600 for green Bay. Here's the deal. I'm I said a 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.640 month ago that the Packers should have gone to Jordan well, 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:52.159 let him play, and now Packer fans are all after 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.880 me saying, see this is why we stuck with Aaron Rodgers, 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.760 and I will ask now the question I asked, then, 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:06.159 are you in green Bay still in the business of 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:11.520 winning Super Bowls? Because if you are, even if you 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:17.520 sneak into the playoffs, this last month was wasted time, effort, 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:22.280 and energy as opposed to getting eyes on Jordan Love 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.960 seeing you if you want him as your quarterback next year, 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.200 if you want him as your quarterback in two years, 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:30.920 seeing if he all of a sudden for a league 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:35.480 that is gonna have more quarterback openings or more teams 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.760 that need a quarterback, then have the ability to sign 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.600 a quarterback if one of those teams wants to trade 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:46.239 for either Love or Rogers could have done all of 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:50.920 that this last month. Instead you said, nope, we got 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:53.000 a one percent chance, than a four percent chance, and 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:54.639 now than an eight percent chance, and now all of 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.680 a sudden, you control your own destiny. If you beat 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.840 the Lions, you're into the playoffs. Reason that I feel 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.800 it is such waste just oh, I don't want to 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:06.880 say wasted. 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:08.360 Time, waste money, but it's. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:12.160 Well, it's the reason that I think it's a fool's 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:17.959 errand is because it's not as if, oh, they're in 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:23.200 this position and Rogers is dealing and they're scary rushers 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.879 through FO one hundred and sixty yard. Just the only 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:30.480 reason the Packers would be a scary playoff team is 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.000 if Rogers had reclaimed his MVP form. He's done nothing 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:38.440 of the sort. And so yesterday they get the kick 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.879 return touchdown, then the pick six. They did, to their credit, 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.520 have a great game plan for Justin Jefferson and totally 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.040 shut him down. And I will give them credit for that, 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:52.440 but I would prefer to see the Lions in the playoffs. 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:54.719 I would prefer to see the Lions. That what did 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.359 they start one and six or two and six and 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:00.159 then found their way? All I think they started two 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:03.119 and six and then are six and two over their 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:07.040 last eight and a legit d I don't want to 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.920 say dangerous team, but a fun team. I'd rather see 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:13.520 the Lions in. I also think it'd be fun to 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:17.359 be honest, if Gino and Seattle get in, Seattle wins 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.160 its final game, then they need the Lions to beat 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.280 the Packers and they get in. The only way the 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:25.280 Lions get in is if Seattle loses and they win. 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.520 The Packers, on the other hand, of course, just need 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:32.000 to win the game. But I will not be believing 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:34.639 in the Packers even if they make it to the postseason. 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:36.399 All right, you heard that Packers fans. 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:38.760 Yeah, Packers, that's all right. I'm not worried about it. 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:39.719 Go ahead next, all right? 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.160 According to you, tonight is the game of the year. 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.639 The Bills traveled to Cincinnati to take on Joe Burrow. 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:46.960 With the Chiefs. 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:50.720 Struggling against the Jerry Rope against the Jerry Rossbury Broncos, 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:54.600 it's refreshing to see to finally see some good AFC football. Sorry, 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:57.960 you're Adamant Mahomes is the MVP, but he hasn't beaten 0:20:57.960 --> 0:20:59.959 a playoff team since November. 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:05.439 Me, hold on a second, Hold on a second. That 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.080 is the dumbest before you even get to it. 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:13.920 Texans, Broncos that but he's beating them. I think what 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:15.680 I said was I understand. 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:20.159 But the point is this, they have so in December 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:25.280 they have played the Bengals, who they lost to, the Broncos, 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.320 who they beat, the Texans, who they beat, the Seahawks, 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:30.600 who they beat, and the Broncos, who they beat again. 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:35.120 Seahawks might be well, Seahawks might be a playoff team, 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:39.160 and that this idea. Let me just make this clear. 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:41.600 I don't think any team in the a f C 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:47.000 has more victories over teams that would currently be in 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:50.680 the playoffs. The Chiefs have a victory over Jacksonville, two 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:58.680 victories over the Chargers. Well, I understand, but you when 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:00.960 you say they haven't been a playoff t since November, 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:07.080 is that they've they've played one. They beat, they crushed 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:09.840 San Francisco. By the way, they beat Tampa, who's a 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:14.679 playoff team. It's a nonsense, stupid stat you just gave me. 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:17.399 It's just stupid. All right, go ahead. 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:20.760 Meanwhile, if Burrow wins to have beaten Kansas City in 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:24.080 Buffalo and could be the one seed, are you scared 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:26.919 Burrow's resume in late push may shake Pat off the 0:22:26.960 --> 0:22:27.679 top of the ladder? 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:28.120 All right? 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:32.679 So listen, I said this on TV that anyone that 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:38.800 is trying to act like there is no chance that 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:44.040 someone comes and steals the MVP from Mahomes is not 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:46.600 paying attention to the way this narrative thing is gone. 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:52.240 All year, people have been dying to find uh someone 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:56.480 else to give the MVP too. And one hundred percent 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:02.440 it's not just Burrow. If Borough whoever wins tonight's game, 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:07.720 if they play great, the narrative on Monday will be, well, 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:11.560 this quarterback beat Mahomes and he beat it Allen, or 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:14.960 he beat Mahomes and he beat Burrow. His team's potentially 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:17.200 the one seed. Why isn't he the MVP? 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:20.800 And he played well in the Game of the Year? Right? Yeah? 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:22.159 And he played well in the Game of the Year 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:24.920 National TV, and the Chiefs haven't been on national TV 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:28.439 lately because they've been all their National TV games were 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:30.840 early in the season and they had the Broncos Chiefs 0:23:30.880 --> 0:23:32.320 game was supposed to be on National TV a couple 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:34.400 of weeks ago, got flexed out because the Broncos are 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:40.360 so bad. Here's the problem with any argument for anyone 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:44.960 other than Mahomes to be MVP. He is the league's 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:50.960