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Speaker 2: Deman's So this this is our a little scheduling update.
Speaker 2: This is our last live show until the new year.
Speaker 2: Next week we will have we will have new content,
Speaker 2: but they won't be live shows. It will be somewhat
Speaker 2: year end review. We will also on our social channels
Speaker 2: put out my Bets, which once again had another losing week.
Speaker 2: It's a rough season. There's no way around it. As
Speaker 2: a gambling show, I just got to admit to it.
Speaker 2: I'm running out of real estate to keep my streak
Speaker 2: of profitable years alive. I am running out of real
Speaker 2: estate to ever hit a five and zero. We don't
Speaker 2: have a lot of time left With that said, the
Speaker 2: last time we didn't do a gambling show Thanksgiving and
Speaker 2: I gave out the picks online, I did go four
Speaker 2: and one, So maybe the key is not overthinking it
Speaker 2: putting them out right before the games kickoff and going
Speaker 2: from there. Maybe that's helpful. Also, it probably was helpful
Speaker 2: that last time we did that, we had two of
Speaker 2: those picks were Thanksgiving Day games and I gave him
Speaker 2: out Thanksgiving morning, so I had all the available information,
Speaker 2: Like this week, what am I supposed to do with
Speaker 2: some of these games when we don't know so bucks Jags,
Speaker 2: I don't know if the Prince is playing or not,
Speaker 2: and if he is playing, I don't know the forecast
Speaker 2: because my guy, the Prince, really seems to trouble to
Speaker 2: have trouble with the slippery football. So there's a lot
Speaker 2: of balls in the air, if you will. But we
Speaker 2: have a full show for you today. We're actually gonna
Speaker 2: do a four segment show. We'll try to keep it
Speaker 2: to the regular time. So before we get into the
Speaker 2: start of the show, let's get into what missed the cut,
Speaker 2: including maybe the best performance in the NBA this season,
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid scoring fifty one against arguably the league's best team,
Speaker 2: inarguably the league's best defense in the Minnesota Timberwolves. That's
Speaker 2: not on the show. Well, oh wow, taking shots at
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid. I mean, listen, and he does, and I
Speaker 2: think the kids call it him Well, so listen, the
Speaker 2: kids call that being a foul merchant or something. Here's
Speaker 2: the thing about him falling. Joel Embiid was taught to
Speaker 2: fall when he was dealing with all those lower body
Speaker 2: injuries early in his career. Now it might sound counterintuitive,
Speaker 2: but what the Sixers training staff and doctors said was
Speaker 2: because he's so big that landing awkwardly is worse for
Speaker 2: his feet, his ankles, his knees than just kind of
Speaker 2: like slowly falling to the ground because it dissipates more force. Now,
Speaker 2: maybe you can argue he's taken that to an extreme,
Speaker 2: but that's on purpose. What they didn't want him to
Speaker 2: keep doing was, you know, landing hard and trying to
Speaker 2: keep his balance. They told him basically, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, almost cartoonishly fall to the ground. Now he
Speaker 2: does get a lot of foul calls that you know,
Speaker 2: I would wish the oldest player in the league who's
Speaker 2: played seventy thousand minutes could get. But I guess it's
Speaker 2: never gonna happen. CJ. Stroud probably not gonna play against
Speaker 2: the Brown still dealing with the concussion, and Tommy Cutlets
Speaker 2: makes an appearance at a pizza shop, and a lot
Speaker 2: of this Tommy DeVito commentary has struck me as slightly
Speaker 2: anti Italian or at least stereotypical, and I don't really
Speaker 2: love it. Is you know, your favorite Italian American sports
Speaker 2: media member demons. Let's get to the show.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: So Miami and the Cowboys they go ahead to head
Speaker 4: this Sunday Christmas Eve. Dallas doesn't have a statement win
Speaker 4: outside of going one and one with Philly, and Miami
Speaker 4: hasn't beating hasn't beaten a winning team.
Speaker 3: I think we've got a tweet for those watching.
Speaker 4: On YouTube from you, but which one of these which
Speaker 4: one of these teams? Would prove to be a Super
Speaker 4: Bowl threat with a statement win. I don't know, I can't.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's fine. So the tweets from NFL on CBS
Speaker 2: Cowboys Dolphins be the first game in NFL history between
Speaker 2: teams with twenty combined wins but one or fewer against
Speaker 2: teams above five hundred. Cowboys one and three against teams
Speaker 2: above five hundred, Dolphins zero to three against teams above
Speaker 2: five hundred. So, before I answer the question, something on
Speaker 2: the above five hundred stuff. It is noteworthy, it's slightly misleading.
Speaker 2: So here's the question I would ask the audience. Will
Speaker 2: you think the Cowboys are a far better team than
Speaker 2: you think they are right now? If the Rams beat
Speaker 2: the Saints tonight? The Rams beating the Saints should have
Speaker 2: no impact on what you think of the Cowboys, right
Speaker 2: And let's go ahead and say, also, if Seattle beats
Speaker 2: the Titans this weekend, will you think the Cowboys are
Speaker 2: a far better team than you think they are right now?
Speaker 2: Probably not, But if those two things happen all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, the Cowboys have three wins against teams above
Speaker 2: five hundred. So the reason the Rams and the Seahawks
Speaker 2: are above five hundred is because the Cowboys beat them.
Speaker 2: They're both seven and seven, and so I understand the oh,
Speaker 2: you beat up on bottom feeder's critique. But two of
Speaker 2: the Cowboys wins came against teams that I think are
Speaker 2: going to be playoff teams potentially certainly the Rams, impossibly
Speaker 2: the Seahawks, and right now those don't count as above
Speaker 2: five hundred wins, but they might by the end of
Speaker 2: the year. Now to the question about who proves to
Speaker 2: be a Super Bowl threat with a statement win this week,
Speaker 2: I think it's Dallas. I think Dallas has all the
Speaker 2: makings of a legitimate Super Bowl contender. Now maybe it
Speaker 2: won't matter because the Niners are just too good for everybody.
Speaker 2: That seems to be what Vegas thinks. That's certainly what
Speaker 2: the media thinks. Every NFL conversation seems to be polluted
Speaker 2: by the fact that the vast majority of the media
Speaker 2: seems to think the whole league is as you would say,
Speaker 2: Demont's a mid or worse except for the Niners and
Speaker 2: maybe the Ravens. It's like, the Niners are great, the
Speaker 2: Ravens are potentially really good, and everyone else thinks because
Speaker 2: when we talk about the Chiefs, the Cowboys, the Dolphins,
Speaker 2: who are in my opinion, third, fourth fifth in most
Speaker 2: people's power rankings. We only talk about what they're not
Speaker 2: good at. So if we're only picking apart top you know,
Speaker 2: teams that are consensus top five the other you know what,
Speaker 2: let me change it. I think the media actually thinks
Speaker 2: there's three good teams, one great team, the Niners, and
Speaker 2: then two good teams, the Ravens and the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2: The Buffalo Bills get more credit for their season, then
Speaker 2: teams that have been consistently good all year get for theirs.
Speaker 2: But that's you know, that is what it is now.
Speaker 2: The Dolphins, I thought, had a really impressive win this
Speaker 2: past week. I understand it was against the Jets, but
Speaker 2: the way they did it and do it it without Tyreek.
Speaker 2: I'm also impressed by the media at large's ability to
Speaker 2: accurately and I think fairly watch Tua Tongue of Iloa
Speaker 2: say he's good but probably not great, recognize the system
Speaker 2: about the exactly right, exactly right. It's amazing to me
Speaker 2: that we can have and by the way, Tua this
Speaker 2: week did something perty has not been able to do,
Speaker 2: which is play a game without one of his Avengers
Speaker 2: and play great. We're yet to see that from Brock
Speaker 2: this year. But for some reason, I've got to deal
Speaker 2: with Rock Party being an overwhelming favorite to win league
Speaker 2: MVP and Tua, whose numbers aren't as good but they're
Speaker 2: in the same ballpark, has just been totally dismissed as
Speaker 2: a candidate, as he should be, by the way, because
Speaker 2: people were like, oh, it's Tyreek. We see Tua do
Speaker 2: it without Tyreek. Nobody cares. It's a weird thing going on.
Speaker 2: With all that said, I think Dallas wins. Miami's in
Speaker 2: with a bunch of injuries. None of their their entire
Speaker 2: offensive line miss practice yesterday. That seems like a problem.
Speaker 2: We don't know if two is going to play, and
Speaker 2: I think Miami is a good not great team. I
Speaker 2: think Dallas can be a great team. And dating back
Speaker 2: to December of twenty one, Dallas is nine to oh
Speaker 2: with an average margin of victory of nearly twenty points
Speaker 2: coming off a loss. So I like Dallas in this spot.
Speaker 2: All right, next, all right, So the Ravens are facing
Speaker 2: off against the Niners. I think that's next Monday. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do, buddy? That's Christmas Night, Who
Speaker 2: are you rooting for? These are your two guys, this
Speaker 2: is it, Brock and Lamar. But I mean you're a
Speaker 2: huge practice.
Speaker 4: I just think you're unfair to me and I feel
Speaker 4: like I got a kpe for him sometimes. But uh okay,
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think this will I think this will
Speaker 4: be a good a good chance to see how we
Speaker 4: match up against the Night.
Speaker 3: I think it's scary.
Speaker 4: I think if we stay within seven points, I'm happy.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, no faith in your Ravens.
Speaker 4: No, it's it's I mean, LaVar is gonna be I
Speaker 4: think it's gonna be forced to throw the ball this game,
Speaker 4: and I would like to see him be forced to
Speaker 4: throw the ball and see.
Speaker 3: How it turns out.
Speaker 4: I'm saying within seven to be modest, but I think
Speaker 4: there's a chance they won the game. But I just
Speaker 4: haven't seen them face up against each other.
Speaker 2: So so this is a weird spot for me because
Speaker 2: I need the Niners to win. I'm gonna be Christmas
Speaker 2: Night rooting for Brock party because I need the Ravens
Speaker 2: to lose twice in the final three weeks for the
Speaker 2: Chiefs to be over the over the Chiefs. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: I need I need the Niner. I'm gonna be a
Speaker 2: big Brock Party fan this weekend. I guess like my
Speaker 2: best possible result would be somehow like a ten to
Speaker 2: three Niners victory where Party doesn't play well but the
Speaker 2: Niners find a way to win. That would be for
Speaker 2: my own take agenda, the best case scenario. I do
Speaker 2: think that I I think the Ravens defense absolutely could
Speaker 2: give the Niners some real trouble. With that said, this
Speaker 2: is the Ravens going cross country to a Niners team
Speaker 2: that is not only rolling, but fully healthy, and the
Speaker 2: Ravens and I know, Demonse, maybe you agree with me.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say I know, because I don't know if
Speaker 2: you agree or disagree with me on this. The Ravens,
Speaker 2: despite the winning streak, have looked to me shaky the
Speaker 2: last three weeks. I thought three weeks ago that Chargers game,
Speaker 2: when the Chargers were just trying to give the game
Speaker 2: away repeatedly, the fact that it was thirteen to ten
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter and the Ravens seemed like they
Speaker 2: were ripe to lose. Then the Rams game goes to overtime.
Speaker 2: That was the worst defensive performance for the Ravens this year.
Speaker 2: Their offense. Lamar was unbelievable in that game, and then
Speaker 2: against in the Jags. The Jags could not have shot
Speaker 2: themselves in the foot more. On every drive of the
Speaker 2: first half, they move the ball, miss a field goal,
Speaker 2: they move the ball, miss a field goal, they move
Speaker 2: the ball, Trevor drops the ball, they move the ball,
Speaker 2: they butcher the end of the half, and then despite
Speaker 2: all that, it's ten to seven midway through the third
Speaker 2: and takes a couple one in particular really great Lamar
Speaker 2: Jackson plays for the Ravens to be able to get
Speaker 2: some separation. So I understand both of these teams are
Speaker 2: on winning streaks. The Niners winning streak, to me, has
Speaker 2: been more convincing than the Ravens winning streak. So I
Speaker 2: do like the Niners in this spot. But I am
Speaker 2: very interested to see how Brock does against another one
Speaker 2: of the league's best defenses. And I'm interested to see
Speaker 2: how Christian McCaffrey does. But this is one of the
Speaker 2: best games of the year. This is right now, the
Speaker 2: one seed versus one seed. It is the super the
Speaker 2: favorite Super Bowl matchup, and from a NFL intrigue perspective,
Speaker 2: I would say this it's a bummer. If the Niners
Speaker 2: blow out the Ravens. If the Niners just dog walk
Speaker 2: the Ravens, They've already dog walked the Eagles, They've dogwalked
Speaker 2: the Cowboys. If they annihilate the Ravens, then they're to
Speaker 2: a degree to all. Let me tell you this much
Speaker 2: right now, for neutral observers, or probably not neutral observers.
Speaker 2: For people that don't want if the Niners crush the Ravens,
Speaker 2: people that don't want the Niners to win the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: maybe you're a fan of a rival team or something,
Speaker 2: you know who, they're all of a sudden gonna become
Speaker 2: huge fans of the rest of the year the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: If the Niners crush the Ravens, people are gonna the
Speaker 2: only hope left for the league is gonna be that
Speaker 2: the Chiefs offense starts clicking to go along with that defense.
Speaker 2: It should be noted the only.
Speaker 4: Thing can't the Chiefs can do it, given the way
Speaker 4: the Chiefs season is gone.
Speaker 2: But that's just me that well then so then it's nobody.
Speaker 2: Well then it's nobody, demanse right, then then they'll just
Speaker 2: think it's nobody, correct, I mean, if they've crushed the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: They've crushed the Eagles, they've crushed the Ravens. I don't
Speaker 2: know if there's anybody left and so, and maybe that's
Speaker 2: the answer the oh yeah, Buffalo and so the the
Speaker 2: other Oh, what I was trying to say was before
Speaker 2: I was rudely interrupted, is that, uh, the only team
Speaker 2: since the Niners got Christian McCaffrey, the only team to
Speaker 2: beat them with a healthy McCaffrey, with like all of
Speaker 2: their weapons in a game when the quarterback doesn't go
Speaker 2: down was the Chiefs the first game they got McCaffrey.
Speaker 2: When the Chiefs annihilated they've scored I think beat him
Speaker 2: like forty two to thirty one or something early the
Speaker 2: first game with McCaffrey last year. And so I think
Speaker 2: it'll be a good game. I do think the Niners
Speaker 2: will win. I think the Ravens, though, will equit themselves.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: But this feels to me like the Ravens have been
Speaker 2: flirting with the loss for a month and the Niners
Speaker 2: have not been. So I like the Niners in this spot.
Speaker 2: All right, next, all.
Speaker 3: Right, fair enough.
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers is officially activated off injured reserve, but he's
Speaker 4: not gonna be playing he's just gotten taken off of IR.
Speaker 4: He just wants to build up chemistry with his teammates
Speaker 4: while he's healing his achilles. Do you think this is
Speaker 4: the last stunt by Aaron Rodgers in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 4: or we're gonna hear from him again.
Speaker 2: Well, we got ten days left, so I assume we'll
Speaker 2: hear from him again. By the way, I've said enough
Speaker 2: about Aaron. I've been right at every turn, and this
Speaker 2: isn't even a classic category two opinion. This is a
Speaker 2: category one opinion. I was instantly correct, and I've been
Speaker 2: correct every step of the way. It was one thing.
Speaker 2: This is more a media commentary. It was one thing
Speaker 2: for a lot of my colleagues to be credulous about
Speaker 2: this idea that he was going to play this year.
Speaker 2: It was, on its face ludicrous. You know. Shout out
Speaker 2: while I criticize other media members, shout out to Melissa
Speaker 2: Stark and Sunday Night Football for not being credulous, because,
Speaker 2: if you remember Week ten, he told Melissa Stark his
Speaker 2: plan was to come back in mid December to be
Speaker 2: able to play, and NBC had that information and did
Speaker 2: not lead the show with it. It did not act
Speaker 2: like it was a breaking news revelation and they just
Speaker 2: kind of as a as an aside, set it mid
Speaker 2: second quarter of the game because they knew this is nonsense.
Speaker 2: I wish some other local and national media had taken
Speaker 2: it as nonsense. I'm sure Jets fans wish the front
Speaker 2: office had taken it as nonsense, and then maybe they
Speaker 2: would have signed an actual backup quarterback rather than playcating Rogers' ego.
Speaker 2: But set all that aside. What has been even more
Speaker 2: maddening is in the last forty eight hours, I've got
Speaker 2: to listen to Ian Rapaport go on NFL Network and say, well, listen, guys,
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers did it. He accomplished what he said he
Speaker 2: was going to do. No, he bleeping didn't. And the
Speaker 2: idea that we are now going to say, oh, unprecedented
Speaker 2: recovery based on what you don't think there have been
Speaker 2: other people who popped their achilles, who if they wanted
Speaker 2: to for a dog and pony show, take off the
Speaker 2: walking boot early and put on a specialized shoe. They
Speaker 2: could do it. Of course they could. Now if they
Speaker 2: did it, their doctor would in say what are you doing?
Speaker 2: But they could do it. You don't think there are
Speaker 2: other people that for three and a half months in
Speaker 2: could cose play backup quarterback at practice. Of course they could,
Speaker 2: but it would be ridiculous to no positive end and
Speaker 2: just to be like, look at me, look at me.
Speaker 2: And it is the fact that now the Jets this morning, demons,
Speaker 2: the Jets had to cut a player, cut him. We
Speaker 2: have fifty three roster spots. Aaron saking on your cut. Yes,
Speaker 2: they had to cut a guy. Now they already the
Speaker 2: media is cleaning this up. Aaron like, oh, he was
Speaker 2: a vested veteran, so he still gets paid. Great. They
Speaker 2: saw it to cut him, they had to move him down.
Speaker 2: He will then revert to practice squad, which then you
Speaker 2: know what that means, someone on the practice squad gets
Speaker 2: cut in service of Aaron Rodgers ego. This would this
Speaker 2: would be like if at Blue Duck, who produces this show,
Speaker 2: I was like, Hey, I'm sorry, Kara, You've got to
Speaker 2: go because my imaginary friend needs that seat. It's like huh,
Speaker 2: like no, sorry, like no, that seat is taken up
Speaker 2: by but it's important to me. My imaginary friend's gonna
Speaker 2: take it. And she's just standing out in the hallway
Speaker 2: because they're like, Ah, we don't want to upset Nick.
Speaker 2: It's so outrageous. It's just such an im and I
Speaker 2: cannot believe there are not Nora Princiati called him out
Speaker 2: on it. I've called him out on it a few others.
Speaker 2: There have been others, but the some of the real
Speaker 2: taste makers in national football media are like, man, bravo Aaron.
Speaker 2: And I will say this now for the second time.
Speaker 2: And people think I think mistakenly that a lot of
Speaker 2: my annoyance with Aaron Rodgers is because of his stance
Speaker 2: on the vaccine. That is not it. People can have
Speaker 2: whatever stance they want on vaccines. The I am I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to have that argument right now. The what
Speaker 2: surprises you.
Speaker 4: That surprises me that you're not like, like on his
Speaker 4: tail because it's like a bit. That's not a big
Speaker 4: part of you being annoyed with him.
Speaker 3: It's like him acting.
Speaker 4: That's he's also promoting other people to not get the vaccine.
Speaker 2: Well, so listen again, that is that isn't a separate bucket.
Speaker 2: I can, I can. We can have that discussion. We
Speaker 2: can have that discussion at a later date or in
Speaker 2: a different format. Here is though, what everyone should agree
Speaker 2: with Aaron on the vaccine note three years ago said
Speaker 2: after you know, misleading everyone and being disingenuous about it, Guys,
Speaker 2: I found an alternative to the vaccine, same immunization, none
Speaker 2: of the downstream effects that he felt the vaccine had. Right,
Speaker 2: That's what he told us. Okay, we now since then
Speaker 2: have learned he considers Big Pharma an evil entity, is
Speaker 2: you know, challenging Fauci, debate, me bro all this stuff. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: so he clearly believes that at least this specific vaccine
Speaker 2: was really bad and there was another way to go
Speaker 2: about immunity, safety and health. That's what he told us.
Speaker 2: Then why have you not told everyone what it is?
Speaker 2: If I thought that everyone would that millions of people
Speaker 2: were doing something terrible for them, and I had an
Speaker 2: alternative that was better, and I might do one hour
Speaker 2: interviews every week millions of people watch, you know what
Speaker 2: I might do share the data. I might be like, hey, guys,
Speaker 2: here's the thing. Here's what you do. You smoke some peyote,
Speaker 2: you grind up a sugar pill, you rub it on
Speaker 2: your forehead, you pray to the god, and this is
Speaker 2: what you do here. It worked for me. Let me,
Speaker 2: let it work for you. So that's the first thing.
Speaker 2: Now the second time he pedaled, I solved Achilles injuries. Well,
Speaker 2: I bet Kirk Cousins would like to know what you did.
Speaker 2: Poor guy's gonna be limping around Christmas morning, all those
Speaker 2: wonderful into his like, I mean, give me a break.
Speaker 2: It's just so dumb and and we got all these
Speaker 2: people who are like, man, he if the Jets. It
Speaker 2: was a massive discussion on every sports TV show for weeks.
Speaker 2: Looking this is segments that were done. They would put
Speaker 2: up the Jets schedule and they would say, well, if
Speaker 2: they can win this game in this game, then week sixteen,
Speaker 2: that's Aaron Rodgers target date. If they could just be
Speaker 2: seven and seven, he could be back for the playoff.
Speaker 2: People were having these discussions. They were being credulous about
Speaker 2: the idea that Aaron Rodgers at forty years old, was
Speaker 2: gonna play tackle football this year. And then three weeks ago,
Speaker 2: as a birthday present to the guy, they they started
Speaker 2: and opened his practice window and we saw the video
Speaker 2: of him at practice and the quarterbacks are doing jumping
Speaker 2: jacks and Aaron's like, you know, lightly bobbing on his
Speaker 2: knees and then guys are jogging and Aaron is thirty
Speaker 2: five paces behind him, and it's like, but in fifteen
Speaker 2: days he's gonna be trying to elude Miles Garrett. The
Speaker 2: whole thing was so dumb, and I just I and
Speaker 2: people are like, I mean, this is all from the
Speaker 2: same studio that gave us. I wasn't ducking your calls.
Speaker 2: Everyone knows I don't have phone service where I live.
Speaker 2: You have to FaceTime me from the same studio that
Speaker 2: gave us. How dare you say I gave the Jets
Speaker 2: an offseason wish list? I never would. Meanwhile, they signed
Speaker 2: Randall Cobb, Alan Lazard, hired your bff to be there
Speaker 2: offen of coordinator, and Tim Boils their third string quarterback.
Speaker 2: Like the guy just such phony nonsense, And I and
Speaker 2: I it is I don't know who what people are like,
Speaker 2: uh the I don't understand and maybe I'm missing it.
Speaker 2: Maybe this Bill's gonna come doe for me. Maybe I'm
Speaker 2: gonna find out that, uh there there's power wielded that
Speaker 2: I was unaware of. But everyone knows it, and so
Speaker 2: few of us are just actively calling it out. The
Speaker 2: same guy who had the audacity to call to go
Speaker 2: after Kelsey, call him mister Pfizer when he works for
Speaker 2: the air of the Johnson and Johnson fortune, and it's like,
Speaker 2: what are we talking about this guy? Now? I gotta
Speaker 2: hear how he accomplished his goal.
Speaker 4: This is probably his version of Draymond's like antic s kidding,
Speaker 4: all hyper aggressive and the choke holds. Oh, he's getting old,
Speaker 4: running out of sauce new tactics.
Speaker 2: Well, that feel like that.
Speaker 4: I feel like he's always kind of been like this,
Speaker 4: but it's just more extreme these days.
Speaker 2: Well, and here's the other thing. If you're a Jets fan,
Speaker 2: God love you. I read the rich so Mini article
Speaker 2: this week. This morning, it's like questions for the Jets.
Speaker 2: The first one was should they bring back sala and Douglas. Well,
Speaker 2: Douglas is twenty five and fifty five as a GM.
Speaker 2: Salas sixteen and thirty two is a head coach. Obviously
Speaker 2: the answer is no. But then it's like, but Aaron
Speaker 2: likes them, Well, then I guess you gotta bring him back.
Speaker 2: The next question was should they bring back Nat Hackett.
Speaker 2: They're like, well, the Jets offense has scored thirteen touchdowns,
Speaker 2: they've played fourteen games. They probably shouldn't bring him back,
Speaker 2: but it would upset Aaron Rodgers. They are doing all
Speaker 2: of this as if they have heat era Lebron James
Speaker 2: as there as the guy. It's like, man might piss
Speaker 2: him off, but like, what are we gonna do. He's
Speaker 2: a guy who this year, the last time in the
Speaker 2: last two seasons, the best Packer quarterback play we've seen
Speaker 2: has come from Jordan Love and they're doing it for
Speaker 2: the soon to be forty one year old Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: Get out of here, all right, well, welcome back in.
Speaker 2: We'll driving the card episode two or two or do
Speaker 2: our picks in about ten minutes. But first, Demons, we
Speaker 2: got a Shaq and Steph conversation, and then we're gonna
Speaker 2: play a quick holiday game. Go right ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So Steph hit a game winning three in overtime
Speaker 4: versus my Celtics, obviously, and Shack says that Steph Curry
Speaker 4: belongs in the goat conversation. Now we already know who
Speaker 4: your goat is, but where do you think that Steph
Speaker 4: Curry lines up as in the goat debate?
Speaker 2: He's not in it. No, he's not in it. No
Speaker 2: I mean, but this is why, like I love Shack,
Speaker 2: and Shack also said he was like, He's like, STEP's
Speaker 2: better than I was. We can have that discussion. Obviously
Speaker 2: couldn't find two more different players, but like in all
Speaker 2: time rankings, we can have that discussion. Shack is very
Speaker 2: generous of spirit when it comes to like other legendary
Speaker 2: players versus him. Yeah, the only guy he always tries
Speaker 2: to tear down is Barkley and other modern and modern centers.
Speaker 2: Modern centers and Barkley he tries to tear down. But
Speaker 2: all the other guys, like the legends before him and
Speaker 2: the current legends, he's great about. But the goat conversation
Speaker 2: he's not in. It is just not there is So
Speaker 2: I don't want to spend a ton of time on
Speaker 2: this because the problem with doing this is.
Speaker 3: Well, I guess that's a different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah, he's the greatest shooter of all time,
Speaker 2: and he might be the best ball handler of all time. Kyrie, uh,
Speaker 2: Pistol Pete actually are in that discussion. His godfather Rod
Speaker 2: Strickland not quite to that level, but.
Speaker 3: Is not there.
Speaker 2: Oh, now, Magic's the greatest passer of all time, right,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? And so there, but Magic,
Speaker 2: I mean Magic's Lebron's size. Magic was a great ball
Speaker 2: handler for his size. But no, no, no, I think I
Speaker 2: think Steph and Kyrie are the two best ball handlers
Speaker 2: I've ever seen. But the problem with doing this is
Speaker 2: we then end up tearing a guy down. If you say,
Speaker 2: if you say, let me demons, what's up? What's up?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna this is a terrible analogy. I apologize. What's
Speaker 2: a food you like? Like that you every time you
Speaker 2: eat it, you enjoy it. But it's not just something
Speaker 2: you like, like, ah, that's good.
Speaker 3: Uh, burger from in and Out? All right, Okay, that's good.
Speaker 2: That's good. Okay, So you enjoy that, you like that.
Speaker 2: When you have it, you're happy. But if I were
Speaker 2: to say the burger from in and Out is the
Speaker 2: single greatest food in the world, you would then end
Speaker 2: up spending time talking about why it's not. You would
Speaker 2: be like, well, no it doesn't. It's not as good
Speaker 2: as this, is not as that, and now something you like,
Speaker 2: you're actually spending your time and energy. So the problem
Speaker 2: overrating guys is actually, by accident, the most disrespectful thing
Speaker 2: you can do to them, and underrating them is kind
Speaker 2: of the nicest because if Shaq had said Steph Curry
Speaker 2: not one of the twenty five best players ever, guess
Speaker 2: what we would have spent the last couple of days
Speaker 2: doing talking about how awesome he is. But instead, if
Speaker 2: you like Steph Curry greatest player ever, maybe what do
Speaker 2: we spend the last couple of days doing talking about
Speaker 2: why he's not? And so, the and the the reality
Speaker 2: is this, The goat conversation in the NBA is three
Speaker 2: people wide. It's Lebron, Michael and Kareem. Those are the
Speaker 2: three people eligible for the conversation with If you want
Speaker 2: to expand it to include Bill Russell, you can be.
Speaker 2: But it does feel like that's almost a different conversation.
Speaker 2: But then after that, that next group of the greatest
Speaker 2: players ever that has Magic, that has Kobe, that has Bird,
Speaker 2: that has Duncan, that has Wilt, that has Shack, that
Speaker 2: has a Cheam, that has Steph, that that is Bird.
Speaker 2: If I didn't mention him in that group, you can
Speaker 2: make an argument for Steph against any of them. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't have him ahead of any of those guys
Speaker 2: I just listed. I don't, But if someone were like
Speaker 2: Steph Curry was better than Shack or Steph Curry is
Speaker 2: better than a chem or Steph Curry was better than
Speaker 2: Larry Bird. You can at least craft the argument. I
Speaker 2: know people started to have the Steph versus Magic argument.
Speaker 2: I I don't think that one is actually all that close,
Speaker 2: but I can listen to it. But that's the apex
Speaker 2: of where it's listenable. Like you can, if that makes sense,
Speaker 2: the just like I think, you can, at least without
Speaker 2: making a fool of yourself, make the Steph was better
Speaker 2: than Kobe argument. You can. I disagree with it, but
Speaker 2: you can make it. You can make the Steph was
Speaker 2: better than Duncan argument. I disagree with it, but you
Speaker 2: can make it. You can even squint hard enough to
Speaker 2: make this step was better than Magic argument. Who I
Speaker 2: believe is the fourth gradest player ever. But that's where
Speaker 2: it ends. So the absolute top of where he can
Speaker 2: get to from a credible argument standpoint is fourth. I
Speaker 2: think he's more like eleventh, but it would be fourth
Speaker 2: and the absolute bottom if you do the opposite of it,
Speaker 2: every guy who has a credible argument is better than him,
Speaker 2: give it to him. So that would mean magic other
Speaker 2: than your top three that I've already said. Right, So
Speaker 2: obviously you have lebron Kareem Michael, and then I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna do order, but I'm gonna do the guys. I'm
Speaker 2: trying to do him off the top of my head.
Speaker 2: If I say, if I'm missing anyone obvious, say it
Speaker 2: in my ear. But you would then have You would
Speaker 2: have Magic, You would have Russell, you would have Wilt,
Speaker 2: you would have Duncan, you would have Kobe, you would
Speaker 2: have Bird, you would have a chem you would have Shack,
Speaker 2: you would have Moses, you would have Doctor J. You
Speaker 2: would have and again I have Steph ahead of Moses
Speaker 2: and Doctor J. But I'm just trying to You would
Speaker 2: have Isaiah Thomas, you would have Kevin Durant. Am I
Speaker 2: leaving anybody out? I hope I'm not. I think I
Speaker 2: listed all all. So that's fifteen. Go ahead, Daniel or anybody.
Speaker 2: If you think I'm leaving out somebody obvious, Yannis and
Speaker 2: Jokicic would be guys. At some point, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean that you would anticipate moving into that realm.
Speaker 2: Not there yet. So here's the point I'm making. You
Speaker 2: cannot have an intelligent conversation about Steph Curry's all time
Speaker 2: ranking and have him lower than sixteen or higher than four.
Speaker 2: Anywhere from four to sixteen. You can make a semi
Speaker 2: to wholly credible case for anywhere out lower than that.
Speaker 2: If all of a sudden you're like d Wade was better,
Speaker 2: Dirk was better, because those are the Barkley was better.
Speaker 2: Those are the guys in the next kind of grouping,
Speaker 2: you sound ridiculous. And anywhere above I think above six
Speaker 2: you probably sound semi ridiculous, but you at least can
Speaker 2: craft the argument of Steph versus magic. You can craft it.
Speaker 2: But anywhere above that you sound ridiculous. So he has
Speaker 2: to be if you want to seriously taken ranking somewhere
Speaker 2: from four to sixteen all time in the pantheon, I don't.
Speaker 2: And so anything lower you're gonna sound like a total hater,
Speaker 2: and anything higher you're being ridiculous. All right, let's play
Speaker 2: the game naughty or nice? Go ahead? All right, we
Speaker 2: haven't played this game like that graphic go ahead.
Speaker 4: Kind of looks like Adam Sandler, but we haven't played
Speaker 4: this game in a year.
Speaker 3: We're bringing it back. Yeah, my bad.
Speaker 4: So we're playing, and we'll give you an couple examples.
Speaker 4: A naughty and a nice one. So the NBA has
Speaker 4: given US Celtics versus Lakers on Christmas Day, we'd call
Speaker 4: that a nice category. And the NFL is giving US
Speaker 4: Broncos versus the Patriots on Christmas Eve, we would call
Speaker 4: that naughty.
Speaker 2: Disagree. I actually think that's quite nice. It's a total
Speaker 2: non watch Christmas even Yeah, exactly, exactly right. I actually
Speaker 2: think it's quite naughty that the NFL is giving US
Speaker 2: Niners Ravens on Christmas Day one of the best games
Speaker 2: of the year. On Christmas Day, Chiefs Raiders. Also, I
Speaker 2: think it's a I I really think the NFL putting
Speaker 2: a one pm game on Christmas Day one BM East
Speaker 2: Coast time, involving a West Coast team, which means you're
Speaker 2: a diehard Raider fan ten am Christmas Morning, your team's playing.
Speaker 2: I don't love it. I don't love it all right,
Speaker 2: but go ahead.
Speaker 3: Christmas music probably won't be going.
Speaker 4: But first off, Mike Tomlin, Pittsburgh fans are starting to
Speaker 4: get impatient with the Super Bowl winning coach Mike Tomlin,
Speaker 4: who can't seem to figure out the offensive side of
Speaker 4: the football.
Speaker 3: Since Big Ben Prime's prime ended.
Speaker 4: Would Pittsburgh moving on from Mike Tomlin be naughty or nice?
Speaker 2: I think naughty. Listen. I think Mike Tomlin's still a really,
Speaker 2: really good coach. They haven't been able to get the
Speaker 2: quarterback situation right and that's killed him. But I think
Speaker 2: that I understand if they do it, I think it
Speaker 2: would be a mistake.
Speaker 4: Next, the NBA has always owned Christmas Day, but now
Speaker 4: the NFL has taken over again. On one hand, it's
Speaker 4: nice for NFL fans, but on the other football is
Speaker 4: getting greedy during the holiday season. Is the NFL And
Speaker 4: is the NFL encroaching on Christmas Day and naughty or nice?
Speaker 2: I think it's naughty. I just kind of alluded to it.
Speaker 2: I don't. The thing about the NBA is, especially this
Speaker 2: time of year, even on Christmas, you can passively watch,
Speaker 2: like you can just have it on, but you don't
Speaker 2: have to be locked in for the entire game. If
Speaker 2: it's close late, you know what I mean, you lock in.
Speaker 2: It's a nice background noise on Christmas. NFL is not
Speaker 2: like that, especially if it's your team, and putting three
Speaker 2: games on Christmas Day. I'm just not a huge fan
Speaker 2: of I'm just not like this. There were three last
Speaker 2: weekend there were three Saturday games, then the full Sunday slate.
Speaker 2: Now this coming weekend there's three Saturday games. December twenty third,
Speaker 2: a full slate of Christmas Eve games, and then three
Speaker 2: Christmas Day games. I just don't love it all right, last.
Speaker 4: The Suns and Mavericks have been one of the best
Speaker 4: rivalries over the past few years in the NBA. Luca
Speaker 4: and Booker have gone at it in these games and
Speaker 4: have been chippy, to say the least. Well, the Suns
Speaker 4: and Mavericks play naughty or nice.
Speaker 2: Oh no, they don't like each other. And I love it.
Speaker 2: I love the chip on that Luca and Booker have
Speaker 2: towards each other. And no, I think that that's a
Speaker 2: great budding rivalry that I really do enjoy. All Right,
Speaker 2: we'll do our gambling part in just a moment, all right,
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Speaker 2: to uh the gambling show. I just I during the break,
Speaker 2: I looked at Twitter, and I see this tweet. Kurt
Speaker 2: ben Kurt, who's was an NFL backup quarterback for a
Speaker 2: bit with the Packers, tweeted Brock Purdy is simply a
Speaker 2: modern day Drew Breese with more athleticism. And then David Lombardi,
Speaker 2: who covers the Niners for The Athletic that not a
Speaker 2: nobody a professional NFL writer one hundred thousand Twitter followers. Okay,
Speaker 2: this is what he wrote. Brock Party is Drew Brees
Speaker 2: with Lamar Jackson's ten yard verse, which is exactly what
Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan was looking for at the quarterback position in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. You want to find Drew Brees who
Speaker 2: can move like Lamar Jackson. Yeah, I know, yes, agreed,
Speaker 2: you would like to. You would like to pair up
Speaker 2: the most accurate quarterback in the NFL history with the
Speaker 2: most athletic quarterback in NFL history. And maybe I'm just
Speaker 2: a fool, and they did it.
Speaker 3: They did it.
Speaker 2: I mean they you know what, guys, they did it.
Speaker 2: That's making the television show today. I just I'm telling
Speaker 2: you right now, Hubbs, if you're watching this, this is
Speaker 2: making the television show. David Lombardi uh San Francisco forty
Speaker 2: nine ers coverage at the athletic Brock Party is true
Speaker 2: with Lamar Jackson's ten yard burst. Okay, all right, let's
Speaker 2: go to the picks. We need a five and oh
Speaker 2: week to get to five hundred. That's the reality of it.
Speaker 2: Tampa plus three and a half, never a doubt, Miami
Speaker 2: minus eight and a half, never a doubt. The Giants
Speaker 2: plus six against New Orleans. That one didn't work out.
Speaker 2: Dallas plus one and a half at Buffalo they got annihilated.
Speaker 2: Jacksonville plus three and a half against Baltimore. It was raining,
Speaker 2: so I don't even know if that should count. But
Speaker 2: we're you know, we've spent a lot of time in
Speaker 2: the past on these picks. I'm gonna rapid fireroom demonds
Speaker 2: because the reality is this. Uh, people right now probably
Speaker 2: don't care about my analysis of it because I'm five
Speaker 2: games under five hundred, so my analysis probably flawed. All right,
Speaker 2: give me the first one.
Speaker 4: First off, you got Indy plus one at Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Atlanta stinks. I think Indy's getting healthier.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor is supposed to play. Indy's the better team.
Speaker 2: Indy needs the game at Lantai. I think people are
Speaker 2: getting fired. They just went to Heinike, they go rit or, Heinekee, Heineke.
Speaker 2: It's all the same. We like Indie plus one.
Speaker 4: Next, Yeah, Washington plus three at the Jets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the Jets cannot. The Jets have looked
Speaker 2: competent once in the last month and a half, and
Speaker 2: it was the one game that Zach Wilson had an
Speaker 2: out of body experience and played great. He's he's got
Speaker 2: a concussion. He's probably not gonna play. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: Trevor Simmy and the Jets can't score points. I think Washington.
Speaker 2: I'm getting Washington, who is better than the Jets, and
Speaker 2: I'm getting points. Now. Am I little worried about the
Speaker 2: turnovers from the quarterback position in Washington in this game?
Speaker 2: Given that Jets defensive front, yes, but two bad teams,
Speaker 2: two really bad teams, give me the three points. It's
Speaker 2: that simple.
Speaker 3: Next Detroit minus three at Minnesota.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this is Jared Goff and a dome.
Speaker 2: It's Jared Goff and a dome against a team who
Speaker 2: you know is now on their third different quarterback of
Speaker 2: the season. Detroit needs the game. I understand Minnesota desperately
Speaker 2: needs it. I don't believe in this version of the
Speaker 2: Minnesota Vikings. Nick Mullins is one of the worst covering
Speaker 2: quarterbacks of the last few years, five to eleven and
Speaker 2: one in his career. I think Detroit, listen, Minnesota is
Speaker 2: gonna blitz the hell out of Detroit. I think Ben
Speaker 2: Johnson's gonna have an answer for that. I think Detroit
Speaker 2: against mid tier or worst teams or against most teams
Speaker 2: in a controlled weather environment like a dome is gonna cook.
Speaker 2: I don't mind laying three points for a divisional road
Speaker 2: road favorite. I know that's typically not a great idea,
Speaker 2: but I'm good with it in this spot. Detroit minus three.
Speaker 3: Next Dallas plus one and a half at Miami.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I just Miami is incredibly banged up. Dallas
Speaker 2: doesn't lose back to back. Dallas's offense I think will
Speaker 2: click back in Miami. This is a bit of a
Speaker 2: I don't want to say a trap game spot, but
Speaker 2: my Miami's massive game is next week against Baltimore and
Speaker 2: then the following week against Buffalo. If there was ever
Speaker 2: a week that they could I don't want to say
Speaker 2: overlook because it's national TV. They're at home, they're playing
Speaker 2: a great team, but they have massive games coming up
Speaker 2: in week seventeen to eighteen. Dallas coming off a loss,
Speaker 2: Miami coming off an easy victory. Dallas has to have
Speaker 2: the win with Philly all of a sudden, looking really shaky,
Speaker 2: Dallas can steal that division. I like Dallas to win,
Speaker 2: and especially given yesterday's practice report where Hill's not practicing,
Speaker 2: a Cham's not practicing. The entire offensive line didn't practice.
Speaker 2: All right, last one?
Speaker 4: All right, you got the Giants plus twelve at Philly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I'm getting a dozen points in a divisional
Speaker 2: game against a team that is in total disarray, and
Speaker 2: against a team who just let Drew Lot go ninety
Speaker 2: two yards. You let Drew Lot go ninety two yards
Speaker 2: in ninety seconds. The idea that Tommy DeVito can't get
Speaker 2: a back or cover out of this. If you let
Speaker 2: if you can't stop Drew Locke to win a game,
Speaker 2: then anybody can cook on you. The Philly defenses in shambles.
Speaker 2: They just they had Matt Patricia call him plays. Matt Patricia,
Speaker 2: who famously carries around a pencil even though his play
Speaker 2: sheets laminated and you can't use a pencil on laminade
Speaker 2: beats of paper, But he does it because he's trying
Speaker 2: to coseplay as Bill Belichick. Yeah, I'll take the Giants
Speaker 2: getting a dozen points in a divisional game. So the
Speaker 2: picks this week are Indy plus one, Washington plus three,
Speaker 2: Detroit minus three, Dallas plus one and a half, and
Speaker 2: the Giants plus twelve. Last week, Demonse and I both
Speaker 2: did a teaser. Uh, and well, Demonse's was unaired, mine
Speaker 2: was aired. They both lost. We've been officially the worst
Speaker 2: teaser show in America this year. But even okay on
Speaker 2: the offer, though, what's the offer? This week? We lost
Speaker 2: to Moonse so I'll read the teaser. Don't worry about that.
Speaker 2: We're calling this one. Joe Burrow is a system quarterback.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that. That's what the offer is. Jake
Speaker 2: brown to throw for three hundred yards and over one
Speaker 2: and a half touchdown passes for Pitt or versus Pitt
Speaker 2: for Jake Browning. I'm not gonna take that. I do
Speaker 2: understand it, but I think that's a little too rich.
Speaker 2: Against the Browns, sorry, against the Steelers defense. Read your
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna read these questions. Demandy's getting his mic fixed.
Speaker 2: But we're about to wrap the show, anyway, Where do
Speaker 2: the Lakers go from here? After an underwhelming fifteen and
Speaker 2: thirteen start trade a new coach? Lebron asks out, there's
Speaker 2: not gonna be a new coach. Lebron's not gonna ask out.
Speaker 2: I do think that they're gonna make a significant trade
Speaker 2: at some point. I also think that it does seem
Speaker 2: like they put a lot of effort and energy into
Speaker 2: that end season tournament, and since then for them and
Speaker 2: the Pacers that things haven't been quite right. I don't
Speaker 2: have really the answer on that, but you can't be
Speaker 2: getting blown out by the Chicago Bulls. Give me a break.
Speaker 2: Daniel Christo christasect pardon me, asked, could Kadarius Tony's receiving
Speaker 2: issues being equipment management issue? He's wearing different gloves and
Speaker 2: other guys, I've never thought of that. I did have
Speaker 2: the Galaxy Brain take though yesterday, and I think the
Speaker 2: producers will love this, including producer Kara, who once upon
Speaker 2: a time I called an intern in just earlier the
Speaker 2: show I fired for an imaginary friend. Sorry about that, Kara. Uh,
Speaker 2: here's my Galaxy Brain. Kadarius Tony drops take if he
Speaker 2: were worse it'd be better. The take is this the
Speaker 2: Kadarias Tony drops. If they were traditional drops that just
Speaker 2: went through his hands down, nobody would care. But because
Speaker 2: he's almost catching it and then trying to double catch
Speaker 2: it and he pushes it up, they turn into interceptions.
Speaker 2: If he was worse, nobody would care about these drops.
Speaker 2: Cutlass asks, do you ever think we'll see Stephan Lebron
Speaker 2: team up before they retire? Listen? If the Warriors, Suns,
Speaker 2: and Lakers all have disappointing seasons as they are as
Speaker 2: it looks like they're all going to I personally would
Speaker 2: love to see I think Oklahoma City's the only team
Speaker 2: that could make this happen as far as cap space
Speaker 2: and trade assets. I'd love to see an old guys
Speaker 2: team next year. Lebron at forty, step and Katie both
Speaker 2: at thirty six. Those three guys just taking like in
Speaker 2: a sports movie, three of the oldest players in the league,
Speaker 2: three legends teaming up against all the young guys. But no,
Speaker 2: I don't think we'll ever see it. And then the
Speaker 2: last one is Zane Martin ask. Because the NFL's are
Speaker 2: hard salary cap league, do you think salary should be
Speaker 2: considered for MVP. Sure, let's have pretty, let's give pretty
Speaker 2: more advantages. No, it shouldn't be considered for MVP. It
Speaker 2: should be considered as far as what player is adding
Speaker 2: most value given the cap. But that's totally separate from
Speaker 2: what the award most Valuable Player is supposed to be.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, be on the lookout. Next week we'll
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