Speaker 1: Welcome to the Best of the Week for What's Right
Speaker 1: with Nick Right the best takes and moments from this
Speaker 1: week on the show. Enjoy. The Eagles blew it against Dallas.
Speaker 1: There's no other way to put it, and the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Here is my takeaway. Honestly from that Eagles game. AJ
Speaker 1: Brown is not wrong. There is something wrong with Phillies offense.
Speaker 1: Philly's offense this year has.
Speaker 2: Eight halves. They've played twenty four.
Speaker 1: Obviously, No, actually that's not obvious, and I think it's
Speaker 1: wrong because they've already had a buy so they've played
Speaker 1: twenty two in eight of their twenty two halves, so
Speaker 1: more than a third they have scored seven or fewer points.
Speaker 1: They have three scoreless has of football. Only the Titans
Speaker 1: are worse, and.
Speaker 2: There are They do not.
Speaker 1: Have Saquon to save them this year. I know he's
Speaker 1: on the team, he ain't saving them. And this was
Speaker 1: the most predictable year over year decline imaginable. Literally every
Speaker 1: running back save one in NFL history that has had
Speaker 1: Saquan's type of workload last year saw a significant drop
Speaker 1: the following year. A lot of guys that their production
Speaker 1: dropped by half. That's what we're staring at with Saquon,
Speaker 1: and while the passing game at times looks dynamic, they
Speaker 1: just can't string together a whole game. And right or wrong,
Speaker 1: Sirianni consistently shows us with his decision making that for
Speaker 1: some reason or another he does not fully trust Jalen.
Speaker 1: And the end of the half was bizarre. You have
Speaker 1: eighteen seconds, you have the ball in the thirty.
Speaker 2: And in today's NFL.
Speaker 1: You're twenty five yards away from field goal range. We
Speaker 1: know you think Jake Elliott's got a big leg because
Speaker 1: later in the game you was shoot a fourth and
Speaker 1: five attempt to kick a field goal. And Sirianni's explanation
Speaker 1: after the game was, well, the Cowboys kicker is such
Speaker 1: a big leg, we don't want to leave them time.
Speaker 2: There was eighteen seconds.
Speaker 1: There was no scenario at all except for a turnover
Speaker 1: where the Cowboys were gonna touch the ball, much less
Speaker 1: kick a field goal. Even if you just threw four
Speaker 1: consecutive incomplete passes, that takes eighteen seconds like so that
Speaker 1: didn't make sense. And Philly is obviously in good shape
Speaker 1: because of the division they're in, so they're going to
Speaker 1: be a good seed. They're going to be a division champion.
Speaker 1: They still have three games left against the Commanders and Raiders.
Speaker 1: They're going to finish with a gaudy record. I'm not worried,
Speaker 1: honestly about any of those those things, but the flashing
Speaker 1: siren that's been what is up with this offense continues
Speaker 1: to go off. And now getting Lane Johnson back, if
Speaker 1: you get him back in a month or so, that
Speaker 1: should help.
Speaker 2: But he's only been gone one game.
Speaker 1: And if I'm Philly, here's the other thing that I
Speaker 1: hate about this loss. My path to the one seed
Speaker 1: is now so much trickier. In fact, I'm gonna look
Speaker 1: the wild has got me going to this as my
Speaker 1: go to But and I've always kind of actually liked this,
Speaker 1: but I used to use Football Outsiders or Aaron Schatz's
Speaker 1: But the New York Times Playoff Predictor they have the
Speaker 1: Eagles at twenty six percent for the one seed, the
Speaker 1: Rams up to fifty. That's a big deal. The extra
Speaker 1: playoff game, plus not having the huge edge of potentially
Speaker 1: a warm weather contender having to come to your building.
Speaker 1: And right now, the you know, projected playoff field of
Speaker 1: the Eagles being the two seed and hosting either the
Speaker 1: Lions or the Niners. I would love either of those
Speaker 1: spots if I were Philly. And by the way, speaking
Speaker 1: of the Niners, just real quick, I have never been
Speaker 1: proven more right more times than every time the Niners
Speaker 1: trot out either Mac Jones or Brock Purty or all
Speaker 1: of last season. For what was once such a controversy,
Speaker 1: Marshall hot button take that Brock Party is not a
Speaker 1: force multiplayer and is a Kyle Shanahan Niners amazing skill
Speaker 1: position player creation. The last year seeing him without those
Speaker 1: great players, this year, seeing Mac Jones outplay him, and
Speaker 1: then last night seeing him throw three picks. It's just
Speaker 1: every single time, and I know the arguments I've won
Speaker 1: because they start becoming less and less prominent on.
Speaker 2: The TV show.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, the cost of being the annoying guy
Speaker 1: is when you just smoke, you're too much more likable
Speaker 1: co hosts in a multi year argument, you just have
Speaker 1: to you have to take the win, but take the
Speaker 1: win graciously, which I'm not always great at. So Philly,
Speaker 1: I I don't know. And here's the other piece. It
Speaker 1: can't all be on the offensive coordinator in Philly. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying Patullo is doing a great job. But if
Speaker 1: he's doing that bad of a job, then Sirianni takeover.
Speaker 1: But you have an offensive minded head coach, you have
Speaker 1: a quarterback that carries himself like Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: Figure it out.
Speaker 1: You have too much talent on that offense. That's an
Speaker 1: awful loss. And Dallas, on the other hand, I right
Speaker 1: now the quinnin Williams trade is aging grat He's been excellent.
Speaker 1: I was not a fan of that trade. I still
Speaker 1: am not a fan of that trade, but right now
Speaker 1: it is looking really good. But the story for Dallas
Speaker 1: is Dak's been the second best quarterback in the NFL
Speaker 1: this year. It's been Stafford one, Dak two. And it
Speaker 1: is as simple as that. He's been that good. And
Speaker 1: he has a legitimate second team All Pro case. And
Speaker 1: in that game Sunday, he became the Cowboys all time
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Speaker 1: win and was named, at least for the time being,
Speaker 1: the starter. I thought it was noteworthy that they said
Speaker 1: Gabriel is cleared concussion protocol, but Shador is still the starter.
Speaker 1: That is obviously the right call, and I don't. I
Speaker 1: find so much of the Shadore commentary to be disingenuous
Speaker 1: and idiotic that.
Speaker 2: I try not.
Speaker 1: To swim in those waters, even though, man, oh man,
Speaker 1: if you are trying, if you are basing, your Chador
Speaker 1: takes off what gets engagement. It's it's a very hard
Speaker 1: flame to avoid. So if you just I mean, this
Speaker 1: is anecdotal, obviously, but yesterday's uh First Thing's first clips
Speaker 1: on Twitter, if I'm just looking at it by retweets
Speaker 1: or comments, see and I'm not going to say what
Speaker 1: the topics were, but just see if you can guess
Speaker 1: which one was the short or topic. Number of retweets
Speaker 1: in comments total on the First Thing's first clips from
Speaker 1: yesterday's show clip one one hundred and ninety nine, Clip
Speaker 1: two twenty six, Clip three forty four, Clip four forty nine,
Speaker 1: Clip five thirty six, Clip seven eighty five, Clip nine
Speaker 1: thirty three, Clip twelve or clip ten, sorry thirty two,
Speaker 1: Clip eleven one thousand, one hundred and fifty eight, Clip twelve,
Speaker 1: sixty five, Clip thirteen thirty seven, Clip fourteen one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy two. One of those stick out to you guys,
Speaker 1: gets the people going. And so I also think part
Speaker 1: of that the reason that that commentary has gotten so
Speaker 1: snake eating its tail ish is there are a lot
Speaker 1: of folks who they're only outlet is their social media feed,
Speaker 1: and so all they have to go on is reaction
Speaker 1: to things they put out on social media. And so
Speaker 1: because of that they They're like, well, this is what
Speaker 1: people want and is what people have strong opinions on.
Speaker 1: The Chador thing. To me is very very simple, and
Speaker 1: I will do it as efficiently as possible. Shardoor the
Speaker 1: player compared to Gabriel, and why shoudor should be the starter.
Speaker 1: There is absolutely no chance, none, that Dylan Gabriel is
Speaker 1: ever an above average NFL starter. It would be delightful
Speaker 1: if Dylan proves me wrong. If you know Dylan Gabriel's
Speaker 1: friends or family see this clip. He uses it for motivation,
Speaker 1: grows a few inches and gets a lot better, and
Speaker 1: then you can be like, Nick, you idiot, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I think it's zero percent that he's ever an above
Speaker 1: average NFL starter, and I think it's close to zero
Speaker 1: percent that he's ever even just a full time starter.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that's a bad draft pick. If he
Speaker 1: can just be a competent backup, stop gap quarterback, that's
Speaker 1: worth a third round pick. So that's Gabriel. Schador has
Speaker 1: just enough traits and just enough collegiate pedigree and just
Speaker 1: enough Oh wow, look at that play that I give
Speaker 1: him a five percent chance five percent one in twenty
Speaker 1: of being a plus starter and a ten to fifteen
Speaker 1: percent chance of being a full time starter for somebody.
Speaker 2: The Browns are otherwise.
Speaker 1: That and that alone is enough to say, all right,
Speaker 1: let's use these last half dozen games to see what
Speaker 1: Shador has before we make massive decisions this offseason with
Speaker 1: our multiple first round picks. So in that regard, I
Speaker 1: greatly prefer Shador to Gabriel for the Browns right now
Speaker 1: with what they're trying to do. That's take one, Take two.
Speaker 1: What did I think of Shador's game?
Speaker 2: I thought it was fine.
Speaker 1: He had one really nice chunk play over the middle,
Speaker 1: another potentially really nice chunk play to Jerry Judy. That
Speaker 1: was a really nice chunk play until Judy started celebrating
Speaker 1: early and fumbled. He had one grisly interception and then
Speaker 1: two swing passes, one of which went for a sixty
Speaker 1: yard touchdown, the other of which damn near got the
Speaker 1: Raiders back in the game. A bit of a mixed bag,
Speaker 1: and he was fine, but that being fine was the
Speaker 1: most important thing. What he couldn't be was awful or
Speaker 1: in way over his skis, and he wasn't, and so
Speaker 1: that's positive. And then there is the third point, which
Speaker 1: is Chador's disposition or personality or comments before and after
Speaker 1: the game. And I don't think that Chadour means any harm.
Speaker 1: And I do think he is a very likable guy
Speaker 1: and from all accounts, a really good guy. And I
Speaker 1: think he is handled growing up very rich and very
Speaker 1: famous better than most young people would.
Speaker 2: I believe that.
Speaker 1: I also think that while I always encourage confidence, particularly
Speaker 1: in athletes, particularly and guys that want to be starting quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: some of Shador's comments have butted up against what I
Speaker 1: believe to be and maybe you'll prove me wrong.
Speaker 2: Delusion. So Shadour really harping.
Speaker 1: On, imagine what it'll look like when I have a
Speaker 1: full off season, Imagine what it will look like when
Speaker 1: I have all the practice reps assumes to get a
Speaker 1: little litigious for a moment. Some facts not in evidence,
Speaker 1: most notably that at any point in the near or
Speaker 1: even distant future, but certainly near future, that you're going
Speaker 1: to be a team's unquestioned starter, which the only way
Speaker 1: you're getting all the offseason reps, all the practice reps
Speaker 1: is if you are the unequivocal QB one for a team.
Speaker 1: And I do not think that Shadoor is on the
Speaker 1: doorstep of that. And I also think if I had
Speaker 1: to crystal ball it and say ten years out, is
Speaker 1: it more likely or than not that there will ever
Speaker 1: be a season where Shadoor is simply a team's incumbent,
Speaker 1: un no competition involved starting quarterback. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: going to happen. Schudor clearly does, and good for him
Speaker 1: for believing it. I I don't. It's not that I
Speaker 1: didn't like the comments he made before and after the
Speaker 1: game because I thought they were air agant. I didn't
Speaker 1: like the comments he made because I thought he it
Speaker 1: showed that he hasn't come to grips with where he
Speaker 1: is in the NFL quarterback hierarchy. So like, unless he
Speaker 1: just absolutely balls out in a way that would be
Speaker 1: truly unprecedented for a fifth round rookie and would be
Speaker 1: top five percentile for any rookie of any round at
Speaker 1: that position over the final six weeks, he is not
Speaker 1: going to enter next year as the clearcut starter for
Speaker 1: any team. And it is going to take a some
Speaker 1: really special performances over this last six weeks for the
Speaker 1: Browns to decide we are not spending a first round
Speaker 1: pick on a quarterback next year and were not trading
Speaker 1: for Kyler Murray or bringing in you know, this year's
Speaker 1: version of Daniel Jones, whatever it is.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 1: I I, while I find Shouldor's biggest detractors to be
Speaker 1: typically bad people, and I find should Or's biggest supporters
Speaker 1: to be typically very annoying people.
Speaker 2: I am rooting for.
Speaker 1: Him, but I think, I mean, we'll see all these
Speaker 1: this next month goes. But I I think that he
Speaker 1: would serve himself well, if at least internally and psychologically,
Speaker 1: he reset his own personal expectations to where man, next year,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go into camp as the clear cut number
Speaker 1: two somewhere, and then maybe by year three there I
Speaker 1: will be able to compete.
Speaker 2: For a starting job somewhere.
Speaker 1: That to me is a far more realistic and achievable
Speaker 1: path than imagine when I'm getting all the reps as
Speaker 1: the starter, buddy, I don't know that that's happening ever.
Speaker 1: And then, of course, the story of the game was
Speaker 1: the ten sacks from the Browns. I listen, I said
Speaker 1: that I thought Miles Garrett might break the sack record
Speaker 1: against the Raiders. In their effort to make sure he didn't,
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Speaker 1: He's gonna break the record, and I he the fact
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Speaker 1: three at Dallas. Over the last twenty years Thanksgiving favorites
Speaker 1: are fifty one and nine straight up and forty and
Speaker 1: twenty against the spread. Now, the Chiefs just played an
Speaker 1: overtime game and they're on the road on a Thursday.
Speaker 2: That's typically a disaster. The counterpoint to that is the.
Speaker 1: Chiefs overtime game ended earlier than the Cowboys game because
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were in the late window, and the Chiefs
Speaker 1: overtime game was weird because the Colts barely had the ball.
Speaker 1: So I am I am not as concerned about that
Speaker 1: trend as I maybe normally would be. But also it's this,
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs, whatever issues they have offensively, I
Speaker 1: think the Chiefs against bad secondaries still move the ball
Speaker 1: at will. I think Dallas has a bad secondary. I
Speaker 1: will take case minus the three Chicago getting seven at Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: I just do not believe the Eagles deserve to be
Speaker 1: more than six point favorites against good teams right now
Speaker 1: because the offense is so herky jerky. Also, the lane
Speaker 1: Johnson's absence has been a death knell for this team
Speaker 1: over the last few years. Really, and Ben Johnson after
Speaker 1: that his hole the tush push is not an explosive play.
Speaker 1: Jab at Philadelphia that is probably a bigger deal on
Speaker 1: first things first than other shows. Knows he better have
Speaker 1: something ready for Philly. I think Chicago could win the game.
Speaker 1: I like getting the seven points. I'll take Chicago plus
Speaker 1: seven Tampa minus three against Arizona. Typically, given the Baker injury,
Speaker 1: I'd stay away here, but Arizona and now am I
Speaker 1: mad at them for costing me.
Speaker 2: My bet this past week.
Speaker 1: Sure, but Trevor gave them the ball four times, including
Speaker 1: a pick six, and they still couldn't win. Those were
Speaker 1: not like great defensive plays by Arizona. Those were Trevor
Speaker 1: making all plays. I expect Baker to play. Uh Marvin
Speaker 1: Harrison Junior, we still don't know what's going on with
Speaker 1: him post appendix removal. Bucky Irving finally returns, Tampa pounds
Speaker 1: the run Tampa minus three. I think for the second
Speaker 1: straight week, my favorite bet of.
Speaker 2: The week is Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Cleveland getting six in the snow against the Niners. That
Speaker 1: defense against Brock Purty, fresh off those interceptions in the snow.
Speaker 1: I think this is a low scoring, low possession run
Speaker 1: the ball game and Cleveland. Cleveland's defense is so great
Speaker 1: that at home and inclement weather, maybe our first snow
Speaker 1: game of the year. I'll take the six points, and
Speaker 1: I'll take them happily and then last.
Speaker 2: But not least.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Cleveland's my favorite pick or this
Speaker 1: one is all lay the points, even.
Speaker 2: Though it bit me. This past weekend again.
Speaker 1: With Seattle Seattle laying ten and a half against Minnesota.
Speaker 1: The Vikings are on their third string quarterback McCarthy wins
Speaker 1: and now, gosh, Gosmer, what's his name, Sam Bosmer, Gosmer,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. I don't like his chances against Mike
Speaker 1: McDonald Seattle defense, and so can Seattle get to twenty one?
Speaker 1: That should be enough to cover against the Vikings third
Speaker 1: string quarterback. I'll take Seattle at home, laying the ten
Speaker 1: and a half. So our five picks are as follows
Speaker 1: the Chiefs laying three thanks to our rock bet for
Speaker 1: not making this lay three and a half at Dallas,
Speaker 1: Chicago getting seven at Philadelphia, Tampa Bay laying three at
Speaker 1: home against the hated Cardinals. Cleveland getting six at home
Speaker 1: against Rock Party and the Niners in the snow, and
Speaker 1: Seattle laying ten and a half at home against Minnesota