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Speaker 2: Welcome in Episode two O eight, What's Right with Nick Wright?
Speaker 2: Massive Show Today. My favorite sports weekend is coming up
Speaker 2: this weekend. Better than the Super Bowl, better than the
Speaker 2: NBA Finals, better than conference championship week and I believe
Speaker 2: the single best sport weekend we have is Divisional Round
Speaker 2: weekend in the NFL, two game Saturday, two games Sunday,
Speaker 2: usually at least six of the best eight teams throughout
Speaker 2: the year playing. And we've got some unbelievable matchups in
Speaker 2: the AFC and some shocking matchups in the NFC, so
Speaker 2: a ton to do first, as we always do what
Speaker 2: missed the cut. Caleb Williams enters the NFL Draft as
Speaker 2: every single person with a brain knew he was going
Speaker 2: to do, unless you were following fake Twitter feeds or
Speaker 2: believing that he was gonna stay in the dress, stay
Speaker 2: in school nonsense. Indiana Airport add to basketball court for
Speaker 2: the All Star Game. That's dope. I love this idea.
Speaker 2: And then, last, but not least, there's the guy from
Speaker 2: Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I guess sent out some tweet
Speaker 2: at the Emmys. I don't really care about this. That
Speaker 2: guy talks to me on Twitter once, so I'm not
Speaker 2: that you know what that might be unfair? Hold on,
Speaker 2: that might have been one of his co hosts, one
Speaker 2: of the always Sonny in Philadelphia guys, the one that's
Speaker 2: not Danny DeVito. He talked trash to me. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure which one it was. My apologies if that was
Speaker 2: a bad stray for him. It was one of the
Speaker 2: two guys on the show. All right, Demanse's here, Demonse.
Speaker 2: We need I, You and I gotta be on our
Speaker 2: best performances today. You never know who's listening. I got
Speaker 2: a text yesterday from the writer and creator of Billions,
Speaker 2: the guy who created Rounders, Brian Koppleman, who was texting
Speaker 2: me saying he was listening to our Friday podcast while
Speaker 2: at the gym and laughing at all my losing NFL picks,
Speaker 2: which is kind of unfair. Went three and three against
Speaker 2: the spread, really three and two, because that Bill's bet
Speaker 2: should have been voided because it was we took the
Speaker 2: Steelers plus the ten because they're gonna be playing in
Speaker 2: a blizzard, and then they moved the game, and so
Speaker 2: that bet should have been voided. But whatever, We'll take.
Speaker 2: The three and three would add different math on that
Speaker 2: game if we knew it was gonna be in perfect conditions.
Speaker 2: But you never know who's listening, never know or who's watching.
Speaker 2: In that case, you know, the Koppleman makes television, makes movies.
Speaker 2: Maybe if he was in charge of winning time, you
Speaker 2: would have gotten the Byron Russell or the Byron Scott role.
Speaker 2: Maybe if you had gotten the Byron Scott roll, that
Speaker 2: show wouldn't have been canceled. So I'm gonna give you
Speaker 2: time to prep with that sitting on your chest, because
Speaker 2: I want to start not with the Eagles, but with
Speaker 2: the Chiefs, and then Chiefs Bills. So I am downright
Speaker 2: flabbergasted by the national media's response to the Chiefs Wild
Speaker 2: Card game. I don't understand it. The seemingly unanimous Yeah,
Speaker 2: we didn't learn anything about the Chiefs. Yeah, the same
Speaker 2: issues is that they had during the year, same concerns
Speaker 2: it is. That game was all about Miami's injuries, Miami
Speaker 2: not being good enough. Guys. Miami's injuries were on the
Speaker 2: defensive side of the ball. Miami's offense was fully functional
Speaker 2: and got efiscerated by the best defense in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Statistically or I test, only Baltimore has an argument. Certainly
Speaker 2: not Cleveland anymore. After we saw what happened to them. CJ.
Speaker 2: Stroud lightened their asses on fire for three hours Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 2: And that's not a knock on CJ. But if you're
Speaker 2: a great defense, a great defense, you don't allow forty
Speaker 2: five points. You dont allow thirty points every time you
Speaker 2: go on the road. Chiefs haven't allowed. The Chiefs have
Speaker 2: allowed thirty points once in two years in the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl and they won it. But set that aside. Uh,
Speaker 2: Miami's offense was zero for ten on their first ten
Speaker 2: first third downs, made one playoff game because it was
Speaker 2: an underthrow that allowed Tyreek to come back for the ball.
Speaker 2: Made who made anyone who had advocated for to a
Speaker 2: tongue of iloa want to go back and erase those
Speaker 2: tweets or takes and offensively Kansas City for the second
Speaker 2: consecutive week when they played their starters, moved the ball
Speaker 2: at will, didn't turn the ball over, scored on almost
Speaker 2: every drive they had the ball. Oh, Nick, what about
Speaker 2: the red zone. Let's talk about the red zone. They're
Speaker 2: in the red zone six times, scored two touchdowns, so
Speaker 2: that's good. One of the times they didn't score a touchdown,
Speaker 2: they did and it was called back on an egregious
Speaker 2: block in the back penalty, a block in the back
Speaker 2: penalty that was ify as far as did he actually
Speaker 2: block him in the back, but then totally incorrect when
Speaker 2: you see the guy who got called for the block
Speaker 2: in the back, Juwan Taylor, got shoved in his back
Speaker 2: which made him fall into the blocker, who, by the
Speaker 2: way where she writes, has already passed. So that would
Speaker 2: have been three for six in the red zone and
Speaker 2: it had been a thirty to seven game. Then you
Speaker 2: remember that the Chiefs had a first in goal from
Speaker 2: the one that they didn't convert because Patrick Mahomes' helmet
Speaker 2: shattered in two places, and on the critical play on
Speaker 2: the drive, they should have used the time out, by
Speaker 2: the way, that's their mistake. They couldn't get a play
Speaker 2: in essentially because Mahomes was out there switching helmets and
Speaker 2: doing crazy stuff. So if you watched that game, you
Speaker 2: were like, oh, same Chiefs problems from during the year.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell you saw all year long.
Speaker 2: I have heard people say, gosh, if they could just
Speaker 2: have one receiver step up, Rashi Rice had one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty yards and a touchdown would have been one
Speaker 2: forty and two touchdowns if not for the block and
Speaker 2: the back call. Oh man, what's wrong with Travis? Now?
Speaker 2: Travis had some drops, no doubt about it. But Travis
Speaker 2: looked healthy in spry. That week off helped him. Oh my,
Speaker 2: so ah. But Nick, but it was the weather. The
Speaker 2: weather was there for both teams going into that game.
Speaker 2: The most passing yards in the three coldest games ever played,
Speaker 2: no one had cracked one seventy five. Mahomes had two
Speaker 2: sixty with fifty yards of Kelsey drops. So here is
Speaker 2: what is going to be the frustrating part. And now
Speaker 2: I'll bring it to the Bills. The Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 2: played the eleven wins six seed Miami Dolphins and beat
Speaker 2: them by nineteen points, and everyone's response was, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 2: The Buffalo Bills last night beat the seven seed, ten
Speaker 2: win Pittsburgh Steelers by fourteen points, and everyone's response is
Speaker 2: gonna be, oh my god, look at the Bills. Holy
Speaker 2: are they terrifying? And I just want to know, go
Speaker 2: ahead to montse Go.
Speaker 3: Just is just because they're rolling right now, it's the momentum.
Speaker 3: They seem pretty scary, so scary.
Speaker 2: So they're on a nice winning streak. I agree. I
Speaker 2: don't think anyone thinks they played great at the end
Speaker 2: of the year. They played great against they played well
Speaker 2: against the Chiefs, they played great against Dallas. Then they
Speaker 2: obviously didn't play well against the Chargers and got away
Speaker 2: with it. The Patriots game was a joke and got
Speaker 2: away with it, and the Dolphins game they had their
Speaker 2: pluses minuses, but that's not that's not my problem. I
Speaker 2: will be, you know, continue to carry the mantle of
Speaker 2: the only honest and consistent person in sports media. And
Speaker 2: I will say I was very impressed by the Bills
Speaker 2: last night. Josh Allen played a clean game. Josh Allen
Speaker 2: made three or four holy bleep plays. Their defense despite
Speaker 2: the injuries, made big stops or made big forced big turnovers,
Speaker 2: and the Bills were in firm control of that game throughout.
Speaker 2: Even when it was a seven point game in the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter, the Bills felt in firm control. I was
Speaker 2: impressed by the Bills. What I am going to be
Speaker 2: baffled by is folks who yesterday told us how unimpressed
Speaker 2: they were by the chiefs nineteen point victory over a
Speaker 2: good but not great team being wildly impressed by Buffalo's
Speaker 2: fourteen point victory over a mediocre team. That part is
Speaker 2: not really gonna square in my brain. But the real
Speaker 2: answer is because use people have decided the Chiefs can
Speaker 2: only be impressive by scoring thirty five points. Had the
Speaker 2: Chiefs beaten the Dolphins thirty five thirty one, I think
Speaker 2: they would have gotten more praise than beating them twenty
Speaker 2: six to nine or twenty six to seven. Pardon me,
Speaker 2: I gave the Dolphins an extra two points. I think
Speaker 2: that people have not recognized. And here's the other part
Speaker 2: of the red zone struggles, I think Mahomes has recognized
Speaker 2: with the defense playing the way it is, that there
Speaker 2: is no reason to take any chances in the red
Speaker 2: zone if you have three points locked up. Now, if
Speaker 2: he gets in a shootout next week against Buffalo, I
Speaker 2: think you will see him throw the ball into the
Speaker 2: end zone in tight windows and take more chances because
Speaker 2: he will have to. But just like the Bengals game
Speaker 2: and now this game against Miami, when your defense is
Speaker 2: throttling the opposition the way it is it was, and
Speaker 2: even the game where the Chiefs looked terrible, the Raiders game,
Speaker 2: the Devens didn't allow a completed pass for three quarters.
Speaker 2: They lost because of back to back pick six fumble
Speaker 2: six mistakes by Patrick and so I think he is
Speaker 2: throttling back the aggressiveness because the goal is to win
Speaker 2: the damn game. And knowing right now I'm in a
Speaker 2: spot like I where I only have to make three
Speaker 2: to five great plays a game. One of them was
Speaker 2: the fourth and four run for twenty eight yards. One
Speaker 2: of them was the third ten on the opening drive.
Speaker 3: They're always so hot, well, Josh Allen, Josh Allen doesn't
Speaker 3: play like he just has to win the game, plays
Speaker 3: the game like he has to be a hero. Maybe
Speaker 3: that's why they're more impressed. But he said he played
Speaker 3: a more clean game with the Steelers, So do what
Speaker 3: you're saying there. But yeah, yes, Malms is in his
Speaker 3: flashy and as pow wow gunslinging like Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: You know, the only thing that's right and the only
Speaker 2: thing that will continue to be flashy about Mahomes after
Speaker 2: this season is his first, second and third Super Bowl
Speaker 2: ring while Josh Allen with all his flash and wow
Speaker 2: and everything is you know what I mean, they're hanging
Speaker 2: AFC spanners like that's that's fine. And so now there
Speaker 2: is a lot demands of discussion about where this game
Speaker 2: is being played, correct, Chiefs Bills?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So is it going to Yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 3: take place in Buffalo, right, so it's gonna be Patrick
Speaker 3: Mahomes versus Josh Allen inside of Buffalo, which I'm sure
Speaker 3: Josh Allen's super excited about. I don't know how Patrick
Speaker 3: Mahomes is feeling about it.
Speaker 2: So that's so there is a lot of discussion. Mahomes
Speaker 2: first road playoff game, which is true, right, It's played
Speaker 2: fifteen playoff games twelve at Arrowhead. By the way, those
Speaker 2: twelve games at Arrowhead, I saw it, it's ten and
Speaker 2: two with two overtime laws. The touchdown interception ratio for
Speaker 2: Mahomes in those twelve AFC playoff games he's played thirty
Speaker 2: one to three. Two of them came in the only
Speaker 2: bad half he's ever played of playoff football, the second
Speaker 2: half of the AFC title game against Cincinnati. Outside of
Speaker 2: that half, he's thirty one to one touchdown interception ratio
Speaker 2: in his playoff career pre Super Bowl. And so every
Speaker 2: people are pointing out correctly, ooh, Mahomes never played in
Speaker 2: a road playoff game, and he hasn't, but he's played
Speaker 2: obviously in plenty of road regular season games. So let's
Speaker 2: look at the data as they see, say, Mahomes at
Speaker 2: home in his career thirty six and eleven, Holy crap,
Speaker 2: that's great. Mahomes on the road in his career thirty
Speaker 2: eight and eleven, Well, that's a little bit better. Mahomes
Speaker 2: at home in his career sixty five percent completion percentage,
Speaker 2: that's pretty good. Mahomes on the road in his career
Speaker 2: sixty eight percent completion percentage, by golly, that's better. Mahomes
Speaker 2: at home in his career seven point five yards per attempt.
Speaker 2: Mahomes on the road in his career eight point three
Speaker 2: yards per attempt. Well that's better. Mahomes at home in
Speaker 2: his career one hundred touchdowns to thirty picks. That's a
Speaker 2: better than three to one touch on interception ratio. You
Speaker 2: gotta be kidding me. Mahomes on the road in his
Speaker 2: career one hundred and nineteen touchdowns to thirty three picks. Well,
Speaker 2: that's even better. Mahomes at home in his career a
Speaker 2: ninety nine passer rating pretty good. Mahomes on the road
Speaker 2: in his career a one toh eight passer rating. Well,
Speaker 2: that's the best in NFL history. So yeah, we've never
Speaker 2: seen Patrick Mahomes play on the road in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Turns out that might mean we've never seen the best
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs. I'm not saying that's game.
Speaker 3: It's different, though. This game is very different. I feel
Speaker 3: like just because of the whole just because of the
Speaker 3: whole narrative with the Chiefs and the Bills. The thirteen
Speaker 3: seconds tell me about it, but the Chiefs just keep
Speaker 3: bouncing them out of the playoffs. I think this is
Speaker 3: going to be super sick like I think this is personal. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's going to be any regular road road playoff game.
Speaker 3: For Patrick Mahomes, No, I agree.
Speaker 2: I agree with you. It it you actually nailed it.
Speaker 2: It is far and away the biggest game anyone on
Speaker 2: the Bills other than von Miller has ever played, far
Speaker 2: and away the biggest game they've ever played. And for
Speaker 2: the Chiefs, it's the sixth biggest game they've played in
Speaker 2: the last So, I mean, listen, maybe maybe that speaks.
Speaker 3: To this game, is I guess? I guess that's that's fair. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because the round that it's in, I do think it's
Speaker 3: just as big for the Chiefs, though, I think they
Speaker 3: really want to They obviously really want to win this
Speaker 3: game as well. No, I think there's a lot of
Speaker 3: stakes around.
Speaker 2: No, So I agree, no, no, no. For this game
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, is I guess equally big for
Speaker 2: the Chiefs and Bills. I agree with that. The point
Speaker 2: I am making is, so, if you and I are
Speaker 2: riding in a car together and the car's going eighty
Speaker 2: miles an hour, we're going the same speed, you and
Speaker 2: I both, right, But if for if I have never
Speaker 2: been in the car that's gone over seventy and you
Speaker 2: used to be on the F one circuit. It's gonna
Speaker 2: feel differently for the two of us. Right, So, if
Speaker 2: you're the Bills and this is the biggest moment of
Speaker 2: any of your careers, and if you're the Chiefs it
Speaker 2: is the third biggest game you have played in the
Speaker 2: last twelve months, it's gonna, as the kids say, hit
Speaker 2: a little different. And so we'll see, We'll see, I mean,
Speaker 2: we'll just we'll just see how that works out. For
Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills because they famously have a cool as
Speaker 2: a cucumber coach you know who never tightens up in
Speaker 2: big spots. They have a quarterback who you know who,
Speaker 2: while makes all these amazing plays, he never does a
Speaker 2: oh my god, what did he just do? So I'm excited. Listen,
Speaker 2: the Bills are obviously better, they're the favorites, they're the
Speaker 2: hottest team, they have the quarterback who's playing better, they're
Speaker 2: at home, Like the.
Speaker 3: A bigger game for you than the Chiefs are a
Speaker 3: bigger game for you than for the Bills, because I
Speaker 3: feel like at this point, you've got a lot riding
Speaker 3: on this game.
Speaker 2: No, listen, I know. So I'm like the Chiefs. I've
Speaker 2: been written off on this. I said the Bills were
Speaker 2: gonna miss the playoffs. I've got egg on my face.
Speaker 2: No matter what, it doesn't really matter. Like the listen,
Speaker 2: we all know.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 2: Every listen. I'm the only person that all year long,
Speaker 2: is believed in the Chiefs. I've clearly been wrong. It's
Speaker 2: my hometown bias playing into effect. The Chiefs are lucky
Speaker 2: to be in this position. The Bills, you know, should
Speaker 2: have beaten them a couple of years ago. The Bills
Speaker 2: maybe could have beaten them last year. The Bills have
Speaker 2: owned him in the regular season. Now this game's in Buffalo.
Speaker 2: Josh Allen is hot. The Chiefs are flawed. The Chiefs,
Speaker 2: you know, can't move the football. That Mahomes is you know,
Speaker 2: the Kelsey's distracted moment like so, no, people are probably right.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, thought you said it seems like you're having
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I just you know, I just think you've
Speaker 2: convinced me, and the and the producers have convinced me,
Speaker 2: and just seeing maybe everyone's right that the you know,
Speaker 2: the there's no reason the Bill should lose this game.
Speaker 2: I mean, is Patrick Mahomes gonna always beat Josh Allen
Speaker 2: in the playoffs? Are the Bills never gonna get past
Speaker 2: the Kansity Chiefs. Uh No, of course they'll do it
Speaker 2: in Sport, So yeah, I mean, yeah, we'll see how
Speaker 2: this goes. If, by the off chance, somehow the Chiefs
Speaker 2: this year with that broken offense, missing Eric Bienne, me
Speaker 2: with a rookie wide receiver as their top wide receiver
Speaker 2: and aging Travis Kelcey when they limped into the playoffs
Speaker 2: and now they're on the road in Buffalo, if this year,
Speaker 2: under those circumstances, they beat a Bills team that's one
Speaker 2: seventh six in a row, that is the favorite, that's
Speaker 2: at home, that has Josh Allen coming off his best
Speaker 2: playoff game in two years, If somehow Kansas City were
Speaker 2: to win in that spot, you would have to start
Speaker 2: to ask yourselves, can the Bills ever beat this team?
Speaker 2: And I'm sure that's not what they're gonna be thinking about.
Speaker 2: I'm sure if they're trailing four in the second half,
Speaker 2: that won't creep into the minds of the fans. You
Speaker 2: won't hear you all of a sudden. Orchard Park has
Speaker 2: a nervous energy, it seems, Jim, you won't hear that
Speaker 2: from Tony Romo. Uh oh, Josh Allen, Oh, you didn't
Speaker 2: need to throw it, throw it, make that pass, Josh,
Speaker 2: you didn't need to take that chance. I'm sure that
Speaker 2: won't that. We won't hear that. I'm sure, Jim. That's
Speaker 2: why Patrick Mahomes is Patrick Mahomes, even this year, under
Speaker 2: these circumstances in this building, he comes in and says,
Speaker 2: this conference is still mine. I'm sure we won't hear
Speaker 2: any of that. So, yeah, listen, the Bills should probably
Speaker 2: spend part of this week prepping for Houston and Baltimore,
Speaker 2: one of the two, because they you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: they've got what I mean? Who right now? Right now
Speaker 2: we're ranking playoff teams. The Chiefs are what ahead of
Speaker 2: just the Bucks? I don't know, I mean, So we'll see,
Speaker 2: we'll see. I know this week definitively, no one's jumping
Speaker 2: ahead of the Ravens and Niners. Correct, No, I know
Speaker 2: the Lions got more love for their one point victory
Speaker 2: than the chief over the Rams than the Chiefs, did
Speaker 2: I know? The Packers got way more love for what
Speaker 2: they did. No pun intended with Jordan Love than the
Speaker 2: Chiefs did. I know they did, and I know right
Speaker 2: now what go ahead?
Speaker 3: I mean what Jordan Love did was was crazy, like
Speaker 3: he deserves right because sarcastic rant, I don't know if
Speaker 3: you were being sarcastic, said, I'm being sarcastic.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm just saying. So you have the Ravens,
Speaker 2: you have the Niners, you have the Lions, you have
Speaker 2: the Packers. Uh, obviously what the Texans and CJ. Stroud did?
Speaker 2: I mean, I see people asking questions, is CJ. Stroud
Speaker 2: the quarterback? You would take over any other quarterback for
Speaker 2: the next decade? That, like, I see those questions. So
Speaker 2: obviously Houston is there. Then you have the Bills. It
Speaker 2: goes without saying so it's really just the Tampa, just Tampa,
Speaker 2: just Baker and Patrick, you know, to nobody believes in
Speaker 2: US guys, scrappy teams, kind of lucky to get into
Speaker 2: the postseason to see what the hell happens. All right,
Speaker 2: So while clearly I've been wrong about the Chiefs, Saul,
Speaker 2: and I'm about to have all this egg on my
Speaker 2: face and not take one of the greatest victory laps ever.
Speaker 2: In about six days, let's talk about a team, a
Speaker 2: different team that I was called a hater on that
Speaker 2: I didn't know what I was talking about, that I
Speaker 2: didn't let you know that I was afraid of the
Speaker 2: Eagles and didn't and was jealous of the overall strength
Speaker 2: of the roster. And Jalen Hurts was, you know, outplayed
Speaker 2: Mahomes in the Super Bowl. Never forget that storyline that
Speaker 2: I know he lost and he had the fumble that
Speaker 2: you know flipped the game. I know, and they couldn't
Speaker 2: move the ball in the second half. But really he
Speaker 2: outplayed Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl, if we're being fair.
Speaker 2: The only person who would admit that was diehard Chiefs fan.
Speaker 2: That team set up for a dynastic success. How Let's
Speaker 2: let's update how their season ended, Demons. Let's go to
Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 3: The Eagles. The Eagles were embarrassed by the Bucks in
Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield last night. I think that was the first
Speaker 3: ever time that I saw the tush push fail in
Speaker 3: live time, and it was at the one yard line.
Speaker 2: Are you ready to real quick? Hold on, real quick
Speaker 2: before you do that, go to my Twitter again. I
Speaker 2: you know, I've gotten obviously just everything wrong this season.
Speaker 2: Party probably wins the Super Bowl, the whole thing. But uh,
Speaker 2: I did on Friday, and you can check the video.
Speaker 2: You're gonna scroll down a bit. On Friday when I
Speaker 2: picked the Bucks to beat the Eagles, I said, and
Speaker 2: as a capstone to the Nick Sirianni era, they go
Speaker 2: for two on the tush push and fail. And last
Speaker 2: night in that football game, they went for two on
Speaker 2: a tush push and failed. And it was from the one,
Speaker 2: not even from the two yard line, because that's why
Speaker 2: they did it. But go ahead, ask your question.
Speaker 3: Scott looked in a bad way on that play as well.
Speaker 3: But are you ready to raise your voice on your
Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts is not that great of a quarterback and
Speaker 3: Nick Sirianni's not that great of a coach.
Speaker 2: Take well, the Knick Sirianni take. I've been yelling from
Speaker 2: the mountaintops. Yeah, I mean that team, quickn that that team.
Speaker 2: That team did not I've never seen that in my
Speaker 2: life watching football. I've never seen a team in the
Speaker 2: first quarter of a playoff game looked like they didn't
Speaker 2: want to be there. They looked like a team that
Speaker 2: was playing out the string. Twelve seasons, Letcher Cox, Fletcher Cox,
Speaker 2: you know it might have been his last game as
Speaker 2: an Eagle. There were some, but they looked like a
Speaker 2: team that was either on the wrong end of a
Speaker 2: forty point playoff blowout in the fourth quarter just trying
Speaker 2: to get out of there, or a team that was
Speaker 2: a four win team playing their final game of the year,
Speaker 2: just trying to get out of there. And they looked
Speaker 2: like that from the opening snap. That's a coaching problem.
Speaker 2: The fact that they had no answers for the Todd
Speaker 2: Bowles Blitz is a coaching problem. The fact that they
Speaker 2: had a bad defense, changed defensive coordinators and instantly got
Speaker 2: the worst defense in the NFL is a coaching problem.
Speaker 2: And folks thought I didn't like Nick Sirianni because he
Speaker 2: mean mugs the camera, because of his history onics cause
Speaker 2: he yelled I don't hear now Chiefs fans. No, that's
Speaker 2: why he was annoying. I didn't like him as a
Speaker 2: coach because we have no reason to believe he's good.
Speaker 2: None he play. He did play calling for the Eagles
Speaker 2: for the first six games when he was the head coach,
Speaker 2: they weren't good. He turned it over, they got good.
Speaker 2: He had Shane steik In running the offense, it was awesome.
Speaker 2: Shane Steiken and Jonathan Gannon leave. He's grasping at straws
Speaker 2: for defensive coordinators after that. And on offense, Jalen Hurts
Speaker 2: massively regresses. So, yeah, the offense of a AJ Brown's
Speaker 2: down there somewhere chuck it up doesn't really Isn't that sustainable?
Speaker 2: Especially when AJ Brown is at a UFC fight with
Speaker 2: a knee injury instead of with the team. So that, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's problems there, And I feel sick for Jason Kelsey
Speaker 2: that this is how it ended. He deserved better. He's
Speaker 2: a Hall of Famer. But the easy thing, as we
Speaker 2: talked about last week, the easy thing is to fire
Speaker 2: the coach and offer Bill Belichick four years one hundred
Speaker 2: million bucks. That's the easy thing to do. The more
Speaker 2: difficult thing to do is to have a long conversation
Speaker 2: with your general manager and be like, Howie, I know
Speaker 2: everyone fell all over themselves to uh to talk about
Speaker 2: your cap machinations and draft style and all of it.
Speaker 2: But maybe the strategy of just drafting Georgia players and
Speaker 2: totally ignoring the linebacker and safety position wasn't as cutting
Speaker 2: edge as we thought it was. The really difficult conversation
Speaker 2: is the one that you're afraid to have out loud,
Speaker 2: which is and yeah, I won't whisper it this week.
Speaker 2: Are we sure Jalen Hurts is good? Are we sure
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts is good? Not? Is he elite? That ship
Speaker 2: has sailed the answer to that question. No. Now he's
Speaker 2: paid like he's elite, so it's problem. But if he's
Speaker 2: good but not elite, you can get by with that contract.
Speaker 2: But when you look at Jailen Hurts, and this is
Speaker 2: again the point that I tried to make before and
Speaker 2: people got annoyed with me. Jailen Hurts in high school,
Speaker 2: no one thought franchise quarterback in the NFL, So it's good,
Speaker 2: dual threat good. Jailen Hurts at Alabama. No one thought
Speaker 2: franchise quarterback in the NFL. Jailen Hurts at Oklahoma. No
Speaker 2: one thought franchise quarterback in the NFL. Jailen Hurts in
Speaker 2: the draft, when you nobody he has you as a
Speaker 2: first round pick and you're considered a second or third
Speaker 2: round pick, Jalen Hurts when he then ends up being
Speaker 2: drafted late second round, that is the world telling you
Speaker 2: no one thought he was a franchise quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Jalen hurts his rookie year. Nope, Jalen hurts his second year. Nope,
Speaker 2: Jalen hurts his fourth year. Nope, Jalen hurts his third year. Holy,
Speaker 2: the guy's dealing in the Super Bowl. If it were
Speaker 2: the opposite, let me tell you the opposite career arc
Speaker 2: of that. A player who was the No it's not
Speaker 2: Trevor huh huh, but you're actually oddly close. But no,
Speaker 2: it's not. A player who in high school was considered
Speaker 2: best player in college was transcendent. Kodajana Heisman was a
Speaker 2: noe doubt number one pick, came in as a rookie
Speaker 2: and threw for almost four thousand yards twenty six touchdowns
Speaker 2: in a different era of football. Second year was spectacular
Speaker 2: and was thirteen and three. Third year led the league
Speaker 2: in touchdown passes and passing yards. Fourth year was six
Speaker 2: and ten. Damn Near led the league in interceptions. Look
Speaker 2: like he super regressed and then went back to being
Speaker 2: who he'd always been. That player's Peyton Manning franchise quarterback,
Speaker 2: franchise quarterback, franchise quarterback, franchise quarterback franchise quarterback, what the
Speaker 2: hell's wrong with him? Franchise quarterback? Franchise quarterback. That is
Speaker 2: the inverse of the Jalen Herd story. Tweener fringe, tweener, fringe, tweener, fringe, tweener, fringe,
Speaker 2: franchise quarterback, tween or fringe. I don't know. People didn't
Speaker 2: overreact to Peyton's bad year. They might overreacted to Jalen's
Speaker 2: great one. Sorry, and part of and demandsay you tell
Speaker 2: me everything. I'm being unfair here. Part of what's supposed
Speaker 2: to be special about Jalen is the leadership, the steady
Speaker 2: hand right, the demeanor. So then doesn't he have to
Speaker 2: wear a little bit more than your typical quarterback would
Speaker 2: That his team flat out quit, that the team totally
Speaker 2: fell apart at the end. Is that fair? Yeah? Yeah, so,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Tough times in Philly. And it's also
Speaker 2: another example. Super Bowl windows super overrated. Your window is
Speaker 2: this season and then go see like the the unless
Speaker 2: you have honestly one of the five best quarterbacks ever,
Speaker 2: your super Bowl window is we'll see year to year.
Speaker 2: That's it so, and it doesn't mean it doesn't open
Speaker 2: back up. This idea that is just perpetually open. That's
Speaker 2: not what history tells us. It's just not And so
Speaker 2: we go ahead. It looks like you want.
Speaker 3: To, uh, but no, the game was the game was
Speaker 3: bad the Bucks. The Bucks allowed them so many times
Speaker 3: to get back into the game last night, and it
Speaker 3: was just just couldn't get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, the Bucks had drops. The Bucks,
Speaker 2: you know, were taking bad sacks, and they still dominated
Speaker 2: every step of it. All right, let's move on to
Speaker 2: Baker in the Bucks. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Baker stock has never been higher. The transition from the
Speaker 3: goat has gone seamlessly in Tampa. The Lions probably think
Speaker 3: that they have an easy pat to the NFC championship.
Speaker 3: But do you think this is the start of something
Speaker 3: really great for Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 2: Well, I listen, it's already been something really great. He
Speaker 2: had a better year as the Tampa quarterback than Tom
Speaker 2: Brady did last year. That's inarguable that statistically, that's winning,
Speaker 2: that's playoff performance, that's all of it. He also became
Speaker 2: the first Tampa quarterback in franchise history to have a
Speaker 2: three hundred yard, three touchdown playoff game. Joe Buck said
Speaker 2: that in the broadcast last night, and I was like,
Speaker 2: that cannot be right. And then I looked it up.
Speaker 2: I was like, that's right.
Speaker 3: And he could have got way more. There was a
Speaker 3: couple of times he got it out there to Evans.
Speaker 3: I think on deep routes they were just drops.
Speaker 2: Evans Kate Otten just stone drops. Now. A couple of
Speaker 2: those drives they scored touchdowns anyway, because Philly didn't want
Speaker 2: to tackle anybody, right. But yeah, the so this is
Speaker 2: already for Baker, already a great story. The Lions should
Speaker 2: win that game. Weird spot though, So I think the
Speaker 2: Bucks are gonna be able to move the ball on
Speaker 2: that Lion's defense. And then the other concern is the
Speaker 2: old emotional letdown spot. You always gotta watch out for
Speaker 2: the team that you know had such a.
Speaker 3: This.
Speaker 2: You know what this happened to the Chiefs the year
Speaker 2: they beat the Bills when they beat why I know
Speaker 2: what you're thinking. Which year that they beat the Bills?
Speaker 2: I get it. The year they beat the Bills in
Speaker 2: the thirteen second game. The next week they didn't come
Speaker 2: out flat, but the next week they fell apart in
Speaker 2: the second half against Cincinnati. That was such a Catharsis
Speaker 2: for Detroit. You worry about him a bit there. And
Speaker 2: then the other thing. Did you see your guy Jared
Speaker 2: Goff My Powell, tiny hands, his numbers pressured, not pressured
Speaker 2: because they're stunning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know they're they're skewed. I imagine no.
Speaker 2: But when I so hold up, I'm going to read
Speaker 2: you the exact numbers because he was only pressured on
Speaker 2: six dropbacks in that game. Okay, so twenty one passes
Speaker 2: where he was not pressured, he was twenty one of
Speaker 2: twenty one thirteen yards per pass, a one thirty five rating.
Speaker 2: One of twenty one when he's not pressured, just throwing
Speaker 2: darts pressured one for six eleven yards, less than two
Speaker 2: yards per pass, a thirty nine point six rating, And
Speaker 2: that doesn't include the play where he was being pressured
Speaker 2: so he turned backwards and threw a chess pass towards
Speaker 2: his own end zone.
Speaker 3: That could have been the defensive strategy play of the
Speaker 3: game that they had towards the Eagles. That is what you're.
Speaker 2: Saying, Light them up. Now. The Eagles have a real
Speaker 2: offensive coaching staff. Ben Johnson will be ready for it,
Speaker 2: so it won't be as easy. But there are some
Speaker 2: spots there where you could see a world where Baker
Speaker 2: Mayfield is playing in the NFC Title Game, and I
Speaker 2: will get to him in a minute. Maybe a Baker
Speaker 2: Mayfield Jordan Love NFC title game. Holy Molly, We'll get
Speaker 2: to Jordan Love your guy in a second. And then
Speaker 2: my real miss on the year. I think this is
Speaker 2: gonna go down as my only big miss of the year.
Speaker 2: You can say the Bills were but I had the
Speaker 2: Bills in the playoffs then I thought they were dead.
Speaker 2: The fact that they won five straight, you can call
Speaker 2: it a big miss. If the Chiefs end up going
Speaker 2: into Orchard Park and kicking their ass, no one will
Speaker 2: remember that I said the Bills were dead, So it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. This one, though, is a big miss. Let's
Speaker 2: go on to the cow.
Speaker 3: Cowboys threw up on themselves versus Green Bay and Jordan
Speaker 3: Love on Saturday, probably put some jobs in jeopardy. But
Speaker 3: everybody's asking for Belichick now. But Dak Prescott is uh,
Speaker 3: what do you call it? He's he's choked in the
Speaker 3: postseason before, so you can't put all the blame on McCarthy.
Speaker 3: Is the team a coach away from a Super Bowl
Speaker 3: or do they have bigger problems in Dallas.
Speaker 2: Well, they got bigger problems, so yeah, you gotta fire McCarthy.
Speaker 2: But Dak looked scared. He just did he big as
Speaker 2: dunks man.
Speaker 3: When they were down by like their entire score and
Speaker 3: they're throwing three yard passes.
Speaker 2: But also like, here's here's situation. Green Bay drives the field,
Speaker 2: scores a touchdown. Dak responds on the next two drives
Speaker 2: three and out and then or maybe six and out,
Speaker 2: don't remember, doesn't matter. The thing was six and out. Uh,
Speaker 2: and then the pick to Jyurr Alexander. Okay, not great.
Speaker 2: Down fourteen nothing, Cowboys getting field goal range, have a
Speaker 2: third and five. Dak takes a horrendous sack knock some
Speaker 2: I think they still could have kicked the field goal
Speaker 2: of their kicker is awesome, but they end up punting.
Speaker 2: That's really bad. Now you're down twenty to nothing, but
Speaker 2: not dead because it's twenty to nothing. You're at the
Speaker 2: two minute warning. You're on the green Bay forty, and
Speaker 2: you're getting the ball at halftime. So it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: we go down here and score before the half, then
Speaker 2: get the ball at halftime, go score again. Next time
Speaker 2: green Bay touches the ball it's twenty to fourteen, and
Speaker 2: the pressure is totally shifted where it's like, holy crap,
Speaker 2: what happened? We dominated this whole half, and what does
Speaker 2: Dak do? Throws one of the worst pick six as
Speaker 2: anyone is thrown in the playoffs in years, non Joe
Speaker 2: Flaco category. Right, So now you're twenty seven to nothing.
Speaker 2: Underrated mistake to drive. They score on they have twelve
Speaker 2: seconds left. You have to throw into the end zone
Speaker 2: or else the half is gonna end. Dak throws short
Speaker 2: of the end zone. Ceedee Lamb gets tackled half over,
Speaker 2: but there was a penalty, so the Cowboys got one
Speaker 2: extra down or two extra downs, whatever it was, and
Speaker 2: then it's over. The game's over, and so I don't care.
Speaker 2: They had four hundred yards and that is and and
Speaker 2: this is where your MVP season works against you, or
Speaker 2: MVP level season, because you were that good in the
Speaker 2: regular season. You're playing a bad defense, which is why
Speaker 2: and we'll get to the Packers later. That's why I
Speaker 2: think the Packers are in real rough shape demons against
Speaker 2: the Niners. I don't think that Packers defense is good,
Speaker 2: and I think Kyle Shanahan is going to carve them up,
Speaker 2: and Dak was terrible and looked scared. Uh and so,
Speaker 2: and Dak is going Listen, Dak's contracts very simple. They
Speaker 2: own sixty million against the cap next year and then
Speaker 2: twenty five million the year after. If he's not on
Speaker 2: the team, he has a no tag and a no trade.
Speaker 2: So unless you can convince him to waive his no
Speaker 2: trade and you trade him, your only viable option is
Speaker 2: to extend him. And when I say, people are not
Speaker 2: gonna believe the extension, Dak is going to get. I
Speaker 2: am telling you right now, Dak Prescott is going to
Speaker 2: get sixty million dollars a year. He's gonna get. He
Speaker 2: might get five years, three hundred with one seventy five guaranteed.
Speaker 2: And when the guy has just fallen short in the
Speaker 2: and I believed in the Cowboys this year, but yeah,
Speaker 2: a loss like that. And yes, dan Quinn, their decoordinator,
Speaker 2: looked like he was game planning for his job interviews
Speaker 2: rather than for his head coach interviews, rather than for
Speaker 2: the game. Jordan Love carved them up all of it.
Speaker 2: But McCarthy's gonna get fired. And it's very, very difficult
Speaker 2: to believe in Dallas from this point forward, we'll talk
Speaker 2: Jordan Love and we'll play all inter fold. We'll do
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Speaker 2: Deman's before we get to all interfold, Jordan, love your guy.
Speaker 2: You planted your flag on him early. This could be
Speaker 2: your first one of these where you were out ahead
Speaker 2: of something, people thought you were crazy, mocked you a
Speaker 2: bit for it, and you might end up getting to
Speaker 2: take a victory lap on it. So go right ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Those on Twitter said that I joined the bus
Speaker 3: a little too late, but a.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, We've got the receipts on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought, I thought. I started talking about it
Speaker 3: about a month month and a half ago.
Speaker 2: But hey, man, so were talking about it right after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: It was right after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: It was honestly, we went to Wayne when we watched
Speaker 3: the game against the Chiefs. Or am I wrong?
Speaker 2: Oh well it was right before that because we watched
Speaker 2: him together on Thanksgiving and.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and they destroyed. Yes, I just speak so
Speaker 3: highly of him all the time. I forget, you know exactly.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so the Jordan Love, he carved them up.
Speaker 3: He was making the back foot throws a couple of times.
Speaker 2: I thought he was.
Speaker 3: Gonna get picked off, but he didn't. But yeah, he
Speaker 3: carved those boys up. Do you think that Jordan Love
Speaker 3: has a claim of being the best quarterback in the NFC?
Speaker 2: So that is a wild statement, but it stop crazy.
Speaker 2: So I think the best quarterback in the NFC is
Speaker 2: Matt Stafford. Right now, I would have said Dak, but
Speaker 2: Dak is Stock takes such a hit with that playoff performance.
Speaker 2: Stafford Stock goes up a bit with his gutsy playoff performance.
Speaker 2: And but after Stafford, who are like, people are gonna
Speaker 2: say this is way too Yeah, but Cousins is now
Speaker 2: older and coming off of torn Achilles.
Speaker 3: People are gonna want to throw in there. People might
Speaker 3: be me, stop it, We're not put I mean, party's
Speaker 3: top three, okay, So here's.
Speaker 2: So here are the So let's just go through the
Speaker 2: NFC quarterbacks quickly, and quarterbacks that are good, We're gonna
Speaker 2: put in one bucket, Okay, Dak Jalen all right, one
Speaker 2: of your former guys, Daniel Jones, Sam Howell, they don't matter,
Speaker 2: Jared Goff, Jordan Love, Kirk Cousins, Justin Fields. Maybe one
Speaker 2: day we're not there. Baker, No, Derek Carr, no, Ridder no,
Speaker 2: Bryce Purty, Stafford, Gino Kyler. So there's ten guys, okay,
Speaker 2: ten guys that are worth a discussion here right now
Speaker 2: this moment. I think Jordan Love's got to be top
Speaker 2: three in the conference. Now. This also speaks to the
Speaker 2: fact that Caleb is about to be able to come
Speaker 2: in there and wreck shop on that entire conference. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean see about all that, Okay, Yeah, we will
Speaker 2: Caleb with his down thirty two touchdowns, five picks, another
Speaker 2: eleven rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, so golf and Stafford or where
Speaker 3: you're or you're not putting golf there? No, you haven't
Speaker 3: of golf, right, So it's oh, Stafford, is.
Speaker 2: I'm not putting I don't know if I'm putting golf
Speaker 2: ahead of Baker. For the record, Hey, I'm not. I'm
Speaker 2: not that impressed by Jared Goff, like I'm impressed by
Speaker 2: the Lions. I'm not that impressed by Jared Goff. No,
Speaker 2: I the I mean, I think it's right, Stafford Love,
Speaker 2: Dak and Jalen right now, half through your top four.
Speaker 2: It has gotta be. I mean it's and people who say,
Speaker 2: and maybe this is gonna look bad, and I feel
Speaker 2: a little squeamish about it. But Jordan Love is twenty
Speaker 2: one touchdowns one pick in his last nine games. I mean,
Speaker 2: the guy has been dealing. He's making off platform throws,
Speaker 2: different arm angles.
Speaker 3: Young pressure man, under pressure.
Speaker 2: Under pressure. All these games are huge games because they
Speaker 2: started four and six. It's pretty good, amazingly.
Speaker 3: So get up on the moment and put yours up
Speaker 3: there too. You can. Here's a room, Okay.
Speaker 2: In the last two and a half months, the only
Speaker 2: quarterbacks to beat Jordan Love or Tommy Cutlets and Baker Mayfield. Uh,
Speaker 2: it's really unbelievable. All right, let's play all under fold.
Speaker 2: Let all under fold ahead. First off, we got CJ.
Speaker 3: Jordan Love won, the only quarterback making his first startup
Speaker 3: playoffs start on fire. C J. Stroud dominated the best
Speaker 3: defense in the NFL Saturday. We know if that's the
Speaker 3: best defense any war. And he's younger than some of
Speaker 3: the top quarterbacks in the draft All Interfold, outside of Mahomes,
Speaker 3: Stroud is the best asset in the NFL. I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna lie many deep. He was carving them up with
Speaker 3: screen passes like he had a couple of people.
Speaker 2: But he also I mean he's throwing dimes. Yes, right now,
Speaker 2: Stroud is other than Mahomes. Yeah, Strout, it'd be it's Mahomes.
Speaker 2: And then the discussion between Stroud and Josh Allen is
Speaker 2: where the discussion would be with Kleb being in the
Speaker 2: next the number one pick of the draft, the value
Speaker 2: of that. But yeah, that's I agree with that. I
Speaker 2: agree with that.
Speaker 3: Next, Puka and Akup is already climbing into elite territory.
Speaker 3: After a two hundred yard game and a losing effort.
Speaker 3: You made the point this weekend that the list of
Speaker 3: top ten receivers is nearly thirty people long, All Interfold.
Speaker 3: Puka is a top ten ride receiver.
Speaker 2: All right, So this listen right now, Pook is looking
Speaker 2: like a top ten receiver. But the So, this is
Speaker 2: the point I was trying to make. What'sput of time?
Speaker 2: All the best athletes played running back. Then there were
Speaker 2: so many great running backs or good running backs. Running
Speaker 2: backs became expendable. Also, the game changed and running back
Speaker 2: salaries went down. I feel like we are approaching a
Speaker 2: wide receiver salary bubble, and I'll explain it. So go
Speaker 2: to my tweet if you would. So the tweet I
Speaker 2: wrote is theory I'm working on. There's a wide receiver
Speaker 2: salary correction coming, not due to the position losing importance
Speaker 2: like running backs, but due to their being I use
Speaker 2: the wrong They're there, that's terrible, due to there being
Speaker 2: too many great ones position deeper than ever used the
Speaker 2: right then than there though, and another load of draft
Speaker 2: last coming in a couple of years. There's gonna be
Speaker 2: a money squeeze on them. All right, show the next tweet.
Speaker 2: So I then did this exercise where I basically said, Okay,
Speaker 2: here are the wide receivers. I think we can show
Speaker 2: the next tweet. If not, I'm gonna have to re created. Okay,
Speaker 2: here we go, list of wide receivers who people might
Speaker 2: argue our top ten in no order, and I just
Speaker 2: kind of went team by team Stefan Diggs, Tyreek who's
Speaker 2: a no doubter, Garrett Wilson, Amari Cooper, Jamar Chase who's
Speaker 2: a no doubter, T Higgins, Nicocollins, Michael Pittman, Davonte Adams,
Speaker 2: Keenan Allen, Ceedee Lamb who's a no doubter. AJ Brown
Speaker 2: is a no doubter, Davonte Smith, a monros Saint Brown,
Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson who's a no doubter, DJ Moore, Mike Evans,
Speaker 2: Brandon Auk Deebo, Samuel Cooper, cup Pukinakua, DK Metcalf. You
Speaker 2: then add to it first and second year studs like
Speaker 2: Zay Flowers, Tank Dell Rashi, Rice Jaden Reid from Green Bay,
Speaker 2: Chris Olave, and Drake London and I forgot Jordan Addison.
Speaker 2: So that's twenty nine guys, right. You then have Marvin Harrison, Junior,
Speaker 2: Malik Neighbors and roam A Doonza coming in from college.
Speaker 2: That's thirty two guys that people think of top ten talent.
Speaker 2: So I did not mention guys like Terry McLaurin or
Speaker 2: Calvin Ridley, for instance. Okay, the and so because of that,
Speaker 2: those guys' salaries are gonna get squeezed. I believe Calvin
Speaker 2: Ridley's a free agent this year. Sounds like, oh man,
Speaker 2: that's a number one receiver. Number one receivers make north
Speaker 2: of twenty Tyreek makes thirty twenty, you know, twenty five
Speaker 2: million a year. But if Calvin Ridley is the thirty
Speaker 2: fifth best receiver in the league, what's that worth. He's
Speaker 2: good to be the best the you know, before the
Speaker 2: emergence of Rashi Rice, be the best receiver on the Chiefs,
Speaker 2: be the best receiver on the Patriots. Uh so what
Speaker 2: is it worth? And so there's so many good ones
Speaker 2: now that I think there's a salary squeeze coming. But
Speaker 2: Pook has been unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable. All right.
Speaker 3: Next, did you see that little thing where it said
Speaker 3: like there's a bunch of old teammates that Stafford played with,
Speaker 3: Like a lot of a lot of his teammates break
Speaker 3: records because of him, like because he's the guy.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't see that. Oh yeah, I mean he's
Speaker 2: had a couple other people. I mean, Calvin is one
Speaker 2: of the greatest players ever. He would have broken records
Speaker 2: with or without a but record got the trifecta Pooka
Speaker 2: Nukua Like, yeah, no, that's a good point. I hadn't
Speaker 2: thought about that all right, next, so it didn't have
Speaker 2: a great gal I know, hold on real quick, sorry, demonse,
Speaker 2: and I know we're short on time, but I want
Speaker 2: to do this real quick. Can we put back up
Speaker 2: my wide receiver to my wide receiver? Tweet sorry to
Speaker 2: the production staff. I know it's a pain in the ass.
Speaker 2: I just want to see if we can. All right,
Speaker 2: let's put it back up. If we had to make
Speaker 2: an actual top ten so I said, Tyreek, Chase, Lamb, Brown,
Speaker 2: and Jefferson are no doubt there. Okay, So let's do
Speaker 2: this like we did the Hall of Fame and see
Speaker 2: how who we can potentially get else get in there.
Speaker 2: Just looking at it. Davante is still a top ten receiver,
Speaker 2: so he's in. Aman Ross Saint Brown is a top
Speaker 2: ten receiver, so he's in. Mike Evans is still a
Speaker 2: top ten receiver, so he's in. And we just said
Speaker 2: Pokinaku is a top ten receiver.
Speaker 3: So he's in how many is that?
Speaker 2: That's nine. That's nine. So that means I'll list the
Speaker 2: other guys. There's room for one of these players is
Speaker 2: a top ten receiver. And that's before Marvin Harrison Junior
Speaker 2: and company come to the league. Stefan Diggs, Garrett Wilson,
Speaker 2: Amari Cooper, T. Higgins, Nicocollins, Michael Pittman, Keenan Allen, Davonte Smith,
Speaker 2: DJ Moore, Brandon Auk, Deebo, Samuel Cooper, cup DK Metcalf,
Speaker 2: Zay Flowers, Tank Debt. Well, those first second year guys
Speaker 2: aren't there yet a Lave London reas. This is too hard,
Speaker 2: Addison too hard. That's my point. Top ten list with
Speaker 2: twenty people in it. All right, now we can go
Speaker 2: to the next thing. Let's go to Tua to it
Speaker 2: did have a.
Speaker 3: Great game for the Dolphins and moster and a chain
Speaker 3: a chan sorry a chan combine for just fourteen carries
Speaker 3: all in her fold. Mike McDaniel deserves more, blame.
Speaker 2: Deserves a little listen. He it seemed was too cold.
Speaker 2: I know that sounds ridiculous, but they.
Speaker 3: Were too cold.
Speaker 2: They was just too cold. And this is a point
Speaker 2: that I made last week, but I'm gonna make it again.
Speaker 2: Weird spot right now, finesse speed teams can thrive in
Speaker 2: the NFC, come the playoffs, and cannot in the AFC.
Speaker 2: So if we're trying to kind of project moving forward,
Speaker 2: demanse the best teams in the NFC over the next
Speaker 2: few years, you would say Dallas, Philly, Detroit, Green Bay,
Speaker 2: San Francisco, Los Angeles. Those are the six teams kind
Speaker 2: of set up the best, right Dallas Detroit are in
Speaker 2: a dome, San Francisco, Los Angeles or warm Weather if
Speaker 2: you really want to believe in Tampa, which I'd love
Speaker 2: for people to include them, their warm Weather as well.
Speaker 2: Philly and Green Bay are the only two teams that
Speaker 2: if you are if they're hosting playoff games, you better
Speaker 2: be built for the cold. Okay, now, let's talk AFC.
Speaker 2: The team's best set up Kansas City, Houston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Miami.
Speaker 2: There it's the it's the reverse. Only two of those
Speaker 2: teams are warm Weather or a dome, Houston or Miami.
Speaker 2: So if you're in the AFC and you're trying to
Speaker 2: get to a Super Bowl, if you don't get a
Speaker 2: home field advantage. You're sure as how better be built
Speaker 2: for the outdoors because the playoffs are gonna be outdoors
Speaker 2: and you're in the NFC. You can kind of build
Speaker 2: a track team in the short term and the AFC
Speaker 2: ain't gonna work that way. Just something interesting to monitor,
Speaker 2: because that's you know what I mean, is that kind
Speaker 2: of ebbs and flows? Uh and yeah, Mike mcdanie, listen,
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel did all he could with an undersized, limited quarterback.
Speaker 2: By the way, that's another thing. Oh my gosh, Nick,
Speaker 2: when are you gonna give two his respect? I'm not
Speaker 2: into this whole mass group think of. Let's just so
Speaker 2: much of the media evaluation of football the last few
Speaker 2: years has operated as if the games weren't televised. It's like, well,
Speaker 2: here you go, guys, here's Tua's numbers versus Patrick Mahomes's numbers.
Speaker 2: How can you argue Mahomes has been better? And it's
Speaker 2: like because the games are on TV, that's why. Oh
Speaker 2: my goodness, gracious, Nick, why won't you give Tua and
Speaker 2: brock Purty their respect? Because you get to watch them
Speaker 2: play and party, by the way, is better than Tua.
Speaker 2: Perty has impressed me more than Tua. But it's the
Speaker 2: same thing. It's like the if we talked about the
Speaker 2: Dolphins the way we talked about the Niners all year long,
Speaker 2: it would have been, Oh, what more does to it
Speaker 2: need to prove? He scored seventy points, he leads the
Speaker 2: league in passing yards. Oh, you're gonna hold against him
Speaker 2: that he has Tyreek Hill And it's like, no, I'm
Speaker 2: holding against him that he's undersized and can't throw row
Speaker 2: a ball thirty yards in a stiff wind. That's what
Speaker 2: I'm holding against him. Oh, Nick, But his anticipatory throws,
Speaker 2: the way he tricks defenders with his eye movement, these
Speaker 2: are the things people were grasping for when it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I got it. You're gonna have to grasp for those
Speaker 2: things because you're someone at a job interview who you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, had a seven year gap in
Speaker 2: your employment history. And you're like, well, listen, I you
Speaker 2: know I was helping out some family and you know
Speaker 2: I was, you know, really finding myself. You don't have answers,
Speaker 2: And the answer is he's too little and not a
Speaker 2: good enough athlete. Sorry, it's pro sports. Like that's the
Speaker 2: thing that frustrates me. Sometimes people are like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: you hold pedigree against guys. Pedigree do you know what
Speaker 2: pedigrees is sending him for how good you've been your
Speaker 2: whole life. That's what pedigree is, and that works for
Speaker 2: or against you in everything. And people were like, Oh,
Speaker 2: you don't like the undersized guys. It's sports. No, I
Speaker 2: don't unless you're Leo Messi. If you're undersized, it's gonna
Speaker 2: hurt you. It's sports guys, bigger, stronger, faster, it matters.
Speaker 2: And people are like, like, I'm just curious. Has any
Speaker 2: one person looked at the Chiefs Bills one of the
Speaker 2: biggest games of the year is coming up. Anybody who's
Speaker 2: commenting on that game checked the weather. No, you know why,
Speaker 2: because nobody gives a shit because they're like, oh, Mahomes
Speaker 2: and Allen, it doesn't matter with Tua, it was the
Speaker 2: whole story. They were like, oh my goodness, gracious, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be too cold. It's football.
Speaker 3: Lawrence is there though, like if Trevor Lawrence had to go.
Speaker 2: And Trevor's a weird spot because Trevor sixty six has
Speaker 2: a strong arm, but he just can't handle the cal
Speaker 2: it's actually I mean, you could argue for Trevor, it's
Speaker 2: more of an indictment because it's not a physical limitation thing.
Speaker 2: But that I'm glad you brought up Trevor. Nick, Why
Speaker 2: do you like Trevor so much? Listen, Trevor had a
Speaker 2: down year and Trevor, you notice I didn't include the
Speaker 2: Jags on the team set up the best for success.
Speaker 2: I didn't include him when I was talking about the
Speaker 2: teams you know, the players you'd most want. But the
Speaker 2: reason you can I can at least still believe that
Speaker 2: at some point he can be the player we've seen
Speaker 2: flashes of is because he does have the physical tools.
Speaker 2: It is available to him. It is that there is
Speaker 2: a similar reason demonse where And I'm gonna use a
Speaker 2: bad analogy, but I'll use it. If you didn't play
Speaker 2: basketball for three years, just didn't touch a basketball, and
Speaker 2: I hired a personal trainer and work out five times
Speaker 2: a week for those three years, and then people just
Speaker 2: and then you and I were in a gym together,
Speaker 2: both shooting around and I'm out there, my form is perfect,
Speaker 2: all of these things. I'm doing everything right, and you
Speaker 2: like your shots a little off. You're not looking great,
Speaker 2: and then like near the end of the warm up,
Speaker 2: you'd put you threw down a windmill dunk, which you
Speaker 2: can and someone walked out of there and they were asked, Hey,
Speaker 2: who do you think would win in one on one?
Speaker 2: If someone was like, well, th guy did just shoot
Speaker 2: ninety percent, looks like he's been practicing, has all of it.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna take the other guy because I just
Speaker 2: believe in him more. They wouldn't be wrong. And even
Speaker 2: if in the short term I got the best of you,
Speaker 2: in the long term, you're going to get the best
Speaker 2: of me. Like and so I know that sounds simplistic,
Speaker 2: but people are like, oh, Drew Brees did it, Russell
Speaker 2: Wilson did it? Yes, and the O four Pistons won
Speaker 2: a title without a superstar. It's not that it's impossible.
Speaker 2: It's that whenever you have to go to the hey,
Speaker 2: here's the one guy in history this applies to It's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: you have Drew Brees and Russell Wilson. I have the
Speaker 2: other forty best quarterbacks. Ever, so you have those two,
Speaker 2: I have everyone else. It's like, why can't brock Purty
Speaker 2: do it? Tom Brady was a sixth round pick like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, because you keep having to go to
Speaker 2: Tom Brady as your examples. Tom Brady also went to
Speaker 2: Michigan in his six ' five and is awesome six ' four.
Speaker 2: So I just I it's just so obvious. And sometimes
Speaker 2: the media, I think, tries to be more fair than
Speaker 2: they try to be honest. People think it is mean
Speaker 2: and unfair that when Tua is leading the league in
Speaker 2: all the passing categories and his team is scoring thirty
Speaker 2: five points a game, that it is unfair to have
Speaker 2: any opinion other than man gotta give him our respect.
Speaker 2: No we don't. I respect him as a person, but
Speaker 2: I can be a fair evaluator of I watch the games,
Speaker 2: So all right, I I listen, this is gonna be
Speaker 2: I thought there's gonna be a fast show. There's gonna
Speaker 2: be one of the long la No, it wasn't. It
Speaker 2: was Tua. It was I mean, people now are gonna
Speaker 2: tear down Mike McDaniel. Here's the thing. People were like, oh,
Speaker 2: is it time we start scrutinizing Mike McDaniel. Mike McDaniel
Speaker 2: is now being u He's a victim of the fact
Speaker 2: that he got the absolute most any coach could ever
Speaker 2: get out of tou made him look way better than
Speaker 2: he ever was. And then when it's timed for big
Speaker 2: boy football, playing Steve Spagnolo's defense in the playoffs in
Speaker 2: the cold and Tua is awful, they were like, why
Speaker 2: didn't McDaniel run the ball more? Well, why would he?
Speaker 3: You guys said all year?
Speaker 2: Be at quarterback, quick break, right back, What's right? Welcome
Speaker 2: back in What's Right? With Nick Wright Episode two o eight.
Speaker 2: All right, So I was gonna spend a long time
Speaker 2: on this, I've decided against it. There was an unfortunate
Speaker 2: incident at the Bulls game this weekend when they were retiring,
Speaker 2: and let's not even show the picture. It's kind of sad.
Speaker 2: They were commemorating the championship teams and Jerry Krouse, who
Speaker 2: passed away seven years ago, was the first picture they
Speaker 2: put up. The whole Bulls crowd booed, and they showed
Speaker 2: that he's not there because he's dead. His elderly wife
Speaker 2: is there and she's crying because the whole crowd's booing
Speaker 2: her passed away husband, and everyone used the opportunity to
Speaker 2: scold Bulls fans who I don't think knew that the
Speaker 2: lady was there, but regardless, and nobody seemed to want
Speaker 2: to say the obvious thing, which is, we all know
Speaker 2: whose fault this is, right, Uh, we know who absolutely
Speaker 2: vilified Jerry Krause while he was alive, while he was
Speaker 2: running the team, and then more unforgivably after he passed
Speaker 2: away in the Last Dance documentary, just crushed him when
Speaker 2: he had no way to defend himself. And it's also
Speaker 2: the guy who couldn't have been who wasn't you know,
Speaker 2: couldn't be bothered to show up to that ceremony. It's
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan. So while everyone's scolding bulls fans, when your
Speaker 2: local sports icon has told all of these people for
Speaker 2: more than a quarter century, this guy is a villain.
Speaker 2: This guy was working against us. Don't then blame the
Speaker 2: fans when they think they are reacting the way Michael
Speaker 2: would want them to, and all of a sudden, the
Speaker 2: casualty of that is this poor old lady who didn't
Speaker 2: deserve any of it. All, Right, Demanse, what are some
Speaker 2: of the listener questions before we get out here? Because
Speaker 2: I got to run.
Speaker 3: Terrible no limit to dot, asked Nick, where did the
Speaker 3: cowboys go? From here after getting embarrassed.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think they fire McCarthy and try to
Speaker 2: get Belichick and see if Belichick can get the defense
Speaker 2: right enough and get the most out of deck. I
Speaker 2: think that's what they do next.
Speaker 3: Sebastian Carrosskillo asked, are the Eagles this year edition of
Speaker 3: last year's Vikings?
Speaker 2: Are the Eagles this year's edition of last year's Vikings? Yeah?
Speaker 2: But way more embarrassing because they uh, because they were,
Speaker 2: I mean they they've been to the Super Bowl, and
Speaker 2: because they were, they had such higher x ME weapons
Speaker 2: and the Vikings never the Vikings never full on fell apart.
Speaker 2: The Eagles were ten and one and then lost six
Speaker 2: of seven and were a total disaster. All right, last one,
Speaker 2: Pick your favorite one.
Speaker 3: Let's see will will catch ask question for demands, what
Speaker 3: is your favorite take on this year? You were one
Speaker 3: hundred percent right on over Nick Jordan Love Lamar, Jordan
Speaker 3: Love Lamar and the Ravens making the playoffs so many
Speaker 3: to choose from, Like, wow, I gotta say, man, the
Speaker 3: Jordan love one made me feel really good, like I was.
Speaker 3: I watched that game and I was just like really excited.
Speaker 2: Both you and I were diametrically opposed on Jordan Loves.
Speaker 2: You know, I mean.
Speaker 3: I did say. I did say that he was going
Speaker 3: to be a top five quarterback in the next Like
Speaker 3: I said this verbally to you, and you like scoffed
Speaker 3: at it. You were like, oh, that's that's generous.
Speaker 2: Let's do it again.
Speaker 3: Jordan Love is going to be a top five quarterback
Speaker 3: in the next three years. Yeah, that's that's.
Speaker 4: That's still ridiculous. That's still okay. So now it's documented. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's still three years. All right, sweet in the next.
Speaker 3: I'm sinking by it. He's okay.
Speaker 2: At my point is at no point?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: So when when is he going to be better? Then
Speaker 2: let's just go through it real quick, Patrick, Mark, Patrick Stroud,
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow. When's it going to
Speaker 2: be better than any of those five? In the next
Speaker 2: I didn't even mention anybody else. Okay, all right, we'll
Speaker 2: see good show, good job, demands. Talk to you guys.
Speaker 2: I got Colin, I got the show. I think accounts,
Speaker 2: podcasts got a lot to do. I gotta run see
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