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Nick Wright reacts to Patrick Mahomes tearing his ACL in the Kansas City Chiefs' 16-13 loss to Justin Herbert's Los Angeles Chargers. Nick reflects on the nightmare season for Kansas City and breaks down why he expects Mahomes & KC to bounce back better than ever in 2026. Later, Nick reacts to Lamar Jackson continuing to miss practice with the Baltimore Ravens... what's going on with Lamar? Is there a changing of the guard in the AFC? Next, Nick shares his thoughts on Trevor Lawrence leading the Jacksonville Jaguars against Bo Nix's Denver Broncos in a monster AFC battle. Are the Jags quiet Super Bowl contenders? #Volume
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the best of the week for What's Right
with Nick Right the best takes in moments from this
week on the show. Enjoy. Chiefs Lose, Chiefs eliminated, Patrick injured.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
One of the weirdest, saddest reasons that I've had to
do for this show. It was very strange, Chiefs eliminated
from the playoffs after the loss of the Chargers, Patrick
mahomes with the torn ACL and LCL They're done. Yesterdayson
you said that this was the end of a chapter,
or in the vie chapter.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
So I'll get into that part in a second. First,
I want to say this, this is pro football, and
this Yes, this is my hometown team, and yes I
have a personal relationship for with Patrick, and so Andy's
(00:51):
the face of the league and one of the defining
players in league history. All of those things make this
extra gutting in the short term, and we'll see what
it means in the long term. But I don't want
(01:12):
to overstate the how do I put this, because the
devastation of the moment is real. The sympathy or empathy
that folks should have for me, or for Chiefs fans
(01:34):
or whatever. Right now, I think that's overstated because this
is pro football, and this happens. And it was the
Chief's turn to have the year from hell, and it
was sadly Patrick's turned to roll craps and he was
(02:00):
through a knee injury the last few weeks. He was
on the injury report the last few weeks. You saw
him laboring. We said after Week one, man, he sure
ran a lot and sure took a lot of hits.
And there's a tax to all of it. There just is.
And there is a cost to the twenty game seasons.
(02:26):
There is a cost to the offensive line injuries. There
is a cost to Patrick's refusal to sit out a
game when his knee was obviously bothering him. There is
a cost to the Chiefs being in must win, gotta
(02:46):
have it elimination games this early in the season. You
extend your body, you extend plays, you put yourself out there,
and this happens. This is not I am sick for Patrick.
I'm sick for myself, but I'm also the Patriots and
their fans watch Tom Brady go down the first week
(03:07):
of a season. The Colts and their fans watched Peyton
Manning miss a whole year with a neck injury. The
Packers and their fans watched Pete Aaron Rodgers knocked out
for half a season with a snapped collar bone, like
the Ravens twice have had Lamar late in a year,
(03:31):
get hurt and never come back. The Bengals and Joe
Burrow have had multiple seasons derailed by the guy getting hurt.
Like this is pro sports and this sport in particular,
and so I am trying to balance how much it
(03:54):
sucks that Patrick is going through this, how much the
reality of We now have a line of demarcation in
Patrick's career that's going to be before and after the
ACL and we're going to see how he recovers from it,
(04:15):
how he attacks it, how it changes for good or
for bad, the player that he is, and I and
I can recognize that and do me a favorite. Guys,
(04:40):
don't put questions in the rundown near the top of it. Sorry,
this is a production note. While we're doing it. It's
good I lose my train of thought and I can
recognize all of that while also not feeling like woe
(05:00):
is me is appropriate. This has been as good of
a seven year run as any football fan base has
ever gotten seven years of conference championship games, five super
(05:22):
Bowl appearances, three Super Bowl victories. That you can put
it up against anything any team has done in the
history of the sport. This seven years matches any seven
years the Patriots had, any seven years the Niners in
the eighties had, and the Steelers in the seventies is
(05:45):
a weird one because they won four super Bowls, but
they didn't get to the conference championship game every year,
and they didn't get to five super Bowls. That that's
a tomato tomato thing. You can say that one was better,
but it's at least in the argument. And and now
the Chiefs received back into football general population, and then
(06:16):
see if they can emerge once again.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And I.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Hate that I have talked about this comp so much
and now it is even more apropos But you guys
have heard me whenever we have done the Brady Mahomes
career stuff, talk about in his eighth years a starter,
(06:43):
Tom blew out his knee and then that team had
its only real lull. Obviously they missed the playoffs the
year Tom missed. They still want eleven games, by the way,
which is shout out to how unbelievable, the seven Pats
and eight Pats or as a roster. And then in
(07:03):
two thousand and nine Tom wasn't his best. They won
ten games and got annihilated in round one of the playoffs.
And in twenty ten Tom was exceptional. That team was
fourteen and two, and then they lost one of the
weirdest playoff games ever Mark Sanchez and the New York Jets.
And then in twenty eleven they started their run and
(07:30):
I don't know what is I here is as far
as this not being what's the right way to put this?
In a weird way, I feel worse for Packer fans
(07:54):
with the Mica injury than for Chief fans with the
Mahomes injury. In this regard, I was wrong about this team.
They didn't have it this year. And so had they
(08:15):
been eleven and three in that game and or I
guess ten and three because that was right? How do
I have this right? I'm all scattered ten and three
going into that game and had looked great. It was like, man,
this is another championship level team. I think this would
(08:40):
sting even more, but it was pretty clear it became
I came to terms with where this Chiefs team was
about an hour and a half before Mahomes's injury drive
(09:00):
of the first half up thirteen to three, letting the
Chargers drive the length of the field the combo platter
of not being able to punch in the Herbert interception
and getting seven, and then later in the second quarter
(09:21):
allowing them to go the length of the field in
forty seconds to take what could have been a seventeen
to three or at the very least thirteen to three,
or worst case scenario, thirteen to six lead into halftime
in a must win home game, letting the Chargers, whose
(09:43):
offense right now is not very good, go the length
of the field to make it thirteen to ten, and
then watching the Chiefs offense do nothing the entire second half.
They didn't have it, And so this was not the
chief Thiefs leaving a man left as a potential championship
(10:06):
on the table because the quarterback got hurt. They were
not good enough this year, and I was wrong. I
talked a lot of shit, poked at a lot of
folks as soon as they looked like the Chiefs. Again,
that was a brief mirage in who this scene was
(10:27):
this season, and I do feel demonse that they are
about to have a mirror held up to some of
their structural issues that Patrick was holding together over these
(10:48):
last three weeks of the year. Because I think they
are going to lose to the Tennessee Titans. I think
they are going to get beat up by the Denver Broncos. Okay,
and then we'll see Week eighteen Raiders Chiefs in Vegas.
(11:10):
You know who shows up for that game. But I
think with these o line injuries, this lack of a
running game, and one of the bigger disappointments of this
season is the lack of development from the wide receivers,
(11:37):
I think you're going to see what this offense looks
like with bad quarterback play. Because I understand Mahomes numbers
after the bye the Cowboys game notwithstanding, were ghastly. The
Cowboys game is the one thing propping them up. I
(12:00):
think you're about to see what actual bad quarterback play
would look like with the team right now with its issues,
and I do think that there needs to be some
real soul searching is too strong, but some personal accountability
(12:27):
by everyone involved in the team, and hey, how do
we make sure the next time Patrick takes the field
this team doesn't have as many glaring weaknesses as it
had in twenty twenty five. And listen, it's hard. There
(12:50):
is a reason only one team ever's gone to four
straight Super Bowls. There's a reason only one team ever
has gone to more than seven straight conference championship games.
There is a reason only three other teams ever had
gone to three straight Super Bowls. What the Chiefs accomplished
(13:15):
was certain things were unprecedented, and certain things were only
you know, had only been accomplished by one or two
of the other greatest dynasties ever. But you saw some
of the where of the late draft picks, of guys
(13:41):
not developing, of some a draft miss here, a free
agency missed there, a poorly timed injury there. And they
couldn't run the ball, and they couldn't rush the passer
all year long. And these receivers who I like, I
(14:07):
think Rashid Rice has the ability to be excellent. I
saw him be exceptional for the second half of his
rookie season. I know the talent Xavier Worthy has. But
those guys not developing into fully formed, legitimate man beating
wide receivers hurt this team a lot too. And so
(14:31):
those are the things that you address moving forward for
the Chiefs, and then you see what version of Patrick
we have when he comes back.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
The type of competitor and legendary athlete he is, that
there is a very good chance he comes back as
a better player as a player that if he especially
if he can't early on rely as much on his athleticism,
(15:19):
is even more precise in the pocket and traditional drop
back since then he's been the last couple of years,
and so I'm not worried about Patrick, and I would
put I understand it was a terrible injury and he
tore two ligaments. I would put all my money on
(15:44):
him being back for Week one next year. It's right
at nine months, and I think he'll do it. And
what will the team around him look like? Is the question?
Demonds knows some follow ups here before we get to
other stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, you were talking about making sure the roster was
good from homes whenever he comes back. If Brett Vich
hit you up today and asked what they should do
to retool the team, how would you go about it?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I mean, I listen, I think the biggest weakness right
now is not being able to get a pass rush
outside of Chris Jones, and they spent a first round
pick on a player a couple of years ago who
was put on the IR. This year, they spent a
second round pick on Omar Norman Lot, a d tackle
(16:33):
who was put on the IR early in the year.
This was not a good Karloff this year, and they
just paid him. So I think that that is the
first thing that I would address, and the other one
is they need to have listen. Isaiah Pacheco was an
(16:58):
unbelievable story as a seventh round pick, and he was
very productive and then and again it's pro football man,
he broke his leg and has him been the same,
and I feel sick for him. I hate the fact
that he never really got paid. I and he's a
champion and you know, really helped the team before those injuries,
(17:22):
but he hasn't been the same since then. And they
can't run the ball effectively. So what they are going
to have demons next year is a third place schedule
and something like the tenth, eleventh, twelfth pick of the draft,
which are two things that you never would have thought
(17:44):
they would have going into this year. And so you
have to take advantage of those things, and you also
have to prepare for life after Travis Kelcey. Even though
it seems like a lot of people are fully convinced
(18:05):
Travis's retire I am not fully convinced of that. I
obviously not only is it possible, you could say it's likely,
but I don't know that he has made up his mind.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And I because I don't want to, right, And so
now you don't always get to pick how you go out.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Travis's brother played in the Super Bowl against the Chiefs,
the famous you know when they the first Eagle Chief
Super Bowl. They lost that Super Bowl. He decided to
come back for one more year, and that was the
year of the Eagles supernatural funk and meltdown and quitting
(18:48):
in the playoff game. And that's how he went out.
One of the greatest sinners ever. Travis lost in the
Super Bowl, decided to come back. And now, like last
moments with Mahomes on the field are dark, that what
that was, and so I don't know. I don't know
what he's going to do. He is still a good player,
(19:10):
Is he a dominant player anymore?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Is he still one of the this year? Was he
one of the five best tight ends in football, yes,
and so he still has football left in him. The
question is if he wants to keep doing go ahead?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Do you think if it's a note that his brother
he sat out that year and then his team won
the Super Bowl the next year, I think his brother's
got to tell him to stick in and stay with him. Maye,
you guys will get this.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Oh that's interesting. Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean, I
guess that's right. Is the first year.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
After Yeah, they won Super Bowl? Yeah, what's your predictions
for the next chapter?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Listen, I think that I think that as long as
you have the as long as you have Patrick Mahomes
and Andy's not anywhere. And I understand there's been some
criticism of Andy. I don't think this was his best year.
I think Andy will is one of the greatest coaches
(20:09):
in NFL history. And I do think that they, you know,
the Chiefs offense post b enemy with Matt Nagy, hasn't
been as guys are not running as wide open as
they once were and things aren't quite as easy, and
so they do need to address that. But I believe
(20:30):
Andy Reid is going to be the coach of the
Chiefs as long as he wants to be the coach
of the Chiefs and I'm good with that. And Spags
isn't going anywhere, and I believe Mahomes will come back
and still be Mahomes, and so I do think that
they can snap back to top tier contender. They were
(20:53):
the favorites to win the super Bowl twenty nine days ago.
But it's the NFL man like.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Shit hacks crazy. I mean, ago, wait on.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
The super Bowl twenty nine days but you know, you
gotta win games, you gotta play better, you gotta get
lucky on the injury stuff, and so I will. I
think that they will be the favorites in the AFC
(21:26):
West again the start of next year. I think that.
And you know, we'll get to Denver and the Chargers
later in the show. I think that they will. If
Buffalo does what it looks like Buffalo could do, they
might have someone to go chase, which you know what,
(21:47):
like that's how it's supposed to be. And I am
not worried at all that the Chiefs are not going
to get back to being the scariest team in football.
I am acknowledging that this year will across the board
(22:14):
is looked at as a failure, and then you double
that up with the pain of the injury to Patrick,
and you double that up with the Broncos in the
Chargers having the years they've had, and it's like, Okay,
they're gonna have a fight on their hands every year,
(22:37):
so be it. I am. I think having the most
talented player in the history of the sport at the
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All right, demand let's get to Pats Ravens.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Uh yeah, so Lamar Jackson's missing practice I think he's
sick again. It's that time of year. The Patriots are
super relevant, Denver and Jacksonville are in the top teams
of the AFC. You tie that in with Kansas City
and Cincinnati missing the playoffs. Is there a new class
of the AFC?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
So I listen, I don't. I think this is a
weird year. Yeah, and in a lot of different ways,
because it's not just the Chiefs, and we've talked of
and every year there's big turnover, but there's not typically
this level of turnover year to year. Where the the
(25:26):
best teams in the NFL last year the teams and
we've talked about this a bit, the twelve plus win
teams last year, Detroit won fifteen. They're on the outside
looking in on the playoffs. Kansas City won fifteen, they're
eliminated from the playoffs. Minnesota one fourteen. They've been terrible.
(25:49):
Baltimore won twelve, they're on the outside looking in on
the playoffs. The Commander's won twelve. They've had season from hell.
The two twelve plus win teams that have maintained some
level is Philly, which I think it's fair to say
is not the caliber of team they were last year
and Buffalo, which might be you know, Buffalo surging at
(26:12):
the end of the year. So that part is uh.
I have talked a lot about how this year reminds
me a lot of eight sadly in that that the
Patriots coming off the undefeated season, Brady blows out his knee,
they missed the playoffs, Peyton manning the with the Colts,
(26:38):
they're a wild card team because the Tennessee Titans, God,
I think that was the Carrie was that Carrie Collins
Tennessee Titans. They end up uh being the one seed
overall the and it feels like there's a lot of upheaval,
which then led to one of the weirdest Super Bowls
(27:00):
ever where the Steelers make it, which isn't that weird,
but they were pretty clear going into the season third
choice if that in the AFC, behind the Patriots and
the steel and the Colts, with really the Ravens being
right there in that conversation. And then in the NFC
a nine win Arizona Cardinals team made it and that
(27:25):
was that Super Bowl. So I say that because then
the next year things kind of went back to normal.
The Patriots won their division again, the Colts won fourteen
games and won their division again. The Steelers ended up
missing the playoffs. The in the NFC, it drew Brees
(27:45):
and the Saints were dominant the so it was things
got back to normal to a degree. So this is
a weird year and there are now you do have
to take more seriously. The young gun quarterback led teams
in the AFC. But I don't think it's a full
blown changing of the guard. So that's first of all.
(28:08):
Now let's talk about this game specifically. Come, I'm gonna
start with Lamar and I do not care if people
think I'm a hater. I just don't. This is gonna
(28:32):
sound that whatever. Gotta grow up. Man can't get sick
every year in misswork.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Just can't.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
What other quarterbacks demand? What other quarterbacks. Since we've been
doing the show, can you remember us talking about, oh,
critical playoff push time and he's sick again. I can't.
It's it's every years.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I'm thinking, yeah, I'm thinking something else is going on,
but uh, but yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Every year.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
As soon as it gets called out.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Every year, when it gets called out, if you're a
pro athlete, he just can't. It's every year. The guy
is sick and we could you can't be like, ah, well,
what does it matter? He plays on Sunday, Like missing
practice this year has hurt him. He missed four weeks
(29:29):
of practice with different injuries, or four weeks of in
four weeks in a row. He missed a practice he
didn't was you know? Then last week he missed a
practice because of a rest day. Yesterday flew like symptoms.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Like I'm sorry the but I know that this is
this is me being an old man, and I understand
I I I say this walking into it knowing that.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Ravens and Lamar fans are going to clip this and
see it and say, this guy, he's the only quarterback
in the league that would get criticized for getting sick.
And it's like, you know what, that's true because it's
every year the guy got COVID a dozen times and
then and since then, every year has the seasonal flu.
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Can't have it. So that's like, I know I'm right.
I don't care if it sounds bad. I know I'm right.
So that's first of all. Second of all, I'm not
sure whether or not Lamar healthy or not is back.
This past week was such a weird game because he's
eight of twelve, but it's for one hundred and fifty yards.
(30:53):
But he threw one pick, but that wasn't really his fault.
But he also took four sacks, and or sacks when
you throw twelve passes, means sacked on the court of
your dropbacks, so that part's a little concerning. Also, Pittsburgh
winning all these games, these last couple of games has
really put the Ravens behind the eight ball. So none
(31:17):
of that makes me feel good about Baltimore, which leads
me to the Patriots. So go ahead and ask me
the Patriots question. Because these two tie into each other.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Should Patriots fans be concerned if they drop a second
game in a row.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yes, because Baltimore is not that good. That's the I
think that the Patriots were crushing these bad teams, and
the one knock on them was you haven't played anybody,
and they're like, but we played the Bills and we
beat them, and then you're up twenty one zhering on
(31:53):
the Bills and they walk you down and beat you.
You then respond respond to that by Sunday Night Football
National TV. A Ravens team that has been shaky, you
lose that game. Then to me, I am putting you
in the category of awesome season, something to build on,
(32:16):
not real contender. Does that you seem like you think?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I'm yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I think the same thing with the Bill is how
the Bills just came back and beat them just because
I just think they're older guys. I think they're more experienced.
The same thing with the Ravens. I think Patriot fans
should be disappointed if they lose to the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Is a good squad.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
You've seen how Lamar Jackson can play, and if Lamar
Jackson comes back and he's good in this game, I
think that it'd be pretty understandable.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
But I guess here's the thing. Here's here's would be
my counter to that. You're right, there's no shame in
losing to Baltimore. It doesn't mean you're a bad team, right,
But if in your two playoff dress rehearsals you play
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playoff caliber teams and you lose them both, do I
then think you're going to win three straight playoff games
to make the Super Bowl? I don't. It's the Patriots,
you know, fall to one in three on the year
against teams above five hundred, which is what it would be.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
That's well, because you were saying, like all the Ravens
are cheeks, Like you know, if you can't if you
lose to them, that's a bad.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Listen, it's a bit of It's not that the race
and I won't call them that I was born in
the eighties. It's not that I think the Ravens are terrible.
It's that the Ravens we have seen over the course
of the season, I think it's fair to say they're
not a great team, you know what I mean, Like,
(33:54):
Ravens are a high upside team, but we just haven't
seen that upside and even last week. The defense was
awesome last week. Yeah, but they scored seventeen offensive points
against Cincinnati, Like, that's not a game that afterwards you're like, man,
we are rolling. And so I'm very interested to see it.
(34:18):
This game will be featured in Knicks Picks in tomorrow's show. Uh,
all right, what other follow up you got before we
move on?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I mean, do you think that the Ravens are likely
to get a head coach a new head coach next
year for Lamar if they crap out this season, if.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
They missed the playoffs. I think hardball's out right. I
just think that you may have a new team doctor.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah, new team doctor as well.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah, maybe, or maybe have Lamar put a coat on.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
I don't know, explain football outside. What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
No, I'm talking about I don't. I have a theory
as to why Lamar gets sick so often, but I'm
not sharing it.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
You don't think he addresses appropriately for the weather. Let's
just I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I I have a theory, but I'm not the I'm
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All right, demonse, Let's talk a sneaky huge game in
the AFC.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Oh, yeah, so my Jags have been humming. Offense is
looking great, defense holding up. Call them your Jazz, solid team, Jazz,
you're your Jacks. They've been humming. But they got Denver
this week. Well, obviously has that excellent defense. How high
would your confidence be if Trevor came out of this
game and dealt with that defense with a win.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Oh, here's the thing. It's not just that my confidence
would be high. They win this game. They are super alive.
Demanse to be the one seed.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, their next two colts Titans.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
So let's just go ahead and ship them those wins.
Then all you need is for Denver to slip up
one once in the final two weeks. Now, that's gonna
be hard to do because Denver faces what's left of
the Chiefs on Christmas and then the Chargers in a
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game the Chargers might not need. So in that regard that,
you know that it's unlikely that Denver falls, you know,
loses one of those two games, but it's possible. The
other thing for the Jags is this, and I do
think for Trevor in particular, that matters. If they win
(37:45):
this game, they have a great chance of not necessarily
getting the buye, but being the two seed. So why
does that matter? I don't think Trevor and this Jags offense,
which always sudden is super potent, wants to go to
(38:07):
New England or I guess in theory Buffalo in round two,
like they want it in Florida, like that is where
for this team. I think staying out of the cold
as long as possible is a real benefit. And Denver
it just came off it's best game of the year
and Denver is playing it's best football of the year.
(38:31):
And I've talked about this enough. No one can say
I'm running from it. I am staring in the face
potentially being as wrong about Denver as I've been about
any team. Going from where I was on them going
into the year to the end of the year. You
can say, you know, it's kind of Denver and the
Raiders right now are the Raiders though I was just
(38:52):
stone wrong on but and maybe the audience accres with
me on this, I don't know. I feel like a
team that everyone expects to be ad, that you think
can be good and then they end up being bad
is not as embarrassing a type of wrong as a
team that a lot of people think can be really
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good everyone thinks will be kind of good, and you're like,
they're gonna stink, and then that team ends up being awesome.
That's like the most embarrassing type of wrong. And that's
what I'm staring at with Denver. I uh, but if
the Jags go to Denver and win that game, you
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have to start opening up the possibility that don't know
why the Super Bowl, Yes, yeah, that don't know why
it took Trevor this long for it to click in
for him. But post Thanksgiving, he's got ten touchdowns, no picks,
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they're scoring thirty five a game. He's been awesome, and
they Liam Cohen has just done an awesome job and
so and Trevor, by the way, was not playing very
well earlier in the year. They were winning earlier in
the year despite him, and so this would be obviously
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just a massive, massive win. Now the flip side is this,
they lose this game, Demonse, and it becomes on the
board that the Texans run him down for the division.
So like that's the that's the other. So this is
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a huge we're talking about could the playoffs go through Jacksonville?
Could they be the two seed. The flip side to
all of that is, if they lose this game, the
Texans path to winning the division opens up quite a bit.
And so they did split, and it's a bad split
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because the Jags beat them early and then when they
played again, that was the game the Jags were up
twenty six nothing entering the fourth quarter against Davis Mills
and they lost that game.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
So you know that is heavily of note.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Yes, oh yeah, that's a huge spot. I mean, it's
just an absolutely huge spot that because had they just
held onto that game demans, then they would be playing
this weekend to be the one seed. Right, they would
be eleven and three. Denver is sitting at twelve and two,
and then you beat Denver and get the tiebreaker and
(41:44):
basically lock up the one seed. So yeah, that loss
is brutal for them. But aside from that game, the
Jags have been what they here's what they've done since
that game. They beat the Chargers by twenty nine, a
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pretty lucky, ugly overtime win against Arizona. Annihilated the Titans,
annihilated the Colts, annihilated the Jets. Now, if you're looking
at that, I mean, like that's a lot of bad teams, agreed.
But early in the year, they beat Houston, they beat
San Francisco, they beat Kansas City. They have the best
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if such a thing exists in the NFL. They have
the best losses this year. As far as who they played,
they lost to Cincinnati in Week two when Burrow was
still there. But I guess Browning, you know, Borough got
hurt in that game. They lost to Seattle, they lost
to the Rams, they lost to the Texans, So they
don't have they haven't lost to any offense team. Yeah, Sonatio,
(42:55):
but Cincinnati was with Burrow at least he Burrow started
that game and they so this is massive spot for them.
And on the Broncos side of things, I mean, they've
just been excellent all year. I just I gotta call
it like it is, and they've just been excellent all year.
Welcome to the best of the week for What's Right
with Nick Right the best takes in moments from this
week on the show. Enjoy. Chiefs Lose, Chiefs eliminated, Patrick injured.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
One of the weirdest, saddest reasons that I've had to
do for this show. It was very strange, Chiefs eliminated
from the playoffs after the loss of the Chargers, Patrick
mahomes with the torn ACL and LCL They're done. Yesterdayson
you said that this was the end of a chapter,
or in the vie chapter.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
So I'll get into that part in a second. First,
I want to say this, this is pro football, and
this Yes, this is my hometown team, and yes I
have a personal relationship for with Patrick, and so Andy's
(00:51):
the face of the league and one of the defining
players in league history. All of those things make this
extra gutting in the short term, and we'll see what
it means in the long term. But I don't want
(01:12):
to overstate the how do I put this, because the
devastation of the moment is real. The sympathy or empathy
that folks should have for me, or for Chiefs fans
(01:34):
or whatever. Right now, I think that's overstated because this
is pro football, and this happens. And it was the
Chief's turn to have the year from hell, and it
was sadly Patrick's turned to roll craps and he was
(02:00):
through a knee injury the last few weeks. He was
on the injury report the last few weeks. You saw
him laboring. We said after Week one, man, he sure
ran a lot and sure took a lot of hits.
And there's a tax to all of it. There just is.
And there is a cost to the twenty game seasons.
(02:26):
There is a cost to the offensive line injuries. There
is a cost to Patrick's refusal to sit out a
game when his knee was obviously bothering him. There is
a cost to the Chiefs being in must win, gotta
(02:46):
have it elimination games this early in the season. You
extend your body, you extend plays, you put yourself out there,
and this happens. This is not I am sick for Patrick.
I'm sick for myself, but I'm also the Patriots and
their fans watch Tom Brady go down the first week
(03:07):
of a season. The Colts and their fans watched Peyton
Manning miss a whole year with a neck injury. The
Packers and their fans watched Pete Aaron Rodgers knocked out
for half a season with a snapped collar bone, like
the Ravens twice have had Lamar late in a year,
(03:31):
get hurt and never come back. The Bengals and Joe
Burrow have had multiple seasons derailed by the guy getting hurt.
Like this is pro sports and this sport in particular,
and so I am trying to balance how much it
(03:54):
sucks that Patrick is going through this, how much the
reality of We now have a line of demarcation in
Patrick's career that's going to be before and after the
ACL and we're going to see how he recovers from it,
(04:15):
how he attacks it, how it changes for good or
for bad, the player that he is, and I and
I can recognize that and do me a favorite. Guys,
(04:40):
don't put questions in the rundown near the top of it. Sorry,
this is a production note. While we're doing it. It's
good I lose my train of thought and I can
recognize all of that while also not feeling like woe
(05:00):
is me is appropriate. This has been as good of
a seven year run as any football fan base has
ever gotten seven years of conference championship games, five super
(05:22):
Bowl appearances, three Super Bowl victories. That you can put
it up against anything any team has done in the
history of the sport. This seven years matches any seven
years the Patriots had, any seven years the Niners in
the eighties had, and the Steelers in the seventies is
(05:45):
a weird one because they won four super Bowls, but
they didn't get to the conference championship game every year,
and they didn't get to five super Bowls. That that's
a tomato tomato thing. You can say that one was better,
but it's at least in the argument. And and now
the Chiefs received back into football general population, and then
(06:16):
see if they can emerge once again.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And I.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Hate that I have talked about this comp so much
and now it is even more apropos But you guys
have heard me whenever we have done the Brady Mahomes
career stuff, talk about in his eighth years a starter,
(06:43):
Tom blew out his knee and then that team had
its only real lull. Obviously they missed the playoffs the
year Tom missed. They still want eleven games, by the way,
which is shout out to how unbelievable, the seven Pats
and eight Pats or as a roster. And then in
(07:03):
two thousand and nine Tom wasn't his best. They won
ten games and got annihilated in round one of the playoffs.
And in twenty ten Tom was exceptional. That team was
fourteen and two, and then they lost one of the
weirdest playoff games ever Mark Sanchez and the New York Jets.
And then in twenty eleven they started their run and
(07:30):
I don't know what is I here is as far
as this not being what's the right way to put this?
In a weird way, I feel worse for Packer fans
(07:54):
with the Mica injury than for Chief fans with the
Mahomes injury. In this regard, I was wrong about this team.
They didn't have it this year. And so had they
(08:15):
been eleven and three in that game and or I
guess ten and three because that was right? How do
I have this right? I'm all scattered ten and three
going into that game and had looked great. It was like, man,
this is another championship level team. I think this would
(08:40):
sting even more, but it was pretty clear it became
I came to terms with where this Chiefs team was
about an hour and a half before Mahomes's injury drive
(09:00):
of the first half up thirteen to three, letting the
Chargers drive the length of the field the combo platter
of not being able to punch in the Herbert interception
and getting seven, and then later in the second quarter
(09:21):
allowing them to go the length of the field in
forty seconds to take what could have been a seventeen
to three or at the very least thirteen to three,
or worst case scenario, thirteen to six lead into halftime
in a must win home game, letting the Chargers, whose
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offense right now is not very good, go the length
of the field to make it thirteen to ten, and
then watching the Chiefs offense do nothing the entire second half.
They didn't have it, And so this was not the
chief Thiefs leaving a man left as a potential championship
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on the table because the quarterback got hurt. They were
not good enough this year, and I was wrong. I
talked a lot of shit, poked at a lot of
folks as soon as they looked like the Chiefs. Again,
that was a brief mirage in who this scene was
(10:27):
this season, and I do feel demonse that they are
about to have a mirror held up to some of
their structural issues that Patrick was holding together over these
(10:48):
last three weeks of the year. Because I think they
are going to lose to the Tennessee Titans. I think
they are going to get beat up by the Denver Broncos. Okay,
and then we'll see Week eighteen Raiders Chiefs in Vegas.
(11:10):
You know who shows up for that game. But I
think with these o line injuries, this lack of a
running game, and one of the bigger disappointments of this
season is the lack of development from the wide receivers,
(11:37):
I think you're going to see what this offense looks
like with bad quarterback play. Because I understand Mahomes numbers
after the bye the Cowboys game notwithstanding, were ghastly. The
Cowboys game is the one thing propping them up. I
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think you're about to see what actual bad quarterback play
would look like with the team right now with its issues,
and I do think that there needs to be some
real soul searching is too strong, but some personal accountability
(12:27):
by everyone involved in the team, and hey, how do
we make sure the next time Patrick takes the field
this team doesn't have as many glaring weaknesses as it
had in twenty twenty five. And listen, it's hard. There
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is a reason only one team ever's gone to four
straight Super Bowls. There's a reason only one team ever
has gone to more than seven straight conference championship games.
There is a reason only three other teams ever had
gone to three straight Super Bowls. What the Chiefs accomplished
(13:15):
was certain things were unprecedented, and certain things were only
you know, had only been accomplished by one or two
of the other greatest dynasties ever. But you saw some
of the where of the late draft picks, of guys
(13:41):
not developing, of some a draft miss here, a free
agency missed there, a poorly timed injury there. And they
couldn't run the ball, and they couldn't rush the passer
all year long. And these receivers who I like, I
(14:07):
think Rashid Rice has the ability to be excellent. I
saw him be exceptional for the second half of his
rookie season. I know the talent Xavier Worthy has. But
those guys not developing into fully formed, legitimate man beating
wide receivers hurt this team a lot too. And so
(14:31):
those are the things that you address moving forward for
the Chiefs, and then you see what version of Patrick
we have when he comes back.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
The type of competitor and legendary athlete he is, that
there is a very good chance he comes back as
a better player as a player that if he especially
if he can't early on rely as much on his athleticism,
(15:19):
is even more precise in the pocket and traditional drop
back since then he's been the last couple of years,
and so I'm not worried about Patrick, and I would
put I understand it was a terrible injury and he
tore two ligaments. I would put all my money on
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him being back for Week one next year. It's right
at nine months, and I think he'll do it. And
what will the team around him look like? Is the question?
Demonds knows some follow ups here before we get to
other stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, you were talking about making sure the roster was
good from homes whenever he comes back. If Brett Vich
hit you up today and asked what they should do
to retool the team, how would you go about it?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I mean, I listen, I think the biggest weakness right
now is not being able to get a pass rush
outside of Chris Jones, and they spent a first round
pick on a player a couple of years ago who
was put on the IR. This year, they spent a
second round pick on Omar Norman Lot, a d tackle
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who was put on the IR early in the year.
This was not a good Karloff this year, and they
just paid him. So I think that that is the
first thing that I would address, and the other one
is they need to have listen. Isaiah Pacheco was an
(16:58):
unbelievable story as a seventh round pick, and he was
very productive and then and again it's pro football man,
he broke his leg and has him been the same,
and I feel sick for him. I hate the fact
that he never really got paid. I and he's a
champion and you know, really helped the team before those injuries,
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but he hasn't been the same since then. And they
can't run the ball effectively. So what they are going
to have demons next year is a third place schedule
and something like the tenth, eleventh, twelfth pick of the draft,
which are two things that you never would have thought
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they would have going into this year. And so you
have to take advantage of those things, and you also
have to prepare for life after Travis Kelcey. Even though
it seems like a lot of people are fully convinced
(18:05):
Travis's retire I am not fully convinced of that. I
obviously not only is it possible, you could say it's likely,
but I don't know that he has made up his mind.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And I because I don't want to, right, And so
now you don't always get to pick how you go out.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Travis's brother played in the Super Bowl against the Chiefs,
the famous you know when they the first Eagle Chief
Super Bowl. They lost that Super Bowl. He decided to
come back for one more year, and that was the
year of the Eagles supernatural funk and meltdown and quitting
(18:48):
in the playoff game. And that's how he went out.
One of the greatest sinners ever. Travis lost in the
Super Bowl, decided to come back. And now, like last
moments with Mahomes on the field are dark, that what
that was, and so I don't know. I don't know
what he's going to do. He is still a good player,
(19:10):
Is he a dominant player anymore?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Is he still one of the this year? Was he
one of the five best tight ends in football, yes,
and so he still has football left in him. The
question is if he wants to keep doing go ahead?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Do you think if it's a note that his brother
he sat out that year and then his team won
the Super Bowl the next year, I think his brother's
got to tell him to stick in and stay with him. Maye,
you guys will get this.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Oh that's interesting. Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean, I
guess that's right. Is the first year.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
After Yeah, they won Super Bowl? Yeah, what's your predictions
for the next chapter?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Listen, I think that I think that as long as
you have the as long as you have Patrick Mahomes
and Andy's not anywhere. And I understand there's been some
criticism of Andy. I don't think this was his best year.
I think Andy will is one of the greatest coaches
(20:09):
in NFL history. And I do think that they, you know,
the Chiefs offense post b enemy with Matt Nagy, hasn't
been as guys are not running as wide open as
they once were and things aren't quite as easy, and
so they do need to address that. But I believe
(20:30):
Andy Reid is going to be the coach of the
Chiefs as long as he wants to be the coach
of the Chiefs and I'm good with that. And Spags
isn't going anywhere, and I believe Mahomes will come back
and still be Mahomes, and so I do think that
they can snap back to top tier contender. They were
(20:53):
the favorites to win the super Bowl twenty nine days ago.
But it's the NFL man like.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Shit hacks crazy. I mean, ago, wait on.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
The super Bowl twenty nine days but you know, you
gotta win games, you gotta play better, you gotta get
lucky on the injury stuff, and so I will. I
think that they will be the favorites in the AFC
(21:26):
West again the start of next year. I think that.
And you know, we'll get to Denver and the Chargers
later in the show. I think that they will. If
Buffalo does what it looks like Buffalo could do, they
might have someone to go chase, which you know what,
(21:47):
like that's how it's supposed to be. And I am
not worried at all that the Chiefs are not going
to get back to being the scariest team in football.
I am acknowledging that this year will across the board
(22:14):
is looked at as a failure, and then you double
that up with the pain of the injury to Patrick,
and you double that up with the Broncos in the
Chargers having the years they've had, and it's like, Okay,
they're gonna have a fight on their hands every year,
(22:37):
so be it. I am. I think having the most
talented player in the history of the sport at the
most important position, who now has something to go prove
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All right, demand let's get to Pats Ravens.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Uh yeah, so Lamar Jackson's missing practice I think he's
sick again. It's that time of year. The Patriots are
super relevant, Denver and Jacksonville are in the top teams
of the AFC. You tie that in with Kansas City
and Cincinnati missing the playoffs. Is there a new class
of the AFC?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
So I listen, I don't. I think this is a
weird year. Yeah, and in a lot of different ways,
because it's not just the Chiefs, and we've talked of
and every year there's big turnover, but there's not typically
this level of turnover year to year. Where the the
(25:26):
best teams in the NFL last year the teams and
we've talked about this a bit, the twelve plus win
teams last year, Detroit won fifteen. They're on the outside
looking in on the playoffs. Kansas City won fifteen, they're
eliminated from the playoffs. Minnesota one fourteen. They've been terrible.
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Baltimore won twelve, they're on the outside looking in on
the playoffs. The Commander's won twelve. They've had season from hell.
The two twelve plus win teams that have maintained some
level is Philly, which I think it's fair to say
is not the caliber of team they were last year
and Buffalo, which might be you know, Buffalo surging at
(26:12):
the end of the year. So that part is uh.
I have talked a lot about how this year reminds
me a lot of eight sadly in that that the
Patriots coming off the undefeated season, Brady blows out his knee,
they missed the playoffs, Peyton manning the with the Colts,
(26:38):
they're a wild card team because the Tennessee Titans, God,
I think that was the Carrie was that Carrie Collins
Tennessee Titans. They end up uh being the one seed
overall the and it feels like there's a lot of upheaval,
which then led to one of the weirdest Super Bowls
(27:00):
ever where the Steelers make it, which isn't that weird,
but they were pretty clear going into the season third
choice if that in the AFC, behind the Patriots and
the steel and the Colts, with really the Ravens being
right there in that conversation. And then in the NFC
a nine win Arizona Cardinals team made it and that
(27:25):
was that Super Bowl. So I say that because then
the next year things kind of went back to normal.
The Patriots won their division again, the Colts won fourteen
games and won their division again. The Steelers ended up
missing the playoffs. The in the NFC, it drew Brees
(27:45):
and the Saints were dominant the so it was things
got back to normal to a degree. So this is
a weird year and there are now you do have
to take more seriously. The young gun quarterback led teams
in the AFC. But I don't think it's a full
blown changing of the guard. So that's first of all.
(28:08):
Now let's talk about this game specifically. Come, I'm gonna
start with Lamar and I do not care if people
think I'm a hater. I just don't. This is gonna
(28:32):
sound that whatever. Gotta grow up. Man can't get sick
every year in misswork.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Just can't.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
What other quarterbacks demand? What other quarterbacks. Since we've been
doing the show, can you remember us talking about, oh,
critical playoff push time and he's sick again. I can't.
It's it's every years.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I'm thinking, yeah, I'm thinking something else is going on,
but uh, but yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Every year.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
As soon as it gets called out.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Every year, when it gets called out, if you're a
pro athlete, he just can't. It's every year. The guy
is sick and we could you can't be like, ah, well,
what does it matter? He plays on Sunday, Like missing
practice this year has hurt him. He missed four weeks
(29:29):
of practice with different injuries, or four weeks of in
four weeks in a row. He missed a practice he
didn't was you know? Then last week he missed a
practice because of a rest day. Yesterday flew like symptoms.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Like I'm sorry the but I know that this is
this is me being an old man, and I understand
I I I say this walking into it knowing that.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Ravens and Lamar fans are going to clip this and
see it and say, this guy, he's the only quarterback
in the league that would get criticized for getting sick.
And it's like, you know what, that's true because it's
every year the guy got COVID a dozen times and
then and since then, every year has the seasonal flu.
(30:29):
Can't have it. So that's like, I know I'm right.
I don't care if it sounds bad. I know I'm right.
So that's first of all. Second of all, I'm not
sure whether or not Lamar healthy or not is back.
This past week was such a weird game because he's
eight of twelve, but it's for one hundred and fifty yards.
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But he threw one pick, but that wasn't really his fault.
But he also took four sacks, and or sacks when
you throw twelve passes, means sacked on the court of
your dropbacks, so that part's a little concerning. Also, Pittsburgh
winning all these games, these last couple of games has
really put the Ravens behind the eight ball. So none
(31:17):
of that makes me feel good about Baltimore, which leads
me to the Patriots. So go ahead and ask me
the Patriots question. Because these two tie into each other.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Should Patriots fans be concerned if they drop a second
game in a row.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yes, because Baltimore is not that good. That's the I
think that the Patriots were crushing these bad teams, and
the one knock on them was you haven't played anybody,
and they're like, but we played the Bills and we
beat them, and then you're up twenty one zhering on
(31:53):
the Bills and they walk you down and beat you.
You then respond respond to that by Sunday Night Football
National TV. A Ravens team that has been shaky, you
lose that game. Then to me, I am putting you
in the category of awesome season, something to build on,
(32:16):
not real contender. Does that you seem like you think?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I'm yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I think the same thing with the Bill is how
the Bills just came back and beat them just because
I just think they're older guys. I think they're more experienced.
The same thing with the Ravens. I think Patriot fans
should be disappointed if they lose to the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Is a good squad.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
You've seen how Lamar Jackson can play, and if Lamar
Jackson comes back and he's good in this game, I
think that it'd be pretty understandable.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
But I guess here's the thing. Here's here's would be
my counter to that. You're right, there's no shame in
losing to Baltimore. It doesn't mean you're a bad team, right,
But if in your two playoff dress rehearsals you play
(33:00):
playoff caliber teams and you lose them both, do I
then think you're going to win three straight playoff games
to make the Super Bowl? I don't. It's the Patriots,
you know, fall to one in three on the year
against teams above five hundred, which is what it would be.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
That's well, because you were saying, like all the Ravens
are cheeks, Like you know, if you can't if you
lose to them, that's a bad.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Listen, it's a bit of It's not that the race
and I won't call them that I was born in
the eighties. It's not that I think the Ravens are terrible.
It's that the Ravens we have seen over the course
of the season, I think it's fair to say they're
not a great team, you know what I mean, Like,
(33:54):
Ravens are a high upside team, but we just haven't
seen that upside and even last week. The defense was
awesome last week. Yeah, but they scored seventeen offensive points
against Cincinnati, Like, that's not a game that afterwards you're like, man,
we are rolling. And so I'm very interested to see it.
(34:18):
This game will be featured in Knicks Picks in tomorrow's show. Uh,
all right, what other follow up you got before we
move on?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I mean, do you think that the Ravens are likely
to get a head coach a new head coach next
year for Lamar if they crap out this season, if.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
They missed the playoffs. I think hardball's out right. I
just think that you may have a new team doctor.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah, new team doctor as well.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah, maybe, or maybe have Lamar put a coat on.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
I don't know, explain football outside. What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
No, I'm talking about I don't. I have a theory
as to why Lamar gets sick so often, but I'm
not sharing it.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
You don't think he addresses appropriately for the weather. Let's
just I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I I have a theory, but I'm not the I'm
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All right, demonse, Let's talk a sneaky huge game in
the AFC.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Oh, yeah, so my Jags have been humming. Offense is
looking great, defense holding up. Call them your Jazz, solid team, Jazz,
you're your Jacks. They've been humming. But they got Denver
this week. Well, obviously has that excellent defense. How high
would your confidence be if Trevor came out of this
game and dealt with that defense with a win.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Oh, here's the thing. It's not just that my confidence
would be high. They win this game. They are super alive.
Demanse to be the one seed.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, their next two colts Titans.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
So let's just go ahead and ship them those wins.
Then all you need is for Denver to slip up
one once in the final two weeks. Now, that's gonna
be hard to do because Denver faces what's left of
the Chiefs on Christmas and then the Chargers in a
(37:19):
game the Chargers might not need. So in that regard that,
you know that it's unlikely that Denver falls, you know,
loses one of those two games, but it's possible. The
other thing for the Jags is this, and I do
think for Trevor in particular, that matters. If they win
(37:45):
this game, they have a great chance of not necessarily
getting the buye, but being the two seed. So why
does that matter? I don't think Trevor and this Jags offense,
which always sudden is super potent, wants to go to
(38:07):
New England or I guess in theory Buffalo in round two,
like they want it in Florida, like that is where
for this team. I think staying out of the cold
as long as possible is a real benefit. And Denver
it just came off it's best game of the year
and Denver is playing it's best football of the year.
(38:31):
And I've talked about this enough. No one can say
I'm running from it. I am staring in the face
potentially being as wrong about Denver as I've been about
any team. Going from where I was on them going
into the year to the end of the year. You
can say, you know, it's kind of Denver and the
Raiders right now are the Raiders though I was just
(38:52):
stone wrong on but and maybe the audience accres with
me on this, I don't know. I feel like a
team that everyone expects to be ad, that you think
can be good and then they end up being bad
is not as embarrassing a type of wrong as a
team that a lot of people think can be really
(39:13):
good everyone thinks will be kind of good, and you're like,
they're gonna stink, and then that team ends up being awesome.
That's like the most embarrassing type of wrong. And that's
what I'm staring at with Denver. I uh, but if
the Jags go to Denver and win that game, you
(39:34):
have to start opening up the possibility that don't know
why the Super Bowl, Yes, yeah, that don't know why
it took Trevor this long for it to click in
for him. But post Thanksgiving, he's got ten touchdowns, no picks,
(39:54):
they're scoring thirty five a game. He's been awesome, and
they Liam Cohen has just done an awesome job and
so and Trevor, by the way, was not playing very
well earlier in the year. They were winning earlier in
the year despite him, and so this would be obviously
(40:19):
just a massive, massive win. Now the flip side is this,
they lose this game, Demonse, and it becomes on the
board that the Texans run him down for the division.
So like that's the that's the other. So this is
(40:43):
a huge we're talking about could the playoffs go through Jacksonville?
Could they be the two seed. The flip side to
all of that is, if they lose this game, the
Texans path to winning the division opens up quite a bit.
And so they did split, and it's a bad split
(41:03):
because the Jags beat them early and then when they
played again, that was the game the Jags were up
twenty six nothing entering the fourth quarter against Davis Mills
and they lost that game.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
So you know that is heavily of note.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Yes, oh yeah, that's a huge spot. I mean, it's
just an absolutely huge spot that because had they just
held onto that game demans, then they would be playing
this weekend to be the one seed. Right, they would
be eleven and three. Denver is sitting at twelve and two,
and then you beat Denver and get the tiebreaker and
(41:44):
basically lock up the one seed. So yeah, that loss
is brutal for them. But aside from that game, the
Jags have been what they here's what they've done since
that game. They beat the Chargers by twenty nine, a
(42:04):
pretty lucky, ugly overtime win against Arizona. Annihilated the Titans,
annihilated the Colts, annihilated the Jets. Now, if you're looking
at that, I mean, like that's a lot of bad teams, agreed.
But early in the year, they beat Houston, they beat
San Francisco, they beat Kansas City. They have the best
(42:30):
if such a thing exists in the NFL. They have
the best losses this year. As far as who they played,
they lost to Cincinnati in Week two when Burrow was
still there. But I guess Browning, you know, Borough got
hurt in that game. They lost to Seattle, they lost
to the Rams, they lost to the Texans, So they
don't have they haven't lost to any offense team. Yeah, Sonatio,
(42:55):
but Cincinnati was with Burrow at least he Burrow started
that game and they so this is massive spot for them.
And on the Broncos side of things, I mean, they've
just been excellent all year. I just I gotta call
it like it is, and they've just been excellent all year.
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