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Nick Wright recaps Week 6 of the NFL season, starting with his Kansas City Chiefs beating the Detroit Lions in primetime and the ensuing postgame fight. Next, Nick reacts to Bijan Robinson and the Atlanta Falcons' upset over Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills and what it means for the MVP race. Then, Nick breaks down Caleb Williams-Jayden Daniels II and whether or not there is a rivalry brewing in the NFC between the Chicago Bears and Washington Commanders. Later, Nick and Damonza go rapid fire around the league in Quick Hitters and answer your questions. #Volume
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome in What Driving the Right? Episode three seventy eight.
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before we even get to the actual show, I have
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Taylor Swift. I don't really understand a lot of the
words in that sentence of signs. That makes so much
more sense, guys, Okay, I was so excited. I was like,
he sings on her album. No, he signs. Okay, that's
actually kind of cool. That makes a lot more sense.
Titans Fire, Brian Callahan, how about that we can bet
(00:48):
the Titans again? I might this week. If I'm telling
you right now, right now they're getting seven against New
England coach Bounce that it's to seven and a half.
That could be in one of Knick's picks, Red Hot
Knicks picks. By the way, four and one. I told
you I promised on Demanday's life, I'd never bet on
the Titans again until Callahan was fired. I didn't realize.
(01:12):
So he finishes his head coaching career, and I think
it's fair to say career because I don't know that
he's getting another shot. Four and nineteen straight up, which
is horrible but somehow worse than that four and nineteen
against the spread. Vegas Is knows the Titans are bad,
and it like that's bad, and Tua, we might actually
(01:35):
do more on this. At some point in the show,
Tua holds this press conference and it's the I don't
I think the guy's name is Nathan Robinson. There's that
meme where a hot dog car drives into Ah, I.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Think you should leave, and the guy's wearing a hot
dogs suit and then the guys wearing the hot dog suit.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
He's like, who did this? That's does to it not
realize when he stands at the podium and he's like,
lead our players only meetings have no leadership. That he's
the hot dog suit guy, like, Buddy, you are the quarterback,
which makes you a leader, the highest paid player on
the team, which makes you the leader. You are the leader.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
That was crazy M and McDaniel like that tandem, like
quarterback coach tannem has got to be the funniest one
in like memory. Huh man, shout out.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
To Big Cat who made a point other people were
afraid to make but he was correct, which is much
like I don't know if you guys remember when it
looked in twenty sixteen, when it looked like the Cavs
were about to get dusted by the Warriors in the finals,
before the greatest three game stretch by the greatest in
history of the league. Lebron went to one of the
(02:50):
press conferences. He had bought matching suits for everyone on
the team, but they were Tom Brown suits, so they
were suits that the pants were shorts, and he's and
he's and so now they're down three to one, it
looks like they're gonna lose again, and he's doing this
press conference in this kind of odd looking suit, and
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it was like, man, like, it doesn't really play as
well coming off a loss. That's what Big Cats said
about Mike McDaniel and his Capri pants. And I gotta
tell you, I only he's wrong. Let's shout out to
Big Cat. Yeah yeah, all right, here's the thing before
we get to the actual show, So I you know,
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there is a there is a great actually, you know what.
I don't even know if it was the Chief's Receipts
account that tweeted this, but regardless, I'm scrolling Twitter and
I sees one of these aggregators has posted the latest
ESPN NFL Nation Power rankings for the NFL, and I'm
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so certain that it's bad information that I and just
go to the website myself Google ESPN NFL Power Rankings.
And again, I am not trying to take a shot
at the good folks at ESPN, and I don't want
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to overstate anything, which is why it pains me to
say this article that was posted at six forty five
this morning that leads with welcome to Week seven of
the NFL season. Jets are still winless, Chiefs bounced back,
(04:41):
The Buccaneers are shockingly still atop the NFC race. How
do all these teams fit in our updated power rankings?
We restacked the NFL heading into week seven. Goes onto it.
Our panel of more than eighty writers, editors, and TV
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personalities evaluated hal NFL team stack up against one another,
ranking them from one to thirty two. Late breaking eighty
person sample watched the NFL this weekend, saw what the
Kansas City Chiefs did to Detroit. They had them at
seven going into last week and dropped them to nine.
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They've watched football this weekend and said, the Chiefs are
going into the Lions game. We thought they were the
seventh best team at football. We've now seen it their ninth.
Detroit is two. Buffalo, whose wins have come against teams
that are combined three and twenty one is three. I
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don't want to overstate it when I say this is
the single worst power ranking the history of sports media.
Seeing like it. Week six result beat the Lions thirty
to seventeen. Week six ranking seven, and then a little
red arrow down what is happening? You had eighty people
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on this Nobody threw their body in front of this bus. Like, guys,
I don't think this one's gonna pass the smell test here.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's not an error. Green listen, green Bay, Green Bay
last week was eight on this thing. The Chiefs were seven.
They watched Green Bay eeke past Joe Flacco and the Bengals,
and the Chiefs dog walk the Lions and they're like,
green Bay, you're six, now you jump them?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Don't. I don't so Okay, amazing night of Monday night football,
but we're not starting there. We're starting with well, go ahead, Demons.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Well yeah, sick doubleheader last night and that led to
two upsets. But yeah, you wanted to start with the Chiefs,
who were three and three, lasted Rashid Rice's suspension state afloat,
but they still have some ground to make up as
they are.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Here's the reason where, here's the here's the deal. All
is right in the world again.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, pretty happy this one.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
He's And it's just everything's back the way it's supposed
to be. You guys, check the latest MVB odds. Who's
the favorite? Patrick go on hard Rock bet check the
latest SUPERWL odds, who's the favorite the Chiefs? Everything's everything
is the way it's supposed to be. And one and
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what is so gratifying about this is we don't. I
thought the way this was going to go was all
the folks that wrote the Chiefs obituary three weeks ago.
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We're going to have to answer for that commentary in
January instead, because of how even with the loss nine
days ago by the Chiefs, because of how the rest
of the league has looked, and how Kansas City looked
(08:29):
on National TV Sunday night. All those folks have to
eat it immediately. We're not to Halloween yet, and they
all have to be like, all right, I'm dumb, you're right,
I'm wrong. It's so good, it's so much fun. And
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the fact that they're winning this way with the offense
humming back to you're shocked when they don't get a
touchdown Patrick doing Patrick things and they don't have their
best offensive weapon not named Patrick Mahomes yet, and then
you just you watch the rest of the league and
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and we'll get to these games. But you watch the
Broncos do everything they can to try to lose to
one of the worst teams I've ever seen in the Jets.
You watch the Chargers do everything they can. Great play
at the end by the Chargers, but the Chargers struggle
with a Dolphins team that seems to actively hate each other.
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You watch the Bills what they did last night, the
Eagles that are ripping themselves a part of the seams,
the Lions, we saw them play. And the other reason
I'm happy is, you know, the one team, Demonsey that
you can hold up next to the Chiefs right now
and be like, hey, what what are you? What's the
(09:56):
what are you gonna say bad about this team? And
I'm gonna say no, there isn't anything the box the
Bots who were going into the year, I'm feeling good.
I had to eat it a lot those first couple
of weeks. I had to come on here talk about
all these concerns. I had to listen to the great
(10:20):
my beloved Kevin Wilde's act like Andy Reid and Travis
Kelsey are not essentially family and worry about the fact
that Andy bumped Travis. I do all that, and less
than a month later, you know the other way, I
know we're back because we're back to the refs. We
are the Chiefs are okay, So let's talk about that
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real quick before we get into the actual game. Zero
penalties zero in that game there, so there were Let's
talk about the penalties part first, because that's what people
are whining about. Five penalties were called in that game.
One was called on Kansas City. For the record, it
was declined, So they did throw a flag on the
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Chiefs when Chris Jones jumped off sides. It was declined.
The four penalties called on Detroit were as follows. They
didn't know the rules on their stupid trick play, and
that was a black and white you were not set
after being under center, have to call it. Then the
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Lions were so thrown off by the fact that that
penalty was called. They got a delay of game on
the extra point attempt because they didn't know what they
were gonna do. So that's two. The third one was
a clear as day took three steps and hit Mahomes
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in the head by Aiden Hutchinson. And the fourth one
was a judgment call, but obviously the right call a
past interference on Detroit. So it did the most subjective
calls that there are illegal contact, defensive holding, offensive holding,
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illegal man downfield, those ones where you can be like
that happens every play or whatever it was. There were
zero called on either team the entire game. So the
level of whining I expected from some of the media
and certainly fans. But did you see Kirby Joseph First
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team All Pro last year. Kirby Joseph for the Detroit
Lions sent out twenty four tweets after the game whining
about the refs. Get it together, Detroit.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
He's one safety study that came out.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
By the way, I have never seen Can I just
say something that that that UTEP I paid the eight
and here's so that UTEP study that, by the way,
no one has read. Everyone has just read the news
article about it. You know how I know because to
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read that study you got to subscribe to that journal,
which either is going to cost a couple hundred bucks
or you can pay eighteen dollars for twenty four hour access.
Guess who paid the eighteen dollars for twenty four hour access?
This guy hand up. Guess who didn't everyone else. It's
one of the most ridiculous studies I've ever seen. The
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too long, didn't read version of it is the Chiefs
have played the most playoff games, and therefore their opponents
have been called for the most penalties. That like, give
you it is, but I don't even give it. I
don't care about that. I do care about high leverage spots. Again,
the games you're on TV, thirty million people watch him,
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find me, find me the the call we're all mad about.
But I don't even want to talk about it. I
don't I'm gonna get I'm gonna get mad. That's not
what today is for It's not for the idiots in
El Paso. The so one Lion's safety took the loss
so well, he went on tweet storm tweeting out photoshops
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of Mahomes kissing a RAF. The other lion's safety took
the loss so well he hit Juju smith Schuster in
the face and now he's going to have to miss
a massive game against Tampa and then goes in the
locker room. And I don't know if you guys watched
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that video, but it sure seemed like he was about
to cry while saying and I quote, they were bullying
me out there.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And quote are you gleeing?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Now? What you were bullied out there? Is this Sunday
night football with the big bad Detroit Lions or a
great recess? What are you talking about? You got bullied?
(15:21):
Should Juju have to sit by himself at lunch? Is
Patrick gonna have to miss the not get a juice
box tomorrow? You got bullied. You're supposed to be the bullies.
And instead of being the bullies. On fourth and goal
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to set the tone on your first drive of the
game and handing the ball to David Montgomery from the
six inch line, you pop Jared Goff out wide on
a play because you're that you don't even know the
rules on and throw them a pass. You got bullied.
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That's a bad look, buddy, that's a bad look. And
if you are listen, the Lions are obviously a good team.
I thought Chris Collinsworth made a correct point, which was
there's a lot of cracks in the foundation if they're
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not playing from ahead, if all of a sudden it
becomes a drop back passing game, and Jared Goff and
those hands, the ball is put there, it's it's shaky.
I think they're a very good team, don't get me wrong.
And I think Dan Campbell was absolutely right when the
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way he said, I love Brian Branch, but that's unacceptable.
Of course it's unacceptable. It's the professional football is very
unique in this regard tomanse. You almost never see post
game fights during the game shore and pregame occasionally, but
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the moment the game's over, what you normally see is embracing.
The guys pray together, they come together, and it's it
is similar to boxing in that regard, where guys can
be going at it until the bell in the twelfth
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round and then immediately hug because there is an element
of this shit is dangerous, man, and the you know,
we have to get it right, the respect factor of
all right, game's over, and so what Branch did and
for it to be that level of cheap shot was bizarre.
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It was really bizarre. It started with Patrick trying to
shake his hand he didn't want to, and then Juju.
I don't know what Juju said or what happened, but
he hit Juju in the face.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Go ahead, Yeah, no, I mean he shouldn't. He shouldn't
have done that. I didn't really see it as a
chief shot. I think Juju knew that Do is probably
coming up to hit him in the face.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Dude, No way, no way, never see it. Yeah, I
mean I don't think so. But all right, I want
to talk about the chief side of this quickly before
we move on. The only listen officially worried about Harrison Bucker.
There's no way around it, and I and that makes
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me very concerned for a high leverage playoff spot. Oddly
for the regular season, and I think you saw it
last on Sunday night, there is a benefit to Buckker struggling.
It is going to force Andy into being a little
more aggressive on fourth down. So the Kansady Star had
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an article since Patrick took over, going into Sunday night,
the Chiefs had faced eighty six different fourth and three
or longers inside their own thirty and they had kicked
a field goal all eighty six times, and then they
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went for it Sunday night. Now, part of that might
have been because the Lions are such a potent offense,
but the other piece of it is Bucker's not automatic
at the moment, and I think the Chiefs being aggressive
on fourth down is a net positive. I still think
they need to trade for a running back. But Patrick
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now has full confidence in his offensive line, and Patrick
with full confidence in his offensive line and its semi
competent much less, what is about to be an excellent
receiving corps immediately makes the Chiefs the most dangerous offensive
football again immediately.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, go ahead. And with that, Kelsey's had probably arguably
his best game of the season. What do you expecting
to see you from him?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
When Rice gets back and you got the whole game?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Well, so that's so, now you're gonna listen. Juju has
been awesome in his role. Yeah, but that's gonna be
Rashie Rice's role, and now you're gonna have Rashi Rice
doing some intermediate stuff, Kelsey doing intermediate stuff, Xavier and
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Taekwon Thornton both being deep threats, and Patrick with protection
dialed in, being able to hit any quadrant on the field. Again,
the Pacheco's gotta be better and I wish they had
just a common again.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I think I think Pacheco is who scat Scataboo is
who Pacheco thinks that he is. I think that when
he runs and how he feels, he feels like Cam.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Scataboo, by the way, and Pacheco's faster than Scatabo or
he was and Pacheco was Pacheco was that and then
he broke his leg. Yeah, and he just hasn't been
the same, uh ever since then? Also not This isn't
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me being a pedant. And I don't want to be annoying,
but I just I don't have it. You combined oddly,
you combined the two bones in the leg into one.
It's no, no fibula and tibia. I think it's tibia
and fibula. And I think you did tibula, which is
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actually not terrible because I don't know which one he
broke of the two, but they are two different bones,
tibia and fib you I.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Think it was I think it was I think it
was fab but who knows.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
But regardless, the so no, the offenses going. They need
a little bit more consistent pass rush, but they're just
the best team and they now get the incredibly rare
(22:27):
I think the I think the first time all not yeah,
definitely the first time all year. The Chiefs play a
non descript one PM Sunday game Week seven, and they
still get Nanton Romo because they're the Chiefs, but they
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have gone from Friday Night Brazil, Sunday afternoon Super Bowl
rematch with Tom Brady in Casey, Sunday Night UH Football
against the Giants prior the four point thirty PM CBS
game with Nanton Romo, Monday Night against the Jags, Sunday
(23:12):
Night against the Lions. Now just a regular one PM game,
but it's still Nanson Romo. And then it's back to
normal for Kansas City when the next weekend they're on
Monday Night Football against the Commanders and the next weekend
they are on the Big four to twenty five CBS
game with Nanton Romo uh, and feel sure feels like
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they're gonna be five and three going into that Bills game,
and I feel really good about it, all right. Uh,
Tailgater says that I need to stop bowling Brian branch.
I I did feel a little badly about that.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I'll be honest, Like just now, like on the Blake
what you say the pod.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, when I was doing it, I was like, the
guy really did seem sad.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Even more like you're actually bullying him.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Now, Yeah, I am, But I don't know, maybe that
was maybe that was mean, but I really didn't like
him hitting Juju in the face. Yeah I was. I mean,
that was like a real hit man. And what I
really didn't like was Patrick seeing it and then running
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to the fight. And then there was a moment where
like Patrick gets loose invisible some bodies. Yeah that was
I I didn't love. I tell you, I didn't love that.
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Speaker 2 (26:24):
Oh yeah, So who would have saw Atlanta upsetting Buffalo.
I guess you kind of did, and you were right, well.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I mean not entirely. To be fair, you saw it
about it, I would have. I didn't even include Atlanta
plus the points is one of my picks, but I did.
I did think they were live. And I also thought
Atlanta was the hardest team in the league to kind
of get a beat on because week one they play,
you know, a tight game comes down to a field
(26:52):
miss field goal against the Bucks. They there's they get
annihilated by Carolina. But Carolina's oddly been a good team
at home. They beat Washington, but Washington doesn't have Jayden Daniels.
And then there's one other game they played. I forgot
what it was, and then they had a buy and
so I just thought Atlanta was a little bit of
(27:14):
a I don't want to say unknown. Oh they beat
the Vikings twenty two to six in a weird game
when wins started like no, when JJ McCarthy was in
and then J J. McCarthy's been hurt since then, but
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Sorry, Oh yeah, so Beijeon and Drake london encounted for
three weeks ninety six of four hundred and forty three
yards at offense. Buffalo has dropped their second straight and
Josh Allen's and VP odds are up to plus three hundred.
He's number two by On Mahomes. Is it time for
the Josh Allen as the best player in the NFL
chance to come to a simmer? All right?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
So again, hold on, let me find the exact quote.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Let me see you.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I should have looked this up beforehand. Okay, so this
is you guys know that I actually have been pretty
pro Bills the last couple of years. Last year, I
when everybody thought they might be in a rebuild, I
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thought they'd make the AFC Championship Game. I thought they'd
be really good. They were this year. I once again
picked them to go to the AFC Championship Game. And
I've been pretty consistent that I think Josh is the
second best quarterback in football. I with that said that
(28:39):
Josh allen hyperbole on some of these things has always
mystified me. And the example of it this year is
three weeks ago after a Monday night football game against
the Dolphins, when Josh was good. Don't get me wrong,
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but it was against the Dolphins. In that game, if
you remember, was really close late and it was coming
on the heels of a Jets game where they annihilated
the Jets. But it was a James Cook game. Josh
had thrown for one hundred and forty yards and no touchdowns.
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Greeney on Get Up says, quote, I'm watching that game
last night, and no one has ever played that position
better than Josh Allen. Again, the quote is, no one
has ever played that position better than Josh Allen. And
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it just seems like.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
We are so eager to anoint the next guy when
we're in the midst of the guy that we sometimes
you know.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Get a little ahead of ourselves. With that said, listen, Josh,
he's had a rough couple weeks. I still think he's
the second best quarterback in football. I also think that
it was likely unsustainable the streak he was on on
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not turning the ball over, and now all of a
sudden you've seen he's turned the ball over four times
in the last three games. And the Bills, in my opinion,
have real, real question marks. They have four wins. They
beat Baltimore, which at the time we thought was an
(30:47):
awesome win. The defense allowed forty and they needed that
late comeback to beat the Baltimore has won one game
since then. They beat the Jets in one of the
weirdest games of the year because they outscored them thirty
to ten, despite Josh not and they out gained them
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for it not weird, but they it was. They just
ran all over them. They outgained them four hundred to
one fifty four and the Jets had no shot. The Jets,
by the way, have won zero games all year. They
beat the Dolphins in a game Josh played great, but
in a game that also was tied with They were
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tied with the Dolphins with seven and a half minutes left.
The Dolphins have won one game all year. They beat
the Saints in a game that the Saints thought they
took the lead in the fourth quarter, only to have
a touchdown overturned they had to settle for a field goal,
and that game was a two point game in Buffalo
with seven and a half minutes left. The Saints have
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put won one game all year. They then lost to
the Patriots and got third handled last night by Atlanta
and were, in my opinion, lucky to have a shot
to steal that game because Atlanta, after doing anything it
wanted for the first three quarter, first quarter and a half,
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the offense kind of went comatose on them. And the
Bills are now in a spot where they have squandered
already demanse what was supposed to be their biggest edge
for this season, which is an incredibly soft schedule that
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would lead them to their first one seed since Jim
Kelly was the quarterback. And now they wake up this
morning and they're not even leading their division, and they
still have games left against the Chiefs, against the Bucks,
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at the Patriots, against the Eagles, at the Steelers, at
the Texans, and you just wonder, is this going to
be be another year where Buffalo. I still think they're
gonna win the division. By the way, Like I don't
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get me wrong, I I wouldn't put.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
You wouldn't put a taste on New England winning the
division at plus one eighty five.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
It's only plus one eighty five.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Is that why Vegas thinks so too?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I mean no, that's I might put something on Buffalo
at minus two thirty. I like, I know, I still
think Buffalo. I would have thought Buffalo's minus three hundred
to win the division.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
New England.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
No, but but no, I mean I think New England.
I picked New England make the playoffs. I just think
Buffalo is still gonna win eleven games at least. And
I don't see New England, you know, and so but regardless,
my point is this, it sure looks like it's gonna
be a season like we've seen a lot with the
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Bills where they win the division but they don't get
the bye. They beat the hell out of the team
in the wild card round, and then they play someone
in their weight class in the divisional round or the
conference championship game and get beaten. And that was It's
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really crazy. How bad that defense has looked this year.
The Again, the Panthers only scored I'm sorry, the Falcons
only scored twenty four points. They move the ball.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It will.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Drake Mayett is coming out party against them. They they
seem to even though I don't know that the stats
back it up. They just seem to be a defense
that can get got. And Josh is Josh is a great,
great player. But the conservative, low risk style that he's
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been playing the last year and a half really doesn't
fit if you don't have a defense that you can
rely on to get stops. And I don't think they
have that defense this year. And so I I right now,
if I had to pick it, Demonse, I would still
say Chiefs Bills AFC Championship game. But now we're staring
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at a very real possibility that game is going to
be an arrowhead. When the chap the Bills were four
and oh, with the Chiefs at one and two about
to face the Ravens, life comes at you fast man.
And the Bills also need a good win. They just
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need a good win. What are you laughing about?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
You gotta get on top of your division first. You
gotta get the.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Same with Buffalo Buffalo like, and I am, well, we'll
get to the Chargers and the Broncos in a minute.
Let's talk Falcons just for a second.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Yeah, So it's if it feels like Michael Pinks has
kind of gotten lost in the shuffle as far as
quarterbacks in his drive class, what do you what do
you make of Michael Pinnicks as now?
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Yeah, I mean, I guess he's gonna still be a
little lost in the shuffle with me, because I like,
there are certain things you really like. There's also like
last night, when that game was wrapped, essentially all Atlanta
need do was run the ball three times kick a
field goal. With two minutes left, they called a pass
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play that Pinnix made a horrific decision and it was
this close being a pick six tie game when the
game was basically over. So some of that concerns me.
But Drake London is really good and Bijon is just
sensational and yeah, I mean, listen, I picked him to
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win Offensive Player of the Year as a rookie. Here's
what Bijon's done since he came into the league. His
rookie year, he had nine hundred and eighty rushing yards
four hundred and eighty receiving yards. So he had fourteen
hundred and sixty yards with eight touchdowns. Really good, not
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not super elite, but really good. Last year he had
fourteen hundred and fifty rushing yards, another four hundred and
thirty receiving yards and fifteen touchdowns. Elite. This year he
has four hundred and eighty rushing yards and all ready
three one hundred and thirty receiving yards, only three touchdowns,
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but is on pace to shatter I think the yards
from scrimmage record for a season. He's got eight hundred
yards from scrimmage through five games. Like, where.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
My god that was?
Speaker 3 (38:21):
I had to score the most rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Oh that's a bad beat. I mean it's not a
bad beat, but it's so crazy. Get all the yards
year right exactly? Yeah. So like just for context on
what he's doing as a receiver, he has three hundred
and thirty eight receiving yards. Again, they've already had their
buy so he's played five games. Jamar Chase, who is
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fifth Chase and a Buka.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Yeah, a Buka.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Have four hundred and sixty eight and four hundred and
sixty nine receiving yards in an that extra game. So
he's averaging. I mean, that's crazy. He is on a
yards per game basis right now? He is where is Oh?
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I can't sort by that, but I mean he's sixty
eight receiving yards a game. He's top twenty in the NFL.
He's so good. He's so good. By the way, the
Falcons my NFC playoff picks demons going into the year,
and not in order, but just the seven Eagles, Commanders, Lions, Packers,
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Bills aren't bills. Hold on, wait, I'm gonna have something wrong.
Oh no, that's right, you know what. I take it back.
It was Eagles, Commanders, Lions, Bears, Packers, Bucks Rams. I
had the Falcons in, and then the Pinnicks trade happened,
and I took them out and put the Packers in.
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So that's what it was. The did I say the
Pinnis trade the Parsons straight happened? Pardon me? The when
the Parsons straight happened? I put the Packers in because
I had them out. That's what it was. I was like, wait,
did I have eight playoff teams? But no, I think
Atlanta's I think Atlanta's at least semi legit all right,
let's talk about the other Monday night game.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
So the Bears pulled out the upset in the in
that inclement weather, a lot of turnovers to Washington, Washington.
Some of it was the weather, some of them were
just turnovers. So we now have two good games between
these two teams. What did this game mean for either
one of them? Did it mean anything for anybody?
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Well, listen, No, for the the Bears, I don't think
played great, but they gotta win. And this is you know,
last year the Bears deserved some wins they didn't get.
They've now had back to back games where they got wins,
by the way, in one of the most unlikely occurrences,
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totally meaningless, but one of the most unlikely occurrence is
probably in NFL history, the Bears have won back to
back games by the exact score of twenty five twenty
four like that. You know that. I don't know if
that was a score of gami, but that is that's
not a score you see often, and they've now done
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it in back to back games. So the Bears, they
lose a heartbreaker in Week one to the Vikings, they
get annihilated by Detroit and then play great against Dallas,
play poorly, but win against the Raiders, and play okay
and win against the Commanders and had some tough calls
go against them, you know, so maybe they felt like
they deserved it, but it would have been demand's a
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a crushing loss. Yeah, you can't win the turnover battle
three nothing, It would lose that game. You just can't.
So the Bears, now they get the Saints at home,
like all of a sudden, what was supposed to to
be a very tough stretch in the middle of their season.
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Look at their next four home for the Saints, then
back to back road games, which going into the year
you would have said, oh my god, that's just tough
of a back to back road game as any team
has all year. At the Ravens, at the Bengals, and
then home for the Giants. Now the Ravens will.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Have yeah, yeah, he will be back.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
No, no, no, he will be back. But it'll also
be Lamar's first If you're going to have to play Lamar,
playing him in his first game back would be the
time to play him. And the Bengals are just stone dust,
like the Bengals are drawing to nothing. And then you
get the giants like the Bears now have a chance.
I thought the running game looked good coming out of
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the by. I thought the run defense looked good. They're,
you know, lucky for them. McLaurin didn't play again. I'm
not trying to overhype the Bears, but they they have
started zero two and now they're three and two out
of the by feeling like, all right, we're playing for something.
And Caleb is again up and down, but you're seeing
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some progression. Here's what I will say about Jaden. And
I don't know how closely everyone watched that game last night.
I know there were two games going on. Jaden. It
takes some tough hits, man. And I know I'm gonna
sound like a broken record on this, but he's coming.
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He's he's played two years or year.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
And a half.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
He has suffered an injury that made him misstime both years.
Not a lot of time, but he's miss time both years.
And yes, last night, he didn't seem to like be
protecting himself. That worries me. I the the interception was
a terrible throw. That's gonna happen. I'm not gonna kill
the guy who's take. He's taking care of the ball
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throughout his career and the the fumble.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
It's the rain. It's it's not good. I mean it
cost him the game. You could argue, I'm not going
to kill.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
It for that.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
They would have cooked him, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Especially in that spot with the lead late in the game.
And so, but here is what's crazy right now, demons
about where the command the commanders are. There's obviously sixteen
teams in each conference. The commanders are three and three.
Where do you think don't look, where do you think
they are right now? Standings wise one through sixteen in.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
The NF in their division.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
No, in the in the conference or in the conference.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
One through sixteen, call it.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Eighth, ninth between that, I want to say eight and ten.
I know that's three answers that.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
No, no, no, it's fine. They're twelfth, three and three and
twelfth in the conference.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
NFC's loaded.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Well, here's what's true about the NFC versus the AFC.
The NFC has one team with less than two wins,
the Saints. And the Saints are oddly like frisky right
the Saints. The Saints lost a close one of the
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Cardinals in Week one, lost a close one of the
Niners in week two, got annihilated by Seattle. In week three,
lost a close one of the Bills. In week four,
beat the Giants, and lost a close one of the
Patriots this week. They're obviously not good, but they're not horrific.
But there's they're the only one win team in the NFC.
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The AFC demanse has five one or zero win teams. Now.
One of them's Baltimore, who we think is not really
a one win team because when Lamar gets back, but Miami, Cleveland,
Tennessee and the Jets are horrible. There's then also a
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two win Bengals team which is a zero win team
since Joe Burrow came back or since Joe Burrow got hurt,
and a two win Raider team that, while I'm rooting
for him, have not looked good. So it just feels
like the AFC is shockingly just that all the bad
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teams are there. So the reason I'm mentioning that in
this conversation is for Bears commanders. The other reason this
matters is if I either of these teams gonna make
the playoffs, it's probably gonna be through the wild card,
and that head to head loss for the Commanders is
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a big one. And speaking of playoffs in the AFC,
let me ask you this because the only team that
is in the AFC that I don't know like, I'm
very confident. And again the Raiders thing makes me sad
because I put so much take equity in them. But
all of the two or one or zero win teams
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in the AFC are just bad. That's Cinci, Raiders, Ravens
with an asterisk, Miami, Cleveland, Tennessee, and the Jets. The
only team that has two wins that I'm not including
in there is Houston as a bit of an unknown.
Let's call it Houston something of an unknown. And then
the three or more win teams are Chiefs, Broncos, Jags, Bill's, Patriots, Chargers, Steelers, Colts.
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So here would be my question for you. I just
listed eight teams. Let's assume so the playoff picture if
we just instead of even including the Steelers, we say,
if the Steelers fall out, it will be because Baltimore
went like that division is gonna get one team, Pittsburgh
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or Baltimore the AFC North. That leaves for the other
three divisions six playoff spots. Here are the seven teams
vying for it Colts, Chargers, Pats, Bills, Jags, Broncos, Chiefs.
Which of those seven is most likely to be odd
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man out?
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Do you think.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
You say the Broncos?
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Yeah, you said Colts hit Denver.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
I'll say it again. I thought you were maybe gonna
say the Jags. I will also say the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
I believe in that. I believe in the Jags and
our defense. I mean, Trevor Lawrence is these little goofy,
but I believe in that defense.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
Yeah, and with the Jags also have going for him
is two games left against the Titans, a game left
against the Jets, a game left against the Raiders, a
game left.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
Against the weaker division right as well.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
I agree with you, But one of those teams is
going to be out all right before we get to
maybe not maybe, definitely, I think the best game of
Sunday afternoon. I want to talk to you guys about
Chad Powers and our walk on Mount Rushmore. Eight years
after flushing his promising college football career down the toilet,
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hot shot quarterback Russ Holiday tries to resurrect his dreams
by disguising himself as Chad Powers. A talented oddball walks
onto the struggling South Georgia catfish sidebar. This was something
I always wondered pre Achilles surgery. If this was something
that with the new Nil stuff and everything I always
had in the back of my head. I'm like, if
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Demondsey had like twenty seven, wanted to be like, hey,
I want to try playing college basketball again, could he
have done it? I don't know. Chad Powers did it.
You wouldn't have had to wear disguised demonse. Based on
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in week three of my Mount Rushmore of college football
walk Ons, paying tribute to the legends who started no scholarship,
no spotlight, and still carved out unforgettable careers. The first
two were just stone locks, JJ Watt and Baker Mayfield.
Today we add another guy that I think is a lock.
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And maybe it's a little recency bias, but Stetson Bennett
is my third on walk on Mount Rushmore. Stetson Bennett
was a walk on at Georgia and it didn't take
a snap his whole freshman season because Justin Fields committed
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to Georgia and Bennett decides to then transfer, so he
doesn't play as a walk on in twenty seventeen obviously,
and then transfers. He then goes to Jones College. He
then goes back to Georgia and he sits behind Jake
from He then takes over the team in twenty twenty one,
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and I had these numbers up before. The numbers are good,
don't get me wrong. I mean they're not unbelievable. He
did lead the nation in passing yards though his senior
year twenty nine touchdowns, seven picks his junior year, twenty
seven touchdowns, seven picks his senior year. But the reason
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he is on walk on Mount Rushmore is his junior
and senior year. They won the NASH Championship. Those two years.
As a starting quarterback, they lost one game. Both of
those years, Stetson Bennett was the National Championship Game Offensive MVP.
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He goes to Georgia and despite being five to ten
maybe is the signal caller for two of the greatest
college football teams of this era, winning back to back
national championships, winning back to back offensive MVPs in those
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national championship games. He is our third person on Walk
on Mount Rushmore. Make sure to check out Chad Powers,
a new episode streaming every Tuesday on Hulu and Hulu
on Disney Plus for Bundle subscribers. All right to Monte,
Let's get to Bucks Niners.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
All right, so the injuries keep piling up and sold
to the ws man, Your guy Baker is defying logic
out here here. How worried are you that they're peaking
too early?
Speaker 1 (53:04):
I'm not worried at all because this was if you guys,
remember in the preseason when I picked the Bucks to
go to the Super Bowl. The logic was, I think
that they can be the one seed, and they are
right now on hard Rock bet the favorites to be
the one seed, and you're about to see why if
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we throw their schedule up and then we'll get to
the actual game they have. The next six weeks are
tough at Detroit, Detroit angry coming off a loss, is
tough at New Orleans, hard place to play. Should win
a bye week than home for New England at Buffalo
(53:48):
at the Rams. But because they've already booked Demon's a
five wins. Let's be pessimistic here about that middle stretch, okay,
and say they go two and three beat New Orleans
and then go one in three against Detroit, New England,
Buffalo and the Rams. Right, that would put them at
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seven and four going into a final six games of
home Arizona home, New Orleans, home, Atlanta at Carolina at
Miami home Carolina. They they easily can get to thirteen
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wins this year, even if they struggle the next month.
I think that they have a real shot at fourteen wins.
And Baker every week, every week makes an MVP play
third and fourteen. This past week in a one point
game or whatever, I think it was a one point
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game when he did it him somehow escaping the rush
and final scramble for fourteen yards and then hitting the
little weak guy from body Tez what's his name, Tesz Johnson?
Tess Johnson, who demands weighs one hundred and forty five
(55:14):
pounds hits him for the touchdown, Like I mean he
was the one sixty five yeah, oh yeah. Worthy's a
lot taller than the Worthy is my height and is
one sixty one sixty five tes is a legit one
forty five. I don't care what he's listed at. And
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I mean, so no Mike Evans, no, Godwin Abuka goes
out is injuries on the offensive line, and I understand
you're playing the Niners, and they're like, we don't want
to hear about injuries and poor Fred Warner and that
and the the Niners, by the way, are now done.
That's not recoverable. Uh. It was unbelievable what they've been
(55:59):
able to to overcome so far. But you the defense
is now going to be terrible every week and Brock
Perdy or mac Jones aren't gonna save you. So the
Niners are to me because of the injuries across off.
I do want to talk about Baker and MVP because
(56:24):
this was a great You should go to my Twitter
and check the replies to I sent out last night
the moment the Bills game ended, I sent out, Uh,
(56:44):
and just like that, your Vegas favorite for NFL MVP
is dot dot dot Patrick Mahomes And the responses to
that are just folks that literally can't read or idiots.
I don't know, not every lot of them, because that
was not an opinion that was a statement of fact. Now,
(57:07):
to be fair, the odds hadn't posted yet. I just
know how gambling works. And with Josh Allen being the
favorite and Patrick already being ahead, like going into last night,
it was Josh Allen one, Patrick two, Baker three, and
so Josh having that type of game was gonna knock
him down. Baker wasn't gonna leap Patrick when not, you know,
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Week six for them was already baked in. To be clear,
right now, the MVP is Baker Mayfield. But that's different
than they don't vote right now, but right now, if
they did vote Demons day, I don't think it's debatable.
If they voted right now, Baker should get every vote.
(57:53):
His team's been awesome. They've dealt with a ton of injuries.
He's been sensational, he's been clutch. He is right now
the MVP. The odds are saying they think Baker's is
gonna come down to earth a bit and Mahomes is
only going to get better. And the other thing the
odds are incorporating now is could the Chiefs end up
with a really good seed, which is really helpful with MVP,
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And so that's where you know, but right now Baker's
the MVP of the league. What a story, man, what
a story. I'm so happy for him. I'm so happy
for Baker. All right, I want to get to the
other games, including the Eagles loss on Thursday night, which
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do apply, all right, demonse, Let's get to the other
games from the weekend.
Speaker 2 (59:27):
Giants defeating the Eagles thirty four to seventeen. Last week,
you said if Saquon doesn't is quiet on Thursday night
football football, It's fair to say that it'll be quiet
all year.
Speaker 3 (59:38):
He didn't break sixty yards, so we're.
Speaker 1 (59:40):
Here and he had thirty on the first two plays.
Speaker 2 (59:43):
Weird.
Speaker 1 (59:45):
The Eagles are teetering. They're teetering. Now, what does teetering
for the Eagles mean they'll miss the playoffs?
Speaker 3 (59:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (59:59):
But could they be staring out a year similar to
the one the last time they made the Super Bowl?
Where they make the playoffs and then get beat up
in the first round of the playoffs because they're a
team that really was never together all year. Possibly, and
the Giants just flat thoroughly outplayed them. And one of
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the concerns for Philly all year was this really tough schedule.
We gave them a ton of credit because despite the
tough schedule, they found a way to start four and
Oh but then in what was supposed to be a
bit of a softer portion of the schedule home for
the Broncos and then one of your Giants games. You
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give those wins back, and you still have on the
schedule at Green Bay home for the Lions, at the Chargers,
at the Commander at the Bills, another Commander's game, a
Bears game at the Cowboys. Like not a lot of
soft spots for a team that right now can't throw
(01:01:11):
the ball and right now doesn't have an offensive identity.
So I think that that and they don't have Saguanda
leen On, So yeah, I think it's and for the Giants, listen, Jackson,
Dart's gonna get himself killed. It's fun, it's exciting. He's
gonna get himself killed.
Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
And I really did not like how Dable did in
that game. I've never been like a huge I felt
really bad for Russell Wilson. And also, on top of it,
you yelling at the guy whose job it is to
look out for the player's safety. What if the guy's
actually still like messed up. You're just trying to throw
him back in the game. Oh, Jamis Winston in the
game or something if you don't want to see Russell
(01:01:52):
out there. I thought that was really I didn't like
how they did Russell Wilson that night. I thought that
was crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
That is perfect. Take everything you said there is one
hundred percent correct, every piece of it. For I think
Dabele should be fined a lot of money for that.
I think screaming at the doctor when you're checking a
guy for a concussion is crazy. And also listen, Dable, Dable,
(01:02:21):
None of it made sense. First of all, to your point,
if you are that horrified at the prospect of Russell
Wilson coming into the game, Jameis Winston's on your roster. Now,
they couldn't put Jamis in because he's the emergency third quarterback.
So if you put him in, you can only use
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your emergency third quarterback. If you if you use your
emergency third quarterback, your previous two quarterbacks cannot go back
in the game. They're done. It's like a baseball player
gets taken out. But you could have just made Jamis
the backup and third quarterback. That's first of all. Second
of all, if you if you don't trust Russell Wilson
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that much, then don't on the second play that he's
in there call a pass play. And this was the
most damning you saw. Once Dart and then I'll get
to the doctor part. Once Dart went out of the game,
you got a real test of how terrified you were
without him. Yeah, on the next drive he was back in,
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he called quarterback runs, like what are you doing? So
there that's the football piece of it, The ethics piece
of it is the head coach screaming at the team
doctor can simply never happen, especially when they're checking the
guy for a concussion like that just can't happen.
Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
And I thought that was.
Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
A terrible look. Correct, I I agree with every single
thing you said. All right, let's quickly go through the
other games.
Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
The London we got the Broncos defeat the Jets team
to eleven. One of the worst football games in recent memory.
I guess that was pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
Truly one of the worst football games. Play and listen,
the Bronco Nick Benito is one of the best players
in the entire NFL. That Broncos defense is awesome. Every
single thing I've said about bo Nicks not only as correct,
it might have been too nice. And the Jets game
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management is just Aaron Glenn is not covering himself in
glory on this and but in his defense, Justin Fields
was unplayably bad in that game. That's one of the
worst games I've ever seen. And there is no one
in the world that with a straight face can say
they feel better about the Broncos forgetting that win. That
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team's offense is really a problem for one of the
seven teams. Sean Payton's ever coach that he thought could
win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
Next, Oh, we got Panthers defeated the Cowboys thirty to
twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
All right, we just have to accep this weird fact
for the moment. The Panthers at home are a decent team.
I don't know what to I don't know why, and
I don't know what the explains the discrepancy. But on
the road they got annihilated by the Jaguars. They lost
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to the Cardinals, they got annihilated by the Patriots. At home,
they beat the Falcons thirty and nothing, beat the Dolphins
and beat Dallas and Rico dudele all of a sudden
is unstoppable. So and the Cowboys, on the other hand,
they have the worst defense in the league. Yeah, and
every day you see more example of how much Micah
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Parsons was holding together by himself.
Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
Next, speaking of that Charger, No, No, we got Seahawks defeating
the Jaguars twenty to twelve.
Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
Yeah, the Seahawks are probably the best team that I
haven't really talked much about. They're just a good team.
And this was a weird game. The Jags games have
been so weird because they only scored twelve points and
they lost, and it was I think one of Trevor's
(01:06:15):
better games. Like they've scored more points than one, and
he hasn't played well. But Seattle's just good. Now, Seattle's
wins before the Jags game. No, that's not true. They
beat the Steelers, they've beaten the Jags. They beat the
Saints and the Cardinals. They lost a game to the
Niners that they had a chance to steal late, and
they lost to Baker in one of Baker's crazy late
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game heroics. Like the Seahawks are just a good team,
and Donald's playing awesome. Credit to him, Like, Donald's playing
really good, and the Jags, Brian Thomas just hasn't been right.
Trevor hasn't been right. The defense is really good, and
they're not getting enough out of Travis. They haven't figured
out how to use Travis Hunter yet.
Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Next we got the Chargers. If he the Dolphin twenty seven,
that would.
Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
Have been a horrifying loss for the Chargers. Justin Herbert
made an unbelievable play late in that game to shake
off the rush and find McConkey, And that's a great
win for the Chargers. You know, I I do think
that last AFC playoff spot Chargers Broncos, Jags, two will
be in, one will be out. So all of these
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games matter. And then after the game too. We talked
at the top of the show, but to his press
conference where he's like, who's responsible for team leadership?
Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
Is he like the reason?
Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
Yeah, that's the me. That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
Is he the reason mcdale's not getting fired right now?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
It's like, oh, if the quarterbacks, how can we really
blame the coach?
Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
But I don't know. But Tua's lack of accountability is
jarring and I.
Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
Every time he gets up there, it's a deflection, like
every single day, it's deflecting towards the fans.
Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
Is this an unfair take? The media gives to a
something of a pass for these postgame and pregame comments
that we wouldn't give other quarterbacks because we all kind
(01:08:21):
of feel badly about his concussion history. Yeah, I mean
you're shaking your head. You're shaking your head, So maybe
that means you don't think that's a fair take.
Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
I mean I think, yeah, I just feel.
Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
Like criticism of Tua it almost falls to me in
my brain, like if there's a weird almost like Damar
Hamlin feeling to it, which is like, man, this guy
is we have seen this guy go through so much
(01:08:58):
and the so it like criticism is unfair. Like can
you imagine if someone like again he's not a quarterback,
but like nobody would go on TV and be like,
I'll tell you the problem with the Bills, that's safety,
Like nobody's gonna come after Jamorrow hanmis guy like we
saw him. And I feel like there's an element of
that with Tua.
Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
Yeah, and yeah, it can't be I mean I don't
want to say it can't be like that, but at
the same time, like there has to be some type
of accountability and if you can't grade them on the
same scale.
Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
Constantly throwing his teammates under the bus constantly in games
where he plays terribly, he threw three picks all right.
Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
Next game, Uh, we got Rams defeating the Ravens seventeen
to three. Oh my god, Lamar Jackson means a lot
to this organization.
Speaker 1 (01:09:49):
You think, Yeah, now, I mean glass quarterfall, the defense
finally had of balls.
Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
Yeah, yeah, because I definitely thought the Rams were going
to carve them up. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
Last three quarters empty one in five might be.
Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Unrecoverable, and kept saying like our path is to win
the division. Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
It weird, It's no they need My point is they
need Pittsburgh to fall apart. Yeah, you need Pittsburgh fall apart.
Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
Now. Colts defeat Cardinals thirty one.
Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
Yeah, listen, I guess the culture the other good team
that I don't talk a lot about with the Seahawks.
I mean, the Colts have just been really good. And
by the way, I now have a new kind of ideal.
If the Chiefs can't get the one seed, which they
it's gonna be tough. I hope the Colts do. The
Colts getting the one seed means Arrowhead Invitational is back
(01:10:48):
on the table. I think I'm serious. Colts get the
one seed loser first playoff game, Arrow and Invitational back
like that that exists. But the Colts up to this
point look really good. Now, flip side to the flip side.
Jacoby Brissett scored twenty seven on him, so that's not ideal.
(01:11:09):
But the offense in Daniel Jones look good. Next.
Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
Patriots defeat the Saints twenty five nineteen.
Speaker 1 (01:11:15):
The story of the Patriots right now is mac Jones
deserves real like bottom of the ballot MVP consideration, like
fifth place right now. He's been awesome and he's a
dude man, and so I don't think they have a
ton of great weapons. And he is chucking that sucker
downfield and carving up defenses. The Patriots got a horrific
(01:11:37):
whistle in that game, had some phantom calls take away
huge plays. They overcame it.
Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
Next, Steelers defeat the Browns twenty three to nine.
Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
Credit the Steelers man off of by continuing to win.
Dylan Gabriel looked terrible, like really bad.
Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
And do you see the thing that he did when
like I hit him, He like like they got the
guy hit him. It wasn't really elated. He threw it
and then he hits Gabriel and then Gabriel grabs him
by his shoulder pads and like MUSHes him into the ground.
He got like a little angry.
Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
At Dylan Gabriel. Size. Yeah, I didn't see that. The
Browns are terrible Steelers. I need to pay more attention
to the Steelers. I have thought it's kind of smoking mirrors,
but they're now four and one. They have the second
best record in the AFC. I got even credit.
Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
Next, a Raiders defeat the Titans twenty to ten.
Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
That's just a horrible game. I mean, good for the
Raiders for winning it, but the Titans are just like
we'll see what the Titans look like now that Brian
Callahan's been fired.
Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
Next, Packers defeat the Bengals twenty seven to eighteen.
Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
Not a great win by the Packers. Yeah, I mean
a win's a win, but coming they haven't bought great
off of Bye. They haven't won a game. They hadn't
won a game since September twelfth or something. And I
mean they controlled that entire game, but not great. And
now this from Lebotard show these sons of bitches go ahead?
Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
Oh wait, is this a vampire or a werewolf?
Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
How dare Dan LeBatard send this tweet?
Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
You kind of do like Hotel Transylvania a little bit?
Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
I sent Lebotard's crew a video recapping my long story.
Short is this Dan and I bet five grand on
Chiefs Lions. He then, for some reason, thought we were
betting a white Corvette because the guy does I don't
get it. I then wanted my money that I then
(01:13:44):
felt bad because it seems like he thought it was
a gag. But I made the point of if I
wasn't betting with him, I would have bet that elsewhere.
So like now all of a sudden, am I gonna
lose money? But I had told Dan I was playing
in a huge poker game last night, and so I
said if I won in the poker game, he could
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distribute my winnings from him to the rest of his staff.
And I sent him a video saying sadly I lost
in the book. Need that money. I'm gonna need that. Uh,
I'm gonna need that money. Uh. So that's the that's
the long story short of that. If you haven't been
(01:14:27):
listening to my you know, okay, I don't even occasional
appearances with the Levatard crew. All right, let's quickly do
some listener questions before I go.
Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
Uh Korn says, if Chiefs ended only getting if Chiefs
ended only getting a wild card and went all the
way and won the Super Bowl, what would the media's
take on it be?
Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
Well, I mean, in the mean, in the very short term,
it would once again be you can never doubt the
Kansas City Chiefs. And then come about mid September. Next
year we'd get new round of is the dynasty now over?
Like they're just gonna step on that break every year.
Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
Next, Christopher says, no talk of Seahawks in the discussion
for top teams despite number two quarterback this season, number
one wide receiver, and number one defensive line.
Speaker 1 (01:15:09):
Listen that Chris, that might I don't think I would
quite have Darnold's the number two quarterback. But he's been
excellent and that's an obviously, Jackson Smith and Jig has
been unbelievable. The d line under Mike McDonald's been really good.
The Ravens Stephen Teden in the same since he left.
That's a fair critique, man, it's a fair critique that
we've been under discussing the Seattle that's fair.
Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
Next, uh Norf asked, do you still have the Ravens
winning the division?
Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
No, I mean the Demond it's not. The Ravens have
better odds right now to win the division than the Patriots. Yeah,
like that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:15:47):
He's come back and scorch it, but.
Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
Come back and just got to get in on like
an instant five game winning streak.
Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Next, Yeah, uh Naki says hi Nick follow you from Spain.
I have a question, what's more looking for you watching
the sports? Compared to two thousand athleticism of almost any
quarterback or automatic fifty R field goals.
Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
No, the quarterback stuff, I think I would have thought that.
You know, field goal kicking is going to continue to progress.
But these, I mean, these superhero quarterbacks are unlike really
anything we had in the past. All right, last one?
Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
Uh Kafrika ass Should the Bengals have traded for Jamis
Winston instead of Flacco?
Speaker 1 (01:16:29):
That's what I would have done.
Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
It's more fun I.
Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
Think it would have made more sense. I think Jamar
and T would have liked it. That's what I would
have done. But that's not what they did. And Mike
Tomlin didn't like that the Browns traded FLACCOH that was funny.
Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
That was funny.
Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
I was he's like Mike like. Evidently Andrew Barry knows
more than me. I wouldn't have done that. All right.
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Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
What's right
Welcome in What Driving the Right? Episode three seventy eight.
This episode of What Driving the Gright is brought to
you by our friends at boost Mobile. As always, and listen,
let me just get right to straighten the voicemail, because
before we even get to the actual show, I have
to get to a little rant about something I just saw.
Straight to voicemail brought to you by your friends at
boost Mobile. Travis Kelcey evidently sings an album insert with
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Taylor Swift. I don't really understand a lot of the
words in that sentence of signs. That makes so much
more sense, guys, Okay, I was so excited. I was like,
he sings on her album. No, he signs. Okay, that's
actually kind of cool. That makes a lot more sense.
Titans Fire, Brian Callahan, how about that we can bet
(00:48):
the Titans again? I might this week. If I'm telling
you right now, right now they're getting seven against New
England coach Bounce that it's to seven and a half.
That could be in one of Knick's picks, Red Hot
Knicks picks. By the way, four and one. I told
you I promised on Demanday's life, I'd never bet on
the Titans again until Callahan was fired. I didn't realize.
(01:12):
So he finishes his head coaching career, and I think
it's fair to say career because I don't know that
he's getting another shot. Four and nineteen straight up, which
is horrible but somehow worse than that four and nineteen
against the spread. Vegas Is knows the Titans are bad,
and it like that's bad, and Tua, we might actually
(01:35):
do more on this. At some point in the show,
Tua holds this press conference and it's the I don't
I think the guy's name is Nathan Robinson. There's that
meme where a hot dog car drives into Ah, I.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Think you should leave, and the guy's wearing a hot
dogs suit and then the guys wearing the hot dog suit.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
He's like, who did this? That's does to it not
realize when he stands at the podium and he's like,
lead our players only meetings have no leadership. That he's
the hot dog suit guy, like, Buddy, you are the quarterback,
which makes you a leader, the highest paid player on
the team, which makes you the leader. You are the leader.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
That was crazy M and McDaniel like that tandem, like
quarterback coach tannem has got to be the funniest one
in like memory. Huh man, shout out.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
To Big Cat who made a point other people were
afraid to make but he was correct, which is much
like I don't know if you guys remember when it
looked in twenty sixteen, when it looked like the Cavs
were about to get dusted by the Warriors in the finals,
before the greatest three game stretch by the greatest in
history of the league. Lebron went to one of the
(02:50):
press conferences. He had bought matching suits for everyone on
the team, but they were Tom Brown suits, so they
were suits that the pants were shorts, and he's and
he's and so now they're down three to one, it
looks like they're gonna lose again, and he's doing this
press conference in this kind of odd looking suit, and
(03:10):
it was like, man, like, it doesn't really play as
well coming off a loss. That's what Big Cats said
about Mike McDaniel and his Capri pants. And I gotta
tell you, I only he's wrong. Let's shout out to
Big Cat. Yeah yeah, all right, here's the thing before
we get to the actual show, So I you know,
(03:31):
there is a there is a great actually, you know what.
I don't even know if it was the Chief's Receipts
account that tweeted this, but regardless, I'm scrolling Twitter and
I sees one of these aggregators has posted the latest
ESPN NFL Nation Power rankings for the NFL, and I'm
(03:55):
so certain that it's bad information that I and just
go to the website myself Google ESPN NFL Power Rankings.
And again, I am not trying to take a shot
at the good folks at ESPN, and I don't want
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to overstate anything, which is why it pains me to
say this article that was posted at six forty five
this morning that leads with welcome to Week seven of
the NFL season. Jets are still winless, Chiefs bounced back,
(04:41):
The Buccaneers are shockingly still atop the NFC race. How
do all these teams fit in our updated power rankings?
We restacked the NFL heading into week seven. Goes onto it.
Our panel of more than eighty writers, editors, and TV
(05:01):
personalities evaluated hal NFL team stack up against one another,
ranking them from one to thirty two. Late breaking eighty
person sample watched the NFL this weekend, saw what the
Kansas City Chiefs did to Detroit. They had them at
seven going into last week and dropped them to nine.
(05:27):
They've watched football this weekend and said, the Chiefs are
going into the Lions game. We thought they were the
seventh best team at football. We've now seen it their ninth.
Detroit is two. Buffalo, whose wins have come against teams
that are combined three and twenty one is three. I
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don't want to overstate it when I say this is
the single worst power ranking the history of sports media.
Seeing like it. Week six result beat the Lions thirty
to seventeen. Week six ranking seven, and then a little
red arrow down what is happening? You had eighty people
(06:13):
on this Nobody threw their body in front of this bus. Like, guys,
I don't think this one's gonna pass the smell test here.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's not an error. Green listen, green Bay, Green Bay
last week was eight on this thing. The Chiefs were seven.
They watched Green Bay eeke past Joe Flacco and the Bengals,
and the Chiefs dog walk the Lions and they're like,
green Bay, you're six, now you jump them?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Don't. I don't so Okay, amazing night of Monday night football,
but we're not starting there. We're starting with well, go ahead, Demons.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Well yeah, sick doubleheader last night and that led to
two upsets. But yeah, you wanted to start with the Chiefs,
who were three and three, lasted Rashid Rice's suspension state afloat,
but they still have some ground to make up as
they are.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Here's the reason where, here's the here's the deal. All
is right in the world again.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, pretty happy this one.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
He's And it's just everything's back the way it's supposed
to be. You guys, check the latest MVB odds. Who's
the favorite? Patrick go on hard Rock bet check the
latest SUPERWL odds, who's the favorite the Chiefs? Everything's everything
is the way it's supposed to be. And one and
(07:45):
what is so gratifying about this is we don't. I
thought the way this was going to go was all
the folks that wrote the Chiefs obituary three weeks ago.
(08:08):
We're going to have to answer for that commentary in
January instead, because of how even with the loss nine
days ago by the Chiefs, because of how the rest
of the league has looked, and how Kansas City looked
(08:29):
on National TV Sunday night. All those folks have to
eat it immediately. We're not to Halloween yet, and they
all have to be like, all right, I'm dumb, you're right,
I'm wrong. It's so good, it's so much fun. And
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the fact that they're winning this way with the offense
humming back to you're shocked when they don't get a
touchdown Patrick doing Patrick things and they don't have their
best offensive weapon not named Patrick Mahomes yet, and then
you just you watch the rest of the league and
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and we'll get to these games. But you watch the
Broncos do everything they can to try to lose to
one of the worst teams I've ever seen in the Jets.
You watch the Chargers do everything they can. Great play
at the end by the Chargers, but the Chargers struggle
with a Dolphins team that seems to actively hate each other.
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You watch the Bills what they did last night, the
Eagles that are ripping themselves a part of the seams,
the Lions, we saw them play. And the other reason
I'm happy is, you know, the one team, Demonsey that
you can hold up next to the Chiefs right now
and be like, hey, what what are you? What's the
(09:56):
what are you gonna say bad about this team? And
I'm gonna say no, there isn't anything the box the
Bots who were going into the year, I'm feeling good.
I had to eat it a lot those first couple
of weeks. I had to come on here talk about
all these concerns. I had to listen to the great
(10:20):
my beloved Kevin Wilde's act like Andy Reid and Travis
Kelsey are not essentially family and worry about the fact
that Andy bumped Travis. I do all that, and less
than a month later, you know the other way, I
know we're back because we're back to the refs. We
are the Chiefs are okay, So let's talk about that
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real quick before we get into the actual game. Zero
penalties zero in that game there, so there were Let's
talk about the penalties part first, because that's what people
are whining about. Five penalties were called in that game.
One was called on Kansas City. For the record, it
was declined, So they did throw a flag on the
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Chiefs when Chris Jones jumped off sides. It was declined.
The four penalties called on Detroit were as follows. They
didn't know the rules on their stupid trick play, and
that was a black and white you were not set
after being under center, have to call it. Then the
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Lions were so thrown off by the fact that that
penalty was called. They got a delay of game on
the extra point attempt because they didn't know what they
were gonna do. So that's two. The third one was
a clear as day took three steps and hit Mahomes
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in the head by Aiden Hutchinson. And the fourth one
was a judgment call, but obviously the right call a
past interference on Detroit. So it did the most subjective
calls that there are illegal contact, defensive holding, offensive holding,
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illegal man downfield, those ones where you can be like
that happens every play or whatever it was. There were
zero called on either team the entire game. So the
level of whining I expected from some of the media
and certainly fans. But did you see Kirby Joseph First
(12:36):
team All Pro last year. Kirby Joseph for the Detroit
Lions sent out twenty four tweets after the game whining
about the refs. Get it together, Detroit.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
He's one safety study that came out.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
By the way, I have never seen Can I just
say something that that that UTEP I paid the eight
and here's so that UTEP study that, by the way,
no one has read. Everyone has just read the news
article about it. You know how I know because to
(13:14):
read that study you got to subscribe to that journal,
which either is going to cost a couple hundred bucks
or you can pay eighteen dollars for twenty four hour access.
Guess who paid the eighteen dollars for twenty four hour access?
This guy hand up. Guess who didn't everyone else. It's
one of the most ridiculous studies I've ever seen. The
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too long, didn't read version of it is the Chiefs
have played the most playoff games, and therefore their opponents
have been called for the most penalties. That like, give
you it is, but I don't even give it. I
don't care about that. I do care about high leverage spots. Again,
the games you're on TV, thirty million people watch him,
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find me, find me the the call we're all mad about.
But I don't even want to talk about it. I
don't I'm gonna get I'm gonna get mad. That's not
what today is for It's not for the idiots in
El Paso. The so one Lion's safety took the loss
so well, he went on tweet storm tweeting out photoshops
(14:24):
of Mahomes kissing a RAF. The other lion's safety took
the loss so well he hit Juju smith Schuster in
the face and now he's going to have to miss
a massive game against Tampa and then goes in the
locker room. And I don't know if you guys watched
(14:44):
that video, but it sure seemed like he was about
to cry while saying and I quote, they were bullying
me out there.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And quote are you gleeing?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Now? What you were bullied out there? Is this Sunday
night football with the big bad Detroit Lions or a
great recess? What are you talking about? You got bullied?
(15:21):
Should Juju have to sit by himself at lunch? Is
Patrick gonna have to miss the not get a juice
box tomorrow? You got bullied. You're supposed to be the bullies.
And instead of being the bullies. On fourth and goal
(15:41):
to set the tone on your first drive of the
game and handing the ball to David Montgomery from the
six inch line, you pop Jared Goff out wide on
a play because you're that you don't even know the
rules on and throw them a pass. You got bullied.
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That's a bad look, buddy, that's a bad look. And
if you are listen, the Lions are obviously a good team.
I thought Chris Collinsworth made a correct point, which was
there's a lot of cracks in the foundation if they're
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not playing from ahead, if all of a sudden it
becomes a drop back passing game, and Jared Goff and
those hands, the ball is put there, it's it's shaky.
I think they're a very good team, don't get me wrong.
And I think Dan Campbell was absolutely right when the
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way he said, I love Brian Branch, but that's unacceptable.
Of course it's unacceptable. It's the professional football is very
unique in this regard tomanse. You almost never see post
game fights during the game shore and pregame occasionally, but
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the moment the game's over, what you normally see is embracing.
The guys pray together, they come together, and it's it
is similar to boxing in that regard, where guys can
be going at it until the bell in the twelfth
(17:35):
round and then immediately hug because there is an element
of this shit is dangerous, man, and the you know,
we have to get it right, the respect factor of
all right, game's over, and so what Branch did and
for it to be that level of cheap shot was bizarre.
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It was really bizarre. It started with Patrick trying to
shake his hand he didn't want to, and then Juju.
I don't know what Juju said or what happened, but
he hit Juju in the face.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Go ahead, Yeah, no, I mean he shouldn't. He shouldn't
have done that. I didn't really see it as a
chief shot. I think Juju knew that Do is probably
coming up to hit him in the face.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Dude, No way, no way, never see it. Yeah, I
mean I don't think so. But all right, I want
to talk about the chief side of this quickly before
we move on. The only listen officially worried about Harrison Bucker.
There's no way around it, and I and that makes
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me very concerned for a high leverage playoff spot. Oddly
for the regular season, and I think you saw it
last on Sunday night, there is a benefit to Buckker struggling.
It is going to force Andy into being a little
more aggressive on fourth down. So the Kansady Star had
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an article since Patrick took over, going into Sunday night,
the Chiefs had faced eighty six different fourth and three
or longers inside their own thirty and they had kicked
a field goal all eighty six times, and then they
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went for it Sunday night. Now, part of that might
have been because the Lions are such a potent offense,
but the other piece of it is Bucker's not automatic
at the moment, and I think the Chiefs being aggressive
on fourth down is a net positive. I still think
they need to trade for a running back. But Patrick
(19:52):
now has full confidence in his offensive line, and Patrick
with full confidence in his offensive line and its semi
competent much less, what is about to be an excellent
receiving corps immediately makes the Chiefs the most dangerous offensive
football again immediately.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, go ahead. And with that, Kelsey's had probably arguably
his best game of the season. What do you expecting
to see you from him?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
When Rice gets back and you got the whole game?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Well, so that's so, now you're gonna listen. Juju has
been awesome in his role. Yeah, but that's gonna be
Rashie Rice's role, and now you're gonna have Rashi Rice
doing some intermediate stuff, Kelsey doing intermediate stuff, Xavier and
(20:42):
Taekwon Thornton both being deep threats, and Patrick with protection
dialed in, being able to hit any quadrant on the field. Again,
the Pacheco's gotta be better and I wish they had
just a common again.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I think I think Pacheco is who scat Scataboo is
who Pacheco thinks that he is. I think that when
he runs and how he feels, he feels like Cam.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Scataboo, by the way, and Pacheco's faster than Scatabo or
he was and Pacheco was Pacheco was that and then
he broke his leg. Yeah, and he just hasn't been
the same, uh ever since then? Also not This isn't
(21:32):
me being a pedant. And I don't want to be annoying,
but I just I don't have it. You combined oddly,
you combined the two bones in the leg into one.
It's no, no fibula and tibia. I think it's tibia
and fibula. And I think you did tibula, which is
(21:54):
actually not terrible because I don't know which one he
broke of the two, but they are two different bones,
tibia and fib you I.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Think it was I think it was I think it
was fab but who knows.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
But regardless, the so no, the offenses going. They need
a little bit more consistent pass rush, but they're just
the best team and they now get the incredibly rare
(22:27):
I think the I think the first time all not yeah,
definitely the first time all year. The Chiefs play a
non descript one PM Sunday game Week seven, and they
still get Nanton Romo because they're the Chiefs, but they
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have gone from Friday Night Brazil, Sunday afternoon Super Bowl
rematch with Tom Brady in Casey, Sunday Night UH Football
against the Giants prior the four point thirty PM CBS
game with Nanton Romo, Monday Night against the Jags, Sunday
(23:12):
Night against the Lions. Now just a regular one PM game,
but it's still Nanson Romo. And then it's back to
normal for Kansas City when the next weekend they're on
Monday Night Football against the Commanders and the next weekend
they are on the Big four to twenty five CBS
game with Nanton Romo uh, and feel sure feels like
(23:34):
they're gonna be five and three going into that Bills game,
and I feel really good about it, all right. Uh,
Tailgater says that I need to stop bowling Brian branch.
I I did feel a little badly about that.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I'll be honest, Like just now, like on the Blake
what you say the pod.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, when I was doing it, I was like, the
guy really did seem sad.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Even more like you're actually bullying him.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Now, Yeah, I am, But I don't know, maybe that
was maybe that was mean, but I really didn't like
him hitting Juju in the face. Yeah I was. I mean,
that was like a real hit man. And what I
really didn't like was Patrick seeing it and then running
(24:30):
to the fight. And then there was a moment where
like Patrick gets loose invisible some bodies. Yeah that was
I I didn't love. I tell you, I didn't love that.
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Speaker 2 (26:24):
Oh yeah, So who would have saw Atlanta upsetting Buffalo.
I guess you kind of did, and you were right, well.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I mean not entirely. To be fair, you saw it
about it, I would have. I didn't even include Atlanta
plus the points is one of my picks, but I did.
I did think they were live. And I also thought
Atlanta was the hardest team in the league to kind
of get a beat on because week one they play,
you know, a tight game comes down to a field
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miss field goal against the Bucks. They there's they get
annihilated by Carolina. But Carolina's oddly been a good team
at home. They beat Washington, but Washington doesn't have Jayden Daniels.
And then there's one other game they played. I forgot
what it was, and then they had a buy and
so I just thought Atlanta was a little bit of
(27:14):
a I don't want to say unknown. Oh they beat
the Vikings twenty two to six in a weird game
when wins started like no, when JJ McCarthy was in
and then J J. McCarthy's been hurt since then, but
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Sorry, Oh yeah, so Beijeon and Drake london encounted for
three weeks ninety six of four hundred and forty three
yards at offense. Buffalo has dropped their second straight and
Josh Allen's and VP odds are up to plus three hundred.
He's number two by On Mahomes. Is it time for
the Josh Allen as the best player in the NFL
chance to come to a simmer? All right?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
So again, hold on, let me find the exact quote.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Let me see you.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I should have looked this up beforehand. Okay, so this
is you guys know that I actually have been pretty
pro Bills the last couple of years. Last year, I
when everybody thought they might be in a rebuild, I
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thought they'd make the AFC Championship Game. I thought they'd
be really good. They were this year. I once again
picked them to go to the AFC Championship Game. And
I've been pretty consistent that I think Josh is the
second best quarterback in football. I with that said that
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Josh allen hyperbole on some of these things has always
mystified me. And the example of it this year is
three weeks ago after a Monday night football game against
the Dolphins, when Josh was good. Don't get me wrong,
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but it was against the Dolphins. In that game, if
you remember, was really close late and it was coming
on the heels of a Jets game where they annihilated
the Jets. But it was a James Cook game. Josh
had thrown for one hundred and forty yards and no touchdowns.
(29:22):
Greeney on Get Up says, quote, I'm watching that game
last night, and no one has ever played that position
better than Josh Allen. Again, the quote is, no one
has ever played that position better than Josh Allen. And
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it just seems like.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
We are so eager to anoint the next guy when
we're in the midst of the guy that we sometimes
you know.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Get a little ahead of ourselves. With that said, listen, Josh,
he's had a rough couple weeks. I still think he's
the second best quarterback in football. I also think that
it was likely unsustainable the streak he was on on
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not turning the ball over, and now all of a
sudden you've seen he's turned the ball over four times
in the last three games. And the Bills, in my opinion,
have real, real question marks. They have four wins. They
beat Baltimore, which at the time we thought was an
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awesome win. The defense allowed forty and they needed that
late comeback to beat the Baltimore has won one game
since then. They beat the Jets in one of the
weirdest games of the year because they outscored them thirty
to ten, despite Josh not and they out gained them
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for it not weird, but they it was. They just
ran all over them. They outgained them four hundred to
one fifty four and the Jets had no shot. The Jets,
by the way, have won zero games all year. They
beat the Dolphins in a game Josh played great, but
in a game that also was tied with They were
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tied with the Dolphins with seven and a half minutes left.
The Dolphins have won one game all year. They beat
the Saints in a game that the Saints thought they
took the lead in the fourth quarter, only to have
a touchdown overturned they had to settle for a field goal,
and that game was a two point game in Buffalo
with seven and a half minutes left. The Saints have
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put won one game all year. They then lost to
the Patriots and got third handled last night by Atlanta
and were, in my opinion, lucky to have a shot
to steal that game because Atlanta, after doing anything it
wanted for the first three quarter, first quarter and a half,
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the offense kind of went comatose on them. And the
Bills are now in a spot where they have squandered
already demanse what was supposed to be their biggest edge
for this season, which is an incredibly soft schedule that
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would lead them to their first one seed since Jim
Kelly was the quarterback. And now they wake up this
morning and they're not even leading their division, and they
still have games left against the Chiefs, against the Bucks,
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at the Patriots, against the Eagles, at the Steelers, at
the Texans, and you just wonder, is this going to
be be another year where Buffalo. I still think they're
gonna win the division. By the way, Like I don't
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get me wrong, I I wouldn't put.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
You wouldn't put a taste on New England winning the
division at plus one eighty five.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
It's only plus one eighty five.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Is that why Vegas thinks so too?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I mean no, that's I might put something on Buffalo
at minus two thirty. I like, I know, I still
think Buffalo. I would have thought Buffalo's minus three hundred
to win the division.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
New England.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
No, but but no, I mean I think New England.
I picked New England make the playoffs. I just think
Buffalo is still gonna win eleven games at least. And
I don't see New England, you know, and so but regardless,
my point is this, it sure looks like it's gonna
be a season like we've seen a lot with the
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Bills where they win the division but they don't get
the bye. They beat the hell out of the team
in the wild card round, and then they play someone
in their weight class in the divisional round or the
conference championship game and get beaten. And that was It's
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really crazy. How bad that defense has looked this year.
The Again, the Panthers only scored I'm sorry, the Falcons
only scored twenty four points. They move the ball.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It will.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Drake Mayett is coming out party against them. They they
seem to even though I don't know that the stats
back it up. They just seem to be a defense
that can get got. And Josh is Josh is a great,
great player. But the conservative, low risk style that he's
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been playing the last year and a half really doesn't
fit if you don't have a defense that you can
rely on to get stops. And I don't think they
have that defense this year. And so I I right now,
if I had to pick it, Demonse, I would still
say Chiefs Bills AFC Championship game. But now we're staring
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at a very real possibility that game is going to
be an arrowhead. When the chap the Bills were four
and oh, with the Chiefs at one and two about
to face the Ravens, life comes at you fast man.
And the Bills also need a good win. They just
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need a good win. What are you laughing about?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
You gotta get on top of your division first. You
gotta get the.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Same with Buffalo Buffalo like, and I am, well, we'll
get to the Chargers and the Broncos in a minute.
Let's talk Falcons just for a second.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Yeah, So it's if it feels like Michael Pinks has
kind of gotten lost in the shuffle as far as
quarterbacks in his drive class, what do you what do
you make of Michael Pinnicks as now?
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Yeah, I mean, I guess he's gonna still be a
little lost in the shuffle with me, because I like,
there are certain things you really like. There's also like
last night, when that game was wrapped, essentially all Atlanta
need do was run the ball three times kick a
field goal. With two minutes left, they called a pass
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play that Pinnix made a horrific decision and it was
this close being a pick six tie game when the
game was basically over. So some of that concerns me.
But Drake London is really good and Bijon is just
sensational and yeah, I mean, listen, I picked him to
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win Offensive Player of the Year as a rookie. Here's
what Bijon's done since he came into the league. His
rookie year, he had nine hundred and eighty rushing yards
four hundred and eighty receiving yards. So he had fourteen
hundred and sixty yards with eight touchdowns. Really good, not
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not super elite, but really good. Last year he had
fourteen hundred and fifty rushing yards, another four hundred and
thirty receiving yards and fifteen touchdowns. Elite. This year he
has four hundred and eighty rushing yards and all ready
three one hundred and thirty receiving yards, only three touchdowns,
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but is on pace to shatter I think the yards
from scrimmage record for a season. He's got eight hundred
yards from scrimmage through five games. Like, where.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
My god that was?
Speaker 3 (38:21):
I had to score the most rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Oh that's a bad beat. I mean it's not a
bad beat, but it's so crazy. Get all the yards
year right exactly? Yeah. So like just for context on
what he's doing as a receiver, he has three hundred
and thirty eight receiving yards. Again, they've already had their
buy so he's played five games. Jamar Chase, who is
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fifth Chase and a Buka.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Yeah, a Buka.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Have four hundred and sixty eight and four hundred and
sixty nine receiving yards in an that extra game. So
he's averaging. I mean, that's crazy. He is on a
yards per game basis right now? He is where is Oh?
(39:16):
I can't sort by that, but I mean he's sixty
eight receiving yards a game. He's top twenty in the NFL.
He's so good. He's so good. By the way, the
Falcons my NFC playoff picks demons going into the year,
and not in order, but just the seven Eagles, Commanders, Lions, Packers,
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Bills aren't bills. Hold on, wait, I'm gonna have something wrong.
Oh no, that's right, you know what. I take it back.
It was Eagles, Commanders, Lions, Bears, Packers, Bucks Rams. I
had the Falcons in, and then the Pinnicks trade happened,
and I took them out and put the Packers in.
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So that's what it was. The did I say the
Pinnis trade the Parsons straight happened? Pardon me? The when
the Parsons straight happened? I put the Packers in because
I had them out. That's what it was. I was like, wait,
did I have eight playoff teams? But no, I think
Atlanta's I think Atlanta's at least semi legit all right,
let's talk about the other Monday night game.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
So the Bears pulled out the upset in the in
that inclement weather, a lot of turnovers to Washington, Washington.
Some of it was the weather, some of them were
just turnovers. So we now have two good games between
these two teams. What did this game mean for either
one of them? Did it mean anything for anybody?
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Well, listen, No, for the the Bears, I don't think
played great, but they gotta win. And this is you know,
last year the Bears deserved some wins they didn't get.
They've now had back to back games where they got wins,
by the way, in one of the most unlikely occurrences,
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totally meaningless, but one of the most unlikely occurrence is
probably in NFL history, the Bears have won back to
back games by the exact score of twenty five twenty
four like that. You know that. I don't know if
that was a score of gami, but that is that's
not a score you see often, and they've now done
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it in back to back games. So the Bears, they
lose a heartbreaker in Week one to the Vikings, they
get annihilated by Detroit and then play great against Dallas,
play poorly, but win against the Raiders, and play okay
and win against the Commanders and had some tough calls
go against them, you know, so maybe they felt like
they deserved it, but it would have been demand's a
(41:42):
a crushing loss. Yeah, you can't win the turnover battle
three nothing, It would lose that game. You just can't.
So the Bears, now they get the Saints at home,
like all of a sudden, what was supposed to to
be a very tough stretch in the middle of their season.
(42:05):
Look at their next four home for the Saints, then
back to back road games, which going into the year
you would have said, oh my god, that's just tough
of a back to back road game as any team
has all year. At the Ravens, at the Bengals, and
then home for the Giants. Now the Ravens will.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Have yeah, yeah, he will be back.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
No, no, no, he will be back. But it'll also
be Lamar's first If you're going to have to play Lamar,
playing him in his first game back would be the
time to play him. And the Bengals are just stone dust,
like the Bengals are drawing to nothing. And then you
get the giants like the Bears now have a chance.
I thought the running game looked good coming out of
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the by. I thought the run defense looked good. They're,
you know, lucky for them. McLaurin didn't play again. I'm
not trying to overhype the Bears, but they they have
started zero two and now they're three and two out
of the by feeling like, all right, we're playing for something.
And Caleb is again up and down, but you're seeing
(43:14):
some progression. Here's what I will say about Jaden. And
I don't know how closely everyone watched that game last night.
I know there were two games going on. Jaden. It
takes some tough hits, man. And I know I'm gonna
sound like a broken record on this, but he's coming.
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He's he's played two years or year.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
And a half.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
He has suffered an injury that made him misstime both years.
Not a lot of time, but he's miss time both years.
And yes, last night, he didn't seem to like be
protecting himself. That worries me. I the the interception was
a terrible throw. That's gonna happen. I'm not gonna kill
the guy who's take. He's taking care of the ball
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throughout his career and the the fumble.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
It's the rain. It's it's not good. I mean it
cost him the game. You could argue, I'm not going
to kill.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
It for that.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
They would have cooked him, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Especially in that spot with the lead late in the game.
And so, but here is what's crazy right now, demons
about where the command the commanders are. There's obviously sixteen
teams in each conference. The commanders are three and three.
Where do you think don't look, where do you think
they are right now? Standings wise one through sixteen in.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
The NF in their division.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
No, in the in the conference or in the conference.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
One through sixteen, call it.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Eighth, ninth between that, I want to say eight and ten.
I know that's three answers that.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
No, no, no, it's fine. They're twelfth, three and three and
twelfth in the conference.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
NFC's loaded.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Well, here's what's true about the NFC versus the AFC.
The NFC has one team with less than two wins,
the Saints. And the Saints are oddly like frisky right
the Saints. The Saints lost a close one of the
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Cardinals in Week one, lost a close one of the
Niners in week two, got annihilated by Seattle. In week three,
lost a close one of the Bills. In week four,
beat the Giants, and lost a close one of the
Patriots this week. They're obviously not good, but they're not horrific.
But there's they're the only one win team in the NFC.
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The AFC demanse has five one or zero win teams. Now.
One of them's Baltimore, who we think is not really
a one win team because when Lamar gets back, but Miami, Cleveland,
Tennessee and the Jets are horrible. There's then also a
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two win Bengals team which is a zero win team
since Joe Burrow came back or since Joe Burrow got hurt,
and a two win Raider team that, while I'm rooting
for him, have not looked good. So it just feels
like the AFC is shockingly just that all the bad
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teams are there. So the reason I'm mentioning that in
this conversation is for Bears commanders. The other reason this
matters is if I either of these teams gonna make
the playoffs, it's probably gonna be through the wild card,
and that head to head loss for the Commanders is
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a big one. And speaking of playoffs in the AFC,
let me ask you this because the only team that
is in the AFC that I don't know like, I'm
very confident. And again the Raiders thing makes me sad
because I put so much take equity in them. But
all of the two or one or zero win teams
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in the AFC are just bad. That's Cinci, Raiders, Ravens
with an asterisk, Miami, Cleveland, Tennessee, and the Jets. The
only team that has two wins that I'm not including
in there is Houston as a bit of an unknown.
Let's call it Houston something of an unknown. And then
the three or more win teams are Chiefs, Broncos, Jags, Bill's, Patriots, Chargers, Steelers, Colts.
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So here would be my question for you. I just
listed eight teams. Let's assume so the playoff picture if
we just instead of even including the Steelers, we say,
if the Steelers fall out, it will be because Baltimore
went like that division is gonna get one team, Pittsburgh
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or Baltimore the AFC North. That leaves for the other
three divisions six playoff spots. Here are the seven teams
vying for it Colts, Chargers, Pats, Bills, Jags, Broncos, Chiefs.
Which of those seven is most likely to be odd
(48:39):
man out?
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Do you think.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
You say the Broncos?
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Yeah, you said Colts hit Denver.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
I'll say it again. I thought you were maybe gonna
say the Jags. I will also say the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
I believe in that. I believe in the Jags and
our defense. I mean, Trevor Lawrence is these little goofy,
but I believe in that defense.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
Yeah, and with the Jags also have going for him
is two games left against the Titans, a game left
against the Jets, a game left against the Raiders, a
game left.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
Against the weaker division right as well.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
I agree with you, But one of those teams is
going to be out all right before we get to
maybe not maybe, definitely, I think the best game of
Sunday afternoon. I want to talk to you guys about
Chad Powers and our walk on Mount Rushmore. Eight years
after flushing his promising college football career down the toilet,
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hot shot quarterback Russ Holiday tries to resurrect his dreams
by disguising himself as Chad Powers. A talented oddball walks
onto the struggling South Georgia catfish sidebar. This was something
I always wondered pre Achilles surgery. If this was something
that with the new Nil stuff and everything I always
had in the back of my head. I'm like, if
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Demondsey had like twenty seven, wanted to be like, hey,
I want to try playing college basketball again, could he
have done it? I don't know. Chad Powers did it.
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in week three of my Mount Rushmore of college football
walk Ons, paying tribute to the legends who started no scholarship,
no spotlight, and still carved out unforgettable careers. The first
two were just stone locks, JJ Watt and Baker Mayfield.
Today we add another guy that I think is a lock.
(50:44):
And maybe it's a little recency bias, but Stetson Bennett
is my third on walk on Mount Rushmore. Stetson Bennett
was a walk on at Georgia and it didn't take
a snap his whole freshman season because Justin Fields committed
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to Georgia and Bennett decides to then transfer, so he
doesn't play as a walk on in twenty seventeen obviously,
and then transfers. He then goes to Jones College. He
then goes back to Georgia and he sits behind Jake
from He then takes over the team in twenty twenty one,
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and I had these numbers up before. The numbers are good,
don't get me wrong. I mean they're not unbelievable. He
did lead the nation in passing yards though his senior
year twenty nine touchdowns, seven picks his junior year, twenty
seven touchdowns, seven picks his senior year. But the reason
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he is on walk on Mount Rushmore is his junior
and senior year. They won the NASH Championship. Those two years.
As a starting quarterback, they lost one game. Both of
those years, Stetson Bennett was the National Championship Game Offensive MVP.
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He goes to Georgia and despite being five to ten
maybe is the signal caller for two of the greatest
college football teams of this era, winning back to back
national championships, winning back to back offensive MVPs in those
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national championship games. He is our third person on Walk
on Mount Rushmore. Make sure to check out Chad Powers,
a new episode streaming every Tuesday on Hulu and Hulu
on Disney Plus for Bundle subscribers. All right to Monte,
Let's get to Bucks Niners.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
All right, so the injuries keep piling up and sold
to the ws man, Your guy Baker is defying logic
out here here. How worried are you that they're peaking
too early?
Speaker 1 (53:04):
I'm not worried at all because this was if you guys,
remember in the preseason when I picked the Bucks to
go to the Super Bowl. The logic was, I think
that they can be the one seed, and they are
right now on hard Rock bet the favorites to be
the one seed, and you're about to see why if
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we throw their schedule up and then we'll get to
the actual game they have. The next six weeks are
tough at Detroit, Detroit angry coming off a loss, is
tough at New Orleans, hard place to play. Should win
a bye week than home for New England at Buffalo
(53:48):
at the Rams. But because they've already booked Demon's a
five wins. Let's be pessimistic here about that middle stretch, okay,
and say they go two and three beat New Orleans
and then go one in three against Detroit, New England,
Buffalo and the Rams. Right, that would put them at
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seven and four going into a final six games of
home Arizona home, New Orleans, home, Atlanta at Carolina at
Miami home Carolina. They they easily can get to thirteen
(54:31):
wins this year, even if they struggle the next month.
I think that they have a real shot at fourteen wins.
And Baker every week, every week makes an MVP play
third and fourteen. This past week in a one point
game or whatever, I think it was a one point
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game when he did it him somehow escaping the rush
and final scramble for fourteen yards and then hitting the
little weak guy from body Tez what's his name, Tesz Johnson?
Tess Johnson, who demands weighs one hundred and forty five
(55:14):
pounds hits him for the touchdown, Like I mean he
was the one sixty five yeah, oh yeah. Worthy's a
lot taller than the Worthy is my height and is
one sixty one sixty five tes is a legit one
forty five. I don't care what he's listed at. And
(55:36):
I mean, so no Mike Evans, no, Godwin Abuka goes
out is injuries on the offensive line, and I understand
you're playing the Niners, and they're like, we don't want
to hear about injuries and poor Fred Warner and that
and the the Niners, by the way, are now done.
That's not recoverable. Uh. It was unbelievable what they've been
(55:59):
able to to overcome so far. But you the defense
is now going to be terrible every week and Brock
Perdy or mac Jones aren't gonna save you. So the
Niners are to me because of the injuries across off.
I do want to talk about Baker and MVP because
(56:24):
this was a great You should go to my Twitter
and check the replies to I sent out last night
the moment the Bills game ended, I sent out, Uh,
(56:44):
and just like that, your Vegas favorite for NFL MVP
is dot dot dot Patrick Mahomes And the responses to
that are just folks that literally can't read or idiots.
I don't know, not every lot of them, because that
was not an opinion that was a statement of fact. Now,
(57:07):
to be fair, the odds hadn't posted yet. I just
know how gambling works. And with Josh Allen being the
favorite and Patrick already being ahead, like going into last night,
it was Josh Allen one, Patrick two, Baker three, and
so Josh having that type of game was gonna knock
him down. Baker wasn't gonna leap Patrick when not, you know,
(57:30):
Week six for them was already baked in. To be clear,
right now, the MVP is Baker Mayfield. But that's different
than they don't vote right now, but right now, if
they did vote Demons day, I don't think it's debatable.
If they voted right now, Baker should get every vote.
(57:53):
His team's been awesome. They've dealt with a ton of injuries.
He's been sensational, he's been clutch. He is right now
the MVP. The odds are saying they think Baker's is
gonna come down to earth a bit and Mahomes is
only going to get better. And the other thing the
odds are incorporating now is could the Chiefs end up
with a really good seed, which is really helpful with MVP,
(58:18):
And so that's where you know, but right now Baker's
the MVP of the league. What a story, man, what
a story. I'm so happy for him. I'm so happy
for Baker. All right, I want to get to the
other games, including the Eagles loss on Thursday night, which
at this point seems like it was a month ago.
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do apply, all right, demonse, Let's get to the other
games from the weekend.
Speaker 2 (59:27):
Giants defeating the Eagles thirty four to seventeen. Last week,
you said if Saquon doesn't is quiet on Thursday night
football football, It's fair to say that it'll be quiet
all year.
Speaker 3 (59:38):
He didn't break sixty yards, so we're.
Speaker 1 (59:40):
Here and he had thirty on the first two plays.
Speaker 2 (59:43):
Weird.
Speaker 1 (59:45):
The Eagles are teetering. They're teetering. Now, what does teetering
for the Eagles mean they'll miss the playoffs?
Speaker 3 (59:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (59:59):
But could they be staring out a year similar to
the one the last time they made the Super Bowl?
Where they make the playoffs and then get beat up
in the first round of the playoffs because they're a
team that really was never together all year. Possibly, and
the Giants just flat thoroughly outplayed them. And one of
(01:00:25):
the concerns for Philly all year was this really tough schedule.
We gave them a ton of credit because despite the
tough schedule, they found a way to start four and
Oh but then in what was supposed to be a
bit of a softer portion of the schedule home for
the Broncos and then one of your Giants games. You
(01:00:48):
give those wins back, and you still have on the
schedule at Green Bay home for the Lions, at the Chargers,
at the Commander at the Bills, another Commander's game, a
Bears game at the Cowboys. Like not a lot of
soft spots for a team that right now can't throw
(01:01:11):
the ball and right now doesn't have an offensive identity.
So I think that that and they don't have Saguanda
leen On, So yeah, I think it's and for the Giants, listen, Jackson,
Dart's gonna get himself killed. It's fun, it's exciting. He's
gonna get himself killed.
Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
And I really did not like how Dable did in
that game. I've never been like a huge I felt
really bad for Russell Wilson. And also, on top of it,
you yelling at the guy whose job it is to
look out for the player's safety. What if the guy's
actually still like messed up. You're just trying to throw
him back in the game. Oh, Jamis Winston in the
game or something if you don't want to see Russell
(01:01:52):
out there. I thought that was really I didn't like
how they did Russell Wilson that night. I thought that
was crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
That is perfect. Take everything you said there is one
hundred percent correct, every piece of it. For I think
Dabele should be fined a lot of money for that.
I think screaming at the doctor when you're checking a
guy for a concussion is crazy. And also listen, Dable, Dable,
(01:02:21):
None of it made sense. First of all, to your point,
if you are that horrified at the prospect of Russell
Wilson coming into the game, Jameis Winston's on your roster. Now,
they couldn't put Jamis in because he's the emergency third quarterback.
So if you put him in, you can only use
(01:02:42):
your emergency third quarterback. If you if you use your
emergency third quarterback, your previous two quarterbacks cannot go back
in the game. They're done. It's like a baseball player
gets taken out. But you could have just made Jamis
the backup and third quarterback. That's first of all. Second
of all, if you if you don't trust Russell Wilson
(01:03:04):
that much, then don't on the second play that he's
in there call a pass play. And this was the
most damning you saw. Once Dart and then I'll get
to the doctor part. Once Dart went out of the game,
you got a real test of how terrified you were
without him. Yeah, on the next drive he was back in,
(01:03:25):
he called quarterback runs, like what are you doing? So
there that's the football piece of it, The ethics piece
of it is the head coach screaming at the team
doctor can simply never happen, especially when they're checking the
guy for a concussion like that just can't happen.
Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
And I thought that was.
Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
A terrible look. Correct, I I agree with every single
thing you said. All right, let's quickly go through the
other games.
Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
The London we got the Broncos defeat the Jets team
to eleven. One of the worst football games in recent memory.
I guess that was pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
Truly one of the worst football games. Play and listen,
the Bronco Nick Benito is one of the best players
in the entire NFL. That Broncos defense is awesome. Every
single thing I've said about bo Nicks not only as correct,
it might have been too nice. And the Jets game
(01:04:25):
management is just Aaron Glenn is not covering himself in
glory on this and but in his defense, Justin Fields
was unplayably bad in that game. That's one of the
worst games I've ever seen. And there is no one
in the world that with a straight face can say
they feel better about the Broncos forgetting that win. That
(01:04:47):
team's offense is really a problem for one of the
seven teams. Sean Payton's ever coach that he thought could
win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
Next, Oh, we got Panthers defeated the Cowboys thirty to
twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
All right, we just have to accep this weird fact
for the moment. The Panthers at home are a decent team.
I don't know what to I don't know why, and
I don't know what the explains the discrepancy. But on
the road they got annihilated by the Jaguars. They lost
(01:05:19):
to the Cardinals, they got annihilated by the Patriots. At home,
they beat the Falcons thirty and nothing, beat the Dolphins
and beat Dallas and Rico dudele all of a sudden
is unstoppable. So and the Cowboys, on the other hand,
they have the worst defense in the league. Yeah, and
every day you see more example of how much Micah
(01:05:42):
Parsons was holding together by himself.
Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
Next, speaking of that Charger, No, No, we got Seahawks defeating
the Jaguars twenty to twelve.
Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
Yeah, the Seahawks are probably the best team that I
haven't really talked much about. They're just a good team.
And this was a weird game. The Jags games have
been so weird because they only scored twelve points and
they lost, and it was I think one of Trevor's
(01:06:15):
better games. Like they've scored more points than one, and
he hasn't played well. But Seattle's just good. Now, Seattle's
wins before the Jags game. No, that's not true. They
beat the Steelers, they've beaten the Jags. They beat the
Saints and the Cardinals. They lost a game to the
Niners that they had a chance to steal late, and
they lost to Baker in one of Baker's crazy late
(01:06:38):
game heroics. Like the Seahawks are just a good team,
and Donald's playing awesome. Credit to him, Like, Donald's playing
really good, and the Jags, Brian Thomas just hasn't been right.
Trevor hasn't been right. The defense is really good, and
they're not getting enough out of Travis. They haven't figured
out how to use Travis Hunter yet.
Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Next we got the Chargers. If he the Dolphin twenty seven,
that would.
Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
Have been a horrifying loss for the Chargers. Justin Herbert
made an unbelievable play late in that game to shake
off the rush and find McConkey, And that's a great
win for the Chargers. You know, I I do think
that last AFC playoff spot Chargers Broncos, Jags, two will
be in, one will be out. So all of these
(01:07:24):
games matter. And then after the game too. We talked
at the top of the show, but to his press
conference where he's like, who's responsible for team leadership?
Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
Is he like the reason?
Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
Yeah, that's the me. That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
Is he the reason mcdale's not getting fired right now?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
It's like, oh, if the quarterbacks, how can we really
blame the coach?
Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
But I don't know. But Tua's lack of accountability is
jarring and I.
Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
Every time he gets up there, it's a deflection, like
every single day, it's deflecting towards the fans.
Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
Is this an unfair take? The media gives to a
something of a pass for these postgame and pregame comments
that we wouldn't give other quarterbacks because we all kind
(01:08:21):
of feel badly about his concussion history. Yeah, I mean
you're shaking your head. You're shaking your head, So maybe
that means you don't think that's a fair take.
Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
I mean I think, yeah, I just feel.
Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
Like criticism of Tua it almost falls to me in
my brain, like if there's a weird almost like Damar
Hamlin feeling to it, which is like, man, this guy
is we have seen this guy go through so much
(01:08:58):
and the so it like criticism is unfair. Like can
you imagine if someone like again he's not a quarterback,
but like nobody would go on TV and be like,
I'll tell you the problem with the Bills, that's safety,
Like nobody's gonna come after Jamorrow hanmis guy like we
saw him. And I feel like there's an element of
that with Tua.
Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
Yeah, and yeah, it can't be I mean I don't
want to say it can't be like that, but at
the same time, like there has to be some type
of accountability and if you can't grade them on the
same scale.
Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
Constantly throwing his teammates under the bus constantly in games
where he plays terribly, he threw three picks all right.
Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
Next game, Uh, we got Rams defeating the Ravens seventeen
to three. Oh my god, Lamar Jackson means a lot
to this organization.
Speaker 1 (01:09:49):
You think, Yeah, now, I mean glass quarterfall, the defense
finally had of balls.
Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
Yeah, yeah, because I definitely thought the Rams were going
to carve them up. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
Last three quarters empty one in five might be.
Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Unrecoverable, and kept saying like our path is to win
the division. Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
It weird, It's no they need My point is they
need Pittsburgh to fall apart. Yeah, you need Pittsburgh fall apart.
Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
Now. Colts defeat Cardinals thirty one.
Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
Yeah, listen, I guess the culture the other good team
that I don't talk a lot about with the Seahawks.
I mean, the Colts have just been really good. And
by the way, I now have a new kind of ideal.
If the Chiefs can't get the one seed, which they
it's gonna be tough. I hope the Colts do. The
Colts getting the one seed means Arrowhead Invitational is back
(01:10:48):
on the table. I think I'm serious. Colts get the
one seed loser first playoff game, Arrow and Invitational back
like that that exists. But the Colts up to this
point look really good. Now, flip side to the flip side.
Jacoby Brissett scored twenty seven on him, so that's not ideal.
(01:11:09):
But the offense in Daniel Jones look good. Next.
Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
Patriots defeat the Saints twenty five nineteen.
Speaker 1 (01:11:15):
The story of the Patriots right now is mac Jones
deserves real like bottom of the ballot MVP consideration, like
fifth place right now. He's been awesome and he's a
dude man, and so I don't think they have a
ton of great weapons. And he is chucking that sucker
downfield and carving up defenses. The Patriots got a horrific
(01:11:37):
whistle in that game, had some phantom calls take away
huge plays. They overcame it.
Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
Next, Steelers defeat the Browns twenty three to nine.
Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
Credit the Steelers man off of by continuing to win.
Dylan Gabriel looked terrible, like really bad.
Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
And do you see the thing that he did when
like I hit him, He like like they got the
guy hit him. It wasn't really elated. He threw it
and then he hits Gabriel and then Gabriel grabs him
by his shoulder pads and like MUSHes him into the ground.
He got like a little angry.
Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
At Dylan Gabriel. Size. Yeah, I didn't see that. The
Browns are terrible Steelers. I need to pay more attention
to the Steelers. I have thought it's kind of smoking mirrors,
but they're now four and one. They have the second
best record in the AFC. I got even credit.
Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
Next, a Raiders defeat the Titans twenty to ten.
Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
That's just a horrible game. I mean, good for the
Raiders for winning it, but the Titans are just like
we'll see what the Titans look like now that Brian
Callahan's been fired.
Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
Next, Packers defeat the Bengals twenty seven to eighteen.
Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
Not a great win by the Packers. Yeah, I mean
a win's a win, but coming they haven't bought great
off of Bye. They haven't won a game. They hadn't
won a game since September twelfth or something. And I
mean they controlled that entire game, but not great. And
now this from Lebotard show these sons of bitches go ahead?
Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
Oh wait, is this a vampire or a werewolf?
Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
How dare Dan LeBatard send this tweet?
Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
You kind of do like Hotel Transylvania a little bit?
Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
I sent Lebotard's crew a video recapping my long story.
Short is this Dan and I bet five grand on
Chiefs Lions. He then, for some reason, thought we were
betting a white Corvette because the guy does I don't
get it. I then wanted my money that I then
(01:13:44):
felt bad because it seems like he thought it was
a gag. But I made the point of if I
wasn't betting with him, I would have bet that elsewhere.
So like now all of a sudden, am I gonna
lose money? But I had told Dan I was playing
in a huge poker game last night, and so I
said if I won in the poker game, he could
(01:14:06):
distribute my winnings from him to the rest of his staff.
And I sent him a video saying sadly I lost
in the book. Need that money. I'm gonna need that. Uh,
I'm gonna need that money. Uh. So that's the that's
the long story short of that. If you haven't been
(01:14:27):
listening to my you know, okay, I don't even occasional
appearances with the Levatard crew. All right, let's quickly do
some listener questions before I go.
Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
Uh Korn says, if Chiefs ended only getting if Chiefs
ended only getting a wild card and went all the
way and won the Super Bowl, what would the media's
take on it be?
Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
Well, I mean, in the mean, in the very short term,
it would once again be you can never doubt the
Kansas City Chiefs. And then come about mid September. Next
year we'd get new round of is the dynasty now over?
Like they're just gonna step on that break every year.
Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
Next, Christopher says, no talk of Seahawks in the discussion
for top teams despite number two quarterback this season, number
one wide receiver, and number one defensive line.
Speaker 1 (01:15:09):
Listen that Chris, that might I don't think I would
quite have Darnold's the number two quarterback. But he's been
excellent and that's an obviously, Jackson Smith and Jig has
been unbelievable. The d line under Mike McDonald's been really good.
The Ravens Stephen Teden in the same since he left.
That's a fair critique, man, it's a fair critique that
we've been under discussing the Seattle that's fair.
Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
Next, uh Norf asked, do you still have the Ravens
winning the division?
Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
No, I mean the Demond it's not. The Ravens have
better odds right now to win the division than the Patriots. Yeah,
like that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:15:47):
He's come back and scorch it, but.
Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
Come back and just got to get in on like
an instant five game winning streak.
Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Next, Yeah, uh Naki says hi Nick follow you from Spain.
I have a question, what's more looking for you watching
the sports? Compared to two thousand athleticism of almost any
quarterback or automatic fifty R field goals.
Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
No, the quarterback stuff, I think I would have thought that.
You know, field goal kicking is going to continue to progress.
But these, I mean, these superhero quarterbacks are unlike really
anything we had in the past. All right, last one?
Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
Uh Kafrika ass Should the Bengals have traded for Jamis
Winston instead of Flacco?
Speaker 1 (01:16:29):
That's what I would have done.
Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
It's more fun I.
Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
Think it would have made more sense. I think Jamar
and T would have liked it. That's what I would
have done. But that's not what they did. And Mike
Tomlin didn't like that the Browns traded FLACCOH that was funny.
Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
That was funny.
Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
I was he's like Mike like. Evidently Andrew Barry knows
more than me. I wouldn't have done that. All right.
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