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Nick Wright shares his predictions for Wild Card Weekend of the NFL Playoffs! The show starts with Nick's top 5 storylines of the NFL Playoffs including whether this will be the year Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills finally get their Super Bowl moment. Next, Nick and Damonza react to the Baltimore Ravens firing John Harbaugh and discuss what's next for Lamar Jackson and company. Later, Nick shares his best bets of Wildcard Weekend for Bills-Jaguars, 49ers-Eagles, Packers-Bears, and more! #Volume
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome in What's Right with the Great episode four to eleven,
a combo episode. We are going to be doing our
pick show and our full wild Card weekend preview show. Uh,
those are kind of one and the same. You're gonna
get an idea of where I'm leaning on picks when
we do the wild Card weekend preview and also something
(00:22):
of a playoff preview and also demands perfect U outfit
for you out. It's a weird term wardrobe maybe given
that this is our first show, first sports show. I
hope people checked out Thursday show, which was a far
different type.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Of show.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Since John Harbaugh got fired, and we're gonna get to that.
So I don't know if you're wearing that signal to
the Ravens, like you know you're available.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
For I'm riding with them through everything. You know, I
trust and believe they were on way up. I love
it. It's a good listen.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It's a really good franchise that we're gonna get to
the Ravens piece. Shortly the we I did Tuesday show
and I kept saying like, by the time you listen
to this, I wonder if John Harball will have been
fired And for a lot of people. I bet by
the time they listened to it, John Harbaugh had been fired,
but we'll get to that in a bit first. As always,
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to win, but I just because I really would like
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it to really stick it to Lane Kiffin, But I
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By the way, I just you know what's funny, people
are hearing this Friday, so they'll know who won Miami
ole Miss. That will have already happened. We'll see if
(03:13):
I'm right. This could be just dated already. But it's
wild Guard weekend, my second favorite football weekend of the year.
My favorite football weekend of the year's Divisional round weekend.
Wild Guard weekends my second favorite. Let's get right into
a pal.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So the playoffs are officially here, Wildcard weekend coming up.
A lot of the big dogs are missing out of
the playoffs. So with that being said, in the teams
that you see, what are some of the big storylines
that you'll be following in this postseason?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So top five storylines in order. I think I reserve
the right to revise it. And I listen. I saw
my friend Mina Chimes and Dominique Foxworth mocking this idea,
but respectfully, they're wrong. The most interesting story about these
(04:05):
these NFL playoffs are is this the year Josh Allen
breaks through. I understand they're the sixth seed. I understand
they are a flawed team with a bad run defense,
but this is not Josh Allen on the Washington Generals.
They have the rushing champ, they have an excellent pass defense,
(04:26):
they have a great offensive line that there it would be.
It's going to take greatness from Josh Allen to make
it through on the road this playoff field, but it's doable.
And I wonder I for Bills fans, forget for Josh.
(04:49):
Would Bills fans rather have a better team, the best
Bills team, whatever year you think that is, but have
Mahomes and Burrow in the field, or a flawed team
but have no Mahomes in Burrow. I think Bill's fans
(05:12):
would say, give me the flawed team on the road
without the bugeyman plus Joe Burrow sitting in the bracket,
and I think the Bills can do it now. I
also think the Jags are a very dangerous team. I
said this on TV. I don't know if I said
it on here, and you'll find you'll find out who
(05:36):
I'm picking in this game later in the show. But
I believe the winner of this game is going to
win the AFC. I believe in both of these teams
more than I believe in the top two seeds, the
Patriots and the Broncos. So that is to me. Storyline
(05:58):
number one is Can and Josh Allen breakthrough. That's the
most interesting storyline. Storyline number two is will any of
these year two quarterbacks go on a run? You have Caleb,
(06:19):
you have Drake, you have bo Drake has the most
well rounded team. Well, I don't know. The Broncos might
be a more well rounded team than the Patriot. The
Broncos let me, I take that back, because I actually
part of the reason that I think the Patriots are
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better than the Broncos is because I think Drake is
so much better than bow Knicks. But if you were to,
if you take the quarterbacks off of it and evaluate
the rosters, it's probably Broncos number one. The Bears are
an interesting one because the offense is so good, but
the defense of those three teams is the shakiest. But
(07:03):
here's what I'm getting at, Demanse and listen, you know,
I don't believe in bo Knicks, but it's the number
one seed, and if he goes on a playoff run,
I don't know what I'm gonna say. Yeah, we live
in a world where Mahomes missed the playoffs and just
tore his Aco Lamar missed the playoffs as coach, just
(07:23):
got fired. Joe Burrow missed the playoffs for the third
straight year. Okay, if one of these second year quarterbacks
goes on a real run, wins multiple playoff games, shows
up in the super Bowl, whomever it is, assuming again,
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and I don't even really want to include bon Nicks
in this, but I have to be fair, assuming that
it's not the two thousand Ravens way to the super Bowl,
that the offense more than carries its weight, which obviously
would have to happen with the Patriots or the Bears. Right,
does that top of the NFL, not the very top,
(08:09):
but the top ish of the NFL quarterback pyramid have
to start to include one of these kids?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Like the if Drake May and the Patriots make the
Super Bowl. I already think Drake May is probably a
top five quarterback. Then it becomes undeniable if Caleb puts
it all together. God forbid, if bow Knicks wins two
playoff games and makes like, so, which of these young
quarterbacks are any of them gonna go on a run?
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And are any of these young quarterbacks bo at least
has been to the playoffs going to have you know,
those first playoff game jitters or first real expectations in
the playoffs, you know, stumble That to me is the
second biggest storyline. Go ahead. It seem like you want
to say.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Something No, I mean, but bo Nicks can there. I
feel like you'd attribute it. You would attribute that to
the defense carrying. I think it also depends on how
they how they do on the run.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Right, you gotta see how the game plays out. I
think the third biggest storyline is and again I know
that I'm quarterback centric in this, but because the storylines
are typically third biggest storyline is what if Aaron Rodgers
goes on a run? I don't I don't think it's likely,
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but after that game against Baltimore, I don't think it's.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Impossible that where another super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, I mean, the guy's got four MVPs. The guy
as regular season wise, he's a top three quarterback of
all time, and so I obviously winning a super Bowl
puts him in a the It's a totally different world
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in a super Bowl. But I don't even if he
just they break the the Steelers break their decade long
playoff win drought, pull off some upsets, they show up
in a conference championship game be unbelievable and so I
and the Browns game was an abomination. But aside from that,
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he's been really good for the last five weeks. And
he gets dk Metcalf.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Back, So no DK insane.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I know the and not having DK almost costs him
the their season. I think the fourth biggest storyline is,
and maybe this should have been bigger, is what if
the Eagles repeat? Yeah, nobody under the radar. They've kind
of been flying under the radar as a defending Super
Bowl champion, and I think it's because they have seen
(10:53):
flawed so flawed all year. But if they go back, like,
if they go back to back, what that means for
everyone involved on that team all of a sudden, Jalen
Hurts is a no doubt Hall of Famer, the you know,
the Howie Roseman and the Eagles. Maybe they got an
(11:18):
argument that they, not the Chiefs, are the the prestige franchise. Well,
I listen the Chiefs. The Chiefs have been to five
Super Bowls in seven years now and one three. The
Eagles would have been to three and four years one two.
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And then if we extend it back to Foles, it's
hard to call that like part of this. It's a
different coach, it's a different quarterback, but it would have
been they've been. If they win this year that in
nine years, Demons, they went to four super Bowls, won three.
That's pretty unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
It's so hard to imagine them repeating give and other season.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's the thing I just don't. It doesn't seem possible.
But maybe. But they're big favorites, relatively big favorites against
the Niners in round one. No one would be shocked
if they went on the road and beat Chicago in
round two. And if Chicago loses in round one, then
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Philly would be home for round two, like there's a
path there. And then number five is which of the
two NFC West Juggernaut teams is able to in the
(12:46):
playoffs look the way they did most of the regular season,
which is like the best team in football for either
of them, the Rams and the Seahawks. The Rams path
is harder, but their quarterback is so much better. The
Seahawks being at home, being rested, being healthy, with that
defense in that crowd. Dude, I am not dismissing at
(13:07):
all the very real possibility of the Seattle Seahawks winning
the Super Bowl. I think that's Sam Darnold. The Seahawks
can win the Super Bowl. I can't believe it. I
think right now my pick would be Matt Stafford in
the Rams, but I think Seahawks can do it. So
those are my five biggest storylines. We'll get to hardballs
firing in just a moment. I can spend a ton
(13:29):
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All right, demanse, let's get to harball before we get
to some of the other games.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
All right, So, sadly, after eighteen seasons twelve postseason ofppearances
in the Super Bowl Ring, the Ravens are a partner
ways with John Harball. You everything would call this on Tuesday,
But now that it's official, where are the Ravens going?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
So it's really interesting interviewing Brian Flores found that out today.
I I would be really interested in Mike McDaniel just
got fired and a lot of people are connecting Harball
to the Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Couldn't see him coaching.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I couldn't see who coaching was.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I couldn't see Harrorball coaching in Miami.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Well, I think there's like a weird Steve I think
I should know this. I think there's some Michigan connections
Stephen Ross, but it doesn't matter. Like the I think
it'd be hard to go from Lamar Jackson to.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Two.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
But they're not even gonna have TUA, Like, what are
they gonna do?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Miami's in a tough spot. What's funny not funny. But
what's interesting is I thought Mike McDaniel as the Ravens
offensive coordinator was an awesome idea, Like Matt running game
that he developed, except you have Lamar and Derrick Henry,
like that would be you know, Mike McDaniel as it
(17:16):
was like Matt Nagy's leaving the Chiefs. I know it's
different systems and everything, but man, oh man, Mike McDaniel's
the Chiefs offensive coordinator is something I'm super intrigued by,
even though I think it's very unlikely. Now, maybe McDaniel
thinks he's gonna step into a head coaching job. That
would surprise me. I don't think he's gonna go right,
(17:37):
but maybe he will. His record wasn't terrible. The team
didn't quit at the end, and some people might be like,
look at what he did with Tua. As far as
the Ravens decision on firing Harball, I there was no decision, guys,
the and I've done enough victory lapping on Twitter, so
(18:01):
I don't need to. And it's not victory lapping about
someone losing their job, to be clear, victory lapping on
I told you guys all year there was a problem
between Lamar and Harba, and you guys thought I was
just I spun a wheel. People thought like, oh, Nick
just decided today he's going to create this out of
thin air as opposed to a paying close attention to
(18:21):
the incredibly odd objective fact that they didn't communicate about
how hurt he was and also having a little behind
the scenes insights. So their ability to ensure Lamar was
(18:45):
a raven for life and was a raven next year
was going to be kneecapped had they kept Harba. So
they didn't, So they move on. And even though tell
me if this makes sense to you, to Monsey, the
odds are the next coach of the Ravens is not
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nearly as good of a coach as John Harball, but
that doesn't mean that coach won't be the one to
get him over the hump. He might be a worse coach.
But also like that they just need something new or
better luck or whatever it is, and that it felt
like you couldn't just run it back again with Harball,
(19:32):
so I felt like the move needed to be made,
even though I think Harball is an excellent coach that
tracked to you.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, I definitely don't think the next coach that we
would get will be better or as good as John Harball.
I think it's gonna be pretty hard to find. Belichick
wanted them.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, so it sounds contradictory. There is the Belichick thing
so interesting had he not had this embarrassment of a
year in his co Jimmy, Yes, I really think so.
And you wouldn't care that that he's old, that it's
not long term, because it's like, no, we just need
to get over the hum lamar For Harball, obviously, I
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think he could have his pick of jobs. If I'm
John Harbaugh, I don't know that I want any of
these jobs. I certainly because it was reported yesterday that
he's going to wait a week before he starts taking interviews.
I think that's smart because I'd be awful interested.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
In if.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
The Eagles, Bill's or Packers losing Round one to any
of those teams, ownership decide we're gonna fire our coach
to hire Harball. Now, on that note, I think Cincinnati
(21:08):
should reach out to Harball's agent today and be like,
if this job was open, would he take it? And
if the answers yes, I'd fire Zach Taylor. Now that's
not really Cincinnati's style. For Philadelphia, it might sound harsh,
Sirianni is literally the defending Super Bowl champion, But Howie
Roseman and Jeffrey Lourie have never cared about being harsh.
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They drafted Carson Wentz number two overall, gave him a
huge contract, moved on from him. Doug Peterson won a
Super Bowl with Nick Foles, then won a playoff game
the next year with Nick Foles. They moved on from him.
They moved like they will if they think they can
get better, they will move on from somebody. And I
think Harbaugh, who came like started coaching in Philly, I
(21:54):
think that's really interesting there. Buffalo less interesting and he,
Danny explained, I didn't quite follow it. He has some
real like green Bay ties about like his who his
agent is and green Bay. I don't totally follow. It
doesn't matter, but it seemed like Lafloor. Midway through the
(22:15):
season there was a little scuttle but about Lafleur not
being quite as safe as people thought and how he
hadn't gotten an extension. So if I'm horrible, I just
want to wait and see do what does a job
come open where the quarterback is set Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts,
Jordan Love or am I gonna have to roll the
(22:35):
Jackson Dart Dice or Atlanta with Michael Pennix. Like, so
that's that's what I think.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Is those places if you went over there would be
more likely to move off the quarterback though, right, Like
it's like, Oh, he's obvious, it's not the coach that's
the problem. It's the quarterback more likely. Oh, you have
a little bit more control over who's coming in.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Oh yeah, I mean I think John Hart all get
whatever he wants because there's also not another great head
coaching option out there. It's not like there's also Sean
Payton and Jim Arbaugh waiting in the wings or Ben Johnson.
You know that guy doesn't seem to exist this cycle. Now,
(23:19):
let me say this about what this means. Pardon me,
guess what this means for Lamar.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Come come with it next year, dude.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
They have changed defensive coordinators multiple times since he's been there. Again,
no culpability on his end for that, just stating effect.
They've changed offensive coordinators multiple times and they're about to
do it again. They've now changed head coaches. They brought
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in Derrick Henry, who has been nothing but dominant since
he became a Raven. We can argue about how good
these picks were, but since Lamar has been there, they
have spent three first round picks on wide receivers. They
perennially lead the league or near the top of the
(24:15):
league in Pro bowlers on the roster. And now I believe,
with reason to believe, he got what he wanted and
he's getting a new head coach. Got to go be
awesome now. And more than being awesome, you gotta be available.
You want to know a shocking fact, Demons, In the
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last five years, Lamar Jackson and always injured brittle Joe
Burrow have played the exact same amount of games. No,
that's true. I'm not making that up.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
That is an insane stuy.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
In the last five years, Lamar Jackson has played seventy
regular season games and four playoff games and Joe Burrow's
played sixty seven regular season games and seven playoff games.
To the tune of them both playing in the last
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five years seventy four games in the last five years,
they both have played in the playoffs two years and
either missed or not been healthy for the playoffs the
other three years. For context on that, in the last
five years, Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes have also played
(25:43):
the exact same number of games ninety three, So nineteen
games more more than a full season and a playoff
run of more availability. And the Lamar stat is stunning,
isn't it? Because we look at Burrow as injury always,
I thought, right, and with Joe we also like and
(26:07):
there very what do you call it, like significant injuries?
You know what I mean? Like Joe Burrow, like, oh,
he's out months with a turf toe. Oh, he's out
the end of the season with the UCL Lamar. I
couldn't when I didn't know that. When I was looking
(26:28):
it up, I was just like, I'm curious.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Well, you feel like with Lamar they are less crucial
injuries than well.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
They're not. It hasn't been like needed surgery like Joe
needed on both the right, but the it's stunning seventy
four games each. So he's got to be available. He
turned twenty nine yesterday. He's going to get the biggest
contract in NFL history this offseason. It's got to go perform.
And I'm not sitting here saying can't do it. But yeah,
(27:06):
pretty big off season, Pretty big off season. All right,
let's talk about some of the playoff games before we
get to.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Ours, so after your Chiefs got eliminated, you would need it.
Immediately jumped onto the Buffalo bandwagon and said that they
should win the super Bowl. But the problem is they
play your Jags. They obviously have the prince that was
promised on there, so you're in a little bit of debacle.
You said that the winner of this game would go
to the super Bowl. Do you care to explain that more?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, listen, I just I I know that people think
it's fastcile analysis. Just be like, Josh Allaen's best quarterback
on the side of the bracket, so I'm picking him.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, But in the.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
NFL playoffs, if you have a superhero, this is my
old Jared Goff thing that people got mad at. Do
you remember that the superhero and the civilian that I
called Jared Goff a civilian, Yes, a civilian when they're
superheroes and bo Nicks, C J. Stroud, Aaron Rodgers at
(28:15):
this point in his career, why oh are civilians? Doesn't
mean they're not good, but it does mean I can't
imagine those guys are just going to put the team
on their back a sin to a higher plane. Justin Herbert,
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who I do not believe it has the traits of
a guy who could do that. He is. He's never
done it, he's never shown it to us. But if
it were to happen, it wouldn't come out of nowhere,
right Drake May, by the way, saying with Trevor, let
me say that about Trevor now. Trevor at least has
won a playoff game and played well in the playoffs.
(28:59):
But Trevor, he has the traits of a guy who
could be a superhero. Was a projected superhero coming out
of school, hasn't quite hit yet. Drake May looks like
a young superhero. It's like, oh, Drake May checks all
the boxes, but it's his first time ever in the playoffs.
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Josh Allen is a legit superhero hero in the prime
of his career, has played great in the playoffs. The
other guys who are his caliber of guaranteed future first
ballot Hall of Famers in their prime are not in
the playoffs. Hard to pick against that team, however, and
(29:47):
so I guess when I so if they win, I
think the Jags are excellent, excellent, And if the Bills
can go to Jacksonville and win, then they go to
New England and win. They've already done it. Go to
Denver and win, like they can beat all those teams. Jacksonville,
on the other hand, has been the best team in
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the NFL, certainly the best team in the AFC for
two months. And if they beat Buffalo, Do I think
they can go to New England? Of course? Do I
think in the AFC Championship game they could go to Denver?
They just went to New England and dog, I'm to
Denver and crushed them. Do I think that in round
(30:30):
two if it happened to be this matchup, they could
beat Pittsburgh or Houston. In Jacksonville, they already beat Houston
and so I I just think those are I think
the Bills are the scariest team because of Alan, and
I think right now the Jags are the best team.
(30:53):
And it's a brutal spot where I got to pick
one of these two.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah, I was about to say who who do you
actually want to win? Though? Like what? Jack? Okay?
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah, I want Trevor. Do you realize it would seem
unfair if we went from since like first things first,
and this podcast has been a thing, if the Super
Bowls went from if it went Mahomes Mahomes missus a year,
(31:26):
the borough year Mahomes Mahomes Mahomes AFC wise and in
the year he's out. It's the guy that I'm the
only national supporter of in Trevor Lawrence. Yea like that.
It would it would just seem yeah, and so I
would love it to be Trevor. NFL history tells us
(31:51):
it should be Josh that this is this is his
time now. But I will say this and the Ravens,
I'm sure they didn't do it because of this stat
or whatever, but the stat that I was telling you
guys before the year, and hear what I'm saying here,
because it's an interesting one. Every coach and quarterback combo
(32:18):
that has ever won a Super Bowl together won their
first super Bowl together within the first five years of
being together. So like demons, do you follow what I'm
saying there? You as an avatar for the audience like
there is There has never been a coach quarterback combo
(32:38):
that got over the hump and won a Super Bowl
together that didn't get over the hump in their first
five years. Now you might have won, you know, like
Brady and Belichick also won one in year eighteen together,
but you win. That was relevant this year for two
combos Lamar and John har who've been together eight years,
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and Josh Allen and McDermott, who have been together eight years.
I do not think McDermott's on the hot seat. However,
losing in round one, even though they're the sixth seed
and they're on the road, I think could put them
on the hot seat. I also though, oh you think
for sure?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, because I think how you feel, how the world feels.
This is supposed to be their year. Everybody's gone, and
then you lose in round one, not even getting there.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
And here's the other thing. You're losing round one to
a team that, even though they're thirteen and four and
have been bludgeting people, nobody respects. Yeah, like I respect
the Jags, but nobody it had somehow they like, let's
say they drew the Patriots and lost in round one.
(33:55):
I canna be like many Drake may vrabel this team.
They were better all year. The Jags are a tough
one certainly, and so I don't know, I don't know.
I find it so fascinating. I cannot wait for That
is the game of the weekend to me.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah, they're the easily All.
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Philly for a minute before we get to our picks.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Eagles are hosting the Niners this Sunday, and you know
what everybody's going to be looking at. Can Philly's offense
look normal? Can they play a decent game? Do you
think that they'll be able to return to their Super
Bowl self? As you said, it like a switch in
the Niners game.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
So here's what I think is interesting. I think people
forget what the Eagles offense looked like last postseason because
it did not get rolling until the Conference championship game,
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and then it went into hyper drive. Conference Championship game,
they scored fifty five points. The Super Bowl they scored forty.
Round one against Green Bay Phillies scored twenty two points.
Jalen threw for one hundred and thirty yards. Round two
(35:51):
against the Rams, Jalen threw for one hundred and twenty
eight yards. They scored eight points, which is really good.
But if you remember that game is sixteen to fifteen
entering the fourth quarter, and that the Eagles were settling
(36:17):
for field goals, settling for field goal and then Saquon
rips off the eighty yard or where he's slapping his helmet,
but the passing game was not working, and then they
had the really weird sequence at the end where the
Rams almost ended up stealing it. And then come the
Conference Championship game and Super Bowl. I mean they scored
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ninety five points of those two weeks, but even those
two weeks, Jalen didn't throw for two point fifty in
either of those games. Last year, the Eagles offense, when
they we say it, got rolling. Jalen was very efficient.
He took care of the ball. He had an unbelievable
touchdown run in the RAM game. He you know, he
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crushed Washington with the tush pushes. That's when the member
of the refs were like, we're gonna award a touchdown
if you keep this shit up to Washington. But last
year's Eagles playoff offense was Saquon being unreal. Jalen threw
four in four games, seven hundred yard, seven hundred and
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twenty six yards. So it wasn't that all of a
sudden the offense, the passing game started rolling. They were
a dominant and they listen, they kicked the Chiefs assen
the super I'm not taking anything away from them at all.
The point I'm making is it wasn't okay, you know
now we've got this playoff mode offense. It was the
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offense they've been all year. Saguon Barkley was freaking awesome.
Jalen Hurts took care of the ball. That's the offense
they were all year. That's the offense they were in
the playoffs. If that trend of being the offense they
were all year, there'll be that offense in the playoffs continues.
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They're in huge trouble because the offense they've been all
year this year is terrible. Now they are drawing a
bad defense. But I am I will admit I am
a little nervous about the Eagles going on a run
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just because their fans are so obnoxious to me. But
do you The Eagles have not scored more than twenty
points against a playoff team since the Week three win
against the Rams where they the blocked field goal returned
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for a touchdown. Since then, this is what they've scored
against playoff teams. Seventeen against Denver, ten against the Packers,
fifteen against the Bears, whose defense is not good, nineteen
against the Chargers, twelve against the Bills. So I they're healthier,
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they have Lane Johnson back. I don't think that. I
think that Eagles offense has been broken all year, and
I don't believe Demonse it's going to all of a sudden.
I don't think they can flip the switch. I also
am curious in that game, and we'll get to it
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and picks in just a moment. Can the Niners offense
be as prolific as they're gonna need to be against
a defense that dominant? But it is time now for
knicks picks, So Demanse, Oh, there it is, there's our
friends bed. I was waiting for it. So in order
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to keep the five hundred or better streak alive, I
think four of the five years on this pod, we've
been five hundred or better. We needed to go three
and two or better the final weekend. Let's go through it.
Because we laid two and a half with Tampa. They
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won by two, so now we gotta go three and
one down the stretch. Seattle minus one felt great the
whole way. Raiders plus five and a half. I told
you guys, my god, that Chiefs offense is just so bad.
So now we just need one win in the late windows.
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Miami plus twelve felt dead pretty early. So it all
came down to Pittsburgh against Baltimore, and you have I
was rooting for Pittsburgh to win. Out right. That's great
because I picked them. I know it makes you said,
but I picked them, and I and I just the
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so I was rooting for it despite that. You should
have seen how I reacted to Boswell's missed extra point.
Because Boswell's miss missed extra point, I'm like, oh my god,
plus three and a half is home. Like now, now
there's no overtime there's no funny business. Now it's either
gonna be a Raven's two point win or Pittsburgh. I'm sorry,
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a Raven's one point win or a Pittsburgh two point win.
So we got it forty four, forty four and two.
Nothing to write home about. You would have lost money
on it because of the big but still going five
hundred picking games is I'll call it difficult. I would
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like to do better. The only the only piece of
our gambling show that was dominant. We'll get to it
more in a moment was Demonse's teasers, which I am
considering next year to Monsey putting real funds behind. Like
I am, I'm I'm considering having a huge portion of
(42:23):
my twenty twenty six football gambling portfolio b Demonse's teasers.
I preciate you are. I mean, you really you can
a great job that well, you did a great job.
You It was just impressive. Yeah, we'll get We'll get
to that in a moment. But now all lines are
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of course from hard Rock bet. But I'm told something
that there's a twist this year.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Uh yeah, so we're gonna you're gonna be picking on
all the games. But I'm gonna be going ahead to
head with you in picking picking games as well. Where
you you stepped over to the teaser landscape, I'm gonna
step over to the pigs landscape.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Okay, love it. And so I don't know where we
agree or disagree, So why don't you. So you set
up the you say the game, I'll say my pick,
and then you say where you stand on it.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Okay, So first we got the Rams minus ten and
a half at Carolina. You're taking the Rams there.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Listen, this is a I believe a square play. The
home favorite. Home dogs, big home dogs in the playoffs
are always cover. The producers tell me there have only
been nine home dogs in the playoffs since nineteen seventy
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of greater than four points, and they're one and eight.
The road favorite is one and eight against the spread.
I understand that, and ten and a half is a
ton of points. I just believe Carolina is not only
the worst team that made the playoffs. I don't think
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they're a good team. I think that there were five
or six teams that missed the playoffs that right now
this week I think are better than Carolina. Yea, And
the fact that the Rams played them and lost to them.
Will give the Rams just enough appropriate fear to know.
(44:26):
It doesn't matter that we're double digit favorites. We have
to take care of business. I will swallow this huge
number and lay the ten and a half with the Rams.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Your thoughts done, I'm taking I'm taking Carolina there. I
knew you would. I'm yeah, no, I'm I trust Carolina.
And that's It's a lot of points.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Honestly, Yeah, I was gonna say, you just like the points.
It's totally fine. It's a lot of points.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
So that's that's why I am there. I mean, all right,
next one, the next one, you got Chicago plus one
versus Green Bay.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
Listen, Chicago's at home, and I think they're better than
the Packers, and they have played the Packers twice. Both
games came down to the final moments. But the Packers
are the are not the same team from an injury
perspective as they were right, Jordan Love hasn't played the
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Packers obviously, don't have Mica, don't have Tucker Kraft, don't
have a lot of key guys. They when they played
the Bears the first time, Caleb had to pass into
the end zone to potentially you know, tie the game.
I think they probably would have gone for two. He
threw the pick, and when they played him the second time,
he had the pass in overtime to win the game.
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I think the Bears are better. The Bears are at home,
the Bears are healthier. I did not like how the
Bears played this weekend. I still think the Packers won
nine games because they were about the quality. Once everybody
got hurt of a nine win team, I'll take Chicago
plus one.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
The Bears might have the better coach. Oh you know
these days. Uh, but yeah, I took Chicago there too.
I don't know if you said.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
That the Okay, so we're on the same page there.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
All right, name page there? Jacksonville plus one versus Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Yeah, so I'm taking the Jags plus the points. And
you might say, what points?
Speaker 2 (46:27):
It's point.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
I gotta be honest with my dear friends at hard Rock. Bet.
I'm disappointed that I can't that this isn't one and
a half, and I really want that half point because
I think let's so let me explain my pick here, Okay.
(46:51):
I I think Jacksonville is the more well rounded team
and the team that currently is playing better. I also
think Buffalo's tendency to play poor early and then rally
late could be a problem for them in this game
(47:13):
if Jacksonville's able to shorten the game by efficient passing
and running the ball with ETN. I also the reason
I said I want that half point is for some
reason or another deep down kind of think Buffalo is
gonna win this game by one, and so like that
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a twenty four to twenty three Bills win. And so
I know this is the definition of kind of having
it both ways. I get that I don't have a
super strong conviction. I really liked when I thought I
was gonna be getting I thought when this game, I
thought it was gonna be Bill's minus two and a half,
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but it was Bill's minus one and a half. And
now it's Bill's minus one. But I will take Jacksonville
plus one. And to be clear, because I see what
the producers wrote said number one storyline was Josh breaking through.
To me, those storylines were not all predictions. It was
what the biggest storyline is, will Josh break through? And
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this bet? Can you know Bill's the Bills win by one?
There is no way to win this pick in either direction.
It would mean, the line's exactly right. I just think
I think the Jags, they're a thirteen win team that's
at home, that's healthy, that's playing great. They shouldn't be
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home dogs. So I just I'm obligated to. I don't
love it. You never love. You never love picking against
the team that you think is more likely to win
because you're getting the points, but the points you're getting
are one one. You don't love that. Well, you really
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don't love that, but it is Jacksonville plus one.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
I took Buffalo minus the point just because if Josh
Allen does not go out there and win, it's gonna
be really bad for him. It's gonna be really bad
for Buffalo. I think if they don't go out and
get this win. So I took with minus the points.
But San Francisco plus four and a half at Philly, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
I'll take the Niners plus the points. I just I
think that I think this should be Philly minus three,
and it's Philly minus four and a half, and I
think San Francisco can win. I certainly just I don't
trust Philadelphia to look impressive offensively again against teams that
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had a pulse down the stretch. Beat the Bills by one,
lost to the Chargers by three in overtime, lost to
the Bears by nine, beat the Lions, who had a
pulse at that point in time, by nine, but uh
beat the Packers by three. Lost to the Broncos by four,
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like they just even early in the year, beat the
Cowboys by four, beat the Chiefs by three. That Rams game,
you'll that, you'll oh, they beat the Rams by seven.
Not really, they were beating the Rams by one. The
Rams were attempting a game winning field goal and then
it got blocked and returned for a touchdown. They beat
the Bucks by six, like their wins by real margin
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this year. They're how more than one score wins the Giants,
the Raiders, the Commanders. And I understand, it's not like
I'm getting seven and a half, I'm getting four and
a half, But I do. I thought the Niners defense
played its best game in forever again in Seattle, and
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I think that if they it now Trent Williams not
practicing Wednesday, I don't love. I've got to imagine he
will play in this game Sunday. I like that this
game is Sunday instead of Saturday. For that purpose. I
think San Francisco can win. I'm getting more than a
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field goal against a team whose offense is broken. I'll
take San Francisco plus four and a half.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
I'm right with you there, Yeah, okay, all right, Chargers
plus four at New England.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
I think the Pats win, but I think the Pats
win by three. I'll take the four points. I'm underdog heavy,
but I just I can't. This is This would be traumatic.
And I understand his offensive linees brutal, I get it.
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This would be traumatic for Herbert if he lays another egg.
He doesn't have to win. Like, I'm not gonna that.
They aren't as good as New England. They're on the road.
I'm not gonna if he, you know, plays a normal
Herbert game and they just lose. Now, he's not gonna
get like bonus credit. But I'm not gonna kill him
for it. Uh. But he can't lay another egg. I
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don't imagine he will. He's been carrying this team on
the offensive side of the ball throughout the year. The defense,
but the real the real reason that I like grabbing
the pointsier to Monsey Ish Drake May has not faced
a defense as good as the Chargers defense. I don't
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know if he's done it all year. Like I'm trying
to think who's the best defense the Patriots faced. I
I can't find a good one. And the Steelers, I
guess you could argue they turn the ball over five times.
The Panthers like early in the year, I don't know,
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like the Bills. The Bills pass defense has been really
good all year. Drake May threw zero touchdowns against him
in two games. Now, Listen, this isn't me. I'm I
think the Pats are gonna win. But I get four
points and what I think will be a low scoring,
cold game at night, and I just don't think it's
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gonna be a prolific passing attack. I also think Vrabel
can shorten the game if he needs to. I'll take
the four points with the Chargers taking the four. Okay,
So right now, our only difference is you've got Carolina
plus ten and a half and you've got the Bills
minus one. Other than that, we're on the same page,
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all right.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
Last one last year Pittsburgh plus three versus Houston.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
I think Steelers are gonna win, and I understand Tomlin
hasn't won a playoff game in a decade.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (54:10):
They get DJ Metcalf back, They're coming off that type
of victory. Houston's offense never got fixed. It got a pulse,
but it never got fixed. There is this weird stat
that only I care about, which is that Mike Tomlin's
the greatest Monday night football coach ever. He's twenty two
to three in his career on Monday nights and twelve
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and oh at home. He's been the head coach for
twenty years. He's never lost a home Monday night game.
This is a home Monday night game, and I think
that Rogers is going to be for the first time
all year, Demonse willing to stand in the pocket and
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get hit if he needs to be because they're in
the playoffs. And again, just like a kind of auto
gambling rule. I know it has not been a good
rule in the playoffs the last decade, but Mike Tomlin
at home getting points, I just gotta I gotta be
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on that side of it. So I'll take Pittsburgh plus
the three.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
Rogers might get mangled, though he might be a yeah,
I'm with you on I'm with you on that too.
Pittsburgh plus three great.
Speaker 1 (55:25):
So we only have two differences. Yeah, but my my
picks are the Rams minus ten and a half and
then all the underdogs Chicago plus one, Jacksonville plus one,
the Niners plus four and a half, the Chargers plus four,
Pittsburgh plus three, and de Mon's even if you don't win,
I'm so proud of the fact that you are you
(55:49):
just you just love getting points. You tease underdogs up
instead of favorites down to the NFL playoffs. You're like,
just give me the points. Just love you love getting points.
It makes me so happy. A such a good Uh yeah,
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exactly right, they're giving you the points. Just take it
all right. Speaking of good gambling fundamentals, Demon's crushed his
teasers this year eleven and seven, including a four lager
a few weeks ago. This week, I don't even think
it was close on any of them. Carolina plus ten
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and a half they lost by two, Pittsburgh plus eleven
and a half they won out right, Buffalo plus a half.
They annihilated the Jets, even with Mitch Trubisky playing what
are you doing this week?
Speaker 2 (56:47):
This week we got a three team eight point teaser
at plus one hundred, and we're gonna be teasing Chicago
up to plus nine. I want to tease Buffalo up
to a touch to plus seven, and then I want
to tease the Chargers up to US twelve. You know,
I can only go with the games they give me what. Yeah,
we had this week, so.
Speaker 1 (57:08):
I like a lot. I also like the fact that
you resisted the urge to tease. If you like the
Panthers plus ten and a half, you might be like, well,
I really like them plus eighteen.
Speaker 2 (57:20):
And a half.
Speaker 1 (57:21):
But I think deep down you felt like, yeah, they
might get both.
Speaker 2 (57:25):
They could, They could lose by three scores, and you're
not getting quite the key numbers.
Speaker 1 (57:33):
You're the Chargers ones a little awkward going from four
to twelve. It's not as much value. But I also
I don't think they're gonna get blown out. Come on,
Chicago's gotta be able to you know, if Chicago gets
blown out at home, it's a disaster. And listen, the
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Jags have been kicking the shit out of people, but
this is the bills and the playoffs. You get all.
I'll look past your teas and through the zero because
you obviously get it up to seven, which is such
a key. So I've lost I believe it's patronizing at
this point for me to grade the teasers. I'm not
(58:14):
grading him anymore. You're just the you have taught me
how to do it.
Speaker 2 (58:18):
Grad all right, you've.
Speaker 1 (58:20):
Graduated from it. I do have a touchdown, Genie this week?
Speaker 2 (58:25):
Who are we going with.
Speaker 1 (58:27):
Trevor Lawrence? Guy loves that quarterback snake?
Speaker 2 (58:31):
Okay, Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 1 (58:32):
Yeah, Trevor Lawrence plus one seventy anytime touchdown is my touchdown?
Speaker 2 (58:38):
Genie? This week? Solid? All right? That was was a
bold one. I expect that.
Speaker 1 (58:43):
So that is so what's the offer? I know what
the offer is, but go.
Speaker 2 (58:48):
Ahead, So you skip the offer last week? This week
we were riding with your boy, Trevor Lawrence along with TD. Genie.
He's thrown for three touchdowns with zero interceptions in three
of his last four games. Do you think he can
do it again? Trevor? Three plus touchdowns and zero interceptions
at plus six hundred.
Speaker 1 (59:04):
So this doesn't count, right, Like if he runs for one,
it has to be three passing touchdowns. Then I sadly
have to turn this down. While I appreciate it, I
just think that this is gonna be a running game
for the Jags. Bill's run defense is bad. Pass defense
is good. So even at six to one, I sadly
have to reject it demands. Can't wait for the weekend.
(59:27):
I'm gonna be facetiing you a bunch during these games.
Wild Card weekend should be excellent. Your Raven's not in it,
my chiefs not in it. Get to be nice and relaxed,
y kid ourselves, chill out. Thank you to everybody like
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football weekend. Talk to you guys Tuesday. What's right
Welcome in What's Right with the Great episode four to eleven,
a combo episode. We are going to be doing our
pick show and our full wild Card weekend preview show. Uh,
those are kind of one and the same. You're gonna
get an idea of where I'm leaning on picks when
we do the wild Card weekend preview and also something
(00:22):
of a playoff preview and also demands perfect U outfit
for you out. It's a weird term wardrobe maybe given
that this is our first show, first sports show. I
hope people checked out Thursday show, which was a far
different type.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Of show.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Since John Harbaugh got fired, and we're gonna get to that.
So I don't know if you're wearing that signal to
the Ravens, like you know you're available.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
For I'm riding with them through everything. You know, I
trust and believe they were on way up. I love
it. It's a good listen.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It's a really good franchise that we're gonna get to
the Ravens piece. Shortly the we I did Tuesday show
and I kept saying like, by the time you listen
to this, I wonder if John Harball will have been
fired And for a lot of people. I bet by
the time they listened to it, John Harbaugh had been fired,
but we'll get to that in a bit first. As always,
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the worst value is I mean no, and I listen,
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So this is really Trey Young for Corey Kispert. That's
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This is a ridiculous, silly thing from an old man,
and my college football playoff semi final prediction. I think
we are getting Indiana Miami. I would like Ole Miss
to win, but I just because I really would like
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it to really stick it to Lane Kiffin, But I
think we're getting Indiana Miami. Reminder, everybody like rates of
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By the way, I just you know what's funny, people
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(03:13):
I'm right. This could be just dated already. But it's
wild Guard weekend, my second favorite football weekend of the year.
My favorite football weekend of the year's Divisional round weekend.
Wild Guard weekends my second favorite. Let's get right into
a pal.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So the playoffs are officially here, Wildcard weekend coming up.
A lot of the big dogs are missing out of
the playoffs. So with that being said, in the teams
that you see, what are some of the big storylines
that you'll be following in this postseason?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So top five storylines in order. I think I reserve
the right to revise it. And I listen. I saw
my friend Mina Chimes and Dominique Foxworth mocking this idea,
but respectfully, they're wrong. The most interesting story about these
(04:05):
these NFL playoffs are is this the year Josh Allen
breaks through. I understand they're the sixth seed. I understand
they are a flawed team with a bad run defense,
but this is not Josh Allen on the Washington Generals.
They have the rushing champ, they have an excellent pass defense,
(04:26):
they have a great offensive line that there it would be.
It's going to take greatness from Josh Allen to make
it through on the road this playoff field, but it's doable.
And I wonder I for Bills fans, forget for Josh.
(04:49):
Would Bills fans rather have a better team, the best
Bills team, whatever year you think that is, but have
Mahomes and Burrow in the field, or a flawed team
but have no Mahomes in Burrow. I think Bill's fans
(05:12):
would say, give me the flawed team on the road
without the bugeyman plus Joe Burrow sitting in the bracket,
and I think the Bills can do it now. I
also think the Jags are a very dangerous team. I
said this on TV. I don't know if I said
it on here, and you'll find you'll find out who
(05:36):
I'm picking in this game later in the show. But
I believe the winner of this game is going to
win the AFC. I believe in both of these teams
more than I believe in the top two seeds, the
Patriots and the Broncos. So that is to me. Storyline
(05:58):
number one is Can and Josh Allen breakthrough. That's the
most interesting storyline. Storyline number two is will any of
these year two quarterbacks go on a run? You have Caleb,
(06:19):
you have Drake, you have bo Drake has the most
well rounded team. Well, I don't know. The Broncos might
be a more well rounded team than the Patriot. The
Broncos let me, I take that back, because I actually
part of the reason that I think the Patriots are
(06:39):
better than the Broncos is because I think Drake is
so much better than bow Knicks. But if you were to,
if you take the quarterbacks off of it and evaluate
the rosters, it's probably Broncos number one. The Bears are
an interesting one because the offense is so good, but
the defense of those three teams is the shakiest. But
(07:03):
here's what I'm getting at, Demanse and listen, you know,
I don't believe in bo Knicks, but it's the number
one seed, and if he goes on a playoff run,
I don't know what I'm gonna say. Yeah, we live
in a world where Mahomes missed the playoffs and just
tore his Aco Lamar missed the playoffs as coach, just
(07:23):
got fired. Joe Burrow missed the playoffs for the third
straight year. Okay, if one of these second year quarterbacks
goes on a real run, wins multiple playoff games, shows
up in the super Bowl, whomever it is, assuming again,
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and I don't even really want to include bon Nicks
in this, but I have to be fair, assuming that
it's not the two thousand Ravens way to the super Bowl,
that the offense more than carries its weight, which obviously
would have to happen with the Patriots or the Bears. Right,
does that top of the NFL, not the very top,
(08:09):
but the top ish of the NFL quarterback pyramid have
to start to include one of these kids?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Like the if Drake May and the Patriots make the
Super Bowl. I already think Drake May is probably a
top five quarterback. Then it becomes undeniable if Caleb puts
it all together. God forbid, if bow Knicks wins two
playoff games and makes like, so, which of these young
quarterbacks are any of them gonna go on a run?
(08:38):
And are any of these young quarterbacks bo at least
has been to the playoffs going to have you know,
those first playoff game jitters or first real expectations in
the playoffs, you know, stumble That to me is the
second biggest storyline. Go ahead. It seem like you want
to say.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Something No, I mean, but bo Nicks can there. I
feel like you'd attribute it. You would attribute that to
the defense carrying. I think it also depends on how
they how they do on the run.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Right, you gotta see how the game plays out. I
think the third biggest storyline is and again I know
that I'm quarterback centric in this, but because the storylines
are typically third biggest storyline is what if Aaron Rodgers
goes on a run? I don't I don't think it's likely,
(09:29):
but after that game against Baltimore, I don't think it's.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Impossible that where another super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, I mean, the guy's got four MVPs. The guy
as regular season wise, he's a top three quarterback of
all time, and so I obviously winning a super Bowl
puts him in a the It's a totally different world
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in a super Bowl. But I don't even if he
just they break the the Steelers break their decade long
playoff win drought, pull off some upsets, they show up
in a conference championship game be unbelievable and so I
and the Browns game was an abomination. But aside from that,
(10:20):
he's been really good for the last five weeks. And
he gets dk Metcalf.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Back, So no DK insane.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I know the and not having DK almost costs him
the their season. I think the fourth biggest storyline is,
and maybe this should have been bigger, is what if
the Eagles repeat? Yeah, nobody under the radar. They've kind
of been flying under the radar as a defending Super
Bowl champion, and I think it's because they have seen
(10:53):
flawed so flawed all year. But if they go back, like,
if they go back to back, what that means for
everyone involved on that team all of a sudden, Jalen
Hurts is a no doubt Hall of Famer, the you know,
the Howie Roseman and the Eagles. Maybe they got an
(11:18):
argument that they, not the Chiefs, are the the prestige franchise. Well,
I listen the Chiefs. The Chiefs have been to five
Super Bowls in seven years now and one three. The
Eagles would have been to three and four years one two.
(11:39):
And then if we extend it back to Foles, it's
hard to call that like part of this. It's a
different coach, it's a different quarterback, but it would have
been they've been. If they win this year that in
nine years, Demons, they went to four super Bowls, won three.
That's pretty unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
It's so hard to imagine them repeating give and other season.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's the thing I just don't. It doesn't seem possible.
But maybe. But they're big favorites, relatively big favorites against
the Niners in round one. No one would be shocked
if they went on the road and beat Chicago in
round two. And if Chicago loses in round one, then
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Philly would be home for round two, like there's a
path there. And then number five is which of the
two NFC West Juggernaut teams is able to in the
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playoffs look the way they did most of the regular season,
which is like the best team in football for either
of them, the Rams and the Seahawks. The Rams path
is harder, but their quarterback is so much better. The
Seahawks being at home, being rested, being healthy, with that
defense in that crowd. Dude, I am not dismissing at
(13:07):
all the very real possibility of the Seattle Seahawks winning
the Super Bowl. I think that's Sam Darnold. The Seahawks
can win the Super Bowl. I can't believe it. I
think right now my pick would be Matt Stafford in
the Rams, but I think Seahawks can do it. So
those are my five biggest storylines. We'll get to hardballs
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All right, demanse, let's get to harball before we get
to some of the other games.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
All right, So, sadly, after eighteen seasons twelve postseason ofppearances
in the Super Bowl Ring, the Ravens are a partner
ways with John Harball. You everything would call this on Tuesday,
But now that it's official, where are the Ravens going?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
So it's really interesting interviewing Brian Flores found that out today.
I I would be really interested in Mike McDaniel just
got fired and a lot of people are connecting Harball
to the Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Couldn't see him coaching.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I couldn't see who coaching was.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I couldn't see Harrorball coaching in Miami.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Well, I think there's like a weird Steve I think
I should know this. I think there's some Michigan connections
Stephen Ross, but it doesn't matter. Like the I think
it'd be hard to go from Lamar Jackson to.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Two.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
But they're not even gonna have TUA, Like, what are
they gonna do?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Miami's in a tough spot. What's funny not funny. But
what's interesting is I thought Mike McDaniel as the Ravens
offensive coordinator was an awesome idea, Like Matt running game
that he developed, except you have Lamar and Derrick Henry,
like that would be you know, Mike McDaniel as it
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was like Matt Nagy's leaving the Chiefs. I know it's
different systems and everything, but man, oh man, Mike McDaniel's
the Chiefs offensive coordinator is something I'm super intrigued by,
even though I think it's very unlikely. Now, maybe McDaniel
thinks he's gonna step into a head coaching job. That
would surprise me. I don't think he's gonna go right,
(17:37):
but maybe he will. His record wasn't terrible. The team
didn't quit at the end, and some people might be like,
look at what he did with Tua. As far as
the Ravens decision on firing Harball, I there was no decision, guys,
the and I've done enough victory lapping on Twitter, so
(18:01):
I don't need to. And it's not victory lapping about
someone losing their job, to be clear, victory lapping on
I told you guys all year there was a problem
between Lamar and Harba, and you guys thought I was
just I spun a wheel. People thought like, oh, Nick
just decided today he's going to create this out of
thin air as opposed to a paying close attention to
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the incredibly odd objective fact that they didn't communicate about
how hurt he was and also having a little behind
the scenes insights. So their ability to ensure Lamar was
(18:45):
a raven for life and was a raven next year
was going to be kneecapped had they kept Harba. So
they didn't, So they move on. And even though tell
me if this makes sense to you, to Monsey, the
odds are the next coach of the Ravens is not
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nearly as good of a coach as John Harball, but
that doesn't mean that coach won't be the one to
get him over the hump. He might be a worse coach.
But also like that they just need something new or
better luck or whatever it is, and that it felt
like you couldn't just run it back again with Harball,
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so I felt like the move needed to be made,
even though I think Harball is an excellent coach that
tracked to you.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, I definitely don't think the next coach that we
would get will be better or as good as John Harball.
I think it's gonna be pretty hard to find. Belichick
wanted them.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, so it sounds contradictory. There is the Belichick thing
so interesting had he not had this embarrassment of a
year in his co Jimmy, Yes, I really think so.
And you wouldn't care that that he's old, that it's
not long term, because it's like, no, we just need
to get over the hum lamar For Harball, obviously, I
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think he could have his pick of jobs. If I'm
John Harbaugh, I don't know that I want any of
these jobs. I certainly because it was reported yesterday that
he's going to wait a week before he starts taking interviews.
I think that's smart because I'd be awful interested.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
In if.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
The Eagles, Bill's or Packers losing Round one to any
of those teams, ownership decide we're gonna fire our coach
to hire Harball. Now, on that note, I think Cincinnati
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should reach out to Harball's agent today and be like,
if this job was open, would he take it? And
if the answers yes, I'd fire Zach Taylor. Now that's
not really Cincinnati's style. For Philadelphia, it might sound harsh,
Sirianni is literally the defending Super Bowl champion, But Howie
Roseman and Jeffrey Lourie have never cared about being harsh.
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They drafted Carson Wentz number two overall, gave him a
huge contract, moved on from him. Doug Peterson won a
Super Bowl with Nick Foles, then won a playoff game
the next year with Nick Foles. They moved on from him.
They moved like they will if they think they can
get better, they will move on from somebody. And I
think Harbaugh, who came like started coaching in Philly, I
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think that's really interesting there. Buffalo less interesting and he,
Danny explained, I didn't quite follow it. He has some
real like green Bay ties about like his who his
agent is and green Bay. I don't totally follow. It
doesn't matter, but it seemed like Lafloor. Midway through the
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season there was a little scuttle but about Lafleur not
being quite as safe as people thought and how he
hadn't gotten an extension. So if I'm horrible, I just
want to wait and see do what does a job
come open where the quarterback is set Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts,
Jordan Love or am I gonna have to roll the
(22:35):
Jackson Dart Dice or Atlanta with Michael Pennix. Like, so
that's that's what I think.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Is those places if you went over there would be
more likely to move off the quarterback though, right, Like
it's like, Oh, he's obvious, it's not the coach that's
the problem. It's the quarterback more likely. Oh, you have
a little bit more control over who's coming in.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Oh yeah, I mean I think John Hart all get
whatever he wants because there's also not another great head
coaching option out there. It's not like there's also Sean
Payton and Jim Arbaugh waiting in the wings or Ben Johnson.
You know that guy doesn't seem to exist this cycle. Now,
(23:19):
let me say this about what this means. Pardon me,
guess what this means for Lamar.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Come come with it next year, dude.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
They have changed defensive coordinators multiple times since he's been there. Again,
no culpability on his end for that, just stating effect.
They've changed offensive coordinators multiple times and they're about to
do it again. They've now changed head coaches. They brought
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in Derrick Henry, who has been nothing but dominant since
he became a Raven. We can argue about how good
these picks were, but since Lamar has been there, they
have spent three first round picks on wide receivers. They
perennially lead the league or near the top of the
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league in Pro bowlers on the roster. And now I believe,
with reason to believe, he got what he wanted and
he's getting a new head coach. Got to go be
awesome now. And more than being awesome, you gotta be available.
You want to know a shocking fact, Demons, In the
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last five years, Lamar Jackson and always injured brittle Joe
Burrow have played the exact same amount of games. No,
that's true. I'm not making that up.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
That is an insane stuy.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
In the last five years, Lamar Jackson has played seventy
regular season games and four playoff games and Joe Burrow's
played sixty seven regular season games and seven playoff games.
To the tune of them both playing in the last
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five years seventy four games in the last five years,
they both have played in the playoffs two years and
either missed or not been healthy for the playoffs the
other three years. For context on that, in the last
five years, Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes have also played
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the exact same number of games ninety three, So nineteen
games more more than a full season and a playoff
run of more availability. And the Lamar stat is stunning,
isn't it? Because we look at Burrow as injury always,
I thought, right, and with Joe we also like and
(26:07):
there very what do you call it, like significant injuries?
You know what I mean? Like Joe Burrow, like, oh,
he's out months with a turf toe. Oh, he's out
the end of the season with the UCL Lamar. I
couldn't when I didn't know that. When I was looking
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it up, I was just like, I'm curious.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Well, you feel like with Lamar they are less crucial
injuries than well.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
They're not. It hasn't been like needed surgery like Joe
needed on both the right, but the it's stunning seventy
four games each. So he's got to be available. He
turned twenty nine yesterday. He's going to get the biggest
contract in NFL history this offseason. It's got to go perform.
And I'm not sitting here saying can't do it. But yeah,
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pretty big off season, Pretty big off season. All right,
let's talk about some of the playoff games before we
get to.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Ours, so after your Chiefs got eliminated, you would need it.
Immediately jumped onto the Buffalo bandwagon and said that they
should win the super Bowl. But the problem is they
play your Jags. They obviously have the prince that was
promised on there, so you're in a little bit of debacle.
You said that the winner of this game would go
to the super Bowl. Do you care to explain that more?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, listen, I just I I know that people think
it's fastcile analysis. Just be like, Josh Allaen's best quarterback
on the side of the bracket, so I'm picking him.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, But in the.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
NFL playoffs, if you have a superhero, this is my
old Jared Goff thing that people got mad at. Do
you remember that the superhero and the civilian that I
called Jared Goff a civilian, Yes, a civilian when they're
superheroes and bo Nicks, C J. Stroud, Aaron Rodgers at
(28:15):
this point in his career, why oh are civilians? Doesn't
mean they're not good, but it does mean I can't
imagine those guys are just going to put the team
on their back a sin to a higher plane. Justin Herbert,
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who I do not believe it has the traits of
a guy who could do that. He is. He's never
done it, he's never shown it to us. But if
it were to happen, it wouldn't come out of nowhere,
right Drake May, by the way, saying with Trevor, let
me say that about Trevor now. Trevor at least has
won a playoff game and played well in the playoffs.
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But Trevor, he has the traits of a guy who
could be a superhero. Was a projected superhero coming out
of school, hasn't quite hit yet. Drake May looks like
a young superhero. It's like, oh, Drake May checks all
the boxes, but it's his first time ever in the playoffs.
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Josh Allen is a legit superhero hero in the prime
of his career, has played great in the playoffs. The
other guys who are his caliber of guaranteed future first
ballot Hall of Famers in their prime are not in
the playoffs. Hard to pick against that team, however, and
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so I guess when I so if they win, I
think the Jags are excellent, excellent, And if the Bills
can go to Jacksonville and win, then they go to
New England and win. They've already done it. Go to
Denver and win, like they can beat all those teams. Jacksonville,
on the other hand, has been the best team in
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the NFL, certainly the best team in the AFC for
two months. And if they beat Buffalo, Do I think
they can go to New England? Of course? Do I
think in the AFC Championship game they could go to Denver?
They just went to New England and dog, I'm to
Denver and crushed them. Do I think that in round
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two if it happened to be this matchup, they could
beat Pittsburgh or Houston. In Jacksonville, they already beat Houston
and so I I just think those are I think
the Bills are the scariest team because of Alan, and
I think right now the Jags are the best team.
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And it's a brutal spot where I got to pick
one of these two.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah, I was about to say who who do you
actually want to win? Though? Like what? Jack? Okay?
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah, I want Trevor. Do you realize it would seem
unfair if we went from since like first things first,
and this podcast has been a thing, if the Super
Bowls went from if it went Mahomes Mahomes missus a year,
(31:26):
the borough year Mahomes Mahomes Mahomes AFC wise and in
the year he's out. It's the guy that I'm the
only national supporter of in Trevor Lawrence. Yea like that.
It would it would just seem yeah, and so I
would love it to be Trevor. NFL history tells us
(31:51):
it should be Josh that this is this is his
time now. But I will say this and the Ravens,
I'm sure they didn't do it because of this stat
or whatever, but the stat that I was telling you
guys before the year, and hear what I'm saying here,
because it's an interesting one. Every coach and quarterback combo
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that has ever won a Super Bowl together won their
first super Bowl together within the first five years of
being together. So like demons, do you follow what I'm
saying there? You as an avatar for the audience like
there is There has never been a coach quarterback combo
(32:38):
that got over the hump and won a Super Bowl
together that didn't get over the hump in their first
five years. Now you might have won, you know, like
Brady and Belichick also won one in year eighteen together,
but you win. That was relevant this year for two
combos Lamar and John har who've been together eight years,
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and Josh Allen and McDermott, who have been together eight years.
I do not think McDermott's on the hot seat. However,
losing in round one, even though they're the sixth seed
and they're on the road, I think could put them
on the hot seat. I also though, oh you think
for sure?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, because I think how you feel, how the world feels.
This is supposed to be their year. Everybody's gone, and
then you lose in round one, not even getting there.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
And here's the other thing. You're losing round one to
a team that, even though they're thirteen and four and
have been bludgeting people, nobody respects. Yeah, like I respect
the Jags, but nobody it had somehow they like, let's
say they drew the Patriots and lost in round one.
(33:55):
I canna be like many Drake may vrabel this team.
They were better all year. The Jags are a tough
one certainly, and so I don't know, I don't know.
I find it so fascinating. I cannot wait for That
is the game of the weekend to me.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah, they're the easily All.
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Philly for a minute before we get to our picks.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Eagles are hosting the Niners this Sunday, and you know
what everybody's going to be looking at. Can Philly's offense
look normal? Can they play a decent game? Do you
think that they'll be able to return to their Super
Bowl self? As you said, it like a switch in
the Niners game.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
So here's what I think is interesting. I think people
forget what the Eagles offense looked like last postseason because
it did not get rolling until the Conference championship game,
(35:25):
and then it went into hyper drive. Conference Championship game,
they scored fifty five points. The Super Bowl they scored forty.
Round one against Green Bay Phillies scored twenty two points.
Jalen threw for one hundred and thirty yards. Round two
(35:51):
against the Rams, Jalen threw for one hundred and twenty
eight yards. They scored eight points, which is really good.
But if you remember that game is sixteen to fifteen
entering the fourth quarter, and that the Eagles were settling
(36:17):
for field goals, settling for field goal and then Saquon
rips off the eighty yard or where he's slapping his helmet,
but the passing game was not working, and then they
had the really weird sequence at the end where the
Rams almost ended up stealing it. And then come the
Conference Championship game and Super Bowl. I mean they scored
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ninety five points of those two weeks, but even those
two weeks, Jalen didn't throw for two point fifty in
either of those games. Last year, the Eagles offense, when
they we say it, got rolling. Jalen was very efficient.
He took care of the ball. He had an unbelievable
touchdown run in the RAM game. He you know, he
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crushed Washington with the tush pushes. That's when the member
of the refs were like, we're gonna award a touchdown
if you keep this shit up to Washington. But last
year's Eagles playoff offense was Saquon being unreal. Jalen threw
four in four games, seven hundred yard, seven hundred and
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twenty six yards. So it wasn't that all of a
sudden the offense, the passing game started rolling. They were
a dominant and they listen, they kicked the Chiefs assen
the super I'm not taking anything away from them at all.
The point I'm making is it wasn't okay, you know
now we've got this playoff mode offense. It was the
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offense they've been all year. Saguon Barkley was freaking awesome.
Jalen Hurts took care of the ball. That's the offense
they were all year. That's the offense they were in
the playoffs. If that trend of being the offense they
were all year, there'll be that offense in the playoffs continues.
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They're in huge trouble because the offense they've been all
year this year is terrible. Now they are drawing a
bad defense. But I am I will admit I am
a little nervous about the Eagles going on a run
(38:33):
just because their fans are so obnoxious to me. But
do you The Eagles have not scored more than twenty
points against a playoff team since the Week three win
against the Rams where they the blocked field goal returned
(38:54):
for a touchdown. Since then, this is what they've scored
against playoff teams. Seventeen against Denver, ten against the Packers,
fifteen against the Bears, whose defense is not good, nineteen
against the Chargers, twelve against the Bills. So I they're healthier,
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they have Lane Johnson back. I don't think that. I
think that Eagles offense has been broken all year, and
I don't believe Demonse it's going to all of a sudden.
I don't think they can flip the switch. I also
am curious in that game, and we'll get to it
(39:39):
and picks in just a moment. Can the Niners offense
be as prolific as they're gonna need to be against
a defense that dominant? But it is time now for
knicks picks, So Demanse, Oh, there it is, there's our
friends bed. I was waiting for it. So in order
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to keep the five hundred or better streak alive, I
think four of the five years on this pod, we've
been five hundred or better. We needed to go three
and two or better the final weekend. Let's go through it.
Because we laid two and a half with Tampa. They
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won by two, so now we gotta go three and
one down the stretch. Seattle minus one felt great the
whole way. Raiders plus five and a half. I told
you guys, my god, that Chiefs offense is just so bad.
So now we just need one win in the late windows.
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Miami plus twelve felt dead pretty early. So it all
came down to Pittsburgh against Baltimore, and you have I
was rooting for Pittsburgh to win. Out right. That's great
because I picked them. I know it makes you said,
but I picked them, and I and I just the
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so I was rooting for it despite that. You should
have seen how I reacted to Boswell's missed extra point.
Because Boswell's miss missed extra point, I'm like, oh my god,
plus three and a half is home. Like now, now
there's no overtime there's no funny business. Now it's either
gonna be a Raven's two point win or Pittsburgh. I'm sorry,
(41:38):
a Raven's one point win or a Pittsburgh two point win.
So we got it forty four, forty four and two.
Nothing to write home about. You would have lost money
on it because of the big but still going five
hundred picking games is I'll call it difficult. I would
(42:00):
like to do better. The only the only piece of
our gambling show that was dominant. We'll get to it
more in a moment was Demonse's teasers, which I am
considering next year to Monsey putting real funds behind. Like
I am, I'm I'm considering having a huge portion of
(42:23):
my twenty twenty six football gambling portfolio b Demonse's teasers.
I preciate you are. I mean, you really you can
a great job that well, you did a great job.
You It was just impressive. Yeah, we'll get We'll get
to that in a moment. But now all lines are
(42:44):
of course from hard Rock bet. But I'm told something
that there's a twist this year.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Uh yeah, so we're gonna you're gonna be picking on
all the games. But I'm gonna be going ahead to
head with you in picking picking games as well. Where
you you stepped over to the teaser landscape, I'm gonna
step over to the pigs landscape.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Okay, love it. And so I don't know where we
agree or disagree, So why don't you. So you set
up the you say the game, I'll say my pick,
and then you say where you stand on it.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Okay, So first we got the Rams minus ten and
a half at Carolina. You're taking the Rams there.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Listen, this is a I believe a square play. The
home favorite. Home dogs, big home dogs in the playoffs
are always cover. The producers tell me there have only
been nine home dogs in the playoffs since nineteen seventy
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of greater than four points, and they're one and eight.
The road favorite is one and eight against the spread.
I understand that, and ten and a half is a
ton of points. I just believe Carolina is not only
the worst team that made the playoffs. I don't think
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they're a good team. I think that there were five
or six teams that missed the playoffs that right now
this week I think are better than Carolina. Yea, And
the fact that the Rams played them and lost to them.
Will give the Rams just enough appropriate fear to know.
(44:26):
It doesn't matter that we're double digit favorites. We have
to take care of business. I will swallow this huge
number and lay the ten and a half with the Rams.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Your thoughts done, I'm taking I'm taking Carolina there. I
knew you would. I'm yeah, no, I'm I trust Carolina.
And that's It's a lot of points.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Honestly, Yeah, I was gonna say, you just like the points.
It's totally fine. It's a lot of points.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
So that's that's why I am there. I mean, all right,
next one, the next one, you got Chicago plus one
versus Green Bay.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
Listen, Chicago's at home, and I think they're better than
the Packers, and they have played the Packers twice. Both
games came down to the final moments. But the Packers
are the are not the same team from an injury
perspective as they were right, Jordan Love hasn't played the
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Packers obviously, don't have Mica, don't have Tucker Kraft, don't
have a lot of key guys. They when they played
the Bears the first time, Caleb had to pass into
the end zone to potentially you know, tie the game.
I think they probably would have gone for two. He
threw the pick, and when they played him the second time,
he had the pass in overtime to win the game.
(45:50):
I think the Bears are better. The Bears are at home,
the Bears are healthier. I did not like how the
Bears played this weekend. I still think the Packers won
nine games because they were about the quality. Once everybody
got hurt of a nine win team, I'll take Chicago
plus one.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
The Bears might have the better coach. Oh you know
these days. Uh, but yeah, I took Chicago there too.
I don't know if you said.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
That the Okay, so we're on the same page there.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
All right, name page there? Jacksonville plus one versus Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Yeah, so I'm taking the Jags plus the points. And
you might say, what points?
Speaker 2 (46:27):
It's point.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
I gotta be honest with my dear friends at hard Rock. Bet.
I'm disappointed that I can't that this isn't one and
a half, and I really want that half point because
I think let's so let me explain my pick here, Okay.
(46:51):
I I think Jacksonville is the more well rounded team
and the team that currently is playing better. I also
think Buffalo's tendency to play poor early and then rally
late could be a problem for them in this game
(47:13):
if Jacksonville's able to shorten the game by efficient passing
and running the ball with ETN. I also the reason
I said I want that half point is for some
reason or another deep down kind of think Buffalo is
gonna win this game by one, and so like that
(47:37):
a twenty four to twenty three Bills win. And so
I know this is the definition of kind of having
it both ways. I get that I don't have a
super strong conviction. I really liked when I thought I
was gonna be getting I thought when this game, I
thought it was gonna be Bill's minus two and a half,
(48:01):
but it was Bill's minus one and a half. And
now it's Bill's minus one. But I will take Jacksonville
plus one. And to be clear, because I see what
the producers wrote said number one storyline was Josh breaking through.
To me, those storylines were not all predictions. It was
what the biggest storyline is, will Josh break through? And
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this bet? Can you know Bill's the Bills win by one?
There is no way to win this pick in either direction.
It would mean, the line's exactly right. I just think
I think the Jags, they're a thirteen win team that's
at home, that's healthy, that's playing great. They shouldn't be
(48:45):
home dogs. So I just I'm obligated to. I don't
love it. You never love. You never love picking against
the team that you think is more likely to win
because you're getting the points, but the points you're getting
are one one. You don't love that. Well, you really
(49:07):
don't love that, but it is Jacksonville plus one.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
I took Buffalo minus the point just because if Josh
Allen does not go out there and win, it's gonna
be really bad for him. It's gonna be really bad
for Buffalo. I think if they don't go out and
get this win. So I took with minus the points.
But San Francisco plus four and a half at Philly, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
I'll take the Niners plus the points. I just I
think that I think this should be Philly minus three,
and it's Philly minus four and a half, and I
think San Francisco can win. I certainly just I don't
trust Philadelphia to look impressive offensively again against teams that
(49:53):
had a pulse down the stretch. Beat the Bills by one,
lost to the Chargers by three in overtime, lost to
the Bears by nine, beat the Lions, who had a
pulse at that point in time, by nine, but uh
beat the Packers by three. Lost to the Broncos by four,
(50:15):
like they just even early in the year, beat the
Cowboys by four, beat the Chiefs by three. That Rams game,
you'll that, you'll oh, they beat the Rams by seven.
Not really, they were beating the Rams by one. The
Rams were attempting a game winning field goal and then
it got blocked and returned for a touchdown. They beat
the Bucks by six, like their wins by real margin
(50:40):
this year. They're how more than one score wins the Giants,
the Raiders, the Commanders. And I understand, it's not like
I'm getting seven and a half, I'm getting four and
a half, But I do. I thought the Niners defense
played its best game in forever again in Seattle, and
(51:03):
I think that if they it now Trent Williams not
practicing Wednesday, I don't love. I've got to imagine he
will play in this game Sunday. I like that this
game is Sunday instead of Saturday. For that purpose. I
think San Francisco can win. I'm getting more than a
(51:23):
field goal against a team whose offense is broken. I'll
take San Francisco plus four and a half.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
I'm right with you there, Yeah, okay, all right, Chargers
plus four at New England.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
I think the Pats win, but I think the Pats
win by three. I'll take the four points. I'm underdog heavy,
but I just I can't. This is This would be traumatic.
And I understand his offensive linees brutal, I get it.
(52:00):
This would be traumatic for Herbert if he lays another egg.
He doesn't have to win. Like, I'm not gonna that.
They aren't as good as New England. They're on the road.
I'm not gonna if he, you know, plays a normal
Herbert game and they just lose. Now, he's not gonna
get like bonus credit. But I'm not gonna kill him
for it. Uh. But he can't lay another egg. I
(52:23):
don't imagine he will. He's been carrying this team on
the offensive side of the ball throughout the year. The defense,
but the real the real reason that I like grabbing
the pointsier to Monsey Ish Drake May has not faced
a defense as good as the Chargers defense. I don't
(52:45):
know if he's done it all year. Like I'm trying
to think who's the best defense the Patriots faced. I
I can't find a good one. And the Steelers, I
guess you could argue they turn the ball over five times.
The Panthers like early in the year, I don't know,
(53:08):
like the Bills. The Bills pass defense has been really
good all year. Drake May threw zero touchdowns against him
in two games. Now, Listen, this isn't me. I'm I
think the Pats are gonna win. But I get four
points and what I think will be a low scoring,
cold game at night, and I just don't think it's
(53:33):
gonna be a prolific passing attack. I also think Vrabel
can shorten the game if he needs to. I'll take
the four points with the Chargers taking the four. Okay,
So right now, our only difference is you've got Carolina
plus ten and a half and you've got the Bills
minus one. Other than that, we're on the same page,
(53:54):
all right.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
Last one last year Pittsburgh plus three versus Houston.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
I think Steelers are gonna win, and I understand Tomlin
hasn't won a playoff game in a decade.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (54:10):
They get DJ Metcalf back, They're coming off that type
of victory. Houston's offense never got fixed. It got a pulse,
but it never got fixed. There is this weird stat
that only I care about, which is that Mike Tomlin's
the greatest Monday night football coach ever. He's twenty two
to three in his career on Monday nights and twelve
(54:32):
and oh at home. He's been the head coach for
twenty years. He's never lost a home Monday night game.
This is a home Monday night game, and I think
that Rogers is going to be for the first time
all year, Demonse willing to stand in the pocket and
(54:53):
get hit if he needs to be because they're in
the playoffs. And again, just like a kind of auto
gambling rule. I know it has not been a good
rule in the playoffs the last decade, but Mike Tomlin
at home getting points, I just gotta I gotta be
(55:13):
on that side of it. So I'll take Pittsburgh plus
the three.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
Rogers might get mangled, though he might be a yeah,
I'm with you on I'm with you on that too.
Pittsburgh plus three great.
Speaker 1 (55:25):
So we only have two differences. Yeah, but my my
picks are the Rams minus ten and a half and
then all the underdogs Chicago plus one, Jacksonville plus one,
the Niners plus four and a half, the Chargers plus four,
Pittsburgh plus three, and de Mon's even if you don't win,
I'm so proud of the fact that you are you
(55:49):
just you just love getting points. You tease underdogs up
instead of favorites down to the NFL playoffs. You're like,
just give me the points. Just love you love getting points.
It makes me so happy. A such a good Uh yeah,
(56:11):
exactly right, they're giving you the points. Just take it
all right. Speaking of good gambling fundamentals, Demon's crushed his
teasers this year eleven and seven, including a four lager
a few weeks ago. This week, I don't even think
it was close on any of them. Carolina plus ten
(56:33):
and a half they lost by two, Pittsburgh plus eleven
and a half they won out right, Buffalo plus a half.
They annihilated the Jets, even with Mitch Trubisky playing what
are you doing this week?
Speaker 2 (56:47):
This week we got a three team eight point teaser
at plus one hundred, and we're gonna be teasing Chicago
up to plus nine. I want to tease Buffalo up
to a touch to plus seven, and then I want
to tease the Chargers up to US twelve. You know,
I can only go with the games they give me what. Yeah,
we had this week, so.
Speaker 1 (57:08):
I like a lot. I also like the fact that
you resisted the urge to tease. If you like the
Panthers plus ten and a half, you might be like, well,
I really like them plus eighteen.
Speaker 2 (57:20):
And a half.
Speaker 1 (57:21):
But I think deep down you felt like, yeah, they
might get both.
Speaker 2 (57:25):
They could, They could lose by three scores, and you're
not getting quite the key numbers.
Speaker 1 (57:33):
You're the Chargers ones a little awkward going from four
to twelve. It's not as much value. But I also
I don't think they're gonna get blown out. Come on,
Chicago's gotta be able to you know, if Chicago gets
blown out at home, it's a disaster. And listen, the
(57:53):
Jags have been kicking the shit out of people, but
this is the bills and the playoffs. You get all.
I'll look past your teas and through the zero because
you obviously get it up to seven, which is such
a key. So I've lost I believe it's patronizing at
this point for me to grade the teasers. I'm not
(58:14):
grading him anymore. You're just the you have taught me
how to do it.
Speaker 2 (58:18):
Grad all right, you've.
Speaker 1 (58:20):
Graduated from it. I do have a touchdown, Genie this week?
Speaker 2 (58:25):
Who are we going with.
Speaker 1 (58:27):
Trevor Lawrence? Guy loves that quarterback snake?
Speaker 2 (58:31):
Okay, Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 1 (58:32):
Yeah, Trevor Lawrence plus one seventy anytime touchdown is my touchdown?
Speaker 2 (58:38):
Genie? This week? Solid? All right? That was was a
bold one. I expect that.
Speaker 1 (58:43):
So that is so what's the offer? I know what
the offer is, but go.
Speaker 2 (58:48):
Ahead, So you skip the offer last week? This week
we were riding with your boy, Trevor Lawrence along with TD. Genie.
He's thrown for three touchdowns with zero interceptions in three
of his last four games. Do you think he can
do it again? Trevor? Three plus touchdowns and zero interceptions
at plus six hundred.
Speaker 1 (59:04):
So this doesn't count, right, Like if he runs for one,
it has to be three passing touchdowns. Then I sadly
have to turn this down. While I appreciate it, I
just think that this is gonna be a running game
for the Jags. Bill's run defense is bad. Pass defense
is good. So even at six to one, I sadly
have to reject it demands. Can't wait for the weekend.
(59:27):
I'm gonna be facetiing you a bunch during these games.
Wild Card weekend should be excellent. Your Raven's not in it,
my chiefs not in it. Get to be nice and relaxed,
y kid ourselves, chill out. Thank you to everybody like
great subscriber review to the show in a shout out
to our wonderful sponsors, hard Rock, bet Boost and Zen.
Thank you to all, even Blue Duck. Enjoy a great
(59:48):
football weekend. Talk to you guys Tuesday. What's right
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