December 27, 2025 • 38 mins
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Nick Wright reacts to news of his Kansas City Chiefs' plans to move from Arrowhead Stadium in Missouri to a dome in Kansas and breaks down why this move will be beneficial for later-era Patrick Mahomes. Next, Nick reacts to another Lamar Jackson injury and what's next for the Baltimore Ravens' star QB. The show ends with Nick sharing his best predictions for Week 17 of the NFL season. #Volume
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Best of the Week for What's Right
with Nick Right the best takes in moments from this
week on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Enjoy the season from Hell becomes more hilatious. You guys
lost Patrick, You guys lost your backup quarterback in Garda Minshew,
and you lost the Titans. And it seems like Kansas
City Chiefs are no longer going to be in Kansas City.
They might be moving over to Kansas in twenty thirty.
How do you feel about this development?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
All right, first, let me explain to people what it means.
Kansas City Kansas City for all intents and purposes. When
people hear about Kansas City, they're talking about the Missouri side.
It is where I'm from, so weird kind of border
rivalry Missouri or Kansas. But I grew up one block
off State Line Road. That is exactly what it sounds like,
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the line between Missouri and Kansas. Now, confusingly and oddly,
the Missouri side of State Line Road is Kansas City.
The Kansas side of State Line Road is not Kansas City, Kansas.
That's a different part. Like there is a small part
of Kansasity, Kansas that's touches State Line Road, but most
(01:09):
of it that touches State Line Road is like uh
Leewood or Oleitha or different municipalities. Okay, you guys don't
care about that, what you What does matter is this
the Chiefs are moving about twenty minutes west of where
they currently play. So this has no impact on them
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being the Kansas City Chiefs because they were in Kansas
City proper. Yes, but they are still in the greater
Kansas City area. Just like the San Francisco forty nine
Ers play in Santa Clara. The New England Patriots, which
people consider Boston's team, play in Foxborough. Like this is
the Detroit Pistons used to play at the Palace at
Auburn Hills. This happens. This is not a team moving
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the way teams move, like Baltimore going to Cleveland, that
type of the Cleveland going to Baltimore. Either, That's not
what this is at all. Now it does for me
as a native Missouri and someone who's lived lived his
whole life might have its Kansas Missouri firefighter. I lived
in on the Missouri side and whenever people say to me, oh,
you're from Kansas, I correct them say no, I'm from Missouri.
(02:20):
I hate that the Chiefs are leaving. I don't hate
that Missouri was not held hostage by pro sports owners.
And this is where we get into a little bit
of tricky stuff. And then we will talk about the
(02:41):
football piece of it, because there is a real football
piece of it. But this is so teams because the
state of Kansas, via star bonds and other stuff, is
going to pay more money for this Chief stadium than
any local government, which means taxpayers have paid for any
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stadium in the history of America one point eight billion dollars.
And I have always believed that the call it fifteen
biggest cities in the country, all of the mayors slash
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governors of those states should have gotten together a long
time ago and said, folks, we need to have an
agreement amongst ourselves. We are not going to pay for
pro sports team stadiums because they want to be in
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our cities. So New York, LA, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco,
that your major markets pro sports teams want to be there.
The idea that they are going to leave is a bluff.
If you are a major, major market, so you should
never pay. Never pay. If you're in one of those markets.
(04:10):
If you're in a smaller market, it does get trickier
because we have seen teams leave smaller markets. And one
can argue, and I have argued for a long time
to use my hometown as a example, that the thing
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that distinct that makes Kansas City different from Des Moines, Iowa,
or Omaha, Nebraska is that we have the chiefs and
the royals. That's it. We're a two sport pro sport
city and there is real economic and civic pride benefit
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to that. And Kansas City is not a huge market,
so you you can't just dare a team to leave
the way LA could or New York could or Washington,
DC could, because they might leave. The Kansas City has
lost teams before, and so I don't think it. While
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I understand the argument of there are better things to
be putting paying taxpayer dollars for that is correct, I
agree with that in general. I also understand why if
you're Memphis, losing the Grizzlies as scary as shit, and
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it might be worth taxpayer dollars to make sure they stay.
And so I think the math is not the same
for mid market and small market teams as it is
for major market teams. That's just my opinion. I think
I have data to back that up, but it's my
gut feeling on how having grown up in one of
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those places and feeling like I'm from somewhere, and because
we have pro sports teams and so this doesn't change
that for Kansas Citians, they will still be the Kansasity Chiefs.
Nobody half the country thought they played in Kansas already anyway,
(06:21):
And I don't think I understand the gut reaction people have,
and I'm with you politically on this, that it is
shameful the public subsidies we will give billion dollar sports
teams when I mean the city the state of Kansas
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has no public transportation none. Don't get mad at me,
Governor Laura Kelly, Like, I'm sure there's a few bus routes,
but like there are there's there are things that money
could be used for that probably would help a greater
group of people. I get that, But I also do
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think that if you're in a city the size of
one that a team might leave, losing that team can
be devastating to the community. So I do think you
have to weigh that the the problem for the cheap
for that the Chiefs were able to play into specifically
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is because they're on a state line. They could play
one state against the other and get basically demanse the
benefit that you normally only get this type of I mean,
one point eight billion, it's the biggest public subsidy ever.
You normally only get that something like that if you
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are threatening your fan base with we are moving like
we are going to the Seattle SuperSonics are going to
become the Oklahoma City Thunder. Because Kansas City that is
on a state line, they were able to get the
benefit without ever having to threaten. They were never threatening
to move to San Antonio. It's just like we'll just.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Whoever is going to the game.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Right, You still get to play the states against each other.
And this has been a problem for border cities. This
is a bigger problem when it comes to business taxes
and municipal funding. And again, this is the part that
could be boring, but I'm going to give a very
simplistic story of what's happened in my hometown. Because it's
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on a state line, you'll have a business, not a
sports team, a business that is based in Kansas, and
then politicians in Missouri because they want to say, we
added jobs to our community, will give that business insane
(08:59):
tax breaks to move its headquarters fifteen minutes east over
to Missouri, and that business can then not pay the
taxes it was once paying. It has no impact whatsoever
actually on who has the jobs. You're not adding jobs
to your community. You're just stealing them off the books
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of Kansas to Adam and Missouri, or Missouri to Adam
and Kansas, vice versa. But it's the same human beings
working there, and that has, you know, been That's a
problem for mayors and city councils of border cities all
the time, like how do we because it ends up
being a not a zero sum game again, a zero
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sum for the overall community, but a huge win for
the a zero sum for the employment of the overall community,
while being a huge win for the bottom line of corporations.
That's a sidebar. Now to the football piece of it,
because here is the te angible effect. The Chiefs are
going to play in a dome stadium starting in twenty
(10:04):
thirty one.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Hey, that's awesome. I don't know how you feel about that.
That's awesome. I love the domes.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I hate it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So the snow games, that real effect of the weather. Yeah,
I like that passion. I'm going to the man, so the.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Other homes here's the so very short term, very selfish.
I like the dome for Patrick's late thirties.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh and then the new guy is going to be
playing in the dome the whole time.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So if we are just talking about maximizing like Mahomes' career,
having the fact that his age thirty five in old,
old seasons will be in a dome is probably good. Yeah, Okay,
(11:08):
that's probably good. That to me is not worth the
trade off of football slowly but surely eliminating weather as
(11:28):
a component, Like I think we are moving towards a
reality of in a decade, there are maybe three or
four stadiums in the country where weather plays a part,
and I don't like that for football. I think football
(11:50):
is a game made to be played in the elements.
I don't mind domes in warm weather places because it
feels like that's actually like the elements aren't going to
be a big issue there anyway, and so it allows
you to host more events. Fine, And I don't mind
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the Dome in Minnesota only because that specific place can
get so Maybe it's just because I'm used to it,
but it can get so much snow that they have
like canceled games. But I guess Buffalo. So it's probably
just because I'm used to it. But I don't like
football removing the elements and the idea that because they
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build this stadium, Kansas City is going to get a
bunch of super Bowls. It's just not true. I think
they will probably get one, and people will complain about
the super Bowl being in Kansas City, and you know what,
they should because the super Bowl should not be in
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Kansas City. The super Bowls shouldn't. I'm from there. I
love it. Super Bowl should not have ever been in Minneapolis,
it shouldn't have ever been in Indianapolis. It shouldn't be
in Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
The super Bowl sho, what does it need to be
in New Orleans? Or wait, what happened?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
New Orleans? Miami, Vegas, LA? That's where the super Bowl elitist? Okay,
no cities, it's yeah, I guess. I mean New Orleans
isn't a big market. It's just awesome and the and
so I think we have seen cities that can do it,
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and I'd be honestly Okay, with La not being included,
I'd be fine with it just being Vegas, Miami, New
Orleans like that, that being the rotation. You can make
the argument for Phoenix, but I just think they're not
the idea that Kansas City is because they're add this
is going to be a part of a Super Bowl rotation.
That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It's not gonna be every ten years the biggest sporting
event in the country, Headcore in wyan Dot County for
in February. It's just not happening. But the big my
biggest thing is on the field. I don't like I
like that weather matters, and I like that the Buffalo
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in Kansas City and Baltimore and Pittsburgh and New England
have to be able to play in multiple settings. And
I just I so, yes, I think it'll be good
for Pat the end of you know, the last quarter
of Patrick's career. But it's to me a bit of
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a bummer. And the other bummer is this, You're gonna
go from eighty thousand seats to about sixty eight thousand,
and I'm going to be very interested and I really
hope that they that they find to wait because I
think the tailgating will be great no matter what. One
thing Clark HNT said yesterday that's true is parking lots
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don't tailgate people do. That's correct. I think the tailgating
pregame stuff. I trust they will make sure that stays sacrisanct, because, like,
if there's ever a reason to go to an NFL game,
going to Arrowhead to tailgate before the game is one
of the greatest things in the NFL. And I think
that will stay. But I wonder if they're going to
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be able like and but the other thing Clark said
is seats and concrete don't make noise, fans do. That
is true, but certain stadiums are more conducive for noise
than others. And Arrowhead has been the loudest open air
stadium in the country forever. And I just hope they
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are able to recreate.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
That is is it going to have a new name, Well.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I would imagine they'll still call it Arrowhead. They've already
kind of sold on that because it's technically ge J
Field at Arrowhead. And I've never totally understood naming right sponsorships,
Like I don't know that anyone has paid more attention
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to the Kansas City Chiefs. I really don't know that
anyone in the world has paid more attention to the
Kansity chiefs than me, certainly, uh since because the stadiums
don't even named that for like five years of the
field in that time. Prater and I still don't. But
I still don't know what GHA is. Yeah, if you
were like that, I have no idea. I have no
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clue what the I don't know. Do they sell insurance?
Is it are they? I have no consult I don't
know what it is. So it's it's always arrowhead to me.
But that's the the positive and the negative. That's what
it is. Now, will Kn't City get a Final four? Maybe?
(17:06):
Like will they're like having a domed stadium? There is
there are benefits for it.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Eha is Government Employees Health Association.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Still don't know what it means. Does that mean they
they they? Does that mean they compete with the company
that Gronk advertises for So it is they're the competitors
of Gronk's company. What's that? What's the Gronk insurance company?
Where he's like, I wasn't in the military. Yeah, okay,
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so g eh and USAA are competitors, all right, good
for them.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And do you think there's I'm sorry, just cut you off.
Do you think there's going to be any teams that
hold out on this open air stadium closed team? Like
could you see green Baby? And like the last team
with an open open stadium in thirty.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Years Buffalo's building a new stadium, and Buffalo's new stadium
doesn't have a roof, right, fact check me on that.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Okay, that's good for something then.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, yeah, and but and it's Buffalo, But I I
don't know. The Chiefs playing in a dome feels weird
to me. I'm sure I get used to it. And
(18:26):
if and if Old Mahomes is just lighting people up,
maybe I'll be fine with it.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
But maybe because I'm not a savant and like a
football historian, I just don't see why you would want
like and this is like I hear a lot of
people that's their take. They want there to be snow,
the incluent weather. Why would you not just want them
to perform to their best ability like any other sport,
Like I feel like there's no.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Beau that's so that's where that's where I disagree with you.
Know what you're saying, a lot of people feel that
it just it just depends on how you look at it.
I look at being great at football intrinsically, meaning that
you can have different types of game plans and different
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abilities in different weather because I think that is part
of building a team. I think part of building a
team is teaching them how to exploit different weather conditions.
I think that is as intrinsic to the game as
kick returning, Like that's part of it. And I think
removing it people a lot of people feel like, oh,
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you remove it and that then makes it more pure.
I feel like it makes it less pure. And I
understand in basketball that doesn't exist. Everything's the same, all
of it.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Like soccer. I mean, I don't know if they played it.
Definitely they play soccer in the snow or like light snow.
They obviously heavy rain.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
That's fair, but the soccer is an outdoor sport and
being able to handle heat is a bigger thing in soccer.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Like yeah, yeah, the yeah, yeah, I guess I'm always
looking for the light show I've seeing these games. That's
fair and by the way, that's the.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Way the that's the way the NFL is moving that
it just bums me out. I mean, but again, I'm
a grand pall now.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
And I'm sorry to those historians that stuff is changing.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
No, it's fine. Just so many of the like the
great moments in NFL history are playoff games in the elements,
and that'll be a bummer for me. But you know,
nothing to cry about. I just I don't love it.
That to me matters a lot more than the fact
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Speaker 2 (22:26):
Ravens hanging by a thread. Drake May was looking poor
in the first half. Rallied Lamar Jackson came out of
the game with I think like a rib injury. We
lost the game. Now we have a seven percent chance
of making the playoffs. Yeah yeah, how yea? Who do
you think this is big wrong? The Ravens or Patriots?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I think, well, listen, I think it's a Let me
start with the Patriots. And what was I'm trying to
remember because there was a clip from last week's show.
Was it about Lamar? What was the clip? Maybe the
producers saw it as well. There is a clip of
I did some take that I don't even know if
Demonse agreed with, but it was massively aggregated, and it
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was aggregated with Demnse and I split screen. And I
always find this funny because I wasn't do you guys
remember what I'm talking about? Was it my last week
from it was from Thursday show. I can't even remember
what we talked about on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
But regardless Lamar's health, Nike will and sickness and stuff, Yeah,
it was something else other than that. Probably That's why.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I'm trying to remember what our If I had our
rundown from last week in front of me, I could
I could think of it. I'm trying to think if
it's Lamar because the reason I thought of that is
it might happen again this week, but uh the let's
start with the Patriots. I think that was a growing
up moment for.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Drake Drake.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I think that Drake was playing one of his worst
games of the year and for him to rally the
way he did and make the I mean, he obviously
had the one great deep pass that was robbed from
him on the miss DPI, but didn't matter. He had
already the touchdown passing threw to the front corner of
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the M zone. Yeah, was unbelievable. I thought that was great,
and I I think that on top of that, uh,
hold on, I think Paul just texted to me, Oh,
this is what it was. Sorry, it was the thank you, Paul.
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It was the whimby stuff. It was me saying I
don't need to be lectured.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
By a twenty year old French kid.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
That the people got super mad at that take and
you're just sitting there like listening. It's just super funny.
Thank you, Paul. The no the people got mad at
I think my Lamar h takes from TV. But sorry,
I'm interrupting myself. I thought the Drake may touchdown pass
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was unbuild. The bomb was unbelievable. The fourth and two
play which kept them alive to go win the game.
It was just past the sideline, but it was an
absolute laser that I thought was gonna be knocked down.
He was excellent, and Drake made is the real deal.
He is the real and uh, the Patriots they had
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to win that game because while I thought sometimes the
schedule stuff got a little overblown, if they had played
that soft schedule and then lost to Buffalo and Baltimore,
it'd be like, Okay, you know what I mean. They're uh,
they're a real Yeah, they're oh, they're ahead of schedule.
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They're better than all the JV teams, but they're not
an A lister, And I think they proved they're A listers.
And so I think that is that's the Patriots piece
of it. And they've got.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
They got their quarterback. The guy looks like. I think
that guy's gonna be in the league for a really
really long time. Yeah, yeah, I solid, man.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I think he is just going to be a top
five quarterback moving forward. He's legit. He is, without a
doubt legit. And then you get to the Ravens and
there's a lot here they blew another big lead. Everyone's
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blaming Harball. They didn't give the ball to they didn't
have Derrick Henry on the field for their last two possessions.
People are understandably blaming Harball. Another can I call it
without people freaking out? Weird injury thing with Lamar I do.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I do feel strongly that he could have came back
in the game. Watching the like and it's and it's
a ribbonery. I do think he could have come back
in that game. And I don't like doing that or
like being like so I don't know what the guy
was feeling, but I don't know, like he was moving around,
he's like on the side, like like I've had a
ribbagery before, and I just I don't know. I felt
like he could have kept playing, especially in that situation.
(27:17):
We have the game, we just need you to manage.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
But I so listen, I hate that you're the one
that said that instead of me, because and I want this,
if this gets aggregated, people to understand he could. This
is Demonte's favorite team and the guy he's ridden with
more than anybody. Yeah, but I was shocked he didn't
go back in and when he didn't go back in.
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Let me rephrase that, I was not shocked he didn't
go back in. We didn't go back in. I assumed
we were going to get the news yesterday that he
broke his ribs, that he had cracked ribs, that even
though the hit didn't the need didn't look that bad.
But you never know, you know how that is. And
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so I just assumed, like, oh man, there's he like
he's he probably isn't gonna play this coming week, and
that's it's a rap. And when Harbaugh came out yesterday
and said it's just a bad contusion and he's day
to day, I was stunned. Now again, it's weird because
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Lamar is obviously tough, and obviously he's playing care care
so I so that's why I'm saying, it's just another
weird injury thing with Lamar, where now he has suffered
a hamstring injury that nobody saw when it happened, but
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obviously was a real one, like a not real as
opposed to real or sus fake. I should have said
a significant one to where he missed multiple games, including
a game after a bye that his coach thought he
would be back for, and then had knee, ankle toe
injuries that made him miss practice but not miss any games,
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but he then wasn't effective in the games. Then his
you know, annual December cold had him miss practice, and
now what looked like a relatively banal play knocked him
out for the most critical half of their season, basically
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playing an elimination game. It's just weird. And I'm not
trying to be like KG with my analysis here. I'm
not trying to hint at anything, but I'm also not
going to act like it's not weird. And it's very,
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very hard not to go to the other quarterbacks in
Lamar's tax bracket and echelon, and I'd ask yourself, do
we think they would have an injury that the next
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day their coach calls day to day and expects them
to play the next week, that we wouldn't have seen
them back on the field at least trying seeing giving
it a go and then maybe Okay, this isn't gonna work.
I don't know, I feel like you would have, and
so it's just odd. And I go.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Back to Baltimore. See so with the situation, Harball, whatever
it is, let me tweak that.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
There you go I don't because I said this a
few weeks ago. I only think he wants out. I
think he might be over Harba and this has run
its course, and that Lamar is resigned to the fact
that this is a lost season, and it is a
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lost season, and this was the biggest thing I said
yesterday on TV that I think people maybe took issue with.
But again, we won't know for five years, but I
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will I think this will age well. I am not
saying Lamar will never make or win a super Bowl.
What I am saying is I think when his career
is over, we will look at the best chances he
had were these past three years. They were the solitary
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super Bowl favorite at multiple points in each of the
last three seasons. They were the super Bowl preseason favorite
this year. And to come out of these three years
with two total playoff victories, come out of the twenty
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twenties so far twenty one, two, twenty three, twenty four
to twenty five with two total playoff victories is stunning.
And now I think you start a new era with
a new head coach Demons. Before we move on to
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the Pittsburgh's side of it, I want to give you
some news. Zay Flowers named to the Pro Bowl this morning.
Now go ahead, I know you have a potentials eight
flowers take.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Just run straight, man, please just run straight, and just
be a little bit tighter with the football. I just
think that there there have been a couple of big
situations and the biggest point of the season. I think
the guy is loose with the football. He's trying to
play like backyard football or something, making these cuts backwards.
And that's not like the only time that I've seen
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him do that, but just in the bigger instances, it's like, dude,
just just be tirer with the football. Don't try to
get it all one play to go down or something.
It's just kind of frustrated.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
And he has said he was gonna do that, yeah,
and then he has not done that.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
He's loose, just loose.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
And it's the end. He doesn't fumble a lot, but
you remember the fumbles. Yeah, you're there are big moments.
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Speaker 2 (34:43):
You've got Dallas minus six and a half at Washington.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Yeah, I listen. I think Josh Johnson's playing quarterback for Washington.
I don't know this, but I think it. And if
that's the case, they just can't move the ball, Dall.
I understand that Dallas. You might feel like, oh, they're
gonna be demoralized because they're eliminated from the playoffs. I
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don't know that. I think they've kind of felt they
were eliminated from the playoffs for a while. They're gonna
move the ball, Dallas is gonna blow out the Commanders.
I love the Cowboys minus six and a half and
Dak owned the Commanders in his career twelve and two
straight up, and they've covered five in a row.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Next, you got Jacksonville minus six and a half at Indy.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
So listen, Philip Rivers. Credit to him for playing obviously,
way way way better than I expected. But their season
ended Monday night and he came back to try to
make a playoff push. The Jags are playing for a
lot as far as locking up the division, staying alive
for the one seed. Jags have been crushing against the
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AFC South five and oh against the spread in their
last five against the AFC South. The culture falling apart again.
The Jags game and the Cowboys game are games I'm
picking here. I don't know if I'll be able to
pick Friday on TV because I don't know if the
Lions will have moved up to you know, above the seven.
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But I'll take the six and a half.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Next. Next, you got Pittsburgh minus four at Cleveland. This
was originally at four and a half. It's just dropped
to four.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah, I listen, I know laying more than a field
goal with Tomlin and divisional games is it hasn't been
the best, but I just think Shador has been really
bad and the last two weeks. It's fine for a
fifth round rookie, but for a Pittsburgh team that knows
we take care of business here, we get give ourselves
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a bye week eighteen doesn't matter, and win the division.
I'll lay the four points with Pittsburgh. I got no
problem with that.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Next Buffalo minus two and a half versus Philly, I.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Think Buffalo is a lot better than Philly. They're at home.
I'm only I'm playing less than a field goal. And listen,
Philly getting Jalen Carter and Lane Johnson back this week.
I think it's something Philly also, though they locked up
the division, they're not gonna be the one seed. So
it's not that I think they're not gonna care, but
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they just they they have no chance of being the
one seed. They have no chance of not winning the division,
so they have a slight chance at the three, at
the two seed, but they can't be the four. Philly
right now cannot be the one, four, five, six, or seven.
They're either. No matter what happens to the rest of
the way they're the two or the three seed, and
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they are probably the three seed, So I just think
Buffalo's better, Buffalo needs the game. Buffalo's at home. I'll
take Buffalo and then our one underdog, We're.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Taking Chicago plus three at San Francisco. This got bumped
up from to and a half.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
I just think the Bears run game, Bears offense against
that Niners defense, I think they can win. And I'm
getting three full points. So the Bears, by the way,
played on Saturday. The Niners played Monday, so that's not
like a mini buy, but it's a difference in that
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I think the Bears can win that game outright. So
my five picks are Dallas minus six and a half,
Jacksonville minus six and a half, Pittsburgh minus four, Buffalo
minus two and a half, Chicago plus three. Again, if
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Enjoy the season from Hell becomes more hilatious. You guys
lost Patrick, You guys lost your backup quarterback in Garda Minshew,
and you lost the Titans. And it seems like Kansas
City Chiefs are no longer going to be in Kansas City.
They might be moving over to Kansas in twenty thirty.
How do you feel about this development?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
All right, first, let me explain to people what it means.
Kansas City Kansas City for all intents and purposes. When
people hear about Kansas City, they're talking about the Missouri side.
It is where I'm from, so weird kind of border
rivalry Missouri or Kansas. But I grew up one block
off State Line Road. That is exactly what it sounds like,
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the line between Missouri and Kansas. Now, confusingly and oddly,
the Missouri side of State Line Road is Kansas City.
The Kansas side of State Line Road is not Kansas City, Kansas.
That's a different part. Like there is a small part
of Kansasity, Kansas that's touches State Line Road, but most
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of it that touches State Line Road is like uh
Leewood or Oleitha or different municipalities. Okay, you guys don't
care about that, what you What does matter is this
the Chiefs are moving about twenty minutes west of where
they currently play. So this has no impact on them
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being the Kansas City Chiefs because they were in Kansas
City proper. Yes, but they are still in the greater
Kansas City area. Just like the San Francisco forty nine
Ers play in Santa Clara. The New England Patriots, which
people consider Boston's team, play in Foxborough. Like this is
the Detroit Pistons used to play at the Palace at
Auburn Hills. This happens. This is not a team moving
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the way teams move, like Baltimore going to Cleveland, that
type of the Cleveland going to Baltimore. Either, That's not
what this is at all. Now it does for me
as a native Missouri and someone who's lived lived his
whole life might have its Kansas Missouri firefighter. I lived
in on the Missouri side and whenever people say to me, oh,
you're from Kansas, I correct them say no, I'm from Missouri.
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I hate that the Chiefs are leaving. I don't hate
that Missouri was not held hostage by pro sports owners.
And this is where we get into a little bit
of tricky stuff. And then we will talk about the
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football piece of it, because there is a real football
piece of it. But this is so teams because the
state of Kansas, via star bonds and other stuff, is
going to pay more money for this Chief stadium than
any local government, which means taxpayers have paid for any
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stadium in the history of America one point eight billion dollars.
And I have always believed that the call it fifteen
biggest cities in the country, all of the mayors slash
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governors of those states should have gotten together a long
time ago and said, folks, we need to have an
agreement amongst ourselves. We are not going to pay for
pro sports team stadiums because they want to be in
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our cities. So New York, LA, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco,
that your major markets pro sports teams want to be there.
The idea that they are going to leave is a bluff.
If you are a major, major market, so you should
never pay. Never pay. If you're in one of those markets.
(04:10):
If you're in a smaller market, it does get trickier
because we have seen teams leave smaller markets. And one
can argue, and I have argued for a long time
to use my hometown as a example, that the thing
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that distinct that makes Kansas City different from Des Moines, Iowa,
or Omaha, Nebraska is that we have the chiefs and
the royals. That's it. We're a two sport pro sport
city and there is real economic and civic pride benefit
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to that. And Kansas City is not a huge market,
so you you can't just dare a team to leave
the way LA could or New York could or Washington,
DC could, because they might leave. The Kansas City has
lost teams before, and so I don't think it. While
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I understand the argument of there are better things to
be putting paying taxpayer dollars for that is correct, I
agree with that in general. I also understand why if
you're Memphis, losing the Grizzlies as scary as shit, and
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it might be worth taxpayer dollars to make sure they stay.
And so I think the math is not the same
for mid market and small market teams as it is
for major market teams. That's just my opinion. I think
I have data to back that up, but it's my
gut feeling on how having grown up in one of
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those places and feeling like I'm from somewhere, and because
we have pro sports teams and so this doesn't change
that for Kansas Citians, they will still be the Kansasity Chiefs.
Nobody half the country thought they played in Kansas already anyway,
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And I don't think I understand the gut reaction people have,
and I'm with you politically on this, that it is
shameful the public subsidies we will give billion dollar sports
teams when I mean the city the state of Kansas
(06:42):
has no public transportation none. Don't get mad at me,
Governor Laura Kelly, Like, I'm sure there's a few bus routes,
but like there are there's there are things that money
could be used for that probably would help a greater
group of people. I get that, But I also do
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think that if you're in a city the size of
one that a team might leave, losing that team can
be devastating to the community. So I do think you
have to weigh that the the problem for the cheap
for that the Chiefs were able to play into specifically
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is because they're on a state line. They could play
one state against the other and get basically demanse the
benefit that you normally only get this type of I mean,
one point eight billion, it's the biggest public subsidy ever.
You normally only get that something like that if you
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are threatening your fan base with we are moving like
we are going to the Seattle SuperSonics are going to
become the Oklahoma City Thunder. Because Kansas City that is
on a state line, they were able to get the
benefit without ever having to threaten. They were never threatening
to move to San Antonio. It's just like we'll just.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Whoever is going to the game.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Right, You still get to play the states against each other.
And this has been a problem for border cities. This
is a bigger problem when it comes to business taxes
and municipal funding. And again, this is the part that
could be boring, but I'm going to give a very
simplistic story of what's happened in my hometown. Because it's
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on a state line, you'll have a business, not a
sports team, a business that is based in Kansas, and
then politicians in Missouri because they want to say, we
added jobs to our community, will give that business insane
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tax breaks to move its headquarters fifteen minutes east over
to Missouri, and that business can then not pay the
taxes it was once paying. It has no impact whatsoever
actually on who has the jobs. You're not adding jobs
to your community. You're just stealing them off the books
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of Kansas to Adam and Missouri, or Missouri to Adam
and Kansas, vice versa. But it's the same human beings
working there, and that has, you know, been That's a
problem for mayors and city councils of border cities all
the time, like how do we because it ends up
being a not a zero sum game again, a zero
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sum for the overall community, but a huge win for
the a zero sum for the employment of the overall community,
while being a huge win for the bottom line of corporations.
That's a sidebar. Now to the football piece of it,
because here is the te angible effect. The Chiefs are
going to play in a dome stadium starting in twenty
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thirty one.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Hey, that's awesome. I don't know how you feel about that.
That's awesome. I love the domes.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I hate it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So the snow games, that real effect of the weather. Yeah,
I like that passion. I'm going to the man, so the.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Other homes here's the so very short term, very selfish.
I like the dome for Patrick's late thirties.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh and then the new guy is going to be
playing in the dome the whole time.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So if we are just talking about maximizing like Mahomes' career,
having the fact that his age thirty five in old,
old seasons will be in a dome is probably good. Yeah, Okay,
(11:08):
that's probably good. That to me is not worth the
trade off of football slowly but surely eliminating weather as
(11:28):
a component, Like I think we are moving towards a
reality of in a decade, there are maybe three or
four stadiums in the country where weather plays a part,
and I don't like that for football. I think football
(11:50):
is a game made to be played in the elements.
I don't mind domes in warm weather places because it
feels like that's actually like the elements aren't going to
be a big issue there anyway, and so it allows
you to host more events. Fine, And I don't mind
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the Dome in Minnesota only because that specific place can
get so Maybe it's just because I'm used to it,
but it can get so much snow that they have
like canceled games. But I guess Buffalo. So it's probably
just because I'm used to it. But I don't like
football removing the elements and the idea that because they
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build this stadium, Kansas City is going to get a
bunch of super Bowls. It's just not true. I think
they will probably get one, and people will complain about
the super Bowl being in Kansas City, and you know what,
they should because the super Bowl should not be in
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Kansas City. The super Bowls shouldn't. I'm from there. I
love it. Super Bowl should not have ever been in Minneapolis,
it shouldn't have ever been in Indianapolis. It shouldn't be
in Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
The super Bowl sho, what does it need to be
in New Orleans? Or wait, what happened?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
New Orleans? Miami, Vegas, LA? That's where the super Bowl elitist? Okay,
no cities, it's yeah, I guess. I mean New Orleans
isn't a big market. It's just awesome and the and
so I think we have seen cities that can do it,
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and I'd be honestly Okay, with La not being included,
I'd be fine with it just being Vegas, Miami, New
Orleans like that, that being the rotation. You can make
the argument for Phoenix, but I just think they're not
the idea that Kansas City is because they're add this
is going to be a part of a Super Bowl rotation.
That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It's not gonna be every ten years the biggest sporting
event in the country, Headcore in wyan Dot County for
in February. It's just not happening. But the big my
biggest thing is on the field. I don't like I
like that weather matters, and I like that the Buffalo
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in Kansas City and Baltimore and Pittsburgh and New England
have to be able to play in multiple settings. And
I just I so, yes, I think it'll be good
for Pat the end of you know, the last quarter
of Patrick's career. But it's to me a bit of
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a bummer. And the other bummer is this, You're gonna
go from eighty thousand seats to about sixty eight thousand,
and I'm going to be very interested and I really
hope that they that they find to wait because I
think the tailgating will be great no matter what. One
thing Clark HNT said yesterday that's true is parking lots
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don't tailgate people do. That's correct. I think the tailgating
pregame stuff. I trust they will make sure that stays sacrisanct, because, like,
if there's ever a reason to go to an NFL game,
going to Arrowhead to tailgate before the game is one
of the greatest things in the NFL. And I think
that will stay. But I wonder if they're going to
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be able like and but the other thing Clark said
is seats and concrete don't make noise, fans do. That
is true, but certain stadiums are more conducive for noise
than others. And Arrowhead has been the loudest open air
stadium in the country forever. And I just hope they
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are able to recreate.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
That is is it going to have a new name, Well.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I would imagine they'll still call it Arrowhead. They've already
kind of sold on that because it's technically ge J
Field at Arrowhead. And I've never totally understood naming right sponsorships,
Like I don't know that anyone has paid more attention
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to the Kansas City Chiefs. I really don't know that
anyone in the world has paid more attention to the
Kansity chiefs than me, certainly, uh since because the stadiums
don't even named that for like five years of the
field in that time. Prater and I still don't. But
I still don't know what GHA is. Yeah, if you
were like that, I have no idea. I have no
(16:42):
clue what the I don't know. Do they sell insurance?
Is it are they? I have no consult I don't
know what it is. So it's it's always arrowhead to me.
But that's the the positive and the negative. That's what
it is. Now, will Kn't City get a Final four? Maybe?
(17:06):
Like will they're like having a domed stadium? There is
there are benefits for it.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Eha is Government Employees Health Association.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Still don't know what it means. Does that mean they
they they? Does that mean they compete with the company
that Gronk advertises for So it is they're the competitors
of Gronk's company. What's that? What's the Gronk insurance company?
Where he's like, I wasn't in the military. Yeah, okay,
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so g eh and USAA are competitors, all right, good
for them.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And do you think there's I'm sorry, just cut you off.
Do you think there's going to be any teams that
hold out on this open air stadium closed team? Like
could you see green Baby? And like the last team
with an open open stadium in thirty.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Years Buffalo's building a new stadium, and Buffalo's new stadium
doesn't have a roof, right, fact check me on that.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Okay, that's good for something then.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, yeah, and but and it's Buffalo, But I I
don't know. The Chiefs playing in a dome feels weird
to me. I'm sure I get used to it. And
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if and if Old Mahomes is just lighting people up,
maybe I'll be fine with it.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
But maybe because I'm not a savant and like a
football historian, I just don't see why you would want
like and this is like I hear a lot of
people that's their take. They want there to be snow,
the incluent weather. Why would you not just want them
to perform to their best ability like any other sport,
Like I feel like there's no.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Beau that's so that's where that's where I disagree with you.
Know what you're saying, a lot of people feel that
it just it just depends on how you look at it.
I look at being great at football intrinsically, meaning that
you can have different types of game plans and different
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abilities in different weather because I think that is part
of building a team. I think part of building a
team is teaching them how to exploit different weather conditions.
I think that is as intrinsic to the game as
kick returning, Like that's part of it. And I think
removing it people a lot of people feel like, oh,
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you remove it and that then makes it more pure.
I feel like it makes it less pure. And I
understand in basketball that doesn't exist. Everything's the same, all
of it.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Like soccer. I mean, I don't know if they played it.
Definitely they play soccer in the snow or like light snow.
They obviously heavy rain.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
That's fair, but the soccer is an outdoor sport and
being able to handle heat is a bigger thing in soccer.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Like yeah, yeah, the yeah, yeah, I guess I'm always
looking for the light show I've seeing these games. That's
fair and by the way, that's the.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Way the that's the way the NFL is moving that
it just bums me out. I mean, but again, I'm
a grand pall now.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
And I'm sorry to those historians that stuff is changing.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
No, it's fine. Just so many of the like the
great moments in NFL history are playoff games in the elements,
and that'll be a bummer for me. But you know,
nothing to cry about. I just I don't love it.
That to me matters a lot more than the fact
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Speaker 2 (22:26):
Ravens hanging by a thread. Drake May was looking poor
in the first half. Rallied Lamar Jackson came out of
the game with I think like a rib injury. We
lost the game. Now we have a seven percent chance
of making the playoffs. Yeah yeah, how yea? Who do
you think this is big wrong? The Ravens or Patriots?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I think, well, listen, I think it's a Let me
start with the Patriots. And what was I'm trying to
remember because there was a clip from last week's show.
Was it about Lamar? What was the clip? Maybe the
producers saw it as well. There is a clip of
I did some take that I don't even know if
Demonse agreed with, but it was massively aggregated, and it
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was aggregated with Demnse and I split screen. And I
always find this funny because I wasn't do you guys
remember what I'm talking about? Was it my last week
from it was from Thursday show. I can't even remember
what we talked about on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
But regardless Lamar's health, Nike will and sickness and stuff, Yeah,
it was something else other than that. Probably That's why.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I'm trying to remember what our If I had our
rundown from last week in front of me, I could
I could think of it. I'm trying to think if
it's Lamar because the reason I thought of that is
it might happen again this week, but uh the let's
start with the Patriots. I think that was a growing
up moment for.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Drake Drake.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I think that Drake was playing one of his worst
games of the year and for him to rally the
way he did and make the I mean, he obviously
had the one great deep pass that was robbed from
him on the miss DPI, but didn't matter. He had
already the touchdown passing threw to the front corner of
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the M zone. Yeah, was unbelievable. I thought that was great,
and I I think that on top of that, uh,
hold on, I think Paul just texted to me, Oh,
this is what it was. Sorry, it was the thank you, Paul.
(24:33):
It was the whimby stuff. It was me saying I
don't need to be lectured.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
By a twenty year old French kid.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
That the people got super mad at that take and
you're just sitting there like listening. It's just super funny.
Thank you, Paul. The no the people got mad at
I think my Lamar h takes from TV. But sorry,
I'm interrupting myself. I thought the Drake may touchdown pass
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was unbuild. The bomb was unbelievable. The fourth and two
play which kept them alive to go win the game.
It was just past the sideline, but it was an
absolute laser that I thought was gonna be knocked down.
He was excellent, and Drake made is the real deal.
He is the real and uh, the Patriots they had
(25:24):
to win that game because while I thought sometimes the
schedule stuff got a little overblown, if they had played
that soft schedule and then lost to Buffalo and Baltimore,
it'd be like, Okay, you know what I mean. They're uh,
they're a real Yeah, they're oh, they're ahead of schedule.
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They're better than all the JV teams, but they're not
an A lister, And I think they proved they're A listers.
And so I think that is that's the Patriots piece
of it. And they've got.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
They got their quarterback. The guy looks like. I think
that guy's gonna be in the league for a really
really long time. Yeah, yeah, I solid, man.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I think he is just going to be a top
five quarterback moving forward. He's legit. He is, without a
doubt legit. And then you get to the Ravens and
there's a lot here they blew another big lead. Everyone's
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blaming Harball. They didn't give the ball to they didn't
have Derrick Henry on the field for their last two possessions.
People are understandably blaming Harball. Another can I call it
without people freaking out? Weird injury thing with Lamar I do.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I do feel strongly that he could have came back
in the game. Watching the like and it's and it's
a ribbonery. I do think he could have come back
in that game. And I don't like doing that or
like being like so I don't know what the guy
was feeling, but I don't know, like he was moving around,
he's like on the side, like like I've had a
ribbagery before, and I just I don't know. I felt
like he could have kept playing, especially in that situation.
(27:17):
We have the game, we just need you to manage.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
But I so listen, I hate that you're the one
that said that instead of me, because and I want this,
if this gets aggregated, people to understand he could. This
is Demonte's favorite team and the guy he's ridden with
more than anybody. Yeah, but I was shocked he didn't
go back in and when he didn't go back in.
(27:43):
Let me rephrase that, I was not shocked he didn't
go back in. We didn't go back in. I assumed
we were going to get the news yesterday that he
broke his ribs, that he had cracked ribs, that even
though the hit didn't the need didn't look that bad.
But you never know, you know how that is. And
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so I just assumed, like, oh man, there's he like
he's he probably isn't gonna play this coming week, and
that's it's a rap. And when Harbaugh came out yesterday
and said it's just a bad contusion and he's day
to day, I was stunned. Now again, it's weird because
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Lamar is obviously tough, and obviously he's playing care care
so I so that's why I'm saying, it's just another
weird injury thing with Lamar, where now he has suffered
a hamstring injury that nobody saw when it happened, but
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obviously was a real one, like a not real as
opposed to real or sus fake. I should have said
a significant one to where he missed multiple games, including
a game after a bye that his coach thought he
would be back for, and then had knee, ankle toe
injuries that made him miss practice but not miss any games,
(29:17):
but he then wasn't effective in the games. Then his
you know, annual December cold had him miss practice, and
now what looked like a relatively banal play knocked him
out for the most critical half of their season, basically
(29:39):
playing an elimination game. It's just weird. And I'm not
trying to be like KG with my analysis here. I'm
not trying to hint at anything, but I'm also not
going to act like it's not weird. And it's very,
(30:04):
very hard not to go to the other quarterbacks in
Lamar's tax bracket and echelon, and I'd ask yourself, do
we think they would have an injury that the next
(30:27):
day their coach calls day to day and expects them
to play the next week, that we wouldn't have seen
them back on the field at least trying seeing giving
it a go and then maybe Okay, this isn't gonna work.
I don't know, I feel like you would have, and
so it's just odd. And I go.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Back to Baltimore. See so with the situation, Harball, whatever
it is, let me tweak that.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
There you go I don't because I said this a
few weeks ago. I only think he wants out. I
think he might be over Harba and this has run
its course, and that Lamar is resigned to the fact
that this is a lost season, and it is a
(31:17):
lost season, and this was the biggest thing I said
yesterday on TV that I think people maybe took issue with.
But again, we won't know for five years, but I
(31:40):
will I think this will age well. I am not
saying Lamar will never make or win a super Bowl.
What I am saying is I think when his career
is over, we will look at the best chances he
had were these past three years. They were the solitary
(32:02):
super Bowl favorite at multiple points in each of the
last three seasons. They were the super Bowl preseason favorite
this year. And to come out of these three years
with two total playoff victories, come out of the twenty
(32:22):
twenties so far twenty one, two, twenty three, twenty four
to twenty five with two total playoff victories is stunning.
And now I think you start a new era with
a new head coach Demons. Before we move on to
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the Pittsburgh's side of it, I want to give you
some news. Zay Flowers named to the Pro Bowl this morning.
Now go ahead, I know you have a potentials eight
flowers take.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Just run straight, man, please just run straight, and just
be a little bit tighter with the football. I just
think that there there have been a couple of big
situations and the biggest point of the season. I think
the guy is loose with the football. He's trying to
play like backyard football or something, making these cuts backwards.
And that's not like the only time that I've seen
(33:23):
him do that, but just in the bigger instances, it's like, dude,
just just be tirer with the football. Don't try to
get it all one play to go down or something.
It's just kind of frustrated.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
And he has said he was gonna do that, yeah,
and then he has not done that.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
He's loose, just loose.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
And it's the end. He doesn't fumble a lot, but
you remember the fumbles. Yeah, you're there are big moments.
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Speaker 2 (34:43):
You've got Dallas minus six and a half at Washington.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Yeah, I listen. I think Josh Johnson's playing quarterback for Washington.
I don't know this, but I think it. And if
that's the case, they just can't move the ball, Dall.
I understand that Dallas. You might feel like, oh, they're
gonna be demoralized because they're eliminated from the playoffs. I
(35:09):
don't know that. I think they've kind of felt they
were eliminated from the playoffs for a while. They're gonna
move the ball, Dallas is gonna blow out the Commanders.
I love the Cowboys minus six and a half and
Dak owned the Commanders in his career twelve and two
straight up, and they've covered five in a row.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Next, you got Jacksonville minus six and a half at Indy.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
So listen, Philip Rivers. Credit to him for playing obviously,
way way way better than I expected. But their season
ended Monday night and he came back to try to
make a playoff push. The Jags are playing for a
lot as far as locking up the division, staying alive
for the one seed. Jags have been crushing against the
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AFC South five and oh against the spread in their
last five against the AFC South. The culture falling apart again.
The Jags game and the Cowboys game are games I'm
picking here. I don't know if I'll be able to
pick Friday on TV because I don't know if the
Lions will have moved up to you know, above the seven.
(36:16):
But I'll take the six and a half.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Next. Next, you got Pittsburgh minus four at Cleveland. This
was originally at four and a half. It's just dropped
to four.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah, I listen, I know laying more than a field
goal with Tomlin and divisional games is it hasn't been
the best, but I just think Shador has been really
bad and the last two weeks. It's fine for a
fifth round rookie, but for a Pittsburgh team that knows
we take care of business here, we get give ourselves
(36:46):
a bye week eighteen doesn't matter, and win the division.
I'll lay the four points with Pittsburgh. I got no
problem with that.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Next Buffalo minus two and a half versus Philly, I.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Think Buffalo is a lot better than Philly. They're at home.
I'm only I'm playing less than a field goal. And listen,
Philly getting Jalen Carter and Lane Johnson back this week.
I think it's something Philly also, though they locked up
the division, they're not gonna be the one seed. So
it's not that I think they're not gonna care, but
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they just they they have no chance of being the
one seed. They have no chance of not winning the division,
so they have a slight chance at the three, at
the two seed, but they can't be the four. Philly
right now cannot be the one, four, five, six, or seven.
They're either. No matter what happens to the rest of
the way they're the two or the three seed, and
(37:40):
they are probably the three seed, So I just think
Buffalo's better, Buffalo needs the game. Buffalo's at home. I'll
take Buffalo and then our one underdog, We're.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Taking Chicago plus three at San Francisco. This got bumped
up from to and a half.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
I just think the Bears run game, Bears offense against
that Niners defense, I think they can win. And I'm
getting three full points. So the Bears, by the way,
played on Saturday. The Niners played Monday, so that's not
like a mini buy, but it's a difference in that
(38:19):
I think the Bears can win that game outright. So
my five picks are Dallas minus six and a half,
Jacksonville minus six and a half, Pittsburgh minus four, Buffalo
minus two and a half, Chicago plus three. Again, if
you're gonna bet favorites, Betamurley. We are doing this on Tuesday.
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