August 25, 2021 • 23 mins
Former NFL lineman Geoff Schwartz joins me to tell me why he's out on the Steelers this year (2:00), why he's betting Dak Prescott to win comeback player of the year, and what QB he thinks will win rookie of the year (11:30).
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All right, Welcome to another episode of Sports Gamble with
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only special treat Popping Baby. Former NFL li'man a home
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What's good, Jeff, I'm glad to be here. I'm disappointed
everyone left when they heard it. I was coming on though.
That's a little sad, but we got some people here
(03:57):
sounds good to go. That's what happens in my stand
up shows. So it's all good, dude. I'm fired up
to have you because you are very sharp from a
gambling perspective, and you played the games, so you know
what it's like. Let's just dive right in the NFL.
We're talking off air. I'm blown away. You're on the
Steelers under yes, it's very How are you on this?
(04:18):
Which is that? Which is it? Not? And a half?
And Tomlin has never gone anything less than we know
that going this and obviously this year he has to
be eight and nine or nine and eight, right, those
are two options. So here's here's a concern with the Steelers.
So basically a brand new offensive line, right, kind of important?
All right, defensively going to be good, but it's about
(04:39):
Big Ben. When older quarterbacks start physically declining, how many
of them go back up? None like who like? Who goes? Now,
that's fair. The Packers thought Aaron Rodgers was physically decline
in nineteen. They were wrong. But I'm not sure he
was physically declineing, just wasn't playing as well as I
thought he would, everyone says Tom Brady. Tom Brady tom Brady.
But Tom Brady wasn't physically decline in New England the
(05:01):
way that that that Ben was. He just had no
one to throw too. And we saw last year obviously
his arm is fine. So I think you have a
new o C, a new offensive line, big benk getting older,
and a division that's gonna be pretty good this year
outside of the Bengals. How much, looking at the athletic
who had an article come out with strength of schedule,
the Steelers do have the most difficult schedule. Do you
(05:22):
look at that being a huge kicker or do you
never look at strength of schedule too much on over
based out of what based off of basically wins and
losses from last year. I think that's a I buy
quarterbacks you're playing against, or past defenses. I look at
past defenses or quarterbacks. Right, So even their division, right,
they get Lamar twice, they get Baker twice, and you
(05:44):
get Joe Burrow twice. Right, they're the first place schedule,
I believe. So they have their first first the one
that the first place schedule. They're gonna have gonna have
Kansas City, they're gonna have Buffalo, they have Week one,
but they have a tough schedule this year. There their
counterpart in the FC is gonna be a first place
team from you know, from the n C. I just
it's all about Ben to me. And look again, the
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Ravens are gonna win games this year. They always win you,
they win a ton of regular season games. That's gonna happen.
The Bengels are gonna be better, and the Browns. I'm
really high in the Browns. So I've seen the Steelers.
I bet him to miss the playoffs as well. I'm
just out on them. Do you is a little this
a little stump the schwab for you? When's the last
time because I did it, I'm on the Steelers over,
(06:26):
I'm fading you. I'm sorry, I can't do it just
off of this alone. When's the last time the Steelers
were under five hundred? If you had to guess a year,
a joke was it was when Will Farrell asked Snoop
for his creane had what he was two thousand three?
(06:46):
I got somebody there, we go old school the same
Lebron James was drafted. I get the reference. I just
the year. The year was like, um, I look it
all comes to and at some point right. And we're
seeing with older quarterbacks, whether it was Eli or Breeze. Now,
Breeze was bolstered by having a fabulous offense around him,
(07:07):
by having a great defense, by playing division last year
with a brand new coach, Matt Rule with Atlanta kind
of sinking. Um and and I just I think they
don't age gracefully. And it's more of a fade a
big ben than anything else. I like Tom as a coach,
I like their personnel defense, I even like some of
their their their their young offensive lineman. But I'm just
fading bad. I'm fading an older quarterback who's getting worse.
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Atkins diet or no Atkins diet, we don't know what happens.
It's exactly the same. I want to get your thoughts
on comeback player of the Year. You're saying Daxelm but
plus two hundred, we got Joey Burrow, Christian McCaffrey, say
kwan a plus seven. No running backs winning this award? Um, No,
they never win this award. But no, he's not win
(07:50):
the award. The Panthers gonna win like seven games. You're
not win the award with seven games. So if you
look at If you look at who wins the award, obviously,
it's often a lot of quarterbacks, and it's also a
lot of at aloshed veteran so burros out Like what's
it coming back from an injury? Obviously, but typically you're like,
you've been good before and you come back and you're
good again. Right, So Joe Burrow wasn't good last year.
(08:11):
He was okay, right, he was a rookie kind of
organ stood the things he's gonna I think he's gonna
be really good, but he come back from injury. Doc
is a lock man. I know Dec has that last
thing and he should play uh week one this year
to be with this. He's America's team and the Cowboys, right,
he every every If he's average this year, it's like
(08:33):
forty touchdowns, right, like ten interceptions. It's gonna have a
great statistical year. And if they make the playoffs, which
I think they will in the NFC East, then he's
a shoeing easy like easy shoeing. So for Joe Burr
to win this award, Dak has to be hurt, which
we've seen so far. Might Peo prolem but I don't
think it will be. Then he has to be better
than him, make the playoffs overcome, like being the Bengals.
(08:56):
I just don't see it. And I don't take the
running backs of winning either. What if what if McCay
of free gives us s year, there's still no no,
not not for the quarterback of the Cowboys. You're not
beating him out. So interestingly enough in the gambling world,
you feel like there's a little bit of a Homer element.
Potentially they're not calling it down the middle because everything
(09:16):
there's always a bias in in these awards, right like
and I think Dak Prescott it's easy to root for.
I mean Hard Knocks is is totally born this year,
like they they've done that for years now where they
they you know you're gonna personnel meetings anymore, which we
used to get to watch you Obviously, players I think
are very limited what they say. They they know when
the cameras are around. They're being very careful. It's it's
(09:37):
very edited. Um, but yeah, I just buy the Cowboys
this year about on a little back to back like
oh three oh four bucks are plus six hundred. If
I'm not mistaken to come out of the NFC, it's
never happened Jeff All twenty two starters coming back. I
mean you've been in the locker rooms, you've been on
a few teams. Do you know how important or can
(09:59):
you talk to me about how important it is to
get the whole squad after a Super Bowl year to
come back. Well, obviously you have the ability to just
hit the ground running in the off season, right because
everyone knows the playbook, everyone knows the additions you're gonna
add to the playbook, and training camp is is really
just kind of like a breeze, right, you just get
through it. You know what you have to do to
accomplish your goal, and then you play this season and
(10:20):
you can after it. But also, to you, you should
be better at least offensively. What when my specialty is
obviously is offensive lineman. And year two right year one,
you're figuring thing, you know, you're figuring out what you
like to do, what you don't like to do. It
does take about eight to ten weeks. We saw last
year after Week twelve, right, that offense took off after
that bye week. So the offense should be better. This
year should be better. Plus you had Joe Troy on
(10:40):
the pass rusher from Washington. I think it's a huge
addition for them and in the first round, but it's
more about who in the NFC is gonna beat them.
Green Bay can beat him. I think. Is it a
two horse races that the Packers and the Bucks and
that's it? Or do you feel like that because the
NFC West is the most competitive. But is anyone out
of the NFC West ready to dethrone the power? I
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(15:06):
of part laying that into a Rookie of the Year talk,
What are your thoughts on all? Thank San Francisco. He's
my favorite for Rookie of the Year for a couple
of reasons. One is I do think he plays sooner
or later. We're seen now even in Chicago, right with
Matt Naggie and especially with Shanahan, they're getting more reps
with the ones. Right, Like Shanahan has asked about a
quarterback battle. Remember he said about two weeks ago, someone
you know used to earn the job. And now it's like, well, yeah,
(15:26):
it's a little bit of clansa. Like you were starting
to see that they traded too much to play Jimmy Garoppolo,
like they treated too much to play him all season.
Another look gonna win with Jimmy g But Trey Lance
offers you that little extra, right, And so I think
he does play the reason why I have a Rookie
of the Year, even if he plays ten games and
fields plays four team, he plays in the offense most
(15:46):
ready to help quarterbacks win. That offense has produced and
produced MVPN and Rogers last year. It's made Baker Mayfield,
Jared Goff, Kirk Cousins made it all of a ton
of money. Right, It's a quarterback friendly offense. And now
include a guy in there with the arm that Lance has,
with the running ability that lansats, which will be different
for Shannon who has never had that running quarterback in
(16:07):
this offense before. Right, And look also Matt Ryan there
m VP season in this offense. I think this offense
produces great quarterback numbers. You have a quarterback who's gonna
win a lot of games in a good offense. Fields
may play more, but his offensive lot is much worse.
Are we sure Naggie is as good as people hope
he is? Like, we don't. I don't know about that
(16:28):
quite yet. Um. I think Lance is gonna do really
well in San Francisco. I'm just blown away that they
had Jimmy g in the Super Bowl. I'll tell you,
I'll tell you moving off, I'll tell you why two
throws in the Super Bowl. I've said this when when
it happened. I was at that game. I was the
Chiefs family. Brother played for the Chiefs back then. It
was a great It was a great game for the Chiefs.
Um two throws, fourth quarter, third and six. He Shanhon
(16:52):
designed this follow route essentially where Guy clears out and
Kittle comes behind him, wide open, wide open, number one option. Jimmy,
he doesn't throw it there at those of sanders, I
can play pass and then later in the game we
saw the post, right, So Shanahan's thinking, Hey, my offensive works,
I got these guys open. My quarterback did not make
the throw he was supposed to make, So I'm gonna
(17:13):
find someone who can make those throws. Like, okay, every everything,
everything you do as a player obviously gears up for
those big moments, right, And if you can't perform in
those moments, everything else you do does not matter to
coach in front office, right, Like Jimmy G was great
up Untili and even though what do you throw like
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(17:35):
him the first three quarters, but Mahomes played better in
the big moments. He played better in the fourth quarter.
He bought himself an extra seven yards back in four
seconds to throw that deep all Tyreek like. He made
the place in those moments and Jimmy G did not.
If you're Shanahan, you're thinking of yourself, I gotta find
someone who can make those two throws. My offense works.
Guy was open, guy was open. My quarterback didn't do
(17:56):
it for me. So you're obviously not high on the Steelers.
ANFC North very competitive. You are high on the Browns.
Talk to me about your take away on that you
haven't went in the north by the North over. I
feel bad because you know, like the Browns, it's a
lot of pressure on that, a lot of pressure in
the while it's take out quarterback, take bigger made for
out of this? Which team is more talented in the
(18:17):
NFL than the Browns top to bottom? I don't know
that we have. It's probably Tampa, but they're older. They're
they're older. So you have a very talented team with
a coach I really like in in Stefanski. You have
a Lee pass rusher. You spent your off season adding
to secondary pieces and for you agency plus you drafted
(18:38):
newsom Um. So defense is said. Defense you have to
be just like you know, good. You don't have to
be great to win a super roll, just good, get
some stops. But offensively, you're the best offense line of football.
We know we have Chubb and Hunt, we know we
have Odell back healthy and Landry and a Joku. You
have the pieces there and remember this offense produces a
(18:59):
lot of yards. I don't think Baker Mayfield is any
better than slightly above average, Like and it's best, I think.
But this offense makes him better, It's made all these
quarterbacks better. It's gonna make a lot of money, So
you don't need to have Baker Mayfield be superman this
office to win a lot of football games. That's why
I don't think they win the FC, But I think
they're good enough to win the division, win a playoff
(19:21):
game or two, and that's kind of what they're always
gonna be. I don't really think Baker Baker is that
guy who can kind of get them over that like
that hurdle. I just find it fascinating how many years
in a row they're gonna have to deal with Patty
Mahomes And then the reason why and Pat Mahomes now
has lost two playoff games. He lost the theft Change
(19:42):
game against New England, were shut out in the first half,
but scored thirty one points on twenty eight plays in
the second half. Fascinating. And then obviously they lost D
four was off sides and Brady marched down the field.
He converted three third and tents on the last drive. Whatever,
and then he lost last year with no offensive lines.
What are the Chiefs too? But you get him a
brand new offensive line. Who who's stopping them at their
offense one can block? I don't. I don't have an
(20:05):
answer for you. Like that's so if they have the
one seed, there's only now one by Cleveland's gotta go
to Kansas City again. I remember even last year people
point to the you know, the play at the end
of the first half on the bubbles bumping out the
back of the end zone. If that's targeting whatever. It's
only sixteen ten now, right, And the Browns had knocked
op the Chiefs the entire game until until pack got hurt.
So Pat's putting up thirty five to forty two points
(20:27):
now you hope this year again the goals just slowed
them down so forced them to pun one or two
more times a game. It's not really the idea of
shutting them out right, it's getting it's instead scoring thirty
five now they scored twenty eight. It's all. It's all
you need. And I don't know if the Browns can
score thirty five in late January and Arrowhead, I just
(20:48):
don't buy it. If you put your money out and
I'll get you out of here with this on either
the Chiefs, the box or both of them going back
to the Super Bowl or would you take the field? What?
What would you take here? I mean the better bets
of field obviously, right, like if you're gonna you know,
with the value oh geez. I mean I bet the
(21:10):
Chiefs to when the a f C. I've not made
it way during the NFC, but I feel like, again,
like if Pat's not hurt, who's gonna beat them? I
don't have any it's maybe the unless you go Sills
play out of their mind on random Sundays. They have
you know, they Yeah, they have a good secondary. They
have They've improved their linebackers in the draft. They have
Chris Jones and Frank Clark. Frank Clark is a little underachieving,
(21:32):
but they have Chris Jones. Who's who wrecked shop? Like,
if they're not injured, they're down. They need another wide receiver.
I'm furiously gonna make a trade at the end of
camp for someone. But nonetheless, like I just don't see
and it would be there now Tampa Bay. I don't know.
I I should not bet against Brady. I mean, that's
a bad business. So I would think the better bets
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the field, probably, but I don't know how you convinced
me to bet otherwise. I'm with you on the chiefs Man,
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That's a little sad, but we got some people here
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sounds good to go. That's what happens in my stand
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what it's like. Let's just dive right in the NFL.
We're talking off air. I'm blown away. You're on the
Steelers under yes, it's very How are you on this?
(04:18):
Which is that? Which is it? Not? And a half?
And Tomlin has never gone anything less than we know
that going this and obviously this year he has to
be eight and nine or nine and eight, right, those
are two options. So here's here's a concern with the Steelers.
So basically a brand new offensive line, right, kind of important?
All right, defensively going to be good, but it's about
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Big Ben. When older quarterbacks start physically declining, how many
of them go back up? None like who like? Who goes? Now,
that's fair. The Packers thought Aaron Rodgers was physically decline
in nineteen. They were wrong. But I'm not sure he
was physically declineing, just wasn't playing as well as I
thought he would, everyone says Tom Brady. Tom Brady tom Brady.
But Tom Brady wasn't physically decline in New England the
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way that that that Ben was. He just had no
one to throw too. And we saw last year obviously
his arm is fine. So I think you have a
new o C, a new offensive line, big benk getting older,
and a division that's gonna be pretty good this year
outside of the Bengals. How much, looking at the athletic
who had an article come out with strength of schedule,
the Steelers do have the most difficult schedule. Do you
(05:22):
look at that being a huge kicker or do you
never look at strength of schedule too much on over
based out of what based off of basically wins and
losses from last year. I think that's a I buy
quarterbacks you're playing against, or past defenses. I look at
past defenses or quarterbacks. Right, So even their division, right,
they get Lamar twice, they get Baker twice, and you
(05:44):
get Joe Burrow twice. Right, they're the first place schedule,
I believe. So they have their first first the one
that the first place schedule. They're gonna have gonna have
Kansas City, they're gonna have Buffalo, they have Week one,
but they have a tough schedule this year. There their
counterpart in the FC is gonna be a first place
team from you know, from the n C. I just
it's all about Ben to me. And look again, the
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Ravens are gonna win games this year. They always win you,
they win a ton of regular season games. That's gonna happen.
The Bengels are gonna be better, and the Browns. I'm
really high in the Browns. So I've seen the Steelers.
I bet him to miss the playoffs as well. I'm
just out on them. Do you is a little this
a little stump the schwab for you? When's the last
time because I did it, I'm on the Steelers over,
(06:26):
I'm fading you. I'm sorry, I can't do it just
off of this alone. When's the last time the Steelers
were under five hundred? If you had to guess a year,
a joke was it was when Will Farrell asked Snoop
for his creane had what he was two thousand three?
(06:46):
I got somebody there, we go old school the same
Lebron James was drafted. I get the reference. I just
the year. The year was like, um, I look it
all comes to and at some point right. And we're
seeing with older quarterbacks, whether it was Eli or Breeze. Now,
Breeze was bolstered by having a fabulous offense around him,
(07:07):
by having a great defense, by playing division last year
with a brand new coach, Matt Rule with Atlanta kind
of sinking. Um and and I just I think they
don't age gracefully. And it's more of a fade a
big ben than anything else. I like Tom as a coach,
I like their personnel defense, I even like some of
their their their their young offensive lineman. But I'm just
fading bad. I'm fading an older quarterback who's getting worse.
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Atkins diet or no Atkins diet, we don't know what happens.
It's exactly the same. I want to get your thoughts
on comeback player of the Year. You're saying Daxelm but
plus two hundred, we got Joey Burrow, Christian McCaffrey, say
kwan a plus seven. No running backs winning this award? Um, No,
they never win this award. But no, he's not win
(07:50):
the award. The Panthers gonna win like seven games. You're
not win the award with seven games. So if you
look at If you look at who wins the award, obviously,
it's often a lot of quarterbacks, and it's also a
lot of at aloshed veteran so burros out Like what's
it coming back from an injury? Obviously, but typically you're like,
you've been good before and you come back and you're
good again. Right, So Joe Burrow wasn't good last year.
(08:11):
He was okay, right, he was a rookie kind of
organ stood the things he's gonna I think he's gonna
be really good, but he come back from injury. Doc
is a lock man. I know Dec has that last
thing and he should play uh week one this year
to be with this. He's America's team and the Cowboys, right,
he every every If he's average this year, it's like
(08:33):
forty touchdowns, right, like ten interceptions. It's gonna have a
great statistical year. And if they make the playoffs, which
I think they will in the NFC East, then he's
a shoeing easy like easy shoeing. So for Joe Burr
to win this award, Dak has to be hurt, which
we've seen so far. Might Peo prolem but I don't
think it will be. Then he has to be better
than him, make the playoffs overcome, like being the Bengals.
(08:56):
I just don't see it. And I don't take the
running backs of winning either. What if what if McCay
of free gives us s year, there's still no no,
not not for the quarterback of the Cowboys. You're not
beating him out. So interestingly enough in the gambling world,
you feel like there's a little bit of a Homer element.
Potentially they're not calling it down the middle because everything
(09:16):
there's always a bias in in these awards, right like
and I think Dak Prescott it's easy to root for.
I mean Hard Knocks is is totally born this year,
like they they've done that for years now where they
they you know you're gonna personnel meetings anymore, which we
used to get to watch you Obviously, players I think
are very limited what they say. They they know when
the cameras are around. They're being very careful. It's it's
(09:37):
very edited. Um, but yeah, I just buy the Cowboys
this year about on a little back to back like
oh three oh four bucks are plus six hundred. If
I'm not mistaken to come out of the NFC, it's
never happened Jeff All twenty two starters coming back. I
mean you've been in the locker rooms, you've been on
a few teams. Do you know how important or can
(09:59):
you talk to me about how important it is to
get the whole squad after a Super Bowl year to
come back. Well, obviously you have the ability to just
hit the ground running in the off season, right because
everyone knows the playbook, everyone knows the additions you're gonna
add to the playbook, and training camp is is really
just kind of like a breeze, right, you just get
through it. You know what you have to do to
accomplish your goal, and then you play this season and
(10:20):
you can after it. But also, to you, you should
be better at least offensively. What when my specialty is
obviously is offensive lineman. And year two right year one,
you're figuring thing, you know, you're figuring out what you
like to do, what you don't like to do. It
does take about eight to ten weeks. We saw last
year after Week twelve, right, that offense took off after
that bye week. So the offense should be better. This
year should be better. Plus you had Joe Troy on
(10:40):
the pass rusher from Washington. I think it's a huge
addition for them and in the first round, but it's
more about who in the NFC is gonna beat them.
Green Bay can beat him. I think. Is it a
two horse races that the Packers and the Bucks and
that's it? Or do you feel like that because the
NFC West is the most competitive. But is anyone out
of the NFC West ready to dethrone the power? I
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straight Lance, I was looking up Shanahan's record and he's
like an astonishing twenty and six, which MMG and under
five with everyone else. Do you even think Trey Lance
starts under centator start the season or like in terms
(15:06):
of part laying that into a Rookie of the Year talk,
What are your thoughts on all? Thank San Francisco. He's
my favorite for Rookie of the Year for a couple
of reasons. One is I do think he plays sooner
or later. We're seen now even in Chicago, right with
Matt Naggie and especially with Shanahan, they're getting more reps
with the ones. Right, Like Shanahan has asked about a
quarterback battle. Remember he said about two weeks ago, someone
you know used to earn the job. And now it's like, well, yeah,
(15:26):
it's a little bit of clansa. Like you were starting
to see that they traded too much to play Jimmy Garoppolo,
like they treated too much to play him all season.
Another look gonna win with Jimmy g But Trey Lance
offers you that little extra, right, And so I think
he does play the reason why I have a Rookie
of the Year, even if he plays ten games and
fields plays four team, he plays in the offense most
(15:46):
ready to help quarterbacks win. That offense has produced and
produced MVPN and Rogers last year. It's made Baker Mayfield,
Jared Goff, Kirk Cousins made it all of a ton
of money. Right, It's a quarterback friendly offense. And now
include a guy in there with the arm that Lance has,
with the running ability that lansats, which will be different
for Shannon who has never had that running quarterback in
(16:07):
this offense before. Right, And look also Matt Ryan there
m VP season in this offense. I think this offense
produces great quarterback numbers. You have a quarterback who's gonna
win a lot of games in a good offense. Fields
may play more, but his offensive lot is much worse.
Are we sure Naggie is as good as people hope
he is? Like, we don't. I don't know about that
(16:28):
quite yet. Um. I think Lance is gonna do really
well in San Francisco. I'm just blown away that they
had Jimmy g in the Super Bowl. I'll tell you,
I'll tell you moving off, I'll tell you why two
throws in the Super Bowl. I've said this when when
it happened. I was at that game. I was the
Chiefs family. Brother played for the Chiefs back then. It
was a great It was a great game for the Chiefs.
Um two throws, fourth quarter, third and six. He Shanhon
(16:52):
designed this follow route essentially where Guy clears out and
Kittle comes behind him, wide open, wide open, number one option. Jimmy,
he doesn't throw it there at those of sanders, I
can play pass and then later in the game we
saw the post, right, So Shanahan's thinking, Hey, my offensive works,
I got these guys open. My quarterback did not make
the throw he was supposed to make, So I'm gonna
(17:13):
find someone who can make those throws. Like, okay, every everything,
everything you do as a player obviously gears up for
those big moments, right, And if you can't perform in
those moments, everything else you do does not matter to
coach in front office, right, Like Jimmy G was great
up Untili and even though what do you throw like
eight passes in the ant changing the game that year,
but in those big moments, and Mahomes did not outplay
(17:35):
him the first three quarters, but Mahomes played better in
the big moments. He played better in the fourth quarter.
He bought himself an extra seven yards back in four
seconds to throw that deep all Tyreek like. He made
the place in those moments and Jimmy G did not.
If you're Shanahan, you're thinking of yourself, I gotta find
someone who can make those two throws. My offense works.
Guy was open, guy was open. My quarterback didn't do
(17:56):
it for me. So you're obviously not high on the Steelers.
ANFC North very competitive. You are high on the Browns.
Talk to me about your take away on that you
haven't went in the north by the North over. I
feel bad because you know, like the Browns, it's a
lot of pressure on that, a lot of pressure in
the while it's take out quarterback, take bigger made for
out of this? Which team is more talented in the
(18:17):
NFL than the Browns top to bottom? I don't know
that we have. It's probably Tampa, but they're older. They're
they're older. So you have a very talented team with
a coach I really like in in Stefanski. You have
a Lee pass rusher. You spent your off season adding
to secondary pieces and for you agency plus you drafted
(18:38):
newsom Um. So defense is said. Defense you have to
be just like you know, good. You don't have to
be great to win a super roll, just good, get
some stops. But offensively, you're the best offense line of football.
We know we have Chubb and Hunt, we know we
have Odell back healthy and Landry and a Joku. You
have the pieces there and remember this offense produces a
(18:59):
lot of yards. I don't think Baker Mayfield is any
better than slightly above average, Like and it's best, I think.
But this offense makes him better, It's made all these
quarterbacks better. It's gonna make a lot of money, So
you don't need to have Baker Mayfield be superman this
office to win a lot of football games. That's why
I don't think they win the FC, But I think
they're good enough to win the division, win a playoff
(19:21):
game or two, and that's kind of what they're always
gonna be. I don't really think Baker Baker is that
guy who can kind of get them over that like
that hurdle. I just find it fascinating how many years
in a row they're gonna have to deal with Patty
Mahomes And then the reason why and Pat Mahomes now
has lost two playoff games. He lost the theft Change
(19:42):
game against New England, were shut out in the first half,
but scored thirty one points on twenty eight plays in
the second half. Fascinating. And then obviously they lost D
four was off sides and Brady marched down the field.
He converted three third and tents on the last drive. Whatever,
and then he lost last year with no offensive lines.
What are the Chiefs too? But you get him a
brand new offensive line. Who who's stopping them at their
offense one can block? I don't. I don't have an
(20:05):
answer for you. Like that's so if they have the
one seed, there's only now one by Cleveland's gotta go
to Kansas City again. I remember even last year people
point to the you know, the play at the end
of the first half on the bubbles bumping out the
back of the end zone. If that's targeting whatever. It's
only sixteen ten now, right, And the Browns had knocked
op the Chiefs the entire game until until pack got hurt.
So Pat's putting up thirty five to forty two points
(20:27):
now you hope this year again the goals just slowed
them down so forced them to pun one or two
more times a game. It's not really the idea of
shutting them out right, it's getting it's instead scoring thirty
five now they scored twenty eight. It's all. It's all
you need. And I don't know if the Browns can
score thirty five in late January and Arrowhead, I just
(20:48):
don't buy it. If you put your money out and
I'll get you out of here with this on either
the Chiefs, the box or both of them going back
to the Super Bowl or would you take the field? What?
What would you take here? I mean the better bets
of field obviously, right, like if you're gonna you know,
with the value oh geez. I mean I bet the
(21:10):
Chiefs to when the a f C. I've not made
it way during the NFC, but I feel like, again,
like if Pat's not hurt, who's gonna beat them? I
don't have any it's maybe the unless you go Sills
play out of their mind on random Sundays. They have
you know, they Yeah, they have a good secondary. They
have They've improved their linebackers in the draft. They have
Chris Jones and Frank Clark. Frank Clark is a little underachieving,
(21:32):
but they have Chris Jones. Who's who wrecked shop? Like,
if they're not injured, they're down. They need another wide receiver.
I'm furiously gonna make a trade at the end of
camp for someone. But nonetheless, like I just don't see
and it would be there now Tampa Bay. I don't know.
I I should not bet against Brady. I mean, that's
a bad business. So I would think the better bets
(21:54):
the field, probably, but I don't know how you convinced
me to bet otherwise. I'm with you on the chiefs Man,
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