November 15, 2025 • 27 mins
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Nick Wright reacts to the Dallas Mavericks firing general manager Nico Harrison. Nick reflects on how trading Luka Doncic to the Lakers will go down as one of the greatest gaffes in sports history and breaks down why Nico Harrison will never again work in an NBA front office again. Later, Nick explains why AJ Brown has a point about the offensive struggles of Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley, and the Philadelphia Eagles, even if he's handling the situation in a destructive way. Next, Nick shares his game picks for Week 11 of the NFL season including Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and the Kansas City Chiefs taking on Bo Nix and the Denver Broncos in a massive AFC West showdown! #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 and moments from this
week on the show. Enjoy. Nico Harrison has not yet
been fired in a truly mortifying end to a truly
indefensible nine month reign of terror. Nico Harrison has a
(00:27):
meeting with MAVs ownership in twenty five minutes where he
will be fired. I gotta tell you, I'm not sure
I'd show up to that meeting. If Shams has it
and the whole world knows that, you know what guys
with this can be assumed. So the impacts and implications
(00:54):
of this are far reaching. Most notable is the following
and this This might sound shocking, this might sound drastic,
but I believe this to be true. Teams around the
(01:14):
league should immediately call Dallas and ask about Anthony Davis's availability.
Certainly teams around the league that would be interested, and
this probably is going to have to be something far
later once you see him if he returns pre trade deadline,
(01:39):
should ask about Kyrie Irving. And that is because the
Dallas Mavericks are now in total build around Cooper Flag
try to rebuild our draft capital to keep in mind,
they do not either have they either don't have well,
(01:59):
they either don't have a pick or don't have their
own pick. In the next four drafts, they had gone
all in around historically great superstar Lukadancic, and then, because
of ego and hubris, Lukadancich was traded in the middle
(02:23):
of the night in the type of move that if
there were ever cause for a fan base to file
a class action lawsuit against management, this would be it.
(02:45):
You had one of the greatest players ever at the
very beginning of the prime of his career. And I
said it at the time and I will say it again,
and because of nothing more than power and ego, you
(03:07):
lit the franchise on fire, power and ego. Everyone was
searching for why Nico would have done this, and the
only logical and it's not logical, but the only reasonable
explanation was he didn't like the fact that someone within
(03:34):
the organization had more power than him, and that someone
was Luca, So we got him out of there. And
it will go down in the annals of sports history
(03:55):
as one of the single greatest gaffes in a front
office has ever made. That is not an overreaction that
is not an overstatement. That is simply what it was
(04:17):
the moment it happened, and now is being exacerbated night in,
night out as Luca instead of coming off an injury
as he was last year, reminds everyone. Yes, I am
the guy who dragged a Dallas Mavericks team to the
conference finals when I was twenty two, and to the
(04:40):
NBA Finals when I was twenty four, And now I'm
twenty six, and I have more first team All NBAS
under my belt than Steph Curry does, and you got
rid of me, and I don't. I also don't think
this is an overstatement. Nico Harrison will never work in
(05:05):
an NBA front office again. He's gonna have to work
for Nike or an agency or something. But this is
you cannot recover from something like this, and the arrogance
that less than you know. We are a dozen games
(05:28):
into this season and Nico, after they spun a one
point eight percent lottery ball chance into Cooper Flag, the
fact that he said, do you see the vision now
was one of the most tone deaf, ludicrous statements. And
(05:53):
I'm not a MAVs fan. Hell, I'm an adopted I
guess Laker fan. Because that's who Bron plays for. So
the Lakers getting Luca, who's my second favorite player, was
and he and Bron playing together was a true dream.
And I'm still mad about this trade on behalf of
(06:18):
Mad fans. I can't imagine what this is. This was
a sports felony inflicted upon a fan base. And yes,
now the villain has been captured and is facing justice,
(06:40):
but it doesn't change the havoc he reeked and the
long term impact on your fandom. So I I want
to just revisit before we get to last night's game,
(07:01):
before we get to football, what I set off the
top and credit to Tim Bond, TIMPs. He's been talking
about this for a while, but now it is to
me a more because it was never gonna happen with
Nico in charge. But the Dallas Mavericks have to consider
(07:23):
a fire sale. So let me let me. I want
to give everyone the actual draft picks situation for Dallas.
In twenty twenty six, they have their pick, so my apologies,
I said that wrong. Twenty twenty six, they have their pick.
(07:48):
This year, they have their pick, and maybe that's good
because right now they're terrible. In twenty twenty seven, their
pick basically totally unprotected, protected only for spots one or two,
so unprotected goes to Charlotte. In twenty twenty eight, Jesus,
(08:12):
the rich get richer, the Thunder can swap with them.
In twenty twenty nine, their pick goes somewhere in a
swap and they do have the Lakers pick, And in
(08:34):
twenty thirty, my god, the Spurs can swap with them.
So first of all, in twenty twenty eight and twenty thirty,
the Mavericks first round pick is gonna go to the
Thunder and then the Spurs. Holy shit. In twenty twenty nine,
(09:01):
their pick goes somewhere. I can't figure it out. It
says two most favorable of Dallas Houston, Phoenix to Houston
and then other to Brooklyn via Dallas, and Phoenix to
Brooklyn via Dallas, or Phoenix to Houston via Houston. Swap
for Dallas or Phoenix. I don't get it, but whatever,
the MAVs will not after this coming year's draft. They
(09:25):
do not have control of their their first until twenty
thirty one, until Cooper flag is in the midst of
his second contract, so they need to recoup picks. They
(09:45):
need to figure out, like Klay Thompson's contract is fully underwater.
Kyrie's an interesting one, and I it's just and by
the way, the three and eight, and I think, let
me check. I think they have literally the worst offense
(10:08):
in the NBA. I know, so let's just check in
real quick. Defense wins championships, because that's all we heard
from this this guy. All we heard from him. Their
offense is, oh, is it no longer dead last? The
(10:35):
hold on, let me, I had it. I thought they
were dead last. Maybe I'm wrong because that says they're
fourteenth right now, So oh that's last year. I'm looking
at last year. It's like, hold on a second, this
can't be correct. It can't be the Mavericks having the
fifteenth offense. No chance, all right, here we go. Oh no,
(10:58):
if fair is fair, they don't have the worst offense
in the basketball. They have the second worst offensive basketball
to the Pacers, whose best player Torrey's achilles in Game
seven of the finals and second best or third best
player left the team. Now, I mean, this is just perfect,
(11:18):
just chef's kiss. Perfect defense wins championships. The Dallas Mavericks
are three and eight. They fired Nico Harrison. They currently
have the third best defense in basketball. Maybe that was
a miscalculation because you have the second worst offense in basketball.
(11:42):
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Eagles cannot stay out of their own way despite winning games.
And I was listening to my one of my favorite podcasts,
NFL Daily, I talk about a lot with Greg Rosenthal
(14:18):
and company, and in previewing this game, his Cospatrick Claiban,
you know, basically tongue in cheek, melted down about the
media bothering Sirianni and hurts about AJ Brown and about
how this team won a Super Bowl last year and
(14:42):
about how this is much ado about nothing because the
latest AJ Brown drama is him going on a Twitch
stream and saying thing is things are not going well
and drop me on your fantasy team, and how he
and I'm sure others think it's a non story. Here's
(15:03):
why I vehemently disagree with that. AJ Brown being happy
or not might not matter. But the Philadelphia Eagles with
the most expensive offense in NFL history, with guys who
(15:25):
are all Pro caliber all over the offensive line, multiple receivers,
Saquon Jalen Hurts. That team being this pedestrian on offense
is a story. It flatly is, and it's inexplicable. Their
(15:50):
inability out of a buye in a game they scored
zero points in the first half to get AJ Brown
involved is in a splicable. Them leading the league by
a huge margin on three and out rate is indefensible.
(16:13):
And so I give the Eagles credit because they do
find a way to win, and they're champions, and the defense,
particularly with the addition of Jalen Phillips, is rounding into form.
All of that is great. But AJ Brown is not wrong.
He might be wrong in his delivery in the way
(16:37):
it feels diva ish or selfish, all that's fine. But
his concern that this offense is not functioning properly is
totally correct, totally correct, and I don't have an answer
(16:58):
for it. Seems like Petullo and Sirianni are wildly conservative
with the play calls up until they are just lunatics
on the fourth and down at the end of the game.
They have the highest rate of running the ball on
(17:22):
third and long of any team in twenty five years,
which are just give up plays. Now, some of that,
a tiny bit of that might be push push related,
but really their give up plays. And so it feels
(17:43):
silly to concern troll the Eagles who have won like
twenty two of their last twenty four and of the
defending champs. But it also feels ridiculous to watch that
team have zero points at halftime, to see AJ Brown
(18:06):
with multiple games this year with three or fewer targets
after he had one game like that the previous three
years and act like nothing is wrong. Also, it is
to me, at this point a four gone conclusion that
(18:27):
AJ Brown is going to be gone this offseason, and
I would be I personally would be quite surprised, Like
my money would be on AJ Brown is going to
be a new England Patriot a year from now. But
(18:48):
none of that matters for this season. I almost shouldn't
have even brought it up because the trade deadline has passed.
And that's the other part of this that is baffling
to me. You have a buye, you decide not to
trade AJ Brown the market for receiver like Again, this
is me just speculating, but if Buffalo was gonna give
(19:10):
up A one and a three for Jail and Waddle,
I would imagine they would have given up something similar
for aj Brown. Philly didn't want to trade him, so
then use him. And if you're not gonna use him,
it's gotta be because the offense is humming without him,
but it's not Saquon the game before the buye. Notwithstanding,
(19:37):
Saquan is having a brutal year, he is averaging three
point nine yards per carry. Saquon's yards and yards per
carry by game this season sixty three point three, eighty
eight four point zero, forty six two point six on
(20:00):
three two point three thirty five point zero, only got
six carries and a loss to Denver fifty eight four
point eight forty four two point four, the game against
the Giants one fifty ten point seven and then sixty
(20:21):
for two point seven. So aside from the Giants game,
Sekuan this year has run the ball won one hundred
and thirty five times for four hundred and twenty nine yards.
So what is that one thirty five for four to
(20:42):
twenty nine one thirty five times three is four oh
five so that is three point two yards per carry.
I'm now gonna check. I'm now gonna do that math
real quick and see if I got it. I think
it's three point two yards per carry. So we said
(21:05):
it was four twenty nine divided by one thirty five. Yeah,
three point one point eight yards per carry. Aside from
the Giants game, So feed the bald aj Brown. It's
just baffling, and I don't think it's We can say
(21:29):
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The Colton Saints are on a buy and that leaves
us these five picks. I liked Miami minus two and
(22:35):
a half against Washington when I briefly thought the game
was in Washington. I love it when it's on a
neutral site in Madrid. I think Washington is just flatly
two injured quarterback out, a half dozen defensive players out.
(22:57):
That Washington is so banged up Miami all of a sudden,
sneaky good vibes. I know Tua has not done well
in his international starts, but one of those was against
the Chiefs. I'll throw that one out. Uh. I think
Washington is just right now, one of the softer spots
in the league until Jaden gets back, and I'm laying
(23:19):
less than a field goal. So I'll take Miami minus
two and a half from Madrid. Chicago getting three at Minnesota.
I didn't know this, but this is crazy. The Vikings
are zero to six against the spread after facing the
Lions under Kevin O'Connell. That one, I mean, that's that's
(23:42):
It's not nothing. It the that that applied the last
week's game against the Ravens, so maybe I wish I
knew it then. I I thought Minnesota had a lot
of opportunities against Baltimore. I didn't think Baltimore played that
one well and they just couldn't make the most of them.
(24:03):
I think Chicago likely wins this game outright, and I'm
getting three points. Also, I like getting that all of
a sudden, very explosive Chicago offense in a dome. So
Chicago getting a full three at Minnesota. When I think
Chicago can win outright, I'll roll with them. Tampa getting
(24:24):
five and a half at Buffalo, I just don't know
that right now. Buffalo deserves to be laying more than
three and a half against any really good team, and
I think Tampa's a really good team. They're also, this
will be the first game maybe all year, where Tampa
(24:48):
is the healthier team. They might have Bucky Irving back,
they might have Chris Godwin back. At Buffalo meanwhile, is
super banged up. I don't need Tampa a win out right,
even though I think they could. I just need them
to keep it, you know, manageable, and they're healthier, and
(25:08):
Buffalo I think has some soul searching to do. Tampa
plus five and a half probably my I'm not gonna
call it my favorite, but I like this a lot,
even though all the trends are against me because Shanahan
has not covered against the Cardinals and Arizona is pretty
(25:33):
good as a covering team coming off a loss. But
San Francisco minus two and a half at Arizona, I
think Arizona is a bit of a mess. We just
saw them get absolutely demolished this past weekend. San Francisco
(25:54):
reckon should have Purdy back. Now. I don't think there's
a big difference between Purdy and mac Jones this point,
but they should have Purty back, and they are. They
understand that it's gonna be between them and Chicago for
that final playoff spot. This is a game you've got
to take care of business. I love that I don't
(26:16):
have to lay three and a half. Just feels like
San Francisco can control this game and win by three
points and I'm only laying the two and a half.
So I'll take San Francisco minus the two and a half,
and last but not least, the Chiefs laying three and
a half at Denver. I be if you got this right,
when it opened at three. Good for you. I may
(26:40):
have gotten it right when it opened at three, but
I will still lay the three and a half. I
just do not think bo Nicks can get this Broncos
deep offense to more than seventeen points. So then the
question is do I think the Chiefs can score twenty
one even against that Denver defense? I think they can.
(27:00):
My real analysis of this game and everything about it
you can hear on yesterday's pod, you know, around the
ten minute mark. We get into it if you want
to hear more there. So our five picks this week
are Miami minus two and a half in Madrid against Washington,
Chicago plus three at Minnesota, Tampa plus five and a
(27:21):
half at Buffalo, San Francisco minus two and a half
at Arizona, and Kansas City minus three and a half
at Denver
Welcome to the Best of the Week for What's Right
with Nick Right the best takes and moments from this
week on the show. Enjoy. Nico Harrison has not yet
been fired in a truly mortifying end to a truly
indefensible nine month reign of terror. Nico Harrison has a
(00:27):
meeting with MAVs ownership in twenty five minutes where he
will be fired. I gotta tell you, I'm not sure
I'd show up to that meeting. If Shams has it
and the whole world knows that, you know what guys
with this can be assumed. So the impacts and implications
(00:54):
of this are far reaching. Most notable is the following
and this This might sound shocking, this might sound drastic,
but I believe this to be true. Teams around the
(01:14):
league should immediately call Dallas and ask about Anthony Davis's availability.
Certainly teams around the league that would be interested, and
this probably is going to have to be something far
later once you see him if he returns pre trade deadline,
(01:39):
should ask about Kyrie Irving. And that is because the
Dallas Mavericks are now in total build around Cooper Flag
try to rebuild our draft capital to keep in mind,
they do not either have they either don't have well,
(01:59):
they either don't have a pick or don't have their
own pick. In the next four drafts, they had gone
all in around historically great superstar Lukadancic, and then, because
of ego and hubris, Lukadancich was traded in the middle
(02:23):
of the night in the type of move that if
there were ever cause for a fan base to file
a class action lawsuit against management, this would be it.
(02:45):
You had one of the greatest players ever at the
very beginning of the prime of his career. And I
said it at the time and I will say it again,
and because of nothing more than power and ego, you
(03:07):
lit the franchise on fire, power and ego. Everyone was
searching for why Nico would have done this, and the
only logical and it's not logical, but the only reasonable
explanation was he didn't like the fact that someone within
(03:34):
the organization had more power than him, and that someone
was Luca, So we got him out of there. And
it will go down in the annals of sports history
(03:55):
as one of the single greatest gaffes in a front
office has ever made. That is not an overreaction that
is not an overstatement. That is simply what it was
(04:17):
the moment it happened, and now is being exacerbated night in,
night out as Luca instead of coming off an injury
as he was last year, reminds everyone. Yes, I am
the guy who dragged a Dallas Mavericks team to the
conference finals when I was twenty two, and to the
(04:40):
NBA Finals when I was twenty four, And now I'm
twenty six, and I have more first team All NBAS
under my belt than Steph Curry does, and you got
rid of me, and I don't. I also don't think
this is an overstatement. Nico Harrison will never work in
(05:05):
an NBA front office again. He's gonna have to work
for Nike or an agency or something. But this is
you cannot recover from something like this, and the arrogance
that less than you know. We are a dozen games
(05:28):
into this season and Nico, after they spun a one
point eight percent lottery ball chance into Cooper Flag, the
fact that he said, do you see the vision now
was one of the most tone deaf, ludicrous statements. And
(05:53):
I'm not a MAVs fan. Hell, I'm an adopted I
guess Laker fan. Because that's who Bron plays for. So
the Lakers getting Luca, who's my second favorite player, was
and he and Bron playing together was a true dream.
And I'm still mad about this trade on behalf of
(06:18):
Mad fans. I can't imagine what this is. This was
a sports felony inflicted upon a fan base. And yes,
now the villain has been captured and is facing justice,
(06:40):
but it doesn't change the havoc he reeked and the
long term impact on your fandom. So I I want
to just revisit before we get to last night's game,
(07:01):
before we get to football, what I set off the
top and credit to Tim Bond, TIMPs. He's been talking
about this for a while, but now it is to
me a more because it was never gonna happen with
Nico in charge. But the Dallas Mavericks have to consider
(07:23):
a fire sale. So let me let me. I want
to give everyone the actual draft picks situation for Dallas.
In twenty twenty six, they have their pick, so my apologies,
I said that wrong. Twenty twenty six, they have their pick.
(07:48):
This year, they have their pick, and maybe that's good
because right now they're terrible. In twenty twenty seven, their
pick basically totally unprotected, protected only for spots one or two,
so unprotected goes to Charlotte. In twenty twenty eight, Jesus,
(08:12):
the rich get richer, the Thunder can swap with them.
In twenty twenty nine, their pick goes somewhere in a
swap and they do have the Lakers pick, And in
(08:34):
twenty thirty, my god, the Spurs can swap with them.
So first of all, in twenty twenty eight and twenty thirty,
the Mavericks first round pick is gonna go to the
Thunder and then the Spurs. Holy shit. In twenty twenty nine,
(09:01):
their pick goes somewhere. I can't figure it out. It
says two most favorable of Dallas Houston, Phoenix to Houston
and then other to Brooklyn via Dallas, and Phoenix to
Brooklyn via Dallas, or Phoenix to Houston via Houston. Swap
for Dallas or Phoenix. I don't get it, but whatever,
the MAVs will not after this coming year's draft. They
(09:25):
do not have control of their their first until twenty
thirty one, until Cooper flag is in the midst of
his second contract, so they need to recoup picks. They
(09:45):
need to figure out, like Klay Thompson's contract is fully underwater.
Kyrie's an interesting one, and I it's just and by
the way, the three and eight, and I think, let
me check. I think they have literally the worst offense
(10:08):
in the NBA. I know, so let's just check in
real quick. Defense wins championships, because that's all we heard
from this this guy. All we heard from him. Their
offense is, oh, is it no longer dead last? The
(10:35):
hold on, let me, I had it. I thought they
were dead last. Maybe I'm wrong because that says they're
fourteenth right now, So oh that's last year. I'm looking
at last year. It's like, hold on a second, this
can't be correct. It can't be the Mavericks having the
fifteenth offense. No chance, all right, here we go. Oh no,
(10:58):
if fair is fair, they don't have the worst offense
in the basketball. They have the second worst offensive basketball
to the Pacers, whose best player Torrey's achilles in Game
seven of the finals and second best or third best
player left the team. Now, I mean, this is just perfect,
(11:18):
just chef's kiss. Perfect defense wins championships. The Dallas Mavericks
are three and eight. They fired Nico Harrison. They currently
have the third best defense in basketball. Maybe that was
a miscalculation because you have the second worst offense in basketball.
(11:42):
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huge games Lions Eaglesday Night Football, and once again the
Eagles cannot stay out of their own way despite winning games.
And I was listening to my one of my favorite podcasts,
NFL Daily, I talk about a lot with Greg Rosenthal
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and company, and in previewing this game, his Cospatrick Claiban,
you know, basically tongue in cheek, melted down about the
media bothering Sirianni and hurts about AJ Brown and about
how this team won a Super Bowl last year and
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about how this is much ado about nothing because the
latest AJ Brown drama is him going on a Twitch
stream and saying thing is things are not going well
and drop me on your fantasy team, and how he
and I'm sure others think it's a non story. Here's
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why I vehemently disagree with that. AJ Brown being happy
or not might not matter. But the Philadelphia Eagles with
the most expensive offense in NFL history, with guys who
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are all Pro caliber all over the offensive line, multiple receivers,
Saquon Jalen Hurts. That team being this pedestrian on offense
is a story. It flatly is, and it's inexplicable. Their
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inability out of a buye in a game they scored
zero points in the first half to get AJ Brown
involved is in a splicable. Them leading the league by
a huge margin on three and out rate is indefensible.
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And so I give the Eagles credit because they do
find a way to win, and they're champions, and the defense,
particularly with the addition of Jalen Phillips, is rounding into form.
All of that is great. But AJ Brown is not wrong.
He might be wrong in his delivery in the way
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it feels diva ish or selfish, all that's fine. But
his concern that this offense is not functioning properly is
totally correct, totally correct, and I don't have an answer
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for it. Seems like Petullo and Sirianni are wildly conservative
with the play calls up until they are just lunatics
on the fourth and down at the end of the game.
They have the highest rate of running the ball on
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third and long of any team in twenty five years,
which are just give up plays. Now, some of that,
a tiny bit of that might be push push related,
but really their give up plays. And so it feels
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silly to concern troll the Eagles who have won like
twenty two of their last twenty four and of the
defending champs. But it also feels ridiculous to watch that
team have zero points at halftime, to see AJ Brown
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with multiple games this year with three or fewer targets
after he had one game like that the previous three
years and act like nothing is wrong. Also, it is
to me, at this point a four gone conclusion that
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AJ Brown is going to be gone this offseason, and
I would be I personally would be quite surprised, Like
my money would be on AJ Brown is going to
be a new England Patriot a year from now. But
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none of that matters for this season. I almost shouldn't
have even brought it up because the trade deadline has passed.
And that's the other part of this that is baffling
to me. You have a buye, you decide not to
trade AJ Brown the market for receiver like Again, this
is me just speculating, but if Buffalo was gonna give
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up A one and a three for Jail and Waddle,
I would imagine they would have given up something similar
for aj Brown. Philly didn't want to trade him, so
then use him. And if you're not gonna use him,
it's gotta be because the offense is humming without him,
but it's not Saquon the game before the buye. Notwithstanding,
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Saquan is having a brutal year, he is averaging three
point nine yards per carry. Saquon's yards and yards per
carry by game this season sixty three point three, eighty
eight four point zero, forty six two point six on
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three two point three thirty five point zero, only got
six carries and a loss to Denver fifty eight four
point eight forty four two point four, the game against
the Giants one fifty ten point seven and then sixty
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for two point seven. So aside from the Giants game,
Sekuan this year has run the ball won one hundred
and thirty five times for four hundred and twenty nine yards.
So what is that one thirty five for four to
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twenty nine one thirty five times three is four oh
five so that is three point two yards per carry.
I'm now gonna check. I'm now gonna do that math
real quick and see if I got it. I think
it's three point two yards per carry. So we said
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it was four twenty nine divided by one thirty five. Yeah,
three point one point eight yards per carry. Aside from
the Giants game, So feed the bald aj Brown. It's
just baffling, and I don't think it's We can say
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The Colton Saints are on a buy and that leaves
us these five picks. I liked Miami minus two and
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a half against Washington when I briefly thought the game
was in Washington. I love it when it's on a
neutral site in Madrid. I think Washington is just flatly
two injured quarterback out, a half dozen defensive players out.
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That Washington is so banged up Miami all of a sudden,
sneaky good vibes. I know Tua has not done well
in his international starts, but one of those was against
the Chiefs. I'll throw that one out. Uh. I think
Washington is just right now, one of the softer spots
in the league until Jaden gets back, and I'm laying
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less than a field goal. So I'll take Miami minus
two and a half from Madrid. Chicago getting three at Minnesota.
I didn't know this, but this is crazy. The Vikings
are zero to six against the spread after facing the
Lions under Kevin O'Connell. That one, I mean, that's that's
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It's not nothing. It the that that applied the last
week's game against the Ravens, so maybe I wish I
knew it then. I I thought Minnesota had a lot
of opportunities against Baltimore. I didn't think Baltimore played that
one well and they just couldn't make the most of them.
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I think Chicago likely wins this game outright, and I'm
getting three points. Also, I like getting that all of
a sudden, very explosive Chicago offense in a dome. So
Chicago getting a full three at Minnesota. When I think
Chicago can win outright, I'll roll with them. Tampa getting
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five and a half at Buffalo, I just don't know
that right now. Buffalo deserves to be laying more than
three and a half against any really good team, and
I think Tampa's a really good team. They're also, this
will be the first game maybe all year, where Tampa
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is the healthier team. They might have Bucky Irving back,
they might have Chris Godwin back. At Buffalo meanwhile, is
super banged up. I don't need Tampa a win out right,
even though I think they could. I just need them
to keep it, you know, manageable, and they're healthier, and
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Buffalo I think has some soul searching to do. Tampa
plus five and a half probably my I'm not gonna
call it my favorite, but I like this a lot,
even though all the trends are against me because Shanahan
has not covered against the Cardinals and Arizona is pretty
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good as a covering team coming off a loss. But
San Francisco minus two and a half at Arizona, I
think Arizona is a bit of a mess. We just
saw them get absolutely demolished this past weekend. San Francisco
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reckon should have Purdy back. Now. I don't think there's
a big difference between Purdy and mac Jones this point,
but they should have Purty back, and they are. They
understand that it's gonna be between them and Chicago for
that final playoff spot. This is a game you've got
to take care of business. I love that I don't
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have to lay three and a half. Just feels like
San Francisco can control this game and win by three
points and I'm only laying the two and a half.
So I'll take San Francisco minus the two and a half,
and last but not least, the Chiefs laying three and
a half at Denver. I be if you got this right,
when it opened at three. Good for you. I may
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have gotten it right when it opened at three, but
I will still lay the three and a half. I
just do not think bo Nicks can get this Broncos
deep offense to more than seventeen points. So then the
question is do I think the Chiefs can score twenty
one even against that Denver defense? I think they can.
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My real analysis of this game and everything about it
you can hear on yesterday's pod, you know, around the
ten minute mark. We get into it if you want
to hear more there. So our five picks this week
are Miami minus two and a half in Madrid against Washington,
Chicago plus three at Minnesota, Tampa plus five and a
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half at Buffalo, San Francisco minus two and a half
at Arizona, and Kansas City minus three and a half
at Denver
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