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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Appreciate all of y'all hanging out with us.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Kicking off the weekend after another what can only be
described as another vigorous, exhausting work week here Monday through Friday.
We are twenty eight minutes away from calling it a
weekend before we leave early for a little ut basketball
coming down on Ticket seven sixty at six point thirty.
(00:31):
Good matchup too at number five Yukon, so we'll see
how the Longhorns handled that early season test. If you
missed any of the show already, we spend a lot
of the four o'clock hour talking Spurs, of course, before
their big matchup tomorrow night. News of the day, Wimby
(00:51):
is back. We'll be playing tomorrow night. I saw Mitch
Johnson talk about it a little bit ago. As expected.
Doesn't seem like Wimby will be playing his normal minutes
in his first game back. There's going to probably be
some shorter some shorter rotations for him as he works
(01:11):
his way back into the full lineup, but just having
him back on the court for that matchup, the semi
final matchup of the Emirates NBA Cup. As I also
reminded Shane when I filled in on November fifth, here
in the big chair, we were forty one days away
from the Emirates NBA Cup.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Final, and everyone was given me nothing but hell for
even paying any.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Attention to the NBA Cup and alas now all of
a sudden.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Hold on the other people that gave you hell were
people who know how much of a.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Big guy you are. Well, that's probably fair.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Love bits like you like you will like say, hey,
I had this idea for the show.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
We'll do this.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You send me like, hey, here's the other show's gonna spread
out today. But sometimes you're like, oh, I have an
idea for a bit, let's do this, So tell me
like thirty minutes before the show, and I'm down for it.
Usually it's just like it's like it's like you're lucky
to I'm able to change on a dime, because like
you have these ideas just pop out.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I mean, that's something you have probably learned about me
by now.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I am an ideas guy.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Now the exit, the execution portion, yeah, it's not my
strong suit.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And the mob.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
If you were an ideas guy, that means you were
one of the top guys. If you are a numbers guy, look, someone's.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Got to supervise.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Someone's got to call the shots, someone's got to come
up with the all these great ideas and then we
need the worker bees to execute it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
No, it's uh.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I appreciate the uh embrace of the silliness that I
feel like I make you do anytime I fill in today,
not so much since we're up against it on a Friday,
but trust me all next week because also if you
missed it, at the beginning of the show, I realized,
for the first time in over three years, I will
(03:01):
be on the ticket every day next week, just like
just like it used to be, just like a return
to normalcy as I just like it should, just as
you know something a lot of people are saying a
lot of people, a lot of people, the best people
are saying.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But no, it's it's always fun to be back in.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
The big chair and to bring the bring the bits
to the station because I I know.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Andy has a pace.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, and Andy's the fact that I got Andy yesterday
to admit that he's even slightly coming around on the
NBA Cup That was like a massive level, a massive
achievement for me personally.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
So I know the.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Bits are appreciated more by some less by others, but
thank you always for indulging me, because yeah, next week
we got a lot of time for bits, but yeah,
so get ready for that. Speaking of good bits, we
will close out the show tonight with another edition of
the Cave. Since it is Friday, we'll let you know
(04:13):
we're gonna do a top three this time. Instead of
burning through a whole weekend, We'll give you a top
three things to do in San Antonio this weekend, and
I'll tease it now. Number one on the list is
not watch Spurs thunder tomorrow night, because we have some
other national news being made in San Antonio this weekend.
(04:36):
So we'll get into that in the next segment to
close it out. But let's talk some more football here.
Elongate our football happy Hour for another segment, because obviously,
the other side of the Cowboys winning out the rest
of the year to keep their playoff hopes alive, the
other side of that is the requirement that the Eagles
(04:57):
lose two games, and I I think every week now,
as long as the Cowboys keep winning, the most important
other game across the NFL is going to be. Whoever
Philadelphia is playing this week doesn't feel like it's going
to be a week where we can hope that the
Eagles falter because they are taking on the lowly Raiders
(05:21):
at home Sunday noon kickoff.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I don't think this is going to be.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Where the Eagles further increase the hopes of the Cowboys
making the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
But it's the NFL, and it's.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
The silly portion of the season in the NFL where
some of these some of these games are going to
have some pretty head scratching final scores. Eagles on a
three game losing streak, I don't think this is the
week we celebrate a step closer to a Cowboys playoff appearance.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I don't know you have faith and can you Pickett?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I don't have a lot of faith in former Eagles
quarterback Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
But he knows the defense.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Okay, but he's still.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Kenny Pickett and it's still the Las Vegas because people, hey,
there you go, or people pick off his passes. The
biggest hopes for the Eagles losing obviously second to last
game of the season. They have to travel to Buffalo,
So if you're working off the assumption that they lose
(06:25):
that game, they've got to lose one more game out
of the other.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Three, and that's that other game likely would be on
the road to Washington exactly. I don't think you're losing
at home to them. You could lose on the road.
You could lose on the road.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I think. I think you're spot on.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I think that's the game you circle, and that is
next week.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
So it's Eagles play the Raiders at home this week,
travel to Washington next week, and travel to Buffalo, and
then have the.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Back at home to close the season. So that's what
we're keeping an eye on.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Obviously, when they sandwich like a conference opponent with like
between another game like that.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, it's the portion of the schedule where you get
a lot of that because the alternative, I would say, though,
I also hate it when the last three games of
the season are all divisional games.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
That's fair because I.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Don't, you know, when they're not spaced out properly, you
know you're gonna end up seeing you know, like Dallas.
For example, the last two games of the year this
season are divisional games. You've got Washington and then New York,
both on the road, So it's going to be very
very Dallas Cowboys for the Eagles to lose to the
(07:46):
Commanders on the road, lose to Buffalo on the road
back to back weeks. So then all Dallas has to
do beat the Giants the last game of the year
in the Meadowlands January fourth. That's all they're gonna have
to do to make the playoffs. That's it, and we're
probably gonna end up seeing them. You remember when a
(08:07):
young Bob Griffin the Third padded Tony Romo on the
helmet and said, you'll get them next year, Bud. When
Bob Griffin as a rookie beat Romo and the Cowboys
in the final game of the season, which gave Washington
the playoff birth and not Dallas. Bob Griffin's great, he's
great on the hilarious Oh yeah, well, you know it's
(08:31):
was friends call him, or I assume at least Bobby Bobby.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
G the Third.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, I can already see Jackson Dart tapping Dak on
the helmet and be like, oh, you'll get them next year, Buddy,
in that final game as the Giants surprised the Cowboys
after the Eagles do everything they can to make the
Cowboys a playoff team.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Couple of the other games.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Though that I've you know, teased as what seemed to
be elimination games.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Obviously in the AFC.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
You know, Vegas had a lot of faith in the Chiefs,
even as recently as three weeks ago when Kansas City
was still the betting favorite to win the Super Bowl,
even though they were out of a playoff position. Well,
they haven't turned they haven't turned that around whatsoever. They
are now facing what seems to be an elimination game
(09:25):
in all mathematical purposes for them. They take on the Chargers.
It is in Arrowhead, it's at home. But a Chargers
team that seemingly is starting to find an identity has
justin Herbert, you know, that performance against the Eagles coming
back from you know, hand surgery a week after after
(09:47):
the injury and ended up being the Chargers leading rusher
in that game, which is hardball is a absolutely crazy man.
But Chargers nine to four traveling to Arrowhead, Chiefs must
win game. Chiefs are big favorites too. Vegas still loves them.
They're almost a touchdown favorite. I think the last time
I saw it it was Kansas City minus six. And
(10:10):
then on the NFC side of things, the Lions at Rams.
Now that the you know Lions obviously beat the Cowboys
last week, have kept their wild card hopes alive. I
guess technically also could still win the division, could still
(10:30):
if the Packers and Bears have a couple of slip ups.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Along the way. If the Lions went out.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
That tie is actually kind of benefiting Green Bay right now.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Very much so. And it's hurting the Cowboys. Hurting the
Cowboys exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And you know, I think the Lions if they lose
this game, fall to eight and six, then you're looking
at you need help to be a wild card team.
You need help from San Francisco or one of San
fra place Tennessee. You're not getting help there.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Chicago plays Now this one's interesting. Chicago does play Cleveland,
and Cleveland actually has the number one rush and pass
rush in the NFL, which surprise. And I guess it
depends on how much you trust in Shad or Sanders
like was last week in apparition because it was Tennessee
or is that who he actually is? You know that's
and also, by the way, the win show in that
game is gonna be minus ten.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I was about to.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Say, it's a it's a weather game that I think
benefits the Browns in a lot of ways. No question,
the Bears are one of those teams. I mean, we
talked about it a couple of weeks ago when comparing
their you know, Chicago's point differential on the season is
barely in the positive, like they have barely on the whole,
(11:43):
have barely outscored their opposition in total numbers on the year,
And so that nine and four record just as easily
could be four and nine. So I think there's still
more questions about that Bears team fight the better record
than there are about the Lions team. But the Lions
(12:04):
find themselves chasing the Bears, and both of them find
themselves chasing the Packers there in the NFC North.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
How about this.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Real quick before we save some time for the cave
to close out. There are two teams this week that
are both on ten game win streaks, that are both
at playing at home, that are both underdogs.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Okay, so I know one of those is definitely New England.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
YEP nine to four Bills traveling to the eleven and
two Patriots.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
The Broncos one ten in a row.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Broncos have one ten in a row they and they
are hosting the nine three to one Packers, so the Lions.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Could get some help there.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
This has only happened five times since what was I
think it was like since seventy seventy five, something like
since the seventies, that a team has been on a
ten game win streak and been a home underdog in
their next game. It's only happened five times. It's happening
twice this week alone.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I think it's because, and this has been brought up before,
that a lot of people are questioning the validity of
the Patriots's ten game win streak, primarily because of the
opponents they've played. And that was like obviously optics at
the time, because if you look at it now, it
looks a lot better because one of those was a
twenty nine point victory over the Panthers, a good team
beating the Bills in Orchard Park, and then you have
(13:29):
the win a couple weeks ago against the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
The rest of our teams.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Like the Saints and Titans and you know, the Jets,
so like those games, obviously you can throw to the
side as whatever. But the problem is in the NFL,
it's a lot more likely you're gonna see an upset
than is in college, So I think we have to
like get rid of that.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
The same optics as.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
For upsets, just because in the professional ball an upset
is more likely to happen than not than expected.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, that's why you don't see a whole lot of
double digit point spreads, because you know, the biggest upset
is still basically a mid tier SEC team beating Bama.
You know, it's not like crazy crazy of an upset.
But the only other thing. I think it's also the
(14:16):
lack of faith in this transition of power in the AFC,
because the Chiefs held on to their Super Bowl odds
for way longer than.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
They should have.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Because Vegas has faith in Mahomes the you know, even
the Eagles, who are showing signs of cracking in the
NFC have still been viewed by Vegas because of the
foundation they have in the history they have. I think
you look at Denver, you look at New England, and
you say, yeah, it looks great over this thirteen game
(14:48):
stretch so far this year, but we haven't seen either
of those teams win meaningful games in the playoffs. We
haven't seen either of those teams win their division in
half a decade we're just now seeing their ascension up
the power rankings in the AFC, and we're still a
little hesitant because we still think the Bills are the
betting favorite going into the playoffs. So an interesting week
(15:13):
across the NFL. Of course, we will have a lot
to say about the Cowboy game when we're back in
the room on Monday. But we got one more segment
here before we call it a weekend. Let's do a
little spelunking and dive into the cave. Next on the
Ticket
Appreciate all of y'all hanging out with us.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Kicking off the weekend after another what can only be
described as another vigorous, exhausting work week here Monday through Friday.
We are twenty eight minutes away from calling it a
weekend before we leave early for a little ut basketball
coming down on Ticket seven sixty at six point thirty.
(00:31):
Good matchup too at number five Yukon, so we'll see
how the Longhorns handled that early season test. If you
missed any of the show already, we spend a lot
of the four o'clock hour talking Spurs, of course, before
their big matchup tomorrow night. News of the day, Wimby
(00:51):
is back. We'll be playing tomorrow night. I saw Mitch
Johnson talk about it a little bit ago. As expected.
Doesn't seem like Wimby will be playing his normal minutes
in his first game back. There's going to probably be
some shorter some shorter rotations for him as he works
(01:11):
his way back into the full lineup, but just having
him back on the court for that matchup, the semi
final matchup of the Emirates NBA Cup. As I also
reminded Shane when I filled in on November fifth, here
in the big chair, we were forty one days away
from the Emirates NBA Cup.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Final, and everyone was given me nothing but hell for
even paying any.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Attention to the NBA Cup and alas now all of
a sudden.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Hold on the other people that gave you hell were
people who know how much of a.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Big guy you are. Well, that's probably fair.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Love bits like you like you will like say, hey,
I had this idea for the show.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
We'll do this.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You send me like, hey, here's the other show's gonna spread
out today. But sometimes you're like, oh, I have an
idea for a bit, let's do this, So tell me
like thirty minutes before the show, and I'm down for it.
Usually it's just like it's like it's like you're lucky
to I'm able to change on a dime, because like
you have these ideas just pop out.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I mean, that's something you have probably learned about me
by now.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I am an ideas guy.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Now the exit, the execution portion, yeah, it's not my
strong suit.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And the mob.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
If you were an ideas guy, that means you were
one of the top guys. If you are a numbers guy, look, someone's.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Got to supervise.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Someone's got to call the shots, someone's got to come
up with the all these great ideas and then we
need the worker bees to execute it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
No, it's uh.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I appreciate the uh embrace of the silliness that I
feel like I make you do anytime I fill in today,
not so much since we're up against it on a Friday,
but trust me all next week because also if you
missed it, at the beginning of the show, I realized,
for the first time in over three years, I will
(03:01):
be on the ticket every day next week, just like
just like it used to be, just like a return
to normalcy as I just like it should, just as
you know something a lot of people are saying a
lot of people, a lot of people, the best people
are saying.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But no, it's it's always fun to be back in.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
The big chair and to bring the bring the bits
to the station because I I know.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Andy has a pace.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, and Andy's the fact that I got Andy yesterday
to admit that he's even slightly coming around on the
NBA Cup That was like a massive level, a massive
achievement for me personally.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
So I know the.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Bits are appreciated more by some less by others, but
thank you always for indulging me, because yeah, next week
we got a lot of time for bits, but yeah,
so get ready for that. Speaking of good bits, we
will close out the show tonight with another edition of
the Cave. Since it is Friday, we'll let you know
(04:13):
we're gonna do a top three this time. Instead of
burning through a whole weekend, We'll give you a top
three things to do in San Antonio this weekend, and
I'll tease it now. Number one on the list is
not watch Spurs thunder tomorrow night, because we have some
other national news being made in San Antonio this weekend.
(04:36):
So we'll get into that in the next segment to
close it out. But let's talk some more football here.
Elongate our football happy Hour for another segment, because obviously,
the other side of the Cowboys winning out the rest
of the year to keep their playoff hopes alive, the
other side of that is the requirement that the Eagles
(04:57):
lose two games, and I I think every week now,
as long as the Cowboys keep winning, the most important
other game across the NFL is going to be. Whoever
Philadelphia is playing this week doesn't feel like it's going
to be a week where we can hope that the
Eagles falter because they are taking on the lowly Raiders
(05:21):
at home Sunday noon kickoff.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I don't think this is going to be.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Where the Eagles further increase the hopes of the Cowboys
making the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
But it's the NFL, and it's.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
The silly portion of the season in the NFL where
some of these some of these games are going to
have some pretty head scratching final scores. Eagles on a
three game losing streak, I don't think this is the
week we celebrate a step closer to a Cowboys playoff appearance.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I don't know you have faith and can you Pickett?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I don't have a lot of faith in former Eagles
quarterback Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
But he knows the defense.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Okay, but he's still.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Kenny Pickett and it's still the Las Vegas because people, hey,
there you go, or people pick off his passes. The
biggest hopes for the Eagles losing obviously second to last
game of the season. They have to travel to Buffalo,
So if you're working off the assumption that they lose
(06:25):
that game, they've got to lose one more game out
of the other.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Three, and that's that other game likely would be on
the road to Washington exactly. I don't think you're losing
at home to them. You could lose on the road.
You could lose on the road.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I think. I think you're spot on.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I think that's the game you circle, and that is
next week.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
So it's Eagles play the Raiders at home this week,
travel to Washington next week, and travel to Buffalo, and
then have the.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Back at home to close the season. So that's what
we're keeping an eye on.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Obviously, when they sandwich like a conference opponent with like
between another game like that.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, it's the portion of the schedule where you get
a lot of that because the alternative, I would say, though,
I also hate it when the last three games of
the season are all divisional games.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
That's fair because I.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Don't, you know, when they're not spaced out properly, you
know you're gonna end up seeing you know, like Dallas.
For example, the last two games of the year this
season are divisional games. You've got Washington and then New York,
both on the road, So it's going to be very
very Dallas Cowboys for the Eagles to lose to the
(07:46):
Commanders on the road, lose to Buffalo on the road
back to back weeks. So then all Dallas has to
do beat the Giants the last game of the year
in the Meadowlands January fourth. That's all they're gonna have
to do to make the playoffs. That's it, and we're
probably gonna end up seeing them. You remember when a
(08:07):
young Bob Griffin the Third padded Tony Romo on the
helmet and said, you'll get them next year, Bud. When
Bob Griffin as a rookie beat Romo and the Cowboys
in the final game of the season, which gave Washington
the playoff birth and not Dallas. Bob Griffin's great, he's
great on the hilarious Oh yeah, well, you know it's
(08:31):
was friends call him, or I assume at least Bobby Bobby.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
G the Third.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, I can already see Jackson Dart tapping Dak on
the helmet and be like, oh, you'll get them next year, Buddy,
in that final game as the Giants surprised the Cowboys
after the Eagles do everything they can to make the
Cowboys a playoff team.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Couple of the other games.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Though that I've you know, teased as what seemed to
be elimination games.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Obviously in the AFC.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
You know, Vegas had a lot of faith in the Chiefs,
even as recently as three weeks ago when Kansas City
was still the betting favorite to win the Super Bowl,
even though they were out of a playoff position. Well,
they haven't turned they haven't turned that around whatsoever. They
are now facing what seems to be an elimination game
(09:25):
in all mathematical purposes for them. They take on the Chargers.
It is in Arrowhead, it's at home. But a Chargers
team that seemingly is starting to find an identity has
justin Herbert, you know, that performance against the Eagles coming
back from you know, hand surgery a week after after
(09:47):
the injury and ended up being the Chargers leading rusher
in that game, which is hardball is a absolutely crazy man.
But Chargers nine to four traveling to Arrowhead, Chiefs must
win game. Chiefs are big favorites too. Vegas still loves them.
They're almost a touchdown favorite. I think the last time
I saw it it was Kansas City minus six. And
(10:10):
then on the NFC side of things, the Lions at Rams.
Now that the you know Lions obviously beat the Cowboys
last week, have kept their wild card hopes alive. I
guess technically also could still win the division, could still
(10:30):
if the Packers and Bears have a couple of slip ups.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Along the way. If the Lions went out.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
That tie is actually kind of benefiting Green Bay right now.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Very much so. And it's hurting the Cowboys. Hurting the
Cowboys exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And you know, I think the Lions if they lose
this game, fall to eight and six, then you're looking
at you need help to be a wild card team.
You need help from San Francisco or one of San
fra place Tennessee. You're not getting help there.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Chicago plays Now this one's interesting. Chicago does play Cleveland,
and Cleveland actually has the number one rush and pass
rush in the NFL, which surprise. And I guess it
depends on how much you trust in Shad or Sanders
like was last week in apparition because it was Tennessee
or is that who he actually is? You know that's
and also, by the way, the win show in that
game is gonna be minus ten.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I was about to.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Say, it's a it's a weather game that I think
benefits the Browns in a lot of ways. No question,
the Bears are one of those teams. I mean, we
talked about it a couple of weeks ago when comparing
their you know, Chicago's point differential on the season is
barely in the positive, like they have barely on the whole,
(11:43):
have barely outscored their opposition in total numbers on the year,
And so that nine and four record just as easily
could be four and nine. So I think there's still
more questions about that Bears team fight the better record
than there are about the Lions team. But the Lions
(12:04):
find themselves chasing the Bears, and both of them find
themselves chasing the Packers there in the NFC North.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
How about this.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Real quick before we save some time for the cave
to close out. There are two teams this week that
are both on ten game win streaks, that are both
at playing at home, that are both underdogs.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Okay, so I know one of those is definitely New England.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
YEP nine to four Bills traveling to the eleven and
two Patriots.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
The Broncos one ten in a row.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Broncos have one ten in a row they and they
are hosting the nine three to one Packers, so the Lions.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Could get some help there.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
This has only happened five times since what was I
think it was like since seventy seventy five, something like
since the seventies, that a team has been on a
ten game win streak and been a home underdog in
their next game. It's only happened five times. It's happening
twice this week alone.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I think it's because, and this has been brought up before,
that a lot of people are questioning the validity of
the Patriots's ten game win streak, primarily because of the
opponents they've played. And that was like obviously optics at
the time, because if you look at it now, it
looks a lot better because one of those was a
twenty nine point victory over the Panthers, a good team
beating the Bills in Orchard Park, and then you have
(13:29):
the win a couple weeks ago against the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
The rest of our teams.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Like the Saints and Titans and you know, the Jets,
so like those games, obviously you can throw to the
side as whatever. But the problem is in the NFL,
it's a lot more likely you're gonna see an upset
than is in college, So I think we have to
like get rid of that.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
The same optics as.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
For upsets, just because in the professional ball an upset
is more likely to happen than not than expected.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, that's why you don't see a whole lot of
double digit point spreads, because you know, the biggest upset
is still basically a mid tier SEC team beating Bama.
You know, it's not like crazy crazy of an upset.
But the only other thing. I think it's also the
(14:16):
lack of faith in this transition of power in the AFC,
because the Chiefs held on to their Super Bowl odds
for way longer than.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
They should have.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Because Vegas has faith in Mahomes the you know, even
the Eagles, who are showing signs of cracking in the
NFC have still been viewed by Vegas because of the
foundation they have in the history they have. I think
you look at Denver, you look at New England, and
you say, yeah, it looks great over this thirteen game
(14:48):
stretch so far this year, but we haven't seen either
of those teams win meaningful games in the playoffs. We
haven't seen either of those teams win their division in
half a decade we're just now seeing their ascension up
the power rankings in the AFC, and we're still a
little hesitant because we still think the Bills are the
betting favorite going into the playoffs. So an interesting week
(15:13):
across the NFL. Of course, we will have a lot
to say about the Cowboy game when we're back in
the room on Monday. But we got one more segment
here before we call it a weekend. Let's do a
little spelunking and dive into the cave. Next on the
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