Tuesday: Post NFL Draft playoff predictions

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
All right, let's talk football football National Football League NFC.
Now this could change. I'll make my final final predictions
in August. We get a week a few days before
the season. We're always subject But right now I'm looking
at Washington, Tampa, Detroit and the Rams as your division winners.
Got any objections to that? Say it again, Washington, Tampa,

(00:28):
Detroit in the Rams.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
On paper. I'll stick with that for right now.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Okay, Now there's I've got two five, got six teams
that I think. Of those six, three will be the
wild cards. Philly, Chicago, Seattle, Green Bay, Minnesota, and Dallas.
And I put Dallas in there with the caveat that
they get another wide receiver before the season begins that
can actually be a possess receiver and can make plays.

(01:02):
I think Dallas has done enough to be a potential wildcard.
I think Philadelphia may have Super Bowl hangover, They're still
going to be okay. They've got Barkley, they can control
the club game with the run. I think Atlanta, New
Orleans and Carolina are awful and they won't be anywhere.
I think Arizona's awful and won't be anywhere. And I
think San Francisco's overrated. So Seattle with their changes with

(01:22):
Darnold and the and the drafts that they got, the
Bears are going to be super good good on offense.
So the Bears are going to score points on offense.
They actually may have a quarterback that finally throws for
four thousand yards. Well they didn't last year. Well that's
because he was playing with it with e Refluse and
not the other guy still had amount. Yeah, if the
coach doesn't call the right play, it doesn't matter. And

(01:46):
I'm not going to exclude green Bay. JJ McCarthy is
a young guy. At Minnesota, I'm not gonna I'm I
think they're going to take a step back. The Giants
are still the Giants. So the wildcard potentials for me
or Philly, Dallas, Chicago, Green Bay in Seattle, and I'm
kind of I'm taking Minnesota off. I think it's really

(02:06):
six teams for three for three spots.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
I actually think Arizona's.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Got a better chance I'm making the playoffs than Minnesota does.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Okay, all right, So.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Washington, Tampa, Tampa, Detroit, and and the Rams.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Are the four.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Washington, Detroit, Tampa, the Fighting Tampa Bakers, and then the Rams. Yeah,
those are the Vision Division winners, all right, and then
there would only be three three three wildcards.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
So you have six potential teams. You have two from
the NFCS Philly, Dallas.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Philly, Dallas, and then who was the other one?

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Chicago, Green Bay in Seattle. Okay, that's nine. That's so
I got five teams for three spots for the wildcard.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Okay, that's who you have potentially, yes, okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, I'm excluding Atlanta, New Orleans, Carolina, the Giants, Minnesota, Arizona,
and San Francisco.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Hmmm. I New Orleans I can get behind. Yes, New Orleans, Carolina.
I think they they should be a little bit better.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
That's they're still not a playoff team.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
They're not going to be a playoff team. I think
Seattle is going to rue the day that they got
rid of DK metcalf and is as weird as this sounds,
Gino Smith, because I'm not a Sam Donald.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
I'm not a Sam Donald. Dude.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
He had he had one good year of tremendous amount
of talent and it was, hey, just don't screw it up.
And you saw what happened when he decided and realized,
Oh that's right. My name is Sam Darnold, and he
screwed it up. He loves himself a lot of money.
The last three weeks of the season and the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
All right, let's go Buffalo, Baltimore, Houston and Kansas City
in the AFC.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Buffalo, Baltimore and Houston and Kansas City. You know what,
the only one I would maybe change on that one.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
And this kills me.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
The overrated justin Herbert's I think the chief I think
Chargers Chargers going to win that division. They got a
steal with running back in that first round because remember
they got they got remind me if I'm correct me
if I'm wrong, Tie, but they got Omariy and Hampton correct.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
I just think until you dethrone the Chiefs, I can't
pick against them.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
I just don't get what the chief The Chiefs to me,
didn't add anything explosive.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
They don't. They still don't have a running back.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Well, they have Mahomes, I have an Agen Kelsey and
the bunch of spares everywhere else. Who's their wide receivers
besides Xavier? You're worthy not Juju's gone, right?

Speaker 3 (04:46):
I think so? Yeah? So I I don't. I don't
get what.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Else I think Kansas City, if watch, they're gonna go
get a Mark.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Or the least not Hollywood Brown because he was taken off.
That another pick for the Cowboys. If they have two
wide receivers from out the handle.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
That that's too many, that's one that's too too many.
I'm fine with CD because CD can back it up.
Hollywood Brown hasn't been the same Hollywood Brown since the
red River game. That was a pretty good game. That
was a pretty good game. But he hasn't been the
same since then.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
All right, Uh, Cincinnati Pittsburgh. So here's I've got. Actually
have eight potential wild cards. The only four teams I'm
eliminating before we get there are the Jets, Cleveland, Tennessee,
and Las Vegas.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
So I don't believe it in the Patriots.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
I think the Patriots could could could move up a
little bit battle Okay, they a good coach, yeah, and
and they now have some offense. I'm really interested to
see what Pete Carroll does in year one in Vegas.
I think he can get them close to five hundred.
I just don't think he can get them to nine
or ten. Where you're gonna need to be to be
a playoff team. I would like to bet against Mike

(05:58):
Tomlin because I think they're going to eventually sign Aaron Rodgers,
and that's gonna be a circus that even Mike Tomlin
can't control. And Mike Tomlan usually controls everything, and that's
a well buttoned down organization.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Uh, but they don't have it a choice.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
They're gonna if if Aaron Rodgers jilts them, they're going with.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
With the Makes.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
And Rudolph and whatever other spars they can have behind him.
Will Howard Well, he begged them to take him apparently
really yeah, well he was. He was hoping he would
get picked by the Steelers. When he got picked, he
wants to play for Pittsburgh. He's a Steelers fan. Well,
I think Jacksonville will be better with getting Hunter.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
By the way. Uh.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Greg Olsen was on with Colin today and they were
asking what he should what they should do with with
with Hunter in terms of offense defense, and he said
if he said, I think he can be an all
pro corner and it's a lot harder to create schemes
on defense than it is on offense. So I would

(07:03):
have him as a defensive player. Primarily, he had play
seventy sixty or the sixty five snaps a game, and
it's easy to install routes for him on offense. He
doesn't have to spend a lot of time in offensive
room meetings to be able to have fifteen to twenty
plays a game with a specific set of routes that
he's going to run.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Teach him the route tree, teach him how to.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Block in the running game, or how the technique of blocking.
He probably can figure out the rest and man he
plays twenty five plays a game on offense, but if
he's going to play defense, you can't just install a
package it's only for him. On defense, there's too many
defensive calls, and there's too many things the corner has
to do from a cover situation, whether you're in maner zone,

(07:46):
whether the cornerback is splitzing or the safety splitzing, or
the cornerback has to switch with somebody. He was explaining
all the different techniques that they do on defense, and
that not only takes film prep, but it takes it
takes team meeting and reps on the field, and if
he does all of those things, then there's not gonna
be a lot of time for him to be in
the offensive huddle. Basically, what Greg The way I understood

(08:08):
what Greg Olsen was saying is Trevor Lawrence could say,
you know, twenty yards downfield and cut inside, I'll find
you and if you're open, I'll.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Throw it to you.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
So simple offensive opportunities for him, but primarily on defense.
I'm not sure that's how I would want to use
Travis Hunter. I think he can be a game changer
defense offensively, but if he's gonna play defense at this level,
that's the harder position to learn than wide receiver.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, I'll take something that Colin talked about the other
day is a particular example. Like just say, if, however,
he maybe landed in Philadelphia and Vic Vangeo sit there
and says, hey, you know, I need Travis Hunter because
we're going to go over some new schemes for the
cornerbacks room, and then I'm named blanking on the head coach.

(09:00):
He's like, no, he's going to be on offense. Vic
Vandil is going to be like, well, if he's not
in my meeting, he ain't playing because we're coming up
with something new.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
And if he doesn't study.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
This, he's going to be giving up sixty yard bombs.
So I'm with you. Play him on defense. If he
wants to play defense, that's fine. That's why both ways.
Play him on defense, because hey, you can learn the
coverage and then will scheme you five to ten plays.
It's hey Travis run a fly pattern, Hey Travis run
a curl, Hey Travis running.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Out or at end around, and we're going to hand
you the ball. Yeah, Chad sweet, Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
But I think he'll play more than ten plays on offense.
I think he'll I think he'll play half the plays
on offense and most of the plays on defense.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
I think he's going to get a rude awakening and
realize that everything is so much faster than the NFL.
He will figure that out though, if he if he's
even close to the player that they think he is.
And it's kind of interesting because the number two pick
Travis Hunter has gotten more run than the number one
pick cam Ward. Anyway, he's probably just fine real quick,

(10:03):
because we didn't talk about this yesterday. Thoughts on the
fact that Warren Moon randomly out of nowhere is like, Hey,
I'm gonna unretire my number.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
You can take number one, thoughts. I don't care, really,
I really don't. To me, Warren Moon played for the Oilers,
and I know that the Titans have the records and
all that kind of stuff, but it's not as long.
And I hate it when the Titans play with the
Oilers colors. Those aren't your colors. You don't You don't
get those colors anymore. They were the Houston Titans. I

(10:32):
don't care the Tennessee Oilers. I don't care that they
are the Tennessee Titans. That's their their name. It would
be and this never will happen in Oklahoma City because
the Thunder don't own those rights of the Sonics. The
city of Seattle kept the rights of the Sonics. But
that would be like if the Thunder wore Seattle uniforms.
That would be sacrilegious.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, but again that's because they don't own the rights.
Tennessee still owns the rights Oilers because there's no difference
than Memphis.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Think about Memphis. Throw you these records.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
They still have. The Vancouver Grizzlies, I don't care. That's
that's yeah, separate yourself. You're not in Vancouver anymore.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
I did like Abdul Carter's Set of Stones where he
was like after he got drafted, he was like, hey, LT.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, LT said, let's talk about that number fifty.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
You're not me. Go make your own legacy, make some
other number famous. You're not getting mine. I'm not surprised
for one second that LT just said and said no
to that.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
All right, more coming up. It's six thirty one on
the ticket.