🏈 NFL Divisionals: Lamar vs Josh, Chiefs 3 Peat Quest, Lions Unbeatable, Rams Sleeper 🏈🔥

The episode delves into the excitement of the NFL Divisional Round, highlighting critical matchups and making predictions for each game. With discussions on the performance of contenders like the Rams, Texans, and more, the hosts share their insights on each team's potential to triumph or face elimination.

• Reflection on wild card performances 
• Analysis of contenders vs. pretenders in playoff scenarios 
• Speculation on potential coaching changes in the NFL 
• Preview of the Ohio State vs. Notre Dame championship 
• Detailed discussions on divisional matchups: Commanders vs. Lions 
• Insights on the pivotal Ravens vs. Bills matchup 
• Examination of the Eagles vs. Rams showdown 
• Prediction for the Texans vs. Chiefs game 
• Fan interaction segment with Brandon for diverse perspectives

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
If CJ Stroud beats Patrick Mahomes, diego's just
going to be done.
Diego will be absolutelydevastated and done He'll be
done, man, you know what?
And thank goodness for you?
Yeah, there's no school Monday,it's not going to happen.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Dude, this is going so horribly.
I just can't see it.
Pro global triumph ball talk apick and roll.
We're gonna up the score.
Touchdown.
This is not field goal.
We the winning team champions.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
When you walk through the hall, you can play spread
with us, cause you know we'regonna win them all.
Yeah, this is a major play.
We do it big in a major way.
Diego, be having the pick ofthe day, here we come, don't
care if you ready, all right.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back.
You know who it is.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I am Derek Thompson.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
I'm Diego.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Thompson, I'm Christopher Davis, and who are?

Speaker 1 (00:51):
we, we're the Pick'em Pros.
We are the Pick'em Pros comingback at you in the house
Father-son dynamic duo featuringChristopher Davis and Brianna.
Hey, what's going on?
Fellas man Pick'em Pros?
Y'all know I'm the pro up inhere.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yes, I don't know about that One in five hey man,
we'll get to that in a minute.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
We'll get to that in a minute.
How y'all doing.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Better than you, obviously.
This week Five and oneeverybody.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
You know, five wins one loss, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Okay, got it, got it, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Lost off of a lucky Jay and Daniels win.
Yeah man, what was the otherpick?
I lost it was Chargers,chargers.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Everybody lost, everybody lost.
To the Chargers and CJ ofcourse.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, it was those two quarterbacks.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Chargers 85, though you know he came through a fire
show for y'all today.
This is going to be absolutelyphenomenal.
This is what I've alwaysconsidered the best weekend in
football.
I love the divisional roundwhere you've got great the top
eight teams.
You've got two fire games onSaturday, two fire games on

(01:57):
Sunday.
We're going to definitely diginto that, but we have a lot
that we're going to go into.
We're going to talk about thewildcard woes.
We will touch on my wildcardpractice week.
Okay, that was a practice roundfor me, so we're going to talk
about that practice round.
All right, we're going to talkabout the Texans.
Commanders Rams Are theycontenders or pretenders?
We're going to talk about thecoaching carousel.

(02:19):
Dion is he going to be the nextcoach, or who should be the
next coach of the Dallas Cowboys?
We're going to talk about allthese hot defensive coordinators
.
Should these defensivecoordinators be head coaches?
Can a defensive coordinatorlead a team to a Super Bowl?
We'll talk about that.
We've got the college footballchampionship, good Lord.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Finally, we'll be played on.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Monday.
We'll talk about that, allright, ohio State versus Notre
Dame.
And then, oh man, we're goingto get into these divisional
games.
This is where I'm going to go4-0 and show everybody what's up
, because it's time for that.
So we're going to get intothose picks.
We'll have Brianna here forthat, of course, and then we
will finish off.
We'll finish off with one ofour producers.

(03:01):
Yes, we know Brandon Bean is afan favorite.
We know y'all love Brandon Bean, but Brandon is also helping a
lot behind the scenes as far ashelping to put the show together
.
But we're going to talk to himfor a couple of minutes and get
his quick take on the games, thedivisional game.
So we'll touch on that with himas we finish, and that's going

(03:21):
to be a segment that's going tobe open to all of our fans.
So we'll have a segment at theend of every show where we let a
fan come on and give their take.
So, all right, so that's theshow man.
So y'all ready?
Yes, sir All right, let's getinto it.
So shout out to Team Pick'emPro we appreciate everybody
behind the here in the studioSummer social media managing the

(03:44):
comments.
Thank you to you, thank you toeverybody.
Shout out to everybody in LARocking the LA hat for y'all,
thinking and praying for youguys with the fire.
So hope you recover and canrebuild soon and contain
everything as soon as possible.
Thoughts and prayers are out toyou.
Hope to win some money for you.
So with my picks, I think we'regoing to raise some money for

(04:04):
LA.
Hope to win some money for you.
So with my picks, I think we'regoing to raise some money for
LA.
And one last thing, man, shoutout to Pure Green.
Pure Green and Clayton Ooh man,these drinks are fire.
We're going to be drinkingthese through the show and we
also have some special shots.
I've got this immunity shotthat's going to get me right on
the right track.
So thanks to Pure Green inadvance for all these amazing

(04:26):
picks that I'm about to make Allright.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
I don't even know if an immunity shot can help save
you.
Yes, yes, it is.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
The Pure Green immunity shot will help.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Maybe because it's Pure Green, but maybe we're
going to see.
Maybe just because it's PureGreen.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
All right?
Yes, because it's Pure Green,pure Green and Clayton, clayton,
north Carolina, shout out toy'all.
All right, let's get into it.
So wild card woes.
What happened to Derek?
I know you guys wanted to talkabout this a little bit, so I'm
going to give you the floor forabout 30 seconds just to talk
about it was pretty quick, man.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Okay, might serve more.
There might be more time.
Do you have anything that youwant to say?
It's like when a team loses,when a team loses, we're
supposed to talk about thethings they did bad and just
kind of criticize them.
So this is you.
You're the team that lost.
Okay, so you were 1-5.
What happened, man?

(05:19):
Why?

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well, like I said, it was practice.
It was practice, I was messingaround.
You know, it's like the layupline, You're kind of
lollygagging or whatever youknow.
But again, you guys need to bescared.
Y'all should be trembling morethan Lamar Jackson going into
Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Lamar Jackson is the reason why you're winning five.
One of the reasons you'rewinning five.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
So I don't know who's tripling right now, but okay,
y'all should be shaking rightnow because it's like if Steph,
when Steph has an off game, man,you know what's coming.
Y'all know perfection is aboutto come, because you know how
great I am.
And you know how rare that is.
So you know I'm about to justgo completely off on y'all, so
you should be very, very scared.
I'm actually surprised y'allshowed up today.

(06:06):
I'm actually surprised.
I really am.
I really am.
But you know what?

Speaker 2 (06:10):
I'm surprised you did too, because looking at it it
wasn't great, it wasn't great,it wasn't great.
Okay, the one thing I didn'tunderstand, steelers-r were like
hey, sam Donald doesn't looklike he has it.
He has it In the biggest gameof his career.
Put up nine points.

(06:30):
Guess what he did in the secondbiggest game of his career.
What was it?
Nine points again, yeah, 11sacks Because he was on the ball
too long.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
He was awful.
He was awful Very bad, I missedthat I missed that one, but I
saw what I needed to see.
I've made the adjustment.
I'm the best adjuster inpicking history and you guys are
going to see the results ofthat.
But you know what Y'all aregetting on me.
That's cool.
Y'all messing with me, but youknow what.
I know who has my back.

(07:02):
I know who has my back.
I'm going to bring in Briannabecause I know Bri's got my back
.
So let's bring in Bri.
Hey, what's up?
Bri, hi, hey, hey.
So, bri, I know you've got myback.
I know you got it right.
I pick amazing, I don't think Iwas the best reinforcement for

(07:24):
you.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
No, no, so, no, no so .

Speaker 1 (07:31):
I mean but you, you saw the logic on uh where I was
going with my picks right, notwith the steelers and the eagles
ravens.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Man, okay, man, no, no no.
Love okay, all right that's allright, I said you know what?

Speaker 1 (07:39):
so see, you guys have me motivated.
So that's why I'm about to justcompletely go off this week.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
So you're going to see that we will see All right.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
You excited for this weekend.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, yeah, it's going to be big time.
We cannot wait to hear yourpicks.
I know we've, you know, talkeda little bit behind the scenes,
but we'll definitely dive intothose a little later with you.
So we're excited to go intothat and then we'll see.
Of course, in three weeks atKings we're going to start to
promote that show heavily, sowe're looking forward to seeing
you there.
While we have you, you know,texans, commanders, rams, we're

(08:19):
going to dive into them in alittle bit.
Dive into them in a little bit.
Uh, are any of those contenders, or would you say all of those
are pretenders at this?

Speaker 4 (08:29):
point texans commanders.
I think the texans and the ramsare definitely contenders, but
I don't think the commanders areoh yeah yeah yeah, I agree I
agree he just gets lucky.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Jane daniels, he just gets lucky what that is true,
that's diego's take that'sdiego's take too yes, yes and
he's a rookie too, so it kind ofmakes sense that he gets lucky.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
But I think it's just that, like kind of really and
then the texans cj is reallygood, but pressure too, but he
always makes it out of thepressure part, so he's good.
And the rams, I mean matthewstafford, he's a veteran and
they came back from a one tofour like win rate.

(09:12):
So they're one, four and theycame back from that.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
So they did.
They did come back from.
They had some injuries early ononce they got healthy?
Yeah, they uh.
Yeah, you can argue thatthey're.
They're looking, looking good.
Ok, all right.
Well, we're definitely going todive into that more when we
dive into those games, so we'llget more of your take on these.
But I appreciate that and we'llsee you a little later in the
show.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
All right, thank you.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
OK, all right.
Thanks, brie, all right, ok,all right.
So All right, no, but that'sokay.
Like I said, y'all got me firedup, motivated, I'm ready to go
at it.
So let's talk about the Texanshere.
We'll keep the slide that we'vegot here.
Texans, diego, are theycontenders or pretenders?

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Texans are pretenders .
I just don't believe in CJ,like I've always not believed in
CJ, but especially at this timeof the year, when he got to the
division round last year.
They played a really good teamin Baltimore.
They lost and he just doesn'thave what it takes Justin

(10:15):
Herbert sold in the firstplayoff game he played in.
He's just not reliable.
He sold worse than.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Darnold, yeah, he did , he sold worse than Darnold Way
.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
More hard I he did.
He's so worse than Darnold Waymore hurt.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
I don't even understand how Justin Herbert
throws four picks and we'restill like, oh, he's top five,
yeah, yeah, let's cut that outright now.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
They're not contenders because it's CJ and I
mean they're playing the Chiefs, and if they're going to
contend, they have to at leasthave a chance.
Geez, which Mahomes is takingcare of business.
Tj is going to never want totouch a football field ever
again.
After this game, I see ablowout okay crazy blowout, all
right.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Well, without the Chiefs have played this year, I
think that this might be closerthan we think.
The defense from the Texas gaveme something to be inspired by.
I do worry about that Chiefssecondary, their ability to lock
in on Nico Collins and kind offorce CJ to throw to everybody
else, because, again, xavierHutchinson and John Mesche don't

(11:14):
necessarily inspire confidenceoutside of Nico Collins.
So I think that's where itcould get a little difficult.
You got to turn over here, turnover there.
There's a couple again, likewith the kansas, with kansas
city, and like how they've, like, had this dynasty for a minute.
It always comes down to acouple plays or that one play.
Either they make or you don'tmake.
So yeah, that's, very true Ithink this game will be a little

(11:36):
closer.
I wouldn't say a blowout, but Iwill say that some like chief's
magic comes away and they likepull it out at the end and one
comment here.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
So thanks for the comments.
Keep the comments coming.
We're in studio so we can'tquite see the comments, but we
know everybody that's watchingwants to see the comments that
you have, so keep those coming.
But if you want to communicatewith us directly, ask us a
question and we will acknowledgethat.
So please ask a question if youwant to go back and forth with
us.
But, diego, so your man, yourbiggest nightmare is going to be

(12:11):
if the Texans mess around andwin this game they have zero
shot of winning.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Mahomes will not let that happen For your sake?

Speaker 1 (12:20):
I hope so.
Cj will be a made man for therest of his career.
He doesn't have to do it.
He can miss the playoffs forthe rest of his career and he
will be just fine if they winthis game.
Let me tell you, man, that'sgoing to be rough.
Not happening, okay.
Not happening, not happening.
Let's move on to the commanders.
Okay, so commanders Diego'sother, you know.

(12:43):
Second overall pick who's thegolden child?
Golden?

Speaker 3 (12:46):
child after three weeks?

Speaker 1 (12:47):
yes, Yep cannot do anything wrong.
Nothing wrong for the rest ofhis career.
The Commanders and JadenDaniels are they contenders or
pretenders?

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Diego, the Commanders are pretenders and this is why
the Commanders in the regularseason they beat all the bad
teams, all the teams they'resupposed to win against, and
they played teams like theEagles and they played teams
like the Eagles and even theylost to the Cowboys Just any
good teams that they play theylost to.
And they had a bunch ofovertime games, like the Bears

(13:21):
game, the Hail Mary that wasarguably the luckiest win in NFL
history.
And they had the overtime gameagainst Atlanta, where they had
a bunch of calls that didn't goAtlanta's way and just a bunch
of lucky moments throughout theyear.
And even in the playoff game,the kicker's scratching his head
and then the ball hits theupright and then goes in.
Yeah, it was a lot.

(13:44):
I just don't believe in him.
No, and and that they gottahave at least a shot to beat the
lions, which they have zerochance of winning.
That game it's gonna be thesame thing.
The lions are gonna make c.
We're gonna make jay never wantto touch a football field ever
again after this game.
I'm just saying never, okay,all right.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Well, you know what they say about ifs and fifths,
right?
I just, I just hope you knowthat real quick.
But uh, my whole thing and I'mnot even trying to go against
diego on this it's like look,you win 12 games for a reason.
Oh, listen, somehow, some way,if you win 12 games, you're not
terrible.
Now, mind you, it has a pain.
They're saying I don't know whywe're talking all this trash,

(14:22):
because they did put up 40 on uswith the back of quarterback.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
So that was before.
Our defense is bad, but we.
That was before Bryce'sresurgence, so that doesn't
really count, fair point.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
However, even though they still beat us, which is one
of the bad teams, and on top ofthat they still made us to
scrape by against good teams,and even in this playoff game,
the team that won our division,who is notorious for giving
everybody else in the playofftrouble the Eagles trouble gave
the Lions a scare.
They beat that team Mostly thesame people coming back for that

(14:56):
team.
So I'm just saying JD Daiglesis the only thing that gives me
hope that they have a fightingchance.
I don't know how the defense isgoing to play.
I don't know how that secondaryis going to play against that
Lions offense.
I don't even know if the fourthdown decisions are going to
work all that well, but if theydo and something breaks and it
comes late game with Jay andDaniels having the ball, I like

(15:16):
their odds.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
I like their odds.
The Panthers defense knockedJay and daniels out of the game.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
I mean, yeah, just saying well, you know what,
diego, I know you know, by youbeing such a bryce guy and a
bryce homer number one pick, Iknow you're salty on these
number two picks that getanointed very early.
You know we had that happenwith cj.
Uh, we had, you know, with jays.
Jaden Daniels was the chosenone.

(15:45):
He's always so calm and poised.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
He's got that smile that again if you're a
commander's person, you love it.
I lived in DC for a minute so Igot a soft spot for commander's
fans especially when I wasworking I met a bunch of
commander's fans.
I see them happy.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
But again, if you're going against them, that smile
is aggravating.
It's aggravating as I don'tknow what, but you know what,
diego, I'm a I'm.
I'm a call in a favor for you.
All right, so you know.
Families, detroit, my mom,everybody in detroit love
detroit.
Right, so you know what we'regonna take care of you guys.
We're gonna make sure thatjayden daniels does not become

(16:24):
the second quarterback.
Now, that is the chosen one.
That's taken all the shine awayfrom Bryce.
So let's cue up the all righthere.
We're going to take care of it.
We're going to take care of it.
Come on to Detroit and we'regoing to take care of it and
you're not going to have toworry about it.
You're not going to have toworry about it.
Any more talk until next yearabout Jayden Daniels.
All right, all right, we good.

(16:45):
Okay, I'm going to make thatcall in for you, so you're not.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
They lose themselves at the moment.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
All right, okay, so last one before we go to our
coach debate.
Let's talk about the Rams.
Oh man, the Rams, are theycontender or pretender?

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Diego, yeah, the Rams are most definitely Super Bowl
contenders.
They got a Super Bowl winningquarterback coach combo in
Stafford and McVay and eversince they've been healthy
they've been winning a bunch ofgames, bunch of big games too
against, you know, the bills andsome other great good teams and
blew out the vikings and yeah,I believe in their chances

(17:27):
against the eagles.
I believe they got a real shotto win that game and go all the
way all right, all right, noware you gonna hold before you go
?

Speaker 1 (17:34):
so you're saying right Now are you going to hold
it before you go?
So you're saying that all right, but are you going to take a
pure green island shot on that?

Speaker 3 (17:43):
No, Okay, we got to wait and see Okay we're going to
wait and see.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Okay, all right, okay , okay, all right, okay, again,
pure green.
You want to stay nutritious?
All right, pure green there.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
All right, want to stay nutritious?
All right, pure green there?
All right, go ahead.
Man, I think that the rams I'mjust mad that they're playing
like the buzzsaw in the nfc,unfortunately um, yeah, the rams
, are it?
Matt stafford's been goingcrazy and like just basically
seeing how he played in thefirst half versus the vikings uh
, really inspired.
And then seeing how theirdefense has rounded into form

(18:17):
with their rookie picks, it kindof I like how the Rams have
gone two different ways ofshowing how they can build their
roster.
Where the Super Bowl year,they're like, hey, we're going
to get all these stars, we'regoing to have the massive
bandwagon, everybody's going togo jump and ride this ship, and
so we win a championship, whichthey did.
And then now they're like, okay, we're gonna draft really well,

(18:39):
get a bunch of guys in thefifth round, get some first
round guys from florida state,and then we're still gonna win.
So, oh no, we, we really gottagive the gm the owner.
Everybody loves, love for the.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Really good draft.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah, I'm really sad that stadium does not get filled
, because I'm not going to liethat coach be doing his thing,
everybody be doing their thingup there.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, we have to give them props.
That's a great point becausewhen they were on the whole
forget them picks and they usethe word other than forget, but
forget them picks right, theywere on that whole motto and
they won a Super Bowl with that.
But we thought that theymortgaged their future in order
to do that.
And, yeah, they had a coupledown years but it was way less

(19:21):
than what we thought and theyhave rebuilt that.
We all thought McVay was goingto television and was going to
go the John Madden route and hestuck it out and, wow, within
what?
Two years now they're lookingreally good.
So yeah, big, big props to theGM.
They drafted very well and,yeah, they're looking good.
So yeah, I would definitely saythey're contenders and we'll

(19:44):
see if anybody's going to bebold enough to go on the island
and actually pick them to beatthe Eagles.
We'll see.
We're going to find out.
All right, okay, let's go tothe next topic here.
All right, cowboys next coach.
Oh man, let's see here.
So we got a lot of people.

(20:05):
You know, we know that dion'sbeen talking to jerry jones, so
we know there's someconversation there.
All right, bill belichick.
He, of course, is at Carolinanow UNC.
However, he has an out, Ibelieve what 10 million or
something like that.
You can easily be bought outand especially after the
following year it's, I think,one million.

(20:25):
But he can get out of that, andthere's a lot of chatter that
if he is offered an NFL coachingjob, he'll leave right away.
You've got Ben Johnson who isdoing you is doing a great job
with the offense in Detroit.
So, diego man, who do you thinkshould be the next head coach?

Speaker 3 (20:43):
in Big D.
I think Ben Johnson is thefavorite, Of course.
I think that would be thepreferred choice.
Be Ben Johnson or just anybodywho's like an offensive coach, I
think would be a great fit forthe Cowboys.
Okay, and I just don't like theDeion fit because I just think
that's like too much noise forthe Cowboys, Because whenever

(21:03):
they've had, you know, a lot ofnoise, they haven't just quite
lived up to those expectations.
I think they just need to below-key and get someone maybe
uprising and just go from there.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah, kind of go the Carolina Panthers route.
They got the you know upstartcoordinator in Tampa.
Hey, we're playing better Okay.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Real quick.
What have the Cowboys ever done?
Anything to not have a splashand like be in the news and be
like.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
I'm not saying what they should be.
I'm not saying what they'regoing to do.
I know, but, like we all, I'mnot saying what they should be.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
I'm not saying what they're going to do.
We all see where this is going.
You got primetime, the literaldefinition of the Cowboy success
of the 90s, bringing that joyand the wonder years of who we
used to be.
And he's coaching our team nowand he's going to rally the
troops.
I think for one Jerry's goinggonna want.
Jerry welcomes the noise likethat's.

(21:56):
That's been him ever since hebought the team.
So I'm just I hope that if diongets the opportunity because
again, you know black headcoaches, nfl, you know if you,
if you're terrible, you know youget the boot really quickly.
But hopefully I just want tosee the opportunity.
I just think it would be coolwith him coaching on the
sidelines.

(22:17):
Now the issue is he'd still haveto coach Dak and then with him
probably wanting to get Shaduron the team, that would be a
whole thing.
So that would still beinteresting.
For sure I'm definitely.
I wouldn't mind seeing Dionjust because the story and again
it's Dallas, they're going todo something crazy.
Let's go keep them in theheadlines and keep them.
Just keep.

(22:38):
Not keep them relevant, butkeep them more in our cultural
eye because they're the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
So, diego, now what do you and I agree with
everything you said what do youthink they're going to do?
We know you feel that theyshould hire Ben Johnson.
What do you think they're goingto do?
So we know you, you feel thatthey should hire ben johnson.
What do you think they're going?

Speaker 3 (22:57):
to do.
I think they're, I thinkthey're going to go after ben
johnson oh, you think they will,oh, okay interesting.
I I think if if deon's notgoing to be able to coach shador
right now, I don't think he'sgonna leave just yet.
And then they got some goodrecruits coming to colorado.
They got a bright future there.
I think he's going to stickthere for now unless he got a

(23:19):
chance to coach Jadur.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Okay, All right.
Well, I feel that I would go.
Ben Johnson I'm a big fan ofoffensive coordinators, so I
love that, and I mean BenJohnson he's doing with that
offense is ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
I love that Trick play every single week and
you're just like how did youeven come up with some of that
regular players?
Like how are you thinkingexactly?

Speaker 1 (23:39):
so I would definitely do that.
But I really think they'regoing to hire dion.
I'm pretty sure about that.
I would.
I would wager on that thatthey're gonna bring dion in.
Um hearing a lot of just when I, when I hear the people that
are close to Dion talk, likeMichael Irvin and Keyshawn

(23:59):
Johnson and all those peoplethat I know are talking to him,
they speak like it's done.
So just by reading that bodylanguage, I feel that he's
definitely going to be there now.
From a spectacle standpoint, Iwould love to see it because
it's going to just makeeverything more fun and whatnot,
but I don't think that he wouldbe the best fit there.

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So yeah, but it will beinteresting to see.
I'm sure we'll find out soon.
What will also be interestingwill be the timing.
When do they announce it?
What do they overshadow to stayin the headlines?
There's a whole lot of greatgames coming up.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
I think it's either going to be day before Super
Bowl or a couple hours beforeJerry's, like ha-ha got him
Exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
That'll be fun to see , okay, all right.
Well, let's move on here andcontinue to talk about the
coaches.
Man, a lot of defensivecoordinators.
You have the Detroit Lionsdefensive coordinator.
They say he's a done deal to gosomewhere.
Vrabel just signed with thePatriots, so he's the coach
there.
The Texans got a defensivecoordinator.

(25:15):
We hear Sila is a candidatewith a lot of jobs, and so you
know, defensive coordinators arecontinuing to get jobs.
But if we look at it, if I havemy facts straight here, the
last guy that was like adefensive coordinator to win a
Super Bowl was Bill Belichick.
Coordinator to win a super bowlwas bill belichick.

(25:40):
Yeah, so you know, with withthe, you know the age that we
are in now.
Do you guys feel that adefensive coordinator turned
coach?
Can they yeah, they can get tothe playoffs.
We know that they can get far,but can they get over that final
hump and actually win a superbowl in this day and age?
What do you think, diego?

Speaker 3 (25:53):
I do.
I mean the bills have adefensive coordinator coach and
that's I.
I think he has a shot becausehe, he has josh allen.
But you look, overall I don'tthink so because I, just I, I
just don't think they have thatthe offenses are going to be
able to get as many chances likethe lions they go for on fourth
down.
They're aggressive defensivecoordinators.

(26:14):
You are going to be more, youknow, defense base they're going
to.
If they have all fourth down.
They're aggressive.
Defensive coordinators aregoing to be more defense-based.
If they have a fourth down,they're probably just going to
punt it and trust their defense.
They're not going to trusttheir offense to keep going.
I think that just having aconfident and aggressive offense
is what's going to win SuperBowls right now.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
What's your take, chris?
I mean, I think there's achance that somebody can be
successful.
But after we saw the Sean McVayAndy Reid tree of offensive
boom, it's kind of hard to tell.
And the thing is it's likeoutside of Andy Reid, belichick
and McVay that one time therehasn't been a bunch of defensive

(26:53):
guys really winning the SuperBowl.
And it's like if you're going tobe a defensive coordinator you
have to have a wonder kid atoffensive coordinator, just to
balance it out, if that's howyou're going to be as a head
coach, because the thing is withDan Campbell.
He has Ben Johnson, he also hasEric Glenn, but Dan Campbell's
involved with everything andhe's still at least more on the

(27:15):
offensive end like working hewas an offensive player yeah,
right.
So I feel like, if you are, ifyou do think like very well,
like defensively, you definitelyhave to make sure that you have
like what of like?
Get like a shade of handassistant or something right, it
was like a great coordinator.
I mean, like we thought thesaints were going to the super
bowl after two weeks becausethey had like Kumi Akron or

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something.
I just think that you know to belike, very successful in the
league, you have to have a greatoffensive coordinator, not just
a regular one, not just rightin the middle, like he has to be
special.
It has to be special.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
But then the issue is okay if you have a defensive
coach and you have the hot shot,great, creative offensive
coordinator, you're not going tohave them more than a year or
two because you're going to losethem, because they're going to
get a job.
So then you're constantlyhaving to find amazing offensive
coordinators, which is tough todo.
I mean, look at the Steelers asgreat as Mike Tomlin is, their
offense is always stuck in themud and they're cycling through.

(28:16):
And it's also talent too.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
It's talent in the fact that Mike Tomlin always
shoots very bad offensivecoordinators.
I'm sorry If anybody saw ArthurSmith in Atlanta.
What are we doing?
I'm sorry.
That's the one thing that takesme off the Arthur Smith and
still get an interview for jobs.
I'm not even a Falcons fan, Ijust feel bad for him because
I'm like this man didn't useBijan, Kyle Pitts and Drake

(28:40):
London right.
And all of a sudden you're like, oh yeah, George Pickens and
Najee Harris, He'll figure thisout.
Like that doesn't.
Yeah, I'm sorry, that's just.
Yeah, I'm a big Arthur Smith,Not a fan.
Sorry, had to get on soapboxreal quick.
My bad y'all.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Well, yeah, let us know.
Let us know Ken, a defensivecoach, defensive coordinator,
winning Super Bowl in this dayand age.
And again, send your questionsin If you'd like us to
acknowledge those.
Summer will hold those on thescreen for us and we'll make
sure that we answer those.
If you have any questions, allright, well, let's move on to

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the next topic here.
Let's go to a little bit ofcollege football before we get
to the main event and get intothese divisional games.
So let's move on.
College football.
Championship is Monday, martinLuther King Jr holiday, so
definitely, big shout out toMartin Luther King Jr.
So college football, ohio Statethey've been dominating
everybody.
All of a sudden, they lost toMichigan and Coach was going to
get fired.
That's what they needed to thenstart rolling people.

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You've got Notre Dame, notreDame.
You can argue that they've beena little lucky, but you can
also argue the opposite.
There's people on both sides ofthose.
They certainly deserve to bethere.
They've beaten everybody infront of them, but I think the
general consensus is that OhioState is much more talented than
Notre Dame.

(30:05):
So will the Irish, will theirluck continue, or is their luck
going to run out?
What do you think, diego?

Speaker 3 (30:12):
I believe that Ohio State's going to win the game
because I just think they're areally complete team.
They have a really good defense, really physical defense, and I
mean they got talentedreceivers, as always Jeremiah
Smith, good running game,quarterback doesn't make too
many mistakes and Notre Dame.
I think it's going to be aclose game because Notre Dame

(30:34):
they seem to be playing well inthese playoffs.
But I really think they'regoing to lose, mainly because of
Riley Leonard, theirquarterback.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
I saw him at Duke, oh yeah, he did come from Duke, he
did come from.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Duke.
I just don't know if he'll beable to play, if he'll be able
to bring it for this big of agame.
I just don't really believe inhim and yeah, I just think Ohio
State's got it.
We're just because of thequarterback.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
All right, I think Ohio State has this number one
Notre Dame hater over here.
I just you know, I don'tbelieve in him.
I don't Just historicallyspeaking.
Even when they had Brian Kellyand now Marcus Freeman, you know
, love the great coach.
He could potentially makehistory at MLK Day.
That could be cool.

(31:18):
Unfortunately, I don't thinkit's happening.
Ohio State is just a betterteam on paper, basically.
Seeing how they just whooped onTexas, that was like okay, and
I think that me, as a fan of SECschools, A and I all might have
caught up to us.
I think it might.
It's going, might take a minute.
Unless we get some deep pocketsof the deep south, the SEC

(31:43):
might be cooked.
Shout out to the Big Ten.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
That was on Quinn Ewers man.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Oh yeah, Quinn Ewers declared for the draft.
After that, I don't know who'shis agent.
Hey man, there's a much betterguy sitting behind you, but you
should totally go to the NFLdraft.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
Somebody's going to have to If he wasn't going to
start at Texas again.
If he stayed, it would be ahard time.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
It would be funny if he turns out to be like a Josh
Allen Zach Wilson.
Not a Josh Allen pick ZachWilson type of pick, where it's
like, oh yeah, a measurable guy,you know, you throw the ball.
All of a sudden he's up,skyrockets off of draft boards
and then he just sucks in theNFL which.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Zach Wilson had the best pro day ever, did he?

Speaker 2 (32:29):
No, no, he had an amazing throw.
And then you know, just never,did it in the NFL like ever.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
All right, well, yeah , yeah, I've got to agree with
you guys.
I think Ohio State wins this ina blowout.
So I would love to see NotreDame win.
I mean, being a Michigan guy, I, you know, huge Michigan fan.
Oh yeah, bree, we got to getBree's take on this too, when
she comes in, for sure, becausewe know Bree loves, I think,
michigan's her favorite team.
Uh, college overall, but uh,yeah, love Michigan.

(32:59):
Grew up, room for Michigan, soOhio State was always a big
rival.
Shout out to Joshua no, he'sroom for Ohio State.
But um, yeah, I think they pullthis out Notre Dame.
Typically we've seen them whenthey have their storybook runs,
they get to the championshipgame and then get the doors
blown off of them.
So, yeah, I think that's what'sgoing to happen.

(33:22):
All right, let us know yourtake on that.
All right, let's get to thesedivisional games here.
It's time to get to it.
We got Commanders versus Lions,commanders versus lions.
And uh, tell you what?
Let's go ahead and bring inrihanna to join us and help us.
Uh, go ahead and get into this.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
What's up, brie hi?

Speaker 1 (33:44):
all right, all right, so we'll go around the room
here.
I think this might be the onlygame where there's no island.
Here we may have a consensus.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Really oh thank goodness.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
We'll see, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
You never know.
We've got some wild cards herein this group that make wild,
shocking picks.
So we'll see what we got here.
One wild card, One man.
One, Just one man, we'll see youknow who knows Bree might be a
wild card.
You never know.
You, we'll see you know whoknows Bree might be a wild card.

(34:18):
You never know, you never know,we'll see.
Well, okay, but Detroit is awhopping nine-and-a-half point
favorite in this game.
They're at home.
That crowd is going to beabsolutely on fire.
It's going to be wild man.
So can't wait for this one.
This is Saturday night, oh no,saturday night in Detroit.
Oh my gosh, they're going tohave all the.
Yeah, this is going to be crazy.
They might break some recordshere.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
So, diego, start us off, man Yep, I'm, of course,
going with the Lions in this one.
I cannot wait for this game.
I cannot wait to knock Jay andDaniels out and out of the
playoffs.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
Yeah, high playoffs, get rid of.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
I can't wait to just hear his name, not hear his name
after.
After this game, until nextyear.
So yeah, lions, take care ofbusiness.
Maybe 20 point, 30 pointblowout, oh man 30 point blowout
is insane.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Taking care of business A lot of passion, a lot
of passion.
What you think, chris?

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Shout out to the all-time great hater right next
to me.
But anyway, I still thinkDetroit's going to win.
I don't think it's going to bea blowout by any means.
I'm sorry, the whole thing washilarious, but I think that
Detroit just has a better team.
They're so laser-focused ontheir goal and again seeing

(35:36):
their improvement year afteryear, I really think it's super
bowl or bus for them this year.
So they start their journey.
Unfortunately, jayden, you knowthe rookie season.
Yes, it's gonna be a littlequiet.
It's gonna be a little quiet aswe go, go into the night, but
it's gonna be okay.
It's gonna be okay.
Commanders, you don't patyourselves on the back.
You want a playoff game.
You got possibly a greatquarterback in the NFC, so

(35:58):
you'll be okay.
You'll be okay, all right.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Okay, all right, you take Bree, what you got.
You taking the Shocker, youtaking the Commanders, you going
on an island.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
I did not do that.
The Commanders, they're justnot as good as the Lions.
And I'm not even being biased,I mean a little bit, but I mean,
if you really look at it, theCommanders, they just don't have
what it takes to beat the Lions.
Our offense is too good, likethere's no like doubt about that
.
I don't know, and Montgomery'sgoing to be back.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
So you know it's just going to be back Most of their
defense is probably back.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Yeah, it's a low use, they'll be back.
Actually, it might get uglyHold on.
Hold on, you might have beenright, diego, I'm not going to
lie.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
It might get ugly.
Yeah, it might be a really bigblowout game.
Now Montgomery and Gibbs backJeez.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Okay, all okay, all right.
Okay, all right.
So got that.
So let's see we're gonna have.
Let me get my, get my.
Uh, let's go blue, blue bioticshot here.
Let's see, am I gonna go on theisland?
Let me make my official pick.
I am going with the detroitlions.
Y'all know I'm staying home.
I'm not.
I told you I'm for real thisweek and I'm gonna take, take

(37:14):
care of business.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
I'm going for an O.
I'm not playing around withy'all, I'm not playing around.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
I was doing pity pat.
We were in the backyard justkind of pity pat slap boxing,
you know what I mean.
And then Chris hit me for realand I saw a little blood and.
I said oh okay, you want to go.
So now we're going for thisweek, we're going at it, y'all
All right.
So here we go.
Okay, so we all agree on thatone.
We all have the Lions.

(37:40):
Let us know Anybody have theCommanders.
Let us know in the chat ifanybody has that and hold that
up Summer.
If anybody does have theCommanders, we'll see on that.
Okay, all right.
Oh man, here we go.
You're going to see some knees.
You're going to see some kneesstart shaking here on the set.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
Hold on, let me get the next slide up.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Oh, we got the Ravens and Bills, we got the MVP
showdown.
All right, here we go.
You've got, or is it?
You've got?

Speaker 2 (38:12):
What do you?

Speaker 1 (38:12):
mean You've got the three-time MVP, lamar Jackson,
who is favored in this game, sothere's no way he can lose this
game.
He's favored by going to LoloBuffalo to play the struggling
Bills.
All right, I'm trolling, allright.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
All right.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
We're trolling Chris.
We're trolling Chris herebecause Chris is the Lamar Homer
here, so his heart is here,with Lamar, all right.
All right, we're trolling Chris, we're trolling Chris here,
because Chris is the Lamar homerhere, so his heart is here with
Lamar, all right.
So, diego, start us off.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
Man, I'm going with the Buffalo Bills in this one
man, I just.
I mean, they got the home fieldadvantage, they got Buffalo,
they got Bills mafia, which isgoing to be very big, and I
think Lamar is going to beshaking a little bit in Buffalo.
It's going to be a prettyintimidating environment.
And Josh Allen he's played wellin every playoff game he's

(39:05):
played in.
I just believe in him more inthe playoffs than I do in Lamar.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Diego, what's the temperature going to be?

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Temperature Is anybody like 20?
I think so.
Let's get a temperature.
What's the temperature going tobe?
Temperature Anybody like 20s,10s?
I think so.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
It's Buffalo, it's colder, yeah let's get a
temperature check Somebody.
Let us know what the weatherforecast is going to be.
We'll see what that's going tobe.
You know what?
Don't go yet, Chris.
Yeah, I'm going to let y'allride.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
We're going to put a hilarious clip.
This is going to be thefunniest clip.
I will be reposting it, solet's go.
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Bree, we're going to go to you next.
We're going to go to you next,so take it away.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
Yeah, so sorry, but I think the Bills are going to
win Lamar he seems like he's theonly main person that really
wants it as much.
You know, I feel like he theonly main person that really
wants it as much.
I feel like he's doing the mostfor his team and I feel like
that luck's going to run out inBuffalo.
So I don't know.

(40:04):
And they're saying Zay Flowersmight be back, but he wasn't
even practicing this week, so Idon't know.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
And if he does play, he won't be as effective as he
needs to be.
And Erica just sent in theforecast it's going to be cold,
cold, very cold, so that doesn'tbode well for when you're hurt.
Yeah, so that's not good.
Yeah, cold, very, very cold,definitely the.
Bills yeah, definitely the BStephanie Bills.
Okay, okay.
Well, hold on, let's see.
Now again, I haven't picked yet, but you know I just love.

(40:37):
You know what I'm saying firingthis up here.
So let's see, we do have theislands.
I'm going to go ahead and justpreemptively say it's the island
game.
We'll see when I make my pick.
But, chris man, you got mad.
Do you want to pick right andgo, bills, or are you going on

(40:57):
the island?

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Oh, I'm on this island, happily.
Listen.
What a surprise Three-time MVP.
Okay, okay, I like it.
I like it.
Listen real quick.
Did we not see how him andDerrick had replayed, did we not
?
Everybody just forgot aboutthat.
Did we also see the fact thatyou know the defense has
improved and also there has been?

(41:22):
Okay, let me just how has anyof your picks gone?
Like, if Derrick is picking theBills, are we sure this is
going to work?
That's all I'm going to saythat's all I'm going to say, and
he's sitting up with the billsand y'all gonna be on that ship
alone with him.
And if I'm on the island alone,y'all can clip this, y'all can
clown me and it'll be hilarious,but I don't believe it.

(41:42):
Listen, lamar is locked in.
He's on a different level thisyear and again.
I like the fact that he's nowplaying his game and again
watching the mic'd up a coupledays ago just seeing like how
laser focused he is.
That's what's inspiringconfidence in me.
Now, again and again, joshAllen, outside of the divisional
round.

(42:03):
Let's see, he's only beatenPhillip Rivers, bo Nix.
Who else has he beat?
Just, it's weird.
Sometimes it's the divisionalround 10-3 game and it's a
divisional round 10-3 game andit was a pick six.
That's not the same LeBron.
I believe he's improved, Ibelieve he's different, so we'll
see we will see.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Keep that up Summer, please.
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
It's going to be 15 degrees.
It's snowfall.
We just go hit the ball off toour tour guide.
Oh my goodness, we just goingto let him rock.
Let's see it, okay.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
I'm saying our business.
We want to play hero ball.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Okay, he ain't going to play hero ball.
Oh man Okay.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
Ravens are going to win this Take it down.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
I hope Derek's on your Ravens know.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
Okay, I will see you, Josh.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
I'll be all alone on this.
I'm fine on this island.
I'm so cool.
Oh man, Okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
So, hey, y'all know, man, I've been rocking Buffalo
all year.
I said Buffalo was the bestteam in the AFC.
Weeks ago, I was way ahead ofthe curve.
Okay, I said Josh Allen was MVP, all right.
Now again, a lot of peopleagree with me, but it looks like
Lamar.
Based on that, all person lookslike he is going to win his
third MVP, so it's trending thatway.
All right, do you know what Itold y'all?

(43:24):
I'm not playing with you thisweek.
I'm not playing, I'm notplaying, I'm not playing.
So do you know what?
I got some great news for you,chris, I'm taking the Ravens.
Baby, let's go, baby, yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Now we better win.
Dang it, I'm gonna curse.
You cursed me.
No, dang it.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Chris.

Speaker 4 (43:49):
It's gonna suck.
Oh my god, I knew it.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
Please.
Please let all the curses thatlike counterbalance off, please,
I'm cool with the Ravens.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Oh my goodness, I'm so scared.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
Now I love.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
Buffalo.
I love them and, hey, will notbe bad if they lose.
But I'm looking.
But I am going back to my rootsas a picker and a pick'em pro.
And as a pick'em pro, I do notcare about who I offend, it's
all about my pick and right now,it's all about getting it right
.
So now, like I said, I'm notplaying.

(44:22):
I've dug deep into theanalytics, I've done all of my
simulators and my simulationsall right, and I've drunk my
pure green.
Hold on, man.
I ain't even take my Hold on,let me get my shot.
You're not on the island, man,hold on.
Oh yeah, that's right.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
You know what y'all say I'm not on the island.
I'm going to say hold on, I'lldrink the regular.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
I'll drink this here.
All right, here we go.
Yeah, let's hit it.
There we go.
So, chris, i're going to behigh-fiving.
It's going to be good.
We joined in the hit baby.
There we go Right there withyou.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Don't do this, bro, please.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
I really thought it was going with y'all.
Oh man, I'm so scared.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
All right, all right.
Happy weekend.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Happy weekend, chris.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Yep, I'm saying my business, all right, happy
weekend.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Happy weekend, chris.
Yep, I'm saying no business,all right.
Well, here we go.
That's that game, so let's moveon to the next one.
We're on the roll, y'all Allright.
So next game, get it here.
Oh man, we got Rams-Eagles.
Okay, we think this may or maynot be an island game.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
We're going to find out what's up with this game.
Okay, diego, go ahead and takeit away now.
Man, this, this may, might bethe second most competitive game
of the weekend.
I think I think there's gonnabe a really close game, but I'm
going with the eagles.
Uh, they're the home team.
They got just really talentedoffense and defense.
Just gonna depend on how much,um, how much they run saquon, I
think.
If they try to throw it toomuch, I think they have a chance
of losing.
But the ravens, the rams, arereally dangerous team and but

(46:00):
I'm gonna stick with the eaglesrams are very dangerous team,
but you're not.
You're not going on island,though I'm not gonna go, okay,
close game okay all right.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
What about you, chris ?
You know I'm sticking with theeagles.
Uh, you know, hopefully ajbrown and Jalen Hurts read some
books together and know they canlock in.
That performance left a lot tobe desired.
I don't know if it's because ofthe concussion or him not
having those reps that soundedmessed up.
I really was not trying to likeit.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
I heard how that sounded.
It just came off, funny, Ithink, that him not getting
those reps.
I really was not trying to likeit.
I know I heard how that sounded.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
It just came off funny.
But yeah, we know we're not,we're not, we're not, but I
think that you know him notgetting those reps kind of
affected him.
So hopefully this is just likelet's say, Quan, ball out, you
know, hit the throws that youneed to, and you know, head on
to Detroit, let's see it, let'ssee it, all right.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
Okay, so two Eagles, all right.
Let's see Bree, who you got.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
You on the island, nope.
No, I mean, as good as the Ramsare, they're not enough as a
competitor for the Eagles.
The Eagles are like up here andthe Rams are like down here.
So you know, okay, I mean don'tget it wrong, like they have
good offense, but I just don'tthink it's enough to beat

(47:17):
philadelphia's offense and theirdefense and everything else.
But I love you, matthew sapperoh, yeah, yes, yes, definitely.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Shout out to them.
Shout out to la la strong forsure.
Okay, all right y'all.
Well, hey, you know what?
Let's see.
Let's see what we got here.
See, this hat y'all, la LAStrong, this is for you.
Let me get my shot here.

(47:47):
Come on, pure Green, let me getthe Pure Green Island shot of
the day.
Take this to the head.

(48:07):
Oh boy, oh, I'm ready to go now.
Oh, here we go.
Yes, yeah, la LA strong.
Baby, I'm on an on the island.
See, all y'all missed this.
You've been praising la.
You've been praising the rams.
You've been praising mcveigh.
You did everything but pickthem, but nobody could step over
there and pick the rams.
I'm picking the rams and, hey,if the rams get this one, we're

(48:29):
gonna donate to the cause.
Uh, so just stay tuned for that.
If they end up pulling this out, we'll donate based off of that
.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
You know what would have been great?
I got the Rams.
You picked the Rams to winSuper Bowl 56 back in the day
that's rich for so many people'sblood Okay.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
You got that one.
Yes, diego picked that.
I had the Bengals and youpicked that one.
Yes, diego picked that.
I had the Bengals and youpicked that one.
But I had to ride with the big.
But all this, okay and Brieknows this because I've got
footage and actually, if you goway back before the playoffs
started three years ago, right,when we made all our predictions
, I picked the Bengals to go tothe Super Bowl.

(49:10):
So I actually predicted thatand nobody else predicted that.
Now then, when they made itthere, the other team that I
picked to actually win didn'tmake it and then so I stuck with
them and I went a little toofar with it.
But I did pick the Bengals togo to the Super Bowl that year
when nobody else did.
But, yeah, you got that right,my man, you had the Rams on that
, all right.
So yeah, I'm going with theRams.

(49:30):
This is what's going to give methe undefeated streak this week
, because again, we're startingoff 0-0.
We're not counting wild cardweek and yeah, I'm going to be
in great shape.
So I appreciate that y'all.
Thank you.
Thank you for the gift there.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
All right, it will.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Please let this be his only loss.
Please let this be his onlyloss, y'all all right, well,
let's move on.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Oh man, we got, uh, one more last one that we're
gonna go into and then we'llclose out with brandon here.
Oh man, we got the texans andthe chiefs.
We know, uh, we know diego isprobably hoping that.
Uh, you know, we already calledthe uh detroit reinforcements
in to take care of the one guythat's getting on his nerves
Jayden Daniels, cj is getting onhis nerves even more than that.

(50:18):
So, diego, go ahead and takethis one away, man.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Jayden's one thing, but CJ.
This is why they put CJ at theearliest window, because they
know this isn't even going to bea competition.
Patrick Mahomes, this guy'sgoing to take care of business.
Right like Patrick Mahomes,this guy is going to take care
of business.
And this is going to make myweekend seeing Patrick Mahomes.
Just send CJ home.
It's going to be great.

(50:41):
So I'm going with the Chiefsand same thing blowout over 8
points, 10, 20, yeah, anythingalright, that's your take.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
We know where Diego is Blowout Kansas City Chiefs.
They are an eight-pointfavorite at home.
You know it should be coldthere as well.
The weather could be an issuethere, so Chris you got me.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Nfc Championship is basically the Arrowhead
Invitational.
I don't got too much to say onthat.
Chiefs, go win, they gonna dosomething.
It's their time it's KansasCity, now Baltimore.
Please be Buffalo so that youcan then be Kansas City, so that
my Super Bowl pick can be true,because I feel like you just
cursed my Super Bowl pick andI'm not happy about it, but it's

(51:29):
gonna be okay.
It's gonna be okay, I'm gonnasurvive.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Okay, well, you know what?
I'm going to step in and takethis next one.
You know I am the island manand I've already been on an
island.
Okay, and yeah, I've beenthinking long and hard about
this one.
Let me tell you guys, becausethat Texas defense is looking

(51:52):
good, the Chiefs have beenstruggling all year and, man,
let me tell you, this is justthe game where I could see the
Chiefs falling off and everybodybeing shocked.
I can really really see it.
You know what.
You know what.
You know what man?

(52:13):
No, you know what.
Oh, you know what man.
Let me get my oh, this is theimmunity, immunity shot here.
Let me get this queued up.
Man, I'm going with the KansasCity Chiefs.
All right, I told you I'm notplaying with y'all this week.
I'm not playing.
I'm going 4-0.
I'm going Kansas City Chiefs.
Come on, y'all, stop playing,stop playing, alright.

(52:34):
So okay, no Island, no Islandthis week.
Bray, who you got Close it out.
We know you got the Chiefs.

Speaker 4 (52:40):
Okay, I don't have the Chiefs.
Oh what?
I know what a surprise I'mactually going to have to,
because I think it would be theperfect time for the Chiefs to
lose, because no one wants themin the Super Bowl, no one's
predicting them in the SuperBowl.
It's time the refs, they'regoing to give it up, they're
going to stop glazing PatrickMahomes and they're going to let

(53:01):
them lose.
They're going to let them lose.
And you know what?
There's this dog on Instagramand before I even picked wait,
no, After I picked the dogpredicted the Texans.
So you know what?
I'm believing in that dog andI'm believing in myself, and the
Texans are going to beat theChiefs.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
All right, Bri, hey Bri, you are on the island.
We're going to take the islandshot with you.
We're going to take it here foryou.
All right, here we go.

Speaker 5 (53:34):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 4 (53:41):
But if I'm right, I would be an all-time picker for
this All-time.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
All-time.

Speaker 4 (53:49):
Yeah, bree, you hit on this one.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
you're made You're already good, right, yeah, and
if they lose?

Speaker 1 (53:51):
We got to tell you for sure.
Yeah, bree, you hit on this one, you're made.
You're already good, right,yeah, but if I lose this, one.

Speaker 4 (53:57):
It won't really matter to me because you know
the refs are always on theChiefs' side.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
so oh that's right.
That's right, love it, love it.
Great job y'all.
Okay, will, we can't wait forthese games.
We'll see where we stand andit's going to be an all-timer.
So, brie, we will see you nextweek.
Yes, we'll be back next week,the 24th Friday, here in the
studio.
We got Brandon coming here in aminute, but that'll be our

(54:27):
championship game show, so wecertainly can't wait for that
and dive into that.
But, brie, game show, so wecertainly can't wait for that
and dive into that, but Briwe'll see you next week, alright
, yay, see you next week,alright, see you, okay, alright.
So, man, what y'all think?
Bri man Shout out to the kidman hey, we'll see, we'll see.

(54:47):
Hey again.
I would be, I would besurprised, but I wouldn't be
shocked if that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
I would be very shocked.
I don't know, cj.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
Stroud won this game.
Oh man y'all, Are we forgettingthat this is CJ Stroud?

Speaker 1 (55:07):
We're going to have to call this, isn't Josh Allen?
If this happens, we will haveto call the authorities.
If CJ Stroud beats PatrickMahomes, diego is just going to
be done.
Diego will not come to nextweek's show.
I promise you that Diego willbe absolutely devastated and

(55:31):
done.
He will be done, man, you knowwhat, and thank goodness for you
.
Yeah, there's no school Monday.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
I wouldn't show up.
If that happened, I wouldn'tshow up.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Yeah, I'm sorry, man, that's.
I actually don't want it tohappen for you.
I really wouldn't want theChiefs to win because I'm like,
dude, it's not going to happen.
Dude, this is going so horribly.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
I just can't see it.
I can't see it.
Cj walking up there, that'sgoing to be great, that's going
to be great.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
All right, y'all.
Well.
Look, let's bring in our man.
Let's bring in our guy who'sbeen helping us out.
Let's bring our guy, Brandon,on here.
What's up?
B?

Speaker 5 (56:17):
What on here?
What's up b?
What's up?

Speaker 1 (56:18):
everybody.
Hey, how you doing man.
Oh, I like the shirt manlooking good.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, love that,love that rocking the pickle
pros man.
So, uh, yeah, kind of been likeI said, we can't see all the
comments as they come.
We see some kind of glass oreye here, but we know you've
been, uh, you know, commentingand giving your.
But let's officially get yourtake on these four games here.
So let's go into the same.
Let's see pattern that we'vegot.

(56:39):
And, joe, you can just keep itwhere it is.
As a matter of fact, you caneven go to the logo.
That's fine.
So, brandon, let's seeCommanders, lions, who you got.

Speaker 5 (56:51):
I have the Lions winning by double digits.
But Jay Diels is a franchisequarterback.
I know like a lot of people saylike hey, he's been lucky with
these comeback wins.
But I was like I don't thinkthat's look, I think that's
straight skill, because it'seasy.
It's easy to get down twopositions and be like, yeah,

(57:14):
let's throw in the top, but forhim to be like, no, let's win
this game.
It takes a lot especially froma rookie quarterback like that
too, to see for a teammate tolook at your rookie quarterback
and knowing he's not panicking.
So it's like, well, if he's notpanicking, why are we panicking
?
So, like I do have, likethey'll win by, like I'll say,

(57:39):
by 10 points.
But I can see, you know, I cansee Washington put up a fight
Like it's not going to be ablowout.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, all right.
Yep, you got the lines.
You can see that and we'll bedefinitely looking for that one
there.
So next one we've got Ravens,ravens and Bill.
I'm really excited to hear yourtake on this one Ravens, bill.
So we're split right, becauseme and my man, chris, we're
joined at the hip.
We got the Ravens, we got theRavens.

(58:10):
Oh, excuse me Losing my voice,I'm so choked up over this.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
I'm so happy to be joined by my guy.

Speaker 1 (58:17):
I'm going to be choked up for another reason,
but Chris and I'm sorry, Diegoand Bree they've got the bill,
so why don't you break the tie,Brandon?

Speaker 5 (58:25):
I got Buffalo.
It's because, listen, it takesa special human being to win in
Buffalo.
Like, yeah, it's Joe.
And then it's Patrick MahomesBecause, like one, because this

(58:50):
is by far the coldest game ofall the division round games.
Yeah, so, and like, if anythingbelow 32, you're going to have
to run the ball Right.
So it's going to be a lot ofDerrick Henry, it's going to be
a lot of James Cook in this game, cooking this game.

(59:11):
So it's like, who can Whatever,whichever offensive line can
protect the quarterback andwhich offensive line can create
enough holes for the runningback, will win this game.
I try, I choose.
Now, josh's running ability iswhat really scares me, because

(59:33):
it's like, if you're a Baltimoredefense, you got almost 200.
It's like, well, they got toworry about Derrick Henry, it's
like.
But it's like, if you'reBaltimore, it's like y'all got
to worry about Josh Allenrunning 240 pounds and he a
quarterback.
So there's that.

(59:55):
Then it's like, you know,ravens defense come and go, then
they gotta make some big like.
They gotta make some plays,like Zay I know Zay Flowers
would be back the receiversgotta make some plays, because
what you cannot do is put Lamarin a third and long situation

(01:00:16):
and then you got Buffalo fansgoing as loud, then their
defense is better than peoplewho advertise them to be before
a season.
So it could either be a tightdown to the wire game or it
could get out of hand real quick.
So therefore I got Buffalowinning.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
Okay, okay, you got Buffalo on that.
So you got the Lions Buffalo.
Love that.
Okay, rams Eagles, you got onthis one.

Speaker 5 (01:00:48):
Eagles in the close one because obviously it depends
on the play calling and a closeone because obviously it
depends on the play calling.
If Eagles give it to Saquon forabout 15, 20 times, it's like
okay, they're going to win thisgame.
If it's less than that, ramshave a shot of pulling off the
upset.
Alright, alright.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
We're going to see.
And then the last one my man,Brandon Texans, Tex're going to
see.
And then the last one my man,Brandon Texans, Texans and
Chiefs Wow, who do you?
Oh, and you know what?
There's a okay.
Well, yeah, we're going to getto that, because Erica's asking
what do you think aboutBreonna's pick of the Texans?
But, yeah, just give us yourtake on this Breonna.

Speaker 5 (01:01:28):
It's not crazy.
I'm going with the Chiefs.
I want it to be a close game.
Honestly I want it to be aclose game.
Yeah, I know like Chiefshaven't looked, you know, all
impressed all season long butthey found a way to win.
Yeah, so it's going to be likein the 20s, like you know, 20,

(01:01:50):
maybe like 27, 24, somethinglike that.
Okay so, but it's not crazy,like because obviously the
Texans defense is coming offRight.
You know Texans coming off animpressive win at home Defense
came through with four takeaways.
Joe Mixon did his thingoffensively, nico kind of did
his thing offensively.
So, like, as long as, like theTays don't beat themselves and

(01:02:15):
keep it close, like they got ashot Right, like I got Kansas
City winning.
And for us, like CJ, like has itbeen kind of a slump this year.
Absolutely First year he tookthe world by storm.
Sixth year it was a slump.
First year he took the world bystorm.

(01:02:36):
Second year it was a slump.
I think third year you mighthear.
Mvp consideration Losing TaintDale and Stephon Diggs hurts,
yeah for sure, because you couldkind of see them.
They was really trying to likein the preseason, they was
really trying to gel with CJ andseeing CJ's reaction to losing

(01:02:59):
Tank Dale and losing StephonDiggs, it kind of hurt him a
little bit because he's like man, this was our year, we was
going to take off and, you know,really turn into an actual
contender.
So only for them to like losethose two in the middle of the
season.
It kind of like took a stepback for them.

(01:03:20):
So like, even though, like,even though they lose this
weekend, but I say by the nextseason, like I can see the
Texans being like top three inthe AFC next year.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
Okay, they build, they get healthy and build
around.
Now the O-line will beinteresting because this year I
don't remember the O-line beingan issue last year, but this
year it's been a big issue and Idon't know of many changes on
the line.
But we'll see what happensthere.
But, okay, all right, brandon.

(01:03:55):
Well, no, we'll definitely be,man, we can't wait.
Can't wait for these.
So you got Lions, bills, eaglesand Chiefs, okay, all right, so
we'll be looking out.
Well, brandon, man, weappreciate you, appreciate
everything and also appreciateeverything behind the scenes.
We got a lot of uh work to do,so I'll be getting with you, uh,

(01:04:17):
as we prepare for a lot of ourfuture shows.
So, thank you, man, weappreciate you keeping us
informed and keeping us honest.
All right, thank you, my man.
All right, oh, cool, that isthe one and only brandon.
So love him.
Fan favorite.
All right, man.
Well, we're gonna get into it.
Yeah, I again, bree's pick isnot crazy.
For a while I was leaning, Iwas thinking about Texans, I was

(01:04:41):
close, I was close on that, butI didn't quite go there.
But hey, bree is seeingsomething.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
You picked up a set of the Ravens.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
You know you could swap picks, no no, no, no, I've
got to go with the favoriteRavens in this game.
No, like I said, I am on aquest to go undefeated.
This week I got to show y'allwhat's up, so I had no choice
but to go with the three-timeMVP.
There's no way the three-timeMVP is going to lose in the

(01:05:11):
divisional round.
Come on, that's just not goingto happen.
So yeah, I'm with you, my man,I got you.
I got you, Don't even worryabout it, I got you.
All right, pray for me, bro.
Pray for me.
Well, hey, we appreciateeverybody.
Thank you for the love andsupport.
We're going to go ahead and geton out of here in a minute, but

(01:05:32):
again, check us out.
Next week same time, friday, 7pm Eastern.
It will be the championshipround, where we are down to the
final four teams to determinewho's going to go to the Super
Bowl, and then two weeks afterthat, on Saturday February 8th,
we will be at King's.
It's going to be such a fireshow y'all.

(01:05:52):
So we're going to be rollingout.
You will have to purchasetickets for that show.
There's going to be food.
We're going to be back in theprivate Royal Room VIP area.
We'll have our own privatebowling lanes.
People will be bowling throughthe show.
Food throughout, drink, tickets, all types of stuff.
It's going to be phenomenal.
We'll get you all those detailsin a minute on social media.

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But you got to get a ticket inorder to come and attend,
because it's going to be fire.
We're going to have some fireguests too.
So the guests are going to beannounced soon, but we only have
a limited amount of spotsbecause we're keeping it
exclusive.
So get your ticket in thatfirst week, because if not,
there's a good chance.
You're not going to be able tocome and you're going to be very
sad when you find out who'sgoing to be there and you don't

(01:06:34):
have a ticket.
So just saying, you know what Imean, alright, alright, y'all.
Well, yo, let's go ahead andsign out.
We will see y'all next time.
Until then, pick'em Pros,pick'em Pros, alright, later.
See you next week.
Enjoy the games.
We'll be right back.

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