September 8, 2022 • 39 mins
Joe Flacco gets to start off the season for the Jets, but what happened to Zach Wilson? The guys make their official predictions for the NFL Season and they preview the Bills at Rams on Over/Unders.
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should be. So the uh, you know, the New York Jets,
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I mean, they just can't catch a break, you know,
like they're trying to get ready for a season, and
of course the off season starts with Tyree Hill telling them,
you know, I don't want to go to you guys.
I'd rather stay in the division and go to the
Miami Dolphins. So it just disrespects the Jets organization, you know.
Then you've got Brady Quinn talking about them winning one
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game in their first two months of the season and
he didn't tell any lies. That's probably a pretty accurate
breakdown of their No. I thought you're the most notable me.
You're the only one I care about. Tell you that
it's called support. You know, good buddy, And uh, you
got the Jets thinking they're gonna, you know, we're gonna
prove everybody wrong. And then all of a sudden, Zack
Wilson gets injured. They get some good news because it's
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not a devastating non contact injury like a lot of
people initially thought in their preseason debut, and you're just wondering,
is he gonna be available? Even Robert Sali said there's
there's some hope. There's there's a possibility he could be
available week one, coming up on Sunday as they take
on the Baltimore Ravens, only to find out that's not
the case. It's gonna be Joe Flacco. But Robert Sali
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spoke about the season on Zach Wilson yesterday with the media.
There was always that hope, you guys know me, there's
always that hope. But after all the information gathering, Uh,
it's just not worth the risk. He hasn't had a
step back. He looks fantastic. He still looks good, he
feels good, and you guys will see him. He's not
walking with a limp or anything. But just gathering all
the informations and talking to their doctors along with ours.
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We're just gonna end until Pittsburgh the earliest. He's gonna
be available as Pittsburgh just from everything we gathered over
the last couple of days. Uh, not gonna change. Sure,
I'm always gonna leave that door open. You guys know me.
I'm the internal optimist. But we are going to make
sure that both mind and body are pent, make sure
we do right by him, and we feel like talking
to the doctors and everyone, it's going to be that
Pittsburgh week alright. So so basically we're gonna get Joe
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Flacco the first three weeks at least of the season, alright.
So fired up Joe Flacco super Bowl champion starts with
his former team, the Ravens, and then runs through the
a f C North Gauntlet for the New York Jets
as they get the Browns and Bengals after that with
the Steelers a week four. All right, let's go Joe
Flacco time. Who's fired up about it? I am? I
mean I think it gives them actually a better chance. Yeah,
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like you got a veteran guy in there with an
improved roster. He's gonna get the ball out of his
hand quick. You're not gonna see some of those issues
that you're maybe still trying to iron out with Zack
Wilson or see if he's capable of. I just I
think it gives them a better chance. I really do. So.
I'm a little more optimistic now than I was before
um and and and we'll see how it goes. I
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do think it's gonna be interesting if the Jets get
off to a good start and Zach Wilson's healthy come
week four. What do you do if they're four oh
three and one. I'm just I'm throwing that out there,
you know, I don't I don't know that. I think
you gotta strike on me on that one, because I
definitely was looking at that one. I don't want to
swing at it. Like it's kind of like, if Joe
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Flacco is doing well, when Zach Wilson comes back healthy,
there is no reason why I would not stick with
Joe Flacco. And I don't care that he's a high
draft pick. Zach Wilson was a high draft pick for
us for the simple fact that if this team is
is having success. They have not had enough success over
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the last however long for me to disrupt any amount
of success that we're having. Two game winning streak, three
game winning street. If you're on two three game winning street,
I am not sitting. I'm not sitting the guy out
that's winning. I'm not unless they're ugly, ugly, ugly ass wins.
If they're ugly wins where you're like, you know what,
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it's our defense that's carrying us. Our running game is
is doing well, it's suffice, and it's very limited in
terms of what we're doing in the passing game, you know,
or he's taken a lot of sacks, or he's not
you know, careful enough with the ball. I could see
those elements being the reason why you bring Zach Wilson
in if they're winning in spite of but if Joe
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Flacco is the reason, the main reason that they're winning games.
When Zack Wilson comes back, I don't think there's any
way you can take him out, especially in a tough
a f C when when everybody's battling for you know,
a playoff spot. If they because if you just look
at it, so they get the Ravens at home, and
you know, at least it's a home game, and you
would figure, okay, well, if there was a chance you
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were going to get the Ravens, knowing you're a significantly
worst team than they are, that's the expectation. It would
be Week one at home. And then you're at the
Browns who were playing with the backup quarterback. And then
you get the Bengals at home. God forbid. They go
three and ow and Zach Wilson knocks on the door
and the trainers say he's ready to go week four.
I'm not. I'm not going to him. I'd rather just
roll with Flacco, just keep having just keep keep getting
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any more healthy. We need an extra credit healthy. I
do appreciate Robert Sala's demeanor and how he talks about
you know, as players into the media and and you know,
we want you know, both mind and body. I was like,
he is a new age head coach, Like I have
never heard a head coach at the end of l
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give one iota about the player's mind and body and
say that publicly in regards to them coming back from
an injury, Like I've never heard that before in my life.
So kudos to Robert solom Man. He's he's like an
advanced head coach, Like, I don't know that we are
ready as a society to absorb what Robert Salah is
throwing out to us at this point. So you didn't
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have but you guys didn't have a coach when you
were trying to come back from injury. Say yeah, but
how are you mentally right now? Things have changed? You
don't have anybody really do that honestly, anybody at all,
not not anyone at all. How is your mental health?
Please you say that? Let me tell you something. In
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our day, if you if that was talked about, that's
the beginning of the end for you, unless you're unless
you're somebody that is special. But it's like, oh yeah,
my mental health is not it's not good right now.
They be didn't looked at you like you said what
say what? Say that again? Yeah, we're gonna have to
call him into the that that that that medical staff
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would have went to the head coach to the GM
and been like, yeah, uh we got a guy that
saying he's got mental health issues, Like well who is he? Okay,
We're don't have to talk through this one. Don't nobody
want nobody with that. That was not a thing at all.
So yeah, I mean, can you can you? Can you?
I mean you've had injuries before? Q. How many? How
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many of the people who were rehabbing you in the
in the training room asked you about your mental health? Oh,
that was not even a topic of conversation, you know.
It was more like than you ready to go? It
was more like it, I mean the question and like,
I'm not trying to fault people in the past for
our trade of thought with all that. Like, I mean,
my mom used to tell me when I was young,
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She's like, if your ass is hurt, they better have
to drag you off the field. And I don't, okay,
I mean that's the mentality that she grew up with
with two brothers who played college ball. So from a
very young age, like, it was the old model of
are you hurt or are you injured? And none of
that had to do with your mental health. It was
about how you felt physically and trying to make sure.
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As a young kid you understood that you might be
in pain, but if you can still play, you go
out there and play. Now if you're incapable of it
because of whatever, you know, it hurts so bad or
the injuries so bad, you're not gonna play. And so
that was my mentality coming up. And I think that's
probably a lot of mentality of trainers and coaches and
everything else, you know. And I think it's it's a
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it's a symptom of we assume that guys have the
mindset of someone who's willing to push through and is
going to kind of stabilize themselves. So like, get yourself.
I look at it. I look at it more like
it's football. Like I think most people assume if you're
playing football, you have a certain mindset as it is, right,
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Like you're not a track guy, you know, I'm my
hamshick feels a little tight and not gonna go today.
Like that's not football, you know, Like that's I'm not
trying to rag on track guys, but like Lavarn knows
what I'm talking about. Like you get guys who who
if they're not they don't want to go Like that
wasn't that didn't have any area in in football. Um
And and so I just look, we're getting off on
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a tangent on something that I'm just trying to, you know,
shed light on. But in all seriousness. It is kind
of I guess, refreshing. It's one of the reasons why
I think Robert Salas as viewed as, you know, one
of those kind of up and coming guys. Now who's
a head coach, and I know things haven't worked out,
but I think he's gonna have a long leash in
New York even if this year doesn't work outs, as
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they get the roster better and they continue to build
the Jets back up. I mean, look, that being said,
it's great that he's worried about mental health if they
if they have a winning record come Week four and
Joe Flacco is playing well, he's gonna be worrying about
Zach Wilson's mental health. Yeah, tough balls. I don't know,
like I mean, he's because look, I know that he
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was hired there and it's only a year too, but
you know, last year didn't go great. I mean, they
won four games, so he's he's looking at it thinking,
I mean, maybe Zach Wilson might not be the guy,
but in the in the short term, if Joe Flacco
is the better answer for us. I also find a
little bit odd that he went from there's a possibility
plays week one two, Now he's going to be out
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till week four, Like, how do you how do you
make that jump after an evaluation? But say that, you know,
he looks good, there's no limp, there's no anything. How
do you go from one? Thematic advantage? You know, they
want to push this off as long as possible, and
so they it gives Baltimore a little less time to
go prepare for a guy they're very, very familiar with.
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But I'm sure, I mean, these these scouting departments and
the coaching staffs, everything you're able to do so fast.
It's it's not hard to prepare for another guy. I mean,
I'll pull back the curtain. You know, there's there's all
sorts of different resources to coaching staffs now and and
computer systems like for example, Pro Football Focus, which tends
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to be one of the more you know, well known
out there. And one of the reasons why they've been
so successful at expanding and growing is they've taken out
a lot of the burdensome work that some Lackey had
to do within the organization of watching every tape and
then manually inputting what front, what coverage, what personnel was
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it a Blitz wasn't it, and then doing all of that,
like they're the ones that are now you're paying for
a service to do it, and so you can break
down and sort and find so much faster. So like
there's like this Pro Football Focus Ultimate, which is like
what they call God Mode, where you can basically look
up anything you want in the snap of a finger.
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And so if you want to say, hey, how does
Joe Flacco hand overs the blitz? I could find out
all his blitz coverages or excuse all his Blitz cut
ups um. Throughout the entire time Pro Football Focus has
been tracking this stuff, so that that's just one company
that's doing it. There's others out there doing it, but
it's it's it's not like it used to be where
you literally had some poor guy who sat in a
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dark room who literally used to light a candle and
someone would have to bring him food and he would
just be in there all day and night inputting in
different cut ups offensively, defensively. And that guy as soon
as he get done and he would, you know, give
his input to the coaching staff and everything else, he
starts right back around the next team. I mean, can
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we come up with a better name than Lackey. I
mean when you call him researcher, I mean intern. I
mean I think Lackey's a little bit disrespectful. To be honest,
I wish we could say the real thing. And by
the way, that's the guy you want to party with
once he gets out of his cave. And yeah, that's
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he's what he's watching, what he's seeing. He'll give you
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that when you roll up to the bar before anything arrives,
he gets a shot just because he needs something as
a baseline. That got you. He pulls up right away. Shot.
I gotta have a baseline. Yeah, we're not investing around here.
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the ha ti iraq dot com studios. Later on this hour,
we are going to have some over unders on Thursday
Night football coming up later on, but it is you know,
it's about that time that we make our season predictions. Now,
we previewed each division. We went team by team about
a month ago but we've got to make our official picks,
our official predictions on the NFL season, which means our
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division winners are wild cards, are super Bowl picks. So
we have the live studio band, the NFL on Fox
band was kind enough to join us here this early
in the morning. I mean everybody's socially distance. I mean
they sound great. It sounds just like a recording. Sometimes
you go see a band, they don't sound like they
do on the recording when they do live. I mean,
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this band here sounds just like they do on the recording.
So here we go. Who wants to go first? Who
wants to give out their picks division wild card in
the a f C and then give out their a
f C champion? Who wants to go first? All right,
I can do this, I can. I can throw my hat.
I'm ready. I'm gonna start off with the a f
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C because I think the a f C is gonna
be the most exciting the season. A lot of great, young,
talented quarterbacks. Being the number one overall seed. It sounds
a little shocky, but I have a hard time believe
it's not gonna be the case. The Buffalo Bills, they
have a deep talented roster, a defense that, yes, it
may have let them down and allowed you know, Kansas
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City to come back in the game at times, but
you know, bottom line, as doesn't matter. New season, New
Buffalo Bills. They get the boy number one overall seed.
I at the Baltimore Ravens win the a f C North,
a hot contested battle with the Cincinnati Bengals who won
the a f C Championship a year ago. But Lamar
Jackson the Ravens, they don't have any problems winning the
regular season, it's just been the postseason. Uh. Following that up,
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I get Kansas City winning the a f C West.
I know a lot of people are hot on the
l A Chargers. Some people think maybe it's the Raiders
who will be able to climb up and win the division.
I still think it's the Chiefs. I've got to see
them not do it to believe otherwise. And then we've
got the Colts winning the a f C South of
the addition of Matt Ryan potentially an MVP candidate in
Jonathan Taylor and it really stingy defense. And to fill
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out the wild card, Cincinnati at the five seed. I
got Denver representing the f C West, and then with
my last spot in the n f C the l
A Chargers. So three teams from the a f C
West make it. I do have a bullet prediction, but
I'll get to that later. In the NFC and my
won number one overall seeds, the Green Bay Packers, I
got them taken over obviously the NFC North at number two,
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I got the Tampa Bay Bucks. A lot of people
are fading them, expecting to fall apart. I don't see
that happening. I got the l H excuse me, l
A Rams winning the NFC West, which you know that's
gonna be another very competitive division. It's hard sometimes for
this super winning teams not to get that Super Bowl hangover.
I think they'll be just fine. I got the Dallas
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Cowboys winning the NFC East Minnesota as my first wild
card team, followed by Arizona and finally the New Orleans
Ain't to round out my playoff picture. How about that?
All right? Sticks? You ready to go? You want me
to fire off? I'm not doing all that. What do
you mean? You just like a whole lot you just hey,
just give out a division winner, three wild cards and
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a Super Bowl pick. I'm taking a lot. I don't
want to give all that analysis. I'm just gonna give
you my picks. Okay, the picks the Ravens. The Ravens
are going that's my team and go to the Super
Bowl out today, Like I think I go to win
the AFC North. It's way back to back years for you.
If I'm not mistaken, doubling down. I'm doubling down. You
know why. I had them last year too. They were
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snaked then and I thought that it was going to
be their year to take a step forward. Um. They
got the kid out of out of Notre Dame at
the at the safety's position. I think that's how happed it.
He's I think he's going to be a fine UM,
a fine addition to that team. It's the perfect team
for him to have gone to. You know. So anyway,
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I like, I like the Ravens this year. UM to
go that think they're gonna win the North. Um, I
do believe that. That my wild card. And I know
it sounds crazy, but I think the wild card is
going to be uh the Pittsburgh Steelers in the a
f C. UM it's two wild cards, right, three three
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rold cards. So I'm gonna go with the the the
l A Chargers on on three or number two, and
that I'm thinking it might be the Las Vegas Raiders
that are the third wild card. UM. I do believe
that the Kansas City Chiefs win the a f C West. Uh,
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But I don't. I just don't think they're the same
team that they've been in the past. So I'll be
interested to see if there if there is good is
advertised again, if they come on, or if if they're
just kind of a team that used to be the
scariest team in the National Football League. UM. As far
as with with the the a f C South, UM, yeah,
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I think Tennessee is gonna win it. I think Tennessee
has uh the d NA. You know, they have shown
that they are the team to beat. It'll be interesting
to see if Malik Willis makes an appearance this year.
That's not really being discussed or talked about, and maybe
it's not something to talk about, but one way or
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the other, I do think Malik Willis is the one
to take them into the next level of having an
opportunity to go for being a more competitive team in
the playoffs. But I think they're gonna win that that division.
I think the Colts are a fine team, but I
just I'm not sold on Matt Ryan. I just got
to see him be able to do it for an
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entire season. Uh, let's see the Bills. That's an easy one.
That's an easy one. I mean that we can move
on from that. Um. As far as the NFC South,
I'm going with I'm I'm I'm feeling this. I've been saying.
It's kind of a hunch. I think New Orleans is
going to get it. I think New Orleans is going
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to get the NFC South and and Tampa Bay will
be one of those wild card teams. So out of
the NFC wild card teams, it's going to be Arizona,
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and possibly the Minnesota Vikings. I
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got Green Bay winning the NFC North. I have the
Rams winning the NFC West, and I think that's I
think I think that's it. Isn't that it? Do? We
need to go? All right? So for the Super Bowl,
I think it's going to be the Ravens and in
Green Bay they the Ravens and green I think the
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Ravens will pull it out. And we do need your
NFC East. Pick, I know you're going to NFC East.
I did selectively forget about that. I thought it's kind
of funny that everybody is jumping off of the Alas bandwagon. Lad,
I've been listening to all the world we love used
all of our you know, the pundits out that I've
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been telling everybody, I'm not high on them, and and
it's it's definitely honestly speaking, I don't Again, I don't
have them as a wild car team. I didn't name
them as a wild car team. And they're not winning
the NFC East. I think that is going to go
to the Philadelphia Eagles, and I think that the Washington
Commandos will actually finished second in the NFC East. How
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about it look at that so so basically Mike McCarthy's
getting fired according to I mean, if that's what it's
going to lead to, then then he's probably a dead
man walking. Um. So I've got uh starting in the
a f C. I got the Bills winning the East.
That seems pretty easy. I think the race for second
is gonna be interesting there. But I got Buffalo being
the only team out of the a f C East
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making the playoffs. I've got the Chargers winning the West,
I've got the Baltimore Ravens winning the a f C North,
and I've got the Indianapolis Colts winning the a f
C South. As Brady pointed out, bold prediction on the
on the Indianapolis Colts, who are a favorite in that division,
to go ahead and take care of business there. I
think Matt Ryan solidifies the quarterback position, and they're they're
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really talented. At some point you think they would get
through and at least, you know, maybe want a playoff
game here eventually. As far as the wild card goes,
I got Cincinnati, Kansas City, and Las Vegas is my
wild card teams that I mean. I love Russell Wilson
in Denver. That seems fun, but something about it, I
just I like what the Raiders have done. I feel
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like there's a direction there that they're heading, and I
think Derek Carr, Derek Carr is gonna have a monster
year with Damante Adams. So I leaned Raiders over Broncos.
As far as picking up that final wild card, spotting
the Russell Wilson, yeah, I mean, I'm not trying to
be disrespectful here. I mean, there are reports that Russell
Wilson is on my fantasy team. I know you guys
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are asking for the show. There's some reports about that.
But in the end FC, I've got the Dallas Cowboys
winning the East. I would come on, They're way too
much talent, way too much money invested. Figure it out,
start putting some decent games together. If you're Dak Prescott
and company, I just think they're they're the most talented
team in the divisions. And Philly makes it close, but
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I still give the edge to Dallas there. I'm gonna
have Dallas winning the East. I've got the Arizona Cardinals
winning the NFC West. I think this is a year
that they make a jump. I just some about the Rams.
I don't trust some of the reports on Stafford. There's
another one that came out that we can get into
that that popped up in the Twitter feed a few
moments ago. I just I don't trust some of the
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reporting on this. I got the Packers winning the NFC North. Obviously,
Tampa Bay I think is going to win the South.
There's still the best team in that division. Despite whatever
Tom Brady's marital situation is that everybody gives a rip
about and then for my wild card teams, I do
have the Rams picking up a wild card spot. I've
also got the Saints picking up a wild card spot.
And maybe I'm crazy and maybe this shows a lot
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higher on the vikings than anybody else, but I think
that pairing of O'Connell and Kirk Cousins is gonna make
a lot of sense. Justin Jefferson, maybe the yeah yeah
coach that likes him just trying to assault him on
the sidelines, I think, also picks up the the final
wild card spot there in the NFC. And then my
Super Bowl, I got the Packers beating the l A Chargers.
(27:22):
I think justin Herbert and company, I get all the
way to the Super Bowl, but I got Green Bay
winning it all and Aaron Rodgers pissing off a lot
of people. By the way, I didn't give you my
Super Bowl pick. I've got Kansas City taken on Green
Bay and green Bay winning it I think this is
the Green Bay's best defense since the last time they
won a Super Bowl. So that's that's how I've got
this whole thing playing out. Um but yeah, that may
(27:44):
uh that would be Could you imagine Green Bay Kansas
City and the super Bowl. It doesn't get much better
than that. As far as quarterback play, a Rod is
going for m v P number three. Still, I've got
an outside the box one because there's some chalky picks
like Josh Allen's the favorite to win it. You could
go Mahomes. I think he's gonna surprise people this year,
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or Rogers, but no one's ever won it three years
in a row. I believe. I actually think Joe Burrow.
I think Joe Burrow is gonna put up on a
lot of stats this year. He's obviously gonna be in
contention for the division. I think the only thing that
worries me is I've got Baltimore winning the division. So
could you give a guy an MVP Award at quarterback
if he doesn't win the division? So stats have to
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be that much better than everyone else, and I think
they will be. I'm not so sure their defense has
made the steps or strides they need to to not
put him in constant shootouts. And they've got between Tee
Higgins and Jamaar Chase and Teller Boyd, they've got the weapons.
So I I actually have a and then that and
his odds to are pretty favorable if you're looking at
someone outside of the Chalky three that we all look at.
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By the way, ball Washer of Green Bay Lead the
Lab was quick to point out that Brett fav won
the MVP three years in a row from nine seven
was the three in a row, and so he was
the only one then, because I was trying to look
through that. I know we've had a lot of twin rows.
We haven't at three in a rows. You're such a
bread fave, kiss ass. It's unbelievable. Hey, just you know,
checking the stets, I think he did tie one of
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those years, though, you know, That's what I'm saying is
we have outright winner for that. It's so good when
Lead the Lap pools it together and gets that information
out there so quickly. By the way, you know, he
tied it with Barry Sanders, by the way, which if
you actually look at every other award that year, Barry
Sanders want it. There was you know, whatever else was
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Sporting News or pf W a UM which the Pro
Football Writers Association it Barry Sanders won it that year.
So no offense, I'm gonna say, I know Far want
it technically, but Far in the other two years he
won the m v P, won all the other awards
like Sanders did. So I'm just saying, yeah, why don't
you put that new cheesehead and smoke it? Huh? How
does that feel? So there it is, there's our our
(29:55):
super Bowl pig. So we so for the Super Bowl,
we all have green Bay, the cheese it by the way,
the far Fest, some other things to worry about. Right now,
Hey man, what the hell is that? But that that's
that's looking worse and worse every week when more details
come out. Yeah, in Mississippi with the vessel state funds. Yeah,
(30:15):
I just felt like there's a lot of people involved. Yeah,
very and now the FBI is investigating, and I think
there's some stuff that was recorded, some some back and forth. Yeah,
it's not not looking great there. But but we do
all have I think, if I'm not mistake in green Bay,
do you have green Bay winning the Super Bowl? LaVar
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if Baltimore, which is my pick, makes it that far,
I just think they take that next step. Yeah. So
so two of the three of us have green Bay
win in the Super Bowl. Well, we all have them
going to the Super Bowl, which means the lines are
gonna win that Divisionally, no one mentioned the Miami Dolphins.
It's I think they're a dark horse. Like they're definitely
(31:00):
a dark horse. The problem is you're at the A
s C West and I think you're gonna have two
teams maybe three in I'm eliminating Cleveland because they're not
gonna have Watson, But between Cincinnati, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh, it's
just it's stiff competition I think for wild card spots.
And I I guess my bold prediction for the year
will be this, and it is mathematically possible. I went
through this yesterday. All four teams from the f C
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West make it if you If there's a bold prediction
to make, I'm gonna make that prediction that all four
teams in the A f C West make the playoffs.
That man, that would be wild Yeah and uh and
there would be some rematches, I'm sure, and and that
would all play out, so a third time meeting for
some of those teams, So it'd be awesome. It is
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Brady was adding to that, was that was really well done. Man,
(32:54):
did that blended in perfectly? Man sticks right there. For
a second. I was like it was just like a
makes version. This is dope. I'll tell you what, Man, LeVar,
we all need like some time in the studio together.
I think we've got some sort of creative stuff. I
don't know if it's good, but it sounds good for
a minute, I think we could do it. Man. Yeah,
I just I don't really have any musical talents. I
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don't even I barely have a voice right now. So
that's all right, I'll walk you through. It's hard. I mean,
what is it hard to play? The bass is a
hard or drums? Bass? Bass is probably the easiest because
the bass you're just following the drums. It's the rhythm section.
The drums is the hardest because you gotta keep time.
The bass you just follow the drums. It's the easier version,
(33:36):
and you're gonna sandwich between the guitar and the drums.
So maybe the bass was the tambourine guy, you know. Yeah,
although you could play like one or two chords on
the basse, just play like the top or you know,
second string. I mean that's usually what a lot of
punk bands do. That's why you know you can make
that work. You know, Well, we'll build around it. It's
(33:57):
all right, system bass players, nothing wrong with that, yep?
All right. Coming up top of next hour here from
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it's still happening why nobody can seem to figure it out.
But we do have at least some sort of an
(34:17):
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It's over under. Lead the lap. What do we got got?
Game one of the NFL's what we got? Let's go
(35:00):
right and with that game, we start with the point
total at fifty two over under. Mmm, I'm gonna say
the under. I think this game ends up being a
little lower scoring than people think. Both you know, star
players on defense for the Rams, one of the deeper
defenses for the Bills. I got the under. I'll go
with the over, I keep going with the under, and
(35:22):
I keep losing with the over. Here, it's really my reasoning.
I'm gonna take the under as well too. You know,
I feel like there's gonna be a feeling out process,
you know, in this game. Yeah, and there could be
some you know, some exhaustion, maybe a little bit of fatigue,
you know, maybe trying to run the football, establish a
(35:44):
run game. I'm yeah, see back over under on passing
and rushing yards for Josh Allen three sixteen and a
half over over, I mean, Joe's are you sure you
(36:06):
don't want to calculate this a little bit more passing
in rushing yards over? Well? Okay, I mean it is
game hundred yards rushing and I'll put this on. I'm
gonna say under. You guys both said over right, ok Yeah,
I'm gonna stay on listen the calculation offensive coordinator. The
calculations never lie. So let's go ahead and check this.
(36:29):
Sure I forgot my password along? Oh yeah, I'm gonna
take the overly, alright, I got the under. Interesting to
note that he is uh to seventy seven and a
half passing yards on DraftKings. What would your rushing yards
(36:50):
he can't pick up for y Yeah, exactly, pick up
forty yards rushing. He might get to all the yardage
in passing. Well, who is there is? Is Devin Singletary.
They're starting running back. Yeah, it could be kind of
by committed. Yeah, yeah, I got a year offensively, he's
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good man good take the overly? Will Aaron Donald get
a seck on Jesh Josh Allen sex by Aaron Donald
in the game at a half? I'm gonna say yes.
I mean, I know they've got a game plan against him,
but he's a freak. I ain't ben against him. Yeah,
I must say the same. I'm gonna take the over.
(37:35):
I mean, he's swinging that helmet around. Maybe he's a
little bit you know, maybe he's thinking I thought he
faced no repercussions for that. Yeah, well, look, by the way,
didn't he have two helmets? Didn't he have like like
he had two different he did the Destroyer? Can we
(37:55):
get him versus Quentin Nelson in a big time game? Please,
for the love of God, Aaron Donald versus It's too bad,
um Idly, I'm gonna take the over. I'm wouna take
that over. First touchdown in the game eight minutes. Over under,
oh under under? Yeah, oh oh take the over. Feeling
(38:24):
out process. That's what the calculation says. Over total touchdowns
in the game five and a half. Take over, Um,
I would take the under. I changed my mind. It's
gonna got fat half under. You can't change your mind.
(38:49):
Leave he want to change his mind to take my
hand off of the pe. He'd change his mind, but
he didn't take the over on the point total. So
he's hedging his bets. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna take uh,
let take the under. Ley, I'm gonna go with the
under on that. I think I think we're gonna get
We'll get some field goals, so I'm not sure we're
gonna get that many touchdowns, not in this game. So
there it is another edition of over unders as we
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(01:54):
I mean, they just can't catch a break, you know,
like they're trying to get ready for a season, and
of course the off season starts with Tyree Hill telling them,
you know, I don't want to go to you guys.
I'd rather stay in the division and go to the
Miami Dolphins. So it just disrespects the Jets organization, you know.
Then you've got Brady Quinn talking about them winning one
(02:14):
game in their first two months of the season and
he didn't tell any lies. That's probably a pretty accurate
breakdown of their No. I thought you're the most notable me.
You're the only one I care about. Tell you that
it's called support. You know, good buddy, And uh, you
got the Jets thinking they're gonna, you know, we're gonna
prove everybody wrong. And then all of a sudden, Zack
Wilson gets injured. They get some good news because it's
(02:37):
not a devastating non contact injury like a lot of
people initially thought in their preseason debut, and you're just wondering,
is he gonna be available? Even Robert Sali said there's
there's some hope. There's there's a possibility he could be
available week one, coming up on Sunday as they take
on the Baltimore Ravens, only to find out that's not
the case. It's gonna be Joe Flacco. But Robert Sali
(02:58):
spoke about the season on Zach Wilson yesterday with the media.
There was always that hope, you guys know me, there's
always that hope. But after all the information gathering, Uh,
it's just not worth the risk. He hasn't had a
step back. He looks fantastic. He still looks good, he
feels good, and you guys will see him. He's not
walking with a limp or anything. But just gathering all
the informations and talking to their doctors along with ours.
(03:19):
We're just gonna end until Pittsburgh the earliest. He's gonna
be available as Pittsburgh just from everything we gathered over
the last couple of days. Uh, not gonna change. Sure,
I'm always gonna leave that door open. You guys know me.
I'm the internal optimist. But we are going to make
sure that both mind and body are pent, make sure
we do right by him, and we feel like talking
to the doctors and everyone, it's going to be that
Pittsburgh week alright. So so basically we're gonna get Joe
(03:41):
Flacco the first three weeks at least of the season, alright.
So fired up Joe Flacco super Bowl champion starts with
his former team, the Ravens, and then runs through the
a f C North Gauntlet for the New York Jets
as they get the Browns and Bengals after that with
the Steelers a week four. All right, let's go Joe
Flacco time. Who's fired up about it? I am? I
mean I think it gives them actually a better chance. Yeah,
(04:04):
like you got a veteran guy in there with an
improved roster. He's gonna get the ball out of his
hand quick. You're not gonna see some of those issues
that you're maybe still trying to iron out with Zack
Wilson or see if he's capable of. I just I
think it gives them a better chance. I really do. So.
I'm a little more optimistic now than I was before
um and and and we'll see how it goes. I
(04:25):
do think it's gonna be interesting if the Jets get
off to a good start and Zach Wilson's healthy come
week four. What do you do if they're four oh
three and one. I'm just I'm throwing that out there,
you know, I don't I don't know that. I think
you gotta strike on me on that one, because I
definitely was looking at that one. I don't want to
swing at it. Like it's kind of like, if Joe
(04:48):
Flacco is doing well, when Zach Wilson comes back healthy,
there is no reason why I would not stick with
Joe Flacco. And I don't care that he's a high
draft pick. Zach Wilson was a high draft pick for
us for the simple fact that if this team is
is having success. They have not had enough success over
(05:10):
the last however long for me to disrupt any amount
of success that we're having. Two game winning streak, three
game winning street. If you're on two three game winning street,
I am not sitting. I'm not sitting the guy out
that's winning. I'm not unless they're ugly, ugly, ugly ass wins.
If they're ugly wins where you're like, you know what,
(05:31):
it's our defense that's carrying us. Our running game is
is doing well, it's suffice, and it's very limited in
terms of what we're doing in the passing game, you know,
or he's taken a lot of sacks, or he's not
you know, careful enough with the ball. I could see
those elements being the reason why you bring Zach Wilson
in if they're winning in spite of but if Joe
(05:53):
Flacco is the reason, the main reason that they're winning games.
When Zack Wilson comes back, I don't think there's any
way you can take him out, especially in a tough
a f C when when everybody's battling for you know,
a playoff spot. If they because if you just look
at it, so they get the Ravens at home, and
you know, at least it's a home game, and you
would figure, okay, well, if there was a chance you
(06:15):
were going to get the Ravens, knowing you're a significantly
worst team than they are, that's the expectation. It would
be Week one at home. And then you're at the
Browns who were playing with the backup quarterback. And then
you get the Bengals at home. God forbid. They go
three and ow and Zach Wilson knocks on the door
and the trainers say he's ready to go week four.
I'm not. I'm not going to him. I'd rather just
roll with Flacco, just keep having just keep keep getting
(06:38):
any more healthy. We need an extra credit healthy. I
do appreciate Robert Sala's demeanor and how he talks about
you know, as players into the media and and you know,
we want you know, both mind and body. I was like,
he is a new age head coach, Like I have
never heard a head coach at the end of l
(07:00):
give one iota about the player's mind and body and
say that publicly in regards to them coming back from
an injury, Like I've never heard that before in my life.
So kudos to Robert solom Man. He's he's like an
advanced head coach, Like, I don't know that we are
ready as a society to absorb what Robert Salah is
throwing out to us at this point. So you didn't
(07:23):
have but you guys didn't have a coach when you
were trying to come back from injury. Say yeah, but
how are you mentally right now? Things have changed? You
don't have anybody really do that honestly, anybody at all,
not not anyone at all. How is your mental health?
Please you say that? Let me tell you something. In
(07:44):
our day, if you if that was talked about, that's
the beginning of the end for you, unless you're unless
you're somebody that is special. But it's like, oh yeah,
my mental health is not it's not good right now.
They be didn't looked at you like you said what
say what? Say that again? Yeah, we're gonna have to
call him into the that that that that medical staff
(08:06):
would have went to the head coach to the GM
and been like, yeah, uh we got a guy that
saying he's got mental health issues, Like well who is he? Okay,
We're don't have to talk through this one. Don't nobody
want nobody with that. That was not a thing at all.
So yeah, I mean, can you can you? Can you?
I mean you've had injuries before? Q. How many? How
(08:27):
many of the people who were rehabbing you in the
in the training room asked you about your mental health? Oh,
that was not even a topic of conversation, you know.
It was more like than you ready to go? It
was more like it, I mean the question and like,
I'm not trying to fault people in the past for
our trade of thought with all that. Like, I mean,
my mom used to tell me when I was young,
(08:48):
She's like, if your ass is hurt, they better have
to drag you off the field. And I don't, okay,
I mean that's the mentality that she grew up with
with two brothers who played college ball. So from a
very young age, like, it was the old model of
are you hurt or are you injured? And none of
that had to do with your mental health. It was
about how you felt physically and trying to make sure.
(09:09):
As a young kid you understood that you might be
in pain, but if you can still play, you go
out there and play. Now if you're incapable of it
because of whatever, you know, it hurts so bad or
the injuries so bad, you're not gonna play. And so
that was my mentality coming up. And I think that's
probably a lot of mentality of trainers and coaches and
everything else, you know. And I think it's it's a
(09:30):
it's a symptom of we assume that guys have the
mindset of someone who's willing to push through and is
going to kind of stabilize themselves. So like, get yourself.
I look at it. I look at it more like
it's football. Like I think most people assume if you're
playing football, you have a certain mindset as it is, right,
(09:51):
Like you're not a track guy, you know, I'm my
hamshick feels a little tight and not gonna go today.
Like that's not football, you know, Like that's I'm not
trying to rag on track guys, but like Lavarn knows
what I'm talking about. Like you get guys who who
if they're not they don't want to go Like that
wasn't that didn't have any area in in football. Um
And and so I just look, we're getting off on
(10:11):
a tangent on something that I'm just trying to, you know,
shed light on. But in all seriousness. It is kind
of I guess, refreshing. It's one of the reasons why
I think Robert Salas as viewed as, you know, one
of those kind of up and coming guys. Now who's
a head coach, and I know things haven't worked out,
but I think he's gonna have a long leash in
New York even if this year doesn't work outs, as
(10:32):
they get the roster better and they continue to build
the Jets back up. I mean, look, that being said,
it's great that he's worried about mental health if they
if they have a winning record come Week four and
Joe Flacco is playing well, he's gonna be worrying about
Zach Wilson's mental health. Yeah, tough balls. I don't know,
like I mean, he's because look, I know that he
(10:53):
was hired there and it's only a year too, but
you know, last year didn't go great. I mean, they
won four games, so he's he's looking at it thinking,
I mean, maybe Zach Wilson might not be the guy,
but in the in the short term, if Joe Flacco
is the better answer for us. I also find a
little bit odd that he went from there's a possibility
plays week one two, Now he's going to be out
(11:15):
till week four, Like, how do you how do you
make that jump after an evaluation? But say that, you know,
he looks good, there's no limp, there's no anything. How
do you go from one? Thematic advantage? You know, they
want to push this off as long as possible, and
so they it gives Baltimore a little less time to
go prepare for a guy they're very, very familiar with.
(11:35):
But I'm sure, I mean, these these scouting departments and
the coaching staffs, everything you're able to do so fast.
It's it's not hard to prepare for another guy. I mean,
I'll pull back the curtain. You know, there's there's all
sorts of different resources to coaching staffs now and and
computer systems like for example, Pro Football Focus, which tends
(11:56):
to be one of the more you know, well known
out there. And one of the reasons why they've been
so successful at expanding and growing is they've taken out
a lot of the burdensome work that some Lackey had
to do within the organization of watching every tape and
then manually inputting what front, what coverage, what personnel was
(12:17):
it a Blitz wasn't it, and then doing all of that,
like they're the ones that are now you're paying for
a service to do it, and so you can break
down and sort and find so much faster. So like
there's like this Pro Football Focus Ultimate, which is like
what they call God Mode, where you can basically look
up anything you want in the snap of a finger.
(12:38):
And so if you want to say, hey, how does
Joe Flacco hand overs the blitz? I could find out
all his blitz coverages or excuse all his Blitz cut
ups um. Throughout the entire time Pro Football Focus has
been tracking this stuff, so that that's just one company
that's doing it. There's others out there doing it, but
it's it's it's not like it used to be where
you literally had some poor guy who sat in a
(12:59):
dark room who literally used to light a candle and
someone would have to bring him food and he would
just be in there all day and night inputting in
different cut ups offensively, defensively. And that guy as soon
as he get done and he would, you know, give
his input to the coaching staff and everything else, he
starts right back around the next team. I mean, can
(13:20):
we come up with a better name than Lackey. I
mean when you call him researcher, I mean intern. I
mean I think Lackey's a little bit disrespectful. To be honest,
I wish we could say the real thing. And by
the way, that's the guy you want to party with
once he gets out of his cave. And yeah, that's
(13:41):
that's the guy you want to party. Go grab a
few beers with that guy. Pick his brain about what
he's what he's watching, what he's seeing. He'll give you
some great betting advice or fantasy advice. He's the guy
that when you roll up to the bar before anything arrives,
he gets a shot just because he needs something as
a baseline. That got you. He pulls up right away. Shot.
I gotta have a baseline. Yeah, we're not investing around here.
(14:04):
I gotta get from point A to point B quick.
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you go there, you are volailable. It is two pros
and a couple of Joel here the situation. That's right,
make that noise again. Oh my gosh, I gotta go
(16:15):
see the doctor some Yeah, that was the that was
the go to, right, the Z pack that was very effective. Yeah,
I had I ran like there was like a two
year stretch where the same time every year I had
a throat infection and right now and I would be
(16:38):
I wouldn't even like the second time, I didn't even
need to make a doctor's visit. They just said, yeah,
there's a pack for you at the pharmacy, and I
just wouldn't picked it up, zapped it gone, just gone,
works brilliantly. But I heard I heard it use for
other things though. Yeah, that's what I hear too. Yeah,
but I wouldn't know about those other things. All right.
And we are, by the way, Kevity alive here from
(16:59):
the ha ti iraq dot com studios. Later on this hour,
we are going to have some over unders on Thursday
Night football coming up later on, but it is you know,
it's about that time that we make our season predictions. Now,
we previewed each division. We went team by team about
a month ago but we've got to make our official picks,
our official predictions on the NFL season, which means our
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division winners are wild cards, are super Bowl picks. So
we have the live studio band, the NFL on Fox
band was kind enough to join us here this early
in the morning. I mean everybody's socially distance. I mean
they sound great. It sounds just like a recording. Sometimes
you go see a band, they don't sound like they
do on the recording when they do live. I mean,
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this band here sounds just like they do on the recording.
So here we go. Who wants to go first? Who
wants to give out their picks division wild card in
the a f C and then give out their a
f C champion? Who wants to go first? All right,
I can do this, I can. I can throw my hat.
I'm ready. I'm gonna start off with the a f
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C because I think the a f C is gonna
be the most exciting the season. A lot of great, young,
talented quarterbacks. Being the number one overall seed. It sounds
a little shocky, but I have a hard time believe
it's not gonna be the case. The Buffalo Bills, they
have a deep talented roster, a defense that, yes, it
may have let them down and allowed you know, Kansas
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City to come back in the game at times, but
you know, bottom line, as doesn't matter. New season, New
Buffalo Bills. They get the boy number one overall seed.
I at the Baltimore Ravens win the a f C North,
a hot contested battle with the Cincinnati Bengals who won
the a f C Championship a year ago. But Lamar
Jackson the Ravens, they don't have any problems winning the
regular season, it's just been the postseason. Uh. Following that up,
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I get Kansas City winning the a f C West.
I know a lot of people are hot on the
l A Chargers. Some people think maybe it's the Raiders
who will be able to climb up and win the division.
I still think it's the Chiefs. I've got to see
them not do it to believe otherwise. And then we've
got the Colts winning the a f C South of
the addition of Matt Ryan potentially an MVP candidate in
Jonathan Taylor and it really stingy defense. And to fill
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out the wild card, Cincinnati at the five seed. I
got Denver representing the f C West, and then with
my last spot in the n f C the l
A Chargers. So three teams from the a f C
West make it. I do have a bullet prediction, but
I'll get to that later. In the NFC and my
won number one overall seeds, the Green Bay Packers, I
got them taken over obviously the NFC North at number two,
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I got the Tampa Bay Bucks. A lot of people
are fading them, expecting to fall apart. I don't see
that happening. I got the l H excuse me, l
A Rams winning the NFC West, which you know that's
gonna be another very competitive division. It's hard sometimes for
this super winning teams not to get that Super Bowl hangover.
I think they'll be just fine. I got the Dallas
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Cowboys winning the NFC East Minnesota as my first wild
card team, followed by Arizona and finally the New Orleans
Ain't to round out my playoff picture. How about that?
All right? Sticks? You ready to go? You want me
to fire off? I'm not doing all that. What do
you mean? You just like a whole lot you just hey,
just give out a division winner, three wild cards and
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a Super Bowl pick. I'm taking a lot. I don't
want to give all that analysis. I'm just gonna give
you my picks. Okay, the picks the Ravens. The Ravens
are going that's my team and go to the Super
Bowl out today, Like I think I go to win
the AFC North. It's way back to back years for you.
If I'm not mistaken, doubling down. I'm doubling down. You
know why. I had them last year too. They were
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snaked then and I thought that it was going to
be their year to take a step forward. Um. They
got the kid out of out of Notre Dame at
the at the safety's position. I think that's how happed it.
He's I think he's going to be a fine UM,
a fine addition to that team. It's the perfect team
for him to have gone to. You know. So anyway,
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I like, I like the Ravens this year. UM to
go that think they're gonna win the North. Um, I
do believe that. That my wild card. And I know
it sounds crazy, but I think the wild card is
going to be uh the Pittsburgh Steelers in the a
f C. UM it's two wild cards, right, three three
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rold cards. So I'm gonna go with the the the
l A Chargers on on three or number two, and
that I'm thinking it might be the Las Vegas Raiders
that are the third wild card. UM. I do believe
that the Kansas City Chiefs win the a f C West. Uh,
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But I don't. I just don't think they're the same
team that they've been in the past. So I'll be
interested to see if there if there is good is
advertised again, if they come on, or if if they're
just kind of a team that used to be the
scariest team in the National Football League. UM. As far
as with with the the a f C South, UM, yeah,
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I think Tennessee is gonna win it. I think Tennessee
has uh the d NA. You know, they have shown
that they are the team to beat. It'll be interesting
to see if Malik Willis makes an appearance this year.
That's not really being discussed or talked about, and maybe
it's not something to talk about, but one way or
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the other, I do think Malik Willis is the one
to take them into the next level of having an
opportunity to go for being a more competitive team in
the playoffs. But I think they're gonna win that that division.
I think the Colts are a fine team, but I
just I'm not sold on Matt Ryan. I just got
to see him be able to do it for an
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entire season. Uh, let's see the Bills. That's an easy one.
That's an easy one. I mean that we can move
on from that. Um. As far as the NFC South,
I'm going with I'm I'm I'm feeling this. I've been saying.
It's kind of a hunch. I think New Orleans is
going to get it. I think New Orleans is going
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to get the NFC South and and Tampa Bay will
be one of those wild card teams. So out of
the NFC wild card teams, it's going to be Arizona,
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and possibly the Minnesota Vikings. I
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got Green Bay winning the NFC North. I have the
Rams winning the NFC West, and I think that's I
think I think that's it. Isn't that it? Do? We
need to go? All right? So for the Super Bowl,
I think it's going to be the Ravens and in
Green Bay they the Ravens and green I think the
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Ravens will pull it out. And we do need your
NFC East. Pick, I know you're going to NFC East.
I did selectively forget about that. I thought it's kind
of funny that everybody is jumping off of the Alas bandwagon. Lad,
I've been listening to all the world we love used
all of our you know, the pundits out that I've
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been telling everybody, I'm not high on them, and and
it's it's definitely honestly speaking, I don't Again, I don't
have them as a wild car team. I didn't name
them as a wild car team. And they're not winning
the NFC East. I think that is going to go
to the Philadelphia Eagles, and I think that the Washington
Commandos will actually finished second in the NFC East. How
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about it look at that so so basically Mike McCarthy's
getting fired according to I mean, if that's what it's
going to lead to, then then he's probably a dead
man walking. Um. So I've got uh starting in the
a f C. I got the Bills winning the East.
That seems pretty easy. I think the race for second
is gonna be interesting there. But I got Buffalo being
the only team out of the a f C East
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making the playoffs. I've got the Chargers winning the West,
I've got the Baltimore Ravens winning the a f C North,
and I've got the Indianapolis Colts winning the a f
C South. As Brady pointed out, bold prediction on the
on the Indianapolis Colts, who are a favorite in that division,
to go ahead and take care of business there. I
think Matt Ryan solidifies the quarterback position, and they're they're
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really talented. At some point you think they would get
through and at least, you know, maybe want a playoff
game here eventually. As far as the wild card goes,
I got Cincinnati, Kansas City, and Las Vegas is my
wild card teams that I mean. I love Russell Wilson
in Denver. That seems fun, but something about it, I
just I like what the Raiders have done. I feel
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like there's a direction there that they're heading, and I
think Derek Carr, Derek Carr is gonna have a monster
year with Damante Adams. So I leaned Raiders over Broncos.
As far as picking up that final wild card, spotting
the Russell Wilson, yeah, I mean, I'm not trying to
be disrespectful here. I mean, there are reports that Russell
Wilson is on my fantasy team. I know you guys
(25:55):
are asking for the show. There's some reports about that.
But in the end FC, I've got the Dallas Cowboys
winning the East. I would come on, They're way too
much talent, way too much money invested. Figure it out,
start putting some decent games together. If you're Dak Prescott
and company, I just think they're they're the most talented
team in the divisions. And Philly makes it close, but
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I still give the edge to Dallas there. I'm gonna
have Dallas winning the East. I've got the Arizona Cardinals
winning the NFC West. I think this is a year
that they make a jump. I just some about the Rams.
I don't trust some of the reports on Stafford. There's
another one that came out that we can get into
that that popped up in the Twitter feed a few
moments ago. I just I don't trust some of the
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reporting on this. I got the Packers winning the NFC North. Obviously,
Tampa Bay I think is going to win the South.
There's still the best team in that division. Despite whatever
Tom Brady's marital situation is that everybody gives a rip
about and then for my wild card teams, I do
have the Rams picking up a wild card spot. I've
also got the Saints picking up a wild card spot.
And maybe I'm crazy and maybe this shows a lot
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higher on the vikings than anybody else, but I think
that pairing of O'Connell and Kirk Cousins is gonna make
a lot of sense. Justin Jefferson, maybe the yeah yeah
coach that likes him just trying to assault him on
the sidelines, I think, also picks up the the final
wild card spot there in the NFC. And then my
Super Bowl, I got the Packers beating the l A Chargers.
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I think justin Herbert and company, I get all the
way to the Super Bowl, but I got Green Bay
winning it all and Aaron Rodgers pissing off a lot
of people. By the way, I didn't give you my
Super Bowl pick. I've got Kansas City taken on Green
Bay and green Bay winning it I think this is
the Green Bay's best defense since the last time they
won a Super Bowl. So that's that's how I've got
this whole thing playing out. Um but yeah, that may
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uh that would be Could you imagine Green Bay Kansas
City and the super Bowl. It doesn't get much better
than that. As far as quarterback play, a Rod is
going for m v P number three. Still, I've got
an outside the box one because there's some chalky picks
like Josh Allen's the favorite to win it. You could
go Mahomes. I think he's gonna surprise people this year,
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or Rogers, but no one's ever won it three years
in a row. I believe. I actually think Joe Burrow.
I think Joe Burrow is gonna put up on a
lot of stats this year. He's obviously gonna be in
contention for the division. I think the only thing that
worries me is I've got Baltimore winning the division. So
could you give a guy an MVP Award at quarterback
if he doesn't win the division? So stats have to
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be that much better than everyone else, and I think
they will be. I'm not so sure their defense has
made the steps or strides they need to to not
put him in constant shootouts. And they've got between Tee
Higgins and Jamaar Chase and Teller Boyd, they've got the weapons.
So I I actually have a and then that and
his odds to are pretty favorable if you're looking at
someone outside of the Chalky three that we all look at.
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By the way, ball Washer of Green Bay Lead the
Lab was quick to point out that Brett fav won
the MVP three years in a row from nine seven
was the three in a row, and so he was
the only one then, because I was trying to look
through that. I know we've had a lot of twin rows.
We haven't at three in a rows. You're such a
bread fave, kiss ass. It's unbelievable. Hey, just you know,
checking the stets, I think he did tie one of
(29:11):
those years, though, you know, That's what I'm saying is
we have outright winner for that. It's so good when
Lead the Lap pools it together and gets that information
out there so quickly. By the way, you know, he
tied it with Barry Sanders, by the way, which if
you actually look at every other award that year, Barry
Sanders want it. There was you know, whatever else was
(29:32):
Sporting News or pf W a UM which the Pro
Football Writers Association it Barry Sanders won it that year.
So no offense, I'm gonna say, I know Far want
it technically, but Far in the other two years he
won the m v P, won all the other awards
like Sanders did. So I'm just saying, yeah, why don't
you put that new cheesehead and smoke it? Huh? How
does that feel? So there it is, there's our our
(29:55):
super Bowl pig. So we so for the Super Bowl,
we all have green Bay, the cheese it by the way,
the far Fest, some other things to worry about. Right now,
Hey man, what the hell is that? But that that's
that's looking worse and worse every week when more details
come out. Yeah, in Mississippi with the vessel state funds. Yeah,
(30:15):
I just felt like there's a lot of people involved. Yeah,
very and now the FBI is investigating, and I think
there's some stuff that was recorded, some some back and forth. Yeah,
it's not not looking great there. But but we do
all have I think, if I'm not mistake in green Bay,
do you have green Bay winning the Super Bowl? LaVar
(30:36):
if Baltimore, which is my pick, makes it that far,
I just think they take that next step. Yeah. So
so two of the three of us have green Bay
win in the Super Bowl. Well, we all have them
going to the Super Bowl, which means the lines are
gonna win that Divisionally, no one mentioned the Miami Dolphins.
It's I think they're a dark horse. Like they're definitely
(31:00):
a dark horse. The problem is you're at the A
s C West and I think you're gonna have two
teams maybe three in I'm eliminating Cleveland because they're not
gonna have Watson, But between Cincinnati, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh, it's
just it's stiff competition I think for wild card spots.
And I I guess my bold prediction for the year
will be this, and it is mathematically possible. I went
through this yesterday. All four teams from the f C
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West make it if you If there's a bold prediction
to make, I'm gonna make that prediction that all four
teams in the A f C West make the playoffs.
That man, that would be wild Yeah and uh and
there would be some rematches, I'm sure, and and that
would all play out, so a third time meeting for
some of those teams, So it'd be awesome. It is
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Brady was adding to that, was that was really well done. Man,
(32:54):
did that blended in perfectly? Man sticks right there. For
a second. I was like it was just like a
makes version. This is dope. I'll tell you what, Man, LeVar,
we all need like some time in the studio together.
I think we've got some sort of creative stuff. I
don't know if it's good, but it sounds good for
a minute, I think we could do it. Man. Yeah,
I just I don't really have any musical talents. I
(33:15):
don't even I barely have a voice right now. So
that's all right, I'll walk you through. It's hard. I mean,
what is it hard to play? The bass is a
hard or drums? Bass? Bass is probably the easiest because
the bass you're just following the drums. It's the rhythm section.
The drums is the hardest because you gotta keep time.
The bass you just follow the drums. It's the easier version,
(33:36):
and you're gonna sandwich between the guitar and the drums.
So maybe the bass was the tambourine guy, you know. Yeah,
although you could play like one or two chords on
the basse, just play like the top or you know,
second string. I mean that's usually what a lot of
punk bands do. That's why you know you can make
that work. You know, Well, we'll build around it. It's
(33:57):
all right, system bass players, nothing wrong with that, yep?
All right. Coming up top of next hour here from
the uh tire rack dot Com studios, we are going
to get into, uh the situation in the NFL that,
for some reason is still going on for some reason,
it's still happening why nobody can seem to figure it out.
But we do have at least some sort of an
(34:17):
answer as to when we could get a solution on
this drama in the National Football League. So we'll get
into that for you again. Top of next hour here
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It's over under. Lead the lap. What do we got got?
Game one of the NFL's what we got? Let's go
(35:00):
right and with that game, we start with the point
total at fifty two over under. Mmm, I'm gonna say
the under. I think this game ends up being a
little lower scoring than people think. Both you know, star
players on defense for the Rams, one of the deeper
defenses for the Bills. I got the under. I'll go
with the over, I keep going with the under, and
(35:22):
I keep losing with the over. Here, it's really my reasoning.
I'm gonna take the under as well too. You know,
I feel like there's gonna be a feeling out process,
you know, in this game. Yeah, and there could be
some you know, some exhaustion, maybe a little bit of fatigue,
you know, maybe trying to run the football, establish a
(35:44):
run game. I'm yeah, see back over under on passing
and rushing yards for Josh Allen three sixteen and a
half over over, I mean, Joe's are you sure you
(36:06):
don't want to calculate this a little bit more passing
in rushing yards over? Well? Okay, I mean it is
game hundred yards rushing and I'll put this on. I'm
gonna say under. You guys both said over right, ok Yeah,
I'm gonna stay on listen the calculation offensive coordinator. The
calculations never lie. So let's go ahead and check this.
(36:29):
Sure I forgot my password along? Oh yeah, I'm gonna
take the overly, alright, I got the under. Interesting to
note that he is uh to seventy seven and a
half passing yards on DraftKings. What would your rushing yards
(36:50):
he can't pick up for y Yeah, exactly, pick up
forty yards rushing. He might get to all the yardage
in passing. Well, who is there is? Is Devin Singletary.
They're starting running back. Yeah, it could be kind of
by committed. Yeah, yeah, I got a year offensively, he's
(37:14):
good man good take the overly? Will Aaron Donald get
a seck on Jesh Josh Allen sex by Aaron Donald
in the game at a half? I'm gonna say yes.
I mean, I know they've got a game plan against him,
but he's a freak. I ain't ben against him. Yeah,
I must say the same. I'm gonna take the over.
(37:35):
I mean, he's swinging that helmet around. Maybe he's a
little bit you know, maybe he's thinking I thought he
faced no repercussions for that. Yeah, well, look, by the way,
didn't he have two helmets? Didn't he have like like
he had two different he did the Destroyer? Can we
(37:55):
get him versus Quentin Nelson in a big time game? Please,
for the love of God, Aaron Donald versus It's too bad,
um Idly, I'm gonna take the over. I'm wouna take
that over. First touchdown in the game eight minutes. Over under,
oh under under? Yeah, oh oh take the over. Feeling
(38:24):
out process. That's what the calculation says. Over total touchdowns
in the game five and a half. Take over, Um,
I would take the under. I changed my mind. It's
gonna got fat half under. You can't change your mind.
(38:49):
Leave he want to change his mind to take my
hand off of the pe. He'd change his mind, but
he didn't take the over on the point total. So
he's hedging his bets. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna take uh,
let take the under. Ley, I'm gonna go with the
under on that. I think I think we're gonna get
We'll get some field goals, so I'm not sure we're
gonna get that many touchdowns, not in this game. So
there it is another edition of over unders as we
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