September 5, 2024 • 23 mins
Adam Wexler, Adam Clanton and Dan Mathews "The Showkiller" make their predictions for the NFL season. It'll be fun to look back in January and see who was WAY OFF...
WEX:
AFC DIVISIONS: JETS, TEXANS, RAVENS, CHIEFS
AFC WC: BILLS, DOLPHINS, BENGALS
AFC CHAMP MATCHUP/RESULT: CHIEFS BEAT TEXANS
NFC DIVISIONS: EAGLES, FALCONS, LIONS, 49ERS
NFC WC: COWBOYS, PACKERS, BEARS
NFC CHAMP MATCHUP/RESULT: LIONS BEAT 49ERS
SUPER BOWL: CHIEFS BEAT LIONSNFL
BOLD PREDICTION: LAMAR JACKSON REPEATS AS NFL MVP.
TEXANS BOLD PREDICTION: STROUD SETS FRANCHISE TD PASS RECORD ; HUNTER/ANDERSON 1ST DUO W/ 30 SACKS IN TEAM HISTORY
AC NFL PREDICTIONS:
AFC DIVISIONS: DOLPHINS, TEXANS, BENGALS, CHIEFS
AFC WC: BILLS, RAVENS, JETS
AFC CHAMP MATCHUP/RESULT: TEXANS BEAT RAVENS
NFC DIVISIONS: EAGLES, BUCS, LIONS, 49ERS
NFC WC: COWBOYS, PACKERS, FALCONS
NFC CHAMP MATCHUP/RESULT: 49ERS BEAT LIONS
SUPER BOWL: 49ERS BEAT TEXANS
NFL BOLD PREDICTION: CHIEFS WILL NOT MAKE THE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
TEXANS BOLD PREDICTION: C.J. STROUD WINS MVP
DAN NFL PREDICTIONS:
AFC DIVISIONS: DOLPHINS, BENGALS, CHIEFS AND TEXANS
AFC WC: BILLS, RAVENS AND STEELERS
AFC CHAMP MATCHUP/RESULT: BENGALS OVER CHIEFS
NFC DIVISIONS: EAGLES, LIONS, 49ERS AND BUCS
NFC WC: PACKERS, RAMS AND COWBOYS
NFC CHAMP MATCHUP/RESULT: LIONS OVER EAGLES
SUPER BOWL:BENGALS OVER LIONS
NFL BOLD PREDICTION: BEARS GO 9-8 WITH CALEB WILLIAMS THE OFFENSIVE ROY
TEXANS BOLD PREDICTION: TANK DELL IS TEAM LEADER IN RECEIVING TDs W/ 12.
WEX:
AFC DIVISIONS: JETS, TEXANS, RAVENS, CHIEFS
AFC WC: BILLS, DOLPHINS, BENGALS
AFC CHAMP MATCHUP/RESULT: CHIEFS BEAT TEXANS
NFC DIVISIONS: EAGLES, FALCONS, LIONS, 49ERS
NFC WC: COWBOYS, PACKERS, BEARS
NFC CHAMP MATCHUP/RESULT: LIONS BEAT 49ERS
SUPER BOWL: CHIEFS BEAT LIONSNFL
BOLD PREDICTION: LAMAR JACKSON REPEATS AS NFL MVP.
TEXANS BOLD PREDICTION: STROUD SETS FRANCHISE TD PASS RECORD ; HUNTER/ANDERSON 1ST DUO W/ 30 SACKS IN TEAM HISTORY
AC NFL PREDICTIONS:
AFC DIVISIONS: DOLPHINS, TEXANS, BENGALS, CHIEFS
AFC WC: BILLS, RAVENS, JETS
AFC CHAMP MATCHUP/RESULT: TEXANS BEAT RAVENS
NFC DIVISIONS: EAGLES, BUCS, LIONS, 49ERS
NFC WC: COWBOYS, PACKERS, FALCONS
NFC CHAMP MATCHUP/RESULT: 49ERS BEAT LIONS
SUPER BOWL: 49ERS BEAT TEXANS
NFL BOLD PREDICTION: CHIEFS WILL NOT MAKE THE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
TEXANS BOLD PREDICTION: C.J. STROUD WINS MVP
DAN NFL PREDICTIONS:
AFC DIVISIONS: DOLPHINS, BENGALS, CHIEFS AND TEXANS
AFC WC: BILLS, RAVENS AND STEELERS
AFC CHAMP MATCHUP/RESULT: BENGALS OVER CHIEFS
NFC DIVISIONS: EAGLES, LIONS, 49ERS AND BUCS
NFC WC: PACKERS, RAMS AND COWBOYS
NFC CHAMP MATCHUP/RESULT: LIONS OVER EAGLES
SUPER BOWL:BENGALS OVER LIONS
NFL BOLD PREDICTION: BEARS GO 9-8 WITH CALEB WILLIAMS THE OFFENSIVE ROY
TEXANS BOLD PREDICTION: TANK DELL IS TEAM LEADER IN RECEIVING TDs W/ 12.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, I don't remember NFL films doing this.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Come on, Dan, well, your complaint is old news because
here it comes.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Better.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Well, technically, I think the answer would be no, I
don't remember NFL films doing this either.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
I don't remember anybody growling something about the frozen tundra.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
We gotta get into our NFL predictions in light of
the fact the NFL season will be underway this evening
from America. It will continue tomorrow from outside of America. Uh.
Most people seeing some of the footage of the Packers
arriving because I did not see the Eagles arriving, couldn't
help but note and know that it would draw eyes
and clicks and commentary. Boy, the Packers look stoked about
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coming into town and getting ready for their game today.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Look at Darius Slay doing cartwheels off the bus.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, the you know, the time taken to get there
and everything that goes along with being a different set
of surroundings. I think we'll play a little bit of
a role, But once they get into the game, I
think everything will be fine. But in light of the
fact that our two teams on the field tonight, we
just could not wait until tomorrow to give you our
NFL predictions division winners, the three wild card teams from
the respective conferences that will join them the path to
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the respective conference title games, and of course to the
Big Easy to try to claim the Super Bowl Championship.
And for someone one of the other thirty one teams,
try to take it away from the Kansas City Chiefs,
who wanted each of the past two seasons. Also asking
for a Boulder prediction for both the season at large
NFL and yours, Houston Texans. Start making our way through
(01:37):
those and look at the divisions on the NFC side,
ac you have already asked for us to tip our
caps to you for getting the Bucks correct last year.
From out of left field, so you're not repeating, do
you have a I'm just getting out of left field.
We're going to laugh at you pick for one of
the four division winners in the NFC this season.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I don't think in the NFC, no, though, I am
picking the Bucks to once again do it just because
of continuity more than anything else, and the other three
teams really suck relatively speaking. But yeah, I've got the Eagles,
which means not the Cowboys, by the way, the Bucks,
the Lions and the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Is my NFC division winners. Lions of forty nine ers
seem like the safest division picks, especially in looking things
over from our side of things. As I divulge a
couple of our other answers, each of the three of
us will make our predictions. There was no difference, all
three of us picking the Lions to win the division,
all three of us picking the Niners to win the division.
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Your other two division winners Dan in the NFC were whom.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It was, the Eagles and also the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So he doesn't believe in the Cowboys repeating as a
team better than the Eagles in the regular season, just
like you. He has the Bucks, You have the Bucks.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well, I'm not sure. Who not get fooled again by
the Falcons?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Well, I will. I'm definitely on board with them realizing
what they have at their disposal, and they we went
over it earlier. It was so clear, even with Arthur
Smith's mustache running things last year, they would have won
that division if they got any kind of reasonable quarterback play.
And I think they're better this year. I think their
talent is better this year, probably on both sides of
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the ball. And if your younger players, your trio, your
trio of stars. It's not quite like the Cowboys trio
of Emmett, Michael and Troy, because I'm not putting Kirk
in this and I'm not making it a quartet, but
the trio of Pitts, London and Beijon. Every team in
the league should want to have talent like that. There's
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some people that are much higher than London than maybe
his numbers have shown, probably because of who's been out
there saying could be said for Kyle Pitts and for
the same reasons. Hopefully his injury situation which came up
this week isn't significant, and he's already taken to social
media to indicate as much, because when it was reported
that he was dealing with something that man basically in
(04:02):
Aaron Rodgers relaxed type of I'll be out there and
I'll see you on Sunday. But because of those three
and some of the other moves they've made and some
of the things I think they can repeat defensively, I
have the Falcons winning that division. Falcons, Eagles, Lions, Niners.
So all three of us agree on three of the divisions,
and that includes nobody thinks the Cowboys are winning the
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NFC East real quick on that point.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Specifically, to me, at least, that is as much about
the health of the Eagles as it is the fact
that I think the Cowboys aren't as good as them
because they just.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Weren't right last year and that started with their quarterback.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And unless there's something dramatically wrong with the interior of
their line with the absence of Taylor Swift's boyfriend's brother
this year, then I think they'll be okay. I do
think that's a big deal to replace him, because that's
your he really is, especially with a younger quarterback, and
Philadelphia's kind of been Their writers have been talking about
this this week. He was the quarterback of their offense.
He was making a lot of the calls you would
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as the center. He was doing a lot of the
leadership things. The two of us talked about it. So
it's a little bit bigger loss than just probably the
greatest center to be in the NFL the last ten years.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
But also, the Cowboys sign Zeke Elliott at running back,
and they signed the best running back that's not named
Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Right, And while Ceedee Lamb might be awesome, and he is.
The other team has DeVante Smith and aj Brown, and
if there's a healthy Dallas Goddard and there wasn't last year.
All these things points to why I think the three
of us agree there are wildcard teams on the NFC side.
I'll start with the Cowboys, just not to win the division,
but yes, they'll be a part of the postseason, which
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also means they won't start at home like they did
a year ago where they lost to the wildcard Packers.
Who I have the wildcard Packers making it in this year,
and I think the Bear's fourth place schedule, the Bears division,
and the bears overhaul of talent from last year to
this year, especially at the quarterback position, puts them as
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a surprise playoff participant.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I don't Cowboys, Packers, and then the Falcons show up
in the wild card.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Obviously, Dan, you are not picking the Falcons because you
told that you're not getting fooled by them again. So
who do you got for gr three?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I got two of the three. You guys have Packers
and also Cowboys. I slide the Rams in there. One
last run for Matt Saffer.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I thought about that by the way, doing that, and
I hope you thought about adding Matt Stafford to your
list of quarterbacks you're most concerned about getting hurt. That
is why I can't pick the Rams. Yeah, not only
because I think he is possible. He's always in that
boat of is he going to be hurt? Is his
shoulder down? Is he nicked up? Is he playing hurt?
Is he unable to answer the bell? Not because he
isn't tough, because he is, But then what and I
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and I'm saying this knowing and he's beautiful in all,
but I don't know how good a quarterback he is
their backup as Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Garoppolo stet'sn't been at time, baby.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I mean, I don't know if that means it's over
for them. That's their third stringer. Yes, I wondered where
he was. Well, he played like every snap this preseason
until they got to Houston, and then they played their
fourth stringer every play of the Texans game. So I
think that's the thing I'd be most worried about, and
the reason I did not pick the Rams. That's our
NFC side. We'll get you our AFC side and our
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title games and Super Bowl matchup and winner, leaving those
Bowld predictions for what we'll do. At around five point
fifteen to the top of the hour, we'll slide back
into our baseball conversation. Chandler Rome is set to join
us for his weekly visits following the Astros l and
we'll keep tabs on what's going on with the Mariners
and A's right here on the eighteen.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I'm cleansing Adam Wexler our eighteen returns of these Astros fans.
Here you hear the Woods. It's just those crazy Houstonians.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Find Sports Talk seven ninety rolls you through the NFC
predictions last segment. We'll get to the NFC postseason along
with the AFC postseason after we give you our AFC
predictions for division winners and the trio of wildcare teams
expected to join them in the postseason. Is it obvious
(08:04):
that all of us are picking the Texans to repeat
as AFC South champions. Yeah, it's obvious. We're all picking
the Texans to repeat as AFC South champions. My trio
of division winners that go along with them to of
them play tonight, Ravens in the North, Chiefs in the West,
and the other one plays Monday Night for the first
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time in a year, the Aaron Rodgers led New York Jets.
You're bullish on the Jets. Their rosters awesome. All they
need is a quarterback. I believe even Aaron Rodgers can
handle that.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah, it's probably a pretty good pick. But honestly, I
think you could go three different ways in that division
and still be safe.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I might be taking the outlier. I know it's not
the Patriots.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
I'm taking the Dolphins to win the AFC East for
the first time in how long since Dan Marino is there? Honestly, Yeah, Dolphins, Bengals,
and Chiefs are my other three picks.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
The Dolphins should be. The answer to that question should
have been, yeah, they haven't won it since last year
they totally fell apart at the end of the season
and ended up as a wildcard team rather than a
division champion. The answer is, they haven't won one since
Chad Pennington Tony Sperano head coach and quarterback and head
coach two thousand and eight.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
You know, when Dolphins fans hear that, you know what
they say, gross.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
They that's their one division championship since the Texans have existed. So, yeah,
it's been a while. What do you have for your
division champs?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Dan Well, I guess copied off my paper because I'm
going Miami, Cincinnati, and Kansas City as well.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It was smart of him to write at them in
different order, though, so you wouldn't figure it out, but
you did anyway. And your wildcard teams, I'm gonna go
with Bill's Ravens Steelers. Well, explain the Steelers pick just
because I think Tom always makes sense to select them,
But it just seems like it's going to be an
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awfully tough road to climb up a mountain, to climb
up a hill to roll to the top of when
every other team we will talk about in the AFC,
every single one of them, has significantly better quarterback play
than what we expect to see from Russell Wilson, who's
not one hundred percent and may have some issues going
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into this week with a calf, and Justin Field. So
how do the Steelers get to the playoffs? Well, I
mean it's you kind of alluded to it in both parts. First,
one is Mike Tomlin seemingly quarterback. Hell, he can still
win ten games a year, and now they at least
have capable players and no longer have to live through
said hell of Kenny Pickett and Mason Rudolph. If you
can make the playoffs with Kenny Pickett and Mitch Trubisky
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and Mason Rudolph's Rudolph, then I think that's what you're
saying about the twenty twenty four Steelers. Then we surely
can make it with Russell Wilson and Justin Fields. Then go, yeah,
they're not gonna make the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I don't think so much. I've got the Bills, the Ravens,
and the Jets. Since they didn't win the division, they
are still making the postseason.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yes, kind of surprising in the absence of both of
their top two receivers, Gabe Davis now in Jacksonville and
Stefan Diggs takes his captain's chair to the Texans locker room.
All three of us have the Bills as a wild
card team, so back in the playoffs again. We've got
Josh Allen. They have Josh Allen, and Josh Allen was
my immediate thought when contemplating some sort of bold prediction
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like he's gonna have a fifty touchdown season of some sort.
I do think they actually have talent still. I actually
think what's going to hurt them more is all their
other losses, some of their losses on the interior both lines,
and some of the talent level on the interior both lines.
I think that's actually what's going to slow them down,
but not enough to keep them out of the playoffs. Bills, Dolphins,
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and Bengals are my team, so we all think the
Bengals and Joe Burrow and his fragile body will be
back in the postseason. This YEARFC Championship has the Texans
and the Chiefs arriving in Kansas City for that game,
with the Chiefs once again being in the game and
once again winning the game. Chiefs to the Super Bowl
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out of the AFC got the Lions and the Niners
again in a matchup in the NFC title game. But
we're gonna change the location and the winner. I've got
a Chiefs Lions Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
What about you, AC, I've got the Texans also getting
to the AFC Championship where they will host the Ravens
and beat them to go to the Super Bowl. Unfortunately,
the forty nine Ers yet again will be boring you
with an NFC Championship game. Appearance and a win over
the Lions. So you got forty nine Ers Texans Super Bowl.
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I've got Chiefs Lions super Bowl. What do you have,
dan As you get there?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
AFC. I got Bengals over the Chiefs NFC. I've got
the Lions over the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
So the Chiefs reached the championship game but don't win. Interesting,
all right? What's your Super Bowl look like? Who's coming
out on top in the big easy Cincinnati?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Joe Burrow returns to where he won the Natty and
he brings home the Lombardy.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
He will absolutely, one hundred percent recreate the photo full
uniform cigar if they do that, And I think there's
a reasonable chance they could your Super.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Bowl A see in typical Houston football fashions.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Oh my god, they're in the super Bowl for the
first time. They got the Niners. How will it go?
They lost? The Texans go where they've never been before.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I lose to Dimiko's old team. His old team, which
is also his new team, loses to his old team.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And they're doing so to his former coach, the Texans
former not head coach, but up coach. Kyle Shanahan's gonna
get his super Bowl win.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, I mean it's it's not unheard of, It's not
a not even a completely outrageous pick.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
You picked the forty nine ers to win the super Bowl.
That's very prediction, not a bold prediction. I have the
Chiefs in the super Bowl and winning the super Bowl again, reliance,
not a bold prediction. We'll hold those bold predictions. Like
I mentioned, we'll hit you back at second segment of
our number three round five point fifteen. A bold prediction
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about the league, A bold prediction about your Houston Texans.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
We now return to Adam Clinton and Adam wexlerth on
Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Getting you ready for the NFL season. They get outside
the box here on the A team need some bold
predictions on what will unfold beginning tonight and ending in
early January before we get to the postseason. We got
you your fourteen teams that will make it. We got
you your matchups in the respective conference title games, and
even gave you our winners for the Super Bowl to
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be played in New Orleans. But now we need a
bold prediction for two from each of the three of us. Dan,
if you would get us started, what is a bold
prediction you've got for this upcoming NFL season, not Texas related,
because we will hold that for later.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
All in one right here, you guys, at least one
of you had the Bears making the playoffs as a
wild card. Tells me, Okay, I think they come up
just short. But they're nine to eight and Caleb Williams
is your offensive rookie of the year.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So your bold prediction is the number one overall pick
in the draft is the rookie of the year. Well,
I mean not only that, I mean I kind of
made it sound bad on purpose because that's what I do.
What a jerk.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
They were one of the worst teams in the NFL.
If they can have that turnaround and be in playoff contention,
that's pretty bold.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It is bold. But I think we can all acknowledge
they are doing a Texans like job in trying to
make your quarterbacks life easier. Last year, justin fields, etc.
We're throwing passes to DJ Moore and that was pretty
much it, or missing passes to other players like Darnell Mooney.
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But they didn't have roma Dunes they to throw the
football too. They did not have Keenan Allen to throw
the football too. And they also could not turn around
and hand the ball to DeAndre Swift or throw him
the football. Swift, Noonsday and Keenan Allen all additions to
the Bears offense in addition to their quarterback. But going
nine to eight, that is a bold prediction. I think
mine is similar in that I have them in the playoffs.
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But that's pretty quick turnaround. No matter what happened to
get you there. You're the worst team in the league,
you're one of the worst teams in the league, you're
totally inept offensively, you're a mistake factory last season, and
now you're gonna have a winning record and possibly go
to the postseason. I think that qualifies as bold. Do
yours qualifies bold? A see, well, one of them does.
It's supposed to, it's opposed to.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
That's the name of the game here, and I kind
of gave it away with my picks. But I do
think this qualifies as a bold prediction, given that they
are the NFL's version of the Astros. The Chiefs not
making the conference championship game in any given a year.
Right now, with Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey still running
rough shot over the NFL that's a bold prediction. And
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since I have the Texans at home beating the Ravens, it's.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
A big deal. Chiefs Ravens, Chiefs, Chiefs Bengals, Chiefs Bills,
Chiefs Titans. Those are your last five AFC title game matchups.
There was a constant there. It was the Chiefs. Yeah,
so you're saying, for the first time in six seasons,
they will not advance, and based on your predictions, that
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means they won't win a playoff game this year. They
would have to lose their initial home playoff game in
the divisional run. He told you it was bold. It
is very bold, probably coming off a pretty good year
for the guys you would expect.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
And by the way, I need to kind of qualify this.
It's not likely, it's bold. It's bold. But here's the deal, Like,
if there is a reason this happens, and this sounds
stupid given who we're talking about here and the parties involved,
I think the number one reason would be some sort
of version of complacency, because I don't they're still stacked
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from a talent standpoint on both sides of the football.
They still have Andy Reid on and on and on.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Point they'll add Hollywood Brown, it's not going to play
this week. They're adding Xavier Worthy.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
But it just doesn't I mean, so other than injuries,
it doesn't really make sense other than it's it's just time.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Okay, I mean I think that the probably the real
reason would be is if they're trying to get there
with Carson Wentz their backup quarterback.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Well and the you know, the Patriots didn't make the
conference championship game.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Every year they didn't and this run has been pretty impressive.
My bold prediction was a little bit more individualized, and
I'm going to call for Lamar Jackson become the only
the second active player to repeat as NFL MVP. He
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will have won his third MVP, which leaves only two
players with more than that ever in the history of
the NFL. When he wins his third, Brady Brady has three,
so he would tie out Okay, uh first of all,
who's the only other active player with more than three
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and has won it back to back Rogers. That is correct,
he won it in twenty twenty and twenty twenty. One
of the last player to win it back to back
seasons was Peyton Manning, who now is more well known
for wearing a quarter zip than playing NFL football and
as a singer. But I'm gonna call for Lamar Jackson
to claim third MVP award as he rolls through season
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number seven and again it did not net them an
NFL championship this year, so it might just add to
the worst side of his NFL resume. Yeah, but what
about the postseason? All right, Dan, your Houston Texans are
gonna do something bold this year, likely statistically or with
an award. What will it be?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Individually? Tank Dell team leader in receiving touchdowns twelve, had
seven last year, and what's second on the team to
Nico Collins who had eight played in four less games.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I mentioned there over unders yesterday the trio of Texans
receivers but only in catches and yards, and I I
don't know where it is today, but I can't imagine
that it changed. The over under on touchdowns for Tank
Dell is a very low four and a half. That's
why that's a bold Perdition's bold prediction is twelve. If
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nothing else, I'm one hundred percent on board playing the
over on Dell touchdown reception.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
He's going to do something that the Texans lone member
of the Hall of Fame could never do double digit
touchdowns in the season.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Andre Johnson, if he comes back, would still be looking
for his first ten touchdown reception season. What's your bold prediction?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
All right, I'm if this is not a fade wex
oh with your with your Texas related how the NFL
bold prediction?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I guess you must be talking about an MVP award.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Yeah, I think CJ. Stroud wins the MVP this year,
which means Lamar would not.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
So this would be Joe Burrowes second season in the
NFL claiming the MVP award, Lamar Jackson esk second season
in the NFL claiming the MVP award in a league
that still has Pat Mahomes, Labar Jackson, Joe Burrow, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
But I mean, listen, there's people out there that are
predicting the Texans to go to the Super Bowl or
have a deep playoff run. You're going as far as
he takes you, and so if he's taking you that far,
then that's your argument.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
If I'm not mistaken, I believe currently he holds the
fifth best odds to win NFL MVP this season.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I wish we knew, and you probably do when the
last time somebody with those exact odds actually won it.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I mean, that's a pretty fit's ever happened. You probably
get pretty good odds on it from a wagering standpoint,
something not so obvious but still a number worth playing
without throwing your money away. I actually couldn't keep myself
from making two bold predictions about the Houston Texans. One
of them is CJ related. If he wins the MVP,
he will definitely do this set the franchise record in
touchdown passes. They've only had a thirty touchdown past season
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once de Shaun Watson did a thirty three back in
twenty twenty. Sound I'm saying more than thirty three touchdowns
for CJ. Stroud.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
You wrote DW on the rundown, and I had to think,
who's d DOV.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I couldn't put d W four that. I just can't.
I just couldn't do it d W. I was like,
who oh, oh, that's right that guy. And my second
bold prediction is the duo on the edge of Will
Anderson Junior and daneil Hunter will produce the first thirty
sack season for teammates in Houston Texans football history, because
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like matthis Freeny territory here, Well, they nearly did it once,
and I was kind of shocked that they got this
close once before. But back in twenty fifteen when Watt
had his seventeen and a half sex sack season, Whitney
Merciless was there with him with twelve. They came a
half sack shy of a thirty sack season. So technically
they were involved in thirty one or thirty quarterback sacks.
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When you get a half sack, guess what you did.
You sacked the quarterback. I wonder if they would ever.
I know they don't want to give two sacks to
two different one sack each to the player. But you
sacked him, You tackled him. He's down. A half sack
is somewhat statistically comical, unless.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
It's Michael Strahan on Brett fav and then he laid
down and they gave him a sack.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, he was already down when you jumped over him,
and I think touched his juris or the record. Yeah.
I wanted to leave it as a Danil Hunter exclusive,
but I couldn't say he was gonna have twenty one sacks.
I think he's gonna have the second, the first player
other than J. J. Watts have more than seventeen and
a half sacks eighteen, nineteen, twenty somewhere in there. But
I couldn't go super bowld and say he will set
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the new team record, So I don't think he's headed
for a twenty one sax season this year. I do
think he's gonna be awesome, and they're going to be
awesome in that particular part of their defense. But I
actually think they have to be if they're going to
compete with what else they might be missing. One last
thing before we close out this segment, A's took a
or had a four run deficit going to the bottom
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of the ninth against Seattle's closer in a non saved
situation with a Munos on the bump. He gave up
a two run homer and then got a nice call
on a yeah, I think thank you want third strike
the second of the day to Rooker. Seattle wins six
' four. They are better than average now they're seventy
one and seventy and they've taken another full game today
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Come on, Dan, well, your complaint is old news because
here it comes.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Better.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Well, technically, I think the answer would be no, I
don't remember NFL films doing this either.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
I don't remember anybody growling something about the frozen tundra.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
We gotta get into our NFL predictions in light of
the fact the NFL season will be underway this evening
from America. It will continue tomorrow from outside of America. Uh.
Most people seeing some of the footage of the Packers
arriving because I did not see the Eagles arriving, couldn't
help but note and know that it would draw eyes
and clicks and commentary. Boy, the Packers look stoked about
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coming into town and getting ready for their game today.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Look at Darius Slay doing cartwheels off the bus.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, the you know, the time taken to get there
and everything that goes along with being a different set
of surroundings. I think we'll play a little bit of
a role, But once they get into the game, I
think everything will be fine. But in light of the
fact that our two teams on the field tonight, we
just could not wait until tomorrow to give you our
NFL predictions division winners, the three wild card teams from
the respective conferences that will join them the path to
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the respective conference title games, and of course to the
Big Easy to try to claim the Super Bowl Championship.
And for someone one of the other thirty one teams,
try to take it away from the Kansas City Chiefs,
who wanted each of the past two seasons. Also asking
for a Boulder prediction for both the season at large
NFL and yours, Houston Texans. Start making our way through
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those and look at the divisions on the NFC side,
ac you have already asked for us to tip our
caps to you for getting the Bucks correct last year.
From out of left field, so you're not repeating, do
you have a I'm just getting out of left field.
We're going to laugh at you pick for one of
the four division winners in the NFC this season.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I don't think in the NFC, no, though, I am
picking the Bucks to once again do it just because
of continuity more than anything else, and the other three
teams really suck relatively speaking. But yeah, I've got the Eagles,
which means not the Cowboys, by the way, the Bucks,
the Lions and the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Is my NFC division winners. Lions of forty nine ers
seem like the safest division picks, especially in looking things
over from our side of things. As I divulge a
couple of our other answers, each of the three of
us will make our predictions. There was no difference, all
three of us picking the Lions to win the division,
all three of us picking the Niners to win the division.
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Your other two division winners Dan in the NFC were whom.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It was, the Eagles and also the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So he doesn't believe in the Cowboys repeating as a
team better than the Eagles in the regular season, just
like you. He has the Bucks, You have the Bucks.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well, I'm not sure. Who not get fooled again by
the Falcons?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Well, I will. I'm definitely on board with them realizing
what they have at their disposal, and they we went
over it earlier. It was so clear, even with Arthur
Smith's mustache running things last year, they would have won
that division if they got any kind of reasonable quarterback play.
And I think they're better this year. I think their
talent is better this year, probably on both sides of
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the ball. And if your younger players, your trio, your
trio of stars. It's not quite like the Cowboys trio
of Emmett, Michael and Troy, because I'm not putting Kirk
in this and I'm not making it a quartet, but
the trio of Pitts, London and Beijon. Every team in
the league should want to have talent like that. There's
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some people that are much higher than London than maybe
his numbers have shown, probably because of who's been out
there saying could be said for Kyle Pitts and for
the same reasons. Hopefully his injury situation which came up
this week isn't significant, and he's already taken to social
media to indicate as much, because when it was reported
that he was dealing with something that man basically in
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Aaron Rodgers relaxed type of I'll be out there and
I'll see you on Sunday. But because of those three
and some of the other moves they've made and some
of the things I think they can repeat defensively, I
have the Falcons winning that division. Falcons, Eagles, Lions, Niners.
So all three of us agree on three of the divisions,
and that includes nobody thinks the Cowboys are winning the
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NFC East real quick on that point.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Specifically, to me, at least, that is as much about
the health of the Eagles as it is the fact
that I think the Cowboys aren't as good as them
because they just.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Weren't right last year and that started with their quarterback.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And unless there's something dramatically wrong with the interior of
their line with the absence of Taylor Swift's boyfriend's brother
this year, then I think they'll be okay. I do
think that's a big deal to replace him, because that's
your he really is, especially with a younger quarterback, and
Philadelphia's kind of been Their writers have been talking about
this this week. He was the quarterback of their offense.
He was making a lot of the calls you would
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as the center. He was doing a lot of the
leadership things. The two of us talked about it. So
it's a little bit bigger loss than just probably the
greatest center to be in the NFL the last ten years.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
But also, the Cowboys sign Zeke Elliott at running back,
and they signed the best running back that's not named
Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Right, And while Ceedee Lamb might be awesome, and he is.
The other team has DeVante Smith and aj Brown, and
if there's a healthy Dallas Goddard and there wasn't last year.
All these things points to why I think the three
of us agree there are wildcard teams on the NFC side.
I'll start with the Cowboys, just not to win the division,
but yes, they'll be a part of the postseason, which
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also means they won't start at home like they did
a year ago where they lost to the wildcard Packers.
Who I have the wildcard Packers making it in this year,
and I think the Bear's fourth place schedule, the Bears division,
and the bears overhaul of talent from last year to
this year, especially at the quarterback position, puts them as
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a surprise playoff participant.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I don't Cowboys, Packers, and then the Falcons show up
in the wild card.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Obviously, Dan, you are not picking the Falcons because you
told that you're not getting fooled by them again. So
who do you got for gr three?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I got two of the three. You guys have Packers
and also Cowboys. I slide the Rams in there. One
last run for Matt Saffer.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I thought about that by the way, doing that, and
I hope you thought about adding Matt Stafford to your
list of quarterbacks you're most concerned about getting hurt. That
is why I can't pick the Rams. Yeah, not only
because I think he is possible. He's always in that
boat of is he going to be hurt? Is his
shoulder down? Is he nicked up? Is he playing hurt?
Is he unable to answer the bell? Not because he
isn't tough, because he is, But then what and I
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and I'm saying this knowing and he's beautiful in all,
but I don't know how good a quarterback he is
their backup as Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Garoppolo stet'sn't been at time, baby.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I mean, I don't know if that means it's over
for them. That's their third stringer. Yes, I wondered where
he was. Well, he played like every snap this preseason
until they got to Houston, and then they played their
fourth stringer every play of the Texans game. So I
think that's the thing I'd be most worried about, and
the reason I did not pick the Rams. That's our
NFC side. We'll get you our AFC side and our
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title games and Super Bowl matchup and winner, leaving those
Bowld predictions for what we'll do. At around five point
fifteen to the top of the hour, we'll slide back
into our baseball conversation. Chandler Rome is set to join
us for his weekly visits following the Astros l and
we'll keep tabs on what's going on with the Mariners
and A's right here on the eighteen.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I'm cleansing Adam Wexler our eighteen returns of these Astros fans.
Here you hear the Woods. It's just those crazy Houstonians.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Find Sports Talk seven ninety rolls you through the NFC
predictions last segment. We'll get to the NFC postseason along
with the AFC postseason after we give you our AFC
predictions for division winners and the trio of wildcare teams
expected to join them in the postseason. Is it obvious
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that all of us are picking the Texans to repeat
as AFC South champions. Yeah, it's obvious. We're all picking
the Texans to repeat as AFC South champions. My trio
of division winners that go along with them to of
them play tonight, Ravens in the North, Chiefs in the West,
and the other one plays Monday Night for the first
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time in a year, the Aaron Rodgers led New York Jets.
You're bullish on the Jets. Their rosters awesome. All they
need is a quarterback. I believe even Aaron Rodgers can
handle that.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah, it's probably a pretty good pick. But honestly, I
think you could go three different ways in that division
and still be safe.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I might be taking the outlier. I know it's not
the Patriots.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
I'm taking the Dolphins to win the AFC East for
the first time in how long since Dan Marino is there? Honestly, Yeah, Dolphins, Bengals,
and Chiefs are my other three picks.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
The Dolphins should be. The answer to that question should
have been, yeah, they haven't won it since last year
they totally fell apart at the end of the season
and ended up as a wildcard team rather than a
division champion. The answer is, they haven't won one since
Chad Pennington Tony Sperano head coach and quarterback and head
coach two thousand and eight.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
You know, when Dolphins fans hear that, you know what
they say, gross.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
They that's their one division championship since the Texans have existed. So, yeah,
it's been a while. What do you have for your
division champs?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Dan Well, I guess copied off my paper because I'm
going Miami, Cincinnati, and Kansas City as well.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It was smart of him to write at them in
different order, though, so you wouldn't figure it out, but
you did anyway. And your wildcard teams, I'm gonna go
with Bill's Ravens Steelers. Well, explain the Steelers pick just
because I think Tom always makes sense to select them,
But it just seems like it's going to be an
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awfully tough road to climb up a mountain, to climb
up a hill to roll to the top of when
every other team we will talk about in the AFC,
every single one of them, has significantly better quarterback play
than what we expect to see from Russell Wilson, who's
not one hundred percent and may have some issues going
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into this week with a calf, and Justin Field. So
how do the Steelers get to the playoffs? Well, I
mean it's you kind of alluded to it in both parts. First,
one is Mike Tomlin seemingly quarterback. Hell, he can still
win ten games a year, and now they at least
have capable players and no longer have to live through
said hell of Kenny Pickett and Mason Rudolph. If you
can make the playoffs with Kenny Pickett and Mitch Trubisky
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and Mason Rudolph's Rudolph, then I think that's what you're
saying about the twenty twenty four Steelers. Then we surely
can make it with Russell Wilson and Justin Fields. Then go, yeah,
they're not gonna make the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I don't think so much. I've got the Bills, the Ravens,
and the Jets. Since they didn't win the division, they
are still making the postseason.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yes, kind of surprising in the absence of both of
their top two receivers, Gabe Davis now in Jacksonville and
Stefan Diggs takes his captain's chair to the Texans locker room.
All three of us have the Bills as a wild
card team, so back in the playoffs again. We've got
Josh Allen. They have Josh Allen, and Josh Allen was
my immediate thought when contemplating some sort of bold prediction
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like he's gonna have a fifty touchdown season of some sort.
I do think they actually have talent still. I actually
think what's going to hurt them more is all their
other losses, some of their losses on the interior both lines,
and some of the talent level on the interior both lines.
I think that's actually what's going to slow them down,
but not enough to keep them out of the playoffs. Bills, Dolphins,
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and Bengals are my team, so we all think the
Bengals and Joe Burrow and his fragile body will be
back in the postseason. This YEARFC Championship has the Texans
and the Chiefs arriving in Kansas City for that game,
with the Chiefs once again being in the game and
once again winning the game. Chiefs to the Super Bowl
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out of the AFC got the Lions and the Niners
again in a matchup in the NFC title game. But
we're gonna change the location and the winner. I've got
a Chiefs Lions Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
What about you, AC, I've got the Texans also getting
to the AFC Championship where they will host the Ravens
and beat them to go to the Super Bowl. Unfortunately,
the forty nine Ers yet again will be boring you
with an NFC Championship game. Appearance and a win over
the Lions. So you got forty nine Ers Texans Super Bowl.
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I've got Chiefs Lions super Bowl. What do you have,
dan As you get there?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
AFC. I got Bengals over the Chiefs NFC. I've got
the Lions over the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
So the Chiefs reached the championship game but don't win. Interesting,
all right? What's your Super Bowl look like? Who's coming
out on top in the big easy Cincinnati?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Joe Burrow returns to where he won the Natty and
he brings home the Lombardy.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
He will absolutely, one hundred percent recreate the photo full
uniform cigar if they do that, And I think there's
a reasonable chance they could your Super.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Bowl A see in typical Houston football fashions.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Oh my god, they're in the super Bowl for the
first time. They got the Niners. How will it go?
They lost? The Texans go where they've never been before.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I lose to Dimiko's old team. His old team, which
is also his new team, loses to his old team.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And they're doing so to his former coach, the Texans
former not head coach, but up coach. Kyle Shanahan's gonna
get his super Bowl win.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, I mean it's it's not unheard of, It's not
a not even a completely outrageous pick.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
You picked the forty nine ers to win the super Bowl.
That's very prediction, not a bold prediction. I have the
Chiefs in the super Bowl and winning the super Bowl again, reliance,
not a bold prediction. We'll hold those bold predictions. Like
I mentioned, we'll hit you back at second segment of
our number three round five point fifteen. A bold prediction
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about the league, A bold prediction about your Houston Texans.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
We now return to Adam Clinton and Adam wexlerth on
Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Getting you ready for the NFL season. They get outside
the box here on the A team need some bold
predictions on what will unfold beginning tonight and ending in
early January before we get to the postseason. We got
you your fourteen teams that will make it. We got
you your matchups in the respective conference title games, and
even gave you our winners for the Super Bowl to
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be played in New Orleans. But now we need a
bold prediction for two from each of the three of us. Dan,
if you would get us started, what is a bold
prediction you've got for this upcoming NFL season, not Texas related,
because we will hold that for later.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
All in one right here, you guys, at least one
of you had the Bears making the playoffs as a
wild card. Tells me, Okay, I think they come up
just short. But they're nine to eight and Caleb Williams
is your offensive rookie of the year.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So your bold prediction is the number one overall pick
in the draft is the rookie of the year. Well,
I mean not only that, I mean I kind of
made it sound bad on purpose because that's what I do.
What a jerk.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
They were one of the worst teams in the NFL.
If they can have that turnaround and be in playoff contention,
that's pretty bold.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It is bold. But I think we can all acknowledge
they are doing a Texans like job in trying to
make your quarterbacks life easier. Last year, justin fields, etc.
We're throwing passes to DJ Moore and that was pretty
much it, or missing passes to other players like Darnell Mooney.
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But they didn't have roma Dunes they to throw the
football too. They did not have Keenan Allen to throw
the football too. And they also could not turn around
and hand the ball to DeAndre Swift or throw him
the football. Swift, Noonsday and Keenan Allen all additions to
the Bears offense in addition to their quarterback. But going
nine to eight, that is a bold prediction. I think
mine is similar in that I have them in the playoffs.
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But that's pretty quick turnaround. No matter what happened to
get you there. You're the worst team in the league,
you're one of the worst teams in the league, you're
totally inept offensively, you're a mistake factory last season, and
now you're gonna have a winning record and possibly go
to the postseason. I think that qualifies as bold. Do
yours qualifies bold? A see, well, one of them does.
It's supposed to, it's opposed to.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
That's the name of the game here, and I kind
of gave it away with my picks. But I do
think this qualifies as a bold prediction, given that they
are the NFL's version of the Astros. The Chiefs not
making the conference championship game in any given a year.
Right now, with Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey still running
rough shot over the NFL that's a bold prediction. And
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since I have the Texans at home beating the Ravens, it's.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
A big deal. Chiefs Ravens, Chiefs, Chiefs Bengals, Chiefs Bills,
Chiefs Titans. Those are your last five AFC title game matchups.
There was a constant there. It was the Chiefs. Yeah,
so you're saying, for the first time in six seasons,
they will not advance, and based on your predictions, that
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means they won't win a playoff game this year. They
would have to lose their initial home playoff game in
the divisional run. He told you it was bold. It
is very bold, probably coming off a pretty good year
for the guys you would expect.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
And by the way, I need to kind of qualify this.
It's not likely, it's bold. It's bold. But here's the deal, Like,
if there is a reason this happens, and this sounds
stupid given who we're talking about here and the parties involved,
I think the number one reason would be some sort
of version of complacency, because I don't they're still stacked
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from a talent standpoint on both sides of the football.
They still have Andy Reid on and on and on.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Point they'll add Hollywood Brown, it's not going to play
this week. They're adding Xavier Worthy.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
But it just doesn't I mean, so other than injuries,
it doesn't really make sense other than it's it's just time.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Okay, I mean I think that the probably the real
reason would be is if they're trying to get there
with Carson Wentz their backup quarterback.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Well and the you know, the Patriots didn't make the
conference championship game.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Every year they didn't and this run has been pretty impressive.
My bold prediction was a little bit more individualized, and
I'm going to call for Lamar Jackson become the only
the second active player to repeat as NFL MVP. He
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will have won his third MVP, which leaves only two
players with more than that ever in the history of
the NFL. When he wins his third, Brady Brady has three,
so he would tie out Okay, uh first of all,
who's the only other active player with more than three
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and has won it back to back Rogers. That is correct,
he won it in twenty twenty and twenty twenty. One
of the last player to win it back to back
seasons was Peyton Manning, who now is more well known
for wearing a quarter zip than playing NFL football and
as a singer. But I'm gonna call for Lamar Jackson
to claim third MVP award as he rolls through season
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number seven and again it did not net them an
NFL championship this year, so it might just add to
the worst side of his NFL resume. Yeah, but what
about the postseason? All right, Dan, your Houston Texans are
gonna do something bold this year, likely statistically or with
an award. What will it be?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Individually? Tank Dell team leader in receiving touchdowns twelve, had
seven last year, and what's second on the team to
Nico Collins who had eight played in four less games.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I mentioned there over unders yesterday the trio of Texans
receivers but only in catches and yards, and I I
don't know where it is today, but I can't imagine
that it changed. The over under on touchdowns for Tank
Dell is a very low four and a half. That's
why that's a bold Perdition's bold prediction is twelve. If
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nothing else, I'm one hundred percent on board playing the
over on Dell touchdown reception.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
He's going to do something that the Texans lone member
of the Hall of Fame could never do double digit
touchdowns in the season.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Andre Johnson, if he comes back, would still be looking
for his first ten touchdown reception season. What's your bold prediction?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
All right, I'm if this is not a fade wex
oh with your with your Texas related how the NFL
bold prediction?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I guess you must be talking about an MVP award.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Yeah, I think CJ. Stroud wins the MVP this year,
which means Lamar would not.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
So this would be Joe Burrowes second season in the
NFL claiming the MVP award, Lamar Jackson esk second season
in the NFL claiming the MVP award in a league
that still has Pat Mahomes, Labar Jackson, Joe Burrow, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
But I mean, listen, there's people out there that are
predicting the Texans to go to the Super Bowl or
have a deep playoff run. You're going as far as
he takes you, and so if he's taking you that far,
then that's your argument.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
If I'm not mistaken, I believe currently he holds the
fifth best odds to win NFL MVP this season.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I wish we knew, and you probably do when the
last time somebody with those exact odds actually won it.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I mean, that's a pretty fit's ever happened. You probably
get pretty good odds on it from a wagering standpoint,
something not so obvious but still a number worth playing
without throwing your money away. I actually couldn't keep myself
from making two bold predictions about the Houston Texans. One
of them is CJ related. If he wins the MVP,
he will definitely do this set the franchise record in
touchdown passes. They've only had a thirty touchdown past season
(21:49):
once de Shaun Watson did a thirty three back in
twenty twenty. Sound I'm saying more than thirty three touchdowns
for CJ. Stroud.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
You wrote DW on the rundown, and I had to think,
who's d DOV.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I couldn't put d W four that. I just can't.
I just couldn't do it d W. I was like,
who oh, oh, that's right that guy. And my second
bold prediction is the duo on the edge of Will
Anderson Junior and daneil Hunter will produce the first thirty
sack season for teammates in Houston Texans football history, because
(22:24):
like matthis Freeny territory here, Well, they nearly did it once,
and I was kind of shocked that they got this
close once before. But back in twenty fifteen when Watt
had his seventeen and a half sex sack season, Whitney
Merciless was there with him with twelve. They came a
half sack shy of a thirty sack season. So technically
they were involved in thirty one or thirty quarterback sacks.
(22:47):
When you get a half sack, guess what you did.
You sacked the quarterback. I wonder if they would ever.
I know they don't want to give two sacks to
two different one sack each to the player. But you
sacked him, You tackled him. He's down. A half sack
is somewhat statistically comical, unless.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
It's Michael Strahan on Brett fav and then he laid
down and they gave him a sack.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, he was already down when you jumped over him,
and I think touched his juris or the record. Yeah.
I wanted to leave it as a Danil Hunter exclusive,
but I couldn't say he was gonna have twenty one sacks.
I think he's gonna have the second, the first player
other than J. J. Watts have more than seventeen and
a half sacks eighteen, nineteen, twenty somewhere in there. But
I couldn't go super bowld and say he will set
(23:29):
the new team record, So I don't think he's headed
for a twenty one sax season this year. I do
think he's gonna be awesome, and they're going to be
awesome in that particular part of their defense. But I
actually think they have to be if they're going to
compete with what else they might be missing. One last
thing before we close out this segment, A's took a
or had a four run deficit going to the bottom
(23:50):
of the ninth against Seattle's closer in a non saved
situation with a Munos on the bump. He gave up
a two run homer and then got a nice call
on a yeah, I think thank you want third strike
the second of the day to Rooker. Seattle wins six
' four. They are better than average now they're seventy
one and seventy and they've taken another full game today
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off of the Astros Divisions match days at eighteen. We'll
continue here on the eighteen, Our.
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