December 5, 2023 • 50 mins
The injury bug took a big bite out of the NFL this week. We talk NFL playoff picture and how the CFP shook out!
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Today on jet Set Dynasty. Injuriesgalore in Week thirteen, But but the
playoff picture is starting to get clearer. Question mark that and more ready,
let's go, let's go, let'sgo. Hello, everybody, Welcome back
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to jet Set Dynasty Football. BrianStein and I'm JB. And we got
boo boos. We got a lotof booboos left and right. I mean,
holy cow. Uh, there's justbeen so many this week, some
although other other than Tank Dell,which will probably start with. But I
would start with Tank because I wantto bitch about him. Yeah, but
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I said, most of them arerelatively short term except for Tank Dell and
probably Trevor Lawrence. Actually, Lawrenceis just a high ankle sprain. So
oh really, I mean high anklesprain stinks, sure, but it shouldn't
be a season ending injury. Correct, correct, But let's start with Tank
Dell because that is a season endinginjury. I'm so mad about that play.
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Like, I get putting your besteleven on the field, but you
gotta use a little bit of commonsense when you're lining up Tank Dell as
a tight end on a quarterback sneak, What are we doing? I didn't
realize that was how he got That'show he got hurt. That sucks.
He was literally but to butt withthe tackle. That coach literally looked him
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in the eye, looked. Ihad to look down at him because remember
Tank Dell was five nine, onehundred and sixty five pounds. Yeah,
and he went put a hat on, a hat, kid, and then
he got his leg roll up onand got a tour fibula. I believe
it once. Yeah, broken fibulaor broken fibula part of me, I
think you can tear. Yeah.I forgot tibula as a bone, not
a muscle. Yeah. I didn'tdo too well in health classes in high
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school or any class. Uh finisheshis season with seven hundred and nine yards
and seven touchdowns on forty seven receptions. He was electric electric. I mean,
I don't even know what else tosay about it, because he was
I think you would call him thebiggest surprise of the rookie class. Other
than that Pooka would say, butpookah, Yeah, that's fair. But
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I mean we all like Tank Dell. Oh, tank Dell could be kind
of good. Tank Dell sneaky's small, but like third round, give me
all the tank Doll and it's justlike, oh wait, never mind,
he's nasty as hell. Yeah,hopefully. I feel like they were talking
about Tank Dell's was like a topfifteen Dynasty receiver when it was Yeah,
whenever he was on his hot streak. I mean, you're probably not that
far off. Youth is just soimportant nowadays. So yeah, I think
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for me, at least, thissolidified for the Texans that they're probably gonna
look for more wide receiver help goinginto the draft, into the offseason.
Yeah. Again, we keep Ikeep bringing this comparison with Mahomes. Just
because c J. Stroud is doingit with Nico Collins and Tank Dell doesn't
mean he should have to do itwith just them through his career and Mahomes
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same thing. Yes he won aSuper Bowl, Yes he had five thousand
yards without Tyreek Hill, but nowlook what's happening. It's just because it's
working with this wide receiver corps thaton paper is a little bit more lackluster.
Doesn't mean he's gonna always make itwork with that. Yeah, So
I expect Texans to go again heavyat receiver, maybe even using a first
round pick. Although can we talkabout Nico Collins Nil Collins is a monster.
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Nico Collins and Tank Dell are aperfect combination. Yes, like you
the side speed guy, you gotthe rout runner, I mean they and
then you have Dalton Schultz, whois kind of good. Yeah he's been
hot and Collein's been injured, butyeah he missed last week. Brevin Jordan
stepped in pretty nice though. Yeah, it's nice see Rerevin Jordan a little
bit. Yeah, that's a namethat was kind of hyped up when he
was coming out of school. ButI think that yeah, I mean,
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I don't know about top fifteen,what dynasty receiver for Tank Dell, but
yeah, he's really really good,and I don't I don't think there's any
major drop off in his future,especially you know, it's not what do
you call it, it's not abone injury. Is he should come back
from you don't have a slower timetableor a chance of like when you tell
your seals like, oh he mightnot be the same, your bone's gonna
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heal, you should be okay,he should come back to restively normal.
So it'll be interesting to see ifJohn Metri does anything. You would think
that he would kind of be likethe next in line over there. I
saw him a couple of times afterhe went down. Uh, so yeah,
that's we surprisingly didn't see any noBrown but no brain. There was
his first game back from injury,so it was yeah, I probably expect
see a little bit more no ABrown too. Yeah, I really I
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hope that maybe this is just like, hey, let's see what Metri can
do since he had such an awkwardstart to his NFL career. Uh but
yeah, we're gonna miss Tank Dellfor the rest of the season for sure,
especially, but Nico Collins is gonnago. Oh yeah he is.
Nico Collins should be in line forlike eight to ten targets every week.
Is he must start now? Ye? Must start probably at this point.
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Yeah, he is currently a widereceiver twelve. Yep, Nico Collins a
wide receiver one. So yeah,that's must start. In my eyes,
that is crazy. I'm just lookingat his stats. He's only had three
weeks of single digit points. That'sridiculous. Nico Collins a guy that nobody
thought was gonna be much more thanjust you know, a deep a big
body, deep threat. But uhyeah, we're gonna miss you, Tank
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Dell. We'll see you next year. Well, also, there's nobody else
on this list here that we're reallygonna be like, oh, see you
next year. We'll start with We'llstart with the Steelers talk because we need
to. But can you Pickett?It was a weird injury. All of
his injuries are always weird. Hehas him every week and they're always weird
and not long. Yeah, II'll say it. I was surprised he
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didn't try to come back in thegame, Like, how much feel like
ankle injuries are, Like you canpower through an ankle injury, Yeah,
but how many times can you powerthrough an injury like Kenny does? I
don't know. I guess I don't. I guess he's that's been bothering him
because it was on the injury reportthis week. I guess, so maybe
it's worse than they thought. Thesurgery, I'd never heard of the surgery
they call like a tight rope surgeryor something like that, which I thought
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was unfamiliar with. Like I'm nodoctor, I'm not I say that all
the time. That's my catch prise. I am a doctor, but I
think that, Uh, yeah,it's gonna be rough going for the Steelers
with Mitch at the Helm. Luckilyyou have the lowly Patriots this week.
But it's Zappy first and maybe evenwe haven't heard about it yet, but
I'm waiting for the Malie Cunningham drop. I would love just they have to
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give him a shot at some point, right, it's at this point.
Why not? It's bad, It'sreally bad. I mean it's a great
way to tank and say, hey, we're gonna look at this guy and
also give him a shock and alsolook at Caleb Williams first overall in the
draft. Yeah. With that Steelerslost this week, that puts the Patriots
in number two overall. They're alright, number two? Im pretty sure.
No, they had it was Cardinals, then Patriots, and now with the
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Cardinals who won, Right now it'sflopped. Oh yeah, that's you're saying.
Yeah, yeah, I thought youmeant this coming up a week Patriots
losing to the Steelers. No,now they have it and they basically lose
the Steelers. That should probably lockit up for the rest of the season.
Uh well, we I think thePanthers still need to win at least
one game because there's there's still onefor aren't they. Yeah, Panthers is
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still one, which is the Bearspick of course, right, but yeah,
the Patriots are probably just gonna beending up with one of the top
two quarterbacks, yeah, without adoubt. Uh. But yeah, the
whole Kenny Pickett thing is weird.I don't know what to like. I
know, you're an anti Picket andI keep trying to like fight for him,
and every week it gets harder andharder. Last week it wasn't so
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bad because the fourn of our performance, but there's just something there. I
think the biggest struggle for me withhim is he really doesn't have pocket presence.
No, Like he bails way tooearly instead of stepping up into a
pocket and trying to like deliver astriker. Yeah, he doesn't. Like
this is what we gave Bryce Younga lot of credit coming out of coming
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out of college. He feels likehe has eyes in the back of his
head. He knows whenever like pressure'scoming. Kenny works on a time clock.
As soon as it gets to threefour seconds, Yeah, he is
just bailing. Yeah, once hegets past the three Mississippi his head,
he's he's like, oh, someonethat has to be coming, which,
to be fair, his line hasnot been great. No, so maybe
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that gives him a little bit ofleeway. But I don't know what they're
gonna do with him next year.I obviously the steelersre not gonna move on
from him right away, but yeah, and where they probably gonna end the
draft is probably not gonna be aquarterback we're taking, unless they want to
take the shot on Pennix, whichI think would mind. I think Penis
will be gone by the time we'redrafting, assuming we make the playoffs and
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we're in like the early twenties.Yeah, if there it's early twenties,
then yeah, it'll be tough.It will be tough for Penicks should go,
and then the top twenty picks,yeah with I agree. Uh,
why are speaking of quarterbacks? Lawrencegot hurt on Monday Night? It was
a bad one too, just offensivelineman, just getting bull rushed to hell
and just steps right on the worsewhen your own teammate steps on you like
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that. Yes, it's embarrassing forhim. It's awkward, as like,
oh, I just broke my quarterbackso we couldn't get my man a cart.
Yeah, they made my They mademy man walk the entire way to
the locker. Room. I sawa tweet that was, like all the
golf carts in Florida and we didn'tget my fan, Trevor, I know
there's a golf cart shortage, butI know there's one around. Well,
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I mean it's Florida. How manygolf courses. I bet that you probably
throw a football and and hit agolf course from that stadium in Jacksonville.
I'll tell you what I liked outof Trevor Lawrence yesterday was that's the first
time I've seen emotion from him.I feel like, yes, he's usually
a very like, calm, cool, collective guy, which I don't knock
him for, but like he wasangry. He was talking to refs when
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they were missing up those calls.What a fucking week for reffing. Oh
well, we could talk about thatin a second. The refs were I'm
I'm worried about refs. But yeah, I was excited to see him like
show actual some emotion that he's notjust a football robot and it's like,
hey, I'm like human being andI want to win just as bad as
anybody else, which means nothing,but it was just you don't see that
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from as ever, and that mademe think that injury was way worse than
it was. Yeah, but youshould be back in just a few weeks
hopefully. So hopefully this isn't somethingthat lingers throughout the year. The Jacks
are such a weird team. They'rethey're really they're what nine and or eight
and four? Now? Yeah,so they're still first in their division.
They're gonna host a playoff game probably, I don't know, man, the
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tech the Texans and the Colts arehot on their trail. They're not that
close. They're one game behind both, they're not. Yes, No,
Look, do you want to holdup the playoff picture that we're going to
talk about pulling up the playoff picture? Dude, I thought there were two
games back. Nope, it's eightand four and both the Texans and the
Colts are seven five. Shit,that's bonkers. Yeah, that's crazy.
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They are right there. I don'tknow what to do. I mean that,
Yeah, the Jacks. It's hardto trust the Jacks at this point
without Lawrence. I'm pretty weary ofCalvin Ridley going forward with who Yeah,
CJ. Bethard, who is in? Yeah, it seemed during the time
he was in he was really targetingEvan Ingram, Yeah, that makes me
great. Look fantastic, fast,Yeah, nimble. I mean he's always
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been fast and nimble, but usuallyit's always followed with an injury. That's
true, That's very true. Butyeah, So if you have someone like
Evan Ingram, or you say,somebody like Travis Etn, you should be
fine. If you have somebody likeCalvin Ridley, I'd be a little bit
more concerned. I mean, let'sbe honest, really really has not had
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a good year. No, ithasn't been terrible, it has been great.
I mean Ridley's weirdly like a touchdownor bust at this point, which
is not something I would expect tosay. What do you think is wide
receiver ranking is twenty eight twenty four. That's not bad. Love wide receiver
two. Yeah, low wide receivertwo, that's I mean, honestly,
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that's better than I thought. Ithought he was gonna be in the thirties.
But yeah, he really is.Boomer bust twenty four, five seven,
eleven, twenty six, one,fourteen, four thirty one, twenty
one seven, Like it really is. You're gonna have a big day or
you're you're not gonna have much outof them, but I also don't I
wouldn't be I would still probably startthe next week. I don't know who
they're playing this this week, butI can tell you because I've got the
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list up here is a Houston,Cleveland this week, Cleveland this week.
I wouldn't be so scared away fromit. I mean, the Cleveland defense,
I would be a little hesitant.But with in regards to Bethard,
he just kind of got thrown in, so like, yeah, he's gonna
tight ends. Always your safety blanket. Uh, but yeah, Parker Washington
got a lot of touches that catchmy Parker Washington was sick. It was
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so cool. I was like,alright, alright, we see you.
Yeah. I really liked that.He looked good. But yeah, I'm
very excited to see what happens there. I don't know what. It's probably
gonna be four weeks probably for thehigh ankle sprain for for Te Law,
Yeah, probably probably we might seehim back in the regular season, like
for a game that's probably gonna haveto side home field. Yeah, oh
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jeez. Another high nkle sprain.Ro Madre Stevenson good for the Steelers this
week. That yeah, that one, that one hurts. Rmandre was starting
to have a little bit more ofa resurgence the last couple of weeks.
Now Zeke is going to be gettingup a very heavy look going forward.
Yeah, he had three weeks ofthirteen or more points and then he had
two points last week. Nigga hurt. Yeah, Yeah, he got hurt.
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So he's kinda into a wideceiver orrunning back twenty which is way lower
than what people thought he was gonnabe. Yes, agreed, Uh,
But a lot of Hinkel Sprain's goingaround a lot of concussions. Derek Carr
had a concussion. Hollywood Brown hada concussion. Mark Cooper too, right,
Mark Cooper, Yes, so youwould think that most of this guys,
hopefully I'm gonna miss a ton oftime and hopefully they get through protocol
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quick. It was a week orless, but a lot of they got
through quick. So I yeah,hope. And he came back looking pretty
good. Jimmy Graham caught a touchdown. It was so I was like,
let's go it is this twenty tenagain. They're really bringing it back up.
They brought him up like they sawhim go in and everyone's like,
oh, look at Jimmy Graham andit's like, no, he's getting this
touchdown. It's like, oh,never mind, of course he was getting
that touchdown. Yeah, if he'scoming in, they're gonna throw the wall.
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But yeah, that was I sawthat like on the ticker, and
I was like, I was like, hey, Siri, what year is
it? It was. It wasa fun little throat. I think he
should have just taken the fine andjust did the dunk. Oh is it
a fine out? I think it's. I think he made it a Jimmy
Gram's the reason it's a finable thing. Now well, I'm pretty sure he
bent a goalpost one year and theyhad to like spend twenty minutes fixing it.
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He may not be able to dunkanymore. Hot take. I disagree.
Head do you think Jimmy Graham islike thirty five but he should still
be able to get up the hair? I don't know that body has seen
better days. He's nearly tied inseven. He's thirty seven. Still,
I'm sure when the knees start going. Let me tell you, as someone
who's new, I have to weardouble knee braces anytime I do sports,
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one on one on each knee.I was wondering. I was like,
you like double rapt No, yes, just pick two of No No one
on each knee and it works though. I feel great afterwards. That's nice.
Good for you. Yeah, gettingnot fun. Uh. Any other
major injuries you want to talk abouthere before we jump to the playoff picture.
I don't think so. I thinkthe only one misses Kirk. Kirk
has a growing injury, will probablybe out for a week. Yeah,
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Christian Kirk does. Yeah. Whatabout who is probably the best person you
can get on waivers right now?Because imagine people are struggling with the you're
talking in fantasy redraft? Yeahgantasy.Thanks, Yeah, let's see, let's
take it. Let's Oh, weforgot and big one that we forgot to
mention was Derrick Henry in concussion.Oh yeah, we did forget about it.
Because Taji Spearence is probably gonna beyour biggest waiver wire like pick up
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this week. Yeah, that's agreat point. Let's take a look here
because I have I have one leaguewhose waivers go off early. They go
off on Wednesdays. It's that Thursdaysand I hate it. So yeah,
I think's gonna be a big one. Zeke's gonna be a big one.
Yeah. If Zeke's on there,I feel like Zeke is not shouldn't be.
But let's see what Chase Brown hada little bit of a nice game,
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gave him a lot of carry.Maybe he's the guy that you pick
up. He made the most ofit too. Yeah, Parker Washington is
a guy. Since Kirk's gonna beout, I think he'll get something.
Alec Pierrice two touchdowns last week.Yeah, I don't know, calm that's
gonna be going forward. Yeah,No, it's uh dem Pickens a slim.
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I'm looking right now. There's reallynot much here. Yeah, I
think that was Probably the big onesis Taji Spears. If you want a
guy who's gonna guarantee you work,probably a Zeke if you can get them.
Yeah, Parker Washington, I thinkwould be a good one. Yeah,
a little Stasherrooni and cheese if youwant a little you know, see
what happens with him after a weekor two. But yeah, this is
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a tough time for Waiver Wire.But yeah, Chase Brown. Chase Brown
played pretty good last week last night, which is cool to see. All
Right, you're reready talking about somepictures. Let's you wanna start with the
AFC or the NFC. I thinkyou start with the NFC because it's a
little clearer, isn't it? So? Right now it's i'd argue with probably
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two horse race at the top prettyeasily, is getting it? No,
you're a phrasing. There's probably threehorse race between the Eagles, the forty
nine ers, and the Cowboys,not the Lions. Lines are definitely odd
man out, Like if you putthem all in, it's like, which
one of these are the worst teams? I want to put the lines in
that list before I put the Cowboys. I think I disagree. Cowboys are
playing crazy right now. Cowboys alsohave a week as schedule they do.
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You want to guess who's MVP bettingodds favorite for MVP. I don't want
to talk about Dak I I don't. I refuse to root for him.
You want to guess who he's tiedwith. There's a three there's a three
horse race. Two of them arethree to one odds and one is like
a plus three fifty. It's hireekNo, not close. Nope, they're
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all quarterbacks. What so? Jalenhurts. Jalen hurts is the third one.
It's Party. It's the two oneswho are tied for the best of
three to one is Dak Prescott andBrock Party. Yeah, I mean that's
just insane. Dak has had goodlike he's playing well, I'll give him
that, Like he's QB three,he's got you know, let me look
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at Lewisy where his stats are here, but he's his interceptions are really really
low, which is different. Whatwas this thing? What are you saying
the AUF season not going to throwa ten ten iron ts? Yeah,
and he's not close. He's gotthree, four, five, six,
you can still get to ten.He could. But so they've got the
next couple of weeks will really kindof help you see what the Cowboys really
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are because they've got Philadelphia Buffalo,which kind of is shooting themselves. Then
you have Miami Detroit then finishing outwith Washington. So you have minimum Philadelphia,
Miami Detroit three playoff teams in sixgames. So if they come out
of there looking really good against theLions in Week seventeen, then I might
change my tune. And I knowthe Lions have kind of went on a
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little bit of a skid, butthey bounced back last week, even though
it was kind of Yeah, they'restill the same record. They're all nine
to three, except the Lions gamewas just a little weird, like they
were up like twenty one nothing,they let him come back and then they
pulled away again at the end.It's like you want to see them just
you know, keep finishing the gas. But but yeah, I think that
realistically, I think the Niners areby far and away the best team.
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I think so too. They're justthe most complete team. Now the party
is starting to look starting to looklike party again. Everybody's starting to get
healthy. Devo is becoming a realmenace right now. That game was,
Wow, Debo was I lost thegame because of that last like five minute
touchdown. I'm just like, they'reup by two possessions. I'm like,
why are they still in? Yeah, because they were reminding you that they
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had a quarterback this this week insteadof like the NFC championship. Yeah.
So I think the forty nine ersare probably gonna be the best opportunity to
get it, because again, Idon't I think the Eagle's gonna have a
tough time going to Dallas. Idon't know, Like I think that game
is gonna be really close. Yeah. Yeah, that's the divisional game and
two of the top four teams inthe in the NFC. Uh So let's
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talk about the remaining three spots.Okay, And so we're in the wild
card. Who do you think isthe best of the wild card teams for
the listening audience? Tug of yourrunning list? It's the for the record,
the listening audience is the entire audience. By the way, fair,
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this is fair. So they lastthree we're talking about is the Falcons,
who get the advantage because of theirdivision. Yep, the Vikings six and
six, the Packers at six andsix, the Rams at six and six,
and the Seahawks. And I'll throwingthe Bucks in the Saints in there
because there are only one game backfrom their division. Bucks in the st
Saints are not worth my time.I don't know Bucks can beat in Atlanta
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this week they and then take well, I think they're tied, so would
have to go to another tie breaker. Honestly, like the Vikings have looked
hot as of late. The JoshDobbs effect is going strong. But the
Packers, that's what I want totalk about, is the Packers I don't.
I don't. They're not gonna catchthe lines obviously, but they could
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very well end up being like thehighest seeded wild card team. They're the
defense is just people are forgetting.Like our friend Charlie always says, they
have names. They have Jyree Alexander, they have for Sean Evans, they
have Kenny Clark. They they gotpeople on that team. And now when
Jordan Love and Weirdly, I can'texplain this, but there is a little
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correlation of when Christian Watson's scores touchdownsand then winning games. He looks good
this week the last like three weeks, yeah, and then he went down
again with a hamstring injury. Thatknowing Christian Watson will probably be back next
week because he just does that.He is so good at getting hurt in
the coming back from yes, likeit's strading his heck. He like,
I'm pretty sure he hurt himself tryingto slow down too. He was like
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trying to stay in bounds and messedhimself up. I thought it was like
an acl or something like that,the way he went down, like he
like crumpled. But I do thinkthat the Packers are starting to really find
a rhythm. Yeah, because againwe Jordan Love, I think is a
good quarterback. He's not great,He's not Jordan Love might be the lit
miss going forward, he might replaceher cousins of Yeah, whoever's above him
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is a good quarterback. Whoever's belowhim is a back quarter. Yes,
I would agree with that, butthat person gets you relatively far in playoff
Yeah, in playoff pushes. Ithink that realistically, the vikings like it's
the same effect as Dobbs in Arizona. He's hot for a couple of games,
played really well, and then hecooled off. I don't know if
that's team's figuring them out or itstarts getting too complex in the playbook and
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he gets overwhelmed, which I don'tknow if I believe. Since he's a
freaking astronaut, he should be smartenough to do a playbook. But I
think the Packers are really starting tofind a groom and find their ident.
They're realizing that hey, we dowe are able to throw it down the
field, we can move the ball, uh the run. Ad Dillana is
starting to get a little bit moreof an imp like nothing they're ride home
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about, but enough that you haveto respect the run game, so I
could. And then, like wesaid, the defense has some names to
it and they're pretty good. SoI really think that out of out of
these like wild Card slash Bubble teams, I think for me it's the Packers,
and I think the Rams too.Yeah. I think eventually the Vikings
are gonna lose enough sea where they'regonna probably be out and probably get replaced
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by somebody in that NFC south ofthe Rams and the Seahawks. If I'm
taking my guests right now, i'dprobably go with you with the Rams.
Yeah. I really want the Seahawksto do well, so do why they
just they can't get it all together. Uniforms this week though, the Blues
the old time, he's the bluewith the silver helmet. Uh huh.
They did put thirty on the Cowboys, Like let's like, let's not scoff
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that. They Yeah, they theydid keep that game very competitive. They
did they to very competitive. Yeah. So between the Rams, Seahawks,
and Vikings, the Vikings have thetiebreaker as of right now. But I'm
sure like this went into the playoffcommittee for college football this week. But
give me either Rams vers Vikings orSeahawks versus Vikings on a neutral field,
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I'm probably picking the former and bothof those games, I agree. Yeah,
the Vikings were fun while lasted,but they're gonna come back to everything.
Even though they are getting Justin Jeffersonback. That is nice. I
would love. I'm excited. Iam excited to see how Justin Jefferson coming
back with Josh Dobbs translates. Yeah. Yeah, the chemistry there maybe a
little off, but who knows.It's hard to not. Vikings have a
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relatively solid matchup this week, right, I'm trying to remember who they play
one moment. The Vikings play theRaiders this week. Yeah, that's a
pretty good. Uh, that's nice, trustee. With the rest of their
schedule is coming up here. Theyhave Raiders, Bengals, Detroit, Packers
Detroit. That's tough. Getting Detroittwice and getting Packers, who I think
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could beat you is tough. Isa tough three weeks. You could win
the next two games in Raiders insInsteade and lose out the rest of the
season potentially. I still think theRaiders are very competitive. I'll call him
competitive. He's I don't think acompetitive because the ade O'Connell I think everybody
else is just rallying over the factthat McDaniels is not there anymore. Because
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the Raiders may not have been winning, but the Raiders are keeping like games
close with everybody who they're playing.Like. Granted, let's take the Chiefs
game out of the out of scenario, because that's a tough one. They
only lost by seven to the Dolphins, beat the beat, the Jets,
beat the Giants, kept it withineight to the Lions, so they're key.
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They're staying in it with most teams. Yeah, that just for me,
No, it shouldn't. But I'mjust saying the only good thing on
that team is Max Crosby and DevonteAdams and Josh Jacobs. Have they really
been performing? Though? Adams hasgotten better and so it's Jacobs but two
very slow starts. Correct. Butspeaking of the AFC, let's jump over
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there, okay, because I thinkthat this is this is this one's a
cluster. Yeah, so obviously yougot the Dolphins in the Ravens at the
top. They're both nine and three. I think who would you take a
neutral field between those two Ravens Ravens, I think I would too. Their
defense is really really starting to comeinto form again. It's starting to feel
like the Ravens defenses of old andthe Dolphins have just proven that they do
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struggle against good teams, and theRavens are a really good team. Mm
hmm. I really like what therape. I think when it's all said
done, Ravens are probably going tobe the number one seed. Yeah,
probably, which makes us feel goodthat the Steelers beat him. Yes,
absolutely, Chiefs bad loss against Packers, but I think they're going to struggle
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in the playoffs just because they're goingto be fairy Travis Kelsey relying. I
think a lot of teams are justgonna be like, Okay, we're gonna
basically just Darren Mahomes do it allhimself. We're gonna take away Kelsey and
that's gonnas gonna kind of be thedeal. Have you had the feeling that
Kelsey is moving slower than he hasin past years. I don't think so.
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No. I feel like when Iwatch him now, I feel like
he's just like a half step slowerthan what I'm used to seeing him at.
I feel like, you know,I'm not saying this is Taylor Swifts
keeping him up late at night andhe's slowing down or he's injured, but
like he is, he is,what thirty one years old, Like he's
getting up there in age, heis, and he he we're hearing the
retirement talk. He's like, oh, my body hurts more than he usually
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does, like and he wants todo the whole He basically wants to do
the Gronk thing where he goes andacts and does all this weird stuff.
Mm hmm. But yeah, Ithink that this is a weird year for
the Chiefs. It's also incredibly hardto look at a playoff picture and be
like, we're not gonna talk gamblinghere, but if I see the Chiefs
as an underdog any point in theplayoffs, oh, hammer it. I
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mean I have to, like,that's the rules. So because then give
credit the Chiefs defense that's been thething really keeping them in the in games.
Yeah, I absolutely agree. Itis amazing how you can build a
team Offuly. You have to TravisKelse. But these water receivers are so
bad. How do you say,hey, we got a really really good
wide receiver. Is rash Or Rashi? I'm not Heumerson Sureshi rise. I've
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never heard anybody it's not Joshi Rashi. That makes sense. You can't.
Your pronunciations are off today. Whatwas the other one you were saying earlier?
I can't. But yeah, thethe Chiefs are they're gonna make the
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playoffs, are gonna win that division. They should get out of the wild
card. But I don't. Idon't know. It's gonna take a lot
for them to go long. Thingsdon't have to line up correctly. I
think if the Ravens and Chiefs play, I think the Ravens beat them handedly.
After the top three, this iswhere we get into the absolute cluster
that is the AFC. Because here'shere's the list. We have the Jags
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right now at number one position.We'll see how that long that lasts.
Because behind them they have the Colts. Behind they have the Texans all seven
to five, including seven to fiveof the Steelers and the Browns, and
then Broncos, Bills, and Bengalsall at six and six. There's yeah,
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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eight teams fighting for these last likefour playoff spots. Yeah, it really
it's I can't like, and it'snot like the teams we expect. I
guess the Bills, but we expectedthe Bills to be sal like in this
immediately. I don't. Honestly,I don't think that. I think the
Broncos have a better chance to makethe playoffs than the Bills. At this
point. Bronco's been playing out oftheir minds recently. The Broncos are just
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hot. They are like, they'revery hot. Rust Wilson's playing. They
took an l to the Texans thisweek. They did, but it was
a good game, good game,good game. They fought hard. I
very much could see. So somehowthe Browns are still tamping the seventh seed
due to tie breakers. You haveto think that Joe Flackett was not going
to get them to the playoffs,so you say, let's knock them out.
So you've got the Texans and theBroncos and the Bills all really fighting.
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I'm not gonna talk about the Bengalseither, because Jake brown is Jake
Browning. Though I said a hottake to Charli yesterday at the bar that
I would rather have Jake Browning overmitchter Bisky after last game, I can't.
I can't dispute that. Yeah,he was slinging in this last game.
He looked good. Against Steelers too, like he was moving the ball
not not not well, no,but he seemed more decisive. I don't
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know. I would rather have himover to Mitch at this point. I
don't think it's a hot tame.So right now, I think there's gonna
be two teams from the AFC Westin or AFC West for the Jags in
the South South pardon me, twoteams in the FC South. They'll probably
the Jags and somebody else. Myguess is the Texans at this point.
Yeah. I mean when you lookat Minshew versus Stroud, you would probably
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say strous should probably get to getin there. Yeah, but yeah,
the Colts have been fun. ButI think that it finishes out. I
think Steelers, Steelers still make itin even though we were missing Kenny.
Yeah. I think Steelers make itin solely because of the schedule they're going
to get. They're gonna probably beatthe Patriots this week. That gets them
too. Eight and five yep.And that means what do you think has
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gets you into the playoffs? Ninewins are ten wins? I think it's
got to be so you have towin two games out your last four,
which is Colts Bengals Seattle in Baltimore. Good for you rattling that off.
That's in order. Colts Bengals,Seattle, Baltimore. I've been real death
death spirally on the Steelers and lookingat that schedule, looking for looking for
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some hope, and after you justlost the Arizona, not a whole lot
of hope. Lah that that thatreally does hurt. That hurt a lot.
But I I think they still makeit in yeah, because I think
getting eight and five. I don'tsee the Steelers going zero to four in
their last month, So that putsyou to nine and nine to ten wins.
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So it will be close. It'llbe close. It's gonna be close.
But yeah, the Colts are,Colts are right there. I think
the Colts are just gonna lose somesteam. But the Texans just even though
we're losing tank, tell they reallyhave lot. They really have looked like
a complete team. Will Anderson hasreally made an impact immediately on that defense.
That trade is looking better and betterby the week, which is weird
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to say, because even if you'relooking into the draft going forward, like
going into next year's draft, WillAnderson would probably still be the number one
defensive player going into next year.Yeah, there's yeah, there's the going
into this year. It's a lottoo out of u c. L A
there, Yeah, yeah, lotsof out of UCLA, Dallas Turner out
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of Alabama. There's another one whoI'm blanking on at this moment. But
again, there's not this. There'snot a Will Anderson would be like on
that same level. Like, butI don't I'm don't think well that Anderson
was like a generational like a MilesGarrett was, but he is better than
what was available with the pick thatyou gave up to get him. Yes,
absolutely, I'm very ready just forplayoffs here, Like we're getting down
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into the nitty gritty, it's reallystarting to take shape. Is there?
Before we get off the AFC,I I need to just bring this up.
Is there any chance the Chargers getback in? I was just gonna
mention that there five and seven NoQuentin john The whole Quentin Johnson thing is
crazy. He's so bad. He'sterrible, and like we, like everybody
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was kind of like we're trying notto helmet scal but just big, big
twelve wide receivers. If your nameisn't seenee lamb. It just scares you.
Well, it's not only that,it's just he I hate to say,
he was Kevin White, big,big guy, fast guy, don't
do routes so good. No,and Hans kind of questioned it hands very
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questionable. He dropped another one inhis palms. Yeah, and I was
just like, you can't, can'tdo it, man. And especially it
just worse because Zay Flowers and JordanAdison were the two that were gone right
afterwards. Did you see the Iheard a stat that I think it was
there were eight receivers drafted after QuentinJohnston and they all have more receivers.
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Yes, I believe that that's crazy. Was the third I think, excuse
me, we'll see the third widereceiver, second, second wide receiver.
That's right, because it went allfour in a row. When yeah,
js N Johnson at or no itspardon me a Jones than Addison. Uh,
that's crazy. Every receiver were eventalking down to the seventh rounders,
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pooking the cook. They've all gotmore more receiving yards than you do.
I think it was Mark's moser.He put out a tweet saying how many
wide receivers would you have taken wouldyou take if you were doing a redraft
today, above putting Johnston. Ijust I listed ten, not even looking
at the rankings or anything. Ijust started ta typing out and ninded up
with ten names. And it waslike, even people like Marvin Mams,
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I would still take Michael Wilson,Like I would still consider Michael Wilson,
But Quentin Johnson's not good, No, not all stop, not good.
They could they could have had Addison. They just could have had Addison and
you would have been even Jones,even Za Jones. Jones looked really good,
you know in spurts. He maynever be able like a full,
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full blown wide receiver one, buthe's still going to be a very good
brot wide receiver. Yes, he'sgonna be a lot of fun. But
yeah, Quentin, Quentin Johnson isthat's what we called right. Yeah.
I hate celebrating those, but wecalled those right. It was just it
was just so not easy. Butyeah, it seemed like the writing was
on the wall and there's just peoplewho chose not to read it. Yeah,
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I agree. I don't know ifthere's really much more to talk about
if we want to get into it, and we can talk about the playoffs.
Okay, let's do that, becausethat is so if you've been living
under a rock. The college footballplayoffs have been announced, and even with
some of the bowl games I thinkhave started to come out, and they
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they look like weird, like I'mpretty sure like number eight Oregon is playing
like number twenty one, like ArizonaState or something some nontense like that.
How they picked those I don't totallyunderstand, but you that I just learned
that the Rose Bowl wasn't the toptwo teams that weren't in the college football
Yes, it's the it's whoever eitherthe winner or the runner up of Pac
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twelve, first to Pack ten orfirst Big ten. I think, so
yeah, yeah Big ten. Yeah. So number one is Michigan of course,
no surprise there. Number two iswith Washington again, no surprise there.
Now we get to a little bitof Texas at number three yep,
and then Alabama at four. Verynotably missing is the thirteen to no Florida
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State and the Georgia Bulldogs who justlost so lost. Fight me. I
will fight you on that. Butlet's talk about Florida State first. I
get it, so do wh aseven as a Florida State fan, like,
I get it, you still wantlike there's a reason that part of
the committee is they have to figureout the best matchups because you want to
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still get people to watch. Andgetting a Florida State who would have been
on their third string quarterback at thispoint, yep, very much stinks.
Does that absolutely blow for the playersand the team and everyone involved with Florida
State program? Absolutely? That isso devastating, so heart breaking. You
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are the old and I get,I get the playoffs have only been around
for what five six years at thispoint, they're the first undefeated Power five
team to be taken out of theplayoff. Yeah. The way that I
look at it, and it's notjust from a gambling gambling lens, but
from a just perspective. Their jobis to find the four best teams in
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college ball today. That's third job, not by record, not by who
did what if you if? Idon't know, I haven't looked at the
spreads yet. I assume Michigan Bamais under a touchdown one way or the
other. It's probably like three threeand a half. Interesting, I'm actually
not sure. Yeah, Well,my point being, what would Michigan versus
Florida State on their third QB bandit would have been a twenty Yeah,
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I wanted My brain immediately went tothree touchdowns and I it would have been
bad. It would have been anabsolute slaughter. Even if they would have
went against Washington. I think Washingtonbeats them by two skis. I think
any of these teams, even Georgia, beats the pulp out of them.
It's a third string quarterback. Youjust can't like, I'll be my Michigan's
a one and a half point spread. Really, yes, really, yes,
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Michigan is one and a half pointfavorites against Bama. Fascinating. That's
really I don't know even I whoI would take there. I probably still
take Michigan. I don't know.That's a That's that's my point. It
would have been a freaking to watchmurder. It would be an absolute murder,
which is why I still think.So here here's my soapbox for Georgia.
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Texas and Bama both have to bothhave one loss. Yes, so
does Georgia. Yes, but becauseGeorgia's loss was in the SEC Championship and
not in the regular season, theyget penalized more so than Texas. Who
lost to Oklahoma, who had twolosses. Yeah wait, no, oh
waita Oklahoma has two losses. Okay, I see your sick now. So
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I think my problem is they justlost to the team that was also in
contention. I think that's the problem. Well, right, but you going
from one to six, by theway, not five, six is five.
Five would probably be Florida state,right, five is slow state.
That's correct, but it and it'sprobably my Georgia bias showing. But for
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me, it's hard to think thatTexas deserves to be in there. And
it's it's a circular logic, right, Texas goes in because they be and
because Bama's in there in and it'sjust a circle, right, It's yeah,
well you can say that, butthen Texas would be you know,
would have lost to Georgia. Ithink that it's just it kills me.
It'll be fun to see Texas inthere. Texas and Washington will be a
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fun game. I think that's afour point spread, yeah, Washington,
Washington is plus four. Washington's plusfour. Please hold well, I put
one hundred, honey, get thecheckbook, dear Vegas. I just this
is why I'm so glad they goingto twelve teams. I know you're a
proponent of eight being a good number, and I agree with you. There
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needs to be more teams. Yes, there needs to be more than four.
So if that's what it takes forit to be twelve, I get
it. So look at it.So let's if it was eight this year.
The additional teams in would be FloridaState, Georgia, Ohio State in
Oregon. Sounds great to me.You could make an argument that if you
set that playoff bracket up now Michiganand Oregon, Oregon could win that.
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Yeah, State, I don't thinkthey would, but it would be close.
Ohio State, Washington they could winthat. Georgia and Texas, all
these underdogs could win. And thenyou have Florida State and Bama. Okay,
that's kind of cool too. Likeagain, Florisa probably gets shipped on
because of the lack of quarterback.But but now it's to you look at
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the twelve. So if we wentto twelve this year, Missouri's at nine,
they're not winning a game. Yeah, Penn State's aid ten. Offense
was good this year, but orsorry, the defense was really good this
year. Offense is terrible. Almosteleven. They're not winning a damn thing.
No, Oklahoma twelve not winning athing. Yeah, that's kind of
that's just kind of my thought abouttwelve just seems like a lot eight.
If you just cut it off anOregon, I'm like, okay, we
got we got games, right,Yeah, this is March. But now
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we got Michigan playing people like ohMiss and yeah, I get you.
By twelve, you you are invitingmore chances of upsets, and upsets are
really good for viewership. But well, and the one thing that I will
say is that I the one reasonwhy I like the twelve teams is because
I believe they're giving at least thetop two seeds, maybe the top four
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buys. I guess that does makesense, because you'd have six or you
have three matchups each side. Yeah, yeah, I guess that makes sense.
I wouldn't see number twelve Oklahoma goingup against Michigan. You'd see them
going up against like Bama or FloridaState or something like that. Yeah,
five to twelve, it would belike, would be Florida State Oklahoma.
So I think, okay, letlet those middle of the road guys fight
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it out. Give them one morechance at glory. But let's not put
Michigan up against them and make themplay three more games. Yes, so
I do what this shows to methough, because when we talk about the
College Ofwall playoffs, if you lookat them historically, the semi final games
have sucked. You're not wrong.There's blowouts one way or the other.
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There's very rarely are they are theygood games? I think that the transfer
portal is doing its job. Ithink it's evening these things out. Georgia
and Bama are still arguably two ofthe best teams, but they're nowhere near
as dominant as they were before.Like to any any four of these teams
in the playoffs this year could win, could win the championship. Yeah,
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if you play these games ten times, you'd have they would sa different results.
Yeah, it's crazy. And againyou can even argue that like Georgia,
Florida State, and even Ohio Statea little bit could have had a
shot at making it into So Ithink that this is what cult football needed.
We needed the parody, We neededa little bit more even playing field,
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except for saying, you know,oh, we just have these two
really good teams in the SEC thatand then everybody else. So I think
this is great for college football.I think the transfert portal is good.
I don't know if the NIL isgood. I think the nil is good.
Nil is good. It just itgets a little ridiculous. It's tweaked,
it does need tweaked. Maybe acap I think would help put I
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don't know, but again I'm yes, I'm not the best person to ask
that, but I feel like acap on most things always benefits it.
I could never It shocked me thatthe NCAA went from absolutely not you can't
pay players to whatever you want.Yes, like there we should have eased
into this, like there needs tobe a cap on on all of it,
whether it's you know, pick picka number. I don't know how
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you pick the number, but picka number, and you can't pay these
guys more than that, or ifyou want to break it up. I
had I always that was a coolidea that you know, you look at
these kids making an IL money,which is great all pretty much the entire
like the whole team is making anIL at this point, HM, but
not only going pro ye. So, but like even you think just for
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n I l like the think oflike I said, like Oklahoma that only
has Oklahoma football, that linebacker thatisn't gonna be NFL ready, it's still
a good name in Oklahoma. ToJoe Shorky's auto dealer be like, I'm
shout out Joe. Yeah, I'mlike, I'm Mitchell Anderson of Oklahoma and
you should get into a new superthis week. Like that still holds value
(44:55):
for them. But my point,my point being is that I had I
had a idea of like it shouldbe. And I don't know how you
would how you could like honor thisor figure this out, but it should
be based on your major, basedon your major, based on what whatever
the entry level salary on average andcall it the state or the country,
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whatever it is of that major comingout of school, that's what you can
pay. So if you got togo, I feel like, oh,
kids would just take the because allthose schools just pass those kids anyway.
So if you're gonna take pre medclasses, that's that's what I'm saying,
is that like, Okay, hey, I'm gonna You've got a guy.
He's your third string kicker, he'she's on an an IL deal, he's
pre med. He knows he's notgoing to the NFL. But he likes
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kicking the ball. He can makean IL up to six figures because he's
gonna be a doctor someday. Butwhen you go in and you claim a
sociology major, no offense sociology majors, you're gonna walk out and say,
hey, you can make thirty k. M hm. You're probably gonna go
to the NFL because you're probably takingjust ship classes to the coach through.
But it you know what I mean, It's like I feel like the players
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that are going to be NFL readyare gonna have easier classes, so it's
like, hey, they're gonna maketheir money. Anyways, let's cap it
there and let's have these guys whoare actually gonna try and and have professional
mode. Be fun. That'd bea fun game. Guess the college players
major right, Like it would becool. I mean even like like Davonta
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Smith always says he's exercise science.That that's a decent that's like that,
that's not an easy major, Likeyou still have to like you to go
like PT school or something after.That's like you're making decent money coming out
of You're making eighty ninety k comingas school after extra extra schooling. But
it's like if you're a if you'rein nursing, nurses make good money coming
to at school, like find it, make it. I don't know.
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There's no way they'd ever actually doit that way, but it would be
really cool to try. I'm noteven sure. I'm trying to see.
I'm not even sure if you canlook up what Caleb Williams's major. Oh,
you have to be able to.He's probably like undeclared or something.
But that's what I'm saying. Justnobody cares about your major so significantly that
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it's not even home like the usesc page. It doesn't. It doesn't
say no, got positioned, height, weight, class, hometown, high
school, Instagram, Twitter, notyour major Instagram and Twitter is on there.
Oh my goodness, you're right,I'm looking at too here. He
is a communications major. I justfound out. Okay, that's a three
point two GPA. Good for you. Good for you, Caleb, Good
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for you. Better than what Ihad at school. He's gonna catch fifteen
yards this season. Yeah, that'dbe a really funny one. We should
do that one day. He justguess this college player's major. Yeah,
do you think brock Bauers is major. Oh gosh, I bet he's.
He strikes me as like a psychologymajor. Mmm. I like this game.
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We got way off the rails here, but yeah, going back to
going back to the playoffs, Istill like it at eight. I'm twelve
will invite upsets, but and doesget the buy, which always means a
little bit more. And also itwill give a benefit because I know a
lot of people don't like how playerssit out their final game. So if
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you put them in a in achampionship like bracket, that's more incentive for
them to continue to play well,right, Yeah, and that's because they're
like, there's no way Marvin Harrisonplays this nonsense bulg. Yeah, and
there's no chance camp Williams plays.Yeah, not a chance, not an
absolute chance he plays that game.Yeah. What would be really interesting is
if you get like, that's crazyus. He's not even ranked yeah because
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they lost four like what three orfour games? Yeah, they lost at
least three games, but how whatwould really be interesting some days if they
looked at this and said, oh, hey, KiB Williams and twelve rank
USC, he doesn't really think they'regonna go anywhere so he's still gonna sit
out a playoff game. I don'tthink he would do that. I don't
like so either. If you havea chance and you would probably go for
it, you gotta bet on yourself, right, But but yeah, it's
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it sucks for a Florida state.It really sucks for Fluorida State. It
also sucks for Georgia. But Ithink the important thing is that we have
four really good game or four reallygood teams here and this maybe the first
time in the four team playoffs thatany four teams, any of these teams
could win it all. And that'sexciting to me. I think they got
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the best four teams in like especiallyto watch because I just think for a
team like Texas has a lot moreon offense to watch than say Georgia does.
Where Georgia does have a generational tightend and a little scrappy wide receiver
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who goes by Ladd l A DLadd McConkie. Yeah it's mconkie, but
a honkey. But like Texan Texaswho has like an Ady Mitchell and an
xamer Worthy and Agitavian Sanders like theygot Quinnowers is still a interesting name.
But yeah, I'm not. Everyday that goes by makes me think less
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and less of him was a prospectfor the NFL. Yeah, and there's
a chance. I'm pretty sure he'scoming back at this point. There there's
a discussion that they just said thatArch is not gonna leave. I did
see that, so I don't knowif that changes things for him, But
yeah, it's gonna be. Thiswill be fun playoff games. It sucks.
I feel like we have to waitforever, don't we. Yeah,
they're always on the It's always onthe first day of the month. Right,
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it's always on New Year's Day.Is New Year's Day? I think
so? Right, Yeah, you'reright, it is. Yes, gen
one, man, that's so far. But at least we'll have some like
crummy bowl games to get us through. I think that's everything for us today.
Be sure to fall us on Twitterat Jet said Dynasty. Uh,
we're getting into its almost fantasy playoffs. This is typically the last regular season
week, so good luck in allyour matches unless you're playing me. And
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we'll be back next week with morefootball talk. Goodbye,
Today on jet Set Dynasty. Injuriesgalore in Week thirteen, But but the
playoff picture is starting to get clearer. Question mark that and more ready,
let's go, let's go, let'sgo. Hello, everybody, Welcome back
(00:47):
to jet Set Dynasty Football. BrianStein and I'm JB. And we got
boo boos. We got a lotof booboos left and right. I mean,
holy cow. Uh, there's justbeen so many this week, some
although other other than Tank Dell,which will probably start with. But I
would start with Tank because I wantto bitch about him. Yeah, but
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I said, most of them arerelatively short term except for Tank Dell and
probably Trevor Lawrence. Actually, Lawrenceis just a high ankle sprain. So
oh really, I mean high anklesprain stinks, sure, but it shouldn't
be a season ending injury. Correct, correct, But let's start with Tank
Dell because that is a season endinginjury. I'm so mad about that play.
(01:29):
Like, I get putting your besteleven on the field, but you
gotta use a little bit of commonsense when you're lining up Tank Dell as
a tight end on a quarterback sneak, What are we doing? I didn't
realize that was how he got That'show he got hurt. That sucks.
He was literally but to butt withthe tackle. That coach literally looked him
(01:49):
in the eye, looked. Ihad to look down at him because remember
Tank Dell was five nine, onehundred and sixty five pounds. Yeah,
and he went put a hat on, a hat, kid, and then
he got his leg roll up onand got a tour fibula. I believe
it once. Yeah, broken fibulaor broken fibula part of me, I
think you can tear. Yeah.I forgot tibula as a bone, not
a muscle. Yeah. I didn'tdo too well in health classes in high
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school or any class. Uh finisheshis season with seven hundred and nine yards
and seven touchdowns on forty seven receptions. He was electric electric. I mean,
I don't even know what else tosay about it, because he was
I think you would call him thebiggest surprise of the rookie class. Other
than that Pooka would say, butpookah, Yeah, that's fair. But
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I mean we all like Tank Dell. Oh, tank Dell could be kind
of good. Tank Dell sneaky's small, but like third round, give me
all the tank Doll and it's justlike, oh wait, never mind,
he's nasty as hell. Yeah,hopefully. I feel like they were talking
about Tank Dell's was like a topfifteen Dynasty receiver when it was Yeah,
whenever he was on his hot streak. I mean, you're probably not that
far off. Youth is just soimportant nowadays. So yeah, I think
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for me, at least, thissolidified for the Texans that they're probably gonna
look for more wide receiver help goinginto the draft, into the offseason.
Yeah. Again, we keep Ikeep bringing this comparison with Mahomes. Just
because c J. Stroud is doingit with Nico Collins and Tank Dell doesn't
mean he should have to do itwith just them through his career and Mahomes
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same thing. Yes he won aSuper Bowl, Yes he had five thousand
yards without Tyreek Hill, but nowlook what's happening. It's just because it's
working with this wide receiver corps thaton paper is a little bit more lackluster.
Doesn't mean he's gonna always make itwork with that. Yeah, So
I expect Texans to go again heavyat receiver, maybe even using a first
round pick. Although can we talkabout Nico Collins Nil Collins is a monster.
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Nico Collins and Tank Dell are aperfect combination. Yes, like you
the side speed guy, you gotthe rout runner, I mean they and
then you have Dalton Schultz, whois kind of good. Yeah he's been
hot and Collein's been injured, butyeah he missed last week. Brevin Jordan
stepped in pretty nice though. Yeah, it's nice see Rerevin Jordan a little
bit. Yeah, that's a namethat was kind of hyped up when he
was coming out of school. ButI think that yeah, I mean,
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I don't know about top fifteen,what dynasty receiver for Tank Dell, but
yeah, he's really really good,and I don't I don't think there's any
major drop off in his future,especially you know, it's not what do
you call it, it's not abone injury. Is he should come back
from you don't have a slower timetableor a chance of like when you tell
your seals like, oh he mightnot be the same, your bone's gonna
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heal, you should be okay,he should come back to restively normal.
So it'll be interesting to see ifJohn Metri does anything. You would think
that he would kind of be likethe next in line over there. I
saw him a couple of times afterhe went down. Uh, so yeah,
that's we surprisingly didn't see any noBrown but no brain. There was
his first game back from injury,so it was yeah, I probably expect
see a little bit more no ABrown too. Yeah, I really I
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hope that maybe this is just like, hey, let's see what Metri can
do since he had such an awkwardstart to his NFL career. Uh but
yeah, we're gonna miss Tank Dellfor the rest of the season for sure,
especially, but Nico Collins is gonnago. Oh yeah he is.
Nico Collins should be in line forlike eight to ten targets every week.
Is he must start now? Ye? Must start probably at this point.
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Yeah, he is currently a widereceiver twelve. Yep, Nico Collins a
wide receiver one. So yeah,that's must start. In my eyes,
that is crazy. I'm just lookingat his stats. He's only had three
weeks of single digit points. That'sridiculous. Nico Collins a guy that nobody
thought was gonna be much more thanjust you know, a deep a big
body, deep threat. But uhyeah, we're gonna miss you, Tank
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Dell. We'll see you next year. Well, also, there's nobody else
on this list here that we're reallygonna be like, oh, see you
next year. We'll start with We'llstart with the Steelers talk because we need
to. But can you Pickett?It was a weird injury. All of
his injuries are always weird. Hehas him every week and they're always weird
and not long. Yeah, II'll say it. I was surprised he
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didn't try to come back in thegame, Like, how much feel like
ankle injuries are, Like you canpower through an ankle injury, Yeah,
but how many times can you powerthrough an injury like Kenny does? I
don't know. I guess I don't. I guess he's that's been bothering him
because it was on the injury reportthis week. I guess, so maybe
it's worse than they thought. Thesurgery, I'd never heard of the surgery
they call like a tight rope surgeryor something like that, which I thought
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was unfamiliar with. Like I'm nodoctor, I'm not I say that all
the time. That's my catch prise. I am a doctor, but I
think that, Uh, yeah,it's gonna be rough going for the Steelers
with Mitch at the Helm. Luckilyyou have the lowly Patriots this week.
But it's Zappy first and maybe evenwe haven't heard about it yet, but
I'm waiting for the Malie Cunningham drop. I would love just they have to
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give him a shot at some point, right, it's at this point.
Why not? It's bad, It'sreally bad. I mean it's a great
way to tank and say, hey, we're gonna look at this guy and
also give him a shock and alsolook at Caleb Williams first overall in the
draft. Yeah. With that Steelerslost this week, that puts the Patriots
in number two overall. They're alright, number two? Im pretty sure.
No, they had it was Cardinals, then Patriots, and now with the
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Cardinals who won, Right now it'sflopped. Oh yeah, that's you're saying.
Yeah, yeah, I thought youmeant this coming up a week Patriots
losing to the Steelers. No,now they have it and they basically lose
the Steelers. That should probably lockit up for the rest of the season.
Uh well, we I think thePanthers still need to win at least
one game because there's there's still onefor aren't they. Yeah, Panthers is
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still one, which is the Bearspick of course, right, but yeah,
the Patriots are probably just gonna beending up with one of the top
two quarterbacks, yeah, without adoubt. Uh. But yeah, the
whole Kenny Pickett thing is weird.I don't know what to like. I
know, you're an anti Picket andI keep trying to like fight for him,
and every week it gets harder andharder. Last week it wasn't so
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bad because the fourn of our performance, but there's just something there. I
think the biggest struggle for me withhim is he really doesn't have pocket presence.
No, Like he bails way tooearly instead of stepping up into a
pocket and trying to like deliver astriker. Yeah, he doesn't. Like
this is what we gave Bryce Younga lot of credit coming out of coming
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out of college. He feels likehe has eyes in the back of his
head. He knows whenever like pressure'scoming. Kenny works on a time clock.
As soon as it gets to threefour seconds, Yeah, he is
just bailing. Yeah, once hegets past the three Mississippi his head,
he's he's like, oh, someonethat has to be coming, which,
to be fair, his line hasnot been great. No, so maybe
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that gives him a little bit ofleeway. But I don't know what they're
gonna do with him next year.I obviously the steelersre not gonna move on
from him right away, but yeah, and where they probably gonna end the
draft is probably not gonna be aquarterback we're taking, unless they want to
take the shot on Pennix, whichI think would mind. I think Penis
will be gone by the time we'redrafting, assuming we make the playoffs and
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we're in like the early twenties.Yeah, if there it's early twenties,
then yeah, it'll be tough.It will be tough for Penicks should go,
and then the top twenty picks,yeah with I agree. Uh,
why are speaking of quarterbacks? Lawrencegot hurt on Monday Night? It was
a bad one too, just offensivelineman, just getting bull rushed to hell
and just steps right on the worsewhen your own teammate steps on you like
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that. Yes, it's embarrassing forhim. It's awkward, as like,
oh, I just broke my quarterbackso we couldn't get my man a cart.
Yeah, they made my They mademy man walk the entire way to
the locker. Room. I sawa tweet that was, like all the
golf carts in Florida and we didn'tget my fan, Trevor, I know
there's a golf cart shortage, butI know there's one around. Well,
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I mean it's Florida. How manygolf courses. I bet that you probably
throw a football and and hit agolf course from that stadium in Jacksonville.
I'll tell you what I liked outof Trevor Lawrence yesterday was that's the first
time I've seen emotion from him.I feel like, yes, he's usually
a very like, calm, cool, collective guy, which I don't knock
him for, but like he wasangry. He was talking to refs when
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they were missing up those calls.What a fucking week for reffing. Oh
well, we could talk about thatin a second. The refs were I'm
I'm worried about refs. But yeah, I was excited to see him like
show actual some emotion that he's notjust a football robot and it's like,
hey, I'm like human being andI want to win just as bad as
anybody else, which means nothing,but it was just you don't see that
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from as ever, and that mademe think that injury was way worse than
it was. Yeah, but youshould be back in just a few weeks
hopefully. So hopefully this isn't somethingthat lingers throughout the year. The Jacks
are such a weird team. They'rethey're really they're what nine and or eight
and four? Now? Yeah,so they're still first in their division.
They're gonna host a playoff game probably, I don't know, man, the
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tech the Texans and the Colts arehot on their trail. They're not that
close. They're one game behind both, they're not. Yes, No,
Look, do you want to holdup the playoff picture that we're going to
talk about pulling up the playoff picture? Dude, I thought there were two
games back. Nope, it's eightand four and both the Texans and the
Colts are seven five. Shit,that's bonkers. Yeah, that's crazy.
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They are right there. I don'tknow what to do. I mean that,
Yeah, the Jacks. It's hardto trust the Jacks at this point
without Lawrence. I'm pretty weary ofCalvin Ridley going forward with who Yeah,
CJ. Bethard, who is in? Yeah, it seemed during the time
he was in he was really targetingEvan Ingram, Yeah, that makes me
great. Look fantastic, fast,Yeah, nimble. I mean he's always
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been fast and nimble, but usuallyit's always followed with an injury. That's
true, That's very true. Butyeah, So if you have someone like
Evan Ingram, or you say,somebody like Travis Etn, you should be
fine. If you have somebody likeCalvin Ridley, I'd be a little bit
more concerned. I mean, let'sbe honest, really really has not had
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a good year. No, ithasn't been terrible, it has been great.
I mean Ridley's weirdly like a touchdownor bust at this point, which
is not something I would expect tosay. What do you think is wide
receiver ranking is twenty eight twenty four. That's not bad. Love wide receiver
two. Yeah, low wide receivertwo, that's I mean, honestly,
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that's better than I thought. Ithought he was gonna be in the thirties.
But yeah, he really is.Boomer bust twenty four, five seven,
eleven, twenty six, one,fourteen, four thirty one, twenty
one seven, Like it really is. You're gonna have a big day or
you're you're not gonna have much outof them, but I also don't I
wouldn't be I would still probably startthe next week. I don't know who
they're playing this this week, butI can tell you because I've got the
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list up here is a Houston,Cleveland this week, Cleveland this week.
I wouldn't be so scared away fromit. I mean, the Cleveland defense,
I would be a little hesitant.But with in regards to Bethard,
he just kind of got thrown in, so like, yeah, he's gonna
tight ends. Always your safety blanket. Uh, but yeah, Parker Washington
got a lot of touches that catchmy Parker Washington was sick. It was
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so cool. I was like,alright, alright, we see you.
Yeah. I really liked that.He looked good. But yeah, I'm
very excited to see what happens there. I don't know what. It's probably
gonna be four weeks probably for thehigh ankle sprain for for Te Law,
Yeah, probably probably we might seehim back in the regular season, like
for a game that's probably gonna haveto side home field. Yeah, oh
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jeez. Another high nkle sprain.Ro Madre Stevenson good for the Steelers this
week. That yeah, that one, that one hurts. Rmandre was starting
to have a little bit more ofa resurgence the last couple of weeks.
Now Zeke is going to be gettingup a very heavy look going forward.
Yeah, he had three weeks ofthirteen or more points and then he had
two points last week. Nigga hurt. Yeah, Yeah, he got hurt.
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So he's kinda into a wideceiver orrunning back twenty which is way lower
than what people thought he was gonnabe. Yes, agreed, Uh,
But a lot of Hinkel Sprain's goingaround a lot of concussions. Derek Carr
had a concussion. Hollywood Brown hada concussion. Mark Cooper too, right,
Mark Cooper, Yes, so youwould think that most of this guys,
hopefully I'm gonna miss a ton oftime and hopefully they get through protocol
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quick. It was a week orless, but a lot of they got
through quick. So I yeah,hope. And he came back looking pretty
good. Jimmy Graham caught a touchdown. It was so I was like,
let's go it is this twenty tenagain. They're really bringing it back up.
They brought him up like they sawhim go in and everyone's like,
oh, look at Jimmy Graham andit's like, no, he's getting this
touchdown. It's like, oh,never mind, of course he was getting
that touchdown. Yeah, if he'scoming in, they're gonna throw the wall.
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But yeah, that was I sawthat like on the ticker, and
I was like, I was like, hey, Siri, what year is
it? It was. It wasa fun little throat. I think he
should have just taken the fine andjust did the dunk. Oh is it
a fine out? I think it's. I think he made it a Jimmy
Gram's the reason it's a finable thing. Now well, I'm pretty sure he
bent a goalpost one year and theyhad to like spend twenty minutes fixing it.
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He may not be able to dunkanymore. Hot take. I disagree.
Head do you think Jimmy Graham islike thirty five but he should still
be able to get up the hair? I don't know that body has seen
better days. He's nearly tied inseven. He's thirty seven. Still,
I'm sure when the knees start going. Let me tell you, as someone
who's new, I have to weardouble knee braces anytime I do sports,
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one on one on each knee.I was wondering. I was like,
you like double rapt No, yes, just pick two of No No one
on each knee and it works though. I feel great afterwards. That's nice.
Good for you. Yeah, gettingnot fun. Uh. Any other
major injuries you want to talk abouthere before we jump to the playoff picture.
I don't think so. I thinkthe only one misses Kirk. Kirk
has a growing injury, will probablybe out for a week. Yeah,
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Christian Kirk does. Yeah. Whatabout who is probably the best person you
can get on waivers right now?Because imagine people are struggling with the you're
talking in fantasy redraft? Yeahgantasy.Thanks, Yeah, let's see, let's
take it. Let's Oh, weforgot and big one that we forgot to
mention was Derrick Henry in concussion.Oh yeah, we did forget about it.
Because Taji Spearence is probably gonna beyour biggest waiver wire like pick up
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this week. Yeah, that's agreat point. Let's take a look here
because I have I have one leaguewhose waivers go off early. They go
off on Wednesdays. It's that Thursdaysand I hate it. So yeah,
I think's gonna be a big one. Zeke's gonna be a big one.
Yeah. If Zeke's on there,I feel like Zeke is not shouldn't be.
But let's see what Chase Brown hada little bit of a nice game,
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gave him a lot of carry.Maybe he's the guy that you pick
up. He made the most ofit too. Yeah, Parker Washington is
a guy. Since Kirk's gonna beout, I think he'll get something.
Alec Pierrice two touchdowns last week.Yeah, I don't know, calm that's
gonna be going forward. Yeah,No, it's uh dem Pickens a slim.
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I'm looking right now. There's reallynot much here. Yeah, I
think that was Probably the big onesis Taji Spears. If you want a
guy who's gonna guarantee you work,probably a Zeke if you can get them.
Yeah, Parker Washington, I thinkwould be a good one. Yeah,
a little Stasherrooni and cheese if youwant a little you know, see
what happens with him after a weekor two. But yeah, this is
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a tough time for Waiver Wire.But yeah, Chase Brown. Chase Brown
played pretty good last week last night, which is cool to see. All
Right, you're reready talking about somepictures. Let's you wanna start with the
AFC or the NFC. I thinkyou start with the NFC because it's a
little clearer, isn't it? So? Right now it's i'd argue with probably
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two horse race at the top prettyeasily, is getting it? No,
you're a phrasing. There's probably threehorse race between the Eagles, the forty
nine ers, and the Cowboys,not the Lions. Lines are definitely odd
man out, Like if you putthem all in, it's like, which
one of these are the worst teams? I want to put the lines in
that list before I put the Cowboys. I think I disagree. Cowboys are
playing crazy right now. Cowboys alsohave a week as schedule they do.
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You want to guess who's MVP bettingodds favorite for MVP. I don't want
to talk about Dak I I don't. I refuse to root for him.
You want to guess who he's tiedwith. There's a three there's a three
horse race. Two of them arethree to one odds and one is like
a plus three fifty. It's hireekNo, not close. Nope, they're
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all quarterbacks. What so? Jalenhurts. Jalen hurts is the third one.
It's Party. It's the two oneswho are tied for the best of
three to one is Dak Prescott andBrock Party. Yeah, I mean that's
just insane. Dak has had goodlike he's playing well, I'll give him
that, Like he's QB three,he's got you know, let me look
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at Lewisy where his stats are here, but he's his interceptions are really really
low, which is different. Whatwas this thing? What are you saying
the AUF season not going to throwa ten ten iron ts? Yeah,
and he's not close. He's gotthree, four, five, six,
you can still get to ten.He could. But so they've got the
next couple of weeks will really kindof help you see what the Cowboys really
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are because they've got Philadelphia Buffalo,which kind of is shooting themselves. Then
you have Miami Detroit then finishing outwith Washington. So you have minimum Philadelphia,
Miami Detroit three playoff teams in sixgames. So if they come out
of there looking really good against theLions in Week seventeen, then I might
change my tune. And I knowthe Lions have kind of went on a
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little bit of a skid, butthey bounced back last week, even though
it was kind of Yeah, they'restill the same record. They're all nine
to three, except the Lions gamewas just a little weird, like they
were up like twenty one nothing,they let him come back and then they
pulled away again at the end.It's like you want to see them just
you know, keep finishing the gas. But but yeah, I think that
realistically, I think the Niners areby far and away the best team.
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I think so too. They're justthe most complete team. Now the party
is starting to look starting to looklike party again. Everybody's starting to get
healthy. Devo is becoming a realmenace right now. That game was,
Wow, Debo was I lost thegame because of that last like five minute
touchdown. I'm just like, they'reup by two possessions. I'm like,
why are they still in? Yeah, because they were reminding you that they
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had a quarterback this this week insteadof like the NFC championship. Yeah.
So I think the forty nine ersare probably gonna be the best opportunity to
get it, because again, Idon't I think the Eagle's gonna have a
tough time going to Dallas. Idon't know, Like I think that game
is gonna be really close. Yeah. Yeah, that's the divisional game and
two of the top four teams inthe in the NFC. Uh So let's
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talk about the remaining three spots.Okay, And so we're in the wild
card. Who do you think isthe best of the wild card teams for
the listening audience? Tug of yourrunning list? It's the for the record,
the listening audience is the entire audience. By the way, fair,
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this is fair. So they lastthree we're talking about is the Falcons,
who get the advantage because of theirdivision. Yep, the Vikings six and
six, the Packers at six andsix, the Rams at six and six,
and the Seahawks. And I'll throwingthe Bucks in the Saints in there
because there are only one game backfrom their division. Bucks in the st
Saints are not worth my time.I don't know Bucks can beat in Atlanta
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this week they and then take well, I think they're tied, so would
have to go to another tie breaker. Honestly, like the Vikings have looked
hot as of late. The JoshDobbs effect is going strong. But the
Packers, that's what I want totalk about, is the Packers I don't.
I don't. They're not gonna catchthe lines obviously, but they could
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very well end up being like thehighest seeded wild card team. They're the
defense is just people are forgetting.Like our friend Charlie always says, they
have names. They have Jyree Alexander, they have for Sean Evans, they
have Kenny Clark. They they gotpeople on that team. And now when
Jordan Love and Weirdly, I can'texplain this, but there is a little
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correlation of when Christian Watson's scores touchdownsand then winning games. He looks good
this week the last like three weeks, yeah, and then he went down
again with a hamstring injury. Thatknowing Christian Watson will probably be back next
week because he just does that.He is so good at getting hurt in
the coming back from yes, likeit's strading his heck. He like,
I'm pretty sure he hurt himself tryingto slow down too. He was like
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trying to stay in bounds and messedhimself up. I thought it was like
an acl or something like that,the way he went down, like he
like crumpled. But I do thinkthat the Packers are starting to really find
a rhythm. Yeah, because againwe Jordan Love, I think is a
good quarterback. He's not great,He's not Jordan Love might be the lit
miss going forward, he might replaceher cousins of Yeah, whoever's above him
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is a good quarterback. Whoever's belowhim is a back quarter. Yes,
I would agree with that, butthat person gets you relatively far in playoff
Yeah, in playoff pushes. Ithink that realistically, the vikings like it's
the same effect as Dobbs in Arizona. He's hot for a couple of games,
played really well, and then hecooled off. I don't know if
that's team's figuring them out or itstarts getting too complex in the playbook and
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he gets overwhelmed, which I don'tknow if I believe. Since he's a
freaking astronaut, he should be smartenough to do a playbook. But I
think the Packers are really starting tofind a groom and find their ident.
They're realizing that hey, we dowe are able to throw it down the
field, we can move the ball, uh the run. Ad Dillana is
starting to get a little bit moreof an imp like nothing they're ride home
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about, but enough that you haveto respect the run game, so I
could. And then, like wesaid, the defense has some names to
it and they're pretty good. SoI really think that out of out of
these like wild Card slash Bubble teams, I think for me it's the Packers,
and I think the Rams too.Yeah. I think eventually the Vikings
are gonna lose enough sea where they'regonna probably be out and probably get replaced
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by somebody in that NFC south ofthe Rams and the Seahawks. If I'm
taking my guests right now, i'dprobably go with you with the Rams.
Yeah. I really want the Seahawksto do well, so do why they
just they can't get it all together. Uniforms this week though, the Blues
the old time, he's the bluewith the silver helmet. Uh huh.
They did put thirty on the Cowboys, Like let's like, let's not scoff
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that. They Yeah, they theydid keep that game very competitive. They
did they to very competitive. Yeah. So between the Rams, Seahawks,
and Vikings, the Vikings have thetiebreaker as of right now. But I'm
sure like this went into the playoffcommittee for college football this week. But
give me either Rams vers Vikings orSeahawks versus Vikings on a neutral field,
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I'm probably picking the former and bothof those games, I agree. Yeah,
the Vikings were fun while lasted,but they're gonna come back to everything.
Even though they are getting Justin Jeffersonback. That is nice. I
would love. I'm excited. Iam excited to see how Justin Jefferson coming
back with Josh Dobbs translates. Yeah. Yeah, the chemistry there maybe a
little off, but who knows.It's hard to not. Vikings have a
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relatively solid matchup this week, right, I'm trying to remember who they play
one moment. The Vikings play theRaiders this week. Yeah, that's a
pretty good. Uh, that's nice, trustee. With the rest of their
schedule is coming up here. Theyhave Raiders, Bengals, Detroit, Packers
Detroit. That's tough. Getting Detroittwice and getting Packers, who I think
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could beat you is tough. Isa tough three weeks. You could win
the next two games in Raiders insInsteade and lose out the rest of the
season potentially. I still think theRaiders are very competitive. I'll call him
competitive. He's I don't think acompetitive because the ade O'Connell I think everybody
else is just rallying over the factthat McDaniels is not there anymore. Because
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the Raiders may not have been winning, but the Raiders are keeping like games
close with everybody who they're playing.Like. Granted, let's take the Chiefs
game out of the out of scenario, because that's a tough one. They
only lost by seven to the Dolphins, beat the beat, the Jets,
beat the Giants, kept it withineight to the Lions, so they're key.
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They're staying in it with most teams. Yeah, that just for me,
No, it shouldn't. But I'mjust saying the only good thing on
that team is Max Crosby and DevonteAdams and Josh Jacobs. Have they really
been performing? Though? Adams hasgotten better and so it's Jacobs but two
very slow starts. Correct. Butspeaking of the AFC, let's jump over
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there, okay, because I thinkthat this is this is this one's a
cluster. Yeah, so obviously yougot the Dolphins in the Ravens at the
top. They're both nine and three. I think who would you take a
neutral field between those two Ravens Ravens, I think I would too. Their
defense is really really starting to comeinto form again. It's starting to feel
like the Ravens defenses of old andthe Dolphins have just proven that they do
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struggle against good teams, and theRavens are a really good team. Mm
hmm. I really like what therape. I think when it's all said
done, Ravens are probably going tobe the number one seed. Yeah,
probably, which makes us feel goodthat the Steelers beat him. Yes,
absolutely, Chiefs bad loss against Packers, but I think they're going to struggle
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in the playoffs just because they're goingto be fairy Travis Kelsey relying. I
think a lot of teams are justgonna be like, Okay, we're gonna
basically just Darren Mahomes do it allhimself. We're gonna take away Kelsey and
that's gonnas gonna kind of be thedeal. Have you had the feeling that
Kelsey is moving slower than he hasin past years. I don't think so.
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No. I feel like when Iwatch him now, I feel like
he's just like a half step slowerthan what I'm used to seeing him at.
I feel like, you know,I'm not saying this is Taylor Swifts
keeping him up late at night andhe's slowing down or he's injured, but
like he is, he is,what thirty one years old, Like he's
getting up there in age, heis, and he he we're hearing the
retirement talk. He's like, oh, my body hurts more than he usually
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does, like and he wants todo the whole He basically wants to do
the Gronk thing where he goes andacts and does all this weird stuff.
Mm hmm. But yeah, Ithink that this is a weird year for
the Chiefs. It's also incredibly hardto look at a playoff picture and be
like, we're not gonna talk gamblinghere, but if I see the Chiefs
as an underdog any point in theplayoffs, oh, hammer it. I
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mean I have to, like,that's the rules. So because then give
credit the Chiefs defense that's been thething really keeping them in the in games.
Yeah, I absolutely agree. Itis amazing how you can build a
team Offuly. You have to TravisKelse. But these water receivers are so
bad. How do you say,hey, we got a really really good
wide receiver. Is rash Or Rashi? I'm not Heumerson Sureshi rise. I've
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never heard anybody it's not Joshi Rashi. That makes sense. You can't.
Your pronunciations are off today. Whatwas the other one you were saying earlier?
I can't. But yeah, thethe Chiefs are they're gonna make the
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playoffs, are gonna win that division. They should get out of the wild
card. But I don't. Idon't know. It's gonna take a lot
for them to go long. Thingsdon't have to line up correctly. I
think if the Ravens and Chiefs play, I think the Ravens beat them handedly.
After the top three, this iswhere we get into the absolute cluster
that is the AFC. Because here'shere's the list. We have the Jags
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right now at number one position.We'll see how that long that lasts.
Because behind them they have the Colts. Behind they have the Texans all seven
to five, including seven to fiveof the Steelers and the Browns, and
then Broncos, Bills, and Bengalsall at six and six. There's yeah,
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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eight teams fighting for these last likefour playoff spots. Yeah, it really
it's I can't like, and it'snot like the teams we expect. I
guess the Bills, but we expectedthe Bills to be sal like in this
immediately. I don't. Honestly,I don't think that. I think the
Broncos have a better chance to makethe playoffs than the Bills. At this
point. Bronco's been playing out oftheir minds recently. The Broncos are just
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hot. They are like, they'revery hot. Rust Wilson's playing. They
took an l to the Texans thisweek. They did, but it was
a good game, good game,good game. They fought hard. I
very much could see. So somehowthe Browns are still tamping the seventh seed
due to tie breakers. You haveto think that Joe Flackett was not going
to get them to the playoffs,so you say, let's knock them out.
So you've got the Texans and theBroncos and the Bills all really fighting.
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I'm not gonna talk about the Bengalseither, because Jake brown is Jake
Browning. Though I said a hottake to Charli yesterday at the bar that
I would rather have Jake Browning overmitchter Bisky after last game, I can't.
I can't dispute that. Yeah,he was slinging in this last game.
He looked good. Against Steelers too, like he was moving the ball
not not not well, no,but he seemed more decisive. I don't
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know. I would rather have himover to Mitch at this point. I
don't think it's a hot tame.So right now, I think there's gonna
be two teams from the AFC Westin or AFC West for the Jags in
the South South pardon me, twoteams in the FC South. They'll probably
the Jags and somebody else. Myguess is the Texans at this point.
Yeah. I mean when you lookat Minshew versus Stroud, you would probably
(31:00):
say strous should probably get to getin there. Yeah, but yeah,
the Colts have been fun. ButI think that it finishes out. I
think Steelers, Steelers still make itin even though we were missing Kenny.
Yeah. I think Steelers make itin solely because of the schedule they're going
to get. They're gonna probably beatthe Patriots this week. That gets them
too. Eight and five yep.And that means what do you think has
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gets you into the playoffs? Ninewins are ten wins? I think it's
got to be so you have towin two games out your last four,
which is Colts Bengals Seattle in Baltimore. Good for you rattling that off.
That's in order. Colts Bengals,Seattle, Baltimore. I've been real death
death spirally on the Steelers and lookingat that schedule, looking for looking for
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some hope, and after you justlost the Arizona, not a whole lot
of hope. Lah that that thatreally does hurt. That hurt a lot.
But I I think they still makeit in yeah, because I think
getting eight and five. I don'tsee the Steelers going zero to four in
their last month, So that putsyou to nine and nine to ten wins.
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So it will be close. It'llbe close. It's gonna be close.
But yeah, the Colts are,Colts are right there. I think
the Colts are just gonna lose somesteam. But the Texans just even though
we're losing tank, tell they reallyhave lot. They really have looked like
a complete team. Will Anderson hasreally made an impact immediately on that defense.
That trade is looking better and betterby the week, which is weird
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to say, because even if you'relooking into the draft going forward, like
going into next year's draft, WillAnderson would probably still be the number one
defensive player going into next year.Yeah, there's yeah, there's the going
into this year. It's a lottoo out of u c. L A
there, Yeah, yeah, lotsof out of UCLA, Dallas Turner out
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of Alabama. There's another one whoI'm blanking on at this moment. But
again, there's not this. There'snot a Will Anderson would be like on
that same level. Like, butI don't I'm don't think well that Anderson
was like a generational like a MilesGarrett was, but he is better than
what was available with the pick thatyou gave up to get him. Yes,
absolutely, I'm very ready just forplayoffs here, Like we're getting down
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into the nitty gritty, it's reallystarting to take shape. Is there?
Before we get off the AFC,I I need to just bring this up.
Is there any chance the Chargers getback in? I was just gonna
mention that there five and seven NoQuentin john The whole Quentin Johnson thing is
crazy. He's so bad. He'sterrible, and like we, like everybody
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was kind of like we're trying notto helmet scal but just big, big
twelve wide receivers. If your nameisn't seenee lamb. It just scares you.
Well, it's not only that,it's just he I hate to say,
he was Kevin White, big,big guy, fast guy, don't
do routes so good. No,and Hans kind of questioned it hands very
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questionable. He dropped another one inhis palms. Yeah, and I was
just like, you can't, can'tdo it, man. And especially it
just worse because Zay Flowers and JordanAdison were the two that were gone right
afterwards. Did you see the Iheard a stat that I think it was
there were eight receivers drafted after QuentinJohnston and they all have more receivers.
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Yes, I believe that that's crazy. Was the third I think, excuse
me, we'll see the third widereceiver, second, second wide receiver.
That's right, because it went allfour in a row. When yeah,
js N Johnson at or no itspardon me a Jones than Addison. Uh,
that's crazy. Every receiver were eventalking down to the seventh rounders,
(34:38):
pooking the cook. They've all gotmore more receiving yards than you do.
I think it was Mark's moser.He put out a tweet saying how many
wide receivers would you have taken wouldyou take if you were doing a redraft
today, above putting Johnston. Ijust I listed ten, not even looking
at the rankings or anything. Ijust started ta typing out and ninded up
with ten names. And it waslike, even people like Marvin Mams,
(35:00):
I would still take Michael Wilson,Like I would still consider Michael Wilson,
But Quentin Johnson's not good, No, not all stop, not good.
They could they could have had Addison. They just could have had Addison and
you would have been even Jones,even Za Jones. Jones looked really good,
you know in spurts. He maynever be able like a full,
(35:21):
full blown wide receiver one, buthe's still going to be a very good
brot wide receiver. Yes, he'sgonna be a lot of fun. But
yeah, Quentin, Quentin Johnson isthat's what we called right. Yeah.
I hate celebrating those, but wecalled those right. It was just it
was just so not easy. Butyeah, it seemed like the writing was
on the wall and there's just peoplewho chose not to read it. Yeah,
(35:44):
I agree. I don't know ifthere's really much more to talk about
if we want to get into it, and we can talk about the playoffs.
Okay, let's do that, becausethat is so if you've been living
under a rock. The college footballplayoffs have been announced, and even with
some of the bowl games I thinkhave started to come out, and they
(36:07):
they look like weird, like I'mpretty sure like number eight Oregon is playing
like number twenty one, like ArizonaState or something some nontense like that.
How they picked those I don't totallyunderstand, but you that I just learned
that the Rose Bowl wasn't the toptwo teams that weren't in the college football
Yes, it's the it's whoever eitherthe winner or the runner up of Pac
(36:28):
twelve, first to Pack ten orfirst Big ten. I think, so
yeah, yeah Big ten. Yeah. So number one is Michigan of course,
no surprise there. Number two iswith Washington again, no surprise there.
Now we get to a little bitof Texas at number three yep,
and then Alabama at four. Verynotably missing is the thirteen to no Florida
(36:53):
State and the Georgia Bulldogs who justlost so lost. Fight me. I
will fight you on that. Butlet's talk about Florida State first. I
get it, so do wh aseven as a Florida State fan, like,
I get it, you still wantlike there's a reason that part of
the committee is they have to figureout the best matchups because you want to
(37:16):
still get people to watch. Andgetting a Florida State who would have been
on their third string quarterback at thispoint, yep, very much stinks.
Does that absolutely blow for the playersand the team and everyone involved with Florida
State program? Absolutely? That isso devastating, so heart breaking. You
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are the old and I get,I get the playoffs have only been around
for what five six years at thispoint, they're the first undefeated Power five
team to be taken out of theplayoff. Yeah. The way that I
look at it, and it's notjust from a gambling gambling lens, but
from a just perspective. Their jobis to find the four best teams in
(37:59):
college ball today. That's third job, not by record, not by who
did what if you if? Idon't know, I haven't looked at the
spreads yet. I assume Michigan Bamais under a touchdown one way or the
other. It's probably like three threeand a half. Interesting, I'm actually
not sure. Yeah, Well,my point being, what would Michigan versus
Florida State on their third QB bandit would have been a twenty Yeah,
(38:21):
I wanted My brain immediately went tothree touchdowns and I it would have been
bad. It would have been anabsolute slaughter. Even if they would have
went against Washington. I think Washingtonbeats them by two skis. I think
any of these teams, even Georgia, beats the pulp out of them.
It's a third string quarterback. Youjust can't like, I'll be my Michigan's
a one and a half point spread. Really, yes, really, yes,
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Michigan is one and a half pointfavorites against Bama. Fascinating. That's
really I don't know even I whoI would take there. I probably still
take Michigan. I don't know.That's a That's that's my point. It
would have been a freaking to watchmurder. It would be an absolute murder,
which is why I still think.So here here's my soapbox for Georgia.
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Texas and Bama both have to bothhave one loss. Yes, so
does Georgia. Yes, but becauseGeorgia's loss was in the SEC Championship and
not in the regular season, theyget penalized more so than Texas. Who
lost to Oklahoma, who had twolosses. Yeah wait, no, oh
waita Oklahoma has two losses. Okay, I see your sick now. So
(39:31):
I think my problem is they justlost to the team that was also in
contention. I think that's the problem. Well, right, but you going
from one to six, by theway, not five, six is five.
Five would probably be Florida state,right, five is slow state.
That's correct, but it and it'sprobably my Georgia bias showing. But for
(39:52):
me, it's hard to think thatTexas deserves to be in there. And
it's it's a circular logic, right, Texas goes in because they be and
because Bama's in there in and it'sjust a circle, right, It's yeah,
well you can say that, butthen Texas would be you know,
would have lost to Georgia. Ithink that it's just it kills me.
It'll be fun to see Texas inthere. Texas and Washington will be a
(40:14):
fun game. I think that's afour point spread, yeah, Washington,
Washington is plus four. Washington's plusfour. Please hold well, I put
one hundred, honey, get thecheckbook, dear Vegas. I just this
is why I'm so glad they goingto twelve teams. I know you're a
proponent of eight being a good number, and I agree with you. There
(40:35):
needs to be more teams. Yes, there needs to be more than four.
So if that's what it takes forit to be twelve, I get
it. So look at it.So let's if it was eight this year.
The additional teams in would be FloridaState, Georgia, Ohio State in
Oregon. Sounds great to me.You could make an argument that if you
set that playoff bracket up now Michiganand Oregon, Oregon could win that.
(40:58):
Yeah, State, I don't thinkthey would, but it would be close.
Ohio State, Washington they could winthat. Georgia and Texas, all
these underdogs could win. And thenyou have Florida State and Bama. Okay,
that's kind of cool too. Likeagain, Florisa probably gets shipped on
because of the lack of quarterback.But but now it's to you look at
(41:19):
the twelve. So if we wentto twelve this year, Missouri's at nine,
they're not winning a game. Yeah, Penn State's aid ten. Offense
was good this year, but orsorry, the defense was really good this
year. Offense is terrible. Almosteleven. They're not winning a damn thing.
No, Oklahoma twelve not winning athing. Yeah, that's kind of
that's just kind of my thought abouttwelve just seems like a lot eight.
If you just cut it off anOregon, I'm like, okay, we
got we got games, right,Yeah, this is March. But now
(41:42):
we got Michigan playing people like ohMiss and yeah, I get you.
By twelve, you you are invitingmore chances of upsets, and upsets are
really good for viewership. But well, and the one thing that I will
say is that I the one reasonwhy I like the twelve teams is because
I believe they're giving at least thetop two seeds, maybe the top four
(42:04):
buys. I guess that does makesense, because you'd have six or you
have three matchups each side. Yeah, yeah, I guess that makes sense.
I wouldn't see number twelve Oklahoma goingup against Michigan. You'd see them
going up against like Bama or FloridaState or something like that. Yeah,
five to twelve, it would belike, would be Florida State Oklahoma.
So I think, okay, letlet those middle of the road guys fight
(42:25):
it out. Give them one morechance at glory. But let's not put
Michigan up against them and make themplay three more games. Yes, so
I do what this shows to methough, because when we talk about the
College Ofwall playoffs, if you lookat them historically, the semi final games
have sucked. You're not wrong.There's blowouts one way or the other.
(42:49):
There's very rarely are they are theygood games? I think that the transfer
portal is doing its job. Ithink it's evening these things out. Georgia
and Bama are still arguably two ofthe best teams, but they're nowhere near
as dominant as they were before.Like to any any four of these teams
in the playoffs this year could win, could win the championship. Yeah,
(43:09):
if you play these games ten times, you'd have they would sa different results.
Yeah, it's crazy. And againyou can even argue that like Georgia,
Florida State, and even Ohio Statea little bit could have had a
shot at making it into So Ithink that this is what cult football needed.
We needed the parody, We neededa little bit more even playing field,
(43:29):
except for saying, you know,oh, we just have these two
really good teams in the SEC thatand then everybody else. So I think
this is great for college football.I think the transfert portal is good.
I don't know if the NIL isgood. I think the nil is good.
Nil is good. It just itgets a little ridiculous. It's tweaked,
it does need tweaked. Maybe acap I think would help put I
(43:50):
don't know, but again I'm yes, I'm not the best person to ask
that, but I feel like acap on most things always benefits it.
I could never It shocked me thatthe NCAA went from absolutely not you can't
pay players to whatever you want.Yes, like there we should have eased
into this, like there needs tobe a cap on on all of it,
whether it's you know, pick picka number. I don't know how
(44:10):
you pick the number, but picka number, and you can't pay these
guys more than that, or ifyou want to break it up. I
had I always that was a coolidea that you know, you look at
these kids making an IL money,which is great all pretty much the entire
like the whole team is making anIL at this point, HM, but
not only going pro ye. So, but like even you think just for
(44:34):
n I l like the think oflike I said, like Oklahoma that only
has Oklahoma football, that linebacker thatisn't gonna be NFL ready, it's still
a good name in Oklahoma. ToJoe Shorky's auto dealer be like, I'm
shout out Joe. Yeah, I'mlike, I'm Mitchell Anderson of Oklahoma and
you should get into a new superthis week. Like that still holds value
(44:55):
for them. But my point,my point being is that I had I
had a idea of like it shouldbe. And I don't know how you
would how you could like honor thisor figure this out, but it should
be based on your major, basedon your major, based on what whatever
the entry level salary on average andcall it the state or the country,
(45:19):
whatever it is of that major comingout of school, that's what you can
pay. So if you got togo, I feel like, oh,
kids would just take the because allthose schools just pass those kids anyway.
So if you're gonna take pre medclasses, that's that's what I'm saying,
is that like, Okay, hey, I'm gonna You've got a guy.
He's your third string kicker, he'she's on an an IL deal, he's
pre med. He knows he's notgoing to the NFL. But he likes
(45:42):
kicking the ball. He can makean IL up to six figures because he's
gonna be a doctor someday. Butwhen you go in and you claim a
sociology major, no offense sociology majors, you're gonna walk out and say,
hey, you can make thirty k. M hm. You're probably gonna go
to the NFL because you're probably takingjust ship classes to the coach through.
But it you know what I mean, It's like I feel like the players
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that are going to be NFL readyare gonna have easier classes, so it's
like, hey, they're gonna maketheir money. Anyways, let's cap it
there and let's have these guys whoare actually gonna try and and have professional
mode. Be fun. That'd bea fun game. Guess the college players
major right, Like it would becool. I mean even like like Davonta
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Smith always says he's exercise science.That that's a decent that's like that,
that's not an easy major, Likeyou still have to like you to go
like PT school or something after.That's like you're making decent money coming out
of You're making eighty ninety k comingas school after extra extra schooling. But
it's like if you're a if you'rein nursing, nurses make good money coming
to at school, like find it, make it. I don't know.
(46:45):
There's no way they'd ever actually doit that way, but it would be
really cool to try. I'm noteven sure. I'm trying to see.
I'm not even sure if you canlook up what Caleb Williams's major. Oh,
you have to be able to.He's probably like undeclared or something.
But that's what I'm saying. Justnobody cares about your major so significantly that
(47:06):
it's not even home like the usesc page. It doesn't. It doesn't
say no, got positioned, height, weight, class, hometown, high
school, Instagram, Twitter, notyour major Instagram and Twitter is on there.
Oh my goodness, you're right,I'm looking at too here. He
is a communications major. I justfound out. Okay, that's a three
point two GPA. Good for you. Good for you, Caleb, Good
(47:29):
for you. Better than what Ihad at school. He's gonna catch fifteen
yards this season. Yeah, that'dbe a really funny one. We should
do that one day. He justguess this college player's major. Yeah,
do you think brock Bauers is major. Oh gosh, I bet he's.
He strikes me as like a psychologymajor. Mmm. I like this game.
(47:50):
We got way off the rails here, but yeah, going back to
going back to the playoffs, Istill like it at eight. I'm twelve
will invite upsets, but and doesget the buy, which always means a
little bit more. And also itwill give a benefit because I know a
lot of people don't like how playerssit out their final game. So if
(48:12):
you put them in a in achampionship like bracket, that's more incentive for
them to continue to play well,right, Yeah, and that's because they're
like, there's no way Marvin Harrisonplays this nonsense bulg. Yeah, and
there's no chance camp Williams plays.Yeah, not a chance, not an
absolute chance he plays that game.Yeah. What would be really interesting is
if you get like, that's crazyus. He's not even ranked yeah because
(48:34):
they lost four like what three orfour games? Yeah, they lost at
least three games, but how whatwould really be interesting some days if they
looked at this and said, oh, hey, KiB Williams and twelve rank
USC, he doesn't really think they'regonna go anywhere so he's still gonna sit
out a playoff game. I don'tthink he would do that. I don't
like so either. If you havea chance and you would probably go for
it, you gotta bet on yourself, right, But but yeah, it's
(48:55):
it sucks for a Florida state.It really sucks for Fluorida State. It
also sucks for Georgia. But Ithink the important thing is that we have
four really good game or four reallygood teams here and this maybe the first
time in the four team playoffs thatany four teams, any of these teams
could win it all. And that'sexciting to me. I think they got
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the best four teams in like especiallyto watch because I just think for a
team like Texas has a lot moreon offense to watch than say Georgia does.
Where Georgia does have a generational tightend and a little scrappy wide receiver
(49:35):
who goes by Ladd l A DLadd McConkie. Yeah it's mconkie, but
a honkey. But like Texan Texaswho has like an Ady Mitchell and an
xamer Worthy and Agitavian Sanders like theygot Quinnowers is still a interesting name.
But yeah, I'm not. Everyday that goes by makes me think less
(49:59):
and less of him was a prospectfor the NFL. Yeah, and there's
a chance. I'm pretty sure he'scoming back at this point. There there's
a discussion that they just said thatArch is not gonna leave. I did
see that, so I don't knowif that changes things for him, But
yeah, it's gonna be. Thiswill be fun playoff games. It sucks.
I feel like we have to waitforever, don't we. Yeah,
they're always on the It's always onthe first day of the month. Right,
(50:19):
it's always on New Year's Day.Is New Year's Day? I think
so? Right, Yeah, you'reright, it is. Yes, gen
one, man, that's so far. But at least we'll have some like
crummy bowl games to get us through. I think that's everything for us today.
Be sure to fall us on Twitterat Jet said Dynasty. Uh,
we're getting into its almost fantasy playoffs. This is typically the last regular season
week, so good luck in allyour matches unless you're playing me. And
(50:44):
we'll be back next week with morefootball talk. Goodbye,
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