January 17, 2024 • 41 mins
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It's time for the fantasy football guysfilling your ear holes with gooey, sticky
football knowledge since two thousand and five. Here they are, Lyle, con
Keel and Kevin Moore. Leave fantasyfootball guys. That's right, where the
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fantasy football guys. I'm Kevin,I'm Lyle. I am so glad the
nightmare is over and can enjoy therest of this football season the same.
So here's the thing. That's whatI was thinking. The only thing that
could salvage this Eagle season was thatthe Cowboys somehow get ousted more embarrassingly somehow
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than the Eagle. And before andsooner and a day sooner, I just
can't. It fills my heart withjoy. I am joy full. When
people say they are julious, thisis what they're referring to, this feeling.
I thought that too. And mywhole thing was after Saturday, Like
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you know what, I don't carewhat happens on Monday or whatever it was
Sunday. I don't care what happenson Monday. I was dreading this this
playoff season because I thought, reallythought that the Cowboys were going to make
the NFC Championship game. They hada very clear road. I thought,
you know, them playing Detroit again, that would have been rough. But
going to Detroit, I thought theywould lose that game. Being at home,
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I thought maybe they could take them. You know, obviously they played
them really tough before. Detroit shouldhave won that game. Probably did win
that game. But yeah, eitherhere nor there. But I really thought
they were going to make the NFCChampionship game, and yeah, maybe some
miracle they go to the you know, Super Bowl, and anything can happen
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there. Sure, so I wasvery nervous about that. I did not
expect them to collabse apps against theGreen Bay Packers at home. That caught
me totally off guard. And that'sthe difference. I fully expected the Eagles
to collapse under the slot of ofthe Baker Mayfield led Tampa Bay offense.
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Correct fully expected it. In fact, when it started to happen, I
was like, yeah, of course, now, yeah, I didn't really
expect the offense to be that bad, but there we were. I did.
I turned it off when the satwhen the safety happened, I was
like, that's it. Wow,it's over. At that point, I
hung in a little bit longer,but it wasn't very long and uh,
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you know, I just hope thatthat this collapse leads to change. I
hope they fire the entire coaching staffexcept it was sure except for Staalin,
but you know, Siriani and OffenDivus the coordinators had to go. They
gotta go, both defensive coordinators.Sure, yep, the defense actually got
worse under Patricia. They did that. If that was somehow possible, you
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didn't think it was. Well there. It was not only that they can't
tackle. No, they read theplay correctly, They got a guy in.
They don't tackle. Yeah, Iwas actually surprised. Guys were running
away from the opportunity to make atackle. I mean it was embarrassing.
It was embarrassing. There was aplay where I think Mayfield was running with
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the ball and he uh he heran for a first down on this play.
It was it was early on inthe game. Yeah, and Eli
Ricks got boxed out by a widereceiver. The wide receiver literally had his
back to Eli Ricks. It wasjust holding his arms out, just boxed
him out. Yeah, and Eiriswas moving backwards. What I saw it
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I saw out of the way.I was like, you can go through
a dude, you know, youabsolutely can what is happening. It almost
seemed to me like the team waslike, we got to get these coaches
the hell out of here. Let'sdo what we got to do to get
these guys out. I don't know, man, I it better happened.
I will be very upset if Sirianniis still the coach next year. The
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coordinators have to be gone. I'mless concerned about I'm more concerned with the
coordinators. And they get better coordinators, I'll be like, all right,
but this is your last chance.Turn yourself up just a little wrong.
I mean, I don't know.I don't know. And I gotta say
this too. We give Howie Rosemana lot of credit, you know,
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bringing people in. He gets,he gets all the praise, right,
He's got to get some of theblame too. None of the moves that
he made were correct, as itturns out. Yeah, yeah, and
listen, I would like for himto make those moves because I don't think
they would have been better without them, right, But they didn't. They
didn't work out well. He certainlyhas to pay more attention to linebackers.
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Please, for the low of God. It's you know, well, not
only that, but your aging cornerstoo. I mean, you know,
brad Berry is just toast. Idon't think. I mean, Slay still
has some athletic ability in him.He still didn't play very well this year.
But Bradberry's just he's just not thesame guy. You know. Looking
at at their their quote unquote coverage, it seemed like they purposefully left holes
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open for the receivers to to getinto. It was like, I don't
know, but people are just consistentlyopen. My problem with Sirianni at this
point is, and I know it, press conferences are all all problem,
but you know, the the apparentrefusal to to make changes when he says,
you know, we don't base ourwe don't change our process based on
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results. In other words, justbecause we have a terrible game, we
don't change what we do. Well, yeah, you absolutely have to.
I don't. I don't. Idon't fault that philosophy when it's a game,
when it's five, yeah, right, then you then you got changed
something. Man. We've had wehad two teams that made the playoffs this
year that changed their offensive coordinator's midseason, and they jumped canoes in the
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middle of the stream, right.Matt Canada and the Bills do it.
And as soon as the Bills madethat change, boom they made in the
NFL. Right now, Yeah,absolutely, I think they they're going to
get get by Kansas City and thenit's going to be you know, I
think Ravens and Bills, and itcould either of those teams could go.
So this may be the Bills year. Bills Nation jump onto some tables for
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God's sake. Well, See,the thing is, every NFL team is
capable of laya dud, right,we saw it all these good teams.
Sarrancisco lost three games in a row. Baltimore has laid some absolute stinkers out
there. Right. We certainly sawDallas do it. We saw k C
do it. We've seen Buffalo midseason they lose five games in a row.
Yeah, they lost to the Eagles. How embarrassing is that? The
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Patriots and the Jets at some pointthis year. Yeah, but then they
switched to offensive coordinators and things likethat. Then you make a change.
That's when you make a check ifif you know, you lose a game
or two, I get it,it happens. It's the NFL. It's
impossible to go undefeat it but youcannot lose what six out of the last
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seven games is what they ended upwith, right, And it hurts me.
If Jason Kelsey actually retires, it'sgonna hurt It's gonna hurt me a
little bit to have him go outthat way. It'll hurt me too.
But he's got a pretty good resume, So I don't you know, he'll
be in a booth somewhere or ina studio. I think he's gonna be
fine. I think he'll be justfine. And I think that he's gonna
have a gold jacket in you know, exactly five points years after he retires.
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Agreed, Yeah, because you know, six time All pros, seven
time Pro bowler, he's just he'sone of the best centers to ever play
champion. Yeah, all that allright? So the Browns Texans game,
we could talk about Eagles for liketwo hours here and just be bitching in
on them. But how how goodwas C. J. Stroud? Fantastic?
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Amazing? And you know, Iknow that that I picked them to
win at home. But the thingI didn't expect Stroud to be that amazing,
and I didn't expect Flacco to throwtwo pick sixes in a row that
was kind of yeah, game,that'll that'll, that'll hurt your chances of
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winning a game. Yeah, well, I think you know if you if
you look at I saw this wasyears ago, that if you throw an
interception it decreases your chance of winningby like twenty percent. And if you
throw two of them and they gofor scores, then you're really hurting.
Yeah, that's got to be very, very low. I would love to
know the number of the like thepercentage of games that people have won that
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there have been two pick sixes againsttheir team. I bet it's minuscule,
very small. I bet it's singledigit. I mean last year, I
don't think they were pick sixes.But when the Chargers played the Jaguars,
Trevor Lawrence had four picks in thefirst half and they had like a one
present chins a winning and he cameback. That's like the only time that's
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ever happened in the history of peopleplaying it football. So but really as
amazing as Stroud was, I thinkNico Collins with his six out of seven
for ninety six and a touchdown,I think he's a first five round,
first maybe even four round fantasy picknext year. As a receiver. Yeah,
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dude, I saw a post onReddit the other day. Someone was
talking about, you know, yeahthis this textan team is really good.
So he just drouds you know thisand the other if they if they finally
get like a good number one receiver, they're gonna be They're gonna be set.
I'm like, what are you talkingabout? Yeah, they've got him,
and this is without tang Dell.Yeah, when Dell coverage, When
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Dell comes back, it's gonna beeven even better. And they could use
a third guy. I mean maybethat guy's Mechi, Probably not. I
mean, you know, Schultz onlyhad two targ it's the other night,
but you didn't really need one ofthem was a touchdown. Yeah, yeah,
they could probably use another another receiver, but plenty of receivers coming out
in this year's draft, so wellthat worried about it. But theyn't need
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is a good run game. Yeah, they don't really have a running back.
I mean Singletary does, okay it, don't you die on me?
Before the hell was going on?Bring it over there a plane somewhere I
have an ad plane. Sorry aboutthat, boys, Dolphins, Chiefs did
that end? I think the Weatherwas the twelfth man for those for those
Chiefs, I mean the uh As. Somebody was talking about this. I
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can't remember who was I sold onTV. It's like the problem with warm
weather teams that go to cold weatheris they have no way nowhere to go
out and practice. If the Chiefswant to practice in cold weather, they
know where to go, you know, they're living that. Yeah. The
Dolphins, you know, outside oftheir facility, it's eighty six degrees and
beautiful and sunny, a little breezy, you know, but certainly not negative
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or whatever the hell it was.You don't think they could have asked the
Broncos to go train at their facilityso they could beat the Chiefs. They
they probably could have asked somebody,but you know, those arrangements are hard
to make, you know, fora football team at the last minute.
So no real chakra. I youknow, I think that of all the
quarterbacks we saw play this week,young guys, you know, Stroud,
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Tua, Jordan Love. Can't reallyput any of the Rams or Lions guys
in there. But you know,clearly Tua is not in the same class
of player as as Stroud or Loveturns out to be yeah, I don't.
I don't know yet. I knowit's hard to say based on one
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game, but you know, youlook at the over the course of the
year. Jordan Love kind of startedout well, kind of had a dip,
but really finished the season strong andlooked great, strong against the Cowboys.
Yeah, you know Tua, Yeah, I think he has He has
flashes of competence, but then youknow, he has flashes of extreme income.
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Yeah. I think his performance ismuch more based on how well the
team is doing. Whereas Jordan Love, all of his weapons are younger than
him, so it's not like he'srelying on it like a veteran presence a
Tyreek Hill to get open and makethings happen. He's just thrown to whoever's
open. So I think his successis much more impressive than what to had
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before. Because people say that brockParty was just in an offense that was
good. I think the same couldbe said, if not more, for
Tua. Sure. Sure. Theother thing though, is that Jordan Love
doesn't have any pressure right now.That's true, right, They're not expected
to do anything. Dolphins were expectedto be a Super Bowl contender for sure
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all year Yeah, all year long. Jordan Love, you know, and
nobody expected Green Bay to even makethe playoffs, right, and now they
get in, they go to Dallas, nobody expects them to win. It's
a little bit easier to play thequarterbacquisition when the spotlight is not completely on
you. It will be next year. Yeah. The Dolphins now have the
longest streak with that winning, thelongest years streak without winning a playoff game.
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Wow. Now that the Lions won. Wow, there's a fair amount
of pressure there, you know,quite frankly, the competition. I mean,
this is not I'm not saying thisthe knock Dak Prescott or were the
Dallas Cowboys, I'm not, butyou know, the homes and and the
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chiefs, right, you know,organizationally top down, right, I mean,
it just is that's a that's atougher battle. Going into Kansas City
and win in the playoffs is muchmore difficult than to go into Dallas and
win. Apparently, well that's itturns out as it turns out. Yeah,
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I mean, you know, butthere you are, the first seven
seed to knock off a two seedsthey are. This is kind of like,
you know, if you're a communitycollege and you go to the n
C Double A and you're the sixteenseed and you knock off the number one
seed. It's happened once, Ithink, But yeah, this is almost
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that. But and I love it. Rams Lions really the only game of
the weekend. Yeah, to befair, and it was a really good
game. It was, in fact, you know, I didn't realize it
was over till it was over.When when golf through to uh Alm and
raw for that first down, Iwas like, okay, they can they
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can keep you realize they can kneelit out then either I don't know why.
Yeah, Jamie's like game over.I was like, what, there's
still like almost two minutes left.He's like, they don't have any timeouts.
They being of course the Rams.But dude, I gotta tell you,
Matt Stafford for for what how washe thirty five, thirty six something
like that? He is as advertised, Dude, that guy is just on.
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It doesn't hurt to have, youknow, Pooka along along for the
rude does not. But yeah,that was that was he. I thought.
I thought there were had a chanceto win that game until the very
you know, obviously to the veryend. But yeah, I thought the
Rams looked great. Lions at home, you know, look great too against
a team that's surging. The Ramsare on the hottest teams at the end
of the year. I'm tell youright now, they're gonna win this week
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too. They're gonna stalk Tampa.Oh yeah, hell yeah, yeah,
so Hawaii Blue in the NFC Championship. Boys, I would be flabbergasted if
Tampa wins this game. So withpeople in Detroit, Yeah, I did
see you know, doom scrolling throughTikTok as I occasionally do you know,
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I watch everybody's you know, predictionsfor this weekend's playoffs, and I did
see somebody that picked the uh,the Packers to take care of the forty
nine Ers this weekend for the firsttime in ten years. Yeah, It's
like that just doesn't happen, guys. It doesn't matter where they play.
Forty nine Ers own the Packers.Dallas's crypt on it is the Packers in
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the playoffs. Yeah, what isit to nine in a row or something?
Something? I think so well,the Packers have never lost in Dallas.
Yeah, the Packers have more playoffwins at AT and T than the
Cowboys do. Yeah, and they'resix and zero overall, I love it,
but it's the opposite for the Niners. They just cannot beat the Niners
in the playoffs and the Niners ofthe number one season. Yeah, I
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think it's uh, it's it's thewriting is on the wall fellas well.
I don't know, we'll see.They got to play the games they do.
Nobody thought the Packers could go intoDallas and get the dub either,
So listen, man, I don'tknow, Like, if Jordan Love plays
like that again, if the GreenBay defense plays like that again, it's
gonna be a good game. Andif if the forty nine Ers leave receivers
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wide ass open like that again,it could be different. I think the
biggest thing is if the Packers linecan stop the pass rush and Love has
as much time as he did againstDallas, then it'll be a ball game.
I got two words for you,dude, Nick f and Bosa.
Michael Parsons, he didn't do anything. Javon f and Hargrave. Yeah,
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these guys are good. I'll giveyou that, but they gotta go out
there and play. They did,and Green Bay's got nothing to lose.
All the pressures on San Francisco,I think it's very unlikely that Green Bay
will win this game, but Ithink it's gonna be closer than people that.
I don't think Sanrans is gonna blowthem out. I don't these guys
believe. Man, they went intoDallas where nobody had won for sixteen straight
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games and blew them out. Itwasn't close. The is not The forty
eight to thirty two score doesn't reflectwhat the game was six minutes last week.
It was thirty thirty four to sixteensomething like that. Yeah. Yeah,
And I did say when when Lafloratook the took Love out, it
said it was like, this isa series too early. He should not
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take them out yet. And itturns out I was right, because they
brought him back in for the nextseries. Like, yeah, this game
is not over, guys, there'stime left, and they're marching down the
field on you. The situation actuallykind of is reminiscent of what happened in
twenty twenty one when the the Ninerswere like the six or seven seed and
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the Packers had all the pressure onthem. I think they were the one
I think they were the one seed, and then the Niners they were Yeah,
the Niners, I think beat maybeDallas. They beat somebody in the
wild card round. Then it wasthen came to Green Bay in the division
around and beat Green Bay at homein the snow, which no one expected,
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and then they almost beat the Ramsto go to this super Bowl that
year. Yeah, it's a verysimilar situation here in terms of pressure on
the different teams. Yeah, ifyou can play loose, I mean,
you know, when you get acouple of breaks, Paul bounces your way,
you get a call or too,you never know it could have happened.
And you know, boys talking aboutthe switching to the Bill Steelers game,
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I thought the Steelers are going togo down and score a touchdown at
the end to kind of blow theten point spread on the Bills. But
yeah, they're marching down like you'renot gonna let him score touchdown here?
How about Josh Allen on his wheels? Are you kidding me? Listen?
I know he's probably not the mostpolished, but I think as far as
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athletic talent is concerned at the quarterbackposition, I don't think anybody touches him
in the NFL. He's a completepackage for size and cannon arm. He's
super fast, he's mobile, hemakes good decisions. You know, he's
enormous. He's huge. Yeah,I don't like I wass just I mean,
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I know the Steelers don't have,like, you know, an elite
defense in the NFL, but Iwas still I was just like, wow,
look at this guy. Oh yeah, when he busted through that that,
I thought he was just going forthe first down. Then he realized
he had some room. He didthat he was running away from them.
Oh yeah, like he had agear and nobody knew. Wild. Of
course, people were saying he kindof faked a slide there, made everybody
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relax. I didn't really see thatthat much. It looked like he was
just from the angle because he waskind of moving latterly, like towards the
camera. It looked like he waslike kind of gathering up the slide.
But he may have just been kindof shuffling to a side to an open
spot. But the I think peoplethat watched the game and some of the
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defenders are saying with regard to thatthat because he did that earlier in the
game and it looked like he mighthave been trying to slide, the defenders
may have pulled up and then hekept running. Later in the game,
when he goes to do the samething, he gets wrecked on a slide.
Defenders like, what are we supposedto do? Yeah, and I
think sucks. I think that's valid, but it's not. We do know
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that Kenny Pickett was the guy whodid the fake slide in college. In
college kind of made that rule change. Did that rule change actually happen in
the NFL, So it's not illegal. So yeah, fake that slide,
sorry, defender, you know.All right, So I think we've beat
the dead horse of the Super wildCard weekend games. By the way,
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I hate that term absent Super wildCard Weekend anyway. All right, so
look at it last week, right, So the Houston it was Houston in
the over. The over under wasforty four and a half. The actual
was fifty nine, Houston winning.So you guys both picked the Browns in
the under. I took the Texansin the over. Look at that dolphin
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your nails. That's right, don'tworry it changes, chiefs were this was
over under four. Now, theseodds came out and we did the show
before we knew it was gonna bea weather game. But there we are.
Robbie and I both picked Dolphins andover Lyle picked Chiefs and under.
It was Chiefs and under. Nice, there we go. So it's two
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to two zero. Yeah. Nextgame, we thought it was gonna be
Steelers Bills. It turned out tobe later, but we all three picked
the Bills. You guys picked theover. I picked the under, so
you guys get two and I getone because it was Bills and the over.
Robbie and I picked the Packers.We took the points and I picked
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the over. It was Green Baywith the over, so I took two.
Robbie took one. Sorry about yourCowboys under bat lyle Man, I
just didn't see it happening. Goodfor you guys, Well, yeah,
I mean blind scroll and all that. So the Rams Lions game, Robbie
picked Rams in the under and theLions are giving three. So that resulted
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in a Rams win because it wastwenty four to twenty three. So I
took the under on that one.It paid off. Lyle, you got
the the goosegg there, Robbie gottwo. Uh. And the final game,
for some stupid ass a reason,I took the Eagles in the over.
You boys both took the Bucks inthe under that paid off. So
right now the score is Robbie hasseven and Lyle and I. You and
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I are tied at six. WaitI'm in the lead. Yeah, it's
tight because you got Bills over Packers, Rams under Bucks under. Yeah.
I think at some point on Sundayyou were like, yeah, you only
have one point. You did,and then I just nailed the next three
games. I guess you did.Yep, uh yeah, because you had
you had the Packers. It's likeI had I think four or five and
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Lyle had four and you had wonand then you got the next four out
of the next five points there.So off we go to this week's games.
Fellas, not really any news tospeak of. I mean, you
know, McCaffrey's full practice, blahblah blah, Patriots have a new head
coach. Yeah. I mean itwas funny because they put paperwork in I
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think last year that when Bill leaves, Mayo is going to be the guy.
It was built into their contracts thatgirod Mayo would succeed Bill. They
were just expecting it to happen nextyear. But because they performed so poorly,
they'd like, we're gonna do it. Year early, right, and
the Falcons interviewed Belichick too, Soyeah, on on Arthur Blank's yacht.
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From what I understand, Wow.Yeah. The thing is is because they
wrote it in the contracts, theydidn't have to go through the usual interview
processes to be the Patriots. Sothey didn't have to because the Rooney rule
says you have to interview two minoritycandidates before you make a hire. Because
they wrote it into the contracts thatway and it was approved by the league.
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Yeah, Mayo didn't have to Therewas no interview process. He just
got the gig. There are someother teams I think I want to hire
a minority coach that have to actuallyinterview a second minority coach before they can
hire the minority coach they want.Seems a little odd, but that's the
way the rule is written. Anduh, and there we are. So
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I think in the next couple ofdays, we're going to see maybe maybe
one more coaching availability coaching job openat least two well maybe I'm hoping me
at least one problem maybe two whenit could be Dallas and Philly. Somebody
said, look at it this way, if the current coach, current crop
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of coaching prospects are out there,and Nick Sirianni is among them. Do
you hire Nick Sirianni? No,you do not, So why would you
retain Nick Sirianni. Well, here'sthe problem. Or we don't have to
talk about this much, but herehere's the major issue. Nick Sirianni has
been the head coach of the Fieldof Eagles for three years. Right.
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They've gone to the playoffs all threeyears. He's the only coach of the
Eagles to ever do that. Healso was in a Super Bowl less than
it uh less than a year ago, and he started season ten and one.
Right, I'm not saying that collapseisn't what it is. What I'm
saying is I think it's probably along shot that Sirianni's gone. I think
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if he uh, Well, thereason Peterson was cut loose is because Howie
and Laurie didn't like his his uhcoordinator choices. They didn't agree, and
they cut them loose. You insiston these guys, you know, you
can look for a job with them, right, And as it turns out
that you know, when Sirianni camein and brought the two guys he brought
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in turns out they were great hires. They were great hires, but they're
both head coaches now, Yeah,exactly. Well that's the thing. It's
like, you know, you're sittingthere watching the Eagles defense and you're longing
for the heady days of Jonathan Gannon. I never thought i'd say that,
but uh yeah, I'm they're thinkingthis time last year. I was like,
you know, Gannon, your bestdud, and now the bed win
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the game. But then the gamewould be won. So well, they
also were the best team in theNFL. If you remember last year in
the first quarter, they were blowingteams out. Yeah, so I don't
they don't. They don't have thatgear anymore. Uh anyway, I think
the gear is among them. Theyjust the coaches weren't able to bring them
out of them. So well,it's kind of it's kind of hard to
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move the ball down the field whenevery pass you throw is behind the line
of scrimmage. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Oh oh oh, it's it's third
and twenty. Let's run a let'srun a bubble screen. Yeah with no
blockers. We'll just throw it withwith two of the best receivers and one
of the best tight ends in theNFL. Let's throw the ball at the
line of scrimmage. I swear toGod, it's good. It's good.
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You're not better, dude, it'sjust you know what, man, listen
and listen, and Cowboys fans,I'm gonna feel with you on this one.
We're gonna we're gonna agree on thisone. We're gonna predator handshake right
here. Okay. I support thisteam. I love this team. I
talked shit about this team. Okay, I'm not asking you to win every
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game. I know that's impossible.Don't embarrass me. Stop. Don't make
me have to go on Monday morningor in this case, Tuesday morning and
face forty nine Er fans, orCowboys fans, or even Commanders and Giants
fans at this point. Don't makeme have to do that and hang my
head in shame because I chose tosupport your team. Stop it. Yeah,
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you know, Dallas feels that too. Absolutely, yeah, without absolutely.
If the Eagles would have won thatgame, can you imagine the amount
of shit they would have had totake oh from us because the Eagles got
further into the well, yeah,it's crazy. God, we would have
been just spackling that shit on.I mean, were we still are?
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Right? Like, like our teamcalled totally collapsed. We expected them to
lose. The Cowboys were supposed towin the Super Bowl. Yeah, it
was their year. We'd end boys, you know anyway? All right,
So Texans at Ravens this is theSaturday four thirty game. You remember,
Back in the old days, we'dget playoff games at one o'clock. Yeah,
those days are over. We gotto get to prime time boys.
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So Texans at Ravens. Ravens layin nine and a half at home,
and the overrun here is forty threeand a half. All right, Robbie
leader in the clubhouse, Who yougot Ravens at home? Nine and a
half point leg? It's a lotof points. Do you have a good
defense? Bill's covered with a tenpoint lne they did, but that's what
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the Bills do. They almost didn't. Yeah, it's true. If I
had money on that game and theSteelers were running down the field late fourth,
do we know what the weather's gonnabe in Baltimore? God, you
should have talked the hell out herenow. I don't want the weather's going
to be it's winter times winter.I did hear that there was a winter
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storm coming through this Friday, sothere could be some snow on the ground,
cold temperatures. Nine and a halfis a lot. I think I'm
gonna take the Texans here. Idon't think it's going to be a blowout.
I think this is gonna be afairly close game. I see the
Ravens still winning. But nine andhalf is a lot. And what was
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the over under? Forty three anda hook? I think it'll be over
that. Take the Texans and theover Why what do you got, Bubba?
So I don't disagree with Robbie here. I think it's way too tight
of a It's a playoff game.It's a divisional playoff game. Man,
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I don't think that the Ravens aregonna win by ten plus points. I
think it's too much. So I'mgonna take the Texans too. The over
under that's like right at the edge. Well, that's what they do.
It's not supposed to be rated theI'm gonna take the over too. I
hate to just go with rally,but you know, I don't want to
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lose points either. So you guysare almost forcing me to be contrarian.
Do it? Do what you thinkis gonna happen, because if you're contrarian,
just to be contrarian, you couldend up losing ground. But yeah,
yeah, I know how it works, bro. But you know what
I don't see. I think theTexans can just win this freaking game.
Honestly. Yeah, when I sawnine and a half, I was like,
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wait a minute. I actually checkedanother site to make sure that that
wasn't It is DraftKings sports Book,so I'm like, let me check Fanduels.
It's nine and a half. Soyeah, I think the Texans can
win this game because, like yousaid, with Green Bay, there's no
pressure on them to win. They'veoverachieved how many games they were slated to
win three games preseason. Here theyare in the divisional round, and I
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think it's going to go over too. I think the Texans can score that
many points on their own, behonest with you, Wow, we all
took so so anybody who's betting outthere, Baltimore to the under, it's
gonna be a weather game. It'sgonna be running, you know, it's
gonna be nine to four or something. Yeah, well that wouldn't be Baltimore
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then, all right, So I'llgo first on this one. So you
got Packers in forty nine ers.This is a Saturday night game, Niners
laying nine point five points over underhere, fifty point five. Hard for
me to bet against the number oneseed against the number seven seed. Yeah,
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I know. They just knocked offthe number two seed and this is
Packers though, playing the forty nineers. So I'm gonna lay that nine
and a half. I'm gonna takethe forty nine ers. I may regret
this. I'm also gonna take theunder on this one. I'm gonna go
under fifty point five. Rob hmm. I feel like I have to ride
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with them because they knocked the Cowboysout. Ride or die, baby,
You're taking the pack Yeah, yousaid it was also nine and a half.
Nine point five points and a half. Yeah, nine and a half
is a lot. Again, Iunderstand we're looking at one seed versus seven
seed here, but I think onceyou get past the first round, like
the seeding, I don't think Ithink you have to throw that out the
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window at this point. Yeah,do you really like you can't say,
oh, well they're the seven seed, it doesn't matter. That doesn't matter,
right, It just beat the twoseeds. Right, that shouldn't matter
Moore because they're the seven seed outthe window. Okay, looking at how
they played last week against the teamthat was supposed to be in the championship,
I think they have a shot toat least make it close to the
nine and a half. So I'mdefinitely taking the Packers. I would have
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thought the last game was gonna gounder two, So I'm gonna take the
over here. God damn it rowdy, So I think green Bay can flat
out win this game. I thinkthey can. San Francisco is elite.
They've had a week off that doesaffect people, everybody's heel. Their defense
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is much better than I thought theywere. Now I know this is probably
gonna be the best offense. Doyou mean forty nine ers or Packers defense?
Forty nine? No, the Packersdefense. The forty nine Ers defense
is e lave you know that.Yeah, the green Bay Packers defense is
much better than I thought they were. And if Jordan Love plays like that,
it's gonna be a game. Ithink it has to go over if
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they're gonna win. So I'm takingGreen Bays the over. Well, you
boys are lockstepping. Texa is overGreen Bay over all, right, Lie,
you get Bucks at Lions Sunday,three o'clock game six and a half
points. Lions are favored by over. Under here is forty eight and a
half. I don't think this one'scontroversial. I don't think Tampa's very good.
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The Eagles are just super super bad. I think Detroit's gonna win this
game fairly easily, so six anda half doesn't bother me at all.
It's a not touchdown. Yeah,I think they'll win by two touchdowns.
Yeah. My concern with the overis I don't know how many points Tampa's
gonna score. Yeah, I'm gonnatake Lions to the under on this one,
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Rob, I think that I canbe I can be pretty certain that
Tampa is going to score at leasttwenty, So I'm gonna go lines in
the over. Do you think theLions score twenty eight twenty five? I
think they could score forty eight.Well, of course they could. Yeah,
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it doesn't mean they're gonna Yeah,yeah, I think forty eight and
a half. You know, twentyeight to twenty would still make me lose
if I take the over, Butyeah, I think the Lions can get
thirty five easy in this one.I'm gonna take the Lions in the over
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our faith in the Bucks. SoRob, you go first again there whenever.
So you got Chiefs. I haven'tgone first. Ye Oh. I
did. Just last one, justlast one. Chiefs at Bills the Sunday
six thirty game, Bills only layinglay in two and a half at home
and the over unders forty five two. And that's it. That's it,
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I guess the chief first time,first time Pat Mahomes has been on the
road in the playoffs in his careeras a starter. Wow. Yeah.
And also first time he's been anunderdog in the playoffs. This might be
the first time he's been an underdogat all, honestly. Yeah. After
that first year, it's how doyou not take the Bills at home?
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I mean, the Chiefs did justbeat Miami, but I think there's other
things going on there. The Chiefshaven't looked good all year. The bill
are getting hot, well, they'remaintaining their previous hot, their previous Yeah,
they're at home, which I thinkthis is the first you just said
this, first time they've met inthe playoffs where the Bills are at home
instead of the Chiefs are at home. I'm taking the Bills here, and
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the over was forty four and ahalf forty five, forty five on the
nose again, I think I'm gonnago over here. Every time these two
meet, it's a shootout. Yeah, I don't see it being There's no
way you can take the under herefor forty twenty five twenty You kidding me?
Yeah, Now, of course it'sit's gonna end up being like thirteen
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to two or something. Yeah,it's gonna be another weather game, and
the running backs are you know,Cook is going to run for two hundred.
No, I'm not going to takethe Chiefs here. I mean,
it seems silly to bet against thereigning Super Bowl champ in the divisional round,
but here we are. I mean, really, the only other than
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Kelsey that that Mahomes has is Rice, and you know he's pretty good.
But yeah, I don't see theBills losing at home here, So Bill's
over for me, all right.I'm also going to take the Bills.
I think that the one thing thatyou guys are forgetting is how good both
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of these defenses are. Yeah,I think this could very easily be a
low scoring game, particularly on thechief side. Like I said, the
Bills are the most terrifying team inthe NFL right now. They righted the
ship, and boy hasn't been rightsince. I mean, this is a
team that didn't they lose all oftheir games in a row. Didn't they
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lose six straight games? And thenthey just they won every other game.
I don't know if it was ina row. Maybe it was five,
I don't know. They lost abunch of games in a row. Anyway,
it's and then the offensive coordinator broughta new dude in. Yeah yeah,
and they haven't lost since. Theyare fantastastic now. So I gotta
be honest with you. I thinkthat the Bills could probably shut down the
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Chiefs fairly well. I think theycould easily win this game. Twenty seven
ten, which is thirty seven points, was just the under, So I'm
gonna take the under. There yougo. Well, there's not a whole
lot of diversity here. We don'thave We all took the Texans for the
points. Yeah, so it's Lions, Bills, Texes. Really the only
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outlier here is me taking the fortynine ers and laying the points. Now,
I kind of feel like a Rube. I don't know. Maybe I
shouldn't do it, and it'll bethe right thing to do. Yes,
who knows, maybe that'll be theone that pusts me right up on you
guys. I don't know. We'llfind out Sunday. We'll find out Sunday.
Let me save this. Also,we have the we did the Bracket
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Challenge, the ESPN Bracket Challenge,and I actually took Green Bay to beat
Dallas in that game. Yeah,so did I. So, so my
whole bracket is screwed up. Yeah, well I took the Browns though,
So yeah, well, Lyle,you're tied for first with two hundred and
fifty point. You get fifty pointsfor a win, zero points for a
loss. Lyle, you're tied forfirst with Joker T. S. Bryant
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and you and I'm tied for fourthwith two hundred points because I foolishly picked
the Eagles to win. But itseems kind of lame, you know,
you're just picking the bracket, butyeah, you know, it is what
it is. Unfortunately, NFL uhkind of did away with their with NFL
dot Com did away with their challenge. But uh, you know, given
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enough time, we'll find something elsefor next year. So there you have
it. Boys, I think it'stime to hit the button. That's right,
let's do it. Indeed, Hey, wow, Robbie bought a house.
Really you, he's gonna he's gonnabe one of your neighbors. Really.
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Yeah, I'm in the I don'tknow if I want to say where
I want to be. It's abig neighbors. Yeah, I'm in Brenada
States. Dude. That's awesome,man. Yeah, I'm really excited.
Start training some jiu jitsu. Man. Sure, come you come rolling rolling
the mats with me? And alsojiu jitsu. Oh hey, that's super
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cool man. Awesome when you whendo you? Well, we'll talk about
it after the show. Yeah,let's let's talk about your financials right here.
Yeah, during the pay for it? How much put down with jp
R? All right, we'll beback actually to talk about this divisional round
and get into the semies, thechampionship games, all right. So yuh
It's time for the fantasy football guysfilling your ear holes with gooey, sticky
football knowledge since two thousand and five. Here they are, Lyle, con
Keel and Kevin Moore. Leave fantasyfootball guys. That's right, where the
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fantasy football guys. I'm Kevin,I'm Lyle. I am so glad the
nightmare is over and can enjoy therest of this football season the same.
So here's the thing. That's whatI was thinking. The only thing that
could salvage this Eagle season was thatthe Cowboys somehow get ousted more embarrassingly somehow
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than the Eagle. And before andsooner and a day sooner, I just
can't. It fills my heart withjoy. I am joy full. When
people say they are julious, thisis what they're referring to, this feeling.
I thought that too. And mywhole thing was after Saturday, Like
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you know what, I don't carewhat happens on Monday or whatever it was
Sunday. I don't care what happenson Monday. I was dreading this this
playoff season because I thought, reallythought that the Cowboys were going to make
the NFC Championship game. They hada very clear road. I thought,
you know, them playing Detroit again, that would have been rough. But
going to Detroit, I thought theywould lose that game. Being at home,
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I thought maybe they could take them. You know, obviously they played
them really tough before. Detroit shouldhave won that game. Probably did win
that game. But yeah, eitherhere nor there. But I really thought
they were going to make the NFCChampionship game, and yeah, maybe some
miracle they go to the you know, Super Bowl, and anything can happen
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there. Sure, so I wasvery nervous about that. I did not
expect them to collabse apps against theGreen Bay Packers at home. That caught
me totally off guard. And that'sthe difference. I fully expected the Eagles
to collapse under the slot of ofthe Baker Mayfield led Tampa Bay offense.
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Correct fully expected it. In fact, when it started to happen, I
was like, yeah, of course, now, yeah, I didn't really
expect the offense to be that bad, but there we were. I did.
I turned it off when the satwhen the safety happened, I was
like, that's it. Wow,it's over. At that point, I
hung in a little bit longer,but it wasn't very long and uh,
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you know, I just hope thatthat this collapse leads to change. I
hope they fire the entire coaching staffexcept it was sure except for Staalin,
but you know, Siriani and OffenDivus the coordinators had to go. They
gotta go, both defensive coordinators.Sure, yep, the defense actually got
worse under Patricia. They did that. If that was somehow possible, you
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didn't think it was. Well there. It was not only that they can't
tackle. No, they read theplay correctly, They got a guy in.
They don't tackle. Yeah, Iwas actually surprised. Guys were running
away from the opportunity to make atackle. I mean it was embarrassing.
It was embarrassing. There was aplay where I think Mayfield was running with
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the ball and he uh he heran for a first down on this play.
It was it was early on inthe game. Yeah, and Eli
Ricks got boxed out by a widereceiver. The wide receiver literally had his
back to Eli Ricks. It wasjust holding his arms out, just boxed
him out. Yeah, and Eiriswas moving backwards. What I saw it
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I saw out of the way.I was like, you can go through
a dude, you know, youabsolutely can what is happening. It almost
seemed to me like the team waslike, we got to get these coaches
the hell out of here. Let'sdo what we got to do to get
these guys out. I don't know, man, I it better happened.
I will be very upset if Sirianniis still the coach next year. The
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coordinators have to be gone. I'mless concerned about I'm more concerned with the
coordinators. And they get better coordinators, I'll be like, all right,
but this is your last chance.Turn yourself up just a little wrong.
I mean, I don't know.I don't know. And I gotta say
this too. We give Howie Rosemana lot of credit, you know,
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bringing people in. He gets,he gets all the praise, right,
He's got to get some of theblame too. None of the moves that
he made were correct, as itturns out. Yeah, yeah, and
listen, I would like for himto make those moves because I don't think
they would have been better without them, right, But they didn't. They
didn't work out well. He certainlyhas to pay more attention to linebackers.
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Please, for the low of God. It's you know, well, not
only that, but your aging cornerstoo. I mean, you know,
brad Berry is just toast. Idon't think. I mean, Slay still
has some athletic ability in him.He still didn't play very well this year.
But Bradberry's just he's just not thesame guy. You know. Looking
at at their their quote unquote coverage, it seemed like they purposefully left holes
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open for the receivers to to getinto. It was like, I don't
know, but people are just consistentlyopen. My problem with Sirianni at this
point is, and I know it, press conferences are all all problem,
but you know, the the apparentrefusal to to make changes when he says,
you know, we don't base ourwe don't change our process based on
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results. In other words, justbecause we have a terrible game, we
don't change what we do. Well, yeah, you absolutely have to.
I don't. I don't. Idon't fault that philosophy when it's a game,
when it's five, yeah, right, then you then you got changed
something. Man. We've had wehad two teams that made the playoffs this
year that changed their offensive coordinator's midseason, and they jumped canoes in the
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middle of the stream, right.Matt Canada and the Bills do it.
And as soon as the Bills madethat change, boom they made in the
NFL. Right now, Yeah,absolutely, I think they they're going to
get get by Kansas City and thenit's going to be you know, I
think Ravens and Bills, and itcould either of those teams could go.
So this may be the Bills year. Bills Nation jump onto some tables for
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God's sake. Well, See,the thing is, every NFL team is
capable of laya dud, right,we saw it all these good teams.
Sarrancisco lost three games in a row. Baltimore has laid some absolute stinkers out
there. Right. We certainly sawDallas do it. We saw k C
do it. We've seen Buffalo midseason they lose five games in a row.
Yeah, they lost to the Eagles. How embarrassing is that? The
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Patriots and the Jets at some pointthis year. Yeah, but then they
switched to offensive coordinators and things likethat. Then you make a change.
That's when you make a check ifif you know, you lose a game
or two, I get it,it happens. It's the NFL. It's
impossible to go undefeat it but youcannot lose what six out of the last
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seven games is what they ended upwith, right, And it hurts me.
If Jason Kelsey actually retires, it'sgonna hurt It's gonna hurt me a
little bit to have him go outthat way. It'll hurt me too.
But he's got a pretty good resume, So I don't you know, he'll
be in a booth somewhere or ina studio. I think he's gonna be
fine. I think he'll be justfine. And I think that he's gonna
have a gold jacket in you know, exactly five points years after he retires.
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Agreed, Yeah, because you know, six time All pros, seven
time Pro bowler, he's just he'sone of the best centers to ever play
champion. Yeah, all that allright? So the Browns Texans game,
we could talk about Eagles for liketwo hours here and just be bitching in
on them. But how how goodwas C. J. Stroud? Fantastic?
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Amazing? And you know, Iknow that that I picked them to
win at home. But the thingI didn't expect Stroud to be that amazing,
and I didn't expect Flacco to throwtwo pick sixes in a row that
was kind of yeah, game,that'll that'll, that'll hurt your chances of
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winning a game. Yeah, well, I think you know if you if
you look at I saw this wasyears ago, that if you throw an
interception it decreases your chance of winningby like twenty percent. And if you
throw two of them and they gofor scores, then you're really hurting.
Yeah, that's got to be very, very low. I would love to
know the number of the like thepercentage of games that people have won that
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there have been two pick sixes againsttheir team. I bet it's minuscule,
very small. I bet it's singledigit. I mean last year, I
don't think they were pick sixes.But when the Chargers played the Jaguars,
Trevor Lawrence had four picks in thefirst half and they had like a one
present chins a winning and he cameback. That's like the only time that's
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ever happened in the history of peopleplaying it football. So but really as
amazing as Stroud was, I thinkNico Collins with his six out of seven
for ninety six and a touchdown,I think he's a first five round,
first maybe even four round fantasy picknext year. As a receiver. Yeah,
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dude, I saw a post onReddit the other day. Someone was
talking about, you know, yeahthis this textan team is really good.
So he just drouds you know thisand the other if they if they finally
get like a good number one receiver, they're gonna be They're gonna be set.
I'm like, what are you talkingabout? Yeah, they've got him,
and this is without tang Dell.Yeah, when Dell coverage, When
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Dell comes back, it's gonna beeven even better. And they could use
a third guy. I mean maybethat guy's Mechi, Probably not. I
mean, you know, Schultz onlyhad two targ it's the other night,
but you didn't really need one ofthem was a touchdown. Yeah, yeah,
they could probably use another another receiver, but plenty of receivers coming out
in this year's draft, so wellthat worried about it. But theyn't need
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is a good run game. Yeah, they don't really have a running back.
I mean Singletary does, okay it, don't you die on me?
Before the hell was going on?Bring it over there a plane somewhere I
have an ad plane. Sorry aboutthat, boys, Dolphins, Chiefs did
that end? I think the Weatherwas the twelfth man for those for those
Chiefs, I mean the uh As. Somebody was talking about this. I
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can't remember who was I sold onTV. It's like the problem with warm
weather teams that go to cold weatheris they have no way nowhere to go
out and practice. If the Chiefswant to practice in cold weather, they
know where to go, you know, they're living that. Yeah. The
Dolphins, you know, outside oftheir facility, it's eighty six degrees and
beautiful and sunny, a little breezy, you know, but certainly not negative
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or whatever the hell it was.You don't think they could have asked the
Broncos to go train at their facilityso they could beat the Chiefs. They
they probably could have asked somebody,but you know, those arrangements are hard
to make, you know, fora football team at the last minute.
So no real chakra. I youknow, I think that of all the
quarterbacks we saw play this week,young guys, you know, Stroud,
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Tua, Jordan Love. Can't reallyput any of the Rams or Lions guys
in there. But you know,clearly Tua is not in the same class
of player as as Stroud or Loveturns out to be yeah, I don't.
I don't know yet. I knowit's hard to say based on one
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game, but you know, youlook at the over the course of the
year. Jordan Love kind of startedout well, kind of had a dip,
but really finished the season strong andlooked great, strong against the Cowboys.
Yeah, you know Tua, Yeah, I think he has He has
flashes of competence, but then youknow, he has flashes of extreme income.
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Yeah. I think his performance ismuch more based on how well the
team is doing. Whereas Jordan Love, all of his weapons are younger than
him, so it's not like he'srelying on it like a veteran presence a
Tyreek Hill to get open and makethings happen. He's just thrown to whoever's
open. So I think his successis much more impressive than what to had
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before. Because people say that brockParty was just in an offense that was
good. I think the same couldbe said, if not more, for
Tua. Sure. Sure. Theother thing though, is that Jordan Love
doesn't have any pressure right now.That's true, right, They're not expected
to do anything. Dolphins were expectedto be a Super Bowl contender for sure
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all year Yeah, all year long. Jordan Love, you know, and
nobody expected Green Bay to even makethe playoffs, right, and now they
get in, they go to Dallas, nobody expects them to win. It's
a little bit easier to play thequarterbacquisition when the spotlight is not completely on
you. It will be next year. Yeah. The Dolphins now have the
longest streak with that winning, thelongest years streak without winning a playoff game.
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Wow. Now that the Lions won. Wow, there's a fair amount
of pressure there, you know,quite frankly, the competition. I mean,
this is not I'm not saying thisthe knock Dak Prescott or were the
Dallas Cowboys, I'm not, butyou know, the homes and and the
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chiefs, right, you know,organizationally top down, right, I mean,
it just is that's a that's atougher battle. Going into Kansas City
and win in the playoffs is muchmore difficult than to go into Dallas and
win. Apparently, well that's itturns out as it turns out. Yeah,
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I mean, you know, butthere you are, the first seven
seed to knock off a two seedsthey are. This is kind of like,
you know, if you're a communitycollege and you go to the n
C Double A and you're the sixteenseed and you knock off the number one
seed. It's happened once, Ithink, But yeah, this is almost
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that. But and I love it. Rams Lions really the only game of
the weekend. Yeah, to befair, and it was a really good
game. It was, in fact, you know, I didn't realize it
was over till it was over.When when golf through to uh Alm and
raw for that first down, Iwas like, okay, they can they
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can keep you realize they can kneelit out then either I don't know why.
Yeah, Jamie's like game over.I was like, what, there's
still like almost two minutes left.He's like, they don't have any timeouts.
They being of course the Rams.But dude, I gotta tell you,
Matt Stafford for for what how washe thirty five, thirty six something
like that? He is as advertised, Dude, that guy is just on.
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It doesn't hurt to have, youknow, Pooka along along for the
rude does not. But yeah,that was that was he. I thought.
I thought there were had a chanceto win that game until the very
you know, obviously to the veryend. But yeah, I thought the
Rams looked great. Lions at home, you know, look great too against
a team that's surging. The Ramsare on the hottest teams at the end
of the year. I'm tell youright now, they're gonna win this week
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too. They're gonna stalk Tampa.Oh yeah, hell yeah, yeah,
so Hawaii Blue in the NFC Championship. Boys, I would be flabbergasted if
Tampa wins this game. So withpeople in Detroit, Yeah, I did
see you know, doom scrolling throughTikTok as I occasionally do you know,
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I watch everybody's you know, predictionsfor this weekend's playoffs, and I did
see somebody that picked the uh,the Packers to take care of the forty
nine Ers this weekend for the firsttime in ten years. Yeah, It's
like that just doesn't happen, guys. It doesn't matter where they play.
Forty nine Ers own the Packers.Dallas's crypt on it is the Packers in
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the playoffs. Yeah, what isit to nine in a row or something?
Something? I think so well,the Packers have never lost in Dallas.
Yeah, the Packers have more playoffwins at AT and T than the
Cowboys do. Yeah, and they'resix and zero overall, I love it,
but it's the opposite for the Niners. They just cannot beat the Niners
in the playoffs and the Niners ofthe number one season. Yeah, I
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think it's uh, it's it's thewriting is on the wall fellas well.
I don't know, we'll see.They got to play the games they do.
Nobody thought the Packers could go intoDallas and get the dub either,
So listen, man, I don'tknow, Like, if Jordan Love plays
like that again, if the GreenBay defense plays like that again, it's
gonna be a good game. Andif if the forty nine Ers leave receivers
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wide ass open like that again,it could be different. I think the
biggest thing is if the Packers linecan stop the pass rush and Love has
as much time as he did againstDallas, then it'll be a ball game.
I got two words for you,dude, Nick f and Bosa.
Michael Parsons, he didn't do anything. Javon f and Hargrave. Yeah,
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these guys are good. I'll giveyou that, but they gotta go out
there and play. They did,and Green Bay's got nothing to lose.
All the pressures on San Francisco,I think it's very unlikely that Green Bay
will win this game, but Ithink it's gonna be closer than people that.
I don't think Sanrans is gonna blowthem out. I don't these guys
believe. Man, they went intoDallas where nobody had won for sixteen straight
(17:52):
games and blew them out. Itwasn't close. The is not The forty
eight to thirty two score doesn't reflectwhat the game was six minutes last week.
It was thirty thirty four to sixteensomething like that. Yeah. Yeah,
And I did say when when Lafloratook the took Love out, it
said it was like, this isa series too early. He should not
(18:15):
take them out yet. And itturns out I was right, because they
brought him back in for the nextseries. Like, yeah, this game
is not over, guys, there'stime left, and they're marching down the
field on you. The situation actuallykind of is reminiscent of what happened in
twenty twenty one when the the Ninerswere like the six or seven seed and
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the Packers had all the pressure onthem. I think they were the one
I think they were the one seed, and then the Niners they were Yeah,
the Niners, I think beat maybeDallas. They beat somebody in the
wild card round. Then it wasthen came to Green Bay in the division
around and beat Green Bay at homein the snow, which no one expected,
(18:57):
and then they almost beat the Ramsto go to this super Bowl that
year. Yeah, it's a verysimilar situation here in terms of pressure on
the different teams. Yeah, ifyou can play loose, I mean,
you know, when you get acouple of breaks, Paul bounces your way,
you get a call or too,you never know it could have happened.
And you know, boys talking aboutthe switching to the Bill Steelers game,
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I thought the Steelers are going togo down and score a touchdown at
the end to kind of blow theten point spread on the Bills. But
yeah, they're marching down like you'renot gonna let him score touchdown here?
How about Josh Allen on his wheels? Are you kidding me? Listen?
I know he's probably not the mostpolished, but I think as far as
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athletic talent is concerned at the quarterbackposition, I don't think anybody touches him
in the NFL. He's a completepackage for size and cannon arm. He's
super fast, he's mobile, hemakes good decisions. You know, he's
enormous. He's huge. Yeah,I don't like I wass just I mean,
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I know the Steelers don't have,like, you know, an elite
defense in the NFL, but Iwas still I was just like, wow,
look at this guy. Oh yeah, when he busted through that that,
I thought he was just going forthe first down. Then he realized
he had some room. He didthat he was running away from them.
Oh yeah, like he had agear and nobody knew. Wild. Of
course, people were saying he kindof faked a slide there, made everybody
(20:23):
relax. I didn't really see thatthat much. It looked like he was
just from the angle because he waskind of moving latterly, like towards the
camera. It looked like he waslike kind of gathering up the slide.
But he may have just been kindof shuffling to a side to an open
spot. But the I think peoplethat watched the game and some of the
(20:45):
defenders are saying with regard to thatthat because he did that earlier in the
game and it looked like he mighthave been trying to slide, the defenders
may have pulled up and then hekept running. Later in the game,
when he goes to do the samething, he gets wrecked on a slide.
Defenders like, what are we supposedto do? Yeah, and I
think sucks. I think that's valid, but it's not. We do know
(21:07):
that Kenny Pickett was the guy whodid the fake slide in college. In
college kind of made that rule change. Did that rule change actually happen in
the NFL, So it's not illegal. So yeah, fake that slide,
sorry, defender, you know.All right, So I think we've beat
the dead horse of the Super wildCard weekend games. By the way,
(21:29):
I hate that term absent Super wildCard Weekend anyway. All right, so
look at it last week, right, So the Houston it was Houston in
the over. The over under wasforty four and a half. The actual
was fifty nine, Houston winning.So you guys both picked the Browns in
the under. I took the Texansin the over. Look at that dolphin
(21:52):
your nails. That's right, don'tworry it changes, chiefs were this was
over under four. Now, theseodds came out and we did the show
before we knew it was gonna bea weather game. But there we are.
Robbie and I both picked Dolphins andover Lyle picked Chiefs and under.
It was Chiefs and under. Nice, there we go. So it's two
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to two zero. Yeah. Nextgame, we thought it was gonna be
Steelers Bills. It turned out tobe later, but we all three picked
the Bills. You guys picked theover. I picked the under, so
you guys get two and I getone because it was Bills and the over.
Robbie and I picked the Packers.We took the points and I picked
(22:33):
the over. It was Green Baywith the over, so I took two.
Robbie took one. Sorry about yourCowboys under bat lyle Man, I
just didn't see it happening. Goodfor you guys, Well, yeah,
I mean blind scroll and all that. So the Rams Lions game, Robbie
picked Rams in the under and theLions are giving three. So that resulted
(22:55):
in a Rams win because it wastwenty four to twenty three. So I
took the under on that one.It paid off. Lyle, you got
the the goosegg there, Robbie gottwo. Uh. And the final game,
for some stupid ass a reason,I took the Eagles in the over.
You boys both took the Bucks inthe under that paid off. So
right now the score is Robbie hasseven and Lyle and I. You and
(23:18):
I are tied at six. WaitI'm in the lead. Yeah, it's
tight because you got Bills over Packers, Rams under Bucks under. Yeah.
I think at some point on Sundayyou were like, yeah, you only
have one point. You did,and then I just nailed the next three
games. I guess you did.Yep, uh yeah, because you had
you had the Packers. It's likeI had I think four or five and
(23:42):
Lyle had four and you had wonand then you got the next four out
of the next five points there.So off we go to this week's games.
Fellas, not really any news tospeak of. I mean, you
know, McCaffrey's full practice, blahblah blah, Patriots have a new head
coach. Yeah. I mean itwas funny because they put paperwork in I
(24:04):
think last year that when Bill leaves, Mayo is going to be the guy.
It was built into their contracts thatgirod Mayo would succeed Bill. They
were just expecting it to happen nextyear. But because they performed so poorly,
they'd like, we're gonna do it. Year early, right, and
the Falcons interviewed Belichick too, Soyeah, on on Arthur Blank's yacht.
(24:25):
From what I understand, Wow.Yeah. The thing is is because they
wrote it in the contracts, theydidn't have to go through the usual interview
processes to be the Patriots. Sothey didn't have to because the Rooney rule
says you have to interview two minoritycandidates before you make a hire. Because
they wrote it into the contracts thatway and it was approved by the league.
(24:47):
Yeah, Mayo didn't have to Therewas no interview process. He just
got the gig. There are someother teams I think I want to hire
a minority coach that have to actuallyinterview a second minority coach before they can
hire the minority coach they want.Seems a little odd, but that's the
way the rule is written. Anduh, and there we are. So
(25:07):
I think in the next couple ofdays, we're going to see maybe maybe
one more coaching availability coaching job openat least two well maybe I'm hoping me
at least one problem maybe two whenit could be Dallas and Philly. Somebody
said, look at it this way, if the current coach, current crop
(25:29):
of coaching prospects are out there,and Nick Sirianni is among them. Do
you hire Nick Sirianni? No,you do not, So why would you
retain Nick Sirianni. Well, here'sthe problem. Or we don't have to
talk about this much, but herehere's the major issue. Nick Sirianni has
been the head coach of the Fieldof Eagles for three years. Right.
(25:51):
They've gone to the playoffs all threeyears. He's the only coach of the
Eagles to ever do that. Healso was in a Super Bowl less than
it uh less than a year ago, and he started season ten and one.
Right, I'm not saying that collapseisn't what it is. What I'm
saying is I think it's probably along shot that Sirianni's gone. I think
(26:15):
if he uh, Well, thereason Peterson was cut loose is because Howie
and Laurie didn't like his his uhcoordinator choices. They didn't agree, and
they cut them loose. You insiston these guys, you know, you
can look for a job with them, right, And as it turns out
that you know, when Sirianni camein and brought the two guys he brought
(26:37):
in turns out they were great hires. They were great hires, but they're
both head coaches now, Yeah,exactly. Well that's the thing. It's
like, you know, you're sittingthere watching the Eagles defense and you're longing
for the heady days of Jonathan Gannon. I never thought i'd say that,
but uh yeah, I'm they're thinkingthis time last year. I was like,
you know, Gannon, your bestdud, and now the bed win
(26:59):
the game. But then the gamewould be won. So well, they
also were the best team in theNFL. If you remember last year in
the first quarter, they were blowingteams out. Yeah, so I don't
they don't. They don't have thatgear anymore. Uh anyway, I think
the gear is among them. Theyjust the coaches weren't able to bring them
out of them. So well,it's kind of it's kind of hard to
(27:21):
move the ball down the field whenevery pass you throw is behind the line
of scrimmage. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Oh oh oh, it's it's third
and twenty. Let's run a let'srun a bubble screen. Yeah with no
blockers. We'll just throw it withwith two of the best receivers and one
of the best tight ends in theNFL. Let's throw the ball at the
line of scrimmage. I swear toGod, it's good. It's good.
(27:45):
You're not better, dude, it'sjust you know what, man, listen
and listen, and Cowboys fans,I'm gonna feel with you on this one.
We're gonna we're gonna agree on thisone. We're gonna predator handshake right
here. Okay. I support thisteam. I love this team. I
talked shit about this team. Okay, I'm not asking you to win every
(28:06):
game. I know that's impossible.Don't embarrass me. Stop. Don't make
me have to go on Monday morningor in this case, Tuesday morning and
face forty nine Er fans, orCowboys fans, or even Commanders and Giants
fans at this point. Don't makeme have to do that and hang my
head in shame because I chose tosupport your team. Stop it. Yeah,
(28:32):
you know, Dallas feels that too. Absolutely, yeah, without absolutely.
If the Eagles would have won thatgame, can you imagine the amount
of shit they would have had totake oh from us because the Eagles got
further into the well, yeah,it's crazy. God, we would have
been just spackling that shit on.I mean, were we still are?
(28:55):
Right? Like, like our teamcalled totally collapsed. We expected them to
lose. The Cowboys were supposed towin the Super Bowl. Yeah, it
was their year. We'd end boys, you know anyway? All right,
So Texans at Ravens this is theSaturday four thirty game. You remember,
Back in the old days, we'dget playoff games at one o'clock. Yeah,
those days are over. We gotto get to prime time boys.
(29:18):
So Texans at Ravens. Ravens layin nine and a half at home,
and the overrun here is forty threeand a half. All right, Robbie
leader in the clubhouse, Who yougot Ravens at home? Nine and a
half point leg? It's a lotof points. Do you have a good
defense? Bill's covered with a tenpoint lne they did, but that's what
(29:38):
the Bills do. They almost didn't. Yeah, it's true. If I
had money on that game and theSteelers were running down the field late fourth,
do we know what the weather's gonnabe in Baltimore? God, you
should have talked the hell out herenow. I don't want the weather's going
to be it's winter times winter.I did hear that there was a winter
(30:00):
storm coming through this Friday, sothere could be some snow on the ground,
cold temperatures. Nine and a halfis a lot. I think I'm
gonna take the Texans here. Idon't think it's going to be a blowout.
I think this is gonna be afairly close game. I see the
Ravens still winning. But nine andhalf is a lot. And what was
(30:23):
the over under? Forty three anda hook? I think it'll be over
that. Take the Texans and theover Why what do you got, Bubba?
So I don't disagree with Robbie here. I think it's way too tight
of a It's a playoff game.It's a divisional playoff game. Man,
(30:44):
I don't think that the Ravens aregonna win by ten plus points. I
think it's too much. So I'mgonna take the Texans too. The over
under that's like right at the edge. Well, that's what they do.
It's not supposed to be rated theI'm gonna take the over too. I
hate to just go with rally,but you know, I don't want to
(31:06):
lose points either. So you guysare almost forcing me to be contrarian.
Do it? Do what you thinkis gonna happen, because if you're contrarian,
just to be contrarian, you couldend up losing ground. But yeah,
yeah, I know how it works, bro. But you know what
I don't see. I think theTexans can just win this freaking game.
Honestly. Yeah, when I sawnine and a half, I was like,
(31:29):
wait a minute. I actually checkedanother site to make sure that that
wasn't It is DraftKings sports Book,so I'm like, let me check Fanduels.
It's nine and a half. Soyeah, I think the Texans can
win this game because, like yousaid, with Green Bay, there's no
pressure on them to win. They'veoverachieved how many games they were slated to
win three games preseason. Here theyare in the divisional round, and I
(31:52):
think it's going to go over too. I think the Texans can score that
many points on their own, behonest with you, Wow, we all
took so so anybody who's betting outthere, Baltimore to the under, it's
gonna be a weather game. It'sgonna be running, you know, it's
gonna be nine to four or something. Yeah, well that wouldn't be Baltimore
(32:15):
then, all right, So I'llgo first on this one. So you
got Packers in forty nine ers.This is a Saturday night game, Niners
laying nine point five points over underhere, fifty point five. Hard for
me to bet against the number oneseed against the number seven seed. Yeah,
(32:35):
I know. They just knocked offthe number two seed and this is
Packers though, playing the forty nineers. So I'm gonna lay that nine
and a half. I'm gonna takethe forty nine ers. I may regret
this. I'm also gonna take theunder on this one. I'm gonna go
under fifty point five. Rob hmm. I feel like I have to ride
(33:00):
with them because they knocked the Cowboysout. Ride or die, baby,
You're taking the pack Yeah, yousaid it was also nine and a half.
Nine point five points and a half. Yeah, nine and a half
is a lot. Again, Iunderstand we're looking at one seed versus seven
seed here, but I think onceyou get past the first round, like
the seeding, I don't think Ithink you have to throw that out the
(33:22):
window at this point. Yeah,do you really like you can't say,
oh, well they're the seven seed, it doesn't matter. That doesn't matter,
right, It just beat the twoseeds. Right, that shouldn't matter
Moore because they're the seven seed outthe window. Okay, looking at how
they played last week against the teamthat was supposed to be in the championship,
I think they have a shot toat least make it close to the
nine and a half. So I'mdefinitely taking the Packers. I would have
(33:45):
thought the last game was gonna gounder two, So I'm gonna take the
over here. God damn it rowdy, So I think green Bay can flat
out win this game. I thinkthey can. San Francisco is elite.
They've had a week off that doesaffect people, everybody's heel. Their defense
(34:06):
is much better than I thought theywere. Now I know this is probably
gonna be the best offense. Doyou mean forty nine ers or Packers defense?
Forty nine? No, the Packersdefense. The forty nine Ers defense
is e lave you know that.Yeah, the green Bay Packers defense is
much better than I thought they were. And if Jordan Love plays like that,
it's gonna be a game. Ithink it has to go over if
(34:27):
they're gonna win. So I'm takingGreen Bays the over. Well, you
boys are lockstepping. Texa is overGreen Bay over all, right, Lie,
you get Bucks at Lions Sunday,three o'clock game six and a half
points. Lions are favored by over. Under here is forty eight and a
half. I don't think this one'scontroversial. I don't think Tampa's very good.
(34:51):
The Eagles are just super super bad. I think Detroit's gonna win this
game fairly easily, so six anda half doesn't bother me at all.
It's a not touchdown. Yeah,I think they'll win by two touchdowns.
Yeah. My concern with the overis I don't know how many points Tampa's
gonna score. Yeah, I'm gonnatake Lions to the under on this one,
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Rob, I think that I canbe I can be pretty certain that
Tampa is going to score at leasttwenty, So I'm gonna go lines in
the over. Do you think theLions score twenty eight twenty five? I
think they could score forty eight.Well, of course they could. Yeah,
(35:36):
it doesn't mean they're gonna Yeah,yeah, I think forty eight and
a half. You know, twentyeight to twenty would still make me lose
if I take the over, Butyeah, I think the Lions can get
thirty five easy in this one.I'm gonna take the Lions in the over
(35:58):
our faith in the Bucks. SoRob, you go first again there whenever.
So you got Chiefs. I haven'tgone first. Ye Oh. I
did. Just last one, justlast one. Chiefs at Bills the Sunday
six thirty game, Bills only layinglay in two and a half at home
and the over unders forty five two. And that's it. That's it,
(36:24):
I guess the chief first time,first time Pat Mahomes has been on the
road in the playoffs in his careeras a starter. Wow. Yeah.
And also first time he's been anunderdog in the playoffs. This might be
the first time he's been an underdogat all, honestly. Yeah. After
that first year, it's how doyou not take the Bills at home?
(36:52):
I mean, the Chiefs did justbeat Miami, but I think there's other
things going on there. The Chiefshaven't looked good all year. The bill
are getting hot, well, they'remaintaining their previous hot, their previous Yeah,
they're at home, which I thinkthis is the first you just said
this, first time they've met inthe playoffs where the Bills are at home
instead of the Chiefs are at home. I'm taking the Bills here, and
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the over was forty four and ahalf forty five, forty five on the
nose again, I think I'm gonnago over here. Every time these two
meet, it's a shootout. Yeah, I don't see it being There's no
way you can take the under herefor forty twenty five twenty You kidding me?
Yeah, Now, of course it'sit's gonna end up being like thirteen
(37:39):
to two or something. Yeah,it's gonna be another weather game, and
the running backs are you know,Cook is going to run for two hundred.
No, I'm not going to takethe Chiefs here. I mean,
it seems silly to bet against thereigning Super Bowl champ in the divisional round,
but here we are. I mean, really, the only other than
(38:00):
Kelsey that that Mahomes has is Rice, and you know he's pretty good.
But yeah, I don't see theBills losing at home here, So Bill's
over for me, all right.I'm also going to take the Bills.
I think that the one thing thatyou guys are forgetting is how good both
(38:22):
of these defenses are. Yeah,I think this could very easily be a
low scoring game, particularly on thechief side. Like I said, the
Bills are the most terrifying team inthe NFL right now. They righted the
ship, and boy hasn't been rightsince. I mean, this is a
team that didn't they lose all oftheir games in a row. Didn't they
(38:45):
lose six straight games? And thenthey just they won every other game.
I don't know if it was ina row. Maybe it was five,
I don't know. They lost abunch of games in a row. Anyway,
it's and then the offensive coordinator broughta new dude in. Yeah yeah,
and they haven't lost since. Theyare fantastastic now. So I gotta
be honest with you. I thinkthat the Bills could probably shut down the
(39:09):
Chiefs fairly well. I think theycould easily win this game. Twenty seven
ten, which is thirty seven points, was just the under, So I'm
gonna take the under. There yougo. Well, there's not a whole
lot of diversity here. We don'thave We all took the Texans for the
points. Yeah, so it's Lions, Bills, Texes. Really the only
(39:35):
outlier here is me taking the fortynine ers and laying the points. Now,
I kind of feel like a Rube. I don't know. Maybe I
shouldn't do it, and it'll bethe right thing to do. Yes,
who knows, maybe that'll be theone that pusts me right up on you
guys. I don't know. We'llfind out Sunday. We'll find out Sunday.
Let me save this. Also,we have the we did the Bracket
(39:55):
Challenge, the ESPN Bracket Challenge,and I actually took Green Bay to beat
Dallas in that game. Yeah,so did I. So, so my
whole bracket is screwed up. Yeah, well I took the Browns though,
So yeah, well, Lyle,you're tied for first with two hundred and
fifty point. You get fifty pointsfor a win, zero points for a
loss. Lyle, you're tied forfirst with Joker T. S. Bryant
(40:21):
and you and I'm tied for fourthwith two hundred points because I foolishly picked
the Eagles to win. But itseems kind of lame, you know,
you're just picking the bracket, butyeah, you know, it is what
it is. Unfortunately, NFL uhkind of did away with their with NFL
dot Com did away with their challenge. But uh, you know, given
(40:42):
enough time, we'll find something elsefor next year. So there you have
it. Boys, I think it'stime to hit the button. That's right,
let's do it. Indeed, Hey, wow, Robbie bought a house.
Really you, he's gonna he's gonnabe one of your neighbors. Really.
(41:04):
Yeah, I'm in the I don'tknow if I want to say where
I want to be. It's abig neighbors. Yeah, I'm in Brenada
States. Dude. That's awesome,man. Yeah, I'm really excited.
Start training some jiu jitsu. Man. Sure, come you come rolling rolling
the mats with me? And alsojiu jitsu. Oh hey, that's super
(41:25):
cool man. Awesome when you whendo you? Well, we'll talk about
it after the show. Yeah,let's let's talk about your financials right here.
Yeah, during the pay for it? How much put down with jp
R? All right, we'll beback actually to talk about this divisional round
and get into the semies, thechampionship games, all right. So yuh
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