The conversation dives into the excitement of the NFL playoffs and the college football playoffs, highlighting key matchups and predictions. The hosts discuss the thrilling games ahead, including Miami vs. Ole Miss and Oregon vs. Indiana, while also making predictions for the wild card weekend in the NFL, focusing on the matchups of Buffalo vs. Jacksonville and San Francisco vs. Philadelphia. In this episode, the hosts delve into the upcoming NFL playoff matchups, focusing on key games such as the Eagles vs. 49ers and the Chargers vs. Patriots. They analyze team performances, defensive strengths, and coaching changes, particularly the impact of John Harbaugh's departure from the Ravens. The conversation highlights the significance of coaching strategies and player dynamics in determining playoff outcomes, while also discussing potential future coaching opportunities for recently fired coaches.
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Hey, hey, welcome to the shrewdness.
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I'm crew joined by a Dex and Chiz.
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As usual, we are into the NFL play offs.
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It's a wild card weekend coming up, one of my favorite weekends
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of the year. This is where the gauntlets get
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thrown down. This is like for all the
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marbles. Teams pull out all the stops,
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you win or you go home, right? So a lot of lot of effort has
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gone into the season. Those this far for a lot of
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teams the cream has risen to the top and are rated.
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And Pittsburgh. And Pittsburgh.
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And Carolina. And Carolina.
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So we're we're looking ahead tonight.
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We are going to spend a few minutes on College Football
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playoffs. We're down to the final four
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teams, which is going to give us a quick rundown on that.
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And then we'll get into NFL wild Card weekend.
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And honestly, there's been a lot of coaching changes these last
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couple days or a week, I guess. Black Monday delivered.
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Yeah, and one of them will be hired within minutes.
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Right. Yeah, you may have.
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Already hired before before it has showed errors.
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Who's? Getting hired a lot of demand
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for one in particular so we'll. Talk to you about it there.
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Coaches and then I think Jizz was gonna lead us through a
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little exercise on situations as to which which team as maybe
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most desirable for a new coach to to step into.
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So we'll spend a little bit of time on that and then we'll
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finish up with our picks going into the playoffs, a lot of
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close games and a couple of lopsided ones that we're going
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to weigh in on. So anyway, let's get started
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guys. Let's do.
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It just tell us about the world of college football.
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Before we head into awesome wild card weekend, we got a little
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appetizer Thursday and Friday night, so we get the two
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semifinals for the College Football Playoff.
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And I got to say, there's a lot about college.
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I've been a college fan my whole life, love it.
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There's a lot about College in the new world.
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I do not like the NIL world of like just some players jumping
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everywhere. Free transfers, portal, portal,
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portal, portal, portal, portal, everybody.
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Like everywhere. It's craziness, but I will say
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this and the pro side, it has created some unusual parody in
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the system. And so usually eat the final
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four. It's the blue bloods, these guys
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you always know about. It's always, you know, Ohio
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State, Alabama, Georgia. Notre Dare they can make the
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playoffs. Notre Dame, if they ever make
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the playoffs, you know, oh, you, you know, this is the, this is
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the kind of like teams that are always, always in the Final
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Four. But in this new era, one thing
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that has been interesting is you got some teams that are fresh
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blood in the Final Four. So if you look at the Fiesta
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Bowl and the Peach Bowl we got coming this weekend, Fiesta Bowl
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Thursday night, there's four teams that are left, Ole Miss,
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Miami, Oregon and Indiana. Three of these teams have never
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won a national championship. The other Miami hasn't won one
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since 2001. Yeah, so hard to say it's been.
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Hard 24 years removed since one of these teams winning it and
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otherwise if you're going to have a brand new champion,
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something I'm personally I'm rooting for.
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I would love to see a brand new champion.
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But yeah, wanted to give everybody, if you haven't
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watched college football, this is a good weekend to start
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because we're going to see a lot of draft picks, potentially a
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lot of talent and you're going to see some good football.
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So that Thursday night game, you got Ole Miss in Miami.
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Here's some intrigue for you. Miami was a team that was the
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last problem, the last at large team in.
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A lot of people question them. They've obviously proven
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themselves, their defense especially, they've got a ton of
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guys on the defensive side of the ball.
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So in particular when you're watching Miami, there's some
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guys that can get after the passer, make great defensive
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plays. Watch that side of the ball.
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You're going to see some first round picks there.
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There's got a couple guys at least on defense that are
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probably first round, second round picks on the Ole Miss side
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of the ball. Let's talk about.
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Let's talk about how Miami got there, too.
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So what we're saying their defense has shown up.
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Oh my gosh. So they show the first week they
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went and played Texas A&M, right?
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It's good team. Nothing about that.
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They've been scoring some points and 2:50 in a rock fight, but
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they only gave up a field goal. That's it for 60 minutes of
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football. Like all right, they won't be
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able to do that again. Ohio State's going to come beat
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their is ass. No 2414.
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They only gave up two touchdowns to arguably the top team in the
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country. I mean, I know Indiana beat him
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in the Big 10 championship, but still people thought a rematch
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could go the other way. But I was for sure back in 2414
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and frankly wasn't close as we kept doing money line bets when
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Ohio State got down and losing our tails.
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I don't know, we did. Evil Empire always comes back.
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It's what they do. They're going to win.
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Except when they don't. And so Miami just said not
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today, son, and took all of our money.
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And I'm unless you're a Miami Hurricane, do you?
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You probably were losing your money too, because Ohio State
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was, they were the team that was going to win.
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Heavily favored. When they got through that, that
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was really huge. I think they're better than what
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people give them credit for. And they did have some.
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I mean, there's a reason they were the last team in.
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They had some flaws, but my God, they don't look like they fixed
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it. And for certainly the defense
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was never the flaw. And that has just been.
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Defense is awesome and the thing to watch here is the
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quarterbacks. Carson Beck, He's like a 34th
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year starter. So he's been in the College
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playoffs every. Year he's he's been in there
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forever. He is a very inconsistent guy.
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He came back another year in Miami because he wanted to try
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and improve his draft stock. I don't think he did that very
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much, but he is more. Games maybe?
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Years not over yet, exactly. Years not over.
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And he is, he does run a bit hot and cold.
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They have a incredible wide receiver.
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Ricky, wide receiver, his name is, is eluding me right now.
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But he is a player to watch for sure.
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He's going to play on Sundays here in a couple weeks on the
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offensive side of the ball. But that's kind of all they got
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on the offensive side of the ball.
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The defense is where it's at now.
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If you look at who they're playing.
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Ole Miss never won a title and talk about a team with some
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interesting storylines, so you make.
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The playoffs. You want to have Lake Kipen lead
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you into the playoffs? I mean, that's what you get that
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guy for. You pay him the big bucks.
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Yeah, reason. I mean, you make the playoffs
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for the first time in forever and you're the coach of the team
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that makes you got a chance to win a national championship.
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So what do you do? You bolt for LSU for more money?
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Yeah. So they are playing with a shell
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of a coaching staff. A lot of the guys that that that
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were on his staff are planning to go with him to LSU.
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So some of them are staying back and they they've got deals to
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stay back. It's super jacked up and.
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Tracking, so just tell me if it's wrong, but Kiffin's the
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only one that was not allowed to keep coaching.
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Is that correct? Because it seemed like most of
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the craft is the ones that are moving and correct.
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They got 1 foot and one pie and the other foot over here.
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Correct. And that's weird.
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Go away after you say you're leaving.
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They they told him, go ahead, go on with your bad self that we
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don't need any more of this. So he left.
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You would have thought that would have been an automatic
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like we're done, team gives up. No, they had kind of a pass
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against Tulane the first round, which is stupid.
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There should be a playoff, but anyway that first.
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Round 41 to 10, but then they played Georgia and they had
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played a great game against Georgia in the regular season
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and the second one did not disappoint either I mean it was
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a great game. 3934 the the incredible story of their
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quarterback who was Division 2 starter last year was the Ferris
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to start the year. Yeah, it was D2 Ferris State
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quarterback back up to start the year.
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First quarterback goes down the starter.
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He walks in and honestly just has played lights out and it
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looked like a lot of guys I was texting with during the game.
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He looked like a guy that has it right.
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He doesn't have the measurables. Like if you're like, oh, his
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arm's not like phenomenal. And he's not like super fast.
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He's at the last yeah. Well, like, he's just like
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putting these incredible passes from weird arm angles and like
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eluding rushes and like he's, he's got the box player to
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watch. He's got clutch.
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Positive, it is clutch positive. And so I think this is going to
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be a fascinating game. You know, I, I, what's the line
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on it? You guys have the line.
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So it's -3 Miami. I thought, yeah, Miami is
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actually my favorite, even be in the higher seed.
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Yep. Miami -3 I mean, they are
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playing great on defense and. They're expecting Miami's
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defense to give up more than a field goal with a 51 1/2 over
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under. So they're not looking at a 10/3
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or 2414. They expect some some fireworks
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in this game. Going to get some scoring.
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I, I, I think it's a toss up game if I'm betting it.
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I honestly probably like the points in Ole Miss because I
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think they're a team that just kind of has that special thing
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going right now. Like, you know, they should be
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out of it. Their coach is gone.
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They got a second straight quarterback.
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All the stuff like they've never been here and they're like
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they're playing with house money.
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Yeah, I think it's a a fun story that's to be a good game.
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You think Miami's offense can keep up?
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That sounds like. That's the reason I like Ole
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Miss, Prue. Yeah, that's the reason I like
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Ole Miss because I do think Ole Miss is going to score some
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points. I don't think Miami is going to
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be able to hold them to 14 like did Ohio State.
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I don't think going to have pitch a, you know, 3A3 on the
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board against Ole Miss. So, you know, if you get up, if
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they can get to 21 points, I think they win this game.
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I like the under 2, by the way. I don't like the 51.
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Feels kind of high to me. I don't see there being that
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many points. As we get to overtime.
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Right. And then which case you throw up
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60 points just in overtime? Totally.
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Then all bets are off at that. Point.
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That's the bad part about under. Under is in college betting, no.
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Not overtime. You're done 9:50 and it's going
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to finish over 67.5. That's right.
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Just be ready. But that's a Thursday night game
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for you. So you might, you know, you're,
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you're going to be jonesing for football Thursday night.
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Used to an NFL game. Hey, turn on the Fiesta Bulls.
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What's the next best thing? Yeah, and Chambliss and Lacey
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are kind of the players to watch in this particular game on the
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offensive side. Thank you for those names I
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couldn't remember. Chambliss quarterback for
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oldness, Lacey, the running back.
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And then on the Miami side, the Tony, I believe is the white out
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that I was telling you about the freshman white out very fast.
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And then on defense, a lot of a lot of folks in Miami, there's a
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couple of guys that in particular rush the past really
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well. So it's going to be interesting
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for Trinidad Chambles to face that.
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So Friday night, now let's turn to Friday night and you got 2
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two teams that again, if never won one who's been in the
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running lately or Big 10. Oregon's had some money.
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Yeah. Yeah, they got the Phil Knight
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money for the last 20 years or so, so it's made them
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competitive, but they've never quite been able to get over the
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hump. They've always run up against a
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bigger, faster team. Generally more physical.
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More physical, you almost. Always get beat down, but now
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they're in the Big 10 and had to play all those guys.
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No more PAC 12 they've. Adapted.
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Man, they have adapted. They're tough.
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So they're a tough team, but they're going up against like
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the weirdest story ever. Who's gonna make a story about?
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They're gonna make a movie about this.
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Movie is going to be incredible. It's probably, but I hope it's
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not. I want to go like a little
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darker and deeper into this thing.
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They need to go. For Signetti, need a little
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darker. And if you don't know who Kirk
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Signetti is, like he would say Google him.
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Google me. So this guy just wins wherever
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he goes. He has brought in some players
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via the portal, but for the most part he's built A-Team out of
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guys that weren't like 5 star recruits guys were three or
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four-star guys. Like you got like mostly twos
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and threes. So you got to love what he's
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done, and he's a great story. And Indiana guys, here's a
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little trivia for you. The team that's lost the second
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most games in college football history?
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Indiana. No way.
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They have they have lost a lot for many years.
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They're. In basketball school, which is.
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Oh, if you talk to Indiana fans, like, they don't, they don't
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really know where the football field is on campus, you know,
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except in relation to where it is on the way to the basketball
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court. So like, this is like a totally
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new world for them. Yeah.
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And they're a great story. And so I think this game is
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going to be really entertaining. Yeah.
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Indiana. I've been a doubter and a hate,
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not a hater. I like the story, but I've been
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a doubter all year because I'm like, Dad, I didn't really play
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anybody. Like, their schedule wasn't that
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tough till they played Ohio State.
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And I thought, honestly, Ohio State was going to boat race
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them, and I bet that way. And I lost.
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So I was like, OK, maybe they're for real.
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But I was like, yeah. You know, you never know, but if
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you look at what they did to get here, they had a bye in the
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first round and then they had played Alabama.
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You may have heard of them. They're a decent little college
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football team. Holy crap, 33, yeah.
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Against Alabama, like the Collins shows in Alabama, Holy
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cow, those poor people were all on cliffs the next day.
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Like who is this team that beat us?
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What in the world? Indiana?
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What is this? We're Alabama just got
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destroyed. Dude it was embarrassing.
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Just dismantled them in Alabama. Let's be let's be frank, this is
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not the Alabama teams of Sabers evil empire walking around with
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a half built death *. This is that Alabama team.
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They were kind of also one of the teams that were if they
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didn't make it. I mean there are three lost
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team. They look like it.
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They look like a three lost. Team that made the playoffs,
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they wouldn't have argued too much had they not made.
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The and then they but they just weren't that good.
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But The thing is, they got some talent.
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And Speaking of, if you're looking at four and five star
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recruits, they got tons of them. Tons of tons.
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And they just got beat down by the JV team in high school and
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said, wait a minute, we are coached phenomenally well.
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And it's not like Caleb De Boer is a bad coach.
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He's awesome. He took Washington championship
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game a couple years ago. And then it hasn't been as fun
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for him in Alabama, though. The deal with De Boer is so
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weird. Culture fit in Alabama.
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It like to be Alabama you need a little bit of foghorn leghorn to
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you and he does not see like. Foghorn in him, he's.
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Like, you know, just like you move down to Alabama, it's just
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a different deal. And like he, I think he's a good
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coach. He's a bad culture, but I
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wouldn't be surprised if he goes somewhere else, you know, at all
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because I do think he's a good coach, but it just doesn't seem
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to be working quite right. But that made me realize Indiana
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is like, OK, no, they really are that good.
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And Mendoza, who's arguably the number one pick depending on.
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What way the Raiders do? They should trade back and get
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more picks though, but they're too stupid.
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I'll figure they'll figure out a way to mess this up so pretty.
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Certain, so take a some 6 foot 7 wide out from AD 2 school that
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has potential. Right, that runs a 42.
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Can't catch. So that's right.
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That's right. So that's on one side of the
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bracket. Easy to root for, but it's easy
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to root for. Oregon.
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Tuks had never been there. And Oregon, to get here, they
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beat James Madison, who was kind of a layup.
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Yeah. And then the the impressive game
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was Texas Tech was a team that had looked really strong all
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year. They won the Big 12 in very
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convincing fashion. Yep, they're solid.
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Their defense was incredible going in.
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There's a ton of high draft picks coming off that Texas Tech
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defense. Matter of fact, one of whom
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rumored to be maybe a chiefs target, but they played Oregon
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and Oregon beat Texas Tech 23 to nothing.
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And I, I was shocked at how good Oregon's defense played.
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They've always had to get offense.
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They've never been really known for their defense.
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So the fact that their defense showed up like it did, they got
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to be coming in on a high right now believing they can stop
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Indiana. And so I think you're going to
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have a really cool match up of two teams that are a little bit
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underdog ish, both of whom believe they can do it, both of
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whom have shown they've got the goods and have the talent on
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both sides of the ball. I think that's a toss up game.
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I really do. I think the line is.
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Anybody got the line for that one?
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3 1/2 or Indiana. Yeah, so the Hoosier. 3 1/2.
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And earlier, I think it was 4 earlier today.
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Think you're right? Think you're right.
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So we got two games that are supposed to be within a field
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goal ish of each other. So it's gonna be good football.
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I am going to make a prediction that we are going to see.
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This is my guess. The Ole Miss Rebels versus the
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Indiana Hoosiers in the championship game.
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That's what I'm going to pick. We'll see next week if that
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comes true, we'll revisit and talk a little bit about before
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the championship game, which will be a week from Monday, I
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believe, as soon as they play it.
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Indiana won the first game 30 to 20 this season.
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So they did. Play 30 to 11.
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Yep. Was that at Indiana or was that
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at Oregon? That's impressive.
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And what? What part of the season was it?
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October 11th early. Yep.
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Yeah, OK. Earlier, so still that's, but
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still. To go on the road at Outson, win
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a game by 10. But basically they were trucking
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everybody all season, though. Yeah, they were.
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I mean, Iowa was the toughest one for like a defensive
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standpoint, 20 to 15. But they were just steamrolled.
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UCLA steamrolled Michigan State. They steamrolled everybody
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Illinois. Yep.
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And you're right, they didn't play the the bastions of the Big
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10. Really.
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Maryland, Not that good. Penn State was that.
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Was kind of the knock on them. The kind of knock on them was
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they didn't have to play the toughest teams in the Big 10.
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That's why I was thinking. They played the teams in front
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of them and the Big 10, All in all has had a very good bowl
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season. In fact, they've had the best
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they have. I think they're nine and four in
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bowl games. I just double checked.
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I want to make sure. But they are like the losses
00:19:49
were Ohio State, which is what he don't expect and right, but
00:19:54
Washington won Northwestern, Minnesota, Penn State, Illinois,
00:19:57
Iowa, Oregon, they've all won the first games.
00:20:00
So that's Big 10's tough man. And it's huge.
00:20:04
Now they're Big 40, I think. I don't know how many who's not
00:20:07
in the Big 10 now, but we'll find out.
00:20:10
Well, you know, we are rapidly what I would say spiraling, I
00:20:13
hate to say it, but spiraling towards a A2 mega conference.
00:20:19
Yeah, league and and and what we could talk, we'll talk in the
00:20:21
offseason on on Fox of college football and what could go
00:20:24
there. But but right now as it stands,
00:20:27
the big 10 I would say is the best conference this year, which
00:20:30
is not they've not been able to say for a long time.
00:20:32
The SEC has held that for a long time.
00:20:35
But I think top to bottom there better conference this year and
00:20:37
it's taken them a long time to get to this place, but they have
00:20:40
I think overtaken the SEC in terms of their talent and depth.
00:20:43
I do too this year. I do too.
00:20:46
I think bringing in the PAC 10 teams helped.
00:20:48
Just write in more talent, more people, more stuff.
00:20:51
California viewers the coast to coast man the Rutgers the
00:20:54
Washington this is. Absolutely.
00:20:57
Their footprints huge. So what are those games?
00:21:00
Your prediction? Tonight, your prediction is Ole
00:21:02
Miss Indiana. Or that's just who you want.
00:21:05
That's what I'm predicting. I think Ole Miss and Indiana are
00:21:07
going to make it in to the to the championship game.
00:21:11
So we'll see. I don't know, always Indiana.
00:21:13
That's how I'm going to bet. Just to be different, I'll say
00:21:17
Indiana and Miami, OK, I think that's going to be not.
00:21:21
A bad pick? I've just been in the Grove in
00:21:24
Oxford. I'm going to go for old Ole
00:21:27
Misses because I had a blast there and a super fun Howdy
00:21:30
Toddy's baby all the time. I love it.
00:21:32
So I'm going Ole Miss, and then I'm going Hoosiers, baby.
00:21:35
The story's too good. Signetti's an incredibly good
00:21:38
coach. I don't know how you bet against
00:21:40
him. And Oregon is good, but they've
00:21:42
already beat him once by 10 and Gee, mini Christmas, they're not
00:21:46
slowing down. Yeah, So I I like Indiana Ole
00:21:49
Miss. One of them is just a Homer
00:21:50
pick, though Miami's they're not a bad that defense could do
00:21:54
something, but I would not surprise.
00:21:55
I don't think the offense you got to be able to score some too
00:21:58
an old miss can. Score.
00:21:59
Yep, that's my worry, but I'm taking a flyer just to be
00:22:02
different. Hey, I like it.
00:22:04
Hey. I like it.
00:22:05
Miami's Miami's defense would back you up.
00:22:07
That's. Right.
00:22:09
You know, averaging 9 points in the playoffs.
00:22:11
I'm hoping for a 1713 game or something so.
00:22:14
Yeah, for. Sure, I love that enter to wild
00:22:18
card weekend. So pivoting over.
00:22:20
So Thursday night, Friday night, now you're ready.
00:22:24
The hors d'oeuvres are already ingested and now it's time for
00:22:27
the big top. Now we're ready for the NFL and
00:22:30
we are going to start off, we're just going to go with some some
00:22:33
observations and we're going to look at some stuff and who we
00:22:35
think's going to win these things.
00:22:37
And we're going to put on our site, I think might discuss this
00:22:40
later, how awesome we did predicting playoff teams and
00:22:44
division winners. It's horrible.
00:22:46
We're really, really bad. There's a reason why they played
00:22:50
the game stacks. Yeah, you're absolutely right.
00:22:54
But in the AFC North, none of the shrewdness picked
00:22:58
Pittsburgh. So we had Baltimore and
00:23:00
Cincinnati. Who would have thought?
00:23:02
And frankly, Baltimore still had it.
00:23:04
So frankly, we almost had it till the very end.
00:23:06
And then we had Houston and then we kind of all get honorable
00:23:11
mentions for the AFC or the NFC South because they all tied.
00:23:16
It's just a bunch of kissing cousins down there in Tampa Bay,
00:23:20
Atlanta, they have the same record as Carolina, all 8:00 and
00:23:25
9:00 for that. Just steamroller of a division
00:23:28
down there. God, they're embarrassing.
00:23:31
That division just sucks. So who knows?
00:23:34
But anyway, let's pivot. So first games we're going to
00:23:37
have, we have the Rams at Carolina and obviously
00:23:41
Carolina's favorite at home. Just kidding, the Rams -10 1/2.
00:23:47
That's insulting. Double digit Rd. favorites.
00:23:52
What do you guys think about that?
00:23:53
What do you think's going to happen in the game?
00:23:55
Do you think Carolina has a chip and a chair?
00:23:57
Can they pull it off or is it going to be just a steamroller?
00:24:01
What do you think on this one? Somewhere in between.
00:24:04
It's not going to be a steamroll, I don't think, but I
00:24:07
think they can keep it within 10 1/2 for sure.
00:24:11
I mean they that's. A big number.
00:24:13
There, it's a big number, especially in the playoffs.
00:24:15
I mean, this is a team that's they won eight games.
00:24:19
They probably, I don't know, I didn't look at this beforehand,
00:24:22
but it felt like they won just as many games as anybody else
00:24:26
the second-half of the season, Like they they started out
00:24:30
terrible like Carolina normally does.
00:24:33
And then they kind of, they kind of came came around like they
00:24:36
did last year and started showing people that they're a
00:24:39
legit team and, and. If they stick to the pattern,
00:24:43
which I kind of messed around with during our Patreon, they've
00:24:47
won loss, one loss, one loss, one loss, one loss for like 3
00:24:49
straight months. And they did lose last week into
00:24:52
Tampa Bay. So watch out Rams, you're on the
00:24:56
wrong side of the weekly Ledger on this thing.
00:24:59
That's right. So it could be interesting.
00:25:01
Cheers. What do you think of this game?
00:25:02
So the issue I have with I love double digit underdogs in the
00:25:08
regular season at home. So like I really love double
00:25:12
digit underdogs in the playoffs at home, but I'm super scared
00:25:18
about Carolina's offense. Their 27th ranked in the league.
00:25:25
I don't think they're going to put up a lot of points.
00:25:27
I do think they are going to keep it within the 10F.
00:25:29
But I think the only thing that doesn't scare this game more for
00:25:33
me from the Rams, because traditionally A-Team like the
00:25:36
Rams coming in, I worry about overconfidence.
00:25:40
I worry about them coming in knowing they're going to boat
00:25:42
race this team and then like not really showing up.
00:25:45
But the two reasons I don't worry about that is McVeigh and
00:25:50
Stafford, Stafford, Puka and. Williams.
00:25:53
Those are pro Monte Adams. They're pros, but like,
00:25:59
Mcveigh's a darn good coach and Stafford has seen a lot, and so
00:26:03
I don't think they're going to let these guys come in like
00:26:06
complacent. Yeah.
00:26:08
I think they're going to win the game.
00:26:09
I think I could easily see Carolina with a back door cover,
00:26:12
so I don't think they're going to get blown out.
00:26:14
Goal to get them as a 10/9 or 10.
00:26:17
All right. They're like, Oh, no.
00:26:19
We're definitely going to see that.
00:26:21
I don't think. This is going to be a dramatic
00:26:23
game, don't get me wrong. I think this is going to be kind
00:26:25
of a schnoozer of a game. I I see like the Rams going up
00:26:29
and then kind of like cruise control a little bit.
00:26:32
Carolina put some points on the board to keep it close enough.
00:26:35
So I I think this is going to be the worst game of the weekend.
00:26:39
That's what I would say. Yeah, I could see that.
00:26:42
I think it's going to be Rams all day.
00:26:44
I do like Carolina to keep it within.
00:26:48
Again, it's just too big of a number.
00:26:49
It's insulting that'll. Playoff points.
00:26:51
This is an 8 and nine team that deserves your respect and come
00:26:55
on now. Just because some 10 one teams
00:26:58
didn't quite get into the playoffs doesn't mean that.
00:27:00
OK, we'll talk about that. 6 and 11 like the Saints, come.
00:27:04
On I just thought about this, but it it might not be a bad bet
00:27:07
to bet Rams minus in the first half, right?
00:27:12
Like you said, they could get up quickly and then just kind of
00:27:15
coast and the whole rest of the game, Carolina's getting
00:27:19
aggressive to try to close the gap or whatever.
00:27:22
I I can see the Rams jumping out to a big lead by halftime.
00:27:25
That might not be a bad bet if you're gonna.
00:27:28
That Rams on something all right, let's go to the next game
00:27:32
on that slate. So for Saturday, we got this one
00:27:35
is going to be great. Green Bay at Chicago, OH.
00:27:38
Yeah, Round. Three.
00:27:39
If you've watched the first two games, this has been incredible.
00:27:43
Last play of the game, round one was a 2 point conversion that
00:27:47
Caleb Williams just missed and fell and clattered to the ground
00:27:53
and Green Bay gets their win next game.
00:27:56
Once it was, I don't know how the hell they did it.
00:27:58
So I mean, even if you watch it again, if you're watching it on
00:28:01
replay like that, that can't work, then it still does.
00:28:04
It has to be on tape for you to believe it.
00:28:06
If you told the story, you wouldn't believe it.
00:28:08
Chicago comes back and then gets his walk off 40 some yarder to
00:28:12
DJ more in the end zone. Incredible, incredible game.
00:28:16
I thinking that from 11 points and four minutes in the fourth
00:28:19
quarter and then made a stop and then got the game-winning
00:28:23
touchdown this, we're staying away from this thing.
00:28:27
It's just going to be fun. I'm getting popcorn and probably
00:28:29
a nice cold beverage and I'm going to enjoy thoroughly this
00:28:32
game, especially sitting in Illinois.
00:28:34
This is a bunch of Bears people going nuts right now.
00:28:38
So it's going to be a very good game.
00:28:40
I'm excited to see if Chicago can pull this off.
00:28:44
I mean, Green Bay's favorite on the road was being chill out to
00:28:48
the Bears fan. Like we are home and we are
00:28:52
underdogs to the team we just beat.
00:28:55
All right, Yeah, all. Right.
00:28:57
I see what you're saying here. Exactly.
00:28:59
So I think there's going to be some billboard material there.
00:29:03
But Green Bay has made Chicago their biatch for like decades.
00:29:08
Decades. I mean, that's the only thing
00:29:09
they hired the Green Bay coach to.
00:29:10
Do is to beat Aaron Rodgers My house, Yeah.
00:29:13
Brett Favre didn't lose much either.
00:29:15
So it's just been a whole bunch of like a generation of Bears
00:29:19
fans is really only seen a handful of wins against Green
00:29:22
Bay, like a generation like 30 freaking years.
00:29:26
So it's crazy. I think it's going to be a super
00:29:28
fun game to watch, but all the numbers are just stay aways -1
00:29:32
1/2 Green Bay, 45 1/2 over under.
00:29:35
I'm just going to be more excited to watch the game and
00:29:38
see what happens and see how Caleb does in the playoffs, see
00:29:41
what it looks like Ben Johnson, see what he ends up calling, see
00:29:44
how these guys do. And then Green Bay, when you
00:29:46
look at it, they're just roster of twos and threes.
00:29:52
That right out, it's not. Going to kill them.
00:29:54
They are average Joes. They they just need their yellow
00:29:56
shirt with red lettering. Average joes see if they can
00:30:00
dodge a wrench, but their defense is superior even without
00:30:04
Michael Parsons is still better and Jordan loves appears to be
00:30:09
more consistent. But what do you guys who do you
00:30:11
think's going to actually take this when it all comes down?
00:30:13
Just who do you think's going to actually win the game at the end
00:30:15
of the day? So this is a super crazy one to
00:30:19
me because of the fact that I see Jordan Love like if the if
00:30:24
the performance is a spectrum, Jordan Love's performance
00:30:27
spectrum is tighter. So his lows are not as low as
00:30:30
highs are not as high. But you got a lot more variance
00:30:33
with Kayla Williams. So he could have a great game or
00:30:36
he could have just an absolute poop stick of a game, Right.
00:30:40
Yeah. And so like, that's what makes
00:30:42
it so hard to bet. I think why we're all like, oh,
00:30:44
stay awake, stay awake because like, you don't know which Kayla
00:30:46
wins is going to show up. You don't really know like how
00:30:48
it's going to work. I tend to think in a game like
00:30:52
this, I like to go experience and somebody who's less likely
00:30:58
to turn the ball over. So I like the pack in this game,
00:31:02
even though they're on the road and I don't think they're as
00:31:05
talented honestly as bears across the but I do like them in
00:31:10
A1 game playoff, especially Kayla Williams first playoff
00:31:13
game. So I like the pack.
00:31:14
How about you prove? It's super tight.
00:31:17
I, I think first quarterbacks, which you just talked about,
00:31:21
little more dynamic from Caleb Williams.
00:31:25
Then I think about coaches. I'm like Lafleur and Ben
00:31:29
Johnson, both kind of like quality coaches.
00:31:33
They're going to come in with a good game plan and all that.
00:31:37
Chicago's been running the ball well lately, which usually means
00:31:40
you're controlling the clock, that kind of thing.
00:31:43
So it's, it's a complete toss up.
00:31:46
I I think at home, Caleb Williams steps up and Chicago
00:31:52
escapes. Nice.
00:31:55
I'm going to go in Chicago as well.
00:31:57
And it's mostly because they have the upside.
00:32:00
Whereas I think Green Bay can play a very good game and just
00:32:04
be very average and not do enough.
00:32:06
And then like one play is all it's going to take for cable to
00:32:09
make. And he can have that terrible
00:32:11
game that you're mentioning. He could be low, but all he
00:32:13
needs is five good minutes, 2 good drives.
00:32:16
That's. Right.
00:32:17
I think here's a player that stepped up a lot the last couple
00:32:20
weeks, and it's one that's close to our hearts.
00:32:22
Luther Burden has really, really looked good for the Bears.
00:32:26
He's he hasn't been playing and no one cares.
00:32:31
That's kind of what it's turned into.
00:32:33
Luther Burden is a playmaker. I think especially for next
00:32:36
year's guillotine season or fantasy football, he's going to
00:32:39
be getting drafted and he's going to at least be a sleeper
00:32:41
pig that sits you. Had the talent, it was just a
00:32:44
matter of if he was going to get the the opportunity, yeah.
00:32:48
Yeah, but man, when he gets the ball, he's electric and he
00:32:51
dropped that one ball, got it, but then he made-up for it on
00:32:54
multiple other plays. So I'm looking forward to seeing
00:32:56
how he plays his first. This would be his biggest game
00:32:59
ever, so I'll be fun to see. I will say it's interesting you
00:33:02
can look at the trends on that decks.
00:33:05
The Bears are coming in on A2 game losing streak, the packs
00:33:08
coming in on a four-game losing streak.
00:33:10
So neither of these teams have done much winning lately.
00:33:14
So it's really yeah, it's going to be that.
00:33:18
That's why this would in our books is the stay away folks,
00:33:21
just a giant, but it's one that you could lose a lot of money
00:33:25
and and and have really good rationale for why you did stuff
00:33:30
and you can still lose love this.
00:33:31
Game be one more great game into their history books and the
00:33:35
rivalry. That's what's going to be very
00:33:37
sure. These picks are just for
00:33:38
funsies. That's right, That's right.
00:33:41
All right, that's right. The next day.
00:33:43
So we're going to have three games on Sunday.
00:33:45
So we're going to have Buffalo at Jacksonville, and I have odds
00:33:50
at my. Guess Jacksonville The beginning
00:33:52
of the exact year. Buffalo at Jacksonville.
00:33:55
Yeah, that would maybe the other way if you're getting the wild
00:33:58
there. But Buffalo is in some books up
00:34:03
their underdog and some books they're favored.
00:34:05
It's it's just going to be a waffly 1 1/2, probably 2 points
00:34:08
swing. Yep, pretty much a pick em game.
00:34:12
So just start us off, tell us what you think you're looking
00:34:15
forward to in this game and how you think it's going to play out
00:34:17
and who's going to walk away with the win.
00:34:19
Well, I really love. I really love how Jacksonville
00:34:27
has played going into this game. So they are howitzer.
00:34:32
They haven't lost since week 10. 68 game-winning streak.
00:34:38
Coming into this game, if you would have told me the Jags
00:34:40
would have an 8 game-winning streak anywhere at any time, I
00:34:43
would have bet against that immediately.
00:34:45
So the fact that they won eight straight, one of those at the
00:34:48
Broncos, they beat them by two touchdowns.
00:34:52
And they beat the Colts. And the Colts were still good,
00:34:54
too. They beat the Colts by 17.
00:34:58
Yeah, they beat the Chargers by 29.
00:35:02
Yeah. So this is a team that can look
00:35:05
really great and it and, you know, you've got a seasoned guy
00:35:08
in Trevor Lawrence. So it's not it's not a rookie
00:35:11
guy now. He is a guy that's developed a
00:35:13
little bit later than we all expected.
00:35:15
And I feel like, you know, he's an interesting case study on the
00:35:20
Bills side of the ball. It's a one man team.
00:35:24
Well, James Cook, it's A and Josh Allen.
00:35:27
I mean, James Cook LED the league in rushing, I believe.
00:35:30
I don't know. No, I think he ended up, I can't
00:35:33
remember who ended up. I'd have to look it up.
00:35:35
We'll check that later. He was he was in the top 2, so
00:35:39
he had a great season. The Bills are an enigma wrapped
00:35:44
inside a mystery. Every every stinking playoffs.
00:35:48
I do not know what to expect out of them.
00:35:50
But I I do know this like, I like having Josh Allen as my
00:35:55
quarterback. Yeah.
00:35:56
And. In the I.
00:35:58
Like having Josh Allen, like I feel like this is one of those
00:36:01
games that even though they haven't had a ton of passing
00:36:05
success this year, it hasn't been a big passing year for Josh
00:36:08
Allen. I feel feels like the kind of
00:36:10
game that Josh Allen's like. If I have to run for 150 yards,
00:36:14
I'll do that. Yep.
00:36:15
I will do that to win this game. I will run for 150 yards and
00:36:19
like, I think they just find a way.
00:36:23
I think they find a way to get this game done.
00:36:25
How about you, crew? I was just looking up a number
00:36:29
of rushing touchdowns for Josh. Allen or for Buffalo?
00:36:34
For Josh Allen and Trevor Lawrence.
00:36:38
Oh, what would you have guessed? What would you have guessed for
00:36:43
Trevor Lawrence without looking? Right, 88 to 10 because I know
00:36:48
he ran in like 4 the last couple weeks because that's that's why
00:36:50
I commented on our short. He was doing a lot.
00:36:53
Yep, he's got more this year, doesn't he?
00:36:58
He's probably close to 10. He has nine OK, and that's about
00:37:02
9:00. That's about 6 more than I would
00:37:04
have guessed from, oh, from pre 2025.
00:37:08
Trevor Lawrence, absolutely. I think that's a huge key and
00:37:13
why they've been winning this year is he's finally figured out
00:37:16
when to tuck and run. I agree he's getting the first
00:37:19
downs extending drives. It's huge.
00:37:21
Yeah, he's yeah. He's making plays himself versus
00:37:25
hanging out in the pocket for too long and taking a bad sack
00:37:28
or whatever. Yeah, yeah, he's.
00:37:30
He's making better decisions, getting out there quickly and
00:37:35
surprising people with his legs a little bit this year.
00:37:39
Great. Call out 14 rushing touchdowns
00:37:42
for Josh Allen. We all know his capabilities,
00:37:44
but nine for Trevor Lawrence, which like I said is a lot
00:37:48
closer gap than what I would have said at the beginning of
00:37:51
the year as a well also. When you think about it,
00:37:54
absolutely. I bet not a lot of people would
00:37:56
have guessed if he said hey, did over under 4000 yards for Trevor
00:38:00
Lawrence, No way Beginning. He wasn't even good the first
00:38:04
six weeks. He was like all over the place.
00:38:06
He finished with 4007 yards visual, 29 touchdowns to 12
00:38:11
picks. He had more passing touchdowns,
00:38:14
more passing yards than Josh Allen and Josh Allen had 10
00:38:18
picks. So it's only two different 12 to
00:38:20
10. He had more touchdowns, right?
00:38:22
So right, he's better than you think.
00:38:25
Again, I'm going to go back to that.
00:38:27
Trevor Lawrence has been way better than you think.
00:38:28
He's good watching. I think a couple weeks ago he
00:38:31
said that. Yeah, yeah, he's catching a lot
00:38:33
of people by surprise and I certainly haven't appreciated
00:38:38
how good of a season they've had so and.
00:38:39
If you look at the the MVP, if you're really looking at the
00:38:43
player who made the biggest difference on his team, Trevor
00:38:46
Lawrence brought that doghouse team to 13 wins, Yeah.
00:38:53
Right. What?
00:38:54
That's incredible. And a division title.
00:38:57
So Trevor Lawrence will not win the MVP, but he better get a
00:39:01
couple votes. Riders, come on now.
00:39:02
And that's just. Green if you don't do that
00:39:06
right, anyway, I think that the other part of this game is going
00:39:09
to be huge is the running game. So James Cook versus Travis
00:39:12
Etienne, those guys have been doing awesome.
00:39:16
Like Travis Etienne had the beginning of the season, which
00:39:19
if you're a fantasy player, you know, wow, he was incredible.
00:39:22
Then he kind of took a couple months off, it feels like.
00:39:24
But then he's finished really well too.
00:39:26
So he finished with 1100 rushing yards and seven touchdowns and
00:39:30
James Cook obviously had a truckload 16112 touchdowns.
00:39:33
James Cook playoff. James Cook, especially if he
00:39:36
does what he's done the last couple seasons, it's the reason
00:39:38
he got paid, is James Cook is incredible.
00:39:41
He's. Super electric and he didn't.
00:39:44
I just see him being a difference maker in this game.
00:39:47
I am going with Buffalo as well. I think Jacksonville is going to
00:39:50
make this a great game. I think Trevor Lawrence is going
00:39:52
to make some plays. I think it comes down to the
00:39:54
very end. I just think Josh Allen makes
00:39:56
one more play or James Cook makes that one more play.
00:39:59
I think you see a lot of tight ends.
00:40:00
I think it's going to be Knox and Kincaid.
00:40:03
And then Mr. Reliable, Khalil Shakur for his eight catches for
00:40:06
12 yards. And that's just kind of what
00:40:08
we're going to see. But I think Jacksonville, Liam
00:40:11
Cohen has done an amazing, amazing job with Jacksonville
00:40:15
and I, and he should potentially really talk for Coach of the
00:40:19
Year. But you don't hear that either.
00:40:21
Like it's Ben Johnson for Chicago, who had way more talent
00:40:24
to work with. Then you have Jacksonville.
00:40:26
That's a good story. So I think it's gonna be a good
00:40:28
game. I'm going with Buffalo and this
00:40:30
one though at the end of the day for a basically a pick em, but
00:40:34
Josh Allen's going to will his way to victory.
00:40:36
He cannot let of no Lamar, no Pat Mahomes playoff and not take
00:40:41
advantage of it at Jacksonville. Come on.
00:40:44
Man, he's going to win Week 1. I I think so too.
00:40:47
I think he he's got he and McDermott have the playoff
00:40:50
experience to carry him forward. Jacksonville awesome season.
00:40:56
I just, I don't know if they can sustain it in the the high
00:41:01
tension moments in the playoffs like we're gonna see this week.
00:41:04
Yeah. So I would say definitely put
00:41:08
your bets down on the Jaguars. We are all three on the Bills,
00:41:11
that's for sure. Once again underestimating
00:41:14
Jacksonville, which is what we do.
00:41:16
Here on the street, let's say. I mean it, it, it is, you know,
00:41:20
it is tough to go into EverBank Stadium.
00:41:22
It is known as hell, the lion's den.
00:41:24
All those empty seats are very loud.
00:41:26
They're very echoey. It's like you.
00:41:29
Can hear. Yourself talking back and
00:41:30
reverberates when you're doing that.
00:41:33
That's right. It's just very tricky.
00:41:37
So fortunately, I think Trevor Lawrence has learned to deal
00:41:40
with the empty stadium. They might even sell this game
00:41:43
out, maybe because Buffalo will travel to not be freezing for
00:41:47
once. It's going to be nice.
00:41:49
A vacation for Buffalo? Next game we have San Francisco,
00:41:53
who had a chance for the top seed and taking the week off,
00:41:57
which tumbled all the way to the sixth seed with that Seattle
00:42:01
just beating their butts last week.
00:42:03
But they'll be traveling to Philadelphia, which man, they
00:42:06
would have rather gone to Carolina, I bet.
00:42:08
So San Francisco at Philadelphia, the odds right now
00:42:13
is Philadelphia -4 1/2, at least on my book, and 44 1/2 over
00:42:18
under. I think this is going to be
00:42:21
probably another ridiculously competitive game.
00:42:24
I think after Buffalo, Jacksonville, we're going to go
00:42:26
right into another one that's going to be within a field goal
00:42:29
kind of game. And San Francisco, yeah, they
00:42:33
lost one, but boy, they were trucking people the previous
00:42:36
five weeks, and I wouldn't sleep on them.
00:42:38
And we've talked all season that Philadelphia doesn't really
00:42:41
inspire fear. They look a little inconsistent
00:42:45
and they've been playing better. Don't get me wrong.
00:42:48
I think Saquon Barkley in that run game has gotten going.
00:42:52
A.J. Brown clearly has gotten going.
00:42:53
I think he's been on the top three whiteouts in the NFL the
00:42:56
last month of the season. Jalen Hurts, you can say
00:43:00
whatever you want about him, and we do, but one thing we keep
00:43:03
agreeing on is that dude wins. God Dang, does he just win and
00:43:07
find a way to win? And I think it's going to be
00:43:11
another incredible game. But Prue, how do you think this
00:43:14
one's going to play out when it all gets down to the last couple
00:43:17
minutes? Who's going to walk away happy?
00:43:19
Who's going to be disappointed this year?
00:43:22
I think I have an unconscious bias against Philadelphia, to be
00:43:25
honest. It's conscious, don't make it
00:43:28
unconscious. Yeah.
00:43:30
We don't like Philly. We.
00:43:31
Hate Philly I don't like him I don't like hurts.
00:43:34
I think he's too, I don't know, cocky and self-centered.
00:43:41
Personal opinion, yeah, I, I believe in Shanahan, San
00:43:47
Francisco, CMC, George Kittle, I, I think they give Philly all
00:43:53
they can handle. This game comes down to a last
00:43:58
second field goal is what I feel like either way.
00:44:02
But there's a huge, it's like a + 180 or something for San
00:44:07
Francisco money line. I'm going to throw a couple
00:44:09
bucks down just because of the odds.
00:44:12
And I think this game is closer than four point spread.
00:44:16
Yeah. I'm not really sure how they got
00:44:18
to that number, but whatever. Yeah.
00:44:21
San Francisco played Seattle very close, and Seattle ended up
00:44:25
overall number one seed. But yeah.
00:44:27
A couple plays went the other way, yeah.
00:44:29
Easily been San Francisco in that spot.
00:44:32
So I think it's going to be super close and I'm going to
00:44:35
throw a couple bucks on San Francisco money line.
00:44:40
Yeah, I think that are you worried about the Philly defense
00:44:43
though, because that is where I think there's definitely a major
00:44:46
advantage in this game is the defensive Lions and basically
00:44:48
just the defense in general. San Francisco has been
00:44:51
devastated with injuries, and that's kind of where I'm leaning
00:44:54
more on Philadelphia just because I think they'll stop him
00:44:58
more often. And it's not like CMC has been
00:45:00
incredible efficient running the ball.
00:45:03
I mean, I know he's got over 2000 yards.
00:45:04
Got it. Not saying that.
00:45:06
But it's more. Passing involved yeah, but it
00:45:09
it's 3 point what 43.5 rushing per carry yeah that's.
00:45:13
Weird for his like. Greatest running backs in the
00:45:17
league. He hasn't been able to squeak
00:45:19
above 4 now the last few weeks. Obviously he's been far better,
00:45:23
far better. They they figured out how to do
00:45:25
the run game in San Francisco as well.
00:45:27
Looks like I was talking about Philadelphia.
00:45:30
But the thing that has just been constant for Philly all year is
00:45:33
having a really, really, really good defense.
00:45:35
And now they're in the playoffs and, and if they don't just get
00:45:39
up and play great defense, they're they're tough to beat.
00:45:42
I would not want to go to Lincoln Field this week, but I
00:45:45
think it's going to be close. Jizz.
00:45:47
What do you think about this one?
00:45:48
It's going to be a good game. This is this is the, in my
00:45:52
opinion, the game of the weekend.
00:45:54
I think it'll be the best game that we see because I think
00:45:57
you've got 2, as much as I hate to say it, two good coaches
00:46:03
dish, but better. Than the other but.
00:46:07
When I look, you know, I mean, at the end of the day, when I
00:46:10
look at this game, I see 3 Chief Super Bowl wins.
00:46:15
That's what I see. Yeah, two against the two
00:46:19
against the Eagles. But, but, but I think that you,
00:46:26
you've got two teams that are not performing to to their
00:46:32
ability. I I think that the Eagles are
00:46:37
woefully underperforming and they have been all year.
00:46:41
I was just looking at their games.
00:46:43
They only won two games by more than three games by more than
00:46:49
one score, and that was against the Commanders, Raiders and
00:46:52
Giants. So the rest of their games were
00:46:57
super tight with them barely winning games like, you know, 16
00:47:04
to 9 against the Lions, 13 to 12 against the Bills, 24 to 20
00:47:09
against the Cowboys, 20 to 17 against the Chiefs.
00:47:12
Like, yeah, kind of rock fighty, tight games.
00:47:16
I tend to think I tend to go with you Prue, on this Shanahan
00:47:21
boat here. I think he's a better coach.
00:47:23
He always seems to get the most out of his players.
00:47:26
I think he's going to be game plan for this really well.
00:47:28
I think it's a heavy dose of McCaffrey, heavy dose of Kittle.
00:47:33
And I think that they're going to score enough to win.
00:47:37
And the reason I say enough is I don't think the Eagles are going
00:47:39
to score that much. I just.
00:47:41
Don't know if the one I love you.
00:47:44
They might not need to and that's the thing.
00:47:46
But I do love and and we'll talk about this later, but I, I love
00:47:50
the under in this game and I, I, I really do love the four and a
00:47:54
half for the 49ers because I, I, I haven't seen the Eagles
00:47:58
dominate anyone. Yeah, this quality.
00:48:02
How about you, Dex? So the other day I'm going to go
00:48:06
with Philly for the defense. The defense is they usually win
00:48:11
the games when it comes down. Championships.
00:48:14
It does. And I think when they need to
00:48:15
make a play, they're going to be able to.
00:48:18
And especially if Pierce all, if Pierce all plays, I think San
00:48:23
Francisco has a better chance. You might like Drew Pierce all.
00:48:25
He's not even that good when he's on the field.
00:48:27
They're a different team. Or then they have.
00:48:29
Jam and Jawan Jennings. Or Ricky.
00:48:31
Ricky. Either one.
00:48:31
Ricky Pierce all yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Ricky Pierce all
00:48:34
Nice catch. So when they have him on the
00:48:36
field, though, they're they're a better team because he adds that
00:48:38
quickness dimension and he can do the he can get separation
00:48:42
from those guys now. I think they just put Cooper
00:48:45
Dijon on him and that's going to be hard to get away from because
00:48:48
he's pretty freaking. Good.
00:48:50
But at least it'll be someone like.
00:48:52
He'll be just. Attached like.
00:48:54
Velcro to everybody else. Yeah, if they can take him out
00:48:56
of the play. Yeah, right.
00:48:58
Pierce also decoy the whole game.
00:49:00
That's it. I think Philadelphia can win
00:49:02
this. They have the running game,
00:49:03
they've got better wide receivers.
00:49:05
They've got a really good offensive line that's not.
00:49:07
They definitely do. Their defense is better and
00:49:09
they're home. I think they're gonna have just
00:49:11
enough to squeak by and get another non impressive win, but
00:49:16
impressive that they do win. That would be perfect.
00:49:19
That would be just perfect if they did it.
00:49:21
That would be a signature and a half Philly.
00:49:23
I'm on the points for San Francisco, but I think
00:49:25
Philadelphia's gonna win the game.
00:49:27
All right, let's go into our last two games.
00:49:29
So we have one more for Sunday night.
00:49:31
So we have the Chargers going to New England up at Foxborough.
00:49:36
This one, I think, is going to be an interesting one as well.
00:49:40
But New England is favored at home as they should -3 1/2.
00:49:43
So basically, they're just giving them home field odds.
00:49:46
And over under 46 1/2, we have a favorite for MVP, Drake May,
00:49:52
who's going to be thrown to his hopefully not in prison, Stephon
00:49:55
Diggs. And he's got a very good rookie,
00:49:57
Trevion Henderson and refumble a Stevenson behind a pretty good
00:50:01
line. And the defense is not awesome,
00:50:04
but they're at least average mid pack.
00:50:08
And I think then you got the Chargers have an incredible
00:50:10
defense, really good coach Harbaugh knows how to win.
00:50:13
Justin Herbert does not look good in the playoffs to date,
00:50:17
but maybe this is year. But he's also kind of coming in
00:50:20
hurt again. It's like his annual thing, Be
00:50:23
hurt with something. Hand, elbow, knee, ankle.
00:50:26
Fill in the blank. So he's coming in nicked again.
00:50:28
He didn't play last week. We'll see.
00:50:31
I think the their white out crew is good enough.
00:50:35
I think they've got, I mean, they can.
00:50:36
I mean, again, you don't want to bet on them.
00:50:38
Keenan Anderson and Johnston and Ladd Mcconkey.
00:50:41
One of those guys usually has a pretty good game.
00:50:43
Keenan Allen's Keenan Allen's pretty good too.
00:50:45
Keenan Allen Who'd I go? Keenan McArdle I love Keenan
00:50:48
McArdle. I mean that's why coaching them.
00:50:52
Keenan Allen baby, whatever here we go.
00:50:55
But I think it's going to be a good one jizz.
00:50:58
What do you think on this one? Let's start with you.
00:51:00
This time I. Think the game's going
00:51:01
interesting. I, I do think the Patriots win
00:51:05
this game. I've kind of been a Patriots
00:51:08
hater because I don't feel like they played anyone really for
00:51:12
the vast majority of the season. And I feel like Drake may kind
00:51:15
of puffed up stats against nobody's.
00:51:17
It's going to be interesting though, and I think it will be
00:51:20
tighter than people expect because if you look at the
00:51:23
passing for this reason, the passing defense for the Chargers
00:51:27
is fourth in the NFL. They are difficult to pass the
00:51:32
ball against and their rush defense is 8th.
00:51:35
So they're not easy to run against.
00:51:37
They have a very middling offense, you know, so it's not
00:51:41
going to put any fear into you. But their defense keeps them in
00:51:43
games. And I think against a young
00:51:46
quarterback like Drake May, that's going to be a challenge.
00:51:50
He's going to have a lot of weight on his shoulders.
00:51:52
It's a home crowd. Everyone's going to be fired
00:51:54
after everyone's like, you know, the Patriots are back.
00:51:57
We're finally back in the playoffs.
00:51:58
We're going to kill people. And I think the Chargers are
00:52:01
going to punch him in the mouth a little bit to begin with.
00:52:04
And I think this game is a close game, maybe even a tie game at
00:52:07
halftime before the Patriots make adjustments and and, and
00:52:13
pull it out. But I think it's going to be a
00:52:15
tight game. I like it close, but I do think
00:52:19
the the Pats win. How about you prove?
00:52:24
Can't disagree with anything you said really.
00:52:26
I I think they I think they could be even behind at
00:52:30
halftime. I kind of agree that that
00:52:33
they're going to have a tough time until they see what the
00:52:37
Chargers defense is doing against them.
00:52:39
I think they'll have to make some adjustments kind of mid
00:52:41
game to start moving the ball and then yeah, second-half, I
00:52:46
expect them to kind of get it figured out and and pull away.
00:52:49
They've got a lot of talent on the offensive side of the ball.
00:52:54
They. Do.
00:52:55
Offense wins games, defence wins championships, but you got to
00:53:00
make it past if you're the Chargers, you got to make it
00:53:02
past New England and at least two more probably better
00:53:08
offensive teams than they are so.
00:53:10
For sure. I I think and.
00:53:12
They lost their most dynamic player, right, with the running
00:53:16
back Dobbins. Yeah, JK Dobbins was on Denver,
00:53:20
though. Yeah, so they did.
00:53:23
That was last year, though, correct?
00:53:24
From. Last year's.
00:53:25
Team The year before though, JK Dobbins was electric with the
00:53:28
Chargers. Yes.
00:53:29
He was. So that they're still reeling
00:53:32
from. That, but they do have Omarion
00:53:34
Hampton though they rested. Hampton came back.
00:53:37
Yeah, Hampton came back and he did not play last week, so they
00:53:41
rested him up to get him full kilter for this.
00:53:43
So we'll see what happens. I think close game, agree.
00:53:46
I kind of like the under in this game, 46 1/2.
00:53:50
We got to see what Justin Herbert does though.
00:53:53
He's super good. And The thing is, I I'm not I
00:53:57
was looking at this before he was way up in like yards per
00:54:01
game rushing for quarterback this season.
00:54:03
He was towards the top and he was someone that we've kind of
00:54:07
usually think it was a slug, but he is not.
00:54:10
So I think both he and Drake May will have to use their legs much
00:54:14
like Josh Allen and. Terra Lawrence.
00:54:18
Yeah, Trevor Lawrence for the other Lawrence, I think there's
00:54:19
going to be a lot of running quarterbacks this weekend, which
00:54:22
got different, even Brock Purdy and Jalen Hurts.
00:54:24
Like these guys are going to have to be mobile and make the
00:54:26
plays to extend the drives. I think whichever team does that
00:54:29
the best and gets those drives and keeps their defense off the
00:54:33
field, you want to have the fresh defense here.
00:54:36
I think these little details that you can't quite predict to
00:54:39
see how they're going to happen. I think we have another tight
00:54:41
game here, the Chargers in New England, but I'm going with
00:54:44
Drake May. I think he is really, really
00:54:47
good. I think he's going to step up
00:54:48
and have combat here. I am moment.
00:54:50
We'll see though. I mean, it's tough to have that
00:54:53
much pressure on your game one and you're hosting a very tough
00:54:57
defense. Oh yeah.
00:54:58
Yeah, that's, well, you know, when you speak, when you talk
00:55:01
about running quarterback sticks, it's a perfect segue
00:55:03
into the Monday night game and. Started to do the same thing.
00:55:10
And Aaron Rodgers? Serious.
00:55:12
Lightning. They can all catch chickens with
00:55:14
Rocky Balboa. It's the best.
00:55:16
When you think speed, you think Aaron Rodgers at 42 and CJ
00:55:20
Stroud at 22. I mean, they're about the same
00:55:24
speed. So that brings us to our final
00:55:26
game. So Houston at Pittsburgh.
00:55:29
How on earth are we talking about Pittsburgh in here?
00:55:32
I don't even know. They were done as dirt.
00:55:35
If you watch that game as one of the most memorable and weirdest
00:55:39
games ever, a missed extra point.
00:55:41
They're like, Oh my gosh, he 89 straight and then missed and
00:55:46
Boswell what? You know Boswell, and then they
00:55:48
go all the way down and then you got Tarico just talking up
00:55:51
Brandon Braden Looper, Brandon Looper, whatever his name is.
00:55:54
Loop. For Baltimore and how they.
00:55:56
Score scoured the country and trying to find a kicker with the
00:56:00
right makeup. Tina.
00:56:01
Tina Anderson wasn't it? Keaton Anderson.
00:56:05
Like Oberfell, so you know. Tyler Looper No Tyler Loop.
00:56:10
Kyle Loop, It's a rookie kicker. Who cares?
00:56:14
It's not Justin Tucker 'cause he's in the massage.
00:56:16
You know what? We.
00:56:16
Say about kickers, you know, the shrewdness.
00:56:18
We hate them. They just lose bets.
00:56:21
That's all they do. Yeah, Blair Walsh, Lynn Elliott
00:56:26
and go die in a hole. So whatever, but I will say Dex,
00:56:31
the the Steelers are having a phenomenal season by their
00:56:33
standards. You know, 9 and 8 is usually
00:56:36
their bar and they went ten and seven this year so.
00:56:38
They are way above. Like they're hanging the banners
00:56:42
in Pittsburgh as we speak for this 10 and seven season.
00:56:45
Usually nine and eight. Usually 8:00 and 9:00, but ten
00:56:48
and seven is is quite impressive for them.
00:56:51
I think this is really what where the talents going to come
00:56:53
through. I think is what they've been
00:56:55
waiting for all the time to have DK Metcalf come back from his
00:56:58
suspension for punching a dude and we thank God.
00:57:02
And what are they doing without those 35?
00:57:04
Yards of offense? Yes, we mean literally a dude in
00:57:09
the stands. That's right.
00:57:12
So this this barn burner is slated for a -, 3 for Houston.
00:57:17
So Rd. favorites and 39 1/2 over under and what they expect to be
00:57:23
an absolute rock fight, which I don't see how it can be anything
00:57:26
else. So 39 1/2 points and it's
00:57:29
supposed to be not even that bad a weather that I'm tracking as
00:57:32
of now anyway. So it's not going to be the
00:57:33
winter Blizzard conditions in Pittsburgh.
00:57:37
I don't know. This game looks like it's going
00:57:39
to be boring on paper it Houston's defense is incredible.
00:57:44
Pittsburgh's defense can be good sometimes, but they just seem to
00:57:48
not ever do it. If you watch that Baltimore
00:57:50
game, you know what I'm talking about.
00:57:52
Like, let's just give up Monster with the season on the line and
00:57:57
the division on the line, Let's leave the back third of the
00:58:01
field wide open and not cover their only target, Zayflower.
00:58:08
Yeah, it was the goofiest thing. Like, I like using this one.
00:58:12
I I really don't no, Pittsburgh can't keep this charade up.
00:58:18
They're not very good. I don't even know how they got
00:58:20
to ten wins. They are the worst ten win team
00:58:22
out there, man. They're bad.
00:58:25
They are. TJ Watt is awesome.
00:58:26
I'm glad he's back and he can't help.
00:58:28
I mean, he made a play just being there, right.
00:58:30
And Hayward's good. Jalen Warren's OK.
00:58:35
I mean, what do they have? They got old man Rogers.
00:58:39
Who it's it's going to be a different thing seeing Houston's
00:58:43
line come at him vice Baltimore and when Hamilton went out for
00:58:47
Baltimore, suddenly they were good.
00:58:50
But when he was in there, Pittsburgh wasn't good at all.
00:58:53
And Houston's got 11. Kyle Hamilton's so.
00:58:56
Yes. We'll see what's I don't see
00:58:59
this being very entertaining. I think Houston, I kind of like
00:59:02
the points on this one. I just don't think Pittsburgh is
00:59:05
going to score much. But Prue, what do you think on
00:59:07
our Rock Fight game? Slugs I I saw I think the first
00:59:13
like 9 of the 1st 12 completions Rogers had in the last game were
00:59:17
to Gainwell and Warren. Behind the line of scrimmage.
00:59:21
Yes, something like that. Yeah, just a whole lot of.
00:59:24
Ella Alex Smith, yeah. Captain Charlie, Captain checked
00:59:28
on Yeah, car type game. I yeah, I think Rodgers going to
00:59:36
throw like, you know, 35 passes for 80 yards or something crazy
00:59:42
and it's going to be a it's going to be like a 17 to 13 game
00:59:48
or something. I don't.
00:59:51
Know jizz, what do you think I. I had it 17717, seven Texans I
00:59:59
predict a lot of. Slow MO, Brett Favre cutaway
01:00:03
shots or Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers cutaway shots of
01:00:07
frustration. A lot of them like, you know,
01:00:11
run the route. It's going to be a lot of like,
01:00:15
like a lot of slow MO reactions for him.
01:00:17
Do you think we'll see any Anderson appearances?
01:00:21
Maybe, maybe Kita, there's a baby Brett farm, Jerome Bettis,
01:00:25
Jerome Bettis. I, I think there's they're going
01:00:28
to spend the whole fourth quarter because it's going to be
01:00:30
boring and the game's probably going to be decided.
01:00:33
There's a reason they put this game on Monday night.
01:00:36
OK, 'cause like they need, like everyone has to watch it.
01:00:39
There's nothing else to do. It's like, OK, fine, I'll watch
01:00:43
the the last playoff game. No one really wants to see Texan
01:00:46
Steelers. It's not entertaining.
01:00:49
Not exciting like they're starting and ending with some
01:00:53
doormat games. The Rams, Carolina and Houston,
01:00:56
Pittsburgh. They know when to put like, hey,
01:01:03
we'll give the absolutely, absolutely.
01:01:08
I think the whole fourth quarter is going to be spent talking
01:01:10
about whether Aaron Rodgers is coming back or not and a lot of
01:01:13
drama around that. And you know that's going to be
01:01:15
the whole. Story be the last walk out the
01:01:17
tunnel he has. Yes, totally, I think.
01:01:19
He's going to be his last walk up the tunnel.
01:01:21
And, and I do think this is it for him.
01:01:24
I think we saw, I don't know if you saw the the end of the last
01:01:27
game, but they did have a little bit of a, he had a little bit of
01:01:30
an emotional kind of break for him as much as he thought.
01:01:34
That was how he is. Going out at the end of that
01:01:36
game, he did. I think he thought he was going
01:01:39
out that game and I think he knows like I don't think he's
01:01:44
physically can do it next year. So I think this is this is the
01:01:48
swan song for him. If you're an Aaron Rodgers fan,
01:01:50
enjoy it. You're getting a shell of Aaron
01:01:53
Rodgers, but you are. You can watch it one more time.
01:01:56
Throw flat passes to. Shell is Phillip Rivers.
01:02:01
So if we're saying can he do it, Aaron Rodgers can certainly come
01:02:06
back and. He could do it, can do it right,
01:02:11
but it looks. Frankly, similar to P Riv and
01:02:15
Yeah. That's right.
01:02:17
What I do worry about a little bit honestly, is I would hate
01:02:20
for him to go out on a stretcher, which could easily
01:02:22
happen in this game given the guys that are coming at it.
01:02:25
I I think the. Houston defense is ferocious and
01:02:29
I think if they get a chance to be up a couple scores and pin
01:02:32
their ears back, they will get hit and I, I, I hope that he
01:02:38
knows when to duck and he. Usually does not always going to
01:02:40
be open. They might just come to the
01:02:42
check down and say throw it to yeah, the the White House they
01:02:46
couldn't pronounce the names of and like, who's this guy?
01:02:49
Adam Thielen? They can pronounce his name but
01:02:51
speaking. Austin Junior, you can throw it
01:02:53
to Kevin. At least they can throw it to DK
01:02:56
Metcalf. Last last game Rogers had 13
01:03:00
completions to gain Well and Warren.
01:03:02
Yeah, but you take with when you're first.
01:03:06
When you, when you hike the ball and look to the flat, that's
01:03:09
yeah, that's a bad sign, right? Yeah.
01:03:12
Brutal. That's the first read.
01:03:14
That was against the Ravens defense, which is good, but not
01:03:17
that's. Our That's our Wild Card Weekend
01:03:19
preview. That's who we think we're just
01:03:21
gonna do what and the players to watch.
01:03:24
Let's pivot to a fun segment Chisholm's got for us.
01:03:29
OK, so this is. A fun, fun time.
01:03:32
So if your team is not in the playoffs and ours isn't, but if
01:03:37
your team isn't in the playoffs, then odds are good that you are
01:03:41
going to really enjoy this because it may be pertaining to
01:03:43
one of your teams. Because if your team is in the
01:03:45
playoffs, then there's a good likelihood that your coach got
01:03:47
fired. And on Black Monday, we did have
01:03:52
a lot. We'd had two coaches fired prior
01:03:56
to Black Monday, and then they came, like they always do, in
01:03:58
droves. So we had seven coaches get the
01:04:02
axe. The Harbaugh for the Ravens.
01:04:07
Gannon for the Cardinals. Stefanski for the Browns.
01:04:10
Carroll for the Raiders. Dabel, which aspired in season
01:04:15
for the Giants. Raheem Morris for the Falcons
01:04:19
and Callahan, who aspired in season for the Titans.
01:04:22
So there's seven spots that were opened up on those teams and
01:04:28
those coaches. So we're going to play a little
01:04:29
game here. The first thing we're going to
01:04:31
do is I'm going to ask the guys here, if you were a coach and
01:04:38
you have the option to go to any of these teams, Raiders,
01:04:41
Cardinals, Ravens, Titans, Browns, Falcons, Giants, knowing
01:04:46
everything that you know, current talent, where they're
01:04:49
going to be drafting next year, you know, all that stuff, where
01:04:57
would you want to go? So tell me, we'll start with
01:05:00
you, Brew, we'll start with you. You're a coach, you're talking
01:05:04
to the agent. You're like, dude, I want where
01:05:08
do you want to go? I started back.
01:05:10
Where do you not want to go? Yeah, I started from the back.
01:05:13
End not want to go all. Right.
01:05:15
So she said. #7 on my list, so least desirable coaching spot to
01:05:21
go for me is the Arizona Cardinals.
01:05:25
I see just a quarterback situation that's kind of a mess.
01:05:31
Yeah. What are you going to do there
01:05:32
with Tyler? Yeah, I don't know if he's going
01:05:34
to be there. I know, right.
01:05:36
So you don't really know what you're getting into they're.
01:05:40
What about on the running? Give me Shadeur instead.
01:05:43
Maybe. There's.
01:05:45
Yeah, there's. Running backs.
01:05:47
Carousel running back because we're all hurt.
01:05:50
You do. Have you got McBride, which is
01:05:52
arguably the best tight end in the league, one of the top 2 at
01:05:56
least. Harrison, Marvin, Harrison
01:05:59
junior. So there's some offensive talent
01:06:02
there. I get it.
01:06:04
I don't know. I just the Cardinals have been
01:06:05
bad for a long time and. Super fired up fan base though,
01:06:10
they really get into the game right.
01:06:12
And the owners are invested in giving them the top facilities
01:06:15
and. Exactly.
01:06:16
Spaces. For me, that's the they're.
01:06:18
All in. For me, that's the obvious last
01:06:21
choice, followed closely by the Browns, because they're the
01:06:25
Browns and they haven't been good in forever.
01:06:30
I I just don't see any like I mean the only you don't.
01:06:34
Want to go to the Browns? The only, like, justification
01:06:37
you could make for going to the Browns is like, I'm going to be
01:06:40
the one that turns it around or whatever.
01:06:42
But right, nobody's done that for 20 years, so no, no thanks.
01:06:47
Many have tried, many have fallen.
01:06:49
Then there's this kind of a bell curve, so there's a bunch in the
01:06:52
middle that are probably OK fits if I'm a new coach.
01:06:56
Titans have, you know, some high draft picks recently showing a
01:07:00
little bit of a sign of promise, but they're still kind of on the
01:07:03
lower end for me. Raiders are going to have the
01:07:07
number one overall pick, probably going to take Mendoza,
01:07:13
rebuild their quarterback situation and.
01:07:16
You're such a. Cool owner to go drink with and
01:07:18
have a have a bud. They got Bowers and Gentry,
01:07:22
right? So they're, I mean, they've got
01:07:24
some Gentry. Haircuts with the owner.
01:07:30
Bowl cuts for everybody. Jiante, right.
01:07:38
All right. So Raiders are probably like my
01:07:42
third pick, maybe, yeah. And then really the top 2 for
01:07:46
me. I think Falcons and Giants, I
01:07:50
think are kind of a toss up. You got Tang, you got Bijan
01:07:53
Robinson and a extremely strong defense in Atlanta.
01:07:57
Pennix, I think is serviceable. I'm anxious to see how the Kirk
01:08:04
Cousins situation plays out because they've talked about
01:08:07
keeping him now because he's still showing some signs of life
01:08:11
and then he can play and whatever.
01:08:13
So that's not a bad situation, I don't think.
01:08:16
And then Giants have Jackson dart Cam scataboo neighbors.
01:08:20
Like they got some talented players to rebuild, kind of a a
01:08:24
nucleus offensively there. Giants, New York is a tougher
01:08:29
place to succeed, I think as a coach.
01:08:33
Little more scrutiny from those Northeasterners.
01:08:35
But if you win, if you win, they love.
01:08:38
It and you got the number two overall draft pick.
01:08:42
That's not too bad right? You can you can jump into that.
01:08:45
The Falcons are drafting. Let me see right now they're
01:08:49
probably tough. Wow.
01:08:52
So they they must have made a trade of a draft pick because
01:08:56
they they're not drafting. Well, they're 8 and 9.
01:08:59
They're in the middle of the pack.
01:09:01
Oh, that's right, they kept winning the in there.
01:09:03
They kind of hose themselves by I.
01:09:05
Mean they're division tied for the lead, yeah, in that vaunted
01:09:10
South. They they are in a row of
01:09:13
clothes or something, right? So.
01:09:15
They don't have a, they don't have a first round pick.
01:09:19
They must have traded last year. So I think that was part of
01:09:24
yeah, right, right. Yep.
01:09:25
And so I think like that is a consideration when you think
01:09:29
about Atlanta, you do not get a first round pick this year to
01:09:33
help add to that team. But I like the ownership group
01:09:37
there and I agree they have a good nucleus.
01:09:40
So Dex, how are you your agent? How are you directing, Mr.
01:09:44
Agent? Yeah, I'm pretty similar.
01:09:46
I think Cardinals are the bottom and just there's just the owners
01:09:50
don't know what they're doing and they have some talent, but
01:09:54
they just don't have a direction, right.
01:09:56
Like what is the identity? I don't know.
01:09:57
I don't want to mess with it though.
01:09:59
I want owners that are vested. I want GM's are invested and
01:10:02
that team doesn't seem to ever have it.
01:10:04
They had a they had a moment with Kurt Warner and you got
01:10:07
them all the way near the promised land.
01:10:10
That's kind of been it. It's been not much for a long
01:10:13
time there. I want, I want nothing to do
01:10:14
with that. On the flip side, I think the
01:10:17
best job out there is the Giants.
01:10:19
I would love to have Jackson Dart as my quarterback.
01:10:21
You already know you have something.
01:10:23
You're not showing up hoping to draft a quarterback.
01:10:25
You've got 1 and now you have the second overall pick to go
01:10:28
get more talent. You have a running back, Cam
01:10:30
Scatter. But who should be back by the
01:10:31
beginning of the season? Yeah.
01:10:33
Malik Neighbor, arguably one of the most talented whiteouts in
01:10:36
the league and could lead the league in pass in receiving
01:10:39
yards next year. It wouldn't surprise anybody.
01:10:42
And their defense is set. They got Abdul Carter and Dexter
01:10:45
Lawrence. I mean, you have so much talent
01:10:47
all over the place, but they just kind of got snake bitten
01:10:51
this year when they were starting to make a run this
01:10:53
year, Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
01:10:54
Everybody just started losing injury and they gave up what, a
01:10:57
17 point lead to Denver in the fourth freaking quarter.
01:11:01
I mean, that was really the nail in the coffin of their season.
01:11:04
And right after that Dabel got fired.
01:11:06
I just think there's so much talent there.
01:11:08
If you can put it all together, I still think the right coach
01:11:12
could win that division next year.
01:11:14
They could they could they have enough talent automatically to
01:11:16
put the number two overall pick in play and they could
01:11:20
potentially trade back a little bit if they don't like that
01:11:22
because they don't need a quarterback.
01:11:24
And I, I should have brought that up Dex, but you bring up a
01:11:27
good point. And that division is a a big
01:11:30
consideration, I think. And one of one of the reasons I
01:11:33
would go with the Falcons is because of that weak division.
01:11:36
Yeah. I mean, you go 9:00 and 8:00.
01:11:39
You get to 9 wins. Yeah, nine and eight.
01:11:41
They got a good shot at winning the division, right?
01:11:43
So you definitely do. And so I think it's the Giants
01:11:47
are probably the the one I like the best.
01:11:48
And then second is the Falcons because, yeah, Bijan Robinson,
01:11:51
Drake London, Michael Pinnix or Cousins, you're going to have
01:11:55
quarterback play their lines. Not that bad.
01:11:57
I really don't know how Raheem Morris blew this.
01:12:00
I mean, this team should have easily been able to compete for
01:12:04
the title. I mean, I understand that the
01:12:06
8-9 they did tie for the lead, but you know what I mean?
01:12:09
This is like an 11 win team in my talent wise.
01:12:13
Like how do you waste Bijon Robinson Hudson and they lost
01:12:17
Drake London for a couple weeks this year.
01:12:20
There's just too much talent there.
01:12:21
I think it's a great spot and that owner does give a crap.
01:12:23
He does invest and he'll do kind of whatever and I really like
01:12:28
that Atlanta situation. I think those are top 2 and it's
01:12:31
not even really close. Baltimore become a weird one
01:12:33
because you're getting the back end, you're getting the well.
01:12:37
That was what I was going to ask.
01:12:38
I was going to ask you guys about because like I probably
01:12:42
would have had that higher on my list just because like you're
01:12:46
walking into a playoff ready team, right?
01:12:50
Where are you? They're not in well.
01:12:54
Except for a loop field goal, they're in the playoffs, right?
01:12:56
So. Yeah, but they started off so
01:12:59
bad. They start off so bad.
01:13:01
You don't have, you didn't have Lamar Jackson for a lot of the
01:13:03
season. You know, you still have Derrick
01:13:08
Henry, who, yeah, he may be towards.
01:13:11
The end here led the league in Russia.
01:13:12
Putting up a lot of yards for an old dude.
01:13:16
So and there's some there's some talent on defense.
01:13:20
So they're a little more intriguing to me.
01:13:22
I was surprised you guys had mentioned mentioned them, but
01:13:26
you both have them at 3 and 4 respectively.
01:13:28
But I agree they're towards the end you're you're hoping to come
01:13:32
in, build on success and then rejuvenate with some new guys.
01:13:36
So that is a little bit of a different job than what you'd be
01:13:39
going into some of these others. The expectation level is pretty
01:13:42
high there too. They've had a coach for 18 years
01:13:46
and he's 1. So you don't usually like to be
01:13:51
the guy after that kind of guy, right?
01:13:52
So that's a really. That's a really.
01:13:54
Big shoes to fill whereas the other not really shoes like
01:13:57
that's true. Bars low.
01:13:59
Yeah, just win some, man. Of the guys that on to the next
01:14:04
part of the guys, if you're an owner of the guys that got
01:14:07
fired, are you calling anybody? Are there any of those coaches
01:14:13
that got let go that you're like, yeah, let's call them in
01:14:15
and let's interview anybody you're interested in that tile
01:14:20
obvious? One, yeah.
01:14:22
Harbaugh is probably already hired.
01:14:25
I don't know which team's going to get him, but.
01:14:28
I'll follow the rest of the NFL and call Harbaugh within 45
01:14:31
minutes. Call Harbaugh and give him give
01:14:34
him a chance. And that'd be the.
01:14:35
Same thing. So we make fun of this every
01:14:37
year that Mike Tomlin is just a a nine and eight coach and has a
01:14:40
losing season. But if he were ever to be let
01:14:43
go, he would immediately be called.
01:14:45
Everybody, all these teams that never.
01:14:47
Won would. Say God.
01:14:49
Dang, give me 9 and eight. I would love to see nine and
01:14:52
eight. Like Arizona?
01:14:54
Arizona Cardinals would be loving to win two games.
01:14:57
Yeah, Mike Tomlin goes to the Giants or the Falcons.
01:15:01
You tell me those aren't going to be immediate like playoff
01:15:04
contenders. And like, not just playoffs,
01:15:06
they're. Super Bowl contenders, yeah, but
01:15:08
the. Problem is they keep it's
01:15:10
sabotaging their draft stock for the last two decades because
01:15:14
they're always in the middle and.
01:15:17
Totally. Actually getting good guys.
01:15:21
I mean, they're getting TJ Watts.
01:15:22
I mean, come on. Now, right pick #18 instead of
01:15:25
pick #4. Yeah, exactly.
01:15:27
So that's right. You just don't get those top
01:15:29
tier dudes that generally can't miss.
01:15:31
There's been a lot of misses, don't get me wrong, in the top
01:15:33
five picks, but they're never in it.
01:15:37
The other thing that people don't think about is this isn't
01:15:40
fantasy football. The draft doesn't snake.
01:15:43
So you're getting that 18th pick for seven rounds, yes, which is
01:15:48
a big deal in the first round, but it's a really big deal in
01:15:51
the third, in the fourth round because you're talking about
01:15:53
guys that are starting to be kind of 4th, 5th, 6th round.
01:15:56
These are like borderline guys. You go from a guy who's like
01:15:58
this guy is going to make a roster to this guy might not
01:16:01
make a roster. And those kind of differences
01:16:03
over 10 years, yeah, that really does affect the depth and
01:16:08
quality of the team. So I agree with you.
01:16:10
So Harbaugh, everybody's calling.
01:16:12
Anybody else you guys are interested in?
01:16:15
So Prue hit this one up. Yeah, I've always been impressed
01:16:18
with Brian Dabel. I think he's, I think he got
01:16:21
unfairly discharged a little early this year from the Giants.
01:16:26
A lot of injury problems that, you know, you can't control,
01:16:30
obviously as a coach. So I think he gets a job
01:16:33
somewhere. He also got saddled with the
01:16:37
Russell Wilson that I felt like he had to start because of what
01:16:40
they're paying him right out of the gate.
01:16:42
And it was like, you know, the. GM gave you like to work either,
01:16:46
Yeah. So to me, he got it kind of a
01:16:50
raw deal. I I think he deserves another
01:16:52
chance in the NFL. He like that he's proven he's he
01:16:55
can win. I.
01:16:56
Mean he went from, didn't he win coach of the year two seasons
01:16:58
ago when the Giants and Daniel Jones went to the playoffs and
01:17:01
beat the Vikings and now he's just worthless?
01:17:05
Like is he worthless? I don't know.
01:17:07
It's almost like he had quarterbacks and then he had to
01:17:09
deal with the rookie that then lost his white out and his
01:17:11
running back and lineman. I don't know what he supposed to
01:17:16
do. Refer back to my previous
01:17:17
comment about winning in New York.
01:17:20
Yeah, there's no expectations there to to step up and win
01:17:24
immediately. And if you don't, that's right,
01:17:26
you're not liked. What's funny is he did, he did
01:17:29
win immediately, Yeah. And then it's just that he had
01:17:32
two bad seasons and Daniel Jones into being traded in Season 2
01:17:37
and then Season 3 they drafted a rookie and Russell Wilson.
01:17:40
So he's kind of putting a pickle.
01:17:43
But I think he could turn any of those teams that we talked
01:17:45
about. I bet he's getting some calls
01:17:47
too. I agree, probably for the other
01:17:50
one. I think we're all in agreement.
01:17:51
Kevin Stefanski for the Browns. I thought he did a pretty
01:17:55
incredible job with the Browns. Frankly, the fact that they were
01:17:59
where they were with what they had the last few seasons, I
01:18:03
think he's done a tremendous job.
01:18:05
Yeah, he's come around the last, I'll say a year and a half.
01:18:09
There was, there was a time maybe either three years ago or
01:18:12
maybe early last year where I was betting against him every
01:18:16
week because, Oh yeah, I, I thought he found a way to lose
01:18:21
just stupid games that he should have totally won.
01:18:25
He's he's gotten better for sure.
01:18:28
And learned even with the Browns, you can win some games
01:18:31
every once in a while. I feel like that ownership group
01:18:34
is an absolute nightmare. And I think that if you look at
01:18:38
what they've saddled that team with for years now and and
01:18:43
you're walking and you're, I mean, you're dealing with that
01:18:46
horrendous contract. Watson, just you.
01:18:51
Go out and you sign to Sean Watson and they're still paying
01:18:54
that and they're going to be paying that for a while.
01:18:57
Like you're putting yourself in a massive hole already, right?
01:19:00
Really difficult job. So I do think he's kind of made
01:19:02
some lemonade out of lemons there.
01:19:05
And and like the GM0 favors, like I'm going to draft 8
01:19:08
quarterbacks and you figure it out, you know, like none of whom
01:19:11
are really that good so. Here.
01:19:12
You know here's about how to see this, right?
01:19:16
Like, yeah. And and I'm not addressing
01:19:18
anything else while I'm at it, you know, So it's like.
01:19:20
I don't see any of those quarterbacks hoisting the
01:19:22
Lombardi Trophy in their lifetime.
01:19:25
So and. That's what you get.
01:19:26
They're all right. Stefanski's a good.
01:19:29
So circling back though, I agree.
01:19:32
I think those are the three 11 follow up question for you guys.
01:19:37
You think Harbaugh should have been fired?
01:19:39
Was it was it time? Was it one of those deals where
01:19:42
he had just been there too long, they needed a new voice or was
01:19:45
it a mistake? Did they take a guy who's like
01:19:48
perennially in the playoffs and they're going to regret it?
01:19:51
Are they going to say like 10 years from now?
01:19:53
Holy crap, we were at the peak and then we almost had it and
01:19:56
then we got ready to coach. Where are you guys following
01:19:58
that? I can see both arguments like I,
01:20:02
I, I do think he lost some games he should not have lost and they
01:20:07
started behind the 8 ball a lot. And I don't know if his coaching
01:20:12
or not, but his the, the players, I don't know man.
01:20:17
It's like they weren't playing as well as they could play and
01:20:20
maybe. They're just playing a little.
01:20:21
Hurt. That's where I'm at.
01:20:22
It's like, it's kind of like Tomlin, but he seems to always
01:20:25
get everything out of his guys. Harbaugh does blow fourth
01:20:30
quarter. How many fourth quarter leads
01:20:31
has this guy blown in the last three years?
01:20:34
Just the recent memory. A lot, a ton.
01:20:39
He's blown so many games for his team and it it's either the play
01:20:43
calling or just the clock management or just field like
01:20:47
punting when you should go for it.
01:20:48
Vice versa. I think he just kind of finally
01:20:50
did one too many straw that broke the camel's back.
01:20:52
And I think it's just kind of a owner's like, I got to make a
01:20:55
change, I got to do something, and I'm not getting rid of
01:20:57
Lamar. And.
01:21:00
You think I feel like when they added Derrick Henry, it was
01:21:03
like, OK, John, Yep, you got everything you need, right?
01:21:09
You got the most electric quarterback in the league last.
01:21:13
Year, they should have won it, I think.
01:21:15
Right, right. That was that was the team that
01:21:17
could have taken it to the house.
01:21:18
And then Mark Andrews dropped the ball in the end zone at
01:21:21
Buffalo. Lamar was really the MVP last
01:21:23
year. I know Josh Allen got it, but
01:21:25
bull crap. If you watch that season, look
01:21:27
at that stuff. It wasn't even close in my
01:21:30
opinion. Lamar Jackson last season was
01:21:32
incredible, incredible, incredible, incredible.
01:21:35
And he was in peak form. Unlike the shell we got this
01:21:37
year where if they would have won last week, I think they get
01:21:41
kind of whooped this week against whoever they would have
01:21:44
played. That's me.
01:21:46
If they're playing Houston, they're not going to win either.
01:21:49
That's part of Yeah. So I'm.
01:21:50
Yeah. Between that and like.
01:21:53
Seeing the writing. On the on the wall that you got
01:21:56
Mark Andrews at the end of his career or close to it, you got
01:22:00
probably another year maybe of Derrick Henry and Lamar.
01:22:05
And so the team's kind of breaking up and this is like,
01:22:08
OK, coach, you had your shot last year.
01:22:10
It kind of all fell apart this year.
01:22:12
I see the writing on the wall. You're just going to be the
01:22:15
first of many departures from the Ravens over the next 12
01:22:19
months. Is is what I feel like is going
01:22:21
to happen. Here's the interesting thing for
01:22:24
me when I look at when. I could be off here, but when I
01:22:27
look at Harbaugh, I get in a little bit of an Andy Reid vibe.
01:22:31
And well, here's what I say about that.
01:22:34
Andy Reid was in Philly for a lot of years, yeah, and was a
01:22:39
really good coach, right? They won a lot of games.
01:22:42
They went to a lot of playoff games and he always had guys
01:22:45
that were his quarterbacks were good, not great.
01:22:50
Yeah. And I look at Harbaugh, he's had
01:22:51
two quarterbacks really. And this time he's been there.
01:22:54
He said Flacco and Lamar. Yep, Flacco.
01:22:58
Listen, he's good. Not.
01:23:01
I mean, he's league. Average, right?
01:23:04
He's league average quarterback. Lamar, I got to give.
01:23:08
Harbaugh some credit Lamar when he came in league, he couldn't
01:23:10
throw. He couldn't throw the ball
01:23:12
really. He was a runner, yes, and he
01:23:15
like. Scrambled and like.
01:23:16
Was really inaccurate and he really developed Lamar to the
01:23:20
point out. That's all him.
01:23:22
That could have been something else he had.
01:23:23
But he's got to be some some part of that, right?
01:23:25
So he's taking Lamar to maybe we're as as good as Lamar can
01:23:29
be. Maybe this is his ceiling.
01:23:30
Maybe he can't win a Super Bowl. So I'm really interested to see
01:23:35
if he can do like an Andy Reid trajectory.
01:23:37
Can he go to a place then get a fresh start, maybe get a
01:23:41
quarterback that's even more a little more of a natural?
01:23:43
Like if you went to New York, I would love right?
01:23:45
That's that's where I would love for him to go.
01:23:47
Jackson Dart. Like man, that that feels.
01:23:51
Pretty sticky good, right? If I'm if I'm him and I gave
01:23:54
her, he's like franchise on the ball.
01:23:57
Gotta be fun, right? With the scataboo equaled, you
01:24:01
know. Like the mini Derrick?
01:24:03
Henry and the you already got Jackson dart line like you got a
01:24:07
good defensive line to start already and then.
01:24:09
He clearly knows how to tell him he's got to be part of the GM
01:24:12
decision making on draft day. And all they do is absolutely
01:24:14
studs all the time. All they do is they don't ever
01:24:17
miss on defense. They never ever had a great
01:24:20
strength. And so like I, I feel like.
01:24:23
I think two things can be true when I look at him and I think
01:24:26
he's a really good coach. I, I think they're going to be
01:24:29
sad a little bit that he's gone, but I, I also don't know that
01:24:33
they're going to do any better than what they've done with him.
01:24:36
So I think if you keep him, you're probably going to look at
01:24:39
more of the same. And like, they probably do need
01:24:41
to switch it up. Yeah, but I think Siri lands.
01:24:44
I hope it's not in Vegas. I'll be honest as a Chiefs fan.
01:24:48
I don't want to be in the same division as his brother and
01:24:51
that's a little too much brother time.
01:24:53
I agree I I would not. I don't want to have to go if
01:24:57
I'm. The Chiefs, I don't want to have
01:24:58
to go against two Harbaugh's and and Sean Payton as a coach.
01:25:02
I just think, I mean, New York could be a great fit.
01:25:04
He's already on the East Coast. I mean just slide.
01:25:07
Up the coast a little bit, you're right.
01:25:09
Also switching. You're switching conferences.
01:25:12
Yep. You know, like.
01:25:14
So, and that's a super, to you guys's point, super winnable
01:25:17
division. Yeah.
01:25:19
Like if I'm him, I'm like, man, make that call.
01:25:21
New York, it's the big time. Got the number two pick.
01:25:26
It could be interesting all right.
01:25:27
Fun so. Thanks for playing that game
01:25:29
with me. Let's do.
01:25:31
Our pick? So let me wrap where we've been.
01:25:34
You guys have been following us. You know that we are incredible
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That's right, 50. Percent of the time.
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Vegas under 36 1/2. Could have been under 10, which
01:26:01
we all have. That one, although they scored a
01:26:03
lot at the end there it was. Pretty.
01:26:05
Fast Furious at the end. We got Dex gave you the San
01:26:09
Francisco money line. They lost 13 to three.
01:26:11
They didn't show up on offense, but they decent.
01:26:14
It was closer to the hand. It was Carolina, Tampa Bay I
01:26:17
gave you. Under 43 1/2.
01:26:20
That delivered. So we give you 2 or 3, which for
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the year, as I said at 52% slightly in the money, but you
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guys know, it felt the shrewdness for a while.
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This is where we really make our money playoffs, you know, we're
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01:27:01
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Pruitt at the top there, 15.8 percent 15.8%.
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You got to clear 12 on a three leg parlay.
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So check socials for that and we'll give you the game bets
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here all right, so let's start out last week Dex, you gave us
01:27:55
one. You had been on a two or three
01:27:57
streak and you gave us one. We all kind of like San
01:28:00
Francisco money line, but you're you're ready to give us one
01:28:02
that's going to win this week. So what do you got right?
01:28:04
So I'm going to the rock fight. So Houston, Pittsburgh, Game I.
01:28:08
Just don't see a lot of points. I think Houston's going to lock
01:28:10
down Aaron Rodgers. I don't think he's going to be
01:28:12
able to do much, if anything. And like I said, I don't know if
01:28:15
Houston will do much. I mean, they're not like a
01:28:17
vaunted offense, but 21 points ought to be enough.
01:28:21
And even if Pittsburgh can accidentally get to 17, which I
01:28:24
don't know how on earth they could do that, that's still
01:28:27
under. 2117 will be the under. So I'm taking Houston,
01:28:30
Pittsburgh under 39.5. So get it now before that line
01:28:33
drops more and take the Kenneth Gainwell over six catches.
01:28:39
Yeah, the check over 6 / 6 catches over 12.
01:28:43
Targets. Bet both.
01:28:45
That's that's a good one for that.
01:28:48
Pruitt, you have given us four of the last five, including last
01:28:53
week. Kansas City Las Vegas 136 1/2.
01:28:55
What do you like this week? Been hot lately.
01:28:58
I hope I can continue it this week for you guys.
01:29:01
I After talking through the games earlier, our game
01:29:06
previews, I really like New England against the Chargers.
01:29:11
Chargers are a little bit beat up going in the playoffs.
01:29:14
New England's offense has been pretty sustainable throughout
01:29:18
the year. I I think they come away with at
01:29:23
least a four point victory. So I like New England in a
01:29:27
medium scoring game. I'll say as long as they can
01:29:30
score more than medium pace, yeah, more than a medium pace.
01:29:35
I like it. Like maybe 20?
01:29:36
4 to 20. Something like.
01:29:38
That if they can get more than 24 points, I said they win by at
01:29:43
least 3 1/2. We like it, I like it.
01:29:46
Got to go with talent there. And you got to go, Patriots. -3
01:29:50
1/2 at the Chargers. So I, as you know, I'm a big fan
01:29:55
of unders. The one time I went over this
01:29:57
year, the gambling gods laughed at me and they, you know, I went
01:30:02
over 33 1/2 in the Pittsburgh Cleveland game even though I
01:30:05
knew better. I knew better.
01:30:07
OK, let me, let me Mia culpa. That was stupid, dumb, dumb
01:30:11
break dumb. So I learned my lesson.
01:30:13
We're going with the under, San Francisco, Philly.
01:30:16
Here's why I like the under in that game.
01:30:18
You're like, there's a lot of offensive weapons in that game,
01:30:20
right? Yes, there are.
01:30:21
There's a lot of offense weapons.
01:30:22
But like Dex said, that Philly defense gets stingy, especially
01:30:27
at home. And I just told you guys, Philly
01:30:32
has not beaten a team with a winning record by more than one
01:30:37
score. So you combine them holding San
01:30:40
Francisco and their propensity to not boat race anybody.
01:30:44
And I think this is going to be, I think 49ers get 17 points on
01:30:49
the board, Philly gets 20 and it's a 20 to 17 game.
01:30:55
And that would feel very Philly to me.
01:30:59
Matter of fact, special right there.
01:31:00
They may even block a game. Tying attempt.
01:31:04
Field goal to to win this to seal the game.
01:31:08
Super Philly ish thing to do. In Siriano, in the.
01:31:13
Fist pump. Oh yeah, Siriano, like you,
01:31:15
that's how we. Drew it off right right.
01:31:18
So take your. Take your San Francisco Plus. 4
01:31:21
1/2 and win your bet. I do like, I do like San
01:31:25
Francisco plus 4 1/2 and I. Do like the ender in this game.
01:31:29
So, San Francisco, Philly under 44 1/2, Locket R3 this week, San
01:31:33
Francisco, Philly under 44 1/2, Houston, Pittsburgh under 39 1/2
01:31:37
and New England -3 1/2 against the Los Angeles charges.
01:31:43
All right, let's have a winning postseason as far as bets go.
01:31:48
Yep. Awesome to see everybody.
01:31:50
Dex, you want to take us home all?
01:31:52
Right. Well, thank.
01:31:53
You very much for tuning in and checking out the show.
01:31:56
Put your bets in early before the lines change on us because
01:31:59
we can't change it. It is what it is.
01:32:01
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01:32:03
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01:32:06
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01:32:09
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01:32:13
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01:32:14
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