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Strictly Bias with Will Retherford: NFL Divisional Previews & Predictions (2.145.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

0:04
[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back fans to the Central Indian Sports Report for this week's edition of Strictly Bias with Will Reatherford.
0:10
[SPEAKER_03]: I know we are just a little late Greg and I both had some schedule conflicts early in the week, but we are here tonight to talk about a little recap of a super wild card a weekend.
0:21
[SPEAKER_03]: But also preview, the divisional round games.
0:24
[SPEAKER_03]: Greg, I have a lot to say, I want to keep it as quickly and concise as I can.
0:29
[SPEAKER_03]: First, what would you like to know?
0:32
[SPEAKER_00]: What I would like to know is what's going to make this year different for the Broncos against the bills.
0:42
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the biggest thing this year is going to be the Bill's injuries to be quite honest with you.
0:46
[SPEAKER_03]: They are absolutely beat up.
0:48
[SPEAKER_03]: They lost Torel Shavers now to an ACL and Dreehe did finish the Jacksonville game with it.
0:54
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the Bill's secondary is plenty good enough for them to continue on this stretch.
1:00
[SPEAKER_03]: I actually thought that the Winner of Jacksonville and Buffalo was going to be the Super Bowl representative for the AFC.
1:07
[SPEAKER_03]: I still think that.
1:09
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the bills are going to win this game.
1:10
[SPEAKER_03]: So in terms of how the Broncos can win, I mean, I think it's going to take a good day from Bonax.
1:15
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's going to take the Broncos controlling the ball as much as possible.
1:20
[SPEAKER_03]: And to be quite honest, I think it's going to take them not giving the ball back to Josh Hound.
1:24
[SPEAKER_03]: Because Jacksonville toured with four minutes left to go in the fourth quarter.
1:28
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you gave Josh Hound the ball back.
1:31
[SPEAKER_00]: in the bill shouldn't have given the jacks back with the ball with a minute left they should have taken a knee and they should have had three plays you're wrong and timeouts it i i if you wouldn't have given your behind you score the winning you score the go ahead touchdown and you trust your defense that's all well you score or go ahead touchdown if you're tired hold with a story if if there's a few go possibility it's a whole different story but if you have to score touchdown you score the freaking touchdown
2:00
[SPEAKER_03]: And they did, I think, Jacksonville is probably going to make him score either way if they ran any more semblance of a play.
2:05
[SPEAKER_03]: I got some.
2:07
[SPEAKER_03]: got some issues with that game in terms of I just not understanding when you're allowed to pick up offensive player up and carry him five yards that's not typically been allowed in a game.
2:24
[SPEAKER_03]: I've been screaming at all about it the whole year it's just disgusting.
2:28
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not that hard will it used to be a rule that you could not assist a ball carrier.
2:32
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know when I came back that you were.
2:35
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know either and I just like just took away the fun of the game like Jacksonville forces a couple fourth and two fourth and one like supposed to be pivotal moments of this NFL game and we've run the Tush push.
2:48
[SPEAKER_03]: What what is it?
2:49
[SPEAKER_03]: I just I don't know how the viewer of a game like that can be happy with the end product.
2:55
[SPEAKER_03]: It was exciting.
2:56
[SPEAKER_03]: It was a great game came down to the wire, but I don't know.
2:58
[SPEAKER_03]: It just it took away from the essence of like those place feeling big because you just knew they were going to convert.
3:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they were going to improve.
3:05
[SPEAKER_00]: The Eagles won the Super Bowl last year because their defense was so good, but also because if they had an end to three or closer, they were getting it.
3:13
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I just think it completely changes the playing field.
3:16
[SPEAKER_03]: I get everybody's going to say stop the play.
3:19
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that play has a 90% hit rate.
3:21
[SPEAKER_03]: I've seen it.
3:22
[SPEAKER_03]: I see it stopped.
3:23
[SPEAKER_03]: twice a week, maybe, that it gets actually stopped.
3:27
[SPEAKER_03]: And just you just don't see it.
3:28
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, they're traditional quarterbacks, make sure, but like the assist of, I just want to hope.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then guys, in front of the quarterback, great.
3:36
[SPEAKER_00]: You just can't push him.
3:38
[SPEAKER_03]: I think to I think if I'm a Jacksonville fan, I'm I'm sitting here thinking that they converted on fourth and one at the ten yard line and you're able to pick Josh out up carry him to the one.
3:49
[SPEAKER_03]: That those ten yards are a huge deal with a minute and a half left in the game I get Buffalo how their timeouts, but I don't know I just that game in particular, I think I lied to me that the place got to go the Eagles obviously.
4:02
[SPEAKER_03]: they should have ran that play every down because their offense was so bad all the way around I think this week highlighted those first four games were incredible the best of what the NFL has to offer the last two games were the worst of the NFL has to offer and it's just it was sad that you had that fall off after just a tremendous weekend of football.
4:24
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm not going to mention our media picks competition except to say Hanson Crafton, our fight report guy was the only one who got all six games right.
4:34
[SPEAKER_00]: And you and I didn't do very well, but we move on to Saturday.
4:37
[SPEAKER_00]: 430 is the first game.
4:42
[SPEAKER_00]: It is Buffalo in Denver.
4:44
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to start off, I think, with the best game of the weekend, although.
4:47
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
4:48
[SPEAKER_00]: They're all pretty good.
4:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Last week's were all pretty good.
4:49
[SPEAKER_00]: The, well, they were all pretty good on paper.
4:53
[SPEAKER_00]: this week they're all pretty good and I think this might be the one I'm looking most forward to.
4:58
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really no cults, no lions.
5:00
[SPEAKER_00]: I am on the Bill's bandwagon.
5:02
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Josh Allen is one of the all-time greats and deserves a championship.
5:06
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the fans of Buffalo.
5:08
[SPEAKER_00]: I hate most fan bases.
5:09
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't hate Buffalo's.
5:11
[SPEAKER_00]: So I have definitely on their
5:22
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll.
5:24
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm kind of with you.
5:25
[SPEAKER_03]: I like the bills a lot here, too.
5:27
[SPEAKER_03]: I think they're just rolling.
5:29
[SPEAKER_03]: The bills beat the best team in the AFC.
5:31
[SPEAKER_03]: And my, I thought the Jacksonville down the stretch.
5:33
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the way that both sides of the football now and that game, I think you kind of saw that secondary present, Josh Allen with ease in terms of delivering the ball.
5:42
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think inverse going to give that, but I just, I don't think you're going to stop them.
5:46
[SPEAKER_03]: I really don't.
5:47
[SPEAKER_03]: I think you're going to have to beat him by three scores for him to not go in when the game.
5:53
[SPEAKER_00]: take the over 46.
5:54
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree with that.
5:57
[SPEAKER_00]: The score will be 13 to three at the end of the third quarter.
6:00
[SPEAKER_00]: Still take the over because he'll be issued now.
6:02
[SPEAKER_00]: If he points in this fourth quarter, I think.
6:04
[SPEAKER_03]: I expect, though, next to rise to the occasion, too.
6:06
[SPEAKER_03]: I think he's going to.
6:07
[SPEAKER_03]: He has all year.
6:09
[SPEAKER_03]: He has every time that he's his backspin against the wall, he's done it.
6:13
[SPEAKER_03]: I expect that to happen.
6:14
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that homefield advantage will definitely aid Denver.
6:19
[SPEAKER_03]: But at the end of the day, I think if Josh Allen gets the ball with a chance to go win the game, he's just going to do it.
6:25
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Boatnex is good enough to beat the bill's defense for sure.
6:29
[SPEAKER_03]: I agree.
6:29
[SPEAKER_03]: I think.
6:31
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, Broccoli.
6:32
[SPEAKER_00]: My issue is Boatnex is he's not very good against really good defensive.
6:38
[SPEAKER_03]: That Buffalo secondary is stout.
6:40
[SPEAKER_03]: I will say that they played excellent last week.
6:44
[SPEAKER_03]: If I'm Denver, I'm going to try to run the ball as much as possible because I think that front seven is vulnerable for Buffalo, and that's what I'm talking about.
6:51
[SPEAKER_03]: Can kind of maximize time of possession, be able to kind of control the pace of the game.
6:57
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't see Sean Peyton doing that.
7:00
[SPEAKER_03]: He just doesn't, he doesn't like to.
7:01
[SPEAKER_03]: He likes to air the ball out.
7:03
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Bo Nick's just going to have a ton of yards on the ground, though.
7:05
[SPEAKER_03]: I expect him to have 40 to 50 rushing yards because he's that level of athlete.
7:11
[SPEAKER_03]: uh forced into that with sticky coverage from the bill secondary.
7:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, well, what's the record for a playoff game rushing yards between the two quarterbacks because this might set the all-time record?
7:24
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's going to be up there, right?
7:25
[SPEAKER_00]: Not my opinion.
7:26
[SPEAKER_00]: Nick and Brett Farve is my guest.
7:28
[SPEAKER_03]: I would imagine I would think that my homes and Allen is probably up there as well.
7:33
[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever it is, I like that match up.
7:36
[SPEAKER_03]: I think both quarterbacks are going to really use their legs this week.
7:40
[SPEAKER_03]: I also think the bills' recipe to success is basically the same as Denver's.
7:43
[SPEAKER_03]: I think if the bills are able to get James Cook going in effectively run the ball,
7:48
[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be really difficult for Denver to make up for that.
7:53
[SPEAKER_03]: It's good as Denver's front for is I think their strength is probably in their secondary and the fact their linebackers cover really well.
8:01
[SPEAKER_03]: If there's an Achilles heel to this bill's team, it's injuries.
8:05
[SPEAKER_03]: But if they're at full go, I'm not sure that they have one just because they're lost.
8:10
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's just awful.
8:13
[SPEAKER_00]: awful.
8:14
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe that Jacksonville abandoned the run at times because they were gashin' them and they had huge holes every play.
8:22
[SPEAKER_03]: I agree with that, but you go back to last week.
8:24
[SPEAKER_03]: Jacksonville gave themselves a chance to win that game.
8:26
[SPEAKER_03]: They just needed their defense to get a stop.
8:28
[SPEAKER_03]: They just needed their defense to get a stop couldn't do it.
8:31
[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, the all-time record in a playoff game between two quarterbacks, 247 yards, and one of the great all-time performances by a quarterback and a playoff game, Colin Kaepernick ran for 181 yards against the Packers, Aaron Rodgers 66.
8:48
[SPEAKER_00]: So they're not one, but yeah, they're not breaking that one.
8:52
[SPEAKER_03]: But in terms of meaningful quarterback runs,
9:00
[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be a third and ten both of them that they pick up one with their legs and it changes the moment of the game for both teams.
9:07
[SPEAKER_03]: That's that's just going to happen.
9:08
[SPEAKER_03]: Consider that done.
9:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Lots.
9:10
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it might happen over and over.
9:12
[SPEAKER_00]: Josh Allen is one of the all-time greats at that.
9:16
[SPEAKER_00]: And bone X is pretty good out of two.
9:18
[SPEAKER_03]: I've told you I bone X reminds me a lot of Josh Allen.
9:22
[SPEAKER_03]: A young Josh Allen at he's a he's a really good athlete.
9:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Very very sneaky athlete.
9:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If we're going on athlete, he's a top six athlete in the league at the quarterback position.
9:39
[SPEAKER_00]: So you think it builds in a close one.
9:41
[SPEAKER_00]: I think builds in a close one.
9:43
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
9:47
[SPEAKER_00]: Saturday 8 o'clock 49ers at sea hawks.
9:50
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was thinking about some of the matchups for of these games in the past.
9:55
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, the bills in Broncos last year.
9:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Bills also once beat the Broncos in an AFC championship game with
10:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Jim Kelly in that crew, a B John L. way when when the Broncos were the team that everybody was tired of in the AFC and then the bills suddenly became the team.
10:11
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody was tired of in the AFC.
10:14
[SPEAKER_00]: And this one, the 49ers and C-Hox, of course, we have the Crab tree game.
10:22
[SPEAKER_02]: Hell.
10:23
[SPEAKER_02]: The the Michael Crab tree.
10:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Hell Lord.
10:29
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that was a good one.
10:30
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a good poll.
10:31
[SPEAKER_02]: These things do not like each other.
10:34
[SPEAKER_02]: No, they don't.
10:35
[SPEAKER_03]: at all.
10:36
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't like each other at all.
10:38
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what Greg?
10:40
[SPEAKER_03]: I like the 40 on your share a lot.
10:42
[SPEAKER_03]: I know Kittle tours Achilles.
10:45
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Shenahang got a read on that defense just a couple weeks ago.
10:49
[SPEAKER_03]: And to me, I don't think it matters if they play at home with a road that these teams are evenly matched.
10:55
[SPEAKER_03]: It was 13 to three.
10:56
[SPEAKER_03]: San Francisco, you know, McAfrey, fumbled a ball and ended up being an interception, it bobbled on it.
11:03
[SPEAKER_03]: They're late in that game.
11:04
[SPEAKER_03]: They would have completely changed the outcome of it.
11:06
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't expect the 49ers to play that bat against that defense again, giving, I like the 49ers a lot.
11:13
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'll go step further.
11:14
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be stunned of the 49ers don't win this game.
11:18
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're a way better team.
11:19
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care what week 18 says.
11:22
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're I'm with you I'm with you.
11:27
[SPEAKER_03]: I I to me.
11:29
[SPEAKER_03]: I think this is almost people think it's silly that we talked about Bill's Broncos for so long.
11:34
[SPEAKER_03]: I just think I'm with you.
11:36
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the 49ers are a better team on paper.
11:39
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm curious to see if that offense can withstand the loss of George Kittle at although Tongue is played awfully well in Kittle's absence down the stretch
11:52
[SPEAKER_03]: I'd be curious to see if Christian McCaffer is able to establish anything on the ground.
11:56
[SPEAKER_03]: I expect him to be used more as a receiver, which he kind of has turned into that a little bit now.
12:03
[SPEAKER_03]: The rushing yardage is he carries the ball off a lot.
12:07
[SPEAKER_03]: He's more efficient as a receiver.
12:10
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm curious to see what's about Ricky Purcell.
12:13
[SPEAKER_03]: I just think that for whatever reason this 49er seems better when it's just a bunch of role players.
12:18
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think Perti has to worry about feeding anybody.
12:20
[SPEAKER_03]: I think he's able to just kind of go out and take what the defense gives him in terms of coverage.
12:25
[SPEAKER_03]: Hit us check sounds when he needs to.
12:27
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a little bit of rock perity he can he can goof one up and give you a couple picks, but I think Sam Donald is even worse at that than perity is I expect that the 49ers defense who played incredible and filly by the way, we'll have Sam Donald's number.
12:46
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the way our playoff picks went the first week.
12:48
[SPEAKER_00]: It makes me think that it's going to be Denver and Seattle, but man, you and I see this exactly the same.
12:57
[SPEAKER_03]: It could be it's a coin flip when when we get to this level, either of these teams can win.
13:02
[SPEAKER_03]: Like there's, it just comes down to who takes care of the ball more, who can establish the ground game, who can control the clock.
13:09
[SPEAKER_03]: We're talking about minuscule differences in terms of what
13:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Inspector Shanna Han to have an exquisite game plan.
13:20
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
13:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Sunday, January 18th, it is the five seed used in Texans at the two seed.
13:36
[SPEAKER_00]: New England Patriots.
13:38
[SPEAKER_00]: The Patriots are a three point favorite in Foxborough will.
13:44
[SPEAKER_03]: this might be the toughest one.
13:45
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm I'm kind of been waffle on a little bit.
13:51
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't imagine that Stroud is going to play as bad as he did last week.
13:55
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
13:56
[SPEAKER_01]: He's played that battle here.
13:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't be shocked.
14:00
[SPEAKER_01]: In a what?
14:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
14:03
[SPEAKER_01]: I just think the text and
14:08
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm curious to see how Drake may handle like the first quarter in terms of pressure and how the Patriots' offensive line can withstand, hunter, and Will Anderson.
14:19
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
14:20
[SPEAKER_03]: This is one of those.
14:21
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's going to be pretty nasty and low scoring.
14:23
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't expect either team to get in the 20s.
14:28
[SPEAKER_01]: The Texans shouldn't have been in the 20s last week either.
14:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I hate this.
14:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I got to go Houston.
14:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's really new.
14:41
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the defense, the way they're playing, and they're just, they're just so good.
14:45
[SPEAKER_03]: The test is off.
14:46
[SPEAKER_00]: The test is off.
14:47
[SPEAKER_00]: The bad will.
14:48
[SPEAKER_00]: It is so bad.
14:49
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a detriment to their team.
14:51
[SPEAKER_03]: I could waffle on this one when we come back to it later.
14:54
[SPEAKER_03]: If we do come back to it, this is one of them I could.
14:58
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the Patriots are pretty solid.
15:00
[SPEAKER_00]: A pretty solid team topped a bottom.
15:02
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they're spectacular.
15:04
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they're better than the best teams in the NFL.
15:06
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think they're better than the Texans of the world.
15:11
[SPEAKER_03]: And you could be right, I think the home, you know what, Greg, give me the Patriots too, because I think the weather is gonna factor and straddle a lot.
15:17
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Houston's not going to be able to prepare for our poll that's gonna be in Foxboro.
15:21
[SPEAKER_03]: I like that the Patriots are gonna practice all week outside.
15:25
[SPEAKER_03]: I like that they're gonna get used to the cold.
15:27
[SPEAKER_03]: They're gonna know how many layers to wear, how to stay warm.
15:30
[SPEAKER_03]: This is such a wonderful game.
15:34
[SPEAKER_03]: It is correct.
15:34
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what?
15:35
[SPEAKER_03]: Give me the Patriots.
15:36
[SPEAKER_03]: You have convinced me.
15:37
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I kind of convinced myself a little bit too after I stopped talking crazy.
15:42
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if Drake may be able to handle the pressure.
15:45
[SPEAKER_03]: He's going to be more mobile than Rogers will as what I think will help him out a lot if he's able to escape forward into the pocket.
15:52
[SPEAKER_03]: I think if Houston's had a weakness on their defensive lie as their A-Gat pressure.
15:55
[SPEAKER_03]: I think you're going
16:00
[SPEAKER_03]: the meal hunter kind of collapse in and really force me to step up and make throws.
16:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I like the Patriots running backs.
16:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, give me a new England.
16:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Mike Vrable most third most wins by a head coach in their first season with a new team and has a chance with two more wins to equal George C4ts who won the Super Bowl with the 49ers.
16:30
[SPEAKER_00]: awfully impressive performance by Mike Vrable, who just makes Tennessee even look stupider and students crazy.
16:38
[SPEAKER_03]: I said, I want to happen.
16:39
[SPEAKER_03]: I told you, and I haven't done that was.
16:42
[SPEAKER_03]: I know.
16:42
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, I said there might be a conflict there that we don't know about.
16:47
[SPEAKER_00]: You said, just get over it and you are right.
16:51
[SPEAKER_00]: He is that good.
16:52
[SPEAKER_03]: And this is one of those games I like the Patriots here.
16:55
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think I like them either way against the Broncos and Vils to be on.
16:59
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that there are team that loses in the championship, especially if they have to go to Denver.
17:06
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I like the Patriots here, give them to me.
17:08
[SPEAKER_03]: I think we're, I hate how we're seeing this eye to eye.
17:12
[SPEAKER_03]: I think we're going to see, we're going to see this last game I'd eye to.
17:15
[SPEAKER_00]: No, we're not.
17:16
[SPEAKER_00]: No, we're not.
17:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Nope.
17:25
[SPEAKER_00]: 30 on Sunday.
17:26
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm taking the bears.
17:27
[SPEAKER_00]: They're three and a half point underdog.
17:29
[SPEAKER_00]: This is going to be the coldest game.
17:30
[SPEAKER_00]: The Rams have played all year.
17:33
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the bears are win in this game.
17:35
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm I cannot believe how good.
17:41
[SPEAKER_02]: Caleb Williams.
17:42
[SPEAKER_02]: I've been Johnson.
17:47
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a believer in Ben Johnson way more than I'm a believer in Caleb Williams.
17:51
[SPEAKER_00]: I just think he is that guy.
17:54
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the bears are winning this game.
17:56
[SPEAKER_00]: All year I've been telling you the rams are probably the best team in the NFL.
17:59
[SPEAKER_00]: I just have a feeling they're not going to be there in the end.
18:02
[SPEAKER_03]: Greg, this is hilarious that we jinxed this, but I am also taking the bears.
18:09
[SPEAKER_02]: You've had the rams telling you.
18:11
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I think I think the weather is going to be a huge factor.
18:14
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think the bears are going to be practicing in this all week.
18:17
[SPEAKER_03]: I think there's going to be snow on the ground.
18:19
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's going to be nasty weather.
18:21
[SPEAKER_03]: I like that.
18:23
[SPEAKER_03]: the bears are so good at turning the ball over.
18:25
[SPEAKER_03]: I think staff are going to get baited into a couple of picks.
18:29
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
18:30
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think Devontay Adams is that full strength.
18:33
[SPEAKER_03]: I just, I think the bears can win the game on the ground.
18:36
[SPEAKER_03]: I like Williams ability to move.
18:39
[SPEAKER_03]: I hate to say it.
18:40
[SPEAKER_03]: I just bear steam not bad.
18:42
[SPEAKER_03]: Like they're, they're not bad.
18:43
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think they're great.
18:45
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think they have any chance to win in the Super Bowl, but like in just a one week matchup at home,
18:53
[SPEAKER_03]: I like him an awful lot.
18:55
[SPEAKER_03]: I also think Ben Johnson is a tremendous head coach.
19:00
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Jack asked, but a tremendous head coach.
19:03
[SPEAKER_03]: Like in terms of, it's crazy that sounds like, I think McVay is a top three coach of the last 10 years and I think Ben Johnson is knocking on that door in terms of what he's been able to do in Chicago.
19:17
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a different kind of approach,
19:21
[SPEAKER_00]: man.
19:22
[SPEAKER_00]: It's been a long time since the bears have had a good head coach.
19:24
[SPEAKER_00]: It's been a long time since the bears have had a good quarterback.
19:27
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not convinced about Williams yet.
19:29
[SPEAKER_00]: He's good.
19:30
[SPEAKER_00]: He's good.
19:30
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's probably going to be pretty good.
19:32
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not convinced he's going to be one of those guys yet.
19:35
[SPEAKER_00]: But combined with Ben Johnson, they got a chance.
19:38
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll say that.
19:39
[SPEAKER_00]: So congratulations.
19:41
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess based on our picks last week to the Rams and C Hawks, the Texans and the Broncos.
19:47
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
19:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are going to be the conference championship.
19:50
[SPEAKER_03]: I only got two fixed right last week.
19:53
[SPEAKER_03]: I got the brands and the bills.
20:00
[SPEAKER_00]: Alright, well since we agreed on all the picks we need to disagree and I think we're going to disagree on this because we had to dispute kind of like this a couple of weeks ago.
20:08
[SPEAKER_00]: So my question is this.
20:11
[SPEAKER_00]: The Rams are 13 and 5.
20:12
[SPEAKER_00]: The Bears are 12 and 6.
20:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Where should this game be played?
20:18
[SPEAKER_03]: The game should be played Chicago.
20:22
[SPEAKER_03]: They earned the right to be to host a game.
20:25
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I'm playing in the most part of the game.
20:29
[SPEAKER_00]: By playing in a worst division, that's how they earned it.
20:32
[SPEAKER_03]: The Rams had the same opportunity to win their division as the Bears did.
20:35
[SPEAKER_03]: Every team has a 25% chance to win their division.
20:40
[SPEAKER_00]: Will come on.
20:42
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, if you have this opinion, and he did just go to two conferences, keep the regional rivalries and just go to two conferences, please.
20:51
[SPEAKER_03]: But you can't, then you can establish a consistent schedule every year, like the divisions have to happen for you.
20:58
[SPEAKER_03]: How can you?
20:58
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, by what place you finish in your conference, you face whatever schedule, the last place team would play, just like you do now.
21:09
[SPEAKER_00]: No reason not to do it.
21:10
[SPEAKER_00]: I just now there used to be a reason you didn't want the teams going on long train trips from Philadelphia to Los Angeles twice a year.
21:19
[SPEAKER_00]: I get it.
21:21
[SPEAKER_00]: They are needed to be divisions at time.
21:23
[SPEAKER_00]: They're does not need to be divisions anymore.
21:25
[SPEAKER_00]: You can keep the regional rivalries.
21:26
[SPEAKER_00]: They all play twice a year.
21:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Just get rid of the divisions and just do the conferences.
21:31
[SPEAKER_03]: And yet every time a West Coast team goes to the East Coast, we pick the East Coast team because of the travel.
21:36
[SPEAKER_03]: Every time, you and I every week this year, we had that exact conversation.
21:43
[SPEAKER_03]: LA didn't want to have to go play over on the Atlantic Coast eight times a year because of the way this happens.
21:49
[SPEAKER_00]: And keep the regional rival reason you play those teams twice a year.
21:53
[SPEAKER_03]: This guy's will keep the division to allow every team the opportunity to win their division in host to play out.
21:59
[SPEAKER_00]: And kids will for everybody, essentially, except for your regional rivalries, and then you get the best 17.
22:06
[SPEAKER_01]: The way they have it now is fine.
22:11
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not completely disagree.
22:14
[SPEAKER_03]: Everything in the NFL is built for parity.
22:22
[SPEAKER_01]: I, there, if they rely, it's, it's definitely a possibility.
22:29
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't, I don't know, that's not baseball's prophecy, but baseball, I think it's completely different than football because home field doesn't matter.
22:37
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, basketball isn't the NBA that need to have divisions anymore either.
22:41
[SPEAKER_03]: No reason.
22:42
[SPEAKER_03]: We had the league made the divisions useless.
22:45
[SPEAKER_03]: If the divisions still mattered, then if you allow the divisions to matter, they still would.
22:51
[SPEAKER_03]: That's just, it's that simple.
22:54
[SPEAKER_00]: We had to do everything that did not belong in the playoffs, and now we have a game that should be played in Los Angeles.
22:59
[SPEAKER_00]: It's being played in Chicago.
23:02
[SPEAKER_00]: So.
23:03
[SPEAKER_00]: I have an issue with it.
23:04
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a major issue.
23:05
[SPEAKER_00]: It's one of the lesser of my problems with different sports leagues, but it's something that I didn't deserve.
23:12
[SPEAKER_03]: The salary cap everybody can only spend the same amount of money.
23:15
[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody gets an opportunity to have a draft pick.
23:18
[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody gets an opportunity.
23:20
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it's held to see.
23:21
[SPEAKER_00]: And the West was better than every team in the South is ridiculous.
23:26
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, one of those we also in the playoffs could be also make the argument that each team got two extra victories because they play the cardinals.
23:33
[SPEAKER_00]: Saints, Falcons, Buck and ears and Panthers all suck.
23:36
[SPEAKER_00]: They all should have gotten two free wins, but none of them are good enough.
23:39
[SPEAKER_03]: And yet the Panthers almost won that game last week and if it weren't for Matt Stafford, they would have.
23:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and there were a lot of teams that didn't make the playoffs that might have won a playoff game last week.
23:47
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't deserve the chance to do it.
23:50
[SPEAKER_03]: All I'm saying is that the North every single team finished with them in a above 500 record.
23:56
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so the Bayer, the Rams finishing third in their division, see the 49ers still didn't get to play home game last week, and they still went to Philadelphia and they won.
24:08
[SPEAKER_00]: I understand what shouldn't be how it goes.
24:10
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought I'm saying they shouldn't have had to go to Philadelphia.
24:13
[SPEAKER_00]: They had a better season than Philadelphia.
24:14
[SPEAKER_00]: They deserve to play home.
24:18
[SPEAKER_03]: I just think that there's there's a million arguments.
24:20
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just easier for it to be this way.
24:22
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's just easier for it to be this way.
24:25
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why, but...
24:27
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll just see the point there and we'll agree to disagree on this because we will and I just think it matters.
24:35
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it matters that even from a business side, the owners just aren't going to let happen.
24:40
[SPEAKER_03]: So it doesn't matter what we think, the owners want the opportunity that they have a 25% chance to host an extra home game every year.
24:47
[SPEAKER_03]: They want that.
24:48
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a million dollars in revenue.
24:50
[SPEAKER_03]: The cities want it.
24:51
[SPEAKER_03]: They want the hotel revenue.
24:52
[SPEAKER_00]: They want the restaurants.
24:56
[SPEAKER_00]: to host the games and make the money and earn the right to play at home, not the eight nine and play at home.
25:06
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm, I just think it matter.
25:08
[SPEAKER_03]: The colds after the cold season's done, the Pacers get to play at home a lot.
25:11
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, they get to play more home games, but like do the Pacers do up month of the Pacers games, stack up to what a colds home game in a weekend, adds to the series revenue in terms of their economy.
25:24
[SPEAKER_03]: You have to do with anything.
25:25
[SPEAKER_00]: It would be the same playoff format.
25:28
[SPEAKER_00]: It would just be the best teams got the others just aren't going to let it happen.
25:31
[SPEAKER_03]: They're just not going to let it happen.
25:35
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
25:35
[SPEAKER_03]: Because Dave Pepper, Dave Pepper was dying for the opportunity to host another playoff game that he got.
25:43
[SPEAKER_00]: And even if you don't think the 49ers wanted a host to play off game, you don't think it was one of the host to play off game.
25:49
[SPEAKER_00]: They all had better records than teams they were playing against on the road.
25:52
[SPEAKER_03]: The 49ers could have won week 18 and they had to host the play off game.
25:55
[SPEAKER_03]: They had hosted every play off game.
26:00
[SPEAKER_03]: Equal opportunity employer, that's what the NFL is, gives everybody a fair shot.
26:05
[SPEAKER_03]: But they're not.
26:07
[SPEAKER_03]: How are things?
26:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody had the chance to win their debut.
26:09
[SPEAKER_00]: They also received the deserve to be in the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody has a chance to win their division.
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