Latest / 3 Guys, 6 Balls NFL Podcast / EP 44: Breaking Down The NFL Wild Card Round & Which Super Bowl Matchup Would You Like To See Most?
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- 0:003 lifelong friends, 6 trusty balls and endless NFL ticks.
- 0:05Welcome to three guys 6 Balls NFL podcast.
- 0:08Welcome to episode 44 of Three guys 6 Balls NFL Podcast.
- 0:11I'm your host Joel and I am finally joined by both of my Co
- 0:15hosts once again, Will and Avery.
- 0:18Avery was gone so long I forgot he was even part of the show.
- 0:21Forgot I was alive. Well, he is our first, he is the
- 0:241st and 5th ball. So we got to make sure we he's,
- 0:28he's there. Keeping it together, keeping
- 0:31them close, one a little lower than the other.
- 0:35Well, it's good to have you guys back with me.
- 0:38It's good to have you guys back. I'm excited to have you guys
- 0:40back with me for the new year. And so to get us started today,
- 0:45we're just going to get right into it.
- 0:47We'll go ahead and give us your final recap of the NFL regular
- 0:52season, and then we'll get this thing going.
- 0:55All right, I will. But first I need to to dial it
- 0:57back. So I missed last week and so I
- 0:59didn't need to tell this story last week.
- 1:01So two weeks ago Seahawks Rams played and I'm sitting there
- 1:05watching Thursday Night Football, watching the game with
- 1:07my son. And I think I was on since this
- 1:09game has happened, but I forgot about this because I blocked it
- 1:12out. But but it has been consistent
- 1:14for three straight weeks now since the Seahawks Rams game.
- 1:17I'm sitting there watching this game with my son, clearly have
- 1:19become a Rams fan. I mean, I'm I'm decked out game
- 1:22time. We're doing the thing we're
- 1:24we're in the stadium in our house, decked out in our Rams
- 1:27gear. And I say we.
- 1:29I just mean me sitting there watching my son.
- 1:31Mind you, this sweet boy is five years old.
- 1:34He doesn't know anything he didn't even like.
- 1:36Matter of fact, most times he doesn't even watch football.
- 1:39I turn it on. It's grumbling, it's whining.
- 1:41I don't want to watch football. Let's watch something else.
- 1:44Let's watch Mulan. No, no, it's football time.
- 1:48The new one or the original? No, never the new one.
- 1:50That's good. We're going to do it on that
- 1:52path. I just, I'm just making sure
- 1:54because there's odd, there's people watching right now that
- 1:56are like, boy. No, no, he's, he's weird.
- 2:00Not that weird anyway. So we're sitting there watching
- 2:04the game and he's like, dad, what team do you want to win?
- 2:07And I go, well, I'd like the Rams to win.
- 2:09And he was, well, I want, I want the Seahawks to win.
- 2:13And I went, OK, that's fine. You can want that.
- 2:16You can work for the Seahawks. That's no problem.
- 2:19I'm trying to be a supportive dad.
- 2:20He, I even said, you know what, buddy, growing up here and I
- 2:23have a lot of friends at school who were Seahawks fans.
- 2:26I have no problem with you being a Seahawks fan.
- 2:28The problem is, is this sweet boy is five years old.
- 2:31Every time they get 1 yard, ha, ha, dad, they yard, yard.
- 2:35Like, oh, buddy, you don't even know football.
- 2:38And then the Rams were not doing well at that time of the game.
- 2:42They were getting their cheeks clapped early in that game.
- 2:45They had to come back, question reference calls there.
- 2:47It was just relentless for my 5 year old who does not even like
- 2:51football. Go Seahawks.
- 2:53Yeah, go get. It's like, oh.
- 2:55Boy, it's his. Bedtime, it's 4 hot bedtime.
- 2:57Get out of here, go away. So anyway, there's that.
- 2:59My son's a Seahawks fan. He's been consistent with it for
- 3:02three weeks now. And during the game, I texted
- 3:05Joey Case, our noted Seahawks fan on the show that's not
- 3:07related to Avery. And he, he and I actually live
- 3:10in the same town here. And he was texting me back
- 3:14about, oh, yeah, I'm so glad Russ is part of the team and
- 3:17this that you're just like, welcome to the twelves, Russell.
- 3:19This is whole thing. And now here we are.
- 3:23My son is a Seahawks fan, which will be great because we're
- 3:25going to grow up or he's going to grow up and he's 5, right?
- 3:29He will make a different choice 100 times in his life.
- 3:31He'll be offended every team in the NFL before he finally
- 3:33decides on one. On the Raiders or The Jets, The
- 3:38Jets is where I'll land. I hope so, my daughter.
- 3:41You can do that to. Him you could be like this year.
- 3:46She has picked the Rams early and I'm going to make sure it
- 3:49stays that way, but there's a lot of outside influence on my
- 3:51son right now. Good little poem for the
- 3:53Seahawks, which is fine, but whatever.
- 3:58Wait, was it outside influence or was it just he looked at the
- 4:01screen and saw the Seahawks and said I'm going to go for the
- 4:04Seahawks? So I changed a little bit of
- 4:05both because because my father-in-law and mother-in-law
- 4:11both Seahawks fans, OK, so he, he goes to Seahawks household
- 4:16regularly. My parents, well, my dad, avid
- 4:19Cowboys fan. I grew up a Cowboys fan.
- 4:21So my side of the family, pretty big Cowboys fans, my wife's side
- 4:25of the family, pretty big Seahawks fans.
- 4:28And the way things we've had it recently, we've kind of seen
- 4:32them a bit more than my side of the family.
- 4:34So he's around it a bit more, but he'll forget about it when
- 4:37baseball season comes around and we're talking baseball a lot.
- 4:39And then football will come back around and hopefully he forgets
- 4:42to see how he even exists. And we only watch Rams, but
- 4:46we'll get there when we get there anyway.
- 4:48It's funny you tell that story Will, because my son does the
- 4:50same thing with me. He and for some reason it's
- 4:53always the Falcons. Every time he sees the Falcons,
- 4:55he's like, I'm going to be a Falcons fan dad and I'm like,
- 4:57well you suck then. I didn't actually see you too do
- 5:00that. I didn't actually see you can do
- 5:02that. You can be a Falcons fan and
- 5:05suck at the same time. You can do both.
- 5:08It's your choice. But will my my bigger question
- 5:11for you is did you have to explain to your son what getting
- 5:14your cheeks clapped means? No, not yet A.
- 5:19Friend of his will do that later.
- 5:22He does go to public school in a small town here in Oregon.
- 5:26I'm sure he'll hear she's clapped and get her done so many
- 5:31times. Although I don't know if the
- 5:33kids are saying get her done anymore.
- 5:35No, that's that's. A no.
- 5:36Now they're saying 67. Oh, trust.
- 5:39Better have stayed in 2025 dude if I hear that one more time.
- 5:43OK, OK, you don't know how many times an NFL score is six to
- 5:48seven until you have a kid around.
- 5:51The amount of times my 5 year old can read some numbers, some
- 5:56of them, not even all of them yet he's kind of an idiot.
- 6:01Specifically those ones. And when it is 6, the seven,
- 6:06they just scored a touchdown, they're about to take an extra
- 6:08point. The amount of times I hear 6-7,
- 6:10Oh my gosh. Heaven forbid one team scores 2
- 6:14field goals, the next team scores a touchdown 32670.
- 6:18I need to move on. I need to move on.
- 6:20We are 10 minutes into this almost already.
- 6:22I am. I'm losing it.
- 6:24The score of the of the Steelers game I think was 26 to 27 or
- 6:29there was a game that was 26 to 27 for a long time this weekend.
- 6:33And just yes, son, I'm working at the TVI know the score.
- 6:39I know I can read the numbers. I'm 30 something years old.
- 6:41I've been able to read for generations at this point.
- 6:44Something I know how to count, except my age.
- 6:47I'm 30, I'm in the 30s. Andy, whom Week 18 football
- 6:52started off hot with Saturday afternoon football with the
- 6:56season of the line. We had Panthers at Bucks.
- 6:59She's on the line, kind of. The Bucks hold on, you get the
- 7:01win to boost themselves in the playoffs.
- 7:04They just need a little bit of help from the trustworthy
- 7:06Saints. What could possibly go wrong?
- 7:08Well that went wrong. Panthers lose 2 straight and
- 7:11ugly way and made it into the playoffs.
- 7:14Seahawks 3F 49ers final score of this game is 13 to 3 but I think
- 7:18everyone who watched that game can agree the Seahawks dominated
- 7:21this game. Seahawks win security number one
- 7:24seed and home for the bendage throughout the playoffs.
- 7:26I'm starting to buy into this new Pope theory for Seattle.
- 7:28Have you guys seen this one? Yeah, I have.
- 7:30Yeah, that's wild. It's wild.
- 7:32It is. It's 2005, 2013, 1025, eight
- 7:36years apart, which seems oddly frequent for new popes, but here
- 7:40we are. Better watch out, I guess.
- 7:44Go go wrestle, I guess. Yeah.
- 7:46You're teaming to make the Super Bowl your first year.
- 7:48Good job. Anyway.
- 7:49It's not, it seems. Not if.
- 7:51The Rams make it. Yeah, I hope so.
- 7:52That's what I'm going to say to me if the Rams make it.
- 7:54Yeah. This Niners team did not look
- 7:56good at all, putting up only three points.
- 7:58They were it was not good close that Texans close friends have
- 8:02to be semi played with what they saw from Riley Leonard, who I
- 8:04would like to add in here. I did say would end up starting
- 8:07this season. So here we are.
- 8:09Yes, I was. We did you.
- 8:10Did say that. Texans win, but they gave up
- 8:12thirty points for the first time this season, which I think is
- 8:15crazy. This is the first time all
- 8:16season they gave up thirty points, 30 or more.
- 8:20The so pretty defense over there.
- 8:23It is probably because they pulled other starters out in the
- 8:25second-half that matters. Browns had Bengals, Joe Burrow
- 8:28lays down and gives Miles Garrett the sack record.
- 8:33Fine, you don't want to get hit, I don't blame you.
- 8:35Last game of the season doesn't matter anyway.
- 8:37But he for sure laid down and gave Miles Garrett that sack.
- 8:41It's crazy how bad this Browns team is when they have
- 8:43legitimate candidates for dividends of player of the year.
- 8:452 legitimate candidates for offensive player of the year and
- 8:47Judkins and Harold Franklin junior or excuse me, defensive
- 8:50or offensive rookie of the year with Judkins and fanning junior
- 8:53and defensive rookie of the year with Swessinger.
- 8:56This team has a lot of promise. Just going to get the right
- 9:00quarterback in there because I I maybe it's true to where is that
- 9:03guy, but I don't know. He did not he did not grow like
- 9:08say Tyler Schuck grew throughout this year.
- 9:10Saints and Falcons Saintsblurr big for the Buccaneers.
- 9:13As mentioned, Falcons hold on to win a meaningless game for both
- 9:16teams and Falcons don't even have a first round pick so we
- 9:19just see him literally meant nothing to them.
- 9:20The Packers at Vikings. Packers treat this game like a
- 9:23preseason game and play no one and you're pretty much just
- 9:26handing the Vikings to win. Kind of a weird spot for the
- 9:29Packers having the seven seed locked up with nowhere to move
- 9:31up or down going into the final week.
- 9:34I get it, give him a menu by hope they don't just come off
- 9:36too rusty. Titans at Jaguars The first
- 9:39quarter of this game finished tied at 77.
- 9:42The Titans remember who they were and lost horribly.
- 9:45The Titans technically scored first, which means that they get
- 9:47then gave up 41 straight points to the Jaguars, which is just
- 9:52bad for anyone. Cowboys that Giants Giants win,
- 9:56who cares? Dallas Folder starters out at
- 9:57halftime. Jackson Dart probably made the
- 9:59coolest play that of the day though, and if you saw it right
- 10:02before halftime, he gets pulled down by his face mask, flips it
- 10:06back into somebody and he ran. I was thinking it was like a
- 10:11fourth down play with 20 seconds or something like that.
- 10:13He ran a bunch of yards for a touchdown.
- 10:15It looked cool in the moment. Cardinals at Ram, Stafford
- 10:18throws for four touchdowns, the Steelers MVP run, Arnolds keep
- 10:21it close until the fourth quarter and then the Rams run
- 10:23away with it. Personal opinion, I think this
- 10:25Cardinals team may be the best coaching job available right
- 10:28now. They're going to have to fix
- 10:29that defense, but that offense is pretty well put together.
- 10:33If you can get the right piece in there.
- 10:34Jacoby Brissett may maybe the right piece, but that defense is
- 10:38giving up way too many points consistently.
- 10:41Chiefs at Raiders As I predicted before the season started,
- 10:44Raiders and Chief split the home at home series.
- 10:46Not quite how I thought it was going to happen, but if you
- 10:50strip the meaning of MVP down I I think maybe Mahomes should win
- 10:53it this year because the even the defense played worse without
- 10:57Mahomes in the field. He's clearly the Most Valuable
- 10:59Player at least of the team. It's crazy.
- 11:02Now, no, I'm not actually advocating for Mahomes to MVP,
- 11:05but when your defense plays worse because your quarterback's
- 11:07not out there, that's just a crazy thought to me.
- 11:11Then we've got commanders at Eagles.
- 11:14Eagles finish at 3:00 and 3:00 in the worst division of
- 11:16football. With the loss of the commander
- 11:18this week, they still make the playoffs as a three seed
- 11:20Dolphins at Pat's. Pat's wins carrying the two seed
- 11:23and these running backs are going to be a problem in the
- 11:25playoffs. This Pat's team looks pretty
- 11:27good and how on earth does Mike McDaniel still have his job?
- 11:31I think with the firing of Harbaugh today, it's going to
- 11:36get some other teams a bit more confidence to let go of their
- 11:38coach. And man, this guy, he fumble the
- 11:41ball hard, metaphorically, of course.
- 11:43Why is that? Bears, You cannot be happy if
- 11:45you're a Bears fan. Yes, you have a two seed.
- 11:47The last couple weeks have been rough.
- 11:49But we put 38 points, put up 38 points in the Niners.
- 11:52Yeah, well, I was mentioned that offenses put up three points
- 11:54with actual good defense. This Bears team, it was good
- 12:00luck against the Packers. I, I, it is.
- 12:02It is not going to be good for the Bears first round of
- 12:04playoffs. I don't think at charters at
- 12:07Broncos. I would like you guys to explain
- 12:09to me here the mindset where you go in the last week you can play
- 12:13spoilers for division rival with them being the one seed.
- 12:16You still have a chance to jump up to the sixth seed.
- 12:19But instead you sit your players and you just settle for the
- 12:21seventh seed. I'm pretty sure charters are
- 12:24just going to be out first round.
- 12:25This is a bad coaching decision and may cost the other Harbaugh
- 12:28his job. It may I, I just, I it's a bad
- 12:32to me. Well, Herbert Tan's broken.
- 12:33Yeah, well, so is Rodgers and he was out there balling.
- 12:37Well, they had to win to make the playoffs.
- 12:39Whatever. Anyway, Jets at Bills.
- 12:41A UNC legend Mitchell Trubisky leads the Bills to a solid 6
- 12:45seed position. This Jets team finishes with a
- 12:48NFL record setting season. You have heard about this yet?
- 12:53Jets set a new NFL record lowest intercept, lowest interception
- 12:58total on the season with 00 interceptions on the whole
- 13:02entire season. But we didn't get we lost.
- 13:05SOS Gardner. Yep.
- 13:07Uh huh, people. Still.
- 13:08Played even for that either. Yeah, SOS Gardner finishes the
- 13:12season with the worst record in the NFL.
- 13:14I don't know if you haven't seen this.
- 13:15I have seen he was, yeah, he just abysmal and not his fault
- 13:20specifically. But then to finish off Sunday
- 13:23Night Football, we had Ravens and Steelers father Maximilian
- 13:27Maxwell blesses the South end zone where rookie kicker Tyler
- 13:31Tyler Loop took after senior kicker Boswell, both missing
- 13:36kicks wide right. Seeing the Steelers of the
- 13:38playoffs. Have you guys seen that?
- 13:41I have seen. That the videos of the the
- 13:44Catholic priest out there sprinkling holy water on the end
- 13:47zone. Now he's technically blessing it
- 13:49for good health and good safety and this that and the other, but
- 13:51it just so happened to the same end zone where he hooks that
- 13:55thing wide right. That was crazy to watch, you
- 13:59know? Anyway, that was that was week
- 14:0118, final week in NFL season. One thing on that game real
- 14:04quick, I don't understand what the Ravens were doing at the end
- 14:07there. Like, I get that you want to
- 14:10just kick the field goal and try and win the game, but you also
- 14:13lost yards taking a knee. Like it wasn't just like he
- 14:16snapped the ball and took a knee.
- 14:17He ran backwards and then took a knee.
- 14:21He lost yards. And I'm not saying that would
- 14:23have changed it, but why wouldn't you try to get more
- 14:26yards when you still have the ability to do so instead of
- 14:30going backwards? It guarantees you the field
- 14:32position that your kicker wants. And if you go backwards, you're
- 14:35going to be pressured less. And if a few yards at sub 50
- 14:40generally is not a bad, we'll we'll take that.
- 14:44We'll we'll take a few yards backwards for a guaranteed right
- 14:48hash, left hash center position. Well, it didn't work out so
- 14:51well. It did not all.
- 14:54Right. Well, thanks for the wrap up,
- 14:56Will. I'll look forward to your first
- 14:59wrap up of the wild card round of the playoffs coming up.
- 15:02Super wild card. We can wrap up.
- 15:04I'm excited. All right, so today we're going
- 15:07to be talking about the wild card games that are coming up
- 15:10this week. But before we do that, I thought
- 15:12we'd do something fun. I thought we'd look back on our
- 15:16top 10 fantasy rankings for the 2025 season.
- 15:21So what I'm going to do over the next three weeks, I'm going to
- 15:23break it up into three weeks. So this week I'm going to do
- 15:27quarterbacks and running backs, next week I'll do the wide
- 15:31receivers and tight ends, and then in the final week I'll do
- 15:34our kickers and defenses. So I went back.
- 15:38Yeah, very fun. Yeah.
- 15:39I went back and I looked at our top 10 rankings and our top five
- 15:43rankings for the kickers and defenses.
- 15:44But I looked at all the the top rankings we had for fantasy
- 15:47football and I've given us each a score based off of how our top
- 15:5210 rankings finished. So basically how this worked is
- 15:56if you had the player in the top ten, if they finished in the top
- 16:00ten, you get a point. If you had that player finishing
- 16:04at a certain position and they did finish at that exact
- 16:08position, you get a point plus an extra point.
- 16:12If you were, if you're yes, thank you.
- 16:15If you were the only one who had that person in the top 10, you
- 16:20get 2 points. Oh.
- 16:23And so that's how these that's how these scores are going.
- 16:26So just to to read you guys, we'll start with the
- 16:28quarterback. So the top 10 rankings that the
- 16:31actual rankings for the quarterbacks, the top ten this
- 16:33season #1 Josh Allen. Number 2 is Drake may #3 is
- 16:39Matthew Stafford #4 is Trevor Lawrence #5 is Caleb Williams.
- 16:44Number six was DAC Prescott #7 is bonex #8 is Jalen hurts #9 is
- 16:50Jared Goff and #10 is Justin Herbert.
- 16:53So we'll start with Will's score here.
- 16:56So just so you guys, just to recap Will's top 10 going into
- 16:59the season, it was 1 Lamar Jackson, 2 Joe Burrow, 3 Josh
- 17:05Allen, 4 Patrick Mahomes, 5 Jalen Hurts, 6 Jaden Daniels, 7
- 17:11Bonex, 8 Baker Mayfield, 9 Justin Herbert and 10 Dak
- 17:16Prescott. So Will got a total score of
- 17:19eight points. He had Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts,
- 17:23Bonex, Justin Herbert, and Dak Prescott in his top ten, and he
- 17:27was the only one who had Justin Herbert and Dak Prescott in his
- 17:30top 10. Bonus points.
- 17:34And he got a bonus point for having Bonex at #7, which we all
- 17:38had Bonex at #7, by the way. Oh Dang it.
- 17:42So. Cancels it all out, so it didn't
- 17:43really matter, but you did get a bonus point.
- 17:47All right, So then Avery's rankings went like this one.
- 17:50Joe Burrow two Josh Allen 3. Lamar Jackson 4.
- 17:54Jalen Hurts 5. Jaden Daniels 6.
- 17:57Baker Mayfield 7. Bonex 8.
- 18:01Jared Goff 9. Kyler Murray and 10 Aaron
- 18:04Rodgers. So, so, so, so.
- 18:12Avery got Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts 2 points for Bonex at
- 18:16number 7 and Jared Goff. So he had a total of five points
- 18:19for the quarterbacks. And then my rankings, my
- 18:24rankings went Josh Allen number 12, Lamar Jackson, 3, Joe
- 18:28Burrow, 4, Jalen Hurts, 5, Baker Mayfield, 6, Jaden Daniels, 7
- 18:34Bonex, 8 Jared Goff, 9 Kyler Murray and 10 Caleb Williams.
- 18:39So I got, I got a bonus point for having Josh Allen at #1
- 18:44which by the way, you guys made fun of me for because of my
- 18:46statistical reasoning for that. It's because you have.
- 18:50Statistical reasoning. It's not.
- 18:52It doesn't matter what you said it was because it was
- 18:54statistical reasoning. I will do it every time, you
- 18:57nerd. So I had Josh Allen at #1, I had
- 19:03Jalen Hertz, I had Bonex at #7 so I got a bonus point there.
- 19:07I had Jared Goff, and I was the only one who had Caleb Williams
- 19:10in the top 10. So I scored a total of eight
- 19:13points as well. So on the quarterback, Kayla?
- 19:16Williams. So on the quarterbacks, Will and
- 19:20I had eight points and Avery had five points.
- 19:23Oh, and by the way, I'm going to total our scores for all of the
- 19:27positions at the end of this. So I can still win.
- 19:29I can still win out right here because I know Javonte Williams,
- 19:33I got made fun of that. I'm pretty sure he stuck in that
- 19:36top 10, didn't he? We'll find out.
- 19:38We'll find out. We will find out right now, OK,
- 19:40right now. OK, so here is the running back
- 19:43rankings. Here's the actual top 10
- 19:45rankings for running. Backs, may I pause you real
- 19:47quick, Joe? All right.
- 19:48A couple things. Because you're moving into the
- 19:49receiving people, where are you getting your rankings from?
- 19:51What site? Sleeper.
- 19:54Sleeper. And then is this full point PPR,
- 19:56Half point PPR? No point PPR.
- 19:58Nerd nerd. No, this matters.
- 20:01This matters because someone on the point, someone on the
- 20:03Internet is going to be like, whoa, no way can you swift like
- 20:06this? Yeah, well, you've got
- 20:08touchdowns for 800 points. Of course this guy.
- 20:10Of course Stafford was first. This is full point PPR.
- 20:15OK, so standard scoring full point PPR, got it.
- 20:18Yes, it matters for the Internet.
- 20:21Yes. OK, so here's the running back
- 20:23rankings. The actual rankings one
- 20:25Christian McCaffrey, 2 Bejon Robinson, 3.
- 20:29Jameer Gibbs, 4. Jonathan Taylor, 5.
- 20:32Devon HN, 6. James Cook, 7.
- 20:35Chase Brown, 8. Derrick Henry, 9.
- 20:39Kyron Williams and 10 Travis ETA.
- 20:45Where? Where?
- 20:45Did he rank for a long? Jonte Williams ranked at #12.
- 20:50So for a long ranking of seven, number seven.
- 20:53Yes, a long ranking of seven actually does not look that bad.
- 20:57He finished at #12 That is actually a still a very good
- 21:01prediction, so I give you props. For it.
- 21:05It was wrong give. You props.
- 21:07You were wrong, but you could have been right if things were
- 21:10different. It wasn't as wrong as we thought
- 21:13you were going to be. It wasn't as wrong as it should
- 21:15have been. In the words of Mike Tomlin, if
- 21:18my aunt had boy parts, she would be my uncle.
- 21:25All right, so here. All right, so here are Will's
- 21:29before the season rankings for running backs.
- 21:32One Jameer Gibbs, 2 Ashton Gente, 3 Saquon Barkley, 4
- 21:36Dejean Robinson, 5 Derrick Henry, 6 Bucky Irving, 7 Javonte
- 21:41Williams, 8 Alvin Kamara, 9 DeAndre Swift and 10 Karen
- 21:45Williams. So Will had a total of four
- 21:48points because he had Jameer Gibbs, Dejean Robinson, Derrick
- 21:51Henry and Karen Williams in the top 4.
- 21:54OK, so Avery's top ten there. Yeah, decimated.
- 22:00Avery's top 10 running backs one Bajan Robinson, 2 Derrick Henry,
- 22:043 Jameer Gibbs, 4. Saquon Barkley, 5 Ashton Genti,
- 22:086 Jonathan Taylor, 7 Bucky Irving, 8 Alvin Kamara, 9 Devon
- 22:14HN and 10 Tuba Hubbard. So Avery had a total of seven
- 22:19points because he had because he had Bajan.
- 22:24Robinson. He had Derrick Henry, he had
- 22:26Jameer Gibbs at 3, so he got a bonus point there.
- 22:29He had Jonathan Taylor and he was the only one who had
- 22:32Jonathan Taylor. And then he had Devon HN, so he
- 22:36got a total of 7 points. Caught up to Will right there
- 22:40right my Nope, I'm one down. You did.
- 22:42You did. No, you're tied.
- 22:43You're tied with Will. Yeah, 8:00 and 4:00 and 7:00 and
- 22:465:00. We'll see you next week will for
- 22:48the wider. Super tail.
- 22:49Yeah. Brother side Wayne.
- 22:53All right, so my top 10 rankings before the season, 1 Dejon
- 22:57Robinson, 2 Christian McCaffrey, 3 Jameer Gibbs, 4 Saquon
- 23:02Barkley, 5 Derrick Henry, 6 Ashton Gente, 7 Karen Williams,
- 23:078 Devon HN, 9 Josh Jacobs and 10 Bucky Irving.
- 23:11And I scored a total of eight points, giving me the lead with
- 23:1516 points compared to your guys's two points because I had
- 23:20Bejon Robinson in the top 10. I had Christian McCaffrey and I
- 23:23was the only one who had Christian McCaffrey.
- 23:25I had Jameer Gibbs at 3:00, so I got bonus points for McCaffrey
- 23:29and Jameer Gibbs. I had Derrick Henry, Karen
- 23:31Williams and Devon Aitchen. So the current score is myself
- 23:36at 16 points, Will and Avery tied at 12.
- 23:40Remember who made-up the scoring?
- 23:44Rubric Yeah, I know. Remember who decided this is
- 23:46maybe a game? It's a game for us.
- 23:49If you picked Christian McCaffrey, you get an additional
- 23:5212 points. Oh, you guys didn't pick him?
- 23:54Look at. That remember when I that's
- 23:56wrong. Remember when I texted you guys
- 23:58the scoring and you guys agreed to the scoring?
- 24:01No, but that's that probably. Happened.
- 24:03I don't think there's any written proof of that.
- 24:04Sorry. You can't.
- 24:05It's not a Miss Moon court. All right.
- 24:07Sorry. All right.
- 24:10Anyways, I'm going into next week's rankings with a four
- 24:13point lead on you guys. So we'll we'll see how it goes.
- 24:17I don't, I don't know the current rankings.
- 24:18I have not done it yet. So I have no idea.
- 24:21And we're doing receivers and tight ends next.
- 24:23Receivers and tight ends. I'm going to make every all the
- 24:26points back on the kickers that a great kicker list.
- 24:32I had all the funniest names. All of them.
- 24:35What in? Particular.
- 24:36Forgot about that. I'm sure.
- 24:39We'll get by. I looked it on my mic.
- 24:41There's there's some winners in these last names.
- 24:45All right, anyways, So what we're officially talking about
- 24:48today is the playoff matchups for the wild card round.
- 24:52And so we're just going to go through in order of these games,
- 24:55starting with Rams at Panthers, the five seed versus the four
- 24:59seed. And so will you're a Panthers
- 25:01fan. Why don't you break this game
- 25:02down for us? Yeah, Doug, So what we got is
- 25:05the best first, the best, right? Five weeks ago, Panthers Rams
- 25:08played in Carolina. So the same scenario, worst
- 25:14weather and the Panthers won. And that's just kind of what
- 25:17happened. Now coming back off of injury,
- 25:21the Rams get their tackles back, her tackle back and Devonte
- 25:25Adams back. I am truly worried about Bryce
- 25:29Young throwing a football. The Rams have had abysmal pass
- 25:32defense the past 3-4 weeks now, pretty much since the Panthers
- 25:36game actually about the last five weeks.
- 25:38Abysmal secretary back there. If they don't get booty Ford,
- 25:43Byron, Byron. It's not Byron, Bryce, Bryce get
- 25:46Byron. I know Young, Bryon Young, Verse
- 25:51Ford and Turner. They're front four.
- 25:53If they don't get them to the quarterback fast, I'm scared for
- 25:59what's going on in the secondary right now.
- 26:01And fortunately for the Panthers or as fortunate for the
- 26:04Panthers, all the receivers are like 6 foot 8 plus.
- 26:07It seems like those guys are just the tallest people on the
- 26:10in the football field, man. I have.
- 26:12I mean, Rams are 10 1/2 point favorites last time I checked.
- 26:15We don't talk a lot about gambling here, but the
- 26:17oddsmakers are usually pretty spot on with that kind of stuff.
- 26:21It doesn't give me a lot of hope this playoff football is just
- 26:23different. The only real benefit for the
- 26:25Rams in this case is that they've been here before.
- 26:28They have a lot of playoff experience on their team.
- 26:31I think that matters a lot. So I I like to, I like the Rams
- 26:35in this game and not just because I'm a Rams fan.
- 26:36I think it is, I mean 12 and 5 versus 8 and 9.
- 26:40And, and it's a bit of a revenge game being the fact that the the
- 26:43Rams just lost the Panthers 5 weeks ago.
- 26:45What? Do you think Avery?
- 26:47Yeah, Rams are going to win this game.
- 26:50I think so too. I don't.
- 26:52I don't. This is.
- 26:53Honestly, I think this might be the least questionable matchup
- 26:58of the wild cards. To me this is the easiest pick.
- 27:01I agree, I have seen a lot of people picking the Panthers.
- 27:05Fake fan. I I think Chargers at Patriots
- 27:11is the easiest bit of the week. Oh yeah, no.
- 27:14Yeah, yeah, yeah. Especially if they give up like
- 27:19halfway through, they're like, we're probably fine.
- 27:20I think you're down to touchdowns.
- 27:22I say we're going to rest. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 27:26So there's that. Well, here's what I'll say about
- 27:30this game is one will already mentioned.
- 27:32It is the Rams have the playoff experience.
- 27:35They have a quarterback and a coach who have won a Super Bowl,
- 27:39and the Panthers have nobody who has done anything in the
- 27:42playoffs. The Panthers, and I'm not just
- 27:45saying this because I'm a Bucks fan, but the Panthers don't
- 27:47deserve to be in the playoffs. No team in the NFC South
- 27:50deserves to be in the playoffs. They have a losing record.
- 27:53They have to rely on another team to win to get in.
- 27:56They just, they don't deserve to be here.
- 27:58I know they beat the Rams last time.
- 27:59Not happening this time. The Panthers just don't compare
- 28:02to the Rams. When you look at the numbers,
- 28:05and these are offensive numbers that I'm going to give you guys.
- 28:08The Rams are first in total yards.
- 28:09The Panthers are 27th. The Rams are first in passing
- 28:12yards. The Panthers are 26th.
- 28:14The Rams are seventh in rushing yards.
- 28:16The Panthers are 19th. The Rams are first in points.
- 28:19Panthers are 27th. They just don't compare.
- 28:23There's no comparing these two teams.
- 28:25The Rams are going to crush the Panthers in this game.
- 28:27They're going to get their revenge.
- 28:29They've been here before. They have the experience and the
- 28:31Panthers don't. Rams are winning this game.
- 28:34They should make a rule where if you win the division but you
- 28:38have a losing record that you are eliminated and we give it to
- 28:42the next best record in the conference.
- 28:45I just saw something on that, Really.
- 28:48Yeah, I saw something on that on social media.
- 28:50And I was like, that's actually not a bad idea.
- 28:53Because I think I was like, hey, dude, if if you're all garbage
- 28:56and you're like, hey, we can all just rest our players and then
- 28:58just whoever has the best losing record gets in.
- 29:00I mean, obviously that doesn't happen.
- 29:02Do you know what team that would be?
- 29:04To. The Minnesota Vikings.
- 29:07Is that what we want in the playoffs?
- 29:09JJ McCarthy I'd rather see behind.
- 29:12Get his ass beat. Sorry, Doug.
- 29:17BTA Belter. Behind, but in general though, I
- 29:25just feel like, look, if your division is just garbage and you
- 29:28win it, like while losing, it's like, dude, just put in the next
- 29:32best team. Like I think it makes it a
- 29:34little more interesting, gives you a threshold you need to
- 29:37beat. I just think that like you're
- 29:39making the playoffs with a losing record.
- 29:42That's just not right. It's just not right.
- 29:45It's not. It's really not.
- 29:46All right. Anyways, let's move on to
- 29:50Packers at Bears. So I know we started with Will
- 29:54last time, but I would like Will to start on this one again too,
- 29:57because, you know, he's a Bears fan.
- 29:58He's a big Bears fan. Joe's a big a big ass nerd.
- 30:08Sorry Dwayne, I'm real big on the I I.
- 30:10Didn't realize I didn't realize my butt was that big.
- 30:12Let. Me tell you it's.
- 30:14Looking nice. Looking nice.
- 30:15Thank you. Thank you.
- 30:16It's it's more nectarine than Peach, right?
- 30:20That's what. I would I would show you guys,
- 30:22but I don't have any pants on right now, so.
- 30:24Shout out. It's the perfect time.
- 30:26Yeah, you said your wife's not home.
- 30:27I don't blame you. It's boys night for the boys, do
- 30:30it for the boys. So looking at the eye test of
- 30:39these two teams, if you take the Packers, they have not looked
- 30:43exceptional recently. But last week you kind of threw
- 30:47that one away because the Packers didn't play anybody.
- 30:53Who is partying at your house, Avery?
- 30:55Hey, shut up, they're good now. Good.
- 31:03Now it's OK. Give me time to stall.
- 31:06You have to throw away last week because the Packers sat
- 31:09everybody to to give themselves a minute by a week because they
- 31:11already had Week 7 locked up before that.
- 31:15I mean, they've they've lost three in a row, four in a row,
- 31:18four in a row coming to the playoffs with their last win
- 31:20against the Bears in early December.
- 31:22So they've been in a bit of a stinker recently, but people
- 31:25have been hurt, people have been out and everybody's coming back
- 31:28for the playoffs because it's the playoffs.
- 31:29That's what you do Except Mike, the Bears have been, the Bears
- 31:32have been playing everybody and still have not looked good in
- 31:35the past few weeks. I, I and I think playoff
- 31:39experience comes in here as well.
- 31:41The Packers may be young, but they've been to the playoffs
- 31:44consistently. I don't actually know who's
- 31:47going to win this game. I think the Bears will sneak
- 31:49this one out. I I really do.
- 31:51I think the Bears win this game. I don't like it.
- 31:53I don't like to say it. It does give.
- 31:56It does give the Rams the opportunity to kick their
- 31:58behinds and weak or in round two.
- 32:00I do like that, but I do think the Bears win this one.
- 32:03Here's the thing, Will, with the playoff experience for the Bears
- 32:06versus the Packers is I know the Packers have made it to the
- 32:10playoffs the last few seasons, but they've only won one game
- 32:14and it was against the Dallas Cowboys.
- 32:17Is that really valuable playoff experience?
- 32:22Is it? It is against the Cowboys.
- 32:26If the if it was Packers, Cowboys, I know who I'd be.
- 32:29Still, still being there. Being there matters.
- 32:33True, so that's fair. I I'm counting more as like 1/2
- 32:36a win versus an actual win just because it's Dallas.
- 32:39But. Yeah, and because they did get
- 32:41just half a win. They.
- 32:44Did. That's true?
- 32:45They did. They did.
- 32:47They did. Get half a win.
- 32:49Exactly accurate. I also think the bears are going
- 32:53to win. To me, the difference is Ben
- 32:55Johnson. I just I think he's going to I
- 32:58think he's going to sneak it out.
- 32:59He's he's got a little bit of that signetti energy to him just
- 33:03looking looking pissed on the sideline.
- 33:06I like. Hot take here.
- 33:08If the Packers lose this game, the floor is out.
- 33:15Interesting. Lefleur.
- 33:17I think there are three teams, maybe, maybe four teams that if
- 33:23they lose in the first round or don't make the championship
- 33:26game, possibly even the Super Bowl, their coach is gone.
- 33:30Who are those teams? We'll get there, OK.
- 33:34Well, we know the Packers has won.
- 33:37Avery, do you have anything else to add?
- 33:39The Bears will win and the Packers will lose.
- 33:42Wow, that's a bold take. Cool.
- 33:46All right, well, here's my thoughts on it.
- 33:49I have one key for the Bears and one key for the Packers in this
- 33:52game because both of these teams are a couple plays away from
- 33:56being undefeated against the other team when they've played
- 33:59this season. So both of these teams are very,
- 34:01very close to being 2 and no against the other one.
- 34:03So now they get the chance to split the tie.
- 34:06And here's one key for the Bears and one key for the Packers.
- 34:09I think for the Bears is create turnovers because both of these
- 34:13teams are really good at taking care of the ball.
- 34:15They're two of the best teams in the league at taking care of the
- 34:17ball, but the Bears were significantly better at taking
- 34:20the ball away than the Packers were.
- 34:23And you've done it all season long and now it's time to do it
- 34:25when it really, really matters. So for the Bears, one key for
- 34:29this game is find a way to get turnovers.
- 34:32One key for the Packers is find a way to get out to an early 2
- 34:36possession lead and keep it that way.
- 34:39If you have the lead late in the fourth quarter and you give
- 34:42Caleb Williams the ball back, he will either beat you or he will
- 34:46come within a play or two of beating you.
- 34:48He's done it several times this year and if you let Caleb
- 34:52Williams stay in this game, it does not matter if you are
- 34:55winning when it comes down to two minutes left in the fourth
- 34:58quarter, whether you're up by three or seven, if you're not up
- 35:01by two scores, there is a high possibility that you will lose.
- 35:07So if you're the Packers, you have to get off to a hot start,
- 35:11get A2 possession lead and keep it that way.
- 35:14Otherwise, the closer that you get to the end of the game, the
- 35:17chances of you winning will continue to go down because
- 35:20Caleb Williams will find a way to either beat you or come very,
- 35:25very close to beating you. Let.
- 35:28Me see that? I would also have to take a
- 35:30minute here to officially apologize to Beardant Live.
- 35:34Not because I think the Bears are good anyway, but he didn't
- 35:36say the Bears were going to win the North and all this.
- 35:39They gave him a real hard time for it and he was right.
- 35:43And I had to give him his flowers because he was right and
- 35:45I was wrong. Although Caleb Williams did not
- 35:48throw for 4000 yards, that dude still looks like buttered up hot
- 35:51garbage in my opinion. He's going to have to learn how
- 35:54to actually throw the ball confidently before I'm going to
- 35:56agree that he's good. But until we get there, I'm not
- 36:00saying it, but the Bears did do better than I expected and did
- 36:04that. My bad.
- 36:07All right, let's move on to Bills at Jags.
- 36:11So for this one, I want to start off with a question for you
- 36:13guys. And Avery, you can go first on
- 36:15this one to answer this question.
- 36:17Who do you trust more, Josh Allen or Trevor Lawrence?
- 36:20Trevor Lawrence, Really. Yeah.
- 36:23I wouldn't have said that a month ago, but the the Jags are
- 36:29like the reverse Colts. They just got hot.
- 36:34Like right when the Colts were like, we're done playing, we're
- 36:36done winning. That's actually not our goal
- 36:39anymore. We're just going to lose out.
- 36:42I don't the Jags are weird. They I mean, they still to me
- 36:46look like the classic Jags, but they just keep winning.
- 36:50And so I and the and also the Bills just don't look familiar.
- 36:56They don't look like that old Bills team that could only lose
- 37:00to the Chiefs. And it's too bad that it
- 37:03happened this year, all the years to go to the playoffs
- 37:07anyway. But yeah, I think the Jags, I I
- 37:09do trust Trevor Lawrence, however, However, that being
- 37:12said, I could see, you know, playoff Josh show up and just
- 37:17start, you know, just going crazy.
- 37:20So, I mean, I think it might be the Jags here just as a
- 37:24surprise, but if Josh Allen goes off like, I won't necessarily be
- 37:29surprised. I can agree with that.
- 37:31What do you think? Will who do you have win this
- 37:32game? Six.
- 37:35Who knows? 6-7 It takes you 6 to 3.
- 37:40Thank you 6. 3. I don't know man, I am all over
- 37:45the place with this game because I I think the Jags have been
- 37:48more consistent recently. There's no other way to argue
- 37:52that really, but the but we saw it in the Patriots game, the
- 37:57Bills Patriots game, when Josh Allen goes into I'm just going
- 38:01to win this game. I don't need you team.
- 38:05Sorry James Cook. Sorry Stefan Diggs.
- 38:08Wait, he's in the Steelers or he's in the Patriots now?
- 38:10Sorry everyone else on my team. I'm just going to do it myself.
- 38:14I'm 6 foot 5200 and some odd pounds and can run like a rhino.
- 38:19I'm just going to do it myself. He does and he just throws the
- 38:23ball where he wants to. Doesn't give a hoot about his no
- 38:26name receivers out there. He just does it all by himself.
- 38:29And just I, I think we're going to see a lot of that.
- 38:33I think we're going to see a lot of Josh Allen putting a team on
- 38:36his back. It's just up to his defense to
- 38:38be able to give him a couple stops a game and, and are they,
- 38:42are we going to get that? I don't know if I had to pick
- 38:46right now, which I do. I'm going to go to the Bills
- 38:50over Jags. OK, that's where I'm at right
- 38:53now, but I have gone back and forth on this game several
- 38:56times. I just, I can't make like a
- 38:59solid pick that I can stick with in this game.
- 39:02And part of the reason why is because things that the Jaguars
- 39:07are good at, the Bills are bad at, and things that the Bills
- 39:10are good at, the Jags are bad at.
- 39:12But then there's also stuff that they're both really good at it.
- 39:16So this is the best rushing offense for the Bills versus the
- 39:18best rushing defense for the Jaguars.
- 39:21The Bills have the best pass defense in the league.
- 39:23The Jags have the 21st ranked pass defense.
- 39:26The Jags have forced the second most turnovers in the league
- 39:29this season, and they have 11 more than the Bills.
- 39:32So there's certain things that the Bills are really, really
- 39:34good at that the Jaguars are also really good at to oppose
- 39:37that. But then it's also the opposite
- 39:39for the Jaguars going against the Bills.
- 39:42So I've gone back and forth in this game several times.
- 39:45I don't really know who to pick. But right now I'm riding with
- 39:48Josh Allen because I trust him more as a quarterback because
- 39:52Trevor Lawrence to me and my, and maybe it's just because I
- 39:55still think of Trevor Lawrence as just being the guy that we've
- 39:58seen the last few seasons where he doesn't really do anything
- 40:02and he's not very good, even though he's been a lot better
- 40:06this season. So maybe it's just because I
- 40:08still have that version of Trevor Lawrence in my mind.
- 40:11But in this game, I'm going to trust Josh Allen more than I'm
- 40:14going to trust Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence has got grills
- 40:18now, so. Yo-yo grills, yo-yo grills.
- 40:23You want to see my what? All right, on the 49ers and
- 40:27Eagles, I'm going to start on this one.
- 40:30I don't want either team to win this game.
- 40:32Honestly, I hate both of these teams.
- 40:34Double elimination. You both lose even if you win.
- 40:39I, I hate both of these teams, but I just don't have it in me
- 40:43to pick the Philadelphia Eagles. I cannot do it.
- 40:46I've been saying all season long that the Eagles aren't going
- 40:49back to the Super Bowl and I want them to lose in the first
- 40:51round so bad so that I can make a video trolling all the Eagles
- 40:55fans who said I was an idiot for saying that the Eagles are not
- 40:58going back to the Super Bowl. And if the Eagles lose 100%, you
- 41:01will see me make a video trolling Eagles fans because
- 41:05they lost in the first round when they said they were going
- 41:07to come back to my comments in February.
- 41:10Well, I'm going to come back early, OK?
- 41:12I'm going to come back. Early Hey, I hear from my wife.
- 41:15That's not a good thing. It's going to come back hard.
- 41:20I am praying that the 49ers win this game and the one thing I
- 41:25want the the 49ers to do is watch the Bears film versus the
- 41:29Eagles. Look at exactly what the Bears
- 41:32did against the Eagles and do exactly that.
- 41:35Run it down their throats, run it down their throats, just give
- 41:40the ball to Christian McCaffrey every single time.
- 41:43Nobody else in this game needs to even touch the ball.
- 41:46Don't even give it to Brock Pardi, just give it to Christian
- 41:48McCaffrey. Direct snap every single time.
- 41:50Let him run it down the throats of the Philadelphia Eagles run
- 41:54defense, which ranks 22nd in the league by the way.
- 41:57Their past defense is 8th best in the league.
- 41:59There's no reason Brock Pardi needs to throw this ball.
- 42:02No reason. Just give it to Christian
- 42:04McCaffrey every single time. Let him run it down the throats
- 42:08of the Philadelphia Eagles so that I control all the Eagles
- 42:11fans. Please please do that.
- 42:14I'm just actively reading the injury report on the 49ers
- 42:19website right now man. It does not look really defense
- 42:23for the 49ers. The good news, the good news is,
- 42:28is that the offense for the Eagles has been dookie recently.
- 42:32Tanger McKee looks like the best quarterback.
- 42:33They had to throw the ball all year, but Jalen hurt.
- 42:36Yeah, OK, cool. I may not actually end up
- 42:40watching this football game. I could not care less about this
- 42:43football game except for it's it matters on who the Rams play the
- 42:47following week. If the Rams end up winning, I
- 42:50quit talking like they are winning.
- 42:51I think Trent Williams coming back, most likely.
- 42:54It's going to be huge. Ricky Pierce saw Rod Receiver
- 42:57possibly coming back. He's an he reiterated his PCL
- 43:01injury. Rock Party apparently checked
- 43:03out fine. Although if we're all being
- 43:05honest, I think this team is better with Matt Jones.
- 43:08I don't know what it is. I think this team is better with
- 43:10Matt Jones. I hate the 49ers.
- 43:14I hate them to my core. I also hate the Eagles.
- 43:21I, much like Joe, would rather both teams just lose this game,
- 43:26but I have to pick one and I'm going to pick the Eagles just
- 43:29because they're home. And if the Rams happen to win
- 43:33against Carolina, then the Rams will most likely go to
- 43:38Philadelphia, where they can get revenge from last season.
- 43:41Although fun fact, did you know that the Rams have not beaten
- 43:45the Eagles since Matthew Stafford has been with the Rams?
- 43:49I did not know that. Also, did you know that Sirianni
- 43:54has never lost a playoff game at home?
- 43:56That's not enough sample size. It's not.
- 43:59I mean, one game, technically you get that stab, but we also
- 44:03are. I mean, this team won the Super
- 44:05Bowl last year. They're not doing it again.
- 44:08Most likely not, but. Avery, what do you think about
- 44:12this game? I think the Eagles are going to
- 44:14take it because I don't want them to, and I feel like that's
- 44:16just going to happen. Yeah, it's a vibes election this
- 44:20year and as much as I yeah, the Eagles are going to win it, the
- 44:26Eagles are going to win it. It's.
- 44:28Hard. They would win it just because I
- 44:29don't want them to. I know that's, I think that's
- 44:32why they'll win it on my end as well.
- 44:35I mean, I actually think I dislike the Eagles more than the
- 44:39Niners, which is a lot. That's that's a lot.
- 44:44I would rather the Niners win. Yeah, it's a big thing coming
- 44:47for me. Yeah, I want to.
- 44:49I want to make that video so bad.
- 44:52You have no idea. You have no.
- 44:54Idea I hope they get shot out. Texas textile or Alabama style
- 44:59almost just three Just give a gentleman's shut out just to
- 45:03just to just to take the higher Rd. a little bit give him a
- 45:05field goal. I think it would be really cool
- 45:08to see three AFC West games make it divisional round.
- 45:12Hey, that'd be really cool to see.
- 45:15I don't think it'll happen. It's almost like a true
- 45:17divisional round if the Cardinals were any good.
- 45:20But I I think it would be fun but.
- 45:24I don't know, it would be cool because the Eagles wouldn't be
- 45:28there. You're right.
- 45:31All right, let's move on. To Chargers at Patriots.
- 45:34So Avery, sorry. Sorry to cut you out.
- 45:37Is this human we're talking? I will.
- 45:39Stole my so will. Stole my answer.
- 45:40The Patriots are. This is even we're talking
- 45:42about. It's the Patriots.
- 45:44It is worth talking about. OK.
- 45:47All right. Avery, I'm sorry to cut you out.
- 45:49Your turn. I think the Patriots will win.
- 45:54I think the Chargers will lose. Yeah, I Stranger things have
- 46:02happened, like the last episode of Stranger Things, but I think
- 46:07the Patriots will just take this one.
- 46:08I I just don't. The Chargers look tired and
- 46:12disinterested. Vibes off vibes.
- 46:15So you guys are giving the Chargers no chance I.
- 46:20A non zero chance, yes. As they were said, it's bad
- 46:25vibes, right? The Chargers lost their last two
- 46:28games coming into the playoffs. They lost the Texans and they
- 46:31lost to the Broncos, both playoff teams.
- 46:33They won the two games. Well, three games before that,
- 46:37four games before that, they beat the Raiders.
- 46:40They did beat the Eagles at home in overtime, which is great.
- 46:44They didn't beat the Chiefs and they beat the Cowboys.
- 46:47So of your last six games, you played three playoff teams and
- 46:52you only beat one of them. And and it's just now we're
- 46:56looking at the playoffs right now and you're going to New
- 47:00England to play the the Patriots.
- 47:02Mike Frabel is just, I mean, he's coaching out of his mind
- 47:06right now. He's got Drake man playing well.
- 47:08Josh McDaniel, who could be a head coach somewhere, decided he
- 47:11doesn't want that life. That's because he tried it and
- 47:13he sucked at it. Yeah, well, that is that is true
- 47:18adulthood right there. Hey, I tried this.
- 47:20I suck at it, but I'm good at this.
- 47:21I'm just going to keep doing this.
- 47:23So I I think that it's I it's close.
- 47:27This will be a game. When is this?
- 47:29What time is this game at? I don't.
- 47:32Know I didn't write down the times.
- 47:34This is this is a Sunday night game, so 5:00 PM local.
- 47:38My time in the West Coast. There's a reason this game
- 47:40starts at 8:00 PM on the East Coast.
- 47:42OK, it'll be 8:00 PM in Foxborough, New England,
- 47:47Massachusetts. I think technically is where Fox
- 47:48where is at. It's going to be cold.
- 47:50It's going to be miserable. The Chargers have a three hour,
- 47:54well, a three hour time difference there night game.
- 47:57It's going to be miserable for the Chargers out there.
- 48:00Not a chance. I I literally give them less
- 48:03chance than I give the Panthers. OK, that is true, He said that
- 48:07earlier. After all that, I agree with you
- 48:11guys that the Patriots are winning this game.
- 48:13I appreciate you for trying to make it look like there might
- 48:16have been a Yeah consensus here. The Chargers offensive line is
- 48:22just depleted. They've given up 60 sacks this
- 48:24season, which is tied for the second most. 60. 60 sacks.
- 48:29Wolf, it's almost Caleb Williams bad.
- 48:33Yeah, the Patriots are. They're not even one of the best
- 48:36pass rushing teams. They've they're actually towards
- 48:38the bottom of the league getting 35 sacks.
- 48:41So they're not even one of the best pass rushing teams.
- 48:43But the Chargers offensive line has given up a lot of sacks this
- 48:46year. So that really concerns me.
- 48:48For the Chargers to have any chance in this game, their
- 48:51defense is just going to have to find a way to keep them in it.
- 48:54That's the only chance that they have because this offensive line
- 48:57is not going to keep them in the game.
- 48:59It's not. So I think the Patriots are
- 49:02going to just run away with this game, but crazier things have
- 49:05happened. We could be wrong all.
- 49:06Right, let's move on to Texans at Steelers.
- 49:10Will what do you think? Who's winning this game?
- 49:12Texans. All right, Abraham.
- 49:14Will took your will. Did you say your Thunder?
- 49:17Since Will stole your Thunder last time, you can steal his.
- 49:19Go ahead, Will just said. Texans, I was looking at the
- 49:22injury report for the Chief or for the Chargers.
- 49:25Their tackles aren't coming back.
- 49:26Yeah, they're I'm giving him less than 0.
- 49:29Less than 0? That's very low.
- 49:32Yeah. That's quite high actually.
- 49:35I would give more hope to a team that didn't make the playoffs to
- 49:38win this game. The box.
- 49:41Nice. Not them.
- 49:42Yeah, the box. They're going to take it.
- 49:49You won't think who's playing. The Texans, The Texans are going
- 49:54to win. I'm very upset that the Steelers
- 49:57made the playoffs. I was convinced they weren't
- 49:59going to and they had a bit of that situation where they still
- 50:03suck but everyone else sucked harder and so they got put in.
- 50:06So Congrats to Pittsburgh. It reminds me of the movie Semi
- 50:12Pro with Will Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell.
- 50:17Whereas like mine is like with this move, we will win 4th place
- 50:22and like that's the goal is just like winning fourth place like
- 50:25never anymore They have they just want to win fourth place
- 50:28and that's like Steelers. Like we will make the playoffs.
- 50:31We won't look good doing it. We will be a bad team and we
- 50:35will lose the first round foot. Come hell or high water, we will
- 50:38make the playoffs. Will do you agree?
- 50:41Yes, no further comments. OK, Well then I'll just say
- 50:48there's a lot of similarities between these two teams.
- 50:50Just looking at the numbers, there's a lot of similarities.
- 50:53Both of these teams have only allowed 31 sacks.
- 50:56The Steelers have 48 sacks defensively, while the Texans
- 50:59have 47. They're both top five in
- 51:02creating takeaways and they're both one of the better teams at
- 51:05not giving the ball away. So there's a lot of similarities
- 51:07between these two teams when you look at the numbers.
- 51:10However, the Texans defense is just overall better than the
- 51:14Steelers defense. The Texans are fourth in rushing
- 51:16yards allowed and they're 6th in passing yards allowed, and the
- 51:20Steelers are 26th in rushing yards and 22nd in passing yards.
- 51:26They just don't do anything on offense very well at all.
- 51:30And the Texans defense is very, very good, arguably the best
- 51:34defense in the NFL. It's just not a good matchup for
- 51:37the Steelers in my opinion. There's a chance here that Aaron
- 51:41Rodgers gets sacked 100 times. That's how good the the Texans
- 51:45defenses. I just don't think this matchup
- 51:48is good at all for the Steelers. Not in any way, shape or form do
- 51:52I see this being a good matchup for the Pittsburgh Steelers, so
- 51:56I'm taking the Houston Texans. This is the third year in a row
- 51:58the Steelers have things 10:00 and 7:00.
- 52:01The last two years they lost in the wild card round as well.
- 52:04I don't exactly know who to. It doesn't really matter.
- 52:06As George was mentioned, this Texans defense is the exact
- 52:09opposite of the of The Jets defense that it is.
- 52:15They're very good. They're holding teams.
- 52:19They're the opposite of The Jets.
- 52:22The Texans is the opposite of The Jets.
- 52:24That's what I said. Go back, rewind it, check the
- 52:26tape. The Texans is opposite Jets.
- 52:29Jets over there, Texans over there.
- 52:33It is crazy. For the first time all season,
- 52:36the Texans gave up thirty points.
- 52:38I don't know what the Steelers point total is this year or what
- 52:40their point averages, but it can't be very high.
- 52:43It is points per game. It doesn't really matter here.
- 52:52I don't know. I'm stuck on it can't stop.
- 52:55Won't stop. I'm just looking at these team
- 52:57stats for the first time now and realizing that Dallas has like
- 53:02one of the best offenses and like the worst defense, but
- 53:05their offense, it looks better because of how often they're
- 53:09down and so they have to keep going.
- 53:12That is part of it. Yep, Yep.
- 53:18Jeez, what a mess. It doesn't necessarily matter
- 53:21what I what I was doing here. This Texans team is going to
- 53:23wipe the floor with the Steelers team Aaron Rodgers are going to
- 53:26send off. He'll get one final home game in
- 53:28Ackershire Stadium, which is not like his home stadium.
- 53:32I hope truly The Jets hire him to a one day contract and he
- 53:34retires a Jet just to piss the Packers off.
- 53:37I think it'd be hilarious. I also think that if they are
- 53:40one and done, this is another team where we could see both in
- 53:45this case coach and quarterback right out from the sunset and
- 53:49that the Steelers wouldn't fire Mike Tomlin, but I think they
- 53:52would mutually agree to part ways.
- 53:55Mutual, yeah. Mutually agree to part ways.
- 53:58Whenever anyone gets fired, it's always mutual.
- 54:01It's mutual. Oh, we missed it.
- 54:03I, I meant to say this earlier, I think Sean McDermott also on
- 54:07this list of if you lose, if you don't make the championship
- 54:11game, you're out. How many years has McDermott
- 54:15had? How many years has McDermott had
- 54:17a really, really good team, built well, done well in the
- 54:20regular season and then you hits it away in the playoffs.
- 54:23Too many to count. Now he's wasting Josh Allen's
- 54:26prime, quote, UN quote. But I think especially if they
- 54:28lose to the Jags first round, I think McDermott is done.
- 54:33I can see that I can. See it.
- 54:34Will this be the 4th year? Will this be the fourth year of
- 54:37disappointment for the Bills? Yeah, the. 4th year.
- 54:41Are you implying that the Bills have gone to four straight Super
- 54:43Bowls and lost? All of them.
- 54:44Not even. Not even.
- 54:48Man, I missed all of these. I, I think Harbaugh for the
- 54:51Chargers is another one that if he, if he's out early, I think
- 54:55they might move on from Harbaugh and then for John.
- 54:59Oh. That's the other one, yeah, they
- 55:03just swap. Roles.
- 55:05Given the turnover in the locker room that has been talked about
- 55:09with with Philly this year, I think you have to Niners beat
- 55:12the Eagles first round of the playoffs.
- 55:13Siriano, you might be on more last seat than he then people
- 55:16are getting credit for right now.
- 55:18It wouldn't surprise me because if you don't win the Super Bowl
- 55:21every year in Philly, you suck according to those fans.
- 55:25So. The worst fans, sorry.
- 55:29Anyways, I I missed those. We were talking about those
- 55:32teams. How'd you go back through it?
- 55:34All right, well. Let's move on to the final
- 55:35question of this episode. So will This is not the
- 55:39question, but this part of the question is specifically for
- 55:42you. If you cannot pick your own
- 55:44team, which two teams would you like to see in the Super Bowl
- 55:47the most? It's got to be the Seahawks.
- 55:49It's got to be. I did.
- 55:51Not expect you to say that. I have really, really, really
- 55:54turned, turned face on the Seahawks.
- 55:57I used to pour them. I used to hate them through and
- 56:01through. A matter of fact, one of my
- 56:02reasons we're picking the Rams who say, hey, the Seahawks so
- 56:04much. I actually.
- 56:06But then his but then his child said haha when they got a first
- 56:09down and it was warmed his heart he loved.
- 56:12That I got a little bit, I actually don't hate the Seahawks
- 56:16as much. I, I, I was talking to Joey
- 56:18today at work and I said, I actually almost like them.
- 56:22I don't actually like them. I almost like them.
- 56:25And he looked at me and looked over and said, hey, we'll take
- 56:27it. That's a win.
- 56:28That's an absolute win. So I think I'm going to go
- 56:31Seahawks on the, on the NFC side, which way I like to see
- 56:37the most. I mean, if we're talking about a
- 56:41good game, probably Seahawks, Patriots again, OK, to verbal
- 56:45teams. Not again.
- 56:46I don't think they'd. Oh, yeah, they did play right.
- 56:48Throw the ball, run the ball into one yard.
- 56:49Another. Yeah.
- 56:51Another interception at the 1 yard line.
- 56:53Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 56:55I, I think, I think Seahawks bats and that's where I'm at,
- 56:59Avery. About you, I mean if you can, If
- 57:02you cannot pick your own team, which you can't do, which not
- 57:05predictions. Just just what would I like to
- 57:07see? Yeah, Which two teams would you
- 57:10most like to see in the Super Bowl?
- 57:12Not a prediction, just two teams you would most like to see.
- 57:16Chargers and. No.
- 57:21I was, I was about to say the Seahawks, but I don't want to
- 57:24pick Will's answer. But Gavin, who was not on the
- 57:30podcast, jeez, he really likes them.
- 57:35And so I was going to do that, but I'm going to go 2015
- 57:41rematch, I'm going to go Panthers, Broncos.
- 57:44I would. Love to see that a good one.
- 57:46But also, I do think Seahawks, Broncos would be awesome as
- 57:50well. I think either of those matches,
- 57:52I'd like to see the Broncos on the AFC side and one of those
- 57:55two teams. OK, for me, the two teams I
- 57:59would like to see in No, Heck no.
- 58:01OK. The two teams that I would like
- 58:02to see in the Super Bowl the most is the Jaguars and the
- 58:07Rams. And the reason I would like to
- 58:09see the Jags is because I am a big fan of when teams that have
- 58:12never been to a championship or the star player or the
- 58:16quarterback specifically in this case, has never won a
- 58:19championship. I'm a big fan of when those
- 58:21teams go to the championship and have a chance at it.
- 58:24So like for example, in the NBA, when the Thunder and the Pacers
- 58:27were in the NBA Finals, I was a big fan of that finals because
- 58:30neither team had ever won a championship.
- 58:33So I was a big fan of that. It's not like your typical like,
- 58:36you know, Lakers and Celtics. Like to me that's boring.
- 58:39To me that's very boring. So I'm a big fan of when teams
- 58:43or quarterbacks that have never won it go to the Super Bowl and
- 58:45have a chance to win it for the Rams.
- 58:48I'm also a fan of when quarterbacks, regardless of if
- 58:52they won or not, have the chance to win a Super Bowl and then go
- 58:56out on top. There's a lot of people who
- 58:59think that Matthew Stafford could retire after this season
- 59:02if he wins the Super Bowl. Now, if he wins the Super Bowl
- 59:05and he doesn't retire? Not as cool.
- 59:07Not as cool unless you're Will or a man's fan, but for me it's
- 59:12it's not as cool. Like if he if he wins the Super
- 59:15Bowl and he retires after winning the Super Bowl, I think
- 59:18that's really cool. MVP, Super Bowl and Super Bowl
- 59:22MVP retire into the sunset. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 59:26He's like, I'm going to retire or Megatron comes back and we
- 59:29run it back. And then the Rams trade.
- 59:34There are two wins for Joe Burrow and we do it again next
- 59:37year. Except they'll probably get
- 59:40hurt, so good luck. Except for the Rams have a good
- 59:44offensive line. We'll see what happens, but
- 59:46yeah, I I would go Jags and Rams is the two teams I would like to
- 59:50see the most. And if I had to choose a a
- 59:52different matchup, I would go Bills and Rams just because same
- 59:55reason like Josh Allen hasn't been there before.
- 59:58But I think it'd be cooler to see Trevor Lawrence there
- 1:00:00because Trevor Lawrence can finally live up to the fat
- 1:00:03contract he has and he could finally live up to who we
- 1:00:07thought he was going to be when he got drafted into the NFLI.
- 1:00:10Think that would be cool to see. It's kind of like the College
- 1:00:14Football Playoff right now. I mean, with the exception of
- 1:00:17Miami, I mean, I mean they haven't won in a while, but I
- 1:00:20don't know if all misses one. But I know Indiana hasn't and I
- 1:00:23know Oregon hasn't, so it'll be nice to see.
- 1:00:27Yeah, yeah. I think there's a very strong
- 1:00:31possibility that in the AFC side, we get a team in the Super
- 1:00:36Bowl whether they win or not. We get a team in the Super Bowl
- 1:00:39that has never won a Super Bowl. They will be going for their
- 1:00:42first, their first team's win. Very high possibility.
- 1:00:47Regardless of the team, I would love to.
- 1:00:48I would love to see that. I think that's cool.
- 1:00:50Is that? I don't believe the Chargers
- 1:00:51have ever won, Texans have never been there, Jaguars have never
- 1:00:55been there, and the Bills have never won.
- 1:00:57So pretty high possibility there.
- 1:00:59Yeah, I think that would be really cool.
- 1:01:02All right. Well, do you guys have anything
- 1:01:04else you want to add before we close out this episode?
- 1:01:07I do have one question here. If you are the Broncos and the
- 1:01:10Seahawks and you're looking at this week, who are you most
- 1:01:14afraid to face next week coming off your bye week?
- 1:01:17The Rams and the Texans. The Rams and the Texans.
- 1:01:24I agree. Those are the.
- 1:01:26Those are the. Two, I agree.
- 1:01:27I actually I I was a toss up between the the Bills and the
- 1:01:32Texans, but I actually think you're spot on.
- 1:01:34I think it Rams for sure on the NFC side and and it's got to be
- 1:01:39tight and especially especially the Broncos who don't have a a
- 1:01:42great offense that's. Why?
- 1:01:44That's why. That would be the most boring
- 1:01:48playoff game. He knows this.
- 1:01:49Boring division around game of all time.
- 1:01:52It's like 2 to three final score because it's just defensive game
- 1:01:56the entire time. But I'd I'd watch the heck out
- 1:01:59of that game. I sit there and be like, son,
- 1:02:01look at this now look at this. You want to play football?
- 1:02:03Look at this. Lots of See how nothing's
- 1:02:05happened. It's so good.
- 1:02:08No one can do anything. People will be hammering the
- 1:02:11under hard in that game. Under over under like 25 points
- 1:02:16for a playoff game. All right, well, that's what we
- 1:02:23got on this episode, guys. But next week, I think what
- 1:02:27we're going to talk about, I don't know for sure, but I think
- 1:02:28what we're going to do is we'll talk about some more playoff
- 1:02:31matchups, but because we we should have some extra time
- 1:02:34because there's not as many games, I think what we're going
- 1:02:36to try and do is talk about some coaches and the coaching changes
- 1:02:39that have happened because there's been a lot of coaches
- 1:02:42that have been fired. I anticipate there will be a
- 1:02:46couple more at least that will be fired.
- 1:02:48Todd Bowles, Bucks, I'm talking to you.
- 1:02:49Possibly there will be a coach that's already hired by next
- 1:02:52week. I don't know.
- 1:02:53But we'll talk about some of the the changes that are happening,
- 1:02:57maybe rank some of our top coaching candidates and maybe
- 1:03:01which job you think is the most desirable.
- 1:03:04So I don't know for sure yet. We'll see what happens, but I
- 1:03:06think that's kind of the direction that we're going to go
- 1:03:09so. And if if Oregon beats Indiana,
- 1:03:13we will be discussing that game and the national championship
- 1:03:17because that is a big deal for me.
- 1:03:19And even though the NFL is not part of this, some of those guys
- 1:03:23will make it to the NFL. And so that's connection.
- 1:03:25And we can. We can make it work.
- 1:03:27We can make it work. It's also, it's also football.
- 1:03:30It's like the championship. It's like.
- 1:03:31It's football, right? Yeah.
- 1:03:32We're talking championships like Montana State.
- 1:03:37That was. Wild.
- 1:03:38That was wild. All.
- 1:03:42Right guys? Well, that's all we got time for
- 1:03:43on this episode. As always, don't forget to keep
- 1:03:46your balls played with. We'll see you next time.
- 1:03:48Bang out y'all. Also, Mark Davis's haircut still
- 1:03:50sucks.