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EP 25: 2025 NFL Playoff Team Predictions & Super Bowl Picks · 3 Guys, 6 Balls NFL Podcast

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3 lifelong friends, 6 trusty balls and endless NFL ticks
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Welcome to three guys 6 balls NFL podcast Welcome to episode
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25 of three guys 6 balls NFL podcast Today we are going over
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our division winners, our playoff seeding, and we're going
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to give you our Super Bowl predictions for this upcoming
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season, which starts in one week.
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We are almost there. So to get started, what we're
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going to do is we're going to go over our AFC predictions.
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So we're each going to go through, we're going to give our
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AFC standing, so one through 7 for the playoffs.
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And then after that, we'll get into our playoff matchups and
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give you our predictions for the playoffs and the Super Bowl this
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year. So who wants to start, Will?
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All right, Will, you're out. Good, that's going to save me
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anyway. Give us Give us your AFC
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standings one through 7. OK, so First off, actually
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before I start, shout out to all the players getting cut today.
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I know life's been fun for like a week and a half and training
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camp and all that stuff, but it's over and getting left
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flipping burgers with like the rest of us.
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Anyway, if you're looking for a spot to be, we can host you on
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our podcast for a week. Get your name back out there.
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Let us know. Anyway, AFC playoff seeding.
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I've got the one seed as the Baltimore Ravens.
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The two seed. I have the Buffalo chips.
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Just kidding, it's the Bills. I know three.
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I've got the Chiefs, 4. I've got the Houston Texans.
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Because truly, it's the best of a bad scenario. 5:00 I've got
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the Denver Broncos, who will be better than Houston, but I'm
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bearing the lead there. 6 I have the Miami Dolphins, and seven I
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have the Pittsburgh Steelers. You would have the Dolphins in
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the playoffs. Of course I read the Dolphins in
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the playoffs. Dude, you looked at the AFC, I
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have never been this down on the NFL in my entire life.
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There's like 5 good teams in the entire league this year.
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Everyone else going to be like OK, we're getting money so let's
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keep playing this. I'm not overall I'm looking
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forward to the to the season, but I'm not over the excited.
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It's football, it's going to be great and when 2 bad teams play
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it's a hell of a match up. But overall, I'm just like, all
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right, we can pretty much just pencil in some of these teams
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and then it's a who cares Bill after that.
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Well, why do you have the Ravens as the number one team in the
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AFC? Yeah, will fess up.
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OK, I think more this year than ever the Ravens are finally
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going to put together. But actually on the flip side, I
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actually have down years for Buffalo and Kansas City.
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I mean, we've got three teams that are going to fight for the
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1st place, right? Buffalo, Kansas City, Baltimore.
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I don't expect the same thing out of Kansas City as we've seen
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in the past decade. I don't expect the same thing as
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Buffalo. I don't think the AFC East is as
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free this year as it has been the past.
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The Pro Bowl LED Pittsburgh, excuse me, the Pro Bowl LED New
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England Patriots by their Pro Bowl quarterback are going to be
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coming in screaming. We've got the Miami Dolphins and
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like we talked about on stuff about sports, I think both MM
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McDaniel and Tua are going to be on the hot seat.
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So I I think that it's going to light a fire under them.
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And so I don't think the AFC East is going to be as free as
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it has been. The Jets are still going to
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stink. Sorry.
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Get over it. Everybody knows that.
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Yeah, but you've got you've got two teams that actually have a
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chance to put up a fight. Now, I'm not going to say
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they're going to be world beaters.
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I'm not saying they're going to be greats.
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But you they're going to put up a fighting chance week after
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week. And so that's why I don't have
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the Bills first. So I don't have the Chiefs
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first. Because I mean, we talked about
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this time and time again, the AFC West is probably the best
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division in football, except the Raiders.
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But still, look, somebody has to be the worst, right?
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It's going to be Dallas this year.
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We'll get into that later, I'm sure.
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But we've got absolute buzz saw coming to the AFC West.
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And so it's just going to be a down year for all of them.
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They're all going to they're all going to whether they say take
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themselves out like the PAC 12 used to do.
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That's why the PAC 12 got any any recognition in the four seed
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playoff because they always took themselves out of it.
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Oregon would be Washington. USC would then be the organ and
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say OK, well we're just hurting ourselves at this point.
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And so honestly it's kind of like a war of attrition here
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where Baltimore just kind of is the last team standing.
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I think they have an easier Rd. even though they have to play
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the Bengals, who I don't have making the playoffs, and the
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Steelers who I do twice. They also get 2 free wins
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against the Browns, so everyone's got one.
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The Ravens lost to the Browns last year.
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Well, sure, I'm not going to say you're wrong, but I, I think
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that's Baltimore knows probably more than anybody, any team
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right now that their window is closing.
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And so it's either a put up or shut up.
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OK, so you have the Ravens at one.
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Who is your two and three again? Buffalo and then Kansas City.
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OK. And then the Texans at 4?
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Yep. And then who was your 5?
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Denver, Miami, Pittsburgh. Yeah, yeah, Denver.
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So I've got yeah, He Baltimore, Buffalo, Kansas City, Houston,
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Denver, Miami, Pittsburgh. And Pittsburgh's like just like
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a default pick. I went through all 16 teams went
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who are possibly the only three other teams that aren't division
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winners that could make the playoffs.
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The list is very skinny. All right, Avery, so walk us
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through your rankings for the AFC one through 7 seed and give
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us a little bit of an explanation as to why you ranked
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them that way. Well, I can give you the
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explanation right now. I found a little, not an app, I
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mean an application on the web, so.
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ChatGPT? Did you ChatGPT this?
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No, no, no. It's.
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It's like. Gosh.
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It's like a, it's like a bracket.
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It's like a calculator. You just you go through week by
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week, pick the games of people that win, because my whole thing
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is like with this, it's like if it was just the top seed from
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every whatever division, that'd be one thing, but I got to
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include the wild cards as well. So anyways, I was just like,
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I'll just do it game by game. See how this thing turns out.
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I will also point out that I was in a hurry when I did this
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because that's a lot of games to have to go through.
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I'm actually. Upset that you didn't send that
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to me. It was.
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It was very recently. Jewelry have done it 18 lines or
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five. 5 minutes ago. I will send it I will send it to
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you guys. I just it's it's fun to go
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through. It takes you and then at the end
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you go through the playoffs and you pick the teams anyway.
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That is that is my that was the means of how I did this number
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one, like I said, this is rushed.
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So all of these playoffs predictions are not what I
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chose. It's what ended up based on the
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results of who I chose to win. So it wasn't like I did it.
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And then I'm like, who should I think?
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Who should I put in here? I have the Bengals at #1.
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Interesting. I have the Broncos at #2 I have
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the Bills at #3 I have the Titans at #4 I have the Patriots
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at 5:00, the Jags at six, and somehow the Ravens fell to
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seven. My thinking is 1.
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I already know that the Broncos, the Jags, the Patriots and the
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Titans will do better than the season before.
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That's really not saying a whole lot, to be honest.
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I mean, maybe the Broncos, that is, but the other ones, I don't
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think that's. I mean, there's not a whole lot
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worse you can do than you did last year.
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But how realistic this is, who knows, Maybe it's maybe it's
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dead on, maybe it's Slumdog Millionaire accurate, but I
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stand by it. I think Joe Burrell, I think as
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long as that defense starts to click even a little bit, I think
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they'll just burn through. I think they'll do really well.
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I think the Broncos have all the tools there.
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I think it really just comes down to how well Bonex
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acclimates to to his sophomore season.
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And then the Bills, I think they'll just be in there.
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The Titans, I think, I think Cam Ward's really going to need to
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take it into high gear to get the four seed.
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The Patriots, again. I like Drake.
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May I like their Who's that LSU big boy they drafted?
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Will Campbell. Will Campbell, I like him a lot.
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I think he's going to help him a ton.
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Jags have a bunch of exciting pieces and the Ravens, because I
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think they'll honestly, they'll probably be higher than 7, but
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they'll they'll be in there. But notably, I left out the
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Chiefs. I left out Oh.
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You did. Yeah, wow, when you when you
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hear that many teams, because I, I, I agree with Will, the AFC is
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incredibly top heavy with a skinny little body where it's
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just there's not not a lot going on.
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But the top teams are definitely the top teams.
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But yeah, I think it's them. I'm trying to think of who else
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I left out notably. Wait, wait, So how close were
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the Chiefs to making a playoffs? You know, let.
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Me see I might be able to check that out.
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Well, I know you didn't have the Texans in there.
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Oh, I hate here. I have the standings right here.
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That's it's actually a pretty cool thing.
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It's called sports Keeda key KEED a.com.
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There were 7 and 10. 7 and 10. 7:00 and 10:00 I stand by that.
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Wow. OK, OK.
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Chicago did a lot better. I mean, they barely have a
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winning season, but they did a lot better.
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New Orleans wins three games. You went through and picked out
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all 272 games in the NFL this year.
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You went out and typed that in to find out how many there were?
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Or did you just know that? It's number of games times
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number a week, not me. For for a real nitpick, if you
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just went and typed in how many games are there?
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Jets win four games. I thought that was generous to
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be honest. Miami wins 6, Pittsburgh is 7
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and 10. That's realistic.
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That's. A well.
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Realistic. Will.
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Howard that's Tomlinson. Come on.
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Mike Tomlins first losing season.
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No, they were actually seven and four before Howard stepped in,
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and then they lost a six straight.
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Aaron Rodgers was doing all right, then he got hurt all
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right. All right.
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I like that. I like what you did that.
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All right, so for my AFC standings, I have the Buffalo
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Bills at the number one seed, winning the AFC East.
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They've got the 10th easiest schedule this year.
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They've got one of the best offensive lines.
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They've been first in the division for the last five
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years. I don't see any reason why
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that's going to change now. I have the Denver Broncos as the
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number two seed, winning the AFC West.
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I think that defense is special. They have one of the best
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offensive lines. They got some better offensive
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weapons and I think Bonex is going to do better than he did
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last year at #3 I have the Cincinnati Bengals winning the
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AFC North and I, I struggled with this one because I hate
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that defense. Although they, they do have
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Shamar Stewart and Trey Hendrickson is signed for this
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season now. So they do have those players
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back on their defense, but I still don't like it.
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I love their offense though. And the reason kind of the, the
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main reason why I actually picked the Bengals to win this
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division is I'll get to that when I get to my AFC North team
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that's going to make the playoffs but not going to win
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the division. I have the Houston Texans at #4
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winning the AFC S. We've talked about it before
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that CJ Stroud is 8 and three against this division, and he's
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11 and 10 against everybody else this season.
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They play the Rams and Bucks to start off the season.
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And then they also have to play the Ravens, Broncos, Bills,
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Chiefs and Chargers, who were all playoffs teams last year.
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So can they win against the Jags, Colts and Titans?
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Yeah. Can they win against everybody
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else? I don't know.
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So I have them winning the division, but I have them at
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10:00 and 7:00. So I, I don't, I don't see them
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doing incredibly well. But I mean, still double digit
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wins at #5 I have the Kansas City Chiefs making it in a wild
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card spot. I think that the Chiefs are
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going to make the playoffs as long as Patrick Mahomes is
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there. But now there's a blueprint out
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on how to beat this team. Now the Chiefs are going to
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overcome that in several games because that's just what they
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do. But there will be times when
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teams get the best of the Chiefs because they know how to beat
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them now. And, you know, everybody is
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aware of the fact that the referees were rigging games last
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year. And so you're not going to go 15
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and two with a 59 point differential.
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You're just not at some point, your luck is going to run out.
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So they're not going to win their division this year at the
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six seed. I have the Baltimore Ravens at
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10:00 and 7:00, and the reason why I don't have the Ravens
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winning the division is because in the AFC North the last time
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that a team won the division more than twice in a row was in
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the from the 94 season to the 97 season when the Steelers did it
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four straight times. And the Ravens have won the
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division the last two years. Also, their schedule sucks.
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It absolutely sucks. Their first six games the Ravens
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played the Bills, Browns, Lions, Chiefs, Texans and Rams.
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There is a real possibility that the Ravens come out of those
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first six games at one and five. I'm not saying that's going to
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happen. I think the Ravens are actually
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the best team in the AFC North as far as talent goes.
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I think they have the best, the best well-rounded team in that
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division. But their schedule is just
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awful. I can see them going one and
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five. I can see them being two and
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four. I can see them being three and
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three. I don't see them coming out of
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those, those games with a six and O record, 5 and 1 even.
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There's an actual possibility that the Ravens come out of
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those first six games of the season at 1:00 and 5:00.
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And so if that's the case, they're going to be playing
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catch up. I think they have the talent to
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still make up for that throughout the rest of the
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season. But those first six games are
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just absolutely brutal for the Baltimore Ravens at 7.
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I have the New England Patriots at 10 and seven, and the reason
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why is because they have the third easiest schedule this
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year. They still have questions at
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wide receiver, but I think they got better on the offensive
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line. I think they got better
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defensively. They have a better coach and I
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really like the combination of their Pro Bowl quarterback Drake
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May and their rookie running back Trevion Anderson.
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I think it's kind of going to be similar to DAC and Zeke during
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their rookie year, although Drake May is not a rookie.
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But I think that that combination is going to do
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really well this year for the Patriots.
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So I think all the moves that they've made collectively will
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get them into the playoffs this year.
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Sweet. All right, so let's go through
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our playoff matchups now. So will you start us off with
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your ranking? So take us through your playoff
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matchups all the way up to who's going to the Super Bowl out of
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the AFC. Sorry, I had my AFC said marked
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NFC and I got really, really, really confused when I flipped
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to my tab. OK, so first round by Baltimore
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gets that. We're moving on from there.
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So we've got a 27 matchup. We've got Buffalo versus
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Pittsburgh. I've got Buffalo winning that in
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a gold turn landslide. There ain't no way that anybody
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in Pittsburgh makes it for Buffalo at that point this
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season. And we've got 3-6 Kansas City,
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Miami. Unfortunately, Miami is going to
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Kansas City and it's just not going to happen for Miami.
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We got Kansas City winning that one, and I've got 4-5 Houston
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versus Denver and I've got Denver walking away with that.
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And so that takes us to the second round.
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We've got 15, Baltimore versus Denver.
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I do have Baltimore beating Denver.
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We've got 2/3 of Buffalo, KC and I actually have Buffalo winning
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this one for our AFC championship game.
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Baltimore at home first Buffalo, and I have Buffalo winning that
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game. OK, Josh Allen finally beats
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Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs. I I think so, but I think it's
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not I don't think it's patched Mahomes fault.
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I think, I think the chiefs are just going to have a down year
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overall. I don't think they're receiving
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is as good. I don't think that running game
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is as good. I think they are just worse
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overall this year. And so it's not not for Mahomes
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lack of trying. I just think he's dealing with a
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worse team. When the Bills beat the Ravens,
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is it because of Mark Andrews hands again?
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No. OK, somebody else's hands this
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time. Sorry, who was your last team?
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Who was the team in the Super Bowl?
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Buffalo All right, Avery, take us through your playoff
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matchups. All righty.
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First of all, we got the Bengals sitting pretty the number one
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spot in the wild card matchup. We got the Ravens at Broncos and
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I have the Broncos taking that one.
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Then we have the Jags at Buffalo and I have the Bills winning.
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You will set up, I was saying. You better not say the Jags.
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You better not say the Jags. I have the Patriots playing in
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Tennessee. I've been to Nissan Stadium.
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It's not much and it's not. Scary.
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I have. The Patriots, I have the
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Patriots taking, they're actually actively like tearing
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it down. They're building a new one
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because of how underwhelming it is.
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Divisional playoffs, I have the Patriots at the Bengals, at the
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Bengals taking that one. Then I have the Bills coming to
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the Mile High City and the Broncos take it.
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Then I have the Broncos coming to Cincinnati.
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But I have I had the Bengals taking it.
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So I have the Bengals in the Super Bowl.
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Hey, that's that's hope for someone.
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Hey, here's a fun fact about the Bengals.
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So in Joe Burrows, five years in the league, the only time that
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the Bengals have started off the season with a win was the one
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season that they went to the Super Bowl.
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Thank you for advertising for us, Avery.
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Exchange. Not an ad, just good.
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Were you even paying attention to anything I just said?
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Yeah, you said Joe Burrow was the the year they won the they
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went to the Super Bowl. It was the year they didn't have
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something. You guys keep going, keep going.
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I'll. I'll I'll say it again.
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I'll say it again. So Joe Burrow has been in the
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league for five years. In four of those years, the
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Bengals have started off the season with a loss.
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In the only season that the Bengals have started the season
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with a win was the one season that the Bengals went to the
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Super Bowl. Oh, so they just have to win the
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first game? And they have the opportunity.
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They have the opportunity to do that this year because they
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start off against the Browns, the Jags, and then the JJ
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McCarthy Vikings. So the Bengals have a chance to
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start off the season on a winning streak instead of
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starting off O and two or O and three like they've done over the
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last four or five years. So if they're doing that, they
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can ride that momentum to the playoffs throughout the season
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instead of trying to play catch up like they've been doing since
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Joe Burrow has been there. All right.
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So for my playoff picks, I have so I have the Bills as the one
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seat so they get a buy. I've got the two seed Broncos
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versus the seven seed Patriots and I have the Broncos taking
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that. I've got the three seed Bengals
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versus the six seed Ravens. And this is where I have the
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Ravens beating the Bengals because like I said before, I do
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think that the Ravens have the best team in that division.
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I just think that they're scheduled to start off the year
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just is absolutely just brutal. And so they're not going to win
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the division, but I think they get the best of the Bengals in
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the playoffs when they play them.
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And then I have the four seed Texans versus the five seed
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Chiefs. And I have the Chiefs taking
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that game. The divisional round, I have the
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Bills versus the Ravens and I have the Bills taking that.
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And then I have the two seed Broncos versus the five seed
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Chiefs. And I have the Broncos beating
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the Chiefs. So Patrick Mahomes does not make
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it to the AFC championship game for the first time in his
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career. Then I have the one seed Bills
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versus the two seed Broncos. And I have Josh Allen and the
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Bills pulling off the win against the Broncos to go to the
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Super Bowl. We both have the Broncos losing
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in the AFC Championship. I know I Bills.
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In the Super Bowl. I honestly debated putting the
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the Broncos in the Super Bowl. I I really did.
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I think they can. Get there.
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I thought about it in the time it took me to quickly do this,
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of course, but proportionally it was a lot.
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All right, Avery, why don't you start us off with your NFC
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standings for the playoffs? All right.
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At the one seed. Actually, I want to.
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I want to see if you guys can guess it.
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You want to have two guesses? Yeah.
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We have two guesses. Tampa Bay.
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Damn, that was it. All right, shoot, that was it.
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That was going to be one of my guesses too.
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If we're going to guess that, I would have guessed that.
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I got Tampa at one. I got the Vikings at 2:00.
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The Eagles. Hold on.
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Pause. Please pause.
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Please pause. You think who?
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Who is their quarterback? If they're in the two seat, they
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get Kirk Cousins. He's taught he's a future pro
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bowler dude. All right, dude.
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They just got Carson Wentz. They just got Carson Wentz.
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Come on, dude. Keep.
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Going, but I'm not going to listen.
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He's he's still, I didn't even know, let alone in the league.
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I don't know he was alive. I've never heard.
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I haven't heard his name in like 5 years.
21:46
I've only changed a couple years, yeah.
21:48
The Vikings just signed Carson Wentz.
21:50
Come on. All right, Well, I got the
21:52
Vikings at 2. I got the Eagles at three.
21:56
I have the Cardinals at 4:00. I like that one.
22:00
I like that one. I have the Lions at 5, the
22:04
Cowboys at six whoa, and the Washington Redskins at 7:00.
22:11
Come on man, I can't put that on Instagram.
22:15
What for? For dead naming an organization?
22:20
Or is that racist now? You're going to get ripped to
22:23
shreds if I put that on Instagram.
22:25
Good. The Redskins at 7:00.
22:30
OK, now I can now I can put it on there because you said it
22:32
with a little bit. More to double down.
22:34
You can't just, you can't just casually say something
22:36
problematic. You have to double down.
22:38
It makes it more OK. If you're going to say, you have
22:40
to say it with conviction. Yeah, yeah, I'm almost, I'm
22:45
almost a little bit. A few more hours in the sun.
22:47
I'll be a redskin. Oh.
22:50
My gosh. OK, give us some reasoning as to
22:54
why you picked those. I can't.
22:56
What? As per the AFC, this is how the
23:00
Cards, this is how the dominoes fell.
23:02
This is how the, I don't know the sayings, this is how it
23:05
turned out. And Tampa Bay, I just, I like
23:09
their team. I think they're they're going to
23:11
be a sneaky team this year. I think they're going to win
23:13
quietly more games than anyone thinks they will.
23:17
The Cardinals, honestly, I don't know how the Cardinals ended up
23:20
here. I guess I just gave them more
23:25
wins than I thought. Honestly, they maybe maybe the
23:28
matchups, maybe they had an easier strength of schedule and
23:31
I just like, that's just the way it, it shook out the Vikings.
23:35
I genuinely think the Vikings are really good.
23:37
I think the Vikings are going to do very well as well.
23:41
Eagles, it's the Eagles. Lions.
23:45
I think they'll do well. I don't think they'll do as well
23:47
as they did last year the same way I don't think Dak and Zeke
23:51
do as well their following year after the rookie year.
23:53
I just think it's they just set the bar too high.
23:55
I'm not saying that they're going to get like worse.
23:58
It's just hard to reach that number in consecutive seasons.
24:03
Cowboys, I think are going to be actually not that bad.
24:07
They won't be great, but they won't be that bad.
24:10
They'll make the playoffs and the Redskins, I think they're
24:14
good I think the Redskins quarterback Jane Daniels was
24:18
great think the Redskins will make it in the playoffs at me
24:22
chat I. Don't know why I find this so
24:26
funny but it makes me laugh so hard.
24:29
I'm not conforming just because institutions told me that
24:33
something is wrong now and I need to change how I see
24:36
something like yeah, good luck. I will take us through your your
24:44
NFC playoff standings this. Was even about to last week on
24:48
Thursday when germ on stuff about sports, we call him the
24:54
Washington racial slurs. Anyway, I've got the one seed I
25:00
have the Detroit Lions. I actually do have them
25:04
repeating success this year, much like Avery, I've got
25:07
Philadelphia and then well, he didn't have the number 2, but he
25:10
hasn't winning the NFC East. Do you have my #2 did?
25:13
I misremember Vikings. No.
25:16
OK. Yeah.
25:17
So I thought that's what right. So you I Philadelphia. 2.
25:20
How could you remember I told you I wasn't listening?
25:23
He said he he did. Say that he gave me a one.
25:26
Philadelphia #2 for the first time since 2004 that we will
25:30
have a repeat champion in the NFC East.
25:33
Unfortunately, yeah. Don't worry, he gets worse for
25:35
Dallas as I go down the list here.
25:37
That's where you see direct to Tampa Bay Buccaneers for sure.
25:40
I have the Los Angeles Rams, the five seed.
25:43
I have the team from the District of Columbia.
25:46
We'll go with that one. The Washington Commanders.
25:49
Now if you think about their name is.
25:50
Thank you everyone. 'S only been saying other names
25:54
in the past two weeks. 6:00 I've got the San Francisco 49ers, I
26:00
think just by sheer dumb block, they end up falling into a wild
26:04
card spot and then we have three teams from the same division
26:07
making the playoffs when the New York Giants, it's a seven seed.
26:12
Really, I like that. Is that with Jackson dart or no?
26:16
That I don't truly think it matters as Jameis actually don't
26:21
think it matters. I I have been convinced over the
26:25
past couple weeks that this team is actually going to be pretty
26:28
good. Yeah, I've said it multiple
26:30
times. They're going to be competitive
26:32
this year. I don't know how many games
26:34
they're going to win because like the Ravens, their schedule
26:36
sucks, but I think they're going to win a lot more games than
26:40
they did last year, which is only three.
26:41
So that's not hard, but still. I want to see I'm I I watched
26:46
that video just the slow MO clip.
26:48
It's like 3 seconds of Dart feeding Winston the dub dude.
26:52
You have no idea how many times I've watched that.
26:55
Dude, I, I just, I really hope, I'm like, I hope these guys
26:59
become best friends. I hope that they're just always
27:02
having a good time out there and that they win a Super Bowl
27:04
together. I just with Jameis just hyping
27:07
up Dart and everyone looking at him like, dude, aren't you like
27:12
a little bomb that you're not QB one?
27:14
He's like, dude, I'm here to win, man.
27:16
Dart's my man. And that's what I want to see.
27:19
I know that that's not reality, but that's what I choose to
27:22
believe. That's my reality.
27:23
That's how I identify. And there's that clip from the
27:26
preseason when Jameis throws that touchdown pass and Russell
27:29
Wilson is just overjoyed with the play.
27:32
Like, what the hell, The hope, I don't know if you ever see or
27:34
not. They're like like Wilson comes
27:37
right into the field like and goes over to win Winston and
27:41
just so excited for him. Like these guys are an actual
27:43
team. They're like they're full on
27:46
supporting each other. They're what you want out of a
27:48
team. Your starter is supporting your
27:50
backups. He's hyped that he's doing well.
27:52
It's not like an Oh no, my job. It's like a hey, I'm good.
27:55
He can be good too. Let's all be good together.
27:57
And that is going to foster a really, really healthy culture
28:01
for Jackson Dart to be learning to grow in the NFL.
28:04
And I'm actually as big of a Cowboys trying to say I'm
28:06
actually quite excited for it. I really do think the kinds of
28:09
put him in a perfect situation. Yeah, I really do.
28:13
All right, so my NFC standing for the playoffs, I've got the
28:19
Detroit. Yeah, the Dallas Cowboys are #1
28:25
at 6/6. All right, I've got the Detroit
28:33
Lions at 12 and five winning the NFC North.
28:36
I know they lost their offensive and defensive coordinator, but
28:39
they still have their core players.
28:40
They still got Goff, Gibbs, Montgomery St.
28:43
Brown, Williams, Laporta, and they still have the guy who runs
28:47
the ship and Dan Campbell. So I, I, they had a ton of
28:50
injuries on that defense last year.
28:52
If they can even stay remotely healthy, their defense is going
28:55
to be better, in my opinion. I do have them winning less
28:58
games, but I still have them getting the one seed.
29:01
I actually have a three-way tie at 12:00 and 5:00 for the one
29:04
seed. But the Lions, just based off of
29:06
the games they win and all that stuff, they get the one seed.
29:11
So I have the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 2 winning the NFC
29:14
South. This offense to me has potential
29:18
to be truly special and I know it was already special last
29:21
year, but this offense, I think it's going to be great.
29:25
I know they lost Liam Cohen, their offensive coordinator, but
29:28
they promoted Josh Grizzard to offensive coordinator, who was
29:31
their pass game coordinator last season.
29:34
He was the pass game coordinator last season.
29:36
And so the Bucks were third and passing yards per game and
29:38
Mayfield completed 71.4% of his passes.
29:41
He's working with a guy who already helped him do what he
29:44
did. So I know it's a different guy.
29:46
I know it's a different guy, but he's still it's going to be very
29:49
similar in my opinion. And then this division isn't
29:52
great, but this defense is. The defense for the Bucks is
29:56
very good at stopping the run. And I think their past defense
29:59
will improve because it wasn't great last year.
30:01
But I think they're going to be better at three.
30:03
I have the Los Angeles Rams winning the NFC West.
30:06
I just think they're going to have one of the best offenses in
30:09
the league with Stafford, Nakua and Adams and then Kyron
30:12
Williams in the backfield. As long as Stafford is healthy,
30:15
his back injury does scare me a little bit, but as long as he's
30:19
healthy, I see the Rams winning the division and McVeigh is one
30:21
of the best head coaches in the league.
30:24
Then at 4:00 I have the Washington Commanders winning
30:27
the NFC East. I had them at ten wins, but
30:31
because they signed Terry McClure and I gave them one more
30:33
win. So I put them at 11:00 and 6:00.
30:36
Now everybody knows that no team has repeated in this division
30:40
since the Eagles did it from O1 to O 4.
30:43
And I think that trend is going to continue.
30:45
And here's a a pattern that I found when I was looking at the
30:48
division winners here. So going back from 2024 to 2015,
30:53
this is who has won the division.
30:55
It goes Eagles, Cowboys, Eagles, Cowboys, Washington Football
30:58
Team, Eagles, Cowboys, Eagles, Cowboys, Redskins.
31:02
So if that trend continues, this is the year that the Commanders
31:05
are going to win the division. You mean change their name and
31:08
win division? Exactly.
31:11
You have to keep the pattern the real pattern going.
31:13
On yeah, there you go. Third time is our third
31:16
different name. Absolutely there.
31:18
You go the. Redskins, your commander or the
31:20
football team? Now they're commanders.
31:22
Yeah. All right.
31:23
Yeah, I didn't think about that, but there you go.
31:25
Got to add that in there. Washington bureaucrats.
31:28
I don't like that. For my wild card teams, I have
31:32
the Atlanta Falcons at 5. I just really like the pieces
31:36
that are around. Michael Pennix, I he's got Drake
31:38
London, he's got Darnell Mooney, he's got Bijan Robinson.
31:42
I think this defense got better. They only had five draft picks,
31:45
but they used four of those, their first four picks on
31:48
defensive players. So I think this defense got
31:50
better and I just think the team all around is going to be better
31:53
than it was last year, especially that offense at six.
31:57
I have the Philadelphia Eagles in the wild card spot at 10:00
32:00
and 7:00, and similar to why I didn't pick the Ravens to win
32:04
their division is why I didn't pick the Eagles to win their
32:07
division because there's a real chance here that the Eagles
32:10
start the season at O and five. Obviously, I don't think that's
32:15
going to happen because the Eagles have a great team, but
32:17
their first five games are against the Cowboys, Chiefs,
32:21
Rams, Bucks and Broncos. Now, everybody doesn't think
32:26
that the Cowboys are going to win, but Dak Prescott is 33 and
32:29
eight in his career against the NFC East.
32:31
He's won 80% of his games against the the NFC East.
32:35
So yeah, 80. Percent know that.
32:38
He's won 80% of his games against the NFC East, so there
32:42
is an actual chance that the Cowboys beat the Eagles in that
32:46
opening game. I'm not saying it's going to
32:47
happen, but there's a chance that it could happen.
32:50
The Chiefs are pissed off about the Super Bowl loss, and so
32:54
they're not going to go down easy.
32:55
The Rams, like I said, they're going to have one of the best
32:58
offenses. The Bucks have a really good run
33:01
defense and what do the Eagles like to do?
33:03
They like to run the ball. Where?
33:05
Where are these? Which of these games are played
33:08
in Philadelphia, do you know? Dallas is in Philly.
33:13
I know that start season. Yeah, Dallas is in Philly.
33:17
And then the they're in Kansas City and they're in Tampa Bay,
33:21
so they're at home versus Dallas, the Rams and Broncos.
33:24
The Broncos have one of the best offensive lines and they have an
33:27
incredible defense. So there's a chance that they
33:29
could beat the Eagles. So I'm not saying it's going to
33:31
happen, but there's a possibility that the Eagles take
33:34
a few LS in those first five games.
33:37
I would not be surprised at all to see the Eagles be two and
33:40
three after those first five games.
33:42
Not surprised at all. And so I have them at 10:00 and
33:44
7:00 just because of their schedule.
33:46
But they're still going to make the playoffs and they're still
33:48
going to be really good. Also, another fun fact is the
33:51
Eagles have won thirteen or more games in the history of their
33:54
franchise. 4 * 1 of those was last year.
33:57
And obviously we don't know how the following season is going to
34:00
play out, but the previous three times they've regressed in the
34:03
next season. So in 2004 they were 13 and
34:06
three. In 2005 they were 6 and 10.
34:08
In 2017 they were 13 and three. In 2018 they were 9:00 and 7:00,
34:12
and then in 2022 they were 14 and three.
34:15
The next year they were 11:00 and 6:00.
34:17
So they have regressed every single year that they've won 13
34:19
or more games. And then in the seventh spot I
34:22
have the Arizona Cardinals making the play offs.
34:25
And this is because they have the 6th easiest schedule their
34:29
first eleven games. They play one playoff team in
34:33
their first eleven games. So if they can start off the
34:36
season with a few wins, well, not just a few a decent amount
34:39
of wins because that's 11 games, but they're I they're the last
34:44
part of their schedule is is pretty tough.
34:46
But if they can start the season off well, I think they have a
34:48
chance to use that momentum to win a couple games when their
34:51
schedule gets tough towards the end of the season.
34:54
They had the 12th best offense last year as in terms of scoring
34:58
and their difference was average ranked 15th in points per game.
35:00
But they spent six of their seven draft picks on defensive
35:03
players. So I think they're going to take
35:05
a step forward in the defensive category.
35:07
And I also think that Marvin Harrison junior is going to be
35:10
better than he was in his rookie year.
35:12
You know, that makes a lot more sense how the Cardinals ended up
35:16
in my playoffs. I was like.
35:19
Yeah, the start of their schedule.
35:22
So, so many games I'm like, oh, they must not have played anyone
35:24
too tough. Yeah, the start of their
35:26
schedule is pretty easy. All right, so Avery, take us
35:30
through your NFC playoff matchups.
35:33
All right, we got the Bucks sitting pretty number one seed
35:38
in the wild card round. We got the Washington Redskins
35:42
at Minnesota. I have the Vikings beating the
35:48
Redskins. Then we have the Dallas Cowboys
35:53
going to Philly. I have the Cowboys winning.
35:57
What? I have the Cowboys.
36:00
Wait, they what? Really, what really matters is
36:02
if they make it to the NFC Championship game or not.
36:04
Why don't you, why don't you hold your horses and I'll get
36:07
there. I think, I think the Cowboys are
36:13
going to hit a second-half of the season surge.
36:18
I think they're going to be a hot team.
36:21
I think they're going to start off a little rocky, but I think
36:24
they're really going to hit their stride.
36:25
They're going to find some less known players or players that
36:29
aren't right now super hyped, hyped up, but I think they go on
36:34
a tear second-half of the season.
36:36
Now that right there I can use for social media, I can use that
36:41
for social media right there. And just a little bit of just
36:43
like confidence building, just personal, just raise.
36:46
Some self. I love to hear it.
36:50
So the Cowboys are going to watch that documentary on
36:52
Netflix and they're going to be inspired to go win 3 Super Bowls
36:55
in four years and then it'll just fall apart after that.
37:00
Yeah, I, I watched that first. Just real quick.
37:03
I watched the first episode. I'm going to keep watching it.
37:05
It's actually a lot better than I thought it was going to be.
37:07
I'm like, dude, I already, I already know most of this stuff,
37:10
but I'm like, the way they present it is pretty sweet.
37:12
Dude, they butchered that man's name in the draft.
37:17
Was that the Commissioner? Yeah.
37:20
What was? That.
37:23
Dude, go clear your throat. You just came up here to draft
37:27
this guy. You coughed 3 times and then he
37:29
butchered his first name. I was like, I, I, I thought, I
37:35
thought it was like some fan or some dude from the Cowboys
37:39
organization like he's the ball boy.
37:41
We let him go do the thing. That was the Commissioner show.
37:45
Well, have you? Seen that, have you?
37:47
Butcher? You better hope that guy's out
37:48
of the league quick and doesn't become a Hall of Famer.
37:53
Just just wrote just just real quick, if you have not watched
37:56
the docu series on the Dallas Cowboys, it's called the
37:58
Americas Team The Gambler and his Cowboys.
38:01
Go watch it, it is very good. On Netflix, On Netflix, not an
38:06
ad, not, but if you want to, we're available.
38:11
It is an ad inadvertently. We didn't mean it that way, but
38:14
that was 100% of promo for that show.
38:17
Not a sponsor. Not a sponsor.
38:19
Where it was, what it is and how good it is.
38:22
All right, all right. Avery can see.
38:24
I got the Lions visiting Arizona and I have the Lions winning
38:30
that hard. They pummel them and they
38:34
realize how easy of a schedule they really had.
38:37
Then we get to the divisional and we have the Cowboys visiting
38:41
the Bucks and I have the Bucks winning.
38:45
Yeah, Dang it. I won't.
38:47
Let you know what you know. I'm OK with that because I love
38:50
Baker Mayfield, so and the mechanic Buka.
38:52
But it gave the boys a playoff dub, which it's.
38:58
Not what we want. Trick, which is a metric, but
39:01
it's like, who cares? You mean like you just also
39:04
didn't win the playoffs, but you got a little closer.
39:06
It's like OK. That's not what.
39:08
We want, we don't want just the playoffs.
39:10
We want to go to the NFC Championship game.
39:13
You sure you don't want a banner on an AT&T field that says Wild
39:18
card winner 2026 Wild Card? I'd rather just not make the
39:25
playoffs. Traffic.
39:29
Yeah. All right, So I got the Bucks
39:31
winning that. I got the Lions visiting
39:33
Minnesota. I have the Vikings winning it.
39:36
JJ McCarthy is going to go to the NFC Championship Game.
39:40
In his second working season. But it'll be one of those things
39:44
where everyone's going to be like, I mean, yeah, he was given
39:46
a, he's given a great situation. True, they won 14 games.
39:50
Yeah, it's like, it's like the it's like the Alabama
39:52
quarterbacks during that 10 year stretch they had where it's like
39:56
1, if you even remember their name, that's bonus points.
39:59
But two, no one looked at the quarterback saying that's why
40:03
they won. It's like, dude, you could have
40:05
had anybody. Everyone around you is 95
40:07
overall. Like dude, throw the ball up.
40:12
Go to the conference championship, I have the Vikings
40:16
against the Bucks and I have the Vikings winning that, Will the
40:22
Vikings winning that? And I'll just do I, do I go into
40:25
it now or do I wait till later? Wait till later.
40:28
Wait till later. That's what I got.
40:30
I don't like it. I don't like it, but that's
40:33
that's just the way things are. That's that's how the world
40:35
works. Will how do you feel?
40:43
Well, tell our listeners who aren't watching you how you
40:46
feel. No, I'm good, I think.
40:51
I should have had the I should have had the Bears play the
40:57
Vikings and they both win and they and they push out the AFC
41:02
team and they have another game in the Super Bowl.
41:04
I I hope, I hope that Jonathan James McCarthy does as well as
41:12
you hope he does. And everyone used to throw it in
41:14
my face, but the chances not the handoff specialist can take that
41:22
team without a solid running game.
41:25
I mean, they're not bad, but they're passing team next.
41:32
That's what we left on that. All right, well, in that case
41:37
will take us through your NFC playoff matchups.
41:40
Literally anyone but the Vikings, anyway.
41:45
Everyone else, everyone goes not the Vikings.
41:48
I've got the number one seed, Detroit getting the by.
41:51
So we've got the 27 is Philadelphia at the new, excuse
41:55
me, the New York Giants at the Philadelphia Eagles.
41:58
I think that the Eagles beat the Giants twice in the regular
42:02
season and it's very hard to beat a team three times in the
42:06
same season. I have the Giants going to
42:09
Philadelphia and winning a playoff game and I've got I've
42:15
got the three six, I've got Tampa Bay hosting the San
42:18
Francisco 49ers. I I mean, I just have Tampa Bay
42:21
winning. I don't think I need to reason
42:22
Brock party is not just as everybody wants to believe.
42:25
And by this point of season, if Christian McCaffrey is still on
42:29
2 functioning days, this will be the end of it.
42:32
And then the 4-5. I have the Rams hosting the team
42:35
from the District of Columbia, and I will take the District to
42:39
Columbia to win that. That's the Washington would be
42:42
that team, the Commanders themselves.
42:45
The red, the red. OK, well, can I, can I pause you
42:47
right there for a second? You may, you know, one thing I
42:50
love about you is that if there's any quarterback that has
42:54
a question mark around him, you're just like, no, he sucks.
42:58
Not well. Any quarterback.
43:00
Yeah, Howard. Now Will Howard not.
43:03
That boy loves that boy. Shout out for Will Howard.
43:06
You're my boy, which makes. No sense, by the way.
43:10
Why dude? Dude beat Oregon.
43:12
I don't know where the is it because he beat Oregon OR?
43:15
I'm surprised I I low key loathe him a little now.
43:19
I don't loathe him. I feel bad for him.
43:21
He looks like Mac Jones. Like little SUS little like who
43:26
wondered what's going on with those hips?
43:30
I, I don't know, some guys you like, some guys I really hate.
43:34
Most people I just really hate. Then in a divisional round, I've
43:40
got the 17 match up, I've got Detroit hosting the New York
43:43
Giants and this is where the dream season comes to an end for
43:47
the Giants and Detroit takes that one moving on to the AFC or
43:50
NFC Championship game and I've got the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
43:54
hosting the Washington Commanders 3 verse 5 matchup and
43:57
I have Tampa Bay winning that game.
44:01
Then I have Tampa Bay going to Detroit for the AFC or NFC
44:06
Championship game, and I do have Detroit winning that.
44:08
One Detroit winning that. One, yeah, I do, all right,
44:11
which is my Super Bowl matchup, the Detroit Lions and the
44:14
Buffalo Bills. All right, so for my NFC playoff
44:18
games, I have the Lions is the one seed, so they get the bye.
44:23
I've got the Bucks, the two seed versus the seven seed Cardinals,
44:26
and the Bucks destroy the Cardinals.
44:30
I have the three seed Rams versus the six seed Eagles and I
44:34
have the Rams actually winning that game.
44:37
I want to say real quick, real quick, there have been two
44:42
matchups that we have said this team will get destroyed and both
44:47
of them were Arizona. Yep, everyone else just lost.
44:51
No, no, Arizona got. That's not true.
44:54
I said that the Pittsburgh Steelers weren't here destroyed
44:56
by Buffalo. Oh, no, no, no.
44:58
You are right. You are right.
44:59
But that was it. Don't.
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Include in the clip. Don't include.
45:02
That in the clip just I did not say anyone in the NFC was going
45:05
to get destroyed. The only people in the NFC
45:07
getting destroyed are the Cardinals.
45:10
You also did not have the Cardinals in your playoffs, so.
45:13
Because they got destroyed long. Before I don't, I don't.
45:17
There's another guy I don't like.
45:18
Yeah, Kyler Murray. Don't like him?
45:21
He's basically Tua. He's.
45:24
Just that hits a that that hits will hard right there.
45:29
He's he's just a little Tua. Go on, Joe.
45:33
Anyways, I've got the four seed Commanders versus the five seed
45:40
Falcons, and I have the Falcons pulling off the upset.
45:45
Tasty. Now I've got the in the NFC
45:47
divisional round, I've got the one seed Lions versus the five
45:50
seed Falcons and I have the Lions taking that game.
45:52
I've got the two seed Buccaneers versus the three seed Rams and I
45:57
have the Bucks pulling that off. And then in the NFC championship
46:01
game I have the Detroit Lions versus the Buccaneers.
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I have. The Lions winning the.
46:09
Tampa Bay Buccaneers The Tampa Bay Buccaneers winning that game
46:17
to go to the Super Bowl. Wow.
46:21
I just, the reason I didn't pick Tampa Bay is because they've got
46:27
so much age, right? Like like they've got some young
46:30
guys, but they're receiving core and they're core guys.
46:33
Chris Godwin, right, Chris? Yeah, Chris Godwin and and Mike
46:37
Evans. They're just old and and, and
46:40
Evans more than Godwin, but but you saw at the end of last
46:44
season when at the very end of the Buccaneers final game, they
46:49
were forcing the ball to Mike Evans to get him that 1000 yards
46:52
for another 6000 yards season in his career.
46:55
I just don't think they're going to be healthy.
47:00
I think maybe it's the right word able.
47:03
They're just going to be too. And yeah, experience is a lot,
47:07
but but there's there's a tipping point to where you're
47:10
you're too old and the youth and the recoverability from the
47:15
younger players is going to matter more.
47:17
And yeah, Bucky Irving's young, but Baker Mayfield's not.
47:20
Mike Evans is not. Chris Godwin is not.
47:23
And so. Baker's not old.
47:25
He's not old, but he's he's. Also won playoff games.
47:29
Sure, so is jerk off. Not a lot, but some Morden dak.
47:35
Shout out to Tez Johnson. That that is why I have the
47:42
Buccaneers going as far as I do, because if somebody is injured,
47:45
they still have a whole bunch of receivers that can fill in and
47:49
do really well. I would rather I would rather
47:54
the Buccaneers beat the the Lions in the championship game.
47:58
I just don't think it's going to happen.
48:01
Also, like I mentioned before, the Lions, well, I didn't
48:05
mention this, but the Lions are really good at running the ball.
48:07
The Bucks are very good at stopping the run.
48:10
So that played a big factor in me picking the Bucks over the
48:13
lines. All right, so now it's time for
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our Super Bowl picks. So Avery, why don't you take us
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through? Just give us a reminder of who
48:22
you had in the Super Bowl and then give us your winner and a
48:25
reason why they're going to win the Super.
48:27
You've got Bengals, Vikings. Minnesota.
48:30
Vikings and the Bengals, and I got the Bengals winning I.
48:38
Got. Jay Burt winning his Super Bowl
48:42
and he's so banged up. His offensive line didn't get
48:46
any better. The defense a little better.
48:48
He got a little better. Offensive line didn't improve at
48:51
all. He is he's muddy.
48:53
His offensive line is actually pretty clean.
48:55
They play in, it's raining for whatever reason and they take a
48:58
photo at the end and he is there's mud, blood and just the
49:03
line is just fresh. But he got it done.
49:07
But he got it done. That's all that matters.
49:09
But he's holding the trophy, he didn't have to buy any of them
49:12
cars or trucks. So like.
49:14
Just like the longest yard doing it without his offensive line.
49:21
Yeah, I will. Who's your Super Bowl picks?
49:25
Your winner and the reason why. I have the T Short Lions playing
49:29
the Buffalo Bills, and I have the Buffalo Bills finally
49:34
getting. I don't have them losing 5 in a
49:35
row. I do have them winning this one
49:39
and probably the most offensively exciting Super Bowl
49:43
we've seen in a long time. But it pisses me off because
49:46
there's no defense played. Look, I love a good defensive
49:50
game. Yeah, I like boring things too.
49:55
Fair, I guess. Yeah, yeah, fair.
49:58
But I, I think that this would be a, this should be a very good
50:02
marketable Super Bowl. But yeah, I like I like Buffalo
50:05
winning over Detroit. I should point out, I should
50:09
point out for clarity sake, I don't actually think good
50:14
defensive games are bad. I think poor offensive games,
50:18
sure, that look like good defensive games are bad.
50:23
I want to see a a a rolling offense that gets stumped by a
50:28
defense like that. That would be good when you can
50:30
actually see when a when a the quarterback overthrows the
50:34
receiver by 10 yards and the D BS like, no, no, it's like, all
50:40
right, dude, sit down. You got beat.
50:42
So let's talk about the other Seahawks Super Bowl for once,
50:45
where they kicked the Broncos ass, right?
50:48
That was the best offense versus the best defense.
50:51
That's what we're talking about. But to be fair, the first play
50:55
was a snap over Peyton Manning, said Safety.
50:57
So let's not act like they were in all gears.
51:01
Yeah. All right, so for my Super Bowl
51:04
matchup, I've got the Buffalo Bills versus the Tampa Bay
51:07
Buccaneers, and I have the Buffalo Bills winning the Super
51:11
Bowl. I mean, I think that you did.
51:15
I, I, I truly believe, I truly believe that the Bills should
51:19
have been in the Super Bowl last year.
51:21
The refs absolutely got those calls wrong in the AFC
51:26
championship game. I truly believe that that they
51:28
got those wrong. And I think if those calls that
51:31
they got wrong were reversed, the Bills would have won that
51:33
game and they would have gone to the Super Bowl.
51:35
I don't know what would have happened in the Super Bowl
51:38
because the Eagles just wrecked the Chiefs and maybe they would
51:42
have done the same thing to the Bills.
51:43
But the Bills have a much better offensive line than the Chiefs
51:46
do. And so maybe not, but I truly
51:48
believe that the Bills should have been in the Super Bowl last
51:51
year. And I think that's going to
51:52
drive Josh Allen to get to the Super Bowl this year.
51:56
And I just think that that he just gets it done.
52:00
No particular reason as to why in the Super Bowl other than
52:03
it's just Josh Allen and he's the best quarterback in that
52:07
game. You could make a case that he's
52:08
the best quarterback in the NFL. If it wasn't for Patrick Mahomes
52:12
3 Super Bowl wins, then probably people would be saying that Josh
52:16
Allen is the best quarterback in the NFL.
52:18
So I just think that Josh Allen is just going to will himself
52:23
and his team to the Super Bowl and get that victory.
52:26
Real quick, do you think the electronic measuring of the
52:29
football for first downs helps or hurts the Chiefs since you
52:32
guys are big about the the refs are helping Chiefs?
52:35
This is just a shill paid off by big ref.
52:39
He's trying to run cover for the refs.
52:43
I, I don't, I don't know, I don't know if I like it or not
52:46
yet because I haven't really seen it.
52:49
But here's, here's just what I don't like is in the AFC
52:54
championship game, when the Bills clearly made that first
52:57
down, like to me, it was very clear that they made the first
52:59
down on both third down and 4th down.
53:02
Why can't New York just say he made it?
53:07
Why leave it up to the refs to get that call right on the
53:10
field? Because half of the refs said he
53:11
made it and half the refs said he didn't, and then the refs
53:14
that said he did just decided to go with the refs that said he
53:16
did it. Why can't New York just say he
53:20
made it? Like why can't they just get it
53:22
right, especially in the play offs?
53:24
Why can't they just get it right?
53:25
Why do you need an electronic thing to say where the ball is
53:28
when you could just look at it and get it right?
53:31
Because they can't get it right. That's why they need to bring in
53:33
the electronics. They think that.
53:36
Maybe we won't have to. They think that bring in the
53:39
electronic thing will make it less arguable when personally,
53:43
in my opinion, actually makes it more arguable, she said.
53:46
OK, well who's controlling where these pics would show up on my
53:49
screen, right? You put your football down, I.
53:52
Believe. Yeah, exactly.
53:54
I think, yeah, Jerm said that you put the football down the
53:56
field, you stretch those chains out that we can see on the field
53:59
or 10 yards as marked it needs. To be something I've always
54:04
hated, when the ref picks up the ball from the player on the
54:08
ground, walks around for about 7 seconds and then puts the ball
54:14
down. I'm like, all right, so we're
54:16
measuring against what you just decided right now.
54:18
Like this is the least accurate thing ever.
54:21
If anything, if anything, if you're doing electronic, dude,
54:26
put some sensors in the ball and then have something across the
54:29
field where it's like if it did cross the plane, it would beep
54:32
or it would like buzz or something.
54:34
Not like on the ball or whatever, but there would be
54:35
something where it was like, no, you did cross the plane, 'cause
54:39
like we're saying if we're talking about pixels, if we're
54:41
talking about pixels, it's like, OK, yeah, we measure the field
54:45
in yards. OK, we're talking pixels here.
54:48
Like that's nothing. But if there was something where
54:50
it was like no, if you cross that plane like we will know.
54:54
Otherwise like no dice. I think it should be something
54:58
like that. Here's where I'm with Avery is
54:59
that you get to marrying barbers out there who will run across
55:02
the line this way and they run backwards and try to make it on
55:05
the other side and you're no longer have a first down.
55:08
Yeah, I mean, you can decide. I mean, it will Showtime and
55:11
everything and you can count. You can like figure out forward
55:14
progress there where it's like, oh, oh, it crossed like, yeah,
55:17
but it left his hand. It's like, OK, well, we can see
55:19
that. We can judge accordingly.
55:20
But if it just comes down to like there's a pile or just a
55:23
scrum in the middle of the field and the guy's trying to get it
55:25
across or like goal line, like I think that would be way better.
55:29
Especially in my thing for the sake of action, I hate it when
55:35
there's a touchdown or suppose a touchdown.
55:37
There's celebrations and stuff and then it's like, well,
55:39
there's not a call yet. We're going to see, we're going
55:41
to find out. And then you get to score.
55:44
I would hate it if I was the player and I'm like, dude, I
55:46
want my moment in the sun. I just scored a touchdown.
55:48
These don't come around that often.
55:51
And then everyone's like, well, wait, wait, wait, let's find
55:53
out. Let's find out.
55:54
Let's take a look at it and spend 10 minutes and two
55:58
commercials to find out if it was a touchdown.
56:00
Then he's sitting on the sideline on the bench.
56:02
Oh, sweet, I got it. I hate that.
56:04
I'm like, I want to know in the moment.
56:07
I just think some little thing where there's a sensor.
56:10
A little extra insight on the spotting the ball from for for
56:14
the NFL side. And it's also happened at the
56:16
collegiate level, which is how I know because I work with reps
56:18
who also work college games. I don't work college games, They
56:23
work college games. Let's be clear about that.
56:25
I'm not that good. I'm OK.
56:28
So the way that works is the referees on the side do spot the
56:33
ball, but there are two or three refs up in the booth.
56:36
They're watching the game and watching the replay that tell
56:39
them on the radio, yes, that spot screw to the ball needs we
56:42
move backyard. So as much as it is up to the
56:44
guys in the field, it's also through the replay and they have
56:48
to do it quick. It has to be so fast before they
56:50
set the ball down because once it's down, it's down.
56:53
It has to be challenged. That's the problem.
56:55
I mean, that would be the problem then, right?
56:57
Because it's like you have a decision by committee that has
57:00
to be made fast after you barely even saw what happened.
57:04
Like, do you even have time to see the replay in that time?
57:07
So it's like you've got the most imperfect beings making really
57:13
tough decisions in the quickest time possible.
57:16
I see it as like, look, if it's something what's like pass
57:20
interference or some more subjective measure, but if it
57:22
comes down to crossing a line, dude, that is what computers are
57:26
made for. I'm not saying it should be for
57:27
every different play, but I'm like, that is a literal binary
57:32
yes or no. Did you cross it or not?
57:34
I just feel like there's no reason to put refs in that
57:37
position when you could have a computer doing that.
57:40
I'm excited, although I have talked a lot smack, but I'm
57:44
actually kind of excited to see how it works.
57:47
I'm excited to see it in action. And I, I, I hope, what I hope is
57:51
from a fan point of view, we don't get caught up with that
57:54
fictitious TV yellow line with the whole that whole thing and
57:58
say, oh, well, you crossed that line.
58:00
Yeah. But that line actually means
58:01
nothing. I say that is a Fox network
58:04
geographical. Representation.
58:07
That doesn't mean anything. It's usually off, so I don't
58:11
know. I'm excited for it though.
58:13
I see it as long as as long as we don't have arguments about
58:17
it, I see that as an absolute win where it's like, oh, it
58:19
crossed and then someone's like, no, I don't think it did any
58:21
like look at a replay right now. It it did.
58:23
Like if it gets something egregiously wrong, we have to
58:25
revisit it. But like if it just becomes a
58:28
non issue and no one talks about it, we all forget that there's a
58:30
computer at all. Perfect, perfect.
58:33
Yeah, I, I, I am excited to see it in action, so.
58:37
Yeah, me too. It's going to go really well or
58:40
very poorly, one of those two, but we'll see.
58:43
You're right, it's there is no in between.
58:45
Yeah, exactly. Yep.
58:47
Well, that's all we have time for on today's episode, but
58:50
thank you for tuning in. Next week we'll be back with our
58:53
predictions for the 2025 season award winners and so stay tuned
58:57
for that. We also have the we also have
59:00
the privilege of going on to the West War Room Rivals next week.
59:05
So if you want to watch us live, we'll be on their show on
59:09
Tuesday the 2nd of September. And so stay tuned for that as
59:13
well. But we'll be back.
59:14
And as always, don't forget to keep your balls played with.
59:18
We'll see you next time. Bye now y'all.
59:20
Also, Mark Davis's haircut still sucks.