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NFL Playoff Paths and CFP Stakes · North Florida Sports Network Podcast

• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: Denos nu expandes.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, my goodness to react.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_05: You can't start the week so you react to the football that we just watched.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_05: Most of the NFL for me.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_05: I mean the bowl games don't really start until New Year's Eve.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_05: We might get there.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_05: We probably will, since Miami contributor Justin's here.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, you're goddamn right we will.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_05: As that rematch looms around the horizon tonight, we have Rams Falcons.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_05: Uh last night, wow, what a game.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_05: Niners Bears was.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_05: And uh the Bears have now been eliminated from the one seed.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_05: And I mean, uh, still have the Rams pretty much.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_05: So it's gonna come down to the winner of next week's NFT West matchup.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_05: Who wins the NFC West and who gets the five?
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_05: Feels like the Rams are gonna be playing the Eagles, but you never know.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_05: Still gotta play one more week.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_05: The Rams still gotta play two more games because they play tonight and next week, but it should be wins for them.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_05: Looking like there's gonna be three, possibly three 13-4 teams in the NFT West, the NFT South will have a winner take all game in Tampa.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_05: The AFC North will have a winner take all game in Baltimore.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_03: Those are the two worst.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_05: Pretty much your ACT coastal and your ATC.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_03: That's exactly what it is, dude.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, as the Browns were able to beat the Steelers 10 to 6.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_03: That was actually one of the picks I got right.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_03: It was the Browns.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, that offense is so heavily relied upon DK Metcalf.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_05: And you gotta give the Browns credit, but man, they needed DK Metcalf.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_05: And what anything they don't have them again?
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_03: They fill out that game.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_05: Pretty much cost them the division.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_03: Possibly a playoff shot.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_05: They win that game with DK Metcalf.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_05: They figure out a way to score at least a touchdown.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_05: That's all they needed was a damn touchdown, and they couldn't do it.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_05: Nobody could get open.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_05: They're going to Valdez Scanley and the guy's been on his third team.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_05: It was an exciting 10-6 game, though.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_05: It wasn't, I mean, it was an exciting 10-6 game.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_05: It seemed like they were more worried about Miles Garrett getting the sack record against them than they were winning the damn game.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they gotta protect that record for TJ Watt, man.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_05: Oh man.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_05: Uh so right now.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_05: The Broncos, they're your NFC West, and barring they lose to the Chargers, who they're not going to.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_05: They're gonna get home field in the AFC.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and that sucks for everybody in the AFC because you don't want to go to freaking Denver in mid-January.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_05: Jacksonville.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_05: Jacksonville, dude.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_03: That makes sense.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_03: How good they are.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_05: Well, they figured out a way to uh win an ugly game that covered right at the end.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_05: God, I was watching that.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_05: I was like, oh right, they're gonna kick a field goal.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_05: Hey, they got a kicker too, who's a weapon.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_05: I think that's gonna matter.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_05: That's gonna matter in these games, man.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_05: You can get these kickers now, and the at like a kicker like the Cowboys have, they're not gonna be in it, but the Jags have one of them.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_05: And it's gonna it's gonna change one of these games.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_05: Because if you don't have one, you're you're at a disadvantage.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_05: Uh the Jaguars, they win at Indianapolis.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_05: They win at home against Tennessee.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_05: They are your AFC South champions.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_05: Um the Bills had it right there, man.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_05: Josh Allen had it, man.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_05: They went for two.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_05: They went for two.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_05: He banged up.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_05: Yep.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_05: He's banged up, dude.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_05: Because it was the ball was off accuracy.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_05: And when you're you don't have a foundation, accuracy is probably the first thing to go.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_05: And he missed a wide open dude.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and he even said as much in the post-game pressure.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_03: He's like, Yeah, I just missed him.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_05: Yep.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_05: It's like, oh my God, this play's really gonna work.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_05: It was like a little slow developing play that relied upon his mobility to kind of buy some time, and he just flat out missed the guy.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_05: So the Eagles win an ugly game.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_05: That's what they do.
• 5:27
  unknown: God.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_03: The only game they can win.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_05: I know.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_05: And the Rams now are scheduled to play them because they're number two.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_03: It's one first round game.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it is.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, that was the division matchup last year.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_05: That was ended up being like the you know, the game.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_05: That was the best, that was the Super Bowl, or that was the NFC championship at least.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_05: You kind of had a feeling watching it.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_05: It was like these are the best two teams.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_05: Whoever wins it, and then that weather.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, you'll see what happens.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_05: Um, I think whoever loses next week albeit, I'm sorry, if the Niners were to happen to lose next week, I think the Rams then could get the five seed and play the NFC South champ.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_03: So that's what you want if you're the Rams.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_05: Right, right.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_05: That's what you want.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_05: So your best bet is to either go to Carolina or Tampa, which definitely that's what you want.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_05: You don't want to have to go up northeast in this weather against the Eagles.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, it's just it's just a not not a game you want.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_05: And uh right now that's they're number three in the totem pole if the rec if they're all three finish at 13-4.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_05: So the game of the week next week, I think, will be I know you'll have two division championships, but I I think that Niners Seahawks game, that's the bit that's the game I'm looking forward to.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_05: What about you?
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, absolutely.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it's game because you got like you said, you got the uh the ACC coastal and the Atlantic, you know, winning your end.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_03: And then um, even with that uh uh Niners Seahawks game, ain't nobody gonna be pulling their starters in that one, dude.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, because that's a big deal, getting that number one season.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, dude, because you're getting a buy.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_05: The winner gets a buy, the only buy in the conference.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_05: So it's either you either stay home and don't play, or you're on a plane.
• 7:21
  unknown: You know?
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and Sam Frank could never pack another bag until next season.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_05: So this game's huge for them.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_05: And and what Kyle, I'll I'll say this, Kyle Shanahan, what this year he's lived in Coach of the Year.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_05: He's lived up to the he might, yeah.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_05: I I mean it's hard to not give it to Cohen.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, it really is.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_05: The Jags and they beat the Niners.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, but you can't go wrong with it's Shanahan either.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, with the injuries that they've had they've had, Robert Sala definitely is coordinator of the year.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_05: But the defense has been falling apart now, and but now Brock Purdy.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_05: Brock Purdy's elevating his game.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_05: Now he's they're scoring a lot, they're doing what it has to take to win.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_05: I still can't believe that they're gonna have the they had they could win and get the one seed.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_05: It's hard to believe.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_03: Uh team so injured play so well.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, they were missing Purdy for like half their starting quarterback for half the season.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_03: Uh you just hasn't shown up.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_03: Trent Williams just got hurt.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_03: Fred Warner got hurt, yeah.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_03: Fredford got hurt.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_03: And and he says the bitches just keep winning.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you have to give it.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, like, Cohen's done a great job, but uh what injury was he dealt with?
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_05: You're well, yeah, you can say Travis Hunter, a rookie that the the pri I mean with me though, it's just the the franchise itself.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_05: You know, just the what he did down there.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_05: You know, he lost the I guess they try yeah, exactly.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_05: Travis Hunter, but what he's done to with with Trevor Lawrence, what he's been able to do to change that around, just winning games.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_05: But I mean, like you like I said too, man, I wasn't disagreeing with you.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_05: I said there's I mean Mike Vrabel, come on, you could go there too.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, look at Drake May, but their schedule is yeah, right, and that schedule's kind of light, and that's not really their fault either because their division's light, but um, but he Drake May 19 to 21, 265 touchdowns.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_05: Get out of here, man.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_03: I I I saw it as a freshman when I saw him play against Sam U.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_03: He just looked yep, yep.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_03: He's amazing.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_03: The kid is awesome, dude.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_03: He can do it all.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_05: He really can.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_05: He's uh right now they are going to be the two seed if both teams win.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_05: There's still a chance that the Jags could get the one seed barring, you know, and they're getting a tie with the Broncos.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_05: They have the head-to-head.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_05: And but they're gonna need the Chargers to beat the Broncos in a game that has no has no impact on them.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_05: So I I don't even I guess it affects their seeding.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_05: But they have no they've already lost the division with that loss to Houston.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_05: So that was gonna be a a great game to watch.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_05: If that's why I was hoping that the Chargers could pull that out, because then you had so many different possibilities.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_03: But now I know it's almost like the NFL would have to scrap their regional coverage deal nationwide just to show them all the winning your ends.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_05: Man, it would have been great if you would have had that.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_05: You would have an AFC West and an NFC West kind of showdown for the division and home field.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_05: And then all these other games would have mattered because of that.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_05: In the AFC, now you have well, you still have games that matter.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_05: Jacksonville has to win because the Houston's right on their tail, so they have to win.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_05: Houston has to win in case Jacksonville loses.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_05: You know, these are games that you have to win.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_05: You can't slip up, you can't go the whole season and screw up on one game.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_05: So there's there's still gonna be a lot of good games.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_05: You have the NFC, the Panthers, Bucks, um, Ravens, Steelers.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_03: Uh is Lamar Jackson gonna come back for that game?
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_05: You know what?
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_05: Here's here's I think they're better off without him.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_05: And I don't mean they've looked better the past three weeks.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_05: And I don't and I and I don't and I just mean that just for right now.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_05: I don't mean that in the long term.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_05: I don't mean that in overall.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_05: It's just yeah, just right now, they have an identity without him.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_05: He's something's wrong with him, it's not working this year, reset, whatever you gotta do.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_05: But right now, I run the ball.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_05: I do exactly what they did in Green Bay.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_05: Give the give the ball to your horse and play off that and don't complicate it too much.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and you don't have to worry about uh like wearing out Derrick Henry at this point because you just go with it.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you just run him into the ground like they want that Ricky Williams.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_05: If you get in, which it looks like you have a really good chance.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, who do you like in that game?
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, all the momentum's on ball with Baltimore.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, who I honestly with that one, I'd pick whoever's at home.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_05: Well, it's gonna be Baltimore.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_03: Then I'd take Baltimore.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_03: Wait, isn't it?
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_05: No, wait, I think it's in the just played, and I think Pittsburgh won in Baltimore, so I think it's in Pittsburgh.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I would I would take Pittsburgh.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, but no, that don't think that matters, man, in this game.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_03: These are these are what Aaron Rodgers over Snoop Huntley, dude.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_03: I gotta take Aaron Rodgers.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_05: That's true, but I think what what I saw as far as weapons, he doesn't have anybody outside.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_03: And you can have anybody in the backfield either.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, he hasn't really had on the Pittsburgh offense, it's horrible.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_05: And the Baltimore defense is they've kind of gotten better as a seat.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_05: They were twist cheese, they had injuries.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_05: This is gonna be a jolt for them.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_05: I think whenever you like down and out and you get to watch, they probably watch that game as a team.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_05: You know, and I think this is gonna be enough for them over the over the top.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_05: But we'll see where that game.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_05: Let me let me look see where that game's at.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_05: But any anywho, uh, what about the NFC South game?
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_05: What what do you think about that?
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, because the Bucks, they look what's going on?
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_05: What do they lost like eight or nine now?
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_03: How do you lose to the Dolphins?
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_03: Dude, something's wrong with Baker.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_05: Uh well the Dolph that's just that's the in the air.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_05: That's the guy.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_05: That's the Dolphins.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_05: That's what they do.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_05: That's what they do.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, we're out of it.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_05: We're out of it.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_05: All we have to do is lose to get a better pick.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_05: Hold my beer.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_05: We do not want to play in Miami when they're out of it.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_05: And they have nothing but just draft status to gain.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_05: Oh crap, they're gonna win now.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yep, now they'll start.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna finish.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_03: I I wouldn't be surprised if we win next week.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_03: I don't want to get cut.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_03: God, being a Dolphins fan is just like peak misery.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_03: It really is.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_03: I would rather be terrible all the time because at least then you can talk to yourself in the hopes.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_05: I honestly was watching that game.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_05: I was like, I I I'm not even happy about this.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_03: The second pick Baker threw in the fourth quarter, I was like, I was so pissed.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_03: I was so pissed.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_03: I was rooting for him to get that onside kick at the end.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, come on, guys.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_05: For real.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, what I noticed, I noticed while watching that game, dude, there's something something up with Baker too, dude.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_03: He keeps coming up like gimpy and like he's not getting the same kind of I mean Josh Allen, dude, like that pick he threw in the fourth quarter.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_02: He just didn't have enough on it.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_03: And that's gotta be coming from the base of his throws.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_03: And he just underthrew it and that safety.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, he didn't even make a great play.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_03: The announcers, you'd have thought this guy made like Odell Beckham style interception.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_03: They're like, oh my god, what a great play! I'm like, he jobbed over there and it landed right in his fucking lap.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_05: Well, you have the matchup set.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_05: Um Saturday is gonna be fun as you have 430s at NFC South Championship.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_05: It deserves a Saturday at 4.30, being a college type at atmosphere bowl game.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, absolutely.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so that's your first game, and then you get the uh man, you get the Saturday night NFC West matchup, Seahawks 49.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_03: That one's gonna be the game.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's Saturday night.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_05: So the Sunday night will be for the AFC North.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I just thought this would be hilarious, dude.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_03: Where is the Tampa Carolina game at?
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_03: Please tell me it's in Charlotte.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_05: No, it's in Tampa.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_03: It's gotta be in Charlotte because it's the coastal versus the Atlantic.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, that would have been great.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_05: That would have been great.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_05: It would have been too good.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_05: No, that that's those are your headliner games, and then you know, they try to make it where you don't have any scoreboard watching.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_05: And then the one o'clock, four o'clock window, you really don't have anything that's any consequence.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_05: Except for, you know, the Jags need to win to get the division, I would say.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_05: But like even the Packers, Vikings, the Packers are already in.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_05: Saints Falcon.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_03: The Packers are limping into the players.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_05: Honestly, that'd be a fun game.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_05: For like nothing.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, both teams are playing well, so that might actually be an entertaining game.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_05: Bengals are still trying.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_05: Browns versus Bengals might not be terrible.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_05: Uh Titans, Jaguars might not be terrible.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_05: Um the Rams will, I guess, will still try.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_05: Um, Chiefs, Raiders will be terrible.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, Eagles, Commanders will be terrible.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_05: I don't care.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_05: Um, Patriots, Dolphins will be terrible.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_03: I just hope they don't do like they did to the Jets and just embarrass them and put up like five touchdowns in the first quarter.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_05: Um, Lions, Bears, interesting there, I guess.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_05: Um, the Lions still alive or they're done.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_05: No, they're done.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_05: That's what I thought.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_05: They're done, but I mean Man Campbell ain't gonna be a good one.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_05: It's a big game.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_05: But I don't know.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_05: But Chicago, this is where I think they need this game because you want to get that two seed if you can, because that's a home game in the divisional run.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_05: And it's not a buy anymore, but it's still if you win your wildcard game, you're hosting the next round.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_03: So Yeah, and you want as many home games as possible in the playoffs.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_03: Especially if you're Chicago up at Soldier Field Band, like teams to come in.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_05: You can't let Philly get the two seed, man.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_05: You gotta have you gotta hold on to the two-seed, and then you'll play, they'll probably play Green Bay again, and then uh you have what the NFC West, the loser of that game, looks like to be able to play the the winner of the NFC South.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_05: So a 13-4 team will be going to an eight and eight team.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_05: Or I mean eight and nine, an eight-nine team.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_05: Or nine and eight team, whichever one.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think they I think they end up nine and eight, at least at the winning record.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_05: That should, I mean, they should be in, but they shouldn't host it.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, they gotta they gotta do something.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_05: You shouldn't get a home game for going eight and nine.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_03: I remember saying that years back when it was the seven and nine Seahawks hosting the home game and the game.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and then the Marshawn Lynch, that that great run.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_05: But it's just Yeah, the Beast Quake run.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_05: Nah, man, they need to honestly get rid of it.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, on what do they even really need any of it for?
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_05: Just take the top seeds.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I mean, it's like we talked about with the college football playoffs.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_03: Same deal, dude.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_03: You take the top you take the 12 best teams.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_03: Like, nobody gives a shit about like, oh, what was your record in the AFC South this year?
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_03: Who cares?
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, I think everybody's in, though.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_05: There's you're not gonna see a team that's out that shouldn't be in.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I don't I I just off the top of my head, I can't think of any teams that it's like they're gonna get screwed by some stupid, you know, winning percentage in their division rule.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_05: Um Drake May put up a nice little stat game, but that's against the Jets.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_05: I think Stafford's MVP.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_03: I think May Yeah, we've been saying that since midseason.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_05: Uh yep, we were on that.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_05: They'll probably win out.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_05: They will win out.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_05: And then you have so that's what else, uh, what else you got here, NFL Wesh.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, rookie of the year, I have no idea.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_05: Shuck.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_05: It's really been a bad year for the NFL rookies.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm trying.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, honestly, I I don't know that you can make an argument against Shuck at this point.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I saw I mean because he's played so good down the stretch.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, I saw that's Olave Olave was posting about it, and I'm like, well wait a second.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_05: Is that it?
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_05: Like, I guess who who was he who would he be going up against?
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I mean Cam, who's not played well.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_05: Well, yeah.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_03: I was gonna say they I mean, maybe uh any rookie I can't think of any rookie running backs, Trevion Henderson's a rookie.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_03: But he's been splitting carries with Richard.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_03: Or Ramondre Stevenson, so I don't know if his numbers will be there.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_03: He's had a couple big games as of late.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I mean Sean Judkins at the beginning of the season was playing good.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_05: But he hasn't done shit in like a month.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_05: I know.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_05: I thought that was gonna be his.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, it was a giveaway.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_05: I know.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, he still has he's still gonna finish with like 12, 1,300 yards.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_05: So that's really good.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_05: Um but Tyler.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_05: Tyler Warren.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_03: He's another one that cooled off throughout the season, though.
• 20:32
  unknown: Yeah.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_03: He's like they all hit the rookie wall.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_05: Uh Quishon Junkins, who got hurt, uh, would be a candidate.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_05: Jackson Dart.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_03: Uh if Scattabu doesn't get hurt, then Jackson Dart might be the guy.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_05: Yep.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_05: Swashinger, the linebacker for the Browns.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_05: He looks like he might be a candidate with Abdul Carter as well for the Giants.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_03: You think they give it you think they give the D the Rookie of the Year to a defensive guy?
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_05: No, they have an offense and defensive.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah, no, I thought you were talking overall, like defensive rookie of the year.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_03: Definitely.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_05: It's definitely more intriguing.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_05: Um, offense.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, there are some candidates, but you thought it would be a BUKA.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_05: Now there's really I guess there's a push to get the quarterback in, but I don't know if he's played enough.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_05: Alright, well, let's go.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_05: What do you got?
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_05: What do you got?
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_05: It's coming up.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_05: Miami, Ohio State.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_03: Game I've been waiting 25 years for.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_03: I know, right?
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, although we did play him in 2011 and beat the hell out of him, but that was just a regular season game in like week three.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_05: This is four.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_03: This is the one.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, this is the one, dude, and it's in the cotton bowl.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_03: In the cotton bowl, New Year's Eve.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, my God, I can't ask for any more.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_03: Well, what what's I cannot ask for anything more.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_05: What do you need to see for a Miami win?
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_03: The Miami defense is going to have to put Julian Sand on his ass over and over and over again.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_03: And I think he breaks.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_03: And Ohio State's D-line against Miami's offensive line.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_03: Honestly, I think that that's gonna be the matchup that determines this game.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_03: If Miami's offensive line can protect Beck and open up some holes for Mark Fletcher, Miami wins the game.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_03: If Beck turns the ball over, Ohio State wins the game.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_03: Because these teams are so evenly matched.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_03: They're so evenly matched.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, I mean, I really think the the biggest defense difference between the two teams, I think, is Miami's explosiveness on offense that Ohio State doesn't really have.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, Jeremiah Smith's awesome, but where are the Jeremiah Smith highlights this year?
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_05: I got uh the right now it's Miami plus nine and a half, the over.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, bet the bet the canes to cover that all day long.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_05: I bet I bet a parlay canes to cover and the under.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'd go the under too.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_05: Uh I mean, unless the under's like, well, I mean, both I think yeah, it's 40, 40 and a half.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_05: So I dude, that's a good mic, actually.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's what I'm going with.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, I think Miami keeps it close.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_05: I think Ohio State wins.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_05: But if it's close, you got a chance.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_05: And it's whoever, you know, like you said, if they can break 'em, they have the dudes to do it.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_05: Whoever's defense affects the game that way will win.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_05: Whoever's defense makes that bit turns the ball over.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_05: Hurt hurts the opposing.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_05: Shit.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, if that if that's what it is, if because both teams aren't if their quarterback goes down, then it's over.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I I couldn't even tell you who Ohio State's backup is.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_03: So we know Miami's is is that uh Emory Williams who has been here forever and sucked.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_05: Alright, so who do you like?
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_05: Let's go.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_05: Well, why we while we did that, we'll go ahead and do some picks with a spread on just some college playoff games.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_05: We just did that.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_05: We both might Miami with the points in that game.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_05: Oregon, uh, Texas Tech, Texas Tex getting two and a half.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_05: This is this is good, this is a good game.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_05: Honestly, I'm going with the Red Raiders here.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think they went outright.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think Texas Tech might be the best team in the country.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_05: I just think there's a lot of unknown there by a lot of people like us and outside of that circle.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_05: They're gonna this is their game to kind of impress some people.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_05: And I mean, Oregon.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_05: Who do they beat?
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_05: What have they done?
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe they just beat anybody?
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, they lost to Indiana in a in a good game early in the season.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_03: That's their signature victory is a four-loss USC.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_05: Well, I mean, this is we'll see.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_05: I I think Texas, Texas Tech puts it on them, actually.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_05: Uh let this is the game.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_05: Indiana, Alabama, Rose Bowl.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_05: Alabama's getting six and a half.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_05: I'm taking it.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_05: I don't want to.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_03: I I think Indiana covers that.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_03: Really?
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_03: I hope, I hope.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_03: I think they do.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_05: So you're taking minus six and a half.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_05: Wow.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_03: I think I think the front seven of Indiana gives Alabama fits.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_03: Alabama's gonna finish with negative yards rusting, dude.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_03: They're gonna get their ass kicked like Georgia kicked their ass.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_03: I I think Indiana is a really good all-around team.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_03: They got weapons on offense, they got the Heisen winning quarterback.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_03: And they've got a really good defense, dude.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_03: I'm down.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_03: I think I I just I think they kick Alabama's ass, dude.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_03: Alabama can't run the freaking.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_05: Alabama's defense is good still.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_05: Alabama can slow down the game.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_05: I just think it's gonna be another kind of boring game like the Big Ten championship was.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_05: And I I still think Indiana can win.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_05: I just six and a half, I'm I'm gonna take it.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_05: That's when I that's what my first impression was.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_05: I'm going at this strictly betting-wise, man.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_05: Now, I I I would be pissed if Alabama won.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_05: Which I don't see any way.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_05: Which I kind of think they are going to.
• 26:07
  unknown: I hope.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_03: I don't see any way they be they beat or uh Indiana, dude.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, Indiana beat Oregon, Indiana beat Ohio State.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_03: Alabama can't beat anybody except Oklahoma.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_03: Alabama sucks, dude.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_03: Alabama.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_05: All right, uh Ole Miss, Ole Miss, Georgia.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_05: Ole Miss is getting six and a half.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_03: I think Georgia covers that spread too.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_05: I think I'm with you there.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_03: This is where lay this is where the lack of Lane Kiffin gets exposed.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, because you have you have Kirby Smart and you have a physical team that you're gonna need all your gadgets or all the tools in your in your belt against.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_03: And with Lane Kiffin, they lost to Georgia.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think they come back and beat Georgia without Lane Kiffin.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_03: I don't see how that's possible.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_05: I got Georgia here too.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_05: Um okay.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_05: Well Duke Arizona Duke Arizona State.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_04: Duke Arizona State.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_04: God.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_03: ACC.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_03: What all these bowl games need to do, what they all need to do is they need to the gimmick the way the Pop Tarts Bowl has.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_03: Because that's the only way these games are entertaining.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_03: Is you you get rid of these stupid conference tie-ins, and you basically tick the rest of the top 25 that didn't make the playoffs, match them up, and you gimmick the hell out of these bowl games and just make them fun.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_04: All right.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_04: Is that the show?
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_05: Yep.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_05: Let's back it up for the last time.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, wait, wait, we got one more.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_05: We might actually come at you.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_05: Actually, we're gonna wait.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_05: New Year's Day, maybe.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_03: NFL pick.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_03: I may not be coherent.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_03: I might be just going big wild.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_05: Well, we still have one more week of NFL pick to do.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_05: The games don't start till Saturday.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_05: So maybe a Thursday night.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_05: Uh we'll we'll we'll figure it out.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_05: You'll hear it.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_05: Uh it's gonna be it's gonna be a corner.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_05: Um in the league.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_01: Finally.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_01: Dude, you see how my fantasy team shit the bed in the championship in our league this weekend?
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: Fantasy.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: They didn't even score 60 points, man.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: Not even 60 points, dude.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_05: I've I was kicking ass all year.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_05: I know.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_05: Which makes me feel even worse about all right, we're not gonna get into that.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_05: Uh um.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_05: Yep, we got basketball season about to take over.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_05: Uh one form.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_05: Florida State will be playing at UNC tomorrow night.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_05: See how much they can keep that one too.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_05: Ugh, it's gonna get ugly.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_05: Real.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, NBA will start paying attention to it.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_05: Player prop.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_03: Get ready for spring rack, guys, man.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_05: Uh Jimmy Reno, we're gonna find out who Florida State will have on the team, maybe, hopefully, as the transfer portal will open January 2nd.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_05: There's about 30 dudes in the portal from the gnolls.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, that's to be expected, but it's who cares.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_05: But we're gonna tell you anyway.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_05: Kind of.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's ugly in Tallahassee right now.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, the portal's interesting, though.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_05: You have to find new quarterbacks for the hurricanes, new quarterbacks, you know, they'll probably end up with that.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_03: It's a quick drive from Gainesville to Tallahassee, DJ.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_05: I would not be surprised.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_05: We'll watch it.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_05: We'll see all that.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_05: Big uh transfer portal combat show coming next.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_05: At the beginning of next year, we have one more week of Ann of Val Picks, and we'll react to the College Football playoff, and we'll talk to you next time, right here on the North Florida Sports Network.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta give us a shot.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_01: You know what that