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The Absolute Wildest | NFL Wild Card Weekend Recap · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, presented by DraftKings.
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  Speaker 2: We're also on the Action Hour podcast feed.
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  Speaker 1: If you are listening to us there, it is a
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  Speaker 1: crossover episode wherever you're listening or watching. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: tuning in. I'm your host, Devin Abrams and I am
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  Speaker 1: joined by the one and only Stucky for our NFL
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  Speaker 1: recap show for Wildcard weekend. Just a ridiculous, ridiculous weekend
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  Speaker 1: of five great games. Obviously, still have Houston and Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: coming up on Monday night, and we will touch on that.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit later.
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  Speaker 1: We also have Brandon Anderson's hot read before we get
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  Speaker 1: out of here, so.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get his opinion too.
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  Speaker 1: But before we get started, I will just give you
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  Speaker 1: exactly what I just tweeted out, which is we see
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  Speaker 1: some opening lines for the Divisional Round and it looks
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  Speaker 1: like Bill's Broncos kind of going a little bit between.
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  Speaker 2: I see the Bill's favorite in some of those spots.
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  Speaker 1: If they were to close as a favorite in Denver,
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  Speaker 1: it would be the fourth time in the last forty
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  Speaker 1: years we had seen a Divisional round team off of
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  Speaker 1: a buy at.
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  Speaker 2: Home close as an underdog. And I can read it
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  Speaker 2: right now the last would have been.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles in twenty eighteen against the Falcons, the Niners
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twelve, and the Saints and then the Panthers
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  Speaker 1: ninety six ninety seven, and in all three of those positions,
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  Speaker 1: the home team came away with the win. So we
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  Speaker 1: will see kind of how the market puts together the
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  Speaker 1: spread in that one over the next week. But aside
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  Speaker 1: from that stuck, before we get into Chargers Patriots.
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  Speaker 2: What a weekend, man, what's your thoughts on everything?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Crazy weekend. I got rinsed. Sadly, I had I
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  Speaker 3: went one in four, some bad calls and some bad breaks.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I had the Packers as a dog, which
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  Speaker 3: was which was something I thought I was going to
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  Speaker 3: push at worst. Yeah, after at the end, but the
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  Speaker 3: missed deck, two miss field goals and missed extra point.
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  Speaker 3: The two point conversion to play at the game was
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  Speaker 3: the fourth and eight that Caleb got. If he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: convert that fourth and eighth, the game is over. They
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  Speaker 3: were down two possessions at the time they scored get
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  Speaker 3: the two point conversion, and yeah, I mean McManus was
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  Speaker 3: a disaster for them. But credit to the Bears. They
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  Speaker 3: were this second team in NFL history to score twenty
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  Speaker 3: five plus points in the fourth quarter or overtime of
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  Speaker 3: a playoff game to overcome a fifteen plus point deficit.
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  Speaker 3: It was them and the Patriots and the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 3: against the Falcons. I lost money on both Patriots Falcons.
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  Speaker 3: One of my biggest pets of all ever that I
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  Speaker 3: that I lost. So that was I mean, the Bears
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  Speaker 3: outscored in twenty five to six in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 3: That was just the Bears games all year. It was
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  Speaker 3: just it was like a micro cosm of the Bears
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  Speaker 3: season in one game. And then the Packers in a
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  Speaker 3: sense too with some of the losses they suffered. But
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  Speaker 3: the Bears, they're never dead and they found a way.
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  Speaker 3: But like the McManus kicks were so big because even
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  Speaker 3: if you make like you make the extra point, can
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  Speaker 3: kick the field goal at the end, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: field goals earlier in the game. So, uh yeah, that
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  Speaker 3: was just an incredible game, by the way, the most
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  Speaker 3: lead changes we've ever seen in a single round of
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  Speaker 3: the postseason already we still have one game to go.
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  Speaker 3: Uh that was I mean the first three, the first
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  Speaker 3: three games that we saw the winner was trailing with
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  Speaker 3: two minutes to go. So yeah, just wild games. And
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  Speaker 3: look in the playoffs when it's bet when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to betting, or you know, just whoever wins these games.
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  Speaker 3: Out right, the margins are thin, especially this year. Everything
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  Speaker 3: is so wide open that you like go back. I
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  Speaker 3: also had that one of the other bad breaks of that,
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  Speaker 3: I had the Jags first half, so Lawrence's thigh goes
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  Speaker 3: down at you know, the six. They get no points
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  Speaker 3: out of that. And then the miskick at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the first half by an all Pro kicker. That
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  Speaker 3: kick was massive, obviously, I mean the game was a
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  Speaker 3: three point game, but those things, those little things are
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  Speaker 3: so magnified in the playoffs. So yeah, I thought any
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  Speaker 3: of the games could have went anyway. The Panthers were
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  Speaker 3: super surprising. I did not expect their offense to look
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  Speaker 3: that well. Ide under that it was a terrible call.
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  Speaker 3: And then my worst call week had is I had
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  Speaker 3: the Chargers. I mean, the Patriots were dominant in that game.
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  Speaker 2: Drake may was.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he had a pretty bad game. He could
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  Speaker 3: have had like three or four turnovers, but he used
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  Speaker 3: his legs more effectively. He hit the one big throwdown
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  Speaker 3: field and on a side by side basis he looked
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  Speaker 3: like an All Pro compared to Herbert. I mean Herbert.
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  Speaker 4: Look.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like to label these things for small sample
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  Speaker 3: size because it's only been three starts, Like you know,
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  Speaker 3: the playoff Herbert thing, and he had no help. The
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  Speaker 3: offensive line was really poor. I thought the Patriots had
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  Speaker 3: a really good game plan. They just couldn't handle their stunts,
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  Speaker 3: their blitzes, and they were just bringing pressure. But Herbert
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  Speaker 3: also played really poorly. He looked like the first time
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  Speaker 3: starting quarterback. He looked like a rookie. I mean, he
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  Speaker 3: was flow ustered, he missed some opportunities to scramble, he
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  Speaker 3: missed some open throws, and then he was just inaccurate.
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  Speaker 3: I get that he was under pressure and under fire,
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  Speaker 3: especially late in the game once the Patriots built that lead,
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  Speaker 3: but there were some opportunities there. I also thought hardball
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  Speaker 3: the whole staff was extremely disapointed. I thought they got
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  Speaker 3: significantly out coached. You went into that game, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: you had a buy last week, so you basically had
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  Speaker 3: two weeks. They took a buy, they had two weeks
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  Speaker 3: to come up with game plans to make up for
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  Speaker 3: the deficiencies that you knew. You had on the offensive line.
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  Speaker 3: Did you not think that the Patriots were gonna blitz
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  Speaker 3: and stunt and there was? It just seemed like there was.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what their game plan was. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what the offensive philosophy going into that game was.
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  Speaker 3: And then you had hardball early on in the game.
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  Speaker 3: He goes for it on fourth and goal at the two,
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't get it, and then he has fourth and
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  Speaker 3: goal at the two again and kicks a field goal.
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  Speaker 3: I hate when coaches do that. You're the underdog on
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  Speaker 3: the road. You were aggressed the first time. If you
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  Speaker 3: thought it was just gonna be a field goal game,
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  Speaker 3: then kick it both times. But he went for the
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  Speaker 3: first time. Don't get scared just because you didn't get it.
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  Speaker 3: But those were two huge sequences. And the Patriots, whose
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  Speaker 3: red zone defense was the worst in the league this year,
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  Speaker 3: Chargers have struggled in the red zone is their offense.
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  Speaker 3: Patriots defense won that battle. I hope they were that
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  Speaker 3: they had the most convincing win of any of the
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  Speaker 3: five games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean not hard to have a convincing win
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  Speaker 1: when it felt like it came down to the wire
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  Speaker 1: and all of them this was I thought this was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a closer game tonight as well.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, three points ain't gonna do it.
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  Speaker 1: And of course you mentioned it, like if you're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna go for it, I mean, if you're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: for it at first, you gotta go for it again.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely ridiculous, like it's part of your.
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  Speaker 1: Game plan, like you got to figure out one way
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  Speaker 1: or the other, either I need points or I don't.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go game by game here. We can go very
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  Speaker 1: quickly since obviously we're going over a bunch here. But
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  Speaker 1: New England won the game sixteen thirteen, covered the three
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  Speaker 1: and a half at home total under forty five and
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  Speaker 1: a half. Just simply a dominant performance from New England's defense.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, aside from that, I think, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: May played okay, but everyone's gonna talk about probably two things.
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  Speaker 1: Charger's defense probably played as best as they could think
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line let them down. Herbert hit seven eight
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  Speaker 1: nine times in this game, which was on par for
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  Speaker 1: everything we've seen from them this season. And I mean
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  Speaker 1: just kind of looked like a Rabel defense in this game.
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  Speaker 1: And coming up you've got Houston and Pittsburgh. I think
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  Speaker 1: they'd probably like to see Pittsburgh, would be my guess
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  Speaker 1: based off just you know, trying to see another defense
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  Speaker 1: in that sense. But either way, kind of intriguing though,
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  Speaker 1: any thoughts early on that New England game.
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  Speaker 3: Depending on opponent, I mean, you can kind of have
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  Speaker 3: a similar game plan against sure, right, you have you
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  Speaker 3: have Stroud, who struggles against the Blitz, Rogers who struggles
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  Speaker 3: against pressure to you know, not the most reliable offensive lines.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I still have questions about this Patriots defense.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like, who have they faced all year? Right, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they faced Josh Allen got cooked and that's basically the
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  Speaker 3: only and then they did. You have to give him
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  Speaker 3: credit for just completely bottling up Herbert, but again, the
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  Speaker 3: state of that offensive line, But it might be the
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  Speaker 3: same story next week against either one of those opponents.
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  Speaker 1: You know, start, did Christian Gonzalez come back, So that's
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  Speaker 1: a major concern.
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  Speaker 3: Yet he was one of the things, like the Chargers
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  Speaker 3: receivers were non existent. I mean, the best the only
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  Speaker 3: guy that I heard his name the entire besides Herbert
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  Speaker 3: getting hit was Vdal. He like he picked up that fumble,
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  Speaker 3: ran for it. A couple of pat but who who
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  Speaker 3: on the Chargers offense? Did you hear their name called?
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  Speaker 4: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Also, I mean, to be clear, a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: talking about this, but they disguised the O'marian Hampton injury
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  Speaker 1: a lot more than they probably should have, because it
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  Speaker 1: honestly looked like he shouldn't have even played in the game,
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  Speaker 1: and there should have been some designation. And we had
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  Speaker 1: heard about ankle this and that he had a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a boot on it and basically shouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: been out. There was the reason Herbert was scrambling on
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  Speaker 1: over the place, and obviously Vidal played a ton of snaps.
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  Speaker 1: But all right, let's keep rolling.
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  Speaker 3: Here, Padridson. You want to see the Steelers though, because
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  Speaker 3: that's fair. I mean, look, the Steelers are three point
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  Speaker 3: home dogs against the Texans. The Steelers, you can hit,
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  Speaker 3: you can get explosives on them. That's something the Chargers
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  Speaker 3: do take away, and they did for the most part today.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think that the Patriots should feel good
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  Speaker 3: regardless of who they play. But the Texans, I think
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  Speaker 3: would be a stiffer test defensively.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 3: All right, rematch, by the way, rematch earlier the season
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  Speaker 3: with the Patriots the Steelers did go into New England
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  Speaker 3: and beat the Patriots, but the Patriots dominated that game.
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  Speaker 3: It was a typical voodoo Steelers win. I think the
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  Speaker 3: Patriots turned it over five times. The Patriots kept getting
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  Speaker 3: down to like the two and not scoring. It was
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  Speaker 3: pretty crazy. So yeah, I think the Patriots will be
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  Speaker 3: deserve his favorites at home against either.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's keep rolling here.
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo Jackson will Buffalo wins twenty seven to twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: one and a half point road Dogs total under fifty
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  Speaker 1: one and a half, fifty two and a half.
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  Speaker 2: But right by the hook.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think you and I would mention this,
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  Speaker 1: and you obviously had Jack's first half, but Buffalo's probably
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: started a little bit faster than maybe we had assumed,
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  Speaker 1: even though it included like two punts of fumble, Like,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't exactly amazing offense in the first half, but
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  Speaker 1: got the job done. But to me, it just turned
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  Speaker 1: into kind of an everything Josh Allen game. A ton
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  Speaker 1: of passing, running all over the place. But the Jags
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  Speaker 1: rush defense did their job, like Cook did nothing. Fifteen
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  Speaker 1: to forty six, just both around three yards per rush.
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  Speaker 1: It was just other things that got them beat. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo went nine to sixteen on third down fourth down, definitely,
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  Speaker 1: and you had mentioned it with the Caleb Williams throw,
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  Speaker 1: But that back foot throw from Josh on first and
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  Speaker 1: ten cooks ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's.
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  Speaker 1: Those two throws like win football games. And when you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about the margins being that thin, But what.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see here? Anything worth note?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't think the Bills in the
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  Speaker 3: first half were great. I mean the Jags were one
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  Speaker 3: and a half yards per played better. The Bills had
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  Speaker 3: one good drive in the whole first half, but it
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  Speaker 3: was a great it was the meaningful drive. It was
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  Speaker 3: ninety four yards after Trevor Lawrence's shin went huge swing
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  Speaker 3: in that game, and then they kicked a fifty yard
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  Speaker 3: field goal off of an interception. But those are the margins, Prater.
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  Speaker 3: Your banged up kicker made a fifty plus yarder and
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  Speaker 3: the Jags all Pro kicker who made twenty in a row,
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  Speaker 3: missed a fifty plus yarder, and then in the red
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  Speaker 3: zone you didn't get your fourth down, came up with
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  Speaker 3: no points. The Bills were amazing on fourth downs, so
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  Speaker 3: I thought, like just watching that game, the Jags were
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  Speaker 3: the better team on a play by play basis, like
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  Speaker 3: they completely stopped the run. They had way more success
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  Speaker 3: running the ball, but the Bills had Josh Allen and
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  Speaker 3: that was ultimately the difference. He played amazing because he
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  Speaker 3: had no help from his run game they usually do.
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  Speaker 3: And then the second half they had to open it
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  Speaker 3: up and asked him to go win it, and he did.
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  Speaker 3: I also thought in the first half the Jags really
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  Speaker 3: really missed Parker Washington. He was he was amazing in
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  Speaker 3: the second half. He was amazing in the second half
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  Speaker 3: of the year, and he missed most of the first half.
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  Speaker 3: I am shot. I mean, it's the playoffs, like there's
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  Speaker 3: I guess there's there's no such thing as concussions for
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  Speaker 3: a lot of teams. I'm shock that he came back
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  Speaker 3: after what I saw. But he was great in the
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  Speaker 3: second half. Did he finished for I think he finished
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  Speaker 3: with over one hundred yards and so they missed him
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  Speaker 3: in the first half. They missed some opportunities. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: really a coin foot game, like Jaggs, here's where this again,
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  Speaker 3: where the margins are small. I think mcdermomy made a
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  Speaker 3: huge mistake that Josh Allen toush push It's funny that
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  Speaker 3: they used the Toush push so effectively and they were
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  Speaker 3: trying to get it banned in the offseason. I believe
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  Speaker 3: they were one of the teams that voted against it,
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  Speaker 3: and they use it now effectively in the Eagles, like
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  Speaker 3: they went four of like their last eleven on the
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  Speaker 3: touch push. But there's a minute ten left at the
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  Speaker 3: one on first in goal and the Jags have no timeouts.
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  Speaker 3: I one hundred percent of the time, snap and fall down,
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  Speaker 3: or snap and taken me one pc of the time,
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  Speaker 3: and then you have three that you then you run
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  Speaker 3: forty seconds off the clock. There was like a minut five.
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  Speaker 3: Let there would have been twenty seconds left. You have
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  Speaker 3: your timeouts, but you don't even need it. You have
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  Speaker 3: three more Josh Allen tush pushes to get in and
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  Speaker 3: then there's the Jags are done. Instead you went you
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  Speaker 3: scored on the first play. Now it didn't matter because
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: Lawrence threw a pick. But what you shouldn't base things
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  Speaker 3: off of the results. It's about the process. You could
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  Speaker 3: say like, look, just score that, just get the points.
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  Speaker 3: Things can happen. You can fumble, I get it. But
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  Speaker 3: I think in the long run, the smart move there
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  Speaker 3: was to not score on first down with them not
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  Speaker 3: having any timeouts and then score.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't bite the bills, but just something worth voting
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  Speaker 3: because we've seen McDermott and final minutes of playoff games
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  Speaker 3: go sideways before. But just an incredible game and it
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  Speaker 3: was Josh and Josh. You have to like Alan got
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  Speaker 3: beat up in that game too. I mean he came
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  Speaker 3: in with an injury to his foot. He you know here,
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  Speaker 3: he had his knee twisted, he got his head hit,
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: his hand hit on a helmet. I mean he the
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  Speaker 3: Jags defense threw everything at him and he just made
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  Speaker 3: incredible throws with like who at receiver? She cared a
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  Speaker 3: great day, but they kept losing receivers. They've already like
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  Speaker 3: so that was all on Josh Allen had tipped to him.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they saw Mitch Trubisky warming up and Josh
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  Speaker 1: is like, no chance, that's on it.
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  Speaker 3: Josh Allen going to the blue tent in the playoffs
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  Speaker 3: is me rolling my eyes. They just go in there
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  Speaker 3: and like give him a pat on the ass and
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  Speaker 3: tell him to get back out there.
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  Speaker 1: The reason you're right, though about the toush push at
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  Speaker 1: the end is because the Jaguars faked like they were
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  Speaker 1: they wanted him the score correct, but they faked it
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  Speaker 1: like they wanted them to look like they cared about
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  Speaker 1: him scoring. And Liam Cohen even said in postgame he
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  Speaker 1: was like, we let them score.
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  Speaker 2: It was the right movie.
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  Speaker 3: So that's how you know it was the wrong move
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  Speaker 3: to score. The other team is trying to let you score.
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  Speaker 3: So like because of that, you could have like went
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  Speaker 3: to the inch yard line and kneeled it, and the
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  Speaker 3: chances of you scoring again from the inch yard line
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  Speaker 3: with the Josh Allen towysch Bush are way higher than
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  Speaker 3: the Jags with a minute ten being able to go
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  Speaker 3: down the field and kick a fueld goal with a
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  Speaker 3: kicker who has distance from he's made, he's two for
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  Speaker 3: two from sixty seven plus the rest of the NFL
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  Speaker 3: and NFL history he's oh for twenty two. So like
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: all they had to do, they could get the midfield right.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: So you start like a lot of you started the
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  Speaker 3: thirty five fifteen yards you're in range. Now it worked
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  Speaker 3: out for them. I'm just saying I think that was
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  Speaker 3: the wrong move.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes it works out and it's just the wrong move.
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  Speaker 2: And that was one of them.
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  Speaker 3: I'll live Jags by the way. He rest of the
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: see should be happy that they're out. It was unfortunate,
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: incredible year from Liam Cohen. Easily could have won that game,
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: easily could have made a run. It was unfortunate that
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: both of these teams had to play each other home
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: wild cobekend completely agree.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: A lot of flak is going to go to Herbert
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: based off his performance tonight, But I did look it up.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence's three playoff starts minus one point six EPA today,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: minus three point seven in his last start, and then
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: plus two point five against Case, but negative completion percentage
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: over expected in all three starts, qbr under fifty and
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: all three like, he just hasn't been his best.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: In these games. And that kind I mean, he played
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: alright today.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Maybe you put it on the defense, but Buffalo does
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: put up what twenty six, twenty seven points in this game,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: so probably a stopper more there on the defense right now.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: He wasn't great, he was he was just okay, But
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: the pick at the end was bad. The other pick
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: was bad early that led to Buffalo points, and then
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: you have to blame him for a shin going down
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: just awareness. I mean, it's just him. I know it
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: was kind of a fluky play, but that basically took
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: four and a half five points on average off the board.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: So yeah, he wasn't great, but I thought the Jags
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: defense played well and it was just it was just
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Josh Allen was just incredible.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: You gotta ad it to ridiculous and an unfortunate miss
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: from Cam Little early to obviously the difference. But all right,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: green Bank, Chicago, Holy mackerel. So Chicago wins a game
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: thirty one, twenty seven and one and a half point
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: home Dogs total over forty six and a half. There
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: is really not much to say here other than like,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: if you haven't watched Chicago all year, this is exactly
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: what you got. And then from Green Bay's perspective, like
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: they've lost five straight after this one, they have not
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: looked the same in you know, basically without Micah Parsons.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: But I mean, when you talk about the play calling
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: from Laflour in the second half, they attempted seven runs
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: in the second half of twenty one three was minus
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: two to one six zero one zero and zero first
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: four drives in the second half.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: They gained nine total yards.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: And I think the worst part about it was they
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: knocked off like four minutes on the clock in total
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: in those four drives, so he just really got shit
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: before they even scored a touchdown in the second half
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: and really got something going. It was already twenty one
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: sixteen and it was a ballgame, so it just you
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: had kind of ruined the entire lead based off of
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: your play calling, and you could just see it like
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: after they got up, they were just allowing Chicago to
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: do kind of what they wanted and stick around, and
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: that honestly ended up being the problem. And you mentioned
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: that the fourth and eighth throw to Rome is just,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, something you will see forever in Chicago, no
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: matter what happens, because it was just that unreal of
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: a throw from a guy that talented and also very
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: cool that he looked like Michael Jordan in the middle
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: of the air, but either way, absolutely ridiculous.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: So what do you make from Green Bay Chicago?
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the Green Bay injuries, I think that
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Cod there did. I mean, like Cooper, they had some
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: more offensive line injuries, Doc Tom not starting although they
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: were up twenty one three, missed a fuel go at
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: the end of that, they should be up twenty four
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: to three. You have to win that game. And they're
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: up twenty one six in the fourth quarter, like you
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: have to win that game no matter what, and it
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: just it just was your your typical Bears game. Also
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: another underrated play obviously the fourth and eight and if
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: they didn't call the false start, the snap goes over
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: the head before then and the game is over. The
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: fourth and eight is incredible throw by Kleb. Then they
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: score a touchdown, they get the two point conversion, slept
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: on conversion because if you don't get that the Packers
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: at the end. Now, the Packers missed the field goal
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: after that, but then they had the ball at the
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: very end of the game at the Bears twenty timeout
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: management wasn't great for the Force. They had no timeouts left,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: there was a runoff. It was a mess. But if
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: the if there were so many things that could have
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: happened where the Packers could have kick the game winning
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: field and now they probably would have missed it again. But
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: they missed two field goals, an extra point, and the
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Bears got a two point conversion not after nine points.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Of those hidden points and all of those cumulatively led
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: to a four point lead. If one of those things
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: goes the other way, the Packers are kicking a feel
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: a lot of tie or to take the order to win.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Instead they have to throw up a hail Mary. And
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: at the end they had their back up right tackle,
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: their third string center, and their backup left tackle in
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: the game. But I did think that Dennis Allen. I
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: thought that the four play calling wasn't great, but I
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: thought that Dennis allen adjustments on defense and the additional
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: some of the pressure packages that he was bringing I
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: thought were very nice in the second half, because that's
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: a bad defense. But it just felt like a choke
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: and it just felt like every Bears game all this year.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's their seventh win this year, NFL record,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: seventh win when trailing with under two minutes to go,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: and as someone who had to, I had the Packers
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: plus one now again, I thought I was gonna push
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: it worse to losing that game is a nightmare. But
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: the fourth and eight, once they got that, I said,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: I'm in trouble. I would have sale the game was
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: over if they didn't convert that. But that was the
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: play of the game.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Seriously, I mean, that play is just unbelievable when you
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: look at back at it, especially almost getting sacked, like
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: throwing an almost mid air, just absolutely ridiculous.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: The one thing.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Packers had just scored a touchdown to go up twenty
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: seven to sixteen with six to go, and like, now
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: there's what there was like five to go, fourth and
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: eight at midfield. You don't get that it's over. The
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: game's over. So given the circumstances, the stage, and then
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: just how incredible that throw you have to hat tip
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Caleb Williams. Now the Bears get I mean, how based
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: on how everything broke, it's pretty crazy that the Seahawks
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: were they were, It looked like they were going to
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: get the Packers, and the Packers had a bunch more injuries,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: and then the Bears win. So then you're a Seahawks fan,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: you say, shit, we gotta play the Rams. And then
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: the Eagles get upset at home, which there's not a
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: lot of people including myself, saw happening, and now they
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: get the forty nine ers. So it went from oh,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: we're getting the Packers for sure up twenty one, twenty
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: one to three, to oh god, we're getting the Rams
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: to Okay, we're getting the forty nine ers, So what
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: roller coaster promotions for Seahawks fans despite not.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Playing seriously, absolutely unreal to go back and forth and
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: now Seattle looks like they're a seven and a half
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: point favorite against the Niners and rams are Land three
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: and a half at the moment in Chicago.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: So interesting lines.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: On the least touchdown swing Sewks serious the Eagles result,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: you would go from a toss up game probably to
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: somewhere round of pick I mean, now a touchdown plus
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: favor crazy.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: All right, let's do that in San Francisco Philly game. Quick.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: So San Francisco does end up winning twenty three nineteen
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: five and a half point road dogs total under forty
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: four and a half.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I thought this one.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: This line is fantastic, So from Shield Capatia, who used
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: to work with me at ESPN. Niners produced the highest
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: single game offensive success rate against the Eagles since Fangio
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: became their DC. It was just the perfect game plan
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: for what Shanahan put together here. San Francisco defense pretty
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: much showed up here with their six seventh eighth linebackers
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: out there, but really it was probably just an inept
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Philly offensive game. I mean Hurts his fifteen incompletions just
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty eight yards passing Rady under eighty
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: QBR of forty and to me, this is what probably
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: gets at the most. So late passdowns he was at
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: thirty one percent success rate and passing to Davanta Goddard,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Barkley and aj he went eighteen of thirty one, So
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: that's thirteen incompletions, a lot off target, a lot in
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: pass breaks to those guys. And this one was the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: best which Juwan Jennings had more completed passes fifteen plus
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: yards air then Jalen Hurts did, who went oh for
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: five just absolutely terrible from my opinion on the offensive
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: side of the ball. That really let them up because
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Saquan had a good game. But what do you make
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: of this one?
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Yes, one thing I got right this weekend was the
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: under which I thought, which I thought was gonna get
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: ruined at the end of the toast. Yeah, I thought
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: the Eagles were going down and scoring. But this is
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: again a microcosm of the year for the Philadelphia Eagles,
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: and even playing this beat up and already bad forty
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: nine Ers defense that were down their top four linebackers.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: They score, they go on to sixteen play ninety four
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: yard nine minute drive to golf thirteen to seven midway
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: through the second quarter, and then from on their next three, four, five,
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Their next five drives twenty seven plays for twenty six yards,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: taking them midway through the fourth. That was the Eagles
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: offense all year, no matter who they were playing, they
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: would go these long stretches where they couldn't do anything.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, it is and like it to play calling
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: is bad. We know Patoola is bad. It's not creative.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: It's just hitch routes. And some of the runs were
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: But the biggest thing is their offensive line is so
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: much like how many times did you see Barkley who
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: still if you actually just give them space, he will
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: go for ten to fifteen plus yards. How many times
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: all year including today was Barkley hit as soon as
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: you're handing the ball off hit stuffed in the backfield.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: I mean they were thirtieth in the NFL and stuff right.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Obviously no Lane Johnson today hurt. Their offense is night
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: and day with him. But this was it kind of
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: just summed up the Eagle season with their offense and
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: the droughts that they went on the u have Siriani
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: blowing up on the sidelines with AJ Brown and then
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: AJ Brown doesn't catch a pass. A couple dropped the
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: whole rest of the way. The AJ Brown discourse and
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: the Sirianni Patuila discourse on WIP and what is the
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: ninety seventy five whatever the radio station is for the
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: next couple of weeks, It's going to be interesting in Philly.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I was shocked at the Niners with and
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: even after losing Kittle. Yeah, and they lost the turnover
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: battle to nothing. Perty had two bad picks, But I
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: was shot that they were able to push the ball
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: down the field and hit explosives on this Eagles defense
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: in twenty five to thirty mile an hour wins. They
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: had a bunch. I mean, DeMarcus Robinson had a day.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: He went off and look, everyone knew the Eagles offense
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: had issues. Everyone knew Jake Elliott had a down year.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: And by the way, I know san Fran missed an
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: extra point, but Elliott's missed extra point. You had that
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: in you can kick a field goal late. Like these
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: little things in the playoffs make such a difference. But
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: I would be remiss if I didn't give you gave
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Shanahan credit. I'll look at it from the other side.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: The Eagles defense deserves criticism here. This was the unit
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: that's carried them all year and you're going up against
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: you know, I mean, Fanjo has own Shannah in the
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: past four head to head meetings. He's averaged ten and
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: a half points per game, never cleared fifteen. And the
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: forty nine ers, even after losing Kittle, there's no Ricky Piersoll.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: They gained three hundred and sixty one yards six point
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: two yards per play, and there was no run game
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: to speak of, and there was thirty mile an hour
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: wins and you have the lead late kick a field goal.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: I'll off have an interception, and you let them go
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: ten plays sixty six yards and score a touchdown that
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: you cannot let them. At worst, you have to hold
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: them to a field goal there. But credit to forty
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: nine ers, the Eagles defense, they were great all year.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: They do deserve blame for that performance today because it
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: wasn't great. So yeah, credit to the forty nine ers
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: is an all I Sawah was great. They didn't allow
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: the explosives there. There was I mean, Eric Hendricks made
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: the made he deflected the game winning pass, and like, yeah,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: there was the toola can't be back?
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: You have?
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: This roster has way too much talent to be coordinated
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: like that. I don't even know, Well Siriani be back,
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: I don't know, I mean he does he yet? The
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Eagles are ruthless. They have a very good organization, a
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: very good GM. They're run very well. Yeah, like is
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: he one hundred percent?
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: This is a loss that just can't happen, right, I
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: mean like even watching this game, Phillies up, three, Phillies
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: up six, whatever it was, it was like, Okay, they're
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: gonna do enough to win this and we're going to
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: talk the entire week about how it didn't look good
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: but they want anyway. And San Francisco was like screw that,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Like we're honestly just gonna take this game, no matter
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: who's on the field.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I kind of had forgetten, like forgotten and then blanked
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: out about the Kittle thing, but I mean not, I
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: mean adding the Kittle injury to everything else they were
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: going through and then they still come out on top.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Just honestly, probably one of those shocks. I mean if
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Carolina had one, which we'll talk about in a second.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Obviously more shocking, but this was it. I mean, this
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: was the craziest. I couldn't have even imagined this with
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: all the injuries. I line got up to six middle
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: of the week, close at five and a half, but
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: wild nonetheless, And the thing was San Francisco also gave
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: them two turnovers, So I mean, well, yeah, two nothing.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: The thing that's crazy is and I just looked, I
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: looked this up before we came on. Siriani is now
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: lost four straight when the opponent has two plus turnovers.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: He was twenty five and two prior to that. So,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, lately it just no matter what happens, close
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: game and Philly's offense doesn't come through.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: But shock, there's like these the Hurts never turns it over, right,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: they don't They the Eagles never turn sometimes. That's like
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: I feel like it's bad in a way because they
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: just they don't take risks, right, They're like it's just
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: these how many times on second and long and sometimes
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: on third long where they're running the ball.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: To lose.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're just playing to like pull these games out
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: by a field goal. Bear, And like that's tough to do.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: They just need a whole new offensive of off score
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: in a new philosophy.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: It's like, this is like not making the playoffs, honestly,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: like it pretty much is going to be looked at
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: very similarly to lose a game as like a six
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: point favorite at home to a team that's the walking dead.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: All right, I will say the line news something that. Look,
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: the best thing you can do betting the NFL, and
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: even in the playoffs, where lines are even more efficient,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: is get the best of the number. It's the best
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: thing you can do. Now, this weekend didn't really work out.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Didn't work out for me in particular. I could think
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: of Packers, I add the Panthers under forty nine Ers
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: under least worked out. But if you had the Jags,
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: I mean Jags took real money. Jags at some sharp
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: shops closed two and a half, opened a dog, and
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: then the Eagles they were sitting three and a half close.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: I think it closed five and a half, right there, Yeah,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: close five and a half linked with Lane Johnson Autrent
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Williams in. But you beat that line over the long run.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: That's gonna work out with this week for some of
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: the bigger line moves didn't work out, but short sample
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: size can overreact, all.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Right, Speaking of lines and craziness, Rams beat the point
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Panthers thirty four to thirty one. They close a ten
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: point road favorites total over forty five. So yeah, Carolina
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: does close plus ten time for the biggest home dog
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: in playoff history. But listen, Carolina was inside or pushing
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: the number of the entire game, the entire game. So
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I mean there was a chance for the Rams to
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: go up. You know, it could have been it could
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: have been thirteen, that could have been sick teen or seventeen.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: But there was an opportunity there that kind of blow
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the game away, and they almost really blew this one.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I mean seriously, a few opportunities there late in the
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: game where it could have definitely gone Carolina's way, especially
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: after that late turnover. I will say this home dog's
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: of four plus and down nine to zero against the
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: spread last fifty years in the playoffs. We will see
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: if the Bears get there. Pretty crazy for a two
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: seed home dog in the divisional round. But nonetheless, all
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: I really have to say is like Bryce Young played formidable,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Like the numbers were all right, He had.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: A positive EPA.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: But he goes four of seventeen passing under pressure, just
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: not something you can do in something typical to what
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Bryce Young usually does. And then you look at the
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: other side, Stafford, three touchdowns, no picks, two hundred and
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: forty four yards in a clean pocket and under pressure
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: he goes five to thirteen with an interception and what
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: you would have expected thirty one targets to Pooka and DeVante.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: So going to the people he trusts in this one.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was at the game was played out nothing
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: like I thought it would. Carolina came out throwing. I
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: thought they were going to try to run, control the clock,
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: shorten the game. Now maybe because they got behind that
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: all changed. But yeah, I mean Young threw the ball
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: forty times, he only ran it I think twenty now
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: they didn't have much success running it. I thought Quentin Lake,
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: who returned from injury, had a really bad game. He's
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: a good player, and I thought it was going to
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: help the defense. But that looked like there was some
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: rust and the speed wasn't there. And I mean Davante
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: missing time, he didn't look great. I mean when he
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: had five catches, he was targeted. How many times. Was
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: he targeted a lot fourteen times? Yeah? So Nikoua was incredible. Stafford,
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: I thought he struggled a bit against again his old coordinator,
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: these these coverages where they disguise and shift post snap,
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: these mass coverages. He struggled a bit again, But in
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: the end they recovered and they put that drive together
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: at the end of the game. Seven plays, seventy one yards,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: incredible throw by Stafford down the sidelines and they got
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: a Yeah, that was crazy. So I was shocked at
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: the Fantas scored thirty one the first time in won,
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: but that was on you know, a pick six, a
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: couple of fourth down busted plays. I did not think
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: they were going to get to thirty one this time around.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: So I'm I'm not sure what the make of the Rams.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: In short, like I fought like a month ago, this
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: is a team. If you said who's winning the Super Bowl,
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: I would have confidently said, all right, I'm gonna pick
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: the Rams. And then you know, down they're up. They're dominating.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: The Seahawks look like they're poised to get the one seed.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: They melt away that game they lose in Atlanta. They
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: don't look great, and you know, wanting to try for
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: the first two and a half quarters against the Cardinals,
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: and they eat this game out against Carolina. I got
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: to dig more into the Rams on what's going on
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: because it hasn't looked pretty for the last month.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Anow, they're lay in three and a half or four
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: in the Chicago team who maybe won't be there in
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: the first half, but you know they will be there
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: in the second.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: The two things I.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Set the Bears when they go down seventeen.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: The two things I saw from the Rams in this
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: game that I guess are kind of puzzling. So they
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: get nine penalties and this is coming from the least
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: penalized team in the NFL during the season.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: The penalized team in five years.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they had twelve percent of their entire regular season
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: penalties in this game. I mean that that is how crazy,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: and I guess undisciplined to a tee they were in
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: this one and the other This is the other one,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: and you had mentioned it, but Carolina going four to
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: four in the red zone and Cocher and Tech going
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: fourteen of two point fifteen, that's a problem. And you
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: had mentioned Lake, but their secondary they're the past players.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: They allow.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: To me, that's like part of the issue, and you're
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: going up against I'm gonna call them the Magician, but
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: right now that's kind of what Caleb's doing. So I mean,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: between Burden and Rome getting another week of healthy coming
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: off of this one, and I just does on DJ Moore,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of options there for Chicago. I think
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a worry.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Rams secondary by far is the most questionable
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: aspect of their team and what ultimately might hold them
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: back for a set boll. I mean going back to
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: let's start the November thirtieth when they played the Panthers,
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: they gave up thirty one and lost. They played the
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Cardinals with like they were a backup team, but the
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Cardinals were moving the ball in that game, like throwing
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: the ball as well. They gave up. Then they gave
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: up thirty four to the Lions, thirty eight to the Seahawks,
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: twenty seven to the Falcons in a loss, and then
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: you know, they play the backup Cardinals again, Cardinals are
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: moving the ball in that game too, and then thirty
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: one to the Panthers. So like this defense over the
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: last month and a half has regularly given up thirty
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: one to thirty three thirty eight points sets that and
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: the Bears have the talent to take it. We'll just
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: see how far behind they get first.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So right now, if I look at the board, it
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: is Texans minus three sitting at minus one zh five,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: so that seems to be coming down a bit thirty
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: eight and a half. Which the fun thing about thirty
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: eight and a half. It is the lowest playoff total
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: since I believe brock Osweiler Connor Cook twenty sixteen seventeen,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: so we haven't seen a playoff total this low in
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: some time. But stuck, I will leave it to you, like,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: what do you think about this game? I have a
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: pick or two and some trends, but what do you
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: make of this one?
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think the line. I think it like
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: taking out all the three and a half on the
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Steelers made sense. The low scoring game home dog Rogers
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: can get the ball out quick to neutralize some of
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: that Texans pressure. The issue is going to be is
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: if they don't think it's going to be hard to
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: maintain drives right, So like if you could have a
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: couple first downs, but then if you have if you're
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: incomplete on first run for two on second on those
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: third and longs. Rogers against that pressure, and he's been
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: bad against pressure year, it's not going to go well.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: On the other end, Stroud has been really bad against
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: the blitz. The Steelers defense is getting healthier. You never
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: know what you're gonna get from Steelers defense. So like
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: some weeks they look incredible, some weeks it looks broken.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: There's gonna be some bus which adds some variants here.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: But they also tend to have those splash plays from
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: their defensive line. The strip sacks, the interceptions, how many
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: of those can they get will probably go a long
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: way in determining this game. You know, it's also we'll
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: see how you know Stroud and an indoor team going
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: to outdoors and freezing cold temperatures. That's at least worth noting.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: I think if you want to bet this game, I
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: don't have anything right now, but this game is on Monday,
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: you're gonna have lines. How you know you already have
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks, Niners, line out the Rams Bears if you
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: like something next week. I think the Steelers are a
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: good teaser piece to pair with, you know, say, getting
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Seattle from seven and a half to one and a half.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: It's just it's just an ideal teaser piece. The total
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: is thirty eight and a half. I know it's not
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: the line is that two and a half, But it's
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: a juice three, you know, so you're crossing three four
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: six seven. So yeah, I think the Steelers teaser piece
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: is a good look. But this will probably come down
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: to which defense can force the more critical turnover because
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: this one should be tight throughout.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, if I had to pick a winner,
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: I like Houston.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: But I think the line's just right and I'm not
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: comfortable really laying three three and a half with a
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: three eight and a half total, so I buy that.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: The one thing I think is interesting is obviously you
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: get DK Metcalf back in the game. But if you've
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: watched any Steelers games this year, the chemistry between Metcalf
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: and Rodgers is pretty much zero. Like I feel like
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: he is not his favorite target. Now will he force
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: it there? Like he tends to just throw to his
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: guys mvs or the tight ends.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Like it's just Rogers is set in his ways.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to me how Metcalf kind of
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: gets brought back into the picture after two plus weeks
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: of them trying to deal without him, So that to
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: me is interesting.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think. I don't think Metcalf being back
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: is as important in some matchups. You know, he could
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: He's worth a couple of points of day, sure, Like,
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: but here Uf Stingley, who can just man up against him?
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Because a lot of times you even in the red
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: zone right, you'll see like a safety you know, kind
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: of hovering on his side, cheating decided it might open
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: up some other things. But the Texans, you know, with
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: their corners, they can trust Stingley. By the way, Leonora
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: followed AJ Brown, he never followed all year, and he
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: followed A J. Brown today. I don't they just give
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: him on my mind, he didn't follow JSN all year.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: I'm curious to see if that they changed that next week.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: But yeah, so he's not as important, but he does
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: have the big play capability, So like he does have
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: the chance of like taking a slant seventy yards right,
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: whereas no one else on the Steelers does. So he
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: gives you a little bit more upside. But in this
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: particular matchup, I don't think he's as big as he
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: would be compared to others.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: And you would mentioned this Stroud thing. I think it
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: is worth noting. I mean, he's two and oh straight
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: up and against the spread at home in the playoffs,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: zero and two on the road and those you know,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: you hear quarterback stats and you're like, I need more context. Well,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: I mean on those two road games, they've scored twenty
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: four total points, scoring fourteen or less in both games.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: You don't you don't need much more contact than that.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: So that has to change if Houston's going to be
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: able to produce what they need to do to win
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: this game. So to me, that's noteworthy. And then I
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: tweeted this out. It's just kind of bonkers that the
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Steelers have started so.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: Slow in playoff games.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: They've been outscored seventy three to nothing in their six
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: game playoff losing streak in the first quarter. So I
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: mean they've scored seven points or less than sixty nine
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: straight first quarters. Like, you're gonna probably need some sort
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: of offense at some point. You don't want to fall
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: down seven, ten, thirteen, whatever. Is nothing to Houston with
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: that defense, So Pittsburgh got to try to change things
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: up there. So those are the things that I thought
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: were kind of noteworthy.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: I'll give you, just sixty.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: Nine straight without scoring more than seven points in the
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: first quarter is insane.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Insane, and it's just and that's through Rudolph and all
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: sorts of different garbage. But nonetheless, the three things I
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: were looking at were I kind of like wooding marks
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: again in the end zone, even in a low scoring game.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: If I had to pick a touchdown, that would probably
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: be my guy. I actually really like mvs. Over nine
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: and a half receaving yards. I just feel like in
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: this type of game, even with Metcalf back, he's going
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: to force it into the tight ends. But I also
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: think he's going to force it into the guys he likes,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: because that's just who the hell Rodgers is so I
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: like that nine and a half, and I would look
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: at Boswell over one and a half field goals. I
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: don't love it in this type of game. But again,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I see Pittsburgh moving the ball up to a certain
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: point and then just being steinmiat and Rodgers getting sacked
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: and whatever. It ends up being in completions and then
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: they end up having to kick field goals. So I
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: don't even know what that line is. I didn't look
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: at the juice, but over one and a half field
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: goals feels like something that'll hit for Boswell. So those
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: are my three looks.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: I believe the Giants have the record for that record
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: for consecutive games without scoring more than seven points in
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: the first quarter, and I think it's current. I think
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: it's eighty. Maybe they broke it this year, but I
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: don't think I think it's eighty games. I'm Giants eighty
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: games without scoring.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: I have the Pittsburgh stack goes back to number of
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, which is a lot of time for Pittsburgh.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: In a lot of different quarterbacks.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: This one goes back to twenty twenty. O don't know. Let
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: me say, wow, I could be making this up.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Even if you are it sounds impressive.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah. The New York Giants had a streak of eighty
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: consecutive games where they scored no more than seven points
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: in the first quarter. Began during the twenty twenty season
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: and continued until early in the twenty twenty five seasons,
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: so it ended earlier this year. It's the second longest
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: streak in NFL history. The longest is.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, you know what, it might have been russ In
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: like that early Cowboys game. Yes, that's a guess.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: The record is held by the Brooklyn Dodgers from nineteen
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: thirty to nineteen thirty seven eighty six.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Jackie Robinson.
• 45:48
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• 45:57
  Speaker 1: But finally, before we get out of here, let's hear
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: from Brandon Anderson and his Hot Red picks for next
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: week Hot Wraps seventy on ice rights ice cream Hoe.
• 46:12
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna start with forty nine Ers Seahawks. Gimme the
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: under under forty six and a half. Typically you want
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: overs in the division round and usually with the Niners.
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: But you look a little below the surface here. Obviously,
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: these teams just played two weeks ago Seattle thirteen to three,
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: dominant win. Niners thirty six percent success rate terrible, one
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: hundred and seventy three yards, three points, both of those
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: there lowest since their debut game with Cal Shanahan back
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: in twenty seventeen. Nine first downs all game. They got
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: totally shut down on their money plays sand Fran number
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: number one, red zone number one on late downs. They
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: were two eleven on late downs oh of one in
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: the red zone that game. This is what Seattle went
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: out to get Mike McDonald four for these Shanahan McVay offenses,
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: Seahawks defense is awesome Number one Dvoway, top two against
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: the run and the pass, and importantly top seven are
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: better against motion play action under center, middle of the field,
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: all those money Shanahan areas. That is what Seattle defense best.
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: And it turns out that really wasn't new for the
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: Niners offense to stall. We saw it again today against
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: a real defense. Check out these splits. Since brock pretty
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: returned from injury, Niners have played four games against defenses
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: twentieth or worse. Four games against anyone better like twentieth
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: is not even good, just even league average or better.
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: This is including like Carolina and Cleveland, and those four
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: games against the bad defenses average scored the game just
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: under seventy points a game forty or fifty four percent
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: success rate for the Niners offense, and the other four
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: games again against any defense with a pulse forty percent
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: success rate down from fifty four. Average score of those
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: games not seventy anymore, try thirty thirty point three max
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: score of forty two. The Niners off is just not
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: scoring against top defenses. I think they got a little
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: bit inflated based on some of those bad matchups. Now,
• 48:07
  Speaker 5: obviously George Kittle is out. That's a huge loss, especially
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: in this matchup. Seattle is not defended tight ends that great.
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: Trent Williams is a question mark as always, he missed
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: the last game. Ricky Piersoll is an unknown. Niners offense
• 48:19
  Speaker 5: has just not been good enough, and Sales offense really
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: hasn't been that top notch either. Week eleven, a RAMS game,
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: we saw the RAMS count of exposed Seattle, and since
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: that game forward, Seattle went from the number one passing
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: offense to twenty fifths. That's bottom quarter of the league. Seattle,
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: even against the Niners, probably not going to hang a
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: huge number. They have been an under team, especially first
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: half thirteen and four to the under, so I will
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: probably look for a first half under as well.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: But this forty six.
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: And a half, this is the same total the Niners
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: open against the Eagles, and I don't close forty four.
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: I think this goes the same direction that's already going down.
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: Forty seven is a key number. We're on the wrong
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: side of it, but I think we get towards forty four,
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: which is the key number down. Give me the under
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: forty six and a half at DraftKings, Seahawks and Niners.
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: And while we're here, quick second, high red, keep it
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: nice and easy. Seahawks rams money line parlay. It's Evan
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: odds right now. This color shot, I think that is
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: our NFC championship game. Let's start with the Seahawks.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: We're just there.
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: This is a bet on that Mike McDonald defense. Niners
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: injured everywhere, all those offensive injuries, and Seattle is rested
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  Speaker 5: now because they got that thirteen to three road to win.
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  Speaker 5: This is what they get is the home game with
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  Speaker 5: rest against this tired Niners team. I don't really want
• 49:36
  Speaker 5: to trust Darnold in that offense yet, but San Franz
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  Speaker 5: defense should be just enough for them to get there.
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  Speaker 5: Seattle's zero three in the red zone that game, so
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: probably it shouldn't have been been as close as it did.
• 49:47
  Speaker 5: Turn out. Seattle, when they have fans at home games,
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: ten straight playoff wins, third longest streak in NFL history.
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: I think they get an eleventh one here and host
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: the NFC Championship game against the Rams. This is an
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: easy sell high spot for the Bears, obvious letdown spot
• 50:05
  Speaker 5: emotionally after I can they won their Super Bowl right
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: We saw the comeback the crazy, crazy game against the Packers,
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: but don't forget though the first three quarters count there too.
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  Speaker 5: Chicago has been totally outplayed through three quarters twice now
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  Speaker 5: in the last month against the Packers, really against some
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: of the Packers' backups before that big finish. Bears lose
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: their starting left tackle, they lose their best linebacker and
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: TG Edwards. Their corners are all banged up. This is
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: really a good get right spot, I think for the Rams,
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: especially that Rams offense. I think they can name their
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: number against the Bears defense. Bears d by far the
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: weak link on the field, similar to Santa Fran in
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: the other game. Stafford's fingers supposedly looks fine. How gon
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: to count on the Rams to score? Do the Bears score?
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: They might Ben Johnson might find some answers. Rams defense
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: has been a little bit leaky, but you don't want
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: to want to shoot out against the Rams. Not with
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: that Bears defense. Rams didn't get the one seed, but
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: they didn't kind of get lucky. They get Carolina and
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: now this banged up Bears team rather than a road
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: game in a failure or something like that. This is
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: my Super Bowl pick, my favorite. I think they're the
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: surer win of these teams, even though they're a bit
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: shorter on the line. So I'll probably be back on
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: Rams and Alts this week. So I'm just gonna ride
• 51:16
  Speaker 5: the two favorites here. I think the public will as well,
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: especially with all.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: The injury news.
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: So I think these lines do rise a little bit,
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: maybe towards six ish for the Rams, maybe to seven
• 51:26
  Speaker 5: or past for Seattle. We're getting plus one hundred on
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: the money line parlay. I think by game day next weekend,
• 51:32
  Speaker 5: maybe more like minus one twenty five one to thirty.
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: So let's grab a rams Seattle money line parlay at
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: even odds plus one hundred and called a rap. Let's
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: get to the NFC Championship.
• 51:44
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