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Did Texas & Bama deserve to be in the CFB Playoffs? Plus NFL Week 17 reactions & analysis plus more! · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, Welcome back to another episode
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of the so called Sports Analysts, Episode number twenty eight. Josh, how
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you doing doing amazing? Won three fantasy championships, went to a Spurs game
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they lost. That's okay, and then these Chiefs are in the playoffs.
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Mother than that, I'm doing pretty good. It was an alright, alright
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holiday week. I hope everyone else had a good one and watch these college
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football games and watch the madness happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no
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question. But before we get into it, you can follow us on Twitter
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We appreciate it, and just make sure you show this to anybody who likes
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sports. But we're gonna go ahead and get the show on the road,
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and we're going to talk about the first game here, the first college football
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game that took place yesterday. It was Alabama versus Michigan, in which it
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went into overtime, in which Michigan they won twenty seven to twenty Josh,
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what did you take away from this game? Right here? Dude, in
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my this was just a weird football game. Like there was thirteen ten I
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think after the first half or no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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ten thirteen ten after the first half, and I was like, oh,
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dang, Alabama for sure gonna take over in the second. They just
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had a few mistakes in the first half. But it just didn't they It
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just didn't go that way. Michigan just had fight after fight after fight.
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And then that last play call by Alabama was just idiotic to me, Like,
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how are you gonna do a QB sneak on fourth down from your four
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yard line? Five yard line? Like it just makes no sense. I
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get you have the best running back in the country, but come on,
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like you know in Jenny Milroe. But he I think it was a good
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game. I think Blake Korum, I think a lot of people are going
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to look at him going into the draft about his size, but dude plays
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with a lot of heart, plays with a lot of size for his size.
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You know, he makes the big plays happen for this team. And
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then Roman Wilson after that little little what was it offensive pass interference or something
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or blocking the back, I think, yeah, yeah, he comes by
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and catches a crazy tip pass that j McCarthy threw and takes it up to
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the three and then he catches a touchdown like he just you're the Michigan's playmakers
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showed up when it mattered the most, and that's what really propelled them to
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this win over the Alabama to Crimson tie. Yeah. I completely well,
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you saw the text that I sent you. I thought, Bama, nothing
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was other than that punt, the muffed punt, nothing was going their way.
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They're getting dominated in the trenches, and I was like, Okay,
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well, Bama, they're going to win this game. But the Michigan defense,
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they said, Nope, that ain't gonna happen. They had six sacks,
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ten tackle for losses, and another key set right here forty six solo
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tackles. That is very impressive. That means they're winning the one on ones.
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They're not letting the extra separation happen. And they made Jalen Milrow look
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like not that good of a quarterback outside of other a few plays. And
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of course, Michigan on offense, they did what they do every single week.
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They ran the football very well. Thirty two carries, one hundred and
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thirty yards, four point one yards per carry against a good Alabama front.
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But the biggest thing I took away was JJ McCarthy in all, in all
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aspects, if the overall game, he did not have a good game.
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But when it came down to it, Okay, JJ McCarthy, we need
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you to step up. We need you to step up. Five six minutes
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left, he delivered. He delivered that. I that's what I think he
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delivered it. It's a good defense. Go ahead. What he did.
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Throw that tip pass, it kind of did it kind of did land in
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Roman Wilson's hands, and he had to throw a two yard touchdown out to
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basically a flip pass on that final play that they hadn't in the half where
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the guy ran behind the line of scrimmage, ran and he just flipped it
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to him for the touchdown. You know, Like, yeah, I'm not
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gonna say he took over, but I don't know. He just I'm just
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not a believer in GIJ McCarthy after this game. It's just like they didn't.
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They didn't. I don't think they lost this game. They I don't
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think they won this game because of him, But they don't win this game
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without him. You know what I'm saying, yeah, like I feel like
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because the pieces around him really make some big plays to make it happen.
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But we look at the other side, Jaylen Milbro, outside of one big
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out past Isaiah Bond in like the first or second quarter, I don't remember
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him completing much like passes if that mattered in this game. So yeah,
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I just wish I could see more work from these two quarterbacks through the air
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in this game, but a lot of this was done on the ground.
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And then Jace McClellan bro Like when we when I do like mock drafts,
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Pro Football Focus or whatever, they have this guy going in like the fourth
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round, like third round. I don't know how you can watched that game
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last night. I think Jace McClellan is gonna be a fourth round draft pick
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in the NFL because he looked amazing against that Michigan Wolverine front. Yeah,
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that that Michigan would why would they stop running the ball? I don't know.
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Alabama just stopped running the ball with him, And I think the biggest
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thing that that turned this game around and gave Michigan some momentum is I think
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it was after Michigan they got stopped and it was a short field in Bama.
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They were driving down the field, they were at the fifty and then
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next thing you know, Jalen Milro he fumbles. I know it was a
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great play by the linebacker, but if you can a field go right there
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or go down to score a touchdown because you were moving the ball, well,
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then we're not even talking about Michigan coming back. So and I'm not
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saying that this game it was predicated on Blake Corn running the ball. But
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JJ McCarthy, he he made plays. Like I said, he didn't have
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a great game, but when it mattered, when it mattered, he did
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what he had to do to win the game. And do you okay,
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we're not going to get into predictions, but if just just a question here,
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if Jim Harball ends up winning the college football Championship, do you think
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he's going to the pros? Did you hear me? Okay? Okay,
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So I had this talk. I think if he lost, he was going
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to the pros. But I since he if he if he lost, if
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he lost yesterday or was it yesterday or Monday? Yes yesterday, if he
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lost yesterday, did he he would he go to the pros? I was
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more likely leaning towards yes. But since he if he's gonna win this national
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championship, Michigan is not gonna let that guy leave. They're gonna give him
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all the money in the world that the pros can't give him. And I
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don't know. I think we're gonna see a ten year contract if he wins
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in two weeks or in a week. Yeah, I don't know. I
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guess I just feel opposite of it. It's like, hey, you've done
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everything you needed in college football, might as well go get it done in
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the pros. But I don't know it. It's gonna be interesting, I
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think what, yeah, it is. But I think what knocks him is
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that like the years before this he was zero to two, he never made
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it to the final, and this is his first year making it to the
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final. You know, so, is he gonna dip out after one try
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or he's gonna try proving that he was actually that guy? You know?
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Mmm? That makes sense? Yeah, yeah, But anything else you want
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to take away before we move on to this other college football game, Well
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all right, well the other the other college football game that took place year
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What I don't know, Okay, we'll move on. Oh no, good.
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I was just I was just thinking if I did have anything else,
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and I didn't. Oh no, you're all good. But the other game
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that went on on Monday night, it was the Texas Longhorn Horns versus the
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Washington Huskies, in which Washington they won thirty seven to thirty one, in
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which Texas they had a chance late to potentially win, but it did not
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happen. Josh, what did you take away from this game? It was
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just a wild one. But these these receivers that Washington has and Michael Pennix,
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they're just all on the same page at all times. They know he
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knows exactly where they're gonna be and what they're gonna do, and he puts
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it on them. Romo Dunn's looked like his heart looked like the pist wide
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receiver in the country yesterday. And I know we Marvin Harrison Junior didn't get
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to show his what he can do this last weekend because he already opted for
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the draft and everything. But you know, if there wasn't no Marvin Harrison
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Junior, I think Romo Dunes would be considered in that spot in my opinion,
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because no question, dude, that that guy is insane. Like he
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beat the guy off the line, didn't even look through his hand up.
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Look, knew the ball was going to be in the bread basket, grab
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it, stepp out of bounce, and just flexed on the guy like you
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know. It was just where the big plays he made in this game.
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With the two touchdowns, it mattered a lot, and they really controlled the
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game for most of the time. If we look at the Texas Longhorn side
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until the end, they really weren't in this game in my opinion, and
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that was because I don't know, the Washington was making a little less aggressive
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than they were before. But uh, it's hard to see because they didn't
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really get their receivers involved as much as I expected them to. I get
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they got Jordan Witting and but Exader Worthy and Ada Night Mitchell and you have
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bigger games than what they had for for it to be worth it. So
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I'm not gonna lie to you, Josh. You cut out there for like
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a minute or so. Ah, dang, Well, I kept talking because
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you cut out, and I was like, maybe they could hear me,
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so I just kept talking. I'm pretty sure it's gonna overlap each other,
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but I think we should be good. Yeah, I'm looking at it.
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Okay, yeah, we we should be good. So but okay, go
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okay, So go ahead and continue on from what you were saying. I
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know, I know you have to repeat yourself here, but I'll just start,
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Okay. I just think on as far as the Washington side, uh,
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with the Michael PENNOCKX and the connection to his receivers, Romo Dunns,
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Jaalen Polk and Jayleen McMillan, like they're just always on the same page.
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Remo duns looked like the best receiver in the country. If Marvin Harrison Junior
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was in the thing, he'd have that spot. He made some great catches
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where he was running along the sidland through his hand up without even looking and
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they put it on the money. Yeah, that was a great play.
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And then Jalen Polk with the two big catches for touchdowns, especially the one
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at the beginning of the game where it kind of set the tone a little
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bit. I feel like they they're deep and he just made a couple moves
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and they scored. He scored on that one. And then as far as
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the other side of the ball with the Longhorns, they I understand that the
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score looks close, but until the end, they weren't really alive in this
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game. There was no fight. There was fight, but I just feel
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like there just wasn't that same They just they were just the same team they've
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been to end the season. In my opinion, Like there, they can
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score, but the thing is, can they once they run into a team
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that like this who can score at will, it's gonna be hard to win.
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Because we've seen them go up twenty four against the Kansas State or something
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and the Kansas State storms their way back, or against the There's a couple
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other teams that they did that with and it just didn't work out, and
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you got to get your weapons more involved, I feel like with Xavier Worthy
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and added nine Mitch, because they just were pretty much non exist in the
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entire game. Yeah, yeah, no, they were till the very last
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second. But before we start, or before I say anything, I know
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it's a new Year, and I don't know about you, Josh, but
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I usually don't do New Year's resolutions, but one of the New Year resolutions
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I have is be less humble. And all I'm just saying is that this
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game went exactly how I thought it was going to go. It went exactly
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how I thought it was going to go. I said, Washington will be
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up multiple scores. Texas will make it look like it's a close game.
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These dvs are not that good. And the Washington wide receivers are NFL caliber
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receivers from Polk McMillan, o'dunzee, not even including Michael Pennix, who he
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he's a remarkable talent, like the one that you mentioned with the corner throw
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to Dunza over the dB like the d that was perfect. That was a
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perfect coverage right there. But there's nothing you could do when the great wide
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receiver and great quarterback they have a connection like that. But okay, as
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far as from the Texas side, Quinn you weres he this this ruined his
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draft stock right here. It did. The Washington defense is the ninetieth ranked
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defense in college football, and you really weren't able to move the ball unless
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you're running the ball here, and he just looked uncomfortable. I know the
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offensive line was getting was getting whooped the entire time, but you still need
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to make those throws. And okay, the last the last drive where Texas
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they had a chance to win Okay, so I'm going to go over the
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sixth plays that happened. Okay, so after that played a Whittington, That's
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what I'm talking about. After that forty yard play, so you do a
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fake spike to a deep shot to the end zone. Those twenty eight seconds.
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You lost eight seconds there, so there's twenty seconds now. Then you
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run a wheel route to Jayden Blue for sixteen yards. Okay, you lost
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five seconds. Okay, yeah, yeah, it was an amazing grab right
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there. Then the third play, you're at the twelve yard line, a
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backwards screen pass again to Jayden Blue. You lost one yard. Then five
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seconds lost right there. Then you do a jump ball to Donny Mitchell.
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You lost four seconds right there. You're at the thirteen yard line. Then
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I don't know what you run, but you see a cover zero blitz coming
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and quin you Weres luckily happened to throw the ball in the dirt to leave
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you one second left. Then the last play a jump ball to Donny Mitchell,
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which was a bad throat. If you put that in his chest,
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you're possibly talking about Texas winning the game here. So you had twenty eight
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seconds left. You were at you were at the twelve yard line and you
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had six plays and it was just terrible execution. But I don't know if
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you remember what I said last week, Texas is a bad red zone offense.
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So it just proved what they were doing the entire season. They just
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couldn't get it done. And I know that. I think it was Baxter
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and Blue the running backs that fumbled. But even if they didn't fumble,
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I feel like Washington they still would have ran away with this game right here.
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So no, they had just Texas had plenty of opportunities in this game.
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Yeah, no, okay, Yeah, I just think they had plenty
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of They had plenty of opportunities in this game to answer back, and he
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just failed to do that multiple occasions. And that whole last thing you're talking
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about, Like I thought they were really going to make a move with the
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Jordan Woodington catch and with the Jaden Blue catch, because there were big plays
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that swings momentum hugely, But once they got into that red zone area,
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it just looked like they forgot how to play football because they were throwing quin.
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You were just looked unsettled. There was nothing crazy happening. I feel
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like it was both the same between the losing teams this week, this on
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Monday with the Longhorns end with Alabama, they just looked like they couldn't finish
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the job when they when they got close. Yeah, and Okay, all
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I'm just saying is maybe under being undefeated and win your conference matters. That's
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all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying that. That's all I'm saying right
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there. I'm not trying to get into nothing else, but anything else you
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want to take away before we go into this next Okay, So with the
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you know how I said last week, Texas has a number three ranked of
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rush defense. Correct, Yeah, okay, but they really didn't allow Dylan
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Johnson to do a lot in this game. He came up with an injury,
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which is something the Monitor's gonna be very big going into the National Championship.
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But Dylan Johnson, he was pretty much shut down for every carry he
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had. But Washington they just did not care. They just kept handing it
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and handing it and handing it and handing it. And I think it proved
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to help because they were able to take the top off of the of Texas
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anytime they wanted to, and it was just Yeah, it was a good
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it was a good mixing match between both because Dylan Johnson had two touchdowns on
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twenty one carries. But I think them not giving up on the run game
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really allowed this game to open up a lot more to these receivers. Yeah,
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yeah, no, it definitely did. And like you were saying,
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even the time of possession, Washington they almost had the ball for thirty seven
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minutes compared to Texas twenty three minutes. So that's a big difference right there.
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But anything else you want to take away it is, uh no,
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nothing from nothing anymore. Well, all right, so since we got our
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two winners, we're gonna have predictions for this college football Championship right here,
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which is Washington versus Michigan. I forgot the exact bowl that it that it's
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called or is it just a college No, it's just called the College Football
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Championship. Yeah, yeah, yeah it is, so Okay, who do
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you think is going to win? And why I'm gonna go take the Washington
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Huskies mainly because I don't like JJ McCarthy too much, But I'll give a
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real reason. It's just I don't know what I saw from this team is
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if if Michigan cannot stop Washington from scoring, which I think they have a
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better chance to do than the Texas Longhorns. Don't get me wrong, But
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if they can't stop the Washington Huskies from dictating the ball game through the air,
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then they're not gonna win this football big game because JJ McCarthy and what
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he has at his disposal is not the same with Michael Pennock's romo do Jyleen
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McMillan, because they can score with anybody as fast as they want and when
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they want, And if Michigan can't control that, then it's gonna go to
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the Washington's way. Yeah. Yeah, Michigan. They have to have a
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perfect game plan here and they're gonna have to do what Texas tried to do,
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run the football. And like Texas, they were able to run the
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football, but you couldn't really do it because you were down so much already.
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And it's gonna be perfect. Washington has been the best offense all year
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and Michigan has been one of the best defenses all year. That's what it's
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really going to come down to. So and I don't know if you want
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to give a scorer, but Washington they've only been held under thirty points twice
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all season, and think I think they're gonna score over thirty. I think
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it's gonna be like a thirty one to twenty one ball game Washington here.
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I just can't see Washington's offense being stopped. I don't care how good Michigan's
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defense is. The offense matters so much now, especially in college football.
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I'm gonna say it's gonna be about a twenty four to like seventeen ballgame.
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Oh shoot, so you think it's like a slower game. I do think
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Michigan can slow the ball game down. I'm not going to get that wrong.
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You know. Yeah, I think the Washington may have an extra possession
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in them that allows them to sneak out that win. You know, they
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may be Okay, it may be another situation where they're up by two touchdowns
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and then Michigan gets a late touchdown. But it also could be a thing
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where it's tied and then Washington makes a late drive or something. I can
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see it going that way because Michigan's defense is not long Corns defense. Michigan's
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defense is a lot better in my opinion. So yeah, I think it's
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going to be more of a lower game than we're accustomed to from Washington.
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So I say twenty four to seventeen, because Michigan can still score on the
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ground and slow down the ball game. Yeah, I think that's true.
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But Washington they can score so fast. It's like all of their drives other
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than their last field go drive, they were all under five minutes. So
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what they were doing was was just bam, just real quick. So so
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yeah, but anything else you want to take away before we get into the
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NFL. Uh, No, it was a good It was a good two
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games. I think I think everyone got what they were looking for in these
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games. I don't know about the majority that listened to our podcast are probably
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Texas fans, but it was a good game. You can't even lie.
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Yeah, yeah, no it It definitely was a good game. But did
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you think for a second arch Manning was gonna come out? I did at
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the start of the fourth quarter. I can't on I was mm hmm yeah,
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no, I was like thought, like, for sure, man,
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imagine the storylines arch Manning leads a comeback. Do you want to talk about
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quin yours real quick? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just
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thinking like I feel like At first, I was a believer that he should
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go to the draft this year, but after seeing that game, I just
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feel like it's a I think it's gonna put back a lot of scouts because
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he couldn't get it done against that type of defense he was playing, and
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he just didn't look like comfortable the entire game, Like he was making some
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pretty dumb throws that I know he's a he's kind of a gun slinger to
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an extent, but dude, like he has a good arm, and I
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just feel like what he was showing out there is not who he is.
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And I don't know how much longer they're gonna keep arch Manning waiting to start.
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I honestly think that arch Manning is gonna take the job next year and
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Quinn Yous is gonna have to transfer. That's what I honestly think, because
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if I'm arch Manning and I see this game just as a okay, as
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a great player, you just have to be confident in your abilities. You
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have to be like WHOA I could out I could I could play better quarterback
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than him, which I'm pretty sure he can maybe maybe just based off the
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name, I'm probably saying that, but he did do good in high school,
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so and this is a loaded roster, So I think quinnywors he's gonna
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end up transfer and somewhere else because it's it's arch Manning's job to lose.
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I don't care if he's staying. That's just my opinion. M It just
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sucks because I don't know. I think I have a lot of bias towards
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quin yours because I saw him play in high school versus Permian, you know,
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or where me and Fonso went to high school. So I just think
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like I've seen him in person, so I kind of have a lot more
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biased. But I don't know, man, I just feel like he's kind
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of falling off for me a little bit in terms of like what I know
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he can do into what he's producing on the field. If I don't know
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if you feel the same way. But I don't know what he needs,
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if he needs to go to a different scenery, because he's already this is
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his second team, you know, so I don't know what more he may
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need. Well, Texas, they have a good roster, or one of
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the better rosters in the league, so you're not gonna go anywhere else and
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really get a better roster maybe Georgia, but Carson back he is there maybe,
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so it's gonna be really hard for you to go somewhere else and have
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the same talent. I think it's just he's a good quarterback. Don't get
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me wrong. He's a good college football quarterback. And I'm confident that he'll
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go in the first to the first or second round next year because all the
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upside that he has. But you're he's just he's just messing up his chances
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right now. That's all he's doing. He's just making it easier for arch
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Manning to win. In all reality, that that's what it is. But
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anything else you want to take away before we get into the NFL, No,
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that's that's pretty We pretty much covered all bases of these games. Yeah,
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we pretty much did. But all right, so, like we always
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do, we go over the week seventeen or the now week seventeen NFL games,
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and we're gonna start with the Sunday night football game, which it was
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the Green Bay Packers versus the Minnesota Viking and what's the packer. Packers purely
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dominated this game and they won thirty three to ten. Josh, what did
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you take away from this one right here, Aaron Jones is back. He
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is back. He has has had two straight big games. Man, this
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one he had twenty for one to twenty. He's looking he's looking healthy out
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there, and then it's helping Jordan Love out quite a bit because he looked
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good in this game. He had three touchdowns two fifty six for twenty four
25:26
for thirty three. Dude was balling. And if you watch that game,
25:30
I was rewatching it, and yeah he was. He was putting it on
25:33
some people, especially like an emergence of Bowl Melton, like over Jayden Reid
25:37
and Romeo Dobbs. He was finding people that were not accustomed to like he
25:41
was spraying the ball out. Look at this six receptions for bow Melts and
25:45
six receptions for Jennon Reid, six receptions for Tucker Kraft. He had three
25:48
receptions to Romeo Dobbs, and then everyone else got a piece. He was
25:52
he was just moving the ball to everywhere he wanted he wanted it to go.
25:56
So that's good to see. And they're right now. I think they're
25:59
in the play playoffs with that seventh spot. Yeah, if they win now,
26:02
if they win this next game, they're in. So it's good for
26:06
them because I think a lot of people wrote them off when they went that
26:10
little tough stretch of like those five games where they were kind of like even
26:14
us, I think even us it has me and you had some doubts.
26:15
We were already thinking about next year. But they really, they really have
26:18
stormed back. And it's pretty cool to see. Because I like Jordan Love
26:22
as a player. I'm not gonna lie and I just it'd be cool to
26:26
see what he can do in the playoffs. I don't expect much, but
26:29
it'll be cool to see. Yeah, I think now after this because remember
26:34
Jordan Love, he doesn't even have Christian Watson in which is is one of
26:38
the most explosive players in the NFL. And I think now I could officially
26:44
say Jordan Love he is a franchise quarterback. He is. He's proved himself
26:48
this year. And I know, I know they're not really or there's not
26:56
really anybody great around him, but he's making plays. He's making he's elevating
27:02
these players outside of Aaron Jones. Outside of Aaron Jones, Aaron Jones has
27:04
been established, but as far as a bow Melton, Jayden, Reed,
27:08
Checker, Kraft Romeo Doffs, Like you were saying, he's just able to
27:12
distribute the ball so well. And as far as purely arm talent, he's
27:18
up there. As far as he's I would argue at minimum a top ten
27:22
quarterback as far as arm talent alone, Like he could put the ball in
27:26
any place that you want him to put it. And I think just these
27:32
these next few years that are gonna come along, he's really gonna progress really
27:36
nice. And the Packers they just find find a way to always have a
27:40
franchise quarterback. And as far as from the Viking side, obviously they got
27:45
eliminated from the playoffs. They started with Jaron Hall, then went back to
27:48
Nick Mullins. But the biggest thing, you really weren't able to run the
27:52
ball here and you're passing off and so it got shut down. Justin Jefferson
27:57
five catches fifty nine yards. That's basically him being shut down the entire game.
28:03
But anything else you want to say from this game, josh Yeah,
28:07
As far as the Minnesota part, I understand Joshua Dobbs isn't. They didn't
28:12
wasn't what they expected him to like kind of come in and do. But
28:15
the dude was only there for like two weeks, Like you got to give
28:18
him a little bit more, a little bit more run, a little bit
28:21
more burned, because I feel like he could put you in a better position
28:23
than Nick Mullens or Jaron hall Can. I mean, he proved it this
28:26
year already, you know. So it's like it's kind of I think it's
28:30
a little unfair that they didn't put him in and they kind of wasted a
28:33
season a way of Justin Jefferson's career. And then Justin Jefferson these last couple
28:37
of games has had to make insane catches. Like with Kirk Cousins, he
28:40
doesn't have to make these type of catches unless Kirk Cousins just throws a yellow
28:42
ball every once in a while. But Justin Jefferson was catching in double coverage,
28:47
He's catching on the run, behind his back, everything Like he's really
28:51
working hard out there, more than he should because the incompetent quarterback play when
28:55
you can start someone who I understand may have probably around the same arm talent
28:59
as these guys, but he's a lot more explosive and he can take a
29:02
lot of pressure off of your receivers because they're worried about your quarterback running out
29:06
of the pocket. And I think the Minsula Vikings would be sitting in a
29:08
different position if they if they kind of took that same approach that I'm thinking
29:11
of. Yeah, no, I agree with you one hundred percent. But
29:17
all right, we're gonna go ahead and get into these three o'clock games right
29:21
here. The first one we're gonna start off with is the Los Angeles Chargers
29:23
versus Denver Broncos, and which the Broncos they won sixteen to nine, and
29:30
which we didn't cover this because it was beforehand. They got released a day
29:33
after Russell Wilson got benched for Jared Stidham. Is there anything you wanted to
29:40
take away from that situation or this game? No? I hate both these
29:48
teams, so I don't know. I think one thing I'm just noticing is
29:52
that I don't know if Austin Eckler is going to be on this team next
29:55
year. He just doesn't look I don't know, I just don't look like
29:56
they're they're doing very great. The new regime comes in and it's like,
30:00
hey, we're keeping that guy. And on the other side, I don't
30:03
I just feel like Denver Broncos fans have to be completely distraught because like they
30:11
I think, obviously they're winning games, of course, but Sean Payton and
30:15
Russell Wilson just can't pan out and you had high hopes for this. It's
30:19
gonna separate after one season. It's just kind of it has to be frustrating.
30:26
Yeah, No, it definitely is. And I think the biggest thing
30:29
is something not even with the game. You basically covered the game there,
30:33
but as far as with Russell Wilson, now that's he's most likely gonna get
30:37
cut because you benched him because he didn't want to play. Pay him that
30:41
clause just in case he got hurt or whatever. There's still gonna be eighty
30:45
four million in dead money that you're gonna have to swallow, which is ridiculous.
30:48
But where does Russell Wilson go? Where does he really go? Because
30:53
it's not like he's a needle mover, like, oh, he's gonna be
30:56
the guy that changes and we're gonna start with in some playoff games. No,
31:00
he's a quarterback that he's not viewed that way anymore. Yeah, exactly,
31:04
Yeah, And I don't know. It just sucks for Russell Wilson.
31:08
And I feel like, I feel like this is just me. Russell Wilson
31:12
went from being in Seattle to potentially be in a Hall of Famer from with
31:18
this two year stint from the Broncos to possibly not even being a Hall of
31:22
Famer or a Hall of Fame fame consideration anymore. I don't know how you
31:26
feel about that. Uh. I just think there's been a lot of a
31:33
lot of stories coming out about Russell Wilson, especially from the Legion of boom
31:37
Era, about them just not expecting him as a player, as that it
31:44
wasn't really him, it was everyone else around him. And I think even
31:47
now showing how the divid Broncos have played with him and how he's played more
31:49
of a methodical, slow, conservative football type of play, it's hurting him,
31:56
man, And I kind of feel for him. I'm not the I'm
31:57
not a believer big believer in Russell Wilson because I'm the same that. I
32:01
also think it was the people around him. It's easy to win when your
32:05
defense is allowing less than fourteen points a game. I wish, honestly,
32:08
I can't really say that but at this moment, but the other but usually
32:15
it's it's pretty easy. And when you can dictate the game with the running
32:20
back like you had with BST mode, and then you have just the plethoro
32:23
of receivers coming in and out. I'm sure they're not big names that people
32:27
that are casuals aren't gonna recognize, but the likes of Doug Baldwin, Golden
32:30
Tate, Percy Harve and Sidney Rice. Yeah, Jamaine Curse, Yeah yeah,
32:38
Robert Turbin, not Robert Turbin or Ricardo Lockett, and all these type
32:43
of guys that came through there who knew their rules, got their jobs done.
32:46
You had a plethora of these guys, and then if we can go
32:50
to the you can just keep going and he can keep naming them. He's
32:53
had talent around him, and I've seen him throw some pretty good balls,
32:58
But I think right now, I think the aura of that was Russell Wilson
33:02
just doesn't exist anymore. Yeah, I agree with you one hundred percent.
33:08
And the stats that he has, it really doesn't match up for me,
33:13
even being a Broncos not necessarily believer, but buying the Broncos a little bit.
33:17
The stats they don't match his actual play on the field. Like you
33:22
said, slow, methodical, and he's not the same quarterback. But we're
33:25
gonna go ahead and move into this next game right here, in which it
33:30
was a Josh's team. It was the Cincinnati Bengals versus the Kansas City Chiefs,
33:36
in which the Chiefs they won twenty five to seventeen, in which Harrison
33:39
Budker hit six field goals in the game, and the Chiefs they go on
33:44
to win the AFC West for the eighth straight time. I believe if I'm
33:47
correct, Josh, you could correct me if I'm wrong, Josh, what
33:51
do you take away from this game? God is good, God is amazing.
33:55
Hellove, God, thank you up the Bengals. I don't know how
34:00
I could say God and then fuck the Bengals, but God understands. I'm
34:05
sure sure. I don't think he liked the Beatles either, But but yeah,
34:09
it was beautiful to see because they were talking all that, all that,
34:13
all that ish before the game, talking about we don't got no ballers,
34:16
we don't got no one on that defense. Well, Jamar Chase,
34:20
buddy, you obviously don't got no talent anymore because lu Jerious shut you down.
34:23
He shut you down, just like he shut down Tyreek Hill, just
34:28
like he shut down DeVante Adams A J. Brown. We can keep going
34:31
on and on. I already made my case last week. This is adds
34:35
to it. Yeah, so yeah that it was beautiful to see six sacks
34:38
on the on the game he tackles for lost fortun QB his George Carlapton becomes
34:43
the first person outside of Chris Jones to have ten sacks in the season since
34:47
d Ford. I hate that guy, but since d Ford, we we
34:52
haven't had a guy go out go for ten or more sacks outside of Chris
34:57
Jones. So it was just a good game. And then on the defensive
35:00
side, it's just nothing that we can say about this. There's nothing wrong
35:04
with you say about this defense anymore because they just continue to show up.
35:07
Sure at the beginning in that second quarter, they kind of let a couple
35:09
of things happen with two touchdowns, but outside of that shutout, shut down,
35:14
especially on a big, a big fourth down stand like Willie Gay came
35:17
up and hit him in the mask and shut it down, and then the
35:21
and the Chiefs got the ball back. It was it was cool. But
35:24
on the offensive side, we still had our struggles. But remember remember at
35:29
the beginning of the season, Fonzo, when me and you were like,
35:30
all they got to do is score field goals. Well, they scored a
35:35
whole lot of fucking field goals in this game. Yeah, and they won
35:38
because they they're going to get a couple of touchdowns a game, but when
35:43
you get into that area, you need to be able to score the field
35:45
goals. And they did that in this game, and it really helped Propel
35:49
to win, especially from a day that Isaiah Pacheco had eighteen for one thirty
35:53
and then through the air seven for thirty five in a touchdown. He was
35:57
really the MVP of this game for me because and when he missed two weeks,
36:01
he comes back and he has this type of performance and it was almost
36:06
like he wanted to leave this statement on the Bengals that he wanted them,
36:08
that he wanted to show them, he wanted to hurt them. It almost
36:12
looked like a difference Isaiah to checko out there and it was cool. And
36:15
then Rashid Rice continues his chair his terrified for one to twenty seven. They
36:19
connected with the longest play the season for the Chiefs with sixty seven yards in
36:22
this game, so it's only up from here. If only NBS didn't drop
36:25
two passes in this game that were pretty important. But outside of that,
36:30
it was a great game. Yeah, it was a good game to watch
36:34
in Like, like I say, the defense is definitely not the problem here.
36:38
The defense is one of the best defenses in the league here. If
36:42
you're able to establish the football and not necessarily that Mahomes. Mahomes is bad,
36:47
but turn him to a game manager role where just take the checkdowns,
36:51
move the ball, play the field position, game, take the field goals.
36:53
You're gonna end up winning majority of your ball games with it happened in
36:57
the playoffs, We'll see in a couple of weeks, maybe maybe three,
37:00
four weeks, maybe they could advent I could this is sustainable enough for them
37:05
to win a playoff game, maybe two, but that this is what they
37:09
just have to do. This is this is just the Chiefs offense right now.
37:13
And Mahomes still looked like Mahomes had one hundred and ten rating. So
37:19
he did what he needed to do. And that's what the great quarterbacks do.
37:22
They adjust to what they have to do in a certain offense in a
37:25
certain game. They're like, okay, well, I have to play like
37:29
game manager. Today. I'll play like a game manager. And that's what
37:31
Mahomes did. Isaiah Pacheco was clearly the best offensive player on both sides of
37:37
the field yesterday or the day before. Yeah, day before yesterday, Yeah
37:42
he was. And yeah, like you were saying as far as with Jamar
37:45
Chase saying there's no Jalen Ramsey on the team, well goddamn, Lageriusneed made
37:51
it seem like he was Jalen Ramsey locking your ass down. Well, la
37:53
Jarious Seed made it seem like he was Darrel Reeves. Let's okay, okay,
38:00
okay, we're not going to go that far. The island has been
38:02
crazy this year. Island has been it has it has, But let's see
38:07
it. Durell Reeves did it for a whole bunch of years. Led this
38:12
season, all right, it looked like Josh Norman. It looked like Josh
38:15
Norman. One. Okay, yeah, that that's that's that better comp right
38:21
there. Yeah, Yeah, that's a better comparison right there. Yeah,
38:23
that's like saying one year of trying to think one year of Tony Pouler last
38:29
year, like, oh, he's the next Emmitt Smith. Yeah, No,
38:32
I'm not going to go that far. No, I'm just saying he
38:36
had a he had a good year, and we'll just leave leave it at
38:38
that. He's he's been one of the best, if not the best,
38:42
corner in the league. So anything else you will take away what you were
38:45
saying. How the Mahomes game manager. Mahomes being a game manager still was
38:50
twenty one for twenty nine and two exactly five yards. You know, so
38:54
if we can and you almost have. It was no turnovers in this game.
38:58
Besides that fumble, which is kind it wasn't his wall. He was
39:00
winding up to throw, and you know, just you get beating guy from
39:05
behind you gets you. You know, it's kind of like, oh,
39:07
you can't do nothing much about that. But other than that, clean game,
39:10
and we talked that's all we've talked about is clean football and you'll win.
39:15
Just look what happened. Yeah, yeah, that's what they have to
39:20
do. And they're the three seeds, so as of right now, they'd
39:22
be the sixth seed. I know we're going to talk about the playoffs in
39:24
a second, but but yeah, this could win them a couple of starters
39:29
next week, though, Do you think they're gonna rest their starters. Yeah,
39:34
if they do, I feel like they'll probably just get like a couple
39:36
people over a thousand yards that need it and it's be like, all right,
39:38
we're done. Well, Like Checko, I think he has sixty five
39:43
more yards or Steve Rice has like sixty three more yards, and Travis Kelcey
39:46
needs like sixteen more yards. So I think they're probably gonna try hitting those
39:52
and they're like, all right, y'all are done. I don't think Mahomes.
39:53
I think Mahomes plays like the first half maybe, and then Blaine Gabbert
39:58
gets a gets a couple gets a run in this one. Yeah, that's
40:00
what I'm thinking. They play the first half, just get some momentum before
40:06
they go into their next game. Because you are playing the Chargers though,
40:08
so they don't deserve to rest this offense. If anything, we can set
40:13
the whole defense out, yeah yeah, if anything, Yeah, set the
40:15
defense because you can't. You can't move up or down no more because they're
40:21
locked into the three seed right now. But anything else you want to take
40:24
away before we move on, No, let's go to the next one.
40:29
All right, This last three o'clock game that we had. It was between
40:32
the Pittsburgh Stilers and the Seattle Seahawks, in which the Steelers went into Seattle
40:38
and upset the Seahawks and won thirty to twenty three and keep their playoff hopes
40:44
alive. Josh, what did you take away from this one? Right here,
40:49
Mason Rudolph does it again. He gets his weapons involved. He throws
40:52
it to George Pickings seven times for one thirty one, Deontay Johnson four times
40:57
for seventy six, Pat farre move he and Jalen were and no one else
41:01
touched the ball besides the stars in this one that he had no plans to
41:06
get anyone else, especially in the running game too. Naji Harris had twenty
41:08
seven carries in this game. They had a focal point and that was run
41:12
the damn ball because they ran it forty six times in this game and he
41:16
had. They had three touchdowns, forty six carries on two hundred and two
41:20
yards. They had a plan going in And as far as the Seahawks side,
41:23
I don't know, like I kind of feel like they give us some
41:28
moments where we're like, oh, they're a legit team, especially at the
41:30
beginning of me and you believe in them. We were high on the seedion.
41:32
Oh yeah, no question. I think we were like some of the
41:35
some of the few people that were high, and they just kind of like
41:37
let us down a little bit because I don't know what's going on. I
41:40
don't know if it's Geno Smith, I don't know if it's Pete Carroll,
41:44
I don't know if it's these weapons. It just it seems like there's not
41:46
much consistency on a weekend, week out basis. Mm hmm. Yeah,
41:52
no, it definitely doesn't look like that. They I feel like, like
41:54
you said, they could be up there with any team as far as upside
41:59
wise, but it's just their lows that end up getting them. They should
42:02
have won this game right here and would have more than likely Yeah, they
42:07
would have clinched the playoffs here. So yeah, it was just a big
42:12
opportunity they had and ended up losing. But yeah, no, the biggest
42:15
thing I could take away is from the Steelers side again, Mike Tomlin,
42:20
he doesn't lose. Like I said last week, he never has a team
42:22
under five hundred and that continues for the seventeenth or eighteenth straight season in a
42:28
row. And they played old school football right here. Jalen Warren five point
42:31
eight yards per carry, Najee Harris four point five yards per carry. It's
42:36
not gonna be the prettiest way to win football games because you're used to all
42:40
the I know that he threw the ball downfield, but I'm talking about as
42:45
far as their main focal point was just running the football against a Seattle team
42:50
who has a weak rush defense. So they just capitalize on that and maybe
42:57
the Steelers they can end up making the playoffs right here, and it's gonna
42:59
be an interesting damn week next week. Anything else you want to take away
43:01
from this one. I don't know if Josh cut out or not. I'm
43:15
assuming that. Oh my bad, my mic was needed bad. I'll shoot
43:19
No, yeah, I again, go ahead, No, I was.
43:22
It was my mic was meeting. I was talking. I was like,
43:24
what do you mean, bro? No, they ran the ball on this
43:30
one. That's pretty much put down the head. I just wonder what's up
43:34
with the Steelers defense a little bit, but that's outside of that. It's
43:37
just nitpicking. Yeah, I feel like if anything out of everything that can
43:43
be solved, it's the Steelers defense here. But then we're gonna get into
43:47
these twelve o'clock games right here, and the first one we're going to talk
43:51
about is the San Francisco forty nine Ers versus the Washington Commanders, in which
43:55
the Niners they end up bouncing back and now clinch the number one seed and
44:00
they win twenty seven to ten. Is there anything you wanted to take away
44:04
from this one, Josh? Just to handle They just handle business against the
44:09
Washington Commanders. I didn't expect to see somehow on this game, but he
44:13
played, Brian Robinson, made his return, didn't run the ball ten times.
44:16
Of course, they lost. I kind of knew. I kind of
44:20
admit that still all the time. But yep, and so for a nunther
44:24
take care business. I'm low key Apart of me, one of them wanted
44:28
me to have them drop to eleven and five just so we can see that
44:30
last week of mayhem between forty nine Ers, Lions, Cowboys, and Eagles,
44:36
because it would have been so cool to see just all these teams.
44:39
Robast scenarios. Who gets the number one seed? But he locked it up
44:44
as as they probably should. They they are still the best team in my
44:46
opinion in that conference. So Brand and you had a big day seven for
44:52
one and fourteen in a touchdown. That's really all I could take away from
44:55
this game. Yeah no, there really really wasn't much. This isn't as
45:00
far as what the game wise, but as far as it's important that they
45:05
got the bye week. Right here, you have your very physical team,
45:08
so you need your players to get rest. You're gonna rest Fred Ward or
45:13
Drake Greenlaw, Trent Williams, Christian McCaffrey, Deebo Kiddle next week. And
45:19
a kind of a big storyline here is that nobody's talking about. Christian McCaffrey
45:22
has a mild calf strain and he dealt with that earlier in the season though
45:27
I forgot. Yeah no, so it's good that you got to buy.
45:31
But how bad is that cash strain going to be? Because he is the
45:35
entire focal point of the offense. So we're gonna see how that is.
45:40
And I have a question for you, Josh. So I know they're gonna
45:45
rest their players, obviously, but how much the rest the rest versus Russ
45:52
that whole argument that always goes on every single time with the one seeds.
45:55
So do you think that this will affect the San Francisco forty niners here,
46:06
I don't think so. I think if you're a good, well coach football
46:09
team who knows how to prepare it, which I do think a Kyle Shanahan
46:13
led football team will be, I don't think it should matter as much.
46:15
I think you kind of need this rest, especially for some players who are
46:19
banged up, like a Trent Williams, especially at Christian mccafferre. He gets
46:22
two weeks to rest, Deebo Samuel is pretty banged up, two weeks to
46:27
rest. The only one that really hasn't had injury issues is Brandon Ayuk,
46:30
And it just allows everybody to to get some rest. And I'm pretty sure
46:34
brought party off that Tommy John's get a little sore, so it'll probably be
46:37
good for them to get this little, little little vacation, little break.
46:43
Yeah, no, it will. But I just think as far as I
46:50
do believe in the whole rust thing, and as I agree with you as
46:52
far as coaching helps, it helps with that, no question. But you're
46:57
not playing NFL football games going from a team against the Commanders who they're in.
47:04
They're in the top five draft holder for a reason to potentially going in
47:07
the second round to play in the Rams. Who I think that could be
47:12
a big, big watch right there, Philly or whoever comes out of the
47:15
South. I don't think the South is gonna South or Philly is gonna be
47:19
a problem. But if you happen to play the Rams in the second round,
47:22
who are going to be in that playoff? Who've been in that playoff
47:25
intensity for the past month, really month and a half. When they get
47:30
to San France, if they do it, I feel like the Niners zl
47:34
start off slow. I'm not gonna say they won't win, but that's gonna
47:38
be the biggest thing. Will They start off slow? And brock Birdy doesn't
47:43
play when he's when he is behind. So we're gonna see how that is
47:47
it. I think that's gonna just be real interesting for me and how that's
47:52
gonna end up going. But anything else you want to take away, No,
48:00
we can get into the next one. Well all right, well,
48:02
since I did mention the South, we're gonna talk about this this team right
48:07
here. It's sad to see fan favorite on this show, the Bake Show.
48:12
They they got stopped right here. Uh. The Saints, they they
48:15
just purely dominated the Buccaneers this entire game in What'd say won twenty three?
48:21
Go ahead, let me take a moment right here, Breck and Thompson,
48:25
my best friend in the entire world. I apologize, I really do.
48:34
But you are still gonna lose next week, and the Buccaneers are gonna make
48:36
it because they're gonna win next week. So don't get don't get ahead of
48:39
yourself. But I apologize for this game that I doubted your team. I
48:45
doubted you as a friend, as a person. I still beat you in
48:47
fantasy, but but I'm sorry that I harped on you a lot last week
48:52
on the pod. So I'll just put it out there. I'm sorry.
48:57
I love you brother. Well, well, since you said that, what'd
49:02
you take away from the game here? Honestly, I think this says a
49:09
lot more for the Saints defense showing up than it does for the than it
49:16
does for their offense showing up, because they're outside of Jawan Johnson. I
49:21
don't think anyone had a good game on this Saints offense. He had eight
49:25
for ninety in a touchdown, and he looked. He looked good in his
49:28
game. It looks like what I think what his potential is. He kind
49:30
of showed it in his game for sure. Yeah, But as far as
49:34
the defensive side, I think they're they're people showed up and showed out,
49:37
especially especially that passing defense with the with paulsa and Adebo and Alonte Taylor and
49:44
the Tyrone Matthew and all them. Like, Yeah, they've been kind of
49:46
picked on a little bit, I feel like over the last couple of weeks.
49:50
But in this game, you hold Mike Evans to no touchdowns and he's
49:53
been on a tear and then I'm sure sure Baker through for three hundred and
49:58
nine yards, but he also threw two picks. So they were constantly constantly
50:01
putting pressure on them to make big plays and it just didn't happen in this
50:06
game. And as far as with Sean White, they kind of limited the
50:09
run game also, only allowing three yards per carry three point eight yards per
50:14
carry, and it kind of the Buccaneers also, I feel like, went
50:17
away from it a lot, and it just happened because they fell down.
50:22
They felt far, pretty far behind based off how they were playing at the
50:24
beginning of the game. Yeah, and like you said, Baker Mayfield,
50:30
he had two interceptions and all of it was really garbage time. The first
50:34
touchdown that they scored there was seven seven minutes and fifty seconds left in the
50:37
game, So you really can't take away nothing from that. But I feel
50:43
like, yes, the Saints defense did show up, But an offense like
50:45
this or that's been on a tear these past few weeks, you're eventually going
50:51
to slow down. And it's kind of it's kind of obvious against the division
50:54
opponent, I guess just they're on fire at the time, so we really
51:00
didn't see it. But against a division opponent, you're on fire, you're
51:02
bound to slow down at some point. And yeah, the Saints offense it
51:07
even though Derek Carr had a good game. Again, he's not He's not
51:12
the answer and he isn't the problem. He's just in between. That's what
51:15
it really is. And I agree with you. I think that the Bucks
51:19
are still gonna end up winning this division here and the Saints are just gonna
51:23
have to hope the Panthers somehow win against the Saints and they win. But
51:28
anything else you want to take away, no sirt. Sorry, Bregan,
51:35
Well, all right, we're gonna get into this next game right here,
51:37
which man, I enjoyed every single bit of this game right here, in
51:43
which the Arizona Cardinals went into Philly and beat Philly with a late touchdown and
51:50
won thirty five to thirty one. Josh, what did you take away from
51:53
this one right here? I really don't know what's to take away from this
52:00
game. It's because the Eagles were up at pretty big at one point,
52:07
twenty one to six and going out of the half. But then in that
52:09
second half they were just non existing. It just Kyler Murray kept coming at
52:15
them, this defense kept coming at them. They were unable to get pushed
52:17
the ball down the field how they usually do. It was weird. It
52:21
was just they don't look like the same Eagles team from last year. They
52:22
don't look like the same Eagles team to start the year over these last I
52:28
don't know how long ago was they played the Chiefs. Maybe five weeks ago,
52:30
yeah, about five six weeks ago. Even before that versus the Cowboys,
52:35
when they first beat the Cowboys, it was just kind of game after
52:37
game after game they were squeaking by, squeaking by, squeaking by, and
52:40
you and I said it. They can't keep winning games that way. They
52:44
have to be able to assert themselves, assert their dominance and they did,
52:46
but they let up at the end and they lost this game because of it.
52:50
And it was just I don't know, I don't know what's the think
52:52
of this Eagles team. I can give you stats all day, but it
52:54
doesn't even matter. They lost the Arizona Cardinals and that's just something the Super
52:58
Bowl Contini teams shouldn't be able, shouldn't do this late into the season.
53:01
Yeah, and every single drive that Kyler Murray had in the second half scored
53:07
a touchdown, they did. And he was almost perfect in this game.
53:12
Yeah, Yeah, he was damn near perfect. And that pick six that
53:15
he had, I think that was more on the receiver right there, But
53:17
again, you have a young receiver miscommunication. Kyler hasn't been playing all year.
53:22
So yeah, as far as with the Eagles defense right here, so
53:30
as far as statistically, they technically have gotten better, but what is more
53:36
of a concern is that, Yeah, technically, so they went from the
53:39
twenty eighth pass defense to the seventeen, but they went from the eighth best
53:45
run defense to the twenty eighth. So they're going good in one category down
53:51
in another. But I think that's more putting more resources to the pass defense,
53:54
and now you're just getting whooped on the defensive line, which is their
53:59
strength. So and let's let's let's not let's not pretend Kyler Murray has all
54:05
these great weapons here. He's throwing to Greg Dortch, Michael Wilson. Uh.
54:12
Other than Trey McBride and James Connor. You really don't have anything else
54:15
here. Let's be real and it. George. Greg George is nice.
54:25
He's not a number one. I just I just like him because last year,
54:29
last year I picked him up and had him with a couple of good
54:31
fantasy games. He won a couple of games. I'm a big Greg.
54:35
I'm a I'm a big Greg Dorge guy. You know you should get it.
54:37
You should get a Greg Jersey, dude, I was so close to
54:42
getting We'll get to it later. We'll get to it. Yeah, yeah,
54:45
yeah, we'll get to that later. But yeah, No, Kyler
54:50
Murray, he's special and I think that he he just proved that he is
54:53
this franchise quarterback. There's no need to draft any other quarterback because a rookie
54:59
quarterback cannot do this with this supporting cast right here. So get him,
55:02
get him. Marvin Harrison Junior getting Rock Bauers, get him Oldunze, and
55:07
you're really gonna be cooking up something next year. Anything else you want to
55:09
take away, Oh yeah, thank you Philly. By the way, what
55:13
you're going to get into the playoff picture in a second, But thank you
55:15
for losing the game. We appreciate it potentially getting the two seed. But
55:21
anything else you want to take away, there's nothing much more to talk about
55:27
besides just I don't know nothing else done. Well, all right, we
55:31
canna get into this next game, in which it was the Los Angeles Rams
55:36
versus the New York Giants, in which the Rams barely hold on to win
55:40
and clinch a playoff berth in which they win twenty six to twenty five.
55:45
Josh, was there anything that you took away from this one? Right here?
55:50
Tommy DeVito would have won the football game. I'm just saying, but
55:52
let's get into it. Karen Williams, Karen Williams, Karen Williams, it's
56:00
just those two show up. They get the job done. Cooper Cup got
56:04
a touchdown, But if Karl Williams is to kind of have a three touchdown
56:07
game, they're probably gonna win the football game. Because he's the focal point
56:10
of this entire team now, and he had a good day. He had
56:14
a good day on the ground, twenty thirty seven, three touchdowns, he
56:16
had two okay catches two for fourteen. But yeah, they squeak by the
56:21
New York Giants. But these are trap games. They're gonna play you hard.
56:23
I feel like if the Rams lose to the Giants, we don't trip
56:28
out like the Cardinals lose to the Eagles, because you know, it's just
56:31
not the same. But the Rams they have been hot. They won this
56:35
game, and they're gonna be in the playoffs, and we know this offense
56:37
can get hot at any point. Yeah, there's again, the Rams offense
56:43
had a bad, bad day and they still end up scoring twenty six points,
56:45
in which I think the Giants defense it's a little bit underrated here because
56:51
they're such a bad team. There's just a lot of young, young,
56:53
young weapons. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and yeah, you're pretty much
57:00
covered everything. It's gonna be whoever plays this Rams team, they're gonna be
57:05
in for a test. I'm not saying they're gonna get upset, but it's
57:07
definitely gonna be a test. But anything else you wanna take away from this
57:09
one? No, well, all right, these next four games right here,
57:15
we're gonna just kind of just do a quick recap over. I'll let
57:21
you do this. Next one, it was the Tennessee Titans versus the Houston
57:24
Texans and with CJ. Stroud he made his return and they won twenty six
57:30
to three. Another chance to be in the playoffs, or a fighting chance
57:34
to be in the playoffs. Josh, what did you take away from this
57:37
one? You know, the Texas defense, I think for me is a
57:43
really big that is a really big thing. They they really were pressured in
57:46
the quarterback the entire game. They shut down the run game, which doesn't
57:51
If you shut down Tennessee's run game, it's hard for them to win any
57:52
games. So yeah, they showed up, showed out. And then on
57:55
the other side with their offense, CJ. Stroud came back. They didn't
57:59
look like he didn't push the ball too much, but he was. He
58:02
got a lot of people involved. Slow conservative football, which what you need
58:06
to do when you come back from injury. You don't try to force it
58:08
too much. And then Devin Singletary had a sixteen for eighty day, Nico
58:13
Collins seven for eighty. They're continuing to show that they're a good young team
58:15
in the NFL and they might get themselves into the playoffs. And it's pretty
58:21
cool to see, especially where they've been in the past. Yeah, no,
58:24
it definitely is. But all right, we're gonna move into this next
58:28
game right here, which I'll break down. It was the Carolina Panthers versus
58:31
the Jacksonville Jaguars, in which the Panthers they got shut out by the Jacksonville
58:37
defense and they played without Trevor Lawrence. But I think the biggest thing to
58:42
take away from this game is that you finally got back to your roots.
58:45
What makes Trevor Lawrence look good is you're able to run the football traves et
58:51
and sixteen carries, one hundred and two yards, two touchdowns, ten bigsby.
58:53
He even got ten carries here. So with them, I feel like
58:58
they need to keep the same game plan with Lawrence and just put it more
59:01
in Travis Etn's hands because he is the best player on the offense and then
59:07
you could go from there. Because Trevor Lawrence, he took some step backwards
59:12
here, so in the Jacksonville Jaguars defense is all right, average so yeah,
59:19
you win next week, you win the division and you're in the playoffs.
59:22
So just do that next week against the Titans. So then this next
59:28
game right here, we had the I was gonna say the Oakland the Las
59:34
Vegas Raiders versus the Indianapolis Colts, in which the Colts they won twenty three
59:38
to twenty Josh, what did you take away from this one? They just
59:49
got Jonathan Taylor back in this game. He really dictated what they were gonna
59:52
do. Once he's on the field, you know who they're gonna run the
59:53
offense. During he had twenty for ninety six in a touchdown, which makes
59:57
it I think, I believe since he's come back and I know he had
1:00:00
the break from his from this last injury, but he's had six straight games
1:00:05
with or seven straight games with a touchdown and he continues that right now.
1:00:07
And he's the focal point when he's in the game as rightfully, so he's
1:00:12
the best player that they have. And then Gardner Minshew continues to be the
1:00:15
good a good game manager, keeping them in the fight. But on the
1:00:20
other side of the Raiders, I think they're continuing to fight also with Adan
1:00:22
O'Connell, he looks he's honestly starting to look a lot more comfortable out there
1:00:25
in my opinion, in doing ninety except for when he plays the Chiefs,
1:00:30
of course. But he had two nine and nine and two touchdowns, and
1:00:32
then Zamir White. Zamir White. Honestly, I almost I picked him up
1:00:36
in a couple of fantasy leagues, thought about starting him, but I just
1:00:39
couldn't do it. But he had a good day seven for seven, twenty
1:00:42
for seventy one, and Davante finally had a good day when it mattered when
1:00:47
it didn't matter anymore, thirteen for one to twenty six and two touchdowns.
1:00:52
Such a big jump for what he's been doing these last couple of weeks.
1:00:55
So yeah, both teams, both teams I think played played a little bit
1:00:59
better than what they well, the Colts on the Raiders play a little better
1:01:04
on offense, and the Colts they're still fighting to make I think, I
1:01:07
don't know if they in the playoffs yet, but they're for sure fighting for
1:01:10
that spot. Yeah, yeah, I know the Colts are fighting for a
1:01:15
playoff spot. And also I know those that controversial Jack Jones off sides with
1:01:21
the field goal, but I don't know about you, but I don't think
1:01:23
that really changed anything right there. That's just me though, because they were
1:01:27
still down twenty three to thirty or twenty to thirteen at the moment. Yeah.
1:01:32
You you, you have other opportunities to make plays in these games.
1:01:37
You just can't if you just can't capitalize off capitalize in certain situations outside of
1:01:42
that one where it puts you back then, I don't know. You have
1:01:45
to be able to score at other points. I just think one thing I'm
1:01:49
more like looking at is that Jacksonville, Indianapolis, and Houston just can't separate
1:01:53
from each other. Just always nine and seven, all three of them.
1:01:58
Yeah, but all right, we're gonna move into this next game in which
1:02:01
it was Atlanta Falcons versus the Chicago Bears, in which the Chicago Bears took
1:02:07
care of business here they won thirty seven to seventeen, and which Justin Fields
1:02:14
he had a good game. And so I have a question for you here,
1:02:16
Josh. Do you think that Justin Fields how he's been playing lately,
1:02:21
do you think it's solidified himself next year because they officially have that number one
1:02:25
overall pick now, No, I don't think so. I think they may
1:02:32
be letting him run more just to butter him up for some team put him
1:02:39
out there and then make him some bait, because I don't I don't know.
1:02:44
I just feel like there's so much hype around Kaleb Williams that if you're
1:02:46
the team to pass upon him, you're gonna be looked at as insane.
1:02:50
So I think, honestly, in a lot of Monck dress I have I
1:02:52
have them trading justin Fields to the Atlanta Falcons, to a Minnesota Vikings team,
1:02:59
to a to a Raiders team. I have them trading that back,
1:03:02
trading him for another first round pick from those teams, because honestly, I
1:03:07
feel like he has all the talent in the world, just a matter of
1:03:09
what coaches around him. And he's balled out to sixty eight passing and then
1:03:14
he had forty five yards rushing in a touchdown. He has all the talent.
1:03:17
I don't think anyone's doubting that. I just think sometimes it's just like
1:03:22
some decisions he makes are like I don't know. But then also this year
1:03:24
they were limiting his running game, which makes him who he is. And
1:03:30
yeah, so that's just what I'm thinking from that whole situation. Yeah,
1:03:35
And honestly, if you would have told me before the year that the Chicago
1:03:38
Bears from last year being four and twelve or somewhere around there, I can't
1:03:44
remember their record exactly, they're gonna go from that record to potentially having seven
1:03:49
eight wins in a season, I would have said, that's a successful season.
1:03:52
But just like you said, you have that number one overall pick in
1:03:54
Caleb Williams, it just sucks because it's Justin Fields. Ever since he got
1:03:59
back from the injury, this offense is really starting to click now. And
1:04:03
also, thank you Justin Fields, by the way for winning me a championship,
1:04:06
the only championship I made it in. So I do appreciate that right
1:04:11
there. But yeah, no, he he looked good and then that DJ
1:04:15
more connection. It's looking good. So I don't I don't know how that's
1:04:19
gonna sit as far as with the locker room wise, because I know a
1:04:21
bunch of people want Justin Fields as far as inside that locker room, but
1:04:26
it's hard to pass up on the talent like Kayler Williams. So anything else
1:04:30
you want to take away, Josh, it's it just sucks to see the
1:04:38
Falcons with all this talent. Just I get the quarterback position, it is,
1:04:42
it's the most important position on the field. But they have the talent.
1:04:45
Man, It's just I just hope they find a way to put it
1:04:47
together next season. Mm hmm, yeah, hopefully they do. With justin
1:04:51
fields that would that would be perfect right there. But all right, we're
1:04:56
gonna get into the next game, in which it was the New engl In
1:05:00
Patriots versus the Buffalo Bills, and the Bills they squeak out and win and
1:05:03
win twenty seven to twenty one. Josh, what did you take away from
1:05:09
this one? Bill Belichick? Just seeing a team twice a year and just
1:05:15
being prepared. Honestly, it's expected in these type of games. People that
1:05:19
don't watch football or understand the concept of rivalry and stuff are Oh my god.
1:05:28
I don't know if you could hear. I don't think they heard the
1:05:30
beat noise right there, did you? Yeah, I heard it, but
1:05:34
it didn't pick up on you in the whole nother room. Bro, Oh
1:05:39
my gosh, it's over here screaming. But no, h If people don't
1:05:44
understand that why the Buffalo Bills are so close to the Patriots. It's a
1:05:46
rivalry game. They see them twice a year, but Belichick's cann't understand what
1:05:49
to do against these type of teams, especially a team like the Buffalo Bills
1:05:53
who have been running the ball a lot. We see them kind of go
1:05:55
back to their roots in this game, throwing for thirty times and but it
1:05:59
didn't really it wasn't really much to show. They had a pretty slow,
1:06:02
low offense about putt in this game, Bailey Zappy threw three picks, so
1:06:06
it kind of allowed them to stay in front and they finished with the twenty
1:06:10
seven to twenty one dub. Yeah. Okay, so I think that Josh
1:06:16
Allen, he's he's his biggest strength, but he's also his biggest weakness.
1:06:21
And this game proved exactly a why they won the turnover battle by three,
1:06:29
so four to one and you still stayed in the game with the bad Patriots
1:06:33
team. So he just has so much talent. He could do so much.
1:06:38
He tries to do things that no other quarterback can do and sometimes he
1:06:45
gets away with it, but other times he has games like this. So
1:06:47
that's why I said ja or James Cook should be the focal port of the
1:06:54
offense and it should just be a checkdown based offense. I know it's gonna
1:06:58
suck as far as you won't see the high, flashy Buffalo Bill's offense were
1:07:01
used to seeing. But it's gonna it's gonna win you games. That's what's
1:07:06
gonna win you games. And I don't know if this is a hot take
1:07:10
here or not, Josh, but I think that if the if the Buffalo
1:07:15
Bills end up winning the game against the Dolphins to go to the playoffs or
1:07:18
happen to make the playoffs, I feel like it will set them back a
1:07:21
couple of years. The reason why I'm saying that is because if they make
1:07:26
the playoffs, or if they beat the Dolphins, they will be the two
1:07:30
seed. So they won't fire Sean McDermott. They'll keep him, they'll keep
1:07:34
the whole regime in and they won't see that as a problem after after a
1:07:39
down year, and you really think that they'll also go ahead. But isn't
1:07:45
it also if they lose this game, they're not in the playoffs. I
1:07:47
think I saw something that if they win, they're in. If they lose,
1:07:50
they're out. No, So technically, if the Steelers lose, if
1:07:57
the Steelers lose and Jacksonville loses and even though if they lose, they could
1:08:00
still be in the playoffs. So so yeah, but I just see teams
1:08:04
in that same ten to six ninety seven area. Yeah. I know it's
1:08:10
weird, but I just think they need an offensive coach here because you see
1:08:15
the big difference. When he had Brian day Ball, he had his best
1:08:17
statistical year, and now you don't. I know that Joe Brady. He
1:08:25
is a good offensive coordinator, but he's not on Brian day Balls level.
1:08:29
I feel like you get a Ben Johnson as a head coach, or maybe
1:08:34
while I was bringing up Michigan earlier because I didn't want to bring it up
1:08:38
till now, you get a Jim Harball because look what he did with Alex
1:08:43
Smith, Look what he did with Colin Kaepernick. He made those quarterbacks look
1:08:46
damn good. And Josh Allen is already a good quarterbacky JJ McCarthy. So
1:08:54
see what I'm saying. So it's like you could only enhance Josh Allen,
1:08:59
but if you this next game or make the playoffs, it's gonna only set
1:09:02
you back. And I don't know if you would agree with that. Honestly,
1:09:12
I can see where you're coming from. But I think Sean McDermott's a
1:09:15
good coach. I just don't know if what they're putting together and Buffalo is
1:09:20
just enough to sustain. I feel like there's gonna be aut to a point
1:09:24
where they have to just reload on people because Von Miller, it was a
1:09:28
healthy and active in this game. Yeah, signs you need to sign a
1:09:30
six year, one hundred twenty million dollar contract, you know. So I
1:09:34
just feel like there's a lot more other decisions that they need to make instead
1:09:38
of trying to find a new head coach. Because Sean McDermott has been consistently
1:09:41
good in his career, just a matter of being consistently good on the field
1:09:44
when it matters the most. Yeah, Okay, I'm not saying Sean McDermott
1:09:48
he isn't a good coach, but i'd rather have I'd rather have a good
1:09:55
offensive coach who could enhance Josh Allen that it's been leaning towards that way for
1:10:01
most teams. But I think the only coach really outside of the Miko Ryans,
1:10:05
I can't really name another one, maybe Jonathan Gannon. Who are defensive
1:10:10
minded head coaches who have gotten jobs but they're both. I feel like Jonathan
1:10:14
Gannon's doing a pretty good job in Arizona for what he has at his disposal,
1:10:16
And we can't really harp on, really pick on Demiko Ryans for anything
1:10:20
this season. So yeah, I get where you're coming from. But also
1:10:24
I think it's more situation than it is, yeah, than it is who
1:10:29
the coach actually is, you know, mm hmm, yeah, yeah,
1:10:32
No, I can definitely see that. But is there anything else you want
1:10:36
to take away before we move on to these next these next three big games
1:10:41
right here? Now, let's get to the big ones, all right?
1:10:45
Well, the first big one that we're gonna get into it was the Miami
1:10:48
Dolphins versus the Baltimore Ravens, in which the Ravens stomped the Dolphins fifty six
1:10:57
to nineteen. Josh, what did you take away from this one? Lamar
1:11:01
Jackson just locked up the MVP for the second time in his career, throwing
1:11:05
five touchdowns for three and twenty one yards while rushing for thirty five. He
1:11:10
looked great in this game. I think, honestly, he looked great,
1:11:15
Like I can't see much more. If you're watching this game, you just
1:11:16
knew the Ravens all around. You meant business in this game. Even Isaiah
1:11:23
Likely caught two catches to touchdown forty two yards and it helped me in a
1:11:26
Fantasy championship. But I'm sorry we're bringing that up, but you know,
1:11:29
I'm a three time Fantasy champion this year. But you know this, this
1:11:34
Ravens team is so complete all the way around. Even without Kyle Hamilton,
1:11:39
they were making stuff happen with ro Kwan Smith tipping a pass, getting an
1:11:42
interception, and then Patrick Queen doing his thing. It was it was just
1:11:45
good to see them as a collective do what they do against these type of
1:11:50
opponents, especially high powered opponents like the Miami Dolphins. They really shut them
1:11:55
down. Tyreek kill six for seventy six. That's shutting down Tyreek Hill.
1:11:59
People that we'll sit here and say, oh, he's not a dominant,
1:12:02
but no, he has six for seventy six from Tyreek Hill. Was like,
1:12:05
it's like maybe two for twenty from someone else, you know, So
1:12:10
that's shutting him down. And Davon eteen had had a good game. But
1:12:13
outside of that, this this Dolphins team was just in shambles. Tua was
1:12:18
making some bad decisions that I haven't made to us, haven't seen too a
1:12:21
make probably ever in it since it's colored, even in his college career.
1:12:26
So this Ravens team is just clicking on all cylinders at this moment. They're
1:12:30
playing with confidence, complete confidence. Yeah, yeah, no, they definitely
1:12:35
are, and they're proven to be the best team in the NFL and over
1:12:40
all the division leaders right now that they have played, they're winning by an
1:12:44
average of twenty five points per game. So they're they're just the multi Okay,
1:12:51
Okay, we're not gonna get We're not going to get into that right
1:12:56
there. But okay, so I think I think it was looking to be
1:13:01
a close game because the Dolphins they did score right away. But the biggest
1:13:05
thing that changed this game completely over was Tyreek Hill dropping that wide open touchdown,
1:13:12
which they would have been up fourteen to ten, and when it it
1:13:15
would have made it a whole different ballgame there, because you know, there
1:13:18
was complete momentum there. And I'm not saying they would have won, but
1:13:24
I think the Ravens still would have won, but it could have made this
1:13:28
a closer game. It just got out of hand really quick. Again.
1:13:31
Lamar Jackson, he is that dude. Like you said, locked up the
1:13:34
MVP, locked up the one seed. That's what they that's what they needed.
1:13:39
And also another another thing I have to ask you, So Lamar Jackson
1:13:45
basically wrapped up the MVP here, No two time MVP in NFL history has
1:13:51
not gone on to be a Hall of Famer. So, so right now,
1:13:56
is Lamar Jackson hall of Famer to you? Yes? He is?
1:14:03
Because I think Cam Newton's a Hall of Famer, So I think Lamar Jackson
1:14:09
has had a better career than Cam Newton. So I would have to lean
1:14:12
towards yes in my opinion. And if we're really sitting here and looking at
1:14:15
a multiple time MVP is considered one of the best to ever do it.
1:14:18
You know. Yeah, they're sure there's people that won it one time,
1:14:21
but he's won it twice. I think he's up there. I think there's
1:14:26
a Mahomes tier, and now there's gonna have to be a Lamar Jackson tier
1:14:29
than everyone else because they're doing things that these other quarterbacks haven't even accomplished,
1:14:34
and they're getting more love than well, not the Mahomes, but look like
1:14:39
the Josh Allens Joe Burrows of the world. Lamar Jackson has fallen really underneath
1:14:44
the radar over the last couple of years, and he's really come back strong
1:14:46
this year and shown that I am an MVP, that I have been big
1:14:50
in this league and I've done more than these guys have have done. Yeah,
1:14:56
and he's done it with not the likes of a Jamar Chase, without
1:14:59
the likes. That's definite gigs without the likes, you know. And he
1:15:03
lost his biggest weapon in Mark Andrews. That's what's even crazier. And he's
1:15:08
still putting up five touchdowns in the football game. Yeah, exactly. And
1:15:14
as far as from the Dolphins side here, I think the biggest thing is
1:15:16
them losing Xavion Howard and Bradley Chubb. He's now out for the year with
1:15:19
the torn ACL. So do you think because the Dolphins defense it has been
1:15:27
playing good recently, do you think this is going to affect them right there
1:15:30
and potentially beating Buffalo. Yes, because Bradley Chubb is one of the people
1:15:39
that brings mainly a lot of pressure on that line outside of Christian Wilkins.
1:15:43
So that's a big loss. And then you're missing your main linebacker in Jalen
1:15:46
Phillips who just who left this season of the tour touring Achilles, I believe.
1:15:51
So it's just it's just hard for this defense right now because even Jalen
1:15:57
Ramsey and Xavier Howard, they're constantly hurt. So it's just matter of time.
1:16:00
I feel like if something goes wrong, which I hope it doesn't,
1:16:03
but they just this defense is just banged up at this moment and they need
1:16:06
a lot of that. They need a lot of people to get to find
1:16:10
to step up big for them. If not, I think it's gonna cotinue
1:16:13
to be results like this. Yeah, it's true, and we'll see,
1:16:17
and we'll see next week against a Buffalo team who has been on a winning
1:16:23
streak as of late. Would anything else you want to take away? No,
1:16:27
that's it. Well, all right, we're gonna get into the America's
1:16:31
team right here. The Saturday, the Saturday Night game, the game that
1:16:36
was the most controversial in which the Cowboys they won twenty to nineteen, and
1:16:43
now they sit at the number two seed in the NFC after Philly loss.
1:16:46
The winner of this game would be sitting at the two seed, in which
1:16:48
the Cowboys are Josh, what did you take away from this game. This
1:16:56
is a good football game. I understand that in the ending, which we'll
1:16:59
get to here in a can but honestly, both teams battled it out,
1:17:02
they both made mistakes, they both made good. Good things happen with the
1:17:08
Lions making that late that late drive at the end of the game had us
1:17:11
all on the edge of our seats, especially when they got to the two
1:17:14
point conversion, which is the biggest controversy of them all. You know,
1:17:18
the Taylor threw me off when they threw was a Taylor decord for that that
1:17:21
two point conversion and then mm hmm, and then the whole chaos started happening
1:17:27
with the did he did he? Did he report eligible? Did he not
1:17:30
report eligible? Did he went up to the ref? The ref didn't hear
1:17:33
him? Like all this type of different stuff that has been coming out.
1:17:36
It just it just sucks to see a game like this and like that.
1:17:40
I feel just off that type of controversy made by the refs who can't really
1:17:45
make up their mind on what they heard or what they didn't heart didn't hear
1:17:47
heard. I don't know what I'm talking about, but what they didn't hear,
1:17:53
So it was pretty It was a good game see, especially seeing Ceedee
1:17:57
Lamb play like he did and Roll played like he did, especially Amina in
1:18:00
the light towards the end of when he started getting cooking more I feel like,
1:18:04
and he had that late touchdown. I think this was what I didn't
1:18:09
expect it to be this low scoring. But it's cool to see these two
1:18:11
teams battle out because they're both really good teams with a lot of aspirations.
1:18:15
Yeah, this was definitely a playoff game, playoff atmosphere right here in which
1:18:21
the Cowboys they go on to not lose at home again. They go eight
1:18:25
to zero as far as throughout the whole regular season, sixteen straight and as
1:18:31
I'm gonna go ahead and get straight into it before I talk about anything else,
1:18:34
the refs they didn't screw anybody over. But the refs they did not
1:18:39
screw anybody over. I'm saying that again because both sides, as far as
1:18:45
with the Lions and Cowboys were screwed over on multiple times. As far as
1:18:48
with the whole illegal or eligible man downfield. There's only so much gamesmanship you
1:18:56
can do. Because they even said they try to confuse the Cowboys defenders,
1:19:01
which you cannot do you literally have to report to the defense who is eligible,
1:19:06
and you end up confusing the refs. And let's not even mention you
1:19:12
had two more plays where you could have either option A kicked the extra point
1:19:16
at the seven yard line, which you should have, and then you had
1:19:20
a free play because Micah Parsons jumped off sides, you threw a pick,
1:19:25
which was a free play. So obviously then you had to play at the
1:19:28
two yard line, in which you got stopped. So you had plenty of
1:19:31
opportunities, and Dak Prescott had thirty four seconds left with the timeout. You're
1:19:36
telling me. With Brandon Aubrey, who's been arguably the best kicker in the
1:19:41
league, especially with sixty plus yarders, you're telling me he couldn't even have
1:19:45
got them in a chance for field goal range. And as far as before
1:19:48
that even happened, whenever there was a pick that happened when Donovan Wilson got
1:19:53
it, there was a tripping call called on Peyton Hendershot on Aiden Hutchinson in
1:19:58
which Aiden Hutchinson tripped Payton Hendershot, So the Lions wouldn't have even been in
1:20:03
that situation if they called it fair. So I don't want to hear as
1:20:09
far as the refs screwed over the Lions here because Ceedee Lamb dropped a fumble
1:20:15
earlier in the game that was gonna put them up fourteen to three. This
1:20:18
could have easily been a blowout here. But the other other than that whole
1:20:25
thing right there, I just want to say, I feel like you'll agree
1:20:29
with me here, Josh Dak Prescott and CD Lamb is the best quarterback wide
1:20:33
receiver combo in the league as of right now. They are, especially especially
1:20:39
how they played when got to have it like a CD Lamb or Dak Prescott.
1:20:45
The ceed Lamb pass that's almost like eighty nine eighty ninety percent completion every
1:20:50
single time. That's what it is. And I don't care Dak Prescott as
1:20:57
of right now. And he proved it because there was no run really really
1:21:00
established the Lions. They were getting to the quarterback. Dak Prescott made play
1:21:04
after play after play and again, I gotta have it situation you were down,
1:21:11
you end up scoring, so or to put them up seventeen to thirteen,
1:21:15
because they were down thirteen to ten I think early in the fourth quarter.
1:21:20
So if Dak Prescott continues to play like this, then it's gonna be
1:21:26
very hard outside of the San Francisco forty nine ers in the NFC to beat
1:21:30
this Dallas Cowboys team, especially at home. So it again, this whole
1:21:35
controversy, it kind of just ruined exactly how this game went. But the
1:21:41
Cowboys, in my opinion, they dominated this game, had to toe.
1:21:45
But I think the score it just showed otherwise in here, and especially with
1:21:49
the run game too, So I know it looks like the Lions they ran
1:21:54
the ball very effectively, but it was three big runs if I'm not mistaken
1:21:58
by Jami Gibbs and Dave Montgomery. Other than that, the Cowboys defense was
1:22:03
on point the entire time. They made a statement as far as stopping the
1:22:06
run, they did. But Josh, uh, what did you what did
1:22:13
you feel it as far as other than the whole refs thing. Do you
1:22:17
think that sorry, I just completely went blank. Do you think that the
1:22:26
Cowboys, as far as at home can win multiple playoff games? Yes?
1:22:32
I think they can. I just think I think, honestly, they played
1:22:36
this team and maybe the Niners are the only two teams that I feel like
1:22:40
could walk in there and maybe give them a run for their money. And
1:22:43
we saw the Lions kind of ire, sure their defense isn't as isn't that
1:22:47
great, but like we saw Aiden Hutcherson get to him three times in this
1:22:53
game, we saw we saw a couple of other things where the Lions were
1:22:56
able to answer the Cowboys. And I think, honestly, in a different
1:22:59
game, I don't think score this low bow teams. I think they're both
1:23:00
gonna kind of tear these defenses a little bit apart more than they did in
1:23:04
this game. I don't know if you feel the same way. Yeah,
1:23:09
it was. I think this was more of two teams like that are pretty
1:23:13
battle tested coming to get like this season and come together and have a really
1:23:17
good, low scoring game. Because outside of that CD fumble, I really
1:23:21
in the big ninety two yard gain, I really do think the Lions kind
1:23:25
of held their own against the Cowboys in check. Yeah, a little bit
1:23:28
against that offense. So yeah, and then even the Cowboys helped Almon Row
1:23:33
if you call this holding Almon Ross to six to ninety for a touchdown,
1:23:38
they held him in check too. I feel like because he I were just
1:23:40
like nine catches in one hundred and ten yards one hundred and twenty yards,
1:23:44
you know, So it's it was just two teams feeling each other out.
1:23:46
And I think the Cowboys at home are very dangerous, but I feel like
1:23:49
it'd be the same exact way if they played the Lions at home. Also,
1:23:54
yeah, I can definitely see that there. But yeah, like you
1:23:59
said, with that yard completion that Dak Prescott had, I feel like that's
1:24:02
an MVP moment right there. I know he's not gonna win MVP, but
1:24:06
he's just been on a tear all year and that just proves that he's been
1:24:10
one of the best quarterbacks all year, in my opinion, the best quarterback
1:24:13
all year. But anything else you want to take away before we move into
1:24:16
this last game. Oh yeah, if Almonroe scored over twenty five points and
1:24:23
they won the game, I was gonna buy alm inaw Jersey. But I
1:24:26
was close. He had twenty two and they were only down by one,
1:24:29
so it was cool. But well, I'll get one even without him doing
1:24:32
it. We'll see. Yeah, I'm in raw. He is a like
1:24:36
guy in the league. But this last game that we're going to talk about,
1:24:40
it's the New York Jets versus the Cleveland Browns, And what's the Browns.
1:24:44
They pretty much dominated thirty seven to twenty. Josh, what did you
1:24:48
take away from this? Okay, so before the game, I was asking
1:24:55
Fonzo about breist Hal, Jamir Gabbs, Bijon who I should start, and
1:24:58
I couldn't been Yeah, no, Breeze Hall for himself. And then me
1:25:01
I did. I took Breeze Hal out after convincing Fonzo that Breeze Hall was
1:25:05
the perfect option. A good thing. I survived and still won my fantasy
1:25:10
league. But that could have been bad because brees Hall sure doesn't look good
1:25:13
in the box score before fantasy freaking twenty seven points is quite a bit and
1:25:18
I almost missed out on it. And then as far as this game as
1:25:26
a whole, Joe Flacco, he was pretty big in the first half in
1:25:33
this game, as far as this whole Cleveland Browns, especially the first quarter,
1:25:36
in the opening drive, they really came out in full demand, in
1:25:39
full in full force, talking about and that came in full force, really
1:25:45
passing the ball, getting the ball and stride hitting Davin Adjoku when he needed
1:25:49
to hit him. He had six for one thirty four. A lot of
1:25:51
it came in the first half because they only completed I believe too kept passes
1:25:56
in the second half, So it was a It was a cool outing from
1:26:00
him because Joe Flacco, who would have thought that he would been the one
1:26:04
to really unlock this offense and really really set them apart from what they were
1:26:10
from a PJ. Walker, from Adrii and Thompson Robinson, even from a
1:26:13
Deshaun Watson, who I really do think the Browns are kind of regretting paying
1:26:16
all that money too, after seeing Joe Flacco play a lot better in this
1:26:19
offense and on the ground. Jerome four twelve for sixty four and then he
1:26:24
had two for fifty seven through the air and two touchdowns, which that one
1:26:27
touchdown where Joe Flacco is running to the outside and kind of flipped his body
1:26:31
around hit Jerome Ford and he made a big play. But as far as
1:26:36
the Jets, siders just sad to see because they show spurts where they can
1:26:42
hold teams and they know that they're as talented as they are, but this
1:26:48
offense just can't seem to match that energy when you have people like Breshaw and
1:26:51
Garrett Wilson and Breese Hall's the only one doing something with thirteen for eighty four
1:26:57
and nine for forty two in a touchdown. It's easy for him to do
1:26:59
things because he's a running back getting all the dump off from Trevor Simeon.
1:27:01
But Garrett Wilson is the talent being wasted his first two seasons, hoping for
1:27:05
a quarterback to come through and give him some give him some love, which
1:27:10
I hope we can see next year if Aaron Rodgers stays healthy and comes back
1:27:13
like and Aaron Rodgers is supposed to. So yeah, that's just really what
1:27:18
I took away from this game. Yeah, So as far as like you
1:27:27
were saying, as far as the fantasy football, thank you for convincing me
1:27:30
to start Brees Hall because I needed needed that in the championship game. And
1:27:35
also to mention dron Ford, I ended up starting him too, and man,
1:27:42
he ended up being big for me. And as far as as far
1:27:46
as with this Browns team, as far as as a whole, I saw
1:27:51
a comparison as far as them being kind of like the win of the winning
1:27:59
the Eagle win the Super Bowl twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, as far as
1:28:02
being somewhat like this team as far as a backup quarterback, plenty of talent
1:28:10
on the team, and you have one of the better defenses in the league.
1:28:15
I don't think that they'll make the Super Bowl or potentially win it,
1:28:19
but there is similarities there, and they didn't even they didn't even have Amari
1:28:24
Cooper on Thursday. So and the Jets defense, I know the Jets defense.
1:28:38
They are a good defense. They are and they were still in this
1:28:42
game early. They were so and the Browns were able to consistently consistently move
1:28:47
the ball down the field. And Joe Flacco, he is that game changer.
1:28:54
I can't deny that any any longer. I kept saying that I don't
1:29:00
know if this is sustainable. I don't know. I'm just not buying it.
1:29:03
But I'm officially bought in now. Joe Flacco. He can make the
1:29:08
difference. And if it wasn't for the Baltimore Ravens being this dominant, then
1:29:13
I could see the Browns really making a Super Bowl run. Maybe they can
1:29:15
upset the Ravens. But we'll see. But is there anything else you want
1:29:21
to take away before we move on to the playoff picture? No, I
1:29:27
pretty much covered everything I wanted to stay on this game. Yeah, it
1:29:30
was just it was just it was these defenses really showed up in the second
1:29:38
half, and they showed what they can do. But I think the Browns
1:29:40
when they're at their best, can compete with anyone in the in the NFL
1:29:43
if they have a really good day. Yeah, yeah, no question.
1:29:47
But all right, since we talked about all of week seventeen, we're gonna
1:29:53
go ahead and get into the playoff picture here in which it's pretty much shaping
1:29:57
up to these past few or these last few games right here. And did
1:30:01
you want to do as a f C and NFC like we did last week,
1:30:05
like you do AFC at the AFC, Yeah, that's okay, the
1:30:09
AFC. Do you want me to go first with the NFC? Right now?
1:30:13
Okay? First, I have it right here, Okay, we have
1:30:16
right we have the the Ravens, Ravens, Dolphins, and Chiefs clinching the
1:30:21
one, two and three CE at this very moment while winning their divisions.
1:30:26
And then we have the Browns already clinching the fifth seed because they won't be
1:30:29
able to overtake the Ravens in the division, so they're gonna sit pretty at
1:30:31
that fifth seat is playing playing right now? The Jacksonville Jaguars, who are
1:30:36
looking like they are still fighting between Tennessee and Houston, which is pretty crazy.
1:30:43
So we'll see how that pans out. Right now, right now,
1:30:47
they have the best odds to make it so that that right now, that's
1:30:50
the mashup the Jaguars and the Browns and the the Dolphins will be playing the
1:30:57
Colts and the Chiefs will be playing the Bills right now in the first round.
1:31:00
So it's gonna be a pretty pretty extreme AFC AFC playoffs. In my
1:31:04
opinion, that's gonna be a pretty close between all these teams because I really
1:31:09
don't think there's really a clear cut best team besides the Baltimore Ravens, and
1:31:12
I think every team is probably gonna duke it out and there's gonna be some
1:31:15
pretty good football to watch. Yeah, yeah, no, it definitely is.
1:31:20
And so as far as with this, I'm not trying to get into
1:31:26
predictions here, but as far as with this Colts Texans game right here,
1:31:30
the seventh, the seven and eight seed right now, because they both control
1:31:35
their own destiny here, who do you think has the advantage in before uh
1:31:42
or going into the game. I'm gonna lean with the Texans. You said
1:31:48
the Texans, correct, Texans and Colts. Yeah, yeah, Texas.
1:31:50
I'm gonna lead. I'm gonna lead towards the Texans more because I do trust
1:31:55
their defense a little bit more. But Darrick Stingley, junior, Jalen Peatree,
1:32:00
and then I believe Will Anderson maybe coming back healthy. I'm not too
1:32:03
sure. Yeah, I think he is. Their defense has been has been
1:32:06
playing a lot better than the Indianapolis Colts defense has been playing. And I'm
1:32:12
not gonna say I trust the offense more because the Colts offense can turn it
1:32:15
up at any point. Also, but the defense is a separator for me,
1:32:19
and I think the Texans have the better one. Yeah. And Okay,
1:32:24
So on the team that's really looking on the outside and that needs some
1:32:29
help to get in, it's the Pittsburgh Steelers, in which they would have
1:32:33
to beat the Ravens, which is is likely because the Ravens will most likely
1:32:38
be resting, and the Dolphins have to have to beat the Bills or the
1:32:43
Titans beat or tie the Jaguars. Do you think that there's a realistic shot
1:32:48
that all of that can happen? Yeah, I think it is realistic because
1:32:55
the Dolphins, they can definitely beat the bill For the last time we saw
1:32:58
the Bills play the Dolphins, the Bills destroyed them. But I don't know
1:33:00
this, I don't know if these are the same teams because of overseen But
1:33:04
that's just the game that I feel like maybe more in doubt. But as
1:33:06
far as the other one that we're we're talking about, where the where the
1:33:12
Tennessee Titans lose, I can definitely see that they're right. You said,
1:33:15
the Titans criret the Tacks. The Titans beat the Jackson. The Titans beat
1:33:18
the Jacks. Uh see, I don't see that happening. I think that's
1:33:23
the that that game is gonna be the one where it's kind of like,
1:33:27
I don't that'st'll be the hardest to predict because I really do not see the
1:33:30
Jacks losing to the Titans to make the playoffs. Yeah, yeah, that
1:33:34
on. That one's gonna be tough right there. And I think the biggest
1:33:39
thing from this AFC one right here is Dolphins Bills. It's gonna be bad
1:33:43
for either team who loses because if the Bills win, they get the two
1:33:47
seed. If the Dolphins win, they get the two seed. But if
1:33:51
the Bills. They lose, they could be out of the playoffs. Or
1:33:55
if the Dolphins lose, they go all the way from being the second best
1:33:58
team in the AFC to being on the road the entire the entire time.
1:34:01
And if you had to pick one team that could be the sixth seed or
1:34:06
that would be the sixth seed and have a better chance to get to the
1:34:10
Super Bowl, who do you think it would be? Dolphins or Bills.
1:34:17
Honestly, I'm gonna go with the Buffalo Bills. I'm gonna say this because
1:34:21
at times their defense can play better than the Dolphins defense, and the Dolphins,
1:34:27
still against good teams, cannot show up when it matters. I understand
1:34:30
they beat the Cowboys, I get that, but they also got killed by
1:34:34
the Ravens and pretty much put in checked by every other above five hundred team
1:34:39
that they have played. The Bills have actually gone toe to toe and beaten
1:34:42
understand, to our own fault. They beat the Chiefs, they freaking put
1:34:46
up points against the Eagles, and they've been on quite a chair over the
1:34:49
last these last six weeks of the season. So I trust the Bills more
1:34:54
than I trust the Dolphins. I know it sounds crazy, but I think
1:35:00
I would have to trust the Dolphins more than the Bills because I feel like
1:35:05
I feel like the Bills they as much as they've been on a roll as
1:35:11
of late, I feel like at the end of the day, Josh Allen,
1:35:15
he's gonna have one of those games like he did against the Patriots where
1:35:18
it's just real sporadic three four turnovers ended up costing them the game. So,
1:35:26
and I know the Dolphins they can't be good teams, especially on the
1:35:30
road, but they have all the weapons there. They have more weapons in
1:35:33
Buffalo, and I think who the better coaching Mike McDaniel. So that's the
1:35:39
only reason why I'll trust them more than the Bills. But all right,
1:35:43
let's get into the NFC. So the one seed is officially wrapped up.
1:35:48
The San Francisco forty nine ers have Clinton one seed. They are twelve and
1:35:53
four. Then you have the two seed, the Dallas Cowboys. They are
1:35:58
sitting there as of right now. They can cleanse the two seed if they
1:36:01
beat Washington. Then you have the Lions as the three seed right now,
1:36:06
so the worst they could get the three seed, they could potentially jump Dallas
1:36:12
for the two seed. If Dallas loses and they win, then you have
1:36:15
the four seed, which would be the NFC South whoever wins that potentially Saints
1:36:20
or Buccaneers, but the Buccaneers have the advantage if they beat the Panthers that
1:36:24
are automatically in. Then you have the five seeded Eagles, the worst they
1:36:29
could be as the five seed, So if Dallas loses and they beat the
1:36:32
Giants, they could go from five to two, So that would be that's
1:36:36
a big watch right there. Then the sixth seed, you have the Los
1:36:41
Angeles Rams who are nine and seven. They could cleanse the six seed with
1:36:45
the win over the Niners, who will probably who will probably be resting.
1:36:50
Then you have this is where all the fun starts right here. So you
1:36:54
have the seven seed green Bay Packers. They have the easiest route. They're
1:36:58
eight and eight right now. If they beat Chicago, they're in. Then
1:37:01
you have Seattle who's on the outside looking in. They would have to beat
1:37:05
Arizona and Green Bay loses. Then you have the Saints who still have a
1:37:10
chance theoretically, so they would have to beat Atlanta, and then the Bucks
1:37:15
who have to lose so they have no chance as far as wild card wise,
1:37:17
just as far as potentially winning the division, then the last team who
1:37:23
surprisingly still has a chance is a Minnesota Vikings. So this is where theirs
1:37:28
is complicated. So they would have to beat the Lions, have the Packers
1:37:31
lose, have Seattle lose, and have the Saints or Buccaneers lose. So
1:37:38
they're looking more on the outside looking in. I don't really see them having
1:37:42
a chance. But as far as so as far as Green Bay, Seattle
1:37:46
and the Saints, who do you think has the best chance to make a
1:37:50
run in the playoffs. Honestly, geez, dude, that's tough. It's
1:38:03
tough. That's a tough ask right there, because I was gonna lean towards
1:38:08
the team and I just started thinking the New Orleans Saints. If you're gonna
1:38:14
sit here and ask me, I think I'm gonna have to go with the
1:38:15
more veteran, the more the team with the most veterans who have been in
1:38:20
the playoffs before, and I'm gonna have to go with the New Orleans Saints.
1:38:23
I don't. I think it's from a strictly experience point, because they
1:38:28
do have still have Tyron Matthew, Cameron Jordan, the Mario Davis, Derek
1:38:32
carr All, these guys Alvin Kamara who have been there before, and Jamal
1:38:38
Willings. Oh no, Jamal Williams really hasn't. I guess with the Packers
1:38:41
he was so like with the experience wise, these guys have been there the
1:38:45
most. But I would think I think by talents wise, I think I
1:38:48
could see the Packers honestly make it more of a ruin because they have the
1:38:53
way they've been playing. I get outside those two weeks maybe where they kind
1:38:57
of fell off a little bit, but they they've been playing really great football.
1:39:00
Yeah, I'll have to agree with you right here. I think the
1:39:03
Packers, especially now Jordan Love, he has been playing I think it's sixteen
1:39:09
touchdowns to win interception since week eleven or week twelve, so he's definitely been
1:39:15
on a tear. But Okay, so we know the one seed is locked
1:39:18
up, we know the two and five seed. It's gonna be in between
1:39:23
the NFC East most likely most likely the Cowboys. They will win, so
1:39:27
they'll be the two seed. So if you couldn't pick the San Francisco forty
1:39:32
nine ers to win the NFC, who would be your favorite? The Detroit
1:39:40
Lions. Baby, you already know, and I'm gonna I'm gonna be for
1:39:47
real about it. I do think the Lions are are there's still my pick
1:39:51
to make it up, but it's just I don't know. I feel like
1:39:57
what I saw against the Cowboys. I think that the defense is playing better,
1:40:01
and I do like their their offense can get going at any point.
1:40:04
And that's what I trust is that offense with Jamir Gibbs, with Dave Montgomery,
1:40:09
Almnross, Saint Brown. I think they can at any point get it
1:40:12
going. Yeah, and because that run game can mean a lot to them
1:40:16
if it's clicking on. One thing I can't agree with you on is that
1:40:23
a run game. A run game can travel anywhere, it doesn't matter if
1:40:27
it's indoor, outdoors, and the Lions they can't do that. I think
1:40:30
the biggest thing will be Jared Golf. Jared Golf that I think that's what
1:40:38
it's gonna because he has become a little turnover happy the last couple Yeah,
1:40:43
and really this season, which is weird unlikely from him. Yeah, exactly.
1:40:47
So it's like you're kind of trending downwards here. So if so,
1:40:56
obviously I would say the Cowboys the Cowboys right here, but just say hypothetically,
1:41:00
I can't pick the Cowboys. I'd honestly picked the Rams. I'm not
1:41:06
gonna lie. I feel real confident as far as like you were saying,
1:41:11
I agree with you as far as you were saying, as far as with
1:41:14
the veteran team, they've been there before, Super Bowl experience, Matt Stafford.
1:41:18
Uh. Then you have a dynamic run game in Karen Williams and their
1:41:23
defense. At the beginning of the year they were atrocious, but they have
1:41:27
become a good to average defense lately, So I think that that can happen.
1:41:33
Sean McVay, he always makes crazy stuff happen. And when you have
1:41:36
a great coach and great quarterback, you never know what type of run you
1:41:41
can make in the playoffs. But anything else you want to take away before
1:41:45
we get into the final week of predictions, I know they're the This is
1:41:54
gonna be a fun to see it all happen, and who's really gonna make
1:41:57
it and then we can make our real predictions. Then yeah, no,
1:42:00
I I just want that. I just want the answers. Let just see
1:42:04
who who is gonna do with brother? I know, just one dang it.
1:42:10
It's crazy because whenever, whenever, what what week was it? Whenever
1:42:15
we we started it, it was week five, week six, something like
1:42:19
that. Yeah, week five, somewhere around there. Yeah. So it's
1:42:24
definitely been a long time coming because we've been talking about, oh, well
1:42:28
the playoffs, is the playoffs that? Well, now it's it's finally gonna
1:42:30
be here. But all right, we're gonna go ahead and get into predictions,
1:42:34
in which, of course, last week, to build the dramatic effect,
1:42:40
we did end up tying two to two, so it is still tied
1:42:45
five to five overall, so it's gonna come down to the last week of
1:42:49
the season. Yeah, so we're gonna we're gonna see what happens because I
1:42:56
don't I don't know. I feel like I'm making a the rest hold the
1:43:00
Lions. Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, we're not gonna get into
1:43:03
that. But all right, the first game that we have it is the
1:43:10
Pittsburgh Steelers versus the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore, the first Saturday game. Okay,
1:43:18
so barring barring the starter sitting out, I'll go Ravens. But I'll
1:43:28
go Ravens just no, because a lot the Steelers still have something to play
1:43:32
for But if the Ravens starters play up going Ravens that their starters don't play,
1:43:38
I'll go Steelers. I agree with you one hundred percent. That's that's
1:43:41
the same thing I'm gonna say. So. Then the Saturday night game,
1:43:45
it's the Houston Texans versus the Indianapolis Colts, in which winner gets into the
1:43:50
playoffs. I'm gonna do the Houston Texans. Yeah, gimme Houston here.
1:43:58
The next game we have the Cleveland Browns versus the Cincinnati Bengals, in which
1:44:02
the Bengals are obviously eliminated and the Browns they've locked up the five seed.
1:44:10
I'm gonna go give me the Cleveland Browns in this one. The Cleveland Browns.
1:44:19
Man, I'm so tempted to pick pick Cincinnati right now. It's just
1:44:23
a hard week to predict because I don't know what the are gonna do exactly.
1:44:28
It's tough, yeah, because I don't want to be wrong, and
1:44:32
it's predicated off the starter's playing, and the starters don't play, then there's
1:44:36
no point, you know, I guess this is the same as the first
1:44:40
game, barring any who's the starter's playing and who the you know, what
1:44:44
I'm saying, like, if the starts play, then Browns. If not,
1:44:46
then I'll go Bengals. Okay, well, yeah, that's what I
1:44:51
agree on. Then this next one right here, it's a Minnesota Vikings versus
1:44:56
the Detroit Lions, in which Dan Campbell he did our already say he does
1:45:00
not plan on resting his starters. Then I will go with the Lions.
1:45:09
Man, I'm tempted right here. You know what, No, no,
1:45:15
give me the Lions right here. I have another game that I'm looking at
1:45:18
right here. Then, all right, this next one, we have the
1:45:21
Jacksonville Jaguars at the Tennessee Titans. If the Jaguars win, they win the
1:45:26
division. Oh, Jaguars, Jaguars, And this is exactly the game that
1:45:35
I was looking at. Give me the Tennessee Titans right here. I think
1:45:40
that the Titans they play spoiler. Last year, literally the same the same
1:45:45
thing happened where it was win to get in and the Jaguars beat the Titans.
1:45:50
I think the Titans will have some revenge right here. So yeah,
1:45:55
I think Titans they pull off the upset and keep the Jags out of the
1:45:58
playoffs. The next one right here, it's gonna be the New York Jets
1:46:02
versus the New England Patriots. No starters are sitting on this one for sure.
1:46:11
Yeah, oh, I'll go with the Jets in this one. Yeah.
1:46:15
Give me the Jets in this one too, but all right. Next
1:46:18
one, we have the Atlanta Falcons at New Orleans Saints. I love the
1:46:32
Saints in this one. Yeah, yeah, give me the Saints in this
1:46:35
one. Next one we have the Bake Show versus the Carolina Panthers, in
1:46:41
which if the Bucks win there, they win the division. I'm gonna go
1:46:45
with the Buccaneers. Give me the Bake Show too. Next one we have
1:46:50
it's the start of the three o'clock games. It's the Chicago Bears versus the
1:46:56
Green Bay Packers in Green Bay. If the Packers win their in LL go
1:47:02
with the Packers. I don't know why, I have a word feel in
1:47:09
Chicago's gonna win. I'm tempted. Uh, dude, you know what,
1:47:15
give me Chicago. Here, give me Chicago. I think Chicago, though,
1:47:19
I guess I'm taking the upsets. Here, give me Chicago. Next
1:47:24
one we have the Denver Broncos. Huh, you are taking the upsets?
1:47:30
Yeah, I feel like one of them. Is bound to happen here.
1:47:33
Then next one, we have the Denver Broncos at the Las Vegas Raiders.
1:47:42
I'll go with the Raiders. Yeah, give me, give me the Raiders
1:47:45
in this one. Then we have the Philadelphia Eagles versus the New York Giants,
1:47:50
in which Nick Sirianni already said that they may rest their starters. Yeah
1:48:01
go uh uh, I'm gonna go with the Giants. You can go to
1:48:08
the Giants, man, I think okay, because I feel like even if
1:48:15
even if Philly plays, they won't play the entire the entire game. I
1:48:19
think it'll maybe be a half or so. Uh, give me the Giants
1:48:25
here. The next one we have Seattle at Arizona. Seattle, give me
1:48:33
Seattle to Kansas City at Chargers. Um, I'm gonna go with the Chargers
1:48:41
in this one because I don't think we're gonna play anyone. But if we
1:48:44
do play our people, then I'll go Chiefs. But right now I'm gonna
1:48:46
go with the Chargers. I agree with you on this one. Next one
1:48:49
have Rams versus San Fran and San Fran maybe resting starters well is already.
1:48:59
Yeah, give me the Rams and the one Cowboys at Washington. Well,
1:49:04
Cowboys, Yeah, Cowboys need a win to get the two seeds. I'll
1:49:09
pick Dallas too. The next one, the game that's the most anticipating,
1:49:14
the Buffalo Bills versus the Miami Dolphins in Miami. I'll go with Bills in
1:49:24
this one. Oh, you think the Bills are gonna win? Oh h
1:49:33
mmm. Give me the Miami Dolphins here. I think. I don't know
1:49:40
Miami. They they don't lose at home. Give me the Miami Dolphins here.
1:49:44
But all right, now that we got done with predictions, we'll see
1:49:47
how that goes. Man, I swear if we end up tying again,
1:49:50
it's I don't I don't know. We'll have to figure out something. But
1:49:57
uh yeah, but our right run a race for it? A mile?
1:50:03
Man, I don't know about that because I know, I know you're long
1:50:09
you're a long distance runner, so no, I could run a little bit
1:50:13
of long distance. But I don't know. You know what, if it's
1:50:17
a mile, I think I got a shot. I got a shot,
1:50:24
you think so? Yeah, I think I got a shot. I don't
1:50:28
know, bro, I don't know. If you're training. I've been.
1:50:31
I've been training because how I have these Spartan races. Well, look,
1:50:36
I got my medals right here and everything, so oh dang, that was
1:50:41
loud. So the last one I had to run, will not had to
1:50:45
but it was thirteen miles, So so I do some long distance. But
1:50:51
I don't know. I know you are a long distance runner for track,
1:50:54
so you're past your prime, Jobe. My crime, I still run every
1:51:01
day. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I know.
1:51:06
But all right, we're gonna go to get into our so called MVPs of
1:51:11
the week. We always have one every single week, Josh, who is
1:51:15
your MVP of the week, Mister Harrison Buker, It's gonna be my MVP.
1:51:24
Six for six on the field goals, dude has the second highest percentage
1:51:29
in NFL history. Now, so I'm gonna have to go with my boy,
1:51:32
Harrison Buker. Harrison Bucker that I had a feeling you're gonna go with
1:51:38
somebody like that, But I feel like this one's pretty obvious. Who's my
1:51:42
MVP is It's gotta be Sedarian Lamb thirteen catches, twenty seven yards, one
1:51:47
touchdown, and then he broke the all time catches and receiving yards and Cowboys
1:51:53
history past Michael Irvin. Now it's one hundred and twenty two catches on the
1:51:57
season, sire, and fifty one yards. An honorable mention here because I
1:52:01
know you already brought it up, but I did a little bit more research.
1:52:05
Shout out to Brad Allen Bright, Rick Patterson, Greg Yetty, Boords
1:52:10
Cheek, Sarah Thomas, Dwayne Height, and Walt Walt Flowers. I appreciate
1:52:15
you guys. Y'all were officiating the Cowboys and Lions game. So just a
1:52:20
quick just a quick shout out to them. They're the cole so called m
1:52:26
vps of the week, but you're dumb. So we we got a couple
1:52:31
of Q and a's here, So, uh, the first one that we're
1:52:36
going to start off with is, was Jalen Hurts m VP last year or
1:52:43
MVP season last year? A fluke year he didn't win MVP or like the
1:52:50
way he performed your way he performed because he was in the MVP convo.
1:52:55
Oh No, I don't think so, because I saw in the Super Bowl
1:52:59
Jay Hurts over a football game. So I'm not gonna sit here and say
1:53:03
that it was a flut because we've seen flashes this year. Where he's still
1:53:08
shown that he can be with the highest level of quarterback. I just think
1:53:11
sometimes people have bad games, and this this Eagles team as a whole doesn't
1:53:15
look like they're clicking. So if the team isn't clicking, what makes you
1:53:17
think the quarterbacks also gonna be at his a game? I mean we see
1:53:20
it with Mahomes every week this year. You know, like no one's doubting
1:53:25
if Mahomes is Mahomes. If you do, you're you're You're probably not a
1:53:30
smart person. So I'm not gonna take this season in some bad games and
1:53:35
hold it against him. I still think that he's still a good quarterback in
1:53:40
the NFL, or like still up to par being able to maybe compete with
1:53:45
the great quarterbacks in the league. Yeah, he definitely does have the upside
1:53:49
as far as being one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. And maybe
1:53:56
last year maybe if kind of great with what this not agreeing, but maybe
1:54:02
last year was his peak. But I feel like he could stay at minimum
1:54:06
in the top ten quarterbacks as far as that because he's still a top ten
1:54:11
quarterback no question in my opinion this year, because he still has made some
1:54:15
game change in place then next one, we have did JJ McCarthy prove he
1:54:21
is a first round pick in this year's draft, which he is projected,
1:54:29
and from my freaking eyes and what I see from this team, he's a
1:54:32
fourth round quarterback. He's Brock Purty Hey Rock Party. He is pretty good,
1:54:40
though I don't know if JJ McCarthy's even that good right there? No,
1:54:44
I don't think so. I don't know about first round pick. I'm
1:54:47
not a McCarthy believer. I don't think both of us are. We're saying
1:54:53
back and forth. I think in the text during the game, we're honestly
1:54:57
surprised that JJ McCarthy drove them down the field. But at best late second
1:55:03
round pick. That's what I could see. I can see that. I
1:55:08
can see that, But no first round or heck no, mm hmm.
1:55:11
Maybe if they win the national championship he gets some some boosting stock, but
1:55:16
not too crazy, nothing like that. Think so, and I'm smart,
1:55:21
I don't think so. Well, all right, next question, we have
1:55:26
did Michael Pennock showcase he is the second best quarterback in this draft class.
1:55:36
I haven't watched enough Drake May to know if he's better than Drake May.
1:55:42
But from what I hear, I'm gonna have to go with maybe. Maybe,
1:55:46
maybe he's shown more than Drake May has. But I think Drake May
1:55:50
has a lot of the physical capabilities that Michael Pennis doesn't because he's shaped like
1:55:55
a Justin Herbert and is pretty athletic and all that. So I'm I'll go
1:56:00
with no, because I still think teams after seeing what Lamar Jackson is doing
1:56:03
this year and the running quarterback jad and Daniels may go ahead of him.
1:56:08
So I haven't run a fourth or fifth range, yeah, or maybe even
1:56:14
yeah, I think maybe around the fourth or fifth I could say bone Knicks
1:56:17
he is better or he is better than bone Necks. Yeah, I can
1:56:23
see that. I can see that better than bon Nicks. But he's also
1:56:26
he's also how old freaking bo Knicks is twenty five? Twenty six? I
1:56:31
don't know. Yeah, so is Michael Pennis. He's twenty four to twenty
1:56:34
five. Yeah so, but Jaden Daniels he is twenty four too, So
1:56:41
Drake May he's twenty two. Caleb Williams is twenty two. But I think
1:56:45
what kind of hurts Michael Pennix here is that, like we kind of mentioned
1:56:48
earlier. All the wide receivers he has at Washington, Oldunze is going to
1:56:54
be a top ten fish, Okay, Joe Burk, McMillan, they're they're
1:56:59
up there, go ahead, No, they are. I believe Jalen Polk
1:57:02
is gonna be a good receiver in the NFL and Jalen McMillan. But I
1:57:05
just think, like, if we're really going to do that, we could
1:57:08
knock Oh, like I can't. Joe Burrow had we went over how many
1:57:13
weapons he had? Yeah? How many? How many weapons? Even even
1:57:16
Baker Mayfield had. Mark he's brown and ceedee lamb. So yeah, it's
1:57:21
kind of it's kind of just nitpicking, you know. Yeah, yeah,
1:57:27
it is nitpicking. But because he still has to put the ball where it
1:57:30
needs to be and he was doing that, Yeah, yeah he was.
1:57:33
What do you think a realistic comp for Michael Pennix's because okay, I've seen
1:57:39
people like I find kind of fell to it just because he's a lefty.
1:57:44
Yeah they're gonna say it to but he's Okay, He's way more mobile than
1:57:47
Tua, and I feel like he has more arm talent than Tua. Derek
1:57:57
Carr, do you think he's gonna So you think he's a Derek Carr type.
1:58:02
Yeah. I think Derek Carr is pretty mobile, but not like extremely
1:58:06
mobile, and coming out he was a pretty big armed, like accurate quarterback
1:58:13
coming out of coming out of college. So I think that's a good comparison
1:58:16
right there. I think he's a good Derek Carr type of guy, just
1:58:19
left handed. Mm hmm. Man that that's a really good one. I
1:58:26
can't really think of anything else there. But all right, this next question,
1:58:30
well we kind of talked about this already, but did Justin Fields do
1:58:33
enough to keep his job? No? I think his job's been decided already.
1:58:40
M h. I think he's gonna be on another team next year.
1:58:44
I hope if I was a Gym, I'd go Marvin Harrison Jr. Then
1:58:47
try getting Brock Bauers, or I'd trade the first pick to whoever's second or
1:58:51
third draft receiver and then drop back Bowers or alignment. So we'll see.
1:58:58
But I don't think. I don't think he did it. I don't think
1:59:00
he's it's his job anymore. So I think if Justin Fields, if he
1:59:05
was in a second or third year, then yeah, but you have to
1:59:09
pick up the fifth year option, which is twenty one twenty two million dollars
1:59:13
a year. So that's the biggest thing right there. You get to reset
1:59:17
yourself. So that's the reason why Justin Field's going to be gone, not
1:59:21
necessarily his play and all right the last one we have. Do the Patriots
1:59:28
need an organizational reset As far as basically letting go of Bill Belichick, that's
1:59:32
what it pretty much is. I don't know, because the defense is still
1:59:45
playing how Bill Belichick wants the defense to play no matter who's on the field.
1:59:49
It's just the offense that's been having the issues. And that's hard when
1:59:54
you go from a Hall of Fame quarterback who can make stuff happen to being
1:59:59
with Shive mac Jones and Bailey Zappi's and Cam Newton's and that passes prime Cam
2:00:06
Newton, you know, like players that just don't really like screamed Tom Brady,
2:00:16
you know, like the aren't Tom Brady. So it's hard to make
2:00:19
offensive moves with that. And Rob Gronkowski leaves, You're like, people will
2:00:25
like to blame that it was all Tom Brady, but really the first four
2:00:28
Super Bowls were all Bill Belichick. So you know, it's just I don't
2:00:33
know if the defenses were insane and the scoring was low, and yeah,
2:00:38
they kicked a lot of field goals to win these games, so it was
2:00:41
also And then so Bill Belichick, Bill Belichick, I think if you reset,
2:00:46
it's gonna be completely new. But I don't think it's necessary. Mm
2:00:50
hmm, yeah, I don't. I don't think it's necessary either because you're
2:00:56
gonna have one of the top picks. So if you get a Drake May
2:00:59
or even a Michael Panick, somebody like that, somebody better than Max Jones
2:01:02
and Bailey, you can see Drake may go into the Patriots. I feel
2:01:08
like that that would be a good fit right there, because he has plenty
2:01:11
of talent and you have already one of the best defenses in the league.
2:01:15
You just need more weapons around you. So yeah, like you were saying,
2:01:19
not necessarily a reset, just a reboot, Like this defense is too
2:01:24
good to just scrap it all up. They're they're too good, especially if
2:01:29
you have Belichick there. So so yeah, no, there there's no need
2:01:32
for that. But if Belichick wants to move elsewhere, then that's up to
2:01:38
him. But since that's all the Q and as Josh, do you have
2:01:42
anything else you want to say before we take off, Just I hope you'll
2:01:46
have a good week, boys, girls, kids, T shirts. I
2:01:50
don't know who Asian people, you know. Just I hope all y'all have
2:01:57
a have a beautiful day, beautiful week, and just watch sports. Love
2:02:03
sports, you know. For signing out, Well yeah, yeah, thank
2:02:11
you guys for whoever's listening. But just a quick shout out. I know
2:02:14
we haven't done NBA shout out to SGA what he did against the Celtics tonight.
2:02:18
That dude is just straight up balling. But all right, before we
2:02:21
get out of shout out, Wimby. If we're just giving shout outs,
2:02:25
you know, I love you shout out. Hey. Yeah, no,
2:02:30
we'll we'll we'll see. I'm interested to do a NBA pot again, but
2:02:33
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