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Kelley Ford on the NFL Wild Card Weekend · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Kelly Ford with the Lines dot Com on whether it's still the top of the
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  hour, Kelly tell us about the lines of what's going on this week.
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  Yeah, Jake's over at the Lines dot com got you covered with everything NFL
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  playoffs, some NBA stuff going on to my can contributions to the Lines dot
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  Com really winding down as as I am a college football contributor for this season,
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  and with this season now behind this with the National Championship game last night,
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  the focus really on the NFL and some of the other sports that we
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  still got going on. But it's a great website, got lots of content,
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  all sorts of betting advice and information. So if you're into sportsway during,
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  the Lines dot com certainly a good place for you to check out and
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  get get your betting fixed. I do want to get your thoughts on the
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  NFL playoffs coming up here just a bit. I one more college football question.
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  You know what I'll be interesting interested to see with this twelve team format
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  is, you know, I hate to say that there's you know, favoritism
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  this way or that way, but how does the committee even the play and
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  field wink week without even the playing field in the sake of parody. And
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  what I mean is this, let's just say you have, you know,
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  four SEC teams and then you know four Big ten teams. How do we
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  know that or do they How do we know that they don't try to maneuver
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  teams to maybe front load all the SEC teams except one on one side of
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  the bracket. Do they do something to make sure they get maybe two teams
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  from the Big ten or Big twelve two from the ACC. I have a
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  lot of questions about this moving forward, if that makes sense. Yeah,
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  I certainly do as well. Jacob Listen after what happened this year with the
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  final CFC rankings in Florida State. I won't even really pretend to know or
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  to get that I know what the committee is thinking or is going to do.
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  I never would have imagined the world in which an undefeated Power five champion
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  in the four team playoff era was left out in a scenario where it wasn't
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  in favor of another undefeated team. Right, So I don't really know what
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  to expect or project here from the committee. I don't believe I still,
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  in my heart of arts, don't believe the committee will. They certainly should
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  not. I don't believe they will try to manipulate a bracket to ensure this,
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  that or the other. I think they need to follow their protocol.
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  Their process, which I have advocated for means updating. But I think they
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  will follow that to the best of their ability and hopefully do what their charge
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  with doing, which moving forward will be to properly select and see the twelve
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  best college football teams with the resumes that they put together to date. My
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  biggest issue with the committee, Jacob, is we need to reevaluate what is
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  their charge. There's been so much confusion over the years, and it really
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  came to a head here in twenty twenty three with what is their charge?
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  What is the charge of the committee? I think that needs to be reevaluated,
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  restated, reshaped, all of that before we even get into what are
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  you actually going to do with these twelve teams. I would certainly hope though,
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  that they would be manipulating the bracket to achieve some sort of outcome.
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  Again, after this past year, I have no idea. Looking towards the
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  weekend the NFL playoffs, you know, Super Wildcard weekend, you got a
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  lot of great games. Which games are you most interested in? As you
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  turn towards the weekend. Yeah, it is exciting. And of course I'm
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  from Indianapolis, living Indiana still and so heartbreaking for the Colts and how it
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  all went down this past weekend home game against Texans and a winning in could
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  not get it done. But to me, as I look at this,
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  you know, I'm interested in a handful of these games. What draws attention
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  to me would be, you know, Kansas City, that's a team that
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  they haven't played as good as they probably should have throughout the course of this
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  year, but here they are playing at home. I know they put that
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  game on Peacock, trying to get all the Swifties to sign up for Peacock,
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  which is interesting to me. Buffalo that's another one. Of course,
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  they win the division after coming back in Miami and getting to win on Sunday
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  night. So I'm over in the AFC looking to see really or at various
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  points throughout the season, That's where I'm looking in the AFC. And then
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  you go over to the NFC. I think the best team in football,
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  not just in the NFC, is San Francisco. I really do. I
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  know. Baltimore is really good too. I think San Francisco is the best
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  team in football. But I'm really curious about Dallas and see what they can
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  do. Everyone knows it's been a very long time since they've won a super
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  Bowl or really had any level of meaningful success in the postseason. But Dallas
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  is the team to me that I'm looking at in the NFC to see what
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  can they do here in the playoffs. Of course, Detroit there's the storyline
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  as well. I know this is a team. You know that You've got
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  Matthew Stafford going up against Jared Goff and the trade that happened, and both
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  these quarterbacks stations and their former team. There's plenty of storylines to go around.
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  I'm really focused on who I believe are the contenders. Those are really
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  the one season and those others that I mentioned. It's gonna be a fun
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  weekend regardless the NFL. For as much as I love the collegeball regular season,
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  the NFL playoffs are hard to beat. The NFL has got a really
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  good postseason formatt They're going to give us great games and great drama. You
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  mentioned San Francisco, they are obviously, you know, you can make a
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  case for the me of the best Baltimore. You can make a case for
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  them. Is it as simple as it's those two and then everybody else,
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  or is there a land mine or two for both teams here in the next
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  few weeks. I think there are certainly land minds, Jake. But those
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  two teams, they are the number one seeds for a reason, and they
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  are the best team in their respective conferences. Now we do get upsets all
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  the time. I mentioned Dallas, you know, in the NFC. I
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  also think Detroit if they can, if they can have things break their way,
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  I think they're an interesting team. And then in the AFC, it
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  is Buffalo that was the team. Man. Everyone buried them, and I
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  can understand why based on how they were playing. But that's a team people
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  from Naska said it over and over, don't let that team in, don't
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  let that team in. Well, not only are they in, but they're
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  in there as the number two seed went in the division. So that's a
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  team that I know Baltimore was certainly hoping wasn't going to make the playoffs.
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  They're in now and it's gonna be really good. Miami is a team so
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  much upside, but they have They're have a big downside too. It's gonna
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  depend which Miami team shows up at each of those games to figure out how
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  dangerous they're gonna be. But the NFL players are always good for some surprises.
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  Whether that carries throughout to the super Bowl, I don't know if it
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  will because these number one seeds are so gosh staring good, But we will
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  get some upsets here this weekend, I'm convinced. Make sure to check him
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  out on exit Kford Ratings, also Kford Ratings dot com at the Lines dot
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  com. Kelly, I appreciate your time. Look, we'll do it again
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  next week. We'll get into some more NFL as we'll be into the second
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  round of the NFL, and I'm sure there'll be some college football we can
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  talk about. I love it, Jake, thanks so much. Appreciate you
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  guys. Have a good one.