Latest / NFL Game Previews / Week 16 Christmas Edition Picks and Predictions, 49ers vs. Ravens Super Bowl Preview, & Cowboy vs Dolphins Preview in Miami

Transcript

Week 16 Christmas Edition Picks and Predictions, 49ers vs. Ravens Super Bowl Preview, & Cowboy vs Dolphins Preview in Miami · NFL Game Previews

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: NFL Game Deview is a production of the NFL in
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: partnership with iHeartRadio.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: Happy holidays, everybody, Welcome to game debut, presented by Mercedes Benz,
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: Patrick Claybound. Glad to be here with Greg Rosenthal and
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: Cynthia Freeland, who made up ground last week by going
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: ten and six. Congratulations. Hey, it's it's now your job
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: to catch Greg because.
• 0:27
  Speaker 3: You've passed that.
• 0:27
  Speaker 4: We both we both have to catch Greg. We just
• 0:29
  Speaker 4: need to bring him down. It does no matter which
• 0:31
  Speaker 4: one of us does it.
• 0:32
  Speaker 5: That smug little smile in that crown.
• 0:34
  Speaker 4: All right, let's see it then stopped it must all right,
• 0:38
  Speaker 4: let's look at it, smugg lily.
• 0:39
  Speaker 5: There it is. Ready put that.
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: Oh oh, I got some of the Santa hats.
• 0:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the leading Santa hat. That's right, I got a.
• 0:46
  Speaker 5: Leading Santa hat headshot.
• 0:48
  Speaker 6: Take some new hot photos this week. Let's go.
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: So right now, Greg would be the favorite to win
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: in the picks these uh, you know, three games ahead
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: of Cynthia, four games ahead of me.
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: Speaking of picks to win things is of a.
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl odds. The game we're looking forward to in
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: Las Vegas right now. The Ravens and the forty nine
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: Ers far and away. I had just ahead the folks
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: know that there might be some.
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: People that still believe in Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City.
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: Chiefs at plus six and then on down Ravens Eagles.
• 1:22
  Speaker 6: I've noticing a certain trend with these first four. Yeah,
• 1:25
  Speaker 6: something is.
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: People think the forty nine ers are good.
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: We might be getting a potential Super Bowl preview on
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: Christmas Night. The Ravens and Niners top seeds in the
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: AFC and the NFC, both at eleven and three. San
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: Francisco winning six straight coming.
• 1:38
  Speaker 3: Off the buy. Does Baltimore finally slow them down?
• 1:42
  Speaker 6: I think they slow them down, and it's closer than
• 1:44
  Speaker 6: that five and a half points number we're looking at.
• 1:46
  Speaker 6: But I do think the forty nine Ers win because
• 1:48
  Speaker 6: the Ravens defense is gonna have to decide. Every defense
• 1:51
  Speaker 6: facing the forty nine Ers has to do this, pick
• 1:53
  Speaker 6: your poison, what do you want to try to stop?
• 1:55
  Speaker 6: And I think it's gonna have to be their passing game.
• 1:57
  Speaker 6: I think they're going to play in nickel defense for
• 1:59
  Speaker 6: most of this game. They're going to change up their
• 2:01
  Speaker 6: coverages and they're gonna say and it thinks if Kristin
• 2:05
  Speaker 6: McCaffrey beats us, especially running the ball. We might just
• 2:08
  Speaker 6: have to live with that, and they probably won't live
• 2:11
  Speaker 6: with that, because Christian McCaffrey is one of the best
• 2:14
  Speaker 6: running backs I've ever seen, having the best season he's
• 2:16
  Speaker 6: ever had. If you look at the numbers in terms
• 2:19
  Speaker 6: of yards after contact, second in the league. There's a
• 2:23
  Speaker 6: stat in terms of yards that you gain after a
• 2:25
  Speaker 6: defender is within a yard of you. According to the
• 2:28
  Speaker 6: next Gen sets, he's third in the league. And you're saying, oh,
• 2:30
  Speaker 6: of course he's second or third in the league, but
• 2:31
  Speaker 6: that's after having like one hundred more carries than everyone else.
• 2:35
  Speaker 6: You can give him the ball more than anyone, and
• 2:37
  Speaker 6: he's still better than anyone. And he's a great receiver.
• 2:39
  Speaker 6: I think he's the difference.
• 2:41
  Speaker 4: I agree with you on everything. You can just everything
• 2:43
  Speaker 4: he said, just you know, slide it right in there.
• 2:45
  Speaker 4: But I have a four point win for the Niners
• 2:47
  Speaker 4: in this one. Twenty six to twenty two is my
• 2:50
  Speaker 4: final score. I want to talk about something that I'm
• 2:52
  Speaker 4: going to be watching for this offense, and that's what
• 2:54
  Speaker 4: happens with brock Party on those downfield throws.
• 2:56
  Speaker 5: This is an area where if you look at what
• 2:58
  Speaker 5: happens with.
• 2:59
  Speaker 4: Not just brock Party, but the guys who are supposed
• 3:01
  Speaker 4: to catch the ball, they have the highest open rate
• 3:03
  Speaker 4: nearly thirty five percent of the time on downfield passes.
• 3:07
  Speaker 4: Are they wide open? Well, what are the Ravens do
• 3:09
  Speaker 4: you talk about? They play more nickel, et cetera. They're
• 3:12
  Speaker 4: actually the best at forcing tight window throws on the
• 3:15
  Speaker 4: same types of passes. So if we're really thinking maybe
• 3:19
  Speaker 4: these Niners are going to go all the way and
• 3:20
  Speaker 4: maybe we'll see them in Vegas, they have to have
• 3:22
  Speaker 4: a solution for that. So I'm gonna be watching brock
• 3:24
  Speaker 4: Party here, and you know, he's leading the MVP race
• 3:27
  Speaker 4: right now. I'm kind of with you, though, I think
• 3:29
  Speaker 4: maybe you should actually be Christian McCaffrey. But if he
• 3:31
  Speaker 4: can nail those deep passes against this defense, now we're
• 3:35
  Speaker 4: really talking.
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think ultimately we're all in alignment on
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey being the most notable players.
• 3:40
  Speaker 3: He's good on this team.
• 3:42
  Speaker 6: Hearing from forty nine ers fans because they like one
• 3:44
  Speaker 6: guy better.
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: Than the other. You have to pick one, and you
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: gotta pick the one that the island.
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: I have to pick this game as well, and I
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: am not picking the Baltimore Ravens. Hello first down with
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson started. I also think they're thirty nine ers
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: are very very good. But I do think Mike McDonald's defense,
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: as Greg said, as Cynthia said, that they have to pick,
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: you have to pick what goes wrong. And I really
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: the most difficult thing for this Ravens defense to defend
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: is going to be George Kittle, especially not just as
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: a receiver, but as a blocker as well, because they
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: rely on getting pressure with four and three guys so
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: much so consistently. It's just not something you can do
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: against this team. I also would like to say, because
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: there's there's like two happy fan bases out there, whenever
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: you lose a game to the forty nine ers, apparently
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: everything falls apart. They play this game in a neutral
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: site here in a month and change, I will pick Baltimore.
• 4:35
  Speaker 6: No, I like it in ahead of it.
• 4:37
  Speaker 3: Hey, if the.
• 4:37
  Speaker 4: Score run that back, make sure to clip that off
• 4:39
  Speaker 4: right now and we'll run it back.
• 4:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: If Baltimore is in the super Bowl, I'm sure everybody
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: here will be shocked if I picked them.
• 4:45
  Speaker 3: Let's talk more about this game.
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: Especially some player props for the Ravens of the forty
• 4:50
  Speaker 2: nine ers greg more or less than one and a
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: half passing touchdowns for the m V party.
• 4:56
  Speaker 6: I'm still going with McAffrey, but I am going to
• 4:58
  Speaker 6: go more. Look, we all think this is going to
• 5:01
  Speaker 6: be a close game. In fact, all three of us
• 5:03
  Speaker 6: had the rape threading the needle keeping it closer than
• 5:05
  Speaker 6: five and a half. But even in a scenario where
• 5:08
  Speaker 6: the Ravens play well and they use their disguise coverages
• 5:11
  Speaker 6: to force a couple prety mistakes, I still think it's
• 5:15
  Speaker 6: turnovers for the forty nine ers. But on the possessions,
• 5:18
  Speaker 6: they don't score turnovers, they're scoring touchdowns and Purdy gets
• 5:22
  Speaker 6: more than two.
• 5:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Southan more or less? How about this?
• 5:26
  Speaker 2: Why don't we combine rushing and passing yards for Lamar
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: two hundred and eighty five and a half.
• 5:31
  Speaker 4: Well, you know why we all have this game so
• 5:32
  Speaker 4: close because of Lamar Jackson, who actually would be my
• 5:35
  Speaker 4: pick for MVP right now. If you're looking ahead of
• 5:38
  Speaker 4: time and I'm looking at Lamar Jackson's opportunity, I'm a
• 5:41
  Speaker 4: little worried with Ronnie Stanley going in and out of
• 5:43
  Speaker 4: the lineup last week. That was a big problem, but
• 5:46
  Speaker 4: I'm not worried that Jackson won't get both when you
• 5:48
  Speaker 4: take it together. I just don't necessarily think it's going
• 5:51
  Speaker 4: to be passing. I think it's gonna be more Lamar
• 5:53
  Speaker 4: using his legs.
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: Last one, I'll take it. It's five and a half
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: receptions for Deebo Samuel. I really think if you have
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: a hope of beating this football team, you've got to
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: plan to keep Debo from doing this, like catching a
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: six yard pass and taking at sixty yards to the house.
• 6:07
  Speaker 2: I think that is the focus, and perhaps that's why
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: it's more of a Brandon Ayuk, more of a CMC,
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: more of a George Kittle game.
• 6:14
  Speaker 3: I have less than five and a half catches.
• 6:15
  Speaker 5: And Samuel Hayes yeah, oh yeah.
• 6:18
  Speaker 3: Clearly Deebo Samuel is bad.
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: Let's move on Dallas, Hoping a bounce back from last
• 6:23
  Speaker 2: week's It's Fair College disaster in Buffalo, they go to
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: Miami now to take on the Dolphins. Mike McDaniel says
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: he feels good about Tyreek Hill playing.
• 6:31
  Speaker 3: How do you feel about the games?
• 6:32
  Speaker 4: I feel great about Mike McCarthy's squad McCarthy, but just kidding,
• 6:37
  Speaker 4: I like better twenty seven to twenty three. I have
• 6:40
  Speaker 4: Miami in this matchup why because of something I saw
• 6:44
  Speaker 4: without Tyreek Hill. Both O lines are dicey this week.
• 6:47
  Speaker 4: We see a lot of people on the injury report
• 6:50
  Speaker 4: for each one. Now, if you have all of these
• 6:52
  Speaker 4: different formations and you're lining up in a lot of
• 6:54
  Speaker 4: different looks with this guy here, that guy there, things
• 6:57
  Speaker 4: we haven't even seen before that could spell trouble. Now,
• 7:00
  Speaker 4: I understand that this Cowboys defense is used to seeing
• 7:03
  Speaker 4: like literally the same play. It's called ISO and high
• 7:06
  Speaker 4: school players they often know it because ISO was getting
• 7:09
  Speaker 4: smoking them last week. But remember, you don't really get
• 7:13
  Speaker 4: had twice with the same thing. So I think all
• 7:15
  Speaker 4: the different ways and scheming with Miami's gonna guys, Miami's
• 7:18
  Speaker 4: gonna finally beat a good team.
• 7:20
  Speaker 5: We're gonna have to Icegate home.
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, unless you run the table and beat
• 7:26
  Speaker 2: everybody your somehow fond.
• 7:29
  Speaker 3: I'm disgusted by this.
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: I will take Miami twenty six to twenty four, because, yes,
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: sometimes things look different, and coach Mike he's good at
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: making the other coach Mike fine that I think it's
• 7:40
  Speaker 2: gonna win this game. But honestly, we go back to
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: the loss against the Arizona Cardinals, we go back to
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: last week against Buffalo. You can run on the Dallas
• 7:51
  Speaker 2: Cowboys and you can make it look pretty bad. James
• 7:54
  Speaker 2: Cook still feels like he's scoring touchdowns in that game
• 7:57
  Speaker 2: where he most are.
• 7:58
  Speaker 3: Doing it better than anybody in.
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: The league right now, especially considering the way this offense
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: is operating. I just have to take the Dolphins at home.
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: With the ground game playing the way it is good.
• 8:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's the toughest game to pick all week,
• 8:09
  Speaker 6: But all week I was leaning Dolphins, picking Dolphins. We
• 8:12
  Speaker 6: show up to the pre show meeting, I'm picking Dolphins.
• 8:14
  Speaker 6: I don't like all this agreement. I'm switching it to
• 8:17
  Speaker 6: the Cowboys. Let's go, And it's because of Dak Prescott.
• 8:21
  Speaker 6: We're gonna just greg it. It's like, oh, who's been
• 8:23
  Speaker 6: the best quarterback in the league all seas until last week.
• 8:26
  Speaker 6: Dak Prescott, Like remember all the way back in Week
• 8:30
  Speaker 6: fourteen when he was basically tied for the MVP lead,
• 8:35
  Speaker 6: And now I see these shows, It's like, well, we've
• 8:37
  Speaker 6: got four men who have a chance to win MVP
• 8:40
  Speaker 6: and Dak's not even listed. I like both these quarterbacks.
• 8:43
  Speaker 6: I like Dak at this point in his career a
• 8:45
  Speaker 6: little better. I think I was in my feelings because
• 8:47
  Speaker 6: I made my least favorite pick of the year last year,
• 8:50
  Speaker 6: picking against the Bills for the first time, and the
• 8:52
  Speaker 6: Cowboys didn't show up. But I do think this Cowboys
• 8:54
  Speaker 6: team is different. Game script is really important. They've been
• 8:57
  Speaker 6: so good early in games getting ahead and then that
• 9:00
  Speaker 6: doesn't expose their run defense to facing a lot of runs.
• 9:04
  Speaker 6: I think they can get back to that because Dak's
• 9:05
  Speaker 6: been good all season long and he gets it done
• 9:08
  Speaker 6: for me with a Jess Greg and.
• 9:10
  Speaker 2: I'll get back on my soapbox. Both teams can be good. Yeah,
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: like one of these teams is gonna lose, but it's okay.
• 9:15
  Speaker 3: They're gonna be.
• 9:16
  Speaker 5: They good tie the good tik they good tie time.
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: And we celebrate everything.
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: Let's celebrate the Holiday Classic back on NFL Network Christmas Eve,
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: a special Sunday night of primetime football is the Patriots
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: and Broncos Light up the Night The NFL Holiday Classic
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: Christmas Eve Live at eight pm Eastern only on NFL Network,
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: also streaming on NFL Plus let's dive into this Patriots
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: Broncos Christmas Eve matchup. It literally a must win game.
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: It's that time of year, off of the Broncos and
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: the remaining in the wild card race.
• 9:45
  Speaker 3: Which way are you leaning, Greg.
• 9:46
  Speaker 6: I'm leaning Broncos, but I think it's gonna be closer
• 9:49
  Speaker 6: than the number indicates six and a half I have
• 9:51
  Speaker 6: at thirteen to ten. I don't think this Bronco you're
• 9:54
  Speaker 6: gonna score much. It's partly because of Christian Barmore. It's
• 9:57
  Speaker 6: say something nice about the Patriots time. Since Week nine,
• 10:02
  Speaker 6: Christen Barmore is in the top ten in the league
• 10:05
  Speaker 6: in interior pressures. I've always been a big Christian Barmore guy.
• 10:09
  Speaker 6: I think he has a chance to be one of
• 10:10
  Speaker 6: the best defensive tackles in the league. Look, they're a
• 10:12
  Speaker 6: team that doesn't, you know, play opposing quarterbacks to throw
• 10:17
  Speaker 6: the ball a lot because they're always trailing, and yet
• 10:19
  Speaker 6: Barmore keeps getting it done a lot of pressure. Russell
• 10:22
  Speaker 6: Wilson often struggles with interior pressure like most quarterbacks, and
• 10:26
  Speaker 6: I think this is going to be an ugly Denver
• 10:29
  Speaker 6: Christmas Time defensive battle. Broncos barely win.
• 10:34
  Speaker 5: Okay, well, I.
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: Kind of have the same thing as you, except to
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: have a six point win twenty two to sixteen.
• 10:38
  Speaker 5: And by the way, I'm a little more of an
• 10:39
  Speaker 5: oocha girl than a barbore girl. Just he know, Michigan,
• 10:42
  Speaker 5: no big deal.
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: But here's what I'm gonna talk about it is talk
• 10:45
  Speaker 4: nice about the Patriots moment because Hunter Henry, this guy's
• 10:48
  Speaker 4: been a bright spot. He's gotten in the end zone
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: three times. That's pretty good if you're looking for a
• 10:53
  Speaker 4: nice fantasy tight end.
• 10:54
  Speaker 5: He does fall.
• 10:55
  Speaker 4: Obviously, always check the injury reports because we just want
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: to make sure, but he does fall within my top
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: ten tight ends this week for fantasy. If you are
• 11:03
  Speaker 4: still in it, you could be in it to win it.
• 11:05
  Speaker 5: With Hunter Henry.
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: I thought you could say that there are some areas
• 11:09
  Speaker 4: of this Denver defense that are ripe for the exposing.
• 11:12
  Speaker 4: And perhaps it will be the Zapp too. That's my
• 11:15
  Speaker 4: nickname for Bailey's really trying to make it work, the
• 11:19
  Speaker 4: Zapp Hunter Henry.
• 11:21
  Speaker 6: I love it. But all this like nice talk about
• 11:23
  Speaker 6: the Patriots feels very like end of the t ball
• 11:26
  Speaker 6: season trophy. Johnny was trying and he kept everyone laughing
• 11:32
  Speaker 6: in the clubhouse.
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: I'll keep it going.
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: You know, you cannot tell the story of the NFL
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: the last thirty years without the New England Patriots.
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: But my video is not very nice.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: Oh because as much as we could celebrate bailey's Appi's performance.
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: Theapp, the zapp excuse me, man, as much as we
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: celebrate the.
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: Zapp, the Nintendo zapp or everything, the last three weeks,
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: Bailey Zappi has taken eleven sacks and he's going up
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: against a Broncos defense that is of course much improved
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: since Week six, but also struggles to kind of get
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: pressure on the quarterback at times. And here's a very
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: measurable quarterback. I just don't see a way that it
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: happens again. A narrow three point win. Cynthia's got a
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: buckets of points in this game.
• 12:12
  Speaker 4: Six so six point win and you know, thirty eight points.
• 12:17
  Speaker 6: We Atrians fans are Mimi, you know who's gonna love that?
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: For Orner coming up Cynthia's Lions looking for their first
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: division title in years.
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: They get it Sunday against the Vikings. Maybe our picks
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: right after the break, it's.
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: Sound for the Drive to Excellence presented by Mercedes Benz.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: The Lions and the Vikings. The Detroit's been driving the
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: excellence all season. They could clinch the NFC North. The
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: last time the Lions won their division was nineteen ninety three,
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: they were in the NFC Central Back then, will they
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: do it on Sunday.
• 12:56
  Speaker 5: Cynthia, My gut says no.
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: My math says yes, by one point twenty five to
• 13:02
  Speaker 4: twenty four. So we're gonna go with the math. I
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: feel very nervous about this one. I will be biting
• 13:06
  Speaker 4: my nails, crossing my fingers and doing a little dance.
• 13:08
  Speaker 5: But the math.
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: Says that Detroit gets the narrow win here. Why because
• 13:14
  Speaker 4: we saw just an ever so slight uptick in pressure defense. Guys,
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: it's getting a little better. It's not terrible. And are
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: guys coming back next week probably hopefully fingers crossed cross
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: JJ And you're starting to see some pass rush. You're
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: seeing it maybe from guys who are coming from the
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: second AAR doesn't matter.
• 13:34
  Speaker 5: It can be, it can be. I don't even care.
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: I'll take a coverage sack. I don't even care. Like fine,
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: just a little bit extra time. Remember Nick mullens here
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: doesn't have the same type of experience as Kirk Cousins.
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: So a little bit of extra pressure goes a long
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: way in this one.
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: Just what, Oh, I'm so nervous.
• 13:51
  Speaker 6: One win so that Cynthia does not have to sweat
• 13:55
  Speaker 6: out a week seventeen road game against Dallas or even
• 13:57
  Speaker 6: you make eighteen. You know that that's happening.
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: You know that, you know that Week seventeen like where
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: they're going to Dallas and this.
• 14:04
  Speaker 6: This team is different, though, Cynthia. This team is different,
• 14:07
  Speaker 6: and they're gonna get it done on Sunday thirty three
• 14:09
  Speaker 6: to twenty six. They're different because of these rookies. First
• 14:12
  Speaker 6: you got Sam Laporta breaking records that Mike Dicka had.
• 14:16
  Speaker 6: Now you got Jamiir Gibbs who just week after week
• 14:20
  Speaker 6: is piling up one hundred yards from scrimmage and a touchdown,
• 14:23
  Speaker 6: one of the only running backs in the league to
• 14:25
  Speaker 6: do that every week since Week nine. And I just
• 14:29
  Speaker 6: used the eye test the explosive ability he has when
• 14:32
  Speaker 6: he gets the ball right there, and then the ability
• 14:34
  Speaker 6: to break tackles and the ability to catch the ball
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: as a receiver. I'm gonna go ahead and use next
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: greg stats. I don't need next gen stats. I don't
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: want any running back in the league over Jamiir Gibbs
• 14:45
  Speaker 6: other than Christian McCaffery. He's number two. What guy would
• 14:48
  Speaker 6: you rather have right now than Jamiir Gibbs.
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: Kyn Williams looked pretty good last night.
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: Jamier Gibbs is special. I love Kyen, but Jamiir.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: Gibbsons, yeah, And they've got a few special guys on
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: this offense. And coming into this matchup, my initial thought was,
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: this is Brian Flores against Jared Golfman, and how do
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: we make things simple for Jared Goff so he's not
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: trying to figure out what the Minnesota Vikings are going
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: to do. You don't you dictate what the Minnesota Vikings do.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: And you can do that when you have a'man ross
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: Saint Brown who lines up in the slot forty one
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: percent of the time, he.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: Lines up out wide forty eight percent of the time.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: You can go ahead and just run your offense and
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: not necessarily say, well, who's dropping who's doing this? No,
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: a'm on, ra is gonna do this, and then I
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: will do this. It's if then statements for Jared Goff
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: and he's not throwing picks, he's five touchdown. Jared Goff like, whoah, well,
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying this game, but we've seen Jared play well.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Ben Johnson's called Donald him up very I'll take.
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: Two passing touchdowns.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Oka meme it. Well, yeah, what could go wrong?
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: Cynthia? Give him like the division title, give him the
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: blue sands.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: You say, what could go wrong?
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: To Cynthia like a laundry list of things just spawn
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: in her head.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: We go from the King of the Jungle to the Bengals.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: T Higgins Banana's.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Game time touchdown last week had folks doing some triple
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: takeswing scrambling right in trumble, throws it off his back
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: foot toward the end zone.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: T Higgins when.
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: To just ball for the football at a touchdowne an
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: incredible catch by t Higgins and the Tygles have scored
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: with thirty nine seconds to go.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: I can't believe what t Higgins just dead.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Blackman had a great deal with that Teah Cans touch
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: down the AFC North showdown between the Bengals and the Steelers.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Jamar Chase is gonna miss this.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: When Pittsburgh's playoff hopes hanging by a thread, is that
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: thread cut?
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Cynthia snips Cincinnati twenty one Steelers eighteen in this matchup.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Why well, First of all, the Steelers are missing some safeties,
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: including Mika Fitzpatrick, who is a big deal, which means
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: it's even more important to look at what happens with
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: Joe Mixon with Jake Browning, meaning they're able to actually
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: run him in the A gap, which is next to
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: the centers, that's inside those inside the tackle runs.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: He also is good outside as well. But you're giving a.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Ton of versatility, and you're giving Jake Browning, who's also
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: a running threat. This is just makes for a really
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: big problem. When you're missing the spine of your defense,
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be a bigger problem than I think the
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: Steelers can overcome.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: It makes a lot of sense. You have it still
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: pretty close. I know, I think it's a wash out.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: I got the Bengals winning this game by ten points.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: The Steelers are one of the worst teams in the NFL.
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: Just ignore the uniform. Just watch how they're playing. It's
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: partly because they're so slow. So what do you do
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: against the slow defense? You give it to Chase brown
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: one of the fastest players in the league. I just
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: see this Steelers defense, especially on the second level, and
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: I think this might be the worst collection of linebackers secondary,
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: especially without Minka Fitzpatrick there. They they're just seem like
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: they're snaking in mud, and Chase Brown is zooming. You know,
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: you guys are on Fantasy Live every day. You guys
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: are the experts now, But back in the day, when
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: you were just little kids, I was working in the industry.
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: I think Chaser be like a sneaky flex play this
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: week out of nowhere. In the playoffs against Pittsburgh.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: I was I was telling people to start amand Green
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: when you guys were in divers.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: It's actually, when did jess very Troy one the NFC
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: central I was telling people to start Chase Brown.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: I'm not that old. I'm not that old.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I will also take the Cincinnati Bengals. I do have
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: it a little bit closer, mainly because it's a whole
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: lot harder to adjust to not having Jamar Chase the
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: entire game. They were able to have him at the
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: start of that last game before he left the game.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: T Higgins of course making those incredible plays, But I'm
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: looking over on the other side, I just don't see
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: the Steelers scoring points with Mason Rudolph, who.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Hasn't really had He did have a game.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Where he threw fifty passes back in twenty twenty one.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Since then, we haven't seen a lot of Mason Rudolph.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: We haven't seen a lot of Mason Rudolph because when
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: we did see a lot of Mason Rudolph, things didn't
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: necessarily go great for the Pittsburgh Steelers. I think there's
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: a reason for that. I don't know if Devlin Hodges
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: is available either way. Nineteen thirteen Bengals winning coming up,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: the Raiders dropped a sixty burger last week, they got
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Mahomes and the chase.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: On Christmas Day?
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Which team is Santa Gonna bring a w R picks
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: right after this quick break? Raiders Chiefs on Christmas, Las Vegas,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: coming off that historic sixty three to twenty one win
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: against the listless Chargers. But Patrick Mahomes ten and one
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: in his career against the Silver and Black eleven and
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: one after this week, grec Maybe I.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: Mean, he goes to eleven and one, but the Raiders
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: make him sweat, just like Jarrett Stidham made out the
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: Patrick Mahomes chief sweat at this point last year twenty
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: three to twenty one. It's because of that Antonio Pierce
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: Raiders defense. It's totally transformed since he took over twenty
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: sixth in the NFL and EPA per play allowed before
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: Pierce was the head or the interim head coach, second
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: in the league since then. Now, I know some of
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: it is because you got to play East and Stick
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: and the Jets and the Giants, but even the other games,
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: including early in that first Chiefs matchup, they have been
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: much better. The Chiefs, on the other hand, I expected
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: after their bye week Andrey is gonna get in the
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: shop and tinker and fix some things. All of their
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: numbers have actually gotten worse offensively since thereby, including in
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: the passing game. I think the Raiders make the Chiefs sweat,
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: and they continue they're great play make all the Raiders
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: fans happy.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: I too, threading the needle, but I'm threading it with
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: a bigger number like nine. I have twenty six to
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: seventeen in this matchup. I haven't said a lot of
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: nice things about the Raiders defense, so I too, am
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: going to echo those sentiments. But I'm gonna give Marcus
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Epps a little bit of love. He seems like this
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: unsung hero that we don't talk enough about, and then
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Jack Jones ends up with that like insane highlight reel.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: But Marcus Epps down in and down out, he is
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: playing in run defense, he's dropping back into covers. This
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: guy's a problem and he's been a problem all season long.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: He hasn't been the problem. He is a problem.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Is say that, right?
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you get what I'm saying here, But we haven't
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: talked enough nice about him. And Marcus EPs number one,
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: that guy has really performed well this season, came over
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: from Philadelphia, earned his keep, the great acquisition by them.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I feel like the Eagles if they're watching Marcus EPs
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: play and they're like.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: Hey, listen, we could really use that. You know.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: I'm also taking the Chiefs in this one.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: And a guy that we have talked a lot about
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: this season is Travis Kelcey, and there's been a.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Lot of discussion, Hey, what's wrong with Travis Kelcey? How
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: about this?
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey has over one hundred more yards than any
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: other tight end in the league against zone coverage. Right
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: now the Raiders top ten zone team. I think Trav
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: gets loaded up. Everybody stops asking questions maybe about him,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: maybe the Kansas City treat have. I also have the
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Raiders threatening that proverbial needle, but I think this does
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: have the potential to get closer to that ten points
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: tom for us to get to Quick picks presented by
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Zillow Red Hot Bills coming right across the street from
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: us to take on the Chargers. Give Smith named interim
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: head coach after Brandon Staley's firing.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Keenan Allen is out. All that feels like a pretty
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: big Buffalo win.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Yes, I have the Bills winning this one forty four
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: to eleven. Cynthia's going to this game and she's gonna
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: see points, especially from Josh art Freeland's going.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: My mom always gets all the shout outs.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: Art Freelan's going to this one.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: Look. A good old fashioned blowout can be very entertaining,
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: especially when Josh Allen is playing. I mean Josh Allen
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: this season eleven eleven rushing touchdowns, that's how many Oh,
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: that's how many points the Chargers are gonna score.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: But also how many rushing touchdowns he.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: Has eleven, He's got twenty six passing touchdowns are important.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: I feel like Josh Allen's incredibly good season is getting overlooked.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: His sack percentage in terms of the amount of sacks
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: he's taken, the fewest in the league, the best in
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: the league. Drop backs he has, So wow, you take
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: the fewest amount of sacks, You've scored eleven rushing touchdowns.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: You're throwing for the most amount of touchdown. Josh Allen
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: put up a forty burger.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: Guy.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: There's player of franchises love Josh Allen, the Colts and
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: the Falcons. Taylor Heineke's starting for Atlanta, both teams in
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: the playoff hunt. Michael Pittman Jr. Has cleared the concussion protocol.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: What do you see taking place in it?
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: I see a very close game. I have Indianapolis winning
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: this one twenty one to twenty. Michael Pittman is the
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: lynchpin here. That's what swayed it for me. A close game.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: I've seen some weird stuff from this Falcons offense, like
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: last week when you're watching the game. I don't usually
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: talk about stuff like this because it's like fun to say,
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: but I had several people take to be like, does
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Arthur Smith want to lose this game? Is he trying
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: to what's happening here? But ultimately what was happening was
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Bijon Robinson was being asked to block while Tyler Algier
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: was running behind him like a half back. It didn't
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: It didn't make a lot of sense. It's like he
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: wasn't trying to use the assets that he has. You
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: saw Kyle Pitts on that one. He just made that
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: cash here have to do so much work when on
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: other plays he was wide open. It did not make
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: a lot of sense. And I think that this defense
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: picks up on that and pressures a ton of Taylor
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Heineke dropbacks, and it's just it's tough sledting.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: It's going to be a bad seat in Atlanta.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: It's Heinekey for the rest of the year. As of
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: right now. We'll see right if that sticks.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: The Packers and Panthers. Jordan Love's squad has dropped their
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: last two games. Carolina got their second win of the
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: year last week versus Atlanta, and I think Green Bay
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: takes this one a little bit closer nineteen to seventeen
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: because the Panthers defense able to exploit the fact there's
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: injuries at wide receiver Christian Watson out.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Jaden Reid questionable.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: If you could find a number out there on Romeo
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Dobbs go to investigate that he only had three targets
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: last week.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: He did catch all of them.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I still think there's more talent though in Green Bay,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: especially considering the way the season has gone for Carolina.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: So that's why I am taking the Packers here. It'sion
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: for Pizza Pizza.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Pre game predictions delivered by Little Caesars Joe Flacco and
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: the Browns against the Texans.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Both teams and the playoff hunt. C. J.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Stroud unfortunately ruled out again, So it's Case Keenum. Do
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: you think k this Keenum does like us the number
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: one defense.
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: GC, I do not. I think the Browns get it
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: done twenty to fourteen. Look, this is a rematch of
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: a twenty fourteen game Case Keenum versus Joe Flacco in Houston,
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: where Case Keenum starting Case Keenum won that. So it's
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: like a long gestating revenge game. The Browns defense gets
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: it done because they have their cornerbacks healthy. Finally, I
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: know there's been a lot of injuries in Cleveland. The
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: pass rush obviously it's outstanding, but when you have Denzel Ward,
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: Greg Newsen, Martin Emerson just locking down receivers, and if
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: they're playing the best receivers in the league, like the
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: receivers are going to win some of those matchups. The
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: Texans aren't that team right now. Nico Collins is not
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: one hundred percent. Even if he plays in this game,
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: Tank Dell is not coming back. So I think they
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: can lock those receivers down. We know the Texans have
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: struggled to run, and if we've learned anything from fifteen weeks,
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: it's that the Browns devour backup quarterbacks. I think they
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: do it again.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: Okay, well I have a closer game.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: I still have Cleveland winning, but I have twenty one
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: to twenty in this matchup. I want to get give
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: a little love to the defensive front of the Texans,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: though specifically Jonathan Grenard, who has twelve and a half
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: sacks leading that team. They actually have four different guys
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: with at least five different sacks this season, which is
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: tied for the second most in the NFL. The front
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: is getting home, They're doing their job. It kind of
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: makes a lot of sense given that early or the
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: end of last season they were doing a good job,
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: and then early on this season, especially when everyone was
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: like what's going to happen new coach is be Yeah, No,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: they're actually they are as good as we were hoping
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: that they would be, given who their coaches and where
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: he came from Tamika Ryans, of.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: Course from San Francisco.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: So looking at this game, you gotta love and I
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: kind of want to say, like Jonathan Grenelle, like it
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: sounds like he's like a Frenchman.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: I don't think he is.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: But I'm not sure Jonathan Greneald is coming for your quarterback.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: But if these Browns were likely going to the playoffs,
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: in fact, they have a clinching scenario this weekend, But
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: you got to see what happens with real pressure coming
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: at you more consistently. I want to see how Joe
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Flacco does in that situation.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: I want to talk about the other team and the
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: guy who applies pressure. Let's just take a couple of
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: seconds to talk about Miles Garrett. Yes, literally two seconds.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: That's the average time for a Miles Garrett pressure this season.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Two point three to three seconds for Miles Garrett. Most
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: of his pressures, in fact, six of his seven pressures
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: that came last week against the Bears were under two
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: and a half seconds. He's playing phenomenal football right now.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be case Kingum. I don't want
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: to be anybody dealing with ninety five. And he's doing
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: all of this after dealing with that shoulder injury that
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: probably would have put a lot of guys out. Miles
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Garrett playing through it right now, just again, one of
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: the better defensive players in the league who should be celebrating.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: We got the Battle of Florida going down Sunday. It's
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: the Jags against the Bucks.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Baker squad has won three straight while the Jags have
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: dropped three in a row, and a lot of that
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: is of course hinging on the fact that their quarterback
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: playing through a couple of things.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: If Trevor Lawrence plays, I.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Will take the Jacksonville Jaguars twenty four to twenty one.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Because even when we had no idea.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: That Trevel is gonna run out there against the Cleveland Browns,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: I think clearly the ankle was a factor there. He
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: since also dealt with a concussion. But if sixteen makes
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: his way back on the field, I just have a
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: hard time picking against the Jacksonville Jaguars, especially late when
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: they need this win. I know Tampa Bay is in
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: the same situation, but I just still like the quarterback
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: situation a little bit more on the Atlantic side versus
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: the Gulf side.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Floor as we're sitting here, we don't know about Trevor Lawrence.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: So with Trevor Lawrence playing, I have Jacksonville twenty three
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: twenty one.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: Should Trevor Lawrence not.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: Be playing, it would be a two and a half,
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: so three point win for Tampa Bay.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: So I already did that math for you. Maybe we'll
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: update on Sunday if we can.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: But I do want to talk about Rashad White because
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: it's taken two years, but Todd Bowles finally has a
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: guy who's gonna run the football. I've watched a billion
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: pressers with Todd Bowles and he last year we need
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: to run the football. He's so patient, he's like so
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: kind to this man and he stands there and he's like,
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: I need to run. We need to have the run
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: game work. And you know what, the run game is working.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: If you were lucky enough to in your fantasy league
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: have or Shad White, you're probably still playing right now
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: because he's really performed, stepped up. He's been the difference maker.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: In what year when we didn't know what to expect
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: from Baker Mayfield. When you have a run game, you
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: can pass the ball significantly better. Congratulations, Dave Canalis, you
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: really did. And now we don't have to hear poor
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Todd Bowles doesn't have to sit the we need a
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: run game.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: He's going.
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: It's great. We love that and we can hear more
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: Todd Bowles for years to come. If they just win
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: a couple games, that's all they happen. But I hope
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: Trevor Lawrence plays in this game because I like Trevor.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: I like good football like that, and I like getting
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: a just Greg because I'm going Bucks. Either way, I
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: don't care if Trevor plays. This Jaguars team is a mess,
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: and this Bucks team likes to go down the field.
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: With Baker Mayfield, he in the past hasn't always been
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: a vertical through. It's what he does well at times,
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: but the offenses he's been in haven't really catered to him.
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: Right now, he is second in the league at average
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: depth of target. The only quarterback who throws it deeper
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: is that wild rookie c J. Stroud, And look, it
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: hasn't really been that efficient for Baker Mayfield, but they
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: keep trying. And I'm not saying he's been terrible. I'm
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: just saying like it's a big part of their offense.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: They throw intermediate, they throw deep. It's not a short
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: passing attack. It's nice. It's old schools.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: I don't necessarily respect. That's not what I'm saying.
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: I'm just saying like it hasn't been all but because
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: the guys get open.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Mike Evan Yah, respect that he's throwing the ball. Christmas
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Day in Philly.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: The Eagles trying to get a bounce back at home
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: against the Giants.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: So watch out that.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: The Eagles dropping three straight, but they're still in the
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: hunt for the NFC East Crown.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Does Philly right the strip?
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: The right the ship against mister cut.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: I think he said strip because you think they're going
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: to the Super Bowl twenty seven to sixteen. Yes, they
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: right the ship here. Why they get AJ Brown back
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: on track? This is a great opportunity to do so
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: because we've seen the secondary four the Giants have some
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: suspect moments. This is an area where for the past
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: few weeks we went from AJ Brown averaging more than
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty five gate yards per game to
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: like kind of being like not really effective and not
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: really even that necessarily, Like he's a good decoy, but
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: not necessarily be targeted a ton. So that changes in
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: this matchup and they kind of get back on track on.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Their way to the strip. Maybe make it work.
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: You know, that's great teamwork there, next work. You know,
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: who's been a great teammate and a great story, but
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: maybe not like a great starting quarterback this year? Who's
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: Tommy DeVito? Like, I hate to be the Green at
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: this time of year, but are we ready to move
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: forward into a world where we recognize Tommy DeVito's that
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: looked painful. We've been among the worst quarterbacks in the
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: league since he took over, taking a lot of sacks.
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: But also if you look at his completion percentage over expected,
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: it's way under it.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: It's not good.
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: And then if you look at the types of throws
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: he's making, he's actually trying some of the easiest throws,
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: so like the completion is expected to be very high
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: and his is very low. So he's not hitting easy throws.
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: He's taking a lot of sex. It's a nice story,
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: but he's playing the Eagles in a big spot not
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: gonna happen.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if it does happen, it's gonna because Philadelphia has
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: had some real problems. I know a lot of focus
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: goes on the offense, Jalen playing through the injury, playing
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: through the sickness, and then aj Brown clearly dealing with
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: something as well. But did you guys see the Eagles
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: defense against the Seattle Seahawks. Kenneth Walker had guys just
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: doing the stanky leg, running the wrong direction.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: It was bad.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: And then towards the end of the game, during what
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Troy Aikmann deemed a Drew Locke legacy drive, let's just
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: look at the at how the game ended, and ultimately
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Sidney Brown, there's thirty three seconds in the game, He's
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: running at Zach Charbonney and JSN has watch Sidney Brown,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: where's it going. It's just like there was a lot
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: of confusing stuff happening, and I think that's the type
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: of thing that has to happen consistently for the Eagles
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: to lose this game to a Giants team that I
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: agree is outmatched here.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: I think they fix some of those things, and they
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: just don't.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: I'm dressed like I'm addressing even realize I was wearing
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: all Eagles colors.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: No, Pert, you know it's good. That game part of
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: the Christmas Day triple header.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Don't forget Sunday Night, NFL Network, The Holiday Classic is
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: back Christmas Eve. A special Sunday night of prime time
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: football is the Patriots and Broncos Light up the Night
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: The NFL Holiday Classic Sunday Night at eight pm Eastern only.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: On NFL Network.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Could this be Bill Belichick's last primetime game as a
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Patriots head coach? Also streaming on NFL Plus. Let's get
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: to some quick picks. The Seahawks Titans in Nashville, Seattle
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: still in the playoff unt after beating the Eagles Monday Night.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Who wins it?
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: Greek Geno Smith in the fighting Seahawks win at thirty
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: to twenty seven. I think it's a big time offensive game. Look,
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: Gino said his feelings were hurt, you know, when he
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: found out he wasn't gonna start. It hurt my feelings too,
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: because I had picked the Seahawks. Then I flipped it
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: to Locke when I should have known. Ken Walker can
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: get you the w by himself. He is getting better
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: and better. He is the running back I want most
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: to create something out of nothing, and he's been more consistent.
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: It hasn't been as boom er bus this year. He's
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: been a little steadier and you're still getting the big plays.
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: I think he gets it done against the Titans.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: All right, Let's go to the Commanders and Jets.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Zach Wilson out, so the pride and joy of Northwestern University,
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Trevor Simeon starts at quarterback for the Jets. Are you
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: only picking the Jets, Cynthia because of the whole college Sea?
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: I thought I was a pride and joy of Northwestern?
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: But whatever, No.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Twenty two to eighteen in this one, I think because
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: of Garrett Wilson and Breese Hallis some other people as well.
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: But I think that the opportunity against this secondary is massive.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: I also think that the opportunity to run the ball
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: also massive. This is their last home game of the season.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: I think that the Jets fans with Aaron Rodgers on
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: the sideline.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: You need to watch out and see you these little tricks.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: Perhaps it's even a Garrett Wilson rushing touchdown. I don't
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: even care you're playing him in fantasy.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: All right, we got the Cardinals and Bears at Soldier Field, Chicago.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Coming off that epic of Pail Mary in Cleveland, Justin
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Fields out the show why he should be the team's
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: quarterback in twenty twenty four. In fact, this is a
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: mystery box game because you've got two quarterbacks going up
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: against each other and the franchise is maybe thinking about
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: getting somebody else. I think Justin Fields comes out there
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: and gets the Bears to win in this matchup twenty
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: three to twenty one, because.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Justin is playing well.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: In fact, against that top Browns defense, there were several completions,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: especially the one to Bob Tanyan in the first half
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: that could have been but they were not because they
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: were dropped. So I got the Bears here. Looking forward
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: to game day morning. If you've been familiar with our show,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: you're looking forward to write this down as we have
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: some predictions that we think are certain to happen for
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Week sixteen.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: Greg, what are people writing down?
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: Sometimes I just look at a game and a number
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: just doesn't feel right, so I circle back to it
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: to help all the people in the land. The Bengals
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: to beat the Steelers by at least three points this week.
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: This sweater right here saying rain maker. The Bengals are
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: gonna make it rain points from the sky with Jake Browning.
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: I don't care if Jamar Chase is and their t
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: Higgins can get it done. How about a little Andre
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: Yoshavas They have enough weapons. Tanner uh Hudson is his
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: name is like producing like a top tier Yes, tight end,
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: And sometimes it's just about an organization. And the Steelers
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: right now are a ship that is leaking. And the
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: Bengals get better every December, even without Joe Burrow. They
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: are coming together at the right time. I think they're
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: going to be a playoff team. I don't think it's close.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: Well, sometimes I see a number and I see it
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: one week and then I circle it and it works out,
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: and then I see it again a second week. So
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna circle it again a second week.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: That's that.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: Jamir Gibbs will have a longest rush of at least
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: thirteen and a half easy at least fourteen yards. That
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: happened in like fourteen seconds last game, So why not
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: We're going back to the well the explosive. Jamir Gibbs
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: does it again. He has a long rush of at
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: least thirteen yards.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: Come on, I love it because Florence is sending those
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: blitzes at him and you just got to catch him
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: in one bad look and he pops on.
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: If you're gonna give me candy, I'm gonna eat it.
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: He's gonna pop it.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: And the thing is, it feels like Gibbs is breaking
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: a tackle on every single run.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: And I think the only thing that might stop him.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Is gonna be the end zone ultimately, and the Lions
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: are gonna win. He's not gonna be worried or sad
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: anymore at all.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: I one more.
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: They got drugs.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Speaking of guys running for yards, Josh Allen will run
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: for more than twenty nine yards.
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: I love that in.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Sofi Stadium, which is again less than twenty nine yards
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: away from us right now. The last three games, look
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: at that point from Josh Allen, he has averaged forty
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: five rushing yards per game.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: He had eighty one.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Three weeks ago. If he wants to, I think he
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: can easily do it. Maybe he doesn't have to, but
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: I think Josh Allen easily gets thirty rushing.
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: I'll give it a free write this down too, Like
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: eleven points. It is not enough in this game for
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: this Bills team, one of the best teams in the
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: NFL right now, is it like, is it a dead
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: coach bounce?
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: Ye?
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: Now, I don't believe in that. When it's the Bills.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: People apparently believe in the coach firing bounce.
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: Don't.
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: Don't count on this, but I think gave Davis sa
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: see the answer. They gotta get him going. They gotta
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: get him going.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: We're gonna count on seeing you next week. For Cynthia
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: and Greg and Patrick, thanks for watching the game.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Davit.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: NFL Game Deviut is a production of the NFL in
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: partnership with iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.