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EP 41: Breaking Down NFL Division Races Using The NFL Playoff Predictor! · 3 Guys, 6 Balls NFL Podcast

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  3 lifelong friends, 6 trusty balls and endless NFL ticks.
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  Welcome to three guys 6 balls NFL podcast.
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  Welcome to episode 41 of three guys 6 balls NFL podcast.
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  I'm your host Joel and joining me today is my Co host.
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  Will Avery is not with us today because he is a loser and he has
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  a job that actually requires him to.
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  Do that's right, he won't hear this.
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  Yeah, he's not going to ever listen to this, so we can say
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  whatever you want about. Him Avery is no longer with us
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  for today. All right, well.
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  Let's just jump right into my Christmas question of the week.
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  So will you can see the background.
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  So the question is, is die? Hard.
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  Absolutely. It's a Christmas movie.
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  I don't even you're even going to finish that.
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  This takes place on Christmas Eve at a Christmas party.
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  I'm tired of the slander, all right?
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  I, we, my my wife and I watch this movie every year.
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  We with the kids with the bed. It is absolutely a Christmas
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  movie. It again, it's on Christmas Eve
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  at a work Christmas party. OK, just because there's guns
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  and explosions and shooting and yippee Ki A's doesn't mean it's
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  not a Christmas movie, all right?
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  You left out a part. Yeah, I did.
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  I don't want to say sorry, Dwayne this early.
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  All right, cool. I agree with you.
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  It's a it's 100% of Christmas movie.
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  I agree. So let's just keep going here
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  will give us your wrap up of week.
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  What was it, 15? Week 15 Week 15 wrap up started
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  off Thursday. Falcons at Bucks Sorry, go Kyle
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  Pitts finally shows up and plays real football game.
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  Too bad this game only matters to the Rams in the draft.
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  The Rams in the draft. The Bucks don't need to worry.
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  They still have a lot of meaningful football lab.
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  They play the the Panthers twice in the last three weeks and that
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  really is going to be what matters to them in the playoffs.
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  Before you move on, sorry, I just have a question for you
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  will listening. Well, I want to say one thing
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  and then I have a question for you.
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  So one thing I want to say about this game is all those penalties
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  that the Falcons got, Like I, I watched this game and in any
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  game I watch, I always watch the penalties and say like that is a
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  penalty or it shouldn't be a penalty.
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  Just from like my perspective, all the penalties that were
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  called on the Falcons were penalties.
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  The only calls that the referees missed in this game were the
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  calls that went against the Buccaneers.
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  I do not think that that Kyle Pitts touchdown, the last
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  touchdown where his elbow and butt hit at the same time was a
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  touchdown. I think his elbow hit first.
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  In my opinion, I'm not a ref, but in my opinion, I think it
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  was not a touchdown. And I'm not just saying that
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  because I'm a Bucs fan, I'm saying that just as somebody who
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  watches football. Also, there was 2 fumbles in
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  that game where they ruled that the Falcons got the ball
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  incorrect both times. Incorrect.
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  The Buccaneers got both of those balls in my opinion.
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  So the three calls that they got wrong were against the
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  Buccaneers and that's the reason why.
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  I mean it's not the reason why they lost, but it's the reason
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  why they lost. So what you're saying?
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  But my my question for you is, if you were in my position as a
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  Buccaneers fan, would you want to make the playoffs knowing
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  that you're probably not going to win a playoff game if you do?
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  Or would you not want to make the playoffs and get a better
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  draft pick at this point in the season?
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  I'm making the playoffs, we're going to win the South, we're
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  going to get a home playoff game.
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  Because when you get there, anything can happen.
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  I mean, I mean, look at there was a 7 seeded Packers, right?
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  7 seeded Packers 2011 or something like that went on to
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  win the Super Bowl, right? The.
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  The Giants. The Giants, yeah, beat the
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  Patriots. Perfect example.
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  Thank you. So, Tracy, you have you have the
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  most absolute dog in the entire NFL and Baker Mayfield.
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  If anybody can make magic happen, it's going to be that
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  man. So I I'm a let's make the
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  playoffs. Let's hear the home playoff
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  game, our crowd, our home field. We may be probably be on the
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  road for the second round, but that doesn't really matter.
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  When we get past the first round, we'll just make magic.
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  We'll keep making magic happen. I agree with you.
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  I I just was asking because I've thought about it both ways.
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  So I was just curious what you would say.
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  Yeah. All right, sorry.
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  Go ahead, proceed. Oh, good.
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  Ravens at Bengals. Are the Ravens going to football
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  or not? They they can't decide.
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  The Ravens try at the Bengals. And I don't know if you've seen
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  the interviews or not, but someone needs to check on Joe
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  Burrow. That boy is sad.
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  Raiders at Eagles. The Raiders beat the Eagles.
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  Of course they did. I mean, whatever, right?
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  Like who cares? Else they shut the the Raiders.
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  The Eagles shut the Raiders out. Excuse me, maybe.
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  Maybe it wasn't just Geno Smith. All right, can you pick it?
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  Through 15 completions for 64 total yards.
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  That's bad. 15 completion, 9 attempts completed the ball 15
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  times for 64 yards. That's bad.
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  Cardinals at Texans. Texans stomp the Cardinals.
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  This Texans team is sneaky good, but they're really bad for TV,
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  so nobody knows it. Not all people don't want to
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  watch their team get booed at home when this Texans defense is
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  trading them down. Now I know they were.
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  They were at home this week, but still they don't put them on
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  prime time because they're a defensive team.
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  Offense is good enough offense, offense is Super Bowl good
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  enough. I do believe and the defense is
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  as well. But when they're shutting those
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  teams offense down, that's not that's not what they want to put
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  on TV. So that also this Cardinals team
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  is terrible. Chargers, Chiefs.
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  Well well well. The Chargers didn't charge her
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  this time. And yes my homes got hurt but
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  they weren't to win that game anyway.
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  Also, there is an unbelievable amount of conspiracy theories
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  that can go into this. Well, Patrick Mahomes just got
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  hurt so we didn't have to play a snap and they were mathematics
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  we eliminated from the playoffs or he got hurt because they
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  weren't going to make the playoffs anyway.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. This man, Patrick Mahomes is a
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  competitor. He's not getting hurt on
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  purpose. This was not a thorough the
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  games. And this is not that.
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  I'm not thrilled. Oh, I don't know.
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  It's it's out there. The internet's a wild place.
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  The the I lost it. Chargers lost it.
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  Nope. Nope, Nope, doesn't matter.
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  All right, moving on. Bills have Pats.
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  Pats got up early and it worked over.
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  But then the Bills remember that they they need to let James
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  Cook. So did there and allowed
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  Superman to fly over. The that cooked that cooked
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  right. There thank you and a lot of
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  Superman to fly over the snow in a huge comeback win to stay
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  relevant in the playoff talks. I mean if you want to see a tale
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  of two halves there, just watch this bills bat skip.
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  I mean, it was 21 zero early and everyone was like, even I was
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  like, well, I guess this kind of is what it is.
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  Patriots are good this year and the Bills have not been as good.
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  And then all of a sudden, yes, we have.
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  I know you're a Rams fan, Will, and you're a big pro, Matthew
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  Stafford for MVP. But Josh Allen, yeah, he's.
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  Sneaking in there. He's for sure sneaking in there.
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  Just it not even like put statistics aside if you just
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  take the guy who is most valuable to.
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  His team for sure. Yes, Josh Allen, 100%.
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  So, yeah, yeah. I don't disagree.
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  Just wanted to throw that in there.
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  I disagree, I don't like it, but I don't disagree.
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  Jets at Jags. Only against The Jets can the QB
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  be the leading rusher and the running back be the leading
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  receiver. Jags continue their hot streak.
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  Trevor Lawrence played an unbelievable game.
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  He was so good this week. Jags continue their hot streak
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  because they try to win the AFC S.
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  Commanders at Giants, truly who cares?
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  Commanders win Browns at Bears, Bears beat the Browns, but
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  that's what was supposed to happen.
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  The only thing I wish could have happened was that Miles Garrett
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  broke the sack record against Caleb Williams.
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  So we have to watch that highlight over and over and over
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  again. But but the the Browns play the
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  Bills this week. So fortunately, unfortunately,
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  however you want to call it, chances are pretty high that we
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  will see Miles Garrett sack Josh Allen over and over and over
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  again as a sack as he breaks the sack record.
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  I think he's one sack away from tying it. 2 sack, a sack and a
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  half away from breaking it, which is very possible with this
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  Bill's offensive line. Although Josh Allen pretty good
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  too. Panthers at Saints Hey Saints,
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  win a big one for the Bucks Go. Saints, let's.
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  Freaking go. Tyler shot.
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  Let's go. That's yeah, Saints win a big
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  one for the Bucks. 10 point comeback for Tyler Truck is
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  huge. Maybe I was wrong about the old
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  man. Maybe he's not back in
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  back-to-back weeks. They, the Saints beat the
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  Buccaneers and the Panthers. They're trying to make a name
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  for themselves in the South. Just, you know, a bit late.
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  Lions at Rams, Lions look great early and then forget football's
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  four quarters until it's too late.
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  Rams, right? They want to take first place
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  back in the AFC Colts at Seattle Sounders.
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  Excuse me at Seattle Seahawks When you're all your points come
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  off of somebody's foot. I'm assuming I'm watching
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  soccer. Jason Myers ruined the fairy
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  tale story for the old man. It was paw paws one time to win
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  a football game and that just didn't quite happen.
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  Packers at Broncos. Broncos finally beat A-Team by
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  more than one score. Also it was for four starters to
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  get hurt during that game, including a man who was probably
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  the best closing pass rusher in the game right now.
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  Vikings at Cowboys. Why was this a prime time game?
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  Why on earth do we have two non playoff competing teams in prime
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  time? We probably have Jerry Jones for
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  that. And technically Dallas has not
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  been eliminated yet. If they win out and the Eagles
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  lose out, they can still make the playoffs.
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  It's like a it's like a less than 1% chance.
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  But here we go. Minnesota goes down to Dallas
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  and 9 decides to be a quarterback this weekend and
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  sticks it to a lackluster Dallas defense.
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  And we've got Dolphins at Steelers, and we've got the same
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  cold. Dolphins 2 isn't great over all
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  alone when the weather outside is frightful.
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  Mike Tomlin never lost a Monday Night Football game at home in
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  his career as a head coach, thanks to staff.
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  Pretty good. And that was Week 15.
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  All right. Well, what we've got for you
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  guys today is we're just going to talk about some division
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  races. There's a lot of very, very
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  close division races left with three weeks left in the season.
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  And so we're not going to go over all the divisions.
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  I think the NFC East we're not going to talk about.
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  And I forget that was it the AFC West we're not talking about.
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  No. Can't.
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  Yes. AFC West is it?
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  Yeah, it's AFC West because the Broncos have a two game lead
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  over the Chargers. So we're doing, we're going to
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  try and talk about every division where the leading team
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  does not have a two game lead. So every other division aside
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  from the AFC West and the NFC East do not have two game leads
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  in the division right now. So there's a lot of close
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  division races. So what we're going to do is I
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  think we'll what we'll do is we'll just take turns picking
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  which division we want to talk about and I will let you pick
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  first. Well, I have your AFC or NFC
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  West, right? Like I have to.
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  We have to start where the race is the hottest.
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  If I can find, oh, wait, wait, before we start, before we
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  start, I'm going to share my screen because we've got this
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  cool little NFL playoff machine where you can predict the games
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  and it'll tell you the outcomes of like who will make the
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  playoffs. Let's see, let me change the
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  screen here so we can see this better.
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  Providedbyespn.com Not an ad, just that's who's doing it.
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  Yes, that is better. OK, cool.
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  So the only game that really matters is this Thursday, right?
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  We open up Thursday. There are some good football
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  games this week. We've got Rams at Seahawks.
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  And the way it sits right now is, is whoever wins that game,
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  chances are incredibly high. They're going to get the number
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  one seed in the NFC. That's chances are high.
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  It's not guaranteed, obviously. And going into Seattle has
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  somehow, as I've been told on social media, been easier to win
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  against Seattle than Seattle on the road.
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  Now, Seattle just played a game where just played a game where
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  they didn't score an offensive touchdown and it was at home.
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  They played the Colts at home. So that's not great for the
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  Seattle. But we've got three teams, the
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  Rams, the Seahawks and the 49ers, all the 10 or more wins.
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  Rams are 11 and that's. Insane.
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  Rams are 11 and 3. Seahawks are 11 and 3. 49ers are
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  10 and four. And coming down the stretch
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  here, we've got Rams, Rams, Seahawks this week, Niners play
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  the Colts and the Colts, it's not, it's, it's in Indianapolis.
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  That's sort of guaranteed win for the Niners.
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  But given the fact that we don't have the same Colts team at the
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  start of the year, chances are 49ers are going to win that
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  game. And next week, Rams play the
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  Falcons, which matters a lot to the Rams because then when they
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  hit that draft pick and the Niners play the Bears, that's
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  going to be a big game. And hoping that the Bears don't
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  make the playoffs. I actually want the Niners to
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  win that game. And the Seahawks.
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  Seahawks play the Panthers at Carolina now.
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  I actually think the Panthers, Seahawks, I actually think the
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  Panthers are going to win that game.
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  The Panthers have beat the Panthers, beats the Rams.
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  They beat the Packers. They've beat the Bucks.
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  No, they haven't played the Bucks yet, right?
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  They played it back twice in the last three weeks.
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  Yeah. So so they've beat they've beat
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  some good teams when they shouldn't have.
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  I actually think the the Panthers still went into
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  Seahawks there and in week 18, Rams at Cardinals, you can all
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  but track it up to a win. And then Niners Seahawks play in
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  the last week of the season in in Santa Clara.
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  I think the NFC race is going to come down to the very end.
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  Let's just say the Seahawks win this week against the Rams.
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  The Rams are going to have to win out and hope the Niners win
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  against the Seahawks, and the Seahawks and the Niners are
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  going to have this. The scenarios are so insane for.
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  Who's OK? So so look at this scenario.
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  So if the Seahawks. Win.
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  OK. Yep, they dropped the 49ers
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  immediately. The 49ers want the Seahawks to
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  win because if the Rams win, the 49ers won't get the one seed.
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  But if the Seahawks win, the 49ers can still get the one
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  seed, believe it or not. So if the if Seattle wins and
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  then we've got San Francisco against the Colts, so they win,
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  then in Week 17, let's just say the Rams win, they beat the
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  Falcons. If the 49ers beat the Bears and
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  then the Seahawks beat the Panthers.
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  So currently the Seahawks would be the one seed in week 17.
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  Then it's Seahawks and 49ers. If the 49ers win that game,
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  regardless of what happens in the Rams game, the 49ers would
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  be the one seed. So the 49ers want the Seahawks
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  to beat the Rams because that's their only shot at getting the
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  one seed. So OK, go back to this.
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  In this scenario here, how many games did the Packers have to
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  win to steal the one seed from the Niners?
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  Because we don't. We can't really just talk about
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  the NFC West, right? We kind of have to talk about
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  the whole NFC right as a whole. So let's see so if the Packers
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  beat the Bears because that and then the Packers beat the Ravens
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  and then the Packers beat the Vikings, they.
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  Can't do it. They can't do it.
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  They can't do it, no, because they would only have twelve wins
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  and the the 49ers would have 13. So yeah, it's I think that these
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  three teams, the Rams, the Seahawks and the 49ers are the
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  teams that have the best chance to get the one seed, which is
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  crazy that they're all in the same division.
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  There's so many different possibilities in this division.
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  It's. Crazy.
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  I I think it's crazy that with all of the injuries, the Niners
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  assist and this year that we're sitting here kind of looking at
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  Week 16 and they're still, it's still possible for them to be
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  the one seat. I, I mean, I that's just crazy.
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  Good for them, truly good for them.
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  That's true team resilience. Yeah.
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  So there's actually, I believe I could be wrong here, but I
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  believe that there's only four teams that can still get the one
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  seat in the NFC. It's the 49ers, the Bears, the
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  Seahawks and the Rams. Because as we we just saw, if
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  even if the Packers went out, well, that's not true.
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  It I guess the Packers could still get it.
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  It just depends on how the games go.
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  Right. Yeah, if everyone else and I
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  guess. Technically, yeah, I guess the
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  Eagles could still technically get it, but they they have what,
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  5 losses? So they they're just at a
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  disadvantage because there's a couple teams in there that only
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  have three losses. So, right, I would say if the
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  Eagles still technically can get it, then they're at a huge
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  disadvantage. Let me tell you the one thing I
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  don't want. I don't really want Seattle.
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  Well, I in order of teams I would want to get to #1 seed,
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  we've got Rams first, Seattle second, everyone else lasts.
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  That's where that sits. But I don't want I, I don't even
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  want the Bears to make the playoffs, which is still
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  possible. The Bears don't even make the
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  playoffs. They're playing now with the
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  injuries of the Packers, chances they make the playoffs jump
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  exponentially. It's crazy that that's the one
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  guy now, not the Packers only had one pass rusher, but the one
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  guy that really had the opportunity to shut Kayla
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  Williams down from his. Because Kayla Williams, very
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  mobile, can throw on the run fairly well.
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  I'll give him his flowers when he deserves it.
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  I don't like it and don't usually give him his flowers,
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  but he has improved over the year mechanically, not stat
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  wise, but mechanically as a quarterback and so that I kind
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  of have to give him I guess. But boy, how you fail made the
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  playoffs. Yes, we're going to RIP them a
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  new one. Me, it's me.
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  I'm the guy. But but they play the Packers.
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  I mean, sorry, you go. Oh, well, I was just going to
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  say, while we're, like you said, we're going to have to kind of
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  bounce around here a little bit. So while we're talking about the
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  Packers a little bit, like you just mentioned, without Micah
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  Parsons, that's a huge blow to the Packers.
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  The Packers have 33 sacks as a team this year.
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  Micah Parsons has 12 1/2 of those. 8th in the fourth
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  quarter, did you know that? Yeah, that's crazy.
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  That's 37.8% of the Packers total sacks that Micah Parsons
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  had by himself. Their next leading guy is
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  Rashawn Gary, who had 7 1/2 sacks this year.
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  But that's kind of one of the reasons why the Packers went and
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  got Micah Parsons is because Gary's a really good pass
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  rusher. But what teams would do is
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  because, you know, he's the main guy, they would double team him.
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  But with Micah Parsons, they couldn't do that because there
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  was a bigger threat than him on the field.
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  So now with Micah Parsons gone, it allows teams to double team
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  Gary again, which I think the Packers can still be a solid
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  defense. Like they're they're not just
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  Micah Parsons, right? Like they're not, they're more
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  than just Micah Parsons on defense.
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  They're still going to be a solid defense.
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  But Micah Parsons was a game changer for them.
• 18:57
  And without those 12 1/2 sacks that he has brought this year,
• 19:00
  that's just a huge, huge blow to that defense.
• 19:03
  Let's see you step back here. Let's fill this out.
• 19:05
  Go to week 16. Let's fill this out, OK?
• 19:09
  Let me clear it. Let me clear it.
• 19:10
  OK. OK, so week 16.
• 19:13
  Let's just go through, we've got we've got what, 32 and 1648
• 19:18
  games to pick real quick. And we have to give the edge of
• 19:20
  the Seahawks right there at home.
• 19:22
  I feel like, I feel like as much as I want the Rams to win, but
• 19:24
  give the edge of the Seahawks, yeah.
• 19:27
  OK, so you got Seahawks, I'm going Eagles there.
• 19:31
  Eagles and I don't want to do this one.
• 19:33
  I I feel like you go bears because of the injuries.
• 19:37
  I just let let's go bears for now because they're at home.
• 19:39
  Let's give them the edge because they're at home and we can flip
• 19:43
  it around and play with it later.
• 19:44
  Of of we'll let the Packers win all.
• 19:47
  Right. So we'll go Saints here.
• 19:48
  Yeah, I don't think it. Won and games that don't matter
• 19:51
  and games that don't matter. Let's just pick the home team to
• 19:53
  move on. OK, so I'll pick the Bills,
• 19:56
  obviously. Yeah, I think I'm still going
• 19:58
  Chiefs, even though they don't have my homes.
• 20:00
  Cowboys and Chargers. Chargers.
• 20:02
  I think the Chargers win that game.
• 20:05
  I, I, I think, yeah, this game doesn't matter.
• 20:08
  I would like to see the. Giant team, you said?
• 20:11
  Yeah, home team, I'll let you pick this one.
• 20:13
  I, I would like to think the Bucks win, but I don't know.
• 20:17
  I, I, I think it splits home and home is what happens here with,
• 20:20
  with this series. So, OK, so here is since we're
• 20:25
  on this game, let me just give you some facts here about this
• 20:28
  division race. OK, so both of these teams are 7
• 20:31
  and seven, the Bucks and Panthers both 7 and seven.
• 20:33
  Right now. They both have a chance to win
• 20:36
  the NFC South, but the Bucks still have more control than the
• 20:41
  Panthers do. So here's a couple scenarios if
• 20:45
  the Buccaneers win their next two games.
• 20:47
  So if they win at the Panthers and they win at the Dolphins,
• 20:52
  the Buccaneers win the division. That last game, Week 18 game
• 20:55
  means absolutely nothing. The Buccaneers will win that
• 20:59
  division. Now, if the Bucks beat the
• 21:01
  Panthers this week and then they lose to the Dolphins and the
• 21:05
  Panthers lose to the Seahawks, Bucks also win the division.
• 21:10
  So that Seahawks game is big. These these next two weeks are
• 21:14
  big because there's a lot of different possibilities.
• 21:16
  It could also come down to Week 18, where that game really does
• 21:20
  mean something because if the Panthers win, obviously the
• 21:22
  Buccaneers are going to have to beat them to win the division in
• 21:25
  Week 18, unless the Panthers beat the Seahawks after beating
• 21:30
  the Bucks in Week 16. So if that's the case, then the
• 21:34
  Panthers would win. And if the Buccaneers win their
• 21:37
  next two games, the Bucks win. So there's a possibility that
• 21:40
  Week 18 is absolutely nothing, but there's also a possibility
• 21:43
  that it means a lot. I love football.
• 21:48
  It's so funny. I think we we split it home and
• 21:50
  home. That's what I think happens.
• 21:52
  Home and home OK. Yeah, I think we go Panthers.
• 21:55
  OK, so then Dolphins. Yeah, Dolphins.
• 21:59
  I'm going Broncos over the Jags. I just don't believe in the
• 22:02
  Jags. I, with the way the team's been
• 22:06
  playing, I think they believe in the Jags when they believe in
• 22:08
  the Broncos right now. I really I'll, I'll buy into the
• 22:12
  Broncos just for right now, but I, I think pretty much no matter
• 22:16
  what the the Jags get the three seed in the in the AFC.
• 22:21
  I just, I know everybody's on the Trevor Lawrence train right
• 22:24
  now, but that was against the terrible defence.
• 22:27
  Well, it's been terrible. They've got 5, they're got 5 win
• 22:30
  streak right now. It's he's been hot for a while.
• 22:33
  Kobe Myers has made a huge difference for this team.
• 22:36
  He has, that's true. But look at when the the Jaguars
• 22:39
  played the Rams like they got crushed.
• 22:41
  Well. Absolutely crushed I.
• 22:44
  Know right, I don't I don't I. Personally don't think that
• 22:47
  Trevor Lawrence is going to do well against this Broncos
• 22:49
  defense. I think Trevor Lawrence is going
• 22:51
  to Trevor Lawrence when he plays the Broncos defense.
• 22:54
  And that's why I don't believe in the Jags in this game and in
• 22:58
  the playoffs, because Trevor Lawrence is likely going to be
• 23:01
  the worst quarterback in the AFC playoffs.
• 23:05
  So that's why I don't believe in the Jags just because, just
• 23:09
  because of Trevor Lawrence. I like that defense a lot.
• 23:11
  But Trevor Lawrence, I think he sucks, right?
• 23:14
  We'll just go Cardinals on this one because you want the Falcons
• 23:17
  to lose Texans. I'm taking the Texans.
• 23:20
  I'm not picking the Raiders. Are you going Steelers or Lions?
• 23:24
  I think this game means more to the Lions to get in the
• 23:27
  playoffs. I have no lions here.
• 23:29
  Yeah, I think so too. As we talked about last week
• 23:31
  with Steve, desperation matters. Yeah, it's patriots.
• 23:34
  They're not going to come off that lock of the hills and lose
• 23:37
  again. Yeah.
• 23:38
  And then do you think the Niners or Colts?
• 23:40
  Yeah. Niners.
• 23:43
  Niners, I agree. OK, so that's week 16.
• 23:45
  So week 17 we've got. Let's pause.
• 23:47
  Let's pause right here. Let's pause right here.
• 23:49
  Let's start our playoff. OK, so we've got we've got so
• 23:53
  the NFC, Seattle's the one seed and nothing else really changes
• 23:57
  except for the fact that the Panthers moved in.
• 23:59
  Well, I guess that's not true. San Francisco jumped up to the
• 24:02
  to the five seed. Los Angeles dropped all the way
• 24:05
  down to 6. And the Bucks.
• 24:07
  Are out. The Bucks are out.
• 24:08
  Panthers are in. Yeah.
• 24:10
  OK, so Week 17, so Cowboys at Commanders, we're just going
• 24:13
  with the home team. There doesn't matter.
• 24:15
  Home team wins. Yeah, I don't think Detroit
• 24:17
  loses to Minnesota 'cause again, it matters too.
• 24:20
  I don't think so for Detroit right now.
• 24:22
  Yeah, yeah. And I'm going to take the
• 24:24
  Broncos because the Chiefs don't have my homes.
• 24:28
  You're going Texans or Chargers. Texans.
• 24:30
  Texans that defense is better than the charters offense by
• 24:34
  far. All right.
• 24:35
  And then are you taking the Packers against the Ravens?
• 24:38
  I think I am. I think I'm taking the Packers
• 24:40
  here. OK, we're going Steelers over
• 24:43
  the Browns. Yep.
• 24:44
  Patriots over The Jets for sure. That doesn't matter.
• 24:47
  Saints over the Yeah, I guess we'll just pick the Titans.
• 24:50
  Whatever. Yeah.
• 24:51
  Are you going to take the Colts or the Jags?
• 24:53
  No Jags hit the full season sweep against the Colts this
• 24:56
  year again. OK, Bucks or Dolphins?
• 25:00
  I'm taking the Bucks. I think the Bucks are a better
• 25:02
  team. The the Dolphins are already
• 25:04
  talking about not starting two of this week and and are you
• 25:07
  talking about maybe maybe even Quin yours hits the start as
• 25:11
  Zach Wilson's the backup technically, but but why put
• 25:15
  Zach Wilson and you know what you have there, but in Quin
• 25:17
  yours see what you have with with him.
• 25:20
  So. Yeah.
• 25:22
  OK. So I'll just let you make the
• 25:24
  pick here are you you said you think the.
• 25:27
  Panthers are going to win that game.
• 25:28
  I surely think the Panthers will beat the Seahawks.
• 25:30
  I, I, I do, because if that's the case, if that's the case, if
• 25:33
  Week 16 plays out like we have it right now, the Bucks are out.
• 25:37
  If the Panthers win, the Bucks are out.
• 25:39
  Well, actually, no, no, sorry, sorry, no.
• 25:40
  If the Bucks win against Miami, sorry, I had that wrong.
• 25:44
  Yeah, If the Bucks win against Miami, then there's they're not
• 25:46
  out. It will come down to the Week 18
• 25:48
  game. So then we got the Bengals
• 25:50
  because they're at home, Raiders because they're at home.
• 25:51
  Bills are Eagles. I think Bills, I, I think the
• 25:55
  Bills because a, they're at home, not that the cold weather
• 25:58
  matters because these two stadiums are like 4 hours apart
• 26:01
  or whatever. I mean, a fact checked on that
• 26:03
  hard, but the, the Bills are, are trying to, are trying to win
• 26:06
  for the playoffs where the Eagles have the NFC East.
• 26:10
  They're they're not coasting, coasting, but they're not in
• 26:13
  danger of not making the playoffs.
• 26:15
  And really, there is no difference.
• 26:17
  There's not a big difference between 3:00 and 4:00 seat.
• 26:20
  Right. OK, so then we got the Bears at
• 26:23
  the 49ers. I know you want the 49ers to
• 26:27
  win. Are you taking the 40?
• 26:28
  Niners though, I I don't know, I'll let you pick.
• 26:31
  I'll just, I'll just go 49ers because it's fun to see this NFC
• 26:36
  West race. Yeah, so that puts the Niners at
• 26:41
  the wind and Rams and and it's Falcons.
• 26:43
  Yeah, I already picked, I already picked the Rams.
• 26:45
  In the one seed, Seattle in the five seat or Seattle in the
• 26:48
  sixth seat, Los Angeles in the five seat.
• 26:50
  And then nothing else moves. Yep.
• 26:53
  OK, so on to Week 18. And that that puts three teams
• 26:58
  in the NFC West at 12:00 and 4:00.
• 27:01
  Which is wild. That is crazy.
• 27:03
  That's crazy. All right, so then we've got
• 27:06
  Rams at Cardinals in Week 18. So Rams.
• 27:08
  Rams win Broncos. Are you going Broncos in
• 27:11
  Chargers? Broncos get the sweep for the
• 27:13
  Chargers. I know he said this game doesn't
• 27:16
  matter, but I'm going to pick the Chiefs.
• 27:18
  No, I'm. Never picking the Raiders,
• 27:21
  although we did pick the Raiders, that's not.
• 27:24
  OK, So while we're while we're while we're on this game, while
• 27:27
  we're on this game, the Patriots at or Dolphins at Patriots in
• 27:30
  Week 18. So we might as well talk about
• 27:33
  it while we're going through this.
• 27:34
  In the AFC East, the only way for the Bills to win this
• 27:38
  division is if the Patriots lose to either The Jets or the
• 27:43
  Dolphins. The Patriots do play the Ravens
• 27:45
  this week. But if the Ravens were to beat
• 27:48
  the Patriots, even if the Bills win, the Patriots are still
• 27:51
  leading that division. The Patriots have to lose to a
• 27:56
  AFC East opponent in order for the Bills to win that division.
• 28:00
  So it comes down to The Jets and the Dolphins game.
• 28:04
  And I just, I don't see either of those outcomes happening
• 28:07
  where the Patriots lose either of those games.
• 28:09
  But just a fact. If, if the Bills want to win the
• 28:12
  division, they need to hope and pray that the Patriots lose to
• 28:15
  either The Jets or the Dolphins. And the Bills have to win out.
• 28:20
  But we'll go it, we'll go with Patriots in this one.
• 28:23
  Going Eagles against the Commanders.
• 28:25
  Are you going Steelers or Ravens?
• 28:27
  I don't think it matters. Yeah, at this point it would
• 28:29
  not. Because if the Ravens lose in
• 28:32
  Week 16 to the Patriots and then lose in Week 17 to the Packers,
• 28:38
  with how we have it, we have the Steelers losing in Week 16 but
• 28:41
  then winning in Week 17 against the Browns.
• 28:45
  If the Ravens win this game, Steelers are 9:00 and 8:00, but
• 28:48
  they're still winning the vision.
• 28:50
  So this game truly does not matter.
• 28:53
  Right. Unless the Ravens can beat the
• 28:54
  Packers. Right.
• 28:56
  The Ravens would have to win, Yeah.
• 28:57
  I just don't. The Ravens would.
• 28:58
  Have to win one of those games, right?
• 29:02
  OK, so then this is the big one right here.
• 29:04
  So Seahawks at. 49ers I truly think given Mike McDonald's
• 29:10
  history, his his tenure, I guess his record, I think I'd give
• 29:13
  this to the Seahawks. Although Sam Donald is declining
• 29:18
  as towards as the year goes on, he is playing worse as this year
• 29:22
  is going on. I don't know if the ghosts are
• 29:24
  coming back or what's happening. His trends throughout the season
• 29:28
  has been trending downward and I know some see how well that's
• 29:32
  not true because he's few. We are on average is 17.67.
• 29:36
  Who gives a RIP? He's looking at looking and
• 29:39
  play. They didn't score an offensive
• 29:41
  touchdown last week that that's not good.
• 29:44
  You played the Colts who don't have sauce gardener like they're
• 29:48
  they're gettable and you you got them.
• 29:51
  Sure, but thanks to the new kickoff rules more than anything
• 29:54
  else, truly. So I I do give a swim to the
• 29:57
  Seahawks, but I don't feel good about it.
• 30:00
  All right, so let's look at both scenarios, though in this So if
• 30:03
  the Seahawks win, the Rams would be the one seed.
• 30:06
  Assuming the Rams beat the Cardinals and the Falcons after
• 30:10
  losing to the Seahawks in Week 16, the Rams would still be the
• 30:14
  one seed if Seattle beats the 49ers.
• 30:17
  But if the 49ers win, the 49ers jump to the one.
• 30:21
  Rams are the five and Seattle's the six.
• 30:24
  And this is crazy. This isn't what I'm not to say
• 30:26
  is absolutely insane. You want the one seed.
• 30:30
  You want to get your players, your team, you want to get them
• 30:33
  the extra rest. I don't know if I ate.
• 30:36
  They went down to Carolina and get an extra week's worth of
• 30:39
  reps in. I don't know if I hate that.
• 30:42
  Now. The Panthers did beat against
• 30:44
  the Panthers. They ran or the Panthers did
• 30:47
  beat the Rams earlier this year. I get it.
• 30:49
  I would rather have the bye week.
• 30:50
  But how many times have you seen the bye week team get rusted
• 30:53
  during that bye week and then loose?
• 30:58
  They they they lose focus. Yeah.
• 31:00
  It happens quite often. And it, I, this is going to
• 31:03
  sound bad, but it's not like playing in Los Angeles has been
• 31:07
  much of A home field advantage anyway.
• 31:10
  I mean, you're, you're coming down to Los Angeles where you're
• 31:13
  in a canopy. It's not technically a Dome.
• 31:15
  It's a canopy and it's good weather.
• 31:18
  Everyone plays better in good weather.
• 31:20
  And so it's not like you're getting the weather to your
• 31:23
  advantage. Now, home field advantage would
• 31:26
  be nice because you don't have to go play in Philadelphia.
• 31:30
  You don't have to go play in Chicago, You don't have to go
• 31:32
  play anywhere like that. So you do want home field for
• 31:35
  that, but it's not like you're in a gaining advantage with the
• 31:38
  weather. But I do think Seattle wins this
• 31:40
  game. But this is I don't know.
• 31:42
  Well, we don't have any time frames set yet for order of
• 31:45
  games. I guarantee the Rams, Cardinals,
• 31:50
  Seahawks, Niners game will be played at the same time.
• 31:53
  They will be at the same in the same time slot.
• 31:56
  That way you don't get Rams or you don't get Seahawks.
• 32:00
  Niners in the morning, Seahawks win, Rams sit all their players.
• 32:05
  They they will be at the same time.
• 32:07
  So you have to play. NFL doesn't on purpose and I
• 32:09
  absolutely love that they do that.
• 32:11
  You put the games that matter and are in competition with each
• 32:14
  other at the same time. That way you can't sack the game
• 32:17
  because oh, doesn't matter anyway because the Seahawks win
• 32:20
  and the Rams lose. This way, I mean, it doesn't
• 32:22
  really matter if if the Rams, the Rams have to win either way,
• 32:26
  but still, it's it's better to see at the same time, hey, let's
• 32:30
  have a go at this. Isn't that, isn't that a
• 32:33
  Thursday Night Football game though, for the Rams?
• 32:36
  No, there is no Thursday night in Week 18.
• 32:38
  It's only oh Boo, it's it's only Saturday and Sunday.
• 32:43
  It might only be Sunday. There might not be Saturday
• 32:45
  either. I know we have Saturday games
• 32:47
  this week. We have Saturday games next
• 32:49
  week. I think Week 18 is all Sunday
• 32:51
  games. I forgot about that.
• 32:55
  Yeah. OK.
• 32:55
  Anyways, so you're going to Seattle on that one, Seattle
• 32:59
  versus Niners? I am, and not just because the
• 33:01
  Rangers get to 1 seed. I actually think they're going
• 33:03
  to win. OK, so then Texans and Colts?
• 33:09
  Texans Rivers might die in that game that that Texas defense is
• 33:14
  too like he can't move if he. Makes it that far.
• 33:17
  If he makes it that far. I love this Philip Rivers story
• 33:21
  but I am scared for this man every single snap.
• 33:26
  It's a good thing he's a little bit thicker than he was before.
• 33:28
  He's got some extra padding on him.
• 33:30
  Hey, you know what? Good for him.
• 33:31
  He was retired. Also, if you haven't heard this,
• 33:34
  sorry, I'm going to digress on Phillip Rivers here.
• 33:37
  If you don't know about the NFL and their retirement, the
• 33:40
  insurance and stuff like that and you haven't heard it yet,
• 33:43
  the way the insurance works, the NFL is it lasts for five years
• 33:46
  after you retire. Yeah, so long as you play X
• 33:48
  amount of years, you get your benefits and insurance and stuff
• 33:51
  like that. It's part of their CBA, their
• 33:53
  collective bargaining agreement to their their players union.
• 33:56
  That's what they negotiated. Philip Rivers at the end of this
• 34:00
  season. This is his fifth year retired,
• 34:02
  so his insurance benefits. He's in his head would.
• 34:05
  Drop off, Well he did and that's how he has 10 kids.
• 34:08
  Literally 10 kids and 1 grandkid. 2 grandkids.
• 34:13
  Grandkids, I don't know, but he has at least one grandchild.
• 34:17
  And so this man's like, hey, wait a minute, I'm about to have
• 34:19
  to pay how much money for insurance?
• 34:22
  Ain't no way Shane Steiken hook me up, pal.
• 34:28
  So I that's that's playing 40 chess out here.
• 34:31
  That's what's happening. I love it.
• 34:34
  I love this story and I truly, I want the Colts to make the
• 34:37
  playoffs as much as I don't think they're going to.
• 34:39
  I want them to just for the story, just so Disney in three
• 34:43
  years can write a movie about it and have Kevin, what's that
• 34:47
  guy's name? Kevin James played Philip Rivers
• 34:49
  just like he played Sean Payton. Heavens, if there was ever a bad
• 34:53
  casting, Kevin James playing Sean play Sean Payton.
• 34:58
  That is some wild stuff. I cannot believe that anyway.
• 35:03
  Anyways, OK, so Cowboys and Giants were just going with the
• 35:05
  home team. Browns and Bengals home.
• 35:08
  Team Lions of Bears, I know you're you're picking.
• 35:13
  This game, this is arguably the most important game of the
• 35:19
  entire day. I was just going to say the same
• 35:21
  thing like if if the lions win, the bears are out.
• 35:23
  Based off of how we have it right now, the bears will be
• 35:26
  out. If the Bears win, the Lions are
• 35:30
  out and the Bears. Win the Bears get to 2 seat.
• 35:33
  Yeah, that's crazy. AA10 win team just doesn't make
• 35:40
  the playoffs. All right, so next game here, I
• 35:42
  know you want the Falcons to lose, but I'm just going.
• 35:44
  To take them to the Falcons are going to win that game.
• 35:46
  Aldo, Aldo, Bills over Jets for sure.
• 35:51
  I'm going Packers over Vikings I think and then split the home at
• 35:56
  home series. So this is where the Bucks make
• 35:58
  the. Playoffs and then we go Jazz
• 36:00
  over Titans. OK, so again, this is based off
• 36:03
  of just how we picked these games.
• 36:05
  It's not saying that these how these games are going to go, but
• 36:07
  this is how we pick these games. So on the AFC side, the Broncos
• 36:10
  are in the one spot, the two seed goes to the Patriots, three
• 36:15
  seed is the Texan. So they come back and actually
• 36:17
  win the division. In this scenario, the Steelers
• 36:20
  are the four, Bills are the five, Jaguars are the six and
• 36:24
  the Chargers are the seven seed. On the NFC side, we have the
• 36:28
  Rams in the one spot. We've got the Bears at the two
• 36:31
  seed. Well, actually who did?
• 36:34
  Who are you picking in that game?
• 36:35
  Are you picking the Lions or you picking the Bears?
• 36:39
  I don't know, Joe. I don't know.
• 36:43
  OK, Let's just say the Lions are a better.
• 36:44
  I think the Lions are a better team.
• 36:46
  All right? Lions.
• 36:47
  Yeah. Let's just say the Bears win.
• 36:49
  No, it doesn't matter. You've got we've got OK, I, I, I
• 36:53
  picked the lions on there. So I'm just going to leave it.
• 36:56
  OK, so we got the NFC side, we've got the Rams at the one
• 36:58
  seed, the Packers would be the two seed, Philadelphia Eagles at
• 37:02
  the three seed, the Bucks at the four seed, Seattle has the five
• 37:06
  seed, the 49ers has the six and the Detroit Lions has the seven
• 37:12
  seed. Something crazy about that on
• 37:14
  the NFC side, I see all three low seeds winning their first
• 37:19
  round games. Yeah.
• 37:21
  Now, the only scenario where I think that that could change is
• 37:26
  I actually want, because there there is a possibility where the
• 37:31
  49ers can finish ahead of the Seahawks.
• 37:34
  I actually want the Seahawks to move down to the six and I want
• 37:38
  the 49ers to move up to the five.
• 37:40
  And I'm not just saying that because the Buccaneers already
• 37:43
  beat the 49ers, but I and I, the, the Buccaneers beat the
• 37:47
  Seahawks too. But I don't think, I do not
• 37:50
  think that the Buccaneers will win that game if they play the
• 37:52
  Seahawks again in the playoffs because of that defense.
• 37:56
  The Seahawks defense is very good, very good.
• 37:59
  And I do not think that the Buccaneers would beat them
• 38:02
  again. I do think that they have a
• 38:03
  chance if they play the 49ers, that they could beat the 49ers.
• 38:06
  I don't think that they would beat the Seahawks, though.
• 38:09
  It's possible if the Seahawks were to lose out.
• 38:11
  Now, if they're going to do that, if Seahawks lose out, they
• 38:14
  miss the playoffs. That's kind of still the reality
• 38:16
  we're in. But if they lose to the Rams
• 38:19
  this week, beat the Panthers next week and then lose to the
• 38:23
  49ers in the last week, that's the scenario you're talking
• 38:26
  about where if nothing else changes except the Seahawks
• 38:29
  games where we kind of flip them where they they lose to the so.
• 38:33
  Let me let me do it real quick. So in Week 18, I picked the
• 38:37
  49ers, Then I picked the oh, Nope, that's the wrong one.
• 38:41
  The Panthers, we already have them winning.
• 38:43
  And then the Rams. So we did.
• 38:44
  The Seahawks win 18 or in 17. Seahawks beat the Panthers in
• 38:48
  Week 17, and then we're. We're talking about if the
• 38:53
  Seahawks lose, right? Oh yeah, let's go if they lose
• 38:56
  out. Let's go if they lose out.
• 38:58
  So OK, so if we have the Rams beating them in Week 16, the
• 39:01
  Panthers beating them in Week 17, and the 49ers beating them
• 39:03
  in Week 18, Seahawks would be out.
• 39:06
  Seahawks are out and the and the the Bears and Lions sneak in and
• 39:10
  we get 3 AFC North teams rather than three, excuse me, 3 NFC
• 39:15
  North teams rather than three NFC West teams.
• 39:18
  But in the same scenario if the Seahawks beat the Panthers in
• 39:21
  week 17, then the Seahawks, This is what you were just talking
• 39:25
  about this. The Niners jumped.
• 39:28
  The Seahawks and the Niners would come to five season go to
• 39:31
  Tampa Bay and Seattle goes to Philadelphia.
• 39:35
  Yeah. And I just think that that I
• 39:37
  just think that that match up is much better for the Buccaneers
• 39:41
  for to face the 49ers rather than the Seahawks or the Lions
• 39:45
  or really any other team. I just think that that would be
• 39:49
  the best first round matchup that the Buccaneers could have.
• 39:51
  They still could lose that game, but I just think that that would
• 39:55
  be the best matchup for them going up to the NFC North real
• 39:58
  quick. I truly think that the winner of
• 40:02
  Packers and Bears this week will win the NFC North.
• 40:06
  I think whoever wins that game will end up winning the
• 40:09
  division. It's possible that the loser
• 40:11
  could still end up winning the division, but I think that the
• 40:14
  winner of that game. Will end up winning the NFC
• 40:17
  North because it will give them an advantage.
• 40:20
  And if you if you go through these scenarios, if the Packers
• 40:25
  beat the Bears, the Bears would have to win out and the Packers
• 40:29
  would have to lose 1 of their two remaining games it.
• 40:32
  But if the Bears beat the Packers, the Packers would have
• 40:35
  to win out and the Bears would have to lose out.
• 40:38
  Yeah, it's probably not going to happen.
• 40:41
  Probably not. So I just think that whoever
• 40:43
  wins this game this week and week 16 will be the winner of
• 40:47
  the NFC North cause the Lions can't do it.
• 40:50
  The Lions basically have to win out if they want any shot at the
• 40:53
  playoffs, but they need some help from other teams and so it
• 40:56
  it's between the Packers and the Bears.
• 40:59
  I give the advantage to the Packers just because their
• 41:02
  division record is better, but there is still a chance that the
• 41:06
  Bears could win the NFC North. Let's just say that the Bears
• 41:11
  win that game and then they beat the 49ers.
• 41:16
  That flips it. So that would that would flip it
• 41:18
  so that Bears would be in the two spot winning their division
• 41:21
  and the Packers would move to the sixth seed.
• 41:23
  There's so many different possibilities that could happen
• 41:25
  in the last three weeks. It's crazy.
• 41:27
  I love it. OK Joel, here's a semi off type
• 41:31
  of question. The Packers are four and O in
• 41:35
  their division. Only one other team in a
• 41:38
  National Football League across both divisions is also
• 41:42
  undefeated inside their division.
• 41:45
  Any idea what team that is? Oh, let me think, Let me think.
• 41:50
  Chargers. It is the chargers.
• 41:52
  You are correct, it is the chargers.
• 41:54
  Actually, you know, I actually just, I actually just saw that
• 41:57
  today like a couple hours ago. I think that's the first time.
• 42:00
  If I'm not mistaken, I think it was the first time the Chargers
• 42:02
  have ever done that. And who?
• 42:04
  What issue game do they have left?
• 42:05
  They play the Broncos. Week. 18 in Week 18, but the
• 42:12
  Broncos have a two game lead in that division.
• 42:14
  So the Broncos would have to lose at least two games, right?
• 42:19
  So let's just say the Jaguars beat the Broncos and then the
• 42:22
  Chargers beat the Texans. Then the Chargers beat the
• 42:26
  Broncos. Yeah, so the the Broncos would
• 42:30
  have to lose at least two games and the Chargers would have to
• 42:33
  win out, and then the Chargers would win their division.
• 42:36
  In this area, even if the Broncos beat the Chiefs in week
• 42:38
  17, the Chargers went out. Chargers win a division so long
• 42:43
  so long as so long as the Jags. So so the The Bronx have to lose
• 42:47
  their their week 16 and week 18. Then these are the Jags this
• 42:52
  week. Yes beat the Chiefs next week,
• 42:54
  but then loses the Chargers. Chargers can still win the
• 42:56
  division. I, I, I love football.
• 42:59
  Since they since they, since they play, since they play in
• 43:03
  Week 18. Let's see.
• 43:05
  So if the Broncos lose to the Chiefs somehow in Week 17 and
• 43:09
  the Chargers lose to the Texans in Week 17, it would still come
• 43:13
  down to that Week 18 game. Yep.
• 43:16
  Oh yeah, So they. Don't necessarily have to.
• 43:17
  They don't necessarily have to win out, but if they lose a
• 43:21
  game, they'd be relying on the other team to also lose a game.
• 43:24
  Yeah. Oh, I could talk about this for
• 43:26
  quite literally hours. It's been an hour almost, but I
• 43:30
  can talk about scenarios and teams and everything like that
• 43:33
  for for literally hours. It is.
• 43:35
  It is never ending. The possibilities, the options.
• 43:39
  So fun. Yeah, let's talk about, let's
• 43:41
  talk a little bit about the AFC North because we haven't talked
• 43:44
  much about the Steelers and Ravens, so.
• 43:47
  No one wants to win this division.
• 43:49
  That's the problem is that they both don't want to win.
• 43:52
  OK, so let's see the. So Week 16, we've got the
• 43:57
  Steelers at the Lions. I just don't see a way where the
• 44:00
  Steelers are winning that game. I, I also don't the Lions.
• 44:04
  The Lions have to win pretty much win outs to make the
• 44:08
  playoffs. They're the Lions are about to
• 44:11
  play some of the best three games I think we've seen all
• 44:13
  year. I think they play Aiden
• 44:15
  Hutchinson's pick on Matt Stafford 100,000 times in the
• 44:21
  locker room this week of look at what our defense can do, look at
• 44:24
  what we can do. Look, look, look, look, look,
• 44:27
  and then all of a sudden that they start to revamp that
• 44:30
  defense. It's clearly, I mean, the
• 44:33
  offense is good. That offense, the Lions offense
• 44:35
  is very good. That defense is the problem.
• 44:38
  And the Steelers, sorry, Megan, the Steelers offense is not
• 44:43
  scaring a single person right now.
• 44:45
  It's just not. And that defense has kind of
• 44:48
  come together, which makes sense that it's been so late because
• 44:51
  they're all free agents this year.
• 44:52
  This is a lot of their first year in the in the, in the
• 44:55
  Steelers organization because they've got the highest paid
• 44:59
  defense. They just haven't played like it
• 45:01
  right. So I I don't see a way the Lions
• 45:04
  don't win this game. Yeah, I think the Lions are
• 45:06
  winning. I think the Steelers win against
• 45:09
  the Browns. I mean, anything could happen as
• 45:11
  a division game, but I think the Steelers win that game.
• 45:14
  So really the Ravens have to win against either the Patriots or
• 45:20
  the Packers if they want that last Week 18 game to mean
• 45:24
  anything. And I don't know if I see either
• 45:27
  of those scenarios happening because if you look at the
• 45:30
  Ravens wins, they don't really have any impressive wins and
• 45:34
  they they just don't, they just don't seem like the same Ravens
• 45:37
  that we've seen in years past. Yeah, I sorry, I was, I was, I
• 45:41
  was playing with this play. I, I all started to playoff
• 45:44
  machine open and I was playing with it a bit as well to see
• 45:47
  different scenarios. I, I think if you're right, this
• 45:50
  Ravens team has just been different this year and not a
• 45:54
  good way they, they're having, you can call it a down year, but
• 45:58
  it, it seems to be a bit more than that.
• 46:00
  I, I've seen a couple things online, I don't know, I don't
• 46:03
  put much stock in it, but I've seen a couple of things where
• 46:05
  it's like there's an actual possibility that we get 3 new
• 46:09
  head coaches in the AFC North next year.
• 46:13
  Probably not Tomlin's not going anywhere if he doesn't want to.
• 46:17
  Harbaugh probably not going anywhere.
• 46:18
  Stefanski his ass got to get fired.
• 46:21
  Sorry Dwayne his his shot to get out of there.
• 46:24
  I mean, I forgot to mention this in that wrap up, but two weeks
• 46:28
  ago Browns have a shot to win a 2 point conversion and Stefan
• 46:33
  Skios, you know what we should do?
• 46:35
  We should take Shudur out of this play and then our running
• 46:38
  back throw a backwards half back pass is going to fail miserably.
• 46:43
  Let's take our one of our best athletes off the field, the guy
• 46:47
  who's been learning the offense. Let's not put Shudur we're in.
• 46:50
  Let's go ahead and just boot his butt to the curb.
• 46:54
  What do we do as fans? You're trying to lose
• 46:56
  ridiculous. How's ridiculous?
• 46:58
  I'm not over that. Still.
• 46:59
  I don't even like the Browns. I'm not over that.
• 47:02
  It's clear that he does not like Shooter Sanders.
• 47:05
  Like he probably didn't. He's probably the reason why
• 47:08
  they passed on Shooter Sanders. OK, but then like when it got to
• 47:11
  the fifth round, it was probably like the the owner was probably
• 47:15
  like, OK, like we got to take him now go ahead little.
• 47:18
  I I saw this thing. I, I saw this thing on on
• 47:22
  Instagram, so it must have been true.
• 47:24
  Kevin Stefanski's wife. Kevin Stefanski's wife.
• 47:27
  Hold on. Michelle Stefanski.
• 47:30
  OK, Michelle Stefanski is? Having an affair with you?
• 47:33
  Do her. No, maybe, but probably not.
• 47:36
  Probably not. OK, so if you go Michelle
• 47:42
  Stefanski, Kevin Stefanski's wife, his her father is as
• 47:47
  Stefanski. OK, he, excuse me, Michelle
• 47:52
  Stefanski's grandfather was a reporter back when Deion Sanders
• 47:59
  was a player and he was avidly against Dionne being both
• 48:05
  football and baseball, was avidly against the whole thing,
• 48:11
  talked a bunch of crap about it. There's a video online of Deion
• 48:15
  Sanders throwing water on a reporter because of, you know,
• 48:20
  talking crap and whatever. That reporter is Michelle
• 48:24
  Stefanski's grandfather. So that really, I, I don't know
• 48:28
  what her maiden name is. I don't know what her maiden
• 48:31
  name is, but Michelle, whatever her name is, her grandfather had
• 48:36
  beef with Dionne for his entire reporting career.
• 48:40
  And then all of a sudden now my granddaughter is married to a
• 48:45
  man who can pick up Dionne's son for his team.
• 48:49
  No way. I'm going to let that happen.
• 48:51
  No way. My family, my generational beef
• 48:55
  with the Sanders family is going to be broken right now.
• 48:59
  You don't pick that boy. And and all of a sudden all
• 49:03
  these reports come out. I've been a year how Kevin
• 49:05
  Stefanski doesn't like Dion, not fair to Dion treating him
• 49:09
  poorly. All these reports come out and I
• 49:13
  saw this, I saw this this week and and it's, it's a real, real
• 49:18
  deep diving look between the line trying to get in there kind
• 49:22
  of kind of stuff. But I, I love that conspiracy
• 49:25
  theory stuff. I love it and boy.
• 49:28
  How it all makes sense? It has some merit.
• 49:30
  It all makes real merit. It does, it does.
• 49:35
  And like you said, it was on Instagram so it has to be true.
• 49:38
  Let's see, it has to be true. This was I need the the dark
• 49:44
  black and dodge nest. Oh, sorry, hold on.
• 49:49
  No, this is just a YouTube channel.
• 49:52
  I there was a full I saw a full podcast thing on it, but it
• 49:58
  doesn't matter what they. Did a whole episode on this.
• 50:00
  No, no, the whole episode it was like, it was like a piece of an
• 50:02
  episode of like somebody figured out why Shadour is getting the
• 50:07
  shaft or got the shaft and. That's some good reporting right
• 50:10
  there. All right.
• 50:11
  Well, you got anything else you want to add about any of these
• 50:14
  teams before we wrap up here, Will?
• 50:16
  If you are not a sports fan, I I get it for a time if you're not
• 50:20
  listening to me right now anyway.
• 50:21
  But if you're not a sports fan, there's no real correlation you
• 50:24
  can make between the end of the season of your favorite sport
• 50:28
  and watching all of the different scenarios.
• 50:31
  It happened in baseball issue too with well, if this team or
• 50:34
  that team and this team and then and then the pre playoff
• 50:37
  playoffs that happened, right. The Lions right now, they're
• 50:41
  already in playoff mode. They have to win out just to
• 50:44
  keep playing. And so they they're already
• 50:46
  there. There are and, and kind of the
• 50:48
  same with the Buccaneers where they can, they can lose a game,
• 50:52
  but they'd really rather not. And then the three teams in NFC,
• 50:56
  yeah, NFC West, hey, if we keep winning, we have a shot at the
• 51:00
  first seat, at the number one seat.
• 51:02
  And the same thing. I'm way more in tune with the
• 51:04
  NFC than the AFC, but it's the same thing on the AFC side.
• 51:07
  The Steelers and and the Ravens, they're already in planet,
• 51:11
  especially the Ravens. Hey, if we lose the game, we
• 51:13
  don't make the playoffs, we don't have a shot, We don't have
• 51:15
  a chance to win the Super Bowl if we don't win all of our games
• 51:18
  right now. And so the end of the season in
• 51:22
  the playoffs, the pre playoffs, like the regular season playoffs
• 51:26
  that we're in right now, the Super window where the good
• 51:30
  teams become great and the OK teams become bad.
• 51:34
  And you're so you're watching it with the Eagles and there's an
• 51:37
  Eagles fan at work who's like, man, you guys talk so much crap
• 51:41
  back to Eagles. I'm like, yeah, you're right, I
• 51:43
  do. I don't mind doing it, but.
• 51:45
  That's mostly because of me though.
• 51:47
  Like, like you talk crap about the Bears.
• 51:49
  I talk so much crap on the Eagles because I just hate them.
• 51:52
  So much. I did tell him I talk way more
• 51:55
  crap on the Bears than I do the Eagles.
• 51:56
  And he's like, I don't know. And then Joey talked about him
• 51:59
  before on the show. He's like, well, hold on.
• 52:01
  He he hates the Bears. But the Eagles have had kind of
• 52:04
  a monumental collapse right now. Yeah, they just beat the Raiders
• 52:07
  31 to 0, but they're supposed to.
• 52:09
  Be but it's the Raiders. If they had lost to the Raiders,
• 52:11
  could you imagine how much I had ripped that whole team?
• 52:14
  Could you imagine Philadelphia right now?
• 52:17
  They would be rioting to get what's his bucket.
• 52:20
  Not Stefanski head coach out there.
• 52:22
  Real soft spoken for the Eagles. Who's yours, head coach?
• 52:27
  Soft spoken, Nick. Siriani.
• 52:30
  Siriani. Yeah.
• 52:30
  Yeah, he is not. He is not soft spoken.
• 52:32
  He's I've said this before, there is no coach that I want to
• 52:36
  punch more than Nick Siriani, OK?
• 52:38
  His early press conferences for the Eagles, Well, it's just like
• 52:42
  planting some flowers. And we have to to cultivate it
• 52:45
  and we have to get our culture in here.
• 52:47
  It was a. But then he's out here.
• 52:48
  Then he's out on the sideline laughing at Jared Goff when he
• 52:51
  misses a throw. Like, come on, dude.
• 52:53
  Yeah, Well, what are you doing? He he is anyway, I thought
• 52:56
  that's the difference between being in Philadelphia and being
• 52:59
  Philadelphia. Like he is full on adopted that
• 53:02
  I'm going to throw snowballs in Santa Claus culture.
• 53:05
  Yeah, so but watching their monumental collapse at the end
• 53:08
  of the season that that we've seen and now watching try to
• 53:11
  pick the pieces up, they're not really in danger of missing the
• 53:14
  playoffs if they continue to slide the way they're doing.
• 53:17
  Fortunately for them, they play the commanders, the Jayden
• 53:20
  Daniels less Commanders twice in the last three weeks.
• 53:24
  So like, like you play the Bills in there too, and that's going
• 53:28
  to be a tough game. But you play the Commanders
• 53:30
  twice and it's like, OK, thanks for good, good for us.
• 53:34
  We're where is shoe in right now.
• 53:36
  They can go, they can lose out. I do believe they can lose out
• 53:40
  and so comfortably make the playoffs as either the force.
• 53:43
  Well, probably even the three C Sorry, NFC South, but it's just
• 53:49
  not. No, if they if they lose out and
• 53:51
  Dallas wins out Dallas, Dallas is in.
• 53:54
  Dallas ain't winning out, buddy. There is no way there.
• 53:59
  Anyways. We got to, we got to wrap it up.
• 54:01
  Yeah, sorry. For those of you who are
• 54:03
  listening, again, what we were playing with is the NFL playoff
• 54:07
  machine. And so just go on ESPN or just
• 54:09
  go on Google and type in NFL playoff predictor and you can go
• 54:13
  through the scenarios, all the different scenarios you want
• 54:16
  with your team, other teams, see if your team would make the
• 54:18
  playoffs in this scenario or that scenario.
• 54:20
  But that's all we have time for on today's episode, guys.
• 54:23
  And as always, don't forget to keep your balls played with.
• 54:26
  We'll see you next time. Bye now y'all.
• 54:28
  Also, Mark Davis's haircut still sucks.