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  Speaker 3: So we get to the losers first, like, losers go first,
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  Speaker 3: it's always you know, winners outs, No, no, no, losers
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  Speaker 3: go first. So that would be the Los Angeles Rams.
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  Speaker 3: How about that? The Rams end up losing on Monday
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  Speaker 3: Night Football. They lose twenty seven to twenty four. Matthew
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  Speaker 3: Stafford did not play well. Matthew Stafford channeled his inner
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  Speaker 3: Josh Allen at least on the final throw from Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 3: Josh Allen's still a fantastic coquarterback. Matthew Stafford still a
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  Speaker 3: fantastic quarterback. He's been so fantastic this year. He was
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  Speaker 3: the front runner to win MVP, but on Monday Night
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  Speaker 3: he played like anything but an MVP candidate. He stunk
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  Speaker 3: up the joint, something severe. He threw three interceptions, is
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  Speaker 3: what our guy, Matthew Stafford did. Three picks against the Falcons.
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  Speaker 3: One was a pick six and the theme of the
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  Speaker 3: who am I game? A little bit later this hour.
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  Speaker 3: But the Rams, they erased a twenty one point deficit,
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  Speaker 3: they came roaring back. They tied the game up. Falcons
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  Speaker 3: took the lead with a fifty one yard field goal
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  Speaker 3: with twenty one seconds left. And so here we go,
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  Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford. Time right, You got a chance with twenty
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  Speaker 3: one seconds left, no timeouts to hit a couple of
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  Speaker 3: passes and maybe get your team in field goal range,
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  Speaker 3: get the game into overtime, and then all bets are off. Baby,
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  Speaker 3: and Matthew Stafford had a couple of opportunities. First down, play,
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  Speaker 3: wide open receivier receiver Xavier Smith was just wide open,
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  Speaker 3: ran a little corner route. The Falcons just were like, eh,
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  Speaker 3: Xavier Smith, it's not like he's a DeVante Adams or anything.
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  Speaker 3: We don't need to guard him. They didn't even pick
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  Speaker 3: him up. Wide open a quarterbacks stream, and Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 3: threw a ball not even close to Xavier Smith, not
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  Speaker 3: even remotely close that was the opportunity right there, because
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  Speaker 3: if Matthew Stafford makes that throw, they're in field goal
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  Speaker 3: range already. They're inside the thirty with about fifteen seconds
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  Speaker 3: to play. They're gonna take one or two shots at
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  Speaker 3: the end zone. They're gonna try to win this thing
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  Speaker 3: in regulation if he can hit this throw. And he didn't.
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  Speaker 3: It was a horrible throw. It's a horrible performance by
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  Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford. And so you get the second down. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not gonna break down everything here, but it was really interesting.
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  Speaker 3: The end of the game, second down, Stafford throws a
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  Speaker 3: deep ball do too at Well. It was a nice throw,
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  Speaker 3: a little grabby grabby should have been pass interference. The
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  Speaker 3: arm of two to two at Well was grabbed prematurely.
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  Speaker 3: The ball wasn't there yet. That his past interference pass interference.
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  Speaker 3: I forget the guy's name, York something, whoever's in the booth.
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  Speaker 3: You always have to have a former official in the booth, right.
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  Speaker 3: The former official in the ESPN booth was like, that's pi.
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  Speaker 3: That is past interference if I've ever seen it, is
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  Speaker 3: what he said, But it was it was a little
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  Speaker 3: bit hard to detect. I know, we want to look
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  Speaker 3: at these officials and we slow it down in super
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  Speaker 3: slow moan. We're like, how did you miss that? In
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  Speaker 3: real time there's hand fighting. Maybe the player's back has
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  Speaker 3: turned to you as he grabs the the hand the
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  Speaker 3: arm so slyly right there. He got away with it,
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  Speaker 3: got away with it on second down, so we get
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  Speaker 3: the third down. No, this this was the play of
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  Speaker 3: the game. So Stafford throws a great ball to Pooka
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  Speaker 3: Nakua along the sideline. Pooka Nakua just grabs the ball
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  Speaker 3: with his left hand, one hands it, beautiful catch, gets
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  Speaker 3: his feet down, going out of bounds. It's like they
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  Speaker 3: ruled it incomplete. We go to the replay. The first
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  Speaker 3: couple of angles we see, oh, that's a catch. The
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  Speaker 3: next thing, that's a catch. The last angle, ooh, not
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  Speaker 3: a catch. He grabbed the ball with his left hand
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  Speaker 3: and it just stuck right there, and uh, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 3: and he's dry. He's falling down. And then Ajterrell, that
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  Speaker 3: savvy Falcons cornerback right there. He kept on grabbing Pooka's arm.
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  Speaker 3: He was just grabbing the arm and he forced the
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  Speaker 3: ball to come loose for a millisecond. He just forced
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  Speaker 3: Puka to lose control just for a little bit as
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  Speaker 3: he was falling out of bounds and his feet were
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  Speaker 3: no longer in bounds anymore. And so with Pooka losing
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  Speaker 3: control of that, with Ajterrell pulling at his arm, it
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  Speaker 3: turned it into an incomplete pass. So it's fourth down
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  Speaker 3: there five seconds left. Stafford tried basically the same throw
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  Speaker 3: along the sideline incomplete game over. Crazy. It was that close,
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  Speaker 3: and man, you go back to the first down play,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta make that throw. Savior Smith is wide open.
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  Speaker 3: That's a throw Matthew Stafford makes in his sleep. But
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  Speaker 3: Stafford was not on point at all on Monday Night.
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  Speaker 3: Man three interceptions and the MVP odds, Oh baby, they
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  Speaker 3: have taken a turn. If you look at the MVP
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  Speaker 3: odds market, Matthew Stafford was a healthy favorite before the
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  Speaker 3: game before Monday Night. Matthew Stafford's looking good. If you've
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  Speaker 3: got any of your Matthew Stafford MVP bets, you're like,
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  Speaker 3: you're like, all right, let's go Stafford. Monday Night's time
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  Speaker 3: to put the final nail in the coffin right here.
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  Speaker 3: Good performance, win the game, gotta be MVP. And then
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  Speaker 3: Stafford is like here, pick six, here another interception, there's
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  Speaker 3: one more interception and you're like, oh my gosh, what
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  Speaker 3: is happening. So during the game, after Stafford threw that
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  Speaker 3: pick six earlier, the odds changed where it's almost even
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  Speaker 3: money on both sides, whether it's Matthew Stafford or Drake
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  Speaker 3: May the Patriots quarterback. It was, you know, like minus
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  Speaker 3: one point fifteen and minus one ten, Like it's very
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  Speaker 3: very even in terms of the betting lines, almost even money.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just not confuse people. It's almost even money on
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  Speaker 3: either player if you were to bet on them at
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  Speaker 3: that stage. And then we fast forward to the end
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  Speaker 3: of the game. It's Stafford missus a wide open receiver,
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  Speaker 3: you know, throws a couple more picks as the game
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  Speaker 3: goes on, ends up with three total, and the MVP
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  Speaker 3: odds have shifted to now Matthew Stafford is a three
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  Speaker 3: to one long shot. He is plus three hundred if
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  Speaker 3: you bet on Stafford, meaning whatever you bet, you get
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  Speaker 3: three times that amount. If you bet ten bucks, you
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  Speaker 3: would win thirty bucks. If you bet one hundred bucks,
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  Speaker 3: you would win three hundred dollars. So that's right, Lorena,
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  Speaker 3: you know you're rolling those deep pockets if you bet
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  Speaker 3: three thousand dollars, you would win nine thousand dollars. That's
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  Speaker 3: how I think its would get deeper. That's right, right,
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  Speaker 3: if you start off with deep pockets to get deeper
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  Speaker 3: deep pockets, right, that's right. But really, if you bet
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  Speaker 3: on Stafford now you probably just lose everything. You bet
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  Speaker 3: on Stafford probably how it would work out. I think
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  Speaker 3: he lost the MVP. I think he lost the MVP
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  Speaker 3: on Monday night. Right now as we speak, Drake May,
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  Speaker 3: the Patriots quarterback, is minus four hundred, meaning you have
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  Speaker 3: to bet. Let's say, if you bet forty dollars on
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  Speaker 3: Drake May, you would earn a measly ten dollars payout.
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  Speaker 3: That's how big of a favorite he is. You would
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  Speaker 3: have to wager four hundred American dollars to win one
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  Speaker 3: hundred American dollars. That's the way it would work. So
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  Speaker 3: Drake May is a healthy favorite right now to win
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  Speaker 3: MVP when he was just maybe watching Monday night football
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  Speaker 3: from the comfort of his own home, just kicking back,
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  Speaker 3: you know, feet on the sofa, just like let's watch
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  Speaker 3: some ball here, and then it's just Stafford pick pick pick.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, oh wow, I would imagine his phone was
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  Speaker 3: blowing up. He's got to have one degenerate gambler friend, right,
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  Speaker 3: He's got to have one guy. Hey eight dude, dude,
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  Speaker 3: look at these. He's like, I'm a professional football player. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I can't have you in my life, degenerate gambler, you
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  Speaker 3: know that sort of thing. But yeah, Stafford, he blew it.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: He has lost the MVP. That's the way it's shaping up.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think anything in Week eighteen is going
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  Speaker 3: to change that now. Sean McVay did confirm after the
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  Speaker 3: game that the Rams starters will play in Week eighteen,
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  Speaker 3: and so that's that's a little bit interesting. The Rams
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  Speaker 3: host the Arizona Cardinals. There's not much on the line
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  Speaker 3: for the Rams. I think they're a sixth seed right now.
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  Speaker 3: I think they technically could move up to a five
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  Speaker 3: seed and you could face the winner of that god
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  Speaker 3: awful NFC South Division, right, So some people would say
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  Speaker 3: that's a more favorable matchup. So maybe you want the
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  Speaker 3: five seed instead of the sixth seed. Yeah, I could
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  Speaker 3: see that, but I think it's more so I think
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  Speaker 3: that Sean McVay just wants the Rams playing sound football
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  Speaker 3: heading into the playoffs, right the seeding thing matters. Health matters,
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  Speaker 3: of course, but playing your best football at the right time.
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  Speaker 3: Like we always talk about this getting hot at the
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  Speaker 3: right time, and the Rams are the opposite of a
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  Speaker 3: hot football team right now. It's amazing how quickly things
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  Speaker 3: can change. If you just go back one week ago.
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  Speaker 3: You had the Rams. They were the one seed in
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  Speaker 3: the NFC playoffs heading into week what sixteen, heading into
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  Speaker 3: weeks last week, heading into weeks six at Seattle Thursday
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  Speaker 3: night game, Rams at the time were the one seed.
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  Speaker 3: Rams in the fourth quarter had a sixteen point lead.
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  Speaker 3: They're ahead thirty to fourteen. They had just intercepted Sam
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  Speaker 3: Darnold twice. They're looking great. Things are looking fantastic. And
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  Speaker 3: then somehow Someway punt return for a touchdown, two points. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: one possession game, Seattle's down by eight. Seattle scores again,
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  Speaker 3: Seattle goes for two. Somehow Someway, the football gods, they
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  Speaker 3: just twist things into Seattle gets the two point conversion,
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  Speaker 3: bounces off a Rams player's helmet. Charbonnage just picks it
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  Speaker 3: up in the end zone. They're like, that was a
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  Speaker 3: backwards pass. That's actually two points. Tie. Game goes to overtime.
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  Speaker 3: Rams lose. Rams lose unreal, and now you fast forward
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  Speaker 3: to what we saw on Monday night. Rams lose to
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  Speaker 3: the Falcons, and they are just slip slip slipping in
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  Speaker 3: the NFC playoff picture. In terms of their seeding. They
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  Speaker 3: have no chance to earn the one seat. Their odds
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  Speaker 3: were long after they lost to Seattle, but their odds
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  Speaker 3: are nonexistent now after they lost on Monday night. They
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  Speaker 3: cannot be the one seed and right now they're the
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  Speaker 3: sixth seed. They can only move up to the five.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. That's the playoff picture for the La Rams.
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  Speaker 3: Now the interesting thing with Atlanta. With Atlanta winning, this
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  Speaker 3: shifts the playoff picture even more so. This was a
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  Speaker 3: good thing for Carolina, This was a bad thing for
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  Speaker 3: Tampa that Atlanta won. So what happens now on Saturday
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  Speaker 3: when Carolina goes to Tampa Bay. If Carolina wins that game,
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  Speaker 3: they win the NFC South. But if Tampa wins that game,
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  Speaker 3: Tampa hasn't won anything just yet. Okay, Tampa, if they
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  Speaker 3: win on Saturday, they would then need to cross their fingers,
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  Speaker 3: hope and pray that the Falcons lose to the Saints
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday. Tampa does not control their path to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: They don't control it. Even if they beat Carolina, they
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  Speaker 3: are not in yet. They would have to have the
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  Speaker 3: Falcons lose, because if the Falcons win, it would create
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  Speaker 3: a three way tie, and it seems like that would
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  Speaker 3: just be poetic justice. Wouldn't they be fitting for the
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  Speaker 3: NFC South? How decrepit It's been all season, three teams
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  Speaker 3: all finish eight to nine. All three teams at the
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  Speaker 3: top of the division have losing records. That seems to
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  Speaker 3: be fitting of the NFC South this season, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's gonna happen. I think Carolina's gonna
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  Speaker 3: win that game. But if it were to happen and
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  Speaker 3: you had a three way tie, if Tampa beats Carolina,
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  Speaker 3: and if the Falcons beat the Saints, certainly possible, right,
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  Speaker 3: you would have a three way tie and Carolina would emerge.
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  Speaker 3: So even if Carolina loses on Saturday, they still have
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  Speaker 3: a chance. They would have to hope and pray that
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  Speaker 3: Atlanta wins, and if that happens, Carolina is in. So
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  Speaker 3: that was a bad result for Tampa. Tampa wanted Atlanta
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  Speaker 3: to lose on Monday Night against the Rams, and then
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  Speaker 3: Tampa would control its playoff path if that were the case,
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  Speaker 3: if Atlanta lost on Monday, Tampa would just have to
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  Speaker 3: win on Saturday and they're in. But with Atlanta winning,
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  Speaker 3: that is no longer the case. Now Tampa needs help.
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  Speaker 3: That just shows you how far Tampa has sunk. Right,
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  Speaker 3: That was a team that was six and two. They
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  Speaker 3: started off the season six and two, and now they
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  Speaker 3: are seven and nine. They need to beat Carolina and
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  Speaker 3: then they have to they have to get Atlanta to
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  Speaker 3: lose and then they can get in. They went from
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  Speaker 3: six and two to need Atlanta to lose. That's how
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  Speaker 3: That's how far Tampa has sunk. Man. I just I
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  Speaker 3: think they're a dead team walking.
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  Speaker 3: Or wherever you get your podcasts. The Rams lost on
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  Speaker 3: Monday night, and yet they still have an eleven and
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  Speaker 3: five record, And I'm just looking at the playoff picture
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  Speaker 3: in both conferences in every year, and this year more
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  Speaker 3: than some recent years, the standings just look dumb. I
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  Speaker 3: really don't understand. I get as much pushback on this
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  Speaker 3: as I get because this has driven me crazy for
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  Speaker 3: a number of years, and this year is no different.
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  Speaker 3: This year. It's just more intense, if anything. But I'm
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  Speaker 3: looking at the records and it just something just stands
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  Speaker 3: out like a sore thumb. Remember the old school, Like
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  Speaker 3: one of these things is not like the other. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how the melody went, but it was like that.
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  Speaker 3: It was it was a sesame street thing. One of
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  Speaker 3: these things is not like the other. And as a
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  Speaker 3: little kid, he had to be like, oh, what is
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  Speaker 3: it all right? It's not the same. Yeah, that guy's
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  Speaker 3: wearing a yellow sweater, that girl's wearing a yellow sweater.
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  Speaker 3: That kid is wearing a yellow sweater and this other
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  Speaker 3: guy is wearing a black sweater. It's like, that's what's difference,
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  Speaker 3: the black sweater guy. Right, that's what it looks like
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  Speaker 3: in the AFC and the NFC playoff pictures. If you
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  Speaker 3: look at the AFC. Okay, now, I'll just give you
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  Speaker 3: the records, so right now, in order, it is Denver
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  Speaker 3: thirteen and three, Patriots thirteen and three, Jags twelve and four,
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  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh nine and seven. They don't even have ten wins,
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  Speaker 3: they don't have double digit wins. Then underneath the Steelers
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  Speaker 3: Houston eleven and five, Chargers eleven and five, Bills eleven
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  Speaker 3: and five, all these wild card teams in the AFC
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  Speaker 3: have eleven wins, and yet Pittsburgh, who right now is
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  Speaker 3: leading the AFC North, they have to beat the Ravens
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  Speaker 3: to win the division, otherwise the Ravens will win it.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't understand why it's structured this way. It's
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  Speaker 3: so dumb. It's so dumb. The way it is is
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  Speaker 3: the division winners, they're seeded one through four. We don't
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  Speaker 3: care about their records. If you win your division, no questions, asked.
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  Speaker 3: You get a playoff Berth, you get a home playoff game,
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  Speaker 3: You're seeded one through four, and that's what That's the
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  Speaker 3: way it remains throughout the entire playoffs. It's crazy, it's insanity.
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  Speaker 3: In no world has the Steelers season been better or
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  Speaker 3: more impressive than the Texans, the Chargers, the Bills. All
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  Speaker 3: those teams have two more wins than the Steelers. The
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  Speaker 3: Steelers play in a bad division like that, it's not
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  Speaker 3: an impressive season. It's not an impressive achievement that they've
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  Speaker 3: won their division. What I want to do, here's my idea.
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  Speaker 3: It's not very difficult. The four division winners, they get
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  Speaker 3: into the playoffs. Okay, you get a playoff spot. We
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  Speaker 3: might not even have that, like in the NFC Carolina
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  Speaker 3: they might if they win the NFC South, they might
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  Speaker 3: not be guaranteed a playoff spot, right like, it might
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  Speaker 3: not work that way. So at least you get a
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  Speaker 3: playoff spot, you're guaranteed you're in the playoffs. We don't
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  Speaker 3: care if you're under five hundred. That's happened. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: there have been teams that made the playoffs that had
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  Speaker 3: a sub five hundred record that would not have made
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs unless they won their division. So if you
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  Speaker 3: win your division, you're in the playoffs, no questions asked.
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  Speaker 3: That's your reward. But you don't get the extreme luxury
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  Speaker 3: of then hosting a playoff game on top of that.
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  Speaker 3: You don't get that. No, sorry, it's too much. So
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  Speaker 3: what you do. Division winners, you're in one, two, three, four.
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  Speaker 3: You guys are in the field. Then we have three
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  Speaker 3: wildcard teams one, two, three. Those seven teams make it
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  Speaker 3: in each conference, and then we seed the teams based
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  Speaker 3: on record. That's what we do. We see them based
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  Speaker 3: on record. You know who figured this out in one year?
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  Speaker 3: College football? College football. What they did is what the
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  Speaker 3: NFL currently does college football. Last season, they said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna have the highest like conference winners. If you
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  Speaker 3: win your conference, you guys are gonna be seeded one
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  Speaker 3: through four. You guys are gonna get the buye, which
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  Speaker 3: is a big deal. You get to rest, you don't
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  Speaker 3: risk injury, you don't risk losing, you don't risk anything.
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  Speaker 3: Get you earn a bye. It's a big deal. And
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  Speaker 3: then they had Arizona State and Boise State get buys
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  Speaker 3: and college football is like, this is stupid, Like these
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  Speaker 3: teams are ranked low. I forget the rank. I'd have
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: to look, but it's like Boise State was I don't know,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: like twelfth, and Arizona State was ranked sixteenth, and somehow
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: these teams got buys. They're seated like three and four.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: It was insanity. And College Football looked at that and
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: they were like, yeah, we're changing that immediately. This is dumb.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: This is just this is dumb. And so they seated
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: teams one through four based on record based on rankings,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: like the way they r them is the way they
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: seated them. And they're ranked primarily based on record. So
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: it's not like, oh, okay, you won the UH, you
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: won the Big twelve, Okay you get a bye. You
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: won the UH, you won the ACC, Okay you get
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: a bye. Like no, no, no, no, no, no, no no. You
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: actually have to be ranked one through four to get
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: one of the top four seedings and thus a bye.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: College football figured it out in one year. It took
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: them one year to be like, our system is dumb.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Visit this is freaking crazy. And and the NFL is
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: still beholden on their dumb system if you look at it,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: like right now, Carolina, the Carolina Panthers who lead their division,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: which sucks. They're like Boise State. Last year, Boise State
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: won a sucky conference. They they were ranked lower and
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: they were inappropriately handed a bye, and college football changed it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: The same thing with Arizona State. They were ranked too
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: low and college football was like, all right, yeah, we
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: kind of messed that up, or we're changing that. You know.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at the let me see the rankings here
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: the uh well we have the final rankings. Sorry, let
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: me try to get this week sixty. Okay, so going
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: in here we go. Arizona State was ranked twelfth and
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: they were seeded number four just because they won the
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Big Twelve. They were like, hey, you won your conference,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: so you get a bye. I guess the twelfth ranked
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: team gets the number four seed. That makes a ton
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: of sense. Boise State was ranked ninth and they got
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: the number three seed. Again, makes zero sense whatsoever one year,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: and college football was like, yeah, all right, that's that's
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: gonna Change's dumb. We're dumb. We admit that we're dumb,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: and we're changing this immediately. So if you look at
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: what happened in college football, now look at this lines
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: up a little bit more logically. So Indiana ranked number one,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: seeded number one, Ohio State ranked number two, seeded number two,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Georgia three and three, Texas Tech ranked four, seeded number four. Wow,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: it's amazing how that works out. It almost like makes sense, right, Like,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: I don't know why the NFL doesn't do that. It
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: really is ridiculous. Ask yourself this. If we were ranking
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: these teams in the AFC, and we're looking at their records,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: and we're factoring in some other things like what's your
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: strength of schedule? The things we do in college football,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: what's your strength of record? Like who did you play,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: who did you beat? Who are your quality loss? Is
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: all of that stuff we do in college football. If
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: we were to do that in the NFL, where do
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: you think the Steelers would be? Do you think they
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: would be fourth out of these seven teams that make
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: it into the playoffs? No chance, they would be dead
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: last out of those seven. So why are they seeded
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: number four? It's dumb, It makes no sense. So you
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: win your division, you're in the playoffs. The three other
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: wild card teams based on record, you're in the playoffs
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: as well. And then you see those teams based on record.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: There's no world where if you look at the NFC
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: playoff picture, Carolina is number four right now because they
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: lead their division, and below them you've got San Francisco
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: twelve and four, Carolina's eight and eight. So right now,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: an eight and eight football team would host a twelve
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: and four football team. In no world does that make sense.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: It makes ab solutely zero sense. And for anyone who says, well,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: I just think you should get more for winning your division,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: why why do you get more for winning the NFC South,
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: which sucks this year? They might not have one team
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: with a winning record if Carolina loses to Tampa, and
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: by the way, I don't think they will, but if
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: they do, no team will have a winning record in
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: that division. How is winning that division more impressive than
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: the Niners being a twelve and four football team, at worse,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: a twelve and five football team. How is that more impressive?
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: It isn't, So they shouldn't be rewarded as if it is.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: They should break these teams, seed these teams based on
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: record all day and for anyway, I was thinking about
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: this too, thinking about this today, because you'll hear this
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: quite a bit it's like, okay, we just let's how
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: about this. I hate this idea, but let's keep it
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: the way it is, which is dumb and makes no sense,
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: which I've outlined in great detail, probably more detailed than
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I initially set out thinking I would do. But you know,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: you know me, I'm a ball junkie and I just
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: get off and running, and you know, I get passionate
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: about this stuff anyway, So a lot of people say,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: let's just keep it out. It is the four division
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: winners one, two, three, four boo boom boom, boo boom.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: That might have been one too many booms. I don't
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: know if it was four or five booms. It was
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: one too many boom. I apologize, but boom boom, boom boom.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: There you go. Then you get the three wild card
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: teams boom boom boom, and then we keep it just
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: the way it is, and then after the first round,
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: let's recede. You hear that a lot, let's reseed these
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: teams based on record. And I was playing this game,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: so like, play this game out here real quick, just
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: based on the playoff picture right now. Okay, so the
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: playoff picture right now, what you would have is your
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: two to seven matchup would be the Bears hosting the Packers. Okay, now,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: humor me on this one. Let's say the Bears win
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: that game. They just beat the Packers in at Soldier
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Field a week ago, right, let's say they do it again.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Packers have lost three in a row. Jordan Love has
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: been banged up, like, it wouldn't be crazy if if
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: the Packers went to Soldier Field and lost again. So
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: let's say the Bears win that game. Then we also
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: get the four to five matchup that would be right now,
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Carolina against San Francisco's let's be radical here and say
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: San Francisco wins that game on the road, okay, And
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: then the last one that we would have in the
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: first round, we would have the Rams at the Eagles.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Let's say the Rams win that game. Rams went into
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: you know, Philly before, and if not for a couple
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: of missed field goals, one was blocked at the end
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: in return for a touchdown, they win that game. Like
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: the Rams should have won that game. Wouldn't be crazy
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: at all if they went in there and beat the Eagles.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: So let's just say that's what we have, all right.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: If you were then to reseed teams based on record
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: after the first round. This is what you would get
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: based on what I just said. Bears beat Packers, the
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Rams beat the Eagles, and the Panthers they lose to
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: the Niners. Right, so your three winners are what Bears, Rams, Niners.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: If you reseed those teams, what you would have is
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Seattle would be the one seed, San Francisco would be
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: the two seed, then it would be Chicago, and the
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Rams Rams would be the four seed. You know what's
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: funny about this? Two would play three, right, So you
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: would have a wild card team in the forty nine
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Ers hosting a division winner in the Bears. So if
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: you're okay with the idea, if you're one of these like, hey,
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: let's receed after the first round, if you're up for that,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: then you do realize, right that a wild card team
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: could very well host a division winner in the second round.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: So if you're cool with that in the second round,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: why are you not cool with that in the first round?
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: That makes no sense. None, I hear that all the time. No,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: I think I think you should get a home playoff
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: game if you win your division. But they should definitely
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: recede after that going forward, it's like, you do realize
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: that you could have a wildcard team hosting a division
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: winner in the second round, right like when the stakes
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: are growing and it's getting more serious and we're inching
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: closer to Championship Sunday and then Super Bowl Sunday. It
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: just blows my mind. Man, it makes no sense. And
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: yet you'll have team after team after team in the
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: NFL ownership they're just they're dead set against changing the
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: playoff format. They don't want to see these teams base
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: on record, and they're like, hey, if you win your division,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: you should get a home game. I think it's like this, really,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: if we cut down to it, more franchises benefit from
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: the way it is right now. Like Carolina would benefit
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: from the way it is right now. The winner of
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: the AFC North, the Steelers or the Ravens, they would
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: benefit from the way it is right now. And yet
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: you might have one team or a couple of teams
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: that get screwed right now. It would be the forty
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: nine Ers, they're a wildcard team right now. It'd be
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: the Rams, they're a wildcard team right now. All these
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: teams in the AFC, Texans, Chargers, bills. They have better
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: records than the Steelers. I really don't know why they
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: aren't thinking the way I'm thinking, Like, I just I
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: don't know, man, Like they don't think, hey, man, why
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: are we on the road exactly? This socks that shouldn't
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: be like this. I would think there'd be more of
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: a groundswell to change this format, but there just isn't.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: There isn't when they bring it up, like hey, should
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: we even vote on this? I don't even think it
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: gets voted on. I don't. I don't think it even
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: gets to that stage where they're like, yeah, yeah, I
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: think it was what the Lions brought it up last year.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: So the Lions, if they didn't win their Week eighteen game,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: they would have fallen from the number one seed to
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: the number five seed, and they brought this up, like, yo,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: we might want to change this. It's a kind of
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: dumb slash. We almost got screwed by this stupid setup,
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: and it got shot down right away. I don't think
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: they even voted on it. I don't think it even
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: got to that stage. So there is not any momentum
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: for changing this rule, and I think it should be
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: changed immediately. It makes absolutely no sense. I don't care
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: that you won your sucky division. I don't care. You
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: know what's funny too, they they rank these teams or
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: seed these teams based on record among the division winners
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: and among the wild card teams. It's like, why don't
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: we do that altogether?
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: In what world is Carolina's season this year more impressive
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: than the Niners or the Rams? It's not. It's not
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: even close. Even with the Rams losing on Monday Night
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: to the Falcons, not even close to more impressed. They're
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: a five hundred team, they're eight and eight. It's not
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: more impressive. Like which division is more impressive?
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: The NFC South with no teams with a winning record
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: they have no teams with the winning record right now,
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: or the NFC West, where you've got three teams with
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: at least eleven wins. The NFC West is light years
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: better than the NFC South. So why are we acting
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: like winning the NFC South is better than being a
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: wild card team in the NFC West. It's just dumb.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: It makes absolutely no sense. I wish they would change
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: it right away, and for now you have a little
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: bit of ammo. I just figured this out maybe a
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: little bit late to the party. But for anyone who's like,
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: I think the division winners should have home games, but
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: I'm in favor of receding after the first round, it's like,
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: you do realize that wildcard teams could then host division winners, right,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: they could be hosting the game, Like the wildcard team
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: would get the home game. Something that for some reason
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: you're against in the first round. Like that argument makes
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: absolutely no sense. It's a complete contradiction. For anyone who's like,
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: I don't think that a wildcard team should host games
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: in the first round, but we should recede going forward,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: it's a complete contradiction. It's like they don't even realize
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: what they're saying. So no, they should just base these teams.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: They should see these teams based on record, whether you
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: win your division or your wildcard team, all in order,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: based on record. But your comments are more than welcome.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: I know a lot of people, for whatever reason, they
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: rage against logic. I put it this way, Sometimes people
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: just get used to stuff. Okay, there is no way
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: if the setup all along is what I'm saying it
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: should be, we've got our seven teams or back in
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: the day when we had six teams from each conference
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: make the playoffs, if they just seated all these teams
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: based on record, nobody would suggest changing it to the
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: system we currently have, all right, Like, we're seeding these
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: teams one through seven based on record, whether you won
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: your division or you're a wildcard team. We're basing it
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: on record, okay, and we'll have tie breakers if we
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: need to, just like we do as now. Right, Well,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: you don't change anything like that. We're one through seven
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: based on record and tiebreakers. No one would be like, hey,
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: I got an idea. How about we do this so
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: you get a playoff berth if you win your division
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: and you automatically get a home game. Yeah. I know
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: you might be like eight to nine and you might
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: host a team that's like four or five wins better
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: than you, but we think you should get something more
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: for winning your division. Right, Everybody would look at that
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: guy like he had three heads, like who invited this
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: freaking guy to the meeting? Get the hell out of here,
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Like that makes no sense at all. I think we
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: just get used to stuff, and a lot of people
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: are used to this format.
• 34:22
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• 34:24
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• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Who are the top five quarterbacks that would benefit the
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: most from winning a Super Bowl? And now let me
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: just say this, because I'm gonna throw out my list
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: and it's going to turn into, well, what about this guy?
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: What about that guy? It's everybody, every quarterback that's going
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: to be in the playoffs. Each one of them could
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: benefit greatly, would benefit greatly from winning a super Bowl,
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: every single one. So you're gonna hear my top five
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: and just make sure you understand that. I am fully
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: aware that anyone winning a super Bowl it would be
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: a big deal for them. Now I'm trying to find
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: the top five, like the biggest of big deals, right,
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: who does it mean the most four? Because Aaron Rodgers,
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: it would meet a ton, it'd be a second Super
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: Bowl ring, it'd be another ring with another franchise to
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: be huge for Rogers. But he doesn't crack my top five.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: He's already got a ring. He's already an all time
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: you know talent. He's on the short list of all
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: time great quarterbacks in NFL history already with the one ring.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford winning another ring that'd be a huge deal
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: for him, So you could go with these guys. He
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: didn't crack my list though He's already got a ring,
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: and we already think very very highly of Matthew Stafford.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: So my list is it's all quarterbacks who haven't won
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: a ring yet who would benefit the most from winning
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: one this season. So I look at this and the
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: first thing I I will say is Lamar Jackson is
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: not on my list, and not because I don't think
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: he would benefit a great deal. He would benefit a ton.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Like what we say about Lamar is he's been great
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: in the regular season, outstanding, what a talent, two time
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: MVP arguably should have been a three time MVP. But
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: man in the playoffs, he wets himself time and time
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: and time again. He does not have a good record
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs, he does not have good individual numbers
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs, and he leaves a lot to be
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: desired when he's in the playoffs. If he won a
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl ring, that would change a ton of the narratives.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: It would mean a ton to Lamar to win a
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: super Bowl. But the reason I don't have him on
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: my top five the Ravens. They might not even make
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: the playoffs, and if they do, they're going nowhere right
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: like we know this, okay, So I just can't get
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: beyond the logical part of this where it's like the
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Ravens dude, that they're not going anywhere. They've had a
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: lackluster defense, They've had significant injuries. Lamar isn't close to
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: himself right now. He's dealt with the injuries he's had
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: the hammy and the knee and the calf and the ankle,
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: and he went three games in a row without accounting
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: for any touchdowns. Like, he's not close to the same
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: guy right now. They have no chance to win a
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: super Bowl. So I just can't wrap my mind around
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: what a Super Bowl would mean for Lamar when they
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: just have no chance to win a super Bowl this season.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: So it's more so that than anything. So the five
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: quarterbacks that I have on my list that could benefit
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: the most from winning a super Bowl, Number five I
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: would go with Justin Herbert. Justin Herbert has been a
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: really good NFL quarterback. He has no playoff wins, and
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: there are a lot of people that say that and
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: throw it in his face. Where the playoff wins? Where
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: are they? I would look at the first playoff game
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: against Trevor Lawrence and Jacksonville. Justin Herbert played really well.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: They had a huge lead, and the lead went bye
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: bye and they lost in very embarrassing fashion to Jacksonville.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: That's more on the Chargers defense than anything. I don't
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: know why Herbert took such a tongue lashing for the like,
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: not from his coach or any it was like from fans,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: from listeners, from people out there, just like, oh, Justin Herbert,
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: It's like, play some freaking defense man. That's not a
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Justin Herbert thing. That's a lack of defense. That's a
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: lack of closing the deal. But he took a big hit,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: fair or not. He took a lot of criticism for
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: not getting that win, and then last year fully should
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: be criticized through four interceptions against Houston. So I don't
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  Speaker 3: give him the benefit of the doubt obviously for that performance.
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  Speaker 3: But if he were able to win a Super Bowl
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: this season, think about that. He's got a broken hand,
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: had surgery on it, not missing any time, not only
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: gets his first playoff win, but he stacks win on
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: top of win on top of win. He has a
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: magic carpet right, he wins it all, that would mean
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: a ton for him. It would silence a lot of
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: the critics that are saying, where's the playoff success? Where
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: where is it? Another guy a little higher on my
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: list would be Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence, nobody says anything
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: positive about the guy in the regular season. You know,
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: at least people say things positively about Herbert in the
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: regular season, they'll say that about Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: is just like this freaking guy. We thought he was
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: going to be the truth in the NFL. He had
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: some really good college success, look to have all the tools,
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: and he just hasn't put it together. And if he's
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: able to win a ring, that would mean a ton
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: for him, especially in Jacksonville. Though I would have him
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: number four on my list, number three, I'd go Donald.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Donald would obviously great benefit from winning a ring. He's
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: zero to one in the playoffs and he's mostly looked
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: at as just it's like a collective eye roll, you
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: know when you think about Donald and hey, who's gonna
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: e merge from the NFC, and it's like Donald Man,
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: like the one playoff game he's had he lost to
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: the Rams and he got sacked nine times. I didn't
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: have a bet on the game. I didn't have a
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: dog in the fight at nothing. And I'm watching the
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: game and I'm just yelling like throw the ball, man,
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: Like what are you doing? Throw it? Throw it away,
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: don't get sacked for a loss of ten yards. Just
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: throw it, throw it at the feet of a covered
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: guy and just save the yardage, man, Like, what are
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: you doing? So everything we've said about Donald, everything we've
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: thought about Donald, would be completely flipped if he's able
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: to win it all. And listen, Seattle's got a shot.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: They've got a real defense, They've got a real number
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: one wide receiver in Jackson Smith and Jigba. If Sam
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: Donald is all of a sudden playing sound football, not
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: turning it over, yeah, like productive, they absolutely have a
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: shot to win it all. And if he's able to
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: do that, we're clowning, you know, the Jets version of
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Sam Donald. I'm seeing ghosts. I'm seeing ghosts. That's what
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: he's known for. He's known for seeing ghosts and choking
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: in big moments. That's his brand. His brand recognition is
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: choking and coming up small on the big stage, and
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: if he completely flips that that would be massive for him. Uh,
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: number two on my list what a super Bowl would
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: mean a great deal for brock Purty. I put brock
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Purty number two because, listen, brock Purty is a good quarterback,
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: and he's known as mister irrelevant, last pick of the draft,
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: and like people like me, I've been critical of brock
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: Purty throughout the years because I just I don't understand
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: the level of people just rushing to his defense. Like
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: people act like you're saying something far worse about brock
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Purity than you actually are. Right. I've never said brock
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: Purty sucks, he's no good, this guy's a hack. I
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: don't even know why he's in the NFL. He shouldn't
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: get paid a penny. I've never said any of those things,
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: none of them. I'm just like, he's good. He's just
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: not great. He's good, he's just not worth the contract
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: that they gave him. He's good, he's just not a
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: difference maker, meaning when they have to skimp on the roster,
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: he can just take them to the Promised Land. He's
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: not on that level. That's what I've said about brock Purty.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: The whole time. But there are a lot of people
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: like me. It's like two sides is like braveheart over here.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: It's the people like me and the people that are
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: like just coming at my jugular for saying anything halfway
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: critical about brock Purty, Like this guy, he's amazing. This guy,
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: what do you mean he's it's like, oh my gosh.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: But for the people like me that have been critical
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: of brock Purty, if he won it all this season,
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: he won a super Bowl, he would have to play well.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: He's a difference maker. He's making plays on the biggest
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: of stages. People like me would have to go, we
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: just have to shut up and take the l right,
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: That's what would have to happen. So for brock Purty
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: to go from last pick of the draft contract extension,
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: a lot of people saying he's not worth that contract extension.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: He doesn't have the goods, he's not elite, he's not great,
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: he's just good. To win it all, man, he would
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: silence a ton of people. That would mean a great
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: deal for him to win it all. And number one
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: on my list the top five players that would benefit
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: the most from winning a Super Bowl this season, Josh Allen.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: That's right. I have the Bills quarterback Josh Allen number one,
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: and listen, he has been fantastic, like he was rough
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: his first two years inaccurate. I'm blown away how great
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: of a quarterback he's turned into. And I'm also blown
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: away how he's turned into this great quarterback and then
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: messed up a throw against the Eagles. He's got a
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: wide open guy for a two point conversion and a
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: win that was stunning. He's turned into one of the
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: more accurate quarterbacks in the NFL. He's fantastic. But what
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: it would mean for Josh Allen to win a Super
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Bowl One? He would obviously he would come into he
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: would you go into a different tax bracket. He would
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden be among elite quarterbacks, not just now,
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: but in the history of the NFL. Now he's starting
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: to he's starting to enter territory of Okay, he's stacks
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: five ten more years of great success and maybe builds
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: upon the one super Bowl ring. Now we're talking about
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: all time greatness for Josh Allen. We're also talking about
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: him winning a Super Bowl for the Buffalo Bills, who
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: have just been known for coming up short, not having
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: the clutch gene. Disappointment after disappointment after disappointment. You talk
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: about being knighted for eternity in the Buffalo community. It
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: would be winning a Super Bowl and Josh Allen doing that.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it would mean massive amounts for the
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: guy because he's been great in the regular season at times,
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: he has been great in the postseason, but he's come
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: up short every time, at least his teams have. And
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: if he's able to get them over the hump, and man,
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: we go back to the four straight Super Bowl losses,
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: all the pain, all the heartache, all of that stuff
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: he's able to come through. Oh man, it'd be massive
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: for him. Not just now in the NFL. I can
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: think about if he wins it all this season and
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: his game's next season being promoted. Oh it's a super
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: Bowl champion Josh Allen against Super Bowl champion Patrick Mahomes.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: Check it out week sick man. Be huge. It'd be
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: huge for the NFL. That's the other thing. Ask yourself
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: who would benefit the NFL the most if they were
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: to win a championship. I think it's Josh Allen. Absolutely,
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: You're able to promote all of these marquee matchups going forward,
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: He's already an MVP. He's already one of the best
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: quarterbacks in the league. Some people think, based on Mahomes
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: taking a step back, that Josh Allen is past Mahomes.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: There are a lot of people who think that if
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: he's able to add a Super Bowl to that, man,
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: now you're cooking with grease. So I think the NFL
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: would benefit the most if Josh Allen won it all.