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Kelley Ford Joins the Show to talk NFL and College Basketball · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Kelly Ford Thelones dot com. Also on x at k Ford Ratings Kforard Ratings
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  dot com. On your radio Tuesdays, four thirty to five o'clock, Kelly,
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  welcome in or how are you. I'm doing well, Jake, how
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  are you today? We are good. We're just talking through everything, as
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  you know, we moved through Tuesday. I notice you're putting on a lot
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  of stuff on college basketball. I do want to touch on that before we
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  get out of here. First, let's go with the NFL. Your thoughts
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  on what you saw this past weekend and you know, were you surprised by
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  any of the outcomes? Yeah, I would say, Jake, one,
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  it was. It was a good weekend of NFL football. Good games,
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  compelling, exciting, lots of good play. Some big time mistakes too,
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  both by players and coaching staffs, as I'm sure we can talk about.
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  But I was surprised that Kansas City won. And people can say, well,
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  you shouldn't have been surprised, Kelly. They got Pat Mahomes. He's
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  one of the best quarterbacks to ever do it, maybe the best to ever
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  do it. I'm not in that camp yet. I think that Tom Brady's
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  resume still speaks for itself. And again, I'm a coach fan, so
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  I did not like the New England Patriots during the Peyton Manning era and Tom
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  Brady and that rivalry. But what Tom Brady accomplished, I think it stands
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  above everything. But Patrick Mahomes is certainly on a pass to being in that
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  conversation, and so you kind of you bet against him, you pick against
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  him at your own peril. I really thought Baltimore was a better team.
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  I still think actually Baltimore is a better team than Kansas City. On that
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  day, Kansas City was the better team and that's what matters. That defense
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  though Kansas City just they're doing it different than they have this last five six
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  years. The defense now is among the best in the entire NFL. The
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  offense with Patrick Mahomes is gonna be what it is. So that result was
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  surprising to me a little bit. I know it was a close projected game
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  and we got that, but I did think that Baltimore would win that game,
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  and on the NFC side, I did think San Francisco would win.
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  I didn't think that the game would play out the way that it did.
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  I was surprised that Detroit jumped all over San Francisco in the first half and
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  even held a pretty commanding lead at halftime. I did not see the game
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  playing out that way, but I did think San Francisco would win, and
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  ultimately they did come back and get it done. So I think, you
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  know, of the four teams that were left Detroit, you know, by
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  the numbers and things that I'm looking at, they were the weakest team and
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  so I wouldn't have been surprised at all if San Francisco, Kansas City,
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  Baltimore, or some combination of that made the super Bowl. And that's what
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  we have here. So I think it's going to be a great game.
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  It's exciting, but yeah, it was. It was a fun weekend.
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  The Conference gims your game Weekend in the NFL. Kelly Ford on your Radio
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  Tuesday edition of the program, The Lines dot Com. Also k Ford Ratings
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  on x and Kford Ratings dot com. Which one of these teams that eliminated
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  the Lions or the Ravens, And a lot's kinda happen with coaches and obviously
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  the NFL draft, free agency and stuff. Do you think has the longer
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  staying power for next year and maybe the year after of those two, Yeah,
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  I think it's Baltimore between those two, and the answer for me is
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  as simple as Lamar Jackson. I know people are disappointed, and I'm sure
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  he is with you know how this season ended here for them, But he's
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  just there's a handful of quarterbacks in the NFL that are just different. They
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  They are the difference makers. They find ways to win games, They carry
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  teams on their back. And Lamar Jackson, it's not all him. That
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  Baltimore defense is really really good and they've got some great continuity within that organization
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  from the ownership all the way down, So it's not just Lamar Jackson.
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  But between the two, Detroit they are a team that's on the rise.
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  If I'm not mistaken. I think they've got some things they need to work
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  out with some potential free agents and maybe backfilling some needs that might come up
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  here this this offseason. But between the two, to me, the answer
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  is the Ravens. Because of Lamar Jackson, I think that the future is
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  bright with him and they will at some point get over this hump. I
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  feel confident he's that good of a player, He's that transcendent of a player
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  that I'll be surprised if he ends his career having never made and maybe even
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  won a Super Bowl. Let me ask you this, NFL wise, you
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  know when you look at teams like Buffalo and you know, just ten thousand
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  foot fly over of what has happened in the league, Buffalo Miami, you
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  look at at Cincinnati with Joe Burrow, you look at the strides that Houston
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  made. You can go across like Jim Harball now comes into the AFC in
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  San Diego or for the Chargers rather, I always refer to them as San
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  Diego probably always will for the Chargers. Yep, you go to the NFC.
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  I mean the Packers made made strides, looked really good in the postseason.
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  Cowboys are kind of what they are. We'll see Philadelphia's going through a
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  transition. Is it safe to say that the AFC looks like it is positioning
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  itself, you know, and we go back and forth with this to be
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  the stronger of the two leagues. Yeah, And Jake, I think that
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  was the narrative coming into the end of the twenty twenty three season as well.
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  And I don't think it's changed the AFC and it starts to the quarterback
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  position. I mean because of the quarterbacks and you mentioned a lot of them
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  there, Because of the quarterbacks that are playing on AFC rosters that I mean,
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  by and large, on average, that's going to be the stronger of
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  the two conferences. So you know, as a fan of the Indianapolis Colts,
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  you know, what do we have in Anthony Richardson? Because for us
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  to be competitive and for us to make runs in the playoffs, we've got
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  to get great play at the quarterback position. I imagine a lot of your
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  your listeners are New Orleans Saints fans, and so I'd rather be a Saints
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  fan from a from a perspective of your conference difficulty than a Colts fan,
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  because I do think the NFC is more gettable right now, if you will.
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  I know, the Saints have all sorts of cap things they're working on,
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  and and folks aren't happy with, buy and large the product that's been
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  on the field or the win loss record. But as my what if standing
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  show, New Orleans was not that far away from being, you know,
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  an above five hundred team, maybe even a playoff team this year if some
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  bounces go their way and they get some breaks in different games. So the
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  AFC. To answer your question, I believe is shaping up to be the
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  more that are difficult of the two conferences, and it ebbs and flows.
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  It's just where we are right now with the quarterbacks that are in the league.
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  Let's step off into some college basketball. We'll talk about this last question
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  this segment, then get into some more of it, and I may come
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  back to college football before the end. You've got your k Forward ratings for
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  basketball out and you look at the odds courtesy Penn Gaming and others to win
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  the national championship in basketball at you know it's it's a cluttered field. You've
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  got Houston as the number one team in the k Ford ratings for basketball perdue,
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  Arizona, Tennessee, and Auburn, followed by Alabama, Yukon, North
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  Carolina, Iowa State, and BYU. How deep of a field could we
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  be looking at this year? I think it's open this year, Jake,
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  as it's been in recent years. And the NBA Tournament with college basketball,
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  it's such a it's such a unique setup because it really is all about matchups
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  and the chaos of just the one off game. That's why everyone loves March
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  Madness. Why we call it March Madness. It's hard to really pinpoint and
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  identify, you know, how it's going to play out. I do think
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  the teams that you just mentioned certainly are going to be at the forefront of
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  those odds have the best chance to make a run potentially in March. But
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  there's tons of teams outside of that that you didn't mention, who you know,
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  if you discount them, you do it at your own risk. And
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  you know, Duke is a team that's got the upper end to go out
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  and win six games in March Kansas. Outside the top the top ten right
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  now of my power ratings, there's you can go on and on about teams
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  that have a chance. There is some proven there's some proven recent history here
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  about where you need to be and kind of adjusted offensive and defensive efficiency by
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  Ken Pom, so you can kind of whittle it down through that. But
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  at any given year, teams can come out of We just saw last year
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  with Yukona. I believe there were four seeds. You don't have to be
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  a top one, two, three seeds to make a deep run in the
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  tournament. It's all about peaking at the right time and getting favorable matchups in
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  March. But yes, from a power rating standpoint, those teams you mentioned,
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  they're certainly the ones that you can expect to be playing late in the
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  March and then into early April.