Latest / Toadstool Sports / BALLED - NFL Playoffs Edition w/ Clint Russell
Transcript
- 0:02Speaker 1: Yep. Inside, I want to kill myself. We're on OWN
- 0:07Speaker 1: seven run over the last two days after tonight it
- 0:09Speaker 1: was just complete bullshit. So that's that's I'm gonna start
- 0:13Speaker 1: off this show horrible Sunday one and five. I don't
- 0:16Speaker 1: even know what to tell you above that. I just
- 0:19Speaker 1: don't want to do this anymore. I have never seen
- 0:22Speaker 1: anything like this. Man with the slump continuing. Two straight losses,
- 0:27Speaker 1: not a good day at all. Own four, I have
- 0:31Speaker 1: not had a good season. Man with wookends the slump
- 0:36Speaker 1: that I'm on, and the slump continues. I've reached a
- 0:39Speaker 1: new peak. Actually, I'm going to burn my Bruins hat Man.
- 0:43Speaker 1: I don't know what is going on with the Bruins.
- 0:46Speaker 1: March Hape, is that what it is? I don't even
- 0:48Speaker 1: know it's It's March ninth, I think who even knows? Man,
- 0:52Speaker 1: I don't know what data is anymore. But I don't
- 0:54Speaker 1: even know what data is anymore. Man, back with you
- 0:57Speaker 1: after the worst day that I could, We have back
- 1:01Speaker 1: with you as I always am until I die at
- 1:04Speaker 1: least oh and two. Yesterday and yesterday did not go
- 1:08Speaker 1: well for me. Own five the worst month that I've
- 1:12Speaker 1: ever had in my eighteen years doing this. I don't
- 1:14Speaker 1: know what to even tell you about this anymore. Slump,
- 1:18Speaker 1: the slump, disconvenius, the slump continues. Somebody fucking kill me, please.
- 1:24Speaker 1: I don't even know what I should do at this
- 1:26Speaker 1: point other than potentially end it all. Uh, playoffs.
- 1:33Speaker 2: Don't talk about playoffs?
- 1:35Speaker 1: You kidding me? Playoffs? I just hope we can win
- 1:39Speaker 1: a game another game.
- 1:41Speaker 2: We're talking about playoffs.
- 1:43Speaker 1: That's right. What's up, everybody? This is Bald on Toadstool Sports.
- 1:48Speaker 1: Clint Russell's back with me, everybody, Clint, what's going on? Man?
- 1:53Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. Do we have to do that?
- 1:55Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's let's do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're
- 1:59Speaker 1: bold to be bald. Didn't shave my head for it, though.
- 2:03Speaker 2: I did. Look at that fucking fresh dome.
- 2:05Speaker 1: Yeah, mine's not fresh enough, man. You're fresher than I am.
- 2:09Speaker 2: I was born fresher than you, home boy. I am
- 2:12Speaker 2: the freshest, the freshest it has ever been, fresh out
- 2:14Speaker 2: of the fresh box.
- 2:16Speaker 1: Thinky yeah whatever. The opposite of fresh is because I
- 2:22Speaker 1: was born backwards. So that's right, I was born Uh surf,
- 2:31Speaker 1: that's fresh backwards.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Oh very nice yeah, you still doing doing fucking word
- 2:38Speaker 2: autism jokes even on a podcast. That's that's my guy.
- 2:41Speaker 2: That's my guy right there. Yeah. So yeah, I mean,
- 2:43Speaker 2: let's just cut to the chase. Chargers won the Super
- 2:45Speaker 2: Bowl obviously, and everybody else is playing for second.
- 2:49Speaker 1: So all right, is that actually your pick? Well, let's
- 2:51Speaker 1: let's do this, man. So we're gonna if the Chargers
- 2:53Speaker 1: had an O line, maybe we're gonna we're gonna give
- 2:57Speaker 1: our predictions. Man. So here's the This is what the
- 2:59Speaker 1: bracket looks like. A got it up on NFL dot
- 3:01Speaker 1: com here. I think everybody's seen it by now. So
- 3:04Speaker 1: I mean, I guess we'll just go through each game here.
- 3:06Speaker 1: I mean, there aren't too many games and then we
- 3:08Speaker 1: do have to remember that predicting the second round, the
- 3:11Speaker 1: divisional round, the seeds they're shuffling, right, So the the
- 3:16Speaker 1: teams that are the number one seeds that have the buye,
- 3:19Speaker 1: they get whatever the lowest seed that advances is into
- 3:21Speaker 1: the next round. That's how it works. It's not like
- 3:23Speaker 1: an actual you know what I mean, it's a.
- 3:26Speaker 2: I'm not sure that's true. Are you sure that's true?
- 3:28Speaker 2: I thought they changed it.
- 3:29Speaker 1: No, that's how it is. Okay, that's how it's been
- 3:32Speaker 1: since they did the seven team structure instead of six.
- 3:37Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're you're saying that if if the Chargers
- 3:42Speaker 2: are the lowest seed that wins, we played Denver.
- 3:45Speaker 1: If they win, they played Denver, they can't possibly play
- 3:48Speaker 1: anybody except Denver if they win, because they will be
- 3:50Speaker 1: the lowest seed if they win, because they're the seven.
- 3:52Speaker 2: So yes, So despite the fact that the bracket says
- 3:55Speaker 2: that we would be playing Houston or Pittsburgh, in fact,
- 3:58Speaker 2: it's not.
- 3:59Speaker 1: Okay, correct, yep, all right, all right? So yeah, so
- 4:03Speaker 1: Denver as the buye in the AFC. Shout shout out
- 4:06Speaker 1: to Cole for that. Uh. The six to three matchup
- 4:09Speaker 1: here is a pretty interesting one man buffalo at Jacksonville
- 4:14Speaker 1: Hill's Jaggs. It might be the everybody's talking about how
- 4:17Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be the best game. It's got the
- 4:19Speaker 1: highest point total that's up there, like fifty two or something.
- 4:22Speaker 1: It's supposed to be a shootout. I'm not sure that
- 4:26Speaker 1: it will be though.
- 4:27Speaker 2: But well, I'll let you talk about it before I
- 4:30Speaker 2: give my pick, because I'm I'm very much coin flip territory.
- 4:34Speaker 2: But anyways, well where are we starting.
- 4:38Speaker 1: We're starting, well, we're starting with Buffalo Jacksonville here. But yeah,
- 4:40Speaker 1: the I agree it to coin flip. I mean, the
- 4:42Speaker 1: odds makers have it as a coin flip too. I
- 4:44Speaker 1: think it's like a one point spread one way or
- 4:45Speaker 1: the other. I keep coming back to the fact that
- 4:49Speaker 1: this is in Jacksonville, and Buffalo rarely plays in Jacksonville.
- 4:53Speaker 1: I think the last couple of times they played against
- 4:55Speaker 1: Jacksonville or London games Josh Allen is Oho and one
- 5:00Speaker 1: at Jacksonville and it was some weird like nine to
- 5:03Speaker 1: six score way back in like twenty twenty one, I
- 5:06Speaker 1: think something like that. And Buffalo has not won a
- 5:09Speaker 1: road playoff game in thirty three years, wow, which is
- 5:14Speaker 1: pretty insane. Yeah, but you would think the Buffalo would
- 5:17Speaker 1: be like a contender because they do have Josh Allen
- 5:19Speaker 1: and whatever. But I don't know, this is a pretty
- 5:22Speaker 1: tricky matchup for them, man.
- 5:24Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I I lean towards Buffalo just because
- 5:27Speaker 2: I like Josh Allen Moore. But yeah, I tend to
- 5:31Speaker 2: think that I tend to think that Jacksonville should be
- 5:36Speaker 2: the favorite just because of as you said, Buffalo's road
- 5:39Speaker 2: record in the playoffs and and the fact that Jacksonville
- 5:42Speaker 2: had a better record in the regular season. They played
- 5:45Speaker 2: really well, So I still I still think I'm gonna
- 5:49Speaker 2: go with Buffalo, though I think that they pull it
- 5:51Speaker 2: out in a y in a nail biter.
- 5:53Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, I am going Jacksonville at least for now.
- 5:58Speaker 1: I don't have a strong opinion on this game, really, but.
- 6:01Speaker 2: I just you're gonna but you're gonna bet your life
- 6:02Speaker 2: savings on it.
- 6:04Speaker 1: I don't think this one's gonna be one of my
- 6:05Speaker 1: bets that I give out on the show. Yeah, I'm
- 6:07Speaker 1: gonna bet my bet everything on it, bet my house
- 6:10Speaker 1: on it. I mean, I just worry that Jacksonville seems
- 6:14Speaker 1: really trendy right now though, Like it's just this resurgence
- 6:17Speaker 1: from the seam. It's been bad for a while. Trevor
- 6:19Speaker 1: Lawrence is back there. They look awesome down the stretch,
- 6:22Speaker 1: but they mostly beat bad teams over the last like
- 6:25Speaker 1: five weeks or so, except for Tenver.
- 6:27Speaker 2: I have a good Chargers memory that'll give some people
- 6:30Speaker 2: pause on their Jacksonville pick. The Chargers came out. It
- 6:34Speaker 2: was Herbert's first playoff game, as well as what's Jacksonville' quarterback?
- 6:38Speaker 2: The name again Trevor Lawrence as Lawrence's first playoff game,
- 6:42Speaker 2: and the Chargers absolutely fucking smacked them for the first half.
- 6:45Speaker 2: We were up by I think twenty four points in
- 6:47Speaker 2: the first half, and then we went in like prevent
- 6:50Speaker 2: defense and had a bunch of turnovers and eight shit,
- 6:52Speaker 2: and they beat us in the second half.
- 6:55Speaker 1: I remember that game well because I bet Jacksonville in
- 6:57Speaker 1: that game don't don't.
- 6:59Speaker 2: Kill Congrats to you, But uh, you know, if I'm
- 7:03Speaker 2: if I'm the Bills, if Jacksonville comes out nervous like
- 7:07Speaker 2: they did in the first playoff game of his career,
- 7:10Speaker 2: I think Buffalo wins it. If they come out and
- 7:12Speaker 2: they're like on point and they're flying, flying towards the ball,
- 7:16Speaker 2: then I'd say Jacksonville's got it. But I think the
- 7:18Speaker 2: first quarter tells the tale. If they come out nervous,
- 7:20Speaker 2: they're gonna lose.
- 7:21Speaker 1: Yeah, So experience is definitely a factor, and obviously Buffalo
- 7:25Speaker 1: has more experience here, So there is.
- 7:26Speaker 2: That for sure. Dude. I mean, how many times has
- 7:29Speaker 2: Buffalo gone head to head with Mahomes and these fucking
- 7:32Speaker 2: all out wars in the playoffs.
- 7:34Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, they lost every single one, But.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but that's not the point. The point is,
- 7:38Speaker 2: is Jacksonville apex case Like the answer is no.
- 7:43Speaker 1: No.
- 7:44Speaker 2: So just in terms of experience of going up against that,
- 7:48Speaker 2: I mean that Goliath in the chiefs. They have to
- 7:51Speaker 2: be feeling good about their chances here, I would I
- 7:53Speaker 2: would imagine.
- 7:56Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I could see the arguments for both sides here. Man. Yeah,
- 8:00Speaker 1: I've been slightly leaning to Jacksonville on this one, but
- 8:04Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with Clinton right now.
- 8:05Speaker 1: I'll see if I can answer this question though, impure hunter,
- 8:09Speaker 1: what's up, man, Jeremiah Love of Notre Dame, Like, what
- 8:14Speaker 1: NFL team do you think he's gonna be? I have
- 8:17Speaker 1: no idea, dude, because it's like, to me, it seems
- 8:20Speaker 1: very unpredictable, except the the first couple of draft picks
- 8:23Speaker 1: are gonna be like Mendoza and more so, those guys
- 8:26Speaker 1: are going to go to whatever whoever those two teams
- 8:28Speaker 1: are what Raiders and Jets. I guess I have no
- 8:31Speaker 1: idea where Jeremiah Love is going to go. I don't
- 8:36Speaker 1: have a good answer for it. I mean, it depends
- 8:38Speaker 1: on who needs a running back and what the draft
- 8:40Speaker 1: is going to look like.
- 8:40Speaker 2: With the I followed college football so little. I don't
- 8:43Speaker 2: even know that name.
- 8:44Speaker 1: So he is the Notre Dame running back and I
- 8:48Speaker 1: assume he will be in the NFL at some point
- 8:49Speaker 1: because he is one of the better running backs in
- 8:51Speaker 1: college football over the last couple of years.
- 8:53Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what I would like. I would
- 8:55Speaker 2: like for the Chargers to draft him, because.
- 8:57Speaker 1: They just they just drafted a running back Hampton.
- 9:01Speaker 2: Round. What round did they get him out of?
- 9:03Speaker 1: I don't even know, but that was. This is his
- 9:05Speaker 1: rookie year though.
- 9:06Speaker 2: Yeah, well he's been okay, I mean he's been hurt
- 9:10Speaker 2: a lot too.
- 9:10Speaker 1: I think, well, that's actually maybe we should segue because
- 9:15Speaker 1: that's the next game we're gonna talk about. All the
- 9:16Speaker 1: way I was gonna I had one more point I
- 9:17Speaker 1: was gonna make with Buffalo Jacksonville. Now I can't even
- 9:20Speaker 1: remember what the hell it was, but yeah, the experience
- 9:22Speaker 1: is definitely a is definitely something there for what.
- 9:25Speaker 2: Is Buffalo's D beend this year? Are they all right?
- 9:28Speaker 2: They're what is there D? Alright?
- 9:31Speaker 1: No? Not really? Okay, not a very good defense now.
- 9:34Speaker 2: So they got a bad D just like.
- 9:37Speaker 1: Jacksonville actually has a good run D and Buffalo is
- 9:39Speaker 1: actually a run first offense. Even though they have Josh Allen,
- 9:42Speaker 1: they run the ball a lot. James Cook, I think,
- 9:45Speaker 1: actually wound up leading the league. He knocked out my
- 9:48Speaker 1: guy right here, uh Taylor in the last couple of weeks.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Cook had the most rushing yards, but Buffalo might struggle
- 9:54Speaker 1: to run against Jacksonville's d yep.
- 9:57Speaker 2: Uh. Yeah, I'm I'm gonna roll with Buffalo, but I
- 10:00Speaker 2: am very lukewarm on that pick.
- 10:03Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that game is I think that's the most
- 10:07Speaker 1: That's the game that I have the least conviction on
- 10:09Speaker 1: as far as I think is gonna win. Although this
- 10:11Speaker 1: actually the entire AFC is kind of like I have
- 10:14Speaker 1: my decisions.
- 10:15Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't have a NFC.
- 10:16Speaker 1: I'm like very I have big convictions on all three
- 10:19Speaker 1: of those games, well as far as so I think
- 10:20Speaker 1: it's gonna win. These games are just like what the
- 10:22Speaker 1: fuck is going on here? The next game is your guys,
- 10:25Speaker 1: the Chargers against the New England Patriots, who are maybe
- 10:28Speaker 1: becoming my team again I don't know.
- 10:30Speaker 2: Yet, but well, uh, I mean I think you could
- 10:34Speaker 2: already guess who I'm picking, but you could also guess
- 10:36Speaker 2: probably why I think that having a experience. Yeah, it's
- 10:41Speaker 2: an experienced play. The Chargers defense is pretty fucking good
- 10:45Speaker 2: this year, and it really and what's most important is
- 10:50Speaker 2: that because we couldn't change our seeding, we got to rest.
- 10:56Speaker 2: We got we got to rest most of our starters
- 10:59Speaker 2: last week. And and I really like that because Herbert's
- 11:01Speaker 2: been playing with a broken hand and he's been getting
- 11:03Speaker 2: his ass absolutely handed to him. Because our O line
- 11:06Speaker 2: is like a fucking Houdini act. They don't they don't
- 11:09Speaker 2: even exist at this point. So my hope is that
- 11:12Speaker 2: we get I don't know, I haven't looked at any
- 11:14Speaker 2: news on any line O lineman coming back, but if
- 11:18Speaker 2: we got anybody coming back to help, plus the plus
- 11:22Speaker 2: basically a bye week, I think that gives us a
- 11:24Speaker 2: really good shot. And then, you know, rookie quarterback against
- 11:27Speaker 2: the Chargers, I know Herbert has to be salivating for
- 11:31Speaker 2: an opportunity to get a playoff win after he had
- 11:34Speaker 2: the win in his hands and then just gave it
- 11:37Speaker 2: away in Jacksonville a couple of years ago. So that's
- 11:40Speaker 2: that's my pick. I think the Chargers pull it off.
- 11:43Speaker 2: I think it'll probably be a close one though.
- 11:46Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah, the Patriots are like a three and
- 11:48Speaker 1: a half point favor or so in this game, and
- 11:51Speaker 1: I kind of lean towards the Chargers at least being
- 11:55Speaker 1: able to cover this. And definitely experience is a huge factor.
- 11:58Speaker 1: And I forget what the number was exactly. With first
- 12:02Speaker 1: time playoff quarterbacks against quarterbacks that have I think like
- 12:06Speaker 1: multiple playoff games under the belt, it's not good. The
- 12:09Speaker 1: first time playoff quarterbacks I think were like like one
- 12:13Speaker 1: in fourteen or something like that in the last fifteen
- 12:15Speaker 1: it's not good.
- 12:16Speaker 2: So that's and he's a rookie, right.
- 12:19Speaker 1: He's I guess he qualifies as a rookie. He was
- 12:23Speaker 1: on the team last year and he played like the
- 12:25Speaker 1: last I think three or so games last year Drake
- 12:28Speaker 1: May did. But I think this year qualified as his
- 12:30Speaker 1: rookie year.
- 12:31Speaker 2: I think I'm a big quarterback picker when it comes
- 12:36Speaker 2: to the playoffs, Like which quarterback do I like more?
- 12:40Speaker 2: And for me, the answer is Herbert by a lot.
- 12:43Speaker 2: I just think Herbert the only reason that this game
- 12:45Speaker 2: is even close. Honest to god, this is how I
- 12:47Speaker 2: feel about it. The only reason this game is close
- 12:49Speaker 2: is because Herbert doesn't have an offensive line. If we
- 12:51Speaker 2: had an offensive line, Herbert would easily win this game
- 12:55Speaker 2: because he doesn't have an offensive line. It's going to
- 12:57Speaker 2: take some mahomes shit, you know, it's going to take
- 13:00Speaker 2: some miraculous plays on his on his part, but he's
- 13:03Speaker 2: been doing it all season, so that's my expectation.
- 13:06Speaker 1: Yeah, Joe Walt being gone definitely a concern. Yeah. The Chargers, Yeah,
- 13:10Speaker 1: have that banged up O line, but you're right that
- 13:13Speaker 1: them resting players last week was probably good because they
- 13:15Speaker 1: have a bunch of injuries. As you said, Herbert is
- 13:18Speaker 1: banged up as well. Has an issue with his hand.
- 13:21Speaker 1: I think it's his non throwing hand, I assume, but
- 13:23Speaker 1: hopefully that can Yeah, if it was his throwing hand,
- 13:26Speaker 1: they'd be fucked, but he's.
- 13:27Speaker 2: Been playing with a broken hand for a month. Dude.
- 13:29Speaker 2: The kids are fucking savage, badass.
- 13:31Speaker 1: Yeah, so obviously, the Chargers hope is that they can
- 13:34Speaker 1: get healthy with that week off whatever. And the other
- 13:38Speaker 1: thing they have going for them here is they definitely
- 13:39Speaker 1: have the better defense in this game. The Chargers to
- 13:41Speaker 1: the Patriots actually have the worst red zone defense in
- 13:44Speaker 1: the NFL.
- 13:46Speaker 2: Well, and the Chargers don't like even though the Chargers'
- 13:49Speaker 2: offense is pretty decent, I think our red zone is
- 13:53Speaker 2: not very good because we don't have a running game
- 13:55Speaker 2: to speak of, and we have no O line. So Hampton, Yeah,
- 13:59Speaker 2: well this is what I saying. Why else they have
- 14:01Speaker 2: let's draft that running back? Well, like all of our
- 14:03Speaker 2: running backs went down. It was crazy, our whole low
- 14:06Speaker 2: line went down, or all of our running back corps
- 14:08Speaker 2: went down for a while. I mean, it's just been
- 14:11Speaker 2: the offensive side of the ball has been so injury
- 14:14Speaker 2: riddled it's unbelievable. But I think Keenan Allen shows up,
- 14:17Speaker 2: even though he's ancient at this point. I like our
- 14:21Speaker 2: receiving corps. I like, I like Herbert. I mean really,
- 14:23Speaker 2: I'm just writing on Herbert and our defense, like that's it.
- 14:26Speaker 2: Everything else is kind of like whatever.
- 14:29Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I go back and forth with this
- 14:33Speaker 1: game because Yeah, the other thing about the Patriots is
- 14:36Speaker 1: they have one win all season against the team with
- 14:38Speaker 1: the winning record, and that team also beat them in
- 14:41Speaker 1: New England. That's the Buffalo Bills. That's the only team
- 14:45Speaker 1: the Patriots beat that has a winning record. The only
- 14:48Speaker 1: other the only other playoff team they beat is Carolina,
- 14:51Speaker 1: and I believe all three of New England's losses came
- 14:54Speaker 1: at home as well, and one was to the Raiders,
- 14:56Speaker 1: by the way.
- 14:57Speaker 2: Yeah, and Carolina is a playoff team with an eight
- 14:58Speaker 2: and nine record, so yeah.
- 15:00Speaker 1: Although New England the loss of the Raiders is Week
- 15:03Speaker 1: one though, so maybe give him a pass for that.
- 15:05Speaker 1: But there are some issues with in New England other
- 15:07Speaker 1: I think their offense is a bit one dimensional too,
- 15:10Speaker 1: like they I don't know. It seems like they don't
- 15:12Speaker 1: establish the run that well and maybe they'll have a
- 15:15Speaker 1: hard time doing that and they well, Drake may actually
- 15:19Speaker 1: even though he's basically it's basically down to him versus
- 15:22Speaker 1: Stafford for MVP, which is ridiculous, but I think it
- 15:26Speaker 1: should be Staffer and he does have the better numbers,
- 15:28Speaker 1: but Drake May. He didn't have a three hundred yard
- 15:31Speaker 1: passing game until I think the last game of the
- 15:35Speaker 1: season or something, or the second last game, and he
- 15:37Speaker 1: did it against the Jets.
- 15:38Speaker 2: How are they How are they winning every game if
- 15:40Speaker 2: he's not thrown for three hundred yards and they don't
- 15:42Speaker 2: have a run game. I don't even understand. And they
- 15:45Speaker 2: don't have a defense.
- 15:47Speaker 1: Yeah, that that is the question. I don't know. Just
- 15:52Speaker 1: strategic offense, I have no dude, they put up a
- 15:54Speaker 1: ton of points, but I don't know. They don't run
- 15:56Speaker 1: the ball that well though.
- 15:58Speaker 2: They don't throw it for much yards, and they don't
- 16:00Speaker 2: run it, and they don't have a defense, and they're
- 16:01Speaker 2: fourteen and three. I'm picking the fucking Chargers. I feel
- 16:04Speaker 2: really good about this pick. I'm gonna I'm gonna end
- 16:06Speaker 2: up regretting it, because, as any Charger fan knows, anytime
- 16:10Speaker 2: you feel good, you're probably gonna get your teeth kicked in.
- 16:13Speaker 2: But I just, yeah, I just feel good about it.
- 16:15Speaker 2: I do, I do. I can't help it.
- 16:17Speaker 1: One major concern, this is one of the other stats
- 16:20Speaker 1: that I have for you, is roofed stadium teams like
- 16:25Speaker 1: the Chargers in the playoffs in the last fifteen games.
- 16:29Speaker 2: That's a good point.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Playing outdoors in sub forty degree weather are one and fourteen.
- 16:35Speaker 1: I think in those last fifteen games.
- 16:37Speaker 2: Is it snowy?
- 16:39Speaker 1: No, it's gonna be thirty six degrees in raining.
- 16:42Speaker 2: Oh fuck yeah, all right, well that that's gonna be bad.
- 16:48Speaker 2: I'll tell you. If it was a dome game, I
- 16:50Speaker 2: feel like the Chargers would house these motherfuckers. Now that
- 16:53Speaker 2: I didn't even honestly, I hadn't even considered the weather.
- 16:56Speaker 2: I should have because it's New England. But yeah, if
- 16:58Speaker 2: the weather is that bad, now now it's back to
- 17:01Speaker 2: being a coin flip. Yeah.
- 17:02Speaker 1: Well, I don't think it's supposed to be like horrible.
- 17:04Speaker 1: It's not going to be a snow game, but it's
- 17:05Speaker 1: going to be chill thirty.
- 17:07Speaker 2: Six and raining is worse than snow.
- 17:09Speaker 1: Dude. Well maybe I don't know so, but I mean
- 17:14Speaker 1: Herbert is tough though, so.
- 17:17Speaker 2: Well, Herbert's a fucking legend andy and he played an
- 17:20Speaker 2: organ if I'm not mistaken, so he should be equipped
- 17:23Speaker 2: for cold.
- 17:24Speaker 1: I should remember. Yeah, is it a word I'm trying
- 17:26Speaker 1: to remember now because I know I watched him play
- 17:28Speaker 1: in college a bit. I think you're right. I think
- 17:31Speaker 1: it was a orgon. I think you're right.
- 17:33Speaker 2: All right, he's got some snow game experience.
- 17:35Speaker 1: Yeah, I am picking the Patriots in that one, I
- 17:39Speaker 1: guess tentatively, just because of the weather factor, and I
- 17:44Speaker 1: really don't love it, Like I would consider taking the
- 17:46Speaker 1: Chargers plus the points though at the same time, which
- 17:48Speaker 1: sounds contradictory, especially in the playoffs, like the team that
- 17:51Speaker 1: covers the spread wins the game as well, like more
- 17:55Speaker 1: than eighty percent of the time, I think in these.
- 17:57Speaker 2: Yeah, but at three and a half, I can understand
- 17:59Speaker 2: that play. I just yeah, I would. I would take
- 18:02Speaker 2: the Chargers plus the points all day. I'd be I'd
- 18:04Speaker 2: be really surprised if we don't cover.
- 18:07Speaker 1: Yeah, Patriots, easiest schedule in the league, So that is
- 18:11Speaker 1: that is a concern. And then yeah, the Chargers.
- 18:13Speaker 2: The Chargers went through the gauntlet too. I mean, granted,
- 18:15Speaker 2: Casey had a down year for sure, but like to Casey,
- 18:20Speaker 2: the Broncos and then we played a we played a
- 18:22Speaker 2: hell of a lot of good teams and we beat
- 18:24Speaker 2: a lot of good teams.
- 18:25Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean Casey, Yeah, Casey not doing well
- 18:28Speaker 1: down the stretches is hurting the Charger's strength of schedule.
- 18:32Speaker 1: But it was still the Chiefs, like there was still
- 18:35Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs are still a good team up
- 18:36Speaker 1: until like the season just completely went off the rails.
- 18:39Speaker 1: So for sure, dude, and the Chargers beat them once
- 18:42Speaker 1: before that, I believe. Yeah, I think we and in
- 18:44Speaker 1: the game where it did go off the rails.
- 18:47Speaker 2: Well we beat them. We know both the games we
- 18:49Speaker 2: beat them. We beat them with a healthy Mahomes. He
- 18:51Speaker 2: he went down on the last play of the second
- 18:53Speaker 2: game against US.
- 18:54Speaker 1: Right right, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I met. That
- 18:56Speaker 1: was the game where that was the game where it
- 18:57Speaker 1: went off the rails, like because of that injury basically
- 19:00Speaker 1: and because of that loss.
- 19:01Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was with a minute and a half
- 19:03Speaker 2: left in the game. I'm just saying. I'm just saying.
- 19:05Speaker 2: The Chargers beat the Chiefs twice, like the real Chiefs twice.
- 19:08Speaker 1: Correct, they did.
- 19:10Speaker 2: So I think I think that the Chargers are underrated
- 19:13Speaker 2: personally and it and people shouldn't rate them very highly,
- 19:17Speaker 2: as I've said a thousand times, because we have no line.
- 19:19Speaker 2: But yeah, don't sleep on Herbert dude, yep.
- 19:24Speaker 1: And then we have So that was the seven to
- 19:25Speaker 1: two matchup of the five to four is Houston at Pittsburgh.
- 19:29Speaker 1: As Pittsburgh was able to get in. They they Mike
- 19:31Speaker 1: Tomlin their way into the playoffs. Still does not have
- 19:34Speaker 1: a losing season ever that they're in. They beat the
- 19:38Speaker 1: Ravens Aaron Rodgers.
- 19:40Speaker 2: Maybe dude, they needed so much shit to go right
- 19:44Speaker 2: or wait? Was that the Ravens that almost that almost
- 19:47Speaker 2: backed their way in or not back their way in,
- 19:49Speaker 2: but almost like clawed their way back in.
- 19:51Speaker 1: The Ravens started out like one and five or something
- 19:54Speaker 1: because Lamar Jackson got hurt and they lost a couple
- 19:56Speaker 1: more games there in the middle, and then they came
- 19:58Speaker 1: all the way back to like a five hundred TI
- 20:00Speaker 1: team and it almost made the playoffs.
- 20:01Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But didn't come down to
- 20:03Speaker 2: the last week or am I tripping?
- 20:04Speaker 1: Yeah? It was Pittsburgh versus Baltimore. Whichever team won that
- 20:07Speaker 1: would be in the playoffs.
- 20:08Speaker 2: Yeah, and what was the result of that. I mean,
- 20:11Speaker 2: obviously Pittsburgh won, but what was the score? Do you know?
- 20:13Speaker 1: Twenty six to twenty four.
- 20:15Speaker 2: Oh so it was a fucking nail bitter interesting yeap, Yes,
- 20:18Speaker 2: it was. I leaned towards Houston. I'm not I'm not
- 20:22Speaker 2: tremendously impressed with Houston, but you know, the Chargers needed
- 20:28Speaker 2: badly to win, you know, two weeks ago against Houston
- 20:32Speaker 2: and and they beat us. I mean it was it
- 20:35Speaker 2: was closed. We played terribly reps the Chargers that game. Yeah,
- 20:38Speaker 2: and the ref screwed us too. But I'm just saying,
- 20:41Speaker 2: like there's something about Houston. They got a little magic
- 20:44Speaker 2: in them. This year.
- 20:45Speaker 1: Houston. Houston beat the Chargers in the playoffs last year
- 20:48Speaker 1: as well, so that that's more. Well, that's another reason
- 20:50Speaker 1: why you might like the Chargers here because they were
- 20:53Speaker 1: here last year. I think that was correct me if
- 20:55Speaker 1: I'm wrong. That was the first year with Harbaugh. Yes, yeah,
- 20:58Speaker 1: and they lost in the first round of the playoff. Us.
- 21:01Speaker 1: I actually I actually had Houston as a bet in
- 21:03Speaker 1: that game. I'm not dude, I'm not biased.
- 21:06Speaker 2: Man, Well, no, this is great.
- 21:07Speaker 1: I'm trying to know.
- 21:08Speaker 2: You've never been against the Chargers in the playoffs three
- 21:10Speaker 2: three times in a row.
- 21:12Speaker 1: But I don't want to in this game though.
- 21:14Speaker 2: Well, he already did. He already picked New England.
- 21:16Speaker 1: So I picked them. But there's no way it's going
- 21:18Speaker 1: to be a bet. And I said if I if
- 21:19Speaker 1: I was gonna bet the points, but I would probably
- 21:21Speaker 1: take the Chargers. But yeah, so Houston, Well, so that
- 21:28Speaker 1: means the Chargers, like, well, I was gonna say, the
- 21:29Speaker 1: second year under horrible, it might be better for them
- 21:31Speaker 1: because now they have that year of experience under him
- 21:34Speaker 1: and whatever. So now they're back here again, might might
- 21:37Speaker 1: be a little bit, uh, that experience might go a
- 21:39Speaker 1: little way there.
- 21:40Speaker 2: For well, I'll tell you the big difference that if
- 21:42Speaker 2: people don't watch the Chargers. They're sleeping on. Herbert is
- 21:45Speaker 2: using his legs now. And yeah, he's all the all
- 21:49Speaker 2: of his other seasons, they were like, don't fucking scramble,
- 21:52Speaker 2: and and this year, because they have no line and
- 21:55Speaker 2: because they trust him a bit more, his decision making
- 21:58Speaker 2: ability is still elite. And and he's got unbelievable speed.
- 22:02Speaker 2: He's got really great elusiveness for you know, uh white quarterback,
- 22:07Speaker 2: and and he's fast, dude. So I think he's going
- 22:10Speaker 2: to fuck New England up with some scramble plays that
- 22:13Speaker 2: they're not really ready for because it's just really hard
- 22:15Speaker 2: to game plan for that. You know, he's like he's
- 22:17Speaker 2: got he's got a cannon arm. And he's also you know,
- 22:21Speaker 2: got like top end quarterback speed running, which I don't
- 22:24Speaker 2: think I don't I don't think most people know that
- 22:26Speaker 2: about him. But he's he's really really good.
- 22:28Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, we saw the Patriots and not look
- 22:30Speaker 1: great against some of these other like dual threat quarterbacks
- 22:33Speaker 1: like Lamar Jackson whatever. Before he got hurt in that
- 22:36Speaker 1: game and then was just laughing it up on the sidelines.
- 22:39Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell that was.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Well, and and you know Herbert hasn't been running that much.
- 22:43Speaker 2: Like he didn't run much against Houston. I mean, he
- 22:46Speaker 2: was running for his life because he's got no O line,
- 22:48Speaker 2: but he wasn't like running down the field much. And
- 22:50Speaker 2: I think that they were trying to preserve him because
- 22:52Speaker 2: of the broken hand. In the playoffs, you're gonna take
- 22:55Speaker 2: every risk. So yeah, I'm expecting him. I'm expecting him
- 22:59Speaker 2: to run a lot.
- 23:00Speaker 1: Personally that would have done Yeah, I mean I kind
- 23:03Speaker 1: of I kind of want to see it happen. It
- 23:04Speaker 1: would be awesome. I think part of the reason why
- 23:06Speaker 1: he wasn't running as much last year is because he
- 23:08Speaker 1: was coming back from some like leg injury, right, if
- 23:10Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken.
- 23:11Speaker 2: Yes he had he had a bad ankle. Yeah, but
- 23:15Speaker 2: he's never gone down with anything major thankfully. It's all
- 23:18Speaker 2: been like you know, I mean, a broken hand is
- 23:21Speaker 2: kind of major, but you don't with whatever. Yeah, no
- 23:23Speaker 2: career ending shit or no season ending ship.
- 23:26Speaker 1: So yeah, so you like Houston against Pitt, though, what
- 23:29Speaker 1: are you just saying?
- 23:30Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, I think that Aaron Rodgers
- 23:33Speaker 2: is kind of you know, he's got he's still got
- 23:37Speaker 2: a little barking him. But I just I just don't
- 23:39Speaker 2: think he's got enough to be Houston.
- 23:41Speaker 1: I don't, all right, Yeah, I mean two experienced quarterbacks
- 23:45Speaker 1: in this one. Houston is like a three point favorite
- 23:49Speaker 1: in this game, which is not a huge favor. Here.
- 23:51Speaker 1: It's at Pittsburgh. Now we're talking about C. J. Stroud
- 23:54Speaker 1: here playing outside in cold weather. Again. I think this
- 23:57Speaker 1: is gonna be I think it's gonna be clear weather
- 23:59Speaker 1: than I think it is going to be probably around
- 24:01Speaker 1: like forty degrees or so lasst Checks. I don't think
- 24:03Speaker 1: it's going to be like horrible weather or anything like that.
- 24:06Speaker 1: But Stroud, like these late season road games, he hasn't
- 24:09Speaker 1: really been that good. The first one that he won
- 24:11Speaker 1: was at Kansas City in early December. This year, He's
- 24:14Speaker 1: lost on the road in his other playoff games, So
- 24:17Speaker 1: I do worry about that. And you are talking about
- 24:20Speaker 1: him going up against a Super Bowl champion Aaron Rodgers here.
- 24:23Speaker 1: I know he's forty two, but he looks pretty decent
- 24:26Speaker 1: this year.
- 24:26Speaker 2: It was a long time ago he won the Super Bowl, bro.
- 24:29Speaker 1: Yeah, it was what was it, twenty thirteen, maybe twenty.
- 24:33Speaker 2: Eleven, well, twelve years ago, thirteen years ago, I don't know.
- 24:36Speaker 1: Whenever it was. I remember it was against the Pittsburgh
- 24:39Speaker 1: Steel Dude. Can you imagine if that's the Super Bowl matchup,
- 24:43Speaker 1: Pittsburgh against Green Bay and Aaron Rodgers is on the
- 24:46Speaker 1: other side of it.
- 24:48Speaker 2: I will I will bet you one thousand dollars that's
- 24:51Speaker 2: not what happens.
- 24:53Speaker 1: I don't know, man, the script writers, what about the
- 24:55Speaker 1: script writers.
- 24:57Speaker 2: There ain't no way Pittsburgh makes the fucking Super Bowl.
- 25:00Speaker 1: I am. I'm picking Pittsburgh to beat Houston.
- 25:05Speaker 2: Well, all right, then, I guess there is a way.
- 25:07Speaker 2: I don't even think they get out a round one.
- 25:09Speaker 1: I think there's a very good chance that they do again,
- 25:13Speaker 1: just I think home advantage. And here's the other, dude,
- 25:17Speaker 1: because I said I was gonna give you some trends here,
- 25:19Speaker 1: this is a Monday night football game. Because there's Monday
- 25:22Speaker 1: night games in the playoffs. Now, Pittsburgh has not lost
- 25:27Speaker 1: a home Monday night football game since, like I believe,
- 25:31Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one. They've won twenty five in a row
- 25:36Speaker 1: Monday night home football games.
- 25:40Speaker 2: Wow, that's that's crazy. What crazy stat.
- 25:45Speaker 1: Yeah, people claim that they did lose one during the
- 25:48Speaker 1: COVID year because they played like this Fox game that
- 25:51Speaker 1: wasn't actually a Monday night game. They lost to Washington
- 25:53Speaker 1: and it got shifted, it got moved over to like
- 25:55Speaker 1: a Monday like five pm game or something. But that's
- 25:58Speaker 1: not Monday night football, man. And even if it was, Okay,
- 26:01Speaker 1: so they're twenty five and one.
- 26:04Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, this is this is Aaron rodgers
- 26:06Speaker 2: last hurrah. So if I was gonna pick Pittsburgh, it
- 26:09Speaker 2: would be because of that, because it's like, yeah, it's everything.
- 26:12Speaker 1: I love Rodgers. Man, He's gonna get all up in
- 26:14Speaker 1: the ayahuasca and he's.
- 26:16Speaker 2: Just and I know this means a lot to him
- 26:19Speaker 2: because he's his reputation has been demolished because of you know,
- 26:22Speaker 2: his experience with the Jets, the not getting vaccinated, all that,
- 26:26Speaker 2: and I know he would love to stick it to
- 26:28Speaker 2: the haters and and chalk up a w in the
- 26:30Speaker 2: playoffs when he's ancient. So I'm not saying it's impossible,
- 26:34Speaker 2: but I just think Houston's a better team.
- 26:36Speaker 1: They are, Oh, they're definitely the better teams. Yea. It's
- 26:38Speaker 1: why they're a road favorite here. Houston has the better defense,
- 26:41Speaker 1: which is an issue for Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh's defense hasn't been
- 26:45Speaker 1: that good, but they did get t J. Watt back.
- 26:47Speaker 2: Yeah, Houston. Houston's is fucking really good, dude. I like
- 26:51Speaker 2: Houston this yep quite a bit. Actually.
- 26:54Speaker 1: All right, so we differed on on all three of
- 26:58Speaker 1: those games, I think, didn't we Yeah.
- 27:01Speaker 2: I went Buffalo Chargers. Whoa, I took all road teams. Fuck,
- 27:08Speaker 2: there's like almost no way I get that right, But
- 27:10Speaker 2: I lean towards all of them.
- 27:12Speaker 1: All right. Do you want to do an NFC first
- 27:15Speaker 1: round go that, go that way, go in that order.
- 27:19Speaker 2: Yeah, all right?
- 27:20Speaker 1: Uh five versus four is the Rams at Carolina. The
- 27:24Speaker 1: Rams are on the road at the five seed at Carolina,
- 27:28Speaker 1: because you win your division, even if you're eight and nine,
- 27:31Speaker 1: you're in baby oh man.
- 27:35Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that the Rams win that easily.
- 27:40Speaker 1: I agree. We're gonna agree with that one on that one.
- 27:43Speaker 1: First time we agree. Clinton, you're going with the road
- 27:45Speaker 1: team again, But I agree. Yes, Houston's d Yes, you're
- 27:51Speaker 1: like Houston d dude.
- 27:52Speaker 2: The d is delicious for real.
- 27:54Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yes, it's one of the best. They have
- 27:57Speaker 1: the best team, man in Houston. The Rams are like,
- 28:01Speaker 1: they're somewhere around a ten point favorite in this game.
- 28:03Speaker 1: They are the heaviest road favorite in NFL playoff history
- 28:09Speaker 1: in this game.
- 28:10Speaker 2: I think that's that's right. I think it should be.
- 28:14Speaker 1: Well, they played at Carolina like about four or five
- 28:17Speaker 1: weeks ago in Carolina.
- 28:18Speaker 2: One's that's shocking.
- 28:23Speaker 1: And the line was about the same. It was like
- 28:25Speaker 1: nine and a half or ten. But it was kind
- 28:27Speaker 1: of a bad spot for the Rams. I don't see
- 28:29Speaker 1: it happening again. It was a weird game. Stafford threw
- 28:31Speaker 1: like three picks in the game and the Rams still
- 28:33Speaker 1: almost won. So like, yeah, the Rams are gonna win.
- 28:37Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't take them plus ten on
- 28:40Speaker 2: the road. That's just a crazy bet in my opinion.
- 28:43Speaker 1: No, yeah, I'm not. I'm not gonna lay it, but
- 28:44Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want any part of the Panthers either.
- 28:46Speaker 1: And the Panthers, they are the third worst point differential
- 28:52Speaker 1: team ever to make the playoffs, so that's you know,
- 28:55Speaker 1: they were minus sixty seven point differential this year, so
- 28:58Speaker 1: they got outscored cumulatively by sixty seven points during the season.
- 29:03Speaker 1: The other two teams that were worse than that were
- 29:06Speaker 1: like minus seventy something, minus eighty something, and that was
- 29:09Speaker 1: the twenty ten Seattle Seahawks where they won the division.
- 29:13Speaker 1: Everybody was making fun of them. I think that year
- 29:15Speaker 1: where they were below five hundred with Pete Carroll's first year,
- 29:18Speaker 1: I think, and the other one was the Tim Tebow
- 29:21Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. But both of those teams won their first game.
- 29:26Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's pretty shocking. Look, I don't think it
- 29:30Speaker 2: happens again. If if Carolina can beat the Rams again,
- 29:34Speaker 2: you know, back to back, that'd be that'd be really
- 29:37Speaker 2: really shocking. I think that. I think that the Rams
- 29:40Speaker 2: won by a touchdown.
- 29:42Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think the Rams definitely win. Yeah, covering
- 29:46Speaker 1: maybe a different story. But I mean, I don't know.
- 29:49Speaker 1: If I were gonna guess on the on the points spread,
- 29:51Speaker 1: I would probably still be Rams for me, Like yeah,
- 29:54Speaker 1: I mean I don't want to do it, Like I
- 29:55Speaker 1: wouldn't put my money on it. But I think the
- 29:57Speaker 1: Rams probably win easily in this game because they.
- 30:00Speaker 2: Know I don't I don't ever want to bet. You
- 30:03Speaker 2: gotta fucking you gotta win by eleven on the road,
- 30:06Speaker 2: Like that's crazy.
- 30:07Speaker 1: Well, they know what they did wrong in that last game,
- 30:10Speaker 1: and if they just show up, the Rams are probably
- 30:12Speaker 1: the most balanced team in the NFC, Like maybe in
- 30:15Speaker 1: all in all, you're.
- 30:15Speaker 2: A really good team, but like I honestly, had Carolina
- 30:18Speaker 2: not beat them five weeks ago, like you said, I
- 30:20Speaker 2: would be like, yeah, I see them winning by seventeen.
- 30:23Speaker 2: But you know, it seems as if Carolina has they
- 30:26Speaker 2: understand this, this team relatively well. Otherwise, you know, three picks, yeah,
- 30:30Speaker 2: it's probably a fluke, but you never know, maybe they
- 30:33Speaker 2: get two again and then it's like it's a game.
- 30:35Speaker 1: Yeah. This is also because you like quarterback matchups. This
- 30:38Speaker 1: is also the most This is the widest experienced gap
- 30:43Speaker 1: between quarterbacks. We have a thirty seven year old Super
- 30:45Speaker 1: Bowl winner on one side and we have uh, first
- 30:49Speaker 1: year well it's his first playoff game for Bryce on yeah,
- 30:53Speaker 1: second year yeah, or maybe third year. Actually I don't know,
- 30:55Speaker 1: I forget.
- 30:56Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, if you got I mean, if my
- 31:00Speaker 2: life's on the line, Stafford versus Young, I'm like I'm
- 31:03Speaker 2: rolling with this vet. Yeah all right, let's move off
- 31:07Speaker 2: this game. It's fucking whack.
- 31:09Speaker 1: Yeah, Green Bay Carolina. The seven is Green Bay or sorry,
- 31:13Speaker 1: green Bay Chicago, excuse me. So you get a divisional
- 31:17Speaker 1: matchup here between two teams that eight each other seven
- 31:20Speaker 1: versus two Green Bay Chicago.
- 31:22Speaker 2: I haven't, dude, I haven't watched Chicago all season. All
- 31:25Speaker 2: I know is that they've been winning a lot. Are
- 31:27Speaker 2: they legit at all?
- 31:30Speaker 1: No? I think they're the most fraudulent team in NFL history. Actually,
- 31:34Speaker 1: the Bears, they had like one of the three weakest schedules.
- 31:38Speaker 2: They're an average New England.
- 31:41Speaker 1: Yes, Chicago has like an average offense and their bottom
- 31:45Speaker 1: like seven defense. Probably they're off. They've won so many
- 31:49Speaker 1: close games it's there's got to be some like regression here.
- 31:52Speaker 1: They're definitely the worst team in this matchup.
- 31:56Speaker 2: Yeah. What's the name of the USC quarterback they got?
- 31:59Speaker 1: The gig Williams? Is he Caleb Williams?
- 32:03Speaker 2: Yeah? Is he? Is he having a good year?
- 32:07Speaker 1: People are gonna say yes because of what they've done
- 32:10Speaker 1: this year, But if you look at his stats, no,
- 32:12Speaker 1: he has He has the worst. I believe he is
- 32:15Speaker 1: the worst quarterback rating out of the all of the
- 32:17Speaker 1: playoff quarterbacks here.
- 32:19Speaker 2: Yeah, I would imagine. And is Love healthy?
- 32:22Speaker 1: That is a question. He's missed the last two games,
- 32:24Speaker 1: but I think he's gonna play here.
- 32:26Speaker 2: Okay, Well, if he's healthy, then I go Green Bay easily.
- 32:29Speaker 2: If he's If he's not or if he's hobbled, then
- 32:33Speaker 2: I think Chicago might pull it off.
- 32:35Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is this is one one of the
- 32:39Speaker 1: interesting ones because we have two previous matchups between these
- 32:41Speaker 1: two teams because they're in the division. So green Bay
- 32:44Speaker 1: won by seven in the first game where green Bay
- 32:47Speaker 1: was like a six and a half point favorite at
- 32:48Speaker 1: home in that game, and Caleb Williams was driving Chicago
- 32:52Speaker 1: down the field at the end of the game and
- 32:53Speaker 1: he threw an interception close to the end zone. They
- 32:56Speaker 1: were trying to tie the game potentially there. That's how
- 32:59Speaker 1: that game. And then the second matchup, which was in Chicago,
- 33:03Speaker 1: green Bay was about a one point favorite and green
- 33:06Speaker 1: Bay was gonna win the game. They were winning the
- 33:08Speaker 1: game sixteen to six with like four minutes left, Jordan
- 33:11Speaker 1: Love got hurt. Then Malik Willis also got hurt, so
- 33:14Speaker 1: the Green Bay was down to their third string quarterback,
- 33:17Speaker 1: Clayton Tune And yeah, out of Western Kentucky. I believe,
- 33:23Speaker 1: I think I forget. He's been around for a while,
- 33:26Speaker 1: but he never gets to play. And it took Chicago
- 33:28Speaker 1: having to score and they hadn't had a touchdown prior
- 33:32Speaker 1: to they had no touchdowns in the game up until
- 33:34Speaker 1: this point. They scored, they recovered an on side kick,
- 33:38Speaker 1: scored again, sent it into overtime. Green Bay had the
- 33:41Speaker 1: ball first, and green Bay's third string quarterback in combination
- 33:45Speaker 1: with a backup center that was also playing, fumbled the
- 33:48Speaker 1: football in Chicago territory and then and then Chicago wound
- 33:50Speaker 1: up winning the game. That's how that game went.
- 33:54Speaker 2: That's it. I actually think I saw a chunk of that.
- 33:58Speaker 2: Look I I lean heavily towards Green Bay, But you
- 34:02Speaker 2: got to tell me if Love's healthy or not, because
- 34:04Speaker 2: if I mean, well, he.
- 34:06Speaker 1: Hasn't played since that game. So Malik Willis played against
- 34:10Speaker 1: other Ravens and looked awesome against the Ravens, and I
- 34:14Speaker 1: think he got hurt again in that game, by the way,
- 34:16Speaker 1: and Tune had to come in again and they still won.
- 34:20Speaker 1: And then they rested everybody last week. Green Bay just
- 34:23Speaker 1: they didn't play anybody against Minnesota last week, so they're
- 34:26Speaker 1: trying to get healthy for this game.
- 34:28Speaker 2: Dude, if I picked green Bay, I will have picked
- 34:32Speaker 2: five straight road teams. I'm going road team.
- 34:39Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean none of them are huge underdogs.
- 34:41Speaker 2: Though, so I think the only the only home team
- 34:44Speaker 2: I might go with is Philly, and I'm not even
- 34:46Speaker 2: confident about that.
- 34:48Speaker 1: All right, Well, I like green Bay in this game
- 34:51Speaker 1: as well. I think Love will play it. Green Bay
- 34:54Speaker 1: is absolutely the better team. They have the better defense.
- 34:56Speaker 1: You're talking about experience. If it's Love versus Williams, you
- 34:59Speaker 1: got a quarterback that's been in the playoffs multiple years
- 35:02Speaker 1: now at this one, I'm pretty sure, and a guy
- 35:05Speaker 1: that has never been. And I think Love is actually
- 35:07Speaker 1: probably the better quarterback anyway.
- 35:09Speaker 2: So I agree with all that.
- 35:11Speaker 1: But everybody's talking about how like green Bay lost with
- 35:13Speaker 1: Michael Parsons who was doing a lot of damage on
- 35:16Speaker 1: their defense, or their defense is still pretty good even
- 35:19Speaker 1: without him, so uh yeah, Chicago, by the way, they
- 35:22Speaker 1: played a tougher game last week. They tried to win
- 35:25Speaker 1: last week against Detroit, So so maybe I don't know,
- 35:29Speaker 1: it's gonna be that rest versus rust thing where green
- 35:31Speaker 1: Bay like probably I think it was good that they
- 35:34Speaker 1: rested though last week.
- 35:35Speaker 2: Yeah, but Love having been out for a month is
- 35:38Speaker 2: like that's tough.
- 35:39Speaker 1: Yeah, And I believe this line is somewhere around to
- 35:42Speaker 1: pick them in this game as well, by the way,
- 35:43Speaker 1: So and I if green Bay is healthy. I think
- 35:46Speaker 1: Green Bay should be about a three point favorite.
- 35:49Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I mean it's really gonna come down
- 35:51Speaker 2: to love.
- 35:52Speaker 1: If you have our Carolina fan in the chat here, Garrett,
- 35:55Speaker 1: what's up man, I wouldn't get your hopes.
- 36:00Speaker 2: As the Chargers fan. I'll be rooting for you, homeboy,
- 36:03Speaker 2: that's right. I like seeing dogs.
- 36:07Speaker 1: There you go, yeah, yeah, fucking shit up with the dogs,
- 36:10Speaker 1: but you have the biggest home favorite is in San
- 36:13Speaker 1: Francisco and Philadelphia. Philadelphia is up to about a four
- 36:17Speaker 1: and a half point favorite I think in this game,
- 36:19Speaker 1: and they open lower than that. That's the six to
- 36:23Speaker 1: three matchup here. What are your thoughts?
- 36:26Speaker 2: I don't have a strong opinion on this game. I mean,
- 36:28Speaker 2: I'll be honest, I haven't watched much of Frisco or
- 36:31Speaker 2: Philly this season, so I'll let you school me.
- 36:35Speaker 1: All right. It kind of comes down to offense versus
- 36:39Speaker 1: defense in this game. Like San Francisco has a really
- 36:41Speaker 1: prolific offense, with their defense is just very injured, like
- 36:45Speaker 1: they lost Bosa and Warner, Like their top two defenders
- 36:48Speaker 1: are done. They're not coming back and they've been out
- 36:51Speaker 1: for a while. Although they were able to get here
- 36:53Speaker 1: without them.
- 36:53Speaker 2: But Philadelphia, who does Joey Bosa play for? Now? Yeah?
- 36:59Speaker 1: Where is he? Yea now, because I forget which Bosa's
- 37:02Speaker 1: which San Francisco they have Mick Bosa.
- 37:04Speaker 2: Yeah, they have Joey Bosa.
- 37:05Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's on Buffalo. I want to stay.
- 37:07Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I think he is. Is he Is he
- 37:09Speaker 2: healthy because he was never healthy for the Chargers.
- 37:13Speaker 1: Probably not. I have no idea. I think he is
- 37:16Speaker 1: on Buffalo, but I could be wrong about that.
- 37:18Speaker 2: No, I'm almost certain you're right.
- 37:21Speaker 1: Yeah, but Philadelphia, I mean they have the better defense.
- 37:23Speaker 1: Philadelphia is obviously, they're I think they're a dangerous team.
- 37:27Speaker 1: I mean, they won the Super Bowl last year, so
- 37:29Speaker 1: they have the Super Bowl winning coach there. So we
- 37:32Speaker 1: have a couple of Super Bowl winning coaches here, of course,
- 37:35Speaker 1: with the the Rams have McVeigh Philadelphia Sirianni here. Sirianni
- 37:39Speaker 1: by the way, he's five and oh in the playoffs
- 37:41Speaker 1: at home, So the Eagles have that going for them.
- 37:45Speaker 1: And I haven't really looked at the weather in this one,
- 37:47Speaker 1: but San Francisco having to play in the Northeast in
- 37:50Speaker 1: the outdoors doesn't seem very advantageous to them.
- 37:54Speaker 2: Yeah, Bosa was out with Joey Bosa was out with
- 37:57Speaker 2: a hamstring, but it looks like he's playing for Buffalo,
- 37:59Speaker 2: so good for them. He was never fucking healthy for us.
- 38:01Speaker 1: We were corracked.
- 38:02Speaker 2: Yeah, Buffalo, I lean, I mean, I lean Philly, but honestly,
- 38:06Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised either way.
- 38:08Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, you actually have two really good
- 38:11Speaker 1: coaches in this game. This is well. I mean, I'm
- 38:13Speaker 1: not even really a fan of Syriana. I think he's
- 38:15Speaker 1: kind of a douche, but I'm not going to argue
- 38:17Speaker 1: that he's not a good coach. And then Shanahan on
- 38:19Speaker 1: the other side, might be the best coach in the NFL,
- 38:21Speaker 1: and he's been able to do this with a very
- 38:24Speaker 1: lackluster defense.
- 38:25Speaker 2: But that's that's why I said I think San Francisco
- 38:28Speaker 2: could pull it off. Is just because of Shanahan.
- 38:30Speaker 1: Honestly, Yeah, I mean I have to go with the
- 38:35Speaker 1: Eagles here, Sirianni at home, it's probably gonna be cold,
- 38:38Speaker 1: it's outdoors, the better defense. As far as laying the points,
- 38:43Speaker 1: I'm not totally sure, but to me, this feels a
- 38:45Speaker 1: lot like last year where people were just kind of
- 38:47Speaker 1: overlooking Philadelphia because their offense has been really bad at times,
- 38:51Speaker 1: like Saquon Barkley didn't do anything close to what he
- 38:55Speaker 1: did last year. Jalen Hurts, by the way, has had
- 38:57Speaker 1: two different second has this year in games where he
- 39:01Speaker 1: didn't complete a pass.
- 39:03Speaker 2: Dude, that's a crazy stat.
- 39:05Speaker 1: But the Eagles. The Eagles won both games, though.
- 39:08Speaker 2: That's still not comforting. I'll tell you, if I was
- 39:12Speaker 2: betting this game, I would take Frisco plus the points.
- 39:18Speaker 1: I think I would probably lay it. Like, I don't know,
- 39:20Speaker 1: I got to figure out what I want my actual
- 39:22Speaker 1: bets to be for my show. But this is kind
- 39:24Speaker 1: of one of my stronger opinions. I do like the
- 39:26Speaker 1: Eagles in this one.
- 39:27Speaker 2: It's just, dude, you lay it? You think they're gonna
- 39:29Speaker 2: win by five? Wow?
- 39:31Speaker 1: I kind of do. Uh. They're pretty much able to
- 39:33Speaker 1: do that when they ran through the playoffs last year.
- 39:35Speaker 1: And yeah, I think they're once again they're being overlooked
- 39:38Speaker 1: because the public likes offenses rather than defenses.
- 39:42Speaker 2: All right, Look now that we've got through the first
- 39:44Speaker 2: round pick Charles, I just got to say, Okay, that's cool.
- 39:50Speaker 2: I just gotta say this is in my opinion, and
- 39:53Speaker 2: I've I've been a football fan for thirty plus years.
- 39:56Speaker 2: I think I'm an NFL fan. I should say I
- 40:00Speaker 2: never fun with college other than when I was in college.
- 40:02Speaker 2: I watched San Diego State a little bit. But I
- 40:05Speaker 2: think that this is the most open playoffs that has
- 40:09Speaker 2: ever happened in my life. I genuinely mean that. I
- 40:12Speaker 2: don't think that there is a single team. I mean,
- 40:16Speaker 2: I shouldn't say there's not a single team that couldn't
- 40:18Speaker 2: win the super Bowl, but there's like eight that could.
- 40:21Speaker 2: It's insane.
- 40:22Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I actually I said it was a six.
- 40:26Speaker 1: I think on my show that I think legitimately could
- 40:28Speaker 1: be the winners.
- 40:30Speaker 2: Here, I'll tell you, I'll give you. Let's go through
- 40:32Speaker 2: and say who we think could win the Super Bowl.
- 40:34Speaker 2: I think, I honestly this is my honest opinion. I
- 40:37Speaker 2: think Denver could win. I think Buffalo could win. I
- 40:39Speaker 2: think Jacksonville could win. I think the Chargers could win.
- 40:42Speaker 2: I think the Patriots. I'm questionable on that. I think
- 40:46Speaker 2: Houston could win. I think Seattle. I don't like Seattle.
- 40:48Speaker 2: I think the Rams could win, and I think Philly
- 40:54Speaker 2: and I think maybe even Frisco and Green Bay. Like
- 40:57Speaker 2: I think that's I mean, that's a crazy amount of
- 41:00Speaker 2: that I think could run it.
- 41:01Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I would say Denver and Seattle obviously.
- 41:04Speaker 1: I mean they do get buys as well. Philadelphia Rams definitely.
- 41:10Speaker 1: Uh how many of them up? That's four? What were
- 41:13Speaker 1: the other I forget what the other two were that
- 41:15Speaker 1: I thought? Uh, Buffalo probably was one, even though I
- 41:19Speaker 1: think they might lose to Jacksonville, but I think if
- 41:21Speaker 1: they get through that they have a decent chance. And
- 41:24Speaker 1: then what was the other one? Uh, I can't remember
- 41:26Speaker 1: what the other one was. It was either Green Bay
- 41:28Speaker 1: or Houston, I forget. Maybe I'll go seven then I
- 41:31Speaker 1: think they could both potentially.
- 41:33Speaker 2: Do it, leaving my Chargers out. I'm gonna face sorry,
- 41:36Speaker 2: I'm gonna fuck your face the next time I see you.
- 41:40Speaker 1: Maybe I'll like it, all.
- 41:44Speaker 2: Right, I like it. I'm gonna like it when the
- 41:45Speaker 2: Chargers run, have a deep run and fucking I'm just
- 41:48Speaker 2: gonna be texting you, going, look at this, you stupid bitch.
- 41:51Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, your your second round matchup here. You
- 41:54Speaker 1: have Chargers at Denver in the second round is what
- 41:57Speaker 1: you would have if the Chargers win, that would be
- 41:58Speaker 1: the matchup.
- 41:59Speaker 2: By the way, I love that game. I was so disappointed.
- 42:03Speaker 2: The Chargers had an opportunity to win the division. People
- 42:06Speaker 2: don't even realize that, but the Chargers were like super
- 42:09Speaker 2: close to winning the division. All we had to do
- 42:11Speaker 2: was beat Houston, and had we beat Houston, it would
- 42:13Speaker 2: have been Chargers in Denver Week eighteen to take the division.
- 42:20Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, we played. We sat like I
- 42:22Speaker 2: don't know how many of our starters, like seven or
- 42:24Speaker 2: eight of them or something crazy, and it was still
- 42:27Speaker 2: like not it was still a close game going on
- 42:29Speaker 2: the fourth. We know they ran away from us in
- 42:31Speaker 2: the fourth, but yep, I think had the Chargers, had
- 42:34Speaker 2: the Chargers had it all on the line and been
- 42:36Speaker 2: playing Herbert, we would have beat Denver to take the
- 42:39Speaker 2: division had we just fucking squeaked out a win against Houston.
- 42:41Speaker 2: So I liked that game a lot, and I'm so
- 42:44Speaker 2: glad that I might get to see it still because
- 42:46Speaker 2: I want to see that game. I want to see
- 42:48Speaker 2: the fucking Broncos versus the Chargers, everybody playing, everybody trying,
- 42:53Speaker 2: even though it's in Denver. I like the Chargers in
- 42:56Speaker 2: that game.
- 42:57Speaker 1: Yeah, with everybody playing. I I don't I'm not sure,
- 43:01Speaker 1: but I did see some of the like Uh, like
- 43:04Speaker 1: hypothetical lines out there, I think Denver would only be
- 43:07Speaker 1: like about a three point favorite in this game.
- 43:09Speaker 2: That's right, it should be, they should be.
- 43:11Speaker 1: It seems crazy, it seems like everybody's gonna want Denver
- 43:14Speaker 1: in that case. Man, if it's if it's Denver and
- 43:17Speaker 1: the Chargers, I mean, those teams know each other really well.
- 43:20Speaker 1: It's it's almost like anything could happen. Like all bets
- 43:23Speaker 1: are off there, dude, and you have an inexperienced quarterback.
- 43:27Speaker 2: Pretty much even when the Broncos are the Chargers suck,
- 43:29Speaker 2: all bets are off. When these two teams play like
- 43:31Speaker 2: they are always, it's like always close. I mean the
- 43:35Speaker 2: only reason it wasn't close Week eighteen is because we
- 43:37Speaker 2: sat everybody, and even then it was close until the fourth.
- 43:40Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you have a bon Knicks, Uh. He has
- 43:44Speaker 1: one playoff game under his belt there and then justin
- 43:46Speaker 1: Herbert obviously has way more experience than that, So the
- 43:50Speaker 1: experience factor could, uh could loom large in that game.
- 43:55Speaker 2: I would go I would go Herbert for sure in
- 43:57Speaker 2: that game. I think he would. I think he would
- 43:59Speaker 2: play lights out. That's the that's like the primary reason
- 44:01Speaker 2: I think the Chargers have a chance. I love our road.
- 44:04Speaker 2: I mean like I love our road to the playoffs,
- 44:05Speaker 2: even though it's going to be all on the road.
- 44:07Speaker 2: I think Chargers versus the Patriots, I think it's a
- 44:09Speaker 2: coin flip. I think Chargers versus the Broncos, it's a
- 44:12Speaker 2: coin flip. And then yeah, my guess. My guess is
- 44:15Speaker 2: it's either Buffalo or Jacksonville in the AFC Championship, and
- 44:18Speaker 2: I think it's a fucking coin flip. So that's why
- 44:20Speaker 2: I like our chances.
- 44:21Speaker 1: Yeah, these games, a lot of them are coin flips.
- 44:23Speaker 1: But in my brackets setup, I would have Pittsburgh playing
- 44:27Speaker 1: at Denver.
- 44:27Speaker 2: So if I gotta go Denver on that one, if.
- 44:30Speaker 1: That's the matchup, I would have to go to Denver. Yeah,
- 44:32Speaker 1: So that's how I have my bracket right now. Unfortunately,
- 44:36Speaker 1: because I would like to see Aaron Rodgers do it,
- 44:37Speaker 1: but they'd probably be about a touchdown underdog in that game,
- 44:40Speaker 1: so I just I don't think i'd be able to
- 44:43Speaker 1: see it happening. And Denver still has one of the
- 44:45Speaker 1: best defenses, but you gotta worry about their QB there.
- 44:49Speaker 1: But they do have a Super Bowl winning coach with Denver,
- 44:53Speaker 1: so there is that your second matchup ends up being
- 44:57Speaker 1: Buffalo h Buffalo at Houston. So actually a rematch of
- 45:02Speaker 1: a game that happened in the later half of the
- 45:05Speaker 1: season where Houston won on a Thursday night at Buffalo.
- 45:08Speaker 1: Also one of my bets that I won on the
- 45:10Speaker 1: show when Houston beat Buffalo.
- 45:13Speaker 2: My honest you know, my instinct tells me Buffalo wins
- 45:17Speaker 2: that game and then they beat the Chargers to go
- 45:19Speaker 2: to the super Bowl. That's that's my honest opinion, all.
- 45:22Speaker 1: Right, I could see that happening. I mean, I worry
- 45:25Speaker 1: about Buffalo on the road. It's just in general though,
- 45:27Speaker 1: the my matchup winds up being Jacksonville at New England
- 45:31Speaker 1: is what is what I wind up with her. This
- 45:34Speaker 1: is why my bracket, like, I don't love my bracket, man,
- 45:36Speaker 1: because in that like you have to pick New England there, right,
- 45:39Speaker 1: don't you like Jacksonville having to play in cold weather
- 45:41Speaker 1: in New England? I just don't really see it.
- 45:44Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that the I think that the Chargers
- 45:47Speaker 2: have a better chance against New England than Jacksonville does.
- 45:49Speaker 2: So I think if if New England gets through the Chargers,
- 45:52Speaker 2: I think that they make it to the FC Championship game.
- 45:54Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's what I have in mind. U. I
- 45:57Speaker 1: would have, yeah, Denver against New England. There. Do you
- 46:00Speaker 1: want to finish the AFC, yar, or do you want
- 46:02Speaker 1: to go back to the NFC over here? Divisional round? NFC?
- 46:05Speaker 2: I already finished it. I said it's gonna be Buffalo
- 46:07Speaker 2: versus the Chargers in the and I think Buffalo goes
- 46:11Speaker 2: to the super Bowl.
- 46:12Speaker 1: All right. I have New England at Denver, and I
- 46:14Speaker 1: have Denver going to the Super Bowl.
- 46:18Speaker 2: For coal year two QB. You think Nick's got that
- 46:21Speaker 2: in him.
- 46:23Speaker 1: I don't know. It's gonna have to be the defense
- 46:25Speaker 1: carrying them. But that's this is what like I filled
- 46:27Speaker 1: out my bracket last night, and this is what like
- 46:29Speaker 1: the game theory led me to. I don't know, man,
- 46:34Speaker 1: it was. It was basically I was down to either
- 46:37Speaker 1: picking Denver or the Rams to win it all pretty much.
- 46:41Speaker 1: Which do you think that it's gonna make my NFC
- 46:44Speaker 1: seem even weirder? Though? After I said that, because that's
- 46:47Speaker 1: not what I have going on in the NFC.
- 46:50Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it. I think it ends up. I mean,
- 46:53Speaker 2: I'll say my personal opinion is to the three teams
- 46:56Speaker 2: in the AFC that have a chance of making the
- 46:57Speaker 2: Super Bowl. It's the Chargers, the Broncos, and the Bills.
- 47:01Speaker 2: And I think I think that it's gonna be the Bills.
- 47:05Speaker 2: That's just my guess. And then I think, not a
- 47:09Speaker 2: Zi suk eight. We're not in baseball season, zach uh
- 47:13Speaker 2: and I think, all right, so what's our what's our rounds?
- 47:20Speaker 2: I think we had the same picks the NFC.
- 47:22Speaker 1: We we both would so we both have green Bay winning,
- 47:25Speaker 1: which means green Bay plays at Seattle.
- 47:27Speaker 2: Okay, I think Seattle wins that game, but it's but
- 47:33Speaker 2: it'll be close.
- 47:34Speaker 1: I agree. I think I think Seattle would be a
- 47:37Speaker 1: very like small favorite in that game. Green Bay is legit, man,
- 47:41Speaker 1: And I don't know your quarterback play. It's gonna be
- 47:44Speaker 1: Sam Darnald up against Jordan Love. I don't know.
- 47:47Speaker 2: Agreed, Donald was great in the regular season, but he
- 47:50Speaker 2: is a He fucking ate shit in the playoffs last year.
- 47:52Speaker 1: So yeah, and he only has that one game. Unders
- 47:55Speaker 1: about Love has a little bit more experience, assuming he's
- 47:57Speaker 1: gonna play, But I still prob would go Seattle there.
- 48:02Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised at all if
- 48:05Speaker 2: green Bay wins that game. But I'm leaning towards I'm
- 48:07Speaker 2: leaning towards Seattle just just because of the record. I guess,
- 48:11Speaker 2: I don't know, it's fucking it's it's close.
- 48:14Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, I think Seattle, yeah, would definitely be a favorite.
- 48:18Speaker 1: I just don't know about how much Seattle does have
- 48:20Speaker 1: a really really legit defense though.
- 48:22Speaker 2: Well, they have a legit d and an incredible home
- 48:24Speaker 2: field advantage. So that's the primary reason that I think
- 48:27Speaker 2: that they've got a shot twelve to that championship game.
- 48:30Speaker 2: But I don't think that they have a chance of
- 48:31Speaker 2: making the Super Bowl.
- 48:32Speaker 1: Yeah, although Green Bay with Love has pulled off some
- 48:35Speaker 1: some road wins in the playoffs, so they're road tests,
- 48:38Speaker 1: like they beat Dallas that year and then they almost
- 48:40Speaker 1: beat San Francisco.
- 48:41Speaker 2: So I'll tell you that would be an elite road
- 48:43Speaker 2: win for him. If he goes into Seattle the number
- 48:45Speaker 2: one seed and fucking knocks him off after after knocking
- 48:48Speaker 2: off their division rivals in Chicago, that'd be that'd be
- 48:51Speaker 2: a very impressive round on his part. Yeah.
- 48:54Speaker 1: And then we both have in the other matchup in
- 48:56Speaker 1: the division, we both would have Rams at Eagle, which
- 49:01Speaker 1: is also a rematch of a game that happened like
- 49:04Speaker 1: in the middle of the season. That really pissed me
- 49:06Speaker 1: off because my money contest, which I did win money in,
- 49:09Speaker 1: by the way, where you pick five games against the
- 49:11Speaker 1: spread every week, I had. One of my losers was
- 49:14Speaker 1: Rams plus the points in that game, and it was
- 49:15Speaker 1: like a plus five and a half or something, and
- 49:18Speaker 1: the Rams were winning almost that entire game. They were
- 49:21Speaker 1: winning by like sixteen points. In the fourth quarter, the
- 49:25Speaker 1: Eagles wound up taking the lead by like one or two,
- 49:28Speaker 1: and then the Rams are going for a game winning
- 49:29Speaker 1: field goal. It's happening. It got blocked and returned for
- 49:32Speaker 1: a touchdown, so the Eagles covered.
- 49:34Speaker 2: Crazy. I like the Rams in that game, even though
- 49:38Speaker 2: it'll be in Philly.
- 49:41Speaker 1: Yeah, Eagles.
- 49:42Speaker 2: I'm a fucking road warrior this playoffs. Yeah, like every
- 49:46Speaker 2: road team's gonna win. It's insane.
- 49:47Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I could see that happening if if
- 49:50Speaker 1: it's Rams at Philly. Though again, it's like this indoor
- 49:53Speaker 1: team going outdoors, like I worry about it, even though
- 49:55Speaker 1: the Rams are legit. I think Philly would be a
- 49:58Speaker 1: favorite of some kind of home there. I would go
- 50:00Speaker 1: with the Eagles in that game, but it's it's tough, man.
- 50:03Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be a great game. I can't wait. I
- 50:05Speaker 2: think that's what's gonna happen.
- 50:07Speaker 1: To all right, Well, so well you had you had
- 50:09Speaker 1: the Rams there, right, and I had the Eagles in
- 50:11Speaker 1: that one.
- 50:12Speaker 2: Yeah, so you have SAMs. Yeah yeah, And I think
- 50:16Speaker 2: I think Rams beat Seattle in Seattle.
- 50:19Speaker 1: Yep, all right, which, by the way, so those two
- 50:23Speaker 1: teams played twice and the Rams won the first game
- 50:26Speaker 1: in la and it was a weird, low scoring game
- 50:29Speaker 1: or a lot of weird crap happened, and Seattle actually
- 50:31Speaker 1: kind of dominated the game statistically, but the Rams won.
- 50:33Speaker 1: Donald had like four turnovers and Sean McVay looked he
- 50:37Speaker 1: looks pretty good at like countering Sam Donald. But in
- 50:41Speaker 1: the second game, which was the game that Thursday night game,
- 50:45Speaker 1: not that long, I think it was a Thursday night
- 50:48Speaker 1: Seattle came back and won the game. And the Rams
- 50:50Speaker 1: actually dominated that game in Seattle, and the Rams were
- 50:53Speaker 1: winning by whatever it was sixteen points or something pretty
- 50:56Speaker 1: late in the game and they wound up not even winning.
- 50:59Speaker 1: If you remember that lost in overtime, crazy game.
- 51:02Speaker 2: Yeah, I do remember that. It was. It was probably
- 51:04Speaker 2: the game of the year. I thought but I still
- 51:07Speaker 2: think that the Rams are the better team, and I
- 51:09Speaker 2: think when it comes to the NFC Championship Stafford experience,
- 51:13Speaker 2: I think that they'll pull it off. I just I can't.
- 51:16Speaker 2: I can't. I don't see Darnold making to the Super Bowl.
- 51:18Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
- 51:19Speaker 1: All right, So you have your Super Bowl? Is what
- 51:21Speaker 1: Bills and Rams?
- 51:24Speaker 2: Yeah? It's either Chargers Rams or Bills Rams. That's my
- 51:27Speaker 2: that's my pick. But I'm leaning Bills Rams all right.
- 51:31Speaker 1: For me, I would have six.
- 51:32Speaker 2: And a five seed, which is pretty bonkers.
- 51:36Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a one seed on on the AFC
- 51:39Speaker 1: side and on the NFC side, I'm going to have
- 51:42Speaker 1: the three seed. I'm gonna have the Eagles winning in Seattle.
- 51:46Speaker 2: I'm genuinely shocked that you have the Broncos making the
- 51:49Speaker 2: Super Bowl.
- 51:49Speaker 1: I have Broncos and Eagles in the super Bowl right
- 51:53Speaker 1: now because I think they're solid defenses that are being
- 51:55Speaker 1: overlooked basically, and they're well they're Eagles are at least a
- 51:58Speaker 1: team with experience. Ronco's obviously not. But that is my
- 52:02Speaker 1: super Bowl matchup the way I have it right now.
- 52:04Speaker 2: How many people are watching right now? Uh?
- 52:06Speaker 1: One hundred and four?
- 52:08Speaker 2: You're welcome for the reachweek anyways, Yes, thank you. I
- 52:13Speaker 2: want I want the people in the chair. The reason
- 52:14Speaker 2: I was asking this is because if it's like five,
- 52:16Speaker 2: I don't really care what they have to say. But
- 52:17Speaker 2: if there's one hundred, I'd like people to drop on
- 52:19Speaker 2: the chat. Who what's their matchups? Give us their matchups
- 52:22Speaker 2: in the super Bowl.
- 52:23Speaker 1: Let's do it.
- 52:24Speaker 2: We got in the super Bowl? Who you got, who's
- 52:26Speaker 2: who's playing? And who wins?
- 52:29Speaker 1: Yeah? So who do you who do you have winning?
- 52:31Speaker 1: By the way, in the super Bowl, you're going rams?
- 52:37Speaker 2: God, I think so, I mean I or you know,
- 52:43Speaker 2: I might. I might just say Alan gets it done.
- 52:47Speaker 2: Case falls, Allen's been kept out, kept the ring off
- 52:50Speaker 2: his finger by Mahomes time and time again. Yeah, that's
- 52:54Speaker 2: kind of the the hero's journey story.
- 52:56Speaker 1: So although if he does it, everybody would probably still
- 53:00Speaker 1: like shit on him, be like, oh, he did it,
- 53:01Speaker 1: but he didn't have to go through those other guys.
- 53:05Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, someone's gotta win. So if Herbert
- 53:09Speaker 2: does it, they'll say the same thing. But then Herbert
- 53:11Speaker 2: can just say, well, I beat Mahmes twice in the
- 53:13Speaker 2: regular season. Shove it up your fucking ass. The whole
- 53:15Speaker 2: reason they were in the playoffs was because of us. Yeah.
- 53:18Speaker 1: Yeah. And I'm also shocked that I have Denver winning
- 53:21Speaker 1: the super Bowl in my bracket, which I mean, what
- 53:25Speaker 1: the fuck this is my bracket right here.
- 53:27Speaker 2: You don't even just have them making the super Bowl.
- 53:29Speaker 2: You have the Broncos winning the super Bowl.
- 53:32Speaker 1: With my bracket. This is the game theory bracket that
- 53:36Speaker 1: I filled out the other day.
- 53:37Speaker 2: Dude, there's no way they beat the Eagles. If the
- 53:40Speaker 2: Eagles make it, the Eagles beat the Broncos.
- 53:43Speaker 1: I would be worried about that. Yeah, because if that happens, If.
- 53:47Speaker 2: You're worried about it, why are you picking the Broncos?
- 53:51Speaker 2: What do you keep saying? Game theory? What the fuck
- 53:53Speaker 2: is the game theory?
- 53:54Speaker 1: I take like what percentage of people are picking certain
- 53:57Speaker 1: teams versus like what are the actual odds them to
- 54:00Speaker 1: do it? And I find like where the biggest gap is.
- 54:03Speaker 1: So the Broncos were like the most underpicked team percentage wise,
- 54:07Speaker 1: combined with like having the best odds to win it.
- 54:10Speaker 1: I mean, so I factor in them, Bolt, I like
- 54:12Speaker 1: multiply them. I mostly do it with March madness though.
- 54:15Speaker 2: All right, I think it's gonna let you. I think
- 54:18Speaker 2: it's gonna let you down. But I'll tell you my
- 54:20Speaker 2: my buddy McKinney out of San Diego, my one of
- 54:23Speaker 2: my best friends from high school. He would have an
- 54:26Speaker 2: orgasm that would last him a century. If the fucking
- 54:28Speaker 2: if bo Nicks wins the Super.
- 54:29Speaker 1: Bowl, well Cole will so there is that too.
- 54:32Speaker 2: Trust me. This this, this dude McKinney is a fucking psychopath.
- 54:35Speaker 2: He We lived in San Diego and this kid would
- 54:39Speaker 2: drive to Denver multiple times per year to watch a
- 54:42Speaker 2: home game. And he was born and raised in San Diego,
- 54:45Speaker 2: and he just he just chose to become a Broncos fan.
- 54:49Speaker 2: And then he would drive to Denver multiple times per year.
- 54:52Speaker 2: He moved to Denver for a couple of years just
- 54:55Speaker 2: to go to Broncos games. It's crazy, I mean.
- 54:58Speaker 1: To say, he's from San Diego. Yeah, dude, so you
- 55:01Speaker 1: just I'm gonna pick the team that everybody hates, the Broncos.
- 55:04Speaker 2: Yeah. And I had another friend like that who decided
- 55:07Speaker 2: to be.
- 55:08Speaker 1: That too, by the way, against against.
- 55:11Speaker 2: What this kid. This kid did it junior year of
- 55:13Speaker 2: high school because I was a huge Chargers fan. And
- 55:16Speaker 2: he's just like I'm gonna pick a team, and he's like,
- 55:18Speaker 2: we had just got our cars, and he's like, I
- 55:20Speaker 2: love horsepower. I love horses, so I'm a Broncos fan.
- 55:23Speaker 2: And then he became a psychotic, like bigger a Broncos
- 55:26Speaker 2: fan than I've ever been a fan of anything. It's crazy, dude.
- 55:33Speaker 1: The chatter a bunch of psychoes. Garrett the Carolina fan
- 55:36Speaker 1: has Carolina winning, and then Charles is saying the Broncos,
- 55:39Speaker 1: but he likes the Panthers. If they could get there,
- 55:44Speaker 1: that would be the rematch of the Peyton Manning Super
- 55:46Speaker 1: Bowl Bronx.
- 55:48Speaker 2: I like that your your viewers are as retarded as
- 55:51Speaker 2: we are. I just don't see it. I don't see
- 55:54Speaker 2: the Panthers that the Broncos doing it.
- 55:55Speaker 1: Man, Obviously I could see the Broncos doing it. But
- 55:59Speaker 1: you're right again, like, if they're up against the team
- 56:02Speaker 1: that won it last year, the experienced team, I worry,
- 56:04Speaker 1: but Clint, last year I had both Super Bowl teams right,
- 56:07Speaker 1: but I had the wrong winner. I had Chiefs over
- 56:09Speaker 1: Eagles in my bracket, so that was all right. I
- 56:12Speaker 1: have Indiana doing the game theory thing in the College
- 56:15Speaker 1: Football Playoff. I have Indiana right now. The other game
- 56:19Speaker 1: is on right now, by the way, the semi final
- 56:21Speaker 1: Miami and Ole miss over here.
- 56:24Speaker 2: I mean Chiefs Eagles was chalk last season, wasn't it.
- 56:27Speaker 1: No? No, it was not like both teams were not
- 56:32Speaker 1: really being picked because they were both like really defense orient.
- 56:35Speaker 1: I think the Eagles, well, the Eagles I think might
- 56:37Speaker 1: have been the two seed in the NFC last year
- 56:40Speaker 1: and then the Chiefs were what were the Chiefs the
- 56:44Speaker 1: one I don't remember. Maybe they were the one, so
- 56:46Speaker 1: it was the one against the two maybe, but people
- 56:49Speaker 1: weren't picking them though, so I don't know.
- 56:51Speaker 2: Well, as a Chargers fan, I was I was like, yeah,
- 56:55Speaker 2: that sounds about it, right, I didn't think yeah. But anyways, yeah,
- 57:00Speaker 2: I think that I think your bracket's gonna look like
- 57:02Speaker 2: shit in about a week. I think I think you're
- 57:07Speaker 2: gonna look.
- 57:09Speaker 1: But the Broncos will still be alive in.
- 57:11Speaker 2: A week, yeah, told the Seahawks.
- 57:14Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the Eagles will still be as well.
- 57:17Speaker 1: So yeah, that's mine. Uh So you have Rams definitely
- 57:20Speaker 1: could do it, man, I mean Rams are legit, they
- 57:23Speaker 1: have the experience, have done it before. Could be the
- 57:26Speaker 1: the Swan song for Stafford there. But you said it's
- 57:30Speaker 1: either that or Josh Allen basically, which you know, I mean,
- 57:33Speaker 1: I could definitely see that happening as well.
- 57:35Speaker 2: Though, Like I told you, I pick. I picked playoffs
- 57:37Speaker 2: based off quarterbacks, and I think I think those are
- 57:40Speaker 2: the three best quarterbacks in the playoffs. I think, Yeah,
- 57:46Speaker 2: I think along.
- 57:46Speaker 1: With Herbert Stafford Allen. Yeah, Josh Allen for sure. Uh
- 57:50Speaker 1: who else?
- 57:51Speaker 2: Did you say, love Stafford and Herbert?
- 57:54Speaker 1: Oh Herbert, Yeah, Herbert Stafford and Josh Allen. Yeah. Yeah,
- 57:57Speaker 1: so that not Drake May what?
- 58:00Speaker 2: No, sorry, I mean he had a good year, uh
- 58:05Speaker 2: you know, for he's a rookie. Right well, no, we
- 58:09Speaker 2: already went over this ya second year, but yeah, but
- 58:12Speaker 2: you know, first year, starting the whole season. I just
- 58:15Speaker 2: I think it's a bit of smoking mirrors. I just
- 58:17Speaker 2: I would be I honestly, I really believe that the
- 58:20Speaker 2: Charger are going in that game. So you guys get
- 58:22Speaker 2: to tune in seventy two hours from now and see
- 58:25Speaker 2: if I'm retarded or not.
- 58:26Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't. I would not be shocked if that happens.
- 58:30Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a tough game to read, man,
- 58:32Speaker 1: it is, so yeah, all right, well, well that.
- 58:37Speaker 2: Is it, Drake me over Herbert bym you sound retarded, Garrett.
- 58:43Speaker 2: You're also a fucking Carolina fan, so I don't really
- 58:44Speaker 2: care what you think.
- 58:46Speaker 1: These are my regulars, man, this is my audience. Clinton.
- 58:50Speaker 2: These are the only people that replied though, yeah, oh shit,
- 58:53Speaker 2: all right, well we tried, we tried to get more
- 58:56Speaker 2: uh more feedback, but.
- 58:57Speaker 1: Yeah, Charles and Garrett, go oh we did. From a
- 59:00Speaker 1: D here, the guy, the guy who was doing the
- 59:02Speaker 1: end tower earlier. Actually he he said the Sonics would
- 59:06Speaker 1: win somewheer. I forget where he said that.
- 59:09Speaker 2: I got, I got, I got sweatpens on him. I'm cozy.
- 59:12Speaker 1: Oh A D said the Sonics will win. Bring back
- 59:15Speaker 1: the Sonics, man, NBA.
- 59:17Speaker 2: Right, he's right because the Thunder or the Sonics and
- 59:20Speaker 2: the Thunder are gonna win.
- 59:21Speaker 1: So that's probably true. Yeah, all right, hell yeah man,
- 59:27Speaker 1: anything else, Clint, any uh any other words about the
- 59:30Speaker 1: about the playoffs here, I.
- 59:34Speaker 2: Just just want to emphasize how how unbelievably crazy these
- 59:38Speaker 2: playoffs are. There is like, yeah, there is no I mean,
- 59:42Speaker 2: every other season there's a dominant team that, like everybody
- 59:46Speaker 2: kind of fears it just doesn't exist. Like literally like nobody.
- 59:50Speaker 2: I don't fear anybody in these playoffs.
- 59:53Speaker 1: I mean the team that's like the team that everybody
- 59:56Speaker 1: kind of is picking to be, Like the team that's
- 59:58Speaker 1: that best team is Seattle, which is kind of insane.
- 1:00:01Speaker 2: But you just you can't you can't fear Donald team. Yeah,
- 1:00:06Speaker 2: you can't fear a team quarterback by Sam Darnold. Like,
- 1:00:09Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's bad, He's he's okay, But like
- 1:00:12Speaker 2: I think he had four picks in that playoff game
- 1:00:14Speaker 2: for Minnesota last season, Am I wrong?
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: Well, so against Minnesota that was the that was for
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: the division win. Oh which one? So he he had
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: a horrible game against Detroit in the final, that's the
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: one reg season game. But then he had a horrible
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: game again against the Rams. All right, yeah yeah, so
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: Sean McVay has pretty much owned him.
- 1:00:33Speaker 2: Really Yeah. So Donald had like an unbelievable season and
- 1:00:38Speaker 2: then those last two games he looked like a guy
- 1:00:40Speaker 2: who shouldn't be a starter. So I just I mean,
- 1:00:44Speaker 2: if you fear a guy like that, like, I don't
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: get it. I don't know why you would.
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: So the most Hispanic fans, it might be that might
- 1:00:52Speaker 1: be the Chargers.
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: That would be the Raiders and they're not in there, so.
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: No, but in the out of the playoff teams, it's
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: got to be either Chargers.
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: It's easy the Chargers. I mean, all are all of
- 1:01:02Speaker 2: our fans are Mexicans.
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, I was gonna say, it's got to
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: be either Chargers, Rams, Houston or Mexicans.
- 1:01:09Speaker 2: Don't fuck with Rams. Nobody fucks with the Rams, all right,
- 1:01:12Speaker 2: It's okay, I'm serious. Like, the only people that are
- 1:01:14Speaker 2: Rams fans are in Saint Louis, Like, no one.
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: They were the l A Rams before there were Saint Louis,
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: all right, weren't they.
- 1:01:22Speaker 2: I think a long time ago.
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: Yeah, they went back to l A. They were the
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: l A Rams and they had.
- 1:01:28Speaker 2: That's true. So they say, yeah they have some Mexican
- 1:01:31Speaker 2: and black fans because LA. But there's no Mexicans in
- 1:01:34Speaker 2: in Uh yeah, there's no.
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: So it's not Jacksonville is probably all Wiggers.
- 1:01:41Speaker 2: Yeah they got some black fans too, all right.
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: Yeah, true, uh yeah, So I guess it's got to
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: be the Chargers then. I mean, Houston probably has a
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: decent amount, but.
- 1:01:50Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard. It's hard to say that the Chargers
- 1:01:52Speaker 2: ever have the most fans ever in any category because
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: there's so few Charger fans. But if you're gonna ask
- 1:01:58Speaker 2: me about Mexicans, it's Chargers. They played in San Diego
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: for a long time. A lot of Mexicans became fans
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: of them.
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: Yeah, he and Bull's game is wait delayed? What does
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: that even mean? How's how's an NBA game delayed because
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: of a hawk? Oh? It's delayed on TV. I'm like, wait, what,
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: I don't know. You can probably find a stream of
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: it somewhere.
- 1:02:18Speaker 2: That's a reply we didn't need.
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: No, Well, I'm dictating the show here, Menda condensation on
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: the court. All right? Uh, should we get out of here? Clinton?
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: Yeah? Man, thanks for having me.
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: You got some plugs. Yeah, anytime, Man, we should do
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: it again at some point for I don't know whatever.
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: Whatever the next sport is that comes up that you
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: want to do.
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean NBA playoffs time. That's about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: I'm Clint Russell. What were you? Lockdown? That's it? Thanks man?
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: Hell yeah, thanks thanks for coming on. Man.
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: For sure, I'm gonna fucking mock you so so aggressively
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: when your entire blacket bracket is blown out. I swear.
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: I don't think you have a single
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: Thing right, all right, Thanks Clint, Thank everybody, Thanks everybody.