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Strictly Bias with Will Retherford: NFL Week 14 Reaction (2.106.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to the strictly biased podcast with Will Rutherford this week will react a week 14 of the NFL schedule Only has some opinions on the college football playoffs and it's only on the symphony and the school
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back everybody to strictly biased with the yours truly will rather for the I am here tonight to recap a week 14 of the NFL slate which sold a lot of surprises and answered a lot of questions I think that we have had so far throughout the course of this season I am joined tonight by the legend Greg Menigrell Greg thank you so much for being with us here tonight Thanks for letting me be your sidekick will
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've had conversations with potentially bringing some guests in here in the next few weeks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I am going to be on Christmas break from Ball State.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Greg, I would like to start off by talking about something that we don't usually talk about, and that's called football.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you would let me have the floor here for just a second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that we have reached a critical impact in college football where the conversation between deserving and best needs to really begin to infiltrate the powers that be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's incredibly disappointing to play a 14-week college football season and we're forced to watch James Madison at Oregon and Tulane at Ole Miss.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A match-up that's already happened this year in case anybody's wondering Ole Miss won by 35 points.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's that way because the fans deserve better than that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: College football deserves to have its best teams playing in the playoffs, regardless of what people want to say about, oh, you know, it's like the NCAA where every team has a chance.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Every team doesn't have a chance.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to see 30 points breads in these two games, and it just doesn't have to be that way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You sent a BYU team home that went to their conference championship and was punished for being in their conference championship.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You sent home another Dame team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: that while they did lose to Miami and and they could have ultimately played their way into the tournament.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They had been put in the rankings every single week since their losses.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At Texas, well, at home against Texas, say, and him and at Miami.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then all of the sudden this week they're out and it just begs the question of what we're doing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that college football is on a point where you're going to really start to lose fans.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they save you or ships up into the right and they say it's better than ever and just that and the other and the priority show us the priority.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let the best teams in the play off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You need to change the format.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If not, you're going to lose fans as quickly as you gain them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you're going to tell five different conferences that they just don't belong.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the better football programs or you need to differentiate between the two divisions again and have three division one divisions at this point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it is just absolutely brutal that you do not have your best teams playing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You have games that should matter for these playoff positions and you have teams at home that should be playing in them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Would you rather watch a JMEU and Oregon or do you rather watch their David Oregon?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would rather have an underdog with an opportunity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, the one their conference championship and didn't lose their first two games of the season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And their argument can be said, Oregon had it all out in front of the Mazda Vanderbilt as did Texas as did BYU.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think of all the teams.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They have the best argument that they should probably be in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But at this point, I think that we need to see the best football be played and let the other.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Other group of eight conferences have 24 like the other divisions in your own organization.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The other NCA divisions have 24.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was wore a waist in our time here and just doesn't matter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is the year that it went that are off of they just done four because there's only 14 to that chance of winning it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad you think that until college football figures it out, I'm quite frankly kind of getting tired of everybody on Facebook, Twitter, any social media platform, bitch and mountain, this is a systematic issue that must be fixed to gain the legitimacy that college football deserves.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it is warranted because called basketball is a perfect system.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, on that, you and I agree, it needs fixed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Greg, I've already said a lot and I have a lot more to say, but first, what would you like to know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who's going to play quarterback for the Colts and doesn't matter?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It does matter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This news of Riley Leonard with a knee injury and their questioning whether he's going to be available for their game next Sunday at Seattle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It definitely begs the question of what they're going to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, the news that Philip Rivers who is 44 years all is going to fly to India on Tuesday for a workout.
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[SPEAKER_01]: feel like there's better options to be completely frank with you than that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't imagine that's their best option.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was kind of expecting maybe a Russell Wilson or Joe Flacco potentially get waved in the colds could try to go after them just to give themselves somebody that's actually played professional football in the last four years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If Riley Leonard Kent go, I guess Philip Rivers is better than the alternative probably, but I think if Riley Leonard can go, I think that
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wish that was the case.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't for what I, there's no news.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've been so quiet about his availability.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's done probably.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's been his chance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just kind of too bad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's really unfortunate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He had a chance to potentially play himself into a job this last year to be a hero.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And a city that he has kind of been the scapegoat in the bill in the last two years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He had the opportunity to change the opinions of people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And if he could absolutely play in this offense, would it be a successful or as fluid is what Daniel Jones probably not, but he's still plenty good enough, he has plenty talent, he has enough athleticism to get the job done to win two games, which is what the courts need to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure Tyler Warren's not a better option than Phillip Rivers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm kind of with you there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that Phillip Rivers is the best option.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I guess you'd like to if he's been working out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I just he's been coaching high school football in Alabama for the last three years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I see really
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[SPEAKER_01]: continuing to work out like a professional athlete, I can't imagine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know they say you can throw a ball forever, but it just feels like an awful lot, especially in a system that he didn't play in, he played under Frank Racken, indeed, didn't play under Stike, and it seems confusing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like there's a better alternative somewhere than that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I hope Riley learned
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[SPEAKER_01]: given a week of practice, which doesn't sound like he's probably going to get, he could have tailored a game plan to really benefit and play up to his skill set.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, that's probably not going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If they're already questioning whether he's available, they're in a really bad situation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is about a worst case scenario.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's talk about some winners and losers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They will, who are the winners in the losers of the week?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Greg, I'm glad you said that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's jump right in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll start with the losers as we always do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've found a big loser this week was the Baltimore Ravens.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They obviously still have a chance.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I believe it's under 20% to make the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think their only avenue is to win the division.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Steelers are bad enough to fall apart.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Ravens have enough talent that they can string together some wins.
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[SPEAKER_01]: they had the opportunity to go and win that football game yesterday and regardless of what you say about the Isaiah likely catch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If that's not a catch in the NFL, I struggle to understand what is, if you want my opinion, but for whatever reason, the stealers which don't even get, they,
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's worse that they are going to be in the playoffs than not because somebody's going to just get an absolute gamey game to go on to the site around.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This Steelers team has no business being in the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're just testing to watch its gross football.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't care about Aaron Rodgers what he's doing at 42 years old.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This Steelers team just does not deserve to begin the postseason.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, they they still have to play the Ravens again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Ravens have a chance to to even the division out in terms of, you know, having a game up on on them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I still strain, but I want to say I was part of that game yesterday and the Steelers are better than the Ravens.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just strange.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the Ravens defense is bad and and the Ravens have gotten away with having a lack of skilled position players for a couple years now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They flowers is their only good receiver that's on their roster.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the more Jackson's has not been Lamar.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's battling an injury.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's battling something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever it is, he's just not looking the same.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's battling something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about another team battle and then that's the Tampa Bay buck and you're sure another huge loser getting upset at home to a bad New Orleans Saints team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh bad man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Baker may feel just I don't know if if the league's catching up and catching on to whatever he's known there's a lot of tape out there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I find it hard to believe that he just suddenly is getting played differently.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that the lack of Mike Evans is in terms of a vertical stretch in this offense is huge for his goodness at Mecca at Buca's been I think this team is really starting to miss Jalen McMillan as a death wide receiver who jumped in last year after the Chris Godwin injury and played a phenomenal wide receiver too and complimented Mike Evans
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're missing him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He has returned to practice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that the outlook is good for him to potentially play this season, but they're kind of getting by.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think I think Baker's injured.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think that there is something wrong with that shoulder.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He just has just seemed to be driving and ripping through the ball like he normally does.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're seven and six.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're still right there with the Panthers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I, they're better than the Panthers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They play twice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't be surprised if the books sweep that series still end up at 11 and six 10 and seven at the worst.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I still wouldn't want to play them in the postseason because I think they, they get at Baker's hot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They can absolutely steal games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Cowboys were a huge loser.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they saw their playoff chances slip right between their fingers Thursday night against the lions That was essentially a playoff eliminator.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cowboys lost a tough one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They just couldn't stop the lions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They couldn't stop your mirror Gibbs
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now you're seeing a team that is, I believe at this moment a top 10 team in this league in terms of how they've played the last two months, but they started the season so bad that they just aren't going to give themselves an opportunity and that's that's why every game matters and this league when you only play 17 games every single game matters.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and CDLAM and Jake Ferguson, they finally have a good back in Javante Williams and for whatever reason, they're just not going to be able to put it together because they couldn't win games in September and October.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Greg, I know you're going to love to hear this one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The chiefs, huge loser this week and I think they saw their playoff chances go to their schedules too tough down the stretch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think for them to only
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've been done just before the season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You just cannot continue to go through postseason after postseason and then get old with one of your best players and still continue to win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just not going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's so surprising to me how good they have been historically in one's four games and how bad they've been this year in one score games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, they get an over time when you're against the cults.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That text and defense just look like the chiefs had no answers for them to become completely honest.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I don't know if I've ever seen Pat in the home.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So just rattled.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It just felt like that he had no time to make anything happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They dropped the ball left and right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Kelsey basically put the ball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: in a Houston defender's hands there with the drive only down the touchdown.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It just wasn't good enough for the chiefs and unfortunately they're going to see their playoff chances disappear because of a loss at home against the Texans, which is a game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The chiefs always win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Always win that game historically.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They just, I think they're just a tier below where they've been the last few years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the greatest of caught up with them, they will recover.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, we'll see if it is with Travis Kelsey still.
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[SPEAKER_01]: as my homes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Second offensive option now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Rishi Rice is definitely taking his role.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I still think the chiefs need to find a way to get Xavier worthy to ball more.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's too talented of a playmaker.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They were really good last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The last eight games because they found a way to get him the ball in space.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's an electric playmaker.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They need to solve a solution running back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I see them addressing that probably in this draft.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But this chiefs team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's over for this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It seemed inevitable to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Greg, it's no surprise to the biggest loser is this week, it's standing up a skull to just a devastating loss in Jacksonville, even more so because they lose the leader in the quarterback of that team, Daniel Jones, who
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[SPEAKER_01]: just play his ass off for this this organization, this fan base, this city, the state.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He left it all out there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's definitely a lot to hang your hat on in terms of his ability to be a leader and be tough and play through injury.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Did it ultimately lead to this Achilles tear?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's uh, that's the question that when one leg is compromised and you're putting a little
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[SPEAKER_01]: weight distribution and just overall movement on your other leg that there might be some consequences of that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The cults figured that out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Jonathan Taylor was just seemed a little sloppy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That fumble of Jonathan Taylor, so uncharacteristic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not a running back that reaches out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then for whatever reason, a 60 degree day in Jacksonville, where it's a torrential downpour,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's just a that that was a game that felt doomed from the beginning the second that they had to just do that pick on the first cold possession of the game yesterday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just felt like a boy here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are the same old shenanigans we always run into in Jacksonville.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then they got worse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Can I throw in an honorable mention?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think you can.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Cincinnati Bengals.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They were right there with the chance to win the division and Joe Burro.
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[SPEAKER_00]: who was just amazing on Sunday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One of the worst passes I ever just did not think a guy was gonna make a play who did and the wrinkle season is over.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I had them on this list but I think it was so far in left field that they were probably gonna have a chance to begin with.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the way the Steelers and Ravens are playing, you could hear their footsteps but now it's over.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hell, maybe eight nine wins a division crazy as that sounds maybe it's not over if they went out I could see the Steelers lose and only win in one more game I could see the Ravens only win in a couple more games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's definitely not outside the ramma possibility will see at Listen to their schedule will Ravens Dolphins Cardinals Browns three of the four of them
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you can't go and win that, potentially give yourself even the opportunity to win the division you didn't deserve to be there anyway, I think it's all out in front.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Even at this point, it's crazy as it sounds.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Steelers can absolutely lose games easily.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're quite compromised in terms of their capabilities.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At this point, the Steelers and Ravens could lose anybody.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Craig, are you ready to start with winners?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it sucks we have to talk about it even more, but the Steelers were wondering this week because they win a game in Baltimore.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That they needed to win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he has historically been great against Lamar Jackson.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Those are two teams that still have to play each other in other times.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that definitely can be a huge shake-up in terms of the AFC playoff picture.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the Steelers right now are in the driver's seat in their division.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They are the worst team in the playoff picture by four.
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[SPEAKER_01]: by a lot actually I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know that I don't know
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm done, you know what, I'm done talking about this Taylor's good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The bills were a big winner this week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because they really needed the win that game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They had the win that game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If they lose that game, potentially out of the playoff picture.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know where the tiebreaker was with them in the cults.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But...
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have to worry about it now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're nine and four.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're probably a lock to get in at this point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I see them them winning one more game probably two more games down the stretch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I could definitely see that I could see them still winning their division to be completely honest with you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've never seen a player be able to elevate their game to wherever it needs to be weak and weak out of the sea does it just feels like he can just flip a switch and say, okay, now I'm going to take this game over.
18:46
[SPEAKER_01]: He can sit back and just be that point guard and distribute the ball beyond time, be precise.
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[SPEAKER_01]: just take care of the football and at the same time he can still rev it up and be the athlete, be the gunslinger that they need him to be when it matters the most.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just the code switching that he's able to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure I've ever seen an NFL quarterback be as good at that in my lifetime as he is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's about to win a Super Bowl with a not very good team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you.
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[UNKNOWN]: I
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[SPEAKER_01]: I still think you're wrong, although I think that my five most likely will reflect that I respect the bills.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I respect y'all shown.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Sean with Dermot can be an absolute goof.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But he's good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying he's not good, but he can be a goof when he wants.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He has moments where you just look and say, Sean, what the hell were you thinking?
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[SPEAKER_01]: But that's with most coaches to be quite outside of the top eight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that most coaches are right around the same point, right around the same level in terms of their ability to
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[SPEAKER_01]: another great play caller that has his team on the winners for will rather for just the Green Bay Packers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think absolutely took control of the NFC North.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They have started week by week to ease my concern that they are inconsistent.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They seem to have found a strategy and a game plan that works best for them to be
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[SPEAKER_01]: conducive to whatever they need it to be to adapt to the game plan that the other team has in front of them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're defensive front four is really starting to figure it out.
20:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that their secondary with Jeff Haffley is also playing their bestball at the right time in Jordan love he has that Carson wins and where he he can just.
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[SPEAKER_01]: give you the ball up, but he's really in a stretch right now where he's playing great football.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's spreading it out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's airing the ball out throwing down the field.
20:50
[SPEAKER_01]: He's he's just been everything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The packers have needed him to be the last three weeks when he kind of felt like they were on the ropes a little bit in terms of where where they were going to go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They were kind of right at the Teeter Powder and it's been really paused to for them this last three game stretch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the Packers have warned to the conversation that they are in the lead in F.C.
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[SPEAKER_01]: team at this point.
21:13
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't tell Michelle, but I agree with you.
21:17
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Michelle is going to love his right in front of him as a winner this weekend.
21:20
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the Detroit lie.
21:21
[SPEAKER_01]: And to I win, they play their best footballer.
21:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Still better than this Green Bay Packers team.
21:26
[SPEAKER_01]: The line, one game they had to win, Dan Campbell was just pressing all the right buttons.
21:32
[SPEAKER_01]: They score 44 points.
21:33
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to all Saint Brown, a bomb ankle goes out and has six receptions for 92 yards.
21:39
[SPEAKER_01]: Jared Goff, spreading the ball out all over the yard, your mirror gives three touchdowns.
21:44
[SPEAKER_01]: When this Lions team decides they want to give Jamir Gibbs the ball 30 times a game.
21:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think there's a team in the league that can stop him.
21:51
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just getting the ball into his hands that often.
21:54
[SPEAKER_01]: LePort is injury is going to loom large in the playoffs as far as Jared golf.
21:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Having a safety valve, I still think their defense is beaten and battered.
22:01
[SPEAKER_01]: Can they win a Super Bowl?
22:03
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
22:03
[SPEAKER_01]: They can beat any team and that NFC though and get there.
22:07
[SPEAKER_01]: If their offense is firing on all cylinders the way we saw on Thursday night against Dallas.
22:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you're going to agree with my biggest winner, too.
22:14
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the Houston Texans.
22:17
[SPEAKER_01]: That is a scary team.
22:19
[SPEAKER_01]: That is a team.
22:20
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody wants to see in the playoffs.
22:22
[SPEAKER_01]: That is a team that can shut down the elite of the elite in this NFL.
22:27
[SPEAKER_01]: They have my homes in Allen, throw in zero touchdowns.
22:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Five interceptions combined in their two matchups.
22:32
[SPEAKER_01]: They've played two of those teams the last three weeks.
22:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I Jacksonville did Houston a huge service by losing that 29 to 10 lead that they had about five weeks ago.
22:49
[SPEAKER_01]: It gave Houston a spark that they have just turned in to completely turning their season around after an 0 and 3 beginning of the second life.
22:57
[SPEAKER_01]: they gave him a second life and they've absolutely taken advantage of it.
23:01
[SPEAKER_01]: Jaden Higgins continues to be an honorable number two.
23:04
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's growing into that role.
23:06
[SPEAKER_01]: They drafted him and gave him the guaranteed money at in the second round for a reason.
23:10
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a mini-niko Collins in three years.
23:14
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to be sitting here saying this Houston receiving course impossible to stop with all the talent that they have.
23:20
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that this is a team that even if they don't win it this year or, you know, don't win a playoff game, this is a team next year that you look at and say they, they might not be a team that can beat them because their defense is just that elite that
23:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, last year, I said that the Texans were a team of 20, 25.
23:46
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe that coming into the season.
23:48
[SPEAKER_00]: They were going to be pretty good, but I just don't think they have the offensive pieces to contend with the very best.
23:55
[SPEAKER_00]: But you're right.
23:57
[SPEAKER_00]: They go into any game with a chance.
24:00
[SPEAKER_01]: They make even the most elite offenses look pedestrian.
24:03
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what they've done.
24:04
[SPEAKER_01]: They have absolutely shut teams down.
24:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure outside of the Jacksonville game where they scored 29 points.
24:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that they've given up more than 24 points the entire year.
24:16
[SPEAKER_01]: They've been that good.
24:18
[SPEAKER_01]: They've lost some tough games and I do think that their offense is an issue.
24:21
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they're super deficient.
24:23
[SPEAKER_01]: I think CJ Stroud is
24:25
[SPEAKER_01]: settled into this tier where he's not the elite player that he was taught to be as rookie or but he's also a good corner back in his own right and that's okay there's a reason that not everybody can be a superstar not everybody can be the best sometimes you got to have guys that just good enough you get the job done I think that's strad at this point of his career the running game a little less to be desired they're offensive lines bad but they have the playmakers
24:48
[SPEAKER_01]: outside, that if Straud can just kind of get on one here and be thrown the ball around the yard really efficiently, that they're offensive skill positions are good enough to get the job.
24:59
[SPEAKER_01]: The Nico Collins is unguardable.
25:01
[SPEAKER_01]: He's open every single play.
25:03
[SPEAKER_01]: I've never seen anything like it in my life.
25:06
[SPEAKER_01]: It feels like every time Straud needs to just throw the ball up Nico Collins is wide open for for whatever reason.
25:17
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I, you know, what, I think there were, there's room for honorable mentions in both of these this week.
25:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Chicago Bears.
25:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I, I think they are a winner, even though they lost because they proved that they are legit.
25:30
[SPEAKER_01]: They are good enough.
25:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Can they win a Super Bowl?
25:33
[SPEAKER_01]: No, but they can contend.
25:35
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're a franchise on the rise with this, uh, the way they've looked the last couple weeks.
25:40
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
25:41
[SPEAKER_01]: If Caleb Williams can just learn how to be a more accurate passer, if he can just get to 65% of his passes completely, they're going to be a real problem.
25:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Because this run game that Ben Johnson has teamed up is unreal.
25:52
[SPEAKER_01]: They've rebuilt their offensive line this past all season.
25:54
[SPEAKER_01]: It's paid dividends form.
25:56
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the bear's team that I think is a team for next year as well, not division.
26:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Bragg, this is awfully similar to last week.
26:16
[SPEAKER_01]: There's one team that's different.
26:18
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that you'll disagree with me.
26:20
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure, but I think the argument for them is fair.
26:23
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll just jump right into it though.
26:25
[SPEAKER_01]: My fifth most likely in the Super Bowl is Houston Texans, because I watched them shut down Patrick Mahomes.
26:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I watched them shut down Josh Allen.
26:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I watched them shut down the Denver Broncos for most of the, of the game.
26:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I've watched them stop whoever they wanted to stop.
26:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Whenever they want to do it, however they want to do it, whether it be a sack, whether it be a force fumble, whether it be an interception, they take the ball away, they're ruthless, they're physical, they're a dangerous team if you let them get into the playoffs.
26:53
[SPEAKER_01]: This team can absolutely get to the AFC championship off their defensive prowlous alone.
26:57
[SPEAKER_01]: If Straud can even touch his rookie season C, J Straud, this team can still win a super bull this year because the AFC is wide open and elite defense right now can win you games.
27:08
[SPEAKER_01]: are moving on.
27:09
[SPEAKER_01]: The buffalo bills.
27:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I still have them just below the Broncos because I think the Broncos defense is good enough to slow Josh Allen down just enough to give them a chance.
27:19
[SPEAKER_01]: I also do not love the stylistic matchup of
27:24
[SPEAKER_01]: Buffalo's run defense against Denver.
27:27
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that it leads a little to be desired.
27:29
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that RJ Harvey is really coming into his own, has become an elite skill player for this Denver Broncos team.
27:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's talk that JK Dobbins could potentially be back for the postseason.
27:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Bonnex has good enough on his legs to get you a couple first towns if you need it among third and long.
27:47
[SPEAKER_01]: If I was to pick, I think it's just about a toss-up.
27:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd give the Broncos the edge at home.
27:52
[SPEAKER_01]: And this game against theoretical game against the bills.
27:55
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe by a point and a half would be all it would be on.
27:59
[SPEAKER_01]: I liked this Broncos team a lot.
28:00
[SPEAKER_01]: I liked this bill's team a lot.
28:02
[SPEAKER_01]: And I still think that right now they deserve our warrant to be on the list.
28:06
[SPEAKER_01]: These last four weeks could change my mind to have the bills over the Broncos.
28:13
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm already gaming away.
28:14
[SPEAKER_01]: My number three.
28:15
[SPEAKER_01]: It is Denver.
28:16
[SPEAKER_01]: The top three have not changed for me.
28:18
[SPEAKER_01]: I really like this Denver team.
28:20
[SPEAKER_01]: They just continue to find a way to get the job done.
28:22
[SPEAKER_01]: That game was not a one score game.
28:24
[SPEAKER_01]: It was 24 to 14.
28:26
[SPEAKER_01]: They controlled the ball for two thirds of the game.
28:29
[SPEAKER_01]: They just shut the raiders down.
28:30
[SPEAKER_01]: And that raiders team is bad.
28:31
[SPEAKER_01]: No question about it.
28:33
[SPEAKER_01]: But the Broncos have just found ways to win close ball games all year.
28:37
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a trade I like going into the postseason in these tough matchups.
28:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I think their defense
28:42
[SPEAKER_01]: really good at holding teams to three.
28:44
[SPEAKER_01]: This Broncos team is good enough.
28:48
[SPEAKER_01]: I think to win a Super Bowl on a wide open AFC, and a wide open NFC for that matter, if you don't believe in Denver at this point, I don't know who you believe in, because I think on paper, on their resume, this is the best team the AFC has to offer at this moment.
29:03
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't really believe in the Denver Broncos, it's a Super Bowl contender, but they're going to be home through the playoffs and the tough place to play, so you got to have fun on the list, I think.
29:11
[SPEAKER_01]: I just think that their resumes complete, they beat in the chiefs, they beat in the Texans, they beat in teams that they've had to beat.
29:20
[SPEAKER_00]: We're about to shoot their downfall, I believe.
29:23
[SPEAKER_01]: You could be right, you could be wrong.
29:25
[SPEAKER_01]: I still, uh, that game that they have coming up against Jackson Delight, I think will tell a lot.
29:33
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... the sea hawks still stay at number two for me if they get the job done uh... yesterday it looked kind of ugly in Atlanta there for the first half it was six six going into half time and then they just jumped out to score uh... thirty one points there in the second half at they haven't they have all the talent to go do it to say it in fc's wide open
29:52
[SPEAKER_01]: think the two best teams reside in the NFC West.
29:55
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why my number one team is the L.A. Rams.
29:57
[SPEAKER_01]: They're the most complete team at this point with Pook and Aku and Devontay Adams, Blake Corrum, Kairan Williams, Matthew Stafford, the list goes on and on.
30:06
[SPEAKER_01]: They're offensive lines keep and Stafford upright.
30:08
[SPEAKER_01]: He looks like a younger version of himself.
30:10
[SPEAKER_01]: This Rams team, uh,
30:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I just think that right now they look too complete and they just look too good.
30:17
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I don't think it's going to be an easy road form, but I think that they could kind of walk through the NFC right now.
30:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I just don't believe in Sam Darnold at all.
30:30
[SPEAKER_00]: So I see in the NFC really the Rams and Packers are starting to kind of separate themselves to me and the AFC, I just think the bills are the
30:41
[SPEAKER_00]: are the best team.
30:43
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the Broncos and Patriots, both have to like the chances of ended up in the Super Bowl.
30:49
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm honestly even the Patriots.
30:53
[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to be playing at home and an AFC that doesn't have a power team and you got to like the chances of winning those games in Foxboro and January.
31:05
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, my sleep routine is the Texans.
31:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that
31:12
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd probably have the Texans number two behind the bills right now in the F.C.
31:16
[SPEAKER_00]: honestly.
31:17
[SPEAKER_01]: They're, they're awfully dangerous.
31:19
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what, the straxable teams, they're good.
31:21
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you can say they're good.
31:23
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't trust them.
31:24
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not good enough to win a Super Bowl.
31:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, pretend they're.
31:27
[SPEAKER_01]: They're good.
31:28
[SPEAKER_01]: They're good enough to be a playoff team.
31:30
[SPEAKER_01]: They're good enough to win 10 games.
31:31
[SPEAKER_01]: They're good enough to probably win a playoff game.
31:33
[SPEAKER_01]: They're just not good enough.
31:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I think to beat.
31:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I say that and there's no reason they can't beat the bill.
31:41
[SPEAKER_01]: There's no reason that any of these teams can't beat each other.
31:43
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's the key of the season.
31:45
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why it's open.
31:46
[SPEAKER_01]: It's why it open is, it can be.
31:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Most that I can ever remember.
31:52
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, in both conferences and every division.
31:55
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I open right now.
31:57
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think you can say, I think about 10 teams just throw them in a hat right now.
32:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Before we select, I'm sure some of those will be able to eliminate.
32:07
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... teams on your list i think uh... could make a run the chargers for example i have no idea their schedules to i'd i'd there the team i think will miss the play off you're right but if they got the play off their good enough to beat teams the cowboys you mentioned if they got the play off so good enough to beat teams the lions i think probably belong on the list even though they might not make the play off and the bears probably aren't going to this year but it's a kind of crazy year
32:37
[SPEAKER_01]: Every team has a weakness every I could spend every team has a weakness every team has a strength And the chargers is there had coach so don't count them out, man I'm just telling you I hope or who could goof play off games He's there's there's about eight quarterbacks in that tier where at any moment they can be both a top three quarterback in the league or a bottom
33:04
[SPEAKER_00]: a quarter back in the league and Herbert is in that tier where he can just actually give you games away.
33:25
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33:36
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