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Welcome into the show on a good Saturday afternoon.
This will be one of the few shows I do all year, where it will be recorded and instant
release.
I know a lot of you guys were looking for this show on Wednesday morning.
You guys have been used to that on Wednesday morning.
However, I'm in the process of moving on a personal note, so this guy's been a little
wonky this week.
It'll probably be a little weird next week as well, because again, I know you guys used
to hear me on Wednesday, but I'm moving next week.
And so, you probably won't get a show on Wednesday.
And I mean, it's a 50-50 chance.
I'll definitely keep you guys updated.
My apologies for not updating you guys this week, with the show going to be late.
Anyway, we are here for Justin Time Sports season four, episode 32 on a Saturday afternoon.
I'm actually watching Texas A&M and Ole Miss right now.
But topics as you guys heard in the opening, the NBA, the NFL, of course, Jack's hot take.
So the big news, to start off in the NBA, the big, huge news is James Harden got traded.
Oh, wow.
That's bad.
We have an injury in the A&M, Ole Miss game.
It looks like his knee, I think it's Moss.
He's refusing to get up.
That's wow.
Guy went low, hit him in the knee, lay down.
Moss, who's just come back, he's from Walker, Louisiana.
So he's Louisiana kid.
Hit him in the knee, and he immediately, he's trying to help him up.
He waved him off.
He's writhing in pain.
That's tough to look at.
Wow.
But the big news coming out of the NBA, excuse me, sorry, over the past week was James Harden
got traded.
So he got his deal to move on from the Philadelphia 76ers to the point where Brian Onehorse hilariously
stated on TV that Harden, probably half jokingly, Harden should open a consulting firm and teach
other NBA players how to get out of those situations and get what they want because
Harden got moved to Houston semi against his will.
Houston to Brooklyn was because he wanted to go to.
Brooklyn to Philly was because he wanted to go there.
And now Philly to the Clippers is where he wanted to go there.
It was so mathematically unfeasible for him to go to the Clippers.
Remember I was like working the deal, I was trying to move Dane to Miami and Harden to
the Clippers.
And even if he did Harden straight up, there was no way the pieces would work.
I mean, people were saying like, oh, there's no way they'd take that for Harden.
I mean, that was the common thing.
There's no way they'll take that for Harden.
They're not taking that for Harden.
There's not enough picks.
Like it was so much stuff.
And then he found the Clippers weren't really negotiating.
There was so much stuff against this trade.
It was almost like, excuse me, it felt like there's no way it's going to happen.
But it happened.
James Harden ultimately gets traded to the Los Angeles Clippers for a package of Marcus
Morris, Nicholas Batoom, Robert Covington, KJ Martin, two first round picks, one V.O.
almost here in 2026, one completely unprotected from the Los Angeles Clippers in 2028, a pick
swap, I think it might be two pick swaps, and two second round picks.
And James Harden is an official Los Angeles Clipper.
He had his introductory press conference in which he stated that he had some difficulties
in Philly and they were trying to box him in and he wanted to play and that he's not
a system player.
He is the system, which led Joe LMB to respond with, we gave Harden the ball pretty much
every play.
So I don't know what lack of freedom he was talking about, but he got the ball pretty
much every play and could do whatever he wanted to him, he has the ball in his hand.
A couple of fans that I know personally reached out and was like, what do you mean?
It was one of those statements where a guy like James Harden, who's a world class blame
deflector, blame deflected.
It wasn't me, they didn't let me play how I wanted to play.
They got in the way of this.
They got in the way of that.
They did things that they made me play a way I didn't want to play and all of this stuff,
he kept pushing it on Philly, kept pushing it on Philly and ultimately he lands with
the Clippers.
Now, let's look at this one a couple of ways.
With the Los Angeles Clippers perspective, I think it ruins their chance of winning a
title.
I do, I think it ruins their chance of winning a national title.
What's that?
Why do you say that?
And I keep saying national title, I mean the NBA championship.
Okay, so let's just paint a picture.
Let's just paint this picture.
Down one, up one, close game, one point, two point, three point game.
Three minutes left, it's game six of a playoff game, playoff series.
Let's say that down three too.
And Harden is on the floor with Westbrook, Kawhi, Paul, George and Zubach.
The ball is in Westbrook's hand.
If anybody in the Clippers team are excited right now, are any of them like, we can do
this?
Or are you thinking in the back of your mind, Russ is going to do something incredibly dumb?
Just sit with that for a second.
Okay, now let's say anybody besides Russell Westbrook has the ball in that scenario.
Are you guarding him off the ball?
Seriously, are you guarding Russell Westbrook off the ball?
He's an awful shooter.
God awful shooter.
When the option is Paul George has the ball, Kawhi has the ball, Harden has the ball, are
you guarding Russell Westbrook anything closer than 10 to 12 feet?
I mean, remember the famous Draymond defense where Russ had the ball at the top of the
key and Draymond stood in the paint?
Because legally, if your man has the ball, you can stand in the paint.
If you're off the ball defending, you can't stand in the paint.
Remember that time where Russ has the ball and Draymond is literally standing in the
paint?
That's going to happen a lot, but people are going to sag as far off as they can sag.
So if Russ is in the corner, people are going to stand on the block.
So now that's an extra defender near the way of the passing angle.
That's an extra defender near the way of a driving angle.
That's a person who's going to immediately double onto Zubats on the block.
Paul George starts to work aggressively.
You know, that's just another body there.
Also, how willing is Russ going to be to go stand in the corner and basically not get
the ball when the offense on the floor?
Is Russ going to close?
Like, there's so many questions with this lineup.
Now, yes, they do have a solid bench, but kind of saw the team minus James Harden against
the Lakers.
And the Lakers didn't play well, in my opinion, hardly at all.
It took a virtue also from LeBron.
Not a virtue also, but at least a pretty good thing from LeBron, pretty game from LeBron.
And the Lakers came back and won against the Clippers.
Pretty much going to be that.
That's going to be the team, again, with James Harden.
James Harden is a dependable person, body-wise.
What about Kawhi and PG?
Kawhi's infamously fragile, body-wise.
Paul George is having issues as of late.
So we're just going to keep our eye on that situation.
I just don't think they're going to win the title.
And the biggest winner is James Harden.
He gets to the destination again.
He gets to the spot he wants to again.
He gets to continue to flex his power again.
And he's pretty much got the Clippers over a barrel in terms of contractually, because
he, Kawhi, Paul George, and Russ Westbrook, all in assumption form of action.
Well, three of them are true free agents.
Russ can get out of his deal.
So they can all enter free agency next year and walk out of the Clippers' door for nothing.
New arena in Inglewood be damned.
They can all walk out for nothing.
And you would have traded so much, and I do mean so much, in order to get them over the
years maneuvering salaries back and forth and dumping out the bench and all kinds of
stuff.
So there's so much that the Clippers are attempting to do here.
They're going to try and have to get those guys back.
I mean, there's no way I make the hard injury without a handshake agreement or a wink-wink
agreement regarding a long-term contract.
The Clippers did it anyway.
This could be the world's biggest gamble and biggest fail.
And if those guys walk out of the door forever, that sets the organization back 10 to 15 years,
especially in the new era of the way the CBA operates.
But also, the end-season tournament started yesterday, met with mixed reactions.
Basketball wise, it was great basketball.
Dame hit a big shot late.
Steph hit a big shot late.
Yokojin Luka went at it.
It was great basketball because in the end, it's a regular season game with added intrigue.
Different uniforms.
Different courts.
It's a double standing game.
It goes into the cup round of the group stage of the end-season tournament along with the
regular season stats.
It's all teams in your conference.
So now, these games really matter because, again, it's all teams from your conference.
So now these games directly affect your side of the standings because if you're eighth
and other person's fifth, you beat them.
You know for a fact they're down a game and you're up a game.
So it's going to be huge.
And pretty much the mixed reactions stem from people who don't like the courts.
I mean it was a lot.
I think what the NBA wanted to do here, they wanted to signify it with a totally different
situation.
Because the NBA has the Commissioner's Cup, which is effectively the end-season tournament.
And all they did to differentiate a regular game versus a regular season plus Commissioner
Cup game was put the Commissioner Cup symbol on the floor.
The Commissioner Cup logo was on the floor.
The NBA changed the entire floor.
Gone are Bates-R woods.
It's a painted floor.
And then it's like a strip, like a landing strip, which in hindsight is probably Vegas
strip down the middle of the floor in a different color.
It's cool to look at.
It reminds me of Pro-Am courts.
You know, people make Pro-Am courts in 2K.
It reminds me of a park court, but mainly a Pro-Am court.
Most people hate the painted courts, but people have painted courts in 2K.
And so that's what it reminded me of instantly.
But great basketball.
And what the NBA had to do, what the NBA had to get to be sold was the significance of
the games.
Because ultimately they are built into the regular season.
Which, as we all know, the NBA stars in the regular season don't have the world's best
relationship.
And so the NBA being able to signify the importance of these games, obviously they're pushing
it to their stars because Steph K. Mein said, it didn't feel like a regular season game.
It felt almost like a playoff game.
Dane said, although we don't really know what's going on, you can tell it's a different game.
You can tell something about this game is different from a regular season game.
Outside of just the court, outside of just the uniforms, something about this, it just
feels different.
You know, none of us know what's really going on just yet, but it feels different.
Oh, the, like I said, Steph hits the big shot and it feels like a playoff game.
And just looking at the interactions in the crowd, it looks different.
It looks like, outside of just the court, it feels different.
It looks different.
The game is played not quite with finals intensity, but it's definitely feel like a playoff game.
So for a lot of these younger guys, I think this could be huge for their development because
these games stand out.
It's not just a national TV game.
It's not just a game that's a good team or a division opponent or conference rival.
It feels like a playoff game.
So some of these guys, these younger guys can have the experience of playing an almost
like mock playoff games before they even have to ever enter the playoffs.
What's cause stop though?
What's cause slow down and learning curve with the playoffs?
Because a lot of times guys have rough playoff series early.
You're just not used to it.
You play the same team, you know, seven times in two weeks.
They know your plays back and forth.
You know their plays back and forth.
Everybody that is an amazing catch.
Everybody knows your plays back and forth.
You know, it's just the matchups are changing.
It's just a different vibe from the regular season as opposed to the, you know, the regular
season where it may be four different cities in a week and you're not really guarding
plays.
You may run into a guy like LeBron who knows everything, but for the most part people just
playing basketball.
And so these mock playoff games in the Eastern tournament could be huge to the development
of a lot of the young guys in the league.
All right, so let's hit some semi-quick hitters.
LeBron is ridiculous.
What he's doing is a two-fold level of ridiculous.
First of all, at 38 years old, pick a time that's 39 or 37, maybe 39, something like
that.
At the playoff in his 21st year, what he's doing is impossible.
I'm just being honest.
It's impossible.
It shouldn't be done.
I believe the highest points total for a player in year 21, I think, I know the average is
like nine points something, like Vince Carter eight points something, nine points something
was Vince Carter's average and LeBron's average is like 27, 30 points a game.
He turned it on against the Clippers and just was like, we're not losing.
What he's doing is that it should be impossible.
Before he did it, it was previously thought to be impossible, but so was his year 20 and
so was his year 19, 17 and 18.
I think his years 17 and 16 are comparable to certain people, but from years 17, 18,
19 and 20, those were impossible years and now he's doing it in year 21.
He played the Kings and had a great game 20 years to the day of his NBA debut, including
hitting the same exact dunk.
When you're doing what he's doing at the age he's doing, he's like 38.
He's so good at 38.
No one is even remarking how amazing Kevin Durant is playing at 35.
35 year olds were used to be bench players or out of the league.
No one's remarking how great Steph is at 34.
He used to be some of the best players in the world and they're in their mid 30s.
It's just the fact that LeBron's in his upper 30s and so it's negating basically the
amazingness that these other guys are doing in their mid 30s.
I mean mid 30s, you're supposed to be out of there.
It was so rough that the NBA had a ruling.
You couldn't even get a certain amount of money to certain people at a certain age.
We're not going to allow you to ruin your franchise or the president.
We know we're not going to be good.
That's just making LeBron's situation all the more insane.
Although I think we'll see certain guys play as long, a little bit longer, be better longer.
I still don't think it's a popular thing to do just from the time commitment and the fact
that if you're playing 21 years, you probably, you probably were a superstar at one point.
You probably have a couple of hundred million dollars in the bank and if practice is in
22 and a half hours in order to spend your time when you're not in practice.
I just don't think it'll happen, but kudos to LeBron James for his absolutely amazing
care of his body and for care for the game.
The Pelicans are rolling right now.
Kudos to them.
They're maintaining health early.
I mean, Brandon, you're going to have a bruised knee.
You guys know I'm a Pelicans fan.
They're maintaining health early.
Jordan Hawkins looks like a great pick.
Zion Williamson is looking dominant as ever.
Jonah Gallant.
Jonah's just throwing smaller people out the way, kind of like what he did to Team USA in
the World Cup.
Matt Ryan is an absolute flamethrower.
CJ McCullum is on a bender.
He's just on a tear right now knocking on everything that everything he puts up it feels
like and so that is helping the New Orleans Pelicans absolutely on their roll.
And also Victor Wiminyama is an alien.
He's not from this planet.
I don't know where he's from, but it isn't from here.
He's seven foot four and doing guard warm-ups to two basketballs per game.
He's so tall, he make Kevin Durant look like a legitimate shooting guard.
He's blocking shots and dunking the ball in spaces previously unthought to be possible.
It's just it's ridiculous.
It's like he's stopping and popping on threes.
He's running the break, catching lobs.
He's dunking the ball backwards.
He's blocking shots left and right.
He's warming up with guard drills.
He's knocking down threes.
It's to the point where I believe right, okay, he said Victor's going to break our game.
Well, because he's going to be able to do so much at his size, you're going to have
to almost like break the rules of the game just for his build.
It's just ridiculous, man.
Like watching him play and doing the stuff that he's doing when he's doing it is just
amazing.
He looks like an alien.
He's so long, he's so tall and he just looks like an alien and he's playing like an alien.
He's playing like he's not from this planet.
He's ridiculous.
He's easily the rookie of the year.
I don't want to hear about Chet Holmes or anybody else.
And he may drag that bad Spurs roster into the playoffs.
I mean, that's how good he's playing right now.
That Spurs roster is awful and he may actually drag it into the playoffs.
They've beaten Phoenix, they've beaten a couple of good teams.
He's played really, really well.
He's getting help from a couple of different places, but he's played incredibly well.
And so I was saying that he may drag that poor San Antonio roster into the playoffs.
But up next, we're going to jump into NFL week eight and talk about what's going on
in the NFL.
Welcome back into the show.
Welcome into NFL week eight.
The NFL talked the NBA segment went a little longer than anticipated.
Excuse me.
But the NFL is segment is on.
It is popping and let's get started.
I'm gonna get my fan out of the way.
You know me and Patriots fan.
Go ahead and get my fan out of the way.
The Patriots season is officially over.
They gave me a little hope.
And I'm out of my they gave me a little hope.
After they beat the Bills.
I came on the show said, Oh, the Patriots gonna make it three out of three, you know,
only three wins of the season me and division.
And then of course, that did not happen.
The Dolphins handled the Patriots for the most part pretty well.
And I think the Patriots now should shift into next season mode where you're looking
at okay, evaluate Mac Jones for the future.
Evaluate the young guys get K.
Shambu.
Take it to Mario Douglas.
Get these young guys on the field.
Traded lines pass.
I was a dumb veterans, but they didn't trade their line is passed.
Look at younger veterans see which ones might want to bring back guys on inspiring contracts
might want to pull those guys out.
You know, it's just different things like that.
But their season is officially over.
So there's there's that.
So get that out of the way.
All right, the Jacksonville Jaguars, however, are like the hottest team in football.
Not kidding.
So they won like 12 or 13 of their last 17 football games in those 17 games, which now
is one full season.
Trevor Lawrence looks like what we thought he would.
Doug Peterson's effect is obvious and clear on the football team.
Calvin Riddle is such a huge help.
Travis Etienne is a top five running back this year.
And fantasy I believe he's number two in terms of raw production.
This is exactly what we thought jazz it will look like.
And now they're making moves as well to help them defensively to try and show up their
defense enough to a Trevor Lawrence doesn't have to one man or him and Charlie Etienne
doesn't have to one man.
They're not the one man football games and not one man victories or two man victories,
I should say, because the office has to produce 35 points to win a game like Justin Herbert
is living in oven with the charges.
Things are huge thing for the Jags to be able to continue to produce and continue to win
games like they won 12 or 13 of their last 17, which 13 and four is the number one seed
in the conference.
I mean, they're playing really, really good football right now.
So major kudos to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The Kansas City Chiefs snap back to reality.
A little bit day in turn lost the Broncos in which the chief scored nine points.
It was the first game in like 20 something games.
Patrick Holmes didn't have a touchdown, but this is often the never says now the Denver
Broncos defense, which of course got railed by the Miami Dolphins for 70.
It could have been 80 or 90.
The Dolphins just pulled off.
And then they got some act apart.
I can't think of a city play, but early in the season, everybody punched on them.
It got to the point where you just took the quarterback playing the Dolphins defense because
playing the Broncos defense, because that's how it went.
It's at 70 giving out to the Dolphins.
It could easily have been 80 or 90.
They just pulled off and was nice about it.
Didn't want to break the record with 72 on them.
The Denver Broncos defense, however, they play Kansas City two weeks ago, three weeks ago
now and they showed us how the life for the game before that they will look better.
Then they play Kansas City.
They were a lot better than their next game.
They played well and then against here, the Krim to the Krim, they were able to lock in
and lock down the Kansas City Chiefs for the most part all night, pretty well on that.
I said nine points for that offense is like near blast up for Andy Reed and Patrick Holmes.
And so they were able to control the Chiefs and what they wanted to do pretty much all
night and the Chiefs struggled majorly and mightily to even attempt to do anything offensively.
The Broncos were that locked in on defense.
But that brings me to my two talking points in the NFL.
I kind of did my quick hitters first and then I'm going to do my trade a lot of quick hitters
and then we're going to go over there.
Like Brock Purdy, oh, Mr. Irrelevant Brock Purdy, Mr. Pick, 254 or something along those
lines.
Mr. He's the reason Trillands got traded.
Mr. Futureface of the franchise, all that good stuff.
Brock Purdy, Mr. Still Shares an apartment because he only makes probably 300 grand out
of taxes, 400 grand out of taxes.
He still shares an apartment, excuse me, and has an older vehicle.
That Brock Purdy.
The Brock Purdy that everybody wanted to anoint.
And I don't know what I said.
I said, you know, he was Mr. Irrelevant for a reason.
He was the last pick in the fourth round, last pick in this graph for a reason.
I said, no, everybody, I know everybody points to Tom Brady.
He said, look what could happen with the late round pick quarterback.
My response is always show me another one.
Quarterbacks happen one through four.
After that, you were literally crapping in your hand hoping it turns to gold.
For Tom Brady in the Patriots, it turned into titanium, platinum.
For most of the world, it just stays poop.
And Brock Purdy had the advantage of the best left tackle, the most proficient scoring running
back, two of the best playmaker receivers, one of the best playmaker receiver cores.
The rest of the office line is pretty good as well.
Fred Warner is a better inside linebacker.
The DBs are highly paid.
The D line is ridiculous.
Even before the disinformation, the D line is ridiculous.
That's the life that Brock Purdy was living.
I always say it's a very unrealistic thing and they had to win while he was still making
no money and they were living his life because if they did it after he got paid, you wouldn't
be able to work because he would immediately start losing players.
Well, the Niners began to experience what life with a highly paid Purdy would be like.
The reason why is you still had CMC's.
They had most of the people, but you were short two people.
You were short D.B. Samuel and you were short your left tackle whose name escapes me right
now and I call Trent Williams.
You were a down Trent Williams.
And Brock Purdy looked awful.
Now he had a rough start.
He had a great start, but then down the stretch he looked awful like a seventh round pick quarterback.
Like no one should have been surprised with a pick six because when they put the ball
in his hand and say, Hey Brock, you have to beat us.
That just like didn't happen.
That just like didn't happen at all.
And it has not happened for three weeks.
That has not happened for three weeks in the slightest.
They're 0-3.
He has twice as many interceptions as touchdowns.
His passer rating is under a hundred.
I believe it's 80 ish.
Ish is not.
He's looking like an average NFL quarterback.
He doesn't have his team full of superstars.
He has most of his superstars and he looks bad.
But also if you listen to Justin Tyler sports, like my people and my friends in Southeast
Asia do, you would have known that rock purdy being in was incredibly, was incredibly possible.
Being incredibly in was possible.
Being a put out bum was on the table.
Like I don't know where the shock is coming from.
People are legitimately shocked that he's playing bad.
All I can say is why are you shocked?
This should be expected.
He was the last pick in the damn draft as a quarterback.
That's like not how it happens.
You don't, if you can play a quarterback, you're a fourth round pick of the latest
C-Dag press guy.
Jalen Hurst was a second round pick.
You don't have to be a top 10 pick, but you're not the last pick in the freaking draft.
The broad end basically is a camp body and it turns out you can play a little bit and
then injuries and opportunities and here you are.
But there is no way rock purdy was a superstar.
There was no way he was ever going to be MVP.
There was no way he was ever going to be one of the faces of the league.
He himself is Mr. Irrelevant and if he doesn't fix this incredibly quickly, he's going to
become irrelevant because they're going to, 49er fans are smart and they're shrewd.
They'll look up and go, man, we had Trey Lance.
So worse come to worse, rock purdy is absolutely terrible.
We can at least slide in Trey Lance.
If you don't trust him in anything else, if nothing more, he can run the ball.
But it's agent Mool Trey Lance and that's Kyle Busch with effectively nothing.
And you hand the key over to rock purdy and now he's playing like Mr. Irrelevant should
and there's no one else to take the keys from him.
All right.
Oh, and then the Las Vegas Raiders fired everybody.
They fired the GM, they fired head coach Jasmin Daniels, they fired the offensive coordinator.
The Raiders cleared house.
Mark Davis, who's the owner of the Raiders and is the cash poorest owner, just won a title
with his WNBA team, the Las Vegas Aces and they're on the back to back champion shows.
And so with them going back to back, it kind of puts the pressure, not kind of, it definitely
puts the pressure on his other organizations.
And the Las Vegas Raiders is the one that stands out.
They are bad organizationally.
They were not great functionality wise.
They were bad.
And so even just because they were like nine and 18, I want to say it was not good at all
of a record.
And so this is something that the Raiders feel like they had to do.
The offense was not good at all.
Even with the offense being not good at all, Jasmin Daniels was the offensive coach, the
offensive coordinator.
They were, they're now sitting down being world's best couch coaches because of what
they were doing and now they have been relieved of their duties.
And so they'll be on the clock coaching away, I guess.
And they'll also probably like a TV job or something, but they'll be on the couch just
scouting away for the off chance that someone gives them a call back.
But that is how it works in the NFL.
Once you make friends, you tend to keep getting calls back.
And a couple of defensive ends have been moved from the Washington Commanders.
Chase Young was traded to the defensive 49ers for a bag of twisted pocket and lint, pretty
much.
And then Montez Swett was traded to the Chicago Bears for a second round pick and then immediately
extended.
That came in today.
Four years, $90 million with $72.865 million in guaranteed language.
And so he is going to become a cornerstone of the Bears franchise.
Up next, we are going to shift gears into NFL week nine and give you a little preview
of some of the games happening in week nine.
Welcome back into the show, into NFL week nine.
What's going on in the NFL as we move into the rest of this week?
We had Thursday Night Football a couple of days ago.
Paisbury Steelers vs. Tennessee Titans.
Whole lot of bad offense.
The Titans had Will Levesque starting.
He looked like well what I thought Will Levesque looked like, which was, had some moments of
like, wow, there's some arm talent there.
And had a couple of plays you were looking like, have you ever played this position before?
But he looked like how I thought Will Levesque would look.
But the main story here is the Steelers offense is still anemic.
It's so bad now that George Pickens has gone on social media to request or release from
the organization.
That's rough.
That's like really rough.
So like, that's bad.
He's requested a release from the organization.
And I name it the offense is.
The fans have been clamoring for the release of Matt Canada, or the firing of Matt Canada
rather.
It's pretty much like he took the offense and coordinated the job.
Katie Pickett does not like he's developing Harley at all.
So it's definitely time, in my opinion, to do something different on offense.
I think it would be better organizationally if Matt Canada is fired in the off season.
Because then they just puts a lot of pressure on a quarterback coach, etc.
But their offense is absolutely anemic.
It's rough.
So it's just, it's just absolutely rough.
The condition that their, that their offense is that bad.
It's just, it's awful.
Like unless somebody just makes a play, it's bad.
Like nothing looks easy.
Nothing like it's scheme to design it open.
It looks like a great player made a great play in a bad situation.
I mean, that's kind of how a lot of the plays look for Pittsburgh.
They're gonna have to get that rectified.
The Tyreek Hill Bowl in Germany tomorrow morning is going to be a very interesting contest.
Maybe not in my Jax pack, so we will pick it.
It's Dolphins versus the Chiefs.
And the return for Tyreek Hill is the first time he's played them since he was moved to
Miami.
Kind of a wild story there.
But the first time he was moved to Miami, he was definitely wanting to be in Kansas
City.
Moved to Miami to make him the best of a bad situation.
The best of his, not the situation that he was going to.
Although he's having an absolutely spectacular year.
First receiver to have a thousand yards in eight games since like, you know, leather
helmets.
He's actually having an amazing year and the Chiefs offense looks like they definitely
need him out there.
But as far as the game itself, I'm gonna go, those foreign games are weird.
Usually the team with the best system wins the game.
I'm going to go with the Miami Dolphins by a score of 30 to 20.
The Chiefs bottom back offensively.
Good teams don't get embarrassed too.
It's a row.
But I just think that though that it being in Germany, the game is a little weird.
Usually the better system wins the foreign games.
But that and the Dolphins have the better players too.
And so I got the Dolphins winning by about seven points.
Kirk Cousins unfortunately went down.
He is out for the season with the Toronchilis.
I knew it almost immediately when I seen it.
That calf shuttered.
It reminded me a lot of Kevin Durant's injury when his pressure and his leg finally gave
out and you could see his calf jump and shutter.
So that is what happened to Kirk Cousins and he is out for the remainder of the season.
Desmond Ritter has been benched for the Atlanta Falcons.
He has been benched in favor of former Washington commander to start in quarterback Taylor Heineke.
I think the Ritter era could be over in Atlanta.
He's also not good at football.
I think Desmond Ritter era may be over in Atlanta, especially Brian Hoyer.
Not Brian Hoyer.
My apologies.
Especially if Taylor Heineke comes out and plays really well.
I think that could sway the Atlanta Falcons into picking a new quarterback after the one
that they tried to bargain shot for.
Turns out it's not going to be much of a bargain.
The Eagles versus the Cowboys.
Again, not in my jack's back.
We will pick it.
This is a very important game for the NFC and the NFC East.
The Eagles have two losses.
The Eagles have one loss.
The Cowboys have two losses.
If the Eagles were to get this game, they'd be out of the game.
If the Eagles were to get this game, they'd be effectively three games up.
Because they'd be two games up to begin with, plus they at the moment would own the tiebreaker.
So they'd be effectively three games up on the Dallas Cowboys a little over half of the
season in terms of getting the division and the potential to add a first round bye.
That is an absolutely huge game outside of the rivalry of the division.
Outside of the fact that those two franchises and fan bases strongly dislike each other.
I believe that it's going to be a great contest.
Both quarterbacks have up most of my respect for each other.
Both coaches have shown a lot of respect so far for each other and to each other.
So I see that it's going to be a great game.
Ultimately I have the Eagles winning 38-35.
It's going to be a classic ball game between those two.
And last but certainly not least, the Bears and the Bengals.
Again, another game not Jack's pack so we will pick it.
I think the Bengals are going to run away and hide with this game.
The Bills have been dealing with a lot.
You know, Josh Allen's roller coaster and efficiency and the roller coaster up and down
is the roller coaster play.
He's also been struggling this year with having just people having a foot on his neck and
getting up or even putting your foot on someone else's neck and keeping them down.
He's had a real problem with his killer instinct this year.
So I hope that that changes for the Bills.
However, I think it's a lot to be too late, way too little, far too late to do anything
against Cincinnati Bengals who sit in the half-hundred and stride both offensively and
defensively as they are playing really, really good football right now.
So I have the Bengals winning the game by a score of 34-23.
My apologies.
I think the Bengals are going to just own this game, play it really, really well and
they're going to dominate the Bills.
But up next, we're going to have our Jax Hot Take.
There's going to be a chat about Jax Pack.
We're not going to discuss last week.
We're not going to discuss the overall record.
We're in a bit of a slump.
My hot take, I'm going to be honest, is the fact that we're going to go 5-0 this week.
So let's run through these games and then we'll get you guys out of here on this Saturday
afternoon.
Seahawks at Ravens.
Ravens minus six.
Take the Seahawks.
I think they're going to win by at least a touchdown.
Which will cover this point spread, but the Ravens are a really good football team.
The Seahawks are solid, but the Ravens are one of the best, if not the best team in football
right now.
And they are just absolutely physically dominating people.
Do you remember what they did to the Lions?
And again, it's in Baltimore where that team sends the feed off the city's energy.
And so therefore, the Ravens are going to win by at least six points.
So Ravens minus six.
Got the reason why they'll love our touchdown.
Bucks plus three at Texans.
Take the Bucks.
I think the Bucks wins this game flat out.
I think CJ Stroud is starting to hit a bit of a rookie wall.
I think the organization is starting to lose some of that year one flair, which they are
in no incentive to lose because they traded their first home pick this year, last year
for Will Anderson.
So they're in no incentive to lose.
However, I just think they're running into a wall now.
The Bucks seem to be playing a little bit better.
So Bucks plus three at Texans.
Rams plus three at the Packers.
Take the Rams.
Aaron Donaldson have a field day this game.
Packers' interior line is not the world's greatest.
Aaron Donaldson should have an absolute field day this game.
I think that the Corners have opportunity to make plays.
Yes, my staff is injured, but it's not like the Packers have an explosive offense.
So the defense should be able to walk down, get into more lanes, fill in more gaps and
not have to deal with an elite quarterback, not everything with the elite passing game
in general.
I think the Rams win the game outright, which of course, coverages the plus three.
Colts minus two and a half at the Panthers.
The Panthers are going to get destroyed here.
They have classic, I do mean classic, first time I did anything syndrome.
And so I just think that the Colts are going to walk in and beat the Panthers by a couple
of field goals, actually.
I'm thinking about six points.
I'm thinking semi-low score, 24-18 with the Indianapolis Colts sitting on the porch and
enjoying a victory after a long, hard game in Carolina.
What up next, we're chatting about the Chargers minus three and a half at the Jets.
Take the Chargers.
I think the Chargers are going to run away and hide with this game.
I don't think the Jets, even with the improvement of Zach Wilson as the offensive explosiveness
to keep up with the Chargers offense.
And I think the Chargers might put up 27 or 30 on that Jets defense.
The one thing on the Jets defense is you can spread it out and attack the middle of the
field.
So I think the Chargers are going to look to do that repeatedly.
Also, that includes the weapon nobody can replicate pretty much.
And so therefore, the Chargers minus three and a half is the side against the Jets.
So just to run through them again, it is Ravens minus six over the Seahawks, Bucks plus three
over the Texans, Rams plus three over the Packers, Colts minus two and a half over the
Panthers, Chargers minus three over the Jets.
But I hope you guys have a great rest of your weekend.
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Now this is your host, Justin Jackson.
Signing out.
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