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Welcome in to the show season four, episode 35.
I am fired up with you guys today.
I'm fired up for a lot of different reasons.
I'm actually pretty pissed off right now, I'll be honest with you.
Okay, I won't say I'm pissed off.
I'm highly annoyed right now.
Welcome in to you guys that didn't annoy me.
I welcome in to you guys, especially out of my new Instagram followers.
My Instagram blew up the past couple of days, for those of you who don't know.
My Instagram has really popped off.
Using my biggest engagement is Facebook.
I get some noise on Twitter, a little bit on X, but using my biggest thing is Facebook.
But lately it's been Instagram.
You guys are really interacting with the Reels.
Really interacting with my posts of highlights, stuff like that.
Jalen Ramsey, I know, and Kyler Murray for sure.
Their big plays this weekend popped off a lot.
So welcome in to you guys.
A lot of you guys followed me from my Reel.
So welcome in to you guys.
If you are tuning in to the show, tell your friends, share, like, subscribe, all that
good stuff.
Tell your friends about the page as well so they can stay in the know all in one place
that I haven't did with your sports and these reports and this and that.
And not get so much of the fake reporting and the bias.
You guys can just jump right into my page and get the facts straight up.
That's kind of what's annoying me right now.
I'm a person though, before I dive into the show.
Somebody I do know outside of just the reporting business call me bias because of what I said
about his terrible team's offense.
And because when you put on your own team, you didn't have that level of bias.
And I thought that was incredibly interesting.
I won't say any of their names of course.
But I had to get that off my chest.
So if I sound a little annoyed today, that's why.
But you know, so for his team, I will make sure.
Actually, no, I'm not going to do my job.
Because you guys love me the way I am.
You guys respect me the way I am.
He's in his feelings about his team.
That's his bias.
And I'm going to be doing my job.
So I'm going to be doing my job.
I'm going to be doing my job.
So for his team, I will make sure.
But I admit it annoyed me a little bit.
Because people that know me outside of this business, I expect to not say things.
So just call me bias for telling a fact about his team's horrible offense.
And so that's just ridiculous.
Ridiculous to him.
He's actually calling other people in now to try and claim my bias with facts or facts.
But whatever.
Which is oddly what he called me on.
I say the facts about my own team.
My own team being the Patriots, his own team being the Terrible Saints.
But whatever.
And I engaged back and forth with him, normally further than I normally would.
But I end up doing it anyway.
But whatever.
Guy's ridiculous.
He's failing by his own team.
But anyway, we're going to move into the show now.
You guys know what I'm going to give you my personal beef.
We're going to go right into the show.
NFL Week 11 recording this on a Tuesday afternoon.
So it'll come out Wednesday morning as always.
So something pops off.
Of course, just the top sports social media will be all over it.
But it won't necessarily be covered in the pod.
For those of you who are new and are first time tuning in,
one of your first time tuning in is kind of let you in behind the curtain how this show operates.
We're going to start off NFL Week 11 as always.
We start with the past NFL week, then move into the new one.
So we're actually not going to go right into the games like normal.
We're going to get into some personal injury news.
A lot went down in the past few days.
Shaquille Leonard.
I mean, I woke up thinking when I woke up to the news that Matt Canada was fired,
I'm like, oh, that's my big story.
That's my eight block kicker off.
Whatever.
It ends up being Shaquille Leonard.
It's way above the Indianapolis Colts.
He received one of the last big, it's like him and Fred Warner.
And Fred Warner, Bobby Wagner all got paid within a couple of seasons of each other.
Bobby Wagner and now Shaquille Leonard are the long gone most deals.
Fred Warner, of course, the best back in the linebacker of football.
He's still on his contract with the Niners.
But Shaquille Leonard was waived.
The Colts still owe him $7 million-ish.
Or $6 million, just $7 million.
For the rest of this season, he's been guaranteed money.
And then his next year's salary of about $19 million,
only about six or seven of it is guaranteed against injury.
Then the two years after that, about $19 million are not guaranteed at all,
from what I could tell.
His evidence injury stipulations are in it.
But next year is the important year.
You always look at one year out.
And so it's guaranteed partially against injury.
Shaquille Leonard, formerly known as Darius Leonard,
is one of the best inside linebackers in pro football.
And so with that being said, his release merely, what, two years after signing this deal,
less than 18 months away from being one of the best,
considered one of the better middle linebackers in football.
Now he's no longer on the team.
Jemma Erse too got a statement, ironically, with the caption,
Tough business, which admittedly it is.
I mean, Darius Leonard, or Shaquille Leonard, or Shaq Leonard,
simply pulled one of the better middle linebackers in football.
He was huge in the community, which Mr. Erse, I give him credit for, gave him credit for that.
Actually, the day he was released, which was today,
he was still handing out turkeys in the community.
So that kind of should tell you what kind of guy Shaquille Leonard is.
People was wondering, was it a locker room thing?
I think it's just productivity, and he's no longer what he was.
He had a back injury a couple years ago.
He was a second round pick in the 2018 drive for the Colts.
He's only 28 years old.
As I said, signed that big deal less than 18 months ago, for sure.
Many around the world were shocked.
He's a three-time All-Pro.
His playing time this year has been down.
He's been frustrated a lot this season in terms of how he was being used.
But he was still one of the better players in the league.
65 tackles this year.
No real major plays, but still, again, one of the better players in the league.
Only the better linebackers in the league.
But this is a tough business, and I think the Colts looked at,
look, we got him on the books for $19 million for another three seasons.
Could they have waited until the offseason?
Sure.
I agree.
I'm gonna just look at his numbers.
2022, he had the back injury and he played three games.
But his rookie year, he had 163 total tackles.
2019, he had 121.
2020, he went for 132.
2021, he went for 122.
And I think it's when he had the contract after 2021.
Gets injured in 2022.
Played nine games so far in 2023.
He's had 65 tackles.
His solo percentage is way down, just for what I can tell.
He's been getting a lot of assisted tackles.
He's not making nearly the plays he was.
Also, no sacks the last three seasons.
He's not forced to fumble this year.
He's not recovered a fumble this year.
Of course, he's not scored.
You know, he's having issues with what made him great.
And so when you got that,
coupled with the fact of a very expensive contract now,
I'm the colt.
I don't see the benefit of waiving him this season.
He didn't ask for his release, which my brain,
part of my brain went for like, hey, maybe he asked for this release.
He realized right into the wall, they were looking at a younger player.
Players have common sense.
Okay, younger players in the building, a lot cheaper than I am.
My playing time's going down.
Let me get out of here.
See if I can revive something.
But no, he didn't ask for that.
And I've thought, you know, he's fully guaranteed a Saturday this year,
only guaranteed he gets into it next year.
Why not simply wait?
Play him this year.
You still have an outside chance at the playoffs.
Play him this year.
If it comes down to it, you release him as a post-April 1 deadline.
Your office books entirely a post-June 1st designation.
Your office contracts entirely, and you don't have to worry about it anymore.
But they moved on now.
Good for Shaq Leonard.
He still gets a salary anyway.
I'm not sure about the offset language, but I'm sure he'll be,
he'll be in a new home within a couple of weeks.
I don't vet minimum deal, probably an contender.
I don't see saying Fran.
You gotta get Fran Warner and get down to 3-4.
So there's no benefit to bringing in Shaquille Leonard.
The team that jumped out to me immediately was Minnesota.
They're down.
They're starting to get a linebacker.
They're actually running around with Anthony Barr.
Buffalo does not have Milano.
Miami, I can't name one of their linebackers.
Houston, that'd be great to bring him in to be Corian.
He's a veteran player.
Kind of use him like Fran Warner.
He's a little bit less highlighted than Fran Warner, but you can use him there.
And then lastly and certainly not least, from half a second,
I do mean a half a second, I consider the charges here.
Khalil Mack, Derrick James, Kenneth Murray,
they could protect him there and he can still have the ability to flow
and fly to the ball.
So I thought about the charges there as well.
We'll definitely see where else, where he lands.
I'm sure he'll land somewhere, because you know that a little later.
Matt Canada has been fired by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
People have been complaining about Matt Canada as an offensive coach
since he was at Pittsburgh.
He was in the University of Pittsburgh.
And then he left Pittsburgh and ran to LSU.
He was so bad at LSU, I think after a year he was gone from LSU.
And then he somehow landed as a QB coach for the Steelers.
And then he gets promoted to offensive coordinator.
He was there serving in the roles of 2021.
And in 2023 he's out.
It was so bad that the Steelers made a move in season.
I believe that is the first head coach or coordinator since Chuck Noll
to be relieved of their duties during the season.
Tell you how bad Matt Canada was.
And it was not just the fact that he was bad,
it was the fact that he was losing the locker room,
or he had lost it.
Mike Tommin, by keeping him, was losing the locker room.
You know, he had the incident with George Pickens earlier in the year
where he wipes all the Steelers stuff off his...
He wiped all the Steelers stuff off his social medias
and requested to be released.
Forget traded.
He requested to be released.
Without the trade deadlines, he couldn't be traded anyway,
but he requested to be released.
Obviously, that didn't happen.
Mike Tommin caused it a couple of issues.
Then there was an incident prior to that.
Steelers started breading the wind.
Matt Canada goes into the locker room excited.
Great job, guys, whatever.
The punter, Chris Boswell, the last one to do a famous triple B,
I believe it was four Bs at that point,
but it was Bell, Ben, Brown, and Boswell was actually around.
Boswell yells in the middle of the hallway,
not even the locker room, entering the locker room,
and it ain't because of you, Matt Canada.
Then you have Najee Harris just last week saying
something's got to change.
Something's got to change.
He said, I come into the game, I go nowhere.
Jalen Warren comes into the game, it's a different play style.
He's popping off runs left and right.
He wasn't saying he didn't hate Jalen Warren.
Jalen Warren is his teammate.
He wants Jalen Warren to succeed.
His issue was why does the offense look differently
and the run game look different?
The designs of the plays look different
when Jalen Warren's in the game
juxtaposed to when he's in the game.
So that was his complaint.
It's kind of like Patriots fans had last season.
The Bailey Zappi offense under Matt Patricia
and the Mac Jones offense under Matt Patricia
schemed were two different offenses.
Why?
If the Bailey Zappi offense worked for Bailey Zapp
and the Mac Jones offense is failing for Mac Jones,
even though the Bailey Zapp offense wasn't much better,
it's still better.
It's more downfield.
It was just a better offense at the time.
I mean, it's not a Patriots segment,
but it was a better offense.
So Najee Harris made the same complaint.
Jalen Warren is getting different styles of runs than I am.
He's getting different scheme runs than I am.
What's that about?
If these runs are working,
why am I not getting those runs?
I'm consistently getting the runs that aren't working
and he's consistently getting the runs that aren't working.
And it's not like we're running the same kind of runs
and he's still better.
We have two different sets of run plays, it looks like.
When Najee spoke up, Najee's not a talker.
The punter yelling to the locker room, he can just keep that.
George Pickens, you can just keep that.
He's a hothead from his time at Georgia,
famously slams the guy into the wall between the hedges,
you can just keep that.
When Najee Harris speaks up specifically and schematically,
it's hard to just use that.
You're starting to lose the locker room
because if Najee Harris is speaking up publicly,
that means a lot of people have conversations privately.
And so Mike Tomlin said it best.
It was a hard decision, but it was necessary.
You couldn't lose the locker room.
Mike Tomlin gets his guys to go 100% through every wall he sees,
regardless of what's happening around them.
And I'm sure the players are like,
look, man, you're asking us to give 10,000% to you,
you got to give it back to us.
You got to give us a chance.
You saw the Bills offense, though they were playing the Jets.
The Bills offense looked a little bit revitalized under Joe Brady.
Now, the Ken Dorsey offense was doing way better than the McHenry offense.
The McHenry offense was outscored, was outgained in every game this season.
I honestly didn't know that was possible.
They had not had a 400-yard total offense game,
and who knows when.
They were outgained in every single game this season,
and somehow they sit six and four.
That's a credit to Mike Tomlin and the culture, he said.
Mike Tomlin saw the time, the standard is the standard.
Mac Canada was not producing at the standard, so they moved on.
Now, I think they need to move on.
Ken Pickett, as well.
I think that's a disaster.
I just think he wasn't that great at the University of Pittsburgh.
He stayed in the same stadium.
Instead of making a left to the hallway, he made it to the right now.
And it's about as bad as it was.
It's actually worse because he wasn't getting help from Mac Canada at Pittsburgh Steelers.
But now, instead of Mike Tomlin moving on,
he split the duties of OC amongst his running back coach and his quarterback coach.
The running back coach does the game plan and the install.
The quarterback coach does the play calling.
I'm assuming because the QB coach and Ken Pickett have a better relationship,
that's why he wants him doing the play calling.
But hey, we'll see how it works out, if it works out.
Zach Wilson, the much-maligned quarterback.
I know I've been beating him up on this show the past couple of weeks,
especially considering that I called it, that's what I'm looking for,
professional malfeasance of Robert Sala and Nathaniel Hackett
to continue to jog out Zach Wilson on the field.
He has not only been benched, he has been demoted to the third string.
Normally third string quarterbacks are inactive, but they're slotted as the emergency quarterback.
It's the rule that the NFL put in after the Niners had Christian McCaffrey
play quarterback in the playoff game.
Good thing I had two quarterbacks, they had Brock Purdy, and they had, it wasn't Lance.
I can't think of the quarterback now.
But anyway, Purdy blows out his elbow, and then the other quarterback gets hurt.
They played Christian McCaffrey for a little while, that's not going anywhere.
No, they run Brock Purdy back on the field, but they realize he can't throw.
So they put Christian McCaffrey, our quarterback, it was a disaster.
So now the NFL has put in a rule that states that you can have a quarterback inactive,
but he can either be allowed to dress, and he'll be called the emergency quarterback.
Meaning he cannot play until both other quarterbacks are injured.
I don't even think it's injured in terms of like, in a tent.
Like they have to both be ruled out, and then that guy can play.
And it's like, you can't have an emergency receiver, you can't have an emergency tight end,
any emergency kicker, anything.
It has to be an emergency quarterback.
Like I said, that was specifically done because of the 49ers debacle,
the disaster last season.
So I think Zach Wilson's going to be inactive and placed into that emergency quarterback position
as the third string quarterback.
But Tim Boyle is now the starter in New York.
Tim Boyle is, to be kind, awful, if I'm going to be quite frank with you.
He's been awful every step of his life.
And no point is he been good.
Tim Boyle in his career, he's appeared in 18 games.
He's 61% completion percentage, not bad.
5.1 yards attempt, that's awful.
Popularized at completion? No, attempt, that's awful.
Three touchdowns, nine interceptions, awful.
He has a passer rating of 50.9.
He has, he's just bad.
His collar size is even worse.
You can't use like one touchdown, three picks.
I can pull up his collar stats right here.
And Connecticut, he was one touchdown, 13 picks at Connecticut.
Over his career, now he has his Eastern Kentucky stats.
He was one touchdown, he had 13 picks at UConn, not great.
But that's the new starter for the New York Jets.
And then Trevor Simeon is the immediate backup for the Jets as well.
He was on his couch two months ago, like Shannon Sharpe said this morning,
in the carpool line with his kids.
That was Trevor Simeon two weeks ago.
And now he's the backup, and Zach Wilson promoted to a 30-year quarterback,
which I'm presuming again he's gonna get placed in the emergency slot.
Meaning if Simeon and Boyle get ruled out,
then they will allow Zach Wilson to come on the field and play quarterback for the Jets,
which would probably be the Jets fans' worst nightmare.
This is not a Nathaniel Hackett bashing show.
Zach Wilson doesn't help you.
Although, aside from Prime Man Rogers, Nathaniel Hackett has looked awful everywhere.
You know, we'll get to Nathaniel Hackett later.
We'll get to Nathaniel Hackett later.
We're gonna talk about the Broncos, we're gonna get to Nathaniel Hackett later.
And then some injury news.
Michael Thomas has been placed on injury reserve
for the New Orleans Saints in their putrid offense.
The only offense worse than them is ours.
It's the Patriots offense.
So Michael Thomas is placed on injury reserve
and with a knee injury, meaning he's out for at least four games.
The Saints are already struggling, but they are still in the hunt for the NRC South,
and they're gonna have to do it without Michael Thomas, number 13.
And then of course the quarterback injury news.
Deshaun Watson had successful surgery.
He is expected to be ready for 2024.
And Joe Burrow, of course, is out for the year with a wrist ligament damage injury
for the Cincinnati Bengals.
They'll look to try to survive without him.
It didn't start off well against the Ravens last week,
but they'll look to well.
That's the game happening, I'm sorry.
They'll try to survive the rest of the season without him.
But it didn't look good.
I'm sorry if it's after Burrow went out,
but now they're gonna try and figure out life without Joe Burrow.
But on to the game just last night, Chiefs versus Eagles.
A lot of things I noticed about the game, and the main thing was the Chiefs drops.
They lead the league in drops by five, I think.
They have the most jobs as a team, 26.
The jobs haunted them all night.
Travis Kelsey had a big-time job off the middle of the field.
They either doesn't happen.
Mark Quayes Roddard.
Scanling had a characteristic deep ball drop on the game-winning touchdown.
I just don't think the Eagles come back and score the way that game was flowing.
Mahomes hits stats a couple minutes left in the game.
Valdez Scanling slides into the end zone.
Chiefs go up three, probably not having this discussion right now.
And then even late in the game on the fourth and 25,
it goes right through the back upside-down Scanling.
Bell, it goes right through Bell's hands.
Tough catch.
Mahomes could have brought it down about a foot,
but it still went through both hands,
past the first down marker that Chiefs now again have an opportunity
to negate this conversation we're having right now.
But, yeah, it did not happen.
None of those things happened.
Kelsey did drop it.
Kelsey did fumble in the red zone.
Mahomes hit the red zone at interception.
No, Mark Quayes Valdez Scanling did drop the ball, per usual.
And Bell, I think it's his name, Bell,
did have the ball go right through his hands towards the end of the game.
They had five drops last night.
I can remember three very vividly.
They were game-to-squad, so I'm sure there was a couple others.
I think they missed, and I know he can't do anything about the drops.
They missed Air to be enemy.
I think Air to be enemy misses now.
And everybody misses Tyreek Hill.
Tyreek Hill is making the Miami Dolphins offense when it's on,
unregardable.
The time he scored against the Raiders,
he catches the ball in the middle of four Raiders,
splits the difference, and just runs.
He runs past all of them.
He never jukes one of them.
He doesn't stiff-arm anybody.
He catches it, puts his left foot in the ground, launches with two of his right foot,
and like a silent day, he's all running through the entire gap.
Insane.
But the commander started off as one of the hottest pass offense in the league.
I still believe actually Sam Howell's numbers are slightly better than Patrick Howell's.
That's a credit to Air to be enemy.
I don't believe in Sam Howell, but I say I didn't.
Geez.
I don't believe in Sam Howell in the slightest.
But with Air to be enemy there, he's looked average.
He's putting up above average statistical numbers,
but he's looked average so far this season.
I mean, again, his numbers look above average,
but he currently looks average.
Actually, Sam Howell is still leading the league in yards.
He's played an extra game in some people.
So if you go to yards per game, a lot of people are tied at one.
He's actually fourth in yards per game right now behind CJ Stroud,
to Ataka Valoa, and Kirk Cousins, which Kirk Cousins is out.
So you count quarterbacks that are still active.
Sam Howell is third in the league right now in yards per game.
But I think he's falling down the list in touchdowns.
I'm a bit too core very much there.
I don't know.
He's seventh in the league in touchdowns, 18, 12 in the instructions.
He's got a passer rating of 89, so a little bit less than a great passer rating.
However, I don't see Apache Moms has 19 touchdowns, 90 picks,
passer ratings of 94, so five point difference in passer rating,
yards per game.
Howell has the advantage of about 15 yards per game.
So his percentage of Moms is 67.
Howell's at 67.
66.7, Moms is 67.1.
So.5 on the passer rating.
And that's between Sam Howell and Patrick Moms.
That's between me, I think, as the next GOAT in Patrick Moms,
and a guy who the nation's capital probably wants to get rid of, Sam Howell.
I know I've never believed in Sam Howell.
I didn't believe in North Carolina.
I don't believe in his North Carolina compadre, Drake May, either.
But Airbnb has bridged the gap between Patrick Moms and Sam Howell.
Now, Howell has Terry McLaurin.
Moms doesn't.
But Moms has Travis Kelcey.
Howell has Logan Thomas.
That's where it gets a little different.
But that's a big gap.
So I think the Chiefs are missing Airbnb.
Airbnb's missing them.
Everybody's missing Tyree Hill.
That's not going to help the drops, per se.
But I think some of the easy throws, some of the simple throws,
some of the play designs where Kelcey would pop open wide open,
it didn't matter if Kelcey was back there before the snap.
It didn't matter if you had a safety, a corner down,
a safety pass, a linebacker all watching Kelcey.
Some raw combination would happen, and Kelcey would pop open in the middle of the field
just standing there by himself.
And so these easy throws, these easy completions,
these little pitching catches where Kelcey would get that last drive
to be the Travis Kelcey shot.
Foul, dead, scam.
Man, get out of here.
That was about to be Travis Kelcey's forward catches on five targets for 55 yards,
and then Pacheco running in the end zone with 10 seconds left.
That was how that drive was set up.
My homies get a scramble, get a rough-and-the-passer call,
get a pass interference.
Kelcey catches four balls, Pacheco runs twice,
and you dump it to like the sky more for the touchdowns.
And that was the game.
It was like 10 seconds left.
But instead, you had a hold, you had a grounding.
You got your rough-and-the-passer, but you didn't get your pass interference.
Kelcey never got free.
You didn't have that random 20-yard catch from somebody you never heard of.
It just was those easy drives, those easy completions,
those easy shot plays were not there last night.
Credit to the Eagles secondary, which is mind-boggling to say,
considering it's one of the worst secondaries I've seen in quite a long time.
From the Eagles themselves, they really haven't fixed it.
I mean, they got Kevin Byard in there.
He made the interception on the homies in the red zone.
Kudos to him.
You know, Terah Edmonds, maybe he doesn't make that play, who Byard replaced.
But kudos to him for making the interception.
But again, the drops.
If Valdez Scanlon catches that touchdown, we're having a different conversation.
If Travis Kelcey holds onto the football and didn't get punched on
and the ball comes out, we're having a different conversation right now.
So I think the drops are killing the Chiefs right now.
You can't leave the league in a draw, especially about that big of a gap
when it's made to a big of an offense.
They have the worst second half offensively.
They have about four points again in the second half this season.
They even shut out the last three second halves.
Considering the offense, considering that to me after halftime,
it's all been about the coach.
The first 15 plays and then after halftime.
Because the first 15 plays are scripted.
Especially 10 to 15 plays are scripted.
This play, go into that play, go into this play, go into that play.
You'll practice the script all week.
This goes into that, this goes into that.
You see this, check into this.
Basically the NFL, those 15 plays, really 45 plays or 30 plays.
Because everything has to check.
You know, so it could be whatever the first, whatever the pass is, check this.
So if you get a light box, it's supposed to be a pass, cool.
We're going to check into this run.
And regardless, it's still feeding to the next look you're giving.
Everything is scripted out.
And then after halftime, you got 15 minutes to adjust.
Really not 15 minutes.
It takes about two minutes to get in there.
Especially if they pull you in for a coaching interview, three minutes.
And you want a warm up period of about five minutes.
So you really got eight minutes.
Eight to ten minutes, we don't know how fast you get things done.
To get ready for this next half.
That's quick adjustments, that's what we were seeing on the last computer.
I couldn't do it on the sideline.
This is what I could do, this adjustment.
I'm not going to change this person, another group, etc.
That happens in about ten minutes.
That's a coordinator and coach thing.
It's not a player thing.
So the fact that the Chiefs are the worst second half offense in the league,
that's crazy about the coordinator is something wrong.
And that there's something wrong dramatically in coaching wise.
Because everybody in the league is coming back out the half and figuring it out.
Everybody.
It's not like it's just, oh, they had a bad stretch.
Four points I gained in the second half.
All season.
No points at all in the past three games.
Dolphins.
I think it's Dolphins, Raiders.
Dolphins, Raiders, and Eagles?
I know Dolphins and Eagles for sure.
Have not allowed a point in the second half today.
It's in the last three contests.
I'm sorry, Broncos.
Duh, it is.
Dolphins, Broncos.
Broncos, Dolphins, Chiefs is their last three opponents.
They're not allowing a point to them in the second half.
And so that has to be massively concerning.
Again, that's a coordinator and coach problem.
Because the other side is adjusting and you're not.
The other side is figuring it out.
You can't crack their code.
So that's it.
To me, that would be scary if I'm a Chiefs fan.
Couple of quick hitters.
Jalen Hurst looks a little off with that left knee.
They show his brace a lot on TV, especially last night.
They kept zooming in on his brace.
It became nauseating.
He got tired of saying his left knee brace.
But he looks a little off with that brace.
Although the touch push is still incredibly successful.
It's something like 53 or 58 in the Jalen Hurts era with the touch push.
It's insane.
The Broncos.
Speaking of those Broncos, up on the fourth straight,
including beating Josh Dobbs and Cinderella Vikings,
who were winning the five straight,
the Broncos have won four straight now to get back to 500.
They started off with three, started off with four,
now they're back to 500.
If you spend a little bit, they've won five of their last six.
Great six-week stretch for the Broncos.
A lot of shade.
I commented it, but a lot of shade.
Okay, the media side of the game.
The coach side rebuked it.
But a lot of the shade was thrown to Sean Payton
about what he said about the thing lacking.
What he said in terms of the organization.
What he said in terms of how things were done last year.
And people were making Sean Payton pay in the media.
Oh, they were excoriating him.
The team side of it went three.
Even when they were winning for Russell Walsh, Sean Payton's a mess,
Saints fans were slandering him.
It was bad.
Anybody who wasn't a Broncos,
anybody who wasn't Sean Payton's family was slandering him.
Shannick Sharp was killing him on TV.
Stephen A. Smith, like I said, Saints fans were at his neck.
Of course, Jets fans were coming.
Whoever could get their shots off of Russell Wilson
or the Broncos would take it on them.
Now it's Crickets.
They had one four straight.
The offense was good.
Russell Wilson's made two great throws,
specifically to Courtland Sutton in the past couple of weeks,
to win football games.
You have the defenses rolling.
And so they look like a team that can make, sneak into the playoffs.
I mean, to go from whatever the hell that was,
when Nathan Hackett relieves himself for offensive coordinator duties
by week two or week three,
takes them back at some point,
relieves himself for game management duties.
It was weird.
It inspired himself like 13 or 14.
You've got Sean Payton now who has his team believing in himself
in the Mount High City.
You've got people believing in them in the Mount High City.
And so that's huge for the Broncos.
I think they have an ability to try to make the playoffs
and make a little noise.
Well, the Lions, you know, they're just magical.
They came back against the Bears.
I don't know how.
They seem like they are just a magical team investing.
Dan Campbell, it's like a guy.
You know, week three.
Him, Mike Tomlin.
Andy Reid gives his vibe off.
Belichick used to give it off.
Not as strong anymore.
Mike Vrabel are guys that give off the vibe of,
I would run through a freaking wall for you.
And they're going to want to be the one to bust the wall down.
Like, it is insane how he gets those guys going.
They believe in themselves.
It doesn't matter how far down they go.
We laugh at the bite triangle,
the bite off a kneecap,
the bite off another kneecap.
We laugh at all that.
But then after a hard knock,
a lot of people bought in to Dan Campbell.
And now the results are the results.
They're seven and three.
They're a damn good football team.
They're one of those teams that you're not going to want to see in the playoffs.
Jared Goff can hit you for 30, 35 points in the game.
Aiden Hutchinson's not starting to bend the edge.
They need a linebacker.
I say it's Shaq Leonard.
If he's healthy and can play,
Shaq Leonard would be a good spot right there.
And then, of course,
you have that secondary starting to make plays as well.
So the Lions are a very interesting team.
But up next, sorry for the long winded eight block.
I told you guys I was fired up today.
Up next, we're going to shift to NFL Week 12
and give you a preview of what's going down.
Welcome back to the show.
And now we're going to discuss NFL Week 12 coming up.
Again, sorry for the long winded eight block.
I was impassioned about the stuff.
I was, you know, by nonsense.
Plus, it was a very important week, very impactful week.
I'm fresh, I'm energized.
I benefited from being a high school coach off this week.
So I have a lot of energy running around my team, unfortunately,
and I'm going to be working on that.
So I have a lot of energy running around my team, unfortunately,
but I'm still playing.
But it will be this time next year.
So be ready to get those updates.
We'll be playing this time next year, don't worry.
But a lot of energy at the moment.
But on to NFL Week 12.
We have a loaded Thanksgiving Day schedule.
Actually, out of the six games I'm going to talk about,
three of them are from Thanksgiving.
Packers at Lions is a very interesting game.
We won't pick it, it's in Jack's Pack, which actually let me check off
the games I can't talk about.
So personally, it's just, I know I'll do it.
I've done it before.
We won't pick the game because it is in Jack's Pack, Packers at Lions.
However, it is a game with a lot of implications.
For instance, Jordan Love looked like a damn good quarterback last week.
Also, Jordan Love was playing the Chargers.
Seriously, I don't get it, the Chargers.
Like, why is Brandon Saley still employed?
I actually found out.
I should have known this already.
His first head coach position in his life, who are the Chargers?
He was like the Division III coordinator.
He was a defensive coordinator, obviously, for a year with the Rams.
Of course, Prime Aaron Donald and the Prime Jalen Rams.
They look good, but he was like a position coach.
He was a coordinator.
And then his first head coach job was with the Chargers.
He's a very young man.
It's not like he's a 50-something year old man.
It's like, oh, his first head coach job.
I don't think Brandon Saley is 40 yet.
Like, Brandon is in his mid-30s.
His first head coach job was the Chargers.
Interesting.
Very Charger-like move.
But regardless, Love looked good against Chargers.
So now people are trying to swing back onto the Jordan Love train.
For the Detroit Lions, if you played in a franchise that wasn't actively trying to get a top pick,
you probably lose last week.
I think the Bears looked up and said, I don't know, I think Justin Fields looked up and said,
oh, wait, we're going to lose our top five pick.
Let me tank, let me tank, let me tank.
Because they said the Panthers picked, which is probably going to be number one.
I think Justin Fields perfectly let Hutch strip sack him for the game.
No, I don't think that will happen at all.
Do I think that sometimes in those situations, people look up and go, it's better if we lose this game?
Absolutely.
And I kind of think Chicago looked up and said, it's probably best if we lose this game.
We've shown we want to show that we can be confident.
It's probably best if we lose this game.
But in all seriousness, Detroit came back and said, that's not very good.
That's not very good.
That's Chicago Bears.
And so with that being said, the Packers are not all that great, but they have the culture for one,
have the culture for one, for two, Joy Love is trying to keep his starting job.
Because if the Packers get in the right mix, they've got some guys that after Caleb Williams,
who knows how this draft is going to go?
Bo Nicks is going to be out there.
Jay Davis is going to be out there.
Drake May is going to be out there.
Michael Penny Jr. is going to be out there.
We don't know what other guys are going to fly up all of a sudden.
You know, that happens every year.
Oh, Jordan Travis, Lord Hill, he's going to be out there.
I'm sure he's going to be a day two pick now with the injury.
He's talking about day two pick anyway.
Maybe he's going to be early day three now, dude, he's injured.
You know, I'm trying to think of some other guys right now.
But those are the main guys I can think of off the top of my head.
Like, you know, like I said, you know, guys fly up every year in the pre-draft process.
So Jordan Love is trying to keep from being a one and done starter in Green Bay.
It'll be a very interesting game.
Pack of the Lions, that's how we kick off Thanksgiving.
Jack Harlow is going to be there during halftime.
It's going to be a very interesting game.
Followed by Commanders at Cowboys, also on Thanksgiving Day,
other than as a West Coast game.
But Commanders at Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day, another interesting game.
I just spoke about Airbnb.
Airbnb probably took the Commander job.
And I'm not going to venture into saying I have any information about this.
I'm not going to say I have any people telling me this or any sources about it in the slightest.
I'm not even going to say that.
I'm going to preface everything I say right now by starting off with I have none of that.
None of it.
I don't have any information.
I've spoken to Eric, obviously.
I don't know anybody that close them.
I'm saying this from what, if I was in his position, what I would have done.
Everybody knew Ron Rivera was on the hot seat.
Dan Snyder was the owner, but everybody knew Dan Snyder was selling.
Or it was smoke was starting to come around if I keep myself.
But nobody really believed it.
If Ron Rivera is on the hot seat, the issue has been the offense so bad it's not helping the defense.
That's been the story.
I've seen Pittsburgh this year.
I've seen New Orleans this year.
I've seen New England this year.
New York.
Both New Yorks.
The offense is so bad that the defense basically at a certain point just taps out.
That kind of was an error.
The enemy takes the offensive coordinator job from Washington.
He was in Kansas City for years.
He won two Super Bowls.
He was not given any credit for it.
They said the offense was Andy Reid.
Now, granted, multiple people have been under Andy Reid as the OC.
Even though Andy Reid is the play caller, they've gotten head coach jobs.
Multiple.
The guy was in Chicago for a while.
He was there, it's like two or three guys, quickly.
I can't think of the names right now.
They've gotten jobs in the past eight or nine years.
He's been the player of Andy Reid.
Even though he does not call, even though they do not call the plays, Andy Reid calls the plays.
They got head coach jobs.
None of them were very successful.
But it's very odd that they started off with the enemy.
The enemy doesn't necessarily look like the other player.
However, they say the enemy was the offense was Andy Reid and Andy Reid, Andy Reid.
So he leaves and goes to Washington.
It was a thorough seed job.
The offense was rolling early in the season and the defense is bad.
So every enemy's head has to be thinking this is working out kind of perfectly.
My offense looks great and yet we're still losing.
Now there's smoke around Rivera and people are kind of saying promote every enemy to head coach.
I get a head coach job.
I get owned with a lot of money.
I get a fan base looking for a change and I get my own team perfectly.
Then the offense knows that points wise they still produce a bunch of yards.
They're just turning over here.
They're just not scoring the ball.
Now the smoke is going around the whole staff getting canned.
New ownership for instance, Josh Harris is now the owner who owns the Sixers.
He owns the Washington Commanders.
And Magic Johnson's involved.
Magic Johnson wins.
Period.
Magic Johnson wins.
In life but in sports.
He won five as the player of the Lakers.
He has probably another six or seven as an owner.
He's got a Dodgers one.
He's got a Sparks one.
He's involved in a few other teams that have won titles.
Magic Johnson wins.
Period.
Wins in business, in life, in sports.
Magic Johnson wins.
It's as simple as that.
He's on Twitter saying his commanders need to make a change.
So now Airbnb's golden plan of if this is going to work in Washington may not work namely as well.
He has a chance, and I'm looking back around to the game, he has a chance against the Cowboys on national TV to prove his case.
Sam Howell leads the league in pass or yards. He's top seven.
He's a prolific pass or yardage wise.
Touchdown in such a way he's about two to one.
They go out there and put 30 points on the Cowboys and lose the game 4 to 30 because the Commanders can't stop a nosebleed.
Can you blame Airbnb?
Nope.
This would be a great showcase for Airbnb to go out there to showcase what he can do with an offense because even if Ronan Raviera gets cannon B enemies out the door,
Killamore went from the Cowboys to the Chargers.
Why can't B enemy go from the Commanders to the Giants?
Or the Commanders to the Jets if they decide to move on from the thing I had to do.
Or his plan works anyway and he promotes up to the head man in Washington.
Who knows?
Now if you're the Cowboys, you have a chance here to crush somebody in your division.
You're not getting a lot of love from national media.
You're not going to get any love from me because the two teams you play with winning records you've lost.
Both of them.
The other game is you've dominated.
You beat who you're supposed to beat. You lost who you could have beat.
You're not getting any love from me for beating up on the Commanders.
Congratulations.
But this is your opportunity to do so again on national television.
You beat the Panthers off Broadway.
You know, you get a chance this week to showcase what you can do on a national television.
You beat the Giants off Broadway. No one cared.
You get a chance to beat the Commanders, national TV, the whole country's watching that game.
Show up at show-offs opportunity in front of the Cowboys.
It's also a great chance for Airbnb to audition for a job.
Niners at Seahawks.
This is a game I can pick right now.
I'm going to shock the world here.
I'm going to go Seahawks.
I'm going to go Seahawks very, very closely.
Kyle Shanahan dominates Shawn Lee Vane.
Okay. He owns for the most part.
Anybody that worked with him on that famed staff in Washington,
that somehow Jay Gould and the Bing in charge of, he owns them.
He's the owner of the Kingsbury.
He's had his issues with Pete Carroll.
Pete Carroll has bothered them.
It's at Seattle. It's loud. It's boisterous. Seattle's good.
They're rolling now.
J. Lois Smith has an arm-elbow situation.
That could be a problem, especially against that defense.
Plus, Seattle's defense is pretty solid against the run.
They also can get out to the passer.
We've seen Bob Purdy can be knocked off his spot.
This is a game, again, this is an attention game.
It's one of those games where the whole country's going to be watching
because for the most part, people want to find out if Purdy's real or not.
It's a Thursday night game.
It's literal Thanksgiving Day.
It's the nightcaps. The nightcap of our summer.
This is the nightcap of our summer. News of West Coast games.
This is the nightcap I was talking about.
The whole country's going to be watching.
They would have eaten turkey.
They would have eaten all their food and stuff.
They would be eating their turkey.
They'd watch the Cowboys play.
And now they get a chance to watch the Niners and Brock Purdy.
It's never been too bright of a lights.
I just think that in this situation, the Seahawks are set up to win this game
with teensy bit more.
Just a little bit.
Now, the Niners have all their All-Pros back and Brock Purdy magically looks like
he's an NFL quarterback.
He looked awful without two of the seven.
But now he gets to look at All-Pros back.
Unfortunately, the Hufanga is out with the 20-CO.
That's an all-pro safety he had.
So his defense is a little hit on the back end.
Maybe he'll have to do a little bit more in this game.
But again, Geno has the hurt elbow.
So we're going to see how this game goes.
I got to see how it's going to game incredibly closely though.
Jacksonville goes at the Texans.
I'm going to pick this one as well.
I've got the Jags here.
I wouldn't be shocked if it's a Texans victory.
It's on the road, 10 division, CJ Stroud illegally combats the RCB game.
CJ Stroud has the legitimate chance at MVP as a rookie.
I think if the Texans end up 10-7, 11-6,
and he leads the league in yards per game through 17 games,
he leads the league in yards.
He's not yet in the start yet.
He leads the league in yards.
His TD to IND ratio stays above 2 to 1.
He's high in the rating, and they're 11-6.
CJ Stroud could be the first rookie to ever win MVP.
And I propose to you, who else would win it?
Just Jalen Hurts is in the now.
His TD ratio is 14 touchdowns to 9 interceptions thrown.
You have EJ Brown, and he had eight yards last night.
Patrick Holmes is in it.
He has one of the worst years of his career so far.
Justin Herbert seems not above 500.
Lamar went three weeks without scoring, it felt like.
Dak, CJ Stroud, it's sitting there.
It takes unusual years for unusualness to happen.
We talked about the Heisman race last week.
It took unusual for Tebow and RG3 and Lamar
to win those Heisman with three or four losses.
Nobody else in the country was that dominant.
It wasn't like there was an 1800 yard back on 12th of November.
Like that's obvious you're the Heisman, right?
This is another one of those weird years in the Heisman race.
It's just a weird year in the MVP race.
There's nobody jumping out.
If I ask 10 people who's your MVP right now,
probably if you're a fan of Baltimore,
you might not get very many of the same answers.
Because there's so many people who could even have it.
You get a lot of uh, I don't know's.
You'll get a couple of Mars.
I'm sure there'll be a couple of Herbits.
But it's CJ Stroud, not a couple of Herb, a couple of Holmes.
But CJ Herb is going to be getting some of that.
CJ Stroud is sitting there.
He has a chance to lead the league in passing,
be north of 95 passing rating, north of 2 to 1 in assessor ratio,
with a 10, 7, 11, and 6 ballglob.
If that's the case, he has to be the MVP.
Because in any other year,
that's why he does that in a down year for everybody else,
that's the MVP.
I don't think he gives him a chance because he's a rookie.
And I think that'd be incredibly dangerous.
I think in the voters' mind, precedent?
But no one else is going to do that.
He's a special kid in a special situation.
I think he may lose his OC very quickly.
But he's a special kid in a special situation.
He has a chance to be the MVP.
Remember, in the NBA,
the MVP wasn't a young, young player until Derrick Rose did it,
which brought on the Rose rule and changed how contracts were set up.
Candice Parker wins the MVP as a WNBA rookie.
There's precedent in sports for young, young people to win the MVP.
Usually NFL is year 3, 4, or 5, you start to win it.
He's going for it in year 1, which if he does,
it may alter the way the contracts are set up from now on.
I mean, how kind of escalators and stuff, who knows?
But it's just the Rose rule to kind of proactively,
retroactively affect Derrick Rose's contract.
Maybe they put the Stroud rule in in the NFL
and change how his negotiations can be done.
Who knows?
But it is insane that he's very close to being an MVP candidate.
Of course, you got the Prince that was promised
on the Jaguars side, who honestly many people thought
would have a CJ Sprouse having right now.
He came out and admired.
Danny Bates got a second rookie year with Doug Peterson.
Now he feels like he's finally in his second year in the league.
He's heating up these past few games,
and the Jaguars I think have won 16 of their last 20 football games.
So you've got a team on one side, the Jaguars is heating up,
the quarterback Trevlon is heating up,
and you've got a rookie on the other side that's far outperforming
anything anybody thought he could do.
I loved him coming out of the draft.
I wouldn't have saw this. I didn't see this.
So I've got the Jaguars winning by a field goal,
but it would not shock me at all if the Texans pull it out.
Bills at Eagles, the last game we'll talk about this segment.
Bills at Eagles.
The Buffalo Bills are struggling.
I'm not even going to capitalize on you.
You played the Jets.
You played a combination of Zach Wilson and Tim Boyle.
Congratulations, you beat them.
And it was at home.
And Joe Brady's first game was a coordinator.
There were so many things on your side, if you're a Buffalo Bills,
that we're not going to get credit for beating the Jets.
Which it's not. It's just not going to get it.
Not for me at least.
And so the Bills this week, now they come out and they play the Eagles.
The Eagles come out for a hard, far game.
They're going to come out for an emotional game.
They're going to come out for a game where they went into Kansas City
against a team that beat them in the football.
Against the reason they probably have Travis Kelsey back this season.
Not Travis Kelsey, Jason Kelsey back this season.
Because Jason wins two goals.
What does he have to play for?
He went into that game on the first battle of Hall of Famer.
He went in with the Art Pros.
He went in with the money.
He walks out with the ring.
What does Jason Kelsey have to play for?
But you've got a defense that's starting to wake up for the Eagles.
You've got a quarterback who's injured, but he's still playing pretty well.
Running game is doing fine.
You go into that game against Kansas City and you pull it out.
Not by your doing, but you pull it out.
Is there an emotional drop coming home against the Bills who is not seen on Kansas City's level?
Who's been faltering the past month or so?
Jets game notwithstanding.
Faltering the past month or so.
Is there an emotional drop there?
I think the Eagles just about a four ball turn than the Bills.
I think they pull it out again on a three point game.
Will be low on scoring though 24-21.
As well I think Texans and Jags may go both north of 30.
Eagles and Bills 24-21.
Eagles.
What up next?
We're going to shift to our NFL betting segment.
The Jets back.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we're going to discuss our NFL betting segment, Jags pack.
Admittedly I've not been good with keeping updated you guys on our records.
So last week we went two and three.
Not really close on any real beats.
I can't be like oh I was on the right side of this one.
Just missed it.
Honestly I had charges Packers.
I had that one.
Embarrassing lines as well I had that one.
I had no chance on Bills and Jets.
So I was close on a couple of them.
Was on the right thinking, right path.
Didn't work out for me.
But anyway we're going to get on the right track.
We're going to get a winning week out of this week.
I feel like the numbers this week.
We're going to get it started.
Let's jump right into it.
Packers at Lions.
Lions minus seven and a half.
Take the Lions here.
I think the Lions are going to win this game by ten.
If the Lions were eight and a half I probably would have backed off of it and went Packers.
Or just backed off of it entirely.
I think this game is going to be 30 to 20 Lions.
It's in Detroit.
Detroit's selling out forward field for the first time this season.
For the first time since they moved to forward field.
They are selling and building out.
The city is excited about the Lions.
They're excited about the very high likelihood they win the division and host the first round of playoffs.
Maybe host the first couple of rounds in the playoffs.
They're incredibly excited about that in Detroit.
Their team is tough.
It embodies the Detroit mindset.
I just think the Packers stole a win last week.
They were not supposed to get versus the Chargers.
It took drops in that game as well.
Ken Nailah had a job right in front of the end zone.
Quinn Johnson had a job with the sideline for the Chargers.
We're having a very different conversation right now about the Chargers and the Packers.
But I think Detroit does make those mistakes.
The kids come out.
They had a down week last week.
A down couple of weeks.
They come out and get a corrective versus an end division opponent who in the Aaron Rodgers era absolutely dominated them.
The Lions win 30 to 20 so they cover the 7 and a half.
We watched the football team at the Dallas Cowboys.
Cowboys minus 10 and a half take the Cowboys.
I know.
I know I gave a whole speech right there.
I did.
His defense is awful.
10 and a half means the Cowboys can win 40 to 20.
BNME still puts on a show and Dallas still is covered 10 and a half.
Which I think might be the score.
I think the score might end up being something around 45-28, 45-31.
I think BNME can scheme against his defense.
They've been sleepwalking the past few weeks.
Defensively they've just been trying to blow left and right.
Turning Brightstone over.
Turning Tommy DeVito over.
Sam Hall will give them to you.
But not nearly at the rate of those two.
BNME is a better OC than the OCs that got nose buildings.
I think he's a better football coach in general than Frank Wright.
I think OC for OC, Brian Dable may be a little bit better.
But Brian Dable is the HC struggling up there in New York.
Especially with Tommy DeVito.
I think BNME has been able to squeeze everything he can squeeze out of Sam Hall.
I think this will be a high scoring game.
I think Dallas pulls away at the end.
Remember that Panthers game I think was 17-10 going to the fourth quarter.
They pulled away at the end.
I think that ABNME and Sam Hall puts up more offense.
Terry McWarn and McCrew puts up more offense obviously than Bryce Young and whatever the hell that is in Carolina.
But they still get outgunned in this shootout.
Cowboys win 45-28 but they cover the 10 and a half.
Dolphins.
Minus 10 at the Jets take the Dolphins.
This was one of those games I almost didn't care what the spread was.
I don't think the Jets scored more than 13 points.
Which means in order for the Dolphins to cover this they have to score 24 points.
I feel confident in that.
Now it's in New York.
It's in each weather for New Jersey.
It's going to be a little chilly.
But this is the kind of game where Tyreek busts along.
And then they get one of those long standing drives and they sneak in hands on them 14-30.
And then the Jets do a fast turnover and then they hit them again 21-30.
And then it's quiet for most of the game.
And then Watto hits a big long touchdown.
It's 28-3.
Dolphins win 31-3.
And it's just one of those games where the Jets just don't have an offense.
So it almost doesn't matter what the point spread is because if you believe they had an all in the other offense.
You got to go with that outside of the point spread.
And so I've got the Dolphins winning 31-3.
Covering the 10 points.
Chiefs at Raiders.
Raiders plus 9 take the Raiders.
Now I think the Chiefs are going to win the game.
But something about that Antonio Pierce and Raiders team.
They believe in them.
They believe they're confident in their abilities.
They're losing games due to talent and not wanting to.
I think they lost games early in the season because they didn't want to win the game.
Like there was no extra fire.
You know what I spoke about a few minutes ago?
That there's coaches that will run through the wall with you.
Josh McDan is the kind of guy to sit in the office and tell you half across the world to want to win.
And everybody feels like, I ain't running through the wall for that guy.
He's not even going to attempt to look like he wants to come with us.
That's kind of how it felt in Vegas.
Now with Antonio Pierce, it feels like Antonio Pierce went through the wall
and told you to come through the open hole.
I mean that's the vibe.
That's the aura that they give off now in Vegas.
It is led by men there now.
The players have taken over the franchise per report.
And ownership's all for it.
They're organizing stuff.
They're doing whatever they want to do to make their...
There's a pride in the organization now.
Antonio Pierce speaks about how the locker room's all in one piece.
And he said there's a pride in being a raider now.
As opposed to how it was, you kind of just lazy fare.
It is what it is.
You like it, great.
It don't. Sucks to be you.
That kind of attitude of Josh McDaniels.
Protecting the Patriots.
There's the report that ran rampant that somebody threw a shot at the Patriots
and he scolded them, don't ever talk about the Patriots that way.
Like, dude, you know you work for the Raiders, right?
And so that is the vibe that was given out.
The Chiefs have issues offensively.
Again, based on the last season, if the game's within a touchdown
and halftime, even the 10 points at halftime,
the Chiefs aren't going to expand the lead.
It's what four points a game like to have.
If they keep that up, they get three points, they get 13.
I'm assuming the Raiders can get one touchdown and a couple of spreads.
It's very possible.
I think it'll be a backdoor cover,
but the Chiefs win the game all right, Raiders cover.
And then Ravens at Chargers, Chargers plus three and a half.
I think that the Chargers win this game all right.
I think the Chargers have the kind of offense to really pick
with the Ravens defense, spread job, bombing deep,
and really kind of pick at the Ravens,
a lack of overall team speed in the back end.
The Chargers aren't the fastest team on planet Earth,
but they've got some speed and everyone's got a cannon of an arm.
So I think that spread of offense, also the physicality of the Raiders
with the playoff offense with themselves,
kind of feels what the Chargers want to do.
I've noticed lately that the Chargers aren't that good in space.
I don't know if it's using a scheme thing, not necessarily a talent thing,
but in the phone booth, they do fine.
And so if the Raiders, if the Ravens want to come downhill,
they've been running the ball at an exceptional rate,
I think this will be the kind of game the Chargers defense
will really make some noise because they're going to have to come downhill.
Now, I would say Khalil Mack out of the game,
but he's one of the better edge rushers against the run.
He always has been.
Also, I mean, Khalil Mack, one of the rare edge rushers in the league,
he was always really good against the run.
And so I think that if he continues that up,
got Kenneth Murray, of course, Derwin James is a big hitter,
so having those guys come down against the run could be very interesting.
I wonder if Lamar Lades gets involved,
I think the Chargers win the game outright 27 to 24,
and they come with a plus three and a half.
So to run back through it, we've got Packers, we've got Lions,
minus seven and a half for Packers,
Cowboys minus seven and a half over Washington,
Dolphins minus 10 over the Jets,
Raiders plus nine over the Chiefs,
Chargers plus three and a half over the Ravens.
Now up next, we will have a little bit of an NBA talk,
and then our best relax.
Welcome back into the show.
Now we're going to talk about the NBA as the end season,
I don't know, I think it's tournament night,
I think it's tournament night.
I'm going to double check that actually.
I believe it is tournament night, actually.
It's Tuesday, it was like tournament night.
Anyway, as the NBA is kicking off,
it is end season tournament night.
As the NBA is kicking off, it is tournament night.
It's going to be a little bit of a
one-on-one conversation.
As the NBA is kicking off, end season tournament night,
I believe this is the last night or one of the last nights
of the end season tournament,
as they go into their night.
Like I said, the games are literally tipping off right now.
But so these standings will be entering the tournament,
obviously entering tonight's action.
But you have in the East, you have in the water,
Celtics, 76ers, Bucks, Heat, Magic, Pacers.
Those will be teams automatically in the playoffs right now.
And then your playing tournament teams would be Knicks,
Cavs, Hawks, and Nets.
Out West, you have Timberwolves, Nuggets, Thunder, Mavericks,
Kings, Lakers.
Those are your six teams locked into the playoffs.
It's the end of the season today.
And your playing tournament is Suns, Pelicans, Rockets,
and Warriors.
Who Warriors who just ended their skib,
we'll talk about them in a couple of minutes.
Let's start off with something.
LeBron's ridiculous.
I feel like we talked about this last week.
And if it continues, I'm going to try and talk about it less,
add some fresh blood into the show.
I was going to mention Houston,
but they're coming back down to earth.
Like I said, they would.
But LeBron's ridiculous.
What he's done over the past couple of games,
35 points till two games ago.
37 last game.
We'll see what he does tonight.
Or 37 and 35, whatever.
We'll see what he does tonight.
He's shooting his best percentage from three in like a decade.
He is making mid-range jump shots at a clip that he's never been a
proficient mid-range jump shooter.
I'm one of the biggest LeBron proponents there is.
He went 37 against the Rockets on 14 of 19.
And then he went 35 against the Trail Blazers on 13 and 22.
He went 28 against the Kings on 9 of 15.
Before that, he had a couple of off-heels.
He sat against the Blazers, played very few minutes against the
Grizzlies.
He went 32 against the Suns on 17 shots.
I mean, what he's doing right now is 26.4 points a game on 58.6%
shooting, including 40% from three, 39.7% from a three.
If you compare the field goal percentage, 58.6 is the highest
his career.
The only one that comes in the realm is 56.5 in the 2012 famous
Heat team, 2012-2013 Heat team.
And then he's shooting 39.7% from three, which would be the highest
percentage from three since that same season.
So also, he's only getting 26.4 points a game.
He did it that year on 26.8 points a game, with him three minutes less.
So he's playing as well as he did in his 2012-2013 season.
That was 11 years ago.
His rebounds are a hair down.
He's still exactly the same.
His assists are a little down, but one of his affixes down.
LeBron James is playing 37, 38-year-old LeBron James.
He's playing just as good as 27, 28-year-old LeBron James.
He was unquestioned the best player in basketball.
What he's doing right now is absurd.
Year 21, I think the best average ever is a little over 10, maybe 13 points.
He's 26.
He's shooting the best of his career from the field.
He's making the most threes percentage-wise in his career since his late 20s, in 2012.
He's doing it so well.
Even his staunchest haters have got to be like, oh, okay, this is absurd.
What you're seeing right now is so historic.
It's not even funny.
Year 20 is the cliff.
Remember the famous Brady Cliff?
It was a year 16 or year 17.
Max Killerman preached about the cliff.
Oh, it's a cliff.
It's a cliff.
Once you hit this year, the very next year, you're bad.
Brady did hit the cliff really until his last year in league and he walked.
His year 45 year.
LeBron, that year 17, 18, really it's year 20.
It's a cliff.
Everybody's bad the next year, 21, 22.
They're just awful.
Really it's year 17.
You just fall off a map.
If you're still playing, you're just done.
You're no longer the player you were.
Now modern medicine is helping.
You see LeBron's in year 21, Durant's in year 15, 16.
You look at Steph.
These guys are rolling.
But then you got to do it five more years to get to where LeBron is.
He's out playing Kevin.
He's out playing Steph.
He's more efficient than both of them.
He's not getting the volume of shots.
Obviously, he's not playing their little minutes.
But what he's doing right now is so unimaginable that it's funny.
It's like we've taken it for granted LeBron's going to be LeBron.
He even said, if we're going to get a 2K, LeBron's going to be a 9-6 overall.
He's going to dunk on people and make all these shots and crazy passes.
And it's like, you do realize he's the third or fourth highest rated player in the game.
He's 38.
LeBron James is going to finish top five in the NBA Bowl.
If the MVP was decided today, he's third.
It's Tatum, Steph, and then who's in front of him?
You can make a Yokelj argument.
You can make an Anthony Edwards argument, kind of.
I'll give you the Yokelj argument.
Yokelj, it's Tatum, it's Steph.
And Steph's team is so bad, Steph's out.
So it's Tatum and it's Yokelj.
Who else in the NBA would be arguing?
That's definitively in front of him.
LeBron's third.
Right?
And so you've got a guy who's 13 years old.
To me, if the MVP ended right now, he's third in the MVP race.
He's shooting the best of his career.
He's shooting threes, second or third best ever in his career, but best in a decade.
He's doing it all not turning the ball over a crazy pace, despite his usage.
He's doing it despite Anthony Edwards being injured.
He's doing it despite Austin Reed's experience, I have a request.
He's doing it despite all these new pieces flying around him.
He's learning on the fly where everybody wants to operate.
And he's doing it to tune up the season ending right now.
They're the sixth seed in the playoffs and they're playing Oklahoma City in the first round.
Update, I'm giving the Lakers that series in five, maybe six.
Because of that man in the 23rd.
What he's doing right now should not be possible and yet we're witnessing it.
Yet we're watching it.
Yet we're gonna watch it tonight on TNT and we're gonna think it's normal.
We're gonna wake up, those of you who go to sleep, we're gonna wake up to a stat line of 28, 8, and 6.
With one turnover on four or five missed shots all night.
He's gonna make three threes and we're gonna pretend like it's normal and it's not.
What we're witnessing right now is something that no one thought was possible in basketball.
No one.
And LeBron's gonna make it normal.
What LeBron is doing is so great, he's making what Steph and KD look normal.
Because Steph and KD are at ages where you tend to fall off a cliff.
At Steph and KD's age, Michael Jordan was smoking cigars on a golf course retired for the second time.
I'm getting like, at Steph and KD's age, Kobe Bryant was tearing his Achilles.
At Steph and KD's age, Shaq was 400 pounds on such a uniform.
At Steph and KD's age, Dirk was two, three years removed from that final series in a shell of himself.
At Steph and KD's age, Dominique Lucas was done.
Reggie Miller was done.
Patrick Kane was done.
Kee Melazzo was in Toronto.
Charles Barkley was done.
Michael Jordan again was smoking cigars, hitting golf balls, hitting golf swings.
But because LeBron is in year 21, doing it where Dirk was, if he made a thing.
Dirk scored 20 with breaking news on Dallas Sports Radio.
If Vince Carter dunked the ball, my god, it was on loop for a week.
And LeBron's one of the five best players on the planet.
He's making what they're doing, which is amazing, pure normal.
That's what you're witnessing right now if you're watching the NBA.
Update, if I was you guys, I would watch it.
I'd pay attention to it because as much as we love LeBron, I'm one of the bigger LeBron fans.
And he says he wants to play until Bronny shows up, which he's on the road to recovery.
Kudos to him.
Bryce is now transferring back to Sierra Canyon.
The all-con nonsense happening.
But Bronny is probably a year or two away from the NBA now in the Beats commercial.
They're talking about play with your son and then do it again.
Bryce is a junior in high school, which means he's at minimum, junior, senior, freshman.
He's at minimum three years away from the NBA.
Could LeBron play 25 years at a high level?
No, he does. He pushes all the records so far no one ever catches him ever again.
So like Brady. Brady's pushed so much stuff far out.
I mean, Patrick Mahomes may catch him. That's about the only person.
And even then, the rate he's on, he has to play 17, 18 years.
Someone's going to have to play 24 years, 25 years to catch him and outdo his numbers.
You're not going to do it. Right?
And so he has an opportunity to shove stuff so far out.
Can he do it? I don't know.
But I would witness him right now is something that players thought was impossible.
That everyone thought couldn't be done. It's not possible. You can't do that.
He's doing it. And he's doing it at a rate that many thought everyone thought was impossible.
59% from the field, 40% from the three if you round slightly up.
27, 8, and 6 in year 21.
He turns 39 in December.
He's a top five player in NBA.
That's a testament to him and a detriment to everyone else.
Because why is he better than him?
Definitely.
Why is he the most in shape person on the team? How is he doing this?
It's a guy giving talent, a guy giving ability, a guy giving physiological makeup.
But it's also hard work and dedication.
A million dollars a year goes through his body every single year.
Maybe $2 million.
Every single year he does that.
And he's showing on the court he's better than your favorite player.
Whoever he is.
Jokic, Tatum, Steph. That's who ends the argument for MVP.
They're not Steph because like I said it seems awful.
That's your argument.
The GOAT is the best player in the NBA.
One of the top three.
In year 21.
Enjoy it now. What you thought was impossible. He's doing it.
Some games are a little easy.
Enjoy it.
The end season tournament seems to be a hit.
We've talked about that before as well.
You've got guys like LeBron.
I mentioned that $500 grand is a big motivator.
You've got Dan Cuiusco saying I don't know what's going on but you can tell it's different.
Steph bought into it.
These games are intense man. These end season tournament games.
They just feel different.
The courts are awful. The jerseys are interesting.
But they feel different.
They're not quite playoff games but these pool play games feel different.
I can't wait until they get to the actual tournament games.
You know when they get into actual games where it's saying elimination now.
Pool play was great.
The lose game you're out of the tournament.
So then that game later in the season becomes a regular season game.
It's always kind of interesting.
But because in the WNBA or the commissioner cups there's not enough games to do a pool play than a playoff.
You just play so many commissioner cup games.
High-ass records. I think they have two more games.
And then they go into the high-ass four going to the final.
From what I can remember.
These games they're finishing pool play tonight and tomorrow or tonight and tomorrow.
Whatever.
Then they're going to go into the round robin.
They're going to go to the single elimination tournament.
Then the four teams left split out of their schedule and go to Vegas for a weekend.
I think it's Friday and Sunday are the dates that Saturday and Monday.
Are the dates of the tournament.
They'll split out.
You'll play Saturday.
You'll play Sunday.
You'll play Saturday and you'll play Monday.
Winner takes the trophy and the 500 grand.
But it is a motivator.
You know these guys are having a ball in this tournament.
It's new. It's exciting.
I was speaking to a few people and they were saying they're going to have to change the incentives.
After so many times.
I think the big thing right now they have going for them is that it's new.
I remember last year when they add all the trophies.
Eastern Conference Finals MVP, Western Conference Finals MVP, etc.
Clutch player.
People were going after it because they were saying it was the first one.
De'Aran Fox.
The first ever Clutch player of the year.
They say the first ever Eastern Conference Finals first of the year.
Steph Curry.
The first ever Western Conference.
You know what I'm saying.
These things were new.
People were going after them.
Winning that means you're in the finals anyway.
But I'm saying still have the Clutch player of the year.
So they do a campaign for DPOY.
You know it's just people go after those awards.
I think people are going after the end season tournament because it's new.
You know LeBron.
Jokic.
Steph.
Tatum.
Whatever.
They can put that feather in their hat that I was the first ever end season tournament champion.
I was the first ever end season tournament MVP.
It's just something that you can put in your hat that no one else can take from you.
There will be other end season tournament champions.
There will be other Clutch player of the year.
Whatever.
But those people have the distinction of being the first.
And so I think that's what the big motivation is.
It's fun.
It's been enjoyable.
I said the courts.
You know it's an end season tournament game.
You see a wreck looking court.
It's bright colored.
You know exactly what kind of game you're watching.
I think it adds intrigue for the fans and the players alike.
Bradley Beal has a back L-Mac that has prevented the arrival of the Phoenix Suns Big 3.
The couple of games Beal did play, the couple of, not the game, Booker was out.
So the Big 3 have still yet to make their home debut for the Phoenix Suns fans.
They played a game together.
A couple of games together on the road.
They have not played together in Phoenix yet.
Beal was out for the next couple of weeks due to a back injury at least.
So who knows how long it is going to be until they get on the court together.
And then finally the Golden State Warriors who we spoke about earlier.
Finally got a win.
Finally.
They had lost like six straight.
Dermot Green still serving his suspension for putting Rudy Gobert in a rear neck and choke.
And so Steph Curry went on a three point barrage against the Bulls, if I remember correctly.
And they got their first win in six games.
He finally had teammates join him in the 20 point column.
Up until a couple of games ago no one on this team had scored 20 besides him.
Kade Thompson had looked absolutely awful.
He scored 20 points his last game.
Wiggins put up 23.
Steph had some points as well of course.
Four or five three including a four point play.
And so the Warriors look a lot better than they did.
Kudos to them because right now they're sitting tense.
They're actually playing the Rockets for the right to play the winner.
The loser of the Sun's Pelicans for the eighth seed.
If the season were to end right now.
If we look at the Pelicans, they, my Pelicans, they have, they're surviving their trading order.
They had a lot of good teams in the last week.
Three of the top teams in the West.
They went two and one against them.
They own wins against the Nuggets and the Kings.
They lost a tight one to the Timberwolves.
None of those games through it fully healthy.
Jose Alvarado is now back.
Trey Murphy is starting to, he's jogging up the court now.
Larry Nancy Jemacullum is going through four practices.
Zion Williamson and Brandon Engelman still maintain their health.
The Pelicans can have one of those teams where you're not going to want to play them.
Do I think they're a finalist team?
No.
Do I think they have the ability to make the West to come as finals?
Yes.
That's been the ceiling for the Pelicans the past two seasons.
Ask Steve and Ed.
They're a Western Conference finals team if they're healthy.
If they get into April healthy.
I don't think they're about to make any moves.
Maybe a backup center.
Other than they have Plumlee.
Or Zeller.
I'm sorry, Cody Zeller's there.
But you got Jordan Valencia, you got Balanchine,
Zion, Brandon Engelman, Jemacullum,
Jose Alvarado, Trey Murphy, Herb Jones, Dyson Daniels,
Cody Zeller, Jordan Hawkins,
and the
shooting rookie arguably ever.
He's on pace to be the greatest one ever.
And I'm sure I'm leaving out somebody.
That team is stacked in terms of 1 through 12.
There's Larry Nance.
There's 12 guys on that team that deserve minutes on NBA rotation.
On every team.
You can find a spot for Dyson Daniels on every roster on NBA.
Cody Zeller can be on every roster on NBA.
Maybe there's a couple he doesn't fit because they have a big and a good backup team.
For the most part, Cody Zeller fits on every roster on the NBA.
And those guys are the end of the bench.
Jordan Hawkins fits on, or Matt Ryan.
Jordan Hawkins fits on every roster on the NBA.
So when you have this level of talent,
Willie Green can have a darn good time trying to put the minutes together.
But that's a team that can make no mistakes.
I think they're a championship team though.
Because they don't have the requirements.
Even the unquestioned best player in the world,
two of the top five or three of the top 15.
They have two of the top 20, three of the top 30.
And they don't have just a ridiculous bench to fill it out.
The only team that went with numbers like that was the Pistons.
And it was a down year for the NBA.
The Lakers were beat up.
The teams can't play the way the Pistons played.
It was the whole thing.
No one's won it like that.
Before or since, the Mavericks also won it like that.
But if you really think about it, Dirk was the best player to play.
He went through Kobe, LeBron, and KD and won finals.
He's the best player.
And he beat the Spurs too.
That's the best player on the planet.
At least for that time period.
So I'm excited for this brotherhood season.
The record's not showing what the talent's showing.
But they're becoming back healthy.
They just beat the Kings by like 40 with CJ McCullough,
Larry Nance, Trey Murphy in street clothes,
Jose Everardo on a heavy man restriction.
That stage is there for the Kings.
So very excited about this season if you're a Pellicots fan.
But up next, I keep calling the best for last.
We're going to have Jack's hot take about again,
about Jane Daniels winning the high school.
Welcome back into the show.
And let's discuss Jane Daniels winning the high school.
So I'm no longer going to say he's the favorite.
I'm going to say my Jack's hot take is that he's going to win.
Now the sports books have all, most of them have put him as the favorite.
And now he's not even plus money.
He's minus money now.
Because they're anticipating that he goes off against A&M.
And then of course we have to sit the week.
Now that could hurt him.
He's not in the conference hamper.
Bo Nix and Michael Pennings are going to play each other
in the conference hamper game.
For the Pac-12, Jane Daniels will be watching.
That's the only two other competitors in the country.
Marvin Harrison Jr. has an outside shot at it.
But the West Coast, I think they're trying to bathe together
and get one of the other guys to Heisman.
It's the first time they've had a legit Heisman case in years.
But Pennings and Nicks will go at it in the Pac-12 title game.
Jane Daniels will be watching the SC title game from home.
So he won't have a national instead because him versus A&M,
maybe ESPN too picks it up.
But that's not a real national barn burner type of game.
Especially with Jembo Fischart being fired.
That's not really the barn burner type of game to watch.
Especially with Oregon in rivalry week versus Oregon State
when DJ Ubuyagalele watches his playing of Wazoo.
LSU A&M is not the typical barn burner you're going to want to pay attention to this week.
But Jane Daniels is doing something in the country.
I think it's obvious he's the Heisman.
He ranks number one in yards, number one in passing touchdowns,
number one in total touchdowns, number one in yards per game,
number one in yards for pass, number one in passer rating.
He has the most rushing yards by a quarterback in the country.
He is first in rush attempts.
He's first in rush per attempt.
He's third in the country in passing yards.
He's fifth in complete percentage.
In his number of big plays, 20 yard plays in college football, he has 82.
The next person to him has 61.
That is Caleb Williams, whose prediction of the number one overall pick this draft,
followed by Jackson Dart and Michael Penick's title of 69.
What Jane Daniels is doing is not only historic, it is football anomalies.
It's stuff that if you paid for it to happen, you wouldn't believe it's happening.
If you absolutely just knew without a shadow of a doubt that, hey,
he's doing stuff no one's ever seen,
he's doing stuff no one's ever even contemplated in the college football level.
He's doing video game numbers in real life.
Now, that's a situation that is something that people think that they always can do, that man.
Video game numbers, video game numbers, and that's thrown around so much.
He's actually doing video game numbers in real life.
It is absolutely insane what he is able to get done.
He's doing it with a defense that is absolutely awful.
He's needed crambling in Georgia State.
Now, I admit, they spat pad against Georgia State, but Bo Nicks did it too.
Crambling in Georgia State were games that they didn't need every point.
Every other game this season, they felt like they've needed every single point to just survive the game.
Not to mention, like, win the game, but to physically survive the game,
it felt like they have needed every single point out of Jane Daniels and all of his explosiveness.
I think he is well more than deserving of being your Heisman Trophy.
I think he will win the Heisman Trophy.
I think he submits it with the number 450 yards, six touchdown performance against Texanil.
He's got a couple guys nearing SEC records, Malik Nevers is nearing a couple SEC records.
SEC is in bulls now.
Be very honest and see if Daniels, Nevers, and Thomas play in the bowl game,
because it will be the Chick-fil-A bowl, probably, if I had to think about it.
I think Georgia is in the playoff.
Bama gets the sugar bowl.
Missouri is the next highest ranked SEC team.
They draw...what rights do they have?
Chick-fil-A?
So maybe, you know, LSU is back in Miami, Florida.
I forgot the other game, Miami, Florida. Not the Cheesy Bowls, another one.
It will be very interesting to see if Daniels, Nevers, and Thomas,
all projected top 25 picks right now, play in the bowl game.
Cross the bridge when we get there.
Maybe it's a Gary Nussmeyer show with the young guys.
I kind of have a preview for next season.
But we're definitely going to keep our eye on the Texas A&M game.
What I think Daniels is it is his last shot.
I think it's going to be a game where LSU could be up to 60-3 and keep throwing it.
But damn, it's his last shot to impress the voters.
I think there's some West Coast bias coming out all over the West Coast,
dropping bombs on Daniels left and right, trying to discredit his case.
Because again, they know this is their best Heisman chance since Richie Bush.
I mean, they've had some other years where they've gotten close.
Christian McCaffrey, I'm sorry. Christian McCaffrey.
Andrew Luck kind of thing.
This is their best Heisman case since then.
And they've got two of them. They've got Nick Sandpenny.
Excuse me, was Cusplick third vote?
But I think Jayne Daniels is the best player in the country.
Paul Feinbaum, he's the best player in the country.
He's got three losses. None of them are on him.
He went to a war with Florida State.
That game he didn't play all that great.
He went to war with Alabama State.
He got knocked out with a concussion.
And he went to war with Ole Miss. His defense just got awful.
I think Matt House should be fired for LSU anyway.
But that is all we have for the day.
It's the longest show we've had in a while, just across an hour and a half.
I appreciate you guys for hanging in with me.
We had a lot of energy today.
We had a lot of stuff to get through you guys today.
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