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Welcome in to the show.
Welcome into season four, episode 37 of the Justin Time Spokes Podcast.
As always, I am Justin Jackson, your owner and host.
Soon to be big Justin Time Spokes news will be starting to get guests on more often.
Obviously, you need for most of the time, but once a month, maybe twice a month, I'll
be starting to get in some guests.
So you guys will be able to hear from another voice other than mine, although I know you
guys are interested in me.
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But other than that, man, I appreciate all of you guys for what you are doing with the
podcast.
But let's jump right into it.
None of the nitty gritty.
Let's jump right into NFL League 14.
Again, sorry for the delay, one day delay, guys.
I know this show usually comes out Thursday morning.
It's going to come out Friday morning.
My apologies on that.
I just didn't have any.
And I told you guys before, I missed the week after I'm filling it.
That's not well either.
I don't want to give you guys a subpar show for the sake of putting out a subpar show.
I feel like it's not my best effort if not because that's what I can give you.
I'd rather not put out any show as opposed to putting out something that's half hearted
and half effort.
So that's definitely how I feel about that.
So I wasn't feeling yesterday.
Wasn't feeling the energy.
Didn't feel like I could deliver the product to you guys.
You guys deserve a need.
And so I'm going to deliver it today or Friday, I should say.
So I won't discuss Thursday night football because it happened before I actually got
the chance to speak on it or the time it got to here.
So I won't do anything such as discuss Thursday night football because it got here.
Kind of a moot point.
But anyway, I never mind what I want to talk about.
Let's talk about what I do want to talk about.
Apparently, the best two quarterbacks in the league last week, Tommy DeVito and Zach Wilson.
Imagine me saying the names Tommy DeVito and Zach Wilson will win NFL Play of the Week awards
in the NFL season.
Imagine if I told you that.
Imagine if I told you they would do it in the same exact week.
Imagine if I told you they would do it on bad teams.
Imagine if I told you that someone named Tommy DeVito was starting for the Giants anyway.
Zach Wilson started.
I never thought Zach Wilson was starting for the Jets.
So much about this is off.
It's honestly mind-boggling.
But they earned it.
Tommy DeVito with his mob boss looking agent played a great game against the Packers.
Not a very good quarterback side mid.
It was a down-weak support back side.
Not a lot of quarterbacks in the league.
Also a lot of QB injuries.
Raiders on the backup.
Giants on their third string.
Jets are on their backup.
They want to play the week.
The Patriots are starting their backup.
The Spielers are starting their backup as well.
It's not like the Browns are on their backup.
The Bengals are on their backup.
The Seahawks played their backup.
Not a lot of weak ones started to play whether on the league.
The Chargers officially lost Herber.
We'll discuss that later.
But it is actually insane.
The fact that Tommy DeVito and Zach Wilson played the week.
I don't know.
I thought it was going to be a Tommy DeVito game.
But that's still mind-boggling.
But Tommy DeVito played well against the Packers.
He ran the offense.
Shaquon Barkley carried his load.
And he was able to dice apart the Packers.
He never really had any back-breaking moments.
Obviously he got the win.
The Packers team is one of those teams that late in the season,
they're still going to fight hard.
They're going to play hard.
They're going to play hard from the atmosphere.
I wouldn't want to play the Packers.
That's the team.
You'll see the record.
And your brain might relax a little bit.
And then they'll beat you.
So I don't want to play the Packers.
It's not an organization I want to see right now.
But the Giants got it done.
The way the Giants are playing hard for Brian Daple,
I wouldn't want to play the Giants right now either.
If you're a good team, you want to play those teams kind of giving up.
You want to play that team, shoot Carolina.
Carolina's going to play hard, but they're not the correct answer.
Chicago's trying to help out their draft position.
They might start having cast-forms and rolling injuries over these last few weeks.
But that Packers team, they're going to fight and they're going to scrap Matt Lashota.
Believe in that.
They're bored of directors because they don't have an owner.
But their bored of directors.
They're going to believe in that sort of thing.
They go out and try to compete every single day and every single week.
So that Packers team is not the team I want to play.
the Giants were the Giants, two pro contenders,
and Tommy DeVito and Saquon Barkley,
part of the much-sliced and diced,
that package due to the tune
of Tommy DeVito winning player of the week.
Then, Zach Wilson played Houston in a game,
I just knew this was gonna be a CJ Stroud,
like, not coming out party, but a game he played well.
And not because the judge needed a spat,
they're actually really, really good.
But I figured Zach Wilson put him in a few bad spots,
and he got a lot of picks on Zach Wilson.
Zach throws a couple of awful interceptions,
one maybe a big six, one down inside the 30,
style takes advantage, two touchdowns,
hits three or four more field goals,
you know, and they win, but we get to go
with like 26 to 10, or something like that.
You know, that's kinda how I imagined the game going.
The game didn't go like that at all.
Zach Wilson was the one slicing and dicing,
CJ Stroud ends up with a concussion,
he's like, he's still in the concussion protocol,
as the time is recorded.
And, you know, just slicing and dicing with Zach Wilson,
running around looking necessary, throwing on time passes,
you know, looking like a guy
who asked his coach to be the starter again.
Like, look like a guy who wants to be in the moment,
who wants to have that time in the sun,
who knows that his time in New York is probably ending,
and that he needs to put some decent tape out there,
and he needs to trade his words good,
like he's showing our outfit, and so much of the jazz on.
So kudos to Zach Wilson and Tommy De Jido
for winning NFC and AFC Play of the Week,
you know, for the Jets,
I mean, for New York football in general.
The Baltimore Ravens and the Los Angeles Rams
went into a hell of a game, hell of a battle.
Went into overtime,
Lamar Jackson made a ridiculous play,
he dances around somebody, stops, fires into, on the money,
took a guy dragging his feet to the corner,
didn't know, I mean, great play by Lamar.
You got some moments like that from him this season,
where he's like, oh my god, he's amazing.
And then you have probably gets his name,
what in the, what's that, Lamar?
And so that is something that I think the Ravens
have to go a little bit deeper into.
Todd Munchers, the great job of the officer coordinator.
I'm seeing a lot of similar routes,
Brock Bowers ran, Mike Andrews is running them.
And so that is a natural transition.
It's like, if he entered,
you know, had to perfectly map out
who he wanted Brock Bowers to be,
it'd be Mike Andrews.
So the fact that Todd Muncher was able to go
straight from, straight from Brock Bowers
into Mike Andrews is an absolute goldmine.
He's got a dramatic advantage
because they didn't have to skim line
to him without a good tight end.
He has one of the better three tight ends in the NFL,
which is Kelsey Kettle and then Mike Andrews.
Probably an order, I ordered them.
He's one of the best three tight ends in pro football.
And then the defense for the Ravens for the first time,
or one of the first couple of times,
really was stressed out by the Rams.
Shami, they had a strategy going in
and he did his best to execute that strategy.
Cooper, Cooper, N'Kua, that's a dangerous combination.
And of course you have Mass Backer putting the trigger.
They were able to create time for Mass Backer.
He was able to put it on the money for them.
They needed a short run, they would get the run.
And it was just a showcase of what the Rams offensively
could look close to being at the peak of its powers.
And it was just a very impressive show by the Rams.
The Ravens filled it out.
That's what I'm sure they wanted to actually do.
Now we talk about it, we'll talk about it more in the NBA.
We talk about it more in basketball than in football.
Sometimes it just, it's a god.
And you get that in basketball.
Sometimes the NBA strategies were great.
in the Rams, it didn't matter what strategy he was.
He was just better than Ronald.
You know, we talk about it in hockey.
Sometimes when it's great,
those teams were just better than the Canadians.
Ronald Rose had a way of dressing them.
He was just a really better leader.
And what you see in those series is,
sometimes the strategy doesn't matter
because the execution of their strategy is so much better
because he is that strategy.
And that's kinda how I feel about the Baltimore Ravens game.
It's like, the Mark Jackson's guy is really, really good.
And he'll cover the worst of schematic inefficiencies
and shortcomings because he's just that good.
He'll just make up for stuff that should not be made up for
because he's just that level of football player.
Football IQ in the Marlins is just ridiculous.
So he's able to make up for some of the defensive
lackadaisicalness.
And of course, he can get a big game
even in the touchdown guard.
But something is wrong in his story.
Like something is terrible.
It reminds me of a high school musical line
by Sharpe that I actually saw.
And she's saying, it's not what I want,
it's not what I plan.
And I just gotta say, I do not understand.
That's gotta be what's going on in the Chiefs meeting.
This is not planned.
I don't know what's going on.
But I can firmly say I do not understand.
Like, receiver issue inside.
Yes, Kader is on the bottom of all sides.
Guess they had a game where it was just full of frauds.
But there's certain games, like there's three games here,
where that didn't happen.
And the offense was flat out in the league.
It's like it hurt them to score.
And it was just, they don't look right without Airbnb.
Airbnb started the commanding offense,
it became pretty solid, especially Sam Powell.
Those guys in Kansas City did not look great.
They looked all right two years ago.
And that was the first year about Tyree Hill.
He was still the judge by the clock.
Now they pretty much have a symbol that's new
that has a few Tyree Hill limitations about players.
Scott Moore, Kader is telling,
they brought back people in hard man life.
And it's all for the same purpose.
That is shooting fast.
If you're fast, they're out of grace,
and the bullets hop off the defense.
Because what made the Chiefs so hard to defend
is the fact that not only did you have to defend the right
and not only did you have to film the shallow crosshull.
Any given moment, the wrong step is a 50 yards
that's not on your head.
And so that's what made the Chiefs so dangerous.
Without some of these guys, they're not nearly as dangerous.
And the enemy got the commanding offense great
with Sam Powell.
And I don't want to even put Sam Powell
and Patrick Mahomes in the same breath.
And so the fact that the enemy had those guys rolling,
they missed everything.
Maybe we can say one thing about a close game, whatever.
They missed every enemy, terrible.
Every day, every single second of the day,
game is an Airbnb.
And I don't know if it's on my convention standpoint,
because the more you play it, the more likely
for a champion from the next to Sam Powell,
he wants to be, I'm allowed to definitely advocate.
I'm allowed to slow, let us have a game.
Now the grand scheme of life, if you want to go for it,
it is with this.
But I'm allowed to slow down that same game.
And because of which, that may keep the pages out.
But there's no one right now in E to control
any reason versus you.
If you want to do something insane, you can do it.
If you want to sit back in the halls,
back in the halls, tell me something insane,
you can do that as well.
There's nothing stopping you from just being on the field.
And so I think that's the case that Airbnb
and Andy Reid had a time, so Andy Reid's been so creative
and all this stuff, but the animals look like
they're mid-day, we don't need that.
We got the dis, dis, dis, dis, and that's it.
The next day we got the dis, dis, dis, dis, and snap.
The next day we got the dis, that, that, that, this.
And next day you got to go all that,
what they, all this.
But you got to continue to wear your,
your card, your ID card as much as you can possibly.
Dallas absolutely destroyed the Trailers of the Eagles.
Talk about something going on with KC.
Something going on with Phil.
They got absolutely wrecked by the Ascari Wars.
They got absolutely wrecked before that.
Something is desperately wrong with the Eagles.
Bad, bad defeats back to back, and they have the two contenders
and the Niners and the Cowboys.
I mean, the Niners, I said I was physical with them
because the Niners are physical with everybody.
Everyone loses, but we got that to the Niners.
It was something like, the Niners last year
was something like, oh, and 18 or 19,
we were the season with maybe one team on that game.
They physically wear me and beat on me so much.
It's hard to stand up in the stands.
That level of punishment from the Niners.
So they went to the game, five-win little sore,
five-win little beat up.
Then they went to Dallas game, and Dallas came out
to a good chunk of this.
We're a pretty physical football team in the trails.
They would have dominated the Eagles as well.
The Eagles need Martin, Mark,
whose mark so long was on the line, physical toughness.
Now getting shoved around by the business library.
Hell, yeah, David Carter wanted to do something about him
because he is absolutely set up.
He's frustrated.
He's no loser this year.
He had probably five periods out of that one.
He's annoyed.
He's just really, really frustrated.
And I think that has to do with the fact
that they absolutely destroyed the Eagles
in one speed around that year.
I don't know if they're really good roster.
I just don't know if they're steamed up enough
to go compete for a title.
They're a really great roster.
I just don't think they're steamed up enough right now
to go compete for a title.
I really don't believe they are.
I believe they are not schematically just there yet
to go compete for a title.
Reports out of New England stated that Belichick's job
is already over and that the team has already decided
to move on on the mutually-popped ways
of Belichick at the end of the year.
Now my thing was why wait until the end of the year?
Because if you simply do it now,
Belichick's going to go free the rest of the year.
And it's not a free agent coaching team.
You know, two haven't lost any ones left.
Let's look at the charges.
Now I'd say he's supposed to be charged.
Basically, I'd say he should keep Belichick.
But if he's going to move on,
you got to make sure the guy replaces him really good.
Draw a male, have no head coaching experience.
I'd trade whatever Belichick is trading for,
plus a first, plus probably a future second
for Mike Brabley right now.
Brabley was legit.
He's only in New England.
He knows the pace of his way.
He's got a head coaching experience unlike Mr. Pierce
and unlike Gerard Mayo.
Two men out here swallowing around
telling me to face Gerard Mayo.
And so therefore, again, I'd say he's Belichick.
He's going to move on.
He's an experienced guy like Mike Brabley.
He'll take over.
And of course, higher as you know.
And then lastly, Justin Herbert is out,
officially out for the rest of the year.
After following his finger surgery,
he's officially out the rest of the season.
The Chargers this morning season just got worse.
And I wonder if this ironically saved Brandon Thamers' job.
And they were looking awful beforehand,
but I think the rate next year,
he's either not making or breaking the job.
He's got to go out there and play pretty decent.
Might save his job.
If the team packs up the team and goes home,
it may break his job.
Or finally solidify to the owner that the Chargers head coach
is an exact.
But up next, we're going to talk about NFL Week 15,
which is going down.
Welcome back into the show.
Now we're going to jump into NFL Week 15.
Some very interesting games this weekend, of course.
According to Thursday Night,
so Thursday Night Football game is the Battle of Aiden O'Connell
versus Easton Stick.
No Josh Jacobs for the Raiders tonight.
I would take the under on whatever those points is.
Take the under.
I take the Chargers to win the game.
Doesn't matter.
So to be honest, it doesn't matter at all.
I would take the under on the points.
Make a little easy money tonight.
But again, the battle is Easton Stick versus Aiden O'Connell.
Again, there's so many back of quarterbacks
running around the league,
including in the first matchup I'm going to talk about,
Cincinnati versus Minnesota.
And you see got a little Logan Browning or Jake Browning,
my apologies, against the Chargers, the Vikings, excuse me.
Just named a new starter.
Oh, man, it's upsetting.
They had Josh Dobbs there for years.
He was the new starter there.
Look up on my page.
I know I posted about it.
The new starter in Minnesota.
Man, this is upsetting because,
I said there's a new starter in Minnesota
because it's been changed.
The new starter is Nick Mullins.
I remember he was going to say, let's go for a few years.
He said, let's go for a few years.
Got some trouble around there.
Was in Minnesota before.
They cut him, brought him back kind of thing.
But Nick Mullins is the starting quarterback
for the Minnesota Vikings this week.
So big news out of Minnesota.
Nick Mullins draws the start and he goes against Jake Browning,
who has been remarkably efficient there.
I actually started to compare Jake Browning's numbers
to Joe Burrow's numbers.
He's been pretty remarkably efficient there for Cincinnati.
JIQ quarterback rating looked pretty well.
But again, the support of Cass for the Bengals is healthy.
Excuse me.
And I speak about that a lot when it comes down to my gripe
with Sam Fran starting quarterback, Bob Purdy.
Your supporting Cass is almost so good,
it doesn't matter who's your quarterback.
And when you're in a situation like that,
the supporting Cass is insane.
Sam Fran is not as good as Cincinnati,
but you still have Joe Nixon.
You still have T. Higgins.
You still have Jamar Chase.
You still have Zytaela Callum plays.
O-line is still not great, but it's manageable.
And so when you have a situation like that,
Jake Browning's coming in and he's just driving the ship.
They're not asking him to make the big, you know,
Jamar Chase rest of the corner, put the ball on the outside shoulder.
They're not asking him to make that play too many times
so that he did make one against Jackson and Gills.
Beautiful throw up the sideline to Jamar for a big touchdown.
But for the most part, he's just, you know,
driving the boat and the defense is stepping up, protecting him.
And so they are absolutely rallying behind Jake Browning.
Obviously, there's no quarterback controversy.
You know, it was a weird time where Cooper Rush was looking good for Dallas.
And the people were wondering if Cooper Rush is going to take that Prescott's job.
And I never entertained it for one second because of this thing called finances.
And so that's what's, even if for some reason Jake Browning goes on this run
and gets into the AFC Championship game,
then all of a sudden people are wondering, oh my God,
is Jake Browning going to take Joe Burrow's job?
There's this thing called finances.
Now, it would put the pressure on Joe Burrow to come back
and maybe get to and win a Super Bowl.
But as far as taking Joe Burrow's job, no.
But he's looking good there.
But the highlight of this battle isn't the quarterbacks.
Coaching wise, it's not even the head coach versus head coach, to be honest.
It's not even Zach Taylor versus,
I can't think of the Vikings head coach's name right now,
but it's not even about the head coaches.
It's not about the coordinators.
It's about the battles that receive it.
Two of the best receivers in the league, Jamar Chase and Justin Jefferson,
of course famously played on the 2019 LSU team together with Joe Burrow,
along with a baby of other NSO players.
They are in the discussion for the best receiver in the league,
and they're going to play each other.
Justin Jefferson was out for a while with an injury,
took a big shot to the chest.
On Sunday, he's going to play on Saturday.
Jamar Chase started off incredibly slow,
but that's a partially due to Joe Burrow's calf injury,
and then he's picking up and he's rolling.
So they're unquestioned two of the top five.
A lot of people have them two of the top three, along with Devontae Adams.
But they are battling for best receiver in the league.
To me, they're one and two.
I have Devontae Adams around three.
I have a lot of respect to Mike Evans.
I give a lot of respect to Keenan Allen.
I give a lot of respect to Stephon Deeds.
I'm sure I'm missing somebody.
But Justin Jefferson and Jamar Chase, the two LSU guys,
are to me one and two in the league, hands down.
They're both going to set the record.
For whatever the receiver total dollar for a contract is,
they're both going to pass it, I would guess, by at least $5 or $6 million.
So those two guys are the best receivers in pro football.
It's not, I mean, it's close.
Devontae Adams is right there.
But those two guys, just a hair bit better.
They have a lot of good youth also on their side as well.
So that's going to be an interesting matchup to watch who comes out with their backup quarterback.
Whether Justin Jefferson and Jamar Chase have a better game.
And if it's one of those better games because of more targets,
or just a better game because they play better,
kind of thing would be interesting to watch that matchup.
No Jack back this week, so I will pick the game.
I think Cincinnati comes out with a victory.
I do think in the battle, the receivers, I think Jefferson has a better game.
But I think that Cincinnati comes out with Joe Mixon,
so a little bit too much for Minnesota to handle.
Browns-Loris doing his best to take a chance out of the game.
So that'll probably open up the run game a little bit more for Joe Mixon.
And they win an ugly close one, 23 to 20.
Moving on to our next contest, we have Denver at Detroit.
This is a game, admittedly, I've had it circling on my calendar for about two or three weeks.
The reason why is Detroit's starting to slide down a little bit.
They look a little bit not like Detroit, they look like old Detroit.
Not like the Detroit line that comes from the scene.
The slide to me is starting to ride around the game right before Thanksgiving.
Baltimore knocked all their luster off.
And then of course Thanksgiving versus Jordan Love.
And there's no real cracks in the armor.
It's not like something you can see and go, that's it.
It's like that gif of Leonardo DiCaprio in what's called Wall Street,
where he sits up and starts snapping like, I found it.
But there is starting to be small kinks in the lines.
They got smacked by the Bears last week.
2013 in Chicago.
And when Chicago's actively trying to secure two top five picks,
and you got blown out by Chicago, the Packers put it on you for Thanksgiving.
Of course that Ravens destruction in Baltimore mid-early this season,
it's just like what's going on in Detroit.
We even got a Denver team that started off rough.
But that Denver team is making believe that they beat the Chargers 24 to 7 last year.
That Denver team is 7 and 6 now after starting off, I believe, 1 and 3.
They're 7 and 6 now.
I'm sorry, they fell off 1 and 3, because it all turned after that 70-point
where the Dolphins had to be nice and not break the points record.
70 to 20 over the Brains.
Jesus.
But they go out and they beat the Bears, and they lose to the Broncos.
So they're starting off 1 and 4.
And since then, they're 6 and 2 with what they may possess.
So they fell off 1 and 5.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
They fell off 1 and 5, and since then they're 6 and 1.
And they possess ones over the Packers, they beat the Chiefs, they got the Bills,
they beat the Vikings, they beat the Browns, they lost to the Texans,
and then they beat the Chargers.
So since they started off 1 and 5, they're 6 and 1 over their last 7.
One of the hottest teams in the league.
The Lions are struggling.
So this was a game again.
People would have started for three weeks ago, and if I had to say three,
we fought with games.
You're probably looking at Detroit-Denver.
Me and D-Denver was in the middle of that win streak.
Detroit was playing all right.
Maybe it was a circle game.
But this is kind of one of those games where Sean Payne did not win the game.
It was a team of 8 and 6, and they're firmly in the wild card picture.
I mean, they have a legitimate chance to not only be 7, but be 6 or 5.
And you have a team in Detroit that went from a division winner
to you might not win your own division,
which could put you in jeopardy without you making the playoffs.
I mean, just imagine that far three weeks ago.
Detroit was ahead in the division.
By a couple of games, Denver was still staring up at a 6 or 5 loss at that point.
You know, they were a 4-5 football team.
Detroit was looking at, you know, or a 5-5 football team, whatever.
Detroit was looking at cruising into the playoffs.
The division won them for the first time in X amount of years.
The All-East Highballs in Detroit.
Denver was just trying to get the head above water.
And now you're looking at a situation where Denver come out of this week 8 and 6
with all the momentum in the world.
Sean Payne was like a freaking genius, by the way,
with all the slander he gave Nathaniel Hackett.
Potentially unwarranted, potentially inappropriate, I say.
It was warranted.
Potentially inappropriate slander that was given to Nathaniel Hackett.
Good of him happening to head coach Charlie, like Sean Payne said,
he had his CBS hat on as opposed to his coaching hat.
But he ripped into Nathaniel Hackett about the coaching and the process and the aura
and everything else about what's happening in Denver.
And again, you saw about 1-5 and everyone was saying,
Sean Payne is a fucking idiot.
He looks like he just talked about Nathaniel Hackett, look what he's doing.
And since then, like I said, they're 6-1.
I'm on the hottest team, if not the hottest team in football,
even though they're not really talked about that way.
So because of that, I've got the Denver Broncos keeping their streak going.
They go into Detroit and they handle Detroit.
They figure that defense out, the offense, Russell Wilson's playing pretty well.
And I think they go in there and they handle Detroit 27-13.
I just don't think that Detroit right now is in a good spot.
They're going to reset, I don't know if they'll reset the beat,
but Denver's on rolling and they go in there and take about 27-13.
The Chiefs at the Patriots.
Now, this is a game that's intriguing for a variety of reasons.
Now, I'm a Patriots fan.
Admittedly, I'm rooting for us to lose. Why?
Currently, we possess the second overall draft pick.
Now with three wins, we're not getting number one.
I think Carolina won't go to the game the rest of the season.
The fact that Houston let them beat them is mind-boggling.
Keeping them at that game might end up costing Houston either valuable seeding
or a playoff spot in general, especially if CJ Stroud's out with a concussion.
That might be the game that twists the whole Texan season around
and keeps them out of the playoffs because they don't possess the first time pick this year.
They traded it in order to get Will Anderson.
But regardless, the Patriots are sitting number two.
Now, I know we're not making the playoffs. We're actually eliminated from the playoffs.
What's the only reason I'm supposed to win any games the rest of this season?
There isn't.
Belichick shouldn't have to win games to prove he's a job.
Again, there's the reports about he's already gone.
If that's the case, there's definitely no reason to win
because if I'm handing a new coach a job, I want to have a culture night.
I want to have a good culture and a really good chance at drafts made.
J.J. Daniels, potentially Caleb Williams if Chicago talks themselves out of Caleb Williams,
which we've seen crazier in the draft.
And so I'm not rooting for the Patriots to win this game.
However, the Patriots have three wins.
They come over the Dolphins, the Bills, and the Spiels.
I'm sorry, the Jets, the Bills, and the Spiels.
Two of those three franchises are in the playoffs.
And the Jets have an outside chance.
All three teams are in the playoffs.
They've lost games. They've lost games to bad teams.
But they have position.
Wins over the Jets, the Bills, and the Steelers.
There's something about this Patriots team when they play better opponents.
When they play a team, they play up a little bit for those better teams.
Now, that certain team is boat racing.
Calabasas is boat racing.
Saints is boat racing.
But for the most part, if they lost, they lose close, and they've taken out some good teams.
And there's something wrong with Kansas City.
I think it's Airbnb.
Airbnb, like I said with the commandos, I forgot about my last seven.
I won't dive into it again.
But there's something wrong with Kansas City.
The Patriots, my homes, flipped out after the Caderia-Tony Alcides call,
which turns out to be a great call.
Now, now, there has been multiple, and I mean multiple, angles and cheese fans.
There's multiple angles and cheese fans online.
Cool. There's multiple, a multitude of cheese fans online.
That's like the screenshotting of the receivers in the exact same alignment, not being called for offside.
And saying like, well, why this offside? I was offside.
They're complaining up in arms, whatever.
And I always find complaining post-camp interesting.
Like the decision can be undone somehow or overturned or changed or anything of that sort, whatever.
And so, you know, you have the Caderia-Tony, incident number 1,000, it feels like as a cheese.
You still have no reliable deep threat.
I mean, Travis Kelsey has resolved to catching the foul ball,
having good yards, throwing it back to Caderia's Tony for touchdown.
Like it worked. It didn't count, but it worked.
Like it's just that's what the cheese offense is boiled down into.
And I think Bill Belichick, actually I know, I'm a Patriots fan, I've watched him my whole life.
Bill Belichick, when there's no deep threat, not really.
Miles Walker's right, that's probably going to drop it.
Sky Moore and Caderia-Tony are guarding the 1-on-1, and Travis Kelsey is not from this planet.
So when there's no legitimate deep threat, it's all raw speed.
It could mean going harm is on our yards, but if there's no Tyree Hill to account for,
I can clamp down and throw all kinds of trap coverages and weird coverages at you because
there's no one to burn through, there's no one just to run past me.
And with that being said, I think the Patriots get the upset here.
And it would blow my absolute mind with frustration because it's the last thing I want.
However, it just feels like Belichick's got one last AHH in the tank.
And if we win the game, I think we go from like second to third or fourth.
But I think Belichick has one more, like I can still do this in him.
And I think beating the Chiefs kind of ugly, now the Chiefs have a legitimate defense,
but beating the Chiefs kind of ugly, 20-17 would be a AHH moment that Belichick has.
I can still do this.
So whether that incites the Trades to another team, whether that incites the Patriots to do the last shit with contract, whatever.
But I think that the Patriots get this game 20-17.
Baltimore at Jacksonville, that's an interesting one for a lot of different reasons.
Sure, Belonger is still bad, like he's in country.
Baltimore is one of those teams, one of those franchises that they've been destroying the teams.
As Detroit, who is the As, is the Chargers.
Went in there and got absolutely wrecked on the Rams.
Suddenly went in there and got absolutely destroyed.
It was like two good teams back to back. Got absolutely manhandled by Baltimore.
Now, they're not as dominant as they were when they met.
They were considered one of the best teams in the league.
I think San Fran has to me firmly taken that mantle as the best team in the league.
But that Baltimore team is real.
Now, they have to go down, they have to go down to Jacksonville, travel on as they do long.
We'll be ready to go.
It'd be a high down there, as close to what it is in Baltimore.
It's a team for sure with the humidity.
I know that affects some of the game.
I actually think Jacksonville gets the win here.
And that's just, and the reason why it's at home for Jacksonville, that humidity is different.
That temperature could both say eight.
The humidity in Jacksonville is different than the humidity in Baltimore.
We were talking Florida to Maryland.
As far as what is happening.
Actually, I'll look up the weather right now.
So Jacksonville Sunday is projected a high of 69 with an 85% chance of rain.
Which to me lends itself to Baltimore.
As opposed to Baltimore, it's 58 degrees, also 85% chance of rain.
So I would blame myself in this kind of game.
What is not, I'm sorry, what is not Jacksonville?
Because Jacksonville run gets more downhill.
Baltimore is downhill with a catch.
It's out of ball handling.
I don't think it's as good as the Delevingne game.
I don't think it's as good as the Flowers game.
You need those guys to run those quick routes in the rain, a slop field.
It's not a good idea for them.
Straight line of speed, straight line of running.
That's when the game is good for those guys.
I think Jacksonville here creates a lot of the pressure.
It creates a lot of the struggle here.
As long as you have a team that applies more of the pressure than another,
it really affects whoever you're getting applied to.
It's just some general pressure burst pipes.
It also creates dive-ins.
And I think that Baltimore here is going to burst a little bit.
They're riding high.
But offensively something's still off with them.
And I think that the sloppy conditions are going to affect their offense even more.
I think Jacksonville is quick side of victory here at 27-24.
And the game is going to be very tight late in the game coming down to who has the ball last.
Now I'm in a couple of quick hitters.
Yoneke Ngokewe of the Chicago Bears and Grandel Pidell of the Cleveland Browns head to injury reserve.
And Dallas at Buffalo is my most interesting game of the week.
Two interesting offenses.
Joe Brady has changed the way the Buffalo does.
Offensive looks a little bit.
Josh Allen seems a lot more comfortable.
Fills a lot more free flowing off of the defenses picked up.
So maybe there's some battle of the minds between Sean McDonough slash Martin Dale.
And former office player, King Dorsey.
Play calling could be something that affects the defense.
And it's just that sort of thing could be going on.
But kudos to the Bills for getting it together.
And of course, Dallas coming off a very dominant game against Philly.
Maybe you look at it in the most of the letdown.
So that is my highlight game of the week.
I've got the Bills winning the game.
Dallas doesn't bounce back from their emotional high.
And they lose a game they shouldn't lose.
But they lose on the road at Buffalo 27 to 20.
What up next?
We're going to shift to the NBA.
Welcome back into the show.
And I'm going to talk about the NBA.
We don't talk about the NBA a lot on this show.
It's a pretty NFL heavy, football heavy show in general.
But with the college boys entering their postseason.
Shout out to Jaden Danforth and the Heisman.
We're going to have a lot of bowl games now.
We'll pretty much put the answer to the player on the back burner.
At least for a couple of weeks.
Because of course, when the New Year's six bowls go down,
we will definitely be all over those.
Of course, New Year's they have the cotton bowl, orange and sugar,
and fiesta and the playoff games.
And of course, later, the championship games.
We'll be all over the college football then.
We're going to put them on the back burner for now.
So because of which, the NBA, which now is almost at the start,
at the unofficial start of the season.
A lot of fans, I know a few of them,
say they don't watch the NBA until January.
Or the unofficial start date is Christmas.
I know several people, myself included,
that wants the NBA to get out of the NFL's window of time.
Like we get it, the playoffs, we understand.
But if you're going to be in the NBA until the end of the season,
and you're not going to avoid the Olympics,
the only problem is the Olympics.
But that's a problem every four years.
You know what I'm saying?
Or the World Championships.
It's a problem every four years.
Put All-Star Break Well, while it's still the end of the season.
Okay, well, anyway, we'll get to that later.
But the problem is the international competitions
will fall during the season.
That's the problem they have,
that's the Olympic or World Championship break in the season.
Okay, get out of the NFL window entirely.
Start on Christmas.
Play until August.
Have the NBA Championship somewhere late August.
You still have your eight-month season.
Or even if it's early September,
you still have your eight-month season.
You're completely out of the way of the NFL
and your regular season during the dog days.
Because the NFL ends in February.
So from February into February,
all the way until late August,
you're unopposed.
I mean, there's baseball,
but baseball and basketball fans usually don't mix.
Usually basketball and football fans mix.
Baseball and basketball fans all mix.
So you're running unopposed from February 8th
to September 1st.
You're just running unopposed.
And so I don't know why the NBA doesn't do that.
They haven't done it.
Probably won't do it.
Because the finals in June was such a historic NBA tradition.
But anyway.
So as soon as we start the NBA,
we're going to run through the standings.
So each team is going to play.
Today will be the automatic qualifiers for the playoffs.
Celtics, Bucks, Magic, 76ers, Pacers, Heat.
And then the play-in tournament will feature Nicks versus Nets,
which will be insane in New York City,
especially because it'll be in the Garden.
And then Cavs of Raptors,
which is interesting because the Raptors have several pieces,
such as Pascal, Siakam, O.G., and Inobi.
A lot of the league is looking for...
A lot of the league is looking for long-wing defenders, two-way guys.
And I think that Pascal and O.G. will be two of the guys that they will be looking at.
Toronto, Nasai Uji has a strategy of not trading these guys.
Fred Van Dleet left for nothing.
We could have got probably a first-round pick or two for Fred Van Dleet.
O.G. and Inobi, Pascal, Siakam, they're...
Once it's past February, there's a good chance those guys walk for nothing.
So interesting strategy in Toronto,
but all in all, Toronto's going to be the 10th seed.
And then out west, the automatic qualifiers are Minnesota, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Denver, the Lakers, and Sacramento.
Then the play-in tournament, it would be Rockets, Clippers, Helikens, and Suns,
which is interesting seeing the Suns solo.
They can't get that big three on the floor.
And then the one time they got the big three on the floor, they lost to the Nets.
So basically a quarter of the way in, their big three has never put the NBA game together.
Now again, they ultimately fix that last night for the first time.
They all come together, and they end up ultimately suffering a loss to the Brooklyn Nets,
but they all scored the ball well.
Bradley Bill was a little inefficient, but they're offensively not a good problem.
They're ace is going to lie in defense.
The use of Nerkish trade was very shrewd, not getting Nerkish in the Deandre Aiden package.
Again, a very, very shrewd move to have them on inside.
I don't think they have enough defenders. They just don't.
Brian Wilhoer put out an article a couple days ago regarding what each championship contender needs.
Shout out to him including the Pelicans. I appreciate that.
But the defending Suns need was just defense. They just need people who play defense.
They have the offense. Nerkish against Leroy. Of course KD, Booker, and Beal.
You have the offense. You need people to defend. Long-range defenders is what they need.
They almost need to make a trip to the Lakers.
The Lakers get some of that offense, some of that shooting, and the Suns in turn pick up like touring in front of Cam Redditch.
They just need people who play defense.
And so that is just going on. Phoenix, various.
People that are shocking me in the standings.
I think Orlando being third. I mean they were winning basketball. Orlando was third.
The Pacers are fifth. I know they were doing well in the season tournament.
They were like 6-0 in the tournament before getting smacked in the finals game.
But the Pacers being fifth.
Simple as I know about Oklahoma City being second. Dallas is third.
So that's kind of a shock right now.
Like I said, the Suns being tenth. That's going to do the injuries.
The Rockets are falling back down to earth as well.
But of course the big news in the NBA, the news that made all the international sports shows.
Oh yeah, shows in general.
Jermon Green's latest incident.
This time with a roundhouse punch.
It's kind of a tippy that beat slap. It's slap.
It's Yusef Nerkic.
Oh right, not the one we were just talking about.
Yusef Nerkic of the Phoenix Suns.
I mean this is getting out of hand.
I want the labor. All of the incidents.
I want to pick apart every single one.
Why this is wrong.
Let me know about the man private park region spree that he went on.
There's Rudy LeBron and Steven Adams.
There's the incident with Jordan Poole before last season.
There's Chokin, Aruj and Gobert.
There is the hit of Yusef Nerkic.
There's the stomping of Demons and Cibonas.
I mean he's got four major incidents within 15 months.
This is the kind of thing that people begin to worry about if something's going on at home.
Because, or his personal life. And it's like dude there's no reason.
I mean there's the tackle.
One of the guys got involved and he ran all of them and tackled the guy.
I mean it's just, it's one of those things where you begin to wonder is something going on in his home.
Is his home life, personal life, whatever thrown off.
And he's just reacting the only way he knows how to react.
He gets some Saginaw, you know the way Darvin Hale talks about Saginaw, Sag Nasty.
It's a rough and tough place. Maybe he just respond to them only you know how.
But again that's the kind of stuff man.
I'm glad the NBA didn't put a number on it.
And the NBA came down and suspended them indefinitely.
They kind of did what they did with John Moran.
John Moran got 25 games plus requirements.
So, 25 games excuse me, continued that he needs certain requirements, certain benchmarks.
Jeremiah Green died indefinitely.
And his suspension will end once he meets those requirements and benchmarks.
So, if he doesn't meet them all season, he's out all season.
If he meets them in 10 games, he's back in 10 games.
You know there's one of those things where Joe DuMarr spoke about it.
He didn't want the suspension to overshadow the act.
So he didn't want to say, Jeremiah suspended for the rest of the year.
And then all of the story talk about the suspension rather than the act.
And what they're getting out of the game.
So, I think the indefinite suspension was a good idea.
I don't want to pursue especially because it's hinged and contingent on the fact that he has certain requirements.
Probably anger management, some other things going on with him in order for him to come back into the league.
His spend without pay, he's getting, he misses approximately $150,000.
And the Warriors are already in a bad spot on the court wise because Clay Thompson has not even made really any progress.
So, it's a contract extension or a new deal with the Warriors.
So, this really could be the last run for those of the Warriors.
He's got Draymond Green who they just resigned for years, $100 million.
Probably regret it.
You got Clay Thompson last year if he's a deal, who knows when number he looks up or when number he looks down is disrespectful.
You already moved off Jordan Poole, Kaninga and Moody are ready to get trade chips.
Chris Paul where you brought in Darley Inger.
Man, it's just, I don't know, that was walked away.
I mean, the Warriors as we knew them are over.
So, now it's just how bad of a fall the Steph Curry experienced while he's on the court.
I mean, that's to be honest what's going on here.
But, you know, he's speaking to Draymond Green.
I think he needs to get some help.
I think something's going on with him personally.
And it's being expressed in the basketball court.
But this has got to stop, man.
So, within 18 months you have post, you have punching Jordan, knocking out Jordan Poole, choking him with something, the monsters of the Warriors chest,
punching Rudy Gobert and then hitting Deucef Nerch.
So, this has got to stop.
This is a horrible look for the NBA.
He's putting the NBA on a lot of channels that doesn't cover basketball for non-basketball reasons,
which is the worst thing Adam Silver could possibly want.
So, hopefully they get that rectified and taken care of.
Giannis with the game of his life, scoring 64 points, adding in 14 rounds,
ended it with an incredibly synthetic slam and for about 20, 30 minutes no one cared.
Because apparently a Pacers assistant coach came and got the game ball from the official
with the intent of giving it to Oswech Shibway.
Oswech Shibway was a pretty dominant defender, rebounder at Kentucky.
He's now made his way into Indiana, getting the guys for his points.
Well, first point last night, he made a free throw.
So, the Indiana spaffer, his assistant coach, went and got the ball from the ref with the intent of giving it to Mr. Shibway.
Well, Giannis wanted the ball because Giannis went for 64, adding in 14 rounds.
So, Giannis wanted the ball.
When Giannis found out the ball was already taken, he charges towards the Pacers locker room
and is trying to get in the locker room in order to get the ball back.
They ended up, you know, miles turned and told him to get the ball, which of course only incites him further.
It was a whole fiasco, about 15, 20 minutes, and then he finally bucks security,
goes into the locker room and gets the ball.
Mark Cuban played in on his side, he said that he would rather the ref get the ball because of a big number like that.
He would have the team sign the stat sheet and then frame it and give it to Giannis for his big-time performance.
So, I think that Indiana's wrong here.
Come on, man. Like, Oswech Shibway's first point is not in comparison to Giannis scoring for 64.
Oswech said he ran and took the ball away from Giannis.
It's a very, to me, messed up situation.
Alright, so let's address something.
Actually, no, we're gonna come back, we're gonna do that last.
I feel like we're gonna take personal friends to last. We're gonna do that last.
Anthony Davis from the Bron looking like one of the best one-two-deers in the league.
Anthony Davis is dominating, of course, in the final 41-20.
He was dominating against Dallas, as well as the Camara victory.
And then him and Wendley Miyama had a battle last night.
And San Antonio, the Bron change, set out.
And so, Victor and Anthony Davis had a battle. They dumped over each other, they blocked each other's shots.
You know, they both made some complaints.
Wendley knocked down a couple of threes late to keep it more interesting than it should be.
Anthony Davis is dominating, a little friend to the floor.
I mean, he got that free throw thing, but I'm sure he'll get it.
It was a wonderful show between Wendley and AD.
But AD and LeBron, again, look like one of the best one-two-duos in basketball.
AD has been down a number of fans, and he's playing through injury.
He has like a ductured injury, messing with his hip.
And he is playing through it, and playing incredibly well through it.
LeBron, he's aging in terms of his vertical. That's about all you see as far as the client.
I mean, he's still barreling on the lane dunking.
People still getting out of his way.
He's still big time off jamming.
He's still chasing put down for chase down.
It's like, man, he jumps a little bit less high.
And in certain situations, old him could have caught somebody in a chase down that knew him's not trying.
He's got a little more cost to his energy.
But that's it, man. LeBron is real right now.
At 39, he's over.
He's got to be in the NBA discussion.
He's top six at the NBA at the worst.
He's better than 99% of the league.
It's just, it's insane watching him do what he does at his age.
We spoke about Rick D'Alemagnama earlier.
Dude's ridiculous.
Like what he's doing, he's doing stuff, especially since they moved him to center, that reasonably shouldn't be possible.
That reasonably, it doesn't make sense.
He's got 20 and 20.
He went at him at the neighbor side, a 30 point double double.
He is absolutely, again, ridiculous on both sides of the ball.
He'll block a shot, they go catch a lob, block another one.
Now he's looking at a three and he's drilling all over the place.
It's just, he's an alien dude.
Like LeBron Carpenter, alien dude's an alien.
Like that big, that skill, that young is a very, very insane combination just to keep your eye on it.
Because it doesn't make sense.
Nothing about that makes sense.
Your brain doesn't accept that.
But it is happening in front of you.
Victor Wimminyama, he dunked against the Rockets and then when the camera turned,
Fred Vans Lee looked like an eighth grader cosplaying a college player.
Like cosplaying an adult.
He looked that small next to Victor Wimminyama.
And it's just, I mean, he's real.
He's all about the hype.
He is incredibly real.
The Spurs have lost like 16 straight games.
Not as bad as Piston lost 21.
The Spurs have lost like 16 straight games.
But it ain't Victor's fault.
He's out there doing the best he absolutely can.
And he's just battling his tail off.
I mean, I know he's not used to it.
He's probably going a little stir crazy with the losing.
But he is absolutely battling out there every single night.
Popovich has to be encouraged.
Wimminyama's numbers are actually, Wins, losses, 16s, and all that.
His losses are a little bit more, but his rebounding and squandering is a little bit higher than LeBron James, in 03.
So for those who slander Wimminyama, LeBron's on the same path.
LeBron's a rookie of the year.
I think Wimminyama does as well, regardless of his team's record.
But lastly, on the NBA, and this is what I want to talk about.
The NBA, sorry, the New Orleans Pelicans were playing really well.
They had won a few games in a row.
Pelicans fans were looking good.
They were playing well.
Zion was 25, 30 a night, 62% shooting.
They're talking about how crazy he efficiently was.
Leeds never done, or hadn't been done in so long.
He had the most points per game with the highest percentage in the history.
It was insane.
It was pretty much on what you want to hear about your superstar player.
And then he has an off game in the last knockout round.
He was 15 points, and he never really took any shots.
But that was odd, because I didn't watch him.
That was odd.
And then of course the big semifinal game.
Pelicans, Lakers, you know, Pelicans getting out at least three.
Lakers always get one shooting team.
Defensively, it was perfectly set up for Zion.
And he went into the toilet.
He looked out of shape.
He looked like he was interested.
He sat at the game, he got some more effort.
It just wasn't handed to him.
And he got it handed to him.
The Lakers were hot that night, LeBron knocking down three after three,
including a heat shut three, just drilled.
You have different people attacking the Pelicans.
He sends, knocking down three after three after three.
AD was dominant.
And Zion looked like he was fat, not in shape, not interested.
And after the game he said he got a few more effort,
which is the last thing you want to hear.
It's a highly compensated player is that the last thing you have to learn is
that honesty isn't always the best policy.
I mean, you don't lie.
But don't necessarily tell the truth.
Eli Manning, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, really good at saying a whole bunch
or speaking a whole lot and saying nothing.
They're really good at that.
It's quarterback speak.
They'll say a whole bunch of stuff and none of it's useful.
Because it's not quotable.
It's not whatever.
Anyway, so after this Laker debacle, Stephen A.
Smith goes on the first tape and said that he was told that New Orleans chefs
are waiting to meet Zion because, and he quotes, that he'll eat the table.
In quotes, are you leaping serious?
He'll eat the table?
Quote unquote.
I mean, he'll eat the table?
That's past fat joke.
That's insulting.
Now, Stephen A. did preface it multiple times by saying it's not his reporting.
He's just hearing it.
But that's ridiculous.
And so Zion goes out and balls.
He has a table with 36 points.
He was at the beginning of the table with 36 points.
He's talking about rebounds.
Crazy level of efficiency.
And then on the first tape the next day, Stephen A. basically is saying, oh yeah,
you know what Zion said about coming from love?
That's why I said it's wrong.
We love you here and we just want you to succeed.
And he's talking about his stepfather.
He's walking back, but he's definitely not as aggressive as he was.
And that is ridiculous for national media to be doing that.
I mean, local media was still entering him, calling him fat, and then everyone was quiet
after the T-loops game.
All was well.
It was like nothing had ever happened.
And that's a little disconcerting for a guy like Zion.
He's not necessarily.
He's been nationally famous since he was 16, but it's not necessarily something that you
get accustomed to, you know?
So kudos to Zion for fighting with him.
championship rules, like I said, and just addressing what was going on with the media
without going into it.
If he, I'm going to say that if he comes from love, you know, thank you, or I appreciate
it, you know, I'm listening to it.
If he comes from anything else, thank you anyway.
And so that is a great attitude for Zion to have.
That's ridiculous.
And the fact that that stuff about, oh, he'll eat the table, only came out after the loss
and not the wins before that, because they were undefeated in the tournament as well.
Not the wins before that, but simply just the losses, ridiculous, shoddy reporting.
I don't know, especially if it's not a direct source.
But up next, we're going to have Jack's hack tape, which is here comes the D.I.
All right.
Welcome back into the show and welcome into Jack's hot take, which is going to be a talk
about prime time Deion Sanders, Colorado Buffalo.
Now, the Colorado Buffaloes was, it felt like everybody's favorite team from August to early
October.
And then the wheels kind of came off the bus a little bit for the team, the fandom loving
rhythm, celebrities everywhere.
They would come to all the games and they were showing up and showing out, especially
at the TCU.
I mean, Colorado, they had like amigos on the sideline, like Lil Wayne ran about one
game.
I mean, it was it was a show in Boulder, Colorado.
It felt like to me, black America descended on Boulder, Colorado, which would have never
said those words 12 months ago.
But that was the kind of the excitement that was brought around with being hired in Colorado.
And out of the things college football experts warned many people about, I started to notice
it too.
They weren't very good, like they were good, but they had a problem.
And that's the line of scrimmage.
If they played seven on seven, they probably get a cost of a playoff like Chidor and all
those weapons.
And that descents at back four was nasty.
You had Travis Hunter, you had Shia Lomond Sanders.
That back set, that back set was nasty.
All dribbles on offense.
The offense line was horrible.
That defense line made everything worse.
And you can't win football like that.
So pretty much even go off the rails and then go four and eight.
It's not like three and one.
End of one, four and eight.
But because they're not in the goal game, that allows me on Sanders to go in the road
early.
And he has picked up commitments from six offensive liners in the transfer pool.
But five in the quarter, and then the number one offensive tackle in the country at IMG
is going to go to Colorado.
Now, getting the kid to sign on December 20th is a trick.
He went on Fox and did the big Fox announcement on disputed.
And he's going to be in Colorado.
And there was a guard today that signed or that committed that I thought would have been
huge for Deon.
He's one of the top rated guards.
He's one of the top ten rated offensive liners actually in basketball last season.
Deon in the ghetto.
That kind of hurt a little bit.
Because I think he was the last guy that Deon was focusing on getting before moving on.
Because he has an interesting recruiting strategy.
He's recruiting the whole country for one position.
So he went around the whole country for offensive liners.
Now he's going to go around the whole country for defense liners.
He's going to go around the whole country for defense liners.
He's putting the piece together.
He's getting commitments.
He's got Will Shepard from Vanderbilt as a receiver.
He's getting commitments from other places.
First of all, I think he wants to do less of a two-way of Travis Hunter.
I think he wants to let him do it.
I think he's going to be primarily a corner.
He's going to do less of the receiver stuff.
Because he was full time both until he got hurt.
He was 120-plus snaps a game until he got hurt.
And then he had to kind of back off of it.
But I think he's going to do a lot more of a corner.
And pop him in a receiver.
As opposed to letting him basically start on both sides of the ball.
And so Will Shepard is going to be huge.
He can play.
I want him to know to shoot.
He can play.
And that's going to help Deon out and Shadura out, of course.
He's got six offensive linemen coming.
He reported like the guy I know he was on that guard.
But in the committee, I think he's going to go one more into your offensive linemen.
And he's going to go to the defensive line.
Because he desperately needs a defensive line as well.
We're going to the big 12.
But here comes prime time Deon Sanders.
I think America needs to get into this scene.
They're tough.
They're going to be tough.
And when we know they can score the ball, all they needed was a little more time for Shadura.
Now they've got two top rated transfers, depth, and the number one tackle in the country.
I think they're going to be able to check them.
Do I see them making the playoffs?
No.
Deon is already mentioning about making the playoffs.
Making the playoffs.
No.
But they could, depending on what division they get into in the big 12.
I can see them going eight and four, nine and three.
If you go eight and one in conference, there's a good chance, unless there's a nine and
three conference, that you're in the playoff.
So could they go eight and one in conference?
You know, one and three outside of it.
Eight and four, nine and three, whatever.
Eight and four.
And a seven and one in conference, one and three outside of it.
Go eight and four.
And be in the conference championship game with a chance to win your end.
The playoffs?
Yes.
Because the playoffs makes sure you have 12 teams.
The big 12 is an automatic qualifier.
Texas number home is calling.
They're going to the SEC.
The
Oklahoma State.
Kansas.
Kansas?
I get it, it's Baylor.
Oh, wait, no, no, it's TCU.
It's BYU?
You see how those programs are particularly interesting?
And now the most captivating stories in the country, the most captivating coaches in the country,
one of the best infrastructures in terms of being an attention seeker is coming into the big 12.
He's coming into Texas where he was coaching high school football at Trinity Christian with Shador.
He's coming into Texas where he was a Dallas Cowboy legend.
And now he gets to recruit across the country and isolate one position.
He's fixing a little offensive line problem.
I can only imagine what he can do with an offensive line that's standing up.
So now I say he's got to get that D line straight.
He's got the O line.
He needs about three D linemen, preferably one top freshman and then two more good ones at the portal.
I think he'll have a team that can go get in the playoffs.
But I mean, that's how close they were.
I mean, they were five linemen away.
They threw an offense, two on defense. They got the offense taken care of.
Now they need to focus on the defense.
Two or three defensive linemen that play a lot and then two or three more for depth purposes.
I think they'll be in the playoffs.
The Colorado Buffaloes could be played off the mound in Deon's year two.
But that is all I have for today.
Thank you guys for hanging in with me a little over an hour and 10 minutes.
I appreciate you guys rocking with me.
Hopefully I'll have some big show news on right at later.
Big stuff will be coming in 2024 for the show.
So thank you guys for that holiday schedule.
Because Christmas and New Year's both fall on Monday, I will be having shows through the New Year.
I sometimes take a break Christmas week.
That's kind of a deadish period.
It is a dead period for the civil recruiting.
It's kind of a deadish period for the NFL.
They play games but it's not really big news a week.
The NBA is pretty quiet.
They play the big Christmas day slate and that's pretty much it.
So if there's a show missing it would probably be Christmas week.
But I will definitely keep you guys updated on that when it happens.
But that is all I have for today.
This is your host, Justin Jackson.
We'll see you guys later.