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Welcome into the Justin Time Sports podcast, season five, episode 30.
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Thanksgiving week, man, it's a huge week in the NFL.
Happy holidays to you and your family.
For those who celebrate Thanksgiving, congratulations.
Thanksgiving is here.
For those who don't, enjoy the week off from work.
I have a couple days off from work that comes with this holiday in America.
But let's jump right into NFL week 12.
Last start with Monday night football last night.
It was a battle of two of the young guns in the NFL.
Talk about two of the top five talents at the quarterback position left in the NFL with
Herbert and Lamar Jackson.
For those of you who are curious, the other three of those talents to me is Patrick Mahomes,
is Joe Burrow and is Josh Allen.
I mean, you can make an argument for Kayla Williams as far as raw talent.
Haven't seen enough of it.
You can make an argue where Jayden Daniels as far as raw talent started off hot, fell
off.
We'll get into Jayden Daniels in a bit.
You can make an argument for Kat LeMurray as far as the ability to throw and run.
But as far as the top five guys who we've seen proof of, and we have seen just the raw
ability of, those were two of the top five last night between Justin Herbert and Low
Lamar Jackson.
They put on a show.
But ultimately it came down to which organization is just a little bit better right now.
It was the hardball bowl the first time since Jim has returned that they have faced off.
It's Jim's first season with the Chargers after winning the national championship last
year with the Michigan Wolverines.
John continues his winning ways over brother Jim.
John's the older brother and he's 3-0.
He got him in Jim's first season in the NFL.
He got him in the Super Bowl.
Now he gets him again in the regular season.
Just go through some numbers really quickly.
Very pedestrian day as far as total for Lamar Jackson.
But his QBR and his passer rating shows the difference.
Lamar was 16-22, a buck 77, two touchdowns, no picks, one sack.
But his QBR of 86.8 on a scale of 0-100 with 50 being average.
He had a passer rating of 126.5 with a max of 158.3.
Derrick Henry was a very Derrick Henry like game.
24 carries, a buck 40, no touchdowns.
He had a big run of 27.
He had it actually on a third down or a fourth down.
It was a very important down when John Harbaugh starts rolling the dice on these downs.
Derrick Henry delivered.
Justin Hill had a good night, four carries, 51 yards.
Most of it came on a 51 yard touchdown run.
Switching over to the Chargers, Justin Herbert, 21-36, 218, no touchdowns, no picks.
QBR of 70, passer rating of 75.
Dobbins I think injury changed the game because Dobbins before he goes out is six carries,
40 yards, a longer 17.
I think that ultimately changed the game.
It takes away the run game because the next best runner on the team was Justin Herbert.
You didn't get anything out of Hasan Haskins or Gus Edwards as far as the run game is concerned.
Now that we got the numbers out of the way, that was a game that again that came down
to me.
It's a structural game.
First of all, like I said, Austin Eckler gets hurt.
I just said his name too.
Man, I can't think of that guy's name anymore.
One second.
J.K.
Dobbins, I'm sorry, gets hurt and it really throws off the remainder of the game for the
Chargers.
You can tell they're going to do a lot of play action running.
They were running the ball really effectively.
They have the old Ravens offensive coordinator in the building.
He's really good at running, his name is Kasey, but he's really good at run schemes.
His run schemes are elite and they were really using that and building that to build in Justin
Herbert play actions, hitting a lot of Lamma conkeys and so on and so forth.
They were just really building that game.
Then when Dobbins goes out, you can tell Greg Roman is his name.
Greg Roman really was trying to figure it out with other backs.
It just wasn't working.
They never were in a position truly in the second half to where you could just say, okay,
we're going to run the ball eight, seven times in a row with all these different run schemes
really allow Herbert to just be a dynamo in the play action.
Especially after that last drive where they get in the field going, I think at 14, 13,
to me, the Chargers just never felt like they were able to run the ball.
Like I said, this is post Dobbins injury and it clearly showed.
On the Raven side of things, they got some things cleaned up and I think they grew up
a lot.
They grew up a lot in confidence a little bit last night in terms of what they were
looking at.
The Ravens had one of the worst pass defense in the league.
I talked to a lot of Ravens fans on a regular basis.
One thing they constantly lament is the passing defense of the Baltimore Ravens.
They talk about it all the time.
Not having Rocquon Smith, having to lean more on guys that normally you wouldn't have to
lean on, and your secondary stood up and killed one of the better quarterbacks in the league
relatively down.
Like I said, compared rating on Raiden, Lamar was 87 and 127, Herbert was 70 and 75.
So holding one of the better passing attacks down, really controlling what the Chargers
were able to do.
It also highlighted the lack of weapons for the Chargers.
Lad McConkie is easily the best receiver.
Wayne Johnson easily should not be an NFL receiver.
If he catches that pass, he probably hits his head on the goal post and it's going
to be a whole different conversation.
Him dropping that pass, it was on the third down, the Ravens come right down and score
a touchdown and go up two possessions and the whole game changes.
It was a perfectly designed call.
Greg Roman dialed it up perfectly.
He got a lot of crossing routes, a mesh-ish concept through the middle against man coverage.
For those of you who know football, it's a lot of crossing routes, through man coverage.
Quinton Johnson gets rubbed off, boom, and hits him right in the hands and he just drops
it.
Like I said, the whole game is changed from that point on.
The Ravens do what the Ravens do.
They get up on you and they lean on you.
They leaned on them with Derrick Henry.
They leaned on them with one of the bigger guards I've ever seen in my life.
They leaned on them with Ricard, the fullback.
He just kept leaning and kept leaning and kept leaning.
They drained the clock out and ultimately drained the charge of spirit.
Khalil Mack is talking, talking about he wants to see them again because playing against
Henry ain't that hard.
24 for a buck 40, he says otherwise, but hey, he says he wants to see the Ravens again.
It's definitely something that could be a budding rivalry.
I would enjoy seeing the brothers go at it, the Harbour brothers go at it repeatedly.
It's something that you didn't see whenever Jim was in the first time because Jim was
in the NFC.
I think Jim was there like six years.
He only played like twice and one of them was in the Super Bowl.
So now that Jim is in the NFC with John, hopefully we get more of these matchups.
Make it a yearly thing.
Come on, NFL, make it a yearly thing.
It was in LA this time, put it in the Baltimore next year.
I would love to see them in the playoff game at Baltimore Conference Championship game
when it goes to Super Bowl.
That'd be cool.
So I'm saying we get the opportunity to see that a little bit more, but shout out to the
Baltimore Ravens for getting it done.
So a growing topic that I honestly didn't even think was ever going to be a topic.
Bo Nicks for MV for offensive rookie of the year.
I'm going to say MVP sheesh for offensive rookie of the year.
That is a real conversation right now.
The odds have come way down for Jayden Daniels and they've gone way up for Bo Nicks.
And it's a real conversation that you've seen a lot of national platforms.
This is a conversation that again, I thought the rookie of the year race, hell I said it
was over and done in week six because only the person I because Bo Nicks was horrible.
Drake May wasn't starting yet.
Caleb Williams was awful and Jayden Daniels was in the MVP race.
I thought rookie of the year was over.
If I had to place my money on it, I'd still go Jayden Daniels because Jayden Daniels ultimately
to me is going to have, is going to be in the better position.
Jayden Daniels could win the Eagles exist.
So he's not going to win his division, but neither are the Broncos because the chiefs
exist.
Um, I just think Jayden Daniels ultimately will win it, but Bo Nicks has been incredibly
impressive after an incredibly so star.
I mean, he started off awful.
Like God awful.
Like why you in the NFL awful.
It was bad.
Um, but over the last nine, nine games, Nicks has night to total touchdowns to an exceptions.
Um, and there was another statistic I'm trying to find it where it spoke about, um, how he
played since the first month of the season.
Um, hold on.
Let me see if I can find it real quick.
If I can't just, but just six week 10, which over the past month or so, um, he's fourth
in passing grade per PFF tie for the first touchdowns.
Hadn't thrown a pick with a pass or reading that second in the league.
Um, and I'm trying to find, Oh, okay.
Got it.
Bleacher report posted it.
Um, in September he was one touchdown, four picks, two and two record.
Since September, 16 touchdowns, two picks, five and three record.
Um, he is looking a lot better, um, over recently, predictably.
We spoke about on this show multiple times.
If you don't believe me, if you're just new to the show, um, go back and listen to earlier
episodes, discussion, Jay and Daniels.
I said it repeatedly.
I worried about Cliff Kingsbury.
And my big worry with the Kingsbury was traditionally post Halloween, his offenses go to hell.
Like on, on schedule, they just fall off a map.
Jane Daniels has looked rough over the past month.
Anybody know what happened a month ago?
Halloween, the magic left and Jane Daniels has looked awful since that point.
Um, it just looks like everyone's catching up now.
Two, two, two to three things also could be working against Cliff Kingsbury.
And it's not like it's, you know, this 12 year veteran quarterback who's just stood
and then Kingsbury showed up and kids awful and the guy's awful at the Halloween.
No, there's stuff happening.
Um, that's not just, you know, not just Cliff Kingsbury.
For instance, Jay Daniels hurt his ribs.
Um, he has been appearing less willing to run down the field since the revenge.
Could be good for his career, but that was the element of the offense that Kingsbury
I'm sure had began to lean on with the fact that at certain moments Jayden's going to
get us out of a bad spot and just take off running.
Um, also Jane Daniels is a rookie.
So as complex as maybe his Cliff Kingsbury system is, there's only so much he's able
regardless of how many, how much football Jay Daniels played and regardless of how smart
Jay Daniels is and so on and so forth, there is only so much he's able to put on a rookie,
especially with so many pieces coming in and out.
He's only so willing to put up, he's only able to put so much on a rookie quarterback.
So maybe the schemes are finally being figured out.
Not because of this Kingsbury, Cliff Kingsbury, but because again, there's only so much you
can put on a rookie quarterback and also general defensive tape.
You can catch us off guard the first monthish.
Cool.
After that, people study tape on both sides.
So defensive coordinator, especially Goodwin, and he played a good one last week.
Defensive coordinators on both sides are going to at some point figure out what is it you
want to do.
Now, maybe you can do something else.
You can beat them a different way, but they're going to figure out why you're doing something,
what you want to accomplish from it and what is the ultimate goal from doing it.
And I think that's playing a key role in Jay Daniels decline is that, you know, maybe some
of his pre drive stuff was right when he's talking about he was a single read guy where
the V what he absolutely wants.
It wasn't open.
He took off.
So maybe that's coming to fruition at this moment.
But hey, right now it is a legitimate discussion.
Again, I still have Jay Daniels because to me, MVP month doesn't a non, you know, a bad
little rough little stretch.
Well, he's not awful.
He's just not as great.
It doesn't outweigh the god awful stretch Bo Nicks had at the beginning of the season.
Saquon Barkley.
Is it finally time again for you running back to win MVP?
That and I don't mean Lamar Jackson.
So Saquon Barkley is ripping up the league.
I think he's leading the league in rushing him and Derek Henry are fighting over it.
He's he passed of their Henry.
And as of right now, he is currently on pace to win the NFL rushing title.
He's on pace for to win the NFL rushing title.
He's on pace currently to break Eric Dickerson's 2105 rushing yards.
If Saquon Barkley wins MVP, to me, it will be because he broke 2105 rushing.
That's just to me, I because I can make a Josh Allen argument.
I can make a Lamar Jackson argument.
To me, I think Josh Allen has the biggest argument right now.
To me, if Saquon Barkley goes 2106, he's league MVP.
Period.
He broke a league record.
It's not even a discussion.
Who is MVP?
He broke the league record.
When Brady in 07, like obliterated the yards record.
It was not a discussion.
So if Saquon goes 2106, he is league MVP.
The fact that we're even discussing a running back being league MVP is insane.
Moreover, the fact that a team let that said running back walk for free and then dealt
with a whole other situation, the guy they actually paid who was terrible and he could
win MVP on the new team is mind blowing.
Saquon's already had his signature hurdle added to Madden.
Madden has a bunch of other problems, but they added a hurdle.
He would be the runaway MVP if the tush push didn't exist.
I heard a stat yesterday that I think it's like 12 times or something like that.
He's guided down to the one and the very next play was a tush push.
Let's say 12 of those plays, half of them become Saquon touchdowns.
He's running away with the MVP and hiding with it.
It's his to lose.
But because he doesn't have the touchdown numbers due to the tush push, it's a discussion
with again, I think Josh Allen is probably his biggest thing, his biggest challenger
to winning MVP at a running back position.
Then a couple of team notes.
The Vikings and the Chargers to me, my Super Bowl pick right now, Vikings and Chargers
continue to find ways to win.
That's why I have them at Super Bowl picks.
They just find ways.
I think the Vikings biggest challenger is the Eagles.
I think the Chiefs biggest challenger is themselves.
I don't think if the Chiefs play their A game, they're going to lose.
But I do think that they have one of these games where they're just rough and they're
out of it and they're missing throws they should hit, dropping passes and they're missing
blocking assignments and they beat themselves.
I think they're beatable.
I think the Chiefs biggest challenger is themselves.
I think that the Minnesota Vikings biggest challenger is A. Sam Darnold, B. The Philadelphia
Eagles.
I love Sam Darnold.
I really do.
But it's something about having Sam Darnold.
I don't think he's just ready yet to leave it into Super Bowl.
Now the Vikings perfect scenario, he does.
And then you find something to do with J.J.
McCarthy and you honestly don't care.
If Darnold plays really well, even in the playoffs, you lose in the division around
and you lose 34-31.
Darnold's in a freaking shootout and the Chiefs, not the Chiefs, the Eagles, for instance,
get him at the buzzer.
Now what do you do?
But if he goes to Super Bowl, I think he's starting the season.
Regardless of which, that is my Super Bowl pick currently.
The Chiefs and the Vikings because again, they just find ways to win.
And that is a major part of the NFL and of making a playoff run is you just got to find
ways to win games.
Then the Tennessee Titans and the Dallas Cowboys pull off upsets.
Again, the Titans, they handled the Texans.
Something seriously going on with CJ Stroud.
He's had a horrible month of football.
And then the Dallas Cowboys in one of the wildest games you will ever see beat the Commanders.
Think about Jane Daniels.
Jane Daniels in that fourth quarter looked like Jane Daniels of old.
That game was insane.
In the fourth quarter, you had two Cowboy kick return touchdowns, a couple of Miracle
Washington Commanders touchdowns, including a 86 yard of the scary Terry that the kicker
Cybert proceeds to miss the extra point on, which directly leads to the second Cowboys
kick return for touchdown because I believe Austin Cybert makes the extra point 27-27
with 40 some odd seconds left.
I think the Cowboys take a knee.
They don't risk it with Cooper Rush.
As wild as the game is going, they get out of the quarter and they go to overtime.
But that's also incredibly logical and something no one's ever accused Mike McCarthy of being.
So who knows what Mike would have done.
But that game was absolutely insane.
And they pull off the upset as well over the Washington Commanders.
Now moving into some news.
Daniel Jones has officially cleared waivers after being released per his request from
the New York Giants.
He apparently will have a several options to choose from.
He's already said no to the Raiders.
He is potentially looking to join from what all reports are saying a contender, which
is interesting.
Kind of for two reasons.
One, if he joins a contender, let's say it's a playoff game, that contender lose
their quarterback.
Now Daniel Jones is in the playoffs.
But it also would showcase a potential Sam Darnold like resurgence.
Sam Darnold, high drive pick.
He didn't get the second Mccontract, but high drive pick.
Rocky road Erling goes into Kyle Shanahan's building with the 49ers.
Get to gloom and review from the 49ers.
That's how you land in the Vikings building.
You are the starting quarterback for a hell of a playoff team.
Also Baker Mayfield, also high drive pick this time from Cleveland, goes and sits in
the same building.
Who does Baker go to?
Man, he ends up in, oh, goes to sit with the Rams and Charming Vey.
He's locked with Charming Vey, gloom and review, goes to Tampa.
Now look at him.
So I think he's looking at that path as a potential path of success.
High drive pick, kind of a cluster F as far as around me, I leave, I go to a grown up,
I go to an adult, someone that's going to recommend me highly and then I can move on
and go get a bag in a starting position.
Daniel Jones has made 108 million dollars in his career.
So sitting behind someone, a penny to a dollar at the chance of a really big deal is worth
it to Daniel Jones.
Aaron Rodgers is a mess.
He's played horrible.
The GM has been fired.
He apparently has a rift with the owner.
Now he has stated that that is vastly untrue and vastly done, vastly outdone, vastly untrue
with his relationship with owner Woody Johnson.
Reportedly, however, Christopher Johnson, who's the little brother, loves Aaron Rodgers.
So maybe Aaron could potentially try to maneuver his way into a starting spot under Chris due
to the fact of Woody, a current owner, is expected to resume or retake his role as ambassador
to England under the new Donald Trump administration.
So that means brother Chris would have to take over the organization on a day to day
basis.
Chris and Aaron have a great relationship.
Speaking on the Pat McAfee Show, doing his Wednesday spot, Rodgers said, These have been
two of the best years of my life.
As much as it's been frustrating and difficult, it's been two really beautiful years.
Playing in New York would obviously be my first choice if I want to play.
So now he's going to the old Brett Farr playbook.
If I do this, then then if I do this, sorry, if I do that, I want to be if if if.
That was the game Aaron Rodgers played was a whole lot of if.
He held Green Bay over the barrel for years due to if.
And then we went to the giant jets.
He did the jets.
Same thing.
If if if I think passively potentially Rodgers wants to work under Chris, not under Woody.
I think this is the way of doing it.
Malik Neighbors speaks out against the organization, the Giants, saying that it may not have been
a quarterback thing.
The team plays soft as bleep.
I would agree.
I think that potentially Brian Dable is losing the locker room.
And as much as I like Brian Dable, I said it before and I'll say it again.
Whenever players feel bold enough, especially young, old skill line, it doesn't matter
when those guys feel bold enough to openly question the organization from a decision
making standpoint or the team from a schematic effort standpoint, that coach or management
has lost respect.
And when it comes to grown men has lost them in order to try and lead them.
So the fact that Malik Neighbors did this is not a good sign for Brian Dable.
And then two torn pecs.
Brandon Graham told the media post game he's out for the season due to a torn pec and Jalen
Peacher, safety from the Houston Texans, has a partially torn pec and he expected to miss
multiple weeks.
But up next, we will discuss NFL Week 13.
Welcome back to the show.
And we're staying on the NFL.
We're going to jump into NFL Week 13 and we're going to start off with the Thanksgiving
Day Triple Header.
If I remember correctly, it goes Bears, Lions, Giants, Cowboys, Dolphins, Packers.
We're going to start off with Bears and Lions.
This game is in our Jax pack.
Of course, when the game is in our Jax pack, we don't pick it.
However, this is the only Thanksgiving Day game in our Jax pack.
So we're just going to discuss it really quickly.
Bears go to Lions.
Now, as always, the traditional Thanksgiving Day hosts are Lions and Cowboys.
Now this game used to be a game nobody wanted to play.
That's the reason why the Cowboys and Lions are grandfathered into it every year, why
they host it every year, because this game was a game nobody wanted to play.
It wasn't fun.
So traditionally, Thursday night football, Black Friday football, Saturday NFL, it wasn't
like, yeah, but it was on Sunday.
Monday was a thing, but nobody played on Thursday.
You know what I'm saying?
Like Thursday wasn't a day.
Like that wasn't a thing.
So when the NFL started highlighting Thanksgiving Day games, they sent it out to the whole league
almost as a who wants to do it.
Nobody really wanted to.
The Cowboys and the Lions said sure.
And so now they've done it every year.
And for years, that was the standable games.
It was Lions at noon, Cowboys at three, end of Thanksgiving Day football.
Now the NFL added a third window because teams have realized that's a prime time game.
First of all, we're already playing Thursday night football anyway.
Right.
But Thanksgiving, usually most people are off the next day.
If you're a school chief, you're in schools, government, whatever.
Usually you're off the next day.
So that third window, that normal Thursday night football window is wide open for a good
game.
So now teams are more open doing it, whatever.
So that's why the Lions and the Cowboys have it every year for those who didn't know.
But anyway, there's go at Lions this year.
Divisional game.
This game was an important game.
This game was a game that bears lose, they're cooked.
They're over with.
As far as I just don't see a path for the Bears to get into the playoffs.
Obviously, I didn't mean obviously they can't win the division, right?
The division's over.
It is the Lions division to lose.
The division's over.
But I do believe that in the NFC, and I'm going to go to the playoff tab, sorry, in
the NFC right now, the Detroit Lions are 10 and 1.
The Bears are 4 and 7.
It's an elimination game for the Bears.
The Bears lose this game, it's over.
I mean, it's as good as dead.
The season's over.
For a lot of people's, especially in the betting community, a lot of people's pick, dark horse
pick, and again, it could have been due to the financials, but the dark horse pick for
a lot of NFC championship game contenders for the Bears, their season could be over
on Thanksgiving Day.
It could be dead.
The Detroit Lions, they're looking to continue to roll.
Win teams don't blow people out.
They win the game, they just don't blow people out.
They always feel like they're a player away or two players away from losing the game.
They just don't blow people out.
And the Detroit Lions, however, are not one of those people.
Like at a certain point in the NFL, and you don't really see it as, you see it more in
college, but at a certain point in the NFL, you pull up.
Who did Detroit play recently?
They scored like seven for seven.
There's no way that seven touchdowns on seven possessions.
And I kept scoring.
They don't believe in pulling up.
But even if they put their backups in, okay, the NFL is harder to pull up than college,
naturally, because I only have 46 active players.
See if I divide it right down the middle, 20-23, I stay on offense, I'm carrying 23
active guys.
Another carrying seven linemen, eight linemen, so that's, I got 15 left.
Two active quarterbacks, 13 left.
Okay, so I have my starting five skill guys.
I have six skill guys.
Those guys are NFL players.
So especially on the Lions, I'll pull Dave in Montgomery and put in Gibbs.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
Like that doesn't really, it's not really a dip as far as effectiveness, and I'm not
pulling my linemen.
So at that point, if the line has been blowing you out the ball all day, the second runner
back is also really good.
We're just going to keep scoring the ball.
And it's kind of what the Detroit Lions do to people.
So that should actually be an interesting game.
Our second window, the battle of the backups, Tommy DeVito, Cooper Rush.
The New York Giants are facing Dallas Cowboys.
Again, the Cowboys are our traditional host.
Again, another division game.
The Giants at Cowboys.
Now this should be a fun one.
The Giants don't seem to have quit.
The League neighbors has openly slandered the coach, which is not great, right?
That's not good.
But figuratively, they don't seem to have quit.
Now the Buccaneers rolled them.
The Buccaneers also are a team that would roll you if you give them the opportunity.
And the Bucs absolutely rolled them.
And so that's, you know, so that is a situation.
And then the Cowboys, on the other hand, they have an opportunity to be irrationally confident
because they went into Washington and they beat the commanders.
Now it was a wild way to do it.
It was an insane way to do it.
Off the wall, does it make sense way to do it?
However, they did it, right?
And so because of which they have a confidence of we beat the commanders, we turn around
and compete the Giants.
And then we're in a position where we're on a two game win streak with an extended
week before our next ballgame.
I mean, these guys are professional athletes.
While my brain could be saying they've got no chance.
While the average fan could be saying, God, they've got no chance.
Right?
I mean, they've got no chance.
Right?
We all could be saying that.
Right?
At the end of the day, right?
Regardless of if those athletes in there are irrational people, in order to be in order
to be a professional athlete, you have to be irrational your whole life.
You have to be rational in high school.
Yes, you could be a four star recruit, five star recruit in high school.
You have to be irrational enough to go onto a team more than likely of a bunch of other
four and five star recruits.
Then be rational enough to have the belief in yourself that you're going to play.
Then be rational enough to have yourself believe that you're going to every day you train
these crazy sessions of Coach Yellowjinn, Kershia out and you're away from your family
and other stuff.
It's going to be worth it.
Then you have to be rational to put yourself in the draft.
Hire an agent to believe in you.
Go to training camp, repeat the process all over.
When you get to a professional athlete, you've probably been irrational about yourself logically
since you were about six or seven.
So a pro athlete getting a two game win streak and in their heads like we're not mathematically
out of this, they can charge from here.
This is a huge game for the Cowboys.
So huge in fact, I'm going to pick them to win this game.
Now again, playing the Giants doesn't help.
It doesn't hurt.
But I'm going to pick them to win this game because I do think the Cowboys are just going
to ramrod through this game.
They're at home, which is probably the worst thing for them to be, but they're at home.
They're coming off big win against the commanders.
They're playing a Giants team that if they haven't quit, they're teetering and it's
an opportunity for them to continue to roll right into greatness going into week 14.
And then the non-traditional slot, Dolphins at Packers could be a very interesting game.
Two has been rolling since they came back from a concussion.
Joy and Love and Josh Jacobs are hot for the Packers.
This is a game that if not in my Jags Packers, I'm going to pick it.
Due to the fact that it's a road game, I'm going to pick the Packers.
If this game is in Miami, I might still pick the Packers, but my brain will probably lean
to the Dolphins.
It's on the road.
It's in Green Bay.
I'm not sure what the weather is going to be for this game, but I'm just going to bet
Thanksgiving Day in Green Bay isn't warm.
And we've already seen how Two will perform in cold weather.
Trying to get the weather update for it now.
It is very reasonably priced tickets.
It is going to be 28 degrees for game time.
Clear skies, but 28 degrees.
We've already seen how Two at Ta'ka Velo and that Dolphins team performs under in cold
weather.
28 degrees is freezing, especially on the frozen tundra.
The field is going to be wet because they heat the ground up, so it's going to be slippery
all over the place.
I've got the Packers here winning this game.
Only a 3.5 point spray.
I think the Packers are going to dominate.
Again, I've just seen the Dolphins in cold weather too many times.
It does get much more cold than the literal frozen tundra of Lambeau Field.
I've got the Packers here.
Again, mine is 3.5 years of spreading.
This is my sixth game of almost putting the Jags Pack.
I've got the Packers here.
The Steelers continue their march through the AFC North as they go on the road to the Bengals.
Again, 9-9 Jags Pack.
Again, a game that is vitally important for both sides.
If you're the Pittsburgh Steelers, you have to get back on track.
Yes, you just beat the Ravens, but I meant offensively.
You won that game with six field goals.
That's not going to work.
Then you at home and kick six field goals.
I get it.
It's the Ravens.
I understand it's a division opponent.
I get it.
Sometimes you just ain't got it, but six field goals is not going to work.
Then you look at the Cincinnati Bengals.
Same way I spoke about the Bears, this is the Bengals' last best shot.
Joe Burrow spoke about it a couple weeks ago where he did quick mental math on the podium.
It was like, 10 wins gets us in, so in order for us to do it, we're going to have to go
seven out of our last nine.
It was one of the more interesting things.
It was the first time I can remember seeing a player do fan math or amateur analyst math,
as I call it, where you think, okay, man, my team, I know 11 wins will get us in.
We got five.
Let's see if I can get five wins out of this schedule.
Let's see if we can get it.
Six wins out of this schedule, let's see if we can get in.
He did it on the podium.
He was just like, yeah, 10 wins should get us in.
We got three, seven of our last nine.
I think we can do it.
You can tell even in the room, the media members were like, yeah.
Even the questions afterwards were a little off.
I don't think anybody in the room, I know I didn't for sure, had, just watching the
interview, had seen a player do what I would call fan math.
Like, okay, yeah, this makes sense.
Boom, boom, boom.
It's like, yo.
Again, this is effectively, they're in the playoffs already.
That's why I don't like Zach Taylor.
You're putting a really, really talented roster in a position where, well, I mean, the office
line isn't great, but you're putting a fairly talented team in a position every year where
they have to rip off this crazy run to even get into the playoffs.
Joe Burrow is like first to second in every passing category.
Jamar Chase is on pace to win the triple crown and receiving, and they're like four and seven.
It's like, why are they going through this every single year?
But they're going to have to rip off a lot of wins in a row.
I think they do it.
I think that the Bengals get it done against the Steelers.
I think they just outscore the Steelers in this one.
Eagles at Ravens, huge game, huge, huge game.
Again, not Jack's pack.
Eagles at Ravens is a big one, and it's a big one for a multitude of reasons.
Number one, these are two of the top teams in their respective conferences.
It could be a Super Bowl preview.
The Eagles have the second or third best record in the NFC.
Eagles are top four in the NFC, both coming off big wins.
Eagles coming off their win, where Saquon Barkley goes absolutely ballistic.
The Ravens come off their win, where they dominate the Chargers in the second half of
the game.
The two top running backs in the league, Saquon Barkley and Derrick Henry, are going to go
back and forth.
Two of the top rushing attacks in the league, we add in their quarterbacks, Jalen Hurts
and Lamar Jackson.
We've got talented receivers on both, so talented pass catchers on both sides.
For the Eagles, you've got AJ Brown, Devontae Smith is healthy.
And then on the Ravens side, you've got Zay Flowers and Mark Andrews.
Two very similar style defenses, both depend on good linebacker play, running around with
the linebackers and not the world's best secondaries.
So this will be a very interesting game.
This game looks very mirrored of each other.
We're looking at two teams that look a lot like each other.
And I'm going to go with the Ravens in this game purely because of home field.
I think if this is a neutral side game, I may end up leading Eagles.
But I think that if Henry and Lamar get active early, I think it's going to be hard to keep
them from going downhill in the bank.
So I've got the Ravens winning this game.
And then 49 at the Bills.
Now I've got to talk a lot about it because we don't have a Brock Purdy update, although
he did have a minor throwing session recently, but the game is kind of hard to pick it.
We don't know what Purdy is going to do.
So we're not going to pick it.
But it is a game for Josh Allen to get rolling, back rolling in the MVP discussion.
We haven't seen him in a couple of weeks and say Kawhin has done some greatness.
But up next, we're going to talk about our NFL betting segment, Jax Pack.
Welcome back to the show.
And now we're going to get into our NFL betting segment, Jax Pack, where we pick a five pack
of games against the spread every single week with again, our goal and I haven't talked
about a couple of weeks because I haven't really been on a couple of weeks, but haven't
talked about in a couple of weeks.
Our goal is to be 57%, 56 to 57% and above.
If you hit that number, you are considered a professional gambler's ability because if
you do that, cover it a bunch of, you don't want to go too far to the minutia, but it
covers juice.
It covers that you pick all favorites all the time.
Like, but if you hit 57%, you'll always come out with plus money.
So we are sitting at 55% on the season, which I actually think probably a little bit better
because I'm not sure how the ties are figured in, but I've counted like regular stuff.
We are 55%. So we're just below the level of a freshman gambler.
I think it's a good thing.
We're coming off of winning week three and two, I think two, two and three weeks.
So we had a few four and one weeks put together, then some two and threes brought us back down.
Now we're back positive with a three and two week.
I feel really, really good about our numbers and I haven't felt really, really good about
the numbers in a while.
I think this is a week where Vegas is kind of begging us to pick some sides, but we're
going to go into games I know we're going to hit on.
First one, my favorite one, my lock of the week.
Lions minus 11 versus the bears.
Take the lions.
Remember I said what the lions are already.
They are designed, they are built, they are wired to blow people out.
Period.
There is no conversation about it.
They don't care about what you want to get done.
They are there to blow people out.
That is their entire purpose.
They don't believe in backing off.
They don't believe in.
We're just going to run the ball.
No, no.
They are trying to blow people out.
Period.
And that's what they are trying to do.
And that's what their goal is every single time.
And I think that the bears are going to be the latest victim.
I don't see how the bears score 20 points in this game.
And I just don't see how truly, I just don't see how the Lions score anything less than
35.
Like I think the Lions are going to ramrod the Bears here.
Now as the division came, it's on Thanksgiving.
It feels like with being 11, that's two touchdowns because touchdown on a field goal is still
10.
I just think that the Lions are going to win this game by 14 to 17 points and they easily
cover the minus 11.
Raiders, plus 13 and a half at the Chiefs take the Raiders.
Chiefs will win the game.
Raiders will win the point spread.
The Chiefs are not designing a blue pool.
They're not.
And I knew that last week, I could have gone four and one.
I knew that last week and I went against myself.
I guess my better judgment as I was putting the pick in, I was saying it was wrong and
went against myself and I could have been four and one last week.
I just missed the Texans game.
I meant that one, but I had the Chiefs right in my head and then changed it.
I'm not going to fool with that.
I'm not going to be fooled by that again.
The Chiefs are not designed to blow people out.
They just don't.
I don't, there's certain teams every year where they just don't.
Like I don't know why they just don't blow people out.
In the Chiefs this year, it doesn't matter how much success they have.
It doesn't matter how amazing they are.
It doesn't matter how, it doesn't matter anything.
It doesn't matter.
They simply don't blow people out.
It's actually wild how much they don't blow people out.
You would think at a certain point they would just get it.
You know what I'm saying?
They would just understand how to do it.
They just don't.
It's just so strange that a team that's 10-1, that a team that's a Super Bowl champion
and best quarterback in the league, best player in the league, best coach in the league, all
this stuff.
One of the best defensive players in the league, every game it's like there's three minutes
left and they're either tied down or field goal, up or field goal.
That's just how the game goes.
I'm not going to fall into that trap again.
I'm going to go Raiders plus 13 and a half.
Oh I didn't even see this game.
My apologies guys, I broke my own rule.
Bingles minus three versus Pittsburgh.
Take the bingles here.
I didn't see it.
You guys have already heard me expound in this game plenty of times, but I've got the
bingles here out of desperation.
I'm going to go with Pittsburgh's offense.
Texans minus five at the Jags.
This is a fading the Jags way more than it is picking the Texans.
This is I don't believe in the Jacksonville at all, especially Mac Jones as opposed to
the I am what I love CJ Stroud, which I do, and the Houston Texans.
In order for the Texans to cover this spread, they only have to win by five.
16 to 10 is six.
10 to three is seven.
Like I said, I'm not picking this game for Houston.
I'm basically picking against Jacksonville.
And I'm going to continue to do that.
So I've got Texans and minus five at the Jags.
And then my last game, again, that's important.
Again, it's vitally important.
I'm still riding the Daniels to Jane Daniels hype train all the way to the Rookie of the
Year.
The MVP is sailed, but all the way to the Rookie of the Year.
That's minus five and a half at the Titans, again, very similar situation.
Fading the Titans just opposed to picking the commanders.
I know that the Cliff Kingsbury post-Halloween thing.
I told you guys about it.
I know it.
I know that Tennessee just came off a hell of a win at or against the Houston Texans.
I understand.
I understand that Washington's came off a crushing loss.
I understand.
But what that fourth quarter showed Washington is that their offense can work.
That their offense can work.
Their defense was just as bad.
Specifically, that special team gave up two touchdowns and a missed extra point in the
fourth quarter.
I totally understand.
But their offense can work.
That's what that fourth quarter showed me.
Hopefully it showed them.
Remember that irrationality we talked about with the Cowboys?
The Commandant-type pro athletes too, they're just as irrational.
So I mean, look at Jane Daniels.
He was a starter at Arizona State, trenched in starter, and had the irrational idea of
going from Arizona State to LSU to try and become better.
Most guys as a starter don't leave a program to go be a starter on a program that's not
ready to win an ad.
Like Caleb Downs left Bama to go to Ohio State.
Okay, that's a different story.
Jane Daniels was on no one's draft board when he left Arizona State.
So to go to LSU, probably without a promise he'd start because Nussmeyer was there.
They had other guys there.
And then he still, you know what I'm saying, he turns out what he turns out.
So irrationality runs in the bloodline of pro athlete.
I think they'll just beat the Titans here.
Again, this is a fading Will Levis.
Okay, Will Levis scored 32.
His team scored 32 this week.
They might not score 12.
I think the Commandant get 24.
Change to cover, that means the Titans got to be under 18.
I think that's possible.
Actually 18 is fine because that's 6.
No, yeah, that's 6.
So under 19.
I think that's possible.
Highly possible.
So to go through the picks again, Lions minus 11 over the Bears.
Raiders plus 13 and a half over the Chiefs.
Bengals minus 3 over the Steelers.
Texans minus 5 over the Jags.
Commanders minus 5 and a half over the Titans.
But up next, we're going to leave the NFL and shift into the NBA and talk about what's
going down with the Association.
Welcome back to the show.
And now we're going to talk about what's happening in the Explosive Association right now, the
NBA.
We've got players going off, media members tripping, teams exploding, players going to
get 50 pieces.
Stuff's happening all over the place.
Let's get into it.
So let's start off with the explosions with Fred Van Vliet.
If you guys haven't seen his explosive tirade on the way off the floor, including calling
the referee a female dog, has been widely shown.
Fred Van Vliet was then fined $50,000 for this outburst.
Now he's going to make about $45 million this year.
Cash flow wise, probably an endorsement.
It's going to make over 30 for sure.
So it is not necessarily hurting his pockets, but he was fined $50,000 and 50 grand for
his post-game remarks to the official after he was ejected.
Can't have that kind of stuff in the NBA.
It's just, it is what it is.
One of those situations.
While he may feel that way, that's something you can't yell at him on the courts.
Remember Kelly Oubre's epic tirade after he was, I don't think he was ejected.
I think it was just a bad foul call.
He called the whole crew the same word, female dogs, and then they went to their family members.
It was insane, right?
All time rant by Kelly Oubre on that one.
But Fred Van Vliet, again, fined $50,000 for his comments.
Speaking of fines, the Atlanta Hawks received a $100,000 fine for violating the player participation
policy of the NBA surrounding Trey Young not playing in an NBA Cup game versus the
Boston Celtics, which after an independent investigation was conducted, it was shown
that Young could have played based on the player policy, which resulted in the fine.
The player participation policy is basically the anti-rest rule or anti-load management
rule, except they left a lot of exceptions.
So like for instance, Joe LMB can load manage all he wants this year, same way with Kawhi.
Because they came into the year, they had a serious injury the year before, came into
the year injured.
They don't have to follow the participation rules.
It stops stuff like San Antonio used to do the old thing where it was like, oh, pop would
get pissed off at the NBA.
Okay, so a national televised game, and they were the ones either, it wasn't killing them,
but the national televised game against Oklahoma City, Duncan, Janobly, Parker, who at Aldrich,
all not going to play, and like all the things that old, and pop just laughs.
And it was just like, yep, you're not going to play tonight.
So your national TV TNT showcase game where you're going to have everybody watch, it's
going to have no spurs in it.
Congratulations.
Like it was just, it sort of, it stops that in the spirit of true load management.
It doesn't stop anything because of the many exceptions in the rule.
But ultimately the Hawks were fined a hundred grand for this.
Speaking of injuries, stars are coming back from injury.
The Durant and Beale combination of the Phoenix Suns will return tonight.
So they are on the floor, expected to return tonight versus the Los Angeles Lakers.
So big, big situation for them.
And I believe it is NBA Cup night.
So that is huge for the Suns, not only in a regular season, but again, for the NBA Cup.
Yes, it is NBA Cup night.
So they are expected to be back.
The Suns are I think like one in something since Kevin Durant went down one in six, I
believe since Kevin Durant went down eight and one with him.
So huge for the Phoenix Suns.
Ja Morant came back explosively last night after missing eight games due to a hip injury.
He explosively returned last night.
And Lonzo Ball is expected to return tomorrow night following, because he's been out with
a wrist injury.
So he, you know, he of course he was out for years with the knee problem.
But he is expected to return for the Chicago Bulls on tomorrow.
So that'll help the Bulls out.
You know, they're going through their own turmoil because the Chicago Bulls reportedly
are ready to start moving some of this roster.
This roster has under achieved to be kind.
And now it appears that the Bulls are ready to say, okay, we've we've tried.
We really did.
But it's time to move on.
And so they are reportedly interested in dealing Nikola Vucevic and they are reportedly dealing
they were interested in dealing Zach Levine.
Two players that should return a fair amount of market.
Especially if you look at like Levine to the Lakers, you know, they could use another score
or Vucevic to the Lakers.
So got kind of got to protect Anthony Davis, Vucevic to New Orleans contractually.
You have to move a couple of the ancillary pieces, but Vucevic to New Orleans could be
something as well.
Trying to think where Levine could go.
He's injury prone with his knee.
So his value is on his contract is large.
So that could be a hindrance to moving a Zach Levine, which is why Damar DeRozan was able
to land in Sacramento.
So instead of a Levine being moved.
But Chicago's pretty born to move on.
It is what it is at this point.
Grant Williams has suffered a torn ACL.
His season is over.
Unfortunate for him and that Hornets team as he was kind of carving out a pretty decent
role in Charlotte after being moved to Dallas, that just didn't work.
He was actually carving out a pretty decent role in Charlotte.
But now his season is over.
Okay, now we're do with that.
Let's get to the Pelicans.
Actually, no, I'm gonna say the Pelicans.
I'm gonna say the Pelicans because I don't know how long I'm gonna go on that.
There's been some big, big scoring outbursts.
You see the Mellow ball feel like he's exploding every other day.
Every other game with big, big outbursts, 30, 40 point moments, including innings.
I mean, he's playing Chino Hills basketball in the NBA.
It's actually pretty wild to see.
We all remember the little short, you know, they had some 5'11".
The dude was like 5'6 in eighth grade playing on that team on Lonzo's undefeated team.
Lonzo's senior year, then he was a little 5'11", 5'10 skinny kid who scored 92.
Then he went to Australia and came back, you know, played that year at that post-graduate
school or whatever academy that was in Illinois.
And then he just got like fade into the ether because he was in Charlotte.
And now he is healthy and ready to go.
And he looks like the guy that we saw, Chino Hills, the kid that we saw could get a bucket
anytime, anywhere with a pretty wild and loose style.
He just played all over the place.
So good for Mellow.
You know, it's good for him in the NBA.
Giannis, man, Giannis has decided by the week and a half, two weeks ago, we're just not
going to lose anymore.
I don't care who comes with me.
We're not going to lose anymore.
And that's what you need.
I think that we all know Doc Rivers coaching leaves a lot to be desired.
And so you need guys that just go, screw it, bro.
We're not losing no more.
And that was the attitude I think Giannis took.
Screw it.
We're not, we're not losing anymore.
He's had enormous explosions since 14, 14, 17.
They came up for a 50 piece rather recently.
He's one of the best mid range shooters in the NBA, which if he said that about Giannis,
hell six months ago, people would laugh at you.
Hell three months ago, people would laugh at you.
Giannis mid range, yeah, whatever.
Like, and it's just, he's just refusing to lose.
Now, Dame's joining the party.
They're starting to get some of their pieces back as far as their rotation guys.
Like this is a situation where the Bucs may actually mess around.
They're the third in the East now.
They may mess around and turn this season around and save what looked like an abject
disaster at the start of the season.
Dalton Connect, he exploded.
I think he has the, no, I think, no, he has more points than Jared McCain did.
He think he has the highest single scoring game for a rookie this season.
His efficiency is going to do the roof.
I actually in the building, his first or second mini explosion when they were in New Orleans,
I went to the game and it was like every time from the, if you're coming down the court
left corner, Dalton Connect, Connect four, boom, Connect four, boom, Connect four, boom.
It was like every time he went to that left corner, he was finding a home there and he's
unconscious.
Like he's a kid that when he gets to rolling, he's unconscious.
There's nothing like defense doesn't matter.
Shot selection doesn't matter.
Spot on the floor doesn't matter.
When he hits one or two in a row and you can just see like he's almost like he gets antsy,
like give it back to me.
I can get it up again.
Boom.
And kind of seeing it, you see it on TV, a guy, you guys are like five Connect, five
Connect, but like in person, he really like it almost like he started shaking when he
hit them two back to back.
Like I'm hot.
Like you gotta give it back to me.
So kudos to him.
And then Wimby, Wimby A, Wimby's clicking.
He had that couple of weeks where he's one of the league's best three point shooters.
Now he's starting to dribble, drive and get to the rim.
The step back three is starting to fall.
Wimby's clicking.
I told people Chris Paul was going to be huge for him.
Just eight points a game.
He was going to add off a lob or Wimby's going to slice cut and Chris Paul's going to, you
know, direct traffic and get it to him.
And I said, if he goes from, I think he was 19 in the night or something like that.
And I, and I just threw out very basic numbers of what I'm like, man, if he ever gets to,
if he adds eight points a game, he's everything the same.
He's league MVP.
And so Ricky's rookie year, he was 21, 10 and four.
This year he's 22, 10 and three.
So his number is actually a little down because he's a little, he's about the same efficiency.
His minutes per game has gone up, but it's early.
I ultimately think he'll end up 26, 10 and three.
Not MVP, easily an all star, easily an all star, not MVP, easily an all star.
And he'll be a guy that has a candidacy for all the NBA.
Like, and that's going to be huge for him to his development.
But anyway, the main one, I want to talk about the NBA.
It's a little early to do standing, et cetera, et cetera.
But the main reason I want to talk about the NBA is the new Orleans Pelicans, my new Orleans
Pelicans.
Let's talk about it.
So Pelicans, Jamal left and right.
So Braden and Graham and Zion Williamson within days of each other are no longer with their
agencies.
Um, you know, that was a mix of reasons why one reason was saying that both agencies want
to let them out of New Orleans and both players said no pretty much and we're going to stay
and got rid of their agencies.
The Brandon and Ingram agency situation stems to, uh, not getting the deal done with New
Orleans.
And so he got rid of his agencies.
Zion Williamson's case, potentially that was something that there was reports that were
saying that, oh, because he wanted out and they were saying stay or he was saying stay
and they were saying out.
But regardless, both Pelican stars have split from their agencies.
Like I said, within days of each other.
That's not a coincidence.
Um, and it adds a whole nother thing.
And then I don't like to call people stupid.
So I'm not going to call them stupid.
I'm going to say what he said was stupid.
Tim McMahon said something very, very stupid on ESPN.
He said, and I quote, the New Orleans Pelicans should look in the cuttings of Ion Williamson.
The contract was meant to be cut.
And I'm paraphrasing piecing together Tim McMahon, dude, I listen to you every week.
You're one of the reasons I listen to the hook collective.
If it's not Windhorse, McMahon and Bond temps, probably not listening.
I'll do Marc J Spears.
I'll do Ohm if the Clippers are really good.
Um, and of course, Holly roll, you know, and then of course, uh, where I'm on a shell
burn.
But I mainly listen when there's bond temps, McMahon and Wendy.
That's like, that's the group.
And I love hearing a McMahon speak.
This was stupid.
This was really stupid.
And his reason was like, giant Williamson's all IAS.
It's always something.
I agree.
It feels like it's always a report or it's always an injury or during the injury, the
rehab slow three halves fast rehab on time.
He wants to be in New York.
You always want to be a Nick.
Maybe not really.
His agent wants him gone.
Like it is always feels like a story or a break or an upkeep or something with Zion
Williamson.
But releasing a guy that when he is healthy is a perennial all star level player.
Releasing a guy that when he is healthy is someone that just this season was 22, eight
and five.
Last season was 23, five and five.
The year before that was 26, seven and five.
Like I get it.
And you look at the games played and you see 24 and you see, you see 61, not bad, not great,
but you see 61 that year.
He was 20, 27, seven and four.
The next year is 29.
The next year it's 70 on 31 and a half a night.
And he had an odd hamstring injury.
That kind of came out of nowhere and that he was the lightest he'd ever been.
And it was just a freaking hamstring injury that happens to people.
Now conflicting reports on that situation.
Shamshraaya is saying, Oh, the Pelicans had four to six weeks or the report was four to
six weeks.
He's getting injections.
People on the TV was like, well, if he's getting injections, he's a lot further off
than four to six weeks.
Cause every time you get an injection, it resets your clock.
So if he's had three injections, it keeps resetting that four to six weeks.
So he's four to six weeks from the last injection.
Then people on the Pelican side are going, well, who told him four to six weeks?
So now you got a guy like Zion looking bad for not sticking to a timeline that wasn't
a timeline the team publicly put out because the team put out that it was going to be an
extended time.
He was going to be out indefinitely.
That was what the team put out.
Then Shams reported four to six weeks, but potentially longer.
Then about a week ago, a few days ago, he goes, Oh, the Pelican has a prayer for Zion
to be out an extended period of time.
That was always the original message from the team was that he's out indefinitely with
this hamstring injury.
Like the national media and they, and they do this, they crap on little small markets.
They do it with the saints.
The saints are in no worse position than the jets and the giants.
And yet you would imagine the saints should tear that thing down the brass hacks.
And yet if the judge just get a one player, they could be really good.
They're in the same spot.
Um, you know, Orleans is in a very similar spot of Memphis cause John Moran is missing
a lot of games for either basketball or non basketball related reasons.
And yet people say, Jack, I get that together, but the Memphis can really good.
They're not saying what was in New York.
Like it's just so stupid.
It's dumb.
And I just don't like the way that the Pelicans are being covered.
Yes.
Could Willie greens rotations be a little bit better?
Yes. could the season be teetering on the verge of lost already before Thanksgiving
potentially, but when you put that roster together, Zion comes back healthy.
They can make a run a sneaky to the play in.
If that team gets them to play in, I feel bad for whoever's in that play in spot with
them because they're going to be held back.
But ultimately that's just going down with the association.
Up next, we're going to shift to our college football to mini drill.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we are going to investigate and have of course the college football to mini drill.
You know how this guy's words two minutes on the clock.
We get as much comfortable information in as possible in the two minutes.
So timer has been set, ready and go.
Colorado had control of their own destiny.
University of Colorado, Colorado university led by Deion Sanders had control of their
own destiny.
However, they blew it getting smashed literally by Kansas physically smashed by Kansas who
played a very physical game and all, all but ended Colorado's playoff hopes.
Now Colorado has a path in.
They need to win a BYU loss and as somebody else lost, they can get in the big 12 title
game, win the big 12 title game and they're in the casual playoff anyway.
Although Deion Sanders has said that Travis Hunter and Shadour Sanders both will play
in the bowl game.
So big news for, um, cause football fans in general, as you will see them at some point
in a standalone game and in Colorado uniform.
The 12 team playoff has been a blessing and a curse because now you're discussing how
many teams he's conference gets him.
You're discussing, wait, why does that three team sec three loss sec team get in when that
one lost big 10 teams being told they're out.
Like you can all these different narratives going across the country.
It's going to be incredibly interesting to see me personally put three sec schools in,
put three big 10 schools in, group of five champion is in probably looks like it's like
Tulane right now.
Group five champion gets in, put in two sec schools, two three big 12 schools play it
out because I mean that's also what you need in my opinion.
You need it to where it's fairly balanced and we see who comes out on top and we'll
see how that goes.
But it has been a massive controversy throughout the entire thing.
Of course the Heisman trophy has come down to two people, Travis Hunter or it is Ash
and Denty.
If you're not a contest, it's easily Travis Hunter.
For some reason, I don't know how being really, really good at one position is somehow
better than being really, really good at two positions, but whatever.
Mac Brown has been fired by the University of North Carolina.
He will not return after this last game.
Even though he publicly said that he wanted to get in and the recruiting wars have been
brutal as Michigan flipped the number one player through NIL and more is continuing
to happen.
Oh, the two minute timer has gone off.
Spent way too much time on Colorado in the playoff there, but it happens.
But that is all I have for the day.
It's one of our longer shows you've had in a while.
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Usually about 45 minutes, 50 minutes, however, missing last week definitely put more emphasis
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