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With that it was football Sunday waiting for the TV and it goes back before that to Thanksgiving Day. The non exciting Thanksgiving slate that we were given. The highlight game ended up turning into Packers Dolphins at the end of the night. But it started with Bears. Lions in my Bears they gave us a game man. Caleb puts up another strong stat line. Three touchdowns, zero interceptions, 2439, which in today's NFL that's a pretty tough percentage. But he was asked to pass it 39 times. They only ran the ball 15 times against the mighty Detroit Lions who are now on a 10 game win streak. And the memory that ends up coming from this game is the Bears driving to tie the game. They're down three late. They made it a game. A 13 point fourth quarter against the lines and they've got the ball back with a chance to win on a touchdown or tie on a field goal they have one time out and they make a pass to the middle of the field with about 30 seconds left on the clock. And the option is take that time out now, set up your offense or it's run a quick play, get back to the line, run a quick play and then depending that result, you can use your timeout and go from there. Or if it's incomplete, the clock stops. The Bears went with the approach of let's get up to the line and call a quick play. So they get to the line not moving with tremendous pace. You know, I think we got guys in motion, we're setting things up, the clock is ticking. You know, we hit like the 10 second mark and everyone's looking around like I don't know about this. Jim. Hike. It was about seven on the clock. I believe they end up going for the downfield pass. It's incomplete. The time runs out and hits zero. They don't even get a chance. I think the yard line they were at, it would have been like a 59 yard field goal. I think that's right around the kickers long. It's also indoors so you know there's, there's a chance. This turned into a fantastic sports debate in the group chats, online, wherever. Who is the blame on Eber Fluss, the not super loved coach, former coach after the game or young Caleb? And I think this is unfortunately a classic case of both. Things were right. Caleb probably should have had a little more gusto going to line and getting the team in order and getting the playoff. If you're going to take that route, Eber Fluss probably should have called time out there with his young quarterback. You draw up two plays or even you drop one good play, you spike it and you're going to have a shot at the field goal. So a chunk of it is on Eberfluss, who not only defended the action after the play, which in hindsight maybe he knew he was going to get fired, a lot of momentum was heading that way and everyone's going to be team Caleb over him. I mean I'm. The more I talk about it, I'm probably 70, 30 uber flutes, probably just call the timeout. Don't even put your rookie quarterback in that position. But in that position with the 30 seconds you should be getting to the line and getting a playoff with 15, something like that and have your time out ready to go. They didn't either. They lose 23 to 20, Lions 11 and one Detroit Lions. They're where their record is at. I've never done this before. So I guess if you're like a psychologist, let me know what this means. Every time I look at that record, I think of if I was a little kid and I saw a team with that record, I'd be like, whoa, that team is so good. And for whatever reason, I don't fully have that with the Lions. I don't know if it's golf. I don't know if I want Dan Campbell to be my religion so much that I'm scared that this doesn't work. I don't know. I'm not as in on the lines as some of the media is depicting. And I. I think as each day goes by, the team that I've audible to as my super bowl pick. Maybe that's part of the reason I'm not as into The Lions. Bears 4 and 8. But Caleb has been showing some very solid signs recently. And I think the Bears ownership just came out and said that this is going to be the most appealing job in football. So you would think that if you work at that place. Cowboys and Giants played. I'm all right. I'm all right. Cooper Rush and Drew Lock. That's. That's pretty wild. Rico Dowdle got it going on the ground. Don't care. Sorry. Cowboys defense is kind of playing better, but how do you judge it against the G men? Parsons is back. I know. That's fine. And then Packers, Dolphins kind of turned into the Primo game. The five and six dolphins with a chance to get to 500. They've been playing with Tua. They've been a lot better. Man, I always wonder how much stuff that's not real is real. Whoa. The Miami Dolphins playing in cold weather seems to be a real thing. They were down in the first half, 24 to 3. Tua. And the gang starts throwing it all over the yard in the second half. And it looks a little more respectable. 30 to 17 with a late Tyree Kill touchdown. Which I did bet because I bet too much this Thanksgiving holiday. Cause it was six days with my in laws. Um, but yeah, that essentially ends. Not that kind of ends the Dolphin season. And the packers are somehow nine and three. That whole division outside of the Bears incredible records that it's going to be interesting to see where they land come postseason time. Because nobody's really sure what to do with the Packers. Nobody's really sure what to do with the Vikings. Who we'll get to in a minute. Jordan Love and Johnny Smith. Shout out to John who Smith. Maybe my best fantasy free agent AD in A long time. John Smith's been killing it for me. Huge. That leaves Thanksgiving. A tough slate, but something to get us all through the day. Friday Chiefs Raiders. Although the Chiefs seemingly win the same game they've won every week this year, 19 to 17. The Raiders who came into the week with their head coach saying they might be the worst team in the league. The Chiefs coming in at 10 and 1, running that division and just being these pseudo super bowl favorites. Even though it feels like they're winning the same ugly game every week, they won the same ugly game and it, it ended on a botch snap where the QB was looking to the sideline and it bounces off of them as the Raiders were driving. I don't know man. I'll tell you another fun sports conversation to put in the group chat or listen to whoever's talking about it. These Kansas City Chiefs are going to put people in the blender. Cause this year, if you didn't know names or the fact they've won back to back Super Bowls, this would the would be the team. Everyone's pointing at that like, whoa, they are not who their record says they are. They're going to lose the ugly postseason game. If it wasn't Mahomes and Reed, I think you'd believe that. But nobody believes that because the Chiefs kind of did this to us last year and they won it all. So it feels like they have an on button that they haven't pressed yet. All of the statistic leaders in this game are Raiders. Aiden O'Connell kind of better stats than Patrick Mahomes. Brock Bowers looking like he's arguably the best tight end in football. So hey, maybe some hope for Raiders fans for now. Chiefs win 11 and 1. Kansas City Chiefs. Which all leads us to Sunday. I'm going to band Aid this one because this was my against the spread luck. I thought. The Falcons off a bye week at home. Chargers coming west coast to east coast having lost. J.K. dobbins. No, the Chargers win 17 to 13. They're now 8 and 4. I don't know man. Kirk has four interceptions in this game. It, it felt like the felt like the Falcons were clicking and Cousins was getting better and they were finding it and they've just been sprinting the wrong direction. This was, I was going to say this is a must have game for them. The division is still a disaster. They're technically tied for the division lead with Tampa at 6 and 6. But that's after losing a three point game to the Saints, this game to the Chargers. Where young Ho Ku. Excuse me. He missed a field goal early. That would have changed the game path. This is the same Falcons team who beat the Eagles and then they were about to beat the Chiefs early on the season. They lost on a controversial end of game if you remember that. They were then rolled off three wins in a row, five out of six and now they've lost three in a row and I don't know man, I. I really thought it was coming together. Kirk was becoming one of my favorite quarterbacks to watch and it just feels like they're sprinting the wrong direction. I don't know if it's like curse franchise stuff. While Harbaugh and the chargers roll on lad McConkey Steelers bangles. God, everyone was holding on to bangle stock and they lost it Dogecoin. I don't know. I still think that's doing okay. I have no clue. The Steelers, man, this was fun to watch. Not Russ throws for four. One, four. Yo, I think the cool thing this was a back and forth shootout and then the Steelers won in Steelers way. TJ Watt had a strip sack. They stretched it out to a two score lead and that was kind of it. And the Bengals defense is atrocious. What Burrow's doing, this is arguably his best season. And they are 4 and 8 after this. The Steelers are 9 and 3. They put up 20 points in the second quarter. Najee Harris looks better than he's ever looked. I still like Jalen Warren. I know he's been banged up this year, but he contributes. Pickens Friarmuth and Russell Wilson through for 41 4. It's insane. A lot of that is good Steelers coaching belief and Russ cooking. A lot of that I think unfortunately is also the Bengals defense which looks like it may have tanked one of Burrow's best seasons. Vikings, Cardinals. Vikings are 10 and 2. What? They beat the Cardinals one point score, 23 22. The Cardinals have played a bunch of one point games this year. Dolphins was one point, Niners was one point. Is there one more? No, but they lose this one. Final drive from Darnold and the gang. Justin Jefferson showed back up. He had been missing for like six quarters. Big fourth down conversion. They get the touchdown pass to Aaron Jones. 10 and 2. I don't know. I'm not in on the vikings for being 10 and 2. I mean on the Vikings for being a solid football team. But 10 and 2 on the Cardinals, they dropped to 6 and 6. They're probably kicking themselves in the butt pretty hard from this one after winning four in a row, they've lost their last two. That ugly 16A6 last week against the Seahawks and then 23 to 22 at the buzzer to these Vikes Colts, Patriots kind of a no thank you. AR5 leads the boys down to to get a game tying touchdown. But they say screw it. Both of these teams kind of don't matter. They go for two, they get it. AR5 and Fantasy World put up another big boy game. Good to see him back. The Colts are 6 and 7. Does that mean anything? I think the AFC playoff picture is close. Not close to being finished. But like if my Broncos win tonight. Monday Night Football baby. The AFC doesn't have a lot of wild card options. The Colts winning this game was huge for them being like the only team in the mix. Patriots fans sneaky. This was a sneaky happy they lost game. When the final draft position comes out they're going to be okay that they lost this game to the Colts, Seahawks, Jets 26, 21. This was insane. The jets looked awesome. Rogers looked healthy. He was balling. They're throwing, they're doing reverses and he's throwing the block. He's laughing. The offense was clicking. A classic devonte Rogers. Rogers to devonte hookup if you will. They're about to score and go up three touchdowns and basically end the game. They were up 21 to seven. They're driving. Aaron Rogers misses. Garrett Wilson on a pretty wide open touchdown pass. I say pretty wide open cause again these guys have different standards and expectations. But I think it was a slant. And go. Wilson had him beat. If Rogers puts it there, easy money touchdown. It would've been 28 to 7 early on. Rogers misses the throw and they're still having a blast. Like it's 21 to 7. They're dominating this game. Rogers kind of lets out like a damn. Miss that one. I'm Aaron Rogers. I shouldn't miss that one. The next play, Leonard Williams 92 yard interception return for a touchdown. Welcome back to MetLife. It's now instead of 28 to 7, it's 21 to 13. Only. Seahawks scored the rest of the way. Two field goals and a touchdown in the fourth by Zach Charbonnet. Jets. Somehow some way find a more jetsy way to lose this game. Should have been a blowout in their favor and they ended up losing 26 to 21. Commanders, Titans? Not really. Although this was a huge game for the Commanders. Jaden Daniels and Scary Terry linked up for two touchdown passes in the first half. They were up 28 7. So the Titan showed some fight there but the commanders put them away late. This was massive for them. I told you guys last week it makes them 8 and 5 going into their bye week. If they had somehow lost this and were seven and six and had lost four in a row, you're really asking questions. Instead you win your get right game, you get a bye week to reset and I think that commander's love that had gone away for a little bit. I think you're going to see that on the upswing. Titans 3 and 9 Levis and some of the stuff they were doing as a team was just ugly. Ugly. Speaking of ugly. Texans Jaguars 23:20 the highlight you might have seen from this game, Trevor Lawrence got rocked on a QB slide. Game was really chippy going into that game. Was real chippy coming out of that. Texans are on fraud. Watch a bit from the team that they were last year and who they were expected to be. They lost three of their last four coming into this game and the Jaguars almost found a way back into it with Mac Jones leading the way. They did not. Jags 2 and 10. Nico Collins really good. If you still have the Houston wide receivers kind of just lumped together as like this guy, this Nico Collins. He is incredible. Joe Mixon back in a big way for them too. Rams, Saints. Ugly. Rams gets shut out in the first half. It's six nothing. Saints because they had to settle for two field goals. Rams come out and dominate the second half. Saints had a drive at the end to try to tie it up. Kamara was so good in this game and yet it felt like they didn't give him the ball enough. And I don't know if that's Saints. I don't know if that's car. I don't know what it is. Rams get back to 500. The NFC west, baby. Seattle leads the way at 7 and 5. Otherwise Arizona 6 and 6. Same with the Rams. Rams. I don't. I don't know where they're at. I think they don't have the talent of some teams and that shows up week to week. Uh, but if they can talent with you, I think they'll find a way. Buccaneers. Panthers. This will be my fun bad betting story of the weekend. I bet the over. I'm waiting for. I'm waiting for my tv. I'll place a. I'll place a Bucks. Panthers bet over 46A. Adam Thielen has a touchdown pass called not a touchdown to end the first half. Which if you're someone betting the over in Panthers bucks. You don't like that so okay, I've got that going against me. Both teams settled for very short field goals, which is exhibit A of how to lose an over bet. Second half comes out, Baker gets banged up. Another way to lose an over bet. Their bet Kyle Trask believe is their backup quarterback. Big time recruitment played at Florida I think four years in the NFL. He's had like seven passes or something. So you're like okay, here we go. Bucky Irving looked incredible this whole game. Had the group chat yelling, how do they not give him the ball every play? Michael. Mike Evans had another highlight. Mike Evans touchdown catch. That's just. That was really cool. He makes look routine and it's just not freakish stuff by him. Again, the Bryce Young development story is getting fun. He's moving the ball downfield and they sure were as the as the Panthers drive and get a touchdown with 30 seconds on the clock to take the lead 23 to 20. But that was 30 seconds for Baker. And if you're doing math here, they set up my guy McLaughlin 51 yards. Never a doubt bangs the field goal to tie it up 23 to 23. We just need one more score. Buccaneers miss a field goal in overtime. My guy McLaughlin never a doubt. Panthers come down. LOL. Same bucks get it back. They get another field goal that you remember all the bets you lose when you shouldn't lose. That's one that I should probably remember because I had no business winning that after a little bit and yet I did. So that's Bucks, Panthers. Yeah, it was emotional. I'm still feeling it a little bit. I had, I had similar emotions going during that game. I had two different four four leg parlays. I won't get into the details but both of them needed bucks to win. One needed a Bucky Irving touchdown. One needed a Chuba Hubbard touchdown. Every time they got down there I was, I was losing it a little bit. Yeah. I just either hits and I'm and I'm good for the day. If you're one of those people out there that's not sure about the sports gambling, Bucks, Panthers is a reason why. Yeah, golly. Which set up well this game happened at 4 and then it set up a beautiful night game of Bills, Niners, Eagles, Ravens. My Ravens had been my super bowl team. I didn't super care about the record. Lamar, I saw more on the Internet. That was sick. It was like Lamar's three interceptions this year are not his fault. They all went off their receivers hands I was like, that's awesome. Saquon versus King Henry. It's pretty cool. We don't get running back matchups like that again. We got a good game. We were robbed of a great game. Cause what is going on with Justin Tucker? Justin Tucker, like the guy of guys for kickers for a while was so good that I think it was popular to dislike Justin Tucker, which. It's really hard to be a kicker that. That's. That's that good. He misses two field goals in this game. The final score looks interesting. It's 24 to 19 because the Ravens drove late and got another touchdown on the board. Those Justin Tucker field goals were just so massive because not only did he miss them, but he gave the Eagles field possession position, which this Eagles team is way too good. And they were stout on the defensive line. They held Henry to 82 yards rushing their offensive line because they keep pounding you with Hertz and Saquon that you end up getting worn out. That at the end of the game Saquon gets his big run and touchdown to somewhat finish them off. The Eagles on both lines are just monsters. And I think the way to beat them, and this may sound obvious, but it's get a lead and then have Hertz try to beat you through the air. Hertz only had to throw 19 passes in this one. Again, that's the old Eagles formula that works. It's been working. Some of the Sirianno numbers are insane. Of his record as an NFL coach. They now believe and are using that like hostility within to just go win every football game. I think they're the easy super bowl favorites right now and maybe the team rivaling them. The Buffalo Bills blow out the Niners at home. We get a Josh Allen touchdown pass to himself. Fun in a lot of fantasy football circles, if that mattered for you. James Cook, 107 on the ground. It was hilarious watching defenders try to run around on ice skates out there. And then 49ers are 5 and 7. Injuries are real. And just some of the luck and weird things that are happening this year. Sometimes things are cursed. Sometimes a season just gets away from you and it feels like that's what's going out on in San Francisco, that it's going to be an interesting off season for them. You know, Shanahan had kind of been the bee's knees. Brock Purdy. I was fully on the Purdy trade and it hasn't been pretty there. Meanwhile in Buffalo, who is Josh Allen throwing to? And it kind of doesn't matter. This is very impressive. I think it's coming down to him and Saquon for the mvp. I know there's a big Saquon push, but if Josh Allen keeps leading these Bills, God, Dawson Knox, Khalil Shakir, Quentin Morris, James Cook, Amari Cooper, Ty Johnson, Matt Collins, Ray Davison, Zach Davidson had a target. I don't know. But Josh Allen is making it work in impressive fashion. So a fun football weekend. Let's go Broncos tonight. Except I need Cortland Sutton like under 70 yards. No reason. Thank you guys. Subscribe to the channel. We'll see you with a fun episode Wednesday weekend. Jake is a production of Dan Patrick Productions, John Boy Media and Workhouse Media Media.
