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3 & Out - Reaction to Sam Darnold & Seahawks COMEBACK WIN vs. Matt Stafford & Rams on TNF
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What is going on everybody? John Middelkopf three and Out Podcast brought to you by my friends at Zone Pouches. We just witnessed one of the craziest Thursday night games you will ever see. I had topics and headlines that I had to scribble out because they were getting blown out and then they weren't. And Sam Darnold leads Seattle on a game winning drive. So what a crazy game. We'll discuss Sam Darnold, Matt Stafford, Sean McVeigh, the game, the moments. That was nuts. We also, it's Fugazi Friday, but we're going to pause that till next week because we have a big announcement. And let's just say it has something to do with Netflix, which if you're an audio listener, which you obviously are, it doesn't impact you. But we will talk all about it after we discuss the Thursday night game. And then Stucky, who just had a baby on Sunday, joins me as a new father. And by the end you can hear his baby screaming in the background. So he had a baby. I got a baby on the way. We got, we got a lot of moving parts here, but we got a podcast to do and that's what we will do. So make sure you subscribe to three now podcast. You never want to miss a thing. Also, subscribe to the YouTube channel and we'll discuss that later. But make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel. Hammer that thing and you'll never miss an episode. But before we dive into any football, you know, I need to tell you about my friends, my partners and the official ticketing app of this podcast, Game Time. Best in the business. Doesn't get any better. I've been using them forever. Download the Game Time app. You can go to any football game you want. They got tickets to NFL games as low as $100. They have tickets to college games. They have tickets to any sport, basketball, hockey, concerts, comedy shows. The ticket price you see when you check out is the same price how often do other ticket sites when you see a ticket price, you go to check out and they add all the hidden fees. You're like, this is double the price. That is not game time. So take the guesswork out of buying NFL tickets with my friends at GameTime. Download the GameTime app, create an account and use the code JOH N. That's just my name, John. For $20 off terms of play, again, create an account, Redeem the code JO HN when you check out, get $20 off. Go download the Gametime app today. What a game. I mean, sometimes you're just speechless. I'd be lying if I said I didn't tweet ballgame. When the the rams went up 30 to 14, you know, it looked like Sam Darnold was in full meltdown mode. The Cooper cup fumble at the end of the first half, you're just thinking they're down multiple scores, multiple two point conversions. In what world could you overcome three turnovers against Matt Stafford, who we'll get into in a minute, has really morphed into his version of, you know, at this point in time in his career, the way he's playing right now, you know, Brady Manning, Rogers, like he's just in complete control of the game, kind of mastered the position relative to his skill set. And when the dust settles, you go into overtime, you get a touchdown, you still lose. I mean that is insane. And let's face it, the headline with 10 minutes left to go in the fourth quarter was how can you trust Sam Darnold? How can Sam Darnold won. The LA Rams had complete owner ownership of him. He had thrown what he throw four interceptions the last game. He had two tonight. Both interceptions tonight. One came on third, I think an eight and the other came on third and goal. So in these big must downs, Shula was fooling him. One of the interceptions was carbon copy to what happened to Baker Mayfield last week, where the slot corner fakes being in man coverage, drops in the slot and or drops kind of in the flattened zone, picks off like an out route or a comeback route and sitting right there and picks them off. And then you throw an interception to a defensive lineman, especially when you're struggling, everyone went, God, this guy's full meltdown mode. And obviously the punt return for Shaheed, which is a big feather in the cap of John Schneider, who I really appreciate both GMs tonight. One guy's wearing a hoodie, the other guy was wearing a backwards hat in the middle of the game. It's like both these Franchises are just about football, none of the fluff. They're GM and head coaches, all ball all the time. And that, that was a classic in a game that if you're Seattle, I just don't, let's face it, Sam Darnold did not play well, I thought for most of the game. And really, you know, before that last drive in overtime, I thought he was bad. Obviously the interceptions just in a game like this, felt like we're going to cost you the game. But sometimes like this is a team game right in Seattle is not built like the Buffalo Bills. Obviously Sam Darnold's not Josh Allen, but they don't expect him. They just won a game last week where they kicked what, six field goals. I mean they, they can win other ways. Their defense at least for three quarters tonight was not. But down the stretch in the fourth quarter overtime, actually they gave a big touchdown as well. Was a little hit or miss, but for the most part it's pretty good. And obviously the special teams and they carried them down the stretch because they deserve to lose. But sometimes you don't get what you deserve. And for Sam Darnold on that final drive where they just score a touchdown, Puka Nakua takes the big touchdown, you're like, how are they going to drive to score? And obviously if you score in that spot, going for two was the right play. What are you going to do? Tie the game, kick it back off and let them go on a potential field goal drive. Now granted the Rams had missed the field goal, but you're not playing a tie, not in this situation. Short week at home and he goes six of seven, hits a big pass to Jackson Smith hits, I mean I would say his career of being a good player this year and last that throw to Cooper cup in overtime was as big of a throw. I think it was second and eight. As you are going to see obviously the touchdown, the two point conversion. I mean a huge thing you see this during the game is Sam gets sped up. And I think clearly Shula knows on some of these bigger downs if he could throw a curveball, Sam rushes and then he throws it to a spot. And what happened both times he dropped someone in coverage who wasn't supposed to be there. So Sam thinks he's getting one thing and he gets something else and he's basically, you know, know dead red on that, on that look and he's pulling the trigger no matter what where the difference. Like you saw a gap tonight in quarterback play. Matt Stafford's playing like I, I, I Don't know, the highest level of. I, I was trying to think of like a high level math, but I, I didn't really make it past calculus one, which I kind of cheated even to survive in that thing. But I mean that's a graduate level in which he's playing quarterback. Sam has the physical skills, but clearly mentally when he's playing chess, you could fool him and they have his number fooling him on those plays. But when it mattered the most, in a spot where you're either scoring a touchdown, at minimum you're tying, you're winning, I, I guess you're winning or losing because if they score a touchdown they were 100, always going for two. So you get the ball back, you know we're going to go for two if we score. But it's either we're winning or losing on this drive. I can't have what has been happening throughout this game. Balls batted down. There was one play I think on the second to last drive. Amazon never showed the replay. It looked like Jackson Smith was open on like, I don't know, probably a 10ish yard out route and Sam wasn't even close. And that happened a couple times tonight. But when they needed a most, he came through. And listen, does he have some flaws? Are you betting on him even after that game? Sometimes winning. Can band aid an overall experience? Like would I bet on Seattle to win the Super Bowl? No. But I do think that was a pretty big moment for a guy that, let's face it, if 30 to 14 kind of holds and they end up losing by 10 plus points when the dust settles, we know what the narrative in the headline is and I would have been right there beating the drum with everybody. You can't trust this guy in big games, everyone. He's an easy guy to root for, right? Everyone seems like a great guy. What he's done the last couple years is pretty remarkable when you, when you think about how low his career once was. But like these big games now, multiple Rams game, the Lions game, you just would have been like, how could you trust this guy for this team that's clearly going to go to the playoffs? And the answer would have been you couldn't. Now just because of one drive, I don't think changes the overall ceiling of a human. But confidence is real and having positive experiences typically, you know, can build confidence and can help you build on things that maybe you are questioning yourself because to me, once they were down 30 to 14, I mean, let's face it, if they don't get the punt return. They don't win this game because when you're down multiple scores. He had just thrown an interception. It felt like his confidence would have been all shattered. Even if he's much more mentally tough than he was now. Like, how could you battle back? You get that punt return, though, you immediately get life. You get the two pointer, you're down eight, and it goes. God, it kind of feels like you were getting your ass kicked. You're down eight points. And let's face it, I mean, at the end of the day, the Rams defense, especially their secondary, isn't exactly the 2000 Ravens or the 85 Bears. You know, Richard Sherman and Earl Thomas ain't walking through that door. But he made plays when he had to, and at the end of the day, they leaned on him in a big spot. Down seven and he came through and he got the ball to their best players and they won the game. And for as devastating of a loss as that is for the Rams, and don't get it twisted, we'll get into that in a second. It is bad. That's one where I don't know how you shake. That is a remarkable win for Mike McDonald and Seattle Seahawks. That feels like one of the biggest wins, I don't know, since, like, Russell Wilson was in his prime. And they would play in just batshit crazy games because Russell. I attended one one time at a Monday Night Football game against. It was Seattle 49ers. It might have been. The year might have been 2019 when the 49ers went to the super bowl and it went to overtime. And Russell just made some of the crazier plays I've ever seen. They had some crazy defensive plays in that game. Seattle used to be, like, it felt like under the Russell Wilson regime, like, Touched by an angel sometimes. Some of their games, they were bananas. They were basically the version of the Chargers. But they won the games, and that's what tonight felt like for them at the end. Now, I didn't think they would be touched by the football gods. When they were down 16 points, I completely wrote them off. I thought they had no chance. Not because I had full faith in the Rams getting stops, but I just thought that McVeigh, because even during the game when they were kind of extending their lead, they would go like, run, run, pass and get a first down. They wouldn't just go, hey, we're running it three times. If we don't get a first down, whatever. They'd go run, run, and they'd get. They had multiple, like, Third and fours. And then they just trusted Stafford, the kid Xavier Smith, which I'll be honest, I didn't know much about. I had to, had to google them. Was in college for like eight years he's been in the NFL. He got drafted or he's an undrafted free agent in 2023. He's 28 years old. One of those guys that gets the extra year and an extra year. So all of a sudden you look at his timeline, he's like 2017 to 2023. It's like that is way too long of a college career. 28 year old, third year NFL player. I mean who's this Chris Winky? But he was making big plays tonight. He stepped up and that's, listen, you're, you're missing Devonte Adams. Like you're going to need other guys to step up. You can throw it to Puka as, as much as you want. And they actually did tonight. But Puka had 12 catches for 225 yards but no one else had more than Mumfield had three catches, put a lot of twos, a lot of twos, a lot of threes. Ferguson had three catches. You know, typically that 12 might be like nine for Puka and Devonte is getting six or seven. But they kind of had to go committee with the rest of the group and the rest of the group I thought came through and you know, I mean the end of the day like their defense let them down and that, that, that's the problem with the Rams because I do think if this, if these two teams play 10 times, I do think the Rams are better and I think their differentiating factor is their quarterback. You know, I don't know what this, I didn't look at the odds right when the game ended and walked into the, to the office to record. I, I would imagine Stafford's still going to be the front runner. I, I do think he is playing quarterback at the highest level of his career by a mile. When they won the super bowl when they first got him, he threw 41 touchdowns, but he threw 17 interceptions. And I, and I do feel like, and I'm not even, I'm removing the Lions version, just going with McVeigh, he could be pretty turnover happy this year. He's got five. And there, there was one throw tonight that was a little questionable on the outside, but for the most part he's fucking throwing seeds and getting peppered. I mean they lose Datsun early in the game. There can't be a tougher guy in the NFL not named Philip Rivers than Matt Stafford, you know, he can't move anymore. He was never a great athlete, but he. I, I would say Sam Darnold obviously is a pretty good athlete. I don't even know if Matt Stafford in his prime was that, but, but he could definitely move. Like, he's a pretty stationary guy, but his command is basically like. And like I said, I'm not comparing his resume to Brady, to Manning, to Rogers, but when those guys mastered the position like Rogers, those, those couple years where he's winning the MVP with LaFleur, you know, Manning, once he got to Denver and Brady, the kind of. The last like 10 years of his career, mentally, they just mastered it. That to me is what Stafford feels like at the line of scrimmage. Like those interceptions that happened to Sam Darnold tonight, they're not happening to Matt because he's not processing the offense that way. He's not going his third and six. We've repped this in practice. I know this route is open 90% of the time. I, I'm going to hold on to the last. I'm going there. It's not how he. You can't play quarterback at the highest level in the biggest games like that. So for him to play like this or for 457 yards, throw a touchdown in overtime, obviously Puka was a big part of that. Took it to the house and lose. This has been the question mark with the ramps because it does feel like they are. Their offense is better than Seattle's offense. I think we would all agree on that. Over the course of months, the season, you're going to Trust Stafford and McVeigh more than you are Darnold and Kubiak. But like, their defense is a problem. You know, you can't really rely on their secondary. Their defensive line makes big plays. They had a bunch of sacks tonight. But I, I just think when you can't cover people in a league that is pretty pass happy. And at first there weren't that many possessions, you know, in the first half, Seattle didn't have time of possession. Like, they just didn't possess the ball. I looked up at one point in time, like, I don't feel like Darnold's playing that well. He's like four of six. He barely even attempted anything, like halfway through the second quarter. But as the game went on, the game was kind of going back and forth and all of a sudden it puts a lot of pressure on your defensive backs to make plays. Their front and Landman are good, but the secondary, it's hard to trust them. And you know, at the end of the day, they couldn't get a stop, they couldn't get off the field. And this is a week that was a game that they win this thing that they get Atlanta next week, in the following week they get the Cardinals. I don't know about you, but I pretty sure they win both those games. Are the number one seed. Now Seattle's next two games, obviously they finished with the 49ers, but next week off a mini by, they go to Carolina. So we'll see Carolina play Tampa either. Regardless what happens in that game, that Seattle game is going to be massive for them. Going to Tampa can just be a little weird. I mean, didn't we or I mean, excuse me, Carolina. We saw the Rams go out there earlier and lose. So I'm not just chalking Seattle to win these next two. Technically, the 49ers control their own destiny. But are they just going to sweep these last three games? You know, we'll see. But man, what a massive win by Mike McDonald. Sam Darnold just kind of shedding that when someone constantly calls you something and then you kind of live up to was only going to get worse. Now I understand the more you mature. Hell, what I do, it's. It's easier to get off your phone. Some days you realize, like, I didn't even look at social media. And then maybe you're a day late and you see like, what are these people screaming about? Like, I don't even know what you guys are talking about. There's such a large percentage of human beings that just don't spend that much time on Twitter. So it's like sometimes you lose. Like, they're talking about Puka Nakua. I had to Google in the middle of the game, like, what is going on? It's like the last couple days has been running around, help my wife with stuff, moving offices, just haven't been on Twitter. It's like you just kind of lose touch with what the Internet's saying. So it's like I. I do think that quarterbacks and just NFL players in general, the one reason Kevin Durant's on Twitter and Instagram and social media a lot get a lot of free time in football. You really don't. Especially as a quarterback. You're just grinding. You're at the office, you're working, you're watching film, you're in meetings, you're on the practice field, you're working out. Like your weeks are pretty packed. When you hear some of these Coaches, not that they don't get information sent to them, but it's pretty easy to avoid stuff. But regardless of if he could avoid it or not, there would have been substance behind. This isn't really this. Something's off here. Like for all the stats and all the wins, I think what does he have? 25 wins, which is the most of any quarterback the last two years. I mean, you're talking about guys like Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, like Sam Darrow's got more wins than him, but it's like guy can't win a big game and then boom, he wins it. So I. And he made big throws on that final drive. It would have been one thing if something weird would have happened, right? Like the 12 point conversion. What a. That is a classic Russell Wilson Seattle play. Throws it behind the guy, bounces off the helmet and his player casually like doesn't fall on it like, like it's a live ball. It'd be like me or you just. I just picked up some trash. I just picked up something on the ground. And then you get credit for the two point conversion that that was. Sometimes I think announcers can be a little hyperbolic. Like that's one of the crazier plays ever. That was legitimately one of the craziest plays you've ever seen. It might be the most bananas 2 point conversion you'll ever see. Especially given the situation, given the circumstances, given the comeback. And when that moment's happening, you know, I, I can only imagine McVeigh, they finished Sunday afternoon, Pacific Standard time. He goes to the hospital because his wife's already there. I think she delivers either late, like Monday early in the morning, or might have been 6am I forget I wrote down the time somewhere, but. So he doesn't sleep, I would imagine at all if much that day. As he's waiting, I'm sure he's trying to watch a little Seattle. Who knows how long he stays there. He's going back and forth all week, probably just popping Adderall and slamming, you know, Venti cold brews. But by the time you get to the game, you know, it's like you have the energy. You're probably just wired as humanly possible. You talk about a comedown, but. But who cares? You're up 30 to 14. You're like, we're going to be the one seed. We're going to get Stafford at home. Only have to win a couple games. And then all of a sudden the way it plays out, all of a sudden you're in overtime. And the way it ended, your field goal kicker missed a kick, you kind of went back and forth on some punts, you lost your offensive rhythm. But then you score first in overtime and you're like this, it's been a crazy week. I haven't slept. I might be feeling an Adderall headache right now, but Sam Darnold is going to drive the field and score a touchdown on us. And even if he does, they're probably going to go, he's going to get a two point conversion on us. And, and that happens. So for as awesome and cool of a win as that was for Seattle, their fans, I mean, it had to be, that had to be the biggest moment at that stadium in a long, long time. I, I, that's a hard one to shake off. That's a really hard one to shake off. I mean, your season by any means, you know, the division is still, still we can, crazy shit can happen, right? I mean the, the Seattle still has two tough games right at Carolina, like we said, and then the 49ers at home, who beat him early this season. But man, I just don't know how you would sleep even for a guy that hasn't slept. Yeah, I just don't. And it's not your fault. I mean, you're dialing up how many yards of offense they have. They had 457 yards passing and 124 yards rushing. They had 500, 580 yards of offense compared to their 400 yards of offense, which I don't know how long that final drive was, but they were probably in the low four hundreds, if not the high three hundreds on the final drive because they drove the field to score a touchdown. So their offense dominated this game and their defense dominated the game with turnovers. I mean, two massive turnovers. The one in the red zone by Turner that picks it off the, the play at the end of half to force Cooper Cup. And I, I thought if you're Cooper cup and McVeigh cut you and you're down, your team's down 137 and you catch this ball over the middle and you're breaking now you're not going to score or anything, but your team's at minimum is going to score a field goal because your field goal kicker never misses. So it's going to be 13:10 at halftime. You kind of would have some momentum, who knows, maybe score a touchdown, take the halftime lead, but you fumble. I, my heart sank for the guy because I started thinking if Seattle lose this game, this is a type press Conference at the end of the game where you cry because you're so devastated. You feel like you played a huge role in the loss. And he, he obviously came through with, you know, one of the biggest catches definitely of a Seattle career in that overtime drive. And he kind of can smile and like I made a big play where, listen, Devonte Adams, a better player in Cooper cup and I would have made that same move. And there's no way to cut a guy who's done a lot for you. That's a big part of your team, your culture guy that, you know the front office and the coach drafted and loved for it to be good, right? Unless you just retire like Kelsey and love everybody or you know, the coach and the GM leave, usually you're going to get cut or traded. Kind of happens to everybody. And it clearly got a little ugly with Cooper cup. And I, I thought, man, that sucks. I, I can't imagine. Put yourself in his situation. Remove football, someone fires you, someone dumps you, whatever happens, because they don't believe in you and then they replace you with someone. Everyone in your life would agree. They might not say it to your face, he's better than you. They made the right move. And then you get the opportunity to play that guy for everything on the line. And the guy that he replaced you with is kind of MIA in football. He's injured, but you get a chance to like, well, he can't even do anything. I'm going to show his ass up tonight. And that fumble. But he as Jim Carrey or I guess Jeff Daniels once said, you totally redeem yourself. And he definitely did. Now no one will even talk about that fumble. No one will even talk about that. What a, what a bananas game. I mean that was, that was extremely entertaining. It really was. And this is the thing about football in the NFL we just, when you got two good teams, this is not college. It's pretty rare to see like 40 to sevens. You don't get blood, you're never out of the game. And it just takes one play, it just takes one interception, just takes one punt return. And let's face it, that punt return flipped the game. That punt return, they were dead in the water. If he just has like catches the ball and gets tackled for five yards, I think we would all agree there is a 100% chance they lose because in the fourth quarter he throws the pick. This is the end of the third. They score a touchdown, then they punt, then the Rams score a touchdown. It's now 30 to 14. And then Darnold's driving him, throws a pick. So now they're down 16 points. They just intercepted it and then they forced a punt. And then it all changed right there with him returning it. That, that was, that was truly wild, man. That was. I, I'm still kind of at a loss. I, I can't believe what I just witnessed. But that, that was fun. And what a win by Mike McDonald. I mean that's, that's a pretty big win on his resume. And his defense, what his quarterback was, was melting like an icicle. You know, in an Arizona summer day. They came through, they were big, big hits, stuff in the run. Leonard Williams was a beast. His blitz calls were Pepper and Stafford. I can't even imagine what Matt is going to feel like tomorrow. I can't. I mean, they hit him over and over. He wasn't sacked tonight, but he was hit as, just as many times as Darnold, if not more. And maybe, you know, the stats might be a little off. I don't have them right in front of me in terms of the pressures, but Stafford was hit a lot, especially in the second half, dialing up the pressures. There was one play where Stafford threw an incompletion. They ran like a delayed blitz. It looked like maybe a safety up near the box kind of came through. So had to come a long way. But they have so much team speed on defense that they get close to Matt. And he knew it. He's like, I'm not getting hit. He got rid of the ball fast. It wasn't even close to being a completion. And even Al, you know, listen, love Al. Nothing but respect for him. Reverence as an all time goat. Kind of losing his fastball. Even he could see. He's like, had to get rid of that. He did not want to get hit. Don't blame him. He could see him coming out of the corner of his eye. So Mike's a stud, man. In this division, these three coaches, Mike, Kyle and Sean, this is big time. And these guys go back and forth and they got a guy, you know, Sean's very. His personality is just, it's massive, right? You feel it when you watch him do press conferences or do interviews. Like he's a pretty unique cat, right? And I would say, you know, Kyle's definitely pretty. He's kind of ornery during the week. He's kind of like pops. But he gets into these games. Like you could see his emotion during the games. I feel like Mike McDonald for being a younger guy is like zero emotion. He feels like a Friendlier version, a little more in shape, a little taller, better looking than like Belichick, you know, Bill just never really showed anything. That's kind of Mike. I'm waiting to see him get pissed off or do something. He is pretty steady, Eddie. I mean, he really is. And whatever he did take away from Jim and John Harbaugh, like their toughness, their physicality, the mental toughness, he's. I've been saying it for a long time, man, if he coached offense instead of defense, we would talk about him the way we do all these offensive young guys. But he coaches defense. It's not as sexy. But I'm a huge fan. I really am. Props to friend of the show, John Schneider. Just, just a massive, massive win. And yeah, I mean, I don't even, I don't even know what else to say. What a night. What a night. Their combined record was 22 to 6 coming into this game. You know, I think one thing that you got to give Amazon credit and the league credit for working together is early on in this Thursday night kind of run, it felt like it sucked. You know, I'm talking years ago you would just get such. Now it feels like, God, the games are so much better from Thursday night games. I know the Thanksgiving games were not necessarily Amazon, but you know, the Dallas Lions game was a fantastic matchup on paper. And this game, two teams, I mean, playing potentially for the number one overall seed the division. Just, just a lot on the line. And that was, that was thoroughly enjoyable. As just a fan, I mean, obviously I watched this division probably the closest, but that, that was, that was really, really cool. You know where I bet on sports during the holiday season, Hard Rock Bet. Not just because they're the presenting sponsor of our show, but because they make it easy to bet on my favorite teams, players and leagues with a few simple taps. Especially with their brand new for you page. It recommends picks based on my favorites and who I like to bet on. I open up the app, go to my for you page, find a bed I like, and bam, my bet is placed. That easy. You sign up today and bet $5 on any game. And if it wins, you also score 150 in bonus bets. A winning bet plus an extra 150 to bet with. Now that's spreading some holiday cheer. 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Tennessee, Virginia support for the show comes from public, the investing platform for those who take it seriously. On Public, you can build a multi asset portfolio of stocks, bonds, options, crypto and now generated assets which allow you to turn any idea into an investable index with a It all starts with your prompt. From renewable energy companies with high free cash flow to semiconductor suppliers growing revenue over 20% year over year. You can literally type any prompt and put the AI to work. It screens thousands of stocks, builds a one of a kind index and lets you back test it against the S&P 500. Then you can invest in a few clicks. Generated assets are like EFTs with infinite possibilities, completely customizable and based on your thesis, not someone else's. Go to public.com podcast and earn an uncapped 1% bonus when you transfer your portfolio. That's public.com podcast paid for by Public Investing Brokerage Services by Open to the Public Investing Inc. Member finra, SIPC Advisory Services by Public Advisors, llc. SEC Registered Advisor Generated Assets is an interactive analysis tool. Output is for informational purposes only and is not investment recommendation or advice. Complete disclosures available@public.com disclosures.
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I've got Dan.
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Morgan here on the pod.
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Say hi Dan.
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Hey, how's it going today?
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It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do.
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I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan and Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
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That's pretty awesome. Why do you guys think you win so many cases?
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The insurance companies and other companies that we go against know that we're gonna take it to the end that we believe in the case. So we fight for every dollar and we're not afraid to go that extra mile for our clients.
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Are insurance companies like actually afraid of you guys?
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We don't bluff. We take it to trial. And we are not strangers of getting very, very, very large verdicts.
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Awesome.
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So how does someone get in contact with Morgan and Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
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Probably the easiest way is dialing pound law. That's £529 from your cell phone. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 247365 wow.
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Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the.
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Show. Thanks for having me. Visit for the people.com for an office near.
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Way.
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Okay. I like things that are built to last. A great team, a well run organization. Same goes for my vodka, Tito's. Made in Austin, Texas. Real care, attention to detail, distinct crisp taste. I was just telling my wife the other day, Tito's is the one vodka. It has a completely distinct taste. Been my go to for years, so I like to keep it simple. Tito's soda, one lime, lot of ice. Refreshing, easy. Summer, winter, spring. Totally versatile. Always works. Listen, baseball season's here. Your team's going to play 162 games. A perfect time to kick back with some Tito's. It's what I pour. You should too. Distilled and bottled by 5th Generation Inc. Austin, Texas. 40% alcohol by volume. Savor.
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Responsibly. This is Rob Gronkowski from Dudes on Dudes with Gronk and jules. For the second season in a row, I partnered with T Mobile's Friday night 5G lights powering up hometown football across America. This year, T mobile invested over $4 million in prizes to help schools take their Friday nights to the next level. The votes are in. And now it's time to crown our $1 million grand prize winner. Congratulations to Derrick's high school and Derrick's, Arkansas, home of the Outlaws and your 20 25T mobile. Friday night 5G lights champion. The Outlaws and their community rallied to help them score a game changing home field upgrade, a Gronk Fitness weight room makeover, an epic 2026 tailgate party and a VIP trip to the SEC championship game. To every school that competed posted and rallied your communities. Thank you and to T Mobile for making it all possible. This season may be over, but the story isn't. Stay tuned for season three in 2026. Congratulations again to Derek's High School.
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Outlaws. Speaking of cool, we like I said no Fugazi Friday today, but we do have a big announcement for those that might have missed it there, there was a press release put out by iheart a couple days ago and your boy was kind of near the bottom, tucked, tucked at the bottom. You might need some binoculars to see. But listen, we're not complaining because in 2026 we will officially be moving our video to Netflix. So I'm sure you've seen the announcements over the last 24 hours about the barstool guys going. We will be going as well. So I just, overall, I wrote down some stuff that I just want to hit on, but it's a pretty big deal. And you know, people often ask, like, where do you see yourself? What's. I never would have thought if you would ask me two years ago, do you think your videos will be on Netflix? Like, we just started a YouTube channel and this is why I always say in what we do, you can never like, it's impossible to like map out your 5, 10 year plan. Like I kind of live month to month. We spend a lot of effort, a lot of energy, you know, doing these videos, which are also an audio podcast, which we'll get into here in a second. Nothing is going to change there. Which is a big reason that we are going into this venture. I mean, I started as a radio guy, as a podcast guy. That's my bread and butter. And still to this day, from a podcast standpoint and a business standpoint, that is where we make the majority of the revenue and get the listenership. Now the YouTube channel has done really well, especially this season, and that will no longer exist in the sense that our videos will now be hosted again. I don't have specific dates yet. We're still working through. I Saw Big Cat Ass said the same thing. But before we dive into the nitty gritty like one theme we've had on this show since I've been Doing it is any advice I try to give to somebody. It's the way I live my life and it's really the only way I know how to, I would say, project. Like a life philosophy. Kind of the way to go about your professional life is to not be afraid to take chances. And sometimes when you swing, you're going to miss. It's like a draft pick. It's like dating. It's like anyone in business making business decisions, hiring, acquisitions, choosing to go to Netflix. You never know. There are no guarantees in life beside Uncle Sam sending you a bill. And then we're all going to die one day, right? But I've lived my life going back since I've left college, throughout my football career and now through this career of being really aggressive. And I've been very, very lucky. I've said forever. Coward changed my life and being associated with them, even I, I had this podcast before the Volume ever existed. Then obviously the volume exists. I, I go to that and being run by Jamie Horowitz and Logan Swain and the other executive team are our sales guys. Like, I've been very, very fortunate to be around really, really impressive, high level people who, you know, I mean, I'm not tooting my own horn. I, I, I do like this business. If I didn't do well, they would have got rid of me and we wouldn't be partnered. But I've done well. They've supported and they've double supported and they've had my back. They've promoted me in the sense of like pushing the podcast, the sales team. I couldn't have asked for better people, more aspirational people, bigger grinders. I mean, going back to Coward, I've said this forever. Do you know the percentage of people that would have been in his spot five, six years ago before he ever started the volume? Financially crushing. It could have been life on Easy Street. Did not need to start this company. Did not need the headache. I mean, I spent the three nights with them in Chicago when we did the live thing. Like doing these things causes more headaches than it is. Like, oh, fun, all rainbows, bunch of money. Like, no, it's a pain in the ass running a business. Anyone listening to this? I don't care if you run a business with two people or 150 people. No, it's hard. You get a lot of people hitting you up. You get a lot of different stuff. You always got to put out fires. Got a lot going on, especially in a business like this. It's very public and no one has supported me more than him. So for me, like, it wasn't my idea to be like, hey, can I, can I throw my name in the Netflix ring? It just came to me, hey, would you be interested? And like I said, my first reaction is, yeah, I'm open to talking now. I'm not an idiot. Like, at the end of the day, I'm a consumer. And the way I consume, I watch countless podcasts on YouTube. Like, I am a huge consumer of YouTube. Even if I didn't do this, if I just was John Middelkoff, medical sales sales rep here in, in Scottsdale, the amount of content I would watch off YouTube would probably be the same. Potentially more depending on it. Just be. Instead of at my desk, might be in my car driving around. Right. So I, I understand how hard it is being a consumer just to change your habits. Because my habit is just watch video podcasts as I'm working or even if I'm going on a walk. Like I pay for YouTube Premium, I can just listen to it. So it's like I was open to the conversation, but we also had to talk through. Like, this is pretty risky right now. I think a huge selling point for me is the audio never doesn't change and the audio, if only audio existed and video never did, we would be running a sustainable business here. On three and out. Obviously the video through YouTube has taken it to the next level and now going to Netflix, which again, I'm not doing it for free. Obviously, you know, this is a, a lucrative venture, but it's also a venture that like, you kind of keep your fingers crossed. Hopefully it's going to work. Now I'm not getting into business with some random company. Like this is they know what they're doing and they're not just going all in. I'll tell you this, when you know, the initial names came out, I was like, there aren't that many sports people I, I feel pretty confident of my crew supporting. And the, the following day when, pardon my take, which is by far the biggest sports podcast that's ever existed, I'm not counting like TV show, radio show, like someone like Colin that, that doubles at it all. I'm talking a Internet podcast. They are by far the highest listened to and definitely in terms of revenue, no one's even close. And this probably puts them into high eight figures of revenue. And. And now they're closer to nine than they are seven. I mean, they are an absolute cash cow. Rosillo has had one of the biggest podcasts for a long time. So when that got announced, I went, I'm with the right crew. The crew that had this idea to get involved, that got me involved. And I was like, I. And I also, I made the right decision of like giving me the, the thumbs up. Like I want in. This is a no brainer. And obviously we're going to need people to change their consumer habits because I'm not exactly sure like I still plan on. The other thing is they're not like if you would have told me a couple of years ago you're going to go, you're going to be on Netflix, I'd be like, shit. I mean like a crime drama. I did. They, they cast me for like one of McConaughey or Adam Sandler's movies. Like, God, my career took a turn. I honestly that would have been, that would have been what I would have said be like, you know, I was in the, the Sheriff of Critter Creek back in third grade. I was actually the sheriff, the lead. And you know, my dad, pretty old school conservative guy, was like, you're not going into acting. I probably would have had a pretty good career but that I got shot down pretty. Again the lead. I might have had a future. Not good looking enough and no hair would have been a problem. Actually the ball, the ball community is going pretty strong in Hollywood now. But the podcast thing, clearly they want all in on and they're not counting myself at all on this one. They're clearly on the right people. So I, you just believe in a company that gets it right a lot more than they get it wrong. And as someone over the years, like I've invested in Netflix, made me a lot of money for a reason. It's popular, it works. And they're going after YouTube now which again this channel's not going away. So like we will not host the shows or the reactions, but we still plan on having content. Not exactly sure what that'll look like. We obviously have another channel that is Golo Golf that is not going to be associated with, with Netflix. So guess they didn't want to see me play golf on Netflix. I mean that's their loss. But that, that will be my plan is to make that thing way more active than it's been. I mean we just started the, the YouTube feed on that one I think toward the end of the year. But it's, it's a massive, massive change and a massive move. Obviously a lot of positives good for everyone that works on my show that, I mean you see there are a lot of Guys, I mean, you've seen Jackson, but, but Shane and Adam and James, who's now moved on from us with Joe and Jada, who's also going to Netflix. Noah. We've have a lot of people. There's a big operation. So making moves like this are just like, you can't be afraid to do them. And I know there's going to be some reaction just like, like, I'm not doing that. And listen, totally understand. If I was in the shoes, like, you'd have to get used to it. And hopefully we've done a good enough job going and doing this podcast and clearly we have a pretty strong following that hopefully it works. And I'm fired up. I'm confident, like, nothing's going to change. So if, if you want to get what we're doing, that's where you got to go, you know, And I'll be there every day. Like, I am now doing these podcasts and really, really exciting. And, you know, sometimes as you get older, I'm not a big celebrate guy. Hate birthdays. As I've gotten older, like, I, I told Maria, like, don't get me anything for Christmas. I do not want anything for Christmas. I just, I, I'm just not, I don't know, maybe it's some, like, emotional trauma from my youth, but this is one of those things that, like, you know, my dad who passed away years ago, again, I don't even know if he knew what Netflix was when he died in2018. He probably wouldn't, maybe did because his financial guy might have had him in the, in the stock. But these are type moments that, you know, are pretty big, that your, your family and people around you can, you know, kind of celebrate. Like, it's a big deal. I mean, there's, there's just no way around it. It's one of those things, like, it hasn't really, like, it doesn't really phase me in the sense of, what am I doing? Throw a party. We just got to get to work. We got to do a good job. We're going to get probably more new people. See, and I thought, I thought the way I attack this in the Power of the Video. Again, for those of you listening on audio, nothing changes. Literally nothing changes. They're just think about it like Pat McAfee, the way he does a show on ESPN. They're just licensing the show that I already do. So you plan on just being my same self. Talking football, talking whatever's going on. Mailbags, life questions, Fugazi Fridays and the Videos will just be on Netflix where the audio will be on the places they are now. Apple, Spotify, are there other places you listen to podcasts as YouTube have a podcast. All the same places that have podcasts right now. It'll stay. So yeah, that's a little life update. Other than that that I did I miss anything. I did feel, I mean a little insight into me. Not that I was nervous, like I was ready to go. Like you make full speed decisions. You go the day after we basically it was Iheart puts out the. The release and Iheart is. It's kind of complicated. We're in business like the volume is in business. Also we're partners with Iheart who have been incredible partners for me personally in the sale of the show and done work behind the scenes. Bob Millhiser, who's one of their head sales guy might be the main sales guy. He's a stud. Known him forever. The I heart's been incredible to me. So it was when they put out the press release, you're like, okay, it's just I gotta, everyone's gonna be coming to me for football. Like I gotta drive some people there. And when it came out that big cat and Rosillo and PFT made me feel like, okay, we got sports, people are gonna come and it's on me to keep doing a good job and entertain you guys and talk football, which I obviously enjoy doing and reacting to these games. The plan will be I guess the exact same unless I have a baby on one of the game nights, which I hope I'm like Stucky, who you'll hear from on the audio here in a minute on the video. Video will be out tomorrow. You know, he had the baby on NFL Sunday and still was able to watch games. So I, you know, I think I could see her killing me if I attempted that. But we'll try, you know, phone, iPad, I'll come equipped. But other than that, just wanted to update everyone for life. What's going on. And this is not a fugazi. This is real. Three and out. John Middlekopf to Netflix. It's happening not to be in a crime drama. I'm not a serial killer, so there's not a documentary on. That would have been another thing. Like I get in trouble and they did some documentary on me. Some like podcaster, you know, kill seven. I was like, what? Or you know, 50 Cent didn't do a documentary on me. We're just going to do a football.
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Show. Support for the show comes from public. The investing platform for those who take it seriously. On Public you can build a multi asset portfolio of stocks, bonds, options, crypto and now generated assets which allow you to turn any idea into an investable index with a It all starts with your prompt. From renewable energy companies with high free cash flow to semiconductor suppliers growing revenue over 20% year over year. You can literally type any prompt and put the AI to work. It screens thousands of stocks, builds a one of a kind index and lets you back test it against the S&P 500. Then you can invest in a few clicks. Generated assets are like EFTs with infinite possibilities, completely customizable and based on your thesis, not someone else's. Go to public.com podcast and earn an uncapped 1% bonus when you transfer your portfolio. That's public.com podcast paid for by Public Investing Brokerage Services by Open to the Public Investing Inc. Member FINRA SIPC Advisory Services by Public Advisors llc. SEC Registered Advisor Generated Assets is an interactive analysis tool. Output is for informational purposes only and is not investment recommendation or advice. Complete disclosures available at public.com.
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Disclosures.
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I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi.
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Dan. Hey. How's it going.
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Today? It's going good man. Tell us who you are and what you.
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Do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan and Morgan, which is America's largest injury law.
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Firm. That's pretty awesome. Why do you guys think you win so many.
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Cases? The insurance companies and other companies that we go against know that we're going to take it to the end that we believe in the case. So we fight for every dollar and we're not afraid to go that extra mile for our.
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Clients. Are insurance companies like actually afraid of you.
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Guys? We don't bluff. We take it to trial and we are not strangers of getting very very very large.
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Verdicts.
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Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan and Morgan? What would I do if I got into an.
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Accident? Probably the easiest way is dialing pound law. That's £529 from your cell phone. Our call center is always waiting to take your call 247365.
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Wow. Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by.
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The show. Thanks for having me. Visit for the people.com for an office.
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Near you. PCs powered by Snapdragon X Elite processors are made to go the distance with blazing fast performance. Next level efficiency Snapdragon processors are built to tackle it all. From highlight reel editing to intense player research, making it all feel effortless. And with multi day battery life, you got true freedom all right without being tethered to an outlet. So from long video calls to all day fantasy drafts, your laptop stays ready so you can be at the top of your game. It's the kind of performance your lifestyle demands. So make sure your next PC is powered by Snapdragon. Learn more at snapdragon.com laptops Snapdragon the heart of your PC. Battery life varies significantly based on devices, setup, usage and other factors. Hi, it's Colin from the Colin Coward Podcast. That would make sense that I would be the host of the Colin Coward podcast. I mean, that's the way I see it. I've been around long enough to know quality when I see it. Or in this case, when I taste it. Tito's Handmade vodka. Good stuff. No flash, no gimmicks. Smooth, clean tasting, made the.
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Right.
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Way. Okay. I like things that are built to last. A great team, a well run organization. Same goes for my vodka, Tito's. Made in Austin, Texas. Real care, attention to detail, distinct crisp taste. I was just telling my wife the other day, Tito's is the one vodka. It has a completely distinct taste. Been my go to for years, so I like to keep it simple. Tito's soda, one lime, lot of ice. Refreshing, easy. Summer, winter, spring. Totally versatile. Always works. Listen, baseball season's here. Your team's going to play 162 games. A perfect time to kick back with some Tito's. It's what I pour. You should too. Distilled and bottled by 5th Generation Inc. Austin, Texas. 40% alcohol by volume.
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Savor responsibly. This is Rob Gronkowski from Dudes on Dudes with Gronk and jules. For the second season in a row, I partnered with T Mobile's Friday night 5G lights, powering up hometown football across America. This year, T mobile invested over $4 million in prizes to help schools take their Friday nights to the next level. The votes are in. And now it's time to crown our $1 million grand prize winner. Congratulations to Derrick's High school and Derrick's Arkansas, home of the Outlaws and your 2025 T mobile Friday night 5G lights champion. The Outlaws and their community rallied to help them score a game changing home field upgrade, a Gronk Fitness weight room makeover, an epic 2026 tailgate party and a VIP trip to the SEC championship game. To every school that competed, posted and rallied your communities, thank you and to T Mobile for making it all possible. This Season may be over, but the story isn't. Stay tuned for season three in 2026. Congratulations again to Derek's high.
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School Outlaws. Okay, back at it again with my main man and a new father. You can catch him on the Action Network. You can catch him changing diapers. You can catch him just probably not sleeping much. Him and Sean McVeigh. Football kids. You just keep the pedal to the metal.
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Stuckey. Congratulations. Thanks. Yeah, I don't really sleep much during football season anyway, so it's not much of a change. It's more for my wife. She does all the work. But it was fun. He came at one o' clock on the dot Eastern on the NFL Sunday and got. Wife had a C section, got cut out one o'. Clock. They had to keep operating on her, obviously. They brought me and the baby up to the nursery and then they had to like work on him for a while to clean them up. And then because it was a C section, he has to like get his lungs going. So they were working on for a while. I, I had like a hat, a winter hat on and my scrubs, but. And then I had headphones underneath. And then I was sitting in this, sitting in the nursery for an hour while they worked on them. There's nothing I can do. And I just, I had my phone propped up on a desk, was just watching and listening to, to Red Zone. So still sweating NFL. But it was amazing moment. And yeah, he's home now. Mom and kid are doing well, but the grind must go on. It.
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Was funny. I feel like that's like the, the Alfred Batman meme where they see each other. There's a chance that you see other men in that situation because there's not much you.
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Can.
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Do. Yeah. If you get on a Saturday or Sunday during the fall or you never know, you know, Kentucky Derbies, Masters, you name it. You could just see a guy just sitting there. Not especially. His wife's in a different room, so it's not like he's going to get in.
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Any trouble. Yeah, well, my wife went to like some pregnancy classes. She really wanted to go to this one pregnancy class where they like teach you.
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Basic stuff. Oh, I, I went, I went. Did.
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You go? No. The one she wanted to go to was a Sunday at 1:00'. Clock. It was Sunday at 2. No, Sunday at 2:30 on NFL Sunday. She didn't even ask me to go. She's, she's, she's good like that. She, she knows that I wasn't gonna. It's partly my work too. But yeah, I mean, she.
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Wants the kid to go to private school or you want them to.
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Go to. Yeah, she was sending me, she was like, it's. I don't know. She sent me a text like, I don't know how these wives all got their husbands to go to a class on an NFL Sunday. And then she was sending me pictures of all the guys, like, just from like far. She would zoom in and snap on a guy that was like checking his fantasy streaming a game. So. Yeah, but the grind must go on. So we were on to college. It's about. Football's about to get really good. I mean, starting to. I mean, tonight really, we're recording this on a Thursday. You have Rams, Seahawks, which is an amazing game. Seahawks win. Your 49ers control their own destiny for the 1 seed, which is.
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Pretty crazy. So to Seattle. So does Seattle.
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Though, right? But they play each.
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Other, right? Yeah, but I'm just saying, like, they'd have one more win and the Niners still play.
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The Bears. It's. Yeah, it's not easy, but it's, it's pretty crazy. Think about like where the 49ers were injury wise all year. But then college ball playoff Friday night. College will playoff Saturday, NFL now Saturdays, NFL Sunday. So like the, the football over the next two months is going to be really.
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Really good. Let's just start because we have to talk too long about the college football because there's only a couple good games out of the four. But I'm sure you know you've had a lot going on. The clap tape take went pretty viral about we don't want Cinderella's in college football. And I don't know how anyone would push back against that in the sense that like the same teams dominate every year. Our entire life there's been the occasional Boise in tcu, but this is not college basketball in anyone. I mean, when I was at Cal Poly, you could have games against UCLA where you're like, you know, giving them. Basketball's a lot different than football. Like you, you got no shot. And the only reason this exists, and the other thing Clapp talked about, which is not controversial at all, it's just a fact because I had a buddy that's like a minor league baseball player and he hit me up, he's like, can you explain to me how these programs are in the playoffs, like jmu? And I'm like, well, the lawsuit, they, they had to give them a spot. And then the acc, the conference championship deal, the top five, so kind of it through Like Notre Dame should normally be in. And if I think if Tulane's in and Notre Dame's in, it's not. Is this even a controversial playoff? Really? They're just the.
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12 seed. Like, yeah, we're going to constantly change it. Like last week. The funny thing is, if we had the same format as last year, Ohio State would be playing JMU and then Ohio State would play Tulane in the second round because Tulane would have a buy that is way more broken than we have this year. So they fixed that. What I think the main culprit this year, everyone was getting mad at the wrong things was the acc, like their tie break. First of all, the AC was terrible, but their tiebreaker situation was a disaster. Like you have certain conferences, the American included with Tulane, the Mountain west, where they say the first tiebreaker is the highest ranked college football playoff team. So even if you have six teams and if you want to even go a step further, one of the culprits of this is these expanded conferences, right? Like The ACC is 18 teams. So you have these completely unbalanced schedules, right? So you could have teams that play, you know, they play Stanford and Cal and Virginia Tech and they play like a bunch of bad teams and they have the same record. The way that you rectify that is you say, okay, even if we have six teams tied, the first team will be whoever's ranked highest in the College Football Playoff. The Second is the second team ranked. But if no. 1, then you go to the other tiebreaker. So in this case you would have had Miami in the college, I mean in the ACC championship game, which would have solved everything because Miami would have either won the ACC championship, right. And they're the ACC champion in. And then Notre Dame would have also been in or they would have lost and Miami would have been out. And Virginia, if they would have won, they would have been in, not a five loss Duke team. And then JMU would have been out as well. That's so they'll fix that, I imagine. But these like these expanded conferences lead to this. You have to have the right tiebreakers.
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In place. I do think what's inevitable though is like, listen, I got my start at Fresno State is like the non power force should just have their own playoffs, kind of D1, double A. Now the problem is they want, they want their opportunity to get in that money. And that's what complicates it. But there is, you could make the argument that even Tulane, who played Ole Miss and lost by you know what, 25 points or 35.4510 without the score. So it's just. We don't need to include. These aren't. This is not basketball. Football's dramatically different. And that could wipe out the bowl games and give ESPN the inventory of just Fresno State's playing to Lane. You know, it could be games that you and I and most casual fans sitting at home and there's nothing going on on like a, you know, Friday night. Just watch those couple games throughout the next couple.
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Weeks. Right? Yeah. I mean they're mainly betting events, so I mean that's what bowl games are. So. Yeah. I mean what this is going to lead to, I think, I mean I think that's eventually where we'll.
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Get to three playoffs, one double A, you know, non Power four.
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Power four. Yeah. And then. But I think in the short term it's just going to lead to expansion again. So we're probably going to go to 16 teams. And the. But I don't think people, people fail to understand is that more teams leads to more arguments, not fewer. And because you just say, oh well, let's, let's expand it because this year then, you know, Notre Dame would have been in and like the games. But every time you do that, you, you're, you're just going to argue about more things. You'd be arguing over the buys. You'd be arguing over team 15 or 16. Right. I mean I've always said it's never going to go back to this, that 8 is the perfect number and you would have your, your four power four champs from conference championship weekend. Throw, throw your G6, one G6 team and then you have three wild cards. And the reason I like that is eight keeps the regular season very highly leveraged throughout. It keeps conference championship weekend, which, who knows, at this rate we keep expanding, might go away. You might have like playing games and different conferences, but it keeps that weekend really important. And then you, you don't have as many arguments but like conference championship, regular season still.
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Really important. And like who would be. Who would be Right now the four. We know the four. Which is. So Duke would be.
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In technically. Yeah, Duke would be in. So I mean it now again, ACC needs to change their, if they change their tiebreaker scenarios, you would never have something like that happen and any system that you have is, is going to be flawed. I also don't think there should be any auto bids, but I mean auto buys. So that's how I would do it. But it's never going back to eight and we're Just going to expand and there's going to be more questions. And like this conference championship weekend now just feels cheaper. Right. Like Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Indiana. It was cool. But like what were the. There wasn't like.
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Both teams. I actually commend them for playing hard because they didn't really need. I mean Indiana was trying. It was a. If Indiana loses in the second round like that. That game is mean. Yeah, that's. That's the most meaning unless they win the national championship this year, it's hard to ever. I mean that's the biggest win in the history of the program by a country.
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Mile, right? Yes. By far the. Yeah. So what Clatt said. Yeah. You don't want to have like two College Football Playoff first.
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Round.
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Games that have spreads of North.
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17 and. And that's my only strong feeling like I got, you know, I would say yeah, I like Oklahoma, but it's like, I don't know, John Mateer maybe he's healthier now. He kind of was never the same after he got injured. It's like I want to take Miami as a live dog. But if Elko is viewed as like, I don't know, like The Chubby Mike McDonald of college football in terms of defensive scheme, like I don't love Carson Beck against the defensive a guy that like Nick Saban picks his brain, I mean that's a tough matchup with a long expansion. I would say this Oregon last year had so much hype and they got what was score after a quarter was.
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28 nothing. I mean 21 or.
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28 nothing. Yeah, it was over for. For a team that like two legit teams, that's as quick as you'll see a game over as I can ever remember. I do think that that's an easy. Like we're on a mission this year. We were embarrassed last year and it just happens. Jmu's their first opponent who clearly is not, you know, has no business playing them. That thing could get.
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Ugly fast. Yeah. My only concern so starting.
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With that game again, assuming it's not pouring rain.
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Or something. Yeah, like I, I do think JMU's defense is legit. Like if you could you adjust for opponent. It's. They're like a top 15, 20 defense. They played Louisville as a good offense if they have NFL players. Chris Bell, their running back. That game was 14:6 at Louisville. Jamie was leading in the fourth quarter and then there was a broken play, a sack for a touchdown and then a broken play at the end and Louisville ended up winning 2814 but I do think the JMU defense is legit. The offense I think is gonna, it's gonna struggle mightily. The biggest problem for them, I mean their receivers are probably aren't going to get any separation and their offensive line is going to get demolished. I mean I think they only have like two guys over 290, 295. So how does jam you move the ball? I don't know. They are really, really slow. So they're going to like run it rely on their defense. Oregon I imagine is like the one thing because winning by more than 21 like takes some against a good defense takes some effort and care to want to blow a team out. And Oregon will have a huge game next.
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Week. Right. So we saw this last year, right? Ohio State, some of these teams kind of with a chip on their shoulder. Now Oregon's been playing well. It's not like their chip on the shoulder same as Ohio State. But that first round last year was blood central.
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Wasn'T it? Yeah. It's interesting bringing that up. So maybe I think I actually I played some under early in that Oregon. Jamie. I just don't think the JMU offense is going to do anything and then and I do think the JMU defense can, can put up enough of a fight and I'm not sure like Oregon has wide receiver injuries now so they've been relying more on like their tight ends, their running game lately. So that would lend itself to an under. I think it'll be slow paced and I don't think Oregon needs to show a ton here in this game to win it. But if you recall last year, this is the first year of the expanded playoffs. You so we had you know, four first round home playoff games and those I'm not sure that anybody really knows yet because the sample size is so small how like electric home field for a college football team in a playoff home game can be especially at night. Right. If you look back last year you had Ohio State.
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Crush Tennessee. Notre Dame was.
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At night. Yeah, that game was at night. I mean all four, all four home teams won and covered last year. Oklahoma in Norman. At night it's going to be windy, like pretty significant winds, cold. I mean that place is going to be electric. And Alabama with the wind. I'm not sure Ty Simpson's fully healthy. He's been doing like a back issue and he just hasn't been the same over the last month of the year. I mean Bama kind of stumbled down the stretch you and then I cannot run the Ball at all they cannot run it. I mean at negative three rushing yards versus Georgia throw in the wind in a one dimensional offense in that atmosphere against Oklahoma with you know even more time to prepare for Venables I think Oklahoma gets it done. Maybe Mater is healthier. Our Mason Thomas is going to be a first round draft pick. He's back for Oklahoma. He's one of the best edge rushers in the country. He's been out since that Tennessee game where he had that strip return for a touchdown and he pulled his hammy running down the field. So I'm going to trust the Oklahoma defense. The Oklahoma offense can be very ugly to watch. I mean the total is 40 for a reason. This is going to be.
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Would you say the Texans are.
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There.
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Comp. Yes. Yeah and dominant defense, dominant defensive head coach who's an awesome you know as long his resume is longer than the Mikos but you know the quarterback early on Mattia looked awesome then he got banged up. CJ's she's actually playing well right now. Obviously CJ's better than.
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John Matir. Sure but you know what I mean comparison like the Texans offense can still be wonky and they can still struggle to finish drives. Their offensive line isn't great. That's all the same things for Oklahoma. The one I will say like margins are very thin this time of the year. Like we know these teams are like they already played now Oklahoma already beat Alabama but Alabama did dominate the game statistically they just turned the ball over the one of the biggest advantages in this game which can be super important with a total of 40 close game you know should be super competitive. The Oklahoma special teams are way better than Alabama. Alabama's had kicker issues. They've had issues across their special teams. You saw the Georgia game. They got a punt block. Oklahoma special team's been elite all year. They have Tate Sandell who's he's he won the Lou Verosa he's been the best kicker in college football this year. He's good from he had a couple 50 plus yarders at Tennessee that could be a huge advantage in that game. So I like Oklahoma. The A and M game is interesting win there too. So there could be some impactful wins which could that's why the totals come down a bit. I don't mind that under I played some first half under the what I'm looking for there. I mean Mario Crispball has not been reliable in big spots especially on the road. Carson Beck has struggled on the road throughout his career and he can't really move. This is A. But this is A. He's not like a runner. A M is going to play a lot of man defense. This is a great in the trenches matchup. This is like elite. Texas A and M is an elite offensive line. Miami has an elite offensive line. Texas A M is an elite defensive line. Miami is an elite defensive line. Like these are. You could argue their top five offensive and defensive lines going against.
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Each other. So grown.
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Man game. Yeah. A lot of pros. Whoever wins that battle and like make some more plays, you know, if you have like if Reuben Bain is winning his one on ones. If Cassius House winning is one on ones. Like so. But I'm looking for A M has been a very good second half team all year. I did play some first half under. I think it's like the passing is going to be a little stunted because of the wind. Miami usually comes out very conservative, tries to run the ball. A M gives up a bunch of run explosives. But Miami's not really. They have. They have this new freshman they've been running a bit more, is a bit explosive. Maybe he can be a key. But mine's not an explosive running team. So I think both teams are going to come out and kind of feel each other out. It'll be lower scoring at first. Miami's gonna get their best cornerback from injury. Keonte Scott. That's important because A is really good receivers. But I and A M's getting a couple defenders back as well. So I think this will start slow. Lower scoring. But if my. If A M is down at any point in the first half, I'll be looking to bet my. Or second half. Bet them second half or bet them live. Because I trust Elko way more than crystal ball to make in game adjustments. So I'll be looking to bet A M live and crystal ball. There's never a game he hasn't known that he'll give away. I mean they will go into a shell if they have a lead. They'll make bad time management decisions. Like all that is into play here. And we've seen A M be dominant in second halfs all year. I go back to the South Carolina game. They're on 30 to nothing at the half. They come back to win. So that's what I'm looking for there. And then the other game.
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Elko would be if we just did a coaching draft from scratch. Everyone's available. You know, I think so many people watch the marquee teams. A and M is for being you Know, a high level program. They play in the SEC and obviously this year they were, you know, competing to be the number one team throughout.
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The.
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Country. They. They don't feel like the most consumed team in the country. And he's a little under the radar for a guy that he's proven he can coach at an academic place. In Duke he's coaching at, you know, kind of a renegade program where you got money and you could do whatever you want. He's coach for Brian Kelly. I think he's probably in a weird way one of the most under the radar coaches that we just talk about. Like, you know, Kirby Lanning, Ryan Day. Like no one unless you're really like nerdy football guy. I think he's.
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A baller. Yes, it's true. Football guy. Like you just. You just know that that's all. He eats, breathes.
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And sleeps. He eats a lot of food too. He ain't missing.
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Many meals. Yes, he's eating. He's eating more than football. So yeah, I love Belko and I think Mario is a horrible head coach. Great recruiter and Heatherman's a good dc.
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It's very. He's an unreal number two. Like if you got Saban or Kirby or something and just make him your assistant head coach recruit, it's kind of like Eddie.
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O. Right? Yes. Develop offensive lineman. But as far as like in game, I mean go back. I mean there I have could go on and on about the. I mean the Georgia Tech game where they didn't take a knee and they fumbled and then lost when they could have just need. There are so many of those. So many like late game time management. All those little things where he's so.
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Bad at. It happened at Oregon, right?
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Against Stanford. Oregon. I lost.
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A.
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Bet. They. They could have just kneeled again. He didn't even learn his lesson. That happened twice in the last 10 years. How does that never happens? They could have kneeled against Stanford and then ended up losing in overtime. I had organ that game horrendous. So yeah, those little things could come into play and decide this. Like I could see A M coming back and winning. Mario messing it up and Beck making maybe a mistake or two which. So I think A M gets it done at home. So I like all the home teams and I think Ole Miss has too much for two lane. The two lane defense is not great. They should have had a couple more losses this year. Rex last gonna have to use his legs, but I don't know if he can against an SEC defense. The best part about the two lane defense is their pass rush but Chambliss and his legs and I think Ole Miss me super motivated here after Lane left at home you have this coaching staff. I think they're going to come. They have a lot of time to prepare for this game. You're going to see a bunch of wrinkles and I think they put it on too Lane. So yeah I think that the trend continues and the home teams dominate again but I certainly could be wrong. But definitely looking forward to.
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High school Outlaws. Okay, let's talk about the National Football League. All these lines are presented by our friends and partners at Hard Rock Bet. I kind of like that this week and really this happens at the end of the season, like two games being correlated because you got two teams either battling for a division or, you know, battling for a wild card spot. And we talked about last weekend, the Texans against the Cards. I did it and I just think they're really motivated and it paid off. Well this week they're playing the Raiders. Who you're lucky. You were having a child and you probably never saw a highlight on the red zone of the Raiders because they didn't get to 100.
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Yards and I did, I was falling. I had the under, I had under 38.
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And the Eagles. Oh.
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You got it. A 17 play 90 yard drive that took 12 minutes in the fourth quarter and got stopped at the one by the way. That was more yards than the Raiders out of.
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The entire game. That's crazy. So I in the Jags who just coming off, you know, I would imagine statistically one of Trevor Lawrence's better game. What do you count for? Six touchdowns through five and.
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Ran for one. It's.
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Hard to do. I don't care what level you do that in high school, that's impressive, let alone against football. Now granted you're playing Steve Wilkes, who's kind of, you know, him and Aaron Glenn. Not sure what those guys like. Aaron, aren't you the defensive guy? Like I don't quite understand but I do think the Texans are really motivated this week because if the Texas or if the Jags were playing someone really crappy, let's say they were playing the Cardinals this week, this line would be a little big for me. But like they're playing Denver so I think it's easy in your mind like these guys might lose and now we got serious life so we're playing this team like we'd be playing the Ravens or something. So I expect the Texans to give an effort like they're playing a playoff team even though they're playing, I mean, I don't know, one of the worst teams we've seen in recent memory. And the Jags like I like Denver, so I'm hammering the Texans Again, big number 14, 14 and a half. It's kind of moving up and I'm going to take Denver at home. I think you know, Bo Nix, who again looked like he was I don't know how much of that you saw. He was like Touched by an Angel. Best game you're ever going to see him play. He was fantastic. So if he can build off that confidence to me, if he plays like that, Denver's a live super bowl champ team. You know, I mean if they're going to get a good quarterback play, they're beating anybody in the NFL, especially at home with home field advantage. I do think coming off this game, Liam Cohen, they've done it excellent job this year. Little different animal on the road in Denver against this defense. So I'm correlating these two games. I'm taking the Texans and I'm taking Denver, you know, to cover.
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Against the Jags. I by the yeah. One interesting, a really interesting nugget is that the Ravens win and I do like the Ravens this week. If the Ravens win same Steelers and the Lions win against the Steelers. They're both favored. The Steelers and Ravens play for nothing next week week no matter what happens, the division will come down to week 18, which is even more interesting because the Ravens played the packers on Saturday night. NFL won't be too happy if this happens because I imagine why would you play Lamar as dealing with injuries but that could impact NFC seating, the NFD division and with Green.
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Bay, the Steelers don't need to win either of these next.
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Two games, correct? Well, they if they win both and the Ravens lose both which is possible, then they are division and they'll win the division before Week 18 because Ravens played the Patriots this weekend in the Packers. But if the the gap is only one game. So like if they both win this week or they both lose this week, the Ravens have the tiebreaker which is weak. If they win week 18, which is weird because the Steelers have already beat them but they would have the same division record it would go down to common opponents which the Ravens have already locked up. So yeah, there's a chance that their games next week don't mean anything. Just some throwing that out there Because Ravens packers do play on Saturday night. I'm gonna disagree. I. I'm probably the idiot. I played the Raiders plus 14 and a half. It is absolutely horrendous. But this is, this is one of my favorite spots that I've played forever. Number one. I haven't seen the Texans injury report today, but do they, they really need to push everyone. Like Stingley's banged up Lassiter. I don't. I mean Stingley's dealing with a, an oblique again which he dealt with early in the year. So maybe they're not fully healthy. But the Raiders could get Colt Miller back who's like a top five left tackle. He's practicing today. The Robinson line's still gonna be bad, but that'll help immensely. Like you go back to like the Giants when they would lose like Andrew Thomas and then they would just deteriorate into dust. But if you have like an a Pro bowl caliber left tackle, it makes the whole operation a bit smoother. I so but I do think we're at the top of the market on the Texans. Like now everyone is saying Texans are live for the super bowl. They're the best team in the afc. And some of those things might be true, but usually that's a signal like we're all right, we're at the peak of the market. On Texas, we've won six straight. And I will say caveat. Some of those wins, like the Bills didn't have an offensive line. Daniel Jones got hurt for the Colts. The Chiefs didn't have an offensive line. The Cardinals whole team was out. So they benefited from some injuries. They won six straight. Only one of those teams has gone to the playoffs. And I think that they're at the top of the market. Meanwhile, the Raiders, they're coming off a shutout loss with 75 yards. It doesn't get more of the bottom. So this is just the classic buy low sell high for me. Teams off a shutout loss are 58% historically against the spread on the road, they're 64% as a road dog, 66% but one of my. And look, the Raiders haven't. They're really, really bad team, but they haven't. So they've been blown out a bunch this year and they're 4 and 1 against the spread after blowout losses. So like they lost. They've lost by 17 or more five times after those games. They lost by one to the Bears, they beat the Titans by 10. They lost by one to the Jags, they lost by seven to the Broncos, and covered and then they lost by 14 to the Browns. It's the only time they didn't cover. But one of my favorite spots is a in the NFL it doesn't happen often and it's gone 50 and 25 against the spread over the past 20 years. You have a double digit underdog in the NFL that was a double digit underdog the week before and didn't cover. And it's hit at 67% by about four points per game on average over the past 25 years. The reason I do I love that that trend is it really is just speaking to buying low because think about it. Last week the Raiders were so to be a double digit dog two weeks in row you gotta be a really bad Pete. And then you got blown out and you didn't cover. Right. So bad team blown out as a double digit underdog didn't cover. Just like last week at The Raiders lost 31 nothing did 75 yards. Who in the right mind wants to bet that bad team again against another good team as a double digit underdog? Nobody. Right. So usually you might get a point and I, I project sign like 13, 13 and a half. So I think that's why we're getting over two touchdowns. I still, I need over two touchdowns to play this like 14. If you wanted to lay 14. I mean the Raiders could lose 30, they could lose 30 and nothing. That's fine. But that's, it's one of my favorite and these are still professionals. Like after getting embarrassed you expect them to show up. But that is one of my favorite trends. Double digit dog got blown out. Didn't cover double digit dog again the next week. So I like the, I like the Raiders Broncos Jags. Interesting game. The Jags have been on fire. I mean their defense top five against the run all year. They're. I mean since week eight they're top five in EPA.
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Per play. It's. Don't get me wrong, I think they're good. You know I've shit on them in the past. Like I think this is a good team coming into Denver. I'm just.
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Taking.
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Denver more. Yeah. That loss from the Patriots now, now it opens up like we control our destiny. Getting the one seed. They get the one seed. I It's going to be pretty hard for them not to be in the super bowl. Assuming Bo Nix is just solid. Like that's going to be a tough place to go in and beat him. Even if Josh has to go there like his. Their team's.
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Just way better. Well, I mean and look at the AFC playoffs. I mean yeah the Ravens might not be there. The Chiefs aren't going to be there. You know Burrow is not going to be there. It's. It's a lot easier path than it's been big time. But yeah the Jags offense, you mentioned it. It's. It's since it's acquiring Jacoby Myers he's been a revelation. I mean since they got him they're third and drop back success rate. Brenton Strange them getting him back too. If this went to three and a half I would look at the Jags. But the I I don't blame you for taking the Broncos here but I will say teams on 11 plus game winning streaks since 1990 which the Broncos are 1436 and two against the spread 28%. So we it just speaks to a lot of times you might be at the top of the market value in the Broncos. But it does seem like the market doesn't really buy the Broncos. So I'm not sure like they're one of those teams that gets totally overinflated. But my last note on that game. If the Jags win, I mean Jags so listen to this. Jags win and then they win out and they have the Titans and Colts left. If the Broncos who go to Kansas City. So you think that they'll win now without Mahomes. But if the Broncos lose to the Chargers in their in the finale and the Patriots lose to the Ravens this week even if the Patriots win out the Jags have the one seed. That's the path of the Jags one seed. Even if the Bills went out. So get the Bills went out and they get to 13 wins. You could have five teams. They have six. He finished with 13 wins. If that happens Pats win the division. Pats have tiebreaker over Bills. Chargers would win the division over the Broncos and the Jags would have the one seed. So there's still a path for the Jags to have a one seed Broncos they win this game sitting very pretty for the one seed. But yeah AFC playoffs like the path is there for the Broncos this year and for any of these and getting that one seed especially with all these quarterbacks who might not these, you know elite quarterbacks PEs aren't going to be in it like and you get to play in Denver like you got to really.
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Like your chances. Well that's why the your squad and the Steelers maybe it's just recency biased. I do think the Steelers have just been pretty solid the last couple of Weeks especially, you know, I get there playing Miami, but Miami's defense was playing pretty well. I mean, that game threw a quarter and a half. It was like this is intense. They kind of, it felt like Miami was the Steelers. They just happened to have tua. And then they score going into half, they score coming out of half and it's just like, okay, they found their mojo. You know, DK's made some big plays for him over the last couple weeks. I clearly they challenged him a little bit. You know, I think when after they beat you guys in Rogers after the game was like, you know, he had a great week. You could tell. It's like, we paid a lot of money for you, bro. We need you to be a star. And it feels like he's brought a little mo. Because they need them. I mean, it's, I mean, they're Adam Thielen's out there. I mean, they don't exactly have Plaxico or, you know, some of the receivers of old, you know, Heinz Ward walking through that door. You know, Detroit's not dead officially, but they lose this game, it's over. Right? So they are truly playing for their lives. But you know, coming off the shorter week, I thought Detroit threw everything they had at the Rams. And to lose that game, I mean, I mean St. Brown and Jameson Williams went for like 20 catches, 300 yards, three touchdowns. I mean, it's hard to do much more than that. And they, they still lost. I mean, I, I, it was technically a touchdown. It, it felt like, you know, they kind of got worked.
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Toward the end and I, I don't.
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Know, I just, you know, I. Lamar sick or whatever this week. That's a pretty devastating loss. If you're the Patriots, especially with a young team, especially a young quarterback, you have the 21 nothing lead there. There's a lot of pressure this week on Variable and Josh just to kind of calm everyone down. Like we're not done here, but all of a sudden you lose this game, you know, are we just speaking about the Bills winning the division? So I'm taking the Ravens minus three, but I don't know why. I like the Steelers a.
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Lot. Plus seven. I'm with you on the Ravens. This is Lamar time. I think he's getting incrementally better each week. He's 18 and 8 against the spread in December. He's never lost the game in his career between weeks 15 and 18. And since the biggest story of the Ravens is their running game is really getting going, I mean, six weeks since week eight they're second in Rush EPA. They were 22nd over the first seven weeks. Like they figured out their run game. They're using like Charlie Kohler more as a blocker who's like elite in that aspect. And I think you're going to see more RPOs this week. And the Patriots defense since week eight over that same span 30th in rush success rate 30th in rush EPA they lost Milton Williams. Robert Spillane, their starting linebacker, leading tackler calls the defense. He was in a boot yesterday. I think he's going to be out. So now the Patriots starting to deal with some injuries. Their left tackle Campbell he's still out. They got Verdarian low in there. He's not as good. So this Patriots team they live the charmed life. Look Drake Mays outstanding is going to be outstanding for years but you can't argue that the Patriots played the single easiest schedule in the NFL over the first 14 weeks and then they played seven of their 10 wins came against quarterbacks who either rookies or no longer starters. I guess 8 now because Tua add to it of the mix. So they played just a clown show of schedule and they were lucky. I mean they 14 to 19 on fourth downs. Their opponents eight of 23. They had 17 fumbles on the year they've only lost seven. They've recovered 70% of their opponent's fumbles and now they're hurt. I think the ratings will be able to run on them. I think the Ravens will be able to throw to their tight ends take advantage of the Patriots linebackers. They have coverage issues over the middle of the field. I think this is like your classic Ravens home hardball Lamar spot at home. So I do like Baltimore. The good thing if you're a Patriots fan even if you lose this game you you don't have the tieberg of the Broncos. So like the one seeds prop doesn't look as good but if you just take care of the Dolphins that look like they're probably swirling the drain and the jets same like you might have to play your last two quarterbacks you play might be Brady Cook and Queen yours if you win those two games you win the division because they all they will have the tiebreaker over the Bills so that that's good news for the pitch but I think the Ravens get this done at home in regards to the Steelers. Yeah I mean DK Metcalf's got to be big here. He's him and Rogers and great together against man coverage that's we're going to see a lot of against the Lions. The I do worry about the Steelers defense like indoors against.
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Lions offense. It. And they have in the sewers defense has some injuries. It. It could get ugly. But I think the sears can move the ball. One of the things that the Lions do not do well is and this burned.
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Them.
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Last week. They. So you have these teams now we've talked about this before that are going. Some of the most elite teams in the NFL are using more heavy personnel, using more two, three tight ends, tight end sets. The. The. The Rams are doing that a ton. The Seahawks do it a ton last week. The. And the Lions net. So what you want to do is you want to match these heavy personnels not with heavy or your base base meaning, you know, you're all your linebackers in there. You want to match down in distance because if you're just. And the Lions never do that. They just play bass. So you have live out and then what teams do that are going heavy personnel because you would think naturally like, oh, they're going to run it. We want to have our linebackers in there. But the teams. Teams are throwing it right. And then their tight ends are going to win these matchups against the linebacker. So the Seahawks do this better than any defense in the NFL. They don't. They match. They don't match space with base and heavy. You have a guy like Nicki Minor Mora who can play, you know, a hybrid, but they, they only match like you know, 18 of the time. I think the second lowest is like 50. The lions never. They all. They will have their base or heavy in all the time. And the Rams torch them to death. I mean it was like 8 1/2 yards per play on their heavy personnel. That's problematic against the Steelers. The Steelers are one of the heavy. They're. They use heavy personnel just as much as anyone. I think they use multiple tight ends at the highest rate in the league. Right. They're going to have a ton of tight ends in there and then they're going to run it. They're going to throw to their tight ends and then you're going to need Met Metcalf to make a couple plays. But yeah, I think that the Steelers can move it.
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On. On Gainwell. Gainwell's been good.
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For them lately. Yeah, Scamwell looks amazing. I mean he's our.
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Second best receiver. He's.
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Good like you. You get him. He's. He looks at me every, every game I watch him. He looks amazing. But yeah, I mean outside of their tight ends. You know if you get the ball to what's his name Washington in space. I mean just a monster. But outside of Metcalf like on third downs you Rogers is looking at game well that's who you want to get the ball to in space. So yeah, I don't, I don't blame you for taking the seven there. I do know no.
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Matter what happens. Aikman said he weighs over 300 pounds that the coaches told him that he's playing right.
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Now over £300. Insane. I do know no matter what happens. Raven Steelers will play in Week 18 for the division. That's just. The gods will somehow.
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High school Outlaws. Foreign. I would say we hit on Sunday night. We can get a Monday here in a second. The Chiefs, Titans things pretty interesting. You know it's. I'm not going to judge Minchu off getting thrown at the end of the game, but this is a spot where, you know, he can make some money, keep his career going where he can get these five to $10 million backup gigs or it could kind of get ugly. Right? I mean he, he has of all the people. I mean the Titans have nothing on the line. The Chiefs like their coach and players. You know, beside this might be the last couple games of Kelsey's career and I would guess Chris Jones is traded this offseason just when you kind of look at the financials of it. But I do think there's a lot on the line for Gardner and I think, you know, Coach Reed and these guys are going to be prideful. But I don't know, I mean I, he's had some moments but he's also. You catch him on the wrong day, you can have some moments. The Titans actually showed. Now the 49ers are playing me and you on defense. They did show some fight. Jeffrey Simmons was, I mean Kittle was probably the best player on the field, but he was right up there. I mean he's, he's a monster. And the Chiefs offensive lines in a little bit of a shambles. I can see this thing getting weird, you know now I could also see the Chiefs weren't scoring that.
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Many points with Patrick. So the Chiefs is broken. I mean their receivers weren't getting open. Their offensive line has all these injuries. They can't block anyone. They have no run game. And yeah, I mean I played some Titans plus three and a half. I, I Don't. Wouldn't blame anyone for playing some money line. There's some, a lot of variants in this game. The other thing is like did the Chiefs really want to win this game? And what I mean by that is like they don't. Yeah, they're pros. They're going to go out and try. But Reed, you're not going to break out the good playbook for this one. You're not going to show anything, any tendencies, any new creative plays. Right. This is going to be very vanilla. And then anyone who's banged up, there's no reason to rush anyone back. Right. You're going to sit. I mean Chris Jones been doing an injury. I could see him sitting McDuffie. They're. I mean their offensive line, you have. Rashi Rice is probably not going to play. This could be a complete shell. You know, the Titans have a ton of injuries to it safety and offensive line. But this is. It's very hard to quantify the Chief's mental state. This is a team who's. Mahomes has never played a snap and he still won't, which is crazy. Moans has never. I know that. I don't.
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Think Brady ever had. Not a playoff quarterback. What's that as.
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Not a playoff quarterback? Brady never took a snap in his career when he was eliminated from the playoffs, which is insane because he played for 50 years. So. But like this Chiefs team is in the super bowl conversation in the playoffs every year. They've been in the AFC Championship game, what, six years in a row now they're eliminated in the regular season and then going to play the Titans on the road in December. Like could I see them just sleeping and being completely flat? Yeah. That's just like.
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Human emotion. So. Yeah. I also don't think it's crazy if you're Veech and Andy, you just call Clark. In you go. Listen, we've been drafting 31, 32. It's a lot of Xavier worthy. Like we lose these last three, all of a sudden we're drafting 13. We could trade up from 13 to like six to get one of those pass rushers. Like we, we could.
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Change.
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This thing quick. Yes. Right. And I don't even think.
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They.
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Would have to. I. They are way better off at this point in time. Like you have the run. We're not going to see five Super Bowls in six years. I don't think forever again, not in this with the way financially they are much.
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Better off losing out. Yes. By far. Yeah. I mean you.
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Finish. Finish six now. They.
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Do play The Raiders. I think yeah, they do play at.
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The Raiders. That'll be. But what if you ruin them from getting Fernando Mendoza?
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Yeah, that's where I. Yes. Yeah. You could impact the draft.
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Many.
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Ways. Oh, Chiefs. Right. That'll be a dandy week 18. So yeah, I do think the Chiefs are now the guys on the field. They're gonna, they're gonna try but there's other things you can do. The play calling a bunch of guys who are just dinged up don't play. So yeah, I think that the Titans.
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Are worth a bet. Okay. Two more games before we get to the Monday night game. Chargers at the Cowboys. Not quite sure what to make of Dallas. They've come back to earth a little bit. I mean the Chargers just the all time Jim Harbaugh team. Just grit, guile, toughness, physicality. I mean their quarterback, broken hand, flying around, running stiff arming people with his left hand. And the opposite of grit and guile would be Tampa, Carolina, the Saints. You and I have non them for a couple weeks. I mean they're feisty. I don't even know what to make. I mean I guess I would take Carolina, you know Todd Bowles all time press conference just, just I mean drop an F bomb. The guy's quiet as a mouse and he comes off. I mean I didn't count him. My guess would be over under would have been like 10. So I, I would probably lean chargers plus two and a half here. It does feel like Dallas at any moment. I mean their offense hasn't been as good the last couple weeks. I don't Pickens.
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Kind of gone into.
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Yeah, Pickens has disappeared. Mia.
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Post the Lions game. Yeah, the, the thing, the noteworthy thing about Dallas like I still don't trust the Chargers offense at all. Like last week they had one drive at the end of the first half when the Chiefs really kind of in prevent where and you got to give Herbert credit. He had two long throws. That was the only touchdown they scored last week against the Eagles. They got what, five turnovers and they barely cracked 20. I mean because of their offensive line there, there's a ceiling that this offense can get to every week. And Dallas obviously has a much higher ceiling at home. Now Quinn and.
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Williams, if they win a playoff game, I mean they might end up matched up against the Steelers or the Ravens. That's a remarkable.
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Accomplishment by Jim Harbaugh. Yeah, I mean next next year is the team the year for the Chargers. I think to take like that next step like another year of Harbaugh building The roster and then you're gonna have your op. You're Pro bowl tackles, which is kind of important. And then they I think get like a center and then like all the pieces are starting to come into place this year it's going to be really like I, I, I made the path for when for them getting to winning the division. Like they gotta win out Broncos lose this week and then winning out with me beating the Broncos. I think that's important for them because I just, it's hard for me to see them going on the road in the playoffs with that offensive line and, and winning like so going to New England or going to Baltimore, it's just tough that offensive line and next year look out for the Chargers. They just, I mean the offensive line injuries are just are devastating. The interesting part about that game is the Eagles play the Commanders on Saturday. If the Eagles win, the Cowboys are eliminated. Now the Cowboys are not officially eliminated. They still have a chance but they got to win out and Eagles gotta lose out and the Eagles do go to the Bills next week and then they play the Commanders again. So if the Eagles lose, you know, maybe it's there's some inject some life into Dallas. But if they win and Dallas is eliminated, the line might come down. I've seen a market do this and go. I still think though it's at home against the Chargers they'll still try. But it's just an interesting nugget there on Dallas and in terms of Carolina, Tampa important game. I mean these two teams play each other twice because so Tampa blew the lead against Atlanta which means, which meant that Carolina all they had to do was beat New Orleans and they would have the tiebreaker if they just split. Now the tiebreaker goes back to Tampa if these teams split. So was an important weekend of the division. The Baker Mayfield has been horrible for two months. I mean you look back since week eight he has the second worst completion.
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Percentage over expectation minus. I hear, I hear the, I hear the.
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In the background. Yeah. New life.
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For sucky first time. Shador Sanders the only quarterback the lower completion percentage over expectations since week seven. They went from the the second most explosive offense to the least from weeks one through seven to weeks eight through last week. But that was when they were without Mike Evans. They finally had some explosiveness in the offense last week. Maybe he unlocked some things. They've also had a ton of injuries. Baker I think was dealing with some injuries. He might still be so they're kind of hard to to rate at 3. I would lean Panthers. I mean, Panthers are a different team at home. You can't trust them as a favorite. But they do have the most outright wins as an underdog through 14 weeks. Seven since the 1992 Colts. So this team at home has dogs. They. They tend to perform their best. But I think, like, we're probably at the bottom of the market on the Bucks. Like, they haven't covered in six straight. Their offense has been a mess. They're starting to get healthier. Like, there's probably going to be like a Bucs offensive explosion game and the Panthers don't get any pressure. So maybe this is it. But at three, I could only.
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Look at the Panthers. You know what game I forgot to ask you about was. Maybe it's Saturday night and we were talking college football playoffs. You kind of out of.
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Sight.
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Out of mind. But. But this is kind of a big game. Packers and going to Chicago, obviously, you know, shitty week. I mean, I haven't seen the latest on Christian Watson, but, you know, the Parsons injury is just. It's pretty devastating. I mean, there's just no way around it. He's. He was pretty damn good for them and really took their defense to another level now. I still think they're pretty solid on defense. You know, they have a good defensive coach. They're definitely. This is probably a classic spot where you're going to get some serious motivation going to Chicago, a team that these players are used to beating before Mike ever got there. They still have good offensive pieces. I mean, Josh Jacobs is fantastic. He's. You talk about a signing that not many people talk about. Maybe like outside of Green Bay is like, that's one of the better. Just random signings over the last couple years. I mean, he's been awesome for them. I don't know. I mean, I think everyone's going to pick the Bears, and I don't blame them. I mean, they've. Last week was impressive. I get they were playing the Browns, but they showed up like a playoff team ready to kick the shit out of them. And Caleb's played well. Obviously their coach is a stud. I do kind of want to feel like I'm going to go counter because I feel like everyone's. All. The packers are done. And I kind of said that too. But it would not stun me at all if this bad boy's close coming down the stretch. And. And, you know, I mean, the packers players have been in a lot more of these games over the course of the last couple years than the Bears. I mean, I. I'M not just writing off the packers in this spot. I actually think they're probably a little undervalued, you know, just given that the overreaction, which is fair from.
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The Parsons devastating injury. Yeah, it's a shame. I mean, the packers, my super bowl pick before the year, they're my only super bowl future. And then you lose Kraft, you lose to your, you know, Pro bowl offensive lineman Elton Jenkins at center. Zach, Tom goes down last week. I don't think he's gonna play. He's one of the better right tackles in the league. And then you lose Parsons, who, I mean, against Denver, he was probably held 11 times that were. That was uncalled. I mean, he was unblockable. What is the impact of losing him? It's hard to quantify with reback, but the trickle down effect has to be huge because like the attention that he gets, it benefits everyone else. Now without him, everyone becomes easier to block. A guy like Lucas Van Ness, he's going to have to elevate his game the rest of the year. He's been a disappointment so far. Their defense is still going to be solid, but just Parsons took them to the next level. Like that was what they were missing. They were missing a guy that could just win and get pressure on his own. And then they got Parsons and that just took their D to an elite level. And then, you know, they started to figure out the offense without craft. It does look like Watson's going to play. I don't think Tom's going to play. Jacobs didn't practice again today. Evan Williams also got hurt. I mean, they lost like five starters last week. Their safety was really good. He's probably not going to play the Bears. They might be without a dunes A and Burden. So there's a lot of injuries to monitor on a short week. I do think this is like a coin flippish game. I. There's a lot of injuries to to which scares me, but I actually like the over. There's no Parsons, there's no Williams. The Bears defense continues to just. They get. They're just getting tons of turnovers. They still will give up chunks of yards. I'm just gonna trust both offensive minds in LaFleur and Johnson against defenses they just saw. I mean, these two teams just played each other. The Bears really started to move it in the second half of that game. They almost came all the way back. So I'm going to trust. And then just the loss of Parsons is going to make everything so much easier for Caleb. So I know there's offensive injuries to monitor. But I kind of like that over just trusting both coaches going up against defenses they just saw and making adjustments. So. But yeah, should be a good one. I think it's.
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A coin flippish game. Okay. Monday Night Football, Philip Rivers, I mean it was just, it was fun to watch even though if it wasn't the prettiest thing you're ever going to see. You know the 49ers, you know they avoided disaster with Pearsall having a major knee injury. I mean they don't have to give. We're recording this before the injury report comes out because they're playing on Monday Night Football. But like when he was on the field with Jennings, with Kittle, who looks as good as he's ever looked with McAv, their offense looked fantastic. I get they're playing the Titans, but over the last couple weeks they were just going to be able to score on anybody. And I'm going to take the Niners in this game simply because like I think their capability to get into the mid to high 20s, like how, how is. And listen the Niners defense, I mean they were, they were giving up late, Jeffrey Simmons catching touchdowns on them that you know, if you're playing like that's in a week playing the Bears is going to be a difficult assignment for that, for that unit. But I just. Is Philip Rivers going to be able to score 20 points on you? So if the Niners get to like 26 to 30, how can they get to the 20s? So Jonathan Taylor I guess could go for 200 yards. But you know, I, if I one thing, every time I looked up and you know, kind of a weird spot for seattle playing this 44 year old guy with a huge game coming up. But they, you look up and their safeties would be way back. If I'm Robert Salah, there is not a defender within, you know, that's farther back than like 8 yards of the line of scrimmage. Safeties, linebackers, corners, everyone is.
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Up.
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Near the line. Okay? Philip, you can throw out routes and wheel routes till the cows go and you guys try to run it. We are all our safeties are not back deep if you beat us. It's like you know, tipping your hat to some random guy hitting threes on you like Godspeed, like good job buddy. But I would imagine Robert Sala just from a schematic standpoint, like we're not worried about you throwing over the top of us, but we're not going to let you run it. And we're not going to let you dink and dunk us together to death because he was doing that.
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Early in that game. Yeah, Seattle, they play. They generally played as many light boxes as any defense in the league. Part of partly by design but yeah that they do encourage that. And so yeah. I'm curious to see what San Francisco does. I played the Colts sadly here a couple reasons I, I think the line is a little too high. I mean the 49ers have been good. I got, I mean Shannon I think should be in the running for coach of the year. But I mean the last, I mean who they played the last few weeks they played the Browns, the Titans, the Car. I mean teams with just ravaged by injuries to the Cardinals and like this defense because the injuries is still really bad now. They played some bad teams but they can't stop the run since Week 6 or 31st and rush success rate. I mean you let the Titans ran all over the Browns were running on them. The Browns are moving the bun. The resident a 90 yard touchdown driver. They're just handing it off. So I do think that Taylor can have a big game here. What are you going to get from Rivers? That's the question. I'm projecting that it's going to be better. Now your point about solid. Just loading the box, that's what I would do. But Rivers, it's really. It's a unique situation. So it's hard to put a number on this but number one, he can't move around. But the 49ers don't get any pressure. Right. The Seahawks get pressure at an elite level. He was also on the road after not playing for five years against one of the best defenses in the NFL. Like now he's got a game under his belt. He's going to be playing at home against the defense that can't get pressure and can't defend the run. So I gotta imagine he's gonna look a little better. But the counter to that is you should just load the box, take away Warren, make them throw it down the field. I'm very curious what they do from the episode but I do think Taylor gonna have a big day and so I just think it's a bit too many points. I did take the Colts, but it could just end up being a complete disaster. But it'll be fascinating to watch. I'm glad.
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It'S on Monday night. How many diapers.
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You changed so far? Zero. But I tried to change one but like my wife was like, like I was like messing it up. I'm also a bad like swaddler when you have to like wrap them in. I don't do that tight enough so I'm pretty useless. But yeah, hopefully I figure some.
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Of that stuff out. Well, well good luck and enjoy the games this week and I will, I will talk to you soon. And again congratulations bro. Massive, massive.
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Moment in your life. Yeah, you soon. You soon too brother. Have a good weekend guys. Enjoy the games. Football's.
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