Nick Wright (38:02)
Wildly important and also I this sounds so dumb. I hate that I'm saying this, but this is what I truly believe. It's wildly important and also maybe not important at all. And, and what I mean is these might just be the two best teams in football and both of these teams have oddly been better on the road. They're a combined eight and one on the road while being a combined six and three at home. And these two teams are going to play each other again in a few weeks. I don't know if it's a few weeks, but obviously they're going to play again before the end of the season. They play yeah, in in five weeks. So they're going to get a chance for some get back. I what I do think is not likely but possible that for the NFC west to have a chance at the one seed, one of these teams is going to have to sweep the other because Philly their remaining schedule in their division is just so soft after again Philly has Detroit this week and Tampa. We've talked all year about how soft their final six weeks are that if one if Seattle or the Rams can sweep the other one that would go a super long way into one of those teams potentially being the 1 seed. These are also arguably the two most well balanced teams in the league as far as great defense, great offense, as far as more than competent running game and then dynamic passing attack. They both have two very Good, but very different coaches. And it's exactly what it should be. Home team favored by three old school where that used to be. Now it's two and a half really is what the home team gets, but where two totally equally matched teams will give the home team three points And I don't have a super strong handicap on this game. I my lean is the Rams because it's in Los Angeles. But as I said, Seattle's on this insane they haven't lost it on the road this year and I think they were 10 and oh or they've won 10 straight on the road. So maybe I'm putting too much into the home field advantage piece of it. The other kind of tangential storylines are we get to see Darnold in a big spot. And I'm not going to do the pumpkin mode thing on Darnold because I feel like he's been so good this year that he deserves more respect than that. But it is that the concern last year was how will Sam play in these big spots. And obviously at the very end of the year he played his absolute worst after playing so great all year long. They he also last year lost to the Rams in the regular season but played well and then lost to the Rams in the playoffs but played terribly. So there is, there is that kind of hanging over the game a bit. And then there is the point that I have been maybe annoyingly hung up on this week on tv, which is Matt Stafford cementing himself as a Hall of Famer by winning league MVP this year. Because Stafford's hall of Fame case is going to be really tricky in that he's got no all pros, has never come close to an MVP, has a 500 record, but he's going to finish in the top 10 and closer to five than 10 in every major passing stat. The eye test helps him a ton. He's been as an unbelievable statistical playoff resume even if it's limited five and five playoff record and number one pick people not necessarily holding the Detroit stuff against him right now, I don't think he'd get in. But if you win a Super bowl and you're a quarterback and you win an mvp, every single one of those guys has gotten in except for Theisman and Theismans was weird because he won his super bowl in the strike year and then one is MVP the year after. So point is I think if Stafford wins the MVP, he punches his hall of Fame ticket and I think for him to win the MVP they probably have to win the division be because that's just how the voting has gone historically. Like quarterbacks, usually it's the one or the two seed, but the very least, you win your division. So that is kind of a sidebar story hovering over Stafford, who has just been out of his mind this year and how well he's played, particularly the last month when he's gone in his last three games, five touchdowns, no picks, four touchdowns, no picks, four touchdowns,. And for this season, 25 touchdowns, two interceptions, a 1:15 rating. Just a bananas banana season from Stafford. If he can play a clean, really good game against Seattle. I don't know if he puts a stranglehold on the MVP race, but he puts himself in great, great position. All right, guys, I am going to Los Angeles to see Damanze and the baby for Thanksgiving. And just like last year, the day after Thanksgiving, the Lakers have a home game and I'm going to go. So I am shouting out right now, sponsor of today's video, SeatGeek. 28 million downloads. 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I talk about a lot with Greg Rosenthal and company and in previewing this game his co host Patrick Claybon. You know, basically tongue in cheek melted down about the media bothering Sirianni and Hertz about A.J. brown and about how this team won a Super bowl last year and about how this is much ado about nothing because the latest AJ Brown drama is him going on a twitch stream and saying thing is things are not going well and drop me on your fantasy team and how he and I'm sure others think it's a non story. Here's why I vehemently disagree with that. AJ Brown being happy or not might not matter, but the Philadelphia Eagles with the most expensive offense in NFL history, with guys who are all pro caliber all over the offensive line, multiple receivers, Saquon Jalen hurts. That team being this pedestrian on on offense is a story. It flatly is. And it's inexplicable. Their inability out of a buy in a game they scored zero points in the first half to get AJ Brown involved is inexplicable. Them leading the league by a huge margin on three and outrage is indefensible. And so I give the Eagles credit because they do find a way to win and they're champions. And the defense, particularly with the addition of Jalen Phillips is rounding into form. All of that is great, but AJ Brown is not wrong. He might be wrong in his delivery in the way it feels diva ish or selfish. All that's fine. But his concern that this offense is not functioning properly is totally correct. Totally correct. And I don't have an answer for Seems like Patullo and Sirianni are wildly conservative with the play calls up until they are just lunatics on the fourth and down at the end of the game they have the highest rate of running the ball on third and long of any team in 25 years which are just give up plays. Now some of that, a tiny bit of that might be tush push related, but really they're give up plays and so it feels silly to concern troll the Eagles, who have won like 22 of their last 24 and are the defending champs. But it also feels ridiculous to watch that team have zero points at halftime to see A.J. brown with multiple games this year with three or fewer targets after he had one game like that the previous three years and act like nothing is wrong. Also, it is to me at this point a foregone conclusion that A.J. brown is going to be gone this off season and I would be. I personally would be quite surprised. Like my money would be on A.J. brown is going to be a New England Patriot a year from now. But none of that matters for this season. I almost shouldn't have even brought it up because the trade deadline has passed. And that's the other part of this that is baffling to me. You have a buy, you decide not to trade AJ Brown the market for receiver. Like again, this is me just speculating, but if Buffalo was going to give up a one and a three for Jalen Waddle, I would imagine they would have given up something similar for A.J. brown. Philly didn't want to trade him. So then use it. And if you're not going to use him, it's got to be because the offense is humming without him. But it's not Saquon the game before the buy notwithstanding, Saquon is having a brutal year. He is averaging 3.9 yards per carry. Saquon's yards and yards per carry by game this season 6338-840462-64323 30 5.0 only got six carries and a loss to Denver. 58 4.8 44 2.4 the game against the Giants 150 10.7 and then 60 for 2.7. So aside from the Giants game, Saquon this year has run the ball 135 times for 429 yards. So what is that? 135 for 429? 135 times three is 405 so that is 3.2 yards per carry. I'm now going to check. I'm now going to do that math real quick and see if I got it. I think it's 3.2 yards per carry. So we said it was 429 divided by 135. 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