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Chris and Jarod talk about the stellar play of Ravens QB Lamar Jackson, coming off a big win vs. Cincinnati, and why he should be the NFL MVP frontrunner, discuss the hierarchy of the top teams in each conference, why the Bucks/Sixers struggles may be a big deal, make predictions for WEEK 10 in the NFL and so much more!
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Introduction to Episode 196
00:00:29
Speaker
to the point, they wanna standpoint, you know we straight to the straight to the point. Heemie76 bringing us into episode number 196 of Straight to the Point. My name is Chris here and my guy J-dub. What's going on, what's going on, what's going on? And with so much going on in the world, we just wanna talk about a couple of the most groundbreaking topics that's affecting our everyday lives.
Philadelphia 76ers and OKC Rumors
00:00:51
Speaker
Jared, we have to talk about the struggles of the Philadelphia 76ers.
00:00:57
Speaker
Not only then, we have to talk about the struggles about the Bucks and a lot of rumors circulating whether or not OKC might be cashing in their lottery ticket for the Greek Freak. We got to talk about some NFL news, some teams that are struggling losing their quarterback in Dallas with Dak Prescott's injury.
Ravens vs. Bengals Game Analysis
00:01:17
Speaker
Baltimore and Cincinnati had a hell of a game last night.
00:01:20
Speaker
on Thursday night football, Jared, I think we should start there. Let's talk about that game. Let's talk about how that impacts the AFC playoff picture moving forward. And what were your overall thoughts watching that game last night, Jared? Fire. That was a great game. I don't know if I like the call to go for two. I guess like you didn't say we just need to win this game.
00:01:44
Speaker
We got to get out of here. Like we don't, I don't think they thought they were going to win the game for over time. That's why you make that decision. I still get the field goal. I'm like the way that game was going. I wanted to see more personally. That's why I would like, I'd rather get the field goal, but I seen the head coach perspective. You're like, man, Lamar is killing us. Like he's, he's torching your defense left and right. Like if you're being realistic as a bangle, you're he's towards you doing this, right? It doesn't how great burrow and chase are playing.
00:02:10
Speaker
You got a one-room feeling that that was fizzling out. You got a one-room feeling like this might not last in the overtime, they're tired. Like Chase just had an historic day with 254 yards, might've been 57, sorry, but one of the two in three touchdowns. Burrow had a phenomenal game and stuff. Like you're talking about you're on the bank of two guys and your defense just could not come through. So now if you're a head coach, you're like, I want to win the game of the guys that have been doing it all game.
00:02:34
Speaker
And they just couldn't get the, they couldn't get the ball into his hands at the two point conversion. And then when they threw it to the tight end, it went right through the top of his hands. That's just how, that's kind of how the cookie crumbles. If you're just being realistic, it's how the cookie crumbles. If you're the Ravens, great comeback. Like Gomar yet again has shown that he's of an elite level with the weak company. If you put him in my homes and same conversation.
00:02:56
Speaker
And the Ravens are creeping on the door for me of being able to go back to the FC Championship and play Mahomes again in a rematch. They're creeping on the door for me of a team that can do this. I don't know if they're creeping. I think they're
Ravens' Strengths and Lamar Jackson Discussion
00:03:08
Speaker
there. I think they're the second best team in the AFC. They should be, yeah. They are. I mean, Kansas City's won, but Kansas City's won more so out of reputation, not more so what you've seen on the field day to day. I mean, they still are undefeated. Say it again? They are undefeated, though.
00:03:25
Speaker
They are undefeated. Yeah. But they're, they're more so undefeated, not necessarily because of what I shouldn't say, not because of what they've done, because obviously you have to seal the deal, but they didn't, they haven't put teams away. They're not, they're not stepping on people's throats. Like we've seen Kansas city during the past, they're in dog fights with the week, Baltimore. Yeah. They did. Yeah. They lost the to the Raiders. Yeah. They lost to Cleveland.
00:03:55
Speaker
but they're probably the second. I mean, them and, but them and Buffalo were probably the two, three best teams and in AFC. But when you look at Lamar Jackson and what he's done, right? A lot of the, the, the knock on him is he's not a cure. He's not quarterback enough. He's not quarterback enough. You know, we've all seen the jokes. However, he's put up 24 touchdown passes passes and two interceptions. Yeah. Not 24 total. Not, not some on the ground is no 24.
00:04:24
Speaker
Passing touchdowns to interceptions. He may go back to back his MVP. Yeah But
MVP Contenders: Jackson, Allen, Mahomes
00:04:33
Speaker
there's not a quarter. There's not a quarterback right now Putting up better numbers and playing better than him right now You can argue Josh Allen whatever but I think Lamar has the edge look at what you saw last night and with that jump throw, that little jump, that's you know, that jump three, be up there like he's stuff, you know, he walking back. Cause he knew, he he knew he dropped it in there and and got his fourth touchdown pass of that night. So you look at what that offense can be. And not only that, he did run the ball effectively last night spots. He wasn't just out there running around Willy Nilly.
00:05:15
Speaker
he was picking and choosing his spots. So I think that if you're looking at who's the, the front runner for MVP, I think it's Lamar and you're looking at who's the second, you know, you can argue their one A one B in the AFC between Kansas city and but Kansas city and Baltimore. Yeah. I think if we just even have a quick MVP conversation, I definitely think Lamar's for earning again and everybody wants to put my homes at two in my opinion.
00:05:45
Speaker
Number two should be Josh. If you're looking at the same thing that you are going to make for Lamar, Josh is only what 3000 yards behind him, right? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Go back. Go back. He's how many yards behind him?
00:06:03
Speaker
I'm sorry, 300 passing yards behind him. 3000 is great. 300 passing yards behind him. Only two interceptions as well for the season. Almost the same amount of fumbles. The one fumble difference, he has five, Lamar has six. Three rushing touchdowns, 17 passing touchdowns, Lamar has 20 passing touchdowns. And then he's only at three rushing touchdowns, Lamar has five. Well, Lamar's at 24 after last night. Yeah. So you upgrade that now.
00:06:30
Speaker
that And then we'll see how Alan does upcoming against the Colts team as Joe Flacco starting. So I'm expecting him to put numbers up. If you want to stay in the conversation, but I think those are the one two for MVP award. I have a sleeper MVP workers, but I don't think you want to hear the name for that. It's your guy, man. Play it over in Atlanta.
00:06:54
Speaker
That boy, Kirk O change. Yeah, man. i'm my house and oh Come back player of the year. Fine. I seem to come back for sure. But I don't think so. I like him in that conversation. I don't think so. Because he's there in the passing yard. You can put him in the conversation, but he's he's not in the conversation for real. No. He's sleeping. He's sleeping. No, no, no. Don't even, don't even, don't even wish your time with that.
00:07:20
Speaker
More than that, like there's really no other competition In my opinion, in the UFC right now, besides the three teams we just mentioned, which is Ravens, Bills,
Chiefs' Unbeaten Streak Possibility
00:07:30
Speaker
Chiefs. Chiefs obviously at number one, they're undefeated. Somebody needs to humble them or they're going to either, they might end up humbling themselves or they do the Holy Grail and win the trifecta and be the only one NFL team to win a Super Bowl undefeated. That's historical. Then they'll whoa well no but say they wouldn't be the They wouldn't be the only team because the second two dolphins. So they'll be the second team, never we do it.
00:07:54
Speaker
They'll be the second team to ever do it, but they they would do it with 18, 18 regular season games. yeah And so they would be what, 20, 18. They'd probably get a first round bar. So that's divisional playoffs. That's 19 championship game is 20 suitable be 21. So it'd be 21 to know if they went undefeated this season, which I don't think it's going to happen, but I don't either. But if they do it, that'll put my homes.
00:08:24
Speaker
Arguably night arguing that'll put my homes as the greatest quarterback in history. I've said it, it goes there. He'd be the greatest quarterback ever. He's already, even I mean, okay. That's, and that's, and that's fine, but here you're going to start having people who have to have pushback because I've seen what my homes, I seen what my homes does. And especially this season, it's not like he's, he's had a remarkable season. He's been good. He hasn't been great.
00:08:53
Speaker
and And that's fair. And then that's why he probably wouldn't be in the MVP conversation. But when it just comes to being a quarterback, his good, if not great, is still waiting your team to win, right? Like you're still. yeah okay Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Because his worst performance might've been one of the four. Here we go with these hypothetical. What is, cause we do this with Brady all the time, right? listen Hey, Brady got seven titles. What if he wouldn't be this without Bella check, Bella check wouldn't be him without this, this whatever, but we've seen plenty of times with Tom Brady was not the reason this team won.
00:09:23
Speaker
He may not be the reason the team lost, but he wasn't the reason this team won, like the same the way people want to romanticize it. You know what I'm saying? Let's not romantic. Let's let. OK, if Mahomes with 21 and 0, yes, that's an unbelievable accomplishment. But this Arbor, the greatest quarterback of all time thing is arbitrary because there's people who believe the greatest quarterback who have who of all time is the person with the greatest arm, the greatest with the greatest arm talent, the greatest, greatest accuracy.
00:09:53
Speaker
We've seen the homes be inaccurate at times. We've seen the homes rightly or wrongly get bailed out for a couple calls. Not saying that the other guys don't because we all know the other guys do. But let's put everything in context before we just start proclaiming him the greatest ever.
00:10:11
Speaker
And that's fair. And that's fine. Um, again, this isn't one of my own best seasons. Uh, that's why I don't even want to really say he's in the MVP conversation because, um, you're having an 11 and now he's in the and MVP conversation because of his name because of his name. And the team is doing, I get it. And I get that. I, that's why I am not throwing them in the conversation because at the end of the year, they'll throw them in there. Cause again, you have to have, you would have to have a top five MP list anyway, throw them in there because this team is undefeated has lost the game yet going into the 11.
00:10:37
Speaker
he just looks pedestrian in the quarterback. And I'm not saying pedestrian because he's still not great. He's just, when you talk about the Mahomes that we've seen throughout the years, is this is his pedestrian mid-season. This is the final time we're like, okay, he looks human. ah He's looked superhuman for all those years with Tariq, without Tariq going into the season. We thought he might do it again. And now he looks human. The same with Travis Kelly. Travis Kelly looks human.
00:11:01
Speaker
And then that look at what they they've had to make, the move that they've had to make, we had to bring the people they've had to bring in because they've lost a lot on the office event and they haven't gotten what they thought they were going to get out of certain players in the office. And so now I think they look good again, especially what we just saw from D hop the last week. This team is going to be moving and grooving again. I just think right now Lamar and Josh Allen just look a little bit better than him, especially I um very much like what the bills did getting America Cooper. I think that was huge. I really do.
00:11:32
Speaker
And that might be the catalyst for why the bills finally get over the hump. In hindsight, that could be the catalyst.
00:11:44
Speaker
I mean, yeah. Yeah. I guess. Sounds good. Sounds good. I guess. I don't know. Whatever. On the flip side of this, Lamar,
00:12:01
Speaker
MVP argument. Let's talk about burrow and let's talk about Cincinnati and they've been in shootouts and they've lost. They've gotten blown out. They've they've won the games that they've won are against teams that are four and 28 combined four. And 28. I'm sorry, no, I thought 828.
00:12:26
Speaker
All the teams they be are all two and seven.
00:12:31
Speaker
So is this team even actually good? Yes. Yes. The defense didn't know. They can't beat good teams. They can't beat good teams. Honestly, this. So how good are they? How good are they if their defense is is that bad? How good are they? They gave up 35
Bengals' Defensive Struggles
00:12:49
Speaker
or they gave up 35 to Baltimore. They gave up 37 to Philadelphia. um good at How good is this? How good? Don't forget 41 to Baltimore in the first match. 41 to Baltimore.
00:13:01
Speaker
38 to the commanders too. 38 Washington. Well, Washington's good, Chris, though. Let's not say Washington. OK. But my point is you gave up. This is 35, 37, 38, 41, and four games out of out the nine that you played. What are we doing? This is a team that is missing what we all knew they were going to start missing was the defense. When they light Jesse Bates walk, where they light a lighter, they back as well. They let some defensive ends walk. Now look at your team.
00:13:30
Speaker
You have no defense. Hey, they got guys that should be stepping up. air de eric Don't forget. Don't forget. They got beat by New England. Let's not forget. Yeah. Yeah. Let's start there. Let me, let me go. Let me go back. Let me go back. They gave up 16 in New England, which whatever cheese beat them by one. They put up 26. Yeah. Washington, Washington put up 38 Carolina put up 24 on them.
00:13:56
Speaker
nothing. That was what, um, that was Dalton's first game. Whatever. It doesn't matter. Carolina, the team that stinks notoriously put up 24 points on this game. Yeah. Baltimore 41 and OT loss in OT, but they gave up 41 points. They have out seven to New York, 14 to the Browns. Now,
00:14:17
Speaker
Let's look at the quarterbacks who were on the Browns and the, uh, the, the giants at the top, Daniel Jones, who stinks the Sean Watson, who needs to be deported. So now you then give up 37 to Philadelphia, 24 to the Raiders, 24 to the Raiders and 35 to Baltimore.
00:14:43
Speaker
Like, what do we do? They're saving grace as they play the Chargers next week. Chargers aren't, like, superstar, you know, super great on offense, but they're not terrible. No defense. They're not even one. They're not, whatever. Pittsburgh. That could be a L. That could be a L. I think that is a L. Who knows if that could be back by the time they play the Cowboys next month? I doubt it. Who knows? Titans? OK, that's a win. OK. Browns again? Browns with Jamis? That's a win.
00:15:13
Speaker
Are we sure? Yes. Are we sure? I'm sure. That's 100% sure. You want to, you want to. I'm a hundred percent confident. You're a hundred percent confident. Yeah. They beat the bro. Why? Um, again,
00:15:28
Speaker
Browns aren't much better either. That defense isn't much greater than the Bengals defense. And then we say, who wins the shootout? Which I doubt Jamis even gets it into a shootout conversation. Why would you doubt that? Why would you doubt that? But why would you doubt that? When he's doing a show that he could do that this year, you know. We know Jamis. We know Jamis is aggressive. Baltimore lost to Cleveland, right, already. Baltimore's defense is better than Cincinnati's. We've seen that.
00:16:00
Speaker
brown Brown's places, Cincinnati won by a touchdown against DeShawn Watson.
00:16:11
Speaker
Like, what are we talking about here? Listen, I like what I saw in the first game with Jamis, right? Mr. Ravens. But then again, that's just the, you know, nobody was really- My thing is a hundred percent confidence is what I like to issue it. I'm winning. A hundred percent. Listen, from what I'm seeing from Burrow, I'm not finna throw a burrow under the bus. If I ask you in a month, if I ask you in a month, don't you flip-flop on me. I'm still with the Bengals. I'm not, like, again, Jamar Chase said the best last name is Preston.
00:16:40
Speaker
For how historically great he's playing and Burrow is playing. like Let's be for real. The numbers, if you look at Burrow's numbers and take remove the record, Burrow will be leading the MVP race. The man only has two interceptions. He has 24 yards, leaves all quarterbacks in yards thrown. I think now Mahomes and him are tied in touchdown. He's right there in touchdown. He only has two interceptions in the season.
00:17:06
Speaker
Guy's having great games. like Phenomenal games, he said. Again, they lost this week, but just on back-to-back weeks, he has a total of what? 679 yards combined in nine touchdowns thrown in two weeks. Two weeks. that's like he's not He's not playing bad. any By any means, his defense is just letting him down, and that's like the greatest mishap you could ever have is when your offense is playing so prolifically great and your defense sucks and they, they went in the bed every game, every game. Cause I can't blame the office. There has been no drop-off in the absentee Higgins. There's only been the emergence of guys like a Mike Jazewski, uh, the Y receiver that his name always eludes me, but Chris mentioned him to me every time we talk about placing the base. I like the bagels, Y receiver, the rookie.
00:18:02
Speaker
Jamar Chase is every game he's locked in. Chase Brown has been a saving grace at the running back position. I have yet to see anything that makes me say, oh, this offense cannot compute other offenses. It's just that defense sucks. It's slurping booty through a straw. That's that defense. What? Yup. That's what the defense is. They suck. What? They're trash. They're garbage. They're doing their way.
00:18:30
Speaker
A slurp pass through a straw. That's how mom man's no way you just double down on this. Yup. Their ass. They're terrible. I would never want to see that. I would never want to do it on my team. Then defense stinks. I feel like you can't even name me a player that defense or defense. I know Cam Taylor Britt dropped the crucial interception. He dropped the interception last night, which probably would have got Cincinnati game.
00:18:58
Speaker
But he's a, he's a great player. Trey Hendrickson's on that defense as well. Sometimes. He plays. Yeah. let's Let's call that what it is. He plays. I mean, what do you, I mean, what do you expect? The defense isn't good. Yeah. We've established it. And that's their issue. yeah Your point was I couldn't name anybody. I named two. Oh no, that's fair. You use that. Those are the two names I would have for you. Cause those are the two good players in the team.
00:19:23
Speaker
on the defense. On the defense. On the defense. And then again, Trey Henderson is having a solid year. Like it's not even back. A solid year. Mind you, blow the stats when you play the Raiders. Like stats get a little bloated when you play the Raiders. Like, but have a good year. I mean, Baltimore lost to the Raiders. So whatever. Yeah. Yeah. That's still a real team. So I i don't, I don't get your, I don't get, I don't get your a hundred percent. I still can't get over this hundred percent. They're going to be Cleveland.
00:19:54
Speaker
I'm not saying it's not going to happen, but it's not a hundred percent. That's ridiculous. That you have any faith, you have a hundred percent faith in a team. I like the Bengals versus the Browns game. I like it. And I'm going for it. Watch, watch by that week. The Bengals win like two games. You're like, okay, I got the Bengals too. well um i hear you how my I never once, I never once said I didn't have the Bengals, but I can't say for a hundred percent certainty that they're going to win.
00:20:21
Speaker
I like that. I like to go all in. All or nothing. This is all nothing. This is all nothing for that week. When that week comes, remind me, I'm like, yeah, I'm still all in. I'm not going to remind you. I'm going to watch you flip-flop in real time. Never. Never. I'm going to watch you flip-flop in real time. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that's not me. Like a fish. Like a fish out of water, because you be flipping and popping. Walk this in now. Bengals first of Browns. All right. All right, ladies and gentlemen, y'all hear that. Y'all heard that. Walking it out. Next time is Bengals Browns.
00:20:51
Speaker
Jared got the Bengals with 100% certainty. Walking in. Don't push. Don't forget 100% certainty this man said. 100%. Anyway, let's talk about a team that is completely, completely derailed their season 100%. The Dallas Cowboys lose their quarterback, Dak Prescott, who they just signed to a $60 million. dollars He's making $60 million dollars this year. Long extension. He is out.
Cowboys' Season Post-Prescott Injury
00:21:20
Speaker
His hamstring is torn, allegedly off the bone. Yeah, dude, that's several weeks in. That's out for several weeks. um They're saying several weeks, but no definite timetable has been an announced. So, Jared, are the Cowboys done? They should be. I mean, we say this, but we've seen Cooper Rush, you know, that he can win you some football games. Like, we thought they were done when we saw earlier, what, two seasons ago?
00:21:45
Speaker
And he won them enough games for Dak to come back and take him to the playoffs and then they inevitably lose. That could happen again this season. It's a rougher schedule, this later part of the year for them than it is in the beginning, but they can they could still squeak something out. I just don't think.
00:22:00
Speaker
I think it's going to be harder knowing that this and NFC East division isn't weak like it was the year they could do it, right? Like it was just the Eagles in there or that year with the Giants are looking like ah a competitive team. They should have come in as our legit. and I think they'll be legit for a while. They just traded for Marshall Adam or Chris. I think that was a huge, huge upgrade. at The cornerback position. I don't see anything where the commanders are falling off at any point in time and the Eagles look like they're on the rise. I love the defense right now. Do you? They want us.
00:22:27
Speaker
It was on the rise. On the rise. On the rise. On the rise. They've been winning their games. The defense is better every week for me. I know you have your issues. I know you have your issues with the team. I know you have your issues with the team. I just like the defense. I'm not there. But the defense, I really like OI. I don't like anything on the Cowboys side. I don't. I don't like anything in particular. The play calling has been pedestrian, pathetic, weak.
00:22:53
Speaker
It's probably the reason why C.D. Lam is potentially also out because of how he was just thrown into a terrible shoulder charge. it just It just doesn't look good. It doesn't look great. And they're going to be fighting hard, even to maintain any type of status quo in this NFL season.
00:23:18
Speaker
I'm still stuck on the on the rise comment. You don't like the Eagles? You don't like the Eagles? Like, you don't like what you've seen in these past three weeks on defense. Three weeks. On defense, yeah. And that's my statement. I like what I've seen on the defense. But don't say that the whole team won't arise just because defense won't arise. Because I've seen this offense sputter, as usual, and I've seen the coach shoot himself in the foot multiple times.
00:23:42
Speaker
Doc River's Syriani is going to cost the Eagles in the long run. thats That's just a slap to the face. Tell me how. Tell me how I'm wrong. Nobody should be compared to Doc Rivers.
00:23:57
Speaker
Nobody deserves that, Chris. Nobody. How am I wrong? Tell me how I'm wrong. I don't think you're wrong. Nobody deserves it, Chris. Nobody deserves to be called Doc Rivers. He does. he is that He is that detrimental to this team. Can't get out of his own way.
00:24:15
Speaker
Constantly constantly puts this team in in terrible situations. Yeah for the sake of quote-unquote aggression It's mistimed aggression It's wrong time wrong place at the Always always and this team's talent Has gotten him out of it Right this team this team has got through on talent. That's epic game.
00:24:41
Speaker
Yeah, you can make the excuse. any they They were down however many players or whatever. That Falcons game? You should have won that game. Why you don't? You know what I'm saying? why are we Why are we allowing? That was bad. Stupid, stupid situation. Listen, I have no problem if you want to be aggressive and it makes sense and you and you can justify it. But some of this stuff is unjustifiable. Yeah, and I mean, since that Falcons game, he's continuing to still not want to kick field goals.
00:25:12
Speaker
that's bad That's bad. Oh, no, no, no, no. Oh, well, we we're winning games. And this is why I call him Doc's Doc River Syriani, because for the longest time, Doc just got away with, oh, he wins a lot of games. He wins. the but But when it really mattered in the rubber met the road, he was lost in Syria. He is lost. Yeah. Like.
00:25:41
Speaker
it's not It's not happening. And this team wins in spite of him, not because of him. The team like the Chiefs, hold on, hold on. Teams like the Chiefs who are adaptable and play and they're not playing to their ultimate standard that we've seen. But the reason they win games is because they have good coaching on both sides of the ball.
00:26:01
Speaker
They don't have the head coach that's muddling around and in doing idiotic idiotgoic stuff. And for the longest time, that was Andy's MO. Was couldn't control the clock, didn't run the ball. you know Eventually he learned, and yeah, having my home's helps. But having Sirianni up there, doing his rah rah speeches and all that stuff is cool when they're winning.
00:26:28
Speaker
But I watched him not be able to take that team out the funk they were in last year. And it's it's carried into a lot of early this year. yeah That's on him. yeah going Having that Jacksonville game get anywhere relatively close is on him. Jacksonville was dead.
00:26:50
Speaker
And the only reason that team was even back in it is because the Eagles kept playing with their food, kept messing around, messing around, messing around. And people making excuses doesn't do this team any good. I hope, yeah. Oh, people always say, oh, Chris, you're never satisfied. Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh. Jared, when they lost the Super Bowl in 2022, what did I say? It'll take us a while to get back to that. No, no, no, not even that.
00:27:18
Speaker
i'm not upset of I'm not upset about how this team, like, yeah, obviously, I would have loved to see the team win a Super Bowl. But the team was smart. The team went toe to toe with but Kansas City, didn't get embarrassed. Yeah, you can argue it was one or two. But vet at at the at a nutshell, the team played smart throughout the year, ran the ball, didn't turn the ball over, played discipline.
00:27:43
Speaker
I can't get mad at that. You know what I'm saying? Like sometimes you you lose, whatever, but you're not shooting yourself in the foot. This team now properly shoots themselves in the foot. They shouldn't have lost Atlanta. They shouldn't have lost Tampa, honestly, if we want to be honest about it, because they're better than Tampa.
00:28:04
Speaker
so I almost was into the Jags and then over for two back into the game. And it takes it takes a crazy effort by the Kobe Dean. Great plays he's had past couple weeks hes to say, honestly, if they would have lost that Jacksonville game, I would have been on here talking about fire Syriani. Honestly, the question still is still there for me sometimes. It's it there for me every every time he does something idiotic. It's there for me. And if they lose the Dallas this week with Cooper, I
00:28:34
Speaker
Like how, how does anybody look at, how about you might take this team seriously? How are we taking this team seriously? In a banged up CD-Lamp. Cause CD-Lamp is not even healthy. doesn It doesn't matter if they, if they, knew if this game is any close, close, fine. It's a divisional game, whatever, but they should not be losing this game. And I expect it to be close. I don't expect the below. I expect it to be close, but we did. There's no, there's no, super don't be stupid about it.
00:29:00
Speaker
I don't know. I expect them to lose the game, but this if it's close, that makes sense. You always play your division quotes. Like we've had, we watched garden to mention almost beat the Cowboys. When it's a cool, like, Jared, say that statement again, say what you just said. We almost watched garden to mention beat the Cowboys. No, no, no. Before it, I expect to be close to division again. Can you say what a hundred percent certainty the Eagles will defeat the Cowboys this week? Oh yeah, absolutely.
00:29:26
Speaker
and I'm all in on the Eagles. You know, my bias is there. I don't, I don't, I don't discredit the Eagles. This is why I don't bet my teams. I've never bet the Sixers and I don't bet the Eagles. Second Super Bowl, obviously. Ah, 2022. Chris, we, we, we've been sitting real good in 2022. They won that Super Bowl. We, we, we, we, we would probably be different men. At last. Well, we'll get back to that Super Bowl again. But what makes you think the Eagles lose this week? What are the, what do the Cowboys have?
00:29:54
Speaker
It doesn't matter. what and This is not a not a Cowboys thing. So you think that you're going to shoot themselves in the foot? You think they're going to suicide bomb themselves in this game? Do you not watch this team? All right. Sadly, I do. Sadly. It's at Dallas. You think at Dallas with what Dallas is bereft of, they still in this game.
00:30:15
Speaker
Kuberish hasn't. It's not it's not like everybody trying to make a scene. I don't think it's people. But I think we can win. If if we want to go grand scheme of things, what would you like to see the Cowboys win by a touchdown? I mean, I'm sorry, the Eagles win by a touchdown. What do you hindsight? More than a touchdown. It should be at least it's got to be at least 10. It should be. It really is. I don't think we should do to them. We should do to them. Well, at least at least.
00:30:46
Speaker
what the Falcons did to them. I won't say what the Lions did to them because the Lions obliterated them. So honestly, that the Lions are probably the best team in the NFC. They are. No, it's not even, they're probably, they are the best team in the NFC. And then as it goes down, it's the rest of them guys. It's it's it's the Lions and the rest of them. Cause if you say who's after the Lions. Let me hear, let me hear you say who's two. Are we just going by record? Who's two or who I think is two? Who think is two, Jared?
00:31:12
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Honestly, after the lines, I personally to like the Packers as the second best team in the conference. Yes. I mean, I'm not, but I don't, I don't believe in the command is like that. I don't, I don't mean the command is like that. I think, Hey, they're playing phenomenal football and they might be the best second best team in the conference. I just don't think they are. I don't think it's the Eagles. I don't really like the Rams, but the Rams are,
00:31:39
Speaker
starting to win their games again, they're getting back healthy. Don't know what Pukinaku was doing last week with that injection, but they're healthy and they're kind of playing that they're there's their terms again. 49ers are what? Crippled, but they can't CMC back next week. After what, 11 weeks and not playing. So that can start having them rise back up. But right now it's like, why are the Packers, are we two of the better teams in football? And guess who, the Lions just beat last week, which is why the Packers are right there, the Packers.
00:32:10
Speaker
Like they just beat him in their division game. In which like Jor-Love didn't play great, but Jor-Love has been banged up all season, yet he's still playing good football. Chris, who would you have as the second best team in the in the conference, energy conference? Cause I know you're not going to say the Eagles and i I would agree with you as not the Eagles. So not the Eagles. We got to see, I mean, we'll see what really Washington is when they start playing a little bit better competition, the teams. Green Bay, I think is taking a step back because you don't know what, what loves health is.
00:32:37
Speaker
So if you don't like Green Bay, I feel like, are you going to say the Falcons? Because they're there. I'm not going to say the Falcons. ah Falcons are good. I just, I don't really have the confidence in them. I don't think you can really count out San Francisco. I know they're, they're struggling, but McCaffrey's, McCaffrey's back from the Gulag. So we'll see. That leaves two teams left that I think you're going to name. And I don't hate the name you might name, but oh that's gross. Well, who you, who you think I'm going to say? The Vikings.
00:33:07
Speaker
And who's the other team? ah I don't like the other team. I don't even know. I hope it's not them. Who's the other team, Jared? The Cardinals. I think the NFC is a lot of good teams. Second best team in NFC might, I know people don't want to hear this, and because they're dealing with a lot of injuries now, they're going to fall back. But the second best team in the NFC at this, at, you know, probably with Tampa Bay. Baker may feel really well. Fair.
00:33:37
Speaker
They were putting up crazy numbers. ah Liam Cohen, who's the offensive coordinator, was doing an amazing job. Don't be surprised if he gets head coach and looks next season because they were playing out outstanding football. And Mike Evans gets hurt. Chris Godwin gets hurt. Kate Otten comes in and now is you know the second coming to Travis Kelsey. So yeah, a lot of people are going to overlook them because, yeah, it's Baker Mayfield, whole hum.
00:34:05
Speaker
But I think Tampa, honestly, is the second best team in NFC at this moment. Now, anything cal anything will change in the next month, maybe Philadelphia gets up there, maybe San Francisco, but gets back up there. We don't know what Minnesota is gonna look like. We don't know what Detroit is gonna look like. We don't know what Dallas or Green Bay is gonna look like.
00:34:23
Speaker
You think Tampa Bay is ah the best team still with the three weeks of three-week losses like they lost three straight weeks Yeah, but look at who they lost to they lost. I mean, know it's fair the city by a touch, you know by a touchdown they lose the The Falcons they lost to the Falcons who the Falcons are good and that's why I'm five was a good But Tampa I think was was playing at a at an exceptional exceptional and they lost the Baltimore So they were playing, they played three good teams. No, but I mean, they played four niners this week. Didn't they beat the four niners? It's possible. It's possible. They play it in Tampa. It's pot. It's very possible. Okay. So that would probably be my second best team. Now, obviously I think it's going to change. Like you mentioned, they're, they're coming on, they're on three lane losing streak. They're playing in San Francisco this week.
00:35:23
Speaker
It's quite possible they lose again. Yeah, but it's possible they beat the Niners. So I'm not I'm not 100% out on Tampa. OK.
00:35:34
Speaker
Alright, Jared, let's transition this over to the NFL before we make our predictions in the NFL. Let's talk about your sixers. ah With and be out and now suspended PG out now he's back and that looks like Max. He's going to be out for an extended period of time.
Sixers' Early Season Injury Woes
00:35:52
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Uh, how we feeling?
00:35:53
Speaker
How are we feeling? Uhm? About the same six years. We're still a playoff team. I i believe it's just man. Do you got the injury bug early in the season? Hope you don't get away in the season.
00:36:06
Speaker
I just saw a report from Brett Signall, the NBA, that Maxie should return home to Thanksgiving, probably before that. Because again, they're just trying to make sure he's recovered from the hamstring. Nothing is that a major hamstring, but you just want to make sure he's healthy from it, especially knowing that what we've seen so far to start this season. Guys are hurt.
00:36:23
Speaker
I think there's something going on with Kayla Murney that I want to discuss right now. And B was recovering from the knee injury that we all knew he was still banged up when we watched. If you watched the Olympics with two eyes and me with one good eye and an eye and knee surgery, I could tell you. And B was banged up. Paul George, freak accident playing in preseason, had to come back from injury. like it it It hurts. It put pause for the course, but I think we're in the same timeline, same trajectory. I think this team is going to be good. Beat now is going to play next Tuesday versus the Knicks with him in Paul George together. I think that's going to be a competitive game. Again, we don't have maxi, so you're you're never going to see.
00:37:01
Speaker
your guys together until around Thanksgiving, which then then we just knock on wood and say, hey, this is what we need to build around. This is what we we need going forward. I've liked what I've seen from Sixers players. Again, we've losing games. I like what I've seen from certain guys. I like some of the additions. I haven't hated what I've seen from some of the additions, but just look at what it is. You're not going to win without your best players.
00:37:23
Speaker
You can try and throw some blame towards the back and say, hey, how come you aren't winning us some games? You're this guy that just got paid max deal, et cetera, et cetera. But he's putting up big numbers in the game that he did when he had to almost drop 50.
00:37:36
Speaker
I can't expect much more from him when we were were talking about this is a team that was built around three core players, not just one. So now you're you're just trying to miss and match roster and lineups to try and circumvent playing teams that are fully healthy. You have yet to play a team that's as banged up as you. So this is just looking pretty down right now.
00:37:57
Speaker
When in B comes back Tuesday, I'll have a fair more analysis of how I'm really going to see how the season plays out, like how well he looks on the court. cause I know he'll be playing minute restriction. You know he's going to be a little conditioning shouldn't be as great, but you're we're hearing that he's been really revving up his condition. So I shouldn't expect him to be so bent out of shape where he doesn't look always comfortable in the court.
00:38:18
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But as of right now, it's like sections are what they are I have more comments that the six is going to be fine than I do and what we talked about in this in this conversation with the bucks I don't have that much confidence in the books.
00:38:31
Speaker
Is it because the books are being spearheaded by. Doc Rivers. Yes, absolutely. Oh my God. It's bad. It's bad. I get there's nothing wrong with the bucks. If you just think about this is the same team from last year, albeit they added in Gary train who's like a good shooter, right? What have they missed on besides the fact that they're losing the teams they shouldn't be losing to and they're getting like spanked by teams that are like, what do we should not be like in the same stratosphere as him. The Nets beating them by 13 points is pathetic. And I know the Nets are having a good year, right? But it's early. Basketball doesn't really, it doesn't really, this is this part of basketball is okay, yeah, whatever, whatever, but it's the Nets. You're losing to the Nets. Then you lose to the Bulls the week before that, and yeah, the Bulls and Bucks always play each other hard, but you're honest, no one dominates the Bulls. Instead, you guys get dominated by them.
00:39:27
Speaker
Daim and Giannis look like the only two players on the court sometimes. And when Daim is not there, because he's an on and off type of a shooter. but i And when I say that, I mean like some games will give you 30. The next game, he might give you 14.
00:39:40
Speaker
It's bad. It's bad. This is not the pairing that I thought I would see when we were all excited, clamoring about Yannis finally got the running mate he needs in Dame with Chris Melton. Yeah, they're without Chris Melton, but Chris Melton should not be the biggest addition of subtraction if we're being honest. And if that's the case, then yeah, the Bucks really got a lot of things they need to figure out if they're that bad without Chris Melton on the court.
00:40:03
Speaker
So I don't know what Doc's been doing. I don't know what he's been saying, but it's bad. Rotations have stunk already. Timeout calls the worst times or two wait. And is there's nothing, there's nothing I've seen that gives me hope that this team is going to do something in the playoffs. I still didn't make the playoffs or that they're going to retain Giannis after the season.
00:40:25
Speaker
I mean, they're going to, they're going to retain Giannis because they have his contract. What does that mean? He asked for a trade and enforce his way out like every other superstar. He can, he can, but is he going to? Possibly. And if he asked, and if he asked for a trade and we talking about Milwaukee being this bad, what's Milwaukee got to, we ain't got to give you nothing. We ain't got to sit, go home, go back to Greece. Then guess what? They're going to take whatever.
00:40:49
Speaker
Offers that will be there because it'll be the greatest offers ever. The most picks that you can ever. Yeah, but, but no. to um What team has the capital? Only one team has the capital. There's like two. Only one team has the capital. Oh yeah. mean what And they could do it. and you You mentioned they, name they could do it if they wanted to this season, they can do it right now. and If they wanted to, what do they know? Trade that line? Question mark. End of season. Absolutely. They can do it right now.
00:41:16
Speaker
One team, one team got, got the, got the ammunition. One, only one. and They look good if they do it. They'll look good if they do. I too technically, if you consider like, if you want to say, Oh, Hey, if I'm the Spurs, I'm throwing Yannis and when we together, they have the capital and they have the draft picks, but I just don't, I don't think that'll work. But if you wanted to, you could make that call.
00:41:45
Speaker
code But I don't see any other team that could really like argue in or, or I'm sorry. The Warriors are somehow trying to put them forward. They're trying to put them forward in that conversation. no Cause they have the draft picks. They just don't, I don't think they have the players that if you're the bucks you won, but if you're rebuilding that, knowing that Giannis wants out and you got your chip and you just have to like now say, okay, we just got to move on. He's, he's ready to be out here and make it hard for us. And we will take as much as we can back.
00:42:12
Speaker
Words, that's a third team sleeper sleeper team. Yeah, yes. Yeah, you believe it's hard for me to believe it, but they they can be there. They can be in that mix. they They like to throw themselves in there. They do. They like to throw themselves in their mix. You don't believe it. You don't believe it. And if you're, if you're the worst, I'm going all chips on the table to get a honest to put it with Steph. You don't believe that. I'm sure if you're the worst, you're sure I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try. i let go ahead You know, I don't think But give me give me your reason why you think the bucks think yes thing go to a six they stink but bathwater doesn't count to Christmas So let's let's get about last year. They've stopped ever since Doc got there They have stopped as Doc got there. Yeah, they were 30 and 13 when they fired Adrian Griffin. Yeah 30 and 13 so they were what 16 17 games over 500. Yep
00:43:10
Speaker
Doc is 18 to 25 right now. is as close as cost And that's the guy they wanted. 18 to 25. He went 17 and 19 last season. 1 and 6 this season. That's 18 to 25. He needs to be fired soon. They fired Adrian Griffin to being 30 and 13.
00:43:33
Speaker
Doc's almost in in the inverse. Yeah. You see how that's bad.
00:43:41
Speaker
We'll see. What do you think about the sixes? Doesn't matter. No, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Oh, you're saying it just doesn't matter right now in general. Nothing matters right now. And in general, seven games and let's not panic. If we, if we get into to December and this team is still caught, if this team is in like, you know, her say that in there.
00:44:05
Speaker
then we can, we can be a little bit more concerned, but right now I'm, I think you're just wasting time. be are I just don't care right now. Like it's doesn't mean I don't care. I don't care for the, art for their naresayers, Chris, the argument that they'll throw at us and saying, but this hurts you guys for winning the season when you want to rest and beat.
Patience with the Sixers' Performance
00:44:23
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Well, again, the rest now, like I don't, I don't care.
00:44:26
Speaker
Like they'll still find a way to arrest them anyway. I don't care. If you're going to get hurt, you're going to get hurt. If anything, I'd rather you make, I'd rather say I care about the fact that I keep this man in bubble red till Christmas. Like literally, I rather, that's what I'd rather just be like, I care more about the fact that Marcus hates to walk around the six years locker room freely than I would about how they're looking right now, knowing that these guys are fully healthy. And we haven't seen the full team yet. I don't, I just don't care.
00:44:51
Speaker
like 90s team, I don't care. The Nets look good. and they're They're talking about the Nets who might be a competitor. No, they don't. I don't care. That's steak. Like I don't care. The new the Brooklyn Nets. Let's be let's be real. The Chicago Bowl, the Charlotte Hornets. These are teams that, yeah, they they always start off a little great Detroit Pistons. It means nothing to me. I mean, nothing. You're literally.
00:45:21
Speaker
Anything else you want to talk about with NBA? um I haven't seen anything crazy spectacular. I have not. It's just been regular basketball so far. OK, let me ask you.
00:45:34
Speaker
this. Give me your earliest earliest. Throw out a name and MVP Candy right now. I'm not I'm not I'm not doing that. You know, I don't get into that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't make sense. Why? Because like if if you're right, then hey, man, you call it it if you're wrong. Well, well, you see the du can then you can't you can't figure out nothing right now. Eight games in me figure out something. No, I got a name for you. Oh,
00:46:04
Speaker
You know who I like? Who? Jason Tatum. I think this is the year. Anyway, we're going to move on to do predictions here in the NFL. He talking about the Tatum noise. I don't want to hear none of that. Okay. I muted his mic because I don't want to hear none of the Tatum noise that he talking about right now. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't want to hear her.
00:46:25
Speaker
I'm reading you to his mic because he hate her. um Listen, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear out not know eight games. And you talk about this state of nonsense, Jared. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to. Why do you still hate him? I'll forever. Forever. Him, Bradley, Bill, just get moved by. Get out of here. I don't hear that.
00:46:54
Speaker
I said seven to one, Chris. Hey, Drew, Drew Holliday. I used to love you, Holliday. You get him out of here now. Oh, sick. It was it was nice. It was nice while I knew you. I'm serious. They look like I'm not running for president. Oh, man. First move I'm going to do day one. If I get elected, we're going to abolish the Boston Celtics. This band.
00:47:26
Speaker
Where would you move them to? I'm not moving them. They over. No basketball for y'all. Oh, that's cooked.
00:47:37
Speaker
Well, I'm wrong. I can't say anything. They want a championship. I'm wrong. What can we say, Chris? They want a chip. What can we say? I cannot acknowledge it. No, we can't do it, I guess. I don't acknowledge it. I don't respect it. Sure.
00:47:53
Speaker
i mean i okay OK, thank you. Talk about that. I got a name for you. Tatum. Really? Ball it. Whatever.
00:48:11
Speaker
All right. From one sad team to another, let jared let's talk about the NFL. Let's make some predictions for week 10. We start in Germany.
Giants vs. Panthers Game Preview
00:48:22
Speaker
Love that.
00:48:24
Speaker
as we send our two greatest American teams to the people of Germany to watch American football between the New York football Giants and the Carolina but Panthers. Jared. Oh my God. Oh, the Giants. They both stink, but the Giants should win that game. Give me Carolina.
00:48:45
Speaker
Wow. Give me Carolina. A tough win against the saints that sent the saints packing their bags for their head coach. They told Dennis Allen to get the hell out and never return. They had their defensive. The team was falling apart on Twitter. Michael Thomas said what he said about Derek Carr. If y'all missed it,
00:49:11
Speaker
He basically said Derek Carr was cheeks. Yeah. Well, he's something to break. And then, uh, defendant's act of Kayla Saunders, you might know he was the one who caught the, the interception against the chiefs of mighty night football a couple of weeks ago. They kept talking about how his brother played. It was a backup dancer potato Swift. Yeah. You know that Kayla Sanders, uh, he said that they might as well let him play quarterback. And you know what? Crystal lobby is somewhere.
00:49:39
Speaker
with his head ringing. We throwing suicide balls, man. The car been doing that for years. So yeah, give me Carolina. It's two of the two, two, ah two more great teams. Jared kicking off Sunday, 1 PM. The new England Patriots traveled to Chicago to take on the
Bears vs. Patriots Game Prediction
00:50:02
Speaker
bears. Jared, who you got the bears. cause ah but but but but Who you got?
00:50:06
Speaker
the bears. You have to say it like Caleb Williams. ah There yeah we go. Why?
00:50:16
Speaker
that whole The bears are going through their own utter turmoil, right? So you need this game. You need this win. If you don't get this win, we could see another coaching fire expeditiously.
00:50:31
Speaker
You're looking at this New England team, they're, it's question marks all across the board. I like what I'm seeing from May. I really do. I just don't think they have the offense to win that game because Ron Andre Stevenson has been like their turning point. When it comes to Drake, May security boy and get his safety bow, who's getting a touchdown and the Barrett defense has stopped in that run. So um I can see the Bears winning this game.
00:51:00
Speaker
I want to, I kind of want to come up with reasons why things didn't, the new england Patriots would win, but I can't really come up with any. So it's hard. I don't think they are. I think I agree with you. I got the bears. They, they, the bears always seem to end up in like one possession dog fight games, yeah no matter who they play. And I don't think New England, I mean, New England battled the battle battleies against Tennessee last week.
00:51:27
Speaker
I think there's think the Bears are a better team than them, so I have the Bears one. Buffalo travels to Indianapolis. Take on the Colts. Bills will probably be without Keon Coleman. Colts starting Joe Flacco. Jared, who you got? The Bills. Keon Coleman, it's unfortunate he might miss this game, but that gives more targets to a Kincaid and a Cooper. And then ah ah king who who's the other us? Who's the other? ashiur Shakir. Shakir.
00:51:58
Speaker
James Cook is still there. They're going to do fine. Flacko not wanting to do this football game. yay He looks competent, but it was just announced that Michael Pittman won't be playing for this game. Cold's done. Cold's benching Anthony Richardson already put them in a, they're done situation in my eyes and probably much in the world's eyes. But when you do something like that, you're done. Okay. Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, are you, are you blaming them for bunching them? No, no, you have to do it. You have to do it. Uh, it's the right call to make. If you bring them back though, it's not, that's, you don't bring Anthony Richardson back at all of this season. If you do, it's just weird.
00:52:34
Speaker
They're done. Coach, coach say they have to figure out what they're going to do in going into this off season. If they're going to keep me in the region, they're going to move off for me. Like they got to figure it out. But this is going to be a Bill's win. Vikings travel to Jacksonville to take on a Jags who you got. Vikings. I like West Side from the Jags of the week. Why? Because the Eagles, Siriano, we already talked about this. But the Vikings are a common football team. They've shown me enough. I think they should have went. They're supposed to be 7-2 for me. It'll be a 7-2 team. And I said they would be, I think they're going to be competitive.
00:53:03
Speaker
They're six and two and I still think they're a competitive football what team. I think Sam Darnell has shown me he is the truth this season. Hockinson's back. JJ is still the same. Addison is going through whatever wide receivers go through, but he's still making good catches. I think the Vikings win.
00:53:21
Speaker
Okay, I grew to their Denver travels to Kansas City. Take one of the Chiefs who you got. Chiefs give me no Chiefs is going to be a closer game, but give me a chief. Atlanta travels to New Orleans to take on the Saints who you got Falcons because the Saints Wait, wait, wait, okay, San Francisco might have the Saints please Because like we've known this to be true I know where you're going. I know where you're going. I know where you're going. What do I say?
00:53:54
Speaker
Yeah, they fired the coach. Coaches, teams who fired the coach played better. Every inner of head coach has won their football game after the coach has been fired. That's not true. OK. Jets false. Ah, bear fair. Fair self. And the Saints aren't as good as the Jets. ah The Jets aren't an ally. And if they aren't an ally, then the Saints don't win as well. Saints stink. Saints stink. Come on, man. but give me a file like It's Atlanta. It's Atlanta. They're traveling to New Orleans.
00:54:24
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ah yeah
00:54:30
Speaker
I haven't seen anything from New Orleans. Olave's probably not playing. I haven't seen anything. Olave hasn't really been a car favorite target anyway. Okay. So, okay. When you got, when you got out there with Juwan Johnson and Taysom Hill and Camara getting 20 catches a game. Is she's up?
00:54:52
Speaker
Yeah, he's out for the season. Oh, never mind. Give me the Falcons. I guess I'm saying, like, scenes ain't got nobody out there. Excuse me. You and the Falcons. I got the Falcons winner. Niners travel to Tampa to take on the Bucks who you got. Niners. I know you like the Bucks, and I think it's going to still be a pretty close game shootout worthy, but I have the Niners win, especially with Commissioner Caffrey back at the starting lineup. How many, how many, how many snaps of Caffrey going to get? I don't know. They're going to tell us he's going to play a snap count, and then we'll see him play 85% of the snaps.
00:55:24
Speaker
Okay. Long as you're on the same page there.
00:55:27
Speaker
ah I wanted to. I want to take Tampa Bay. I know you do, but you you know, it's not right. I want to take Tampa Bay. Niners tend to end up in these games where they play teams, they should be. And then it's like close for whatever reason.
00:55:55
Speaker
I think I got Tampa. Okay. I got Tampa at home. Pittsburgh travels to to Washington. Take one of the commanders who you got. Washington, especially the addition of Marshall Adam or what us like why why that's how you know the Saints know what that's how you know the Saints are going to lose Chris to the Falcons. They just traded their best quarterback to the Washington Commanders. They traded Paulson to Deebo. Okay. You said they best quarterback.
00:56:24
Speaker
corner. Sorry. Corner back. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You you said the best corner and I said Paul's in the diva. Guys, I still think right. I'm worth their best corner. I still do. He's lockups and now you trade them to the commanders where he's going to lock pickings right up and Russell Wilson's Russell Wilson. So I have the Commanders winning Pittsburgh winning. This is the first time Washington's played a competency season. If any team, the rans remember, they played the Ravens this season and lost.
00:56:54
Speaker
Yeah, but they played the Ravens. Okay, but they lost. This is a real, this is a real life, real deal football team with a real life head coach and a real life quarterback coming to town. Okay. yeah but Now, if they were, if they were trotting out fields, this would be a different conversation. Right. but thanks for trust I like what I've seen from Pittsburgh the last couple of weeks since they made the change, even going back and when they still had fields. Are you ready for the end of the season?
00:57:25
Speaker
Am I ready for what? The end of the stealer season, are you ready? What do you mean? um Remember, when the season started, you said yet again, if Mike Tomlin had to win, you know what you're going to admit to the fans, to me, to the beat. What am I supposed to admit? That yet again, Mike Tomlin has showcased his greatness when he has another winning season. Oh, yeah, that's because he showed up he showcased his greatness by making a change at the quarterback position. Here you go now.
00:57:53
Speaker
That was, just that was when I was back in. I feel with fields when it games to it now. I wish they kept feels more glorious when they come on, man, a little bit even better. but meet Me, you and everybody else know what the truth is. Let's see this team, this team right now exponentially better than the team that they had the first four weeks in the season, exponentially better. Fair.
00:58:22
Speaker
That's fair. Like I, again, I never saw fields, I think go for two 64, two thousand, a lot of interception or fumble. Yeah, you probably have seen them do that, but the the team probably be down 35 fair. No one really met her. Tennessee travels to the LA to so far to take on the charges. So you got charges, charges women that game charges. I got charges as well.
00:58:48
Speaker
The Jets travel to the desert to take on Arizona, who you got. The Jets. I like what I'm seeing from the Jets so far. It's kind of, I think it's a little too late situation. Could possibly not be, but you're three and six. So you need as many wins as you can get. And I think they win this game. They need to, they need to win as many times as they can. Well, like Eagles, Eagles travel to Dallas to take on the Cowboys who you got.
Lions vs. Texans Game Analysis
00:59:12
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Eagles. Detroit travels to Houston to take on the Texans who you got.
00:59:16
Speaker
Detroit, I think the Texas might be done, dude. Like, oh, it's bad. It's bad. But like, no digs, no Collins. You banging on Teng Del and Joe Mixon. I mean, again, you still have Stroud, but is this the the emergence of John Metchie? And we're finally gonna start seeing him see the ball? But it's rough. It's rough in Houston right now.
00:59:41
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Houston three point three and a half point dogs at home right now. Hell no. Take, take, take, take the line for more. tell you Take the lines for more because this is the same thing when we say when the Cowboys are three and a half point dog with versus the Lions and they got dog walked. Cowboys are worse, much worse team than the Houston is. That's fine, but they were healthy. That's fine. Even, even right now, I think Houston's a better team.
01:00:10
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Houston's way more well coached. I think Houston has a better defense. um We need to see the the the status of Will Anderson. we he's He's still out, he missed practice today with the ankle injury. um Maybe he plays, maybe he doesn't, we don't know. But if If you're looking at a situation where you have no, no Will Anderson, I think the Lions win this game, but you could be in for a shootout. And then our Monday night game, Jared, the Miami Dolphins traveled to l LA to take on the Rams who you got. Rams. Dolphins looked okay, but they just, I think the Rams are now fully healthy. And when you're a fully healthy Rams team, it's a scary team to play against.
01:01:02
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Yeah, I agree with you. I like just saying the thing about the Rams is they they have the pieces. You may not know who their names are, but they have the pieces. um Jerry versus playing well, the rookie lineman for Florida State. DeMarcus Robinson played well, Winton to play well. You got in the cool back. You got cut back. You got Stafford there, but I think Miami this is a different Miami team with two of their.
01:01:29
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This is a different team. Look at this team that that played my Buffalo last week. This is a different Miami team. I think this Miami team can go to l LA and get a win. So I'm going to take the the dolphins on the road in LA.
Closing Remarks and Thanksgiving Preview
01:01:44
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All right. So anything else we need to talk about before we wrap it up? You know, man, that was it.
01:01:48
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01:02:09
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Follow me at underscore JW Hughes. Man, we got other episodes coming. More things to talk about. Christmas is around, of course. Let me really we talk about basketball. I'm worried. I'm ready for that. Please. Why? Why does everybody skip Thanksgiving?
01:02:22
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why No one giving respect to things you don't approve was run. What about Thanksgiving? Well, we don't talk about basketball for Thanksgiving. So the point was We talk about football todays give we do christmas games going I mean Thanksgiving games are gonna be a little bit but uh, you play you worried about football on a Wednesday But for the basketball purposes of me just want to talk about cares no talk more madmo chris Damn make thanksgiving great again let's talk about ku flag again next week it's about time let's talk about some college