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NFL #nfl Football #nflfootball 🏈 Divisional Round Preview & Picks
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BALL & BUDS 🏈 NFL #nfl Football #nflfootball Divisional Round Picks featuring...
Omar 'Sports Professor' Fonseca, @ClubberD @DirtyMojo @PeachOMania
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Introduction and Social Media Engagement
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You can't prepare, now to get ready for the show. Introducing the Ballin' Buds, 703 Boys Crew, Clubber D, Dirty Mojo, Shane Peach, and the Sports Professor.
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Welcome to Sunday Showdown.
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I have no clue. I think he's talking, but we can't hear him. Yo, yo, yo. What up? Yes, sir. Welcome. Ballin' Buds is back with a special edition of Saturday Showdown. A little Saturday Showdown today. We thank you for tuning in. Please make sure you hit that like button, whether watching now or on the replay. And as well, make sure you subscribe at Ball & Buds, B-A-L-L-A-N-D.com. B-U-D-S on YouTube. Follow on Instagram as well. Handy QR code up there at the top takes you to all our socials, including Clubber D's YouTube at Clubber D. His TikTok is there as well. Dirty Mojo at Dirty Mojo on IG. And then Shane Peach at Peach O Mania on X.
NFL Season Overview and Parity Discussion
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How are we doing today, brothers? An exciting football weekend. Let's do it.
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That's right. lets go. Yes. I mean, I mean, after i thought I would get a little more excitement out of y'all after the wild card games we had last weekend that were just so amazing. um I mean, this NFL season has been or postseason at least has been something to behold. Listen to this. First of all, let's give you some some facts before we get into the thing.
00:02:37
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Five of the league's initial 14 playoff teams reached the postseason after losing 11 or more games the year before. So we're talking a lot of parity coming in to the playoff, right? Then you've got four of the league's five division winners, right?
00:02:58
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or four of the league's division winners, excuse me, won five or fewer games last season.
Impact of Team Performance on NFL Ratings
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So a lot of the division winners are teams that just really came up this year. And we've seen that parity come into play with 12 points.
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fourth quarter lead changes in the wild card round the most in a single postseason in NFL history. Your sports professor stat for the wild card round, the four game winning touchdowns, as I just talked about in the final three minutes are the most in a postseason in league history. And that was just in one round and the four comeback wins in the final three minutes of the fourth quarter already rank as the most in postseason history as well.
00:03:42
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Cool. Wow. What a wild card round we had thoughts. yes Yeah. think it's like changing on the guard right now.
00:03:53
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think it's like changing the guard right now in football. and all the Okay. Yeah. i like Coming up, you know, all it's like, uh, you know, we're used to cliche teams being good, but now you got the Patriots who people didn't think we're going be, they're going be okay, but not as good as they, they played this year. And, you know, you got, no one thought the chiefs would be how they are. You know what I'm saying? So,
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um it's It's all about parity, and this is just giving the ratings ah a boost. I think ah the average rating was in between 25 to 31 million viewers. And I know the Niners game had the most. They had like damn near 50 million for that game. um So, you know, the NFL is loving this. They're eating all these nuts. My brother – Hey, my brother, let me help you out. You know that the sports professor always always comes prepared with the facts and statistics. So let me give you the viewership figures that set amazing records.
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Uh, The latest viewership figures included, and we'll get to your 49ers game in a second, the Packers and Bears averaged 31.6 million viewers, not only the ah the Amazon's most NFL-watched game ever, but the league's most streamed game on any platform, beating that Netflix Cowboys-Chiefs game that I predicted, Peach.
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um As well as Clubber D just mentioned the 49ers-Eagles game, 41 million views. most of any game of the entire weekend and Fox's most watched wild card game since 2015. As was mentioned, wild card totals for 2026 so far averaged 18.7 million viewers a game, the league's highest figure since 1989.
00:05:44
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eighty nine Woo! Woo! I can tell you this too, Omar. i know I know a lot of people who probably watch the football the same way I do on an illegal fire broken fire stick. So those numbers probably could be a little higher.
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They could be a little higher than what they were if people are watching it and they're actually paying for cable. I can break TV whatever, but up you know the one thing that I want to say is that yeah you're absolutely right. The parity in the NFL this is what makes the NFL look the greatest sport.
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It's because every year, no matter what team you are, you believe that your team can make it to the playoffs. And I think that I've said this comment before that it kind of sucks to say this, but Americans, we actually hate winners, right?
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We hate the Chiefs because they win every year. You know, we win every year. Why? Why? Because they're winners. You get bored of winners. Yeah, you get bored of it. You get bored of them, so you kind of hate them. Everybody hate Alabama. Why? yeah Why do you hate them? Because they're winners, right? um
Weekend Sports Preview
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with with With all these fresh teams, it gives you that, like, ah, now I can watch it. I'm not i'm not worrying about the Chiefs going to do it again or this team going to do it again. it's It's something that you want to watch, which is which what made it such a great a great week last week. And then the games were fantastic, too. Yeah.
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that doesn't i mean that that helps so much it to watch those games they were you know amazing games so i'm looking forward this this um i'm looking forward for this round because uh i'm pretty sure professor that you would figure it out right all teams remaining were they were they weren't even at this point last year were they so all the teams that are remaining There was none of them in in this at this specific time last year. They were already out of the playoffs. There was nobody here, right? so this is all all brand new, fresh, all the teams, right?
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Buffalo And the Bills. Buffalo maybe? The Bills, I think, were the only ones that made the divisional round. But as well, and that's funny you bring that up, the Bills are the only ones that were favored at odds above 1,200 that are not already knocked out. All of the favorites have been knocked out. The ah Bills have the 700-plus odds now to win the Super Bowl, and they were the only ones left from the those initial – favorites. So yeah, the Bills are you know consistently in the playoffs, consistently a good team. um And it's funny you mentioned those college viewership ratings with the Alabama because I have some of that on Monday. By the way, y'all, special programming notes for y'all. Y'all getting the Sunday Showdown crew all weekend. You getting Saturday Showdown right now. You getting Sunday Showdown tomorrow.
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Catch us in between the games after ah after the, excuse me, why am I tripping on which one is tomorrow? I used Houston Texans and Patriots before the Bears and Rams. Catch us. We'll review all those games, NFL games, and preview. or Sorry, we already picked the Rams-Bears today, so we'll review all those games. And then Monday, Monday showdown, 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific, we'll review the Rams-Bears, and we will do a huge preview on college football championship Miami football. Hurricanes, Indiana, Hoosiers. It's going to be an amazing game. Make sure you tune in. Make sure you subscribe.
In-Depth NFL Playoffs Analysis
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Professor, say that again. Let's hear that. Let's hear that. Who is playing again in a national title game? Because it just doesn't sound right. Do it one more time. Say it again. The basketball blue blood Indiana Hoosiers, who are fifteen and eight-and-a-half point favorites, by the way, versus the 13-2 Miami Hurricanes. who would have you is back Who would have thought? Who would have thought? thought? Irvin thought it as we saw. Let's go. All right. um Let's hit some comments here real quick.
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Check in with the people in the... Hey, we got a couple comments here from Clubber D's channel. Shout out to everybody that is tuning into us. Nerdy Boy.
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We appreciate that. Shout out to you.
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and yeah And then w WWE collection figures. This is Peach's favorite channel. ah Bears on top. Uh-oh, Peach. Your favorite channel, WWE w collection figures, is going with the Bears, who who you ah you have hated all year long for the way that the fans have treated you. is that I'm turning it around, man. like the team.
00:10:13
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i'm turning it around man i like the team i like I like what they're doing, and it shows you you can turn things around really quick. I also want to say this is my favorite football weekend of the year. You got the national championship, divisional round, Saturday, Sunday, and I also wanted to go ah pivot a different direction. How about that 2024 quarterback draft class, guys?
00:10:32
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Four playoff wins for the entire class already, and three of the four teams are from that draft class, quarterbacks are from that draft class. Unbelievable. Wow. Unbelievable.
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Woo.
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those are yeah that's that's ah that is That tells you exactly what we're dealing with here. So that's going to be, I mean, tremendous tremendous football all weekend long. We are super excited, and we're super excited you're here with us.
00:11:00
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Yes. i'll say I'll just think about what Pete just said. when is the last time we've seen that in draft class with all the quarterbacks that were picked you know in the playoffs and winning?
00:11:12
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And by year two. Yeah, by year two. Year two, and there's already four playoff wins with them guys. It's unreal. Did Mourinho go Super Bowl in the second year? Yeah. He went Super Bowl. Brock, NFC Championship game.
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Roethlisberger, AFC Championship game. Mark Sanchez, AFC Championship game.
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Yeah. Wow. Wow. And you like I said, you still you still have K-Love and May and and Nick still in it right now. So there's more playoff wins to come possibly.
00:11:43
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Unbelievable draft class so far. And then you get homeboy from Oregon say, I'm going to go back to school. Which which fucks my team in the draft because that means another non-quarterback falling down the draft, bar rising up the draft board. Mm-hmm.
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And speaking of Knicks, Hot Take Jake is in the house. Shout out, my brother. Haven't talked to you in a while. We're going to do our thing soon. Total evisceration coming to a theater near you. But I hope you're doing well, man. I know you're cheering for your Broncos today. Going to be a tough contest. We're about to talk about that here in a moment. And I will definitely have some Bo Nix stats for you. And you're not going to like what I got to say. But shout out to you, my brother. Much love. Hope all is well there at ah at the... I haven't seen y'all on.
00:12:37
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Yeah, I'm sitting there. What's going on? um What's going on with the pod? I hope y'all have not given it up. Hopefully we'll see y'all back soon. Maybe it' was a holiday break. Love you too, my brother. All right, cool. Let's go ahead and get into this. We've got a lot of games to talk about. So first of all, we're going to review the games that we had this past weekend, the Sunday night and Monday night games. First of all, they were both blowouts, so this should be pretty quick on the review. But New England Patriots, Los Angeles Chargers,
00:13:09
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ah seven 7, 16, excuse me, to three Patriots over the Chargers. I mean, this was not a fun game to watch at all. But I mean, really am sad for the Chargers. What a horrible showing. After coming back from all those injuries and actually getting into the playoffs to put up this kind of miserable performance is just a horrible thing to see. Peach, we don't ever start with you. Let's start with you today, my brother. What did you think about this game?
00:13:42
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More Justin Herbert playoff woes, guys. I mean, the guy is such a great quarterback in the regular season, but he gets he lays more eggs than Sam Dardle in the playoffs. I mean, come on. up But that I will say that Patriots defense – is something fierce, guys, because Drake May didn't have a great game, but he didn't have to. That Patriots defense made the Chargers just look horrendous.
00:14:08
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So oh yes that patriot here we go. And then there you go. Another another win for that 24 QB class, Drake May. I mean, he like I said, he didn't do do great, do much, but he didn't have to.
00:14:20
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So this that this this game was more about Justin Herbert and what's going on there. And can we trust him ever in the playoffs? Because as of right now, the answer is an emphatic no.
00:14:30
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Yeah. m m True. Anybody have thoughts on that? Anybody want to follow up on what you said there? You know, I picked i picked the ah Chargers to upset the Patriots. If you guys remember when we have picked our things. And you know what saying? And and it it goes back to coaching, in my opinion. Because when you look at this game, I think the very first drive, it was interception. It was return. And you're going forward on fourth down. I don't understand why these coaches are going forward on fourth down.
00:15:00
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Man, you got to get the points, especially in
Coaching Strategies and Playoff Dynamics
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in the playoffs, man. And people don't understand that to a turnover on downs, fourth down, is a huge momentum change. You guys got the ball off of ah off of a turnover, and then you go for and ah then you go out on fourth down, and you don't get no points off the board, especially that deep. It's not like you got the interception or the fumble, whatever, at your 30 or something like that, and you go for it.
00:15:22
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But it just doesn't make any sense. I can't stand the fact that they're doing this. those stupid little analytic things that pop up saying, Oh, this is a good thing to go for. Fuck all that that bullshit, man. It's just, yo, man, you gotta, it's just football, man. You gotta play ball. You gotta, you can't leave points on, on the, um,
00:15:36
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on the board. And then I mean, early in the game, early in the game, early in the game, first drive, you boom, boom, boom. You know what I'm saying? And you know, you know, the, the charges did fire their office coordinator, which is good. Roman, he's out of there. They're probably get somebody in there that can help it out. But yeah, it was a disappointing um to see, you know, all those weapons. And a lot of people will say, you know, they, did they didn't have the offensive line. Everybody on the offensive line was hurt.
00:15:59
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You know, was excuse, excuse, whatever it may be. But, Even with those offensive linemen hurt, they still were putting up a lot of points. For Herbert to have what was like 150 yards, 147, something something um like that, that's just bad, bad football for me. ah We can't blame it on the cold. We can't blame it on anything like that.
00:16:16
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It was just poor preparation, and and you know they lost that game. It it sucks, man, but they they got to play better. They got rid of their coach. Maybe the next year will be better for them. Yeah. My thing, I swear, like Greg Roman, Greg Roman must have some type of –
00:16:34
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hold over the horrible horrible family because he is always getting hired by them and getting fired by them. It's he's fired when he went with the Niners and then he went to the Ravens and then got fired. Then he charges and got fired. I don't understand why does this guy keep getting a job? reg Yeah, it's just, I don't i don't get it. His offense isn't bad, like when he had Kaepernick, and but it's mundane after after the first year. And and Herbert, where we are going to have to start bringing that up about his his playoff woes. you know We want to talk about Lamar all the time. He needs to be in that conversation as well.
00:17:05
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um And I'm a big Herbert fan, but like last year, He had like, what, three or four interceptions all year and then get to the playoffs, and he's throwing them left and right like it's like it's going out of style. So we we got – that has to be a thing with with Herbert. um I don't know what or how he's over the hump, you know, knowing his luck. Next year if they make the playoffs, they're going to have to damn Bravens. You know what I'm saying? and Him and Lamar, one of them got a win or some shit like that. So the real – my real takeaway from this game – is Gonzalez going to play, you know, with concussion protocol um for for New England? You know, he's one of the best cornerbacks in the league.
00:17:38
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And sure is I know they were they were talking about that, about his ah availability for the game. But, you know, Chargers are, we they they were fool's gold to us. We thought they were a lot better. Yes, they had injuries, but, ah you know, it's what it is.
00:17:56
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Yeah. Yeah. i I as well am a am a fan of Herbert. I've always thought he has the potential to be a a great quarterback.
00:18:08
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Unfortunately, you're all right. His playoff woes have come to, you know, undermine him. And when you lose a game like this, know,
00:18:24
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Yes, we all talked about the West Coast team going to the East, so I thought they were um they didn't have a great chance anyways, cold weather, all that stuff that goes into it, which is all valid.
00:18:39
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But that's just poor showing, three points. You can't just go and put three points up in a playoff game and expect to not have questions on you. um So now you are looked at um and getting those same questions that Lamar Jackson has been getting.
00:18:53
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um And so we'll see what happens going forward. As for the Greg Roman thing, yeah, that's that's just the favoritism. And it happens all the time in this league. it's ah you know You find your your friends, your nephew, your old lawyer network brother, your sister. Yeah, the good old boy network. And you just rehire from from that. Exactly, Peach. Were you going to say something, Peach, about something else before I was...
00:19:14
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um And I think the loss is even worse for Herbert because you lose against the of basically first-time playoff team, right? You have all the experience in the playoffs, and you used to lose to the young squad. That's just unacceptable right now, especially for a quarterback his of his standard. And it's just it's a sad thing because the AFC is getting younger, better. Both leagues are. And who knows if he'll ever get chances again, right? I mean – You got to win now. It's just like we're to talk yeah about Josh.
00:19:44
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going to talk about Josh Allen later. It's the same thing. That's exactly it. We just talked about the parody. We just talked about all these new teams that have come up. The NFL, you're not guaranteed.
00:19:54
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to be in the playoffs. you're not not You're not. That's why when people like Dan Marino don't win the Super Bowl, it's like, yeah, you only might get one chance, maybe a two at the most. Some people never get a chance.
00:20:07
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But, you know, I can't mean i can say this. yeah i can say this. With the parity, you're absolutely right. But with that division, it is looking like it is leaning towards more so Denver and the Chargers being the top of that division. and them two having to be the teams to battle each other out. They do have a great roster both sides of the um of those teams, Denver and of the Chargers. They do have really good coaches as far as head coaches are concerned.
00:20:32
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um Unfortunately for the Chiefs, with a lot of follow-up that's going to happen with the Chiefs, ah possibly next year. I'm not you know sure how they're going next year. And then, you know, with the Raiders not throwing any shade, you know, what are they going to be next year? ah You know, we we can look at it and say, you know, it's it's not guaranteed, but it's it's a high probability that deal they'll be what they were because this is another year in a row that they did win with 11, 12 games and they just happened to shit the bed in the playoffs.
00:20:58
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They can figure that out, then they'll be an okay team. One thing, too, that we got to recognize is that, you know, they sat out the week before. and only scored three points. Then you come in this game and only scored three points. So, yes, man, I do believe Greg Roman was a big part of their loss. But, you know, as ah as a team that does have the pieces, when you look at Lab McConkie the year before, he had, what, three touchdowns and almost 200 yards. Like, you've got the players that could do shit there.
00:21:24
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You know what saying? They did have Derwin James stayed healthy all year. He was out there playing. He was doing his things. you know I'm saying? That's a big shocker for those guys. So, oh yeah, man. Get them a good offensive coordinator offens coordinator there that can that can spice that offense up a little bit more because they got fucking weapons, man. And I think they're going to be that team.
00:21:42
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But, yes, you guys are absolutely right, man. If he goes in next year again, loses it it, does some dumb shit in the playoffs, it would be a Lamar Jackson type deal. It would be a longer release though Josh Allen. Like, bruh, I'm going to figure this out. But they won't do it because they're paying him so much money.
00:21:59
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And I only disagree with you on one thing, and I believe Kansas City is still not out of it, not until Patrick Boehm's retires. You can rebuild around him. Is he going to play next year? probably won't play until late, late. but i'm just Yeah, okay, I wasn't talking about next year. I was talking the Patriots in general. Yeah, I made that comment that next year, you know what happens? What's he going to be without Kelsey? You know what mean? It's going to be a lot of things with the Chiefs turn around. I mean, I'm sure they'll get it together, but I'm eager to see how he's going be without ah the ultimate security blanket or whatever. Hey, that will be the ultimate test of Andy Reed's career. He has built, I mean, he's a hall of famer, no doubt. Superbowl coach has built numerous great teams, but what a challenge that will be is to rebuild this iteration of the Kansas city chiefs without anybody from before, except pretty much Patrick Mahomes and maybe Chris Jones possibly. So, and that might not even, he might not even be there. So, All right, let's get some comments. Shout out Champ Ross, my brother. Salute says, let's go 52. Yeah, we know. You like the Broncos. We know. We'll get to them in just a second. By the way, anybody wanting the Boxing Champs Picks group, hit me or Clubber D up.
00:23:11
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We can get you in or Champ Ross. It's a Facebook Boxing Picks group. We get weekly picks. It's free to play, and you can win money, and it's fun. Hey, Champ. I'm going to holler at you because I your pops and your brother, we talked on side. Your pops your brother, they got season tickets to the Niners games, okay? Me and Pete are going out to Pete show enough, but we're going out next year Commanders versus Niners. So I'm going to holler at you. See my family out in Sacktown, too. We're going to have some fun.
00:23:37
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There you go. Our other brother from Boxing Champs. a Hey, who is this, Clubber D? Who we got? I mean, it's it's the one and only people known from left to right, up and down, a diagonal, heavy on the poppy, light on the yayo. None other than poppy tune yayo.
00:23:58
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What up, though? tune yayo. Handing them out like Halloween c candy. Salute to you, my brother. Appreciate you tuning in. We appreciate everybody tuning in. Yeah, nepotism. It is. It's not – I mean, it it is a lot of times family for nepotism, but it's also friends too.
00:24:13
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and i I don't even know if there's a word for friend nepotism. I guess it's just favoritism. But anyways, yes, you're completely right. i am Shout out to NFL. What a shocker we signed Doug Williams' son as our quarterback's coach.
00:24:25
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Nepotism, at huh? we did yeah that There you go. well Exactly. That is exactly sketch what it is. and Shout out to NFL fan or weather fan. Who do you have? Bills or Broncos?
00:24:41
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Don't bury the lead, my friend. We're going to get into that in just a second. Stay tuned and we will get to that for you. We appreciate you tuning in and everybody tuning in. Another Broncos fan. Wow. dude We've got so many Broncos fans on the stream. I'm going to throw up in my mouth.
00:24:58
Speaker
This is ridiculous. Where else would you throw up? Where do you guys think Tomlin should land or take a year off next season? Let's go around the horn. Anybody got thoughts on this? well he's well we already said He already said he's taking a year off, so we already know that part of it.
00:25:15
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Okay, there you go. Do you think he does TV in the year off? No, I think going stay home with his family for a year. Okay. Family man. I don't think he's going to say – yeah, I think he said he took – I think if he would have got fired, then yes, he would have played. But he did say was going take the year off. And the thing about Tomlin is that if somebody does reach out to them, isn't there something that they have to compensate with? Yeah. Isn't there something that they have to compensate to the Steelers? So, I mean, that's one of those ones where out of the eight teams now that need a coach, right, who's willing to do something like that with a lot of coaches that they can reach for now and get – I'm not sure –
00:25:51
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So, yeah, so I take him to look at, you know, you I think they saw the video of him yesterday at his daughter's gymnastics tournament at the University of Georgia. So I think he's going to take the year off and just kind of settle it in a little bit and, you know, get back into it next year. and hey my theres And, hey, if my ah prediction is correct, there'll be an opening in Washington next year. ah so yeah
NFL Divisional Dynamics and Future Predictions
00:26:13
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No, no, no. good one, man. It's good one.
00:26:15
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Don't beat me to it. There is a franchise out there with a lot of money in the coffers now that they've saved up the past few years. And they got a number one pick and a guy named Tom Shady. I mean, Brady, excuse me, at the top of the at the top of the heap.
00:26:32
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I would love to see Mike Tomlin as a Raiders coach. Funny you say that, Omar. I was talking to Clutch this week and I was asking him and asked my brother, who's a Raider fan, about what is the best and least desirable coaching vacancy right now? And for me, I said Pittsburgh was because you don't have a high draft pick. You need a quarterback. You need a lot more things.
00:26:57
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The Raiders, on the other hand, ah you know, you guys are going to have a good draft pick. You guys got the money, but it's the front office. You know i'm saying? Is that where where you want to be?
00:27:09
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uh-huh. u hu I think you're wrong and this is why and it's not because of that. I agree with everything you said, but as we've talked about in the past on this show, the Steelers do not fire coaches. You have stability $5 million dollars a year for as long as you want it. So for a job, I think that's what you would really Well, Tomlin went to Super Bowl his second year, though. That team was already decent.
00:27:33
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no there No, I know. The person coming in is not coming into a good team like Tomlin did. No, 100%. But they're not going to get fired if they win one game or win 15 is what I'm saying. that True. like got building it No, my thing is if you're if you're starting off as a new coach, don't you want to, you know, ah if I'm starting a new coach, I would like a top draft pick to get that quarterback that I want. You know Oh, no doubt. no doubt. But, you know, that that's how I was looking at it. But no, if you're with the Steelers, man, you're good as gold. man You're going to wear for at least 10 years. Right. Once you really shit the bed.
00:28:02
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But but let's let's address the elephant in the room. Ain't no good quarterbacks in this year's draft. It doesn't matter if you are a high draft pick or a late draft pick. Ain't shit that you can get. You fucking want to get that table slate in the second round or something that. Might be a good pick.
00:28:15
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But yeah, I get what you're saying, Deion. Or you do what Omar's been wanting to do. Trade the damn thing. Get a first rounder for next year. Fix the O-line. And then you have multiple firsts to trade up if you need to for one of the big boys next year. The Jets got like, what, three this year? Or...
00:28:31
Speaker
I don't think I got first for Quentin Williams from the Cowboys, but I only got a first for Indy. So I know they at least have two firsts. Yeah, I think two. Yeah. um This is what I'll say. the the For the future, yes, the Raiders are the better pick right now. But I think if...
00:28:48
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The Steelers could get in a free agent, I don't know if, with a coach, paired with a coach that knows them. So, for instance, just off the top of my head, and i'm this is probably not going happen, but let's, it's I'm pretty sure it won't, but let's say that they went out and hired the Arizona coach, Jonathan Gannon, and he was Tyler Murray.
00:29:08
Speaker
and he brought Kyler Murray in. You've got offensive pieces on that team. Yeah, your defense is trash, but you can build that up ah because it used to be good. It can be built back up in a couple years. But you've got offensive pieces. You've got D.K. Metcalf. You've got – what's the young running back name? I'm thinking Gainwell, but it's not Gainwell. Warren. Jalen Warren. You've got ah the tight end there. I wish Clutch was on here. Somebody help me out. The tight end starts the F.
00:29:34
Speaker
Friar move. Friar move. So you've got some good pieces on the offensive end. If there's a free, like maybe Mac Jones, you know, could be, I'm not saying he's, he will be a free agent, but they have to trade for him. you Mac Jones that was, you know, with the coach, maybe you could pair that up and find some success now.
00:29:53
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Right now, again, for the future, I still think the Raiders, but for next year with the offensive pieces they still have, maybe even bring in a Raheem Morris, a defensive coach. I know you don't want to hear that dirty mojo, but maybe they bring in, don care you know, Raheem Morris, pick up the defense, get a ah quarterback that can be decent enough. And maybe the Steelers are back in the playoffs next year.
00:30:13
Speaker
Well, look let's look let's look at the whole situation, though. Look at that whole division. There's three coaching vacancies. means that division, the AFC North, is going to be super up for grabs next year. Nobody knows who's going what.
00:30:25
Speaker
I mean, at this point, you could probably say the Bengals with the healthy Bengals are probably the favorites to win next year, right? Because of what's going on with the Ravens, what's going on with the Browns, what's going on now with the Steelers. So right now, if I were to say anything, the the Bengals are the the best team because they have little bit of the stability.
00:30:41
Speaker
And how the hell did Zach Taylor survive out of all those coaches? I'm still baffled by that. Because Burrell got injured. Because Burrell got injured. yeah how many year How many years are going to use that excuse? i mean They're cheap. They don't want to pay nobody else. They're paying them a certain amount. They're oh, that's our limit. You know how cheap they are.
00:31:01
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Somebody something?
Texans vs. Steelers Game Review
00:31:03
Speaker
No? All right, cool. Let's get into the other. That turned out to be a great discussion, you know, parlaying that into coaches there. So, but yeah, let's get into the other blowout that we had. Houston Texans over the Pittsburgh Steelers. We just talked about the Pittsburgh Steelers, so this should be more of a Texans situation.
00:31:27
Speaker
uh focused uh game here uh clutch be shot to you brother start with you uh dirty mojo in this one houston texans 30 stealer six what are your thoughts wow man the houston texans looked good across the board i mean as far as dracquavius running the rock christian kurt catching the ball i mean it was a it was a fantastic showing um you know i'm the stealers did have the two uh turnovers that ended up in touchdowns, one at the end of the game, you know I'm saying You want really want to count that, but then also that' sat the fumble by Aaron Rodgers, man, that just made him look bad. The Steelers just did not look like a team that wanted to be out there, who should be out there. It just looked like pure insane ass.
00:32:07
Speaker
I mean, from... Them in the game last week, the week before, I mean, with with the Ravens, should have lost that game. I think it would have been a a lot more competitive game if the Ravens were in there.
00:32:18
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But Aaron Rodgers, I think he's done. i'm i'm actually waiting forward to get to the picks because I might have a little shocker with my picks coming up here in few minutes.
00:32:30
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what All right. So the Texans look good, man. And the Texans are still on that – On that winning streak, what is it now, nine? Nine games in a row? Ten games. Ten games in a row? I mean, that's fantastic, man. It's good. You know, D'Amico Ryans has those guys. um so he has those guys balling, man. They love They love it. they love He's a great coach, man.
00:32:51
Speaker
Stroud played paid pray with it pretty well. So, I mean, this could be a good game tonight. Five of us. Stroud looked like dog shit. He had like five footballs, man. That game was so terrible. That defense saved them. Oh, their defense did save them, guys. He looked like a damn Muppet baby. He just – The was stacked a million damn times and under pressure a lot. but You know what I'm saying?
00:33:16
Speaker
The defense outscored the offense, guys. That's the thing. that Yeah, that's right. That defense is the best defense in football, bar none in my mind. The best defense in football is the Houston Texans. Now – Over the Bears? Over the Bears?
00:33:28
Speaker
Defense? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bears get turnovers. They let teams go up and down the field on them. They just get turnovers. but Yeah, they just get turnovers, yeah. They stop everybody. But the real elephant in the room is the Nico Collins injury for this weekend coming up. We'll talk about that later when we get to that game because that's going to be huge right there. Well, it could cancel out with Gonzalez, though.
00:33:46
Speaker
Yeah, that's true, too. could cancel each other out. yeah for man that that's working cuss But, their – Nico is their crutch on offense. When they need a big third down conversion, that's who they go to. And, man, that that's going to affect the game, I believe.
00:34:02
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, Climby, you're right. Five interceptions can or five fumbles, excuse me, whatever it was, turnovers, cannot happen at all. Their red zone offense needs to be better, below 40%. I mean, yeah you've this look, mean, this is a defense-led team, like you said, Peach. Any other thoughts on this?
00:34:22
Speaker
Oh, no, i love that they they they they play good on the road. out they They checked all the boxes for me because that's a team that plays in a – indoors in a friend it's a southern team playing up north and it's cold so now they have another test playing in new england and we got snow i was yeah i was gonna say yeah we'll see that again this week see what happens i'm but will enter like minus degree temperature too they're like real football that's what it's supposed to be there you go well hey
00:34:52
Speaker
Take your ass into the cold.
Bills vs. Broncos Game Preview
00:34:55
Speaker
ah All right, cool. That's funny because who said that? That was Cam. I think it was Cam Jordan was on Sunday NFL countdown. It says something similar to that. He was like, man, I don't care about that. I don't want to play in the cold. He said, oh that's what he said. He said he moved to Spain.
00:35:10
Speaker
one off season. He took his family to Spain because he played in a playoff game that was like super cold. And he was like, yeah he was like, F this. We're moving. I'm moving to Spain. It's too cold.
00:35:22
Speaker
I was like, that's crazy. But anyway, all right, cool. we hang
00:35:27
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Yeah, so let's move into the actual games. Hit that like button. and See people pile it in there. Please hit that like button for us. Helps everybody out here in the algorithm as well. Make sure you subscribe to Ball and Buds on YouTube. Buffalo oh Bills 12 and 5 going into – actually, no, wait a second. No, wait a second. We're not doing that one first.
00:35:48
Speaker
I want to go with the other one first on Saturday. No, I know, I know, I know. But I'm to save because we've got a lot of Broncos fans in here, so that's called a tease. But also, we've got our brother here who is a 49ers fan, and they play today.
00:36:03
Speaker
So we will let them go first. ah I want to go last. want to go first. thank you Well, yeah it's going to be second. It wouldn't be last. So you'd rather be first. We're 8 o'clock. when Okay, go ahead.
00:36:15
Speaker
Okay, fine. We'll go to the Bills. because you're first or last, Deion. Yeah, that's fine. No, no, let's go on sequence of the games. It's tough. Let's go. that's hi I was trying to let you, I was trying to let you get your shine. All right, we'll go with the Buffalo Bills and what happened here? up we be Woo.
00:36:34
Speaker
Shout out to our brother. You've been MIA in a while. Just me or all the teams left really flawed. I'm not sure any of the teams are great. So the parody lends to that, right? We talked about it earlier. Thanks for tuning in, brother. We appreciate you. But we did talk about this earlier where a lot of the teams in the playoffs this year were teams that were bad last year.
00:36:53
Speaker
So just because you got good in one year doesn't necessarily mean you're going fix all of your deficiencies. And you can still have issues on your team and be a team like the Bears that won a bunch of close games and got into the playoffs. And we saw, no offense, Peach, what that did to the Commanders last year in the playoffs. And you as well, maybe. So um anybody else have thoughts on that?
00:37:16
Speaker
Well, it's kind of like we said earlier. Yeah, I think it makes it great, though, because I don't know who's going to the Super Bowl this year, guys. It could be any one of these teams. There's no, like like you said, there's no huge favorite at all.
00:37:27
Speaker
Not one bit. So anything can happen, and that's what I love about this game this week. and nfl NFL needed this just like college football needed what's going on right now. You got to switch it up. You got to give those fans, the teams that don't really usually get there or so or have joy, watch their teams. You got to get that joy back into them, and and that's what's happening with a lot of these teams that that aren't usually here. so you do know why I would say that they do have the flaws, but I think the one thing that we can agree upon is that if we are going to choose a favorite, I think it would be the hierarchy of what quarterbacks are still left in there. And I know Peach made a comment that that that four of the quarterbacks are two-year guys. You know what I'm saying? And then you have a guy like the Josh Allen. You have a guy like... um
00:38:10
Speaker
like Matthew Stafford, that's the veteran guys that, know what I'm saying? If you look it and say, hey, hey, this is what's going on. So, you know, with that being said, yes, they do have their flaws.
00:38:22
Speaker
But, you know, i would I would say that the favorite teams would be those guys that have those higher – because you know how they look at the tier list on the quarterbacks and where they stand in the hierarchy or, you know, this guy is the guy and, you know, tier one all the way down to tier five or whatever. So right now, if you were to say who are the tier one quarterbacks, you're gonna say Josh Allen. You're going to say – You're going to say Stafford. And then after that, to who's next? Is it tier two or do they just immediately go down to dad at tier three, which you can say, okay, cool, yeah, they're good quarterbacks, but are they Super Bowl dominating quarterbacks? I don't know. So, I mean, yes, but yes, they do have some flaws. So it's going to be a fun weekend, and i' I'm looking forward to seeing what's going happen.
00:39:05
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Yeah. ye Yep, yep. thank you for the question, Weeby. Really appreciate it. I hope you're doing well, brother. And good luck to you. i hope you got what you were hoping for the holiday season.
00:39:17
Speaker
All right, cool. So let's move it into the game that we were just about to talk about, the Buffalo Bills at the Broncos. The Broncos are one-and-a-half point home favorites. The over-under here 45-and-a-half.
00:39:32
Speaker
and a half um Looking at this game, we just talked about Josh Allen being one of the top ah tiered quarterbacks. Thank you, Dirty Mojo, for that. And that's true. When you have a ah Josh Allen, you have confidence.
00:39:44
Speaker
And when you have confidence, you believe that you can win games. And especially when you're playing a team that, yes, you're the number one seed in the Denver Broncos, but also um you have an inconsistent quarterback.
00:39:57
Speaker
You're led by your defense, but... It was a very big come up. No one expected them to be 14 and three this year. Let's just be except hot take Jake and Champ Ross.
00:40:09
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um So, you know, when we're looking at this, we need to take into consideration that one quarterback as as dirty Mojo just mentioned. and we'll so And we'll start with you again, dirty Mojo, because I want to start with cover D for the 49ers. And you mentioned this.
00:40:24
Speaker
How is that going to play into this game? ah Buffalo versus Broncos. well Well, we talked about this going into the playoffs, about how there's more pressure on the Buffalo Bills to do a good job in this postseason than any other team in the um and that that's still remaining, right? Because why?
00:40:42
Speaker
Lamar Jackson's not there. Burrow's not there. Patrick Mahomes isn't there. Now you're going up against potentially how many other of these quarterbacks are second and third year guys.
00:40:54
Speaker
You can't now lose to second and third year guys when you've been losing to perennial pro bowlers, all pros and and and potential Hall of Famers, right? So the pressure's on them to win it.
00:41:05
Speaker
But the one thing I'll say about this is that We're looking at this one one and a half ah point favorite for the Denver Broncos, and we already know how how Vegas works. They're going to give you one and a half points because you're at home.
00:41:16
Speaker
This is an even game. I give the nod and I give the edge to the Buffalo Bills, and it's because Denver Broncos had that bye. And we know that just because you have a bye doesn't mean anything. A lot of times, you teams come off these byes, they're a little slow, they're a little sluggish, just a little blah, blah, blah. But i like the i like the Buffalo Bills to win this game. I think Josh Allen is going to continue to go. And to be honest with you, I don't want to jump too far ahead, but i i'm I'm thinking that the Buffalo Bills will will represent the AFC in the Super Bowl this year. So I'm taking the Buffalo Bills to win this game. I think it will be a high-scoring game. I got the Buffalo Bills winning this game 35-30. Hmm.
00:41:57
Speaker
I mean, well, you did just bury your own prediction. But all right, 35 to 30. No, no, no, no, no. How did I bury my prediction? How did I bury my prediction?
00:42:10
Speaker
Well, because you just gave away what you're going to predict later. no i ah no No, I was talking about for the NFC side. I didn't want to talk too much about who thought would win, who they're going to play. So that's what was talking about. But you're still giving away your Super Bowl picks, we know who you think going to win this weekend next week. What?
00:42:29
Speaker
who i thought would win who they're gonna ple so that's what i was talking about but you're still giving away your super bowl pick so we know who's gonna we know who you think's gonna win long next ah what I said that, though. I'm telling you I said the Buffalo Bills. I'm picking the Buffalo Bills. So we know who you're going to pick next week, too, then, when Buffalo plays. We don't have to worry about asking for them. Yeah, yeah. ah That's hilarious. All right, Clever D, what you got on this game?
00:42:59
Speaker
My bad. You're funny. oh but I think my issue with this game is going to be it's either – Will Bo Nix play down to his opposition like he's been doing a lot of these games? um There's been a lot of games that Broncos should have lost, even with that great defense. um And is Benito and Hufunga and PS2, how are they going to stop ah Josh Allen? That's going be the main thing as far as on the on the what I'll be looking at.
00:43:29
Speaker
If Josh Allen can do what Josh Allen does, I mean, this guy went to the blue tent like eight times against Jaguars and still came back out. You know, who knows if he was really hurt. Trubisky came out just say, hey, how you doing? And sit your ass back down. Josh Allen took over. you're going have Shakur.
00:43:43
Speaker
ah He has to do something. They just lost. ah What's his name? Savers. What's his name? the The receiver for Buffalo. He just towards ACL. You lost him. Oh, Shakur. Shakur. No, no, not Shakur.
00:43:55
Speaker
The tall guy, the taller one. so with that But ah he he he tours ACL. He's out. um Coleman, he's been you know in the doghouse all year. He's going to have to play. you know he's's He's a talented wide receiver. So um um I'm eager to see if it's just going to Josh Allen and friends or is going to be Josh Allen and Cook and someone else?
00:44:16
Speaker
um And again, it goes to will they be able to stop the the the offense? I don't think Bo Nix will be able to If it turns into a shootout, I don't think Bo Nix can hang with Josh Allen.
00:44:28
Speaker
I just don't think he can do that. So ah I'm going to have to go with Lamar on this one. I'm going to 30. I'll just undercut with 27 to 17 Buffalo.
00:44:38
Speaker
buffalo but The reason why I still have Denver's offense scoring a lot because Buffalo's defense isn't very good. So yeah I will put it ah we'll put it to that that it's like, yo, yes, I don't think he can keep up with them. And maybe that 30 points will be, you know, it's 35 to 20 and they score 10 points with, you know, seven minutes to go. They, you know, they they get it in there. But I just, you know, like like you said, man, I don't think he can win in a shootout. And and that this, this, uh,
00:45:08
Speaker
This bye week, man, I think might slow them down. I think it might slow their offense down a little bit in the beginning of the other game.
00:45:15
Speaker
Yeah, just to give the answer to that, it's Tyrell Savers, suffering a torn ACL. And also Gabe Davis has been out with the torn ACL. So you're you're right. And they're expecting to activate, um looks like a Curtis Samuel maybe, but you're right. Who are these who the you know receivers that are going to be able to lead? yeah How old is it?
00:45:37
Speaker
Curtis, you got to be. Jesus Christ. And when they run down here, the commanders are like, yeah, we have Curtis. Settle down. Settle down. Curtis. We're going to use it like Debo. How long did he last here? One year? He lasted one though? Peach, what do you to say? We're going to use it like Debo, all right.
00:45:57
Speaker
you say me? Well, to my two friends that made the predictions, I'm sorry to coerce you, but not so fast, my friend. Because here it Here it is, gentlemen. And I hate to agree with hot take, Jake. You know, I despise his picks and his faking. But like Deion said, the mr Mr. Number one quarterback in all of football was in that blue tent a lot.
00:46:21
Speaker
And I'm not 100% sure he's healthy. And he's going up against one of the most physical defenses in all the lands. And they are going to hit them. And they're there. Maybe even take a few cheap shots if they have to, right? And again, i know the inconsistency of of Denver's offense and the quarterback, but that Buffalo defense is horrendous. And I think he can i think he could score over 21 points against them, and that's going to get them to win. I think Denver wins this game because of the Denver defense. They forced a few turnovers. The injuries to Buffalo is going to drag them down. the receiver injury and Josh Allen being hurt.
00:46:59
Speaker
I see Denver winning this game, 28 to 21. Denver Broncos. Hot take. Jake is happy. And we'll be c pleasuring self in his room next tonight. Wow. Whoa.
00:47:12
Speaker
Whoa. Yeah. you know who are yeah there Whoa. leave Did not you want that. him you a stranger didn't Did not want that visual on early Saturday. Jesus. what Thank you for that. um but but You like it and did really mention some things. He has his Broncos like vigil up there. it's like He has the Broncos logo. He's got a picture of John Elway. He's got a picture of, I don't know, Eddie McCaffrey, because that's somebody I think Jacob liked. Atwater.
00:47:49
Speaker
And he's listening to Shannon Sharpe's podcast at the same time. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Call him for all the screen. Call him for everything. Call him for everything, I'm telling you. Oh, man. The Neal Smith poster. Oh, my God. I take Jake. I'm sorry for the random strays. I apologize. But anyways, getting back to the focus here. Look, y'all right. Y'all all had some good points there. First of all, the Denver defense. If they can hit Josh Allen, you mentioned him going in the blue tent last week over and over. Denver has a league best 68 sats, 11 more than any other team. So they are going to be bringing the pressure and trying to hit him as many times as they can and get him to the ground, try to get him. I don't want to say injured, but you're right. Maybe a little, you know, bounty gate type of action happening when we know Sean Payton's passed. So we ain't going put it past him. I know I don't. um
00:48:48
Speaker
On the other side, though, What about the Bills defense? You mentioned their rush defense, the worst run defense in the league. They average 5.1 yards a carry and 136.2 yards per game. That is horrendous.
00:49:04
Speaker
What else does that do, Omar? What else does that do? that you don't have You don't have to have both picks throwing the ball as much, right? If you're running the ball all over them. And time of possession. That's good one. That was a good one. I like that. um And time of possession, right, comes into play in that too because they can grind down the clock and not have to worry as much about his inconsistencies. And I'm glad you brought up Bo Nix. Here's your sports professor stat for this game. Bo Nix is the only player this season with more than 3,900 yards, but less than
00:49:40
Speaker
six point five yards per attempt So he's not throwing the ball downfield. and He's checking. He's throwing short to Cortland Sutton, right? Things like this. Knicks' inconsistencies are are the reason why they just barely beat the Chiefs and Chargers by one score. Catch this. I caught this stat, and this amazed me.
00:50:05
Speaker
Three of the top four teams with the most punts in the 2025 season, the Browns, Titans, and Raiders, We all know where the hell they at. um The fourth is the Knicks. Knicks is Broncos with 75 punts more than the Raiders.
00:50:21
Speaker
So they are up there with most punts, which means not only is he throwing short, he's not able to move the ball down the field. And if it wasn't for the defense, as Clubber D said, keeping them in games, um you know, where would they be? Would they be 14 and three? I highly doubt it. Would they be in the playoffs?
00:50:38
Speaker
Also ah questionable, i still think they would, but questionable as well, because again, You know, it's just been too inconsistent. And when you have a quarterback, as I mentioned earlier, like Josh Allen, who has proven time and again that he can win a game and win a game late, even if he's having a bad game to start, I'm going with the Bills. It's going to be a close one. 24 to 23, a one-point game here. So I'm talking very, very close. But Josh Allen and the Denver – and the but Buffalo Bills, excuse me, pulling it out against the Denver Broncos –
00:51:14
Speaker
at Mile High Stadium.
49ers vs. Seahawks Matchup
00:51:18
Speaker
There you go. How many ah play action rolled to the rights we're going see in the first quarter Bo Nix.
00:51:24
Speaker
That is the shit. I mean, look, he and you're right, Peyton is trying to protect his quarterback, so he's giving him plays that he's hoping he won't, A, get sacked, and B, you know know, be able to maybe get the ball 6.5 yards down the field.
00:51:41
Speaker
That's not an NFL quarterback. You should be averaging way more than 6.5 yards in attempt. I'm sorry. Anyways, and that's not even a catch. That's an attempt, by the way. Attempt. It's even worse.
00:51:52
Speaker
That's wild. Crazy. Let's get some comments here. Shout out to a rock chalk. We see you the best true crime podcast on YouTube. you check out rock chalk, please subscribe and tap in with her there at UC rock chalk, true crime. She got her, her, uh, handle right there.
00:52:12
Speaker
Hey, that that was going to be great. I know, you know, Clubber D and I were both looking forward to that, her being on that card against Kayla Harrison. Hopefully we'll see that in the future. Clubber D, what are your thoughts on this?
00:52:24
Speaker
i Speedy recovery for Kayla. I mean, know, hope she gets well. I think she's getting neck surgery. that I know she posted a video of her and her neck brace in the hospital. You know, when when that when something that happens, always wonder, like, are why are you training this hard? going to speculate, but usually it's like hard training, like when boxers get cut or something like that before fight. You're not supposed to be training that hard, but it could have been a freak accident. I don't know exactly what happened, but i hope she's not out too long. I think they're saying maybe four or five months, but i don't know. Anything with the neck or spine, I'm just like, hey, take as long as much time as you need. um I know that... ah
00:52:58
Speaker
um Amanda Serrano said that she would sub in for her and fight a manda Amanda Nunez. well she gets tweet Yeah, she put that out there. That's not a good idea. Respectfully, sit your ass down. Sit your ass down. I know you've done MMA before. I know you've done MMA before. I get it. But respectfully, go and sit down.
00:53:20
Speaker
Don't worry about that. then You don't need that. Boricua. Boricua. Siempre palante. I love you. but no, please don't do that. Amanda Nunez may be the, may be the greatest m MMA female fighter of all time. i She's probably it. I, it's to her for me, it's cyborg slash hers either other one A or one B. i just like cyborg cyborgs been all around the world and had just about every known championship in every organization. Cyborg has done that. Um,
00:53:49
Speaker
I wish they got a rematch, but they didn' why don't like Cyborg. But, yeah, I mean, yeah, you can say she's she's the best. She's she's there. Okay. All right. Well, we'll hope to see that matchup in the future. As I heard, um I think it was Daniel Cormier may have said that they should – They should hold her from fighting until Kayla Harrison is recovered and have them fight. But, you know, that's not always possible. It's going to over six months. Shout out Mark Barrett for tuning in. We appreciate you. He says San Francisco 49ers. So we see he's cheering for.
00:54:18
Speaker
All right, cool. So let's move it on to the next game. Y'all make sure you hit that like button if you're watching. We really appreciate it as well. Make sure you subscribe to Paul and Buds. a little bit of background noise there in someone's – cabin I don't know what's happening there, but 12-5 San Francisco 49ers going into Seattle, their arch nemesis, division and rival, Seattle is a seven-point home favorite, astute.
00:54:48
Speaker
a point there by you earlier, Dirty Mojo, on the one the two points given to the home favorite. Two, sometimes three. so That is very astute by you. forty ah The over-under here is 45 and a half.
00:55:02
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um I don't need to speak anymore. We have our resident 49ers expert, and I will defer to him. well okay so There's a couple weird ah factors that come in this game. A lot of weird stats. The last time we were in the divisional round or, uh, had that seven point, whatever under, over, whatever it's called.
00:55:23
Speaker
It was against, uh, the Redskins at the time. And we had came back, we were down 21 to nothing in Montana had came back and we barely lost that game on a questionable, uh, riding line of passing the fence, which wasn't passing the fence, but you know, talk 1983. There was not passing the fair straight bullshit. Uh, so, um, Kyle Shannon has never lost divisional round.
00:55:43
Speaker
Um, Brock Purdy has never lost in Seattle. Um, I got a friend who's a Niner fan but hates Brock Purdy and thinks Sam Darnold should be our quarterback for some dumb reason, doesn't watch football. Sam Darnold hasn't thrown touchdown against us all year.
00:55:55
Speaker
um The first game, Brock had those two picks and still led that eight-drive game-winning touchdown pass to Jake Tunchess. Last week, you know, he threw two picks and then had that five-play drive ah to win the game with that touchdown pass to McCaffrey. um If Brock plays mistake-free football, I haven't seen that in a while, but you know what I'm saying? We could win this game.
00:56:20
Speaker
Sam Darnold coming out with saying he has an oblique injury. I don't know if that's a precursor of when he's going to Sam Darnold and possibly throw the game. Not throw the game, but just have a bad game. We don't know. um Each game has been...
00:56:33
Speaker
You know, they didn't really like blow us out like that last game. you know We don't score three points, but were moving ball pretty decent. Just can't run the ball. Guess and we didn't have Trent Williams the last game. So I think this game should be a lot different with Fred Warner the opening their practice window and him being in practice just basically jumped up air everybody's ah morale with him just just coming out after his ankle was switched sideways um a couple of months ago. um This is going tough task. if Seattle's defense is very, very good and a very physical.
00:57:03
Speaker
um And the key for us is if Ricky Pearsall is going to play. I haven't checked the report today. don't know if he's going to play the first game. He looked great against him when we won up there. So with all that being said, I'm going to say very low scoring. I'm going to go 21. Scratch that. 17-13 San
00:57:23
Speaker
scratch that seventeen thirteen san fran Oh, going with his team this week. not going against him like he did last week.
00:57:34
Speaker
yeah We got nothing to lose. So, I mean, um we got nothing to lose. Now, um and now ah just some injury updates. Jake Tongass, as you mentioned, will be the injury replacement for George Kittle. Yeah. There in San Francisco. um As well, who was the other injury you mentioned?
00:57:54
Speaker
Ricky Pearsall. I'm blanking now on the other person. Ricky Pearsall, I'm going check on that. I'll get us an answer on that as well. They have to afford say yay or nay, I believe. so my And the other injury you mentioned, which is the huge one in this game, is Sam Darnold's oblique. This just popped up.
00:58:15
Speaker
Now, and apparently, according to reports out of the Seattle camp, it was a non-contact injury, which means he wasn't hit, which means this could be tear, possibly.
00:58:27
Speaker
possible. You know, ah worse than ah now, is he still going to play? I would believe so. I don't think he's going to miss out on one of the biggest games of his career, but one hit to that side may be the end of day Sam Darnold's night.
00:58:43
Speaker
And we know... was about to say that. I didn't want us to be the one. We sacked him two times last time. Last game, we sacked him twice, so we got to him. But like he doesn't see he doesn't he doesn't tear us up, though. He only had like a hundred and earlier 40 yards the last game, but you know, and it could change today. You never know.
00:59:02
Speaker
And obliques can cause turnover injuries. If you're trying to compensate when you're throwing the ball or maybe it hurts and you can't get it far enough down the field, right? All of these things can play in today. Pete, you're shaking your head. What do you got on this game?
00:59:15
Speaker
This game, man, I don't know what to pick, man. Like, this is the true definition of a toss-up game. Flip coin. Because both teams have issues. Like you said, Darnold turns to a pumpkin sometimes, and he has, like, an injury, right?
00:59:26
Speaker
So we don't know what that's going affect the game. The 49ers are just injured galore. You don't know what you're going to get. yeah i keep I keep coming back to the last game where Seattle just put so much pressure on. Purdy had didn't have a chance last game.
00:59:40
Speaker
Can Trent Williams make a difference? Hell yeah. He's a Hall of Famer. He's probably a top five tackle of all time. So that's where Deion and the Niners faithful need to hope. but What needs to hope happens is that changes the pass rush for the Seattle Seahawks because that defense is really good.
00:59:54
Speaker
If I had to pick right now, low scoring. You le on do have to pick right now. What do you mean? the point is Yes, you have to pick right now. So I think it's going to be a low scoring game like Deion said.
01:00:06
Speaker
I'm going to go the other way and say seventeen fourteen Seattle because they're at home. Because they're at home and because I think that defense is going to make a big play. Because that's what's going to come down to a defense making a big play. And like Deion said, his defense doesn't turn the ball over.
01:00:21
Speaker
They don't get turnovers. They don't get many sacks. And that's that's where I'll say going to flip the game. Like ah a Seattle turnover is going to flip the game. And that's where I think this game is won. Mm-hmm.
01:00:32
Speaker
Now, as you mentioned, their defensive performance in week 18 against the 49ers holding but only three points in one hundred and 173 yards. What a magnificent performance, but we do expect 49ers to adjust. Robert sala Sala is a great coach, a great defensive coordinator at least, so we expect him to adjust and be better this time around, but Mike McDonald is just the defensive guru. He's just elite. And they led the defense. The only thing that the Texans weren't better than them in was points. Seattle led the league in NFL in defensive points, holding your opponents in points. so Well, and then, like we said, the X factor of everything.
01:01:15
Speaker
When is Sam Darnold going turn into a pumpkin? Because we know it's coming. That's exactly what I was going to get to. They are fourteen and three Their three losses were by a combined nine points.
01:01:26
Speaker
All it takes is one mistake. And we know that Sam Darnold led the league this year in turnovers with 20, 14 interceptions, and six crumbles.
01:01:38
Speaker
So he is very prone to giving the ball over. Now you've got an oblique injury. Makes things a little more complicated, Dirty Mojo. What say you? Yeah, i work for for me, I don't know who in Vegas is getting these point spreads because between the two of these teams have played, 45 and a half, if anything, I would say bet the under because the first game was what, 17 to 13, 30 points, and then 13 to three. Where the hell are they getting 45 and a half points between the two of these teams, right? I don't even see it. They they barely made that with the two games that they played combined, right?
01:02:12
Speaker
So – Right. I mean, 46 points. Those two games. Right. So anyways, for me, this is what I see, man. I've seen a San Francisco 49ers team that the three games prior to them playing week 18 against Seattle Seahawks, which was in San Francisco, by the way, they put up 40 points in two games and 30 something points in and one of those games. Right. Their office was fucking rolling.
01:02:41
Speaker
They played against a Seattle team in San Francisco and put up a dud three points. That was with one of the best tight ends in the game, Kittle. And Kittle's not there now.
01:02:51
Speaker
So you don't have Kittle in this game. You have an injured, who knows what's going happen with Pierce Hall. And you're playing with the 12th men and that loud stadium in Seattle. I don't know how they're going to be able to do this. I don't i don't see it.
01:03:06
Speaker
I'll so i'll counter counteract that with. Kittle got hurt the first game for of the year against Seattle. He scored one touchdown, didn't come in after the second quarter. um Trent Green, Trent Green, Trent, Trent Winsden played the last game against Seattle at home near the Ricky Pearsall.
01:03:21
Speaker
um So that's the big difference, you know, that kind of threw us off that last game. And Seattle, and my last thing is Seattle's not as good this year as they you usually been. They have a better road record than home record this year. that's That's a good point, and i' I'm glad you brought that up. But I still look at it as as one of those things where it's your division rivals. That first game was 17-13, right?
01:03:40
Speaker
Kittle scored a touchdown, and Moody, didn't he scored the rest of your points. None of those two are playing in this game, correct? That's a good thing for Moody because he missed the field goal. Yeah, I know. so Moody was dark anyway. Definitely a good thing. Moody Pinero has only missed one field goal since he's been on our squad, and now it's like a 60-yarder he went for a half. yeah Right, right. So, I mean, I know we're looking at Darnold, but check this out, guys.
01:04:05
Speaker
We've been talking about Darnold turning into a pumpkin for how long? We can't continue to use he's going to turn back into the pumpkin and be like, I told you he was going to do it because they're still winning games. there' He's still doing what they need to do to win games. But to be fair, we said he's going to turn into a pumpkin in the playoffs, and this is his first playoff game they bos this is this is This is his first playoff. he turns up he turns into a pumpkin when it matters. It's not just every other week. so yeah That whole pumpkin thing has to be a big game. so well i the way i see it The way I see it, man, I think this is going to be another low-scoring game.
01:04:38
Speaker
I'm going to go back to the same score because Omar, you made a great point. 17.2 points a game that defense allows. And now you've just lost your, probably one of your other best players in the NFL with this kiddo and Parasol not playing. It's hard for me to see the San Francisco 49ers scoring more than 17 points along with,
01:04:56
Speaker
Last week, they scored, what, it was 10 of their points against Philadelphia in the last couple of minutes, right, so it took to end up winning that game. um I see Seattle coming out here and and doing what they have to do to win this game. I want to say that this score is going to be basically the same as the first game of the season, 17 to 14, but I'm going to put it in the Seattle Seahawks' favor.
01:05:14
Speaker
They got to run ball. If we can't stop the run, they got they're going to kill us. Another thing that we none of us mentioned, which I'm shocking, the the way the 49ers can win this game is with Christian McCaffrey having one of them crazy games. We didn't bring up Christian McCaffrey, right?
01:05:28
Speaker
That's the guy that has to do its own offense today, guys. That's the guy that's got to keep the ball in the 49ers' hands, score them some touchdowns, and get the ball rolling. Otherwise, they don't have a chance, I don't think. The the big thing for us was ah the fact that Eric Hendricks and – and a lot of those to other linebackers that subbed in last week, they played phenomenal.
01:05:48
Speaker
I thought they actually played better than Tatum, Bethune, and Dee Winters, ah you know, because they're they're veterans and kind of been around the block, and they weren't missing tackles. We we we we had so many missed tackles against Seattle ah that last game of the season, and a lot of our losses are terrible missed tackles by our linebackers, and we haven't even had a – Curtis Robinson, one of our reserve linebackers, finished the middle linebacker, finished the game with zero tackles.
01:06:11
Speaker
So we we finally have something decent at linebacker right now, even though there's it's our fifth fifth and sixth stringer who only got on the team a month ago. So that's going to be a big for us also ah is the play of our linebackers. But yeah Seattle, I mean, you would think that they would kill us sometimes, but they what they haven't been. And is the last game was just primarily Kenneth Walker and – Charbonnet running all over us and they really do much they have JSN and it was like this dude JSN should be you know doing everything against us but for some reason I don't know Diablo Lamore has been putting the clamps on him well as best he can I mean if we go back to it man a a healthy because I know we've talked about how the 49ers have been injured right a healthy 49ers team only beat them 17 to 14 the first game of the season
01:06:58
Speaker
And now they're completely decimated. you know i'm saying? So it's just hard for me to think that, ah you know, if if I'm going to go with, you know, how things have been rolling, it's hard for me to see them doing that against them, you know, especially with the 13-3 loss. So, but if you're going bet anything, bet that under 45 and a half. I just put a lot on that under that 45 and a half shit. I mean, ugh.
01:07:18
Speaker
Because of the Chargers. You never know. Right. Because the Seahawks aren't putting up any points either. So, yeah.
01:07:28
Speaker
Yeah, and i think I think the same as y'all. The only thing is I think it might be a little ah little higher scoring just by a few points. time of bit um This is the thing. i If you had both of these teams at full strength, then I would go with the 49ers.
01:07:46
Speaker
Uh, but we all know what has happened all season long. We know their, their adversity that they've dealt with. And it comes to injury. We know they've overcome that adversity time and time again, including beating the NFL defending champion, Philadelphia Eagles last week.
01:08:03
Speaker
Um, And this morning when I woke up and heard the Sam Darnold news, I said, oh, wow, now I'm going to switch my pick to the 49ers. I think Robert Sala can put together a good enough game plan to, you know, figure something out. And and Sam Darnold will, you know, see ghosts and make a mistake. And that'll be that.
01:08:21
Speaker
And then I started thinking about it more. And I started going to what ah Dirty Mojo we started talking about. Not only the injuries and now losing George Kittle last week, which is one of the most important players on your team.
01:08:34
Speaker
But you also beat this team a couple of weeks ago, stonewalled them, basically. um And you're at home. You have the 12th man. um By all other means, the rest of your team is fairly healthy.
01:08:48
Speaker
Not 49ers decimated. So for those reasons, I am going to go a tough win for Seattle. Again, full strength. I would take the 49ers, but I just can't. I can't see it. Seattle at home.
01:09:03
Speaker
I'm going to 21-17. Seattle seattle defeats the San Francisco 49ers. So we're all betting under, right?
01:09:15
Speaker
Yeah, under for sure. no no um um Now to go over. Now I go bet the over. Yeah. Well, my original score was 25-21. I'll be completely honest and transparent. It was 25-21 before we started this segment. And all of you convinced me with your lower scores that I needed to lower that score a little bit. So I just lowered it to 21 seconds. Watch a big shootout. know, right? Shootout or an ass-whooping. Shootout or an ass-whooping. One to two. Watch.
01:09:45
Speaker
All of I'm saying is the 49ers in order to have the pro. The 49ers order have a chance need to take a lead. They need to take an early lead. And that's, that's when Donald will see the ghost, but yeah, let's move on.
01:09:58
Speaker
Yeah. And again,
Texans vs. Patriots Game Analysis
01:09:59
Speaker
i mean, Hey, Sam Donald's not out of the woods. That could completely happen today. I could totally see him with a herd oblique throwing two, three interceptions and San Francisco winning this game, you know, 20 to three or some shit. It could be the complete opposite. Yeah.
01:10:15
Speaker
We appreciate everybody tuning in. Make sure you hit that like button for us. And as well, make sure subscribe at Ball and Buds. Let's move into the next game. These are our Sunday games with the first game, the early game at 1 o'clock.
01:10:30
Speaker
Houston Texans 12-5 going into the 14-3. New England Patriots again going into the cold, as Clubber D mentioned earlier, after going to Pittsburgh. New England is the three-point favorite. As Dirty Mojo pointed out earlier, though, oddsmakers usually give two to three points to the home team, so they're making this closer to an even game. The over-under here is forty and a half Dirty Mojo, we haven't started with you today. Let's start with you on this one.
01:10:59
Speaker
Yeah, i um I'm going to bet the over because I think this is going to be a high-ass scoring game. I think both of these teams can score some points. I do like um what the New England Patriots are going to bring towards this game being a home game, and I do think that Drake May is going to have a great game against that ah that that really tough,
01:11:18
Speaker
Tough, tough, tough Texans defense. But we did say this. It's going to be a cold game out there. It's going to fun game to watch. I actually like what the Texans can do, but still I think that the New England Patriots will put up the points that they need to win this game.
01:11:33
Speaker
um As far as what you guys said about the three to the the five ah fumbles, he only so lost two of those. So it's not a big thing, you know i'm saying? But New England Patriots at home in the playoffs on a cold But still, losing five fumbles in the cold is indicative to me that your your hands may not be able to hold on to a ball in cold weather. He lost he lost two. He lost two.
01:11:59
Speaker
I get it, but he fumbled five. but he lost It's fine. He lost it. Just because you recovered all the three doesn't mean you didn't fumble. But listen, I do. Listen, I think this game is going to come down to one of those field goals to win the game.
01:12:12
Speaker
And I think that this game is going to be 30-28 with the New England Patriots kicking a field goal to win the game. They're going to get the ball back with less than two minutes to go. going drive down and kick that sucker to win the game. 30-28 to twenty eight ah they set up a really good game between division rivals next week.
01:12:30
Speaker
All right, Peach, what are your thoughts? I think he's wacky as hell if he thinks it's going to high score. I was going to say the same thing. Both defense. You are the best defense in the league. I was going to say the same thing. That's the reason why. That's the reason why. You're missing the other reason why, too. It's going to be freezing, wind swirling. I mean, it's going to be hard to keep possession. I don't think this is high scoring at all. And I'm coming down to I'm going to pick the Texans, and here's why.
01:12:57
Speaker
They have the playoff experience. We talked about it earlier with the Bills, right? I think the Texans are going to finally get over that that hill and get to the AFC championship game. And I think, like i said, it's gonna be it might be more low scoring than than the 49ers game today.
01:13:11
Speaker
That's how much I think of these defenses and rookie quarterback. And, you know, i I'm going to say, shoot, 17-10 Houston-Texas.
01:13:23
Speaker
Wow. Very low scoring. And one of the touchdowns will be a defensive touchdown. So yeah, the offenses will be nothing this for that game.
01:13:35
Speaker
Okay. No, I mean, that makes sense. Clubber D, are your thoughts? Yeah, I'm with you on, I'm going to repeat on this one. Cause you look at the game last week with with with Chargers, that game was was not that great until towards the end. You know what i'm saying? Like the, it Patriots had them in check, and ah Chargers had them in check to a certain extent. you know I remember one play when ah Drake May got crushed and fumbled the ball, and I was like, good Lord, it was getting up from that. but um So I think the same is going happen with the Texans. you You got Hunter coming from one side. You got Will Anderson coming from the other side. What are you going to do? You know what I'm saying? May is ma's about to get made. You might call him April. I don't know what's going to happen. i think i'm I'm with Pisa got low score. I'm going to say –
01:14:17
Speaker
that The Gonzalez and Nico injured is going offset. But i'm going I'm going lower than that, Peach. I'm going low to the floor. We're going 13-6, Texas. Wow.
01:14:28
Speaker
Wouldn't be surprised at all. Holy canoles. Yeah. Wow. Straight like that. 13-6. third That would be 21 and a half points below the O'Bron. That Steelers game was hella low until those random fumble touchdowns at in the fourth quarter. So though that would have been a super low scoring game too.
01:14:51
Speaker
um Okay. Well, ah look. You're right about – you're all all right about one thing. That defense, the Texans' defense – and, Pete, you just pointed this out, ah that they were going to score a defensive touchdown this week. In the wild card round, ah the Texans became the second team, use sports professor stat, in NFL playoff history to record multiple defensive touchdowns while allowing no touchdowns from the opposing team in a playoff game. They joined – and you're going to hate this, Pete –
01:15:23
Speaker
The 1940 Chicago Bears who last accomplished this feat in the over the former Washington name will be not be named on the program. 73-0? How do you give them such a many points when the – I don't even think the four pass was invented yet.
01:15:47
Speaker
Yeah. so but They ran all over Good grief. I saw that seventy s i started a chat and I was like, I can't wait for Peach to hear this one. That's a player's club line. Did you pinch the bitch? Did do anything to him? Right! Did you even try?
01:16:08
Speaker
Oh, man. Remember when we had those fantasy points? We're killing it. Tell me about it. what they had ah They had Dale Sweeney as the Christian Burt. Did
01:16:20
Speaker
you did Dick Dirtman. Dave Bruce's cousin of Milky Way Johnson scored like eight touchdowns. Milky Way. Is that one of Christmas cards?
01:16:33
Speaker
You know Hightower Tim? Yeah, I know him. who was Led by Drizzly John McGee? What?
01:16:54
Speaker
long field goes like fifteen yards And he kicked him with his to on his toes. Oh, foot over there. and the right.
01:17:08
Speaker
ah twenty yard field goal everybody needed a three boy stance even the receivers and The the were receiver's in a three-point stance. All right, now, I'm going to need you. I want you to run three yards and an in. want you to run yards and an in.
01:17:32
Speaker
Three yards and an in? There's focus cigarettes on the sidelines. He's not for the four passes. Three yards an for him to block for the running back. Milky Way Johnson was only liked on the field. Off the field, they didn't like him. Yeah.
01:17:48
Speaker
Oh my God. That is tremendous. Oh man. loud in But anyways, talking about, that's great. Yeah, yeah. You can't come eat with us after the game, Milky Way.
01:18:01
Speaker
All right, let's get back to this Texas defense. There's no getting around it. There is no weakness. Clobody mentioned the past rush. Will and I mean, you can go from their amazing defensive line all the way to Stingley and their amazing backfield. yeah And they've got playmakers all over their defense. The number one total defense, uh,
01:18:22
Speaker
when it comes to yards, 277.2 yards per game. And right behind the Seahawks, as the second fewest points, 17.4. point four Look, Drake May has had a great season.
01:18:36
Speaker
He will be runner-up for the MVP. We didn't talk about that either, but the all-pro teams came out. Matt Stafford got first team. He's going to be MVP. Drake May will be the runner-up. Great season.
01:18:49
Speaker
This is not a defense that he has faced this year. um ah not many, at least. I know he played but faced the Broncos, and and so I know he's faced defenses, but not many. They had a soft schedule.
01:19:02
Speaker
Their schedule strength of schedule was 391. That is a horrible strength of schedule. So they played very bad teams all year long. Now, not taking that away, From Drake May, he led the league in completion percentage, yards per attempt, and passer rating.
01:19:18
Speaker
So he's been great. He will be great into the future. New England has their star. New England has a very good defense as well. Very good at bringing the pressure under Mike Vrabel.
01:19:30
Speaker
But, oh man, i'm I've been vacillating all day on who I'm going to pick in this game. But with the injury to Nico going into the cold, both defenses being really good, the Patriots be offense being way better, not way better, but demonstrably better than the Texans.
01:19:53
Speaker
I hate this because I hate the i hate the fucking cheating Patriots. ah Patriots win. We'll go. what did I have on my score before?
01:20:04
Speaker
I had 23-21. I'm going stick with that. twenty three twenty one Patriots. do you Do you guys have, if ah the Texans win, do you guys have D'Amico Ryans possibly the course the year?
01:20:19
Speaker
No. It's already voted for, man. They don't vote they vote before the playoffs, so the playoffs don't matter. So I'm going to say no because there's no way he got voted for it in the regular season. Yeah, you get it. oh It's a shame. It's a shame.
01:20:34
Speaker
I like what he's doing up, but I'm being a homer on coach of the year. With all the injuries, I'm being a homer. All right. Well, hey, shout out to everybody. Make sure you hit that like button and subscribe to Ball and Bud. Shout out Chris Haynes. We appreciate you tuning in. I missed this earlier. here I apologize.
01:20:50
Speaker
He says he's going to bet CMC has more yards than the rest of both offenses. um I guess it's possible. I don't know about that, but it's possible, I guess. ah Because
Bears vs. Rams Game Predictions
01:20:59
Speaker
you would have to include the passing game. And I don't, I mean, don't you include the quarterback in that?
01:21:04
Speaker
Could have been a walka walka. You know what? That's exactly what that was. Walka walka. All right. Anyways, let's move it into the last game of the weekend.
01:21:16
Speaker
The Sunday night, the main game. They put this game on for various reasons, but mainly because it's the number two and three media markets in the nation. You have the 12 and five Los Angeles Rams who are four and a half point road favorites.
01:21:32
Speaker
which means they're almost a touchdown favorite, according to the odds makers. um And they're going into Chicago where it should be cold, 30 degrees, they're saying, around 11 and 6 Chicago Bears. We talked about them squeaking by all year. Peach has lamented on that all year long. The over-under here is 48 and a half.
01:21:55
Speaker
Peach, we are going to start with you on this one. What are your thoughts? It's going to be the game of the week, I think, guys. um But here's the thing. I've been killing the Bears all year. They're going to win this game.
01:22:07
Speaker
They're going to go to the NFC Championship game, fellas. Here's why. Here's why. Matthew Stafford stinks in the cold. Let me say it again. Matthew Stafford stinks in the cold.
01:22:18
Speaker
That Chicago fan, the Chicago fans have been waiting for a game like this for years. That crowd's going to be jumping. The wind's going to be swirling. And although I know, you know, because I've been saying it all year long, Caleb's going to dig them in a hole at first, and then they're to come back. But it doesn't matter if you dig in a hole. You know why, gentlemen? Because that motherfucker always has the shovel.
01:22:39
Speaker
He has the shovel, and he dicks himself out. So it doesn't matter. If you put yourself hole, long as you have the shovel to dig yourself out, it doesn't matter. He's going come out there, and he's going to upset the the Los Angeles Rams, and he's going to bring the Chicago Bears to the NFC Championship game, fellas. And I'm going to say it's going to be a pretty decent scoring game.
01:22:58
Speaker
Bears win. 28-21, Bears win. Dirty mojo. bears win when h twenty one bears win dirty mojo
01:23:07
Speaker
To have the proverbial shovel that he digs the hole and then digs himself out of that same hole that he dug in is actually pretty fucking crazy. It's diabolical that you would say something like that. pe Hey, but listen, hey, I can i should actually say this, though.
01:23:23
Speaker
Is he going to dig that hole in the first half and then dig himself out again in the second half like he's been doing all fucking year? When I saw that game last week, I said to myself, this Bears team would be I guess the odds on favorite if they played the entire fucking football game.
01:23:43
Speaker
I mean, to see what they did in that first half and be like, God, you guys are dog shit. And then to see the second half be like, what the fuck? the Two totally different teams, right? With that being said, I hate to pick this game because it's one of those, what team shows up in the first half? Is it going to be just a regular, hey, let's just play regular football. Let's kind of keep the shit equal and then we'll finish the game. Or is it going to be this heart attack to the fans,
01:24:13
Speaker
crazy ass going for it three times on fourth down from your 30 yard line and all of this bullshit. With that being said, I got the Rams winning in this game. yeah I got the Rams winning in this game because I do believe for some strange reason, they're going to do this bullshit first half crap that they're just not going to be able to dig themselves out of. And yes, you're absolutely right. Stafford does play terrible in the cold weather.
01:24:37
Speaker
But I think that this cold weather is going to be colder than anything cold because don't think it's going to be third. I think it's going be even colder than that. I think I was seeing something like eight degrees, man. Don't they have like some sort of like winter? Really? Go down more? Because listen, the Patriots game is at three and they're talking about the weather being like 40 with it being a windshield of like 34. This game is at eight. There go. So it's the night game, which I think this game is going to be like 24 with like a minus with like an eight degree windshield. So this was going to be a lot colder.
01:25:10
Speaker
I'm not sure. But, you know, you know, you do want to say that, you know, the Bears are used to this and this, that and third, blah, blah, blah. And a lot of things. But I still will have the I think that they're going to dig themselves in that hole. I think they have the potential to win. It all depends on what what team shows up. Are they going to play in the first half and play play complete four quarters of football? Are they going to do it? I think they're going to be that same first half slumping team, but they just won't be able to beat the Rams. So I do have this one as a lower scoring game too. Give me the ah the Rams winning this game 20 to 13. 2013 Rams.
01:25:43
Speaker
Clubber D. Well, ah first of all, um fuck these. Fuck the makers who bo who put these this game at this time and why they cheat the teams that played last Saturday.
01:25:55
Speaker
You know what i'm saying? And we're getting less rest. OK, I don't want to hear the crap about, you know, oh, what did they might get good ratings. Well, we had the most ratings last week. We should be playing Sunday. It's not as bullshit what they're doing it to us. They're cheap. That's.
01:26:08
Speaker
That's why Seattle might be anyways. um Yeah, Stafford doesn't play well in ah and the cold. and but And we saw what happened last week when they when they played against um ah the Panthers. you know That game was close. if It was a couple of drops for from them when I talk about Stafford's hanging out with us on the couch. you know So um they could come on over, sit on down, bring some popcorn.
01:26:28
Speaker
You brought popcorn? Okay, yeah, they could have been up to watch the game with us. So are we to get that Stafford and the Rams, or we can get a different you know Rams in his in this cold weather? Like Lamar, like Pete's mentioned, ah Caleb, are we going to see the fourth quarter him? Until the fourth quarter, we can see it early. you know what I'm saying? So um with the weather being a factor, you look at the run game.
01:26:52
Speaker
um Williams and Blake Horham, are they better than a Swift and Mononghi? No. So, um I lean towards the Bears when it comes to that, because if they're not slinging that rock around, they're going running the ball or a lot of short passes to the tight ends. Parkson and I forgot the other dude's name, Hillaby, will it Willoughby, where his name is, ah tight end, are they better than Loveland and Cole Comet, right? Are they better than them? Probably not. So,
01:27:20
Speaker
lean more the Bears on that side. And the Bears like to take the ball away when it comes to passing. So I'm going to go with the Bears in this game. And I'll say we'll go to the 21-10 realm. I'll go with the Bears.
01:27:37
Speaker
Omar, before you go, I also want to bring up an interesting little nugget about this game also that I didn't think of until just now. A Denver Nugget. Who is Sean McVay's best friend, guys?
01:27:50
Speaker
It's Matt LaFleur. yeah Who did Ben Johnson talk shit about last week, gentlemen? Matt LaFleur. Whose brother is on the game's coaching staff?
01:28:01
Speaker
Matt LaFleur's brother. So what I'm hearing is that they want to beat the dog shit out of the Bears because of this. So that's a nice little interesting little nugget there for you, though. Go ahead and give us your prediction now, my friend.
01:28:13
Speaker
oh are you saying that Are you saying that they were on the phone all week long and he was giving them some game planning tips? Oh, 100%. And like I said, they're best friends. And like I said, Mike LaFleur is on the coaching staff of the Rams. so Yeah, you fuck with you fuck with me and mine. I'm going to fuck you up. And that's what you're saying kind of thing is happening. Right. They want to beat the shit out of them. They're they're game planning to beat the shit of wouldn't be surprised if they somehow get up 14 and it's a fourth and whatever in the fourth quarter, there they try to score touchdown.
01:28:43
Speaker
That's the bad blood that's going on here. Yeah. And that's the thing is McVay is the type that would already do that, right? And you already have the personnel. Let's not get it twisted. Matthew Stafford, we just mentioned, is going to be the MVP of this league. You've got Puka Nakua, possibly the best receiver in the league. You've got Devontae Adams. You've got Kyron Williams. You've got Tyler Higby.
01:29:02
Speaker
like You got all these pieces that come together and the Rams are a true Super Bowl contender. They had the number, their sports professors stat for this game, they had the number one scoring offense in the in the league, 30.5 points per game, over 30 points per game. And they were a great score ah defense as well, holding teams to 20.4, the number 10 scoring defense in the league.
01:29:25
Speaker
But where do the Rams get held back, gentlemen? the third phase of the game, special teams. Special teams has been a consistent issue for the Rams all year long. It is the reason they're four and five in one score games. They nearly gave it away last week,
01:29:47
Speaker
against the Panthers, um and they almost ah lost home field advantage due to multiple special teams miscues. They had to fire their special teams coordinator back in week four because of multiple block kicks against the Eagles. So if there's one thing to worry about it, the Rams is their special teams. Now, when you look at the Bears, their defense, 33 turnovers on the year, right? So they've been, when it comes to creating turnovers and and getting the ball, the best defense at that.
01:30:16
Speaker
But they also, as Peach said so astutely, dig themselves into holes to where they're not able to come back out of a lot of times. And when they do actually come back out of it, they're winning one-score games, right?
01:30:30
Speaker
very close games, eight wins to be exact by one score, including having to come back against their rival last round, which, hey, by the way, may gave that give them a little momentum, right? May give them that feeling of, hey, we beat our rival. We're the team of destiny after all these close wins. But that's exactly what the commanders thought last year. And I thought that about them as well well after they had that magical run. So they don't want to get ahead of themselves there because if, as Dirty Mojo said, they get themselves down early to this team and with the added fact of what Peach just said of a vendetta and a vengeance that they're trying to get, revenge for his best friend being slighted, then yeah, I can definitely see the Bears being down 17-3 at halftime, but instead of them coming out like the Packers, the Rams come out like gangbusters using that line, Jared vs. Kobe Turner, Byron Young, and just pressuring and making Caleb Williams not have that comeback special that we're so used to.
01:31:40
Speaker
but Caleb Williams is going to have to rely on a lot of Colston Loveland, who he's been having you know ten no less than 10 targets the past three games to his tight end. So you know that's going to be a big factor here. Chicago as well has allowed...
01:31:58
Speaker
Only the fourth most yards per game, so they're not giving up too many yards, but I think that's not going make a difference here. I think that that's still – or sorry, that that they give up a lot of yards. It's the fourth most, excuse me. They give up a lot of yards. I think that that's going to make a difference here when you have Matt Stafford.
01:32:13
Speaker
So at the end of the day, ah they may feel like it's their time. Sorry, Bears, it's not your time. I don't care that much about special teams. I just brought it up because I thought it was interesting.
01:32:25
Speaker
um The Rams win this game. And now with Peach, you telling me that, I think it's going to be worse than it was. My original score was 28-24 Rams beating Chicago.
01:32:37
Speaker
I am now going to change that to 35-24. Wait a minute. wing I'm throwing an extra touchdown on that bitch just because I think Sean McVay is going to come out like you said. At some point, he's just going to be like, well, let me grab an extra touchdown here. Let me grab an extra three points here or something like that. you know you know what oh Don't underestimate the the Bears voodoo magic, man. I'm telling you, it's a thing.
01:33:02
Speaker
It's a thing, Omar. The voodoo magic is there. And I freeze? Did I freeze? No, no, no. Oh, the voodoo. Yeah. And the thing is, yes, digging yourself in a hole is not good.
01:33:15
Speaker
But what is it going to do for the Bears? They never think they're out of it, guys. They never think they're out. They don't put their heads down. They're like, hey, we can come back. So that's why Chicago, listen up. have' You've been giving me shit all year, man. I'm going to say it right now. Bear down because they're coming.
01:33:30
Speaker
what Bear down, guys. That's why we're seeing punk way we're seeing punk shirt. I got you. What? No, wait a second. You can't go against them all year and now jump on the bandwagon. That's where we're seeing punk from. i'll say I want to just ah kind of go off for what Pete said mentioned earlier about the quarterbacks being their second year, all being in the playoffs. The real question is, which of these quarterbacks going to let the limelight mess them up?
01:33:56
Speaker
You know i'm saying? Who's going to choke under pressure as far as those young quarterbacks? That's another thing. Stafford has experience. He's been to the mountaintop. He's been to Space Mountain, okay? He's getting – all that good stuff. I do a Ric Flair thing, going to it. But, you know, so will Caleb, will Bo Nix, will May, which one be starstruck at them being at this position this early in their career?
01:34:20
Speaker
Hey, so a I know I had mentioned earlier you guys had a little joke about it and it's like that when we had talked about what Weeb's question was about the the flaws of the teams and I basically said the two top tier quarterbacks, right?
01:34:31
Speaker
So it was it that was my my my thought process on the Super Bowl in my opinion and you know um I know I'm jumping forward ahead of time but you know as far as the way I see it with the teams and their flaws, I think the two best quarterbacks in the in the playoffs available that are still there will be the two best quarterbacks playing in the Super Bowl.
01:34:49
Speaker
So that's why I didn't want to bring my NFC pickup. He just brought it up though. He just told the NFC winner. yeah You just gave up your whole Super Bowl pick. Now we know who's going to the Super Bowl. You guys are fucking retarded. I said I didn't want to before. I got you saying, Lamar. Thank you. I was always going to give it up. I was always going to give it up, but I didn't want to do it earlier. didn't want to say that the Rams were going to win earlier. I would like to keep those things to yourself until we make the picks, please. Thank you.
01:35:22
Speaker
Okay, I get it, but please, wait till we make the picks. a what now we are now you now we know we know lamar Now we know you got the Rams worst versus Bills. You ain't even got to show up to the next show. what next guy but i go to be here we We also know Lamar gives it up on the first date, too.
01:35:36
Speaker
We know that for a fact. He gives it up on the first date, damn it. Wow, exactly.
01:35:43
Speaker
Hey, I got to go pick up Mia from softball practice, guys. I got to rock and roll.
Future Games and Historical Trends
01:35:47
Speaker
So I'm out of here a little early, but that I appreciate it. I'll be out here tomorrow on time. You guys, I'll see you guys then, right? All right, brother. You be safe, man. No doubt, no doubt, no doubt.
01:35:58
Speaker
No, it's all good, man. Be safe. See you tomorrow. That being said, yeah, we are going to – let me get my thing up here, my programming note. Sunday showdown tomorrow, 545-ish.
01:36:11
Speaker
five forty five ish ah pm So remember, the first game is at three. These games usually last about three hours, but, you know, sometimes they end a little earlier. So if it does end earlier, we'll be looking at 545 to six ish, six at the latest will be coming on tomorrow after um obviously see the early game and before that Bears Rams game that we just talked about.
01:36:37
Speaker
ah Also, Monday, as you see, we' will be having a special edition of Monday Showdown to go over the college football championship, Talk Miami versus it Indiana. That will be at a special time of 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Pacific. So we have about an hour and a half, hour 45 before the game comes on.
01:37:00
Speaker
So we have that there. ah Gentlemen, before we get out of here, I did have some fun facts for each team that I wanted to put out there just to see what your thoughts were. Unfortunately, Lamar wasn't able to stay for us, but I'd still like to put him out. to you Let's go ahead as my desk just breaks on me. So...
01:37:18
Speaker
I have a desk where my mouse is and that just completely broke on me. So now I have no desk there anymore. That's okay. We're going to have to fix that afterwards. Right. Yeah, exactly. So let's, first of all, let's start with the RAMs.
01:37:32
Speaker
what We just talked about the Rams unstoppable offense led the league in points scored yards gained and first downs. The last team to accomplish all three was the 2022 chiefs who won the Superbowl.
01:37:49
Speaker
So these are all Superbowl winning fun facts for each team to win Superbowl. What do you think about that? Any thoughts? It's definitely a good stat to have up on your side. Definitely a good stat to have on your side.
01:38:00
Speaker
But I'm going to say this, man. I just can't overlook the games that the Rams struggle against teams they should blow out. I can't i can't forget about last week when they should have lost to the Carolina Panthers, right?
01:38:11
Speaker
I don't have much faith in them. And the Bears – Like I said, I'm going to go talk about this again, and that's why I think the Bears win. I just don't believe in the Rams. They should win the NFC easily in my mind, but they play down to their opponents sometimes, and that'll bite in the ass. Remember, they lost to an injured Niners team with Mac Jones starting at home.
01:38:32
Speaker
That's a very good point. Speaking of Mac Jones, here's your 49ers. Fun fact, ah This year, the 49ers were the first team since their own team back in 1988. I said this before.
01:38:48
Speaker
Oh, did you? Very nice. Good. Perfect. sorry Open on the road with two different quarterbacks. For me, sir. Yes, perfect. There you go. Brock Purdy and Mac Jones, Joe Montana and Steve Young. Awesome. good job.
01:39:01
Speaker
ah Perfect. All right, moving on. Another one, the Broncos and Bills has moved to that game. Since 2020, the Bills are 8-0 in the postseason against any team without Patrick Mahomes oh or Joe Burrow, but he'll be going up against a mor Broncos team. Now, get this.
01:39:18
Speaker
I know, crazy, right? Against any other any other teams than the Chiefs and the Bengals. But get this, well they're going they're going against the Broncos. This is even more wild. The Broncos started 10-2, and they made the Super Bowl every single time they started 1989, 1997, 2013, and 2015. They only won twice, but they made it every time they started
01:39:41
Speaker
I swear, NFL has those weird stats, man. I think the Packers have one like this, too, that ah the second or third year after they changed quarterbacks from Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre, they won Super Bowl. Because I remember somebody put that question up a couple weeks ago on our thing. I think it was ah the young lady at that that's with, ah ah what's the homie's name? bobby Bobby G, the young lady. we first mayor let's go Yeah, said something about that. And they they asked us, did they think Love was going to win this year? I said, ah absolutely not.
01:40:09
Speaker
ah absolutely that yeah Okay, I got just a couple more for you here. Let's go to the Seahawks. In three tries as a top seed so far, the number one Seahawks have never missed the Super Bowl when they were the number one seed. Now, they never made it as any other seed, but they did make it as a number one seed. Exactly half of the past eight Super Bowl teams were number one seeds.
01:40:35
Speaker
So... We're looking, that means the Broncos and the Seahawks. Broncos, there's a 75% chance that one of those teams is going to make the the Super Bowl this year. Two more to go. Texans lead, that led the NFL in both point differential and turnover margin.
01:40:51
Speaker
The most recent teams to accomplish both of those both won the Super Bowl. The 2020 Buccaneers and the 2009 Sean Payton Bounty Gate Saints. And I remember during fantasy draft, somebody laughed at me for picking a defense early, which was the Texans.
01:41:08
Speaker
Hey, picking defenses earlier than the 15th round is always suspect, but we'll let you have it. The Patriots. That's true. You did win the whole thing, didn't you? Yeah. I'm out of it, so I didn't pay attention to the playoffs. But, Peach, yeah, we're not letting him have his sob story anymore about fantasy. Or anything. Not only he win this year, he won last year too. I didn't win last year. No, I didn't. You won my league last year.
01:41:38
Speaker
You won my Yahoo League last year. I don't count that as... Look, there's only one league that counts for me. There's only one league that counts for me. All right? all right fine the page and The Patriots were the 12th team in league history to finish undefeated on... You still don't get any sympathy anymore. The Patriots were the 12th team in league history to finish undefeated on the road.
01:42:01
Speaker
Eight of the previous 11 teams to do that went to the Super Bowl. There you go. so those are Basically, with these cool-ass stats is one, it's wild that that's even like that, that these stats are out there.
01:42:15
Speaker
And two...
Final Thoughts and Sign-Off
01:42:17
Speaker
Something's got to give with lot these stats. Something's got to give.
01:42:24
Speaker
Yep, sure it does. And finally, Chris Haynes, before we get out of here, says if Stafford wins, just retire and head off into the sunset. I would think at this point he would. I don't see why he would return if he won a championship. He was thinking about retiring before the year started.
01:42:40
Speaker
So that makes sense. um And now here's your Waka Waka to end us off. Peach. MJF owns CF Punk. There you go. um but it Okay.
01:42:52
Speaker
i i did it's i so i'm done so i mean I'm not fan. i agree but i'm not I'm not either. I just like i like school sweater i like it that's all it is too it He's cool sweater, but I do agree that MJF is better CM Punk. All right, that being said, we told you where we were going to be at. Catch us tomorrow, Sunday showdown after the early game before the night game, Monday showdown, 6 p.m. Eastern. You can catch Dave Peach at Peachomania.com.
01:43:19
Speaker
on x you can catch clubber d at clubber d on youtube clubber dot d on tiktok handy qr code up of there at the top he's up there as well as ball and buds please make sure you subscribe at b-a-l-l-a-n-d-b-u-d-s on youtube as well follow on instagram hit that like button whether watching now or on the replay it really helps us out in the algorithm final thoughts gentlemen peach what do you got Hey, another great week of football coming up, gentlemen. And I'm going to say this, Omar, I'm extending an invitation to you because if you saw the Washington Commanders brought out the pictures of the new stadium that brought 10-5, and I'm confiding you to WrestleMania 50 because you know it's going to be coming, buddy. Let's go. That stadium's going to be amazing, by the way. So when you yeah we got to get out there to one of the special events that they bring in.
01:44:04
Speaker
Yes, yes, and yes. I saw the pictures. Looks like RFK, but just modernized version with a saddleback. Just tremendous callback. Hint of the Catholic Center. Yep. And as well, the way they set it up, they set it up on the same axis where it's in a straight line direct with the the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial. It's like fucking cool as shit.
01:44:25
Speaker
um So yeah, we will. As well, ah Peach, I needed to ask you about WrestleMania coming up this year. i'm I'm trying to go and I was wondering, are you going to WrestleMania this year? or i did you win I didn't plan on going yet, but if a man we get something going, we can make it Would you like to go? I'm i'm i'm already looking at plane tickets, and I'm looking at hotels this week. So if you would like to go, we can make this happen. Yeah, let's let's talk let's talk off air. Where's it at? For sure.
01:44:51
Speaker
In Vegas, and it's my birthday weekend. Yeah, it's Vegas. Even double nice. Clever you are more than welcome as well. All right. There you go. Maybe something we have to talk about. Gentlemen, thank you for the great stream.
01:45:04
Speaker
We will see that – what? That's – Oh, I don't know. Sorry. Anyways, thought you were talking about some videos. All right. We will see you tomorrow.
01:45:15
Speaker
After the early game. Yeah, we'll talk about it. After the early game, before the night game, and then again Monday, we will see you. Yes, Chris, it does look dope. You are right. Until tomorrow, y'all enjoy all of the football.
01:45:27
Speaker
And, yeah. Oh, wait, Cubberty, we didn't get you did you. You didn't get to say that. I'm good. and We're good. Tomorrow's going be fun. Y'all watch the games. Have fun. And ah if that distilled water's by your bed, it was mine.
01:45:39
Speaker
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Speaker
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01:46:20
Speaker
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01:46:38
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