NFC East Dominance, Kyrie Irving Reaction & NFL Costume Contest

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it be four and one or three and two. This guy, on the other hand, hit a nice multi team four or five team parlay. He's feeling great. Hea, that the his parlay and we'll get to the show in just second. At one point, the sports book he was using, which the sportsbook was using, offered him a cash out option for literal pennies. Hey, that's how, that's how what desperate shape they thought this parlay was in and demonte held strong got the whole thing. So is that going on?

So we have a ton of football to discuss today's show. And by the way, we're live on YouTube. You can send in your comments and questions, participate in the polls throughout the show. Today's show is going to be a little bit different. So the first segment we're gonna do all football, the second segment I'm going to address the Kyrie Irving situation, and then the third segment we're gonna get to your questions, comments and play a game and

have some fun. So it's you know what I mean, It's a sandwich of sports fun, sports fun plus some seriousness in the middle. So all that coming up. But first, what we must get to is what we are not discussing today. Here's what is not on. What's right with Nick right today? The NFL trade deadline is tomorrow. We

will discuss that on Thursday. Oh, since we last talked, though, the Chiefs added Kadarius Tony, Oh, maybe fixing their one problem the punt return game, Bill Belichick tying George Hallis or moving past George Hollis on the all time wins list, and the Lakers finally get a dub. The Lakers and the Nets both now one win teams.

awful pick in the red zone. Like there's so he had His quarterback rating history was seventy five. Is Josh Allen awesome. Yes, is he right now one of the two or three leading MVP candidates, no question about it. But I don't understand why he why even a game like that when his performance was not the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth best thing the Bills had going for him that people are like, uh, I mean, MVP race is over? No, it's not.

was a good win, their deep, their run defense. I'd be a little concerned by'm buffalo that all right? The Packers, once they realized that you couldn't throw on them, they ran the ball thirty times for two hundred yards. They just ran the ball at will. Green Bay, on the other hand, has now lost four games in a row. How they have They are in Detroit next week. Detroit has shown us that at home they can score points. Yeah, on the road they sink. At home, they can score points.

It then goes after the Detroit game. Cowboys, Titans, Eagles three of the hottest teams in the league, is it? I mean, the Titans have won five in a row. Cowboys are coming off a great win, which I think we're going to talk about. I mean, not a great win as far as degree of difficulty, but how dominating they were on the offensive side. And the Eagles are undefeated at the They still, even after that, have games against the Dolphins and Vikings and will throw in a

Rams game. You though, the Rams I don't think are very good. Green Bay is not making the playoffs.

they're minus two hundred. So Vegas is telling you they think there's a two out of three chance they missed the playoffs. I think that's right. I think right now, if we were ranking NFC and listen the Bills, let me say one more thing about the Bills, then we'll finish the Packers, then we'll move on. Here's what the most important thing for the Bills is. It's not just

that they are now six and one. It is that they are six and one with head to head wins over the other the only five and two teams in the conference. So they're six and one with a blowout win over Tennessee, which at the time it's like, Okay, the Titans are just gonna stink. That looks better by the week, and a close win over Kansas City. So in order for the Titans or the Chiefs to pass them. They have to. They can't have the same record as them, obviously.

So let's say the Chiefs are going to lose. What's best case scenario, The Chiefs are only going to lose one more time all year. Okay, so they finished fourteen and three, that would mean Buffalo has to finish thirteen and four for them to not be the one seed. And so Buffalo's remaining schedule at the Jets home for the Vikings, home for the Browns, at the Lions, at the Patriots, home for the Jets, at the Dolphins, or at the Bear home for the Dolphins, pardon me, at

the Bears, at the Bengals home for the Patriots. Hard to find they've got it, yeah, I mean it's very it's hard to find the loss is necessary.

Buffalo is still got to lose twice. So that's why that was a good win for Buffalo, because at the beginning of the year, when we didn't know Green Bay was going to be this bad, it's like, oh, yeah, it's in Buffalo, but that's a that's one of the toughest games on your schedule. Home game against the Packers didn't turn out that way. Oh they also, by the way, I didn't even think about this. Buffalo also has the

head to head with the Ravens. Now, the Ravens aren't five and two, but the other division leaders Baltimore, Tennessee and Kansas City, Buffalo's beaten all So that's a testament to their overall team, even if yesterday they weren't that great.

For the Packers, what I was going to say is, if we are ranking playoff contenders right now in the NFC, the Eagles are as good as in, the Vikings to me are as good as in, the Cowboys are close to as good as in, and you're obviously going to have a winner from the NFC South End and the NFC West End. Right now, green Bay, I put them in the same bucket as they are going to be fighting with Atlanta, Seattle, and the Giants. Those four teams and the Rams, the Rams, Seattle, Atlanta, the Giants and

the Packers. Those five teams, I should say, are gonna be fighting for the final two playoffs spots. So I think Green Bay's in real rough shape. All right?

Every single one of those teams is below five hundred, except for Washington, which is at five hundred. Oh and this week I left this one out. I'm sorry. Their next game is against the Texans, So that's like, so, I don't think had the Cowboys beaten Philly, this is how close Margins are. The Cowboys had beaten Philly when they played Cooper Rush's last game, then both of them have won loss. Dallas would actually, because they haven't had the buye yet seven and one Phillies six and one.

Dallas would be in first place with the tiebreaker at the moment. Instead, they're two games back with Philly having the tiebreaker. I don't listen Phi. Philly's more of a lock for the one seed than Dallas is. I'm sorry, then Buffalo is, and listen before the year. I've said this before, I'll say it again. I was skeptical of the Eagles at first, and then after the Tyrone Smith injury came around on them as division winners. But I laughed.

We talked about it on the show. I openly laughed about the idea that, oh, yeah, Philly's gonna be fourteen and three in the one seed. They're gonna be fourteen and three and the one seed. Yeah, the and Jalen is playing. I mean, Jalen was Yesterday might have been the best game of the season for him. AJ Brown was obviously sensational. The Steelers had no answers Philly looks.

as well, the odds for Philly to go on. I wonder what their regular season is that even available Philadelphia Right now, their projected win total is fourteen and a half, So Vegas is saying they're either going fourteen and three or fifteen and two. Will they go undefeated? I'm looking at it right now. What do you think?

So Vegas really thinks Philly and Buffalo are basically locked into the one seeds. And keep in mind they changed a couple of years ago. Now only the one seed gets a buy. It used to be the one and the two, so that between the one and the two seed is massive.

they don't sweep them. They're in great shape to win the division because their divisional record since they as you mentioned, they've already swept the Rams this year. So I do like San Francisco to win that division. I think the I think the Rams are done. I think the Rams are deads the Ram and this is why I wouldn't write off the Bucks. We haven't talked since the Bucks lost another embarrassing one on Thursday night. Bucks, Rams, Packers all to miss the playoffs for the year would have

sounded crazy. I think it's still a little crazy because I think the Bucks can win that division. The Packers Minnesota just keeps winning. All they do is keep winning, and they already beat Green Bay had to head once and the Rams have a broken roster. And I don't know how many people paid attention to this. Down three scores with less than two minutes left, McVeigh made a big mistake. Man had not only Cooper Cup in the game, but they threw him a pass and his ankle got

rolled up on. If he's out for any amount of time, that offense becomes the worst offense in football. According to the Smart Numbers, it already is the worst offense in football, they can't run the ball, they can't protect almost a golf stafford. So I think Seattle, that's a great win against the Giants, A great win against the Giants. I give him credit for how they did it. San Francisco, though, is, in my opinion, the best team in the conference other

than Phillya. And you know, Philly deserves respect for what it's done, but take Philly out of it. I think San Francisco is the best team, and I think the second best team in the conference right now is Dallas. I mean, sorry, the third best team. I think Philly and San Francisco at the top, with Dallas at number three. I picked Dallas miss the playoffs. I've been a Dallas skeptic. I've been wrong. I mean, the defense wasn't even great against the Bears.

fourteen in this game. But he had fourteen for like a buck thirty. He was unbelievable.

You know, yesterday it was a great day for survivor pools, all the big favorites one but we would have knocked out fifteen percent of the pool with the Atlanta loss, and I wouldn't have been one of them. So that was a bummer Atlanta. I but to answer everybody, to answer the question that I was asked, I'm not a buyer or a believer in the Falcons. I think the

Falcons were incredibly fortunate to win that game. They do have one dominating win this year, the one over the Niners, but the Browns and Seahawks games that they won earlier this year were incredible close calls. This Panthers game was absurd, and they do have an incredibly soft schedule moving forward. I think they will come back down to earth, and they've been outscored on the season. They have a negative point differential. That's always a red flag of a team

not being as good as their record suggests. Yeah, if they have a negative point like point differential, let me tell you right now that we're this far through the season, it's a good indicator.

you actually are. The bottom five teams in point differential are Washington, Red Flag, Houston, the Rams, Red Flag, the Lions, and the Steelers. Like, oh, those are the worst teams in football. So the reason I bring it up is Atlanta being right in the middle, you know, same point differential this year as the Bucks in this right there with behind the Saints. It's indicative they're not great. Seattle, on the other hand, point differential wise, they're eleventh in

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little many playoff runs. He had some injury. He also was instrumental in getting Kenny Atkinson fired, which obviously was a major error. His second year there, it all looked great, and then he turned his ankle in the playoffs jams Sarvon's already hurt, and who knows. His third year, obviously he derails their entire season with the vank scene stuff and then is terrible in the playoffs and they get swept. And now this year that team is awful. They are

the worst defensive team in basketball. Kyrie has a lot of highlights, but one way player and now already has created a just total storm around him. So I don't know what. I don't know if he's tradeable, I don't know who right now, is going would want to take him on, and it's a disaster for them from a

basketball perspective. And so that's the basketball. Now to the important okay, and this is the part that I'm gonna want us to put out there on our channels social wise, because this is the part that I think is important.

just gonna double down anyway. I'm still not convincing watched the whole thing, and I think it is Actually his best defense would be, I didn't watch it, man, I saw it. It seemed interesting somedy with you know my name means Jahweh, as he explained, So I put it out there. My bad. But he claims not only did he watch it, but he also implies he might have

read the book. So in the most the most damning part of the movie, and that book, which is why it's being called anti semitic, is because it has an alleged quote from Harold Wallace Rosenthal, and it's been debunked as a fake quote years ago. But that quote talks about how the Jews have established five major falsehoods to conceal their nature and protect their status and power, including on those falsehoods is holocau s nihilism according to this

again fabricated quote. He goes on to later in the movie, there is a quote attributed to Hitler that says, quote, because the white Jews know that the Negroes are the real children of Israel, and to keep America's secrets, the Jews will blackmail America, they will extort America. They're playing for world domination. Won't work if the Negroes know who they are. So Kyrie Irving at this press conference talks about it's on Amazon Prime, it's history, it's out there,

but it's fabricated history. So now let's go a layer back. That Harold Wallace Rosenthal quote sounds a hell of a lot like some things folks read one hundred years ago in a book called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. That again, that was one of the first documented instances of truly damaging fake news. So that was a book that the entire thing was wrote as a fabrication. So folks that wanted reasons to attack and dehumanize use one

of Kyrie's words. Jewish people wrote a book that was attributed to Jewish people about their plot for world domination and then pretended they discovered it. Do you follow me? So that's what that And this Harold Wallace Rosenthal quote that is not a real quote from that guy. And I'm not going to get into the full history of that, but it's been since debunked many times over. It's a lot like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. What

so Kyrie says, did I hurt or harm anyone? Well, not directly and not yet how ever, And Kyrie's big on history, but it's important you know the actual history. So the Protocols the Elders of Zion that book was in nineteen in the nineteen thirties, taught to school children, and you guessed it. Nazi Germany as a way to prime these young people for the hatred and the coming purge of Jewish people during the rise of Hitler and

you know Nazi Germany. Okay, So all of this stuff, Kyrie and Kanye and so many of these folks think they're discovering something, think they've uncovered real truth, when it's the same playbook that's that other folks have been. It's going by intentionally or unintentionally for decades and in some cases centuries. So this all like hits close to It's weird for me maybe to care so much about this, but it is such a symptom of a bigger problem. And I said this on Twitter, and I say it

again here. I'm just an Italian Irish white guy who's raised Roman Catholic. However, my dear beloved grandfather, who passed before you were born, was a Polish Jew. And my wife and my three wonderful children are black. And people have been trying to pit Blacks and Jews against each other for so long, and in so many ways it's

been successful. Some of the some of the most racially exclusive communities in New York City are the Orthodox Jewish communities that really have no time time for black folks. And some of the most racially exclusionary communities are these folks that march up the street from this store, some of the some of the black Israelites who echo all of this same anti Semitic nonsense. And what's such a shame is we can keep it to sports, we can go outside of sports. All of our civil rights leaders

knew better. mL came marched with rab eyes and had no quarter for anti semitism, Jackie Robinson wrote. Jackie Robinson wrote a column for I think was the New York Poster or New York paper long ago about confronting anti semitism. Kareem talks about it to this day, and and yet it still pervades. And I do empathize with Black Americans in that not only was your history stolen from you, and not only do you not we don't teach it

in schools. There's there is the if you want to learn anything about your ancestors, you have to specialize in it. And even there, it's hard. It's hard to sort everything out. It's the people say, what you know, what I mean, some of the bad actors, racist folks. You're like, it's so ridiculous. Why can't I have white pride when there's

black pride? Well, there is white pride all over the place, it's just us white folks get to narrow it down to Irish American pride or Italian pride, or Polish pride or Russian pride. Black Americans don't get that luxury. They don't they had stripped from them. The just get the condent of Africa and really their experience here in America. So you can it's so, it's it's different, and it's it takes what you got to peel back the onion

one layer and understand that. So I understand black people wanting to feel like, God damn it, they're not teaching me this in school that I'm gonna go find my history. But this is where we all as a society are in such a dangerous place, because nobody seems to have the goddamn ability to differentiate history from a well produced YouTube video. And I I think Kyrie means well, I do. I don't think he has hate in his heart for anybody, but I think he doesn't know what he doesn't know,

and he thinks he's the educated one. He talks about how the history is out there, and now he's in a unique position to post things for his community. And he's then asked to about promoting an Alex Jones video and he gives the perfunctory I don't stand with Alex Jones on the Sandy Hook stuff. But he says what Alex Jones saying about secret societies, he's flat says it

goes well, that's true. And what Kyrie doesn't know is Alex Jones's whole New World Order conspiracy, which is a conspiracy that predates Alex Jones, is also an old anti Semitic conspiracy that this Jewish cabal runs the world and wants to have power over everyone. It's all fruit of the same poisonous tree. And we are we are so trapped in a place where we have we have all I shouldn't we all so many people have? How do

I put this? There has been a death of expertise, and whether it's science, medicine, or history, folks, so many folks think there are no experts. I'm going to become my own experts. And what they're not seeing is that so much of what they then consume was created for the explicit purpose of exploiting and Kyrie doesn't see it. And my friends that I've lost to this, they're just

toxic Internet brain. They don't see it. And it's horve and the Canarian the coal mine was the flat earth stuff, and it was once we as a society saw, oh, there is a legitimate percentage of people that really believe this flat earth stuff. It should have been a nationwide alarm that will bad actors see that and know if they'll believe that, they'll believe an it. Let me throw up some fake quotes. Let me give some history that has just enough of a kernel of truth to it.

And this is the part that I'll tell you. Go check go check this in your school history book and you'll see that this is true. But then everything else that comes of it is to lead you down a path. And by I just I just wish there was more of a consensus. And I'm going to tell you this right now. Man. We've got some viewers and some listeners from Twitter followers that will see this or saw Kyrie's thing, and what they will say is, well, what did you

say that's not true? And what they don't understand is y'all are being taken for a ride. They think your rooms and that you can be exploited, and nobody seems to be immune from it. And so I don't think Kyrie is a bad person, and I don't think Kyrie

dislikes Jewish people. I think Kyrie Irving believes he knows a true history that was so that is so clearly the same playbook of fabricated quotes and fabricated texts and fabricated history to start to divide people that people have been using across all societies for as long as there have been societies. But now everyone's got access to it, and some of our folks with the biggest microphones are

now giving more people. They already had access to it, but it's now accessible to them and or now they.

it all is, and it's scary. So makes me really sad, and I just I don't have a I don't have a solve, but I know the direction it's going and it's a really really bad one. All Right, we'll get back to sports next World track. All right, welcome back in What's Right with Nick? Right episode eighty nine. You know, I could have just checked this at the when we tweeted out the link for the show, and I didn't because I'm a dope. But it says right in the

link that we tweeted out that this is episode eighty nine. Uh, the I don't. I was before we get to the game. I just want to say one thing, if you're still with us, I almost cried twice during that Kyrie Irving thing, which totally shocked me. I did not think that I would get emotional about it like that. I knew I was, like upset me.

But before and we'll see what happens under Musk, But before before Twitter cracked down on the box, people would say, I don't think I knew prior to the TV show how much like real anti Semitism was out there. But then when I first got on TV, there were a I don't know a dozen accounts that would just tweet images of me because they thought it was Jewish being put in a gas chamber, different Holocaust stuff. The people that like hated me the most. Now I don't know

what those accounts do. Maybe they got kicked off, but they've been gone for years. So I was like, oh my god, there's like a lot of hate there that

I didn't I'd never really experienced, knew about. And I also have a unique experience on not being a black person but seeing how much obvious discrimination and hate and things work against black folks just by virtue of my family, but on the most minor level, from how we're treated in a restaurant if I drop you guys at the door, and you guys are waiting get the table before me, and then I walk in to the most significant ones, like when your mom and I were first moving in

together and I went and signed the lease for an apartment by myself, and then when she came to look at it and the manager showed it to us, they then refused to rent it to us, and the like

just just blatant housing discrimination, clearly along racial lines. So I, like you, I ain't a lot of folks who aren't a part of either group don't know how much each group deals with And then what you see is that the groups then very often start to blame each other, and there's a lot of there's a lot of distrust and discrimination for other oppressed groups within oppressed groups, and this one are the two I guess oppressed groups that I have the closest connection to h And it just

breaks my heart, breaks my heart. All right, let's have some fun. Now, let's play a game. Let's move on. Go ahead. What are we doing?

I think fake mad that Ocho is getting credit for saying something that she said first, and I'm here to tell him both neither one of y'all should want credit for this take, because you're gonna have to run from it into the hills. It's as crazy of a take as I've heard anyone give on our network in forever.

Trevor defense. Because guys are supposed to take a jump between year one and year two. And it looked like he was saying the jump. He said, it's undeniable. We're a good team. And since then the lost five in a row, and he keeps throwing interceptions to lose games. We're gonna have to pretend like his rookie year under Urban Meyer never happened, so that would make this his rookie year. So next year's the jump. I still believe in them. You know what, stuff around for you. You

know what last year, here's the deal. If you are selling your Trevor Lawrence stock right now at an all time low, I will buy it. I will buy the dip so is say send it over to me. I'll buy the Trevor Lawrence stock next.

starting quarterbacks. But if they have to start for you, you're okay, does that make you know? If you can't your plan can't be this guy is gonna be my start. But in PJ Walker, Listen, PJ didn't make an amazing throw. He also made some terrible decisions in that game, So like, yeah, they are great backup quarterbacks.

All right, let's read some listener questions that by the way, Luca how much he hates the rats.

three picks. So that's an you know what, I gotta think more about it that, I gotta watch pick it more before you make that determination.