Super Bowl Rematch, Draymond Suspended & Nick’s Picks

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I am also disappointed in Demonse's teasers, but not for the reason that people think. I'm not disappointed that Demonse has gotten eight teasers in a row. Wrong. That's not what's disappointing. What's disappointing Demonse is that week two you got it right, because had you like being one and nine just sucks being zero to ten, we could have turned it into a bit. We might have gotten some like a little internet traction like this sports betting expert

can't hit a teaser save his life. The win in week two is what is right now the fly in the ointment. But I haven't looked at it yet. I mean, well at this point, yeah, but it's just not as fun. The fact that you have that one win mixed in and the win came early enough.

essentially a coach who didn't play this year. The oldest guy in the league is Lebron James, who is still unequivocally one of the seven or eight best players in the league. I don't even know how to quantify what we're seeing, but the Lakers did lose. A d had a brutal night. He put up the true Draymond a triple single, which you never want to do. Celtics beat the seventy six Ers. The big win for your Celtics, Demanse.

Nice win for them, especially because the Sixers had beaten them the other day and now the Celtics kind of stabilized and they did it without I'll be honest, I didn't watch that game. They did it without Christaps or Jail and Brown, right, and so that's an excellent win for them. They're number one of these right now. And Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift's parents are gonna meet at

Monday night football. Taylor's dad famously an Eagles fan, but was wearing a Chief's lanyard at the Buenos Ardes concert along with Travis Kelcey when Taylor ran and leapt into his arms. It's gonna be I mean, it's gonna be something else, you know what. I'll tell you something real quick. So your mom, oh wait, gosh, darn it, maybe I shouldn't hold on, let me wait to talk about this. It's not actually a bad thing about your mom. It's about a thing your mom and I are doing that.

I was considering inviting Travis Kelcey to and then it occurred to me. I was like, if I invited Travis and he actually came, would he would that then mean Taylor Swift is going, which actually I think would potentially be as cool as it would be a bad thing. Like if Taylor Swift goes anywhere, she becomes the center of attention and the exact event that I'm thinking of, I'm not sure if you would want that, but that's where they're at in their relationship. Tomanse, I think these

two are gonna get married. I really do. I think these two are gonna get married. And I think Gabe said I think this was off the air, but I'll do it on the air real quick. I think Gabe last week was said that he thought this might shorten Travis's career because he is well of ascended to a totally new level of fame, wealth, all of these things. I'm going the other way, which is I really think it would appear Taylor Swift loves that her boyfriend is

this awesome athlete. You know. Kevin Wilde says life is high school, that just life is just high school with adults, and his theory on Taylor Swift Travis Kelcey is the following, and it's a pretty sharp one. It's that in high school, Taylor Swift was the band girl, the music girl who obviously had you know her because she was pretty. She was a pretty well established musician, very young, had her

own area of popularity. But still in high school, the star athletes don't really pay attention to the band kids. And now she is now the star athlete, the homecoming king, if you will. Is he enamored with her and she is getting to live out all those high school football games that maybe she didn't get to live out when she was in high school. So I think he's gonna play forever. Now go ahead.

you know what I mean. I was I was on a small school, bad team, and I was like the fifth guy my senior year on that bad team. You went to a giant school and were the best guy, and so I got it was super fun for me to be able to see you live that out and kind of I don't want to say live vicariously, but I got some of the same thrills of seeing you

do it. Uh what. There was Oh one other thing on this before we get to the actual show that I will say, it's always dangerous in the age of social media when you get to a whole new level of fame, and people start going through old tweets, and especially if you've had tweets from when you were in high school yourself, and it has been absolutely delightful to see that Travis has always been the same, super chill,

fun guy. All these old tweets that the swiftnies are coming about is like him misspelling the word squirrel and talking about feeding a squirrel bread. It's him saying, man, the moon looks amazing. I'm just gonna vibe out and watch the moon. It's no misogyny, it's no homophobia, it's no racism. It's not like, oh, Travis Kelcey in ninth grade it was super problematic. It's no Travis Kelcey in ninth grade was crazy high, just chilling.

and their opportunities cut. And that's Kadarius Tony and Jeric McKinnon. And I am of and this is by the way, very polarizing within kind of the Chief's community, if you will, about what's happening. Did McKinnon get old? Is Tony just not as good as people thought he was? All these things? I am strongly of the belief that the Chiefs know with Tony he cannot stay healthy for an entire season. That has been the knock on him his whole pro career.

And McKinnon is a running back into his thirties. I want, I mean, how old is Jet McKinnon. I'm gonna check for it. I think he's He's thirty two, which for a running back, or thirty one, pardon me for running back, makes him one of the older running backs the league. Tony's very young, but injury prone. Jeric McKinnon, who had the nine touchdown catches as a running back last year. He's really good. So I believe the Chiefs are not necessarily like saving plays, but saving wear and tear on

those two players specifically. I think that they are really trying to make sure those guys are give them the best chance they have of being healthy going into the

or going into the stretched run. Now, now, when it comes to playing the Eagles, I wouldn't hold anything reserve in reserve, with one exception if by some chance, and the odds of this being the case are incredibly low, but if by some chance, Steve Spagnolo, the Chiefs defensive coordinator, has figured out how to stop the brotherly shove, I wouldn't show the world that I figured that out yet. If somehow he is actually like they have realized, wait, there is a way to stop it. Here's what we do,

I would keep that in reserve. But other than that you try to go win this football game because you are in such an advantageous position for being able to get the one seed that the big story from a Chiefs perspective this weekend was the Chiefs hit a five team parlay on best case scenario losses. So the Dolphins didn't play. They lead the AFC East, but the last

time they did play, the Chiefs meet them. But this weekend without playing, the AFC North leader Ravens lost, the AFC South leader Jaguars lost, a team that has given the Chiefs some trouble. The Bengals lost, a team that a lot of people thought was going to this was going to be the year. The Bills they lost and fired their coordinator, and a team that I have no fear of whatsoever, but is in the division and theoretically could try to run down the Chiefs for the division title.

The Chargers they lost. So all of the teams the Chiefs would have wanted to lose this weekend lost, and so their ability to lock up the one seed earlier than expected is very possible. Now, if you're going to lose a game, you always want to lose non conference games rather than conference games. But beating Philly off the buy would send a signal to the rest of the league that a lot of the hand ringing about the

Chiefs was overstated. And one other kind of long term prediction when you look at the schedule, I think, so Week seventeen, second to last week of the year, on New Year's Eve, the Bengals come to Arrowhead, also known if you're a Cincinnati fan as Burrowhead Stadium. I think two things are gonna happen in that nationally televised one of the games of the year, demanse. I think the Chiefs will lock up the one seed with a week to play, and I think the Bengals will be officially

eliminated from the playoffs. I think with a week left. Because the Bengals, when we'll talk about them in a moment, they lose tonight, they fall to five and five, they damn they don't have to quite run the table. They probably have to go to six and one the rest of the way. I think that is going to be the final Burrowhead Stadium revenge is the Chiefs not eliminating them from the playoffs while locking up the one seed.

On December thirty, first and Week seventeen. You have a follow up here de Manse.

Did losing this game cost you anything? And if for the Chiefs, they every single playoff game has been played at Arrowhead, they've either been the one or the two seed every year, you can make the strong argument that all of their regular season losses have been relatively speaking, meaningless because they still achieved everything you can achieve in a regular season. If the Chiefs end up losing this game and still being the one seed, you can't you

can't get more than the one seed. So from that perspective, I would say I am saying meaningless. From a mojo or confidence or belief perspective, if you were to play this team again in the Super Bowl. You could say it's meaningful. There, go ahead, what what were you gonna say?

coaching seft to where they're firing offensive coordinators. I think the Chiefs, because they have had a nearly unprecedented run of success, are as confident as any team in the league no matter what happens. And I'll say we're talking confidence,

I'll say this much. Let me put it like this, I think this game is way more meaningful for Philadelphia because if you're Philadelphia and you look at it and you say, Okay, we basically never lose when Jalen Hurts plays, except for the two times we've played the Chiefs, and we're trying to get back to the super Bowl, and the overwhelming favorite to be in the super Bowl on the other side is the Chiefs. So I think from a confidence perspective, this game has a hell of a

lot more meaning for Philadelphia. All right, next, all.

They already have the tiebreaker over Miami, they already have the tiebreaker over Jacksonville, to where you'd now be in a point where if any of those teams had the same record as Kansas City, Kansas City would get the one I don't so I get in that regard. I'm somewhat rooting for the Ravens from a kind of more

pragmatic standpoint. From an emotional standpoint, I didn't. I haven't liked the arrogance that some of the Bengals players and fans have exhibited because they beat Patrick Mahomes in overtime once and the Borough Stadium stuff has really irritated me. And if you remember Orlando Brown, he goes from Kansas City to Cincinnati and then I don't know if it was Jamar Chase or t Higgins or Tyler Boyd one of the receivers like, oh, you know, there's a big

rivalry and we one up them. And now all the Bengals fans are upset with the Orlando Brown because he hasn't played that well. I like Burrow and Chase a ton. I think some of the other guys chirp a little

a little much for my liking, but that's fine. I also, I also think it would be really interesting if the Bengals and the Bills both missed the playoffs this year, because it will kind of crystallize how impossible what Kansas City is doing has been that these two guys that were supposed to be the rivals, they can't even make the playoffs every year, let alone make multiple Super Bowls,

let alone you know, host multiple conference championship games. But who I'm rooting for is maybe not as important as this. I think the Ravens are gonna win I think the Bengals are hanged up. The Ravens are coming off a terrible loss because they gave the game away, and I think the Ravens are gonna win now them up, well, that would be the concern. That would be that the Bengals can't block the Ravens. And obviously that was the

case in their first matchup. But the first matchup, Joe Burrow's injured, so we kind of throw it out right. It was week two. Burrow couldn't move around at all. Now the Ravens Marlin Humphrey is not expected to play, so covering Chase is gonna be a problem. But if you can't block him, then covering him is not as you know what I mean, not as critical of a piece of the pie. And so here's what I will say. I think if the Bengals lose this game, they're done.

I ain't the If you look at Cincinnati, the only team they would have a tiebreaker over is Buffalo because they would have been swept by the Ravens. They've already lost to the Browns once, so their best case scenario within the division would be a three to three divisional record if they win all the rest of their games, all of their losses are AFC losses, and the rest of the way they don't have a single Cupcake on the schedule. After tonight, they have the Steelers, They're in Jacksonville.

They're home for the Colts, which is supposed to be the easiest, but the Colts have five wins. They're home for the Vikings, which seemed like an easy one, but the Vikings do have six wins. Then they're at the Steelers, at the Chiefs, and home for the Browns. A Browns team that year after year beats them up. If they fall to five and five Demons, they need to go six and one the rest of the way. I don't think that's possible, and so I do think the Bengals

season is on the line tonight. I like the Ravens. If I were gonna bet it, I'd probably bet the Bengals because three and a half is too like. I kind of on the record on this that any of these AFC North matchups where it's more than three points, unless there is something drastic that's happened with a quarterback,

I just think taking the points as smart. But I think the Ravens are I'm sorry the Bengals are in real rough shape if they lose tonight, and I think they are gonna lose tonight, And I think Lamar and the Ravens have a point to make about kind of trying that last week.

I'll say about, uh, the Draymond thing. Gobert was correct that when Steph doesn't play, he doesn't want to play. I mean, the fact of the matter is this, over the last five years, Draymond has been ejected from four of the nearly two hundred games Steph has played. That's two percent, and seven of the seventy four games Steph hasn't that's ten percent. So in the last thing about it like this, in the last five years, Draymond has been ejected eleven times. Seven of those games were games

Steph didn't play. That part's true. What's also true is this, Draymond has just in the last three games been thrown out of one game, then chirped at Anthony Edwards and Anthony Edwards lit the Warriors on fire, and then got thrown out of another game for attacking Rudy Gobert go ahead to mase.

Draymond had him hemmed up for like fifteen extra seconds after that.

Rudy Gobert in a ten second choke hold. He got suspended for a grand total of six games.

I and I do feel like retroactively, people are forgiving Draymond more and more for punching Jordan Poole because they're seeing how Jordan Poole is acting with the Wizards, and I understand that to a degree, but it's all What's also true is that that wreck to their team, that ruin they were the offending.

for Steph, I'm sorry for Clay and for Draymond. It is not only is it tough not being close to the player you once were, but it might be even tougher because Steph still is because the guy who's always been the guy is still and by the way, he's the oldest of the three and he's still at this insane level. And for Clay and Draymond. They're not all right, let's move on.

Maybe tougher than we thought a month ago, but absolutely winnable. At the Rams. The Rams cannot block the Browns. I think that is a Browns win. Home for the Jags, they're gonna lose that home for the Bears. That's a win at the Texans tough one home for the Jets, that's a win, and then at the Bengals the final week of the year. I still think the Browns make the playoffs. And here's the other piece of it. I know that Deshaun's final half pre injury, he played really well.

He was fourteen to fourteen and played well. Over the totality of the season. The Browns are dead last in the NFL in passer rating. They're six and three despite DeShawn, PJ. Walker and Dorian Thompson Robinson combining for a sixty seven passer rating, eight touchdowns and twelve picks and one hundred and eighty passing yards per game. Dead last. They have gotten worse quarterback play than the Jets, than the Patriots,

than any team. DeShawn this year was averaging one hundred and eighty five yards passing per game, had an eighty four ratings, seven touchdowns, four picks. In this last game, he was as bad as he's ever been in the first half and then was excellent in the second half. There's no denying it. So I think they're gonna be

okay now. I also think that long term it's a disaster, and their decision to trade Josh Dobbs before the year and a seventh round pick for a fifth round pick goes down as one of the worst misevaluations of a guy you have in the building that we've seen recently. If they had Josh Dobbs, they'd be fine. But I still think this is a playoff team. You got some follow ups there.

that that irritate me. Oddly, one of the things that really irritates me is when folks try to well actually me on understanding the salary cap in the NFL, guys, I almost can guarantee you, unless you are tweeting from an NFL front office, I understand it better than you do. And maybe maybe I understand it, maybe you understand it as much as I do. But I made the point on television yesterday that the bones of the Deshaun Watson contract, it was a five year, two hundred and thirty million dollar,

fully guaranteed deal. So if they had simply spread it out all evenly, then it would be a forty six million dollars per year cap it. Okay, that's that's what it would be. They decided in year one that you know, what we're gonna do is, because he has a pending suspension, we're gonna pay him basically the league minimum in year one. So the game checks that he loses it, doesn't you know, he loses as little money as possible. And Browns fans came to me and said, that's what every team with

every contract does. No, they don't. Now, they very often in year one have the base salary low because the players getting the giant signing bonus checks so they don't matter. And then they can spread that out over the course of the deal, but making it literally the league minimum was a unique move that at the time everyone understood was in part to protect him from losing money in the suspension. You can call it unethical, you can call it immral, you can call it whatever you want. That's

what they did. But that meant the five year two from a cap perspective, essentially turned into a four year to twenty. So now that's fifty five million per year against their cap. Okay, But then this off season they restructured it to give them more cap flexibility this year, so his cap hit this season was only twenty million dollars. And I understand folks love to add they're like, oh, the salary cap is fake. People that don't understand actually

how the salary cap works. That's what they say. They're like, oh, the cap is fake. You can always move money around. And as I've said before and I will say again, you can, but those bills come due. So I will try to explain this as simply as possible for the fake gms out there that for some reason think they

have a better understanding of this stuff than I do. Again, I'm there are a lot of people that talk about stuff that actually know what they're talking about, and they are maybe less abrasive than I am some of my contemporaries in the media. Maybe they have the and more power to them, but I cannot stand. I just can't stand. Folks that I wouldn't trust to balance a checkbook tell me that this is actually how the cap works. It's

not complicated, guys. They have guaranteed Deshaun Watson two hundred and thirty million dollars at some point. That means two hundred and thirty million dollars of cap charges are going

to be applied to the Cleveland Browns. So when two years into the deal, last year and this year the total cap charges to the Browns have been right at thirty million, that means over the next three years of the deal, and then you can add some dummy years, two hundred million million dollars must be up against the cap. So what does that mean? That means very simply to Shaun Watson for the Browns, next year has a cap charge of sixty four million dollars, The following year has

a cap charge of sixty four million dollars. The following year has a cap charge of sixty four million dollars. Now, if you actually can do math, you might say, wait, sixty four plus sixty four plus sixty four, that's only one ninety two. You said it was two hundred. Yes, and then a year after the contract's over, he has a void year where he's not on the team or they've given him a contract extension that has a cap

charge of eight million dollars. The point that I am making is this, the Cleveland Browns kept borrowing from future Cleveland brown years to accommodate the Deshaun Watson contract. They, as it turns out, correctly believed this year, we have a super Bowl caliber defense. Let's go try to win it right now. Unfortunately for them, DeShawn was bad and

now he's hurt. What that means in practical purposes is this, Deshaun Watson, not via cash via cap, is still owed two hundred million dollars and only has three years left on his deal. That's why each of the next three years Deshaun Watson will have the highest cap charge in NFL history. And if Browns fans want to come to me and say, well, Nick, what they'll do is they'll restructure it again. Okay, maybe they will but that bill is coming due and your runway to pay that bill

is shortening. And so the too long didn't listen version is this was their opportunity and that bill is now coming doing spades. And I think the best Browns defense were going to have seen this year's and unfortunately for them, they had an ineffective quarterback and now an injured quarterback, and I think they are about.

the next three years. Now, the Browns would still owe a sixty two million dollars dead cap hit, either all next year or spread over the next two years because of his signing bonus and his restructuring accelerating onto the cap. I do think a team might take a flyer on him if they wanted to cut the court. I do because forty six million a year for three years is not as onerous as what the Browns are looking at. But I don't think they're They're gonna admit defeat, and

I don't think that's what they're gonna do. I will tell you this much though, this Browns team with Baker Mayfield right now would be a legitimate AFC. Conmit, it absolutely would be. All right, last thing.

So I said on the air three weeks ago that I think what's gonna happen is that the Los Angeles Chargers are gonna trade a second round pick for Bill Belichick. I had not I have no sourcing on that. I was. The sourcing was my brain. I was like, the Chargers are probably gonna fire Brandon Staley, but they probably, like Kellen Moore, want to keep him. They want someone to come in. Belichick will want to go to a team with a quarterback to try to get Shula's record. Like

this seems to make sense. That was I was not reporting that at all, and I didn't pretend I was. I just said of the teams that might trade for him, that Belichick would want to go to you know what, you know, what's the Venn diagram? I said the Chargers. Over the last couple weeks since I said that, more and more people are saying that, which and then you you have Orlovsky saying on McAfee, you know he's hearing.

So I always wonder on the hearing things stuff. If what sometimes happens is and I'm not saying that's what's happening here, what does that mean.

Uh I. So the reason I brought that up is I wonder at times if what happens is someone throws something out there that is just their opinion that gets interpreted as a half a report, and then an actual someone that might have inside information in the background repeats it like oh, well, you know this is out there, But then when they say it, it actually becomes a little newsy, and then all of a sudden people are

hearing it. Does that make like the if I were to I'll use a different, just kind of fake example. If I were to say to so I'm pals with Adam Lefko, right, who's on inside the NBA. NBA guy. If he and I are talking basketball and he's a Big Sixers fan and he says to me, just just chatting, He's like yeah, you know, I think the Sixers should go after and this is I'm making this up entirely.

I think the Sixers should go after Zach Levine, right, And I'm like, oh, that's interesting, it'd be an interesting fit. They have the pieces whatever. And then on TV I go out and I'm like, you know, one of the places to watch Zach Lavine at is Philly. I was talking to, you know, an NBA person recently. They really liked the fit, right, So I didn't say that everybody. I shouldn't say everybody. A lot of people know that I have a relationship with the guy who runs the Sixers,

Daryl Morey. They could hear me say that. Assume that when I said, you know, I got you know, I was talking to NBA person. They like the fit, That's who I'm talking about. And then all of a sudden, there it's like, hey, hearing Zach Levine connected to the Sixers, when in reality it would have just been because a Sixers fan who's a buddy of mine said he liked the fit and he's so that. So the that is the difference between you know, I'm hearing such and such,

and you got to know who's saying it. If Jay Glazer, who doesn't report many things but as a near perfect hit rate, says he's hearing things, it probably means he's hearing it from an actual decision maker. If I say it, it could Demonse could have mentioned it. Who knows, Like, well, that did happen. That did happen in a very roundabout way. I was on TV and we were talking. We were playing the Jordan Poole Highlight, and I just said in passing, I was like, yeah, and I can't believe some people

thought this guy could average thirty a game. And while it's like nobody thought he could average thirty a game. And I said, no, some of our colleagues did. I can't even remember who, but I heard it, and then I realized that who was Demanse?

to go to that have a quarterback. But the Chargers do, all right? Do our gambling show next, What's Right? All right? Welcome back in What's Driving Nick Right? Episode one ninety four. And the holidays are upon us, and I know everyone will start thinking of what gifts to buy their significant others. I know I have. Well, I'm excited to share a

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off our best week of the year three one and one. Listen, we have not been dynamite this year, but as I said, hovering right around five hundred and Luki there fifty games in twenty four to twenty five and one. Now that's still minus three point five units, but only a game below five hundred, and this was right around where we were last year when we got red hot. So the picks last week. Jacksonville plus three was obviously a disaster.

They got annihilated. But the other ones Cleveland plus six, they went outright, Houston plus seven, they went out right, Detroit minus three. That's a push against the Chargers, so be it. And Dallas minus sixteen and a half against the Giants went exactly how I told you it was going to go. Now, once again, I got a little unlucky in that. For I did that my three picks on TV, which I pick from here, and I had five picks to choose from, I included the one loss.

So that's unfortunate. So instead of going three and oh or two oho and one on television, I went just two and one. But we're twenty four to twenty five and one on the year. Demondse what's my first pick of the week.

if he'll be okay this week. I also maybe I'm the only one I respect what the Steelers have done. I know that they probably from a metrics and a stats standpoint, they shouldn't be six and three, but they are. I picked them before the year to win that division. I still think they're live to do that. I think that the offense has, I don't want to say gotten better, but shown a few signs of life over the last couple of weeks since Matt Canada moved down from the

booth to the sideline. And right now, I told you AFC North teams getting points. I said it more than three and a half is an almost must bet. I'm not betting the Thursday night game tonight, but I know this is only one and a half. I just like Pittsburgh in this spot. AFC North Division games underdogs are sixty nine, forty six and three against the spread in the last decade and tomlin is a doll has been one of the most profitable plays in the NFL over

the last five years. So I like Pittsburgh. I think they're gonna win out right, go ahead, Demansey.

lose seventeen sixteen. I guess what Vegas and that by the way, if it's a thirty three point total and it's point point and a half spread, that's what Vegas is saying. This is a seventeen to sixteen Cleveland win, all right.

Teams good teams teams above five hundred who scored less than fourteen points in the previous week over the last decade are one oh one and seventy seven against the spread in the last in the last decade. Why because people overreact to them. This should Jacksonville at home against Tennessee. Should be laying more than a touchdown. They're laying six and a half. I understand Vrabel getting points. Typically he's not quite Tomlin, but he's in that realm. I just

don't like this Tennessee team at all. Jacksonville needs this game, especially with Houston coming on hot for the division, and that's a losable game next week against Houston. The Jags are not losing three straight. They are a good team. Their losses this year have come to the Chiefs, the Texans and the Niners, two excellent teams.

the worst teams in football. They threw everyone off the scent because in Week one against Seattle they blew them out and people are like, oh, maybe the Rams are gonna be legit. They're not. Since then, their wins have come in overtime against the Colts and against the Cardinals, who were at the time maybe the worst team in football. I think the Rams have a brutal offensive line. I think Seattle is a good team that has real trouble with the best teams in the league. They lost to

the Bengals, they got blown out by the Ravens. I don't think they're gonna have trouble with the Rams here. I don't mind laying the points, especially because I think it'll probably be at least fifty to fifty Seahawks fans there, and I think the Rams are in a rough spot moving forward the rest of the year. When you look at what the Rams have on their schedule after the Cardinals game, it's hard to fight. They have the Cardinals and the Giants. Aside from that, I don't know if

they have another win on their schedule. I like Seattle, but I shouldn't say bounce back spot because they won last week into the Commanders. But I like Seattle. I'm only laying a point. I'll take Seattle minus one.

right back to him. I think the it's very interesting watching Sean Payton call plays for this Denver team because even though Russ has some of his numbers are shockingly good, Sean Payton clearly doesn't trust him and is trying to coach around the quarterback and the play calling. I don't think that will work against Minnesota. I think Minnesota is

gonna be able to take care of the football. Minnesota is in a spot where they are you know, they can't obviously lock up a playoff spot, but because it is so hard to find a third wild card team in the NFC other than Minnesota. They're in a really strong position. They also maybe are tricking themselves in the thinking they could run down Detroit in the division. Minnesota is gonna win this game, outright. I like Minnesota. I'm

really surprised by this line. I guess it's Josh Dobbs on the roads against a defense that's played well the last month, and credit at defense. It has played well. It's played really well since giving up those seventy points. Played well against the Chiefs twice, played well against Josh Allen. I just think Minnesota is a better team than the

Denver Broncos, and I anger right now. Denver on a short week after an emotional win, is primed for a bit of a letdown spot after a couple emotional wins, I should say, beating the Chiefs and beating the Bills. I like Minnesota plus the two and a half, all right, last.

were underdogs in the Super Bowl. I think the Chiefs Andy Reid off a bye is about as good as it gets in this league.

You're right. He wouldn't say it, He wouldn't say the other that he didn't have confidence, But I believe him and the way he has said it, and the way he has conducted him the way he conducted himself after the Dolphins win when the offense didn't play well and the Chiefs won, he seemed more confident than had they won thirty five thirty two because I think he believes correctly the offense will get it figured out and that Chiefs defense just dominated what had been the highest scoring

offense in the league. And so the Chiefs are at home laying less than a field goal off a bye against an Eagles team that while their record is excellent and I have massive respect for the Eagles the Eagles, it's not like they have looked like a flawless team up to this point in the season. This is to me a great spot for the Chiefs to remind everyone they're still the best team in the NFL. Hands down, all lay the two and a half with Kansas City.

So the picks for the week Pittsburgh plus one and a half at Cleveland, Jacksonville minus six and a half against Tennessee Seattle minus one in Arizona, Minnesota minus or plus two and a half at Denver, and the Chiefs minus two and a half against Philly. All Right, Demons what's your teaser this week? Pal? Last week we know another two and one teaser. The jag screwed you. Sorry about that, Pal. What's the teaser this week?

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