Chiefs ‘not out of AFC West race’, Eagles vibes ‘don’t matter’, Bo Nix holding Broncos back? | FTF

Chiefs ‘not out of AFC West race’, Eagles vibes ‘don’t matter’, Bo Nix holding Broncos back? | FTF

Live from New York, it’s a show that’s congratulating Brew’s uncle Kenneth. Wow, thank you, Wild Hall of Fame, Xavier University of New Orleans for basketball. Athletic Hall of Fame basketball runs in the family. Oh, I believe it. Brew was a good athlete. Oh yeah, also commitment to work. Because if I would have gone down to New Orleans on a Thursday, Thursday, you’re not making it back here. I already got a 6 a.m. flight. Good for you. Yeah, which is risky these days. I would, yeah, so congrats, Uncle. We’re starting with an ugly win, 10-7, but seven straight wins for Denver. 8 and 2 also booed consistently during the game. Also, the camera kept cutting to people doing the thumbs down. That is a quote from the quarterback of the AFC West leading Broncos. Uh, here are the numbers completed 57% of his passes, expected completion percentage 70%. It wasn’t good. Wrote, I went freestyle the question because you guys weren’t on the call. Hey, what’s going on with the Broncos? Well, if I may quote Bruce Willis from the legendary film Die Hard to America watching the Broncos last night, maybe for the first time for 3 hours. Welcome to the party, pal. It’s what it’s been every single week and Brew. Wednesday you were hearing wilds during tears. I was like, you know what? I think I’m gonna believe in the Broncos. And then Thursday, he doubled and tripled down on it. And then, because here’s the deal, I, there’s a lot of football every weekend, and, uh, and the Broncos are not a super marquee team if it’s not your team. And so it’s a weird universe where most of the people who are watching the Broncos week in, week out, the closest are Bronco fans, and they want Bo Nix to be good, and they want to puff their chest out and be like, when the Chiefs were winning close games, it was all good, and now it’s not. The only other people watching the Broncos really closely are people that are, it’s their job, or gambling on it, or have a vested interest in the Broncos not being good. I happen to check all three boxes. I’m gambling on it. I don’t, I want them to fall back for the Chiefs. And it’s my job. And I’m telling you, America, that defense is awesome. And while I think Sean Payton is a little overstated at times by some members of the media, I think he designs an offense where guys do seem to run open a fair amount. And their quarterback cannot hit them and the running game is not as potent as they hoped it would be, and they’re being, but it’s better, it’s, it’s the best part of their offense, no question about it. No, no, but if they had a dynamic, if you have a great defense, good offensive line, and dynamic running game, then you can get away with having what is right now a bottom 5 or 6 production from the quarterback position. And so they are, they, this is exactly how they played in London when they escaped against the Jets. This is how they played last week when it took a dirty hit to knock CJ out of the game to escape against the Texans. It’s how they played in week one to beat the Titans. And so I just, they, they have a great defense and the defense makes them frisky. But that offense and that quarterback make them, every other AFC playoff team, brew is going to be saying, please give us the Broncos. Of all the available teams, give us them because again, there’s not gonna be any bad teams in the playoffs. He is going to be the worst quarterback in these playoffs by such a wide margin that you’re just gonna roll the dice with him. I wouldn’t go that far. Like, I, I obviously with him he’s struggling badly and I’ll get to him, but because of that defense, like that defense is playing historically well. It’s great, you know, what do they have 46 sacks, sounds right, something like that. Like they’re on pace to break the record, you know, the, the Bears’ record in 1984 was 172. They’re on pace, I think, for 1978. And obviously they’re getting the guys 5 and 6 times every game. It feels like that on average it’s 4.6, but so that for that reason teams may not be, you know, clamoring to face them in the playoffs. But obviously the issue is Bo Nix and even you’re right with the run game. I mean if they had like a top level back, then you could just dink and dunk with him with Bo Nix and then run, you run your, uh, bell cow. Now JK Dobbins is having a good year. I mean. He got hurt last night because he tweeted about it. He tweeted about a hip drop. Just, I’m sorry to interrupt. Like 30 minutes ago, he tweeted about the hip drop tackle, and he said he’s like they either need to flag it or actually outlaw it. This is some BS. And the reporting is he’s getting a second opinion on his foot even though he finished the game. So that would, so they have the rookie RJ Harvey, but it looks like who hasn’t given him as much as they were expecting because Dobbins was on pace for like a career year. So, but Bo Nix, first of all. I feel like this is the latest example to us to just pump the brakes on some of the young quarterbacks, and I don’t necessarily feel that way about Drake May because he’s been so good, he’s big like he has all the measurables, you know what I mean, but CJ Stroud, phenomenal rookie year, came back to Earth and still on Earth right now, you know, after his 3rd year, Jaden Daniels. You can, the injury is obviously a huge, the biggest factor, but even when he was playing, he wasn’t like on fire, right, right. And now you got Bo Nix, and you, you rightfully said this is kind of what’s gonna happen like a Mac Jones type situation, and so far you’ve been right on the money with that, and he is the they are winning despite him. They, uh, it’s not even, I don’t even know. I mean, I guess I can’t say it’s worse than the Trevor Lawrence situation where they were kind of winning in spite of Trevor, but this looks worse like right now, I mean, his decision, decision making is horrible. I even whether it was the press conference postgame. Uh, you can’t, I can’t see everything in the game, but I feel like he’s playing without confidence. Like he is just what the guy you saw last year, particularly toward the end of the season, and the guy you see now are light years apart. That’s funny because Drew, I think he’s playing with too much confidence, really. I think he is. I think he really believes so many of his throws are audacious. It’s, I’m not setting my. Feet and I’m, I’m running or I’m gonna, like, it’s trying to fit it into tight windows. Like, I feel like his problem isn’t that he’s too conservative. I feel like his problem is sometimes that he tries to do too much. So I, maybe it’s a combination of being unconfident on certain things, but also still really believing in his overall talent in a way that, again, this, the Broncos are 8 and 2. Like the, I want to separate these things. The Broncos team. Has proven they’re a good team. I was wrong about them. I like, I, but the, the defense is carrying the entire workload right now in a way that I don’t think it’s sustainable against the good teams even though they beat Philly. And quickly, what you said about the Chiefs, because this, I mean, obviously Mahomes was playing way better than this, but it’s reminiscent the close wins, some wins where you’re like, uh, they got a break. They won. The difference is the track record. And so you, the Eagles don’t even get that benefit of the doubt, even though they won the Super Bowl last year. When they don’t look good and wins, people criticize them. The Chiefs, you know, they, because of their past in the Super Bowls, they have gotten a pass and rightfully so that you can’t give to the Broncos. Go ahead, 7 game win streak. He’s completing less than 60% of his passes. I’m a big completion person. I know, I know you hate it. No, it’s good. It’s even it out. I’m not, no, I, I’m not a completion, and he’s not really throwing it that far. Yards per pass at 6.2. It’s the worst on any seven-game win streak, uh, since the Steelers. That, that was the season before the better than the B, correct? That was the fraudulent. They started 10 and 0 and nobody really believed in them was that year. Oh, the Steelers. That being said. And maybe I’m just playing a little bit of devil’s advocate. That’s OK. 7 games is 7 games. So, so that’s one part of it. There’s a point where we’re in this weird part of sports TV. It’s like, maybe it’d be better to get like, that was just a dud game and I was told, like, sometimes you get more credit for like, you know what, throw that game in the garbage, but you don’t throw it in the garbage because they won. You know what I mean. So then it’s like, ah, they don’t, you mean, but it’s just every week like this. I know how they look consistently, and I mean they beat the Jets 13-11. So that’s like the Eagles. I know, so the Jets are there. The Texans are here. The Eagles thing is real. That the Eagles win was a real win. I’m watching that game and he looked great. No, but that’s their, the Giants. The win was great. Was it lucky? A little weird thing, but Bo Nix was out there, so it looked like a franchise that Eagles game, if you remember it, he looked exactly like this for the 1st 3 quarters, flashes and then, and then the 4th quarter was excellent. And that’s, that’s the other distinction that I will draw because I know we’re about to talk about the Chiefs this year because I went back and looked at it. The Chiefs last year, it was close games. It was close games against playoff teams. It was close games against the Broncos who made the playoffs against Cincinnati, against Baltimore. It, the only close game against a non-playoff team they had like that against bad teams. was the Raiders game. The, the Broncos, it’s these close games against the Titans and the Giants and the Jets, and the Texans are the backup quarterback in the Raiders last night. That’s the, that’s the other piece of it. And so I just, I, I think he is going to be the reason this team does not achieve Sean Payton’s belief in it. Sean Payton said this team can win the Super Bowl. And the reason that at 8 and 2 with the best statistics. Offensive line in football, the best defensive line or pass rush in football and an excellent defense. Nobody thinks they can win the Super Bowl is because of the quarterback. They can disrupt the quarterback. They, yes, that might go a long way. Last time Denver won 7 straight. They won the Super Bowl. Uh, Broncos, so the Broncos have 8 wins. Kansas City has 5. quick update on the playoff odds, Drew. Luckily you missed it yesterday. Grievous error on my part. Several things wrong. Denver is now 90% to make the playoffs, 50% to win the division according to the Athletic, which is owned in part by the New York Times. Can I tell you something funny about this graphic? Yesterday before the game. Denver had slightly better odds to win the division. They were 100 and Casey was 150. So even though they won because it looked the way it did, they, they, they, they, Vegas was like, uh, the Chiefs have a slightly better chance today than they did yesterday, even though Denver’s the weird part. Do you think the division is out of reach even though the odds are tightening? No, I. So this is a very unique circumstance that I cannot remember this late in the season, this being true. Technically right now, the Broncos, Chargers, and Chiefs all control their own destiny for the division. Meaning it because they play each other enough, meaning if any of them win out, they win the division, right? And so, I, but I, I don’t anticipate the Chiefs are going to win out. However, I do anticipate the Chiefs off a bye are going to win in Denver, and I do anticipate the Chiefs in week 16, I think it is, at home, are going to beat Denver. And that, that de facto in my brain ties them. Like that, Chiefs have 4 losses, Denver has 2. I believe the Chiefs are gonna go 2-0 against the Denver Broncos. In which case, no, it’s definitively not out of reach. Now, it does mean Kansas City, because Denver keeps winning these close games and having these comebacks, even if Kansas City sweeps them, it doesn’t lock the division. For them because Kansas City’s margin of error has narrowed, but I, I don’t think what Denver is doing is sustainable in the 2nd, the final third of their season when they finally play good teams other than Philadelphia. And so, no, I don’t think it’s out of reach for Kansas. Well, I, I, I, I agree. And I mean, like you said, the fact that the Chiefs played them twice means. That it’s not out of reach. I mean, if they beat him, and I think it breaks really well for the Chiefs because, as you said, the next game against Denver is off the buy. So you certainly think the Chiefs are gonna be ready and win that game in Denver. And then the last that like that game, I think it’s week 17, that could determine the division champion. I think the Chargers, and I really have liked the Chargers, but the injuries and look, Joe. We’ve been talking about him like he’s the best offensive lineman of all time, right, but still, without Slater, without him, I think they’re going to fall off a little bit. I still think they can make the playoffs, but I think it’s between Denver and Kansas City, and that last game being in Kansas City that you gotta like the Chiefs in that one. And here you mentioned it, Nick, the last 4 games for the, I don’t know if it. I was up there for the uh Broncos Broncos, Green Bay, Jacksonville, Kansas City, and the Chargers. Like that is some tough sledding. So I, I think the Chiefs, look, obviously if the Chiefs lose to Denver off the bye, then no, the, the division the, the Chiefs play a division championship elimination game. Out of the buy. Like they’re the, if the Chiefs, I, I am gonna be on the record, look into the camera right now. If the Chiefs lose out of the buy, they cannot, in my opinion, win the AFC West and we have to start. The playoffs sadly talking about can they miss the playoffs if they lose coming out of the box. So that game is as important of a regular season game as the Chiefs have played in Mahomes’s career. That’s why I’m worried about it. I’d I’d love to hear the Chiefs a little. Bit. I mean, they’re only a 3-point favorite on the look ahead. So Denver, it’s got the longest home winning streak in the NFL. They’re very good in Denver. The off the buy thing is usually great. Andy Reid’s great off the buy, but this Thursday night game, I was like, Denver gets like half a buy. I didn’t realize that when we were looking at it, like, oh, that’s kind of like a miniature buy. And there’s one real way to beat Patrick Mahomes. You can’t go toe to toe with the guy. You have to hit him. And they can do that. 4 times he was hit the most, 11 times, 7 times, 7 times, 6 times. Bills lost, Eagles lost. Giants win, but it was a tackle that turn tied. And the Chargers lost. So if they can get to Mahomes, that is like a rested and you’re good at home, and you’re rested and you’re not a full off the buy, it’s a recipe for an upset. No, listen, I, your analysis there is definitely correct. If you remember the last few games of last season when they needed, they had those 3 games in 10 days and they needed to win them to be able to lock up the 1 seed when the offensive line was really in like the, the offensive line was in shambles, the left tackle position was in shambles, and they were playing the Texans who were great at getting to the quarterback, and they were playing the Steelers, who’s the whole way they, they were clawing their way into the playoffs was. Getting to the quarterback. The Chiefs, I think, had two of their most potent offensive games of last year up to that point by just doing the quick hitter passing, spamming that again and again. I have to believe that Andy understands against Denver that we’re, we aren’t going to need massive explosives because their offense is not explosive. We just need to your point, to be able to protect Patrick. I think Buffalo is different. Because Buffalo, I feel like they felt we need explosives, you know, so we are, we haven’t, and then Buffalo was able to get to them. Finally, Ravens Vikings Sunday at one. You know we talked about this Vikings defense, brew, but maybe more reputation than reality. Thank you. Here’s the recent passer rating against Brian Flores’s defense. Rodgers around 120. Dylan Gabriel played well. That’s the most embarrassing number on there. Jalen Hurt. You let Dylan Gabriel 94. Herbert 122 and go. I mean those numbers are crazy. So Brew, how confident are you that the Ravens stay hot? Wild, if I was any more confident, I’d be Muhammad Ali. All right, I am incredibly confident that the Ravens are going to continue to roll. And firstly, I love what I hear coming out of that locker. And it started with Kyle Van Noy on our show. Like we’re not there yet. We still got a long way to go. Like they are not feeling like, OK, the, the defense is fixed, everything is good. Like they know they dug themselves a hole and they, every single week they have to dig out of it. I think they are talking like there’s a sense of urgency, there’s a seriousness, there’s a, we gotta win every single game. To get ourselves out of this hole and they know there’s a chance. It’s not like it’s a pipe dream. They control their own destiny too, you know, because they played Pittsburgh twice and so I feel very confident. Look, JJ McCarthy. It’s almost like at Michigan his numbers are not impressive and even his play is not impressive, but he makes, he makes winning plays. I will give him that We against Chicago obviously last week he had didn’t the numbers aren’t very impressive, but he had some, you know, 2 touchdowns, uh, what, passing, 1 running, so. But he has not played well overall. I do think that Ravens defense is improving. I’m not even gonna, I’m not gonna say they’re there yet. They still gotta keep doing this week after week, but they’re getting better. And then Lamar, I mean, you showed those numbers. Lamar’s passing rate is 136, so guys with much lower ones are lighting up Minnesota. I think he’s gonna have his way. And also Minnesota, really, they, they’ve struggled against the run too. So Derrick Henry, one of Them or maybe both is going to have a big game. Nick, I think it’s gonna be a shootout or it’s gonna have to be a shootout for Minnesota to win, and I don’t think JJ can come close to Lamar at this stage of his career in a shootout. All right. I, I think a lot of that is fair analysis. The, your graphic confused me a bit, and not confused me, but surprised me, I should say, um, because Minnesota did really get to Jared Goff. Maybe he didn’t show up in his passer rating, but this past week, like he was under constant duress. I thought that was the best game Minnesota’s defense has played all year. So even if it doesn’t, even if, right. It, it didn’t show up in golf’s passer rating numbers. If that defense comes to play against Baltimore, that could give Lamar some trouble because we have that you’re right that Lamar has basically solved being blitzed where he, he used to be bad at it, and one of the things that kind of helped him grow was that game against Miami. By the way, speaking of Miami. Everybody knows I’m a big, the tackle that turned the tide guy, but no other team that’s floundering has been like, hey guys, why don’t we draw something up so our quarterback has to force a fumble to see if it turns everything around. You did see that another team. Decided to see if they could have a toy toss that transformed the tacklers that felt that felt like it was Miami got rid of the papa shot, bro. I’m just letting you know my Miami should have done that about a month ago. Miami got rid of the papa shot. I just, so that just it. It feels like your T7 is maybe taking some of the lead by storm get rid of the cardboard that’s on the floor in the locker room where they break dance and do back spins and all that. Here’s the deal. I want the Ravens to win KW, yeah, of course. Do you? You have to. I do because I, I feel, and I don’t know if you agree with me. I feel like if they lose. It’s over. That they are done, done. I think the Steelers stealing that win against the Colts, I shouldn’t say stealing, they outplayed them, but winning as a dog against the Colts. That in conjunction with if the Ravens lose this game to fall to 3 and 6, the hole is too big. I do. And so that, so I don’t want the Ravens to be done yet. Like the, and so, and I also am. A little anxious about what I saw Minnesota’s defense do last week. And so that’s my only trepidation on it. Now, what weighs more heavily is about golf, like treating golf like Lamar. Well, golf we know, but, but Lamar does, here’s the thing. Lamar doesn’t do that as much anymore and I still have bouncing around in my head what I thought was Spags in the Chiefs game really giving Lamar some trouble in that game. And, and so, well, look, the Chiefs give him trouble that other teams don’t, right, but I’m thinking more about Spaggs and Flores as like creative, really. Smart D coordinators that can cook, uh, you know, what the kids call a bespoke game plan up just for Lamar. And so they are using the term bespoke, but only when it comes to defensive game plans, oddly. They’re like, that’s a very bespoke defensive game plan. And so I am, I am not quite as confident as Brew, but Lamar owns the NFC for his career. He’s lost his last two though, yeah, but prior to that, what he was 29-0 or 24 and 3. And so I, so I, great job, Brew, you’re the best. You did not take the day off. Oh no, Brew’s lock, Brew’s locked, um, but I’d be a little nervous if it’s close late. I’m nervous. That’s what I’m saying for the show, not even just for brew. Uh, Brew, your reaction to the vibes in Philadelphia. Uh I don’t, I don’t even know that it matters. That’s a like, and, and I say that as the architect of the supernatural funk phrase, so that obviously mattered, but we’re at the point where the vibes look great for obviously Jalen Phillips and. You know, AJ was fine there, but it doesn’t even have to be a loss for AJ to throw the vibes into disarray. They could win this weekend and he could say something, post something that has everybody going, what in the world? So I think the good thing for the Eagles is that I think they just completely ignore like Ja Jalen, Jaden said it earlier or Jalen said it a couple of weeks. Jalen Hurts said it a couple of weeks ago when he was like, you know, I just keep the focus on the collective. And we, I think we kinda brushed it aside or whatever, but I really think that’s how they look at it now, like, look, whatever AJ said, it’s kinda like the boy that cried wolf. Like he, he’s so many times he said something, posted something, whatever, we won a Super Bowl with him being a distraction on the sideline by reading a book with him saying things and, and tweeting things. We, we, we’re fine. Whatever he says, I think they just ignore it, which I think is smart and And you move forward, so I think that will be fine for them. They’re built for all types of vibes, any vibe, whether it’s negative, whether it’s great, they’re built for all of it because they’ve had to. They’ve endured it all. Last year you kind of alluded to it. Last year, a 9-game winning streak, win against the Carolina Panthers. AJ Brown is asked what needs to be passing game. And now, to his credit, we all felt the same way. So he does say the things that most guys. Aren’t gonna say in the locker room that they feel that we’re not gonna disclose to the open public. Jalen Phillips, on the other hand, he’s coming from a situation where, look, I had no chance to win. Like it was miserable, uh, by the way, I’ve been down there, I know what you’re talking about, like it, and so you get in a locker room and the opportunity, I look, all I see is the opportunity to win, but to defend, I don’t, I don’t necessarily wanna say I wanna defend AJ Brown. But you gotta have, you gotta have a guy like this in the locker room. And last year, I thought it was, I thought the book was a distraction. You guys know how I felt about the book. But you know how many guys came to his defense, Guys in that locker room came to his defense, even yesterday when we saw that, that side that we just put up there. Smith, Devonta Smith is in the background, he jumps in. It’s like, what, what y’all think he wanna be like AJ Brown is never gonna be the guy that just goes with what’s what feels good. He’s gonna be the guy in the locker room, in the team meeting room that’s gonna. Gonna say what he feels, how he feels, whether we’re winning or losing, and he’s the guy that everybody wins something, you know somebody is gonna say something, it’s like uh AJ is gonna say something. When something needs to be said and nobody is saying anything, you know who everybody is gonna look at? AJ you gonna say something? Because you want that, absolutely. Do you think it started that way or it’s just become that? It’s, I think it’s become that because of the frustrations in the passing game. And again, he’s experienced it. We watch it and we see, man, they’re gonna have to pass the ball if they, if they’re gonna be able to accomplish. What we all feel like they’re talented enough to do. What were you gonna, you, you had a funny look when Bruce said what he said, because I 100% agree with Bruce. So I wrote down my paper, not sure any of this matters to me. It’s like turbulence on a flight. You know, it doesn’t matter if, if we’re sitting next to each other and you start freaking out and you start screaming with your shoes off. Jalen Hurts is the pilot and he’s cool. He’s not rattled at all, so I could be like, put your shoes on, we’re going down. You got your toes out there wiggling. Uh, but it’s like Jalen Hurts is, is so calm and so steady. I’m not sure this matters. All right. I, so I. In response to that, about the shoe thing, I want to agree. I want to agree with you guys, with the exception of, I think I could, one could make the argument, this is the team of all 32 where it could matter the most because we saw what we think was bad vibes sink a season. That we saw this team be 10 and 1, and then for reasons that are so inexplicable, we have just used it like a, like it’s a real event, like for the tackle that turned the tide, the supernatural funk. We’re like, that, yo, wow, that was, right. Written It’s written in history as the supernatural funk, and it was brought about by weird vibes on a winning team and no year they had last year they could have, right, and, and they, they, they got through my other. Here’s my other kind of bigger picture opinion on this before we move on. We used to hear all the time. About when I was young, like how hard it is to play in New York City because of the back pages, right, the tabloids. And I remember when this show first started, I might have even argued with you about it 78 years ago when I was like, man, that’s not a thing anymore. Like that’s the, the, that, that’s not the way players consume the media anymore. I think what that is the morphed into is the teams that have. The most spotlight on them. If there’s anything to pick at, it’s going to be picked and the players are going to see it the way guys in New York used to only see it. And so I think that Philadelphia is, the back pages are basically the Instagram and Twitter feeds, and Philadelphia has been the subject of a lot of picking. And we are in a way that like the Chiefs just are not like the, you know, there, there’s not, there are not people regularly, I’m not reporting about the unhappy guy in the Chiefs or Packers locker room or the Niners because they don’t say stuff like AJ, right, but so, but that’s kind of my point is it becomes a little bit of a self-fulfilling process. Prophecy. You know what I mean? Like Philly is, you know, a hotbed of this stuff already. Now they have a guy who will talk, and now you have all, everybody going to him for it, and it’s a story that just won’t, you know, it won’t go away. It’s just the, and to your point, Brew, a win doesn’t fix it. A win where AJ Brown is awesome doesn’t fix it. Because that’s what got us the using me, not using me was when he, like, it’s just going to be there. So they have to be able to sustain it because it’s not gonna go away. There’s nothing that’ll make it go away. As for the game, the Eagles are underdogs in Green Bay. Jordan Love looking to bounce back from a dud game against Carolina in a three-interception game when he faced the Eagles in the playoffs. Greg, we’ll ask you, are the Packers in trouble if they lose on Monday night? You know, I’ve been going back and forth with this, and they would be definitely staring down the, the alley of trouble, staring down the alley of trouble they, they would like I think that’s a no, that’s a kind of a no, yeah, like they wouldn’t necessarily be in trouble because we’ve seen them lose games and then and then get back on, get back. Back on track. However, after losing to the Panthers in the fashion in which you’ve lost to, to them, and then knowing what we know about this team, losing to them week one to open the season last year, getting your season ended by them last year and Jordan Love not playing great. It, it just wouldn’t feel good because you’re then looking at their schedule and saying, where’s the win that tells us that this team is really, really good. Now, I picked them to win the, the Super Bowl and get there obviously. Detroit week one, we almost are almost wanting to throw that out because Detroit hasn’t looked anything like that since and so you need to put together some type of win against a team like this. If you are going to be the team that we expect you to be, you’re gonna have to face a team that’s gonna be in your way, and this is one that’s gonna consistently be in your way in the NFC. I do not think they’d be in trouble. I, I think when, uh, you make a good point that that would be 3, at least 3 straight losses, 3 in the last 2 years to the Eagles, so that could be deflating, right? You’re like, can we get over the hump against this team. But I also feel like when you are a good team and you lose to the defending Super Bowl champion. That can’t deflate you. It’s like they’re great too. I mean, so it, it’s not like we lost to a bad team again. And I also think, Greg, the thing is they have gotten up for the good teams. They’re probably Washington at that point was, we thought was a very good team, and they beat one more, uh, uh, Pittsburgh, right? And then, so yeah, it’s been the bad team. Cleveland, Carolina, Dallas, so I expect them to be up for even if they lose though they’re 5-31 now that would drop them out of the playoffs for the time being, most likely. But because they got Minnesota twice, who is a team they theoretically could be battling, they got Chicago twice, which is a team they’d be fighting with for one of those last playoff spots, and they still play Detroit. Now I don’t necessarily. Expect them to sweep Detroit, so they probably will lose that game, but I just still think they have enough games against the teams they’re battling with, and they’re, we know they’re more, they’re better than Minnesota, they’re better than Chicago. They have to play that way, but I still think because that’s their schedule, they would still be in fine shape. So if they, if they lose this game, I don’t know that I will just say definitively they’re better than Chicago, really. Yeah, really? Yeah, I mean, I, you think on paper, that, I mean, going into the year, I, I had Chicago and Green Bay both as wild cards. I think it’s the 6 and the 7. You know what I mean? I didn’t find them to be that far apart. Right now, one team’s 5 and 3 coming off it’s, you know, arguably best moment of the season. The other team’s 52 and 1 coming off arguably its worst moment of the season and or second worst moment of the season. And I just, I think, Dust, I don’t know if we can put up whatever version of the standings we have, because your, your point is correct, Brew. If they lose this game, if we think Chicago’s gonna beat the Giants in their favor, they will be out of the playoffs going into this week. I know right now it says they’re the 4th seed, but that’s not the important part. The important part is the records. And if they lose, you do have Chicago poised for right there. And you also have the possibility of a team that. Almost every year there’s a team we’re like, man, they’re not as good as some of those teams that missed the playoffs, but they got to 10 wins, Carolina or whomever, and they stole a spot. And so if you look at then Green Bay’s schedule, you’re right, Brew, they play all the teams they’re competing with. They don’t play any soft spots, but the Giants. Like, I would, so it just does, at some point, it becomes a bit of a math problem. And in a similar way to what I was saying about Kansas City, if they lose to Denver, you know what I mean? And it’s like, oh, well, it, it doesn’t really matter how good you, in theory can be if you don’t have enough opportunities to get the wins. And so I would think if they lose Monday, I would say they’re like a coin flip to make the playoffs. And that to me is a big deal.

The Denver Broncos beat the Las Vegas Raiders 10-7 despite a poor performance from Bo Nix. Nick Wright, Chris Broussard, and Kevin Wildes ask if Bo Nix is holding the Broncos back from being true contenders, if the Baltimore Ravens should be confident against the Minnesota Vikings, and whether or not the Kansas City Chiefs can still win the AFC West. Plus, the Philadelphia Eagles will play the Green Bay Packers, and A.J. Brown is still an Eagle. Jaelan Phillips said that being traded to the Eagles was “the greatest thing that ever happened to me”. The FTF crew asks if the Eagles should be concerned with the vibes in the locker room, and if the Packers should panic if they lose.

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