How the 6-6 Chiefs Can Still (EASILY) Make the 2025 NFL Playoffs!

How the 6-6 Chiefs Can Still (EASILY) Make the 2025 NFL Playoffs!

I can’t believe we’re sitting here and I just breaking down like I feel like it’s like 06 again with the Chiefs. Yeah. Just total [ __ ] and they’re trying to sneak in. Yeah. What you want as a Chiefs fan right now? You want Jacksonville to win that division. Biggest Jags fans. Somehow them pissing their pants against Jacksonville might save them in the weirdest way possible. that and might get them a first round date with Jacksonville. Crazy. It would just be unbelievable. It’s that football show here on KC Sports. Tucker Franklin hanging out with Matt Veran for your Monday edition of that football show. Uh we got to stick to our regular schedule. Matt, how does that feel? We we told the boys from Only We Gains from that for No, we’re that football show from Only We’re Gains from the Casey Laboratory to to move their schedule so they can fit around us. How How are you doing? We’ve already talked since last Thanksgiving since Thanksgiving since uh the Chiefs played. How was uh your weekend? Oh, it was fine. It was fine. I went out. did and uh spent a good amount of money. Um Oh, Black Friday shopping, huh? Yeah. I went out and I was like, you know what? This is about other people. This isn’t about me. I got to the store and I was like, you know, actually turns out it’s going to be one for them, one for me. Yeah. I got, you know, took care of my mother. She’s her Christmas stuff’s taken care of. Old man, he’s taken care of my wife. She, you know, it’s good. I’ve been with my wife now for 10 years. And she was like, “Listen, here’s what I want.” Yeah. I did no guesswork, nothing. Like great. went to Macy’s, knocked it right out. Um, Macy’s is great for that. Yes. You know, so did that. But then I was like, you know what? Like last So last summer I didn’t play golf because I was coming off back surgery. The year prior I I played a decent amount. And so like I’m Listen, I’m complete [ __ ] I’ll I’ll shoot anywhere between like a 95 and like 100. Like if it’s an allout great day, I’ll shoot like a 91 or something. Like that’s that’s a that’s like once a summer. So last year, like the last time I played, I I had a driver that I’ve had for 15 years and I hit a drive and the bottom half of the club just snapped off. Awesome. Just gone. All right. So went to Dicks and bought a new driver and the guy at Dicks was like, “Hey, like do you want to take some swings in the simulator?” And so immediately I was like, “Yeah, yeah, hell yeah.” Right. So, we go in there and I’m realizing as I’m lining up to approach this ball, I have not hit a golf ball since I’ve had back surgery. So, I’m like a little apprehensive even though I play pickle ball and crap all the time, but it feels like a much more violent motion. Different. Yeah. It’s a different way. Yeah. So, the first like couple drives I’m hitting them like not even half speed, right? and the ball’s gone like 40 and he’s like watching and then like I hit like I hit like just chunk three balls cuz I’m so nervous to hit the ball hard and then I’m like as I’m going I like it’s just very inconsistent because I’m not swinging the way I should actually be swinging right and the guy’s looking at me and I can tell in his brain he’s like this guy should not be spending a couple hundred dollar on a driver right now right like for sure and so I turn around I’m like I’m not making an excuses the first time I’ve swung a club since back surgery and he looked at me he’s like don’t hurt yourself don’t hurt me I was Don’t worry, man. You’re not liable. It’s cool. Got out of there, hit a few good ones, but like yeah, still like it’s going to take a few shots at the drive driving range to get that right. But yeah, point being got the driver. Um I got some other crap. I don’t know. I got my buddies some golf balls. Got myself got myself a a Christmas candle cuz I’m 37 and that’s what life’s all about these days. So, but yeah, you know, spent some cash, whatever. My wife sent me out to pick up like eight different things. She She did Black Friday the right way. She just went online shopping that made me go and get it, right? Yeah. Oh, clutch on her part. Yeah. So, uh went to the mall, which is just a tire fire. You guys still have the mall, huh? Yeah, barely. Yeah, dude. It’s the pitch, man. It is the pitch. You want to see the lowest form of society walk into the mall? That’s a great point. They still have any ends, though. They still got the pretzels. Not at that crap mall. No. Uh that’s how that’s a recession indicator right there. Yeah. Do they have a Cinnabon though? Um well that also is kind of a recession indicator too. I’m a big fan of Cinnabon. Yeah. Oh 100%. But like there’s like there’s there’s only you can only get Cinnabon in like sad places like airports and malls, right? Like those are the only places you can get. You know, you know what’s bad is like you know you’re down bad and you’re like hey who wants to go to the mall for lunch? Yeah. And yeah Ruby Tuesday hit it. You know, like I dude, it’s No, it’s a I was walking through there thinking about that like, bro, this place got five years tops. Yeah, right. But this place is just done. Um Yeah. How was How was your weekend? It was good. Uh good. We Missouri won. The Missou Missouri football Tigers won and they didn’t lose their head coach, which was a very uh good time for me, especially my mental state needed that uh especially coming off of the Chiefs game. So, if the Missouri was going to lose as well to Arkansas, who they’ve beaten, I think five out of the last six years, that would have been a really brutal one as Arkansas is looking for their head coach. Lots of crazy stuff going on in college football right now. So, I’ve been kind of keep an eye on the Lane Keifin saga and everything going on. Uh, but it was good. Uh, we did did some um grocery shopping, trying to get back on track of like a regular week. you and I were talking about before the show, the Dis playing on Thursday one kind of threw us off because that’s the first time they played on Thursday this year actually. Uh they played Friday to open the year, but this is the first Thursday game they’ve played and they’ll play Thursday again on Christmas. So, we’ll have to figure that one out, right? Uh but that’s the first Thursday game they’ve played since we’ve done two shows a week. And it doesn’t really mess with our schedule, I guess, when when it come when it comes down to to the to the Monday Friday thing. Uh, but I on Friday thought it was Monday. I don’t I probably just because the Chiefs played a game and then the day after is usually Monday, right? So, I was so confused when it was Friday and everything, but I was in my head thought it was Monday. These days have kind of all run together. Um, and there was a there was technically a slate of NFL football games that was played on this Sunday, Matt. It wasn’t a great slate. That noon slate particularly was pretty rough, but there were some uh some games were played on this Sunday, Matt. Games were played. Games were played. The Rams lost to the Panthers after everybody spent the entire week being like the Rams are clearly the best team in football, right? And then Bryce Young lit him up for three touchdown passes. Stafford threw two picks, lost the fumble, and here we are. Uh and he’s clearly like he’s like the presumptive MVP, and like that game happened. Um crazy. There’s no runaway for any award right now. I I’m not kidding. Like this season is the most absurd on cocaine season I have ever watched in I forget when I’ve covered the league. Like ever since I was a kid like the Bears and the Patriots are the number one seeds in the conferences right now. You couldn’t find a living soul who would pick the Bears to go to the Super Bowl. And like god no. They have a 72% chance per the Athletics odds of getting to the playoffs and they’re number one seed in the conference right now. Like it’s just I don’t you know Philadelphia they they stink. The Chiefs the the Lions are not even in the playoff pictures right now. No. The Colts who everybody thought was like the runaway train of the AFC three weeks ago like literally might miss the playoffs if the way things are going right now. Jacksonville is somehow winning the AFC South. Like it’s just it the only consistent thing we have is the Raiders who went to Los Angeles and just sumearily got killed. Um, but so did Justin Herbert who hurt his hand and had to leave the game and then he came back and like they don’t know if he’s gonna play next week. He is gonna get surgery though. I saw he is going to get surgery. So they don’t know if he’s going to get surgery. He might miss time or he might not, which is kind of crazy. Like it’s but it’s one of those things, right? Like so he’s going to get surgery. So you know what that means? Here comes like the like Frankenstein cast on his left hand, right? And we’re going to have to live like he can’t take snaps. It’s like that doesn’t seem good. Like that’s not a quarterback. Yeah. Right. you know, can’t get hit, can’t take snaps. Like, other than that, he’s fine. Basically, Daniel Jones. Yes. Who, by the way, is not fine. Uh, watch that entire game. He looked awful uh by and large. I mean, like physically, he can’t move. Jonathan Taylor all of a sudden is not rushing for 185 yards a game. And shocker here, they can’t score points. Yeah. Like, everybody spent understandably like the entire first half of the year, oh my god, the Colts offense. So the Colts offense the last four weeks 20 points 31 points against Atlanta. So adjusted for Atlanta that’s like 19 points, right? Yes. 20 points against the Chiefs in an overtime game 16 points against Houston. Like all of a sudden really coming back to earth. And what do those three things have in common? So other than the game that they won against Atlanta, Jonathan Taylor has gone for 45, 58, 85 yards. Wow. Yeah, there’s the there’s a problem. So listen, it’s going to be really interesting. Uh but the the both playoff pictures are absolutely bonkers. I know AFC we’re going to have a week 18 where like Steve Cornaki is going to come on on NBC and just be like all right everybody it’s just be an hourong show of just like and if this happens and if that happens like it’s just there was a year I think it was god I think it was 99 or 01 right around turn of the century where the NFC had some crazy situation where it was like the Packers and the Panthers, it came down to point differential. Like every other tiebreaker was tied. And so the last week of the year, the Packers are playing the Cardinals at home, who just sucked like they always do. Yeah. And the Panthers are hosting the Saints, who also sucked like they pretty much always do. Mhm. and the Packers had like a pretty big advantage going into the day and like they’re kind of like going blow forblow with the Cardinals at Lambo and it’s like relax and then all of a sudden Carolina’s up 44 to6 on New Orleans and it’s a death match to the like the Packers are winning by like 20 points against Arizona and they’re in the hurry up trying to score more points because they know like the point the Packers ended up winning this thing but that might be what we’re headed for like just like nine teams like just they’re all tie because that’s one thing people may not know and should. If three teams end the season with the same record, all the head-to-head [ __ ] goes out the window unless one of them beat the other two, right? Yeah. So then it becomes like conference record and all Oh my god. I mean, it could be complete insanity. It’s a it’s it’s a mess. And uh the results on Sunday, I don’t think, you know, you and I were kind of having a conversation about it. I thought originally it was just like it felt like it it I I’ll say this. I think the results on Sunday felt a lot worse than they really were because as we were kind of working through before the podcast. Yes. None of it mattered. Uh when it all comes down to it, you started doing some uh you started pulling some numbers out of the air, I’m pretty sure, when we were talking and and things were things were appearing around your head as you were kind of talking about all these playoff scenarios and everything was going on. You were you were drawing dots, putting strings on on things. I was I was Walmart Steve Cornaki. You were before the podcast. you were running simulations like it was it was quite something. Uh so you got to tell the people about the simulations about uh the Chiefs and how their playoff odds are impacted by this uh the Sunday slate of games. All right. So very simply put, barring some kind of absolute miracle, if the Chiefs went out, they’re going to make the playoffs. Like it it would take something insane for them not to. The biggest things for the Chiefs are they have to beat Houston. Yes. and then they’ve got to win three or four other games because if they do that really as long as they beat Houston no matter what the other order of the games right now it’s preferable for them if they beat the Chargers over Denver. Mhm. Like I’m kind of assuming the Titans and the Raiders or two of these wins. Yeah. It would be ridiculous if the Chiefs win like four of these games and one of them’s a lost like Tennessee. Yeah. They lose to Tennessee on the road. Yeah. Yeah. Just get killed. I can’t like 400. They do suck on the road. Hey man, listen with this team anything’s in play. I saw them lose that Matt Ryan Colts team. Okay. And that team went 14-3, won the Super Bowl. So, anything’s possible. Damn. But basically, let’s live off the premise here that they win four of their last five, including the Texans game. And let’s for argument sake say that like the the that’s the definitely the biggest game, but like the Chargers game is also meaningful, right? If they can beat the Texans and Chargers and then just beat the two crap teams that they play on the road, the Denver game is still really important because again, if you win out, you’re you’re basically golden, right? But if you lose that game, what you want as a Chiefs fan right now, you want Jacksonville to win that division. Biggest Jags fans. Somehow them pissing their pants against Jacksonville might save them in the weirdest way possible. That and might get them a first round date with Jacksonville. Crazy. It would just be unbelievable. Um but look, so the reason that is is because they obviously lost headtohead with the Jacks. They beat the Colts and and this in this world if they beat Houston then they they beat Houston. They’d have the head of there. Yep. Right. Houston would have six losses. The Chiefs would need Houston to lose one other game which you know listen you never know. Houston’s schedule is not crazy hard but like it’s hard enough. Like so they’ve got they’ve got the Cardinals and the Raiders at home they should kill. Then they’re at the Chargers. We’ll revisit that game momentarily. And then they’re home to the Colts. The Colts currently have four losses. The Chiefs want them to lose at least three more games, which and and on the surface you’re like, “Oh, three more games.” They’ve got to go to Seattle. They’ve got to play the Niners on a Monday night at home. They’ve got to go to Houston on a short week at the last week of the year because they’re coming off that Monday night against the the Niners. Yep. Um they also have the Jags twice. So, if you’re a Chiefs fan, you are Look, at minimum, you you are desperately rooting for Jacksonville to split those games against Indianapolis, which, oh, by the way, Jacksonville’s at home against Indianapolis on Sunday. Yeah. Okay. You want Jacksonville at a bare minimum to split those games and then beat the the Jets and the Titans. They do that. That’s 11 wins. Okay. You want them to do that and you want Houston and Indie to have 10 or fewer wins. If that is the case and the Chiefs get the 10 wins, as long as they beat Houston, they make the playoffs. They get in. Okay. Now, there’s also a world here with the Chargers. The Chargers are eight and four. The Chiefs are probably going to need them to lose four out of five, but you’d be like, “Matt, come on. Stop smoking. You’re not.” Here are the Chargers last five games as her staring down surgery. Okay. at uh I’m sorry, home to the Eagles on a Monday night, but it might as well be at the Eagles because we 95% Philadelphia fans in there, right? Yeah. Short week to Kansas City in December. At Dallas, suddenly a revived team. True. Home to the Texans who might sack Herbert 25 times in that game. And then at Denver, who might sack him 25 times that game like they could absolutely like if the Chiefs beat him, you need them to lose three of those other four games. that is completely in play with the Chargers. So like even if the Chiefs don’t win out, what I’m driving at is the Houston game is immensely critical. But like it’s really about these next two games. If they win these next two games and then take care of business against the Titans and Raiders, they’re probably gonna find a way into the playoffs here. Yeah. Like they’re probably going to get it. Now again, winning out is the easiest path. You win out for sure. Yeah. you’re going to get it, but you want Jacksonville des you want them to win the division and you want Indie and Houston to end up with seven or more losses, which again if Jacksonville splits with Indie is very much on the table here like could absolutely happen. Um I hell I’d argue at that point you Houston’s probably the thing that you know like a [ __ ] are they gonna lose but you know I mean they got the Chargers. The good news is with Houston and Chargers one of them has to lose. Yeah, true. Right. So, like either the the Texans lose and there’s their seventh loss if the Chiefs beat them or they beat the Chargers and now you just need the Chargers to lose two out of three again against Denver on the road, Dallas on the road, home to Philly. Yeah, very plausible. So, like if you’re the Chiefs, win these next two games and beat these tomato cans on the road and like you’re probably going to get in. Um, but listen, obviously that all we’ll update that as we all go. But that’s my like not as beautiful mind as you one would hope, but as beautiful as it’s going to get mind uh as we we go into Sunday Night Football, but between two teams that are not good. I don’t care what Denver’s record is. Yeah, man. I mean, this is this is the whole assless thing. I’ve got the ass over here trying to figure out where they just came in on the graphic with Nicks and Mariota and it’s like how many people just turned off the television? Yeah, you should. That’s a threat at that point. Yeah, you have to watch Bo Knicks and Marcus Mario to play a football game. It’s a threat. Um, yeah, that’s that’s tough. Um, I’m I’m trying to figure out the ass list, Matt, because there’s a lot of things that I can’t really figure out with with this this here list. Obviously, I had to drop the Vikings down because the Vikings are awful. uh that franchise made a really horrible choice this past offseason and they’re going to be paying for it for years, I think. Yeah. Uh we have the benefit of hindsight to say that though, too. So, like that also is is a thing. Um the Dolphins beat the Saints. That was a game that was played. Um that should have been blacked out everywhere. But like should like the Bears too. Like the Bears are the one seed right now in the NFC and I think that they’re not a good football team. Like I like I I watched I’m just like this. It’s just like Okay, here we go. Here’s a comparison, Matt. I’m curious if you if you see this, too. I think the Bears and the Broncos are very similar of they win in spite of their quarterbacks, but then their quarterbacks take all of like the praise for winning. Um I cuz I’m not a huge Caleb Williams guy. I definitely not a big Bo Knicks guy. That’s been pretty made pretty clear on this here podcast and on my social media says, “Boncos fence, let me know every single day.” I still get people commenting on that video on Instagram. They’re like, “Oh, how’s this age? This a this didn’t age very well.” Like, yeah, guys, I know. But I feel the the Bears and the Broncos are two teams I feel very similarly about where I have them right now. I’m looking at it now. Both in ass tier. Both pretty high seeds in their uh in their respective conferences. But I I don’t think they’re good football teams. Like they like those teams if they lost in the first round as or the first game that they played as one seed, be shocked at all. Right. Correct. Correct. There’s a real chance both those teams are significant underdogs in the wild card game. Yeah. Like if Detroit goes to Chicago in the wild card round, Detroit’s like a five-point favorite, right? Like there’s no question. And then would you know what? We’ll use them since it’s fitting. If the Chiefs go to Denver, I would bet you any amount of money the Chiefs are favorite. Oh, probably. Oh, no. There’s no problem. They would be I I don’t care if Chiefs go and they’re 10 and seven and they lose the other Denver game. Yeah. There’s Because here’s why. Here’s like the truth of it is Vegas is never ever going to give you the opportunity to get points with Mahomes against Bon Knicks ever. Yeah, that’s fair. Like they’re not Vegas is going to basically say we dare you to bet on Bo Knicks in this game. Like go for it. Mhm. And yeah, I mean it’s uh Oh, they would be the Chiefs would be favored in any wild card game they play if they can get in. Oh, yeah. Guaranteed. I mean, who who would they So, if they played Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Denver, Pittsburgh. I mean, maybe if they went to Baltimore, but I I don’t think they’d be an underdog in that game. No, I don’t think so. I don’t think they would. You know, probably a favorite by, I don’t know, a point and a half, something like that. Like the what what the bottom line is Chicago look I live out here and everybody in their mother is freaking out about oh they beat Philly I’m like hey listen congratulations you’re 93 bro Philly is they’re in they’re in trouble that game against the Chargers is going to be an allout brawl because they got to win that game. Do they lose that game they might lose a division? Yeah, I mean they’re they have to win. They’re rushing like their running game looks as putrid as the Chiefs does it and they have Saquon Barkley like Saquon Barkley is like not running well. They can’t figure out how to run an offense, a competent offense and they keep [ __ ] up the tushbush and which is ultimately going to get it banned at the end of this year. So like their one effective play that they’ve had on offense, they keep [ __ ] it up so much that it’s going to get banned. It’s funny because the Eagles are the perfect like I have seen so many people on my feed past week including people who have emailed me who have been like the Chiefs need to fire Andy Reid. Like first of all, well popular take right now. Yeah. Second of all, they’re not going to. Um now if you want to fire Matt Naggie, um my ears are wide open. But in terms of like firing Andy, like imagine being Andy, you’ve gone to five of the last six Super Bowls, won three of them, you’ve all the dynasty, you’re six and six, and people are just like fire him. Yeah. Get him out of here. you kidding me? Like the guy’s getting a statue built outside Arrow Hood Stadium. Like I’m not a big fan of the way he’s coached the team this year, don’t get me wrong, but I mean I’m not going to seriously yell fire the guy. However, point being, ironically, to this whole team. Like the Eagles are a perfect example of I’ve seen a lot of people also have the take of man just can’t beat man coverage. They don’t the guys beat man coverage. Sometimes scheme can destroy you. Look at the talent on the Eagles offense and they can’t score a point. Yeah. Right. Like, and for all these people who are like, “Well, it’s not as good as it was last year.” Okay. Like, that offensive line is not as good as it was a year ago, but like they lo like the only difference in personnel from that team. They lost Mai Beckton, right? Like, let’s stop pretending here like like eight Hall of Famers left Philadelphia. They AJ Brown, Devontto Smith, Jaylen Herz, and Saquon Barkley, Lane Johnson, Jordan Milada, Cam Jurgens, and can’t score a point. Can’t do anything. They have more three and a half year than the Titans. That’s insane. Actually, that took that that was a slow burn for me. That took a second for that to actually hit. They lead the league. They have more than everybody. That’s insane. Yep. So, like that’s where, by the way, if if people are watching wondering why I keep turning my head, uh, Broncos Commanders is on. Yeah. And I don’t want to risk missing something hilarious. That’s true. I got on the second screen over here. We are recording this during Sunday Night Football. I know we usually record this, you know, after, but like we couldn’t risk having B next ruin our evening. Correct. Yeah. As it is, I got to watch this crap. So, um, yeah. So, listen. I mean, it’s it’s going to be really interesting, but next week, like the games are nuts. Next week, we’re come on here on Sunday night, like after the Sunday night game with the Chiefs, and let me tell you something. We’re going to have a real good look at either the Chiefs are going to be better than hell like like a That’s Yes. That’s the one thing I wanted to bring up is a lot of the conversations that we were having about playoff stuff was assuming that the Chiefs beat the Texans. This game for the Chiefs, I know we’ve said this the last four [ __ ] weeks. This game, this is more than ever, this is a playoff game for the Chiefs. Good news for them, it’s at home and apparently they’re a completely [ __ ] different team at home. So apparently that matters. Um because they’ve won one road game all year and against the New York Giants with Russell Wilson as their quarterback. So that is is that really winning a game? I don’t know. That’s probably a giving giving a game. Half a game. Yeah. You get half of a game for next week. So Thursday night is Dallas at Detroit. Huge division games next week. Yeah. And then Sunday to your point about divisional games. India at Jacksonville. We talked about that game already. Yep. Pittsburgh and Baltimore, Chicago at Green Bay, and then you got the Houston KC game and Philly at the Chargers. like these are m I mean you’re gonna by the end of Monday night you’re gonna have a really good also Tennessee Cleveland um you’re gonna have you’re gonna have a real good huge in the ass that’s huge for ass yeah Miami Jets um oh gosh that’s right bolt in the one:00 window eat it um face after bonick almost threw a pick on a screen pass and Pton looks like he just looked at like a Vietnam battlefield um ju just like horror in his eyes uh as Bo drops back and looks for a nice little check down. Nobody covered them at all at 12 yards. Um but listen, next week you’re I mean you’re going to have a pretty clear indication of first of all Chiefs lose. They’re done. Yes. If they win between Indie Jacksonville and and Pittsburgh Baltimore and the Chargers game, you’re going to have a real good idea of okay, the last four weeks, what do they need to do? Yeah. Right. I mean, you’re going to know, but none of it matters if they if they go full, you know, pants filling mode and lose to the to the Texans, which I can tell people from doing some some reporting like it like I’m supposed to do. Um, so Josh Simmons’s injury is considered a long term. Uh, speaking to someone close to the situation, uh, who who would know his situation is considered long term. Uh, they’re not sure yet if they’re going to place him on IR. They’re going to consult with some more doctors and they’re going to figure out whether or not he’s just going to miss a handful of weeks or he’s we’re going to miss enough weeks at four weeks that you put him on IR. Um, which would effectively put him out for the rest of the regular season. Maybe he’d come back week 18. Um, however, the news is better on Jawan Taylor. He is not considered long-term, and that is much more of a how does he look in practice this week thing. There is a real thought that he could play this Sunday. It just depends on uh he has a tricep strain essentially. So, how does how does he feel this week? I got to tell you, and this part is my own Tucson. This isn’t any part of the report. If he can move his arm, he’s playing because they cannot put one Morris against Will Anderson Jr. No. And I don’t care. Oh, you can sit there. Oh, what if they d I don’t care if they triple him. Like, you cannot. If they can get Moore and Taylor at the tackles, it at least gives them a fighting chance up front. It’s not ideal. You’d rather have Simmons, but like Jaylen Moore has been confident. like you at least have an actual offense, especially if Trey Smith can play like a real offensive line. Whereas if you have one Morris out there, like back it up. Oh my god, I I I don’t even know how you f I really I have no idea how you function. Like you’ll have to throw if he passes only two seconds. Um yeah, it’s got to be bubble screens. Bubble screens. Yeah, I mean quick slant all that kind of crap and they’re just going to have to game it up. But pretty good at that this year then lap th this may play into their hands just getting rid of the ball instantly. Um you know Houston may have no answer for this. Uh it’s but this this is the week because if they win this game it doesn’t do anything but guarantee him basically another week of being relevant. Right. Yeah. But it would put them in a position where we’d all be sitting here going, “All right, they’re seven and six. They got the Chargers coming in here. If they can beat them, they’re in pretty good shape because two of their last three games, I mean, they would have to almost try to lose, which again, you don’t want to challenge this team to try and lose. It feels like that’s always in play.” Yeah. Um, as as the Broncos set up for a field goal because they they got down close to the end zone and scared themselves and said, “No, please God, no. No pain area.” Yeah. Why is there so much pain over there? Yeah. What What the hell? What? They just run out of field. Like what happened? Um, you know, so Will Lunch is on to try from 33 yards out and I give the Broncos a three nothing lead early and the kick is down the middle. And that may be more than Washington can muster. I mean, that’s might be an That might be it. It might be time to kneel down in Washington with 1031 to go here in the first uh as Marcus Marota warms up to remind everybody why it is time to kneel down. Um, but in any event, no, I mean, look, it’s going to be interesting. I’m very curious of the vibe at Arrowhead on Sunday night. Yeah, same. I’d like people going berserk cuz like they just can’t stomach the idea of this team going six and seven and missing the playoffs or is it like [ __ ] this team, we’re done this like the first out, they’re getting booed off the field. Like I I don’t I kind of think it’s the latter, but maybe I’m wrong. Yeah, we we’ll see. I know that I got a message, Matt, in the Discord. Shout out to everybody who subscribes to kcsn.com. You can go there. Uh $30 a year, $5 a month. You can get every all the all the premium content there that we have at KC Sports Network. Uh someone sent a message in the Discord about like, hey, can you and Matt talk about who we need to cheer for? And we kind of laid that out a little bit already in terms of like the playoff predictor, but like next week specifically, and again, we’ll talk about next week a little bit more later down later on like in in on Friday’s show, right? We’ll have time to talk about that. and we’ll have the Dallas Detroit game under our belts as well. Or maybe we’ll record it during that game. Who knows? But probably during because it’s an NFC game. Um just just knowing knowing how we operate. Um but looking at like the AFC games, Cincinnati and Buffalo is an interesting one because that’s almost like a Hitler vers Stalin for Chiefs fans. Like who do you got to cheer for in this one? Um but I I think you have to cheer for Buffalo, right? You don’t have it headtohead over Buffalo. Not matters. Yeah. Uh, Tennessee, why Tennessee Cleveland, you got to cheer for Tennessee in that one, I think. Um, I I’m I’m bored with this. I try to just get down to Brad. I So, to me, you need Jacksonville to win. You want Jacksonville to win. So, here’s what like the games that really matter. Pittsburgh, right? You need Pittsburgh to win too because you kind of want Pittsburgh to win that division because you had a headto-head over Baltimore. Here’s the thing. Like, maybe, but here’s the reality of this. Like, Pittsburgh sucks. Yeah. They’re they’re And like if Baltimore doesn’t win the division, it’s because Baltimore’s like seven and 10. Correct. Yeah. So like I think the main games cuz like Pittsburgh and the Ravens, they play twice still. Mhm. The Ravens also play the Patriots and the Packers and the and the the Steelers play the Lions. Like all dude, like some reason went division like eight and nine. Yeah. So I’m not concerned about whoever comes in second. The big game beyond the obvious of the Chiefs game. Yeah. the big games in this week for the Chiefs. You want Jacksonville to beat Indianapolis. Yes. In the worst way. And then you want the Chargers to lose to the Eagles. If those two things happen and the Chiefs win, it’s that Monday. Like you feel really really like encouraged, not good necessarily because you got a long [ __ ] way to go, but like you feel encouraged right now as we sit here. Chiefs have 40% chance to make the playoffs according to the athletic simulator. Okay. If they win their game Sunday night against Houston, the Jags win and the Eagles win, that goes from 40% to 60%. In one week, okay, 40- 60. That’s what you want. By the way, just to add to that, the Bengals and Bills game, it would move 1% either way. Same with the Steel. In fact, Steelers Ravens would even move. So, interesting. Those are the games. I mean, sure, you love the Raiders to beat the Broncos, but let’s let’s let not live in a world that doesn’t exist. Um, so although we did see the Raiders almost beat them in national television in Denver, um, on Thursday, by the way, threw a picked today. So, the the crowd went wild and the counter went up. Two Tua also, I think, threw threw one. Did he keeping they’re they’re they’re keeping steady then. By the way, the the commanders haven’t run a play yet and took a penalty for illegal formation, so just rolling. Well, did you see the I don’t know. I think you were talking the the the kick return from Debo. He like ran straight backwards. It was It was That’s what I reacted. I don’t know if people saw me react. That was me reacting to Debo just running straight backwards. I didn’t Dan Quinn’s writing a sheet of paper. I think it looks like a resume. Um it’s like applying to like the gap just to get out of there. He said, “Wait, hold on. You’re telling me that I I we signed all of these players that are needed geriatric care and we’re bad palative care. Also, the uh the kickoff apparently was an illegal formation. Doing it again. Something Peyton said, run it back. Yeah, we’re doing it again. Yeah, Gino and Tua both have 13 interceptions, by the way, as we’re keeping track. Um, that’s great for them. Good for the good good for those guys. I mean, there need their name needs to be in light somewhere. We need to do a uh maybe I’ll I’ll finally get the the balls to design a interception tracker and uh tweet it out every time one is one is uh thrown a pick, but I haven’t car care car. Keep in mind it may come down to the Chiefs and Gino in week 18. Hilarious. Gino didn’t throw a pick against the Chiefs when they played him the first time. He he didn’t. Although to be fair, he threw for like 30 yards. Oh, he really wasn’t putting it up in the air very often. Yeah. Um, yeah. No, listen. So, that but anyway, for next week, yes, you want you want Jacksonville to win, you want the Chargers to lose, and obviously you want the Chiefs to win, and that would that would set you up in the LA scoring athletic, a 60% chance of making the play. By the way, if you then couple that with the following week, if the Chiefs beat the Chargers, 75% chance. There it is. So, I mean, that’s that’s where you’re at. I mean, I know we’re getting into like everything falling into place here, but like that same week, if the Colts go to Seattle, Seattle wins that game, it’s a 78% chance. So, like those are the games that like really matter, like really matter. Those are the games the Chiefs really need the Colts to lose at Jacksonville because it would set up a scenario that with Jacksonville. So right now they’re tied eight and four, but Jacksonville actually has the tiebreaker on Indianapolis. I believe it’s by conference games. And so like those two teams play each other two times over the last however many weeks here. Last what five weeks. Uh starting of course this this upcoming Sunday. Yeah. You’re in a position where you are rooting hard for Duhall. You’re going to do it. And it’s going to be Trevor Lawrence against onelegged Daniel Jones. And this is what the Chiefs is coming down to. Is that battle royale? Okay. Followed by Lord the Chiefs needing to beat the Texans with maybe two functioning offensive linemen. And then on Monday watching an Eagles team that can’t score a point go against maybe Trey Lance. Yeah. It’s It’s unbel This is I want the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl just because I want the Americas game. Like, yeah, I just want that. Sorry. I My reaction to that was not because of the game. It’s because I was doing some research on Colts at Jags. Uh cuz I knew I was like of recently won there like forever, right? They haven’t The last time they won there was 2014. They never beat him. They lose every time they play there. And Jacksonville’s been god awful like half the time. I know. That’s insane. 2014 No, not not December. Uh September 21st, 2014 was the last time that the Colts beat the Jags in Jacksonville. They have on They’re currently on a 2 4 6 8 10ame losing streak in Jacksonville against the Jags. They never beat him there. And there was one year that the Colts got hammered by him. I believe Mchu was the quarterback in week one and Jackson never won another game. But that was just it. Yeah, it must have been 27 to 20 was that one right there. Uh this got to be a September game, right? Yeah. 24 to nothing uh in December of or in September of 2022. 24 nothing and then they didn’t win another game, right? Yes. Correct. No, Jacksonville has just owned them in their building over the years. That’s crazy. Um cuz they haven’t been good. Jacksonville’s not been good. No. Trash. Trash. But uh that’s that’s where we’re at. By the way, in case you’re curious, you’re a gambler. Odds on that game. Colts favored by a point and a half on the road. Um the Eagles are a three-point favorite at the Chargers. Do you want to take a guess? Chiefs line is uh two and a half. Four and a half. Hey, and you’ll be able to bet on that game in Missouri. Uh because December 1st, it’s here, baby. It is here. go. Uh, it’s here. That’s a good opportunity for me to tell you about DraftKings Sportsbook. And we’re going to take a break uh right now as well as December 1st is here. That means you guys already know if you’ve been listening to these shows that you guys already know that uh it’s here for DraftKings Sportsbook. Let’s take a break. On the other side, we’re going to talk about some other stuff going on in the NFL. Some really interesting story lines from uh some of the other games coming out. 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He loaded up like in a way that if Mahomes loaded up, you’d be, “Oh, he’s got somebody.” And throw it and there’s nobody around. Oh my god. Hello. There’s illegal contact here on Denver, so I know everybody watch this like who [ __ ] cares already know the result of the game. Um, uh, yeah, it’s doesn’t account for 20 yards over his head, but that’s okay. Yeah. So, the ass list, you were spot on, sir, by not uh giving the Rams too much praise. Yeah, you know, I I get a little a little worried about all that, though, too. Like I, you know, the lines I think the I’ve got the lines is the top of the ass. So, right now, let me give you the crack. They’re the plumbers’s crack of the ass list. They They really are. Uh I have the Rams at not ass. They’re gonna stay at not ass. I don’t think they’d go to kind of ass. I I’ll I’ll allow them one bad game, right? Uh to stay at not ass at kind of ass. I have the Patriots. The Eagles, which I think are going to have to move. And the the Seahawks are in kind of ass as well. I I think the Seahawks and the Pats got to go up one. You think they go to not ass? Yeah, I think I think so. I think they’re not ass. Pat’s on a bye-week this week, right? So, or they’re playing the Giants. They’re playing the Giant. Yes. Next week they’re on a week. Yes. A double buy. A rare double buy. They host the Giants and then and then actually have a harder week when they’re off, right? Um that week might be a bigger trip up situation than the actual game. So, okay, here’s a here’s an interesting thought process here, too. Do we put the Bears in kind of ass? Because the Eagles, they’re an ass. The Bears are an ass. and the Bears and Broncos. I mean, look, they won on the road against Philly Shore. We got to give it to them. But yeah, they’re not they’re not like not ass or something like that. Um, kind of ass I think is fair, man. I probably have to move the Broncos to kind of assault, too. Do you think the Bears are better than the Broncos? No. I don’t think so either. They’re like the same teams. I know. It’s crazy. Like, I think they’re the same level of team. I don’t they’re both they’re they’re both like the kind of team to be fair if they won a playoff game I wouldn’t be shocked and if they got absolutely annihilated in the wild card round I’d be like well that was coming like so you know by the way that Denver’s forced at fourth and eight at the 39 this should be just absolutely just a masterclass in decision-m by Washington I can’t wait to see this um a team that’s like what three and nine or whatever they are just go for it man three yeah in the middle they’re cool they’re going to punt that’s of course they are trust runs away with his backwards hat. It’s great. Um, might be the most talented player on the whole team outside of Terry McCorin. Um, okay. Well, you know, to be fair, Quinn’s probably thinking, well, if we pin Denver, they may never cross the 50 again. And that’s a great point. Really playing the field position game here with them against Denver. It might be the prudent decision. Um, God, that’s insane. They’re punting from this spot. Where are the Chiefs on that list? Are they just in ass? So, I have a draft right now. I haven’t No, I’ve dropped the Chiefs to mega ass is what I’ve done. They got to after the way they’ve played. Yeah, I’ve dropped the Chiefs to mega ass. The Cowboys right now are in mega ass, but I think they got to move up. They they do have to kind of move up because what’s above that? Just kind of ass. Super ass is above mega ass. Okay. Yeah, I’d say super ass. I think they’re super ass. And Okay. Do you think the Cowboys are better than uh Stop when you hear a team that’s better than the Cowboys? Okay. Okay. Ravens, Chargers? No. Texans? Yeah, I think they’re very Dallas. Okay. I think there, let’s put it this way. I think they’re probably like kind of on the same tier, but like they’re so polar opposite of each other. Yeah. Like Dallas is kind of scarier in a oneoff game, right? Cuz they have an offense. Yeah. Mhm. Like that’s we were talking before the show about this Chiefs Texans game where it’s like look, if you’re a Chiefs fan, you’re absolutely terrified that Mahomes might be taken out on a stretcher in this game because like they just can’t block at all. Right. The flip side is if the Chiefs score 20, like they’re probably winning the game. Yeah. Like Houston can’t score. No, there’s not a bigger mismatch this entire year than Nick Calli against D Spagnolo. That’s true. Like if there’s ever a game we’re all sitting here like, “Oh my god, Spagnolo is just unloading and he better.” Yeah. This would be the game. Yeah. Um which means that because this season is this season, Woody Marx is about to rush for 400 yards. Um, but uh look, yeah, it’s uh I think Dallas and Houston are on the same like frisky, somewhat dangerous, but like they’re obviously like completely like if if you combine those two teams, they’re like odds off the Super Bowl, right? It’s a great football team. Yeah. But but like unfortunately not the way it works, you know? So even though they share a state, they should. Yeah. I wonder what I don’t know who owns the McNair, right? Is it Steve? Yeah. Uh Steve McNair. That’s not right. Not. No. Cal McNair, I believe it is. RIP. Uh, yes. Uh, the McNair family does. So, the ass teams that I have right now, so nobody in badass. The not teams are the Rams, the Patriots, the Seahawks. Kind of ass right now is the Broncos and the Bears. Ass is Eagles, Lions, Bucks, Bills, and Colts. Okay, underneath that is Superass. Superass. I have Niners, Panthers, Packers, Texans, Cowboys, Chargers, Ravens. Chargers, Ravens might bump down to mega ass. I think I’d bump them down. I think I’d bump the Colts down to Super Ass. Okay. That’s just me that they So, they are right now they’re like on the they’re on the crack, right? They’re the ass crack of ass and super ass. Speaking of ass and super, I I didn’t see a replay of the play. I just pretty sure Bon Knicks just ran out of bounds and then threw it away. Oh, good. I You’re ahead of me, so I’m always glad when you do this. So then it makes me look at my Keep an eye on Maybe I’m wrong cuz I kind of looked late, but No, he he he was he was still in bounds. You got Okay. I was about to say this is going to be an alltime highlight. Otherwise, he’s very close, but I’m pretty sure he was still in bounds. Yeah. Yeah, they ruled I think you’re right because that’s how they ruled it, but I was like, “What is happening?” It wouldn’t surprise me though if that happened. the old Dan Aloski just like 10 feet out of the the Who would have thought that Danoski was like going to be like the biggest Chiefs like captain of like destroying the narrative of like uh the officiating being asked towards them. Like Danleski was on Twitter being like this is awful. Let’s end this. I love I love how that game got like Dan Aloski and Mike Greenberg to be we need to stop with this now. I’m like well you should have you should have just canded I don’t know years ago when it wasn’t accurate to begin with. Like there’s a million data points that would tell you that it was [ __ ] but all you guys just thought it was like fun for clicks and now you’re like, “Whoa, whoa, it’s too far now.” Okay, great. Thanks. Who did this? This is crazy. Meanwhile, the game’s on Sunday night this week. If the Chiefs get some 50/50 call, oh, it’ll be flared up again. All these same [ __ ] Oh, I can’t believe it. You know, can’t wait. Can’t wait for that. And I actually like Dann know him just a little bit. He’s always been super nice, but like yeah, it’s all these like it’s not it’s like it’s like the Kurt Ben Kurts of the world and and like Craig Carton and everyone looks like Craig Carton and you know just felon by the way. People forget Jesus. People do forget and need to be reminded occasionally. I let them know. I just mean a quick Google search. My duty, you know. Um, by the way, third and nine and the Broncos designed a checkdown and shockingly didn’t make it and so they will be uh I I know I’m sure people are enthralled by this break. A beautiful game right here. This game Oh my god, man. This game is just You thought the You thought Steelers and and Bills was bad. That game was And Rogers at the games throwing his whole team under the bus. It’s great. Do you think the Chiefs are better than the Steelers? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Listen, as much as we make dude, the Chiefs would would hit them like a freight train. Okay, so here’s here’s where we need to figure out how to how to place the to the place the Chiefs. Right now, we’re going to do the same thing we did with the with the Cowboys, right? Uh so right now I have I have the Chiefs in mega ass. Yeah. Um ahead of them in mega ass are the Jaguars. Yep. Fair. The Ravens. That’s a tough That one’s very because that’s a completely different team from when they played them. I think the Chiefs should beat the Ravens. But I think they would too. Even in Baltimore. Dude, the Ravens are awful. Are they better than the Chargers? I think they got to put the Chargers ahead just because they have two games better. Yeah, I think I think so, too. So, right now you’re looking at mega ass being the Chargers at the at the top and then Chiefs and then it would be Well, actually, no, never mind. Uh, it’d be Jags. It’d be Chargers, Jags, Chiefs. Gota Chargers. They beat him 356. That’s another great point. Uh Jags, Chargers, Chiefs, Ravens, and then I have Steelers on that tier. That’s fair. But te, you know, Steelers might be teetering on Super Mega S, which I think that’s actually probably fair. Super Mega S. I Steelers belong in the next year down. Super Mega S is Giants, Commanders, Dolphins, and Saints. I mean like it is it is it’s a pretty steep drop. I’m not going to lie. It’s a staggering drop. Might want to wait till they lose the ball. Loser of Baltimore Pittsburgh. Yeah, that’s a good joins the garbage down below. Yeah, I got to make a note of that. I got to make a note of that so I don’t forget it. Um that’s what like that’s where you could be tweeting out throughout the week like at these teams like listen whoever loses this game that’s what’s on like [ __ ] the division. Yeah, you guys are gonna be in super mega ultra super mega ass after this one. That’s right. Oh, that’s Yeah, I’d hold off. I’d wait. That’s my call. I think I think that I think that’s a great call. But then ultra super mega ass. I had to move the Vikings down because if you get you got blanked, Max Bros threw the worst interception I’ve seen in my life. Uh on fourth down and one very early. One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. It was so bad. So I moved them down. They’re they’re at the head of uh ultra super mega ass. And then Cardinals, I I took Bengals out of Jets, but I think if you lose to the Jets, you got to stay in Jets, man. I don’t I don’t know. I moved the Falcons down to Jets, by the way, because they lost to the Jets. They they just absolutely just suck, man. Yeah. I mean, and then it’s Titans and and Raiders. Titans and Raiders are so bad. Like, they’re two horrible I was thinking about this. So that’s a good way to move. Like are they the worst teams in football? Like in seriousness, it’s like them. Yeah. And then there’s like the know the Browns, the Giants, the Saints, Cardinals, who by the way got eliminated from playoff contention today, which is hilarious. So the Raiders, the Raiders did as well. Okay. Well, I’m shocked they weren’t already. Um the Jets are the Titans and the Raiders. If you had to pick teams to play against down the stretch, would they be the two teams like the or like the number one and two picks in the draft? Oh, they have to be. Yeah, they are. Right. Like I was thinking about this and I’m like I think I’d rather play the one of those two teams in the Saints who are awful, but like I think the Saints would provide more resistance. Yeah, the Saints have won football games. I mean I guess technically the Raiders have too, but like have they though? Right. Right. The Saints are two and 10 and the Raiders are two and 10. The Raiders won week one against the Patriots. Like that’s Like the Raiders are so bad. And the Titans, by the way, are 0 and7 at home this year. That stadium’s a weird stadium. Have you ever covered a game there? I had not. I’ve never been to that stadium, actually. It’s a It’s a weird one. Like, I can’t I can’t find and I mean this. I mean this genuinely. I can’t find one redeeming thing about the Titans. Like So like that’s the other thing too is like they don’t have a head coach right now, right? If you’re a head coach, why would you why would you take that job? Like it honestly just to have a NFL head coaching job probably is your is your answer but like there’s no redeeming quality. No, like the GM and the owner are on the same page. Uh I mean you have a new GM, right, who got in there and had a head coach who was already there. There’s no cohesiveness there in in that franchise. And kind of the same thing with the Raiders, right? Like they have Pete Carol, but Pete Carol is not a coach anymore. Foot in the grave. I mean, Dan might have 20 good years left, but as far as a football coach, yes. Head up that. That one’s on me. That one’s on me, guys. That one’s on me. Um, but he’s he’s old, man. You should have a fun on the golf course. Like, in all seriousness, my guy. Yeah. For your life. You don’t have to do this, Pete. No, nobody nobody’s going to blame. And they have Did you see Did you see the reports about Chip Kelly, by the way, just like calling plays that weren’t installed? It’s unbelievable. It’s just like so the Titans, some of these numbers are almost impossible. Yeah. Tony Pard is leading the team with 522 rush yards. He has 3.7 yards per attempt. If I said to you, take Calvin Ridley out cuz he’s on IR, right? They have four other receivers with more than 200 receiving yards. Can you name even two of them? God, no. Trey Tucker. No. Sorry. Wrong. Not even that team. Yeah, wrong team. No. Oh, then thank then thank god no. I could not name anyone on the Titans. How how do you feel about Chamir Dyke? Gunner Helm. Yeah. Elic Manner. Elic Aluminor. Yeah. Aluminor. Thank you. Oh my god. Yeah. The only reason I know their names is because of the draft. And Chico. Yeah. Big Chick. Nobody has 380 receiving yards in the tits. That’s and Cam Ward has seven touchdowns, six picks, and 45 sacks. Like 45 is insane. That’s an insane number. It’s impossible. That has to league the league, right? Oh, Gino Smith is real close at 41. Uh, but Cam Ward does lead 45. Interesting enough, Drake May’s third. Yeah, he’s saying a ton of sacks. Yeah. And by the way, speaking of the Raiders, bro, you go to the Raiders just like Gino’s terrible. Jensy’s averaging 3.6 yards per carry. Yep. Trey Tucker is 530. Bowowers is 5’10. Nobody else on the team actively because Myers is gone has more than 221. And that’s Genty. Like I mean listen, essentially you’ve got to be operating off the idea that the Chiefs are are eight and six and need to win against the Texans and Chargers. And if they do that day, they’ll probably get in the playoffs, right? Um I can’t believe we’re sitting here and like just breaking down like I feel like it’s like 06 again with the Chiefs. Yeah. Just total [ __ ] and they’re trying to sneak in. Yeah. I mean, it’s God. Yeah. Next week’s going to give a lot of clarity because we could be sitting here eulogizing them or being like they’re seven and six and Jacksonville still hasn’t lost Indianapolis since the American Revolution in Jacksonville. So guess what? Yeah. I mean that’s that’s where we’re at with this whole thing. Um absolutely insane. Just an insane football season. Obama was still the president when uh comfortably comfortably still the president when when the last time the Colts beat Yes. The last time the Colts beat Jacksonville and Duval the biggest political scandal we had going was Obama wore a tan suit tan suit. Yeah. Yeah. Can you imagine that? That’s now the biggest thing. Why? What happened? like we’ve maybe had 300 bigger things in the last like week and a half. Like what what an innocent time that was. If we could go back and tell our pastelves about the ass list, too. That would be uh that would be great. Should I take the Bengals out of out of Jets? They did lose to the the Jets, but I feel like they’ve played better since Joe Burrow came back. So I I I mean they they won a game where they got five turnovers. That’s a another great point. Yeah. I mean, they’re the I’d say [ __ ] them. Leave them in Jets. Yeah. Do I put I I think I’m going to Plus, then it’s funnier if they beat the Bills, actually. Yeah, that would be very funny. So then by transitive property, the Bills have to go to the Jets. No, I can’t do that. But if the if the if the Bills do lose to the Jets though, that would be I also love by the way in this game we’re the the uh the Commanders just had a third and 12 at like the 40 the Denver 40 and just gave up and ran the ball and they picked up 15 yards. Yeah, it’s incredible. I love that Dan Quinn was like, I don’t care. We’re not letting Mariota throw the ball. Yeah. Under nostances. Yeah. Apparently it’s the right moment. Great call. Well, folks, I think that might do it. I think I only have one question uh for Matt. Are the Panthers better than the Niners or the Colts? No. Okay. Are they better than the Packers? No, but they did beat him. Are they better than the Saxons? No. Are they better than the Cowboys? I’ll say, yeah, they got a better record than they beat him. Boom. There we go. I think the Assist has pretty much said I don’t think there’s going to be anything that happens in this game on Sunday Night Football. Or honestly, I don’t think there’s going to be anything that happens on Monday Night Football that’s going to that’s going to that’s going to affect the ass. So, I’m glad the back half of this show could just be me for dual purpose. This is me getting this done and making content out of it. That’s what the back half of the show was for. There you go. I mean, I I’ve got to now watch this game and write a column off of it for SI. God bless. I’m gonna go eat some chili. And uh yeah, I don’t even know which team I’m assigned to write. I got to look that up. But either way, it’s going to basically be that I can’t believe Denver’s going to be a playoffs team. And not only a playoff team, comfortably a playoff team, like win the division and maybe a one seed. And like Yeah. Well, I I mean, I don’t know. It’s going to be hard for them to catch the Patriots. Yeah, they’re probably going to be a one seed, but because the Patriots have a I look forward if they lose this game, the conversation in Kansas City quietly tomorrow being like, “Hey, can they? I mean, can they do it? Could Duvall rise up and go up there? We’re about to have, you know, how they had the what was it? The Shidelia Alliance.” Oh my god. You got Wait till you see this play coming up. Oh my god. Is it after college? It’s the five worst play for a quarterback I’ve seen in a decade. This is exciting. Marcus Marota drops back, rolls to his right. Oh, steps up in the pocket. Oh. Oh, he tripped a little bit into quadruple coverage getting hammered. Throws a pick to a linebacker. Yeah. To a linebacker who takes staggered forward like eight yards just directly toward the line of scrimmage and then got killed. That was the one thing he could not do. Coverage. Yeah, that was the one thing that they said, Marcus, what whatever you do, don’t throw an interception here. We’re in field goal range. Oh my god. Like what? See, this is where like listen, and nothing against Denver, but this is going to be the whole like, oh, their defense like bro, it’s one of the worst plays I’ve ever seen in my life. Like, it really helps that Denver plays a bunch of [ __ ] ass teams. I mean, like, what? And listen, they beat Kansas City, which I maybe they fall that category by point stands. Oh my god. What the hell was that? That was He had to have seen those guys. Was I don’t care. Do you think he thought he was throwing it away? No, I think he’s Marcus Mariota and thought he could fit it in there. And that’s crazy, dude. Completely overrated the fact that he’s Marcus Mariota. He thought it was Oregon again. He thought he was back in Oregon. He’s like, looks like Boise out there flipping in there. Felt the altitude and was like, “It’s it’s time, baby. Ice time.” One of the worst throws I The best part wasn’t even the throw. It was like the BAC. 26 pocket awareness. His stumbling forward of amling forward like a mile an hour into it’s it’s absolute like gobsmack of a hit and then just I’ll just throw it now. And that’s Heisman by the way. Dude, like I remember when he came out and it was him and Jamus and people were just like this is an alltime like one two duo. Yeah, it’s not. Uh Jameus Winston’s better in the NFL currently and actively now than I think then. Jameus Winston has had a really disappointing career and oddly has like fulfilled every wish I could have ever had for him. Yeah. Isn’t that nuts? Just insanely entertaining. My favorite I love James Hosen, but my favorite Jameus moment was when he was suspended, but then went out for warm-ups anyway because he thought that Jimbo Fisher was going to forget he was suspended. Which to be fair, it is Jimbo Fisher. Yeah. Yeah. He’s like he probably forgot that I was going to be suspended for this game. And Jimbo Fisher was like, “What the [ __ ] are you doing?” That’s amazing. I love that man. Uh he has a he has like he’s on Cameo and I was like man I should buy myself a cameo for Jameus Winston but it like starts at $300 and I was like that’s too much of a joke. Like that’s too much money for a joke. I will absolutely do that and get you like a happy birthday from Jamus. My life would be complete. It’ be done on the spot. It’s not worth the money. I would be beamed up on the spot. Appreciate everybody listening to the end of this podcast as uh we uh kind of you know got off the rails. But uh as you guys are listening to the podcast, you already know the result of the Denver game. And uh here I hope you love to hear our live reactions from it as well. Good god, Troy Franklin just dropped a ball. I believe that was Evan Ingram. Okay, Evan’s wearing number one. That’s crazy. I I think he is. Either way, yeah, that ball was just a ladled in there. It was actually a rare compliment by me. Good throw by Nick. It was like three yards, but yeah. Yeah, it was Ev Ingram. Oh, wow. It was right. Yeah, that was Evan Ingram. Yeah, Evan Ingram this year has uh 260 yards receiving and that that’s a that picture positive is the why. Yeah, he sucks, but this podcast doesn’t. Thank you guys so much for listening all the way to the end once again from Tucker Franklin. We got to get out of here because we got to go watch Bon Knicks do Bo Knicks things and hopefully have a better clearer picture of what the Chiefs are going to uh going to do for this next week. Big game coming up. will be uh back here on Friday breaking it all down for you guys. So uh yeah, here’s a play by Troy Franklin for you. Here it comes. Oh gosh. We’re going to end the podcast with a Troy Franklin play. Third and five. Catches it right at the sticks. That was a false start, by the way. It’s not going to be called. Oh my gosh. Troy, buddy, just sit down. We’ll talk we’ll talk to you guys on Friday. Take care.

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