The Herd with Colin Cowherd - What's Wright - LeBron James RETURNS to Lakers, Chiefs DESPERATE vs. Colts, Joe Burrow BACK IN ACTION? | Nick Wright

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

All lines provided by Hard Rock Bet.  Nick Wright reacts to LeBron James' return to the Los Angeles Lakers and how LeBron's role alongside Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves may be different than anything we've seen before. Next, Nick previews Week 12 of the NFL season, starting with Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and the Kansas City Chiefs hosting Daniel Jones and the Indianapolis Colts. Then, Nick debates whether or not the Cincinnati Bengals should bring back Joe Burrow with Cincy all but out of playoff contention. After, Nick discusses all the storylines surrounding the big games of the week, including Baker Mayfield's Tampa Bay Buccaneers heading to Los Angeles to play Matthew Stafford's Rams, and Josh Allen's Buffalo Bills playing in Houston against the Texans. Later, Nick answers your questions. #VolumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Anthony Davis trade if there was a possibility that Anthony Davis would be able to be traded back to the Lakers. And I told Wilds, that was not possible. And it was a dumb idea. And so he has now spent the last 30 minutes trying to create a fake trade. And he now has done it involving the Brooklyn Nets being a third team, where they, for some reason that I'm going to have to ask Wilds to explain, trade away multiple of their own first round pitch.

so they can get a couple second rounders and Jared Vanderbilt in order to facilitate the Lakers getting Anthony Davis back. KW, I know you don't listen to the pod, but if somebody, oh, okay, here we go. Then he then writes, I didn't create it, but you have to believe somebody else did for him. Okay, neither here nor there. Now to the actual show, KW stays a doofus forever. LeBron's back. And I have a lot of takes.

So no athlete in my lifetime has generated more idiotic and immediately self-refuting opinions than LeBron. And I think it's because he's been. For basically as long as daily sports television has existed, LeBron has been one of, if not the main character. And because he has played, you know, throughout the entirety of this medium, and because he has been at the eye of the NBA storm, which while the NBA has never in his career been the country's most popular, sport but it has been at various times in his career the country's most talked about sport when it

comes to sports debate and sports TV and sports talk radio lebron is the lebron commentariat has spawned just some truly ridiculous and upon reflection hilarious moments And these are from, for me, friends and foes alike. I mean, we are 12. 12? Is that right? No, it's not right. 13 years ago, my dear pal, Dan Lebitard, announced LeBron was on the downside and Miami had gotten the best of him.

That was 13 years ago. And I'm going to talk about guys. that I love and adore so it doesn't seem like I'm trying to take cheap shots here. Famously, the owner and founder of this company, my mentor, Colin, eight years ago, said, LeBron, hang it up whenever you want. We've got it. The NBA's got it from here. It was actually nine years ago.

And that's an all-time. clip, A, because LeBron would go on to win multiple championships after that, but B, because he was saying that Ben Simmons is going to take over. Listen, Colin, I was as high on Ben Simmons is just about anybody. I have to hold that L as well. And there, of course, is all the skip stuff with the clutch and then the latest Stephen A stuff with the real personal, I don't like that guy. So much of it just outright silliness. And then we got. an unexpected dose of it in the week's leading in the week or so leading up to LeBron making his debut which was hey will LeBron be able to fit in with the Lakers

even though we saw Luke and LeBron and Austin Reeves play together last year hey will LeBron actually make the Lakers worse will he screw up what they have going on. These were real conversations, real discussions about the most malleable, most flexible as far as how he can help your team player and NBA history, about arguably the only guy in the history of the league that can legitimately and has literally, made an all-MBA team at all five positions on the court. Check his basketball reference for that. Was an all-N-B-A center one year for the Lakers

and an all-M-B-A point guard the year after that for the Lakers late-stage LeBron? Was an all-N-B-A shooting guard as a young player early and then obviously All-MBA small forward and power forward throughout his career. that that guy that can play all five and certainly the younger version of him and to a degree the older version of him can guard all five that that guy was going to screw up a team and then lebron comes in keeps his double-digit point streak alive which is going to be a very fun and funny thing to watch this year

because it's obviously an untouchable record and we'll get more on the LeBron untouchable record stuff in a moment, but he wants to keep

it going, but he is I believe, going to play a very different style this year. That game, Tuesday night, that's the few of shots he's ever taken in the game. He didn't and leave with injury. And speaking of the double-digit point streak,

one of those games that he left with injury, because there's only been two games in his career, he took fewer than seven shots, which is what he took Tuesday night. One, he didn't play the second half because he took an elbow from Dekimbe Matumbo, and one, he left early when Solomon Hill fell into his ankle

and derailed the lake. title defense in the 2021 season. But that game involves one of my favorite LeBron moments of all time, which is Solomon Hill falls into his ankle. LeBron recognizes he has suffered the first truly significant injury of his entire career up to that point. and is going to be out months and is sitting at seven points and the streak is dead. And despite suffering an injury that is going to knock him out for the next two months,

he pretends he's not hurt badly, stays in the game, gets the ball, takes a corner three, hits it, keeps the doubled figure point streak alive, and then is out for the majority of the rest of the season. But that's sidebar. LeBron being dropped in as a team's ultimate Swiss Army knife, and LeBron taking pride in that ability, and LeBron then saying after the game with a smile, yeah, I heard what was being said.

I've been a you know you could put me on any team and I would make it work is just obviously true and people's you know people say that about Kevin Durant all the time like oh you just drop him in anywhere and yes that's true about other players great players you drop them in and they would make any team better the distinction is can you drop you drop them in and they would make any team better the distinction is can you drop a player in and can they instantly do at a high level the exact thing that team needs them to do? This Lakers team right now might need LeBron to be more facilitator, cutter, screener than score.

Unlike some of the other great players in this league, he has the skill set at 40. in year 23 to be excellent at all at at anything now is he the best player in the league anymore of course not see a top five player in the league anymore no but is he still have a legitimate shot at being right around top 10 and is he assuredly when he's healthy still a top 15 guy in the league? Yes. And that guy with that malleability

helps any team in the history of basketball. Now, is it all right now a moot point for the whole NBA because of who and what OKC is? Maybe. Everybody might be playing for second

this year, but we'll see. Things happen. And there's an element of, I don't want to say lack of a appreciation, but numbness to what we are seeing at this moment. And this is something that, you know, I've said before, but I don't know that people like fully take it in. And especially because, you know,

Steph is playing at such a high level at an advanced age. Durant is playing at such a high level at an advanced age. But see, whether you want to focus on the age 40 part or the year 23 part, it being without precedent is such a wild understatement. Like Kobe Bryant, the late great Kobe Bryant, how old do you think Kobe was when he played in his final playoff game with the Lakers. I'm going to give it a pause so you can actually think about it.

How old was Kobe in his final career playoff game? Are you shocked when I tell you the answer to that is 32? Kobe Bryant did not play in a playoff game with the Lakers after the age of 32. Like a little context to that. LeBron joined the Lakers when he was 34. So obviously, Jordan was done with the Bulls at 35, 36. obviously we've never seen a player play in a year 23 and the only one to get to a year 22 was

Vince it's I said this a couple years ago and people laughed I think we are now seeing it in real time he'll simply never be bad and he could easily play at again not an MVP level, but a high level throughout his 40s. Again, barring, you're always at this age a catastrophic injury away, but he's ducked that up

to this point in his career. And people can have the argument about the greatest player of all time. That is going to age so well on my end and so poorly for so many other folks because it is when it does come to and this isn't the whole discussion,

but it is at least a piece of it. The record books with the way things are going right now as far as injuries, load management, guys not being able to make it through a full season. LeBron's longevity records are going to. When people look back on them in 40 years, it's going to be like if you look at complete games in baseball right now and you're like, wait, a guy had 40 in one year, like all of these games, minutes, points, the playoff records are going to be chamberlain-esque untouchable and farcical in the numbers to future. generations. And I'm very, very interested to see the full role Bron takes on with the Lakers. Because in game one of year 23, he was like, okay, I'll be late stage Magic Johnson. And that's pretty damn good.

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Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend. But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Oh, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band the four Jonas Brothers

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And I'm C.J. Toledano, and our podcast Point Game is about defying the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've made. never seen before. And he knows. Without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs. I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like

Nas Reid. He has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by, like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too. Steve Nass would get that thing. That man. Man, hell get the flying. He running up the court, licking his fingers why he got the ball. Like, you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Oh, yeah. Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball.

So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. There's one other brawn adjacent thing I wanted to talk about. And this is one of those things that I imagine will do well. on social media or YouTube or might cause me a little grief, but I just, I can't leave it unaddressed. And I don't, I'm not, I'm not trying to start anything, but this is so, it was maddening when I heard it. So, the greatest sports podcaster of all time,

the guy who in some ways invented the medium. And a guy I like a lot, Bill Simmons brought the mailbag back, which is awesome. It's vintage Simmons. It's part of the reason that he's who he is, and it's awesome. And because I'm a fan,

I was listening. And he gets asked about the biggest sliding doors moments in NBA history. And he goes to the Dremond groin shot of LeBron in game four of the 2016 finals, which is a legitimate

sliding doors moment. There's no doubt about it. And he talks about how, if the Warriors win that title, Durant can't go you know, to Golden State. So then who wins the next two? Does LeBron ever win in Cleveland? Does LeBron ever go to the Lakers?

That is, you know, what does it mean for Steph? Back-to-back championships, he and LeBron, then at that moment would have been two-two. He would have had back-to-back league MVPs, including a unanimous. There are, it's, Simmons talks about all of it, and he's correct about that being a sliding doors moment.

But there's two pieces of that commentary that are just, one is enraging and it's not about Bill, and the other one is, he just must talk to very different NBA people than me. Because what Bill said was the conspiracy theory that people, people believe more than any other conspiracy is that the NBA suspended Dremont because they wanted Cleveland to win the title and I've literally never heard that now I certainly have heard the conspiracy that they suspended Dremond because they hoped the series would go longer than 5. But the idea that in real time, anyone outside of the Cavs locker room, me and Zach Lowe,

we're all on the record during this. Everyone's doing media. Nobody else, when that suspension came down, said, oh, well, now I think the calves are going to win. that Warriors team was considered the greatest team of all time and had dominated the Cavs through the first four games of that series. So the first point is the idea that it is widely thought in NBA circles that the Draymond suspension was going to lead to the Cavs winning the championship. We were all there in real time. That was not a thing. And then to the opinion piece of it, nothing is more maddening for me as a Braun fan.

Then the fact that when that happened, and then the Cavs win game five by 15, and LeBron scores 41 points. The entire media asserts that would have never happened if Dremond was there. The Cavs winning by double digits and LeBron scoring 40 plus never happened if Dremont's there.

And then in game six, when Dremont is there, LeBron scores 41 and the Cavs win by 15 points. Game five of those finals, no Draymond. Broncos, I'll give you his exact stat line, just so we all are on the same page. 41, 16, and 7 on 55% from the field, 63% from 3, and the Cavs win by 15. So again, 41, 16, 7, 55, 63 splits, 15 point win.

Game 6 of the finals, 41, 8, 11, on 65, 75, 75 splits, and the Cavs win by 14. Like, what are we talking about? What are we talking about? Oh, hold on, I got to do that because I'm sure, I have to fix that. have to fix that I apologize I gave you the wrong field goal percentages let me let me do that again because I want this to be accurate I gave you is so game five of the finals no draymond 41 16 and 7 on 53 50 splits in a 15 point win game six of the finals with draymond 41 811

on 59 50 splits in a 14 point win. It's just revisionist history. And it's the only other reason that's relevant to me right now is that game happened 10 seasons. And this guy's still playing. It's just a career that will never be even remotely approached. And

it's, if you're listening to this right now and a sports fan of this era, the fact that we got to experience Tom Brady going more than 20 years of elite in the mix every single year,

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We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember.

I think it was on a call about what we should call it. And we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys.

Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel, help an a cappella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter. Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and friends on the Iheart radio app, Apple

podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the

noise, breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines. We go straight to the source, the athlete themselves, their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear. The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real. From viral moments to historic games,

from buzzer beaters to controversial calls, we break it down, give you context, and ask the questions everybody wants answered. SportsSlice brings you closer to the action with stories told by the people who live them. Listen to SportsSlice on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

And for more, follow Timbo Slices Life 12 and the TikTok podcast network on TikTok. The French Open is one of the toughest tests in tennis. And I know firsthand because I competed there myself. I'm Renee Stubbs, and on the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast, I'm breaking down everything happening at Roland Garris. Every match, every upset, and what it really takes to win on Clay. Jenchian won.

I mean, she went down to three to Rabakina, but I'm delighted. She's an outsider to win the French for me. And she likes Clay. Listen, Lena Rabakina is arguably the best player in the world right now, and I actually can win on any surface. Because if she's serving, well, good luck. Consider this your court side seat to the French Open. Listen to the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. What's up, fam? It's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm C.J. Toledano, and our podcast Point Game is about defying the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to every. ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows. Without

Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs. I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reed. He has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by, like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too. Steve Nash would get that thing. That man, hell get the flying. He running up the court, licking his fingers why he got the ball.

Like, after you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Oh, yeah. Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right. So, Chief Season on the line, Sunday at Arrowhead. I don't like it. It's not what I expected.

I thought they were going to give themselves a bit of a margin of error and be right back in the thick of the divisional race by beating the Broncos. That did not happen. And now, as we talked about on Tuesday, it's very, very simple. run the table and you might win the division amazingly, you'll definitely make the playoffs. Go 6 and 1, and it would be very difficult to miss the playoffs, and you'll be super dangerous going into the postseason.

Go 5 and 2, and you're probably at. out. Go four and three and you're definitely out and it's a true disaster of a year. That's where they're at, okay? I am not going to be quite as chesty about my feelings and predictions for this game, given what we saw last weekend. Now, Indy, despite the sauce gardener trading the fact that that they might have Chavarius Wardback, obviously does not have the defense that Denver has. This game, you know, is in Arrowhead, not on the road. There is no DeForest Buckner.

And Daniel Jones has been shaky, his last few appearances. All of that makes me feel. as confident as I can, given how I feel after that Denver game. Jonathan Taylor is a great, great player. The Chiefs tend not to get gashed by, like, they're pretty good at at least not shutting down, but slowing down great backs. But Daniel Jones is better than Bo Nix, and Bo Nix carved the Chiefs up. So, and this is the cults off a bye.

With all that said, as important as this game is for the Chiefs, it is greatly important for the Colts as well. Because what the Colts all of a sudden have is seven straight games to end their season against teams fighting for their playoff lives. to one degree or another. So they're at the Chiefs. They then get the Texans who will be on extra rest themselves

after tonight's Bill's Texans game. And the Texans will either be six and five coming off their best win of the year or five and six in a de facto playoff game. they then go to Jacksonville, then to Seattle, then home for the Niners, home for the Jags, and at the Texans. Really odd for the Colts that they've only played two divisional games up to this point in the season. They're both against the Titans. So we haven't really seen, well, not really, we have not seen the Colts play.

the other two legitimate AFC South teams. So a loss here and things maybe get a little shaky for Indy. A win here and they're like, hey, why can't we be the one seat?

So I obviously like the chiefs in this spot, but they have lost for the short term the supreme confidence that they'd that they would have had in this spot at any other moment of the Mahomes Europe. And the inability to get off the field in third and long

is the number one problem for me with the defense. And offensively, obviously, and I've talked about it, Patrick needs to be more precise, particularly on the deep balls. But the biggest systemic, issue with the offense right now is teams basically play the pass at all times against Kansas City and Kansas City doesn't make them pay for it by running the ball. It's just the truth that the total lack of any threat of the under center run game has made it to where Patrick and the passing offense is up against really onerous defensive looks at all times

that should be easy to run on, but they won't run the ball. Now, maybe with Pacheco likely back, that changes. One would hope. I also got to acknowledge Luan Arumo, the former Bengals D coordinator, who's now with the Colts, has cooked up some really good stuff against Patrick in his career. So that's the concerning pieces of it. The bright sides of it, so to speak, are this. A week from now, they could be at seven and five.

A week from today. Take care of business at home against the cults. Go to Dallas on Thanksgiving. And they'd be seven and five with two games remaining against the Titans and the Raiders, saying, okay, there's nine. And then we have Houston, the Chargers, the Broncos, all in Kansas City, win two out of three of our home games, and you become the most dangerous, likely seven seed in the history of the NFL playoffs.

That's where we're at. It has to start with a win against the Colts on Sunday. And it has to start with Patrick being better, Chris Jones being better, and the Chief's ability to get off on the field on third and long being better. One of the other huge stories this weekend is obviously Shador making the first start of his career. In Vegas, Dylan Gabriel out with a concussion. amazingly, he is the 42nd person to start at quarterback for the Browns since 1999. Just a remarkable number. I think in that same time frame, the Packers have had four.

Farr, Rogers, Love, Willis. I believe are the only four. Maybe there's like a Sean Mannion mixed in in there. But it's certainly not more than five, and I think it's just four. Sure, last week was terrible. You don't need to argue with people on the internet about why he was terrible. He was terrible. And it is not an overstatement to say,

this game right here is by, a wide margin the single biggest moment of Shador's football life. It is not an ideal circumstance. It is a somewhat ideal opponent, but it is what it is. And Shador does not have to be excellent in this game. But if he's awful, there is a world that exists where this is the only start he ever gets for anything. team because we know definitively no team no team loved him coming out of school nobody

there is not a player that teams love that is available in the fifth round so we know that we also know that if people were concerned that through no fault of Shador's own, he would, there would be a lot of other stuff media-wise and nonsense social media stuff that other players and more importantly coaches on the team have to deal with if you take him. as a backup quarterback, those concerns have been fully validated. And so, does a world exist where, if Shador is really bad on Sunday, he does not start again this year, Kevin Stefansky is fired in Cleveland after this year, The new head coach comes in with multiple first round picks,

takes his quarterback of the future, has Dylan Gabriel as the backup, and says, we are not dealing with more chatter surrounding our third string quarterback, and they cut him. and if that were to happen, based on what teams thought about him going into the draft, do I think it's more than on the board? It's potentially likely that no team would sign up for that,

bringing in that guy to be your third string quarterback? I could see that happening. And that would feel unfair, but there's plenty of guys that were fifth round picks in this league that if they got a shot or two and it didn't go well, it's just over. It's the NFL. And so, by the way, I'm not predicting that he'll be terrible.

I think this is actually a pretty good spot for him in this game against this opponent. I am predicting, though, that if he's terrible, and he was terrible last week, that more likely than not, this game is the only game he starts in his career. So, as Marlowe Stanfield would say, do it or don't, but I got places to be, the league's going to keep moving. This is Shador's moment. Now, the flip side is, if he's excellent, then maybe he just,

Keep starting for Cleveland this year, and you see if he can rekindle some of that Colorado magic. But if he's terrible, this can get away from him real quick. Hey guys, Wayfar is the place to shop for all things home. Everything from sofas to spatulas, you name it, they have it, and you get up to 70% off during Wayfair's Black Friday sale all month long. Wayfarer has styles you can't find anywhere else, no generic pieces you've seen a hundred times. So you can make your home way more you.

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seen before. And he knows. Without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs. I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reid. He has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by, like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too. Steve Nass would get that thing. That man, Hell get the flying. He running up the court, licking his fingers why he got the ball.

Like, you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, so Joe Burrow was a full participant in Bengals practice on Wednesday. That was shocking to me. Here is my prediction. on Burrough's status. Because keep in mind, they play Thanksgiving against Baltimore.

So I don't think Burrow is going to come back this early. This would be early no matter what. Come back on Thanksgiving would be crazy. But good for him if he can do it. But I don't think he's going to come back earlier. than Thanksgiving and then play in a game four days later. But do I now think it's possible? He comes back on Thanksgiving and then has 10 days before their next game and tries to just obviously play the rest of the year.

Yes. That's what I think's likely. I think he misses the Patriots game and is back for the Ravens game. Now, do I think that the Bengals, that gives them a shot to get back in it. No. Is that because I think the Steelers are about to run away with it? Nope, it's simply that.

I think that Bengals defense. I think the Bengals had Joe Burrow not been hurt, they'd be in the mix for the playoffs, but they wouldn't have that much better of a record than they do right now at 3 and 7. Because the problem hadn't been the offense, the problem's been the defense, which they never fixed.

This does, however, make me feel like the Ravens chances of winning the division just went down significantly. Because if Burrow comes back and they just go, their first three games, Baltimore, Buffalo, Baltimore, when you were looking at how the Ravens could win the division, a lot of the math was sweeping Sensey. That does get a lot harder. And now all of a sudden, if you're Baltimore, you obviously have the Jets this weekend.

That's a win, or it should be. But then your final six games, Sensey, Pittsburgh, Sensey, New England, Green Bay, Pittsburgh. So four winning teams plus, or four games against winning teams, plus two against Joe Burrow. And if you're the Steelers, you're like, man, we ducked him. Now, they did lose one to Joe Flacco anyway, but still,

the other piece of this that if I were a Bengals fan, I wouldn't be able to, I just couldn't get over, is why did we have to blow the Jets game and the Bears game the way we did? we lose 39 38 to the Jets who we had a we had a 14 point lead on the Jets in the fourth quarter and lost to the 0 and 7 Jets and in the next week we had we were down 14 at the two minute warning to the Bears and a minute later had a one point lead and then blew that one too had they won one of those and were sitting at four and six they'd be alive had they won both of them and were sitting at five and five they might be the co-favorants in the division when joe gets back based on the strength that offense

alone but they didn't and they blew it just the reality of the situation. So now they can just play spoiler. And now Joe also, here's the other thing for Burrow. Because I don't know if people, you know, obviously last year he was unbelievable in losses. This year, he played week one against Cleveland, played really poorly. They won 17, 16, because it's the Browns. And then week two, he barely played in a game they ended up winning against the Jags. I just think for Joe, it'll feel good to get back out there and play like Joe Burrow again and remind people how good he can be.

I don't think that's going to be this weekend. I would be shocked. Hey, are you thinking about upgrading to the all-new iPhone 17 Pro designed to be the most powerful iPhone ever? But you're also thinking about the traffic on your way to the store or the hassle of transferring all your data. Well, good news. When you order a new phone online with Boost Mobile, they'll send an expert to your home or work to deliver your brand new iPhone 17 Pro and get you all set up on Boost Mobile within minutes. No hassle. Visit BoostMobile.com to get started. Delivery available for select devices purchased at boostmobile.com terms to apply.

My NFC championship game pick from before the year, Buccaneers Rams, that is Sunday night football. The Rams are flying the highest they have all year. The bucks are flying, the lowest they have all year. We will discuss that game much more during our week 12 is it? Wow, week 12. NFL gambling show tomorrow. Real quick here, though, I do want to spend a couple minutes on Bill's Texans because I think this is a very important.

Let me say something about. the Texans. I do not believe the Texans are in the playoff mix. And I know that technically they've got the same record as the Chiefs. I get that. I think the fact that they are home for the bills, then at the Colts, then at the Chiefs, and then still have a game left at the Chargers and home for the Colts. I just don't think, and given how awful their offense has been all year, and that CJ is still not back, I just do not think Houston is going to be able to play anything but spoiler. The bills on the other hand are still in the mix for the division,

but also are just a loss tonight away from feeling like they are right back in the swirl of, hey, what the hell is going on with games remaining at Pittsburgh, home for the Bengals, at the Patriots, and home for the Eagles. I have been encouraging Josh to be Josh. It's going to make some mistakes. You'll take it because of the wow stuff. Tonight is not a night you should need that. Tonight is a night that you should be able to win on the strength

of James Cook and not turning the ball over. And so this is a good test of can Josh throttle, we saw him last week throttle up, can he throttle down? That's what I'm going to be watching for tonight. I expect the bills to win. And I think the Texans only path is multiple bills turnovers. So we'll see if they can throttle down tonight. Listener questions.

W.S. If you could flip the result of one, one LeBron play or game, what would it be? For me, it's finishing the dunk over Dremont in game seven of the 2016 finals. I mean, yes, that would be the LeBron play that I would flip because it would be the greatest dunk in NBA history. The actual play I would change is Kyle Corver hitting the corner three in game three of the 2017 NBA Finlayer. finals or George Hill

making his free throw in what became the J.R. Smith game. Those would be the two that I would change. Danny asks if the Chiefs win all of their remaining games, could the Broncos loss become the loss that led to the

loss that led to the loss that led to Lombardi? That's pretty good. I'll keep that my back pocket. Q asks, if the Chiefs missed the playoffs, wouldn't the Bills and Josh be under the most pressure by a country mile? No doubt about it. And we'll talk about if the Chiefs end up losing this weekend.

We'll talk about what that does the rest of the AFC playoff picture, but they're not going to lose this weekend. Will they be one of my week 12 picks? Find that on tomorrow's show. Thank you to everybody. Like, rate, subscribe, review. Huge shout out to Volume and Blue Duck. And thank you, of course, to Hard Rock Bet, Boost, Wayfair, and The Great People at Zen.

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