The Herd with Colin Cowherd - What's Wright - NFL Week 9 Reaction: Bills beat Chiefs, Cowboys CRUSHED vs. Cardinals + trade deadline | Nick Wright

Episode Date: November 5, 2025

All lines provided by Hard Rock Bet.  Nick Wright recaps Week 9 of the NFL season, starting with Josh Allen's Buffalo Bills beating Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and the Kansas City Chiefs. What does this mean for both teams moving forward and their playoff push. Then, Nick breaks down Monday Night Football between Dak Prescott's Dallas Cowboys and the Arizona Cardinals... what does Kyler Murray’s future in Arizona look like? After, Nick discusses his biggest takeaways from the first half of the NFL season and what he still expects to see this year, including his playoff seeding predictions. Later, Nick and Damonza answer your questions. #VolumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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World Series stuff because it'll be brief because I know people want to hear my potential pain about Chief Spills, but I don't know how as a sports fan you get over that loss if you're the Blue Jays. So we will get to all of that over the next hour. So how are you doing this morning? I'm doing pretty good, Pops. How are you doing? I'm doing good. Excited for the show. I'm excited for I have a trick planned for first things first today that I don't want to reveal

because I don't want anyone to spoil it but there is I'm very excited for the TV show and well again we'll talk about what we might revisit this on Thursday but today the TV show hopefully always is pretty good

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and that is likely going to be phase one of a three-phase tear down. Chris Greer will be first. Mike McDaniel, I know there is some reporting, if you can call NFL Insiders, reporting these days. By the way, thank God, Jaden Daniel, who we saw his elbow go backwards. The insiders explained to us not as bad as it could have been. Man, that's so fortunate because so often those NFL insiders say to us, Holy shit, that injury is way worse than we thought.

Man, oh man. I mean, we are on a 700 injury streak in a row streak of, you know what? Could have been worse. So that's good. And we'll talk about Jaden. I feel sick for Jaden. And we'll get to that later because this is where I have to wear the black hat and have the unpopular take that everyone knows is.

correct, but we will wait on that. So, how did I even get there? I don't even know how we got there. Oh, because I was saying the insiders were saying Mike McDaniel's job might be safe. I would be shocked by that. So Chris Greer's part one, Mike McDaniels part two, and then two of course is part three.

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Atlanta probably is like we would rather have Javan Trey or I'm sorry rather have Javan Lamello the problem is we're not fixing Jaws problems by sending them from Memphis to Atlanta I I think the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina

could do him some good and Cam Little hits a 68 yard field goal and his record barely stood for a day because Brandon Aubrey tried to beat it last night all right DeMonte before we get to Bill's Chiefs, before we get to Bronte and the rest of week nine, let's do a little World Series. So we obviously had a crazy weekend of NFL football, but the World Series came to a

conclusion on Saturday. It was a crazy game seven. So let's talk about it. Yeah. So listen, congrats to the Dodgers. Congrats to anyone who took my advice given on this pod and on TV that I did not take and I am sick to my stomach on when I said before the World Series on this pod that Yamamoto at 32 to 1 to win MVP, I thought was decent. And then after game 2, and then Thursday, before game 5, on this pod, I said Yamamoto was still 16 to 1. I didn't get to good MVP bet. And then I didn't make it.

I can't believe it. And by the way, I needed some wins this weekend because I fired on the Chiefs. More on that in a minute. So that was a disaster by me. Credit to Dave Roberts for great managing. Credit to the Dodgers for in-game 7 being like our weakness all year was the bullpen. So what if we have four guys pitch, but there are four starters that we just don't even have to worry about the bullpen? So the Dodgers are deserving champs.

Do I think they were better in that series? I don't. but they're deserving champs. With that said, if you're the Blue Jays, I just don't know how you ever get over it. That is as haunting of a series loss as I think you will ever see in sports. And I understand the 2011 Rangers twice were one strike away

from winning the World Series, I get that. This to me feels more cruel. Because if you're a Blue Jays fan, who by the way, right now, tell me in the dock on Hard Rock Bet where the Blue Jays are for World Series odds next season. I bet they're not in the top six. So it's not like, oh, we'll be right back there.

And by the way, my team, the Royals, lost a seven-game heartbreaker, wasn't expected to be back, and then came back the next year and won it. So maybe the Blue Jays can do the same. But when you go over that series, if you're a Blue Jays fan, and you think back to all the moments you could have won, the 18-inning game, so they're tied for the six best odds at 15. pardon me 15 to 1

and the 18 inning game is not even one of the four or five biggest heartbreaks you think to game 6 when you have second and third one out down 1 well you think to the fact that you were going home up 3

2 and then in game 6 bottom 9 second and third 1 out and it looks like you're going to get a little blooper to score at least 1 and have the tying run on third with one out and then it's caught and you're doubled off. Then you think to game seven, you can get an insurance run in the eighth, man on second, nobody out, you strand it.

You give up a home run two outs away from the World Series to a guy who has hit one home run in the last six weeks. then after all that, you have bases loaded, one out. Bases loaded, one out, a chopper to the same guy who ripped your heart out. By the way, the one out is because it looked like Vladdy Guerrero Jr. hit a walk-off home run to win the World Series. Warning track shot. and IKF either doesn't get a good enough secondary lead or it's just unlucky or he's just not quite fast enough or he doesn't slide right, whatever it is, you're out at home by an inch, by one inch.

But still, that's just two outs. Then you hit a bomb to left center and the guy who was just put in for defense crashes into the left field or the left field. and catches it. So you don't win there. And then in the 11th, you're down a run. Second and third. I'm sorry, first and third. One out.

And break your bat double play. I just, that is as gutting a championship series loss as you will ever see. People can say, like, people compared it to the spurs and the, Ray Allen game. I don't know. This was worse. The Spurs were the under, like, the Spurs in the Ray Allen game were trailing in the fourth quarter with two minutes

left. The, and then had game seven, the heat were not in firm control, but control, like, I don't, you can say the, the, if we, again, if we want to switch it to basketball, the Warriors up 3-1 in the finals, but games 5 and 6 of those finals, they got blasted. That Blue Jays had so many chances to win a championship and didn't.

I feel sick for him. I feel absolutely sick for them. Credit to Dave Roberts. You're saying like the Blue Jays thought up until the very last second that they were going to win, those other teams. Yes. It seemed like they were done a long time ago, so it was no reason to believe.

I get it. I, up 3-2 going home. chance to steal game six, up with two outs or with one out in the ninth inning, and then two great chances to walk it off in the bottom of the ninth, and then a great chance to at least tie it if not win it in the 11th, and you just get beat up. Either way, it sounds like some exciting stuff. Should we start buying some stock in the first?

baseball maybe talking more baseball next year i listen i do love playoff baseball and did you see the rating for it de monse i did not what was it okay so i'm gonna you're that this is and then we'll get to chief spills i promise 16 million people watched game seven of the nba finals last year okay pacer's thunder 16 million people watch in America. How many people do you think watched Game 7 Dodgers Blue Jays in America?

We don't get to count. I'll go 56. You said 56? 56, 56. Okay, 26. So you're, you're bad at these games. I'm terrible. I don't ever have a good gauge.

But yeah. But my point is, the fact that it did, more than 50% more than game 7 of the NBA finals. Baseball is more America sports than basketball is, right? Or is it just like different when it comes to the finals and World Series? It certainly had been and it's kind of ebbed and flowed. But right now, like baseball's hot right now. I sound like Trump, sorry.

But like the, so, and I thought these playoffs were awesome. I thought these playoffs were really great. Daniel says team market size, I get that, but we don't get credit for Canada. One of the baseball teams is in a market that doesn't count for the ratings. So like as small as Indianapolis and Oklahoma City are, they're both at least out here. Yeah. And yes, LA is bigger than OKC and Indianapolis combined, but not not enough to make up for that. The rating wasn't because of Los Angeles.

Like, that certainly helped. But no, that was a great, it's a great postseason for baseball. All right. Let's get to Bill's Chiefs. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, new?

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All right, it's that time. So the bills won their Super Bowl against your Kansas City Chiefs. There you go. Kansas City is heads into the buy five and four as the eight seed. And the bills are the favorite to win the one seat. How are you, how do you want to do this one? How are you feeling? Well, listen.

I mean, well, they did get the first one. They got the first one. So now they'll get them in the postseason if the rules are. I mean, that's the way it goes. But I let me give Buffalo credit because I got, listen, I picked the Chiefs, I bet the Chiefs. I did not think the Bill's defense, even if the Chiefs had their typical regular season against Buffalo Vanilla game plan, I did not think the Bill's defense would be able to keep up with Kansas City.

And not only they keep up with Kansas City, they dominated most of that game. And Josh played great, and Patrick played really shaky. That was the first game in Patrick's entire career. He completed less than 50% of his passes. And they pressured the chiefs at will, and the bills were the far better team. It was a miracle. The chiefs had multiple possessions down seven in the fourth quarter. And that last possession, when McDermott chose to go for a field goal, was coaching malpractice.

You have to punt there. Like, going for that field goal and giving the chiefs a short field when they're only going to have 20, three or 22 seconds if you punt is just insanity. I couldn't believe he did it. But set that aside. Buffalo steadied themselves. Buffalo stayed very alive for their division as the Patriots have just a cake schedule moving forward.

And Buffalo ran the ball great. Josh was awesome. And the defense, which was my concern with them, more than stepped up. So all of that is true. That can be true, while it's also true, that this does not change my opinion 1% about what a Chiefs' Bill's playoff game could look like.

And I thought the Bill's young secondary players, Cole Bishop and Xavier Hirsten after the game talking about the tells they saw on tape was a big unforced error. Save that info, kids. Like, you're probably going to have to play this team again. And so, listen, Kansas City has its work cut out for it. But the whole, if the playoffs started today thing,

is just meaningless to me. The playoffs don't start today. They have eight more games to play. If I now, did this hurt their chances of winning the division? Sure. Do I still, right now, would I still pick them to win the division? I would. And I think that the chiefs are going to.

Vegas still has them as the Super Bowl favorites. Yeah, because they're the best team. I mean, and I'm curious if they're going to add a running back or a defensive lineman or both or neither at the deadline. But they added yesterday the most important piece they could add, which is Josh Simmons came back. So Josh Simmons is back. And again, no, no, I'm not making any excuses. The bills dominated the chiefs, okay. But as far as why it could be.

different in the playoffs. The chiefs by the second half of that game were without three of their five starting offensive linemen and without Isaiah Pacheco, they're starting running back, all of whom you expect to be back for the playoffs. Now, you can say, well, the bill's was out at Oliver, but at Oliver should be out. Go ahead. What were you saying? I was supposed to say Isaiah Pacheco coming back.

I don't know what that's going to do for us. Well, it's better than Clyde. I mean, it's better than. And so, and again, maybe they trade for. Brees Hall today. Yeah. We'll see. But the one seed is going to be,

so the real damage that was done is if they had a shot at the one seed, that dwindled massively yesterday. I think the Pats might end up the one seed. Like, we'll see. But as far as you want to win the division, you want to have home playoff games. I'm not ignoring any of that. With that piece of it said, I don't really know.

Like, it doesn't seem like there's going to be any soft spots in the AFC playoffs. Like if the AFC playoffs are in one order or another, Bill's Patriots, AFC North Winner, so that's either Steelers or Ravens, cults, chiefs, Broncos, Chargers. which are the odd like that would be the jags out chargers end the I don't even know who you would say oh I hope to get to play that team in round one and so I just obviously you wouldn't want to play if you're the bills are the chief's biggest threat there's no doubt about that they have been year after year they just can't beat them when it matters the most and I've been on the record that one day I think

they will. I just don't think that day is today. Do you like the timing of the buy? I think the buy kind of came at a rough spot. No, I like it. I actually like that the It's also probably good for Josh Simmons, too. He's been out for so long. Correct.

It's very good for Josh Simmons, but here's the other thing because and this is where I'm just going to look at it a little differently than most. Because people are going to talk about chiefs second half of the season schedule and talk about the records of the teams they face so let me see what the and we can the i i know we got to draw up the schedule but i want to do something i'm doing something a little different um which is strength of schedule more strength of remaining strength of schedule so the chiefs

right now are dead average they're 15th as far as remaining strength of schedule that's not what i'm focused on What I'm focused on is this. The first half of the season, the Chiefs played the following quarterbacks. Justin Herbert, J. Allen Hertz, Lamar Jackson, Jared Gough, the Prince, Josh Allen, along with Russ. Jackson, Darry. No, they didn't play Jackson Dart. They played Russ in his last game. Oh, yeah.

Russell, Jimo, and Marriota. So they played six of the best quarterbacks in football. The rest of the year, the quarterbacks they face are Bo Nix twice, Daniel Jones, Cam Ward, Gino again, and then Dak, who's really good, but that defense is abhorrent. C.J. Stroud, who is fine, but that offense is abhorrent, and Justin Herbert again. So the quarterbacks they play soften up enough right now, and I said it on the show yesterday, I'll say it again.

I think they're going to go 12 and 5. I think they sweep the Broncos. I think they get the win against the Chargers. I think they have one loss. I don't know what it is. And they end up winning the division. We'll see if I'm right about that. But that's why I'm not panicked.

and I think Hard Rock bet in Vegas is smart to not be panicked either. And go ahead, pal. Casey hasn't won a game when they allow 21 plus points. Is that something or nothing? So that's, I put that in the nothing bucket along with their 0 and 4 and 1 score games stat. I put that in the nothing bucket. Because would people feel better? if they hadn't blown out the lions and ravens if they had just won those like if they if the

lions and ravens wins were closer then they'd be two and four like so i don't really care about that piece of it um and i the the chiefs have had you know some really good games and some ugly games i the jags game is the game that if they don't win the division if they do get a rough seed, you're going to look back on and say we blew it. We were up double digits early. You had control of that game. The Mahal, like, that's the game.

And we'll see how they respond to it. But I still think that, I think post by they're going to have the best offense in football. And I'm still not scared of Denver. Maybe that'll be my famous last word. But I watch Denver every single week. and Bo Nix is a gamer, and he is, he has been clutch, but man, that offense is so bad for the first three quarters, week in, week out.

Yeah. So everybody, go ahead. Everybody's always cooking Patrick Mahomes about his sideline theatrics and its sliding stuff. Josh Allen did. The biggest plopper in the league for five years has been Josh. It's not even close. He did like an NBA head back. Yes.

And we want to talk about rule changes. Here is a rule that I think could be implemented and have instant effect. If you make that whiplash motion with your head, it automatically triggers that you have to be checked for a concussion. Because that. So, like, fair is fair. If you're going to try to take advantage of the fact that the NFL has put a real emphasis on protecting you, right. On protecting you and concussion protocol and try to get a cheap 15 yards. Like that one, the one from Josh this weekend was egregious.

Yeah. It was egregious. It's like, okay. It's a damn near on sportsman like. The, right. So the, the, the, the tax on that is, all right, go in that blue tent, miss a few plays. And your answer to the, you know, unaffiliated, uh, norological consultant who I, I think the name is, no, I was just faking. Then so be it.

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Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a... 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, well, 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, where 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

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The French Open is one of the toughest tests in 10. 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 went. I mean, she went down to three to Rabakina, but I'm delighted. She's an outsider to win the French for me.

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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 there. 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 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 Nash will 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, before we get to Brani and the rest of week nine, let's get to last night's game. So the Cowboys got humiliated last night. Arizona was just taking the ball from him at will. So we know Dallas's defense is garbage and the trade deadline is ending here pretty soon. What do you think? What move should they make?

What should they do? They should be sellers, not buyers. And did you see the trade they already, they made last night this morning, Desmondsey? They traded, hold on, I'm going to tell you. They traded for Logan Wilson, who has been, he's a linebacker, who has been benched by the Bengals defense. The Bengals are in team mutiny right now because the defense is so bad.

The Al Golden Bengals de-coordinator is like, knows even though Logan Wilson, you're a team captain, we can't use you, even though we're the worst defense in the league, and they traded the seventh round pick for him. It is, the Cowboys are done.

They're dumb. They have had plenty of opportunities. to not be done and they're you look they're now three five and one they they were favorites last night they the cardinals dominate them even though they get a blocked punt touchdown they lost all they lost to the panthers the they could have stolen that packers game they had plenty of opportunities to not be done but now after the raiders game, in two weeks to Monzae, they go Eagles, Chiefs, Lions. They're finished.

Yeah. So I'm done thinking about the Cowboys as even a frisky spoiler. Like they, listen, they're dangerous week to week because the offense can be that good, but they're done. Now, the more interesting thing from that game is once again, Arizona's offense is better with Jacoby Brissette than with Kyler Murray. Now, the head coach Jonathan Gannon says Kyler's going to be back when he's healthy.

I don't know, man. Kyler seemed healthy. People thought he was healthy yesterday. They didn't play him. And the offense hummed. The question is, who does Kyler play for next year? Potential teams. The Jets, the Steelers if Rogers retires,

the Browns. There was one other team that I had on my team. my list. I'm trying to remember. Who was the other team that I thought? We're not bugging off. Oh, maybe Miami? I don't think the dolphins can deal with Tuas cap hit and trading for Kyler. There was one other team that I had on my list yesterday. Oh, in the Raiders. Yeah, I didn't think you would buck Gino. I didn't think you. The Raiders might do a full tear down. But Kyler's not going to be on the Cardinals now. year.

If Kyler is going to be available next year, listen, classic one or classic two, I guess, eventually right. Kyler is too small. And when the one of the reasons the offense works better with Jacoby is because they want to be able to hit routes over the middle of the field and Kyler cannot see them. Sorry. Pro sports doesn't have to be fair. It is what it is. Too small.

And I also, you know, I don't know that he is beloved in that locker room, I think is fair to say. And so his time with the Cardinals is coming to an end. I think they should just accept it and keep playing Jacoby because he's getting a better chance to win. All right, let's get to the other story of the day that I wanted to talk about. Yeah, so we just wrapped up the first half of the NFL season with Sunday. So this is a perfect time to talk about Brony James. Let's do it. So here's the deal.

And this is a little about Brani and this is more about media criticism. But a little over, a little. less than a year ago, we were in full-blown Brony James meltdown in the media about the scourges of nepotism and LeBron forcing the Lakers into such a mistake and pleading with LeBron as a father to stop this farce and folks claiming that their heart just goes out to the other potential draftees who got snubbed because the Lakers wasted the 55th pick on Brani. And now the last two games, the Lakers who are super short-handed, Sunday night, we're in a tight game with Miami,

played Brony in Crunch Time, he played really good defense, had one awesome driving kick for a critical three, and they won 18 minutes, a solid, you know, end of the bench performance. And then yesterday, in a game where LeBron was out, Luca was out,

and Austin Reeves was out. They called on Brony again against the Blazers, when the Blazers were double-digit favorites, and Brony played 19 minutes, had six assists, had no turnovers, and the Lakers won again.

Now, do I think Brony is a great player? Obviously not. Do I think Brony? Ronnie is even going to be a rotation guy this year for the Lakers when they're healthy? No. Do I think if we are going to be fair and we are going to look at this objectively, we should say, hey, how does his production up to this point in the season compare to the other guys drafted in the second half of the first round?

I think that's fair. So if you go picks 45 through, I think there were only 58 in that draft, oddly, instead of 60, and you're like, oh, so of those 14 guys, seven of them are not on an NBA roster. So, you know, he certainly is providing more value than those seven. of those 14 guys only Quentin Post, Jamal Shed and Cam Spencer, have played more minutes. Okay. Of those 14 guys, only Jamal Shed and Cam Spencer have more assists. Of those 14 guys, only Cam Spencer has more steals. of though now

Bronny is his field goal percent is like 20 percent he hasn't shot much but I think he's you know he I think he's one for I think he's two for 11 on the season so obviously he's not

it's not shooting the ball well he's not shooting the ball much but you look at that draft and all the crying that was done pick 47 has not

played is not on a roster. Pick 48 has played 11 minutes. Pick 49, pick 50, pick 51, has not played or on G-League teams. Pick 52, Quentin Post has actually been solid for the Warriors and pick 53, Cam Spencer's been solid for the Grizzlies. Pick 54, not on a roster. Pick 55. Brony pick 56 pick 57 G league or not on a roster and pick 58 Huckporty apologies uh has played 40 minutes for the Knicks and has been given you know slightly less production than Brony right in line with it whole point is Bronny James has been a slightly above average late second round pick. That's what he's been as a pro.

A slightly above average late second round pick. That's it. And the folks that used him as a cudgel because they hate LeBron should be embarrassed. That's the Brony James update. Good for him for being pressed into service for all of a sudden a frisky Lakers team that got a win as a double-digit underdog without its three best players.

And good for him for playing his first ever crunch time NBA minutes the night before and just looking the part of, oh yeah, that looks like the 11th best guy on an NBA team. That's what he looks like. Happy for a young man. Yeah, I'm happy for him.

And so, uh, it was, it was, I thought, embarrassing some of the coverage. Last season, when he had that bad five-minute stretch,

I forget even who it was against. And I'm glad that he didn't let that throw him. And so good for him. All right, now we can get to the other NFL games. So, yeah, surprising games are one of the more surprising things over the weekend. The Colts' offenses looked pretty good, has been humming all season. Pittsburgh defense has not looked good and has been allowing anything to happen on the football field. Do you think that this game was, well, obviously the Pittsburgh's

Steelers on beat the Colts as well. Do you think that this is their identity, or was this like more of a fluke situation in this game? A little bit of fluke for both, but also the Steelers defense had no business being a bottom three defense. It was going to be better than that. And the Colts offense had no business being not only the best offense in football, but one of the best offenses in NFL history.

So that all of the. All of that water was going to find its level to a degree. And Jonathan Taylor's awesome. Shane Steichen is a very good play designer. And you can give credit to the cults while also recognizing that what they were doing was not going to be sustained. And listen, they get, they have the Falcons in Germany or something. yeah, I think it's Germany, Sunday morning, then they get a buy, and then it's the Chiefs. And that will be obviously the litmus test.

They're going to be a playoff team. They're a good story, but I am not going to apologize for my lack of cult's belief. And my take all last week was everyone seems. fine with the media mostly ignoring the Seahawks, because the Seahawks have two losses, but then everyone wants to get on their high horse and be like, the media has an obligation to take the cult seriously, because the cults had one loss.

And I'm like, no, we don't. And now the cults are one of many two lost teams. There are a cool story in a bad division with a fun, you know, resurgent quarterback who deep down, you know that five turnover game didn't shock you and we'll see how they look. I was about to say what if the Colts go in there and beat Kansas City? Like there's... That'll be something.

That will be something because the Chiefs need the games now. So go beat Can't City and you'll have my attention. But I'll tell you what I think is more likely. So the culture is seven and two. I would anticipate they'll beat the Falcons. then off the buy, lose the Chiefs fall to eight and three. And then they go, Texans, Jags, Seahawks, Niners, Jags, Texans. So how many games is that?

Seven games? Could the Colts go three and four starting with the Chiefs game? Absolutely they could. I would expect them to lose in Kansas City in Seattle and then even if you win three out of four against Houston and Jacksonville, if the Niners beat you, you're three and four. So it's a good story. It's not more than that.

All right, next. The Packers, another surprise of the weekend, lost to the Panthers. They were huge favorites in that game. What's going on with Green Bay? Was this a trap? We know they got Philly ahead. Green Bay just not as good as everybody thought they were. Yeah, I mean,

Maybe a little everything. Man, Jeannie had a crazy stat. He called it. He called the upset. And going into that game, the Packers last 10 games as touchdown or more favorites, they had only won, not covered. They had only won four of them. They had five losses and a tie in their last 10 as touchdown plus favorites.

That's a team that does overlook teams. And Carolina, and Caroline's five and four. Like Carolina's, I don't know how, but Carolina is, is in it. And it's also why Jordan Love is just hard to fully trust. His upside's huge, but it's hard to fully trust. Every once he does crazy stuff. Yeah. He does crazy stuff.

And I also think this weekend, we had two massive injuries in the NFL. Joe Alt for the Chargers and Tucker Kraft for the Packers. Like, those are really, really tough injuries. And if you're the Packers now, he's been unbelievable. The Packers de Manzay have won. easy game left and it's on the road against the giants every other game they play is either a

divisional game or against baltimore philly or denver that's a tough schedule man every team they are are are the vikings at 500 now i don't even remember i think they are uh the vikings are four and four and the Bears are five and three. So that means, aside from the Giants game, they don't have a game left against a team with a losing record. Now, maybe you could argue they take lightly the teams of the losing record so it could be good. But I don't, I think the Packers are going to be okay.

But somebody is going to be left without a chair in that NFC playoff picture. like that's the thing in the in the AFC if you don't believe in the Jags it's very easy to know who's going to be in the playoffs it's going to be three from the AFC West one from the South one from the North and two from the East and you kind of know who those teams are

with the North coming down to it if you do believe in the Jags then one of those AFC West team is going to be left without a chair NFC is very different right now the Bears are 5 and 3 and out of the playoffs. The Lions are 5 and 3 and the 7 seat.

So there's not a lot of margin for error. And if you're a Green Bay and you're like, we have two losses this season as double-digit favorites. That's a rough one. And then a tie as a 9-point favorite. That's no good.

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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 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 Reid.

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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, DeMonze, let's try this midseason recap before we get to the quick hitters of these other games. Yeah, so we're midway through the NFL season. And there are some things that you are spot on about, like the Bucks being good and the bagels being

bad and there's some things that you were dead wrong about, like the Colts being bad and the Raiders being good. What were some of the big developments that you didn't see coming in this season? So listen, the Colts would be the biggest one. I said I thought they could get the number one pick instead, you know, right now they're the number one seed. So that is a stone width. I'm glad you mentioned the Bengals because of this.

I do not think it would be any different for them if Burrow were there. Flacco's playing out of his mind. Their problem is that defense is dreadful and acting like, oh, we just got screwed because Burroughs not here is. Now, maybe they would have won some of those Jake Browning games, but as far as their ability to contend, that that die was cast in the offseason. So, listen, I got the commanders wrong.

The commanders are now screwed because of Jayden's injury, but they were screwed before. They were going to be three and six. you know, with Jaden healthy. And we'll talk more about them in a bit. I'm trying to think. I thought the Patriots would be a playoff team, but I did not think they would be in contention for the number one seed.

Obviously, people are going to say, Nick, you got the Broncos wrong. I'm not sure I didn't. We'll wait and see all that. No, I mean, you have called it up to this point. You called it last year. I mean, not last year, but earlier when you were talking about it. I said they were going to be six and two, and I wouldn't believe in them. And they started six and two, and I didn't believe in them.

Now, I thought they would lose to the Texans. So I thought at this point, they'd be six and three, but we'll wait and see. I'm trying to, I did not see this season from hell potential for Baltimore. And I didn't see Pittsburgh's weak link being its defense. Those things, to me, were misses to a degree. The NFC, aside from Washington, I was pretty solid on, I think. And I, well, no, I underrated Seattle. I underrated Seattle and Seattle's a really good team.

What's the following? Yeah, I was supposed to say on the NFC, you were kind of hesitant to go all in on the Rams because of his back injury. Would you go back and change that by this point, seeing what you've seen? Well, I do think I, listen, I think I had a Bucks Rams NFC champion. championship game. And I feel good about that right now. But the Rams are a little better than I thought they would be.

The Bucks are what I thought they would be. But right now this moment, I know Hard Rock disagrees with me, but I guess not necessarily disagrees. He's not the favorite. Right now this moment, Matt Stafford's league MVP. He's been awesome, quietly awesome, and his numbers have been awesome.

All right, next. All right, so seasons from hell. We got Washington. They're three and six, and they obviously just lost Jade and Daniels to that crazy injury. Houston is three and five, and have struggled on offense,

and they also just lost CJ Stroud for a little bit to a concussion. Cincinnati, like we just talked about, three and six, Burrell Storrhurt, the defense is garbage. It sounds like the offense might be in, like, an open rebellion against the defense at this point, but ranked the worst seasons from how. Teams.

All right, number one's Washington, because they, put a lot of resources into this season. They traded for Latimore last year. They traded for Tuntil. They traded for Debo. They signed a lot of older veterans. The team is bad.

The team is injured. And this is where I have to be unpopular. I feel sick for Jaden Daniels. But most quarterback's arm does not bend that way if they take that hit. And people just, like, that that was, that part of that was he is so slim and it is not a sport for skinny guys

it's not and Jaden now has played 26 games to Monsei he has suffered cracked ribs he has suffered a sprained knee he has hurt his hamstring which is nothing to do with his frame and he's at his arm twisted backwards

so the reason Washington would be the number one season from hell team is if you're a Washington fan deep down you're like man is this guy just going to be an injury concern his whole career and go ahead I mean yeah I think he's definitely he's worth the struggle I mean you you play the guy and see if he's worth this how can it up but uh but but yeah right now right now this moment de Manzay if you did a that year quarterback redraft. Right now this moment, Drake goes number one. But after this weekend, the game Caleb had.

You're saying it could be up in the air. I think Caleb would be two. I think right now, if you ask all 32 teams, I think the Jaden injury stuff is so concerning. So that's the other reason they have the biggest year from hell. Number two is Cincinnati because they are not. one off season away from fixing that defense. They're going to blow all of Burton, not all, but a lot of Joe Burroughs prime,

just trotting out a non-competitive defense. And Burrow, if I'm being fair, also a huge injury concern. Guys suffered a bunch of weird different injuries. Houston, I didn't have as high a hopes for Houston as other people did, maybe. and the defense has been as advertised. The offense just been brutal. So that's how I would rank it with Baltimore flying in and taking first place to Monzae if they miss the playoffs.

Like now, like Baltimore missing the playoffs with, yes, Lamar got hurt, but they survived it. They went one and two without Lamar. Like that would be the ultimate Super Bowl or bus team, missing the playoffs be unbelievable. Yeah. We got to have a new, also saying Lamar weighs less than Daniels and his mystery of his last five seasons.

No, listen, Lamar, like, have you guys, do you guys watch football? Does Lamar Jackson look like, Lamar,

first of all, Lamar, um, shed weight intentionally. Second of all, Lamar is sturdy. Lamar, when Lamar,

came out of college, he had a Tyree kill neck. Like Lamar is, and by the way, Lamar has three times in his career missed significant portions of a season with injury. So the answer is kind of yes. But Lamar does not have the frame that Jaden has, not at all. All right, you want to do these quick hitters or you got something else before we do it? You got to have a category. I think you got to come up with like a category.

category four. I think you have two or is it three categories? You got to like category one instantly correct. Category two eventually correct. Category three, uh, cartoonishly wrong. What's category? You gotta have like a category where it's like I'm correct, but I just, I don't want to be.

Yes. You know what? That is great job, DeMonsei. Great job. Oh, I like that. I will bring that to the TV show today.

Oh, yeah. Let's go. Category four. Let's go. I'm right, but I don't want. to be and if I'm proven right I can't take a victory left right exactly exactly um like you just have to meekly be like I told you so yeah yeah that's right that great one category four that's

category four coming up uh quick hitters first off Thursday at football we had the ravens defeating the dolphins 28 to 6 Lamar's back let yeah Lamar's back Lamar's awesome there's no disputing that he was rusty for about a quarter and a half and then he was awesome again. And this is where Ravens fans can get mad of me. I don't care. I watched that game. I did not think your defense looked amazing. I know you allowed six points.

I thought the dolphins left so much meat on the bone in that first half. The dolphins had so many opportunities. They got the ball within the 30-yard line six times in that game. And that doesn't count the time they had a bomb taken off the field. or a bomb called back by penalty thanks to the worst tripping call of the season. Like, I think the Ravens' defense still a concern. Next. 49ers defeating the Giants 34 to 24.

This is like Kyle Shanahan's masterpiece, man. Even I didn't think he could get this out of Mack Jones. And the Giants are just done. The Broncos loss ended the Giants season. And it might also end up costing the Chiefs of the Divvents. I'll never get over Brian Dable having Jackson DART throw that pass with five minutes left up two scores. But Christian McCaffrey, they're just going to work him to death and Max playing well. So shout out to the Giants.

I mean, shout out to the Niners. Next. Chargers defeat the Titans 27 to 20. Yeah, at what cost? The, well, I mean, the, the Titans scored two non-offensive touchdowns. A special team's touchdown and a pick six. But the Joe Wald injury is just devastating for him. And the Chargers, what are the, I absolutely,

I think the final playoff spot in the AFC is going to come down to the Prince and Herbert. It's just great theater. And by the way, they play in Jacksonville in two weeks. And that, because the Chargers still have Steelers. What was the last time they played them? Was that, it was the last time they played? I don't think, no, I don't think it's the playoff game. My guess is they've played, well, let's see, they didn't play last year.

It's possible. It is totally possible, I feel like. It is the last time they played them. Yeah. Great call by you. The last time they played them was the playoff meltdown. Great call by you. All right, next.

Vikings defeat the Lions 2724. That was a shocker. Yeah. It cooked me. Yeah, that killed you. It killed me. Great game playing by Flores. Make golf look really uncomfortable.

J.J. McCarthy wasn't great, but he wasn't awful. Made a few good plays. That's a great win by the Vikings. I'm not going to freak out about the Lions. That's just a great win by the Vikings. Next. Patriot to defeat the Falcons 2423? Weird one, because the Falcons were incredibly lucky to be in that game.

It was about to be 24. 4-7 at half and then Drake May just drops the ball. The Falcons return it almost for a touchdown. Now all of a sudden it's 21-14 at half. And all three of the Falcons touchdowns were just increasingly absurd Drake London catches. Like just ridiculous Drake London catches. But then they did have a chance to tie the game.

And Parker Romo, who the Patriots cut this offseason, just gags the extra point. And then, but the Patriots are legit, good team. These flatly are. It felt like they were going to get a little unlucky in that game, but they didn't. They've now won six in a row next. What does Belichick feel about all this? Broncos defeat the Texans 18 to 15. Yeah, I mean, and Broncos fans are like, why won't you give us more credit?

Again, because I watched the games. And your defense is awesome. Now, the most impactful play your defense made in this game was a dirty hit on C.J. Stroud that knocked him out of the game. and then Davis Mills just out there with no shot whatsoever. But the Broncos defense is awesome. Even without Cirtan, it was awesome. That offense is so hard to watch.

But they're 7 and 2 and have a big margin of error now. The Texans are on life support. Next. Bears defeat the Bengals in a shootout, 4742. Yeah. I mean, that would have been a, season ending loss for the Bears. They were up 14 with two minutes left,

just over two minutes left, and picked off flacko. And then somehow they were down 42, 41, after giving up an onside kick. Caleb with the best drive of his pro career. And Caleb was awesome. And so we know Caleb can carve up bad defenses. He did it to Dallas. He did it to Sensi. That's a huge win for the best.

Bears get to five and three win a game like that steal it at the end after blowing it huge win by them and the bangles listen flaco's been great the bangles are a mess next uh rams defeat the saints 34 to 10 all right i'm going to be totally honest with the audience ram's saints and jags raiders might be the two sunday games all year that i watched the absolutely least of i didn't I didn't. I was solo screening Bill's Chiefs. So I know the Rams annihilated the Saints. And I know the Jags Raiders game went to overtime,

which bad for the Raiders. They played a full overtime, lost it, and now played Thursday. And now play Thursday night against Denver. That's tough for them. All right. And last one, the Seahawks annihilated the commander. Seahawks legit good team. Like the Seahawks, the Seahawks are a legit good to really good

team. Darnold's been awesome. And Jackson Smith and Jigba's been fantastic. All right, let's get some listener questions. Kingston says, as an English chiefs fan since 92, this is my favorite show to listen to you guys. Both bring something unique and works so well. I love that you guys are family. Demonsie as a natural. Thank you both from England.

Thank you, Kingston. That's really awesome. Thank you, Kingston. I love that. I really love that. It's a great time. Yeah, good. Thanks, dude.

You're doing great, pal. Thank you, Kinks. The, um, and good reminder to everyone, like, rate, subscribe, review. Um, to the show, please. Caleb has, oh, wait, sorry, does Flacco's performance at all change the perception of how highly Joe Burroughs should be ranked among you? Good one. I mean, here's the deal. We all kind of like grade Jalen Hertz on a negative curve because it's like, well, look at the weapons.

he has. I did a whole, I've done hours on Brock Purdy and the Avengers. When you see Joe Flacco fresh out the nursing home, start throwing for 3.20 and 32 points a game, it at least gives you a little pause about are we giving Joe cool just a touch too much credit? just a little pause. I think that's fair. I think it's very fair. Yeah. Very fair.

Ari asked, can we get one word about my five, poor banders? Yeah, I mean, listen, this has been one of the biggest positive surprises of the season. When you started the year off, one and three, getting blown out by the Jags, losing a heartbreaker to the Cardinals, getting blown out by the Patriots. It's just like, okay, it's just the same old Panthers. The 30 to nothing Falcons win was a fluke, and the Panthers are a mess. Since then, you've won four out of five, including a shocking win against the Packers, and now your big favorites against the Saints to get to six and four,

and then have a game in Atlanta that'll be the biggest panther game since Cam Newton was there. That's pretty awesome. You're tied with the cheese right now. Yes, same record as the cheese. So shout out to you guys. The people are asking if first thing's first on the air today.

Yes, definitely. And then Janus is in the chat, saying I'm the MVP. I don't know if that's the real Janus or not, but he definitely is the MVP so far this year. Holy smokes, Janus has been unbelievable. I'm the MVP. Janus is averaging 34, 13 and 7

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