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So we got you covered on ninety two five for the Nuggets and the Heat, the nine point fifty pregame at six thirty four, the Abs and the Kings, and you go from there.

Scott is in Miami with the Nuggets after I thought that lass sucked actually against Orlando.

There, Scott, I know the refs got it wrong.

According to their last two minute report.

Maurice should have been at the free throw line, and that would have given the Nuggets a chance to take lead and hopefully win.

Who knows.

But how do they get there in the first place is the big question?

You know, what are what are the Nuggets doing that they're they're they're being scattered with these leads.

Uh that the bench's bench is having to.

Play that bottom line, I think it's that simple.

Uh, here's my biggest fear is you guys remember remember the year after they won and Murray got hurt and went down for thirty games it seemed like that year and Reggie Jackson had to start.

Yeah, yeah, And I remember Chris Chris Martle tell me a story he walked down with and Reggie's playing pretty good at the beginning of that and he goes to Reggie, goes, man, how you do this?

Crainy goes, man, this this is horrible.

He goes He goes, I didn't come back here to play thirty seven minutes a game.

He said, I'm dying.

And if you remember the second half of the season, he had zero legs.

And I just hope, I just hope they don't do that too.

You know Hardaway, who's in great shape.

Man, he's a phenomenal condition.

But you know they're playing those guys.

You know they're playing guys you brought in here and play eighteen minutes.

They're you know, the Minnesota game, which I don't know if you guys talked about that game at all, but that Minnesota game, I think the least amount any starter played was forty one.

Did we talk about that game.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I mean, I mean even think about it.

I mean, you got guys in there that you you kind of hope it was gonna play eighteen minutes a game.

We're playing forty one forty two minutes, and I just I just think eventually that's gonna wear you out.

Uh.

And the one thing that that I think really was part of their success was that they did do such a good job with their bench and expanding it and making it deeper.

And I was reading the stat today out pulled up a little bit later.

But they're not up there at the top as far as games myths, you know, missed per game, or injury due to or games miss due to injury.

But if you look at starters injuries due to miss team, they're they're up there.

At the very top.

Okay, Well, and I think that's a I really really do that.

I think that's a big one.

I mean, what would you be happy with for this road trip in terms of a record over seven games?

Four and three?

I think I'd be happy with three and four?

Tyler?

What do we do?

We go?

We go heat and then what uh heat Toronto, Cleveland, Brooklyn, Philly back to back Boston home.

Yes, I mean the front end of it isn't too bad, right.

Well, you let one slip away unfortunately.

Well, but Orlando is a is a playoff team.

They are playing a different style.

They're missing with injuries right right now.

Also, uh, Toronto's rebuilding, but they're the Funny thing, the teams that you're playing the next three or four are like, put the foot on the gas pedal and let's go.

Let's see if you can stay with us.

And with a show order bench that that's worrisome.

Yeah, they see it.

Four four, Yeah, you always you always want to be positive.

Listen, you win three or four, you've had an okay road trip.

But if you and four three, anytime you're above five hundred on a road.

Trip, you got to I would be jubilation.

I'd be putting on an ugly hat and T shirt if they could win four out of seven on this road trip, which which now would.

Be I mean, what you do today?

So you already think they're gonna win today?

I don't know, man, I hope So.

You got the ugly hat and T shirt on?

Wow?

Hey, by the way, can I get some props to bow Nicks did you see what he's doing.

Man, he's uh, he's selling his ooverver no overdogs, overdogs thing.

He's selling it for charity.

Like he's got hats and t shirts.

Remember all the critical things when he was selling merch on a you know, bu ba bum.

Well, now he's selling the stuff and it's all going to charity, and I think it's going to like, uh, animal shelters or something like that mission never rescue mission.

Oh okayver rescue mission.

That's different, but but.

A little bit different.

But the point is he's doing the overdog thing, which is kind of funny.

I'm gonna go buy I'll buy an overdog march for something as long as I know it's going to something kind of cool.

You know it's going to charity.

Should You saw him with the Kurt Herb Street he didn't like dogs.

We talked about it last week, Scott.

I thought that was the greatest thing I've ever seen.

What's your take on that?

Who could be afraid of a Golden retriever?

Yeah?

But I tell you what, I was afraid of dogs for a while when I was super little, but I had a German shepherd chased my ass up over a fence and I jumped and he nipped at me and got a pair of my pants.

Afraid of dogs for a little bit, we always had dogs.

So Herbstreet ask him if he's been bitten.

He said no, he said he's never.

He said, he said they had been bit but one nip Daddy pretty good.

He thought he got freaked out when he was a kid.

You know, we found out a bunch listen, by the way, we found a shocking amount of people who have been sort of traumatized by dogs when they were younger, that are kind of afraid of dogs now, like Scott.

The text line kind of lit up with stories like that.

Our own Vick Lombardi says he's afraid of dogs and he has a dog, which the Queen of Chicken must rule that roost.

I suppose if you're afraid of the dogs, and he got one.

I was afraid of dogs forever, especially bigger dogs, until I had my first one.

Then it changed, No, no like dogs.

Yeah, well yeah, I think it's weird.

I could see somebody that just being like kind of they're not a dog person, so they're annoyed.

But Bo is like afraid, like like freaking out about it.

And everybody knows what a golden Retrieve, even bo Nicks knows what a golden Retriever is.

It's a breathing they they are, Yeah, they are about one of the most docile dogs in the world.

Yeah, but I guess last year had jumped up.

I mean there's a video of it jumping up on bow and it was playful.

I get it.

I just find dog Jay.

If you got a dog that jumps up on people, you ain't.

You ain't got that dog controlled.

Okay, Well, his old dog, his old dog that died.

He used to run that thing around without a leash on at NFL games.

That dog was under control.

This one's still a pup.

I guess all right.

We do have a fun back and forth with you.

Get to take the dog on all these world chips.

I got a little issue with that.

Talk to us keep a dog at home?

Okay, forty eight hours?

All right?

So you think herb Street's out of line having the dog with him in the first place.

Yeah, I think it's a gimmick that's run its course.

Okay.

Because I also don't like animals.

I also don't like like players doing interviews and bringing their kids up to the stand.

Okay, it's a very popular move.

It's been in the playoffs.

Yep.

I think the Herb Street with the dog thing is interesting, like it's tough to be critical of dogs and everybody loves Golden Retrievers apparently except for bow Nicks, but it is.

It is interesting, like Herb Street.

Should everybody be able to just, you know, bring their dog because a lot of people have dogs, but Herb Street gets to do that and that's his thing.

Yeah, Well, when you're on top, you're on top, man, That's the way I got.

Rules are different for those folks.

Different rules for different folks.

Huh, it would be.

I don't think the I don't I don't think the grandpa's holding the sticks on the sideline for the first down.

Markers get to bring their dogs.

They do not.

So what he flies commercial?

Does he bring it on the plane with.

He doesn't fly commercial?

Well, he probably did.

Tyler's probably right, he probably.

I mean he puts out a video every week of his dog on the private jet on.

The p y.

Yeah.

He is the king of the castle man, Herb Street's he's up there.

It is a funny point though, like should we all be able to bring dogs with us.

Sure, work would be a better place.

We all just could bring dogs to the work.

Yeah where we go?

Just you guys would love Sampson Fields.

I'm bringing Samson tomorrow.

Bringing Sampson in, Yeah cool, Bringing to the rest of the week.

Yeah, sure the hell.

I'm bringing him in in two weeks.

Got all right?

I got a little piece here, Skiff Baylist and a Keev to leave.

I think this is the ultimate argument about the Broncos.

I think this is the ultimate back and forth.

So what side do you land on?

Here's a keyban skipped.

You're gonna have the biggest letdown you've ever had in your sports watching life.

Really, I know how you feel.

But we really beat out them the whole game, really, like not even close.

We got we got three drive they have fifty seven yards passing?

Skip?

Was we really struggle?

How did you let them hang around with fifty sevens?

They got a good defense.

It's a division game, They're gonna come play their hardest.

It's the NFL.

NFL, you got about fifteen games a week.

Only by four of them is gonna be blowout.

You're playing a quarterback who doesn't belong in the.

Name you look like that if you had fifty seven yards passing, you act like we ain't dominate him.

You've won each of the last seven games by only one score, so you're not exactly streaking into the playoffs.

Last year, Kansas City went thirteen to zero in one score games during the regular season and then because they had home field advantage, which you may have, you may have it, and Kansas City got to the Super Bowl and you're Philadelphia Eagles exposed.

What was the Philadelphia Eagles record in one score games?

They was like nine to one one score games, but dominated in one score game.

Got it exposed and I look up and it's forty to six.

When you least expected it, you get exposed.

That's what's gonna happen to your team.

You're cruising for the bruising.

You're gonna have the.

Biggest letdown you've ever had in your sports watching life is gonna come in the playoffs.

Okay, fun argument.

Here are the Broncos cruising for a bruise, and like Skip said meme, they're like a paper lion that's just not real or is this just how they are?

Like they might not win, but they're not about to get blown out, and a Keep's basically saying the Keeps making the argument I kind of made like you really did kill the Chiefs except for the scoreboard when you look at everything else.

And Skip's saying, you're about to be exposed, man, and it's gonna hurt.

Is your team just ain't that good.

You're not gonna get exposed if you get the number one, So I handle your business.

It gets a Chargers team that probably isn't gonna be playing their starters anyways.

You get that number one seed, they're not good.

Exposed.

You play at home, things are gonna be different.

I do think if you went on the road, it could be a rough.

Go Skoyle, what do you think.

Yeah, I think it's gonna be rough either way.

But I'll say this to Skip.

Can City got exposed against Philadelphia in the Super Bowl.

But guess what they went there for the four time in five years.

Well, you get they had you caught.

Them at the end of their run.

This is like a team just starting to run.

You gotta believe is if this, if they could somehow keep the defense together and keep their defensive coordinator, which I don't think they will, the offense has got to get better.

You're gonna have a you know, the twenty eighth pick, twenty ninth pick, You'll get you a wide receiver.

You know, win went ahead of schedules.

Nothing.

Listen, this year is wide open.

This this is the one year a suspect offensive team could win a Super Bowl.

And Denver could be that team.

Okay, I don't know if they could go on the road and be that team.

You just watched the Lway documentary were the Broncos and the first three Super Bowls with John Elway exposed eventually in the Super.

Bowl Well, and it goes back to this and gosho do we have on?

Was it?

Zipolo said it?

That first Super Bowl they went to that was John Elway's MVP year.

I mean he put that team on his back and absolutely carried him guiantst The next couple they went to Washington Defense Washington, Yeah, and we're up ten to nothing.

They had a chance to go up seventeen to nothing, and they negated a fumble and then what did he say?

Was it thirty five straight points?

Well, that's you know, your offense not moving the ball very well.

And then the Niners gets a blowout from start to finish.

Yeah, but you still scored what twenty eight points or something that forty five twenty eight or something.

That against the Niners.

Yeah, it was fifty five.

To know, you got killed by the Niners, bro like that.

That was like I thought it was fifty eight twenty four or forty eight twenty four.

It was in the fifties.

You got killed.

But I know that I think they scored in the twenties.

That was the one game.

I thought they scored a little bit, but now it didn't matter.

No.

I thought John Elway carried those teams to it and he kind of said it and said the turnaround for them was when they got Terrell Davis unbelievable running back.

He didn't mention his names.

But you brought Alex Gibbs in, who got the perfect rules, right, Tyler.

You got the perfect rules and the perfect alignment for those rules to run what Alex Gibbs and Mike wanted to do, and they just I wish you could go back and watch all thirty two games that that ninety seven to ninety eight year and just watch how they ran the football dog Man.

That was.

That was some glorious, glorious stuff.

Do you believe the Broncos are going to be exposed in the playoffs.

No, I mean, I think that's what we were just talking about.

More or less.

I think it's the same thing.

You get.

You handle your business this week, and they're not going to get exposed because you've got a good defense that gets to play at home in the likelihood of somebody coming into this city and you might get beat maybe, but your defense isn't gonna get exposed.

I do think by the way, you get Nick Benito, you get Jonathan Cooper back at home, you get that crowd noise I expected to come back to life and look like it had for the far majority of the season.

Okay, why do you say that?

Why Because defensive players feed off of crowd noise.

Okay, all right, I'll tell you this.

The Chargers offensive line has been kind of a mess the whole year.

I mean, they have been putting it together with band aids and scotch tape there on the offensive line.

Are you talking about this week or you're talking about a playoff game?

I mean, I'm talking about this week, and I guess I'm just talking about this week.

I don't think you're gonna see the Chargers again.

I think you're about to beat the Chargers and that'll be it for the Chargers.

I think the Chargers will be the seventh seed, and I think they'll get destroyed by New England.

I think that's exactly how it's gonna go.

Listen, I just and I understand what Tyler's take a while ago.

Let's vrabel like, thanks, Drake may He's got a bigger arm and looks down the thing.

But you do know that New England played like the easiest schedule of all thirty two teams.

Sure right, I think Denver was third.

Uh, that sounds familiar.

I mean that you play who you played because of where you finished the year before.

I understand that.

But but now you you ain't playing.

You know you ain't gonna play anybody with less than eleven wins.

Probably I we'd agree with you on that.

I don't think you're gonna I don't think the Broncos are gonna run into the Steelers of the Ravens because I think whoever the five seed, which I think is gonna be the Texans, will beat the Ravens or the Steelers.

I do believe that.

I don't care.

I think the Texans are just better than both of those teams, both of them.

And we'll get into uh in about five minutes.

We're gonna get into all the games from over the weekend, so we can go into detail with that.

But yeah, and I think the I think that Bill's New England game will be really interesting if it goes how it should go this weekend, that that would be the matchup.

We'll see, we'll see on that.

And then you got the giantar.

There's me is if if you've got to beat a team twenty twenty or thirty twenty seven, who can't you put?

Can you put thirty on the board?

Well, it could be could be the Patriots, could be it could be Jacksonville, it could be New England, could be San Diego.

Maybe who knows?

Can can you put at least in Lord thirty points?

Well then you'd have to look at their defenses.

How's the Jacksonville defense?

How's the I don't think you're gonna have to know.

What did Jacksonville's defense hold you to?

Last week?

You know, I mean I think you can what was the score against the Packers's twenty seventh?

Like that?

Like that?

Not not quite thirty points.

Packers in the playoffs.

The Packers are in the playoffs, I think.

Are they are?

They?

Are?

They?

Are?

They?

I think they are?

Yeah, they're They're in.

They're in.

They're clinched.

Yeah they're They're clinched and they're clinch and they're the seventh seat.

Why you and Sanuay?

The Packers aren't good?

I don't think.

Maybe it was good as you thought.

Yeah, I mean they didn't look great this weekend.

I'll give you that.

Yeah, the shine is off the bloom a little bit there with them.

But I just worry about I worry about their offense more than their defense, and I know Tyler's had more concerns the last two or three weeks.

With their defense.

I think, as long as you can keep Sean Payton out of the defense you play calling, you'll be fine.

Are the Broncos you know, like, are your cruising for a bruising?

I don't think so.

But I understand why that's a national narrative about the Broncos, like they're just wait and see.

You know you've you've been getting by by the skin of your teeth, and it's it's coming for you.

But that I mean, it's just as Denver left points on the board almost in all those one score games.

Would you not say that Denver's left points all over the field, no doubt about it.

We certainly left points on the field this weekend.

No doubt about it, right, no doubt about it.

That's where you know, if they listen, I got Bo.

Bo played an entire game, four quarters of bad football, the last two quarters of Jacksonville, in the first two against Kansas City and then the second half last week.

I thought he looked pretty good against Kansas City, but the first half he was.

And again and it goes back with Tyler said in training camp and then set again in the first two or three weeks he started getting those happy feet again.

If Bo can stay away from from dancing in the rain, if we can just keep him out of doing the seeing and in the rain just seeing, if we can keep him away from that, there ain't no reason they can't go to the Super Bowl.

Well, let's get see what happened this weekend and how that sets up for the Broncos or NFL.

We can recap comes up next.

Let's go over the games and see how things shake out in terms of how it relates to the Broncos.

We start with the Patriots being the crap out of the Jets.

May inside, HiT's digs, h's a touchdown and that catch he's worth five hundred thousand bucks too.

We got a lot of incentives being bad off one way or the other.

But Drake May was unbelievable.

So were the Patriots.

Nineteen to twenty one for two fifty six.

Basically a perfect game from Drake May with five touchdowns and you could sit on the sidelines and just watch Josh Dobbs finish it up.

Okay, is this how good the Patriots are or how bad the Jets are?

Well, we watched the Jags do the same thing to the Jets a couple of weeks ago, right, we watched Trevor Lawrence have the greatest quarterback game of all time.

It gets Jets through five touchdowns, ran for one as well.

It's both things can be true.

The Jags were a good team and the Patriots a good team, and the Jets suck.

Scott Jets stink And are they going to get the first or second pick somewhere in there?

Right?

They're tired with their third?

Yeah, I mean I think the Raiders got that on lockdown right now.

Yeah, it'll be Yeah, they just stink.

I mean they're right there.

I mean the Giants are three and thirteen, Cardinals are three and thirteen in the Jets, I mean they're all they all suck.

We'll get to the raiders of the Giants in a second.

All right, let's move on to the next game, and that's the Texans.

I mean, you know, it was a boring game, but they took care of business against the Chargers.

Stroud trying to get it through the air, He goes.

Deep for Higgins, caught.

Higgins, touchdown, Texan seventy five yards.

All right, what do we learn about the Chargers in this game?

Boys, Well, they got they got offensive line issues.

Justin Herbert still banged up.

Herbert is like he might be the greatest, like could have been quarterback of all time, but you really might not ever be anything.

Yeah, I agree.

I don't know what to say, Like I'd take Herbert and a heartbeat if I needed a quarterback.

But man, he does find a way to just be Okay, would you need him to be at his best?

Scott?

Yeah, but they got a crap offensive line and what did they get to him?

Four or five times in that game, five times five sacks, But.

Do you see the two or three times he escaped and made place?

I mean, dude, if they get an offensive line, I think the Chargers could be scary.

I think a lot of I think it's remarkable what Harbaugh has done with the same period.

I'm really not afraid of the Chargers guys at this time, this week period.

I don't care if Herbert's playing or not.

I don't care if they're going full tilled.

I mean, I think the Broncos are seven and a half point favorite.

I don't know if that's Vegas telling us they think that Harbaugh is gonna rest Herbert.

Oh, it's definitely Vegas telling you that the line wouldn't look like that if Herbert and the starters are playing.

There's no way I like the Broncos over the Chargers one way or the other.

So I don't I don't even I don't even even matters.

I think the Broncos will take care of business.

We always seem to struggle against the Chargers, though always.

This one feels different.

I don't know.

I think if you're for real, then what you're saying is completely right, Darren.

If there's cause for concern.

It'll be it'll be iffy.

By the way, as as terrible and as quirky as those short weeks are.

Man, the upside of these, like many bye weeks.

If you can, if you can win, if you can get through, it's pretty awesome.

Like, doesn't it feel like a long time since the Broncos have played at this point?

As a player, does it feel like that too?

Like, Man, this is a nice little break here.

Yeah, the Thursday night games, it's a love hate situation.

You hate it when you're playing in it, but the second it's over, you love the long weekend.

We move on to uh.

Then if you can win this week, then you have another long buye and and you've got a chance to be going into the playoffs as healthy as you've been since Week four.

Pretty damn good, no doubt about it.

Okay, the Jags, it was a close game, hey, Philip Rivers gave it a shot.

It was a good competitive game against the Jaguars.

Hi the last couple of weeks, first and goal for the Jags quarterback truck second time today seems first Jacksonville.

Game was a lot closer than I thought it was gonna be Yeah.

I actually didn't think the Jags looked particularly great in this game.

The Cult turned out a very good football team.

They really took it down to the wire.

Trevor Lawrence said, to have another good game, you know through two sexty three and one touchdown.

But that game should have been a blowout from the Jags.

What the biggest thing now is what's the message on Philip Rivers?

I mean, is he is there a Disney movie coming somewhere down the line.

It was a cool moment.

I mean, he brought up the three losses, he brought his Yeah, he brought his high school team out there, which was kind of neat that all the kids were at the game, which is pretty cool.

It's I will say this.

I think it's more a tell on the current quarterback play than as anything else.

The fact that Philip Rivers could come in and look like that he did all right, that these quarterbacks aren't built the same, although there are some quarterbacks like Mac Jones.

My gosh, like that dude, if you didn't miss half the year, that guy would be an MVP.

Conversation.

Do you think Philip Rivers plays in the meaningless final Colts game or do the Colts.

Like sounds like they've already made their mind up that he's not going.

To okay, which makes sense, right, Like, it would be.

Cool if they let him out there to start run one play and then substituting him right there and just let the whole crowd give him a standing ovation.

That would be cool.

Do they keep him on the team.

No, they cut him right he's done.

Yeah, well you mean before the game.

Yeah, no, they don't cut him.

He goes in the game as the backup you have.

You know you don't do that, Philip.

I mean you absolutely keep mind.

Just keep them to hang out and just sort of be there.

Yeah, last game of the year, but you start Riley Leonard and Philip Rivers as your backup quarterback.

Okay, they ain't, no clar he may still get in a piece of backup.

I don't know why he'd be on the team at all, aside from being sentence y.

Yeah, yeah, if nothing more.

You keep him on there for respect, absolutely, because he came out.

Listen.

They may have lost those three games, but you're gonna hang those three losses.

I thought he was phenomenal too.

So listen, if if if you were to cut him.

If you were to cut him and just to go all things that, then you are a low class franchise and I hope nothing good ever happens to the Colts.

I agree.

We move on to Orchard Park, New York, where the Eagles and some inclement conditions got over by one on the Bills.

All look at it from complete, don't see a flag?

He egles gonna hold on.

Do you like the decision to go for Tim.

I do, because you sucked.

I mean, you were terrible the entire football game.

By the way, the afternoon slot also sucked.

Yesterday.

You only had two games going on.

You had a bad Bills game, and then you had the Giants versus the Raiders, so there weren't a whole lot of options of what to watch.

I watched every single second of the Bills game.

I kept waiting for them to make it interesting.

I guess at the end of the day, with five minutes left, it got interesting and it was pretty fun to watch the last few minutes.

But they had no choice but to go for two because they knew that they couldn't go win in overtime.

Scott, Yeah, I'm with him, and tell me what TWN to stay a while ago.

They had fifty five minutes of no offense or fifty four minutes of no offense, couldn't get a first down, and then you finally get a touchdown late to pull within one.

I'm with them, I go for two and if he makes a better throw, it's they win the game.

And you're sitting there going, oh my gosh.

Really all right, we move on to a really fascinating game.

I don't think they're going to put it in the Hall of Fame or anything, but the Steelers losing in Cleveland back in an eight this bash.

To fan in he caught it any wrongs untouched Harold Fannin junior with his seventy first.

Catch of the year.

So Shader Sanders gets a win seventeen to twenty three for a buck eighty six, a touchdown, two interceptions, the second one I mean awful, a QBR out of one hundred of thirty seven point three, a quarterback rating of seventy five point six.

But meanwhile, let me introduce you to Aaron Rodgers legend with a QBR of nineteen point six and really a whole lot of nothing from Aaron Rodgers.

But what did you do with the game on the line.

Hit with the game on the line, and you got a two minute drill and you backed up that dude.

He went the length of the field.

I mean it was two good passes.

Pat Firemouth was the big one that got that thing started.

They had zero timeouts.

Also, there was like a minute forty three.

He had to go the length of the field, zero timeouts, got to like the five yard line with forty seconds to spare, and they just coult him punch it in.

Okay, what does this game say then about the Steelers Shadeur and in the future for Aaron Rodgers, I guess and Mike Tomlin.

Well, I mean they're all short lived, if that's what you're asking.

All of them, all of them Shadur short lived.

Well, has definitely not done anything to say that I'm the future quarterback.

Didn't do it in this game by getting the win.

You know what.

He hasn't done anything Maybe to say I'm the starter depends on what they're able to do in the draft.

He's at least say you better let him compete legitimately compete for next year.

Uh.

And I think what else he said?

Although big thing with Shadur is the baggage, right, everything and baby and bangman do you want to But he could play fifteen years a backup quarter make him quarterback, make five six million dollars a year and be fine.

You know, he definitely is not a gad.

Maybe get the sand France or someplace that that refurbishes quarterbacks and all of a sudden you can get a Sam Darnold contract.

There are moments when looks really good actually, and then there's moments when he you know, has his dad put his cowboy hat over his head because he's throwing a dumb interception.

There's those moments too.

I think he would be, at the end of the day a very frustrating quarterback to be your lead guy there in Cleveland.

I'll tell you this, Yeah, if you were drafted higher, his performance would have been enough that you would want to see it through.

Yeah, But because he's a sixth rounder, he didn't do enough to wow you to be like, yeah, we're not gonna draft a QB.

I thought, listen, he's got an arm, he's got good enough.

He's good enough.

He keep plays alive.

I like some of the stuff he really does.

And then he and then he looks like a rookie quarterback that still struggles to read defenses properly.

Yeah, but if we're being honest, like, it's not like cam mood the number one overall pick, has looked that great this year.

Of course, he is not the best quarterback the bunch has been.

Tyler Shuck all right, Yes, he's actually been good man.

Last one to go through Niners and the Bears.

He's checking motion, still purty, with a clean pocket.

It's complete.

It's John Jennings to the pylon touchdown.

The Niners take the blame.

Would I be crazy to say I think the Niners are going to play in Santa Clara at a home game in the Super Bowl.

No, God, no, that's not an insane take at all.

Because that's how I think it's gonna shake out.

Mac Jones.

I mean, you had the take of Trevor Lawrence a wild ago, Like if you just took right now, Mac Jones is playing as good a quarterback as anybody in the NFL.

It's actually stupid what Mac Jones has been doing.

I really like the Bears as well.

By the way, in the future with Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams, it looks fantastic.

Caleb made some stupid, crazy plays in that game, as did mac Jones.

Are you saying you mean Brock Party?

What did I say, mac Jones?

I'm sorry, Yes, of course, yes, of course I meant to say Brock Party.

Sorry.

Okay, yeah, Brock I've heard he has been playing absolutely fantastic.

So you know, listen, NFC is still out for grabs and the Eagles are looking better at the right time.

But I could see that happening.

Uh.

I thought that was the game to determine who's who's gonna win Coach.

Of the Year.

Hmm, Okay, you know all right.

And I don't know if anybody will appreciate it, but to me, with the turmoil that San Francisco has gone through, for them to be where they are right now, I think is absolutely phenomenal.

It's a great division.

And Tyler's right, did brob pretty till five again this week?

How many touchdowns you get this week?

Let's see here, Brock Prudy twenty four of thirty three, three over three, three touchdowns and a pick, only sacked.

Ones had a rushing touchdown too, and a rushing touchdown as well.

Yes, in the week before, actually so two weeks in a row, he's gotten them ten touchdowns correct, either either by passing or by He's.

Been crazy good God correct, like worth every last dime that he got paid good.

I think they're gonna get to the super Bowl.

I think they're gonna well, it'll be a fascinating game.

Well Saturday night.

Let's see what happens with Trent Williams.

Uh that that's gonna be huge factor as well.

They need him to be healthy.

Well a way, Hey, we're gonna have one hell of a matchup Saturday night with them hosting Seattle.

And then I saw.

A stat over the weekend that Sam Darnold is only the second quarterback to have back to back thirteen win seasons.

The other one is Tom Brady.

It's crazy, all right, good stuff, No dumb questions.

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Al Right, I want to use this sound from Bill Kowar and the start off.

No dumb questions with whether you agree or disagree with Bill Kyleer saying this.

Denver, it's going against the LA Chargers.

Right, Chargers can't win the division.

They know they're playing the following week.

The question I asked for Jim Harball, how do you approach this game?

How would you personally?

I would look at this as almost like a bye week.

Yeah, I can't improve my seating.

I can't go get I'm not playing next week, no matter what.

I need my guys as healthy as parts.

You're saying Justin Herbert would not be on that field.

Yeah, I can't afford to look two.

Or three of your stars might not play anybody.

It's called any kind of nick Right now.

I need you healthy for the following week because this week is It doesn't mean it's essentially using two weeks to heal up.

All right, no dumb question.

Do you agree with Kyler on that or not?

Would you rest Justin Herbert because you got bigger things to play for?

Yeah, yeah, I definitely would.

You Gotta look at it like does does a win?

Does the seeding really even matter to you?

Does it matter that much where you go on the road.

Either way, you got to play before you get to the broncos of the Patriots got to win a game, and the best way to do that is to have your guys healthy.

I'm looking at my quarterback like I'm scared.

I'm a little bit nervous right now.

My only chance in the playoffs is keeping this dude healthy, and we're getting him banged up.

He's already hurt, he's gotten injury, he's playing through that.

We got to banged up offensive line.

I'm resting my guys because I don't really care where I gotta go.

I just know I gotta win a game in the playoffs, and you gotta win.

A game on the road.

Yeah, I will say this.

I just thought about this.

There's also mental risk is if you if you go in said we're gonna go in and win this game and don't and you know, forget about the injuries and everything else.

But then all of a sudden you go in with the legit loss going in the postseason, that could miss you up psychologically.

Whereas if you think this as.

A big buye you know, and Denver wins or you know, say you even kind of keep it semi closed, which Denver's good at doing.

You go, see, boys were all right, we all right, and we didn't even give them nothing.

They couldn't handle us.

It's kind of interesing you go out there with your starters and lose the game.

You might go, wait a minute, we thought these guys are gonna be cupcakes.

Also true, that's a good point.

And another angle is if you are going to play the Broncos in a couple of weeks either way, do you really want to go out there and then show them your game plan?

Probably not.

I don't think that's very smart.

I see where Hey man, I I kind of lean in that way.

All right, let me just go no dumb questions.

Do you lose your team if you're Jim Harbaugh though, if you don't fight for this win, No, the team won't care.

No, you definitely don't lose your team.

They would get it, they'd understand for sure.

All right.

How about the opposite then.

And the starters would actually be grateful, would they really?

Yeah?

How many starters could you rest?

By the way, like, how you get away with it?

I mean you gotta play somebody.

Well, you can rest your stars, that's for sure, just the stars.

So who are the who are the stars on the Chargers?

Man?

Like?

Is Khalil Mack still a star?

I don't even know.

He's old, so he's in that category.

Allen, you're you're because he's old.

I'm probably sitting down justin Herbert.

Okay, so we've got four so far, right, yeah, four, probably sitting on Marion Hampton even though he's a rookie.

It's just too important.

Offensive line's got to play.

Although McKay beck that I thought was banged up, so maybe not.

So you sit him because he is kind of you know, you've had issues there.

Yeah, and then that's just on offense.

So that's like five guys right there.

Yeah, you can do it, right, you could uh Derwin James probably need him, maybe take he gets a day.

Off, definitely, right, Yeah, you can.

You can do it.

You can figure it out and everybody else goes it's probably and then you lose what you who's thirty to three or whatever?

You get killed, you know you're gonna get Even the Broncos would figure out how to destroy you.

They would come on.

I mean, you know Sean's gonna go balls to the wall on this.

He's going all out.

They're not.

They view this as a playoff game and the reward is a bye week.

It's like a playoff game with no negative consequences at the end.

The Broncos aren't resting anybody.

I think ideally for the Broncos, Scott, you do what the Patriots did.

You roll up a big number in the first half, and then everybody, you know, take your helmets off, boys, and we can just sort of cruise into the finish line.

Yeah, I think you know what.

Here's and Tyler maybe help me on this one.

If there is a viable chance that they were to rest guys for this game, before you make that final decision, do you not find toothcomb over every single play because you're probably gonna go to New England or you might get a chance to go to New England.

Do you go over every single game they play and say, hey, can we beat these guys full strength?

Where's our best chance to take care of this this week and come back here.

I don't think you worry about it, I really don't.

I think you just got to get your best squad out there as healthy as you possibly can.

Have you ever played in a game when the other team was just not quitting, but more or less laying down to protect themselves.

Have you ever played in a game like that?

Oh, I'm sure I have.

I don't know.

Nothing's popping up to the top of my head, but.

It's gotta be just a weird sort of deal.

Yeah.

By the way, Broncos going throwbacks final time this year with the old stuff, which was always the plan.

They were all you get to wear them three times.

I got no dub.

Question for Scott.

Scott, is one of the benefits of your two week road trip that you don't have to do any holiday decoration clean up?

Or are they going to be sitting there waiting for you?

Uh No, I was told that they did a bunch yesterday.

I guess last nice day or something.

Dude, I'm happy for you.

That's a nice little plus about being on the right.

Huh Hey, listen, that ain't my thing anyway.

Does the warning go as all out for Christmas so she does for Halloween?

Yes, although we won we won first place in the neighborhood for Halloween, we got second for Christmas.

Oh wow, that's pretty good.

Showing though, was that I mean accumulative though, I mean that's got to be accumulative.

Right.

The second second is the highest, uh, she's ever gotten for Christmas.

Listen, I can't park a car in the garage because it's stuff with decorations.

What who is the winner in your neighborhood?

Is this a approachable It was really good.

It was right down, It wasn't too far, about a half a mile away or so.

Did you know you were did you know you were beat from the from the jumper?

Well, we were told by the judges they had kids and adults.

Every single kid voted for us, but the adults all voted for the other house or the other.

Oh that means you guys had more blow ups, right, yeah, yeah we had.

If the kids liked it, you had the blow ups.

What did what did the adels appreciate more?

Oh?

I don't candy cane land, I don't know, I don't, I don't.

You know, lots of twinkly lights, I guess twinkly lights, twinkly lights and stuff like that.

So you had him on the blow ups, but you didn't have him on the twinkly lights.

We we had we had a giant snowman.

We had a frosty snowman.

We had a Sanda coming out of the house.

We had oh yeah, we had uh yeah, we probably had twelve blow ups.

Did you guys have you seen that show?

That documentary about the dude who's a lawyer and was having so many decorations.

He was having people from all over the town come and his.

Age people coming from around the country.

You know that story right?

Well, I read it because they ended up showing his h away.

Yes, it's it's I think it's on Netflix.

I believe it's a heck of a documentary, man, about what this guy has.

He calls himself the Christmas Lawyer, and he's made this a little cottage industry about suing ho ways around the country that's trying to stop people from having like Christmas celebrations.

His was unbelievable though he had guys.

He had tour buses.

Tour buses.

Keep tour buses.

What's a tour?

Oh boy?

He had buses bringing people.

Tour buses.

Thank you whatever Scott just said.

So you're making fun of me about saying something that I don't hear how I'm saying it wrong.

You don't know how you're saying it, rug.

No, he had buses.

He had buses come in with people.

Had he ran in a place offsite so that it wouldn't congest the neighborhood.

He was being considered the neighbors and then he brought buses, would pick these people up, drop them over, they could walk through all the displays and drop them back to their car.

Yeah, well he did have buses rolling through this neighborhood with people.

I mean, I don't know, man, I kind of I can kind of see it on both sides.

Like, you know, he was only running it for two hours a night for ten days, but there can you imagine just buses of people rolling through your neighborhood.

Is he paying for the buses?

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.

He paid for everything.

Yeah yeah, he paid for everything.

But like that might be a little rough to live next to.

Every single Christmas it was.

Like it was like seven or eight hundred thousand lights hold on.

But he hasn't found a way to monetize this.

No, I don't.

Think No, I don't.

I think it was just all in the spirit of the season and everything.

He just liked.

Dude, he did shut up donation boxes, but it wasn't for him.

They gave it all to a local charity.

Yeah, he was bringing in like camels and like living activity scenes and I mean it was something, but it's one of those really like what side of the coiner are you on?

I search?

I think the Christmas Lawyer.

I believe it's on Netflix.

It's a hell of a I mean he took it to an extreme, man.

I mean, there was like a big it's a hell of it.

It's a hell of a thing.

It's it's it was one of the more interesting documentaries I've ever watched.

But yeah, well look it up.

Busses s guy, busses of people, busses of people.

Well, what's what's the guy in Detroit?

They down that started dominoes.

We went and did the tour up at his place and that that was about the heck of a show I've ever seen.

You had whole lanes and cars.

I mean it was like literally it was like building they will come.

That just like a billionaire though, right, Like I mean, you know this is this guy just lives in a nice neighborhood.

But it's just like a neighborhood.

It's not even like a gated community or anything.

Anyways, we'll take a break, come back with a big question of the day coming up next