Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Kyle Brandt and Akbar Gbajabiamila sharing their Super Bowl picks! Peter takes us through players who have scored the first TD of the season and then everybody predicts which player will score the first TD this season. Ross Tucker from DraftKings joins the show and explains why he believes the Chiefs have a legit shot to win their 3rd straight Super Bowl, he discusses why the Arizona Cardinals have a legitimate chance to beat the Buffalo Bills, and then he shares a team that could be this years Houston Texans.
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Kyle, this is NBC. This hit, This hits different.
It's like a crossover episode, you know, Peter, like when.
A SVU teams up with Chicago.
Fire like Tarrico or Snoopid is gonna come tap me on the shoulder in a second.
We're a talk Olympics.
I love.
I might getting my Ninja Warriors.
This is for this.
This is the guy. This is Good Morning Football.
We are live in Los Angeles again. We were live yesterday on Good Morning Football. We were live last night in LA and jim we are back again.
Jimmy hear at all. This is Awkwar a bunch of Babila Peter.
Strager, Kyle Brant, that was a lovely time we had last night.
NBC.
Thank you for having us over to your house on Peacock Street. Peter, what a prideful moment for this show.
So cool.
We were on prime time on NBC and Peacock We got to work with Maria Taylor and Jason Garrett and of course, Devin mccorty and Tony Dungee and Harrison and Jack Condred.
Was so cool to be there and we finished.
For like one hour. That's all they got, like we're ready.
We do four hours every day, like we're good.
So it was really cool. And guess what we're here.
Yeah, I looked it up that between the two days, the Surgeon General recommends we're supposed to do nine hours of TV in a one day period at all different hours of the Surgeon General.
Yeah, they say you should do that. It's good for the heart. But when I saw that.
Shot of so far behind us, it's a beautiful, big time shot. I remember when we used to do Good Morning Football and behind me was like a row of plastic bagels and that was our shots.
It's a glow up, as they say. It was really really fun, that's it.
That was fun just to be in that space, that stadium, to see that, you just felt the atmosphere of football. And then we were out on the field as well. It was pretty cool to be out there just touching the turf again, being in the stadium.
I do miss the stadium.
I felt like I could hear the slow hum of the game that will be played there on something and that's where we bring it this morning.
Peter, you look nice in your jacket. Kyle. We're in a zip up hoodie.
Why is this well, Jamie, I know you know the answer. But for the audience, it's prediction week. We've been doing it all week. We've given you playoff teams, we give you MVPs Defensive Player of the Year.
Today is it?
We have football tonight, there's a real game, and so on the last day of the aufution, just today, all of us will predict our super Bowl winner. I'm wearing the hoodie because underneath this hoodie is the jersey of my Super Bowl winner.
And I think we're doing it like now, aren't we.
So yeah, that's it.
So Kyle, if you're betting lead off, I'm leave akbar.
You're gonna go next.
Peter and I will disclose our matchups and team selections in the beginning of the next hour.
And Peter, you've got history here with the second.
Jamie, there is a burden that I have a awk bar.
I'm not sure aware of this.
I've had the last three Super Bowl picks the last three years absolutely correct. In the last six years, I have had at least the exact matchup or one of the two super Bowl contenders. Everywhere I go in public, it's who's win in super Bowl? Who's going in super Bowl?
I will move markets today.
I mean this, I will move markets in the city beneath us down there in Nevada. I know will that will be the next hour?
Oka, wait, hold on, I'm sorry, time out. You've predicted the.
Last three and the exact matchup, So let's just get to that later.
Headed down to Vegas with me actually do thorough training to not do that.
Oh no, no, no, no no, I'll talk about even though they're playing here, but I will talk to Usually Peter is very modest about his accomplies with the step Today.
I just tweeted, as you were talking, Peter Straker's super Bowl predictions are the best in the industry.
Not close.
Today he reveals who will win it all? But Peter say him for the grand finale. Yes, I'm betting lead off. I'm going right, let's go on right now. But you know, I actually it's funny we brought up Peter because even before I got up, we've been doing this since twenty sixteen. We picked the playoff teams, and it pretty much goes the same way every time. Peter decided this year to be the student who gets extra credit, unbeknownst to the rest of the class, and instead of just announcing his playoff teams, he announced all the seedings.
This is the one. See, this is the visays. So I'm gonna fight. I'm gonna do extra credit.
You know what I'm gonna do right now, my friends that come over to the stairs, I'm not only gonna give you who's gonna win the Super Bowl. I'm gonna give you who's going to win every playoff game leading.
To the super Bowl. I got them all.
Let's go take notes.
It's time to knock Peter off his chair. I think I can do this.
So we gave the playoff teams earlier in the week, right, NFC AFC, Why don't we start with.
My NFC Wild Car Round. Here comes, folks.
This is how it's gonna look according to my playoff teams, and this is the wildcard round. Yes, I have the Cardinals in their NFC West partner at the Rams, Bears Cowboys is an awesome playoff game.
I'm totally into it.
And then Falcons forty nine ers. This is Shanahan. That's his old team, twenty eight to three.
Jokes on and no, no on, that's NFC wildcard round.
What about that divisional round? Who's gonna win these? You don't see the one seed here? They come in off the by divisional round? Bringing up NFC Divisional round. Look at down in the NFC North going to Detroit, Detroit hosting the game. Is this any good? We're gonna do this again?
Peter? What is this? Part? Nine? Thinks I've did stadium? It's so fine in that stadium. It's right there, Niners rams that's the divisional round.
Would you like to see what the NFC Championship game is gonna be?
Come on, I'll show you. I have it right here.
Bam. Oh my, let's do it again.
Golf and McVeigh and Stafford at al in Detroit the.
NFC t title game? Is that good?
Is that good?
I'll give you good.
Would you like to see who's going to win the NFC who's going to be waiting to play that Super Bowl against the anti champ.
They made it? Oh my goodness.
And if you think that's good, imagine Detroit just sitting there me.
And we're going to the super Bowl.
Who do we play?
Great question, Detroit, great question.
Let's go to the AFC Wildcard round. I've given you all the answers, not just so. Here we go Steelers Texans. Incredible game. I love this, Harbaugh versus Harbaugh. Yes there's Rava. Oh that's good.
Then we got it first time since the Super Bowl. That's a couple of buddies down here.
They always seem to be playing each other.
Dolphins, Bells. That's a wildcard round.
But who's in the divish? Who's winning these games? I don't see a Chif Slugo up there. Who are they playing in the division round?
Bring it up?
Come on?
Is this a good game at all?
Is this this is a runback one of Josh Allen's earlier playoff games against the Deshaun wat Stephan.
Diggs ball, right, let's go Steph back to Buffalo?
This any good? Is this any good? Chargers? Chiefs hardball?
Read it's on and Peter, Yes, So if I'm Diggs back to Western New York?
Should we go to the AFC title game? Let's go to Is it any good?
We're doing it? We are doing it?
Bills, Chiefs arrowhead.
Here we go. Who's gonna win this thing.
I'll tell you who's gonna win this thing. I'll tell you the score. It's gonna be.
These guys are gonna be up and the final play and they're gonna win, and they're gonna win twenty four to twenty three. Harrison Bucklan is gonna miss a fifty five yard.
Field goal to the far right, and the Bills are going to the super Bowl.
My gosh, to the far Rials.
Lions build.
Ok, guys, just drink this sin for a sec. Let's just sit down.
One of these teams winning, it's a guarantee.
There are no ties in the super Bowl.
Detroit or Buffalo is going to win. No, no, no, go back to Troit and Buffalo is going to win a super Bowl. But I know who it's going to be. One of these teams. It's gonna understand. They're gonna comprehend that you only get one shot. Do not miss your chance to blow because opportunity comes once in a lifetime. You're super Bowl fifty nine champion.
The Detroit wise Troit put them up. That's the damn man. That is a super Bowl champ. Western New York I love you. You will have your day.
But this is the Lions year and can you imagine this red faced, vascular sob and a parade in February Lions super Bowl?
Dann Man, We're up to.
That. O wo whoa.
I don't have the script.
I write the script to saying.
To you, all right, what time's two in the morning right now?
Oh am?
I Bill's Lions super Bowl?
Guys, what a treat?
What an incredible thing, because you're guaranteed that there's going to be history.
Neither one of those franchises have ever won.
Its credible.
Bill's been to four, Detroit has been to zero. Can you imagine New Orleans and the streets Bourbon Street if it's Detroit fans and Buffalo fans for a full week leading up to that game.
Completely here for two of the most deserving fan bases. They've been through hell and back.
They climbed through five hundred yards of bandy do frame crap. They've made it out and one of them will be standing and then one.
Of them will be devastated. I have the Lions winning the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
We had to make a specific request.
Did you intentionally go with the black jersey for Am Brown.
Talk to us.
There's a deep cut Metallica reference to Black End and Dan Campbell and off the Injustice for all, and this will be justice for the Lions after all of these years. I do believe Buffalo win a Super Bowl in this era.
I do believe the Lions will win it this year.
I really, I really just felt like a mom with the first day of school. It took a great picture of you sitting there, sitting there on the set.
I was worried about you take that right?
I take that The Bills Lions logan, It's just two beautiful things. Listen, if it's a disappointing season for Buffalo beating the Chiefs in the title game and losing in the Super Bowl, disappointing season, then you should cry about it.
Great.
See how about those Lions.
Though, let's go.
I gotta say it. I'm gonna go off script here. I had written all this script. I realized, yeah, I gotta tear it up. I didn't realize that we had to have both teams in it.
You know, you inspire who do you want?
Okbar right?
You know there's there's a.
Lot of rules around here, but just go ahead. And just do it. We're gonna rote with it, all right. So I actually love your take on this.
And so when you.
Think about a coach, you think about a team, you think about a leader. You need somebody who's going to be powerful. I'm gonna go straight into the NFC. The NFC, this is a team that a lot of people have been hating on and they go, oh yeah, yeah, they have the momentum. But when you have a coach give me as you guys are working on it, I'm gonna go doing push ups right here.
But when you have a.
Coach to meet in like Dan cambell, I'm just gonna keep going until you get me Detroit Lions knock him out.
I've got the Detroit Lions going to the super Bowl. I absolutely love it. You guys are gonna make me do one hundred.
We're gonna be there a lot of time money doing the name of God. I cannot do this many what's up?
We go there.
We got out the Detroit going to the super Bowl.
In the NFC, now the AFC.
There's been a lot of conversation about some different teams.
Kyle.
You talked about the Buffalo Bill. Yeah, all right, that's cool. The Houston Texans. You guys know how much I love the Houston Texans. I talked about the Cleveland Browns, but they're kind of still on the way going. We'll see how they do against Dak Prescott in week one. But I want to come to this point.
Movies.
We all heard here that the sequels aren't really the thing.
Sure, I disagree.
You ever watch a good trilogy?
Yeah, yeah, sure, Star Wars present to you Star Wars.
The very first Star Wars was a new hope, and a.
New hope gives everybody like, yeah, you get excited about it, yeah, and then you see everything that happens, and you go, now, how the.
Heck can they redo this?
Huh?
They come back with what Kyle?
The Empire strikes back? At such five?
Empire strikes back, and sure enough, they strike back. I think you're starting to get the feel of where I'm going with this one right the third one Star Wars, what was that one? Return of the Jedi? You are following me? You do know where I'm going with this. Ladies and gentlemen, get your popcorn ready, because none other than the Kansas.
City Chiefs who are gonna be I'm going, I don't need a shirt. I'm going Chris Jones dominating little defense.
I've got the Kansas City.
Chiefs beating the Detroit Lions in the super Bowl. There it is number ninety five. You thought I was gonna wear an offensive player jersey, but I decided to go.
Oh, here we go.
It was right here, reds here, it is right here.
This is the super Bowl. How did you tear this thing off? You tore it right down the middle of that one over there.
Well, this is mine.
It's somewhere else your laundry.
This doesn't catch, it's not ripped. Yeah, look at that thing. All right? But in the stone, call Jones.
Here we go.
This is super Bowl right here, and I'm gonna show you how it's done right here.
All right, you ready, what are we doing? All right? What doing?
Sign a waiver?
First? I've been around the block a few times on that one.
Chiefs the trilogy.
But that's it, the trilogy right there. I keep you that term, the trilogy. I hope that it sticks.
I think it's gonna it's nice, feels right.
That was very first of all, So many impressive things about would just happen there. How many push ups did you do and how are you able to continue speaking after? Because I do five and I have to lay down and not talk to anybody.
Well, first off, Grillad probably did that to me on purpose, was like, give it to me.
I can't do this hovering.
Grilla's response was an email last night when I saved.
That's a lot of push ups.
Ye, it's great.
And the Chris Jones Jersey looks good.
Yeah, you know he dominated, and you know just I mean, this is the number two defense. Last year they struggle against the run. But I will tell you that when you look at the offensive firepower that they've added to this team, I love, love what they're gonna do.
I really do believe.
In the repeat.
I know it feels cliche to see it, but come on, the three peak give it to.
Give it to him. All right, let's say, gander what we have so far.
We are half way.
You got a gander the zip Kyle, like he said, he tried to go to the head of the class Peter Peter dropped his playoff seating the other day. Kyle said, I see you. I go full blown march Man is bracketology on you.
I have a Chargers Chiefs playoff game. I got. I love that digs going back to beat like Texans in Western New York. All kinds of fun.
We'll get so good and off far.
Yeah, there it is Kansas City Chiefs Dehort Lions. I already had if you remember, earlier in the week, I said, who's going to be the MVP? Therefee? Jared Jared, both of the Lions Master team.
That's pretty wild.
Yeah, So I would love to know from Lions fans, are you comfortable looking at that logo on September fifth?
Are you good feeling that or is this scaring you?
Like, wait a second, that's a little too much.
And don't feel that way, Lions fans, that your cower.
Now that's been eth you. We've had a couple of warm up years here. It's time to be a big boy.
Okay, absolutely, all right, Let's go to South Halo, shall we ye? From what we are anticipating as a player as a Super Bowl matchup in New Orleans to Brazil, which is where the second game of this regular season will kick off. The Eagles and the Packers face off tomorrow night. Jane Slater has been there joining us.
Now, Jane, what is the story today in Brazil.
I know you've been making sure you are of your ten toes down and all the sites, sound and culture, but now you're inside the stadium.
Yes, we're finally giving you a first look inside Corinthian Stadium.
Jamie, good morning.
We are going to see the Eagles and the trackers here are doing their final walkthrough and their media availability, and they'll get themselves ready ahead of that nine to fifteen kick on Friday. The goal this week keep this thing as normal as possible. In other words, they wanted to make this feel like a.
True away game.
So as much as we're excited about this historic matchup here in South Pallo, it still is a week one matchup. I'm sure the Eagles fans are anxious to finally see what this Eagles defense is going to do. When they added defensive coordinator Vic Fangio. As you guys will remember that Eagles defense struggled last year a bottom three scoring.
Pass and red zone one.
Head coach Nick Sirianny's staff were determined to make changes and that showed not only with the hiring a Fangio, but remember the draft. The first two picks the corner Quinya Mitchell, who were expecting to see a lot of and safety corner Cooper Degen now Darius Slay is obviously CB one.
They've got Isaiah Rodgers.
They've also got Jauncey Gardner Johnson who they acquired in the off season. And you know, I talked to the Packers about the challenge of that. You know, you've got Vic Fangio, who's known for some of his exotic packages, some of the disguises, and I was told they understand the challenge, they respect Fangio, but I was reminded, you know, they had DC Joe Berry there, and Joe Berry for years was a disciple of Vic Fangio. This was a guy that also enjoyed a lot of double high, single high coverage as well as some of the shell coverages. So this is something at least some of the young receivers and the Titans are familiar with.
Now when we also talk about.
This game this week, forty five thousand people are expected inside this stadium. And look, I know some of the players have talked about it's a long way to go. It's a quick turnaround for their Week two game. But the message this week for them has been you are part of something truly historic, and that's really been the Mantra. And this game does count. So these guys are going to be come here to win. It just happens to be in a foreign country. And speaking of foreign countries, guys, I've got an amazing producer with me. This is Alex Ragola. She is making sure everything works here. We are looking forward to a little somba here later tonight. We've got a late start tomorrow, so we're gonna go find some music. Hats are traditional. She loved this this morning. I didn't give her a heads up on this. She's so naturally beautiful. So I just want to do a shy happy birthday, thank you for all of your help, and thank you guys for enjoying with us sal Palo this week.
We're looking forward to this game on Friday.
No one loves a birthday shout out when they are unexpectedly put on live television. Jane then a producer who says, let me prop you up so you can do your report and then pan the cameraj and you are the ultimate team player.
Thank you so much. We'll talk to me a little bit. Enjoy Brazil, Tear it up.
Birthdada Alex, tear it up, Pallo, I know what's coming.
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As we get to this.
Even if you have a little annual tradition here on our show, we've been waiting for football for so long, we always like to throw out a little prediction. Buld take suggestion of who we think will score the first touchdown of the NFL season.
This is one of our new favorite things.
I love last couple of years, we've gotten really in is I remember who was last year and you're gonna get into it.
We are okay, And I worked with our great producer Chris McClain, and we right the last ten years.
Fine who scored.
The first touchdown of the season. Let's go down memory lane. Let's start a year ago, and Kyle, you're wearing the jersey. The first touchdown of the season in Arrowhead was a Jared Golf pass to Amon Ross Saint Brown for nine yards, and it would end up being a shocking twenty one to twenty Lions victory over the Chiefs a year earlier.
Josh Allen.
The Bills came here to Los Angeles to face.
A Rams team that was a defending champion and Chicken.
Oh gosh, Buffalo does absolutely wall of Trion Miller was amazing in this game. The first touchdown was a Gabe Davis twenty sixth yarter in a thirty one to ten victory over the Rams who hit it the year before. Remember the Cowboys played the Buccaneers down there in Tampa.
Oh Brady, Tom.
Brady Chris god Who on a five yard pass to kick us off. The first touchdown of that entire season. Buccaneers would go on to win in a close one thirty one to twenty nine over Dallas.
We're not done.
You want not crazy one?
All right?
The COVID season. We had Alicia Keys singing and we come.
Out there and Houston got the first touchdown on season.
You know who that is is David Johnson.
That's David Johnson for the Houston Texans. Kansas City would come roaring back and win thirty four to twenty.
This was that COVID season.
And we're like, all right, we played, okay, we.
Are David Johnson scored the first touchdown of that year.
All right, let's go here earlier.
We were in Chicago, Kyle.
It was the opening.
It was a ten to three games.
Jimmy Graham from Aaron Rodgers, Jimmy Graham the Packer yep, I mean just shocking visuals here.
It was a ten to three win.
The Packers beat the Bears. We were there.
It was the one hundred season of the NFL's how we kicked it off with two arch rivals and historic teams Bears Packers. I was the only score of the game, while another one, how about this one?
Eagles Falcons in the rain.
They had a regulated this one.
Do you know who that is? Lagart Blunt? Ye? Oh yeah, who is it from Boise State? It's j.
Jay and Johnny had the free ji the Eagles in the third quarter.
It was a weird game, rain delay and both.
Teams were distilted eighteen to twelve.
Win over the Falcons.
Falcus had a shot at the end, could not get it done.
Let's go year earlier.
This is wild. This is a famous game, the Kareem Hunt game or Kansas.
City absolutely destroyed for the.
First touchdown was actually by.
Mike gillieson the Patriots. I don't remember kills scores forty two to twenty seven. Remember Alex Smith and Cream you know who was on the bench. Didn't take a snap that Nick Patrick mahomes chick.
Snap the game he talks about, right, Yeah.
Chiefs come in there and absolutely destroy the Patriots and.
Gareem Hunt like girl Campbell and he did amazed.
And then had one of the greatest games ever for a rookie debut twenty sixteen Denver, Carolina.
Let's run it back to Super Bowl matchup.
You who that is? Oh? Oh, that's the big fella yes, a.
Big touchdown pass there from Cam. Of course Cam would get knocked around in this game and they would lose twenty one to twenty on the Thursday night opener. It was also the first game ever we watched to the Good Morning Football Show.
That game led to a lot of takes about calls on Cam and comparing him to Shack. He doesn't get the calls he got.
He got destroyed and did not get the flags.
Twenty fifteen. We're not done.
How about Patriots Steelers in an old stand by Brady to Gronk touchdown prime Gronkers in second prime Gronk in twenty fifteen terminated.
Obo right to twenty one win.
This is the year after they beat the Seahawks in that Super Bowl in the.
Famous Marshall on Lynch game.
And of course Malcolm Butler, they come right out and.
They beat the Steelers.
All right, well, let's go ten years ago, because this wanted for all the folks at home. This is how we started the season ten years ago.
That is big John.
Kun on a too we aren't touchdown for the Packers out in Seattle.
The Seattle Seahawks would win that game twenty six to sixteen. This is the year after the Legion of Boom absolutely destroyed Peyton Manning and the Broncos in the Super Bowl.
They hosted it.
The Twelves were in mass and they took care of business over Roger Shippensburg.
He did that is a wonderful call out, akbar okay.
So that's a ten year history of the first touchdown of the NFL season. So I ask you, guys, Ravens, Chiefs, take a shot, Kyle. He's gonna score the first touchdown of the twenty twenty four season.
I mean, I know it, and I can see how it's going to be. There's going to be like homes Is going to toss and they're going to reverse. They're gonna toss it back to him. It's going to be Xavier Worthy down the sideline on a trick play that they've been sitting on since the second day drafted him. I think it's going to be a sixty eight yard touchdown to the rookie wide receiver, the sixty eight that's my prediction, Jamie.
I go early in the game, Chiefs, they hang the banner, they got the rings out, you know, some very emotionally tack same day, I think for the Super Bowl champ so early in the game, defense might not be quite set on the line. Yeah, god Derrick Henry, maybe maybe like a seventy yard run up.
The sideline, like bring the house down.
It would, it would, And Frank it is exactly what early in the game, and then the defense figures it out eventually.
You know, I'm gonna go somewhere different. I was going to go Exavier Flowers, Exavi, You're worthy, but I'm going.
I just spoiled.
Oh you're thinking about Zaiy Zay Flowers, say you're worthy. I'm going with Zay Flowers, especially when you think about that AFC Championship game and it just didn't go the way he wanted to go. I can see Lamar Jackson saying, you know what, I'm going to feed it to you and I'm gonna make sure you get your confidence right away.
So what's the distance of the touchdown?
In the distance of the touchdown, it's probably going to be a seventeen yard seventy seventeen yard.
I'm going to tell you how it's going to What do you got You have a camera that I can I want to do this here.
I want to look at this camera, got it.
This is my guy.
This is an Isaiah Chaco run for three yards right up the gut.
Put Chake, I'm going that way, but.
Chaco scores our first touchdown. Chiefs get up early. Put Chaco is my pick first touch And now I'm in a full leather.
Where Peter split his pants. It seems stressed and thread.
That's it. We always do this though.
I'm seventy yard past sixty, like it'll be like a one yard Lamar Jackson's quarterbacks just fall.
Forward from one d and the score.
What if it's the whoever's on kickoff return?
Oh, dynamic kickoff return?
Like that would be a dynamic of this.
If they return the dynamic kickoff to open the season, then they're gonna be the script is in.
Actually, you know, I'm going I'm going to changers.
I'm going it's a camera.
We're going to that camera off. You get it, right.
I don't know who's going to be catching, doesn't matter to kick, but I'm going dynamic return be the first touchdown of the season.
Dynamic. I hope that happens.
That would be amazing.
All right, Oh friend, I'm an old pal and I think one of the sharpest guys in all of football.
You know him, you love him. It's Ross Talker.
Ross.
Good morning, And what did you have for breakfast? Bud?
Good morning, Kyle.
I didn't have anything for breakfast yet because I kind of do like a quasi intermittent fast thing.
So I'll have I'll have a.
Banana in an hour or two, because listen, I'm doing an appearance tonight in Buffalo, and I'll be having a bunch of wings and a bunch of beers. So I got to be I gotta be a good boy during the days.
I can be a bad boy at night.
I've known you for thirty years. I feel like I don't know you anymore, but I do know this about you. We love when you join us, especially. I know you've got a lot of things going on with DraftKings that we're gonna get into. But I also know this that in your football career in the NFL, you played with the Patriots. You played with Tom Brady, and you played with them in a very special year where the Patriots were attempting a three peat.
You were on that team that tried it and ultimately did not do it.
Here we have the Chiefs starting their three peat voyage. What do you think and what's the difficulty about that? Do you think they could pull us off?
Yeah?
And by the way, Kyle, just for clarity, Yeah, I was not with the paid the two years when they actually want it.
Just my luck.
I was in Buffalo getting beat by them, and then I was with them the year they didn't win it.
I'll say this, it is very difficult.
I mean, one of the reason why the Patriots signed me that year is because they had injuries that they're starting center day in Copain, their left tackle Matt Light. I feel like teams that go that far in the playoffs back to back years, it's almost like a running back that has four hundred touches, right, Those guys usually don't perform as well the next year, just because of the cumulative effect of all those games, all those snaps.
I will say this, though, if you look at the Chiefs and.
Their division and their conference, probably the best opportunity I've seen in a long time for a team to three peat, you know, look at their division. I just did my power rankings on my podcast Tuesday. I have the Raiders and Broncos as two of the five worst teams in the NFL.
I think the charge will maybe be fiddling maybe.
And then even in the conference, who are the biggest threats to the Chiefs, right, the Ravens, the Bills, Both of those teams might.
Have taken a step back.
So it almost feels like this is the best chance the Chiefs have had in a while. The competition in division and conference is not as good as it has been.
Yeah, and I think the Chiefs are better than the Chiefs were last year. Last year was almost like a week year for them, and they won the Super Bowl. The ross all kinds of things going on the season is here.
It's tonight. Try to explain to us because it's very exciting. What is the draft? Kings all customer offer? Break it down?
Well, so this is why it's awesome, right, You said it all customers a lot of times it's just new customers only. This is for everybody. Anybody watching right now. Can place a bet on any NFL player to score a touchdown this weekend, and even if it doesn't work and your bet doesn't hit, you get another bonus bet.
Right.
So that's the beauty of it. That's why they call it the no sweat touchdown bet. So whoever you think might score a touchdown. And by the way, you can parlay it so you can have this guy's more touchdown that guy, that guy doesn't hit, no worries, you get a free you get a bonus bet from it.
Okay, let's talk some ball because you're gonna be working at Cardinals Bill's rosson.
Oh yeah, I gotta say.
We talked about this game for a while yesterday, how it's this classic trap game for Buffalo that here comes Arizona.
A lot of quiet.
Talks about how much they've improved. Kyle picked both teams to go to the playoffs, Arizona really being the eyebrow raizer. Your thoughts on this game, and can Kyler and the Boys make this cross country trip and upset the division champion Buffalo Bills.
Yes, Shrags, I'm so pumped when I found out this is my first game. I was like, I'm getting Cardinals Bills Bill's home opener.
That's amazing.
You know, I don't think people realize or remember just how well the Cardinals offense was playing at the end of last year. Remember, Kyler came back midway of the year from the ACL. He only played the last eight games but the last three games, six touchdowns, one pick.
Remember they went to Philly and won.
Everybody couldn't believe that he had one hundred and eight passer rating those last three games.
And Kyle will love this.
They were one of the best rushing teams in football with our guy James Connor, I think.
And now they have Marvin Harrison Junior. So they had Kyler, they had the running game.
Now you get Marvin Harrison Junior, maybe one of the best receiver prospects we've seen in years.
I think the Cardinals are a very, very sneaky team. I love that Kyle has them in the playoffs.
Kyle has affectionately referred to them Ross as his pound puppy squad.
Took them home with me.
He loves them, he loves the battle. Eyelashes at him.
Ross.
There are so many, so many great Week one matchups. We got this big, beautiful schedule printed right in front of us. The game span from Thursday all the way to Monday night, four primetime games. What are some of your favorite Week one props to inspect?
Well, it's it's unbelievable, by the way, just in terms of these games. What the folks that the NFL Scheduling Office have done. I mean, I mentioned earlier my Ross Tucker podcast power Rankings, four of the top six teams play tonight and tomorrow night. I think I had the Chiefs won raven six, Eagles four, as well as the Packers five, but just incredible. And then the Lions Rams rematch, and then even Monday night Jets Niners. I mean, could not be a better slate in terms of, you know, the the no sweat touchdown bet at DraftKings.
I'm going with James Connor. James Connor is my guy.
I don't know how many angry scepters he's won from Kyle already. Great Listen, I knew James Connor when he was playing defensive end for Eerie McDowell high school football.
Okay, I've known James Conner a long time. Yeah, average over five yards to carry.
Do you know shrag's that nobody had more twenty yard plus carries last year than James Connor and is five point forty at the combine.
James Connor is getting in the end zone on Sunday in my game.
Okay, you know that Ross is working that game because he knows those nuggets they got the research packet, and he knows the amount of twenty plus yard runs.
You're ready because the game's.
Probably got the assignment two months ago and it's been studying for two months.
Yeah, prepared.
But he knew the eerie thing by himself, all the high school stuff. He knows what else we got, just Russ.
When you talk about the preseason and everything, we've been looking at big picture, who do you see as this year's Texans the worst to first, the team that maybe a lot of people don't have in their playoffs, But here we are.
They're playing in.
January, so I don't I don't know if they'll win the division like the Texans did. But there's a lot of similarities between this year's Commanders and last year's Texans, right. I mean, Stroud obviously had a fantastic year last year.
I didn't have a single person.
Any quarterback guru, Greg Cosell, Chase Daniel dan Orlowski.
Everybody that came on.
My show raved about Jayden Daniels. Some of them said they liked him more than Kyle's guy, Caleb Williams. Some of them didn't say that, but it kind of sounded that way. I haven't found a single person to say a negative thing about Jayden Daniels.
So that's number one. Number two, what did the Texans have?
An enthusiastic, energetic, passionate defensive coach.
Everybody loves dan Quinn. People make the joke about the Super Bowl twenty eight three. Whatever. Dan Quinn can flat out coach. He loves football.
I think the Commanders are a sneaky team to make the difference is.
You know, the AFC South last year was not good.
I don't know if the Commanders are gonna be able to win the division over like the Eagles and the Cowboys, but I do think there's a chance they could find themselves in the postseason.
Hey, ross Man, I've been eating this old Trapper beef turkey all morning long. Man, it's pretty good. And I know how much you and I both love food, right with both linemen. I know you've got tuck spread. Talk about that first man, when you eat in week one?
Well, listen, that is critical hashtag tuck spreads. I've kind of started the whole press box food video movement.
You know that's gone global now. Buffalo's usually pretty solid.
I will say that I gotta be honestly, though, as soon as I'm done talking to you guys, I'm driving up to Buffalo and I'm going to my favorite wing place. I don't even know if I'm gonna shout him out because of paparazzi.
Plus I want to make sure.
I don't want that to be But I'm gonna have so many good wings tonight before my appearance in Orchard Park at Danny's Restaurant.
It's going to be amazing. You guys know me, most of you for a long time. How perfect is it?
I have a gig tonight, okay, drinking labat Blue Lights and eating wings with Bills fans as we watch Raven's cheeks.
That's what I'll be eating ocbar.
All right, nice man, that's amazing because you're doing this. This is intermittent thing.
But if you walk down to the kitchen right now and Caro was making breakfast sandwiches, you would eat twelve of them.
And you know it.
But I want you to enjoy yourself tonight. You've earned it. It's football season, and I really mean this. I've known you for a long time. I've never met anyone in my life who loves football more than you.
Do so. Drinking in my man love
You, Oh thanks, I I love it to you, bro,