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It's a blast every week. Well, rich it's another Sunday, another I guess Mayhem ensued. This whole weekend has been Mayhem. It started with Saturday while come back. But let's start in Dallas or I guess in Jacksonville rather the Dallas Cowboys huge letdown game. I'll let you guys take it away. Well, his duval Mitchell, all I heard all week was I was wronging for taking the Cowboys out of my power rankings. Hey, we're like Dallas Cowboy We're the real deal this year. We're really We're really a great team this year. I can't wait to show you that we're a different Dallas Cowboys team. And then you know what they do, Mitchell, They show you that the same old Dallas Cowboys over time and lost pick sick. Now they're calling for Dak Prescott's job. They're saying, hey, we need to get rid of Dak. Let me let you know Dallas Cowboys fans that ain't going nowhere, so get used to him. Keep buying jerseys. Yeah, I mean when you watch Mahomes complete nine team throws to end the game, when you watch Josh Allen in that blizzard, when you watch Herbert today or Burrows second half on the road, those four guys are just different. I like Dack. I don't think you can blame the loss on Deck, but I do believe Richard. We're starting to see stuff from Trevor Lawrence and I've watched him in the last month, and I'm like, here we go Thanksgiving second year. I'm not saying he's Herbert Burrow Alan Mahomes. I think those guys are just different on the planet. Even Aaron and Brady and Stafford. That's the next class. But there's now you know this, you picked on some young quarterbacks. He still tries to do too much because you can do that in high school and college, right like you know you can decoy you'r you. You played plenty of young cornerbacks and you just kind of let him know this is why don't And he still bites Herbert Burrow Alan Mahomes don't as often. But when I watched that game, it wasn't anti jack. It was just getting interest in now Jacksonville, because this dude, he can spin it. He's got a little Josh Allen movement. I didn't think Dallas played terribly that as you know, they played the Eagles next. The Eagles played poorly total look ahead all the Sharks all the Sharks love Jacksonville and the Bears today. So my takeaway was, all right, Jacksonville's fund Now Jacksonville can play with anybody. Now, that was my takeaway, no question, no question. I mean, this is the first game that Cowboys have lost in I think I think they were sixteen and oh or seventeen and oh when when Zeke gets fifteen carries fifteen or more carries, they were sixteen and oh and they took a loss today. I mean, you're right about Trevor Lawrence. I was not on the train. I mean, I mean you saw last year. I mean, I guess urban Meyer can make anybody. He can make any you can make it a Ferrari look bad. But I think I knew Doug Peterson would have a great effect on him. I didn't see him developing like this. Travis Eaton jr Um it's starting to come into his own. Obviously he was hurt last year. And then where Shawn Jenkins out of nowhere has the game of his life and that, I mean, it's just cool to see. Well, Rich, you touched on the last last podcast that the Cowboys are a team. You said that you can foresee losing first round of playoffs, you know, squeaking in and they're stumbling down the stretch. They're not looking impressive by any means. And this Jaguarars team, Colin, to your point, is starting to get a little hot. Um Trevor Lawrence first in completion percentage and passer rating since November. I mean, this is this guy is starting to become the real deal. Yeah, we tend to. You know, I'm a sportscaster, so I always try to make sure that when I watch a game, I don't go negative, and so it's easy to bang on the Cowboys and like Richard, I don't trust them situationally the Green Bay game, this game, I don't. I mean, you're talking about Andy Reid Mahomes. You know, you when Brady and Bellotcheck or Pete Carroll and you guys like to win Super Bowls. Man, it's it is situational excellence because the margins shrink. So I don't trust Dallas. But you know, I take away on that was here we go. This league is really cool when you get quarterbacks in their prime that pop. And to your point, I've watched Trevor now four or five straight games, and I'm like He's not Herbert yet, but he is not far off. So to me, not every not every loss has to be negative. Like I think Dallas is gonna play really well against Philadelphia, but to win Super Bowls you need situational excellence. And I just don't trust Mike McCarthy. Um, I just I don't. I never, I just never trust Dallas in those big spots. I mean you can talk about it. Last year. I mean, with the game on the line in the playoffs against the San Francisco Forts, in the last couple of seconds of the game, everybody was like, oh, they should spike the ball, they should call it time about, they should do all this, and they ruined it and they lost, and they went home in the first round, as they usually do. Now, they may get out in the first round this year. They se South, they'll likely play whoever wins that division because nobody seems to want to win it, and it'll still probably be Tom Brady, and they'll they'll likely get out of that round. I don't see them getting past the San Francisco for Niners and Philadelphia Eagles or anybody like that. But Mitchell kirk Oh, Mitchell kirk O, kirk Ole wants to be like he's a Jack oen Hod. He's like I'm Patrick Mans And then you know you're like, whoa, whoa, who mean the bigger story here guys thirty three to nothing at the half, Matt Ryan, how does he find himself on the negative side of history two times? I mean I thought to three and the Super Bowl was enough, but you're up thirty three to nothing. I mean, Rich, you could probably go behind center and carry that team to the victory in the second half. Will be my guess, how does this happen? Mitchell resilience. I mean the coach showed a resilience that many teams don't don't don't have, And I think it's a veteran group of people that just go out there and say, hey, just keep chopping wood. You know, they don't have any quit in them. And I think I didn't believe in Minnesota in the playoffs, but I think a game like this kind of galvanizes them in a way and kind of brings them together and makes it more dangerous in my eyes, because it's it's like they're convincing themselves like, hey, we can do it from anywhere, we can come back from any deficit. That's the team, a team that won't quit, a team that won't die as a dangerous team. Well, and golfers get what they call yips. Matt Ryan can get those. He gets maps known as a hard working guy, um pretty rigid on his preparation. Matt likes things a certain way. That's that's my sources of always told me. Peyton Manning was a little bit like this. They call him teeth clenchers. You know, they're like upset. But Peyton did not like to get Peyton hated playoff games and halftimes longer, commercial breaks are longer, interviews are longer. Matt's really rigid. And I thought he got really tight, really really tightened. Sometimes. You know Derek Carr at the end of that Raidar game, when that throw to the end zone, Derek Carr the knock on him, or really in his career, he wouldn't let it rip. And you guys know Herbert Herbert, they just let it go. Not everybody's open in the NFL. You got too many good players. And I thought Mac got really tight. And if the quarterbacks tight, team feels tight. Now your defense is on the field three and out one first out, three and out come on. You can't ask, you can't pro he has dbs and pass rushers be on the field for fifty eight plays and a half. So I think, you know, you become your quarterback, whatever your quarterback is, the personality of your coach. And I think I think Maddie got tight, the defense got tired, and that happens. Yeah, and Kirk got loose. Kirk got loose. I mean, you threw those two two first half interceptions, um through that pick six, and everybody was like, you know, talking about old the same old Kirk. Because bad Kirk is bad Kirk. Everybody's seeing him. He folds into playoffs, he doesn't play well in prime time. Everybody's had this for years. But then you look at the Kirk that showed up in the second half of that ball game. He threw for four hundred and sixty yards on the game, almost threw four five hundred deal like four touchdowns, striking because he's fearless. I mean, you play on the house money, you play with nothing to lose. You play, hey, we're not supposed to win this game. You become a very dangerous person in a very dangerous team. And if they can play like that loose in the playoffs, They're gonna need their defense to show up at some point or another. But if that offense can play like that, look out Colin quick story here that uh, when Richard was a free agent after he got let go by the Seahawks and was pondering where to go and inevitably choice the forty Niners, there was that was the same period of time that Kirk Cousins was on the move. And in our conversation, rich was like, you know, they're gonna go to the forty Niners or wherever Cousins ends up. And I'm like, what is your obsessions with Kirk Cousins And he says he likes them, And I mean, God, bless the guy who put a four hundred and sixty yards. He's a Michigan State spartan. I can't speak much better than that, you know, being a lum myself, but there's some about Kirk Cousins. He's winning close games. This is a third team ever, guys, Minnesota Vikings to have ten one possession wins in the season. Yeah, a lot of offensive coaches believe in their system. McVeigh, Kyle, And when you believe in your system, you don't want your quarterback a living out of your plays. Kyle wanted mac Jones, he liked her Cousins, he liked Matt Ryan. Mahomes would obviously be great, but Patrick sometimes gonna just do his things. Josh, I'm going to do his thing. So Shanahan is such a believer in his system that you know, Kirk Cousin is going to do what the coach says. And there's a handful of coaches in this league that I feel that way. Now, Andy Reid's not like that. Andy kind of finds out what you are and kind of just does you know with Michael Vicky had one offense with Kevin Cobbin Philly. He had another offense with Donovan McNabb who was athletic but not super accurate. So, and he's really unique. He's kind of like my players, a canvas, all paint, whatever is available. But a lot of these coaches, and I think Shannon's one of them. Here's my play stay that By the way, Garoppolo doesn't throw outside the numbers, no mobility, never runs out of the play. Brock pretty four year starter at I always Stay, completing six to eight percent of his throws mostly doesn't run out of the play, so that you know, I get the Cousins infatuation with these offensive coaches. Zimmer didn't get along with him the new coach and offensive guy does because he has, like McVeigh, he has a system. So Kirk Kirk and distribute. I always say, Mahomes and Josh Allen are Steph Curry magic. Um. Kirk Cousins is Chris Paul distributor. He's gonna hit those midrange jumpers. But you kind of know what you get every game with Chris Paul, step will pull ship out and you're like, WHOA, what did I just see? Right right? And so a lot of these coaches for sur as you know, I mean you played with Russell Wilson. It probably drove it sometimes. Pete Nuts he would sometimes I was almost like planned and lobs, like what are we doing here? But you know a lot of offensive coaches don't like that, no question, it's hard on him, um, but they love Kirk now. I mean he in that system. And Jefferson was saying it before, you know, he was like, Hey, if I got in the system like Cooper Cup is in, He's like, I'd have eighteen nineteen hundred yards, like I love to be in a system like that, and he's in a system like that with Kevin O'Connell. And look at him about to break the receiving record. I mean, I don't know if that should stand that way. I still think it should be a sixteen game record. In a seventeen game record. That's kind of weird for me. But he's about to break it. Santa Barkley is coming to town and he's delivering twenty million dollars and gifts this holiday season to all Fan Duel customers. It doesn't matter if you've been naughty or nice. St Chuck has something for everyone. Just check your fan to All app for no sweat, same game parlays, bonuses, and all sorts of stuff that will fill you with holiday cheer. This Monday night, we got a match up between the Packers and the Rams. We're going with the home team, the Green Bay Packers minus seven, and we're parlaying that in the same game parlay with the over of thirty nine and a half. New to FanDuel now is a perfect time to sign up and remember to use promo code RS. The app is easy to use. They're always hooking you up with great promotions and when you win, you'll get paid instantly. So see for yourself why Fandel is America's number one sports book and get into holiday spirit with twenty million dollars in gifts from Santa Barkley States First Night. Really, any way, your only Tendell Firstposit player issue is not with the Expers fourteen days after sea restrictions applies. See terms that sports book dot com game problem Gambler. Well, rich let's stay right in the division, because Colin, I'm a Detroitter and I've lived a long life as a Detroit Lions fan, and I've been waiting, I've been waiting a long long time to be uh, to be able to speak so highly of them, because this going to MetLife, you know, playing against the Jets. I know Richard's got a great connection with the head coach there, Robert Sala. But this is a game that Detroit Lions do not typically win. It's an ugly game, it's a defensive battle, you know, and they squeaked it out and now they are on the cusp. The next three games are very, very winnable games, and they're on the cusp of entering this playoffs, and if they do there, I say they're gonna be one of the more dangerous teams in this league. Um because especially if they match up against the Vikings week one. But I'm interested to hear your guys thoughts on the Detroit Lions overcoming the Jets. First off, Mitchell, they didn't didn't overcome the Jets. They overcame the Jets without Mike White. You know, that's a whole different team. That's not the team. That's not a playoff team. Without Mike White, with with Zach Wilson at the him, they're not a playoff team. And every everybody sees why, yes he has the flash, plays the long ball, but that this he can move around, he's mobile, but playing and play out. It's missing open receivers, playing play out there, drawing, you know, La flour is drawing up good plays, and he's missing on simple routes like a slant, you know, throwing it so far behind him that the corner can't even pick the ball off because it's such a bad pass. And that's where you're like, like it, sometimes you just have bad luck. When I saw that Mike White, Mike White, it saw ten doctors Mitchell ten doctors are trying to play. But I do I do like your your your Detroit lines. They are playing really well. Well. I think they're a better story right now than a team. The front office deserves a ton of respect that old Line drafted. They've drafted really well on the offensive side of the ball, So the front office has done a good job. But you know, in the NFL, it's steps. So like Philadelphia last year gets into the playoffs and just guests destroyed. Then this year they're going to go in and my guess is represent the NFC and then lose to somebody in the Super Bowl. It's steps. So my takeaway in Detroit is if they make the playoffs, even in the week or NFC, they probably get rolled. But it's steps, and I think they have to clean the defense up. Hutchinson has been terrific. I'm men't tell you they've drafted really well for three years in a row. Like they went and found Omar on st Brown and like the fourth round he's been an excellent player. Old Lines excellent. But we gotta be honest here this. If they were a college team, they're going to the Holiday Bowl. They're they're not ready for Fiesta. They're not ready for the Rose and the sugar. It's just a process. And I think they get into the playoffs and there are another team man clarke management against the Jets. I just I don't trust Detroit in a close game margin shrink against the Brady Philly San Francisco. It's like, I'm just not I'm not there yet. Yeah I'm not either, But I feel like they could. They They would be fun in the playoffs. You know, they're this is more like March Madness, Sweet sixteen and the unheralded. You know, small underdog team plays a team that they just match up. Well, if they played the Minnesota Vikings, they could win that game in the playoffs. They if they sneak in the seventh seat played the Minnesota Vikings, they sneak in and win that game, and they make it fun with Philly. Philly. Philly is showing a little bit of vulnerability. They're showing their mortality. Uh in these last few games. Uh yeah, like you said, they may be looking forward to the to the Dallas Cowboys game, but still they're showing mortality in a team like this with with nothing to lose. Kids. Freaky that sure does well, Colin, thank you so much for joining us tonight. Really appreciate jumping on the pod and you love to have you on, and the other time, man love to come on. Thank Grace, and you too, Carlin. Well Richard, we were just talking about the playoffs, all right, pleasure having Colin on, and we were breaking down the Lions. Um, you know who their first round matchup wouldn't be. I'll tell you who I do not want them to play is the San Francisco forty Niners, my perspective, hottest team in football. You don't want to touch them, you don't want to come anywhere near him. And they proved that on the road and a big Thursday n a matchup that you were at with Thursday night football. How did in Fish Greece? There are not teams hotter than San Francisco forty Niners right now. And I'm from what I understand talking to the forty Niners players and staff that Javon kim Law is expected back next week. So the rich get richer and richer and richer, and they'll get healthier and healthier. And then guess what Debo is gonna come back before the playoffs and then, and that's not the team they want to play. But like I said, if they if the Detroit Lions can can get the Minnesota Vikings in the first round and things getting very interesting, that could be very fun. But the Kansas City Chiefs, Mitchell Kinsey Chiefs, looked very, very mortal. The Houston Texans give everybody that the two one and two teams in my power rankings, they gave them both great games, overtime win for the Kansas City chief But you know, the Houston Texas, they're not really trying to win the game, Mitchell, They're not really. They just want to make you guys know, like, hey, we got some players, but but we still want to pick number one in the draft. I don't get it. I mean, Davis Mills, you know, he he looked like he was got the call from the ownership group. Hey make sure you just kick fumble this one at the end of the game. You know, we're coming too close to winning. We can't afford another tie, let alone to win, you know what I mean, I would say so, but the Begger question, I mean, I know this is the NFL, and any given Sunday, any team can beat anyone. But how does this happen? I mean, this is the Chiefs rich, I mean, and they're not supposed to be in a tight match up against the Texans because, unlike most years, Mitchell, our frontwarrunners this year are very, very mortal. We're not talking about the superheroes we're talking about We're talking about a couple of Superman's Mitchell. But there's kryptonite all around, you know what I mean. He's bleeding and they can bleed. All of them can bleed. Kansas City can bleed. You saw him loose to the Indianapolis clothes who who? Who? Just? I mean, I mean, they just you know, they find new ways to be incompetent and bad here, like Jeff Saturday is gonna be a great coach, and then you you run into the end of the game situations where he's fumbling that the calls and not using the time out because he's like, oh, I didn't think I didn't think we were in dire need of time. Okay, um blow the biggest lead in NFL history. Okay, but they beat the Kansas City Chiefs and it's it's anything can happen. But I will say this, in those playoffs as a whole different beast for everybody mentioned, those whole different beasts. And in Kansas City has smelled that blood in that water before they've been near. They've done that. They are chiseled veterans when it comes to that playoff football in South San Francisco. Four niners, but concern there is another team that's like that. And this is why this Mahomes factor, this Josh Allen factor, it's they refused to lose. It doesn't matter if it's pretty or not. They refused to lose these games. And then we saw it Saturday night. You know, the Bills, Miami Dolphins. Dolphins are tails spinning down the stretch here, a little bit rich. They got a good team. You know, they proved something. They proved that they can be competitive, but they weren't able to come away. And Josh Allen was the main reason why. He just refused to lose. I know, the Bills are near the top of your power ranks. What do you think of this game? I thought they did great. You know, I thought Dolphins kinda slept walked a bit, you know, I mean, obviously Raheem came out blazing, sure, but they settled for two early field goals when they needed touchdowns, you know, from the three, from the five, you know they needed touchdowns in those drives. Those were the difference in the game. You can't settle for three when you're playing the teams like the Buffalo Bills, and I needed them to lose this game, and I needed my J. E. T. S just just just to get the win and they would be tied for second in the division. But of course, of course, you know it's just bad luck, Mike White and now we're on a short week, just on a short week, and we got it. But whatever, that's the story. I think Waddle played well. Obviously he has a long reception where you got to see his speed. But that's three straight losses from Miami. I mean, their their tails spinning. But I still don't see many teams I want to want to see them in the first round of those playoffs, and there's gonna be some unfortunate team. I mean, it may be this matchup. Buffalo has been a the a one seed or a two seed, you know that. I mean, between them in Kansas City, one of them will have to deal with the Miami Dolphins. And I don't think either one of them want that. I certainly wouldn't want it. But the Josh Allen, He's tied Dan Marino hundred and seventy one touchdowns most ever through first five seasons. I mean, this is a guy it's his time, Rich, I mean, in my eyes, at least, this guy deserves a shot at the Super Bowl, you know. But it's gonna be a tight competition. Nonetheless, you know, so another team that's coming on super out of late, the Cincinnati Bengals playing against We have to touch on it every week. We're forced to. The volume requires us to touch on the NFC South even though we don't want to. But here's our our weekly touch on the NFC South. Well, has anything gotten any better? You're talking Tampa Bay, Rich, I mean you thought so. In the first half, when they were up seventeen and three, you thought, okay, you know, let's go. You know, they're on their way to score thirty points. Um, Tom looks good, the receivers look good, defensive playing well, health health. The Cincinnati Bengals, who have been very hot of late, to three points are like, okay, and then they turned back into themselves this season. You know, Tom played a decent game, but he threw two interceptions. Chris Guy when looking like his old self, cardon Carlton Davis had an interception, Like those are things you expect. But like Joe Burrow is a tough out for anybody, and he got hot in the second half, four touchdowns, he only threw one the one interception a Carlton Davis um. But the Bucks five straight possessions. Way to turn over to start a second half, like that doesn't sound like a Tom Brady team. To fumbles two interceptions, like you turn it over and down, you can't, Like, that's not championship football. And you don't even know where to put the finger. You don't know where to point the finger. You don't know where to put the blame because it's not like they're not playing hard. They're not healthy really on the offensive line. But you just can't really pinpoint, like what's going wrong. That's just it rich. I mean, I know they're they're battling injuries, but I mean we're late in the season. A lot of teams are battling injuries. You know, this is this is par for the course in the NFL, but they're in a must win situation week after week after week. You know they keep getting bailed out because they're playing in this lousy division, but it's I mean, dude, they got the Saints now nipping at their heels, they got the Carolina Panthers nipping at their heels. I mean, where do you cast the blame? If there is one point to point at, where where are you pointing? I don't know, man, I mean, nobody wants to win the conference, so there's no such things in us winning NFC South. Right, if you lose, you still got a chance. Yeah, you must, you must not quit. If you don't forfeit and give up, you know you got a chance to win the game. But I don't know, man. The NFC South is just it's unfortunate because whoever they play in the first round, they're gonna go home. It seems like now gets spicy. If they somehow can get upset in the first round of the playoffs, then we're talking about like, okay, cool, but that's no or not. We don't expect that. But flipping back to the f C Rich, I think one of the more laugh out loud moments was the last game that ended in the late uh four o'clock hour. If you will, the Patriots, another team in a massive state to needle win. They go down the stretch. Romandre Stevenson's running the ball down the field, no time left on the clock, tied up, he decides to pitch it the Jacoby Myers, who just heaves the ball backwards to I'm guessing Mac Jones scooped up by Chandler Jones cost caught by Chandler Jones runs the other way for the game winning touchdown. How why I've got you know, I love to hear I'd love to hear how Belichick show drew that one up. How I want to hear how he explained that to his team. Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna give it to Ramandre's gonna run. Then you you passed to Jacoby, you pass it back to Mac. And because even if Matt called it, where were you going from there? Mac is the most immobile person on the field. I mean, they're offensive linement on that field with more mobility. So what exactly was the plan after Mac Jones got it? You know, you know what happened, what should have happened, Like you're throwing him back to a quarterback? You you know what these d linemen do their entire day, their entire night, their entire everything. They think about getting to the quarterback and getting physical with him. Until on the play where everybody's running around, everybody's chaotic, their mindset has not changed. You know where you can find Chandler Jones next to the quarterback and that's where he was you threw the ball up. That's what people never think about on those plays. They're like, oh, let's do the lateral play. But how many times has the defense got the ball and score touchdowns at the end of games where you're like, oh, that wasn't really that serious, Oh that wasn't Yes, that could happen, So why wouldn't you just take the time going ot Like did you not think you can beat him? An ot again, everybody get on the belotship train and they're like, man, unfathomable, unfathomable. He can he can do no wrong. And it's like, who gets the blame? Right there? That's a great question because that, to me, those guys won't completely off script. I can't imagine a state of this world where Bill Belichick is calling a lateral you know, down the stretch. But can you can you can you think of a world where the Patriots players are just doing whatever they want in freestyling on the Bill Belichick coach teams. Let's get to the bottom of it now, Nada and that This is what we were talking about earlier in the season. I mean, when you don't have that lead orship with Tom Brady, things things start to change a little bit. So the Pats might be on their way, uh to an early exit here if they're playing games like that. But yeah, we we we the Jets needed that loss for them to get that lost, Mitch last after uh, Mike White's ribs needed that loss. So you know, we just need a couple more weeks. Mike White. You know, let's find us another doctor and get cleared up. He'll be back. Rich you don't have to worry about that. But I want to tell whether we cannot end a week's podcast without talking about your Seattle Seahawks. You know, I want to talk specifically about the Thursday night football game because we didn't have an opportunity to afterwards. But you know, we are already touched on the forty niners. They look like a complete juggernaut getting healthy down the stretch at the right time. Doing this with somebody like Brock Purty, Mr Irrelevant coming in and doing his thing. But the Seattle Seahawks are now seven and seven rich. You know, they've won one game in their last five. They've got a tough schedule down the stretch, um, but they have a window. Uh, washing have a window. But it's real tight, metro. It's really tight. It's like it's like four people closing in on one person. And they have to play the Kansas City Chiefs, and like I said, the Kansas City chief looks very mortal this week. So you know, there'll be things to find on that tape for it to help the Seattle Seahawks potentially come out of there with a win. But if they can get out of that game, they play the j e t S just just ch and and and if Zack Wilson's playing, they will have a chance. You know. But that Jets defense is really stellar. They got the Rams to end the season, and by then the Rams will be you know, already booked to Cobbo and probably on the first thing smoking um that Monday night. So I'm not sure how engaged they will be in that game. But it's still a divisional game. And Tyler Locketts hurt. You know, Tyler Lockett is getting surgery on his hand um this week, so that's a big loss for them. I mean, he had six straight games where he scored his touchdown and there's really the heart and soul of that offense. You know when when you talk about DK metcalf is obviously the big play guy and the pro bowler. But when they need a third day, we need a quick completion. I mean, Tylerlack is like the security blanket for for Gino in a lot of situations. So um, we'll see how they replace him. Obviously, Marquis is gonna get a bigger role. Uh and he's been he's been thriving in the role. And Gino still playing well do you know, still on his way on track to get him a Pro Bowl this year, having a career season. But I don't know what they do. It's gonna be very interesting. Rich Um. This this concludes what is it week in week fifteen? Now? Is that what it is? Mitchell god bless? This season is flown by well Richard. We'll see you on Wednesday for the next episode here, but in the meantime, I want you to think long and hard about this Detroit Lions team, how far they have come? And um, you know, when you rest easy tonight, just think if Mike White only played, if Mike White played Mr. I don't think about that. Well, thank you guys for joining us. I'm hurt, you know, I'm I'm I'm stubborn. I still got hope. I get my jest this week, I was hoping to get a Mike White game. Catch me on TNF TNF tonight start to seven pm Eastern. We're in New York covering the Jets in the Jacksonville Jaguars who look hot, s fish grease as well. Trevor Lawrence looks like the guy they drafted. Uh catch us there hits the sub button. If you knew, see you next week. The volume

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It's a blast every week. Well, rich it's another Sunday, another I guess Mayhem ensued. This whole weekend has been Mayhem. It started with Saturday while come back. But let's start in Dallas or I guess in Jacksonville rather the Dallas Cowboys huge letdown game. I'll let you guys take it away. Well, his duval Mitchell, all I heard all week was I was wronging for taking the Cowboys out of my power rankings. Hey, we're like Dallas Cowboy We're the real deal this year. We're really We're really a great team this year. I can't wait to show you that we're a different Dallas Cowboys team. And then you know what they do, Mitchell, They show you that the same old Dallas Cowboys over time and lost pick sick. Now they're calling for Dak Prescott's job. They're saying, hey, we need to get rid of Dak. Let me let you know Dallas Cowboys fans that ain't going nowhere, so get used to him. Keep buying jerseys. Yeah, I mean when you watch Mahomes complete nine team throws to end the game, when you watch Josh Allen in that blizzard, when you watch Herbert today or Burrows second half on the road, those four guys are just different. I like Dack. I don't think you can blame the loss on Deck, but I do believe Richard. We're starting to see stuff from Trevor Lawrence and I've watched him in the last month, and I'm like, here we go Thanksgiving second year. I'm not saying he's Herbert Burrow Alan Mahomes. I think those guys are just different on the planet. Even Aaron and Brady and Stafford. That's the next class. But there's now you know this, you picked on some young quarterbacks. He still tries to do too much because you can do that in high school and college, right like you know you can decoy you'r you. You played plenty of young cornerbacks and you just kind of let him know this is why don't And he still bites Herbert Burrow Alan Mahomes don't as often. But when I watched that game, it wasn't anti jack. It was just getting interest in now Jacksonville, because this dude, he can spin it. He's got a little Josh Allen movement. I didn't think Dallas played terribly that as you know, they played the Eagles next. The Eagles played poorly total look ahead all the Sharks all the Sharks love Jacksonville and the Bears today. So my takeaway was, all right, Jacksonville's fund Now Jacksonville can play with anybody. Now, that was my takeaway, no question, no question. I mean, this is the first game that Cowboys have lost in I think I think they were sixteen and oh or seventeen and oh when when Zeke gets fifteen carries fifteen or more carries, they were sixteen and oh and they took a loss today. I mean, you're right about Trevor Lawrence. I was not on the train. I mean, I mean you saw last year. I mean, I guess urban Meyer can make anybody. He can make any you can make it a Ferrari look bad. But I think I knew Doug Peterson would have a great effect on him. I didn't see him developing like this. Travis Eaton jr Um it's starting to come into his own. Obviously he was hurt last year. And then where Shawn Jenkins out of nowhere has the game of his life and that, I mean, it's just cool to see. Well, Rich, you touched on the last last podcast that the Cowboys are a team. You said that you can foresee losing first round of playoffs, you know, squeaking in and they're stumbling down the stretch. They're not looking impressive by any means. And this Jaguarars team, Colin, to your point, is starting to get a little hot. Um Trevor Lawrence first in completion percentage and passer rating since November. I mean, this is this guy is starting to become the real deal. Yeah, we tend to. You know, I'm a sportscaster, so I always try to make sure that when I watch a game, I don't go negative, and so it's easy to bang on the Cowboys and like Richard, I don't trust them situationally the Green Bay game, this game, I don't. I mean, you're talking about Andy Reid Mahomes. You know, you when Brady and Bellotcheck or Pete Carroll and you guys like to win Super Bowls. Man, it's it is situational excellence because the margins shrink. So I don't trust Dallas. But you know, I take away on that was here we go. This league is really cool when you get quarterbacks in their prime that pop. And to your point, I've watched Trevor now four or five straight games, and I'm like He's not Herbert yet, but he is not far off. So to me, not every not every loss has to be negative. Like I think Dallas is gonna play really well against Philadelphia, but to win Super Bowls you need situational excellence. And I just don't trust Mike McCarthy. Um, I just I don't. I never, I just never trust Dallas in those big spots. I mean you can talk about it. Last year. I mean, with the game on the line in the playoffs against the San Francisco Forts, in the last couple of seconds of the game, everybody was like, oh, they should spike the ball, they should call it time about, they should do all this, and they ruined it and they lost, and they went home in the first round, as they usually do. Now, they may get out in the first round this year. They se South, they'll likely play whoever wins that division because nobody seems to want to win it, and it'll still probably be Tom Brady, and they'll they'll likely get out of that round. I don't see them getting past the San Francisco for Niners and Philadelphia Eagles or anybody like that. But Mitchell kirk Oh, Mitchell kirk O, kirk Ole wants to be like he's a Jack oen Hod. He's like I'm Patrick Mans And then you know you're like, whoa, whoa, who mean the bigger story here guys thirty three to nothing at the half, Matt Ryan, how does he find himself on the negative side of history two times? I mean I thought to three and the Super Bowl was enough, but you're up thirty three to nothing. I mean, Rich, you could probably go behind center and carry that team to the victory in the second half. Will be my guess, how does this happen? Mitchell resilience. I mean the coach showed a resilience that many teams don't don't don't have, And I think it's a veteran group of people that just go out there and say, hey, just keep chopping wood. You know, they don't have any quit in them. And I think I didn't believe in Minnesota in the playoffs, but I think a game like this kind of galvanizes them in a way and kind of brings them together and makes it more dangerous in my eyes, because it's it's like they're convincing themselves like, hey, we can do it from anywhere, we can come back from any deficit. That's the team, a team that won't quit, a team that won't die as a dangerous team. Well, and golfers get what they call yips. Matt Ryan can get those. He gets maps known as a hard working guy, um pretty rigid on his preparation. Matt likes things a certain way. That's that's my sources of always told me. Peyton Manning was a little bit like this. They call him teeth clenchers. You know, they're like upset. But Peyton did not like to get Peyton hated playoff games and halftimes longer, commercial breaks are longer, interviews are longer. Matt's really rigid. And I thought he got really tight, really really tightened. Sometimes. You know Derek Carr at the end of that Raidar game, when that throw to the end zone, Derek Carr the knock on him, or really in his career, he wouldn't let it rip. And you guys know Herbert Herbert, they just let it go. Not everybody's open in the NFL. You got too many good players. And I thought Mac got really tight. And if the quarterbacks tight, team feels tight. Now your defense is on the field three and out one first out, three and out come on. You can't ask, you can't pro he has dbs and pass rushers be on the field for fifty eight plays and a half. So I think, you know, you become your quarterback, whatever your quarterback is, the personality of your coach. And I think I think Maddie got tight, the defense got tired, and that happens. Yeah, and Kirk got loose. Kirk got loose. I mean, you threw those two two first half interceptions, um through that pick six, and everybody was like, you know, talking about old the same old Kirk. Because bad Kirk is bad Kirk. Everybody's seeing him. He folds into playoffs, he doesn't play well in prime time. Everybody's had this for years. But then you look at the Kirk that showed up in the second half of that ball game. He threw for four hundred and sixty yards on the game, almost threw four five hundred deal like four touchdowns, striking because he's fearless. I mean, you play on the house money, you play with nothing to lose. You play, hey, we're not supposed to win this game. You become a very dangerous person in a very dangerous team. And if they can play like that loose in the playoffs, They're gonna need their defense to show up at some point or another. But if that offense can play like that, look out Colin quick story here that uh, when Richard was a free agent after he got let go by the Seahawks and was pondering where to go and inevitably choice the forty Niners, there was that was the same period of time that Kirk Cousins was on the move. And in our conversation, rich was like, you know, they're gonna go to the forty Niners or wherever Cousins ends up. And I'm like, what is your obsessions with Kirk Cousins And he says he likes them, And I mean, God, bless the guy who put a four hundred and sixty yards. He's a Michigan State spartan. I can't speak much better than that, you know, being a lum myself, but there's some about Kirk Cousins. He's winning close games. This is a third team ever, guys, Minnesota Vikings to have ten one possession wins in the season. Yeah, a lot of offensive coaches believe in their system. McVeigh, Kyle, And when you believe in your system, you don't want your quarterback a living out of your plays. Kyle wanted mac Jones, he liked her Cousins, he liked Matt Ryan. Mahomes would obviously be great, but Patrick sometimes gonna just do his things. Josh, I'm going to do his thing. So Shanahan is such a believer in his system that you know, Kirk Cousin is going to do what the coach says. And there's a handful of coaches in this league that I feel that way. Now, Andy Reid's not like that. Andy kind of finds out what you are and kind of just does you know with Michael Vicky had one offense with Kevin Cobbin Philly. He had another offense with Donovan McNabb who was athletic but not super accurate. So, and he's really unique. He's kind of like my players, a canvas, all paint, whatever is available. But a lot of these coaches, and I think Shannon's one of them. Here's my play stay that By the way, Garoppolo doesn't throw outside the numbers, no mobility, never runs out of the play. Brock pretty four year starter at I always Stay, completing six to eight percent of his throws mostly doesn't run out of the play, so that you know, I get the Cousins infatuation with these offensive coaches. Zimmer didn't get along with him the new coach and offensive guy does because he has, like McVeigh, he has a system. So Kirk Kirk and distribute. I always say, Mahomes and Josh Allen are Steph Curry magic. Um. Kirk Cousins is Chris Paul distributor. He's gonna hit those midrange jumpers. But you kind of know what you get every game with Chris Paul, step will pull ship out and you're like, WHOA, what did I just see? Right right? And so a lot of these coaches for sur as you know, I mean you played with Russell Wilson. It probably drove it sometimes. Pete Nuts he would sometimes I was almost like planned and lobs, like what are we doing here? But you know a lot of offensive coaches don't like that, no question, it's hard on him, um, but they love Kirk now. I mean he in that system. And Jefferson was saying it before, you know, he was like, Hey, if I got in the system like Cooper Cup is in, He's like, I'd have eighteen nineteen hundred yards, like I love to be in a system like that, and he's in a system like that with Kevin O'Connell. And look at him about to break the receiving record. I mean, I don't know if that should stand that way. I still think it should be a sixteen game record. In a seventeen game record. That's kind of weird for me. But he's about to break it. Santa Barkley is coming to town and he's delivering twenty million dollars and gifts this holiday season to all Fan Duel customers. It doesn't matter if you've been naughty or nice. St Chuck has something for everyone. Just check your fan to All app for no sweat, same game parlays, bonuses, and all sorts of stuff that will fill you with holiday cheer. This Monday night, we got a match up between the Packers and the Rams. We're going with the home team, the Green Bay Packers minus seven, and we're parlaying that in the same game parlay with the over of thirty nine and a half. New to FanDuel now is a perfect time to sign up and remember to use promo code RS. The app is easy to use. They're always hooking you up with great promotions and when you win, you'll get paid instantly. So see for yourself why Fandel is America's number one sports book and get into holiday spirit with twenty million dollars in gifts from Santa Barkley States First Night. Really, any way, your only Tendell Firstposit player issue is not with the Expers fourteen days after sea restrictions applies. See terms that sports book dot com game problem Gambler. Well, rich let's stay right in the division, because Colin, I'm a Detroitter and I've lived a long life as a Detroit Lions fan, and I've been waiting, I've been waiting a long long time to be uh, to be able to speak so highly of them, because this going to MetLife, you know, playing against the Jets. I know Richard's got a great connection with the head coach there, Robert Sala. But this is a game that Detroit Lions do not typically win. It's an ugly game, it's a defensive battle, you know, and they squeaked it out and now they are on the cusp. The next three games are very, very winnable games, and they're on the cusp of entering this playoffs, and if they do there, I say they're gonna be one of the more dangerous teams in this league. Um because especially if they match up against the Vikings week one. But I'm interested to hear your guys thoughts on the Detroit Lions overcoming the Jets. First off, Mitchell, they didn't didn't overcome the Jets. They overcame the Jets without Mike White. You know, that's a whole different team. That's not the team. That's not a playoff team. Without Mike White, with with Zach Wilson at the him, they're not a playoff team. And every everybody sees why, yes he has the flash, plays the long ball, but that this he can move around, he's mobile, but playing and play out. It's missing open receivers, playing play out there, drawing, you know, La flour is drawing up good plays, and he's missing on simple routes like a slant, you know, throwing it so far behind him that the corner can't even pick the ball off because it's such a bad pass. And that's where you're like, like it, sometimes you just have bad luck. When I saw that Mike White, Mike White, it saw ten doctors Mitchell ten doctors are trying to play. But I do I do like your your your Detroit lines. They are playing really well. Well. I think they're a better story right now than a team. The front office deserves a ton of respect that old Line drafted. They've drafted really well on the offensive side of the ball, So the front office has done a good job. But you know, in the NFL, it's steps. So like Philadelphia last year gets into the playoffs and just guests destroyed. Then this year they're going to go in and my guess is represent the NFC and then lose to somebody in the Super Bowl. It's steps. So my takeaway in Detroit is if they make the playoffs, even in the week or NFC, they probably get rolled. But it's steps, and I think they have to clean the defense up. Hutchinson has been terrific. I'm men't tell you they've drafted really well for three years in a row. Like they went and found Omar on st Brown and like the fourth round he's been an excellent player. Old Lines excellent. But we gotta be honest here this. If they were a college team, they're going to the Holiday Bowl. They're they're not ready for Fiesta. They're not ready for the Rose and the sugar. It's just a process. And I think they get into the playoffs and there are another team man clarke management against the Jets. I just I don't trust Detroit in a close game margin shrink against the Brady Philly San Francisco. It's like, I'm just not I'm not there yet. Yeah I'm not either, But I feel like they could. They They would be fun in the playoffs. You know, they're this is more like March Madness, Sweet sixteen and the unheralded. You know, small underdog team plays a team that they just match up. Well, if they played the Minnesota Vikings, they could win that game in the playoffs. They if they sneak in the seventh seat played the Minnesota Vikings, they sneak in and win that game, and they make it fun with Philly. Philly. Philly is showing a little bit of vulnerability. They're showing their mortality. Uh in these last few games. Uh yeah, like you said, they may be looking forward to the to the Dallas Cowboys game, but still they're showing mortality in a team like this with with nothing to lose. Kids. Freaky that sure does well, Colin, thank you so much for joining us tonight. Really appreciate jumping on the pod and you love to have you on, and the other time, man love to come on. Thank Grace, and you too, Carlin. Well Richard, we were just talking about the playoffs, all right, pleasure having Colin on, and we were breaking down the Lions. Um, you know who their first round matchup wouldn't be. I'll tell you who I do not want them to play is the San Francisco forty Niners, my perspective, hottest team in football. You don't want to touch them, you don't want to come anywhere near him. And they proved that on the road and a big Thursday n a matchup that you were at with Thursday night football. How did in Fish Greece? There are not teams hotter than San Francisco forty Niners right now. And I'm from what I understand talking to the forty Niners players and staff that Javon kim Law is expected back next week. So the rich get richer and richer and richer, and they'll get healthier and healthier. And then guess what Debo is gonna come back before the playoffs and then, and that's not the team they want to play. But like I said, if they if the Detroit Lions can can get the Minnesota Vikings in the first round and things getting very interesting, that could be very fun. But the Kansas City Chiefs, Mitchell Kinsey Chiefs, looked very, very mortal. The Houston Texans give everybody that the two one and two teams in my power rankings, they gave them both great games, overtime win for the Kansas City chief But you know, the Houston Texas, they're not really trying to win the game, Mitchell, They're not really. They just want to make you guys know, like, hey, we got some players, but but we still want to pick number one in the draft. I don't get it. I mean, Davis Mills, you know, he he looked like he was got the call from the ownership group. Hey make sure you just kick fumble this one at the end of the game. You know, we're coming too close to winning. We can't afford another tie, let alone to win, you know what I mean, I would say so, but the Begger question, I mean, I know this is the NFL, and any given Sunday, any team can beat anyone. But how does this happen? I mean, this is the Chiefs rich, I mean, and they're not supposed to be in a tight match up against the Texans because, unlike most years, Mitchell, our frontwarrunners this year are very, very mortal. We're not talking about the superheroes we're talking about We're talking about a couple of Superman's Mitchell. But there's kryptonite all around, you know what I mean. He's bleeding and they can bleed. All of them can bleed. Kansas City can bleed. You saw him loose to the Indianapolis clothes who who? Who? Just? I mean, I mean, they just you know, they find new ways to be incompetent and bad here, like Jeff Saturday is gonna be a great coach, and then you you run into the end of the game situations where he's fumbling that the calls and not using the time out because he's like, oh, I didn't think I didn't think we were in dire need of time. Okay, um blow the biggest lead in NFL history. Okay, but they beat the Kansas City Chiefs and it's it's anything can happen. But I will say this, in those playoffs as a whole different beast for everybody mentioned, those whole different beasts. And in Kansas City has smelled that blood in that water before they've been near. They've done that. They are chiseled veterans when it comes to that playoff football in South San Francisco. Four niners, but concern there is another team that's like that. And this is why this Mahomes factor, this Josh Allen factor, it's they refused to lose. It doesn't matter if it's pretty or not. They refused to lose these games. And then we saw it Saturday night. You know, the Bills, Miami Dolphins. Dolphins are tails spinning down the stretch here, a little bit rich. They got a good team. You know, they proved something. They proved that they can be competitive, but they weren't able to come away. And Josh Allen was the main reason why. He just refused to lose. I know, the Bills are near the top of your power ranks. What do you think of this game? I thought they did great. You know, I thought Dolphins kinda slept walked a bit, you know, I mean, obviously Raheem came out blazing, sure, but they settled for two early field goals when they needed touchdowns, you know, from the three, from the five, you know they needed touchdowns in those drives. Those were the difference in the game. You can't settle for three when you're playing the teams like the Buffalo Bills, and I needed them to lose this game, and I needed my J. E. T. S just just just to get the win and they would be tied for second in the division. But of course, of course, you know it's just bad luck, Mike White and now we're on a short week, just on a short week, and we got it. But whatever, that's the story. I think Waddle played well. Obviously he has a long reception where you got to see his speed. But that's three straight losses from Miami. I mean, their their tails spinning. But I still don't see many teams I want to want to see them in the first round of those playoffs, and there's gonna be some unfortunate team. I mean, it may be this matchup. Buffalo has been a the a one seed or a two seed, you know that. I mean, between them in Kansas City, one of them will have to deal with the Miami Dolphins. And I don't think either one of them want that. I certainly wouldn't want it. But the Josh Allen, He's tied Dan Marino hundred and seventy one touchdowns most ever through first five seasons. I mean, this is a guy it's his time, Rich, I mean, in my eyes, at least, this guy deserves a shot at the Super Bowl, you know. But it's gonna be a tight competition. Nonetheless, you know, so another team that's coming on super out of late, the Cincinnati Bengals playing against We have to touch on it every week. We're forced to. The volume requires us to touch on the NFC South even though we don't want to. But here's our our weekly touch on the NFC South. Well, has anything gotten any better? You're talking Tampa Bay, Rich, I mean you thought so. In the first half, when they were up seventeen and three, you thought, okay, you know, let's go. You know, they're on their way to score thirty points. Um, Tom looks good, the receivers look good, defensive playing well, health health. The Cincinnati Bengals, who have been very hot of late, to three points are like, okay, and then they turned back into themselves this season. You know, Tom played a decent game, but he threw two interceptions. Chris Guy when looking like his old self, cardon Carlton Davis had an interception, Like those are things you expect. But like Joe Burrow is a tough out for anybody, and he got hot in the second half, four touchdowns, he only threw one the one interception a Carlton Davis um. But the Bucks five straight possessions. Way to turn over to start a second half, like that doesn't sound like a Tom Brady team. To fumbles two interceptions, like you turn it over and down, you can't, Like, that's not championship football. And you don't even know where to put the finger. You don't know where to point the finger. You don't know where to put the blame because it's not like they're not playing hard. They're not healthy really on the offensive line. But you just can't really pinpoint, like what's going wrong. That's just it rich. I mean, I know they're they're battling injuries, but I mean we're late in the season. A lot of teams are battling injuries. You know, this is this is par for the course in the NFL, but they're in a must win situation week after week after week. You know they keep getting bailed out because they're playing in this lousy division, but it's I mean, dude, they got the Saints now nipping at their heels, they got the Carolina Panthers nipping at their heels. I mean, where do you cast the blame? If there is one point to point at, where where are you pointing? I don't know, man, I mean, nobody wants to win the conference, so there's no such things in us winning NFC South. Right, if you lose, you still got a chance. Yeah, you must, you must not quit. If you don't forfeit and give up, you know you got a chance to win the game. But I don't know, man. The NFC South is just it's unfortunate because whoever they play in the first round, they're gonna go home. It seems like now gets spicy. If they somehow can get upset in the first round of the playoffs, then we're talking about like, okay, cool, but that's no or not. We don't expect that. But flipping back to the f C Rich, I think one of the more laugh out loud moments was the last game that ended in the late uh four o'clock hour. If you will, the Patriots, another team in a massive state to needle win. They go down the stretch. Romandre Stevenson's running the ball down the field, no time left on the clock, tied up, he decides to pitch it the Jacoby Myers, who just heaves the ball backwards to I'm guessing Mac Jones scooped up by Chandler Jones cost caught by Chandler Jones runs the other way for the game winning touchdown. How why I've got you know, I love to hear I'd love to hear how Belichick show drew that one up. How I want to hear how he explained that to his team. Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna give it to Ramandre's gonna run. Then you you passed to Jacoby, you pass it back to Mac. And because even if Matt called it, where were you going from there? Mac is the most immobile person on the field. I mean, they're offensive linement on that field with more mobility. So what exactly was the plan after Mac Jones got it? You know, you know what happened, what should have happened, Like you're throwing him back to a quarterback? You you know what these d linemen do their entire day, their entire night, their entire everything. They think about getting to the quarterback and getting physical with him. Until on the play where everybody's running around, everybody's chaotic, their mindset has not changed. You know where you can find Chandler Jones next to the quarterback and that's where he was you threw the ball up. That's what people never think about on those plays. They're like, oh, let's do the lateral play. But how many times has the defense got the ball and score touchdowns at the end of games where you're like, oh, that wasn't really that serious, Oh that wasn't Yes, that could happen, So why wouldn't you just take the time going ot Like did you not think you can beat him? An ot again, everybody get on the belotship train and they're like, man, unfathomable, unfathomable. He can he can do no wrong. And it's like, who gets the blame? Right there? That's a great question because that, to me, those guys won't completely off script. I can't imagine a state of this world where Bill Belichick is calling a lateral you know, down the stretch. But can you can you can you think of a world where the Patriots players are just doing whatever they want in freestyling on the Bill Belichick coach teams. Let's get to the bottom of it now, Nada and that This is what we were talking about earlier in the season. I mean, when you don't have that lead orship with Tom Brady, things things start to change a little bit. So the Pats might be on their way, uh to an early exit here if they're playing games like that. But yeah, we we we the Jets needed that loss for them to get that lost, Mitch last after uh, Mike White's ribs needed that loss. So you know, we just need a couple more weeks. Mike White. You know, let's find us another doctor and get cleared up. He'll be back. Rich you don't have to worry about that. But I want to tell whether we cannot end a week's podcast without talking about your Seattle Seahawks. You know, I want to talk specifically about the Thursday night football game because we didn't have an opportunity to afterwards. But you know, we are already touched on the forty niners. They look like a complete juggernaut getting healthy down the stretch at the right time. Doing this with somebody like Brock Purty, Mr Irrelevant coming in and doing his thing. But the Seattle Seahawks are now seven and seven rich. You know, they've won one game in their last five. They've got a tough schedule down the stretch, um, but they have a window. Uh, washing have a window. But it's real tight, metro. It's really tight. It's like it's like four people closing in on one person. And they have to play the Kansas City Chiefs, and like I said, the Kansas City chief looks very mortal this week. So you know, there'll be things to find on that tape for it to help the Seattle Seahawks potentially come out of there with a win. But if they can get out of that game, they play the j e t S just just ch and and and if Zack Wilson's playing, they will have a chance. You know. But that Jets defense is really stellar. They got the Rams to end the season, and by then the Rams will be you know, already booked to Cobbo and probably on the first thing smoking um that Monday night. So I'm not sure how engaged they will be in that game. But it's still a divisional game. And Tyler Locketts hurt. You know, Tyler Lockett is getting surgery on his hand um this week, so that's a big loss for them. I mean, he had six straight games where he scored his touchdown and there's really the heart and soul of that offense. You know when when you talk about DK metcalf is obviously the big play guy and the pro bowler. But when they need a third day, we need a quick completion. I mean, Tylerlack is like the security blanket for for Gino in a lot of situations. So um, we'll see how they replace him. Obviously, Marquis is gonna get a bigger role. Uh and he's been he's been thriving in the role. And Gino still playing well do you know, still on his way on track to get him a Pro Bowl this year, having a career season. But I don't know what they do. It's gonna be very interesting. Rich Um. This this concludes what is it week in week fifteen? Now? Is that what it is? Mitchell god bless? This season is flown by well Richard. We'll see you on Wednesday for the next episode here, but in the meantime, I want you to think long and hard about this Detroit Lions team, how far they have come? And um, you know, when you rest easy tonight, just think if Mike White only played, if Mike White played Mr. I don't think about that. Well, thank you guys for joining us. I'm hurt, you know, I'm I'm I'm stubborn. I still got hope. I get my jest this week, I was hoping to get a Mike White game. Catch me on TNF TNF tonight start to seven pm Eastern. We're in New York covering the Jets in the Jacksonville Jaguars who look hot, s fish grease as well. Trevor Lawrence looks like the guy they drafted. Uh catch us there hits the sub button. If you knew, see you next week. The volume