take a look at the odds. Here,
Chiefs Chargers Broncos,
you know, the couple of teams should be improved. Wow, look
at the odds here. If you're listening, you can't look, but
I'll help you out Chiefs of the favorite, but only slightly
plus 175 Chargers second choice at plus 200. So so close
Broncos, right there, 2 + 300 +. Raiders, still in the mix at
plus 600. Wow, I know, I mean arguably the toughest division
in football. No.
Doubt, what do you want to start this
Chiefs? You think they're the favorite? Yes.
Yes. 10.5 way too low. For me way too low.
Anybody is some listen to me through preseason team on
a mission, team on a mission.
I like the young pieces they got. I think they're going to
be better on the defensive line.
I think in a lot of ways are going to be better on
the offensive side of the ball to. So, yes, there you go.
I'm picking the Chiefs
over 10 and a half. All right,
they're winning the AFC West. Let me just clarify
that right now, before we get to the other teams, three,
three teams, they are winning the AFC West,
Anything else see? Why are you unzip? The she'll see you
little. Yes, no, I just I look at it. And go the way Mahomes
is looked the way the offense has looked the
the variety of players that they have on the offensive side
of the ball. Talent-wise you've heard me say it. I think it's
can be one of the bestop past protecting. Oh, lines and all
the football. Yep. They
got imagination on that side of the ball. The defense has
imagination. I think they have more big bodies up front. They
got two. Linebackers in the middle. That can fly. Who are
your older? The safeties are
Upgrade with Thorne Hillman read over Matthew and Thornhill.
All right, I like the way McDuffie looks. Hopefully he's
good after. You know, getting his Bell rung, the other night
and I'll luxurious need over there Fenton. I mean, I just
I like it all Carl aptus, again,
ass-whooping unappreciated game number three. So
yeah, I'm very bullish on the Chiefs, as you could tell. Why
do you say they're on a mission? Because I just feel
like
a team that lost a Super Bowl, a team that was like,
played beep us football. For most of the year last year and
then got to go and probably you're looking at it going,
then we should have beat the Bangles and just kind of fell
asleep at the wheel little bit
as to the character of those people there
are not going to be like, well,
where the Chiefs,
we went to the AFC Championship
and the Super Bowl the year before that, and we'll just,
you know, feet up and will happen again. It just the way
they're talking, the way. They've played
Mahomes wants to be an all-time great and eerie. Is an all-time
great. I just feel like they got their Edge back a little
bit let alone I think they improve their team a little. So
I
just look at that and go
and then it's not
it can't win without Tyree kill and all that crap. Like I just
feel like it's all setting up for them to be of the big
Jersey state bird and everybody's face. All right, so
you're going over on the Chiefs the Chargers right there with
them ten and
a half. Yeah. Is the over-under they did with nine games last
year just barely missed out on the playoffs last second to
the Raiders ten and a half. I know, Khalil. Mac JC Jackson defense.
Now it's right in this range. It's right in this range. All
right?
I mean it's it's
Like man, this is this is a really tough one with me but
the Chargers I don't know where I want to go. Like
the way you look at their schedule first off, I know
their rosters really good. I worried about Brandon Staley
a little bit, you know, with the aggressive fourth-down calls,
I do think it costs them in some games. Now, I understand it.
They won some games
because of it too,
but I guess it does worry me.
But man, I look at their team and go well, there's not really
much weakness anymore. The old lines gotten straightened out.
I think they're going to have enough big bodies in the middle
to slow down the run, a little bit more pluses year to and
Brandon
Staley scheme. That he's got more of a they'll have more of
an understanding and the more pieces that fit it.
Yeah,
I almost want to go over with them too,
but just barely over.
Okay, .6, let me
write something like that for again, to be fair if you're
hearing me. Yeah, I think there are 10 win, 11, win type of
football. Team Your Guns to my head, your heads too. Might
Your Guns to my head again?
And I'm going with 11, I'm gonna go with the over here.
Alright. The first eight games I can see
the first eight games for the Chargers.
Look, Of that going. Whoa,
the Chargers are
seven and one and maybe start they could have a gun at me and
six and two. Now the last half of the schedule, the 49ers,
the Chiefs, the Cardinals, the Raiders, the Dolphins,
the Titans at the Colts on a Monday night football game
Rams, a Broncos. That that's a brutal stretch there to end
the season. That's but, but I could see them coming out of the gate
strong. And that's being like,
whoa, there are six and two or seven and two were eight and
one. And
I think the charger's, the best team in football. I wouldn't be.
A shock for that. There's not, you know, other than
the Chiefs. There's they're the only team there that to me,
that, I just go definitely better than them on the roster
wise. You showed some love. Now to the
Titans and the
Jaguars and the Chargers. Now we got a hammer, a team. I'm
feeling like it might be the Broncos here, you're right. It
is 10. Is the problem, which is way higher than I thought. I'm
not I don't I'm not going anywhere near there. And to me,
this is the most, this
is to me. The obvious under
this is I'm shocked by this, even with Russell will, I know?
It's I don't Like want to, like, I understand how awesome
Russell Wilson is. But
I just again, I guess
a little bit, the way they've looked.
All right, I'm not just sold that it's
hey, this isn't like
Tom, Brady to the bucks, or Stafford to the Rams, where
the groundwork was already laid, the teams were great. And
then they just, they just needed the quarterback to give
them the over the edge. This is like,
no, it's a brand new head coach. So we've never seen be
a head coach. This is different here. This is like a lot of
we think these receivers are good, but we're not really sold
on it yet. We can't like, you know, write home about it. Oh
Lying, okay, it's solid, not great. Maybe better than
Russell Wilson. Has had the last few years but I'm not
gonna go. Oh wow, it's
the Denver alwine. Watch out whoever plays them
defensively. Secondaries awesome
front. Sevens underwhelming.
So yes I don't see ten-and-a-half anywhere near here.
I think this could be
6 and 11 7 and 10 foot.
I'll tell ya know where to go hammered a team. There we go.
Wrong, Russ got hurt last year. Came back, right. Wasn't all
that great.
I'm curious to see how he plays I am too. And again I think in
just being in a new spot and a new spot, you know, getting
used to life away from Seattle and just the pressure of all
that.
Yeah, I don't know, there's just something that I don't love
about what I feel or see with the Broncos. A lot of changes
in Las Vegas as well new coach over there.
Five is the over-under. They won ten games last year,
squeaked into the playoffs beat the Chargers. Got the five seed
8.5,
seems low, I know, but it's a tough division title. Yeah,
this is, this is,
you know, I've said two teams that I had the flat line with
and this is the other team that I'm like, right on the flat
line, with a little bit, I hold on. Let me pull my gun out
here. I'm going to put it to your head. I'm gonna go with
the under though.
I am. I mean this is I think I don't think it's going to be
significantly far under
Yes, I'm going to go eight, you know, I think the thing that
bothers me, again, it's a coaching staff. The definitely
doesn't have the pieces they want for their schemes.
All right, I think that you'll see Derek Carr and the offense
put up good numbers. I worry about their old line. I think
that's the first thing to say worried about their old line
and as I pull up, their schedule me, just get to it.
I almost think to before you get to the schedule with a,
with a roster, right? We do have the schedule here but with
the roster, right? It's like, how can I mean it was almost
a Shocked that they got into the playoffs, was amazing. I mean
they have not really hit on the draft,
right? And you feel
like any team that can consistently give you playoffs,
they hit on the draft. Yes. And they just haven't done that.
I think was almost A Small Miracle. They made the playoffs
last year. I think it's kind of fellow the right way for them.
It was and think they kind of
is over expectations for sure. I least I look at it that way
and then you talk about offense of line issues
man the Chargers to start the year
Titans week three,
Sweet 5.
You know, the Cardinals, do crazy stuff blitzing and all
that too. So
I guess I worry about that. And then I just, I just look at
their defense and I go, I know they got the to pass rushers
that's real, I'm not sure. I'm love with their interior
d-line, linebackers.
Nobody to write home about in the secondary really
so I guess that's where I question it. Let alone. Yeah,
they're in the AFC West and they got to play, you know,
the AFC South and the NFC West witcher's and of
Seed West is really good. And I think we were saying with
the AFC South even though the Titans and the only team I'm
looking at to be in that then that you know, playoff picture
the Colts and Jaguars are not going to be a pushover. So
yeah, I just I think the Raiders
are being a little too highly overvalued for,
you know, the yes they got in last year
but some teams had a trip up and stumbled down the stretch
for them to get into and I don't know if I really look at
them with this coaching staff. In this scheme, here is
a playoff caliber night Yeah, not yeah, right. All of the our
favorite nine games this season
but none of those games are against opponents in the AFC West,
and their end of the season is crude oil. So that is crazy.
And if you, if you do look at the end of the year, I mean,
their last game of the year is their last two games of
the year, the 49ers in the Chiefs,
before? That's Patriots Steelers. You got the Rams,
the Chargers. I mean, they got they got a stretch there at the end
where I could see, the may be falling apart a little at
the end of the season.