Point favorites when it started as the Vikings is two and
a half Point favorite. Yeah, it's I mean, it's certainly, you
know, interesting I wouldn't have expected it. I can
understand the logic of a little bit though.
One that
people don't believe in the Vikings. I think that's
the first thing. I think that's even goes true to the people in
the NFL. People watch it and go, you know, hey
you know I think Tony junjie and Jason Garrett. It did he
ask them. The same things just to throw out some other where
you go. Hey, it's good. We get that. But
man, I don't know
what, you know, there's no dominant factor of their
football team, you know, again, a would be another game last
week and a lot of ways, I'm not sure. You looked like
the better team on the field you'll one. And then as we know, Mike,
it's a matchup league
and I think that's probably where
people look at it and go, man, this Lions offense.
They can run it on just about anybody the way goff's throwing
it. That's good. Ever since they made some adjustments on
deep. Ends that's been better.
Kirk Cousins has not been great as of late the passing game.
I don't want to just put it on Kirk Cousins and the running
game. As we discussed,
was really more of a benefactor of the passing game being good.
And a lot of ways, it is past first and then run, we're in
years past, we saw them run and then, oh, hey, now they can
pass it. So
I guess those would probably be my reasons, let alone. Yeah.
The lines are a hot football team right now and they're at
home.
I said we were kicking this around yesterday and there was
a suggestion, maybe Kirk Cousins was injured. I was very
interested to see the report yesterday from the Vikings
because he did get rocked at one point on Sunday and he was
like kind of screaming out in
pain. He's a tough son of a gun. He is. I mean, he didn't
miss a beat and he's not on the injury reported all. There are
five Vikings that missed practice Wednesday with
an illness.
I suspect by Sunday, they'll be fine. But the problem is, how
many others are going to pick it up and what kind of an issue
are they going to have is the week unfolds? I just think it's
as simple as.
The betting public doesn't respect right, the Vikings
right. The betting public thinks the Vikings have more
than a little bit of fugazi in them. Yeah. And the Lions have
have figured something out and
and that we should expect them to win especially after last
week when the Jaguars were favored by one and they kicked
the crap out of the Jaguars. I think that was the litmus test.
For a lot of people to say, okay, the Lions really are
pretty damn good. And yep. Why wouldn't you, why wouldn't you
think they'll they're chasing a playoff berth? Yeah. Going to
have to win out and the Vikings have to lose out for
the Vikings to not win the division. Yeah, that is
highly unlikely but Alliance can still get in. They can
Stave off elimination to win the division and they can get
into the postseason as a wild-card and they'd be a tough
out if they get there. So I think that it's just perception
and it's betting
and I look
the reality is with the Vikings with these Vikings. They have
figured out that that horseshoe up the but
they They, they make the plays when they need to make them
pets with Patrick Peterson. Told me. We had 11 guys on
defense,
all of them believe that they're going to be the one to
make the play that saves the game. And one of them
inevitably does and there's no sense of friction, is not like
the offense stinks.
Yeah. Remember when
against the Buccaneers
the Rams had a goal-line stand
and then
the Rams didn't get a single first down. Yeah. So the Bucks
got the ball back right. Broke down and won the game Jam.
Ramsey popped off About it.
You know, I mean have a second. There's not even a,
the attitude was, let's go. We gotta go, we gotta go, we just
made a goal line. Stand, we gotta go. Do it again. Let's go
do it. Yeah, let's go because, you know, we can, it's just,
it's just odd. And until somebody overcomes, that that
Vibe is going to continue. And the big point was
Peterson senses that the opposing offense is starting to
feel that same thing. We'll see if Dan Campbell can get
the Lions to ignore that and overcome that and maybe they're
the team. That finally Pops that bubble. Who knows? All
right. Jets bills
crystal ball. Well, the Jets be going back to Zach Wilson after
this game. Remember last year, it was my quite losing to
the bills 45-17 being picked
off four times and no touchdowns that ended the my
quite experiment. Will it end again after this game? Chris
I'm going to say no I'm going to say no, I don't I just has
no feel of ending in sight,
just the vibe around it,
the way the team is acted. The players have acted around my
quite, I think it would. I'm going to say no.
Because I think it'll take four interceptions and I'm not going
to say that's impossible. I mean, I'm not, he, he could
have thrown four or five interceptions last week against
your Viking, see me through to, and he had a, you know, two
or three others that were in their hands and they dropped it.
So
but I think it'll take a Monumental like last year type
of game and I don't think he's gonna do that. I don't I think
you know again he's got a little more experience, he
understands what he dealt with last year in that defensive
scheme,
where
I think he'll be a little bit more conservative with some of
his decisions and things like that to where he'll hold on,
hold on to the job for another week. It's a weird situation.
Well, and we talked about the other day, there's just
something more going on here than how well, my quite does or
doesn't perform and the players loved him. The players believe
in him.
The coaches believe they can coach him
and Zach Wilson is still in the doghouse. I,
I can't imagine Zach. Wilson going from inactive. Yeah, to
starter tonight sweetheart. All right. Exact think the step
would be. All right, we're going to make him the back up
today, right? Did that would just like they did with my
quite
that. That was the
that was the first real signal of what was Coming. They put my
quite a head of Joe Flacco. Why are you doing that? Well, what
happened a few weeks later. So, I think the first step would be
Flacco's in street clothes and Zach Wilson's. Number two. So
I agree with you
unless he's injured.
They're not going back
from my quite to Zach Wilson. After this game, Browns, Bengals,
and the the brown. It's just with these weird
bangles on the Chiefs Browns on the Bengals browser. Five and
seven second game. With DeShaun Watson scale of 1 to 10
confidence level, the Joe Borough puts an end.
His own personal struggles against the Cleveland Browns.
I'm going to say
about an eight. I'm pretty confident and
one, you know? Hey, they lost them. The last game of the year
last year when they didn't play anybody, right? But it is. The
struggles are real.
He's had some games where he put up some big numbers 2020.
I think he did too. Had a gamer one of those games read through
like for 400 yards might have been like a Thursday night game
if I remember, right?
But yeah, it hasn't been You know
easy against this football team but the
I think the way I look at it as just you kind of hit on it
earlier, I in Deshawn Watson still getting this feet back
underneath them and it's been a long time so I don't expect him
to be going. You know
full go here and I just think the Bangles have turned
a corner here. The defense is awesome.
The offense and Borough
is is awesome. The offensive line
has become real again
and their past protect and damn well I mean we didn't hear
Jones is named last week. Alex Kappa is one of the only humans
I've seen
that can kind of
not be obliterated by Chris Jones and one-on-one.
So they got it rolling right now and Joe borough has
has entered, the Mahomes Allen conversation for my money. That
would be just the Chris Simms assessment that. I think
they're kind of on another level those three,
you know, me, I always said Mahomes and Alan were on
another level Borough the last four or five weeks away. He's
played the throws the off schedule stuff. And I think
he's entered that conversation and that's where I have, you
know, pretty trunk confidence in them.
And done a lot of it without Tamar Chase. Right? Was back,
right. Last week right now, who have another game under his
belt this week and I just think that
look DeShaun Watson was not good last week now. I still
don't know how the Browns won that game other than
the opponent was. The Houston fix they were turned
upon. They had
returned a fumble. They had a pick six. I mean they scored
with everything but the offense last week it was pretty amazing
actually. Sorry I didn't mean to cut you off. I just had to
throw that out there. It's not
funny and he anybody Two plays fantasy football knows that
the Browns defense last week was a juggernaut for all that because
you get the special team score
as well. So yeah, I think that that DeShaun Watson has a lot
of work to do and not nearly enough time to do it, to get
ready to go toe-to-toe, with Joe burrow and, and they're
playing the game in Cincinnati. It's going to be a hostile
crowd towards John Watson. It's funny how he's back now, and we
just kind of forget all that, right? Every road game, he
plays. Yeah,
every time he's going to, he's going to Pittsburgh
later this year.
Are you? Kidding me. You think they're going to be friendly
and Pittsburgh to DeShaun Watson. Holy cow. And they are
going to be friendly to him in Cincinnati this weekend either
and all that. It's he's human, it's going to work on you. It's
going to wear you down.
It's going to distract you. I think
I'm at a 9 Burrows going to overcome the Browns because
they're in a position now where they got a shot at the 1 seed.
Yes they do you know. Yeah they got they got deal with
the Ravens but the Ravens don't have Lamar Jackson and they're
struggling right now. Take
that division. Yeah. And Cincinnati can end up. They can
end up being the one seed this year when it's all said and
done. See how that goes.
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