AFC South projected winner
according to points, bet Colts the favorites. It - 115 so much
for the Titans who the one seed last year. They are plus 145
Jaguars
721 and their the Texans 32:1 my God, I would not have
expected that big of a spread between the Jaguars and
the Texans. Chris. It's a little surprising to see it there but
it is the Jags
spend a ton of money this year.
They got a quarterback.
Back, you know that we got people excited
so I could see that the Texans I still do look at him as
a team and going man. There's a lot of solid and depth there
but is there game-changing? Players are two really think
that they can make something happen on either side of
the ball. I think that's
the one thing I would question about them.
Either way. I'm a little surprised like,
why though are the Colts the favorites is it? Just because
Matt Ryan's there and Ryan Tannehill had a bad last game.
I mean, I guess I'm a little surprised to see the spread
there as well.
Well, and there's this lingering sense that
the culture, a really good team and we all Carson Wentz his fault.
So now they've got Matt Ryan and, you know, the Titans
the last memory of them, the three interceptions from Ryan
Tannehill,
right? So the vibe around the Titans, the loss to
the Bengals, it's not good. And this is driven by betting
the odds. Reflect what the betting patterns are and people tend to
have more faith right now in the Colts and the Titans. All
right. It's the AFC South best non quarterbacks in
the division draft, Chris, Europe. All right. I'm going to lead it
off with a big ugly.
I'm gonna go with the guy. That's the best offensive
lineman in football and already going into the Hall of Fame and
that's Quentin Nelson. That's how I'm going to start it.
I mean, quite Nelson is the best guard in football. You didn't
apply tackle. You can do that,
but he's phenomenal. And yes, he is
already going into Hall of Fame type territory. So I'll pick
him to start it off his attitude. What what? The Colts
do it set by him and his ability to move people and open
up holes for Jonathan Taylor.
Yeah, look at and he's a guy. Who was super star from the day
that he first arrived sets the tone for the offensive line.
The big wall that Jim are saying company built they
but but I think this is why he was so frustrated last year.
They have all the pieces. Yeah, just have had this revolving
door quarterback interviewed Chris Ballad, The Jam, the team
several weeks ago. You could just feel the frustration
the exasperation at their inability to have a quarterback for more
than a year and they hope to have Matt Ryan for a.
Eventually, hope to get the guy that's going to be
the long-term answer, but they've been pivoting from veteran
the veteran while they they wait. And that's the other side of
these two, we get back to the draft, but this, you know,
they're good enough
that they have reason to try to find a veteran. This isn't
the time to try to develop a Young quarterback there, too. Good to
not. Try to plug in somebody who can take them to where they
want to go.
All right, Derrick Henry, is taking the Titans to where
they've been trying to go. And even though we missed eight
games last year, in the regular season, after I think nine
games total after he suffered that foot injury.
He's still one of the best players in the entire NFL. The
best running back. He was on Pace to have a ridiculous year
before that foot injury happened out of the blue a day
after they had beaten the Colts and kind of a hard-fought game
but Derrick Henry,
I think he would've been my first pick. Anyway, I'll do
respect to quit Nelson. Yeah, I'll Derrick Henry a special
running back and see how many more years he can. Keep it
going. A lot of wear and tear
big body, but a phenomenal player, this Generations, Jim Brown.
No doubt. I hear you, you know, you know Mike sometimes these
drafts. I try to uh, Try to give some of the other star
players that maybe not everybody gets the credit for
his times and give them that their to. I knew one of us was
going to pick Derrick
Henry here in the next round or two.
But yeah, freak. Again. We just talked about Clinton Nelson.
I think, you know, in this era of whoa, running backs, not
many going to go to the Hall of Fame, Derrick Henry Jones. The
Hall of Fame. Derrick. Henry is an all-time great running back.
That's already set in stone.
There's no way you can argue it period.
So, I'm going to be interesting to see how good he is this year.
I'm going to go with the guy that's challenging. Him to
maybe take that mantle to be the best running back in
football and Jonathan Taylor from the cold. So I know
I brought him up. But damn Taylor,
you know, 61 or five, you know, six foot 230 pounds can run
with power break tackles, but as we know and like we've seen
with Derrick Henry,
guys got three rockets up his butt like legit and he can go
70 yards to the house from anywhere on the field. I mean,
he's special, he is that way so,
you know definitely in the conversation for the
Running back in the sport
home, run hitter and like a 45-yard tough nose Runner to
I love Jonathan. Taylor's game.
I'll flip it over to the other side of the ball. I'll go back
to the Titans. You go cold. So I go titans. This is like,
the AFC East the other day. When you did all dolphins, and I did
all bills. I'll go Jeffrey Simmons.
He was Unstoppable. Yes, one way. Yeah. I thought you were
taking him last round. I know. I don't think you. All right.
Yeah. In that game against the The Bangles and
time. He's do to get the money that he deserves. And
disruptive the next wave. The next guy. Who's that? Kind of
And Donald presents who can just f up the play and get to
the quarterback, not just create chaos
and allow everyone else to go. Get to the ball.
He can create the chaos and go finish the job. No doubt
a great pick by you. I meant I wanted to take him last round.
I just I didn't think you would do it. So I was I was kind of
sandbagging you there, but
I think the Jeffrey Simmons has
entered that conversation to your point of top defensive
tackles and football and maybe not going to say he's Aaron
Donald but he's in that conversation with him, Chris
Jones.
No, the it's a special group. Like you said they can put up
stats or they can f the play up and not get any stats, but
they're the reason the play was ruined so good one there by
you.
All right. Damn.
I mean,
I guess we're going to go titans Colts on this job
because that I, you know, I like Brandon scherff down in
Jacksonville. I don't know if anybody warns me picking them
in this draft quite yet in Jacksonville and the same
thing. Like, with Houston Texans. There's laremy tunsil
on the board, but I don't know if I can say they're better
than some of these other guys. I still got the board from the
Names of the codes.
I'm going to go with DeForest Buckner.
I mean devorah if Jeffrey Simmons isn't the best
defensive lineman in the division. It's divorce Buckner.
Who's who is
it mean again? It's a giant human being
who can play defense and and defensive tackle and do a lot
of the things you just talked about with Jeffrey Simmons,
except he's a little more vertically
taller there and Simmons maybe a thicker,
you know, more of a Powerhouse type of guy but damned if
where's Buckner is a game wrecker and definitely one of
the best evens. In football.
I
look, I may be learn me tons of from the Texans. I know, right?
Nobody from the text. It's one of the reasons why they they
are
such long shots to win the division.
I'll go James Robinson just because
it's kind of like the early. Frank Gore
phenomenon. By the way, Frank Gore is going to sign a one-day
contract to retire with the 49ers today, the argument, he
makes early in his career. He was all that the 49ers had he
had to gain yards without a
Passing game without blocking. He still had to find a way to
get it done. James Robinson broke onto the scene with
a thousand yards season in 2021. The Jaguars were horrible. They
won in week one of the last 15 in a row.
And last year. I feel like Urban Meyer was doing
everything he could to not use James Robinson tongue,
undermined James years. It seemed like it. One of the many
controversies
Urban Meyer telling an implausible story about why
Robinson was taken out of a game and not put back in. They
drafted, Travis Etienne there. Ran somebody on dropping one,
right? Yeah. Yeah. So II just, you know, to the extent that
there's any name that jumps off the
depth chart that that definitely deserves credit and
has suffered through
two years of crap
in Jacksonville.
It's James Robinson. Yeah, he's a
hell of a football player. He is, he's, you know, going
unnoticed a little bit there and in Jacksonville, but and
you pair him with Travis Etienne this year and what he
could possibly be, that could be a scary backfield.
Them. I mean, we didn't pick Darius Leonard.
He's, you know up there with one of the best linebackers in
football. We left him off the board. The guy who led
the division in sacks Harold Landry. We also left him off
the board.
And now you start to realize when you break down the one
thing I've learned from these exercises, you do, you do start
to realize that. Whoa, there's considerably more Talent on
the Colts and the Tennessee Titans compared to the other two teams
in the division.
Jacksonville has a chance,
but it's all potential. We just got to see. We're not sure.
It's young and unproven to this point. Point
and and they're doing what they can to improve the team, but
you're right. The Titans and the calls to the two teams that
are established. And by all appearances. They
will run that division.