49ers-Seahawks Recap + Week 15 Odds & Ends (Friday Fun Show with Patrick Claybon)

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would welcome to the Friday Fun Show. That's a working title your guide via around the NFL too Week fifteen and perhaps beyond Dan Hands this year, Mark Sessler, as he told us repeatedly behind the scenes, Greg was not going to be on today's episode. Where he is. I assume maybe he had something happened, maybe in the mess hall at the penitentiary and he's in the hole. That's what I'm gonna go with Patrick Claiban here as well. If I haven't mentioned with Greg ros at all, what's up, guys, I like to imagine him having fun. I'd like to imagine in the comments right now, leaving us questions for the Friday's Fun Show, he's passionately leading an escape charge. Um, He's grabbed the microphone and he's like, one way out. What's the shawshake? Is it a picture of Raquel Welch it is? Mark is a man that is strong. If he sets his mind to something, he can achieve it. And I could see him burrowing through a prison wall over the course of twelve years. I could see it. Greg. Before we get into everything, we got a lot to get it to get to here. Um, I know we teased Connor Or was gonna be on the show and sharing some of his Christmas movie recommendations for Unfortunately, we have to push that to Tuesday, So I'm sorry if you were excited. If you're in the live stream right now only for Connor's Christmas movie Rex, apologies. Hopefully you stick around. Greggy. I know that you you did your wheezy out there, which I like. But the one thing that you and I need to work on is you say it right as I start and maybe we can work out some type of thing where we're not like talking over each other at the same time. I like it, though, Well, that's when the beat hits. That's when you know that, That's when he says it so right. So then it becomes who gets the beat and the beat drop? And maybe I'll my Christmas gift to you is I'm gonna give you the beat drop. Okay, I love it all I've ever wanted a lot to get to Today, we have week fifteen predictions. We have a injury minute that from Greg Roosevelt coming up that had a a bomb dropped on my morning. Put it that way. We're gonna get to that regarding a certain quarterback playing in East Rutherford. Uh this weekend, Uh, it's about me, is not about me or Patrick piece it together. But before that, let's uh and of course again, thank you to everybody on the live stream right now. UM we will hear from you as the episode goes along. Clai Bonn is an expert of checking in in real time with the live stream, so not only will he be interjecting his comments. I think Patrick, you have full um as an honorary hero, you have full power to grab comments and shoot him into the stream yourself. Yes, that that is That's my gift to you. So I'm just handing on all these gigs. Got a bongo? What can he not do? Let's get to Thursday night football though. As we begin our charge through week fifteen, Purdy and a pisto McCaffrey behind him. Hers check to the side, he looks right, comes lap FROs down the sideline wide. O't at George Kettle dirty twenty cuts it side head cuts it, side a kid down, said Fred the Great Greg Papa with the call for K and b R And something tells me, gentlemen, We're gonna keep hearing Greg Papa through January and eating the second week of February, because the San Francisco forty Niners with the kid at quarterback, still look dominant and the final score doesn't look that way over the host Seahawks in a game that allowed the Nighters to clinch the NFC West with three full weeks to go after this one. Um, but Patrick, make no mistake. San Francisco, with this kid quarterback who looks very much comfortable with this immense responsibility that fell into his lap, they're gonna be tough to beat. And and the thing is he's not just managing games. This isn't like this is an early season. Oh, there's a quarterback controversy in Dallas, Like brock Purty was making plays and some of it is the Seahawks defense is really struggling right now. They could not get off the field. But we can't take away from what brock Purty did. There was the Travis Homer fumble. The game could have been different, hinging on a couple of different things. But as as difficult as it was, this is a road game for brock Purty, his very first on Thursday night in a division like deciding game essentially, and he went out there in bold. So I'm not picking against them anymore that I've made this mistake two weeks in a row and I'm not doing it. I'm done. You pick you picked against the Sea against the forty in this game, I did. I took. I took Gino at home against the rookie quarterback making his first start on the road, thinking that maybe Seattle would get off the field one time on third down, and they didn't. I'm picking up another game on Clay Boon and the game debut standing. It's ugly. I wish Seattle had more routes to win this game, but they had one, which was get a couple of the breaks, play clean football, and make Purty look like a rookie, And for a minute in the second quarter he did kind of once they went through their fifteen place script there there. They did get a couple of stops. We find out after the game that pretty you know, really couldn't throw the ball this week, that it was up in the air more whether he was gonna make it through this game, you know, because of the oblique injury. And they get a couple of stops. You mentioned it, but the Seahawks are driving down seven three late in the second quarter, hopefully you get a field goal there to make it seven six. At halftime, Homer has that fumble and it came right after Purdy had his worst throw as a pro, right into Quadrie Diggs bread basket. Diggs drops it. The Homer fumble, of course, you know, goes right into uh the forty Niners hands. Great play by Drake Greenlaw, who's just playing at an all pro level. They return it to the five, so Purdy has his worst quarter as a pro, but he gets the ball back at the five yard line. They run it in. They start the second half with a busted coverage where he makes a nice read and goes deep instead of taking kind of the check down to McCaffrey. But ultimately it's a busted coverage and Purdy is just living this amazingly charmed life. And he's got some skills too. He can throw on the move, and he just is making this forty Niners team more interesting I think than when they had Jimmy Garoppolos. For sure. This is a great storyline, and I think I wasn't alone. It was nice to see the story of what Brock Purdy was able to do against Tom Brady in San Francisco. But we know the Bucks are kind of a mess this year, and you wanted to kind of see more. I could say, now, all right, we saw him went on the road in primetime, but how will he fare against, you know, a big time team. I don't need to. I don't need that. I don't think the Purdy is necessarily a guy that's going to lead their offense in a way that's the way Kurt Warner did for the Rams in ninety nine. But I think he's already now shown that this is something he's gonna be able to handle. And as we know, with the San Francisco offense, you don't need the quarterback to be superman. So he's this is kind of a perfect set up for him to become one of the more memorable stories, UH in a long time if things keep going this way. Because you know, they played without Deebo Samuel, one of the most dangerous offensive players of the year in the league, and it didn't matter. They just took care of business in this game. I think the homer fumble was devastating for Seattle. UH. They were down seven three with with under two minutes to go in the half. You got San Francisco getting the ball to start the third quarter, and it's like that was the only thing that you cannot do. You can't cough it up and and give Purdy in San Francisco a quick score. And then sure enough, as Greg says, the coverage bust for the second kittle t D and that first kittle t D was really impressive and and they did a good job Herb Street calling it out the way pretty is so under control and you could tell he's so comfortable in this offense where um, the past looks like it's gonna be a swing one side or the other, and he goes through the motions, sucks the defense in and then just hits over the middle for that first touchdown to Kiddle. So a very encouraging game again for Purdy. And yeah, I just that they're in my pick now. I if I if I had to pick one team that I think it's going all the way, I think I think San Francisco is. Yeah, I think they're the team the Eagles, with no disrespect to the Eagles, but I just they don't they don't they have that kind of vibe, that feeling right now that this is a straight jugg or not not that Eagles aren't. I understand that it's a little bit of disrespect. It's a little bit of this tiny, a tiny bit of disrespect, you know the argument if you're Philly. Because I was breaking it down, I was thinking this forty Islanders defense as five Pro bowlers, which is crazy that five on one side. Bosses for sure, warners for sure. I think green Law should make it at our various Ward locked up DK metcalf and really showed himself out and has been great all season. And your guy who funga might might make it too. That's fine, But the Eagles might have that many too, and they have an m v P quarterback candidate at quarterback, and so I think that's tough. But I think Perdie is not gonna have to do as much to your point as Jalen Hurts is gonna have to do. I love seeing CMC at one point he had thirty of fifty nine touches and there weren't like many big plays. It's like a twenty yard run in one ten yard pass, but it's just a lot of fives, a lot of six. He's showing a lot of toughness. But I still wouldn't put them at Philly's level, especially because they'll be on the road in that game. But it does feel and even though it is presumptuous, it's feels like that's the NFC Championship game, like at this moment in terms of the way these two teams were playing. And yeah, it's it's maybe you're asking Jalen Hurts to do more and he's gonna have to do. But that's that's been the entire season, right And like, is C J g J dropping the pick that Quadre Diggs did last night? Right? Is James or James Bradberry and Darius Slay not making These are two very good teams and something weird could happen. Of course, ball's not around. I gotta play the games, but it just it feels like destiny that these two are going to meet up. And as for Seattle, now they're seven and seven and that they do profile right now as a team that peaked too soon. Um, I didn't think Greg. I didn't think Gineo, for instance, was terrible. I know that should have been a pick six and another terrible roughing the passer call. Wipe that away, but I felt this is more a buzz saw game where San Francisco's defense is just in such a zone right now that every yard you just you just you're fighting and scratchy DK metcalf I could guarantee he woke up sore this morning. That guy is a machine and a b east and and you know they just did they gave him nothing. Uh. Tyler Lockett breaks his finger in this game. He's gonna miss time. So this could be the end of your your pet team Seattle. Lockett's injury really hurts them. It sounds like he's gonna miss multiple weeks. They're at Kansas City next week. There, you know that that's a big gass. So they're probably seven and eight. They finished with two home games with the Jets and the Rams. It's another tough defense for Gino to go against with lock it out. But if you if you won those two games and you lost to the Chiefs, you're nine and eight and you'll have you'll have a chance maybe to get in. But they were Geno didn't play well. He could have had two or three picks. Um no one played well. It was It really just was crazy to see like a team get physically dominated at literally every position. Their offensive line, defensive line, linebackers like defensive backs like it just felt like they were getting bullied around and it was a minor miracle their defense had a chance to get a stop to in a one score game at the end, because it probably shouldn't have been that close. Uh, all right, And after the game by it was a T shirt and hat game. As we said, the Niners are NFC West champions, and you know this is a big rivalry. Obviously Seattle in San Francisco. Um, they have a lot of history. As we know. After the game, Kyle Shanahan, UM have the quote, this isn't our final goal by any means, And let me hit the trope alert on that one. Um, it's okay. It's okay teams to live in the moment a little bit. When you win a division that that's hard. It's hard to win a division. It's hard to win the NFC West. And when you're saying things like this isn't our final goal, and then you the other one you see all the time the Eagles use this on this is just the first step. We know, we know, guys, just savor it because we're not we're not presuming that you think that the season is now a success. We like the Niners, they almost went to the Super Bowl lash year. We know this is just the first step for you, guys, so don't worry about it. You don't have We're working under the the the assumption that you want it all. I'm just giving letting them know they can have some fun and enjoy a moment like this without adding those qualifiers. Can you give us, Can you give us the example like, let's say your Kyle shanahan, you just hit the podium and I'm like, coach, uh, your fourth NFC West championship. What's this moment mean to you right now? It's we're extremely proud of ourselves. This is something we have to save her obviously, because we deserve it. This is something that um, we've worked hard for and it's just the first step. But we're gonna celebrate on the plane. We are going to get drunk on that damn plane because we deserve it, and we'll be back to work come Hell. They're off till Tuesday. Go crazy this weekend, guys. Kyle and the McCarthy like parachutes into the press conference and he's like, there will be no drinking on the plane. All right, let's check in with the UH live streamers. They need a name, the streakers, the stream team, the stream team. Now you gave me a gift, Patrick, All right, here we go. Let's get some commentary from the stream team. I'm gonna just say one that I'm reading myself. Blue Malicious says, No, there must never be there must be never ending selemonity at all times. Dan No, I like that word. Philip Patch, do you think the forty nine could beat the Eagles to go Super Bowl? Well, we just had that conversation, Um, and you guys think I put a little disrespect on the Eagles. I get that Eagles are awesome this year, and they're twelve and one and they're gonna have that number one seed. But if there's one team that is going to go into Philly UH at the end of January and not be afraid of it, oh man, Nick Bosa, Uh that that front seven you just saw Darius Darius us Varius did two DK metcalf their physic cool. They're mean, Uh, that's gonna be a great game. Everybody, stay healthy, stay healthy. You go get that two seed, forty Niners. There's still a lot to play for there too. They can get that two seed from the Vikings. I think they have a better than average chance according to most playoff models. Nice Greggy, what else, Aaron Jaffa Jaffe? Will the Seahawks make the playoffs? In the blink of an eye, there's suddenly on the outside looking in, Greg, I will throw it to you on this one. Now. Keep in mind, and by the way, good job by even though Sunday night football team obviously has a bias against my Jets. Good job on the flex of Giants commanders, because that's more and more feeling like a win and in type game for that team, especially with Seattle now going down. Do you think the Seahawks still have a path though? Oh? Absolutely, Uh you mean having the game in Kansas City, just feeling like a loss is a killer. You gotta kind of root for the Commanders that just take charge of that six spot. I mean you could root for them to win against the Giants and then both of those other teams collapse. It's possible. I think the Giants can fall right out of it, and so then the last bot comes down to the Lions and the Seahawks. Wait, did you say Commanders should take charge of the six spot when you had it right there. It was right in front of you, Greg, they gotta go ahead and uh take command. The schedule for the Lions after this Jets game at Carolina, Bears and Packers. I look at all these team schedules and it feels like they could win any game, but they certainly could lose any game. And so I think nine and eight has a realistic chance for Seattle, and then depending on who they end up tying with, they do have the tiebreaker over the Giants, and they have it over the Lions. Right they beat the Lions, So that's pretty good stuff. M what else we got? Drunk cow of death like that? If the cow if the Cowboys go one and done again? Is McCarthy on the hot sea Clay Bonne, Yes, I think he is. But it's it's one of those things, right, if you fire Mike McCarthy, do you need some sort of agreement with Sean Payton beforehand? Is that? Have you already had the conversations with Mickey Loomis. I think it's one of those things where if it's Sean Payton and if that's reasonable, then yeah, he may be. He may be gone no matter what. Um. But if not then what are you ultimately doing? Are you promoting dan Quinn? Like, how do they go about making this actual change? And when I say they, it's there's one man making this decision and me and him aren't necessarily on the same wavelength regarding anything. So it's it's tough to predict, but I do think he wants John Payton, um, And yeah, it's it's probably if they don't go to the championship game, uh, and Sean Payton's there, then then yeah it's over. Which they haven't even made the championship game in twenty seven years years, So this you know, at a certain point, Um, you know, urgency for Garra is gonna come into play here. He's in his eighties now, I believe. And and if Peyton's there and there's an opportunity, yeah, he just turned eight. Um, I agree. I think they cannot limp to the finish line or have another one and done. I think I think I'll say this so I think if they win a playoff game, I could see Jones being satiated enough to see the glass half bull. But if they do what they did last year, for instance, I think Carthi's gonna pay there and they're probably they're probably at the NFC South champion and no matter what, So that's that's a winnable game. You categorical failure through where it's like, obviously this could have been remedy by better coaching. Again, like it can't that nobody happen again. Nobody wants to go on the road to face Sam Donald in January, trust me. So hopefully for they're if they're lucky, they get Tom Brady obviously, but we'll see how it all shakes out. Finally, is that trauma question. How much of a chance do we give the Panthers of winning the NFC South. The remaining schedules a lot easier than on the Bucks. We talked about this on UM the Thursday preview show. It's there for the it's there for the Panthers, um, just like we're talking about the Jaguars with the Titans. Sorry Graver, but let's see what they got. They home against Steelers, that's you gotta that's a gotta have a game. Then your home against Lions gotta gotta have. You gotta win three or four. So home Steelers home Lions at Bucks at STS, I think three or four gives you the division. Can they do that? Especially if you win the two division games. Yeah, you gotta win the two road division games there three and one in the division, they would make them five and one in the and if they beat the Bucks, they sweep that season series, so they would then have the tiebreaker. But who knows. We've were past the point where we can even presume whatever happens at Week eighteen has the Bucks in a tie. I mean they can completely free fall at this point. The way they've played this season. Oh, it ain't pretty, but it's compelling. The next Panthers win gets Steve Wilkes more wins this season than any season that Matt Rule had. That is, he's a very compelling interim coach. Getting the label ripped off guy for sure, especially if they finished strong. All right, here we go every time, every time, Greg Rosenthal, where we can't start until we hear the the legendary hero I uh, I love hearing that from the bond god Dan Handis. That was a suggestion, by the way, from one of the three word title got a bonga. By the way, the great Lakisha Jackson Westling is in town, staying at Zeuser Manor, and it's a. It's a joy to have a Westling uh in the building with me. Well that that makes me think of a time on this podcast when I add you know, Mark was it was to my left. Uh, Chris Wesleyan was right next to him. You you, of course we're on the other corner, right, Dan, And now I'm now forgetting where everyone sat. And I made the proposal two make a regular season by the NFL two games a day exactly for a hundred and twenty eight days straight. I had worked it all out and I wanted that to be it. I just wanted more football at all times. So I bring that up as someone that is clearly loyal to football, before saying would you be in charge of I'm sorry, that's what to jump in, but not need. Yeah, yeah, you don't. You don't, you don't jump We do not need three games on Christmas. We don't need it. We don't need three games on Christmas. We don't even need one. But I get it. The NBA owns Christmas, and you want to mess with them, and you want money, But some things are more important than money. Imagine Christmas in Chicago. Dan and Patrick, the daughter of Patrick Dardy, writer at Road a world asked her dad if she can open her one final present, and he says, oh no, I'm sorry. Uh. Aj Dillon has a thigh injury before this Dolphins Packers game, and a lot of people are stacking Dillon with Rogers and Romeo Dobbs this week. Sorry, honey, Oh no, let's please stop crying. Imagine Christmas in Cincinnati where some far flong relative of Chris Collinsworth can't ask him for a job on the highest rated television show in the country because Chris has gone announcing game between Coy and the Bucks. Like, enough with Colt McCoy, enough with the Bucks, we do not need them on Christmas. Imagine Christmas in Dallas where Tony Romo's child asked Mommy where daddy is and she says he's in Los Angeles announcing Broncos Rams and and his child says, don't they have a combined record of nine and fifteen entering week fifteen? Uh? And she says, yes, that's true, but the game looked like it was good before the season. Well, at least, mommy, we can think about their draft picks and which top five pick the loser will have. No, honey, they traded their draft picks. I'm saying this as someone who dropped his own kids off at the airport last night. There is no nothing more depressing than being in L a X traffic on the way out around midnight after dropping your kids at the airport during Chris They didn't even have a flight. You just dropped him off at the airport. I need I need a distraction more than anyone, and I don't want this distraction. I'm loyal to football, but football, you're in the time out for this Christmas. You're sleeping out in the garage for him. Yeah, I thought it was. I understand the angle because the ratings will be great. They always are. UM, and if you if you want to have a Christmas night game, go for it. But I'm with you, you know the I've kind of fallen out in terms of my NBA fandom, but I always enjoyed that the unofficial tip off of NBA on Christmas Day. So the NFL said we're coming for that scepter, and I don't know it is what it is. I guess it is what it is. I don't know what else to say, but I'm with you. Yeah, it's UM. We would like to have some time. Three is absolutely excessive. I could deal with one, but three just and maybe it maybe it's a little bit you know personal. I'm sure everybody else loves having NFL games to watch available, but for those working it it's it's a tough ask. It's a tough ask on the day. Even for those not working, it's it's a lot. And then the fact that the games this year are what their dolphin um packers in the morning ten am on the West Coast. Then Broncos rams to me that that is a sad scene in in uh in Los Angeles in the middle of the day, and then Bucks Cardinals to wrap up. So I would I would think, why don't we go to uh, why don't we take a jump on a plane, go to Park Avenue and um, I'll just I'll knock on the door and uh, you know who will answer, and I'll say, hey, how about we flex? Um? How about we flex Christmas? The three Christmas games out And the figure will say, Okay, I'm all years. You guys have a successful podcast on our platform. What do you want to flex in on Christmas Day? And I go, uh, Jesus family Love. I mean, look, we're all about the We're all about the Saturday triple header on NFL Network this week. You know, you're getting your Christmas shopping. You're coming back, you check part of the game. They your your home in time for Dolphins bills the nightcap, like you're you're coming and going. That's beautiful. But Christmas great. You know, I'm not going to church like three times a week. But I think if we pull the j C card, it just will have a little bit more like, oh, do we have to consider this. I think they considered it, and then they scheduled the triple header. I think we're Jesus making a return and it was scheduled and promoted. Uh, they would still flex Jesus out to play three football games on Christmas. All right, let's move on before we don't have a podcast anymore. Let's check back in with the listeners, see what they have to say. In case you're just joining us. Mark either is in the hole or he dug a hole. But either way, when we turned the cameras on, he was not in his prison cell connor or supposed to be giving us his Christmas Rex. We had to push that to Tuesday. But get excited. It's gonna be a home run. What else we got? Oh, Mark Ferrara, Si pie On. I could think of about forty million ways that Romo working on Christmas isn't too bad for his kids? Okay, uh, what is that? Is that? The is that like the old trell Owens agent thing? Yeah? I get it. I mean I I thought about. Yeah, using maybe the you know, production assistant that's helping out would be a better example, but doesn't quite have the same pop as as Tony Romo on the road. One of the listeners suggested, as as the commenter's name, the stream of a t L, which I really like. That's really good stream of I like that. How about this, Greggy, This one's for you, Jenna Able. Let's get some Honaka games in there. One game for eight crazy nights. Oh, that would be kind of fun. That that speaks more to my original scheduling idea, which I'm no longer in favor of officially, by the way, the two games a day that was. That was before a second child and before you know, a lot of more years doing this podcast. Patrick, you want to pull one from the U the side here? Yeah, Yeah, let's see what we got. I'll switch over to throw it up well, while Patrick looks justin do you have one else? Another one teed up Jenna Again, are the Commanders a good team? They've been last in the division almost all season, but they're always top fifteen in the power rankings. There you go, Jenna, and have a similar record as the Dolphins, but no one talks about them. I feel like we talked about the Commanders. We've given them for a team that as messy as they are behind the scenes. Uh, the team itself is pretty hard nosed and has played very well uh of late. So yeah, And as far as the power rankings go, power rings are absurd. Right now there are seven teams if you count the Vikings, that makes sense in the first seven slots, and even the Vikings I struggle with, and then eight through sixteen. You could literally put any of those teams eight or any of those teams sixteen, because that's the way it feels to me right now. So right now I have the Commanders in the top fifteen, but you know, it's very fluid the precise power ranking. My question, the question I see is from Caleb, and I'm going to add an addendum to it for you. Okay, h he wants, can you show it? Can you can you hit the plus sign and show it? I don't. I don't think I can because I'm not. I don't think I have that ability to. I don't. I don't actually have the power. But what do you got the first coach fired on Black Monday? Non interim addition, I will add that Addendon who gets fired first? Yeah? Any haven't we already fired everybody? Hackets going? I think that's with new ownership, with everything that's happened with Russell Wilson and the commitment they have to him. I'm almost certain Hackett is done, and maybe even before Black Black Monday, but probably is. You know, we find out maybe Sunday into Black Monday would be my prediction there. I'm gonna just speak this into existence, Alther, this feels cruel, But Dennis Allen speaking into existence, You're so mean. Usually I'm not better. They need to change. It hasn't worked out at least this year with Dennis Allen and the Saints. All Right, what do we got it? Oh? It's time now for the Greg Rosenthal Week fifteen injury Minute, presented by Akrash. Your lethal poison for rats potent edibles for tired moms. That doesn't sound safe. Uh, not safe out here for the Patriots, by the way, DeVante Parker, you saw that concussion? He looks out. Jacoby Myers, he looks out. He's had been recovering from a concussion for a while. From Andre Stevenson. He looks out rough. Damian Harris might be back, and so it might be Christian Barmore. Remember him. He used to be good saying his name yea for a long time. Uh. Courtland Sutton looks out again for the Broncos. Russell Wilson has been trending as of this recording, uh, towards coming back from that concussion. Tee Higgins and Tyler Boyd have been at practice. Boyd looks more likely to play than Tee Higgins. Both seems like both have a shot. Uh. No trail On Burke's practice so far this week. Toron Armstead practiced enough to make us think he will play this week. Jeff Wilson, the running back, looks like a legit game time decision on Saturday night. Is not even on the injury report anymore, which is nice. Claypool Chase Claypool rather has been out of practice after the bye, which is disappointing. No, Lamar, we know that Huntley as of this recording, is trending towards uh. Yes, Steelers will not have Kenny Pickett. He is doubtful. Officially. Friarmouth has been out of practice, but I think he's gonna be okay. We still don't know about the Steelers quarterback. I think it's gonna be a little Mason Rudolph time. Corey Davis has been out of practice, and as you know, Dan, Mike White has been ruled out for this game, and we're getting Zack Wilson back in our lives. Yeah, this is very interesting, Greggy, and thank you for that incredibly concise and accurate injury minute. Um. Disappointing, yes, because I think Mike White gives the Jets a better chance to win than Zack Wilson. I also, I'm kind of this part of me from a human being angle I didn't like and I said it on Sunday Show. So this isn't a retroactive hot take that I didn't like the way the Jets handled Mike White and putting him back on the field, especially after that second hit. So at least there's some people in that building and the team doctors in this case that said no that he especially with the Jets on a short week after this against the Jaguars and Thursday night football, you gotta let this guy get right. Ribs are tricky. Now, the Zack Wilson's side of it is very interesting because while I have my doubts on a super high level that he's gonna be able to play the guitar after being inactive for three weeks, after what we've seen from him, it does set up well for him. And in the sense that well good and bad. Here's the good at home um against a lines defense that has gotten better but still can be attacked. You have the fence, uh, not scoring a lot of points, but putting up yards, so they're the general vibe around the offense is good. You have a Bam Knight who has emerged as an actual piece in their running game. He wasn't there, uh post Briest Hall, when Zach Wilson was still starting, so you have a little more structure in the running game. So just like we talked about setting up well for Mike White when you looked at the schedule ahead, now Wilson is going to get an opportunity here. This isn't going to Buffalo on short notice for Zach Wilson. He should be able to move the ball. Uh. The downside, boys, is the Jet fans are over Zack Wilson. The Jet fans wanted to see Mike White in this game. The Jets fans know how important is a gotta have it Sunday for the Jets. And if Wilson is doing the Wilson stuff, which is scattershot, arm eyes, looking at the pass rush, scrambling to nowhere's Ville throwing, He's gonna get booed out of that building by the second quarter. So. Uh, you want to be a pro quarterback, You want to be an NFL guy, You want to get paid big money and be a big star. Uh. It comes with pressure, and that boy is under an immense amount of pressure on Sunday. It would it would help if he were better. Um, I don't know that. I don't know that the pressure is the problem. The problem might be he might just not be good. I don't know. If he'll face a lot of pass fresh pressure. We'll see. Lions defense has been playing better and the Jets offensive line has been poor. When Zack Wilson's under you know, pressure from the defense. That's where he crumbles when he's protected. That offense just gets guys open, and he's come. You know, he can find enough open guys if he has the time to do it. And so I tend to I tend to spend it positive at least just for Zack Wilson in that he'll probably he'll almost certainly be better than the last time you saw him, and he'll probably play okay. And and whether they win or not, I don't know, but I do hesitate to uh it is, you know, got to have it Sunday. But I am already leary of a lot of like their seasons over or not for a lot of these teams on Sunday, because these A f C races at the end are full of mediocre teams that are gonna lose games and they're not gonna I'll rip off four no there, you know down the stretch like three and one's gonna get it done, and two and two might get it done for some of these teams ultimately, because I don't trust any of them to win four straight. Yeah, And my buddy Howie in New York texted me, is like, you know, Mike White is definitely coming back in the lineup as soon as he's able to write and I and I thought to myself, that's actually an interesting question, because let's say let's spend truly optimistically and the Jets put up four hundred yards against the lines with Zack Wilson. I think internally they'd be clicking their heels and and they would stick with Zach Wilson and hope they could build on that because they have such a huge investment in him. So I think Wilson now um has a huge opportunity now things. It feels like I felt like all was lost for him this season and he wasn't going to see the field again. Now he gets an opportunity, and I think if he plays well, they might even run run with him. I'm not sure if they would, but I think if he plays really well, there will be a lot of internal pressure to keep him in the line up just because of what he is the number two overall picks. So let's say Zach Wilson in his last few games has five touchdowns, two interceptions, and complete his passes. Would you want to bring Mike White back and Zach Wilson, Like, would you pay because Mike White's going to be a free agent? DN Like, would would you want them both back? If so Zach throws five touchdowns the rest of the year, you said five touchdowns two the rest of the year. Yeah, I don't think that's gonna be enough for me. I would in that case let White go or try to move Wilson in a trade and bring in one of these high, high level veterans. Um And yeah, I know I'm a little high. I know car is not the most popular guy, but I feel like he would be a vast upgrade over White or Wilson personally. But I really I would be very surprised if this come August the Jets don't have a high profile new quarterback that's a veteran. That's That's how I see this uh and and bummer from Mike White, because this does kind of stop any momentum he had. We'll see, but it's you know, it's always interesting. And by the way Solid did speak today, we have this graver uh you know, the coaches grasping for straws when he's talking about his second year quarterback and he's citing college stats to say that he's good. I mean he's He's the same quarterback that once four eighteen in the bowl game. So he's very capable. It's just a matter of just being conscientious and tying everything together. Oh God, in case of emergency, flip the uh you know Duncan donuts bowl switch. I mean, Gene completed in fifteen or sixteen straight passes last night, and that that wasn't like the greatest performance. All right, anything else? Oh, we have predictions. Let's go through the week fourteen predictions. Let's go, Zack. Come on, Zack, this is your last chance. I really do think this is Zach Wilson's final chance to make a true impression on it. They will move on. If he bombs in this game, they will turn back to Mike White as soon as possible and then go get a new quarterback, or keep Mike White, but probably get a new quarterback. That is that's a lot of pressure, Clay Bond, in addition to not maybe being very good. That's the problem. That's the problem pressure and and playing football when the other people might be better than you. You never want to be under a ton of pressure and not be good. No matter what the field. It's a dangerous combination. It's a very good speaking. Um. Would you guys are we doing for predictions? Hear the predictions from last week? Mark, I don't really need to go through them, but all he was over for although we don't know the Rachel will meet somebody on Saturday who will change her life. Hey, Justin, can you reach out to Rachel and see if she could jump on real quick before we say goodbye to see what happened with her last Saturday. UM Watson struggles. Zeuser said multiple turnover? Is in lost two Bengals. Uh, he didn't play well, but I don't know if he had multiple turnovers and it wasn't really what I predicted. I thought people would be talking Jake Brisket, Dolphins dropped forty plus and the Chargers I'm our own Greggy and uh, Rachel had Derek Carr has nightmares about Baker Mayfield. Justin said they're all misses, So I guess that he knows what's in the mind of Derek Carr. But let's get to this week's predictions. Okay, my week fifteen prediction. We were just talking about Zach Wilson maybe not being good. Um, we watched Taylor Heineke against Daniel Jones and like a quarterback hiding competition in the playoffs in the in the overtime a couple of weeks ago, we get to see Justin Fields and Jalen Hurts. This weekend, I'm excited for the game. Uh. Some people have said that there might be forty eight and a half points. I think we get forty nine plus in this game, the Eagles and the Bears. And yes, Greg, you will hear this prediction her own today. Yeah, game debut, check it out NFL network. I do like when you just hit us with a straight up gambling point here. Uh, and that does seem like a crazy low number. Welcome to the dark Side, Patrick, Yeah, it's thirty five in the United States. Patrick, I've stated this on numerous occasions. Don't go to deep down this rabbit hole. Well, the problem is um the whole uh leader of this imperial monstrosity. Uh. I'm not going to do that, but I will occasionally make references to a wager. Alright, imperial monstrosity, Greggy, I am predicting that Josh McDaniel embarrasses Matt Patricia. I don't know how. I don't know what But this Patriots season UM reaches what is feels like a conclusion with a embarrassing performance. The Patriots so much this year, I love it. Just the offense Josh McDaniels is just gonna show what it looks like, UM to embarrass your former employers. Is he gonna show him up after the game or we're gonna I honestly think if they just win the game and the Patriots offense looks terrible and the Raider's offense looks competent, that's probably gonna be enough. But I'm leaving room for something a little extra spice. UM, I will go with. You know, I like to have fun with those those Dolphins fans. It's fun. I feel like we have a nice it's a healthy antagonistic relationship because I do. I do kind of like them, despite my abject hatred for them as well. So you know what's coming here, Dolphins. Um TOA is gonna be a natural disaster in Buffalo that will make you know, by comparison extreme lake effects snow look like a gentle may breeze in Maui, this is gonna be ugly. You're gonna see throws from tah that you haven't seen since your cousins Pop Warner game where it was like why are they putting him in a quarterback? Like this isn't this is gonna make a wish thing, like you gotta get him. He should be blocking, he can't be throwing the ball. That's what the two quote unquote spirals will look like in Western New York in the conditions, and needless to say, the Bills will be victorious. So we're talking like Andy Dalton, that legendary t n F night, like Brian Hoyer on wild Card weekend. You're you're saying, like it's it's going to be really bad. I think it will be. It will be a major conversation on all of our programming, including a t n what the hell has happened to to? And the Dolphins offense. It'll be Josh Freeman starting for who was it the Giants after just joining the team. Your your best hope here toa or Dolphins fans out here are the best way Dan could be rock is that is the weather so bad that no one, no one could succeed in it like that, like that game on Thursday night last year, And that's what it seems like. It might be. It might be so bad that, like it's totally impossible. I almost think that would help the Dolphins. They can also occasionally run the ball. I don't know if you're if you're playing maybe the Chargers and they can't stop anybody on that maybe you could. I don't know. And I will I will Dolphins fans again because I kind of like you, even though I hate you. I will let you know if two balls out and they win that game, you will get a sincere apology from me on a Sunday night show because I've raised the stakes. I mean, we need to go farther than apology. I'm gonna I will chop off my pinky finger with a meat cleaver. Yes, Robbie says, I think Dan maybe manifesting the Dolphins being bad into existence so the Jets can make the playoffs. There is a sneaky amount of Dolphins Jets heat boiling inside of Dan now that the Patriots, even though the Patriots are in the race, Uh, I think it's the Dolphins that really bother you, and that has to make you even more. Yeah, but the Patriots are. It's super annoying the Patriots sweeping the Jets because We all know that was fu Ghazi as hell, but it is what it is. So I worry about that. I need that Pat's collapse. But that Jets Dolphins Week eight team game, Oh look out, all right, good stuff. Thank you to Patrick as always, thanks for watching. Thanks thank you to the stream team Beautiful, the Stream of a t L for all you've done all season on the show. We've had a lot of fun doing it and we'll continue to do it. Um, but that's it. Enjoy the games, see you Sunday night. Till then heed the call. Bye. Do you act