00:05all right tom take us into this week in the nfl it's the thursday touchdown
00:25the nfc north is clearly the best division in football i gave you a homework assignment
00:29on tuesday to go through the schedules for all four teams and project the final standings what
00:35did you come up with well i came up with green bay being at the bottom at eight and nine
00:40uh
00:41minnesota finishing third at ten and seven detroit coming in second at 12 and five and the bears win
00:48the division at 13 and four and and the reason i they split with the bears but i just think
00:55the
00:55bears you look at their schedule and the way that they're playing on both sides of the ball
01:02and with khalif remand as their returner like they're good in all three phases and i think
01:09caleb williams i'll get to him later in this but caleb williams is is having a a really good
01:16breakout season see i did look at the questions early so now i think you're going to use a certain
01:20three-letter acronym with him it'd be interesting to see uh i did the homework assignment and came
01:25to the conclusion that green bay would be eight nine minnesota would be 11 and six oh the lions
01:31would be 12 and five okay and the bears would be 13 and four i got back to my lions
01:37original season
01:38prediction of 12 wins because i like what i've seen from the offensive line there are three losses the
01:42rest of the way for me were new england a split with the bears and losing in minnesota
01:46the lions actually end up with a better division record than chicago and one more nfc win
01:52they just need to get one more win along the way to make up the gap and and the way
01:56that they do that
01:57is if they make an addition at the trade deadline they might be able to be on par throughout the
02:03course of the season with what the bears are doing all right i know you both like meat sticks i've
02:07seen
02:07you eat them from the back and i have to i like them i will bet you both uh just
02:12one pack of meat
02:13sticks that the packers win at least nine games three more wins the rest of the way okay you're
02:18on yeah i prefer the the spicy are getting parsons sticks the spicy ones are way better tom all right
02:23let's go vikings desperately need to add to their offense which player would help them the most
02:28jonathan taylor derrick henry kirk cousins or daniel jones norm oh sorry go ahead no you seem like
02:36you're very excited no i'm very curious now which one of these guys okay one guy i'm gonna go with
02:41the quarterback i think quarterback play can unlock more of their offense they're 17th and
02:45rushing it's not great but it's okay justin jefferson is 60th and targets how about they
02:49get him going and have a balanced approach quarterback kirk cousins would be the best
02:53name on that list normally i would not say quarterback because putting a quarterback into
02:58a new offense there's going to be a a measure of getting adjusted learning and making those calls
03:04however kirk cousins has been in this offense with kevin o'connell so i would say this
03:09jonathan taylor to me would be the the one where you're like normally okay it's an instinctual
03:15instinctual position you don't have to learn as much terms much verbiage and he would just be able
03:21to plug and play but in this situation kirk cousins would be a major upgrade what they're getting from
03:27kyler murray at the broncos handed the chiefs their second consecutive loss would it be gross
03:32negligence if chiefs general manager brett veach doesn't trade for a wide receiver okay so it's not
03:39gross negligence no they still have rasheed rice they've got xavier worthy like no it wouldn't be
03:47gross negligence and they they i know that they've lost their last two games but they should have
03:51beaten the broncos but i mean they were right there should have beaten the broncos did has
03:56patrick mahomes lost a little magic i don't know maybe that's the issue more than it is the receivers
04:01yeah they didn't lose the bronco game because they were missing a receiver they need to just punch
04:05hit in in the red zone having said that yeah it makes sense for them to address the receiver position
04:09and i know we've thrown out some names one i haven't heard josh downs wants out of indy speed
04:15threat vertical threat can help you know change the way the defenses are playing if he can beat you over
04:20the top downs would make sense in kansas city but would it be gross negligence if they did no okay
04:26okay it was extreme right the wording yes lamar jackson suffered a thumb injury that could shelf
04:32him for the season jackson will be 30 next season should the ravens consider moving on from jackson
04:38this coming off season okay i don't want to come across as like hacky hot take but yes he's a
04:45mobile
04:45quarterback who's going into his 30s that's a huge element of his game he's going to miss key
04:49stretches in back-to-back seasons where they will miss the playoffs in back-to-back seasons
04:55might just be time well i agree um yes his best years are behind him he can't stay healthy
05:01but i'll ask you this how are they going to get rid of him because he's got a full no
05:06trade clause
05:06if he doesn't want to go anywhere you just cut him oh no no no let's it's assuming he he
05:13would be
05:14agreeable to a trade yeah he wouldn't have a three-team list like some jerk in this town it's
05:1810 teams now he probably would just say yeah there's only two teams do you think people would
05:23put his card in a urinal if uh in baltimore if he demanded so i think they're ready to move
05:27on
05:28i am curious though like what other team would want him because i know a lot of people have thrown
05:35out miami yeah but miami is just now like they are absorbing all of the dead cap all of the
05:42money
05:42right now to try and free things up for next year why would a team like that want to enter
05:48a contract like lamar's here's the other thing they picked lamar over harbaugh imagine doing
05:53baltimore radio as the giants win their division this year yeah and i've heard there's things on
05:58their roster players aren't there's some players not talking to each other oh boy uh it doesn't
06:03look like jesse minters made any single ounce of difference other than it looks like the same team
06:07with harbaugh that's fading into oblivion that's kind of my i like i think the chargers and uh
06:13ravens both should really consider making a qb like get capital and retool right now in this afc
06:21they're just not good enough josh talking to each other how dare they well yeah you wouldn't
06:26want there's just strife within the locker room and it's even showed up on the sidelines some
06:31josh allen is now plus 140 to win mvp barring injury will allen run away with the award no he's
06:37not going to run away with it you got brock purdy you've got uh i know joe burrow is in
06:41the mix at
06:42plus 475 right now but i mean if he keeps turning the ball over like he did last week he'll
06:49remove
06:49himself from that conversation but the one that i'm going to talk about is caleb williams
06:53right now he's got to be in the conversation because he's a plus 500 i mentioned brock purdy
06:59brock purdy is plus 450 there's a world as this season goes on and the bears continue to play
07:07extremely well and i already mentioned i think they're going to be a 13 and 14
07:10caleb williams is going to be in the mix and he should be considered as an mvp candidate
07:16okay josh allen is a phenomenal player may go on to win the mvp purdy deserves some love because of
07:21what he's done with all the different you know guys falling apart around him but i want to throw
07:26a dark horse out there trevor lawrence so consider the following his quarterback rating is higher than
07:33josh allen brock purdy joe burrow and jared goff in fact it's the highest of any starter in football
07:37and tom you've made the case jacksonville could end up with the one seed so how is the guy with
07:42the
07:42best passer rating on the one seed in the afc not an mvp candidate because he plays at jacksonville
07:47all right that shouldn't be the reason why he can't be an mvp candidate uh their schedule so
07:53easy down the stretch here unless teams kind of turn the corner or something they got a big game
07:59with the bears by the way yeah and i think i saw his numbers like plus it's either plus 800
08:03or plus 900
08:04yeah so he's got a little ground to make up philadelphia's lost six straight games the eagles will
08:09probably miss the playoffs for the first time under nick sirianni which is pretty dang amazing
08:14if you think about it will sirianni be the eagles head coach next year no they fired doug peterson
08:20who won a super bowl they're not above it it's philadelphia yeah and they've already sold started
08:25selling off pieces um they want to start over doug peterson was there for five years won a super
08:30bowl in year two um and then it was the nfl divisional round nfl nfc wild card round and then
08:36they were out of the playoffs nick sirianni's been there six years now so one year longer
08:41obviously went to the super bowl and lost to the niners in year two won it in year four last
08:46year i
08:47think it was when did the the eagles get out last year was divisional round or was it a wild
08:52card
08:52wild card exit and if they don't make it it's just it's following the same path as doug peterson
08:57the reason he wouldn't be the coach unless they turn it around here is there is simply a
09:03the highest of standards in philadelphia and they just don't accept this crap all right finally
09:09the nfc south is hot garbage what team will end up winning the dumpster fire and what will be their
09:14final record wow this is i so i went through their schedule and i came up with carolina right now
09:21they're three and four i think they go 500 the rest of the way and they're eight and nine
09:27tampa bay right now is three and five and i think they get to eight and eight going into the
09:36final
09:36week against the saints they win it and they actually have a winning record at nine and eight
09:42so i'm going to say tampa with the with the winning record gets it wins the division
09:49i got tampa winning the division baker completes six more passes the rest of the year and they get in
09:54at eight and nine do they have the best coach and the best qb in the division i think i
09:59think they
09:59have the best quarterback in the division i don't know is bulls the best coach um i would probably say
10:05bulls the best coach i don't know that i could necessarily say that baker is the best quarterback
10:12would be bryce young then or shock i i don't know that you can really determine that right now
10:20how many meat sticks do we get hot garbage how many meat sticks do we get if someone from the
10:24south has a winning record none i'm not going anywhere any betting on that i'm just telling
10:28you right now you guys think green bay's only winning three more games i think you're nuts
10:32it's a thursday touchdown 97-1
