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00:00and the host of the best football show podcast alongside brian baldinger and he is nick costos
00:07hey nick happy friday happy friday what's going on great to be on with you how we doing we are
00:12we're doing well we are we are uh we cannot wait for this game on sunday because last week was
00:17such a disaster well it's pretty awful yeah um i was pretty surprised by how badly they got nuked
00:24down the field specifically christian gonzalez and kind of think that could spell doom this
00:29weekend against the lions and their passing attack here i just i really think the nfc north and kind
00:36of the numbers back this up where since we had divisional realignment in 2002 and now we have
00:41eight four team divisions the division with the most wins is the 2024 nfc north that had the lions
00:48at 15 and 2 and the sam darnold vikings at 14 and 3 if you extended this out what we've
00:54seen halfway
00:54through the season they would almost like shatter that record this division they're 20 and 4 in
01:00games outside of of the nfc north this year so they barely lose to anyone outside of the division
01:05and i i'm a little concerned about the patriots now with the way drake may plays against good teams i
01:10don't think he's bad but there may be something to that right is he kind of like a bum slayer
01:14a guy
01:15who's going to destroy bad teams and maybe not play as well against good i'm not i'm not trying to
01:19be
01:19negative i love the bum slayer oh shine no i mean he's 500 against teams with records above 500 so
01:27it's not like he's bad against good teams but i mean but like 500 to get but like if if
01:32he's the
01:32guy that we think he is he'll be better than that right i mean josh allen's the best player on
01:36the
01:37planet i think everybody accepts that he's barely better than 500 against teams that are better than
01:40who do you think's better drake may or josh allen josh allen unquestionably are you worried about drake
01:45may no i'm not are are you concerned at all that drake may is not going to reach the ceiling
01:51that
01:51you thought he might no because the conversation is not is drake may bad he's obviously not bad
01:56that's not what i'm saying no i just think he has more brett farve in him than we originally thought
02:00like i just think that there's there's more brett farve in there than aaron rogers than we thought
02:04originally planned that's all oh man oh that's good um yeah like i think he can play well against
02:13his lions defense or at least decently well um i think detroit's just better than the patriots
02:18uh and if i'm a patriots fan uh you need to be rooting for the browns this weekend
02:23houston if they beat cleveland this weekend which i expect the texans will be four and five
02:27then the texans next thursday night hosts like the husk like the whatever this like bastardized
02:32version of the indianapolis colts is so i think the texans are going to be five and five after 10
02:36games
02:37if the patriots lose on sunday they will be five and five after 10 games like reasonably similar
02:43schedules down the stretch in terms of difficulty now this is an an objective comment not a subjective
02:48comment cj stroud's been better than drake may this year i would be a little concerned at this
02:54point right now if i were a patriots fan have to win this game on sunday if you don't i
02:58feel like
02:58it's going to get interesting for that final playoff spot in the afc how would you bet the
03:02patriots game i like the lions i already bet them uh so this so this opens one and a half
03:08on sunday
03:09night it's been two and a half for a lot of the week so we're basically in between two and
03:13a half
03:13and three what does that mean like if you want to bet detroit minus two and a half like that's
03:18the
03:18juice side patriots plus three is the juice side so i i would say lions minus two and a half
03:24for me
03:24would be my bet i'm sure your audience likes new england my betting uh thought there would be bet
03:29plus three with new england please not plus two and a half at least i can be wrong i'm wrong
03:34all the
03:34time as i'm reminded constantly um so if you like the patriots give yourself the best chance to win
03:39and bet plus three not plus two and a half uh nick that is interesting about the cleveland houston i
03:45was
03:46kind of leaning more towards houston beating cleveland because i feel like the i think so too yeah i feel
03:51yeah i feel like the patriots are fighting for cleveland against cleveland that wildcard spot but the game that
03:56i'm really looking forward is kirk cousins back in minnesota how does that change your view on this game
04:03they they got they're playing against the packers what's your view on the vikings now having a guy
04:09like kirk cousins back in that offense so wiki i thought it was a brilliant trade i liked it for
04:14both teams for both the vikings and the raiders and anyone that wants to say oh well they gave
04:18off could you give up a third round pick for an old quarterback well i i don't know because now
04:22you
04:22can win the super bowl and with carson wentz like you were going to come in last place in the
04:26division and not make the playoffs and with kyler murray i thought it was i thought it was a great
04:30trade
04:31like everyone wants to hold on to draft picks like they're like their first born children
04:34like the point is to win like the vikings are trying to win i give them a ton of credit
04:39for
04:39making this move admitting the mistake now we can have a conversation if it doesn't go well what that
04:44means for kevin o'connell i'd fire him if this doesn't go and promote brian flores he should be
04:48a head coach i don't care about the lawsuit he's the best defensive did you watch the ends of the
04:52giants game last night like durante jones is a flores disciple he destroyed the giants at the end of
04:57the game last night they're doing the same things that the vikings do everyone in the league is doing
05:01it flores should be a head coach and he should coach the vikings if this doesn't go well now as
05:06far as sunday's game goes against the packers i i think this game's going to be absolutely awesome
05:11i can't wait to watch it now i like the vikings wiggy but it's less because of cousins and more
05:17because
05:17of flores versus this packers offense which you guys know like it i hope even as patriots fans you
05:25guys can be objective and say it was pretty awesome last week what the packers were able to
05:29do like it's kind of like intoxicating watching this downfield passing game i called it like the
05:34walter white blue meth of nfl offense like the highest purity level possible it's like this is
05:39like the raiders in the late 60s this is the mad bomber darryl la monica that's jordan love right now
05:44it's impressive to watch i guess my question would be with the way brian flores brings pressure the
05:49packers can't run the ball is jordan love going to have the time to sit in the pocket and wait
05:54for
05:54matthew golden and christian watson to run down the field to throw these yolo passes i think the
05:59vikings defense will be able to make green bay one-dimensional in a way that the patriots weren't
06:03necessarily able to do i think the vikings go into lambeau and win the game outright nick you bring up
06:08draft picks and i was reading your article on the athletic i know you think i i know you're picking
06:12the uh jacksonville for this weekend but i want to talk about super bowl for jacksonville because you
06:17seem very high on them should i be putting money on them to win a super bowl so they are
06:21i think as it
06:22stands right now courtney they're the best team in the afc when you combine offense and defense
06:27so you can make the case that the bills have the better offense because they have josh allen or the
06:32bengals have the better offense because they have joe burrow but when you combine offense and defense
06:36and also their kicker can bang it home from 66 yards i think the jaguars on paper right now are
06:41the
06:42best team so they trade for jesse bates the star safety from atlanta they overpaid for jordan davis the
06:47defensive tackle from the eagles but again if you win the super bowl like who cares about overpaying
06:52for draft picks i like what they did and they went all in to try and win the super bowl
06:56this year
06:56like will they win versus can they win they definitely can they're definitely the best team
07:02when you get into a big spot and you know it's late in the fourth quarter and you're facing allen
07:08and you're facing mahomes or you're facing burrow can they win the game we haven't really seen trevor
07:14lawrence do that yet in his career so it requires a little projection for what it's worth i do think
07:20that
07:20they are the best team if you made me pick right now i would say that they would win the
07:23afc this
07:24year and represent the conference in the super bowl i don't say that with a ton of confidence just yet
07:28so i think the best bet of the weekend and it scares me because i root against them every week
07:33is the chiefs minus three at atlanta am i wrong i think the chiefs cover that easily i think uh
07:40curtis
07:40i think the chiefs will probably win by three is my guess uh we saw a similar setup a couple
07:46weeks ago
07:46the niners went to atlanta to play a falcons team off of two losses in desperate need of a win
07:52the falcons won that game this week the falcons off two straight losses in desperate need of a win
07:57now san francisco was really banged up in that game but atlanta played really well the falcons
08:02won that game 29 20 i don't think the falcons are going to win i think the chiefs are going
08:07to win a
08:07close game i think if you bet chiefs minus three my best guess is you push something to keep in
08:12mind
08:13though with kansas city andy reed perhaps stubbornly is sticking by kicker harrison butker who's been
08:18horrible this season i can't believe that he's still the kicker on this team and if you get into
08:23a big spot and you need butker to make one like maybe he will but i think you know based
08:28on what
08:28we've seen this year i think he'll probably miss i would say that you probably if you bet the chiefs
08:33you have the worst kicker in a game where you're favored by three on the road i'm not saying the
08:37bet
08:37can't win my best guess again chiefs by three you push the bet okay nick the uh you better you
08:43bet
08:44nine o'clock this morning correct yes um and great stuff this morning great to hear your voice i love
08:50the bum slayer yes yeah i think my my producer came up with it yeah and a text and i
08:57and i stole it from
08:58him um emergency it felt great emergency top five bum slayers uh the video wiggy yeah i'm not a big
09:07bum fan well like well like what is it though like is that a thing like it just sounded cool
09:11so i said
09:12i think it sounded cool because like i think of somebody going out there and slaying bums
09:16like he's like he's the nfl equivalent of like kimbo the late kimbo slice
09:21yeah beating up bums in the backyard you're great you're like excellent at being mediocre i think is
09:27kind of what it is no i mean he's better than that but i mean is what i'm saying unfair
09:31like seriously
09:32no no it's not no it's not like if you think it is like i want you to tell me
09:36would you say that
09:36caleb williams is a bum slayer well i mean he just went on the road and destroyed the seahawks so
09:42i
09:42would say probably not no because if you look at his overall record and i did this for both of
09:46them
09:46that they're both of these guys caleb williams against teams with winning records is 9 and 15
09:52and drake may i want to say he was 6 and 10 so against teams winning records they're both not
09:59very
09:59good well i think i i don't have the context to be able to like make a cogent argument to
10:05see like
10:05how did caleb play in those games i think the problem with drake may in a lot of these games
10:09it's not that he plays well and they lose it's that he plays poorly and okay yeah i didn't get
10:16into the numbers i just got into their record i mean like to be fair these interceptions that he's
10:21thrown 11 interceptions this year yes like the conversation again i'm not saying he's not bad
10:26he's i would take him on my favorite team in a heartbeat i think he's really started the super
10:31bowl but you would like him to start playing better against good teams good competition big spots like
10:36we don't have to relitigate what happened in the playoffs like they won those playoff games he didn't
10:40play great in those games so he has a chance to turn this around they can win this weekend for
10:44sure
10:44i just i'd like to see it from drake may nick thank you and we will talk to you again
10:49next week
10:49i'd just like to say also in closing uh shime told me that uh during the break that courtney was
10:54excited for the new bachelor i will say he's very handsome sam hartman good choice for the bachelor
10:59so he is a backup qb for the command no he's not no he's not a backup he's he's on
11:05practice squad
11:06okay yeah i i say that to make like he's a practice squad quarterback even though he's 500 times
11:11better looking than me i have said that in a way to make myself feel better yeah he's just a
11:15practice squad quarterback he first came across my desk when he was at wake forest sam well sam
11:20hartman but then notre dame notre dame was like evolution he was because he grew his hair along
11:26and grew the beer correct he blew up at notre dame like yes every single one of my girl group
11:32messages
11:32all right could not stop talking about sam hartman well he's one of these guys were like straight men
11:37i think privately i'll i pop i don't care i publicly say it we'll acknowledge like this is
11:42like a beautiful specimen also like it's like uh like edward norton in fight club i'd like to i would
11:48if he wouldn't kick my ass which he would i'd like to punch him in the face and i say
11:54that because
11:55he's too good looking it's obnoxious and it's like he'd take his helmet off and this is sweaty like
11:59he's the hair okay now yes now we're yes now we're yes now it's a little now it's a little
12:04too much
12:04no offense but you and your lady chat group yeah who are mostly all taken spend a lot of time
12:11looking at the menu i mean yes i like how greg says that like men don't do the same right
12:16yeah like
12:17oh yeah greg i'm sure your phone's so pure greg yeah greg i'd like to see your group chat
12:23and the room message right now this morning we are telling our the single one in group message
12:30to go on the bachelor oh really like it this is your why do you why do you do that
12:35what do you
12:35mean without seeing the friend in question i'm gonna guess that sam hartman doesn't want to date
12:40her oh but i would bite your tongue okay well i'm willing to be wrong about that but i mean
12:46we're
12:47like we're talking like sam hartman's like one of like like the 10 most handsome people in the world
12:51yeah if you're a smoke show you can get sam hartman's also also you're a mom you're not
12:58supposed to be lusting after other men you act like i had a baby and i died like i am
13:04still
13:04great what's wrong with you yeah exactly like i'm gonna defend you here thank you thank you
13:09i i am able to look but not touch and i and i married the perfect man but like let
13:15me tell you
13:16sam hartman okay girls are clamoring right now i married the perfect man but let me tell you about
13:23sam hartman greg greg can you acknowledge that sam hartman's very handsome i i don't i have no idea
13:29here you go stunning stunning good looking guy yeah see now we're oh yeah very attractive very
13:35great head of hair did you do that on purpose i don't judge guys did you say that they were
13:39looking
13:39at the menu on purpose because that was really well done all right nick thank you bud peace all right
13:46that is nick costos

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