December 6, 2024 • 51 mins
Welcome back to another thrilling episode of "The Sports Cave with Biggest Puma," hosted by Sam Freas! Broadcasting live from the East Side of San Antonio, Sam dives into the latest sports headlines and offers his unique insights and bold predictions. With the inaugural 12-team college football playoffs just around the corner, Sam breaks down the key matchups and potential chaos that could shake up the rankings.
In this episode, Sam discusses the Duke Blue Devils' clutch win over Auburn, the Dallas Stars' rollercoaster season, and the San Antonio Spurs' injury woes. He also shares his thoughts on the NFL playoff picture, highlighting the crucial games that could determine the fate of several teams. Plus, get ready for some heated opinions on the College Football Playoff committee's controversial rankings and what they mean for teams like SMU and Clemson.
Don't miss Sam's in-depth analysis, entertaining commentary, and the latest updates on your favorite sports teams. Whether you're a die-hard fan or just looking to stay informed, "The Sports Cave with Biggest Puma" has got you covered. Tune in now and join the conversation!
In this episode, Sam discusses the Duke Blue Devils' clutch win over Auburn, the Dallas Stars' rollercoaster season, and the San Antonio Spurs' injury woes. He also shares his thoughts on the NFL playoff picture, highlighting the crucial games that could determine the fate of several teams. Plus, get ready for some heated opinions on the College Football Playoff committee's controversial rankings and what they mean for teams like SMU and Clemson.
Don't miss Sam's in-depth analysis, entertaining commentary, and the latest updates on your favorite sports teams. Whether you're a die-hard fan or just looking to stay informed, "The Sports Cave with Biggest Puma" has got you covered. Tune in now and join the conversation!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Light the beam. It's time for another one of these things.
Welcome back into the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma. I
am your host, Sam Freeze, broadcasting live to tape here
from the east side of San Antonio, where we find
ourselves fifteen days away from the inaugural twelve team college
football playoffs. As always, if you want to get a
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hold of the program aka me, you can find me
on x at Biggest Puma, on Instagram, Biggest Dot Puma,
or you could always go the boomer route and just
search Sam Freeze on Facebook. The roommate gives me quite
a bit of hell for the amount of time I
still spend on Facebook, but what can I say? Zucker
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Zuckerberg got me early and the hooks are still deep.
If you missed yesterday's program, had a great conversation with
my good buddy Bama Brown from out of Austin or
he would tell you actually out of dripping springs, but
he joined me yesterday for hopefully the first of many
Wednesday appearances on the pod. He's got a new pod
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of his own that we've been working on. He's been
putting together the last couple of weeks. Me as me
as his partner in crime, but really it's his pod.
I just get to just get to laugh at whatever
the hell he ends up bringing to the table. I
mentioned it yesterday. It's more of a daily quick hitter.
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But if you can't get enough of me, you can
find me on the Bama Brown Pod, Bama Brown Experience.
Just look for it on the iHeart app or wherever
you get your podcast. He's a absolutely good dude, been
in radio for almost four decades. He gets mad at
me every time I mentioned but he is a Texas
Radio Hall of Famer, despite his apparent disrespect for the
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honor and the city of Kilgore, where the Hall of
Fame is located. But if you missed that, yesterday had
him on for the main segment. Also talked to Little
Spurs recapping their loss and elimination from the NBA Cup
with the loss out in Phoenix, So go give that
a listen if you haven't already. Highly highly appreciated. As always,
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we start with what I watched last night. Had a
bit of a double feature in the early window. Finally
got to see my Duke, my beloved Duke, Blue Devils
get a clutch win versus a top ranked opponent. They
beat Auburn number two. Auburn previously undefeated Auburn Duke wins
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that game eighty four seventy eight up there in Cameron
Indoor Stadium. And I mentioned finally getting a win, a
clutch win against a top rank opponent. They've already had
a couple of opportunities to get a key win like this,
but have failed, coughed it up late against Kansas, actually
Kentucky first and then Kansas more recently. Finally get to
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see after Cooper flag struggling in both of those losses,
in the last couple minutes of the game, I get
another good performance from him. They're able to hold onto
the lead, don't need any heroics there at the end
of the game, are able to assault it away at home.
And I mentioned that Auburn team, you know, previously undefeated,
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number two in the country. They've had a great season
so far. I ended up going to the Hellscape winning
the Maui Invitational, getting some solid wins over Iowa State,
North Carolina and then Memphis in the championship game. Also
had an early season win over Houston as well, so
that Auburn team is not going anywhere should be absolute
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a contender in the SEC to win that conference. But
good to see Duke pull out one of these key
victories with the young roster they have, I mean held
Cooper Flag who most people are projecting to be the
number one pick in the draft. He's seventeen. Doesn't even
turn eighteen, I believe, until February or maybe January, so
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incredibly young team Duke, relying on a lot of freshmen,
had another freshman, a five star freshman last night, hit
six threes in the first half to end up pulling
them closer before halftime. They take control in the second half,
so things were good in the first part of the
double feature. Last night, the late night game I caught
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not so much. Stars end up giving up three unanswered goals.
They lose the game three to two out in LA
to the Kings, And really it's pretty par for the
course for where this Star season has been a lot
of peaks and valleys. I was talking to a buddy
of mine, you know, really that I'm okay with the
peaks and valleys, but by February, we've got to find
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some consistency among this group, and unfortunately the group got
thinned out a little bit. As we heard earlier this week,
Tyler Sagan ends up having a hip injury that's going
to require surgery, and anytime a hockey player is having
hip surgery, that's absolutely a multi month injury a multi
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month recovery process. So early returns are suggesting four to
six months, which would leave his season in jeopardy. But
the sunny side of it, I suppose, is now the
Stars can pull the old Golden Night's trick and put
Sagan on long term IR, potentially opening up significant amount
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of cap space to go out and make a big
move to replace some of his production because he was
off to a great start this year, really settled into
that line with Segin, Duchane and Marchmen. Unfortunately, though, they
will now have to rely on either some of the
youngsters or pull the trigger on some kind of deal
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pretty quickly in order to not fall too far behind
the rest of the division. They right now are sitting
in a playoff spot, but they're in the third spot
in their division, which would be the last guaranteed spot
for the playoffs before they'd have to try to be
a wild card team. But as crazy as the NHL
has been the last few years, you could argue you
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might be better off being a six to seven or
eight seed, especially when you look at who Dallas has
had to go through the last couple of years, as
they were a top seed, you know, one of the
top two seeds in the West and having really unlucky
playoff draws. Maybe this year is the year that they
flip the table and end up being a bit of
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a dark course lower seeded team going into the playoffs.
Definitely losing Sagan for that for basically the rest of
the regular season is definitely going to be It's going
to be a bit of a hill to climb. I
don't think obviously Sagan was not their key to being
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a playoff team, but his production is going to be
sorely missed. So a bit of what I like to
call a Yay Boo night last night, Yay Duke got
the win. Boo Stars blew a two nothing lead on
the road against a Western Conference opponent I mentioned yesterday,
talked a little bit about that Spurs loss speaking of
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road losses to a conference opponent. Talked about the Spurs
loss out in Phoenix on yesterday's show, but got a
little follow up on that here before we get into
the main segment today we're gonna have our pig skin previews.
But something I didn't mention yesterday, you know Wemby Apparently
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with about two and a half minutes to go in
that game, he ends up hurting his lower back, stays
in the game till I think, you know, six seconds
left something like that when he finally checked out. But
we're now getting reports that he will be out at
least tonight against the Bulls. And again it continues this
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unfortunate trend of as soon as the Spurs get one
player back, another key piece drops out of the lineup
due to injury. Against Phoenix, we got Jeremy Sohan's return
after a month and a day out of the lineup
with injury, and immediately get hit with the worst possible injury,
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an injury to Wemby. So not only Wemby out against
the Bulls tonight, hopefully not for too much or not
too many more games other than tonight, but we will
see as soon as we get any update. Also Trey Jones,
who's fighting his own injury. Bad luck. He's going to
miss his second straight game. He hasn't played since the
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game against Sacramento, so Spurs will be a couple men
down as they play the Bulls tonight at home again,
a team that you really have to take care of
business against as you look to potentially keep pacing the West,
because the bottom half of the West playoff play in
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bracket right now is getting extremely competitive this early in
the season. I mean, you're starting to see a clear
separation amongst or away from the bottom cellar dwellers of
the West, but you're not seeing really any separation from
you know, basically the twelfth seed to the sixth seed,
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which is why if you go back to you know,
the Spurs dropping back to back games against the Lakers
and MAVs. Since then, they've won five of their last
but even more impressively, three of those five wins have
been against the Thunder, the Warriors, and the Kings. Thunder
and Warriors above them in the standings, Kings a couple
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games behind them, but one of those teams that's fighting
to get into that back end of the play in
playoff race. So got to handle business at home against
a middle of the road at best Bulls team. The
only benefit of potentially losing the game tonight would be
that it would get the Spurs closer to having that
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Bulls first round pick convey this year. You'll remember Spurs
own the Bulls pick, but only get it if it
falls outside of the top ten. Well, right now, the
Bulls are a playing team in the East because the
East is so unbelievably bad. After the Calves and Celtics,
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the rest of the conference has shown absolutely no sign
of consistency or much less life. Looking at Philadelphia, but
Bulls sitting ninth, nine and thirteen so far this year. Again,
if you're going to lose to a middle of the
road Eastern Conference team, I guess either the Bulls or
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Hornets would be the team you want that to happen to.
But then at that point you're picking out positives from
a negative that you absolutely should be avoided in the
first place. Speaking of the other two teams the Spurs
own the first round picks of I mentioned the Hornets.
The Hornets are having an absolutely terrible year after not
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that there were high expectations for that current group, but
I think play in was a base level expectation of
what they hope to achieve this year. Well, they're sitting
thirteenth in the East. That would be third from the bottom.
They're not going to be the bottom because of the
whizz are absolutely terrible. I think they're on an ungodly
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losing streak right now. It might even be up into
the teens last time I checked. But Hornets are six
and fifteen. It doesn't look like that Spurs pick will
convey this year because the Hornet's pick is actually lottery protected,
so that's top fourteen protected. It looks like the Hornets
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are going to be comfortably in the lottery. Bulls potentially
right there on the fringe of being outside of the
top ten, although who knows. Again, if the rest of
the East doesn't get their act together, that Bulls pick
might convey somewhere in the late teens, even potentially, which
is where the Hawks pick right now would sit. You
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remember still Hawks paying off the Dejonte Murray trade. That
first round pick is completely unprotected. But the only problem
with that is the Hawks are a game over five
hundred right now and sit in sixth place in the East.
So right now, it really doesn't look like the Spurs
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are going to have any kind of luck with this
mega draft class coming in. It looks like the Spurs
picks would all be in the teens, which again would
lead me to think maybe that pushes them to use
those picks as capital to potentially acquire someone at the deadline.
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If they look at the standings come February and decide
that all of those picks are going to be really
outside of the range of acquiring any kind of foundational piece.
They're still in the business of looking for another true
foundational piece to put next to Wimby instead of drafting
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complimentary pieces a La Branduman Wesley in the later half
of the first round. So still a lot to be
excited about as it pertains to those draft picks, But
it doesn't seem like right now the Spurs will be
anywhere close to the Cooper flag Ace Bailey mega lottery
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that this year's NBA Draft is shaking up to be.
As always, we will talk whatever happens down at the
Barn on Houston tonight as the Bulls are in town
taking on the Spurs. We'll discuss that on tomorrow's show.
But it is Thursday, so let's jump into it. We
got to get to our pig skin previews. We got
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to talk NFL Week fourteen. I gotta talk College Football
Conference Championship Week as well as some hopefully quick thoughts
on the completely inconsistent and unstable and illogical college football
playoff Committee. I gotta talk about some of those rankings
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and the again absolute lack of logic when it comes
to explaining why one team has higher than the other,
and why that only applies to apparently one or two
conferences and no one else. So quick break and then
we'll come back and talk some football.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Pray nothing ballgame with the Reds in front of the Royals,
we go to the top half of the fifth inning
Costianos to lee things off. Jim Day's going to be
taking us the rest of the way through this game
as Holland takes over on the mound. I made a
comment earlier tonight that I guess went out over the
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year that I am deeply ashamed of if I have
hurt anyone out there, I can't tell you how much
I say from the bottom of my heart, I'm so
very very sorry. I pride myself and think of myself
as a man of faith. As there's a drive in
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a deep left field by Costiganos, it will be a
home run, and so that'll make it a four to
nothing ball game. I don't know if I would be
putting on this headset again. A couple of good quarterbacks
in this when you know about Tom McCord, will also
see Thomas Castellanos. How about that.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Of the game That mashup is even better than I remembered.
I made that a couple of weeks ago, when good
old Tom Brenneman found himself back on that microphone calling
games for c w's coverage of the ACC Conference, ends
up calling a Boston College game featuring Thomas Castillanos, who
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actually now has entered the transfer portal. I think he
might have entered the portal right after that game, even
because he entered it mid season. So the curse of
Castillanos seems to have left Tom Brenneman and might have
even traveled over to Tom Castillanos. Of all irony, and
it sure sounds like Brenneman is still remorseful for his
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unfortunate comments about the city of Kansas City. It sounds
like he's quite remorseful as he's making jokes about it. Now.
How about that like not that I mean again, that's
pretty funny audio. Sometimes the universe just rewards you with
absolute audio gold, and you don't have to dig too
far to find it. But before we talk any college football,
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I'm going to save the bulk of Cowboys talk for
Monday's episode since they are the Monday night game against
the Bengals this week. Don't want to get too caught
up yet on the specifics of the game, but have
to mention the massive injury news for the Cowboys again,
kind of like my sports viewing last night. It's a
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bit of a yay boo yay. Trayvon Diggs, Ferguson, and
Marshawn Neelan all are back at practice. All of them
were full participants except for Diggs, I believe, but he
is on track to play. A Lamb didn't practice today
but is still expected to play, and Brandon Cooks limited
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participants so but he's expected to play as well. So
a lot of good news on the injury front, but
a couple of still one massive injury headline. But before that,
Tank Lawrence still out. It looks like he might be
back now for the Carolina game next week, A Carolina
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game that is starting to look more and more important
if you allow yourselves to buy into any of this
two game win streak that the Cowboys are on. But
the big news today was future Hall of Famer Zach
Martin is going to have season ending ankle surgery. He's
been fighting through it for weeks now, hasn't played the
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last couple of weeks. Was going to have to have
surgery regardless if the season, as soon as the season ended,
but at this point it's better for him just to
get it now instead of continuing to try to play
through it. And hopefully this is not I mean not
starting the rumors or suggesting that this is the case.
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It still looks like Zach Martin has no intentions of
ending his career with this season ending injury. But you know,
there were absolutely times where I've watched him the last
couple of weeks and thought, man, what if Zach Martin
is just reaching that point of no return for offensive linemen.
If it is finally starting to fall off to the
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point where he is barely you know, above average on
his best day, and hopefully a full off season of
recovery after the surgery gets him back to some level
of his old self for next year. Again, it's a
lot of what this Cowboys team is facing now for
the rest of the year. Having Dak have the surgery.
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Hopefully he can get back to some semblance of his
self next season. Also, a Dak who suggested he wants
to see Mike McCarthy get a contract extension. I can
only imagine how the DAK haters, for lack of a
better word for the anti Dak crowd feels about hearing
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Dak say Mike McCarthy deserves a contract extension. I can
hear the screaming through the speakers right now from a
lot of y'all. But hopefully Dak and Zach Martin can
have the surgeries come back next year after again a
full off season of recovery, Tank Lawrence, I mean, if
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we're not ready to go next week for Carolina, we
might be facing a similar conversation with him of you know,
how much further damage are we risking if we even
try to come back this year. Although again, you beat Cincinnati,
you beat Carolina, maybe Washington slips up again, Maybe Washington
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slips up two games, and all of a sudden, you're
only one game behind them, somehow, miraculously with a shot,
very very very outside shot of sneaking into a wildcard
spot that is blasphemous to even suggest. So we're not
going to spend a whole lot of time thinking about
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that at this point. They if they go out and
beat Cincinnati and then take care of business against a
bad Panthers team, We'll see what Washington does over the
course of the next two weeks. But then maybe we
start having that conversation. I will give you this fun fact,
fun stat I read earlier from the Dallas Morning News.
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I think it was either Kallashaw or David Moore that
had it. Apologies fellas for not remembering which one of
y'all it was. But the league this year the NFL,
when teams score thirty or more points, those teams are
seventy nine and eight. So you know, by far the
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majority of the teams in the league win the games
they score thirty points in. The Bengals are two to
four in those games this year. So the league has
lost eight games total where teams score thirty or more
and the Bengals are half of those. So again, with
the Cowboys defense that is starting to get guys back,
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Duran Bland back full participant, no more setbacks, potentially getting
digs and kneeling back to full strength, maybe the Cowboys
defense doesn't get exploited by this explosive still explosive Cincinnati
team because you can't rely on Cooper Rush to come
close to matching up point for point with Joe Burrow
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and that since the offense, but you can count on
that Sinci defense giving up a lot of points and
for all of its faults this season, the Cowboys off
and it has seemed to find some rhythm the last
couple of weeks. But again, we're getting way ahead of ourselves.
If we're even sniffing the playoff conversation. I think the
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last time I checked, the Cowboys were something like like
eight or nine percent of making a It's not even that.
It's still three percent, but if they beat Cincinnati some
it jumps up to six percent. So that was what
I saw earlier. So again, take care of business against
Cincinnati at home on Monday night, take care of business
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next week against Carolina, and then all of a sudden,
you're getting another shot at the Eagles before the season ends.
You're getting another shot at the Commander's which is the
team you would have to pass to end up getting
into a wild card spot. But again I'm already having
this conversation when I said we shouldn't be having it yet.
I the apathy has faded slightly, and my buddy Ernie
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gave me hell back over things Thanksgiving, where you know,
I jokingly was saying, you know, hey, if they went out,
they're a wild card team, and I say that out
of one side of my mouth as a joke. But
you're telling me there's a chance, and I'm a sucker
for drama. It's really setting up nicely for another one
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of those Cowboys Commanders Dallas Washington final game of the season,
where you remember in the past we got to see
Bob Griffin the third tap Romo on the back of
the head and say, hey, good job, buddy, you'll get
them next year. Well, it might be Cooper Rush getting
tapped on the back of the head by Jalen Daniels
if it does come down to a win and get
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in a game on that Week eighteen like it was
all those years ago. I mentioned the wild card spots.
You know, really looking at the two conferences, the AFC
playoff spots are settling in almost to the point of locks.
I mean, you've already seen the Chiefs and the Bills
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their spots. But really, you look at the first team
on the bubble, the Colts six and seven. You know,
they're two games behind the Broncos, who would be the
wild card team they have to pass. There are also
two games behind the Texans in the division. So do
you really see the Colts passing the Broncos or the
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Ravens who are both eight and five to get a
wild card spot. Do you see them coming back and
winning the division over the Texans who are eight and
five right now as well, I'm not sure that happens.
I'm not ready to lock it in. As you know,
a full on all seven spots are a solid position
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right now. The Colts technically, you know, aws NFL gives
them twenty five percent chance of still making the playoffs,
which is crazy low compared to when you look at
the NFC just AFC right now, the eight seed Colts
twenty five percent chance, the ninth seed Dolphins nine percent chance,
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and the ten seed Bengals three percent chance. So those
are your first three teams out of the playoffs. On
the AFC side of things, now, look at the NFC Buccaneers,
first team out of the playoffs. They still have a
fifty seven percent chance of making the playoffs. That's because
they're tied for the division lead with the Falcons, but
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they don't own the tiebreaker as of right now. Second
team out of the playoffs on the NFC side, the
Cardinals again a forty percent chance still to make the playoffs,
because they are in the division race as well, in
that NFC West where they're only a game behind the Seahawks,
and they actually play the Seahawks this week, so that
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could be a tide division come Sunday night, come the
end of the day Sunday, and then the Rams again
fighting still fighting for that NFC West as well. Well.
They're sitting with an eighteen percent chance of winning or
of getting into the playoffs. So the Colts on the AFC,
the first team out of the playoff have a twenty
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five percent chance of making the playoffs. There are two
teams way above that probability rate in the NFC, and
the Rams are almost at the same rate as the
Colts are facing right now. So the NFC is absolutely
wide open on the bottom part of the bracket, but
not necessarily through the wild card race, but through a
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couple of really tight division races, some really really good
division races on the NFC side of things, and who knows,
maybe if Washington slips up a couple times, maybe that
does open the door for some of those six and
six teams like Atlanta or Tampa Bay, depending on which
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one of them doesn't win the division, or basically the
entirety of the NFC West, because the Niners are in
last place now at five and seven. So if we're
talking about the Cowboys potentially sneaking into a wild card race,
which we're not, but if we are, we also have
to mention the Niners there. So maybe we get some
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chaos at the bottom of the standings at the wild
Card as the wild card starts to tighten, but only
if Washington starts to slip up, because the rest of
the wild card teams are comfortably looking already preparing for
the playoffs. I know all those numbers probably gave a
lot of you boys tired head, but bear with me,
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stick with me. I promise there won't be any more
math on the show today. But turning our attention to
the Sunday slate of games, there are half a dozen
games that I think will end up having potential playoff implications,
starting with tonight Packers nine and three on the road,
taking on the apparently juggernaut Dan Campbell led eleven and
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one Detroit Lions. A great Thursday night football game in
a season where we've been unfortunately stricken with some terrible,
terrible football on Thursday nights, should be a good one tonight,
I would expect. You know, obviously, Packers know the only
way they're going to climb back into that divisional race
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is not only beating the Lions, but they would also
have to end up passing the ten and two Vikings.
So you got to knock the Lions back again. Hope
the Vikings lose a couple times along the way to
if you're going to have any hope of getting back
in it. But the NFC North continues to be the
absolute best division in the NFL. And I know there
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were a lot of expectations for the Packers and Lions specifically,
But the Vikings man ten and two. I've been calling
them paper tigers all season. At some point the moniker
has to be dropped because they have done nothing but
answer every question but two basically they've been asked through
twelve games this season. The Vikings host the Atlanta Falcons
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this week. Atlanta. I mentioned tied with Tampa for the
NFC South lead, but most importantly, a Falcons team that
now is left asking themselves which version of Kirk Cousins
are we gonna get week to week? Because the version
that threw four interceptions, Because the version that threw four
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interceptions last week, that's not going to be the guy
that leads them to a division title, and it's certainly
not going to be the guy that makes a late
wild card run if they end up losing that division
to Tampa. A lot of premature talk about Michael PENNOCKX
potentially saving their season. Let's hold off on that. Kirk
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Cousins is your guy, barring injury for the rest of
this year. But that four interception game last week, not
only was it on paper four interceptions, but the way
they were thrown. You know, two of them looked like
jv B team football. It was off the back of
the foot, just floating a ball into the end zone.
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You know, very careless decision making from a what you
thought was a trusted veteran quarterback. Well trusted might be
stretching the definition of the word there, but a guy
that has led you this far, albeit only to a
five hundred record, but you cannot have that version of
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Kirk Cousins the rest of the season if you have
any intentions of winning that division then looking out West.
I mentioned it also earlier, Seahawks traveling to Arizona taking
on the Cardinals, Seahawks leading that division at seven and five,
but only a game ahead of the six and six Cardinals.
I'm still not entirely sure who I believe in, If
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any team from this division, someone's got to win it.
And right now I'm still kind of feeling like the
Rams are more than a dark horse to come back
and win the division. Not ready to buy in on
the Seahawks, certainly not ready to buy in on the Cardinals.
This feels like a game the Cardinals win at home.
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Rams playing the Bills this week, the ten and two Bills,
who have already clinched their division, clinched a playoff spot.
Rams at six and six, same record as the Cardinals.
Really big game for the Rams. If they could somehow
steal a win against the Bills, it would put them
not only in better mathematical position obviously to win that division,
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but just such an emotional boost, an emotional lift if
they were to beat a really, really good Buffalo team.
Buffalo traveling from one coast to the other, from east
to west, covering every time zone, and we have outside
of Alaska and Hawaii in our country, so you can,
I guess, if you're looking for any kind of betting trends,
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you could potentially think, well, maybe the Bills are going
to have an issue traveling across the country. But that
Rams team has done a hell of a job to
fight back, even to just to get to five hundred
from where they were a quarter of the way through
the season with all the injuries they faced early in
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the year, finally starting to get healthy and crawling back
into that division race. I'm going to mention them, but
not for long. The Niners are five and seven. They
look like the injury Speaking of dealing with injuries, they
look like the injuries are absolutely ready to crater their season.
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But a perfect recipe to potentially get back on track
is playing the Bears right now. The Bears are such
a joke coming off that thanksgain performance ends up getting
the coach fired, which absolutely warranted not calling a time
out at the end of the game. There Bears falling
all the way back to four and eight, now but somehow,
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as crazy as this sounds, only a game worse than
where the forty nine Ers are. Niners aren't dead yet,
They still have the DNA of that team, still have
Brock Purdy, although he's banged up. But it's pretty crazy
to me that the Niners and the Cowboys have the
same record and both of them are staring at single
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digit probability percent probability to make the playoff. Sorry, I
said there wouldn't be more math. That will be the
last time, I promise. And then the last game, arguably
the best game of the day or Sunday if you're
excluding the Thursday night game. Tonight the eight and four Chargers,
the Fighting Harballs traveling to Arrowhead taking on the eleven
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and one Chiefs, a great eight Sunday night football matchup
Chiefs in primetime. We're probably guaranteed to see a penalty
go against the Chargers or not get called on the Chiefs.
Something will further the narrative that the league takes care
of the Chiefs in primetime. But more importantly, that AFC
West is looking like a solid three playoff team division
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between the Chargers, Chiefs and the rookie bow Knicks. Led
Denver Broncos. Not exactly sure. Many people had that division
being a three team playoff division, but it looks like
all three of those teams will be pretty comfortably into
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the playoffs barring a late season collapse opening up any
chance for the Colts to climb back into one of
those spots. But a great week of NFL football, a
great Sunday before we have to watch the five and
seven Cowboys play host to the four and eight Bengals
on Monday Night Football Again. We'll talk about that game
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more come Monday. But to close out the show here,
got to talk some college football because we have our
conference championship matchups set. It is college football Conference Championship Week.
I if you have picked up on this throughout the year,
I am one of I think the rare birds in
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our city. Where give me college football over the NFL
all day. It's I know it's not a better product,
but college football, to me is the closest thing we
have to European soccer, and we got a prime example
of that last week. We got Real Madrid, Barcelona, we
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got de Classic, we got Dortmund, Bayern Munich, we got
any of the best soccer rivals you want to throw
out there. We got Texas Texas A and M. We
got Michigan Ohio State. We got chaos on rivalry week.
Although the Texas Texas A and M game didn't necessarily deliver.
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Texas tried to let them come back into that game late.
But the Michigan Ohio State game absolutely gave us chaos,
which is all along in college football, what I root
for every year, but the unfortunate situation where we got
the chaos, but now we get the inconsistent logic from
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the playoff committee when it comes to ranking these teams
post chaos, post terrible loss from Ohio State, I looking
at the top twelve right now, or what would be
the twelve teams, I should say, because it wouldn't be
the top twelve, it would be the top ten, then
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a couple of conference champions getting in or the top eleven,
and then the Big Twelve champion getting in. So looking
at the games themselves, Oregon number one Oregon versus number
three Penn State for the Big Ten championship. Ohio State
loses to Michigan. That allows James Franklin another shot at
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a legacy win, this time in the conference championship game,
a trend you will see across these games teams that
are new to their conference playing in the conference championship
game in year one Oregon in this case in the
Big Ten. No matter what happens in that game, both
teams are in. So there's not a whole lot of
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intrigue for me. I hope we see a good game
for the sake of football viewing. But as far as
any potential chaos, there none. Both those teams are in.
It's just a matter of where they would be ranked.
Turning to the SEC again, a team new to the conference,
first year in the conference, Texas number two. Now with
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Ohio State's loss, they're taking on number five Georgia in
a rematch, this time with no Bevo. Apparently we got
the word. The Mercedes Benz Dome Arena whatever they call
it in Atlanta, doesn't have enough room for Bevo on
the sideline. Sounds like potentially UGGA in the state of
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Georgia and the fan base haven't recovered from the emotional
trauma of Bevo. Chart Now, I'm kidding. All of that's ridiculous.
I actually believe them. A giant longhorn steer in an
NFL Stadium is not the same as having him on
the sideline at the forty Acres, but should be a
good game. I think Texas obviously having Georgia on tape,
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having the matchup earlier in the year, of course wanting revenge,
so why I'm excited to see what adjustment Sark makes
and of course Kirby's smart defensive wizard should be should
be a fun matchup the second time around. It's similar
to Oregon Penn State. I think both of these teams
are in no matter what happens in this game, there's
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no way that Georgia loses this game so bad that
they end up falling all the way behind any of
the other three loss SEC teams, which we'll get to
them in a minute. So potent. Not a whole lot
of potential for chaos in the two Marquee matchups, but
it is pretty cool again to see Oregon and Texas
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both make their conference championship games in their first year
in their new respective conferences. Then things get interesting because
my beloved SMU Ponies number eight playing number seventeen Clemson.
Crazy more chaos from last week. Clemson loses their game
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to South Carolina, but Syracuse does them a favor and
knocks off Miami, which now put Clemson in the conference
championship game, but more importantly, put Miami out of the
college Football playoff picture, at least in last week's rankings.
And you would assume with neither Alabama who's number eleven,
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or Miami who's number twelve, or Ole Miss in South Carolina,
who are thirteen and fourteen, with none of those four
teams playing in any of the conference championship games, it
would be fair to reason that there's not going to
be any movement between those four teams. So Bama right
now is locked in as the last team in the playoffs.
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Who could have seen that coming? And I know there's
a lot of rush to quickly say, well, it's just
because of the A on their helmet, But Miami has
the U on their helmet. It's still A. It's not Bama,
but it's still a heritage brand. And if you're telling
me Miami's lost to Syracuse is enough to put them
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behind Alabama again, it just feels like there's some serious
protection being run for the SEC and the Big Ten
when it comes to the College Football Playoff Committee at
the expense of the ACC and the Big Twelve, which
there's no question Big ten SEC are stronger, better conferences
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than Miami or ACC and Big twelve. But if you're
going to say that, then you're giving basically a blanket
statement every year to say it doesn't matter if you're
a two loss team in one conference, We're always going
to put a three loss SEC team or potentially a
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three loss Big ten team ahead of you, which I
know at that point you're arguing about the last team
to get into the bracket, which is what they want
because all they want is you to talk about it
more so it drives more intrigue, it drives ratings for
the talking head TV shows that are breaking these rankings down.
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I'll be curious to see exactly how the rankings fall,
because if SMU loses this game, who's to say they
don't fall behind potentially Miami, Ole MISS or South Carolina
if there's some if the committee does some kind of
mental gymnastics. Now, I for one, I don't believe if
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you make your conference championship game and lose it, I
don't think that should be held against you because you
shouldn't be able to lose ground playing in a conference
championship game to a team that is sitting at home
that didn't qualify for that game. That seems insanely illogical
to me. You're penalizing a team for having a better
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regular season than another team and then telling them, oh,
but you lost your conference championship, so now you're a
two loss ACC team and we view your conference as
so inferior to the SEC that we're now going to
give Alabama, potentially Ole Miss or South Carolina a spot
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ahead of you. Now, it wouldn't surprise me if the
committee said, SMU, you lost to Clemson, so now we're
going to give Miami a spot. And at the same time,
none of that would actually matter because Clemson would be
an automatic conference champion, and then you'd be taking a
spot away because they would be outside of the top twelve.
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So again, there's just a lot of inconsistency with the
playoff Committee with the rankings. And I understand clearly ESPN
is in bed with the SEC. They're going to do
everything they can to push those teams as far as
they can get away with, but at some point it
just doesn't feel right if they penalize a team that
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made a conference championship game, SMU, simplest way, take care
of business against Clemson. You're in no matter what. If
Clemson wins, then I think we potentially see some absolute
We're already seeing ads fighting with each other on social media.
It was SMU's ad fighting with someone else yesterday. I
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think it was either Ole miss or South Carolina arguing
about who is more worthy of being in depending on
if SMU loses. So still a lot to be decided
on the field. Thankfully, hopefully SMU takes care of business
because of course I have a soft spot in my
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heart for SMU, as my grandfather is a proud was
a proud SMU graduate. And then turning to the other
conference that keeps getting disrespected. Number fifteen Arizona State versus
Number sixteen Iowa State, both ten and two teams, but
behind all of the three loss SEC teams behind Miami
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two loss ACC team. Despite the fact that both of
them are playing in a conference championship game, one of
those teams has to get in. I lean Arizona State
just because they've been such a great story in their
program turnaround this season, but really, I mean Iowa State,
this is the first time in their history that They've
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had a ten win season, which on paper or hearing
it first time, sounds crazy, but if you think of it,
I mean, Iowa State is outside of random nine win seasons.
This is absolutely the pinnacle of their football programs achievement
throughout the history of their existence. So one of those
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teams will absolutely steal a bid away from the Top twelve.
The other interesting side of this is number ten Boise
State taking on number twenty UNLV. If Boise State wins,
they would all but guarantee themselves a first round by
in the College Football Playoffs, which, if you're going to
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tell me, the SEC is a much better conference than
the Big Twelve and the ACC. So a three loss
team gets ranked ahead of a two loss team, How
the hell do you justify Boise State as a one
loss team ranked ahead of a two loss Big Twelve champion.
That makes no sense to me. The Mountain West is
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not that much better than the Big Twelve. Both Boise
State's ranked far too high in my opinion, Arizona State,
Iowa State, Boise should be further closer to them than
they are. Tennessee and Ohio State at six and seven.
Boise in my eyes, would be fourteenth, right there, slotted
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behind South Carolina, but they give Boise credit extreme credit
for being a one loss team and have them right
behind one loss SMU and one lost Indiana. In Indiana
of course absolutely guaranteed to get in because they're not
playing in the Big Ten championship game. Then, lastly, unfortunately,
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I was hoping Army might have some kind of pathway
to potentially steal a bit. It doesn't appear like they
would pass anybody in the rankings if they win their conference.
The American Athletic Conference utsa's conference. UTSA almost beat Army
last week, and that Army head coach got a little
handsy shoving a UTSA player down. But Army, it doesn't appear,
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has any pathway into the playoff bracket. But it would
be nice, you know, beat Tulane, win the conference, beat
Navy have a eleven to one regular season, would be
you know something that when that happened depends on NCAA.
On College Football twenty five, I restart the dynasty because
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that's just not realistic and it kills the immersion in
my eyes. But look who's laughing now? Army potentially is
staring straight ahead, straightforward to a one lost season, which
would you know, be their best season since World War
Two basically, so all in all, the potential for chaos
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doesn't really appear to be there. It kind of seems
like most of the spots are already claimed regardless of
winning or losing the conference championship games. Outside of SMU,
that is the one that could fall if they lose,
which unfortunately that's the only one I really care well
outside of Texas. I suppose that's the one I'm going
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to be paying the most attention to in terms of
not expecting it to be the best game, although I
think it's should be a good game, it's the one
that potentially could cause the most uproar when it comes
to the final rankings next week. So there you have it.
A full pig Skin preview on this Thursday. Really looking forward,
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really looking forward to the conference championship week. But unfortunately
that means we are very close to closing another chapter
of the Book of Saturdays in the fall. But overall,
for the first year of the twelve team playoff, we
have absolutely really not Even though Oregon's undefeated, I wouldn't
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say they are a dominant undefeated team or a team
that is the massive betting favorite to win it all
because they're a team that only beat Boise State by
three points, which is of course Boise State's only lost
this year. So a lot of parody in college football,
which is perfect for a twelve team player off. We'll
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just have to wait and see how the final rankings
shake down after this weekend. Coming up on the show tomorrow,
we will talk about, of course, whatever happens in that
bull Spurs game, and I have it on good authority,
I will be joined by the roommate for another edition
of Who Won the Internet? As always, I appreciate y'all
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riding along. Have a safe Thursday night, enjoy the football,
enjoy the Spurs game. We'll talk tomorrow.
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Light the beam. It's time for another one of these things.
Welcome back into the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma. I
am your host, Sam Freeze, broadcasting live to tape here
from the east side of San Antonio, where we find
ourselves fifteen days away from the inaugural twelve team college
football playoffs. As always, if you want to get a
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hold of the program aka me, you can find me
on x at Biggest Puma, on Instagram, Biggest Dot Puma,
or you could always go the boomer route and just
search Sam Freeze on Facebook. The roommate gives me quite
a bit of hell for the amount of time I
still spend on Facebook, but what can I say? Zucker
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Zuckerberg got me early and the hooks are still deep.
If you missed yesterday's program, had a great conversation with
my good buddy Bama Brown from out of Austin or
he would tell you actually out of dripping springs, but
he joined me yesterday for hopefully the first of many
Wednesday appearances on the pod. He's got a new pod
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of his own that we've been working on. He's been
putting together the last couple of weeks. Me as me
as his partner in crime, but really it's his pod.
I just get to just get to laugh at whatever
the hell he ends up bringing to the table. I
mentioned it yesterday. It's more of a daily quick hitter.
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But if you can't get enough of me, you can
find me on the Bama Brown Pod, Bama Brown Experience.
Just look for it on the iHeart app or wherever
you get your podcast. He's a absolutely good dude, been
in radio for almost four decades. He gets mad at
me every time I mentioned but he is a Texas
Radio Hall of Famer, despite his apparent disrespect for the
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honor and the city of Kilgore, where the Hall of
Fame is located. But if you missed that, yesterday had
him on for the main segment. Also talked to Little
Spurs recapping their loss and elimination from the NBA Cup
with the loss out in Phoenix, So go give that
a listen if you haven't already. Highly highly appreciated. As always,
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we start with what I watched last night. Had a
bit of a double feature in the early window. Finally
got to see my Duke, my beloved Duke, Blue Devils
get a clutch win versus a top ranked opponent. They
beat Auburn number two. Auburn previously undefeated Auburn Duke wins
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that game eighty four seventy eight up there in Cameron
Indoor Stadium. And I mentioned finally getting a win, a
clutch win against a top rank opponent. They've already had
a couple of opportunities to get a key win like this,
but have failed, coughed it up late against Kansas, actually
Kentucky first and then Kansas more recently. Finally get to
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see after Cooper flag struggling in both of those losses,
in the last couple minutes of the game, I get
another good performance from him. They're able to hold onto
the lead, don't need any heroics there at the end
of the game, are able to assault it away at home.
And I mentioned that Auburn team, you know, previously undefeated,
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number two in the country. They've had a great season
so far. I ended up going to the Hellscape winning
the Maui Invitational, getting some solid wins over Iowa State,
North Carolina and then Memphis in the championship game. Also
had an early season win over Houston as well, so
that Auburn team is not going anywhere should be absolute
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a contender in the SEC to win that conference. But
good to see Duke pull out one of these key
victories with the young roster they have, I mean held
Cooper Flag who most people are projecting to be the
number one pick in the draft. He's seventeen. Doesn't even
turn eighteen, I believe, until February or maybe January, so
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incredibly young team Duke, relying on a lot of freshmen,
had another freshman, a five star freshman last night, hit
six threes in the first half to end up pulling
them closer before halftime. They take control in the second half,
so things were good in the first part of the
double feature. Last night, the late night game I caught
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not so much. Stars end up giving up three unanswered goals.
They lose the game three to two out in LA
to the Kings, And really it's pretty par for the
course for where this Star season has been a lot
of peaks and valleys. I was talking to a buddy
of mine, you know, really that I'm okay with the
peaks and valleys, but by February, we've got to find
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some consistency among this group, and unfortunately the group got
thinned out a little bit. As we heard earlier this week,
Tyler Sagan ends up having a hip injury that's going
to require surgery, and anytime a hockey player is having
hip surgery, that's absolutely a multi month injury a multi
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month recovery process. So early returns are suggesting four to
six months, which would leave his season in jeopardy. But
the sunny side of it, I suppose, is now the
Stars can pull the old Golden Night's trick and put
Sagan on long term IR, potentially opening up significant amount
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of cap space to go out and make a big
move to replace some of his production because he was
off to a great start this year, really settled into
that line with Segin, Duchane and Marchmen. Unfortunately, though, they
will now have to rely on either some of the
youngsters or pull the trigger on some kind of deal
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pretty quickly in order to not fall too far behind
the rest of the division. They right now are sitting
in a playoff spot, but they're in the third spot
in their division, which would be the last guaranteed spot
for the playoffs before they'd have to try to be
a wild card team. But as crazy as the NHL
has been the last few years, you could argue you
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might be better off being a six to seven or
eight seed, especially when you look at who Dallas has
had to go through the last couple of years, as
they were a top seed, you know, one of the
top two seeds in the West and having really unlucky
playoff draws. Maybe this year is the year that they
flip the table and end up being a bit of
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a dark course lower seeded team going into the playoffs.
Definitely losing Sagan for that for basically the rest of
the regular season is definitely going to be It's going
to be a bit of a hill to climb. I
don't think obviously Sagan was not their key to being
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a playoff team, but his production is going to be
sorely missed. So a bit of what I like to
call a Yay Boo night last night, Yay Duke got
the win. Boo Stars blew a two nothing lead on
the road against a Western Conference opponent I mentioned yesterday,
talked a little bit about that Spurs loss speaking of
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road losses to a conference opponent. Talked about the Spurs
loss out in Phoenix on yesterday's show, but got a
little follow up on that here before we get into
the main segment today we're gonna have our pig skin previews.
But something I didn't mention yesterday, you know Wemby Apparently
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with about two and a half minutes to go in
that game, he ends up hurting his lower back, stays
in the game till I think, you know, six seconds
left something like that when he finally checked out. But
we're now getting reports that he will be out at
least tonight against the Bulls. And again it continues this
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unfortunate trend of as soon as the Spurs get one
player back, another key piece drops out of the lineup
due to injury. Against Phoenix, we got Jeremy Sohan's return
after a month and a day out of the lineup
with injury, and immediately get hit with the worst possible injury,
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an injury to Wemby. So not only Wemby out against
the Bulls tonight, hopefully not for too much or not
too many more games other than tonight, but we will
see as soon as we get any update. Also Trey Jones,
who's fighting his own injury. Bad luck. He's going to
miss his second straight game. He hasn't played since the
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game against Sacramento, so Spurs will be a couple men
down as they play the Bulls tonight at home again,
a team that you really have to take care of
business against as you look to potentially keep pacing the West,
because the bottom half of the West playoff play in
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bracket right now is getting extremely competitive this early in
the season. I mean, you're starting to see a clear
separation amongst or away from the bottom cellar dwellers of
the West, but you're not seeing really any separation from
you know, basically the twelfth seed to the sixth seed,
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which is why if you go back to you know,
the Spurs dropping back to back games against the Lakers
and MAVs. Since then, they've won five of their last
but even more impressively, three of those five wins have
been against the Thunder, the Warriors, and the Kings. Thunder
and Warriors above them in the standings, Kings a couple
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games behind them, but one of those teams that's fighting
to get into that back end of the play in
playoff race. So got to handle business at home against
a middle of the road at best Bulls team. The
only benefit of potentially losing the game tonight would be
that it would get the Spurs closer to having that
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Bulls first round pick convey this year. You'll remember Spurs
own the Bulls pick, but only get it if it
falls outside of the top ten. Well, right now, the
Bulls are a playing team in the East because the
East is so unbelievably bad. After the Calves and Celtics,
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the rest of the conference has shown absolutely no sign
of consistency or much less life. Looking at Philadelphia, but
Bulls sitting ninth, nine and thirteen so far this year. Again,
if you're going to lose to a middle of the
road Eastern Conference team, I guess either the Bulls or
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Hornets would be the team you want that to happen to.
But then at that point you're picking out positives from
a negative that you absolutely should be avoided in the
first place. Speaking of the other two teams the Spurs
own the first round picks of I mentioned the Hornets.
The Hornets are having an absolutely terrible year after not
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that there were high expectations for that current group, but
I think play in was a base level expectation of
what they hope to achieve this year. Well, they're sitting
thirteenth in the East. That would be third from the bottom.
They're not going to be the bottom because of the
whizz are absolutely terrible. I think they're on an ungodly
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losing streak right now. It might even be up into
the teens last time I checked. But Hornets are six
and fifteen. It doesn't look like that Spurs pick will
convey this year because the Hornet's pick is actually lottery protected,
so that's top fourteen protected. It looks like the Hornets
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are going to be comfortably in the lottery. Bulls potentially
right there on the fringe of being outside of the
top ten, although who knows. Again, if the rest of
the East doesn't get their act together, that Bulls pick
might convey somewhere in the late teens, even potentially, which
is where the Hawks pick right now would sit. You
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remember still Hawks paying off the Dejonte Murray trade. That
first round pick is completely unprotected. But the only problem
with that is the Hawks are a game over five
hundred right now and sit in sixth place in the East.
So right now, it really doesn't look like the Spurs
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are going to have any kind of luck with this
mega draft class coming in. It looks like the Spurs
picks would all be in the teens, which again would
lead me to think maybe that pushes them to use
those picks as capital to potentially acquire someone at the deadline.
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If they look at the standings come February and decide
that all of those picks are going to be really
outside of the range of acquiring any kind of foundational piece.
They're still in the business of looking for another true
foundational piece to put next to Wimby instead of drafting
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complimentary pieces a La Branduman Wesley in the later half
of the first round. So still a lot to be
excited about as it pertains to those draft picks, But
it doesn't seem like right now the Spurs will be
anywhere close to the Cooper flag Ace Bailey mega lottery
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that this year's NBA Draft is shaking up to be.
As always, we will talk whatever happens down at the
Barn on Houston tonight as the Bulls are in town
taking on the Spurs. We'll discuss that on tomorrow's show.
But it is Thursday, so let's jump into it. We
got to get to our pig skin previews. We got
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to talk NFL Week fourteen. I gotta talk College Football
Conference Championship Week as well as some hopefully quick thoughts
on the completely inconsistent and unstable and illogical college football
playoff Committee. I gotta talk about some of those rankings
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and the again absolute lack of logic when it comes
to explaining why one team has higher than the other,
and why that only applies to apparently one or two
conferences and no one else. So quick break and then
we'll come back and talk some football.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Pray nothing ballgame with the Reds in front of the Royals,
we go to the top half of the fifth inning
Costianos to lee things off. Jim Day's going to be
taking us the rest of the way through this game
as Holland takes over on the mound. I made a
comment earlier tonight that I guess went out over the
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year that I am deeply ashamed of if I have
hurt anyone out there, I can't tell you how much
I say from the bottom of my heart, I'm so
very very sorry. I pride myself and think of myself
as a man of faith. As there's a drive in
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a deep left field by Costiganos, it will be a
home run, and so that'll make it a four to
nothing ball game. I don't know if I would be
putting on this headset again. A couple of good quarterbacks
in this when you know about Tom McCord, will also
see Thomas Castellanos. How about that.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Of the game That mashup is even better than I remembered.
I made that a couple of weeks ago, when good
old Tom Brenneman found himself back on that microphone calling
games for c w's coverage of the ACC Conference, ends
up calling a Boston College game featuring Thomas Castillanos, who
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actually now has entered the transfer portal. I think he
might have entered the portal right after that game, even
because he entered it mid season. So the curse of
Castillanos seems to have left Tom Brenneman and might have
even traveled over to Tom Castillanos. Of all irony, and
it sure sounds like Brenneman is still remorseful for his
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unfortunate comments about the city of Kansas City. It sounds
like he's quite remorseful as he's making jokes about it. Now.
How about that like not that I mean again, that's
pretty funny audio. Sometimes the universe just rewards you with
absolute audio gold, and you don't have to dig too
far to find it. But before we talk any college football,
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I'm going to save the bulk of Cowboys talk for
Monday's episode since they are the Monday night game against
the Bengals this week. Don't want to get too caught
up yet on the specifics of the game, but have
to mention the massive injury news for the Cowboys again,
kind of like my sports viewing last night. It's a
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bit of a yay boo yay. Trayvon Diggs, Ferguson, and
Marshawn Neelan all are back at practice. All of them
were full participants except for Diggs, I believe, but he
is on track to play. A Lamb didn't practice today
but is still expected to play, and Brandon Cooks limited
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participants so but he's expected to play as well. So
a lot of good news on the injury front, but
a couple of still one massive injury headline. But before that,
Tank Lawrence still out. It looks like he might be
back now for the Carolina game next week, A Carolina
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game that is starting to look more and more important
if you allow yourselves to buy into any of this
two game win streak that the Cowboys are on. But
the big news today was future Hall of Famer Zach
Martin is going to have season ending ankle surgery. He's
been fighting through it for weeks now, hasn't played the
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last couple of weeks. Was going to have to have
surgery regardless if the season, as soon as the season ended,
but at this point it's better for him just to
get it now instead of continuing to try to play
through it. And hopefully this is not I mean not
starting the rumors or suggesting that this is the case.
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It still looks like Zach Martin has no intentions of
ending his career with this season ending injury. But you know,
there were absolutely times where I've watched him the last
couple of weeks and thought, man, what if Zach Martin
is just reaching that point of no return for offensive linemen.
If it is finally starting to fall off to the
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point where he is barely you know, above average on
his best day, and hopefully a full off season of
recovery after the surgery gets him back to some level
of his old self for next year. Again, it's a
lot of what this Cowboys team is facing now for
the rest of the year. Having Dak have the surgery.
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Hopefully he can get back to some semblance of his
self next season. Also, a Dak who suggested he wants
to see Mike McCarthy get a contract extension. I can
only imagine how the DAK haters, for lack of a
better word for the anti Dak crowd feels about hearing
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Dak say Mike McCarthy deserves a contract extension. I can
hear the screaming through the speakers right now from a
lot of y'all. But hopefully Dak and Zach Martin can
have the surgeries come back next year after again a
full off season of recovery, Tank Lawrence, I mean, if
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we're not ready to go next week for Carolina, we
might be facing a similar conversation with him of you know,
how much further damage are we risking if we even
try to come back this year. Although again, you beat Cincinnati,
you beat Carolina, maybe Washington slips up again, Maybe Washington
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slips up two games, and all of a sudden, you're
only one game behind them, somehow, miraculously with a shot,
very very very outside shot of sneaking into a wildcard
spot that is blasphemous to even suggest. So we're not
going to spend a whole lot of time thinking about
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that at this point. They if they go out and
beat Cincinnati and then take care of business against a
bad Panthers team, We'll see what Washington does over the
course of the next two weeks. But then maybe we
start having that conversation. I will give you this fun fact,
fun stat I read earlier from the Dallas Morning News.
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I think it was either Kallashaw or David Moore that
had it. Apologies fellas for not remembering which one of
y'all it was. But the league this year the NFL,
when teams score thirty or more points, those teams are
seventy nine and eight. So you know, by far the
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majority of the teams in the league win the games
they score thirty points in. The Bengals are two to
four in those games this year. So the league has
lost eight games total where teams score thirty or more
and the Bengals are half of those. So again, with
the Cowboys defense that is starting to get guys back,
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Duran Bland back full participant, no more setbacks, potentially getting
digs and kneeling back to full strength, maybe the Cowboys
defense doesn't get exploited by this explosive still explosive Cincinnati
team because you can't rely on Cooper Rush to come
close to matching up point for point with Joe Burrow
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and that since the offense, but you can count on
that Sinci defense giving up a lot of points and
for all of its faults this season, the Cowboys off
and it has seemed to find some rhythm the last
couple of weeks. But again, we're getting way ahead of ourselves.
If we're even sniffing the playoff conversation. I think the
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last time I checked, the Cowboys were something like like
eight or nine percent of making a It's not even that.
It's still three percent, but if they beat Cincinnati some
it jumps up to six percent. So that was what
I saw earlier. So again, take care of business against
Cincinnati at home on Monday night, take care of business
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next week against Carolina, and then all of a sudden,
you're getting another shot at the Eagles before the season ends.
You're getting another shot at the Commander's which is the
team you would have to pass to end up getting
into a wild card spot. But again I'm already having
this conversation when I said we shouldn't be having it yet.
I the apathy has faded slightly, and my buddy Ernie
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gave me hell back over things Thanksgiving, where you know,
I jokingly was saying, you know, hey, if they went out,
they're a wild card team, and I say that out
of one side of my mouth as a joke. But
you're telling me there's a chance, and I'm a sucker
for drama. It's really setting up nicely for another one
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of those Cowboys Commanders Dallas Washington final game of the season,
where you remember in the past we got to see
Bob Griffin the third tap Romo on the back of
the head and say, hey, good job, buddy, you'll get
them next year. Well, it might be Cooper Rush getting
tapped on the back of the head by Jalen Daniels
if it does come down to a win and get
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in a game on that Week eighteen like it was
all those years ago. I mentioned the wild card spots.
You know, really looking at the two conferences, the AFC
playoff spots are settling in almost to the point of locks.
I mean, you've already seen the Chiefs and the Bills
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their spots. But really, you look at the first team
on the bubble, the Colts six and seven. You know,
they're two games behind the Broncos, who would be the
wild card team they have to pass. There are also
two games behind the Texans in the division. So do
you really see the Colts passing the Broncos or the
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Ravens who are both eight and five to get a
wild card spot. Do you see them coming back and
winning the division over the Texans who are eight and
five right now as well, I'm not sure that happens.
I'm not ready to lock it in. As you know,
a full on all seven spots are a solid position
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right now. The Colts technically, you know, aws NFL gives
them twenty five percent chance of still making the playoffs,
which is crazy low compared to when you look at
the NFC just AFC right now, the eight seed Colts
twenty five percent chance, the ninth seed Dolphins nine percent chance,
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and the ten seed Bengals three percent chance. So those
are your first three teams out of the playoffs. On
the AFC side of things, now, look at the NFC Buccaneers,
first team out of the playoffs. They still have a
fifty seven percent chance of making the playoffs. That's because
they're tied for the division lead with the Falcons, but
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they don't own the tiebreaker as of right now. Second
team out of the playoffs on the NFC side, the
Cardinals again a forty percent chance still to make the playoffs,
because they are in the division race as well, in
that NFC West where they're only a game behind the Seahawks,
and they actually play the Seahawks this week, so that
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could be a tide division come Sunday night, come the
end of the day Sunday, and then the Rams again
fighting still fighting for that NFC West as well. Well.
They're sitting with an eighteen percent chance of winning or
of getting into the playoffs. So the Colts on the AFC,
the first team out of the playoff have a twenty
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five percent chance of making the playoffs. There are two
teams way above that probability rate in the NFC, and
the Rams are almost at the same rate as the
Colts are facing right now. So the NFC is absolutely
wide open on the bottom part of the bracket, but
not necessarily through the wild card race, but through a
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couple of really tight division races, some really really good
division races on the NFC side of things, and who knows,
maybe if Washington slips up a couple times, maybe that
does open the door for some of those six and
six teams like Atlanta or Tampa Bay, depending on which
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one of them doesn't win the division, or basically the
entirety of the NFC West, because the Niners are in
last place now at five and seven. So if we're
talking about the Cowboys potentially sneaking into a wild card race,
which we're not, but if we are, we also have
to mention the Niners there. So maybe we get some
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chaos at the bottom of the standings at the wild
Card as the wild card starts to tighten, but only
if Washington starts to slip up, because the rest of
the wild card teams are comfortably looking already preparing for
the playoffs. I know all those numbers probably gave a
lot of you boys tired head, but bear with me,
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stick with me. I promise there won't be any more
math on the show today. But turning our attention to
the Sunday slate of games, there are half a dozen
games that I think will end up having potential playoff implications,
starting with tonight Packers nine and three on the road,
taking on the apparently juggernaut Dan Campbell led eleven and
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one Detroit Lions. A great Thursday night football game in
a season where we've been unfortunately stricken with some terrible,
terrible football on Thursday nights, should be a good one tonight,
I would expect. You know, obviously, Packers know the only
way they're going to climb back into that divisional race
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is not only beating the Lions, but they would also
have to end up passing the ten and two Vikings.
So you got to knock the Lions back again. Hope
the Vikings lose a couple times along the way to
if you're going to have any hope of getting back
in it. But the NFC North continues to be the
absolute best division in the NFL. And I know there
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were a lot of expectations for the Packers and Lions specifically,
But the Vikings man ten and two. I've been calling
them paper tigers all season. At some point the moniker
has to be dropped because they have done nothing but
answer every question but two basically they've been asked through
twelve games this season. The Vikings host the Atlanta Falcons
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this week. Atlanta. I mentioned tied with Tampa for the
NFC South lead, but most importantly, a Falcons team that
now is left asking themselves which version of Kirk Cousins
are we gonna get week to week? Because the version
that threw four interceptions, Because the version that threw four
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interceptions last week, that's not going to be the guy
that leads them to a division title, and it's certainly
not going to be the guy that makes a late
wild card run if they end up losing that division
to Tampa. A lot of premature talk about Michael PENNOCKX
potentially saving their season. Let's hold off on that. Kirk
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Cousins is your guy, barring injury for the rest of
this year. But that four interception game last week, not
only was it on paper four interceptions, but the way
they were thrown. You know, two of them looked like
jv B team football. It was off the back of
the foot, just floating a ball into the end zone.
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You know, very careless decision making from a what you
thought was a trusted veteran quarterback. Well trusted might be
stretching the definition of the word there, but a guy
that has led you this far, albeit only to a
five hundred record, but you cannot have that version of
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Kirk Cousins the rest of the season if you have
any intentions of winning that division then looking out West.
I mentioned it also earlier, Seahawks traveling to Arizona taking
on the Cardinals, Seahawks leading that division at seven and five,
but only a game ahead of the six and six Cardinals.
I'm still not entirely sure who I believe in, If
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any team from this division, someone's got to win it.
And right now I'm still kind of feeling like the
Rams are more than a dark horse to come back
and win the division. Not ready to buy in on
the Seahawks, certainly not ready to buy in on the Cardinals.
This feels like a game the Cardinals win at home.
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Rams playing the Bills this week, the ten and two Bills,
who have already clinched their division, clinched a playoff spot.
Rams at six and six, same record as the Cardinals.
Really big game for the Rams. If they could somehow
steal a win against the Bills, it would put them
not only in better mathematical position obviously to win that division,
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but just such an emotional boost, an emotional lift if
they were to beat a really, really good Buffalo team.
Buffalo traveling from one coast to the other, from east
to west, covering every time zone, and we have outside
of Alaska and Hawaii in our country, so you can,
I guess, if you're looking for any kind of betting trends,
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you could potentially think, well, maybe the Bills are going
to have an issue traveling across the country. But that
Rams team has done a hell of a job to
fight back, even to just to get to five hundred
from where they were a quarter of the way through
the season with all the injuries they faced early in
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the year, finally starting to get healthy and crawling back
into that division race. I'm going to mention them, but
not for long. The Niners are five and seven. They
look like the injury Speaking of dealing with injuries, they
look like the injuries are absolutely ready to crater their season.
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But a perfect recipe to potentially get back on track
is playing the Bears right now. The Bears are such
a joke coming off that thanksgain performance ends up getting
the coach fired, which absolutely warranted not calling a time
out at the end of the game. There Bears falling
all the way back to four and eight, now but somehow,
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as crazy as this sounds, only a game worse than
where the forty nine Ers are. Niners aren't dead yet,
They still have the DNA of that team, still have
Brock Purdy, although he's banged up. But it's pretty crazy
to me that the Niners and the Cowboys have the
same record and both of them are staring at single
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digit probability percent probability to make the playoff. Sorry, I
said there wouldn't be more math. That will be the
last time, I promise. And then the last game, arguably
the best game of the day or Sunday if you're
excluding the Thursday night game. Tonight the eight and four Chargers,
the Fighting Harballs traveling to Arrowhead taking on the eleven
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and one Chiefs, a great eight Sunday night football matchup
Chiefs in primetime. We're probably guaranteed to see a penalty
go against the Chargers or not get called on the Chiefs.
Something will further the narrative that the league takes care
of the Chiefs in primetime. But more importantly, that AFC
West is looking like a solid three playoff team division
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between the Chargers, Chiefs and the rookie bow Knicks. Led
Denver Broncos. Not exactly sure. Many people had that division
being a three team playoff division, but it looks like
all three of those teams will be pretty comfortably into
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the playoffs barring a late season collapse opening up any
chance for the Colts to climb back into one of
those spots. But a great week of NFL football, a
great Sunday before we have to watch the five and
seven Cowboys play host to the four and eight Bengals
on Monday Night Football Again. We'll talk about that game
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more come Monday. But to close out the show here,
got to talk some college football because we have our
conference championship matchups set. It is college football Conference Championship Week.
I if you have picked up on this throughout the year,
I am one of I think the rare birds in
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our city. Where give me college football over the NFL
all day. It's I know it's not a better product,
but college football, to me is the closest thing we
have to European soccer, and we got a prime example
of that last week. We got Real Madrid, Barcelona, we
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got de Classic, we got Dortmund, Bayern Munich, we got
any of the best soccer rivals you want to throw
out there. We got Texas Texas A and M. We
got Michigan Ohio State. We got chaos on rivalry week.
Although the Texas Texas A and M game didn't necessarily deliver.
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Texas tried to let them come back into that game late.
But the Michigan Ohio State game absolutely gave us chaos,
which is all along in college football, what I root
for every year, but the unfortunate situation where we got
the chaos, but now we get the inconsistent logic from
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the playoff committee when it comes to ranking these teams
post chaos, post terrible loss from Ohio State, I looking
at the top twelve right now, or what would be
the twelve teams, I should say, because it wouldn't be
the top twelve, it would be the top ten, then
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a couple of conference champions getting in or the top eleven,
and then the Big Twelve champion getting in. So looking
at the games themselves, Oregon number one Oregon versus number
three Penn State for the Big Ten championship. Ohio State
loses to Michigan. That allows James Franklin another shot at
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a legacy win, this time in the conference championship game,
a trend you will see across these games teams that
are new to their conference playing in the conference championship
game in year one Oregon in this case in the
Big Ten. No matter what happens in that game, both
teams are in. So there's not a whole lot of
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intrigue for me. I hope we see a good game
for the sake of football viewing. But as far as
any potential chaos, there none. Both those teams are in.
It's just a matter of where they would be ranked.
Turning to the SEC again, a team new to the conference,
first year in the conference, Texas number two. Now with
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Ohio State's loss, they're taking on number five Georgia in
a rematch, this time with no Bevo. Apparently we got
the word. The Mercedes Benz Dome Arena whatever they call
it in Atlanta, doesn't have enough room for Bevo on
the sideline. Sounds like potentially UGGA in the state of
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Georgia and the fan base haven't recovered from the emotional
trauma of Bevo. Chart Now, I'm kidding. All of that's ridiculous.
I actually believe them. A giant longhorn steer in an
NFL Stadium is not the same as having him on
the sideline at the forty Acres, but should be a
good game. I think Texas obviously having Georgia on tape,
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having the matchup earlier in the year, of course wanting revenge,
so why I'm excited to see what adjustment Sark makes
and of course Kirby's smart defensive wizard should be should
be a fun matchup the second time around. It's similar
to Oregon Penn State. I think both of these teams
are in no matter what happens in this game, there's
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no way that Georgia loses this game so bad that
they end up falling all the way behind any of
the other three loss SEC teams, which we'll get to
them in a minute. So potent. Not a whole lot
of potential for chaos in the two Marquee matchups, but
it is pretty cool again to see Oregon and Texas
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both make their conference championship games in their first year
in their new respective conferences. Then things get interesting because
my beloved SMU Ponies number eight playing number seventeen Clemson.
Crazy more chaos from last week. Clemson loses their game
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to South Carolina, but Syracuse does them a favor and
knocks off Miami, which now put Clemson in the conference
championship game, but more importantly, put Miami out of the
college Football playoff picture, at least in last week's rankings.
And you would assume with neither Alabama who's number eleven,
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or Miami who's number twelve, or Ole Miss in South Carolina,
who are thirteen and fourteen, with none of those four
teams playing in any of the conference championship games, it
would be fair to reason that there's not going to
be any movement between those four teams. So Bama right
now is locked in as the last team in the playoffs.
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Who could have seen that coming? And I know there's
a lot of rush to quickly say, well, it's just
because of the A on their helmet, But Miami has
the U on their helmet. It's still A. It's not Bama,
but it's still a heritage brand. And if you're telling
me Miami's lost to Syracuse is enough to put them
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behind Alabama again, it just feels like there's some serious
protection being run for the SEC and the Big Ten
when it comes to the College Football Playoff Committee at
the expense of the ACC and the Big Twelve, which
there's no question Big ten SEC are stronger, better conferences
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than Miami or ACC and Big twelve. But if you're
going to say that, then you're giving basically a blanket
statement every year to say it doesn't matter if you're
a two loss team in one conference, We're always going
to put a three loss SEC team or potentially a
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three loss Big ten team ahead of you, which I
know at that point you're arguing about the last team
to get into the bracket, which is what they want
because all they want is you to talk about it
more so it drives more intrigue, it drives ratings for
the talking head TV shows that are breaking these rankings down.
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I'll be curious to see exactly how the rankings fall,
because if SMU loses this game, who's to say they
don't fall behind potentially Miami, Ole MISS or South Carolina
if there's some if the committee does some kind of
mental gymnastics. Now, I for one, I don't believe if
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you make your conference championship game and lose it, I
don't think that should be held against you because you
shouldn't be able to lose ground playing in a conference
championship game to a team that is sitting at home
that didn't qualify for that game. That seems insanely illogical
to me. You're penalizing a team for having a better
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regular season than another team and then telling them, oh,
but you lost your conference championship, so now you're a
two loss ACC team and we view your conference as
so inferior to the SEC that we're now going to
give Alabama, potentially Ole Miss or South Carolina a spot
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ahead of you. Now, it wouldn't surprise me if the
committee said, SMU, you lost to Clemson, so now we're
going to give Miami a spot. And at the same time,
none of that would actually matter because Clemson would be
an automatic conference champion, and then you'd be taking a
spot away because they would be outside of the top twelve.
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So again, there's just a lot of inconsistency with the
playoff Committee with the rankings. And I understand clearly ESPN
is in bed with the SEC. They're going to do
everything they can to push those teams as far as
they can get away with, but at some point it
just doesn't feel right if they penalize a team that
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made a conference championship game, SMU, simplest way, take care
of business against Clemson. You're in no matter what. If
Clemson wins, then I think we potentially see some absolute
We're already seeing ads fighting with each other on social media.
It was SMU's ad fighting with someone else yesterday. I
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think it was either Ole miss or South Carolina arguing
about who is more worthy of being in depending on
if SMU loses. So still a lot to be decided
on the field. Thankfully, hopefully SMU takes care of business
because of course I have a soft spot in my
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heart for SMU, as my grandfather is a proud was
a proud SMU graduate. And then turning to the other
conference that keeps getting disrespected. Number fifteen Arizona State versus
Number sixteen Iowa State, both ten and two teams, but
behind all of the three loss SEC teams behind Miami
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two loss ACC team. Despite the fact that both of
them are playing in a conference championship game, one of
those teams has to get in. I lean Arizona State
just because they've been such a great story in their
program turnaround this season, but really, I mean Iowa State,
this is the first time in their history that They've
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had a ten win season, which on paper or hearing
it first time, sounds crazy, but if you think of it,
I mean, Iowa State is outside of random nine win seasons.
This is absolutely the pinnacle of their football programs achievement
throughout the history of their existence. So one of those
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teams will absolutely steal a bid away from the Top twelve.
The other interesting side of this is number ten Boise
State taking on number twenty UNLV. If Boise State wins,
they would all but guarantee themselves a first round by
in the College Football Playoffs, which, if you're going to
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tell me, the SEC is a much better conference than
the Big Twelve and the ACC. So a three loss
team gets ranked ahead of a two loss team, How
the hell do you justify Boise State as a one
loss team ranked ahead of a two loss Big Twelve champion.
That makes no sense to me. The Mountain West is
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not that much better than the Big Twelve. Both Boise
State's ranked far too high in my opinion, Arizona State,
Iowa State, Boise should be further closer to them than
they are. Tennessee and Ohio State at six and seven.
Boise in my eyes, would be fourteenth, right there, slotted
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behind South Carolina, but they give Boise credit extreme credit
for being a one loss team and have them right
behind one loss SMU and one lost Indiana. In Indiana
of course absolutely guaranteed to get in because they're not
playing in the Big Ten championship game. Then, lastly, unfortunately,
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I was hoping Army might have some kind of pathway
to potentially steal a bit. It doesn't appear like they
would pass anybody in the rankings if they win their conference.
The American Athletic Conference utsa's conference. UTSA almost beat Army
last week, and that Army head coach got a little
handsy shoving a UTSA player down. But Army, it doesn't appear,
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has any pathway into the playoff bracket. But it would
be nice, you know, beat Tulane, win the conference, beat
Navy have a eleven to one regular season, would be
you know something that when that happened depends on NCAA.
On College Football twenty five, I restart the dynasty because
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that's just not realistic and it kills the immersion in
my eyes. But look who's laughing now? Army potentially is
staring straight ahead, straightforward to a one lost season, which
would you know, be their best season since World War
Two basically, so all in all, the potential for chaos
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doesn't really appear to be there. It kind of seems
like most of the spots are already claimed regardless of
winning or losing the conference championship games. Outside of SMU,
that is the one that could fall if they lose,
which unfortunately that's the only one I really care well
outside of Texas. I suppose that's the one I'm going
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to be paying the most attention to in terms of
not expecting it to be the best game, although I
think it's should be a good game, it's the one
that potentially could cause the most uproar when it comes
to the final rankings next week. So there you have it.
A full pig Skin preview on this Thursday. Really looking forward,
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really looking forward to the conference championship week. But unfortunately
that means we are very close to closing another chapter
of the Book of Saturdays in the fall. But overall,
for the first year of the twelve team playoff, we
have absolutely really not Even though Oregon's undefeated, I wouldn't
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say they are a dominant undefeated team or a team
that is the massive betting favorite to win it all
because they're a team that only beat Boise State by
three points, which is of course Boise State's only lost
this year. So a lot of parody in college football,
which is perfect for a twelve team player off. We'll
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just have to wait and see how the final rankings
shake down after this weekend. Coming up on the show tomorrow,
we will talk about, of course, whatever happens in that
bull Spurs game, and I have it on good authority,
I will be joined by the roommate for another edition
of Who Won the Internet? As always, I appreciate y'all
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riding along. Have a safe Thursday night, enjoy the football,
enjoy the Spurs game. We'll talk tomorrow.
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