Name: NFL Playoff Predictions: Top Seed vs. Outsider Teams
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Is it the number one seeds going head to head, which again would be the Kaleb Williams Chicago Bears against the Drake Mannu and Patriots. I can't split the ticket. I have to just that it's that, that's A or B, the 27 seeds or 8 seeds, excuse me, the teams that are on the outside looking in, which right now would be a Super Bowl of the Houston Texans against the. Detroit Lions. Both of those teams right now are on the outside looking in. They're the 8 seeds in the AFC and NFC, so they need to win games and get some help. But right now, Houston, Detroit or New England, Chicago, and that's the only choice you get. All right, now I have to look at the proven commodities when I do that. Drake May is playing great this year. Like, not, he's not dicking and dunking yet. He's completing 100% of his passes damn near. He's #1 in 100 stats. But this is his first good year and Caleb, so far, this is the first time he's like an NFL quarterback. And even Ben Johnson said we're winning in spite of our passing game, not because of it. It took a little shot, right? It is a little shot to get him to play better. He's managing the game better, not making mistakes, but he's not making plays. On the flip side, I got a coach who I think is awesome in Houston, and the defense, M Ryans is great. I think he's a great coach, and that defense is incredible. Maybe the second best defense behind. You can argue that they're the best defense too. Yeah, very good, yeah. And then the Lions, you have a coach who I do respect. You have a quarterback who's a veteran to the Super Bowl. You have the best running back tandem as far as the two top running in the whole league. I have to go with the 28 seeds over the 21 seeds, and I'm with you on that as well. I think it's highly unlikely that New England and Chicago get to the Super Bowl, and I think right now. The Texans are one of the hotter teams. I know that New England's won 10 straight and Denver, I think it's won 9 straight. So I totally respect that. But the Texans defense is coming on like gangbusters. They get to the quarterback as well as anyone. Uh, you just got CJ Strad back. Obviously, he's got to play better and they run the ball decently well, not great, uh, but their defense has killed it right now. On the flip side, You have the Detroit Lions. That's why tonight's game is so big. You know, whoever loses tonight's game, it's gonna be very difficult for that team to get into the playoffs because you also lose the head to head and they're gonna be vying against one another for that final wild card spot. Unless, of course, the Eagles totally tank and the Cowboys win that division, which is on the table right now. More on that coming up in a second. But this is Why I think this year in the NFL is so awesome. The parody, you know, it's, it gets, unless you're a Chiefs fan, it gets boring for everybody else and annoying that 7 consecutive years, the Kansas City Chiefs are in the AFC championship game and they go to 5 Super Bowls, right? That's annoying to everybody else. So the fact that we sit here today. Getting ready for our 1st December weekend of football and the 8 seeds, two teams that are not currently in the postseason, have as good or better a chance of getting to the Super Bowl than the 1 seeds. That's awesome because that means 16 teams, the way we're looking at it right now, have an opportunity to dream about winning a Super Bowl. That It never happens. I love it. I, I love it in the short term. I do like the David versus Goliath thing. I do think that matters over the long term, but I think you need a reset. Who is the new Goliath? And I don't think it exists right now, right, but we don't. But I think by the end of the year we may, like, for all we know, what if we're wrong about the let's say the Patriots are really good and a new dynasty is gonna start. You don't know a dynasty's gonna start until it starts. So that's why I think I'm. I'm intrigued for it for now. I want to hate somebody again next year. And look, I think we're gonna have a quarterback who wins the Super Bowl for the first time this year, which means that the Rams don't win it because Stafford's got the one, right? I think that's more likely than someone who's already won one, meaning Aaron Rodgers. Obviously the Steelers aren't winning one. Jalen Hur, Jalen Hurtz says the whole are winning. I think there's a better shot that, you know, um. That you, that Justin Herbert wins one, Drake May wins one, you know, Jared Goff wins one. And that's crazy to me that here we are with a month left in the season and you and I both agree that if I, I don't gamble, obviously you do, but if you were going to gamble and your only choices were the 2 1s or the 2 8s that. We would both take the 2 8s. I don't remember another year in my lifetime where that was the case with a month to go in an NFL season, but the point of that is, even though Denver has got a great record and New England's got a great record, and the Bears have a great record, etc. etc. etc. the reality is this, there is not a dominant team in the NFL right now.

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