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live from New York it’s a show that’s dropping weight for their prize fights this about Marathon well I’ve been dropping nobody cares a lot of people care nobody car I’ve got several emails about it I care while thank you true I do thank you I just called you the most honest man in sports television startor a little bit today we get the full Chief Schedule we actually got all the teams schedule after last year’s 20 and0 prediction how bold will this year’s take the are we going in the wrong direction on the hotness of the takes maybe meanwhile okay uh we start with a look at the chief’s full schedule tough start but both of those games are at home nfl.com has Kansas City with the 16th toughest schedule that doesn’t seem 16th yeah that seems It’s because the division division stinks so that’s why uh We’ve also got a Christmas Day matchup against the Steelers and a week seven Super Bowl rematch on Fox in San Francisco which is after thereby chief by uh Super Bowl outs 49ers Kansas City Baltimore and a log Jam at 4 Bengals Lions bills Eagles Cowboys Texans and then finally the Packers so I’m going to ask you two questions here which team is more likely to get back to Super Bowl 49ers the cheats and do you have some sort of 20 and0 sequel another tattoo something you know today’s the day I it wasn’t no that came last year in September but it feels like today yeah well today’s not the day for any bold Chiefs prediction there might be a different bold prediction coming up in this very segment however let me answer the question that we all agreed upon at a meeting that I did have to miss this morning at 10:00 a.m. which is more likely to go to the Super Bowl the Chiefs or the Niners and it’s an insulting question just like those Vegas odds are insulting obviously unequivocally without a doubt the answer is the Kansas City Chiefs and it is not only because the Niners went to last year’s Super Bowl and lost and you have in the last 30 years the only team to go back go to the Super Bowl after losing it was quarterback by Tom Brady and it’s not just because the Chiefs are clearly the best team in football it is also because the Chiefs the NFL it’s almost as if they have intentionally stacked the odds against Kansas City and they will because how so well I can I’m so glad you asked brw let me show you how because who you play is set by a computer the Chiefs the first team ever to have to play every day of the week except Tuesday they have four short weeks they have a week six by which is brutal you want it as late as possible and they have a 49 day stretch where they play one game in the Cozy confines of Arrowhead Stadium despite all of that they do they play on Friday yeah Black Friday they play Black Friday they play a Wednesday they play every day but Tuesday and by the way I could see him getting flexed to a Tuesday cuz the NFL trying screw with them but that’s fine you want to give toughest schule well that again Baltimore’s got the second tough that is set by the math you’re not allowed to change that all you can change is the order so how do they start it oh with Kan city having to face in back toback weeks the two teams they dispatch from the AFC title game how do they end the season back-to-back weeks on the road what about leading up to that oh they have three games in 10 days which I know Wilds thinks is insane I think it’s a little hard but we can have that argument again if you’d like it do they get a little rest before that no they don’t have they have their buy two months prior Raiders Bo bronos the well the Raiders and the Broncos are in the division there’s nothing you can do about that and your team’s dynasty was built on the corpses of jets and bills and uh Dolphins nobody’s at quarterback so don’t even give me that but it’s still Kansas City CU I had the best player to ever play and their basement their worst season the last 6 years is 12 wins in an overtime loss in the conference title game their median season is a Super Bowl win their slightly below average season is a Super Bowl loss and their above average season is a Super Bowl win so yeah the answer is Kansas City and you have to agree BR it’s hard to argue because I agree with you that Patrick Mahomes is the best ter in fact I was the first Mo you were not first first to Michael Jordan say Jordan all of that and everybody knows it all right that that just sticks in Nick’s craw really sticks craw I think it is true actually um and look everything you said a lot of that is true he doesn’t they haven’t had bad season I think they actually got better right and I think the fact that they went had what we would call a bad regular season that’s fair right ended five and five I think that’s just going to help motivate them to go out and play well this year but and and I fully sat down to work out my answer thinking Chiefs but then something struck me not look I may change this in the fall when we make our PR this is not prediction time lest I get pelted with rocks next time we go back to Kansas City but as I was sitting down putting together my answer I said you know what what I I think it’s the ners why and here here’s why it’s kind of you know it’s not like yeah it’s esoteric it’s a thought it’s a feeling it’s their last Terra oh it’s their last harah cuz I I looked at it like they went to the Super Bowl a few years ago with garoo they went last year can they keep going back I mean that’s going to be a lot of mental energy just to get back but then I said hold up mcaffrey has been healthy the last two years and he’s at age for running backs 27 is he going to be healthy F first of all we he even be healthy this year but let’s hope he is but this might be his last great season that’s certainly on the board for running back right Debo’s names already been mentioned in trade rooms they’re going to have to pay pery let’s say he has a good year they’re gonna have to pay him which means you might lose some other people Trent Williams old yeah so I’m going to say that th because this is their last and the NFC is weaker even though it’s gotten better it’s still weaker than AFC I’m GNA say the ners can are you not at all worried about the ners potentially having a really slow start because I am why no so I think that the Jets are a live dog in that game I think Brew agrees I think that in San Francisco yeah I think I think let me put it like this I think the Jets will be at their the maybe the best they are all year in week one because they’re injury-prone offensive lineman wide receiver and quarterback again stuff does happen in training camp but we would assume that will be as close a hole as they are yeah but don’t you don’t it’s going to be a tough game for I buy that but do you also buy Aaron Rogers hasn’t really thrown a football and you know yeah I think he’ll get some yes agree but I think he’ll get some maybe more preseason reps this year than he typically would and then their next two games are two teams that beat him last year in Minnesota and in the the Los Angeles Rams I think the Rams are really good and obviously the Patriots and Cardinals are two of the weaker teams I agree with that but then they do they have a few pocket it’s a really tough game Chiefs Cowboys is a brutal spot and then at Green Bay at Buffalo in late November early December with Brock pie and his small hands that shrinking the cold and I there are I just I think it is more likely the ners find themselves heading into the end of the season fighting to get into the playoffs than positioned for the one seed the way they were last year and so I I just think there are a lot more questions about the n then there I don’t think there are right now I know it sounds ridiculous but I’ve just only been right every year I think there are no questions about the Chiefs there are none can I counteract that and and support Brew I I just am going to take the 49ers off of over Aaron Rodgers and his achill first so I will give him 49 JJ is going to play his second game and outplay the 49 defense I do not buy that Stafford they always play him they it’s always a little bit of a dog fight but 49ers win the last matchup they had then you got the Patriots which will be frisky but we will lose that game Kyler I think will be sneaky okay and then G they could be I mean I don’t want to be like Mr they need to could have a great record going in if they were undefeated you wouldn’t be like flabbergasted into in meeting up with momes so I would be I thought the the Rams beat the ners I thought in week 18 of last year I thought it I thought the Shanahan thing flipped finally they the the ram the ners beat the Rams early in the year they were one and one against each other and so I just think that I think their hardest divisional game of the year is the one at the Rams that’s in week three sure I’ll give that the Vikings last year were one of the teams were pry played brutal against in that spot you think JJ’s going to light up the 49ers defense the second game first of all I’m not even certain by the way JJ McCarthy’s going Sam darnold was on the 49ers like we got this guys no again La last year it wasn’t Vikings didn’t win that game because anyone lit up the Niners defense it was because perie really struggled against Brian flores’s defense and so I just I don’t look at the Niners as a juggernaut I’m not saying they’re not a good team I’m not saying they’re not one of the NFC contenders I do look at the Chiefs as a juggernaut I think that they’re they were wor they are better this year than they were either of the last two years they should be our position better and I know they don’t have sne but they added a lot of other pieces I just I I think the Chiefs are I think the best bet in the sport right now is the Chiefs to win the AFC and then we go for I buy that but I bet when they match up the 49ers have a better record than the Chiefs okay side bet okay check in on Caleb the number one pick in the Draft starts his schedule pretty smoothly strength the schedule coming in at 29 wow face off against a bevy of other young QBs who he should outplay Brew will Levis Anthony Richardson Bryce Jaden postp also CJ strad week two who should outplay him theoretically if history holds Brew are you willing to guarantee Caleb makes the playoffs no no I think they have a shot a good shot because as you said 29th you know easiest toughest schedule in the league but I’m looking at this Philly’s to me Philly’s in I’mma put Detroit and Green Bay in okay both obviously one Atlanta or Tampa Tampa big San Francisco and the Rams and then I think Chicago’s battling with say Tampa Bay or Atlanta and Dallas for that spot and that’s going to be tough I think to have three teams from that Division and I just I just feel like as much as I like Caleb as much as great as I think he will be I feel like he’s going to struggle a bit at first uh I don’t think he’s going to have a CJ stra type rookie year even though he’s kind of set up to do it because I think his we know he’s great off schedule I think he’s better on schedule than people give him credit for but I think he’s going to have to learn lot in that regard I think sometimes he might be running when he should stay in the pocket and throw the football so I think he I don’t think he’s going to come right in and light the league on fire so given how the schedule lays out I do think he is I also think I’m not this isn’t a criticism it’s just a observation I think the five teams that you were most confident were going to make the playoffs were five teams that made the playoffs last year which is kind of how it always feels right now and then we you know what I mean that’s usually not how it goes I I was my only concern for Caleb what if he has a slow start yeah because he had a bad end of last his college career as as we talked with Danny Perkins yesterday about some Bears fans still really being Justin Fields guys if he gets off to a slow start or when he is kind of going through the growing pains you drop some divisional games which can really hurt you as far as making the postseason instead he has a tailor made start to his career of the team of the seven teams projected to have the worst record in football he gets five of them in the first 10 or nine weeks of his career New England Arizona Washington the Panthers and the Titans that’s five his first nine games I think there’s a seven- two start is absolutely on the board which is why and this is my bold prediction forget guaranteeing the playoffs don’t I’m FLIR I’m flirting with the idea I’m I’m asking the bartender no don’t don’t do that again that’s a creepy thing does that take want a drink down there I’m thinking about buying that take asking that take that out out for dinner some take at the end of the bar I think Caleb could lead the Bears to the Super Bowl in his rookie season oh God Almighty can I can I can I give you a little evidence and we just and BR beat the Viking has to play the going to go to the Super Bowl could beat the Vikings first you said you’re flirting with the take it right yes and you’re talking about the fact that I said that the Niners could lose to Minnesota which is unrelated to this take entirely so we have seen rookie quarterbacks step in be excellent and the team be contenders we saw Russell Wilson take his team to the divisional round a game ended on a field goal his rookie season Big Ben to the AFC title game his rookie season we saw CJ in the divisional round last year we saw Dan Marino if you want to go back forever was in the divisional round Dak was in the divisional round his rookie year luck and RG3 made the playoffs his rookie year Brock pie was in the NFC Championship Game his rookie year the idea that and I don’t know what you know Mahomes would have done his rookie year I think he would have done quite well there’s no way to prove it so the idea that rookie quarterbacks don’t don’t ever step in and have success is bed by history and this Bears team is I think a playoff team with just Bel slightly below average Quarterback play you know what I mean last year they were seven- win team last year and they added a dunesday they added Kean Allen so I in that week NFC with that type of momentum not having to play any divisional games until the last third of his rookie season when he’s you know more seasoned I could see the Bears shocking everyone but me outside of St which obviously was just last year all those guys you mentioned if I’m not mistaken Marino obviously is out they were game man they managed like Brock py comes in as a rookie he’s just managing the game making the righton all those guys so I don’t see Caleb as a game manager I see even as he’s grow going through his Growing Pains I think he’s going to try to make spectacular plays and I think that could hurt them initially so I do think that’s kind of something to look at with a rookie can I ask you a question on that before we move do you I think that it is on the board that Caleb absolutely would be willing to be a game manager if he found himself in the position where oh that’s all we need have to that’s all I have to do he never was in that position in college it was it it was M never to do right where it was if I’m not great we’re going to lose so the I it’s it would be I feel different Mahomes couldn’t remember Mahomes struggled to learn how to do that yes to just take the easy stuff you know fair enough I just think that I don’t know I think the I think that if Caleb all of a su’s like oh I’m playing with a lead that’s different oh my defense is getting stops I think you’ll see less of the you know maybe the I think it’s easier said than done that that might be true I think the Bears could really shock some people and I like they see flirting on the bar I’m flirting with the are you going to you know make your move why sometime in September I’d be like don’t do it you would be by wingman saying with the Super Bowl if the Super Bowl’s at the end of the bar like buddy Caleb momes in the first of many Super Bowls this year on Raiders v card you know what great you know what Brew great recall great recall thank you very much you pick the TR in the car you’re sitting here you’re high on your Denver Nuggets pick so you’re just making fun of everybody’s takes I just had to bring you pick Raiders card he’s going to say he got catfish or something Patriots thing yeah I to take forgot about that one yeah that’s right you know LC of the series exactly that’s why they’re so dangerous because he’ll he can average his 18 points losses yeah no because they because he’s played one great game maybe two great games the whole playoffs and they’re a game away from the Conference Finals because yesterday this Mavs team with their remade defense and credit to the young guys and credit to Jason kid who i’ had been highly critical of kid coaching early in his career I think he has proven out to be a a good if not very good NBA coach which I didn’t see coming when he was throwing drinks on the court and he has like he has remade that defense on the flyed and for them Brew if people didn’t watch last night it was total control for the entirety of the second half same as game four to be honest right without blowing it at the end and it we still are yet to see one game where Luca and Kyrie are A+ and I think that Kyrie will be better come the Conference Finals and I think that this team because they don’t have to score 130 to win like they did the year they made the the when they were playing the Clippers in those series early in his career I think that this is as dangerous a team as any team in basketball I really believe with Luca getting healthier as the playoffs go on I think they’re incredibly dangerous you kind of just threw that in there we think he’s getting healthier well I think that as long as he doesn’t sprain his knee again I think you saw it yesterday he’s seemed more comfortable he’s learning how to deal with the pain whatever pain or discomfort maybe we both picked him to win this series and last night so if you get to the final four I guess you’re a contender right but to win the championship I don’t see it this year now look if Minnesota wins this series I give Dallas a good I I think I would pick Minnesota but I give Dallas a legitimate chance that’d be a great series if Denver wins it I don’t see how they can beat Denver thank you I just don’t see them beating Denver not yet and Luca I just think he is a little bit hampered and as you say I mean you can look at it both ways you can say hey he hadn’t played that well and look where they at or you can say he’s not 100% is he ever going to get there and the thing that most concerns me though is Kyrie now he’s playing fine kind of defense and passing and all the other things but I don’t know what’s going on he’s just not shooting the basketball he’s only shooting 12 shots a game he’s not shooting you know shoot he’s shooting it okay but he’s just not putting it up he’s had two ninepoint games and last night only has 12 I think for them to win the West they’re going to need Kyrie to be Kyrie he’s going to have to be great in the conference so and it takes some pressure off Luca too cuz the reason they’re surviving against OKC this one of them is OKC’s youth it just it’s just unprecedented for them to keep going further but PJ Washington he’s not going to average 19 points a game on 48% shooting from three he’s a 32% three-point shooter this year so he is hot and that’s great for the Mavericks but I don’t think he keeps that going so Kyrie’s going K gonna have to no but I just think I think Kyrie’s maybe it’s it’s been a long time since Kyrie’s played multiple playoff series in a year and I think that the no I I told you this in your office and I meant it I think Kyrie is modulating and trying to ramp up ramp up so has something yeah cuz I don’t Kyrie’s body is not to me built for we know it’s not built for 100 games it’s not even in the with the playoffs included might not be built for 80 games and I think that Kyrie one of the reasons he is trying to play more of a floor game and that so he can whomever they play in the Conference Finals is going to be their hardest test by a mile so he has something there for that because I don’t think all of a sudden he just you know is not interested in shooting or can’t shoot like it doesn’t had odd off like since he left Cleveland you know Boston he didn’t play well when they lost to Milwaukee Brooklyn obviously he didn’t play well when they lost to Boston and then and this but it’s usually to meated right exactly he’s in such a great mental space to me maybe it’s the wrong strategy but I think he is strategically approaching these playoffs and because he seems so happy and so at peace with where he is it makes them very dangerous thanks for watching subscribe here to get more from the show and to 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