Sharing our Super Bowl picks

0:00in with the extra point painting. It's time for the extra point with Ha and Peyton come out for the extra point on 104 three the score set at this extra point. All right. I now that we've got your playoff qualifiers. How will the conference championship go and who will be enjoying a confetti shower and so far stadium on Valentine's day? Think about that for a moment tonight begins the NFL season. It doesn't end until Valentine's day. That is a fun thing to consider where it's September 9th. We had got to February 14th football everywhere. Just everywhere. All right. So we know our division winners. This is what's going to happen in the AFC. And this might be the least surprising thing that you hear from me today because I think I'm going to back to 2000 and probably 12 and then maybe 2017 and 2000. I picked these two teams a lot.

1:00But this year they're not going to let me down. You hope so. I think the AFC it'll be the bills and the Ravens in the AFC championship game. In the NFC. The Rams don't have a weakness guys. They do not have a weakness. The only thing about the Rams is if they stay healthy. If they do stay healthy, they've got the best coach in the NFL. They've got the best roster in the NFL. They've got two Hall of Famers playing defensive line. They got the MVP at quarterback two receivers that are lights out. If they can stay healthy and out of trouble, the Rams will be in the NFC championship game. And they will beat the Chicago Bears. They will beat the Bears in the NFC championship game. The Bears will get hot in January. They will beat whoever they need to and go one step further than they did a year ago. That will imply progress after disappointing, not disappointing regular season, but the regular season will be tough because of

2:01the schedule. There'll be a better team than last year overall because of Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams, the win 10 games. And they will get to the NFC championship game where they were loose to the Rams. And then the Rams and the Ravens who will beat the bills will play in the Super Bowl match up between two MVP quarterbacks, Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen. Matthew Stafford and the Super Bowl. Oh, and the Super Bowl. Lamar Jackson, Matthew Stafford. OK. And I got to pick the Rams. I hate going chocolatey-chock-chock. I'm already ready for Dustin to say that. But I got the Rams over the Ravens in the Super Bowl. And that is the way it's going to unfold. No. Now, as part of this Ravens thing that I'm not on board with this year is this like this, a personal connection, right? It's a personal connection for you. And there's nothing wrong with that. Well, you don't like Declan Doyle? I'd not personally collect connected to it. Oh, you mean my personal connection to Jesse Mentor? Yes. Because of his dad. Is that part of this? Probably part of it.

3:02I have blind spots. OK. That's fine. I'm just asking if that's what part of the crowd is all about. All right. I know we're tied on time. And somebody needs a big, huge, Trenta drink. AFC, AFC, bills and chiefs. No big surprise there. Eagles. And I guess the Rams. I'm just worried about that AFC West that they're going to beat the ever living hell out of each others. And that's why I've got the Eagles and Rams. And I've got the bills and the Eagles. And it's the bills finally. Because if not now, when DJ Moore, a major major factor. Oh, my love. And all of this. I love that. DJ Moore, the missing link, the good guy wide receiver, connecting with Josh Allen, who probably, even though this wasn't part of the question, probably the MVP of the league this year, Josh Allen. And you know what DJ Moore's going to do at 8 o'clock on February 15th? Call our show. Not call us.

4:03All right. I'll be quick as well. I have in the AFC, I got the bills and the bangles. So I'm going to have Joe Borough if he stays. I love that. I feel like he's going to have that. I love that. I love that. And I think with the better defense, they're going to get there. But they're going to lose. So that means the bills get into the Super Bowl. And on the NFC side, I got the same as you. Dave, I got the Rams. And I have the Bears. And I'm probably biased because I'm a Bears fan. But I have the Rams beating them. And then it will be a bills, Rams series, and Super Bowl. And I think you're going to have like DJ Moore having a great game. But it's not going to be enough because of the final drive when he's trying to throw it at DJ Moore in the end zone. He gets sat by Aaron Donnell and Malzgar. And that would be the end of it. Pointing at the ring. Pointing at the ring. OK, I'm going to make my quick. NFC, bills and Ravens. Ooh, you got the same team. I like it. With the bills winning. OK, don't like that. Going to the Super Bowl.

5:04And the Rams taking on dubbers. Rams winning that game, though. And then it's going to be Rams and bills and the Super Bowl Rams hoisting the Lombardi trophy at the end. It's almost their destined to do that because of the way they put this team together and respond to the last year's loss in the NFC championship game. Yeah, this is there on a mission. And if they can stay healthy, that roster is it because of the defense? Yeah, it's a defense. And you have the quarterback and head coach combination. I also think that even if they had not added Aaron Donnell to the mix, still, I think I would have picked the Rams to win it all. The Miles Garrett move was the big one. McDuffey was another big one. Those are two veterans, though, that they have to stay healthy, provided they do that defense will be a problem. And the offense speaks for itself. They can do whatever they want. And even Stafford's health with a guy, a 30-something.

6:06Yes, you have to wonder. Quarterback with back issues, you wonder. Got a question because he's getting older. Every single year, it gets harder and harder to be able to get your body ready to go. Or it's just stay healthy for the entire season. This year, I wonder what you think. That's why I'm surprised that they treated the backup quarterback situation the way that they did. They have Stetson Bennett and they drafted Ty Simpson. Now, I know Ty Simpson, you could say the first round reaching all those things, he's still a rookie. So if Stafford misses two to three games in the middle of a season, you're turning things over to untested quarterbacks, you don't have that proven veteran and the depth chart. So that, to me, is almost like one of their most... I think it's a real... I don't say it's a careless risk, but it's a surprising risk on the depth chart. Surprising to me, but it's also Sean McVeigh. So he's got a resume, so he probably knows more than I do. But I would feel like if you have an aging quarterback

7:10that you'd want to have some type of insurgency policy for if something does happen to him, that you can have a veteran to be able to kind of push you along a couple of games. All right, so those are our predictions. We have the Bears having a very good season because if they end, Dustin did not have them in the MC Championship game, Diddy. He did not. He's the one of the four of us that did not. We have them going against the Rams. That would be a successful 2026 that begins Sunday against the Panthers. The NFL season starts tonight right here on the score, pregame between the Seahawks and the Patriots at six o'clock kickoff at seven 20. It is football season, everyone. It is the start of the NFL calendar. They start tonight. They don't finish until February 14th. And we'll talk plenty of football with Dan Whederer and certainly Stacey Dales in the program, but next, Cub fans, how bad was last night? Socks, Ben, you can wait in two because your night wasn't much better. It just felt a little bit more catastrophic for the Cubs

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