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00:00We'll start the Green Bay Packers. They're going to go up against the Chicago Bears.
00:03They are now a ten and a half point favor. We did just get some of the
00:06inactive reports that are going to be coming out. Christian Watson is active.
00:11Why? Romeo Dobbs is out, though, with an illness. I understand that the Green Bay Packers are...
00:21I don't really understand, actually. Like, the Bears are lifeless, right?
00:27Jordan Love's not been the pillar of health this season.
00:31You don't control your own destiny at all. Look, I think these are the best team in football,
00:36so I understand not wanting to go into that battle. The Green Bay Packers are...
00:42Listen, I mean, the game against Minnesota may be shifted, but before the way that game went,
00:48how it did against Minnesota, I feel like the Packers are the second best team in the NFC.
00:52The look-ahead line has Green Bay only a field goal underdog against the Eagles. You're not
00:58drawn dead. I don't... They're going out there, Donnie, ten-bell effort against the Chicago Bears
01:04here today. See, if I ran the Packers, they would be playing no starters today. Okay, the Dallas
01:09Cowboys upset the, you know, Washington Commanders, so be it at this point, but you still have to play
01:14percentages, right? And then we do handicapping, like analytics. It's playing the percentages
01:18which make the right decision, which don't always turn out to be right, because the same way, hey,
01:22you should always go for it. You don't always get the first down, but hear me out on this.
01:25The Philadelphia Eagles are at home right now, resting for you, per se, next week. You're going
01:31to go all out in a football game that you think that Washington is going to win, which renders
01:35this game meaningless, and to your point, Christian Watson's got a banged-up knee. Yeah, give it a go.
01:39Have a couple plays in the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field, and also, we always think about
01:44worst-case, like, oh, he got blew out his knee or he hurt his Achilles. How about just a simple
01:48concussion, and you don't play next week? How about a twisted ankle when I'm rolling out of
01:51the pocket for your quarterback? Oh, I'm not playing next week. And maybe you could voice it,
01:55for me, as the Green Bay Packers going full gas, because why? The Philadelphia Eagles had to win
01:59their game today to solidify the number two overall seed, which could have been a scenario
02:02had they not won last week. You say, okay, well, we get them even footing. You're not. The Eagles
02:06are at home. They'll be rested. When you went full gas in a meaningless football game, I don't get it.
02:11I still don't get it. Yeah, I would take a different approach. I would, and the reason
02:14why I say that is I don't think their offenses looked all that good, and I know they only lost
02:18by two points to Minnesota. They were getting absolutely kicked in the teeth, 27 to 10,
02:24for much of that game. When they run the football consistently with Josh Jacobs,
02:27they're an effective football team, but you look at Jordan Love over the last four weeks, Kev,
02:31he's only averaged 200 and a half passing yards per game. Granted, game flow is played into some
02:37of those performances, but I don't think he's looked consistent to me. You're playing a dead
02:41team in terms of Chicago that has lost 10 straight by an average margin of defeat of 10.9 points per
02:47game. They're 0-7 on the road this year, have lost those games by an average margin of defeat
02:52of 11.4 points per game. If I'm at LeFleur, I'm not going in potentially to Philadelphia or any
02:59type of situation. With my quarterback playing that way, I think they open it up. One of my
03:03better bets today, I did take Jordan Love up to 250. I think they smashed the Chicago Bears today.
03:09But also, just again, from looking at it, because I do agree, the sentiment does make some sense,
03:14but the reason why, again, we look at the Philadelphia Eagles on resting players,
03:17did you watch week 18 last year where the Eagles went into the Meadowlands to take on the Giants?
03:22Same scenario, Joe. Not playing good football. Let's get our offense in order. Jalen Hurts on
03:26his throwing hand dislocates a finger. A.J. Brown was lost for the season. They got knelted the next
03:31week. So I think like rest, hey, let's take a step back. Let's see what happens in this game.
03:35We'll play it maybe even for a first quarter. Oh, look, 14-point lead for Washington. Everybody's
03:39out. We're on to Philadelphia. And I understand what football coaches coach and GMs coach and
03:44some fans out there, hey, we didn't earn anything. Let's get our offense going. I get it. But the
03:48minute you get one player injured, like the Baltimore Ravens in a meaningful football game,
03:52lose a flowers ago, man, that really hurts. You would hate to lose anybody in a game.
03:56That means absolutely nothing.