Wild Card Teams (Hour 3)

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Tell them big Snoop Dogg sent you. Yo, yo, hour number three of our radio program. That's right, it is the Zach Gelb show on CBS Sports Radio. Now, Stu, I don't see Sampter. So Sampter now has just brought back, there we go, my man, a plate of food. But we're going to learn a lot about Sampter here. Is Sampter a team player or is Sampter selfish? That's what I'm wondering here because Sampter, during the break, goes out to the company holiday party. He comes back with the plate of food and I only see one plate. Now, there's a lot on that plate.

You kind of look like Vanna White modeling that. So did Sampter be the good teammate? Nope.

No? That's all for his fat ass? That's all for him, for sure. You know, I mean, I'll eat some of it. You're welcome to eat my sloppy seconds. What do you have on that plate? There's some shredded chicken.

This is a family radio program. Be careful there, buddy, alright? Little penne vodka with some mac and cheese. Can you put that back up for the camera one more time?

Because it's kind of tough to see. So you got some penne alla vodka. What else?

Penne vodka right here. A little bit of shredded chicken. A little bit of mac and cheese.

Some rice and cheese in the middle. Yeah. By the way, you really do look like you were just at a shelter or something. When I see you holding up that plate and the way that you're dressed right now.

You really do look homeless. Thank you, sir. May I have another? Come on.

You don't bring us back anything. Stu is working here diligently, making sure that we stay on the air. I got two hands. I got a drink and I got food. You got a drink too?

Yeah. You could have sacrificed a drink and got a plate for Stu and I to split. You could have at least got me. You owe me dinner from a bet that you lost. Fine. I'll go get you dinner right now. Great. You could have at least got me dinner. Awesome.

Yeah. I'll go get you dinner. Well, I know that you're slimy. I know that you're slimy, Santer.

Extra penne alla vodka, please. I know he's slimy. Like, I predicted this to Stu when you weren't here on Monday. I said he's not going to make mention of it on Tuesday that you lost the bet because you thought Ohio State was going to get in the playoff over Texas. And this was while Texas was beating the snot out of Oklahoma State.

So I don't know what you were doing on your Saturday. Actually, technically it was before Texas. No, it was like 21-7 at that time. That's beating the snot out of him. 21-7 has not beaten the snot.

Now, the final score is beating the snot. So you were already making the case that Ohio State would get in over Texas. So I said to Stu on Monday, he's going to weasel his way out of the bet. Like even Brian in the chat and Mendoza, some of these guys, they were like, oh, he's not going to pay up on this bet. I said to Stu, let's not make mention of it on Tuesday. We'll learn a lot about Santer and then maybe we'll bring it up on either Wednesday or Thursday.

And today's Wednesday. So I'm expecting that I'm never going to get this dinner bet, which is fine. But when there is free food right in front of your nose and you don't even have the kindness in your heart, and that black heart of yours to bring me some food or stew, poor little old stew, nice stew. I'm very disappointed in you.

Extremely disappointed. Did you or did you not say that you were going out there after the show and hanging out for an hour until the thing was over? There will be food and drinks there as well. Do you want to be filling your face with mac and cheese and pulled chicken while on the air? In private, yes.

On the air? In private, yes. Have a plate hidden there while you're wafting those smells on camera waiting for the next break in 15 minutes?

You think you're not going to be able to eat and just shovel that food in your face? Let's be honest. Two things. I was doing you a favor. I didn't want to tempt you with delicious food while you were talking.

Two things. You're welcome. Number one.

You're welcome. Number one, it's the company holiday party food. I doubt with the fine foods that I eat that I'm going to be salivating on the edge of my seat saying, oh, I can't have I can't wait another second to have that penne alla vodka. And now Santa is taking that fork and he's shoving that pasta in his mouth.

And it looks like he is having the same reaction to a face that he may have when he has when he's in the bedroom making love to his wife. That's the way that it just looks. But it's not just that you didn't bring the food to me. It's more so that you weren't being a team player and you didn't bring it for stew. Like, I'm more mad that you didn't bring or offer stew some of that food before you stuff your fat.

I will be honest, I was planning on doing it. Then I saw Stu leave the studio. I thought he was getting food also. And then I guess he didn't know. But when did Stu leave the studio during the exact same time during the break that I left 30 seconds before me.

Oh, so you were just being anti-socialist. No, I had to use the restroom. I've been in there for five hours. I used the bathroom. He left. We were talking about the party. I thought he went to go get food. So still, you didn't get me. You didn't get me. I don't want to be a jerk here, but the name's on the screen.

It's the Zach Gelb show. You don't bring the host any food here. That's a bad job. I will say this, though. In the history of my life, I have never reneged on a single lost bet. Now, I'm not going to come in here and be like, hey, guess what, guys? I lost a bet. So I was waiting for you to bring it up.

I've never, ever not paid up on a bet. OK. So the fact that you and the guys in the chat thought that I was some sort of a... Slimy Samter. Slimy Samter.

Not going to pay up. Moist Mike, whatever you want to call me. That name that's never going to stick because I'm going to find a way to run for some official office, and this time get more than two votes. I'm telling you right now, you're getting a delicious steak.

It's just a matter of when. Oh, steak, though. OK. I thought we were just going burger.

Yeah, of course. We discussed steak. Of course I'm going to get you a steak. OK. Capitol Grill, maybe. We'll find something good.

Super Bowl week? Sure. You want some steak in Vegas? Do you like gas cargo?

Huh? Do you like gas cargo? I've had it once.

I don't remember. You know what escargot is? Of course. It's snail.

Yeah. It's actually very delicious. There is a place in Vegas that they have a great deal.

It is not expensive at all. I actually took Hickey and Dan Silverman, who works for Westwood, to this place. We were there for the draft. And it's right on the strip in Vegas, and they give you a strip steak, and they give you French fries, and then they have good escargot there, and it's only like 35 bucks a person.

Maybe that's what we know. That's what you want to do. I was going to get you a nice meal. Legit steakhouse. But fine. You know what? You want $35 Vegas strip steak and escargot? Let's do it. I'm fine. I don't know if that's actually smart, because the company will pay for us when we're at the Super Bowl.

I don't know what you're talking about. Santa's going to comp the meal. You're such a bastard. Not once have I offered to do this at Super Bowl or anything. I'm taking you out for dinner. You're the one who's saying, hey, when we're in Vegas for the Super Bowl, why don't we go to this $35 plate plate? This is actually a losing bet for me. I have to go sit through a meal with Santa now. That's the problem.

I don't win. Although there was one time that you and I sat through a nice tomahawk steak dinner out in Los Angeles. I think that was Los Angeles, right? LA? I forget where it was.

It was right by the Staples Center. It was kind of like a couple special. No, it was you and me, and we shared the tomahawk. But that's what it's made. It was marketed for couples that are trying to share a delicious, ridiculous meal.

There was a nice heart-shaped steak that they kind of cut out for us. And I invited one of my buddies from college who had the worst sports opinions ever, and he wouldn't shut up about Ben Simmons. That's what it was. Not James Hart.

It was bad. I was thinking of James Hart. No, it was Ben Simmons. It was Ben Simmons. He was really going off on Ben Simmons while I was trying to enjoy this delicious steak. Okay.

Stu, it looks like you're Jones Innocent. Worse than hot take hickey? In the same class. Well, the takes both stink, but I would much rather enjoy my time with hickey than this individual. You know, just being fully transparent. I'm like an open book. And at least hot take hickey, he has hot takes, but he has reasoning behind it, whereas your friend had hot takes where he just spouted things off.

That made no sense. And also my friend, he's someone that spits a lot when he talks, and he looks like he hasn't showered in about two days. Hickey is at least a well-kept human being. I mean, he actually does a podcast from his shower, so at least we know he's clean.

That is true. Alrighty, this is that Gelb show on CBS Sports Radio. So Santa goes to the holiday party and does not bring me back any food. Very upset by this.

And also, you crazy? You think I'm sticking around? I'll go to the holiday party. An hour? You think I'm staying an hour at the company holiday party?

You got nothing better to do. 30 minutes, I'll go. 30 minutes. Okay, sorry. I'm going to not go. You're going to go. How dare you think I would go for a full hour? I'm going to go for 48 minutes. That's fine. I'll at least have to show face, but I'm 30 minutes. One plate, two plate, and then leave. Takes about 15 minutes to eat a plate.

And how many drinks in those plates? I don't think I'll have a drink at the company holiday party. Oh. Yeah. You don't trust yourself? No, no.

Nothing like jump on a table, take off your shirt, swing it around? Trust me. Number one, there's not enough alcohol at this company holiday party probably to get me drunk. Number two, I don't need to drink on a Wednesday night. There's just no need to drink on a Wednesday night.

That's a mistake right there. I don't need to drink on a Wednesday. There's nothing a game for me from drinking on this company holiday party. Put a bottle in front of me, and it doesn't matter what day of the week it is, it's going down to the gullet. Once again, you have a bottle in that hand today, you'd really fit into this homeless person. You got a plate of food. I know my Halloween costume next year at least. Very easy. Wait till your daughter's first words are like bum bum instead of dada.

She does say baba, so she's just one letter away from bum. All right, let's get to a little football talk here. I'm trying to envision what the playoffs will look like this year. So let's go division winners. We're 13 weeks in, week 14 starts tomorrow night with just a grotesque, and I mean a grotesque matchup. You have the Steelers with Mitch Trubusky starting, going up against the Patriots who don't have Ramondre Stevenson, and I guess it's going to be happy for Zappi with Bailey Zappi being the starting quarterback once again.

So to start week 14, that's the matchup. Steelers have a chance to make the postseason, the Patriots do not. Dolphins will win the AFC East, AFC North will be the Ravens, AFC South now with the Trevor Lawrence injury, it's a high ankle sprain. We don't know when he's going to return.

It's kind of day to day, week to week. I do think the Texans are going to win out. They're going to go on a six game win streak to end the season and they're going to have 12 wins and they're going to win the AFC South crown and one of the more improbable division championships we've ever seen because if anyone would have said before the start of the season, oh, the Texans are going to win the division, you would be called a hot take artists and the only reason you do things are for clicks. And then the Kansas City Chiefs, clearly your AFC West champion. So those are four spots that are guaranteed in the AFC.

Now for the wild card, if I don't have the Texans, I'm still putting in the Jaguars. Now even though I can't trust anyone at the quarterback position for the Pittsburgh Steelers, they're going to get a win on Thursday night. Like the Patriots have nothing on offense. I know the Steelers don't have a good offense, but at least they have some pieces that you could be intimidated by or at least concerned about.

The Patriots don't have that. So the Steelers play the Patriots, then the Colts, then the Bengals, the Seahawks and the Ravens. It's a tough schedule, but Tomlin always finds a way to turn garbage into gold, not to get to another Super Bowl, but to at least be over 500 and get to the playoffs. So I will say the Steelers are my other wild card team. And then the final one, I think this is going to surprise some people because quite frankly, this is my least favorite team in the NFL. Not the team this year, but just the organization, it's the Indianapolis Colts. The Colts without Anthony Richardson, the Colts now missing Jonathan Taylor for three to five weeks, their schedule at the end of the year, Bengals without their quarterback Joe Burrow, Steelers, maybe with Mitch Trubisky, the Falcons, the Raiders and the Texans.

And they're already at seven wins. I see three wins on that schedule. So you would have a put, this is true, you'd have no Cincinnati in the playoffs. You'd have no Buffalo in the playoffs. You would have three AFC South teams in the playoffs. And that was supposed to be the second worst division in football before the year started. Those are the seven teams I think are getting in the AFC. Dolphins, Ravens, Texans, Chiefs, Jaguars, Steelers, Colts. And that truly would be the most unpredictable playoff field we've ever seen in the AFC.

No one could have predicted those. If you would have predicted those seven teams and that comes true before the season started and put like five bucks down, I think you may have won like $7 million. I don't know if that math is right, but that's the most improbable postseason field I've ever seen in the history of the AFC.

I feel like back to the future. I need to go back to the beginning of the season and place my bet now. Trust me, you'd be wearing a lot better stuff if you ended up winning that. Out of all those teams that I mentioned, the teams that I left out, Browns, the Bills, the Bengals, the Chargers, I guess you could say, but they only got like five wins. Is there a team that you say, hmm, Zach, maybe you should reconsider and put it in just only the AFC?

Is there a team out there, Sam? I mean, listen, I know everyone is down on the bills, but I'm not going to give up. When you have Josh Allen.

It's fair. Right? And we don't know the future of Von Miller, but when you have Josh Allen and Steph Diggs. Well, he's back. They're not going to suspend him. Now, I don't know what other information is going to come out from what they say so far. They don't have enough information to make a suspension.

And also they could also change. The alleged victim is now recanting what was previously out there and said she was not abused by Von Miller. So who knows how that's going to play out? My gut would tell me that Von Miller is cleared for the rest of the season. And I would say that Von Miller is playing, but Von Miller is supposed to be the difference maker for that Bill's defense. And this year, I know he's coming off a major injury. He has not clicked to the level that we're used to seeing Von Miller being. And also you got to remember, Matt Milano done, Tredavious White done, like they've lost a lot on the defensive side of the ball, but in a year where there's not a lot of good teams and very few great teams or few great teams, I could see why you would say Josh Allen, like if two of my wildcard teams out of the three are the Steelers and no quarterback in the Colts. If the Patriots is actually playing well, I could see why you would make the case for Josh Allen just based on his abilities, because even in that loss up against Philadelphia, there are some moments in the game where you're like, this dude's just Superman. And listen, at the end of the day, Chiefs, Cowboys, Dolphins still remaining on the Bill's schedule.

So like that might hurt. Tough schedule. Tough schedule. The other team that you didn't mention, you didn't even mention them as like one of the teams that we're leaving out is the Denver Broncos. I know they lost last week, but they were riding a five game win streak. Here's the remaining schedule chargers, lions, tough game, pats, blah, blah charges again.

And then Vegas. I mean, they could win three or four of those games right there. That's fair. That's that's nine or 10 wins easy right there. Not easy, but very reasonable for the, for the Denver Broncos.

You are right. I should have mentioned the Broncos before the chargers. Let's see what happens on Sunday. I was, I don't know why during this five game win streak for the Broncos, I was giving them praise, but I wasn't, and maybe this is just who I am and how I'm built as a human being.

Because I say this 9,000 times during the show that we live in this society where if you're good, everyone calls you great. During that five game win streak, everyone was ready to go down the Bronco slide and declare the Denver Broncos are back. I like what I'm seeing out of Russ and coach Peyton, but it's only, okay, I want to see one more, like the next year out of Russ is going to be the year that they'll either take off or not.

Like this year, I still think there will be limitations. And that's why that Texans game was so big to me where you see them throw three interceptions and still had a chance to win the game. It's because even though right now I'd buy, I put more stock and place more stock on CJ shroud and, and D'Amico Ryan's, they are in their first season as a head coach and a quarterback in the NFL. And there's a lot more experience for the Broncos. And for me to say, okay, I'm taking the Broncos a lot more seriously and actually think they're going to be a threat.

They needed to win that game against a good team that doesn't have the experience and they weren't able to do so. So that's why it's like, I'm still 50 50, I'm still mixing the Broncos. But to your point, the schedule plays a factor into it outside of those two tough games.

And then also like 10, you should be good nine. It's going to be a tiebreaker. You know, we're starting to see in the AFC, we thought this was going to be this great conference this year and then burrow done for the season, Rogers done for the season, Watson done for the season. The Steelers don't have a quarterback. The Chargers have plummeted the bills. We don't even know if they're going to make the playoffs. A lot of what we thought was a given in the AFC has been the complete antithesis and it's been a disappointment and it happens every, every year there's a storyline in the off season that everyone pushes. Few years ago, it was all the AFC wise is by far, it's going to be the best division in football of all, you know, of all time. And this year was that the AFC is loaded, the AFC is loaded. I think there's more better teams right now in the NFC, teams that are more fearful in the NFC than the AFC. And I would not have said that before the start of the season.

I would not have said that four or five weeks ago. But you look at the NFC right now, they have the 49ers, the Eagles, the Lions, the Cowboys, like those four teams compared to the AFC's top four. I would think that the NFC has a better shot of winning the Super Bowl because I still think the creme de la creme and the AFC would be the chiefs in most people's opinion. They had not played a great offensive game outside of Chicago and the second half up against the Raiders. You're going to tell me it's the Dolphins, they can't beat a big time opponent. The Ravens, as much as I think the Ravens are going to Super Bowl this year, last two years Lamar Jackson has been hurt. Lamar gets hurt, their season's done.

They're not going to Super Bowl without Lamar Jackson. So the NFC has been a better product than the AFC this year. Now, when I get to the NFC, Eagles making the playoffs, NFC's champ, big bowl claim.

Could be different though if the Cowboys win this weekend. Lions, NFC North, Falcons were my pick before the year, NFC South, and the 49ers winning the NFC West. My wildcard teams in the NFC, I think this will, these three teams, I have opened up more on two of these teams throughout the year.

I'm going to go with the Packers, Vikings, and Rams. The Seahawks, losing a tough one to the Cowboys, they are now at six and six on the season. They play the 49ers coming up this week, probably another loss, like that's just a brutal break in the schedule. And they're going to be a football team that goes to six and seven after this weekend. So I'm starting to, even though I think they have a really good team, I'm starting to get concerned with the Seahawks and then after the 49ers, they play the Eagles.

Just a brutal stretch of their schedule. That's why losing that Cowboys game where they had opportunities to go win it is really tough. But I like the Packers, the Vikings, and the Rams to make the playoffs and the NFC. Packers, I think are starting to become a really strong team. The Vikings, they're getting Jefferson back, but Josh Dobbs now started to concern me. And the Rams are the quietest six and six team I've ever, ever heard of.

They don't have a lot of sexy names like, yeah, you have Donald, yeah, you have Stafford, yeah, you got Cooper Cup, Pukunakua has been a very nice addition to the NFL. But outside of that, can anyone name any other players on the LA Rams? It's tough.

It really is tough to do so. So I do think the Rams, because of who their quarterback is and their two receivers are, are going to make the playoffs. And the team that I'm most surprised that I didn't put in when I did this exercise were the Seattle Seahawks. Alrighty, this is Zach Gelb's show on CBS Sports Radio 855-2124, CBS 855-2124-2227. We'll take a break and we'll come on back. We'll date you on some of the biggest stories in the world of sports with some audio.

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And you have to really say, is it better for us to play Marcus Mariota right now and let Jalen get really healthy? Because I would argue that it does not matter if you're the number one seed. Because if the 49ers come into Philly again, they do not care.

They do not care. Raining in Philly, doesn't matter. Put Marcus in there, win a couple games, maybe you have the number one seed still.

You might have it. But I'd say he's probably better at playing quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles right now. Right now, he would be more productive. So you know where he became an idiot? It was the last three seconds. Because up until then, I saw the headline last night, and it was David Carr wants Jalen Hurts bench for Marcus Mariota. And then I was listening to the clip last night, and after 10 or 15 seconds, I was like, oh, this is mis-portrayed, and I just like said I don't need to listen to this.

But then when you play the full thing there, the first 15 seconds of that, 20 seconds of that, it's fine. He's saying the Eagles need to have Jalen Hurts healthy. And if he isn't healthy, then they don't have a shot.

That's a factual statement. But then when you say that Mariota would be playing better right now than Jalen Hurts, yo, David, did you even watch Marcus Mariota in the preseason? Because he was dreadful.

He was rubbish. And Marcus Mariota is what, a backup quarterback now who failed in the pros and also last year quit on his team. So you would go from the definition of a leader, the guy who is the heartbeat and the pulse of that Eagles team, and you want to rest him, Jalen Hurts wouldn't be all about that.

And he just got paid. And this guy has been playing through a bad bone bruise. So number one, you'd be annoying your quarterback. But then number two, you think because you want to play Marcus Mariota that he would be playing better right now than Jalen Hurts?

Who's in the MVP conversation? Huh? Huh? You know, do me favors though, play me that clip one more time. I need to be fully in tune with the just stupidity of one David Carr. Go ahead. You have to have a serious conversation if you're Philly, and you have to really say, is it better for us to play Marcus Mariota right now and let Jalen get really healthy? Because I would argue that it does not matter if you're the number one seed. All good. Because if the 49ers come into Philly again, they do not care. They do not care.

Okay. In Philly, doesn't matter. Put Marcus in there, win a couple games. Maybe you have the number one seed still.

You might have it. I'd say he's probably better at playing quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles right now. Right now. He would be more productive. What an idiot. So he thinks Mariota would come in and give the Eagles a better chance.

That's what he's saying. And you would also want Jalen Hurts healthy. Well then why would you go back to Jalen Hurts? That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. And you don't even make it more just stupid. And it just makes you so flat out dumb. It's that if anyone ever got on the radio and said about David Carr's brother Derek Carr, that the Saints should bench Derek Carr to get him healthy.

All right. Derek Carr's dealing with an injury right now. And they should play Jamis Winston and Jamis Winston right now is playing better than Derek Carr. Stu, you know how sensitive the Carr family is, how they block every but also media. David Carr would be advocating for a smear campaign against my great name. A thousand percent would right now. That's what makes us take even more nuts.

Yeah. It'd be the end of the world if someone said that about Derek. I would say that everyone would say I'm just a clickbait talk show host, someone that's just trying to make a name for himself and I'm a bloviating jackass. Some of those things may be true, but that's what David Carr would be saying.

There are dumb takes and then there's that David Carr level of a dumb take. That is just the dumbest thing I've ever heard. It is funny that Stu said those exact words about you a few minutes ago.

You should have heard what he said when you didn't bring him back to play the food from the company holiday party. Let's go to Diana Rossini. She had the report, long time NFL reporter now working at the athletic, that Zach Wilson has made it clear that he doesn't want to play for the Jets again if asked to be the starter again. Now we know Zach Wilson is going to be starting for the Jets this weekend. But here is Diana Rossini on ESPN New York on the Jets denying her Zach Wilson story. Yeah, I think the Jets have to go out there and deny it, although they didn't actually really deny this accuracy of the story.

It was just more their issue with the leaks that are coming out. And I think right now everyone's trying their best to try to figure out, you know, what was it? A player? Was it a coach?

Was it a trainer? I can just tell you that it was multiple people that are very aware because the entire building has been aware of this for over a week now that Zach Wilson has had reluctance to wanting to go back in there. He's expressed it openly. Alrighty, let's play a game. Who's the rat? Samter, who is the leak here? Who do you think is the rat when it comes to the Jets having this information out there that Zach Wilson at first was reluctant to play? It's Joe Douglas.

Ooh, I don't think it's Joe Douglas whatsoever. But okay, Samter? I mean, Stu? Uh, I guess I'll go Salah. Salah? Marco Belletti? Who's the rat? Salah. You think it's Salah?

He hates him. That is clear. And I don't think it's Joe Douglas. It's the only reason why Zach Wilson's still on the roster.

The two is Aaron Rodgers and Joe Douglas. I heard Greg Gianotti make a point that was kind of like the point that I made yesterday, where I said I thought it was Tim Boyle and then Tim Boyle right got cut yesterday and a friend of Aaron Rodgers and Rodgers goes on McAfee says how annoyed he is that someone's leaking this out and it's an organizational problem. You know, at first I would have thought it was a member of the coaching staff like you guys. But then Geo said maybe it was Tim Boyle's agent who wanted this story out there because Tim's like, oh, I should get the starting job back, even though I'm not playing well. But in his mind, you know, he still thinks he's good and he can play. And this guy, Zach Wilson, doesn't even want it. And maybe the agent thought, let me get it out there that Zach Wilson doesn't want to play. Then they'll just cut him or they'll suspend him and then they'll have to go back to my guy because he's one of the few guys that actually in the building. So I thought it was good. A good theory there.

That's a really good connect the dots. I think the Salah one also gets a little bit of legs and the simple fact that today when they asked him, is there a problem with the leaks and Aaron Rodgers, we talk about now. No, not a problem is it's a shame because Robert Salah seems like he's a really good dude and is a really good guy. But like I've texted with NFL head coaches before college coaches before this relationships that you build. But when you have Joe Benigno, we all love Joe around here, giving his eight step plan how to fix the jets to the coach. And the coach is still responding to him. Like I wouldn't have the cojones to some of the coaches I speak to say like like we have conversation about what's not working out with their team.

But hey, the person that doesn't coach football here is like maybe a suggestion, but an eight step plan. Yeah. Well, that shows Salah is not made for New York.

I don't think it's going anywhere. But yeah. Well, because Rodgers is going to want him back. And that's all that matters.

And that's actually, you know what, legitimate. I think that's actually the right way to go for the Jets. How big is your window next year? So why make it any worse? Why make it any more difficult for Rodgers when he comes back?

And you know, happy. And you know, whoever comes in, it's not going to be that much of an upgrade at the head coaching position because it's going to be someone that Rodgers can't. And more importantly, it's about the office coordinator, because if Hackett stays, then what's the point? You're going to bring a new head coach and say, this is your office coordinator.

The hell out of here. You know, Rodgers really started remind me of Durant when he was with the Nets. He's calling all the shots, he's injured and it's a dysfunctional mess. The one thing that's different though, is he's actually playing next year.

You would imagine you roll the dice, you roll the dice. There's no Kyrie Irving. That's going to mess this up.

No, that's a good point. And I'm not saying the players didn't like Kevin Durant, but they like Rodgers. And also you're right. There's no Kyrie who's feuding with James Harden that James Harden then gets traded and then it's just Kyrie and KD and KD didn't have the cojones to tell Kyrie, I don't want you here anymore.

Right. So we all know about the incident with Von Miller where he was arrested. The alleged assault occurred on November 29th, according to NFL.com, while the Bills entered their bye week, according to police affidavit, which offered, which officers wrote Miller twice put his hands on the neck of a woman, pulled out a chunk of her hair and threw her onto a couch.

The woman was treated for minor injuries, including bruising on her neck. Police said the woman also is reportedly pregnant as well. And not only that, now the alleged victim is saying, oh, nothing happened between her and Von Miller. So Brandon Bean has a decision to make coming off the bye.

The league isn't stepping in and he was asked, why is Von Miller going to be playing this weekend for the Bills up against the Chiefs? The public or us, we only have so many of the facts. And I think we've, if you look around this country, you see plenty of rushes to judgment. Again, we're not investigators here. We're not qualified to do that. People follow the lead of those people and let them do their jobs and we'll take the information and we're just trying to do the right thing. You're never going to make a hundred percent people happy. If we went the other way and said he can't play, there'd be people, you know, upset about that too.

It's simple. When you have a situation like this, you either had the league step in or used to spend the play yourself, or you let the player play. And even though this isn't the right way to go about it, if this was a backup offense alignment, the player's not only suspended, he's probably cut. But since this is Von Miller, who you paid a lot of money to and right, he's won two Super Bowls. If the league isn't going to say he can't play and also your season is on life support at six and six, they're going to allow him to play.

Now, I'm not saying that's the right thing. When you read these allegations, it makes you want to throw up. But if you allow a window for him to play and you leave it in the hands of the teams, nine times out of ten, the teams are going to say the player is going to play. Here is Jordan Schultz Bleacher Report on why Jim Harbaugh won't be coaching the Bears next year. The reason I don't see Harbaugh going to Chicago if he were to make the jump back to the NFL is because Kevin Warren was the president of the Big Ten when Harbaugh was getting essentially his start in Michigan. They do not have a good relationship.

It could be said they have a terrible relationship, both guys pretty critical of one another. Considering that Kevin Warren is currently the president of the Bears, that's a fractured relationship that to me has no ability to be repaired. I really don't see a scenario where Harbaugh and the Bears are able to find common ground and have him coach that team.

I just don't see it. In fact, it would stun me if that happened. Everyone said Harbaugh to the Bears, Bears, Bears, Bears, Bears, oh, it's going to happen.

Oh, perfect fit. Going to make sense. We got some telling info right there from Jordan Schultz, and we'll see if Harbaugh leaves Michigan.

If he does, Jim, you should want to go to the Chargers or you should want to go to the Buffalo Bills. So the playing tournament, the semifinals are tomorrow. You have the Pacers against the Bucks and the Pelicans against the Lakers. Here is LeBron James on getting to the semis of the first in-season tourney. It is what it is. I mean, it's an inauguration. It is what it is at this point in the season. We have an opportunity to compete for something, so why not? I mean, you got the greatest competitors in the world fighting for something, so let's fight. I thought LeBron was going to make this out to be like the biggest deal in the world.

Not that he needs another accolade to his resume just so he could add it. It is what it is. It is what it is.

It is what it is. That means LeBron James, and deservedly so, is saying, I don't really give a crap. So I like that answer out of LeBron James.

That's a good job by the king. And I thought the most interesting thing so far with the NBA season was Emay with Doka and LeBron going at it the other night, where Emay got tossed for basically saying, LeBron, quit the bitching. You bitch too much on the court. How about that from Emay with Doka, coach of the Rockets?

All right, this is that Gelb show on CBS Sports Radio. Stu, you pumped up about this in-season tournament semifinals. Pelicans and Lakers! Let's go Lakers! There's no bigger game I've ever been a part of in my life as a fan. Yeah, you know, forget all those NBA championships and all those great Western Conference Finals appearances. This is the big one. This would be the biggest moment of LeBron James's career. You want to know why? Because if he wins this tournament, he could say over Michael Jordan, I have an in-season tournament championship.

What do you have? Yeah, Michael Jordan, I know you have more titles than me. I know everyone thinks I'm the better basketball player, but I have the in-season tournament championship.

I got a ring for that. It is the Zach Gelb show on CBS Sports Radio. Skip Bayless won't be using that take, I'll tell you that.

LeBron loses his in-season tournament though, oh Skip is going to kill him, absolutely kill him. We'll wrap up the show on the other side. Update time first.

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I just gave it gave me a script today and it had the old show name in here. So yeah, you you put the thing in front of me I'm gonna read it the the wrong way. Like at it, Maggie and Pearl, what the heck is going on out there? yeah, Zach Wilson's the worst quarterback in the NFL. Out of all the guys starting this weekend, he's going to be the worst quarterback in football.

And here's why. Like, there are some guys that are in the the same conversation, right? There are guys that are, like, just as bad as Zach Wilson. But I don't know if their teammates are saying, ugh, like, we all have to now go back and do battle with Zach Wilson.

And we could talk about how Zach Wilson has matured and all that stuff in the last year. Zach Wilson last year got benched, and you had teammates show up to a game with t-shirts for Mike White. And now all of a sudden, Zach Wilson, who was not supposed to be the guy this year, Aaron Rodgers comes in, gets hurt, four plays into the season, then Zach Wilson is the guy, then everyone's saying bench Zach Wilson because he stinks, and you go to Tim Boyle, Trevor Simeon, and now you're bringing in Rippon as well. And now you have to go back to Zach. The entire team knows that, yes, Zach is your best option, but you have nowhere to go with Zach. And this is just a gross, and I mean a gross decision that was made, and really hubris, by one Joe Douglas, and then also Aaron Rodgers, to think that just because they picked Zach, or just because they liked Zach in the case of Rodgers, and he wanted to mentor him, and all that bologna, and that ball junk, that Zach Wilson, if needed to be the guy, and Joe Douglas understands what the backup quarterback position means, because when he was in Philadelphia, they had Nick Foles, Carson Wentz gets hurt, he was playing MVP ball, and they win a Super Bowl with Nick Foles. So to go into this season banking on Zach Wilson to be QB 2, you kind of got what you deserve.

And look around the league, it's also an indictment on the coaching staff, because Josh Dobbs, in two places, looked okay for a while, and Arizona looked fine with the Vikings, now, right, he's gonna get benched, but at least you saw some good quarterback play at times from him. Jake Browning with Zach Taylor, everyone likes to crap on Zach Taylor, oh he's nothing without Joe Burrow. Jake Browning looked like a really good quarterback the other night, against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

They have been, Gardner Minshew, that guy should be a starter full-time somewhere next year. They're gonna go back to Anthony Richardson after the season, but Gardner Minshew, with good coaching and Shane Stikin, has been really good this year for the Indianapolis Colts. You know, even the playoff game last year, when Mike McDaniel loses to Otunga Vailoa, right, Skyler Thompson almost won a game.

Tyler Hundley, I know he fumbled the game away when he tried to be like Air Jordan jumping at the two, putting the football out there, and then it was picked up and recovered for a touchdown, but they were in that game up against the Bengals. So it was just stupidity by the front office, and then also the coaching staff, Hackett, is not able to get anything out of Zach. So yeah, I think for his individual play, and then also the locker room being like, oh, we got to go to this guy, again, that's what makes him the worst quarterback of the NFL. Zach Wilson was asked today if the report was true that he was reluctant to play for the Jets when they asked him to be the starter again. Absolutely not, you know, absolutely not.

I love the guys in this locker room, and I would do anything, and I think anytime you have an opportunity to step in this field, you need to take advantage of it. That doesn't really sound all that convincing. It's actually sad. Like, Zach Wilson's not an old guy, he's young, but it's almost like the old dog at this stage. Like, this dog is 17. You know the dog has seen its better days.

Now it's just a sad, mopey dog that's limping around, can't see. That's what Zach Wilson is now going back out for the New York Jets this weekend. You know his career, you know his tenure in New York is absolutely over. Alrighty, it is the Zach Gelb show on CBS Sports Radio. By the way, let me just talk about this tweet that I had earlier this morning. So yesterday we do this segment about Transfer Portal and all these big quarterbacks and where they could go. So I was just in the tweeting mood last night, and I said, alright, also Dylan Gabriel to Oregon, Cam Ward to Ohio State, DJ Young to L.A. to Florida State, Riley Leonard to Notre Dame, and Kyle McCord to Nebraska. Now all I did was say, Transfer Portal predictions. My mentions have been crazy today.

This thing's done like 150,000 views. I have publications in Nebraska and Ohio State saying, CBS Sports Radio Zach Gelb says that so-and-so's going here, so-and-so's going there. I'm like, they're just predictions folks.

That's it. They're predictions. Like, sometimes I make predictions that have insider information. This one has no insider information.

These guys just hit the Transfer Portal. So I do find it funny that there's some websites and some fan bases, which they're loving me now based off some of the predictions, but then some when these don't go the right way. What do you know? You idiot! You moron! You dope!

You big fat dope! I was just making some predictions, but I think all five of those are some pretty damn good predictions. I may say so myself. Like Dylan Gabriel going from Oklahoma to Oregon, that'd be wonderful. Cam Ward, zero star recruit, then taking over the Ohio State. DJ Wengole back in the ACC. Riley Leonard seems like a good fit for Notre Dame, and then Nebraska. Oh, anyone they bring in. Can't be worse than what they had in the quarterback position.

The three guys they were trotting out at times this year. Alrighty, that's the Zach Gelb show on CBS Sports Radio. I'll go get a plate of food at the company holiday party. Rub elbows, say hello to people, kiss babies, and we'll be back tomorrow at 3 p.m. Eastern, noon Pacific. Have a great night, everybody. We out. Bye-bye. Peace! Download Instacart. Add life to cart.

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