Week 15 Preview (Hour 4)

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First up, Saturday, 1 o'clock. Colts going up against the Vikings. Hickey, I want to see, and I know you may not want to see this, but I want to see if the Minnesota Vikings can just dominate from kickoff to the final whistle. I don't want this to be the game that they had a few weeks ago, two weeks ago against the Jets, where they're up, then they let the Jets back in the game, and then they have to get a fortuitous bounce because you had Braxton Barrios not being able to catch a football that he should have. The Colts aren't a good team. The Vikings are a much better team.

Let's see it be reflected that way throughout the game when you see it at the end of the game in the final score. I am watching the red zone defense for the Vikings. Look, the ship has sailed in terms of them turning around this year. Their defense stinks. So now, if they're going to win a playoff game, maybe win two playoff games, it's going to be keeping their opponents out of the end zone. Bend, but don't break.

Right. They won't be able to stop anyone between the 20s, but once you get down to the 20s, how they beat the Jets, there's a 1-6 in the red zone. You have to keep the opponents out of the red zone once they get there.

They'll be watching on Saturday afternoon. And if you can't bend, but don't break against the Indianapolis Colts this year, which really all they have is Jonathan Taylor, then you got some problems. Ravens at the Browns.

Very simple. This is Tyler Huntley against Deshaun Watson. I want Deshaun Watson to have the rust knocked off, and I want to see him play his best complete game through these first three games and clearly show me that he's back to the quarterback where he was.

Two years ago. Even though I can't stand the guy will never root for the guy. I'm watching this Ravens rushing offense because this is a bad Browns defense. Tyler, I know he's your backup quarterback, but he still fits well in the offense. And this is a must win for Baltimore. Like I know the Browns are favorite home, but you're in the middle of our division race right now.

You got to keep up with the Bengals. So must win here. You got you have to win this game. It's going to be on the ground to win the division.

Yes. But even if they lose this game, you still think they're making the playoffs. No, they're making the playoffs. I mean, I was making sure you want a home playoff game, right?

Yeah. Finally, in the Saturday games, Dolphins and Bills. I think the Bills are going to win.

I think the Bills are going to win big. I want to see if Tuatunga Vailoa can knock away just the awful performances he's had the last two weeks and it ain't going to be easy because they're going into what could potentially be a foot and a half of snow. So I want to see what Tuatunga Vailoa has got this week. Everyone's been praised him in the last two weeks. I haven't heard Emmanuel Acho give too much praise to Tuatunga Vailoa. Tuatunga has got to play better. We'll see if he can do that this week. I'm glad you brought Emmanuel Acho.

I'm going to steal actually one of his lines. Oh, hold on. We're having a combination of Emmanuel Acho and Hot Take Kiki.

I know. Put your gloves on, everyone. It's going to be hot. I need to stand up because I'm going to probably fall down in laughter.

So I just want to stretch my legs out. Ready? One, two, three. OK, just kick the chair.

One, two, three. All right. I'm stretched out, ready to go for this take.

It's not crazy. Oh, so I sit back down then? Yes. I thought last week.

He really hyped that one up. Emmanuel, I thought last week, Tuatunga tried to be a social media quarterback in terms of trying to make some big throws and trying to fit into tight windows that were not there when really for most of the season, his success has come. Take what the defense gives him. Sometimes that's Tyra Kell open deep, but other times that's double off the flat.

This has to be weak, especially with the weather conditions going to be the way they are. You have to take whatever the Bills defense gives you. It's a double off to the running back. Take it 20 times.

If it's Tyra Kell deep, OK, take it. But last week, I felt like he really forced balls into windows that were not there. And it almost felt like a little bit like this offense for the Miami was figured out. I'll give a pass this week just because of the weather, but I want to see Tuatunga take what the defense gives you. No, I'm not giving a pass. If you're a franchise quarterback, get the job done. I'm not giving two a pass. I'm giving the offense for Mike McDaniel pass.

So I am starting to wonder if this is the book is out and they can't adjust. By the way, I have a three leg parlay for you tomorrow. Anytime touchdown parlay.

Calvin Cook, Tyler Huntley, Stefan Diggs. The odds on that plus one thousand one hundred and seventy three. So just throwing a little anytime.

So if you're not here Monday, we know it hit it hit big and maybe you're on an island. I'll get me wrong. Even if that does hit, it's a nice chunk of change. It's still not enough to retire. I got a lot of things to put to go, you know, unless you put a good amount down. Yeah. Unless you're believing in big time in this in this parlay here. Still not enough to retire.

OK, I got I'm going to work until they drag me out of here or until I have enough money to say, yeah, it's like David Chris Sienaar. Eagles and Bears. Justin Fields back in the fold. I just want to see the continued development of Justin Fields. This is a tremendous quarterback matchup.

Jalen Hurts, Justin Fields. The Eagles should win this game and should win this game big. But I just want to continue to see Justin Fields play better and better and better because I really like the steps he's taking this year.

Even though he's not in the most advantageous position. I'm watching big time Eagles run defense. Now, they're a very well-built team. You could argue this is still the weak point of this team, which is again, I would love to have that be my team's biggest weakness for sure, because they improve big time so far.

They have. This is the number one Russian team in the NFL. And when we talk about the Eagles 49ers. Is that right? The Bears are the number one rushing team in the NFL? That's right.

Man, Fields is having a great year. I know it's the way they do it is different. But when you look at the 49ers, they are obviously predicated on running the ball, playing a defense. So you're going to face a similar style come playoff time if we do get an Eagles 49ers NFC touted game, which it looks like we're on the crash course for see how this Eagles run defense kind of performs against what is an elite running team.

All right. How about that with the Bears? I didn't know that the Bears were number one. Now, a lot of that is offensive. They run the ball a ton.

Yeah, but I don't throw it a lot. So that also helps. But number one, I didn't know that Falcons at the Saints. Desmond Ritter. That's the easy one.

I actually I don't know why. I didn't have the stones to do it in my picks with D.A., but I kind of feel good about the Falcons this week. And I think Desmond Ritter is going to lead the Falcons to victory. I just want to see what he can do, though. The rookie quarterback out of Cincinnati. You know, I say Arthur Smith approaches it like they say he's ready to say he's really grown in the last month or so.

And that's part of the reason why that they bench Marcus Mariota. I want to see it. Like, let's see. We're going to let the kid rip. We're going to put kid gloves on him and just kind of baby along for four games and really not do much and leave yourself with a bigger question mark next year than you could get an answer for at least the next month here. Lions, Jets. Zach is back.

All right. Is Zach really back? Zach Wilson, because of the fault of your own.

You embarrass yourself. Now, let's see if there's a little redemption story here for Zach Wilson to get the Jets to eight and six and continue to move and move and move and move themselves closer to a playoff berth. On the flip side, I'm watching Jared Goff. This is a really good defense you're going against.

And this is a game where, look, we have questions. You look at it to next year's draft. The Lions are going to have a top five pick with their trade with the Rams. Do you draft quarterback?

Do you not? This could be a game where the Lions say, you know what, we're going to roll Jared Goff. We're going to get the best player available on offense or defense and move along. This is a big game for Jared Goff to kind of prove that maybe he could be the guy in Detroit after all. You know, I like the way that you said that best player available. That could also mean quarterback, even if Jared Goff continues to play well. And I like what I've been seeing from Jared Goff. If you are the Lions, you're in the business of taking the best player available.

And if that so happens to be a quarterback, I don't think you could throw all your eggs in one basket with Jared Goff and go, OK, we're going to use that pick on a non-quarterback if you do have the quarterback as the best player available then. Steelers. Panthers. I think this is the first time since week two when I deemed it a must-win game for the Carolina Panthers up against the Giants that the Panthers actually have pressure on them.

Now, you could laugh at that a little bit. Oh, it's the NFC South. It's been a terrible just booty division this year. It's been ugly. It's been awful.

But now they've been getting some praise. Steve Wilks, 4-4 is the interim head coach. Sam Darnold back in the starting lineup.

Defense playing well. And you're going up against the Steelers and it's either going to be Mason Rudolph or Mitch Trubusky. If you ask Deontay Johnson, we know who he would like. He would love Mason Rudolph. Should I care what Deontay Johnson wants?

No, I shouldn't. But for the Carolina Panthers, I just want to see after them getting a little bit of praise, even though we can laugh and say that praise is minuscule, how they respond to that. Because on paper, they're better than the Steelers' team. I just don't know if the Panthers are going to win this game. I'm watching the fight the Steelers come out with.

You know, there was not a report. Mike Florio last week or this week or this week on Pittsburgh Radio 93-7, the fan, was basically saying there maybe could be a trade of Mike Thomas off-season. To the Panthers. To the Panthers, ironically enough. I want to see now, like you mentioned, when you have a backup quarterback playing, whether it's Trubusky, whether it's Mason Rudolph, there's no reason right now the Steelers should be motivated to play hard. This is a guy who's been there for a long time. This is going to be the first losing season under Mike Tomlin.

Are they going to mail it in? I think if you mail it in, it's easier to trade Tomlin because his voice is getting lost. If you still play hard, if you're still swinging spirited, it makes the case to get rid of him a lot harder.

Cowboys and the Jaguars. Very simple. It seems like this year, Trevor Lawrence, not only does he show up, but he balls out and says, OK, that's a transcendent player.

Or he plays so bad, like how he did. Was that in London or Germany? I can't remember. London against the Broncos. Where it's like, oh, that's the number one overall pick. That was a transcendent Trevor Lawrence. Against a very good defense in Dallas.

I just want to see what type of game Trevor Lawrence does play. I will give the Cowboys the benefit of that last week that they overlooked the Texans. It's one of those things where you thought you just throw your jocks up on the field, you beat them.

And they, you know, the Texans where that was just jock straps on the field and we'll just beat them. NFL players don't wear jock straps. Some do. Most don't. I would agree. Very uncomfortable. It's still I don't know why, but it's still it's still most do not.

Still a thing for some. But anyway, I think it would be easier to name the players that do wear jock straps than who don't say the leggings. You just throw the leggings on the field and the girdles.

You free it. I would not. You're not afraid until you get hit in the stones and you're an NFL player. You're not afraid about getting hit in the stones.

Well, I don't think I know. No, no one was a cop. Yeah, there's not only anyone was a cop. So you still wear like, you know, compression shorts underneath. But that's not a jock strap. Well, it's just that's the saying. I'm just keeping with the saying. All right, fine.

We'll update it to modern times. They thought they're going to throw their leggings, throw their football pants, free bird it on the field and say, we're going to smoke the Texans. No big deal. You have to come out and crush the Jaguars. You know, the Jaguars playing well. They had a nice win over the Titans last week. But this is a Cowboys team where you can't lay two eggs in a row against two teams you are better than.

Chiefs and Texans. There's only one reason to watch this game view of action on this game. And if Kansas City could cover the two touchdown spread.

And if you bet the other way, can the Texans cover the spread? Other than that, there's no thoughts on this game. There's no reason to watch this game. I don't care about this game. Patrick Holmes needs, well, one thousand three hundred and eighteen yards to pass Peyton Manning's record for a single season. You think he actually cares about that ranking? I don't know. I don't think he cares. But this would, if you're going to have one big game, this is the game.

It's a kind of weird. Four hundred and fifty yards. Individual stats.

You go for five hundred. Individual stats in the NFL. In terms of like most of the season or, you know, this guy threw his five hundred or six hundred career touchdown pass. I feel like in baseball, that's such a big deal. And the NFL, I feel like we just don't even care. Also, it's so confusing because sometimes you include that their stats for including postseason and not including the playoffs.

It's just so bizarre. I am surprised that record stood as long as it has with an extra. I know there's only a year or two the extra game, but also with the air raid kind of coming to the NFL, like a record that's almost 20 years old.

The pay them. Yeah. Record like the fact that, you know, it's a 20 year old record with how the NFL has gone. It's kind of impressive. Is that almost 20 years?

Oh, four, I believe. Right. That wasn't what he did with Denver. Oh, I kind of forgot. I blocked those years out.

Maybe you're right. I definitely was the one with Denver. And he then was probably the touchdown when he passed Marino. Now, can I be honest with you? I was going to buy you this as your Christmas gift, but I didn't. I was going to get you paid a Manning Broncos jersey. It would have went in the trash. I'm not even kidding.

It would have went in the trash. I don't care about his Denver time. I don't care about the stupid argument between Denver and Indy.

Who does he love more? But I wouldn't have contributed to that. That was 2013.

Okay. So we're on a decade still. Your record that the one that you thought it was. Oh, four.

He broke a lot of records. There's a touchdown when you pass Marino for things was forty nine this season or forty eight. Yeah. It's not even the top ten now. Shows you I'm really trying to find his current cousins in 2016 is in front of that, I think.

Yeah, I think it would take me too much time to find it, so I'll find it by the end of the show. Arizona at Denver. Oh, this is Colt McCoy. Going up against what's the dude's name on the red red red ribbon who played that game up against the Jets last year, two years ago. Two years ago.

I think it was played pretty well, too. Did he win? Yeah, Broncos won that game. I just want to see how Nathaniel Hackett falls flat on his face this week at home. One last good boo fest for the head coach before you fire. Come on. Like, what thought can you have on this game?

Cardinals and Denver. I want to see you know, I want to see I want to see Cliff Kingsbury get some sleep hard knocks this week. The guy, he gets the facility three thirty in the morning. Anytime they put him on camera, the guy looks like his eyes have no blood and he's just so tired. Get some sleep, man. Do you like do yourself a favor?

Take care of yourself. He's easy. Do you think he's getting fired?

Yes, he should be. I think we'll get fired. OK. Patriots in the Raiders. Going to have a little heart to heart here with Matty P. Can't say you're my boy because I don't like you, Matty P. Appreciate you for that Super Bowl that you won. And you remind everyone about the play call and all that. Malcolm Butler, even though Bill basically said, yeah, we're not going to call a time out. But you still take credit for it going back to your Lions days.

It's very simple. Throw the effing ball down the field. The Raiders defense is not good. Do what you did up against the Vikings. Stop with this screen nonsense.

Let Mac cook. Matt, you haven't listened all year. If I held my breath waiting for you to make a change, I'd probably be dead by now. So let's hope something changes. Beating Bill Belichick will not excuse losing to Jeff Saturday before with the Broncos and will not excuse losing a Baker Mayfield on 40 hours of study time with the Rams. It will. Give maybe a little bit of optimism that maybe things are turning around in Vegas or maybe there's a chance to not. I think he should get fired. He won't. I think there's still a chance he will get fired. I think you will. He will guarantee you'll be back next year if you beat Bill Belichick in the Patriots.

Next one. Tennessee Chargers. Tennessee is going to win this division.

We know that. The Chargers. You had such a great effort last week where you're so much better than the Dolphins. Don't mess it up this week. Go beat Tennessee.

That's what I want to say. If you're Tennessee, can you come out for a second half? Can you can you play a full 60 minute game? This is the kings of playing a great 30 minutes and just snoozing through the final 30 minutes. So again, last weekend's the Jaguars.

You got to play a full 60. Has to start here in L.A. So by the way, the most yards Peyton Manning ever had. I just found this in Indianapolis was 2010. That is now forty third all time in the list. For most yards in passing yards in a season. Going back to that conversation in 2004, he had a great year. You know, monster year 49 touchdowns, 10 interceptions, record breaking your four thousand five hundred fifty seven. But that last year in these four thousand seven hundred.

And now that would be like, yo, bum. Fifteenth on the list. Bengals and Buccaneers. Tampa, can you do something? Can you find a way to win a game that no one's picking you to win in just this miserable, awful, pathetic season where you still may win the NFC South? It's not a great thought, but that's my thought for Tampa Bay and Cincinnati, as Joe Burrow is just so awesome. Let's see how the defensive line, you know, approaches.

Trey Hagerty gets hurt last week, unfortunately. How can you now at least continue after Tom Brady and kind of continue to wreak havoc? This defense has been really good. Luann Arumo has done a tremendous job going back to the Super last year. Say that ten times fast. No, I can barely do it two times fast.

Luann Arumo, Luann Arumo, that's tough. Let's see that. Let's see that Bengals defense take advantage of what has been just decrepit offensive line for the Buccaneers. Giants and commanders.

Let me preface this by saying I think the commanders win. What I'm looking to at this game, though, what type of fight did Daniel Jones and Saquon Barkley do put up? Because Daniel Jones, there's questions if he's going to be the guy for next year, if he's going to be back. And Saquon Barkley, the last few weeks, started not to look as strong as he did earlier in the season.

And that's what I mean. I want to see, can any wide receiver step up to be consistent? That's part of the issue with the Giants. It's just like, you're right, Saquon Barkley and really no one else. I'd like to get on Daniel Jones, but to his defense, I know what he was throwing to. Like, Darius Layton is his most reliable guy. Also, Darius Layton drops every other pass. Can you have a receiver? I think especially in this game, I don't think Daniel Jones' legs would be enough to win.

Can you have a receiver step up here to actually be a reliable option for number eight? Rams and Packers, Baker Mayfield. You've had some time now to prepare. Let's see what you've got, because the last time you got on the football field, it was a whole lot of fun. When you came back from down 16 to 3 in the final three plus minutes.

Kind of the same vein as going back to the series. I want to see how the Packers show up. Like, this is a territory they've not been in.

Can you at least show some pride, some professionalism? Show up and play hard. And that's going to start with Aaron Rodgers.

That's one thought in each of these games for this upcoming weekend in Week 15. And this is Zach Gelb's show on CBS Sports Radio. NFL picks next with Jersey Jerry of Barstool Sports. And I'm man enough to share it. I don't, I'm man enough. And now it's time to respect their NFL picks. Only on the Zach Gelb show. And you can take O'Reilly Auto Parts for all your car care needs.

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But we only got four weeks to play. Jersey Jerry, how you doing my friend? I'm doing great.

I'm doing great. You know, a little disappointed in what the Steelers performed like last week. They should be ashamed of themselves. Tomlin has to take a really, really long look in the mirror. And say, do I want this job anymore? Because, you know, he's not being held up to the standard. Are you ready to get rid of him? Because it sounds like you wouldn't be mad if they did so. You know, I wouldn't be upset. I wouldn't be mad if he stepped down at the end of the year.

Do I think he will do that? No. You know, I think it's time for a big change in Pittsburgh. I just, that's just the feeling I'm getting.

They've been an average team at best for the last decade plus. Who do you think started at quarterback, by the way, for them this weekend? As we're all awaiting that decision in great anticipation. Is it going to be Drew Buskey or is it going to be Mason Rudolph? You know, I would love to see Mason play.

I really would. But for what? You know what I mean? What are the Steelers going to do? What's going to happen by playing him? He's gone next year regardless, you know what I mean?

So what's the point, you know? Alright, Jersey Jerry, we'll get to the picks. I'm going to try to lift up your spirits a little bit. I actually think the Steelers are going to win this week. I think this is going to be a close game. I think these are two good defenses. They're going to knock the crap out of the other team's quarterback, both of these teams. I think this is a 17-16 game.

It could go either way, but you know what? I want to see a happy Jersey, Jerry, so I'm going to take the Steelers to win. I'll take the Steelers plus the three points.

Ooh, I got a little bit of work to do. I got to catch up to you on four games back. I'm going to go with the Panthers. I'm going to go with the Panthers. I just think my gut is telling me it's not going to go well in Pittsburgh from here on out. Defense is injured right now. We don't even know who's going to play quarterback.

Mitch looked horrible last week. This team pretty much is dead. They're not going to win out, so they're going to miss the playoffs. This is going to be the dagger. This right here is the dagger game for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Carolina is going to run the ball down their throat like Baltimore did last week. Rest in peace to the Pittsburgh Steelers' season.

Wow. I've never heard you this down on your football team. Now, you're being realistic. I think you're being fair. I don't think Tomlin's going anywhere, Jersey, Jerry, but usually I look to you for a little optimism with the Steelers, but they haven't given you any reason to be optimistic, I guess. No, you know what?

This year, and people could say what they want. Oh, they just don't have good players. They have good players, man.

They have good players. I don't know what kind of offense they run. It's a high school offense.

Canada sucks. Yeah, the defensive coordinator, Terrell Austin, had no business getting that job. He's in over his head. He blames the players every week, but they're put in horrible situations. So I blame it on coaching, man. I blame it on the head coach. I blame it on the offensive coordinator. I blame it on the defensive coordinator. The Steelers are one of the worst teams when it comes to the red zone. They're one of the worst defenses. So I've got nothing to look forward to, man. I'm just really down.

I'm upset. I thought this was a year that the Steelers, they had a pretty easy schedule after that six-game gauntlet. I felt like they could sneak their way into the playoffs with a six seed, a seven seed.

They got no shot. Jersey, Jerry here with us. When I get to my next game, Ravens and Browns, this is going to be a game where I think the Sean Watson, who has been awful through the first two games, finally plays well. I kind of like the Browns not only to win this week, Jersey Jerry, but I'm going to take the Browns to cover the three points against the Ravens.

All right, I'll tell you what, I kind of like that pick as well. My next pick is going to be the Buffalo Bills, their home, bad weather game, snow. Miami, you seen the news last week, they were using heaters with 55 degree weather. They're just not built for the cold.

Tua could say all he wanted. Oh, just so you know, it snows in Alabama. It don't snow in Alabama like it does in Buffalo.

This is a route here. This is 28-3 type of game. Okay, so you're taking the Buffalo Bills minus the seven points. My last pick, I'm going back to the well on the Saturday games. This team, for some reason, they're going to probably make me sweat this one out, but I'm going to go with the Vikings against the Indianapolis Colts, and it's probably a sucker bet, but I'm going to take the Vikings minus three and a half.

All right, my last pick here is going to be the commanders, minus four and a half against the Giants. Giants are just fraudulent. They're just frauds. They fooled a lot of people in the beginning of the season. They're not that team anymore. Yes, they've been dealing with injuries. They have no playmakers really on offense besides Saquon Barkley.

Daniel Jones hasn't looked great. So I'm going to go with the commanders. I think the commanders are going to beat up on this team. Now, I'm going to make a little deal here with you, Jersey Jerry. Yep. Because I've been following everything that's been going on at Barstool this week, and I've been very entertained by it. You didn't take a underdog this week, so we just got to make a deal.

Since that's usually the deal, you got to take an underdog. Oh, I didn't? Oh, no, sorry. No, no, no, no, no, but Jersey Jerry, that's fine. Just your army protects me, okay? If the army ever comes after me, I'm going to get a little bit scared, Jersey Jerry.

That's a deal, that's a deal, that's a deal. All right, Jersey Jerry, are you on Pickham this week? I'm on Advisors this week.

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You got it. There's Jersey Jerry from Barstool Sports joining us each and every week, of course, for NFL picks. Whoa, look who's here to my left.

Look at this stranger that just wandered into the studio. The great Greg Caserta. It's been a while, dude. Who is your football team, by the way? I'm a Giants fan. Okay, where is the confidence level? Because Marco Belletti, who I love, I absolutely love Marco Belletti, one of my favorite people in this company. Can I guess he was a bit negative going into Sunday night?

Yes and no. Like, Ryan, you would agree with that, right? He picked the Giants, but it seemed as if he was just picking the Giants because he's a fan of the Giants because he didn't really seem all that positive about the game. And I think the commanders are going to win the game. I just think they're a better football team.

I don't think they're going to blow them out or anything. But he ended up going with the Giants. But did you get that same read, Hickey, from Marco Belletti, El Capitan, that it was he picked the Giants, but I don't think he actually believes it. I was going to say, he picked the Giants in the beginning. He said, I think the Giants are going to win. And then three minutes of explanation as to why they're not going to win about the lack of players and he's nervous and they've lost 11 straight primetime games. I forgot he picked the Giants in the beginning.

That's how that's where it ventured down. It's like when a radio host gets on the air and gives their opinion, like, all right, I think the Minnesota Vikings are going to slam the Colts. But they're not really confident.

And then the next 14 minutes they say, oh, here's why the Colts could prove me wrong. Yeah. That's what it seemed like Marco was doing. So he was hedging a little bit. Oh, yeah. He said it was almost as if you were running and you get a quick start and you take one step, two step and you have a lead and then you just fell flat in your face.

I think it's, you know, trends, right? Like you look at the way the two teams are going. The Giants are headed the wrong way. And obviously injuries right now are the biggest thing and showing their flaws because they have not a whole lot of skill, especially on offense. The injuries in the secondary are killing them. Primetime, they have not been good on the road. I didn't know that was a good stat Marco gave us.

They lost 11 straight primetime games. I didn't realize it was that high. Eleven. Wow. I'm surprised.

I wonder how far that dates back, too, because it's not like the Giants the last few years have been in a lot of primetime games. No, not at all. Because they've been miserable. So you're going commanders? Listen, I want my heart to tell me. This is the reverse of Marco.

He starts off negative and then ends positive. No, no, no. I want to believe that they're finally going to pull one out, but what's telling me that they're going to do it? And right now, really nothing. I don't think the commanders are great. No.

But you had a chance to put them away two weeks ago. But they at least had juice on offense. Absolutely. Like, I'm not telling you, Taylor Ham Heineke is great, but you got Jahan Dotson. You got Terry McClorn. You got two solid running backs.

It's like, you look at the Giants. I love Saquon, but Saquon the last four weeks has done nothing. He's been awful. And I'm not even going to kill Daniels. I don't think Dan Jones is a franchise quarterback.

I'm not going to kill him because he's got nothing around him. The other thing, too, is like at this point in the season, based on the personnel and where they are in the standings, the Giants at this point need to be almost perfect to win football games. Yeah. And it's really hard to do.

It's really hard to do. So I want to pick them, but I have a hard time believing based on anything they've shown us over the last month that they're going to go down and take care of business on Sunday. Gotcha. So you're doing updates all throughout the night. You'll be with J.R. Nex, and then afterwards you'll be on the Hot Take Kiki extravaganza. Can't wait at the Express.

As I see him shaking his head in disgust right now. You know, the Hot Take Kiki hour happens from 4 to 5 a.m. Eastern every Saturday. Is it 4 to 5? See, can we push it back?

Is it 3 to 4? Can we bump it up an hour while I'm still here? I want to be here for the hour, the Hot Take Kiki hour. Here's some real news for you, Greg.

That doesn't exist. I don't know. I listen to that show from time to time if I'm a little intoxicated or if I just can't sleep or I'm a loser and have nothing to do on a Friday night. And I hear some people calling.

They're like, hey, Hot Take Kiki. And then Ryan's like, oh, no. You're very nice to him because you could have easily said, I listened to him to put me to sleep. You had a perfect opportunity, and that's where I thought you were going. No, no. You didn't take that chance. I forget what it was last Friday, what I was doing.

Oh, what, no. What was I doing last? I don't remember what I was doing last Friday, but whatever it is, I was so lame that it was like 2 in the morning and I had nothing to do, and I just said, you know, I'm going to listen to Kiki. And I listened to him for about the first 30 minutes, made some notes, made some observations, and then I woke up at 5.30 and I hear his voice.

I'm like, what the heck is going on? And I realized I felt good. He has come into his own because when I started here, Kiki was on the weekends. It was me, him, and Billy Jock alone.

That was the three amigos. What a shift. And you're hearing a guy that with repetitions and his time has gone on, he's found his voice. Yeah, he's an outside voice. And he's a good listener. It's not just because he's my friend.

Jeez. He's a good friend, but he's a good listener. Are you giving him back rub too tonight?

No, he'll get more than that. That's my guy. That's my guy.

Can't wait for tonight. I don't think he heard the other part of that. Oh, I heard that. I heard that. I heard that. As Greg Kuciner once said in a social media video when Kiki took his shirt off, hover, hover.

That's right. I think that's my one drop on the morning show. The one drop they got on me is hubba hubba because of... I have a laundry list of drops on the morning show. So sometimes I think I'm co-hosting the morning show when I'm in my bed listening. Here's the thing. If somebody says, hey, they were talking about you on the morning show, chances are it's not a good thing. So I'm trying to just stay out of that conversation. Well, I annoyed Pete the body belati today.

Everybody's annoying him this week. So I do the Gelb gambles thing and when I do Gelb gambles, I just take a shot at everyone and relate it to the games. You know, Jack Stern, Pete, whoever.

You go after the real hard targets, huh? I did the Waco, Texas parlay one week. It was wonderful.

It was like some of the most fun I ever had writing a script. So I said something about Pete this week. I guess him and Cap were getting into it because Pete's getting slammed for not putting the fight at Bob's bar on the 12 DAs list. So I said, oh, I'm not going to pick any of the big matchups this week, the marquee obvious ones and kind of channel my inner Pete the body belati who just ignores the big moments.

And then I got into, I think it was Ravens and Browns. Oh, this is going to be a good fight, just like what I'm hearing. The fight's going to be between Pete and Cap. And Pete, I guess, was having a rough time earlier this morning because Mraz was going after him or Sean told me when he was here. And when Pete gets really annoyed, he just sits there with like a nasty look on his face. It's a furrowed brow. Zach's furrowing his brow right now.

And he's just like slamming the pen, clicking the pen. Well, Mraz took the pen from him before my segment and Pete, you could just see his hands. He didn't know what to do. He didn't know what to do and then Mraz eventually threw him.

It was like when a baby's crying, you just throw a pacifier. Do we know what hour that was in? I'd like to listen to that. I do not know. They usually do it in the second hour of the show, but I think it was pushback. I got to check that out. Because I've been enjoying that this week.

Every baladi might be my favorite baladi. And Pete said something and it was like a retort back. And like, it just made no sense. I listened to it 10 times and I'm like, I know he's trying to take a shot at me, but I don't get what he was actually saying.

Now I got to listen back. No, but I love Pete. I said to him, I'm like, Pete's actually mad at me. He had a rough week.

He plays the grumpy curmudgeon very well. I'll give Pete a big hug and a smooch next time I see him. It's more action than I'm getting tonight.

That's a lot of back rubbing and smooching going on in these parts. What happened? Hey, we love everyone here at CBS Sports Radio. It is the Zach Yelp Show on CBS Sports Radio.

Closing bell next. Here's the man that you're going to hear all throughout the night, all the way through the hot take hickey extravaganza, which comes your way at 2 to 6 a.m. Eastern on many of these same CBS Sports Radio affiliates. And by the way, if you want to give me an early Christmas present here, all you have to do tonight is just call hickey. Don't ruin the show.

Participate in the show. He asked you, is Kyle Shanahan going to be coach of the year? You say, yeah, hot take hickey. I think Kyle Shanahan's going to be coach of the year or no hot take hickey. What another hot take by you?

I don't think he's going to be coach of the year. Participate, but we would love to hear some hot take hickey phone calls so we can play them next week. All right, we'll get to the closing bell next. You're listening to the Zach Gelb Show. Another day is in the books and we're taking stock of the sports world. It's time to find out who's up and who's down.

Let's end the day right and hit the closing bell. Only on the Zach Gelb Show. Let's hear Richard Sherman. He was on a radio show in Seattle with Mike Salk, Brock Heward, and then former Seattle Seahawks in KJ Wright. You know the voice, Richard Sherman with us here on Seattle Sports on 710.

When you went elsewhere, first to San Francisco and then Tampa, what did it teach you or what did you learn about the differences between those places and what you had seen here in Seattle? Well, first off, I remember when I exited here and I remember some words from you that were a lot different than I had heard when I was here. So, you know what I mean? It's a little different. I'm going to answer the question from Brock and KJ, but are we going to excuse you out of this?

First of all, that's just not true. I mean, like the words you heard from me were actually pretty similar to what you had heard while you were here. You just maybe didn't hear them. Yeah, because I don't listen to your show. That's fine. I'm not asking you to hear them. But the words didn't change. I didn't say anything different when you left from when you were here.

Excuse from the interview. It doesn't really work that way, Sherm. This is a show that has my name on it. It kind of does, though. No, not really how this works, man. Sorry, for your dog, for your dog, for your dog. That's the only reason I'm here, because of KJ. Well, I appreciate that, but if you've got an issue, you can feel free to talk about it. Well, I understand that. If you've got an issue, I'm happy to talk through those with you, man.

If you've got a problem, it's something you want to talk about. So, I think Mike Salk handled it all right. I think he'd go back and forth for a little bit and see where it goes to, because that's entertaining for the listening audience. But if he's not going to answer your questions, or you're saying, I want to talk things out, and he refuses to do so, I say, well, even though this may, you know, KJ's not going to answer your questions, to do so, I say, well, even though this may, you know, KJ may not like me for doing this, then you're not coming on the show, goodbye and hang up on his ass. That's what I would have done. Kind of a douchey move by Richard Sherman.

Give him a stock down. And the Seahawks lost last night, too. Geez, I know this audience was from yesterday before the game, but Seattle loses last night. That was a team that we thought was a lot to make the playoffs.

Now they're skating on thin ice. Give a stock down to the Seattle Seahawks. Jordan Clarkson last night, big performance, as he does get a victory. And he had 39 points in the contest for the Utah Jazz. They beat the Pelicans in overtime, made some big shots late. 39 points, 8 rebounds. Jazz 17 and 14 on the year.

Pelicans fall to 18 and 10. Give a stock up to Jordan Clarkson. Also going to give a stock up to Tyler Hero as the Heat beat the Rockets, 1-11 to 1-0-8. Hero has a career high, 41 points in the game, and also tied a Heat record with 10 three-pointers in the game. Give a stock up to Tyler.

You are my hero. Rock out with your Brock out. Brock Purdy, what a performance last night. 49ers win the NFC West.

Got to give a stock up to Brock Purdy and then also Kyle Shanahan, as Shanahan wins the NFC West in a year where he started three different quarterbacks, Trey Lance, Jimmy Garoppolo, and then Brock Purdy. And that's the Zach Guilbe show on CBS Sports Radio. Big thanks to Alex Anzalone for stopping by, Bill Romanowski, Andrew Catalon, and of course, Jersey Jerry.

The Hot Take Hickey extravaganza, or the Ryan Hickey Show, as they tell me to call it, but we like to call it the Hot Take Hickey extravaganza, comes your way right after JR, which is coming up next, so you can catch Hot Take Hickey from 2 to 6 a.m. Eastern. I will be here on Sunday. I'll be doing local radio on the fan in New York from 9 to 12 with Mark Melusis previewing all the games, and I'll be doing eye-on football from 12 to 8. You have 11 straight hours of Zach Guilbe on the radio, eight of them on CBS Sports Radio, the other three on WFAN, and we'll be all back together as one big happy family on Monday on the Zach Guilbe Show on CBS Sports Radio at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific.

Thank you all for listening, calling, tweeting at Zach Guilbe on Twitter and Instagram. Make sure you follow me out. Bye-bye. Have a good weekend.

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