CBS Sports analyst Will Brinson gives BMitch and JP his favorite picks for the NFL Wild Card round. He believes a certain former Super Bowl winning head coach can take his team on a deep run into January.
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00:00Let's run through Wild Card
00:04Weekend. Talk about Will
00:05Brinson, CBS Sports. Give him a
00:06follow up. Will Brinson, BRIN,
00:09SON. Uh dude, you got any
00:11upsets, anything you like out
00:12out of out of the expected this
00:14week. Yeah, I I got you know,
00:17the I think the Packers are
00:19live to beat the Eagles and
00:21this is not necessarily like
00:23you know, the Eagles have some
00:25fatal flaw that you know, that
00:27the Packers are going to
00:28be able to play at the top of
00:30the league. I mean, Jordan
00:32Loves banged up Christian
00:34Watson now out for the year,
00:36but I just think I wouldn't be
00:40shocked if Jordan love hadn't
00:43thrown a pick since what like
00:44Toyota found again or whatever
00:46the mean? I mean, we saw this
00:48not to the same extent like he
00:49came in the playoffs a lot
00:51hotter last year than he did
00:52this year, but he's like he's
00:54in control of the offense.
00:55They're playing great football.
00:56I like with like nine out of 10 years.
00:58It just happened to be a 15 win and a 14 win team above them in the division,
01:02which is crazy.
01:04I think that Jordan Love, there's a chance Jordan Love goes into Philly and
01:08is just on fire.
01:10It is dealing and he's just sort of a gamer like you, you know,
01:13like he did last year against Dallas and a good Dallas defense coach by, you know,
01:16Dan Quinn.
01:18I just think that is very much in play and you look at the spread.
01:22It's only four and a half.
01:23I think I think I think Green Bay is kind of live to take down Philly.
01:26And then I don't think that I think the Rams should be favored against the
01:31Vikings.
01:31Now, the California, the California stuff.
01:34I mean tragic like somebody.
01:35I mean, I got a buddy who lives out there who lost a couch yesterday.
01:38It's unbelievable, you know, what's happening out there and obviously
01:42football a second if they have to move the game, which I think is becoming
01:46maybe increasingly likely.
01:47We heard the NFL, you know, like announced what the contingency plan was
01:51when the league does that it's way further down the road of exploring that
01:56than normal.
01:56Like when I heard there's a hurricane buried out of Florida.
01:59They're like, we're monitoring the weather in this case.
02:01They're actually like if they have to move, we will move it to Arizona.
02:04So that's a little bit of a concern from the Rams perspective.
02:07And obviously everything going on, you know, with players who have their
02:11families that live nearby and all that but you look at the time that they
02:16played this year in the regular season.
02:17Maddie Stafford completed 75% of his passes against that Brian Flores defense
02:21for touchdowns eight yards per attempt and against the Blitz.
02:24If you look at the advanced stats 9 out of 12 like floors to heat after him on
02:2812 dropbacks completed nine good passes.
02:31I just think it's like rarely.
02:33Do you have a situation where you know, you're going to have a coaching
02:36advantage over Kevin O'Connell?
02:38Who's a great coach, but Sean McVeigh, I think is a better coach in Kevin
02:42O'Connell.
02:43I mean both very both top 10 maybe top five.
02:46You have a coaching advantage and you have a massive quarterback advantage.
02:49You know, Sam Darnold started first playoff game.
02:51We saw him against Detroit in that big spot.
02:54I think it's a it's a tough.
02:56I think it's a tough spot for Darnold and I just think the Rams should be
03:00favorite.
03:00I think they win that game as well.
03:01You think the the Lions gave the Ramble anybody else's secret to go
03:07because Donald when you don't rush him, he'll pick you apart.
03:10You rush him speed him up.
03:12He was throwing the ball wherever.
03:14Yeah, exactly.
03:15I think yeah, I think you'll see a lot more pressure packages.
03:18You get heat on Darnold, you know, and again, like, you know, you talk
03:22about getting one-dimensional.
03:23If you can sort of force them to throw a ton and you know, I think the
03:28guys having a week arrest you saw Blake Horn breaks his forearm that
03:33that's that's a blow to that depth that Rams running game, but you know,
03:37it speaks to why Sean McVeigh rest of the guys and wasn't worried about
03:40whose opponent was going to be in the wildcard rounder whether he's a
03:43three or four seed.
03:45Yeah, I think I think they said heat after Darnold and you see Stafford
03:49come out and look really really sharp.
03:51I mean, I'm as big as Matthew Stafford stand as your guests, but I mean
03:54the guy is a gamer.
03:55Yeah.
03:56He either people think he padded stats for years in Detroit, but the
03:59freaking Lions man.
04:00He had the Lions in the playoffs several times before there was any
04:03Lions.
04:03So I think I think Stafford shows up and I think the Rams are kind of
04:08trying to make maybe even a deep run.
04:09People are kind of sleeping on them.
04:11I tend to agree with you on both of those.
04:13I think the pack could be live.
04:15I like the Rams.
04:16I think the bills might keep that relatively close in Buffalo.
04:20I don't think the weather will scare them.
04:21I don't know.
04:22It's going to be I can't wait.
04:24Sounds like you like Washington to Yeah, I think it'd be a really I've
04:29got Tampa.
04:31Wedding and coverage the three-point spread, right?
04:33Like I think it'd be cool.
04:33I think I think the if Washington's down Jaden will find a way to bring
04:38them back in the second half.
04:39I just worry.
04:40We talked about with the magic and stuff like that.
04:42It's still a little tougher to do the playoffs.
04:45Yeah, sure.
04:46There's a you can run the football.
04:48Yeah, I just worry like if they don't I just I just if Washington comes
04:52out hot and keeps it even to have to have time to die.
04:56Yeah, absolutely.
04:57Like I think they're primed them to upset the box and wouldn't shot me
05:00they won regardless but I do think I'm a little concerned about how they
05:04look in the first half and I think that's an unknown with a rookie
05:06quarterback and you know, just sort of the game plan you get from Cliff.
05:10Yeah, well, they've struggled in first half for the last month one number.
05:13I like a lot.
05:13I don't know if you've seen this.
05:14My boy Bakari showed me this last night.
05:17Commanders to win from behind.
05:19So trailing at any point is plus 225.
05:23Hmm.
05:24That's any point.
05:26So yeah, let's go get a field goal.
05:28I think that that's what I did.
05:29I'd almost rather bet that they'd like that the commander's money line.
05:33Yeah.
05:33I mean, I think you probably get more juice out of it too.
05:36Princeton.
05:36Thank you, buddy.
05:37I appreciate you.
05:38Appreciate you, brother.