Hey everybody. Hi. Hey, hi. It's me. I'm Chris. Hi. Hi. Hi. So nice to see you. And if you're listening on the podcast, it's nice to be heard by you. Anyway, my name's Chris, and I said that already. But I'm with Jim McCormick, and we're here to talk about the divisional

round of the playoffs at which we are experts. Hello, Jim McCormick. Yeah, it's ironic that

Philadelphia is the first team ever to get a week one by without earning one. That was cool.

They just coasted onto the offseason into the ether. But yeah, hello, everybody. This is

how I mourn. This is my morning

weekend. It is time to mourn for the Eagles. There'll be a little Eagle talk as we get

going through this fine slate of games. We have four games that we're going to talk about. Our

goal here is kind of just talk about how we think

these teams look and or will look, how they match up against their opponents, the keys

as we expect them to play out, and then we'll make some picks against the spread as well.

And then intermingled in there, I think I'll probably think of some football topics to ask

Jim as well. So I guess we'll just, we'll dive right in. I want to thank Draft Kings for sponsoring. We do appreciate that Draft Kings has been with us all season. And if you're looking for a way to make sure we come back next year, I'll tell you about it in a little while. D Kings as a sponsor. They're great. We love them.

So, Jim, I'm going to get us started with the first game on Saturday.

That is Texans at Ravens.

Three of the four games this weekend are rematches from regular season games.

And in those games, I think the teams that, you know, the favorites all won.

The teams that are favorite this week, all won when they matched against each other in the regular season.

But I'm going to go ahead and say maybe the one that applies the least is Ravens Texans, because in Baltimore, in week one, it was CJ Stroud's first game ever.

The Ravens won 25 to 9. And I would say, as a jumping off point to talk about how this game goes, what I recall from watching that film, and I refreshed it a little bit here lately, is that probably the most man coverage that the Texans maybe

faced the entire year happened in week one against the Ravens, because that's kind of what

the Ravens do.

They're going to bring pressure, and they're going to play a lot of man.

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