This is an IHeart podcast.

Thanks for listening to The Heard podcast.

Be sure to catch us live every weekday on Fox Sports Radio in noon to 3 Eastern, 9 a.m. to noon Pacific.

Find your local station for the herd at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream us live every day in the IHeart Radio app by searching Fox Sports Radio or FSR.

Now let's get this party started.

You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Great first hour flew by live in Los Angeles.

It's the herd wherever you may be and however you may be listening.

Thanks for making us part of your day.

Michael Urban last hour, Zach Ert stopping by as well.

I'm interested in Nick Wright today because I'm interested in his take.

He is the arch nemesis of Bill's fans and to some degree Ravens fans,

where I am sort of a beacon of American honesty and I have no favorites, play no favorites ever.

I have a little lean toward USC, but whatever.

But I'm interested to get Nick Wright on today.

J. Mack, so when I do hurt hierarchy, one of the things I tell people, it's not standings. You can go to the newspaper and get standings. How's that industry working out? We're doing TV. We're doing digital. We're doing TikTok, baby. Shotsify. We are the future and the present. So I'm going to do my herd hierarchy. I think you may be surprised by a team in there.

Yeah. How's Nick feeling about the Chiefs this weekend?

They are going to... Is he nervous? No, they're going to blow Houston out. They get so lucky every year. So they get to face the pathetic Texans. And then the Ravens and Bills beat each other up and they get whoever's left. Well, they did earn the buy.

You do earn those.

It's not like a ping they did earn the buy. You do earn those.

It's not like a ping pong lottery like the NBA draft.

You do earn home field advantage.

...