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You're listening to DraftKings Network. It looks so bad.

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That is so untrue.

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In all likelihood, they would have to knock them in on the conference championship, right? Because Cleveland's locked in to the five.

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Yeah. No one likes seeing their face that close up. Okay.

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I don't even I didn't know what I was saying. Whose idea was it? Was it my idea? Was it my idea?

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Yeah, it was your idea. Great producing, by the way. This is the postgame show.

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She wanted to go viral. She asked me.

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I don't think that'll go viral. That wasn't even that hot.

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I mean, it was a pretty hot take.

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I just tried to do the opposite of what Steve did.

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You have them in the conference championship. If we're doing this based on form, there's several teams that you would take in the AFC over them. Them struggling against Cincinnati and that tire fire of a defense, giving Harrison Butker six field goals made me really concerned.

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But everybody, Mina, Everyone is doing this to the Chiefs, and I understand how it happens. You're going to lose some players on offense. Your wide receiver aren't as good, and they look like they have struggled. But, Mina, we were talking about this earlier in the week. Eight straight years of winning that division when everyone in competition in that division is coming for your things and drafting to have strengths where you have weaknesses and the salary cap makes the schedule super hard. Staying eight years on top of a division is physically grueling and hard. They're allowed to be less good. They're allowed to have a road playoff game because football is hard.

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Yeah, they made mistakes in terms of roster construction on the offense. You look around the league, you see some of the young wide receiver's information that other teams have signed. Clearly, they chose poorly, although Rashi Rice looks pretty good. Then some of the assets that they've been able to acquire, including from the Hill Trade, they poured to the defense, which, again, I was stressed, looks very good to me, especially when I compare them to some of the other units around not just the AFC, but the NFL. The problem with the offense is just last year, and I talked about this actually on my show with Mitch Schwartz, it's not that dissimilar structurally from what it was last year. The players even are not that dissimilar. The problem is when you're that offense where you're not really explosive and it's just all about ball control and efficiently moving your way up and down the field, if one little thing goes wrong, a sack, a hold, an offside, whatever, a drop, obviously, has been an issue. You send the whole thing spiraling, and that's just happened to them too many times. I don't think they're a great team by any means.

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My point about them, or I guess my belief in them, is more just reflecting the fact that I think that the AFC is pretty wide open after Baltimore. For the love of God, can we get to Jets Patriots, please?

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Fair enough. It's the dirtiest of what we have going on this weekend, correct?

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Well, it's It's interesting because it might be Bill Belichick's last game in New England, which is why I would never pick against the Patriots in this scenario. If there's anyone who will pull out all... I talked about Mike Rable pulling out all the stops. Belichick will do whatever it takes to win this game. Truly, truly, whatever disgusting thing he can come up with. The dirtiest.

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The dirtiest thing against this Jets offense.

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And the defense still is pretty good. I do think that the Patriots will win this game. And I don't know what's going to happen with Belichick, by the way. Everyone I've talked to has a different view on.

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That would have been a good take. See, that would have been a good place for you to have a super strong opinion on Belichick will do the dirtiest things to win and then we'll coach the chargers or whatever it is that you'd be willing to stake your credibility on that.

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That's a prediction, not a...

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Well, but your credibility with a prediction can... I mean, look, I don't want to be teaching you this after all these years. You've had plenty of success without any of our help. But you can go viral. The Mina Kheim show with Lenny can go viral if you're looking how to find clippable viral moments that aren't just your great at football analysis.

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I don't think people have strong feelings about Belatech. And that's crazy. Dan, you and I talked about this on Pablo's show. We're talking about the best coach in NFL history potentially being axed. And I have not seen Anyone with truly strong opinions about it.

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Oh, because Mina- Good or bad. But don't you think, though, Mina, because the sport can't be so cutthroat and dumb that we think that that guy is no longer good at his job so quickly. It's stupid. It's not far removed from what we're talking about with Adam Schefter having to say, Hey, Sirian, he's safe, when you're like, Of course, he's safe. They've been in the playoffs every year, and it's hard to do that in that sport. Of course, he's safe. But if that's where we're going to put the standard on these coaches, then Of course, it's going to be stupid and unreasonable.

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Bill Belichick furiously refreshing Facebook to see if he's been tagged safe, or he calls it my face. I think Bill Belichick is still a very good football coach, but he's made two really bad decisions or a couple Are you assuming it on me? All right. A couple of really horrible decisions, one of which is, of course, how he handled the offense in terms of handing the reins over to his buddies, basically ruining Mac Jones and setting the franchise back. That's probably his biggest mistake he's made as an NFL coach. And then the roster construction. He is the GM of this team, and the decisions he's made, both in the draft and a free agency when they had a lot of money, have been very poor. Ideally, I think It would keep him as a coach and get him to seed roster responsibilities. But everything I've heard and just the dignity of splitting the baby, I guess that way, suggests to me that they won't do that. Can't you just say he- I don't think that was hot enough to go viral. I had a lot of caveats.

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I know, but can't you just Why can't you just say, he should be fired? Why can't you just say- It was like a dog hair on that microphone. Why can't you just say- I just used a lint.

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Okay, why? Zoom in again.

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Why can't- Right, Zoom in again.

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I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. You want me to start and then Zoom in again? Yeah. Just give us a second, but don't be distracted by it.

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Just don't be- I'm not distracted. Okay. I'm sorry to do this to you.

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No, I'm ready. No, you're not. My name is Mina Kimes. I work for ESPN. I think that Bill Belichick, the greatest coach in the history of the NFL, should be fired, even though it's really not as tell everything has happened. It's only really if you should see roster responsibility. Ideally, you'd be able to keep him on because he has a brilliant defensive play collar, and he'd be able to fix the offense and give someone else the opportunity to fix the roster.

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Mike, Duncan Robinson, Kyle Lowry, Niko Jowich. Picks for LeBron James. Works on the Trade Machine. You were looking at my computer.