AFC Divisional Picks - Ravens vs. Bengals, Dolphins vs. Bills & More 🏈🔥 EP 106 Full Show

0:00 On a lot of those you've been lucky. You've been lucky on a lot of these. Man, your luck is running out. You're getting older, you're getting crusty and with that comes no luck. So that luck's about to run out. Yeah, he is, I mean, getting funky. Underway picked up Daniil Hunter to stack defense. He was fifth in the league in sacks. Last year he had 16.5 sacks and Diego dropping some info. Yeah, you did some research this time. Okay, this is former Chicago Bear Desmond Clark, and y'all hear me on many podcasts, but when y'all hear me on Pick'em Pros, y'all know it's all about family.

0:40 This ain't just business. Music to Forrest Jordan about family. This ain't just business all right. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. You know who it is. I am derrick thompson, and I'm diego thompson and who are we? we're the pick'em pros. We are the pick'em Pros coming back at you in the house.

1:22 Episode 106 of who you Got Father-Son Dynamic Duo. Man, we are here to talk about the NFL. We're going to give you our AFC predictions for who's going to win each division, where they're going to rank, who's going to make the playoffs and who's going to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl. So, man, it's football time. Subscribe, if you have not already. Man, subscribe to pick them pros. What are you waiting for? We're giving you this hot content. We're giving you all these correct picks. You know what I mean. So make sure you subscribe as we give it to you in the best way. All right, man, well, hey, well, hey. Before we get into that, we got fantasy football, our pick-em-pro fantasy league.

2:05 We've got our draft in two weeks. So Saturday, august 24th, 7 pm Eastern, we're drafting. That's going to be fun. It's going to be a lot of trash talk. Desmond Clark from the Chicago Bears, former Tideville Chicago Bears, will be joining us. He's finally going to be in a league with us man. He's been running. He's no longer going to be able to hide and uh, yeah, gonna get a beat down. Man, where do you think this is going to finish? in the, in the I might. I think he'll finish mid middle of the pack I'm giving him. I'm giving him, being nice, he'll finish the back not, not at the top, but not at the bottom. So okay, so you say fifth or six yeah, fifth or six, yeah, that's solid, solid place for him I'm gonna say he's gonna finish.

2:48 Ninth, I think I think des finishes ninth. I think that's it. We should have the over under on that. Does des finish over under nine? Oh, no, not nine and a half over under on des. So on Dez. So we're going to see where will Dez finish in our fantasy football league. I don't know, man, because a lot of guys that played you know they're not really good at this fantasy football thing you know what I mean. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if that's going to turn out too well for him. We're going to find out, we're going to see. We're going to turn out too well for him, we're going to find out, we're going to see. We're going to see if he can do anything on fantasy, because you know, we're gurus. Well, I'm a guru, I've won titles.

3:29 I'm a guru too. You know what I'm saying. I basically won a few titles. You finished second one year and you're holding on to that. I basically finished. First, you're shaky, we're going to see, man, we can't wait, man, we can't wait to go at it with you guys on that, all right. Well, let's get into it. Afc hey, let's make these predictions, man. Let's go north, south, east and west. Let's start with the AFC North. Who you got All right. So NFC North Number one in that division. I have the Baltimore Ravens. Got reigning MVP Lamar with a one seed in the AFC last year and added Derrick Henry, so I don't see how they don't finish first in the division this year.

4:11 Number two in that division I have the Cincinnati Bengals. I think a healthy Joe Burrow, jamar Chase they went to the Super Bowl together. So I think with those two healthy they can definitely do big things. So add them. Second in the afc north. Okay, number three I have the cleveland browns and I guess it's kind of a sleeper because some people think the stealer is going to be better than them, but I think deshaun watson's going to be solid next year um solid qb. Um, they got healthy nick chubb, who was one of the best running backs in the league when he was healthy. Um, they got amari cooper. Receiver receiving core is not bad.

4:51 We got mount garrett and defense, so I think they're gonna be a good team this year. Okay, last I have the pittsburgh steelers and, um, that's not a shot. I think the Steelers are still going to be around 500, but uh, all the other teams are playoff caliber as well, so I think last Nancy North isn't it's just really because the vision is loaded. Yeah, the QB situation and you don't know who's going to start um the receiving core is just is very relied relying on George Pickens, since they traded Deontay Johnson and yeah, I just think they kind of downgraded from last year. Okay, all right, all right, okay. So I've got a few differences with you on this.

5:34 We're going to have to do a recap. We don't do recaps enough to showcase just how much I'm right on these. How about the NBA Finals recap? We're definitely going to have to do a recap. How about the Super Bowl recaps? What about March Madness? On this, so we're definitely going to have to do that? What about playoff recaps? We can recap anything you want to recap. All right. You're going to be a bit embarrassed. No, no, not necessarily. On a lot of those, you've been lucky. You've been lucky on a lot of those. You've been lucky. You've been lucky on a lot of these. Man, all right, man, your luck is running out. You're getting older, you're getting crusty, and with that comes no luck. So that luck's about to run out.

6:15 It's going to be like huge. I mean, yeah, getting funky. All right, so let's go here. So AFC North man, I've got my bangles. No-transcript are solid, but Bengals are going to be on a mission. They're going to get off to a fast start for the first time ever.

6:56 And they're going to go ahead and go first time ever. They're going to get off to a fast start and they're going to win the division and they're going to do their thing. So I have the Bengals winning this. Number two. I've got the Baltimore Ravens. They again going to have a great year. I think they definitely get into the playoffs. It's going to be tight. But I've got the Ravens finishing second. I think they're not going to be as caught up in the regular season. For them it's all about the playoffs. With that loss to the Chiefs last year, they're still going to be reeling from that this year. I think they have a great year.

7:42 I think say Flowers is going to be a beast. They have a huge year. But I've got the Ravens at two, uh. Third, I'm making an adjustment. I'm gonna go ahead and put the steelers in at number three. Uh, I just can't see the steelers finishing last. Although I like the browns, I like a lot of what they've got, but with tomlin and um, with the quarterbacks that they have brought in, it should be a big upgrade, uh, on what they've had. And I'm gonna go ahead and put the Steelers at three and then I'll put the Cleveland Browns at four. So that's going to be my adjustment for that. So I've got Bengals one, Ravens two. Tomlin's going to finish with a non-500 record at some point in his life. No, he will never. He will never finish under 500. It's going to happen. No, never, never. So finish under 500.

8:24 It's gonna gonna happen. No, no, never, never. So that's it. So again, bangles, ravens, steelers and browns. That's it. So afc, south um, who you got, let's go. Number four at the tennessee titans finishing number four. Uh, will levis, second year qb, um, this will be okay for him. They got Calvin Ridley traded for him or signed him. I don't know how reliable he is anymore. Dehop's going to miss about four to six games because of whatever he has going on Age. Yeah, they lost Derrick Henry. So yeah, it's just, I don't see them and the division's getting better, so I don't see them and the division's getting better, so I don't see them finishing above fourth place in that division. Titans would be terrible.

9:05 Yeah, number three I have the Indianapolis Colts. I think they're going to have a better year. Anthony Richardson coming back for a second year. He's very good. Throw the ball far, you know can run it. They got Jonathan Taylor back too. He's very good. Uh, throw the ball far, you know can run it. Um, they got jonathan taylor back too. Um, so I got those two players. Being back is gonna um, help them a lot. They have a good o-line, you know all that stuff. So I think they're gonna be third um. Number two I have the jacksville jaguars. Trevor lawrence with his new deal, um, you know, christian Christian Kirk and all those guys. They're going to be solid and finish second place Number one, I have the Texans.

9:47 CJ. Stroud in the building. It's not because of him. MVP. They added Stiggs to the explosive offense, got Tank Dale coming back healthy with Nico Collins All the weapons, added mixon and added um underrated pickup daniel hunter to stack defense. He was fifth in the league in sacks. Last year he had 16.5 sacks and you know, dropping some info. Oh yeah, yeah, you did, did some research this time. Okay, whatever about time, you normally just say stuff all right, not bad. Well, I've got the exact same thing. So no, needs all right cool.

10:30 Go any deeper on that. The south is pretty easy to predict. So yeah uh, titans four, colts three, jaguars two and texans winning the division, going to the playoffs. Yeah, I think that was pretty easy. All right cool. Well, let's go to the AFC East. This may be a little more challenging. Let's go. I think we know who's going to finish last. We know who's going to finish last. Who's going to finish last? The New England Patriots are going to finish last in the AFC East again. Drake May is not looking so good so far. They got Joe Milton QB from Tennessee who looked really good in the preseason game.

11:13 So I don't know what their QB situation is going to be like, but I just know they're going to finish. Last, Last receiving core, last run game, just last everything. Number three I have the New York Jets. I don't really trust them to be that great because I don't know about Aaron Rodgers. Him being there depends so much on them and how they're going to be. I just know their defense is going to be good, so um, you have them finishing third rogers and um have the bills, the buffalo bills. Finishing second, um josh allen, and you know that. His receiving court, keon coleman and, uh, khalil shakir, yeah shakir, that's my guy.

11:58 Y'all sleeping on shakir josh allen's not going to be enough for them to be first place in the division with the limited receivers they have, and all that but number one. I do have the miami dolphins. Uh, they have great regular seasons, at least to start off first half. Um, that tua uh reek waddle most. They all lose their minds in the regular season, so I got them number one in that division well, don't forget about the dolphins. Coach, yeah, all right, all right, daniel, okay, yes, you got man. Yeah, all right, uh. So I'm very similar to you on this one. I've got patriots at four. Like you, I've got the jets at three.

12:40 Also, you know shaky on rogers. Is he going to make it through the season? Uh, made some improvements on the old line. Is that enough? I don't think so. I think the jets are very overrated going into this year. But then we differ on one and two. I've got the miami dolphins at the second position. Okay, got them at the second position. I think they're still hurt on defense. They had a lot of injuries at the end of the year and they were very close to the end of the year. Those guys are going to be back? I don't think so. I don't think a lot of them have had, and I mean you were talking about Achilles and ACLs and that type of stuff. Nah, I don't know, I don't know. Well, there was one guy who tore his Achilles, devastating injuries. There was one guy that tore his Achilles, but that was midway through the season.

13:22 All the other guys had stuff, other stuff, but the guy who tore his Achilles is back Back okay, all right Back, like June Because there was a guy who tore his Achilles in like week 10, and now he's back in like June. Yeah, but is he effective? I, he was back in June, yeah, but is he effective? I mean, tear your Achilles and be back, but are you effective? So I mean, just because you can walk, that doesn't mean you can play football at a high level. So I'm not buying that. I'm not buying that. So I think the Dolphins finish. Second Number one I've got the Buffalo Bills. I think people are sleeping on them. They yet again will win the division, like they always do.

14:04 Barely won last year, they still won it. No matter what, they find a way to win, that man, josh Allen, will lead them to the crown and I would love, love what they've got here. I think they're going to have a much better attitude, much more camaraderie, and they're going to be on a mission to show that they were more than just digs. So you're going to see some explosiveness out of the Buffalo Bills this year. I don't know about explosiveness, but maybe a lot of running and you know They'll be more balanced. He said explosive, but as explosive. You can be balanced and explosive, okay the dolphins, the dolphins are balanced and explosive no, no, the bills are gonna be, bills will be the same way.

14:49 You're an explosive one yard one yard runs. That was a hard fought yard. They they will win the division. You can book it, you can book it. They will win the division. You can book it, you can book it. They will win the division All right. Let's go to the final division. Before we then make our full playoff predictions here for the AFC, let's go to the West. All right, who do you have in the West? So number four, I have the Denver Broncos. Their QB situation isn't looking the best. Their QB situation isn't looking the best they have. You know, their three top three QBs are Jared Stidham, zach Wilson and the rookie Bo Nix. So yeah, not looking so good. Their receivers.

15:30 They lost Jerry Judy, who wasn't that great anyway, but he was their top receiver. So, yeah, they lost Russell Wilson. Okay, yeah, they're going to be last Number three. I have the LA Chargers with Harbaugh. I think they're going to be solid with Harbaugh there, but just in the division I think they're not going to be as good. Herbert's dealing with some injuries, lost their top three receivers and Austin Eckler too. Yeah, I don't think they's going to be the same Number two. I have the Las Vegas Raiders. They added Gardner Minshew quarterback. He's better than Jimmy G and Aiden O'Connell who they had before.

16:13 They lost Josh Jacobs, but they have a happy Devontae this year. They have a good coach and they got the number one tight end from the draft, brock Bowers from Georgia, who was really good. Okay, yeah that'll help. That'll help Gardner Minshew in the passing game. So I think they're going to be number two and number one. I have the Kansas City Chiefs and reigning champs on another Super Bowl. Well, I don't know about the Super Bowl, but I think the Chiefs definitely win the easy AFC West. And the Super Bowl and the easy Super Bowl. I don't know about that, Don't know about that. But okay, so I'm slightly different than you.

16:55 I've got the Raiders finishing last. Whoa. In the division. I think Devontae Adams will be happy through about the first quarter of game one. They have a good coach. They have a good coach, but I don't think that's going to overcome their lack of firepower. They have some firepower. I don't think they have enough. And I think Devontae, sometimes coaching in fundamentals is better than firepower. Devontae has been a lot more outspoken. He's doing a lot of shows, doing a lot of interviews. It's funny when you were in Green Bay you didn't hear anything from Devontae. Now you hear and see a lot of Devontae and I think he's putting a lot of pressure on himself and the team to be in the playoff race, super Bowl race and I just don't think they're equipped for that.

17:44 I wouldn't be surprised to see him get traded and end up on another team. That's a contender. I don't think Devontae finishes the season in Las Vegas. I think they rebuild myself. So I think they fall apart mid-season. Go ahead and trade assets and look to rebuild. So I've got them at four. I've got the broncos at three. Uh, they'll be slightly better than they were last year, but not much. But puts them at about number three. I think the chargers will be the team that ascends the most. Uh, they will push uh to get into the wild card hall.

18:25 Ball willugh will be a major difference, as he is, whenever he goes to a new team, a lot of scandals. He has a major impact. What is the NFL? So we don't worry about scandals. He can Bill Belichick it and cheat it's okay. Bill Belichick won a few Super Bowls. Hey and Harbaugh may be on his way to Super Bowl. He almost got one in San Francisco. He's on a mission to bring one to LA and I think he gets his team close. We'll tell you if they make the playoffs here. But I've got the Chargers at number two pushing the Chiefs here. But the Chiefs are the class of the sorry AFC West and the Chiefs will definitely get this.

19:08 They'll coast through the regular season, but they'll do just enough to win the division, all right. So with that said, my man, it looks like you've got the Ravens in the playoffs out of the North, you've got the Houston Texans out of the South to make the playoffs, you've got the Miami Dolphins out of the East to make the playoffs and you have the Kansas City Chiefs out of the West to win the playoffs. Those are your top four seeds. Who are your three wild? cards. I'm a three wild card. First wild card team I have the Cincinnati Bengals. Okay, you know what I'm saying. I said earlier all the reasons why I thought they were going to finish second. Oh yeah. And I think with Burrow and Chase. I think with Burrow and Chase they're going to definitely be good enough to be the best wildcard team and maybe go far out of the wildcard.

19:49 So they're number one. Number two I have the Bills Buffalo Bills Josh Allen's going to do just enough to get them in the playoffs and see what happens beyond there, but I think they'll definitely be the two wildcard seeds. Second wildcard team Okay. And my last wildcard is the Clevelandveland browns um I think they're going to be a solid team and they're going to sneak into the playoffs okay, so is that the exact same playoff roster from last year for the afc? You're just running that back. No, the bangles didn't make the playoff oh, that's right, the bangles didn't make it okay bangles didn't make it the um the browns did though. Yeah, yeah, but the order is different.

20:30 The order is different, so the Bengals didn't make the playoffs. There's really no surprise. Everybody has the Bengals making the playoffs this year, so you have zero surprise. There's always a team that jumps up. The Browns are a surprise. The Browns aren't supposed to be there. They made it last year. Yeah, browns aren't supposed to be there. They made it last year. Yeah, but they weren't supposed to be there this year, because joe flacco is better than the sean watson. I don't know about that. I don't know about that man. All right, okay, all right. Well, that that's who you have making it. And then, uh, you've got the chiefs going to the super bowl yep, okay, all right. So I I have my Walker. So again, I've got the bangles. I have the bangles winning the North.

21:11 I've got the Texans winning the South. The bills went in the East, the chiefs went in the West. So those are my top four. Then number five with the wild card, I've got the Baltimore Ravens in the wild card spot. Okay. Then I have the miami dolphins in that sixth spot making the playoffs wait the dolphins are six. Whoa, yeah, yeah. Well, they're not gonna be number three. The the bills. How are they gonna? The bills are gonna the bills are gonna win the division oh, they're not man, it's gonna be a dolphin, yeah bills are gonna win the division okay, so that's why the dolphins are in the wild card. So they're the uh six spot and then the team that makes it into that final spot.

21:52 This was tough. It was between two teams. I wrestled back and forth but I finally settled on. It is going to be the jacksonville jaguars. Okay, out of the south. Yes, trevor lawrence is going to lead them to the playoffs. Trevor Lawrence is going to lead them home, oh yeah. Head and shoulders is going to lead them to the playoffs. They will claim that final spot. It was close between them and the Chargers. I think Harbaugh is going to really push them to be close, but I think the Chargers finish in that eighth spot and just miss the playoffs. Jacksonville Jaguars are going to make the playoffs and they're going to be in that final spot. But to go to the Super Bowl, I've got Cincinnati Bengals.

22:34 I think the Bengals are going to beat the Chiefs in the AFC championship game once again. Yes, they own them. So when was that again? How many years ago? How many years ago was that? Burroughs Stadium and Casey, he is going to reclaim his stadium. And, yes, they are going to win that and that was in 2021 when that happened. Okay, well, hey, it will be 2025 at this point when this happens. It was 2022 technically, but the 2021 season, so it was 2022. It was a long time ago. Well, the bangles. The bangles will be back. She's won two Superbowl since then. The bangles will be back and they will go ahead and win it.

23:14 They are the team that is not afraid of the chiefs. They step up to the moment. They will take care of it. The offensive line will stay intact and that'll be the difference in Burrow and chase. We'll, and that'll be the difference, and Burrow and Chase will go ahead and take care of business. That's right, lsu, stand up. You heard it here. All right, that's it, man. All right, hey, but hey, let us know. Who do you have? Who are your division winners? Who do you have representing the AFC out of? Who do you have representing the AFC this year? Is it the Kansas City Chiefs? Are you going the easy route, like Diego, or do you think? it's the Bengals like me. Or do you have somebody else? You think it's the Ravens, you think it's somebody else? The easy route, let us know it may be the right route.

23:56 The right route is better than no route. That's the wrong route. The right route, your team, the wrong route. That's what it is. It's the wrong route, baby. What? Alright Well speaking of running the wrong route, I've got to get you to practice, so you can hopefully run the right routes and get some playing time. We're going to get on out of here, man, but thanks for all the love and support. Next week it's going to be very competitive as we talk about the NFC. That's going to be tough. So we're going to give you our NFC predictions, man. Then we've got our Pick'em Pro Fantasy Football League kicking off. I got to win this one. I got to win the inaugural season. I have to go ahead and win.

24:37 That one Set the tone. So Dez is talking a lot of junk. Man, josh, we got Silas. We got Brandon. We got Silas, we got Brandon, we got all the super subscribers. It's going to be a lot of fun. We'll get to really go head to head and talk junk week to week. So we're going to film a lot of that and then we'll actually make that a show. So you'll get to see us draft live and see that show later this month. Our draft will be Saturday, august 24th. So excited for that. Enjoy the Olympics. By this time time we'll see if, if france, does france do it at home? If or or the us is winning or is the us gonna win. Jason tatum is gonna carry them to another championship so this, and he is gonna, jason tay, jason tam, don't even play jason tatum's gonna say what are they gonna say?

25:23 what are they gonna say now? he probably will go do everything jordan did, kobe did, we'll have all the same celebration, but so okay. So this is friday that we're recording, but this drops saturday after, so by the time this drops, we'll already uh know what happens, but man guarantee you jason tatum has already done some celebration that it's already been done. I don't know, man Dude, this is in Paris, france, it doesn't mean anything. They've got all these 7-10 players on their team. They have one 7-4 player okay One, and Gobert is barely 7-1.

26:06 I think France might win it, dude I thinkason tatum is gonna win oh, we're gonna see, all right okay, well, hey y'all already know the results, so we'll see who's right between us on that. One don't want to be unpatriotic, but I just gotta. I got a bad feeling about this. I don't know yeah all right, okay, anyway. Hey, we'll see y'all next time Pick them pros, we'll see right back. Outro Music.