You too team keep it clean. What's going on? It's engraving here with another video and in this video Usually usually usually usually I do these the weekly game picks Got my own little setup for that But now we're gonna have a special guest for this week for week 11. It's my boy Eric He been rocking with the channel for for years man. He was I know he was around on the old channel He's been around on this new channel. So shout out to Eric y'all make sure y'all subscribe to my guy Eric's YouTube channel His link is in the description. You can go ahead and introduce yourself Yeah, I appreciate it. What's up team keep it clean. My name is Eric Guy living here in Oklahoma doing some weekly NFL picks me and been watching the Graveman for about four years And excited to be doing these picks with him like getting other people's opinions about it And you know, I like giving I like hearing other people's interests like I said, so glad to be a part of it I appreciate it. Hey, no problem, man, and I'm a Ravens fan and He's a Cowboys fan and I don't really pick the Cowboys too much and he let me know that in a few DMs He's been getting on me about that. So I think I actually did pick them last week, though I believe but I'm not 100% sure but anyway, you know, I was getting on you for a little bit That's because that's when I had hope in our team But now after the the weeks have been going by and we're kind of just up and down I can see why you haven't picked them. So Yeah, man real quick, what's up G rod what's going on Josh Steven Brennan JB smooth. What's going on everybody? Appreciate y'all man. Hey G rod. Let me know man. If you for real, I'm down man Charm City flock. What's up? Hey? Oh y'all make sure y'all subscribe to my guy Eric's YouTube channel man so the first game Coming up in two days Between the Packers and the Seahawks this game It used to be one of those out of division rivalries When both of these teams were a lot hotter than they are especially right now Seahawks are at home Packers they coming off a win, but it was against the Dolphins Seahawks coming off a loss a close close loss to the Rams, which oh, that was a really good game Um In this game Hmm, I'm gonna Seattle. I'm gonna go Seattle And I feel like I can't even feel I don't even feel like it's really an upset pick, but I'm gonna just go with Seattle I'm gonna go Seattle in this one the home team usually in the home The home team has the advantage in these Thursday games for some reason shout out to my guy Alex Stone But the home team has just been killing the away team in these Thursday night games Raven We got personal experience So yeah, I'm going with Seattle in this one just because they the home team on Thursday night who you got All right, you kind of broke up there you so you're going with Seattle, right? Go on with Seattle. All right. Yeah. Yeah, I completely agree with you I'm going with the Seattle Seahawks win this game. I feel like the Green Bay Packers or I feel like with both of these team They've kind of been They've been on the they've been on the bubble for being really great, but at the same time They're kind of just average, you know, I feel like the Seahawks. I was I was talking about this with my friend earlier today I was saying that the Seahawks are the best team with the with the worst with the losing record right now Because they're in every game that they're in pretty much every game, you know, the last two weeks the rant they took the Rams In Seattle and then they or they took it to the Rams in Seattle and they took it to the Rams at home So, you know, I feel like they've done The the last play the game where you know where the the receiver dropped the ball in the end zone So I like Russell Wilson, I like this offense Even though they haven't they've been kind of on a downfall for the past few years with the legion of boom We've ended injuries and just you know all that stuff But you know, I just feel like Seattle's gonna gonna get the home win. I think it's gonna be a close one I think they they're gonna win a pretty close game But I feel like they have the advantage over Green Bay in this game. Okay, cool. Cool. So we both pick in Seattle for this one Uh The next matchup the Falcons Atlanta Falcons Taking on the Cowboys. I'm gonna let you start this one off man.  Do your thing. Okay, so I Have not been good with picking Cowboys games this year I think I've only been right about one game this year and that was the Giants game week, too So my luck has been kind of on and off when I when they lose a game I picked I picked against them the next week and then they end up win So it hasn't been looking pretty good for me and Cowboys picks this year But that's not the reason why I'm picking the Atlanta Falcons to win this game I'm picking I'm picking the Falcons and not because of my luck I just feel like I just feel like there's they're just gonna somehow beat us because last year when we played in Atlanta We got wolf man, you know 27 to 7 Adrian Clayborn sacked Dak Prescott six times And yeah, they were just all over him and man, it was rough, you know Now about this time where I thought the Cowboys could have made a run that year But it was just ugly man. It got really ugly fast and I don't know. I just feel like you know Atlanta I feel like they kind of got exposed a little bit by the Cleveland Browns this past Sunday But I feel like you know, you never know what the Cowboys one week They play good and then another week they just totally flop on offense so I feel like it's gonna be one of those long road games where we just can't get anything going and Yeah, man, I'm just tired of Jason Garrett. I want him out of I want him out of there, man I want him out of there and I mean Zikio obviously in my opinion I think he's one of the best running backs in the league and so I just feel like they're not using They're not utilizing him and when they do they see how much it how much it impacts their offense You know, they saw when they fed him the ball. He does this thing, you know No, but you know When you have when you have such a predictable play calling Week and every week weekend and week out they just know what to do So sometimes Zik is just kind of non-existent in games because they know what they're doing They know they're gonna run the ball. So that's why I think it all relies on Dak Prescott Dak Prescott needs to play better. He needs to Air it out a little bit more stop being so hesitant and just kind of trust himself, you know I feel like he just doesn't have that confidence right now that he did back in his rookie season So get Mark Cooper involved get Colby's you get these targets involved give the ball to Zikio Elliott and you can win this game However, I don't see it happening. I got the Falcons beating us Yeah, and I think I got Falcons winning this one too Just because yeah that they do for a bounce back game Especially after just getting okey-doke by the Browns and the Falcons I think a big part of the reason why they've been losing so much this season Is because they lost so many people to injured reserve now One of the people that they lost to injured reserve was Dion Jones. They started middle linebacker But he's already served his eight weeks on injured reserve And he's gonna be one of the two people that they chose to use the the designation to return from injured reserve So he could be back this week They're at home. They could possibly be getting Dion Jones back this week And the middle linebacker is usually the heart and soul of a defense and Dion Jones is a huge part of Falcons defense So I think they just gonna have their mojo back. They're gonna have that hype They're gonna be in the the Georgia Dome or whatever it's called now I think they changed the name to like Mercedes Benz don't whatever it is They're gonna be at home that crowds gonna be loud if it is real crowd noise And then yeah, I think they're gonna get a win against the Cowboys in this one So vote on that one. Yeah. Well one quick real quick. What do you think about late banderish? Oh I loved watching that game the other night he He seemed like he's not the fastest not the quickest linebacker not the strongest But what I loved about him was that he seemed like he got it up here The first interception when y'all playing the Eagles the first interception Carson Wentz. He dropped back He was looking to the left looking to the left looking to the left and at the last second He looked to the right, but Vandex he didn't he didn't go for that. He just stood there was patient Well, he waited and he ended up catching a beautiful pick On Carson Wentz and then another one of the plays that I really really liked from him was towards the end of the game When the Eagles they ran a screen to is it running back named Clements? I think Corey Clements. Yeah, they ran a screen to him and it looked like Vandex was gonna be blocked But he was if he wouldn't have made the play He would have had an excuse for because it was Eagles in front of him But he still end up making the play still end up making the tackle Even though he had Eagles blockers trying to block him. So I like his game and I think that um He he's gonna he's gonna be really really really good because he's a rookie now and to just have seen him Just just that's the first game. I really got to watch him and see him like that But just to see how he how he he has the mental part of the game down Well, not to say he has it down But he's so he seems so advanced with the mental part of his game So he can only get better from there because usually people come in they may be rookies and they have the The athleticism down they got the athleticism down, but they don't had a mental part But in this case, he got the mental part down so he can only get better Exactly. Yep, totally agree and you know, he reminds me of a little bit of Sean Lee except Hopefully he can stay healthy. That's the thing. That's the thing Yeah, man, uh, that yeah Sean Lee bees he can he can cover tight ends unlike all the middle linebacker, but He just can't stay healthy for nothing Nothing, I think it's a new era. I think it's a new era in middle lineback We might be looking at a new era in Dallas for the middle or for the linebacking spot with late Might as well man might as well. Yeah, all right. Let's get into this next game the Panthers Taking on the Lions Lions are at home in this one I'm gonna go with the Panthers in this game. They got absolutely destroyed by the Pittsburgh Steelers I was hoping they were win that game try to help us out a little bit, but it's all good They couldn't take care of business neither could we So I'm gonna go with the Panthers in this one in a bounce back game against the Detroit Lions team who um, they This season well, I saw I asked not technically done It's done you give away guys like golden tape Then you pretty much giving up on a season you figure you're not gonna do anything with them So let them go to somebody that might be able to compete with the Eagles So Carolina, I think Carolina gets this one and I think they I think they went big too I don't even think it's gonna be that close Yeah, I agree. I think Detroit line or the Detroit I think Detroit's gonna lose by at least two touchdowns. I feel like Carolina Though with the I think the big problem with Carolina is the inconsistency on offense with Cam Newton You know, sometimes he looks really good and then sometimes he just doesn't look good at all And the Steelers game, you know, they that just a bad game overall They had that first touchdown they they they scored right away first touchdown with McCaffrey They have promise on offense, but I just don't think they can get anything going or they haven't been able to get Everything going right away There's been some games where you know, it's just like man like Cam Newton should have did that Cam Newton should have did this It's just like the little things that are stopping them from being really good But as you know, it's just the inconsistency, but either way this Detroit team really has nothing going for them at this point, you know Man, I feel bad for I feel for Detroit fans, man You know, they they've had a long they had a long road You know missing the playoffs making it to playoffs not winning playoff games, you know, it's just it's tough for it's tough to be a Lions fan I feel you so But yeah, I like I like the Panthers in this game by at least 14. Okay. Okay sounds good Next game. Oh, this is a hard one. I'm gonna let you start this one off next game. We got the Colts Taking on the Titans and the Colts at home two teams coming in hot. So who you got in this one? I'm gonna go with the Titans. I'm gonna say they keep it rolling You know, they coming off two big wins versus us and then two big wins on the Two big wins one on the road and then one at home They beat that they've whooped up on the New England Patriots Which was I was not expecting that but I saw that you called that last week So that was that was good on your part But no, I honestly I did not see that coming. You know, they kind of had a slow start I personally thought that the Titans season was over after the Chargers game in London when they decided to go for two They didn't get it because I was like man that that game could have decided their whole season Because I thought they were gonna end up losing to us and then I thought they were gonna end up losing to the To the Patriots the next week. So but you know, honestly, I feel like this Titans team is a little bit of a sleeper sleeper pick Going super team going into the playoffs You know, it's gonna be it's gonna be between them and the Houston, you know Jacksonville fell off and Yeah, I feel like these are the two teams fighting for that division right now the Colts are kind of in there Yeah, but I just don't think they're good enough They're good enough defensively or offensively just I don't think they're as balanced as this Titans team And I feel like the Titans team are gonna get a win on the road and but I do like with the With the Colts are going with their running game. They're finally getting their running game going Which has been a big problem in the past. So I feel like it'll be a close. I think it'll be severely close Just being a division game, but I like the Titans in this one. All right, so I'm gonna go on the opposite I'm going with the Colts in this one.  They are at home. So that it usually helps So I'm gonna go with the Colts and only only reason I'm going with them is because I feel like Titans They're gonna have a letdown game in this one. So I'm gonna go with Andrew Luck and Indianapolis So now I know who you'll be rooting for in this game But who do you think is gonna win between the Giants and the Bucks? Is this game in New York? It sure is Man This is a tough game because Though the Buccaneers have shown flashes on offense with Ryan Fitz magic Sometimes they just don't play good at all, you know, their defense is their their defense is lasting and letting up points and You know, oh don't back in junior can get anything going at any time if he wants to and then say Juan Barkley You know, he's gonna do his thing, but just the Giants Giants overall just not a good team I you know, I've been saying this all I've been saying this for the past two years They need to move on from Eli Manning. It's come to that time and Yeah, I'm gonna pick the Buccaneers. I'm gonna say that Ryan Fitz magic pulls something out of this game You know, this is a risk man because I feel like OBJ OBJ is gonna go off this game And you know the Buccaneers just like terrible against the Redskins Uh, which I really thought that they could they had a possibility of winning that game if Fitz magic was On but you know, you never know. I just I don't I don't know what None of both of these teams are you know, obviously their season is done But you know, you could always hope for the future for both teams and the Giants, you know They'll have something going once they get rid of Eli and once they get a offensive line but for now, you know, it's just I don't think you could really go wrong with any of whoever you picked this week on this game But I'm gonna go ahead and pick the Buccaneers. I feel like I feel like they can win this game and yeah I'm gonna say it's a close game Yeah, so we'll see which uh, which Fitz Patrick we get either the Fitz Patrick Fitz magic or Fitz garbage Um in this game, I'm gonna go with the Giants Giants. They That game uh last night I said it in the in the post game video that game was like it was like a playoff game man, it felt like a playoff game because if you just If you didn't like I said last night if you didn't watch an ounce of football this year And you didn't know those teams records You would have thought you were watching a playoff game or you would have thought you were watching two winning teams Battle it out because that that game was so much fun last night. I thought it was gonna be boring I thought it was gonna be a Sleeper I thought it was gonna be one of those football games where it's like Oh man, like come on now. Look, can we get through this? Can this be over? But it was the exact opposite and it was one of the games I didn't even really want to end But I'm gonna go with the Giants in this one. They they're gonna be back home um and I think they're gonna ride that that momentum that they have right now because they're not Technically out of it yet They they got a tiny that's true.  I was gonna I was gonna say that uh, you know, I don't know what what the NFL's deal with this year They don't I don't know if they they don't want they don't like they don't think we like Monday night games or something But they just haven't been putting good Monday night games on recently or Thursday night games either But last week we finally got a good one with the Steelers and the Panthers Well, I mean obviously on paper it was gonna look pretty good. That's true. So, you know Yeah, I don't know what it is man. I do one of these I want I want good games on Monday night, but we have one this this week coming up Yeah, well if well, yeah, they they did end up moving that game to um They said it's gonna be played in the LA Coliseum since The new mexico field was just too beat up and they said yeah Some players were threatening not even to play in the game because of how bad the field was So good thing they're moving that um, so yeah, well, we can we're gonna get into that one in a little bit That's gonna be a hard one to pick. Um first. Oh, yeah First we got the Redskins Uh versus the Texans Redskins are at home um Wow I in this game I want to pick Texans so bad but I'm gonna go with the Redskins in this one. I'm gonna go with the Redskins in this one And what I feel like is an upset Um, I feel like the the defense is gonna keep the Sean Watson in check And not let him go off with uh with de andre hopkins de andre hopkins still gonna get his and whatnot But I don't think he's gonna go off like he wants to um A good thing for the Redskins They don't have de angelo hall on their team anymore because de andre hopkins with a broken ankles again Uh, but i'm gonna go with the Redskins at home in this one and in a real close one I think this could be this could be an underrated game, man I think this could be a really really good one, but i'm gonna with Redskins at home in this one I don't want to do it. I don't want to do it, but i'm picking the Redskins You know the Texans They're one of those teams where I just need them to be a really good team before I can kind of just say, okay They're for real, you know, um, this obviously that six game winning streak is no joke, you know to win six games in the nfl That's not easy at all. You know, you gotta you gotta have something going for you And I mean, of course they started oh and three, but you know I just I just feel like this really realistically a wins a win But I feel like that the game with the broncos and the game with the cowboys They should have lost those games. It was just the coaching the coaching from both teams I feel like, you know, it was just one one mistake away from losing that game And I just feel like this these Texans kind of They kind of looked out with some of these games, but you know, I could be wrong I mean, I like I like the I like the Sean Watson I like yandere hopkins and I wouldn't be surprised if they beat the Washington Redskins at home or in washington It's in washington, right? It is Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they if they do it But I feel like that six game winning streak is gonna come to an end this week and I'm gonna take the Redskins Okay, okay next game Oh boy next game is Next game is the Jacksonville Jaguars taking on the Pittsburgh Steelers um Pittsburgh Steelers they came off of Killing the Panthers They won five games in a row and one of those games included us two weeks ago Jacksonville, they have just been losing Jacksonville has just They have not looked like the Jacksonville of last year Um Jacksonville has just the defense that they why they still do have a good deep They got I think a top three defense, but the offense has been so bad that It the defense doesn't even matter sort of like the Ravens, but the Ravens They still got a better record. But anyway, um The Jaguars and the Steelers The obvious choice would be Pittsburgh here. So that's why I'm going with the upset I think Jaguars are gonna actually shock the world shock me Are you watching right now and actually pull off an upset and do what they did last year And not only beat the Steelers, but in their five game winning streak and do it convincingly I think the Jaguars win by at least 13 points Whoa, that's a bold prediction right there, but I like it. I like it. Um I can't I can't pick the Jaguars just yet, you know, um, I just you know Man Blake Bortles is so on and off and you know I'm I don't know what happened to that that that Jacksonville team that played New England back in September I don't know what happened to that team, but nobody I want to see that Jacksonville team this weekend I want to see that team show up and play the Pittsburgh Steelers I want to see the play I want to see the Blake Bortles of the playoffs last year You know because um You know, he played really good in the playoffs last year After after getting a lot of criticism all throughout the season So I've thought honestly that Jacksonville was going to be a lot better this year But you know, I don't know. I mean, maybe they're just in a slump. They just need that one game But you know, it could happen this week, but I just gonna I'm gonna go ahead and Stay with the safe pick and pit the pick the Pittsburgh Steelers Um, and we'll see what happens. I hope it's a good game Oh, yeah, I'm sure it should be All right, and next one Well, I've already made my pick for this one. So I'm gonna go ahead and let you take this one over We got the Baltimore Ravens at home coming off of a bi-week versus the Cincinnati Bengals But then they might have they might as well had considered last week a bi-week for them because they they sure didn't play They lost to the Saints. What 51 to a 14 um So who do you have in this one? And you can be honest. It's okay Yeah, honestly, I've had this game kind of in the back of my mind all all day. You know, I was looking at the games earlier on Uh, uh in the day and I was thinking, you know, maybe what team I was picking And I looked back on the game that they played back in September when the Bengals just Molly rolled you guys, you know, I was not expecting that at all. Uh, But I'm gonna pick the Ravens. I'm gonna pick the Ravens. Um, they're coming off a bi-week, right? They're coming off the bi, right? They're sure Yeah, you know after two two tough losses, uh, you know, of course the contra controversial miss kick by miss pat by Justin Tucker with the Saints and then The the tough loss to the Steelers at home. They split that game. Uh, yeah, I really don't see the Bengals Sweeping the Ravens. Um, you know, they have done it. They they did it last year didn't they sweep you all last year No, it felt like they did but they didn't we beat them in week one and they beat us in week 17 Okay, that's right because Because they beat y'all week 17 and that's how the bills got in the playoffs, right? That's it Yeah, okay. That's that's what I was thinking of.  Um You know, baltimore just needs to get that offense rolling man. I mean, you know, the y'all's defense is I consider y'all's defense elite, uh, and Or I don't know if you how you feel about that but just just by watching I know you all watch them more than I do but just by seeing them over the years They I think they've had their their offense has been a problem. Um, so, uh, I'm ready for lemar I'm ready for lemar jackson to get in there. I don't know about you, but I think it's time. I think it's time Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm just ready. I'm ready for anybody besides flacco, but um, uh Yeah, I I went with the ravens in this one too. Um, just because ravens they They do they do pretty well after bi-week. I forgot exactly what john harbaugh's record is, but I know it's it's very very very good Um, I think it's like eight and two after bi-week. I believe something like that, but um I think this this week he'll go to nine and two um, so Now, um The next game we got oh It's an ugly one Uh, the the carnos versus the raiders. Um, I'm I'm just I'm gonna go with the carnos in this one because carnos They showed some promise last week Against a good chief's team They almost during that game, I was thinking whole up is is this are they gonna pull it off? But they didn't But um, they they showed a lot of promise they showed some heart Uh, so and and the raiders That oh gosh their season They're just Oh, yeah, that it's it's ugly and I think it's just gonna continue getting uglier And I think they headed to uh one and nine so i'm gonna go with the carnos in this one Yeah, the the raiders are in full tank mode for the rest of the year We all know that you know, they traded pretty much everybody they traded their whole team They traded their franchise player and I know they're feeling they're feeling mad about they're feeling uh guilty about that one With collyle mackin, you know, they have a lot of first round picks this next year So obviously john gruden doesn't care at this point. He's all focused on next year and Uh, I don't think the raiders are gonna win any other games this year. Um, they got gifted I think they got gifted their first win against the browns. They sure did but they sure did. Yeah That game was oh man that yeah, I don't even want to get into that game But yeah, you know the chiefs are not the chiefs. They're cardinals Uh, they hand they they handled those. Uh, they handled the chiefs last week. I was surprised about that. Um, I'm pretty sure that that might have been patrick moham's worst game of the year. Um, and And yeah, they were just they looked they looked like they were gonna come back for a second like you said And david johnson got it going. Uh A lot of people can't forget about david johnson. He's still one of the best running backs in the league when he's when he's on and um Yeah, I think josh rosen just needs to he's young.  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We got the los angeles charges though versus the denver broncos Charges, I feel like charges. Um I feel like people are just overlooking them. I don't hear them get talked about as much as I feel like they should um, they They just keep winning, uh, but they keep flying under the radar, which is a good thing for them. Um, so I'm gonna go with the Charging charges in this one over the broncos Um, would it be in a division game? Uh, no, I think charges charges gonna run away with this one. I'm gonna go with charges Yeah, I think this game's going to be pretty close at first, but I think the chargers are just going to go ahead and Uh, pull away in the second half. Um You know, philip rivers is Honestly low-key having an mvp season right now And a lot of people don't realize that because like you said the charges are kind of under the radar right now Um, but you got to look at it. You know, they they've won I'm pretty sure they've won five or six games in a row and they've their only loss is to a good a good super bowl contender in the la rams and The a good super bowl contender in the kent city chiefs And those were all early on in the season too. So, okay this charge this charger team. Don't sleep on a man Purple rain gaming mentioned it. Um Joe fleco mentioned it uh Oh, that was purple rain again Oh, he said they overrated too. That's a good point because um While they did lose to the chiefs and to the rams, which that could be a super bowl You know, they both going to be in a playoffs. They both they both only lost one game Um, he said look at the teams that they beat So i'm looking at the teams that they beat. They beat the bills.   They beat the raiders.  They beat the browns.  Um, and they beat the seahawks seahawks And they beat the raiders.  They don't make their schedule. They don't create their schedule Uh, all only thing they can do is play it and if they win they win if they lose They lose and they've won a lot more than they lost. Uh, yeah, and they do have a lot of injuries So, yeah, uh charges.  Oh, then they played the chiefs. Oh, then they played the ravens Uh, and they played a bronco. So They're gonna get tested. Uh, are those tests legitimate? um Right now the stealers are right now the bingles No, right now the chiefs definitely are right now the ravens. Yeah, so They may they may end up coasting into the playoffs man. Uh, but If they do coast into the playoffs having not played or having not beat An elite team having not beat a team that's some of the best of the best They may just get Spanked on out of there man, but we'll see but anyway in this game. I'm gonna go with the charges Yeah, I guess we're gonna see how good they really are and coming in the coming week. So we'll see Oh, yeah, who are you picking in this one? Yeah, I got I got the charges man. I think like I said, I think it's gonna be close at first but I think they're just gonna run away with it and Yeah, I like him in this game, but the broncos I I don't necessarily think the broncos suck I think I just think I like like I said, I think it's the coaching and I think case kingdom just needs to limit those turnovers He's turning the ball over way too much. Um I like courtland Sutton. I think he's gonna be a really good receiver in the coming years and You know, Philip Lindsey is a very good running back too. So, um, and their defense is always up there too. So Um, yeah, this Denver Broncos team They're obviously not out what they their defense isn't what it was back in 2015 when you know, they won the super bowl and they were so good But I I think I think their future is gonna be pretty good I just think they they just need to make some adjustments because they've been in they've been in tough games with tough playoff teams so I think you know I'm not saying they're they're gonna do anything but for right now, but I just I I wouldn't be surprised if this is a close game Okay. Oh, yeah, something that my boy vegan king. He mentioned that they they've been winning these games without Uh, Joey Bosa. I completely forgot about that um So, yeah, that guy. Wow. What a His career man He was a holdout Then he finally got signed and then I think he had like a hamstring injury So he missed like the first like two or four games something like that then he came on beasting He was killing it then just injuries just injury injury injuries um, so Anyway, real quick just a side note. Um, I got a a k. Shea. He said Paxton Lynch Brock Oswiler with Tim Tebow He's he said John L. John Elway has been a horrible talent evaluator at the qb position um, and Now that I think about that. Yeah, I guess I guess maybe John Elway doesn't want anybody else taking his Broncos qb spotlight Because the quarterback besides Peyton Manning, um, they oof it's Hasn't been pretty there for the guys that they've been drafting Yeah, well, I mean I'm not gonna lie. I thought Paxton Lynch was actually going to be a pretty decent quarterback coming into the draft I wanted the cowboys to get him because that was the year that rohmo broke his collar bone twice And that's when we desperately needed a quarterback and we ended up waiting We got Zeke and then we ended up drafting deck press count in the fourth round. So but I actually wanted Paxton Lynch was actually one of those guys that I was really like going into the draft the the combine and everything I actually wanted him so Well, good thing. You didn't get him So next game Oh Who that I don't know if we got any who that oh we do we do uh Michelle Michelle Russell already she put them saint signs in there And I know a lot of who that nation been coming through recently on the video. So shout out to y'all Uh, so new all in saints New all in saints taking on the eagles The saints Are at home for this one the saints coming off of that 51 point game the eagles Coming off of uh Yeah, I'm going with the saints in this one. Um Saints, I think saints are going to Run away with this one. I know one of my guys Philly for life. He was sending me a dm earlier He said he thinks that Philly's gonna pull up pull the upset because Philly's uh, they're back to against the wall They need this game uh to keep their season alive Uh, and he just feels like Philly's gonna pull off the upset. I did tell him Hey, it is any given sundae, but I just don't think this is gonna be the sundae that's given to any of the Philadelphia Eagles, so I'm going with the saints in this one Yeah Let's see. This is not like This is not like in the eagles or them being our division rivals The saints are just too too good right now. Not only are they going to run away with this game They might run away with the number one seed in the nfc. So, you know, then This this team in my opinion is the best team in the league right now. Um, and They're rolling man drew breezes, you know, he's 39 years old not getting any younger But you know, he's still breaking more records and Alvin Kamara marking them. They have a really good offense. They just you know, unfortunate that des Bryant, uh, just towards Achilles after they sign them Uh, but I'm glad that they're going to be able to give him a chance next year. That's what Sean Payton said But they signed Brandon Marshall. So We'll see how he does with their offense. Um, honestly I don't think them signing it does anything, but I also doesn't think it hurts them either So, you know, we'll see we'll see how he does. Um, I just feel like Uh, the saints team just overall the only thing I could see them not making the super bowl is their defense But I think I think they're just they're just too good right now and I don't see anybody beating them right now Um, and this eagles team, you know with karsten wince, uh He's still trying to get back from that acl injury like fully back 100 being more comfortable and um, you know I just feel like he needs to utilize his weapons more You know, he has nelson aguilar alshan jeffrey talented talented wide receiver core Uh, and zack erts, you know, that seems like it's his only target right now You know one of the best tight ends league, but you got to move the ball around man So I agree. Um, yeah, I like the saints in this one. I think I think they're gonna run away Okay, my boy ak shea. He said, um, what do you think is wrong with philly? What would you say is wrong with philly right now? Especially being uh in that division Injuries to the secondary, um, you know, they're Their cornerbacks are not covering people, you know, they're getting burnt in the secondary ronald darby's now out for the rest of the season with the torn acl Um, so, you know, you never want to you never want to see anything like that happen. Um, that's that's that just sucks, man And especially, uh after the eagles expecting so much after that super bowl win Um, it could have got to him a little bit, but you know I don't know. I just think for one, they're not healthy and for two I think karsten wintz just needs to utilize his targets more. That's I think that's what I think My bad for laughing purple rain said philly is the new ravens. Um, but I think it's um, whoa I think it uh, I think it's I think it's coaching I think it's coaching reason being because philly They've been losing a lot of close games a lot of one score games and that does remind me of the ravens, uh from Really the past like three years. Um, they've been losing a lot of close games Um, so it's not like they they don't have the talent and yeah, somebody did mention that jha jha is out for the season Which is a big blow Because I had forgot about that who had mentioned that let me see. Oh, that was eight. Oh, that was that was ak shape. Um jha jha is out for the season Uh now ronald dobby. So that hurts the secondary Um, I what wasn't mills out the last game too. I think he was yeah Yeah, um, they dug up. Yeah, but I think When you when you continue to lose close games like that because Most of their games the season have been all closed at least all the losses have been super close. Um Is it just it it's a direct reflection of coaching because that shows that you don't have your team ready To close it out. You don't have your team prepared to close it out and your team is a direct reflection of you so The next game we got Sunday night football We got the chicago bears taking on the minnesota vikings. I don't know if my boy g rod is still in here right now Hopefully for his sake, he's not because I don't need him to go off on me right now But in this he's a vikings fan by the way. Um in this game. I am going with the chicago bears Uh now I do not think it's gonna be pretty like some of the recent chicago bears victories have been because mr Biscay has just been rolling. Oh, he is still in here. Okay, he's But I don't think it's gonna be pretty like uh, some of mr. Biscay's recent games have been. Um I don't think they're gonna run away with this one like they have been in in a lot of their games recently I think this is gonna be a super tough one. Um, I think this is this is gonna be a good Sunday night football game Uh, the world will be watching. Um, and I think Travisky, I think even throws at least two picks I think that vikings defense is gonna bring it and I think but I say the bears edge it out By four points. Who are you going with? Yeah, man, I got the bears. I feel like I think the bears are gonna prove why they're the best team in the nsc north.  Um, and mr. Biscay is Playing really well. So, you know last year he was kind of for me Personally, I thought he was kind of just like a bus driver type qb. You know, he throw a couple touchdowns But it was really he wasn't gonna win you the game Um, but this year he's been killing it man. And their whole team has been Have been real doing really good. And yeah, they've had some games where it's just kind of like, uh, the old bears We don't want to see that but at the same time They they they've looked good and you know, it's only been a couple games, uh And I just feel like they're the best team in that division and they're gonna prove it this sunday And a really competitive game. I like this vikings team too. I feel like, uh You know, uh, it took them a lot of you with curt cousins, but I think they're starting to figure it out a little bit. Um, and You know, so I think it'll be a competitive game. But yeah, like you said for I say this is about a three four point game really close Okay, sounds good man. Um, my boy flag guy, he's who's the vikings fan He said we were playing our worst in the beginning of the season and the last five games We've had the best defense in the league So, yeah, I think y'all defense is definitely gonna make some plays for y'all this sunday night Um, will it be enough to close it out? I know you're hoping so so we'll see soon Next game Next game The chiefs Was supposed to be in mexico or new mexico, but It's going back to la the chiefs Wow Gavin said monday night gonna be a super bowl So the chiefs taking on the rams Wow um The chiefs taking on the rams the chiefs offense fire hot uh just Killing anything that comes in their way and they're only lost their offense still put up like 30 something to 40 points And then in the loss to the patriots um Chiefs not scared of anybody Uh patrick my homes is showing me what I want in lamar jackson a second year uh second year god turn starter just take the world over um, but uh The rams defense the rams again. They the golden state rams. They done got somebody from every single team They got an all-star lineup. They got all-star starters. They got all-star backups. They got depth um, and it's quality uh, and but in this game Rams are at home Because of the uh because of the weather in new mexico So in this game with the rams being at home I'm gonna go with the kansas city chiefs because I feel like a great offense Will be better and be good enough to take care to go against that good defense. Um, and Just the way that the league is right now the the time period that we had in the nfl Uh, a great offense trumps over a great defense. I mean, hey, i'm a ravens fan So I know personally, um, so i'ma go with the chiefs in this one Yeah, all I gotta say is Nobody better be bothering me on monday night. I'm gonna have my eyes locked in on that game This is gonna be a good one. I hope it lives up to the hype. I really do. I really do. Um, this could be a really good one Uh, this could possibly be the super bowl matchup If everything plays out in the playoffs, uh, you never know with andy reid in the in the playoffs, you know so But you know, maybe it's different with maybe it's different with pastry mahomes because they did have alex smith, but Mm-hmm Man, I said I've been saying this all year. I was saying that I was probably gonna end up picking the rams just because they were the home team Uh, because I actually didn't know they were playing in mexico's city before that, you know, it got moved of course, but I'm gonna go with the chiefs. I'm gonna go with the chiefs because the Both of these offenses are really good and I would give the defense advantage to the rams But at the same time the past few weeks they've been giving up a lot of points um So I feel like the chief's defense was a lot worse at the beginning of the season And I think like I said, I think this is good I think they're in the same boat as the the saints their defense will probably be the reason They don't make it to the super bowl if they were to not if they were to fall short to a team Like the patriots, uh, because I feel like that really good game with the patriots It was they lost that game because of their defense. Um, so you know I like I like the chiefs in this game. I'm gonna say it's a really it could be a shootout, man But I like the chiefs. Um, and yeah, I got the rams getting their second loss of the season. So let's get it All right. So my boy ak shape brought up a good point. Um, he said it's not like the rams on an explosive offense, but They did lose kupa cup he tore his acl.  Um, and yeah, like like my boy eric said, um Hopefully this game lives up to the hype. Um Yeah, this one i'm really looking forward to this one. Uh, We got some actually some really good games And we got some really good games at different time slots like money night football Cheese and the uh the rams sunday night football the vikings and the bears Uh at four o'clock That fiddly and uh eagles game that could be a sleeper Uh, of course, i'm gonna be watching my boys at one, you know, we don't get no more primetime games Because we were too sorry. Um, and then that houston and washington game too Uh, that could be a really good one. Uh, and of course, we always got surprises every single week. Um, but those are the picks Those are the picks and on the buy week right now the bills the browns the dolphins the patriots the jets And the the 49 as well seemed like half the league on a buy week All right. Yeah If you down to stick around for a little more it's up to you. Um, we got some people in the uh the comment section That want to ask some questions Yeah, for sure for sure. I saw jay b smooth. I saw jay b smooth came through with the Subscriptions appreciate you man. Oh, yeah. Hey jb good stuff, man. Y'all real quick before we get into these questions I guess this sort of gonna be like a live question from subscribers all 65 people that's in here right now Make sure you subscribe to my boy erics youtube channel. It's in the description And just in case you don't know how to get to the description I just put it in the comment section again. I just put it in the chat again So all you got to do is click on it. You might not even have to click on I think you could just hover over then press subscribe. Either way Click on it subscribe Turn your notifications on do all that good stuff, man. Go support my guy, man so First question And y'all ask away as we go along first question Came from a boy ak shea. He actually asked it earlier But he said Who is the most surprising team? In the nfl this year with that pressure Well, I'll go for most most surprising. Yeah, you go. Oh, go ahead. Go ahead.  Yeah. Yeah, go ahead I'm gonna go to Chicago Bears. Oh, I'm gonna go to Chicago Bears. I didn't I did not expect I did not expect him to um Be this be this good Um, a lot of people were like some friends down in uh, Texas that that are big Bears fans and they were telling me that Yo, just watch out for mitzvah biscuit this year and I was just like man I don't see it and then when they got to little mac, I'm like, yeah, their defense gonna be good But I mean, I really don't see them being much but maybe a wildcard team at best But this game is fighting for the division, man, and I you know Yeah, there's they're definitely surprising. I'll tell you that I did not expect him to be this good and this fast and Yeah, uh, watch out for those bears. Okay. Good answer. I'm gonna go with the uh, the kansas city chiefs Um, I know kansas city chiefs. They were coming off of successful years where they made the playoffs But then once they got to the playoffs, they didn't really do too much. Uh, and then for them to trade away They're starting quarterback and go with a guy who's essentially a rookie since this is his first year starting I was like, oh, I had heard a lot of good stuff about patrick mahones from a lot of people um And but I since I didn't watch college, I didn't know anything about him And then at the same time, it's like, okay, how much faith can they really put in this guy? Being in his second year and his first year started his second year playing first year started So I was like, okay. I mean, we'll wait So he came out firing. It's like a bad game for him would be if he threw three touchdowns instead of four This guy has been just killing everybody. I'm very worried when my ravens player. I'm very scared for that game um So i'm gonna go with the chiefs for my surprise team. Um, yeah, I gotta go with the chiefs Next question. Um, go ahead. Go ahead. I was I was gonna I was gonna say real quick I actually made a video back in uh, right when they traded alex smith Because I knew that the right one then I knew that they were gonna roll with patrick mahomes I didn't like it. I really didn't uh, I thought I wasn't all that in that patrick mahomes Y'all can go click on my channel watch that video right now. Like I literally like it's good Like I was not in it for patrick mahomes at all. I thought he wasn't ready And I just thought he was he was good for that deep ball. That's all I thought but man He is killing it and he proved me wrong and I said it in my picture this year. I I you know, I I was a man. I'm a man of my word So I was a I apologize for that and I was wrong about the kansas city chief So definitely for the afc side. I agree. They're they're the most surprising team.  I think we were just talking about him. Uh, patrick mahomes. I think he got the mvp right now and I don't even think it's close. I gotta go with patrick mahomes right now Yeah, I think patrick mahomes and um, drew breeze is kind of sneaking up there I don't think he's gonna get it over my homes unless my home But yeah, I got patrick mahomes for sure. Okay. That's a good one Talk sports exed. Who is your rookie of the year right now? rookie of the year right now for me Um, I'm gonna go with lemar jackson. No, I'm playing um rookie of the year um ooh rookie of the year Wow That is a tough. I'm gonna let you take that one first. I got some thinking to do Are we talking about overall we do an offense defense how we do as well do offense defense Oh, baker may I forgot about baker mayfield. Okay yeah Yeah, bake Offense D. What was it? No, was it you? No, or was it gavin? Somebody asked me this as a question from subscriber a couple of weeks ago and um Actually, yeah, both on the browns offense baker mayfield or nick chub No, baker mayfield though then defense denser ward, but you can go ahead now. I'm done Um, man, there's so many good rookies right now.  He got dairies Leonard for the Colts killing it. Um You know, uh late vanderish might sneak up in there the last couple weeks if he's playing like he did against the eagles Uh, and then you know denser ward, of course jackers. Uh, he's been playing good You know, it's really hard. I think the safe pick for offense Man, I don't know it all depends how you look at it because If it was me, I would probably give it to sake one, but you know quarterbacks are more valuable. So it could be baker mayfield as well. So Ooh, man, if I if I had to pick, you know what? Yeah, man, I'm a I'm a I'm a pick baker mayfield. I got to pick baker mayfield He's he's showed the browns promise and you know He's he's my boy from oh you so I'll pick him All right So, let me see. Let me see philip tucker mentioned really quick about the mvp Um, he said you have to keep in mind that the saints have a lot of big games coming up And we'll be on national tv breeze could very well take the mvp lead That's a possibility drew drew breezes up there too because uh, well, yeah when I first mentioned that I said, uh Patrick my home's and it's not even close. But yeah, I would I would think that right now drew breeze would be In second place. Uh, but yeah, I would have to go with my home's Right now just because the what he's doing um, and drew and not to say drew breezes doing anything, uh Worse than him or not on the same level as my home's but my home's is just Wow drew breezes. Wow, but my home's is just wow and that could be that could be a super bowl right there Imagine that the chiefs. Yeah versus the saints in the super bowl Battle of the quarterbacks if they could do co-mvp both of them will probably get it. Um, it wow Okay, I see I see another question that keeps popping up now. Um Are the ravens going to make the playoffs? I'll let you take this one first and then I'll go after I think they'll get the wildcard spot. Yes, I do. I think they will I think they'll get the last wildcard spot Okay Um, I'm gonna. I think they're gonna beat the Bengals Oh, yeah, I do think we'll beat the Bengals. Um, but I don't think we'll win enough to get a wildcard I hope we do I'll be surprised if we do but um I've just as a ravens fan, especially over these past couple of years have just become so almost numb And to the point where it's like man, this team they they do the same thing over and like every year they, uh they They'll start off the season really hot Start off looking like oh, yeah, this is a top team Then they'll start being really sorry and then Backs against the wall. They gotta win these next couple of games Then they get on the run And then at the very end When they need this game to win they gotta get this game to go into the playoffs That's when they usually fall short. But anyway, we'll see how it goes man We're gonna see how oh my boy akh. He said it could be worse. You could at least you're not a jets fan That's true, man Wait, wait, wait, do y'all play anybody in the afc south like the the tech Who's are the titans at all this year? Well, we played the titans. We beat them 21-0 But that's right. Okay. So yeah, because if the Texans win that division You know that I was thinking that the times could be a wild card Y'all might y'all might get it over them if y'all if y'all keep doing if y'all start doing good, you know That's true because if if we tied we would own the tiebreaker with them since we beat them So, yeah, we'll see Next question came from uh four pb 2222 Uh, and I don't even know how much you can answer this one. Uh, because I don't even know if you really got to see him too much But he said what are your thoughts on lamar jackson and his future in the nfl um I'll start this one with lamar jackson is He i'm excited for him for whenever he does start whenever he does play um, I can't really say What I think his future will be I know he's he's definitely going to bring excitement Um, and he got all the ability in the world. It's just as can he put it together as a starter? Uh, can he be the guy? um, because that'll be a huge shift Uh for the ravens with if if and when they do go to lamar jackson um It is It's gonna be crazy having somebody else besides flacco start at quarterback. I won't be mad at it at all because Love flacco. Thank you for everything, but it's it's time for you to go my friend. Um So it'll be a a seismic shift Uh, and but it's going to be something that's going to excite a lot of people It's obviously it's going to be something that a lot of people don't like and don't want at all uh, but I think if He said that he got the speed of the nfl game down. Um, so I'm just excited for I'm excited for him And I think he's going to bring He's going to bring a lot of fun not only to just the quarterback position for the ravens But just fun to our offense because We'll have somebody that can just go wow, man Mm-hmm So what do you think? I know I'm not sure if Because because I know you since with you watching the cowboys and stuff You only get to see lamar jackson on a limited basis and what else not? Yeah national televised cams except for about two of them. So Well, thankfully I have you as my permanent baltimore ravens resource. So, I mean I I kind of I kind of you know pay attention to those videos with lamar, but no man. Yep I think he's going to bring that I think he's going to bring that fun and winning mentality energy to the ravens You know that because that's what they need. Uh, I feel like You know, I I'm going to have to see him play obviously a real game first Before I can actually make the decision, but if I'm making a prediction I think I think no doubt he can adjust to the to the level It's just a matter of staying consistent. I'm like joe flacco has not been able to do so I mean You know, he's still young. Um, I don't think I'm glad I don't think y'all are in a rush at any rush to starting him, which yeah Yeah, I feel like y'all played it y'all played the the card safe so far with you know develop developing him So maybe that maybe that helped. I would say that going in to This year when y'all drafted him I didn't know how I felt about it because I didn't know how he was going to be as a As a starting quarter as a quarterback in the nfl But you know what it could be like a patrick mahomes situation You know y'all start him next year and he just goes in there and he kills it So we'll see. I'm excited to watch him play definitely. Yeah, man. I would love if that happened um Next question came Came from solz. He said is alex collins the ravens running back a bust Um, well, I can't call him a bust because like somebody said he he didn't get drafted by us but um he This year hasn't been it But I think that's more attributed to the offensive line than alex collins He just hasn't had as many holes as he had before last year Excuse me and He just yeah, he just hasn't gotten really many opportunities to do the stuff that he did last year And I think by the way that this season has been going uh alex collins will be a uh a two-year guy In baltimore this being his second and last year uh if this keeps up Yeah, I think Man, it's been a while since you guys have had a really good running back, huh? Ray rice Yeah, I mean just in force say he did his thing for a year uh that 2014 year Um, but yeah, man, it's been a while. It's been a while. Um, but I don't think alex collins is the guy Like you said, uh, I've seen him play a couple times. Uh, he's decent, but I just don't think he's that back I think y'all could y'all could y'all could find another one easily and ravens have just uh They've been scarred at positions where they had some of the best at Um, ray rice in his time. He was one of the best running backs in the league Uh, and ever since ray rice was gone We we haven't had consistent consistency at that position ever since he left, uh And not to compare other people to him But we have to because they played the same position Ray lewis Obviously one of the best linebackers in the league during his time was in foot one of the best linebackers ever ever since him While cj moldy has made the transition easier, uh, just his His lack of pass coverage skill It can be overlooked. He doesn't have any other traits that make you think like oh, yeah, um cj moldy monster And then at the safety position, we done had a carousel there for the past couple years. It's been eric weddle but um Yeah, yeah, we just We had some of the greatest guys to ever do it at those positions And then we haven't we've never been the same at those positions afterwards. Uh, but anyway next question, uh Hey, I did say that mich I did say that and boy was I wrong Me said guys don't forget that engraving said that cj mosey would be better than ray lewis Because I really thought I really thought that he was gonna be better than ray lewis I felt like his career the numbers the numbers were starting off better But numbers don't tell the don't tell the whole story. Um, and he definitely No, uh, now next question Kind of we we got a lot of ravens fans in here next question. They asking Will or should the ravens get lavy on bail? I'm gonna let you go ahead and get this one I mean, it's a I feel like it's a 50 50 situation with me. Um, if I was the ravens because Man, you know Obviously we saw the whole drama with this year out He chose to set out because he wanted to get a bigger contract and you know, they said, oh, he'll come back He'll come back, but Now it's it's there and he ended up losing all that money and at this point It's just like, well, he doesn't really care anymore.  Um, but I feel like It's it's the question to will he carry that same mindset into Another team, you know, because people don't want that people don't want uh, running back to you know They able to like take take that Take that risk because you know, he has that attitude of oh, well, if they're not, you know Putting the money over the game, you know, so I you know, it could that could be something to think about I mean shoot In my eyes when he plays he's the best running back in the league, but Obviously he hasn't he hasn't done he hasn't been there this year and it's because of those contract situations and the whole drama thing um I mean, I don't know. I I really don't know. I feel like it's a 50-50 shot. Y'all get him.  You know that that's not a question but Do the ravens want to take that risk with? You know the whole situation of you know, just just his attitude, you know I I don't know if you know what i'm saying here, but I mean, yeah, I mean it would I wouldn't even be uh worried about his attitude Um, because he will have gotten his deal Uh, whether somebody signs him to a long-term deal or somebody gives him a uh a one-year deal Just with a lot of guaranteed money in there. Um, or something like an option deal, uh, so I mean with with the attitude with the whole thing going on with the Steelers I I respected what he was doing because he just wanted to be taken care of for the long term He didn't want no short contract with only a little bit of guaranteed money He wanted to be taken care of for a long amount of time So he was just trying to secure himself Uh, which I I got no problem with him doing that. So If if we got him that would be something But we would need to build an offensive line that could hold up blocks because what we got right now Say for instance, he came walking into the Ravens facility right now. Hey, I'm ready to play for y'all I'm sure they welcome him with open arms But so with the deep prince, whoever we went up against every single day because we wouldn't be able to block form so Lady on bell would be cool But he uh right now the way the team is set up. It would be a no-go So we'll see what happens though. Oh frank said I hope they'll go to the Ravens. He can be your headache now Let's see never no I mean it worked it worked out for them.  So I mean, I think I think it kind of worked out Okay, yeah, it did it did it worked out for the um worked out big time for the steelers uh with james connor so Let me take a look Oh after fleckos gone and rothasberger retires, it could be lamar jackson and josh dobbs or lamar jackson and uh mason rudolf So that's a that's a possibility.  Oh My god jb smooth He asked who what's up flecks? He asks who is more injury prone jimmy smith ravens cornerback Or shawnt lee Wow, um I gotta give it to shawnt lee man slightly slightly I mean, I didn't even realize how much of an injury prone jimmy smith was honestly But until recently but man that that dude has always hurt Um, yeah I gotta give it to shawnt lee because I I haven't seen shawnt lee play one Like one whole season without having something going on Yeah, I I don't know man, you know shawnt lee's he's pure glass man his his his hand me like It's one of those things where you literally just watch him run down the field and if he gets if he falls down He like oh you just flinch every time, you know, and man, I just as much as I hate to say it as much as I love him I think it's time to move on Right as well, especially y'all vandash was looking the other night. So it might just be Uh rising bull right rising bull said make your picks already. This is boring Rising bull is apparently somebody that came late and is frustrated with themselves and they had a very long day So rising bull everybody in the comment section everybody in the chat Just put just what we love you bull just what we love you because rising bulls having a very tough time today So I'm not mad at you for being frustrated. We already made the picks Um to see them you just had to watch the video over again Once it goes up as a regular video. So we love you. We appreciate you Uh, we're gonna be moving on so we love you bull. We love you bull much love to you. Thank you. Um So I got a question I got a question How do you feel About dack prescott. Oh, I do it was coming. I do it was that press Do you think that dack prescott Is the guy can he be the guy for the cowboys? Can he Can he take the the cowboys where they need to go? right now no I have to see him. I have to see him under a different coaching staff because Jason gary and scotland. I know it's not all on them. Obviously Um, I could go on I can go on about this for About this. I've I've you know, I've ran it over this millions of times I've defended that prescott so many times, but there's only so much I could do for this man to defend him He just bottom line. He's got to play better.  You still got to You still got to learn from that and I think You know people are saying well, what happened like he you know, the rookie season it was so good and everything but literally Literally, um, he had you have to take in a factor that he had romo as a mentor on the team And now he doesn't have romo that could be a big thing too. So honestly for right now to answer your question No, he's not Do I think he can be I think he can be but I have to see For it with another coaching staff. I I'm gonna give him another chance But there's only so much I can do because after some after these games I'm just saying yeah, it's time to move on. But, you know, it's also time to move on from Jason. Gary. Oh, yeah, that's true I agree. Um Looks like everybody agrees with you. Adrian said you're right. Um, a k. Shea said this ain't about weapons He ain't got the arm talent Philip Tucker said I think that press guy is like Eli Manning He's an average quarterback at best who only performs when he has a legit team I don't see him ever becoming an elite quarterback Uh, a dande said he's not a top 20 quarterback Uh, a dande also said he's not that good Frank McCutcheon said that gets super overrated Jared Wasserman said that's overrated Leo and Antonimi said Zeke is the cowboys Michael Dower said that press guy sucks. Um, let me see what else Uh Let me see. Let me see. Oh, mej said, thank you press. God isn't good Uh, Joe flacco said flacco is graded in deck Um, Evan's Darian said he's getting carried by zeke Elliott Uh, flex adult said deck is overrated Jared Wasserman said that's overrated Uh, Isaiah the re the reactor. He said yes, he's great.  I can't even get mad at that You know, last last year I would have last year I defended deck so much the past two years I've defended deck, but it's definitely godfully. I've been defending them as much now. Um I I think I agree with a lot of what people say. I don't think he's He's good enough.  So shout out to all 78 people that's in here right now Real quick. Make sure y'all subscribe to my boy erics youtube channel Again his youtube channel. Let me put it in the chat section again I just put it in the chat section and it's in the description too.  Between dag prescott But joe fleckle What's up causton shout out to causton man for getting ready to kind of look nice So who would you take between joe fleckle or dag prescott?  I'm gonna take dag prescott. Um he's younger and Yeah, I just Like I said, he may not be that guy and you know for all I know next year jason garr gets fired We get a new coach. We get a new offensive coordinator and he still does the same, you know Same thing and then you know at that point then there's nothing to defend now. You know, it's just he's not good, but You know fleckle has had years after his super bowl or his playoff wins and his super bowl runs and you know He's just inconsistent and he's older now. So I just I'm gonna take the younger talent here at dag prescott Oh, man, I know a lot of people are gonna get on to me for that one But I mean it's it's not it's not that much more like it's not like you way better Uh, they're both they're both underperforming And I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm I'm gonna take dag prescott. Okay I'm mad at that. What about you? Well, I well if it was based off of career joe fleckle if it was based off of right now dag prescott But see but the thing about the thing about dag prescott is He's still good enough. It's not too late for him to be a good backup quarterback Like the cowboys could still bring in a good quarterback to be their starter and that could be a solid backup He's not getting paid much money He's not he hasn't got the extended yet yet. He hasn't got extended yet. So No, yeah And they could actually if say for instance cowboys finally made that move and they fired jason garrett They could actually move on from dag prescott. What was he a fourth round pick? So he's not making that much money And this this would be the first year where he could get it get extended Um So, yeah, they could be they could just get rid of him and it wouldn't it wouldn't like It wouldn't be like getting rid of a starting quarterback who got a big contract or anything like that He's still on his rookie deal so they can get rid of him with no problem at all I think I think uh, I don't know how many I don't know how many cowboys fans are in here if there's any at all but I just think the cowboys fans need to realize that What jerry jones says to the media? I don't I don't think it's all True because He said that he wasn't going to fire wade phillips and then a week later He fired them a couple years like years back and I think what he's saying about oh jason garrett We're not planning to make any coaching changes blah blah blah You know that aggravates us obviously hearing that because we want him out of there right now, but I think He's saying that because he's not going to do it yet I feel like at the end of the season when everything is all said and done He's going to fire jason garrett. He's going to make that move And I think he's going to do it if the time has come and I think he's going to do it even though he said he's not going to do it. He's going to do it I know I said that was the last question. We got one more one more Who would you fat? Who would you rather fire? John hardball or jason garrett mr. Clapper Or mr. I don't know what's going on Which one of them would you rather fire? Doing it right now. Mr. Clapper. Mr. Clapper um He he's got to go he's got I've never seen some coach that has been more conservative and Yeah, just more conservative and not willing to motivate and fire up the team to what he should be doing because Literally jason garrett is one of those coaches where the cowboys will be driving down the field And they'll be rolling. They'll they'll you know deck press call will throw a couple get throws zika Elliott will get a get like a big chunky yards and If we end up doing and it ends up being a long third down We don't utilize the clock we're good at all So what we do is we end up some dump off pass that ends up getting stuffed and then next thing, you know, we're third and long We don't convert and then it's fourth down and we have a goal and jason garrett is okay with that He's okay with those field goals. He doesn't care about touchdowns. He doesn't care about winning the game All he cares about Is not losing. That's that's what I like to look at it the washington redskins game Proved everything to me that I'm so done with this coach. I need him out of there 52 seconds And he only managed to get two plays off two two seconds How and and he wasn't even going for the win that's telling me that you're conservative and you're not going for the win You're just going to force overtime and guess what guess what happened. We we missed the field goal We missed the field goal and you know what jason garrett did He just clapped He's got to go man Oh, man, that's crazy, man I apologize for the rant All right He said two two plays in 52 seconds two plays and one of them was like a Like a run to zikio ellie, which I don't even know why they were given the ball that and especially a dump off pass We're late in the game like that when you're trying to go tie it up or at least try to win it and 52 seconds That's wild man. You tell me how I don't know Jason gear clapping it up Yeah, all right, so Appreciate you coming on appreciate you joining us for these picks. This was fun, man This is a lot of fun Appreciate everybody in the comment section again Again again again make sure Make sure you subscribe to my guy erics youtube channel The link is in the description and it's in the chat too. I'm gonna put in the chat three more times One two three I'm being spammy right now. So make sure y'all subscribe to this youtube channel Appreciate y'all man. Thank you all for coming through um and You talking about man Uh y'all in the comment section y'all are wild man appreciate y'all Thank y'all for making this fun. Shout out to eric eric You want to you got anything you want to say to everybody before you get out of here? I appreciate you guys for coming through. I pretty much do the same thing and graven does, you know Have a weekly picks talk about it with my friends We actually even write down our own records every week. So we get into it, you know So if you guys like that kind of stuff, I'll be doing it every week I do some streams too on ps4. You can add me on ps4 Um, I'll put I'll put my gamertag on my channel or something when I make a video But yeah, just appreciate y'all coming through. Hopefully we can do something something like this again. It was fun I enjoyed it and yeah, I appreciate you guys. Thank you. Oh, yeah. All right. All right everybody appreciate y'all. Thank y'all Y'all have a good night. We out


So this video is probably going to be a long one or a short one depending on how I'm able to put things together. So I've had encounters where I meet people for the first time and during conversations when they do discover that I'm with a European woman or a Dutch woman and that we've been together for seven years or we've known each other for that long and we're married and everything is fine. Often the reaction is one of shock or amazement because they have heard different from other people or they've actually experienced, you know, different being relationships or relationships with these, you know, foreign women. And when you delve deeper into their experiences, it's often, you know, they start a relationship and everything is nice, is great until they get married and some responsibilities are required of them. And often those responsibilities seem too difficult for them. So they think that those women are difficult when they ask them for certain things to be done or to be responsible for certain things around the house. And you hear stories like, you know, I know this guy who got married to a European woman, they moved to Europe and the woman is just giving him so much tough time and you ask about a tough time. And it's often around the fact that, okay, so they moved there, had a child and the wife requires him to take care of the child as in babysits, clean up, cook, clean the house equally, not only the person and whereby if it's only the guy doing it, it's most likely the fact that the woman has to go to work. So you're the one in the house. So if you're finding it difficult to find a job in Europe or wherever you find yourself with a foreign woman and you're required to take care of your child because you do have the time, most of those people feel emasculated and think that it's dehumanizing that they are required in the partnership with somebody to actually take care of their kids and the home when their partner is unavailable. And I find it rather strange that, of course, I mean, most people grow up with certain traditional ideologies or cultural ideologies that work for them. But if you're going to end up with somebody else, you should have already known that it's a different ball game from what you're already aware of or what you already know and they feel emasculated by these things. So I'm here to tell you that if you're going to end up dating a European woman or foreign woman from any other country who's a modern woman who's holding her own, these are some of the things that if you do not agree to, then you might as well not even enter the relationship because it wouldn't work.  If you do find somebody which every now and then happens. So relationships are between two people, two different experiences. You come together, you try to find a balance. If you find that balance with somebody even in a modern day where you have a working woman who still believes that they should cook for their husband and clean the house and do everything and still take care of the child while the husband does only one part of what's providing his equitable part into the relationship. That's fair. That's fine. Nobody is saying that your relationship is bad or poor in any way. No, but if you find yourself with somebody who doesn't think the same way as you do in terms of these responsibilities, then I think it's something that you should note and realize that you may have to change your ways or find somebody who fits your way of thinking or way of doing things. So the traditional, no, so the modern woman or the modern European woman or the modern African woman will not, there's no concept of head of home in a modern traditional, a modern relationship, not a modern traditional relationship, a modern relationship. There's no concept of head of home. The familial structure or in what's organized, it's not structured. If you're going to say it in that way, it's not upward. It's rather side.  So whereby you think that's because you're a man, you should be head of home and what you say counts and stands and it's final, it doesn't work in this sense. If you are somebody who also is into traditional gender roles where the man does this, the woman does that, and that's how you function, it doesn't work with a modern European woman or modern Western woman or modern African woman for that matter or modern woman playing for that matter. So if these things are things that bother you by all means, please do not date these women if you encounter them. I often find it strange that somebody thinks that for example, it's humiliating that you are in a foreign country which often is difficult for you to find work and your partner has work. So essentially is providing for the bulk of the home and all you have to do is I mean, clean up after yourself or cook or take care of the child that you've brought into this world and these videos that go viral when men are taking care of their children or doing basic human fatherly roles.  So if this is you and you find it difficult, all I'm saying is you can't be with a modern woman if your open-mindedness is a bit lacking to some of these things that may happen. The modern woman also wants you to be accountable. Often I find that most men are either conflict averse and so in their defense, they want to be aggressive with arguments and say that no, why are you challenging me? Why have you been a difficult woman? Stop what I say goes and all those things. No, they would want you to speak about things. In my previous video, I talked about some of these things when you have conversations or arguments, it's an equal conversation, two heads, two smart people, two partners having a conversation. They would want accountability. They would seek that you do as you say.  If you're not ready to learn, evolve and be an equal partner, stay away from the modern woman period. That is all I wanted to share.  So that's it for this video. And if you find it's useful, hit the like button and subscribe to the channel. If you have completely divergent views from this, it's also fine. I said before that if your ideologies or your, yeah, your perception or your way of being brought up doesn't match with this, find somebody who matches this traditional sense of thinking and just move with them. I'll catch you in the next one. Peace.


Let zeta be a non-zero complex number and let n be a positive integer, you know, one, two, three, four, whatever. We say that zeta is an nth root of unity if zeta to the n is equal to one. So any power, any complex number raised to this power n, we call, if that power equals one, we say it's an nth root of unity. So some examples of this, we have previously seen that the numbers one negative one i and negative i are fourth roots of unity. Notice that one to the fourth is equal to one. Negative one to the fourth is gonna equal one because after all negative one squared is one and you square one, you're gonna get one. We also have seen that i to the fourth is equal to one. And likewise, if you take negative i to the fourth, this is the same thing as negative one to the fourth times i to the fourth, which is gonna be one times one, which is one. So these are fourth roots of unity. We say that a root of unity is primitive. It's a primitive nth root of unity. If no smaller power of n will get you to get you one, right? So what I mean here is that n is the smallest positive integer that makes zeta to the n equal to one. So for example, when you look at these numbers right here, one, you could actually get one by much smaller power. Notice if you take one to the first, that will equal one. So one is not, although it's a fourth root of unity, it's not a primitive fourth root of unity. And then if you look at negative one also, negative one, we could, as I mentioned earlier, if you take negative one squared, that's equal to one. And so again, negative one's not a primitive fourth root of unity. It is a fourth root of unity because the fourth power gives you one, but it's not primitive. On the other hand, when you look at i and negative i, these are in fact primitive nth roots of unity, because no smaller power of i that's positive will get you one sooner than four. Same thing when you take negative i right here. Now conversely, if you take the set one, negative one, this consisted of the set of square roots of unity or second roots of unity. One squared is one, negative one squared is one. Now as we saw, negative one is a primitive, and so when we talk about primitive, it matters on the degree here. So i, negative i are primitive fourth roots. Negative one is a primitive second root of unity. And then one would be a primitive first root of unity. I mean, it's actually the only first root of unity, but it's a primitive first root. And so these are some examples of, these are examples of roots of unity that you're probably familiar with. What we wanna do is actually expand this list and talk about roots of unity in general. Now in order to do that, we have to introduce something called Euler's Identity, which the proof of that basically uses, it basically uses power series from calculus for which there'll be a review video at the end of this video that you can click on to review those topics if you need. And so in order to kind of really give justice to what Euler's Identity is all about, we have to introduce the geometry of complex numbers. Now what we can do is we can actually associate points in the plane with complex numbers. So what I mean is something like the following. If we were to graph our usual x, y axes and we identify the real axis as the x-axis and we identify the y-axis with the imaginary axis, then points in the plane can be identified, these x, y can be identified with complex numbers x plus y, i. And there is a geometry to that. This essentially leads to the polar form of a complex number. So every number, every complex number z can be written as r times e to the i theta, where r is called the modulus of the complex number, that's a y, and theta is the argument of the complex number, which the argument's gonna be this angle, the line forms with the real axis, and then the distance the point is from the origin, we call the modulus of the complex number. So every complex number z can be written in this form, r times e to the i theta, where e to the i theta is actually equal to cosine of theta plus i sine theta. And so one can then do some calculations with this if one wanted to. Again, look at some of the videos you're gonna see at the end of this one. If you want some more reference on this, this is gonna be a really critical thing for us as we do computations with these complex numbers. Let me show you two immediate consequences of Euler's identity. Euler's identity basically tells us that if you wanna do multiplication with complex numbers, you're better using the polar form than the standard Cartesian form, that is z equals x plus yi. This is the standard slash Cartesian form of the complex number. You wanna use polar forms when you multiply together complex numbers. So let's say we have two complex numbers, say z is equal to r times cosine theta plus i sine theta and w is equal to s times cosine theta plus i sine theta, and that's not a theta, I'm sorry, s cosine phi plus i sine of phi. So you multiply together the two complex numbers, z times w. This will actually equal the product of their moduli and then you actually add together the argument. So add together theta and phi right there. And so this actually proves that the modulus, kind of like the absolute value, has this multiplicative property. The modulus of z w is equal to the modulus of z times the modulus of w. Sometimes this is also called the norm of a complex number, all three of those terms, modulus, norm, and absolute value are used to describe this quantity for complex numbers. I wanna mention that this formula right here is an immediate consequence of Euler's identity because if we take z times w, this is gonna equal r e to the i theta times s e to the i phi. And therefore, if you multiply these things together, you're going to end up with r s times e to the i theta plus i phi by usual exponent rules, and it follows immediately from there. The next thing to mention here, and this is gonna be, this is the critical thing about these complex roots of unity, this is actually gonna be the key to how we can build complex roots of unity. Let's introduce a new symbol. We're gonna call zeta sub n. It's gonna equal this complex number, e to the pi i over n, two pi i over n. So you can think of this as e to the i times two pi over n. Now by Euler's identity, this thing is just the same thing as cosine of two pi over n plus i sine two pi over n. Now we claim that this number zeta n is a primitive nth root of unity. Well, why is that? Let's first argue why it's a nth root of unity in the first place. This basically follows from a very classic identity that's a consequence of Euler's identity right here. z to the n is gonna equal r to the n times cosine of n theta plus i sine of n theta. This is a consequence of the previous corollary, right? Exponents in polar form are very easy when it comes to complex numbers. So if we apply this to zeta to the n, if you raise that to the n, you're gonna end up with e to the two pi, oops, two pi i to the n to the n. By exponent rules, this will give you e to the two pi i, which by Euler's identity would then be cosine of two pi plus i sine of two pi. Sine of two pi is zero, cosine of two pi is one. So we see that this is an nth root of unity. I claim it's also a primitive nth root of unity that there's no smaller power that can get this to work. And you can check by induction that any smaller power, I guess it's not even induction arguments necessary here, that you can try that for a smaller n, some smaller value than n you're not going to get, you're not gonna get one, not at all. And also I wanna mention that if you take s into the k, where k is co-prime to n, by similar reasoning, this is going to be a primitive nth root of unity because the only way that you're gonna get cosine to be one and sine to be zero is if you're at a multiple of two pi, that's the only way to do it. And because of the divisor n, the denominator n, I should say here, there's no way you can cancel out the denominator until you get up to n itself. And that's even if you have something co-prime because if you're co-prime, k and n have no common divisors. So there's no way of simplifying the fraction earlier than at the nth step. So we can construct primitive nth roots of unity over the complex numbers for any, any n we want. Now, if some of this went too fast, again, there's some review videos I want you to take a look at right now if you need some. Looking at the top left, you can see a video for review on the complex plane. How do we graph complex numbers and visualize them as points in the plane? To the top right, you can see a video link for the modulus, the argument, and the polar form of a complex number. Take a look at that if you need to. In the bottom left, you'll see a video that provides the proof of Euler's identity. And also it gives you some examples how one does computations using Euler's identity, how we can evaluate things like e to the pi i is equal to negative one and such. So click on those links if you need any review on these things whatsoever. If you feel ready to go, click the link in the bottom right, which then we'll get to the main point of this lecture for which we can then construct cyclic groups inside of C star using these roots of unity.