  The guts of a knot is an invariant defined for the knot complement by
Agol-Zhang. Nearly fibered knots are defined to be knots whose Floer homology
has dimension two in the top Alexander grading and were introduced by
Baldwin-Sivek. In this note, we identify three models that describe the guts of
any nearly fibered knots in the 3-sphere. As a corollary, the nearly fibered
condition can be purely characterized topologically and is independent of the
specific version of Floer theory
