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Speaker 2: Welcome in. We'll try with Nick Wright Episode two seventy three.
Speaker 2: I think we've got it. Maybe not. Hopefully you have
Speaker 2: my audio now, you have my video working through a
Speaker 2: lot of tech stuff, but that's no problem. We got
Speaker 2: a lot to do. Demons's here. He's the best sports
Speaker 2: veteran America right now. It's given out four winning teasers
Speaker 2: in a row. He's twenty seven to eight documented, not
Speaker 2: documented on this show, but documented by the great people
Speaker 2: at CBS Sports Pick them against the spread. He's crushing
Speaker 2: all professional handicappers. Uh, life is good. Yeah, the Chiefs
Speaker 2: gonna get revenge on the Raiders, the last team to
Speaker 2: beat them, the team to mock them with the karmas stuff.
Speaker 2: DeAndre Hopkins on the team. We have all this, we
Speaker 2: have a new sponsor, million things to do. Let's get
Speaker 2: right to it. Here's what missed the cut, Demanse. Bobby
Speaker 2: Sala at the green Bay practice, gonna join the staff
Speaker 2: in a consulting role. Sharp move by green Bay to
Speaker 2: get him and to prevent San Francisco from getting him.
Speaker 2: A little double dip. Bryce Young is gonna start at Denver,
Speaker 2: which has led to one of the most It's not
Speaker 2: one of my picks, but it is a jaw dropping
Speaker 2: point spread because the Denver Broncos. Did you look at this?
Speaker 2: Do you know off the top of your head, Demanse,
Speaker 2: what the Panthers at Bronco goes?
Speaker 3: What the line is the Panthers? You know me, not
Speaker 3: the Panthers, the Broncos their favorite. I can't remember about
Speaker 3: how many? Is it like seven?
Speaker 2: Ten bicks? Bow Knicks ten point favorite. If you'd asked
Speaker 2: me before the year, what would need to happen for
Speaker 2: bow Knicks to be a ten point favorite going into
Speaker 2: a football game? I don't know what my answer would
Speaker 2: have been, evidently it's played the Panthers and Bryce Young's
Speaker 2: return and Brandon Aubrey, the best player on the Cowboys
Speaker 2: right now, They're kicker is missing practice this week for
Speaker 2: jury duty. So how about that all right? Before we
Speaker 2: get to football, I have a rant demonse because the
Speaker 2: NBA started this week and for the majority of my life,
Speaker 2: had you asked me what my favorite sport is, I
Speaker 2: would have said the NBA by a significant margin. Over
Speaker 2: the last the last decade, and really since my team
Speaker 2: drafted and nurtured and you know, played the greatest player
Speaker 2: to ever play in the NFL, the NFL has risen
Speaker 2: to where if you'd asked me two years ago, I
Speaker 2: would have said they're dead. Even NFL and NBA tat
Speaker 2: like my favorite days or NFL Sundays. My favorite time
Speaker 2: of year is NBA playoffs, And over the last couple
Speaker 2: of years, the NFL has ascended past the NBA, but
Speaker 2: the NBA is still a very strong number two for
Speaker 2: me personally. And then this year's opening Night, and I
Speaker 2: just didn't feel the juice, but I'm like, it's the
Speaker 2: opening night, I want to watch it. And then I
Speaker 2: watched the Celtics shoot sixty threes, and then I saw
Speaker 2: that Joel Embiid was out already, and Zion is out already,
Speaker 2: and Kawhi is out still, and here's the rant or
Speaker 2: the warning or whatever. About five years ago, I hosted
Speaker 2: a panel at Sloan, the sports analytics conference that Darryl Morey,
Speaker 2: my pal among others, were a part of, and I
Speaker 2: asked Darryl what I think is a thoughtful question, which is,
Speaker 2: how do you try as a league to serve multiple
Speaker 2: masters in this regard. The reason NBA guys can make
Speaker 2: sixty million dollars a year, the reason gms like Daryl
Speaker 2: can make well into the seven some into the eight
Speaker 2: figures a year, is because the NBA is a super
Speaker 2: popular television product. That's it. It is because all of
Speaker 2: the money is general rated by the fact that it
Speaker 2: is an entertainment product that people value in a way
Speaker 2: They don't currently value hockey, and they don't value any
Speaker 2: of the you know, go down a few levels, you know, uh,
Speaker 2: Ultimate Frisbee, and they don't value paddle or padel or
Speaker 2: whatever it's called, like they're all sports. But in this country,
Speaker 2: the NFL is king and the Prince is the NBA
Speaker 2: and then Major League Baseball. And so what I asked
Speaker 2: him was, what if the best way to win starts
Speaker 2: to conflict with creating the best television product, Because it
Speaker 2: is his job to create a winner, but it is
Speaker 2: the league's job to maintain popularity. And if the best
Speaker 2: way to create a winner makes the league less popular,
Speaker 2: then what are we actually doing? Because yeah, people want
Speaker 2: to win, and they want championships, but the reason they
Speaker 2: want one of the reasons they wanted is because what
Speaker 2: goes along with that is incredible wealth and riches. But
Speaker 2: if the league becomes less and less popular, there's less
Speaker 2: and less money, and then all of a sudden, running
Speaker 2: a basketball team is not as good of the gig
Speaker 2: as it once was. Being an NBA star is not
Speaker 2: as good of the gig as it once was. And
Speaker 2: his answer was, listen, my job is to look at
Speaker 2: the rules and create the best chance of winning possible.
Speaker 2: If the league needs to change the rules, so be it.
Speaker 2: And I'm here to tell you the league needs to
Speaker 2: change some rules similar to what Baseball did with the
Speaker 2: shift and the pitch clock and paid immediate dividends. If
Speaker 2: your customer is telling you the product is getting worse
Speaker 2: even though the talent is getting better. Then you need
Speaker 2: to adjust. And the NBA, in my opinion, has do
Speaker 2: as two not quite existential crises going on, but they
Speaker 2: could become that. The first one is this, it took
Speaker 2: teams and players and coaches a long time to figure
Speaker 2: it out, but they have finally figured out. It's not
Speaker 2: only that three is worth more than two, it's that
Speaker 2: three is worth a lot more than two because there
Speaker 2: is a fifty percent premium on three point shots. The
Speaker 2: smart way to play is probably what the Celtics did
Speaker 2: on opening night, shoot sixty of them things. Have it
Speaker 2: be your entire offense aside from dunks and free throws.
Speaker 2: That is the best strategy. That is also terrible television.
Speaker 2: The other thing the league or teams have decided is ah,
Speaker 2: the regular season doesn't really matter. All that matters is
Speaker 2: peak playoff performance because we're judged on championships. But you
Speaker 2: know who, it does matter to your customer and telling
Speaker 2: your customer going into day one of the season, Zion's
Speaker 2: not ready, Embid's not ready. Who knows when KWHI is
Speaker 2: going to be ready? Embiid coming out and saying we're
Speaker 2: not playing back to backs. You're alienating your customers flatly.
Speaker 2: And I love the league. I love it, but this
Speaker 2: shit is not sustainable. And this is where you need
Speaker 2: a wartime conciliarity in Adam Silver, and if he isn't one,
Speaker 2: they need to find someone to assist him with it.
Speaker 2: To make major structural shifts to the league. The simplest
Speaker 2: way to fix the threes problem is to change the scoring,
Speaker 2: but they'd never do it because all the records would
Speaker 2: be thrown out if it was fours and threes instead
Speaker 2: of threes and twos. It ends instantly, fixes it because
Speaker 2: then there's a thirty three percent premium instead of a
Speaker 2: fifty percent premium. But that's not gonna happen, so you
Speaker 2: need to adjust. You need to adjust by doing the
Speaker 2: Hollandering idea. Was it Hollinger or is it No, it's
Speaker 2: not Hollander, it's the cartographer Goldsbury idea, which is have
Speaker 2: the three point arc truly be an arc, meaning it
Speaker 2: never flattens out and you get rid of the corner threes.
Speaker 2: I also think you could do something super radical and
Speaker 2: be like, hey, guess what, you know what's also worth
Speaker 2: three points dunks? I know this sounds insane guys. But
Speaker 2: at its core, the NBA is at its best when
Speaker 2: dudes are flying over people meeting them at the rim.
Speaker 2: That is when it's at its best television product. A
Speaker 2: bunch of finesse guys hanging out at the three point
Speaker 2: line hoisting thirty footers is not good TV and everybody,
Speaker 2: everybody is damaged. If the TV numbers, if the ratings,
Speaker 2: if the interest goes down, you are not lifetime entitled
Speaker 2: to a top spot in the American consciousness. Ask boxing,
Speaker 2: ask horse racing, as baseball, post strike, as hockey anytime
Speaker 2: in the last thirty years. You're not guaranteed it, and
Speaker 2: you are going down a path where the games are
Speaker 2: less compelling television and the fans are worried, do the
Speaker 2: players even care? And so, and also the load management
Speaker 2: issue of it. We need some evidence that it works.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna do it, I haven't seen it. I
Speaker 2: haven't seen a drastic reduction in injuries. I haven't seen
Speaker 2: guys all of a sudden being of so much fresher
Speaker 2: come the postseason. It's not what I see. I see
Speaker 2: the guy who take time off in the regular season
Speaker 2: because of injury are still just as injured in the postseason.
Speaker 2: And so it's just a warning to a league I love,
Speaker 2: you are playing a dangerous, dangerous game. And this is
Speaker 2: you know what, demons before we move on to football.
Speaker 2: This is a first cousin of take my tush push
Speaker 2: take yeah, which is be like, be careful TV, and
Speaker 2: also don't let it get too good. Like the best
Speaker 2: thing that ever happened to the not the best thing
Speaker 2: that ever happened, but a really good thing that happened
Speaker 2: for the NFL is that the Eagles never figured out
Speaker 2: how to get four yards a pop out of that,
Speaker 2: because if they did, they should run at every single
Speaker 2: play and they would win. And Howie Roseman and Nick
Speaker 2: Sirian and be like, our job is to win, and
Speaker 2: yet it is. But it's the league job to make
Speaker 2: sure people want to watch what you're doing and that
Speaker 2: And this is not an anti Celtics thing. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying it because the Celtics shot sixty. And I brought
Speaker 2: up Darryl Mory because he kind of got this train
Speaker 2: rolling with Houston a decade ago. But it's a dangerous precedent, y'all,
Speaker 2: and it's bad for the league. I'm just telling you,
Speaker 2: flat out. The NFL, to their credit, has no problem
Speaker 2: being like, oh, our customers like offense. We are changing
Speaker 2: the rules to make it easier to play offense, and
Speaker 2: we'll keep changing them. Our customers hate when quarterbacks get hurt,
Speaker 2: so we're gonna make it damn near impossible to sack
Speaker 2: the quarterback violently without getting a penalty like the baseball.
Speaker 2: It took them a long time and then they're like,
Speaker 2: you know what the shift to effective. Guess what new
Speaker 2: rules can't do it? Sorry? Sorry, Oh you were all
Speaker 2: these things. You have to be ready, willing and able
Speaker 2: to adjust. All right, there's my NBA rant. Now we
Speaker 2: can get to football, demons. Go ahead?
Speaker 3: Was off fair?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: So your chiefs finally made a move for a big
Speaker 3: name of my receiver in DeAndre Hopkins. Now he's not
Speaker 3: the player that he was when he was whack with Houston.
Speaker 3: But do you think that the hop can save us
Speaker 3: struggling Patrick Mahomes willby Mahomes saving DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think anyone, either one of them needs saving.
Speaker 2: But I do think that this is a valuable addition,
Speaker 2: and there's a lot of layers to it. First, let
Speaker 2: me actually talk from Hopkins perspective. You know how many
Speaker 2: quarterbacks DeAndre Hopkins demand has caught a pass from drafted
Speaker 2: the same year as Kelsey. So this is year twelve
Speaker 2: for him. Drafted in twenty thirteen. Give it a guess
Speaker 2: how many quarterbacks?
Speaker 3: Seven? Six or seven?
Speaker 2: You're close. Seventeen. He has caught a pass from seventeen quarterbacks. Okay,
Speaker 2: So like I. DeAndre Hopkins, who is an all timer,
Speaker 2: five time All Pro, three time first team All Pro,
Speaker 2: he has caught passes from the f In his Houston
Speaker 2: days before Deshaun Watson got there, he had Brandon Whedon,
Speaker 2: Case Keenum, Ryan Mallet who passed away, Matt schaub tj Yates,
Speaker 2: Brock Osweiler, Brian Hoyer. Those are his quarterbacks before Deshaun.
Speaker 2: They then get to Shawn. He gets thirty eight games
Speaker 2: with Deshaun and they're awesome together. He then goes to Arizona.
Speaker 2: They have Kyler Murray. They have thirty games together, pretty good.
Speaker 2: Kyler gets hurt with Arizona. He then gets Colt McCoy,
Speaker 2: Trace McSorley, and Chris Streveler. He then signs with the
Speaker 2: Titans and gets Ryan Tannehill, Will Levis Mason Rudolph And
Speaker 2: there's one other quarterback that I'm leaving out, but that's
Speaker 2: all right. That's those are his.
Speaker 3: Quarterable Johan Deshaun Watson Houston was the best quarterback of all.
Speaker 2: Those by a mile, by a mile. And so, oh,
Speaker 2: it's as bad as it gets.
Speaker 3: Man Malik Willis. Maybe, Oh it's Malik Willis. Alink is
Speaker 3: that the name he left?
Speaker 2: No, because Malik Willis never threw him up the Malik.
Speaker 2: He never caught a pass from Malik Willis. He has Malik.
Speaker 2: There are two people, not all of the seventeen. They're
Speaker 2: nineteen people have thrown him a pass. He's caught one
Speaker 2: from seventeen. The two have thrown him a pass they
Speaker 2: didn't catch one from Is Malik Willis and Derrick Henry
Speaker 2: h oo for two one targets by those two guys.
Speaker 2: So for d Hop this is an oasis in the
Speaker 2: quarterback desert. And it's a really cool deal that it's
Speaker 2: not like a make a wish thing, but there is
Speaker 2: a cool thing that happens every year in the NFL
Speaker 2: that I don't know why he doesn't get talked about more.
Speaker 2: Which is the pre eminent dynasty with the best quarterback
Speaker 2: we've ever seen. Once a year surveys the landscape and says,
Speaker 2: who can we save and cup and who can we
Speaker 2: give a new lease on their career? That's with a
Speaker 2: terrible quarterback situation, dysfunctional franchise. And two years ago they're like,
Speaker 2: you know what, young Djoka Kadarius Tony, come on down
Speaker 2: to a real organization, learn to play football with the
Speaker 2: Chiefs and play your cards right, you get to score
Speaker 2: a touchdown in the Super Bowl. And he's like, okay, deal,
Speaker 2: and he did and they did. And then the next
Speaker 2: year they look at the landscape again, who can we save,
Speaker 2: old friend mccol hardman, We get you out of the
Speaker 2: Jets dysfunction. Come on down and guess what, you'll get
Speaker 2: to score a touchdown in the Super Bowl. And this
Speaker 2: year it's DeAndre Hopkins. Look around. You know what, will
Speaker 2: Levis Mason come on to Kansas City and in a
Speaker 2: few months DeAndre will get to score a touchdown in
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. It'll be great for all parties involved. Now,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't love old receivers. And he's thirty two,
Speaker 2: which is why one of the reasons the Chiefs are
Speaker 2: the Chiefs is because they didn't give up a third
Speaker 2: round pick for DeVante Adams a third round pick for
Speaker 2: Amari Cooper. They gave up a fifth round pick and
Speaker 2: Tennessee's picking up half the money for DeAndre Hopkins. And
Speaker 2: what Hopkins will do is play the exact role Rashi
Speaker 2: Rice was playing. He won't be as good after the catch,
Speaker 2: but it'll be excellent at the catch point. The slot receiver.
Speaker 2: That'll be a Mahomes third down guy, and it'll work.
Speaker 2: It just flatly will work. Do I think the Chiefs
Speaker 2: would have been fine anyways? But this is minimal cost,
Speaker 2: not super high upside, but a little upside. Just like
Speaker 2: I really liked the Amari Cooper moved for the Bills.
Speaker 2: I like this move for the Chiefs. I wouldn't I
Speaker 2: there was rumors that, oh, the Rams want a second
Speaker 2: round pick for Cooper cup I would not have wanted that.
Speaker 2: That's too eye of a price. And Cooper, even though
Speaker 2: he's a great player, his ankles might be shot his
Speaker 2: injury stuff. It's less of an injury concern with DeAndre Hopkins,
Speaker 2: and he's just gonna be a reliable third down target.
Speaker 3: So isn't it like kind of wild? Like what's at
Speaker 3: stake for the Chiefs they give up the hop for
Speaker 3: a fifth rounder, conditional fourth. It's like, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know, well, and by the way, you know what I'm
Speaker 2: so a couple of things. One is, I'm glad you
Speaker 2: mentioned the conditional fourth part of it because I called
Speaker 2: it a fifth rounder. I really should call it a
Speaker 2: fourth rounder because the condition is the Chiefs make the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, and obviously they're going to, so it'll end
Speaker 2: up being a fourth round pick. I don't think there
Speaker 2: was a I don't think there was a huge market.
Speaker 2: And I also think that while the rest of the league,
Speaker 2: like there's been a lot of reports that teams don't
Speaker 2: want to help the Chiefs threepete and there's you know,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs got to pay a premium on this stuff.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs and Titans did business this summer. The Chiefs
Speaker 2: traded lugerious sneed to Tennessee. So there is a relationship there,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And maybe I'm not sure,
Speaker 2: but I do wonder. I do wonder. I don't know
Speaker 2: this at all raw naked speculation. I wonder if when
Speaker 2: Brett Veach was negotiating the trade with Tennessee and Brett
Speaker 2: said I want X, and Tennessee said, well, how about why,
Speaker 2: and then they're going through it. If he brought up
Speaker 2: to him, hey, all right, we wanted an extra sixth
Speaker 2: round pick in this deal. But never no, you will
Speaker 2: take your guys last best off, or keep that in
Speaker 2: mind if at some point this year you decide you
Speaker 2: want to be sellers. In regards to DeAndre Hopkins, because
Speaker 2: Hopkins had looked at the Chiefs a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: I think there were a lot of us that going
Speaker 2: into the year were like, man, Tennessee's not gonna be
Speaker 2: as good as they think they're gonna be. You know,
Speaker 2: that's a guy on this very show. I said his name.
Speaker 2: He was one of the first names I listed because
Speaker 2: I didn't think he'd be that expensive from a draft
Speaker 2: or salary compensation. So those relationships do matter, and those
Speaker 2: relationships are good, and I expect demonse and you have
Speaker 2: to follow up to see DeAndre in a few packages
Speaker 2: on the field this Sunday against the Raiders.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So, I mean the Raiders are the most recent
Speaker 3: team to beat the Chiefs, and they also took the
Speaker 3: offseason to mock Patrick Mahomes with the whole Kermit the
Speaker 3: Frock thing. So what do you think Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 3: the Chiefs have in store with them this Sunday.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't listen. I don't think they're gonna forget
Speaker 2: the I think Mahomes will do something and then do
Speaker 2: a mimic Kermit the Frog thing himself. I think that's
Speaker 2: totally on the board. I also think that they're not
Speaker 2: going to forget Antonio Pierce saying he has the recipe
Speaker 2: to beat the Chiefs and listen, you are the last
Speaker 2: season that works out. Yeah, over the summer. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we have the recipe and so listen. As long as
Speaker 2: we double team Max Crosby every play, this game should
Speaker 2: be no problem whatsoever. All right, let's go to the
Speaker 2: Cowboys demanse Well.
Speaker 3: So, earlier this week, Jerry Jones seemed to take a
Speaker 3: shot at his head coach Mike McCarthy and saying that
Speaker 3: the plays were bad plays and bad concepts, bad designs,
Speaker 3: all that it's not like Jerry Jones has any control
Speaker 3: over who's the head coach. But then a ton of
Speaker 3: former Cowboys players came out and said, on the record,
Speaker 3: has been very distracting, that there's been tourists were in
Speaker 3: the facility while they have practices or is this all
Speaker 3: nothing or is there something? There? Is this bigger than
Speaker 3: what you thought initially?
Speaker 2: Well, listen, the tours article is insane. I didn't understand
Speaker 2: the scope of it. The tickets are forty bucks apiece,
Speaker 2: forty bucks right, ninety bucks if you want to talk
Speaker 2: to hologram Jerry Jones after the tour, that's true story.
Speaker 2: But let's just assume. So let's assume that the average
Speaker 2: ticket ends up costing fifty because the cheapest is forty,
Speaker 2: the most expensive is ninety. Most people probably buy the tickets,
Speaker 2: but they make ten million dollars a year off this.
Speaker 2: So ten million divided by fifty dollars means they're selling
Speaker 2: two hundred thousand tour tickets a year. Two hundred thousand.
Speaker 2: There's a tour every twenty minutes almost every day. That
Speaker 2: is a lot. And and here's the other thing, the
Speaker 2: crazy thing about it in the article, this isn't a
Speaker 2: money grab by Jerry Jones. Of that ten million, you
Speaker 2: know how much the Cowboys get one hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: two thousand dollars because it's considered football revenue. So the
Speaker 2: way the math on that works is all football revenue
Speaker 2: gets split with the players and then split with every team.
Speaker 2: So the players get forty eight percent, the league gets
Speaker 2: fifty two percent. So ten million bucks forty eight percent
Speaker 2: off the top of the players. Now you have five
Speaker 2: point two million, five point two million divided by thirty
Speaker 2: two teams. Now you have one hundred and sixty two thousand,
Speaker 2: five hundred dollars. So you might be like, why does
Speaker 2: Jerry do it? And it's not because of the money.
Speaker 2: It's because of the attention. It's because we're the Dallas
Speaker 2: dam Cowboys were the biggest show in town and we
Speaker 2: want this is how we want to do business. And
Speaker 2: the players hate it. And I don't blame them. I couldn't.
Speaker 2: I couldn't when I always knew the Cowboys did these tours.
Speaker 2: We've heard people talk about it. I assumed Demonsey it
Speaker 2: was like a thousand bucks a ticket or given out
Speaker 2: to corporations or long times, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: the occasional like guess what you and four friends for
Speaker 2: being a loyal season ticket holder can tour the facility.
Speaker 2: I didn't think it was a group of ten to
Speaker 2: twenty people every half hour it's just going through the facility.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: He's also telling them like, it's like you could just
Speaker 3: do that during the off season. They're like, don't talk
Speaker 3: to the players. It's worked on them. Why don't you
Speaker 3: make it work?
Speaker 2: People want to see, right, people want to see the players.
Speaker 2: And Jerry's quotes on this were unbelievable, where he said,
Speaker 2: no one's ever complained about it, but it wouldn't matter
Speaker 2: if they did. I mean this, it's just all time.
Speaker 2: I used to think that Jerry Jones distraction stuff was overwrought.
Speaker 2: Not so much anymore. The guy does seem to be
Speaker 2: a bit of a menace. When it comes to the
Speaker 2: Cowboys succeeding. It's really an unbelievable story. And they play
Speaker 2: the Niners this week. Uh, and we'll see if that
Speaker 2: that comes up in Knicks picks for the It's a
Speaker 2: huge game for both teams, obviously, I would argue actually
Speaker 2: a bigger game for the Niners because the Niners always
Speaker 2: beat the Cowboys, and if they don't win this week
Speaker 2: and fall to three and five, it's a sign of
Speaker 2: real structural problems with the team right now. Meanwhile, in
Speaker 2: a weird way. Since the Cowboys always lose to the Niners,
Speaker 2: losing to them won't be as much of a shock
Speaker 2: to the system. Also, in the NFC East, I think
Speaker 2: Washington's gonna lose to Chicago this weekend because I don't
Speaker 2: think Jayden's playing, and I think the Eagles are gonna
Speaker 2: lose to the Bengals. So even if the Cowboys lose,
Speaker 2: they could potentially keep pace in the NFC East. Uh right, yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit. All right, let's go to the Rams.
Speaker 3: Yes, so the Rams year is obviously not gone as
Speaker 3: good as they hoped. You were Hio in La before
Speaker 3: the season. But injuries across.
Speaker 2: The board the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, injuries across the board have them at two and
Speaker 3: four right now. Cup and Stafford were in some weird
Speaker 3: trade rumors. The Rams win tonight versus Minnesota, they're right
Speaker 3: back in that thing. What do you think is gonna
Speaker 3: happen with this team?
Speaker 2: All right? The Stafford trade rumors were wild, like, and
Speaker 2: I think I think they were pretty unfounded. But it
Speaker 2: was that Minnesota might try to trade for him, which
Speaker 2: is who they're playing tonight. And Sam Darnold's got to
Speaker 2: be like, what the what are you kidding? Wasn't I
Speaker 2: on like everybody's MVP list a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: Like now we're trading, by the way, let me tell
Speaker 2: you something. Right now, Vikings trading for Matt Stafford.
Speaker 3: I would, yeah, immediately right.
Speaker 2: More than contenders, the favorites in the NFC, the hands
Speaker 2: down favorites in the NFC, if they would do that.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's gonna happen. Uh, but it's a
Speaker 2: really weird spot, Like, let's just talk about those rumors
Speaker 2: for a second again. I think it's very, very unlikely,
Speaker 2: but in a weird way. Like if you're Sam Darnald
Speaker 2: tonight and you think these rumors are real, you're like, well,
Speaker 2: let's let's let's game this out. I play really. I
Speaker 2: play well tonight. We win and we beat the Rams,
Speaker 2: and the Rams realize their season's over, they need to
Speaker 2: hold a fire sale and Stafford's available. That's not good
Speaker 2: for me. Okay, let's play out the other side of it.
Speaker 2: I play poorly tonight and we lose. Well, that's not
Speaker 2: good for me either. Poor Sam Darnald's kind of gonna lose. Lose.
Speaker 2: You're playing because you're playing the Rams, you beat them
Speaker 2: to say, to show you should be the guy. It
Speaker 2: makes it more likely that that quarterback's available. I don't
Speaker 2: think they're trading Stafford. I also thought, you know, Pooka
Speaker 2: my return tonight. They think Kupp could return tonight. I
Speaker 2: or is supposed to play to night. I should say
Speaker 2: I thought the I thought the Rams were pretty transparent
Speaker 2: and leaking to the media. Oh yeah, I mean, we'd
Speaker 2: hate to trade Cooper Cup, but for the low low
Speaker 2: price of a second round pick, we'd trade him. Like,
Speaker 2: no one's giving you a second round pick for Cooper
Speaker 2: Cup and all his ankle injuries and the salary has
Speaker 2: left nobody's doing that. But I still think demanse and
Speaker 2: maybe this is just me being tied to my preseason priors.
Speaker 2: The Rams, if they get healthy, could turn it around.
Speaker 2: And I will remind the audience that the Rams last
Speaker 2: year started three and six and then ended up ten
Speaker 2: and seven and in a back and forth one point
Speaker 2: playoff game against the Lions. But this they really have
Speaker 2: to steal this one tonight, because falling to two and
Speaker 2: five might be a hole too big when you still
Speaker 2: have on the schedule at Seattle, at San Francisco, another
Speaker 2: game against Seattle, home for Philly, home for Buffalo, home
Speaker 2: for Miami, like the Rams need this win and Vikings
Speaker 2: obviously are the Vikings coming off No, they were coming
Speaker 2: off of by last the Vikings coming off a tough loss. Now.
Speaker 2: Other one thing on that though, fun fact because it
Speaker 2: was Vikings Lions this weekend. The Lions this year, every
Speaker 2: team that has played them has lost the following week.
Speaker 2: Remember when the Niners did that a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: where it's like every team that played the Niners then
Speaker 2: lost the following week. The Lions beat you up so
Speaker 2: much it would there's a real trend here where everybody
Speaker 2: that plays the Lions the next week they get beat
Speaker 2: and typically get beat pretty badly. So that probably doesn't
Speaker 2: that maybe doesn't bode well for the Vikings. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's actually a sneaky great Thursday night football game. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go to Let's go to Bronni real quick and
Speaker 2: then move on.
Speaker 3: So, for the first time since twenty sixteen, the Lakers
Speaker 3: won an opening night that obviously wasn't the huge story here.
Speaker 3: Lebron and Bronny took the court together, and even for
Speaker 3: those that hate Lebron. You gotta admit this is a
Speaker 3: really cool thing.
Speaker 2: You take it Listen. I just want to jump in.
Speaker 2: I just want to respond to that part real quick.
Speaker 2: I don't think those people will acknowledge it was a
Speaker 2: really cool thing. I ain't that there, so I couldn't
Speaker 2: help myself but respond to someone on Twitter Fox Sports
Speaker 2: radio guy who I don't know definitively how old this
Speaker 2: guy is, but I would bet a lot of money
Speaker 2: he is younger than me and I I think probably
Speaker 2: in his early thirties. And he tweeted, I'm just gonnad
Speaker 2: you the exact tweet because I was so annoyed by
Speaker 2: it that I was like, you know what, I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna break my prohibition and directly respond to somebody.
Speaker 2: So he tweeted, and this now, of course has thousands
Speaker 2: of retweets. I'll say it so you don't have to.
Speaker 2: There's nothing historic or special about Bronni and Lebron playing together.
Speaker 2: It's solely to satiate the ego of Lebron. James King,
Speaker 2: Griffy Senior and Junior felt special. That felt weird, staged,
Speaker 2: and honestly just awkward. So I'll respond to the merits
Speaker 2: of all that in a second. But here's why I
Speaker 2: replied to this guy, and why I find some of
Speaker 2: this stuff so cartoonish. This line King Griffy Senior and
Speaker 2: Junior felt special, Bro, that was thirty four years ago.
Speaker 2: I don't believe you were alive, and if you were,
Speaker 2: you certainly don't remember how it felt. So don't tell
Speaker 2: me this felt different when you're just making it up.
Speaker 2: You didn't. You can now junior and senior, different caliber players,
Speaker 2: all this stuff, But this pulling on the emotional that
Speaker 2: it felt differently, full of shit. You're just making things up.
Speaker 2: You were either not born or too young to have
Speaker 2: any recollection of how anything felt. So it's just again
Speaker 2: and away. And I saw Michelle Beadle be like yesterday
Speaker 2: basically called the whole thing a sham. Folks, the guy
Speaker 2: who has played more minutes in the NBA than anyone ever,
Speaker 2: who has scored more points in the NBA than anyone ever,
Speaker 2: who is the most hyped prep player in the history
Speaker 2: of the league, who has been scrutinized more than anyone
Speaker 2: in the history of the league, who's had no scandal,
Speaker 2: who's had no off the court issues, who has been
Speaker 2: a leader in his community and at worst the third
Speaker 2: greatest player of all time and at best the greatest
Speaker 2: player of all time, had a kid who we saw
Speaker 2: grow up on the sidelines. That kid then was a
Speaker 2: top college prospect. He then went to a top program
Speaker 2: and his heart stopped and he damn near died on
Speaker 2: the court. He then came back and started playing again
Speaker 2: and was a fringe draftable prospect. The team that still
Speaker 2: employs his dad, arguably the greatest player of all time,
Speaker 2: used a late second round pick on him, and these
Speaker 2: two guys were on the court in an NBA game together.
Speaker 2: It's one of the coolest fucking things in sports. His string.
Speaker 2: And if you dislike Lebron so much that you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: what just a photo op to satiate the guy's ego,
Speaker 2: it you've lost the plot. Now, if later in the
Speaker 2: season Bronnie is, you know, stealing minutes from Austin reeves
Speaker 2: and getting cooked left and right, and Lebron's making it happen,
Speaker 2: that will be a problem. But that's not going to happen, guys,
Speaker 2: And I so listen. I thought it was supered dope.
Speaker 2: And I also think there is an element of and
Speaker 2: this is goes unspoken with a lot of it, but
Speaker 2: all speak to it. We've talked about it a bit
Speaker 2: on this before that in the nineties a huge through
Speaker 2: line of NBA coverage was bad guys, the word thug
Speaker 2: thrown around a lot, absent fathers, kids all over the
Speaker 2: country that they don't see that. Sports Illustrated had a
Speaker 2: horrifying cover we've talked about on the show before, demanday
Speaker 2: of a little black baby boy and the headline it
Speaker 2: was where's daddy? And talking about absentee NBA fathers. The
Speaker 2: face of the league for twenty years has been as
Speaker 2: active as involved parent and husband as we've ever seen
Speaker 2: in sports. And now his oldest son shared the court
Speaker 2: with him in an NBA game. If you can't see that,
Speaker 2: that is an unbelievable story, and save your what aboutism?
Speaker 2: Well what about later, let's see how it plays out.
Speaker 2: But Tuesday night that was dope as hell and so
Speaker 2: oh and again, if you want to take shots at Lebron,
Speaker 2: take shots at Lebron, but don't don't recreate history about
Speaker 2: other moments that you weren't around for and how they're different.
Speaker 2: Just nonsense. Get Week eight Gambling Show next. What's right?
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Speaker 2: dking dot co slash b ball. All right, so here, demonse,
Speaker 2: here's where we're at on my season picks. We weren't
Speaker 2: here last week. The week before last, I went one
Speaker 2: and four, first true disaster of the season. Last week
Speaker 2: I went three and two. We'll get to that in
Speaker 2: a second. That means through seven weeks, I've made thirty
Speaker 2: five picks. Theoretically, since it's an odd number, I shouldn't
Speaker 2: be able to be five hundred, but I had one
Speaker 2: push in there, which has allowed me to be seventeen
Speaker 2: seventeen and one, which does mean if I had gotten
Speaker 2: in order to be tied with Demonse in his picks,
Speaker 2: I would have needed ten of those losses to be wins.
Speaker 2: Would I just just ten bets go a different way,
Speaker 2: and I'd be where he is? But last week I
Speaker 2: felt pretty good about it. We weren't able to do
Speaker 2: it on the show, but we'll talk you through it.
Speaker 2: The Jags prohibition ended. I promptly bet them laying five
Speaker 2: and a half in London. They were down early, didn't matter.
Speaker 2: The Patriots stink. The Titans plus nine and a half.
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, man that bs that I didn't
Speaker 2: win that bet. You might say, Nick, they lost by
Speaker 2: one hundred. They were up ten zero. I was catching
Speaker 2: nearly ten points. The game started ten to nothing Titans,
Speaker 2: and then Buffalo scored thirty four consecutive points. But my
Speaker 2: other three bets I loved as well, even though only
Speaker 2: one two of them. Chief plus one and a half
Speaker 2: at the Niners Auto must fire every time the Chiefs
Speaker 2: are underdogs. It might happen again this year. Who knows.
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh plus one and a half against the Jets. That
Speaker 2: game didn't start well, ended great, and then and I
Speaker 2: gotta tell you, I know you're gonna say I'm crazy
Speaker 2: Tampa plus three and Alfagans Baltimore. I don't feel badly
Speaker 2: about that bet get and I know that they ended
Speaker 2: up getting blown out yet well they can't exactly. They
Speaker 2: came out ten, oh, they should have come out fourteen nothing.
Speaker 2: Then they drove again and Baker through that pick in
Speaker 2: the end zone. So I felt like good process for
Speaker 2: all of these picks yesterday or last week three and two.
Speaker 2: Now here's the thing is, you guys might be able
Speaker 2: to see if you follow me on Twitter. My guy
Speaker 2: Zach has been making these awesome graphics for us, and
Speaker 2: one of them is my season long betting trends and
Speaker 2: scores and everything. And he informed me I am ten
Speaker 2: and three when betting on AFC teams and seven and
Speaker 2: fourteen when betting on NFC teams, which would lead you
Speaker 2: to believe I have a much better pulse of the
Speaker 2: AFC right now that in NFC, which is a little disconcerting. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's exactly right. I always lose to the NFC. You're right.
Speaker 2: It's also a little disconcerting because in reviewing my wagers
Speaker 2: for this week, four of the five NFC teams, I
Speaker 2: gotta turn it around somehow. I gotta turn it around somehow.
Speaker 2: So the first one Demond's, however, is my one AFC team.
Speaker 2: You're gonna hate it. I'm sure. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got Cleveland plus eight and a half versus Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just yeah, I'm just gonna be I might
Speaker 2: logic on this is twofold. First one AFC North games.
Speaker 2: You should not be laying more than a touchdown in
Speaker 2: any circumstance that it's divisional games. The division's too well contested.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't ever be laying more than eight and a half.
Speaker 2: And the other and by the way, just back that up.
Speaker 2: Dogs in AFC North games are forty five and thirty
Speaker 2: one against the spread in their last seventy six games
Speaker 2: or whatever that is. But here's the other reason. The
Speaker 2: Browns team just got a new lease on the season.
Speaker 2: With Jamis being the quarterback, you are going to see
Speaker 2: more excitement and belief in that offense than you have
Speaker 2: seen all year. And Baltimore the one thing they can't
Speaker 2: do is defend the pass. Now, I understand Amari Cooper's gone.
Speaker 2: I'm not acting like Jamis is gonna be great. Finish well,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, that's the right aways. Yes, the back door
Speaker 2: is always wide open with the Ravens. You're one hundred
Speaker 2: correct on that. And so do I feel great about
Speaker 2: betting Jamis Winston and the Cleveland Browns uh in any spot?
Speaker 2: I don't. But do I feel like that a home
Speaker 2: divisional dog of eight and a half points is almost
Speaker 2: a must fire, especially if you think that team's defense
Speaker 2: in Cleveland is pretty decent. I do. So I'll take
Speaker 2: Baltimore plus the eight and a half.
Speaker 3: Next, and next you've got green Bay minus four at Jacksonville.
Speaker 2: So fade and the Prince and so here's here's why
Speaker 2: I think this is the rare time where laying laying
Speaker 2: more than a field goal on the road is the
Speaker 2: sharp side of things. I don't think it can be
Speaker 2: overstated how bad Jacksonville's defense is. The Jags defense can't
Speaker 2: cover anyone. The Packers have three viable legitimate receivers, and
Speaker 2: Jordan Love is out here trying to throw four touchdowns
Speaker 2: a game. Now, you might throw a couple picks with it,
Speaker 2: but he he is foot on neck at all times,
Speaker 2: and so I just feel like this is a game.
Speaker 2: Green Bay scores thirty one thirty two points and I
Speaker 2: don't think Jacksonville is gonna get to the high twenties.
Speaker 2: I think green Bay's defense has been better than I expected.
Speaker 2: This year feels like a thirty one, twenty one, thirty
Speaker 2: one twenty four type of green Bay win. So I
Speaker 2: just think Jags have arguably the worst defense in the
Speaker 2: NFL right now. It's certainly on the very short list.
Speaker 2: So this listen, I feel bad fading the Prince, but
Speaker 2: green Bay minus four, I think it is the sharp
Speaker 2: side of this one demonsa your thoughts.
Speaker 3: And I like green Bay minus I'm yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: trust exactly twenty one was I thought the Jags wuld
Speaker 3: score there, and I don't trust the Jags at all.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on there. Like from everything,
Speaker 3: I can't blame it on Doug Peterson. It just seems
Speaker 3: like the players don't even want to catch the ball,
Speaker 3: and then when they can, Lawrence is overthrowing it. It's
Speaker 3: what I'm seeing on the field. It's like he can't
Speaker 3: execute the play.
Speaker 2: Wow, players, Well that's what he said. That's what That's
Speaker 2: what Doug Peterson said, the exact thing. Also, I will
Speaker 2: say this and I'm listen, I'm not besmirching your handicapping
Speaker 2: abilities at all. But I would wager a lot of
Speaker 2: money and one of these games they were terrible, and
Speaker 2: one of these games they were excellent. That you have
Speaker 2: not seen a second of JAG's football the last two
Speaker 2: weeks because back to back weeks they were six thirty
Speaker 2: am West Coast start times, and I just don't think
Speaker 2: you were getting game.
Speaker 3: And I've had on their past games.
Speaker 2: And so but I think that's actually fine because they
Speaker 2: look terrible in the first one again in Chicago. They
Speaker 2: looked good in this last one. But you're playing the
Speaker 2: damn Patriots, So what does it really matter? Right? All right?
Speaker 2: Next one?
Speaker 3: Next we've got Atlanta minus two and a half at
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay.
Speaker 2: Hold on, I think you just skipped one, didn't you.
Speaker 2: Oh no, oh, no, I skipped That's my bad. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: you're right. Yeah. I just worry that Atlanta. I'm sorry
Speaker 2: that Tampa Ravens beat them twice. Yeah, I just think
Speaker 2: the emotional toll of that loss and no godwin, No
Speaker 2: Evans Baker also got beat up in that game.
Speaker 3: I'm just Tampa gotten DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 2: If they wanted, well, sure they could have tried. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2: But I just, I really I think that when did
Speaker 2: the Chiefs trade for DeAndre? It was Tuesday? Right? Was
Speaker 2: it on our two? No?
Speaker 3: This is this is Wednesday. This wasn't interesting.
Speaker 2: Lose yesterday, Okay, So that's why I didn't know if
Speaker 2: it was yesterday morning or the day before yesterday. Okay,
Speaker 2: the you're probably right, doesn't matter. You are right. It
Speaker 2: was yesterday morning. It broke. It broke like early early morning,
Speaker 2: yesterday morning. Uh, And so point that I the reason
Speaker 2: I'm asking it is it does seem like the Chiefs
Speaker 2: and Titans were working on it Monday, even if it
Speaker 2: wasn't done, and Tampa didn't know they were gonna need
Speaker 2: a receiver on Monday. So the now, I do think
Speaker 2: they're gonna get Mike Evans back. I just think that
Speaker 2: Tampa's defense has been highly disappointing. Atlanta's gonna be able
Speaker 2: to move the ball, and I just think that that
Speaker 2: type of loss against Baltimore, where you get beat up
Speaker 2: and you lose key players, I just could see Atlanta
Speaker 2: having real control of this game, even as bad as
Speaker 2: they looked last week. I'm laying less than a field
Speaker 2: goal again, I'm taking another road favorite, which is typically
Speaker 2: not the sharp side of things, but I do that
Speaker 2: a few times. This week, I'm gonna lay the two
Speaker 2: and a half with Atlantic because I think the Tampa
Speaker 2: injuries are too much. And Baker, by the way, is
Speaker 2: four and ten against the spread at home against division opponents,
Speaker 2: and Kirk Cousins, off a loss, is forty and twenty
Speaker 2: six against the spread, which is fifth best since he
Speaker 2: in the last twenty years in the NFL. All right,
Speaker 2: next one. I'm telling you right now, I don't feel
Speaker 2: great about this, but I feel like I'm obligated to
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, You've got a New Orleans plus seven at
Speaker 3: the Chargers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So here's the deal. I obviously don't think New
Speaker 2: Orleans is good. In fact, I think they're bad, really
Speaker 2: really bad. However, the following people for the Chargers did
Speaker 2: not even practice yesterday. Darius Davis, will Disley, Hayden Hurst,
Speaker 2: Quinton Johnston, Lad McConkie, Denzel Perryman. They had another four
Speaker 2: guys that were limited in practice. Also, they are they
Speaker 2: they don't score points, so how are they really going
Speaker 2: to cover seven? Their points scored this year are twenty two,
Speaker 2: twenty six, ten, ten, twenty three and fifteen New Orleans
Speaker 2: for all its faults, and you know, and I think again,
Speaker 2: I think New Orleans is a bad team. New Orleans,
Speaker 2: prior to last week against the Broncos, had been able
Speaker 2: to move the ball most of the year and score
Speaker 2: some points. I just think that this also, there will
Speaker 2: unequivocally be far more Saints fans at this game in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles than there are New Orleans fans. I just
Speaker 2: I don't think the Chargers have earned the right to
Speaker 2: be a touchdown favorite over anyone. So I'll begrudgingly take
Speaker 2: the seven points and believe this is going I mean,
Speaker 2: last game the Chargers play, they didn't score any touchdowns
Speaker 2: and Herbert once again got beat up. The offensive line,
Speaker 2: pardon me, has not been as good as advertised. This
Speaker 2: just really feels to me like a seventeen thirteen, seventeen, fourteen,
Speaker 2: sixteen to ten ugly game where New Orleans is not.
Speaker 2: New Orleans is gonna get to the teams. And I
Speaker 2: just don't know that the Chargers are scoring twenty plus.
Speaker 2: That offense has been wholly uninspiring. So I'll take New
Speaker 2: Orleans plus the seven.
Speaker 3: Last one, demonsee, last one, Yes, Chicago Brin's two and
Speaker 3: a half at Washington my favorite.
Speaker 2: Well, so listen, this is my third road favorite I'm taking.
Speaker 2: But I am also gonna mention road fats are sixteen
Speaker 2: and two against the spread the last few weeks. And
Speaker 2: this is a very very simple math. Jaden Daniels isn't playing,
Speaker 2: and Marcus Mariota is not going to be able to
Speaker 2: duplicate what he did to Carolina, that Chicago defense is
Speaker 2: going to get after Mariota, that Mariota is not an
Speaker 2: NFL starting caliber quarterback, Chicago off of by huge spot
Speaker 2: bad defense in Washington, and Washington star young quarterback's not
Speaker 2: going to be playing. The Bears are winning this game,
Speaker 2: and they're winning this game by more than a field goal.
Speaker 2: And so I now, if Jaden plays, I would feel
Speaker 2: totally differently. But this line says Vegas does not think
Speaker 2: Jaden is playing. The Bears would not be two and
Speaker 2: a half point road favorites against Chicago if Jaden were playing.
Speaker 2: In fact, I think i'm the Bears not be two
Speaker 2: and a half road favorites against one Washington if Jade
Speaker 2: were playing. In fact, I think it would be Washington
Speaker 2: by two instead of Chicago by two. And a half.
Speaker 3: So actually flexing this game to like a different time slot,
Speaker 3: and now it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: It was gonna be a yeah, it's a bummer. It
Speaker 2: was gonna be just the regular one o'clock game with
Speaker 2: I think Cincinnati, uh, Philadelphia being the marquee CBS game
Speaker 2: with Nanson Romo. They flexed this one, and now that's
Speaker 2: kind of a bummer for CBS now Nanson Romo if
Speaker 2: Jayden doesn't play. But yeah, that is exactly what happened.
Speaker 2: All right, So my five picks for the week, after
Speaker 2: nine of my last ten picks had been underdogs, we
Speaker 2: have three favorites Atlanta Road favorite of two and a
Speaker 2: half at Tampa, Chicago Road favorite of two and a
Speaker 2: half at Washington, Green Bay Road favorite of four at Jacksonville.
Speaker 2: And then two big dogs, New Orleans plus seven at
Speaker 2: the Chargers and Cleveland plus eight and a half half
Speaker 2: at Baltimore. All right, Demons, you have four straight winning teasers,
Speaker 2: two that we haven't yet. You know that since we
Speaker 2: weren't on the air last week two weeks ago. Your
Speaker 2: teaser Houston plus a half point at New England, they
Speaker 2: blew them out. Washington plus fourteen at Baltimore. They were
Speaker 2: in it the whole game. They ended up losing by seven.
Speaker 2: A plus teaser, my friend, that's a great one. And
Speaker 2: then last week, you want to talk us through last weeks.
Speaker 3: It was a two team seven and a half point teaser.
Speaker 3: I cheezed the I tease the Chiefs up to nine
Speaker 3: against San Francisco and Houston up to plus ten at
Speaker 3: Green Bay, and those both worked out pretty well.
Speaker 2: Easy way. And both of those were covering the whole time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: both of those were covering the entire time. So what
Speaker 2: are we looking at this week?
Speaker 3: So this week it's a two teamy seven point teaser
Speaker 3: at minus one four.
Speaker 2: Roll not seven and a half. You're going away from
Speaker 2: seven and a half point.
Speaker 3: The only reason I the only reason I ever go
Speaker 3: to the half point is just to if it's like
Speaker 3: thirteen and a half to get.
Speaker 2: To fourteen numbers, yeah, or whatever it may be.
Speaker 3: But yeah, So, I mean, this week we're teasing Cleveland
Speaker 3: up to plus fifteen and a half against Baltimore, and
Speaker 3: I'm teasing the Chiefs down to minus two and a
Speaker 3: half at the Raiders. And I had some other teasers
Speaker 3: in mine here that were a little chippy but you know,
Speaker 3: I went through the process a little bit long, a
Speaker 3: little bit longer, and this is what I came up with,
Speaker 3: And yeah, I think this will cash. I like this
Speaker 3: one a lot.
Speaker 2: Can I tell you something.
Speaker 3: A plus A plus? I don't think I mean a plus.
Speaker 3: It is week one.
Speaker 2: Getting the Chiefs down to two and a half is perfect,
Speaker 2: and getting Cleveland up through not only fourteen, but fifteen
Speaker 2: as well, which has become a slightly not a but
Speaker 2: because two point conversions being more prevalent, it's a little
Speaker 2: more important than it used to be. I love this,
Speaker 2: I love, love, love this teaser, and I also love
Speaker 2: that you didn't I was worried you were gonna tease
Speaker 2: the Jets.
Speaker 3: Hold on. So yeah, so I actually didn't hear what
Speaker 3: you said for like the last five seconds. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I was saying I love the teaser. I
Speaker 2: think you did great, and I but I was I
Speaker 2: was worried you were gonna tease the Jets, because the
Speaker 2: Jets the Jets from minus seven just to straight up
Speaker 2: beat the Patriots. Problem is no, and I think patri
Speaker 2: are the worst team in the league. But until the
Speaker 2: Jets win a game, they can lose to anybody. I
Speaker 2: know that sounds, but I'm like, I just wouldn't want
Speaker 2: the Jets to involve. So I love this teaser. I
Speaker 2: think this is a sharp teaser. All right, let's do
Speaker 2: touchdown Jeanie real quick before we answer some questions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're taking a break off the offer to
Speaker 3: reassess the process TM. In the meantime, let's bring back
Speaker 3: out the touchdown Jeanie. So, who's scoring a touchdown this week?
Speaker 3: Between or not between? We got Kansas City Hopkins? No, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. You go ahead and pick your anytime touchdown score.
Speaker 3: I forgotten.
Speaker 2: So the the earfine. The options are Hopkins plus one sixty,
Speaker 2: Kelsey plus one oh five, Xavier Worthy plus one sixty five.
Speaker 2: This is the week Travis Kelce gets in the end zone.
Speaker 2: Uh and so that the god dog it. That's so annoying.
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 2: Sorry, nothing, I'll I'll tell you in a minute. Uh
Speaker 2: So Kelsey is Kelsey is my bet? There, Kelsey would
Speaker 2: be my bet. I think he's gonna score. He kills
Speaker 2: the Raiders. He scored four one game against the Raiders.
Speaker 2: He had seven catches for twenty six yards and four touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Seven catches twenty six yards four touchdowns. That picture of
Speaker 2: me and Kelsey celebrating the Super Bowl two years ago
Speaker 2: after the parade in the club where it says al
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Speaker 2: he would always talk about it, and Kelsey scored four touchdowns.
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Speaker 2: some listener questions Please.
Speaker 3: Jeff Bergstorm or Bergstrom, a podcaster is never late, nor
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Speaker 2: That's a well done turn of phrase, Jeff. Listen, and
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Speaker 3: Next, Eric, who says, question from a TV from a
Speaker 3: TV product perspective, what do you think is the difference
Speaker 3: from the Dynasty Warriors, which were super popular in Missoula ball? Oh?
Speaker 2: So, I so, listen, I don't think people understand the
Speaker 2: volume of threes I'm talking about, Okay, the Warriors, the
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen Warriors, for the record, not only did they
Speaker 2: not shoot the most threes in the league, they were
Speaker 2: below average in three point attempts per game. Right at it,
Speaker 2: they were twenty nine a game, which was sixteenth in
Speaker 2: the league. The Rockets were far and away the most
Speaker 2: at forty two a game. So this is what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about, Okay. In twenty eighteen the most in the
Speaker 2: league were Rockets with twenty eight with forty two a game,
Speaker 2: And that was when I asked Daryl about it. The
Speaker 2: previous year, the highest was the Rockets at forty. Number
Speaker 2: two was thirty three. Okay, so seven years ago one
Speaker 2: team took more than thirty four to threes a game.
Speaker 2: All right, Now, let's jump ahead to last year and
Speaker 2: I can pull it up for you right now. So
Speaker 2: and keep in mind those Dynastic Warriors were shoot but
Speaker 2: seven years ago one team shot more than thirty four
Speaker 2: threes a game. Last year, Demansey, you know how many
Speaker 2: teams shot more than thirty four threes a game? Seventeen
Speaker 2: seventeen teams. So it's just the game has just changed
Speaker 2: and so massively, and again through one game this year
Speaker 2: we had we've had seven of the twenty four teams
Speaker 2: that have played shot more than forty threes in their
Speaker 2: opening night. I just don't think it's good for So
Speaker 2: it's not about the Celtics. It's about this. The Celtics
Speaker 2: are the best team and right now they're playing mathematically
Speaker 2: the smartest, so the only chance anyone's going to have
Speaker 2: is to do the same thing. And it's just like
Speaker 2: it's just not good for the sport. I know, I'm right,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: Next uh, Steven Weather says, who in the year with
Speaker 3: more wins Demonse's teasers or Trevor.
Speaker 2: Lawrence Monse's teasers. Yeah, I was about to say these teasers.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's no question about it.
Speaker 3: Justin next week. Next week, got Scott Frasier. What does
Speaker 3: Buffalo need to at least have a chance to get
Speaker 3: past Kansas City or Baltimore this year? Cooper was a start?
Speaker 3: What else do they need?
Speaker 2: I listen, Buffalo has a chance. They have a chance.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's more that that they are gonna
Speaker 2: be able to add. They're just listen. They're gonna need
Speaker 2: Josh Allen to have the game of his life in
Speaker 2: January and for the Chiefs to stumble like I'm the
Speaker 2: Chiefs Bills thing they play in a month. We can
Speaker 2: talk about it more there and then the Ryan Fitzgerald
Speaker 2: has an interesting question, So go ahead.
Speaker 3: Are the Bucks more likely to make the Eastern Conference
Speaker 3: finals or miss the playoffs?
Speaker 2: Make the I mean, listen, I don't think they're I
Speaker 2: don't think they're gonna make these reference finals, but you're
Speaker 2: not missing the playoffs with a healthy honest, So the
Speaker 2: answer is make the conference. He did a weird thing,
Speaker 2: which wherever weird, Yeah, we don't win the championship, they
Speaker 2: might get rid of me. It's like nobody. I mean,
Speaker 2: I feel like that's you letting them know if they
Speaker 2: don't win a championship, you might want to leave. We'd
Speaker 2: weird spots. That's a that's another one of the prongs
Speaker 2: of the NBA that I didn't even get into. All Right,
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