WEBVTT - Super Bowl Roundup with Kevin Harlan 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:08.480 From the King of Sports Books comes the Key Sports 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:18.880 podcast Unleashed, presented by the MGM. Here's your host, Jerry 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:28.840 Ferrara and Olivia Harland Decker. Welcome to Unleashed. Life without 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.600 Super Bowl and Football starts right now. Olivia Harland Decker, 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:35.800 Jerry Ferrara, We are back from Arizona where we had 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.640 a pretty damn good time. What don't you say, Jerry, 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:41.680 It was awesome. I didn't want it to end because 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.320 then you go back to the reality of also knowing 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.760 that this is the last game of the season, and 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.839 I want to crawl into a moment of darkness and 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.200 retreat now on Sundays, though only Sundays, because I don't 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.040 know what else to do with myself now that football 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.600 has gone. You know there's someone else who might join 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.960 you in this darkness retreat. Literally, as those out there 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.640 are listening to this, Aaron Rodgers is in some dark 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:07.600 hole which is really dismal. So Darry I heard he 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.840 might film it, and as our resident, like Hollywood guy, 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:14.360 do you think that would be must watch TV? First 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.040 of all, for me, it would be. But doesn't that 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.880 contradict everything you're doing. You're supposed to be in darkness 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.479 with no phones, and like they're gonna have to put 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.200 lights up and to film it. Otherwise it's gonna be 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.840 like those old cartoons when cartoon characters would close their 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:30.600 eyes in the dark and open them and you only 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.360 see the eyes, Like we're not gonna see anything. So 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.160 I don't think that's gonna happen. That's probably a rumor, 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.640 but I would definitely watch it for sure. Well, the 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.039 fact that he dangled it out there, I think he 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.480 already probably has a deal with someone to film this. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.480 But I was thinking too, you and I both do 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:47.320 a lot of on camera work, and you know that 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:49.920 red light is blinking there, even if they don't have 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:51.440 a flash or whatever, like if they have it in 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.400 night vision, you know that red light in that cameras blinking. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:56.480 And he's like probably miked up. I mean, the whole 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.880 thing does seem to contradict the purpose. So I'm not 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.400 not really I still wouldn't want to do that myself, 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.000 even knowing that there's civilization with me and a camera 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.720 and all that stuff. But look, I would definitely watch it, 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.400 but I think it takes away from what he's trying 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.639 to do. Maybe just recap it can't you just recap 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.200 it on the podcast and I'd listen to that, just 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.320 recap us what you went through. He's only getting two 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.919 meals a day. That's where he lost me as well, 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:26.440 Like I have three snacks a day. Might I say too, 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:28.760 I'm very excited to talk to your dad. We've talked 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.560 about your dad this season because you know, we got 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.200 the whole Kevin Garnett story with the big ticket nickname 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.079 and all that, which was awesome. But also acting has 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.520 always been my dream, but more of a dream I 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:42.400 realized when I was like a teen, But my childhood 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.240 dream was to do exactly what your father's done for 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:50.400 his entire career. That was my childhood. Yes, oh you 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.440 know it's not too late. Uh not too late, uh no, 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.080 but definitely a little late to chase new dreams that 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.400 I probably would get paid four cents for while I'm 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.800 doing a local high school game, you know, kind of 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.480 breaking myself in so but yeah, I just broadcast and 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.040 and calling games and and the stuff that he's done 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:10.480 in his career. That's what I wanted to do when 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:12.400 I was a kid. So I'm very excited to have 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.280 him on. Well, like I mentioned, he just did the 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.040 Super Bowl. I got to see him in Phoenix. That 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:18.800 was really fun. You just missed him. If you had 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:20.840 stayed a couple of days later, we could have all 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.440 hung out. But now talk about a quick turnaround. He's 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:25.480 doing the NBA All Star Game this weekend on T 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:29.280 n T. He is. He is a renaissance man. Really, 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.720 he's so busy. But yeah, obviously a lot to talk 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.880 with him about the Super Bowl. I can't wait, and 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.080 then he heads to Utah, so that'll be fun. You 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.560 can talk to him about Team Lebron, First Team Janice, 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.720 and the new draft format of the All Star Game, 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.440 which I think is pretty cool, MVP odds, and what 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.880 to look for in the second half of the NBA season, 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.600 including the new look Sons with Katie. We didn't really 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.120 get to talk about this since, but what's your first 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.080 reaction to some of the trades we saw? You know, 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.000 it was so weird because and you and I we 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:58.440 we we had the chance we talked about in a 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.400 live show. We had the chance to play a little goal, right. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.200 I actually snuck away while we were in Arizona to 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:07.000 play another couple of holes with my buddy John just 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.320 Stromski and I took the shuttle back from the golf 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.520 course to the hotel. Was only a few miles and 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.360 the woman driving we had it was a it's a 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:20.120 ten minute drive. We had a ten minute sons conversation, 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.919 like in depth about you know, she was going deep 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:24.919 about what the Suns needed to do. This is obviously 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.120 before the trade. And then I end up leaving that 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.760 night and when I landed back in Ohio and I 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.039 raced home, my kids are already asleep and I'm just 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.440 in bed with my phone quiet, and then boom, the 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.159 trade broke, like as because I landed at midnight and 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.080 the trade broke at night. So I was just thinking 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.279 about that woman. I'm like, oh my gosh, she's got 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.599 to be awake freaking out that the Suns have Katie. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.719 What a trade deadline? Just when I was saying, oh, 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.760 maybe the NFL has caught up to all the offseason 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.760 transactional stuff. No, the NBA did the hold my beer 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.599 because that was a crazy trade deadline. It really was. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.960 It felt like any time, especially when you're in an 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:02.919 airport and you walk by a TV, you know, and 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.600 you're like, oh, WHOA Like I feel like they're kept 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.359 being news and talk about a weird week for news 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.360 and other sports to come out because there's so much 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.200 focus on the Super Bowl. But I think pretty well received. 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.560 I think people are excited. Yeah, and look, I already 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.240 was having these debates with friends and group chats when 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.560 Kyrie got traded to Dallas, Like, I'm not trying to 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.240 be a Kyrie apologist, Like whatever, whatever you think of 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.200 everyone's tied to their opinion. As a basketball player on 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.440 the court, you have to respect what the guy could do. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.520 I just look at it, like, there's no way you 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:36.080 could just absolve the Nets organization and all this right, Like, 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.080 there's just all right, get you could say Kyrie tank 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.440 the team and Katie's so wishy washy about where he 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.800 wants to be and James Harden doesn't work. But fine, agree, 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.480 there is no way the organization doesn't get some of 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:53.160 the blame for having those three and you know they 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.760 only played thirteen games together and not making it work. 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:00.800 I'm with you, Yeah, there's a there's something foulk I 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.560 think who's left through the smoke in the ashes? Ben 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.880 Simmons and look and a lot of really good wings 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.120 that are you know, the Knicks finally beat the nets 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.120 for the first time in five years the other night. 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.839 It feels like and then nets are fun. When you 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.080 see every players like six eight and can shoot threes, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.159 it's pretty fun. Yeah, there might be something there. Have 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.000 you ever been to an All Star Game? No? And 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.760 I almost went last year because it was in Cleveland, 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.080 But of course when it was in Cleveland last year, 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.120 I had to go to l A. I've just never been. 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.719 The only thing I ever went in l at the 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.640 only thing I had the pleasure of doing. I did 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.359 play in the Celebrity Game one year in l A. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.360 So I was there for that part, but didn't go 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.360 to any of the other festivities. It's such a tough 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.760 thing for me because I enjoy it so much on television. 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:50.279 But yeah, I should have went when I was in 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.520 l A. I should have took on. I should have 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.480 took on more. No, I've never been to any of it. 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:58.359 You you must have been to so much of it, right, Yeah, 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.440 I mean growing up we went every year is forever. 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.080 My dad just did the Saturday Night, which I kind 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.680 of think is the better. It's awesome, of course, honest. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.360 And now since Marv Albert has retired, my dad now 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.920 does the Sunday Night game, and I don't know which 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:12.760 one he prefers. We can ask him, but I do 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:14.480 know he got to kick out of doing the dunk 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.440 contest and the views on that I think are way 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:21.040 higher than the All Star Game. How many uh, like 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:22.680 do you know off the top of your head when 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:26.040 he started with the dunk contest, like I'm it was, 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.040 was he like the Vince Carter one? Did he call 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.320 that one? So? Yeah, I know he had done it 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.200 a long time. Yeah, so we saw some of the 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.360 legendary when the dunk contest was the dunk honestly, not 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.240 a bad time to get out if I'm your dad, 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.160 because the dunk contest, I have ideas of how to 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.680 fix it, but it's a little rough. It's a little rough. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.360 Definitely asked him his opinion on that, and you pitch 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.600 him your idea. Maybe he can shoot that one up 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.680 the ladder. No. I remember as a kid, we'd always 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:54.960 go and I have pictures of myself like awkward years, 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:59.120 like kind of gap tooth and bangs, and I've horrible 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.040 pictures of my evolution at various Solid Star games. But 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.720 we always got to like see celebrities because they're always courtside, 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.640 and I texted my family and I said, everyone, shoot 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.640 me your best like All Star Game celebrity story because 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.400 I'm trying to remember this for the podcast because I 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.600 knew we were gonna talk about it today. And some 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.760 of the responses, I mean, I was laughing out loud. 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.240 One was from my sister, she said, uh, when I 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.720 was filling up the bucket of ice in the hotel 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.200 with Tiger Woods. One was when I went to the 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.040 bathroom with Brittany Murphy rest in Peace and sat next 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:34.920 to Ashton Kutcher, Jack Nicholson. We always got to see. Um. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.800 What else when Charles Barkley told my sister's then fiance 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:40.600 he was going to hire someone to kill him if 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:45.160 he heard her. Um, my other sister, when in Chicago, 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.360 was sitting right behind the basket when Derrick Rose broke 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:52.720 his leg. Oh gosh. Um, Benny the Bull, Chicago's mascot, 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.600 once picked up my sister, through him, over her, over 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.160 his shoulder and ran around the court. And this is 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:02.320 a very shy sister, so very more to I mean, 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.320 the All Star Game has always kind of been our 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.640 family's like thing. And believe me, going to school that Monday, 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.760 probably skipping Monday, going Tuesday. Um, we always had a 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.040 lot of stories. So I love the NBA All Star Game. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.000 It's nostalgic. Okay, before we tie a beaut on the 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.040 Super Bowl and we're gonna break it down a little bit. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:19.920 I've got to know your bets because we talked so 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.040 much about it on the show last week. So what hit? 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.640 What did you actually end up playing? Nothing hit? For 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:29.160 me when I say nothing, absolutely nothing hit because you 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.440 had the Eagles. I told you I had the Eagles 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.440 tied to every Oh. I did hit the oh. I'm sorry. 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.840 I hit the over over So I mean, but Dad 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.800 did not recoup enough of my losses. I did the 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.800 Hassan Reddick bet. I just wish I would have known 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.040 I didn't have a single sack. I'm not saying I 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.160 would have changed any of my bets. But the biggest 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.280 information for a better that anyone could have gotten after 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.720 Mahomes is like all right, his ankles superhuman was the 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:55.520 fact that it's going to be one of the worst 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.840 grass surfaces ever played on in the history of the 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.560 Super Bowls. That would have maybe influenced my that a 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:04.720 little bit, because the Eagles, to me are a motion 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:09.360 driven misdirection kind of team. But yeah, that stood out 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.079 for me when I like Hassan red it was the 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.080 worst field he's ever played on. Now from the losing team, 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:17.320 that's easy to say. Of course, no chief they said 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.320 it was the worst field. But oddly enough, I remember 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.240 the report like several Eagles were changing their cleats. No 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:26.120 Chiefs changed their cleats, which which was surprising. Do you 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.480 have a conspiracy theory you want to air out? No 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:32.520 conspiracy theory, I just that would have been very pertinent information. 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.480 But no, I lost. I lost everything. But the big 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:40.280 disappointment was I had my long shot lotto ticket parlay 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.280 right with a bunch of and I had the first 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.400 leg of it was Ken gain Well. First touchdown of 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.160 the game I had and he you know, the elbow 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:53.440 down on the inch line. I had the gain Well, 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.240 I had the Tony touchdown. I had a Kelsey touchdown 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.520 and it wouldn't have hit anyway because I think I 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.959 still the last leg was Dalla got it to score. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.000 But oh my gosh, what I have been on pins 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.400 and kneel. It was like some ridiculous fifty to win, 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:10.920 like fourteen grand Oh gosh, And I mean for a 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.600 long shot. You almost got it. How did you do? 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.400 I did really well. We had the Chiefs everywhere. I 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.079 don't really no, no, it gets better. I had Eagles 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.400 up at halftime, Chiefs win. That was one. I had 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.960 Chief's money line. And the problematic part is I placed 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:29.959 my bet when I was in Arizona knowing that I 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:31.959 couldn't cash out, you know once I got to London 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.079 because I left before the game. I left Saturday before 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.480 the game Sunday, so I can't cash out until I 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.760 get back in the States. Even though I placed it 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.480 on the bed MGM map in Arizona. I can't do 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.640 anything until I get back in the States, which isn't 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.880 over a month. I can't remember what my parlay. Oh, 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.400 you can't even look. You can't look. I can't see it. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.520 It won't let me log in. I know two of 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.360 them hit, though, and I did three legs, and I 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.559 cannot remember the third leg. One was Kelsey anytime touchdown 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.360 and one was Hurts over ten and a half rushing attempt. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.120 So both hit. Yeah, And I'm texting my brother in 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:06.760 law's I know, I was showing him. I was all 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:08.760 proud and like, how do you like my proleg and 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.600 I'm texting him, do you remember what my third leg? 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.720 But he doesn't remember. So I'm telling you when I 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:15.640 touched down in the States, I'm firing up the app 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.959 and I'm either going to be celebrating or not because 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.200 I'm worried I took the game under because I was 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.760 talking about that all week. Remember, I was like, oh, 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.320 the game under. You were talking under, but the over 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.040 became such the popular beat. I don't know if you 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:30.960 would have done that, but I don't know. I'm pretty 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:34.920 stupid good on you because that's the narrative of the game, 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.439 which we did discuss even with Peter in the live show. 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.680 Eagles first half was the bat Really, you could take 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:43.600 Eagles for the game. It's easy to say now, but 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.760 the Eagles you called Eagles first half Mahomes and the 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.040 Chiefs firing back in the second half, and that was 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.680 that was the story of the game. So I think, 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.160 what is so brilliant about Patrick Mahomes Despite the injury 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.319 he played less than nine minutes in the first half, 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.280 and then in the second half. He scored on every 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.640 second half possession, just one in completion which was a throwaway, 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.520 and all in all, he had thirty eight points scored 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.920 in twenty four minutes on the field. Thirty eight points 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:12.560 in twenty four minutes on the field. I mean, I 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:14.640 was so concerned. I went to bed at halftime because 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.400 it was two am in London. I had just gotten 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.120 back here and all that we were tired. We watched 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.720 Rihanna and called it a day and I was like, man, 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.480 this doesn't look good. Chiefs are gonna lose. The Eagles 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.320 look hot. Patrick Mahomes are keeping him out the field. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.520 And then I woke up, but I roll over. My 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:32.680 husband was up before me, and I said, what happened? 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.800 He said, Chiefs one jeeves. We were so excited. It's 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.400 a weird way to watch a game. But I think 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.040 as everyone's so mad about the holding call, I think 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:43.960 they need to be a little bit more realistic. As 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.880 good as the Eagles looked, and you can certainly agree 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.800 that those are the two best teams in the NFL, 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:52.160 and it was a perfect matchup that Hurts had a 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:55.480 fumble that was returned for a touchdown. They had a 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.679 their run game which was vaunted. Everyone all season was 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.000 all about their run game. Was I mean, they had 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.040 a huge special teams gaff and then the holding call. 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:05.880 That's not why they lost the game. So I'm kind 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.160 of sick of people saying that. And Sirianni even to 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.440 his credits, said that. To post game he said, you know, 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.440 talk right, you could talk about that, but he's like, 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.559 there's a lot of reasons why we didn't win this game. 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:20.920 First half went according to plan. But yes, when you 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.800 look at the mistakes Eagles mistakes, they had two which 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.040 led to touchdowns. The Chiefs really only had one mistake. 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:28.880 It was a missed field goal, which we all knew 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.040 was gonna happen, especially me. We all knew there was 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.680 a joint that was going to happen. So that was 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:38.480 really the only Chiefs misfire. Both defenses did not look 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:42.680 good at all, but the Eagles defense bottom lot just 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.840 did nothing. Zero. So when you talk about the reasons 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.240 why the Chiefs, obviously Mahomes gets so much of the cred, 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.160 but you have to talk about the Chief's offensive line, 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.480 you have to talk about Eric b Enemy and Andy 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.120 Reid in the play calling because it was I mean, 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.480 the Eagles didn't even have a chance to sack Mahomes. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:00.240 That ball is coming out so quick, and the and 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.360 the run game. They were able to run the game 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.640 and the Eagles couldn't run the ball and made two mistakes. Now, 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.440 as far as the holding penalty and respect to Bradberry, 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.480 and Bradbery is getting a lot of respect for owning 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.840 it and not getting into like a twitter bat. But 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.200 as far as the call itself, I've gotten into arguments 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.160 with Bree about this in the exact same way that 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:24.840 the fans are with the refs. Okay, for instance, Bree 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:26.840 could say something to me, you know you've been working 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.040 a lot. You know it could really be helpful, is 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.720 if you maybe just uh, can you cook more dinners? 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.800 That would be really helpful for me. Okay, so I 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.680 go cook a great dinner, all this stuff. She was 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.040 outside with the kids, and then she'll say, you know, 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.040 you really shouldn't have cooked so long. It was a 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.480 beautiful day outside and should have came out. What I'm 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.320 getting at is you can't say you gotta call. You 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.520 can't call that in the Super Bowl in that moment. 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.840 But then then the Giants are playing the Commanders and 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.440 what was a playoff game there was a non call, 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.840 and fans are saying, you can't know what you're not 0:15:57.880 --> 0:15:59.480 gonna call it because it's the end of the game. 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.440 You can't have it both ways. I have no problems 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.680 with the call. It just was a bummer that that's 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:09.320 how the game ended. It just was am I I agree, 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.080 And I think what pisses me off is when people say, oh, 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.280 come on, let him play. It's the final minutes of 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.520 the Super Bowl. When you say let him play, that 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.480 only favors one side. And I agree, it would have 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.280 been great to see the ball in Jalen Hurts hands 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:25.000 one more time. I agree, it felt like the Divisional 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.760 round game last year Bill's Chiefs that you would have 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:29.920 loved to see Josh Allen with another chance, but it 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.880 didn't end up that way. Coin toss, remember. But I 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.040 feel like when people are like, just let him play, 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.840 it's the Super Bowl, let him play, It's like, that's 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:42.160 not the rule and the rule and it's not situational refee. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.160 And you know, Olson, I think made a great observation 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.760 early in the first half where there was a few 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:49.680 I think there was one or to delay a game 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.120 penalties on the Eagles where they did not opt to 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.040 take the time out, and Olson astute Lee said, you know, 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:58.520 clearly like the time outs mean more to Serianny than 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.040 the holding place because they're able to move the ball fine. 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.159 But there was another delay. There was another delay of 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.200 game situation and they had to call a time out, 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.360 and that was a time out that they definitely could 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.040 have used when basically when they were kneeling on the 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.320 ball for the field goal. So so many things cost 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.360 them the game. And bottom line is the Chiefs from 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.040 start to finish played a better game on both sides 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:22.880 of the ball, and they deserve to win that game. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.679 Call or no call. So what do you think about this, 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.200 because now I've seen this come out. Is Bill Belichick 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.680 he would always knowing what color jerseys his opponent was wearing, 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.359 He'd have his receivers were the same color gloves. Have 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.200 you heard this? So the Chiefs were wearing white, Eagles 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:41.120 were wearing black gloves, which just makes everything that much 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.959 more noticeable. And I've seen it come out now that 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.520 Bill Belichick always told his defenders where white gloves if 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:49.679 your opponents were in a white jersey, And for the 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.600 sake of you might even if you get one call 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.280 from it, I guess they don't call you on one. 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:58.720 But I think that's pretty interesting and something that was overlooked, 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.240 and if Bill Belichick would do it, I don't think 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.920 it's I don't think it's crazy. I would do anything 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:08.600 Bill Belichick would do. But yeah, I was certainly disappointed, like, wow, 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:10.400 this is how the game is gonna end. But yeah, 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:14.800 I just the Chiefs. Where was Miles Sanders? Seriously? Where 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.000 was Miles Sanders? Gain Well? And you didn't you don't 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.480 have any bets on his over I did. No, That's 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.679 why I'm asking where where was Miles Sanders? You know 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.600 Gainwell five? You have a couple of passes here there 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.040 Almost I would be touchdown. But the Eagles are a 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.919 running team. Okay, last thing I think we could wrap up. 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:37.240 They're gonna change this fourth and short quarterback sneak role 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:41.160 right where you could rugby. It's so dangerous. It's so dangerous. 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:45.480 It's also a quarterback is going to break his neck 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.240 or break his back. Like it's not gonna end. Well, 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:50.240 I don't know. That's a that's just a dumb play. 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.600 I get it. Stop it. If you can't stop it, 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:54.640 it's a dumb play. One more thing that I think 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:58.800 is worth mentioning is Jacksonville played the Eagles. Recently, and 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:00.879 there were a couple of plays that the chief seemed 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.760 to have stolen from the Jaguars. Head coach with Jaguars 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:07.400 Doug Peterson, close close friend to Andy Reid fired by 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:09.880 the Eagles. You got to think that at some point 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:11.920 in the last two weeks someone picked up the phone 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.600 and said, yo, Andy, look at where the Eagles defense 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:17.200 is going to fake you out here? And they took 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:19.919 advantage on the same exact play. No proof, I have 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:22.800 no proof. I'm just saying, no, you do have proof, 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.639 because didn't didn't The Eagles have Fangio working on helping 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.200 them with a defensive plane against the Chiefs when he's 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:32.159 not not affiliated with the team. That's enough proof for 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:35.879 me to say. Everyone's talking super Bowl, yes, like and 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:37.680 a coach like Andy Reid who probably has a lot 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:41.159 of friends, a lot of friends. No one dislikes Andy. Well, 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.439 I think in general, great super Bowl. We've got to 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.720 talk about Rihanna a little bit because that is what 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.480 everyone was talking about. And then I didn't know this 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.040 until this week, but did you know that the halftime 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:55.440 performer isn't paid a single penny? The NFL doesn't pay them. 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:59.760 In fact, sometimes they pay for their own theatric, staging, lighting, 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.120 cup dancers, all of it. They pay for it themselves 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:06.840 because it ends up like multiplying in dividends, usually in 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:11.320 merch or ticket sales or music sales or whatever. In fact, 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.440 with Rihanna, you know her little makeup touch up that 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:18.720 drove fenty beauty sales up over eight and as if 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.040 she didn't have a large enough following, she gained one 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.600 point five million Instagram followers in twenty four hours, three 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.320 million overall. I don't know how many she has, but 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:32.359 she gained three million Instagram followers since her Super Bowl performance. 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:35.639 In her music sales skyrocketed, and she also did a 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:39.240 multimillion dollar deal with Apple, the sponsor of the halftime show, 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.600 to document the whole process. So the money Rihanna made 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:46.679 from this what fifteen minutes is out of this world. 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.200 I enjoyed the halftime show, yeah, Brie and I watched it. 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:53.919 Love Rihanna. Awesome. I just had one thought. I know 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.320 everybody was freaky as she pregnant. She wasn't, like, first 0:20:57.359 --> 0:20:59.479 of all, she'll tell us when she wants to tell us, 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:03.359 like relax, But I did start thinking if she was pregnant, 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.280 and you know confirmed, it was confirmed later. I didn't 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:10.200 love her floating on that stage. Yes, I was like, 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:12.359 get her down. I was nervous. I was nervous. I 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:15.439 was that thing was wobbly. I was nervous. Now you 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:17.800 did see there was like almost a pole that she 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:19.760 was attached to, and then one of the backup dancers 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:22.560 did come and so she was attached to something fixed 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.119 on it. But still I'm still very nervous. I didn't 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.960 love it when she was, you know, sixty ft suspended 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:31.200 in the air. I just I was. I found myself nervous. 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:33.119 But it was fun. It was fun show. It was 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:36.320 fun show. Agreed. It was the most watched Super Bowl 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:39.760 in six years, with million viewers. It was the third 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:44.199 most watch TV show ever, obviously behind Entourage, which we 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:47.040 will talk about later the show. Because I have been watching, 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:49.560 I have been watching. Okay, Well, the Chiefs are already 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:51.480 the favorite to win it all again next year at 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:55.640 plus six hundred, Bengals right behind them at plus eight fifty. Honestly, 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:58.800 Bengals Chiefs, I think is going to be our big 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:02.159 matchup and big rivalry for the next handful of years, 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:04.920 and I'm really looking forward to and then the bills. Look, 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:07.040 it's a f C. The top three teams bills are 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:09.560 plus nine hundred. But speaking of the Chiefs, I think 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:11.879 it's only right that we give the final word to 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.960 Travis Kelsey. He said no one believed in the Chiefs, 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:17.200 and for sure no one on the Fox pregame show did. 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:19.680 But I believed in the Chiefs, and I also believe 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:27.720 you're getting our audible of the week. Looks man one 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:30.080 are y'all and said the Jeans are gonna take it 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:33.520 home this year. Not a single one feel that feeling. 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:35.800 And on top of that, next time the Chiefs say something, 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:43.199 what's some respect on it? All? Right? Obviously the Kelsey 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:45.600 story was so amazing, so it's nice to put a 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:48.440 bow on that one and give the final word to Travis. 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:50.879 But now it's time for us to have the final word, 0:22:51.440 --> 0:23:04.760 and that means it's time to unleak. It's time to unleaf. So, 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:07.920 as someone who spent a lot of time on football sidelines, 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:10.560 something I always look at pregames, especially in a wet game, 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:14.879 rainy game, snowy game, are the receivers cleats. Usually that's 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:18.719 why I pay the most attention to and receivers, gloves, quarterbacks, cleets, 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:20.639 everything because I always want to see if they're going 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:24.160 to make a shift after they warm up. And as 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:26.360 we mentioned earlier, a lot of the Eagles players did. 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:30.080 Jalen Hurts switched his whole shoe at halftime. And if 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:31.919 you don't know, the cleats on the shoe can be 0:23:32.240 --> 0:23:35.520 different lengths, so you can put in different length of cleat. 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:39.000 But Jalen switched his whole shoe at halftime. And a 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:41.560 lot of players saying it was a horrible field. You 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:43.399 already mentioned that as on Reddick said it was the 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:46.359 worst field he's ever played on. But look, the NFL 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:49.879 paid eight hundred thousand dollars for this field and it 0:23:49.960 --> 0:23:52.399 was like a Bermuda hybrid grass. It was supposed to 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:55.439 be the creme de la creme. So apparently the NFL 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:58.119 spent two years preparing this grass. It was like a 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:01.480 Bermuda hybrid. It was growing and locally in Phoenix to 0:24:01.560 --> 0:24:05.520 be perfect for Phoenix conditions at a local sod farm. 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:08.280 It was installed two weeks before the game in Jerry. 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:10.800 Every day for those two weeks they rolled it out 0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:13.280 to get the proper amount of sunlight and then rolled 0:24:13.280 --> 0:24:16.840 it back. That's a process that takes an hour each way. 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:18.680 And the man in charge of this field is a 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:22.520 ninety four year old nicknamed the Sad Father, George Toma. 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:28.240 Have you heard of this guy? I have now I have, yes. Well, 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:31.320 he's prepared the field for every single Super Bowl and 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:34.760 several World Series, thirty seven Pro Bowls. He actually worked 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:37.080 for the Chiefs for a long time. He worked for 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:39.320 the Royals. So Kansas City guy. I believe he's from 0:24:39.400 --> 0:24:43.680 Kansas City. And the fact that all this money, all 0:24:43.720 --> 0:24:46.359 this time, all this effort, you have, like the king 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:50.639 of this subject put his handprints all over it. I 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:53.119 cannot figure out why the field was so bad and 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:55.639 the slickness of it and the changing of the cleats 0:24:55.640 --> 0:24:59.080 and everything we mentioned, and kickers kicking and sliding. A J. 0:24:59.240 --> 0:25:02.800 Brown had a big slip, like it was really really bad. 0:25:02.880 --> 0:25:05.919 And the fact that that is now a conversation after 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:10.960 the NFL put like everything they could into the perfect field. 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:14.239 This should have been like the Bentley of fields, and 0:25:14.280 --> 0:25:16.920 it was so bad. And apparently the NFL is going 0:25:16.960 --> 0:25:20.160 to donate it to a local high school. I don't 0:25:20.160 --> 0:25:22.679 even know if they want it. I don't know if 0:25:22.720 --> 0:25:26.919 you don't want it to pass. We'll pass, Uh so 0:25:27.000 --> 0:25:29.560 many things, Olivia Ada on Lee. That's an awesome unleashed. 0:25:30.000 --> 0:25:32.879 I keep coming back to the number eight grand like that. 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:35.880 To me, that sounds like an awful lot of money. 0:25:35.920 --> 0:25:39.480 But for the NFL, the field of the Super Bowl, 0:25:39.520 --> 0:25:43.080 shouldn't it number be like eight million? Am I missing? 0:25:43.119 --> 0:25:46.000 Like I know, how do you get how do you 0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:48.920 spend more money on grass? Just maybe you need more 0:25:48.960 --> 0:25:51.000 people to roll maybe need to roll it out twice 0:25:51.040 --> 0:25:53.879 a day. And I don't know. I don't know. And 0:25:53.920 --> 0:25:56.080 also the other thing that stuck out and you're amazing 0:25:56.160 --> 0:25:58.960 unleast is all respect to the pod Father, you don't 0:25:59.000 --> 0:26:01.000 do it for that long. We being the goat, You're 0:26:01.040 --> 0:26:04.000 the goat. Everyone has a hiccup. Thirty seven Pro Bowls. 0:26:05.119 --> 0:26:07.440 We really were investing that much money in the field 0:26:07.440 --> 0:26:09.440 of thirty seven Pro Bowls Like that to me is 0:26:09.480 --> 0:26:12.239 a red flag. And I think that high schools like 0:26:12.840 --> 0:26:15.240 we're good. Yeah, we we have this cheap astro turf 0:26:15.280 --> 0:26:17.240 that the kids seem to like, we're gonna stick with that. 0:26:17.720 --> 0:26:21.240 We're good, So mine is gonna stick more with the 0:26:21.359 --> 0:26:25.120 music of the Super Bowl. I am not a country guy. 0:26:25.560 --> 0:26:28.240 I'm just not you never listened to it. If you 0:26:28.280 --> 0:26:30.800 asked me to name as many country music artists as 0:26:30.880 --> 0:26:35.400 I possibly could, I think I could get to three off. 0:26:35.760 --> 0:26:38.240 Yes and no, sorry, no disrespect. I grew up in 0:26:38.280 --> 0:26:41.200 New York. It was hip hop. It was like certain 0:26:41.280 --> 0:26:43.959 rock and roll, but mainly hip hop and whatever. It's 0:26:44.000 --> 0:26:48.800 some classics. I didn't know who Chris Stapleton was. No, 0:26:49.160 --> 0:26:52.560 I'm sorry. I'm sorry to say. And this is by 0:26:52.600 --> 0:26:55.119 no means a knock on Chris Tables and this is 0:26:55.119 --> 0:26:57.760 a knock on me. I did not know who the 0:26:57.800 --> 0:27:00.960 man was. I do not keep tabs. Also, the kids 0:27:01.000 --> 0:27:04.880 have me so far behind on any current artists in general. 0:27:05.280 --> 0:27:08.840 But needless to say, I now have Chris Stapleton in 0:27:08.880 --> 0:27:12.080 my Spotify and he's on rotation, he's in a he's 0:27:12.080 --> 0:27:14.600 in a playlist now. And that goes back to your 0:27:14.640 --> 0:27:17.119 Rihanna point. He I don't think he got paid for 0:27:17.160 --> 0:27:19.959 that either. He probably got millions of dopes like me 0:27:20.000 --> 0:27:22.280 who maybe didn't weren't familiar with his music and now 0:27:22.359 --> 0:27:25.800 are and he's brilliant. He's awesome. So, Chris Stapleton, you 0:27:25.840 --> 0:27:28.720 got a new fan right here. Wow, one of many 0:27:28.760 --> 0:27:31.960 I'm sure now that, in fact, was our highlight. Sam 0:27:32.000 --> 0:27:34.640 and are huge Chris Stapleton fans. You know his song 0:27:34.720 --> 0:27:40.280 Tennessee Whiskey never Olivia. I never heard it in my life. 0:27:40.280 --> 0:27:42.400 If I heard it on country fans like that song 0:27:42.480 --> 0:27:46.359 come on exactly great. But I'm not trying to listen 0:27:46.440 --> 0:27:49.120 country fans hardcore. I'm not trying to. I'm not saying 0:27:49.119 --> 0:27:51.080 your music is bad. I it's just it's just not 0:27:51.160 --> 0:27:53.800 for me. All good. I respect it. I'm not gonna 0:27:53.840 --> 0:27:55.960 walk into a bar if they're playing country musical be like, 0:27:56.040 --> 0:27:59.479 change this now, I'll roll with it. I just I'm 0:27:59.520 --> 0:28:01.440 not playing on my own time, that's all. But Chris 0:28:01.480 --> 0:28:04.879 stapleson wow, his anthem, Oh, We've listened to it like 0:28:04.920 --> 0:28:15.800 five times. I loved his aunt's great anthem, Let's go 0:28:15.840 --> 0:28:18.000 ahead and bring in our guest. He just called the 0:28:18.000 --> 0:28:21.040 super Bowl on Sunday for Westwood one Radio. He's a 0:28:21.040 --> 0:28:24.240 two time National Sportscaster of the Year and a thirty 0:28:24.320 --> 0:28:28.040 four time Father of the Year. Kevin Harland, I only 0:28:28.080 --> 0:28:30.639 say that because your oldest kid is thirty four, not 0:28:30.800 --> 0:28:34.120 that she wants reminding, but you're an old pro at 0:28:34.119 --> 0:28:37.320 being a dad. So look besides seeing me and Wolfie. 0:28:37.400 --> 0:28:40.040 What was your highlight of Super Bowl weekend? Well, that 0:28:40.160 --> 0:28:43.040 was number one. Number two. You guys had the first 0:28:43.040 --> 0:28:46.600 two slots for sure. We had all of our kids 0:28:46.640 --> 0:28:49.239 down there, so that was fun. Live and Jerry, it's 0:28:49.280 --> 0:28:51.400 so nice to be on with you, and I've enjoyed 0:28:51.480 --> 0:28:53.840 so many of these that I've watched over the weeks 0:28:53.920 --> 0:28:57.000 that you two have got great chemistry and it's it's 0:28:57.000 --> 0:28:59.080 really a privilege to be on with you today. It's 0:28:59.120 --> 0:29:02.520 always an honor to the Super Bowl just because it's 0:29:02.680 --> 0:29:07.000 the It's what everything in our NFL season leads up to. 0:29:07.400 --> 0:29:09.800 And to get a chance to do the final game 0:29:09.840 --> 0:29:12.600 and kind of put a bow on the season was great. 0:29:12.800 --> 0:29:16.680 The game was spectacular for about fifty eight minutes. The 0:29:16.800 --> 0:29:20.560 last two dragged along with the penalty and kind of 0:29:20.600 --> 0:29:23.000 a field goal, and I went back and I was 0:29:23.000 --> 0:29:26.360 watching with my wife the kick. Usually when you take 0:29:26.400 --> 0:29:28.360 a lead in the Super Bowl with about eight seconds 0:29:28.440 --> 0:29:32.520 left in the game, there is total craziness on that 0:29:32.640 --> 0:29:36.880 sideline and on the field with congratulations all around, and 0:29:37.160 --> 0:29:40.240 but that was very subdued. I was kind of surprised, actually, 0:29:40.600 --> 0:29:43.960 I think they felt the Chiefs that even with a 0:29:44.040 --> 0:29:46.440 three point lead and eight seconds left that you could 0:29:46.520 --> 0:29:50.800 never exhale, and they didn't, you know, they held him 0:29:50.800 --> 0:29:54.080 at the end and then they exploded and then we 0:29:54.120 --> 0:29:56.560 saw the celebration. So I think we had the two 0:29:56.600 --> 0:30:00.400 best teams in football this past season eat the two 0:30:00.480 --> 0:30:03.880 number one seeds, fourteen win teams, and so we had 0:30:03.880 --> 0:30:06.400 the game we wanted, We had the matchup that we 0:30:06.480 --> 0:30:08.800 certainly wanted, and I think we had the season we 0:30:08.840 --> 0:30:11.440 wanted to. There were some terrific moments in this past season, 0:30:11.480 --> 0:30:15.000 so all in all, I think a very highly entertaining 0:30:15.280 --> 0:30:17.960 past season in the NFL. So you said that it 0:30:18.040 --> 0:30:20.560 wasn't like the biggest reaction when he kicked out field goal, 0:30:20.880 --> 0:30:22.360 but you call in the game, I mean, you know 0:30:22.360 --> 0:30:24.680 it wasn't a hard field goal, But did it cross 0:30:24.720 --> 0:30:27.320 your mind, because it crossed my mind as a fan, like, No, 0:30:27.440 --> 0:30:29.880 he just missed one, and this is there no longer 0:30:29.880 --> 0:30:31.480 give me. I don't think there's ever a give me 0:30:31.560 --> 0:30:35.120 with a kick anymore with what we've been witnessing this year. No, 0:30:35.160 --> 0:30:36.840 not at all. And a very good point. Yeah, he 0:30:36.880 --> 0:30:39.240 had missed I think a forty five yard earlier in 0:30:39.280 --> 0:30:42.680 the game, and he had had a career low season 0:30:42.840 --> 0:30:47.760 in terms of field goal made percentage, and he did 0:30:47.760 --> 0:30:50.719 not have a great season. What was interesting about that, Jerry, 0:30:50.960 --> 0:30:53.440 is that he began this season. The team began the 0:30:53.480 --> 0:30:57.400 season against Arizona beat him handily, but he slipped on 0:30:57.480 --> 0:31:00.720 the grass in that game and was out then for 0:31:00.760 --> 0:31:03.120 the next four weeks. And I think he'd be the 0:31:03.120 --> 0:31:04.880 first to tell you that he never really kind of 0:31:04.920 --> 0:31:08.520 regained his whatever it was, and he left training camp 0:31:08.560 --> 0:31:11.240 with and entered the season with and certainly carried over 0:31:11.280 --> 0:31:13.840 from previous seasons. He did not have a very good 0:31:13.920 --> 0:31:16.600 year and missed many extra points. Now this is even 0:31:16.680 --> 0:31:19.520 shorter than an extra point the game winner, the twenty 0:31:19.560 --> 0:31:22.400 seven yard or I don't think you take anything for 0:31:22.440 --> 0:31:24.920 granted in the Super Bowl. On top of that, two 0:31:24.920 --> 0:31:28.600 more things. He is usually a kickoff guy that goes 0:31:28.720 --> 0:31:32.360 eleven yards back angles to the ball and then kicks it. 0:31:32.960 --> 0:31:36.840 Because of that game Week one, he had shortened his 0:31:36.960 --> 0:31:40.400 run up in every game to just five yards because 0:31:40.400 --> 0:31:44.320 he was afraid of slipping again. And in that game 0:31:44.520 --> 0:31:48.080 this past Sunday, there were many complaints by the players 0:31:48.160 --> 0:31:52.120 about poor field conditions, So you never know, right in 0:31:52.160 --> 0:31:54.920 a field goal, extra point you never know what's going 0:31:54.960 --> 0:31:57.800 to happen, and sure enough it had to be the 0:31:57.880 --> 0:32:00.800 good plant, the good hold, the good app and certainly 0:32:00.840 --> 0:32:03.200 the kick through which it was. And so they got 0:32:03.240 --> 0:32:05.560 the three point win, and that was the key, that 0:32:05.640 --> 0:32:08.400 was the difference in the game. But at halftime it 0:32:08.480 --> 0:32:10.400 was a ten point game and Philly was on top. 0:32:10.440 --> 0:32:13.040 And I worked with Kurt Warner, the Hall of Fame quarterback, 0:32:13.080 --> 0:32:15.440 and he said he and I had talked all week 0:32:15.520 --> 0:32:17.720 long leading to the game. We had the best first 0:32:17.760 --> 0:32:20.320 half team in the league in Philadelphia, and it wasn't 0:32:20.320 --> 0:32:23.120 even close in the point differential. How good they were 0:32:23.280 --> 0:32:26.160 over the second place Chiefs by like fifty or sixty 0:32:26.200 --> 0:32:29.360 points all cumulatively all season long. And then we had 0:32:29.360 --> 0:32:31.400 the best come from behind team in football, the Chiefs 0:32:31.400 --> 0:32:34.880 and their quarterback Patrick Mahomes. So we got exactly kind 0:32:34.880 --> 0:32:38.040 of has we saw it beforehand, and a thrilling end 0:32:38.080 --> 0:32:40.760 on the last three point game and the crowning of 0:32:40.760 --> 0:32:42.480 a second Super Bowl for the Chiefs in the last 0:32:42.560 --> 0:32:45.600 four years. You had Mike Golic and Laura Oakman on 0:32:45.600 --> 0:32:48.240 the sideline for your Westwood One broadcast. What were they 0:32:48.320 --> 0:32:51.120 saying about the field? Because as we've talked about earlier 0:32:51.160 --> 0:32:53.040 in the show. It took two years to grow. It 0:32:53.120 --> 0:32:55.600 was an eight hundred thousand dollar field that was handled 0:32:55.840 --> 0:32:59.320 with the utmost care by the sod father himself. Yes, yeah, 0:32:59.560 --> 0:33:02.680 you had the note, and I used that during the broadcast. 0:33:03.080 --> 0:33:06.480 Somewhere along the line. I used the fact that George Toma, 0:33:06.800 --> 0:33:12.600 who is like ninety three living ninety four years and 0:33:12.920 --> 0:33:16.800 is from ironically enough, Kansas City. That's where he began 0:33:16.880 --> 0:33:20.560 in his career as a young groundskeeper for the old 0:33:20.840 --> 0:33:24.520 Kansas City Athletics and before they were the Kansas City 0:33:24.520 --> 0:33:26.760 A's who became the Oakland Ays were soon to become. 0:33:26.760 --> 0:33:30.280 I guess the Las Vegas Athletics, the Las Vegas A's 0:33:31.120 --> 0:33:33.880 aces maybe with the with the being in Vegas. He 0:33:34.000 --> 0:33:40.280 had handled every single Super Bowl field preparation, all fifty 0:33:40.320 --> 0:33:43.720 seven of them, which to me is remarkable. They stuck 0:33:43.720 --> 0:33:47.160 with the same guy. So you're right, Olivia, he had 0:33:47.480 --> 0:33:51.280 under his auspices, under his watch. He was the guy 0:33:51.440 --> 0:33:54.040 that that watched the growing of this field, the maintaining 0:33:54.040 --> 0:33:57.440 of this field, and everything else. Now people said it 0:33:57.520 --> 0:34:03.400 was inside and the gissing of Rihanna's halftime, different things 0:34:03.440 --> 0:34:05.760 that were going on during the week, but a lot 0:34:05.760 --> 0:34:08.040 of it that the tray was still outside a good 0:34:08.040 --> 0:34:11.120 portion of the week. So anyway, my point is is 0:34:11.160 --> 0:34:13.200 that even with a guy that has done at fifty 0:34:13.239 --> 0:34:16.000 seven times and I think they did try a new 0:34:16.040 --> 0:34:18.799 blend of grass and what the combination was I think 0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:21.240 was in the story that that Livy said, it really 0:34:21.320 --> 0:34:25.120 met with with the thumbs down. So Oklahoma State has 0:34:25.200 --> 0:34:28.960 been at the forefront of developing a grass that is 0:34:29.000 --> 0:34:33.719 going to be universally used in the NFL Eventually. I 0:34:33.760 --> 0:34:36.719 think the players want to get rid of artificial surfaces. 0:34:37.200 --> 0:34:40.920 Players don't want any more plastic grass, even though it 0:34:41.080 --> 0:34:45.279 may be more cushion e and have more resilience to it. 0:34:45.560 --> 0:34:48.719 They would like to have players real grass, and they've 0:34:48.719 --> 0:34:50.600 got a brand that they're kind of zeroing in on, 0:34:50.719 --> 0:34:53.440 but that was not used for the Super Bowl. So 0:34:53.800 --> 0:34:55.880 it's an ongoing story and it will be looked at. 0:34:56.320 --> 0:34:58.799 But for whatever reason, the grass was very slick in 0:34:58.840 --> 0:35:02.640 our sideline report. As Olivia mentioned, they brought this up 0:35:02.719 --> 0:35:06.360 during during the game and during pregames and guys are slipping, 0:35:06.440 --> 0:35:10.120 changing their cleats, getting longer cleats. Livia has done countless 0:35:10.160 --> 0:35:13.120 games on the sidelines so she is very adept at 0:35:13.200 --> 0:35:16.360 finding who the equipment people are, where they keep this 0:35:16.360 --> 0:35:20.839 this group of extra shoepairs or extra cleats that they 0:35:20.840 --> 0:35:23.920 can literally screw in and screw out. It's a pretty 0:35:23.960 --> 0:35:26.960 significant process, but a part of the armor that these 0:35:26.960 --> 0:35:29.840 guys were a tool they need during the game and 0:35:29.880 --> 0:35:32.600 they all were switching their cleats. Jerry, are you gonna 0:35:32.600 --> 0:35:34.640 start calling me living now, because for those who don't 0:35:34.640 --> 0:35:37.479 know that is me, I am living that I feel 0:35:37.480 --> 0:35:40.400 like is reserved for your father. I would never I 0:35:40.440 --> 0:35:44.600 would never try to know. I'll stick you can please 0:35:44.680 --> 0:35:46.359 use you can use it, okay, if I have your 0:35:46.360 --> 0:35:51.200 father's blessing, use it and uh in good health. We 0:35:51.280 --> 0:35:53.560 talked about this a few weeks ago when Olivia did 0:35:53.600 --> 0:35:56.120 the sideline with the Jaguars game, and I kind of 0:35:56.120 --> 0:35:58.440 got her perspective of that. And you know, I'm a 0:35:58.480 --> 0:36:01.440 father now of two little so I just I just 0:36:01.480 --> 0:36:04.479 found myself since that moment, wondering like that just has 0:36:04.520 --> 0:36:07.160 to be the coolest feeling in the world, Like you're 0:36:07.200 --> 0:36:08.919 doing what you love and then you've got your daughter 0:36:08.960 --> 0:36:10.640 in the building doing what you like. Has this got 0:36:10.640 --> 0:36:13.080 to have been the most fulfilling thing as a parent, 0:36:13.680 --> 0:36:16.640 and we've done it before. We've done several games before, 0:36:16.640 --> 0:36:20.520 stretching back for or five years, so the experience wasn't new, 0:36:20.719 --> 0:36:24.799 but the feeling always feels new when you throw it 0:36:24.840 --> 0:36:29.120 down to her. It is a it hasn't happened before 0:36:29.160 --> 0:36:32.160 in an NFL game and a national broadcast, so there 0:36:32.239 --> 0:36:36.080 is that singularity to it. But you know, you almost 0:36:36.080 --> 0:36:38.960 go from boy, I hope my daughter or son does 0:36:39.040 --> 0:36:43.120 the best they can. Two, we've got a seasoned pro 0:36:43.800 --> 0:36:47.200 on the sideline who has covered multiple big games, done 0:36:47.200 --> 0:36:50.080 a ton of national TV, does a show like this 0:36:50.120 --> 0:36:53.160 which is seen all over the world, and is the 0:36:53.200 --> 0:36:57.680 consummate professional. So that part, while it may have been 0:36:58.040 --> 0:37:00.640 in the back of my mind back in two in sixteen, 0:37:00.680 --> 0:37:02.759 I think when we did the Monday night game at 0:37:02.800 --> 0:37:05.640 lambeau Field, the moment she opens her mouth and begins 0:37:05.680 --> 0:37:09.000 to talk and and gives us great information. She's as 0:37:09.040 --> 0:37:12.000 good as anybody out there in my opinion, and I 0:37:12.400 --> 0:37:15.600 have a pretty significant opinion on the business, and I've 0:37:15.640 --> 0:37:17.719 been in it so long and kind of knows what 0:37:17.800 --> 0:37:21.000 it takes to be what you need to be, and 0:37:21.080 --> 0:37:24.920 she has always been that. She has always answered the 0:37:24.920 --> 0:37:28.560 bell and continues to just amaze me with her preparation, 0:37:28.640 --> 0:37:32.360 her work, ethic, her ploise, just everything she does. Now 0:37:32.920 --> 0:37:37.200 she's a mom and wife and living in another country, 0:37:37.800 --> 0:37:40.480 so you know, these are things that just amazed me. 0:37:40.920 --> 0:37:44.120 Probably more than when she opens her mouth and and 0:37:44.320 --> 0:37:47.120 reports from the field, is the fact that she can 0:37:47.160 --> 0:37:50.640 tie all these things together so seamlessly, which I think 0:37:50.680 --> 0:37:54.680 for the normal person seems like an avalanche of worry 0:37:54.760 --> 0:37:58.319 and concern, and she just doesn't blink. And it's that's 0:37:58.480 --> 0:38:01.640 so incredibly impressive to are her mom and me. We 0:38:01.719 --> 0:38:04.160 love all we we've got four kids. We're proud of 0:38:04.200 --> 0:38:08.279 all of them. But clearly, when someone follows into your 0:38:08.320 --> 0:38:12.919 profession and does what she does, it resonates for sure. Jerry, 0:38:13.040 --> 0:38:14.759 I know that wasn't in our show notes. You don't 0:38:14.760 --> 0:38:16.839 have to go asking that. No, I want to know, 0:38:16.920 --> 0:38:21.439 I told I really found myself looking at my two 0:38:21.480 --> 0:38:24.120 year old, I'm like, well, I don't think I want 0:38:24.160 --> 0:38:27.360 you to be actors, but maybe we can figure you 0:38:27.400 --> 0:38:30.280 know something one day, maybe we'll write a movie together 0:38:30.440 --> 0:38:33.200 or something. Because I just thought it was really cool. 0:38:33.239 --> 0:38:37.440 We could get back to the regularly schedule questions though, Sorry, 0:38:37.520 --> 0:38:39.480 I just had to go there. I think I know 0:38:39.560 --> 0:38:42.040 the answer to this question, but I might be wrong 0:38:42.239 --> 0:38:44.600 because I loved your call when the Chiefs won and 0:38:44.640 --> 0:38:50.319 we can insert it right here. Trailing at ten at 0:38:50.360 --> 0:38:53.719 the halftime stop twenty four four team. They go on 0:38:53.840 --> 0:39:01.840 to win thirty five one. Again spectacular in every way 0:39:01.880 --> 0:39:05.319 in the red and gold can be flying in the air. 0:39:07.360 --> 0:39:12.000 The Chiefs are Super Bowl champions. Did you have something 0:39:12.040 --> 0:39:16.799 ready or was it disorganic? No? It was organic, And uh, 0:39:16.840 --> 0:39:18.600 I mean when you go back and listen, I wish 0:39:18.640 --> 0:39:22.160 I would have said thousand different things. Um, you don't 0:39:22.160 --> 0:39:24.880 want to be too long because you know, you know, 0:39:25.040 --> 0:39:26.080 you want to kind of get to the point, and 0:39:26.080 --> 0:39:27.600 we want to get down to the sideline because they've 0:39:27.600 --> 0:39:30.080 got the players ready to interview, so you can't be 0:39:30.120 --> 0:39:33.040 that long, you know. And the game kind of ended 0:39:33.360 --> 0:39:37.120 oddly because the penalty was really now the focus. The 0:39:37.120 --> 0:39:39.520 field goal had won it, but there was this massive 0:39:39.560 --> 0:39:44.560 comeback clearly, and so that deserved to mention. Jalen Hurts 0:39:44.600 --> 0:39:48.120 outplayed Patrick Mahomes. Jalen Hurts had a much better day 0:39:48.320 --> 0:39:50.759 than Mahomes. Ma Homes won the game and came back 0:39:50.800 --> 0:39:52.439 and did what he had to do in the second half, 0:39:53.080 --> 0:39:56.120 so you know that kind of I thought about that, 0:39:56.160 --> 0:39:58.520 but I thought, like I said, I could go back 0:39:58.520 --> 0:40:00.880 and rewrite it, and but no, I I didn't. And 0:40:01.560 --> 0:40:04.520 our executive producer, who has done thirty three of these, 0:40:05.160 --> 0:40:07.359 uh you know, said, you know, Kurt lay out at 0:40:07.360 --> 0:40:09.520 the end, so that we can get this final call 0:40:09.560 --> 0:40:11.960 in so that they could use it twenty years from 0:40:12.000 --> 0:40:14.759 now and know exactly what happened come from behind when 0:40:14.920 --> 0:40:17.440 down by ten at a half time to win Super 0:40:17.440 --> 0:40:20.080 Bowl fifty seven, and then the other stories kind of, 0:40:20.160 --> 0:40:22.719 you know, trickle out from that statement. I guess I 0:40:22.719 --> 0:40:25.960 could have mentioned Mahomes, but really what he did in 0:40:26.000 --> 0:40:28.800 the game wasn't as impressive as Hurts. You could have 0:40:28.880 --> 0:40:30.520 picked a couple other people that may have been in 0:40:30.520 --> 0:40:33.480 that conversation for player of the game. Uh, not that 0:40:33.520 --> 0:40:36.120 he has to be mentioned in the final call, but 0:40:36.160 --> 0:40:39.120 you don't know. And I make notes on the fight 0:40:39.680 --> 0:40:42.640 up here to Wisconsin after the game because everything is 0:40:42.640 --> 0:40:45.560 fresh in my mind about the call and how I 0:40:45.640 --> 0:40:47.719 prepared or what I need to do to tweak. And 0:40:47.760 --> 0:40:50.320 I do this after every game, but did this after 0:40:50.360 --> 0:40:53.200 that game and thought maybe it would be good to 0:40:53.280 --> 0:40:57.000 have two or three thoughts and then and then whatever 0:40:57.160 --> 0:41:01.799 thought without actually follow in the script makes sense, come 0:41:01.800 --> 0:41:04.800 out and say it. But I really wasn't thinking about 0:41:04.840 --> 0:41:07.480 Mahomes's performance in the comeback. I thought of it as 0:41:07.520 --> 0:41:10.719 a team come back. As the Chiefs came back as 0:41:10.760 --> 0:41:13.320 a team, they scored defensively, they got a special teams 0:41:13.719 --> 0:41:16.680 point that that that won the game. And so you 0:41:16.800 --> 0:41:18.920 kind of go down that road. And there have been 0:41:18.960 --> 0:41:21.760 sometimes where I felt, oh, it's clear cut, Carmelo Anthony 0:41:21.760 --> 0:41:24.560 and Syracuse, you know, win the Final four, win the 0:41:24.640 --> 0:41:28.279 national championship. There might be something dominant. But in that 0:41:28.360 --> 0:41:31.080 particular moment, I guess I just thought, let's just get 0:41:31.120 --> 0:41:34.440 the big wide, let's widen the lens. And they came 0:41:34.440 --> 0:41:36.799 back from a half point at ten point episode at 0:41:36.800 --> 0:41:38.919 half time, and they were they were able to win. 0:41:39.320 --> 0:41:41.440 You know, I think you would be the perfect person 0:41:41.440 --> 0:41:44.320 they asked us too, because you know, knowing the Chiefs 0:41:44.360 --> 0:41:47.680 like you do, but also being in the stadiums and 0:41:47.760 --> 0:41:51.400 feeling the crowds and everything surrounding that. You know, I 0:41:51.440 --> 0:41:55.240 loved rivalries. I think rivalries what keeps these sports going. Okay, 0:41:55.400 --> 0:41:56.879 I really do, and I've been a part, like I'm 0:41:56.880 --> 0:41:59.200 a Yankee fans. I've seen the Yankee Red Sox stuff. 0:41:59.680 --> 0:42:03.000 Nix and Nick's nineties had some good rivalries now just 0:42:03.200 --> 0:42:05.440 rivals with themselves pretty and maybe they're or going to 0:42:05.560 --> 0:42:10.480 their front office at times. But to me, it feels 0:42:10.560 --> 0:42:14.239 like the best rivalry in football is Kansas City. And 0:42:14.239 --> 0:42:17.879 you could almost insert several teams, right, So if we're 0:42:17.960 --> 0:42:20.160 trying to find that team to go with the Chiefs, 0:42:20.200 --> 0:42:21.640 and maybe it could be an NFC, like you said, 0:42:21.680 --> 0:42:24.360 the Eagles, But who is the biggest rival now for 0:42:24.440 --> 0:42:28.000 the Chiefs, that's a great question. I would say, if 0:42:28.040 --> 0:42:30.520 it's not Buffalo, it's Incinnati. And if it's not the Bengals, 0:42:30.520 --> 0:42:34.080 it's the Bills. And I think they are all connected 0:42:34.120 --> 0:42:37.719 with these three young quarterbacks who are really dynamic and 0:42:37.920 --> 0:42:41.640 have got long future, successful futures and a lot of 0:42:41.640 --> 0:42:44.680 trophies ahead of all three of them, Mahomes has stepped 0:42:44.680 --> 0:42:47.080 out and kind of taking the leading man. He's had 0:42:47.120 --> 0:42:50.160 the best overall team. People were predicting the Buffalo was 0:42:50.200 --> 0:42:52.239 going to be that team, and then they had some 0:42:52.280 --> 0:42:56.120 injuries and for whatever reason, they couldn't really capture you know, 0:42:56.200 --> 0:42:58.560 whatever it was they had, you know, and it came 0:42:58.560 --> 0:43:01.319 down to they lost at home and the playoffs, and 0:43:01.480 --> 0:43:05.680 after beaten you know, Kansas City last year, and and 0:43:05.680 --> 0:43:08.960 and and having a successful game this year against him 0:43:08.960 --> 0:43:11.319 in the regular season, I think people just kind of 0:43:11.320 --> 0:43:13.799 thought the Bills are the team to watch, and that 0:43:13.960 --> 0:43:17.600 will be the team too to really count on people 0:43:17.640 --> 0:43:20.880 like new entrance to a story. So I think people 0:43:20.880 --> 0:43:22.960 were hoping, yeah, let's get the Bills. We had the 0:43:23.080 --> 0:43:25.160 Bengals last year. Let's let's let's get some of these 0:43:25.160 --> 0:43:27.279 other teams in there, and let's see if they can, 0:43:27.360 --> 0:43:30.879 you know, capture our imagination. But Mahomes and the Chiefs 0:43:30.920 --> 0:43:32.960 are showing that they are very special outfit. You know 0:43:33.040 --> 0:43:36.960 they are. He is an incredible quarterback, is tough as 0:43:37.000 --> 0:43:40.000 they come. And I think Burrow is the same way. 0:43:40.040 --> 0:43:43.440 And I definitely think that Herbert justin Herbert out with 0:43:43.440 --> 0:43:46.400 the Los Angeles Chargers, Josh Allen with the Bills, like 0:43:46.480 --> 0:43:49.960 these are the four quarterbacks you want to watch, and 0:43:50.000 --> 0:43:52.400 they're all gonna be right there at the end. I 0:43:52.440 --> 0:43:55.279 think of every season for the next seven, eight, nine, 0:43:55.360 --> 0:43:58.560 ten years, and that's gonna build these rivalries as you 0:43:58.600 --> 0:44:00.239 talk about. So you could put the chief in there 0:44:00.280 --> 0:44:02.719 against a lot of teams in the NFC. I'd say 0:44:02.800 --> 0:44:06.359 Dak Prescott, but they've not really gotten near the finish line, 0:44:06.520 --> 0:44:09.239 and so that makes them you could say Jones with 0:44:09.320 --> 0:44:12.839 the Giants, I think you can insert Jalen Hurts. But listen, 0:44:13.080 --> 0:44:16.640 the Eagles just lost their two coordinators tow head coaching 0:44:16.719 --> 0:44:19.080 jobs in the league. They have eight team free agents 0:44:19.080 --> 0:44:21.279 this year. It's gonna be hard for them to be 0:44:21.760 --> 0:44:25.400 what they were this past season. And but Hurts clearly 0:44:25.480 --> 0:44:29.359 proved he now is in that conversation of great young 0:44:29.440 --> 0:44:33.279 quarterbacks will more emerge in the NFC. They may, and 0:44:33.320 --> 0:44:35.359 but Hurts right now probably is the head of the back, 0:44:35.440 --> 0:44:38.280 maybe even ahead of Dak Prescott of Dallas, who everyone 0:44:38.320 --> 0:44:41.000 I think is kind of penciled in. Rodgers is thirty nine, 0:44:41.000 --> 0:44:43.359 and go right on down the list. But but Hurt 0:44:43.400 --> 0:44:44.960 showed a lot. He was second in the m v 0:44:45.040 --> 0:44:47.120 P and he should have been. He was terrific. He 0:44:47.200 --> 0:44:49.880 was speaking of NFC quarterbacks. I know you still have 0:44:50.160 --> 0:44:52.480 friends with the Packers and you're close to the situation 0:44:52.560 --> 0:44:55.160 and probably have your own opinion. What do you think 0:44:55.200 --> 0:44:57.960 would make sense for both sides, for Aaron and the 0:44:57.960 --> 0:45:01.440 Packers moving forward? Well, Packers are a strong team, and 0:45:01.480 --> 0:45:03.279 they've got a lot of great parts. They were just 0:45:03.360 --> 0:45:06.520 young at a position where Rogers is demanding a lot. 0:45:07.040 --> 0:45:09.560 I think his performance is still there. They've still got 0:45:09.800 --> 0:45:13.200 all pros on their offensive line, They've got emerging players 0:45:13.200 --> 0:45:15.719 on offense, They've got a great to attack it at 0:45:15.800 --> 0:45:19.960 running back, they've got playmakers on defense, a young secondary 0:45:20.000 --> 0:45:23.319 that has definitely arrived. If it were me, and of 0:45:23.360 --> 0:45:25.799 course it isn't, but I would like to think, let's 0:45:25.840 --> 0:45:28.280 do something unique. Let's finish with the team I started 0:45:28.280 --> 0:45:30.560 with I've got and let me commit to two years. 0:45:30.600 --> 0:45:32.960 Let me not just go into a dark room and 0:45:33.040 --> 0:45:35.359 drink some weird tea and let me let's not let's 0:45:35.360 --> 0:45:37.719 not do that stuff. Let's commit and say, you know what, 0:45:38.840 --> 0:45:40.560 I still feel like I'm at the top of my game, 0:45:40.719 --> 0:45:43.600 which he does. He says that he feels that I 0:45:43.640 --> 0:45:46.400 think he is. Let's give this two hard years and 0:45:46.480 --> 0:45:49.640 let's really just work on this. I think the Packers 0:45:49.680 --> 0:45:52.480 have then got to figure out do we bring him 0:45:52.480 --> 0:45:54.759 back for two years, stunt the growth of this other 0:45:54.840 --> 0:45:58.640 kid we've got backing him up, who we think is 0:45:58.680 --> 0:46:01.560 going to be our placement, or do we stick with 0:46:01.560 --> 0:46:03.040 the guy who's going to be a first ballot Hall 0:46:03.080 --> 0:46:04.640 of Famer, one of the top ten quarterbacks in the 0:46:04.719 --> 0:46:07.400 history of the NFL, who has publicly come out and said, 0:46:07.800 --> 0:46:10.800 you've got my two year guarantee right now, I'm coming back, 0:46:11.520 --> 0:46:13.319 and we can really plan it and plot it just 0:46:13.440 --> 0:46:15.000 like that. You may have to go all in on 0:46:15.080 --> 0:46:18.400 a on a free agent and overspend, you know, to 0:46:18.440 --> 0:46:20.960 appease me, but that that will be a part of 0:46:21.000 --> 0:46:24.160 our two year window. I guess that it's the romantic 0:46:24.160 --> 0:46:25.680 in me that thinks, boy, wouldn't it be great if 0:46:25.680 --> 0:46:27.800 he began with the Packers and ended with the Packers 0:46:28.120 --> 0:46:30.160 and maybe got to a second Super Bowl, which is 0:46:30.200 --> 0:46:32.840 to me mind boggling that as great as his career 0:46:32.880 --> 0:46:35.520 has been, he's only been to one. Now, if they 0:46:35.560 --> 0:46:38.640 trade him to whoever, let's say the Jets or whoever 0:46:38.760 --> 0:46:40.200 has been rumored, and there have been a lot of 0:46:40.239 --> 0:46:42.760 teams rumored. Now he goes let's say, to the Jets, 0:46:43.160 --> 0:46:44.799 he has to learn a new system or they've got 0:46:44.800 --> 0:46:46.440 to get used to him. He's in a new market. 0:46:46.480 --> 0:46:49.480 I mean, like I just I just see it being 0:46:49.520 --> 0:46:52.360 cumbersome and not you know, what it needs to be 0:46:52.400 --> 0:46:55.200 for him. So I have no idea. You know, he's 0:46:55.239 --> 0:46:57.200 just come out of this period where he's wanted this 0:46:57.280 --> 0:47:01.799 this this time to himself, which we all respect, and 0:47:01.840 --> 0:47:04.320 he makes, you know, knowing all these things, he shares 0:47:04.400 --> 0:47:06.520 a lot of information with the rest of the world, 0:47:07.080 --> 0:47:09.640 including this. So we'll have to see what happens. But 0:47:09.880 --> 0:47:12.000 I would love to see him stay, and I guess 0:47:12.040 --> 0:47:14.200 that would be not only my hope but my my best. 0:47:14.239 --> 0:47:17.480 Guess right now, now, can I selfishly and try to 0:47:17.600 --> 0:47:22.800 smoothly transition us to basketball, because as I love the NFL, 0:47:23.080 --> 0:47:25.200 this has been an unbelievable season, and I guess the 0:47:25.480 --> 0:47:27.520 NFL is my number one sports shore because it's just 0:47:27.600 --> 0:47:30.200 you only get you know, sevent games. Well it's only 0:47:30.239 --> 0:47:33.440 because I am an NBA guy, but I will even 0:47:33.480 --> 0:47:35.760 admit that, like, you know, by this point in the season, 0:47:35.760 --> 0:47:37.880 although I'm very excited about my knicks, I'm laboring a 0:47:37.880 --> 0:47:40.359 little bit with some of the I'm not watching as 0:47:40.400 --> 0:47:43.359 many games, but the All Star break and the All 0:47:43.400 --> 0:47:46.279 Star weekend is always like, Okay, this is the moment 0:47:46.320 --> 0:47:48.959 we can all regroup our fandom and then we're gonna 0:47:49.000 --> 0:47:51.080 come back. I mean, I've been on the wrong side 0:47:51.080 --> 0:47:53.200 of these second half of the season things with the Knicks, 0:47:53.200 --> 0:47:55.680 But I feel good this year. But what kemel and 0:47:55.719 --> 0:47:58.440 ask you is you've had, you know, the opportunity to 0:47:58.480 --> 0:48:01.399 do Saturday Night and the Sunday game, which I think 0:48:01.480 --> 0:48:04.520 is just the cool like the coolest thing ever. Like, 0:48:04.880 --> 0:48:07.240 I guess, take me through it if you had to shoot, 0:48:07.320 --> 0:48:08.960 not if you had to choose. But what's it like 0:48:09.040 --> 0:48:12.640 doing Sunday Night, Sunday Game or Saturday Night Because I'm 0:48:12.640 --> 0:48:14.520 a Saturday Night guy. I'm not gonna lie, I'm a 0:48:14.600 --> 0:48:18.640 Saturday guy. Well, I did the game last year and 0:48:18.920 --> 0:48:23.240 enjoyed it. But when you're watching the game, the hype 0:48:23.280 --> 0:48:26.959 for the game is definitely greater than the game, and 0:48:27.160 --> 0:48:29.080 you get a feel of that because they've had to 0:48:30.000 --> 0:48:32.680 rig it so that there are little games within the 0:48:32.760 --> 0:48:36.279 games to get to a certain point. The game has 0:48:36.320 --> 0:48:38.480 had a hard time standing on its own. The players 0:48:38.520 --> 0:48:41.839 don't play defense, and it really is kind of like 0:48:42.000 --> 0:48:45.239 a an exaggerated practice where you've got a lot of 0:48:45.280 --> 0:48:48.600 spectacular shooting, you've got some dunks. But the thing that 0:48:48.640 --> 0:48:51.239 makes the dunks and the shooting so great is when 0:48:51.280 --> 0:48:54.920 there's a little competition there to challenge the shot or 0:48:55.040 --> 0:48:59.239 challenge the dunk and that challenge just is not there. 0:48:59.320 --> 0:49:01.400 I mean, I said courtside last year and watched in 0:49:01.440 --> 0:49:04.560 Cleveland when they celebrated the first seventy five years of 0:49:04.600 --> 0:49:07.160 the league with the greatest name this league has ever 0:49:07.200 --> 0:49:10.560 put out, and then you go to the game and 0:49:10.640 --> 0:49:13.600 the game is kind of like, you know, because it 0:49:13.680 --> 0:49:17.200 really is. It's like it's like an exaggerated practice, a 0:49:17.239 --> 0:49:22.799 glorified practice. The Saturday thing is interesting because it is 0:49:22.920 --> 0:49:27.000 all individual and you're out there for the whole world 0:49:27.000 --> 0:49:30.799 to see your three point shooting, your dunk abilities, your 0:49:30.880 --> 0:49:34.919 your ability to maneuver around a a obstacle course, and 0:49:35.040 --> 0:49:38.200 so it has kind of a uniqueness because the individual 0:49:38.360 --> 0:49:43.000 skills that perhaps that player possesses are right there on 0:49:43.200 --> 0:49:45.840 center stage, and I guess the player feels like, I 0:49:45.840 --> 0:49:48.120 don't want to embarrass myself, which I think has been 0:49:48.160 --> 0:49:51.080 a problem with the slam dunk. I think the players, 0:49:51.120 --> 0:49:53.920 the great ones, don't want to get in a slam 0:49:54.000 --> 0:49:57.480 dunk deal and screw up because they want what is 0:49:57.520 --> 0:50:01.279 in people's minds that they're this incredible I flying, you know, 0:50:01.520 --> 0:50:05.640 trapeze artist, you know, throwing down the ball. Kobe was 0:50:05.680 --> 0:50:09.000 in it. We've had Michael Jordan's in it. Dr j 0:50:09.239 --> 0:50:12.120 has been in it, but Lebron has not, and some 0:50:12.160 --> 0:50:15.000 of the other Dominique Wilkens was in it the Human 0:50:15.080 --> 0:50:18.080 Highlight film, but a lot of these young kids refused 0:50:18.120 --> 0:50:20.160 to be in it. I'd love to see John Morand 0:50:20.200 --> 0:50:23.319 in it, who I think would be unbelievable. He's not 0:50:23.400 --> 0:50:26.160 in it. So I'm kind of torn by the weekend. 0:50:26.560 --> 0:50:29.480 It's great to get the NBA family together, and because 0:50:29.520 --> 0:50:32.279 I've watched it for so long with a great sea courtside, 0:50:32.800 --> 0:50:35.160 I know what these guys can do, and I know 0:50:35.239 --> 0:50:37.960 they're very proud of what they can do. But for 0:50:38.000 --> 0:50:41.640 whatever reason, on that weekend, I think there's probably the 0:50:41.640 --> 0:50:44.080 concern I don't want to get hurt, and I totally 0:50:44.080 --> 0:50:47.120 get it. So the game kind of leaves you thinking, 0:50:47.440 --> 0:50:49.520 I mean, they scored one hundred and sixty points, but 0:50:49.600 --> 0:50:52.880 there they had to juice the game in the fourth 0:50:52.960 --> 0:50:56.279 quarter to make it competitive so that we, you know, 0:50:56.360 --> 0:50:58.880 think for the first three quarters it really is just 0:50:59.000 --> 0:51:02.839 kind of a it's it's it's a glorified practice. And 0:51:02.960 --> 0:51:06.960 so I'm back to doing Saturdays and we'll enjoy it. 0:51:07.200 --> 0:51:10.040 I enjoy what these guys can do. Every once in 0:51:10.080 --> 0:51:11.560 a while, and we saw it last year with Steph 0:51:11.600 --> 0:51:14.960 Curry in the In the game, you'll get like what 0:51:15.000 --> 0:51:17.440 he get sixteen threes or some ridiculous number like that, 0:51:17.880 --> 0:51:20.560 and you're thinking, oh my god, this kid is like 0:51:20.680 --> 0:51:23.600 just unbelievable. He's not gonna play this year, and and 0:51:23.640 --> 0:51:25.360 some other big names aren't. Zion is not going to 0:51:25.440 --> 0:51:27.719 play this year. I'd love to see Zion Williamson and 0:51:27.719 --> 0:51:30.040 his slam dunk contest. I think it would be remarkable, 0:51:30.719 --> 0:51:32.239 but we don't get it. And that's it kind of 0:51:32.320 --> 0:51:35.560 leaves fans thinking. But they're the build up for it 0:51:35.600 --> 0:51:38.560 is like this month, the voting and the mund and 0:51:38.560 --> 0:51:42.120 the advertisement, you would think, like, holy smokes, like this 0:51:42.200 --> 0:51:45.200 is gonna be like just mind blowing, and it usually 0:51:45.280 --> 0:51:48.080 ends up just you make it one player. But it's 0:51:48.120 --> 0:51:50.200 not the kind of competition. You should hear the old 0:51:50.200 --> 0:51:52.200 players talk about the guys that used to play in 0:51:52.239 --> 0:51:58.560 this game. Wow, yeah, yeah, they're that and everything else 0:51:58.680 --> 0:52:02.120 worse than they they'll use the word kind of disgrace. 0:52:02.280 --> 0:52:05.640 They'll they'll say these things that that just should not 0:52:05.719 --> 0:52:08.760 be associated with the NBA. It's it's a great game 0:52:09.080 --> 0:52:13.040 with incredible players, that's where everybody loves the playoffs because 0:52:13.080 --> 0:52:16.879 they mean so much. The playoffs mean so much, and 0:52:17.320 --> 0:52:22.000 reputations are carved in the playoffs. Reputations are not carved 0:52:22.000 --> 0:52:25.480 on All Star weekend. Reputations are carved in the playoffs. 0:52:25.800 --> 0:52:28.680 And then you see things that you've been waiting all 0:52:28.680 --> 0:52:31.680 the season to see, you know, and that is worth 0:52:31.719 --> 0:52:35.000 the price of admission, for sure. There's nothing like playoff basketball. 0:52:35.000 --> 0:52:37.520 It's so much to be courtside for those of the 0:52:37.640 --> 0:52:40.120 All Star games that you have called what is your 0:52:40.160 --> 0:52:44.000 favorite slam dunk contest winner? Just dunk in general that's 0:52:44.000 --> 0:52:47.600 been in the contest because there's been some fun ones. Robinson, 0:52:47.719 --> 0:52:50.959 Nate Robinson, who is just a little guy, has done 0:52:51.000 --> 0:52:53.919 some big, big time things. He's he won a couple 0:52:53.920 --> 0:52:55.560 of years through, maybe three years in a row, if 0:52:55.480 --> 0:52:58.239 I'm not mistaken, I know too. Um, this stuff kind 0:52:58.280 --> 0:53:00.840 of gets fuzzy because it's all, you know, just exhibition. 0:53:00.880 --> 0:53:03.520 It's not, you know, much better on playoff questions and 0:53:03.560 --> 0:53:07.440 regular season questions, stuff that that matters. But but Nate Robinson, 0:53:07.480 --> 0:53:11.200 as small as he was to leap that high, you know, 0:53:11.280 --> 0:53:13.799 a man matt small should not fly that high. And 0:53:13.840 --> 0:53:16.880 he did and has and he was fun to watch. 0:53:17.440 --> 0:53:19.600 You know what really stands out, quite honestly about that 0:53:19.719 --> 0:53:21.759 that's interesting with you that you bring that up is 0:53:22.000 --> 0:53:25.239 are the guys that don't make the shot and they 0:53:25.280 --> 0:53:33.120 try it like thirteen Team Jerry? Is that not it's heartbreaking, 0:53:33.560 --> 0:53:36.200 it's you're anxious here. You feel like you want to 0:53:36.200 --> 0:53:38.960 look away, Like it's like you can see a crash 0:53:39.040 --> 0:53:41.600 coming right and you think, oh my gosh, I gotta 0:53:41.640 --> 0:53:44.719 look away here, I can't watch anymore. And then you've 0:53:44.760 --> 0:53:47.640 got like I'm with Charles and Draymond Green is going 0:53:47.680 --> 0:53:51.120 to join us this year, Reggie Miller and the and 0:53:51.239 --> 0:53:55.080 the trash talk that these guys did. These players they 0:53:55.080 --> 0:53:57.640 can't get this dunk to go down because they're trying 0:53:57.680 --> 0:53:59.680 to do you know, fifteen worlds in a spin and 0:53:59.680 --> 0:54:01.440 then a you know, knock it off their head and 0:54:02.120 --> 0:54:06.080 have kids. I mean that they do all this stuff, yes, 0:54:06.239 --> 0:54:10.480 costumes and stickers on the backboard, and it is it 0:54:10.600 --> 0:54:12.640 is amazing what they come up with. But this is 0:54:12.680 --> 0:54:15.920 the stuff like that practice they're screwing around, dreaming up 0:54:16.440 --> 0:54:19.319 and they come up with all this. So the ingenuity 0:54:19.360 --> 0:54:23.719 is great. The diagram. So let's go from A to 0:54:23.800 --> 0:54:26.160 B and B to C and C twod it's like, Wow, 0:54:26.200 --> 0:54:29.800 if you can pull this off, it'll be marvelous. But 0:54:30.120 --> 0:54:31.759 a lot of times they have trouble pulling it off 0:54:31.760 --> 0:54:34.600 because you've got, you know, millions of people watching a 0:54:34.760 --> 0:54:38.960 full building, and and the biggest name players sit in 0:54:39.000 --> 0:54:41.279 courtside right there, right in front of you, you know, 0:54:41.480 --> 0:54:46.879 right there. Yes, yes, no, no, it's it's right there. 0:54:47.840 --> 0:54:49.840 I have two pitches for the dunk contest that I 0:54:49.920 --> 0:54:54.919 think just stand perspect One. I totally appreciate, like you said, 0:54:55.040 --> 0:54:57.120 John Moran doesn't want to be out there missing ten 0:54:57.239 --> 0:55:00.160 dunks that could really hurt everything he's got going off 0:55:00.160 --> 0:55:02.480 the court, and no one wants to get hurt. There 0:55:02.520 --> 0:55:07.000 are some amazing almost professional dunkers, guys who are on 0:55:07.040 --> 0:55:09.680 Instagram and social media who are dunking a hundred and 0:55:09.719 --> 0:55:13.480 fifty times a day, practicing these crazy dunks that are 0:55:13.520 --> 0:55:15.960 not in an NBA season. I think you still opened 0:55:15.960 --> 0:55:18.240 it up to any young player like a Jericho Sims. 0:55:18.280 --> 0:55:22.360 You want great and then you bring in four dunkers, 0:55:22.520 --> 0:55:24.640 guys who have just been dunking forever. And I think 0:55:24.640 --> 0:55:27.600 you got to bring back the point five in the 0:55:27.640 --> 0:55:30.320 scoring system because now I don't know what the fifty 0:55:30.400 --> 0:55:33.680 is anymore because some the fifties are just thrown around 0:55:33.960 --> 0:55:36.320 so easily. I think we bring back the point five, 0:55:36.840 --> 0:55:38.560 we could get the forty nine and a half, and 0:55:38.560 --> 0:55:41.800 I think that all out. That's my pitch to revamp. 0:55:41.800 --> 0:55:44.200 If I work for the NBA to revamp the dunk contest, 0:55:44.800 --> 0:55:46.640 I love that. In fact, what they should do is 0:55:46.680 --> 0:55:48.920 take these YouTubers and put them on the screen so 0:55:48.960 --> 0:55:52.080 we can all see what they've done and and get 0:55:52.160 --> 0:55:54.839 us lathered up right for for what For what these 0:55:55.000 --> 0:55:58.239 prowers could do. The problem is those pros could could 0:55:58.280 --> 0:56:01.480 never do that because they haven't practice. They have not practiced, 0:56:01.800 --> 0:56:03.560 and they don't want to be embarrassed. That's one of 0:56:03.600 --> 0:56:05.560 the big that's one of the big things. They do 0:56:05.640 --> 0:56:08.120 not want to be embarrassed. And I get it, you 0:56:08.120 --> 0:56:12.160 know what. I respect that. And they say, the only 0:56:12.160 --> 0:56:15.600 thing that gets me going is competition. And in the 0:56:15.640 --> 0:56:17.799 heat of a game, where I don't think about what 0:56:17.800 --> 0:56:21.320 I'm gonna do, it just comes like Olivia uses were organically, 0:56:21.320 --> 0:56:24.239 it just happens because it happens, and I'm in that 0:56:24.280 --> 0:56:26.600 frame of mind, and that's when it means something and 0:56:26.760 --> 0:56:32.200 is pure and not orchestrated, not pre thought, not planned, 0:56:32.320 --> 0:56:34.600 And I get all that that that is that has 0:56:34.640 --> 0:56:37.480 a lot of validity to it. But if we had 0:56:37.560 --> 0:56:41.839 something that had the point five like you talked about, 0:56:41.920 --> 0:56:44.280 it would make the voting a little bit different because 0:56:44.320 --> 0:56:47.200 every dunk is not a ten. I mean, it just isn't. 0:56:47.239 --> 0:56:49.640 It just is not. But the guys that are grading 0:56:49.719 --> 0:56:52.719 feel like, well, it's not a nine, but as good 0:56:52.760 --> 0:56:55.160 best I saw tonight. So I'll put up a plaquer 0:56:55.239 --> 0:56:57.759 that says ten. Right. So so Jerry, your thought is 0:56:57.800 --> 0:57:00.520 as well as well taken. I I think that that 0:57:00.520 --> 0:57:03.320 would be a great addition. I know you were a 0:57:03.320 --> 0:57:05.760 little busy this week, but there is a huge trade. 0:57:05.840 --> 0:57:08.320 Kevin Durant is now a Phoenix Sun and they instantly 0:57:08.400 --> 0:57:11.160 become a top contender. What were your initial thoughts on 0:57:11.200 --> 0:57:13.319 this trade when he first saw it and then as 0:57:13.320 --> 0:57:15.560 it simmered a little bit. Well, I've always thought that 0:57:15.600 --> 0:57:18.040 Phoenix was a young team that could be good for 0:57:18.120 --> 0:57:20.800 a long time with the cord that they had minus 0:57:20.880 --> 0:57:24.040 Chris Paul who's thirty six thirty seven years old, who's 0:57:24.080 --> 0:57:26.600 on the clock in his window is closing, But as 0:57:26.640 --> 0:57:28.440 long as he was around and still a voice in 0:57:28.480 --> 0:57:30.760 the locker room and a leader around the floor, they 0:57:30.760 --> 0:57:32.360 were going to be an interesting and they'll put another 0:57:32.400 --> 0:57:34.640 guard in there some other day, but the core would 0:57:34.640 --> 0:57:37.640 be together, right. They cam Johnson, They had mcel Bridges 0:57:37.680 --> 0:57:40.280 who was a phenomenal young player, and that was part 0:57:40.280 --> 0:57:43.959 of their big foundation with Devin Booker and Ayton who's 0:57:43.960 --> 0:57:46.360 in the middle. But boy, they went all in with 0:57:46.480 --> 0:57:52.040 draft choices, young core, foundational pieces and got got Durant 0:57:52.160 --> 0:57:55.240 and they just had the team sell and the new 0:57:55.280 --> 0:57:57.080 owner came in there and I guess he wanted to 0:57:57.080 --> 0:57:59.960 make a splash and he certainly did for an offense 0:58:00.040 --> 0:58:03.240 injured superstar who was in his mid thirties but was 0:58:03.320 --> 0:58:05.560 having an m v P type season when he was 0:58:05.600 --> 0:58:09.280 injured and made the nets, you know, really really good. 0:58:10.040 --> 0:58:11.960 So that's one of those things you got to look 0:58:12.000 --> 0:58:14.880 at yourself in the mirror and say, am I sacrificing 0:58:14.920 --> 0:58:18.640 the future for the present? And clearly they are, so 0:58:19.280 --> 0:58:20.760 it is kind of what it is. And then we 0:58:20.800 --> 0:58:24.240 had Kyrie go to Dallas and the Mavericks and they 0:58:24.360 --> 0:58:29.000 traded some wonderful pieces around Don Chech that made that 0:58:29.160 --> 0:58:33.160 team a Western Conference final team a season ago. But 0:58:33.520 --> 0:58:36.800 you need two superstars on a team to win a title, 0:58:37.360 --> 0:58:39.400 and that was the thinking in Phoenix because they get 0:58:39.400 --> 0:58:42.919 a couple of Durant with Booker, who was first team 0:58:42.920 --> 0:58:45.160 All NBA last season and a four time All Star. 0:58:45.600 --> 0:58:47.840 And oh, by the way, we've got Chris Paul, you know, 0:58:47.960 --> 0:58:51.480 at the controls at the steering wheel. And then for Kyrie, 0:58:52.000 --> 0:58:55.640 a superstar and his talented guard. As this league has 0:58:55.680 --> 0:58:58.440 ever seen, it's just been up here, which has been 0:58:58.440 --> 0:59:02.200 a little bit like law Off Kilder clearly as we've 0:59:02.200 --> 0:59:05.120 seen with his history. You pair him with Don Chitch. 0:59:05.440 --> 0:59:09.080 Now you've got two superstars there too. So you need 0:59:09.560 --> 0:59:12.680 a Robin for a batman, you need you need two 0:59:12.680 --> 0:59:16.000 superstars at the least to make a run. And that's 0:59:16.080 --> 0:59:19.080 kind of what what those teams thought they had to do. 0:59:19.320 --> 0:59:22.000 So I love it when teams do this because it 0:59:22.040 --> 0:59:25.760 gets the league talking. They'll be fascinating studies to see. 0:59:26.040 --> 0:59:30.080 And my guess is for a half season that it 0:59:30.120 --> 0:59:33.120 will be successful. The long term will be sacrifice, but 0:59:33.160 --> 0:59:37.080 for a half season this is gonna be fascinating to watch. 0:59:37.680 --> 0:59:39.680 I agree with you on the playoff part of it, too. 0:59:39.680 --> 0:59:41.600 That's why I was such a big and maybe it's 0:59:41.600 --> 0:59:43.200 also too because I know the Nicks were never going 0:59:43.240 --> 0:59:45.760 to qualify for regular playoffs for a while. I'm such 0:59:45.800 --> 0:59:47.640 a fan of a play in, and like when we 0:59:47.680 --> 0:59:50.520 talk about the West and I was just looking we 0:59:50.560 --> 0:59:53.000 could potentially, I mean, there's gonna be a lot of movement, 0:59:53.040 --> 0:59:54.920 but the play in as of right now in the 0:59:54.960 --> 0:59:58.320 West goes New Orleans and hopefully they get Zion back, 0:59:58.440 --> 1:00:02.360 Minnesota go Olden State, and then we have Utah hanging 1:00:02.400 --> 1:00:04.480 on for dear life. I don't imagine if they stick 1:00:04.520 --> 1:00:06.680 there with the late like if the Lakers sneak in 1:00:07.200 --> 1:00:12.080 like a Pelican's Warriors Timberwolves Lakers plan, that's going to 1:00:12.200 --> 1:00:14.480 be as good as any first round kind of thing 1:00:14.560 --> 1:00:16.240 going on. I just love the play and I was 1:00:16.280 --> 1:00:19.080 wondering your thoughts on the plan. You are so right. 1:00:19.680 --> 1:00:23.040 It is it's almost like sudden death and some circumstances 1:00:23.080 --> 1:00:27.400 in that mix. It is so you've got a shortened window, 1:00:28.040 --> 1:00:33.080 You've got credible, incredible urgency to win and win now, 1:00:33.160 --> 1:00:35.640 and you cannot say, well, we'll make it a five 1:00:35.720 --> 1:00:38.400 or seven game series. That does not happen in this situation. 1:00:38.800 --> 1:00:41.360 So it is either sudden death or maybe you fall 1:00:41.400 --> 1:00:43.960 after a loss and you can get another chance. But man, 1:00:44.160 --> 1:00:46.880 you are on the clock, and that is the way 1:00:46.920 --> 1:00:48.960 people love it when you are fighting for your life. 1:00:49.240 --> 1:00:52.880 You see incredible basketball now with the Angelo Russell joining 1:00:52.960 --> 1:00:57.200 the Lakers, healthy Lebron and a healthy A D, that 1:00:57.360 --> 1:00:59.520 is a team I would not want to face. I 1:00:59.560 --> 1:01:02.560 think they would be an incredible out And I think 1:01:02.640 --> 1:01:05.680 all they're thinking right now is let's creep back in 1:01:06.360 --> 1:01:10.320 and then we will will accelerate. I mean they're trying. 1:01:10.680 --> 1:01:12.720 I mean they're trying to win. They want to better 1:01:12.720 --> 1:01:14.880 their position, but they've got to get in that little 1:01:14.880 --> 1:01:17.240 grouping there that play and as you're talking about, so 1:01:17.280 --> 1:01:19.160 we need to really you're so right, Jerry. We need 1:01:19.200 --> 1:01:22.560 to look at the conference leaders as the top six, 1:01:23.040 --> 1:01:26.120 the certain six, and when we're talking, here are the 1:01:26.120 --> 1:01:28.520 teams as of the day that are in. Here are 1:01:28.560 --> 1:01:30.720 the teams that are on the bubble or in the playoffs, 1:01:30.760 --> 1:01:33.120 and it will resemble I think the best thing the 1:01:33.200 --> 1:01:35.640 NBA has done with this is it resembles the n 1:01:35.760 --> 1:01:38.400 c A Tournament, which is right around the corner, and 1:01:38.560 --> 1:01:41.720 people love it for that reason alone. You're playing till 1:01:41.760 --> 1:01:45.240 the death. You're playing to the blast second. There is 1:01:45.280 --> 1:01:48.640 no tomorrow. If we don't win, we are gone. That's 1:01:48.680 --> 1:01:51.760 what makes that tournament so great, both in the NBA 1:01:52.400 --> 1:01:54.720 and in the n c A, the college tournament. And 1:01:54.880 --> 1:01:56.520 you know, you can't ask as a fan, or a 1:01:56.520 --> 1:02:00.080 broadcaster or or anybody more than a chance to to 1:02:00.160 --> 1:02:02.520 lay it all on the line for one game. And 1:02:02.560 --> 1:02:05.280 that's what we get with those two scenarios. Jerry, doesn't 1:02:05.280 --> 1:02:06.880 that remind you of the pump up speech I give 1:02:06.920 --> 1:02:13.240 you before we record every podcast Tomorrow? I think we're 1:02:13.280 --> 1:02:19.520 a top six seed though you definitely or that's exactly 1:02:19.520 --> 1:02:21.280 you don't have to worry about playing in at all. 1:02:21.520 --> 1:02:23.480 I gotta ask you one question in the East too, 1:02:23.520 --> 1:02:26.480 because the other night Boston without their all stars, nearly 1:02:26.520 --> 1:02:29.000 beat the Bucks, took them overtime. Who do you see 1:02:29.040 --> 1:02:30.760 coming out of the East when you think about those 1:02:30.760 --> 1:02:33.800 two teams, especially, well, what I'm looking I get to 1:02:33.840 --> 1:02:36.480 do the East Finals so that I cannot wait. I 1:02:36.640 --> 1:02:39.720 cannot wait. I think any of these teams, I don't 1:02:39.720 --> 1:02:42.400 know what's going to happen to Brooklyn. Now they've reconstituted 1:02:42.400 --> 1:02:46.400 their team, but they're still strong. They're a solid team. Nix. 1:02:47.320 --> 1:02:49.920 I saw him the other night, the Knicks, and they 1:02:49.960 --> 1:02:52.680 played the Nets. I'm a big bibbot O fan. Anyway, 1:02:52.720 --> 1:02:58.000 their coach, I love Julius. He Randall works as hard 1:02:58.080 --> 1:03:00.840 as any player, and he know he's got to right. 1:03:00.960 --> 1:03:03.640 He knows he's got this team on his shoulder. But 1:03:03.720 --> 1:03:05.760 I love some of the kids on their team, and 1:03:05.840 --> 1:03:09.600 so I'm watching them with interest. But the usual suspects. 1:03:09.640 --> 1:03:14.320 You're right, Philly, Boston, Milwaukee, Miami is so well coach, 1:03:14.400 --> 1:03:16.920 you've got to include them, the Nets, the Knicks. I 1:03:16.960 --> 1:03:19.200 know we're gonna have some other teams creep in there, 1:03:19.400 --> 1:03:22.320 but I guess my my view is on that grouping 1:03:22.880 --> 1:03:26.480 right now. Milwaukee made a great move. We're talking about 1:03:26.520 --> 1:03:29.960 trades and the moves before the deadline. They got Jay Crowder. 1:03:30.080 --> 1:03:33.280 They needed a defensive wing, and they needed a guy 1:03:33.320 --> 1:03:35.640 that could shoot the three, and they got the added 1:03:35.640 --> 1:03:38.640 bonus of a guy who's been in big playoff games, 1:03:38.880 --> 1:03:42.280 played in some recent finals. He knows the world that 1:03:42.280 --> 1:03:46.280 that is and he just strengthens their bench evermore. And 1:03:46.320 --> 1:03:48.640 when Bobby Portis comes back. I don't think Porters played 1:03:48.680 --> 1:03:50.600 the other night. I don't think he's back. Yet when 1:03:50.640 --> 1:03:52.160 porter and he was, he's been out for like two 1:03:52.240 --> 1:03:54.040 or three weeks. I don't think he's back. So when 1:03:54.040 --> 1:03:56.800 Portis is back, now they've got their bench, which is 1:03:56.840 --> 1:04:00.200 gonna be just like hold on to your huts. It's 1:04:00.200 --> 1:04:03.560 gonna be phenomenal. I like, and Middleton has come back. 1:04:03.560 --> 1:04:06.840 Middleton has missed two big sections. He missed twenty games 1:04:06.840 --> 1:04:09.000 early on, then eighteen games he had a thumb injury, 1:04:09.240 --> 1:04:11.960 had knee sorenus. Now he's back. They're working in back 1:04:11.960 --> 1:04:15.160 in slowly. They gotta watch his minutes. Man, is he's 1:04:15.160 --> 1:04:17.600 an all star. He's an all Star caliber player. And 1:04:17.640 --> 1:04:19.960 you put them with the honest who's I still think 1:04:20.000 --> 1:04:22.480 the single best, most exciting player in the league to 1:04:22.520 --> 1:04:26.600 do what he's doing at his size is he dribbles 1:04:26.600 --> 1:04:29.240 like a guard. He moves like a forward. He shoots 1:04:29.280 --> 1:04:32.080 like a marksman outside from three. He's developed that part 1:04:32.080 --> 1:04:34.680 of his game. And then he moves like when he 1:04:34.720 --> 1:04:37.880 goes through a lane, he gives you eight. He moves 1:04:38.040 --> 1:04:40.320 like every joint in his body right, He's like he's 1:04:40.320 --> 1:04:42.800 just like he's like a plastic man. He's like he's 1:04:42.800 --> 1:04:46.320 like so angular and he's like doing all this stuff 1:04:46.640 --> 1:04:52.240 like I don't I can't process him. So the East 1:04:52.440 --> 1:04:55.320 is gonna be dynamite and the West will be good 1:04:55.480 --> 1:04:58.320 if Kyrie and Durant stay healthy. But that is the 1:04:58.360 --> 1:05:02.160 big if, if they can't stay healthy, and if Lebron 1:05:02.360 --> 1:05:05.000 and a d can stay healthy. So there's a lot 1:05:05.040 --> 1:05:07.680 of unknown in the West, but the East seems to 1:05:07.720 --> 1:05:10.440 be intact and it's going to be a fight to 1:05:10.480 --> 1:05:14.400 the finish. It's gonna be marvelous. The things your brain 1:05:14.920 --> 1:05:18.320 holds onto and you remember everything, it's no wonder why 1:05:18.320 --> 1:05:20.240 at the dinner table sometimes you have no idea what 1:05:20.280 --> 1:05:24.080 we're talking about. Your brain is holding so much information 1:05:24.200 --> 1:05:27.520 from sports. But you guys are too though. I know 1:05:27.560 --> 1:05:30.000 Exaccho what you do, you too do to prepare. So 1:05:30.680 --> 1:05:33.560 now that football is over and you're you're so immersed 1:05:33.600 --> 1:05:36.600 in football, this NBA well, first way that the nt 1:05:36.720 --> 1:05:38.720 A Tournament, and we got to get through that before 1:05:38.720 --> 1:05:41.160 we get to the playoffs, which you're looking forward to. 1:05:41.240 --> 1:05:46.080 You I've done twenty five years of those, and I 1:05:46.120 --> 1:05:49.160 love the tournament in every way. That first day when 1:05:49.160 --> 1:05:51.760 those eight teams come out to practice and it is 1:05:51.800 --> 1:05:54.160 a long day, and it is it is a that 1:05:54.240 --> 1:05:56.640 first day that we broadcast, we do eight teams in 1:05:56.720 --> 1:06:00.240 four games, all in one twelve hour period. It's, uh, 1:06:00.600 --> 1:06:04.400 you know, physically it's hard. Mentally it's it's excruciating, and 1:06:04.440 --> 1:06:06.800 you're just trying to get the names of the team's 1:06:06.960 --> 1:06:09.480 right and the names of the kids right because you 1:06:09.520 --> 1:06:12.720 see so much but fans those kids to get there. 1:06:12.760 --> 1:06:14.920 That could be the last college game they ever played, 1:06:15.480 --> 1:06:17.440 and so, like I was saying before, they play with 1:06:17.480 --> 1:06:21.120 such gusto and it means so much, and that's that 1:06:21.280 --> 1:06:23.000 is just a blast to be a part of. For 1:06:23.040 --> 1:06:24.640 a lot of them, it's the last time they play 1:06:24.840 --> 1:06:29.200 organized basketball. It's sure is your husband played in two 1:06:29.240 --> 1:06:32.760 final fours. That just does not happen. That just does 1:06:32.800 --> 1:06:35.280 not happen. So when you play in the tournament, it's 1:06:35.320 --> 1:06:38.840 like a life altering experience. If you can make it 1:06:38.880 --> 1:06:41.360 with a couple of wins and become you know, a 1:06:41.440 --> 1:06:44.760 story that is something that in your wildest imagination you 1:06:44.800 --> 1:06:47.680 can't process. And then if you're lucky to make it 1:06:47.720 --> 1:06:50.840 through all of that, including the regular season and your 1:06:50.880 --> 1:06:54.040 conferences tournament thing, now you've made it to a final 1:06:54.120 --> 1:06:56.720 four or in Elite eight, you think, boy, have I 1:06:56.800 --> 1:06:59.760 been blessed more than I deserve. And I look at 1:06:59.760 --> 1:07:01.760 the ys of those kids, and that's how they feel. 1:07:01.760 --> 1:07:05.240 They feel like I am living a dream that hundreds 1:07:05.280 --> 1:07:08.040 of thousands of kids over all these years and all 1:07:08.080 --> 1:07:11.280 these leagues and all these games and teams and from 1:07:11.360 --> 1:07:14.000 high school just think their parents took them from from 1:07:14.000 --> 1:07:16.320 when they're just little guys and gals, you know, at 1:07:16.360 --> 1:07:18.920 five and six years old, to practice and all the 1:07:19.040 --> 1:07:21.400 times they shot baskets in their backyard, you know, on 1:07:21.440 --> 1:07:24.520 their on their own driveway, and and then for them 1:07:24.560 --> 1:07:27.440 to make it there that almost because the NBA is 1:07:27.520 --> 1:07:31.439 so nebulous and so like unrealistic, to make it into 1:07:31.480 --> 1:07:33.600 that tournament and to work your way through the tournament. 1:07:33.960 --> 1:07:36.400 That really is the dream of all college, of all 1:07:36.520 --> 1:07:39.320 all kids who play basketball, is can I make it 1:07:39.640 --> 1:07:41.960 into that tournament and be as something, you know, part 1:07:42.000 --> 1:07:44.840 of something that is so much bigger than me and 1:07:45.000 --> 1:07:48.680 something that just funnels all my hopes and dreams into 1:07:48.840 --> 1:07:52.800 one three week area and and that is so fun 1:07:52.840 --> 1:07:54.480 to be a part of. To watch that, well, I 1:07:54.520 --> 1:07:56.600 can't wait to hear you. Sorry, And I'm going to 1:07:56.680 --> 1:07:59.480 give you a little prediction. It's a homework. Do do 1:07:59.480 --> 1:08:03.840 do it with my guy Jericho Sims. I've watched next game. 1:08:04.360 --> 1:08:06.840 There's times where he looks like he could take a 1:08:06.880 --> 1:08:09.080 coin off the top of the backboard. So I know 1:08:09.160 --> 1:08:12.640 the big guys don't always fare well, but just I'm 1:08:12.680 --> 1:08:15.080 just calling it now, keep a good eye on my 1:08:15.120 --> 1:08:18.120 man Jericho Sims. That may come out in our broadcast. 1:08:18.120 --> 1:08:19.800 There's a matter of fact they made that made that 1:08:19.880 --> 1:08:22.120 may slip out there a little bit. That'll be a 1:08:22.120 --> 1:08:26.200 shameless plug and and uh and and bring you out 1:08:26.240 --> 1:08:29.400 into the uh into the national consciousness on that Saturday 1:08:29.479 --> 1:08:32.960 night platform. I'm gonna keep that in mind. Yeah, if 1:08:33.000 --> 1:08:34.720 you can plug you know, this week I was on 1:08:34.760 --> 1:08:38.200 the bed MGM Unleashed podcast. They have two amazing hosts. 1:08:38.280 --> 1:08:40.840 That'd be that'd be good. But last time, Jerry, you 1:08:40.840 --> 1:08:42.920 don't know this. Last time I said to Dad, oh, 1:08:43.000 --> 1:08:45.559 you should slip this in the broadcast a regular season game. 1:08:45.640 --> 1:08:49.200 He said, b E t MGM spelled out the whole thing. 1:08:51.000 --> 1:08:52.800 So I think now he's got it. Dad. We have 1:08:52.840 --> 1:08:54.559 taken up too much of your time, and I know 1:08:54.840 --> 1:08:56.920 my mother is probably wanting you back to join her 1:08:56.920 --> 1:08:59.280 for lunch or something. So thank you so much. As 1:08:59.280 --> 1:09:01.280 you've seen it's got dark here in London. Since we've 1:09:01.320 --> 1:09:04.000 been here, it has It is amazing. I feel like 1:09:04.160 --> 1:09:07.639 we're family, Jerry, because we see you in Olivia every 1:09:07.640 --> 1:09:10.679 week with this great show. And to hear her talk 1:09:10.720 --> 1:09:13.000 about you and how much he's enjoyed being with you 1:09:13.120 --> 1:09:15.280 and co hosting this and being a pro with you 1:09:15.439 --> 1:09:18.360 is very gratifying for a father. So I enjoy you 1:09:18.400 --> 1:09:21.439 both very much. And I'll be watching and I'll be 1:09:21.560 --> 1:09:43.360 listening and enjoying. All right. You know when you hear 1:09:43.400 --> 1:09:46.439 that music, we are about to dig into entreage. So Jerry, 1:09:46.560 --> 1:09:51.040 I'm season seven, episode two, and what I've seen so 1:09:51.160 --> 1:09:54.240 far is your business has taken off, which has been 1:09:54.240 --> 1:09:56.120 really fun to see all the cars with Turtle and 1:09:56.200 --> 1:09:58.439 the license weight. I'm curious, do you have any of 1:09:58.439 --> 1:10:01.120 those license plates? And have you ever put one of 1:10:01.120 --> 1:10:05.799 them on your own car? Great question and also great idea. 1:10:05.920 --> 1:10:08.519 I don't have one. I wish I did. And I'm 1:10:08.560 --> 1:10:10.880 known for taking things from the set that I think 1:10:10.880 --> 1:10:13.120 we'll just hey like like I had like years ago. 1:10:13.160 --> 1:10:15.719 I wore a giant jersey on the show that said 1:10:15.720 --> 1:10:18.280 Turtle on the back. I have that jersey. I took 1:10:18.280 --> 1:10:19.800 a lot of the jersey I have, like the Kevin 1:10:19.840 --> 1:10:23.960 Garnett McDonald's all American jersey that I wore. But no, 1:10:24.160 --> 1:10:25.640 that would have been a great light. That would have 1:10:25.680 --> 1:10:27.800 been great to take. What a great idea. No, I 1:10:27.800 --> 1:10:30.439 didn't do it like an idiot. I should have. You know, 1:10:30.520 --> 1:10:32.880 you still can just next time you register a car. 1:10:33.120 --> 1:10:35.320 It's just not the same, like to know that that's 1:10:35.320 --> 1:10:37.280 where that came from. You know, it would have been 1:10:37.280 --> 1:10:39.519 great if it was like the actual from the set. 1:10:39.560 --> 1:10:43.120 I like stuff like that. So if you did do it, though, 1:10:43.160 --> 1:10:45.880 would you not like being recognized that much? Because I'm 1:10:45.920 --> 1:10:48.280 sure people know now that, like you live in Cleveland 1:10:48.320 --> 1:10:50.600 and they'd see you driving. I definitely wouldn't put it 1:10:50.680 --> 1:10:53.120 on my car. I would probably like frame it and 1:10:53.160 --> 1:10:55.639 hang it somewhere back there in the office wall of fame. 1:10:55.680 --> 1:10:57.559 I don't or give it to my mom, who is 1:10:57.760 --> 1:11:01.920 literally the biggest collector of Entourage merchandise you've ever seen. 1:11:02.120 --> 1:11:03.880 I don't know why she buys it. I tell her, Mom, 1:11:03.960 --> 1:11:05.280 I can get you some of that stuff for free. 1:11:05.320 --> 1:11:07.320 She still buys it. And you go. You walk in 1:11:07.360 --> 1:11:10.040 the house, you asked for a cup of coffee, You're 1:11:10.040 --> 1:11:12.720 getting served with an Entourage coffee mug. You want a 1:11:12.800 --> 1:11:15.920 shot of tequila, You're getting an Entourage shot glass coming 1:11:15.960 --> 1:11:19.200 at you. Nice. We've never learned. We do know your 1:11:19.200 --> 1:11:22.880 real name is Sal Salvatore, right, we don't know why Turtle, Like, 1:11:23.160 --> 1:11:26.439 what is the reason for the nickname? I could honestly 1:11:26.479 --> 1:11:29.240 say it has never been answered. I've asked Doug Ellen 1:11:29.320 --> 1:11:31.400 numerous times. He said, I have no idea. I just 1:11:31.400 --> 1:11:33.840 thought it was a funny nick name. So I don't 1:11:33.920 --> 1:11:36.040 have a great answer for that. There is a great 1:11:36.080 --> 1:11:38.360 answer for why the character's name is Sal, if you 1:11:38.400 --> 1:11:42.840 want that. So years ago one of my best childhood 1:11:42.840 --> 1:11:45.680 friends unfortunately passed away when he was about twenty two 1:11:45.760 --> 1:11:49.160 years old. Okay, and in my mind when I was 1:11:49.200 --> 1:11:52.640 even auditioning for Turtle, not that my friend was exactly 1:11:52.680 --> 1:11:55.559 like Turtle, but there's definitely more things I pulled like 1:11:55.760 --> 1:11:58.360 I was playing a version of that, like fun loving guy, 1:11:58.920 --> 1:12:01.040 love to party, just like he was that guy. A 1:12:01.040 --> 1:12:03.880 little bit. I told Doug maybe, like in season three, 1:12:03.920 --> 1:12:05.559 as a joke, you know, if Turn ever gets a 1:12:05.560 --> 1:12:07.599 real name, I'd love it to be after my friend Sal. 1:12:07.680 --> 1:12:10.120 That's who I'm playing. Doug said, yeah, yeah, sure, we'll 1:12:10.240 --> 1:12:12.639 figure out when we get there. Never discussed it again. 1:12:13.040 --> 1:12:15.920 When I got that script with Jamie Lynn where I 1:12:16.000 --> 1:12:18.799 tell her my name, I had no idea it was coming. 1:12:19.160 --> 1:12:21.320 So I was reading the script. I get to that 1:12:21.360 --> 1:12:24.000 part and I froze and I dropped the script and 1:12:24.000 --> 1:12:26.800 I was like like crippled for a second because I 1:12:26.840 --> 1:12:30.400 couldn't believe he did that as a gesture. And to 1:12:30.439 --> 1:12:32.880 this day, my friend's family like any time, Like the 1:12:32.960 --> 1:12:36.320 character's name is sal Assante, which is my friend's name. 1:12:36.560 --> 1:12:38.800 It's in like the television Hall of Fame in a way. 1:12:38.880 --> 1:12:43.479 So it's the coolest thing that anyone's ever done for me. Wow. Okay, 1:12:43.520 --> 1:12:45.960 that's heavy. Did you tear up when you actually went 1:12:46.000 --> 1:12:48.360 to film it? Oh? I was so. I was like 1:12:48.520 --> 1:12:51.720 shaking that day and I even, uh, you're gonna get 1:12:51.720 --> 1:12:53.880 to an episode or maybe it is the episode. Is 1:12:53.880 --> 1:12:56.680 the turtle character's credit card canceled? Yet it's not. It's 1:12:56.680 --> 1:13:00.040 happening right now. So I have that credit card. I 1:13:00.040 --> 1:13:01.840 don't know if it's in my wallet, but it says 1:13:02.120 --> 1:13:04.680 it's a fake credit card that says saltatur Sante on it, 1:13:04.800 --> 1:13:09.400 and I kept it. I usually keep it in my wallet. Yes, Oh, 1:13:09.479 --> 1:13:12.840 my god. Okay, that's gonna make me cry still earlier. 1:13:12.840 --> 1:13:15.879 That's a that's an amazing story. Okay, I'm loving Entourage. 1:13:16.040 --> 1:13:18.720 We're having fun with it. Season seven. I'm liking so far. 1:13:18.760 --> 1:13:22.479 You've kind of given me. The warning still stands. You 1:13:22.479 --> 1:13:36.679 haven't gotten there yet. The warning still stands more to come. Okay, 1:13:36.760 --> 1:13:40.360 you two both have beef with Miles Sanders, and he 1:13:40.479 --> 1:13:42.599 really kept both from winning some money. So I hope 1:13:42.640 --> 1:13:44.920 you don't run into him in the streets somewhere. But Pete, 1:13:45.320 --> 1:13:47.519 walk us through what you lost with Miles Sanders not 1:13:47.600 --> 1:13:50.920 scoring a touchdown. Yeah. So we had a great day 1:13:50.960 --> 1:13:52.680 in terms of picks, and we'll get to those in 1:13:52.720 --> 1:13:55.680 a second. But I had a seventy five to one 1:13:55.720 --> 1:13:59.040 shot one game parlay that would have net out a 1:13:59.040 --> 1:14:03.479 couple of grand on a fifty bet, and Miles Sanders 1:14:03.479 --> 1:14:05.600 anytime touchdown was the only thing that missed. So I 1:14:05.640 --> 1:14:10.160 had Kelsey anytime hurts, anytime, a bunch of different overs. 1:14:10.479 --> 1:14:13.439 I achieved money. Line in there. Miles Sanders the one 1:14:13.439 --> 1:14:14.880 guy who let me down, and I think he let 1:14:14.880 --> 1:14:18.320 the world down because he had a superport performance. It 1:14:18.320 --> 1:14:21.800 could have been a Miles Sanders anything anything anytime that like, 1:14:22.120 --> 1:14:25.519 give us anything at any time, give us anything like 1:14:25.600 --> 1:14:27.920 a two yards maybe it would have been great. Your 1:14:28.000 --> 1:14:31.080 prop pick was over thirteen and a half longest rush 1:14:31.120 --> 1:14:32.840 attempt and he didn't even come close to that. I 1:14:32.880 --> 1:14:35.000 think he had a six yeard run. How was it? Yeah, Jerry, 1:14:35.040 --> 1:14:37.679 what was your other prop pick? It was Bucker under 1:14:37.720 --> 1:14:40.160 one and a half field goal attempts and he only 1:14:40.200 --> 1:14:42.000 had one, which was the game winner, and he missed 1:14:42.000 --> 1:14:45.760 he joinked that other one. So you know, yeah, Sanders 1:14:45.760 --> 1:14:48.640 just didn't show up. It was tough. Overall, you did 1:14:48.680 --> 1:14:51.080 all right at the Super Bowl, Yes, yeah, I mean, 1:14:51.120 --> 1:14:52.840 first of all, great week with you guys, right, We 1:14:52.960 --> 1:14:55.760 got a little dolphin, We had a great dinner, you 1:14:55.800 --> 1:14:57.840 get to meet some of the bed MGM team. But 1:14:57.960 --> 1:15:00.760 as for the picks, did pretty well. So gained well 1:15:00.800 --> 1:15:03.920 over nineteen and a half rushing yards, Pacheco rushing receiving 1:15:03.920 --> 1:15:05.479 over sixty and one and a half. I don't think 1:15:05.520 --> 1:15:07.479 he even had reception yards. I think he just didn't 1:15:07.520 --> 1:15:11.960 all rushing had a great game. Davante Smith over twenty 1:15:12.000 --> 1:15:15.320 three and a half longest reception hit actually was stuck 1:15:15.360 --> 1:15:17.839 at twenty three for a while. And I was nervous, 1:15:17.880 --> 1:15:19.560 and then he had that forty five yard or that 1:15:19.640 --> 1:15:21.880 he broke away. I gave the little pick at the 1:15:21.960 --> 1:15:24.439 end two of over sixty one and a half receiving yards, 1:15:24.479 --> 1:15:26.880 that number had weirdly gone down. He hit that by 1:15:26.920 --> 1:15:31.960 forty fifty yards. The only thing we lost was well, 1:15:32.360 --> 1:15:35.880 not the Reddick flyer that we took, but Kelsey over 1:15:35.920 --> 1:15:38.519 six and a half receptions. I think he ended the six. 1:15:40.080 --> 1:15:42.439 But they didn't need him. I mean they he obviously 1:15:42.439 --> 1:15:45.759 had a couple of big plays, but everybody else was working. 1:15:46.000 --> 1:15:48.599 The refs were working at for him too, and they 1:15:48.640 --> 1:15:52.040 were using pretty much every weapon. So can I ask 1:15:52.120 --> 1:15:55.000 you roughly, you know how the book? How did the 1:15:55.000 --> 1:16:01.160 book do? Like roughly? Like dead neutral? So okay, all right, 1:16:01.439 --> 1:16:04.479 yeah it was a so let me break it down. 1:16:04.479 --> 1:16:06.400 So I think the result was good for us in 1:16:06.520 --> 1:16:10.559 terms of the Eagles losing. But when every prop hit, 1:16:10.680 --> 1:16:13.880 so I mean almost every single anytime touchdown score hit 1:16:14.280 --> 1:16:18.040 that someone would probably besides Miles Sanders, that obviously hurts 1:16:18.120 --> 1:16:19.840 us because then you start to factor in all those 1:16:19.840 --> 1:16:22.439 one game parlays that people had, so anybody had eats 1:16:22.479 --> 1:16:26.640 and Kelsey touchdown and the next thing. Um, that's what 1:16:26.760 --> 1:16:29.320 balanced the book out. But but overall it was a 1:16:29.400 --> 1:16:33.640 very much probably would have been not so great exactly. 1:16:33.800 --> 1:16:36.080 So this was I think this was the result we wanted. 1:16:36.640 --> 1:16:38.840 Gives gives all of our customers a couple of bucks 1:16:38.880 --> 1:16:41.200 going into the week, so it's a good thing. And yeah, 1:16:41.240 --> 1:16:44.000 now we pivot to two NBA and NHL and March 1:16:44.120 --> 1:16:49.519 Madness and next golf. We got golf. We got golf 1:16:50.360 --> 1:16:52.600 real quick. With the promo that you were telling us 1:16:52.600 --> 1:16:55.400 about last week, the prop bet challenge, what was the 1:16:55.439 --> 1:16:57.920 takeaway from that? I mean, not that anyone's counting, but 1:16:58.000 --> 1:17:00.880 both of mine hit, So you were the only one 1:17:00.920 --> 1:17:03.760 where both of your props hit. I think I'm telling 1:17:03.840 --> 1:17:10.559 I was like fire, Jerry went olive, guys like Kevin Garnett, 1:17:10.600 --> 1:17:13.040 I think one zero percent. So we had a really 1:17:13.080 --> 1:17:15.680 great turn out. We have two amazing winners, one in 1:17:15.680 --> 1:17:18.400 Ohio and one in Ontario. So they're being contacted today, 1:17:18.400 --> 1:17:21.639 which is amazing. They both are thousand dollars richer, which 1:17:21.680 --> 1:17:27.280 is me wow, it's not um, it is confirmed, not Jerry. 1:17:27.400 --> 1:17:31.280 No insider trading here. But we're thrilled, thrilled, and we 1:17:31.320 --> 1:17:33.320 had a great turn out. A lot of adoptions, so 1:17:33.360 --> 1:17:35.960 it's great to see and great to have two customers 1:17:35.960 --> 1:17:38.920 a hundred thousand dollars richer. I know the lines aren't 1:17:38.920 --> 1:17:41.320 out for the All Star Game this weekend in the NBA, 1:17:41.520 --> 1:17:43.719 but what are some things that are fun that people 1:17:43.720 --> 1:17:47.559 can bet on once they do come out? Take the over? 1:17:48.600 --> 1:17:52.920 It's like the game Take the over. Obviously you got 1:17:52.960 --> 1:17:57.680 all the the three point contests, the slamdown contests, so 1:17:57.720 --> 1:17:59.360 I think that's where most of the fun will lie. 1:18:00.080 --> 1:18:03.720 The game is depends how you look at it. I mean, 1:18:04.080 --> 1:18:06.240 it's a pretty non appealing game for three quarters, and 1:18:06.280 --> 1:18:08.040 I think everybody turns it up a notch coming into 1:18:08.040 --> 1:18:10.759 the fourth. But when in doubt, I think just always 1:18:10.760 --> 1:18:13.599 take the over. The defense lacks the year and year, 1:18:14.000 --> 1:18:16.599 you know year, and your end just continues to drop. 1:18:16.640 --> 1:18:19.160 So I think safe that is just take the over there. 1:18:19.680 --> 1:18:23.439 So do you start looking at NFL next season? Now? 1:18:23.520 --> 1:18:25.519 I know I have a lot of friends who their 1:18:25.640 --> 1:18:29.400 work for next season starts like right at the buzzer 1:18:29.479 --> 1:18:32.080 of the game. So have you given that a look? 1:18:32.120 --> 1:18:36.479 And are you bringing anything for us today with that? Yeah? Yeah, 1:18:36.520 --> 1:18:39.000 So I think it starts a little bit day after 1:18:39.040 --> 1:18:41.640 Super Bowl, and then probably the next iteration of it 1:18:41.680 --> 1:18:43.519 is after the draft, when you actually start to see 1:18:43.800 --> 1:18:47.000 teams form a little bit more. For me, it's great 1:18:47.080 --> 1:18:49.719 value right now. So you look at teams that either 1:18:50.400 --> 1:18:53.240 have a great team that have been priced weirdly. Maybe 1:18:53.280 --> 1:18:55.400 they have a great team, they're missing a piece and 1:18:55.640 --> 1:18:58.040 the anticipation this year is that they will get that piece. 1:18:58.439 --> 1:19:00.760 So if I start with the Jets only five to one, 1:19:01.240 --> 1:19:04.439 they have a pretty good team. They obviously have offensive 1:19:04.439 --> 1:19:08.280 and defensive rookies of the year in Sauce Gardner and 1:19:08.840 --> 1:19:12.559 Karatt Wilson, so they have weapons, Robert Salo's defense, ken Ball. 1:19:13.160 --> 1:19:15.719 They're missing a quarterback. I think all the rumors around 1:19:15.720 --> 1:19:18.400 the world are is it Derek Carr, Is it Aaron Rodgers? 1:19:18.560 --> 1:19:20.720 They're going to get someone. They also have the I 1:19:20.760 --> 1:19:22.800 think the tenth or thirteenth overall pick this year, so 1:19:22.800 --> 1:19:25.360 they have a fairly high pick in the draft. So 1:19:25.400 --> 1:19:28.840 you start putting all that together to one, then you 1:19:28.840 --> 1:19:30.960 get Aaron Rodgers drops the fifteen or twelve to one, 1:19:31.080 --> 1:19:34.240 something like that. I'm still yeah, I saw that, and 1:19:34.280 --> 1:19:36.679 it definitely was puzzling at first, but you just broke 1:19:36.720 --> 1:19:40.760 it down elegantly because I do think that, yeah, they're 1:19:40.800 --> 1:19:45.680 the quarterback away, but we're still talking about very experienced 1:19:45.720 --> 1:19:50.000 head coach, very young team. You know, maybe if it's Rogers, 1:19:50.040 --> 1:19:52.080 I get you think it drops that low. If it's Rogers, 1:19:52.240 --> 1:19:54.000 get hit, it gets like twelve or fifteen to one, 1:19:54.040 --> 1:19:56.599 Like it it was Derek Carr. I think you can 1:19:56.640 --> 1:19:58.800 put it up forty to one if it's Derek Carr. Yeah, 1:19:58.800 --> 1:20:01.960 it might go the other ways, right, But I think 1:20:02.000 --> 1:20:04.360 to your point, there's still the Jets. It's still an 1:20:04.360 --> 1:20:07.200 inexperienced coach. I think it's pure value. So you just 1:20:07.200 --> 1:20:08.680 have to look at it in that sense that you're 1:20:08.680 --> 1:20:11.880 getting something that will eventually change value in a couple 1:20:11.920 --> 1:20:14.120 of weeks or a couple of months. I'm gonna keep 1:20:14.120 --> 1:20:16.280 an eye on that. I just refused to put money 1:20:16.320 --> 1:20:18.280 on the Jet to win the Super Bowl as a 1:20:18.320 --> 1:20:21.320 Giants fan. I just refused. Okay, what else? What else? 1:20:21.360 --> 1:20:25.920 Is one of these three? You'll love? So Jets one, 1:20:26.479 --> 1:20:29.760 Dolphins thirty to one, another intriguing one. They have a 1:20:29.920 --> 1:20:33.360 very very well built out team, especially on the offensive side. 1:20:33.640 --> 1:20:35.400 I think there's just a lot of question marks around 1:20:35.400 --> 1:20:38.360 to uh, his health, where does he go? Does he 1:20:38.400 --> 1:20:41.080 stay committed to football. With all the injuries, the scary injuries. 1:20:41.120 --> 1:20:43.600 He had again the team that if they decided to 1:20:43.640 --> 1:20:46.280 roll the dice and make a big splash from from 1:20:46.320 --> 1:20:49.519 a quarterback point of view, they're probably a favorite in 1:20:49.560 --> 1:20:52.439 the in the a f C. What splash could that be? 1:20:52.600 --> 1:20:54.679 I'm thinking of that. I'm with you on that because 1:20:54.680 --> 1:20:57.040 they're their roster on both sides of the ball is 1:20:57.120 --> 1:20:59.160 really really strong and really like, if it's a healthy 1:20:59.240 --> 1:21:01.640 toa and we know where you know, then yes, I 1:21:01.680 --> 1:21:03.960 think that that's a thirty to one. I think you'd 1:21:03.960 --> 1:21:06.400 be a fool not to sprinkle a little bit. But 1:21:06.600 --> 1:21:09.320 in the event that it's not to h you know, 1:21:09.800 --> 1:21:13.439 I don't know. I've never heard anything about Rogers to Miami, right, 1:21:14.479 --> 1:21:18.680 Jimmy G Like, what who's the I think you have 1:21:18.760 --> 1:21:21.519 to consider the money. Obviously, they're paying to rekill what 1:21:21.600 --> 1:21:24.680 thirty million a year, so their budget, their budget is 1:21:24.720 --> 1:21:27.599 not the same as the Jets or someone else. Brady 1:21:27.720 --> 1:21:29.800 as an example, would have been a great offer. I 1:21:29.800 --> 1:21:32.640 think you're not a low value. He doesn't retire. He 1:21:32.720 --> 1:21:36.160 comes in playing with you, rekaill, playing with lots of weapons. 1:21:36.600 --> 1:21:39.160 But to your point, well, he's not there. It's it's 1:21:39.160 --> 1:21:41.200 probably a guy like Jimmy g is probably someone that 1:21:41.520 --> 1:21:45.080 can run an offense. I hope, I really do. I 1:21:45.120 --> 1:21:48.280 hope it's. I feel for the guy. I feel for 1:21:48.320 --> 1:21:50.559 the guy. I just I think there's probably a lot 1:21:50.560 --> 1:21:52.599 of concerns in Miami and you probably need to be 1:21:52.600 --> 1:21:55.439 at least bringing the backup because obviously as they went 1:21:55.439 --> 1:21:57.880 down the depth chart, that's when there's their season kind 1:21:57.880 --> 1:21:59.800 of turned for the worst. All Right, where's this one 1:21:59.840 --> 1:22:02.479 that I'm gonna like? Because so far those are okay? 1:22:02.920 --> 1:22:05.040 I'm with you on the fins, But where's the one 1:22:05.080 --> 1:22:09.519 I'm gonna like a lot? So your Seattle Seahawks, Yes, Si, 1:22:11.479 --> 1:22:14.360 that is a crazy price for a team that made 1:22:14.400 --> 1:22:18.240 the playoffs are only getting better. They're probably going to 1:22:18.320 --> 1:22:20.719 re up Chino. But I think there's an important piece 1:22:20.720 --> 1:22:23.160 to all this. They got a lot back for Russell 1:22:23.160 --> 1:22:26.280 Wilson last year, including a top five pick, so they're 1:22:26.280 --> 1:22:29.720 gonna be drafting I think twice in the first picks 1:22:29.760 --> 1:22:31.760 of the draft this year. They're going to get a 1:22:31.760 --> 1:22:35.920 skilled playmaker. They have some money to spend. Again, do 1:22:36.000 --> 1:22:37.760 I think the Seahawks are gonna win the Super Bowl? 1:22:37.800 --> 1:22:42.320 Probably not. But that's a that's a jerry for our 1:22:42.360 --> 1:22:46.160 a lottery tickets, specially the Yeah, maybe they trade they 1:22:46.160 --> 1:22:48.960 could trade up with two picks. They could they could 1:22:48.960 --> 1:22:52.360 trade back. They could do a lot with those picks. 1:22:52.800 --> 1:22:55.599 And to me, like, no disrespect to your Niners, who 1:22:55.600 --> 1:22:57.360 are still the team to beat in that division, but 1:22:57.960 --> 1:23:01.120 definitely an unstable quarterback position for right now. I mean, 1:23:01.120 --> 1:23:05.479 we love Pertie, you know we're waiting on Lance. But 1:23:05.880 --> 1:23:07.800 I do think the Rams might have a little bit 1:23:07.840 --> 1:23:10.840 to say. I just can't imagine McVeigh just go like 1:23:11.000 --> 1:23:13.720 coming back for another year of what we just witnessed, 1:23:14.280 --> 1:23:17.040 because I don't think you would be down for that. So, 1:23:17.240 --> 1:23:19.360 but I don't know what division is wide open to 1:23:19.400 --> 1:23:22.479 me still a little bit. All three of those teams 1:23:22.520 --> 1:23:24.439 to me have a chance to obviously make the playoffs 1:23:24.439 --> 1:23:27.040 and make it make somewhat of a run. The Cardinals 1:23:27.080 --> 1:23:30.000 have zero shot there in turmoil with Kyler out for 1:23:30.040 --> 1:23:33.240 at least what at least probably half the year, Kingsbury out, 1:23:33.680 --> 1:23:39.559 I mean that team yeah, full rebuilders, right, So Seahawks one, 1:23:39.840 --> 1:23:42.360 I think again, they do a good job in the draft, 1:23:42.400 --> 1:23:44.599 they do a good job in free agency. That number 1:23:44.600 --> 1:23:46.479 goes to fifty. That number goes the forty, it probably 1:23:46.479 --> 1:23:49.400 never goes to one. But um, with Pete Carroll and 1:23:49.400 --> 1:23:50.720 the way you coached that team, a team that was 1:23:50.720 --> 1:23:53.120 supposed to win what four and a half games, I 1:23:53.120 --> 1:23:55.200 think you sprinkle a little on that one. Love it, 1:23:55.439 --> 1:23:57.760 love it. Hope they get Gino back to get a 1:23:57.800 --> 1:24:00.599 non exclusive tag coming up, that's like next week February 1:24:00.640 --> 1:24:03.120 twenty one is when they can start negotiating that. He 1:24:03.120 --> 1:24:05.639 could become a free agent March fifteen if they don't. 1:24:05.760 --> 1:24:07.720 So that's something to watch too before you make that bet. 1:24:07.760 --> 1:24:11.679 I think yeah, totally. But as far as golf tournaments 1:24:11.720 --> 1:24:15.240 coming up this weekend, what do you like? So Genesis 1:24:15.280 --> 1:24:19.120 is this weekend exciting tournament at Riviera in California. So 1:24:20.280 --> 1:24:23.160 I'll start with the Cali guys. So Max Homa he 1:24:23.280 --> 1:24:28.920 won right absolutely, if you haven't seen from a couple 1:24:28.960 --> 1:24:31.439 of seasons ago, he's one of those guys that's firing 1:24:31.439 --> 1:24:34.160 on all cylinders. He's instituted himself, is probably a top 1:24:34.200 --> 1:24:36.840 fifteen golfer. Like I said, he won the tournament two 1:24:36.920 --> 1:24:39.080 years ago. Means a lot to him, especially this is 1:24:39.120 --> 1:24:41.559 kind of Tiger's tournament him growing up such a huge 1:24:41.560 --> 1:24:44.320 Tiger fan. He's twenty two one. That's a great price 1:24:44.800 --> 1:24:47.400 for a guy who's won only two years ago. And 1:24:47.800 --> 1:24:50.280 I think four out of six of Max's PGA Tour 1:24:50.320 --> 1:24:53.439 wins actually happened in the state of California, so something 1:24:53.439 --> 1:24:55.760 about going home. He loves to win and loves to 1:24:55.760 --> 1:24:58.439 show up, So Homa two one, I think is a 1:24:58.479 --> 1:25:01.200 great beat. You can also sprinkle some top five, top 1:25:01.240 --> 1:25:02.920 ten bets that we haven't bet him gym as well, 1:25:03.360 --> 1:25:05.759 But I think taking him out right and then playing 1:25:05.760 --> 1:25:07.240 a little bit of the hedge team as things get 1:25:07.240 --> 1:25:09.280 closer into the weekend is is kind of my route. 1:25:09.479 --> 1:25:12.439 And then I'm gonna take three guys here that all 1:25:12.479 --> 1:25:15.880 looked really good, especially at TPC Scots Now last weekend 1:25:15.880 --> 1:25:19.320 at the Waste Management start with Justin Thomas sixteen to one, 1:25:19.720 --> 1:25:22.479 especially on the back half of the round probably Saturday 1:25:22.520 --> 1:25:24.960 and Sunday. He was driving the ball as good as anyone, 1:25:25.439 --> 1:25:28.320 and he is a top five golfer. He has a 1:25:28.360 --> 1:25:30.920 great short game. I think he's played well at Rivera 1:25:30.960 --> 1:25:33.719 but in the past, so sixteen to one again seems 1:25:33.760 --> 1:25:36.439 like a fairly aggressive price. I had probably looked at 1:25:36.479 --> 1:25:38.400 him in somewhere around ten to one, so again a 1:25:38.479 --> 1:25:41.160 value picked there with j T. A little home cooking 1:25:41.240 --> 1:25:44.640 for me with my guy, Kegan Bradley six to one, 1:25:44.760 --> 1:25:46.559 a guy who was in the top ten for most 1:25:46.600 --> 1:25:50.200 of TPC Scottsdale, most of the waste management first two 1:25:50.200 --> 1:25:52.880 three days looked really good. He's always had concerns around 1:25:52.920 --> 1:25:55.960 his potter and was putting really really well. So again 1:25:55.960 --> 1:25:58.000 a six one flyer I think makes lots of sense. 1:25:58.360 --> 1:26:00.680 And then the pick that makes no sense to me, 1:26:01.240 --> 1:26:04.360 Scottie Scheffler, is only ten to one. This guy does 1:26:04.439 --> 1:26:08.559 nothing but win, and even last week he looked really 1:26:08.600 --> 1:26:11.759 bad in this last round on Sunday and still managed 1:26:11.800 --> 1:26:13.720 to win by a couple of strokes. By far, the 1:26:13.720 --> 1:26:16.160 best golfer right now has been for the last probably 1:26:16.160 --> 1:26:18.280 eight to ten months, and I expect him to just 1:26:18.280 --> 1:26:20.439 continue to pump out top five finishes and he'll be 1:26:20.479 --> 1:26:23.559 there at the end of this at Riviera. So ten 1:26:23.640 --> 1:26:25.680 to one when he probably should be somewhere around five 1:26:25.760 --> 1:26:27.640 or six to one, I think makes a lot of 1:26:27.640 --> 1:26:29.680 logical sense. He'll fix some of the kinks that he 1:26:29.720 --> 1:26:31.519 had where he had a poor round on Sunday, and 1:26:31.520 --> 1:26:33.880 he'll be backfiring this weekend. To me, this is like 1:26:33.920 --> 1:26:37.280 the beginning of golf season. You know, the Super Bowl ends, 1:26:37.400 --> 1:26:40.240 we get the Waste Management Phoenix Open, and now we 1:26:40.360 --> 1:26:43.400 go right into the California kind of swing, which takes 1:26:43.479 --> 1:26:46.439 us right into the Master, so golf season to start. Look, 1:26:46.560 --> 1:26:49.120 I'm excited because Tiger Woods is playing. I know that 1:26:49.280 --> 1:26:51.759 just is the best thing for golf that could happen, 1:26:51.840 --> 1:26:55.640 of course, but realistically we haven't seen him play a 1:26:55.680 --> 1:26:59.679 non major and two years, three years, so I don't 1:26:59.720 --> 1:27:01.320 think we could really put any I think he's a 1:27:01.400 --> 1:27:03.800 ten thousand to one or something to win whatever. But 1:27:04.439 --> 1:27:07.599 bet MGM does have some interesting Round one Tiger Woods 1:27:07.640 --> 1:27:09.599 specials that I want to throw at you guys. I 1:27:09.640 --> 1:27:12.160 find a few of these really interesting. First one is 1:27:12.200 --> 1:27:15.679 bogey free, which is plus twenty two hundred. I think 1:27:15.680 --> 1:27:17.559 he's gonna make a bogie. Let's just say, I think 1:27:17.560 --> 1:27:19.880 he's gonna make a bogie, eagle or birdie the first 1:27:19.880 --> 1:27:24.479 hole minus two. I'm gonna stay away on that. The 1:27:24.520 --> 1:27:27.960 ones I like a lot to make an eagle plus 1:27:28.040 --> 1:27:31.240 seven hundred. This is still Tiger Woods. We might get 1:27:31.240 --> 1:27:33.599 a lot of bogies, but he always kind of bounces 1:27:33.640 --> 1:27:37.080 back and then to me, what I mean four or 1:27:37.120 --> 1:27:40.679 more birdie's plus one twenty. I think that's a great bet. 1:27:40.880 --> 1:27:42.519 And then to shoot and this is again there is 1:27:42.600 --> 1:27:46.280 only round one to shoot seven year lower plus one forty. 1:27:46.400 --> 1:27:48.400 I think those are some strong I gotta have a 1:27:48.400 --> 1:27:50.840 little tiger Woods action on this, on this tournament. I 1:27:50.920 --> 1:27:54.040 just have to have it. Yeah, totally. I think the 1:27:54.080 --> 1:27:56.040 last three make a ton of sense to me. You 1:27:56.120 --> 1:27:59.519 probably show concerns from him if he makes the cut 1:27:59.560 --> 1:28:01.360 going into at Her in Sunday, when his body starts 1:28:01.360 --> 1:28:04.200 wearing down a little bit. But first round he's gonna 1:28:04.200 --> 1:28:07.160 be driving the ball. Well, he's gonna have eagle doble 1:28:07.360 --> 1:28:09.800 holes where he's driving into or you know, hitting the 1:28:09.800 --> 1:28:12.799 green into. So I love that. I think the birdie 1:28:12.800 --> 1:28:15.400 one is my favorite out of all those, because to 1:28:15.439 --> 1:28:17.439 your point, he's gonna pump out birdies. He's gonna hit 1:28:17.520 --> 1:28:21.439 bogies and birdies, bogeis and berries. But all he needs 1:28:21.479 --> 1:28:23.720 to do is go to three under to hit you know, 1:28:23.760 --> 1:28:26.559 sixty nine are better. So that's not a crazy ask, 1:28:26.720 --> 1:28:29.720 especially early in the round, especially at one of his tournaments. 1:28:29.720 --> 1:28:32.599 So I love those first three probably like you would 1:28:32.600 --> 1:28:34.479 stay away from the first two of bogey free and 1:28:34.880 --> 1:28:37.880 eagling the Bertie or eagle in the first hole. Let's 1:28:38.080 --> 1:28:41.040 I think historically the first tea box has been some 1:28:41.120 --> 1:28:43.160 of those ones that have been like WHOA, where did 1:28:43.160 --> 1:28:45.840 that drive? Later in his career, not early in his career. 1:28:45.960 --> 1:28:48.280 You know, I think the first tea box has always 1:28:48.280 --> 1:28:51.599 been not necessarily a carry over from the range. Pete, 1:28:51.600 --> 1:28:53.840 you had a great year. I thought, all in all, 1:28:53.880 --> 1:28:56.439 you started off the football season it was a little 1:28:56.520 --> 1:28:59.080 rough in places, but you got you got real hot, 1:28:59.160 --> 1:29:01.200 and I thought you finished strong. All in all, I 1:29:01.200 --> 1:29:04.040 would say you were a playoff team. I don't think 1:29:04.040 --> 1:29:06.000 you won the Super Bowl this year, but I think 1:29:06.000 --> 1:29:07.760 you were a strong playoff team. You might have even 1:29:07.800 --> 1:29:09.920 gotten out of the first round. First of all, it's 1:29:09.920 --> 1:29:13.280 a wee. It's not an eye here. You guys carried me. 1:29:13.840 --> 1:29:16.639 We had a couple of blips. We had to Jerry. 1:29:16.640 --> 1:29:18.679 I always think of this like turning point of the season, 1:29:18.760 --> 1:29:20.960 where it is I had to put that big Chalky 1:29:21.120 --> 1:29:23.720 that was like my we hired Jeff Saturday kind of game. 1:29:23.720 --> 1:29:28.840 And we have four biggest favorites of the week. Yeah, 1:29:29.000 --> 1:29:32.240 but you gotta listen. You gotta hit the bottom sometimes 1:29:32.280 --> 1:29:34.040 to work your way up. I think I just made 1:29:34.040 --> 1:29:36.920 that up, but it really did help me to just 1:29:37.000 --> 1:29:39.559 getting out that first one out of the way. Then 1:29:39.600 --> 1:29:42.320 we started hitting one game parlays. We started having plus 1:29:42.360 --> 1:29:44.720 ten unit weeks. So big credit to you guys for 1:29:44.800 --> 1:29:47.680 keeping me keep me up there, all right, Pete. It's 1:29:47.680 --> 1:29:49.720 always a pleasure. It's even more fun in person. So 1:29:49.800 --> 1:29:52.599 we hope we can do this all again soon. Yeah, absolutely, guys, 1:29:52.640 --> 1:30:04.559 take care, all right. Fun, So you guys, the big 1:30:04.600 --> 1:30:08.200 thing is our bet MGM unleashed YouTube page. If you're 1:30:08.200 --> 1:30:11.439 not following it, you should subscribes. You can watch all 1:30:11.479 --> 1:30:14.360 of our interviews, which are really I think more fun 1:30:14.400 --> 1:30:16.800 to watch than listen to. And then make sure that 1:30:16.840 --> 1:30:19.040 you're seeing all of our shorts because of course we're 1:30:19.040 --> 1:30:21.280 on Instagram and Twitter at bet MGM. But make sure 1:30:21.280 --> 1:30:23.599 you also check out our YouTube page to seem much 1:30:23.640 --> 1:30:26.599 more content from the show. Jerry, you got anything that, Yeah, 1:30:26.720 --> 1:30:28.599 go take a look at the YouTube page, and you know, 1:30:28.880 --> 1:30:32.160 just sign our football. It was a great, great season. 1:30:32.400 --> 1:30:35.000 I'm gonna miss you every Sunday. Now. I'm going to 1:30:35.080 --> 1:30:38.160 be at the playground this Sunday at one o'clock probably 1:30:38.240 --> 1:30:40.840 is the weather gets warmer, so r I P the 1:30:40.920 --> 1:30:43.679 Sunday's l O L. He thinks we're done talking about 1:30:43.680 --> 1:30:45.439 football all right. Thanks everyone for joining