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Speaker 1: or Square with Chad Milman. A lot of games to discuss.

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Speaker 1: All odds provided by DraftKings Rocky Start. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: So my first one is Pittsburgh plus two and a

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Speaker 2: This is a total pro jo game. And what I

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Speaker 2: you to take the Titans. All of that is still true, right,

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Speaker 2: Brandon Staley is just not a very good NFL head coach,

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Speaker 1: Here all right, Buffalo at Washington. What's the current line?

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Speaker 2: Wise guys are on the commite and the line actually

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Speaker 2: He's very confident. Right. There was a throw last weekend

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Speaker 1: So I am loath to take big numbers. I don't

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, of course it's square, but I can't say

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Speaker 2: the wise guys are all jumping on the Bears right now.

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Speaker 1: So again, this is a week where I like some favorites.

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Speaker 2: I hate to say it, and listen, I hate asking

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Speaker 2: very you're a very, very successful, successful person in every

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Speaker 1: He looks old.

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Speaker 2: But the Broncos have also been one of the unluckiest

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Speaker 2: sort of inconsistent events that can impact a game and

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Speaker 2: normalizes what should have happened right if you take out turnovers,

431
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Speaker 2: weird circumstances, et cetera. The Broncos are the second most

432
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Speaker 2: unluckiest team and this is sort of the biggest luck

433
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 2: gap that we have second biggest luck gap that we have.

434
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Speaker 2: Also one thing, I'll say Sean Payton after Mike Tomlin,

435
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 2: second most profitable coach as an underdog the past twenty years.

436
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Speaker 2: So if I am going to bet on a team

437
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Speaker 2: in a situation in which they are zero and two,

438
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Speaker 2: I'm probably going to bet on Sean Payton in this scenario.

439
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:35,880
Speaker 2: One more stat I'll give you teams playing their first

440
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Speaker 2: home game in week two, so we're talking about I'm sorry,

441
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 2: the first home game in week three. So we're talking

442
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 2: about the Dolphins here when they are a favorite of

443
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Speaker 2: three or more in the last twenty years twelve, twenty

444
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Speaker 2: one and two. So I don't like the number. I

445
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Speaker 2: don't like the spot, I don't like the circumstances. But

446
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Speaker 2: I don't like having to tell you to do this

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now we do. I ask you a game that

449
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Speaker 1: I haven't a strong, definitive opinion, then you give me

450
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Speaker 1: when I should bet. The one I'm fascinated with is

451
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Speaker 1: New Orleans at Green Bay Packers now minus one and

452
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Speaker 1: a half. So a lot of hand holding so far

453
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Speaker 1: with Jordan love Yep, David BOCHTII, Christian Watson. I think

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Speaker 1: it's sort of unfair to jump to any conclusions on

455
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Speaker 1: Jordan without Christian Watson. He is their track star. He

456
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Speaker 1: is their deep threat. When he's on the field, it

457
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 1: changes coverage. Bochtari is a top five pass blocking left tackle,

458
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Speaker 1: so health this could be a game time bet based

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Speaker 1: on health. But this is our Where would you go

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Speaker 1: with this bet of the week. I'm just interested in

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Speaker 1: your thoughts.

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Speaker 2: So I lean Saints. I was kind of hoping that

463
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 2: the number might float a little bit higher. Today's actually

464
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 2: been a pivotal day for this game. It's been sitting

465
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Speaker 2: at plus two for the Saints all week, and today

466
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Speaker 2: the wise guy came in and started betting on the Saints.

467
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 2: So now the number is about one and a half.

468
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Speaker 2: So I kind of I feel like I missed the

469
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Speaker 2: window a little bit. The Saints, I think right now,

470
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,400
Speaker 2: are probably a little bit of a better team. I've

471
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Speaker 2: been really impressed with Jordan Love like he has made

472
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 2: some throws and taken the shots that he needed to

473
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Speaker 2: take even when it hasn't worked out. But this team

474
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Speaker 2: also gave up a twelve point lead to an Atlanta

475
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Speaker 2: Falcons team that is not a dynamic offense. As as

476
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Speaker 2: much as we love the Jon Robinson. He's not a

477
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Speaker 2: dynamic offense. And I think the Saints defense is better

478
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 2: than the Falcons defense. I think Derek Carr is a

479
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Speaker 2: better quarterback than Desmond Ritter so and also, by the way,

480
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Speaker 2: the stat I just gave you about the Dolphins, yeah,

481
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Speaker 2: playing their first game at home in Week three, applies

482
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Speaker 2: to the Packers as well. So I lean Saints here.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and give me a bet I missed that. You

484
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Speaker 1: really like, I'm gonna guess it's Baltimore, Indy.

485
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 2: It's close. It's down to that or the Texas.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people like Indy. But so you like

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Speaker 1: the Texans plus nine and a half oh lines all

488
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Speaker 1: beat up?

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Speaker 2: I do. But apparently Laramie Tunsel's playing, So I like that.

490
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,880
Speaker 2: I think that CJ. Stroud of the rookie quarterbacks has

491
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 2: actually played better than all of them. Has no receptions, like,

492
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Speaker 2: no interceptions. He's making the plays that they're in front

493
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Speaker 2: of him, even in garbage time, like you still have

494
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 2: to make the plays, right. So their problem has been

495
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 2: a seventeen percent conversion percentage in the red zone. Now,

496
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,160
Speaker 2: the Jags defense isn't very good. The Jags are also

497
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Speaker 2: without Cam Robinson, still their offensive line is not performing

498
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Speaker 2: the way it should be. They've underperformed. They beat the Colts,

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Speaker 2: you know, thirty one twenty one, but I watched that

500
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 2: whole game. It was not a good game and they

501
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 2: did not play their best. They got lucky in that game,

502
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Speaker 2: and then they had a chance to beat a hobbled

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Speaker 2: Chiefs team. And you look at the stats on that

504
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:04,640
Speaker 2: Chiefs game. The Chiefs averaged sixty yards per play, they

505
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 2: had four hundred total yards. They got some bad penalties.

506
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 2: They would have blown the Jaguars out. So I'm a

507
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 2: little nervous about this team that is a huge, huge favorite.

508
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 2: I think it's a bad spot for them. So the

509
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 2: wise guys are on the Texans.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in the air, I thought about this, but I

511
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: was worried about the Olne play. It's a division game.

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00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 1: That nine and a half points in division is crazy.

513
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 1: And I will say this about rookie quarterbacks c J. Stroud,

514
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 1: I think has leadership qualities and he doesn't make mistakes

515
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: so far. There's limitations on what they can all do.

516
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: But that's what gets Justin Fields into or Kenny Pickett.

517
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: It's the mistakes. Yeah, he's not making any mistakes. They

518
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 1: play between the thirties right like it's between the thirties football.

519
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: So that was when I figured, I figured that I

520
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: can't go with Gardner Minshew because I think Baltimore's really good.

521
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Speaker 1: But I do sense the Dogs are heavy in the

522
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Speaker 1: Colts this week.

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Speaker 2: The wise guys are on the Colts. And that line

524
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 2: probably was eight and a half for most of the week.

525
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 2: It got down to seven and a half. And it's

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Speaker 2: because the wise guys are coming in and I think

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Speaker 2: they've actually been impressed with the Colts team and they've

528
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 2: been really well coached. And I also think you're buying

529
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 2: the Ravens really really high right now. And so but

530
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 2: you got to think about this. In Week one, the

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Speaker 2: Ravens beat the Texans. They didn't dominate the Texans. The

532
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 2: Texans were in that game the entire time. The red

533
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 2: zone is what caused problems for the Texans. And you're

534
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 2: playing a quarterback who is a rookie, it's Week one.

535
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 2: Those are the things to be expected. But I was

536
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 2: all over the Texans plus ten in that game, and

537
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 2: I never felt like I didn't have a shot to

538
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 2: cover in that game until it was over. And then

539
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 2: last week they played a team in Joe Burrow that

540
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 2: he's clearly hobbled. So there's a lot of inflation on

541
00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 2: the Ravens and people sort of over valuing what they've

542
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 2: done so far in the season. So I think that's

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Speaker 2: why you're seeing a little bit of love for the Cult.

544
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 2: But I understand why you wouldn't want to play it

545
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Speaker 2: because Minshew's you know, he can be a scary gamble

546
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 2: Chad Millman.

547
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Speaker 1: He is the CCO of the Action Network. You're the

548
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Speaker 1: only C COO I know, I know, COO. What is

549
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: the what's the second C stand for content?

550
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Speaker 2: We're in the twenty what is this the twenty second century?

551
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Speaker 2: What year is this? Twenty first century? First, these are

552
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Speaker 2: the titles we get now. Content?

553
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Speaker 1: You got to achieve it, like you got to be in.

554
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Speaker 2: Charge of it, you know what I'm saying.

555
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Speaker 1: You know, Emma Thompson said, if you call it just content,

556
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Speaker 1: it feels like stuffing in a pillow. Could you use

557
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Speaker 1: the word creative?

558
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Speaker 2: I don't disagree with her. Like, somewhere along the way,

559
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Speaker 2: content became something that everybody feels like they can talk about,

560
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 2: and it's so commoditized. And you know, back when you started,

561
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 2: back when I started, nobody called it content. When I

562
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 2: got to college and worked at Sports Illustrated, we weren't

563
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 2: putting together the magazine thinking, Okay, what's the content. We

564
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 2: were talking about stories, we were talking about pieces, we

565
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Speaker 2: were talking about articles. When I went to ESPN the magazine,

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Speaker 2: and when I was running ESPN dot com, we didn't say, hey,

567
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Speaker 2: what's our content planned for the day. We're like, what's

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Speaker 2: the best story we can tell, whether it's in video, audio,

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Speaker 2: on platform, on digital, whatever it is. And then one

570
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Speaker 2: day I'm at the Action Network and my boss comes

571
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Speaker 2: in and he says, Hey, congratuate now the chief content officer.

572
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't even know what that means. But

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Speaker 2: now I'm in the C suite.

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Speaker 1: Hit jokes on them, head of stuffing, head of pillow stuffing.

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Speaker 2: I'm the head of pillow stuffing here at the Action Network.

576
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Speaker 1: Colin.

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Speaker 2: We got to turn this around this week. I am

578
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 2: so rooting for you. I want greatness for you. I

579
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Speaker 2: don't know where you're going to go with the Blazon

580
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Speaker 2: five tomorrow. I hope I've been a positive influence.

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Speaker 1: Well. The New Orleans one is interesting to me because

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Speaker 1: I was sort of go either way if they don't

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Speaker 1: have Christian Watson. By the way, how about that catch

584
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Speaker 1: by Olave up the sideline. It won't get the one

585
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: handed ob J. That's one of the best catches I've

586
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: seen in my life. To be literally in the air

587
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: and have the presence of min to hit it with

588
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: one hand catch it slam into the turf. I was

589
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: I sat there and I was like, the announcers aren't

590
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: giving this credit the best amazing It was one of

591
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: the best catches I've ever seen.

592
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 2: But also, let's think about that game, like if Michael

593
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 2: Thomas is really starting to play as he did a

594
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 2: couple of years ago, and he's had some moments and

595
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 2: Olave is the player that he can that he.

596
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: Was last year, that's a receiving corps.

597
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 2: That's a receiving corps, right, and so all of a

598
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 2: sudden it changes the scope for New Orleans, and all

599
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 2: of a sudden, that NFC South between the Bucks, who,

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Speaker 2: by the way, wise guys loved it five and a

601
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 2: half bet it down to four and a half against

602
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Speaker 2: the Eagles because they like what Baker is doing with

603
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 2: Michael Evans and Chris Godwin, and they know that the

604
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 2: Eagle secondary is incredibly banged up, and that that offensive

605
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 2: coordinator and Jalen Hurst, they have not geled. You can

606
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Speaker 2: see sort of a lot of disconnection in the game.

607
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 2: So between the Bucks, the Falcons, who I just love

608
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 2: every single week, and the Saints, all of a sudden,

609
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,959
Speaker 2: you're talking about like a really competitive division. So then

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00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 2: you got to wonder the Panther's going to win any

611
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Speaker 2: games at all because they might not beat anyone in

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Speaker 2: their division.

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Speaker 1: No, we thought the AFC was going to be great.

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Speaker 1: The NFC's actually been really good. That's the way it

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Speaker 1: always is. We thought the NFC South was pathetic. Everybody's

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Speaker 1: got you know, looks like Atlanta Tampa have a punch.

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Speaker 1: It's the way it always works. I mean literally, college

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Speaker 1: football is predictable. NFL outside of one or two teams,

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Speaker 1: is not.

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Speaker 2: Helen, we don't know anything. We have a combined eight

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Speaker 2: thousand years in the business, and we don't know anything.

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Speaker 1: I know people like this. I get people come up

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Speaker 1: say are you're ripped, and I love and I love

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Speaker 1: Sharper Square. All right, buddy, that was funny, see you, buddy.

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Speaker 2: That was good. All right, man, I hope your picking

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