Speaker 1: From the King of sports Books comes the Key sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by the MGM. Here's your host, Jerry
Speaker 1: Ferrara and Olivia Harlan Decker. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Unleashed.
Speaker 1: Welcome to November. What a great month of football, of NBA,
Speaker 1: of World Series still to play that we have left November,
Speaker 1: such a great month. Week nine of the NFL season.
Speaker 1: It's basically the midway point and things are starting to
Speaker 1: take shape. Contenders from pretenders. Who's real? Who isn't? Jerry?
Speaker 1: For all right, you are real? What do you think
Speaker 1: I am real? The month of October was absolutely bananas.
Speaker 1: I can only imagine what November hasn't store for us
Speaker 1: now that basketball is in the mix. We gotta go
Speaker 1: one today, Olivia, Okay. Our guest today is a personal
Speaker 1: friend of mine. He's a massive sports fan as well.
Speaker 1: Him and I go back to fantasy leagues into the
Speaker 1: early two thousands. He's also an actor who you might
Speaker 1: know from the show New Girl. He's on the Neighborhood
Speaker 1: Now on CBS with Cedric the Entertainer, great show. Other
Speaker 1: bunch of movies. I'll talk about Max Greenfield. I always
Speaker 1: say two things about Max if acting and in sports
Speaker 1: or anything alike. Him and I were of the same
Speaker 1: rookie class. We uh, we did a movie together back
Speaker 1: in like twenty two thousand one that sort of launched
Speaker 1: us for sure. And also I've been thinking about this.
Speaker 1: You know, like when you fill out a form at
Speaker 1: a doctor's office or at a gym, when they say
Speaker 1: your emergency contact, like you put Sam, I put Bree.
Speaker 1: We all have sports emergency contacts, like who is that
Speaker 1: first person you call when some stuff happened. Max Greenfield
Speaker 1: arguably my my number one sports contact emergency just for
Speaker 1: the Knicks, for the Nicks, for the Giants. We'll get
Speaker 1: into that with him because he you know, he's similar
Speaker 1: to me. He grew up in New York, but a
Speaker 1: lot of time in l A. So I think I
Speaker 1: think he's New York like I, but he I think
Speaker 1: it's a little more eclectic. And I think because he said,
Speaker 1: it's you know, mid season with football. Max also was
Speaker 1: a multiple Emmy nominee. He knows the thing about awards shows.
Speaker 1: Maybe we do a little mid season NFL Awards with
Speaker 1: with Max. Oh. I like that. I like that a lot,
Speaker 1: especially with some injuries now I feel like in the
Speaker 1: past week. That's going to affect some of those lines.
Speaker 1: So oh yeah, we got to look into that. What
Speaker 1: I didn't realize about Max Jerry is that he went
Speaker 1: to University of Wisconsin. That's so random. Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't believe he was a four year grad. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that. I forget. I think, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he's like a year or two. Yes, Max opted
Speaker 1: for the the Hollywood Draft instead of the NBA Draft
Speaker 1: and left college early. I like it. I like it. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll talk some, like you said, NFL honors especially, but
Speaker 1: we'll get into NFL headlines. But I'm just like bursting
Speaker 1: at the seams because I think the best college football
Speaker 1: game is this weekend. It's number one versus Number two
Speaker 1: Tennessee traveling to U g A to take on my bulldogs.
Speaker 1: Um I am. I am so excited for this one.
Speaker 1: Also because Jerry I just found out I think this
Speaker 1: week that I'm going to be working the sidelines for
Speaker 1: the SEC Championship. I've done it like four or five years,
Speaker 1: and yeah, being in London this year, I wasn't sure
Speaker 1: if I was gonna able to make it to the
Speaker 1: Mercedes Benz Dome in Atlanta. It is Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's one of my favorite assignments. I do it for
Speaker 1: Westwood One Radio, So yeah, I just found out I'm
Speaker 1: doing that. So now I'm extra tuned in because I
Speaker 1: want to know who's going to be representing the East.
Speaker 1: So yeah, a couple of things that this is. I
Speaker 1: feel like for you, this was almost you definitely must
Speaker 1: have done that. Gosh, do I fly back home for this? Like?
Speaker 1: Do I try to get back to the States to
Speaker 1: watch this one in person now? Especially since you're gonna
Speaker 1: be doing you know, some report warding. I know it's
Speaker 1: hard though you're all the way over there. Also, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take a little bit of a cheap shot. This
Speaker 1: game has to mean a lot to you, being not
Speaker 1: your NFL seasons over. My NFL season is halfway over.
Speaker 1: Because that's why I have two teams. I got the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Chiefs are cooking the Chiefs. You're alive. But those Packs
Speaker 1: I expected a lot more. I expected the Packers to
Speaker 1: put up a fight at least, and it's just not there.
Speaker 1: The fight's not there. So but anyway, that's this is
Speaker 1: a great game for you. I think you should bite
Speaker 1: your tongue on that a little bit, and we've probably
Speaker 1: given too much air time to the Packers. I thought
Speaker 1: the Packers gave the Bills everything they had. They didn't
Speaker 1: have Alan Lazard. Maybe with the spread they almost covered ten.
Speaker 1: I feel like it was a valiant effort. Bills, I mean,
Speaker 1: second half, Bills weren't a super Bowl winning looking team
Speaker 1: like we've been chalking them up to be. And and
Speaker 1: to be fair, I still think they are the best
Speaker 1: team in the NFL. I think they're better than the Eagles.
Speaker 1: I sometimes like them better than the Chiefs. But look,
Speaker 1: I mean, second half, what's the game? Sure, I think
Speaker 1: at that point for Buffalo it's like, all right, let's
Speaker 1: get out of here unscathed, let's try to stay healthy.
Speaker 1: I do think they're right now the Bills are better
Speaker 1: than the Eagles, but it's real close. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: something crazy right now because also, like I went back
Speaker 1: to some of our earlier show notes and prepping from Max,
Speaker 1: and I saw I haven't written in this notebook that
Speaker 1: you guys can't see at home. My Seahawks plus beautiful.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that. But also I did predict the
Speaker 1: Texans will have one huge upset this year. They always
Speaker 1: do it. It's when it's when you least expect it.
Speaker 1: What better option than a plus five hundred underdog against
Speaker 1: the Eagles at home on a Thursday night with Al
Speaker 1: Michael's doing the Amazon Prime game, Like, get me out
Speaker 1: of here? What bet? Look, it's not gonna happen, but
Speaker 1: you bet your life. I'm gonna be betting some small
Speaker 1: money on the Houston Texans on the money line and
Speaker 1: to cover the plus thirteen verse. You're taking Texans money
Speaker 1: line for sure? First of all, how else are you
Speaker 1: gonna watch that game? Realistically? What's like? How else are
Speaker 1: you going to watch that? Is it out yet? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think they're all plus five hundred on the money line,
Speaker 1: which is incredibly seven hundred. That's going to be moving
Speaker 1: around a lot. And yeah, I think right now that
Speaker 1: Texas are plus thirteen. So I'm gonna have a bunch
Speaker 1: of Texans bets because how else? Crazy? Well, how I'm look,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be big a lotto tickets stuff. How
Speaker 1: else are we gonna watch this game? Olivia? How else?
Speaker 1: I mean? I don't know. Hey, they only lost by
Speaker 1: seven to Tennessee, and that's what Derrick Henry doing his things.
Speaker 1: So I love that you've had confidence in some of
Speaker 1: these lowly teams and you are looking like the smartest
Speaker 1: guy in the room. Right now, there's Seahawks bed. I'm,
Speaker 1: I'm I've been cheering for the Seahawks for you. I
Speaker 1: wish I had like Venmody some cash so you could
Speaker 1: have placed because I can't do it here in London. Well,
Speaker 1: I want to ask Max too, and I'll ask you
Speaker 1: or I can ask you guys together though, but like
Speaker 1: it's gonna start getting to the point where I could
Speaker 1: like cash in that ticket if I want for less.
Speaker 1: That's how good the bet is looking. I'm not a
Speaker 1: split pot guy. I don't hedge. I should it's the
Speaker 1: smarter thing sometimes to do. But and this, yeah, this
Speaker 1: past weekend, it was tough watching Seahawks Giants. It's like
Speaker 1: my two favorite teams of the year, so it really
Speaker 1: was no lose situation for me. I hate that the
Speaker 1: Giants lost, but you know, Seahawks are rolling. They are Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this is very exciting top of the NFC West.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's it's it's really interesting with this
Speaker 1: young Seahawks team. And I heard uh, I think it
Speaker 1: was Colin Coward was talking about it, and it really
Speaker 1: makes sense with Seattle, is that Pete Carroll all the
Speaker 1: success he had at the college level at USC it
Speaker 1: shows because this is such a young team. They have
Speaker 1: this amazing rookie class and whatever it is he gets
Speaker 1: through to younger guys with like less skin in the game,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Guys who aren't making these
Speaker 1: max contracts, Guys who aren't, you know, so phased on
Speaker 1: the politics of the league or stuff. You know, it's
Speaker 1: it's a susceptible, vulnerable group of young NFL players who
Speaker 1: are still able to be molded by a guy who's
Speaker 1: as moving and excitable as Pete Carroll. And Pete Carroll
Speaker 1: is having so much fun on that sideline like it's
Speaker 1: it's a blast watch his team talent up and down
Speaker 1: the roster, young talent on both sides of the ball,
Speaker 1: starters who are rookies. I just I love watching your Seahawks.
Speaker 1: And if nothing else to Tyler Lockett, who is probably
Speaker 1: one of the longest tenured vets there in that postgame
Speaker 1: interview another I mean, Russell Wilson just catching heat all
Speaker 1: over everywhere. Returns someone's taking shots, just saying like it's
Speaker 1: amazing what you could do when no one cares who
Speaker 1: gets the credit. And that's what it seems like with
Speaker 1: the Seahawks team and the other scary thing that's back
Speaker 1: and it didn't really go anywhere, but it's officially back.
Speaker 1: You don't want to go in the Seattle to play.
Speaker 1: That is by far. I think that is it. We
Speaker 1: always know, we always talk about that home field advantage
Speaker 1: and is back with a vengeance. And they got a
Speaker 1: lot of home games left, so they do, but not
Speaker 1: this weekend at Cardinals. And I don't know what your
Speaker 1: thoughts are on this last game for Arizona. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of talk and we touched on it last
Speaker 1: week about Kyler Murray and Cliff Kingsbury and when he
Speaker 1: yells to the sideline, you know, what do you say,
Speaker 1: shut the f up? Or whatever he said, And it's
Speaker 1: like watching if you have that couple who are friends
Speaker 1: of yours, who you're like, man, they're not going to
Speaker 1: last more than a couple of years. You're like, all
Speaker 1: they do with those two is like everyone knows that couple,
Speaker 1: you know. I feel like that's how I look at
Speaker 1: Kyler and Cliff, what's your read on what we saw
Speaker 1: from the Cardinals this past weekend? You know, with the
Speaker 1: hop back, it's it's a different team, but it's not enough. Well,
Speaker 1: as someone who actually lost the fair amount of money
Speaker 1: on the Cardinals last weekend, because I just thought they
Speaker 1: were in a great spot, I really did, and they
Speaker 1: had multiple opportunity ease to win that game. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you, but I will make the
Speaker 1: tiny argument of like sometimes those couples, even though you
Speaker 1: know maybe their time is limited, it does go like
Speaker 1: ten years, like it's that like volcanic relationships. So look,
Speaker 1: it was great to see Hopkins back to We all
Speaker 1: forgot how good Hopkins is because he was out so long.
Speaker 1: So I think Arizona I really thought they were going
Speaker 1: to get that game and they needed it. But I
Speaker 1: do think if they could get Hopkins going like they
Speaker 1: have and get a little healthier, they're not in a
Speaker 1: bad spot again, because that division is one of the
Speaker 1: many that are just crazy. They're not in a terrible spot. Although, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Cliff Kyler thing, Uh yeah, it's like going to
Speaker 1: get covered by US Weekly soon. They're tumultuous relationship. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: so they are at Washington this Sunday. Obviously Minnesota won
Speaker 1: that game. Minnesota, they are cooking. It is hard to
Speaker 1: imagine there's a world in which they don't. When the
Speaker 1: NFC North, the Aaron Rodgers Invitational is now all there's
Speaker 1: what do you make of what they're doing, and especially
Speaker 1: when they're in kind of that early Sunday time slot
Speaker 1: like they've got coming up. I mean, I don't see
Speaker 1: him losing a game on their schedule coming up. They've
Speaker 1: answered every question, even though sometimes not impressively, about their team.
Speaker 1: No one I've seen puts them in their top five
Speaker 1: when you see all the other talking head shows and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Minnesota does not crack the top five
Speaker 1: in power rankings. So they're still they still have that
Speaker 1: we're not getting our respect thing, which it works, it's great,
Speaker 1: but they're such a lead. If they could nail down
Speaker 1: like two more wins, put the nail and the coffin
Speaker 1: for the Packers, like I think, you really start doing
Speaker 1: pitch count stuff like the Dalvin Cooks and stuff. I
Speaker 1: I know that's not what we all want to hear
Speaker 1: and and and any other sport I get, but with
Speaker 1: football especially someone has been little injury prone. You just
Speaker 1: at that point, Now, how do we get healthy for
Speaker 1: the playoffs? And then I mean, I don't know, they
Speaker 1: could challenge the goals of the Eagles lose to the Texans,
Speaker 1: Like I'm predicting, there's a one seed at steak that
Speaker 1: is now more important than ever. Yeah, I know, you're right.
Speaker 1: It's interesting you mentioned Russell Wilson earlier when we were
Speaker 1: talking about Seattle and that game no one freaking watched
Speaker 1: because it was on ESPN Plus. It took me a
Speaker 1: minute to find that one. I'm not gonna lie, it
Speaker 1: took me a minute. That was that was such a
Speaker 1: slap in the face. I have a friend who worked
Speaker 1: for the Broncos. We got together when they were in
Speaker 1: London and I was like, oh, you know what, I
Speaker 1: love these London games. You know, obviously went to Packers Giants,
Speaker 1: but I love when I can just watch a game
Speaker 1: in the middle of a Sunday over here. And I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, and by the way, who's who's airing that?
Speaker 1: And and she said, ah, it's ESPN Plus. What a
Speaker 1: slap in the face. I know they were competing against
Speaker 1: all the pregame shows. You know, that's a and Jared,
Speaker 1: you and I because of your background and then my
Speaker 1: background in TV, I feel like we love the programming nonsense.
Speaker 1: It's great, I think a very interesting part of sports.
Speaker 1: Obviously your Saturday super Bowl stuff, all of that we've
Speaker 1: talked about. But this one was kind of a head
Speaker 1: scratcher for me because it was a standalone game, had
Speaker 1: no competition, and they bumped it for all of the
Speaker 1: pregame shows that do so much better than these two drowning,
Speaker 1: floundering teams could have done. I mean, then why do
Speaker 1: we why did we ship these two off to England?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? What a horrible game in
Speaker 1: London to put on a subpar streaming platform. Just how
Speaker 1: many more isolated Russell Wilson games are we gonna be
Speaker 1: have to sit through? Like, I know, this is not
Speaker 1: a primetime game, it's a prime morning game. There's nothing
Speaker 1: else on, so we're all like, yeah, let's put that
Speaker 1: on with the coffee. Look, it's gonna be real interesting.
Speaker 1: What the Broncos do going for I don't know why
Speaker 1: I'm still staying. Why is Jerry Judy's name in every
Speaker 1: is in trade rumors? Why is hen? Like I'm just
Speaker 1: so confusing how you could make this move, spend hundreds
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars on the quarterback and the like,
Speaker 1: let's blow it up. It's just one of the more
Speaker 1: bizarre things. I'm sick of the Broncos. I'm actually sick
Speaker 1: of taking shots at Russell Wilson. I think we've done
Speaker 1: it enough and uh, let's just let's just the look.
Speaker 1: They won. They won. They beat Jacksonville, who can't figure
Speaker 1: out how to win at all, with a good fourth
Speaker 1: quarter from Russell. You know, you've got to admit, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you watched it, Russ is gonna cook.
Speaker 1: He's not. He'd know he's gonna warm stuff up. That's
Speaker 1: what he does. He doesn't cook you warm slave. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I will tell you though. When I flew out here,
Speaker 1: I did not do high knees up and down the aisle.
Speaker 1: I didn't work out for four of the eight hour flight.
Speaker 1: I just you know, I'm not gonna do that. I
Speaker 1: don't think anyone's going to do that. That's but I
Speaker 1: know we said we're done making fun of him, but
Speaker 1: come on, he'll give us more every week before we
Speaker 1: getting into Unleashed and all that good stuff. Cause we
Speaker 1: segue quickly and for a minute, because my unleashed is
Speaker 1: in the NBA, so do a little NBA Like I'm look,
Speaker 1: I'm glad the Lakers getting some winds now all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I was a little confused by the Darvin ham like
Speaker 1: Super Bowl gatorade bath that he got in the locker room,
Speaker 1: like I'm happy for him. Look of course, it's alright,
Speaker 1: great your first career win as a head coach, like
Speaker 1: got it. It's the NBA. The Lakers gonna go oh
Speaker 1: when they were they gonna go oh? And e D
Speaker 1: two like did we not expect like Owen sixteen in
Speaker 1: the NFL has happened before. That's a threat. There is
Speaker 1: a threat that the first time head coach could not
Speaker 1: get a victory. Were we really gonna say, like Darvin Hammon,
Speaker 1: we got that first one out of the way, all right,
Speaker 1: what were then? And eight two? And like also, where's
Speaker 1: like the pride, Like I'm happy for Darwin ham who too.
Speaker 1: He seems like a great person and he seems like
Speaker 1: a good coach. They're off to a rough start, so
Speaker 1: this is not like I'm not happy for Darwin him
Speaker 1: if I'm that team, Like aren't you embarrassed? To quote
Speaker 1: like Sebastian Maniscalco, aren't you embarrassed got your first win?
Speaker 1: You're celebrating like you did something we've been like. It
Speaker 1: should have been the opposite, should have been somber in
Speaker 1: that locker room, like we all right, we finally did
Speaker 1: what we needed to do. Let's go to the war.
Speaker 1: And Lebron was in there participating. That's what I was
Speaker 1: gonna I love Darvin Ham, I'm happy for him. I
Speaker 1: think he's get a lot of win. So that just
Speaker 1: that threw me for a loop. I was going to say,
Speaker 1: because Lebron is in there, it almost makes it more
Speaker 1: egregious because he should as a and a d but
Speaker 1: as a leader in that room when we all know
Speaker 1: the Lakers right now is Lebron, are Lebron? Whatever the
Speaker 1: grammar is, but he should have said, look, we're excited
Speaker 1: for you, Dhan, this is great. It's unacceptable it happened
Speaker 1: this late, and we all have to be better like that.
Speaker 1: I would be apologizing to him, Yeah, sorry it took
Speaker 1: this long. Sorry, let me buy you dinner. Let me
Speaker 1: buy a steak instead of soaking you with whatever. They
Speaker 1: it just was weird, looked like they clinched the playoffs.
Speaker 1: It didn't look like they clinched the playoff spot. No,
Speaker 1: You're right, that was awkward to watch. It's sad that
Speaker 1: it happened like this last team to get a win
Speaker 1: with that roster, and everyone is going to be questioning
Speaker 1: what the move is. And a d already having back
Speaker 1: issues and NBA's worst shooting team evert now, and and
Speaker 1: Lebron's after his worst shooting start. There's issues up and down.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what to make of it. But Jerry,
Speaker 1: that was certainly not the biggest news in the NBA.
Speaker 1: As we're recording this Tuesday night or Tuesday night for me,
Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon for you. Steve Nash out in Brooklyn, what
Speaker 1: are your thoughts? Yeah, something had to happen. Obviously not
Speaker 1: off to a good start, and then you get into
Speaker 1: the Kyrie stuff and the Durant stuff. Did he want
Speaker 1: to fire over you know what? Would reported that it
Speaker 1: was mutual, which typically when I hear that, I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: it wasn't. In this case, I totally totally believe, like
Speaker 1: Steve come into the office place and Steve Nash walking
Speaker 1: to be like, I'm gonna stop you guys, for a second,
Speaker 1: it's cool you I'm cool. Let's you're right, I'm out.
Speaker 1: And I know Steve Nash is a competitor. He was
Speaker 1: a great competitor as a player. He's a competitive person.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure he's not taking this like with a
Speaker 1: grain of salt. But yeah, I'm sure. I actually, for
Speaker 1: the first time I ever believed the both sides were
Speaker 1: mutually agreed to put like I just I I agree
Speaker 1: it was mutually agreed that it should no longer happen. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, And then you hear stuff like obviously Jacquevlan
Speaker 1: is gonna take over for now, but you hear names
Speaker 1: like Quinn Snyder and you hear you dooko, which it's like,
Speaker 1: is that even gonna happen this quickly? When can it
Speaker 1: even happen? That's like such a law. It's very confusing,
Speaker 1: I will say to kind of surmise, I was worried
Speaker 1: already when they came in. Again, love me, I love
Speaker 1: Steve Nash. You never coached before like head coach. They
Speaker 1: got They kicked Kenny Atkinson out the door, who is
Speaker 1: now a very valued assistant with Golden State, and that
Speaker 1: team was overachieving on the level of Carris LeVert and
Speaker 1: and just all that, like they did not really have
Speaker 1: that number one. So I just always thought that should
Speaker 1: have stayed Kenny Atkinson's job. Kenny Atkinson is a great coach,
Speaker 1: so I'll be interested to see what happens. I'm happy
Speaker 1: that the Knicks are not the main the main circus
Speaker 1: in New York right now. Yeah, I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: that's your take. A couple of things. What came to
Speaker 1: mind is conscious uncoupling. Remember, and Chris Martin and Gwyneth
Speaker 1: Palto said that when they got a divorce something like that.
Speaker 1: That's like a nice Hollywood spin on it. So that
Speaker 1: change of mind. Also with the email Adoca stuff, that
Speaker 1: he is his name's in the conversation. He's obviously suspended
Speaker 1: from Celtics for a year for everything that helped happened there,
Speaker 1: and that he's still available to be hired elsewhere is
Speaker 1: very funny. And we were talking right before we recorded
Speaker 1: that we see this a lot in football. I feel
Speaker 1: like with coaches is some off the field issue. The
Speaker 1: name Hugh Freeze comes to mind, and you're banished, right
Speaker 1: like the school has to fire you. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a really bad. Look if they don't part ways.
Speaker 1: But yet you're so successful on the field that your
Speaker 1: name is always in the conversation anytime there is a
Speaker 1: big hiring like for this Hugh Freeze example, his name
Speaker 1: and he's obviously at Liberty. His name is now in
Speaker 1: the conversation for the Auburn job. And Brian Harson just
Speaker 1: got fired this week. He's a great play caller, he's
Speaker 1: he was super successful. To'll miss beat Nick Saban I
Speaker 1: think twice actually, now that I think about it. And
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that like you have to
Speaker 1: pay your penance, you have to go to like sports
Speaker 1: jail a k in this case of his Liberty, Like
Speaker 1: you have to to go pay your time and then
Speaker 1: don't worry, like you're gonna be right back where you
Speaker 1: wanted to be in a couple of years. I don't know,
Speaker 1: is there another example like that I'm missing someone. I
Speaker 1: feel like we see this a lot, right, it does happen,
Speaker 1: and you know some people you'll see say, well, Wat
Speaker 1: should like his career be over completely, Like we still
Speaker 1: don't even have the details, some details I don't know.
Speaker 1: It really to me, that's like an organizational decision if
Speaker 1: the nets are like, you know what, we'll wait out
Speaker 1: his suspension. We want him for the future, and you
Speaker 1: know he made a mistake and moving on. That's their prerogative,
Speaker 1: but you do take on everything that comes with that
Speaker 1: when stuff doesn't work out or something happens again. But yeah, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess what we're supposed to say,
Speaker 1: is he is he done for his career? Is his
Speaker 1: career completely over? I'm not one to me. I'm glad
Speaker 1: I'm not making that decision. And I'm so sick of
Speaker 1: cancel culture and us in the media I think are
Speaker 1: the most at fault at this, But certainly sports fans
Speaker 1: feel like they're the judge and jury so often, and
Speaker 1: so yeah, I could care less about that. That's more
Speaker 1: in this example both Emay, that's kind of more between
Speaker 1: him and his wife as far as I'm concerned about
Speaker 1: our problem. But I think it's certainly an interesting look
Speaker 1: if that turnaround was so quick, if the nets are like, hey, May,
Speaker 1: what's going on? How you doing? Come on down to Brooklyn, Like,
Speaker 1: that's a certainly certainly quick From a betting perspective, though, Jerry,
Speaker 1: this has been pretty interesting because the nets odds to
Speaker 1: win the NBA Championship. They opened up plus seven hundred
Speaker 1: and two weeks into the season, plus Steve Nash firing
Speaker 1: plus four d Think about that there two and five
Speaker 1: just seven games into the season they fire Steve Nash,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, pretty interesting, and under Steve Nash
Speaker 1: they were four and sixty seven. That was the record.
Speaker 1: Got swept out of the first round of the playoffs
Speaker 1: last season, obviously by the Celtics. That kind of comes
Speaker 1: full circle. But any other first time coach, that's an
Speaker 1: amazing start. You know, you got swept right, But not
Speaker 1: in that situation and not with those players. I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: if it's Quinn Snyder, for some reason, I feel like
Speaker 1: their odds will get better right away because Quinn Snyder
Speaker 1: is a great I think he's a great coach. I
Speaker 1: think he maximized a lot had And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: even what I mean what you dooka you could argue
Speaker 1: with the same thing. I just don't know when he
Speaker 1: would start like that would be the biggest thing. So
Speaker 1: if it's Quinn Snyder and like a right away he
Speaker 1: takes over in like two weeks from now, those odds
Speaker 1: that you tick up and get a little bit better.
Speaker 1: And then obviously a part of this conversation is the
Speaker 1: Kyrie stuff, and there's a lot there. But I keep
Speaker 1: thinking with Kad, does he just wake up every morning
Speaker 1: wondering why he traded out Steph Curry for Kyrie Irving? Like,
Speaker 1: does he not wake up every morning regretting that decision.
Speaker 1: I don't think we'll ever know what Katie's thinking. Um horrible,
Speaker 1: He's it's such a waste of talent. Katie should be
Speaker 1: on a contending team every season, not dealing with all
Speaker 1: this nonsense. Right, It's not on him, you know, it's
Speaker 1: really not on him. Like that's why even when we
Speaker 1: said when he demanded a trade and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: he really has no leverage because KD is not going
Speaker 1: to skip games and skip trade. Like that's the big
Speaker 1: conundrum with him, because it's like, even if he wants
Speaker 1: out to force your way out the things you have
Speaker 1: to do, I don't know if he's willing to do.
Speaker 1: Because that dude loves basketball. I buy that a hundred percent.
Speaker 1: And I buy a hundred percent when he was with
Speaker 1: the Warriors, especially that first year, that's like the happiest
Speaker 1: I think he's I think he hit basketball UTOPI you know,
Speaker 1: like wow, and then year two, year three, other stuff
Speaker 1: starts happening and all that. But yeah, that dude loves
Speaker 1: the ball, So I don't know. I ultimately think the
Speaker 1: Nash thing too was a distraction in itself. Is he
Speaker 1: gonna get fired? Is he not? So? I I do
Speaker 1: think the Nets will start to hit a stride in
Speaker 1: like two weeks. Hey, speaking of which, you were courtside
Speaker 1: at the Calves game. Get to see your boy down
Speaker 1: Van Mitchell up close and the personal telling about that. Okay,
Speaker 1: I would do this, So this was a rough one
Speaker 1: for me. I went in person to the Calves Knicks
Speaker 1: game in the past Sunday and they were in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and I got some really good tickets. I had never
Speaker 1: sat in a seat. Now I've sat in some really
Speaker 1: good season is not a humble brag. I've been fortunate
Speaker 1: enough to sit courtside all that great stuff. So I
Speaker 1: sat first front row, right behind the Calves bench, which
Speaker 1: is not a great seat for viewing because you have
Speaker 1: seven foot tall people sitting in front of you, but
Speaker 1: it's a really cool seat for like time outs and stuff.
Speaker 1: I was inside the Calves huddle and I had a
Speaker 1: really close look at Donovan Mitchell. And obviously every Nick
Speaker 1: fan has convinced themselves now that not trading for Donovan
Speaker 1: Mitchell was the right thing to do. We're all on
Speaker 1: that boat. Until he played the Knicks, and until I
Speaker 1: saw it in person, it was like watching you know,
Speaker 1: like a relationship in high school, like a girl who
Speaker 1: sort of left you, although Donovan Mitchell didn't leave Knicks
Speaker 1: for someone else, and you're watching it like, yeah, that
Speaker 1: makes sense, that's that's a better relationship for her, and
Speaker 1: she's flourishing. He's flourishing. He was flourishing on the court.
Speaker 1: He was completely dominant, and it was a close game throughout,
Speaker 1: and you just knew that Donovan Mitchell was going to
Speaker 1: close out the game. And now realizing that you just
Speaker 1: need that star player in the NBA as much as
Speaker 1: I try to fight against it, and Donovan Mitchell was
Speaker 1: that player. In the huddles, in the time out. He
Speaker 1: was coaching guys, uh, he was coaching up a Korro,
Speaker 1: he was coaching up Mobili. He was like the greatest
Speaker 1: alpha team leader guy, And it just all made sense,
Speaker 1: and I just had the pit in my stomach of
Speaker 1: what did the Knicks do by not making it mandatory
Speaker 1: to trade for Donovan Mitchell. So I'm saying all the
Speaker 1: justification that Nick fans did about, oh, we're in great shape,
Speaker 1: we should have did the trade after watching that in person,
Speaker 1: that hurt my feelings as a Nick fan. And he
Speaker 1: is at an m v P level through whatever seven games.
Speaker 1: But ah, it is so good for the Calves. What
Speaker 1: a great fit. I'm glad that you're there for this too.
Speaker 1: And I love your kind of Midwest fandom coming out
Speaker 1: of nowhere because I know like you were trying to
Speaker 1: spite your in laws a little bit by going against Michigan,
Speaker 1: and now you're settling in on the Calves. I think
Speaker 1: you're settling nicely. Yeah, And look at the one thing
Speaker 1: you could say is the Knicks would have had to
Speaker 1: actually trade players that they would have needed to also
Speaker 1: be good with Mitchell, whereas the Calves, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think they were going to hang on the Marketing
Speaker 1: and Sexton anyway. So we were able to bring in
Speaker 1: Mitchell with still a great core. So it's just a
Speaker 1: better fit for him basketball wise, Such a better situation
Speaker 1: for I'm happy for him on that level. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: probably cool to see in person too. And and we
Speaker 1: had bantered because it was like on our show the
Speaker 1: week it was happening. And I know you wanted them,
Speaker 1: I know you did, but it sounds like you're a
Speaker 1: good sport about it. Yeah. Like I said, it's like
Speaker 1: you and this person broke up and now they did
Speaker 1: someone else, and you're like, that's a good couple. They're
Speaker 1: they're a good couple. What are you gonna do. That's
Speaker 1: a good couple. They're a good couple. They should be together. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's stay in the Midwest. And I already brought up Michigan,
Speaker 1: so I've got a touch on this fight that happened
Speaker 1: in the tunnel after one of the best rivalries in
Speaker 1: college football, Michigan State Michigan. It happened in the Big House.
Speaker 1: You see Michigan State players who lost just beating up
Speaker 1: on an indefensible Wolverine player. Jaden mcburrows was one of them.
Speaker 1: And then at Jamon Green, the defensive back with no
Speaker 1: helmet on, mind you, just a complete assault in the tunnel.
Speaker 1: And as the story is progressing now there are a
Speaker 1: couple of things that I find interesting. Is people are
Speaker 1: pointing the finger at a lot of people other than
Speaker 1: the four Spartan players who have been suspended and definitely,
Speaker 1: by the way, and there is an ongoing investigation, but
Speaker 1: people are blaming the structure of the Big House, which
Speaker 1: was built almost a century ago. By the way, there's
Speaker 1: a single entrance and exit and just this one tunnel,
Speaker 1: which I will say there are a handful of stadiums
Speaker 1: in the NFL and college that have one tunnel. And
Speaker 1: as a sideline reporter, I'll tell you it is a
Speaker 1: nightmare because when you're trying to get a coach coming
Speaker 1: off the field at halftime and two teams are trying
Speaker 1: to get into their locker room as fast as possible,
Speaker 1: it's it's a mess. But some of these are like
Speaker 1: grandfathered in the Big House. I mean, come on, they're
Speaker 1: not going to change it, probably anytime soon, should they? Sure,
Speaker 1: But it's just what it is. You can't blame the
Speaker 1: architect for this fight. And I really don't like people saying, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a football game, come on, blah blah, No,
Speaker 1: this was off the field to play. When we look
Speaker 1: at similar incidents of violence, that seems to supersede the game.
Speaker 1: Like the Mason Rudolph Miles Garrett situation comes to mind
Speaker 1: a lot of times. They get written off when the
Speaker 1: law tries to get involved. It's it's on the field
Speaker 1: of play, right, Well, this is not. This was after
Speaker 1: the game in the tunnel, a player with no helmet
Speaker 1: on who got a concussion from this altercation. And if
Speaker 1: you've seen the video, it is hard to watch. It's
Speaker 1: it's gross. This is not boys will be boys. This
Speaker 1: is not that. This was a full on assault of
Speaker 1: an over hyped matchup of a rivalry that goes, you know,
Speaker 1: decades beyond any of these kids were alive, and it's horrible.
Speaker 1: The interesting part about it now is that the player
Speaker 1: who suffered the concussion has hired a lawyer, and not
Speaker 1: just any lawyer. He hired Tom Mars, who if you
Speaker 1: look up just about any scandal in college football, Tom
Speaker 1: Mars is right there in the middle of it. The
Speaker 1: pretty interesting stuff that now it's going to become a
Speaker 1: criminal investigation. Another interesting part that I'm looking at is
Speaker 1: the Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren. I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of his. He's had his hands full because COVID happened,
Speaker 1: like right as he took over the job, and um,
Speaker 1: every conference was doing something different in regards to COVID,
Speaker 1: but he was at the game because his son is
Speaker 1: on the Michigan State roster. That's kind of going to
Speaker 1: be an interesting part about it. The Big Ten has
Speaker 1: stayed quiet so far, so clearly they're waiting for more evidence,
Speaker 1: and there are supposed to be other camera angles that
Speaker 1: we haven't seen yet. Jim Harbaugh saying that, and he's
Speaker 1: saying that the evidence is so much worse when you
Speaker 1: see the camera angle that he has seen. So look,
Speaker 1: it's a mess, and I hate when this stuff overshadows
Speaker 1: the purity and the pageantry of college football, right it, Sully'
Speaker 1: is all of it for everyone. And already college sports
Speaker 1: are taking a different turn with now n I L
Speaker 1: and transfer portal and that it's not what it used
Speaker 1: to be for a lot of good reasons. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of good things coming out of it. Now.
Speaker 1: I'm going on a tangent, but that is my unleashed
Speaker 1: because I was really pissed when I saw that this
Speaker 1: went down. No, it's look, it is. It is hard
Speaker 1: to watch. Made me kind of grateful that that's not
Speaker 1: something that we've seen a lot before because that I know,
Speaker 1: I guess we've got like conditioned to like accept violence
Speaker 1: on the field, right, because it's in the spirit of
Speaker 1: the game. But it just shows you too, and what
Speaker 1: a difference it is from like football violence versus just
Speaker 1: violence violence, you know, and in the weird way, you
Speaker 1: know what I thought about this is kind of off topic,
Speaker 1: but everyone, you know, it was kind of up in
Speaker 1: ours about the DJ More penalty after the hail Mary
Speaker 1: because he took his helmet off, right, And why is
Speaker 1: that a fifteen yard penalty? And it cost them to
Speaker 1: kick where and like where you could like pile drive
Speaker 1: a quarterback and that's only fifteen Like those two things
Speaker 1: are equivalent. To me, It's so clear it's such a
Speaker 1: stiff penalty because keep your helmet on. And I think
Speaker 1: it's because of like stuff like that, because if a
Speaker 1: fight breaks out, that's why I like, you know, and
Speaker 1: there are some players who will throw punches to people
Speaker 1: with a helmet on he right, right, it's either a weapon,
Speaker 1: it could be a weapon or also like you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's a deterrent for people to throw punches
Speaker 1: maybe when someone's wearing a helmet, Like I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: punch you in the face, and I'm probably gonna break
Speaker 1: my hand because you have a helmet on. So I
Speaker 1: guess it's just more it's so severe because it's the
Speaker 1: bad things that could happen when helmets come off in
Speaker 1: the spirit of play. But anyway, that was well said.
Speaker 1: That's a crazy situation that every sports fan is kind
Speaker 1: of like. It's like, whoa, that's that's that's crazy. And
Speaker 1: our friend who was on the podcast a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, Pat Forty, who writes for Sports Illustrated, he
Speaker 1: had a great article on it, and he is not
Speaker 1: mincing his words. He is probably even more upset than
Speaker 1: I am. He has kids who have been d one athletes,
Speaker 1: and it's it's very interesting in any topic, whether it's
Speaker 1: a social issue something like this, with with sports, I
Speaker 1: always think, if that's your kid, what do you think?
Speaker 1: And my husband and I were talking about I said,
Speaker 1: can you imagine if that was our son and we
Speaker 1: see that footage of players in full pads and helmets
Speaker 1: just wailing on this kid, kicking them, like, oh, I'd
Speaker 1: be down there. I would be making my way to
Speaker 1: ease Lansing. Yes, put a pit in your in your stomach.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's uh, that's a rough one and I
Speaker 1: don't know how it's gonna shake out. But not a
Speaker 1: good situation for anyone involved. No, it's not. Alright. On
Speaker 1: a brighter note, let's go ahead and get to our guest.
Speaker 1: Max Greenfield isn't next, alright, Let's bring in our guests.
Speaker 1: He's like the Mike Trout of acting, a five tool
Speaker 1: player who can do it all. One of the stars
Speaker 1: of the neighborhood. Max Greenfield, Welcome to Unleashed. We're so
Speaker 1: glad that Jerry called in a personal favor for this one.
Speaker 1: Still trying to digest the intro, I think, what part
Speaker 1: do you have a problem with? Well, I think Mike Troud.
Speaker 1: Mike Trout's considered to be in some circles the best
Speaker 1: player in Major League Baseball. Everything's fine, Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: put myself in that category. I do like the five
Speaker 1: tools situation, but I just think a lower level of
Speaker 1: that would be, uh, would be more apt. Oh, I
Speaker 1: love it. I don't know base Well, Jerry, what should
Speaker 1: we have introd him. We're gonna by the end of
Speaker 1: the show, we're gonna come up with your sports camp.
Speaker 1: But I thought of something earlier in the show. You're like,
Speaker 1: you definitely have a finals m v P under your belt,
Speaker 1: and you've definitely won championships. I think your stats might
Speaker 1: be a little better than you have a Philly ego
Speaker 1: just like can go into any he can play any position,
Speaker 1: and he's very directed. He's good at taking direction. Like
Speaker 1: I need to play the fist. I need you to
Speaker 1: play the vibe tonight. Let's go. You are like, let's
Speaker 1: get it done by any means necessary. I like that
Speaker 1: we've now hash that out. You know what I thought
Speaker 1: of today, Max, And I was talking to liv about this,
Speaker 1: Like we all have like you know, like you get
Speaker 1: your emergency contact when you go to the doctor, Like
Speaker 1: who's the person to call? And you put your wife.
Speaker 1: You're my sports and urgency contact, Like when something happens
Speaker 1: and it's like I gotta talk to someone. You are
Speaker 1: the person I called when I protect you in a
Speaker 1: panic about something that happens in sports, and you don't respond.
Speaker 1: It's because now you have two young kids, and I
Speaker 1: get that, and my kids are older so that you know,
Speaker 1: I have chunks of time where like they're just not
Speaker 1: doing like they don't want anything to do with me
Speaker 1: and so, and you have to be hands on and
Speaker 1: I know that, but also when you don't respond uh immediately,
Speaker 1: it's really it's it's not frustrating. I start to panic
Speaker 1: because I don't know what to do with these feelings. Well, Olivia,
Speaker 1: we like debated the because Matt, well, first, you know
Speaker 1: what Max. Let's get So you similar to me, Like
Speaker 1: you grew up in New York, you grew up in
Speaker 1: Dobbs Ferry. You relocated to Los Angeles at a very
Speaker 1: young age, So you've done I did twenty years New York,
Speaker 1: twenty years l A. You're pretty similar. So like explain
Speaker 1: your sports fandom, like who you root for but also
Speaker 1: having the l A effect of all those decisions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I won't go I won't go too long on this.
Speaker 1: Where's the Dodgers? Have we? Just everyone's listening. You know
Speaker 1: you You've always been like a Rider Die Knicks fan
Speaker 1: throughout all of it. I would love to say that
Speaker 1: I was the same, but I wasn't. Um. I grew
Speaker 1: up a next fan. I was loved going to the
Speaker 1: garden when I was a kid, and but I I
Speaker 1: sort of lost interest in my twenties, just in basketball
Speaker 1: in general um and I didn't really pick the Knicks
Speaker 1: back up until Melo got traded because I loved Carmelo
Speaker 1: and I was like, here we go. But I would
Speaker 1: say I'm definitely an ex fan, and now more than ever,
Speaker 1: especially in the last couple of years, and I've gotten
Speaker 1: just just so into basketball in general. But I've stayed
Speaker 1: with the next I loved them the Yankees. The Yankees
Speaker 1: had a really tough time with because I think they
Speaker 1: were probably my first love and I love them from
Speaker 1: very young age. And then I remember like getting to
Speaker 1: an age where I was hanging out with my friends
Speaker 1: and we're watching the games, and like, you know, we're
Speaker 1: probably like too young, but we're having a couple of
Speaker 1: beers and hang out with girls and we're watching the games.
Speaker 1: And I remember like being like, this is the best
Speaker 1: version of life there is. And I remember one year
Speaker 1: watching like the year the Jeter threwout one of the
Speaker 1: aid's at home plate, flip at home plate and and
Speaker 1: and I was like, Okay, we with this is the pinnacle.
Speaker 1: And the next year Giambi was on our team and
Speaker 1: I couldn't make sense of that, like why is he
Speaker 1: now one of us? I couldn't. Yeah, I couldn't. I
Speaker 1: couldn't come to grips with it. And then we got
Speaker 1: a rod and I was like, I don't like where
Speaker 1: this is going. And then it donned on me that
Speaker 1: maybe this has been us the whole time, and I
Speaker 1: had a whole reckoning and I sort of when I
Speaker 1: moved to Los Angeles, I was like, forget, I'm done,
Speaker 1: and I just and I'm like, I don't. I won't
Speaker 1: say that I'm a Dodger fan because I think it's
Speaker 1: too hard, but I do like going to Dodger games.
Speaker 1: I love I love the stadium and it's a great vibe,
Speaker 1: and I like the team a lot. Teams really fun.
Speaker 1: I will say Olivia Max had the honor of throwing
Speaker 1: out first pitch at a Dodger game one time. It
Speaker 1: took me to the game. I was trying to get
Speaker 1: in his head so hard. And what did I do?
Speaker 1: I threw a laser. He fired in. I have to
Speaker 1: say he fired in a strike. It was very improsted, though.
Speaker 1: I will say, when I got out there and you
Speaker 1: look up, you you know, you try to be humble
Speaker 1: about the whole thing. You put your head down, you
Speaker 1: walk out there and like just walk out to the
Speaker 1: mound and then you turn around and you look up
Speaker 1: and you see how big that stadium is um and
Speaker 1: there was a lot of people there. If someone had
Speaker 1: woken me up three hours later on a bed or
Speaker 1: like a bench somewhere and they're like, hey man, you fainted,
Speaker 1: I would have been like, totally makes sense. I felt
Speaker 1: like it was coming. That makes sense. It's fine. And
Speaker 1: then football wise, Gettleman really did it to me. He really,
Speaker 1: he really hurt me. And I'm not ready to come
Speaker 1: back yet. And if there was ever a time to
Speaker 1: come back, it's now. But it really just the Odell
Speaker 1: trade killed me. He's my favorite. He's my favorite. I
Speaker 1: love him, and there was no reason for us to
Speaker 1: get rid of him. It really just was done. And
Speaker 1: I didn't like how they phrased it and like they
Speaker 1: were like, we don't let this a culture issue. It
Speaker 1: was too much for me. I can't. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm out, I can't do this. But they're starting to
Speaker 1: win me back. But again I think NFL. I enjoy
Speaker 1: it's just on a storyline basis. Right now, I've had
Speaker 1: a conscience uncompling with with the Giants. I'm more conscious
Speaker 1: of it than they are. But I'm I'm done for now.
Speaker 1: Well then, did you become a Rams fan, especially when
Speaker 1: they got to b J last year? No? Well, uh,
Speaker 1: because one of the worst, one of the worst sports
Speaker 1: moments for me was watching that because I was like,
Speaker 1: the only vested interest I have in the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: is I think O'Dell is in a really good position
Speaker 1: and I want him to have a game. It was
Speaker 1: like the worst sports moment for me. I was like,
Speaker 1: the only vested interests I had in the game was
Speaker 1: O'Dell having a big game, and I thought he's in
Speaker 1: good position. And then I started to watch the game.
Speaker 1: He had the first two catch, he had the first
Speaker 1: two catches, then he had the touchdown, and I was like,
Speaker 1: let's go, and I was fired up. I was standing
Speaker 1: for you know. I was like, I don't go to games.
Speaker 1: It's too much UM. I like, I get to and
Speaker 1: I get to I get too much anxiety. I like
Speaker 1: to pay some front of TV UM. And so I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm watching the Amerry. Here we go. And I was
Speaker 1: fired up. And then he went down and you could
Speaker 1: tell that it was bad, and I I turned the
Speaker 1: game off. I was like, I don't wanna watch the
Speaker 1: same w I don't care. I got so sad. It's
Speaker 1: so funny to me. You seem very emotionally invested in
Speaker 1: whether you're throwing that first pitch, watching a game, whatever. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know your job is most people's worst fear, like
Speaker 1: being on camera memorizing lines. It's funny that sports sometimes
Speaker 1: can kind of boil your blood a little bit. If
Speaker 1: you put on a random night of NBA pass. For me,
Speaker 1: it amps up my anxiety in a way that I
Speaker 1: can't walk away from, worse than any set that I've
Speaker 1: ever been on. I don't know, man, I get I
Speaker 1: get competitive with teams. I want teams to win. I
Speaker 1: want other teams, I want other players to play well.
Speaker 1: I just feel very invested. You just want everyone to
Speaker 1: do well. No, I don't want everybody to do well.
Speaker 1: I want certain people to do well. Do you put
Speaker 1: money on games? No? Not every once in a while.
Speaker 1: I'll do it. I'll call Jerry like once every year
Speaker 1: and I'll go, I've got a feeling I was going
Speaker 1: to tell you that you probably shouldn't because I think
Speaker 1: you're already. It does not much for you. It does
Speaker 1: nothing for me. Now, the money thing does nothing for
Speaker 1: me emotionally if I lose it, it makes complete sense
Speaker 1: to me because I'm like, of course, of course you
Speaker 1: lost your losing and when I went on like this,
Speaker 1: you should have bet a million. So I'm like this,
Speaker 1: this is stupid. Why why do this? We're gonna get
Speaker 1: into some of your calls because we're gonna do some
Speaker 1: mid season let's go a war, let's go and Olivia,
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to tell you who he called me up.
Speaker 1: I still I still think it might come. I've given
Speaker 1: him time the simmer down on this on this bet
Speaker 1: because I actually like, I love it. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: help him out. We're gonna we're gonna get that. Sorry
Speaker 1: to interrupting, Olivia, continue with the question, but we Yeah.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear your take on this bet
Speaker 1: that he likes, because you've your your story with your sports.
Speaker 1: Fandom has a lot to do with storylines, like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: following certain players and getting mad about certain players coming
Speaker 1: and going. But I think the geography is an aspect
Speaker 1: of it You've got to touch on because growing up
Speaker 1: New York now living in l A but spent one
Speaker 1: year one year at the University of Wisconsin, which is
Speaker 1: that's kind of like my team my husband went there
Speaker 1: were big Wisconsin. Yeah, I love Madison. So I've got
Speaker 1: to ask, did that sprinkle in some like Midwest goodness
Speaker 1: in your sports buffet? Yeah? I sort of. How do
Speaker 1: I put this sort of cruised through through the Midwest
Speaker 1: on your way to l Yeah, yeah, yeah, just like
Speaker 1: a long pit stop stop over that a little long stopover.
Speaker 1: Don't remember most of it. Had a good time though,
Speaker 1: Bach's Baby, Yeah, the best. Yeah, very good social scene there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of places to just lay down and pass
Speaker 1: out if if you've had a few too many. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, we're gonna get into some NFL mid season awards.
Speaker 1: You're no stranger to awards. That the emotional part for you,
Speaker 1: I think is why we've always gotten along so well too,
Speaker 1: because we're we also are very We don't like when
Speaker 1: players have like meltdowns. We feel very bad. It hurts
Speaker 1: to watch. We don't well. But I also think we
Speaker 1: relate to them. We relate to them because Max and
Speaker 1: I have had many Max I was invited to the
Speaker 1: O eight Giants Super Bowl verse the undefeated Pats. Max,
Speaker 1: we could have went. Do you know where we watched
Speaker 1: the game like we watched the week before. You remember
Speaker 1: the Packer game when times missed. Max and I held
Speaker 1: hands in overtime for the final field never held hands
Speaker 1: with a grown man during a sporting event watching a
Speaker 1: field goal. We held hands and him and I watched
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl like alone, like us two, because we
Speaker 1: were we couldn't emotionally handle going to a giant super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I can't emotionally handle watching most most games. So when
Speaker 1: I witnessed to a professional athlete having a mental breakdown
Speaker 1: on a big stage, it makes sense to me, go,
Speaker 1: of course, this is exactly what I would do. All right,
Speaker 1: should we get into it, Olivia, So we get into
Speaker 1: some mid season awards, we're gonna do it. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: not that it's really not. I'm not. I'm definitely I'm
Speaker 1: not the first person to upset. It was a little
Speaker 1: hotter a couple of weeks ago when I call Jerry
Speaker 1: about it, But I still believe it. It's more so
Speaker 1: tell me, someone tells me, all right, well we'll start
Speaker 1: with that category. Okay, let's mid season. We're calling these
Speaker 1: the midseas. Alright, let's do the mid season NFL m
Speaker 1: v P. Do you want nominees or you just want
Speaker 1: to say who you think it is. Max. Look, I
Speaker 1: think right now, if you're gonna give it to down
Speaker 1: but probably give it to Josh Allen, I think you
Speaker 1: can make a good argument for Jalen Hurts. But what
Speaker 1: I think could happen, and this is what happens when
Speaker 1: you know with like the Emmy Awards of the Oscars,
Speaker 1: the story and the storyline which you talked about before, Olivia,
Speaker 1: I like the stories. I think what could happen here
Speaker 1: is if Mahomes starts to pick it up and it's
Speaker 1: more and has more consistent big games, he and Josh
Speaker 1: Allen could very likely cancel each other out, which is
Speaker 1: my hope. But who do you really believe if if
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts keeps playing the way that he that that
Speaker 1: he has been playing, and I got their schedule is
Speaker 1: really open to I don't. I can't necessarily see the
Speaker 1: loss right now in that schedule for them, So it
Speaker 1: could end up being a Jalen Hurt situation. Having said that,
Speaker 1: if Cowboys could beat Philly in what will be a
Speaker 1: huge game and it continues to play out this way,
Speaker 1: I think there's a good chance for Michael Parsons to
Speaker 1: be the guy. Things are changing in the world and
Speaker 1: it's time for a defensive player to win it. And
Speaker 1: I don't if every interview you see with this guy,
Speaker 1: he says the things that every NFL player and old
Speaker 1: school NFL player and coach or historian wants to hear
Speaker 1: a guy say. He is so team first, he is
Speaker 1: so dedicated, and he is and he's also clearly the
Speaker 1: best defensive player on the team. And I think it
Speaker 1: was I think it was really evident when Dak was
Speaker 1: not the quarterback and he was carrying that team, when
Speaker 1: you thought they were completely when Dac went down, you go, oh,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are gonna lose every game this year, and
Speaker 1: you're like, I guess they're not because of their middle lineback,
Speaker 1: who also is their defensive end, who also plays like
Speaker 1: no stack. You're like, this guy is crazy, and he
Speaker 1: carried them through those games. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you see him like pick up a fumble against Chicago
Speaker 1: and run it back into the ends, and you're like,
Speaker 1: he's having these moments. And if he continues to have
Speaker 1: those moments and he has a couple more big games,
Speaker 1: and if he can beat Philly in that second, in
Speaker 1: that rematch later in the season, and again Josh Allen
Speaker 1: and uh and Mahomes just have this duel with one
Speaker 1: another because, by the way, let me tell you something,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen a lot of turnovers. They're not they're not
Speaker 1: totally costly for the team, and I respect them because
Speaker 1: that guy plays. He's on another level right now, and
Speaker 1: it feels like every time he throws a pick, it
Speaker 1: is just part of what he's doing and it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to hurt them in there in whatever situation they're in.
Speaker 1: But a lot of turnovers for that guy. And then
Speaker 1: Mahomes has these games where you're like, where'd he go?
Speaker 1: And then the next week it's like you seven touchdowns?
Speaker 1: You know, like there. Do you know what the Mica
Speaker 1: Parsons odds are? Max? Do you even want to hear
Speaker 1: what the I think last time we checked it was
Speaker 1: two hundred. What's that now? I mean, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: different all it's like over plus twenty thousand. He's like,
Speaker 1: he's twenty in odds. Once you get he is the
Speaker 1: first defensive player I hate. Know what I'm saying is
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I look at it like divited Max
Speaker 1: on our show. He got his daughter's headphones. He was
Speaker 1: really excited to share this with us, and we just
Speaker 1: spat it back in his face. No, I'm with them,
Speaker 1: I'm with him. I just I don't think it happens
Speaker 1: that way. You invited me. I'm trying to say, you
Speaker 1: are right. Unfortunately, the system is against you. So this
Speaker 1: big man will lose, not because you're wrong, because the system.
Speaker 1: He'll win. Defensive player in the landslide, that's his m VP. However,
Speaker 1: but to follow your I'm a sucker for storylines. That's
Speaker 1: why I'm ahead of him, no one. He's the favorite,
Speaker 1: and he's the clear defensive by like a lot. Uh.
Speaker 1: But then you talked about the Eagles rematch. He also
Speaker 1: has the Giants on Thanksgiving. I've spent fifteen Thanksgivings at
Speaker 1: your family's house. Has never been a good football game
Speaker 1: on once in those fifteen years. This is the first one.
Speaker 1: If he puts on the show on Thanksgiving with the
Speaker 1: world watching and then does something hold and hold the
Speaker 1: turkey over his head, we could put a dollar on it.
Speaker 1: Let's put a dollar on it. And Josh Allen just
Speaker 1: keeps going to TDS to olive you who's your mid
Speaker 1: season m v P. Well, I gotta say I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit more intrigued with the Jalen Hurts storyline of
Speaker 1: it then Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes, who we knew
Speaker 1: they'd be in this position halfway through the season, right
Speaker 1: and like you said, they're both right there. I don't
Speaker 1: think they'll cancel it out. I think ultimately one of
Speaker 1: them will edge theg other. But what Jalen Hurts is
Speaker 1: doing is really incredible. What the Eagles are doing is
Speaker 1: really incredible. So um, I kind of feel the same
Speaker 1: way with like Coach of the Year. I love going
Speaker 1: for a storyline of really, who are we more impressed with?
Speaker 1: Very true coach of the year. I'll give you nominee,
Speaker 1: I'll give you like the top four, But who was
Speaker 1: your coach of the year for the first half? Max
Speaker 1: and Olivia? We have Nick Sirianni who was the favorite
Speaker 1: to win as right now, Brian Dable who I think
Speaker 1: he's who I would be if I was a coach.
Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell Minnesota Viking's getting whatsoever. That's very generous, meaning
Speaker 1: like I'd be wearing the Jordan's like him. I'd be
Speaker 1: wearing the Jordan three is Brian Jordan three. That's and
Speaker 1: and uh, the the old guy in the group, Pete Carroll,
Speaker 1: the old guy in the group. Unless you have someone else, Max,
Speaker 1: I'll start with you. Who's your first half coach of
Speaker 1: the year in the NFL. It's hard not to say
Speaker 1: Sirianni Yeah, because he came in hot last year and
Speaker 1: he was doing from all the reports, he was doing that,
Speaker 1: you know, the cool stuff in the locker room. We're
Speaker 1: making signs and like getting these guys hyped up in
Speaker 1: like a high school football kind of way, and you go, well,
Speaker 1: this goes one of two ways. Either they're like this
Speaker 1: guy is a nerd or he's really trying to galvanize
Speaker 1: this right, And they clearly bet on Jalen Hurts when
Speaker 1: people were sort of like, I don't know, and team
Speaker 1: looks awesome and they're all playing incredibly hard, and didn't
Speaker 1: they just get Robert They they're just loaded all over
Speaker 1: the plane. They're just they're loading out on the plan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're playing out of their minds and Jalen Hurts looks incredible,
Speaker 1: so it feels like it's all a product of that guy.
Speaker 1: And so I think it's tough not to give it
Speaker 1: to him. Although the Pete Carroll's stories character great, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you an all So for me obvious Homer pick,
Speaker 1: it's Brian Dable. Now, I think Philly, Yes, Sirianni is amazing.
Speaker 1: If they go on defeated, it's like a no brainer.
Speaker 1: But you could almost say GM of the Year Philly
Speaker 1: for sure. That team top to bottom is so complete.
Speaker 1: Brian and Dabele has one games literally out coaching people
Speaker 1: like coaching decisions in the game has caused his team
Speaker 1: to win they should have games they shouldn't be winning.
Speaker 1: That's why I vote for Dable. Now, I don't know
Speaker 1: about the long term, but through the first half of me,
Speaker 1: it's Jordan's cement threes wearing Brian Dables. I've got to
Speaker 1: go with Dave all two for the value as well.
Speaker 1: I mean he's plus three d Siriani's minus one oh five.
Speaker 1: And also when we were talking about storylines of who
Speaker 1: predicted this, no one predicted a six in one record
Speaker 1: and the streak of fourth quarter comebacks. That's good coaching.
Speaker 1: I'm liking this one's gonna be fun. Can go ahead?
Speaker 1: Can I just make a suggestion throw some units on
Speaker 1: Mica and then throw some units on Syrian and just
Speaker 1: to like, Okay, this one's gonna be fun. Okay, because
Speaker 1: I had to do some research back to the beginning
Speaker 1: of the odds. This is what are we're the biggest
Speaker 1: bust bets? Like, if you made this prec eason bet
Speaker 1: on this team, what do you think is the biggest bust?
Speaker 1: We have the Raiders to win the a f C West,
Speaker 1: which started at plus six fifty Now it's plus forty
Speaker 1: four hundred. So when the a f C, a lot
Speaker 1: of people took the Raiders to win the a f
Speaker 1: C West, Green Bay Packers sorry Olivia to win the
Speaker 1: NFC or North. They were minus one fifty five now
Speaker 1: plus eight fifty. Broncoes to when the a f C
Speaker 1: West started at plus sixty now plus thirty four, Tom
Speaker 1: Brady Tampa Bay Bucks to win the NFC South minus
Speaker 1: two seventy five now minus one thirty five and last
Speaker 1: max is almost l a Rams to win the NFC
Speaker 1: West plus one two plus four forty who's the biggest bust?
Speaker 1: If you made that preseason bet, you're just like instantly ripped,
Speaker 1: ripped that ticket up some of those you could, like Denver,
Speaker 1: that division is so hard that you were like, it's
Speaker 1: hard to tell what's going to right in there, and
Speaker 1: it's crazy what's happened with that entire division. But so
Speaker 1: I think it was hard to judge what that was
Speaker 1: going to be. And the Raiders, I guess fall into
Speaker 1: that category as well. They got shut out, which I
Speaker 1: still can't believe. I lost mone Midfield, Like that's gonna
Speaker 1: beat memory we have. Yeah, yeah, they look, it's really
Speaker 1: confusing as to what's going on over there. But I
Speaker 1: think Green Bay, for sure, I think enough people and look,
Speaker 1: I'm not a nice girl. I don't I don't, you know.
Speaker 1: I only listened to a bunch of different podcasts where
Speaker 1: other people talk about this stuff. But preseason, you know,
Speaker 1: it seemed like a lot of people were on Green
Speaker 1: Bay and they were saying the defense and maybe Devontae
Speaker 1: had like these young receivers and and so I think
Speaker 1: they've been surprising because I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 1: where they go from here, Like I don't see the upside.
Speaker 1: I don't see like I don't know. You look at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the NBA season, and you know, Philly
Speaker 1: had didn't win their first couple of games, and everybody's
Speaker 1: like where they You're like, no, they'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: That team is good. They're just having a slow start
Speaker 1: with Green Bay. I don't know. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't see the turnaround happen out and I saw recently
Speaker 1: like like whatever the rest of their schedule is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they go into Buffalo and the Vikings are running away
Speaker 1: with Olivia knows this brute, Olivia, how do you feel?
Speaker 1: Is that your bet? Is that your biggest bust? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do the math on all of these
Speaker 1: and I'm realizing I'm really bad at math. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what's the biggest differential? The Raiders had the biggest differential?
Speaker 1: Thank you? But the Packers were favored to begin this
Speaker 1: season to win a division and now are you know,
Speaker 1: pretty heavy on their dogs And it's tough to say
Speaker 1: Broncos after they just won on this side of the pond.
Speaker 1: I guess I gotta think. And again we're stinking of
Speaker 1: storylines because we're all three suckers for that. I guess
Speaker 1: I'm thinking more Tom Brady because not only is his
Speaker 1: team losing, his marriage has lost and crumbled and there's
Speaker 1: been that's just been a bust every since. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: when they were the favorite to win the NFC South
Speaker 1: at minus seventy five and now the freaking Atlanta falconhead
Speaker 1: of them, Like that is a bust, my friend. I'm
Speaker 1: with you for me. It's hard, I say the Raiders
Speaker 1: because I'm so sour. I lost money on them getting
Speaker 1: shut out. I had them in the teaser plus nine
Speaker 1: and they got shut out. So but yeah, I I
Speaker 1: think it has to be the package the Broncos. I
Speaker 1: just don't want to talk about Russell Wilson anymore. You're
Speaker 1: seeing the nerve to say let's ride after winning, like
Speaker 1: that's a thing in the in Denver. It's not a thing.
Speaker 1: It's never been a thing. No one wants it. They
Speaker 1: don't want it. We've given it back. We won't accept
Speaker 1: we we don't accept this gift of let's ride. We
Speaker 1: give it back. You're not a Bronco fan. You don't
Speaker 1: get to speak on their behalf. I absolutely no. But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it, all right, this could be our
Speaker 1: last one because this one is the most storyline driven.
Speaker 1: It's all storyline, it's all sportswriter driven. It's all opinion
Speaker 1: based for the most part, because it's hard to quantify
Speaker 1: the stats. Comeback Player of the Year okay, and this
Speaker 1: is a real fun one. Say Quon Rill with injuries
Speaker 1: awful injury, I was back as a forces of running back.
Speaker 1: Geno Smith who was almost like not almost out of
Speaker 1: the NFL, never took play again, and now he's he's
Speaker 1: getting MVP talk, which is insane. Christian McCaffrey, who looked
Speaker 1: a lot of injuries too. I don't really see how
Speaker 1: he has come back from much. I don't know. And
Speaker 1: then Derrick Henry quietly last year, big injury, and he's
Speaker 1: been a monster this year and like no one gives
Speaker 1: them any love or whatever. So se Kwan, Gino c Mac,
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, Max will start with you first half of
Speaker 1: the year. Who's your comeback player. I was listening to
Speaker 1: Simmons podcast the other day and he said they should
Speaker 1: rename the award Smith very true, or give him his own. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like it. It's the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I understand the coming back there should
Speaker 1: be like come back from Injury award and come back
Speaker 1: from Yeah, but potentially was the greatest running back we
Speaker 1: ever saw, and then it's just been riddled with injury
Speaker 1: and now we're seeing what we've out we were gonna
Speaker 1: see when he was healthy. The Geno Smith thing, this
Speaker 1: never happens. Like there are guys that have good seasons,
Speaker 1: but they're really like just and not that Geno was
Speaker 1: in a bad situation, but Russell Wilson was in the
Speaker 1: same situation last year with healthier left and the year
Speaker 1: and the year before that, and you're like, Geno Smith
Speaker 1: is just making this team come alive. He looks incredible,
Speaker 1: he's throwing he's throwing the deep all in a way
Speaker 1: that you're like, he just dropped I mean, did you
Speaker 1: see the game. Unfortunately, he threw that deep ball to
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett, who dropped it and it was like in
Speaker 1: his breadbast and then he and then Gino is on
Speaker 1: the sideline. He's talking to Tyler. You could see is
Speaker 1: so upset and Gina was like, who got this man,
Speaker 1: It's good, don't worry about it. And then like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, a quarter later, throws the same pass. Tyler
Speaker 1: catches it and he's like, man, this guy is unbelievable. Well,
Speaker 1: I will say Geno Smith is plus odds. Right now,
Speaker 1: he's plus two sixty or two seventies, so this might
Speaker 1: but this might be the last time you can get
Speaker 1: Geno and plus money. He may slip into minus money
Speaker 1: as the favorite if he continues on this path and
Speaker 1: everyone knows listening, I have my Seahawks plus almost sixteen
Speaker 1: hundred to win the division. I made that bet before
Speaker 1: the year, Max, No one's giving me my credit for
Speaker 1: the accept Olivia. Oliv is the only one that actually
Speaker 1: knows this happened. And hype girl, and we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: the clip of it and play it at the end
Speaker 1: of the season, because what are you what are you
Speaker 1: gonna win? What's at stake? What were the odds and
Speaker 1: you plus plus fifteen? Basically yeah, hunterd wins and something
Speaker 1: dollars hell, yeah, you can buy your plane ticket to
Speaker 1: London that that'll only get you an economy ticket, I'm afraid,
Speaker 1: but you can get over here for our our meeting
Speaker 1: with Peter Andrew. I like that, Max. I want to
Speaker 1: wrap up with something because two things really. One, you know,
Speaker 1: I've played in some of like you know, the celebrity
Speaker 1: basketball games, and you've run like Tria Falons and stuff,
Speaker 1: you're super fit, dude. You early on cross fit. I
Speaker 1: always try to like tell people like I would name
Speaker 1: you if I didn't know you so well, Like who's
Speaker 1: like what actor you don't know? It's like a sneaky
Speaker 1: good athlete, right, you would if if I didn't know
Speaker 1: you well. And I only like participated in a softball
Speaker 1: game about like Greenfield's a good athlete. For me, it
Speaker 1: was Joel McHale. I played in the basketball game. And
Speaker 1: the dude's enormous. He's like six four, got like huge arms,
Speaker 1: he could like jump. Then you see he played football
Speaker 1: for the University of Washington, like the Scout team. I
Speaker 1: think he got a champion, like crazy. So in all
Speaker 1: your athletic moments and working out and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: is there anyone you've come across that you're like, whoa
Speaker 1: this sneaky good athlete? Wow? You know we Jerry and
Speaker 1: I let me. Jerry and I did a show a
Speaker 1: long time ago where it was a fantasy football show
Speaker 1: and would run around and we would interview NFL players
Speaker 1: as a part of the show and we do these
Speaker 1: goofy things with them and sometimes that make the players,
Speaker 1: um the forty dash, like I ran up with Eric
Speaker 1: Berry and and like, I don't think I'm slow, but
Speaker 1: I know that I'm not on the level of these guys.
Speaker 1: It was so shocking to see how much faster Eric
Speaker 1: it was than I was. Where I was like, this
Speaker 1: is this almost doesn't feel real humbling. So, having talked
Speaker 1: to all those guys, you have to differentiate athletic and athlete. Like,
Speaker 1: I think I'm athletic, but am I an athlete? There's
Speaker 1: I mean, there's it's not even close. And so I
Speaker 1: think there are probably a large handful of actors who
Speaker 1: are athletic as am I. But are there a few
Speaker 1: that are like real athletes? I think I mean, you're
Speaker 1: one of your co stars, Omar Omari Hardwick. Yeah, Amari
Speaker 1: played for the Chargers. You played Bogs. He played he
Speaker 1: in Safety of Georgia, and then he played for the
Speaker 1: Charges for like and maybe an off season and then
Speaker 1: he was like I'm out of here and then started acting.
Speaker 1: But like, Amar is a real real athlete. Joe was
Speaker 1: a big dude, And if you play for the University
Speaker 1: of Washington, you're like, you're an athlete. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think who else, But again, I think there's like a
Speaker 1: lot of guys that are athletic. There are very very
Speaker 1: few real athletes. I'm always I always, I always like
Speaker 1: these guys, like in interviews, like, well, you know I played,
Speaker 1: I was really real ball player, you know, like were you.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Mike Trout is listening to the podcast, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I brought a full circle Trout back up. That's right,
Speaker 1: but that's what I do call back. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I feel like I gotta just witness just the best
Speaker 1: bromance listening to you guys go back and forth. And
Speaker 1: I love the story about you holding hands starting a
Speaker 1: football game. That one's really gonna stick with me. We
Speaker 1: held hands while Lawrence Times, who was oh for three
Speaker 1: in game winning attempts, had his fourth. This was the
Speaker 1: game that Tom Coughlin's cheeks rose shut and they were
Speaker 1: bright red. All right, last thing and then we'll let
Speaker 1: you go. So unfortunately, and this happens to all actors, Max,
Speaker 1: we are now in this category where I don't think
Speaker 1: we can play athletes anymore. I don't know if we're
Speaker 1: getting an offer. Hey, Max, I want to play like
Speaker 1: the point guard. And it's over. We're in coach territory.
Speaker 1: We're playing coaches. Or assistant trainer, Like, that's just where
Speaker 1: we are. When Vince Carter retired and we officially became
Speaker 1: older than every NBA player, we segued into that part
Speaker 1: of our career. So in in that spirit of all
Speaker 1: the great either coaches or trainer roles or all those
Speaker 1: great things we've seen in all the movies we love
Speaker 1: and Olivia, you could also cast Max in one of these.
Speaker 1: If one pops out to you, is there a coach
Speaker 1: or trainer role in all our favorite sports movies that
Speaker 1: you would say? Wait? Are these? These are roles that
Speaker 1: other people have played. Yeah, let's like, which one would
Speaker 1: you like? I'll give you something like you have al
Speaker 1: Pacino any given Sunday, you have Tom Hanks leading, you
Speaker 1: have coach Eric Taylor or Billy Bob Thornton and Friday
Speaker 1: Night Lights. You know, there's a million of those. You
Speaker 1: could even go like Carl Weather's Happy Gilmore. Let's leave
Speaker 1: coach Eric Taylor right where he is. I kind of
Speaker 1: I don't want to make like Eric Taylor. Oh, I
Speaker 1: like Eric Taylor. That's the one I would have picked
Speaker 1: Max for. I feel like Max would have been a
Speaker 1: good clear eyes full hearts can't lose. Oh no, it
Speaker 1: would be terrible. Would have I would have I would
Speaker 1: have galvanized last week you said those kids, those high
Speaker 1: school kids. Those kids would have been like, what is it?
Speaker 1: Who's the tough one? Who's like the one from like
Speaker 1: the you know movie what's his name? Movie? Or the show? Yeah? Different? Oh?
Speaker 1: Is it different? I never saw the show. I hear
Speaker 1: it's great, but whatever it was you gal and Garrett
Speaker 1: headin Garrett Headland's character, Oh that's the movie version. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he would have been like, I'm gonna fight this. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna fight coach. I don't just sport. What sport? Would
Speaker 1: you want to? Like? I want to be in a
Speaker 1: in this movie playing this kind of role. We can't
Speaker 1: playing endurance endurance sports. You can do some triampleon thing.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, I like iron Man wrestling. If there
Speaker 1: was a wrestling movie, Um, I don't know. I you're
Speaker 1: melting down, you're melting down. I wouldn't buy it. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't if there is there, like an agent, is there
Speaker 1: a sports agent or you know, like Albert Brooks in
Speaker 1: the meeting you know that makes yeah, bit money. Let's
Speaker 1: have a realistic conversation. Yeah, yeah, let's let's let's put
Speaker 1: put a ground on Michael Parsons for m DP too.
Speaker 1: I I do remember that there was Albert Brooks when
Speaker 1: he's when he's like he like bets everything on Michael
Speaker 1: Rappaport being being the guy and it's his first game
Speaker 1: and he won't come out of the bathroom and Michael
Speaker 1: Rapport's going, I need the Lord. And I did not
Speaker 1: pick that of all those amazing roles that I thought
Speaker 1: you would have picked. But yeah, unfortunately we're in We're
Speaker 1: in coach territory. We longer Tom Cruise. Jerry McGuire, Joe.
Speaker 1: Jerry mcgore would be a good Jerry McGuire. You would
Speaker 1: kill that. Yeah, sure, you know what, I'll do the
Speaker 1: Jerry McGuire TV show. Okay, coming to you, Nowney Disney.
Speaker 1: Disney's like, we're gonna do it. Disney plus Jeremy Guard
Speaker 1: like who should we get? Well, a couple of guys
Speaker 1: will pass and then they'll be like what about the
Speaker 1: kind of new girl? And I'll be and I'll be there,
Speaker 1: and I'll be standing there waiting and being like this, listen,
Speaker 1: I just lost a ship a load of money on
Speaker 1: the mic apart in this pike, I'll do it. Give
Speaker 1: me the gig I'm in. Yeah, I mean, Jerry'll be
Speaker 1: standing there holding your hand. I'm gonna buy for the
Speaker 1: Jay Moore role of Sugar Bob Sugar or something like.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, buddy. Cannot thank you enough. Everyone you
Speaker 1: can follow Max. I am Greenfield on all platforms. You
Speaker 1: are the man, buddy. I hope you come back as
Speaker 1: the season and we got to get into the woods
Speaker 1: with NBA two down the room. I like to establish
Speaker 1: myself as a reoccurring friend of the friend of the shell.
Speaker 1: Is a friend of the shell? Can you do that? Can?
Speaker 1: Can I establish my own self as yea? And that's
Speaker 1: how you do. Nobody will talk to you about this
Speaker 1: stuff at home. I'll honestly try to have the conversations
Speaker 1: with my my, my twelve year old daughter about this thing. Hey,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're following them, so, I mean, basically,
Speaker 1: Mica is like, I don't know how, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't think you know how rare this history, She says,
Speaker 1: give me my headphones back, I is he on the Demelia.
Speaker 1: Come on, dog, Max, thank you, this is a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. We officially invite you as a recurring guest,
Speaker 1: which we don't give out very liberally. I came, and
Speaker 1: I did, and I can't see. Look, what were the
Speaker 1: odds on me could be becoming a recurring guests? Were
Speaker 1: you were? You were like to plus two hundred coming
Speaker 1: in So a little bit of an underdog, but you
Speaker 1: pulled it through. Thank you, buddy, Thank you. I love
Speaker 1: you guys. All right, sign if I want my favorite
Speaker 1: parts of the show, because we get to talk about wagering,
Speaker 1: We've got to bring in our guy, Peter Andrew mgmbetting
Speaker 1: analysts also teaser winner with a nice backdoor touchdown from
Speaker 1: the Jets. Peter Andrew gets on the board going into
Speaker 1: week nine, How are you doing, Pete? Feel better now?
Speaker 1: I couldn't stand given the customers another losing week. So
Speaker 1: we're up a couple of units. We're moving in the
Speaker 1: right direction, like you said. So yeah, looking forward to
Speaker 1: this week Teaser Central. Yeah. So I'm gonna let you
Speaker 1: choose what you want to kind of start here be
Speaker 1: because the the Thursday night game coming up. This is
Speaker 1: a doozy, it's a it's a real bond burnus. So
Speaker 1: you I and I know you have are you know
Speaker 1: great one game parlays. I don't know if you want
Speaker 1: to start there, if you want to get to your Sunday,
Speaker 1: because making this Thursday's game watchable is is really what
Speaker 1: the parlay is here. Yeah, so first off, the irony
Speaker 1: that the fact that's Philly versus Houston when obviously we're
Speaker 1: in the midst of the World Series. Crazy, but that's
Speaker 1: God speaking to us. We'll start there. I really like
Speaker 1: this one. I know we you and I lots of
Speaker 1: times agree on these are hopefully good same game parlays,
Speaker 1: one game parlays. I really like this one. I've gone
Speaker 1: so this is plus one unit, so we're looking at
Speaker 1: two sixty dollar pay out. That's gonna get everybody back
Speaker 1: to even for the last couple of weeks. So both
Speaker 1: teams traditionally are having trouble defending the run, so I've
Speaker 1: kind of gone in that direction. Start with the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: Damon Pierce looks like he's probably gonna be the focal
Speaker 1: part of their offense. They're fielding calls today. Today is
Speaker 1: the deadline we're recording on Tuesday. Brandon Cooks might be out,
Speaker 1: so I love Damian Pierce. Score touchdown, and then I've
Speaker 1: gone a little under their average of what they're scoring
Speaker 1: per game in terms of rushing yards, So sixty nine
Speaker 1: and a half rushing yards from him on the opposite
Speaker 1: side of the ball, looking at Miles Sanders anytime touchdown
Speaker 1: and then looking at him over seventy four and a half.
Speaker 1: So again a little bit of buffer between that average
Speaker 1: amount of yardage they're seeing from a rushing perspective each game.
Speaker 1: I love both of those players to dominate the offense
Speaker 1: on Thursday. I think you're gonna see a little bit
Speaker 1: less a j Brown, not necessarily three touchdowns. Again, with
Speaker 1: all that said, I know we disagree on this last part,
Speaker 1: but Eagles minus thirteen and a half, I just I've
Speaker 1: seen no flaws in their game. They look excellent. I'm
Speaker 1: just riding that wave. But you think a little bit differently,
Speaker 1: possibly on that last leg. You know, I said it
Speaker 1: in our and when Olivia and I did like our
Speaker 1: preseason look ins, the Texans always have one shocking win
Speaker 1: per year. Um, I like, this is a tall order,
Speaker 1: but to make this game watch the all. Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: fading you on that part, like I'm disagreeing with you.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna put a small amount of money on
Speaker 1: Texans money line and Texans plus the thirteen and a half,
Speaker 1: knowing that I'm probably burning it, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 1: I do think there's some weird Houston Philly vibes here
Speaker 1: that's just weird that never happens. So that might be uh,
Speaker 1: pointing in the direction of an upset. But you are
Speaker 1: on the smarter, more reliable side of things, because the
Speaker 1: Eagles look unstoppable. I don't think they're gonna go seventeen
Speaker 1: and O though, let's see if the Texans have a
Speaker 1: foreign substance like another Houston team has a playoff games.
Speaker 1: So but there's one intriguing parts to this week. And
Speaker 1: everybody always just wants to fade the teams that are
Speaker 1: giving everything in a way at the deadline, but it
Speaker 1: almost sometimes and this goes against one of my other picks,
Speaker 1: which is coming up, but those teams fight a little
Speaker 1: bit harder because they know they're going through a rebuild,
Speaker 1: or they just gave away the farm, or they just
Speaker 1: gave away a big player. So sometimes it does give
Speaker 1: them the little extra push. So we'll see how that
Speaker 1: turns out. Houston as a whole, I agree with you,
Speaker 1: they had the opportunity to pull out one of these games.
Speaker 1: They're not an awful team by any means, but it's
Speaker 1: going to be really, really interesting to see. Peter, you
Speaker 1: got back on the board last week in a big
Speaker 1: way with the teaser. Do you have another teaser for
Speaker 1: us today? I indeed have another teaser. And this is
Speaker 1: a tough board this week, but these three I really
Speaker 1: really like. So I'm gonna start with probably not the
Speaker 1: best game of the week, Commanders at home against the Vikings.
Speaker 1: I was going back and forth on this. I was
Speaker 1: thinking about teasing off the points to nine and a half.
Speaker 1: I actually ended up taking the under, so under forty
Speaker 1: nine and a half in that game. Two out of
Speaker 1: the last eight games back the Commanders have played, they've
Speaker 1: gone over the forty eight point mark. They just can't score.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who's that quarterback Heinekey WinCE, they cannot
Speaker 1: score points. I think they could actually sweak this game
Speaker 1: out that three and a half. Look, I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is, it's something fishy about it. So I
Speaker 1: think they could squeak that out against the Vikings, who
Speaker 1: have been playing excellent football. Soon now the shore enough
Speaker 1: there individually missions Yeah, looks bad. Irv Smith out now
Speaker 1: for quite a bit, so choir Hockinson for a second, third, fourth,
Speaker 1: and fifth. So really interesting. Um, so I stayed away
Speaker 1: from that, so I took the under forty on a half.
Speaker 1: Next up, Bills minus six and a half. I've teased
Speaker 1: that down against the Jets at MetLife. Bills are firing.
Speaker 1: I just based off what I saw for Zach Wilson
Speaker 1: against a middle of the pack Pats defense relative to
Speaker 1: what's going to happen this week with that Bill's defense,
Speaker 1: I think they're going to get absolute steam rolled. So
Speaker 1: I've teased it down seven points a touchdown seems very
Speaker 1: very likely. I think if Zach Wilson does anything he
Speaker 1: did last week, there was by three point, so picking
Speaker 1: it on the safe side there Bills not a six
Speaker 1: and a half. And then last this is one that
Speaker 1: I think Titans can win out right here. Titans are
Speaker 1: the hottest team in the NFL right now. They started
Speaker 1: off ohing to everybody, including myself freaked out. They've won
Speaker 1: five in a row now, So Titans eased up to
Speaker 1: plus nineteen and a half at Kansas City. Obviously tall
Speaker 1: order here, but almost the three touchdown buffer there. I
Speaker 1: really liked my chances and if I think they established
Speaker 1: one with Henry, who looked really good last week, I
Speaker 1: think they control the pace of the game. At worst
Speaker 1: it becomes a seven to ten point game, so you're
Speaker 1: buffering in quite a bit of points there. Um. So
Speaker 1: all that five units to win one thirty again a
Speaker 1: nice pay day that would put us again into the green.
Speaker 1: Just hitting here in the green. No, I'm I'm on
Speaker 1: you on that teaser because I lost my first teaser
Speaker 1: courtesy of the Raiders last week, which was awful. You
Speaker 1: got four units left, so I'm interested to see how
Speaker 1: you're gonna spread this one out. What do you got
Speaker 1: in your your your last four units? So I put
Speaker 1: this together right before some breaking news of Chase Claypool
Speaker 1: traded to the Bears second round pick. I've got still
Speaker 1: the Dolphins minus five at Chicago, a team who just
Speaker 1: traded Rocan Smith. Yeah, their defenses in shambles, I think
Speaker 1: from a passing passing defense perspective, I think their bottom
Speaker 1: three or bottom four in the league. And then you
Speaker 1: have the Dolphins with just all their weapons. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a tough time trying to get to Uh,
Speaker 1: tough time trying to get some pressure on the quarterback,
Speaker 1: so I think he spreads the ball around fairly nicely.
Speaker 1: They went by somewhere around ten points, so that's four
Speaker 1: units normal minus one ten in totally went about seventy
Speaker 1: six dollars there. So weird lines this week, but feel
Speaker 1: really good about it. I think we're onto something here.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, and um, I'm definitely gonna follow that
Speaker 1: that one game parlay. Uh, I'm gonna do that one.
Speaker 1: But then also I'm gonna do that exact one with
Speaker 1: the I'm gonna do uh the Texas just as well,
Speaker 1: just as make it more lottery ticket you. I encourage
Speaker 1: all the listeners like follow Pete on that. I'm going
Speaker 1: like lotto ticket money powerball situation, because I actually think
Speaker 1: the Texans have a fighting chance at making some noise.
Speaker 1: But that's a good that's a good board, Pete, it's good.
Speaker 1: Do you. I want you to build that one out, Jerry,
Speaker 1: because I want to know what the odds are with
Speaker 1: at with everything, but just plus eight. All the pets
Speaker 1: picks except like Texans money line, that would be one
Speaker 1: of the greatest parlays of all will never hit Pete,
Speaker 1: thank you as always. Good luck this weekend. I think
Speaker 1: this is your bad He's he's on the board, folks,
Speaker 1: Peter Andrews about to get hot. Thank you, thanks guys.
Speaker 1: All right, Olivia, that's another one in the books. The
Speaker 1: football season is flying by heading into week nine and
Speaker 1: Coops is here. We're gonna hit those Thanksgiving games real soon.
Speaker 1: But good show today. That was a good one. I know.
Speaker 1: I love signing off on October like that, like a
Speaker 1: very clean exit. I mean, Halloween was so fun. I
Speaker 1: loved don't by the way, don't you love that the
Speaker 1: Halloween Monday Night game was like orange and black all
Speaker 1: over Like that was Did the NFL do that on purpose?
Speaker 1: That was too good? Once again, just like my only
Speaker 1: it happened in Cleveland. I'm just Cleveland's just in my
Speaker 1: in my face all the time. How is your Halloween? Though?
Speaker 1: But before we go that, this was like your first
Speaker 1: what's your what's your son? Right? First one as a parent, Yes,
Speaker 1: and I really wanted to nail the like family costume,
Speaker 1: and we all did like a London based thing. So
Speaker 1: my husband was Big Ben and I just made him
Speaker 1: a name tag that said Ben because these six nines.
Speaker 1: That kind of took part of it took care of
Speaker 1: the other part. I was ginger spice because I can't
Speaker 1: resist a wig moment. And then yeah, our little baby Wolfee.
Speaker 1: He was a Lion because Sam's teams the London Lions.
Speaker 1: But your family, like went all out on the family costume. Geez,
Speaker 1: how was your Yeah, I said. I started out by saying, like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do a costume, and I agreed
Speaker 1: on one. We did do a great family costume. We
Speaker 1: were the Griswolds from Christmas Vacation. Her dad was Uncle
Speaker 1: Eddie in a row. He has an r V and
Speaker 1: he pulled the It was great. The standout of the weekend, though,
Speaker 1: really was like the Monday night tricker treating, right because
Speaker 1: now we have almost an almost four year old who's
Speaker 1: super into it, and you know, we didn't get home
Speaker 1: to like nine o'clock. By the time you got to sleep,
Speaker 1: it was like ten thirty. And the thing with his school,
Speaker 1: because he's still so young, you could bring your kid
Speaker 1: in late if like you're running behind, because it's impossible
Speaker 1: for parents to get out the door sometimes. So I
Speaker 1: went in his room. He has to be in school
Speaker 1: by a forty five, went in his room and like
Speaker 1: eight fifteen because they were and my wife was in
Speaker 1: there and he was still asleep, just like, just let
Speaker 1: him sleep, We'll bring him in late. So he wakes
Speaker 1: up at like nine thirty. He has a little bit
Speaker 1: of toast. We rushed him into school, and I'm like, God, great,
Speaker 1: we're the we're the parents were bringing their kid in
Speaker 1: like an hour and a half, like, and you have
Speaker 1: to bring him in through the front door at that
Speaker 1: point and be buzzed in. So we're buzzed in and
Speaker 1: we get into like the lobby area of the school
Speaker 1: like nine other kids who were also an hour and
Speaker 1: a half like, and I had the instant, yeah, like
Speaker 1: the instant flashback of like being in Vegas as like
Speaker 1: a twenty one year old catching that like Southwest flight
Speaker 1: home on a Sunday morning at nine and looking around
Speaker 1: and all the other twenty one year olds are like
Speaker 1: hungover and broke and just looking terri like all the
Speaker 1: kids looked completely wrecked at in the morning post Halloween.
Speaker 1: So that was the stand out. And about the parents
Speaker 1: parents are right now, the kids looked rough, they look
Speaker 1: they looked like they were coming off all that sugar.
Speaker 1: They looked they looked rough. But I'm glad Halloween's over.
Speaker 1: Goodbye October. Now we get to look forward to Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: and we actually have like a great Thanksgiving Day slate
Speaker 1: of games and my birthday after Thanksgiving, Oh, we got
Speaker 1: to do something fun for your birthday. But that was
Speaker 1: a great episode. Thank you everyone for tuning in. Make
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