Speaker 1: From the King of Sports Books comes the key sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by bet MGM. Here's your host, Joanna's
Speaker 1: Papas and Olivia Harland Decker. Welcome to another episode of
Speaker 1: Unleashed from bet MGM, the King of Sports Books. It
Speaker 1: is Week one, people, it is the most heavily bet
Speaker 1: NFL season ever and it all kicks off Thursday. Janna's
Speaker 1: Papas is my co host and friend Janice. How is
Speaker 1: your Labor Day weekend? Did you just watch a ton
Speaker 1: of college football like I did? I did. I parked
Speaker 1: it on the couch, popped a couple of truly's and
Speaker 1: watched some beautiful, beautiful college football. America's back. Baby. I
Speaker 1: didn't take you for a truly drinker, to be honest.
Speaker 1: I know, you know. It's some kind of calories and
Speaker 1: it's it's they're they're a nice summer drink. Yeah, yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I just you don't really look like
Speaker 1: a truly drinker. Well that's a very nice way of
Speaker 1: calling me fat. I look more like a beer drinker. No,
Speaker 1: you just look like a man's man. Yeah, I got dad, Bob,
Speaker 1: I get it. No, no, no, Hey, someone who is
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Speaker 1: to pick three random NFL games every week, and you
Speaker 1: and I are going to pick the winner. Every week.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see who had the better weekend, and that
Speaker 1: person is going to have to read an outro that
Speaker 1: the other one writes you already know I blush at
Speaker 1: potty humor. I am really nervous that you're going to
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Speaker 1: I'm taking this one seriously. We call the segment punishment picks.
Speaker 1: Make sure to listen at the end of every episode, Nana,
Speaker 1: so you can be real competitive on this one. That
Speaker 1: it's just so fun. I was just smiling while you
Speaker 1: read that. We're gonna pimp each other out. And here's
Speaker 1: the thing, Olivia, you you have to read whatever I write.
Speaker 1: Of course, you're gonna lose more than I am. So
Speaker 1: I can't wait to punch these keyboards and pimp you out.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm going to study it pretty hard
Speaker 1: on that, but I'm looking forward to that segment. Also
Speaker 1: coming up in the show, we have Kurt Warner. He's
Speaker 1: one of the best stories in the NFL. He went
Speaker 1: from stocking grocery store shelves to winning Super Bowls m
Speaker 1: v P, and he's a Hall of Famer. This is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite interviews we have ever had. You honest,
Speaker 1: wasn't he great? It was incredible. He's got his movie
Speaker 1: coming out telling his amazing story. Uh. He really was
Speaker 1: an incredible interview. He gave us a lot of football
Speaker 1: insight and told his story and really got us excited
Speaker 1: for the movie that's coming out. And he has really
Speaker 1: good insight on the first Monday night football game of
Speaker 1: the season. It's Ravens at Raiders, and he's calling that
Speaker 1: game on Westwood one, and he is going to give
Speaker 1: us his take on both of those quarterbacks. Let's get
Speaker 1: to the rest of the Week one matchups because there's
Speaker 1: a lot to get to, you know, be honest, this
Speaker 1: season is going to be so different because we have
Speaker 1: packed stadiums. We saw it in college football last week. Again,
Speaker 1: it is so refreshing to see that. And there's a
Speaker 1: lot of data to the home advantage with crowds that
Speaker 1: we learned from the season. So home advantage is back,
Speaker 1: and I think bigger than ever because I think fans
Speaker 1: are going to be crazier and louder than ever. This
Speaker 1: is also the first season in NFL history with seventeen games.
Speaker 1: There's also a new crackdown on taunting. What do you
Speaker 1: think of that, Yannis, Don't we think that's like, I
Speaker 1: think that's ridiculous. Yeah, I I hate when they take
Speaker 1: the theatrics out of the game. I mean, that's what
Speaker 1: makes the modern game fun. Let these guys dance, let
Speaker 1: them do a TikTok. Why not. I'm with you, I'm
Speaker 1: with you. The taunting is is kind of a silly
Speaker 1: thing that makes it fun. I think so. And what
Speaker 1: a random thing for them to crack down on. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So we're going to see that in Week one. All
Speaker 1: the action starts Thursday, Cowboys at raining super Bowl champs
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. The Bucks are an eight point favorite and
Speaker 1: that has gone up. Check at at MGM to see
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys. They have a new defensive coordinate later,
Speaker 1: but not much talent, although I do like that first
Speaker 1: round draft pick Michael Parsons. He's been quite the character
Speaker 1: on Hard Knocks. Dak Prescott will be playing after a
Speaker 1: right shoulder injury in the preseason. You know, he had
Speaker 1: an ankle injury early last season, so he is ready
Speaker 1: to go. It has been hard to watch that shoulder
Speaker 1: injury on Hard Knocks as well. But six time Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl guard Zack Martin is in COVID protocol. His status
Speaker 1: is unknown for Week one. This isn't just any offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: He is their offense, Ezekiel. Elliott even said that's their
Speaker 1: best player on offense. He has a huge presence on
Speaker 1: this team. So that one I'm like in Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: for reasons galore. But once I saw Zack Martin was out,
Speaker 1: I was like, it's done for Dallas. They don't have
Speaker 1: a chance Week one. Yeah, that's a He's the one
Speaker 1: who would help out Ezekiel the most. And if the
Speaker 1: if that running game isn't on point, they got no shot. Yep.
Speaker 1: And Brady's five o versus the Cowboys in his career
Speaker 1: and listen to this, Johnnie. The Super Bowl champ goes
Speaker 1: thirteen and three overall in season openers in the last
Speaker 1: sixteen years, and against the spread, the Super Bowl champ
Speaker 1: is eleven four and one, So there's some stats to
Speaker 1: back up your bet. I would definitely go with Tampa Bay. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They bring it back all twenty two starters, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah they are. And not all of those starters were
Speaker 1: with them at the beginning of last season, like Antonio Brown,
Speaker 1: so they have even more cohesion than they did last season.
Speaker 1: I like Tampa Bay to be better than they were
Speaker 1: last year. I agree with you, damn it. We agree,
Speaker 1: damn it, hopefully not at the end. Okay, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of excitement around the Chargers this season. They have
Speaker 1: a new stadium, they have a new head coach, Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year Justin Herbert ready for his sophomore season.
Speaker 1: But look, it's his first season with packed stadiums, on
Speaker 1: the road and at home. He's learning a new offense,
Speaker 1: new coach. I don't know. I think it's something to
Speaker 1: think about. I don't know if Herbert can live up
Speaker 1: to that freshman campaign. And they start on the road
Speaker 1: at Washington Basing fits magic and the spread is at
Speaker 1: one point favoring l A. I think that's a sneaky one.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would even touch that one.
Speaker 1: What do you think? I agree with you. I'm not
Speaker 1: touching on one. That's a little sneaky. I think the
Speaker 1: crowd does play a role. We'll see how he reacts football.
Speaker 1: The game slows down as you gain experience, and this
Speaker 1: is this is him just getting his feet wet. So
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I like it. There's a really
Speaker 1: good one in the a f C three thirty Browns
Speaker 1: at Chiefs. Those are two sexy teams. The Chiefs are
Speaker 1: favored at six and a half. Look, the Browns have experience,
Speaker 1: they have great skill players. Baker Mayfield is ready for
Speaker 1: a big season. He's sniffing a big contract like other
Speaker 1: guys in his draft class have already gotten. And he's
Speaker 1: not learning a new offense for the first time since
Speaker 1: he's been a Brown. But I like the Chiefs. I
Speaker 1: like healthy Patrick Mahomes gives a new offensive line. I
Speaker 1: think they win by at least a touchdown. I'm laying
Speaker 1: the points there. Mahomes has never lost in September. Can
Speaker 1: you believe that it's his birthday month? He's never lost
Speaker 1: in September. I can't believe it. He's incredible. I've never
Speaker 1: seen a or back like him. I don't. I never
Speaker 1: liked the wild card of Odell Beckham Jr. I'm a
Speaker 1: jive fan, so I'm a little bitter. But you cannot
Speaker 1: bet against Mahomes and the Chiefs. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: win and win big. Actually, I'm calling a blowout, blowout. Jeez.
Speaker 1: Now your team's the Giants, right, yes, big time. So
Speaker 1: they play the Broncos. Broncos have new quarterback Teddy Bridgewater.
Speaker 1: That's a home game. You're not going to it, are
Speaker 1: you No, I'm not going to it unless bet MGM
Speaker 1: pays for it. Okay, I'll put in a good word.
Speaker 1: So quarterback Daniel Jones will be praying to keep his
Speaker 1: jersey clean. He has a terrible offensive line, and he's
Speaker 1: also going to be praying that his running back State
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley is cleared in time. As of Tuesday when
Speaker 1: we're recording this, his status is up in the year.
Speaker 1: Denver is a two and a half point favorite. That
Speaker 1: will definitely change as we get closer to kickoff based
Speaker 1: on State Kwan's status. So look, i'd say take the
Speaker 1: points now. I hope that Barkley is back. What do
Speaker 1: you think? Oh God, this is just the same old
Speaker 1: story in New York right now. Terrible offensive line and
Speaker 1: a questionable say quon I mean, and it's just I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna bet against the giants. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: make some money. Like Olivia, she doesn't bet with her hard.
Speaker 1: I gotta get a little colder. They're gonna lose. Goddamn it.
Speaker 1: I hate when I do that. You have a daughter
Speaker 1: to support, exactly, I gotta be you know, capitalism wins.
Speaker 1: I like it. Look Sunday night. That is such a
Speaker 1: good game. That's the NBC game. Bears at Rams. Rams
Speaker 1: are a seven and a half point favorite with new
Speaker 1: quarterback Matt Stafford from Detroit. Look, a lot of pundits
Speaker 1: are saying that he'll be m v P. This would
Speaker 1: be a great debut if he's trying to put together
Speaker 1: that type of season. And they also got running back
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle a couple of weeks ago from New England.
Speaker 1: He was the only player to score a touchdown verse
Speaker 1: l A in the Pasts Super Bowl win a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. He's also a u G A guy
Speaker 1: like I like the Rams at over a touchdown. I
Speaker 1: wish it was a little bit lower. I wish it
Speaker 1: was a seven point favorite. Seven and a half is tricky,
Speaker 1: but I will take the Rams here. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to bet on this one at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna pass on this one. But I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna say, if you're not going Josh Allen for m
Speaker 1: v P this year, then you've got another thing coming.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're basically shining that trophy for the kid.
Speaker 1: He's unbelievable. Oh, I like, you're very confident on that one. Look,
Speaker 1: I land in Vegas on Thursday, I am immediately going
Speaker 1: to our sports book in placing all these bets. I
Speaker 1: have data analysis notes. I am so ready to win
Speaker 1: some money this weekend. It's not even funny. As soon
Speaker 1: as I get there, I'm doing the same thing. I
Speaker 1: might even just blindfold myself and just you know, just
Speaker 1: picking by chance can be fun too. It's a little
Speaker 1: more exciting. I may do no research and just play
Speaker 1: pin the tail on the donkey and just let my
Speaker 1: finger do the talk. Just watch. You are going to
Speaker 1: win so much money doing that. And here I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be there with my little legal notepad and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: lose because I overthought it. Well, that's a difference between
Speaker 1: me and you. You prepare, I wing it. I love it.
Speaker 1: You know I should mention next week we are doing
Speaker 1: our podcast in Las Vegas of the Mandalay Bay. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited, honest, We're gonna have so much fun. I
Speaker 1: even made us a dinner reservation. We are hitt in
Speaker 1: Vegas hard. Yeah, I mean, actually, this is the first
Speaker 1: time we're going to see each other in person, so, uh,
Speaker 1: this is a very twenty twenty one post COVID type
Speaker 1: of relationship we have where we're finally seeing each other
Speaker 1: in person after we've been working together for a long time.
Speaker 1: While I hope you don't catfish me and come out
Speaker 1: like a five hundred pound man and a trailer in
Speaker 1: Louisiana or something. Well, you already think I live in
Speaker 1: a cabin, so yeah, I mean I've been using a
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Speaker 1: a Russian bot. I love it. Let's finish off with
Speaker 1: the last game of the weekend. It's Monday Night football.
Speaker 1: It is in Vegas. I hope you and I are
Speaker 1: still standing by Monday, because it's gonna be a long weekend.
Speaker 1: But the Ravens are a four and a half point
Speaker 1: favorite in the first NFL game at Allegiant Stadium. Look
Speaker 1: buy you fans gotta break in the stadium. This past
Speaker 1: weekend against Arizona, they really traveled well. That was impressive.
Speaker 1: So that's going to be such a good one. I
Speaker 1: think it will be high scoring. So I would advise
Speaker 1: all our betters to take the over at fifty one
Speaker 1: and a half and here's why it's a big national game.
Speaker 1: So sometimes refs have this. Let them play mentality right,
Speaker 1: not as many penalties. And last year the Raiders were
Speaker 1: the best team in the NFL at allowing the over
Speaker 1: to hit at twelve three and one. Ravens are so
Speaker 1: explosive on offense, but they do have some injuries in
Speaker 1: the receiving corps. They'll be running a lot, obviously with
Speaker 1: quarterback Lamar Jackson, and he almost always covers on the road.
Speaker 1: So I'll take the Ravens. I'll lay the points. So
Speaker 1: all of that is so interesting. Make sure if you
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Speaker 1: the game started just to put it on the only
Speaker 1: losing leg of it. He's talking about Week one college football,
Speaker 1: and I feel you, Tommy, because his game that lost
Speaker 1: was Penn State at Wisconsin. Penn State wins. That was
Speaker 1: an ugly game. It was zero zero at halftime, and
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Speaker 1: listening to us, Tommy, we gave you a lot of
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Speaker 1: And the last segment of the show with Peter Andrew,
Speaker 1: he gets into the nitty gritty that's going to be good. Hey,
Speaker 1: before we get to this Kurt Warner interview, I was
Speaker 1: really thinking a lot and this stumped me because when
Speaker 1: we were asking him about his movie coming up in December,
Speaker 1: I think he had some creative input on who was
Speaker 1: cast as himself, his wife, his kids, his coach, teammates,
Speaker 1: all that, and I started thinking Okay. If I had
Speaker 1: to cast my whole family and myself in a movie,
Speaker 1: who would I pick? I don't know. And then j honest,
Speaker 1: I was asking you too. Have you ever had like
Speaker 1: a celebrity lookalike who could play you in a movie. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's got to be John Stamos. I mean, you saw
Speaker 1: the Irishman, right, It's crazy what they can do with
Speaker 1: c g I. Now they can make him look a
Speaker 1: lot less good looking. Oh my gosh, anyone else in
Speaker 1: case Stamos is busy? Uh? Michael B. Jordan's people say yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean where he's like my doppelganger. Either that Treat Williams.
Speaker 1: People tell me I look like Treat Williams. The only
Speaker 1: problem is he's seventy, so that's gonna be tough. All
Speaker 1: the watch people say that I look like. Also Leonardo DiCaprio,
Speaker 1: I get a lot. Oh yeah, if he's squint and
Speaker 1: drink a bunch of Trulies until your head. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean people say me and him as far as on
Speaker 1: the scale of how good looking we are, they say
Speaker 1: me and him were a tie? Would you were a tie? Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's move on. You know, my mom, if if anyone's
Speaker 1: ever seen my mom. She looks just like Christie Brinkley.
Speaker 1: So I would definitely cast Christie Brinkley to play my mom.
Speaker 1: And they're around the same age. Dude, she's gorgeous. I
Speaker 1: would cast Nick Saban or Tom Hanks to play my dad.
Speaker 1: I've thought a lot about this one. Can Nick Saban act?
Speaker 1: Probably not, but he's not bad on those aft Flat commercials.
Speaker 1: There you go, Yeah, but he kind of looks like
Speaker 1: my dad. I don't know something about their hair or something.
Speaker 1: And then for myself, I hate this. I get Lady
Speaker 1: Gaga a lot. I've literally been sitting at an airport
Speaker 1: bar and someone came up to me and was like,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry to bother you, ma'am. I just want
Speaker 1: to make sure you're okay, Like, you know, you have
Speaker 1: no security. They couldn't believe Lady Gaga was sitting, you know,
Speaker 1: at the Detroit airport alone having a martini. Well that's
Speaker 1: the only place I think you could get mistaken for
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga when somebody has had fifteen martini. Because I
Speaker 1: don't get that at all, Thank you. I I really
Speaker 1: don't see it. I'm a big fan of hers, but
Speaker 1: I get it all the time and it blows my mind.
Speaker 1: And then also Sydney Sweeney, who is closer to my age.
Speaker 1: She's in White Lotus, which I cannot get enough of
Speaker 1: right now. I love that show, but I get that
Speaker 1: one a lot. But if anyone else has any opinions
Speaker 1: on who could play Janice or myself in a movie,
Speaker 1: check out that MGMs, Twitter and Instagram. They are putting
Speaker 1: together a little poll. You can tell us what you think.
Speaker 1: We are good natured about it, we are not easily offended,
Speaker 1: and clearly we think very highly of ourselves. With John
Speaker 1: Stamos and Sydney Sweeney playing us in a movie, don't
Speaker 1: forget Leonardo DiCaprio. He's my top choice. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I could also play your dad. I mean I'm old enough.
Speaker 1: You're a little too Greek from my dad. My dad's
Speaker 1: a little bit more wonder bread he is. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you are very wonder bread. You are. You're from
Speaker 1: the Heartland. I mean you you look like Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: I would say Taylor Swift could be a good one. Now, okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: let's just okay, let's get to our Kurt Warner interview.
Speaker 1: He is incredible. He was an undrafted quarterback. He went
Speaker 1: four years without making an NFL roster. He was working
Speaker 1: at a grocery store. Shout out hi V. He ended
Speaker 1: up playing twelve seasons, two time m v P Super
Speaker 1: Bowl champ and m v P Hall of Famer. If
Speaker 1: it sounds like a movie, it's because it is American Underdog.
Speaker 1: The Kurt Warner Story is in theaters this December. Let's
Speaker 1: get a friend of the podcast Hall of Famer Kurt Warner.
Speaker 1: While we mentioned earlier, he has one of the best
Speaker 1: stories in NFL history and he's still in the game
Speaker 1: now as an analyst. Also a great Twitter, followed by
Speaker 1: the way you can catch him on NFL Network and
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football on Westwood one Radio actually with my
Speaker 1: dad Kevin Harland. More on that aspect of it later,
Speaker 1: and I do want to pick your brain Kurt on
Speaker 1: some QB questions going into week one, but I want
Speaker 1: to get into your story. So first of all, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for joining us. This is really awesome. You
Speaker 1: got it on my pleasure. Well, I was looking back
Speaker 1: at kind of your start when you were named the
Speaker 1: starter your second season, and really, who knows if any
Speaker 1: of this fantastic story would have happened if Trent Green
Speaker 1: never tore his a c L ahead of the season,
Speaker 1: and boom, you're the starter. And we saw what your
Speaker 1: head coach, Dick for Meal said in his press conference,
Speaker 1: the whole we're behind Kurt, We're gonna play good football.
Speaker 1: What do you remember him saying to you? Do you
Speaker 1: think they knew your potential? I don't think they had
Speaker 1: any idea, even a good job of hiding it, because
Speaker 1: I think they were stuck with me. I've actually heard
Speaker 1: some stories or some other guys over the years that, uh,
Speaker 1: that the Rams actually did reach out to a couple
Speaker 1: of veteran quarterbacks. Did that mean to bring them in
Speaker 1: to be the starter? Did that mean to bring them
Speaker 1: in to be the backup. I'll let you speculate on that,
Speaker 1: but I know that they've reached out to some people.
Speaker 1: And again I don't blame them. I mean, I I
Speaker 1: completely understand. I think we always have to have a
Speaker 1: realistic viewpoint of other people's perspective on us or where
Speaker 1: we stand at a particular time, and and I get
Speaker 1: it at that point in time. Uh, you know, Dick
Speaker 1: when he when he mentioned those words in that press conference.
Speaker 1: It was three tiers, and so, you know, I always
Speaker 1: joke because that knowing Dick, obviously there's tears all the time,
Speaker 1: and there was I'm sure some tears for for Trent,
Speaker 1: but I think there were also some tears like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, we gotta go with Kurt. Because this was
Speaker 1: Dick's third year, and you know that the speculation there
Speaker 1: was that if he didn't win, he would be fired.
Speaker 1: He was on the hot seat. They were four and twelve,
Speaker 1: where we were four and twelve the year before, things
Speaker 1: hadn't gone well. He was out of the game for
Speaker 1: almost a decade and a half. Everybody thought the game
Speaker 1: had kind of passed him by, And so I'm sure
Speaker 1: part of those emotions was, really, is this the hand
Speaker 1: that I'm doubt, Like, you know, now I gotta go
Speaker 1: with this guy, uh, you know, and he's got to
Speaker 1: save my job, and so yeah, I think there was
Speaker 1: a lot of emotions. And I'm not gonna sit here
Speaker 1: and say that that Dick, you know, and some of
Speaker 1: the other staff didn't believe that I could play. I
Speaker 1: just think it was an unknown and I don't know
Speaker 1: if they knew it I could play at that time,
Speaker 1: Like I was ready to be able to handle, you know,
Speaker 1: what was being laid on my plate at that particular time.
Speaker 1: But you know, to to their credit, um, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm very grateful that they did give me that opportunity.
Speaker 1: I knew when when I took over that the least
Speaker 1: probably wasn't gonna be very long. That I didn't know
Speaker 1: if i'd give one game or two games, or until
Speaker 1: they found a veteran quarterback. I didn't know what it
Speaker 1: was going to be. But I knew that, you know,
Speaker 1: there wasn't gonna be a lot of opportunities if I
Speaker 1: went in and didn't play well, you know early, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe I get a second start, but you know, it
Speaker 1: wasn't one of these things like, hey, we're gonna roll
Speaker 1: with you for sixteen games if you're not playing well. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I think, again, I'm grateful. I'm thankful there
Speaker 1: was enough belief there that they actually did put the
Speaker 1: ball in my hands. But no, I don't believe any
Speaker 1: of those guys really knew what I was capable of
Speaker 1: or believed in me to the extent that they would
Speaker 1: later in the year. I just think, hey, he showed
Speaker 1: as he can throw a football and he's done some
Speaker 1: good things in the year that he's been here. Let's
Speaker 1: give him a shot that you know, we're not throwing
Speaker 1: all of our eggs in one basket. You just said
Speaker 1: you knew that the or at least you thought the
Speaker 1: leash would be short. Was there a moment where you
Speaker 1: loosened up and you were like, I got this. You know.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is is that there was never a
Speaker 1: moment I didn't think I had it. Ah. That's the
Speaker 1: flip side of it all the time, is that, you
Speaker 1: know when you talk about my story, and I say
Speaker 1: this all the time, everybody looks at my story and
Speaker 1: they look at all the negative stuff. But he's had
Speaker 1: on the bench for four years, and again they look
Speaker 1: at it now. Obviously sat on the bench for four years,
Speaker 1: got cut by Green Bay, worked in the grocery store,
Speaker 1: or played arena you know, all these things that on
Speaker 1: the surface go, oh my gosh, this guy can't play
Speaker 1: for me. All I looked at was what I was
Speaker 1: between the lines. So I played one year in college
Speaker 1: and I was the player of the year in our
Speaker 1: conference that one year. I played three years in Arena football,
Speaker 1: was in the championship game twice, and voted the best
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league those last two years I was there.
Speaker 1: I went to play in Europe for a year, lad
Speaker 1: the being statistically over there. So when everybody else was
Speaker 1: looking to go, oh my gosh, it's a guy coming
Speaker 1: from a grocery store, my mindset was, what do you mean.
Speaker 1: Every time I played, I've been really, really good, and
Speaker 1: so nobody's ever shown me that I can't play. Yes,
Speaker 1: this is the NFL. Yes it's as good as it gets.
Speaker 1: But there was never a lot of confidence because I
Speaker 1: had never been in a situation with the ball in
Speaker 1: my hands where I wasn't successful and so um so
Speaker 1: you asked that question, and I completely get it because
Speaker 1: it's different and it's bigger and there's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 1: And as I said, you know, I don't know how
Speaker 1: long my leash was. But the bottom line is I
Speaker 1: knew I could play football. I knew that's what I did,
Speaker 1: and that's the one thing that I did really, really well.
Speaker 1: So I wasn't intimidated by oh my gosh, I have
Speaker 1: to play at the highest level. No. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just you're still throwing and reading and making decisions and
Speaker 1: playing the game that you've played forever. So I was
Speaker 1: very confident that I could play well. I wasn't what
Speaker 1: it's confident that I would play like I did. You
Speaker 1: know that first year. I mean, so many things came
Speaker 1: together and it was like a perfect storm. So I
Speaker 1: didn't know I would play at that level or up
Speaker 1: to that level, especially that quickly. But I did believe
Speaker 1: that I could play and that I was going to
Speaker 1: prove it to UH, to everybody that I could play
Speaker 1: at that level. You've had all these years to think
Speaker 1: back on this. What do you think teams missed on you?
Speaker 1: When you bring up the Packers cutting you early, but
Speaker 1: so many other teams missed on you too. What they forget?
Speaker 1: I don't think it was missing from the standpoint that
Speaker 1: seeing this guy and we don't think he can play.
Speaker 1: I think it was missing from the standpoint that I
Speaker 1: just never got the opportunity. You know, I played one
Speaker 1: year in college and so yeah, I played really well
Speaker 1: that one year. But you know, when you're looking at
Speaker 1: the landscape of college football, I mean there's guys all
Speaker 1: over the place that played in bigger schools, that played longer,
Speaker 1: that had more success, and so you know, I did
Speaker 1: get three or four opportunities from a free agency and
Speaker 1: point three three or four offers to play with teams
Speaker 1: when I got done. So it wasn't like, you know,
Speaker 1: nobody thought I could play. It was just okay, one
Speaker 1: year Division one, double a school, smaller school, we got
Speaker 1: lots of other guys we're gonna take first, and so
Speaker 1: there just wasn't a big body of work. And then
Speaker 1: you know, from there, I went to green Bay and
Speaker 1: green Bay had you know, Red Father Market now and
Speaker 1: ty Denver. I mean it's it's a pretty good quarterback room.
Speaker 1: And you know, I went there and knowing that they
Speaker 1: only they were only gonna invite me to camp, so
Speaker 1: it was only four of us. So I went there
Speaker 1: with the mindset, well, you didn't have to beat one
Speaker 1: of these guys out, or maybe I can make the
Speaker 1: practice squad because at that time, you we kept three
Speaker 1: quarterbacks on the bost and one on the practice squad.
Speaker 1: So that was kind of my mindset that again, there
Speaker 1: I didn't really get an opportunity. I didn't play in
Speaker 1: a single preseason game. I didn't throw a preseason you know.
Speaker 1: Past that, it was really just, hey, we got these guys,
Speaker 1: were happy with them they're healthy, they're not hurt. We
Speaker 1: don't really need to explore another guy. And so then
Speaker 1: you know unti Arena football and at Europe, and so
Speaker 1: I don't think it was people just looking and going on,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's got it. I don't think he
Speaker 1: can play. I think it was just simply there's better options.
Speaker 1: You know, we've got a bigger book on more people
Speaker 1: that you know, nobody ever really got. You know, got
Speaker 1: to see me play, and a lot of times we
Speaker 1: just said that. In preseason in the NFL, you're like
Speaker 1: writing your resume. So even if you don't make the
Speaker 1: team that you're on, when you get to play in preseason,
Speaker 1: everybody gets to take everybody gets to see your throws.
Speaker 1: And like I said, I get these rows. I didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance to showcase anything. So everybody else around
Speaker 1: the league is probably just thinking, oh, no, he was
Speaker 1: what he got. He was. It was Division one quarterback
Speaker 1: that wasn't drafted and he didn't make the Packers, So
Speaker 1: you know what makes us think that we should give
Speaker 1: him a shot at that point. It's also amazing that
Speaker 1: you played in Amsterdam and you played on a team
Speaker 1: with another guy who ended up becoming another amazing story
Speaker 1: with Jake the home did looking back, did you guys
Speaker 1: reminisce about that or talk about that now, going wow,
Speaker 1: isn't that amazing? We we did, and uh, you know
Speaker 1: we've caught up about that. You know, Jake ends up
Speaker 1: taking his team to the super Bowl. I got to
Speaker 1: play in three super Bowls. I mean Rad Johnson's another
Speaker 1: guy that played in Europe, took his team to a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, won a Super Bowl, and so, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: we we talked about that a lot because for both
Speaker 1: of us, you know, we were you know, looked at
Speaker 1: looked upon it playing at smaller places and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe couldn't play at that level, and so we were
Speaker 1: both trying to just earn our spot. And it's pretty
Speaker 1: cool when you've got guys that that can play this game,
Speaker 1: that that are really good at this game, but get overlooked.
Speaker 1: I think we're both just grateful that there was that
Speaker 1: league at the time. You know, I looked back now,
Speaker 1: um and you know you sit here and aliving that
Speaker 1: you were talking about it. You know, if something doesn't
Speaker 1: happen to try Green, do we ever hear this story?
Speaker 1: But I could say the same thing if there was
Speaker 1: no NFL Europe, if there was no arena football, kind
Speaker 1: of very similar to where we're at right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know there's a few smaller football leagues, but if
Speaker 1: there were, there, weren't those leads for me at least
Speaker 1: get a chance to play and be successful and kind
Speaker 1: of hone my craft. There's probably no story either. So
Speaker 1: I was so grateful for arena football and for NFL
Speaker 1: Europe at the time because I got a chance to
Speaker 1: get back on the field. As I said, no polic
Speaker 1: season passes in Green Bay. My tryout was NFL Europe
Speaker 1: to get back on the big field and show people
Speaker 1: that I could play. And the same was true for Jake.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Jake's probably thinking seriously, then I finally get
Speaker 1: over here, and now I got a suit behind Kurt.
Speaker 1: For Aye, it's like, when do I get my opportunity?
Speaker 1: And lucky he went back another year and went back
Speaker 1: the following year and ended up playing the following year
Speaker 1: before he got his opportunity. So both of us reminisced
Speaker 1: about it. Uh grateful we get to go each other
Speaker 1: at the time. They're both grateful for the opportunity to
Speaker 1: actually play and have a league where we could parlay
Speaker 1: that into a into great careers in the NFL. Well,
Speaker 1: the rest of your story is so incredible. It's documented
Speaker 1: in the movie American Underdog, the Kurt Warner story. I'm
Speaker 1: curious how involved you were in the casting of this,
Speaker 1: because a game that Lehman people play all the time
Speaker 1: is who would play me in a movie? And Joannie
Speaker 1: and I were playing that in the first segment had
Speaker 1: a lot of fun with it. Were you very involved
Speaker 1: and who was going to play you? I was not
Speaker 1: very involved in the casting part of it. That you
Speaker 1: There's so many things that go into the casting, especially
Speaker 1: in the middle of the pandemic and COVID. There were
Speaker 1: so many projects that were put on hold with the pandemic,
Speaker 1: and so there were a number of people that were
Speaker 1: scheduled to start shooting with different projects that just weren't available,
Speaker 1: and so a lot of it came down to, uh,
Speaker 1: even trying to figure out who your wish list was,
Speaker 1: see who might be available when we were going to
Speaker 1: shoot the movie again as it fluctuated through COVID, and
Speaker 1: that became probably the biggest issue with it. But I
Speaker 1: said all that too uh to say when we actually
Speaker 1: see the movie. The casting is awesome. I mean, the
Speaker 1: casting is incredible across the board. I think you know,
Speaker 1: the people that put it together. Uh, you know, our
Speaker 1: directors and lions Gate did an unbelievable job with the cast,
Speaker 1: even though there were there were limitations. I suppose from
Speaker 1: probably what they're their wish list might have been to
Speaker 1: begin with. But I think everybody really hits the nail
Speaker 1: on the head and we got some really really great
Speaker 1: actors and uh, I think people are gonna be uh,
Speaker 1: people are gonna gonna love the movie. It looks like
Speaker 1: an amazing movie. And you know, the one requirement might
Speaker 1: have had to be the hair. Now that the guy
Speaker 1: who played you, because I remember every time I watch you,
Speaker 1: you pulled your helmet off, your hair doesn't move. You
Speaker 1: got nice You've got a nice spike flat top. Do
Speaker 1: you use JEL or is that hairspray? Not on hair experience,
Speaker 1: that's jel. But the real key was not my head,
Speaker 1: It was my wife's here. That was thing is making
Speaker 1: sure that somebody can pull off the shot here on
Speaker 1: the female perspective. So that was I think more of
Speaker 1: the challenge than than the opposite. But again, exactly lead
Speaker 1: by it's crazy. You know, he looks very similar to me.
Speaker 1: I mean there's definitely times when my kids even see
Speaker 1: the scenes from different angles and they're like, oh my gosh, Dad,
Speaker 1: itoks just like you. And so, you know, so there's
Speaker 1: so many different aspects when they you know, cast for
Speaker 1: a movie is of course the one thing we think
Speaker 1: about is who looks like us, right, But then there's
Speaker 1: the whole other aspect is that you've got to take
Speaker 1: an actor and make him an athlete. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta put them into that role and
Speaker 1: that that's that's to me is probably the bigger challenge
Speaker 1: than anything is. You know, when people go watch sport movies,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody is going to scrutinize everything. Like if
Speaker 1: I went into acting after you know, fifty years, I'm
Speaker 1: sure I wouldn't be very good at it after a
Speaker 1: few months. Uh. To put you know, an actor into
Speaker 1: a role of being, you know, hall of Fame quarterback
Speaker 1: for a few months and expecting him to look like
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame quarterback, that's probably not going to happen.
Speaker 1: But you tell people when they watched the movie, that
Speaker 1: will be one of the crazy things that that they
Speaker 1: scrutinized because they, for whatever reason, expected to look just
Speaker 1: like an NFL player, And that's that's probably the bigger
Speaker 1: challenge than finding somebody that looked like me and could
Speaker 1: play the part. Did you help coach him up at all?
Speaker 1: Or did they have a football coach on set? Both?
Speaker 1: I actually he had to the house and we did
Speaker 1: a little bit of work. I would get a little
Speaker 1: bit of work, And ironically enough, they had a football
Speaker 1: coach that was actually a quarterback that played against me
Speaker 1: and the Arena Football League. Uh, the kind of coached
Speaker 1: him up and work with him on a lot of
Speaker 1: the stuff and work with him through through some of
Speaker 1: the different scenes. So yes, they they put about time
Speaker 1: into two working with Zack. I'm not sure you got
Speaker 1: it right the time when I see clips like, dude,
Speaker 1: I told you you need not. But that does a
Speaker 1: great job. You mentioned your wife, Brenda. She has such
Speaker 1: an incredible story herself. Anna pack Win plays Brenda. How
Speaker 1: do you make sure that that story is told right
Speaker 1: and that you do justice by Brenda's story. That that's
Speaker 1: the challenge of you know, this Harme movie. We've actually
Speaker 1: been in the process of making this movie for gosh,
Speaker 1: seven eight years, you know, shortly after I retired, and
Speaker 1: it was about getting the story right. We always said,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody always said, you know, your your stories
Speaker 1: made for the big screen, blah blah blah. But as
Speaker 1: we went through the process, you know, the bottom line
Speaker 1: for us was we just didn't want to throw a
Speaker 1: movie up on the big screen. We wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure it was the right movie. And for a long time,
Speaker 1: people couldn't just couldn't see the vision. I had a
Speaker 1: vision for what the movie would be for a long time,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people couldn't see it. We had
Speaker 1: a number of different scripts and we just saying not that,
Speaker 1: this isn't it, This isn't where we want to go,
Speaker 1: this isn't true to what the story is. And so
Speaker 1: a big part of that, Olivia, is as you're talking about,
Speaker 1: it's it's not just my underdog story. It's the underdog
Speaker 1: story of Brenda. It's the underdog story of our son, Zach,
Speaker 1: who was injured when he was four months old. And
Speaker 1: so that, to me, is the beauty of this film,
Speaker 1: is that the backdrop of this film is going to
Speaker 1: be a football or a sports movie. The heart of
Speaker 1: this film is the underdog story of all three of
Speaker 1: us and our individual stories, and then how together we
Speaker 1: accomplished what we accomplished. And so that's some means. What's
Speaker 1: gonna be so cool is you you might go on
Speaker 1: a football fan, or or you might go because you
Speaker 1: know your husband or your wife as a football fan
Speaker 1: and they want to take you. I think everybody's going
Speaker 1: to be impacted, whether you're a mom or a dad,
Speaker 1: or husband or wife, uh, you know, brother or sister,
Speaker 1: whether you're a dream or you're a football fan. It
Speaker 1: has all these different layers to it that are so cool.
Speaker 1: I mean again, we could go on on that. You know,
Speaker 1: the idea of making a movie in the middle of
Speaker 1: the pandemic. We were one of the first studios that
Speaker 1: that put together that in the middle of with all
Speaker 1: the testing and everything, and to get a movie made
Speaker 1: the way that we did. The guy, the the young
Speaker 1: man that actually plays my son's act his name is
Speaker 1: Hayden is actually got an incredible story too. He was adopted.
Speaker 1: He was left on the side of the streets and
Speaker 1: adopted by his mom and dad, and he is, from
Speaker 1: what we understand, the first young blind actor that's played
Speaker 1: a significant role in a movie. And so there are
Speaker 1: so many awesome underdog stories in this movie that, as
Speaker 1: you say, most people probably won't know that they'll go
Speaker 1: into it going Okay, let's see Kurt Kirk's football story,
Speaker 1: and and that of course plays out. But to have
Speaker 1: these underlying themes throughout is what I really think is
Speaker 1: going to impact people and connect with them. And in
Speaker 1: the middle of the pandemic, when there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that need some encouragement and some help and find themselves,
Speaker 1: I'll say in their read you store moment where they're
Speaker 1: wondering how I got here and how do I get
Speaker 1: out of here? And what does the future happen? Store,
Speaker 1: I just think it's really really perfect timing and the
Speaker 1: story has done right that I just I can't wait
Speaker 1: for it to come out on Christmas and and for
Speaker 1: for families to go together, and I believe everybody will
Speaker 1: be impacted. You got me really excited to see this
Speaker 1: movie right now. I got a question. The trailer is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It's online, people can watch. There's a scene when you're
Speaker 1: in the see behind the scenes it see you see
Speaker 1: the trailer that will be coming out. The trailer is
Speaker 1: really really good. So we've got we've got more story.
Speaker 1: We got more coming out. But but thank you for that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. There's a scene that they show where you
Speaker 1: throw a bag of bread like in the aisle. Did
Speaker 1: that ever happen? Did that? And also when you look
Speaker 1: at the wheaties box? Did you dream about when you
Speaker 1: looked at the wheaties box? Like one day I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be on this. Okay, So first, yeah, we threw things
Speaker 1: at the at the story, and you know it with
Speaker 1: different things. I don't know, would throw in a loaf
Speaker 1: of bled, but sometimes you know, like in those grocery stores,
Speaker 1: they would have the end aisles where they would have
Speaker 1: different balls, like nerve balls and stuff. So we would
Speaker 1: throw those all the time. But probably that the thing
Speaker 1: that we did the most was, you know, each of
Speaker 1: us at night, we got our own eisle and so
Speaker 1: we would have to stop our So what we would
Speaker 1: do is is we would unlet's just say I was
Speaker 1: in the candy aisle. So I remember doing this with
Speaker 1: M and M's a lot. Is I cracked open a
Speaker 1: bag of M and M's and I would look to see,
Speaker 1: you know, where the other stockers were in their aisles
Speaker 1: and I would I would just throw them across the
Speaker 1: store and try to hit them with the the M
Speaker 1: and m's all night long. And so we would do
Speaker 1: things like that. But we were you know, kind of
Speaker 1: throwing and tossing and uh, some of those different things.
Speaker 1: And of course, every once in a while we would
Speaker 1: pick up something because everybody knew, like, you know, my
Speaker 1: dream was to play football, and that I played at
Speaker 1: you and I we would have with a game of catch,
Speaker 1: a little game of football amongst the aisle. But it
Speaker 1: was yeah, it was always fun. So that did definitely
Speaker 1: have it. And then Wheaties Box, Yes, that happened too.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think growing up, when you're you know,
Speaker 1: when you dream of of being an athlete, a professional athlete,
Speaker 1: that's one of your dreams. I always say that you
Speaker 1: kind of had a few checklists of eve Okay, I
Speaker 1: know I've made it. Win. You know, when you find
Speaker 1: yourself on Sports Center, you're like, okay, I've made it,
Speaker 1: or when you find yourself on the cover of Sports Illustory,
Speaker 1: you go, okay, that's another box you check to be on,
Speaker 1: a cereal box. And of course the cereal box was Wheatie's.
Speaker 1: When you were growing up was another one of those
Speaker 1: that that I wanted to check. And so yes, I remember,
Speaker 1: you know, stocking the shelves, and I actually shared the
Speaker 1: story in my Hall of Fame speech about how you know,
Speaker 1: one day when I was stocking shelves, I pulled out
Speaker 1: the box that had Dan Marino on it, and you know,
Speaker 1: and remember looking at it going cash, you know, one
Speaker 1: day I want I want to be on the cover
Speaker 1: of this box. And I shared the story at the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame that five years later. So at that
Speaker 1: point in time, Dan Marino was the only quarterback in
Speaker 1: the NFL history that had thrown forty touchdown passes in
Speaker 1: a season. So after sharing that story five years later,
Speaker 1: my first season, I threw forty touchdown passes. So I
Speaker 1: became just a second player in NFL history to a
Speaker 1: film forty touchdown passes in the season and reflect back
Speaker 1: to you know, so seeing that Wheatie's box with Dan
Speaker 1: Arena going one day, I want to be this guy.
Speaker 1: And five, five long short years later, I became the
Speaker 1: second player in NFL history to do that. So I
Speaker 1: shod that in my Hall of Fame speaks Dan Marino,
Speaker 1: I've never heard that, but it's kind of a fun
Speaker 1: way that you know that you look back and you go, man,
Speaker 1: it's crazy how we get motivated sometimes, and you know,
Speaker 1: moments that really kind of shape our perspective in our
Speaker 1: mindset moving forward. It's amazing. I'm a big Giants fan, Kurt,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, you go over the Giants, you
Speaker 1: win four or five straight. I can't remember. Then there
Speaker 1: was a few mishaffs. What was it? First of all,
Speaker 1: I think you probably could have won a super Bowl
Speaker 1: at the Giants, But that's another thing. What was it
Speaker 1: with your story coming into the Giants and then being
Speaker 1: the mentor for a highly touted recruit like Eli Manning?
Speaker 1: What was that like? Well, I mean, let's go back
Speaker 1: to the rams first, because I think so much of
Speaker 1: our lives, who we become is shaped by our experiences.
Speaker 1: And so as much as I'd like to sit here
Speaker 1: and say, well, without a doubt, no matter what happened
Speaker 1: in life and whatever successes or failures I had, and
Speaker 1: I found myself in a backup role, I would handle
Speaker 1: it with class, and I would do all the right things,
Speaker 1: and I would mentor the young guy. But bottom Linders,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I would have done But when
Speaker 1: I was in St. Louis, that's exactly what happened to
Speaker 1: Trent bring Is. He was a guy that just got
Speaker 1: his contract, he had waited his turn, he suffered this injury,
Speaker 1: and now this young guy takes over, and this young
Speaker 1: guy starts to have success without a doubt. Just human nature.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some animosity there, like, seriously, that's my gig.
Speaker 1: You're like, I'm supposed to be doing that, and he's
Speaker 1: doing that. But Trick did nothing but treat me with class,
Speaker 1: answer every one of my questions, helped me as much
Speaker 1: as he possibly could to be successful. You know, again,
Speaker 1: human nature, I'm sure was in there, but he never
Speaker 1: let that affect the way that he handled this situation
Speaker 1: in mentoring me. And so I say all of that
Speaker 1: to go. I got to experience that firsthand. And so
Speaker 1: when you experience that firsthand and you realize what someone
Speaker 1: else is meant to your career, there's really only one
Speaker 1: way to mentor someone else, and that's to do it
Speaker 1: with class and to help them. And you know, the
Speaker 1: thing that you have to realize and that I realized
Speaker 1: in the process is that too often in sports that
Speaker 1: when we lose our job to someone else, we blame
Speaker 1: the person that took our job. Like, shoot, every time
Speaker 1: I stepped on the field, I was trying to take
Speaker 1: somebody's job. I mean I was talking to be the
Speaker 1: best guy on the field and wind that job. And
Speaker 1: so when somebody else takes your job or beat you out,
Speaker 1: or even just is given that opportunity, it's not their fault.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, you know, you would take it too,
Speaker 1: So to hold that animosity against that player just doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense to me. And so, you know, through going
Speaker 1: through what I did with Trent and experience it myself,
Speaker 1: it was really just being able to take a step
Speaker 1: back and go, what would you want somebody else to
Speaker 1: do if you want the job? You know, if they
Speaker 1: gave you the job, you would wouldn't want them to
Speaker 1: hold that against you because we're all, you know, trying
Speaker 1: to compete for the same thing. And so that perspective
Speaker 1: helped me as well to go in my job. You know,
Speaker 1: when I signed on the dotted line to be a Giant,
Speaker 1: there was no fine print that said you just have
Speaker 1: to be a good teammate if you're starting, you know,
Speaker 1: you just have to do the right thing. If you're
Speaker 1: starting no, I signed them the dotted line to say,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a New York Giant until I'm not anymore,
Speaker 1: and my want is to be the best New York
Speaker 1: Giant to do the best that I can for this team.
Speaker 1: Whether I'm starting, whether I'm a backup, didn't really matter.
Speaker 1: And so that really became my approach because I had
Speaker 1: to do it with Mark Bolder in St. Louis, I
Speaker 1: do it with you guy in New York, and ultimately
Speaker 1: I would have to do it with Nat Lineage in
Speaker 1: Arizona as well. So, uh, I was very seasoned at
Speaker 1: doing it, but that was really my approach. But you know, again,
Speaker 1: I like to think that I would have done that anyways.
Speaker 1: But I had a great example in Trent Green that
Speaker 1: really showed me the way and showed me what you're
Speaker 1: supposed to do when you're in that role. And I
Speaker 1: carried that with me through the rest of my career.
Speaker 1: You know, Kirk, I mentioned earlier that you call Monday
Speaker 1: night football games with my dad, who has just such
Speaker 1: reverence for you as a person. He also loves you
Speaker 1: as a friend. But he told me a story last night.
Speaker 1: We're having dinner and I was telling him I was
Speaker 1: talking to you today and he said, as you guys
Speaker 1: get ready for your Monday night games and maybe you
Speaker 1: meet you know, Sunday night or you're having your zooms,
Speaker 1: he says that you are just a complete student of quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: And he said he doesn't think you miss any pass
Speaker 1: that has happened over the weekend. So as you approach
Speaker 1: your Monday game, you've seen just about every play from
Speaker 1: every quarterback. Is that true? And why do you focus
Speaker 1: so much? Probably not by Monday. So, but I've seen
Speaker 1: anything up to that point. So I watched every single
Speaker 1: game every week. That is my prep. And so again
Speaker 1: there's no way I can get them all from Sunday
Speaker 1: to Monday, but I've watched all the ones from the
Speaker 1: week before that lead into that next weekend. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: the way I look at things is is that I
Speaker 1: always feel like, how am I going to be different
Speaker 1: at anything that I do? You know, whether I was
Speaker 1: playing the game, whether it's as a father or a husband,
Speaker 1: that's always gonna set you apart as being different? And
Speaker 1: how can you be different at what you do? And
Speaker 1: so when you're playing, there's certain things that that I
Speaker 1: couldn't do. There's certain skills that I didn't have. But
Speaker 1: I always told myself, well, if I'm gonna be great,
Speaker 1: there's got to be something about me that's different. And
Speaker 1: I took that same approach when I got into commentating
Speaker 1: the game as well. Is that I want to be
Speaker 1: like everybody else. I don't want to just say what
Speaker 1: everybody else can say. Like I can show up on
Speaker 1: my Sunday morning show room NFL Network and I can
Speaker 1: answer all the questions like everybody else does all the week,
Speaker 1: and I could say the same things and I can
Speaker 1: get through the show and I'd be fine. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be that guy. I want to be someone
Speaker 1: that knows what's going on, that studies the game, that
Speaker 1: can bring something different than everybody else doesn't see. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody else doesn't watch the games, and so it gives
Speaker 1: me a true sense of what I'm seeing, how somebody
Speaker 1: is playing, what a team likes to do, how they
Speaker 1: might approach playing against another team. And so that to
Speaker 1: me is how I separate myself. Is that I watch
Speaker 1: each and every game and I take notes. You know,
Speaker 1: there's even the newer and ful of NFL quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: I'll take notes and send them notes every single week
Speaker 1: on on the film that I watched, and so to me,
Speaker 1: any I love the game, I'm passionate about the xs
Speaker 1: and owns of the game. It's to be my favorite part.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love to compete, but xs and os
Speaker 1: and and thinking the game and what works and what
Speaker 1: doesn't work is something that I've always been passionate about.
Speaker 1: So that's one of the reasons. The other reason is
Speaker 1: I just like to know where everything is, and it's
Speaker 1: my prep for the week. It's my prep for Monday
Speaker 1: night to know, man, whoever the rigors are playing, that
Speaker 1: I've watched every snap that Derek Carr has taken all
Speaker 1: year long. I'm not just listening to what somebody else
Speaker 1: says or somebody that's close to the leaders. I've watched
Speaker 1: every snap, so I know, uh and I know how
Speaker 1: I know the game. I know what I'm seeing, I
Speaker 1: know what a quarterback should do and shouldn't do, and
Speaker 1: so it gives me a true assessment when somebody might
Speaker 1: say Derek Carr is playing awful, and I'm going no, not.
Speaker 1: They might not be winning, you know, the completion percenters
Speaker 1: might not be there, whatever, But I understand and I
Speaker 1: can think back to everything that's happened and said. Only
Speaker 1: it helps me when I'm calling a game because I
Speaker 1: can reference all these different plays and things that have
Speaker 1: happened and how teams are playing in general. Um, but
Speaker 1: being it helps me that to work through, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, because most people are reading an article that's
Speaker 1: written by somebody or watching you know, the court unquote
Speaker 1: experts talk all week long, and all they're gonna do
Speaker 1: is regurgitate what they've heard all year all week. And
Speaker 1: there's nothing I need more than when I've watched till
Speaker 1: and somebody says something and I know it's not true,
Speaker 1: and then somebody else a little later in the week
Speaker 1: says the same thing, and then just like, how do
Speaker 1: three people decide that the case when I know it's
Speaker 1: not the case, and it's only because they've listened to
Speaker 1: somebody else so that becomes their opinion. I don't ever
Speaker 1: want to be that guy. I want to have my
Speaker 1: own opinions. I want to know why I have those opinions.
Speaker 1: I want to be educated on it so that I
Speaker 1: can be the best public commentator. I can be the
Speaker 1: best studio guy that's out there. And so it's really
Speaker 1: really important to me to to work at it and
Speaker 1: to make sure that I'm different at it. And that's why,
Speaker 1: you know, I've kind of developed that over the years.
Speaker 1: And I don't really need a whole lot else. If
Speaker 1: I can watch every game and watch it the way
Speaker 1: that I want to, I don't really need about prep
Speaker 1: for anything else. I know what's going on and I
Speaker 1: can answer any question you throw out me. Kurt, you
Speaker 1: mentioned your Monday night football schedule beginning with Baltimore at
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Two very different quarterback stories there. Let's start
Speaker 1: with Derek Carr, who has more or less said he's
Speaker 1: going down with the ship. He is so loyal to
Speaker 1: the Raiders and last year he's coming off career high
Speaker 1: pass a rating, pass yard's total QBR. What do you
Speaker 1: see in Derek Carr? What's his ceiling this season? All right?
Speaker 1: If this is where all the films that he comes
Speaker 1: into play, yep, here it is, We'll say, is that? Uh,
Speaker 1: then I'm a big Derrek Car fan. I think Derek
Speaker 1: Carr he doesn't get the respect that he deserves. He
Speaker 1: does a lot of really really good things on the field,
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I'm not a believer that
Speaker 1: stats and q we are, and completion percentage tells the
Speaker 1: whole story. And so what Derek Carr to me is,
Speaker 1: I think it's all about being aggressive with the football.
Speaker 1: Is that I believe he's a guy that can make
Speaker 1: every throw and has the ability and has had games
Speaker 1: the Chiefs games uh last year, I think great examples
Speaker 1: when he throws cost into the women says I'm going
Speaker 1: to win this game for us, or I'm gonna lose
Speaker 1: this game for us. I'm gonna go down winging. I
Speaker 1: believe he can play as well as anybody in the league.
Speaker 1: I just think there's times where he gets really really
Speaker 1: conservative with the football and he's looking more for a
Speaker 1: completion than he's looking to make the game deciding play
Speaker 1: in a moment. And we have quarterbacks like that, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the one that loses it
Speaker 1: for so I'm going to manage the game and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do my part. But the quarterback position you just
Speaker 1: can't win at the highest level. To me, just managing
Speaker 1: a game now, yes, if all the parts are right,
Speaker 1: great defense, good run game, Yes, we've seen it before.
Speaker 1: But bottom line is, for the most part, that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: So I tell my young quarterbacks all the time. You
Speaker 1: gotta be willing to be the reason. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: play quarterback in the NFL, you gotta be willing to
Speaker 1: be the reason. You gotta be willing to be the
Speaker 1: reason that you win, and you gotta take those chances
Speaker 1: and you gotta believe that you can do it. You
Speaker 1: also got to be the reason and be willing to
Speaker 1: be the reason that you lose. Sometimes you're gonna go
Speaker 1: down swinging, Sometimes you're gonna throw five interceptions. Sometimes you're
Speaker 1: gonna make a bad decision. But I always believe that
Speaker 1: if you were aggressive and you attacked and you had
Speaker 1: the ability, that you're gonna make more game changing plays
Speaker 1: than you were gonna make game changing mistakes for the
Speaker 1: most part. And that's what I want to see from
Speaker 1: Derek Carr. All the ability in the world. Doesn't a
Speaker 1: lot of good things. I think he sees the field
Speaker 1: really really well, but too often, to me, he plays
Speaker 1: tentative football instead of playing aggressive. He plays aggressive. I
Speaker 1: think he has a chance to take this team to
Speaker 1: a place they haven't been in a while, but it's
Speaker 1: ultimately gonna come down to him. Um, And that to
Speaker 1: me is you know, and I know Derek, and so
Speaker 1: I'm always, you know, trying to encourage him that when
Speaker 1: when I see that on the film, and every once
Speaker 1: in a while just shoot him with text like hey,
Speaker 1: be more dessive, or when he does play like that,
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's what I'm talking about. You play like
Speaker 1: that every week and you'll give your team a shot
Speaker 1: every single week. But that, to me is the one
Speaker 1: thing that I'm looking forward with Derek this year. Very nice.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you that because you did
Speaker 1: say you reach out to quarterback sometimes, so it's good
Speaker 1: to know Derek Carr is in your contact list. What
Speaker 1: about Lamar Jackson? How special is the talent that we
Speaker 1: see year after year from Lamari Jackson? I mean, it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's rare error. I mean, what what he does,
Speaker 1: we haven't seen very many. We won't ever see very
Speaker 1: many that are like him. You know, what he can
Speaker 1: do physically, you know, the Michael Vicks, maybe a Randall
Speaker 1: Cunningham type guy. But there's just there's just not many
Speaker 1: that that we see that transcend our game. Because we
Speaker 1: know we've we've got the best athletes in the world
Speaker 1: playing on those fields every single week, and then when
Speaker 1: we are the best athlete of the best athletes in
Speaker 1: the world. I mean, it's just it's ridiculous, you know.
Speaker 1: But but the bottom line, you know, again with Lamar
Speaker 1: is I say to myself, he's an incredible athlete, and
Speaker 1: he will have a great career, and he will put
Speaker 1: up a lot of great numbers, and he'll give us
Speaker 1: a lot of highlight plays. But the bottom line, you know,
Speaker 1: with a guy like Lamar is that he's got to
Speaker 1: become a complete quarterback. Is that. I believe what they
Speaker 1: do offensively is built for the regular season. It is
Speaker 1: built to win games in the regular season. It is
Speaker 1: built to beat all the teams they're supposed to be.
Speaker 1: The difference is when you get to the playoffs, you've
Speaker 1: got to beat teams that you're not supposed to be.
Speaker 1: You've gotta beat teams that are good on both sides
Speaker 1: of the wall. You gotta beat teams that are gonna
Speaker 1: force you because they're good enough to do to play
Speaker 1: away from your strengths. And that to me is where
Speaker 1: Lamar hasn't got up to speed yet to be able
Speaker 1: to win games away from the strength. He will always
Speaker 1: win games with his strength. What he does you give
Speaker 1: them opportunities. He will be special, but he's got to
Speaker 1: be complete. And for all of us it's different. You know,
Speaker 1: those certain things we do well and then there's things
Speaker 1: we don't do as well, and good teams are gonna
Speaker 1: take away what we do well and force us to
Speaker 1: win games the other way. And that's the question with
Speaker 1: Lamar's can he do that? Every time it's come playoff
Speaker 1: time and he's had to win games with his right arm,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been able to do that. That doesn't mean
Speaker 1: he can't throw the football, doesn't mean he can't pass it.
Speaker 1: It's just championship passing is different than just being a
Speaker 1: good passer. Being able to carry a team with your
Speaker 1: right out arm is different from just putting up good stats,
Speaker 1: and that's what he needs to show us. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think what we know is that maybe for Lamare,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna have to throw the football like me
Speaker 1: or Tom Brady, but he's gonna have to throw it
Speaker 1: more consistently better than he has to couple with that
Speaker 1: rare ability that he has to run the football, and
Speaker 1: that's what will make them a championship type team. We
Speaker 1: just haven't seen that yet. We haven't seen him carry
Speaker 1: this team with his right arm, and until he does that,
Speaker 1: especially when you look at the landscape of things, because
Speaker 1: that's the other thing that you have to look at
Speaker 1: is unfortunately for him, the Chiefs have Patrick Mahomes for
Speaker 1: a decade, and so there's no get around that unless
Speaker 1: for some reason Patrick's not out there on the field.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to take down Patrick Mahomes in
Speaker 1: the Chiefs if you're going to win a championship, and
Speaker 1: you've got to show me you can play consistently enough
Speaker 1: to do that. And so that's how you always have
Speaker 1: to look at the NFL now, is that every year
Speaker 1: you look at, Okay, who are the three or four
Speaker 1: teams that have a chance because they have a quarterback,
Speaker 1: and then which other teams need to take that next
Speaker 1: out to show that they can compete with that team.
Speaker 1: And I'm still waiting for that in the a f C.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm looking to say, Okay, into the Bills.
Speaker 1: They'll shows in Cogress. But again they went up against
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and they didn't jail up very well, so
Speaker 1: they're still a gap there. So I want to see
Speaker 1: if these teams can close the gap and Lamar and
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens is one of those teams. The success
Speaker 1: of a quarterback is not just what he can do,
Speaker 1: right though, it's it's it's what you have around you.
Speaker 1: Right you were you were lucky to have such great
Speaker 1: rod receivers when that year you want to you at
Speaker 1: Marshall Fox and the on line. Of course, how important
Speaker 1: is the tight end? Which did you ever really have
Speaker 1: a great tight end? What do they call it? The
Speaker 1: quarterback's safety blanket? Yeah, not never really had one of those.
Speaker 1: But I'm not going to complain because I played with
Speaker 1: like a dozen Hall of Fame receivers, so I'm being
Speaker 1: in that regard. But right I never played with one
Speaker 1: of those great tight ends. And you know, Marshall I
Speaker 1: would be I would. I would like him to because
Speaker 1: to me, running mats and tight ends with the biggest
Speaker 1: mismatching football you those guys play. Now, what they're capable
Speaker 1: of doing, the flexibility to go inside and play against
Speaker 1: linebackers and safeties as opposed to the the other great
Speaker 1: athletes that are out there at the cornerback position. The
Speaker 1: other thing is in this matching football and so that
Speaker 1: to me, those those guys are difference makers. It's like,
Speaker 1: like I said, I had Marshall Falk, so I got
Speaker 1: that advantage with Marshall was I would get him on
Speaker 1: linebackers and safeties, and it was you know, it wasn't fair.
Speaker 1: But now guys, you know, like the diner and Wallers
Speaker 1: and the Travis Kelsey's and the George Kittles, you just
Speaker 1: I don't know how you cover them, especially if you're
Speaker 1: playing on a team that that runs and play action.
Speaker 1: So now you're a linebacker that has to you know,
Speaker 1: seeing your keys and Red run and then all said, oh, shoot,
Speaker 1: there's a four or four guy that's playing tire in
Speaker 1: and that just ran buy me. Um, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just it's unfair. And so having those guys are
Speaker 1: ridiculous and what they're capable of doing. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: that is a huge, huge benefit for a quarterback. I mean, heny, no, no,
Speaker 1: you don't have to throw it as far with those guys, right,
Speaker 1: You're not having to get your big plays by throwing
Speaker 1: it way down the field. So it's it's shorter, it's
Speaker 1: easier completions for a quarterback. But it just gives you,
Speaker 1: it's such a distinct advantage with those great athletes because
Speaker 1: of play action or because of who they're matched up
Speaker 1: against it. And you know in this NFL, you look
Speaker 1: at those guys and safety have one of those. It
Speaker 1: gives you a chance to do some unique and different
Speaker 1: things that you don't get just having a great wide receiver,
Speaker 1: as great as that is. Five ends and running backs
Speaker 1: that are really really good in the past game are
Speaker 1: huge for quarterbacks. Kurt, I wish we had time to
Speaker 1: run down each week one meeting and you could go
Speaker 1: over both quarterbacks in those games, but we don't have
Speaker 1: the time. You know, last week the Patriots way of
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. So we know Mac Jones, the rookie quarterback
Speaker 1: is going to start against Miami Week one. Go ahead
Speaker 1: and give us something to look for with Mac Jones.
Speaker 1: Because I know you were surprised by that. I was
Speaker 1: a little bit surprised, and I was more surprised a
Speaker 1: because you know, I didn't think Bill Belichick would go
Speaker 1: with a rookie because he's had so much great success
Speaker 1: against rookie quarterbacks. But I just saw to myself, now
Speaker 1: he can't do it like he knows. You know that
Speaker 1: there's there's so many issues that you have to work
Speaker 1: through the young guy that they'll at least set him
Speaker 1: for a while. And then the second thing is I
Speaker 1: just thought, based on the way that they were built,
Speaker 1: Cam Newton running the football, I felt like this team,
Speaker 1: if they can establish the line of scrimmage, would be
Speaker 1: a really really good team again, even in one year
Speaker 1: after missing the playoffs. So that surprised me from a
Speaker 1: couple of different standpoints. But with that being said, you know,
Speaker 1: breakdown all the quarterbacks and have been breaking them down.
Speaker 1: I got a platform called QB Confidential on YouTube where
Speaker 1: I do about a film study based on what I
Speaker 1: do and breaking it down. So I just recently writte
Speaker 1: down all these the five top quarterbacks because of what
Speaker 1: I saw in preseason. So what I was doing is
Speaker 1: I welcomed down out of college. And the big thing
Speaker 1: that I'm always looking for is what translates from college surprose.
Speaker 1: You know, can these guys what they did well in college,
Speaker 1: can they also do that well in the NFL out.
Speaker 1: So when it comes to Mac Jones, what you saw
Speaker 1: in college was a guy that processed information really well,
Speaker 1: new where he was looking at that, you know, looking
Speaker 1: at the defense, and how to make those decisions and
Speaker 1: he got the ball out on time and accurately. Okay,
Speaker 1: fast forward the preseason with the Patriots. All those exact
Speaker 1: things have shown up in the NFL. Knows where he's looking,
Speaker 1: knows when you get the ball out, makes good decisions
Speaker 1: with the football. If he's got to check it down,
Speaker 1: he's willing to check it down, shows good accuracy. All
Speaker 1: the boats things is what I've seen from Mac Jones,
Speaker 1: and so I'm excited to see him starting for the
Speaker 1: Patriots and what they can be this year because I
Speaker 1: do believe they have a really, really good football team.
Speaker 1: But that's the thing that always excites me is that
Speaker 1: we get all life up about these college quarterbacks because
Speaker 1: of what they do in college. Kim that translate. I've
Speaker 1: seen a number of guys where it doesn't translate to
Speaker 1: the NFL. What I've seen in preseason with Mac Jones
Speaker 1: is it does translate. I think you're gonna see a
Speaker 1: guy that plays the game very much like Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: You know, somebody that the Patriot to are very comfortable with.
Speaker 1: Josh M. Daniels is very comfortable with. So that would
Speaker 1: be very much their style this year, I believe, and
Speaker 1: I think they were with whom with Mac Jones, will
Speaker 1: may be a great team. I'm not sure. We want
Speaker 1: to see if if that physical talent can transcend things.
Speaker 1: Because all these you guys can throw, That's that's not
Speaker 1: the question. The question is can you transcend the game
Speaker 1: with some ability? You know? What is that ability? Leadership?
Speaker 1: Is it? You know, the ability to be accurate? Is
Speaker 1: the ability to make plays off platform? That's gonna be
Speaker 1: the question with Matt Jones is what does he bring
Speaker 1: that's that's different or special to allow him to be
Speaker 1: a championship quarterback. And that's what I'm waiting to see.
Speaker 1: But I really really liked what I saw in the preseason.
Speaker 1: Everyone's excited to see the movie, and I know the
Speaker 1: movie is gonna inspire everybody. Is there any advice you
Speaker 1: can give that's not in the movie? Two people who
Speaker 1: are undrafted, two players who are undrafted, or people who
Speaker 1: are in the underdog position, Like, what would you tell them?
Speaker 1: What advice would you give them to an under aft
Speaker 1: to player? Yeah, I mean I think there's a couple
Speaker 1: of things. Is you know, the first thing is is
Speaker 1: don't let anybody else tell you what you are. I
Speaker 1: think that's you know, the the easy narrative when you
Speaker 1: work in a grocery store, or you get cut, or
Speaker 1: you play one year in college, it's easy for people
Speaker 1: to just look at that and say, oh, this guy
Speaker 1: can't because he didn't in college, or because he found
Speaker 1: himself here there. And so that's the first thing, because
Speaker 1: you're always going to have that narrative about you when
Speaker 1: you don't get drafted, when you're free agent, after you've
Speaker 1: been cut by one team, So don't rather let anybody
Speaker 1: else dictate who you are. And then the second thing
Speaker 1: is something that we talk about in our household all
Speaker 1: the time, is never let your circumstances define you. Because
Speaker 1: you know, a get him a Hall of Fame speech,
Speaker 1: I you know, I mentioned that, you know, sometimes you
Speaker 1: gotta do what you gotta do while you're waiting to
Speaker 1: do what you're going to do. And I think many
Speaker 1: of us have had their grocery store moment, right Many
Speaker 1: of us find ourselves in that place where we're just going,
Speaker 1: my gosh, how in the world I get here? And
Speaker 1: then I don't know how did I get here? But
Speaker 1: what's the path for me to get from a grocery
Speaker 1: store to the super Bowl? Like, how does that work?
Speaker 1: You know, you don't really know what it is, and
Speaker 1: so it's easy for us to allow those circumstances to
Speaker 1: start definding us and going, oh my gosh, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: grocers doing Oh my gosh, world was mean I I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to do this. There's no path,
Speaker 1: And so that would be the second thing is just
Speaker 1: don't let your circumstances dictate you know who you are
Speaker 1: and define who you are, because most people find themselves
Speaker 1: there before they they get to wherever they're going, before
Speaker 1: they you know, they accomplish their dream. I think you
Speaker 1: can find a million people that you know, we would
Speaker 1: call great people or accomplished great things in life, that
Speaker 1: have those moments. That's what normal life usually is, is
Speaker 1: we find ourselves there and we've got to find that
Speaker 1: way through it. And the only way to do that
Speaker 1: is to not allow that circumstance to define who we
Speaker 1: are and what we're going to be. Well, if that
Speaker 1: doesn't have you pumped up your honest, I don't know
Speaker 1: what will I. That is such good content for our audience. Kurt,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much. Thank you, Kurt, you got us ready
Speaker 1: for week one. Everyone make sure you check out QB
Speaker 1: Confidential on YouTube. You can find Kurt Warner on NFL
Speaker 1: Network in Westwood one all season long. Kurt, this was
Speaker 1: a real treat. Thanks are you mad? Thanks for having
Speaker 1: me on good stuff. Now we bring in a betting expert,
Speaker 1: Peter Andrew with bet MGM, and we have so much
Speaker 1: to get to and I want to start with college football. Peter.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm a Georgia girl and I was just
Speaker 1: drooling in that big win over number three Clemson, holding
Speaker 1: them to just a field goal. How much did you
Speaker 1: g a stock rise after that win? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I mean, their defense looked so impressive. I don't even
Speaker 1: think their offense clicked like it could. They were obviously
Speaker 1: playing a pretty decent clems and defense. Just off the cuff.
Speaker 1: They were plus eight hundred to win the national championship.
Speaker 1: They moved to plus spots, but that defense is no joke.
Speaker 1: If you can do that to a team like Clemson,
Speaker 1: which is a clearly a top five offensive team. They're
Speaker 1: probably working some kinks out, new quarterback, somewhat of a
Speaker 1: new roster shaping up, but really really impressive. I love
Speaker 1: Georgia even a plus four. I think they have a
Speaker 1: pretty decent shot of being there in national championship. Now,
Speaker 1: what's your plus minus on how that makes Olivia feel?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I mean, this is maybe the best
Speaker 1: thing that could happen her all week. I'm sure she
Speaker 1: had some fun stuff going on, but seeing that Georgia
Speaker 1: defensive line, it depends how you want to look at,
Speaker 1: but I'm thinking minus ten thousand. That's the happiest that
Speaker 1: she's been in a while, seeing that team. That's what
Speaker 1: I had. That's what I had besides Sam getting signed
Speaker 1: to the Toronto Raptors. And it was awkward because we
Speaker 1: watched both games together and my team put down that
Speaker 1: defensive juggernaut of a beating What did we learn about
Speaker 1: Notre Dame? That was one of my favorite games to
Speaker 1: watch this weekend. Beating FSU on the road on Sunday
Speaker 1: that was insane. And I've had Notre Dame as a
Speaker 1: sneaky playoff contender. What did we learn about them? You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's funny. First off, they went from forty to
Speaker 1: one before the game and now they're fifty to one.
Speaker 1: So oddsmakers clearly didn't love their performance, especially as they
Speaker 1: got down the stretch. Look for a while, like they
Speaker 1: were going to cover that seven, and the obviously went
Speaker 1: in and over time, it was a shaky start. But
Speaker 1: I take a lot of stock into what FSCU did
Speaker 1: was the Bobby Bowden tribute night. The f SCU team
Speaker 1: was playing with a purpose. Sometimes it is just beyond
Speaker 1: football and it's playing for a former coach and a
Speaker 1: legend like Bowden was. So so fsc you had a
Speaker 1: feeling was it gonna come out firing. I'd be more
Speaker 1: interested to see how Notre Dame looks for their second
Speaker 1: game and see how they come out after a pretty
Speaker 1: questionable second half and probably not their best performance. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm gonna go and say they should
Speaker 1: all be executed, like one specific coach said, but but
Speaker 1: I'd be interested to see how they react as they
Speaker 1: get into Week two and we bring beyond Hey, it's
Speaker 1: NFL Week one. It's the most heavily bet NFL season
Speaker 1: ever kicks off Thursday. I read that it's projected for
Speaker 1: thirty six percent more adults to bet on the NFL
Speaker 1: this season compared to last season. That's amazing and that
Speaker 1: also keeps us implored. Johnny, but we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: little game going on amongst us throughout the season. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of fun. We're calling it punishment Picks,
Speaker 1: and every week Pete is going to pick three games
Speaker 1: and Janie and I are going head to head and
Speaker 1: at the end of the season we'll kind of pick
Speaker 1: a punishment for the other. We're going to try to
Speaker 1: not make it sound so scary there, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. So this week, Pete, I
Speaker 1: know you've picked three games for us. We do not
Speaker 1: know what they are. Go ahead and start off Week
Speaker 1: one of punishment picks. Punishment. Yeah, so I'm excited for
Speaker 1: this one. Hopefully I get to say and what the
Speaker 1: punishment is going to be at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure I'm vested in This first
Speaker 1: game I think is a big one Steelers Bills. I
Speaker 1: think you have a obviously a healthier Steelers team, firs,
Speaker 1: a Bills team that thinks it's a Super Bowl or
Speaker 1: bus kind of year. Bills are minus six point five
Speaker 1: in that game. Okay, honest, you go first. Okay, I
Speaker 1: am gonna take I'm old school. I'm going with Big Ben.
Speaker 1: I'm going with the iPhone two point Oh, I know
Speaker 1: Josh is the iPhone eleven or whatever, But I'm going
Speaker 1: with the iPhone two point oh and I'm taking steel Town, Baby,
Speaker 1: I'm taking them plus minus. What should I do? Eater?
Speaker 1: Plus six point five is the move? I'm going plus
Speaker 1: six point five, Olivia my nemesis while I'm laying the points.
Speaker 1: Bills have won the last two meetings with the Steelers.
Speaker 1: Linebacker T J. Watt is questionable. He's a three time
Speaker 1: pro bowler. I think if he's not playing Week one,
Speaker 1: they have no chance. And the Steelers also have four
Speaker 1: offensive rookie starters. I am taking the Bills, baby, all right,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a clear winner on that first one
Speaker 1: second game. In honor of d M. Jim Arizona officially
Speaker 1: going live Cardinals Verst Titans. Titans are minus three, so
Speaker 1: they're three point favorite. There. What do you guys got
Speaker 1: is that me? First? I'm taking Yeah, age before beauty
Speaker 1: age before I am taken. Derrick Henry. He is gonna
Speaker 1: pound them. He's gonna ground and pound them. It's gonna
Speaker 1: look like a Dagistani UFC fight. I'm taking the Titans.
Speaker 1: And then you call it for me, you call it
Speaker 1: for me. Numbers guy minus three, minus three, winning by
Speaker 1: more than a field goal, winning by more than a
Speaker 1: field goal. I'm taking the Tennessee Titans and my boy
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry See. I agree. I think rock is home
Speaker 1: crowd in Nashville. I'm taking the Titans as well. Julio
Speaker 1: Jones should be an impressive edition. I like Tennessee. All
Speaker 1: three of us on the same page. There last one, Olivia,
Speaker 1: this will hit close to home. Packers minus four against
Speaker 1: the second best quarterback in the league, Jamis Winston in
Speaker 1: the New Orleans. Why are you so high on Jamis?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just that one meme that comes
Speaker 1: by with him with that math book surface pro I
Speaker 1: just laugh at it all the time. So I want
Speaker 1: to give him the law he deserves. I like his
Speaker 1: crab leg memes personally. That was my favorite, Olivia. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let you go first. This is your degree, this
Speaker 1: is your There's no way you can bet against your
Speaker 1: family here. Now, well, you're right, there's no way I
Speaker 1: can go against him. But this is betting smarts. This
Speaker 1: isn't betting with my heart. James in Jacksonville. There's no
Speaker 1: big home crowd for New Orleans. There's no Michael Thomas
Speaker 1: for week one. He was unsure on his status. So
Speaker 1: I like the Packers and I'm betting with my brain
Speaker 1: at Janice minus four. Let's do it. You're a cold,
Speaker 1: cold hearted woman. I can't believe you get that to
Speaker 1: your grandpapas wow, I for in honor of her grandfather.
Speaker 1: I am definitely I'm going for the Packers, okay, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. You give me a number and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna double it, Peter, go ahead. So what we can
Speaker 1: do on bet MGM is not only can you just
Speaker 1: take the normal spread, you can take an alternate line
Speaker 1: and you obviously get a little bit more. Get thoughts.
Speaker 1: So maybe minus seven for the Packers for for your
Speaker 1: honest and they cover and you want a little extra money.
Speaker 1: How's that sound? Yeah, let's do that minus seven. And
Speaker 1: I just want to make a note that I'm betting
Speaker 1: with Olivia's heart here not you found it. Okay, Well
Speaker 1: that was a great first stab at punishment picks your honest.
Speaker 1: I'm really glad that we disagreed on one. So we
Speaker 1: have a clear cut winner for a week one. We
Speaker 1: will announce it next week. I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: I will be watching these with a little extra close eye.
Speaker 1: Now knowing that I've got some skin in the game,
Speaker 1: and Peter, let's start looking at some of the other games.
Speaker 1: Is there a lock that maybe we haven't mentioned yet?
Speaker 1: There is a lock. I'm a bit of a homer
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Speaker 1: But with that said, Lock of the Week forty nine
Speaker 1: is mighty seven and a half. I actually think that
Speaker 1: number changes closer to Sunday, so get it in now.
Speaker 1: They're playing a a an interesting Detroit Lions team Jared Goff,
Speaker 1: no more Matt Stafford. Obviously with that trade, I just
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna be any good this year. I
Speaker 1: think Niners end up winning that game by maybe two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I can se going up to nine or two points.
Speaker 1: As as money starts trickling in Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Um,
Speaker 1: so lock that in as soon as you hear this,
Speaker 1: because I think that's gonna be a blow. Now, well,
Speaker 1: that is a great lock for week one. Peter. Thank you.
Speaker 1: We look forward to talking to you next week and
Speaker 1: here in the next three slate of games for us
Speaker 1: to bed on and everyone, just make sure you keep
Speaker 1: tweeting at me and honest as you see some of
Speaker 1: these games playing out, because this is going to get
Speaker 1: very competitive. Peter, thanks for playing along. Thanks you guys.
Speaker 1: What an amazing interview with Kurt Warner. I'm so excited
Speaker 1: to see the movie. That's all the time we have folks,
Speaker 1: so obviously want to say thank you to Kurt Warner
Speaker 1: for coming on the show today. And remember Thursday, we
Speaker 1: will be in Vegas with former running back Steven Jackson.
Speaker 1: Can't wait for that, and we will be playing the
Speaker 1: interview back next week, so thank you and we'll see
Speaker 1: you super