Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Right Episode three sixty two.
Speaker 1: This episode is presented as always by our great friends
Speaker 1: at boost Mobile. We are hours away from the start
Speaker 1: of the NFL season, which means we are hours away
Speaker 1: from the end of at least in my mind. The
Speaker 1: Eagles reign as champions like once a new season starts,
Speaker 1: it's a clean slate, boys and girls. And I and
Speaker 1: I'm at the damn us Open last night that the
Speaker 1: watching osaka crush Cinner is I know, I said Sinners,
Speaker 1: not now Crais's class. Oh boy, center up close and
Speaker 1: personal look pretty good. And I'm walking out the good,
Speaker 1: good seats. And the only reason I can say that
Speaker 1: they were really good seats is I'm surrounded by people
Speaker 1: who ostensibly one would think have pretty good jobs, relatively successful.
Speaker 1: These are expensive quarterfinal seats to the open, some some dope,
Speaker 1: Nick Right, When are you gonna start giving the Eagles respect?
Speaker 1: You guys won the Super Bowl, Just shut up and
Speaker 1: be happy to I and and again like I'm I
Speaker 1: I am not naturally anti Eagles, but I'm becoming it.
Speaker 1: Like the the only person who the most reasonable person
Speaker 1: in the last eight months who's been angry at me
Speaker 1: about my Eagles opinions and actually treated it like me,
Speaker 1: like an adult, and had a conversation. Was the mother
Speaker 1: of the quarterback. Every other fan seems more emotionally invested
Speaker 1: than she did. Like, it's too much, guys, it's just
Speaker 1: too much, demons. How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Pops. Sorry, Philly fans have got you all.
Speaker 1: Right, man, it's just too much. Like leave me alone,
Speaker 1: like the I am out here providing free content for
Speaker 1: the masses, hours upon hours a day. I don't ask
Speaker 1: for anything, So let me watch the tennis and pe
Speaker 1: my god, all right, A lot to get to today
Speaker 1: Week one gambling show. If you guys didn't follow last year,
Speaker 1: you didn't, you cost yourself some money. After four consecutive
Speaker 1: years of being big included profitable, two years ago we
Speaker 1: had our first losing year ever. Now, to be fair,
Speaker 1: the losing year once you included the playoffs was one
Speaker 1: game below five hundred, but a losing year all the
Speaker 1: same because you have to be a bunch of games
Speaker 1: above five hundred offset the big. We came back last
Speaker 1: season forty eight and forty in the regular season fifty
Speaker 1: six and forty four overall, So a really great overall season,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna try to do even better, particularly because
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: in a moment, But first, Demanse, let's get to straight
Speaker 1: to voicemail brought to you by Boost Mobile, so Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift might do a halftime show that the Clippers story.
Speaker 1: Great job by Pablo Torri. It seems to be a
Speaker 1: really big story. I'm just two into football right now,
Speaker 1: and I need to see what the NBA does before
Speaker 1: I spend a lot of time on it. I'm not
Speaker 1: minimizing the story. It's just bad timing. If it were July,
Speaker 1: I might do a whole episode on it. It's September
Speaker 1: fourth and football starts today. Apologies, it's not what I
Speaker 1: am super into. I am into this and put this
Speaker 1: on social media, folks, because again, I'm not in the
Speaker 1: business Demanse, of going out of my way to defend ESPN.
Speaker 1: I am in the business, however, of correcting obvious factual errors.
Speaker 1: And there are a few things about commercials coming to
Speaker 1: Red Zone that must be addressed in no particular order.
Speaker 1: First of all, they were there last year. It's not new.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys were paying attention last season.
Speaker 1: Scott Hansen near the end of the year stopped saying
Speaker 1: welcome to seven hours of commercial free football. At least
Speaker 1: on a couple Sundays, he just said, welcome to seven
Speaker 1: hours of football. And if you were watching Red Zone occasionally,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it was split screen. The football
Speaker 1: was on one half, the screen of Burger King commercials
Speaker 1: on the other, with the audio from the commercial that
Speaker 1: already happened. That's first of all. Second of all, this
Speaker 1: is not ESPN's doing. They were already doing it. ESPN
Speaker 1: has not taken over the property yet. This is the
Speaker 1: NFL's doing. So everybody that either knows better and is
Speaker 1: just using it to bang on ESPN or doesn't know better.
Speaker 1: But they were scrolling a Twitter and mL Football or
Speaker 1: some faceless, nameless aggregator put it out there and they
Speaker 1: ran with it.
Speaker 2: You are.
Speaker 1: Doing a disservice to the public at large in spreading misinformation.
Speaker 1: Is it the biggest deal in the world.
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Is it an annoying yes? Third of all. And this
Speaker 1: is the parts where people are gonna get mad at me, guys.
Speaker 1: The fact that for more than a decade we've been
Speaker 1: able to if we wanted to turn on football on
Speaker 1: Sundays and not have a single ad serve to us
Speaker 1: was always always kind of a cheat we didn't really deserve.
Speaker 1: Like the idea that we are entitled to be able
Speaker 1: to watch this product without any sponsorship coming into it.
Speaker 1: I never totally understood. And it's not like red Zone
Speaker 1: costs hundreds of dollars a year. It'd be one thing
Speaker 1: if it was like a super premium subscription that you
Speaker 1: pay five hundred dollars a year for red Zone, pay
Speaker 1: a lot of money for Sunday ticket, not for red Zone.
Speaker 1: And here's the last part and the most important part
Speaker 1: before we get to the show. And this is gonna
Speaker 1: be the controversial part. And this might hurt the feelings
Speaker 1: of some people in the working on this pod, might
Speaker 1: hurt the feelings of some people a lot of people
Speaker 1: listening to the show. Sorry, hard truths need to come.
Speaker 1: No self respecting NFL fan consumes the NFL purely through
Speaker 1: red Zone. Sorry had to be said. Sorry, you cannot
Speaker 1: get a real temperature of the league, or understanding of
Speaker 1: the games, or know who's good or who's bad if
Speaker 1: you have a one TV red zone only set up,
Speaker 1: like you just watch a game, be an adult. Understand
Speaker 1: the EBB and the flow, learn how teams to quote
Speaker 1: the great Hank Stram, matriculate the ball down the field,
Speaker 1: not just popcorning candy of touchdown and turnover and punt return.
Speaker 1: My god, now listen. If you're a very casual sports fan,
Speaker 1: you know it's just one of the things, no problem.
Speaker 1: But if you consider yourself a real NFL fan and
Speaker 1: your entirety of Sunday is one TV just on red zone,
Speaker 1: you're lying to yourself. I'm just telling you right now
Speaker 1: that that would be no different than if you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm a die hard NBA fan, love it, bet on it,
Speaker 1: know all the teams, Oh yeah, how do you watch
Speaker 1: bleacher report clips? Highlights? Throw off everybody again, put some
Speaker 1: effort in to your fandom. And so this whole red
Speaker 1: zone thing has really got me. And I I'm not
Speaker 1: acting as if everyone's job is to cover the NFL.
Speaker 1: That's my job. Okay, my job. You guys don't have
Speaker 1: to do it. But if you have a team you love,
Speaker 1: you gotta watch their all their games, their games standalone,
Speaker 1: own screen. Now, if you're like, hey, I watch my
Speaker 1: team whatever the national game is, and I second screen
Speaker 1: red Zone, great, you're doing awesome. You're you're doing great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's that is appropriate. If you are really really
Speaker 1: in the weeds and you want to, you know, be
Speaker 1: split screening games on Sunday ticket, let I just tell you, guys,
Speaker 1: how I my setup, which I think yes, And again,
Speaker 1: I'm not asking everybody. I do this for a living.
Speaker 1: I'm not asking everyone do the setup that I have.
Speaker 1: What I am saying is, don't tell me you love
Speaker 1: the NFL, And then I find it no different. If
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, yeah, I just watch red Zone. Then
Speaker 1: if I text you on Sunday at two thirty Eastern,
Speaker 1: you know, week three, and I'm like, hey, did you
Speaker 1: see that? And you're like, no, I'm at an apple orchard,
Speaker 1: Like what do you do?
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: Like? No, so I'm gonna catch the night game. Like
Speaker 1: we only get eighteen of these a year. They're pretty precious.
Speaker 1: And again, everyone pick what they want to do. But
Speaker 1: don't tell me you love the league diehard. Oh, I
Speaker 1: bet the games. I'm in fantasy leagues. I'm in this.
Speaker 1: And the only announcer you've heard for twenty years is
Speaker 1: Scott Hansen. Don't tell me that. If you can't if
Speaker 1: you can't name that, tune this quickly on Joe Davis
Speaker 1: or Kevin Harlan, much less Tony Romo or Troy Aikman's voice,
Speaker 1: then then I'm questioning your fandom. The way I consume
Speaker 1: is we have upside down triangle of TVs. Okay, uh,
Speaker 1: two big screens in the one very big screen in
Speaker 1: my office, which is really a hallway like like it's
Speaker 1: a set up little bit. It's yeah, it's it's uh.
Speaker 1: The I love my house in New York City. One
Speaker 1: of the downsides of a Brownstone is their narrow properties,
Speaker 1: and so I have just I have carved out in
Speaker 1: our five thousand square feet demons. I've carved out one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty for me and your Mom's got the
Speaker 1: rest and top left TV red zone, by the way,
Speaker 1: very often with sound, top right TV, biggest game, bottom TV,
Speaker 1: the biggest TV, split screen into four games of my choosing,
Speaker 1: and that way you can follow almost every game sound
Speaker 1: on red zone. Make sure the time the TVs are
Speaker 1: sync dump time wise and you got it. You don't
Speaker 1: even really have to watch red Zone. You listen, you look,
Speaker 1: you do this all. That's that's how we do it.
Speaker 2: TVs. Are you putting the Chiefs game on? When that comes?
Speaker 2: Is at the bottom line.
Speaker 1: The stand top right, the top left, red zone. Well,
Speaker 1: the thing is this, I don't It's not really a
Speaker 1: problem these days, Demansey, because the Chiefs only play one
Speaker 1: o'clock on Sunday, like twice a year the Chiefs. Usually
Speaker 1: when the Chiefs are playing, there's no other football games
Speaker 1: being played because they know the NFL knows what the
Speaker 1: main event is, so the Chiefs game. I walk about
Speaker 1: eight feet from the hallway that is my office to
Speaker 1: our living room and we have the TV that used
Speaker 1: to be you know what statute of limitations been long enough?
Speaker 1: Remember back when I did the show remotely, when I
Speaker 1: did the show, you know from my house, part of
Speaker 1: our background was this one hundred inch HD screen that
Speaker 1: we used as part of the first thing's first background.
Speaker 1: We stopped doing the shows remotely, and I just never
Speaker 1: gave that back. And now that's the TV that I
Speaker 1: watched the standalone games on. It's massive office and I
Speaker 1: mean living room by myself or with the family.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: God, dogget Football's here. I'm so excited. That was a
Speaker 1: little Also, that was the longest straight voicemail we've ever done,
Speaker 1: shut out boost Mobile, but again too long, didn't read.
Speaker 1: ESPN didn't do anything wrong. There were already commercials on
Speaker 1: Red Zone. They're not going to be cutting to a
Speaker 1: full commercial. It's going to be split screen. But most importantly,
Speaker 1: be an adult and watch a game. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get to it tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Say uh yeah, so starting tonight, the NFL is officially back.
Speaker 2: We'll get the game in a second. But what do
Speaker 2: you think there's gonna be some of the bigger headlines
Speaker 2: or storylines this year in the NFL?
Speaker 1: All right, So I'm gonna do this the way I
Speaker 1: do almost the way my brain works is weird, like
Speaker 1: I have to visualize either a map or a chart
Speaker 1: or a piece of paper to make sure I don't
Speaker 1: leave anything out. So like yesterday, for first things first,
Speaker 1: a little pre show trivia thing. Gianna asked me, can
Speaker 1: I name the twelve cities that have all four professional
Speaker 1: sports leagues? And I was one hundred percent confident I
Speaker 1: would be able to do that. But the only way
Speaker 1: that I was gonna be able to do that was
Speaker 1: to close my eyes and see a map and just
Speaker 1: start it in Maine and then work down and up
Speaker 1: and down and up. So I'm gonna do something similar
Speaker 1: here where I am just going to go through the
Speaker 1: divisions and talk about what I think the biggest storyline
Speaker 1: is AFC East. Biggest storyline, very clearly is can the
Speaker 1: Bill can tell Again, this is the regular season storylines,
Speaker 1: not the postseason storylines, because that's a separate thing, and
Speaker 1: we have all off season talk about postseason stuff. We're
Speaker 1: now in the regular season. AFCs storyline is very very clearly,
Speaker 1: do the Bills have any competition whatsoever? If they do,
Speaker 1: it would have to be from the New England Patriots,
Speaker 1: at least in my opinion. And I think the Jets
Speaker 1: injury yesterday of Elisha Vera Tucker was brutal for him,
Speaker 1: losing him for the year. By the way, sidebar, We're
Speaker 1: gonna have a very you guys can tell my energies
Speaker 1: up I'm very excited. Note for again football fans out there,
Speaker 1: I'm going to translate for you guys how to read
Speaker 1: the insider's injury reports these days. Okay, if they do
Speaker 1: not send a tweet at all, that player might have
Speaker 1: been slightly injured but probably will play, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: make the news. If they send a tweet that says
Speaker 1: such and such got banged up but is expected to
Speaker 1: be totally fine, that usually means he's going to miss
Speaker 1: a week or two. If they send a tweet that
Speaker 1: says avoided serious injury, consider him out a month. And
Speaker 1: if they send a tweet like they did about Elijah
Speaker 1: Vera Tucker yesterday, which is the team is concerned that
Speaker 1: poor guy might have been metavacked off the field for
Speaker 1: all we know, and he is almost assuredly out for
Speaker 1: the year. I don't know why, and the insiders all collectively,
Speaker 1: I do know why. It's because they get the information
Speaker 1: from agents and they don't want to make the agents mad,
Speaker 1: and so they just soft pedal everything. But like Naji Harris,
Speaker 1: the reporting was he's totally fine. You know, scary situation,
Speaker 1: but the fireworks don't worry about. But meanwhile they play Friday.
Speaker 1: We still haven't seen him without sunglasses on. Seems like
Speaker 1: that was too much fourth of July. The avoided serious
Speaker 1: injury usually means he was seriously injured, but he's not
Speaker 1: out for the year and the team is very concerned,
Speaker 1: means he's done for the season. So when I saw
Speaker 1: that with Elijah Arra Tucker, the initial reporting like, Oh,
Speaker 1: this poor guy who's dealt with so many injuries, he's
Speaker 1: probably out for the year. He is in fact out
Speaker 1: for the year. But the AFSE storyline is can anybody
Speaker 1: give the Bills any type of resistance? The answer is
Speaker 1: probably know the AFC North Demond's storyline to me is
Speaker 1: not about the Ravens. I think the Ravens at this
Speaker 1: point are the known quantity. We expect them to be
Speaker 1: excellent every regular season. What were you saying since he
Speaker 1: is yes.
Speaker 2: What's happening with them going to continue? Are they? Are
Speaker 2: the defense going to get better?
Speaker 1: Can Cincinnati become a contender? Again? Like? That's the fact
Speaker 1: of the matter is this. Cincinnati exploded onto the scene
Speaker 1: in year two with Joe Burrow shockingly upset the Chiefs
Speaker 1: in the AFC Championship Game after being down huge at halftime.
Speaker 1: The very next year came back. We're back in the
Speaker 1: AFC Championship game, and then a game that gets a
Speaker 1: little forgotten the details of it. Joe Burrow had a
Speaker 1: really rough second half of that game, including a devastating
Speaker 1: fourth quarter interception, and they lose. They haven't played a
Speaker 1: playoff game since then. The next year got derailed by
Speaker 1: Joe's injuries, but they were four and four with him playing,
Speaker 1: and last year got derailed by the defense. You can't
Speaker 1: miss the playoffs three straight years and be a real contender,
Speaker 1: and so can they get back to being an eleven,
Speaker 1: maybe even twelve win team. That's the AFC North storyline,
Speaker 1: the AFC South storyline, as much as I'd like to
Speaker 1: make it about Travis and I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys saw the Travis and Trevor commercial, but it's just delightful.
Speaker 1: It's so you haven't seen it, demanse watch it after
Speaker 1: the show with the sound on. Now. Some some people
Speaker 1: might call it cringe. I find it charming. But it's
Speaker 1: an Adidas commercial with like an eighty soundtrack and a
Speaker 1: lot of really weird dance moves between Travis and Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 1: But the storyline there is not about Travis as much
Speaker 1: as I'd love it to be. It's about the Texans
Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator and can c J. Stroud?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Can c J Stroud get back to year one CJ Stroud?
Speaker 1: Now I'm not I'm not drawing a direct line here, Demanse,
Speaker 1: but I do think it is worth noting that CJ. Stroud,
Speaker 1: up until the moment he put his arm around Caleb Williams,
Speaker 1: was like, listen up, young buck, let me let me
Speaker 1: teach you a thing or two. I think had twenty
Speaker 1: four touchdowns, five picks, a one oh one career rating,
Speaker 1: and was like twelve and six as a starter. Since
Speaker 1: then he has seventeen touchdowns, twelve picks and eighty five
Speaker 1: rating and his seven and seven as a starter. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying those things are connected. I am saying I'm
Speaker 1: interested in the timeline of it. New offensive coordinator. Can
Speaker 1: he get back to being the CJ. Stroud he looked
Speaker 1: like as a rookie? Now, they did win a playoff game,
Speaker 1: so you back to back years won a playoff gameing
Speaker 1: and credit for that and the AFC West. The storyline's
Speaker 1: very very obvious, which is can anyone once Every year,
Speaker 1: the AFC West has a great offseason. Every year the
Speaker 1: Chargers or the Broncos or the Raiders make a move
Speaker 1: that made the Chiefs nervous. Every year there is a well,
Speaker 1: next year will be different until the games start and
Speaker 1: then come Thanksgiving we're talking about the Chiefs magic number
Speaker 1: to clinch the division by three or four games. Will
Speaker 1: this year be different? Will the Chiefs actually have to
Speaker 1: you know, win a late season game to win the
Speaker 1: division or will they be able to rest people? So
Speaker 1: the AFC is covered. Nfcast storyline is twofold. It's very obvious.
Speaker 1: Can Philly you know, continue on the stretch. It was
Speaker 1: on after Week four last year where the only game
Speaker 1: they lost was a game Jalen Hurts got knocked out
Speaker 1: of and a first cousin of that is Ken Washington.
Speaker 1: Proved that last year wasn't a you know, win all
Speaker 1: the close games get a little lucky year. But they
Speaker 1: actually are building a real contender. That's the NFC East.
Speaker 1: The NFC North demon's a most interesting yeah, man, I
Speaker 1: mean you could. The Vikings are the least interesting. They're
Speaker 1: starting a first round pick to facto rookie quarterback. They
Speaker 1: won fourteen games last year, the Packers just traded for
Speaker 1: Micah freaking Parsons the Bears Caleb's under as much pressure
Speaker 1: as any player in the league. And then the Lions
Speaker 1: amazing regular season last year fell on their face in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, lost both coordinators. Is that going to have
Speaker 1: a long tail? Like? Those are the stories there. Luckily,
Speaker 1: the NFC North covers all the interesting for the NFC South,
Speaker 1: which there's it's just bake show and is it possible
Speaker 1: the two worst teams in the league are both in
Speaker 1: the same division, which is rare in the Saints and
Speaker 1: the Panthers. It could happen, It's rare. And then the
Speaker 1: NFC West de Monsey is was last year a blip
Speaker 1: for the Niners or it was last year the canary
Speaker 1: in the coal mine that they sadly missed their window
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to reboot it a bit. Shanahan's
Speaker 1: comments about you know this being a bit of a
Speaker 1: reboot and fans being patient leaned you one way, brought
Speaker 1: Purdy's comments that we're good enough to win the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl lean you another. But those are league wide the
Speaker 1: biggest storylines headed into the season. Anything you want to add,
Speaker 1: anything you take issue with.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm pretty in line with you and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: I do. The Falcons might make it a little bit
Speaker 2: closer in the NFC south over there. But uh but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So here's the thing. I think the Falcons could
Speaker 1: be a playoff team, but I think the Bucks might
Speaker 1: win thirteen games. So it's the now maybe I'm over
Speaker 1: you know. I obviously am super high on the Bucks.
Speaker 1: I am in the super Bowl, but I don't I
Speaker 1: think the Falcons could be better than they're getting credit
Speaker 1: for and still not really compete for the division. All right,
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Speaker 1: let's get to it.
Speaker 2: So Philadelphia is hosting Dallas tonight at five twenty or
Speaker 2: wherever wherever you guys are.
Speaker 1: Yes, eight twenty. Amnse you always go with Eastern time zone. Listen.
Speaker 1: I'm a Central time zone guy. I know you're on
Speaker 1: the West coast, but nobody, you can't lead with the
Speaker 1: West coast time You just can't. It's only yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: the only time zone no one ever has once in
Speaker 1: their life led with is Mountain time zone. But you
Speaker 1: really can't lead with West Coast.
Speaker 2: A right food for thought. So they'll be hanging the
Speaker 2: banner tonight. And that apparently was news to Nick Sirianni.
Speaker 2: Do you think that Philly has gone too far with
Speaker 2: the whole we're forgetting about the Super Bowl eyes? I
Speaker 2: had on the prize stick spiel. Yeah, very performative over
Speaker 2: there in Philly.
Speaker 1: Performative is the exact right ward. I here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I don't mind weird take. I don't mind being lied to.
Speaker 1: I I understand that at times, God this is uh,
Speaker 1: my mother would be ashamed of me. I understand that
Speaker 1: at times, lies or the lubrication that makes society keep turning.
Speaker 1: I get it, Like there are times where it is
Speaker 1: just objectively lying is the right thing to do. I
Speaker 1: get that. My only request is that your lie be
Speaker 1: at least a tiny bit believable. And Nick Sirianni looking
Speaker 1: at the assembled Philadelphia media and saying, yeah, oh it's
Speaker 1: banner nite. I didn't know that. Yeah, we won't be
Speaker 1: out there. Not only is not believable, it also if
Speaker 1: you were, you know, in a police interrogating room the
Speaker 1: moment you finished the sentence, they'd be like, oh, you
Speaker 1: know you messed up there, right, If you didn't know
Speaker 1: what was going on, how do you know you won't
Speaker 1: be out there for all?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: They drop it mid first drive, Jalen hurts, drop it
Speaker 1: back to pass ban or bang like the I mean,
Speaker 1: so just just so performative and silly. And now here
Speaker 1: is the more interesting take DeMont in my opinion, because
Speaker 1: Jalen to is the leader of this team, and Jalen
Speaker 1: set the template by saying, yeah, I'm not wearing I'll
Speaker 1: never wear the ring. You know, I'm putting it, you
Speaker 1: know in wherever he said he's putting it and moving
Speaker 1: on and that's fine. By the way, I'm not criticizing
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts for that. Here is my question. So Jalen
Speaker 1: said that, and then it felt to me like Sirianni
Speaker 1: was like, all right, you're not wearing the ring. I
Speaker 1: didn't even know we want that was the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I was wondering why it was six months before our
Speaker 1: last game. I thought it was week twenty two. The
Speaker 1: confetti was weird at the time. I didn't know. So
Speaker 1: here's my question. Let's say Jalen had gone the other way, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, Jalen and he's earned this has such
Speaker 1: universal approval. If he had done the exact opposite of
Speaker 1: what he's doing, people would love it too. If every
Speaker 1: single press conference he had the ring on, if all
Speaker 1: he talked about was the ring, if he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got a lot of new players on this team.
Speaker 1: I want them to know this is what you fight for.
Speaker 1: This is the whole goal. I'm gonna during the games,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wear it on a chain around my neck
Speaker 1: like this is it is a daily reminder. He would
Speaker 1: like people would have been like, man, this guy, he gets it.
Speaker 1: But let's just say that was his approach if that
Speaker 1: were his approach. When Sirianni was asked about Banner Nite,
Speaker 1: would Sirianni have been like, I didn't know what was
Speaker 1: Banner Nite? Or would he have been like, damn straight,
Speaker 1: in fact, look show a tattoo. I know what the
Speaker 1: banner is gonna look like. It's tatted right here, and
Speaker 1: and all our players we're going to be out there
Speaker 1: locked arms saluting the banner like this is the whole point.
Speaker 1: You guys are focused on stats and numbers like. It
Speaker 1: does feel like Jalen set the tone and now Nick
Speaker 1: is trying to follow, which is fine. Like, again, that
Speaker 1: might be the right thing to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be weird if they were opposites on
Speaker 2: this thing, correct, it makes more sense for them.
Speaker 1: It did feel like Sirianni overdid it a bit with
Speaker 1: the I didn't know it was banner Nite. All right.
Speaker 2: It's if they're pretending that they that that didn't happen.
Speaker 2: Does the Chief super Bowl did that not happen?
Speaker 1: Well, well, listen, the Chiefs are not doing that. I
Speaker 1: mean the Chief Kelsey you know, doesn't want to talk
Speaker 1: about it. Chris Jones did talk about it something. Chris
Speaker 1: Jones is like listen like, I think it's a learning experience.
Speaker 1: I think be better for it. I do think it's
Speaker 1: important for teams to turn the page. I think it's
Speaker 1: silly to pretend like something didn't happen. That's all, all right,
Speaker 1: let's get to some other things on this game or
Speaker 1: on this topic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what are you expecting from the game tonight? Domination?
Speaker 1: So probably probably Philly, you know, just beats them badly.
Speaker 1: Possibly Dak plays out of his mind and the Cowboys hang.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys' only path is scoring thirty one or more like,
Speaker 1: here's a here. This is not a bet I would
Speaker 1: be making. But if you're gonna bet the Cowboys on
Speaker 1: the money line, go ahead and include Cowboys alternate over
Speaker 1: twenty seven and a half points. There is no path
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys to win this game twenty to seventeen.
Speaker 1: That doesn't exist in my in my eyes, their only
Speaker 1: path is thirty one twenty eight. Dak plays great Eagles,
Speaker 1: young pass rush and young secondary, you know, has some
Speaker 1: miscommunications CD and pickings get loose, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you know that it is a game where Jalen
Speaker 1: has to drop back a bunch and I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he can't do that, but it's obviously not the script
Speaker 1: that they are used to play. So but I'm expecting
Speaker 1: if I had to guess seven seventeen Philly's that's how
Speaker 1: this one feels to me. But that's not gonna be
Speaker 1: one of my bets later. All right, last one on this.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's weird for us to not open
Speaker 2: the NFL with the Chiefs game?
Speaker 1: It is. It's the first time in three years, and
Speaker 1: the last two were really noteworthy for two different reasons.
Speaker 1: The Lions game was noteworthy personally because eight hours before it,
Speaker 1: I had guaranteed the Chiefs were gonna go undefeated and
Speaker 1: got a tattoo to, you know, really canonize that, and
Speaker 1: then they lost their first game. But for more importantly,
Speaker 1: it was a sign of the things to come that
Speaker 1: would ail the Chiefs that season, because if you remember
Speaker 1: that game, flipped a perfect pass to Kadarius Tony that
Speaker 1: popped up and was in the air and went the
Speaker 1: other way, and then at the very end of the
Speaker 1: game another perfect pass on fourth down that was just
Speaker 1: flat dropped, and it was like, oh, could the drops
Speaker 1: for a problem for Kansas City? And they were Last
Speaker 1: year was a classic for different reasons, because Lamar tried
Speaker 1: almost led that comeback and then the Isaiah Likely foot
Speaker 1: on the line game, and what that portended as far
Speaker 1: as things to come was idiots saying it's rigged for
Speaker 1: the Chiefs based on correctly called decisions, because if you remember,
Speaker 1: last year, Likely was out of bounds, and people somehow
Speaker 1: got their hair up about it about how that was unfair.
Speaker 1: It was unlucky, but it wasn't unfair. And then the
Speaker 1: next week the Chiefs have a fourth and six against
Speaker 1: Cincinnati converted, there is a hold called on Kansas City,
Speaker 1: they take it away. They have a fourth and sixteen,
Speaker 1: they get absolutely obliterated in a past interference. It's correctly called,
Speaker 1: and people find a way to go on TV the
Speaker 1: next day and be like that was the right call,
Speaker 1: but I hate it, okay, buddy. Yeah, And and there
Speaker 1: was also yeah. Week one has been noteworthy the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, and three years ago Week one, I
Speaker 1: wonder if I wonder if I could do this just
Speaker 1: real quick. Last year, Chiefs meet the Bills on the
Speaker 1: likely play. Year before, Chiefs lose to the Lions. Year
Speaker 1: before that, the Bills. I'm sorry, Chiefs Chiefs meet the Ravens. Yeah, sorry, misspoken.
Speaker 1: Year before Chiefs Lions, the Bills blow out the Rams.
Speaker 1: Year before that was Tampa Dallas. Tampa won, And the
Speaker 1: year before that was Chiefs Texans. Right after the twenty
Speaker 1: four to nothing comeback for the Chiefs, and the Chiefs
Speaker 1: will beat the Texans soundly. Those are the the matchups
Speaker 1: that I remember the best. Are the last matchups? All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the Chiefs before we get to our picks.
Speaker 2: Chiefs are headed to Brazil to play the Chargers Friday.
Speaker 2: So the storyline headed into this season has been the
Speaker 2: return of the Laser Show with the Chiefs. How much
Speaker 2: of that do you think we'll see in Game one?
Speaker 1: I know they're gonna try and I know that it
Speaker 1: is been the focus of the offseason is pushing the
Speaker 1: ball down the field. But the Chargers know that too,
Speaker 1: and so this is I know, this is not what
Speaker 1: people want to hear, and it's probably not what people
Speaker 1: want to see, but this isn't a game that you
Speaker 1: fool around with. It's a Charger team that won double
Speaker 1: digit games, is well coached, has a good quarterback last year,
Speaker 1: the number one scoring defense in the league, it is
Speaker 1: a weird game because it's in Brazil and the following
Speaker 1: week you play Philadelphia, and that is so because of that.
Speaker 1: While I would love for the Chiefs to be able
Speaker 1: to do a style points type of game, it's not
Speaker 1: the type of game they're in. And because the Chiefs
Speaker 1: just in the last game they played got their teeth
Speaker 1: kicked in, more important than anything is a win. So
Speaker 1: I don't I do have confidence that at some point
Speaker 1: this year you are going to see what people call
Speaker 1: vintage Mahomes. Okay, I don't know that you're going to
Speaker 1: see it immediately to start the season, and I don't
Speaker 1: know how much Rashi Rice not being there is going
Speaker 1: to impact it. What I do know is starting out
Speaker 1: zero to one after losing the Super Bowl and then
Speaker 1: having Philadelphia in week two is not a scenario that
Speaker 1: I would relish. So if by the flow of the
Speaker 1: game this is a conservative game plan, I'm okay with it.
Speaker 1: Like they now. It should be noted the last time
Speaker 1: the Chiefs were in a spot like this where they
Speaker 1: lost their final game of the year in heartbreaking fashion
Speaker 1: and was the twenty twenty two season. They lost twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one to the Bengals and the playoffs. They then
Speaker 1: traded away Tyreek Hill. That year, they started off with
Speaker 1: an absolute light show. Mahomes threw for three sixty and
Speaker 1: five touchdowns in his first game without Tyreek Hill, and
Speaker 1: they annihilated the Cardinals. But the Cardinals are not the Chargers,
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to remember thee the year before that,
Speaker 1: after losing the Super Bowl to Tampa, they started off
Speaker 1: against Cleveland and they scored I'm looking it up right now,
Speaker 1: thirty three. But I don't oh, I was gonna say
Speaker 1: I anything. Mahomes had a huge game. He did, but
Speaker 1: that was also a very important game because they then
Speaker 1: lost their next two games. That was the year they
Speaker 1: started three and four before ripping off, you know, a
Speaker 1: hell of a run en route to getting to that
Speaker 1: AFC Championship game. So the point I'm making here is
Speaker 1: I don't think they have the luxury this year of
Speaker 1: worrying about style points before Rashid comes back. When Chargers
Speaker 1: in Brazil home for Philly at the Giants, and that
Speaker 1: pass rush home for Baltimore at Jacksonville home for Detroit,
Speaker 1: those are your six games without Rashi, So we'll see
Speaker 1: what it looks like. But if you're asking me, would
Speaker 1: I feel better about a thirty eight thirty five Chiefs
Speaker 1: loss where Mahomes is unbelievable but Herbert plays out of
Speaker 1: his mind, or if it's the exact games script of
Speaker 1: the win against Denver last year sixteen fourteen with a
Speaker 1: blocked field goal at the end, I'll take the sixteen
Speaker 1: fourteen win. Given the context of where we're at with
Speaker 1: the season right now.
Speaker 2: Are you always all right about the turf out there
Speaker 2: in Brazil, like there was a lot of problems with
Speaker 2: green Bay and Philly last year.
Speaker 1: I hope not. I try. I try not to concern
Speaker 1: that would if I were betting a total in this game,
Speaker 1: that would be a bigger concern. But I just in
Speaker 1: twenty the year the Chiefs that I'm talking about, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, when they started the year off against Arizona.
Speaker 1: Arizona had some weird field something I don't quite remember,
Speaker 1: but I remember Bucker got hurt on it and hurt
Speaker 1: his knee, and so I that Am I nervous about it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do I want to focus on it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Excuse me? All right, let's get to Rogers and the Jets.
Speaker 1: But first a follow up. I gotta tell you this
Speaker 1: might actually be the the best case scenario. Robert, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say B. I don't know that I'm gonna can
Speaker 1: say his last name. Robert B, who Tuesday DMed the
Speaker 1: show or messaged the show in the chat and asked
Speaker 1: me if I was interested in going to Augusta has
Speaker 1: followed up and this is what he writes. Yes, the
Speaker 1: Augusta offer is real, but it's to come watch the
Speaker 1: pro's practice round Tuesday before the Masters, not to play around.
Speaker 1: Offer still stands if interested DM my account. I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you that is ideal to be able to go
Speaker 1: to Augusta watch and not have the pressure of having
Speaker 1: to actually Demansey. I was trying to. I was doing
Speaker 1: measurements in our garage to see if I could have
Speaker 1: a golf simulator installed in there so I could crank
Speaker 1: it like I I. I was so on tilt about
Speaker 1: not being able to turn down Augusta but being the
Speaker 1: worst golfer to ever play Augusta. All right, that sounds
Speaker 1: honestly perfect. I think I absolutely want to do it.
Speaker 1: I will ask our producers to get you know, whatever
Speaker 1: his account is, I don't know how it works. Get
Speaker 1: his info. But yeah, go to Augusta just to watch
Speaker 1: walk around, eat some pimento and cheese sandwiches. Oh my
Speaker 1: sounds what a dream. All right, let's get to Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers quickly before we get to our picks.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So Aaron Rodgers debut will come against his former
Speaker 2: team in the Jets. What do you expect from Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers this game and this year?
Speaker 1: Mediocre and not much? And I just want to be
Speaker 1: on I don't want to spend a lot of time
Speaker 1: on it. I just want to be on the record
Speaker 1: about this. The amount of denial not as many as
Speaker 1: last year, but some folks in sports media have been
Speaker 1: about what to expect from forty one year old Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers this year when he's gonna be forty two is
Speaker 1: just baffling to me, Like truly baffling to me. This guy.
Speaker 1: We saw him last season, and we saw him blame
Speaker 1: teammates for his mistakes. We saw his inability to move.
Speaker 1: We saw him throw away the Vikings game, score nine
Speaker 1: points against the Broncos, throw Mike Williams under the bus.
Speaker 1: We saw all of it, and I do.
Speaker 2: Think everybody looks at it in a sense, it's Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 2: and it must be the team. Like you throw him
Speaker 2: on another team that might work coup.
Speaker 1: And that would have been fine. A decade ago. He's
Speaker 1: forty one and he popped his achilles like. So my
Speaker 1: answer is, I do not think Rogers is going to
Speaker 1: be good. I do not think Rogers is going to
Speaker 1: this year be a top twenty quarterback in the league.
Speaker 1: Doesn't change. He's one of the greatest players ever. It's
Speaker 1: just I don't think he is going to get the
Speaker 1: Brett far final year, second to last year in Minnesota
Speaker 1: where he almost won MVP and took him to the
Speaker 1: conference championship game. I don't think that is in the
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Speaker 1: it's time.
Speaker 2: It is time.
Speaker 1: Five picks Demonse's teaser. Maybe some exotics, some survivors. Oh,
Speaker 1: before we get to it, Survivor thing tricky spot for me.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm gonna give out Survivor picks on
Speaker 1: the show this year because I have too much I'm in.
Speaker 1: So here's the deal on these Survivor contests. So I
Speaker 1: tweeted out the link to it. You can go Splash
Speaker 1: sports slash nick right to see all the different contests.
Speaker 1: The twenty five dollars one super fun. You can have
Speaker 1: as many entries as you want. In fact, let me
Speaker 1: and we haven't gotten there's not a ton of entries
Speaker 1: in that right now. Let me see what the latest
Speaker 1: number is on that. It was like three hundred and so,
Speaker 1: but that's you know, winnable. That should be fun. It's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's three forty is right now. So if you just
Speaker 1: want to have a fun survivor thing, if that were
Speaker 1: the only one I was doing, I would give out
Speaker 1: my picks on the show. But now we have a
Speaker 1: very tricky situation with the one that I'm taking on.
Speaker 1: Helm you thin, because it is guaranteed demands that the
Speaker 1: winner gets a minimum of one million dollars. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars to enter. You can have up to
Speaker 1: six entries. So if there is a guarantee of a million,
Speaker 1: and it's five k a person, that means you would
Speaker 1: need to have two hundred entries exactly two hundred times
Speaker 1: five thousands of million bucks. Right right now, it's sitting
Speaker 1: on eighty one entries, which means there is four hundred
Speaker 1: and five thousand dollars of entries, and we call it
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand entries and six hundred thousand dollars of
Speaker 1: what we call in the gambling world. And overlay that
Speaker 1: the house at the moment, if it started right now,
Speaker 1: every entry all of a sudden instead of being worth
Speaker 1: five grand. Let me do this math real quick.
Speaker 2: What is hold on?
Speaker 1: What's a million divided by eighty. Uh that's what I thought.
Speaker 1: Every if it started right now, every injury would be
Speaker 1: worth twelve and a half thousand dollars. Does that make
Speaker 1: Do you understand what I'm saying that Like some think
Speaker 1: about like this, Yeah, there's less people and so you're already.
Speaker 1: So if it ends with one hundred injries at five
Speaker 1: k each, the prize pool should be half a million bucks.
Speaker 1: But the prize pool is a guaranteed million dollars. So
Speaker 1: if you again, five grand's a ton ton ton of money.
Speaker 2: You have to put more money. If you and people,
Speaker 2: what do you have to put it in?
Speaker 1: No? I don't no, no, no, well I mean no, the
Speaker 1: company does, like the they're they're the house. They're guaranteeing it.
Speaker 1: So what I'm making is this, if you and some
Speaker 1: bodies out there like want to pool resources or combine,
Speaker 1: at the moment, it's the best value survivor pool there is.
Speaker 1: Like now, if we if they get a ton of
Speaker 1: injries between now and Sunday, they obviously want to hit
Speaker 1: the guarantee. They want to get two hundred entries. It'll
Speaker 1: never be negative you know, minus EV, but right now
Speaker 1: it is hugely plus EV and so.
Speaker 2: People have knock out as well coetition.
Speaker 1: Here's another question. And so the reason that I'm not
Speaker 1: going to give out my Survivor picks is because we're
Speaker 1: playing for real money. Here's the question, though, demons. Because
Speaker 1: I have multiple entries in this thing. I've got, uh,
Speaker 1: I've got right now two, I'm going to have three. Okay,
Speaker 1: would you like to partner with me on one of
Speaker 1: them where we one of the entries is all me
Speaker 1: one of them. You don't have to put up a
Speaker 1: bunch of money.
Speaker 2: But just you would send you No, I didn't say half.
Speaker 1: That would be so funny. No, you don't have to
Speaker 1: send it to me if we don't win. No, uh,
Speaker 1: but you could be in for I don't know five
Speaker 1: percent of it. That'd be two hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1: And we will we will collaborate on uh, we will
Speaker 1: collaborate on the picks. Yeah, and then we So the
Speaker 1: way we'll do Survivor is we'll talk after. Okay, So
Speaker 1: we'll we'll talk after. And to answer the producers, the
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars one doesn't have a guarantee, so there's
Speaker 1: no there's not gonna be any overlay there. It's however
Speaker 1: many entries we get, that's the prize. Bool the Helm Youth.
Speaker 1: Now is Helm Youth potentially on the hook for the overlay?
Speaker 1: Maybe that would be delightful. If Helm Youth has to
Speaker 1: write a big check for this, that actually would make
Speaker 1: me very happy. All Right, h recap last season how
Speaker 1: we did in Knicks picks.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the twenty twenty four regular season, you went
Speaker 2: forty eight forty and two and your overall record was
Speaker 2: fifty six, forty four and three.
Speaker 1: And that also we got in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: You also went undefeated in touchdown Genie. Now this wasn't
Speaker 2: every week, but we were undefeated.
Speaker 1: I was very picky with when I went with the Bruisers.
Speaker 1: Love a good touchdown, Genie. They love an octopus bet
Speaker 1: in the super Bowl. They love a touchdown Genie, they
Speaker 1: love all these things. I was very choosy on when
Speaker 1: I wanted to do it, and I didn't realize it,
Speaker 1: but I did go undefeated on it. All right, five
Speaker 1: picks every week? What's my first pick?
Speaker 2: First pick? We've got Kansas City minus three versus the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a neutral site and they're only laying three.
Speaker 1: It's not I think the Chiefs are the best team
Speaker 1: in football. I think the Chargers are around the you know,
Speaker 1: fourteenth best team in football. I do not think any
Speaker 1: team is more used to handling odd environments than Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Patrick is five and two against the spread and openers.
Speaker 1: I understand Herbert is a really good against the spread
Speaker 1: quarterback early in the season ten and five, but part
Speaker 1: of that is Patrick being five and two is even
Speaker 1: more impressive when you consider the fact that the Chiefs
Speaker 1: have become such a public team. Those lines are usually inflated.
Speaker 1: Chargers in the other direction. You know, they haven't had
Speaker 1: a ton of early season high high level expectations. I
Speaker 1: just think I do not see. I think that Trent
Speaker 1: McDuffie is going to be able to neutralize Lad McConkie.
Speaker 1: And with if that happens, how else are the Chargers
Speaker 1: Who are they throwing it to? Like? How are they
Speaker 1: moving the ball? And I don't I know hardball is
Speaker 1: gonna want to run the No Rashon Slater is a
Speaker 1: big deal. The Chiefs minus three against the Chargers is
Speaker 1: my first bet of the year and spoiler a bit.
Speaker 1: It is the only favorite I am taking in Week one.
Speaker 2: Next pick Demonse, next week, you got Miami plus one
Speaker 2: at Indian Yeah.
Speaker 1: This is a pretty simple one for me. You get
Speaker 1: the Dolphins indoors, controlled climate, obviously, fast track like that,
Speaker 1: you get too a healthy like that, You get Tyreek
Speaker 1: something to prove early in the year like that, and
Speaker 1: then you get a team in the Colts that I
Speaker 1: believe might end up being the worst team in football
Speaker 1: this year. It's certainly it's possible. I am getting a
Speaker 1: point now. Obviously getting one point doesn't help you a lot.
Speaker 1: It's you're really just picking a winner. Excuse me, I apologize,
Speaker 1: But if the Dolphins, the Dolphins have any chance of
Speaker 1: having a better season than I think the general public
Speaker 1: expects from them, they must start fast. Colts, Pats, Bill's tough, Jets, Panthers, Chargers,
Speaker 1: Browns like that. That's their opening slate, because late in
Speaker 1: the year you go Ravens, Bill's Commanders, Saints, Easy, Jets, Steelers, Bengals, Bucks,
Speaker 1: Pets like and a lot of cold weather games in there.
Speaker 1: This is a as close to a Week one must
Speaker 1: win for a team's playoff hopes as exist. I don't love, obviously,
Speaker 1: the Colts quarterback and Daniel Jones. I think Miami wins
Speaker 1: the game outright, and I think Miami's gonna be able
Speaker 1: to move the ball in the Colts defense. Take Miami
Speaker 1: plus one at.
Speaker 2: Indy, and next you've got Cleveland plus five or Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: I do I love this?
Speaker 2: I don't. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Does it feel good including the Cleveland Browns in my
Speaker 1: Week one picks? Of course not. However, what was lost,
Speaker 1: what's lost in the shuffle about the Browns in Week
Speaker 1: one is this, They'll be fine at quarterback this week. Now,
Speaker 1: once Flacco starts taking some hits, once the season starts progressing,
Speaker 1: you know how fine are they going to be? Probably
Speaker 1: not at all, but this will probably be the best
Speaker 1: quarterback situation they have all year. Cincinnati has Trey Hendrickson
Speaker 1: coming off missing most of training camp, Shamar Stewart rookie
Speaker 1: pass rusher missed a lot of the offseason, the first
Speaker 1: game for a new defensive coreator, and maybe most importantly,
Speaker 1: and this is a point I have been trying to make.
Speaker 1: I have real concerns about since he's offensive line and
Speaker 1: you got Miles Garrett, since he also so just desperately
Speaker 1: needs a win that I don't think this is at
Speaker 1: any point going to be a style points type of game.
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be a man if
Speaker 1: we're up three late, suck the air out of the stadium,
Speaker 1: get out of there with a win. So I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty one to seventeen Cincinnati is a pretty
Speaker 1: likely outcome for this game. I'll take the five points.
Speaker 1: I'm it's a home divisional dog against a team that
Speaker 1: is awful every single year in Week one, and so
Speaker 1: Cleveland plus five against Cincinnati is the way I'm going.
Speaker 1: It's not calling Cleveland win. I just don't think Cincinnati
Speaker 1: is gonna dominate the game because they never dominate early
Speaker 1: in the season.
Speaker 2: Next to look there, to you, pops, we got Vegas
Speaker 2: at plus.
Speaker 1: Two and you don't like that one.
Speaker 2: It's it's yeah, because what if Cincinnati does what if
Speaker 2: they don't come out slow like they usually do.
Speaker 1: Well, then they all lose the bet.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Division.
Speaker 1: Well, what I will also say is, here's the other
Speaker 1: thing we know about Flacco. Flacco loves chucking it deep
Speaker 1: and going for a back door cover Like that is
Speaker 1: that's the other piece, Like could this be Cincinnati up
Speaker 1: twenty seven seventeen with ninety seconds left and Flacco is,
Speaker 1: you know, throwing bombs and we end up stealing a
Speaker 1: back door cover for sure.
Speaker 2: All right, next next you've got a Vegas plus two
Speaker 2: and a half at New England.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is, you know, basically just going with
Speaker 1: my pre season feel that the Raiders are better than
Speaker 1: people think they are. Now. I also think New England
Speaker 1: could be good, but I think New England is going
Speaker 1: to have real trouble scoring points this year. I like
Speaker 1: the rookie running back, I like Drake May, I don't
Speaker 1: like the receivers at all. And where the Raiders are
Speaker 1: going to be in trouble is against teams with explosive offenses.
Speaker 1: The Patriots do not have that, so I think that
Speaker 1: this is one of the few matchups all year where
Speaker 1: the Raiders defense is not going to be exploited. I
Speaker 1: think Max Crosby could have a big impact on that
Speaker 1: Patriots offensive line. And if I know Vabel, he's going
Speaker 1: to game plan to just not let Max Crosby stripsack
Speaker 1: flip the game, which leads to conservative play calling and
Speaker 1: a lot of what he did at times in Tennessee,
Speaker 1: which is just keep it close and try to out
Speaker 1: execute them late. I think Gino is gonna come out firing.
Speaker 1: I obviously really like Ashton genty and I ain't the
Speaker 1: Raiders win this game. And I'm getting two and a
Speaker 1: half points. This feels to me like twenty one to
Speaker 1: twenty Raiders. So I'll take the Raiders plus two and
Speaker 1: a half. Also, Patriots won four games last year teams
Speaker 1: that won four if you were the previous year, and
Speaker 1: our Week one favorites are zero to five against the
Speaker 1: spread and the last five it's it's a rare thing
Speaker 1: that happens, and so I will go with the Raiders
Speaker 1: plus two and a half.
Speaker 2: Last, lastly, you've got Buffalo plus one versus Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, here's the thing. This is not anti
Speaker 1: Lamar at all. He's a great player and a great, great,
Speaker 1: great regular season player. No, it's it's simply this, if
Speaker 1: Buffalo at home, they shouldn't be underdogs, that's all, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like, Buffalo is too good of
Speaker 1: a team to be a home dog, and I think
Speaker 1: that that is.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I also saw Baltimore last year when people thought, oh,
Speaker 1: they have an extra chip on their shoulder because that's
Speaker 1: the team that knocked him out of the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and the Chiefs controlled that game, and so this,
Speaker 1: by the way, is a very similar situation. Last year
Speaker 1: it was Kansas City minus one and a half was
Speaker 1: its No, yes, it was Kansas City minus one and
Speaker 1: a half against Baltimore in Kansas City. And that was
Speaker 1: why that likely play was almost such an awful beat
Speaker 1: because I had KC minus one and a half. Case
Speaker 1: was upset they score it, they think they score that touchdown,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna go for two, which would have
Speaker 1: killed the bet, you know, Like if they go for
Speaker 1: two and they make it, they win. If they go
Speaker 1: for two and they miss it, they lose. Either way,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs couldn't win by a point and a half.
Speaker 1: But I just don't think Buffalo should be home dogs.
Speaker 1: And this will be the only time where do they
Speaker 1: play the Chiefs, And by the way, they wouldn't be
Speaker 1: home dogs against they play the Chiefs in Buffalo, but
Speaker 1: they'll be favored in that game. Like this is also
Speaker 1: a little too much, a little too much respect for Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Like anytime this year, Buffalo is a home dog all
Speaker 1: bet them, which means right now is the only time,
Speaker 1: this is the only time all regular season they'll be
Speaker 1: a home dog. So my five picks, and a lot
Speaker 1: of this does have to do with preseason priors. But
Speaker 1: what else can you do in Week one? Kansas City
Speaker 1: minus one in Brazil against the Chargers Miami plus one,
Speaker 1: the Colts Cleveland getting five at home against Cincinnati, Las
Speaker 1: Vegas getting two and a half in New England, and
Speaker 1: Buffalo getting one at home against Baltimore. All right, Demanse's
Speaker 1: teasers last year, the record shows eleven and ten. That's
Speaker 1: not that impressive when you realize he started off I
Speaker 1: think Owen six, it becomes quite impressive. Started off poorly
Speaker 1: and then really got it together late. Demonse, tell us
Speaker 1: about your teaser.
Speaker 2: All right, So starting off this year, we are going
Speaker 2: with a three team eight point teaser at plus one hundred.
Speaker 2: We are teasing the Cowboys up to plus sixteen against
Speaker 2: Philly tonight. I hope I have never regretting this. I
Speaker 2: just wanted some action tonight. But we'll see. Cleveland we
Speaker 2: got at plus thirteen, and then Buffalo we're teasing out
Speaker 2: to plus nine. Honestly, just looks like I piggybacked off
Speaker 2: of all your picks.
Speaker 1: No, but you put this in before I put mine in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's what I say it looks. But uh,
Speaker 2: but yeah, those are those are my guys. I'm feeling
Speaker 2: strong with I'm feeling strongly about all that.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk it through before I give it the grade.
Speaker 2: YEP.
Speaker 1: Obviously, teasing a one point dog is smart. You know,
Speaker 1: you get through every single key number. So even though
Speaker 1: you love the Ravens, you're on the right side with
Speaker 1: the Buffalo one Cleveland. You get through a bunch of
Speaker 1: key numbers as well. So I'm I'm good with it.
Speaker 1: I am. Here's my only question, because you said you
Speaker 1: just wanted action tonight, are you telling me you think
Speaker 1: it's more likely the Cowboys upset the Eagles tonight than
Speaker 1: get just blown out?
Speaker 2: No, I just I just don't think it's I don't
Speaker 2: think Philly's gonna go there and blow them out. I
Speaker 2: think the game's will be a little bit, a little
Speaker 2: bit closer than people are thinking. I mean, I get that,
Speaker 2: you know, not Dallas lose by three or six or
Speaker 2: something like that, but it's plus sixteen buts.
Speaker 1: So no, but so here's but hold on. But I'm
Speaker 1: just saying you could do it the other direction. So
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you to do it. What I'm saying, basically,
Speaker 1: you are right if it's an eight point line and
Speaker 1: eight point t's your decision. If you want to include
Speaker 1: that game is very buying it. What do you think
Speaker 1: is more likely Dallas?
Speaker 2: I definitely don't think Dallas is gonna win. That makes sense.
Speaker 1: It makes sense or Philly win by seventeen, right, So
Speaker 1: what do you so? I'm not trying to talk it.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to change you on it, but I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to I I like Dallas plus sixteen, that's
Speaker 1: the side I would go with as well. I just
Speaker 1: know how you feel about tonight's game, and it feels
Speaker 1: to me like, so I'm going to give this by
Speaker 1: the way, an as, I'm not changing You're not changing it,
Speaker 1: but the it feels to me like you would be
Speaker 1: more shocked by Dallas winning than Philly winning thirty one fourteen,
Speaker 1: which means right, which means in reality, you should have
Speaker 1: teased it the other direction, but you went with it. It's
Speaker 1: week one. You're teasing dogs, which I appreciate, and we're
Speaker 1: good with it. Touchdown Genie or exotics. We're not doing
Speaker 1: it week one because there's too much going on. We
Speaker 1: gotta see the league a bit before we do any
Speaker 1: silliness survey the landscape for sure?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Every year for new listeners, every week the producers come
Speaker 1: up with an offer for me, demons, What is the
Speaker 1: offer this week?
Speaker 2: Irrefusable? We got Trevor over one and a half touchdown
Speaker 2: passes and Trevor under a half interception and jackson punning
Speaker 2: line for plus two ten? How are you liking that?
Speaker 1: I do not like it. I have to turn it down.
Speaker 2: No pigs because of the no picks.
Speaker 1: I think Jacksonville's gonna win. I think Trevor's gonna have
Speaker 1: a good game. Can I in week one and when
Speaker 1: I'm only getting plus two ten? Uh? Can I guarantee
Speaker 1: that Trevor's not gonna throw ont J C? Horn? I cannot,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna turn down the offer. Reminder like rate, subscribe,
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Speaker 1: some of these listener questions quick. Uh.
Speaker 2: Lamelico asked, could Jalen make your top four quarterback list?
Speaker 2: Over Burrow before the end of the season. If so,
Speaker 2: what would it take.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if Jalen has a listen, Jalen threw for like
Speaker 1: twenty eight hundred yards and I think eighteen touchdowns last year. Like,
Speaker 1: I do need to see more passing production from him.
Speaker 1: But if he if he ups the passing production, He's
Speaker 1: still this dominant rushing threat. Philly's really good and the
Speaker 1: Bengals like, to me, the top three is locked. Burrow's
Speaker 1: spot is in pen but not Sharpie, and it's not
Speaker 1: in Stone. That's you know, like just to be fair
Speaker 1: on it, and it's you can't you know, Jalen has
Speaker 1: these unbelievable weapons Burrow as Higgins and Chase. I don't
Speaker 1: anticipate that happening, but yes, it's it's on the board,
Speaker 1: I would say, all right.
Speaker 2: Next, Ronnie asked would you bet the would you bet
Speaker 2: the Bears to make the playoffs? And Jack's to make
Speaker 2: the playoffs for plus six ninety, I'm taking the plunge.
Speaker 1: I love it. Do it, Ronnie, I'll live vicariously through
Speaker 1: you at seven to one. Love it, absolutely, love it
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 2: Next, Lady Evil says thank you for all your buck
Speaker 2: supports this year, and Nick it warms my heart. What
Speaker 2: do you think about Amika Egbuca offensive Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a Listen. I think Amika Luka
Speaker 1: is gonna have a really big year, uh, especially with Godwin,
Speaker 1: you know, missing time in the beginning. Evan's getting older.
Speaker 1: I think Baker's gonna have a big year. He's not
Speaker 1: my pick, but I don't. I don't mind that one
Speaker 1: at all. I do not mind that one at all.
Speaker 1: And I loved the pick for them. He's plus sixteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's not that's not bad at all, all right, demons,
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