Speaker 1: From the King of sports Books comes the Key Sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unwashed, presented by the MGM. Here's your host, Jerry
Speaker 1: Ferrara and Olivia Arlan Decker. The weight is over. Week
Speaker 1: one is here. You know, Jerry, I have a take
Speaker 1: that isn't quite as hot as your Super Bowl Sunday proposal. Sorry,
Speaker 1: super Bowl Saturday proposal. That's it's so acid and I
Speaker 1: can't even say it. But I was thinking of something
Speaker 1: this past weekend and I want your opinion on this. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: let's hear it. Why doesn't the NFL in college football
Speaker 1: share week one? You know, Monday was Labor Day. Let
Speaker 1: people party all weekend, watching their teams, going to games,
Speaker 1: having parties, going to watch parties, whatever. Let college football
Speaker 1: have your Thursday kickoff, Friday Slate, Big Saturday Slate, and
Speaker 1: then the NFL has Sunday and the two Monday games
Speaker 1: like usual. They could even do three or four games
Speaker 1: on that Monday Labor Day. I I just don't get
Speaker 1: why a league that's so centered around Sunday, why they
Speaker 1: can't take advantage of a Monday holiday. Am I crazy? No,
Speaker 1: You're not crazy? And I like the way you're thinking
Speaker 1: because as asinine or trash, as you called my Super
Speaker 1: Bowl Saturday. They take, and it is the moral of
Speaker 1: the story is, let's separate a tiny bit from traditions.
Speaker 1: I love traditions. I don't want to lose the traditions,
Speaker 1: but we gotta. If we don't separate a little bit,
Speaker 1: we'll never innovate. So I'm not gonna say this is
Speaker 1: a trash take. I do like it. But to me,
Speaker 1: that still feels like college football would be the even
Speaker 1: though they're going first, they would be the main course.
Speaker 1: It's almost like NFL would be dessert, whereas the way
Speaker 1: it's lit up now, college football for me anyway, this
Speaker 1: whole week is like the appetizer, and then next weekend,
Speaker 1: this Sunday coming up, is like the main course. But
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be against what you're saying. I like to
Speaker 1: break some of these traditions in a small way. I
Speaker 1: don't think NFL would be desert. I think NFL the
Speaker 1: thing that people would worry about is that college football
Speaker 1: would get overshadowed because the NFL is king. NFL has
Speaker 1: the most absurd ratings, like they be NBA Playoffs, like
Speaker 1: a random lower tier game beats big NBA playoff games.
Speaker 1: NFL is king. I think you're not alone and being
Speaker 1: someone who has a strong NFL allegiance but not a
Speaker 1: college football team. Obviously, last week we found you one
Speaker 1: the chant of clears, the fighting chant of clears. Who
Speaker 1: are now want to know? We'll get to that later.
Speaker 1: But do you think that people more or less are
Speaker 1: kind of one or the other, Like they're more college
Speaker 1: football than NFL and vice versa. I don't think there's
Speaker 1: a ton of crossover, right, It's kind of a different audience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know how many people are out
Speaker 1: there that I love college football and NFL football the same.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, for me, like I enjoy college football,
Speaker 1: I really like college football. But yeah, I'm I'm not
Speaker 1: scheduling my week around all the games. Maybe one or
Speaker 1: two games I'll schedule around the college football. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think. I think with people it's either one or
Speaker 1: the other. I just didn't think of one problem about
Speaker 1: your proposal. You're talking full Saturday, full Sunday might not
Speaker 1: be the greatest way to enter into a football season
Speaker 1: with some relationships. I think a lot of relationships might
Speaker 1: fail if the person who loves football is like, all right,
Speaker 1: Saturday Sunday, I'm out. I'm not gonna bes romantic relationships. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, the force rate might already be high in
Speaker 1: this country, it might go higher if that's how we
Speaker 1: enter I just like just be like this way, we're
Speaker 1: slowly entering the season, as opposed to the mass hysteria
Speaker 1: that would be. You know, I don't know, Yeah, that
Speaker 1: could be a problem. I know my wife wouldn't love it,
Speaker 1: and she's a football fan, she would not love that much.
Speaker 1: Opening weekend well, as always, we know there's money involved
Speaker 1: and that deciphers everything. But so many networks broadcast both
Speaker 1: college football and NFL, so I feel like they could
Speaker 1: cross promote, and there's I don't know. I'm that just
Speaker 1: my husband and I disagreed on this one this weekend,
Speaker 1: so I wanted to ask your opinion. We can also
Speaker 1: ask the opinion of someone much higher up and more
Speaker 1: informed than us. It's NFL insider from the NFL network,
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport. He's coming on the show. I'm excited for
Speaker 1: that one. Jerry. Yeah, there's so many other things to unpack.
Speaker 1: I even had an unbelievable moment. I know, we talked
Speaker 1: about our kids on this show. And I don't want
Speaker 1: to jump too far ahead, but I had a great
Speaker 1: moment with my my three year old revolving around college football.
Speaker 1: I saw that on your Twitter that you you guys
Speaker 1: were watching the game together and what he was like
Speaker 1: asking questions and was into it. Right. Yes, I I
Speaker 1: definitely don't do pressure. I've never been a pressure guy
Speaker 1: my whole life. Like, I've not been like, come watch
Speaker 1: football with me, like just I let him kind of
Speaker 1: do his own thing, but I watched football. So yeah,
Speaker 1: nine o'clock at night, he kind of came out of
Speaker 1: his room. He's like, oh, hey, Dad, what are you doing.
Speaker 1: You're watching some football. I'm like, yeah, can I watch
Speaker 1: with you? Sure, sit down and have a seat. He went.
Speaker 1: He's like, he went and got his pillow. He laid
Speaker 1: it down next to me, and he was laying down.
Speaker 1: I was explaining Ohio State, you know the red jerseys
Speaker 1: there from where you're from Ohio. He thought tackling was
Speaker 1: the funniest thing you ever saw. He just kept going, oh,
Speaker 1: you tripped, And he loved punts because the ball he
Speaker 1: could actually really see the ball in the air, So
Speaker 1: asked a few great questions. He made it a whole quarter.
Speaker 1: He watched the whole second quarter, and just when I
Speaker 1: thought he was gonna like settle in for the whole game,
Speaker 1: it's like, all right, Jacob, it's halftime that he's gonna
Speaker 1: make us some popcorn. He's like, no, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: and Ben sleep with Mama. Good night. And he just
Speaker 1: took his little pillow and he walked off into the night.
Speaker 1: And it was I think maybe top three dad moments.
Speaker 1: There was no pressure. He just did it on his own.
Speaker 1: Oh that is so adorable. So you're never going to
Speaker 1: be like, hey, kids, get an acting class. Definitely not No, no, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe some school plays and stuff here and there, but no,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be the you gotta be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be an actor. If he loves it, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about I'll actually discourage it, if I'm being honest.
Speaker 1: Speaking of that Ohio State game, though Notre Dame covered,
Speaker 1: and our friend Peter Andrew, he told you they would.
Speaker 1: Even Pat Forty, who was much more knowledgeable than Peter Andrew,
Speaker 1: thought that Ohio State would cover as a seventeen point spread.
Speaker 1: But the Friday in Irish hung in there and they
Speaker 1: did it. Yeah, that was a big number. We all
Speaker 1: knew that. In Ordered Dame. It's not nearly as good
Speaker 1: as Ohio State, but they have a good defense that
Speaker 1: they're well coached. They definitely had Ohio State playing their
Speaker 1: game in that first half. Ohio State was missing their receiver,
Speaker 1: so they slowed it down, but you kind of knew
Speaker 1: it was a I actually ultimately think that type of
Speaker 1: game long term for Ohio State will be good. They
Speaker 1: beat a quality team and kind of a grind out game.
Speaker 1: Worried because they got off to that slow start, I don't.
Speaker 1: I think it's actually long term a good thing. How
Speaker 1: jacked up are you about Georgia? That must have been
Speaker 1: a good feel for you this weekend. Oh, it was incredible.
Speaker 1: It was incredible beating a number eleven team and only
Speaker 1: allowing three points. I mean, they were so great. I
Speaker 1: was thinking of our friend Pat Forty because he writes
Speaker 1: this cover story on steps and Bennett, and then of
Speaker 1: course even in Sideline Red fort in which I did,
Speaker 1: is sometimes after you give a great story about let's
Speaker 1: say a second string running back or something, and then
Speaker 1: right after you finish your story, they score a touchdown,
Speaker 1: Like you're like Yes, that timing couldn't have worked better.
Speaker 1: And I was thinking of Pat when Stetson had an
Speaker 1: incredible game. He had three sixty eight and two past touchdowns,
Speaker 1: one rushing. I mean, he he was on fire. And
Speaker 1: it just it just to find the article, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Yeah, it's it's hard to say men
Speaker 1: amongst boys and college football because those are all large, strong,
Speaker 1: athletic fast men playing. So but he does look like
Speaker 1: I have remember thinking this watching the game. It's like
Speaker 1: he's like that kid who rolls up to the little
Speaker 1: league field and you look at the other you look
Speaker 1: at the other dugout and you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: the kid's got a mustache and he has a car
Speaker 1: keys in his pocket to be dried. Here he's supposed
Speaker 1: to be twelve years old. That's just kind of how
Speaker 1: at ease he looks playing quarterback right now. Just looks
Speaker 1: and I know they're loaded, but he's also playing just high.
Speaker 1: High level of confidence is the word I would use
Speaker 1: with him. He just looks unafraid of every situation. Oh,
Speaker 1: it was glorious to watch. And we talked last week
Speaker 1: about how most of the defense departed for the NFL.
Speaker 1: Well that doesn't seem to matter. It's it's a strong
Speaker 1: Georgia defense. Again. Last year they're best in the nation.
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how they play out. This year
Speaker 1: they looked out, so I'm really hopeful about the Dogs.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about that one. Your second team his Michigan
Speaker 1: More despite your in laws were big Buckeye fans, but
Speaker 1: we were following the story of their quarterback of they
Speaker 1: were gonna have two different starters for the first two weeks.
Speaker 1: I believe you're starting week three, but Cade McNamara started
Speaker 1: last week Firs Colorado State. He went nine for eighteen,
Speaker 1: one six and a touchdown. J. J. McCarthy is going
Speaker 1: to start this weekend versus Hawaii. Did you follow this
Speaker 1: at all? Do you care? I do care because and
Speaker 1: Pat really did help us out. We mentioned Pat forty
Speaker 1: fifteen times already. He definitely did help. It was a
Speaker 1: great episode. I've been talking about it all week. He
Speaker 1: definitely helped me with the why are they playing too,
Speaker 1: Why they're announcing two different quarter they're basically announcing their
Speaker 1: starting lineup for the season now, and it's different quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: and he mentioned the whole transfer situation. He said, hardball
Speaker 1: is kind of genius with this, however, and Cade was fine.
Speaker 1: That game was over before it's arted, and it was
Speaker 1: all kind of mop up duty. Even then, J J
Speaker 1: McCarthy does come in, he goes four for four. He
Speaker 1: did rush for fifty yards and a touchdown on three rushes,
Speaker 1: so I think he actually still won the first week,
Speaker 1: even though it was kind of mop I don't want
Speaker 1: to call it mop up duty because the whole game
Speaker 1: was mop up duty. So I'm really interested to see
Speaker 1: what JJ does next week, because at some point someone's
Speaker 1: gonna play better and you have to Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: they're not going to be playing Colorado State every week.
Speaker 1: At some point, tough decisions against good teams are coming. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Something we didn't ask Pat about last week that I
Speaker 1: wish we had. Of course it didn't break until the weekend,
Speaker 1: but still a really interesting topic that has been anticipated
Speaker 1: for years is the new college football playoffs. So it's
Speaker 1: expanding finally. A lot of people wanted that, myself included
Speaker 1: to twelve teams, implemented no later than so it's coming.
Speaker 1: I think people wish it was here sooner than later,
Speaker 1: because this is going to make college football that much
Speaker 1: more interesting. So much so that I think it's time
Speaker 1: two on which I think it makes the whole season
Speaker 1: more interesting start to finish, because otherwise a team who
Speaker 1: lost Week one, you know, we just finished Week one,
Speaker 1: you'd be pretty much out of it. And remember, Jerry.
Speaker 1: In college football, it's much more nuanced. You you have
Speaker 1: to have a resume. It's not how many wins you have,
Speaker 1: it's who you beat. You know, in the NFL, it's
Speaker 1: kind of a numbers game. It doesn't matter if people
Speaker 1: respect the team you just beat. You just gotta beat him,
Speaker 1: got a win your division, got to win your conference
Speaker 1: to advance to the super Bowl. In college football, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, they beat Notre Dame week one, but Notre
Speaker 1: Dame was really shorthanded, so it's not as impressive as
Speaker 1: it might have been. Like that, truly is the type
Speaker 1: of conversation that we're having as we get closer to
Speaker 1: selecting the four teams who play in the playoffs. So
Speaker 1: I like that it makes everything more juicy, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's not like a single elimination Week one,
Speaker 1: which has happened, so it makes the whole season more important.
Speaker 1: I think it's way more attractive for players to play
Speaker 1: in this now playoff. Let's say you're the twelfth team
Speaker 1: to make it. Well, you might have been playing in
Speaker 1: the good Year Tire Bowl, and if you're a guy
Speaker 1: who's wanting to go to the draft, you would skip
Speaker 1: it because you want to make sure you don't get hurt. Well,
Speaker 1: now instead of playing in the good Year Tire Bowl,
Speaker 1: you're playing in a playoff game. You're gonna play. It's
Speaker 1: important to you, it's important to your team. You're not
Speaker 1: going to sit out. So I think that is so
Speaker 1: much more enticing to the viewer of stars playing longer.
Speaker 1: And then with n I l more teams and players
Speaker 1: in the playoff. Now they've more of a chance to
Speaker 1: cash in. If your star running back on I keep
Speaker 1: kind of using this reference. But the twelfth team in well, now,
Speaker 1: maybe he's just signed a nice little deal for an
Speaker 1: extra ten twenty grand to do something in your town
Speaker 1: for you know what I mean. It's just this stuff
Speaker 1: at up but accumulates, and then I think most importantly
Speaker 1: it's the chance of an upset. It makes it more
Speaker 1: like March madness. When you have more teams you have
Speaker 1: you never know who's going to get hot at the
Speaker 1: right time. And you know, injuries really play a big role.
Speaker 1: When you think of Alabama last year, their top two receivers,
Speaker 1: one went down in the SEC championship, one went down
Speaker 1: in the National Championship. I think if there was a
Speaker 1: third game in there, I think if those had been
Speaker 1: too playoff games before they got to national championship game,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. That's really interesting. So I think all of
Speaker 1: it makes college football a little sexier. You know, you want,
Speaker 1: you want a bigger playoff. It just feels like more's
Speaker 1: at stake. So I'm off for it. I'm excited. Look
Speaker 1: as someone who self admittedly I like college football, I
Speaker 1: don't love it because I just don't have the band
Speaker 1: with yah. But if you're telling, if you're using that
Speaker 1: magic word that we all love playoff games and say sexy, right,
Speaker 1: it's odd because you know, baseball was kind of the
Speaker 1: first to expand the playoff system. People balked out of
Speaker 1: it first, and it's probably the best thing baseball has
Speaker 1: going right now. Obviously the NBA is now messing with
Speaker 1: this plan, which everyone loves. For the most part, I
Speaker 1: just think, like you said, they're taking a book at
Speaker 1: a play a page out of college basketball's book, and
Speaker 1: now you have the cinderella story. College football never had
Speaker 1: the cinderella story. Can't be like fifteen and two. That's
Speaker 1: not a cinderella story. But in college football, if you
Speaker 1: were to sneak out in national championship at fifteen and two,
Speaker 1: you were probably the underdog going and if you had
Speaker 1: two losses on your scheduleinati last year. Cincinnati last year
Speaker 1: was a quote college football cinderella story because they're a
Speaker 1: lower tier right school. But I agree, yeah, so you
Speaker 1: like it to dumb guy question here, are they gonna
Speaker 1: go right to twelve? Or do we not know? Are
Speaker 1: they gonna slowly? Are they gonna go for eight and
Speaker 1: then twelve? Are they jumping right from four to twelve?
Speaker 1: They're gonna jump for to twelve. That is a lot,
Speaker 1: that is the side note. And we've got to get
Speaker 1: Pat forty back. Maybe do one year with eight, test
Speaker 1: the waters and then maybe up at the twelve. He's
Speaker 1: jumping right to twelve. I don't know, but they are
Speaker 1: a lot smarter than I am. So well, that is
Speaker 1: for sharp. I'm all for it. But yeah, I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously it was just voted on. Is just
Speaker 1: agreed upon, So it's too late to have it for
Speaker 1: this season, but I just wish they do it next season.
Speaker 1: Just let's go. Let's do it, because then if you're
Speaker 1: let's say, you're a team that probably would have made
Speaker 1: the top twelve, but right now you're a junior, you know,
Speaker 1: you're like, I'm never going to see the playoff because
Speaker 1: my team is not gonna be a top four team
Speaker 1: this year or next year, but we would be a
Speaker 1: top twelve team, Like we're one of the twelve best
Speaker 1: in the country. So it's you know, like, just now that,
Speaker 1: now that it's dangling right in front of these guys,
Speaker 1: let's get to it. Yeah, it's gonna affect so many
Speaker 1: like it will affect the NFL draft, WHI would be cool.
Speaker 1: We all know we've am a prisoner of the moment
Speaker 1: with the playoff system and the now National Championship game.
Speaker 1: So now there'll be something, like you said, ten eleven
Speaker 1: twelve seeds who we would not be watching play playoff games.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a look. So it's gonna even affect
Speaker 1: the NFL draft. So this is really cool. That was
Speaker 1: the unleashed section and now we have a new game,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited for this one. It's called That's the ticker.
Speaker 1: So as we are going to talk Week one games
Speaker 1: with Peter in a little bit. First, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: some fun with some futures and they're going to be
Speaker 1: kind of random, which I love because I love picking
Speaker 1: either a bad team to bet, like a low under
Speaker 1: on for win totals, or you know, a random player
Speaker 1: prop like These are the fun ones because then you
Speaker 1: have interest in something otherwise you wouldn't you know what
Speaker 1: I mean from a betting angle. Do you want me
Speaker 1: to throw the first random one at you please? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: And these are random, but actually these are some kind
Speaker 1: of props that I love. Okay, let's start with one
Speaker 1: that actually will start up pretty much Thursday, because we're
Speaker 1: gonna have at least a player or two involved in
Speaker 1: this Thursday Night Rams Bills. Most regular season receptions, we
Speaker 1: have Cooper Cup plus four hundred. Obviously, I think he
Speaker 1: had four hundred receptions last year. Davante Adams now on
Speaker 1: the Raiders plus a fifty Justin Jefferson getting a Lot
Speaker 1: of Love plus nine hundred or Stefon Diggs plus nine hundred.
Speaker 1: What do you think? Well, he didn't have four d
Speaker 1: He had a hundred forty five up. Uh yeah, he
Speaker 1: had a hundred forty five last year and that was
Speaker 1: sharing with oh b J when he joined the Rams
Speaker 1: in November. So now, and I mean obviously other players,
Speaker 1: but those two cut the bulk. Now it's just Cup
Speaker 1: and Van Jefferson. And of course they added Allen Robinson.
Speaker 1: I know you're big Allen Robinson fan. Those are the starters.
Speaker 1: They also drafted to two at well who I think
Speaker 1: will contribute. But Cup, we'll get the bulk of the
Speaker 1: targets obviously. You know, oh b J was a star
Speaker 1: and kind of brought in his own style. But now
Speaker 1: I feel like cups receptions are even gonna go up
Speaker 1: from So it's chalk he's plus four hundred. I like
Speaker 1: Cup here. I also don't think Davonte Adams is going
Speaker 1: to be as great without Rogers. I hate to say that,
Speaker 1: but it's uh. I probably sound like a biased, bitter
Speaker 1: Packer fan when I say that. The only other one
Speaker 1: that was kind of intriguing to me was Stefon Diggs.
Speaker 1: And again we'll we'll find out sooner than later on
Speaker 1: that one. You know, he's healthy and that's gonna be good.
Speaker 1: But for me, I'm going Cooper Cup at plus four hundred.
Speaker 1: Do you like that or would you leave it? I
Speaker 1: do you it's hard to it's hard to not love
Speaker 1: that I got a hundred forty five receptions last year.
Speaker 1: If I were to make any other case, I would
Speaker 1: make the Justin Jefferson case. You know, different coaching situation there,
Speaker 1: theiling hopefully back and healthy, which may help Justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: not get fully double covered. I just think Justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: is poised for this kind of maybe record kind of year.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but uh yeah, I'd like the plus
Speaker 1: nine hundred. But Cooper Cup, you can't. You can't argue
Speaker 1: with Cooper Cup because there was no O b J.
Speaker 1: In Super Bowl. That was their only receiver, and he
Speaker 1: still had like a hunter and fifty receptions in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So even with all eyes of O b
Speaker 1: J had like what two catches and one of them
Speaker 1: was for a touchdown right before he got hurt. Right,
Speaker 1: I will say, oh b J didn't didn't start the
Speaker 1: season there, So Cooper Cup did have a solid month
Speaker 1: month and ahead without O b J to pile up.
Speaker 1: I mean, god, it was insane, but they got Stafford there.
Speaker 1: I love it. I do love Grouper Cup. Most regular
Speaker 1: season receptions. Okay, you brought up Stafford. Let's stick with quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw the next one at you. Most regular
Speaker 1: season interceptions thrown. So we've got Zack Wilson at plus
Speaker 1: eight hundred, Justin Fields a plus nine hundred, and Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence plus one thousand. I think Trevor Lawrence was the
Speaker 1: leader in interceptions last year. Don't quote me on that.
Speaker 1: I think or he was tied for the leading interceptions.
Speaker 1: I think Trevor Lawrence takes a step up this year.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that means less interceptions. I like Justin Fields on this.
Speaker 1: I like him as a player. I don't even really
Speaker 1: put this on him. I do think there might be
Speaker 1: a level of maybe for his life with that old line.
Speaker 1: Although they're showing some signs. Zach Wilson plus eight hunter
Speaker 1: he may miss a game, although there are talks that
Speaker 1: he might be ready for Week one, which and I
Speaker 1: think helped report that, so that would be really really cool.
Speaker 1: I leaned Justin Fields plus nine hundred. I didn't check
Speaker 1: the odds on this other player who came to my
Speaker 1: mind and I'm gonna put our producer Joel Solomon on
Speaker 1: blast right now because I was kind of on the
Speaker 1: move getting the kid to school, and I said, anyone
Speaker 1: know what's Jamis Winston's odds on leading in this. We
Speaker 1: know Jamis, you know, famously threw a lot of inter sections,
Speaker 1: a lot of pick six is pretty much. And Joel
Speaker 1: sent me to Jamis Winston odds and then also just
Speaker 1: thought it would be fine to send me the Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones interception odds. I didn't ask for those. I don't
Speaker 1: know why you did that. I did not ask for
Speaker 1: the Daniel Joe. Daniel Jones is a fumbler. Let's get
Speaker 1: one thing straight. It's a fumbler. He's not necessarily he
Speaker 1: might not throw enough to have I I think justin
Speaker 1: fields plus nine dred Is would be my call. Okay,
Speaker 1: I disagree because I think the Bears are going to
Speaker 1: be so run heavy. I don't think they're letting him
Speaker 1: off the leash yet. And I agree that Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: is going to be much improved, but he's so young.
Speaker 1: I I don't know. I think he could lead from
Speaker 1: those three. I think he would have the most regular
Speaker 1: season and interceptions a plus one thousand, so that one
Speaker 1: not when we disagree on and Yeahzack Wilson might play
Speaker 1: Week one, which is nuts that that's just coming out. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's another QB one. How many passing yards well Tom
Speaker 1: Brady record in the regular season. The number is four thousand,
Speaker 1: five nine and a half. What do you think over under?
Speaker 1: I think over is a coin flip to me, But
Speaker 1: I'm not. I've been scorned by this already, thinking oh,
Speaker 1: this is the year Brady's done, and he won like
Speaker 1: three more Super Bowls after that, So I know this
Speaker 1: year might be a big under year on props for
Speaker 1: a lot of players out there. I'm not an under guy.
Speaker 1: I eileen over here. I know there's weapons issues with
Speaker 1: God and coming back from an A c L and
Speaker 1: Russell Gauges. I get it. But still I I think
Speaker 1: he's got enough there and I think with that division
Speaker 1: he could easily throw for for the over on that.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to say under, and you're you're not wrong.
Speaker 1: Both years he's been in Tampa Bay, he's had over
Speaker 1: that number. But now he loses Gronk, he loses Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: Mike Evans is working back from injury, and probably won't
Speaker 1: go Week one is what I'm seeing. Russell Gauges injured,
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin is coming back, and I guess just this
Speaker 1: week practice without a brace. That's a big deal. They
Speaker 1: brought in Julio Jones, but I think there are enough
Speaker 1: question marks there. You know, he's kind of lost his
Speaker 1: two guys. You know, he was a big proponent of
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown through everything and and obviously Gronks his guy.
Speaker 1: But I think this might be an under year for him. Again,
Speaker 1: not saying that they can't still win, but I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's gonna completely air it out like that,
Speaker 1: because yeah, I just think is Stable is a little
Speaker 1: bit depleted. And you know, his last two years in
Speaker 1: New England, before he became a buccaneer, he was under
Speaker 1: that number. So I don't know I'm going under. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's another one. How many receiving touchdowns? Well, Kyle Pitts
Speaker 1: record in the regular season the numbers four and a half.
Speaker 1: So I love Kyle Pitts. Everyone loves Kyle Pitts. Want
Speaker 1: such a talented excite. I mean, he's basically a wide
Speaker 1: receiver at a tight at tight end, he's better than
Speaker 1: most wide receivers at this point, and I know touchdowns
Speaker 1: definitely wasn't his thing last year, although he had an
Speaker 1: all Pro years had one touchdown. I know I had
Speaker 1: him in like all fantasy leagues one receiving touchdown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's very easy to key in on him inside
Speaker 1: the red zone and even inside the thirty yard line
Speaker 1: if they're not double covering Kyle Pitts. I would question
Speaker 1: every de coordinator. That being said, I I do lean
Speaker 1: under because I just don't know if there's enough around
Speaker 1: him to garner the four the five touchdowns to get
Speaker 1: the overside lean under. I like under here. I will say, though,
Speaker 1: if it does go over, I do think it's because
Speaker 1: he just has one monster game where he has like
Speaker 1: four touchdowns in a game, and I think that's what
Speaker 1: will maybe get him over. You know, yea some matchup
Speaker 1: with it's not gonna be against New Orleans, but you know,
Speaker 1: I think they play the Seahawks. That could be easily
Speaker 1: a game he has four touchdowns. Yeah you're Seahawks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he might just do it against your Seahawks, but you
Speaker 1: know your Seahawks are going to win the division. So
Speaker 1: I even if he has four touchdowns, way to beat him. Okay, No,
Speaker 1: you said it wasn't over wins. Wasn't it when the division?
Speaker 1: When the division wasn't a lock, it was my lottery ticket.
Speaker 1: But the over wins, which I think is over five
Speaker 1: and hap is my lock? Was your lock? Oh god?
Speaker 1: What did they do? Okay? Super Bowl Division winning team
Speaker 1: a f C East is plus four FIFTYFC West plus
Speaker 1: three fifty, NFC West plus five hundred, NFC South plus
Speaker 1: six hundred. I'm going with the a f C West Obviously,
Speaker 1: I think tip to tail they're the most stacked. Definitely
Speaker 1: when it comes to the quarterback position. I just think
Speaker 1: there are too many good teams in that division that
Speaker 1: I like the odds of one of the four making
Speaker 1: it to the super Bowl or win. But ultimately I
Speaker 1: do see the bills from the a f C East
Speaker 1: winning the a f C. So that's that's a tough one.
Speaker 1: But I guess for a bet I like the a
Speaker 1: f C West at plus three fifties plus three fifties
Speaker 1: a good number for that you're essentially getting a whole division,
Speaker 1: which I don't think any of these other divisions have
Speaker 1: even the possibility of four teams winning the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: even though it's highly unlikely that the you know, the
Speaker 1: Raiders will win the Super Bowl. Although I do like
Speaker 1: the Raiders this year, I'm gonna go a little different
Speaker 1: on Interestingly enough, no NFC East here, while shocking, we
Speaker 1: didn't even bring up the NFC East and what their
Speaker 1: odds are plus two million? Probably I like, I sort
Speaker 1: of like the NFC West. You get the Rams, who
Speaker 1: easily could get back there. You have the Niners. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Trey Lance figures out some things. Niners are super talented,
Speaker 1: and we know I love the Seahawks here, and everyone's
Speaker 1: writing off the Cardinals and I sort of them too.
Speaker 1: But NFC West at plus five hunter a f C
Speaker 1: West is the way to go. But if you wanted
Speaker 1: a second choice, NFC West with a little sprinkling might
Speaker 1: be okay at plus five. Yeah, because you like the Rams,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm with you. All right, Let's stick
Speaker 1: with the NFL, and let's bring in our guest, perhaps
Speaker 1: only Jalen Ramsey covers the NFL as well as he
Speaker 1: does NFL Network insider Ian Rappaport's here. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get down to brass tacks. Right before we were here,
Speaker 1: you had a shirt that said, gotta go gott a text.
Speaker 1: You are the guy who gets all the latest and
Speaker 1: greatest information, and I know you were even a little
Speaker 1: late coming on here because you were finishing up something.
Speaker 1: So do you have any scoop for us anything recent?
Speaker 1: In the last couple of days. I have so much
Speaker 1: swimming around in my brain that I'm I'm sure some
Speaker 1: of it will come out. I mean, it's weird because
Speaker 1: is like, you know, we got a couple of days
Speaker 1: before the season starts, and so many of the different
Speaker 1: storylines for the off season a kind of culminating here,
Speaker 1: and like some of them had handled already, like Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson is done obviously, Baker Mayfield was traded, Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: got a new contract. Lamar Jackson still as of right now,
Speaker 1: does not have a new contract. But like, it's weird
Speaker 1: because I personally, like, like, I love football, so I
Speaker 1: get so excited for so excited for the season to start.
Speaker 1: And some of the reasons because we start new with
Speaker 1: what I do, which is news, all of the off
Speaker 1: season stuff is like rounding to a close, and it's
Speaker 1: like by the time we get to Thursday night, it'll
Speaker 1: basically be clean slate and it's like, okay, like what
Speaker 1: are we gonna have and like what's the year gonna be?
Speaker 1: Like that, that's the really good stuff for me. I'm excited. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I almost said to him, I'm so happy to have
Speaker 1: you on and talk to him like we gotta hope
Speaker 1: he comes back, because you're right, it's kind of winding down.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a fresh slate of stories and narratives
Speaker 1: coming up. So I hope you you you come back.
Speaker 1: But this is definitely been a strange offseason, at least
Speaker 1: as a fan watching all this, Like where does this
Speaker 1: one kind of rank for you? And bizarre you know,
Speaker 1: you got Tom Brady, you mentioned Deshaun Watson. Does this
Speaker 1: one rank up in bizarre kind of stories? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: mean the Deshaun Watson story, which was like never ending.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, think about it. We had all year.
Speaker 1: So like there were times in June and I'm not
Speaker 1: talking this June, I mean last June, so where I
Speaker 1: thought Deshaun Watson would be traded at some point over
Speaker 1: the next week. That was last June, and he wasn't
Speaker 1: traded for you know, many many many months after that.
Speaker 1: I didn't play at all and then gets traded, which
Speaker 1: was massive, and then it's like, all right, four months
Speaker 1: of what's going to be a suspension? What's gonna happen
Speaker 1: to various disciplinary things like so we had that hanging
Speaker 1: over us at all times. We had the Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: trade going into the summer, Like I broke that from
Speaker 1: the fifteenth Green of Congressional in Washington. He playing golf
Speaker 1: with a buddy of mine. It just it would never
Speaker 1: stopped the Aaron Donald contract, Like was he going to retire?
Speaker 1: Was he not? Like all of those things? So I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was like the craziest, but it
Speaker 1: was definitely one where like you couldn't really put the
Speaker 1: phone down because there were various times where you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, this massive news is going to happen in
Speaker 1: the middle of June and we're all just going to
Speaker 1: react to it. I mean, that's good stuff. That Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1: You just jogged my memory. I believe it was your
Speaker 1: coworker Cynthia Freeland that he said, I'm going to f
Speaker 1: the Browns up. So that game is coming up this weekend.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be massive. Probably is one of the best
Speaker 1: storylines going into these week one games, what do you
Speaker 1: expect out of Baker and the Panthers, and and what
Speaker 1: do you expect for the Browns to bring without Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson as he mentioned, But you know, Myles Garrett seems
Speaker 1: like he really wants to get to Baker as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm like a weird person ask on Baker and
Speaker 1: you guys know, like I'm a newsperson, I break news.
Speaker 1: I'm not a scout, right. I don't analyze the film,
Speaker 1: but I feel Baker is good and last year, if
Speaker 1: you go back to last October, Baker tears the labor
Speaker 1: m on his left shoulder. If he sits down and
Speaker 1: doesn't if he doesn't play like he's a tough dude,
Speaker 1: he was definitely playing. If he sits down and doesn't play,
Speaker 1: I think he's still on the Browns. Because we went
Speaker 1: to at all the negative stuff, we would have still
Speaker 1: thought he was the Browns franchise quarterback. Instead, he played
Speaker 1: bad last year, he was injured and obviously got traded.
Speaker 1: I still see him as a guy who is a
Speaker 1: top half of the league quarterback who can be really good,
Speaker 1: and the fact that he's facing his old team is
Speaker 1: always fun. So I expect a really good performance. The
Speaker 1: thing with the Browns is, I mean, obviously we've spent
Speaker 1: so much time talking about two Sean and he's all
Speaker 1: the off field stuff aside as only a football player.
Speaker 1: He is a fantastic quarterback. I think the roster is
Speaker 1: pretty good, so I would expect a close game. But
Speaker 1: you know, for a team like the Panthers that I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people have written off, like I would,
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be okay this year. You know
Speaker 1: another situation that's I don't want to say confused me,
Speaker 1: but maybe you could just clear it for me. He's
Speaker 1: the forty niners QB situation. I know we probably will
Speaker 1: all follow that closely too. And where's Jimmy g gonna go?
Speaker 1: And then he's staying? Is ultimately this a good thing?
Speaker 1: Like where does Jimmy G go from here? Like what's
Speaker 1: his ideal scenario? Is it seeing the field or is
Speaker 1: it taking a year off and then making some other
Speaker 1: decisions in a year from now. Yeah. See, that's a
Speaker 1: great question. And this is one when I was trying
Speaker 1: to figure out. You know, I knew he wouldn't get
Speaker 1: traded because I knew there was no market for him,
Speaker 1: by the way, that was one of the other storylines
Speaker 1: that was like never ending the summer, right, But I
Speaker 1: knew he wouldn't get traded absence some quarterback injury. So
Speaker 1: I kept thinking in my head, all right, well, they're
Speaker 1: gonna cut him, and then he's gonna wait because why
Speaker 1: would he go sign with the Seahawks, which I never
Speaker 1: thought that was possible anyway, But like, get healthy, get cut,
Speaker 1: and then some good team will lose the quarterback. It
Speaker 1: happens every year, and just go ride to the rescue,
Speaker 1: set himself up for a big year next year, and
Speaker 1: go ahead and make a lot of money. Instead the
Speaker 1: forty Niners keep him, but some of that is still
Speaker 1: in play, like and if there's an injury, step in
Speaker 1: for a system he knows too, like what if Trey
Speaker 1: Lance is up and down and what if he's not ready?
Speaker 1: And that is all possible, Like I think he'll be okay,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that for sure. And I was
Speaker 1: there in camp and he was, you know, there was
Speaker 1: some good, some really not so good. So to me,
Speaker 1: like just for Jimmy g the best case scenario is
Speaker 1: he rides to the rescue and plays well enough to
Speaker 1: lead them to the playoffs and forces them to make
Speaker 1: an unbelievably brutal decision in the off season. That's a
Speaker 1: great scenario for him. The other scenario of not playing.
Speaker 1: I think we'll go into free agency next year and
Speaker 1: be absolutely fine and probably make a ton of money. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Another high profile player who we don't really know where
Speaker 1: he'll find a home as early as this season is
Speaker 1: O b J. What teams do you think have legitimate
Speaker 1: interests in O b J. Yeah, I mean I would
Speaker 1: say to me, the Rams still feel like maybe the
Speaker 1: most likely option. They still have a need. He loves them.
Speaker 1: And he crash Sewn mcveigh's wedding, which is so messed
Speaker 1: up as you got through the guy and invite right,
Speaker 1: So he wasn't invited at all. No, they only invited
Speaker 1: the captives because otherwise you know what happens, like you can.
Speaker 1: I mean, we had ninety eight people at our wedding.
Speaker 1: We cut the list pretty hard. McVeigh is a great dude.
Speaker 1: He knows everyone, like you could invite a million people.
Speaker 1: So he crashed, and you know, there's so much good
Speaker 1: feeling there. I think that makes sense. It's just a
Speaker 1: matter of like doesn't make more sense for him to wait.
Speaker 1: Like that's another one where like he's not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to play until probably November, so early November probably.
Speaker 1: So if that's the case, then maybe there's a market.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe there's three teams that need a really fast,
Speaker 1: really good receiver in November. But if we're talking about
Speaker 1: favorite teams, you know, can I just selfishly talk. I'm
Speaker 1: a little concerned, sir, And it's not the right word,
Speaker 1: very very excited about the Giants new coach Brian Table
Speaker 1: right that I was hoping you would call the plays.
Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing him with the big like
Speaker 1: cheesecake fact to remember, you know, like you got a
Speaker 1: million plays, looks like a menu. Yeah, and then you know,
Speaker 1: he says, our players are gonna be calling from the
Speaker 1: booth from Kafka, Like that, that's not a big deal, right,
Speaker 1: I don't need to panic about something like that, right, No,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't panic. I would say, Like when they hired Kafka,
Speaker 1: I sort of thought, all right, he's probably gonna be
Speaker 1: the play caller because otherwise he wouldn't leave, right, right,
Speaker 1: So in my head, like I didn't know for sure,
Speaker 1: but I'm like kind of putting it together, and nobody
Speaker 1: would tell me, like it was all very secretive. But
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, this makes sense if he was
Speaker 1: going to call the place, because otherwise you stay in
Speaker 1: Kansas City with Mahomes. Right. I would also say that
Speaker 1: it's such an issue for a head coach. You know,
Speaker 1: you you're the play caller, you're the head coach, and
Speaker 1: then something goes wrong and it's like, are you gonna
Speaker 1: get up play calling? You know, it's such a storyline.
Speaker 1: Like as a head coach, he will have input, he'll
Speaker 1: help with the game plan. Most important is to be
Speaker 1: the leader, just you know, like let's say the defense
Speaker 1: has trouble, Like you should be able to spend a
Speaker 1: Wednesday during the with the defense without worrying that it's
Speaker 1: going to affect the play cang. So it does free
Speaker 1: him up to lead this team, and so I think
Speaker 1: that should be encouraging. That said, like, there is a
Speaker 1: possibility that is a difficult year for the Giants, which
Speaker 1: is okay, but I think there's a possible like they
Speaker 1: did not add a lot in the offseason, they don't
Speaker 1: have any money, and we'll see what Daniel Jones is like,
Speaker 1: there's it could go either way, but it's possible that
Speaker 1: it's not ideal. I think I need a second team
Speaker 1: to like, Yeah, I think it's start to always have
Speaker 1: two teams. Just jump on you, just be like, be
Speaker 1: like Odell, just wait till November and jump on board.
Speaker 1: I wish I had that luxury. It's ingrained to me
Speaker 1: these giants. Yeah. Another player who is kind of in
Speaker 1: a precarious situation is Alvin Kamara. His potential suspension is delayed.
Speaker 1: That's expected to be six games for his alleged involvement
Speaker 1: in a Las Vegas nightclub fight. What can Saints fans
Speaker 1: and fantasy football fans expect as far as his availability?
Speaker 1: What are you hearing? Timing wise? It does and we'll see,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't seem like it will be this year
Speaker 1: because the hearing has been pushed and pushed. I think
Speaker 1: now it's tensibly scheduled for somewhere in the middle of
Speaker 1: the season, but like you know, how it goes, everything
Speaker 1: takes forever. So my senses, this is something that's pushed
Speaker 1: through this year and you deal with it next year.
Speaker 1: And like I know, people think it will be six games.
Speaker 1: We'll see, Like, we don't know. I don't know what
Speaker 1: he did. I don't know what evidence there is, Like
Speaker 1: obviously I was not there and we haven't seen anything
Speaker 1: except the initial police sort of report that was made public.
Speaker 1: So we'll see how many games it is. I just
Speaker 1: get the sense of timing wise that it's not this
Speaker 1: year and everything is always push push, push, So that's
Speaker 1: probably the way it goes. So like for the Saints,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna end up playing this year, and
Speaker 1: my my guess is he's gonna have a really really
Speaker 1: good year and that the offense is gonna be pretty good.
Speaker 1: And Ian kind of on that note, with the Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson case, all of a sudden everyone became a lawyer
Speaker 1: as we're dissecting what was happening. Can you explain every
Speaker 1: one why the NFL can't almost handle probate by themselves
Speaker 1: in terms of a suspension on their own terms apart
Speaker 1: from what happens in the courts, well they do when
Speaker 1: they don't. So basically, the new system this year, and
Speaker 1: it was jointly negotiated in the c b A and
Speaker 1: the Union did not want Roger Goodell to be the
Speaker 1: judge during execution. They did not want him to just decide,
Speaker 1: so they added this extra layer. Now, if Goddell had
Speaker 1: his druthers, it likely would have been a full season.
Speaker 1: The independent arbitrator made it six games. They end up
Speaker 1: meeting somewhere in the middle, and it's eleven games. So
Speaker 1: it's I would say, a little more fair. But the
Speaker 1: problem is, you know the NFL, I think they so
Speaker 1: often they have to wait until the criminal proceedings go
Speaker 1: through because they don't want to interfere with Like, you know,
Speaker 1: if the NFL starts talking to witnesses of something, not
Speaker 1: about Sean but anything, well, then does that change things?
Speaker 1: Does something that is said to the NFL alter what
Speaker 1: the police are gonna do. So you know, we all,
Speaker 1: because we're football fans, care about like are they gonna play?
Speaker 1: Are they going to be suspended? What's it gonna be like?
Speaker 1: But the real world, it's like, is this not just
Speaker 1: Sean but anyone? Like is this person going to jail?
Speaker 1: Like did they do some sort of serious crime? So
Speaker 1: that's actually the most important thing, and then the NFL
Speaker 1: basically comes second because they don't want to interfere with
Speaker 1: like an ongoing investigation. So you know, I feel like
Speaker 1: switching topics for a second, because you mentioned you got
Speaker 1: a text or something while you were on the golf course,
Speaker 1: you broke a story, you would be one of the
Speaker 1: few people. I think it's like doctors, you know, or
Speaker 1: you know, people delivering babies and you. I feel like,
Speaker 1: it's totally cool to be on the golf course if
Speaker 1: you like, guys, I gotta I gotta take this. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be mad at you. If I'm on the
Speaker 1: tea in your phone rang normally I turned around, Mike,
Speaker 1: whose phones on, You would be one of the few
Speaker 1: people that's not a doctor or delivering a baby that
Speaker 1: if you're phoning off, I'd be like, oh, let's let's
Speaker 1: stop the golf match for a minute. Uh, what's going
Speaker 1: on in your phone? Yeah, it is actually a great thing. Now.
Speaker 1: A lot of times I wish you did not of
Speaker 1: off like that. And like, I play a lot of
Speaker 1: golf in the off season. I play a real lot
Speaker 1: of golf, and I'm just resigned to the fact that,
Speaker 1: like I'm going to be sending text I'll be getting calls.
Speaker 1: I got my air pods. You're trying not to be
Speaker 1: a total jerk, and it's just part of my life.
Speaker 1: And I mean people. You know, everyone i'm with knows
Speaker 1: what I do. So if there's a call, two things happen,
Speaker 1: I can go, oh, I gotta take this, nag go ahead.
Speaker 1: Like even my wife, who you know, you think about
Speaker 1: if you think she'd be you know, used to it
Speaker 1: and fed up like anyone. Like if I leave a
Speaker 1: conversation to get a call, she knows it's important, so
Speaker 1: she will almost she never says anything. It's never like
Speaker 1: why do you have to take this? She knows if
Speaker 1: I'm taking it, I need to take it. The other
Speaker 1: thing is everyone's like, yeah, your friends must annoy you, right,
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, who who's Can I see your phone?
Speaker 1: Can I see? Like that's you know, and like you know,
Speaker 1: there's always you play golf with three people, if you
Speaker 1: get three calls and spend the two minutes, they're always
Speaker 1: like who is it? Who is it? So you're like,
Speaker 1: can I trust you guys? Like let me tell you
Speaker 1: what's going went on? So like when I was working
Speaker 1: on the Mayfield Trade at Congressional with one of my
Speaker 1: high school buddies and actually and his father in law. Actually,
Speaker 1: I had to be like, all right, guys, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you what's going on, don't say anything and this.
Speaker 1: So it was like a half hour where the only
Speaker 1: people who knew what was happening where me and then
Speaker 1: like my playing as we like shorted out. It's kind
Speaker 1: of fun and they all had They all had a
Speaker 1: great kick out of it. It was so they enjoyed themselves.
Speaker 1: What a perk of being your friend. Well, it's also
Speaker 1: like generally annoying too, because you have to deal with me, like,
Speaker 1: can you shut up? I'm trying to pin that happens
Speaker 1: to I really want to go off with you. Sorry,
Speaker 1: you go ahead of Livia, come on, come out to
Speaker 1: buy course. I'm mediocre. Sorry, go ahead of you. You
Speaker 1: wouldn't like it because all I would have a lot
Speaker 1: of entourage questions. I was a big entrage. No. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's got to be like yeah, go aheady
Speaker 1: and you ask a question, Well I would say, I
Speaker 1: don't have questions, but I do want to say one
Speaker 1: thing about entourage. So when I was like twenty four,
Speaker 1: I moved to Mississippi, and then I moved to Alabama.
Speaker 1: Mississippi for two years, Alabama for three years, then Boston.
Speaker 1: We traveled around the country and Androge was one of
Speaker 1: my favorite shows. And you know, I never missed an episode.
Speaker 1: I was all in and I missed my and like
Speaker 1: when I was in Missisippi, like I don't really know anyone,
Speaker 1: so I didn't really have any friends, and the like
Speaker 1: togetherness and bond that you guys had in the show
Speaker 1: was something I like held onto because I was not
Speaker 1: with my friends, and it was like actually like really
Speaker 1: meaningful because like this, I know, seriously, like it made
Speaker 1: me feel like close with my buddies watching you guys
Speaker 1: and like whatever happened on screen there, I mean, you
Speaker 1: know how good it was, right, I mean it was
Speaker 1: like I'm sure it was like pretty organic and awesome,
Speaker 1: but like it has a special place in the heartest
Speaker 1: So when he traveled around the country a lot of
Speaker 1: times by themselves, it was pretty cool. I mean that
Speaker 1: I appreciate that in so many ways. But that and
Speaker 1: that's the thing with the show. I always tell people,
Speaker 1: like Hollywood was the backdrop. The show was about friendship.
Speaker 1: The show was about four guys from Queens who got
Speaker 1: in this extraordinary scenario and always said we're gonna do
Speaker 1: this together. All the Hollywood stuff, that stuff is great,
Speaker 1: it's funny. Got a lot out of it. It shows
Speaker 1: about friendship. That's always what it was. That that means
Speaker 1: a lot. Now we all right, we're golfing. This is
Speaker 1: settled before maybe maybe finally. What's thing? I don't even
Speaker 1: know what a good time is for you because I
Speaker 1: feel like you're a very busy guy, busier than me.
Speaker 1: I'm a Tuesday only golfer during the season, in the
Speaker 1: off season, in April, after the draft, then it's all, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll figure it out. Tuesday only. Why Tuesday, that's no.
Speaker 1: But so basically like the way this season is, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I prepare for Sunday for our pregame show,
Speaker 1: like from my like me and Schefter and Glazer, like
Speaker 1: that's when a lot of our big stuff comes, and
Speaker 1: you know, you prepare news for Sunday. Then you watch
Speaker 1: the games and like we usually have friends over go somewhere,
Speaker 1: like it's pretty chill, and then by like three or
Speaker 1: four o'clock, like the injuries start to come in and
Speaker 1: I kind of gotta get to work. And then Monday
Speaker 1: is all like who's injured, which quarterbacks are being replaced
Speaker 1: to then we get fired, like all that stuff is
Speaker 1: Monday's like crazy Tuesday, you know, like there'll be a
Speaker 1: couple of kick or tryouts, like someone's bringing in someone
Speaker 1: because someone got injured, and so Tuesday sort of clean
Speaker 1: up some things. But Tuesday's like my only off day,
Speaker 1: and then Wednesday it kind of ramps back up. Players
Speaker 1: are back in the building like that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of the way my my week kind
Speaker 1: of lays out. It's weird, but tuesday's my office. You know,
Speaker 1: you're pretty rare in this business that you could actually
Speaker 1: enjoy watching the games. So you said Sunday, like you
Speaker 1: have friends over you you're just sitting around watching the games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great. That's very rare. It's actually really weird because
Speaker 1: people are always like, oh, like you know, we would
Speaker 1: have you know, we'd want to do something, but I
Speaker 1: know you're working, and I'm like, no, working, Like I'm
Speaker 1: watching it. That's great because you know, like Thursday night,
Speaker 1: like they will kick off and everyone I would talk
Speaker 1: to is watching the game. Now a lot of them
Speaker 1: will text me, like you know, coaches or gms or
Speaker 1: agents or what. They'll text me during the game just
Speaker 1: react because it's fun. But like, nobody wants to talk
Speaker 1: to me during the game. They all want to watch
Speaker 1: the game. And there's a lot of games, so like
Speaker 1: Sunday at two o'clock, every single person I would talk
Speaker 1: to his busy, So you just just watch the games
Speaker 1: and have fun. And like, I like my job a lot.
Speaker 1: It is intense and it is weird and it makes
Speaker 1: me do strange things like get over the middle of
Speaker 1: a conversation and not say sorry, just start talking to someone.
Speaker 1: But I like my job a lot, and I love football,
Speaker 1: so like I really get to enjoy football like anyone else,
Speaker 1: even though I have this kind of other weird job
Speaker 1: about it. You know. Yeah, no, I love that. You know.
Speaker 1: We were recently talking about the Man Titano documentary on
Speaker 1: Netflix and it was kind of so good. It was
Speaker 1: kind of a heat check in the journalist a world
Speaker 1: right to not take everything for face value. And there's
Speaker 1: even a phrase in journalism, if your mother says she
Speaker 1: loves you, check on it. Have you ever been lied
Speaker 1: to by a source or gotten screwed on not double
Speaker 1: checking something you were told? Yeah? I did, actually. Now,
Speaker 1: First of all, documentary was great, and it's crazy because
Speaker 1: like you shouldn't have to check is this girlfriend real
Speaker 1: or not? Like I would never think to check that,
Speaker 1: but sure it was incredible. I mean, dead spins reporting
Speaker 1: is not perfect, Like they let us down the road
Speaker 1: where like you sort of blamed him even though that
Speaker 1: really wasn't fair, but we didn't know at the time.
Speaker 1: I know, Terry, that's what I said. I told you
Speaker 1: it was you know men tite was very sad, but
Speaker 1: not complicit, you know what I mean. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: I had probably my most like famous one. Also the
Speaker 1: most painful for me was when Antonio Brown was going
Speaker 1: to get traded from the Steelers. You know, like remember
Speaker 1: the playoff game, Like I think he showed up at
Speaker 1: a fur cup. He was all a mess, and we
Speaker 1: everyone he was gonna get traded, and the big story
Speaker 1: that offseason was where's it going. Well, I knew the
Speaker 1: Bills and the Steelers were in like intense negotiations. The
Speaker 1: deal was basically done. They had terms. I knew the terms.
Speaker 1: I knew the trade was about to happen, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to break it so bad that when the trade
Speaker 1: was close, I reported it so and I had really
Speaker 1: good sources. The deal is closed between Antonio Brown going
Speaker 1: from the Steelers to the Bills. Well, as I reported
Speaker 1: the contract negotiations were going on for his new contracts
Speaker 1: and they could not come to terms on So I
Speaker 1: reported like eleven thirty without talking to every single person involved,
Speaker 1: but talking to enough sources where I felt very comfortable.
Speaker 1: And at eleven thirty I reported No one confirmed, no
Speaker 1: one denied, no one said anything like other reporters whatever,
Speaker 1: and I was like, that's weird. Okay. Around three thirty
Speaker 1: when contract talks broke down, they and everyone denied it.
Speaker 1: And I woke up at five and you know, the
Speaker 1: Bills had a statement where they were like, yes, we
Speaker 1: explored Antonio Brown, but we will not be trading for him.
Speaker 1: So I at the time I wasn't wrong, but you
Speaker 1: know I was wrong, and it changed the way I
Speaker 1: reported because you know, there are definitely stories where I
Speaker 1: get beat on. Now where I am I'm gonna wait
Speaker 1: until I hear from this specific person because this could
Speaker 1: be wrong, and other people will come out with it.
Speaker 1: They'll say this deal is close, and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: will wait. I will just wait because you've got to
Speaker 1: know it. You got to know it, and it's got
Speaker 1: to be buttoned up. And if there's so, I will
Speaker 1: now make absolute short to get in touch with all
Speaker 1: parties before I break something like that because it could
Speaker 1: go sideways and then in the end I didn't check
Speaker 1: enough and that has changed the way I do my job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can only imagine now it sucked at the time,
Speaker 1: but no, I can only yeah, listen, yeah, I can
Speaker 1: only imagine that feeling too, of like you know, when
Speaker 1: you I'm sure there's stuff that you probably even have
Speaker 1: her like, yeah, I got could reported this yesterday and
Speaker 1: it held up and but not. It's definitely all the time,
Speaker 1: and and there are people who are like, hey, you
Speaker 1: know you're on it, but you know you got to
Speaker 1: hold off and someone else gets it, and like it's aggravating.
Speaker 1: But in the end, I care that I'm first. Jefter
Speaker 1: cares that he's first. There's not a lot people who
Speaker 1: really are like who broke that? You know, the only
Speaker 1: thing they care about is are you right? And if
Speaker 1: you're wrong, it is terrible. You just got me thinking
Speaker 1: on your last answer. Actually, and I just gotta ask,
Speaker 1: because Adam Schefter is your competition. You know, you obviously
Speaker 1: work for different networks and you both are just hit
Speaker 1: for tap breaking news. What kind of relationship do you
Speaker 1: guys have? Do you ever share anything or are you
Speaker 1: true competitors? Are you friends? I would say we definitely
Speaker 1: have shared things. You know, there's some things that only
Speaker 1: he and I would talk about, or would care about,
Speaker 1: or would experience. There some people that have been not
Speaker 1: so nice to us in a similar way. We will
Speaker 1: sometimes talk about that, you know what, email back and
Speaker 1: forth every once in a while if something comes up
Speaker 1: that's that's relevant. And when you see him, you know,
Speaker 1: we're always friendly. It's pretty intense. I think both of
Speaker 1: us care about our jobs a lot. I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: it's personal though, like there's nothing that he would do
Speaker 1: or that I would do against the other one. Like,
Speaker 1: it's not like that. It's just very very intense because
Speaker 1: we both want to win and we both like our
Speaker 1: jobs a lot. Well, we only have a few nights
Speaker 1: before uh we actually get to see some games. Okay,
Speaker 1: that is there, and you know everyone's talking chief so
Speaker 1: the RAM is gonna get back bills or as so
Speaker 1: many trendy picks. Is there a team that you're just
Speaker 1: looking at that no one's really talking about, not saying, oh,
Speaker 1: they're gonna make a super Bowl run, but we all
Speaker 1: know who everyone's talking about. Is there a team out
Speaker 1: there that no one's talking about that just like this
Speaker 1: could be interesting. I'm not saying make a bold Super
Speaker 1: Bowl pick. Who's interesting to Yeah, I'll give you a
Speaker 1: couple of teams that I like to think about. Like
Speaker 1: I think the Texans. I don't know that they're gonna
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, but I think they will be in
Speaker 1: the mix. Davis Mills might be might be good. Like
Speaker 1: he there's not a lot of third or fourth rounders
Speaker 1: who turn out to be stars Russ. There's Dak Brady
Speaker 1: is okay, Davis Mills might be good, and I think
Speaker 1: like they're not. Again, they're not perfect, but they're kind
Speaker 1: of building that core. And they're really young. So every
Speaker 1: year there's one team that's too young and naive and
Speaker 1: doesn't know anything and is good and doesn't realize they
Speaker 1: shouldn't be that good, and like, it might be the Texas.
Speaker 1: I'd say that's one. The other team that you know,
Speaker 1: I think is going to be really good is the Raiders.
Speaker 1: And it's not like that's sexy, but their division is
Speaker 1: so hard. I think they're you know, Josh McDaniels first
Speaker 1: time as a head coach did not go great. He's
Speaker 1: got much better infrastructure this time. He's got a really
Speaker 1: good quarterback and his offense is awesome, and and they
Speaker 1: got Davante Adams. So I think the Raiders are gonna
Speaker 1: be really really good. They're not perfect, but I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna be really really good. Those are kind of
Speaker 1: my two teams to watch those. Thank you so much, honest,
Speaker 1: I really do hope you come back. That was awesome
Speaker 1: and God to see it's here, It's finally here. Let's
Speaker 1: just go already know, I'm so excited, so excited. Thanks,
Speaker 1: Thank you guys very much for having me. You are
Speaker 1: awesome and I would be happy to come on and
Speaker 1: get no doubt about it. Thank you. Okay, So I'm
Speaker 1: watching Contrast for the first time, as our loyal listeners know,
Speaker 1: and each week I get to ask you questions behind
Speaker 1: the scenes stuff, juicy juicy, intimate details of how the
Speaker 1: show was shot, everything, A lot of celebrity cameos, so
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot of fun to pick your brain on.
Speaker 1: This one celebrity cameo that I think has almost been
Speaker 1: the best yet as I'm still about halfway through season two,
Speaker 1: is Bob saget R. I P Bob Saget. He was
Speaker 1: so funny in about the two episodes they had him in.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's in more. As I moved forward,
Speaker 1: he's raunchy as hell, which I always you know, know,
Speaker 1: he's so different from this Full House persona. But what
Speaker 1: was it like with Bob Saget? Was there anything off
Speaker 1: of the set that was interesting about him that you remember? So? Look,
Speaker 1: obviously I grew up on Full House like most kids
Speaker 1: my age, and Full House was one of those shows
Speaker 1: that no matter your age, you've seen it at some point.
Speaker 1: So I was super excited. Yeah he was. He was
Speaker 1: ready for all that. Most people wouldn't have wanted to
Speaker 1: do a cameo like that where they're sort of living.
Speaker 1: I guess you could say a brothel, you know, Beverly Hills. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: So then after that, you guys go to Sundance for
Speaker 1: Queens Boulevard the poster behind you, which I told you.
Speaker 1: Now I finally get it, and it's such a good
Speaker 1: I've been a Sundance. It's so freaking cool. It's unlike
Speaker 1: an anything else. And I was curious, were you there
Speaker 1: during actual Sundancer? Did you somehow fake that? No, we
Speaker 1: were there. That was always some of the best parts
Speaker 1: of Entourage were once or twice a year. We would
Speaker 1: always leave l a and go on location somewhere. I
Speaker 1: even mentioned last week, like we shot it like Laker
Speaker 1: games and stuff like that. So yeah, we went to
Speaker 1: Sundance and it was weird because the whole festivals going
Speaker 1: on there and other actors are there and all these
Speaker 1: directors and then there we are on our cameras and
Speaker 1: again at this point, people still didn't really know what
Speaker 1: Entourage was, like they were starting to to hear about it.
Speaker 1: That episode always stands out as one of my favorites,
Speaker 1: but also, you know, you never know. At the time,
Speaker 1: I remember shooting it with the whole turtle and drama
Speaker 1: crossing swords storyline. Yeah, I didn't see that coming with
Speaker 1: the hot and in my mind like that was always, oh,
Speaker 1: this is like a funny joke. It's a joke, it's
Speaker 1: a bit, it's funny. It's definitely going to be the
Speaker 1: thing people talk about from this episode because there's so
Speaker 1: much other stuff, and that was almost twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: and I think probably a thousand times I've had someone
Speaker 1: yell at me from across the street or meeting me
Speaker 1: and talking about me and Turtle and drama crossing sorts
Speaker 1: like we did not think that was gonna be the
Speaker 1: thing that stuck out in that episode, and oh boy
Speaker 1: did it. Because I've been hearing that for twenty years almost.
Speaker 1: I love it greatest hits. Oh no, I am thoroughly
Speaker 1: enjoying it. And this season is really good. Love the
Speaker 1: Trip to Sundance, and love the Bob Saget cameo. I'm
Speaker 1: really excited that there's going to be more of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got some good ones coming up, though I know
Speaker 1: where you are now roughly you've got some. You've got some.
Speaker 1: Really the season two and three back to back room,
Speaker 1: I think the two best seasons. So alright, all have
Speaker 1: more questions next week, don't worry, all right, guys, let's
Speaker 1: just keep this NFL kick off excitement going. All right,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. But here's the deal. This season, we're
Speaker 1: going to do something a little different than last year. Peter.
Speaker 1: Each week we're gonna give you a hundred dollars and
Speaker 1: you can bet. You can break it down really however
Speaker 1: you want for bets, ten, ten dollar bets, whatever you want.
Speaker 1: As always, everyone at home should bet responsibly. As we will.
Speaker 1: Hear Peter will keep track of his bank roll every week.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna call this the Unleashed one challenge. But
Speaker 1: let's go yeah, so you know, for everybody again pretend
Speaker 1: d let's call it ten dollars as a unit. That's
Speaker 1: I think a good way for you to compare to
Speaker 1: how much you're spending. To Oliva's point, bet responsibly, but
Speaker 1: you know this is how I spend my hundred every week.
Speaker 1: I'll probably start with my lock. I love Carolina at
Speaker 1: home minus two against Cleveland fifty bucks, So let's call
Speaker 1: it five units on that. I've sold myself into this,
Speaker 1: and we talked about this last week too. Return of
Speaker 1: CMC Baker versus whole Team Jacoby Bursett under center. I
Speaker 1: see a lot of things happen in that game. I
Speaker 1: think it's a Baker revenge game. I know he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to face a pretty stout defense, especially D line,
Speaker 1: but d J. Moore, Robby Anderson, CMC on the checkdowns,
Speaker 1: CMC for probably thirty rushes in the game. I think
Speaker 1: they win probably by two touchdowns. I've gotten a bit
Speaker 1: of brushback from somebody's on that, but that's my lock.
Speaker 1: Of the week the week. Why I could push back
Speaker 1: on that, I like, well, I want to book that one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I try not to have too many storylines dictate where
Speaker 1: the money goes. But that's a big one. Baker has
Speaker 1: been pretty open and honest about that situation. The other
Speaker 1: side of things, Myles Garrett said, cannot wait to sack him.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can look at it both ways, but
Speaker 1: I think at home plays a big factor team is
Speaker 1: gonna be excited. Sadly, this might be the best QB
Speaker 1: that McCaffrey's ever had because as Cam Newton came a
Speaker 1: bit late in his tenure, so it's gonna be really
Speaker 1: interesting to see how they work together. But this is
Speaker 1: a big game for him. This dictates I think we
Speaker 1: talked about it, you know last week with comeback Player
Speaker 1: of the Year. He has a good game here. This
Speaker 1: sets up nicely for the rest of the season for
Speaker 1: them and puts them maybe in a playoff position or
Speaker 1: in the conversation as the season goes on. I'm in
Speaker 1: that one. Well, that's half your bank roll on your
Speaker 1: lock of the week. That is how that is half.
Speaker 1: So it's a big deal. Um next one again, I've
Speaker 1: been getting a little bit of brush back on two
Speaker 1: and a half units bucks Texans plus eight and a half.
Speaker 1: This is uh, this is all around for me. A
Speaker 1: bit of hype on the Colts. Obviously, Jonathan Taylor was
Speaker 1: unbelievable last year. Matt Ryan Pittman. I mean, you have
Speaker 1: a really, really solid offense. It's gonna be really tough
Speaker 1: for Jonathan Taylor to take that leap up again and
Speaker 1: be a contender for probably m VP and Offensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Year. I think they take a slight step back,
Speaker 1: But for me, it's Damian Pierce. So Damian Pierce has
Speaker 1: come in. They've released Marlon Mack immediately. He's a fourth
Speaker 1: round pick out of Florida, incredible college career. He ran
Speaker 1: all over the Niners last week of preseason, and I know,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't take too much stock in that,
Speaker 1: but the way he was running finding holes was really impressive.
Speaker 1: If you don't think he's the future team, you're not
Speaker 1: going to just drop every one of your solid halfbacks.
Speaker 1: So I think they're going to run around this guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, he is going to be the team. I
Speaker 1: have him is probably the breakout player of the year.
Speaker 1: Took him in Fantasy ninth round pick. So I'm pretty
Speaker 1: happy about that ninth round. I want to be in
Speaker 1: your league. Yeah, right, so it is it is all
Speaker 1: around him, and let me take a step back. I'll
Speaker 1: also give you just some prices on on these things.
Speaker 1: So first that was minus one ten fifty to Wint roughly,
Speaker 1: and then that Thatt seven. So we'll track this every week,
Speaker 1: make sure we're giving you the numbers that I'm hopefully up,
Speaker 1: maybe down. We'll see, Jerry, it sounded like you like
Speaker 1: this one. I disagree. I do think the Texans will
Speaker 1: be better this year, but I like the Colts with
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. It's their fifth different season starter in five seasons.
Speaker 1: But Matt Ryan is a prose pro, a vet. He
Speaker 1: can assimilate quickly. Guys are gonna like him. Their defense
Speaker 1: has improved an indie, so I think they'll cover that
Speaker 1: and a half. I don't like that one, Pete. I
Speaker 1: was with you until that one. It's all right, CREATED disagree.
Speaker 1: We're not always gonna be on the same page, but
Speaker 1: I think it would be a better game that people think.
Speaker 1: I know you hear Davis Mills and you say I
Speaker 1: don't think they have a shot, but we'll see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with you, like I you know, I hear what
Speaker 1: you're saying, Olivia, And you've gotta imagine the Cults are
Speaker 1: going to come out with the way they ended last season.
Speaker 1: There's still a lot of players from the team last year.
Speaker 1: I know Carson Wentz is gone, but pretty much the
Speaker 1: team is intact aside from that. So they definitely are
Speaker 1: going to have to make a statement after that game,
Speaker 1: but I do think it might not be this week.
Speaker 1: I've talked about the Texans a lot on this show.
Speaker 1: I think the Texans are competent. I know that sounds
Speaker 1: like a backhanded compliment in a way. I think they
Speaker 1: a very competent team. The plus eight and a half
Speaker 1: and you only did twenty five, I would roll with that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I can definitely see the world where thirty
Speaker 1: seven to three Cults finally because the Texas can't score.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, yeah, like I like that. You're
Speaker 1: already looking at the Texans in week one because we
Speaker 1: got to figure out what they are four three upsets
Speaker 1: are going to be because I think we have two
Speaker 1: or three. We got to figure out what they're gonna be,
Speaker 1: not this one, not weak one. Okay, So that's seventy
Speaker 1: five of your hundred. You got twenty five bucks or
Speaker 1: two and a half units left to play with. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get there, let's hear what you got, and I
Speaker 1: hope we got some odds coming to us. What do
Speaker 1: you got? So I'm gonna this is what I'm calling
Speaker 1: my pandor parlay because I've picked all of our favorite
Speaker 1: teams or one of Olivia's favorite teams for this one
Speaker 1: point five units of fifteen dollars Niners minus seven, Giants
Speaker 1: plus six, which I love even more. Now, Chiefs minus
Speaker 1: four and a half against Arizona UH plus six hundred,
Speaker 1: so fifteen to win one oh five total, including including
Speaker 1: your steak back. Again, these are I normally wouldn't do
Speaker 1: this and pander a bit to you guys, but I
Speaker 1: love all three of these games. Here. I think you
Speaker 1: look at we talked about it last week. Niners a
Speaker 1: really really good defense, I think personally best defense in
Speaker 1: the league. Potentially against a not so great Bears offense.
Speaker 1: Justin Fields I think is going to struggle, mainly because
Speaker 1: of his offensive line, some of his support. It's one
Speaker 1: of those situations. It's like Daniel Jones, It's not really
Speaker 1: because of him, It's because everything else around him. So
Speaker 1: I really like the Niners to cover and probably blow
Speaker 1: that game away. Giants at Tennessee. Howard Landry, who was
Speaker 1: the sack leader on Tennessee Titans last year out for
Speaker 1: the year torn a c L last week. I think
Speaker 1: Wednesday was announced. That's a big deal. That's going to
Speaker 1: give a lot of time for for DJ. I think
Speaker 1: sae Quan again comes back, has a really really strong year,
Speaker 1: sets the tempo here him versus Derrick Henry week one.
Speaker 1: I think that's a little bit of a personal test
Speaker 1: for him to to make sure he's matching what's on
Speaker 1: the other side of the ball. So plus six there,
Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty reasonable amount of points. I
Speaker 1: know you're a bit under that touchdown mark, but I
Speaker 1: think they will keep the game close and potentially pull
Speaker 1: it off on the road, which would be great. And
Speaker 1: then last one, Chiefs minus four and half at Arizona.
Speaker 1: I see a lot of problems with this Arizona offense.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're losing guys like Christian Kirk, DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: outline suspension, the team really runs around Hollywood Brown, James Conner.
Speaker 1: I just don't see them with the same type of
Speaker 1: performance or same type of production. I know, Hollywood Brown
Speaker 1: is that deep threat, as was a guy like Christian Kirk,
Speaker 1: but you're losing a lot of production value with DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins out for the first bit of the season. And
Speaker 1: then on the Chief side, I've kind of sold myself
Speaker 1: into all these different weapons where they're going to be
Speaker 1: throwing the ball around a lot to different people. You
Speaker 1: have Kelsey as that kind of quote unquote number one receiver,
Speaker 1: but you have a lot of different options, whether it's
Speaker 1: all this scandling obviously ju ju. I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of weapons. They're the one mark always for me
Speaker 1: is just Clyde Edwards Hilaire. He said, I think a
Speaker 1: pretty underwhelming first two years. So recap that one Nineers
Speaker 1: minus seven, Giants plus six and Tennessee Chiefs minus four
Speaker 1: and a half. You got that one at fifteen plus
Speaker 1: sixtent so fifteen bucks to win one oh five. I
Speaker 1: like that one a lot. I might actually I might
Speaker 1: actually roll with you on that one with some of
Speaker 1: my entourage money responsibly of course. Yeah, so you've got
Speaker 1: ten bucks left. Now that you're in Ferrara territory, you're
Speaker 1: a lotto ticket time, and I am gonna throw a
Speaker 1: few lotto tickets at you before you go. We'll do
Speaker 1: maybe like a quick hit. But now we're in Ferrara
Speaker 1: territory of lotto tickets. You got ten bucks left, Mr Andrew, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is one game parlay territory. This is ten
Speaker 1: dollar flyer. You put it on something big. I'll read
Speaker 1: it all first, and then I'll kind of get through
Speaker 1: each of the different prop bets. So for everybody else,
Speaker 1: one game part of a amazing feature allows you to
Speaker 1: take any prop bets, any team bets, bunch it all
Speaker 1: together from one specific game. So for me, Thursay Night
Speaker 1: football Bills minus two and a half at l A.
Speaker 1: It's a banner ceremony. Obviously winners last year, So I
Speaker 1: got Bills minus two and a half. Allen Robinson new
Speaker 1: addition to the Rams. Anytime touchdown score any point in
Speaker 1: the game, Josh Allen over to seventy four and a
Speaker 1: half passing yards, digs over sixty nine and a half
Speaker 1: receiving yards. And then this one didn't mix sense, Cup
Speaker 1: is only ninety four and a half receiving yards. I
Speaker 1: took the over on that too. Both of those guys.
Speaker 1: If I start backwards, every week one opener for the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, their targeted thirteen and fifteen times.
Speaker 1: I think they both had eight or nine catches last
Speaker 1: year home opener. I don't think that's by chance. I
Speaker 1: think it's dictating where the offense goes for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. Get them, you know, get them both
Speaker 1: going early. Wide receiver ones Cooper Cup probably best wide
Speaker 1: receiving the league. You start off and get them rolling early.
Speaker 1: I think there are some question marks still on both
Speaker 1: defensive teams. I know Rams have a very very strong defense,
Speaker 1: but I think Digs verse Ramsey is an interesting match up.
Speaker 1: And then of course Cooper Cup. He's Cooper Coup. He's
Speaker 1: gonna come out, he's gonna have a hundred yards minimum,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a touchdown. He does what he does
Speaker 1: every year, and I don't think it's gonna stop, even
Speaker 1: with a new contract. He's not gonna see any lull.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, I think they're gonna be passing the ball
Speaker 1: a lot on Thursday Night. I have question marks on
Speaker 1: both sides of the running position for both teams. Can
Speaker 1: makers back from injury. I know he came back late
Speaker 1: last year, and I think Bills have had a very
Speaker 1: very interesting situation at running back. I'm not a big
Speaker 1: fan of Devinson, Sincletary and Zack Moss Combo. It just
Speaker 1: seems like they're missing that true RB one. There are
Speaker 1: signs of breakout performances, but it's not consistent like it
Speaker 1: should be. Alan Robinson, I think is going to be
Speaker 1: a huge asset for Stafford this year. Such a sure
Speaker 1: handed guy. I think he's going to see a lot
Speaker 1: of the dB two coverage. He's gonna see less double teams.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see safeties like Poyer over the top watching cup.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna open things up for him. I
Speaker 1: can see him scoring for certainly for for Week one
Speaker 1: and then going back to that Bills two and a half.
Speaker 1: My biggest thing that I bet in every single sport,
Speaker 1: if there's a banner night, fade them. Honestly, I remember
Speaker 1: last year Rangers game Henrik lun Quis retirement night. Fade
Speaker 1: the Rangers. Anytime they're doing ring ceremonies, fade them. For
Speaker 1: some reason, they just come out with a slump. I
Speaker 1: feel like I hit se time on those, so I'm
Speaker 1: just never gonna. I love this rule of thumb. That's
Speaker 1: so good. Honestly, it feels too accurate to be true
Speaker 1: a lot of times. I think we should all finish
Speaker 1: this segment on the count of three by saying the
Speaker 1: two words that every Broncos fan is going to say
Speaker 1: going in. Let's see how bad our WiFi delay is one.
Speaker 1: Let's lose, let's lose, let's ride. Peter, thank you so
Speaker 1: much as always for your great insight, love your hundred
Speaker 1: dollar picks, and it's gonna be fun to do this
Speaker 1: all season. You know we're going to keep tracks, so
Speaker 1: you better do your research every weekend. But thanks so
Speaker 1: much for joining us. Yeah, check my tickets on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I'll be sending you guys the Vegas tickets from our
Speaker 1: sports books. So it's gonna be a fun with him.
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