Speaker 1: From the King of Sports Books comes the King Sports
Speaker 1: Podcast Unleashed, presented by bet MGM. Here's your host, Joanna's
Speaker 1: Papas and Olivia Harland Decker. Welcome in everyone. This is
Speaker 1: Unleashed by bet MGM, the King of Sports Books, and
Speaker 1: it is officially the most wonderful time of the year.
Speaker 1: It's a winter wonderland of sports. Bowl season. Nick Saban
Speaker 1: eating yummy rat poison, big NFL games as the playoff
Speaker 1: picture starts to take shape, college hoops, and Janice is
Speaker 1: deck right in the tree with New York Giants ornaments.
Speaker 1: Something tells me that is accurate, right, Johnnie? It is accurate.
Speaker 1: I mean it has to. The Giants have to be
Speaker 1: good for something in my house. At least they look
Speaker 1: good on a tree right now, because they a horrible
Speaker 1: on a gridiron. But we've got a huge show coming up.
Speaker 1: We can ask our guests all about that. It's Kevin
Speaker 1: Harlan joining the show. Two time National Sportscaster of the Year,
Speaker 1: Voice of NBA two k NBA on t n T,
Speaker 1: NFL on CBS Monday Night Football and The Super Bowl
Speaker 1: on Westwood One. He's also my dad, and he's also
Speaker 1: a recurring guest. Now this is his second appearance. Honest,
Speaker 1: what are you going to ask him about? I'm a
Speaker 1: little nervous. We haven't talked about this. I have not
Speaker 1: been excited for a guest on this show as much
Speaker 1: as I've been excited for the patriarch of the Harlans. Finally,
Speaker 1: I got so many questions to ask about Little Olivia.
Speaker 1: I want to know everything, so I'm not going to
Speaker 1: give it to you right now. I'm gonna let it
Speaker 1: all happen in the moment and see you react. I
Speaker 1: can't wait. Okay, something tells me like I might start
Speaker 1: crying during this interview. My dad is the most sentimental,
Speaker 1: sappy person in the world. He's like my best friend
Speaker 1: person I respect most plets. I'm pregnant, so hormones are
Speaker 1: running like crazy, so I feel like I'm just gonna cry.
Speaker 1: And I'm flying to Europe tonight and I don't get
Speaker 1: to see him before because this man works more than anyone,
Speaker 1: so I'm just happy to see his face before I
Speaker 1: get on that long flight. So this is really special.
Speaker 1: After the interview, we're going to get some Week four
Speaker 1: team betting advice from Peter Andrew some huge games this weekend,
Speaker 1: including Ravens and Browns. Something tells me that might be
Speaker 1: one of our punishment picks, and the Rams try to
Speaker 1: get things right against the league's best team, the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 1: who are now two games up on them in the
Speaker 1: NFC West. It's a lot going on, but first we've
Speaker 1: got to give it up to the big news of
Speaker 1: the week. They finally did it. Congrats to the Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions and head coach Dan Campbell for getting their first
Speaker 1: win of the season. They beat the Vikings Jared Goff
Speaker 1: with a walk off winner. Look, the whole country was
Speaker 1: cheering for them that night, and it was so cool
Speaker 1: to watch. Here's head coach Dan Campbell after the game.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of our guys, man, I'm happy for them,
Speaker 1: of course, I'm happy. We're all happy. I'm happy for
Speaker 1: the coaches, I'm happy for everybody. But it's like, you
Speaker 1: want this so bad for the players, man, because they're
Speaker 1: the ones who put in all the hard work and
Speaker 1: the sweat and the tears. And yeah, we all do,
Speaker 1: and so do the coaches man, and uh and but
Speaker 1: it's also that's what makes this great, you know. And
Speaker 1: it it looks when you lose. It hurts. It's hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard, but it's also why winning is so great
Speaker 1: ness lead because it's not easy to do and when
Speaker 1: you get them, man, it's special. So the Lions are
Speaker 1: officially one ten and one. That is some weird record. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's were you excited to see them win or did
Speaker 1: you want them to go oh sixteen and one? Uh.
Speaker 1: I'll say this earnestly. Before what happened there, I wanted
Speaker 1: to see them go oh in sixteen because it's just
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch a team go oh in sixteen.
Speaker 1: But you know, I was rooting for them after, you know,
Speaker 1: the tragedy that happened there in Detroit, and so it
Speaker 1: was nice that the fans over there got a little gift,
Speaker 1: little early Christmas gift with a victory. Beautiful America was
Speaker 1: rooting for him. Yeah, that was really cool and even
Speaker 1: better that they dedicated the win to that high school.
Speaker 1: So sad for that community. Just you hate turning on
Speaker 1: the news in the morning and seeing that it's horrible.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the beautiful thing about sports. It's just
Speaker 1: a great outlet after something like that happens for everyone
Speaker 1: to get together root for their team. I remember, you know,
Speaker 1: the baseball playoffs after nine eleven, and how cathartic that was.
Speaker 1: So just sending a lot of love to Detroit, sending
Speaker 1: a lot of love to that whole area, and congratulations
Speaker 1: on Now I'll switch gears. You're only one of the season.
Speaker 1: Your team sucks. Oh god, I was about to say
Speaker 1: that was really beautifully said. Yeah, there you go. Let's
Speaker 1: get to our bad beat of the week winner, Bad
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Speaker 1: like every week, it's always a parlay, which makes me
Speaker 1: nervous to always do a parlay, but that's also where
Speaker 1: you make the big money. Well, my man, Mel, he
Speaker 1: had seven picks and the one that lost was the Bruins. See,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even go there, the Tampa Bay lightning at
Speaker 1: the Boston Bruins. I who follows hockey, who's based on hockey,
Speaker 1: just getting probably a lot of our listeners, but yeah,
Speaker 1: this was this was all hockey, my man. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: my man must be from Finland or Canada because in
Speaker 1: the good Old Glory we're all about football. My friend,
Speaker 1: it's a man's sport. So six of the seven hit,
Speaker 1: so that is a bad beat. Mel but congratulations because
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Speaker 1: for us to sound off on one topic we feel
Speaker 1: passionately about this week, you know, the deally honest, it's
Speaker 1: time to one, It's time let's fudle. The college football
Speaker 1: playoff has finally been set and we've got my bulldogs,
Speaker 1: number three seed Georgia versus the Big Ten champs, number
Speaker 1: two Michigan in the Orange Bowl. The Wolverines are currently
Speaker 1: a nine point underdog. That might change a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think Georgia will give them hell. They got so
Speaker 1: off their mark us Alabama. I had to watch them
Speaker 1: slowly bleed out in front of my eyes. It was tragic, tragic,
Speaker 1: my alma mater. It was sad. In the top seed,
Speaker 1: the SEC champs Alabama taking on number four seed, the
Speaker 1: American Athletic Conference champs Cincinnati in the Cotton Bowl. And
Speaker 1: remember you, honest, we talked about this last week. I
Speaker 1: explained this to you. Group of five conferences are like
Speaker 1: j V to the Power fives. Varsity. So Cincinnati fans
Speaker 1: and people who argued that a Nonpower five school deserve
Speaker 1: to go, congratulations. The glass ceiling has been broken, and
Speaker 1: they have to write the committee couldn't leave a perfect
Speaker 1: team out because they aren't a name brand there, that
Speaker 1: generic brand on the bottom shelf that your mom gets
Speaker 1: you when she tells you you've got to tighten things up.
Speaker 1: And their prize now for a perfect season. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: just a date with the most dangerous team in college football,
Speaker 1: the Alabama Crimson Tide. Alabama is currently a fourteen point
Speaker 1: favorite of fourteen point favorite in a national semifinal. That's
Speaker 1: bad in this playoff format has led to so many
Speaker 1: blowout games already. It's a hard sell. And that's why
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't get behind college football or
Speaker 1: understand the playoff because you have a kind of random
Speaker 1: conglomerate of four teams. Now again, I agree with the
Speaker 1: four teams they picked. I just think we need to
Speaker 1: expand the playoffs so we're not going to have these
Speaker 1: kind of blowouts. So we know, Cincinnati's undefeated with a
Speaker 1: big win over Notre Dame that was back in October.
Speaker 1: That loss kept the Irish out Notre Dame was the
Speaker 1: only team Cincinnati faced in the FPI Top forty, and
Speaker 1: their strength of schedule ranked eighties seven in FBS. Honest,
Speaker 1: I know you say you need an accounting degree you
Speaker 1: to figure out college football, but tell me you understand that.
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. I do not, And I can
Speaker 1: we stop treating the playoffs in college football like the
Speaker 1: Academy Awards? And while we're at it, can we get
Speaker 1: rid of the name the cotton Ball? Come on, that's
Speaker 1: a whole nother topic, my man, that is. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so the point is Cincinnati didn't have a strong schedule
Speaker 1: and they didn't exactly dominate the mediocre competition in the
Speaker 1: American athletic competition. So no disrespect to my man, Nick
Speaker 1: lash and a lum, but there's a reason the bear
Speaker 1: Cats are a two touchdown underdog. So personally, I don't
Speaker 1: even think Cincinnati was the best school in Ohio this year.
Speaker 1: And if we really just put together a playoff of
Speaker 1: who we want to see play each other, I think
Speaker 1: people would have put Ohio State back in there and
Speaker 1: have another great game like we saw against Michigan. But hey,
Speaker 1: we're about to find out the bear Cats are in
Speaker 1: and now it's time to show that they actually belong.
Speaker 1: I mean, you kill it with those and the way
Speaker 1: you keep going in on this. I has hoped that
Speaker 1: these committees and college football powers that be are listening
Speaker 1: to our podcast because O H. D has got a
Speaker 1: few words for you, my friends. I love it to
Speaker 1: piggyback on that. Let's stay in college a little bit.
Speaker 1: I also have something to unleashawan on college football, and
Speaker 1: that's new ball coach down in L. S U. Brian Kelly.
Speaker 1: College football coaches are by far the most unloyal people
Speaker 1: in the game, backstabbers. I mean, they will cheat on
Speaker 1: you the first chance they get. And that's just what
Speaker 1: Mr Brian Kelly dead. Uh. Just a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly had said, unless the fairy Godmother comes by
Speaker 1: with that two hundred and fifty million dollar check, my
Speaker 1: wife would want to take a look at that first.
Speaker 1: I'd have to run it buy her. I don't buy it. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess the fairy Godmother isn't L. S U Alum
Speaker 1: because he's gone. He's gone with the wind. He bailed
Speaker 1: on Notre Dame like I bail when the check comes.
Speaker 1: At dinner with O H. D and her husband Sam.
Speaker 1: I saw that contracted Turkey the Irish. They still had
Speaker 1: a very good chance to make the college football playoff,
Speaker 1: but he basically left them at the altar like it
Speaker 1: was an episode of The Bachelor. This is ridiculous, too
Speaker 1: much drama. But what was even worse was after the
Speaker 1: news broke, Brian Kelly had his players come to a
Speaker 1: meeting the next morning at seven a m. Seven a m.
Speaker 1: To tell them the news that they already knew. And
Speaker 1: it was an eleven minute meeting. Then he got back
Speaker 1: on the private jet back to Louisiana. I mean, are
Speaker 1: you serious, Like these kids haven't been through enough. You
Speaker 1: made them get up at seven m. Shame on you,
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly. You should have done this over zoom. Then
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly shows up at halftime of an l s
Speaker 1: U basketball game, and this is my favorite part. He
Speaker 1: takes them my and listen to this thank you, thank you. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a great way to get started. And I haven't
Speaker 1: even run all my games yet. It's a great night
Speaker 1: to be a Tiger. I'm here with my family and
Speaker 1: we are so excited to be in the great state
Speaker 1: of Louisiana. But more importantly to be with you great
Speaker 1: fans and to be part of what is going to
Speaker 1: be an incredible ride here at Louisiana State University. I mean,
Speaker 1: is he auditioning to be the host of Senel this season?
Speaker 1: This is a great way to get started. I'm here
Speaker 1: with my family. I mean, I haven't heard a fake
Speaker 1: accent that bad since I saw Lady Gaga in the
Speaker 1: House of Gucci or any time Madonna opens her mouth. Look,
Speaker 1: since this is college, I have an idea. If a
Speaker 1: college coach is going to leave for a new job
Speaker 1: and bail on the team, they should have to do
Speaker 1: at least a wapash game across campus. Had enough, and
Speaker 1: anyone who's done a waka shame across campus knows that
Speaker 1: that's about the worst punishment you could ever have. That's
Speaker 1: not me, but just anyone who had so I completely
Speaker 1: agree with you, Janice. That's a great topic to unleash.
Speaker 1: And here's my thing. L S was looking for a
Speaker 1: football coach for next season. This could have waited a week,
Speaker 1: And if it had waited a week, we would have
Speaker 1: known Notre Dame is knocked out. Cincinnati's in the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I agree the timing was horrible. The money is not
Speaker 1: and I always defend coaches on this. It's a business,
Speaker 1: and I'm sorry they're gonna go where the money is.
Speaker 1: And l S is one of the best jobs in
Speaker 1: college football. Notre Dame, you could also offer is one
Speaker 1: of the best jobs in college football. But it's a business.
Speaker 1: I have no problem with it. I got a problem
Speaker 1: with the timing, though, But that was a great Unlis,
Speaker 1: a good job. I love seeing you get into college football. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it just again shows that I am the heart
Speaker 1: of the show and you are the cold rational brain.
Speaker 1: You just I mean, that is cold hearted. I mean,
Speaker 1: where's your heart, Olivia. My heart's in Turkey. My heart's
Speaker 1: already on the flight. Let's bring in my dad to
Speaker 1: talk some NFL and NBA. It's Kevin Harland. This is
Speaker 1: such a treat Dad. This is your second appearance on
Speaker 1: the show, and I feel like I should handle it
Speaker 1: with a bit more professionalism since you are one of
Speaker 1: the best to do what you do. You have a
Speaker 1: front row ticket to the best events in sports, and
Speaker 1: we should handle this just sticking XS and nose. But
Speaker 1: something tells me Janice is going to mess that up
Speaker 1: for me. I got a lot of questions about the
Speaker 1: little girl that Olivia was. I can't wait. I'll just
Speaker 1: say I've told Tolivia many times you are my favorite
Speaker 1: announcer on a huge basketball fan. So you know I've
Speaker 1: been watching you on TNT, listening to you on t
Speaker 1: NT for years. You call a very exciting game, and
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Well, you're so kind. Thank you for
Speaker 1: those wonderful words. I appreciate coming from someone like you.
Speaker 1: That's that's very nice. Thank you. Well, let's start with
Speaker 1: one of your great calls this weekend. Again, you do
Speaker 1: three games every weekend, Sunday on CBS, NFL, Monday Night
Speaker 1: Football on Westwood One, and then you rush to do
Speaker 1: a Tuesday NBA game on t n T. So any
Speaker 1: weekend you can have a long list of great calls.
Speaker 1: But one I really like this weekend was at the
Speaker 1: Seahawks game at the end, and I've been in that stadium.
Speaker 1: It does shake, and tell me what it felt like
Speaker 1: in the booth because your call was something and you
Speaker 1: can fix me on this, but I thought you said,
Speaker 1: I hope the engineers feel confident in their work because
Speaker 1: this place is shaking. Something like that, that's basically what
Speaker 1: I said. And first, I've only been in two stadium
Speaker 1: was that shirt like that? One was the Old Mile
Speaker 1: High Stadium in Denver, and when I was broadcasting the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: the Broncos would found the Chiefs. It seems like every
Speaker 1: time we played out there, and when that stadium was
Speaker 1: going on, the old Stadium, the Old Mile High, it
Speaker 1: really moved. I mean you could see it and you
Speaker 1: could definitely feel it. So I hadn't been in any
Speaker 1: kind of situation until this past weekend when the Seahawks
Speaker 1: came up with the big defensive play to see a
Speaker 1: win and beat their arch rival San Francisco forty niners,
Speaker 1: and it started shaking. But at first I thought, are
Speaker 1: my feet going nub is something wrong with the floor
Speaker 1: like in water? Like I couldn't have lost my footing.
Speaker 1: And I looked out and I thought my going crazy here,
Speaker 1: And then I think, oh my gosh, it's moving. And listen,
Speaker 1: this is not the first time that stadium has moved
Speaker 1: with a crowd. That they did years ago on Marshawn
Speaker 1: Lynch at a very famous run in the playoffs against
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints, and there was so much movement
Speaker 1: in the stadium from the fans going berserk that it
Speaker 1: registered on the seismic measuring thing at at a local
Speaker 1: geological center. So I've not seen if this registered, but
Speaker 1: it was thunderous and it was exciting. I always wondered
Speaker 1: how do you keep such an impartial tone and when
Speaker 1: you're calling a game, like I assume you have a
Speaker 1: favorite team, but that never really comes through. And that's
Speaker 1: the thing that pisses sports fans off the most when
Speaker 1: they watch a game, if they feel like an announcer
Speaker 1: is favoring one team over the other. When you call
Speaker 1: the game, I notice you're excited about anything that happens,
Speaker 1: and you call it with enthusiasm. How do you separate?
Speaker 1: How do you separate your art from your job when
Speaker 1: you do it well? I'm a big sports fan to
Speaker 1: begin with the honest, and I really do not care
Speaker 1: who wins. If I had to favor a team, I
Speaker 1: like the underdog because it makes for a better story
Speaker 1: for whatever outlet I'm with CBS or T n T
Speaker 1: or West with one. So I'm always looking for an upset.
Speaker 1: I'm always looking for the underdog perhaps to do it,
Speaker 1: but I do not care who wins. I just want
Speaker 1: a good broadcast. So I'm rooting for our CBS team
Speaker 1: or wherever I'm with that particular broadcast, I think the
Speaker 1: fan probably comes out in me more than it should.
Speaker 1: I'm always in wonder on how these guys do what
Speaker 1: they do at these big moments, whether it was last
Speaker 1: night in Buffalo with the Patriots and the Bills with
Speaker 1: forty mile winds and snow and how they were able
Speaker 1: to survive and eventually win New England, or the game
Speaker 1: in Seattle the night before when the Seahawks pulled the
Speaker 1: big upset, as they had been kind of unrattling and
Speaker 1: they were able to come in and beat a San
Speaker 1: Francisco team that was really playing well and had a
Speaker 1: lot of momentum. So I think I try to balance
Speaker 1: it as much as I can. I am not I
Speaker 1: really don't have a favorite player. I really don't have
Speaker 1: a favorite team. I've done the Packers and the in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and they were playing the Steelers and
Speaker 1: I really didn't care. I was really selfish that day.
Speaker 1: I wanted just a good broadcast, and it was great
Speaker 1: the Packers, one that was not rooting for them, and
Speaker 1: if Roethlisberger had come up with a big throw in
Speaker 1: that game to beat the Packers out of been as
Speaker 1: excited as if Rogers had done the same thing to
Speaker 1: the Steelers. So I'm just a fan like the two
Speaker 1: of you, and like I'm sure most of the people
Speaker 1: watching it's uh, I love sports, and probably the fan
Speaker 1: comes out of me maybe a little bit more than
Speaker 1: it should. Unfortunately for a little in texts on that
Speaker 1: Super Bowl too, I believe that was your first one
Speaker 1: doing the national radio broadcast. Yes, it was for the
Speaker 1: National Rabowl. I had done one for CBS back in
Speaker 1: two thousand one, when HD television was just getting some
Speaker 1: traction and they had two separate broadcasts they had I
Speaker 1: think Great Gumble was their number one NFL broadcaster, and
Speaker 1: he and Phil Simms. It was down in Tampa. It
Speaker 1: was the Giants and the Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl, and
Speaker 1: they were doing regular television debt, regular death, and we
Speaker 1: were doing high death. We were doing HD. Now that
Speaker 1: we're probably only they thought maybe a half million HD
Speaker 1: TV sets in the United States, but there were millions
Speaker 1: all over the lobe, and so it basically had more
Speaker 1: of an effect. Our broadcast has probably seen more in
Speaker 1: Asia and in Europe than it was in the US.
Speaker 1: But that was the first in the first radio I
Speaker 1: Is Right movie that was that was the first one
Speaker 1: in Dallas with the other Packers and the Steelers in
Speaker 1: the two thousand and ten season, and it was played
Speaker 1: in two thousand eleven. In that game, just if there
Speaker 1: was any game to have some fandom in, it probably
Speaker 1: would have been that one. My dad was a Packer
Speaker 1: ball boy as a little kid. He grew up at
Speaker 1: Packer training camp. His dad constructed that team, hired that
Speaker 1: GM he had just retired, and so but it was
Speaker 1: his fingerprints were all over the franchise and all over
Speaker 1: that team. So I know our family felt extremely proud
Speaker 1: if that was going to be the Packers win. It
Speaker 1: felt like that was our Papa Boys win. We called
Speaker 1: Papa Boy. So the fact that you were able to
Speaker 1: remain neutral on that game is about impressive as it comes.
Speaker 1: But that that was a great question, honest. Well, I
Speaker 1: I just like good plays and by stars or little
Speaker 1: known players, and and a great play is a great
Speaker 1: play everyone since well, how can you how can you
Speaker 1: blow up asking in the first quarter? But it's just
Speaker 1: actacular catch or a great throw or a tremendous shot.
Speaker 1: Who's to say that it's not less spectacular because it
Speaker 1: happened early in the game than late in the game. Now,
Speaker 1: certainly consequences are different, but a great play is a
Speaker 1: great play, and I would just as soon celebrate all
Speaker 1: all the great plays. You mentioned that Monday night football game,
Speaker 1: Patriots app Bills. That was a weird looking game, but
Speaker 1: if you're a hard nosed football fan, that was probably
Speaker 1: just what you ordered, right. It was just running the ball.
Speaker 1: Mac Jones attempted three passes altogether. Bill Belichick was just
Speaker 1: playing chess. He was in his prime. What was your
Speaker 1: takeaway from that game? Just the brilliance of Belichick. You know,
Speaker 1: just when you think that the narrative is right, Brady
Speaker 1: made Belichick, and Brady goes and went to the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and Brady has had all this post Patriots success, But
Speaker 1: think of it. Think what Belichick has gone through last year.
Speaker 1: They lost many key players because they opted out in
Speaker 1: the COVID season, in the pandemic season, and they were
Speaker 1: working with the quarterback that clearly is not even close
Speaker 1: to what he once was and Cam Newton. They had
Speaker 1: to completely restructure their offense into something that neither of
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels or Belichick wanted to use,
Speaker 1: but there were no alternatives. They were left kind of
Speaker 1: high and dry. And then with COVID and everything else,
Speaker 1: they won seven games, seven wins with that team, and
Speaker 1: that quarterback last year may have been a better coaching
Speaker 1: job than what he's doing this year. Now that he's
Speaker 1: got some people back, you know, he's gotten the reinforcements. Back.
Speaker 1: Guys are off the opt out list. They're now playing
Speaker 1: on defense, in particular a couple offensive lineman. And then
Speaker 1: they take a chance in the first round. The first
Speaker 1: time Belichick has ever done this is draft a quarterback
Speaker 1: in the first round. And this was the fifth one
Speaker 1: taken and might be the best of the five. And
Speaker 1: he was number fifty overall. And he is as much
Speaker 1: like Brady, Like if Belichick went into a laboratory and
Speaker 1: started to take any this guy's left arm and that
Speaker 1: quarterback's right arm, and this quarterback's mind, and this quarterback's footwork,
Speaker 1: and this quarter went out vision like this is what
Speaker 1: he would have like if I were gonna if he
Speaker 1: was going to recreate a twenty two year old version
Speaker 1: of Tom Brady, this would be the guy he came
Speaker 1: from Alabama, where he played for the Belichick a college
Speaker 1: football and Nick Salman. He played in big games, He
Speaker 1: played in a pro style offense. They run their program, Livy,
Speaker 1: you know this because you've done a lot of Alabama games.
Speaker 1: They run their program like an NFL team. So this
Speaker 1: kid leaves Tuscaloosa and goes to Foxborough and doesn't blank
Speaker 1: because it's the same culture, it's the same message, and
Speaker 1: it's worked out beautifully. And the fact that he basically
Speaker 1: changed everything for that game last night. He ran the
Speaker 1: ball all the quarterback through three times. Um, it was
Speaker 1: like the perfect game plan by arguably the greatest coach
Speaker 1: that that sport has ever seen. I've noticed that, well
Speaker 1: everyone notices, but that your voice is such a big
Speaker 1: part of what you do. Did you get into what
Speaker 1: you got into because of your voice or did you
Speaker 1: notice your voice was good for it after you started
Speaker 1: doing it. You know, my voice is not the voice
Speaker 1: that I dropped, right. I mean, there's no you can
Speaker 1: alter it. You can change the speed, you can you
Speaker 1: can strengthen it, you can do all those things. But
Speaker 1: you what you have is kind of what you have.
Speaker 1: And in my mind, I hear voices like, uh, Pat
Speaker 1: summer Roll and Race Scott and John Facenda and Jim
Speaker 1: Simpson and Frank Gleieber, and I try to visualize. It's
Speaker 1: weird to say, but visualize those kind of voices. But
Speaker 1: when I was a younger podcaster, like anyone who might
Speaker 1: be in their teens or early twenties, my voice was
Speaker 1: still developing. And what I sound like now is nothing
Speaker 1: like when I sounded like even when I was fifty,
Speaker 1: and that didn't sound like when I was forty. Like,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of matured a little bit, and and
Speaker 1: probably it comes with confidence and relaxation and everything else.
Speaker 1: But I am, and Olivia would tell you this, I
Speaker 1: am big on delivery. I've always told her that when
Speaker 1: she's doing a sideline reporter, you're honest working with you.
Speaker 1: A so so topic or subject or story told with
Speaker 1: a great delivery is far more captivating than a great
Speaker 1: story or great interview, and you're tripping over your words
Speaker 1: and talking too fast and searching for the right word.
Speaker 1: And so I am all about delivery. And when I
Speaker 1: get these links that these kids in college send and say, hey,
Speaker 1: what do you think of my work? Can you give
Speaker 1: me a few tips? And I listen, I can tell
Speaker 1: them about the first you know, ten fifteen seconds if
Speaker 1: they might have it. And there are some that are
Speaker 1: terrific because just the voice you can teach the other stuff.
Speaker 1: You can teach preparation, you can teach, you know, how
Speaker 1: to kind of manage and construct a game broadcast. But
Speaker 1: what you can't teach is what the Good Lord blessed
Speaker 1: you with or didn't bless you with. And then I
Speaker 1: always say, if a kid doesn't have maybe the voice
Speaker 1: or delivery, say, you know what, the great thing about
Speaker 1: our business is that you can go in about fifteen
Speaker 1: different directions. Maybe you're not cut out to be on
Speaker 1: the air, but boy, you can produce, or you can direct,
Speaker 1: or you have got a great feel for lighting or
Speaker 1: for audio or for whatever marketing or prints like like,
Speaker 1: you can go in a million different directions. And that's
Speaker 1: the great thing about this business or or podcast. You
Speaker 1: can Yeah, I have a horrible voice that I'm doing
Speaker 1: this sound Now you're like family. I watched so many
Speaker 1: of these things that you wo love you have done
Speaker 1: together that I feel like you know the rhythm of
Speaker 1: the show and everybody you've add on and and have
Speaker 1: come to really appreciate you, and I'm so thrilled she's
Speaker 1: working with a pro like you. Thank you well, yann
Speaker 1: As you laugh every time before we start, I go
Speaker 1: three to one. In fact, that what's kind of our
Speaker 1: stick we do before we start. But that's kind of
Speaker 1: my process to get my voice down where I wanted.
Speaker 1: And honest, I have a question for you before you
Speaker 1: do stand up. I'm sure you have some kind of process,
Speaker 1: whether it is some visualization, something about your voice, something
Speaker 1: about the way you're standing or your body is moving.
Speaker 1: I mean, what's something you run through before you do
Speaker 1: stand up? Yeah, just like your dad just said, Um,
Speaker 1: it's about delivery and what I do. So the most
Speaker 1: important thing is being in the moment, being there. So
Speaker 1: I have to make sure I am there. I have
Speaker 1: to get out of my head all if I'm having
Speaker 1: a bad day, whatever it is, I gotta leave that.
Speaker 1: I gotta compart to menalize that and put it away
Speaker 1: and get in the moment. I think athletes talk about
Speaker 1: that all the time. Their best game is getting the
Speaker 1: zone is when they're in the moment. So it's the
Speaker 1: same with comedy because you've got to be in the
Speaker 1: room with those people when you're do in live comedy.
Speaker 1: So it's all about grounding myself. So I'll usually open
Speaker 1: with something that I'm just ripping on in the moment,
Speaker 1: just so I can feel in the room, and then
Speaker 1: I go into the jokes that I know. But that's
Speaker 1: the uh yeah, that's that's it, right there, being in
Speaker 1: the moment. So getting that frame of mind right to
Speaker 1: be in the moment now, I just gotta I just
Speaker 1: want to zoom right into it. Um, did you like
Speaker 1: Sam when you first met him? What were your first impressions. Well,
Speaker 1: I met Sam when before he even had met Olivia.
Speaker 1: I had met him in the m c A tournament
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles at the regional finals. So I was
Speaker 1: very familiar with the story, being from Wisconsin and knew
Speaker 1: about his legendary folklore status in the state with his
Speaker 1: dad coaching him at a small high school. The game
Speaker 1: winning shot double team throwing a three point shot as
Speaker 1: he's falling out of bounds to win a state championship,
Speaker 1: and the state embraced him and their family, and then
Speaker 1: when he chose the University of Wisconsin, it brought it
Speaker 1: really full circle. And then to go to two final fours,
Speaker 1: so I had known his story, but it covered him
Speaker 1: before he met Olivia. And you know, these kids, these
Speaker 1: college kids, their attention span is pretty limited, all of them.
Speaker 1: And he didn't know me from that light bulb over there,
Speaker 1: but I knew his story, and that's all he really mattered.
Speaker 1: All that really mattered is that is that we knew
Speaker 1: his story and we were gonna tell I just wanted
Speaker 1: to kind of get the finishing touches on, you know,
Speaker 1: some of the questions we had asked him in our
Speaker 1: pregame meetings and interviews. But to know, I liked them,
Speaker 1: and Reggie Miller, who I was doing the game with,
Speaker 1: and Dan Bonner. When he left, he I think he
Speaker 1: came in with Frank Kamitsky, and the two of them
Speaker 1: came in at the same time and they left, and
Speaker 1: I think it was Reggie Turnemy said, this is why
Speaker 1: everybody in college sports loves the University of Wisconsin, because
Speaker 1: they go out and they get kids that really are good,
Speaker 1: solid kids. And that was my first impression of Sam.
Speaker 1: It's like just he's just a He was just a
Speaker 1: good salad boy who was clearly raised the right way.
Speaker 1: But you can tell a coaches kid too because of
Speaker 1: coaches kid, which Sam is, I think views the game differently.
Speaker 1: He goes home with the wins and losses because his
Speaker 1: dad is usually driving him home in high school, right,
Speaker 1: so he knows about how wins and loss his effective family.
Speaker 1: His dad's moved because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: he's still his dad. So a coaches kid is a
Speaker 1: different kind of kid. And I think Sam showed and
Speaker 1: those pre Olivia meetings just the depth he had, the
Speaker 1: kind of character that he had, and so I didn't
Speaker 1: admire that from afar. And then I think it was
Speaker 1: my sister who spilled the beans that I was dating
Speaker 1: this NBA player, and that is not anything I wanted
Speaker 1: my parents to find out or not here from myself.
Speaker 1: But then fast forward hardly, like gosh, six months or so,
Speaker 1: and you were doing a Portland Trailblazers game, Rockets at Trailblazers.
Speaker 1: So Sam was with the Rockets and he asked if
Speaker 1: he could go to dinner with you, and that's where
Speaker 1: he asked if he could propose. And I've I guess
Speaker 1: I've never really heard your side of that story. Classy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I knew it was probably coming. I paid for the dinner,
Speaker 1: so I had a feeling that was something that he
Speaker 1: was going to approach, and clearly he and Olivia was.
Speaker 1: It was love at first sight and they became inseparable.
Speaker 1: And they're two Wisconsin kids basically, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: that that's what they are, the Midwest kids. And you know,
Speaker 1: I couldn't be more proud that he's my son in
Speaker 1: law and couldn't be more proud of the decision Olivia
Speaker 1: made to choose him as the person that she wanted
Speaker 1: to spend her life with. So it's been great, you know.
Speaker 1: I I think because he's in the sport that he's in,
Speaker 1: he probably feels a little bit weird maybe that you
Speaker 1: know that I'm involved into a degree. But we've we've met,
Speaker 1: we were we really don't talk basketball when we're again,
Speaker 1: do we living? I mean we never really, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: do because he's such a big sports fan and knows
Speaker 1: it well and he's very well versed, and you know,
Speaker 1: he's a big Packers fan, big NFL fan, and no
Speaker 1: sports very well. So we've basically talked about everything almost
Speaker 1: sometimes but the NBA. But we'll talk college basketball a lot.
Speaker 1: But no, I've he's he's been a blessing to our family.
Speaker 1: I just want to say, that is a classy move
Speaker 1: to go for a full dinner with the future father
Speaker 1: in law but not pick up the check. Come on,
Speaker 1: come on, he knows. Everybody knows. Kevin's established. I mean
Speaker 1: when I asked my father in law, I was so nervous.
Speaker 1: I could not even imagine sitting for a whole dinner
Speaker 1: and and you know, trying to make small talk. No,
Speaker 1: you told this story, but I think you have. You
Speaker 1: told this story before. I think you've told this story
Speaker 1: right now. How you and your wife member? Were you
Speaker 1: sitting on a floor or something or I'm trying to
Speaker 1: go back now. That was early on one of your
Speaker 1: first shows. Oh yeah, you two did together, trying to
Speaker 1: think that you probably think, yeah, the way I proposed,
Speaker 1: the way I proposed was perfect. And that night I
Speaker 1: asked her dad. But like, it was so scary. I
Speaker 1: was so scared and so nervous that I was thinking
Speaker 1: about just leaving. I was gonna like change my name,
Speaker 1: maybe moved to Mexico. I didn't know. I just want
Speaker 1: to get out of there. And then I faced my
Speaker 1: fear and we had a moment where it was just
Speaker 1: me and him standing there and I just I just
Speaker 1: there was no small talk. I was just like, hey,
Speaker 1: can I marry your daughter? Because I did, I was
Speaker 1: so nervous, like to I would be too scared to
Speaker 1: do a whole dinner and sit down and make small
Speaker 1: talk and think of the perfect time to bring it up.
Speaker 1: So a lot of a lot of class shout out,
Speaker 1: Sam Deck or a lot of class. Well in j honest,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have this moment yourself. Your honest is the
Speaker 1: father of a one year old baby girl named g G.
Speaker 1: She's absolutely beautiful, her mother is beautiful. This girl is
Speaker 1: going to be a heartbreaker. So dad, what's your advice
Speaker 1: as a girl? Dad yourself? Yeah, well I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: too hard on the boy for what he is, but
Speaker 1: I think you got to look at it through your
Speaker 1: daughter's eyes and at the end of the day, all
Speaker 1: you want her to do is I just think that
Speaker 1: she's made the right choice and she's beyond happy and
Speaker 1: you can see you you'll feel the happiness and you're honters.
Speaker 1: We've got two of our three daughters are married, and
Speaker 1: you can feel what it is. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: when it's right and you know maybe when it's rowing too.
Speaker 1: So but sam was that that was that was a
Speaker 1: pretty easy one. Actually, that was a layout for me.
Speaker 1: But what about like high school, go back further before
Speaker 1: there's a future husband involved. Just girl dad advice, but
Speaker 1: live Remember now, the problem in high school with you
Speaker 1: was that you were crowded more times than you were free.
Speaker 1: You rarely. You really didn't get out there much high school,
Speaker 1: but when I did, there was a reason I was
Speaker 1: grounded all the time. Oh my gosh, she was a
Speaker 1: piece of work, man. But it goes other than that. Kindergarten,
Speaker 1: third grade, you had a lot of calls from the
Speaker 1: principal's office. Yeah, yeah, you know. The thing was is that,
Speaker 1: you know, you try to get mad at Olivia and
Speaker 1: we never you know, I don't think we've ever raised
Speaker 1: your voice of any of our four kids, and you
Speaker 1: try to discipline her, but then she kind of like
Speaker 1: looked down and you know, appear to be maybe like
Speaker 1: sulking or even maybe close to tears, and and then
Speaker 1: you'd kind of be done saying what you had to
Speaker 1: say in terms of being you know, involved in a
Speaker 1: reprimand and all of a sudden she kind of turned
Speaker 1: her head like this and kind of look and then
Speaker 1: put that little devilish grin on those and I go, oh,
Speaker 1: I mean, like how key. And she's the baby, so
Speaker 1: you know, it makes it, you know, TRIPLI hard to
Speaker 1: hold her. But man, if she was mad at us,
Speaker 1: she held a grudge like she still do. Yeah, she would.
Speaker 1: She would you want to go get a milk shake.
Speaker 1: Now we're seeing songs? No, I said, all right, And
Speaker 1: we would do this thing where we would say our
Speaker 1: prayers at night and we'd sing these little songs about her.
Speaker 1: And when she was mad at us, she would not
Speaker 1: let us sing the song. She would like go on,
Speaker 1: like look the other way, and and and and try
Speaker 1: to courting herself off. And it was she was a
Speaker 1: tough one. Boy, she was. She was tough. But no,
Speaker 1: I'm belishing, but she was. She was terrific. She was
Speaker 1: a wonderful, wonderful daughter. And she's continues to make us
Speaker 1: proud of every day. And it sounds like you're glad
Speaker 1: that she grew up. There are moments that I really
Speaker 1: I always told her when she was a little said
Speaker 1: I wish I could freeze you right off at this age,
Speaker 1: whether she were five or six or eight or ten,
Speaker 1: I just I said, I do all of our daughters.
Speaker 1: I said, I just I wish, I wish I could
Speaker 1: just freeze you at that age, because you just you
Speaker 1: can't even imagine as a dad anything better than when
Speaker 1: they're just those little girls and they look up at
Speaker 1: you and they respect you so much and they think
Speaker 1: you are the king. And that's an ice position to
Speaker 1: be in for a add of a daughter. So I
Speaker 1: always enjoyed that time. Well, I can tell you all
Speaker 1: three of your daughters still do that, so you never
Speaker 1: lost that. Let's get back to NFL talk. Boys. Let's
Speaker 1: let's stop messing around here. Okay, um, Dad, you mentioned
Speaker 1: earlier just about Tom Brady said, Mac Jones is the
Speaker 1: twenty two year old version of Tom Brady. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about the forty four year old version and what he's
Speaker 1: doing this season. And now the Buccaneers are sitting at
Speaker 1: nine and three, primed and ready to possibly make another
Speaker 1: Super Bowl run. What are you liking about the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: at this point of the season. Well, what I'm liking
Speaker 1: about it is what they did a year ago. Every
Speaker 1: year ago, they were seven and five and they went
Speaker 1: to nearby and there was a problem and disconnect between
Speaker 1: what Brady wanted to do, and with Bruce arians and
Speaker 1: the offense Byron Leftwich as their coordinator, and how they
Speaker 1: were they just were not connected. They were they were
Speaker 1: not in sync, and it showed Brady was thinking left
Speaker 1: and they were thinking right. He was thinking blue, they
Speaker 1: were thinking red. Like there was just no that they
Speaker 1: could not get on the same page, and the record
Speaker 1: reflected that. So they use that bye week to kind
Speaker 1: of rectify all those problems, and from that point on
Speaker 1: they want eight straight including the super Bowl. They got
Speaker 1: everything in order, they got their house in order, and
Speaker 1: then they just tore right through the rest of the
Speaker 1: NFL schedule, through the playoffs and to the super Bowl
Speaker 1: and to win. So a lot of the heavy lifting
Speaker 1: was last year. Now, as with every defending champion, it's
Speaker 1: trying to get yourself in the same mindset as you
Speaker 1: were a year ago and you were hungry and everything
Speaker 1: was new and we're winning and here's Brady and all
Speaker 1: like this stuff is coming coming together and and you
Speaker 1: reach your goal, and to make that happen again is
Speaker 1: sometimes doubly hard. The climb sometimes and anything in life
Speaker 1: is sometimes not as difficult as maintaining once you get
Speaker 1: there and maintaining that level of excellence, and that's what
Speaker 1: they've kind of learned right now that they've got the
Speaker 1: target on their back. There everybody's biggest game. He is
Speaker 1: the goat. You know, he's seven time champion and attend
Speaker 1: Super Bowls. I don't know that our lives will ever
Speaker 1: see anybody like him in pro football. So you know,
Speaker 1: he's got everybody shooting for him every Sunday, every defense.
Speaker 1: So there's just there's just a lot that they've got
Speaker 1: to deal with. But now that we're in post Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: December football, this is when guys like Brady and the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers become, you know, what they've were and have aimed
Speaker 1: for and now probably realizing when when the stakes are
Speaker 1: their highest, and he might be the m v P.
Speaker 1: Right now he's playing that way. He might be the
Speaker 1: m v P, and wouldn't that be something? At four
Speaker 1: he could possibly win it again. But he he just
Speaker 1: finds ways to motivate and I think maybe the core
Speaker 1: of it all is that he loves to play football
Speaker 1: like he loved. Some guys play it because they're good
Speaker 1: at it. Some guys play it because it brings them riches.
Speaker 1: He plays it because he really loves football. That's got
Speaker 1: to be one of the biggest reasons you played to
Speaker 1: your forty four can still go through everything that he's
Speaker 1: got to go through, allowing himself out of bed every morning,
Speaker 1: feeling every hit from the previous game, you know, getting it.
Speaker 1: It takes I'm certain it takes him every single day
Speaker 1: of every week leading up to that Sunday or whenever
Speaker 1: they play game to get his body right. It probably
Speaker 1: takes all six days between one game and the other
Speaker 1: so that he feels like all right physically and he
Speaker 1: and we know he's in great shape, but I'll guarantee
Speaker 1: you at that age with what he goes through, he
Speaker 1: feels it Monday and Tuesday. It's, you know a little
Speaker 1: bit better every day. But that's one of the more
Speaker 1: underappreciative are of being a pro athlete. It takes a
Speaker 1: whole week to get your body back to get back
Speaker 1: on that field for the next game. You have a
Speaker 1: front row seat and you're engaged in the games that
Speaker 1: you call, what players that you've called really wow you
Speaker 1: where you're watching something that really just i mean, you know,
Speaker 1: blows your mind like a Steph Curry, Michael Jordan Barry Sanders,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers throwing dimes when he's when he's on the run. Like,
Speaker 1: are there some players that you've watched that really like
Speaker 1: almost take you out of your job and make you
Speaker 1: a fan because you cannot believe what you're watching. Over
Speaker 1: the years, when I'm doing the broadcast in the NFL,
Speaker 1: because we're so far away from the field, I don't
Speaker 1: think you get the real appreciation for what these guys do.
Speaker 1: It's only when I'm watching at home as a fan
Speaker 1: and I watch, you know, the flick of the wrist
Speaker 1: by Rogers, and he is a generational talent at quarterback.
Speaker 1: Then arm in arm even Mahomes, and we're seeing it
Speaker 1: kind of now, like Mahomes got a great army, and
Speaker 1: I originally thought he was gonna be Rogers two point out.
Speaker 1: But Rogers is a singular talent that we have not
Speaker 1: seen in this league, that armed talent ever. I mean
Speaker 1: not United, not Montana, I mean, go right on down
Speaker 1: the line of all the greats, Hall of famers, even
Speaker 1: Brady Manning, you know Brees, like all these guys, no
Speaker 1: one has ever had an arm and the ability to
Speaker 1: do with the football at Rogers does. He He is
Speaker 1: a singular generational talent in basketball. Because we are so close,
Speaker 1: you do begin to appreciate the players. And for me, clearly,
Speaker 1: clearly the most inspiring all inducing was Michael Jordan's I
Speaker 1: called basically every year of his career, and when he
Speaker 1: would take the ball up court by you and we
Speaker 1: are at mid court and close enough that if I
Speaker 1: leaned over the table, you could almost grab his jersey,
Speaker 1: it was almost as if his feet were never touching
Speaker 1: the court like he was. His footwork was just so
Speaker 1: elegant in his the way he maneuvered and used just
Speaker 1: little twitches to get free or two to glide down court,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't was like he was floating, And Lebron
Speaker 1: doesn't have that. Lebron is is like a tank, you know,
Speaker 1: but with barely moves and you know, an acrobatic feel.
Speaker 1: Jordan's to me, was the greatest player. Kobe had a
Speaker 1: lot of those same traits. Lebron is a completely different
Speaker 1: kind of guy, but Jordan's watching Jordan's to me was like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll retire someday and this question may get asked,
Speaker 1: you know, when I'm an old man, I would I
Speaker 1: would say that Jordan's probably is it has in the
Speaker 1: most impressive to watch play he was, you know the
Speaker 1: guys now you know it's it's just a different kind
Speaker 1: of professional athlete that it's a lot of self congratulations,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of theatrics. You know, Jordan's did none
Speaker 1: of that. Like Jordan's did none of it. All he
Speaker 1: did was dunk or shoot or when and like and
Speaker 1: he just kind of let that speak for time. You
Speaker 1: may look out and smile and you know, kind of
Speaker 1: give a little note like I mean, just like stuff
Speaker 1: like you and I might do. But every day that
Speaker 1: goes by, and watching the superstars we have now and
Speaker 1: how they react to success and how Jordan's reacted to
Speaker 1: success kind of defines it even more in my mind
Speaker 1: that I feel real lucky that I was able to
Speaker 1: call Jordan's Michael Jordan's basketball games for as long as
Speaker 1: I did. He was unbelievable, Like indescribable is what he was. Indescribable.
Speaker 1: I've got to ask for our final question. You hold
Speaker 1: the record for most consecutive Super Bowl is called, which
Speaker 1: is amazing. So this year's Super Bowl, we already kind
Speaker 1: of asked you about Tampa Bay and New England and
Speaker 1: some hot teams are out there. Who would you have
Speaker 1: to guess today it's December seven, who would you guess
Speaker 1: you're going to be calling on February. Yeah. I just
Speaker 1: saw Livy you know, the Patriots as we know, last night,
Speaker 1: and I just think they're the most complete team in
Speaker 1: the a f C. Lamar Jackson has kind of taking
Speaker 1: a turn. The Bengals are struggling a bit. The Chargers
Speaker 1: are too inconsistent. Um, you know, Pittsburgh six, five and one,
Speaker 1: like like I'm not seeing Buffalo clearly is groping right now.
Speaker 1: They are searching, and there's seven and five and now
Speaker 1: there they were number but five last night, I think
Speaker 1: going in and now they're down the seventh in the
Speaker 1: a f C, barely holding on. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: wrong with them. I can't. They lostred as White, who
Speaker 1: is a All Pro cornerback, and that's a killer in
Speaker 1: their secondary. He closed off a quarter of the field
Speaker 1: for opposing offenses so that it was like they were
Speaker 1: playing with one armed time behind their back. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was that good. So I'm gonna go New England
Speaker 1: because I think they're the most complete team and they've
Speaker 1: got clearly clearly the best coach. Even Kansas City has
Speaker 1: shown that Mahomes has not been what he was. Their offense,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, is out of sink. We're late now
Speaker 1: in the season, and if it's not starting to show
Speaker 1: some fingerprints right now what they're gonna be, and they
Speaker 1: really haven't. They're winning, but they're winning ugly and kind
Speaker 1: of awkwardly. I don't know really what to make of
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, but I love New England and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with I'm gonna go with Green Bay. I think
Speaker 1: they're the most motivated and I just think Rogers is
Speaker 1: playing with a real goal. I think he he is
Speaker 1: a guy. Clearly we have found out that he is
Speaker 1: a player who sees a big world around him and
Speaker 1: thinks about legacy and you know, all these different things.
Speaker 1: He's a deep thinker, and he can't help but think
Speaker 1: at thirty eight or thirty nine, thirty eight, I thinking
Speaker 1: we just turned thirty eight. He can't help but think
Speaker 1: about what his legacy is. And right now, in a
Speaker 1: singular way, it's great because he's won three m v
Speaker 1: p s, but he's only been to one Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and the great go to more than one super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So I think he is in a frame of mind
Speaker 1: of legacy, of putting an impact on it. And I
Speaker 1: also predict that he'll resign with Green Bay and he's
Speaker 1: going to finish out with the greatest quarterback for an
Speaker 1: organization that has had some of the greatest quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: have ever played. Honest, don't make a vaccine joke. Don't
Speaker 1: do it. Don't do it. Honest, I wasn't gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I won't do it. Livy. Don't worry, Livy. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna do it, Little Livy. Now I know what to
Speaker 1: call you from now on. Liv Well, that's Kevin Harland.
Speaker 1: You cannot follow him on Twitter because he hates social media,
Speaker 1: but you can find him every Sunday on CBS Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football and Westwood One and NBA on TNT. Dad,
Speaker 1: thank you again. It's great to see your face before
Speaker 1: I catch this flight distant bowl. I know. Good luck, Sweete.
Speaker 1: We'll talk afterwards. Johnest, what a portution to be on
Speaker 1: with you, to watch your show every week, your podcast,
Speaker 1: and I love it, and you guys do a great job,
Speaker 1: and it was wonderful chemistry and really is a joy
Speaker 1: to listen to. Thank you, honor to have you on.
Speaker 1: Thank you for doing it. Really appreciate time to talk
Speaker 1: this Weekend's actually with our guy bet MGM Betty next Berth,
Speaker 1: the one and only Peter Andrew was kind of our
Speaker 1: third musketeer. Peter, welcome back to the show. How are you, guys, Olivia?
Speaker 1: Sorry for your for your loss this weekend. I know
Speaker 1: it's it's uh. It was more tough to watch it
Speaker 1: in person and have to watch the slow bleeding out too,
Speaker 1: But I'm really glad. I did not put money on
Speaker 1: this one. And I was banging my chest on the
Speaker 1: show last week saying, George just gonna win. They're gonna cover.
Speaker 1: And I believed it. I really did, didn't you, guys?
Speaker 1: I did, especially you know the way Georgia turned out
Speaker 1: the vote to take down Trump. I thought they had
Speaker 1: a chance. I told you, guys, don't give saving points.
Speaker 1: It's you did Metchi, I mean MATCHI and Jameson Williams are.
Speaker 1: I mean it's wide receiver you there, I mean unbelievable game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who knew? Met You went down around halftime and then
Speaker 1: Jamison Williams got the bulk of the carries and and
Speaker 1: the reception. So I talked to him after the game,
Speaker 1: he was my postgame interview and he was just like
Speaker 1: like lit up ear to ear, smiling. He transferred from
Speaker 1: Ohio State and wanted to play in big games like
Speaker 1: this and have a chance to win it all. And
Speaker 1: he does have a chance to win it all. It's
Speaker 1: it's a great story. I love when you see a
Speaker 1: successful transfer story. But he was a great kid. And
Speaker 1: then Bryce Young more or less just tying a bow
Speaker 1: on his ticket to New York to win that Heisman.
Speaker 1: I mean, his odds now are what plus it's something crazy,
Speaker 1: but yeah, a couple of interesting things in the Higsman
Speaker 1: and you know, Kenneth Walker not getting the call in
Speaker 1: but yeah, right soon. Let me ask you this, do
Speaker 1: a lot of people put money on the Heisman that yeah,
Speaker 1: so certainly beginning of season because it's kind of like
Speaker 1: a future bet, like like picking a team to win
Speaker 1: the national championship. Lots of people do it, especially where
Speaker 1: they see value on someone maybe down the list that
Speaker 1: they know might take a jump up. And then as
Speaker 1: the season goes on a little bit. At this point,
Speaker 1: I think it becomes pretty barren because the odds becomes
Speaker 1: so great for the favorite, and it's it's gonna be
Speaker 1: really difficult for some of the dogs, like the guy
Speaker 1: from Pitt. But beginning of the season, we get tons
Speaker 1: of vets, you know, in the thousands, obviously. Really Okay,
Speaker 1: how does that compare with what you see for NFL
Speaker 1: m v P. I think you get way more action
Speaker 1: on m v P. Yeah, you know. I think it's
Speaker 1: it's the fact that there's really only one thing to
Speaker 1: vote on for college football in terms of reward awards.
Speaker 1: That's why it's just so heavily skewed on it. But
Speaker 1: for NFL, you have Offensive Player of the Year, Offensive
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year, you have obviously m VP, So
Speaker 1: there's a little bit more variety, So you're always going
Speaker 1: to get more and obviously the nature of just knowing
Speaker 1: more of the players in the NFL versus college know
Speaker 1: how many times you're going to see a no name
Speaker 1: guy on this listening college it's pretty absolutely significant. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well what about Coach of the Year because Dan Campbell
Speaker 1: he finally gotta win. I don't know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's got a shot. I don't
Speaker 1: know if Sala's got a shot. You always have to
Speaker 1: look at these teams. You you obviously always look at
Speaker 1: the teams that are overperforming, but a couple of teams
Speaker 1: that are just having great seasons as a whole. I mean,
Speaker 1: Belichick may win Coach of the Year. I think he's
Speaker 1: probably the favorite. If not, he's number two. What he's
Speaker 1: done with Matt Jones and just his first you know,
Speaker 1: thirteen games and a good team without a standout player
Speaker 1: like that, maybe besides shoot On and a couple of guys.
Speaker 1: It's really impressive, and it's just staple to why Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick is the best coach ever in in NFL. Maybe
Speaker 1: besides Bill Wall. Yeah, don't forget Bill Parcels too. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, Bill Parcels is up there. It was amazing
Speaker 1: to watch because Belichick's uh coaching savvy was really on display.
Speaker 1: This past Monday night, Mac Jones through three passes. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was a game of rugby we watched. It's it's
Speaker 1: crazy how you can know exactly what's coming the entire
Speaker 1: game and still not do anything about it. You know,
Speaker 1: Damian had said that, I think it's like a sixty
Speaker 1: five seven yard touchdown run and yet still there was
Speaker 1: one person even close to remotely you know, taffling him.
Speaker 1: So it's impressive. I mean there was a lot of
Speaker 1: different packages, but just running up the gut and they
Speaker 1: come out with the wind and the wind and the wind.
Speaker 1: The wind was How about that punt that went into
Speaker 1: the stands. I don't know if he saw before the
Speaker 1: game they showed someone kicking a field goal just in
Speaker 1: practice and it looked like my slice and golf. It
Speaker 1: just went well, let's get to this weekend's action and
Speaker 1: you get to pick some games that we have no idea,
Speaker 1: have no prep on. It's early in the week when
Speaker 1: we record this, and I'm ready to place my bets
Speaker 1: because I have a comeback in the works because Jana
Speaker 1: just whoops me every week and it really makes me
Speaker 1: mad because he does zero prep. We know that you
Speaker 1: listeners probably know that, and we get on here and
Speaker 1: he just makes me look so dumb. So I'm coming
Speaker 1: for redemption, guys punishment pitch. Yeah, So first one, Ravens
Speaker 1: plus two and a half at the Browns. Ravens a
Speaker 1: bit of a stinker last weekends. The Steelers had had
Speaker 1: a chance to win it at the end, obviously came
Speaker 1: up a bit short in Stink Division rival What do
Speaker 1: you like here. You know I'm gonna take the Browns.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I can't really quit on this team.
Speaker 1: And the Ravens have been so up and down and
Speaker 1: that when they're good, they're great, and I just think
Speaker 1: the Browns are a little bit more you know, meat
Speaker 1: and potatoes. I feel like I trust him more so
Speaker 1: as a favorite two and a half, Let's go with
Speaker 1: the Browns. I am going with the Ravens on a
Speaker 1: bounce back when I cannot bet on any Cleveland team,
Speaker 1: no matter the point, since Lebron left. I'm sorry, it's just,
Speaker 1: you know, the only time I bet on Cleveland it
Speaker 1: is if I get sick and I need to go
Speaker 1: to the Cleveland clinic. Other than that, I'm taking the Browns.
Speaker 1: I would take the Bad News Bears against the brown
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm taking the Ravens. I'm sorry, I'm taking
Speaker 1: the Ravens. I would take the back the fuck fuck me,
Speaker 1: fun fuck fuck, I got fucking Marvels in my fucking mouth.
Speaker 1: I apologize. I am taking the goddamn Ravens. Um game
Speaker 1: game number two. I'm not gonna say this is the
Speaker 1: game of the week, but it's probably the most important
Speaker 1: game or one of Cowboys four point favorite on the
Speaker 1: road at Washington Football Team. W f T is I
Speaker 1: think two games out of a playoff spotter out of
Speaker 1: the division lead right now. So this changes the dynamic
Speaker 1: of that division with a couple of games to go.
Speaker 1: What do you guys like here? Man, I can't I'm
Speaker 1: taking I'm taking the Cowboys. I'm taking the favorite. I'm
Speaker 1: taking the Cowboys. I mean, they look too good. I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm sticking with Dallas. You know I am too.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get on that one too. I just
Speaker 1: pulled up the injury report as we know it now,
Speaker 1: and Dallas looks pretty clean. It seems like everyone's back,
Speaker 1: and when they are fully healthy, they still have a
Speaker 1: very impressive roster that can win any week. I like
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. The only thing for me is Washington Football
Speaker 1: team have been pretty pretty good at home and it
Speaker 1: seems like, you know, I don't want to say Heinuchy
Speaker 1: is the next Patrick Mahomes by any means, but they're
Speaker 1: playing around him. They're playing fairly well. And I saw,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw, at the end of
Speaker 1: the game the other day he was getting beaten around
Speaker 1: and getting thrown around and a lot of his players
Speaker 1: standing up for him. Just see that as a little
Speaker 1: bit of a mental edge towards them. But I'm with you, guys,
Speaker 1: Cowboys are just the more complete team. So it'll be
Speaker 1: an interesting one on Sunday. And then last one. We
Speaker 1: just talked about the Bills in that weird game this
Speaker 1: week on Monday night. Bills are plus two and a
Speaker 1: half on the road at Tampa Bay. So do they
Speaker 1: play up to the Tom Brady caliber or do you
Speaker 1: see two in a rowa in terms of maybe a
Speaker 1: black luster performance. Well, Tampa Bay is cooking and it's
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard to stop them. However, when I
Speaker 1: saw that postgame press conference with Poyor and Hide, this
Speaker 1: team is angry. They should have one at home in
Speaker 1: that low scoring, ugly game. I just I feel like
Speaker 1: they are going to come back so hungry now short week,
Speaker 1: but I think they have a chance to win on
Speaker 1: the road. Okay, I I'm surprised by that. I'm surprised
Speaker 1: you or you're taking the Bills. Yeah, I am with
Speaker 1: the Bucks. As long as my man Gronk is healthy,
Speaker 1: and he is he's the difference maker. I mean when
Speaker 1: he's there. Brady knows he has that option. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a rap. I'm going with the box minus two
Speaker 1: point five. Okay, I like it. I think this is
Speaker 1: the first time we disagreed on more than one, so
Speaker 1: this is gonna be interesting a little. Yeah, well, let's
Speaker 1: let's wait and find out. You're already making me regret
Speaker 1: my bills take. But I just it's so I have
Speaker 1: recently bias. I just watched all the postgame stuff and
Speaker 1: I'm like, Oh, they're gonna be dangerous next week. But
Speaker 1: who am I kidding? They're playing Tom Brady, that is it.
Speaker 1: So next week we're going to figure out who has
Speaker 1: to read the outro. But this week, because I lost,
Speaker 1: I have to read the outro. I have not laid
Speaker 1: eyes on it yet. I'm a little nervous. I told
Speaker 1: you Honest to take it easy on me, but he
Speaker 1: never does. So, Peter, thanks so much for joining us again.
Speaker 1: If you want to hop off so you don't have
Speaker 1: to hear what I have to say here, I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna make your ears ring. Uh might feel r rated.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I wouldn't miss this for the world. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Didn't write that. Yeah, I didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: You didn't believe in COVID. You wish, you wish. That
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