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Speaker 2: Welcome in, We'll drive You. Nick Grid Episode two seventy five,
Speaker 2: Gotta get right into it, Ton to Do Baseball ended yesterday,
Speaker 2: Basketball is going That's actually not gonna be in the show.
Speaker 2: NFL trade deadline approaching us, and our Week nine NFL
Speaker 2: gambling show. Also, Oh, programming note that has to be
Speaker 2: so frustrating for our producers because they find out the
Speaker 2: programming notes the exact same time the audience does, which
Speaker 2: is when I say them on the air. My apologies
Speaker 2: for that, but I always think I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I have to tell everyone, and then we're on the air,
Speaker 2: and I remember Demande's gonna find it out as well.
Speaker 2: Next Thursday, we're not going to be able to do
Speaker 2: the show as regularly scheduled because I am going to
Speaker 2: be in Las Vegas. The reason I'm in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: We will discuss more during the show, but next Thursday
Speaker 2: we're not going to do our typical gambling show. We'll
Speaker 2: figure out what we're going to do. Today, though, we
Speaker 2: are doing our typical gambling show. And if you've been
Speaker 2: listening to the or watching the gambling shows this year,
Speaker 2: you kind of know how it go. How it goes,
Speaker 2: I give you a mediocre slate of picks either three
Speaker 2: and two or two and three, and Demante gives you
Speaker 2: a teaser that wins by fifteen points. It is really
Speaker 2: just an insane time of events, but that's the world
Speaker 2: in which we live. Demonse will get to you in
Speaker 2: just a moment. Here's what missed the cut for the show.
Speaker 2: Jaywalking officially legal in New York City. I did in
Speaker 2: fact check this story, and I be honest, I'm not
Speaker 2: sure I'm gonna trust the NYPD to get that memo
Speaker 2: when they don't want to. Lebron and Bronni return to Cleveland,
Speaker 2: Bronni scores a point, gets a steal it, or scores
Speaker 2: two points. Pretty dope, and Aaron Rodgers evidently finds the
Speaker 2: Fountain of youth. And I don't really know why Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers demand feels the need to keep telling us all
Speaker 2: these things rather than just I don't know, playing better.
Speaker 2: What's up? What do you have in your hand?
Speaker 3: I've got the fountain of youth. Drink that Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 3: is claiming this is kind and water?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, oh you're gonna try it? Wow? What a
Speaker 2: bold move did you? Is that really what you just tried?
Speaker 2: Is it cayenne pepper and water? Oh? I mean I can't.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna have to take Oh yo, it is?
Speaker 2: Oh I now here's Can I say one other thing?
Speaker 2: For all the time Aaron Rodgers spends in weird corners
Speaker 2: on the Internet and talking to people, the fact that
Speaker 2: he is just now hearing about the cayenne pepper water
Speaker 2: lemon juice thing is bizarre to me. I knew that
Speaker 2: that was a thing, Like when people are doing like
Speaker 2: forty eight hour fasts, that's the thing. They drank water
Speaker 2: with cayenne pepper and lemon. I don't know whatever that
Speaker 2: was truly discussing. I honestly, yeah, I have to imagine.
Speaker 2: It's not great when I used to do the mornings,
Speaker 2: and then we'll get right to the World Series. When
Speaker 2: and I had that three thirty am wake up call
Speaker 2: for years, and I'd stay up and watch basketball, sleep
Speaker 2: for three hours, do the show, come back home, sleep
Speaker 2: for another three hours. Just drive you literally nuts. I
Speaker 2: started taking ginger cayenne pepper shots when I woke up.
Speaker 2: Do you remember I had him in my little mini
Speaker 2: fridge Orange shots. Yeah. Peter King wrote about how they
Speaker 2: were all over NFL facilities, that guys would use them
Speaker 2: after naps or that they it was helpful and it
Speaker 2: was a way to not drink so much coffee. And
Speaker 2: so I did start doing that. But that's neither here
Speaker 2: nor there. All right, let's get to the World Series.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: So you and Wilds and Brew have been camping out
Speaker 3: at Yankee Stadiums the last couple of days of the
Speaker 3: series obviously wrapped up last night the Dodgers rallied and
Speaker 3: came back down from zero five. How does this compare
Speaker 3: it to the close out some other World series to you.
Speaker 2: Games, Well, here's where I yeah, sure, so listen, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers were the better team and even if the Yankee
Speaker 2: he's won last night, the Dodgers were the strong favorites
Speaker 2: for the series. But there was gonna be massive pressure
Speaker 2: on the Dodgers down or going from up three to
Speaker 2: zero to it being three to two. Twenty four teams,
Speaker 2: twenty five teams or sorry, twenty four is the number
Speaker 2: prior to this series had been up three to zero
Speaker 2: in the World Series. Twenty one had closed it out
Speaker 2: in four. Only three had ever lost Game four and
Speaker 2: the needed game five, and none of those teams had
Speaker 2: ever lost Game five. And the last team to be
Speaker 2: up three to zero in the World Series before the
Speaker 2: Dodgers and not close it out in four was nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2: So they were on unprecedented ground or shaky ground already
Speaker 2: that was getting unprecedented. And when the Yankees, when the
Speaker 2: biggest story for the Yankees is Aaron Judge's bat isn't
Speaker 2: going And in the first inning, bang two run bomb,
Speaker 2: and then Jazz hits a bomb, and Stanton hits a
Speaker 2: bomb and the stadium is rocking and Cole is absolutely dealing,
Speaker 2: and then Judge robs Freddie Freeman of a home run
Speaker 2: or a potential home run, certainly a double, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean it was a he jumped and stole it
Speaker 2: off the wall, but I'm not sure if it quite
Speaker 2: would have cleared. Everything is coming up, Yankees, and then
Speaker 2: one of the most tragic innings of defense you will
Speaker 2: ever see in your life. It got started sadly with
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge messing up on a routine kind of line
Speaker 2: drive fly ball. Combo just dropped it. Then Volpi makes
Speaker 2: a questionable play it short, so we have back to
Speaker 2: back errors, but still does bases loaded, nobody out, and
Speaker 2: Garrett Cole strikes out the nine hitter, then strikes out Otani,
Speaker 2: and then Mookie bets Is hit the plate and Mooki
Speaker 2: hits a ground ball to first base, and they're gonna
Speaker 2: get out of the inning up five to nothing despite
Speaker 2: all the defensive lapses, no damage done, and Garrett Cole
Speaker 2: doesn't cover first and Rizzo can't get to first and
Speaker 2: they both just stand there and watch Mookie Bets screaming
Speaker 2: down the baseline and then all of a sudden, Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman hits a double. Tiascar Hernandez gets a hit, and
Speaker 2: it's five to five, and Yankee Stadium is catatonic. It
Speaker 2: was an unbelievable gag job in a half inning to
Speaker 2: lose the World Series. And sports demons are so cruel
Speaker 2: because Judge has struggled in the playoffs his whole career.
Speaker 2: Yesterday definitively was shaping up to be his greatest postseason
Speaker 2: game and moments by far. The home run, stealing a
Speaker 2: home run, another big hit, and for his that was
Speaker 2: I think the only error he committed in the outfield
Speaker 2: all year, and it's a routine play in the World Series.
Speaker 2: Just didn't squeeze his glove quite right. So now that
Speaker 2: haunts him, That lives with him.
Speaker 3: Jason Tatum missing a layup to go up ten and
Speaker 3: instead they get like a three on the other side,
Speaker 3: it starts a run.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's like yeah, yeah, except it's also Game five
Speaker 2: of the NBA Finals and they lose. Yeah, and their
Speaker 2: season's over. And I'm gonna add one other point to
Speaker 2: it to your context. In the pre dozen playoff games,
Speaker 2: Tatum was shooting twenty four percent and the team was
Speaker 2: winning despite him. I mean, this was a Judge, I mean, judge,
Speaker 2: this was Judge's first multi hit playoff game all season
Speaker 2: and prior to last night, in his last thirty five
Speaker 2: playoff games dating back five years, he had one multi
Speaker 2: hit game. This guy who just had maybe the greatest
Speaker 2: season by right handed hit or ever. So that's a
Speaker 2: tough one man. And now on the other side, so
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you guys a little Dodger's history because
Speaker 2: this is the flip side to the cruelty of sports
Speaker 2: is sometimes you bang, bang, bang on the door and
Speaker 2: then finally, mercifully breakthrough. Dave Roberts got hired to coach
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Dodgers. Are managed, sorry, the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 2: In twenty sixteen, they won ninety games, they go to
Speaker 2: the NLCS, lose, good season. It then started the following
Speaker 2: run demonse. And again I'll say this for you, but
Speaker 2: also for the you know, our audience might be like,
Speaker 2: we don't talk baseball on this show, so there might
Speaker 2: not be as familiar with what the benchmarks are or whatever.
Speaker 2: Eighty one wins obviously means you're a five hundred team.
Speaker 2: Ninety wins means you're a good team usually that makes
Speaker 2: the playoffs. One hundred wins means you are an awesome team,
Speaker 2: and anything north of one hundred you are almost assuredly
Speaker 2: the best team in baseball this year, Okay, that year.
Speaker 2: Some years there are multiple one hundred win teams, but
Speaker 2: it's it's pretty rare. That actually did happen to the
Speaker 2: Dodgers once where they won one hundred and six, and
Speaker 2: the Giants in their own division one hundred and seven,
Speaker 2: But that's pretty rare. So Dave Roberts takes over in
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. Here's how it goes for them. Twenty seventeen,
Speaker 2: one hundred and four wins, go to the World Series,
Speaker 2: lose in seven to the Astros. That Astros team. You know,
Speaker 2: they might have had the signs and the pounding and
Speaker 2: the signals and the cheating and the whatever. But hey,
Speaker 2: Dodgers looking great. The next season only ninety two wins,
Speaker 2: get right back to the World Series, but gets smoked
Speaker 2: by the Red Sox. The very next season, demon say,
Speaker 2: one hundred and six wins, lose in the first round.
Speaker 2: The next year is the pandemic year. They win the
Speaker 2: World Series, but there's no fans, there's no crowd. It's
Speaker 2: a sixty game season and people are like eh. The
Speaker 2: very next year, one hundred and six wins don't make
Speaker 2: the World Series. Twenty twenty two, one hundred eleven wins
Speaker 2: losing round one, last year one hundred wins losing round one,
Speaker 2: and this year ninety eight wins, smoke everyone in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: almost losing round one, and then smoke the Mets. Smoked
Speaker 2: the Yankees win the World Series, like they have been
Speaker 2: banging on the door with really tough postseasons. Well, I
Speaker 2: you know, probably the randomness of of to what what
Speaker 2: were you gonna say?
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, oh, Tony, but I know he
Speaker 3: hasn't he didn't care throughout the series.
Speaker 2: But oh no, but it might. I mean he did.
Speaker 2: He played his best in the one series they almost
Speaker 2: lost the NLDS and without him they would have lost that.
Speaker 2: And I do think that even though he wasn't playing great,
Speaker 2: I do think just having him at the top of
Speaker 2: your lineup put so much stress on the pitchers. So, like,
Speaker 2: no doubt about it, having Otani there helped them. But also,
Speaker 2: you know, the other thing there's the difference is it's baseball, man,
Speaker 2: and these times, like the best of five series, you
Speaker 2: can just get beat even if you're way better. It's
Speaker 2: just so different than the other sports. So I listen.
Speaker 2: I'm thrilled for Dave Roberts, I'm thrilled for Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 2: I love Mookie Betts. It's a great story, and but
Speaker 2: it's just so painful for them to lose like that
Speaker 2: as a Yankee, you know, in if you're a Yankee fan,
Speaker 2: it's painful to lose like that. All right, what's your
Speaker 2: follow up before we get to football?
Speaker 3: Are you officially a baseball guy? Are we gonna start
Speaker 3: talking more of baseball in the pot or so?
Speaker 2: Here's the thing. I we don't talk it on the
Speaker 2: pod because it is weird to parachute in after not
Speaker 2: talking at all year. And I really there are two
Speaker 2: types of baseball games I like watching. First type is
Speaker 2: the Royals, whin they're good, and the second type is
Speaker 2: any playoff baseball game. Play like, the difference in enjoyment, level, excitement,
Speaker 2: and nerves from a playoff baseball game to a regular
Speaker 2: season game can't be compared to anything else in sports.
Speaker 2: Regular season it just feels like whatever, Like, you know,
Speaker 2: find a way to get through the game. Find whatever.
Speaker 2: Playoff baseball. It's the third inning and it's a one
Speaker 2: to one count and the balls on the corner and
Speaker 2: your team's at bat and you thought it was an
Speaker 2: inch off the plate and they call it a strike
Speaker 2: and you're like, you've gotta be kidding me. Should be
Speaker 2: two to one, we're in control of the count. Now
Speaker 2: it's one to two. Every pitch is so nerve wracking.
Speaker 2: So I love playoff baseball. I don't pretend to be
Speaker 2: a base expert, but I do. I you know, I
Speaker 2: was out on the field of Yankee same last couple days,
Speaker 2: and I at least pretended to be one pretty damn well.
Speaker 2: And so I so I'm not a baseball guy, but
Speaker 2: I do love playoff baseball. And I gotta say, and
Speaker 2: we can show the picture. I deeply appreciate Fox and
Speaker 2: FS one, uh setting me wilds and brew up like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is the biggest World Series baseball's had
Speaker 2: in at least a decade. And you know, you could
Speaker 2: argue in thirty years the Cubs making their first World
Speaker 2: Series in forever was maybe more substantial. But what it's
Speaker 2: it's what Yankees Dodgers is as good as it gets
Speaker 2: in baseball. And for Fox to put the effort and
Speaker 2: resources into getting us out there and then getting us.
Speaker 2: John Smoltz, Alex Rodriguez, Joe Davis, and Dave Roberts on
Speaker 2: the show was just oh and Big Poppy on the
Speaker 2: show remote the day before, it was just phenomenal, and
Speaker 2: so I greatly greatly appreciate it. All right, pal, let's
Speaker 2: go to the NFL.
Speaker 3: Yes, So the trade deadline is approaching and teams are
Speaker 3: making moves and they're making them fast. So Baltimore just
Speaker 3: landed Deontay Johnson. I don't know, could we not have
Speaker 3: gotten some defensive help there? But yeah, we got a receiver,
Speaker 3: the Vikings got offensive line help, and other names are
Speaker 3: to be rumored. Does every team need to be a
Speaker 3: buyer in order to dethrown your Chiefs?
Speaker 2: Well, nobody's good enough to beat the Chiefs right now,
Speaker 2: So I guess the answer to that is yes. I
Speaker 2: do have to say. It's not the it's not demonde
Speaker 2: that I think that's a bad move for Baltimore. It's
Speaker 2: just not the move I would have made. And here's
Speaker 2: what I don't understand. Whenever Baltimore loses, people are like,
Speaker 2: we should have run the damn ballmore, and then at
Speaker 2: the trade deadline they go out and had another You
Speaker 2: know decent wide receiver. I do think the Vikings Christian
Speaker 2: darisaw height, Yes, and and it immediately crippled Arnold He
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, I was saying they got to that
Speaker 3: very fast, like that was literally just last week.
Speaker 2: Correct, Because you're right, they they knew like, oh we
Speaker 2: are cooked. Without a better left tackle, it's very difficult
Speaker 2: to get quality offensive lineman at the trade market. It also,
Speaker 2: the Jags trading away Trevor's left tackle not great for me.
Speaker 2: So I think that's a sharp move by them. Uh listen,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs Jaylan Watson, who's one of the better players
Speaker 2: that nobody outside of Kansity knows about, was their cornerback too.
Speaker 2: He broke his ankle. That is now an actual position
Speaker 2: of weakness for Kansas City. I know that the Rams are,
Speaker 2: you know, potentially shopping Tradevius White. I don't think Tradevius
Speaker 2: White is good anymore. I feel the kid was excellent,
Speaker 2: but he suffered multiple substantial lower body injuries and he's
Speaker 2: just not a real player anymore. I wouldn't mind the
Speaker 2: Chiefs trading for a corner. I know Baltimore I think
Speaker 2: should want to trade for a corner, and so you know,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs added josh Uja for nothing and they added
Speaker 2: DeAndre Hopkins. I like both of those moves. All right,
Speaker 2: let's move on to the next topic.
Speaker 3: Tomroseay, So the Colts they've been she Anthony Ridgardson. I
Speaker 3: feel like might have been a little bit of a
Speaker 3: punishment for him checking himself out. But you were super
Speaker 3: high on anything Richardson. It seems like he's too rough
Speaker 3: to be a competent a quarterback. In the moment, quarterbacks
Speaker 3: are getting bingched very fast. So it's time to dust
Speaker 3: the cobbebs off and to do the Nick makes it
Speaker 3: right segment fix the NFL. The NFL's problem with quarterback development.
Speaker 3: Do these so yeah, do you think these guys need
Speaker 3: to play better? What's the situation there?
Speaker 2: So the biggest problem with quarterback development right now is
Speaker 2: you're not trying to develop these guys. So Anthony Richardson
Speaker 2: completed fifty two percent of his passes in college, he
Speaker 2: only started ten games. He was considered the raws prospect
Speaker 2: ever to go in the first round, and you took
Speaker 2: him number four overall because you were like, man, in
Speaker 2: a couple years, this guy might be able to be
Speaker 2: a superhero. To give up on that player after ten
Speaker 2: games is an abomination, simply. Here's the thing. The Niners
Speaker 2: took Trey Lance, who played a dozen college games at
Speaker 2: the FCS level, knowing he was a raw project. They
Speaker 2: gave up on him even quicker. However, he suffered a
Speaker 2: season ending injury, and they had a kid his age.
Speaker 2: I gotta take this jacket off. It's too hot. They
Speaker 2: had a kid his age who they thought could be good,
Speaker 2: if not great, so it was like, hey, we can
Speaker 2: still be developing a young player. To give up on
Speaker 2: the fourth pick of the draft less than a dozen
Speaker 2: starts into his career for a thirty nine year old
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco is one of the most inexplicable, unforgivable franchise decisions.
Speaker 2: What do you think you're doing with Joe Flacco? The
Speaker 2: same shit you tried to do last year with Gardner Minshew.
Speaker 2: Find a way to get to eight to nine wins,
Speaker 2: be the seventh seed, and get absolutely blasted in Round
Speaker 2: one of the playoffs. Last year they didn't even quite
Speaker 2: get to Round one of the playoffs, Like you have
Speaker 2: no The whole idea behind drafting Anthony Richardson is it's
Speaker 2: gonna be really rough. He's gonna be really bad, but eventually,
Speaker 2: if it clicks for him, he's maybe the greatest natural
Speaker 2: athlete to ever play the position to flat throw in
Speaker 2: the towel. Ten starts into his career. It's a shorter leash.
Speaker 2: Then the Panthers gave Bryce Young, And you might say, Nick,
Speaker 2: you weren't as hard on Carolina for giving up on Bryce.
Speaker 2: Totally different situations. Bryce was a multi year, awesome college
Speaker 2: player for a national champion program who was not raw
Speaker 2: at all. Bryce was. The worry about Bryce was is
Speaker 2: he going to be too small? And then he got
Speaker 2: to the NFL and he is, and so there's no
Speaker 2: fixing that. Bryce was supposed to be relatively speaking, pro
Speaker 2: ready Anthony Richardson was supposed to. It's it's it's like
Speaker 2: you discover this isn't on the fly analogy a child
Speaker 2: prodigy in biomechanics in a different country and the kid
Speaker 2: doesn't speak a lick of English, and you're like, all right,
Speaker 2: we're gonna bring him here to work with our team
Speaker 2: because he's a savant. However, it's gonna be very frustrating
Speaker 2: and very trying, because it's gonna be at least two
Speaker 2: maybe three years till he can communicate with our people.
Speaker 2: But once he gets the language down, if he gets
Speaker 2: the language down, he is going to be so additive
Speaker 2: and take us to the next level. And then six
Speaker 2: months in his manager's like, I can't work with this.
Speaker 2: The kid can't speak English. Give me the average guy
Speaker 2: who knows how to put the widgets in the wall.
Speaker 2: And they're like, okay, fine, what are you doing? What's
Speaker 2: the plan? What so? I so the Anthony Richardson Richardson thing.
Speaker 2: And again I want to make this clear, I am
Speaker 2: not saying I am convinced Anthony Richardson would ever be good.
Speaker 2: What I am saying is, eighteen months ago, you made
Speaker 2: a choice to spend the fourth pick of the draft
Speaker 2: on a guy who had ten college starts, who everyone
Speaker 2: said was going to be one of the rast prospects
Speaker 2: ever and completed fifty two percent of his passes in college.
Speaker 2: To then give up on him because he's completing fifty
Speaker 2: one percent of his passes in the NFL after ten
Speaker 2: starts is bananas. And I'm going to give you another example.
Speaker 2: The Buffalo Bills took Josh Allen, a two star out
Speaker 2: of Wyoming whose best collegiate accolade was like honorable mention
Speaker 2: Mountain West, who was inaccurate in college, and said, all right,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be ugly early, but he's six ' five
Speaker 2: two forty has a cannon if we can harness it.
Speaker 2: Josh Allens first dozen games of his career trying to
Speaker 2: pull it up right now. Well, I'll just give you
Speaker 2: his full rookie season. Yeah, he had a sixty eight
Speaker 2: passer rating and completed fifty two percent of his passes.
Speaker 2: He had some of these. He was eight of nineteen,
Speaker 2: he was thirteen of twenty six, he was six to fifteen.
Speaker 2: He had passer ratings his rookie season of thirty six,
Speaker 2: forty two, forty four, fifty two, fifty six, sixty three,
Speaker 2: seventy one, seventy one. He had three games he threw
Speaker 2: for one hundred hundred yards. They stuck with him because
Speaker 2: they're like, well, this was the plan. And then in
Speaker 2: year or two, Josh Allen only completed where's the completion
Speaker 2: fifty eight percent of his passes, but it trended in
Speaker 2: the right direction. He got a little bit better. And
Speaker 2: then the year three was in the AFC Championship Game,
Speaker 2: I and they were like, it's just so different.
Speaker 3: Cults aren't doing anything, just so, so why not.
Speaker 2: Just like, that's my point. And the guy sitting behind him,
Speaker 2: it's not like they had a version of Sam Darnold
Speaker 2: sitting behind him. Where it's like, oh, a guy who
Speaker 2: was once thought of as a blue chipper who's in
Speaker 2: his late twenties, who we have now fallen in love
Speaker 2: with and if he's really good, we're gonna have for
Speaker 2: the next ten years. It's Joe Flacco. He's lightly he's
Speaker 2: almost forty, and so that that one really annoys me.
Speaker 2: It really annoys me. All right, let's move on.
Speaker 3: So it's Halloween, and although we will not be dressing out,
Speaker 3: we're still going to get in the spirit. It's time
Speaker 3: to take a look at which NFL teams have the
Speaker 3: scariest future going forward. We're breaking it into three different
Speaker 3: categories of teams and you will decide whose situations are
Speaker 3: the spookiest.
Speaker 2: And that's in a bad way.
Speaker 3: So the first we got the upper tier team with
Speaker 3: the scariest future is, and the middle class team with
Speaker 3: the scariest future is and then the bottom feeder that's
Speaker 3: the scariest future.
Speaker 2: Okay, So This is actually quite an easy exercise for me.
Speaker 2: The upper Yeah, sure, please. If the first is Niners, no,
Speaker 2: oh no, actually that's not it. No, no, no, because
Speaker 2: the the Niners are they have enough really good players
Speaker 2: and we'll see like what the party contract comes in at.
Speaker 2: But no, it's not the Niners. It's the Bengals. Oh okay,
Speaker 2: because t Higgins has gone after this year. They have
Speaker 2: not done well enough on building the defense or the
Speaker 2: offensive line. And you're not going to You're about you
Speaker 2: didn't pay Jamar Chase last year, You're gonna pay him
Speaker 2: this year, so he's gonna be top of the market.
Speaker 2: And it just feels like they really put a lot
Speaker 2: of they could have taken the longer view and two
Speaker 2: years ago traded or a year ago traded Tea and
Speaker 2: gotten a first round pick and something. They're like, no,
Speaker 2: we beat the Chiefs, and then we lost to the
Speaker 2: Chiefs the NFC title game. We're right there. And then
Speaker 2: last year went to hell because Burrow got hurt. And
Speaker 2: then this year they're like, no, we're still not trading Tea.
Speaker 2: We're going for it again. And then this year's going
Speaker 2: to hell because the defense stinks and the inside of
Speaker 2: the offensive line is not good, and so they this
Speaker 2: was their moment, They're only gonna have less talent on
Speaker 2: the roster. I think they have a coaching question like
Speaker 2: so yeah, to me, I think it's the Bengals that
Speaker 2: it's like, geez man, how are we going to not
Speaker 2: have capitalized more on this moment? The mid tier team?
Speaker 2: I said, this was really easy, but then I forgot
Speaker 2: who oh on, now I have to scroll the standings. Oh,
Speaker 2: I know who it is. Do you have a guest
Speaker 2: demons or do you want to say yours before I
Speaker 2: do it?
Speaker 3: Well, I just have a hard time deciding what middle
Speaker 3: tier is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, because like I feel.
Speaker 3: Like a team like like the Jets, is that mid
Speaker 3: or is that lower tier?
Speaker 2: Like is that we'll call them? It could be either, right,
Speaker 2: but that.
Speaker 3: I go Dallas, but go ahead.
Speaker 2: That's why because I don't consider that, oh, Dallas you anymore. No,
Speaker 2: they're definitely not top tier right now. But uh you,
Speaker 2: I have two answers for you, and they're both AFC's teams.
Speaker 2: It's the Jets and the Dolphins. I'd be really worried
Speaker 2: about both situations. The Dolphins salary cap situation is grotesque
Speaker 2: and they really went for it right now, and it
Speaker 2: seems like some of that Mike McDaniel magic has worn
Speaker 2: off a bit. The defense is not good that you know,
Speaker 2: Tyreek is openly pining to be a chief again, and
Speaker 2: we don't know what Tua's future holds. The Jets, on
Speaker 2: the other hand, are just just they gave their franchise
Speaker 2: over to a madman. He's not good at football anymore,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna need a new GM, a new head coach,
Speaker 2: a new quarterback. And they do have some night they
Speaker 2: don't have. You know, they just gave what's gonna to
Speaker 2: be in like the sixty sixth pick of the draft
Speaker 2: for Devonte Adams. You know, they've got gar like coming going.
Speaker 2: I hope he doesn't retire. I really don't want him
Speaker 2: to retire, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why I just don't want him to retire to
Speaker 3: see if the Jets will keep him, Like, I just
Speaker 3: want to see if.
Speaker 2: You're like, all right, let's run it back. Oh well,
Speaker 2: if he's the thing, who else is gonna eat?
Speaker 3: Like maybe Carolina goes out there and tries to grab
Speaker 3: him or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know. No, even if he doesn't retire, the
Speaker 2: Jets are gonna clean house and the new GM is
Speaker 2: going to use their first round pick on a quarterback.
Speaker 2: Like that's going to happen. Now, if Rogers is there,
Speaker 2: maybe he starts the year as the starter, but I
Speaker 2: don't Yeah, I don't know. And then the bottom tier
Speaker 2: team demands I think you could probably guess it. It's
Speaker 2: pretty obvious who it is. But like, do you have
Speaker 2: a team you want to say or you just want
Speaker 2: me to do it?
Speaker 3: Bottom tier? I'm gonna gonna put out three. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: put out the Carolina Panthers. I'll do Tennessee and.
Speaker 2: That's all you need to say. No, no, no, it's just Carolina.
Speaker 2: Carolina is so much more screwed than well, you know what,
Speaker 2: I I lied to you. Who was the third team
Speaker 2: you were gonna say? I was gonna say the Patriots,
Speaker 2: but I don't know. If no, the Patriots, Patriots might
Speaker 2: not be because Drake may might be good. But you
Speaker 2: know there are two. The Panthers are screwed because the
Speaker 2: ownership is terrible. They don't have good players, they don't
Speaker 2: have a quarterback, they don't even have all their draft picks.
Speaker 2: Not great. The other team that's on that list is
Speaker 2: New Orleans because New Orleans doesn't have the quarterback and
Speaker 2: also doesn't have the cap to rebuild that team, but
Speaker 2: they at least have their draft picks. But yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a fun exercise. I enjoyed that, all right. So oh
Speaker 2: real quick, by the way, because I said at the
Speaker 2: top of the show, so you guys saw on Twitter
Speaker 2: and Instagram a few weeks ago, I did that that
Speaker 2: gold pass giveaway thanks to the folks at Poker Stars
Speaker 2: and the NAPT and What's Right show listener won it.
Speaker 2: He seems so excited. I think we talked about it
Speaker 2: on the show. If not, I apologize, but it was
Speaker 2: such a we did talk. I know, No, you're fine.
Speaker 2: I know we talked about the giveaway once, like mentioning it,
Speaker 2: but I don't know if we talked about the winner
Speaker 2: on the show. But this kid, who's a legit poker
Speaker 2: player won up you know what they call a gold
Speaker 2: pass and I'm trying to pull up. Oh Benjamin Valder
Speaker 2: is his name, but he's you know, a grinder, and
Speaker 2: now he gets to play in the NAPT you know,
Speaker 2: Las Vegas main event. It's a five thousand dollars free
Speaker 2: role essentially for him and gets the hotel and airfare.
Speaker 2: All that was so cool. And while that's going on,
Speaker 2: the reason I'm not gonna be here next or next
Speaker 2: Thursday is because I'm doing a quick turnaround forty eight
Speaker 2: hours in Vegas, because I'm going to Vegas to play
Speaker 2: in the big game on tour, which is poker fans
Speaker 2: will understand this. But even if you're not a poker fan,
Speaker 2: this will like have relevance to you because it will
Speaker 2: sound it's a cool concept. The way this thing originally
Speaker 2: worked was decade plus ago, a six handed poker game.
Speaker 2: You're gonna play one hundred and fifty hands, five professionals
Speaker 2: all sit down with fifty thousand dollars cash and one
Speaker 2: drawing winner. Essentially, they called the loose cannon gets given
Speaker 2: the buy in fifty thousand dollars. But demonse, they can't
Speaker 2: they can't be like, okay, I'm just gonna fold every
Speaker 2: hand and walk with the fifty thousand dollars. They only
Speaker 2: get to keep their profit, so they're super incentivized to
Speaker 2: play hands and be aggressive, and at the end, like
Speaker 2: if you so, Poker Stars gives you fifty grand to
Speaker 2: play with, but you only get to keep what you
Speaker 2: make you've got ten hands left and you're sitting there
Speaker 2: with fifty two thousand you've won, or forty eight thousand, Well,
Speaker 2: you're super incentivized to go crazy at the end because
Speaker 2: if you walk with forty eight grand, you actually walk.
Speaker 2: Whether you have zero or forty nine thousand, nine hundred
Speaker 2: and ninety nine, you are getting zero dollars out of
Speaker 2: you only keep the profit.
Speaker 3: And so if you got a bag like in the middle,
Speaker 3: like without like if I went up sixty k, yeah,
Speaker 3: didn't start folding.
Speaker 2: Right, So if you're the loose cannon, well no, so
Speaker 2: if you're if you're the loose cannon, and let's say
Speaker 2: you early on double so in your fifty turns into
Speaker 2: one hundred, you now have the opportunity if you want
Speaker 2: to just fold essentially the rest of the way and
Speaker 2: walk away with your profit call it, you know, fifty
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. But there's multiple layers to it because there's
Speaker 2: multiple loose cannons, because there's over the course of a season.
Speaker 2: It's TV show, so you know what I mean, There'll
Speaker 2: be multiple events, and the loose cannon on the original
Speaker 2: that had the most profit won an extra jackpot of
Speaker 2: a bunch of tournament entries and stuff like that. So
Speaker 2: you want to win money, but you also want to
Speaker 2: win the most money because then you get the extra
Speaker 2: juice on it. Right, That's how the original one worked.
Speaker 2: The way this one works is instead of it being
Speaker 2: one loose cannon and five pros, it's one loose cannon,
Speaker 2: three pros and two people like me. So the game
Speaker 2: I'm playing in, but all the same rules. You keep
Speaker 2: your profit whatever. So the game I'm playing in, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure sure, I'm not sure if I'm allowed to
Speaker 2: say who's in it, I'm gonna all right. So playing
Speaker 2: in this game will be a you know, a loose
Speaker 2: cannon myself, Rob Gronkowski, and then three pros who again
Speaker 2: I'm not sure exactly who the pros are, but could
Speaker 2: be someone like Phil helm Youth, Tony g Sean Deep
Speaker 2: like those folks. And so now it's it's kind of
Speaker 2: even steven in that you got three pros at the table,
Speaker 2: three non pros at the table. Gronk's there. I don't
Speaker 2: know that Gronk is studying, you know, gto wizard for
Speaker 2: the optimal post flop play on you know, you know,
Speaker 2: low paired boards and so we're gonna be out there cooking,
Speaker 2: and so you can watch it on YouTube and it'll
Speaker 2: be episodic. There'll be like six episodes. And I'm saying
Speaker 2: it right now to dem I say, I am. I
Speaker 2: am setting my personal goal. So I'm sitting down like
Speaker 2: everyone does, with fifty grand and I if I don't
Speaker 2: win at least seventy two thousand dollars, I'm going to
Speaker 2: be disappointed. And that's that's the goal for basically a
Speaker 2: double up and a half. So I plan to end
Speaker 2: these one hundred and fifty hands with about one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five grand in front of me. That's the plan.
Speaker 2: And you, your mom, your sister, and your other sister
Speaker 2: are all in for a five percent profit free role.
Speaker 2: And when I say your mom, she's really in for
Speaker 2: one hundred percent profit free role. But you, you and
Speaker 2: your two sisters are all in for five percent profit
Speaker 2: free role. You actually get it, your sisters. It's the
Speaker 2: best thing in the world. When like, because I always
Speaker 2: put them, you know, put you guys when I go
Speaker 2: I'm going to Vegas gambling real money. So I like
Speaker 2: to make it like I'm doing good parenting when it's
Speaker 2: just me gambling money in Vegas. Your piece of it.
Speaker 2: I have to actually ship to you. Your two sisters.
Speaker 2: I put in their college fund in their main bank
Speaker 2: accounts because they're not old enough to actually have the money.
Speaker 2: So all here's the thing. I'm not gonna reveal my
Speaker 2: results like the day I get back because it's a show.
Speaker 2: They want there to be some suspense to it. But
Speaker 2: you'll be able to watch on YouTube. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: super dope. So appreciate. But yeah, it that's the idea.
Speaker 2: Get him down, Yeah, get get Gronk to buy back in.
Speaker 2: I mean I I don't think Gronk's coming there with
Speaker 2: one bullet, because if you lose the fifty, you can
Speaker 2: buy back in as much as you want. I was
Speaker 2: watching the one that came out a few months ago.
Speaker 2: What's the guy's name. What's the guy's name? Oh my god, Alan,
Speaker 2: he's a crazy gambler. And I watched the whole thing. Alan,
Speaker 2: this is gonna bother me so much. Uh it doesn't
Speaker 2: mean Allen, but no, John good Good. I appreciate that
Speaker 2: you're not gonna be able to guess it. I watch
Speaker 2: him all the time. I have to look this up
Speaker 2: because it's gonna bother me. But the point is, uh,
Speaker 2: he he he bought in for three hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: and so like, I don't know how much Gronk's gonna
Speaker 2: buy in for him, I guess is not that, but
Speaker 2: he it was so I mean that game, that game
Speaker 2: played really big. That game played Alan Keating Keating is
Speaker 2: his name. That game played really big. I don't think
Speaker 2: this game will play quite as big. All Right, gambling show.
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Speaker 2: co slash b ball. All right, demons, So, as I
Speaker 2: mentioned last week, another two and three week from me,
Speaker 2: But again it's because of a hail Mary at the end,
Speaker 2: like are you kidding me? We can show you my picks.
Speaker 2: I'm now a game under five hundred on the season.
Speaker 2: Cleveland plus eight and a half against Baltimore. They went
Speaker 2: out right Atlanta minus two and a half against Tampa,
Speaker 2: they win easily, Green Bay minus four. Against Jacksonville, they
Speaker 2: win by three fine New Orleans plus seven. At the
Speaker 2: Chargers Bad's wrong side of it. The Bears are up
Speaker 2: three with twenty seconds left, and then up three with
Speaker 2: two seconds left, and then the worst Hail Mary defense
Speaker 2: you've ever seen, and I lose. So whatever, it's just
Speaker 2: so annoying. However, TD Genie did pay. How about that?
Speaker 2: I told you because you thought Travis Kelsey wasn't gonna
Speaker 2: wasn't gonna score a touchdown National tight ends day. Give
Speaker 2: me a break, I mean, just give me a break,
Speaker 2: all right, before we get to your amazing teaser streak.
Speaker 2: I listen. I know the producers spend a lot of
Speaker 2: time researching the stats on my picks. I don't want
Speaker 2: to get into it. I'm depressed about the picks. I'm
Speaker 2: just the numbers say, I'm just coin flipping. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm just the numbers, say just you could follow Nick's picks,
Speaker 2: or you could just flip a coin, the go five one.
Speaker 2: It's so fresh trading. I'm so annoyed about it. It
Speaker 2: doesn't so we.
Speaker 3: Still got a whole other hat for the season for
Speaker 3: you to get back on track. You know what, I
Speaker 3: appreciate games five hundred your one game?
Speaker 2: No, Can I tell you something I think. I think
Speaker 2: if I was ten games wellow five hundred, I would
Speaker 2: feel better. It would feel like I'm actually doing something. Now,
Speaker 2: I'd be doing something bad, but I'd be doing something.
Speaker 2: Being five hundred, just being dead five hundred is just
Speaker 2: so annoying, all right, First pick of the week Demons
Speaker 2: the weirdest line of the NFL season. Yeah on Houston
Speaker 2: plus two at the Jets? What is going on there?
Speaker 2: Listen like I mean, this is such an outrageous line.
Speaker 2: My gambling all of my gambling instincts say this is
Speaker 2: a must stay away, but I can't help myself. Like
Speaker 2: it is so the six and two Houston Texans are
Speaker 2: giving points to the two and six New York Jets
Speaker 2: on a short week. It is an outrage and it's
Speaker 2: so bad that it feels like it's such a trap
Speaker 2: that you just have to stay away. But I can't.
Speaker 2: I just can't. This might be my last opportunity of
Speaker 2: the season to bet against the Jets while getting points
Speaker 2: against a good team. I get it. The Texans offense,
Speaker 2: no Nico and no digs, that's gonna be a problem.
Speaker 2: But this is what I just come down. Keep coming
Speaker 2: back to Demanse. How on earth are the Jets gonna
Speaker 2: be able to keep Aaron Rodgers upright against this Demico
Speaker 2: Ryans front. Rogers is banged up, and he's banged up
Speaker 2: with not a full week to recover like that. How
Speaker 2: is he not going to get just hit and hit
Speaker 2: and hit tonight? I think he is, And so I
Speaker 2: just wait, what it suck?
Speaker 3: What are you game tonight? I'm sorry, I'm just finding
Speaker 3: out that game is today. That's awesome. I can't wait.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's a fun Thursday game. It's also likely
Speaker 2: the final. Here's the thing, it's probably the final time
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers on national TV the rest of his career.
Speaker 2: They're not going to make the playoffs. They have no
Speaker 2: Monday night games left, they have no Thursday night games left.
Speaker 2: They have one Sunday night football game left, but that
Speaker 2: can be flexed. You want to know who that game
Speaker 2: is against Joe Flacco and the Indianapolis Colts. Jets. Colts
Speaker 2: is getting its ass flexed out of there. The two
Speaker 2: oldest quarterbacks in the league, cobbling around for bad teams
Speaker 2: get out of here, and so this is probably Aaron's
Speaker 2: last game on national TV, and so I'm just betting
Speaker 2: against him.
Speaker 3: It is like I saw the line and I'm staying
Speaker 3: away from it because there must be something up there,
Speaker 3: because there's just no way like Vegas is like yeah
Speaker 3: minus two.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, can I tell you something? See
Speaker 2: you for going through with it? Yeah? No, not props
Speaker 2: to me. I mean that was a really good example
Speaker 2: of the student becoming the teacher. I mean, you're right,
Speaker 2: it should be a stay away. It should be a
Speaker 2: stay away. I just can't help it. I can't help myself,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to bet it. I am definitively going
Speaker 2: to bet the Texans on the money line tonight. So
Speaker 2: I'm putting it in the picks. Next.
Speaker 3: Uh, Next, you got Cincinnati minus seven versus the Raiders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen, I know Cincinnati has been really
Speaker 2: shaky lately. The Raiders are a terrible team. They're a
Speaker 2: terrible team, and the Chiefs didn't play that well this
Speaker 2: past week. They did whatever they wanted. They were up
Speaker 2: fourteen late in this game. Cincinnati has to win. They're
Speaker 2: at home. The Raiders are not going to be able
Speaker 2: to slow down Burrow and Chase and the Bengals defense,
Speaker 2: as bad as it is, I just don't think the
Speaker 2: Raiders offense scares you. And so listen, here's the thing
Speaker 2: about the Bengals line, though they kind of have the
Speaker 2: opposite offensive line of the Chiefs. The Chiefs have, you know,
Speaker 2: some question marks at tackle, but are amazing guard center guard.
Speaker 2: The Bengals tackles are fine, but are brutal guard center guard.
Speaker 2: Crosby's gonna be on the edge. And so like the
Speaker 2: Chris Jones be a real problem for Cincinnati because he's
Speaker 2: right in front of you know, he's right in the middle. Crosby.
Speaker 2: You just listen. You just have to chip block or
Speaker 2: double team Crosby every snap. No one else in the
Speaker 2: Raiders is gonna hurt you. Burrow is seventeen and seven
Speaker 2: against the spread after a straight up loss. I like Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Next, uh, you got Jacksonville plus seven and a half
Speaker 3: at Philly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so listen. Philly's played really well lately. I think
Speaker 2: they're due for a bit of a slight regression. Again,
Speaker 2: I give Philly credit. They pulled their season off the brink,
Speaker 2: but seven and a half is a lot of points.
Speaker 2: When Jacksonville is an excellent passing attack. It's not just Trevor,
Speaker 2: They're just that Jacksonville. Now they're dealing with some injuries.
Speaker 2: I understand that, But Jacksonville can move the ball. And
Speaker 2: Philly's defense to me not as good as his. Look
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks, back door cover wide open,
Speaker 2: and I think Philly is not gonna be quite as sharp.
Speaker 2: This just feels to me like twenty seven to twenty Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: This feels like twenty eight to twenty four Philadelphia. The
Speaker 2: seven and a half to me, is too many points
Speaker 2: for an Eagles team that I don't fully one hundred
Speaker 2: percent trust. I don't love Jacksonville trading away the left
Speaker 2: tackle before the game, I'll tell you that much. But
Speaker 2: seven and a half for a game that I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be shocked if Jacksonville won out right, and Philly after
Speaker 2: three straight wins, stumbles a bit, But I I'm not
Speaker 2: picking them to win out right. I am picking them
Speaker 2: to not be getting blown out. And as long as
Speaker 2: you're within thirteen fourteen points the whole game, this back
Speaker 2: door cover will be wide open. I think they're gonna
Speaker 2: be within six or seven throughout the game. So for
Speaker 2: all those reasons, I'll take Jacksonville plus the seven and
Speaker 2: a half. And by the way, Jalen Hurts is a
Speaker 2: favorite over seven points three eight and one against the spread.
Speaker 3: All right, next, Chicago plus one and a half at
Speaker 3: the Cardinals.
Speaker 2: So here's an insane stat. The Cardinals have won back
Speaker 2: to back games. That is the first time they won
Speaker 2: back to back games since twenty twenty one. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say that again. Not three in a row, not four
Speaker 2: in a row. The Cardinals had not won consecutive games
Speaker 2: since twenty twenty one. Now we're talking about them winning
Speaker 2: three games in a row. Meanwhile, Chicago is coming off
Speaker 2: a horrifying loss that they have to make sure doesn't
Speaker 2: submarine their season. And Caleb has to have a big
Speaker 2: bounce back game because even though Caleb was good, those
Speaker 2: final drives is brutal for three and a half quarters.
Speaker 2: The Cardinals defense is a perfect get right spot for Caleb.
Speaker 2: I think the Bears win this game outright. I don't
Speaker 2: think that the Cardinals defense is gonna be able to
Speaker 2: handle the Bears vertical passing attack or their rushing attack
Speaker 2: with Roshawn Johnson and DeAndre Swift and I do think
Speaker 2: the Bears defense will be able to slow down Kyler
Speaker 2: and Marvin Harrison in company. And so for all those reasons,
Speaker 2: I like Chicago plus a point and a half. Last one,
Speaker 2: DeMont say, and this is my favorite one.
Speaker 3: You've got the Rams minus one and a half at Seattle.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the Rams are good. The Rams when
Speaker 2: they're healthy, I think are really good. Seattle, I think
Speaker 2: is defensively really really has some issues right now. I
Speaker 2: like Mike McDonald, their new head coach from a defensive standpoint.
Speaker 2: I don't know right now if it's more scheme or
Speaker 2: personnel or a combination of the two. But the Rams
Speaker 2: also understand they win this game. They control this division.
Speaker 2: They've already beaten the Niners. Will they will even their
Speaker 2: record to four and four despite all the injuries. They
Speaker 2: knock Seattle back, another tough moment for Seattle. I think
Speaker 2: the Rams go there and win thirty to twenty seven
Speaker 2: something like that. A high scoring affairs. Seattle moves the
Speaker 2: ball on the Rams defense. But if I think the
Speaker 2: Rams are gonna win, I'm not laying a field goal.
Speaker 2: This one is my favorite pick of the week. If
Speaker 2: I still did Locks, this would be it even though
Speaker 2: it's a road divisional favorite, and I know that kind
Speaker 2: of goes against it. Plus and I know Stafford historically
Speaker 2: is not good. In fact, he's the worst against the
Speaker 2: spread quarterback on extended rest of any quarterbacks in the
Speaker 2: last five years. I don't really care about that. I
Speaker 2: actually love that the are on extended rest here that
Speaker 2: they didn't. They played on Thursday, got a great win,
Speaker 2: and now they come back the following Sunday. I like
Speaker 2: the Rams laying a point and a half. All right,
Speaker 2: so the my in again mcvay's not good on extended
Speaker 2: rest either. I think those trends are gonna go in
Speaker 2: the other direction. My five picks this week Houston getting
Speaker 2: to tonight at the Jets, Cincinnati laying seven at home
Speaker 2: against the Raiders, Jacksonville getting seven and a half at Philly,
Speaker 2: Chicago getting one and a half at Arizona, and the
Speaker 2: Rams laying one and a half at Seattle. Four road teams,
Speaker 2: three dogs, two favorites. There. It is now to the
Speaker 2: actual money making portion of the show. Demonse's teaser, Demonse,
Speaker 2: go ahead, Uh yeah.
Speaker 3: Last week it was Cleveland plus fifteen and a half
Speaker 3: and that one cash and Ken's silly minus two and
Speaker 3: a half. They won out right, and they won. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: both those teams five one. Yeah, so this week it's
Speaker 3: a two teams said no, And I remember you said,
Speaker 3: and I don't mean I don't want to pile on,
Speaker 3: but you did say something on the pod I said, whish,
Speaker 3: I regret I came on here and I was like, hey,
Speaker 3: I don't want anybody coming at me saying like I've
Speaker 3: got inside information on the NFL. I'm about to start
Speaker 3: hitting these teasers. And you said I'd be shocked if
Speaker 3: you were something in three. I don't remember what that
Speaker 3: number was, but I'll probably just go back and watch it.
Speaker 3: But but now this is this week, said.
Speaker 2: Whatever it is you started, I mean, you've hit five
Speaker 2: in a row of five in a row. You also
Speaker 2: you also have hit multiple five team parlays and pulled back. Ay,
Speaker 2: you have hit two terrible parlay last weekend. Right, So
Speaker 2: Demante has sent me four parlays. He hit two of them.
Speaker 2: One of them he lost one leg. Was it the Ravens,
Speaker 2: I don't even remember what it was, and another Jets
Speaker 2: he would Yeah, that's right, you hit the Ravens, but
Speaker 2: you lost it on the Jets and another one it
Speaker 2: was a sixteen barlay. He got four of them wrong
Speaker 2: and he canceled it. He sent it and then was like, actually,
Speaker 2: on second thought, don't place it. So I mean, you are,
Speaker 2: as Danny Parkins would say, you are seeing the board
Speaker 2: clearly right now. I'm very excited to hear what today's
Speaker 2: teaser is. Shout out to Danny.
Speaker 3: So yeah, today this week, we've got a two teams
Speaker 3: seven and a half point teaser. It's minus one sixty three.
Speaker 3: I'm teasing Tampa Bay up to plus sixteen against the Chiefs,
Speaker 3: and I'm teasing Denver up to seventeen against Baltimore.
Speaker 2: A lot of big favorites this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Chiefs, I don't think are we know that
Speaker 3: they don't really blow team out and a sixteen point spread,
Speaker 3: you're alive for a backdoor cover the entire game if
Speaker 3: the team is any good game. And then Denver plus
Speaker 3: seventeen at Baltimore kind of like same thing, gonna be alive.
Speaker 3: Denver loves letting teams back in and I trust Sean
Speaker 3: Payton as a coach. So yeah, that's that's this week's
Speaker 3: I mean, sixteen and seventeen points.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I do like that you're doing the
Speaker 2: sharper thing, which is teasing dogs to bigger dogs, rather
Speaker 2: than the squarer thing, which is teasing face Listen. Sometimes
Speaker 2: teasing favorites is the right idea, but typically this is
Speaker 2: the way to go with it. Here is my only
Speaker 2: semi concern. Denver went out of its way to try
Speaker 2: to embarrass Carolina last week, running double passes and fake
Speaker 2: field goals while dominating the game. Mm hmmm, I don't.
Speaker 2: I would like I need to like look at and
Speaker 2: I won't actually look at, but I would if I
Speaker 2: were going to actually bet this. Then the Panthers coaching
Speaker 2: staff and if any of them have a close connection
Speaker 2: to John Harball, because if there's like, oh man, you
Speaker 2: and that guy, big assistent defensive line coach, and look,
Speaker 2: you tried to do that to them, let me do
Speaker 2: this to you, that would be of doing that to
Speaker 2: Denver capable, right, that's the thing. They're totally capable of
Speaker 2: running up the score if it gets going in the
Speaker 2: wrong direction. With that said, the Denver defense has been
Speaker 2: so good and bo Nix has played better. I do
Speaker 2: I like this. I'm gonna get yeah, correct, So I'm Listen,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give this a B plus, uh, just because
Speaker 2: I'm a little worried about the John Harball piece of
Speaker 2: it and whether or not Harball is gonna be pissed
Speaker 2: at what Sean Payton did. But it's not like Sean
Speaker 2: Payton did this to the Chargers, and you know he
Speaker 2: did something tough. It's definitely Tampa's, uh, the Tampa line one,
Speaker 2: I will tell you. And this is the other reason
Speaker 2: my giving this an A. I gave you the compliment
Speaker 2: of going on the sharp side of it. I I
Speaker 2: do think that it is more likely the Chiefs blow
Speaker 2: out then the Chiefs lose out right, So like that,
Speaker 2: now that probably demand's a This is one that teasing
Speaker 2: it the Tampa Chiefs game in either direction would win.
Speaker 2: Like that, if you tease it to the Chiefs minus
Speaker 2: two that's a winner, and teasing it to Tampa plus
Speaker 2: sixteen and half. I do think that I prefer the
Speaker 2: chief side of it. But I these are sharp line,
Speaker 2: these are sharp teasers. You're gett you're getting across every
Speaker 2: key number. I like it. All right, let's do the
Speaker 2: offer before we wrap up, so the offer has made
Speaker 2: a return.
Speaker 3: And so yeah, no, this one is called fading the
Speaker 3: the fading the elixir. I'm not buying into the Rogers
Speaker 3: fountain of youth, so we're gonna fade it. And uh,
Speaker 3: we're gonna go for Rogers under one and a half
Speaker 3: touchdowns under two hundred and thirty three and a half
Speaker 3: yards one plus interception in Houston money line, all at
Speaker 3: plus four fifty.
Speaker 2: So I don't know what the numbers on it would be.
Speaker 2: I will take this offer amended. I'm taking out the
Speaker 2: one interception because I think strip sack is more likely.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna and I think it is totally
Speaker 2: on the board. I'm not, again not rooting for this,
Speaker 2: but I'm not taking any overs for Aaron Rodgers tonight,
Speaker 2: including negative overs, because I think he could get knocked
Speaker 2: out of the game. I think that Will Anderson could
Speaker 2: come clear and crack him and he misses a drive
Speaker 2: or a couple of drives or whatever and then doesn't
Speaker 2: get oot. So my guess is it probably is like
Speaker 2: plus three hundred without the interception in there, but Rogers
Speaker 2: under one and a half touchdowns under two hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty four passing yards Houston money line. I will take
Speaker 2: that offer. We can put. You know, we can amend
Speaker 2: it won't be plus four or fifty plus three, twenty
Speaker 2: five is what that is. I'll take that one, but
Speaker 2: the I don't want to take. He has to throw
Speaker 2: a pick because I'm really worried about how that line's
Speaker 2: gonna be able to hold up against the Houston pass rush,
Speaker 2: and I think the Jets are gonna have to run
Speaker 2: the ball a lot. And so that's the offer I
Speaker 2: will take. All right, quick break, come back, answer a
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Speaker 2: co slash b ball. All right, demons, let's get some
Speaker 2: listener questions. Aiden A.
Speaker 3: Gillan says is it fair to put Bryce Young In
Speaker 3: the same conversation as Achille Smith and JaMarcus Russell.
Speaker 2: Well listen pure well. Achilles Smith was number one overall
Speaker 2: pick I think he was number three uh, maybe number two.
Speaker 2: He's certainly in the conversation for worst number one overall
Speaker 2: pick of all time. H Achilles Smith, though got injured,
Speaker 2: JaMarcus Russell didn't seem to put the work in Bryce.
Speaker 2: Game's just too big and fast for him. I mean,
Speaker 2: it just sucks. Like this is why I this is
Speaker 2: why I feel bad about I don't think Bryce Young's
Speaker 2: done anything wrong, man, and he was an awesome college player.
Speaker 2: I just think that it's I sadly think that my
Speaker 2: pre draft analysis of this one was spot on. Game's
Speaker 2: gonna be a little too fast and the guys are
Speaker 2: gonna be a little too big for him.
Speaker 3: All right, Next, Cayden raised an ass three of the
Speaker 3: top five scoring defenses in the NFL or in the
Speaker 3: AFC West. What are they putting in the water over there?
Speaker 3: And how did it get so much better since last season?
Speaker 2: Well? I think some of that. Listen, the Chargers defense
Speaker 2: got better through Jim Harbaugh. Even though he's an offensive coach,
Speaker 2: he is the culture. I think some of that is schedule.
Speaker 2: That Broncos defense has shocked me. But great job by
Speaker 2: vance Joseph there and the Chiefs evens just awesome. But
Speaker 2: I think that what's more likely is the Chiefs have
Speaker 2: the best defense in football, the Broncos have the fifth
Speaker 2: sixth best defense in football, and the Chargers are closer
Speaker 2: to eleven twelve. But that's still pretty damn good.
Speaker 3: All right, next, uh Stone Grim's Blood. Do you think
Speaker 3: the Ravens defense regressing is similar to Eagles defense regression?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I think the Ravens lost their Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean they lost their defensive coordinator and he was
Speaker 2: kind of you know, a lot of smoke and mirrors
Speaker 2: last year. I just don't think they have enough good
Speaker 2: players on the back end. They It's weird because Mata
Speaker 2: Bouque is an excellent player, Rokwan Smith's a great player,
Speaker 2: Kyle Hamilton's a very very good, if not great player.
Speaker 2: Queen out you have great players? Say it again. Got
Speaker 2: Patrick Queen out there too. No he's gone. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: Patrick Queen, he's gone from the offseason. He was there
Speaker 2: last year. Queen left in the offseason and so but
Speaker 2: the so it's weird to have one great player at
Speaker 2: each level and not be good defensively. But they just
Speaker 2: don't have enough other guys, which is why I think
Speaker 2: some people thought that they would add someone in the offseat,
Speaker 2: or they would add someone at the deadline.
Speaker 3: All right, next, Danny Tanner is Jared Goff overrated this
Speaker 3: year due to his stacked team.
Speaker 2: Listen, he's played really really well. This past week was weird.
Speaker 2: He had eighty five passing yards. They scored fifty two points. Like,
Speaker 2: that's just throw That was a team that was not
Speaker 2: a Jared Goff game, but the other games had been.
Speaker 2: We know the book on him, for good or for bad.
Speaker 2: If you can protect him, he is gonna cook. If
Speaker 2: you protect him, he is gonna see things and cook.
Speaker 2: He just can't improvise. He can't make that second act
Speaker 2: of the play, but at that first act is available,
Speaker 2: or if you can get to the second act without
Speaker 2: having to move, he's gonna be good. Next last one? Uh.
Speaker 3: Jadeen Descalo has your take on the Eagles change and
Speaker 3: if not, what would have to happen to change your mind?
Speaker 2: It's in the pro Listen. I don't think they have
Speaker 2: a good head coach, and I am worried about how
Speaker 2: good the quarterback really is. But these like like you
Speaker 2: have to give credit words due. Jalen has played really
Speaker 2: well since he got his weapons back. And even though
Speaker 2: I think Sirianni's a dufus, the players seem to like him.
Speaker 2: And so my take on the Eagles is in the
Speaker 2: process of potentially changing. Is what I would say. I
Speaker 2: am not gonna be hardheaded and be like, no, they
Speaker 2: I know they're not good. They when you they beat
Speaker 2: the Browns, they didn't play well, that was not a
Speaker 2: good game, but they got the win. The next week
Speaker 2: they dominated the Giants, and last week they blew out
Speaker 2: the Bengals. So like, each of these wins is getting
Speaker 2: better and better, and so we'll see, Like the Eagles
Speaker 2: also have to be super bummed that the Bears didn't
Speaker 2: know how to defend a Hail Mary, because that would
Speaker 2: have been a great spot for the Washington to get
Speaker 2: a loss, you know what I mean. And all of
Speaker 2: a sudden it's like, oh, even though we had been
Speaker 2: on shaky ground, we're right in this division race. All right,
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