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You know that I'm 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:56.920 one of the best yet Martinez, do you know what 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.520 it is? That's your point? Dane Martinez a k A Speeds, 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.640 a k to spend Statistician a k a to stable 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:06.360 Genius and vocal minority. And welcome to another edition of 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.399 the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Sports Grid Network, 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:13.520 episode number four hundred and thirties seven, the four hundred 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.919 and thirty seventh convening of the Stats over Beat Cipher 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:17.800 where we help you win your leagues and win that 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.440 cash and check it out out of the four hundred 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.480 and thirty seven times we've done Fantasy Freestyle here on 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.199 Sports grade. This is the first ever time I'm coming 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.000 to you live and direct from the Fan Duel Sports 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.119 Book here at the Meadowlands, and it's something of a reunion. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.480 We got my man Danny Auto in the building, we 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.440 got Alex Vassano in the Pit of Misery, and we 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.800 have a good show for you. Here's we're gonna get into. Okay, 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.440 I've been giving you my takeaways from the XFL. Week 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.080 two is no different, and I have a very interesting 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.600 way to look at week three. So we're gonna continue 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.880 that conversation, all right. We're gonna continue to talk about 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.560 the quarterback Merry go Round that goes around and round 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.919 and around with a lot of rumors, a lot of buzz. 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.440 The Saints may have made the first Domino fall, all 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.200 all on an Instagram post from Drew Brees, so we'll 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.520 talk about that, all right. We got a big fight 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:09.000 night in Vegas this week. Alright, So what happens in 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.560 Vegas stays in Vegas except for a couple of things. 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.040 Insert joke there. I'll give you an interesting prop bet 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.160 that I saw here at the Fan Duel Sports Book. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.760 We'll talk about that a little bit later on as well. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.280 We got a pole question up, and that pole question is, 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.760 which is really the biggest scandal in Major League Baseball? 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.480 We have, you know, we have steroids, we have the 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.960 astro sign stealing. I bring it up because we have 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:35.799 Pete Rose and Gambling who's still not in the Hall 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.120 of Fame yet he's saying he should be in if 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.440 these astros cheaters do not get really punished the players 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.080 or even going back to Scholas Joe. Alright, so hit 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.560 me up at Spitting Speeds on Twitter. Let me know 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:48.960 you know what you think is the greatest scandal in 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.680 MLB history, and we are going to keep it going 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:57.440 on Major League Baseball and that scandal. The fans are responding, 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.639 players are responding, and the status over beach response is 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.560 gonna be incredible. Check it out as we put the 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.000 fun in functional sports content. It's your boy Speeds, the 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.960 spitting Statistician and the fantasy Freestyle. Come on back on 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:10.639 the other side of the break. But for now we 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:12.520 give it to my man Fasano down in the pit 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:26.359 for the news update. Sports Gride news Update. I am 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.760 Alex Passano with your sports Grid news update here on 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.720 the fantasy freestyle in the NFL. We could be expecting 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.800 a playoff format change as it is currently constituted. For 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.360 next season. The NFL owners are pushing for a playoff 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.320 field to be expanded to seven teams from each conference, 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.120 while the regular season will be increased to seven team games, 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.800 as well as the preseason being shortened to three games. 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.400 As part of the proposed player playoff format, only one 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.520 team from each conference will receive a first round by 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.680 as opposed to the two that currently do. This would 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.960 also be a revised postseason schedule that includes six games 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:08.240 on wild Card weekend, three on Saturday, and three on Sunday. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:12.080 Also in the NFL, NFL offensive tackle Gregg Robinson was 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.120 being held Wednesday in a Texas jail on a pending 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:19.279 drug distribution charge. Robinson, a former Auburn standout who played 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.839 for the Cleveland Browns last season, was booked by the 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.000 d e A on Tuesday after federal agents said they 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.320 found a hundred and fifty seven pounds of marijuana in 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.479 a rented vehicle in which he and two other people 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.480 were riding. If convicted, Robinson could face up to twenty 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:38.080 years in a federal prison and in the NBA Minnesota 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:42.600 timber Wolves center Carl Anthony Towns will remain sidelined indefinitely 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.560 as he continues to recover from a left wrist injury. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.960 Towns missed Minnesota's final game before the All Star Break 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.440 after an m r I revealed the injury. Coach Ryan 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.919 Saunders told reporters that the team held Towns out of 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.720 its first practice after the All Star break on Wednesday. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.320 Saunders said Towns will miss upcoming games, but did not 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.400 specify how many. You got a full slate of NHL 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.880 college hoops and NBA makes its return after the All 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.120 Star breaks. Some games you may want to consider. The 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.240 Brooklyn Nets visit the Philadelphia seventy sixers. Sixers are your 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.200 eight and a half point favorites. The total is to 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.360 fifteen and a half. Also, the Dallas Mavericks visit the 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.720 Orlando Magic that's part of tomorrow's slate. The Mavericks are 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.200 two and a half point favorites. All right, I'm Alex Possano. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.159 This has been your sports grid news update. Now back 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:32.400 to the spitting statistician, Dame Martinez on Fantasy Freestyle. Thanks 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.080 Altano down there in the pit of misery, Dilly dilly 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:36.599 to the crew, I don't get to see you, Alex. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.359 I gotta text you later on, Man, I got an 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.080 opportunity for you. We gotta talk about that, you know. 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.360 I also want to ask you a couple of things 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.080 about that update. One of the things you mentioned there 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.760 for Asano was, you know, Greg Robinson, what a hundred 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:54.200 and fifty seven pounds of marijuana? We were discussing this 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.960 on the early line, me and Jared Smith. You know. 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.680 The the charge was, you know, possession within tend to sell. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.440 Can I ask you something, If you have a hundred 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.960 and fifty seven pounds of marijuana, can you imagine not 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.839 having an intent to sell it? I mean, Dane, I 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.400 personally myself, we a hundred and fifty pounds, So I 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.000 don't know if I could out if I can sell, Like, 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.400 what are you gonna do? That's crazy? And also that's 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.240 what I'm saying, what are you gonna do? Of course 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.560 there's an intent to sell? Yeah, it's crazy. Also I 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:23.680 think I saw he would only make about three d 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.120 K from it. He made like six million over his 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:30.200 years in the NFL. It's crazy. It's a good point. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.960 That is a good point. It's like, you know, uh, 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.920 there's levels to this. He's already made that money. Why 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.680 are you going through the risk reward proposition? We know 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.600 about that here in Sports Investing on the Sports Grid Network. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.600 You know, we were talking about the NFL Alex all right, 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.200 And there have been a couple of pieces of news 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.560 since the last convening of the stats over beat Cipher 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.039 here on the fantasy Freestyle as it relates to that 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.840 quarterback market. Right, I've gotten buzz about Joe Flacco. This 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:58.080 is a name we haven't even spoken about yet, Alex, right, 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.680 like he's supposed to be coming back, getting hell the right, 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.400 but he's got he's got a twenty three and a 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.600 half million dollar cap hit if he would stay um 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:08.680 with the Denver Broncos, I think he's gonna wind up 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.640 being a cut candidate. Cut candidates are things we're gonna 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.400 have to start to pay attention to as we get 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.520 into this stage of the NFL calendar. The other thing 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.560 we heard as by the way, the first race at 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:23.240 Gulf Stream Park is popping off here at the Meadowlands. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.120 But in any of that, I digress. What we heard though, 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.640 Alex that I think really does add to our quarterback 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:33.160 carousel is, uh, Drew Brees is coming back, all right, 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.200 Drew Brees is coming back for the New Orleans Saints 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:40.400 what will probably be his last year, and then the 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:44.480 dominoes fall. Right now, we're starting to hear Teddy Bridgewater 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.160 is a gunner. I don't know where did we have 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.440 Teddy Bridgewater, Alex on our little will he stay or 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.920 will he go? And will he start or will he 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:57.280 back up? I think we had him coming back, but 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.280 as the backup is that where we had Teddy bridge water, 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:02.600 I mean, as of right now we were So do 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.080 we have him leaving and becoming a starter? I think 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:06.800 we have it. We had him staying and being the 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:11.560 backup quarterback under Drew Brees. That ain't gonna happen. That 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:16.080 ain't gonna hat change that up exactly. That's what I'm saying. 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.800 This is a changing picture that we have to continue 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:23.080 to update throughout the off season. Right now, Teddy Bridgewater 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.120 is not gonna be a QB two. He's gonna get 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.800 starter level money and he's gonna go somewhere else. And 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.360 I think Taysom Hill becomes very very interesting now, Alex, 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.640 because here's the thing. Tasom Hill a punt block as 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.800 they come down the stretch, We got a close one here. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.000 The one horse on the inside the eight is going 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:44.160 to be around. I think the one horse. I think 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.400 the one horse is gonna edge him out there on 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.240 the rail in the first race at Gulf Stream. But anyway, 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.440 I digress. We're talking about Taysom Hill here. And the 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.120 thing is, if he's actually the backup quarterback, which he 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.319 will be in New Orleans, he can't be on the 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.880 punt block team. He can't be doing ends around, he 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.360 can't be the wide receiver. And this is something which 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:07.360 is now getting solidified. More news that happened in my opinion, 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:11.240 this um this week as it relates to the quarterback position. 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:16.000 Big Ben, your boy Alex, He's gonna have a very 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.400 big doctor's appointment tomorrow, all right, So talk to me 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:23.560 here about this right the elbow and Will what are 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.280 we what are we getting? What kind of news are 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.800 you think we're gonna get? And what does that mean 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.000 for this overall picture that we have been talking about 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.120 in the off season. Well, I can tell you right now, 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.880 the team themselves are behind him, The coaching staff are 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:41.440 behind him. Obviously, I'm still waiting for this doctor's right um. Also, 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.520 fun fact, he will not be shaving his beard until 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.280 he can actually throw an object. Uh, So we will 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.400 be seeing the grizzly bend. God. I know it's crazy, 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.440 looks like a mountain man um, But honestly, once we 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.920 get that okay from the doctors, I I expect Ben 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.800 to be another you know, top quarterback. He really wants 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.959 to play. He's told the team he's ready to play. 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.400 And once he it's that approval to start throwing and 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.680 start moving his arm, I'm ready for the same old 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:09.000 Ben to go one last arrah here and solidify his legacy. Alright, 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.360 we'll see in the same draft class Eli has decided 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:15.080 to walk away, Philip Rivers. Will see if he you know, 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.240 continues to play at high level. We don't know where 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.560 he will be. There's obviously odds out for that. We've 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:23.000 talked about places like Indie and Tampa Bay. So we'll 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.920 see if Ben can you know, outshine his draft class counterparts. 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.360 The other thing that I think is interesting as we 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.959 talk about the Pittsburgh quarterback situation, Mason Rudolph is now 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:37.600 considering legal actions against Myles Garrett. Okay, listen to some 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.440 of the legal ease of his lawyer. Uh, Timothy Younger 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.160 in his statement over the weekend. Okay, he is now 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:48.880 exposed to legal liability because Mr Garrett maliciously used his 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.800 false allegation to coax sympathy, hoping to be excused for 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:57.719 what it's clearly an inexcusable behavior. That's legal. Talk to me, 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.240 I wonder if Mason Rudolph is actually going to take 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:05.319 legal action against Miles Garrett. What say you, Alex, do 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.319 you think he's gonna actually push push this? I mean personally, 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.600 I mean, you saw all the reports. Nobody is backing 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.400 up Miles. Nobody seems to have his back. And if 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.920 I would in Mason's position, I would I would be 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.720 upset obviously if I was a Mason. But just let 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:20.480 it go. You know you're in the right because you 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.200 didn't say it. You know there's not gonna any repercussions. 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.400 Just just just get it past it. Obviously people are 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.120 are behind you and not Garrett. I think you just 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:33.359 gotta roll with it. Yeah, this is a dicey situation, 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.480 but he's standing that this is what was said. I 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.160 don't know, and there's certainly no audio. You're right, so 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.880 maybe there is legal action. Listen, we're gonna take a 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:42.600 quick break. On the other side of the break, talk 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.640 about legal action that brings us to the astros and 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.120 the cheating schedule. Oh boy, the plot thickens, and I'll 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:50.719 tell you what the status with Beatsipon is gonna do 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.839 about it. 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I'm usually at Studio thirty four, 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.200 but we got the book today. We got you know, 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.199 the first race at Aqueduct popping off. Oh, we got 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.160 the third race over in monte Cello about to pop. 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.400 So it's very exciting over here with stats over beat 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.880 Cipher in the chat room as usual, I want to 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.200 keep talking about this ENFL stuff. Then we'll talk about 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.080 the Astros, and then you know, have a little bit 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.880 of fun and functional sports content later on. Alex. Another 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:07.920 thing that's coming out you alluded to it in the 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.760 UM the news update is the idea that they may 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:15.400 expand the playoffs UM in the NFL as as soon 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.240 as this year. Okay, we're hearing that there may be 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:21.679 a seventh team in the playoffs UM, and only the 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.880 one seed would get a bye. I think that's very interesting. So, 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.520 for example, the Kansas City Chiefs would not have had 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.360 a bye in the new format as the two seed 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.680 in the a f C. You know, so these things 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.800 would in fact be changed. I'm hearing though, Alex, and 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.000 I don't know if you've heard this as well, that 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.160 it could be part of a larger picture here. Right. 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.560 Eventually they're gonna add a seventeenth game and change like 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:46.280 one of the preseason games into a seventeenth game. I'm 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.760 hearing that could extend the playoffs, and with a seventeenth game, 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.679 we also may get a second by in the regular season. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:54.360 I don't know, Alex, if you're old enough to be 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.480 quite frank to remember back in the days when there 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.240 were two buys there were two by no, say sleep, 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.840 you don't remember that. Wow, So there used to be 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.240 two buys in the regular season. Okay, I can't tell 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.520 if you're joking with me or there used to be 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:13.520 two byes in the regular season. Is that when it changed? 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.040 That's when it changed, and you dually don't remember that. 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.280 You don't remember. Okay, we gotta look it up and 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.720 see when that changed last time around. But okay, so 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.240 here's the thing. And honestly, Alex, if you put in 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:28.280 a seventeenth game, you're also thinking about having um multiple 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.040 teams go to London, right, and that that changes the 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:32.840 schedule as well. You have to have more teams with 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.720 that by stretch it out. Imagine this, here's my platform, 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.360 and the stats would be the cipher has always known 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.960 about this. I want the Super Bowl to be the 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.360 day before President's Day. This way, it is a national 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.200 holiday in essent. You ain't gotta worry about going to 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.040 work the next day anyway. Okay. And so if you 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.680 actually do have the second by extend the playoffs, you 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.440 know I think we can get this done. What do 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.640 you think, Alex? This is a campaign ultimately to make 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.080 a super Bowl the national holiday? What say you? And 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.080 I know both of us would not be off that 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.720 president recapping the super Bowl. Oh, that's for sure, but 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.320 this is fair. Yeah, I'd be on that seven am. 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:07.880 I know it's okay, but it'd be nice to see 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:09.880 everybody else get off. But to that point, um, I 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.400 think also we'd see an increase in pay to for 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.280 that first round of the playoffs, right if if they would, uh, 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.280 the one team getting the biosibly be paid for that week. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.120 So I'm sure the players are definitely all for this. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.120 You know, it is only one game that's always concerned 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.360 of it's going to be too too much of a 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.240 toll on our bodies and this and that. But to them, 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:28.920 you tell them, oh, you're gonna get an extra by 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:30.640 a week, and you're gonna get paid in the playoffs 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.840 if you make it. I think I think we're leaning 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.880 towards something. Get another game check exactly all right, so 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:40.080 we will see and listen. I'm I also am intrigued 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:43.000 by what happens you know, in a sport like football, 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.360 who acts as poetic about the record books. Michael Thomas 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.320 sets a record, you know, uh, running four thousand yards 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:49.880 and stuff like that. What happens if you have an 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:51.720 extra game in the season. You know, it's gonna become 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.000 very easy to run for a thousand yards. You know, 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.720 the sack record could be in jeopardy. These are things 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:58.560 that are interesting to me. And then also when you 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.000 think about the schedule. You know, Alex, the schedule is 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.880 a formulaic thing, right. You know, you played the third 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.920 place team and the other conference you played this exactly. 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.080 So if you have a seventeenth game, I wonder how 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.240 you maintain competitive balance with that. It'll have to be 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:16.280 some kind of algorithm or formula, and so we shall see. 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:17.840 I do think it's interesting, But I want to get 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.720 back to that quarterback conversation we've been having, Alex. And 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.960 here's the thing. Okay, we said last week there's also 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.960 gonna be teams that think about getting their answer in 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.880 the draft. Right. We mentioned the names, of course, you 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.760 know them, Joe Burrow, justin Herbert to a tag of 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:37.560 aaloa and there are now odds out. We've talked about 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:39.560 the odds for Tom Brady. We talked about the odds 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.280 for Philip rivers. There are now odds for where will 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.160 toa wind up? And I think this is a very 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.280 interesting case. And you put them up there right now. 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.240 You see their Caesars came out with them. Okay, The 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.640 Dolphins are in fact the favorites all right at minus 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.800 one ten And that makes sense, right the idea. The 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.760 Dolphins have the fifth pick, okay, And I do think 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.960 that if Towah is there at five for the Miami Dolphins, 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:05.600 he will be there. You can take that off the 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:07.040 screen for now. I'm gonna ask you to put it 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.480 back up in a little bit. Okay, But yes, so 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.879 the Dolphins are the favorite at number five. But Alex, 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:15.240 here's the deal. You know this, just like me. Every 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:19.880 year there are teams that trade up in the draft 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.960 to try to get their guys. So the question for 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:27.000 me is really what teams are there that may not 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.879 have to spend too much draft capital to opt the 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:34.200 Miami Dolphins at five. That are part of our quarterback conversation, 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.280 and we can refer to our chart and our graft. Alex, 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.399 and to me, there are two answers staring us dead 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.399 in the face. All right, put up the odds again 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:47.720 for them. All right to me, Oh, this is our right, Okay, 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:49.840 either way it works. Either way it works. Check out. 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:54.040 In my opinion, there are two. The Chargers are one, right, 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:55.959 the charges on one at five to two. We've been 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.680 talking about the charges, Philip Rivers, moving on it. Our 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:00.960 chart dictates for us that we are going to have 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:05.520 a vacancy in Los Angeles as they moved to a 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.520 new building. Now I'm hearing Tarrod Taylor. They like him, 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.480 but there's no way they're gonna go into a new 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:15.040 building trying to sell seats, you know, with Tarrod Taylor 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.360 as their starting quarterback or at least not a promise 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:21.440 for the future. Maybe they go make a trade hop 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.760 Miami and wind up as a team in the three 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:26.720 or four spot. I think the Detroit Lions and the 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:30.560 Giants are live their trading partners. Maybe them. But here's 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.600 the other one. And we talked about this, and this 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.560 is why we did it in the way we did, Alex. 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.040 We wanted to see where the openings are. That's why 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.680 we played will they stay or will they go? Check out? 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.320 A team there that seven o one I believe on 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:46.080 that list, it's the Carolina Panthers. So my question for you, 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:51.080 what about the Carolina Panthers. You got a new head 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.240 coach in Matt Rule, you got the new passing coordinator, 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.520 offensive coordinator, and Joe Brady too was a fan of 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:01.400 that system when he was in Alabama. About the Carolina Panthers, 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.879 who also draft in the top ten, moving up to 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.600 hop Miami to go out and get their guy to ah, 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:11.320 you know, new coach, and then they could be tied 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.920 at the hip. I think the Chargers and the Panthers 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:17.000 are two interesting teams to look at that are not 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.520 just the chalk of the Miami Dolphins. What do you 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.360 think about to Alex to your point, uh, I got 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:24.040 two things on the Panthers, because the Panthers are my 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.160 team for this one. I think you nailed it perfectly. 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.920 They're only at seven, right, so it's not too much 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:30.800 of a jump for them, and it's still a valuable 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:32.520 enough pick to where people will be willing. That's what 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.280 I'm saying. Um, So there's there's one. But the second 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:39.680 thing to that point, to also has a history of injuries, 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.439 So did Cam Newton? Did they really want to go 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:46.200 through another quarterback? Being the franchise with the injury risk 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:51.280 that they're willing to take. Yeah, no, I hear you, 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:53.399 But what are the odds on that right? Like seven 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:55.320 oh one. I'd rather take a shot on that value 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:57.399 at seven oh one on the idea that they do 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:59.280 want to get their new face of the franchise, They 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:01.720 do want to get their new franchise quarterback with a 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:05.520 new regime in place, you know, as opposed to minus 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:08.399 one ten for Miami, you know what I mean. So 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:12.560 you're saying the odds outweigh the future potential essentially, I'm 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:15.040 just saying the value. I'm just saying the value is 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:17.479 there for the Panthers in this kind of bet, you know. 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:20.120 And that's the thing, like, you know, when it's so 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.440 open like this. You know, we said the same thing 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.919 with Philip Rivers bet last week. You know, I'm not 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:27.440 gonna go on a minus one ten on something crazy 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.040 like this. But I digress. One of the things we 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:35.920 haven't gotten into with this quarterback market yet is uh 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:38.640 one about some teams that maybe still be on the 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.879 fence about their quarterback. And I thought about it this 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.439 this week, Alex, because I saw the news, you know, 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:47.320 Joe Flacco popped up that he's back and healthy, still 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:49.080 wants to play, you know, And it made me think 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:52.320 about the Denver Broncos as a team. Yes, he is 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:55.560 absolutely elite. He bet on himself and it worked out. Um. 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.320 But when you think about the Denver Broncos, we didn't 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:03.040 have any Denver Broncos on our original like you know, 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:06.720 little access is there, right And because they've got Drew Lock, 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:11.760 I wonder does that really preclude them from being in 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:15.560 the market, whether it be for someone who could push 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:20.040 the kid or one of these kind of bridge quarterback ideas, 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.360 you know, Like what about Denver still as a destination 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:26.199 And let me give you out to other places, all 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:28.639 right that I think could be a destination for some 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:30.640 of these quarterbacks we have on the Merry Go Round. 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:33.000 And then I'll get your take. Denver could be one 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:37.040 right for me. Another could be the Chicago Bears, all right. 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:39.280 I've told you for a long time people, I do 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:42.080 not believe in Mitchell Drabinsky. I think if you get 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:44.440 it wrong when you draft the quarterback in the top ten, 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:47.520 you are setting your franchise back for years. And the 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:50.280 only problem here is that sometimes it takes teams too 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:54.119 too long to cut bait to realize Exhibit A, the 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:57.840 Jaguars and Blake Bortles. Okay, and I think that Mitchell 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:02.160 Robinsky is, you know, slanting into that territory the Chicago Bears. 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:05.480 We've heard him linked to Cam Newton potentially, and so 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:08.359 I think Chicago could still be a destination for some 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:10.960 of these quarterbacks. We said Denver could still be a 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:13.280 destination for some of these quarterbacks. And the last thing 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:16.560 I'll throw out is what about Jacksonville? What about Jacksonville? 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:19.040 You know they spent the money on fold but you 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:21.399 can get out of it. Contracts are written on toilet paper. 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:24.120 In the NFL mentioned who was something of a revelation 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:26.920 for about a month until he turned back into a pumpkin. 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:30.359 Are they solidified at their position? I was gonna throw 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:32.640 Pittsburgh into the mix, but I know, Alex, I don't 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:34.480 want to, you know, throw cold water on it because 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:36.840 I know you think the doctor checkup will go great 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:39.560 for Big Ben tomorrow. But talk to me, do you 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:41.280 think any of these guys we've talked about that will 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:44.080 be in the market A Teddy Bridgewater, for instance, who 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:46.240 is now on the Merry go round as well? What 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:50.480 about a place like Denver, like Chicago, like Jacksonville. Should 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:53.960 these be places we're looking as well? Absolutely? I think 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:55.520 you make great points in all of them. Um. I 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:57.640 think with Mitch too, they've given him his chance and 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:00.080 you know he kind of fell short. Um. The the 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:02.280 team I'm looking at though, and it's in between all 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:04.119 these teams looking at the draft picks in the draft 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:06.439 order too, it's the Las Vegas Raiders. It's the Las 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:09.160 Vegas Raiders. Man. I mean, Derek Carr has given I've 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:11.440 been getting. So that's another one. He's been getting way 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:13.520 too many chances. And I think time is up in 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:16.240 his case. Mitch. I think still has another year's open 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:18.679 to give him a chance, you know, maybe like Jacksonville, 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:21.639 give him another year. So minshu Mania, I think the 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:25.080 Raiders here is your Okays, your biggest open door opportunity. 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:30.680 That's interesting, right, And we're considering Tampa already as a 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:35.000 slightly ajar door because we don't know anything about Jamis 0:23:35.080 --> 0:23:38.000 Jess yet. Bruce arians a certain posturing like he's gonna 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:40.359 explore the market, So we'll see about that. But you're right, 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:44.080 Vegas could be interesting, you know. Again, buzz there as 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:47.159 they move on Gruden likes pieces of clay to mold. 0:23:47.480 --> 0:23:50.000 I wonder what he is going to think. They're all right, 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:53.480 check this out. Here's what we're gonna do. We we 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:56.840 have to talk about these Houston astros, and it just 0:23:56.960 --> 0:23:59.800 keeps getting more and more drama. Alex, Okay, players are 0:23:59.840 --> 0:24:02.240 come and now we'll talk about Bellinger, We'll talk about Correa, 0:24:02.480 --> 0:24:04.760 we'll talk about Judge. But then I want to talk 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:08.239 about my new hero and what we are going to 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:10.199 do as the status over beat Cipher. We got a 0:24:10.200 --> 0:24:12.280 lot of things to show you. Alex knows where I'm going. 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:15.199 We're even gonna tell my man Danny Auto about a 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:17.600 new scheme we're cooking up and get his reaction on 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:20.320 the other side of the break. It's the Fantasy Freestyle 0:24:20.440 --> 0:24:23.560 right here on Sports Grade, Episode four thirty seven. Come 0:24:23.600 --> 0:24:27.280 on back, Dilly Dilly to the growth. Want to light 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:29.639 the lamp on Draft Kings and fan duel this NHL 0:24:29.720 --> 0:24:32.840 DFS season. Then joined Daily Roado dot com and learn 0:24:32.880 --> 0:24:36.400 from the best daily fantasy sports players. Get updated fantasy 0:24:36.400 --> 0:24:40.199 hockey projections for NHL DFS, blind combinations, and build stacks 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:43.719 for tournaments in the Daily Rodo. 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I got an interesting play here 0:25:39.960 --> 0:25:42.719 for Week three of the XFL. We'll get into that 0:25:43.080 --> 0:25:45.400 a little bit later on. But we have to continue 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:49.679 to talk about the Astros and they're cheating scandal. All right, 0:25:49.800 --> 0:25:53.000 Here's what I think needs to happen. Um, we need 0:25:53.040 --> 0:25:57.439 to not only understand that the players are upset about 0:25:57.440 --> 0:26:00.280 this and that they are talking smack two weeks other 0:26:00.359 --> 0:26:03.880 Bellinger has come out, Judge has come out, Stanton Trout, 0:26:03.960 --> 0:26:08.160 among others people in other sports. Lebron is talking about 0:26:08.400 --> 0:26:10.919 how you know the team's got cheated out of this 0:26:11.320 --> 0:26:13.520 that we've talked about this before, they are not going 0:26:13.600 --> 0:26:16.000 to get ahead of this. Major League Baseball Manfred did 0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:18.199 a horrible job this in the same week where he 0:26:18.200 --> 0:26:21.280 called the World Series Trophy a piece of metal, all right, 0:26:21.320 --> 0:26:24.520 which obviously has raised the ire of players. And I 0:26:25.040 --> 0:26:27.800 believe first of all, that this is going to wear 0:26:28.320 --> 0:26:32.280 on the Astros throughout the year. Every city they go into, 0:26:32.520 --> 0:26:34.960 they're gonna have microphones put in front of their face. 0:26:35.280 --> 0:26:39.120 Every stadium they go into, fans are going to give 0:26:39.160 --> 0:26:43.560 them hatred and vitriol and vile. Okay, there's literally odds 0:26:43.560 --> 0:26:46.359 about how many times will Houston astros batteries get hit 0:26:46.400 --> 0:26:49.239 by pitches this year. They're only hanging that kind of 0:26:49.359 --> 0:26:53.440 number if it's going to happen a bunch. And now 0:26:53.480 --> 0:26:55.600 you know, Manfred comes out and says that if a 0:26:55.680 --> 0:26:57.399 hit or if a pitcher hits the Astros, well they 0:26:57.480 --> 0:27:01.960 might get suspended. Meanwhile, these Astros are still not getting suspended. 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:04.760 But what I think is gonna be very very interesting, 0:27:04.760 --> 0:27:06.320 and what I want to talk about a little bit 0:27:06.359 --> 0:27:11.600 here is what happens with the fans. Okay, um, it 0:27:11.640 --> 0:27:14.600 already started, It already started. I don't know if you 0:27:14.640 --> 0:27:18.280 saw this, Alex, but in spring training down there already 0:27:18.359 --> 0:27:22.119 they're taking their first like batting practice live. You know, 0:27:22.160 --> 0:27:27.800 alt gets in the cage and fans are literally banging 0:27:27.880 --> 0:27:31.600 garbage cans behind them as a distraction. And I'm gonna 0:27:31.600 --> 0:27:35.000 tell you right now, I think that's even amazing, Alex. 0:27:35.040 --> 0:27:38.840 Play the video. We've got fans banging the damn trash 0:27:38.960 --> 0:27:41.920 cans and back of Altuve as he's doing it when 0:27:41.920 --> 0:27:45.199 he's running past them, being like you're a cheater. I 0:27:45.240 --> 0:27:48.639 think this is hysterical. I saw that the Yankees minor 0:27:48.720 --> 0:27:51.760 league team when they play the Astros affiliate in June, 0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:55.360 they are turning it into many trash can night. They're 0:27:55.359 --> 0:27:59.679 gonna give away many disposable trash cans to all the 0:27:59.720 --> 0:28:03.159 fans ends in attendance. This is the kind of stuff 0:28:03.200 --> 0:28:07.639 the Astros are going to endure wherever they go. Let 0:28:07.640 --> 0:28:09.600 me know when we have that video ready, Alex, I'm 0:28:09.640 --> 0:28:12.119 telling you you were going to hear the in the 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:16.359 background people banging on trash cans, and this is gonna 0:28:16.400 --> 0:28:19.560 be very interesting. The story continues to move. I don't 0:28:19.560 --> 0:28:23.160 give a damn about Altove's tattoo, whether he had it 0:28:23.240 --> 0:28:28.160 or not, it is a silly, silly defense. The thing 0:28:28.240 --> 0:28:30.600 here is that the Astros have to stand up, take 0:28:30.640 --> 0:28:33.479 their medicine, acknowledge it, and move on. Here you see it? 0:28:34.920 --> 0:28:37.439 Do we here? Do you also hear in the background there, Alex, 0:28:37.560 --> 0:28:39.719 you gotta play it loud so everybody hear the banging. 0:28:41.520 --> 0:28:44.520 This is what they're gonna be here. Okay, I think 0:28:44.560 --> 0:28:48.760 that is absolutely hysterical when we you know, like, this 0:28:48.800 --> 0:28:51.680 is what they're gonna see. All right, But here's the thing. 0:28:52.920 --> 0:28:55.480 As you know, if you're real deal stats over beat 0:28:55.560 --> 0:28:59.360 Cipher and many of you are for four and thirty 0:28:59.360 --> 0:29:02.840 seven episode, I like to mess with these things too, 0:29:03.440 --> 0:29:05.320 you know. We like to be the stable genius vocal 0:29:05.320 --> 0:29:10.240 minorities sometimes. And Alex, what if I told you that 0:29:10.480 --> 0:29:16.960 I now own the rights to astros cheaters dot Com. Okay, 0:29:17.320 --> 0:29:20.880 there you go, put it up on the screen astros 0:29:21.000 --> 0:29:26.080 jeters dot Com. Okay, I'm not stopping here. Okay, check 0:29:26.120 --> 0:29:29.200 this out. We have started this website, all right, and 0:29:29.240 --> 0:29:32.600 we are going to build a plan for revenge. Go 0:29:32.680 --> 0:29:35.240 to the next one. Okay. This is our call to 0:29:35.320 --> 0:29:38.400 action people. Here's what we got. The Houston Astros cheated 0:29:38.400 --> 0:29:41.760 their way. But if MLB won't punish the Astros, we 0:29:42.440 --> 0:29:47.760 the fans will. Here's the plan, people, Okay, here's what 0:29:47.760 --> 0:29:50.800 we're gonna do. This guy inspired me and a bunch 0:29:50.800 --> 0:29:53.640 of others banging behind them. You can take that down. 0:29:54.000 --> 0:29:56.640 You can take that down, Alex. Okay, Yes, we're gonna 0:29:56.640 --> 0:30:01.160 show up and remind the world the Houston Astros are eaters. Okay, 0:30:01.200 --> 0:30:03.719 and here's what I think we can do. All right, 0:30:03.800 --> 0:30:07.560 take that down. Here's what I think we can do, Alex. 0:30:08.240 --> 0:30:13.120 Amazon has everything, bro Amazon has absolutely everything for sale. 0:30:13.360 --> 0:30:17.080 And you know what I found, Alex, Okay, put it up. 0:30:17.280 --> 0:30:20.960 Here's what I found. You can go right now and 0:30:21.040 --> 0:30:24.880 you can just get You can get these buzzers, these 0:30:24.960 --> 0:30:28.720 little joke buzzers, the same buzzers that I'll be damned 0:30:28.720 --> 0:30:31.600 if Jose Altuve wasn't wearing when he hit a home 0:30:31.720 --> 0:30:35.880 run in the a LCS against my New York Yankees. Okay, 0:30:36.080 --> 0:30:40.520 you can get these buzzers, Okay, very easily. You know, 0:30:40.760 --> 0:30:44.000 jumbo packs for pretty cheap. Take that off. Here's what 0:30:44.040 --> 0:30:47.120 we're gonna do. Here's what we're gonna do on Houston 0:30:47.160 --> 0:30:50.280 astros cheats dot Com, which I own the rights to 0:30:51.000 --> 0:30:54.160 We're gonna start a Kickstarter campaign. We're gonna get money. 0:30:54.280 --> 0:30:58.080 We're gonna buy as many of these damn buzzers as possible. 0:30:58.320 --> 0:31:02.760 I'm talking dozens, I'm talking hundreds. Okay. And then here's 0:31:02.800 --> 0:31:05.239 what I want to do. Anybody, in the sound of 0:31:05.280 --> 0:31:10.440 my voice, any city the Houston Astros are in, let 0:31:10.480 --> 0:31:14.320 me know, connect with the Spitting Statistician. We will send 0:31:14.360 --> 0:31:17.640 you with the Kickstarter money. We will send you funds 0:31:17.840 --> 0:31:21.600 to buy a ton of these buzzers. Now you may think, 0:31:21.800 --> 0:31:25.960 what could we possibly do with all these buzzers, alex Well, 0:31:26.000 --> 0:31:29.080 I got an idea. I think we need to hashtag 0:31:29.480 --> 0:31:34.000 buzz Altuve. We need to throw these things at Alta 0:31:34.080 --> 0:31:36.080 when he's in the on deck circle, when he's at 0:31:36.120 --> 0:31:39.360 second base, when he's in the batter's box. I don't care. 0:31:39.760 --> 0:31:42.160 The best time to do it will be in the 0:31:42.320 --> 0:31:45.000 very first inning, when he gets his first at bat, 0:31:45.360 --> 0:31:49.240 walking from the on deck circle to the plate. Okay, 0:31:49.360 --> 0:31:51.640 And here's what we do, because you can't have one person, 0:31:51.720 --> 0:31:54.560 just throw a ton of buzzers. If you want to 0:31:54.600 --> 0:31:57.760 be a captain in the hashtag buzz Altuve a campaign, 0:31:57.920 --> 0:32:01.280 link up with the Spitting statistician, buy a ton and 0:32:01.320 --> 0:32:06.080 just stand outside of the stadium handing them to road 0:32:06.320 --> 0:32:11.520 fans with the instructions of hashtag buzz Altuve. This is 0:32:11.560 --> 0:32:14.360 what we are going to do. My man down in 0:32:14.640 --> 0:32:18.840 Florida already banging on the trash cans. You are an 0:32:18.840 --> 0:32:23.239 inspiration to us all, Alex. What do you think we 0:32:23.280 --> 0:32:27.080 start a kickstarter, we get the money, we buy these buzzers, 0:32:27.080 --> 0:32:31.760 and we hashtag buzz alduve. If this grows, okay, we 0:32:31.800 --> 0:32:35.800 can literally in every city in Major League Baseball. We 0:32:35.920 --> 0:32:39.479 can let the Astros know they didn't get punished and 0:32:39.600 --> 0:32:43.320 this can be part of our revenge. I think it's 0:32:43.360 --> 0:32:47.240 amazing and it could catch on. What say you, Alex Dane, 0:32:47.600 --> 0:32:49.480 As a Met fan, you have me about to run 0:32:49.520 --> 0:32:52.520 through a wall. I am so excited for this, and 0:32:52.680 --> 0:32:54.320 uh I can't wait to be a part of it. 0:32:54.880 --> 0:32:56.680 I want to and I guaid even as a Met fan, 0:32:56.720 --> 0:32:58.680 I'll be standing there in the Bronx with the buzzer 0:32:58.880 --> 0:33:01.320 and letting them know that they played everybody in Major League. 0:33:01.440 --> 0:33:05.680 Absolutely absolutely, I'm telling you right now, I've already got 0:33:05.680 --> 0:33:08.480 Frank stand for one of my best friends forever has 0:33:08.520 --> 0:33:11.640 already agreed he will join me. We will be well, 0:33:11.680 --> 0:33:14.520 we might do a remote show, Okay, we may do 0:33:14.560 --> 0:33:18.400 a special edition Fantasy Freestyle whenever the Astros come into 0:33:18.440 --> 0:33:21.320 the Bronx. All Right, we're gonna do a special edition 0:33:21.400 --> 0:33:24.840 and we're gonna be passing out buzzers to anybody who 0:33:24.880 --> 0:33:28.000 wants it. Okay, We've got to look, all right, we've 0:33:28.040 --> 0:33:31.840 got to look at the astros schedule. I believe, Alex. 0:33:32.080 --> 0:33:36.160 They opened the season at Oakland. I noticed status over 0:33:36.240 --> 0:33:40.200 beat Cipher is strong in California, strong style where you at, 0:33:40.520 --> 0:33:44.280 Jilly Dilley, where you at when we come to your stadium, 0:33:44.360 --> 0:33:47.760 we need to hand out buzzers to everybody, and we 0:33:47.840 --> 0:33:51.600 need to hatchtag buzz al tove. So here's what we 0:33:51.600 --> 0:33:54.040 gotta do, Alex. Okay, because I'm not on are next 0:33:54.080 --> 0:33:56.760 week for Fantasy Freestyle. As you guys know, I'm gonna 0:33:56.800 --> 0:34:00.160 be Yaman and Jamaica hashtag Jamaic and me Martine as 0:34:00.440 --> 0:34:03.600 y'all know about all that already. Okay, So in two weeks, 0:34:03.760 --> 0:34:05.400 here's what we gotta do. We gotta figure out, we 0:34:05.440 --> 0:34:07.800 gotta plot the course. We gotta know do we have 0:34:07.840 --> 0:34:11.120 any sports grid listeners and he stats over Beats members 0:34:11.120 --> 0:34:14.200 that are in these cities where the Astros visit early 0:34:14.280 --> 0:34:17.000 in the season, and if you are ready to be 0:34:17.120 --> 0:34:20.200 down with hashtag buzz out to a we will talk 0:34:20.239 --> 0:34:23.560 about it. We will fund the Buzzers somehow with a kickstarter, 0:34:23.800 --> 0:34:26.520 and we're gonna make it pop. What do you think, Alex? 0:34:26.520 --> 0:34:28.720 In the next two weeks, we have to find people 0:34:28.960 --> 0:34:30.960 that can in fact do this and help us out. 0:34:31.040 --> 0:34:33.480 I've got a couple of ideas. We will interview you. 0:34:33.560 --> 0:34:35.960 We're gonna try and get Mike Bolsinger on the air 0:34:36.000 --> 0:34:40.080 with us, the Blue Jay's pitcher who is swing the Astros. 0:34:40.280 --> 0:34:43.279 Maybe Dylan g as well, he got burned from this. 0:34:43.560 --> 0:34:46.120 I think we're onto something and there is no better 0:34:46.239 --> 0:34:49.120 time than to bring in my man Danny Otto, because 0:34:49.160 --> 0:34:51.359 this is the fun and functional sports content. He knows 0:34:51.360 --> 0:34:54.239 about the stats over Beat cipher. Danny, what do you think, 0:34:54.239 --> 0:34:56.279 because you haven't heard anything about this idea? What do 0:34:56.320 --> 0:34:58.839 you think, my friends, can we make hashtag buzz out 0:34:58.840 --> 0:35:03.239 to happen? Sight and seeing this sounds absolutely incredible. I've 0:35:03.239 --> 0:35:05.680 been sitting over here just like Aus jugg I was like, 0:35:05.760 --> 0:35:08.399 this is the greatest idea I've ever so help me though. 0:35:08.520 --> 0:35:11.000 You guys are millennials. You guys know a little bit better, Like, 0:35:11.040 --> 0:35:13.160 can we get it? Can we get a Kickstarter? Can 0:35:13.200 --> 0:35:15.560 we raise money to do this? I'm not putting out 0:35:15.560 --> 0:35:18.760 my own money to buy all these hopefully hundreds of buzzers. 0:35:18.880 --> 0:35:22.240 How do we do this? You leveraging social media hashtag 0:35:22.320 --> 0:35:25.280 buzz aut How do we get captains in every city? 0:35:25.320 --> 0:35:26.920 How do we get the money to buy the buzzers? 0:35:27.000 --> 0:35:32.239 Danny definitely Kickstarter sounds like the first place. Okay, so 0:35:32.320 --> 0:35:34.280 this is the help. I mean, I'm off getting married 0:35:34.280 --> 0:35:36.200 in the next week or two. Okay, I need us 0:35:36.239 --> 0:35:38.920 to figure out how are we going to get this money, 0:35:38.960 --> 0:35:42.640 buy these buzzers and get you know, captains like uh 0:35:42.680 --> 0:35:45.440 in these cities to make this happen. I think we 0:35:45.560 --> 0:35:48.920 absolutely can do this. I don't know. Maybe Gabe or 0:35:48.960 --> 0:35:52.760 Scott Farrell can help me out. Also, right, use your audience, 0:35:52.880 --> 0:35:56.120 use the power hit me up at spitting speeds. And 0:35:56.200 --> 0:35:59.480 also if you if you do this, post pictures of it. 0:35:59.640 --> 0:36:03.279 We will put it on Astro's cheat dot com and 0:36:03.440 --> 0:36:07.239 we will let them know that what they did was unacceptable. 0:36:08.239 --> 0:36:09.920 Come on back, We'll be a little bit lighter. We'll 0:36:09.920 --> 0:36:12.959 Talk XFL and Fight Night in Vegas. On the other side, 0:36:13.000 --> 0:36:15.960 it's the fantasy freestyle, but I ain't playing y'all. Hashtag 0:36:16.040 --> 0:36:19.240 buz out to day. Let's make it happen. It's fantasy freestyle, 0:36:19.400 --> 0:36:21.880 yah do say that's what we do. Spitting statistiction in 0:36:21.920 --> 0:36:26.200 the building. Come on back. I want to light the 0:36:26.280 --> 0:36:29.440 lamp on Draff, Kings and FanDuel this NHL DFS season. 0:36:29.680 --> 0:36:31.960 Then joined Daily Rodo dot com and learned from the 0:36:31.960 --> 0:36:36.040 best daily fantasy sports players. Get updated fantasy hockey projections 0:36:36.080 --> 0:36:39.640 for NHL DFS, blind combinations, and build stacks for tournaments 0:36:39.640 --> 0:36:42.920 in the Daily Rodo NHL DFS Lineup Optimizer. If you 0:36:42.960 --> 0:36:45.840 are playing daily Fantasy hockey without using Daily Rodo, you 0:36:45.840 --> 0:36:48.480 are doing it wrong. Enter the Promo Code action for 0:36:48.520 --> 0:36:51.440 a ten percent discount. That's Promo Code Action for a 0:36:51.480 --> 0:37:02.719 ten percent discount. Pharrell post baseball has been destroyed by this. 0:37:02.880 --> 0:37:06.120 Everybody still wants to get ready for fantasy baseball, and 0:37:06.160 --> 0:37:07.840 they want to get ready for spring training and the 0:37:07.960 --> 0:37:10.600 start of the regular season, an opening day and everything else. 0:37:10.640 --> 0:37:13.080 It's already been ruined. It's already been ruined by the 0:37:13.120 --> 0:37:17.279 Houston Astros. The Boston Red Sox and certainly by Rob 0:37:17.360 --> 0:37:19.279 Manfred and the best thing he could do. He says, 0:37:19.280 --> 0:37:20.680 we don't want to alter what happened on the field. 0:37:20.680 --> 0:37:22.759 What happened on the field was altered by cheating, you 0:37:22.960 --> 0:37:26.160 stupid idiot. Week days for the six pm Eastern on 0:37:26.239 --> 0:37:40.640 the Sports Grid network. Hey hey, hey, yeah here papay 0:37:41.520 --> 0:37:45.480 Oh hey, al right, check it out episode four thirty 0:37:45.600 --> 0:37:49.160 seven of the Fantasy Freestyle right here on Sports Grid. 0:37:49.320 --> 0:37:51.600 I'm amped up because this five minutes. The post at 0:37:51.600 --> 0:37:54.080 the second rates that actual. But check this out. Also, 0:37:54.320 --> 0:37:57.640 here's the other genius of hashtag buzz alt Tove Alex. 0:37:57.920 --> 0:38:01.280 All Right, I'm not gonna get caught. I'm not gonna 0:38:01.320 --> 0:38:03.719 get you know, kicked out of a stadium for anything. Right, 0:38:04.040 --> 0:38:07.120 I'm not throwing the buzzers. The plan is to pass 0:38:07.280 --> 0:38:12.399 out dozens of buzzers to random fans, a ton of them, 0:38:12.719 --> 0:38:14.960 and then, you know, just have trust and faith in 0:38:15.160 --> 0:38:19.560 fandom that something amazing will happen. Right, Alex like makes 0:38:19.600 --> 0:38:28.000 me tell people, Yo, exactly, I'm gas lighting the fans 0:38:28.040 --> 0:38:31.080 out there. That's right, That's exactly what I'm doing, and 0:38:31.120 --> 0:38:33.440 I make no bones about it. That's what we should 0:38:33.440 --> 0:38:36.560 do with the platform that we have here on sports Grid. 0:38:36.640 --> 0:38:38.839 But I digress, Alex. One of the other things we've 0:38:38.840 --> 0:38:40.480 been talking about for the last couple of weeks is 0:38:40.520 --> 0:38:44.000 the XFL, right, both in terms of some of the 0:38:44.040 --> 0:38:46.799 rule changes, some of the product that we're seeing as 0:38:46.800 --> 0:38:48.640 far as an entertainment in front, as far as the 0:38:48.719 --> 0:38:51.520 quality of the product, but also because this is one 0:38:51.560 --> 0:38:55.680 of the unique opportunities in the sports gambling world where 0:38:55.719 --> 0:38:59.400 you and the books kind of have the same amount 0:38:59.480 --> 0:39:02.400 of in nation and I think that is very interesting. 0:39:02.440 --> 0:39:04.520 And now as we've had two weeks, we're starting to 0:39:04.520 --> 0:39:06.759 see a little bit more, but there could be some 0:39:06.840 --> 0:39:10.799 prime contrarian positions as well. So here's what I want 0:39:10.800 --> 0:39:12.719 to ask you about. Did you see any of the 0:39:12.840 --> 0:39:15.680 XFL headlines or any of the games over the weekend, Alice, 0:39:15.680 --> 0:39:17.440 because what I want to talk to you about. Remember 0:39:17.440 --> 0:39:19.560 we said how everyone was miked up with such a 0:39:19.640 --> 0:39:22.520 good thing, the access we were getting and hearing the 0:39:22.560 --> 0:39:25.960 players on the sideline, hearing the coaches in the ear Well, 0:39:26.000 --> 0:39:27.960 I think that backfired a little bit this week, Alex. 0:39:28.000 --> 0:39:30.279 Did you hear any of this with Matt mcgloyan and 0:39:30.360 --> 0:39:33.359 the New York New York squad completely undermined his coach 0:39:33.400 --> 0:39:35.640 and said, yeah, this isn't working, so let's change it up. 0:39:36.040 --> 0:39:39.960 I think so. Right, So he's like going into halftime 0:39:40.360 --> 0:39:43.520 talking about we need to completely revamp our game plan. 0:39:44.040 --> 0:39:46.479 He's on the sidelines over her talking to another player 0:39:46.560 --> 0:39:48.520 being like, this is the worst game I've ever played 0:39:48.520 --> 0:39:51.120 in my life, you know, and this is and then 0:39:51.160 --> 0:39:54.760 he got benched. You know. So it's interesting. You want 0:39:54.800 --> 0:39:57.560 this access, right, but then you getta hold Matt mcgloyan 0:39:57.600 --> 0:40:00.440 accountable who later came out and said, listen, you hear 0:40:00.480 --> 0:40:03.840 this kind of stuff every game and every sideline that 0:40:03.920 --> 0:40:06.160 this was almost par for the course. I don't know 0:40:06.200 --> 0:40:09.080 if it was, but it's interesting, right how we love it. 0:40:09.600 --> 0:40:11.120 But then the other side of the coin is it, 0:40:11.320 --> 0:40:14.280 you know, where it exposes some of that rough underbelly, 0:40:14.280 --> 0:40:16.960 which I think is cool, but ultimately make cost Matt 0:40:17.000 --> 0:40:20.080 mcloyn his starting job. He was playing like pooh, if 0:40:20.120 --> 0:40:23.080 you want to know, they look like blunt guts trashed 0:40:23.280 --> 0:40:26.239 on the offense against DC on Saturday though, oh yeah, 0:40:26.280 --> 0:40:28.840 no question about it. Also, DC is becoming and I 0:40:28.880 --> 0:40:33.200 think right now stands the favorite tend exactly honestly though 0:40:33.520 --> 0:40:36.160 to that point though, uh, I think Cardel Jones, Yeah, 0:40:36.160 --> 0:40:38.239 Cardel Jones, but it's such a there's such a high 0:40:38.280 --> 0:40:40.240 praise right now, they're such put up on a pedal stool. 0:40:40.320 --> 0:40:42.040 I think that's gonna backfire in such a new league, 0:40:42.040 --> 0:40:43.960 you know what I'm saying, that the top domino will 0:40:44.040 --> 0:40:50.520 fall eventually. Yes, yes, I'm gonna talk about that a 0:40:50.560 --> 0:40:52.360 little bit as well. But before we get into my 0:40:52.400 --> 0:40:56.240 plays for a week three, which does have that in common. Um, 0:40:56.440 --> 0:40:57.920 the other thing we didn't talk about last time in 0:40:58.000 --> 0:41:00.239 terms of a rule standpoint are the claw and the 0:41:00.280 --> 0:41:03.280 timing inside the last two minutes. I think that's pretty interesting, Alex. 0:41:03.320 --> 0:41:06.120 So what happens is inside of two minutes, even on 0:41:06.160 --> 0:41:08.799 a running play, even on a play that's inbounds, they 0:41:08.840 --> 0:41:11.560 do not start the clock for five seconds, and it 0:41:11.680 --> 0:41:14.080 leaves the entire playbook open. You can run the ball 0:41:14.520 --> 0:41:16.640 right still with only two minutes left, you can you know, 0:41:16.800 --> 0:41:18.960 throw to the middle of the field. And I think 0:41:19.000 --> 0:41:22.160 that is very interesting. I don't think NFL will adopt it, 0:41:22.200 --> 0:41:25.279 but I like it. Yet another rule inspiring excitement and 0:41:25.360 --> 0:41:28.399 offense here in the NFL and the XFL. It's it's 0:41:28.440 --> 0:41:30.440 kind of like a good and a bad thing um 0:41:30.840 --> 0:41:33.359 in both senses, because you're right, it does. It's something 0:41:33.360 --> 0:41:35.000 that the NFL will never do when it gives you 0:41:35.000 --> 0:41:37.120 a more opportunity to open up your playbook. But it 0:41:37.280 --> 0:41:40.160 kind of has a sense eliminates the fast two minutes, 0:41:40.440 --> 0:41:42.080 you know what I mean, like the excitement of, oh 0:41:42.120 --> 0:41:44.000 my gosh, we gotta get this cl clock, you know 0:41:44.040 --> 0:41:45.759 what I'm saying. Like, I think it's just it's kind 0:41:45.760 --> 0:41:47.440 of like a give and take sort of thing. Exactly 0:41:47.520 --> 0:41:51.840 spiked the ball. You don't have to do that exactly. Yeah, 0:41:52.080 --> 0:41:54.359 So so that is interesting. But then you mentioned like 0:41:54.400 --> 0:41:56.800 obviously the top domino will fall because maybe this is 0:41:56.840 --> 0:41:58.960 just recency bias and you only have two games to 0:41:59.000 --> 0:42:02.000 see these teams. So as d C is now the 0:42:02.080 --> 0:42:04.239 favorite there two to one to win it all, I've 0:42:04.280 --> 0:42:06.560 been telling you I'm riding with the Houston Roughnecks. Okay, 0:42:06.560 --> 0:42:08.319 they are not the second choice. I should have got 0:42:08.360 --> 0:42:10.319 them when they were like plus five fifty. They're now 0:42:10.320 --> 0:42:13.760 we're all the way down to plus two fifty. P J. Walker. 0:42:13.800 --> 0:42:15.719 I like the D line. I like June Jones as 0:42:15.760 --> 0:42:18.160 the tight end. I like them throwing it around the lot. Okay, 0:42:18.239 --> 0:42:21.960 here's the thing, Alex, I do like them. Okay, I 0:42:22.040 --> 0:42:25.680 still like the Houston Roughnecks. I'm betting against them this 0:42:25.719 --> 0:42:28.800 week and that's my play of the week in the XFL. However, Alex, 0:42:28.880 --> 0:42:31.799 check this out for this week. In Week three, the 0:42:31.800 --> 0:42:34.760 Houston Roughnecks go on the road for the first time 0:42:34.840 --> 0:42:36.719 this season, and they go on the road to the 0:42:36.760 --> 0:42:40.440 Tampa Vipers. Now here's the deal, Alex, Houston too and 0:42:40.520 --> 0:42:44.000 oh both games at home. They look good right on 0:42:44.040 --> 0:42:47.359 the flip side, Tampa Oh and two both games on 0:42:47.480 --> 0:42:50.279 the road. And somehow though people are forgetting you talked 0:42:50.280 --> 0:42:52.360 about the short narrative the short season so far, the 0:42:52.400 --> 0:42:57.000 Tampa Bay Vipers were the favorites to win the XFL preseason. 0:42:57.320 --> 0:43:01.280 They have a very strong defense. Jerry Glenn loves their defense. 0:43:01.320 --> 0:43:05.080 And also in both of those games for Tampa Bay 0:43:05.080 --> 0:43:08.760 where they lost, they gave up the defense, the opposing 0:43:08.840 --> 0:43:13.040 defense scored points. Okay, so that defense is still playing 0:43:13.040 --> 0:43:15.279 good for Tampa Bay. Seattle. I think how to pick 0:43:15.360 --> 0:43:17.919 six from like the three yard line and then the 0:43:18.040 --> 0:43:20.319 um The New York Guardians got their win and the 0:43:20.360 --> 0:43:24.200 opener scoring on defense as well. So this Tampa Bay 0:43:24.239 --> 0:43:28.080 Vipers defense is still pretty good, has not truly been exposed, 0:43:28.120 --> 0:43:31.200 and now after two back to back road games, they 0:43:31.239 --> 0:43:35.440 finally go home to host the Houston Refnecks. Now, I 0:43:35.520 --> 0:43:37.759 still do like Houston as a team. I think they 0:43:37.760 --> 0:43:40.040 are a good choice in the futures market, but I'm 0:43:40.080 --> 0:43:42.480 Tampa Bay Vipers. This week, they are home for their 0:43:42.480 --> 0:43:44.759 home opener in Week three of the XFL, and they 0:43:44.760 --> 0:43:47.640 are getting six and a half points against Houston. I'm 0:43:47.680 --> 0:43:49.760 gonna tell you, I think this defense is strong, Alex, 0:43:49.800 --> 0:43:52.319 and I think that is too many. What say you? 0:43:52.360 --> 0:43:54.319 What do you think? I think you're absolutely right. You know, 0:43:54.320 --> 0:43:56.360 it's a strong defense and it's a great team all around. 0:43:56.400 --> 0:43:58.600 But thank you. We also did see this week though, 0:43:58.800 --> 0:44:00.520 like I said, I said this last week we didn't 0:44:00.520 --> 0:44:02.880 see the double pass. We didn't see the full extent 0:44:02.920 --> 0:44:05.840 of the rule book. This week we did. To that 0:44:05.880 --> 0:44:09.280 point of defense, We're gonna start seeing some defensive schemes. 0:44:09.280 --> 0:44:11.400 Maybe adapt to this double pass or adapt to this 0:44:11.640 --> 0:44:14.439 two minutes slower drill kind of thing. Okay, I think 0:44:14.440 --> 0:44:16.480 it's you're you're You're absolutely right. It's great team, great 0:44:16.480 --> 0:44:19.080 defense all around. But I still think it's a little 0:44:19.120 --> 0:44:21.040 too early. Maybe after like this week, maybe next week, 0:44:21.040 --> 0:44:23.879 we're gonna really start to see the solidified game plan 0:44:24.040 --> 0:44:29.040 playbook for each team so to speak. Yeah, well, listen up, 0:44:29.040 --> 0:44:30.560 here's the deal. I'm gonna get six and a half 0:44:30.600 --> 0:44:32.440 points at home with the team that was the preseason 0:44:32.560 --> 0:44:35.040 favorite to win this league and his oh and two 0:44:35.040 --> 0:44:37.360 but was on the road in tough spots both times. 0:44:37.360 --> 0:44:40.400 I'm gonna take the Tampa Bay Vipers plus six and 0:44:40.440 --> 0:44:44.400 a half as a play for Week three in the XFL. 0:44:44.440 --> 0:44:46.400 We only got a couple of minutes left, Alex, and 0:44:46.440 --> 0:44:48.160 I wanted to say something. You know, my man Jared 0:44:48.239 --> 0:44:51.440 Smith was in Vegas over the weekend, you know, and 0:44:52.120 --> 0:44:54.520 there's gonna be a big time fight in Vegas, uh 0:44:54.560 --> 0:44:58.360 this weekend. On Saturdays, Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury have 0:44:58.440 --> 0:45:02.600 a rematch of their heavyweight draw that happened last year. 0:45:02.640 --> 0:45:06.480 Both of these fighters are still undefeated, okay, and we're 0:45:06.480 --> 0:45:08.719 getting a lot of opinions. This is going off at 0:45:08.719 --> 0:45:11.520 minus one ten both sides. They're pretty much, you know, 0:45:11.640 --> 0:45:14.920 even money both sides on this fight. But this is 0:45:15.000 --> 0:45:17.640 why I love shopping around and anybody, you know, I'm 0:45:17.680 --> 0:45:19.600 here in the FanDuel Sports Book right now, the first 0:45:19.600 --> 0:45:21.839 out of four hundred and thirty seven episodes here at 0:45:21.840 --> 0:45:24.640 the FanDuel Sports Board, here on Sports Grid, not in 0:45:24.719 --> 0:45:27.799 Studio thirty four for this week. I'll be back after 0:45:27.840 --> 0:45:32.200 the wedding um. But here's the deal, fan Duel. They 0:45:32.239 --> 0:45:34.960 offer so many of these great promos, Alex, and I 0:45:35.000 --> 0:45:37.440 think they're offering a promo that fits right into the 0:45:37.520 --> 0:45:40.120 hands of how this fight could play out. All right, 0:45:40.520 --> 0:45:42.640 So if you know anything about this, you know that 0:45:42.719 --> 0:45:45.279 Deante wild that has the power punch. Okay, he can 0:45:45.360 --> 0:45:48.600 knock you out in one punch. If lightning strikes you 0:45:48.680 --> 0:45:51.520 might be done. You may remember the video Alex, last 0:45:51.560 --> 0:45:54.120 of the last fight where he knocked Tyson Fury down, 0:45:54.120 --> 0:45:56.920 but he like got up like the Undertaker when everyone 0:45:56.920 --> 0:45:59.680 thought he was knocked out. Okay, And that's the thing. 0:46:00.040 --> 0:46:04.319 Yonte Wilder has the knockout power. Tyson Fury is the 0:46:04.360 --> 0:46:08.240 better boxer. Tyson Fury is the better boxer. Tyson Fury 0:46:08.320 --> 0:46:10.680 just switched his training team. He's got now the nephew 0:46:10.680 --> 0:46:14.239 of Emmanuel Stewart as his trainer. I think he's the 0:46:14.280 --> 0:46:17.200 better boxer. He was outclassing Wilder when it comes to 0:46:17.239 --> 0:46:20.520 the sweet science of boxing. For most of that fight, 0:46:20.560 --> 0:46:22.759 he just got knocked down twice, okay, and that's what 0:46:22.840 --> 0:46:26.120 made the scorecards a draw, all right. But also Wilder 0:46:26.160 --> 0:46:28.840 is a I mean, Fury is a showman. He likes 0:46:28.880 --> 0:46:30.719 to you know, he was showboating a little bit. He 0:46:30.800 --> 0:46:33.279 comes on in and his outfits and all that. But 0:46:33.440 --> 0:46:36.200 now they know second time around, now they know it 0:46:36.239 --> 0:46:39.440 can be a fight. I don't think Tyson Fury is 0:46:39.440 --> 0:46:43.399 gonna come in which as much showboating, as much craziness 0:46:43.719 --> 0:46:46.000 as he did last time. In essence, I don't think 0:46:46.000 --> 0:46:50.440 he will take Deontay Wilder and that power lightly. Okay. 0:46:50.480 --> 0:46:53.719 So I think Tyson Fury is going to be the 0:46:53.760 --> 0:46:56.600 more skilled boxer and if it goes the distance, if 0:46:56.640 --> 0:46:59.440 it goes to points, it will be Tyson Fury. The 0:46:59.560 --> 0:47:03.839 question is can he avoid the knockout? Feel me? That's 0:47:03.840 --> 0:47:05.960 the way I think this fight will go, Alex. I 0:47:05.960 --> 0:47:08.680 think Tyson Fury is the much better boxer, and he 0:47:08.800 --> 0:47:12.120 might he'll look like he's outclassing Wilder at times. The 0:47:12.200 --> 0:47:15.520 question is can he avoid the big one? All right? 0:47:15.640 --> 0:47:17.719 That's the way I think it plays out. I think 0:47:17.719 --> 0:47:20.640 now I look at FanDuel and check out what they're offering. 0:47:21.480 --> 0:47:23.879 Go ahead. I'm just like, I think we're definitely gonna 0:47:23.880 --> 0:47:26.319 get a better in the Jones. Yes, fight a couple 0:47:26.320 --> 0:47:28.680 of weeks ago, that's for sure. As great that was, 0:47:28.920 --> 0:47:31.440 I think this one sure, I'll buy that. Yeah, absolutely. 0:47:31.560 --> 0:47:33.400 Also to this week, we saw them at their present 0:47:33.760 --> 0:47:36.080 every way title. Yeah, they're really starting to dawn each 0:47:36.080 --> 0:47:38.680 other to at this shoving. They don't like each other. Yeah, 0:47:38.719 --> 0:47:41.480 they don't like each other. Now they absolutely don't like 0:47:41.600 --> 0:47:44.440 each other. This is going to be real, Okay, but 0:47:44.600 --> 0:47:46.000 this is how it plays out. I know, we only 0:47:46.000 --> 0:47:47.960 got a couple of minutes, all right, So I think 0:47:48.680 --> 0:47:51.960 Wilder's path to victory is the knockout. Furies path to 0:47:52.040 --> 0:47:56.480 victory is out boxing him and on points, and that's 0:47:56.520 --> 0:47:59.360 the way it plays out on fan duel as well. Okay, 0:47:59.360 --> 0:48:01.520 if you look at it on fan Duel, you know 0:48:01.560 --> 0:48:04.680 they're even. But it's something like plus seven hundred for 0:48:04.719 --> 0:48:06.479 a Wilder to win on points because he ain't gonna 0:48:06.480 --> 0:48:08.239 do that. He's gonna win by knocked out, and it's 0:48:08.280 --> 0:48:11.240 like plus eight hundred for Fury to win by knockout 0:48:11.239 --> 0:48:14.279 because he's not gonna do that. He's gonna outbox Wilder. 0:48:14.600 --> 0:48:17.200 But on Fansuel, they're offering an option here. You gotta 0:48:17.200 --> 0:48:19.960 opt into it. They are giving you a refund like 0:48:19.960 --> 0:48:24.959 one of those paybacks if you bet a boxer and 0:48:25.080 --> 0:48:28.000 they lose within the first six rounds, you get your 0:48:28.040 --> 0:48:31.520 money back. Okay. So because of this, I'm telling you 0:48:31.560 --> 0:48:35.520 to bet Fury in that way, because you get Fury 0:48:35.600 --> 0:48:38.200 if he wins, and I think I do lean slightly 0:48:38.239 --> 0:48:41.120 too tights and Fury in this matchup. He wins, you 0:48:41.239 --> 0:48:43.920 get it. The catch here is, though, if he were 0:48:43.960 --> 0:48:45.920 to lose the way we think it's gonna happen is 0:48:45.960 --> 0:48:49.480 a Wilder knockout, and that could happen at any point 0:48:49.480 --> 0:48:52.040 in time. So if it happens in the first half 0:48:52.040 --> 0:48:55.280 of the fight, you get your money back. Okay. Maybe 0:48:55.280 --> 0:48:57.399 fan Duel is setting me up and luring me in, 0:48:57.640 --> 0:48:59.720 but I think it's a good way to go. Bet Fury, 0:48:59.760 --> 0:49:02.920 but opt in and get it paid back. If he 0:49:03.000 --> 0:49:05.920 doesn't that get knocked out. I think it's a halfway hedge, 0:49:06.160 --> 0:49:09.520 a light Tyson Fury, and remember the Vipers couldn't get 0:49:09.560 --> 0:49:12.200 their first win. I'm off next week to get this 0:49:12.320 --> 0:49:14.319 ring on it. I'll be back in two weeks back 0:49:14.320 --> 0:49:17.560 in Studio thirty four. 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