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Speaker 1: episode number four hundred and thirties seven, the four hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty seventh convening of the Stats over Beat Cipher
Speaker 1: where we help you win your leagues and win that
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Speaker 1: and thirty seven times we've done Fantasy Freestyle here on
Speaker 1: Sports grade. This is the first ever time I'm coming
Speaker 1: to you live and direct from the Fan Duel Sports
Speaker 1: Book here at the Meadowlands, and it's something of a reunion.
Speaker 1: We got my man Danny Auto in the building, we
Speaker 1: got Alex Vassano in the Pit of Misery, and we
Speaker 1: have a good show for you. Here's we're gonna get into. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've been giving you my takeaways from the XFL. Week
Speaker 1: two is no different, and I have a very interesting
Speaker 1: way to look at week three. So we're gonna continue
Speaker 1: that conversation, all right. We're gonna continue to talk about
Speaker 1: the quarterback Merry go Round that goes around and round
Speaker 1: and around with a lot of rumors, a lot of buzz.
Speaker 1: The Saints may have made the first Domino fall, all
Speaker 1: all on an Instagram post from Drew Brees, so we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that, all right. We got a big fight
Speaker 1: night in Vegas this week. Alright, So what happens in
Speaker 1: Vegas stays in Vegas except for a couple of things.
Speaker 1: Insert joke there. I'll give you an interesting prop bet
Speaker 1: that I saw here at the Fan Duel Sports Book.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that a little bit later on as well.
Speaker 1: We got a pole question up, and that pole question is,
Speaker 1: which is really the biggest scandal in Major League Baseball?
Speaker 1: We have, you know, we have steroids, we have the
Speaker 1: astro sign stealing. I bring it up because we have
Speaker 1: Pete Rose and Gambling who's still not in the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame yet he's saying he should be in if
Speaker 1: these astros cheaters do not get really punished the players
Speaker 1: or even going back to Scholas Joe. Alright, so hit
Speaker 1: me up at Spitting Speeds on Twitter. Let me know
Speaker 1: you know what you think is the greatest scandal in
Speaker 1: MLB history, and we are going to keep it going
Speaker 1: on Major League Baseball and that scandal. The fans are responding,
Speaker 1: players are responding, and the status over beach response is
Speaker 1: gonna be incredible. Check it out as we put the
Speaker 1: fun in functional sports content. It's your boy Speeds, the
Speaker 1: spitting Statistician and the fantasy Freestyle. Come on back on
Speaker 1: the other side of the break. But for now we
Speaker 1: give it to my man Fasano down in the pit
Speaker 1: for the news update. Sports Gride news Update. I am
Speaker 1: Alex Passano with your sports Grid news update here on
Speaker 1: the fantasy freestyle in the NFL. We could be expecting
Speaker 1: a playoff format change as it is currently constituted. For
Speaker 1: next season. The NFL owners are pushing for a playoff
Speaker 1: field to be expanded to seven teams from each conference,
Speaker 1: while the regular season will be increased to seven team games,
Speaker 1: as well as the preseason being shortened to three games.
Speaker 1: As part of the proposed player playoff format, only one
Speaker 1: team from each conference will receive a first round by
Speaker 1: as opposed to the two that currently do. This would
Speaker 1: also be a revised postseason schedule that includes six games
Speaker 1: on wild Card weekend, three on Saturday, and three on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Also in the NFL, NFL offensive tackle Gregg Robinson was
Speaker 1: being held Wednesday in a Texas jail on a pending
Speaker 1: drug distribution charge. Robinson, a former Auburn standout who played
Speaker 1: for the Cleveland Browns last season, was booked by the
Speaker 1: d e A on Tuesday after federal agents said they
Speaker 1: found a hundred and fifty seven pounds of marijuana in
Speaker 1: a rented vehicle in which he and two other people
Speaker 1: were riding. If convicted, Robinson could face up to twenty
Speaker 1: years in a federal prison and in the NBA Minnesota
Speaker 1: timber Wolves center Carl Anthony Towns will remain sidelined indefinitely
Speaker 1: as he continues to recover from a left wrist injury.
Speaker 1: Towns missed Minnesota's final game before the All Star Break
Speaker 1: after an m r I revealed the injury. Coach Ryan
Speaker 1: Saunders told reporters that the team held Towns out of
Speaker 1: its first practice after the All Star break on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Saunders said Towns will miss upcoming games, but did not
Speaker 1: specify how many. You got a full slate of NHL
Speaker 1: college hoops and NBA makes its return after the All
Speaker 1: Star breaks. Some games you may want to consider. The
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets visit the Philadelphia seventy sixers. Sixers are your
Speaker 1: eight and a half point favorites. The total is to
Speaker 1: fifteen and a half. Also, the Dallas Mavericks visit the
Speaker 1: Orlando Magic that's part of tomorrow's slate. The Mavericks are
Speaker 1: two and a half point favorites. All right, I'm Alex Possano.
Speaker 1: This has been your sports grid news update. Now back
Speaker 1: to the spitting statistician, Dame Martinez on Fantasy Freestyle. Thanks
Speaker 1: Altano down there in the pit of misery, Dilly dilly
Speaker 1: to the crew, I don't get to see you, Alex.
Speaker 1: I gotta text you later on, Man, I got an
Speaker 1: opportunity for you. We gotta talk about that, you know.
Speaker 1: I also want to ask you a couple of things
Speaker 1: about that update. One of the things you mentioned there
Speaker 1: for Asano was, you know, Greg Robinson, what a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty seven pounds of marijuana? We were discussing this
Speaker 1: on the early line, me and Jared Smith. You know.
Speaker 1: The the charge was, you know, possession within tend to sell.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you something, If you have a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty seven pounds of marijuana, can you imagine not
Speaker 1: having an intent to sell it? I mean, Dane, I
Speaker 1: personally myself, we a hundred and fifty pounds, So I
Speaker 1: don't know if I could out if I can sell, Like,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? That's crazy? And also that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, what are you gonna do? Of course
Speaker 1: there's an intent to sell? Yeah, it's crazy. Also I
Speaker 1: think I saw he would only make about three d
Speaker 1: K from it. He made like six million over his
Speaker 1: years in the NFL. It's crazy. It's a good point.
Speaker 1: That is a good point. It's like, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: there's levels to this. He's already made that money. Why
Speaker 1: are you going through the risk reward proposition? We know
Speaker 1: about that here in Sports Investing on the Sports Grid Network.
Speaker 1: You know, we were talking about the NFL Alex all right,
Speaker 1: And there have been a couple of pieces of news
Speaker 1: since the last convening of the stats over beat Cipher
Speaker 1: here on the fantasy Freestyle as it relates to that
Speaker 1: quarterback market. Right, I've gotten buzz about Joe Flacco. This
Speaker 1: is a name we haven't even spoken about yet, Alex, right,
Speaker 1: like he's supposed to be coming back, getting hell the right,
Speaker 1: but he's got he's got a twenty three and a
Speaker 1: half million dollar cap hit if he would stay um
Speaker 1: with the Denver Broncos, I think he's gonna wind up
Speaker 1: being a cut candidate. Cut candidates are things we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to start to pay attention to as we get
Speaker 1: into this stage of the NFL calendar. The other thing
Speaker 1: we heard as by the way, the first race at
Speaker 1: Gulf Stream Park is popping off here at the Meadowlands.
Speaker 1: But in any of that, I digress. What we heard though,
Speaker 1: Alex that I think really does add to our quarterback
Speaker 1: carousel is, uh, Drew Brees is coming back, all right,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is coming back for the New Orleans Saints
Speaker 1: what will probably be his last year, and then the
Speaker 1: dominoes fall. Right now, we're starting to hear Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: is a gunner. I don't know where did we have
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater, Alex on our little will he stay or
Speaker 1: will he go? And will he start or will he
Speaker 1: back up? I think we had him coming back, but
Speaker 1: as the backup is that where we had Teddy bridge water,
Speaker 1: I mean, as of right now we were So do
Speaker 1: we have him leaving and becoming a starter? I think
Speaker 1: we have it. We had him staying and being the
Speaker 1: backup quarterback under Drew Brees. That ain't gonna happen. That
Speaker 1: ain't gonna hat change that up exactly. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: This is a changing picture that we have to continue
Speaker 1: to update throughout the off season. Right now, Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: is not gonna be a QB two. He's gonna get
Speaker 1: starter level money and he's gonna go somewhere else. And
Speaker 1: I think Taysom Hill becomes very very interesting now, Alex,
Speaker 1: because here's the thing. Tasom Hill a punt block as
Speaker 1: they come down the stretch, We got a close one here.
Speaker 1: The one horse on the inside the eight is going
Speaker 1: to be around. I think the one horse. I think
Speaker 1: the one horse is gonna edge him out there on
Speaker 1: the rail in the first race at Gulf Stream. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I digress. We're talking about Taysom Hill here. And the
Speaker 1: thing is, if he's actually the backup quarterback, which he
Speaker 1: will be in New Orleans, he can't be on the
Speaker 1: punt block team. He can't be doing ends around, he
Speaker 1: can't be the wide receiver. And this is something which
Speaker 1: is now getting solidified. More news that happened in my opinion,
Speaker 1: this um this week as it relates to the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Big Ben, your boy Alex, He's gonna have a very
Speaker 1: big doctor's appointment tomorrow, all right, So talk to me
Speaker 1: here about this right the elbow and Will what are
Speaker 1: we what are we getting? What kind of news are
Speaker 1: you think we're gonna get? And what does that mean
Speaker 1: for this overall picture that we have been talking about
Speaker 1: in the off season. Well, I can tell you right now,
Speaker 1: the team themselves are behind him, The coaching staff are
Speaker 1: behind him. Obviously, I'm still waiting for this doctor's right um. Also,
Speaker 1: fun fact, he will not be shaving his beard until
Speaker 1: he can actually throw an object. Uh, So we will
Speaker 1: be seeing the grizzly bend. God. I know it's crazy,
Speaker 1: looks like a mountain man um, But honestly, once we
Speaker 1: get that okay from the doctors, I I expect Ben
Speaker 1: to be another you know, top quarterback. He really wants
Speaker 1: to play. He's told the team he's ready to play.
Speaker 1: And once he it's that approval to start throwing and
Speaker 1: start moving his arm, I'm ready for the same old
Speaker 1: Ben to go one last arrah here and solidify his legacy. Alright,
Speaker 1: we'll see in the same draft class Eli has decided
Speaker 1: to walk away, Philip Rivers. Will see if he you know,
Speaker 1: continues to play at high level. We don't know where
Speaker 1: he will be. There's obviously odds out for that. We've
Speaker 1: talked about places like Indie and Tampa Bay. So we'll
Speaker 1: see if Ben can you know, outshine his draft class counterparts.
Speaker 1: The other thing that I think is interesting as we
Speaker 1: talk about the Pittsburgh quarterback situation, Mason Rudolph is now
Speaker 1: considering legal actions against Myles Garrett. Okay, listen to some
Speaker 1: of the legal ease of his lawyer. Uh, Timothy Younger
Speaker 1: in his statement over the weekend. Okay, he is now
Speaker 1: exposed to legal liability because Mr Garrett maliciously used his
Speaker 1: false allegation to coax sympathy, hoping to be excused for
Speaker 1: what it's clearly an inexcusable behavior. That's legal. Talk to me,
Speaker 1: I wonder if Mason Rudolph is actually going to take
Speaker 1: legal action against Miles Garrett. What say you, Alex, do
Speaker 1: you think he's gonna actually push push this? I mean personally,
Speaker 1: I mean, you saw all the reports. Nobody is backing
Speaker 1: up Miles. Nobody seems to have his back. And if
Speaker 1: I would in Mason's position, I would I would be
Speaker 1: upset obviously if I was a Mason. But just let
Speaker 1: it go. You know you're in the right because you
Speaker 1: didn't say it. You know there's not gonna any repercussions.
Speaker 1: Just just just get it past it. Obviously people are
Speaker 1: are behind you and not Garrett. I think you just
Speaker 1: gotta roll with it. Yeah, this is a dicey situation,
Speaker 1: but he's standing that this is what was said. I
Speaker 1: don't know, and there's certainly no audio. You're right, so
Speaker 1: maybe there is legal action. Listen, we're gonna take a
Speaker 1: quick break. On the other side of the break, talk
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Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty seven here on Sports Grade. Here
Speaker 1: from the FanDuel Sports Book. I'm usually at Studio thirty four,
Speaker 1: but we got the book today. We got you know,
Speaker 1: the first race at Aqueduct popping off. Oh, we got
Speaker 1: the third race over in monte Cello about to pop.
Speaker 1: So it's very exciting over here with stats over beat
Speaker 1: Cipher in the chat room as usual, I want to
Speaker 1: keep talking about this ENFL stuff. Then we'll talk about
Speaker 1: the Astros, and then you know, have a little bit
Speaker 1: of fun and functional sports content later on. Alex. Another
Speaker 1: thing that's coming out you alluded to it in the
Speaker 1: UM the news update is the idea that they may
Speaker 1: expand the playoffs UM in the NFL as as soon
Speaker 1: as this year. Okay, we're hearing that there may be
Speaker 1: a seventh team in the playoffs UM, and only the
Speaker 1: one seed would get a bye. I think that's very interesting. So,
Speaker 1: for example, the Kansas City Chiefs would not have had
Speaker 1: a bye in the new format as the two seed
Speaker 1: in the a f C. You know, so these things
Speaker 1: would in fact be changed. I'm hearing though, Alex, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've heard this as well, that
Speaker 1: it could be part of a larger picture here. Right.
Speaker 1: Eventually they're gonna add a seventeenth game and change like
Speaker 1: one of the preseason games into a seventeenth game. I'm
Speaker 1: hearing that could extend the playoffs, and with a seventeenth game,
Speaker 1: we also may get a second by in the regular season.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Alex, if you're old enough to be
Speaker 1: quite frank to remember back in the days when there
Speaker 1: were two buys there were two by no, say sleep,
Speaker 1: you don't remember that. Wow, So there used to be
Speaker 1: two buys in the regular season. Okay, I can't tell
Speaker 1: if you're joking with me or there used to be
Speaker 1: two byes in the regular season. Is that when it changed?
Speaker 1: That's when it changed, and you dually don't remember that.
Speaker 1: You don't remember. Okay, we gotta look it up and
Speaker 1: see when that changed last time around. But okay, so
Speaker 1: here's the thing. And honestly, Alex, if you put in
Speaker 1: a seventeenth game, you're also thinking about having um multiple
Speaker 1: teams go to London, right, and that that changes the
Speaker 1: schedule as well. You have to have more teams with
Speaker 1: that by stretch it out. Imagine this, here's my platform,
Speaker 1: and the stats would be the cipher has always known
Speaker 1: about this. I want the Super Bowl to be the
Speaker 1: day before President's Day. This way, it is a national
Speaker 1: holiday in essent. You ain't gotta worry about going to
Speaker 1: work the next day anyway. Okay. And so if you
Speaker 1: actually do have the second by extend the playoffs, you
Speaker 1: know I think we can get this done. What do
Speaker 1: you think, Alex? This is a campaign ultimately to make
Speaker 1: a super Bowl the national holiday? What say you? And
Speaker 1: I know both of us would not be off that
Speaker 1: president recapping the super Bowl. Oh, that's for sure, but
Speaker 1: this is fair. Yeah, I'd be on that seven am.
Speaker 1: I know it's okay, but it'd be nice to see
Speaker 1: everybody else get off. But to that point, um, I
Speaker 1: think also we'd see an increase in pay to for
Speaker 1: that first round of the playoffs, right if if they would, uh,
Speaker 1: the one team getting the biosibly be paid for that week.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure the players are definitely all for this.
Speaker 1: You know, it is only one game that's always concerned
Speaker 1: of it's going to be too too much of a
Speaker 1: toll on our bodies and this and that. But to them,
Speaker 1: you tell them, oh, you're gonna get an extra by
Speaker 1: a week, and you're gonna get paid in the playoffs
Speaker 1: if you make it. I think I think we're leaning
Speaker 1: towards something. Get another game check exactly all right, so
Speaker 1: we will see and listen. I'm I also am intrigued
Speaker 1: by what happens you know, in a sport like football,
Speaker 1: who acts as poetic about the record books. Michael Thomas
Speaker 1: sets a record, you know, uh, running four thousand yards
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. What happens if you have an
Speaker 1: extra game in the season. You know, it's gonna become
Speaker 1: very easy to run for a thousand yards. You know,
Speaker 1: the sack record could be in jeopardy. These are things
Speaker 1: that are interesting to me. And then also when you
Speaker 1: think about the schedule. You know, Alex, the schedule is
Speaker 1: a formulaic thing, right. You know, you played the third
Speaker 1: place team and the other conference you played this exactly.
Speaker 1: So if you have a seventeenth game, I wonder how
Speaker 1: you maintain competitive balance with that. It'll have to be
Speaker 1: some kind of algorithm or formula, and so we shall see.
Speaker 1: I do think it's interesting, But I want to get
Speaker 1: back to that quarterback conversation we've been having, Alex. And
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Okay, we said last week there's also
Speaker 1: gonna be teams that think about getting their answer in
Speaker 1: the draft. Right. We mentioned the names, of course, you
Speaker 1: know them, Joe Burrow, justin Herbert to a tag of
Speaker 1: aaloa and there are now odds out. We've talked about
Speaker 1: the odds for Tom Brady. We talked about the odds
Speaker 1: for Philip rivers. There are now odds for where will
Speaker 1: toa wind up? And I think this is a very
Speaker 1: interesting case. And you put them up there right now.
Speaker 1: You see their Caesars came out with them. Okay, The
Speaker 1: Dolphins are in fact the favorites all right at minus
Speaker 1: one ten And that makes sense, right the idea. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins have the fifth pick, okay, And I do think
Speaker 1: that if Towah is there at five for the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: he will be there. You can take that off the
Speaker 1: screen for now. I'm gonna ask you to put it
Speaker 1: back up in a little bit. Okay, But yes, so
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are the favorite at number five. But Alex,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. You know this, just like me. Every
Speaker 1: year there are teams that trade up in the draft
Speaker 1: to try to get their guys. So the question for
Speaker 1: me is really what teams are there that may not
Speaker 1: have to spend too much draft capital to opt the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins at five. That are part of our quarterback conversation,
Speaker 1: and we can refer to our chart and our graft. Alex,
Speaker 1: and to me, there are two answers staring us dead
Speaker 1: in the face. All right, put up the odds again
Speaker 1: for them. All right to me, Oh, this is our right, Okay,
Speaker 1: either way it works. Either way it works. Check out.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, there are two. The Chargers are one, right,
Speaker 1: the charges on one at five to two. We've been
Speaker 1: talking about the charges, Philip Rivers, moving on it. Our
Speaker 1: chart dictates for us that we are going to have
Speaker 1: a vacancy in Los Angeles as they moved to a
Speaker 1: new building. Now I'm hearing Tarrod Taylor. They like him,
Speaker 1: but there's no way they're gonna go into a new
Speaker 1: building trying to sell seats, you know, with Tarrod Taylor
Speaker 1: as their starting quarterback or at least not a promise
Speaker 1: for the future. Maybe they go make a trade hop
Speaker 1: Miami and wind up as a team in the three
Speaker 1: or four spot. I think the Detroit Lions and the
Speaker 1: Giants are live their trading partners. Maybe them. But here's
Speaker 1: the other one. And we talked about this, and this
Speaker 1: is why we did it in the way we did, Alex.
Speaker 1: We wanted to see where the openings are. That's why
Speaker 1: we played will they stay or will they go? Check out?
Speaker 1: A team there that seven o one I believe on
Speaker 1: that list, it's the Carolina Panthers. So my question for you,
Speaker 1: what about the Carolina Panthers. You got a new head
Speaker 1: coach in Matt Rule, you got the new passing coordinator,
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, and Joe Brady too was a fan of
Speaker 1: that system when he was in Alabama. About the Carolina Panthers,
Speaker 1: who also draft in the top ten, moving up to
Speaker 1: hop Miami to go out and get their guy to ah,
Speaker 1: you know, new coach, and then they could be tied
Speaker 1: at the hip. I think the Chargers and the Panthers
Speaker 1: are two interesting teams to look at that are not
Speaker 1: just the chalk of the Miami Dolphins. What do you
Speaker 1: think about to Alex to your point, uh, I got
Speaker 1: two things on the Panthers, because the Panthers are my
Speaker 1: team for this one. I think you nailed it perfectly.
Speaker 1: They're only at seven, right, so it's not too much
Speaker 1: of a jump for them, and it's still a valuable
Speaker 1: enough pick to where people will be willing. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Um, So there's there's one. But the second
Speaker 1: thing to that point, to also has a history of injuries,
Speaker 1: So did Cam Newton? Did they really want to go
Speaker 1: through another quarterback? Being the franchise with the injury risk
Speaker 1: that they're willing to take. Yeah, no, I hear you,
Speaker 1: But what are the odds on that right? Like seven
Speaker 1: oh one. I'd rather take a shot on that value
Speaker 1: at seven oh one on the idea that they do
Speaker 1: want to get their new face of the franchise, They
Speaker 1: do want to get their new franchise quarterback with a
Speaker 1: new regime in place, you know, as opposed to minus
Speaker 1: one ten for Miami, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: you're saying the odds outweigh the future potential essentially, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying the value. I'm just saying the value is
Speaker 1: there for the Panthers in this kind of bet, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing, like, you know, when it's so
Speaker 1: open like this. You know, we said the same thing
Speaker 1: with Philip Rivers bet last week. You know, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna go on a minus one ten on something crazy
Speaker 1: like this. But I digress. One of the things we
Speaker 1: haven't gotten into with this quarterback market yet is uh
Speaker 1: one about some teams that maybe still be on the
Speaker 1: fence about their quarterback. And I thought about it this
Speaker 1: this week, Alex, because I saw the news, you know,
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco popped up that he's back and healthy, still
Speaker 1: wants to play, you know, And it made me think
Speaker 1: about the Denver Broncos as a team. Yes, he is
Speaker 1: absolutely elite. He bet on himself and it worked out. Um.
Speaker 1: But when you think about the Denver Broncos, we didn't
Speaker 1: have any Denver Broncos on our original like you know,
Speaker 1: little access is there, right And because they've got Drew Lock,
Speaker 1: I wonder does that really preclude them from being in
Speaker 1: the market, whether it be for someone who could push
Speaker 1: the kid or one of these kind of bridge quarterback ideas,
Speaker 1: you know, Like what about Denver still as a destination
Speaker 1: And let me give you out to other places, all
Speaker 1: right that I think could be a destination for some
Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks we have on the Merry Go Round.
Speaker 1: And then I'll get your take. Denver could be one
Speaker 1: right for me. Another could be the Chicago Bears, all right.
Speaker 1: I've told you for a long time people, I do
Speaker 1: not believe in Mitchell Drabinsky. I think if you get
Speaker 1: it wrong when you draft the quarterback in the top ten,
Speaker 1: you are setting your franchise back for years. And the
Speaker 1: only problem here is that sometimes it takes teams too
Speaker 1: too long to cut bait to realize Exhibit A, the
Speaker 1: Jaguars and Blake Bortles. Okay, and I think that Mitchell
Speaker 1: Robinsky is, you know, slanting into that territory the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: We've heard him linked to Cam Newton potentially, and so
Speaker 1: I think Chicago could still be a destination for some
Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks. We said Denver could still be a
Speaker 1: destination for some of these quarterbacks. And the last thing
Speaker 1: I'll throw out is what about Jacksonville? What about Jacksonville?
Speaker 1: You know they spent the money on fold but you
Speaker 1: can get out of it. Contracts are written on toilet paper.
Speaker 1: In the NFL mentioned who was something of a revelation
Speaker 1: for about a month until he turned back into a pumpkin.
Speaker 1: Are they solidified at their position? I was gonna throw
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh into the mix, but I know, Alex, I don't
Speaker 1: want to, you know, throw cold water on it because
Speaker 1: I know you think the doctor checkup will go great
Speaker 1: for Big Ben tomorrow. But talk to me, do you
Speaker 1: think any of these guys we've talked about that will
Speaker 1: be in the market A Teddy Bridgewater, for instance, who
Speaker 1: is now on the Merry go round as well? What
Speaker 1: about a place like Denver, like Chicago, like Jacksonville. Should
Speaker 1: these be places we're looking as well? Absolutely? I think
Speaker 1: you make great points in all of them. Um. I
Speaker 1: think with Mitch too, they've given him his chance and
Speaker 1: you know he kind of fell short. Um. The the
Speaker 1: team I'm looking at though, and it's in between all
Speaker 1: these teams looking at the draft picks in the draft
Speaker 1: order too, it's the Las Vegas Raiders. It's the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders. Man. I mean, Derek Carr has given I've
Speaker 1: been getting. So that's another one. He's been getting way
Speaker 1: too many chances. And I think time is up in
Speaker 1: his case. Mitch. I think still has another year's open
Speaker 1: to give him a chance, you know, maybe like Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: give him another year. So minshu Mania, I think the
Speaker 1: Raiders here is your Okays, your biggest open door opportunity.
Speaker 1: That's interesting, right, And we're considering Tampa already as a
Speaker 1: slightly ajar door because we don't know anything about Jamis
Speaker 1: Jess yet. Bruce arians a certain posturing like he's gonna
Speaker 1: explore the market, So we'll see about that. But you're right,
Speaker 1: Vegas could be interesting, you know. Again, buzz there as
Speaker 1: they move on Gruden likes pieces of clay to mold.
Speaker 1: I wonder what he is going to think. They're all right,
Speaker 1: check this out. Here's what we're gonna do. We we
Speaker 1: have to talk about these Houston astros, and it just
Speaker 1: keeps getting more and more drama. Alex, Okay, players are
Speaker 1: come and now we'll talk about Bellinger, We'll talk about Correa,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about Judge. But then I want to talk
Speaker 1: about my new hero and what we are going to
Speaker 1: do as the status over beat Cipher. We got a
Speaker 1: lot of things to show you. Alex knows where I'm going.
Speaker 1: We're even gonna tell my man Danny Auto about a
Speaker 1: new scheme we're cooking up and get his reaction on
Speaker 1: the other side of the break. It's the Fantasy Freestyle
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Speaker 1: fourty seventh convening of the Stats Overbeat Cipher. I'm with
Speaker 1: Jared Man. Three games each day on wild Card weekend.
Speaker 1: I think that's on and pop and I am all
Speaker 1: for the expansion and more football. Speaking of more football,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about the XFL a little bit later on.
Speaker 1: In our last segment. I got an interesting play here
Speaker 1: for Week three of the XFL. We'll get into that
Speaker 1: a little bit later on. But we have to continue
Speaker 1: to talk about the Astros and they're cheating scandal. All right,
Speaker 1: Here's what I think needs to happen. Um, we need
Speaker 1: to not only understand that the players are upset about
Speaker 1: this and that they are talking smack two weeks other
Speaker 1: Bellinger has come out, Judge has come out, Stanton Trout,
Speaker 1: among others people in other sports. Lebron is talking about
Speaker 1: how you know the team's got cheated out of this
Speaker 1: that we've talked about this before, they are not going
Speaker 1: to get ahead of this. Major League Baseball Manfred did
Speaker 1: a horrible job this in the same week where he
Speaker 1: called the World Series Trophy a piece of metal, all right,
Speaker 1: which obviously has raised the ire of players. And I
Speaker 1: believe first of all, that this is going to wear
Speaker 1: on the Astros throughout the year. Every city they go into,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have microphones put in front of their face.
Speaker 1: Every stadium they go into, fans are going to give
Speaker 1: them hatred and vitriol and vile. Okay, there's literally odds
Speaker 1: about how many times will Houston astros batteries get hit
Speaker 1: by pitches this year. They're only hanging that kind of
Speaker 1: number if it's going to happen a bunch. And now
Speaker 1: you know, Manfred comes out and says that if a
Speaker 1: hit or if a pitcher hits the Astros, well they
Speaker 1: might get suspended. Meanwhile, these Astros are still not getting suspended.
Speaker 1: But what I think is gonna be very very interesting,
Speaker 1: and what I want to talk about a little bit
Speaker 1: here is what happens with the fans. Okay, um, it
Speaker 1: already started, It already started. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: saw this, Alex, but in spring training down there already
Speaker 1: they're taking their first like batting practice live. You know,
Speaker 1: alt gets in the cage and fans are literally banging
Speaker 1: garbage cans behind them as a distraction. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you right now, I think that's even amazing, Alex.
Speaker 1: Play the video. We've got fans banging the damn trash
Speaker 1: cans and back of Altuve as he's doing it when
Speaker 1: he's running past them, being like you're a cheater. I
Speaker 1: think this is hysterical. I saw that the Yankees minor
Speaker 1: league team when they play the Astros affiliate in June,
Speaker 1: they are turning it into many trash can night. They're
Speaker 1: gonna give away many disposable trash cans to all the
Speaker 1: fans ends in attendance. This is the kind of stuff
Speaker 1: the Astros are going to endure wherever they go. Let
Speaker 1: me know when we have that video ready, Alex, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you you were going to hear the in the
Speaker 1: background people banging on trash cans, and this is gonna
Speaker 1: be very interesting. The story continues to move. I don't
Speaker 1: give a damn about Altove's tattoo, whether he had it
Speaker 1: or not, it is a silly, silly defense. The thing
Speaker 1: here is that the Astros have to stand up, take
Speaker 1: their medicine, acknowledge it, and move on. Here you see it?
Speaker 1: Do we here? Do you also hear in the background there, Alex,
Speaker 1: you gotta play it loud so everybody hear the banging.
Speaker 1: This is what they're gonna be here. Okay, I think
Speaker 1: that is absolutely hysterical when we you know, like, this
Speaker 1: is what they're gonna see. All right, But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: As you know, if you're real deal stats over beat
Speaker 1: Cipher and many of you are for four and thirty
Speaker 1: seven episode, I like to mess with these things too,
Speaker 1: you know. We like to be the stable genius vocal
Speaker 1: minorities sometimes. And Alex, what if I told you that
Speaker 1: I now own the rights to astros cheaters dot Com. Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go, put it up on the screen astros
Speaker 1: jeters dot Com. Okay, I'm not stopping here. Okay, check
Speaker 1: this out. We have started this website, all right, and
Speaker 1: we are going to build a plan for revenge. Go
Speaker 1: to the next one. Okay. This is our call to
Speaker 1: action people. Here's what we got. The Houston Astros cheated
Speaker 1: their way. But if MLB won't punish the Astros, we
Speaker 1: the fans will. Here's the plan, people, Okay, here's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. This guy inspired me and a bunch
Speaker 1: of others banging behind them. You can take that down.
Speaker 1: You can take that down, Alex. Okay, Yes, we're gonna
Speaker 1: show up and remind the world the Houston Astros are eaters. Okay,
Speaker 1: and here's what I think we can do. All right,
Speaker 1: take that down. Here's what I think we can do, Alex.
Speaker 1: Amazon has everything, bro Amazon has absolutely everything for sale.
Speaker 1: And you know what I found, Alex, Okay, put it up.
Speaker 1: Here's what I found. You can go right now and
Speaker 1: you can just get You can get these buzzers, these
Speaker 1: little joke buzzers, the same buzzers that I'll be damned
Speaker 1: if Jose Altuve wasn't wearing when he hit a home
Speaker 1: run in the a LCS against my New York Yankees. Okay,
Speaker 1: you can get these buzzers, Okay, very easily. You know,
Speaker 1: jumbo packs for pretty cheap. Take that off. Here's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. Here's what we're gonna do on Houston
Speaker 1: astros cheats dot Com, which I own the rights to
Speaker 1: We're gonna start a Kickstarter campaign. We're gonna get money.
Speaker 1: We're gonna buy as many of these damn buzzers as possible.
Speaker 1: I'm talking dozens, I'm talking hundreds. Okay. And then here's
Speaker 1: what I want to do. Anybody, in the sound of
Speaker 1: my voice, any city the Houston Astros are in, let
Speaker 1: me know, connect with the Spitting Statistician. We will send
Speaker 1: you with the Kickstarter money. We will send you funds
Speaker 1: to buy a ton of these buzzers. Now you may think,
Speaker 1: what could we possibly do with all these buzzers, alex Well,
Speaker 1: I got an idea. I think we need to hashtag
Speaker 1: buzz Altuve. We need to throw these things at Alta
Speaker 1: when he's in the on deck circle, when he's at
Speaker 1: second base, when he's in the batter's box. I don't care.
Speaker 1: The best time to do it will be in the
Speaker 1: very first inning, when he gets his first at bat,
Speaker 1: walking from the on deck circle to the plate. Okay,
Speaker 1: And here's what we do, because you can't have one person,
Speaker 1: just throw a ton of buzzers. If you want to
Speaker 1: be a captain in the hashtag buzz Altuve a campaign,
Speaker 1: link up with the Spitting statistician, buy a ton and
Speaker 1: just stand outside of the stadium handing them to road
Speaker 1: fans with the instructions of hashtag buzz Altuve. This is
Speaker 1: what we are going to do. My man down in
Speaker 1: Florida already banging on the trash cans. You are an
Speaker 1: inspiration to us all, Alex. What do you think we
Speaker 1: start a kickstarter, we get the money, we buy these buzzers,
Speaker 1: and we hashtag buzz alduve. If this grows, okay, we
Speaker 1: can literally in every city in Major League Baseball. We
Speaker 1: can let the Astros know they didn't get punished and
Speaker 1: this can be part of our revenge. I think it's
Speaker 1: amazing and it could catch on. What say you, Alex Dane,
Speaker 1: As a Met fan, you have me about to run
Speaker 1: through a wall. I am so excited for this, and
Speaker 1: uh I can't wait to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: I want to and I guaid even as a Met fan,
Speaker 1: I'll be standing there in the Bronx with the buzzer
Speaker 1: and letting them know that they played everybody in Major League.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, I'm telling you right now, I've already got
Speaker 1: Frank stand for one of my best friends forever has
Speaker 1: already agreed he will join me. We will be well,
Speaker 1: we might do a remote show, Okay, we may do
Speaker 1: a special edition Fantasy Freestyle whenever the Astros come into
Speaker 1: the Bronx. All Right, we're gonna do a special edition
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be passing out buzzers to anybody who
Speaker 1: wants it. Okay, We've got to look, all right, we've
Speaker 1: got to look at the astros schedule. I believe, Alex.
Speaker 1: They opened the season at Oakland. I noticed status over
Speaker 1: beat Cipher is strong in California, strong style where you at,
Speaker 1: Jilly Dilley, where you at when we come to your stadium,
Speaker 1: we need to hand out buzzers to everybody, and we
Speaker 1: need to hatchtag buzz al tove. So here's what we
Speaker 1: gotta do, Alex. Okay, because I'm not on are next
Speaker 1: week for Fantasy Freestyle. As you guys know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be Yaman and Jamaica hashtag Jamaic and me Martine as
Speaker 1: y'all know about all that already. Okay, So in two weeks,
Speaker 1: here's what we gotta do. We gotta figure out, we
Speaker 1: gotta plot the course. We gotta know do we have
Speaker 1: any sports grid listeners and he stats over Beats members
Speaker 1: that are in these cities where the Astros visit early
Speaker 1: in the season, and if you are ready to be
Speaker 1: down with hashtag buzz out to a we will talk
Speaker 1: about it. We will fund the Buzzers somehow with a kickstarter,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna make it pop. What do you think, Alex?
Speaker 1: In the next two weeks, we have to find people
Speaker 1: that can in fact do this and help us out.
Speaker 1: I've got a couple of ideas. We will interview you.
Speaker 1: We're gonna try and get Mike Bolsinger on the air
Speaker 1: with us, the Blue Jay's pitcher who is swing the Astros.
Speaker 1: Maybe Dylan g as well, he got burned from this.
Speaker 1: I think we're onto something and there is no better
Speaker 1: time than to bring in my man Danny Otto, because
Speaker 1: this is the fun and functional sports content. He knows
Speaker 1: about the stats over Beat cipher. Danny, what do you think,
Speaker 1: because you haven't heard anything about this idea? What do
Speaker 1: you think, my friends, can we make hashtag buzz out
Speaker 1: to happen? Sight and seeing this sounds absolutely incredible. I've
Speaker 1: been sitting over here just like Aus jugg I was like,
Speaker 1: this is the greatest idea I've ever so help me though.
Speaker 1: You guys are millennials. You guys know a little bit better, Like,
Speaker 1: can we get it? Can we get a Kickstarter? Can
Speaker 1: we raise money to do this? I'm not putting out
Speaker 1: my own money to buy all these hopefully hundreds of buzzers.
Speaker 1: How do we do this? You leveraging social media hashtag
Speaker 1: buzz aut How do we get captains in every city?
Speaker 1: How do we get the money to buy the buzzers?
Speaker 1: Danny definitely Kickstarter sounds like the first place. Okay, so
Speaker 1: this is the help. I mean, I'm off getting married
Speaker 1: in the next week or two. Okay, I need us
Speaker 1: to figure out how are we going to get this money,
Speaker 1: buy these buzzers and get you know, captains like uh
Speaker 1: in these cities to make this happen. I think we
Speaker 1: absolutely can do this. I don't know. Maybe Gabe or
Speaker 1: Scott Farrell can help me out. Also, right, use your audience,
Speaker 1: use the power hit me up at spitting speeds. And
Speaker 1: also if you if you do this, post pictures of it.
Speaker 1: We will put it on Astro's cheat dot com and
Speaker 1: we will let them know that what they did was unacceptable.
Speaker 1: Come on back, We'll be a little bit lighter. We'll
Speaker 1: Talk XFL and Fight Night in Vegas. On the other side,
Speaker 1: it's the fantasy freestyle, but I ain't playing y'all. Hashtag
Speaker 1: buz out to day. Let's make it happen. It's fantasy freestyle,
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Speaker 1: Everybody still wants to get ready for fantasy baseball, and
Speaker 1: they want to get ready for spring training and the
Speaker 1: start of the regular season, an opening day and everything else.
Speaker 1: It's already been ruined. It's already been ruined by the
Speaker 1: Houston Astros. The Boston Red Sox and certainly by Rob
Speaker 1: Manfred and the best thing he could do. He says,
Speaker 1: we don't want to alter what happened on the field.
Speaker 1: What happened on the field was altered by cheating, you
Speaker 1: stupid idiot. Week days for the six pm Eastern on
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Speaker 1: I'm amped up because this five minutes. The post at
Speaker 1: the second rates that actual. But check this out. Also,
Speaker 1: here's the other genius of hashtag buzz alt Tove Alex.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm not gonna get caught. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: get you know, kicked out of a stadium for anything. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm not throwing the buzzers. The plan is to pass
Speaker 1: out dozens of buzzers to random fans, a ton of them,
Speaker 1: and then, you know, just have trust and faith in
Speaker 1: fandom that something amazing will happen. Right, Alex like makes
Speaker 1: me tell people, Yo, exactly, I'm gas lighting the fans
Speaker 1: out there. That's right, That's exactly what I'm doing, and
Speaker 1: I make no bones about it. That's what we should
Speaker 1: do with the platform that we have here on sports Grid.
Speaker 1: But I digress, Alex. One of the other things we've
Speaker 1: been talking about for the last couple of weeks is
Speaker 1: the XFL, right, both in terms of some of the
Speaker 1: rule changes, some of the product that we're seeing as
Speaker 1: far as an entertainment in front, as far as the
Speaker 1: quality of the product, but also because this is one
Speaker 1: of the unique opportunities in the sports gambling world where
Speaker 1: you and the books kind of have the same amount
Speaker 1: of in nation and I think that is very interesting.
Speaker 1: And now as we've had two weeks, we're starting to
Speaker 1: see a little bit more, but there could be some
Speaker 1: prime contrarian positions as well. So here's what I want
Speaker 1: to ask you about. Did you see any of the
Speaker 1: XFL headlines or any of the games over the weekend, Alice,
Speaker 1: because what I want to talk to you about. Remember
Speaker 1: we said how everyone was miked up with such a
Speaker 1: good thing, the access we were getting and hearing the
Speaker 1: players on the sideline, hearing the coaches in the ear Well,
Speaker 1: I think that backfired a little bit this week, Alex.
Speaker 1: Did you hear any of this with Matt mcgloyan and
Speaker 1: the New York New York squad completely undermined his coach
Speaker 1: and said, yeah, this isn't working, so let's change it up.
Speaker 1: I think so. Right, So he's like going into halftime
Speaker 1: talking about we need to completely revamp our game plan.
Speaker 1: He's on the sidelines over her talking to another player
Speaker 1: being like, this is the worst game I've ever played
Speaker 1: in my life, you know, and this is and then
Speaker 1: he got benched. You know. So it's interesting. You want
Speaker 1: this access, right, but then you getta hold Matt mcgloyan
Speaker 1: accountable who later came out and said, listen, you hear
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff every game and every sideline that
Speaker 1: this was almost par for the course. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was, but it's interesting, right how we love it.
Speaker 1: But then the other side of the coin is it,
Speaker 1: you know, where it exposes some of that rough underbelly,
Speaker 1: which I think is cool, but ultimately make cost Matt
Speaker 1: mcloyn his starting job. He was playing like pooh, if
Speaker 1: you want to know, they look like blunt guts trashed
Speaker 1: on the offense against DC on Saturday though, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: no question about it. Also, DC is becoming and I
Speaker 1: think right now stands the favorite tend exactly honestly though
Speaker 1: to that point though, uh, I think Cardel Jones, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Cardel Jones, but it's such a there's such a high
Speaker 1: praise right now, they're such put up on a pedal stool.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna backfire in such a new league,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, that the top domino will
Speaker 1: fall eventually. Yes, yes, I'm gonna talk about that a
Speaker 1: little bit as well. But before we get into my
Speaker 1: plays for a week three, which does have that in common. Um,
Speaker 1: the other thing we didn't talk about last time in
Speaker 1: terms of a rule standpoint are the claw and the
Speaker 1: timing inside the last two minutes. I think that's pretty interesting, Alex.
Speaker 1: So what happens is inside of two minutes, even on
Speaker 1: a running play, even on a play that's inbounds, they
Speaker 1: do not start the clock for five seconds, and it
Speaker 1: leaves the entire playbook open. You can run the ball
Speaker 1: right still with only two minutes left, you can you know,
Speaker 1: throw to the middle of the field. And I think
Speaker 1: that is very interesting. I don't think NFL will adopt it,
Speaker 1: but I like it. Yet another rule inspiring excitement and
Speaker 1: offense here in the NFL and the XFL. It's it's
Speaker 1: kind of like a good and a bad thing um
Speaker 1: in both senses, because you're right, it does. It's something
Speaker 1: that the NFL will never do when it gives you
Speaker 1: a more opportunity to open up your playbook. But it
Speaker 1: kind of has a sense eliminates the fast two minutes,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like the excitement of, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, we gotta get this cl clock, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like, I think it's just it's kind
Speaker 1: of like a give and take sort of thing. Exactly
Speaker 1: spiked the ball. You don't have to do that exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So so that is interesting. But then you mentioned like
Speaker 1: obviously the top domino will fall because maybe this is
Speaker 1: just recency bias and you only have two games to
Speaker 1: see these teams. So as d C is now the
Speaker 1: favorite there two to one to win it all, I've
Speaker 1: been telling you I'm riding with the Houston Roughnecks. Okay,
Speaker 1: they are not the second choice. I should have got
Speaker 1: them when they were like plus five fifty. They're now
Speaker 1: we're all the way down to plus two fifty. P J. Walker.
Speaker 1: I like the D line. I like June Jones as
Speaker 1: the tight end. I like them throwing it around the lot. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the thing, Alex, I do like them. Okay, I
Speaker 1: still like the Houston Roughnecks. I'm betting against them this
Speaker 1: week and that's my play of the week in the XFL. However, Alex,
Speaker 1: check this out for this week. In Week three, the
Speaker 1: Houston Roughnecks go on the road for the first time
Speaker 1: this season, and they go on the road to the
Speaker 1: Tampa Vipers. Now here's the deal, Alex, Houston too and
Speaker 1: oh both games at home. They look good right on
Speaker 1: the flip side, Tampa Oh and two both games on
Speaker 1: the road. And somehow though people are forgetting you talked
Speaker 1: about the short narrative the short season so far, the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Vipers were the favorites to win the XFL preseason.
Speaker 1: They have a very strong defense. Jerry Glenn loves their defense.
Speaker 1: And also in both of those games for Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: where they lost, they gave up the defense, the opposing
Speaker 1: defense scored points. Okay, so that defense is still playing
Speaker 1: good for Tampa Bay. Seattle. I think how to pick
Speaker 1: six from like the three yard line and then the
Speaker 1: um The New York Guardians got their win and the
Speaker 1: opener scoring on defense as well. So this Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Vipers defense is still pretty good, has not truly been exposed,
Speaker 1: and now after two back to back road games, they
Speaker 1: finally go home to host the Houston Refnecks. Now, I
Speaker 1: still do like Houston as a team. I think they
Speaker 1: are a good choice in the futures market, but I'm
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Vipers. This week, they are home for their
Speaker 1: home opener in Week three of the XFL, and they
Speaker 1: are getting six and a half points against Houston. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you, I think this defense is strong, Alex,
Speaker 1: and I think that is too many. What say you?
Speaker 1: What do you think? I think you're absolutely right. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a strong defense and it's a great team all around.
Speaker 1: But thank you. We also did see this week though,
Speaker 1: like I said, I said this last week we didn't
Speaker 1: see the double pass. We didn't see the full extent
Speaker 1: of the rule book. This week we did. To that
Speaker 1: point of defense, We're gonna start seeing some defensive schemes.
Speaker 1: Maybe adapt to this double pass or adapt to this
Speaker 1: two minutes slower drill kind of thing. Okay, I think
Speaker 1: it's you're you're You're absolutely right. It's great team, great
Speaker 1: defense all around. But I still think it's a little
Speaker 1: too early. Maybe after like this week, maybe next week,
Speaker 1: we're gonna really start to see the solidified game plan
Speaker 1: playbook for each team so to speak. Yeah, well, listen up,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. I'm gonna get six and a half
Speaker 1: points at home with the team that was the preseason
Speaker 1: favorite to win this league and his oh and two
Speaker 1: but was on the road in tough spots both times.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Tampa Bay Vipers plus six and
Speaker 1: a half as a play for Week three in the XFL.
Speaker 1: We only got a couple of minutes left, Alex, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to say something. You know, my man Jared
Speaker 1: Smith was in Vegas over the weekend, you know, and
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a big time fight in Vegas, uh
Speaker 1: this weekend. On Saturdays, Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury have
Speaker 1: a rematch of their heavyweight draw that happened last year.
Speaker 1: Both of these fighters are still undefeated, okay, and we're
Speaker 1: getting a lot of opinions. This is going off at
Speaker 1: minus one ten both sides. They're pretty much, you know,
Speaker 1: even money both sides on this fight. But this is
Speaker 1: why I love shopping around and anybody, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: here in the FanDuel Sports Book right now, the first
Speaker 1: out of four hundred and thirty seven episodes here at
Speaker 1: the FanDuel Sports Board, here on Sports Grid, not in
Speaker 1: Studio thirty four for this week. I'll be back after
Speaker 1: the wedding um. But here's the deal, fan Duel. They
Speaker 1: offer so many of these great promos, Alex, and I
Speaker 1: think they're offering a promo that fits right into the
Speaker 1: hands of how this fight could play out. All right,
Speaker 1: So if you know anything about this, you know that
Speaker 1: Deante wild that has the power punch. Okay, he can
Speaker 1: knock you out in one punch. If lightning strikes you
Speaker 1: might be done. You may remember the video Alex, last
Speaker 1: of the last fight where he knocked Tyson Fury down,
Speaker 1: but he like got up like the Undertaker when everyone
Speaker 1: thought he was knocked out. Okay, And that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Yonte Wilder has the knockout power. Tyson Fury is the
Speaker 1: better boxer. Tyson Fury is the better boxer. Tyson Fury
Speaker 1: just switched his training team. He's got now the nephew
Speaker 1: of Emmanuel Stewart as his trainer. I think he's the
Speaker 1: better boxer. He was outclassing Wilder when it comes to
Speaker 1: the sweet science of boxing. For most of that fight,
Speaker 1: he just got knocked down twice, okay, and that's what
Speaker 1: made the scorecards a draw, all right. But also Wilder
Speaker 1: is a I mean, Fury is a showman. He likes
Speaker 1: to you know, he was showboating a little bit. He
Speaker 1: comes on in and his outfits and all that. But
Speaker 1: now they know second time around, now they know it
Speaker 1: can be a fight. I don't think Tyson Fury is
Speaker 1: gonna come in which as much showboating, as much craziness
Speaker 1: as he did last time. In essence, I don't think
Speaker 1: he will take Deontay Wilder and that power lightly. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I think Tyson Fury is going to be the
Speaker 1: more skilled boxer and if it goes the distance, if
Speaker 1: it goes to points, it will be Tyson Fury. The
Speaker 1: question is can he avoid the knockout? Feel me? That's
Speaker 1: the way I think this fight will go, Alex. I
Speaker 1: think Tyson Fury is the much better boxer, and he
Speaker 1: might he'll look like he's outclassing Wilder at times. The
Speaker 1: question is can he avoid the big one? All right?
Speaker 1: That's the way I think it plays out. I think
Speaker 1: now I look at FanDuel and check out what they're offering.
Speaker 1: Go ahead. I'm just like, I think we're definitely gonna
Speaker 1: get a better in the Jones. Yes, fight a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, that's for sure. As great that was,
Speaker 1: I think this one sure, I'll buy that. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: Also to this week, we saw them at their present
Speaker 1: every way title. Yeah, they're really starting to dawn each
Speaker 1: other to at this shoving. They don't like each other. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't like each other. Now they absolutely don't like
Speaker 1: each other. This is going to be real, Okay, but
Speaker 1: this is how it plays out. I know, we only
Speaker 1: got a couple of minutes, all right, So I think
Speaker 1: Wilder's path to victory is the knockout. Furies path to
Speaker 1: victory is out boxing him and on points, and that's
Speaker 1: the way it plays out on fan duel as well. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you look at it on fan Duel, you know
Speaker 1: they're even. But it's something like plus seven hundred for
Speaker 1: a Wilder to win on points because he ain't gonna
Speaker 1: do that. He's gonna win by knocked out, and it's
Speaker 1: like plus eight hundred for Fury to win by knockout
Speaker 1: because he's not gonna do that. He's gonna outbox Wilder.
Speaker 1: But on Fansuel, they're offering an option here. You gotta
Speaker 1: opt into it. They are giving you a refund like
Speaker 1: one of those paybacks if you bet a boxer and
Speaker 1: they lose within the first six rounds, you get your
Speaker 1: money back. Okay. So because of this, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: to bet Fury in that way, because you get Fury
Speaker 1: if he wins, and I think I do lean slightly
Speaker 1: too tights and Fury in this matchup. He wins, you
Speaker 1: get it. The catch here is, though, if he were
Speaker 1: to lose the way we think it's gonna happen is
Speaker 1: a Wilder knockout, and that could happen at any point
Speaker 1: in time. So if it happens in the first half
Speaker 1: of the fight, you get your money back. Okay. Maybe
Speaker 1: fan Duel is setting me up and luring me in,
Speaker 1: but I think it's a good way to go. Bet Fury,
Speaker 1: but opt in and get it paid back. If he
Speaker 1: doesn't that get knocked out. I think it's a halfway hedge,
Speaker 1: a light Tyson Fury, and remember the Vipers couldn't get
Speaker 1: their first win. I'm off next week to get this
Speaker 1: ring on it. I'll be back in two weeks back
Speaker 1: in Studio thirty four. Thank you Alex, Thanks Danny Otto.
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