WEBVTT - Slow News Day 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:05.280 Ka boom. If you've thought four hours a day, minutes 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:09.119 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.400 of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.440 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:20.160 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.400 break free for something special. Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:29.160 starts right now on a Saturday. We are back at 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:33.360 it again. The podcast machine does not stop turning, does 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:37.320 not stop turning, eight days a week, eight days a week, 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:42.920 because four hours a night are not enough. Clearly not 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:47.559 in office. We are in the air everywhere from a 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.400 secret location in the north Woods. That's being the Saturday podcast, 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:55.680 and a lot a lot to get to and we 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.800 will get into it right now. Joined again from west 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:13.240 of the four oh five. David, Get little Hot, Little Hot, 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.720 Little Hot. I'm a little bummed out for this weekend's games. 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.920 I mean, obviously Week one for the NFL is here, 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.920 but Man college football on a Saturday, No, not a 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.320 not a consumer. Well, any game you bet on is 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.080 a good game, so you can always find something to 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.119 wage r. It'll spice it up a little bit. What's 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.160 Alabama got Mercy or Mercer High School. Well, I think 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.960 the teams that play Alabama have need the mercy rules. 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:41.600 What actually was there for Nick Saban the Clearinghouse. Uh, 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.640 I'm probably done talking college football on the on the 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.520 radio show because I know I did a several monologues 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.720 about college football, and the one I did about Brian 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:59.240 Kelly that actually that that did pretty well. But the 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:03.760 other stuff, yeah, that's not so good. You can't be 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.320 surprised though, with that ship right that people don't want 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.160 to hear it, or Brian Kelly, Oh the briant that 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:15.720 people don't know who old coaches are. Yeah, yeah, it's 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:20.320 it's disappointing. But you know, like John McCay's is really 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.600 before my time. But I remember when I was a kid, 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:26.639 we watched these NFL films documentaries and I remember Dick 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:31.000 Romo called him dial a quote, and like he had 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:35.240 so many amazing quotes John McKay, And he's been dead 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.640 for a long time and people forget about you and 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:41.520 life moves on. I get it. But that quote in particular, 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.720 when when he was asked the question what do you 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:48.240 think of your team's execution? Coach? And he replied, I'm 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.320 in favor of it. See the problem Brian Kelly didn't 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.280 get asked that question, what do you He didn't get 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:56.040 asked the same same question. But there were so many 0:02:56.120 --> 0:03:01.440 wonderful John McKay quotes from back in the day. And 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.520 he remember when he said the kickers were like horse manure, 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:09.959 they're all over the plane and uh and uh what 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:11.720 was some of the other lines He said, we can't 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.399 win at home, we can't win on the road. What 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.280 we need is a neutral site. That was one of 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:22.720 the uh the ways there and uh, I mean it's 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.720 it's just all of those those zingers and one liners 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.480 um from back back in the day. And he he 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.519 talked about coaching the Bucks when they were an expansion 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:35.520 team and they had the pewter uniforms and the pirate 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.440 helmet thing and all that, and he said it was 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:41.120 a religious experience. He says, you do a lot of praying, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:45.040 but most of the time the answers no, and uh 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.080 it was it was. And then the other one that 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.920 John McKay is lucky he didn't use this quote. Imagine 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:55.760 if John mckayd used this quote the Bucks ending you 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:57.960 know that he was asked about Tampa Bay ending its 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.600 twenty six game losing streak, and he said at the time, 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.200 his quote was three or four plane crashes and we're 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:12.440 in the playoffs. Remember that, so can you the pussy 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:16.240 willows on social media if they heard, uh notre dame 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.920 coach Brian Kelly say three or four plane crashes and 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.600 we're in the National Championship game. Oh man. That's the 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.200 problem though, right, because you have all these woke reporters 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.880 now that that virtue signal. But the bitch and moan 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.320 about a guy like Belichick who gives one or two 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.320 word answers, then of course then they're up in air, 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.880 up in arms. When you get Brian Kelly who just 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:38.719 throws something out there like that, you think you can't 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:43.479 cut it both ways. Yeah, and it sucks. Uh so, 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:45.880 but that that did pretty well the other models. I 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.440 did a monologue about the targeting rule that didn't really 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:53.560 connect about U C L A and the U s 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.839 U c l A L s U game from last weekend. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.760 You have money on that, right, and uh I did, 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.040 I did all right. But but but the college football thing, 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.720 some people get upset. I know, below the Mason Dixon line. 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.680 We don't talk college football southern freight football on the 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.920 on the radio show. But typically the way the show works, 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:15.360 uh we yap yap lap lap, we talk mostly the 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.920 NFL because the show's wrapped around the NFL we were 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.680 guaranteed of having during the NFL regular season, there's game 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.280 every Thursday night. We're on Thursday to Friday, so we 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.240 do the post mortem on that, and then Sunday we 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:30.080 come in and there's reacting to the Sunday games and 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.760 that takes precedence over college football. And then Monday night 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:35.560 is another night. So then the only time we'd really 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.920 be able to talk college football is Tuesday. But by 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.800 then it's really old, so there has to be some 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.960 kind of scandal or some kind of really amazing story 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:49.080 that's got legs, which typically does not happen in college football. 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:53.279 So that's it gets lost in the sholf, is what happens. 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.920 It's a weird pivot for other guys because they will 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.080 tend to stay on it for like seventy two hours, 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.200 which is kind of we We've had guys that have 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.640 worked at the Fox Sports Radio over the years that 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:07.760 just loved college football and just would do it, and 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.320 they would lead with it and it even on like 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:14.640 an NFL Monday and it was very very odd. Yeah, 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.680 it was very odd. Does not resonate? Yeah, does not 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.520 does not resonate? I agree. So anyway, so that was 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:28.400 the the college football So you're dead until bowl season. Well, no, 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.920 I'll watch, you understand, Like, even though I don't talk 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:35.080 about it. I'll watch one or two big games. And 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:36.799 usually if U c l A is good at USC 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:38.760 is good, I I used to go to the USC 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:40.760 games for years and I even went to the u 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:42.560 c l A games, and so if they have a 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.599 good team and there's something going on there, I'll watch 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.360 that usually, and then I'll watch Alabama because Alabama's a machine. 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.960 And then I'll usually pick one or other one or 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.839 two other games and I'll kind of scan them. Um. 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.359 That's that's typically how that works on a college football weekend. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.240 But Saturday is one of my my days of rest, 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.640 and so if if I have the the why she's 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.760 working on Saturdays, so I have a hall pass to 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.599 watch college football at least for the first couple of 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.480 months of the season. After that, usually she wants me 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.800 to do stuff with her, so I'll have to watch 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.360 on my phone, not that particular point. Now, do you 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.880 do anything special traditional wise for Week one of the NFL? 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.160 Maybe not the Thursday, but at least the Sunday or 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.520 Sunday night. Do you do a special pizza especially? You know, 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:28.400 I have that Fugais fasting thing that I usually do. Uh, 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.559 and Sunday has typically been a day that I fast 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.360 the last year, year and a half or something like that. 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:39.120 But I'll I'll make the rare and appropriate exception to 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.360 h to partake there. But I love making my own 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.840 red Zone channel, and you know, I got a million 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:47.880 different websites up with them from games. I came to 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:53.400 game and uh, I try to find the Siciliano of 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:57.600 feed of the red Zone, but it's easier to find 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.160 that other guy. What's the other guy's name? I get 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.160 to Oh, the one that just signed that the deal 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:06.760 right for five more years? Yeah, yeah they did. He 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.840 like the generic TV looking guy. Uh, I don't know 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.320 his name. He just looks like like a lot of 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.200 guys have this TV look to him. You know, they 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.240 got the good hair, you know, kind of part of 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.400 their Yeah, easy on the eyes, you know, they got 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:24.720 to look for the camera. Um, he's so you're trying 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.600 to say, Andrew Siciliano is not that. Look. No, I 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.560 love Andrew Andrews a radio guy, but he's able, he's 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.320 he's grandfathered in now he's been in television long enough 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.120 fathered in, so good for him. Dude doesn't age either. 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.920 He looks as young as hell. Yeah, we should get 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:40.920 him on the podcast. I have known Andrew. Andrew was 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:42.959 actually the guy that showed me around, taught me the 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.800 ropes at Fox Sports Radio when I started. He was 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.880 the one that trained me. How old is he? Uh 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:50.760 he was, he's around my age. He so, but he 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.240 had he had been hired before and so they had 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.880 he was. That was actually before he got I think 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.240 he hadn't been put on the Tony Bruno show yet. 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:02.240 He was just doing doing updates and stuff. And uh yeah, 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.040 he showed me, showed me the road. And not even 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:05.720 at the main studio which has been there twenty years. 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.360 We were the Michael Reagan Studio which was up on 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:12.240 the bank. No, no, it was on the floor right 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.880 across from the what used to be the Art Bell studio. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:19.840 The Premier Networks, which is I guess now has become vacant. 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.600 I think George No, no, George Norris in that studio now, 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.120 and then the studio we used to be in is 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.120 now vacant because Fox Sports Radio when they needed to 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.720 shift us a couple of years ago, they shifted us 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.000 to the old studio, which is like nobody's in. So yeah, 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:40.320 nobody around here anywhere there's there's that. So just I 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.920 have only one nothing really happened eventful this week the 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.240 life of Mallard has some have called it here on 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.680 the Saturday podcast. There's only one thing that mildly I 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:54.079 feel is rises to the level the podcast no I 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:58.000 ever covered. My knee has recovered. I did have a 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:03.160 my my gambling buddy Unter came over and he asked 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.640 to see the corner of the desk. He had heard 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.080 the podcast. He said he wanted to see where the 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.680 actual injury happened. So I pointed out, uh, the and 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:14.760 I adn't even realized that it's actually it's not just 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.520 would there's a metal drawer that I had taken out 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:19.760 part of the drawer, and but there's a piece of metal. 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.400 So that's that's actually the thing that cut me was 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:24.079 the piece of metal, which I didn't even realize it 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.199 just looks like a piece of wood, but there's a 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.040 piece of metal lashed onto it. But there's no drawer there. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.160 I took the drawer away anyway, so he came in 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:33.960 and asked. But the only thing that really popped up 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:39.120 here I had another lengthy fast. I had a almost 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:44.800 seventy hour fast, sixty nine hour fast. Not doing that 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.600 the brag, but at the end of it, I broke 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:49.720 it at the Costco food court. A lot of my 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.760 stories revolve around Costco, but a lot of time at Costco. 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:55.800 I spent more time when they had free samples, but 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.800 they had those briefly and now because of COVID, they 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.920 took those away. I have not seen samples in any 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.240 kind of quantity here recently, but something bizarre happened, so 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.360 I I ordered the traditional meal. I am a purist. 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.720 If you've heard me talk about Costco over the years 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.000 on the podcast of the radio show, I'm a purist. 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.440 I like the hot dog drink combo slice of pizza. 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:19.079 That is the authentic Costco food court experience, hot dog 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:23.559 drink which comes together and then slice of pizza. I 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.520 don't live in Canada. I know we've had some Canadian 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.640 listeners who have pointed out that they have chicken fingers 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.600 in Canada. I don't live in Canada, um, so I 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.440 don't have have chacken fingers. So anyway, this was This 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:39.559 was back on Tuesday and it was pretty busy. Went 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:43.040 there late in the afternoon, three o'clock, three thirty something 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.160 like that. I ordered my food and you can only 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.679 order at the kiosk at this costco you no human interaction. 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:54.240 You only order the chiosk. So all the seats were full. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.560 It was that busy. They didn't have that many seats. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.080 They've taken some of the seats away. So I ordered 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.160 the food. Then you have to go the way where's 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:03.680 you order you food, then to walk up to the 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.880 counter and hand your receipt to the person who gives 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:08.760 you food. So I get my pizza, I get my 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.400 hot dog, I get my drink, and as I'm walking over, 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:13.679 I see that there has been a seat that has 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.240 opened up, and so I went over. I sat down 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.520 and I put my drink down, I put my my 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.120 pizza down, and then I wanted to put some toppings 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.800 on my hot dog. So I then walked over to 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.240 the the container that I have with mustard, catchup and 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.360 all that stuff, and I want to get some some 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.199 stuff on the sausage. So I walked over there, and uh, 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:39.000 I wasn't I was there like maybe a minute, and 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.959 it doesn't take long to do that. And I had 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.240 turned my back for maybe thirty seconds, and much to 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.760 my amazement, in the time that I got up walked 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.400 over to put stuff on the hot dog and returned, 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:55.320 some interloper had sat down at my seat where I 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:58.439 had left the piece of pizza and the drink which 0:12:58.480 --> 0:12:59.959 was not eating. Pizza was not eating it was just 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.800 I needed yet And uh, I'm still trying to figure 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.600 out how this schmuck what he was thinking. I mean, 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.680 I would never, like I've never do if I see 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.120 somebody putting, if anybody a piece of pizza down in 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.240 a drink, they're saving the seed or whatever. There there's 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:19.760 somebody's sitting there, and I'd never do that. Fresh pizza, 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.920 pie and a soda anyway. Uh, to me, that's a 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:24.480 sign that somebody sitting at the table. But so I 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:26.760 came over. I was pissed. I started huffing and puffing, 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:32.600 and and then I went back to the table and I, uh, 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.680 I sat down right across from the guy, and I 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:42.000 gave the guy like this death stare. I grunted. Then 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.319 I give a little side I and the guy had 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.320 this like puzzle look like what it was? What was 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:52.600 this yours? But but then at that moment when I 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.080 was about to engage, and I thought, I weighed the 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.720 pros and cons is it worth me getting in making 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.920 a scene here? And I looked around. There were a 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.160 lot of people. It was a busy time. And then 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.920 at that moment, two tables over, some guy was getting up. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.079 So I did a cost benefit analysis and I determined 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.120 at that time it was not in my best interest 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.760 to make a hula balue. So I grabbed the hot dog, 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:22.000 the piece of pizza, and the drink and sprinted skidaddled 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.480 over to the table that was opened up. So I 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:31.040 I avoided confrontation. I figured it wasn't it wasn't gonna 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:32.800 be worth it to scream and shout at the guy 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.440 with the pizza so or the guy that that took 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.600 my my My sat my seat at the table because 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.120 he's a douche. Guy said, that guy's a douche, and 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:48.080 I moved on. Now, Uh, one thing, one thing, I 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.680 would like to do. One thing I would like to 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:54.720 do now is the Proper Palooza. This is a tradition 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.760 on the podcast. I used to do this on the 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.800 radio show, but since football season NFL season, really I 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:01.560 don't there was a game on Thursday, but it really 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:06.440 begins on Sunday, and this being Saturday. So I love 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.720 the exotic prop bets, and I thought this would be 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:15.160 the perfect spot for a bunch of exotic exotic bets, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.880 and so we'll we'll do a few that A few 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.720 of these the first coach to be fired. These are 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:26.240 collected from random mostly off shore books. A lot of 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.200 these are from off shore books. Now, first coach to 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:34.040 be fired, Cliff Kingsbury is tied with Matt Naggy for 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:40.080 the third option at plus seven fifty. Mike McCarthy in 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:45.160 Dallas is plus seven hundred. Vic Fangio is actually the favorite. 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:50.160 Uncle Vic in Denver is at plus five hundred. Now 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.320 that the guy that should be at the very top 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.040 of this is not in the top three, and that 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:58.120 would be Zach Taylor of the Bengals, but he is 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:02.960 coming in at number five, actually number four on the 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.200 on the list. I guess whether there's a tie, so 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.080 is either four or five, depending on how you know it. 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.440 But Zach Taylor has been just useless. The Bengals are 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:18.760 a joke and they're expecting Joe Burrow to lead them 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.640 to some kind of competitive football and if they continue 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.040 to suck, you gotta get rid of him. But the 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:28.480 Bengals are an old school franchise there cheap, known not 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:35.280 to make in season moves, So good luck, right, I'm 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:39.120 who do you think the first coach is gonna get fired? Well, 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:43.440 the Broncos are pretty much run by a trust, so 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:48.480 I don't consider them a legitimate option. Jerry Jones has 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:53.480 been surprisingly pigheaded with coaches. If he wouldn't get rid 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:58.400 of the Clapper. If he fires McCarthy mid season, he 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:02.600 would be admitting that he totally screwed up. A name 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.320 that's on here, and I like this guy. He's been 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.560 very good the Gamblers over the years. Is Mike Zimmer 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.840 in Minnesota. The Vikings had a miserable exhibition season. They 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.439 were mediocre last year. I know Zimmer did get a 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:18.119 contract extension, but they've been local kind of just lulling around, 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.840 treading water in mediocrity. And if they have a rock 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.159 bottom season again, and Zimmer is a defensive coach and 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.320 their defense wasn't very good last year, and that they've 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.480 got issues. People are are out to get Kirk Cousins 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.280 because he's an anti vax guy and people are out 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.040 to him trying to tear him down. And there's a 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.560 lot of like weird stuff going around about the Vikes. 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:41.280 I would put Zimmer higher up. He's plus nine hundred. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.720 Gruten's on here. I don't think that's why they're gonna happen. 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:48.800 He's got the forever contract. And then there's always the 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:53.840 wild card possibility of one of these dopes getting involved 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:59.119 in a scandal, whether it be personal, financial, criminal, and 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:03.040 then they were to the very top. But the three 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.280 coaches that are said to have the longest odds obvious 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:11.520 one Belichick, Tomlin. Uh No, Tomlin actually is in the 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:16.320 middle on this plus hundred. He's got the same odds 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:21.600 as Matt Rule, Caroline. Do you even yeah, Matt Rule 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:25.200 the Carolina coach there, So they have about I have 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:30.320 fired Mike Tomlin every other year for the last eight years. 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.200 I fired Mike Toms fired him last year. I did 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.360 fire him last year. I fired him three years Ago. 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.640 I think I fired him, Yeah, I fired him. He's 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:42.680 a good sound bite. But the Steelers have not They've 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.879 didn't been stuck in that we're a playoff team but 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:50.040 not really a real super Bowl threat type situation or 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.359 a number of you who did you say? What other 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:59.520 name were you mentioned? Uh? Sean Payton is plus twenty hundred. 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:03.920 He has these same odds as Sean McVeigh. Sean mcveigh's 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:08.040 not getting Ron Rivera. Sean McVeigh, Sean Payton all in 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:10.520 that group. John Harbaugh is in that group. Am I 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.360 missing something out of that division where people are are 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:17.639 expecting Dallas to just walk away with it? Well, that happens. 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:20.719 The Cowboys every year get hyped up. Jerry Jones is 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:24.120 the master hype man. So and the Cowboy fans are 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:26.520 always delusional anyway, I know. But this is like a 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.480 public favorite and so, but you have all them, you 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:32.840 have both networks Fox and ESPN at nauseum. I understand 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.200 that you know it's America's team or whatever, but it's 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.000 not even that like to me. It's first of all, 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.800 it's the fact they have stars and and and they 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.600 have a star in their helmet and Washington the team 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:46.159 that used to be called the Redskins. They have a 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:51.080 pretty good defense, but they don't have stars. There's no 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:53.280 you know, like, you can't really be a big star 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:58.159 on defense and on offense, we've got Ryan Fitzpatrick. You 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.640 nobody gets excited about Ryan fitzpat Trick as your quarterback. 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:03.480 You don't get fired up and said, that's the team 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.520 that's going to make the playoffs and that. But if 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:10.359 he could play marginal football, marginal football, they're winning that division. No, 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:13.520 I agree, And I think Washington is going to be 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.320 a similarly good team. I think they'll be better than 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.880 last year because the defense, well, it will be even 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.920 better as they continue to it's like a wine maturing. 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.639 Some of those younger guys keep getting more confidence and 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.160 get better, so they'll get better. But given the fact 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.960 that you have Fitzpatrick that is a schizophrenic at the 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:38.399 quarterback position, do you fear putting money on them? Well, 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:40.639 I wouldn't bet on like an overall win total on 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:43.400 Washington because Ryan Fitzpatrick will be the top. The same 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:45.199 thing happens every time he says he's really good for 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.840 four or five games. When that fitz magic thing happened, 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.879 in Tampa a couple of years ago, and he was 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:53.960 doing he came out dressed like Connor McGregor the news 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:57.080 conference and all that. It was great. And then like 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.359 a month later he was taking a ride on the 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:04.800 Vomit Comte and was it was terrible. So but it's 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:07.680 it's really by process of elimination in the NFC East, 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:10.080 because you figure Philadelphia is not even trying chance with 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:14.480 Nick Serriani, and then the Giants are in this weird 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:19.000 spot where they are seemingly trying and Joe Judge is 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:20.879 one of those guys that seems like the kind of 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:23.879 guy that you would pull for, like in theory. But 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:27.320 they have Daniel Jones who sucks and s Kwon Barkley 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:31.360 is questionable now from here on out. Yeah, well he's 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:34.520 a running back and so he's always uh game time 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:36.719 decision week after we anyway. So that's those are the 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:39.400 odds of the first coach to be fired. Let's see 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:45.639 most new quarterback passing yards Week one, Stafford. Stafford is 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:50.920 actually second. Jamis Winston is the favorite at plus two 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:55.840 fifth against the Green Bay Packers. I would not bet 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:59.800 on Winsteon for two reasons. Number One, if you look 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:02.159 at the samet depth depth. They don't have Michael Thomas. 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:04.760 He's not gonna play for the first month or so 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:08.159 of the season, at least it would seem. And the 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:11.480 wide receivers don't have the wild factor. Now Alvin Kamara 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:13.399 will get you a lot of yards after the catch, 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:19.960 and Winston has a bazooka. The Packers defensively aren't horrific 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:22.480 right there. They've got a decent defense in Green Bay. 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:31.240 Stafford Ryan Fitzpatrick actually is the third option among the 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:36.159 quarterbacks that changed teams. The lowest option is obviously Andy Dalton. 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:40.000 I would put Dalton the head of Tyrod Taylor because 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:44.720 he sinks and and he's gonna be well. Fuller's out, 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:47.639 he's out for a game with a suspension, So they 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:51.640