Speaker 1: From the king of sports books comes the key sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by the MGM. Here's your host, Jana's
Speaker 1: Papas and Olivia Harland Decker. Welcome to Unleashed from Bet MGM,
Speaker 1: the team of sports books. So much to get to
Speaker 1: this week the game of the season, or at least
Speaker 1: the storyline of the season. Sunday Night in prime time,
Speaker 1: it's Goat Verse Goat. We've been waiting two years to
Speaker 1: see Tom Brady and Bill Belichick face each other in
Speaker 1: what is sure to be even more awkward than Matt
Speaker 1: Lafleura Kyle Shanahan drive by handshake that was painful. The
Speaker 1: defending Super Bowl champion Buccaneers and Tom Brady returned to
Speaker 1: New England to take on the Patriots. Honest, do you
Speaker 1: think Tom Brady will get big booze or big applause,
Speaker 1: huge applause? I mean, even the mass holes aren't gonna
Speaker 1: dame to cheer there. And look, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: I'm no fan of New England fans. I think there's
Speaker 1: some of the most disrespectful. We have a big rivalry
Speaker 1: with them in baseball. But you're talking about a guy
Speaker 1: who was the King of New England returning home. It's
Speaker 1: like John Snow coming back from war at the Wall.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be This will be one of the
Speaker 1: biggest ovations we've heard in sports history. I hope you're right.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I've gone back and thought a
Speaker 1: little bit about other situations that are similar. Although I
Speaker 1: don't know if it gets bigger than this, and maybe
Speaker 1: this is just us being American NFL crazy people. But
Speaker 1: some examples that are kind of similar are Lebron James
Speaker 1: returning to Cleveland after he left, you know, the decision
Speaker 1: going to Miami so dramatic. He got booed coming back
Speaker 1: to cavil leears. But not only that, they made it
Speaker 1: a whole thing. The mascot wore a bulletproof vest. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the the GM and the owner were shown
Speaker 1: on the big screen walking to their seats. So I
Speaker 1: think it kind of depends on the way the team
Speaker 1: handles it right, the way they kind of play it up.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Patriots are going to have that
Speaker 1: much fun with it. Brett far if I remember this one,
Speaker 1: returning to Lambeau as a Viking, he was greeted with
Speaker 1: booze at the then largest crowd to ever be at
Speaker 1: lambou Field Vikings one. He threw four touchdowns. He was fantastic.
Speaker 1: That was two thousand nine. Bryce Harper coming home to Washington,
Speaker 1: he was greeted with booze. But then here's one honest that.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, maybe there's hope and maybe this
Speaker 1: will happen to Brady, Christiano Ronaldo returning and Man United.
Speaker 1: It was a huge spectacle. In fact, they even changed
Speaker 1: the way they announced the visiting team. They made his
Speaker 1: name last. They said, you know, the great one of
Speaker 1: our favorites. Blah blah blah, huge dandy innovation, roaring applause.
Speaker 1: So maybe, all right, do you think Brady will get
Speaker 1: something like that? I think Belichick doesn't want to give
Speaker 1: Brady any extra motivation, so I wouldn't be surprised to
Speaker 1: see some type of like you said, changing the intro,
Speaker 1: giving him something special on the big screen. I mean,
Speaker 1: the difference between uh FARV and all these examples that
Speaker 1: you gave returning home is six six ranks. So New
Speaker 1: England is very appreciative of the great Tommy terrific. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a big ovation, just like Eli
Speaker 1: Manning got that you know, I was crying. I cried.
Speaker 1: I cried, Yeah, I cried when he came out. He
Speaker 1: got that and they retired his number. The great Eli,
Speaker 1: the only quarterback to take town. I like to call
Speaker 1: him Eli Manning or Tom Brady Kryptonite is what I
Speaker 1: like to call him. Okay. Also, I think the difference
Speaker 1: with Brett Farve is Brett chose to leave. The Packers
Speaker 1: wanted to get him as far away from the NFC
Speaker 1: as possible. They gave him to the Jets, and then
Speaker 1: he comes back to the Vikings in the division. That
Speaker 1: was just brutal. But with Brady and the Patriots, you
Speaker 1: cannot forget it was a mutual split. The Patriots didn't
Speaker 1: want to give him that long of an extension. There
Speaker 1: had been some animosity between Belichick and Brady. I know,
Speaker 1: there's so much respect, but with you know, spy Gate,
Speaker 1: Brady had their back and with the flat Gate they
Speaker 1: didn't really have Brady's back, and there was some growing
Speaker 1: stuff there. In fact, he kind of turned away from
Speaker 1: Patriots way and being Patriots first. He really started branding
Speaker 1: himself later in his time in New England with TV
Speaker 1: twelve and TV twelve method and I don't know. So
Speaker 1: I think for Patriots fans to think that Tom just
Speaker 1: left him that is that is ignorant because it was
Speaker 1: a mutual split. And Tom is having the sweetest revenge
Speaker 1: of all, continuing to play, having more fun, getting more
Speaker 1: of a tan. I think he has a last laugh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and winning another winning another ring for sure. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: disrespect goes a little farther, you know, with Jimmy G.
Speaker 1: Like you know, you could obviously Belichick wanted Jimmy G
Speaker 1: to be the guy. Then Brady kind of pushed him out.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean Brady would have continued playing if
Speaker 1: if I think Belichick didn't want to rebuild. So I
Speaker 1: think he's getting a warm welcome. Yeah. Well, coming up,
Speaker 1: we're gonna ask someone who knows way more than we
Speaker 1: do on the topic. It's former Patriots running back in
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Champ Shane Verein. He's going to join us.
Speaker 1: He'll tell us what's really going through Tom and coach
Speaker 1: his minds. I'm very curious he won a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: with him. He knows all about the Patriot way. Plus
Speaker 1: we'll talk about it from a betting angle at the
Speaker 1: of the show with our good friend Pete Picks. Peter
Speaker 1: Andrew and wait until you hear what Janice has to
Speaker 1: unleash on this week. This is my favorite segment of
Speaker 1: the show. We'll get to that in just a second. Now,
Speaker 1: hopefully you want some money last weekend a lot of
Speaker 1: interesting storylines in the NFL. But if you didn't, and
Speaker 1: if you got screwed by let's say, a sixty six
Speaker 1: yard field goal, you might be our bad beat of week,
Speaker 1: bad beat all the week, and the winner of bad
Speaker 1: Beat of the week. And I guess that is loser
Speaker 1: is at Husker Dale. I already feel bad for Husker Dale.
Speaker 1: He's a Nebraska fan. It's going to be a long season,
Speaker 1: my man. But this was pretty brutal. This is really
Speaker 1: a bad beat. He had a ten team parlay this
Speaker 1: past weekend in college football, and yikes, what a weird twist.
Speaker 1: Buffalo was a thirteen and a half point favorite against
Speaker 1: Old Dominion and they were up thirty five seven at halftime.
Speaker 1: We'll get this. They were shut out in the second half. Now,
Speaker 1: they still beat Old Dominion, but just by one point.
Speaker 1: So that of all ten results is what he lost
Speaker 1: on Husker Dale. You deserve this one. Enjoy your hundred
Speaker 1: dollar credit to bed mgm oh Man. Okay, so, speaking
Speaker 1: of bad beats, this week's punishment picks. I am officially
Speaker 1: the New York Jets. I'm owing three and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: to read the outro of the show again. Janice writes it.
Speaker 1: I don't get a preview it until I read it live.
Speaker 1: You know, I just blushed like crazy. I've read this
Speaker 1: and my ego has taken such a beating. I just
Speaker 1: I should be better. I should be doing better, and
Speaker 1: I think each week they get a little worse TVH.
Speaker 1: But that's at the end of the show. Okay, It's
Speaker 1: time for us to sound off on who and what
Speaker 1: deserves it most in Unleashed, It's time to on leash. Yeah,
Speaker 1: time unleash Olivia. Let me tell you something right now.
Speaker 1: This has been bothering me for a long time, and
Speaker 1: I just have to give my personal opinion on this.
Speaker 1: We saw this Sunday, Okay, a few games and in
Speaker 1: what I like to call anti climactic fashion, I've had
Speaker 1: enough of these converted soccer players coming in and winning
Speaker 1: or losing games on their foot, Okay, after they've been
Speaker 1: sitting on the sidelines just watching who knows, scrolling on Instagram,
Speaker 1: whatever they do over there. Then they come in and
Speaker 1: decide the fate of these men who have sacrificed their
Speaker 1: bodies and their their lives and their health and their
Speaker 1: will to try to win this. Some five ft eight
Speaker 1: squeak comes on the field and wins it. And now
Speaker 1: we're seeing sixty six yard field goals. I mean, what's
Speaker 1: the point if you can score from your own side
Speaker 1: of the field. I mean, what's next a d r
Speaker 1: field goals? We gotta do something. If you're gonna get closer,
Speaker 1: they gotta pull it in a little closer. They gotta
Speaker 1: pull the field goal post in. It's gotta be tighter.
Speaker 1: We gotta make it a little bit harder for them
Speaker 1: to win because their connection, their connection rate is getting
Speaker 1: to like it's like a short thing. Like I knew
Speaker 1: when the Packers had that chance, I knew they were
Speaker 1: gonna win fifty one yards. That's nothing. These days, I've
Speaker 1: had enough. Here's the deal. Maybe we do something like
Speaker 1: if the field goal kicker misses, the guys on a
Speaker 1: team get to uh, he's got to go through one
Speaker 1: of those where he goes through all their legs and
Speaker 1: they spank his butt, or we tie him to a
Speaker 1: field goal post or something. There has to be some punishment,
Speaker 1: something more for field goal kicker if he loses the
Speaker 1: game for his team after they fought that hard. I've
Speaker 1: had enough of field goals. Get rid of them. I
Speaker 1: can't believe you say that's an anticlimactic way to win
Speaker 1: a game. I think that's the most dramatic a game
Speaker 1: ender can be. It's the most dramatic part is the
Speaker 1: drive by the quarterback and then this guy shells out
Speaker 1: onto the field. No, because they're just trying to get
Speaker 1: to the little graphic on TV of the field goal
Speaker 1: target line, and once they're there, it relies on the
Speaker 1: foot of the kicker. I agree. I don't like a
Speaker 1: game where the kickers the leading scorer on his team,
Speaker 1: but I love a game that comes down to a kick.
Speaker 1: It's so exciting. How can you say it's not. I'm
Speaker 1: done with kickers. No more points after scorers. And what's
Speaker 1: the point of that? What are they like from there?
Speaker 1: I mean, the point after scores should be from the
Speaker 1: fifty yard line from now on. Give it make a
Speaker 1: little more excited? Okay? Well, I also want to unleash
Speaker 1: about something in the NFL and it's rookie quarterbacks this year.
Speaker 1: Jannest We were talking about that this summer of all
Speaker 1: the great quarterbacks coming into this year's draft, now they're rookies.
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, Szack Wilson, Trey Lance, Justin Field, Mac Jones.
Speaker 1: It was the talk of the summer. Well, they've struggled
Speaker 1: so far this season. In fact, they're one in ten
Speaker 1: against the spread, with the only win being mac Jones
Speaker 1: over Zack Wilson. And I think that says more about
Speaker 1: the Patriots and Mac Jones, to be honest. But in
Speaker 1: his first start, Justin Fields and the Bears offense managed
Speaker 1: only forty seven yards on Sunday, not exactly lighting the
Speaker 1: field on fire. But you know who else struggled the
Speaker 1: rookie season at quarterback. A couple of guys you might
Speaker 1: have heard of, Brett Farve, Peyton Manning, he said, a
Speaker 1: rookie interception record, by the way, Troy Aikman. All went
Speaker 1: on to win Super Bowls. Most of the greats really
Speaker 1: got the luxury of waiting at least a year, usually
Speaker 1: behind another great quarterback in rookies used to be the
Speaker 1: norm because the pay structure was so wacky. Rookie quarterbacks
Speaker 1: were paid ridiculously high. Now the NFL p A limits
Speaker 1: rookie pay, but that doesn't mean they're not an investment.
Speaker 1: Do you look at Rogers sitting three years behind far Brady,
Speaker 1: behind blood so Patrick Mahomes, behind Alex Smith, Drew Brees,
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, Eli Manning. I mean, there's just so much
Speaker 1: to look at there, and that used to be the norm.
Speaker 1: So all I'm saying is the NFL is such a
Speaker 1: different game than college. It is so hard for these
Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks. They have the way to the world on
Speaker 1: their shoulders. I just can't even imagine that feeling. No
Speaker 1: one is that good when they start anything, especially in
Speaker 1: their professional industry. And you know, Janni's has kind of
Speaker 1: got me thinking, how are you and I when we started?
Speaker 1: So I I went back, I hit the YouTube up
Speaker 1: and I searched my co host Joanna's papas, and I
Speaker 1: found a couple of clips of yours that look very retcher. Um,
Speaker 1: you look very spelt. You were in a mock turtleneck.
Speaker 1: Do you know what clip I'm talking about. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the one where I look like I'm dressed like Arsenio
Speaker 1: Hall from the Arsenio Hall Show. I'm wearing a mock neck.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you were bad or anything, but you
Speaker 1: seemed a little nervous. Let's play at the tape. He's great,
Speaker 1: he's from His name is yes. Thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. Um I just I
Speaker 1: just moved back from from d C and right represent,
Speaker 1: I mean, what you just watched. What happened was I
Speaker 1: was so nervous. I was so nervous when I got
Speaker 1: to stage. I couldn't feel my arms. I was having
Speaker 1: a panic attack, and I couldn't remember my act. It
Speaker 1: was my first five minutes I ever wrote. So I
Speaker 1: just kept repeating thank you because I couldn't remember any
Speaker 1: jokes until I heard that first laugh, and then it
Speaker 1: all came back. And then yeah, it looks like I
Speaker 1: did okay, But that's because the crowd was filled all
Speaker 1: friends and family, so it was completely rigged. That just
Speaker 1: looks so nerve wracking. Oh yeah, I went on to
Speaker 1: bomb and I was a horrible comedian for the first
Speaker 1: couple of years. I did it. I mean, I was
Speaker 1: absolutely atrocious. I love your Unleashed this week. I agree
Speaker 1: with it, especially in a game like football. Which requires
Speaker 1: so much maturity learning the plays. You know, getting a
Speaker 1: chance for the game is slowed down. I agree with you, Olivia,
Speaker 1: but you know, just to make the point further, we
Speaker 1: you know, we're always even. You find my clip, guess
Speaker 1: what I found yours? And this gave me endless joy.
Speaker 1: Let's look at a teenage Oh h d reporting live
Speaker 1: outside of some cupcake shop? I know what one this is?
Speaker 1: Oh no, what sweeter way to start off your morning
Speaker 1: then with a cupcake? Hello, this is Olivia Harland with
Speaker 1: four South. I'm at the grand opening of GS Cupcakes
Speaker 1: on St. We've got mixed ninety three point three, a
Speaker 1: line out the door, and prizes every half hour. Let's
Speaker 1: head inside and talk to the owner, Sandy Fuller, to
Speaker 1: see what she's got cooking up today. Olivia, I have
Speaker 1: a question to ask you. First of all, were you
Speaker 1: always forty years old? I mean you're ara. During that interview,
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe you were fifteen years old. I mean
Speaker 1: I thought I was watching a forty year old woman
Speaker 1: talking about cupcakes. Also, did you need to go to
Speaker 1: the bathroom? I mean, watch your legs crossed? See, people
Speaker 1: are gonna have to watch this to know what we're
Speaker 1: talking about. But now I was just a pageant robot
Speaker 1: at this stage in my career. Yeah, fifteen years old.
Speaker 1: It was my first thing ever on camera. And I
Speaker 1: showed my husband because I knew this was coming up,
Speaker 1: and he said, is that your real voice? Like is
Speaker 1: that what you really talk like? And I just looked
Speaker 1: at him for a long time, like, what We've known
Speaker 1: each other five years, been married three and you think
Speaker 1: I have this hidden voice that I only reserve for
Speaker 1: cupcake openings, Like, what are you talking about? But no,
Speaker 1: I uh, I worked a lot on my voice and
Speaker 1: then you know, I'm what thirteen years older now, so
Speaker 1: I definitely have matured. But yeah, watching that back, my
Speaker 1: first on camera ever, by the way I thought at
Speaker 1: the time, I killed it, and it's just so funny
Speaker 1: watching it. One part that we laughed at is I say,
Speaker 1: there's a line out the door and there's no one there.
Speaker 1: I just it is cringe e. But look all I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and thank you for bringing that up. I'm thoroughly embarrassed
Speaker 1: is that people evolved, they get better and you know, honest,
Speaker 1: I really think you were always good at comedy. That
Speaker 1: first sketch was not bad at all. But these rookie
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are going to get better. We can't judge them
Speaker 1: based on a few starts. Not everyone is going to
Speaker 1: be like Justin Herbert and be great right off the bat.
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen overnight. And here's the other thing. If
Speaker 1: fans are demanding they play these rookie quarterbacks because they
Speaker 1: want to watch a good show, you know, they want
Speaker 1: to they want to talk about something they want to
Speaker 1: buy in New Jersey, forget it. You're you're just hurting them.
Speaker 1: They're not going to be good right off the bat.
Speaker 1: It is so rare, and truly most of them are
Speaker 1: not ready. Wow, Olivia, I gotta say that was really good.
Speaker 1: I actually agree with that unleashed you know, knowing you,
Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna unleash on Biden sloppy withdrawal
Speaker 1: from Afghanistan. But that was a good one. God, let's
Speaker 1: get to talking more football, shall we. Let's bring in
Speaker 1: our guest, Shane Verreeen, former NFL running back with the
Speaker 1: New York Giants and the New England Patriots, where he
Speaker 1: became a Super Bowl champ with his eleven catch performance
Speaker 1: against the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl. For I always
Speaker 1: have to look up the Roman numerals and google. If
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, you know that that's forty nine.
Speaker 1: Shane Maren is here, Shane, how are you. I'm doing fantastic.
Speaker 1: How are you guys? We're good. Does that intro ever
Speaker 1: get old when you hear Super Bowl champ Like, what
Speaker 1: comes to mind? Does a player come to mind a moment? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really get old because a lot of the times,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't really think about it until somebody
Speaker 1: says it. You know, if anything comes to mind, it's
Speaker 1: just surrounding that game is It's just the feeling afterwards.
Speaker 1: You know, it's one of the best feelings in the world.
Speaker 1: You know, It's like I was trying to compare it
Speaker 1: to something else, but like when you when you set
Speaker 1: a goal for yourself and then you reach that goal,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's not as fulfilling as you would expect it
Speaker 1: to be. But like if fulfilled every nooking cranny that
Speaker 1: you could think of winning the Super Bowl and just
Speaker 1: the feeling being able to share with my family and
Speaker 1: everything like that. So that's the first thing that comes
Speaker 1: to mind, is just how just how fulfilled it and
Speaker 1: just how accomplished it felt to be able to win
Speaker 1: that game. All right, if you were to put him
Speaker 1: in order, getting married, having a kid, winning a super Bowl,
Speaker 1: what comes first? It's a trap. Chain own answer, it's
Speaker 1: a trap. Yeah, yeah, how are you gonna do this?
Speaker 1: All right? Um, let's say having a baby, super Bowl,
Speaker 1: getting married, Yeah, super Bowl third. The only reason being
Speaker 1: married getting married would be last is I would whether
Speaker 1: I'm married or not, I would still be with my
Speaker 1: wife or whoever I was with you, so you know,
Speaker 1: but having the baby is life changing. And the super
Speaker 1: Bowl was was pretty awesome. You know, after you win
Speaker 1: a super Bowl or a Stanley Cup or you know,
Speaker 1: any performance you get like a victory lap. For a year,
Speaker 1: you do all kind of things. You're gonna meet all
Speaker 1: kinds of cool people, go on all these shows. What
Speaker 1: was the coolest moment or a person you met? Okay,
Speaker 1: this is this is actually how funny? So the parade
Speaker 1: was absolutely phenomenal. I had a great time. But I'm
Speaker 1: from from like just outside of Los Angeles, so I
Speaker 1: would always go back to that area to work out
Speaker 1: and training to the offseason, and you know, but I
Speaker 1: take like a month off before I get back into it.
Speaker 1: And me and a couple of buddies we were at
Speaker 1: this um this party or this club in l A
Speaker 1: and Te Payne was performing and after he was done,
Speaker 1: a couple of us went over and like introduced ourselves
Speaker 1: and met him and stuff and lo and behold me
Speaker 1: and my me me. It was with Garrett Blunt. We
Speaker 1: had a dance battle against Te Payne and his boy
Speaker 1: that was there, and they smoked us. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: it wasn't even close. And I'll never forget, thank god,
Speaker 1: thank god. It was embarrassing because I feel like I
Speaker 1: feel like I can hold my own on the dance floor.
Speaker 1: But they were pop locking and doing like all types
Speaker 1: of athletic and inflexible moves that I don't have in
Speaker 1: my repertoire. And uh, that was that was one of
Speaker 1: the well, that was a very very funny moment and
Speaker 1: it was it was cool. I can't believe I just
Speaker 1: remembered that, but yeah, out of the blue. Yeah, Shane,
Speaker 1: let me ask you a question that Super Bowl game,
Speaker 1: just to go back for a second again, unbelievable game,
Speaker 1: definitely in my opinion, m VP of that game, do
Speaker 1: you think the NFL should have two awards, one first
Speaker 1: quarterback and one for another player. I can't remember the
Speaker 1: last time a quarterback didn't win Super Bowl, m v P,
Speaker 1: or m VP of the season. It's getting ridiculous. There's
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year, but shouldn't another player gets
Speaker 1: some love and some recognition that was your game. You
Speaker 1: need another trophy? You know, running backs never get there?
Speaker 1: Just do you know? Ever ever since, ever since the
Speaker 1: NFL turned into a passing first league, running backs and
Speaker 1: just we kind of pushed to the side, both in
Speaker 1: contracts and a notoriety. In my opinion, we gotta fight back.
Speaker 1: I need to start a running back coalition and we
Speaker 1: need to we need to start standing up, start picking
Speaker 1: outside of games. But yeah, I know it's look, that
Speaker 1: would have been cool, but that wasn't That wasn't the
Speaker 1: goal of the game for me. Getting the win is
Speaker 1: all I really cared about. Whether I had one, like
Speaker 1: one touch or fifty touches, I didn't, It didn't matter.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to win the game more than anything.
Speaker 1: So all that other stuff, you know, it happens, and
Speaker 1: if you're lucky enough to be selected for the m
Speaker 1: v P, then cool. But it's Okay, I'm all right,
Speaker 1: very humble answer. Almost as humble when you lost the
Speaker 1: dance competition. That's pretty good. We always hear about the
Speaker 1: Patriot Way, and obviously Tom Brady kind of threw a
Speaker 1: wrench in that when he started promoting TV twelve and
Speaker 1: the TV method all that. But when you were with
Speaker 1: the Patriots, what's an example of a daily thing that
Speaker 1: encompasses the Patriot Way? Because we always just hear it.
Speaker 1: Give us an example. Um, you know it sounds simple,
Speaker 1: but every every player on the team, all sixty four
Speaker 1: guys showing up at eight am on time or early, yeah,
Speaker 1: show enough to treatments because our first team meeting would
Speaker 1: be at eight, so treatments would start at seven. So
Speaker 1: every like showing up to treatments on time, Like you
Speaker 1: get there at seven fifteen. The treatment room is like
Speaker 1: the training room is full, is packed, like everybody's working
Speaker 1: on something. You know, there's a term like no days off,
Speaker 1: but I don't look at it as like you have
Speaker 1: to like be locked in and working your butt off
Speaker 1: every single day, but like you're on time, you're you're
Speaker 1: you're being responsible, you're taking care of yourself and you're
Speaker 1: doing the things that you have to do to kind
Speaker 1: of to put the team in the best position. And
Speaker 1: I think everybody understood their role. I think everybody understood
Speaker 1: what they had to do personally to get to the
Speaker 1: to the peak of their performance, and everybody was working
Speaker 1: to do that collectively. And it sounds simple because you
Speaker 1: would think that every single team should be doing that,
Speaker 1: and they should, but it's but it doesn't really happen
Speaker 1: like that. So when I hear Patriot away, I hear
Speaker 1: everybody doing what they need to do to get themselves
Speaker 1: to play at their highest level for the for the team,
Speaker 1: not for themselves. Here's a quick quotion. I'm a huge
Speaker 1: Giant fan. Obviously you played for the Giants as well.
Speaker 1: Did they treat you like a sky a mall? Did
Speaker 1: the Patriots treat you like a spy a mall? I
Speaker 1: mean obviously super Bowl rivals? How does how does a coach?
Speaker 1: What does what does like Belichick do knowing that you
Speaker 1: know all his plays? And when a trader, when a
Speaker 1: player gets traded, what do they do? How do they
Speaker 1: adapt for someone who knows all that inside information and
Speaker 1: now was on a rival team? They changed them? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know it's it's every year is a
Speaker 1: different year in a sense, right, every year the team
Speaker 1: has like different different pieces to the puzzle, if you will,
Speaker 1: so the puzzle fits differently. Might be the same picture,
Speaker 1: but the pieces fit differently than they did the year before.
Speaker 1: That was a great analogy. I just thought of that,
Speaker 1: But I think, I think. I think playing against New
Speaker 1: England for the is my first year in New York.
Speaker 1: I knew the personnel, but I didn't know exactly how
Speaker 1: they were gonna play me specifically, or if we had
Speaker 1: done at the time. I didn't know the coverages they
Speaker 1: were going to use. I didn't know if they were
Speaker 1: going to try and heat up the pocket with blitz
Speaker 1: or just sit back in and try and keep everyone covered,
Speaker 1: because their strategy offensively and defensively changed this week to week.
Speaker 1: So I just I prepared myself for the personnel that
Speaker 1: I knew, kind of playing for four years against those guys,
Speaker 1: and a lot of them were still there on defense.
Speaker 1: So I knew the personnel and I knew that like, okay,
Speaker 1: I knew like there's certain coverages would look like if
Speaker 1: I was running a route, I wouldn't know immediately what
Speaker 1: zone would be or where this player would be. So
Speaker 1: I knew the defense probably better than most guys on
Speaker 1: on my team. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you still gotta you still gotta play to it, and
Speaker 1: you still gotta win, and you still gotta exploit them
Speaker 1: in in the weak areas. And that year we didn't,
Speaker 1: and we we came up short, uh that first one,
Speaker 1: but it was a close game. It came down to
Speaker 1: the final drive. So we always played them tough. When
Speaker 1: I was in New York, you know, we had Steven
Speaker 1: Jackson on the podcast a couple of weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: Joanna's asked him what I thought is a very funny question.
Speaker 1: He asked him if he ever saw Bill Belichick unplugged himself,
Speaker 1: that he's just such a robot, and Stephen surprised us.
Speaker 1: He said that he's actually more fun than we would think.
Speaker 1: Do you agree. Absolutely. Away from the media, he's a
Speaker 1: completely different person. He just despises media, He despises storylines,
Speaker 1: He despises like billboard clippings that teams can use for
Speaker 1: extra motivation. So yeah, I mean that's why he's very
Speaker 1: straight into the point. But when it comes to like
Speaker 1: coaching and teaching his team the game in those first
Speaker 1: two years. I learned more about football in those two
Speaker 1: years than I've ever learned in my entire life. He's
Speaker 1: very descriptive, very detailed, tells you the why, and he's
Speaker 1: got the driest sense of humor and it's hilarious. So
Speaker 1: he definitely has much more of a personality. You can
Speaker 1: tell he's always locked in or always thinking about stuff.
Speaker 1: But if you went up and talk to him just
Speaker 1: about anything random, that wouldn't be an issue either. You know,
Speaker 1: his good personality and I've enjoyed every year. He seems
Speaker 1: like too intimidating to do that. Well, I mean, what's
Speaker 1: you what? I mean? Yeah, first, but you know, after
Speaker 1: the first year goes by, and yeah, you start to
Speaker 1: feel that he's starting to gain trust in you as
Speaker 1: a player, and he starts, you know, crediting you for
Speaker 1: like hard work and stuff. You start to loosen up
Speaker 1: and he starts to kinda you gotta start to see
Speaker 1: more of his personality, I guess. And I enjoyed every
Speaker 1: year that every moment I got to to be coached
Speaker 1: by coach Belichick. That's awesome. Speaking of the headlines and
Speaker 1: the storylines that sports journalists create, the big one coming
Speaker 1: up this week obviously, Tommy terrific Verse Belichick, is that
Speaker 1: a real storyline? I mean, do you think they're thinking
Speaker 1: about it? Do you think this is yeah personal, yes,
Speaker 1: yes to everything, regardless of what they say in the media. Regardless,
Speaker 1: I guarantee you both of them want to win this game.
Speaker 1: They're the biggest competitors that are gonna be out there
Speaker 1: by the check and Brady, They're they're gonna put more
Speaker 1: time into this game. They care. You know, they're gonna
Speaker 1: say it's just another game and we have to get
Speaker 1: back on track as the Patriots were one and two.
Speaker 1: We we gotta find our identity and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: But they care. This game means just a little bit more,
Speaker 1: and it should like it should the games that meant
Speaker 1: a little bit more to me. You know that my
Speaker 1: practice was just a little bit different that week, and
Speaker 1: my focus and my attention to detail was a little
Speaker 1: bit different that week, and when I strapped him up
Speaker 1: on Sundays, you know, there there's an extra pep in
Speaker 1: my step and it should be like that. You gotta
Speaker 1: get you get up for the big games, and that's
Speaker 1: what makes foot Bustle special. You only get seventeen now
Speaker 1: but sixteen when I was playing. So you know, whenever
Speaker 1: you have that extra motivation, you make it count. What
Speaker 1: do you think they're saying internally when I'm gonna show them,
Speaker 1: you know, all that that, all that personal stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: as stoic as coach Belichick is, you know, if he
Speaker 1: didn't have that personal motivation, that the take little slights personal,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't be as great of a coach as he is.
Speaker 1: And same with Tom Brady. That chip on his shoulder
Speaker 1: from getting drafted in the sixth round is still there
Speaker 1: and it's not going anywhere. That's what makes him so great.
Speaker 1: So there's definitely gonna be you know, and I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna be cordial and they're gonna shake hands and
Speaker 1: everything's gonna be good because there's a ton of respect
Speaker 1: between both of them, a ton of respect. But it's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to watch the back and forth. And
Speaker 1: I want to be looking for like the small details
Speaker 1: and in ways that they're going to try and combat
Speaker 1: combat you know, the game plan and combat each other.
Speaker 1: But I'm really looking forward to it, Like what, like
Speaker 1: what will you be looking for? Do you think there'll
Speaker 1: be more blitz packages? And for Tom or what. Definitely, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna try and heat him up. I
Speaker 1: think I definitely think they're gonna try and get to
Speaker 1: him and affect him. And then I also think that
Speaker 1: the Patriots are gonna need to steal a couple of possessions,
Speaker 1: whether that's a couple going for it on fourth down,
Speaker 1: maybe a surprise play call, but they're gonna need to
Speaker 1: steal possessions. They're gonna need to keep the ball in
Speaker 1: the Patriots. They don't want the Bucks to have the
Speaker 1: time of possession advantage. They want to keep the ball
Speaker 1: out of twelves hands as as much as possible. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna it's gonna be it's gonna be good. But
Speaker 1: I definitely expected to heat it up. Obviously. It's one
Speaker 1: of the biggest sports fan arguments. Tom or Belichick. Who
Speaker 1: wasn't since you are the ultimate insider, if you had
Speaker 1: to pick one, if you had to pick one, at
Speaker 1: only one is Belichick system or Tommy terrifics leadership? Okay,
Speaker 1: his okay, but that's that's impossible. Um, that's the toughest question. Um.
Speaker 1: First of all, let me go on the record by
Speaker 1: saying it took both one wouldn't be who they are
Speaker 1: without the other. Also, Levin catches from you didn't hurt.
Speaker 1: I'm just putting that in there. Oh God, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with Tom. I'm going with Tom because he won one,
Speaker 1: because he won one when he left. He won one
Speaker 1: when he left. But I stand firm, I said firm
Speaker 1: in my stance that they wouldn't be who they are
Speaker 1: without each other, regardless of their relationship was up down, Rocky,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be as successful as they are without each other.
Speaker 1: You could win Miss America with that answer. That was
Speaker 1: pretty good, Pretty good, Mr America. Yeah, Mr America. What
Speaker 1: does rattle Tom Brady does anything? I mean, like Eli Manning,
Speaker 1: like on the like on the field. I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: I think if if he's not feeling comfortable in the pocket,
Speaker 1: it changes changes a little bit who he is. If
Speaker 1: he's not able to step into throws, got people by
Speaker 1: his feet, if he's getting hit, those are things that
Speaker 1: that kind of make him uneasy. If receivers are running
Speaker 1: the wrong routes, are dropping passes, he's gonna get in
Speaker 1: their ass. He like he got in mind multiple times.
Speaker 1: You know, it's more it's more of you know, the
Speaker 1: easy the simple mistakes, the little mistakes that really, you know,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to get to five yards, Why are you
Speaker 1: turning at three yards? Like that? Bothers him? You know,
Speaker 1: everybody needs to be on the same page because he
Speaker 1: I mean, that's how that's how he operates. But everyone's
Speaker 1: better for it. Well, just as we wrap this up
Speaker 1: before we get to our game, which is gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of fun and I think you're going to
Speaker 1: do well at who's your prediction? Who's winning this game
Speaker 1: Sunday night? Um? I think Tampa. I just haven't seen
Speaker 1: it from New England yet this year, and the energy
Speaker 1: is gonna be high, and I think Tom's gonna thrive
Speaker 1: in that. I just need to see more from New England. Know,
Speaker 1: I think New England's gonna play their best game of
Speaker 1: the season so far. Um, whether they whether they win
Speaker 1: or lose, I think I think I think Tampa's gonna win.
Speaker 1: But I do think that New England's going to have
Speaker 1: the best product that they've shown throughout this season so far.
Speaker 1: Come Sunday, Okay, I like that. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: great game. It is, alright, Shane. Now for our game,
Speaker 1: this is called Lord of the rings Russia Shane. The
Speaker 1: New England Patriots have won six Super Bowls. Many of
Speaker 1: their players have won multiple rings, So we thought we
Speaker 1: turned this into a game, and have you guess at
Speaker 1: who has more rings one of the Patriots or a
Speaker 1: celebrity who's been engaged multiple times. So Peter Week got
Speaker 1: who has more rings? Jennifer Lopez or Adam Vinitari? Do
Speaker 1: you know Jennifer Lopez? Adamentarry has three? So I'm assuming
Speaker 1: Jennifer is more than that, right, she's got to you
Speaker 1: got it? He has four? Actually? Oh he has four?
Speaker 1: Which one of my? Which one am I missing? Oh?
Speaker 1: Did he win one with Hindie in two? Seven? One
Speaker 1: with Oh? That's okay, there we go, Yeah, there we go. Okay,
Speaker 1: Jay Lo wins five before. She has been engaged five times,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't be surprised if it's six. If you
Speaker 1: can count Ben Affleck twice coming up soon? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta count. Okay, who has more rings? Shane, Kim
Speaker 1: Kardashian or Rob Gronkowski. Yess got quite a bit just
Speaker 1: by one. He has four rings. Kim has been engaged
Speaker 1: and married three times. Okay, you're doing well, all right,
Speaker 1: who has more rings? Paris Hilton or Julian Edelman. Was
Speaker 1: Paris Hilton left that show with McCole Richie. I kind
Speaker 1: of lost track of her at first. That was a uh,
Speaker 1: Jules Julian. I guess Julia's got three? Oh m hmm, Paris.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you only have two options, shaking
Speaker 1: my head big. You nailed it, Paris Hills Winds. She's
Speaker 1: been engaged four times Julian one three, Like you said,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's always like a DJ or someone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she was once engaged to someone also named Paris. He
Speaker 1: was a Greek shipping air. Remember that one, right? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Can you imagine being engaged to someone named Janice? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's a feminine version of the name in Greek,
Speaker 1: it would be Juanna. So actually, my daughter Gianna is
Speaker 1: the feminine of my name, So it's possible. Is there
Speaker 1: any masculine Olivia over you could be you can be
Speaker 1: married to Oliver? Yeah, yeah, Jane, you could be engaged
Speaker 1: with Shania name name. Let's do one male version, since
Speaker 1: we did all only females. How about Brad Pitt also
Speaker 1: against Julian Edelman. That's a good one. That's a really
Speaker 1: good times he's been engaged. I'm thinking I think for
Speaker 1: Brett Fred. You think of Jennifer Aniston and I can't
Speaker 1: think her name, so I will go to Julia. There
Speaker 1: have been more. Brad Pitt has been engaged four times.
Speaker 1: Julian's won three bradwins. Brad, you little slot, Jesus, Brad
Speaker 1: has four. Make a decision, Brad, Damn, I know I
Speaker 1: did four. I didn't know it's four. You did good, though,
Speaker 1: you did very good. Thank you guys, Thank you, Jane.
Speaker 1: You are a good sports you are You need to
Speaker 1: brush up on your celebrity knowledge a little bit, but
Speaker 1: you know your Patriots. You know you're Tom Brady, and
Speaker 1: you gave us some great insight. We really appreciate you
Speaker 1: coming on. We hope you had as much fun as
Speaker 1: we did. I had a great time, Grass, Thanks for
Speaker 1: having me anytime. Just let me know. Thank you. Enjoy
Speaker 1: the game Sunday night. It's always good to have a
Speaker 1: should be Super Bowl m v P on the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you. There you go, there you go, thank you.
Speaker 1: That's that's gonna read on my twol So it should
Speaker 1: have been. Well, that was a lot of fun with
Speaker 1: Shane Green. What a fun episode. He really, You're right
Speaker 1: he does have to brush up on his celebrity in
Speaker 1: engagement news. I mean, I didn't know until we read them. Really,
Speaker 1: I thought Brad Pitt was a little bit more monogamous.
Speaker 1: But let's put that in the past and let's look
Speaker 1: towards the future with my partner who I pay under
Speaker 1: the table to help me beat Olivia. Every single we
Speaker 1: welcome bet GM betting expert Peter Andrew. How you doing, Pete?
Speaker 1: I've been Betts. Olivia knows this. I had a rough
Speaker 1: Sunday while she had a fantastic Sunday night. My Niners
Speaker 1: disappointed me, hence my voice almost completely lost. But hey,
Speaker 1: that's that SCE for you. Before we look forward, I mean,
Speaker 1: we gotta it was. It was a disappointing weekend for
Speaker 1: a lot of people. Me as a Giants fan, you
Speaker 1: as a Niners fan. But the boxing world got turned
Speaker 1: upside down with Anthony Joshua being upset. I mean, is
Speaker 1: what does that mean for the fight with the Gypsy King?
Speaker 1: I mean, what is going on? I mean, is there
Speaker 1: only one fight now in the heavyweight division and we
Speaker 1: know the Gypsy Kid is gonna win that. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: a J heavy favorite, but you stick was a really
Speaker 1: good boxer. I think he's nineteen and no now thirteen KOs.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't come to as as a huge surprise that
Speaker 1: it was a good fight. He had cleaner hits, heavier hits.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happens with a J now next,
Speaker 1: but he's on a steep decline, so it's gonna be
Speaker 1: really interesting. I don't think he has any kind of
Speaker 1: chance of beating the guy like Cury. Yeah, so it's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting. The boxing world certainly got chaken up
Speaker 1: a little bit this weekend. And did you watch the
Speaker 1: UFC this weekend at all? There was uh that I
Speaker 1: know that that was as far as the betting lines,
Speaker 1: that was he was a slide favorite. But let's throw
Speaker 1: the betting lines out and just talk about how amazing
Speaker 1: a fight that was in the main event at the UFC. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think overall this was a really good card. It
Speaker 1: probably wasn't on paper the sexiest card with the Macgraters
Speaker 1: of the world, but I think he had really good
Speaker 1: fights across the board, So I can't ask for more
Speaker 1: for for a combat sports weekend. Oh man, it was incredible.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on, let's move forward. This is
Speaker 1: my favorite part of the show. Yeah, apparently it is
Speaker 1: your favorite part of the show. And I don't think
Speaker 1: you're just paying Peter. I think you're in NFL officials
Speaker 1: also to help you out here. So yeah, it is
Speaker 1: our punishment picks, and you have won the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: I have no idea how you know. I went to
Speaker 1: journalism school, I've grown up around sports. I like to
Speaker 1: think I know what I'm talking about. And now you're
Speaker 1: putting all of that tuition, money and intern experience and
Speaker 1: years grinding my teeth on the sidelines to nothing right
Speaker 1: now because I've lost. I'm over three honest, how are
Speaker 1: you doing it? You got Chargers at Chiefs. I took
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. That was the one I lost this week. Hey,
Speaker 1: luck of the Irish. You know that's a great thing
Speaker 1: about throwing a little scratch on any game anyone can win.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be an athlete, you don't have
Speaker 1: to be an esteem sports journalist with a pedigree. All
Speaker 1: you gotta be is an overweight Greek kid who's past
Speaker 1: this prime, who's a B level comedian, and you can
Speaker 1: be up the great, oh h d every single week Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean this is why I have a job, right,
Speaker 1: this is seriously, what's betting one oh one? It's even
Speaker 1: when you think he got it nail, this is me personally.
Speaker 1: You think he got the weekend nailed, the boy it
Speaker 1: can get ugly, Yeahkes, Well, let's start with that game,
Speaker 1: Chargers at Chiefs. That was a good one. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: just seemed to step all over their own feet at
Speaker 1: a middle school dance. I had not seen them look
Speaker 1: like that. I hadn't seen Patrick mahomes face look like
Speaker 1: that during a game. He looked just upset, just grunt old.
Speaker 1: Whatever you want to say, Peter, what did you see
Speaker 1: in that game? Yeah? First off, last place Chiefs. I
Speaker 1: think that's what they are now. Haven't heard that since
Speaker 1: probably pre Alex Smith, probably five six years ago. You're right,
Speaker 1: But I also want to give credit words to and
Speaker 1: I think this Chargers team is legit Justin Herbert. And
Speaker 1: I was listening to someone overblowing on the radio this weekend,
Speaker 1: but Justin Herbert is a legitimate potential superstar in the sleep.
Speaker 1: I think he's just got poise. You know, I'm going
Speaker 1: to compare him to a Brady in the homes. He
Speaker 1: may not have everything those guys have, but he's got
Speaker 1: that same kind of poise. He's super calculated. You see
Speaker 1: him going through his progressions. He's gonna be an incredible
Speaker 1: quarterback for the next ten years or so. So it
Speaker 1: certainly is on the Chiefs a little bit, probably a
Speaker 1: lackluster last couple of games, but but the charges are
Speaker 1: no joke and they are a legitimate playoff contender this year.
Speaker 1: I was looking at Justin Herbert's m v P odds.
Speaker 1: Before week three he was plus four thousand. Now he's
Speaker 1: plus eleven hundred after that, Chief's whooping, So people are
Speaker 1: really liking Herbert. What else are we seeing with m
Speaker 1: v p ods? Obviously Patrick Mahomes has kind of dropped out,
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford has jumped up, Josh Allen has jumped up.
Speaker 1: What do you like right now as we're three weeks
Speaker 1: in looking at m v P. Yeah, so it's probably
Speaker 1: the quarterback matchup we had on Sunday, Brady for Stafford.
Speaker 1: I think if either those guys do what they've done
Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks in it. I know
Speaker 1: Brady had a little bit of a tougher game this weekend.
Speaker 1: Those guys, to me just jump out Brady with Mike Evans,
Speaker 1: Godwyn Bronk if he stays healthy. And then you have
Speaker 1: Stafford with Woods Cooper Cup who looks like the best
Speaker 1: water super in the league right now. There's just so
Speaker 1: many weapons those guys. It's really really difficult not to
Speaker 1: produce on offense when you have three to five different
Speaker 1: weapons like that, and they haven't even gone to a
Speaker 1: lot of their guys. They're the running game in in
Speaker 1: Tampa is not fantastic yet. And then Henderson in in
Speaker 1: l a same thing. So I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: to of course with both those guys. I got a
Speaker 1: double question here. I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a
Speaker 1: double burger. My first question is the Rams. They look
Speaker 1: like there's no better way to describe it than they
Speaker 1: look like they mean business. They're hitting hard, they're playing incredible.
Speaker 1: Do you think they keep this level of play up?
Speaker 1: Is this just they're rejuvenated with Stafford? I mean, he
Speaker 1: looks he looks like the best quarterback in the league.
Speaker 1: My second question is the Packers. They look like they
Speaker 1: figured it out. Do they keep this level of play
Speaker 1: up or is it just Aaron Rodgers doing magical things.
Speaker 1: So first point with Stafford and the Rams, I think
Speaker 1: they are probably the favorite in the NFC right now.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have a couple of tough tasks, but this
Speaker 1: was a good one this weekend against the Bucks. Just
Speaker 1: again weapons and then arguably the best cornerback in the
Speaker 1: leaving Jail and Ramsey on the defensive side. Obviously, you
Speaker 1: have a wide variety of things that just that are
Speaker 1: going really well for them. They are to me the
Speaker 1: clear NFC favorite. When we get to the Packers, I
Speaker 1: could probably go both ways with this one. They were
Speaker 1: playing in JV defense in the Niners, especially the cornerbacks
Speaker 1: and safeties, I mean just dropping like flies. It sounds
Speaker 1: like you're taking a little personal Peter, Yeah, you take it.
Speaker 1: You know you should. You don't let your emotions show
Speaker 1: here just a little bit. But when Aaron Rodgers does
Speaker 1: that and Davante Adams is just ripping apart zone defenses,
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to stop. And I mean if you
Speaker 1: would have told me thirty five seconds left, no touchdowns left,
Speaker 1: they burned all three touchdowns and you have to have
Speaker 1: Rogers go at least fifty or sixty yards and win
Speaker 1: the game. I would take that ten times out of ten.
Speaker 1: That shows how good he is. And for anybody that
Speaker 1: was questioning how much he cares about this team, and
Speaker 1: when you saw his reactions on the sideline, So it's
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of both. I want to see
Speaker 1: them do something against a real defense. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, if Rogers is playing like that and he's
Speaker 1: connected with Adams like that, they're gonna be a tough
Speaker 1: team to be Hey, next time you're playing your JV defense,
Speaker 1: can you not like come for the life of Davonte
Speaker 1: Adams and they zoom in very close on his lifeless space?
Speaker 1: That was that was troubling? Can you not do that
Speaker 1: next time? Peter first admit, hands up, that was a dirty,
Speaker 1: dirty hit, and and we said it. You know, we're
Speaker 1: sitting kind of in the back of the end zone
Speaker 1: where that was happening. So maybe twenty thirty yards out
Speaker 1: from there, and everybody, Niners fans, Packers fans, I'll pretty
Speaker 1: much agree with those kids. So we'll take that one
Speaker 1: up and hopefully see least that next week. Well, let's
Speaker 1: continue with the Packers as we get to our punishment picks. Peter,
Speaker 1: you have picked three games, and the first one is
Speaker 1: Steelers at Packers. Give us a little preview, give us
Speaker 1: the lines, and then we'll make our pick. Punishment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Green Day seven point favorite. Obviously, they saw what
Speaker 1: they can do last week really impressively in their home
Speaker 1: this weekend against a very questionable Piper Steelers team that
Speaker 1: we've seen probably on both sides, really impressive against the Bills,
Speaker 1: and then we've seen against the lackluster performances. So this
Speaker 1: is a tricky one. Seven points. What are you guys taking? Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's go beauty before age. So I'll go, Um, look,
Speaker 1: we got two quarterbacks here, one who may I thought
Speaker 1: was gonna maybe have a Custer's last stand, but it
Speaker 1: looks like he needs to be put and uh he
Speaker 1: should be have a motor scooter, I think so. And
Speaker 1: the other one, I'm yes, it looks like his competitiveness
Speaker 1: is still there, but he also looks like he did
Speaker 1: Ayawaska in Mexico this summer. The guy's chill, he's talking
Speaker 1: about how can you not be romantic about football? That line,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the open minded Ayawaska. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: going with the Packers on this one. No big surprise. Yeah,
Speaker 1: me too. We're gonna agree on this one. Ben Roethlisberger
Speaker 1: looks horrible. The whole team looks horrible. They look lost.
Speaker 1: I love Mike Tomlin, but this is not his year.
Speaker 1: This is not his team. I like the Packers and
Speaker 1: I like seven. Yeah, I think all three of us
Speaker 1: agree there. Next one, this is an interesting one. I
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't have said this a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Ravens one and a half point dog against the Denver
Speaker 1: Brown goes Denver at home. So minus one and a
Speaker 1: half point favorite. Denver coming off from a really impressive
Speaker 1: win against a not really impressive team. But they are
Speaker 1: three and OW and that division looks to be legit.
Speaker 1: What do you guys like here? I'm laying the points
Speaker 1: with the home favorite. Denver looks great. Three and oh
Speaker 1: Bridgewater I think has so much to prove. He's one
Speaker 1: of those journeyman quarterbacks. Their fan base. If you've ever
Speaker 1: been to a home game, they're at mile High. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: It kind of shakes you to your core. In fact,
Speaker 1: one time I watched the Packers game there, and I
Speaker 1: think the second to top row and it was about
Speaker 1: the scariest situation I've been in vertically in my life.
Speaker 1: Uh that places rocking. I like them at home, and
Speaker 1: the Ravens got very lucky to win last week. They
Speaker 1: are hard to figure out. As much as I love
Speaker 1: a sixty six yard bieldal set in history, I don't
Speaker 1: think that happens in Denver. I'm taking the Broncos. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go our first disagreement, because look, if you've
Speaker 1: got a guy who can kick sixty six yards, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, if the game comes down to the wire,
Speaker 1: might as well just have him kick it from the
Speaker 1: other end zone. I mean, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: heard my unleash this week, but I am going with
Speaker 1: the Ravens. They're gonna have a great season and they're
Speaker 1: gonna lose in the postseason like they always do. So
Speaker 1: I'm going with the Ravens alright, like it for what
Speaker 1: it's worth. I'm on Denver as well. Okay, last one,
Speaker 1: Mr Brady's return to Foxboro Tampa Bay miney six and
Speaker 1: a half point favorite on the road against New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: You're taking Brady, You're taking Belichick. I'm going to Shane
Speaker 1: Vereen here I'm taking Brady in the Bucks. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be emotional, it's gonna be dramatic, but TV twelve can
Speaker 1: handle it. And I think when you look schematically, the
Speaker 1: Bucks run defense is really good, their past defense not
Speaker 1: so much. And the Patriots don't yet have the scheme
Speaker 1: and the quarterback and the weapons to air it out.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna give mac Jones that long
Speaker 1: of a leash, which could be the only way to
Speaker 1: beat the Buccaneers. As we saw with l A. I
Speaker 1: think DV twelve wins this one at his previous home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you see, I can find no holes in O. H
Speaker 1: D's arguments. I mean very sound, I mean every point
Speaker 1: very good. But I'm going with the psychological game on this. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is where the Yanni magic happens. Yeah, eight e
Speaker 1: and the Buccaneers they got they got rattled last week.
Speaker 1: They got rattled, and I think going in Belichick has
Speaker 1: been this is this is like a Super Bowl game
Speaker 1: for Belichick. So he's getting all the spies out. He's
Speaker 1: been watching their practices. The balls are deflated or inflated whatever.
Speaker 1: Tom doesn't like. They're gonna have less towels in their
Speaker 1: locker room. There's gonna be a lot of psychological warfare.
Speaker 1: I'm going with the Patriots in an upset and vindication
Speaker 1: for Billy Belichick. And you know you said this a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. You you called it that the
Speaker 1: Chiefs might be rattled after they lost two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: And long behold, there it is. And you know why
Speaker 1: it is. I've not listened. He's doing. Mahomes is doing commercials.
Speaker 1: Now he's got you know, you always go, hey, when
Speaker 1: a guy gets half a billion dollars, does he care anymore?
Speaker 1: It's that McGregor factor. I think, finally we're gonna see
Speaker 1: an unmotivated and we're seeing an unmotivated Mahomes. He may
Speaker 1: be partying a little bit. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: anybody in his circle, but don't don't be surprised if
Speaker 1: he comes up with if he shows up at a
Speaker 1: strip club with pac Man Jones. No, Mahomes is so
Speaker 1: clean cut. His best friends are his his wife, his daughter,
Speaker 1: and his brother, who I've got more issues with. The brother.
Speaker 1: Got to be honest than I do. Move he is
Speaker 1: cookie cutter. He's fine, but honest. I love your hot takes.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you and I hate when they are right,
Speaker 1: and I hate when you make me look so bad. Peter,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us again. Don't forget everyone
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Speaker 1: you find your podcasts. Honest, that's the end, right, that's
Speaker 1: the end. Well, um, I know you wish it was
Speaker 1: the end, Okay, but I don't want to end the yet.
Speaker 1: I've got a proposition for Olivia, Okay, I want to
Speaker 1: do her own punishment. Pick you and I When when
Speaker 1: the Niners inevitably play the Packers in the playoffs, which
Speaker 1: they will because they do every year, loser has to
Speaker 1: wear the other team's jersey on the podcast. So when
Speaker 1: Niners upset in the playoffs, you're wearing a Trey Lance jersey.
Speaker 1: Man If if the Packers happen to win, that five
Speaker 1: percent chance, I'll wear whatever jersey, will you know, I'll
Speaker 1: do that. I like Trey Lance, I'll do that. I
Speaker 1: needed some skinny. I keep seeing Yanny win every week
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know, I need to just
Speaker 1: jump in on the front too. I love it. I
Speaker 1: love the way you disrespected Jimmy g there just with
Speaker 1: the tray Lance jersey. Wow. Wow. Yeah, let's cut that
Speaker 1: part out. Yeah, no, keep it in. That's what That's
Speaker 1: what the people like. Olivia. I know you wish this
Speaker 1: was the end, but I think again, from what I understand,
Speaker 1: you're taking this out. I guess so, I guess so.
Speaker 1: I don't know why before week one I agreed to
Speaker 1: this game. I know why I agree to this game.
Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna whoop you every week. This
Speaker 1: is is getting rough, But here we go again. Mom.
Speaker 1: I hope you have cut out. I hope you've running
Speaker 1: your errands and you're not driving in your car listening
Speaker 1: to this anymore. Hi. My name is Olivia Harland Decker,
Speaker 1: and I'm the Washington General's of Betting. I am here
Speaker 1: to let Yanni Globe trotter dunk all over my picks.
Speaker 1: I'm just here to lose three weeks in a row.
Speaker 1: Because of this, I think it's time for a new look,
Speaker 1: to just switch up my luck. So I've decided to
Speaker 1: dye my hair pink, change my lipstick color to black.
Speaker 1: Next week, you will want to see that I always
Speaker 1: wanted to be a goth girl, and I think it's
Speaker 1: time to just be the real meat. Also, I really
Speaker 1: think it's time that jannas Papa is the great genius
Speaker 1: that he is, who I'm honored to work with, apologize
Speaker 1: to me for this vicious three, for his utter demolition
Speaker 1: of me because obvious superiority. Now, I know women's brains
Speaker 1: are just so much smaller, but this is expected, and
Speaker 1: I think it's time Yanni apology eyes is to me
Speaker 1: and show some chivalry. But I understand he would like
Speaker 1: to take this time to apologize to absolutely nobody. The
Speaker 1: Triple Chaft does That was conomator voice, and it was
Speaker 1: clearly written in The Triple Champion dos what the he wants?
Speaker 1: Where's Fine Bert? Where's Mike Bart? Give me my second boat?