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 Arland Decker. Hello, Hello, Hello, Welcome to
Speaker 1: Unleashed from bet MGM, the King of Sports Books. You, Honice.
Speaker 1: We are coming off one of the most insane sports
Speaker 1: weekends I can remember in a long time. From Saturday
Speaker 1: morning to Sunday night. Honestly, it was NonStop. There's so
Speaker 1: much to get to. Alabama went down. Love seeing that.
Speaker 1: You know, I unleashed on that last week. The Red
Speaker 1: River Showdown was an absolute shootout. I lost some money
Speaker 1: on that one. Texas plus three, I'm still mad about it.
Speaker 1: Baseball playoff drama, The Chargers want a thriller against the
Speaker 1: Browns and the Bills and Josh Allen went into Arrowhead
Speaker 1: and Slade the defending a f C champs in a
Speaker 1: driving rain storm. It was crazy. And of course the
Speaker 1: eleven round epic fight between Tyson Fury and challenger Deontay Wilder,
Speaker 1: the Gypsy King won by knockout. Tyson Fury is still
Speaker 1: undefeated and the heavyweight champion of the world. Honestly, you
Speaker 1: know I was there, you know, is my first fight.
Speaker 1: It didn't disappoint. It was awesome. It was incredible. What
Speaker 1: a way to introduce you to combat sports. It was
Speaker 1: It was finally a fight. So it was good to
Speaker 1: see boxing just deliver on some level. There's been so
Speaker 1: much disappointment over the years. I'm glad you were there.
Speaker 1: I followed you all weekend. You look like you were
Speaker 1: having a blast. I wish I was there to drink
Speaker 1: our diabetes specials together. But hopefully next time, hopefully when
Speaker 1: when there's another boxing match of this caliber, and say,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it takes about four years to make
Speaker 1: a fight like this man, because that's how boxing is.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll be together if the show is still going
Speaker 1: in four years. If I'm still alive, I'm so old. Okay.
Speaker 1: A couple of my biggest takeaways because we went to
Speaker 1: the way in just the smack talk. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I was sitting there and again this, I'm a newbie
Speaker 1: to the sport. Everyone around me, you know, they go
Speaker 1: to all this stuff, they're all so into it, and
Speaker 1: I was just sitting there laughing, and I know it
Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to be funny. It wasn't And I'm sitting
Speaker 1: there by myself laughing, trying to get some content for
Speaker 1: Ben MGM. And he's like, you're not worth the sausage.
Speaker 1: It's one ship house teaching another ship house how to fight.
Speaker 1: What do you get a couple of ship houses? And
Speaker 1: I'm like, did someone write that for him? Um? I
Speaker 1: gotta say that was probably one of the worst English
Speaker 1: actions for her. Yeah, but you know what, you still
Speaker 1: do other good stuff. Thanks. So you can sing, you
Speaker 1: can dance, You're still you're still the woman in my eyes.
Speaker 1: I can't dance, but they you can't dance? No, I
Speaker 1: mean no, I'm not Greek that well. Greeks can dance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess so. Yeah, our dancing is pretty boring. But
Speaker 1: it let me tell you something, it's the smack talking
Speaker 1: is part of the boxing world, is part of combat sports,
Speaker 1: part of m m A. It's so much fun. And
Speaker 1: this one it was. It was a clear advantage with
Speaker 1: the Gypsy King. He's so much better at it. He's
Speaker 1: the Alabama slammer. So not only did uh he win
Speaker 1: the fight some may say for the third time in
Speaker 1: a row, because that first fight a lot of people
Speaker 1: think you want, but he also wins the smack talking
Speaker 1: I mean, he's probably the best in boxing at at
Speaker 1: talking smack. He's such a presence. He's six nine to
Speaker 1: see at this fight, that's my husband's height plus fifty pounds.
Speaker 1: That's a huge body. He's a huge man. And he's
Speaker 1: definitely he's definitely representing us dad bods out there. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say he's I mean, the kid doesn't look He
Speaker 1: just looks like he got off a barsol and got
Speaker 1: into a ring. He looks like he just ordered Papa
Speaker 1: John's right before they closed and he got into a
Speaker 1: boxing match. He's not the most cut. No, and again
Speaker 1: keep in mind total nuby here watching this. So he
Speaker 1: comes out and I'm like, wait a second, really like
Speaker 1: this is one of the best athletes in the world.
Speaker 1: Like he's Doughey and that's that's accurate. That's not body
Speaker 1: shaving and he's Doughey. Yoh no, that's accurate. It is
Speaker 1: uh And that's what makes him so deceptive. And and
Speaker 1: he also is like very durable. I mean, as you
Speaker 1: saw he got up twice, he looked fresh in the
Speaker 1: later rounds, whereas Deonte, who's ripped to shreds looks like
Speaker 1: a superhero, looked a lot more winded than he did.
Speaker 1: So he's just an absolute animal. I give him credit
Speaker 1: with credits due, but Deonte fought an amazing fight. Put
Speaker 1: him on it, stretched him out twice, put him on
Speaker 1: his ass. It was. It was a really fun fight
Speaker 1: to watch. I watched it on my boy Paul Versey's
Speaker 1: outdoor screen. We had twenty inches up when you're I
Speaker 1: mean sorry, twenty we had the out door twenty ft. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not good at math. It was and so it
Speaker 1: was really fun to watch. Okay, I have another question
Speaker 1: about boxing. Do you think they wear deodorant because they
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time in each other's arn't pits? No,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I think you need every advantage
Speaker 1: you can get when you fight. You know, it's just
Speaker 1: the two of them in there. It's like they say,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, it's like being uh it's it's
Speaker 1: the most embarrassing thing getting knocked out. It's like as
Speaker 1: a comic, it's the most embarrassing thing bombing. So you
Speaker 1: got to use every advantage you have when you're doing
Speaker 1: something where you're trying to avoid the ultimate embarrassment. I
Speaker 1: would walk in with a dirty ask to be honest
Speaker 1: with you. If I was fighting, I wouldn't wipe, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't wear deodorant, I wouldn't shower. There's no way those
Speaker 1: guys are putting old spice on before they get in there.
Speaker 1: No way I see I would. I would be like,
Speaker 1: I look good, I feel good, I smell good. I'd
Speaker 1: like i'd wear cologne if I was man boxer. Um. Okay.
Speaker 1: My other favorite part of the whole thing, I just
Speaker 1: love when they hug. They just look so sweet when
Speaker 1: they hug. Yeah, that's the sweet part. That's when they
Speaker 1: I wonder what they say to each other. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: where a lot of probably, uh, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of smack talking probably happens when they're in close. I
Speaker 1: don't I think they're gasping for breath. It doesn't look
Speaker 1: like they're talking in that moment. Okay. I told you
Speaker 1: I was excited to see some celebrities there. Here's who
Speaker 1: I saw. This is reporting at its finest right now.
Speaker 1: I saw Dwight Howard, Magic Johnson, Shack, Mario Lopez, Stephen
Speaker 1: A Smith, whiz Khalifa. I heard the Bibers were there,
Speaker 1: but I never saw them. Well, then you gotta look
Speaker 1: real low to find him. I I I know Dwight
Speaker 1: Howard pretty well. Actually, I know Shack pretty well. Actually,
Speaker 1: I don't get star struck at all by athletes, but
Speaker 1: the beaverers. I was dying to see him. If I
Speaker 1: saw Justin Bieber or Haley Bieber, I'd like be speechless?
Speaker 1: Who like who would would be speechless that scene? I
Speaker 1: mean the only person I get star struck is by
Speaker 1: the Deckers. To be honest with you made any pops,
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. I'm just that the Deckers are
Speaker 1: those are the true celebrities to me. I mean I
Speaker 1: could care less about what what the latest Canadian import is.
Speaker 1: You know Bieber? You know I'd like to kick him
Speaker 1: into a field goal. To be honest, Oh, I love
Speaker 1: I think he's beautiful. I think he sings beautifully. I
Speaker 1: love Justin Bieber. I'm glad I didn't see him. I
Speaker 1: probably would have made a fool of myself. Okay, I
Speaker 1: know you're gonna he comes up to your kneecap. I
Speaker 1: mean what you're you're you're dating a beautiful Nordic god,
Speaker 1: and you're telling me that you want to date this midget.
Speaker 1: I mean, what do we talk? Sorry? Little person. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: for me, it would be Justin Bieber. Earleo DiCaprio would
Speaker 1: do it for me. I'd be that emoji with stars
Speaker 1: in my eyes. But yeah, athletes, I'm not. I don't
Speaker 1: get like all excited about athletes. Well, I hope your
Speaker 1: husband's not listening to this episode. I'll tell you that
Speaker 1: right now. Like, I know you're gonna have more to
Speaker 1: say about the Ice and Fury fight really just about
Speaker 1: Tyson Fury status in general. But I'm I'm glad to
Speaker 1: let you know my thoughts as a newbie. I look
Speaker 1: forward to my next fight. But yeah, it's it's a
Speaker 1: great sport to watch, you know. I'm more of an
Speaker 1: NFL girl. And coming up, we've got former NFL wide receiver.
Speaker 1: He was with the Colts, he was with Washington whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call him, in the San Francisco forty Niners,
Speaker 1: Pierre Garson. Can't wait to catch up with him. That'll
Speaker 1: be really fun. He had quite a career, I think
Speaker 1: eleven seasons. And you know, Janice, who didn't have such
Speaker 1: a great weekend, is our bad beat of the week.
Speaker 1: And I feel for this guy. You know, I thought
Speaker 1: it was going to be me so I did you know?
Speaker 1: I was out in Vegas. I did a lot of
Speaker 1: sports gambling this week. I had so much fun. I
Speaker 1: really did pretty well. But I put ten bucks on
Speaker 1: a college football four game parlay, and one of them
Speaker 1: they all hit, including Florida, who was favored by thirty
Speaker 1: eight and a half. And everyone told me that was
Speaker 1: way too big. Stay away. I took that and got that,
Speaker 1: and then Texas was plus three. Oklahoma was obviously the
Speaker 1: favorite in Texas comes out and scores fourteen points in
Speaker 1: about the first minute and a half of the game,
Speaker 1: and then they end up losing. That was a heartbreaker.
Speaker 1: So I truly thought about considering myself for bad beat
Speaker 1: over the week, but it has to go to Trizzy Nate,
Speaker 1: bad all the week. So that's why you don't put
Speaker 1: too much money on a parlay. I only did ten bucks.
Speaker 1: My man Trizzy Nate, who won this week, he did
Speaker 1: just that. He put twenty five bucks on a nine
Speaker 1: game parlay. He could have won seven hundred and seventy dollars.
Speaker 1: Everything hit but one game Broncos, who lost to the Steelers.
Speaker 1: So look, I'm so sorry, Trizzy Nate. But to make
Speaker 1: you feel better, our friends at bet MGM are sending
Speaker 1: you one hundred dollars of site credit to try your
Speaker 1: luck again. I hope you do better this week. My friend,
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to listen to the end of the
Speaker 1: show where we bring in our Betty necks for Peter
Speaker 1: Andrew to give his picks for the weekend slate of
Speaker 1: games and some futures in the na gel that's starting
Speaker 1: up this week. So listen up and feel confident where
Speaker 1: you put this free hondo. Okay, now it's our favorite
Speaker 1: segment of the show. It's time for us to go
Speaker 1: off on one topic we feel passionately about. Honest let's
Speaker 1: unleash It's okay. So this is a topic I'm hesitant
Speaker 1: to go in on. Honestly, it's really not in my character.
Speaker 1: I don't want to bash someone else. Ever, I don't
Speaker 1: like mean spirited things are poking fun someone else, especially
Speaker 1: towards another woman, especially a wife and mother. So I
Speaker 1: just want to preface with that that this is not
Speaker 1: petty ship talking. This is my opinion on something this
Speaker 1: person did in the world of sports this weekend that
Speaker 1: I find it appropriate and I don't find to be
Speaker 1: a good look for her husband and It's made a
Speaker 1: lot of buzz and been picked up as a story nationally.
Speaker 1: So just since I've said that, it's Chiefs quarterback Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes fiance Brittany Matthews. She was live tweeting at the
Speaker 1: Bills Chiefs game Sunday night because plaining about the officiating.
Speaker 1: She said, keep holding it's great, or we like good
Speaker 1: acting plays, or my personal favorite. Refs are never in
Speaker 1: our favor, um, Brittany, reffs aren't supposed to be in
Speaker 1: anyone's favor. So that was just a bad tweet. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was bad officiating, everyone agreed on both teams. But
Speaker 1: as the wife of a Super Bowl Champ, m v P,
Speaker 1: largest contract in NFL history, half a billion dollar man
Speaker 1: face of the franchise, I just don't think that's appropriate.
Speaker 1: Look I'm a player's wife. You better believe I've had
Speaker 1: strong opinions during a game. I never go there. I
Speaker 1: don't think you should. I think it's embarrassing to the player,
Speaker 1: to your husband, I think it's embarrassing to the team.
Speaker 1: I usha Curry has gotten in trouble for this in
Speaker 1: the past. I have personal sources that tell me Steph
Speaker 1: gets so mad when she does that. I have another
Speaker 1: friend who is married to a starting NFL quarterback who
Speaker 1: gets very defensive on her Instagram when he has a
Speaker 1: bad game. She kind of goes for fans or calls
Speaker 1: them out. I know personally, Sam has told me please
Speaker 1: never reply to mean tweets or say stuff during a game.
Speaker 1: And I'm in the media, so I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: so in tune to that world. One woman, long time
Speaker 1: Chiefs fan, even tweeted to Brittany, stop it's not giving
Speaker 1: the organization a good look. Chiefs are bigger than you,
Speaker 1: me or any one player into this. Brittany Matthew's future
Speaker 1: Mahomes replied, in the nicest way possible shut up. So
Speaker 1: that kind of did it for me. Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: it absolutely sucks to feel beat up on and targeted
Speaker 1: and ridiculed and to watch the person you love get
Speaker 1: beat upon and ridiculed. But that's what comes with the job.
Speaker 1: And she was instigating, she was not defending. What did
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers say this summer? A wise man once said
Speaker 1: nothing at all. I think it shows class and maturity
Speaker 1: to not go there. I'm not saying the whole you know, Oh,
Speaker 1: just sit still and look pretty I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, represent your family and team better than that.
Speaker 1: So I was disappointed in that. I'm a Chiefs fan.
Speaker 1: I'm here in Kansas City. Um, I just I did
Speaker 1: not think that was a good look on behalf of
Speaker 1: her husband who was so beloved, and it was a
Speaker 1: bad loss, and it was a bad look for the franchise. Woof,
Speaker 1: that was a good one. Girl. Drag her girl. I'm
Speaker 1: not dragging anyone. I'm just I'm kidding. That was really good.
Speaker 1: You made a lot of good points. They were all
Speaker 1: great points. But let's be honest. You are the Olivia
Speaker 1: that I know, the O h D that I know
Speaker 1: who loves herself a little Real Housewives, and don't try
Speaker 1: it a lot. You love the drama, I do. I
Speaker 1: love the drama. That was amazing. That was absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: I agree with you the Chiefs. They're in trouble. They
Speaker 1: got a lot of problems right now. I think I
Speaker 1: called it early. I told you, hey, listen, my home's
Speaker 1: got half a billion dollars. It's hard to stay motivated.
Speaker 1: He's doing commercials now. It's not all about him. I
Speaker 1: get that, but he is the he is the head
Speaker 1: of that snake. He's the leader of that team. And
Speaker 1: right now there's a there's trouble in Paradise. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you that right now. We just need to find a
Speaker 1: way to have Patrick Mahomes played defense too, and then
Speaker 1: we might have a chance. We're just horrible on defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's trouble in Paradise. They do not look like they
Speaker 1: have looked great. Unleash. Now it's time for Yanni pop,
Speaker 1: your favorite Greco Roman wrestler to un Alright, Saturday Night
Speaker 1: was an absolute classic. Okay, I'm a big combat sports fan.
Speaker 1: Recently I've become more of an mm A fan for
Speaker 1: a few reasons, one of them being how long it
Speaker 1: takes for these fights that everyone wants to see happen.
Speaker 1: The list goes on. We did not see Mayweather fight
Speaker 1: Paqui out until they were both geriatric. We didn't see
Speaker 1: a lot of fights that we wanted to see. If
Speaker 1: you go back in history, we never saw Vander holy
Speaker 1: Field fight Tyson in their prime. He never even at
Speaker 1: Riddick bow. See that's the difference. Okay, maybe dictatorships are
Speaker 1: better because Dana White, whatever fight the fans want to see,
Speaker 1: he makes them happen. Eat immediately. We've waited so long
Speaker 1: for these two to fight. We've neither one of them
Speaker 1: have even fought Anthony Joshua. Finally we get this trilogy.
Speaker 1: They deliver. All three fights are incredible, but people are
Speaker 1: going off the rails with their comparisons. Right now. Twitter
Speaker 1: is ablaze with questions like who could beat Fury, Is
Speaker 1: Fury the best fighter of all time? Etcetera, etcetera. Calm down,
Speaker 1: put the brakes on it, Karen, Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: He's fought one good guy. He's fought d Wilder, who
Speaker 1: you can argue was dominant in his era because he
Speaker 1: was fighting cupcakes. All he has is a right hand.
Speaker 1: He fights like a robot. He has no head movement,
Speaker 1: he's awkward. He his foot movement is horrible. And Deontay
Speaker 1: Walder has knocked out Tyson Fury three times twice in
Speaker 1: this fight. So it wasn't a dominant performance. The first
Speaker 1: fight wasn't a dominant performance. There was one dominant performance
Speaker 1: and the only other fighter that Tyson Furious thought of
Speaker 1: note is Vladimir Clitchko at the end of his career
Speaker 1: and right now where people are trying to find out
Speaker 1: where he stands as one of the greatest of all times?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Who could be Tyson Fury? Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Lennox lewis, probably even Raiser Ruddick and
Speaker 1: his prime, Mike Tyson and his prime. Who knows, Maybe
Speaker 1: even Buster Douglas would jab his face up. I mean
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people. Vitality Klitchko could probably beat him.
Speaker 1: I mean, he hasn't proved anything. This just shows how
Speaker 1: thirsty boxing has made us for a good fight, that
Speaker 1: everyone is relying on these histrionics and exaggerations and getting
Speaker 1: excited over one fight. The truth is, mm A, the
Speaker 1: whole card is good. There's a good fight on every
Speaker 1: card and they're every week, whereas these boxing matches we
Speaker 1: have to wait years for them to materialize. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say m m A is still winning this battle and
Speaker 1: everyone needs to calm down. And if boxing is gonna
Speaker 1: make a comeback as a sport, because it's really been
Speaker 1: herding of late and numbers are down and there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of guys to fight. They need to unify
Speaker 1: all these belts. They need to make these fights happen quicker,
Speaker 1: and they need to get the corruption out of boxing.
Speaker 1: So hats off to Tyson Fury. But let me just
Speaker 1: say this, Gypsy king, all right, there's still a lot
Speaker 1: of Americans who would in history and maybe even right
Speaker 1: now that will knock you out. You haven't even fought Ruise.
Speaker 1: You haven't even fought Anthony Josy. You haven't even fought
Speaker 1: the the Russian kid who can't speak English who just
Speaker 1: knocked out Anthony Joshua. You have a lot still to prove.
Speaker 1: Everyone shut up about Fury being an all time great. Yes,
Speaker 1: that was an unleashing I unleashed all. You're not the
Speaker 1: only one who loves the trauma. You love the trouble.
Speaker 1: That was good. That was good, Okay, I think it
Speaker 1: sounds Wrap it up and get to our interview and
Speaker 1: get back to NFL because the world of boxing kind
Speaker 1: of confuses me and blows my mind. They should wear
Speaker 1: deodorant anyways, coming up here. Garson is next on the show.
Speaker 1: Our guest today went from Norwich University in Vermont, catching
Speaker 1: passes on the NFL's biggest stage. He led the league
Speaker 1: in receptions with one love when the numbers match up
Speaker 1: like that. Pierre Garson is here. Pierre, how are you
Speaker 1: do do well. I'm glad to be here. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: excited to talk with you. We have so much to
Speaker 1: pick your brain on. And if it's okay with you,
Speaker 1: we love to play silly games with our guests. So
Speaker 1: are you game to play our game? I'm game. I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. Okay, you seem just by your
Speaker 1: aigmatic smile, we're seeing you seem that you like to
Speaker 1: have fun. So I think this is good. Let's get
Speaker 1: into your story a little bit. I mentioned you went
Speaker 1: to Norwich University to Mountain Union to being drafted by
Speaker 1: the Colts. What do you think is the most surprising
Speaker 1: part of your football journey? Maybe not even that segment.
Speaker 1: I just described the surprising part of the journey and
Speaker 1: that it actually, you know, came full circle deby. You know,
Speaker 1: I went to play high school football, played college football,
Speaker 1: then got drafted and played in the the NFL. That's, you know,
Speaker 1: a story in itself up you know, accomplishment and I'm
Speaker 1: happy I played eleven years, but you know, for it
Speaker 1: to actually happen, that's that's pretty pretty special. What was
Speaker 1: your college recruiting like then? Um, in college, you're recruiting
Speaker 1: wasn't much Our high school team wasn't that good, so
Speaker 1: we didn't really uh you know, have many scouts coming
Speaker 1: to our school, so it was hard. But I knew
Speaker 1: as a football rule like if you make plays, you're
Speaker 1: a kid. See, So we just had to make plays
Speaker 1: on the ball field whenever we had an opportunity. But
Speaker 1: when it's even that that good, this man was scared
Speaker 1: souer group. But I knew I had to go to
Speaker 1: college for football. Anyways, it didn't try that cycle all
Speaker 1: over good to try to make place. Do you remember
Speaker 1: your first NFL catch? Oh yeah, I remember, remember it all,
Speaker 1: remember at all, remember it all my first NFL catch. Um,
Speaker 1: it was just it's actually like close to the end
Speaker 1: of the game where it's just like it was like
Speaker 1: garbage time. So it was it was one of those
Speaker 1: were like, hey, this is a four yard catch and
Speaker 1: you know we're winning by a lot. I think it's
Speaker 1: like it's Jacksonville or somebody, and they just it was
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh. Just do me in there just to get
Speaker 1: a get a catch. Hey, it doesn't matter. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was actually gets Pritsburgh and Pittsburgh just a hitch catch.
Speaker 1: We see so many players talk about their draft story
Speaker 1: and guys who fell in the draft then talk about
Speaker 1: how that fueled a whole career, right. I mean you
Speaker 1: still hear Aaron Rodgers talk about that. Tom Brady talked
Speaker 1: about that. We had Austin Ekeler on the show. Now
Speaker 1: he's top ten the NFL and rushing. He was undrafted,
Speaker 1: went to a D two school, Western Colorado. His site
Speaker 1: on that was pretty interesting. I'm curious about yours. Did
Speaker 1: that stick with you in a good way or negative way?
Speaker 1: I think it helps because when you know where you
Speaker 1: come from, like being undrafted or late round traffick, you
Speaker 1: know you have to work for your job because you're
Speaker 1: a late round, right, you're not as valuable. But when
Speaker 1: you become, you know, a first round pick, you know
Speaker 1: they're gonna give you more leeway to prepare or to
Speaker 1: be well, or to make more mistakes. But as a
Speaker 1: undrafted every week, every day there's someone new coming in,
Speaker 1: and they're always low round, low draft picks or undratification,
Speaker 1: and everybody just fight for those last roster spots. So
Speaker 1: it kind of helped me and motivated me. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and thirteen, you lead the NFL in catches.
Speaker 1: Did you go around just yelling at people saying I
Speaker 1: told you so, I told you so, I told you so. No,
Speaker 1: it was it was cool, But we were winning that
Speaker 1: mini game that year too, so it was kind of
Speaker 1: like a sour taste because you know, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do everything and the team's trying to do everything. It's
Speaker 1: just the balls na bouncing our way. But it's cool
Speaker 1: to have that stat, you know, and my and my resume,
Speaker 1: so that you know, I was like, hey, I did
Speaker 1: leave the league and catches going through it. Those guys
Speaker 1: I still got to do more. Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: You didn't have to do more. I mean, it wasn't
Speaker 1: your fault. You did your job. I tried. I tried.
Speaker 1: But you know, we always take the wind over anything else.
Speaker 1: I hear you. I'm always curious when a guy who's
Speaker 1: either a low draft pick or undrafted goes to a team,
Speaker 1: a good team stacked with future Hall of famers like
Speaker 1: you were, Manning, Marvin Harrison, Reggie, Wayne Minitary. What was
Speaker 1: it like even being in the same room and meeting
Speaker 1: those guys. It was the best thing that I could
Speaker 1: ever have because everybody that you're looking up to is
Speaker 1: right there and there atually supposed that you just literally
Speaker 1: have to watch and listen to them and see how
Speaker 1: they do things. They're like, all right, cool, this is
Speaker 1: this is why you did that, This is how you
Speaker 1: do this perfect. Why why would you question you? You
Speaker 1: know exactly how to do it, and I want to
Speaker 1: do it exactly how you did it. So it was
Speaker 1: the perfect situation for me. And I wasn't rushed to play.
Speaker 1: That wasn't rushed to you know, perform. It was like,
Speaker 1: all right, watch these guys and take clues from him.
Speaker 1: You know, they know what they're doing. And that's what
Speaker 1: our coach and our position coach said, Hey, watched older guys.
Speaker 1: Makes sense. Well, you just said something really interesting that
Speaker 1: piqued my interest. You said I wasn't rushed to do anything.
Speaker 1: I know you played wide receiver. But when you look
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position and you see some rookies who
Speaker 1: are rushed to start, not in not on a great team,
Speaker 1: not even in a very stable organization, much worse position
Speaker 1: than you, what are your thoughts? I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: even have to name names for you to know three
Speaker 1: or four I'm talking about. Yeah, it's it's the change,
Speaker 1: it's how the game has changed now where you know,
Speaker 1: they want you to become NFL already right out of college,
Speaker 1: and it's it's unfortunately, what the damage that we are in.
Speaker 1: But back then, you know, first round picks, you know,
Speaker 1: first two picks didn't really play until they were prepared.
Speaker 1: But out it's like, hey performed now because we have
Speaker 1: five years or four years to make a decision if
Speaker 1: you've got to, you know, keep playing with you're not.
Speaker 1: So it's it's the change in the game. But the
Speaker 1: guys are rushing into the situation, but they have to
Speaker 1: find leaderships in other places that can help them, you know,
Speaker 1: play faster on the field. So if you're a coach
Speaker 1: or GM, do you start a rookie quarterback unless they're
Speaker 1: just a prodigy, or do you give him a couple
Speaker 1: of years? Um, it depends. Every person is different, every
Speaker 1: individuals because there's some guys coming from the process into
Speaker 1: the college system. Some guys are ready for it, but
Speaker 1: you're never really ready to start NFL games, first fresh
Speaker 1: fresh rookie game, you know in the NFL, like fresh
Speaker 1: eye cologe. You're not ready. But you can adapt a
Speaker 1: lot faster depending on the court system you have around here.
Speaker 1: So it's every quarterback is different. Do you think recruiters
Speaker 1: sometimes miss talent like you, sometimes quarterbacks because they're two
Speaker 1: into the they're two into like the prototypical six ft
Speaker 1: three receiver and they sort of miss the guy like
Speaker 1: you who's six ft not the proto to but you
Speaker 1: still can crush it. Yeah, they definitely missed, but it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot of thing where recruiters are laying
Speaker 1: for players. It's you know, there's height, and in there's
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes there's development. Some guys they developed later
Speaker 1: on in their career because once you understand it, all
Speaker 1: clicks that you don't have to think, you just play
Speaker 1: and react. Because some guys are literally out there on
Speaker 1: the field and they're nervous and easy guys that are
Speaker 1: in the NFL, not just high school or college players.
Speaker 1: So the guys are getting missed. But once you get
Speaker 1: comfortable and once you understand the game, you can develop,
Speaker 1: you can perform as your natural talent because you're not overthinking,
Speaker 1: you're not you know, second guessing yourself. So recruiters missed guys,
Speaker 1: but it's up to the players to keep showing who
Speaker 1: they really are and that you know it takes time,
Speaker 1: and that recruit don't come to that one game that
Speaker 1: you're falling at. You kind of missed an opportunity. Some
Speaker 1: guys who do get overlooked end up sending out their
Speaker 1: tape themselves and kind of being like an agent for themselves.
Speaker 1: Did you do anything like that? That's that's what I have.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's exactly what I did. So my coach
Speaker 1: each candle Um, he's a head coach night to leader,
Speaker 1: who's my right receiver? Coach at Mount Union so at
Speaker 1: Vermont and norwhich I played one year there and I
Speaker 1: had a really good year, and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I gotta get out of here because football wasn't their
Speaker 1: main you know, I think it was a military school.
Speaker 1: So I was like, what's the best school in Division three?
Speaker 1: Because I didn't want to go up because I had
Speaker 1: to sit out. So I made a copy of my
Speaker 1: highlight tape. I stick athletic tape on there and mailed
Speaker 1: it to Mount Union to coach Carres. Lady Carris and
Speaker 1: coach Campbell got back to me and said, hey, this
Speaker 1: is what you gotta do if you want to transfer,
Speaker 1: and you know that's all she wrote. I should I
Speaker 1: did everything. I showed up for you know, training camp
Speaker 1: in the mountain. That was the start of my Mountain
Speaker 1: ere So I made my own highlight tape and sent
Speaker 1: into the coach and and he's the head coach now Toledo,
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of coaches from that tree of
Speaker 1: Mount Union now, I Matt Campbell's I would State coaching,
Speaker 1: and Vince Carress, I think vincecars that Toledo who was
Speaker 1: those guys? And Nick Sirianni he's the Philadelphia years coaching
Speaker 1: here in my position coach as well at my Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's the Philadelphia head coach now. So yeah, we all
Speaker 1: kind of work together to help each other grow. That's
Speaker 1: an awesome story. Did you put like some cool music
Speaker 1: on the highlight reel? That? That crazy thing about it?
Speaker 1: I couldn't have because I was back then when vhs
Speaker 1: is were the thing was. It wasn't YouTube, it wasn't
Speaker 1: where you can create you all. It was literally vhs
Speaker 1: like stop record, stop, record, stop record. But the coaches
Speaker 1: understood it. When you, uh, that's awesome. When you line
Speaker 1: up against a d back, um, it's like it's a
Speaker 1: one on one experience. Are you guys talking to each
Speaker 1: other did you ever, you know, try to use any
Speaker 1: psychological games, like start talking French to him and he's like,
Speaker 1: what did you say? You do have different strategies when
Speaker 1: you know it presents a so but you will come
Speaker 1: in thinking that you're gonna trash unless you have a
Speaker 1: previous history of the person. But sometimes you just try
Speaker 1: to keep it clean. Especially on the first quarter, you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, you know, I'm just trying to do my job,
Speaker 1: you know. But once you know, the game starts going,
Speaker 1: third quarter, fourth quarter, and things are on a lot
Speaker 1: of things getting more chippy, and you know, you're made
Speaker 1: up and bow up a lot, so it's it's it
Speaker 1: close to the end of the game, it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I don't really you know, I don't care who you
Speaker 1: are now, but we're trying to win these games. So
Speaker 1: I have to block. I have to black your heart
Speaker 1: and black your heart. I fact the you know, push you,
Speaker 1: I push you like whatever it takes, you know, to
Speaker 1: to to get the extra edge that we what we
Speaker 1: need on the field. Now. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: were much of a talker, but your game certainly was
Speaker 1: known to be tenacious, bulldog fighter. You know, we think
Speaker 1: of you with that style. So who did you have
Speaker 1: beef with? Was there a defensive n it was all
Speaker 1: up in your face all the time. Or we always
Speaker 1: talked to the defensive players because you know they're trying
Speaker 1: to stop with us, we're trying to go through them.
Speaker 1: So you know, I always talked, but it wasn't It
Speaker 1: didn't carry off the field. But it was mostly just
Speaker 1: keep myself energetic. And because they hit, they hit us,
Speaker 1: we hit them. But we feel both sides feel it.
Speaker 1: But you can't show weakness. Something feels, so you have to,
Speaker 1: you know, always be some nations and strong and hard.
Speaker 1: So there wasn't a cornerback. And the numbers something I
Speaker 1: want to say I had all their numbers, but you
Speaker 1: know that's true. So there's there's times where you know
Speaker 1: they have my numbers, and there's time where you know
Speaker 1: I can get mess up. But you know there's always
Speaker 1: guys that they have to give competition, they give a context,
Speaker 1: they play man a man too. Yeah, we've seen so
Speaker 1: many kickers miss extra points this season. I mean last week,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's ever happened in NFL history. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you had out of vinitary and then on other teams,
Speaker 1: to be honest, was there ever some guys that you
Speaker 1: that you just wanted to you wanted to toss the
Speaker 1: kicker off the team bus man. There were there were
Speaker 1: times where we were going through kickers and it was
Speaker 1: it was you know, it was tough because you don't
Speaker 1: know and you think you can do the job because
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, all you just do, really do, is kick,
Speaker 1: But apparently you know there's more to it than just that.
Speaker 1: So every time when you get fresh and you have
Speaker 1: no hope in your kicking, but when you do have
Speaker 1: adamentitary of your team, you know you have a knight
Speaker 1: seeing chance of making it. Like if you miss it,
Speaker 1: it's a rare thing that he missed. So I got
Speaker 1: to get with that in my career and when I
Speaker 1: was there. Also Dustin Hopkins was was on the Redskins
Speaker 1: and he had came in. He made like nineteen in
Speaker 1: a row when he first signed with us, and you know,
Speaker 1: it was kind of cool. But there were times where
Speaker 1: we were like, we gotta escort to down. We don't
Speaker 1: have a kicker. We don't trust kicker. Now that we
Speaker 1: don't have what, we don't trust it. You always have
Speaker 1: to have one honest, so hung up on this every week. Honest,
Speaker 1: you bring up the kicking situation. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a point difference. You also got to
Speaker 1: think Bill Belichick for getting the route change where they
Speaker 1: have to move back, you know, about twenty some yards
Speaker 1: to kicker extra point. Yeah. I mean, all I know
Speaker 1: is if I played my heart out and put my
Speaker 1: health in the line and then some guy comes on
Speaker 1: misses it, I'll tell you what. The locker room is
Speaker 1: gonna be awkward afterwards. He's at least gonna have to
Speaker 1: hold my gear for a couple of weeks or something,
Speaker 1: shores around my house. I'm telling you. It's not let
Speaker 1: them go easy. It's it's they feel attention. They they
Speaker 1: feel it because they literally sit around practice and you
Speaker 1: know they kick for the beginning of practice and kicking
Speaker 1: the miller of practice, but after that they're just literally,
Speaker 1: you know, hanging out watching practice, and you know it
Speaker 1: doesn't always come down to one place, but you feel
Speaker 1: like it came down to one place. Yeah. So the
Speaker 1: fans everybody, and they get it. They have a short
Speaker 1: lease too. Oh man. I always feel bad for their families,
Speaker 1: you know, Pierre you said something and just saying earlier
Speaker 1: about Nick Sirianni being your position coach, I didn't even
Speaker 1: realize that. But you've also worked with Kyle Shanahan, Searle McVey,
Speaker 1: mats at the time, did you know that these guys
Speaker 1: would go on to become some of the top offensive
Speaker 1: minds in the NFL. You don't think about it because
Speaker 1: it's such a long career where you know, guys bounce
Speaker 1: around it. But I'm so at it that they, you know,
Speaker 1: became head coaches that we knew that they could they
Speaker 1: could become, and we're happy for him. I'm happy for him,
Speaker 1: and I didn't I couldn't say, yeah, I knew three
Speaker 1: of my position coaches or four we're gonna be NFL
Speaker 1: head coaches, yessing, you know, I'd like I hope you
Speaker 1: guys do, but I can't guarantee it will happen. But
Speaker 1: you know, I'm so happy that those guys are happenose
Speaker 1: and they're thriving and those opportunities to Okay, what did
Speaker 1: you think about the Shanahan the floor drama and it
Speaker 1: was capped off by an ice cold drive by handshake
Speaker 1: at the end of that game. You know, both of them.
Speaker 1: What do you think those guys they will be all
Speaker 1: right there, those guys a be all right. I didn't
Speaker 1: I didn't get to see all of it, but they'll
Speaker 1: be all right because those guys, they they they're so
Speaker 1: they've been friends forever. So you know, it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of drama TV drama. But you know, uh, Cale
Speaker 1: hates losing. I never people hate looting losing more than
Speaker 1: any coach that I've been around. And I'm the same
Speaker 1: way too, So I think that's why we jeeled pretty well.
Speaker 1: You know what, Pierre, I love the Washington football team.
Speaker 1: I like the name, okay, but they're looking for a name.
Speaker 1: What do you think they should name it? Two? You
Speaker 1: think they should name it? They should name the team
Speaker 1: something to honor the city, like maybe Washington lobby owned
Speaker 1: senators or Washington trillion dollar depths, maybe illegal campaign man.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, like nothing's gonna hold on to the to
Speaker 1: the to the last name that they had. And it's
Speaker 1: it's so hard because every nobody's gonna be happy with
Speaker 1: the new name, even the washingt football team name. Now
Speaker 1: that some people are starting to get used to it,
Speaker 1: they're like, don't change it. So I wouldn't even know
Speaker 1: what direction to start with picking that name, because whatever
Speaker 1: you pick, it won't satisfy everybody. How about the bipartisan
Speaker 1: hacks they like? And I love it? Yea, honest, I
Speaker 1: bet there's I bet you have a long list of
Speaker 1: things you're not even saying for your name idea, I like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like the million dollar speeches to Wall Street after
Speaker 1: you leave office. I like that name. That could work.
Speaker 1: Or maybe the defense budget quadrupled while healthcare and public
Speaker 1: education gets slashed. That would be a good day. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of issues in Washington, Deer, What is a
Speaker 1: name idea that you would have if they were to
Speaker 1: ask you? You know, it's crazy. We were on a
Speaker 1: like a committee, the Commedia committee, exactly for your name.
Speaker 1: I had one long time ago, and I totally forgot
Speaker 1: which one it was, but you forgot it. It's been
Speaker 1: it's been that long. But it was something like I
Speaker 1: think like to do with like you said, the army,
Speaker 1: defense or or protection the city, something that I can't
Speaker 1: remember now at the top of the head, but it was.
Speaker 1: It was so many different names. It's just none of
Speaker 1: really stuck to me and I and when it doesn't
Speaker 1: stick you don't remember it, which is now, that's funny.
Speaker 1: You played for Matt Lafleur. You were talking about him
Speaker 1: a little bit ago. He's got the top receiver in
Speaker 1: the league right now, Adams. And is he your favorite
Speaker 1: receiver to watch or there's someone else you just love
Speaker 1: watching right now? Who do I love watching? I like
Speaker 1: watching the guys that I played with because I can
Speaker 1: see their growing. But Adam is, you know, he's amazing,
Speaker 1: and he has a great quarterback and he is very
Speaker 1: very good. I like watching um he's snaking the ball
Speaker 1: as much. But Amari Cooper, he's very smooth, very very
Speaker 1: good in his routes. DK metcalf is very very good
Speaker 1: for his size and his speed and quickness and and
Speaker 1: he's he's a beast and he's playing like a beast,
Speaker 1: which is what we love when you're big and you're
Speaker 1: playing big. I definitely love that. Who was I love watching?
Speaker 1: There's a lot of great guys. Of course, Tyreek Kio
Speaker 1: wouldn't you know, he's just exciting every time he gets
Speaker 1: the ball just he literally just can do anything on
Speaker 1: the feeling leave the guys still. Those guys are are
Speaker 1: are very very good and watching they bring a sitement.
Speaker 1: If you could play with any quarterback right now, current quarterback,
Speaker 1: who would you want to play with? Of course? And
Speaker 1: Rogers tom Brady, of course. You know those guys want
Speaker 1: to throw the ball. And that's how I gotta lucky
Speaker 1: with Peyton, Like he wants to throw a touchdown and
Speaker 1: he wants you to catch the ball. Like that's the
Speaker 1: best thing for receiver, you know, coming from a run
Speaker 1: first and then passed, just to be like all right,
Speaker 1: let's hope we get to do the ball. But playing
Speaker 1: with those guys like they want to throw the ball.
Speaker 1: So Tom Brady, Aaron Peyton, those guys the greatest receivers,
Speaker 1: and the receivers on there are so super happy. They're
Speaker 1: happy to go to work. Oh yeah, did you guys
Speaker 1: see Josh Allen jump over a defender last week? I
Speaker 1: was very talented to Josh. That was a quarterback and man,
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. Those guys, those guys are they throw the ball.
Speaker 1: They love to go the ball and they throw a far.
Speaker 1: I'm a Greek kid, right, so I've heard every joke
Speaker 1: about my name. You know, my name is Joannice. I've
Speaker 1: heard Uraney said, how many times have you heard the
Speaker 1: gar Son coffee joke. I like Garl, the waiter and
Speaker 1: the coffee, all of it. So it's a cop cots. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's rememberable. They try to remember it, and you know,
Speaker 1: they definitely haven't heard it before. Now Here's the thing,
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know about you. You own
Speaker 1: a pizza place, You're you're on a pizza shop, your
Speaker 1: pizza lover. So let me let me ask you this, right,
Speaker 1: fuck Mary Kill, fuck Mary Kill. New York style, Chicago style,
Speaker 1: Detroit style. I don't even know what Detroit style is.
Speaker 1: I New New York. I like, you know, what's funny?
Speaker 1: I do love deep dish pizza. I think that's Chicago, right,
Speaker 1: and they think, yeah, so so yeah, so that questions, Yeah, Chicago,
Speaker 1: what's Detroit style pizza? Detroit? They do it like they
Speaker 1: don't use mozzarella. They use like whisk hunts and cheese
Speaker 1: and they cook them individually in a pan. It's a
Speaker 1: little deep dish. They're kind of like squares, but they
Speaker 1: don't use mozzarella. So which is like if your Italian,
Speaker 1: that's like, you know, that's a discuss, y'all. So have
Speaker 1: you ever can you ever do like since your Haitian,
Speaker 1: you ever make a suggestion like, yo, let's put some
Speaker 1: chicken creole on this pizza. I have, I have chicken
Speaker 1: on there, put barbecue saws. We're making like a barbecue pizza,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to switch it up. But you know
Speaker 1: they've americanized it, but with a lot of spices. Were
Speaker 1: making a little Haitian style a little bit, but it
Speaker 1: was it was always fun to get creative in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: It was always fun. We had a lot of free
Speaker 1: time to get creative in the kitchen. How did you
Speaker 1: get in the pizza business? Oh Man, I had a
Speaker 1: friend um, he runs a lot of restaurants in d C.
Speaker 1: I wanted to get into it because, you know, I
Speaker 1: wanted to learn more about business and it was all
Speaker 1: about customer service and you know, and and enjoying the
Speaker 1: time with the fans. We definitely started up and had
Speaker 1: events at the restaurant where the fans came out and
Speaker 1: support and it was another business opportunity. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to take it en Wow DC and it worked out
Speaker 1: well for me. You know, it's it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a tough business, but it was it was fun. I
Speaker 1: learned a lot, learned a lot. Yeah, okay, well before
Speaker 1: we get to our game, because our game is gonna
Speaker 1: be really fun. But I would be remiss not to
Speaker 1: ask you about Peyton Manning. Everyone always hears about how
Speaker 1: cerebral he is, the genius behind Peyton Manning. Do you
Speaker 1: have an example of maybe the first time you saw
Speaker 1: that flicker or the first time you were like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, this is legit, this is what they're talking about. Oh,
Speaker 1: I saw it a lot because my first year, like
Speaker 1: I said, I wasn't rushing to the the place, so I
Speaker 1: got to sit back and watch him and Reggie him,
Speaker 1: and Marvin him, and Gonzo him and Dallas Clark and
Speaker 1: just how they operate. And they literally made it look
Speaker 1: easy out there in the field. It was like practicing.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing Reggie catch the ball. They're all on the
Speaker 1: same page. They're reading hots, they're checking off blisses, and
Speaker 1: it's like these defenders have no chances. Like the defenders
Speaker 1: they have no we have an answer for. Peyton has
Speaker 1: an answer for Reggie has and they're all on the
Speaker 1: same page and they're making it look so easy, and
Speaker 1: you're like, wow, like these guys are really really good,
Speaker 1: and I see him in practice. I'm like, these guys
Speaker 1: are not that special, but they're all on the same page.
Speaker 1: Because when you're younger, you're more physically you know, you
Speaker 1: got more energy, your physical athletic. You just are not
Speaker 1: in the same mindset as those guys because they're in
Speaker 1: tune with each other. As a young guy, you just
Speaker 1: have there running full speed. And when I came in,
Speaker 1: I was fashioning those guys, but I wasn't making plays
Speaker 1: like those guys. So he was like, Wow, these guys
Speaker 1: are just like amazing on game days and practice they're
Speaker 1: good too. With on the game days, it's like, wow,
Speaker 1: they just don't mess up. Man, Peyton was special. What's
Speaker 1: Payton like in the locker room? He seems like he
Speaker 1: has a good sense of humor as you lose, He's
Speaker 1: he's a very very good locker room um coach and player,
Speaker 1: because you know, when it's moments where you gotta get serious,
Speaker 1: he'll let you know like, Hey, this is what we're
Speaker 1: working on, this is what you're saying. What did you see?
Speaker 1: What do you think? Like he's gathering information so that
Speaker 1: he can make it easier on him and yourself. And
Speaker 1: when it's like you know, free time, he's he's telling jokes,
Speaker 1: he's you know, he remembers funny things on the field
Speaker 1: or you know, camera moments that you know that not
Speaker 1: everybody catches onto. So you know, he is a human
Speaker 1: being and he see he gets down serious business when
Speaker 1: it's time to be successful. Have you been watching him
Speaker 1: with Eli on that broadcast? I have not, not as
Speaker 1: not as much. But those guys are very, very funny.
Speaker 1: Guys are very very I like to ask every I'm
Speaker 1: a big giant fan, so I just like to ask
Speaker 1: every guest we have when the opportunity comes up, if
Speaker 1: you had to pick one manning in the playoffs, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: when the chips are down and it means something, you're
Speaker 1: taking your boy Payton? Are you taking my boy? Eli? Man?
Speaker 1: You know that's that's a that's a tough question. Eli
Speaker 1: has you know two Super Bowl one team I think
Speaker 1: it is, and Payton has two Super Bowl of two teams.
Speaker 1: But when it came down to the crushed town, I'm
Speaker 1: taking paid because he's made it to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: He's had a better regular season win at uh win
Speaker 1: per Center. So it came down to the right warden
Speaker 1: than Eli did, because you know, we all start off
Speaker 1: with the first quarter second board, but the fourth quarters
Speaker 1: where it comes down and those game winning drives is
Speaker 1: what you know, keep you around forever. But Eli is
Speaker 1: not far far off. Yeah, thank you. Well, now that
Speaker 1: you said that, I just gotta ask in person, how
Speaker 1: big is Peyton's forehead? Is it as big as it's big?
Speaker 1: I'm really glad he said forehead? Yeah, yeah, exactly because
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, they're they're in the locker room. So
Speaker 1: now that's the fun guyhead, Olivia, tell him about the
Speaker 1: fun fear. Throughout your NFL career, you made some great catches.
Speaker 1: But today we're gonna ask you a question and there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a catch. You'll have to decide if it's
Speaker 1: worth it. Okay, you ready, we're calling it. Here's the catch.
Speaker 1: Here's a good one. Yeah, since this is I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, in my search, this is the only person
Speaker 1: I found you had beef with, and I like what
Speaker 1: you called him to Anyway, Pierre, if you had a
Speaker 1: chance to win a million dollars, right, but here's the catch,
Speaker 1: you had to fight J. J. Watt in the celebrity
Speaker 1: boxing match. Would you do it? Oh? Man? I had
Speaker 1: to stay away. I had to get him tired. A
Speaker 1: big guy, very very big guy man and this box
Speaker 1: day I got strong, he'd probably getting a body shot
Speaker 1: and oh man, uh I'll pass. I like my body
Speaker 1: too much, getting right with j J H. Alright, we
Speaker 1: advantages too much already you got the speed doll. I
Speaker 1: mean you jab him up, keep them away with the job,
Speaker 1: and I'd have to tire him out that that would
Speaker 1: be the only way. But if he if he who
Speaker 1: if he connect? Yeah, I feel sorry, I feel sorry. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's a good one. You get offered the wide receiver
Speaker 1: coach job, and it's guaranteed you're going to make more
Speaker 1: money than the head coach. Right, never been done before,
Speaker 1: but this is happening for you. Here's the catch. It's
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. I do it as a as a receiver.
Speaker 1: As a receiver. You think you can help anybody become
Speaker 1: a better receiver because you actually done it, and you
Speaker 1: know coach gets just communicate. So I definitely do it.
Speaker 1: In you know, we can develop players. I'm a I'm
Speaker 1: a books firmer league and developing players. Okay, I was developed,
Speaker 1: So I I take that catch. Yeah, we should have said,
Speaker 1: here's the catch. You have the baby, said urban Meyer
Speaker 1: when he goes out with it to man, it's it's tough.
Speaker 1: Losing is tough. It's tough. I might go out to
Speaker 1: the bars with urban Yeah, he might go out to
Speaker 1: the bars with her. Mark I'd be there too. That's
Speaker 1: always risky. I mean, he's a risk. All right. Here's
Speaker 1: one to find out if you are you know, if
Speaker 1: you're more emotional or if you're all business when it
Speaker 1: comes to that win. So here, here's it. Here it is, Pierre.
Speaker 1: You could win your fantasy football league. But here's the catch.
Speaker 1: You have to draft players you absolutely can't stand that
Speaker 1: you hate. Draft. Is it worth it for the win?
Speaker 1: It's worth it for the way, it's worth it for that.
Speaker 1: I draft players that I draft J J. Watt on Dense.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, go get the quarterback. We we need interceptions, guys,
Speaker 1: go get an interceptions the quarterbacks. So yeah, definitely draft
Speaker 1: players that I don't like. Yes, it's a player that
Speaker 1: I don't like, so that's easy for me. But yeah, defenders,
Speaker 1: we'll like him as much. Right, Okay, Well, as we're
Speaker 1: approaching Thanksgiving, you get invited to the manning house for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: But here's the catch. Every time you ask him to
Speaker 1: pass a side dish or something, someone yells, oh mahal.
Speaker 1: We had to get used to all those sides, so
Speaker 1: it just never a cold words. So I can adjust
Speaker 1: quickly do that. Okay, all right, I got one. I
Speaker 1: know you love golf. You're a big time golf lover.
Speaker 1: Here's your deal. I'm working on it, working on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you could be the best golfer on the planet, win
Speaker 1: every tournament. But here's the catch. You could never have
Speaker 1: played football. Would you do it? You know what? You
Speaker 1: know what, there's more winnings in golf there is in football.
Speaker 1: You can playing golf a lot longer. So if I
Speaker 1: had to start a back over and inheren see that
Speaker 1: I'd win. I'd be tagger Woods, tiger Woods over receiving.
Speaker 1: That's a good golf dee thin receiver. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's Golf is probably the safest sport you can go
Speaker 1: the longest. And I always wondered when when golfers retire,
Speaker 1: what do they do? Get a job? I mean, how
Speaker 1: do you how do you retire from? Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: great way they traveling now they travel when they playing
Speaker 1: golf and travel. Well, that's what they do during their career.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I guess they don't retire. They just Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's weird, Like you retire from golf, you just go
Speaker 1: play more golf. Okay, Pierre. You get traded to a
Speaker 1: team and a player has the uniform number that you want,
Speaker 1: he'll get it to you. But here's the catch. You
Speaker 1: have to personally wash his uniform after every practice in
Speaker 1: every game. Wow, and that that almost happened to him,
Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, do you want to pay for what?
Speaker 1: I was like, I'll just make up a new number
Speaker 1: because I'm not that tied to it. Some guys are
Speaker 1: tied to Yeah. I wasn't tied to any number like that.
Speaker 1: So it was like a fresh star every new place
Speaker 1: that I went to. Yeah, my husband plays basketball, and
Speaker 1: what he's done when that happens is he just adds
Speaker 1: his previous two numbers together. Yeah, make up a new number. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's only growing. Yeah. That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I think that's it, right. Yeah, I appreciate Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: it man. You were so much fun. Pierre. Thank you, guys.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to ask you one last question because
Speaker 1: I'm curious. This is just for me. What do you
Speaker 1: think some more beautiful language English or French? French? French?
Speaker 1: I agree? Uh wait, but by far, by far, Greek
Speaker 1: is great great to Spanish is oh man, French is
Speaker 1: beautiful tale you know, Talion is very beautiful to as Yeah,
Speaker 1: but French is just music. I wish I learned French
Speaker 1: just so I could use it for dirty talk. I'm
Speaker 1: still learning French. It's a tough language to learn, but
Speaker 1: it's fun. It is very very beautiful. Okay, am I
Speaker 1: saying this right? Pass? How can we me? Yes? Cpierre,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. This was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Thank you. I really appreciate it. Guys.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, wow, wow wow. That was a lot of
Speaker 1: fun with Pierre. Thanks so much again, Mr Gncin for
Speaker 1: joining us. Now we bring in another Pierre kind of
Speaker 1: Peter Andrew from bet mbm our Betty Expert. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for joining of Peter. Oh, very good from an
Speaker 1: Italian Greek. That was great French from now and I'm
Speaker 1: going to call you because you're Greek. Now, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: After this weekend, what are you gonna call me? Honest,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you because you beat me again this week,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you the devil. Hey, I'm gonna remember
Speaker 1: that because I could still change a couple of things
Speaker 1: in the outro that you're reading in a bit. I
Speaker 1: wanna remember that. God, I hate losing to you. I know,
Speaker 1: I hate losing to you. That's what makes this fun, Peter.
Speaker 1: Last week I won punishment picks. I did pretty good.
Speaker 1: In fact, I should have gone three for three because
Speaker 1: I took the Chiefs over the Bills on the show.
Speaker 1: But as the week went on, I do a bunch
Speaker 1: of radio shows throughout the week and they asked my
Speaker 1: takes and I took the Bills on every other show.
Speaker 1: So I feel like I'm kind of three for three
Speaker 1: here when they really dug into the matchup. I'm just
Speaker 1: not hot on the Chiefs, as everyone has heard earlier.
Speaker 1: But walk us through kind of big bets, big bus.
Speaker 1: Everything from this past NFL weekend, Yeah wow, what a
Speaker 1: crazy week. I mean from Kickers missing everything, p a
Speaker 1: T s Field goals, I mean a wild Chargers game.
Speaker 1: You saw a little bit of everything. I think it
Speaker 1: capped off of last night with a crazy comeback by
Speaker 1: the Ravens. You know, us as a sports book. We
Speaker 1: took a beating a lot of favorites one um, so
Speaker 1: it was a really tough weekend for us. And actually
Speaker 1: the Ravens coming back and winning that game yesterday really
Speaker 1: hurt us a lot of Parlay's finishing off with just
Speaker 1: Ravens moneyline, so we took we took a big beating
Speaker 1: on that. But it was really fun weekend for the fans.
Speaker 1: You know, last night, I think you really got to
Speaker 1: see what, you know, how things can change in just
Speaker 1: the span of was a twelve minutes probably, I think
Speaker 1: it was twenty two to nine at one point. Ravens
Speaker 1: come back. Lamar Jackson looked absolutely incredible. So yeah, really
Speaker 1: fun week. But we're gonna make some money back this weekend,
Speaker 1: so hopefully a couple of dogs come back and and
Speaker 1: take some wins in week five, weeks six. I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that Ravens game on Monday night football, I mean,
Speaker 1: how sustainable. I mean, he looks incredible, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: but their defense, what is going on with their defense?
Speaker 1: I mean it looked like they were It looked like
Speaker 1: I was watching a bullfight in Spain and they would
Speaker 1: just letting them march down the field. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: got lucky couple of times too, So I think they
Speaker 1: got lucky with the Blankenship didn't come in for one
Speaker 1: of the one of the kicks, they had their punter
Speaker 1: kicking off side. There was so much going on, But
Speaker 1: you're right, Lamar Jackson. It's not sustainable for him to
Speaker 1: just the total yards of the game or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: He got lucky. Mark Andrews had a really good second half.
Speaker 1: But that defense needs to show up. And I get
Speaker 1: guys like Patrick Queen there that are very capable, potential
Speaker 1: defensive Player of the Year kind of candidates. So they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to play a little bit better two way
Speaker 1: ball if they're gonna see themselves, you know, in that
Speaker 1: playoff pushing a couple of weeks. I gotta ask you
Speaker 1: a question, as a Giants fan, do you think the
Speaker 1: Giants should sign the health care system as like an
Speaker 1: additional member of their team, just to help out, just
Speaker 1: to be right there on the field. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is getting ridiculous. What what is God not a Giant fan,
Speaker 1: but it's pretty bad what golidays her. Obviously, se Kwan's
Speaker 1: ankle looks terrible. I think he's already considered doubtful for
Speaker 1: this week, and Jones tough to be a New York fan.
Speaker 1: I guess as the whole because the Jets been looked
Speaker 1: too hot. You know, I can relate. Giants are similar
Speaker 1: to Niners right now, where just everybody's getting banged up.
Speaker 1: Trey lances out a couple of weeks, and it seems
Speaker 1: like Kwan is going to be like that for at
Speaker 1: least a couple That's a brutal injury for running back. Obviously,
Speaker 1: then he is worse, but he had that last year. Now,
Speaker 1: going down to the ankle, it's never fun and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be tough for the Giants, I think for the
Speaker 1: rest of the year. Yeah, sorry, honest, you know. Last weekend,
Speaker 1: I'm also sorry to both of you. You didn't get
Speaker 1: a come party with us in Vegas. We had such
Speaker 1: a good time the whole bit MGM family at the
Speaker 1: Fury Wild Or Fight guys. It was the first fight
Speaker 1: I've ever been to. It was awesome him, But I'm
Speaker 1: curious how it played out for the sports book. I
Speaker 1: personally didn't bet on it down there in Vegas. I
Speaker 1: was really successful betting on football this weekend. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you more about that in a bit, But I didn't
Speaker 1: do the fight because I felt very strongly Fury was
Speaker 1: gonna win and there wasn't great value he was so
Speaker 1: heavily favored. But how did it fair for the sports book? Yeah?
Speaker 1: First off, I think you honest agree you're spoiled rotten
Speaker 1: there for for that being your first fight. Probably best fight,
Speaker 1: I said in ten fifteen years, probably best I've seen.
Speaker 1: We actually did really good as a book. A lot
Speaker 1: of money came in on Wilder, yeah, which was kind
Speaker 1: of surprising to me. So I had personally a Fury
Speaker 1: just straight up to win. I think it was like
Speaker 1: minus tweety five. I got it, and then I had
Speaker 1: in minus one tan kot Ko so got lucky there
Speaker 1: in the eleven. But my god, what a fight. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it was two to one. Punch is taken
Speaker 1: by Wilder. He was just upper cuts to the jaw,
Speaker 1: just every time you look. He was taking a different
Speaker 1: kind of shot, clean shots to the belly, and it's
Speaker 1: pretty impressive, honestly for him to take that many. And
Speaker 1: I think off to the sixth round, all three d
Speaker 1: just had him up. I think that's right, honest, But
Speaker 1: he did yeah, really really good fight. Yeah, I'd love
Speaker 1: to see a fourth, but it seems like that ship
Speaker 1: sailed and it's it's over now. Yeah. Like I said
Speaker 1: in the opening, I mean, it was a great fight,
Speaker 1: but it was just finally good to see a good
Speaker 1: fight where guys didn't just hug each other all night
Speaker 1: and went on points and it was just it was
Speaker 1: good for boxing. But I mean people are overdoing it
Speaker 1: with calling it, you know, calling uh calling Fury the
Speaker 1: greatest of all time and now just because you know,
Speaker 1: he beat he beat down, he got knocked down twice.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I don't even know if he
Speaker 1: could beat Razor Ruddick if they fought back in the day.
Speaker 1: So there is a fight coming up that we could
Speaker 1: bet on that. I know Olivia is gonna have a
Speaker 1: tough time because bet MGM tweeted, what celebrity do you
Speaker 1: think you could knock out? I obviously said Jake Paul
Speaker 1: and the guess who got into the fray, Mrs Sam
Speaker 1: Decker said he's gonna knock me out. And let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. Oh yeah, you gotta get on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Listen see you calling me out. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: I will box your groin area. Okay, you're gonna do
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, you got the height advantage, but make
Speaker 1: no mistake, your groin is right at face level. I
Speaker 1: will box the hell out of your groin area. So
Speaker 1: if you're gonna put some money, Olivia, who are you
Speaker 1: taking me? And are you betting with your head? Because
Speaker 1: if you're betting with your head, you're taking me because
Speaker 1: you know I'm gonna win. You know, Sam is an
Speaker 1: athletic freak. He's long in every way. He's ripped. I bite,
Speaker 1: I bite, Okay, hey so does he he? Hi? Mrs Decker, Hi,
Speaker 1: Mr Pampas. Okay, I'm I'm having too much fun on
Speaker 1: this week's episode. Okay, let's get to some of the
Speaker 1: NFL action this weekend, guys, before anyone fights each other's
Speaker 1: spouses punishment, Let's get to this first one. Rams at
Speaker 1: Giants Rams ten and a half points favorite. That kind
Speaker 1: of surprised me. I mean, we're talking about the Giants
Speaker 1: all banged up, but I don't know. That's kind of
Speaker 1: a big number. Peter, Yeah, it is a big number.
Speaker 1: It's it's a tricky one for me because the rams
Speaker 1: are leaps and downs better. But it's not just the
Speaker 1: Giants can't keep it a close game. I don't think
Speaker 1: they have a shot of winning. I would have guessed
Speaker 1: this is probably a seven and a half to eight
Speaker 1: and a half point game. But yeah, see what you
Speaker 1: guys think. Think ten and a half makes it or
Speaker 1: or Giants cover? Yeah, Honese, you go first? No, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you know what, it might as well bet
Speaker 1: on the Giants. I'm betting on the Giants. Why might
Speaker 1: as well? I'm well, because you know, I'm a loyal person, Olivia,
Speaker 1: And you know what, It's been so crazy what happened
Speaker 1: last week with all the kickers missing. So I just
Speaker 1: feel like something while it's gonna happen, and I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't lose to you more, so why not go
Speaker 1: with the dog? All right? I'm thinking the Rams that
Speaker 1: one's easy to me, easy enough. Next one Chargers Ravens
Speaker 1: Ravens three point favorite. Can we just talked about it.
Speaker 1: Really impressive showing, but the Chargers can hold their own. Um,
Speaker 1: I think this might end up being the game of
Speaker 1: the week. What do you guys think I'm taking the Chargers? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I'm just not
Speaker 1: gonna agree with you, and I am taking the Ravens.
Speaker 1: I think he Lamar just looks so good. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna put the team on his back again. And
Speaker 1: let's get a cap for that guy. He's a superhero. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good. All it took with Sam saying he's gonna
Speaker 1: be up honest. Now, he's never gonna agree with you
Speaker 1: on anything, you know. That's all it took. Last one.
Speaker 1: This is track game written all over it for me.
Speaker 1: Packers minus four and a half on the road in
Speaker 1: Chicago inst the Bears. I think Fields is hurt. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, but this is just the tricky one for me.
Speaker 1: That line that four and a half never makes sense
Speaker 1: to me. What do you guys think they're You know,
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Packers and four and a half that's
Speaker 1: not too much for me. I can respect what Justin
Speaker 1: Fields is doing in Chicago, but overall, I don't think
Speaker 1: they're a very complete team. I'm taking the Packers. We've
Speaker 1: got the top receiver in the league, we got one
Speaker 1: of the best quarterbacks in the league. I'm going with them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as long as we're talking regular season Packers game, I'm
Speaker 1: going with the Packers. I mean, you know, if we
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs, anyone could beat them. That's fair.
Speaker 1: Don't be surprised if Bears win us out right, just
Speaker 1: because that four and a half line is always a
Speaker 1: sketchy one for me. Just keep finding back of your head.
Speaker 1: But hope I'm wrong. All right, Well we'll see, we
Speaker 1: shall see, my friend. Well, I'm excited, Peter. Next week
Speaker 1: we get to talk a little n b A, but
Speaker 1: this week we can talk some NHL. The season began
Speaker 1: this week. We have a new team, the Cracking, which
Speaker 1: may go down is the best name in history. But
Speaker 1: what are some futures in NHL that we should be
Speaker 1: looking at? Yeah, so I think a lot of the
Speaker 1: big money is on some of the ones that we expected,
Speaker 1: especially from last year Nights Colorado Avalanche I think probably
Speaker 1: two of the more complete teams in the NHL. But
Speaker 1: it's interesting. I mean, you have a new team like
Speaker 1: the Cracking, can they do what what the Knights stated
Speaker 1: a couple of years going their opening season? You have
Speaker 1: the Lightning, who are back to that champs. Can they
Speaker 1: go for the three pet I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of questions around lots of different teams. It seems to
Speaker 1: be a fairly competitive group at the top. You have
Speaker 1: the Islanders are coming off a really impressive run last
Speaker 1: year as well. It pains me to say it as
Speaker 1: a Rangers fan, but it's gonna be a really interesting year,
Speaker 1: you know. Back to percent. I think hockey is one
Speaker 1: of those sports where it really doesn't matter. Padam full
Speaker 1: fans and attendant, especially those home games, So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be really exciting here. Okay, Peter, thank you so much
Speaker 1: good advice. As always, we have clear cut winners and
Speaker 1: losers for our picks this week, so I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see who comes out on top. Everyone, don't forget to
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Speaker 1: don't forget to follow us on Apple, podcast, Spotify, Stitcher,
Speaker 1: or anywhere you find your favorite podcast. Now let's get
Speaker 1: to it, because I've won two weeks in a row.
Speaker 1: Jannas Papas, you have to read whatever my twisted brain
Speaker 1: comes up with for the outro. Take it away, my
Speaker 1: friend god Olivia here a week go. I'm Janice papas
Speaker 1: Robin to Olivia's batman, which means, since Robin now is uh,
Speaker 1: I think he's non binary. So that's great too, Olivia.
Speaker 1: I didn't write that. I didn't write that. Read what
Speaker 1: I wrote, Okay, I'm sorry. I'm Jannae Papist Robin to
Speaker 1: Olivia's batman. Olivia absolutely carries this show every week, so
Speaker 1: I'm just glad to read the outro as the loser
Speaker 1: of the week. I am honored to read the loquacious
Speaker 1: paragraph of her carefully crafted words. Her journalism degree shows
Speaker 1: itself every week. Make sure you follow her on Instagram
Speaker 1: at Olivia Harlan Decker for her amazing insights into her
Speaker 1: fabulous world. Also, I'm honored her has been wants to
Speaker 1: fight me as I will get beaten to a bump
Speaker 1: and never recover. My wife wouldn't recognize me. It's on Sam.
Speaker 1: And one more thing, Marcy, I can't speak French. I
Speaker 1: don't know what you know what, Olivia, you're crossing the line.
Speaker 1: You're making me speak different languages. That means thank you
Speaker 1: and have a good week. Oh no, wait, that means
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us.