Speaker 1: Check it down Man Now down Man Tuesday morning, December
Speaker 1: twenty is beating the book podcast megapod for Week six
Speaker 1: D in the NFL. Cannot believe we're a week sixteed.
Speaker 1: It's Gill Alexander live from the d Our Home. All
Speaker 1: year long, we have loved our time here at the
Speaker 1: D and uh, today's a special day because not only,
Speaker 1: of course, are the regular staples of the show on
Speaker 1: Mike Palm, Derrek, Stephen's conciliary here at the D a
Speaker 1: circus sports in general. How you doing, Mikey, Happy holidays
Speaker 1: out there to everyone, whether it's Hanukah or Christmas or
Speaker 1: Kansa or whatever they're China, whatever the celebrating. And then
Speaker 1: what wo what a guest we have today? I mean, well,
Speaker 1: let's let's just tot in here first quickly with his
Speaker 1: mom's cork attic, with the circus sports background. You doing, totty?
Speaker 1: My question is I heard Mike starting to wax romantic
Speaker 1: and I thought his Brent on again, No, the Brent incident.
Speaker 1: Derek does have some comments about the great Trump tax
Speaker 1: lookbacks that he's very vor alright, So so the guests
Speaker 1: we have today, it really is special. He is the
Speaker 1: owner of not only the Golden Gate and the d
Speaker 1: where we broadcast from, but of course, uh the Shangri
Speaker 1: Law that is circa Downtown Vegas and of course all
Speaker 1: things circus sports. Derrick Stevens, everybody, I appreciate you doing this, man.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Gil. Thanks for letting me on
Speaker 1: uh on this on this podcast. This is ter This
Speaker 1: is my first time here. So I'm honest. Yes, you
Speaker 1: finally reached the big time. There we go. I love it.
Speaker 1: I loved it. It took this long, uh, but we
Speaker 1: finally reached the big time. Listen the first thing before
Speaker 1: we get into all this stuff a week sixteen, because
Speaker 1: we'll go through best bets of that kind of thing. Uh.
Speaker 1: I got knocked out a circus survivor this week with
Speaker 1: the Rams. Our buddy Amal Shaw got knocked out last night.
Speaker 1: I thought he had the Titans, but he he told
Speaker 1: me it was gonna take the Titans. He took the Steelers. Um,
Speaker 1: so we're out. There's fifty three left out of start things.
Speaker 1: But on behalf of everybody who has played this thing.
Speaker 1: Those that are out like myself, for those that are
Speaker 1: still in, thank you both so much for doing this
Speaker 1: This contest has been more fun than any a T
Speaker 1: S five picks a week thing. I know we do.
Speaker 1: You guys do the millions as well, which people love.
Speaker 1: But the strategizing of Survivor, which I know you knew
Speaker 1: in advance, that's why you pushed it forward. Just a
Speaker 1: big thank you man. It's been a blast, even though
Speaker 1: it didn't work out in the end for us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I've always loved Survivor. Have had had a
Speaker 1: few good seasons and I've had had many more where
Speaker 1: I'm lamenting something like a seventeen point favorite that went
Speaker 1: down on Sunday. So the uh, the element of Survivor,
Speaker 1: I thought was was was just something that I've enjoyed
Speaker 1: so much over many, many decades. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I just hope that everybody, you know, at some point,
Speaker 1: at some point you have to figure out how are
Speaker 1: you going to cash? So I just hope that anybody
Speaker 1: that really if you need it to Week fourteen, and
Speaker 1: then certainly with fifteen, I certainly hope everyone had an
Speaker 1: ability to cash in one one manner or the other.
Speaker 1: And I think you know that this Week fifteen was
Speaker 1: an opportunity because you had some big, big money line dogs,
Speaker 1: you know, Jets at plus nine forty going off before
Speaker 1: kick and then yesterday you got plus seven forty or
Speaker 1: seven fifty on uh On on Cincinnati. So I just hope.
Speaker 1: I hope people that made it through week fourteen, because
Speaker 1: getting getting through week fourteen is very, very tough, had
Speaker 1: the ability to at least at least get your money
Speaker 1: back and maybe make a little bit of cash. Well,
Speaker 1: I will be honest with you, because people afterwards there's
Speaker 1: two things about survivor kids. They when people who aren't
Speaker 1: in or telling here's what you should pick. I was like,
Speaker 1: am I in this? Or were you in this? Which
Speaker 1: the other one is after the fact, people saying that
Speaker 1: we're on Twitter like I hope you took the Jets
Speaker 1: money line. I'll be honest with you, dare. I did
Speaker 1: not take the Jets preflop money line because I was like,
Speaker 1: there's no reason to, there's no chance. But when it
Speaker 1: got to thirteen and nothing in game and it was
Speaker 1: a coin flip at that point down thirteen, then I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, I'll play. I'll take some Jets money
Speaker 1: here coin flip and I was able to make my
Speaker 1: outlay back um and and a little something more that much.
Speaker 1: I did, but I didn't do a prieflop. That's that's good.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have obviously a little bit of advantage
Speaker 1: here being in Las Vegas, and you were able to
Speaker 1: make that play. So not everyone is that that that
Speaker 1: chance necessarily to do an end game, you know, but
Speaker 1: but that's great, And I again, I just hope that everyone,
Speaker 1: everyone that made it to fifteen or week sixteen has
Speaker 1: has the ability to say, Okay, I put a thousand
Speaker 1: bucks out there and I cashed out, whether it's five
Speaker 1: grand or ten grander or more. Because I just think
Speaker 1: you get to that far, you don't have to win
Speaker 1: Survivor to make money on the deal. You can still learn,
Speaker 1: can you can you just flashes up to the camera
Speaker 1: because I just work for the video. This is those
Speaker 1: of us who have played Survivor for years and years
Speaker 1: and years do these grids. We don't have a staff.
Speaker 1: As Mikey pointed out off air, that that laminates it
Speaker 1: enlarges it. But this is what it takes to sort
Speaker 1: of plan Survivor. This is what Survivor winners do, and
Speaker 1: even the best laid out plans like a mall like
Speaker 1: I had, don't work. Out because there's a minefield still
Speaker 1: to navigate. Yeah, that's where I think, you know, laying
Speaker 1: out a nice grid, and you got to take a
Speaker 1: look at you know, take a look at the games
Speaker 1: earlier in the season. Which games do you really like?
Speaker 1: You know, when you just take take simply like back
Speaker 1: in August, like which games would you really want to
Speaker 1: take Kansas City? And if if that's your highest ranked team,
Speaker 1: which team, which which game? Games would you like to
Speaker 1: take Seattle on? You know, And there's certain teams you
Speaker 1: might have a different field for, and everyone has their
Speaker 1: own rankings. Some people feel certain teams are better at
Speaker 1: home at night. You know. I'm one of those that
Speaker 1: feels like New Orleans is better at home at night.
Speaker 1: I think Green Bays better home at night. Same thing
Speaker 1: with Seattle. So you just try to try to put
Speaker 1: the pieces of the puzzle together and then you kind
Speaker 1: of work your way backwards and segue through. But then
Speaker 1: as you as you just said, the best light planes
Speaker 1: often get blown up by week three and then you
Speaker 1: kind of start making it just with so okay, so
Speaker 1: this is the real question. And when you and I
Speaker 1: had before you ask questions, please just say one thing, Please,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Isn't it wonderful that a guy who starts
Speaker 1: a sports betting themed casino knows something about sports betting.
Speaker 1: Let me just finish with Survivor. Then you can really
Speaker 1: can release some more of your aggravation. You and I
Speaker 1: spoke downstairs down by the coffee shops. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how much of that you want to talk about in detail,
Speaker 1: but you are going to do this next year, Survivor,
Speaker 1: and you've got things up your sleeve, and you think
Speaker 1: it will be bigger and better than ever. I would imagine, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we just haven't had a chance to, uh to get
Speaker 1: in the back room with Jeff Benson and Matt Metcalf
Speaker 1: and Chris Bennet and Mike and I and uh talk
Speaker 1: through it. But uh but yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 1: I think everyone's enjoyed it, and I'd certainly like to
Speaker 1: grow this a little bit. Um, you know. The million
Speaker 1: dollar bonuses is something like we were joking about and
Speaker 1: follow the money that maybe I'm not that good in
Speaker 1: math because I didn't really think I didn't really think
Speaker 1: it was more than a fift she had. Somebody's going
Speaker 1: to hit it. But that's the big thing, and you
Speaker 1: know this from playing for all these years, no one
Speaker 1: ever gets through. This was just a weird year where
Speaker 1: there were three teams you could bully. The fact that
Speaker 1: we have so many people have a shot at it
Speaker 1: is such an anomaly. Next year, I think even if
Speaker 1: you have five thousand entries, which you've may very well
Speaker 1: clear easily. I don't want to, you know, set it
Speaker 1: too high, but I think you may clear that easily
Speaker 1: with the with the excitement of this one, the chances
Speaker 1: of getting to the end are in a typical year
Speaker 1: slim to none. I mean, this is totally an outlier. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean compared to years past. I mean, like you
Speaker 1: had said, you went against the Jets eight times. This
Speaker 1: is my eighth and final shot at them. And that's
Speaker 1: what's really unique about this. You know, you have the
Speaker 1: Jets giving your laps, you had the Jacksonville, and then
Speaker 1: you had since you know, you just had a few
Speaker 1: of these situations where where it happened, and until week fifteen,
Speaker 1: you never had the big, big upset. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you had a lot of sweats that came through, but
Speaker 1: but to have a fourteen and a seventeen point favorite
Speaker 1: go down in the same week that that's that's so unlikely.
Speaker 1: But usually you have a couple of couple of crazy
Speaker 1: things happened from week four to week eight, you know,
Speaker 1: and things like that, and it just never happened. The
Speaker 1: sweats were unbelievable, though they said, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: had to I had them against the Raiders too. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was just one of the big moments that fourteen
Speaker 1: and seventeen point dogs have never won out right in
Speaker 1: the same weekend since ninety Yeah. And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: There was the two big upsets this year we're seven,
Speaker 1: both a touchdown with Jacksonville beating the coltson Week one
Speaker 1: as a touchdown dog and Dallas at Minneapolis as a
Speaker 1: touchdown dog against and they both took out large chunks
Speaker 1: of what was the field at that time, but nothing
Speaker 1: over a touchdown. I am secretly hoping that Jacksonville and
Speaker 1: the Jets lose out so I can therefore say forever
Speaker 1: about this year and survivor. I had two entries, both
Speaker 1: got knocked out by one and the fifteen teams that
Speaker 1: would be I think there should be a prize for that.
Speaker 1: On sure, I feel particularly bad for the people that
Speaker 1: had Pittsburgh last night in this sense. They probably had
Speaker 1: planned to use them on Thanksgivings and the game got
Speaker 1: moved and so they were left with them in this
Speaker 1: spot against Cincinnati that looked like a lamp. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you had the Jets and the Rams and Pittsburgh available,
Speaker 1: I think you're taking Pittsburgh. I think it was much
Speaker 1: I think it was much less likely that a finley
Speaker 1: led team was gonna upset a team that's at the
Speaker 1: top of their division. Then Darnel, who I mean, the
Speaker 1: Jets have to they should have beaten the Raiders, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I agree. I mean there were so many
Speaker 1: of those Jets games that were sweats. Jets, the Jets
Speaker 1: show up, the Jaguar show up, the Bengals. You could
Speaker 1: have made an argument they were the worst team in
Speaker 1: football headed into and uh and they get beat You're
Speaker 1: right about the Pittsburgh Thanksgiving thing. Of all the people
Speaker 1: that I feel sorry for, those guys, the ones that
Speaker 1: planned Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving, they got the screw job of anybody.
Speaker 1: If anybody can sort of cry about it was them
Speaker 1: with with me in the Rams, I said it on
Speaker 1: a numbers game. Uh, there's no self loathing. There was
Speaker 1: not a second, I was gonna pick anyone else. They
Speaker 1: lost and that's the game. You just gotta take your lumps.
Speaker 1: Uh And the next week, next next year, are they
Speaker 1: gonna do it so late in the season you'll have
Speaker 1: to pick two teams so that it can win o
Speaker 1: the field out more because I know in some survivor
Speaker 1: pools when there's too many people left at the end,
Speaker 1: they make you know that that's something that's been brought
Speaker 1: up a few times. Um, picking two at the end
Speaker 1: of the year gets gets pretty pretty pretty difficult. One
Speaker 1: thing that Mike and I got to talk through is,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a potential schedule change in the works
Speaker 1: here in the NFL, and if that happens, that's going
Speaker 1: to clearly clearly impact our thought process. But if we
Speaker 1: go to a seventeen game schedule with a double bye week,
Speaker 1: that means we go to a week nineteen. So if
Speaker 1: that's the case, that kind of changes some of the
Speaker 1: some of the math on what's going on. We love that,
Speaker 1: we love the Thanksgiving Day component, but if if this
Speaker 1: schedule change happens, that means it would be you'd have
Speaker 1: to go twenty and oh next week if this gets approved.
Speaker 1: But but it looks like this is the this is
Speaker 1: the way it's going or nineteen, you know, next year,
Speaker 1: because because it would be there, there would be uh,
Speaker 1: there would be two bye weeks by weeks. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: still throw the Thanksgiving in that Really that really added
Speaker 1: the wrinkle that it was the prayer. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I had everything planned before and after, but Thanksgiving? Now,
Speaker 1: had you there was no way to know this. But
Speaker 1: had you known that a third game would get canceled,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have put in the Thanksgiving with just two games, right, No,
Speaker 1: I think that would have been That would have been
Speaker 1: a little a little crazy. I mean, you know, back
Speaker 1: in back in the old days, you had you had one,
Speaker 1: he had one game. He had the Lions game, and
Speaker 1: then what about forty years ago that we became Lions
Speaker 1: Lions earlier and then the Cowboy game later and uh, now,
Speaker 1: you the fact that you gives you a little bit
Speaker 1: of pressure to save six teams really changes some of
Speaker 1: the dynamic how you looked at things early. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: that's the unfortunate thing. I mean, but there's so many
Speaker 1: unfortunate things with schedules. So what can you do? Last
Speaker 1: thing about this? Before we get to the to the
Speaker 1: show itself. Uh, and we'll run through that millions. Are
Speaker 1: you as fascinated by the race for Last Place as
Speaker 1: I am. I love the Booby Prize absolutely absolutely, you know,
Speaker 1: and look at look at look at the numbers here.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just as difficult to to have an
Speaker 1: inverse inverse. It's almost more incredible. Yeah, because the circuit
Speaker 1: quarterlies didn't affect them either. They just plowed through those, right,
Speaker 1: So it's incredible. I want to talk to that person.
Speaker 1: It's more intriguing than the top. Actually it is. And
Speaker 1: we had that debate. Todd and I are lined on this.
Speaker 1: Todd and I think it's completely random, and I believe
Speaker 1: you think not what Maybe it wasn't you, Maybe it
Speaker 1: was our guest, Maybe was Chris las Vegas. Chris, he
Speaker 1: thinks that I don't want to attribute to him. But
Speaker 1: whoever the guest was that week. They're like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's a skill, and I'm like, it's not a skill.
Speaker 1: They just managed to suck through it all because if
Speaker 1: it was a skill, you'd go for the win, right.
Speaker 1: I think that you make a decision about week three
Speaker 1: or four, after you've done poorly that now you're gonna
Speaker 1: go for last. I think you have to make that
Speaker 1: decision quarter least as hard. No, it's just just as
Speaker 1: hard to pick. It's just as hard to pick the
Speaker 1: losing teams as it is to pick the winning teams.
Speaker 1: Because if you can pick all losers, that means you
Speaker 1: can pick all winners. Uh, thank you. If you start poorly,
Speaker 1: you have an advantage, except it's paying one instead of fifty, right,
Speaker 1: I mean obviously that's the difference. Yeah, I'm with Todd. Todd,
Speaker 1: you're right. You know if you were let me ask
Speaker 1: you this. It's if going into week uh, into week thirteen, Yes,
Speaker 1: the start of this five week fourth quarter, you were
Speaker 1: in tent the Booby Prize, would you try to do
Speaker 1: well in the fourth quarter and win that quarterly? Oh?
Speaker 1: I would. I would try to get the Booby Prize.
Speaker 1: But trying is different from that being a skill, like
Speaker 1: I would try and then I'd be good just as randomly.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think you can try to. I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody starts out saying I want to be
Speaker 1: get the Booby Price. Now we get that, but what
Speaker 1: we're saying is there's no specific skill to losing. Instead
Speaker 1: of win, yes, because if there was, you would just
Speaker 1: be awesome from the beginning. But Todd has that skill, right,
Speaker 1: I mean because God, here we go, here we go.
Speaker 1: I have that's you know, that's right, especially because I'm
Speaker 1: leading the teasers, and that's a nice little set up
Speaker 1: for us to give the records in three other picks.
Speaker 1: You only care about It's like, you know, you only
Speaker 1: care about the teasers. Gill only cared about survivor. That's right,
Speaker 1: only care about trying to put the best phase forward.
Speaker 1: Here is need to twenty and three Mikey and three,
Speaker 1: and yes I had an O and three last week. Ouch,
Speaker 1: I'm twenty and twenty four and one. I was going
Speaker 1: to take the chiefs with you guys. But notice how
Speaker 1: had we all taken the chiefs, we didn't end up losing,
Speaker 1: but we still would not have all ended up winning.
Speaker 1: So that is hysterical that you just cannot win when
Speaker 1: all three of us like the same ones. Now, as
Speaker 1: far as the teasers go, Gil is at nine and six,
Speaker 1: Mikey is a ten and five, both excellent records, but
Speaker 1: not elite like the Great one eleven and four on teasers.
Speaker 1: That's right, me, the Great One eleven and four on teasers.
Speaker 1: Thank you what you say? Your actual record was in
Speaker 1: the A T S? What was it? My A T
Speaker 1: S is poor and one. But everybody knows you shouldn't
Speaker 1: be betting pregame NFL pits against the spread playing in game. Now. Look,
Speaker 1: you'll learn that kind of thing on a show called
Speaker 1: The Numbers Game. And I once knew a great casino
Speaker 1: owner who said Wish Wednesdays on the Numbers Game was
Speaker 1: the greatest radio program on the network. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna mention who that is. We all know
Speaker 1: who it is, but whatever it is, Derek prefers his
Speaker 1: jews in in plural. He just doesn't like one guy.
Speaker 1: He likes more than one. He said that Grievances was
Speaker 1: the best segment on the network and he wished there
Speaker 1: was a goyam version of it, and then and then
Speaker 1: no hyperboll came. That's right version. All right, Let's start
Speaker 1: with theam version and slightly less intelligent about as much intelligence.
Speaker 1: Al right, we don't we don't have a Thursday game,
Speaker 1: all right, And there's no need to parse out the
Speaker 1: Friday or Saturday games. Let's just go through the whole schedule.
Speaker 1: We'll start with the best bets. Uh, Derek. We usually
Speaker 1: start with the guests, so we'll start with you. You You
Speaker 1: are the guest here. Um. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: prep you've done for this, but I'm sure you're betting
Speaker 1: these What are your what is your first best bet
Speaker 1: of the weekend against the spread in the NFL this
Speaker 1: year or total in this week in week? Well, the
Speaker 1: one thing I like is I like the fact that
Speaker 1: they changed the schedule a little bit. So so we
Speaker 1: get four games at at at one, six, and four
Speaker 1: and then still stink up the Sunday though, but yeah,
Speaker 1: four early, but but at least we're not buried buried
Speaker 1: uh Um with this disproportionate type of type of deal
Speaker 1: right now, there's there's you know, there's a there's an
Speaker 1: element about about the Detroit Lions that I just I'm
Speaker 1: just so against right now. So, um, if I had
Speaker 1: to take one play right now, I think I would
Speaker 1: go with with with Tampa Bay. Detroit defense is a
Speaker 1: sieve and uh, you know you're you're firing your the
Speaker 1: team's lost. You have a temporary coach, you have you
Speaker 1: have an argument um within ownership of who's making the call.
Speaker 1: Um you know, they just brought in Chris Spielman to
Speaker 1: to help as an adviser to the owner. Um, he's
Speaker 1: probably one of the only only football guys in the organization.
Speaker 1: And uh, I think they had to do that because, um,
Speaker 1: you know, when after they fired Quinn and Patricia, the
Speaker 1: first three g ms that the interviewed were all from
Speaker 1: withinside the organization. And I think the whole city Detroit's go, no, no,
Speaker 1: we have to go outside. We have to go outside.
Speaker 1: So right now, if I had to take one bet
Speaker 1: right now, it would be it would be the Bucks.
Speaker 1: What do you think of what do you think about
Speaker 1: Solid being the front runner for the job just because
Speaker 1: he's from the area. Yeah, he's a he's a dearborn
Speaker 1: Fordson graduate. And uh, that's the west side of Detroit
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of people, a lot of people
Speaker 1: of pulling for him. Is the d for Derek or Detroit? Um?
Speaker 1: Both both town and town? Yeah, throw that in there
Speaker 1: in downtown and um, Pistons, red Wings, Uh, Lions, Tigers,
Speaker 1: How does your fandom rank? It's definitely Tigers is one. Oh,
Speaker 1: I like it, Lions too, red Wings three and in
Speaker 1: a far, far, far distant distant way back there is
Speaker 1: the Pistons. I did love the Bad Boys. But but
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, the Pistons lost a lot when
Speaker 1: they moved out of the Palace of Auburn Hills and
Speaker 1: moved as the secondary tenant at Little Caesar's Arena, and
Speaker 1: they lost the entire fan base. I mean, it's about
Speaker 1: a fifty mile drive, and I think they lost se
Speaker 1: the fans and there they since they moved in here
Speaker 1: into the new arena, they're really struggling to get four
Speaker 1: thousand people of game in Detroit. But you had to
Speaker 1: love Isaiah and Bill Lamber at the time. I love
Speaker 1: lamb Beer, I love Joe Dumars, Vinnie Jens, nobody. But
Speaker 1: that's nobody's gonna say that he's not Phrasi's Chicago hitch
Speaker 1: in the back of the head during a fight like
Speaker 1: Joe Dumars. Joe Dumars and Bill Lambier were loved Isaiah.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, talking about the four sports,
Speaker 1: rank these four people as how beloved they are in
Speaker 1: Michigan and specifically Detroit. Okay, you ready? Yeah? Boshem Beckler,
Speaker 1: Scotty Bowman, Jim Lee Lynde, Jack Daly, Wow, good question,
Speaker 1: Like paulm you should have your own show. I would
Speaker 1: tell you, like you could do a great show with
Speaker 1: a guy from Pittsburgh. Would have been amazing. But you know,
Speaker 1: I don't suggested it, Todd, I've suggested it. I would
Speaker 1: tell you. I would tell you it's gonna be it's
Speaker 1: gonna be two of those four. And depending upon your
Speaker 1: your background, it's it's either gonna be Shechem, Beckler or Daily. Um.
Speaker 1: Everybody loved Daddy Rich and uh he was something in
Speaker 1: Detroit with Chuck Daly. Everybody loved, loved, uh Bo Sheen Beckler,
Speaker 1: unless you're maybe a Michigan state person Leland. Leland was
Speaker 1: beloved as well. And then it kind of goes through.
Speaker 1: What if you substituted Eiserman for bowmen? Yeah, bowman bowman. Um.
Speaker 1: I would not say he was ever beloved Detroit guy.
Speaker 1: Everyone liked him, nothing against him, but he was never
Speaker 1: considered really a Detroit guy. Eiserman on the other hand, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Eiserman's at a whole nother level. I mean
Speaker 1: Aiserman could run for anything, anything he wanted to, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna win it. He's uh, he is beloved. He'd
Speaker 1: beat John Engler. He could run under Eddy Ticket and
Speaker 1: he would win in uh in Detroit, that's all right.
Speaker 1: Derek's first pick Todd Court stenographer Tampa Bay minus nine
Speaker 1: and a half over his beloved Detroit lines. We don't
Speaker 1: know if it's Stafford, or we think it's Stafford in
Speaker 1: this game. We don't know yet. Stafford seems like you'll
Speaker 1: play unless his brain is damaged. Does it even make
Speaker 1: a difference? The defense is so oh, Mike, you know
Speaker 1: that what was the biggest well, the Patriots where there
Speaker 1: were the Dolphin. The Patriots were steamed, But you know
Speaker 1: what was the play? Everybody was betting Detroit here this weekend?
Speaker 1: It made no sense, down, down, down down. The two
Speaker 1: moves I didn't get this week. Why does everybody pick
Speaker 1: in Denver against Buffalo? That line moved against Buffalo? And
Speaker 1: then the infatuation with the new England Patriots week after
Speaker 1: week is just mind buckled. Your top play was Miami, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna We're gonna be a lined go ahead, Mikey,
Speaker 1: I will tell you this. I bet the Rams plus three.
Speaker 1: It's not available anymore. That would have been my play
Speaker 1: at number one. I thought that line was ludicrous when
Speaker 1: it came out, but it can't. Now it's one and
Speaker 1: a half. I forget it. I love the I love
Speaker 1: the Dolphins going to play Mariota this week. Okay, in
Speaker 1: Lombardi is right. It's different when he comes into a
Speaker 1: game and a team hasn't prepared, like the Chargers had
Speaker 1: not prepared to play read option against car who doesn't
Speaker 1: really move around at all. Right, so he gave him
Speaker 1: a lift there last week. I think this Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: will give him no air. They will give him no air.
Speaker 1: He will struggle, he will have to make passing plays.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna let him run the ball. Mariota, Mariota.
Speaker 1: They didn't let really let New England run the ball.
Speaker 1: New England wanted to run the ball. They really couldn't
Speaker 1: run the ball. They forced him to throw the ball.
Speaker 1: And you know, two it does what two it does
Speaker 1: with the you know when the ground game is going
Speaker 1: to play, action works. This team is good. You made
Speaker 1: a good pick. You didn't know Buffalo would be this good.
Speaker 1: But you made a good pick at that price for
Speaker 1: Miami to win this division. There that they are that
Speaker 1: good by the wayside, But it was a good It
Speaker 1: was a good great but everything else, the season, wins playoffs,
Speaker 1: you year there, Um, I'll take the offense like two
Speaker 1: and a half. Here at Allegiance, it's three. Now it's
Speaker 1: three year old baby. But no, no, there's a few
Speaker 1: threes that one. Oh, I see three, I see three.
Speaker 1: Feel like I feel like we have a guy in
Speaker 1: negotiating at the Las Vegas Invitational tennis. That's what I
Speaker 1: feel like. They're my number two pick as well. We
Speaker 1: can knock out both of these at one shot. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I would add to Miami's performance last week. They
Speaker 1: didn't have their three top receivers. They didn't have Devonte Parker,
Speaker 1: they didn't have Grant, they didn't have GISICKI at least
Speaker 1: one of those guys is going to be back. Give
Speaker 1: me the Dolphins. They have not let me down all year.
Speaker 1: They're my number two pick minus three against the Raiders,
Speaker 1: who I think talk about a defensive sieve. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: are they bad so bad? Miami is my number two pick.
Speaker 1: Uh God, number one. You guys did the same thing
Speaker 1: to me as last week where I wanted to take
Speaker 1: the city. Now I can't take Miami again. It's it's
Speaker 1: almost vanished to have to go last every pick, so
Speaker 1: there should be some kind of snake draft here. But okay, whatever, Todd.
Speaker 1: When you're trailing, when you're trailing by four games, keeping
Speaker 1: you have to try to make up ground on that's right,
Speaker 1: you gotta get I don't trail by four first of all,
Speaker 1: I don't trail by four games. But whatever it. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mikey. I agree with the game theater and
Speaker 1: you just want to do teasers from that one. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna four teasers. I'm gonna do team totals like you
Speaker 1: can do on Draft Kings in game. Can you believe
Speaker 1: that you can do in game team to I freaking
Speaker 1: love it. Anyways, Okay, I'm gonna do something similar to
Speaker 1: what Derrick Stevens did. Derrick Stevens because he's a smart
Speaker 1: gambler realizes if your own team stinks, you gotta go
Speaker 1: against him, and very often you know your own team stinks.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna do this in in the voice of
Speaker 1: a uh inser because people seem to love the inser guy.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna take the Indianapolis Colt and that and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the coal to that and what aren't
Speaker 1: we got as a line? What what's the line for
Speaker 1: the Colts one and a half and a half. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take the Colts minus one and a
Speaker 1: half against my beloved Stillers. And the reason I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do that is we stink the Pittsburg Stillers. As we
Speaker 1: said a number of weeks ago, the Ensors can't run
Speaker 1: the football. They can't run it for me liberty to Downtine,
Speaker 1: they can't run it from shady side the bell vernon.
Speaker 1: They just cannot run the football at all. If this
Speaker 1: was the Pittsburgh Penions, they look like a last place
Speaker 1: offensive team. I don't know what to say about this
Speaker 1: Stiller game. Last night Tarko said something about this is
Speaker 1: the worst offense since the night six Stillers who were
Speaker 1: run by Mark Malone. What are we doing on offense?
Speaker 1: We cannot move the football on the ground. And if
Speaker 1: everybody knows you're just gonna just throw the football every
Speaker 1: time you don't have a chance, you might as well
Speaker 1: just go home and have a big mill, because you're
Speaker 1: gonna be depressed than just wallow in your food because
Speaker 1: you've got no chance to win a football game. If
Speaker 1: you think you're just gonna run the ball for one
Speaker 1: yard and a clad of dust. So I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the Colts here. I hate Philip Rivers and that I'm
Speaker 1: in a group called Philip Rivers Anonymous where you don't
Speaker 1: bet on him or you don't bet against them. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. I'm just gonna have to take the
Speaker 1: Colts because my stillers look like a lapidated bunch. I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened to this crew, but I think
Speaker 1: the Ravens figured him out in that game when they
Speaker 1: didn't have the quarterback. Defensively, then every I'm going out
Speaker 1: of N'ZR talk for a minute, Washington figured it out.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes in the NFL, when you figure a
Speaker 1: team out on tape, you get the all twenty two going,
Speaker 1: and somehow the defensive coordinators figure we play all corps,
Speaker 1: you know, uh to whatever whatever the defense is, you
Speaker 1: just play that defense. And this team does not have
Speaker 1: an answer. We do not have an answer the Cincinnati Bungles.
Speaker 1: The Cincinnati Bungles are not a good defensive team, and
Speaker 1: they made us look ridiculous. No, you're telling on me
Speaker 1: that Frank Wright is not gonna be able to cook
Speaker 1: something up against us, even with Philip Rivers I'm taking
Speaker 1: the Colts minus one and a half. I'm depressed that
Speaker 1: I have to do it, but yeah, I have to
Speaker 1: do it. I promise you. I'm not doing this to
Speaker 1: protect the lead. They're my number three pick, the Indianapolis Colts. Uh.
Speaker 1: Todd's right. They went from by the way, Pittsburgh went
Speaker 1: from a two and a half point favorite to the
Speaker 1: Colts being a one and a half point favorite. I
Speaker 1: don't care big Ben last night seven and sixteen for
Speaker 1: nineteen yards in the first half. That was the worst
Speaker 1: half of offensive football I can remember seeing. You'll have
Speaker 1: to jog my memory if there was a worse one.
Speaker 1: Big Ben was overthrowing. He was underthrowing. By the way,
Speaker 1: his babbit was great, Todd, he should have had two
Speaker 1: more picks in that first half. I got really close.
Speaker 1: Had that William Jackson got caught an easy interception late
Speaker 1: in the game, it would have The Steelers cannot run
Speaker 1: the ball. If you cannot run the ball, you can't
Speaker 1: just throw every down. It's not gonna work. That's right.
Speaker 1: They can't run. Big Ben can't throw the ball downfield.
Speaker 1: It's all short. It's not creative. As Adam Turnoff said
Speaker 1: here on the show, and I was talking about, Okay,
Speaker 1: who's the team that you don't want to face all
Speaker 1: the Washington boy, you don't want to face them in
Speaker 1: the plaoffs. The Steelers are the team everybody wants to
Speaker 1: play in the playoffs, everybody, and they're lucky they've clinched
Speaker 1: the playoff birth how about the Browns being alive to
Speaker 1: win the a f C North Steelers could go from
Speaker 1: eleven and oh to be in the four or five
Speaker 1: seed now or seven seed could be. Yeah, they could
Speaker 1: be if it plays out like that. Amazing. So that's
Speaker 1: my number three. So I'll just give my final pick,
Speaker 1: which is actually my number one because I got my
Speaker 1: two and three already in Miami and Indianapolis. My number
Speaker 1: one is also on Saturday, just before the Dolphins games,
Speaker 1: the second of three. I'm on the Cardinals minus four
Speaker 1: and a half. This was four earlier today, but is
Speaker 1: it four and a half, Todd I have for the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. I have four and a half, okay, four
Speaker 1: and a half. Arizona minus four and a half. I
Speaker 1: think the Niners. First of all, they've been dealta horrible
Speaker 1: hand this year, no fault of their own. It's a
Speaker 1: lost season. They're playing out the string, but they've been vagabonds.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be their six of seven weeks in
Speaker 1: the state of Arizona. This is actually a scheduled game.
Speaker 1: Where's a road game in air Arizona after they had
Speaker 1: to leave Santa Clara County and play home games in Arizona.
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan has already been out in public saying, Oh,
Speaker 1: this team is gonna be home for the holidays with
Speaker 1: their families. I don't think they're mentally locked into this
Speaker 1: game at all. I love the Cardinals here. I think
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins is very average and I'm being kind, and
Speaker 1: I think Kyler Murray makes enough plays here. Arizona certainly
Speaker 1: has warts, but I think the Niners are home for
Speaker 1: the holidays, and more than just physical, I think also mental.
Speaker 1: Arizona minus four and a half is my number one
Speaker 1: play along with my two and three Miami in Indiapolis. Mikey,
Speaker 1: you're number two. My number two is my favorite coach,
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn. I skip Derek. I'm sorry, Derek. You two
Speaker 1: and three right, you can go after me. Wow, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna lay three points with the Chargers at home and
Speaker 1: so far against this awful. Denver broncois like this team is,
Speaker 1: this team is just now done. I mean the defense
Speaker 1: was a sieve on Saturday. What did they have to
Speaker 1: play for? I mean they have no quarterback playlock sucks.
Speaker 1: The Chargers are still a talented team. Uh And I
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think. Although Anthony Lynn makes every
Speaker 1: game a one score game, let's hope it's not a
Speaker 1: field goal and a push here. I I just think
Speaker 1: they're too good. Imagine this, Imagine this. If that doctor
Speaker 1: hadn't stuck this year, he had never seen the fielding
Speaker 1: setting every rookie record, that's how good he is. Having
Speaker 1: had to play under that idiot christ Ball and horrific
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator that we have at U and l V
Speaker 1: now and then Anthony Lynne, this kid is unbelievably good. Um,
Speaker 1: that's my play. Go ahead, Derek Bill. Do you want
Speaker 1: to give him a Gil Alexander here? Because he's trying
Speaker 1: to pull a Gil Alexander. Minus three minus five on
Speaker 1: the first game I picked was the Dolphins are minus
Speaker 1: one oh five and spots. So I mean, it's still
Speaker 1: it's spe silly, Jerry. I see minus three even most places.
Speaker 1: But will you you make the decision as the senior
Speaker 1: love mentor let's give him the minus three mins. I
Speaker 1: never have to hear from him again on this Mine
Speaker 1: didn't come into play. I wanted out right easily. Was
Speaker 1: your tribesman, Juice Schmoos? All right, Derek, I'm sorry your
Speaker 1: number two, number two. Um. I love the way that
Speaker 1: Jets played the other day. I just thought, I just
Speaker 1: thought that they played actually to win, and uh, Cleveland,
Speaker 1: Cleveland looks good. I like Cleveland a lot, but but
Speaker 1: I just thought, what the Jets did? I mean, think
Speaker 1: about who who won in this game. There's not a
Speaker 1: single single person in New Jersey or New York that
Speaker 1: one other than one and that's Sam Donald. And then
Speaker 1: you got the whole, the whole, uh, the whole uh
Speaker 1: Jacksonville fan base one on this deal as well. I
Speaker 1: just think I just think the Jets are actually a
Speaker 1: little bit better than a one win team. They've stayed
Speaker 1: close the whole time there at home. They're getting nine,
Speaker 1: and I thought Cleveland looked so good recently that I
Speaker 1: just think there's numbers a little bit too tall. We'll
Speaker 1: give you nine and a half. Also, there's it's only
Speaker 1: nine in circus sports but if I get the hook up,
Speaker 1: I'm happy to take it. So I like, I would
Speaker 1: take the Jets. I like, and I agree with what
Speaker 1: you're saying. They are better than a one win football team,
Speaker 1: absolutely better. I you know, I thought two and watching
Speaker 1: the game, I was really impressed with him. But when
Speaker 1: you go back and you look at the box score
Speaker 1: on this game, it's not as impressive, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: they only had like two yards in total. They got
Speaker 1: the short fields. Golf was so bad in the first half,
Speaker 1: turning the ball over. But I mean, I guess at
Speaker 1: the end of the game they were able to get
Speaker 1: two first downs right and run and run the clock out.
Speaker 1: But it was a limited offensive performance to go in
Speaker 1: there and steal that game. It was so brutal having
Speaker 1: the Rams and Survivor because you could tell they were
Speaker 1: complete no show. Then you had the Jared Golf face right,
Speaker 1: which is like reminiscent the Flacco face of the cutlor facer, Like,
Speaker 1: I got no shot. But then when the Rams made
Speaker 1: it close, they had a punt return where I'd love
Speaker 1: to see the overhead footage because it looked like the
Speaker 1: simple webster went right into the punter and it looked
Speaker 1: like you had the whole field. The punter was fifteen
Speaker 1: yards off a side when he veered back in. I
Speaker 1: don't get it, And so that was frustrating. The other thing,
Speaker 1: of course, when you know they decided we're not going
Speaker 1: to kick a fifty five yard or to try to
Speaker 1: tie it. We're gonna go for it on fourth, and
Speaker 1: I don't know where Sean mcveighan's and Jared golf starts,
Speaker 1: because it seems like, here's your play, and then Golf
Speaker 1: just makes the poorest decisions every time he's like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna throw it downfield. See what happens. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: we're so screwed. So it's almost like, you know, they
Speaker 1: could just throw five yards over the middle and whenever
Speaker 1: they wanted. It was like Big Ben on that drive
Speaker 1: to get them within seven, all he did was throw
Speaker 1: to the back. Every down was just a little pass
Speaker 1: out to the back. They come up, they come down
Speaker 1: now at the end with with the with two minutes
Speaker 1: to go, and every throws down the field. Everything, I mean,
Speaker 1: the last drive was all dink and dunk. They had
Speaker 1: time two minutes and a time out. The inconsistency was
Speaker 1: really amazing. I mean, if we were, if we were,
Speaker 1: if we were talking here, and let's say this was
Speaker 1: seventy two hours ago. The sexiness of the Rams to
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl was. The defense was unbelievable, There's
Speaker 1: no question. And because somebody asked me yesterday, we took
Speaker 1: a ton of Rams to win the Super Bowl. Money
Speaker 1: last week, now we won't get a dollar on that.
Speaker 1: This week, the inconsistency of this team was really amazing
Speaker 1: that you know, um, eight days ago that you look
Speaker 1: at this defense and he thought, oh, this team could
Speaker 1: actually do something. I agree, and I would saying that
Speaker 1: our a numbers game. And not only that, I said
Speaker 1: this week, I have, after having been someone who had
Speaker 1: the Rams and survivor how many times during this Ram
Speaker 1: Seahawks game, and I'm am I going to say the
Speaker 1: phrase some variation of the phrase, where was that last week?
Speaker 1: Because you know they're going to show up, you know
Speaker 1: they're gonna play great. I think they're the best game
Speaker 1: of the year now, golf set. After the game, he goes,
Speaker 1: we have a game coming up next week that we're
Speaker 1: going to have to win anyways, and I think we
Speaker 1: know that, Like is ever anybody admitted after the fact that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we didn't. We didn't care. It was so bad. The
Speaker 1: first day you feel good in a big spot backing
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, it almost feels like you're backing Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: late it just me it gives you just a horrible
Speaker 1: feeling in the pit of your stomach. You know that
Speaker 1: of kid, he's got the deer in the headlights. Look,
Speaker 1: I just don't I don't trust that kid. I just
Speaker 1: do not trust him. Rams. I don't think he's ever
Speaker 1: gonna win the Super Bowl. In the first half against
Speaker 1: the Jets, five points one blocked a pick total of
Speaker 1: three points in a total of ninety seven yards. First
Speaker 1: half against the Jets. Anytime they had any pressure, he
Speaker 1: just went down. He would just tuck the ball that face.
Speaker 1: Where are we? Number two? Number two times? I wanted
Speaker 1: to go with the Miami Dolphins, but you guys stole
Speaker 1: my pick. You guys stole my pick last week as well.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna take the Dolphins because Mike explained to
Speaker 1: me game theory. He thinks he's so much smarter because
Speaker 1: he's from Iowa. Okay, I got the song in. I
Speaker 1: got the song in. Otherwise people complain if I don't
Speaker 1: sing the Miami Dolphins song. So I can't take the
Speaker 1: Dolphins because you guys stole that one away from me.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with the under forty six in
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills New England Patriots game. And the reason
Speaker 1: I'm doing that is, Um, I'm not sure New England
Speaker 1: can get a touchdown. I mean, this team offensively is
Speaker 1: just unbelievably difficult to watch. Um, Cam Newton, what's going on?
Speaker 1: I mean, You've got the Hall of Fame coach of
Speaker 1: coaches and you still can't complete a pass. Now, granted
Speaker 1: the receiver stink. I mean, if nikkil Harry is your
Speaker 1: is your answer, that's not gonna, you know, get you
Speaker 1: anywhere now. I mean, basically, what's the Patriots offense? They
Speaker 1: give the ball to that guy who didn't play last
Speaker 1: week and he rams up the middle for six yards.
Speaker 1: Is a good play for them? I don't see how
Speaker 1: the Patriots, even though Buffalo, I'm not like incredibly impressed
Speaker 1: with their defense. I think their offense is fantastic, but
Speaker 1: I don't see them scoring a lot of points against anyone,
Speaker 1: and that includes Buffalo. I believe the first game and
Speaker 1: really wasn't that high scoring the game. It was a
Speaker 1: really low scoring game. There was some touchdowns late and
Speaker 1: that's how it got. I just don't know how you
Speaker 1: can make an over under forty six when New England's involved.
Speaker 1: Belichick knows he's got to keep the score down. He's
Speaker 1: not winning the game against Josh Allen. It's just not
Speaker 1: going to happen. So so Bill Belichick knows, we've got
Speaker 1: to run the ball. Smash mouth football is our only hope.
Speaker 1: We gotta keep the score low, we gotta keep the
Speaker 1: clock running, and maybe he you know, I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna keep it under forty six. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna win the game or anything, but I
Speaker 1: do think he's gonna slow the game down. And in
Speaker 1: New England's offense is just it's hard to watch. I
Speaker 1: mean it's really hard to watch, alright. Number two from
Speaker 1: Dad under Buffalo, New England. Derek, your third and final,
Speaker 1: third and final, What is the total that you would
Speaker 1: give me on the Dolphins Raiders game? Dolphins Raiders? I
Speaker 1: have forty seven and a half, Gil, What do you have?
Speaker 1: I have forty seven and a half. All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna hold tight them. I'm gonna go with the football team.
Speaker 1: I love how disciplined you are there. We'll go with
Speaker 1: the football team. Then, Leon, what what we gotta one
Speaker 1: and half on the football I see two and a
Speaker 1: half extra juice, two and a half. Let's give the
Speaker 1: man two and a half. All I have this two
Speaker 1: and a half, two and a half, two and a half.
Speaker 1: All right, then it's one and a half right here
Speaker 1: at circuit sports? What what are we looking at against yourself? There? Derek?
Speaker 1: Would you like to bet against yourself? Look at this?
Speaker 1: It's fun and a half right now, Derek is becoming
Speaker 1: very agitated because of his own circuit sports. It's one
Speaker 1: and a half. One of the census in far away places?
Speaker 1: Where is this line coming from? The line is off
Speaker 1: shore line with an amalgamation of different lines in both
Speaker 1: the US and that's right in other places. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: so the numbers two and a half. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: like that. Don't like that. That's a whole point. It's
Speaker 1: a whole point. You might have to go back and
Speaker 1: a half, might have to Okay, we're gonna if I
Speaker 1: kick one and after that we're gonna go over forty
Speaker 1: seven and a half with the with the Raiders, here's
Speaker 1: the thing. I have to take this game. I have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to do something I've never done before this
Speaker 1: weekend and Mark Davis calling, he said, hey, I want
Speaker 1: to go watch a game with you, and I want
Speaker 1: to go watch the Dolphin Raider game. I said, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll get a booth over at the sports book in
Speaker 1: Circle and He's like, okay, I prefer to go watch
Speaker 1: the pool with you. Go watch it at Stadium Swim
Speaker 1: on the day after Christmas. I said, okay, so we
Speaker 1: got a cabana, so I'm gonna I can't take the
Speaker 1: Dolphins because it would be it would be a difficult,
Speaker 1: difficult day for me. But I but I do like
Speaker 1: Jah Jacobs, I do like Waller, and I do think, uh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna see to to light up light up the
Speaker 1: Raiders d a little bit. So I'll go over the
Speaker 1: forty seven and a half in the Raiders Dolphin game
Speaker 1: on the day after Christmas. I love that comment. I
Speaker 1: can't take the Dolphins because it would be a difficult
Speaker 1: day for me. Yes, we all, we all understand that.
Speaker 1: By the way, I got my cabana from March Madness
Speaker 1: Day two excellent, excellent wiken is the Raiders defense almost
Speaker 1: the worst in the league. I mean, when you're watching
Speaker 1: that Charger game the other day, you're like, there's no
Speaker 1: way they can get a stop. We could play five
Speaker 1: hundred football games. They're not getting a stop. And even
Speaker 1: though two of my cades to and granted to has
Speaker 1: been you know, average ish, they're gonna move the ball
Speaker 1: in the Raiders. I mean, come on, everyone moves the
Speaker 1: ball in the Raiding. They didn't have in that game too.
Speaker 1: They didn't have a few guys up there, Farrell and
Speaker 1: abram Ley to my leap to mind, Mikey your last one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna play a total here. I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play the Steelers Colts over forty five and
Speaker 1: a half. That the number todd for Pittsburgh and the Colts.
Speaker 1: I have give even something better. Let's go over forty
Speaker 1: four and a half there. I just look now, the
Speaker 1: Steelers are just gonna throw every down. Okay, this game
Speaker 1: went over last night a low total of forty because
Speaker 1: they were even finly had a rushing touchdown in the turnovers.
Speaker 1: But watching these Colts games, I mean, they go up,
Speaker 1: they go up and down the field, but they let
Speaker 1: other teams go up and down the field. To remember,
Speaker 1: after the first four weeks, we were annointing Matt Eberflus
Speaker 1: is gonna be the next head coach. He was the
Speaker 1: hot commodity right what a great defense he had. And
Speaker 1: since then, I mean, they're they're giving up thirty one
Speaker 1: a game. I just I think when you have a
Speaker 1: team like the Steelers that aren't going to run the ball,
Speaker 1: it's it's hard because you get an extra two possessions
Speaker 1: in the game because the clock doesn't stop on these
Speaker 1: incomplete passes. So that's a pretty low total for the
Speaker 1: NFL as well. Forty four and a half over Did
Speaker 1: you lose that? Did you lose that? Over? In the exactly?
Speaker 1: Fumble going into the end zone twice? That's that's twice.
Speaker 1: That's that's two times in three weeks. And he fumbled
Speaker 1: and then they fumbled stretching the ball to the end
Speaker 1: zone in the now would not be the time to
Speaker 1: tell you I had the Colts in both of those games.
Speaker 1: That's okay, I didn't have I didn't. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a pick on here, you know what. You know what
Speaker 1: I love about mikey as you never know when the
Speaker 1: emotion is gonna come. But it's it's just it's mind
Speaker 1: blowingly frustrating that these idiots throw me. And I mean,
Speaker 1: what is DeShawn Watson doing? He thinks he can jump
Speaker 1: over every defender and he takes all these terrible sacks.
Speaker 1: Just throw the ball away. My biggest, my biggest de
Speaker 1: Shaun Watson gripe is when they're down in a game
Speaker 1: by like ten four teen boys, he gets a first
Speaker 1: down and he does it's all right, calm down the show.
Speaker 1: What were you saying? I was watching that game and
Speaker 1: I needed the Bolts in the money line parlay again.
Speaker 1: I violated my Philip Rivers anonymous thing, but I needed
Speaker 1: the Colts to finish off of money line parlay. And
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, Mikey cannot possibly lose the over the exact
Speaker 1: same way twice in three weeks in the exact same
Speaker 1: game inside the five yard line with how is that
Speaker 1: even possible? That's not possible. Uh? The NFL, what are
Speaker 1: we doing betting this ship? Why are we doing? What
Speaker 1: are we doing? It's ridiculous, such a good product, though
Speaker 1: it is so great product. It's my first love. Seriously, innately, Well,
Speaker 1: you grew up with his dad taking him to RFKAT
Speaker 1: the then Redskins. Yes, there was literally when you When
Speaker 1: I watched my first Skins game, I could think of
Speaker 1: nothing else. Lost my appetite. When they lose. My parents
Speaker 1: are like, who is this alien child? What do we
Speaker 1: do with him? All right? So then did we close
Speaker 1: it out with the final three things? One? I'm so
Speaker 1: sorry Todd is it doesn't I forgot the form. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind giving a last pick? You know it would
Speaker 1: be okay, I mean be hard to catch up against
Speaker 1: you guys if I only get two picks, okay. I
Speaker 1: am Also because you two have both done a minus
Speaker 1: three minus one, and since I have not done a
Speaker 1: minus three one minus, I would like to take a
Speaker 1: minus three minus one. Even though I wanted to take Miami,
Speaker 1: I'm backing off of that because of what we talked
Speaker 1: about before. I'm going to take the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 1: minus three minus one. Just like you little cheaters get
Speaker 1: to do I get to do it too, green Bay
Speaker 1: minus three minus one. Here's the thing. I like Tennessee
Speaker 1: on offense. They don't have a defense. I mean, can
Speaker 1: we just be real if Tennessee doesn't score thirty five points,
Speaker 1: they can't win the game. Aaron Rodgers is going to
Speaker 1: go up there, look all cool, calm and collected, doing
Speaker 1: all state commercial and throw another first down and they're
Speaker 1: just gonna keep moving down the field. It's like a joke. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: whoever he does those commercials for, he he looks so caught.
Speaker 1: He he looks bored. Really, he just comes to the line.
Speaker 1: He's like, look, I've done this a thousand times. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll throw it to the tight end. First down, first down, touchdown.
Speaker 1: It's embarrassing. So I don't see how Tennessee is really
Speaker 1: gonna stop the Packers. And the Packers defense it's not
Speaker 1: fantastic or anything, but Ryan Tannehill make one or two
Speaker 1: mistakes and you know the Packers will find a way
Speaker 1: to win the game, you know, thirty four or something
Speaker 1: like that. And anyways, if it's minus three minus, I
Speaker 1: can always get the push on minus three. So you know,
Speaker 1: give me Green Bay and a board Aaron Rodgers to
Speaker 1: take out Tennessee as my pick number three. He asked
Speaker 1: me this on text, and the only reason I knew
Speaker 1: the answer because I was prepping for guessing lines. And
Speaker 1: he said, quick, who scored the most points. What teams
Speaker 1: scored the most point in the NFL this year? I
Speaker 1: would have said the Titans. Titans by a point over
Speaker 1: the Packer, over the Chiefs, two points over the Packers. Titans,
Speaker 1: just keep scoring. But you're right there. Defense is awful.
Speaker 1: All right, it's your it's your segment, Todd Teaser of
Speaker 1: the week, Derek Eddie to team your favorite two teams
Speaker 1: six point teaser of the week. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: options here. I appreciate all the prep time you gave
Speaker 1: me on this. I didn't you a week ago when
Speaker 1: you agreed to do it what the format of the
Speaker 1: show was. This was including Derek, You're like, I know
Speaker 1: we're not a company that promotes reading, but still, wow, jeez,
Speaker 1: how about we lup unhappy to go. Todd's the leader,
Speaker 1: like in the golf, He's first. Okay, I will take
Speaker 1: as my teaser. I'm gonna do something a little crazy here.
Speaker 1: I am going to give myself maximum uh adjita this week.
Speaker 1: My taking both Maddie boiling hot steam, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: plus sixteen and a half right against the Chiefs, because
Speaker 1: there's no better feeling than late in a game needing
Speaker 1: Maddie boy hot steam water to do something for you,
Speaker 1: and he'll probably screw me. But I think maybe for
Speaker 1: backdoor touchdowns he might be okay to do it. So
Speaker 1: give me Atlanta plus sixteen and a half. I just
Speaker 1: have a feeling that, you know, the Chiefs look like
Speaker 1: the kind of team they just toy with people. We
Speaker 1: talked about it last week. They don't really care if
Speaker 1: they win by a zillion or not. And late in
Speaker 1: the game they could be down twenty three. I could
Speaker 1: see Maddie boiling hot steam water, you know, getting some
Speaker 1: touchdowns late. So give me Atlanta plus sixteen and a half,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna put it with another guy who you
Speaker 1: really don't want to have late in a game, and
Speaker 1: that is Rams plus seven and a half, because, like
Speaker 1: you guys said before, even though I can't stand Jared Goff,
Speaker 1: I think he can keep it close. The Rams in
Speaker 1: the first game against Seattle had some answers for for
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, and by the way, quietly has the Seattle
Speaker 1: offense started to look a little more pedestrian. If you
Speaker 1: look at the last couple of games, something has maybe
Speaker 1: clicked where other teams are figured out maybe this is
Speaker 1: how we should figure out how to defend this team
Speaker 1: because they didn't do a whole hell of a lot.
Speaker 1: They had to hang on for dear life against Washington,
Speaker 1: and there are a couple other games in there. They
Speaker 1: didn't look good against the Rams about three or four
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Except against the Jets, they really have not
Speaker 1: looked like themselves. So give me the Rams plus seven
Speaker 1: and a half, give me the Atlantis plus sixteen and
Speaker 1: a half so I can continue my lead in teaser.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this guy. You're right though they don't
Speaker 1: have the explosive they don't have the chunk plays. They
Speaker 1: don't have these over the top passes that he thrived
Speaker 1: on the first ten weeks of the year. Though, I
Speaker 1: will say this, when you play the NFC's leading Washington
Speaker 1: football defense, that's a tough game for anybody. I think
Speaker 1: that this the Redskins here is a huge game this way.
Speaker 1: I know Derek liked them. They went and they really
Speaker 1: win the Divisa. I think you see the Dwayne Haskins
Speaker 1: story this morning. I did not Dwayne Haskins after the loss,
Speaker 1: apparently went to a strip club maskless, and it's all
Speaker 1: over social media. Pil How does Clem Haskins need a
Speaker 1: thing for the plays on his wrist. He's been there
Speaker 1: a couple of years already, he still needs like the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Last week, they're like, oh, we're gonna put
Speaker 1: the players on his risk because he doesn't know the place.
Speaker 1: You're not a rookie, bro, you should know the plays, Clem.
Speaker 1: What are you doing, Clem? Steve Zaban, who's the biggest
Speaker 1: sports talk radio guy in d C. He told me
Speaker 1: last year there was actually people who know Dwayne Haskins
Speaker 1: would approach the line of scrimmage not knowing at all
Speaker 1: what the play was. Sometimes he didn't know where the
Speaker 1: center was. Yeah, he's lining up over the guard to
Speaker 1: get the snap. Uh. Not a good pick by Washington.
Speaker 1: They don't have the quarterback of the future on that
Speaker 1: roster they do. How do you feel about Alex Smith
Speaker 1: starting instead of Haskins? Has ruled out for terrified every
Speaker 1: time he steps on the field, but for him. But
Speaker 1: he's like Alex Smith. But they got a shot with him.
Speaker 1: You know, I think they have a better shot with
Speaker 1: him for sure. He'll make just enough place. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: much better shot, much much better shot. Mikey Teaser. Well,
Speaker 1: I mentioned the Rams and I'm gonna have to have
Speaker 1: a common one with Todd even though I'm trying to
Speaker 1: catch up. Like my little Cowboys one last week, everybody
Speaker 1: was surprised by that Cowboys first nine and they went
Speaker 1: outright winner. Who was the guy and survivor who took
Speaker 1: the Niners? That was a bunt on one nervy saw
Speaker 1: it was eliminated Panthers two weeks ago in the Niners.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get trying to knock out people game theory,
Speaker 1: but that's a bit of a stretch of both of those.
Speaker 1: By the way, Gil, he came up that whole thing
Speaker 1: about the extra point in the Niners Cowboys game. Now,
Speaker 1: it didn't affect the before the line, but it could
Speaker 1: have easily affected the minus seven and a half in
Speaker 1: game that were available in that game. Late in the game,
Speaker 1: they scored a touchdown on they got the onsets kick
Speaker 1: and scored a touch and then they came back and
Speaker 1: threw a hail Mary and got the touchdown to to
Speaker 1: be down a right. I don't think they kicked the
Speaker 1: extra point. Did The official said the game is over
Speaker 1: as the point does not matter. That's the Minnesota, that's
Speaker 1: the Minnesota miracle. That did that right, and that's what
Speaker 1: we were talking about. Remember, I said, I think they
Speaker 1: don't kick it anymore. They changed it. Remember a few
Speaker 1: years ago, on the last play of the game. What
Speaker 1: changed it? After the Patriots game, after like five straight
Speaker 1: pass interference calls, they scored on the last play of
Speaker 1: the game and the defensive team just walked out and
Speaker 1: they made it too and it affected the point spread.
Speaker 1: They just walked it in and you still had you
Speaker 1: still had to do the point then. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: probably six seven years ago because there was the sham
Speaker 1: of bringing the Saints back to the field. That was awful.
Speaker 1: I too have On my second second, I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the Bills down to one against the Patriots on Monday,
Speaker 1: now the second leg. Those are two of my four
Speaker 1: favorite legs. Um, I am going to take the Rams
Speaker 1: as well. I think I'm the Bills were definitely the
Speaker 1: one of the other candidates. The other two candidates were
Speaker 1: the Saints and the Bears. So in the interest of
Speaker 1: not matching Mikey's Bears, I'm actually now I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: Saints like the Bears. That would be my third choice.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Saints and Rams. Saints basically knocking it
Speaker 1: down to having to beat Minnesota on Christmas Night, Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: well Christmas Day Eve, if you will, you don't worries
Speaker 1: me about the Bears, like Jacksonville could mess this up.
Speaker 1: I think the Bears defense is good enough that I
Speaker 1: don't know that Jacksonville is going to score that many points.
Speaker 1: And I like all four of those likes Buffalo as well,
Speaker 1: Derek two team teaser. After I had a couple of
Speaker 1: minutes to take a look at it, I I I
Speaker 1: like what you just said. Um with the Saints at
Speaker 1: home National TV, I think this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: widely bat game just because you know the NFL is
Speaker 1: gonna own UH on the on the television. Then I
Speaker 1: know we got a lot of NBA, but I think
Speaker 1: the NFL game is gonna go. I love the Saints
Speaker 1: at home, so I would take the Saints and then
Speaker 1: I'll come back to UH. I'll come back to the
Speaker 1: football team here. So if it was two and a
Speaker 1: half and then we get up what this is a
Speaker 1: six six point teaser type of type of but delso
Speaker 1: I'll get three in the hook, three in the hook
Speaker 1: right there with with the football team right Jerry doesn't
Speaker 1: care about going through the zero. Derek Stevens. I actually,
Speaker 1: I know, I know people are about going through the zero,
Speaker 1: how you're wasting a point, But it just really kind
Speaker 1: of depends upon I think a defensive team you can
Speaker 1: make it. You can make a point about about going
Speaker 1: through the zero, particularly really if you're if you're going
Speaker 1: through a three or something like that. Now and now,
Speaker 1: if I was actually betting this, I would not bet
Speaker 1: a six point teaser through a zero on a two
Speaker 1: and a half. I would definitely I would definitely figure
Speaker 1: out a way to put this into a six and
Speaker 1: a half pointer, um, to make sure that you know
Speaker 1: you're you're getting you're getting that that extra half a
Speaker 1: point of value. Okay, Final two questions, as always on
Speaker 1: the end of every show. UH. First of the final two,
Speaker 1: which of the big favorites is the most likely to lose? Outright?
Speaker 1: Here are your candidates. New Orleans seven point favorites at
Speaker 1: home against Minnesota Christmas Day, UH, Tampa Bay nine and
Speaker 1: a half point favorites on the road against at Detroit
Speaker 1: on Saturday Sunday. Kansas City tend at a half point
Speaker 1: favorites at home against Atlanta Chicago seven and a half
Speaker 1: on the road against Jacksonville. God, there's a lot of these.
Speaker 1: Houston eight and a half at home against Cincinnata, Cleveland
Speaker 1: nine and a half on the road against the Jets,
Speaker 1: Baltimore Jesus ten hosting the Giants. Is that it? No?
Speaker 1: And then Buffalo Monday night seven point favorites on the
Speaker 1: road against New England. Since Derek didn't get the email,
Speaker 1: Mikey you first, Yeah, I don't know here As it
Speaker 1: turned out last week the Rams in Pittsburgh where the answers,
Speaker 1: which is amazing, none of us, I said, dint we
Speaker 1: both say the buck? We did say yeah. I guess
Speaker 1: I'd go with the Bears, just because they're on the
Speaker 1: road and they're the shortest of the favorites. I don't
Speaker 1: think Buffalo is losing to New England. I think if
Speaker 1: you've got Mitchell True Whisky playing quarterback, anything anything is possible.
Speaker 1: So you know, why can't why can't the mustache Minshew
Speaker 1: do it? To uh to Trubisky? I have a quick
Speaker 1: question for you, Derek. Um, So now we we You've
Speaker 1: opened a you know, a brilliant new resort. I haven't
Speaker 1: been there yet. I'm sure once I get back to Vegas.
Speaker 1: I'll be there all the time. But um, I hear
Speaker 1: it's absolutely amazing by everybody. All my friends there have gone.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. Now, being that as it may, you've now
Speaker 1: opened this in the middle of a pandemic, which obviously
Speaker 1: is going to make all the numbers go different for you.
Speaker 1: But based on what you have seen, are you happy
Speaker 1: with how it's gone? Or are you upset with how
Speaker 1: it's gone? Or are you like being being that, Hey,
Speaker 1: we do have a pandemic, But how have you felt
Speaker 1: about it so far? This wasn't This wasn't on the email, Todd,
Speaker 1: you should clarify a racial pandemic. That's what he said earlier,
Speaker 1: this which in the middle of a racial he had
Speaker 1: measured racial injustice with At the same time, to answer
Speaker 1: your question, uh, you know, we'd never we'd never we'd
Speaker 1: ever did a pro former to ask about what would
Speaker 1: what would it be like to open a casino and uh,
Speaker 1: and a couple of other attractions without a hotel. So
Speaker 1: we've we've been able to do that for eight weeks
Speaker 1: and uh, you know when you walk through for the
Speaker 1: last eight weeks, you know, I look around them like
Speaker 1: isn't this amazing? Every single person made the decision to
Speaker 1: drive here or take an uber or something like that.
Speaker 1: Um no, one's staying here. So only next week do
Speaker 1: we opened the hotel. So in a pandemic without a hotel,
Speaker 1: Um no, I feel pretty good about how how things
Speaker 1: are started off. And this is our biggest project. So
Speaker 1: we've had a lot of hiccups and we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot of hiccups with the hotel that we gotta fix.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I feel uh, I feel very good, um
Speaker 1: that that we're gonna hit the numbers we projected, or
Speaker 1: really that we're going to exceed the numbers we projected,
Speaker 1: because because the initial eight weeks has worked out very
Speaker 1: very well there. It is basically the fact that you've
Speaker 1: you've been able to hang in here during a pandemic
Speaker 1: means that once the once the court comes out of
Speaker 1: the pandemic and everyone's vaccinated and they all go, let's
Speaker 1: go to Vegas, you have a feeling that circus is
Speaker 1: just gonna explode. Yeah, I think, I think, uh, I think, um,
Speaker 1: you know, we've had the opportunity to see what it's
Speaker 1: like being being the newest or the shiniest shiniest toy
Speaker 1: and you know under the tree type of thing. But
Speaker 1: I think when people are willing to come back to Vegas, um,
Speaker 1: and that's over a longer period of time. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be over the next twelve months, next twenty four months.
Speaker 1: I think, Uh, my confidence level of of having people
Speaker 1: on their trips say hey, I want to make sure
Speaker 1: I stop in and see Circa. I feel I feel
Speaker 1: very good about that. I feel much better about that
Speaker 1: today than I did at the beginning of October. So
Speaker 1: I feel I feel good about once once we get
Speaker 1: through all this, uh, that will be a decent shape.
Speaker 1: By the way I've mentioned it, I've mentioned to uh
Speaker 1: Bill A d to Brian Rodgers, imagine Vegas right now
Speaker 1: if you didn't do this project, like let's say Circa
Speaker 1: didn't exist, what a what a depressing place this would
Speaker 1: be right now? About the Mirage only open on the weekend, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because see everything everything that Like there's strip hotels and
Speaker 1: beyond the Mirage, like the restaurants that haven't reopened obviously
Speaker 1: no shows. So honestly, I mean that you singularly have
Speaker 1: like given us something here that's exciting anyway, is it true? Gil?
Speaker 1: Gil Is it true that they closed the snack bar
Speaker 1: at the South Point that has the good pizza and
Speaker 1: the popcorn that Mikey always liked when I bought him upstairs.
Speaker 1: I haven't been upstairs, you know. They shut the Oyster Bar,
Speaker 1: which I loved that oyster We would go there at
Speaker 1: least twice with my wife and child. We came in
Speaker 1: and then a week later than Chris Andrews told me, hey,
Speaker 1: I had bad news for you. I know you love
Speaker 1: the Oyster Bar, but we're your son doing a great
Speaker 1: looking kids. He'll be five on Sunday. Oh wow, what
Speaker 1: a great age. Five on Sunday. Good for you? Um so, yes, Derek, absolutely,
Speaker 1: you haven't made it worth living here. Your wife got
Speaker 1: the vaccination last week. She got Thursday. She should three
Speaker 1: weeks from then she'll get the second dosage, so it
Speaker 1: comes in two apart. Which one did she get? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I assumed, do you get one? Then afterwards we're down
Speaker 1: the list of people the spouses of of the health kid.
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio, take your spot, you might have. She got
Speaker 1: she got a little sick. You know, you take it.
Speaker 1: It's like the flu shot, you know, she got a fever,
Speaker 1: she got sore, but it only lasted about seventy two hours.
Speaker 1: She's fine. Now, active content managers should be um some
Speaker 1: of those essential workers because if you don't have the
Speaker 1: correct TV's going, you could have ruined your entire sports
Speaker 1: betting evening. And that's the only thing that's gonna take
Speaker 1: your mind off the pandemic. Well, and if you need
Speaker 1: a content management, anybody that's a singular person in an
Speaker 1: industry should be protected. That's right, you own that instc.
Speaker 1: He should have trademarked. By the way, back to the point,
Speaker 1: it's bears for me as the team most likely lose
Speaker 1: that right, the big favorites, the big favorites, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think uh, I think Cincinnati's a live dog again, so
Speaker 1: I would go against Houston. Alright, we're off the grid.
Speaker 1: And then the final question, final question. If we live
Speaker 1: in a bizarro world. We were forced to bet fifteen
Speaker 1: of the sixteen games on the side, but there was
Speaker 1: one game you wanted no part of, Mikey, what would
Speaker 1: that game be? Forty Niners Cardinals, two home teams. That's
Speaker 1: one of my best bets. I know, I'm just saying
Speaker 1: that to say two home teams. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: get that line in there, DoD Um Eagles Cowboys. I mean,
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do hurt so good against the Cowboys
Speaker 1: against the beige water pistol. It's it's I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on over there. I'm gonna say. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say Carolina Washington just because we don't know the quarterback.
Speaker 1: And if it's Dwayne Haskins, that tips to Carolina for me,
Speaker 1: and if it's Alex Smith, it tips to Washington. This
Speaker 1: is a really, really a game for Washington to win
Speaker 1: the division. Yeah, man, this is it. This is you know.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the year, I was like, oh, do you
Speaker 1: you really want to win this division? Because you, at
Speaker 1: the best, you'll have the nineteenth pick in the draft,
Speaker 1: and if you lose out, you're probably a top ten pick.
Speaker 1: And then in the end, like my fanhood got, I'm like,
Speaker 1: come on with this damn division? Why I have no
Speaker 1: idea when I just got into it. Yeah, if you're
Speaker 1: pondering a thought, probably host two of the host the
Speaker 1: rams are Seattle or Tampa Bay. Who would be the
Speaker 1: probably Seattle Ish Oh yeah, they were talking about that
Speaker 1: on the broadcast. They don't want Seattle. Seattle always beat
Speaker 1: something in the pays. Oh, trust me. I went to
Speaker 1: Seattle for a playoff game with Mark Brunell. They beat
Speaker 1: him then uh, and then of course they've been him
Speaker 1: a second time in Seattle. And then the Robert Griffin
Speaker 1: his knee game, which I was at two, which was
Speaker 1: a morgue when that happened. Did you guys weigh in
Speaker 1: on the Chiefs versus the field? I think that people
Speaker 1: have been talking about it on Twitter. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they offer that at sports books, but the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: you know, people are talking about would you rather bet
Speaker 1: the Chiefs or to have every other team to win
Speaker 1: the the the NFL? Right now? Um, I almost think
Speaker 1: I would just rather have the Chiefs. But you know,
Speaker 1: Aaron Shotts, who from Football Outsiders, who was on this
Speaker 1: show last week, made the case about how, you know
Speaker 1: how I kind of lazily when I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are just toying with the Dolphins, and he
Speaker 1: was like, that's too subjective, like we just give the
Speaker 1: Chiefs of free pass At Drew Dinsic on the show
Speaker 1: this morning, he said kind of the same thing. He's like,
Speaker 1: there are too many alarms about the Chiefs. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: They lead in every game. What has been seven years
Speaker 1: since they didn't lead in the game. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: some ridiculous statistic since my home's so it's not like
Speaker 1: they get into like Baltimore where they get down two
Speaker 1: scores and there, you know what I mean. They always
Speaker 1: are in the game, or they're never not in control.
Speaker 1: Although New Orleans I thought did a great job of
Speaker 1: harassing homes and that the defense played very well, they
Speaker 1: fall on that fumble in the end zone on that
Speaker 1: idiotic punt return for three seconds left and a half
Speaker 1: and it's a tie game. They only lost, They only
Speaker 1: lost by three and got murdered in the box score
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. I don't know if that makes me
Speaker 1: feel better about them or better about the Chiefs or
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, Derek, game you want no part of
Speaker 1: the close things out? If I could take the same,
Speaker 1: I really like what Todd said. I would not know
Speaker 1: where to go with this Cowboy Philadelphia game. Um so
Speaker 1: I like what what Todd was saying. I jump on
Speaker 1: with that with him on that one, all right, Derek,
Speaker 1: I hope this wasn't too painful of an experience for you.
Speaker 1: It's great. I enjoyed it. Thanks. I appreciate you doing
Speaker 1: this and again where we started, Survivor, greatest thing going,
Speaker 1: so much fun. Wish I could have won, wasn't meant
Speaker 1: to be. I'll root for my friend Christie Andrews to
Speaker 1: get to the Promised Land with his buddies. But it's spectacular.
Speaker 1: We look forward to whatever you have up your sleep
Speaker 1: next year. Man Um, whatever the rules are, may you
Speaker 1: get five thousand entries? Appreciate that. Thanks a lot. No,
Speaker 1: we all well really do. And I think I speak
Speaker 1: on behalf of everybody who played. It is real, real
Speaker 1: shot in the arm for all the contests and for
Speaker 1: Vegas sports betting in general. Todd. As we speak right now,
Speaker 1: the people from New Orleans are filing into Stadium Swim
Speaker 1: for the Great Idaho Potatable to watch their beloved to
Speaker 1: Lane take on you and are I'm I was just
Speaker 1: about to ask you guys if you had any thoughts
Speaker 1: on too Lane Nevater Central Florida by I have some
Speaker 1: thoughts you things. I'm on the under pre flap twenty
Speaker 1: eight and a half and fifty seven in that game,
Speaker 1: there's high winds, Todd. It rained this morning. The rain
Speaker 1: has stopped but it's high winds, which one in the
Speaker 1: Potato bo Idaho brazy, So you you and are in
Speaker 1: too lane, Derek, Is there any thoughts to expand the
Speaker 1: end game offerings at Circle? Because while everyone says Circle
Speaker 1: is the best as far as you know customer service
Speaker 1: and getting the lines out and letting people have limits
Speaker 1: and amazing, the end game is not as vast. Is
Speaker 1: that going to be expanded? Yeah, no, you're absolutely right,
Speaker 1: But I mean that that's something that that you know,
Speaker 1: we've been in business here for a year and a
Speaker 1: half and we're still trying to grow the team and uh,
Speaker 1: and I think your assessment is right on, Tod, And
Speaker 1: we certainly would like to grow our in game uh,
Speaker 1: in game opportunities here as as h as time goes
Speaker 1: by awesome because I've obviously everyone loves Circle, so I
Speaker 1: can imagine, you know, if you guys get the in
Speaker 1: game going, Wow, Todd, and I dream of the day
Speaker 1: that the Wednesday in the middle of June or July
Speaker 1: when the Mariners are playing the Blue Jays and it's
Speaker 1: just me and you out there, Dodd Baseball, Diehard Stadium,
Speaker 1: Swim it's a big ball game. When we got the
Speaker 1: Tigers going with you know whoever I can't even name,
Speaker 1: or Boyd, Matthew Boyd. Is he still on the team,
Speaker 1: the left hander? I believe so, Yes, But you're right,
Speaker 1: I mean and major League Baseball and with the investment
Speaker 1: we made with Stadium Swim, Yeah, we want to make
Speaker 1: sure that we're we have in game available on Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball because that's a that's a key element of
Speaker 1: kind of what we're doing. So we gotta we gotta
Speaker 1: grow the end game town. My secret thing that I
Speaker 1: said to Mike Ago, no one has bet baseball more
Speaker 1: at Las Vegas Pools in life than I have all
Speaker 1: those years that the hard Rock having baseball action, no
Speaker 1: one else out there did. So Stadium Swim Baseball season
Speaker 1: is like perfect dream come true. Damn it. They're consulted
Speaker 1: and build a television screen that can handle a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five degrees in the summer. It's amazing. There's
Speaker 1: no glare, there's no glare whatsoever, which is incredible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we spent a little we spent a little bit of
Speaker 1: time going up to Dackdrodics and uh yeah, they built
Speaker 1: built a new product for us. So there there's there's
Speaker 1: some cooling systems behind the screen. So all hundred and
Speaker 1: forty three ft we we expect to uh, we expect
Speaker 1: to to to have a run just just perfectly fine.
Speaker 1: We get to July and August this year, so can
Speaker 1: it withstand what degrees? Can it withstand? Well? What it
Speaker 1: was stand? Is it? It has to do without much
Speaker 1: cooling goes in behind behind the screen. So we got
Speaker 1: a lot of cooling that goes behind the screen, so
Speaker 1: we should be good, alright. Or Todd Wishnev and his
Speaker 1: mom's cork Attic in Pittsburgh, p A with the Circus
Speaker 1: Sports backdrop. Thank you, Todd, appreciate it. Mikey as always,
Speaker 1: Mike Palm. I don't think I received your last name
Speaker 1: on this show, did the great Mike Palm? Everybody, thank
Speaker 1: you kind enough to join us Merry Christmas to all
Speaker 1: happy holidays. And Derrick Stevens, who runs the roost here
Speaker 1: or rules the roost at all of Circuits Sports Circa
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Speaker 1: you for letting us have this to do our podcast
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