Speaker 1: From the King of Sports Books comes the King Sports
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Speaker 1: Papas and Olivia Harlan Decker. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome everyone. This
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Speaker 1: We are glad to have you with us. Jannas Pappas
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Speaker 1: it and like hold yourself accountable. I do one. I
Speaker 1: do one, and I hold myself accountable. Yeah. So, and
Speaker 1: I like to always pick underdogs. Look, I bet, I
Speaker 1: don't bet. Maybe it's just because it's too hard for
Speaker 1: me to understand all the numbers. So I think that's
Speaker 1: probably just an excuse. I just bet with underdogs and
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Speaker 1: Um man, that sucks. I'm always telling you honest, these
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Speaker 1: You suffered great losses. Make it a pyrate victory. Just
Speaker 1: turn it around down there, dusting makes something happen. You
Speaker 1: can do what I believe in you. That's heavy, heavy stuff.
Speaker 1: Speaking of heavy stuff, a lot of news broke today.
Speaker 1: You know, we record on Tuesdays, and I'm beaming because
Speaker 1: the news just broke that Aaron Rodgers is remaining in
Speaker 1: Green Bay. Hallelujah, sing the chorus, get the cheese. I
Speaker 1: am so excited. He agreed to a four year, two
Speaker 1: hundred million dollar deal. Oh my gosh, it makes him
Speaker 1: the highest paid NFL player ever. A hundred fifty three
Speaker 1: million is guaranteed, plus his cap number goes down. It's
Speaker 1: a huge move by the Packers front office. They also
Speaker 1: franchise tag Dvante Adams. Now, Aaron certainly wanted a lot
Speaker 1: of conversation about this decision, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: He's like, he's like a girl deciding between a couple
Speaker 1: of prom dates. He doesn't shy away from the drama.
Speaker 1: A couple of days ago he said he was torn. Obviously,
Speaker 1: people thought Denver was where he would go to follow
Speaker 1: his offensive coordinator, and Denver's roster is pretty stacked, so
Speaker 1: not gonna lie. It would have been a good move,
Speaker 1: but he's staying. He's loyal, he's staying. I can't complain.
Speaker 1: He gives us the best chance to win. I had
Speaker 1: a good feeling about this, be honest. When the Packers
Speaker 1: brought in quarterback coach Tom Clements, he came out of
Speaker 1: retirement a couple of weeks ago. Aaron loves this guy.
Speaker 1: They are tight, and Tom Clements wasn't coming out of
Speaker 1: retirement for Jordan's love. So this is exciting. This is
Speaker 1: really exciting. It's a big day. And then, of course
Speaker 1: to put a cap on this that everyone was kind
Speaker 1: of keeping an eye on the Broncos, Well, good thing
Speaker 1: they had an eye on him and had their ear
Speaker 1: to the ground because Russell Wilson is going to Denver.
Speaker 1: I mean, what a day. There's so much to unpack
Speaker 1: here and we're going to bring in someone who knows
Speaker 1: all about it, NFL Networks, Greg Rosenthal. He is joining us.
Speaker 1: He was just at the combine. He's gonna fill us
Speaker 1: in on everything that happened at the combine. But honest,
Speaker 1: those two big pieces of news, what are your initial thoughts.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of speechless, well, never speechless, but you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Yeah, you could talk. I am I'm
Speaker 1: excited for Green Bay fans, I'm excited for Denver, and
Speaker 1: I am very upset as a Giants fan. I was
Speaker 1: hoping that we would see Wilson in a Giants jersey,
Speaker 1: but now I gotta look at this dukie once again,
Speaker 1: or it's a draft pick. I don't know. Maybe we
Speaker 1: could talk to our esteemed guests about it, but I
Speaker 1: don't know what the Giants are gonna do. And we're
Speaker 1: going with Daniel Jones again. I mean, we didn't make
Speaker 1: a move, we got draft picks. What are we doing
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. It's just another disappointing offseason. That's
Speaker 1: the way it looks like it's turning out. As a
Speaker 1: Giants fan. But congratulations to you like you guys haven't
Speaker 1: enjoyed enough recently. Unbelievable, unbelievable, So congrats to Denver. Denver's
Speaker 1: got a Denver's got a good look right now. I
Speaker 1: mean Russell Wilson thirty three years old, these as old
Speaker 1: as Jesus was at his peace. So thirty three is
Speaker 1: a man pee. Now, I've never heard that joke for that,
Speaker 1: like one every comedian might have in their back pocket.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. The thirty three is always in the
Speaker 1: back pocket. And you either got a Jesus joke or
Speaker 1: a Larry Bird joke ready to go? Oh god, that's good. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: Wilson and Denver is great. They have an all pro
Speaker 1: left tackle, they have a great wide receiver room, they
Speaker 1: have a great tight end and no a fan. I
Speaker 1: I think the Broncos are ready to go. They might
Speaker 1: get von Miller back from the Rams. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: there's a lot that can happen with the Broncos. So
Speaker 1: we will keep tabs on that, okay, honest, Well that
Speaker 1: is the news for today. Now I want you to
Speaker 1: go ahead and unleash on one thing, just one thing
Speaker 1: you feel passionately about this week. You take off, friends,
Speaker 1: It's all right. Let's talk about one of my favorite sports,
Speaker 1: the UFC m n A NIX Martial Arts. I love
Speaker 1: this sport. It's gotten so big. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it needs the theatrics that we're watching right now. I
Speaker 1: understand it's a growing, growing, growing, growing sport, and the
Speaker 1: theatrics and the ship talking, you know, brings eyeballs, makes money.
Speaker 1: But now it seems like the biggest star is filling
Speaker 1: the shoes of the previous biggest star being Connor McGregor
Speaker 1: and ship talking to a point where you start to
Speaker 1: wonder as a fan, is this crossing the line now?
Speaker 1: As you mentioned before before we got on air, that
Speaker 1: if it makes me feel a little uncomfortable, then maybe
Speaker 1: it is a little too far. I'm talking about Colby
Speaker 1: Covington's this last week obviously big pay per view Gate again,
Speaker 1: sold out arena again. He's become a star, Kobe Covington's.
Speaker 1: I love watching him fight. This was an amazing storyline that,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, didn't need the ship talking to the
Speaker 1: level that Colby takes it to to sell it because
Speaker 1: you had two former teammates and best friends who have
Speaker 1: now become rivals fighting each other. You know, they were
Speaker 1: former training partners, they were part of the same team.
Speaker 1: It was a rivalry between gym's and former friends and
Speaker 1: two great fighters who put on exciting fights, and Colby
Speaker 1: just he talks about people's kids, he talks about people's wives,
Speaker 1: he talks about their marital status. I mean to me,
Speaker 1: it just seems like it's crossing the line. And it's
Speaker 1: akin to when McGregor, you know, started throwing things at
Speaker 1: busses and got arrested trying to hype his fight with Kabeb,
Speaker 1: and then he's talking about Khabib's religion and things that
Speaker 1: I just don't think you need to do. The sport
Speaker 1: is big enough now that you don't have to appeal
Speaker 1: to like the casual casual casual fan by turning it
Speaker 1: into the Real Housewives. It's starting to get a little
Speaker 1: to w w E for me, and I just think
Speaker 1: the UFC has to do something. I think people need
Speaker 1: to get fined. There is a line. I know, as
Speaker 1: a comedian, I'm all about free speech and everything, but
Speaker 1: there is a line, and talking about people's kids and
Speaker 1: their wives and what kind of father a person is
Speaker 1: is just going too far. So Colby, Colby, Covington, Colby Chaos.
Speaker 1: I'm putting you onnoticed and you need to stop, and
Speaker 1: you need to go to church, my friend, and wash
Speaker 1: that mouth out with salt. Okay, enough enough, let's clean
Speaker 1: up the sport a little bit. That was good honesty.
Speaker 1: You have a conscience. You you really don't like it
Speaker 1: to get ugly, and I like that about you. Mine
Speaker 1: is going to seem a little counterintuitive to that, because
Speaker 1: I know this guy is getting a ton of crap
Speaker 1: right now, and I don't want to pile on it.
Speaker 1: I really don't. But as a professional athlete, if you're
Speaker 1: not performing, you are a fair game. But I would
Speaker 1: never call anyone a name. So for my unleashed I'm
Speaker 1: going to take things over to the NBA. Like a
Speaker 1: lot of people, I had a feeling the Lakers and
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook would be a bad fit, but wow, I
Speaker 1: did not think it would be this bad. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's a Laker next year. I really don't. I
Speaker 1: think he's out. I don't know why Lebron got to
Speaker 1: run this team and bring him in. So let's look
Speaker 1: at where they were before Russell Westbrook became a Laker.
Speaker 1: Two years ago, Lakers won the title in the bubble.
Speaker 1: Everyone acts like that was so long ago, that was recent.
Speaker 1: Then they were nineteen and eight. Last year when Lebron
Speaker 1: and A d were healthy. That was a great pairing.
Speaker 1: No I d has health problems. Obviously, last year there
Speaker 1: was no chemistry issue. Everyone got along. Lebron liked the gang.
Speaker 1: They needed all these pieces that they had a trade
Speaker 1: now to get Russell Westbrook big trade. It costs him
Speaker 1: a bunch, and it turns out a lot of those
Speaker 1: pieces were pretty necessary to keep this machine going and
Speaker 1: compliment the new Lebron James, whose game is different than
Speaker 1: it used to be. He's more on the perimeter, he's
Speaker 1: crushing inside less. Now this is coming off a huge
Speaker 1: fifty point game, but in general, in general, Lebron is
Speaker 1: a different player, still extremely effective, but different schemes. So
Speaker 1: Westbrook is on his four team in four years, and
Speaker 1: you know it's not just his offensive numbers, shooting percentages,
Speaker 1: turnovers that are concerning. But it's really to me when
Speaker 1: I watched a lack of intensity and focus on the
Speaker 1: defensive end, he's kind of roaming around. He's losing his
Speaker 1: man and as a VET, he should be owning that
Speaker 1: behind closed doors, taking responsibility. But we've yet to see
Speaker 1: that take shape. Even back at U c. L A,
Speaker 1: Westbrook wasn't known for incredible ball handling, dribbling or even shooting.
Speaker 1: That was on his scouting report before he was drafted.
Speaker 1: He was known as a good defender. He was the
Speaker 1: PAP ten Defensive Player of the Year. He could get
Speaker 1: to the rim and penetrate and always known for being
Speaker 1: a hard working former walk on. Remember he's a former
Speaker 1: walk on. But something isn't right in l A this
Speaker 1: time around for Westbrook. And if you don't believe anything
Speaker 1: I just said, turn on his postgame press conferences. That's
Speaker 1: pretty cringe e because when the fans started booing, which
Speaker 1: is horrible. I am very against home fans booing for
Speaker 1: a team, like, come on, just drink your twelve dollar
Speaker 1: here and cheer. That's what That's all you got to do.
Speaker 1: It's easy. But afterwards they asked him if this would
Speaker 1: bother him, you know What'd he take it home with him?
Speaker 1: He said, no, I'm going to go home to my
Speaker 1: beautiful family and move on. One great answer to your buddy,
Speaker 1: Right if someone asked you, man, that suct they were
Speaker 1: doing you. But you don't say that to your fan base,
Speaker 1: to your own or to your coach, to your teammates.
Speaker 1: And that's who's all watching this. And I think it
Speaker 1: shows a little bit of apathy. And then the other
Speaker 1: night reporter asked, this must be a little different than
Speaker 1: what you imagined, and he got very defensive, and he said,
Speaker 1: I didn't have any expectations. And the reporter said, well,
Speaker 1: you must have thought you'd make long playoff runs and
Speaker 1: maybe win a championship, which is a very fair question.
Speaker 1: And he got defensive. He said, you don't know what
Speaker 1: I expected. You know, all this stuff, Well, you don't
Speaker 1: come to play with Lebron James in purple and gold
Speaker 1: and just think it's gonna be a whole hum year,
Speaker 1: you know. And then recently this made me really sad.
Speaker 1: He said he doesn't want to bring his kids to
Speaker 1: games because people are booing him, they're calling him names.
Speaker 1: That's horrible. But the reality is the Lakers are oh
Speaker 1: in four versus the Clippers in their home arena since
Speaker 1: getting Russell, even though most of those meetings have been
Speaker 1: without Paul George and Kawhi Leonard. The Lakers are seven
Speaker 1: games under five hundred, their ninth in the West. In
Speaker 1: our trade deadline, Genie Buss took a stand saying they're
Speaker 1: not cleaning up this mess. This is what Lebron wanted.
Speaker 1: It's her team, but it's his mess. So they're kind
Speaker 1: of going down with the ship here. They're the Lakers.
Speaker 1: They'll come back, but boy, this experiment did not work.
Speaker 1: It is drama in Los Angeles right now. You couldn't
Speaker 1: write a better script. It is the entertainment capital of
Speaker 1: the world, and this is not going good. There are
Speaker 1: big problems there. He doesn't want to be there. Lebron
Speaker 1: doesn't want him to be there now. Yeah, I unleashed
Speaker 1: about people going too far. It's not too far for
Speaker 1: fans in New York or Los Angeles. Big market teams,
Speaker 1: you know, high population density, that's what they do. You know,
Speaker 1: they boo, they boo, They have expectations. You're not playing
Speaker 1: in Okay See anymore where they're just happy to be
Speaker 1: on television. They're happy to have Kevin Harland called their
Speaker 1: game because they're making a playoff run. You're playing in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, you're playing with Lebron James, who's still I
Speaker 1: mean that his story is not up there with Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: what he's doing at his age, considering he started at eighteen.
Speaker 1: The miles that's on that kid, and how many times
Speaker 1: he's been in the playoffs and played in the Olympics
Speaker 1: and to drop, like we just said, he's just coming
Speaker 1: off a fifty plus point game. It's incredible to see
Speaker 1: the shape he keeps himself in his standard and Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook is he's just not a winner, man, He's just
Speaker 1: he's starting to make Kevin Durant look good for why
Speaker 1: he left. You know, a lot of people gave Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant a lot of slack for what he did, but
Speaker 1: now people are starting to go, like, you know what,
Speaker 1: maybe Kevin Durant was like, I can't play with this kid,
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, the defense, the effort, and
Speaker 1: for him to get mad at fan ends that they're
Speaker 1: calling him Russell west Brick. I mean, come on, that's
Speaker 1: that's basketball, that's not that's not talking about your family,
Speaker 1: your kids. So he's he's overreacting and what an unleashed Olivia.
Speaker 1: You are dead on. This is a problem, and Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook needs to be sent down to the Z League
Speaker 1: if they had one right now, whoa wow, Yeah we
Speaker 1: took a different stance on now. Yeah. Man, it'll just
Speaker 1: be crazy if if he ends up on his fifth
Speaker 1: team in five years. A former m v P like
Speaker 1: this is this is quite a saga, but there's a
Speaker 1: lot else going on in the world of sports. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and bring in Greg Rosenthal to hear what's
Speaker 1: going on in the n f L. Here's Greg for him.
Speaker 1: The NFL is three d sixty five days a year,
Speaker 1: twenty four seven. You can hear him on the Around
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast. NFL Network analyst Egg Rosenthal joins us
Speaker 1: now and Greg. Pretty quiet day around your office. I
Speaker 1: assume you picked the perfect day to have this schedule.
Speaker 1: That was like, my mind is still recovering from Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers signing the contract, which I thought was going to
Speaker 1: be the big thing of the day. And then, in
Speaker 1: perfect fashion, Russell Wilson in his trade to the Broncos
Speaker 1: made Aaron Rodgers a b story. And I guess I'm
Speaker 1: a small person that I kind of enjoy that a
Speaker 1: little too. I would love to start with Russell because
Speaker 1: that one blindsided me a little bit. I'm a Packer fan.
Speaker 1: I've been following the Packer story very closely. But what
Speaker 1: did you make of the Broncos and Seahawks making this
Speaker 1: epic trade? And I mean, where did you expect it?
Speaker 1: They're putting it out there through you know, different insiders
Speaker 1: that the Rodgers deal had nothing to do with the timing.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't buy that. I do buy that
Speaker 1: they started this process two weeks ago because of trade.
Speaker 1: This big doesn't come together that quickly. I look at
Speaker 1: it from kind of the global NFL level and just
Speaker 1: think it's fascinating because Russell Wilson wanted out a year ago.
Speaker 1: He was on the record, his agent was on the
Speaker 1: record wanting out with three years left on his contract,
Speaker 1: and he got it done a year later. And to me,
Speaker 1: that changes like how NFL trades can be run. It's
Speaker 1: a little more NBA like. And it also says to
Speaker 1: me that Pete Carroll was ready for this divorce too.
Speaker 1: Because people have asked the question, does Pete Carroll want
Speaker 1: to be there during the rebuild? It's like, who do
Speaker 1: you think is making this trade? Pete Carroll runs this
Speaker 1: organization with more power than any coach in the entire NFL.
Speaker 1: Their owner, Paul Allen died a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: Jody Allen has taken over, but he's doing what he
Speaker 1: wants and I don't think he's trying to rebuild. And
Speaker 1: maybe they'll step back at the quarterback position. But I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna want to prove people wrong and try
Speaker 1: to compete this year and thinks that he's going to
Speaker 1: be there for a while more. And the fact that
Speaker 1: they essentially chose Pete Carroll over Russell Wilson, I think
Speaker 1: supports that that he's not going anywhere and time soon.
Speaker 1: See Pete Carroll seventy years old. It's obvious he wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to be a part of a rebuild. But and
Speaker 1: then Jody Allen had just said they weren't interested in
Speaker 1: a trade. That's why I'm still kind of looking for clues. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everything that they said about Russell Wilson was just saying
Speaker 1: things to say. I think now you know, just saying
Speaker 1: what they can and if you listen carefully, they never
Speaker 1: totally box themselves into a corner. Pete Carroll, he basically
Speaker 1: was saying, look, we're not interested and traded him, but
Speaker 1: he didn't shut the door if someone was gonna come calling.
Speaker 1: And the price that they got for him to first
Speaker 1: two seconds. A good young tight end and no a
Speaker 1: fan who I like a lot, Shelby Harris, who I
Speaker 1: think is a good veteran defensive Lineman that people don't
Speaker 1: know a lot about. But there's a reason why the
Speaker 1: Broncos paid him so much money last year. He's a
Speaker 1: good player. Drew lock is just a guy to compete
Speaker 1: at quarterback. I don't think he's gonna really matter with
Speaker 1: the woman. They got a lot for him. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's smart to be too was in your seven
Speaker 1: year old head coach over your franchise quarterback? But this
Speaker 1: is not Aaron Rodgers. To me, He's not a top
Speaker 1: five quarterback in the NFL, and so they at least
Speaker 1: got a representative Paul for trading a guy that good.
Speaker 1: Do you think his uh, his health had anything to
Speaker 1: do with it? Is there anything that they know that
Speaker 1: we're not privy to. Is there anything that puts him
Speaker 1: in question as far as how much more he has
Speaker 1: left in the tank? No, but I do think his
Speaker 1: play over the last two years had something to do
Speaker 1: with it. People put last year's struggles totally on that
Speaker 1: finger injury, and he was very cautious early in the
Speaker 1: season and more importantly, in the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: Was the worst stretch of play Russell Wilson's ever had
Speaker 1: in his career. It wasn't two or three games, it
Speaker 1: was eight or nine games. He was hurting them in
Speaker 1: that stretch. And I think he's a guy who's always
Speaker 1: relied on his athleticism, holding the ball forever and making
Speaker 1: a play. And they've tried a lot of different offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator is with him and they never quite found the
Speaker 1: right one. And you know that's on Pete Carroll too.
Speaker 1: But I don't think there was the belief from Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll and John Schneider that Russell Wilson was in that
Speaker 1: tier of Aaron Rodgers and now Herbert and Mahomes. I
Speaker 1: don't think they viewed him that way, or else they
Speaker 1: wouldn't have traded him. Yeah, just to follow up, I'm
Speaker 1: a huge Giants fan, so there was so much hope
Speaker 1: that he was coming to New York. He I think
Speaker 1: at some point intimated that he wanted to come to
Speaker 1: New York. So what happened there? And what do the
Speaker 1: Giants do? Now? Are we stuck with this dukie? I
Speaker 1: was just calling him a dukey because you know what
Speaker 1: I'm sick of. I'm sick of seeing Daniel Jones. I've
Speaker 1: had enough bad facial expressions from quarterback. He's not the
Speaker 1: franchise guy. What do we do now? So two questions,
Speaker 1: what happened there? And what do the Giants do now?
Speaker 1: I just don't think they were ready to give up
Speaker 1: this hall at any point. First of all, as you know,
Speaker 1: they've changed who's running the ship. But I don't think
Speaker 1: either GM, whether it is Joe Shane coming in or
Speaker 1: Dave Getleman on the way out, was ready to make
Speaker 1: this kind of deal. I think you're gonna have the
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones and Mitchell Robinsky poop poop pider there. And
Speaker 1: I think Daniel Jones is the better player at the
Speaker 1: two and that I think, I think he might be
Speaker 1: okay in the right system. I think Brian Dabels a
Speaker 1: really good coach, and I think it maybe the upside
Speaker 1: is okay to a little better than okay, and he'll
Speaker 1: turn your opinion around. But he's not gonna be Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: I hope. So for then, what about over to Green Bay?
Speaker 1: As you saw the news break today about Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: did you basically see that coming? Because when I saw
Speaker 1: the Packers bring back Tom Clements as the quarterback coach,
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, it's done. He's staying Tom Clements
Speaker 1: isn't coming back to coach Ordan Love. Absolutely. I think
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers was using every leverage lever that he could
Speaker 1: pull over the last couple of weeks, and that's why
Speaker 1: you started hearing more about the Broncos, more about him
Speaker 1: not really making a decision. That's how you get the
Speaker 1: two million dollars over four years. I don't know the details,
Speaker 1: but at some point it was less than that, and
Speaker 1: then it started going up, and it started going up,
Speaker 1: and I I said all along, like money solves everything. Here.
Speaker 1: You couldn't have told me a year ago if they
Speaker 1: had offered him two hundred million dollars over four years
Speaker 1: then that he wouldn't have just taken it. And everyone
Speaker 1: said it was this personal thing, and I said, okay,
Speaker 1: but he's negotiating, so that means there is a number
Speaker 1: that will get him to sign. And we found out
Speaker 1: what that number was today, in addition to the relationship
Speaker 1: repair that they've done over the last year, and I
Speaker 1: think it makes sense. I do not think it makes
Speaker 1: sense for either side to have a divorce, So I
Speaker 1: totally think it was the right move for Rogers and
Speaker 1: the Packers. So now this just makes me question at
Speaker 1: the David Bactier wedding that he just officiated. Do you
Speaker 1: think he like had a couple of cocktails and started
Speaker 1: telling people like, just way big news this week. What
Speaker 1: do you think he said at this wedding? I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I mean, Aaron Rodgers feel like he could keep things
Speaker 1: close to the vest, like even his best friends don't
Speaker 1: know what he's gonna do. So I think he is
Speaker 1: a businessman and h he I think I probably knew
Speaker 1: this was the likely outcome, not just the last couple
Speaker 1: of months. I definitely believe he knew this was the
Speaker 1: likely outcome, even going back a year. I think he
Speaker 1: knew it, and yet you didn't hear that much talk
Speaker 1: coming out of his friends, So I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think he probably was keeping everyone off off guard with
Speaker 1: some sarcastic jokes and everyone was like, what did you
Speaker 1: really mean with that? Because I think everyone in his
Speaker 1: life thinks that yeah, yeah, no one knows what he means. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wanted with that money, what kind of improvements he's
Speaker 1: gonna do to his house? I mean I would just
Speaker 1: move out of Green Bay and just helicopter in from
Speaker 1: a warm climate. I mean, you know, or I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe by Wisconsin. I mean, is he
Speaker 1: the richest person that's ever been in Wisconsin besides your grandfather.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to Olivia. Yeah, he's got to be up there.
Speaker 1: I guess, you're honest, will be up there at some point.
Speaker 1: They're holding into their their homegrown heroes. Maybe he could
Speaker 1: work that into the deal that he like flies in
Speaker 1: kind of like Tony Dungee style. At the end of
Speaker 1: his career as a coach, he would like go back
Speaker 1: to Tampa between Sunday and Wednesday. Maybe Rogers could do
Speaker 1: that and go back to California. Greig, I'm our resident
Speaker 1: Wisconsin person, and I keep trying to have Johanna's come
Speaker 1: visit in the summer because then he'll get it. But
Speaker 1: he seems to hate the Upper Midwest. He just did
Speaker 1: a comedy show in Minneapolis. He thought it was a dump. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Minneapolis was a nice town. It's I'm sure it's beautiful
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. But I'm someone that grew up in western
Speaker 1: Massachusetts and that was the last winter I wanted, and
Speaker 1: for the most part I've stuck with that was high school.
Speaker 1: So I'm I understand. There you go, Well, speaking of
Speaker 1: that part of the country. You were just in Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: Tell us about the combine and your biggest takeaways, especially
Speaker 1: as you kind of look at draft order and a
Speaker 1: mock draft in your head. Oh Um, I don't know
Speaker 1: if if that much changed. Certainly Jordan Day as it's
Speaker 1: hard to imagine him slipping out of like the top
Speaker 1: fifteen to seventeen, which I wouldn't have guessed. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of players that hurt themselves at
Speaker 1: the top level. I think with this Seahawks trade, they
Speaker 1: now have the Broncos first round pick, So spinning head
Speaker 1: to where Denver is in the first round, it does
Speaker 1: make I mean, where um Seattle is in the first round.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make you wonder if whoever they like the best,
Speaker 1: whether that's Malik Willis or Kenny Pickett, whoever it's gonna be,
Speaker 1: ends up getting taken pretty high. Because one thing I
Speaker 1: think has been true about the draft, you could make
Speaker 1: a lot of money predicting that quarterbacks are going to
Speaker 1: get higher than they're predicted to go in mid February,
Speaker 1: and I think that'll be the same here. These guys
Speaker 1: are gonna go higher than people expect and especially with
Speaker 1: Seattle for instance, now Needia quarterback to I think that's
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. You mentioned Kenny Pickett's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: his hand sized measures at eight point five good for
Speaker 1: third smallest by quarterback in Combine history since thousand and three.
Speaker 1: I believe is this a real thing that scouts were
Speaker 1: considering or are we just desperate for NFL news right now?
Speaker 1: They do consider it. It definitely is a factor. You know,
Speaker 1: you still hear about Jared Goff when he struggles in
Speaker 1: cold weather that they put it on his hands, and
Speaker 1: his hands were you know, half an inch bigger than
Speaker 1: than pickets who who are smaller than basically any big quarterback.
Speaker 1: But he played in Pittsburgh, like he played great in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: He played in cold weather games in Pittsburgh, and that's
Speaker 1: generally the concern when it comes to smaller hands and
Speaker 1: weather situations, whether it's rain or cold weather. And he
Speaker 1: excelled this season in Pittsburgh in cold weather games. So
Speaker 1: I can't imagine it matters too much. Yeah, y honest,
Speaker 1: you know who else had nine inch hands that you
Speaker 1: might be surprised? Uh? Who? Joe Burrow, Ryan Tannehill. Now
Speaker 1: it is half an inch bigger, but those are still
Speaker 1: small hands in NFL quarterback history worked out for them. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, it could just not be about cold weather.
Speaker 1: It could be that maybe the old myth is true,
Speaker 1: that something else and they just don't want guys feeling
Speaker 1: uncomfortable in the lockingroom. You know, you don't want an
Speaker 1: insecure quarterback. You want a nice headspace feels confident in
Speaker 1: the showers. That could be it too. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I'm no reporter, but I'm saying there could be a
Speaker 1: connection where you want just some confident quarterback knowing that
Speaker 1: you know he could he could shower next to the
Speaker 1: boys and feel good about himself. I don't know, Greg,
Speaker 1: you don't have to respond. That would be That would
Speaker 1: be the next level. I mean, they get pretty deep
Speaker 1: into these players. That would be. That would be a
Speaker 1: next level analysis that even some of these guys I've
Speaker 1: never heard from, but you know, you never know. It's
Speaker 1: behind closed doors. Hey, I played three When I do
Speaker 1: GM moves, I'm three D. Sorry. Reports from Kenny Pickett
Speaker 1: out of the combine we're not super flattering, Whereas Malik
Speaker 1: Willis seemed to kind of get people's attention a little
Speaker 1: bit more for off the field, people just light up
Speaker 1: talking about Malik Willis when you look at those too.
Speaker 1: First of all, do you think they're the two best
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in this year's draft or Matt Correll slip in
Speaker 1: there as well. Yeah, I think there's not a lot
Speaker 1: a huge difference between any of them except for total upside.
Speaker 1: And that's Willis. And I just think seeing him in
Speaker 1: person and then also getting to hear from him and
Speaker 1: see that he's a guy you can imagine leading a
Speaker 1: group of NFL players is just going to have at
Speaker 1: least one team fall in love with him because he
Speaker 1: does have the highest ceiling, he does have the biggest arm,
Speaker 1: he does have the most athleticism. I think Desmond Ritter
Speaker 1: helped himself a lot. He's another guy I think will
Speaker 1: get drafted higher than people think because his ceiling looks
Speaker 1: higher with his athleticism. But Willis coming off of Josh
Speaker 1: Allen developing in the way that he did, and certainly
Speaker 1: Herbert were coming off a couple of guys where just
Speaker 1: the ross tools, the most talented guys have excelled. And
Speaker 1: in this class, that's Willis. You know, he didn't care
Speaker 1: who was running when they were doing the go rounds.
Speaker 1: He was just going to throw the ball as far
Speaker 1: as he couldn't, even if it wasn't complete, just to
Speaker 1: while the scouts, and I think it totally worked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So the Jaguars have the first overall pick again, just
Speaker 1: like the Browns a couple of years ago. Who do
Speaker 1: you think is first off the board after everything you've gathered?
Speaker 1: My friend, it's a great question. Therey franchise tag Cam
Speaker 1: Robinson on Tuesday, and so that's their left tackle, and
Speaker 1: so to me, that was a strong indicator you really
Speaker 1: got to draft to tackle at one and then put
Speaker 1: him to the to the right side, I don't know,
Speaker 1: so that indicates a pass rusher to me, would be
Speaker 1: more likely at one. Adan Hutchinson didn't do anything at
Speaker 1: the combine to to make you think that he wasn't
Speaker 1: going to be the first edge rudger up there. But
Speaker 1: there's such talented guys that every team could view it
Speaker 1: a little differently. Trayvon Walker had a monster combined, but
Speaker 1: Hutchinson really feels like the safest pick in terms of
Speaker 1: his production and his athleticism, and that Cam Robinson move
Speaker 1: on Tuesday not gonna get a lot of attention with
Speaker 1: all the quarterback news that happened, but I think that
Speaker 1: is a strong sign that they're not going to take
Speaker 1: a tackle number one. Yeah, Aidan Hutchinson was a Beast
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy finalist last year. Fourteen sacks last year. Now
Speaker 1: I kind of like them. I like whenever college player
Speaker 1: sticks around the neighborhood and goes to the nearby NFL
Speaker 1: team Detroit has the number two pick. Do you kind
Speaker 1: of like that fit and how he would work into
Speaker 1: that culture. Yeah, he fits perfectly there, and they want
Speaker 1: pass rushers. That's that's how they're building their team. They
Speaker 1: were already pretty good upfront in Detroit, but they can't
Speaker 1: imagine there's a wide receiver or certainly a quarterback that
Speaker 1: they'd be considering that high, or or a cornerback for
Speaker 1: that matter. I don't think Sauce Gardner, who's probably the
Speaker 1: first cornerback off the board and solidified that at the combine,
Speaker 1: is going that high. So it's going to be a
Speaker 1: pass rusher. And like I said, I think certain teams
Speaker 1: might view different guys differ only there there's a thought
Speaker 1: that maybe some of these Georgia guys have a little
Speaker 1: higher upside than Hutchinson. I don't know if I totally
Speaker 1: buy that. His combine times were also fantastic other than
Speaker 1: the forty, you know, the short shot, all the three cone,
Speaker 1: all that fun stuff. So he's got the production, he's
Speaker 1: got the measurements, he's gonna go. I believe in the
Speaker 1: top two. I'm just going out on a limb here.
Speaker 1: I met when I was in UM Minneapolis, I met
Speaker 1: a NFL prospect who just came from the Combine, Luke
Speaker 1: go DECKI do you know who he is? I'm just
Speaker 1: going for it. Maybe not. He was from CMU, I
Speaker 1: don't but I'm not like the Daniel Jeremiah of NFL
Speaker 1: Network here. I do not know Luke Goodecki. Alright, scrap it.
Speaker 1: Central Michigan guy, Central Michigan guy from Wisconsin who was
Speaker 1: a big fan of Sam Decker. I was just going
Speaker 1: for it. But hopefully good luck, Luke. Whatever whatever happens,
Speaker 1: I hope you make it. That was a great bug, honest,
Speaker 1: I hope he's listening. Okay, Greg wed like to play
Speaker 1: a game with a lot of our guests. I'd love
Speaker 1: to play one with you if you're up for it. Okay,
Speaker 1: this one is based on amusement parks. We wanted to
Speaker 1: take you on a ride called the Quarterback Carousel. Basically,
Speaker 1: we give you a quarterback on this constantly moving ride,
Speaker 1: and you tell us what team seats they are taking
Speaker 1: on the carousel. You ready, Okay, that's good? Okay. The
Speaker 1: first one, Jimmy Garoppolo, forty Niners have made it clear
Speaker 1: he's available in a trade. He'll be rehabbing from shoulder surgery.
Speaker 1: Not too attractive. But what do you think I kind
Speaker 1: of like the cults for him. M hmm. I think
Speaker 1: the cults have made it clear they want out of
Speaker 1: the Carson Wentz business, Like the owner made them show
Speaker 1: up to a meeting the night that Wentz blew that
Speaker 1: final game against the Jaguars, and by all accounts read
Speaker 1: them the riot act that like, We're not going into
Speaker 1: another season with Carson Wentz. So I think he will
Speaker 1: be an excell Holt. And then when I look at
Speaker 1: the players available, I think they are one team that
Speaker 1: would give up a pick for Jimmy g Okay, that's
Speaker 1: a good one. How about Derek Carr entering the final
Speaker 1: year's five year extension, had career high passing yard this season,
Speaker 1: but more impressively kept rowing the boat in the face
Speaker 1: of chaos and heartache and adversity. Was so true to
Speaker 1: Raider nation, saying he'd rather leave the game than leave
Speaker 1: the team. I think he said, so where does he
Speaker 1: end up? I think he stays in Vegas. I believe
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels wanted to work with him, because why wouldn't he.
Speaker 1: I think he fits in that sort of offense where
Speaker 1: you change the scheme each and every week, uh your
Speaker 1: matchup type of team. The downside here is like Derek
Speaker 1: Carr is now the fourth best quarterback in the a
Speaker 1: f C West. It's a good quarterback, and he's probably
Speaker 1: the worst one in the division. And I would if
Speaker 1: I had to pick the worst roster in the division,
Speaker 1: even though I don't think the Raiders are bad, I
Speaker 1: mean they're a playoff team, they would be the worst
Speaker 1: roster in the Division two. They gotta see if car
Speaker 1: and McDaniels really mesh. They've they've hardly met at this point.
Speaker 1: It's tricky because he wants huge money and he is
Speaker 1: a wild card in the Kyler Murray sweepsticks. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's coming up on the carousel, but car
Speaker 1: is the only one I can see that has value
Speaker 1: that if Kyler Murray is an ex cardinal, that actually
Speaker 1: another team has another quarterback to offer that would make
Speaker 1: some sense in a possible trade. Well, let's go right
Speaker 1: to Kyler Murray. He wants a new contract, his agent
Speaker 1: put out a novel about his time in Arizona. His
Speaker 1: agent also represents Cliff Kingsbury, who just got an extension,
Speaker 1: by the way, and Kyler wants a new contract before
Speaker 1: the draft one. Does that happen or is he out?
Speaker 1: I think he's out. I think move today with Wilson
Speaker 1: to really puts Kyler Murray on the front burner. You
Speaker 1: asked what I heard at the combine, I should have
Speaker 1: mentioned I heard that it's going to get ugly between
Speaker 1: these two sides, and I think it's already spilled into
Speaker 1: the public. I think it's pretty clear that the front office,
Speaker 1: the coaches, and then Kyler on the other side, I
Speaker 1: have sort of been lining up in terms of a
Speaker 1: power struggle, and one of those two sides just got
Speaker 1: extensions through and the other is getting a lot of
Speaker 1: negative reports about in the media, where you can probably
Speaker 1: guess where they come from, including maybe from the very top,
Speaker 1: and so he is the guy I think that is next.
Speaker 1: I actually do believe he's going to be an ex cardinal.
Speaker 1: If I had to pick one team that would pay
Speaker 1: the absolute most for him, I think it would be Washington.
Speaker 1: But I think Washington, Carolina, Las Vegas, those are all
Speaker 1: teams that you could look at. Wow, how about Jamis
Speaker 1: Winston and Nola? Where will he be the same place moment?
Speaker 1: I think he stays. Yeah, I think he ends up staying.
Speaker 1: I think they kept everyone that they possibly could, and
Speaker 1: I think they liked what they saw out of him,
Speaker 1: and ultimately it's sort of he's worth more to them
Speaker 1: than he's worth to anyone else. Okay, what about Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: You mentioned you think he is no longer a cult
Speaker 1: that that's been painfully clear. But someone's got to take him. Man.
Speaker 1: I already gave Kyler to Washington. I kind of want
Speaker 1: to flip it, and just for fun, it would be
Speaker 1: Kyler in Vegas, car in Arizona, and then I would
Speaker 1: give Carson went to Washington, who never seems like they
Speaker 1: get nice things, and so this would be a nice thing.
Speaker 1: Washington's got some pieces, though, they just had a good quarterback.
Speaker 1: They do, but they I think like they got shut
Speaker 1: out in this Russell Wilson thing. I don't doubt at
Speaker 1: all that they offered just as much or more. And
Speaker 1: this is where their reputation, their lack of success there,
Speaker 1: drama that they've had over the last two decades, really
Speaker 1: I think comes into play because he had a no
Speaker 1: trade clause and so Russell Wilson essentially picked where he
Speaker 1: wanted to go. And I personally have no doubt that
Speaker 1: they would have offered just as much to Seattle, but
Speaker 1: that he wouldn't have wanted to go there. I thought
Speaker 1: he was going there. It's where he's from. He posted
Speaker 1: that picture with Jonathan Allen. I thought he was going
Speaker 1: to be a commander for sure. Okay, you honest take
Speaker 1: us home. Last one. Last one, of course, not least
Speaker 1: and maybe most improbable. But Tom Brady. Do see him
Speaker 1: in uniform? Or is he just going to be working
Speaker 1: on Brady Brandt? I mean, no, one's going to go
Speaker 1: back and tell me that I'm wrong about this, So
Speaker 1: let's pick the most fun answer, which he's a forty niner.
Speaker 1: I mean, when they signed Brian Greasy to be their
Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach over the weekend, who's given up a massive
Speaker 1: salary as the Monday night football announcer to become a
Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach. And I think like, who was with Tom
Speaker 1: Brady uh at Michigan, who's had a great relationship with
Speaker 1: Tom Brady ever since then? I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: you can connect some dots here of Tom Brady spending
Speaker 1: some time in his his childhood bunk bed over the
Speaker 1: last month or so. Uncertainly, the way that he's talking,
Speaker 1: I just kind of can't imagine the Bucks allowing him
Speaker 1: to do this or giving him up. But maybe the
Speaker 1: forty Niners would give up a hall to go get him. Man,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine him retiring the way that he did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just can't imagine he retires with an Instagram post.
Speaker 1: So I think you're right. I can't either. And that
Speaker 1: makes me think, when I'm being truthful, not with the
Speaker 1: carousel stuff, that that the Bucks would hold him hostage
Speaker 1: and make him play there or nothing else. And if
Speaker 1: they don't pick up a big name, if they decided
Speaker 1: to just go like the blame gather and Kyle trash Grout,
Speaker 1: who's the second round pick they took last year, then
Speaker 1: it's like they can just keep the seat warm and
Speaker 1: just ready for Tom to slide right in when he
Speaker 1: wants to come back. Was there anything more relatable than
Speaker 1: when Tom Brady said he wanted a lot of family time,
Speaker 1: and five weeks later he said, no, I'm good. I
Speaker 1: saw the family. I'm good. It's like when you want
Speaker 1: to go on vacation but you're like on the second
Speaker 1: dinner and you're like, God, you guys are intolerable. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was wondering when people said, like, look, Giselle, you
Speaker 1: know she holds a lot of sway and she she
Speaker 1: wants him to do this, so like, what do you
Speaker 1: think she's wanted the last six off seasons? Like this
Speaker 1: is not a new thing, and he's ultimately made the
Speaker 1: final call the last six off seasons and got in
Speaker 1: his way and I think he might once again. Uh
Speaker 1: that was fun. I don't know about you, guys. I'm
Speaker 1: dizzy on that carousel. I need to get off that.
Speaker 1: Hear us all, Greg, thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: You can follow Greg on Twitter at Greg Rosenthal. That's
Speaker 1: Greg with two geez two geez all the better? Thank you, Greg,
Speaker 1: three gee, thanks Olivia, thanks you honest, Thanks man. All right,
Speaker 1: that was amazing talking to Greg with two geez Olivia.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're you said you're thinking of
Speaker 1: naming your kid a German name. I just hope it's
Speaker 1: not Dirk with two kids. That would be weird. Dirk
Speaker 1: Decker out speaking of German kids who are not German.
Speaker 1: Let's bringing in our betting expert from bet MGM. He
Speaker 1: looks like he's holed up in a basement somewhere and
Speaker 1: asking for ransom money. I never surprises us with his
Speaker 1: audio or where he is. He's all over the world.
Speaker 1: Give it up for the Great Peter Andrew everybody. I
Speaker 1: was sitting there hoping it wasn't like wolf House that
Speaker 1: was the name, gonna be Olivian sandwich use and so
Speaker 1: Dirk would. Dirk is certainly upgrade there. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm in the office today. I know most people can't
Speaker 1: see the boxes behind me, but we're moving offices and
Speaker 1: moving up to a different floor. So exciting times at
Speaker 1: bet MGM. Yeah, I'll say I haven't seen a headpiece
Speaker 1: like that since the movie boiler Room. Are you pitching
Speaker 1: chop stock? Are you? Are you pitching phony stocks on
Speaker 1: the side to grandparents? I did Giovannia Rubis is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite actors, so I guess uh, I do
Speaker 1: got a little boiler room in me. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Other news around the NFL that we just talked with
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal about is the blockbuster trade Seahawks and Broncos
Speaker 1: and then Aaron Rodgers signing a four year deal with
Speaker 1: the Packers. That made me so happy. But how did
Speaker 1: that affect the futures trade market? Yeah? So, first off,
Speaker 1: love that Russell Wilson's out of my division now, so
Speaker 1: good RISI, good riddance. Uh, Seahawks are going to be
Speaker 1: in rebuild bad now for the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: But Packers one, I mean an incredible deal. I think
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has an agent. I don't think he negotiates himself.
Speaker 1: Hundred fifty three million guaranteed. Good for him. I don't
Speaker 1: know what I do with one million. Nonetheless, one fifty three.
Speaker 1: But odds changed pretty drastically, so they were plus fourteen
Speaker 1: hundred now they're already plus a thousand. I can see
Speaker 1: that still moving, especially as pieces start to kind of
Speaker 1: fall in place when they you know, re signed Vante
Speaker 1: and shore up the defense and bring back a lot
Speaker 1: of the team. I think they're gonna have to be
Speaker 1: really clever now because of their cap next year I
Speaker 1: think is going towards Aaron Rodgers. So that's an interesting
Speaker 1: problem to have for La Fleura and the team. But
Speaker 1: they're right up there again in their their favorite and
Speaker 1: bringing that offense back. You know they're gonna be there
Speaker 1: and they're a lock for the division as they have
Speaker 1: been the last couple. Another selfish question for me, I
Speaker 1: assume we got a lot of listeners in New York.
Speaker 1: We've got a high population density. I assume a lot
Speaker 1: of them are Giants fans like me. So another selfish question.
Speaker 1: They got the fifth and seventh pick, Now what do
Speaker 1: they go for? What are they what are they looking
Speaker 1: to fill? There are so many voids on that team.
Speaker 1: I'll be clear and saying Daniel Jones I don't think
Speaker 1: is the answer for that team. But this is not
Speaker 1: a quarterback heavy draft. I think you have to shore
Speaker 1: up the other pieces and then have someone fall in
Speaker 1: your lap. Whether it's I'll use Jim as an example,
Speaker 1: a guy that can win that maybe isn't the game
Speaker 1: changer that you need. I don't think it's Daniel Jones,
Speaker 1: but the offensive line the defense. I think those are
Speaker 1: two things that need to be addressed. What happens with
Speaker 1: sa Kwan Barkley, he's clearly not the same s Kwan
Speaker 1: Barkley before the A c L injury. Do you address
Speaker 1: running back too? So there's plenty more positions other than
Speaker 1: just quarterback, but there they're a couple of years away,
Speaker 1: and uh, I think you have to build that into
Speaker 1: your line first, so that when you bring the quarterback in,
Speaker 1: he's not getting beat up and beat around like Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones was the last couple of seasons. Well, Pete, this
Speaker 1: week we saw March madness really begin finally begin as
Speaker 1: conference tournaments started on Wednesday, so exciting. They'll wrap up
Speaker 1: this weekend, but give us some early favorites before we
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen here. Yeah, already this week
Speaker 1: has been crazy, Olivia. I think you liked my two
Speaker 1: yesterday talking about Chattanooga. Some of these like lower tier
Speaker 1: you know, divisions conferences are crazy buzzer beaters, like it's March,
Speaker 1: and it's already amazing as we get into bigger conferences
Speaker 1: are which are kicking off today and tomorrow. We're recording
Speaker 1: a little bit before we dropped the pod bailor. I
Speaker 1: look at as a sure thing plus two ten to
Speaker 1: to win the Big Twelve, their minus the thousands to
Speaker 1: be a one seed. As they go into March Madness
Speaker 1: into the tournament next week, I think they run away
Speaker 1: with the conference. I think that's one of my probably
Speaker 1: clearer favorites. And I think at plus two ten, you're
Speaker 1: getting great Valley, so you're still getting plus money hundred
Speaker 1: dollar bet when you get an extra two bucks, not
Speaker 1: too shabby. Big East is an interesting one because there
Speaker 1: are a lot of really good teams, and I think
Speaker 1: there are some overinflated teams like Providence. I want to
Speaker 1: stay away from the Villanova, the Seaton, Hall and Yukon
Speaker 1: part of the bracket because those teams are all conversing
Speaker 1: against each other. You have Craton, which is in the
Speaker 1: top of the bracket that's gonna play. I think Marquette
Speaker 1: then potentially play an overrated Providence team. They can easily
Speaker 1: see themselves in the final. Their plus twelve hundred to
Speaker 1: win the Big East Tournament. There's great value there. The
Speaker 1: road to the final is so much simpler than a
Speaker 1: team like Nova that's gonna have to go through Yukon,
Speaker 1: Seaton Hall, Saint John's St. John's being a home team there,
Speaker 1: so I think you have to go where there's the
Speaker 1: clearest route. That's happened in the past, when Seaton Hall one,
Speaker 1: when Yukon is one brivious times when they used to
Speaker 1: be in the Big East, the road less traveled or
Speaker 1: the road less difficult always finds you a nice slot
Speaker 1: into the final. So Big East is gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun one this week at the Garden. And then the
Speaker 1: last one, which is my god, up in the air,
Speaker 1: is this is the Big Ten. I'd probably go two
Speaker 1: different ways here. Michigan plus nine hundred, they've turned it
Speaker 1: into a different gear these last couple of weeks. And
Speaker 1: then Perdue. I think they've looked like the strongest team
Speaker 1: in the Big Tent for some time. Sorry, Sam Decker,
Speaker 1: Wisconsin terrible loss against Nebraska the other day. That was
Speaker 1: that was a tough one. You know, they had the
Speaker 1: conference regular season locked up. Well now they're co champs.
Speaker 1: Now they're co champs, but that's about the worst co
Speaker 1: champ you could possibly after losing in Nebraska. Um, all
Speaker 1: kidding aside. I really like that team, love Johnny Davis,
Speaker 1: but I think that's a team I'm looking I'm already
Speaker 1: looking towards the tournament for I don't think they're going
Speaker 1: to perform in the Big ten tournament. I think they're
Speaker 1: they're more focused on next Thursday, next Friday. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go, you know, a short priced with perdue it
Speaker 1: too and change and then Michigan. I'm gonna throw a
Speaker 1: flyer on then plus nine hundred. Hunter jack In is
Speaker 1: the kind of guy, big man in the middle that
Speaker 1: I think can lead them through a long weekend like
Speaker 1: this will be and then as they get into next week,
Speaker 1: could make some noise. But man, it's it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: is going to be an awesome March in early April.
Speaker 1: Let me just ask you about some of the lines
Speaker 1: in the NBA since we're post All Star Game. After
Speaker 1: the break I mean this marriage and Philly looks really
Speaker 1: good and Beat is playing out of his mind. Yokich
Speaker 1: is playing out of his mind. I think he has
Speaker 1: three triple doubles and the rest of the NBA only
Speaker 1: has two. Since the break, has the line changed for
Speaker 1: their m v P odds? And what do you think
Speaker 1: the Sixers look like going into you know, playoffs? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Mine has dramatically changed because Embiad is now a shorter
Speaker 1: price favorite. Like you said, him and Harden playing together
Speaker 1: in any which way you look at it, spacing the
Speaker 1: floor for Embiad, I think some of the really clever
Speaker 1: passing between the two and having a big man like
Speaker 1: that in Bid to me is the runaway favorite. But
Speaker 1: I saw a tweet from George Carl the other day,
Speaker 1: out of any player that he's ever seen in Denver,
Speaker 1: he said, Yoki is the best he's ever seen. That
Speaker 1: is high praise from one of the probably most renowned
Speaker 1: coaches to ever touch the hardwood. So Yokich is right there.
Speaker 1: But the way in Beats playing, the way the East
Speaker 1: is just so different to the West. I mean it's
Speaker 1: just wide open. And know I mentioned I think it
Speaker 1: was last week, really like the heat but the way
Speaker 1: the Sixers are playing, they can easily run away with
Speaker 1: this thing. There is not a lot of competition. Whereas
Speaker 1: you look at the West and you got the Dubs,
Speaker 1: You've got the Sons, you got Memphis, You've got a
Speaker 1: lot of teams at the top can make some noise.
Speaker 1: Sixers theoretically could run away with it and not be
Speaker 1: particularly close to they get to the conference finals or
Speaker 1: or NBA Finals, Come Come Main June. All right, that's
Speaker 1: good stuff. We covered kind of everything there. Peter Andrew,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us again. We will
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