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Speaker 2: Some restrictions may apply. All right, it is episode two hundred, really,
Speaker 2: which means we've done about two hundred and twenty of
Speaker 2: these because in our episode count we don't include that
Speaker 2: original NBA player ranking series, which at some point we
Speaker 2: will need to update. Demanse Looking Dapper for the second
Speaker 2: straight show. Because it's our two hundred show.
Speaker 3: I think those episodes incorporated into the number.
Speaker 2: Oh, we do include those in the overall count. Okay,
Speaker 2: then this is official. This is our exact two hundredth episode.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that initially, we didn't. We must have
Speaker 2: backdated some of the episodes. So yes, we have now
Speaker 2: done two hundred of these. What's right with Nick? Right?
Speaker 2: And we might have a surprise in studio guest. We
Speaker 2: also might not have a surprise in studio guest, as
Speaker 2: that person's phone is going directly to voicemail as we speak,
Speaker 2: So maybe they're coming, maybe they're not. Demanse I think
Speaker 2: has some things planned to commemorate the two hundredth episode,
Speaker 2: but other than that, we're into a straightforward gambling show
Speaker 2: in the B block, our regular show here in the A's,
Speaker 2: and where we're gonna start is with what missed the cut?
Speaker 2: And one of the things that missed the cut didn't
Speaker 2: really miss the cut, because we're gonna talk about it
Speaker 2: for a moment, Yannis dropping sixty four points on the Pacers.
Speaker 2: More on that in the moment, Travis Kelsey calls out
Speaker 2: media over their wide receiver takes and my take on
Speaker 2: a third live action Willy Wonka movie. I like the
Speaker 2: Willy Wonka movies. Let's talk Giannis and the Pacers just
Speaker 2: for a moment, and then we'll get to the actual game.
Speaker 2: So I just got into the most ridiculous argument with
Speaker 2: Kevin Wilds on the zoom call for First Things First,
Speaker 2: because Wilds just said flippantly he was like, I know
Speaker 2: Yai as part of Yannis's potential anger, he was like,
Speaker 2: I know Yannis has a ton of money. He's like,
Speaker 2: but that basketball is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 2: And I thought that was maybe the worst sports take
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty three. Maybe got it in right under
Speaker 2: the wire that if Yannis was like, you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna auction this ball off for charity, it's the game,
Speaker 2: use ball for my career high that you could get
Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of dollars, I think probably twenty five
Speaker 2: thousand is maybe the north end of it. Wilds is
Speaker 2: convinced I'm out of my mind. But that is not
Speaker 2: the real takeaway. Demons. Here is my takeaway, and then
Speaker 2: I'll get yours, and then we'll get into the actual show.
Speaker 2: I have two takeaways. First one, is this more success
Speaker 2: for the n season tournament. What do I mean Pacers
Speaker 2: Bucks is a little rivalry now because of the nd
Speaker 2: season tournament. They played each other a couple weeks before
Speaker 2: the nd season tournament and then they played in the semifinals.
Speaker 2: Haliburton did the Dame time thing, the Pacers sent them
Speaker 2: home last night. Yannis plays with you know, an anger,
Speaker 2: takes some hard fouls, scores a career high, a Bucks
Speaker 2: franchise record, So a real rivalrybutting that I don't know
Speaker 2: happens without the semifinal game between these two teams. That's
Speaker 2: first point. Here's my second point. I think Yannis is
Speaker 2: pressed right now. I think Yannis is a little anxious
Speaker 2: and a little uptight about despite being seventeen and seven,
Speaker 2: despite uh, you know, obviously having one of the best
Speaker 2: games of his career last night. I don't think he
Speaker 2: feels like this season has gone quite as smoothly as
Speaker 2: he anticipated with the addition of Damian Lillard. I think
Speaker 2: there's real anxiety about how great the Bucks actually are,
Speaker 2: whether or not they're even the favorites in the East,
Speaker 2: let alone in all of the NBA. And I think
Speaker 2: you're seeing some of that bubble up. What was your
Speaker 2: takeaway on it?
Speaker 3: Well, my takeaway was that he's just a giant baby.
Speaker 3: I think there's been a couple incidents of Yannis throwing
Speaker 3: tantrums at the end of games. I do get it,
Speaker 3: but it it seemed like that ball might not have
Speaker 3: even been taken at the end of the game.
Speaker 2: So I have not yet fully digested the full Rob Perez,
Speaker 2: who does a great job with these things investigation, he
Speaker 2: does a twit twelve minute what he called WOB investigation
Speaker 2: Worldwide WOB. That is Rob Perez on Twitter. You should
Speaker 2: check it out. He'll get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there did seem to be some confusion. Giannis
Speaker 2: was adamant. I've played with the ball all day. I
Speaker 2: know what the game ball was. The ball they gave
Speaker 2: me is not the game ball. The Pacers were trying
Speaker 2: to get it for a rookie who had never scored
Speaker 2: a point, except he actually did score a point in
Speaker 2: the nd season tournament final, but technically those points don't
Speaker 2: count because the nd season Tournament final is like a
Speaker 2: standalone thing. So the whole thing seems silly and petty.
Speaker 2: That really I think comes from the Bucks being a
Speaker 2: little pressed. That's my takeaway. Speaking demons of people being
Speaker 2: pressed Draymond Green. Now we can get into the actual
Speaker 2: topics of the show.
Speaker 3: Go ahead. Yeah, So Draymond Green and just got suspended
Speaker 3: indefinitely obviously through the spinning backfist and knock Nurkids to
Speaker 3: the ground. He's saying that he doesn't even have the
Speaker 3: coordination or accuracy to land something like that. I've got
Speaker 3: a couple of theories on the situation, but are you
Speaker 3: buying that?
Speaker 2: Well, so listen. Obviously I'm not buying Draymond's explanation, and
Speaker 2: obviously the NBA isn't either, And because his explanation is
Speaker 2: that he needs coordination classes, not therapy, not help, And
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant came out and said, I hope he gets
Speaker 2: the help he needs. Nurkic said, I hope he gets
Speaker 2: the help he needs. And then the Warriors in the
Speaker 2: NBA came out and said, yeah, he needs help.
Speaker 3: I actually therapy, Like what do you mean by.
Speaker 2: An anger management something? I don't know to deal with what?
Speaker 2: But it doesn't jive with his own explanation, so I
Speaker 2: have I Most people reacted to this like, oh wow,
Speaker 2: Adam's Silver in the NBA came down hard on Draymond
Speaker 2: That was not my reaction because there is I need
Speaker 2: to see how long the suspension actually is. I think
Speaker 2: it needs to be a minimum of ten games, and
Speaker 2: if you tell me it's fifteen or twenty, I'll listen
Speaker 2: to that. I won't think that's out of line. So
Speaker 2: if you want to call it indefinite, I wish Adam
Speaker 2: Silver had said that it was a minimum of ten games.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. But it will be indefinite.
Speaker 2: But here is the full statement the NBA released. Golden
Speaker 2: State Warriors forward Draymond Green's been suspended in definitely for
Speaker 2: striking Phoenix Sun centered use of nurkicch in the face.
Speaker 2: It was announced Tuesday or today by Joe Dumars. Whatever
Speaker 2: the outcome takes into account Green's repeated history of unsportsmanlike x.
Speaker 2: Green's suspension will begin immediately. He will be required to
Speaker 2: meet certain league and team conditions before he returns to play.
Speaker 2: I think that there should have just been an additional
Speaker 2: line that says the suspension will be a minimum of
Speaker 2: x amount of games. And I also think that the
Speaker 2: NBA they are taking almost the restorative approach, Like we're
Speaker 2: worried about Draymond, we want what's best for him. He
Speaker 2: needs to go through these things, similar to what they
Speaker 2: initially did with Jaw the first time. There was the
Speaker 2: gun thing where it's like, you know he's gonna step
Speaker 2: away and you know get the help he needs at
Speaker 2: some point. And I know I'm gonna sound like an
Speaker 2: old man. Punishments need to be punitive, not just there,
Speaker 2: not just about becoming a better person. It needs to
Speaker 2: be You acted a fool. You could have broken this
Speaker 2: guy's eye socket. You are in trouble. In addition to
Speaker 2: the trouble, we want to give you a procedure so
Speaker 2: you are less likely to do this again. But Draymond
Speaker 2: Green is wildly out of control. He's and Demons's in
Speaker 2: the last In the last fifteen months, he has sucker
Speaker 2: punched a teammates. He has stopped on Sabonis's chest, he
Speaker 2: has choked out Rudy Gobert, and he's backfisted Nurkice. And
Speaker 2: I would argue, what do all four of those have
Speaker 2: in common? The person he hit didn't see it coming,
Speaker 2: So yes, I understand Jordan Poole was facing him, But
Speaker 2: you're with teammates at practice. No matter what you say,
Speaker 2: you don't think I'm about to get hit. Certainly, Sabonis
Speaker 2: was not in position to defend himself. He's prone laying
Speaker 2: on the ground. Gobert wasn't looking at Draymond, and Nurkic
Speaker 2: was just playing defense. This is like fake tough guy books.
Speaker 2: And the Warriors own a lot of this because they didn't.
Speaker 2: Draymond got in no trouble for the pool thing because
Speaker 2: Ring Night, the ceremony was so important, and I just
Speaker 2: here's my other question. So right now, Draymond take out
Speaker 2: the pool thing. In the last twenty six games he's played,
Speaker 2: he has three overtly violent acts the stomp, the choke,
Speaker 2: and the backfist that's won every nine games. Can't go
Speaker 2: three weeks of basketball without it. Let's say he gets
Speaker 2: fifteen games. If he does this again, what's the next penalty?
Speaker 2: If there is another totally I'm not talking about a
Speaker 2: hard foul, but totally outside the scope of basketball violent act,
Speaker 2: what is the next penalty? Because I would argue the
Speaker 2: next penalty is you're done for the year. That we
Speaker 2: look at these two incidents this year as first two
Speaker 2: strikes and the next one. No matter when and where
Speaker 2: it happens, if it happens, And at this point, how
Speaker 2: can anyone think it's not going to happen. Uh, He's
Speaker 2: just done for the season. And I feel badly for Steph.
Speaker 2: Man tell you that much. Right now, Wiggins hadn't been
Speaker 2: the same player since the championship. Clay God love him,
Speaker 2: is a shell of himself. The young players haven't grown
Speaker 2: the way you would expect, and Draymond is spiraling out
Speaker 2: of control. Right, All of those things are fair statements.
Speaker 2: And then you have Steph playing some of the best
Speaker 2: ball of his life still unbelievably and it is and
Speaker 2: I'm the right now, I'm looking at my phone because
Speaker 2: I wanted to check and see say it again.
Speaker 3: It's like, do it for Steph Draymond, you know, but
Speaker 3: he can't get people, he can't control himself, is right?
Speaker 2: Am I wrong on that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Go ahead, No, I was just seeing if Draymond's still podcasting.
Speaker 3: I think that maybe that he's trying to build up
Speaker 3: a resume so that when when the Warriors realize that
Speaker 3: he's washed. Dana White's seen some moves that he's put
Speaker 3: out in the NBA and maybe he'll pick him up
Speaker 3: and give him a contract.
Speaker 2: But well, so hold on real quick. But do you
Speaker 2: have another theory as well or can I expand on that?
Speaker 3: Go ahead? Go ahead?
Speaker 2: So I mean you're joking mostly. But as far as
Speaker 2: Draymond's post career career, he was supposed to have had
Speaker 2: one lined up take over for Berkley on inside the NBA.
Speaker 2: I think he's putting that in jeopardy. I think that
Speaker 2: he's not retiring anytime soon. He just signed a four year,
Speaker 2: hundred million dollar deal. That's the other part of it.
Speaker 2: The Warriors are on the hook for all this right,
Speaker 2: four year, one hundred million dollar deal. In five years,
Speaker 2: if Draymond retires, what will he be most known for?
Speaker 2: What will that era of NBA fans when they see Draymond?
Speaker 2: Will they think a key cog of a dynasty or
Speaker 2: will they think a crazy person? And listen, he is
Speaker 2: one of the greatest defensive players ever. He is, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, the second most important warrior of the dynasty.
Speaker 2: But he's lost the plot. And as anyone can tell
Speaker 2: you in any industry, and we've talked about this on
Speaker 2: the show many times, if you are high maintenance, if
Speaker 2: you are a problem, if you are constantly a headache,
Speaker 2: the moment your value starts to drop. People start looking
Speaker 2: for exit plans, they start trying to be able to
Speaker 2: pull the ripcord. And I don't know what the Warriors
Speaker 2: do now, because right now, who wants to take on
Speaker 2: Draymond's deal four years, one hundred million bucks. They didn't
Speaker 2: sign Clay. Now, basketball wise, that looks like a smart decision,
Speaker 2: vibes wise, it might have really messed with Clay. Reportedly,
Speaker 2: he was offered two years forty eight million dollar extension.
Speaker 2: He turned it down. I have no idea what type
Speaker 2: of money Klay Thompson would get right now on the
Speaker 2: open market. We love Clay, but he can't guard anymore
Speaker 2: and he's just not the same guy, and he.
Speaker 3: Is getting a more extended contract than Clay Thompson. Was
Speaker 3: that because of.
Speaker 2: Claytons well, for two reasons. One was Draymond was a
Speaker 2: true free agent, so Draymond could leave. Clay still had
Speaker 2: this year left on his deal, so they weren't forced
Speaker 2: to do it. And Clay is maybe it's the contract,
Speaker 2: maybe it's the wear and tearor but Clay last year
Speaker 2: he was bad in the playoffs, but in the regular
Speaker 2: season he was good. He was twenty to a game,
Speaker 2: forty four percent from the field, forty one percent from
Speaker 2: three better three point I mean identical three point percentage
Speaker 2: to his career average. This year, He's fifteen a game,
Speaker 2: thirty nine percent from the field, thirty four percent from three.
Speaker 2: It looks like it went for it. Warriors in a
Speaker 2: really rough spot, which is pretty remarkable considering the fact
Speaker 2: that Steph has been brilliant once again. Steph twenty nine
Speaker 2: to five and four on forty seven percent and forty
Speaker 2: two percent from three on twelve threes a game. Just
Speaker 2: absurd efficiency in numbers for Steph Curry. And one last
Speaker 2: point on this Warriors gonna mess around and miss the
Speaker 2: playoffs that right now demands. They're the eleven seed, okay,
Speaker 2: and they're the eleven seed by a wide margin. They're
Speaker 2: two and a half back of the ten. Here are
Speaker 2: the teams ahead of them. Minnesota not going anywhere. Oka,
Speaker 2: see I'm going top to bottom, not going anywhere, Dallas
Speaker 2: not going anywhere. Denver obviously not going anywhere, the Lakers
Speaker 2: not going anywhere, the Kings maybe so put a little
Speaker 2: pin in them, the Rockets maybe, the Clippers maybe, and
Speaker 2: then the Pelicans and Sons who are only gonna get better.
Speaker 2: So what they need is to survive this next month
Speaker 2: or however long it's gonna be without Draymond, probably make
Speaker 2: up some ground and have Kings, Rockets, Clippers fall off
Speaker 2: like you could see a Warrior's seat with the healthy
Speaker 2: Steph Curry missed the playoffs all together. Just unbelievable.
Speaker 3: All right, next a right, there are reports that Belichick
Speaker 3: and the Patriots are gonna split up at the end
Speaker 3: of the season. We all know that he's been trying
Speaker 3: to chase Shula's record, but do we have faith in
Speaker 3: him being this old and him being able to get there?
Speaker 3: And where do you think that he'd end up if
Speaker 3: you were to end up on another team next season?
Speaker 2: So with the right team, I do think he could
Speaker 2: get there. So the underrated part of the Patriots is
Speaker 2: this last month they've had the best defense in the NFL,
Speaker 2: despite not having Matthew Judan and despite not having Christian Gonzales.
Speaker 2: They lost to the Colts, they allowed ten points. They
Speaker 2: lost to the Giants, they allowed ten points. They lost
Speaker 2: to the Chargers, they allowed six points. They beat the Steelers,
Speaker 2: they allowed eighteen points. The defense has been quite good,
Speaker 2: and that's Belichick's specialty. Obviously he should not be picking
Speaker 2: the players anymore, and obviously the offensive side of the
Speaker 2: game has kind of passed him by. But I have
Speaker 2: the I'll tell you right now, Demonse, I have the
Speaker 2: most fun option for him. So we can just go
Speaker 2: division by division and talk about where there could be
Speaker 2: openings where he could land. Okay, AFC East, the Dolphins
Speaker 2: are obviously not gonna change coaches. The Bills might, the
Speaker 2: Jets might. I do not think the Patriots would ever
Speaker 2: trade him to one of those two teams. He hates
Speaker 2: the Jets. I don't think he wants to go there.
Speaker 2: And the Bills, if they were to move off of McDermott,
Speaker 2: they would probably want an offensive minded head coach. So
Speaker 2: let's cross out the AFC East the AFC North. There
Speaker 2: will be no coaching changes. Ravens, Brown, Steelers, Bengals. They
Speaker 2: people are speculating could Tomlin the Steelers move on from
Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin. I think that's crazy, But if they did,
Speaker 2: they wouldn't go to just, you know, an older defensive coach.
Speaker 2: They would want to change things up entirely. I don't
Speaker 2: think there's gonna be any coaching changes there. The AFC
Speaker 2: South definitively will have no coaching changes. Jags, Colts, Texans, Titans,
Speaker 2: I would think are all thrilled with their coaches. Vrabel. Yes,
Speaker 2: they're having a tough year. They're not moving off Mike Brabel.
Speaker 2: He's one of the better coaches in the league. So
Speaker 2: cross that out the AFC West. Obviously, the Broncos and
Speaker 2: Chiefs are not changing coaches. The Chargers likely will. The
Speaker 2: Raiders already have. I think both of those franchises are
Speaker 2: too cheap. Certainly, the Chargers are too cheap to pay
Speaker 2: Belichick what he makes, and the Raiders are still paying
Speaker 2: Gruden and paying McDaniels. And I don't think Belichick wants
Speaker 2: Tom Brady to be one of his bosses so because
Speaker 2: he's a part owner or wants to be a part
Speaker 2: owner of the Raiders. So I think we can cross
Speaker 2: out the whole AFC before I go to the NFC.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, demanse, go ahead. No, it looked like you
Speaker 2: wanted to say something about something. I said, Oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it was when you said something about the Chargers.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about Belichick going to the Chargers, but
Speaker 3: you said something.
Speaker 2: I think that would be a good fit and he'd
Speaker 2: have a quarterback, but I don't think the Spano's family's
Speaker 2: gonna pay him. So now we go to the NFC
Speaker 2: East Giants, Eagles, Cowboys are not changing their coaches. But
Speaker 2: what I will tell you is galaxy brain take by
Speaker 2: Nora Princiati that I heard this morning on The Ring
Speaker 2: Or NFL Show. She said, what if the Cowboys have
Speaker 2: just a devastating, mortifying playoff defeat, could Jerry Jones be like, screwed,
Speaker 2: I'm firing McCarthy And would Belichick work there? Absolutely? He would.
Speaker 2: The offense is already built. You could like, I don't
Speaker 2: think McCarthy's gonna get fired. I don't think the Cowboys
Speaker 2: are gonna have a mortifying playoff defeat. But that's Nora
Speaker 2: Princiatti's kind of hypothetical that I thought was super intriguing.
Speaker 2: But let's just assume they're not firing Mike McCarthy. They're
Speaker 2: gonna win thirteen fourteen games this year. Washington is definitely
Speaker 2: moving off Ron RIVERA. Would Bill Belichick want to go there?
Speaker 2: Very similar spot as New England, where all of a
Speaker 2: sudden you're in a really tough division, you don't have
Speaker 2: a quarterback, so I'm crossing them off. The NFC North,
Speaker 2: the only team that's going to fire their coach potentially
Speaker 2: is the Bears. The Bears are gonna draft Caleb Williams.
Speaker 2: You want an offensive minded head coach that compare with
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams for the next decade, not a defensive minded
Speaker 2: head coach who's the second oldest coach in the league.
Speaker 2: The NFC West, I don't think any of those teams
Speaker 2: are firing their coaches. The Cardinals just hired Jonathan Gannon.
Speaker 2: The other three teams like their coaches, so that leaves
Speaker 2: us the NFC South, where all four teams could be
Speaker 2: firing their coaches. Carolina Belichick is not gonna go work
Speaker 2: for that owner with that quarterback situation. New Orleans Belichick again,
Speaker 2: they don't have a quarterback. And also Belichick has been
Speaker 2: better than any GM ever essentially at making sure your
Speaker 2: cap situation isn't screwed up. The Saints cap situation has
Speaker 2: perpetually screwed up. Crossed them off, So now we're down
Speaker 2: to two teams. Atlanta could be intriguing. The offensive weapons
Speaker 2: are already there. The defense is overachieving this year. It's
Speaker 2: a winnable division, But you don't have anyone even adjacent
Speaker 2: to the quarterback in the building. So that then leaves
Speaker 2: the single most fun option the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. If
Speaker 2: you remember, when Baker was coming out of school, it
Speaker 2: was rumored the Patriots liked him. Furthermore, they have cleaned
Speaker 2: up their cap situation entirely. It is a winnable division.
Speaker 2: And last, and certainly not least, what is the only
Speaker 2: way Bill Belichick could theoretically totally even the who won
Speaker 2: the divorce with Tom Brady if he also goes to
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay and wins, They're gonna need a coach. They've
Speaker 2: got players on defense. You say what you want about Baker,
Speaker 2: he's definitely the best quarterback in the division. They have
Speaker 2: offensive weapons. I'm not saying that's going to happen. What
Speaker 2: I'm saying is that's the most fun option. And I
Speaker 2: think Bill Belichick still has his fastball. Defensively, I like
Speaker 2: the idea of it. That is, certainly from a storyline perspective,
Speaker 2: the best you stay on the East Coast, it's quick
Speaker 2: trip to your house in Cape Cod. Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick collision course, make it happen.
Speaker 3: That's my answer, playing your flag there, not.
Speaker 2: Planning my flags, but surveying potential flag real estate as
Speaker 2: a fun option.
Speaker 3: All right, next, all right, So this NFL season has
Speaker 3: been played by injuries, especially at the quarterback position. It's
Speaker 3: week fifteen and more than half of the NFL's resorted
Speaker 3: to a second string quarterback. And the NFL all the
Speaker 3: while is saying that they're heading to Brazil. They're trying
Speaker 3: to expand on the globe. So what's the bigger story
Speaker 3: this season? Would it be the injuries and the lack
Speaker 3: of good quarterback play or would it be the NFL's expansion.
Speaker 2: Well, the NFL, you know, playing a game in Brazil.
Speaker 2: Eight international games. They are just flying right towards my
Speaker 2: idea that I pitched to Roger Goodell on telew in
Speaker 2: the first week of First Things First, that he seemed
Speaker 2: not that interested in. But now they are clearly going
Speaker 2: to steal from me, which is my idea of NFL
Speaker 2: International Week. I tweeted out the clip of me doing
Speaker 2: it on Colin Coward's show back when I had a
Speaker 2: shaved head and wore fake glasses seven years ago. But
Speaker 2: it is a very straightforward idea every team is eight
Speaker 2: home eight road games. We now every team has a
Speaker 2: seventeenth game. Anyway, it is neutral site for everyone, and
Speaker 2: you have an additional bye week, which not only pushes
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl back a week to where the Monday
Speaker 2: after the Super bowl's President's Day, but everyone either on
Speaker 2: the front end or the back end of their international
Speaker 2: game has a bye so that way you can deal
Speaker 2: with the travel and the jet lag. And the concept
Speaker 2: behind NFL International Week is there are two or three
Speaker 2: games Monday through Sunday, and depending on the time zone
Speaker 2: they're in, is when you are when you determine, you
Speaker 2: know when the games are going to be played. But
Speaker 2: you could have a three pm Eastern and a six
Speaker 2: pm Eastern game every single day of the week, or
Speaker 2: something similar. For the time zones that that doesn't work in,
Speaker 2: you would do either the kind of later night games
Speaker 2: or the earlier morning games on the weekends and every
Speaker 2: and you could sell each game as a standalone national
Speaker 2: TV window. We'd have football on seven days a week
Speaker 2: all across the globe. It's a brilliant idea. If you
Speaker 2: go to my Twitter you can see it more fully
Speaker 2: fleshed out, and the NFL is going to go there eventually,
Speaker 2: So it's not that that's a bigger story. It's just
Speaker 2: that it was my idea and eventually it's going to
Speaker 2: come to fruition. Now to the quarterback stuff, it is
Speaker 2: not a coincidence that if you look at the NFL
Speaker 2: right now, whatevery single division leader has in common is
Speaker 2: they are among the handful of teams who have had
Speaker 2: the same starting quarterback every game this year. The AFC East,
Speaker 2: two teams have had different quarterbacks. Two teams have had
Speaker 2: the same Dolphins, Bills, same quarterback every game there first
Speaker 2: and second, Jets, Patriots quarterback issues and injuries. Go to
Speaker 2: the AFC North. You have the team in first place Baltimore,
Speaker 2: Lamar's been there all year, Cleveland four different quarterbacks, Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: two different quarterbacks, Cincinnati two different quarterbacks. Go to Jacksonville,
Speaker 2: who's in first place the Jags. Trevor has played every
Speaker 2: single game. Indy one different quarter or two different quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Houston's had the same quarterback all year, but he gotten it.
Speaker 2: The reason they're not tied for first potentially because he
Speaker 2: got knocked out this week, got concussed and he might
Speaker 2: miss a game. The Titans have had to change quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Go to the AFC West. The Chiefs the same quarterback
Speaker 2: all year. There in first place. The Broncos the same
Speaker 2: quarterback all year. They're in second place. The Chargers they
Speaker 2: just lost their quarterback. The Raiders had to change their quarterback.
Speaker 2: Go to the NFC East. Dak and Jalen have been
Speaker 2: there every single game. The Giants lost their quarterback. Washington.
Speaker 2: They've had the same quarterback, but he's been bad. Sam
Speaker 2: howl is one of the only guys who I think
Speaker 2: has played every game. And the teams in last place.
Speaker 2: Go to Detroit. Golf's been there all year. After that,
Speaker 2: you have the Vikings that Kirk Cousins got hurt, Green
Speaker 2: Bay they've had Jordan Love all year, to be fair,
Speaker 2: and then the Bears they obviously fields miss timed. Go
Speaker 2: to Tampa. Baker in first place. He's played every game
Speaker 2: this year. Atlanta's had to change quarterbacks. New Orleans had
Speaker 2: to change quarterbacks. Carolina desperately wishes they could change quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: but they can't, say draft him number one overall. Go
Speaker 2: to the NFC West. Brock Birdy has played every game
Speaker 2: this year. The Rams second place, Stafford miss time g
Speaker 2: and o miss time this week. The Cardinals have had
Speaker 2: multiple different quarterbacks, so we spend a lot of time analyzing,
Speaker 2: breaking down, figuring out the NFL some of it is,
Speaker 2: is your quarterback upright all year, you're gonna be okay
Speaker 2: unless he's Bryce Young. Evidently, like if your quarterback's upright
Speaker 2: all year, you're just going to be in the mix.
Speaker 2: Every single first place team is among the handful of
Speaker 2: teams that have had the same quarterback all year, and
Speaker 2: most second place teams are in a similar boat. It's
Speaker 2: as simple as that. And I know, and that is why,
Speaker 2: as much as we might hate it, the NBA is
Speaker 2: or the NFL is going to go above and beyond
Speaker 2: to try to protect quarterbacks because it can just wreck
Speaker 2: your entire season. If these guys have to miss time.
Speaker 2: That's pretty shocking, isn't it. Demonse just how the standings
Speaker 2: line up exactly with a your quarterback available.
Speaker 3: The whole Bears might have been helped out a little
Speaker 3: bit by Justin Fields being out for a couple of games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say up and up now correct some
Speaker 2: of these teams, no doubt about it, like with or without.
Speaker 2: And you know, the Patriots, Mac didn't get hurt. He
Speaker 2: just got bench.
Speaker 3: But you know, so there's no it was very consistent
Speaker 3: throughout the throughout the divisions though.
Speaker 2: Every division top to bottom. It's just quarterback health bass.
Speaker 3: So I got oh, So one quick question. Do you
Speaker 3: think that the UH Do you think that the travel
Speaker 3: will make the injury problem a little bit worse?
Speaker 2: No, I don't know why it would, And you get
Speaker 2: the again. So what I'm proposing is that you you're
Speaker 2: if you did my NFL in international week Monday through Sunday,
Speaker 2: if your games are Monday through Friday, basically your extra
Speaker 2: bye week comes the week before, so you would have
Speaker 2: almost two you know what I mean, you would have
Speaker 2: you wouldn't be playing the previous week, and so you
Speaker 2: would have full time to prepare and get acclimated. And
Speaker 2: if your game is Friday through Sunday, your extra bye
Speaker 2: week would come after, so you you know, does that
Speaker 2: make sense? So you would have time to wrest recuperate after,
Speaker 2: and an extra bye week in and of itself would
Speaker 2: naturally make UH. I think lower the injury rate. I
Speaker 2: don't think guys are more injured in international games. Guys
Speaker 2: are more injured in short week games. And I think
Speaker 2: this could help eliminate that. All right, let's do Lebron
Speaker 2: versus Wimby.
Speaker 3: All right, so one guy disappointed last night, one guy
Speaker 3: did not. The guy that didn't disappoint disappoint by the
Speaker 3: name of Victor. When Banyama, he dropped thirty and fourteen,
Speaker 3: but in the spurs eighteenth straight loss, unfortunately. But Lebron James,
Speaker 3: on the other hand, sat out. He didn't play yesterday.
Speaker 3: He didn't he didn't play in the game. Do you
Speaker 3: have any I know you're probably going to say that
Speaker 3: he just won the nd season tournament, the first ever,
Speaker 3: he deserves a sit. But do you find do you
Speaker 3: have any problem with Lebron said this game out with
Speaker 3: it being Wimby a new generational talent.
Speaker 2: No, I have the So I have two problems. I
Speaker 2: have a problem that Lebron played on Tuesday against the
Speaker 2: mass No, I'm dead. I'm totally serious. Guys. The guy's
Speaker 2: played sixty eight thousand minutes. He's played more minutes than
Speaker 2: Burden Magic's careers put together. He's played more minutes than
Speaker 2: Michael and Giannis's careers put together. Like the My real
Speaker 2: issue is this the NBA, I believe should have had
Speaker 2: the foresight to have a good inclination that Lebron might
Speaker 2: take the n Season Tournament super seriously because the NBA
Speaker 2: wanted him to and wanted him to be the ambassador
Speaker 2: for it, and then putting two Marquee games right after
Speaker 2: the N Season Tournament on the Lakers schedule was idiotic
Speaker 2: having Lebron versus Luca be a national TV game. And
Speaker 2: I know you could be like, well, what if the
Speaker 2: Lakers don't make the N Season Tournament finals, then great,
Speaker 2: you can still play Lebron versus Luke on national TV
Speaker 2: anytime all year, and Lebron versus Wimby coming right after that.
Speaker 2: It's just poor planet, Like the if there was ever
Speaker 2: going to be a time of the year that your
Speaker 2: oldest player in the league who is still your biggest
Speaker 2: draw was going to play playoff minutes, it was going
Speaker 2: to be in the N Season Tournament, And so then
Speaker 2: putting I said last week on TV that if the
Speaker 2: Lakers make the N Season Tournament Final, Lebron should take
Speaker 2: the following week off, and I totally meant it like
Speaker 2: it is an extra game. The N Season Tournament Final
Speaker 2: is an eighty third game of the year for the Lakers,
Speaker 2: but Also, Lebron was going to go full playoff mode
Speaker 2: because it's what the NBA wanted, and he is the
Speaker 2: best ambassador of the league's ever had and it and
Speaker 2: give it real playoff intensity. And so no, it's a
Speaker 2: shame that he didn't play against the Spurs. But it's
Speaker 2: also a shame that the Lakers correctly assumed we won't
Speaker 2: we stink without Lebron, but we won't need him against
Speaker 2: the Spurs. And now that was an eighteen point game
Speaker 2: going into the fourth quarter. It was a twelve point
Speaker 2: game with four minutes left. The Spurs had a furious
Speaker 2: rally at the end and ended up making a game
Speaker 2: out of it. Ad was excellent and overcame it and
Speaker 2: the Lakers were able to escape with a win. But
Speaker 2: I my bigger issue is because Wimby was excellent last
Speaker 2: night and he's been playing really well of late. You
Speaker 2: cannot convince me it is good for the development of
Speaker 2: Victor Windbnyama. For this team that started three and two
Speaker 2: to now be three and twenty that they have, for
Speaker 2: this team to be so punting on any type of competitiveness,
Speaker 2: it's not good for his development. Flatlet and Victor has
Speaker 2: been better than I thought he would be on the
Speaker 2: offensive end. I thought he'd be excellent to be coming
Speaker 2: on the defensive end, and he's doing that. But they
Speaker 2: don't have a point guard and for them to just
Speaker 2: be totally uncompetitive, and also it's embarrassing for the league.
Speaker 3: Demon sake, no point guard me.
Speaker 2: I don't understand it, but it is embarrassing for the
Speaker 2: league that the Spurs are on an eighteen game losing streak,
Speaker 2: and it is not the longest active losing streak. That
Speaker 2: the Pistons have lost twenty one in a row. And
Speaker 2: you should not have three expansion caliber teams in a
Speaker 2: non expansion year. But the Wizards, the Pistons, and the
Speaker 2: Spurs demanse are a combined eight and sixty two. The Wizards,
Speaker 2: the Pistons, and the Spurs are a combined eight and
Speaker 2: sixty two, and then Portland, Memphis and Charlotte are not
Speaker 2: that much better. Memphis, hopefully when John gets back, they'll
Speaker 2: be competitive, but they're probably gonna be out of it.
Speaker 2: Like That's the other underrated storyline of this NBA season
Speaker 2: is Jos suspension. I think cost the Grizzlies the whole year.
Speaker 2: They're just cooked. The Grizzlies are six and seventeen, so
Speaker 2: John's got two games left on the suspension. Those games
Speaker 2: are against Houston and then at OKC, So their best
Speaker 2: case scenario is they're seven and eighteen when he comes back.
Speaker 2: They're probably gonna be six and nineteen when he comes back,
Speaker 2: and then his first game back is a back to
Speaker 2: back for his teammates, not for him. He'll be as
Speaker 2: fresh as can be in New Orleans and then they
Speaker 2: host Indiana. It is absolutely on the board that the
Speaker 2: Grizzlies start this season seven and twenty or six and
Speaker 2: twenty one, and they're just dead. I mean six and seventeen.
Speaker 2: They're probably dead. And it's just a shame, all right.
Speaker 2: Our gambling show where I got absolutely, unequivocally screwed last week,
Speaker 2: and we'll discuss if there should be an official record adjustment.
Speaker 2: Demande didn't get screwed except for just trusting his gut
Speaker 2: on his teasers that screws him every week. We'll discuss
Speaker 2: it all next what's right, I'm considering airbnbing out your
Speaker 2: sister's room, not your baby sister, your older sister, even
Speaker 2: though she's here. She's back for Christmas. Uh and that's
Speaker 2: because uh, you know, jet lag or whatever. She was
Speaker 2: sposed to be our special guest, but she overslept. So
Speaker 2: episode two hundred.
Speaker 3: No scoop, no dear, that was a coin flip.
Speaker 2: What do you mean it's eleven fifteen here? She I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not I understand, and where you are it's early
Speaker 2: in the morning. It's eleven fifteen here. I just text
Speaker 2: her during the break a sad emoji and she text
Speaker 2: me back, you should have woken me up. I was like, well,
Speaker 2: I tried, but your phone went straight to voicemail, Like,
Speaker 2: give me a break, all right, speaking of things, I
Speaker 2: need a break on. I got really, really screwed last week,
Speaker 2: so let's discuss it. Last week. The record one three
Speaker 2: and one. So the Rams plus seven and a half
Speaker 2: at Baltimore never a doubt. That was a winner. That
Speaker 2: was a great And by the way, now I'm four
Speaker 2: games under five hundred on the season. Houston minus three
Speaker 2: and a half against the Jets. I was squeamish about
Speaker 2: it once because we knew Tank Dell was out when
Speaker 2: I made the bet. Once Nico Collins also went down,
Speaker 2: I thought I might be in trouble. But when CJ.
Speaker 2: Stroud gets knocked out of the game with a concussion.
Speaker 2: I am just ruined, with no chance about it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Where the Texans got to feel sick is they made
Speaker 2: Zach Wilson look like a real quarterback. But that's a
Speaker 2: loss that was I was on the square side of that.
Speaker 2: I'll deal with it. The Raiders plus three against Minnesota.
Speaker 2: There's two ways to look at this. One is I
Speaker 2: bet on a team that scored zero points and got
Speaker 2: a push. That is a little fortunate. The other way
Speaker 2: to look on at it is I bet on a
Speaker 2: team getting three points, they allowed three total points, and
Speaker 2: I didn't get a win. And so like we have
Speaker 2: had him back to back weeks, almost unprecedented gambling moments
Speaker 2: because we had a Patriots Chargers game where the Chargers
Speaker 2: were favored by five and a half, scored six and covered.
Speaker 2: And we had Vikings Raiders game where the Vikings were
Speaker 2: favored by three, scored three and got a push out
Speaker 2: of it. So I don't know if I got lucky
Speaker 2: or unlucky there. But then the last two Chiefs minus
Speaker 2: one and a half against Buffalo, I deserved to win.
Speaker 2: It was covering when the stadium was going crazy and
Speaker 2: KADARISONI had scored a touchdown to go up threes, penning
Speaker 2: four with a minute left. I'll tell you for goddamn
Speaker 2: sure it was covering. Then, yeah, I mean, I'll tell
Speaker 2: you it was certainly covering in that moment. He's smart ass.
Speaker 2: But I take the loss there, And unlike watching Chiefs, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: unlike watching Chiefs Packers at Lil Wayne's house in La
Speaker 2: where I can't, you know, live bet the Chiefs at
Speaker 2: every moment, I watch Chiefs Bills all alone in my
Speaker 2: own house, and I could live bet them at any
Speaker 2: given moment. And that didn't go great. And then there's
Speaker 2: the one that really sticks in my craw Seattle plus
Speaker 2: ten and a half at the Niners. Then I gave
Speaker 2: a brilliant explanation as to why I was taking Seattle.
Speaker 2: They were gonna be able to keep it close, adjacent,
Speaker 2: it's a divisional game, all of these things. And then
Speaker 2: Geno Smith gets ruled out. After my pick is locked,
Speaker 2: I have to deal with Drew Locke at quarterback. They
Speaker 2: still keep it close. The line moves to fourteen and
Speaker 2: a half, they lose by thirteen, and I get a loss.
Speaker 3: A loss.
Speaker 2: Now, some people would say no, give yourself the closing line,
Speaker 2: which was fourteen and a half and called to win.
Speaker 2: I will not say that I will recover, despite the
Speaker 2: wild unfairness of it. In my heart all no that
Speaker 2: in a more just world, the Raiders cover the plus
Speaker 2: three outright, since they only allowed three points. I get
Speaker 2: the Seahawks plus the closing line, and the Chiefs don't
Speaker 2: have uh, you know, the NFL equivalent of being thrown
Speaker 2: in jail for going thirty six and a thirty five
Speaker 2: and I have a four and one week and instead
Speaker 2: of being thirty two thirty six and one, I am
Speaker 2: thirty five. I'm sorry. Instead of being thirty two, thirty
Speaker 2: six and two, I am thirty five, thirty four and
Speaker 2: one and back over five hundred. But I'll take the lawsuits.
Speaker 3: Let's get to this seat.
Speaker 2: But oh shut up, So let's get the Let's get
Speaker 2: to the tweets.
Speaker 3: You've got Tampa Bay plus three and a half at
Speaker 3: Green Bay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just this one's very very simple. I think
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay can win this game, outright. I certainly don't
Speaker 2: think the Packers are blowing them out. The Bucks play
Speaker 2: close games. I like al Baker's playing. He has been
Speaker 2: incredibly clutched lately this season really, with these late game drives,
Speaker 2: whether they're for backdoor covers or for wins. And Green
Speaker 2: Bay is on a shorter week because of the Monday night,
Speaker 2: and to me, it's very concerning losing the game they
Speaker 2: did against the New York Giants for all those reasons.
Speaker 2: The Bucks plus three this is to be a twenty
Speaker 2: to seventeen game in either direction, and I'm getting a
Speaker 2: full not only a full three, a full three and
Speaker 2: a half. I'll take the Bucks plus three and a half.
Speaker 3: Next next, you got the Giants plus six at New Orleans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dennis Allen Derek Carr combo should not be six
Speaker 2: point favorites anyone except for maybe Carolina. And I know, listen,
Speaker 2: I'm not buying in to the Giants hype, but Dable
Speaker 2: versus Dennis Allen is a massive coaching mismatch. The Giants'
Speaker 2: biggest weakness is the quarterback spot, but at least his
Speaker 2: teammates like him, while the Saints seem to be rebelling
Speaker 2: against Derek Carr and I'm getting six points, Like, why
Speaker 2: would I think the Saints are gonna beat anyone? Buy
Speaker 2: a touchdown? Dennis Allen at home against the spread is
Speaker 2: historically bad, and I just I flatly don't buy the
Speaker 2: idea that this Saints team is going to take care
Speaker 2: of business in a way where they win by multiple scores.
Speaker 2: The Giants, on the other hand, Dable's gonna have them
Speaker 2: convinced we win this game, we could make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Now they can't and they won't, but that's gonna be
Speaker 2: their mind frame going into the game. New Orleans does
Speaker 2: not deserved to be a six point favorite over anyone
Speaker 2: in the league except for Carol. So I'll take the
Speaker 2: six points and think the Giants might be able to
Speaker 2: win out right.
Speaker 3: Next Vegas should mess up, all right, Miami minus eight
Speaker 3: and a half versus the Giant the Jets.
Speaker 2: Sorry, all right, we just saw this game played. I
Speaker 2: understand it was against Tim Boyle, but we just saw
Speaker 2: on Black Friday Miami run rough shot over the Jets
Speaker 2: in New York. Now I'm laying less than ten points
Speaker 2: for a Dolphins team that unequivocally must win this game.
Speaker 2: The Dolphins after this game, they have Cowboys, Ravens Bills
Speaker 2: to end the season. If the Dolphins want to have
Speaker 2: any breathing room, if they want to make sure that
Speaker 2: that Week eighteen game against a Buffalo team that already
Speaker 2: crushed them is not potentially for the division. Then they
Speaker 2: absolutely need to win this game. Also in Miami, when
Speaker 2: they win, I don't want to say they always blow
Speaker 2: people out, because week one of the season they were
Speaker 2: they didn't. They beat the Chargers by two, and they
Speaker 2: beat the Patriots just by seven. But since then, they
Speaker 2: beat the Broncos by fifty, they beat the Giants by fifteen,
Speaker 2: they beat the Panthers by twenty one, they beat the
Speaker 2: Patriots by fourteen, they beat the Jets by twenty one,
Speaker 2: they beat the Commanders by thirty. That yes, they only
Speaker 2: beat the Raiders by seven in what was kind of
Speaker 2: a sloppy game for them, but that was also a
Speaker 2: game they were up seven going into the fourth and
Speaker 2: then nobody scored a point. They kind of stalled out there.
Speaker 2: I just think this is a and I know that
Speaker 2: the Jets defense has played well, but I don't think
Speaker 2: I think Tyreek's gonna play and be fine. I know
Speaker 2: he's listed as day to day. This is a bounce
Speaker 2: back spot for Miami that really gave a game away
Speaker 2: against the Titans. This feels to me like a twenty
Speaker 2: seven to ten thirty one to ten type of game. Also,
Speaker 2: the next time Zach Wilson plays two good games in
Speaker 2: a row will be the first time since his last
Speaker 2: season at BYU. This is a Miami blowout spot and
Speaker 2: I'm only laying eight and a half. What was I'm
Speaker 2: gonna check real quick. What was the Dolphins Jets line
Speaker 2: the first time they played when they played in New York?
Speaker 2: Hold on, I think I can say right here that
Speaker 2: you're are you making that up or you know it?
Speaker 3: No, I was making it up, But I think it
Speaker 3: was seven and a half.
Speaker 2: Okay, nine and a half. Maybe it opened at seven
Speaker 2: and a half and moved to nine and a half,
Speaker 2: who knows, Like maybe that was with the Tim Boyle News.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but it was. Miami was only one
Speaker 2: point bigger fate this I don't understand. Miami was a
Speaker 2: nine and a half point favorite in New York. They
Speaker 2: are now an eight and a half point favorite in Miami.
Speaker 2: We think that much more highly of the Jets because
Speaker 2: they played one good offensive game against the Texans, and
Speaker 2: we think that much more lowly of the Dolphins because
Speaker 2: they played a bad game against the Titans. That line
Speaker 2: is way off to me. All right.
Speaker 3: Next next you've got Dallas plus one and a half
Speaker 3: at Buffalo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dallas is a great team and Buffalo just occasionally
Speaker 2: looks like one. Like here's the thing, what is the
Speaker 2: last time the Bills played a great four quarters? I
Speaker 2: can tell you Week four against Miami. Now you can
Speaker 2: say this is an indictment on the Chiefs. The Bills
Speaker 2: didn't play that well in that game, the cheap they
Speaker 2: won anyway, and that you can say again that can
Speaker 2: be a testament about the trouble the Chiefs might not
Speaker 2: be might be in. But the Bills played awesome for
Speaker 2: the first quarter and a half and then hung on
Speaker 2: for dear life, butchered the clock at the end and
Speaker 2: gave up what would have been an all time embarrassing
Speaker 2: way to lose if not for the ref stepping in
Speaker 2: the way of it. Dallas, on the other hand, is rolling,
Speaker 2: and Dallas right now, in a weird way, needs the
Speaker 2: game as much as Buffalo, because Dallas knows their only
Speaker 2: hope of hosting any playoff games, of winning the Division,
Speaker 2: of maybe being the one seed, is running the table,
Speaker 2: and then they need Philly to trip up. At one
Speaker 2: point along the way. So I'm getting points for the
Speaker 2: better team with the quarterback playing at an MVP level
Speaker 2: that is rolling against a Bills team that again, I
Speaker 2: know everyone right now is all of a sudden all
Speaker 2: over the Bills, but they the fact of the matter
Speaker 2: is this that they didn't play well in the second
Speaker 2: half against the Chiefs the week before, and that was
Speaker 2: coming off a bye, with the Chiefs injured, all of
Speaker 2: those things going in their favor. What's up to months.
Speaker 3: I'm just now realizing that this whole time, Buffalo is
Speaker 3: favorite in this game. That's really nicey. Yes, I was
Speaker 3: just looking at that as minus one and a half
Speaker 3: the entire time. But yeah, I think Vegas got this
Speaker 3: one wrong.
Speaker 2: Like, well, here's the thing. Vegas and the betting public
Speaker 2: loved the Bills. They have for years. Man, Vegas and
Speaker 2: the betting public loved the Bills. I just think they're wrong.
Speaker 2: But the Bills played you know what, that's not fair.
Speaker 2: The Bills played a really good game against Tim Boyle
Speaker 2: and the Jets a few weeks ago. But since that
Speaker 2: Dolphins game in Week four when the Bills got three
Speaker 2: to one, here's what they've done. Lost to the Jags
Speaker 2: in London. Escaped against the Giants. Remember that game where
Speaker 2: the Giants got the ball down to the five yard
Speaker 2: line at the end and then they didn't call the
Speaker 2: DPI or whatever. Lost to the Patriots. Escaped against the Bucks.
Speaker 2: That's the game the Bills had sewn up. The Baker
Speaker 2: made a late comeback and then he threw the Hail
Speaker 2: Mary that Godwin didn't turn around on. Lost to the Bengals,
Speaker 2: had a mortifying loss to the Broncos. Played great against
Speaker 2: the Jets to their credit, found a way to lose
Speaker 2: against the Eagles, and then escaped against the Chiefs. Stat
Speaker 2: in the entire McDermott Josh Allen era, as long as
Speaker 2: we acknowledge the Chiefs and the Cowboys are both gonna
Speaker 2: go to the playoffs, this stat applies. The Buffalo Bills
Speaker 2: have never won games in consecutive weeks against playoff teams. Never. Now,
Speaker 2: some of that is you don't always play playoff teams,
Speaker 2: and back to back weeks, you haven't had like, you know,
Speaker 2: thirty opportunities, but it's never happened. I'll take the Cowboys
Speaker 2: to win outright, and last one.
Speaker 3: You got Jacksonville plus three and a half versus Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the Jags are at home and I'm
Speaker 2: getting three and a half, and they need the game,
Speaker 2: and Trevor will be healthier than he was last week.
Speaker 2: And Baltimore, even if they're dominating the game, Baltimore will
Speaker 2: let people back into games. Now. Lamar played awesome against
Speaker 2: the Rams. Awesome against the Rams. I give him credit.
Speaker 2: The defense didn't, but he did. But I am getting
Speaker 2: I think I think Baltimore is a little bit better
Speaker 2: than Jacksonville. I do think they are the better team,
Speaker 2: but they're on the road and they're laying three and
Speaker 2: a half. The Jags gotta have the game. The Ravens
Speaker 2: do have a game to play with in the thanks
Speaker 2: to what's happened to Miami and Kansas City. I like
Speaker 2: Jacksonville on the spot. I think Jacksonville can win the
Speaker 2: game outright if they are If I'm wrong on that
Speaker 2: and the Ravens are up big late, the Ravens like
Speaker 2: to let teams back into it. I'm getting three and
Speaker 2: a half. I'll take the Jags plus three and a half.
Speaker 2: Think Trevor will be a little bit healthier, and it's December,
Speaker 2: so I imagine we'll get the news report around, you know,
Speaker 2: like we did around this time last week, that Lamar
Speaker 2: has the flu again, and so he might not you know,
Speaker 2: he might have to miss a day of practice because
Speaker 2: he gets his you know, annual cold, because Lamar's immune
Speaker 2: system is the worst of any pro athlete I've ever
Speaker 2: seen in my life. So there's my picks for the week.
Speaker 2: Look it up, Demanda. This dude gets sick more than
Speaker 2: anyone I've ever seen in my life. Tampa plus three
Speaker 2: and a half, Giants plus six, Miami minus eight and
Speaker 2: a half, Dallas plus one and a half, Jacksonville plus
Speaker 2: three and a half, taking four dogs and one favorite
Speaker 2: that I expect to absolutely roll. We don't. I don't
Speaker 2: even know that. We have to recap your teaser from
Speaker 2: last week. It was bad in every way imaginable. You
Speaker 2: tease across the zero I told you not to. You
Speaker 2: lost on it. You tease the Niners minus four. I guess,
Speaker 2: good job, and dat and Philly. After ruining you in
Speaker 2: a teaser the exact same format the previous week, ruined
Speaker 2: you in a teaser that format the in the exact
Speaker 2: same way the next week. So what are we doing
Speaker 2: this week?
Speaker 3: All right? So this is the two hundredth episode, obviously,
Speaker 3: So for the two hundredth episode, we are going to
Speaker 3: bring an in to probably the saddest segment in our
Speaker 3: podcast history.
Speaker 2: You're quitting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is this is the death to my teasers.
Speaker 3: I know we thought this is going to be a
Speaker 3: celebrat for the two hundredth episode, but this is probably
Speaker 3: more like a eulogy. Uh yeah, I mean two hundred
Speaker 3: has also never been important in sports. I'm gonna read
Speaker 3: you off a couple of stats. I'm actually not gonna
Speaker 3: read you off a couple of stats, abandoning that. But yeah, dude,
Speaker 3: so that that's the end of the teaser. We're done
Speaker 3: with that. Yeah, I mean, I just I can't. I
Speaker 3: mean I can't. I can't continue to do this to myself.
Speaker 3: I think that I need to. Uh, I don't want to.
Speaker 2: I mean, I really Detroit.
Speaker 3: I came into this season thinking that it was gonna
Speaker 3: be light because I placed maybe like three teasers at
Speaker 3: the end of the football season last year. I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna lie. One of them hit the three, but the
Speaker 3: other two I missed a leg, like one leg.
Speaker 2: Like that's the funniest I gotta tell you. That's the
Speaker 2: funniest part of Demons's confidence coming into the year on
Speaker 2: the teasers. It was totally unearned. It's not like he
Speaker 2: had this crazy hot streak he bet I know, I
Speaker 2: remember this. He bet three. He only won one, and
Speaker 2: he was like, I've got the teaser thing down, Like,
Speaker 2: don't you worry about me. I'm like, okay, buddy, Like
Speaker 2: if you say so, I didn't. I didn't quite get it,
Speaker 2: but I listen the.
Speaker 3: Reason of the playoffs. I feel like I should get
Speaker 3: more like more of a vaguer like juice for like
Speaker 3: hitting a teaser. No.
Speaker 2: And but that's fair. And by the way, it's a
Speaker 2: shame because there is a you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take over. I'm taking over for you three team six
Speaker 2: right now, right now, three team six point teaser the
Speaker 2: Chiefs from minus eight and a half to minus two
Speaker 2: and a half in New England, the Cowboys from plus
Speaker 2: one and a half to plus seven and a half
Speaker 2: against the Bills, and the Dolphins from minus eight and
Speaker 2: a half to minus two and a half half against
Speaker 2: the Jets. Those follow every teaser rule demands, they cross
Speaker 2: every key number. We get massive value on all accounts.
Speaker 2: That teaser locked in you know what, I'll place it
Speaker 2: on your behalf as a Christmas present, the the I'll play.
Speaker 2: I'll take something that I was gonna get you for Christmas.
Speaker 2: I'm taking that money aside. I'm a place that this
Speaker 2: teaser on your behalf instead. Happy Chris, Merry Christmas, buddy.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it, Pops. I've I've got a teaser like
Speaker 3: logged in my phone.
Speaker 2: Just quit.
Speaker 3: Yeah I did, just quit, But like it's gonna be.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be that imaginary teaser versus your teaser. And
Speaker 3: it's not so imaginary, it's it's already placed. So we
Speaker 3: can we can go ahead to head on.
Speaker 2: The Okay, all right, what's.
Speaker 3: All right? So it's time for the offer, the week
Speaker 3: fifteen offer. You know, Kansas City obviously doesn't cover big spreads,
Speaker 3: but it's impossible for them to lose to the Patriots,
Speaker 3: or you would think Chiefs one Chiefs to win by
Speaker 3: one by one and six points or one through six
Speaker 3: points is plus three twenty. Do you accept that offer?
Speaker 2: No, I don't accept the offer. I think the Chiefs
Speaker 2: absolutely could blow out the Patriots. Also, this reminds me
Speaker 2: that that ridiculous call in Chiefs Bills cost me the
Speaker 2: offer from last week of plus five fifty. Who was
Speaker 2: the Chiefs to beat the Bills and it was in
Speaker 2: the tournament? God dog it. That makes it even more frustrating.
Speaker 2: Quick break right back? What we answer your questions in
Speaker 2: the chat? What's right? All right? Demanse Uh, Let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and get to some of these chat questions before
Speaker 2: I gotta go.
Speaker 3: All right, So I've got a question before the chat.
Speaker 3: Do you have a favorite moment from the last one
Speaker 3: hundred episodes of the pod? There's too many favorite moments
Speaker 3: to think of.
Speaker 2: From the last one hundred episodes of the pod. I
Speaker 2: don't have a singular one, but I really enjoy the
Speaker 2: times when, like I go on random rant and it
Speaker 2: is like you are really into it, Like when I'm
Speaker 2: making you authentically laugh and you don't know what I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say. Those are my favorite moments, like because I
Speaker 2: can see it and it kind of like encourages me.
Speaker 2: So those are my favorite moments, all right.
Speaker 3: Next a note on that. It's really funny that I
Speaker 3: see some tweets or replies to pie clips and people
Speaker 3: are like, oh, Demands's trying to haha himself into a raise.
Speaker 3: And stuff and like, oh, he's just he's laughing too
Speaker 3: hard and it's dis genuine. I promise, dude. I think
Speaker 3: I think you can actually see when it's probably a
Speaker 3: flaw of mine. But when I'm not amused, I feel
Speaker 3: like it's very obvious. So when I am laughing, it's
Speaker 3: it is genuine. I promise.
Speaker 2: Also, also, demand's been due a raise for this part
Speaker 2: for the entire time the podcast has existed. It's right
Speaker 2: around the corner, I promised Chappelle.
Speaker 3: All right, Next, Nikoach Dragina said a question for today.
Speaker 3: The season ends today. The season ends today, what moves
Speaker 3: would you want Kansas City to make for the postseason?
Speaker 2: All right? So, uh, I that's impossible to answer because
Speaker 2: I still think the Chiefs are gonna play in the
Speaker 2: super Bowl now if I'm wrong, need to be some
Speaker 2: significant moves on the offensive side of the ball. They
Speaker 2: also Lugerious Sneed and Chris Jones are pending free agents,
Speaker 2: and that's gonna be tough. But I'm I'm not doing
Speaker 2: a lot of season to go, guys. There's four weeks left.
Speaker 2: That used to be twenty five percent of the year
Speaker 2: Now it's like twenty two percent. Of the year, a
Speaker 2: lot of football left to be played, and given the
Speaker 2: Dolphins loss on Monday, I'm also still not even certain
Speaker 2: the Chiefs aren't gonna end up hosting their sixth straight
Speaker 2: AFC title game. So let's just pump the brakes on
Speaker 2: what changes need to be made, because if they are
Speaker 2: the two time defending Super Bowl champions, you probably aren't
Speaker 2: gonna want to make many changes next.
Speaker 3: Uh Tasso Markopolis has a question for me, Nicks, go
Speaker 3: to explicit explit explicitive on TV seems expletive. I've never
Speaker 3: said that word allowed. Exploitive on TV seems to be
Speaker 3: god dog it. Uh. Can you confirm that he says
Speaker 3: that in real life or is it just for TV?
Speaker 3: I can confirm he says that in real life. I've
Speaker 3: heard him. He says god dog All.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I So the thing is this, I
Speaker 2: usually I used to always say the profane version of that,
Speaker 2: but you can't say that on TV. And that's the
Speaker 2: one curse that really bothers.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Demanse's mom and so no, no, no, your mom and
Speaker 2: so I so I I just say god dog it.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And so that's why.
Speaker 3: But go ahead, Michael asked Nick do you, uh, how
Speaker 3: do you suggest someone study modern poker theory?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's so funny. There is a great
Speaker 2: book called Modern Poker Theory Theory called by Michael is
Speaker 2: it asseveto hold on? Let me get it or Michael, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Michael Acevedo.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: It's dense, but it is discernible and if you just
Speaker 2: kind of work your way through it, that gives you
Speaker 2: the building blocks of what is modern poker theory, which
Speaker 2: again that's another podcast for another day. Whether I think
Speaker 2: some people have gotten way worse at poker by trying
Speaker 2: to implement these game theory optimal principles that they're not
Speaker 2: equipped to rather than playing the way they previously were.
Speaker 2: But if you really want to take the leap into
Speaker 2: that style of poker, that is the best book to
Speaker 2: start with, all right.
Speaker 3: Last one, Mad King Chad said hashtag ring back book club.
Speaker 2: Maybe after the NFL season, I didn't execute book club properly.
Speaker 2: I wasn't like diligent with making sure we did it.
Speaker 2: I didn't know. I need to like figure out how
Speaker 2: other people do book clubs in this format because me
Speaker 2: just like doing twenty minute recaps of the chapters is
Speaker 2: not interesting. So maybe we could do it, but I
Speaker 2: need to figure out how to better execute it. Demanse,
Speaker 2: you've done it. You did a great job for at
Speaker 2: least one hundred and fifty five of these two hundred episodes.
Speaker 2: Today was one of them. I appreciate you. You keep
Speaker 2: up the great work. Sweater looks great. Hopefully on Monday,
Speaker 2: diores here as well. She doesn't stand us up and oversleep,
Speaker 2: and everybody have a wonderful weekend. I'll see you guys
Speaker 2: on TV later today at three o'clock. On First things first, Hey,
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Speaker 3: Olfa