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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites the podcast. This is a very

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Speaker 1: special bonus episode coming out today Thursday. It's me Chad

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Speaker 1: Milner from the Action Network, my beautiful brother black Jack

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Speaker 1: Fletcher and and on the phone from America's Heartland, host

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Speaker 1: of the Pat McAfee show. Two point Oh, Mr Pat McAfee.

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Speaker 1: What's going on, brother Chad? Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: having me, black Jack Fletch can't wait to join you.

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Speaker 1: And also congratulations on sunny Darren Rovell to the Action Network.

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Speaker 1: Big things happening over there to honor to join you boys.

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Speaker 1: Thank you excited black Jack? Uh? Pat, you're having a

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Speaker 1: massive week. You got your podcast, You've been on ESPN,

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Speaker 1: you're broadcasting games. How's all this shapen up for you?

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling about all the game? Just one game? Pat?

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Speaker 1: How was it having a live mike in front of

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Speaker 1: you for three hours? It was a wild scene. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: it was like a dream, you know it was. I

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Speaker 1: thought when I left the NFL UM I honestly thought

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Speaker 1: that I could bring a little something to the game

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Speaker 1: of football, whether it be covering the game, however, I

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Speaker 1: would do it. Anything like that. And the Sundays if

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Speaker 1: you watch all My social media has become like a

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Speaker 1: four the brand Sunday basically where I cover fourth downs

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Speaker 1: trying to give a little love, you know, s the

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Speaker 1: d of my fellow peers, punters and kickers. And I

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Speaker 1: always wanted to call like an actual game with a network.

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Speaker 1: But I was rejected from the broadcast boot camp twice,

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Speaker 1: which is what all NFL players get to go to basically,

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Speaker 1: and that's how all these guys get these jobs. They

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Speaker 1: get to shake hands with the people at Fox and

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Speaker 1: ESPN and CBS and NFL network. I was rejected twice

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Speaker 1: from going to that, so I never knew if it

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Speaker 1: was gonna happen. And then finally I got the incredible

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Speaker 1: opportunity through Fox Sports One and I had a last

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Speaker 1: doing it. I enjoyed it a lot. Shawn Kelly and

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Speaker 1: a Jhawk tocare me. The Baylor Bears beat the Texas

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Speaker 1: Tech in the Texas Shootout way in Cliff King's very

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Speaker 1: last game. It was just a blast. I just had

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Speaker 1: an absolute blast with it. So hold on, tell me

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Speaker 1: a little bit more about this boot camp, because this

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Speaker 1: is this is news to me. Here. Why did they

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Speaker 1: reject you? You're you're you're a magnetic, electric human being.

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Speaker 1: Why would they not want you? That means a lot.

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Speaker 1: Everything you just said made me feel very good deep

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Speaker 1: down in my loins. I don't know, honestly, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think it's because my Twitter. I would swear on

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Speaker 1: And also I was a punter, right I'm not a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: think I'd probably be calling Monday Night Football if I

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Speaker 1: just the way it goes, and I I just kind

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Speaker 1: so I was accepted there. I've never got like two

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Speaker 1: it's it's a nearly unprecedented for a punter to come

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Speaker 1: be honest, I have no idea. I think social media

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Speaker 1: And um, I was finding a lot of success whenever

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Speaker 1: like thirty years. I sold like ten thousand tickets for

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Speaker 1: It could all come crashing down, it could, and maybe

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Speaker 1: I end up in the Alcoholics Anonymous Football League. Whatever

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Speaker 1: you're not. You're not an alcoholic. Alcoholics A quitters you.

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Speaker 1: I uh, I only do the vitamins now, to be

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Speaker 1: can break some news on this podcast. Yes or no,

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Speaker 1: Levian Bell is going to the cults, So it wouldn't

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Speaker 1: on my show, like four months ago. I said that

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Speaker 1: to other people. I have no idea. He does seem

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Speaker 1: So I think he knows that the cults are a

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Speaker 1: good situation. There's a hundred and some million dollars in

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Speaker 1: And to be honest, I didn't even really understand why

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Speaker 1: him by like trips another name. He has forty five

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Speaker 1: different names. I just you just because he has his

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Speaker 1: all of his w W E names. Then he has

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Speaker 1: his actual his actual name, and then there's other nicknames

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Speaker 1: that have just been garnered through like thirty years now,

431
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Speaker 1: traveling on the road with people. It's he does have

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Speaker 1: forty five different names. I call him Mr Rah That's

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Speaker 1: what I Hey, there's another name. There's another name we

434
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Speaker 1: should have we should have asked about for your name association.

435
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Speaker 1: This might be the most interesting guy in the cult franchise.

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Speaker 1: Jim rcy Hey brother. He's the best man. I love

437
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Speaker 1: Jim Rcy, Jim Mercy. And now granted this happens with

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Speaker 1: every particular job. Like the owner of the company is

439
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Speaker 1: the one giving you the money, so like that guy

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Speaker 1: is affording you or girl that guy or girl, that's

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Speaker 1: very That was terrible at me. I was directly referencing

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Speaker 1: Jim Mercy there. That guy was huge in my life. Obviously,

443
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Speaker 1: whenever I got arrested. Um, I think he was one

444
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Speaker 1: of the reasons why Wolpen cuts. I think whenever my

445
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Speaker 1: contract was up, Ryan Grigson definitely wanted to get rid

446
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Speaker 1: of me, and he said, I, no, actively he's not leaving.

447
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Speaker 1: He is just Uh. He's a guy who was a

448
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Speaker 1: fan of mine and I got a chance to chat

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Speaker 1: with when not a lot of people did. He would

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Speaker 1: come to practices and kind of hang out with the

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Speaker 1: scouting side of things or with his little his little

452
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Speaker 1: team of people around him. He would come up and

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Speaker 1: talk to me in Vinitary every single time, and I

454
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Speaker 1: I grew quite a relationship with that man who has

455
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Speaker 1: lived him and John Mellencamp of wrote a hundred songs.

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Speaker 1: They got mccaym just waiting to release one day I uh,

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Speaker 1: I feel like with gambling becoming more and more prevalent

458
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Speaker 1: in the NFL, eventually figuring out what it's gonna do,

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Speaker 1: Jim Murs will be a guy. And I say, there's

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Speaker 1: only not knowing anything about him other than sort of

461
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Speaker 1: what I've read is a guy who would be full

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Speaker 1: on proponent of figuring out a way to make gambling

463
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. So it's I think Jerry Jones is

464
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Speaker 1: gonna be the guy. He's already invested in Draft kings

465
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Speaker 1: pretty heavily. I think Jerry Jones is probably the guy

466
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Speaker 1: he's gonna really push forward hard. But I think I

467
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Speaker 1: think Jim Mersey's I mean, this guy is like a Rocks.

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Speaker 1: You talk to him as if you're talking to like

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Speaker 1: a creative rock star. So like if you would listen

470
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Speaker 1: to like Tom Petty interviews or anything like that, like

471
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Speaker 1: that's who you're talking to whenever you're talking to Jim Marcy.

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Speaker 1: So I think Jim Rcy will definitely embrace the gambling thing,

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Speaker 1: but I think he'll do it in his own way.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be like, uh, the first team

475
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Speaker 1: out doing something. I think it'll be something where they'll

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Speaker 1: sit back and figure out how to do it. He's

477
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Speaker 1: he's got a creative mind. The dude is. I'm telling you,

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Speaker 1: you have a five minute conversation with him. It's a

479
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Speaker 1: it's an hour long conversation with him because he's rolling

480
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Speaker 1: and it's just it is. It's an impressive little mind.

481
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Speaker 1: He's got up there. Now. Patty, you're you're as close

482
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Speaker 1: to the Colts as as any former player. You were

483
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Speaker 1: there a couple of weeks ago, dressed up as an

484
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Speaker 1: old man kicking field goals. It's an awesome video. Um,

485
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Speaker 1: I think the cults right now plus three hundred to

486
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Speaker 1: win that division this year? Are you taking those odds?

487
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Speaker 1: The Houston Texans are so good right now. The Houston Texans.

488
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Speaker 1: This is the this is the interesting thing here, Frank Raich.

489
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Speaker 1: Early in the season they were one in two. The

490
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Speaker 1: Houston Texans were oh and three. I believe throwaway decision

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Speaker 1: over time fourth in two forty seconds, left own side

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Speaker 1: throwaway decision by Frank Raig. Fuck it, we're not gonna

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna go for a tie. We're gonna go

494
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Speaker 1: for a winner of loss. They end up losing right there.

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Speaker 1: That starts to Houston Texans eight game win streak. That

496
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Speaker 1: turns around the Colts season as well. Pretty much. They

497
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Speaker 1: start getting on board with Frank, they start buying in

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Speaker 1: a little bit more. That throwaway decision right there could

499
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Speaker 1: be something that's big in the end, because I mean

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Speaker 1: it's a collision course with the Texans to see if

501
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Speaker 1: they can stumble and if the Colts can stay hot.

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Speaker 1: I would not take the plus three and right now,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I like, I will put money on there,

504
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Speaker 1: because like I said, I'm not supposed to have money.

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Speaker 1: That seems like a bet I should put us, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not hot. I think in the I think next year,

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Speaker 1: I think culture gonna be very good. Darius Leonard is

508
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Speaker 1: a maniac and it's his nickname, and he actually is

509
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Speaker 1: on the defense. They got a lot of money to

510
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Speaker 1: spend with and they've got a young culture, so I

511
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Speaker 1: think yet next year maybe, but that throwaway decision is

512
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Speaker 1: gonna be one that we look back upon. I think

513
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Speaker 1: later in the season is gonna be like this was

514
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Speaker 1: an interesting This was a very interesting decision because it's

515
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Speaker 1: spurred the Houston Texans wind streak and it also could

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Speaker 1: have motivated the Poet's locker room to get behind Frank

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Speaker 1: reikmore so, I think that throwaway decisions would be a

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Speaker 1: big deal later settle a settle debate for me and

519
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Speaker 1: black Jack. So this will be on the podcast. This

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Speaker 1: this podcast coming out Thursday. Then black Jack and I

521
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Speaker 1: do our favorite podcast on Friday, and we have been

522
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Speaker 1: debating the Cults as four point favorites on the road

523
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Speaker 1: at Jacksonville. He loves the Colts. I want to pass.

524
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Speaker 1: We have a million reasons why Jacksonville just seems like

525
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Speaker 1: there's so much drama happening. There's so much, and drama

526
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Speaker 1: is never good. I mean, the teams that win seemed

527
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Speaker 1: to keep everything inside the locker room. That's why I like,

528
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Speaker 1: I think the Steelers are a really good team. I

529
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Speaker 1: think they're I think they'll never get back to the

530
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Speaker 1: Big One because all the drama that just seems to

531
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Speaker 1: emulate from Big Ben in that offense drama. It's hard

532
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Speaker 1: enough to win games in the NFL without any of it,

533
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Speaker 1: especially when there's a lot of emotion too. That defense

534
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Speaker 1: down there in jackson has got a lot of emotion.

535
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Speaker 1: Blake Portals getting bench might lead them to maybe play

536
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Speaker 1: a little better because I think that Blake Portal is

537
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Speaker 1: getting a huge contract was kind of uh, maybe a

538
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Speaker 1: wedge in that team. It might be something that started

539
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Speaker 1: to drive them apart after them potentially being like a

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Speaker 1: really big team in the a f C. I just

541
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Speaker 1: I think the cults are so hot right now. It's

542
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Speaker 1: a division game. I took the money line Montitute twelve.

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Speaker 1: Uh four and a half seems to be like that's

544
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Speaker 1: something they could think. Yeah, I mean, to me, the

545
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: Jaguars look like they've quit. I mean they look like

546
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Speaker 1: they're done. And and yeah, I mean Bortles is bench

547
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Speaker 1: this week, but it's Cody Kessler man like, it's I'm sorry,

548
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 1: no way a lock. Actually to me, now that I

549
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: think about it, the minus four is it four and

550
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,640
Speaker 1: a half or four four four? That seems like a luck?

551
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 1: Thank you, Pat. That's just interesting to me. Do you

552
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Speaker 1: feel like there's a handicap for emotion, like you know,

553
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 1: as a player, you look at that and see that

554
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: that's all I bet on. By the way, I picked

555
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 1: the most wild reasons to like. For instance, of both

556
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 1: last game, Reggie Wayne was going into the Ring of honor.

557
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 1: There was no way in fucking hell that t Y

558
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: Hilton wasn't gonna ball out Andrew Muck wasn't gonna ball out.

559
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: There was no way in hell that wasn't gonna happen

560
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 1: with all the O G s. That's all I bet on,

561
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: to be honest, And I don't know how because this

562
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 1: is the difference everybody because fantasy football, everybody thinks that

563
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: the NFL is maddened. Everybody thinks there's these these these

564
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: people aren't humans that they don't give more effort without

565
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 1: even knowing it, or give less effort without even knowing

566
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Speaker 1: it for certain reasons. You look at that Raiders even

567
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 1: looks like they've completely fucking quit. Have no idea how

568
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 1: anybody could bet on them for the rest of the

569
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,919
Speaker 1: year because you have no idea who's showing up. They

570
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,879
Speaker 1: want people literally just quitting and leaving. They don't even

571
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Speaker 1: want to play there anymore good players. Interesting about the

572
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: Raiders and the Jaguars, that is fucking bullshit. I did

573
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Speaker 1: not want to bet the Raider. I didn't want to

574
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 1: bet the Raiders. I didn't want to bet the Jaguars.

575
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,159
Speaker 1: I just didn't want to bet on the favorites in

576
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Speaker 1: those games. But here's my much, here's my point. When

577
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: you're playing in the NFL, and you're saying, you know,

578
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: Reggie Wayne is there and all the o g s

579
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Speaker 1: for the culture there, and they're gonna play great. After

580
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: the first quarter, you've been hitting each other for fifteen minutes.

581
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Speaker 1: Doesn't that sort of extra kick of emotion wear away

582
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Speaker 1: and you're just playing the game and executing a game plan. No, see,

583
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Speaker 1: I think I think it's all about the week in advance.

584
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Speaker 1: Everything is dialed in a little bit more. Not Granted,

585
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: I never hit anybody for a quarter, so I mean

586
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Speaker 1: I never had that moment where I was like, yeah,

587
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: hit but yeah, well no, no I pushed them. It

588
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: wasn't really, but but it is, Mike Tyson sai. Everybody

589
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: has a plan until you get punched in the face.

590
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: Luckily for me happened. So, but it's the whole week

591
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: leading up to it. It's just the culture, the environment

592
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: of the practice, the meetings, everything is like, Yo, the

593
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: o g s are coming in this weekend. They probably

594
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: stopped by practice earlier. And those are guys that Andrew

595
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: luck and t Y Hilton leaned upon earlier in their career.

596
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: They're really tight with them. That just seemed like for me,

597
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: that type of emotion, I don't think you can, you

598
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 1: can second guess. And I think that was something I

599
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: realized too when when I was playing in the league,

600
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Speaker 1: when things were happening either at other stadiums or our stadiums,

601
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: when we tended to do better or worse. I just

602
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: I feel like I bet on the humans playing more

603
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: so than the team's playing. And and that's I don't

604
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 1: know if it's good or not. I've seemed to win,

605
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if it'll wear off. But

606
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: I think emotion is a is a huge part of

607
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Speaker 1: all of it. I agree with you, Pat. I always

608
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: tell this nerd over here that when I bet, I

609
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: bet based on feel. That's how I live my life

610
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: based on feel. Because you could sit here with your spreadsheets,

611
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,959
Speaker 1: you're analyst, tikes all you want, you can crumple them up,

612
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 1: shove them up your ass. At the end of the day,

613
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 1: it's people doing people things, and that's how you got

614
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: a bet. Am I right. That's will tell you what

615
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: have happened. They won't tell you what will happen. And

616
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: I think that is unless something is center, I don't

617
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: want to hear about it because that means it's happened

618
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: differently in the past, and that's honestly how I filled

619
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Speaker 1: with the old status thing. I love it, Patty, alright,

620
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: so I'm basically against you both, but that's cool. Hey,

621
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Speaker 1: uh pat magazine Listen, you're killing it, brother. Thank you

622
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Speaker 1: for coming on the podcast. I know we're gonna be

623
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Speaker 1: doing a lot more with you in the new year,

624
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Speaker 1: so I'm excited about that. And McAfee show two point oh,

625
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Speaker 1: keep rocking. We appreciate you coming on. Hey in congratulations

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Speaker 1: you guys Action Networks really blowing the hell up and

627
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Speaker 1: your apps is because now, when I first started this

628
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Speaker 1: whole thing, there was conversations with Action Network be as

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Speaker 1: you guys sponsored, and I made Anthony de Guilio, who

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Speaker 1: It gives you so much information. And I was like,

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Speaker 1: how do you not fucking know what you're betting on?

636
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Speaker 1: And then now that I'm betting on it's like I

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