WEBVTT - Beating The Book: 2023 Week 16 NFL MegaPod Betting Preview 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:06.760 Thursday morning, December twenty, first Week sixteen in the National 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:11.760 Football League. It's the Beating the Book podcast Megapod Week sixteen. 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:15.880 My God, three weeks left in the NFL season. It's 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.680 Gil Alexander. We welcome in the crew our stables on 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:23.240 the show, back to his mom's cork Attic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.160 He loves when I say that, Todd wish them everybody. 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.400 How you doing Dad? Hi? 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:29.520 Gil? How are you? 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.840 I'm doing great? A lot of requests for Christmas songs 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:34.760 from you to day? Can we expect some Christmas songs 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:35.240 on the show. 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.680 You know, I don't really like being prompted to be perfect. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:43.600 I understand. I understand You're an organic, natural kind of guy. Uh. 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.199 Not from his mom's cork attic, but in front of 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:51.239 a big wall that has vs and logos all over it. 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.199 It is the star of not only this podcast, but 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:56.360 also the bear Bets podcast with Chris Filika on Fox. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:01.600 Will Hills Hadden It Gilly boys, what's going on? 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.480 Excited is always It's funny. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:05.480 I joked that last week I might have had the 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.560 worst pick in megapot history because I had under Jaggs Browns. 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:09.880 I think it was thirty one and a half and 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:11.880 both teams almost got the over by themselves. 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:13.240 I think I outdid myself. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.559 I had the under that Raiders Chargers game last week, 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:17.600 and that one did not get home. 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:19.600 So let's see what I got hooked up for today. 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.639 It just missed, Will, It just missed? Was the final 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.280 sixty sixty two to twenty one? Was the final thing game? 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.400 Sixty three one, sixty three to twenty one? Yeah? Well, 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.800 you know, Will, there's always a third week to continue 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:33.679 that streak. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:35.400 But it's better to lose like that. 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.240 It is just get crushed. Yeah. And our rotating guests 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.679 this week, who reminded me that this is his first 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.520 non Week eighteen appearance on the podcast, after which I 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.200 spiraled into a drugs depression at alcohol because I felt 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:53.240 like I was totally rude from Yahoo Sports. It's Frank Schwab. 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.680 It's our old buddy. Hey, you know, Frank, It was fine. 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:58.680 It's just, you know, it's nice to be picking in 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:02.520 a week that games actually matter, matters, teams actually care. 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:03.240 I get it. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.240 You're giving me the tryout, you know, seeing if I 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.120 can handle Week eighteen before bumping me up to a 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.679 week that mattered, But uh as always Gil glad to 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.040 be on. You've done great work for years that I 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:14.400 always always. 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:14.760 Enjoy the show. 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.440 And it's always a little strange being a guest on 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:17.800 the show. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.519 Oh, I appreciate it. Who was it this week? Pritch? 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:22.919 Pritch was on last week Mike Pritchard, and he said, 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.560 he goes, yeah, I was a little nervous with my picks, 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.280 like it's really competitive on the podcast, and who is 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.320 Adam Chernoff told me also, like all the stuff that 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.360 Adam Chernoff does at Right Angle, he said to me, 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:34.959 you know earlier this year, he's like, I get more 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.520 nervous for my Mega bod picks than anything. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.200 Oh that's so true. It's but this is my third time. 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:43.280 I think it's my third time. 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.160 Both the first two times, I've never sweated games more 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:47.800 on a Sunday and like I don't want to go, 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.120 like I don't want to like go o with three 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.760 and the teaser loses and everything else loses, and you're like, yeah, 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.240 Gill's gonna lose my number. 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:59.280 Oh no, no, no, no no. Speaking of records, Todd 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.880 wishedev is the court stenographer. He has the updates. Oh, 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:08.079 Todd say it's slow and loud. Did we lose? Wow? Okay? First, 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.880 could you could you be quicker? Could you be quicker 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.240 on the draw? Maybe I was. 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:17.959 Just checking out Central Connecticut, Florida. Okay, So Gilly Iceman 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:20.200 keeps his lead, it looks like we're not going to 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.560 catch it this year, folks. He went two and one 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:27.160 with a nice lines and falcons Kansas City falcons. 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:27.680 Wow. 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.840 What can you say about the falcons? That was just unbelievable. 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:36.400 They they caught, he goes they cost fifteen twenty nine 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.440 to fifteen and one. Is that what you're about to say? 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.080 I was just going to say that the falcons cost 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:44.800 me as a massive week. Yeah, go ahead, Todd, I'm sorry. 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.440 And one for which is, you know, pretty as good 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.600 as you're going to get, you know, twenty nine to 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:54.720 fifteen one. That's pretty darn good. Willie went two and 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:59.320 one as well with his under Raiders barely missing by 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:04.240 a scooch. As we were just talking about Lions winning 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.720 easily and Bill's winning easily, I went one to one 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:13.400 and one with a falcons as well. I follow Gilly 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.359 and the falcons nonsense. So I lost that hit the 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.040 colts and then the Browns. I got a miracle push 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.680 when the Browns came from you know, nowhere'sville to win 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:23.839 that game. So now I am twenty two twenty and three, 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:29.359 and the guest spot went one and two. Mike Pritchard 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.000 went one and two with the Broncos, Bucks and Giants, 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.040 So the guest spot moved to twenty four eighteen and three. 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.920 In the teaser world, the category that really makes makes 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:42.120 a difference. Gilly is nine and six, Willie is ten 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.799 and five, Todd is eleven and four. That's the best 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.039 there is and the guest is ten and five. So 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.880 you know, while our picks have been you know, amazing 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.000 from at least from Gil our teasers, everybody's been winning 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:54.640 on teasers very nicely this year. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:56.200 What did Pritch do last week? 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:56.360 Why? 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:57.440 Wait, Todd? What did he do? 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:59.120 Pritch went one and two? 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.360 Two? Can you can you Todd? Can you turn off 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.279 your Todd? Can you turn off your video? Because your 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.960 audio is un jacked? So let's get this, because I 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.440 wanted to sound good to people. You can turn off 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:10.839 your video? 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:15.080 Oh wait, maybe maybe because I had my phone sitting 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:15.960 on there? Is it better now? 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.279 It is not? Can you turn off your video so better. Yeah, 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.600 we don't know. Let's just turn. How do you do that? 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:24.640 Is that? 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:28.479 Is that the way? There we go? Okay, battling. That'll 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.040 improve the audio for everybody. Thank you, Todd, wish now 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:32.680 for your do you hear me? 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:32.960 Now? 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.160 We can hear you now you sound great? Okay, hopefully 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.159 that improves the audio because no one wants we didn't 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:39.680 want to hear it all Jacked, all. 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.240 Right, I didn't know what it was, Jack, No. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.480 I know you didn't. Okay, so let us uh, let's talk. 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.240 Do you have anything in game, Todd from last week 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:50.680 that you wanted to talk about real quick? 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.360 I've been having a lot of success with these uh 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:59.000 these I mean running back these running back props. When 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.240 when these guys are gad people and the game is 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.200 in a scenario where the guy's going to get more carries, 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.799 it's very often difficult for them to keep it below. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:09.599 There was one last week I didn't even get it 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:13.520 off because it's spun on me. But Walker for the 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.360 Seahawks on Monday night, I believe had fifty yards and 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.360 they were putting it up at seventy three and a 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.000 half early in the second half, and I'm like, well, 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.080 that's just too low because I think he was averaging 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.400 also like five yards of carry. There's been a lot 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.680 of these, like I had Kyraen Williams a couple times 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.760 in a row with the five yards and carry nonsense. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:35.120 I got him again this week. They boosted him a 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.200 little higher. This time it was like he had seventy 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.359 yards rushing and it was over one twenty two and 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:44.599 a half. He went flying over that as well. But anyways, 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:49.720 that's been working pretty good. Also, Cole Comet seems to 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.159 be thrown. They throw him the ball constantly and he's 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.920 always at over three and a half catches. Sooner or later, 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:56.720 I'm sure they're going to boost him up. But if 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.039 they start throwing him the ball beginning him in game 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.120 a lot too. As far as a just regular end game. 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.680 I had a really good week this week. I'm trying 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.960 to think if there was any anything that really stood 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.680 out as very interesting. Nothing that I can, but it 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:12.320 comes to mind. 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:17.160 That's fine, that's fine. Let us get to Thursday night football. 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:21.000 Then tonight it is the Saints at the Rams. Rams 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.680 are four point favorites. Bowl behind me here at the 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.440 d Circus Sports it's three and a half in favor 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.400 of the Rams in this ball game two seven and 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.920 seven teams. I hesitate to call it a de facto 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.120 elimination game because whenever you're dealing with NFC South team, 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.520 nothing is ever an elimination game until the very end, 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.360 because the Saints are very much alive, but obviously both 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.720 teams fighting for playoff spots. Rams have been gashing opponents, 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.920 and good opponents number one and number two in EPA 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:56.760 per play included in their last four weeks, the Browns 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.000 and the Ravens. They've scored one hundred and thirty two 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.800 points over the last four weeks with Kyra and williams 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.080 now back in the lineup. They've averaged twenty seven points 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.880 per game with him fourteen point twenty five without him 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.960 in the lineup. So the Rams are getting it done 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.320 on offense for sure, and the Saints play a lot 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.880 of man. They also feed a lot to the to 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.600 the defenses, excuse me, to the offenses slot receivers. So 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.920 hello Cooper cup tonight as well, it would seem, and 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.160 Matthew Stafford's been great top three and adjusted net yards. 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.160 Hello, can't hear you at all? Gilly? I lost you, 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:33.360 Killy can you guys hear him? Still? 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.720 I can't. Now I'm back. What was that? Okay, we'll 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:38.840 work it out, We've allly, I mean it's only fifteen weeks. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:43.520 We'll work it out. Fifteen sixteen weeks? Yeah? No, what 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.280 was I saying? Matthew Stafford last four weeks ranks top 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.640 three and adjusted net yards per attempt, quarterback rating, and 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.440 EPA per play. So the Saints are up against it 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.040 here for sure. But there's a case to be made 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:56.320 for the Saints. I guess as well. I have not 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.600 made a bet on this. Do any of you have 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.560 a bet on this game tonight? Which way? Frank, anything 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:01.959 from you? 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.560 I like the Saints a little bit, I guess. I 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.080 think we saw them play really well last week. I 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.280 know it's the Giants, but the Giants had been playing better. 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.040 The one thing I worry about with the Saints here 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.360 massive look ahead spot. Next week's game at Tampa Bay 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.320 is basically the NFC South Championship game. Whatever that means, 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.520 I don't know, But you wonder if the Saints are 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.679 or just that's their focus, that's their super Bowl. But 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.040 the wild guard windows open for the Saints too. They 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.800 can't just go into this game and drop it they 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:33.520 I think you're gonna see. I think it's a field 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.560 goal game either way. I really I just can't quit 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.760 the Saints. I look at their talent. They've disappointed me 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.480 all season. This team should be better. I know Dennis 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:44.880 Allen is not a good coach. He's probably getting fired, 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.520 but I look at how they played last week, some 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.560 of the Rams deficiencies, and I think the Saints can 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.120 at least keep this close. Especially look at it was 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:54.559 four and a half earlier this week. I took a 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:58.040 little bit of it. I think it's just gonna be close. 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.679 A Thursday night close game between two teams that are 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:02.640 really really fighting for playoff spot. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.840 Second to last Thursday Night game of the year. Todter 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:06.080 will anything on this tonight. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.120 I agree with everything Frank said. 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.440 I was close to making it my third pick with 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.200 the Saints, but I'm gonna go in a different direction. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:14.640 I just don't think they're gonna win the game, like 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.600 I said, like Frank said, I could see Rams by 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.640 a field goal. I don't love the Saints team the Rams. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.680 I don't think they're good enough on defense, So it's 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:22.680 definitely I bet it. 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.080 It's just not gonna be one of my three picks. 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:28.960 God, I don't want to take the Rams. I just 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.120 don't trust the Rams. I mean, I think they're pretty 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:35.040 good on offense. I think they're like a a slightly 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.640 above average team, but you can't really trust them, you know. 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.080 And I don't trust their defense at all. So that's 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.679 why I don't want to lay lay the points there. 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.560 And you know, I would lean to the over, but 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:46.800 I don't love it either. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.599 If Puka Nakua averages six catches and one hundred and 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.679 four yards receiving the last three games of the season, 0:10:56.000 --> 0:11:00.440 he will have broken both the receptions and receiving yards 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:04.120 records for rookies in National Football League history, which I 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.880 think is a little detail lost on most. 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:08.360 Who has the record? 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:12.320 Is it moss uh got to be miss Jefferson on reception? 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:16.240 Yeah Jefferson, No, Jalen Waddle. Jalen Wattle had. 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.400 A oh right, yeah, he had one hundred seven or 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:18.800 something one. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.840 Hundred and four two years ago. And in terms of 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:27.559 receiving yards, who could forget Bill Grohman's nineteen sixty season 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.679 when he had fourteen hundred and seventy three yards or 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.240 saving Who could forget that. 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.680 Any of these guys there should be an asterisk because, 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.240 like Moss is a rookie should have all the records. 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:39.920 He was the most dominant rookie I've ever seen. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:44.360 Where did Moss faith you know, end up on both 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.880 of these lists. Moss in terms of receptions wasn't really 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:48.160 even close, but he. 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:49.600 Had a ton of tell you might have like twenty 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:50.720 something touchdowns as a rookie. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:51.600 He was just off man. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.920 Yeah, seventeen eighteen, Yeah, he is unbelievable. 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:59.000 Oh, receiving yards, he is fifth all time receiving yards 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.960 nineteen ninety eight. Randy Moss would be fifth all time. 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:03.520 They should change on should be. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:07.040 First, so one at a time will go ahead. 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:08.800 I said they should change that from fifth to first. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.080 They should audit record though. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.400 That was not Culpeper, that was Brad Johnson. In the 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.199 middle of the season, Randall Cunningham came. 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.200 Cunningham, Yeah, I was at that game at Lambo. 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.040 I was at that game at Lambo, and he just 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:22.200 it was like watching a rocket ship landed a middle 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:23.960 of the field, Like, Wow, the NFL is changed again. 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.920 This guy is absolutely gonna be one of the greats 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:27.560 of all time. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:28.719 And she ended up being that. 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:29.679 Just a Monday night game. 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:33.160 Ra Yeah, yeah, they broke the Packers long winning streak. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.200 They just blasted them as thirty seven twenty something. It 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:37.080 wasn't even that close. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.120 Top Peterson played quarterback for the Packers that night. 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:45.640 Top six all time seasons for receiving rookie rookie receiving 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.720 yards Groman nineteen sixty again, who could Forget It? Twenty 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:55.199 twenty one, Chase hold On toime seem twenty twenty, Todd 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.240 hold On one second, Todd twenty twenty one, Jamar Chase 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:02.640 and second twenty twenty, Jefferson in third two thousand and three, 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:06.200 Anklon Bolden in fourth, nineteen ninety eight, Moss in fifth, 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.320 and twenty fourteen, obj in sixth. 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.000 Were you saying, ja miss like four games at the 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:12.800 beginning of the season. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:16.400 I think so. Yeah, Nikou was nice the season Nikko 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.520 was in ninth. Currently, Todd, what were you saying? 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.720 What team was Bill Groman on in nineteen sixty? 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:26.720 Oh you had to ask, huh Bill? Bill Groman was 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.280 on the AFL Houston team. 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.400 Oh, yes, I do remember him. I'm throwing it was 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.800 Pastorini to Groman. I totally remember. 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:39.880 I think it was pre Pastorini too. Yeah, AFL Houston Oilers. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.679 By the way, how about the how about the Tennessee 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:48.240 Titans going Houston Oilers throwbacks against the Houston Texans? Was 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.800 that not the most distasteful thing ever? They like left 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.240 Houston in a dispute and then they're like trolling them 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.439 with the Houston Oilers throwbacks. 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But I really couldn't 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.680 believe the Bengals are only giving two here. The Steelers 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.800 look like they're just cooked, like they're just let's get 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.840 the offseason here. They know their playoff hopes are done. 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.920 And I can't believe I'm saying this, but I believe 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.480 in Jake Browning. You watch your tape of this guy, 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:52.840 and he's legit. What more do you want from him? 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.080 He's throw for two or seventy five yards at each 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.440 of the last three games. They've won each of those games, 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:58.960 and he kind of thought in the Minnesota game, like, 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.440 all right, he's turning O to a pumpkin. This is 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.120 what we're getting out of Jake Browning. And then in 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.840 that fourth quarter in overtime, it was like, Okay, I 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.800 guess he's just good. I get I don't know how 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.320 you can go until your fifth season removed from college 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.240 without taking an NFL snap and be a good, viable 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:16.040 NFL quarterback. 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:17.880 But he's here. Do I like that Jamar Chase is 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.240 not there? No, of course not. 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.520 But I think this Bengals team is good, and I 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.480 think they're kind of invigorated a little bit by the 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.600 challenge of getting to the playoffs without Joe Burrow. Obviously 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.600 they wish Joe Burrow was there. He's not, but I 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.840 think they're like, we're gonna rally around this guy, and 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.160 we're gonna make the playoffs without Joe Burrow. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.080 I like everything about this Bengals team. 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.120 I like nothing about the Steelers team, and I was 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.400 shocked it was less than field goal all day on 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:49.320 the Bengals. Steelers somehow come back, rise up, whatever. I 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.360 just haven't seen anything out of the Steelers team their 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.680 last three games give me any kind of indication that 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:55.720 they're alive this season. 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:57.680 I just think they're waiting for. 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.000 The offseason to get here and then we're gonna have 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.280 a long conversation about Mike Tomlins. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.520 And Mason Rudolph is the starter for the. 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.800 Pittsburgh Steelers save anything that doesn't happen. 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.720 Yeah, Mason rud So. So the Steelers, in order to 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.880 keep the Mike Tomlin never having had a losing season 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:17.040 thing alive, must go one one in one down the stretch, 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:21.000 and Mason Rudolph is their choice. Start those festivities off 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.120 this weekend. God, what's your favorite? 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.160 I don't know if I don't know if Yin's remembered it, 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.200 but Mason Rudolph and that couldn't even beat out Doc 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.560 Hodges and one of them seasons there. That's how bad 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:35.160 Mason Mason Rudolph is that that he might be worse 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:39.640 than Truebisky. Uh you know, I couldn't agree more with Frank. 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.680 The Steelers look like we're in big We're in big, 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.080 big trouble, and Mason Rudolph is not the I'd much 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.920 rather have just Najee Harris lining up down there and 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.600 you know, running the old uh, you know, running the 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.960 old what do they call it? The wildcat? Just run 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.560 the wildcat instead of uh, you know. Anyways, well, who 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:58.800 am I going to How do. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.080 You feel about Najie Harris as a running back? Has 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.040 he been a complete bust in your opinion? 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.119 I think part of it is that the line is 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.800 so bad. I mean, the line is just it never 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.560 breaks any home. Although the other kid has been better. 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:12.040 Yeah, he's been great. 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:15.399 Yeah, yeah, So maybe Najiherris is a bust. 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:15.840 I don't know. 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.080 It's a shame. I thought Naji Harris was going to 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.840 be good. By the way. I agree with Frank. I 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:22.800 think the Bengals have a little chip on their shoulder. 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.480 They've hurt a little too much. Oh, Joe Burrows the 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.640 greatest guy in the history of the world, and he's 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:29.280 why we went to the Super Bowl, and the rest 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.920 of us suck. You know what, There's some other good 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.520 players on the Bengals, you know, and I think they 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:36.800 may want to prove that they could go to the playoffs. 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.560 I actually had that as my fourth pick of the week. 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:42.680 I was almost going to use that, but I changed 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.399 my mind. Now, is it true that Taylor Heinike is 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.399 going to be the starter for the Atlanta Falcons? As 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:47.960 I believe that. 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.480 To be true. So Desmond Ridder played the first eight 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.480 games of the year, then they turned to Taylor Heinecke. 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:56.159 He played two, Desmond Ridder played the next four. They 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.360 went two and two, but apparently lost to Carolina last 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.240 week was enough to Arthur Smith over the edge. So 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.800 Heinike is the starter for the rest of the season. 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:09.679 And I'm going with the Falcons minus one. You know, 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.520 the Falcons have some talent on offense, and I liked 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.040 their offense a lot better when they had Taylor Heinekee 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:20.560 playing quarterback than Ritter. Ridder throws these incredible interceptions where 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.960 he's just staring the guys down. You just can't believe it. 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.040 Last week he did you guys, what did me? In 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.720 as well? And the megapod picks with that interception inside 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:33.000 the five, I mean, you can't throw that in the NFL. 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.840 I mean, I mean, are they teaching him with the film? 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.320 Do they have film over there in Atlanta and show 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.400