Speaker 1: Welcome to the Best of the Week for What's Right
Speaker 1: with Nick Right, the best takes and moments from this
Speaker 1: week on the show. Enjoy. For one of the first
Speaker 1: times in this show's history, we are going to start
Speaker 1: with Shadoor Sanders, but we're not actually starting with Shador,
Speaker 1: and so that sounds silly, but here's the point I'm making.
Speaker 1: So Shoudor came in, he obviously was terrible. He was
Speaker 1: four of sixteen. It's the worst completion percentage by a
Speaker 1: guy who threw at least ten passes in four years
Speaker 1: in the NFL. It was a game that the Browns
Speaker 1: could have in. One would correctly argue what even should
Speaker 1: have won with just typical bad quarterback play. Instead, Gabriel
Speaker 1: was terrible, and then Shador came in and was somehow worse,
Speaker 1: and they lose and the Ravens escape with a win
Speaker 1: they didn't not really deserve, despite Miles Garrett, who might
Speaker 1: get twenty five sacks this year, just playing at an
Speaker 1: all time level. But the reason I'm starting with Shador
Speaker 1: is because this morning Twitter was down for a bit,
Speaker 1: and I think Twitter has I want to make sure
Speaker 1: I use the right word warped. People's brains and ability
Speaker 1: to discuss Chador Sanders in a way, it's such an
Speaker 1: what you have and what Twitter has rewarded from content
Speaker 1: creators is the most idiotic Chadore Sanders takes being so
Speaker 1: amplified and being so force fed to anyone who has
Speaker 1: any type of sports algorithm that you have folks who
Speaker 1: know better, or at least should know better, polluting the
Speaker 1: public discourse with just nonsensical misinformation. And so you've got
Speaker 1: and it's on. And this is one of the rare
Speaker 1: things where it is really a both sides problem. You
Speaker 1: have folks who gain traction and get engagement by finding
Speaker 1: anything imaginable to criticize Shador for up to an including
Speaker 1: where he's sitting on the bench during and after a game,
Speaker 1: because that gets in engagement. And then you have on
Speaker 1: the other end of it, folks acting as if it
Speaker 1: takes a grand conspiracy for a fifth round pick, third
Speaker 1: string quarterback to not have reps with the starting offense,
Speaker 1: when it is totally reasonable that during training camp a
Speaker 1: guy who was not actually ever maybe you think he
Speaker 1: should have been competing for the starting job he wasn't
Speaker 1: the Browns. Again, you can make the argument that the
Speaker 1: Browns simply don't know what they're doing. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the biggest Shador fans out there how they they
Speaker 1: can make that argument. I don't know how they square
Speaker 1: the fact that the entire league said he's not worth
Speaker 1: a first, second, third, or fourth round pick, and I
Speaker 1: understand it. There was some league wide conspiracy talk. It's
Speaker 1: all so stupid, but set all that aside. In training camp,
Speaker 1: the Browns looked at Joe Flacco as their starter and
Speaker 1: Dylan Gabriel of the two young guys, as the higher
Speaker 1: priority because he was the higher draft pick. That's how
Speaker 1: that works. And then once Dylan Gabriel became the starter,
Speaker 1: they looked at their third round rookie as a guy
Speaker 1: who needed as much practice reps as possible, so they
Speaker 1: were not splitting practice reps, which is totally and completely reasonable.
Speaker 1: Life is a fifth round pick in this league is hard.
Speaker 1: It is supposed to be hard, and it's not always fair.
Speaker 1: You get thrown into action and you have to look
Speaker 1: better than Shador did, and it feels like, deep down,
Speaker 1: people who know better know that, but deep down folks
Speaker 1: also know, oh my god, this really gets people going,
Speaker 1: and it's just so dumb. And so now what we
Speaker 1: will get is this week Schador is gonna get a
Speaker 1: real look. He will be the starter against the Raiders.
Speaker 1: He will get the full week of practice, he will
Speaker 1: get a game plan to his strength, you know, catered
Speaker 1: to him, and we'll see what he looks like. And
Speaker 1: typically in sports, if you're good enough, none of the
Speaker 1: other stuff really matters, and you don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of as a fifth round quarterback, you're not gonna have
Speaker 1: a ton of better opportunities than this one. Knowing you
Speaker 1: are the starter all week long, going against a bad
Speaker 1: team that is on a shorter week themselves, and an
Speaker 1: opportunity to remake at least temporarily that Brown's quarterback discussion,
Speaker 1: because Gabriel has been really bad and if Shodor goes
Speaker 1: out there in balls, maybe he gets another week. But
Speaker 1: the my colleagues in the media that know it's not
Speaker 1: at all outrageous for should or to have no reps
Speaker 1: with the ones and implying or outright saying differently because
Speaker 1: either they want to be in good with Prime, or
Speaker 1: it's what they think their particular fans or followers will appreciate,
Speaker 1: or just because they think it'll get the most motion
Speaker 1: on the Internet. It's so bad and it really is
Speaker 1: a good example of this is a real example of
Speaker 1: social media at times making the discourse dumber. And so
Speaker 1: that's why I want to spend a few minutes on it.
Speaker 1: Off the top, we don't have to spend more time
Speaker 1: on it. We will see what he looks like against
Speaker 1: the Raiders. I think Dylan Gabriel has been the worst
Speaker 1: starting quarterback in the league this year. And the only
Speaker 1: reason that you wouldn't bench Gabriel for Shador is if
Speaker 1: when he has a full week of reps in practice
Speaker 1: and is ready to go against the Raiders, he looks
Speaker 1: at all like he looked in that Ravens game. Because
Speaker 1: in that Ravens game, he looked like a guy who
Speaker 1: was wholly unequipped for the job. And I didn't listen.
Speaker 1: I didn't love him coming out of school, but I
Speaker 1: certainly liked him more coming out of school than Dylan Gabriel,
Speaker 1: and in that game, he looked like a guy that
Speaker 1: was a ways away from being a ways away. And
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Speaker 1: New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, or Virginia. Lebron's back and I
Speaker 1: have a lot of takes. So no athlete in my
Speaker 1: lifetime has generated more idiotic and immediately self refuting opinions
Speaker 1: than Lebron. And it's because I think it's because he's
Speaker 1: been for basically as long as daily sports television has existed,
Speaker 1: Lebron has been one of, if not the main character.
Speaker 1: And because he has played, you know, throughout the entirety
Speaker 1: of this medium, and because he has been at the
Speaker 1: eye of the NBA storm, which while the NBA has
Speaker 1: never in his career been the country's most popular sport,
Speaker 1: but it has been at various times in his career
Speaker 1: the country's most talked about sport When it comes to
Speaker 1: sports debate and sports TV and sports talk radio. Lebron
Speaker 1: is the Lebron commentariot has spawned just some truly ridiculous
Speaker 1: and upon reflection, hilarious moments. And these are from for me,
Speaker 1: friends and alike. I mean, we are twelve twelve, Is
Speaker 1: that right? No, it's not right. Thirteen years ago, my
Speaker 1: dear pal Dan Lebotard announced Lebron was on the downside
Speaker 1: and Miami had gotten the best of him. That was
Speaker 1: thirteen years ago. And I'm going to talk about guys
Speaker 1: that I love and adore, so it doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: I'm trying to take cheap shots here. Famously, the owner
Speaker 1: and founder of this company, my mentor Colin, eight years
Speaker 1: ago said Lebron, hanging up whenever you want, We've got
Speaker 1: the NBA's got it from here. It was actually nine
Speaker 1: years ago, and that that's an all time clip. A
Speaker 1: because Lebron would go on to win multiple championships after that,
Speaker 1: but b because he was saying that Ben Simmons is
Speaker 1: gonna take over. I listen, Colin, I was as high
Speaker 1: on Ben Simmons as about anybody. I have to hold
Speaker 1: that l as well. And there, of course is all
Speaker 1: the Skip stuff with the clutch, and then the latest
Speaker 1: steven A stuff with the real personal I don't like
Speaker 1: that cut so much of it just outright silliness. And
Speaker 1: then we got an unexpected dose of it in the
Speaker 1: week's lead in the week or so leading up to
Speaker 1: Lebron making his debut, which was, hey, will Lebron be
Speaker 1: able to fit in with the Lakers? Even though we
Speaker 1: saw Luca and Lebron and Austin Reeves play together last year? Hey,
Speaker 1: will Lebron actually make the Lakers worse? Screw up what
Speaker 1: they have going on? These were real conversations, real discussions
Speaker 1: about the most malleable, most flexible as far as how
Speaker 1: he can help your team player in NBA history, about
Speaker 1: arguably the only guy in the history of the league
Speaker 1: that can legitimately and has literally made an All NBA
Speaker 1: team at all five positions on the court. Check his
Speaker 1: Basketball Reference for that was an All NBA center one
Speaker 1: year for the Lakers and an All NBA point guard
Speaker 1: the year after that for the Lakers late stage. Lebron
Speaker 1: was an All NBA shooting guard as a young player
Speaker 1: early and then obviously All NBA small forward and power
Speaker 1: forward throughout his career. That that guy that can play
Speaker 1: all five, and certainly the younger version of him, and
Speaker 1: to a degree, the older version of him can guard
Speaker 1: all five, that that guy was going to screw up
Speaker 1: a team. And then Lebron comes in keeps his double
Speaker 1: digit point streak alive, which is going to be a
Speaker 1: very fun and funny thing to watch this year because
Speaker 1: it's obviously an untouchable record and we'll get more on
Speaker 1: the Lebron untouchable record stuff in a moment. But he
Speaker 1: wants to keep it going. But he is, I believe,
Speaker 1: going to play a very different style this year. That
Speaker 1: game to Tuesday Night, that's the fewest shots he's ever
Speaker 1: taken in a game he didn't leave with injury. And
Speaker 1: speaking of the double digit point streak, one of those
Speaker 1: games that he left with injury, because there's only been
Speaker 1: two games in his career he took fewer than seven shots,
Speaker 1: which is what he took Tuesday Night. One. He didn't
Speaker 1: play the second half because he took an elbow from
Speaker 1: to Kim Big Matumbo and one he left early when
Speaker 1: Solomon Hill fell into his ankle and derailed the Lakers
Speaker 1: title defense in the twenty twenty one season. But that
Speaker 1: game involves one of my favorite Lebron moments of all time,
Speaker 1: which is Solomon Hill falls into his ankle, Lebron recognizes
Speaker 1: he has suffered the first truly significant end of his
Speaker 1: entire career up to that point and is going to
Speaker 1: be out months and is sitting at seven points and
Speaker 1: the streak is dead, and despite suffering an injury that
Speaker 1: is going to knock him out for the next two months,
Speaker 1: he pretends he's not hurt badly, stays in the game,
Speaker 1: gets the ball, takes a corner, three hits it keeps
Speaker 1: the double figure point streak alive, and then is out
Speaker 1: for the majority of the rest of the season. But
Speaker 1: that's sidebar Lebron being dropped in as a team's ultimate
Speaker 1: Swiss army knife and Lebron taking pride in that ability,
Speaker 1: and Lebron then saying after the game with a smile, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard what was being said. I've been you know,
Speaker 1: you could put me on any team and I would
Speaker 1: make it work. Is just obviously true. And people's you know,
Speaker 1: people say that about Kevin Durant all the time, like, oh,
Speaker 1: you just drop him in anywhere, And yes, that's true
Speaker 1: about other players, great players, You drop them in and
Speaker 1: they would make any team better. The distinction is, can
Speaker 1: you drop a player in and can they instantly do
Speaker 1: at a high level the exact thing that team needs
Speaker 1: them to do. This Lakers team right now might need
Speaker 1: to be more facilitator, cutter, screener than scorer. Unlike some
Speaker 1: of the other great players in this league. He has
Speaker 1: the skill set at forty in year twenty three to
Speaker 1: be excellent all at anything. Now, is he the best
Speaker 1: player in the league anymore? Of course, not see a
Speaker 1: top five player in the league anymore. No, But is
Speaker 1: he still have a legitimate shot at being right around
Speaker 1: top ten And is he, assuredly when he's healthy, still
Speaker 1: a top fifteen guy in the league. Yes? And that
Speaker 1: guy with that malleability helps any team in the history
Speaker 1: of basketball. Now, is it all right? Now? A moot
Speaker 1: point for the whole NBA because of who and what
Speaker 1: OKC is. Maybe everybody might be playing for second this year,
Speaker 1: but we'll see things happen, and there's an element of
Speaker 1: I don't want to say lack of appreciation, but numbness
Speaker 1: to what we are seeing at this moment. And this
Speaker 1: is something that you know I've said before, but I
Speaker 1: don't know that people like fully take it in. And
Speaker 1: especially because you know Steph is playing at such a
Speaker 1: high level at an advanced age. Durant is playing at
Speaker 1: such a high level at an advanced age. But see
Speaker 1: whether you want to focus on the age forty part
Speaker 1: or the year twenty three part. The it being without
Speaker 1: precedent is such a wild understatement. Like Kobe Bryant, the
Speaker 1: late great Kobe Bryant. How old do you think Kobe
Speaker 1: was when he played in his final playoff game with
Speaker 1: the Lakers. I'm gonna give it a pause so you
Speaker 1: can actually think about it. How old was Kobe in
Speaker 1: his final career playoff game? Are you shocked when I
Speaker 1: tell you the answer to that is thirty two. Kobe
Speaker 1: Bryant did not play in a playoff game with the
Speaker 1: Lakers after the age of thirty two. Like a little
Speaker 1: context to that, Lebron joined the Lakers when he was
Speaker 1: thirty four, So obviously, Jordan Fit, you know, stopped with
Speaker 1: it was done with the Bulls at thirty five, thirty six. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we've never seen a player play in a year twenty three,
Speaker 1: and the only one to get to a year twenty
Speaker 1: two was Vince It's I said this a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago and people laughed. I think we are now
Speaker 1: seeing it in real time. He'll simply never be bad,
Speaker 1: and he could easily play at again, not an MVP level,
Speaker 1: but a high level throughout his forties. Barring again, barring,
Speaker 1: you're always at this age of a catastrophic injury away.
Speaker 1: But he's ducked that up to this point in his career,
Speaker 1: and people can have the argument about the greatest player
Speaker 1: of all time that is going to age so well
Speaker 1: on my end and so poorly for so many other folks,
Speaker 1: because it is when it does come to and this
Speaker 1: isn't the whole discussion, but it is at least a
Speaker 1: piece of it. The record books. With the way things
Speaker 1: are going right now as far as injuries, load management,
Speaker 1: guys not being able to make it through a full season,
Speaker 1: Lebron's longevity records are going to when people look back
Speaker 1: on him in forty years, it's going to be like
Speaker 1: if you look at complete games in baseball right now
Speaker 1: and you're like, wait, a guy had forty in one year.
Speaker 1: Like all of these games, minutes, points, the playoff records
Speaker 1: are going to be Chamberlain esque, untouchable and farcical in
Speaker 1: the numbers to future generations. And I'm very, very interested
Speaker 1: to see the full role bron takes on with the Lakers,
Speaker 1: because in game one of year twenty three, he was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll be late stage Magic Johnson. And that's pretty damn good.
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Speaker 1: other Bron adjacent thing I wanted to talk about, and
Speaker 1: this is one of those things that I imagine will
Speaker 1: do well on social media or YouTube or and might
Speaker 1: cause me a little grief, but I just I can't
Speaker 1: leave it unaddressed, and I don't. I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to start anything, but this is so it was
Speaker 1: maddening when I heard it. So the greatest sports podcaster
Speaker 1: of all time, the guy who in some ways invented
Speaker 1: the medium, and a guy I like a lot, Bill Simmons,
Speaker 1: brought the mail bag back, which is awesome. It's vented Simmons.
Speaker 1: It's part of the reason that he's who he is,
Speaker 1: and it's awesome, And because I'm a fan who's listening,
Speaker 1: And he gets asked about the biggest sliding doors moments
Speaker 1: in NBA history, and he goes to the Draymond Groin
Speaker 1: shot of Lebron in Game four of the twenty sixteen Finals,
Speaker 1: which is a legitimate sliding doors moment, there's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. And he talks about how if the Warriors
Speaker 1: win that title, Durant can't go, you know, to Golden State.
Speaker 1: So then who wins the next two? Does Lebron ever
Speaker 1: win in Cleveland? Does Lebron ever go to the Lakers?
Speaker 1: There's that is you know, what does it mean for
Speaker 1: Steph back to back Champ and Chips, he and Lebron
Speaker 1: Then at that moment would have been two to two.
Speaker 1: He would have had back to back league and MVPs,
Speaker 1: including a unanimous There are it's He's Simmons talks about
Speaker 1: all of it, and he's correct about that being a
Speaker 1: sliding doors moment. But there's two pieces of that commentary
Speaker 1: that are just one is enraging and it's not about Bill,
Speaker 1: and the other one is, I he just must talk
Speaker 1: to very different NBA people than me, because what Bill
Speaker 1: said was the conspiracy theory that people believe more than
Speaker 1: any other conspiracy is that the NBA suspended Draymond because
Speaker 1: they wanted Cleveland to win the title. And I've literally
Speaker 1: never heard that. Now. I certainly have heard the conspiracy
Speaker 1: that they suspended Draymond because they hoped the series would
Speaker 1: go longer than five. But the idea that in real time,
Speaker 1: anyone outside of the Calves locker room, me and Zach Lowe.
Speaker 1: We're all on the record during this everyone's doing media.
Speaker 1: Nobody else when that suspension came down said oh, well,
Speaker 1: now I think the Calves are gonna win. That Warriors
Speaker 1: team was considered the greatest team of all time and
Speaker 1: had dominated the Calves through the first four games of
Speaker 1: that series. So the first point is the idea that
Speaker 1: it is widely thought in NBA circles that the Draymond
Speaker 1: suspension was going to lead to the Calves winning the championship.
Speaker 1: We were all there in real time that was not
Speaker 1: a thing. And then and then to the opinion piece
Speaker 1: of it, nothing is more maddening for me as a
Speaker 1: Bron fan then the fact that when that happened, and
Speaker 1: then the Calves win Game five by fifteen and Lebron
Speaker 1: scores forty one points, the entire media asserts that would
Speaker 1: have never happened if Draymond was there. The Calves winning
Speaker 1: by double digits and Lebron scoring forty plus never happened
Speaker 1: if Draymond's there. And then in Game six, when Draymond
Speaker 1: is there, Lebron scores forty one and the Calves win
Speaker 1: by fifteen points. Game five of those finals, no Draymond
Speaker 1: Bron scores, Bron gooes. I'll give you his exact stat line,
Speaker 1: just so we all are on the same page. Forty one,
Speaker 1: sixteen and seven on fifty five percent from the field,
Speaker 1: sixty three percent from three and the Calves win by fifteen.
Speaker 1: So again, forty one sixteen seven fifty five sixty three splits,
Speaker 1: fifteen point win. Game six of the Finals forty one
Speaker 1: eight eleven on sixty five seventy five splits and the
Speaker 1: Cavs win by fourteen. Like, what are we talking about?
Speaker 1: What are we talking about? Oh? Hold on, I gotta
Speaker 1: do that, because I'm sure I have to fix that.
Speaker 1: I have to fix that. I apologize. I gave you
Speaker 1: the wrong field goal percentages. Let me let me do
Speaker 1: that again, because I want this to be accurate. I
Speaker 1: gave you so Game five of the Finals, No, Draymond
Speaker 1: forty one, sixteen and seven on fifty three fifty splits
Speaker 1: in a fifteen point win. Game six of the Finals
Speaker 1: with Draymond forty one to eight to eleven on fifty
Speaker 1: nine fifty splits in a fourteen point win. It's just
Speaker 1: revisionist history. And it's the only other reason that's relevant
Speaker 1: to me right now is that game happened ten seasons ago,
Speaker 1: and this guy's still playing. It's just a a career
Speaker 1: that will never be even remotely approached. And it's if
Speaker 1: you're if you're listening to this right now and a
Speaker 1: sports fan of this era. The fact that we got
Speaker 1: to experience Tom Brady going more than twenty years of
Speaker 1: elite in the mix every single year, ten super Bowl
Speaker 1: appearances across multiple teams, while experiencing Lebron doing the exact
Speaker 1: same thing in the NBA. It's just unreal, just unreal.
Speaker 1: Five games and a reminder, all of these lines are
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Speaker 1: with Chicago laying two and a half at home against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: I just you are either going to get Mason Rudolph
Speaker 1: or you're going to get Aaron Rodgers with a broken wrist.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't understand how this game is not
Speaker 1: three and a half. It feels like a Bear's ugly
Speaker 1: three point win. Also for Ben Johnson, this kind of
Speaker 1: you get a lot of internal credit with the fans
Speaker 1: in the organization for beating Aaron because in everybody's mind
Speaker 1: he's still a Packer. I think Chicago is right now
Speaker 1: a the exact same caliber of team as Pittsburgh, but
Speaker 1: one team's quarterback has a broken wrist and the other
Speaker 1: team's quarterback doesn't, and Chicago's at home. All take Chicago
Speaker 1: minus to two and a half. The Jet yes getting
Speaker 1: thirteen and a half at Baltimore. This is an ugly one,
Speaker 1: I will admit. However, Lamar now is on the you know,
Speaker 1: mispractice again this week. Last week was for a knee,
Speaker 1: this week is for an ankle. He has not looked
Speaker 1: like Lamar since he came back from his injury, and
Speaker 1: he is refusing to run the ball, which is super
Speaker 1: noteworthy because that has a knock on effect on how
Speaker 1: on his passing and on the team's overall efficiency. Also,
Speaker 1: I think the Jets are starting their best option at
Speaker 1: quarterback in Tyrod Taylor. For all those reasons and the
Speaker 1: fact that I get nearly two full touchdowns, I will
Speaker 1: take the thirteen and a half points while I will
Speaker 1: lay the thirteen and a half points with Seattle. Seattle
Speaker 1: is at Tennessee. What that defense is going to do
Speaker 1: to cam Ward is going to be borderline criminal. I
Speaker 1: do not see how Tennessee can get to ten maybe ten,
Speaker 1: but not thirteen, and so can Seattle get to twenty four?
Speaker 1: Huge spot for Seattle after the very disappointing loss to
Speaker 1: the Rams bounce back, I still think they're an excellent team.
Speaker 1: I understand I am laying thirteen and a half points
Speaker 1: on the road, but Seattle prior to that Rams game
Speaker 1: had won ten in a row on the road. Tennessee's
Speaker 1: the worst team in the NFL. I will take Seattle
Speaker 1: laying the thirteen and a half Arizona getting three at
Speaker 1: home against Jacksonville. Arizona has not been good. Jacksonville has
Speaker 1: been okay, But they are coming off Jacksonville their best win,
Speaker 1: their most dominating performance of the year. I should say
Speaker 1: their best win wis kons City. This is their most
Speaker 1: dominating and they are a very up and down team.
Speaker 1: We've seen it throughout the year that the Jags are
Speaker 1: not really able to build on successes. They beat the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: then immediately lose back to back to the Seahawks and Rams.
Speaker 1: They beat the Raiders in you know, not miracle, but
Speaker 1: the Raiders have a two point conversion in overtime to
Speaker 1: beat them. They then respond by blowing a horrified by
Speaker 1: blowing a nineteen point fourth quarter lead to the Texans.
Speaker 1: They blow out the Chargers. They're now on the road,
Speaker 1: going cross country to the Cardinals, and I'm getting three
Speaker 1: whole points. I will take Arizona plus three, and then,
Speaker 1: in a game that might shock the audience that I
Speaker 1: am including Cleveland in Shador's first start, getting three and
Speaker 1: a half at the Raiders. This is very simple. That
Speaker 1: Raiders offensive line against that Browns defensive line is the
Speaker 1: single biggest mismatch of the week. I do not care
Speaker 1: who is playing quarterback for Cleveland. Miles Garrett could set
Speaker 1: the single game and single season sack record in this game.
Speaker 1: The all time sack record for a game is seven
Speaker 1: Derek Thomas, late Great kansaity chief. The all time sack
Speaker 1: record for a season is twenty two and a half.
Speaker 1: So if Miles Garrett got eight, he would set the
Speaker 1: season and game record. He could do that against this
Speaker 1: Raiders offensive line. I will take Cleveland plus the three
Speaker 1: and a half. So my five picks this weekend are
Speaker 1: the Bears laying two and a half at home against Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: the Jets getting thirteen and a half at Baltimore, Seattle
Speaker 1: laying thirteen and a half at Tennessee, Arizona getting three
Speaker 1: against Jacksonville, and Cleveland getting three and a half at
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders