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Speaker 1: the Colin Coward Podcast. Conference Championship Week. Matt Mosley stopped

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Speaker 1: by his take on Dack's collapse and Mike McCarthy's future

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Speaker 1: and their latest playoff disappointment. Chad Millman Action Network best

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Speaker 1: of the week. Forty six million viewers watched the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: the most watched Divisional Round games of all time. When

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Speaker 1: gambling sports gambling was legalized, I said, my only really

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Speaker 1: who have to validate their betting losses is other games

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Speaker 1: are rigged Volks. If baseball was rigged, the Yankees would

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Speaker 1: end up in every World Series. If the NBA was rigged,

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Speaker 1: the Nixon Lakers wouldn't be a mess for now a

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Speaker 1: decade straight. And if football was rigged, the Dallas Cowboys

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Speaker 1: would not be as inept as they are as a

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Speaker 1: playoff team. The Cowboys are automatic ratings forty six million

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Speaker 1: viewers popular NBA teams in the Conference Championships, or as

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Speaker 1: like six million viewers, one fifth of that. The Cowboys

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Speaker 1: don't win playoff games because the Niners have a better roster.

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Speaker 1: And the reason the Niners have the better roster is

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Speaker 1: because they pay the right players. They have a better

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Speaker 1: they have two legitimate corners. They're better at safety. The

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Speaker 1: Cowboys tend to pay too much, pay too early, and

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Speaker 1: pay the wrong people. They paid linebacker Jalen Smith a

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Speaker 1: year later they had to get rid of him. They

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Speaker 1: overpaid for a running back, Zeke. They paid Dak more

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Speaker 1: than he's worth. If you start looking at the Cowboys'

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Speaker 1: don't have a single great unit. The Niners have several,

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Speaker 1: they have often paid the wrong positions and players more

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Speaker 1: than they're worth, and next year it's worse. Dalton Schultz

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Speaker 1: free agent Zeke Dak massive cap hits. Zeke next year

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Speaker 1: Dak will be the number two quarterback cap pit. He's

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Speaker 1: not a top ten quarterback. Come on, he's not. So

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Speaker 1: the games aren't rigged and the Cowboys are where they

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Speaker 1: are for a reason. Dove Cleman, he is a reporter

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Speaker 1: NFL reporter, is saying the Packers are now exploring trade

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Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers to the AFC. Makes sense. They don't

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Speaker 1: be humiliating to face him in a playoff game. This way,

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Speaker 1: I think it's really smart by Green Bay to consider

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Speaker 1: this for a lot of reasons. Number one, Aaron would

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Speaker 1: not get to a super Bowl in the AFC. It's

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Speaker 1: too crowded, too many good teams. Number two, this roster

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Speaker 1: is capable in the NFC north of winning without Aaron.

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Speaker 1: If Jordan loves a B to a B minus quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Consider the additions needed for green Bay, so it's pretty

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Speaker 1: good roster. They could use an edge rusher, a receiver,

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Speaker 1: If you get an additional one and a two for

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Speaker 1: up their needs in the draft. Yes, Aaron's a dead

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Speaker 1: a wash. I just think it's time. I think when

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Speaker 1: people ask for concessions in any job, if they're an

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Speaker 1: Remember when they moved off FARV for Aaron Rodgers. Farv

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Speaker 1: Aaron's thirty eight about to be thirty nine. It's not

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Speaker 1: Now's the time. It's really the perfect time. You can

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Speaker 1: And then suddenly what surprises me, Colin is that somebody

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Speaker 1: and I know all the people in charge over there,

427
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: they're they're good people, Like somebody just didn't delete it

428
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 1: go and this is causing a firestorm. But maybe we

429
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: should admire them for saying you know what I mean,

430
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: we make fun of people when they delete something right,

431
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 1: they just left it out there and who knows. But

432
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 1: the thought of Jerry having any say or are carrying

433
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: in the least about what the website tweets out is

434
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:32,360
Speaker 1: beyond crazy. I kind of feel like the Buffalo Bills

435
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys. This was kind of the spot

436
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo because Mahomes is hurt, Josh Allen's big salary kicks in.

437
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo's defense is going to have to probably get rid

438
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: of a safety, a linebacker. This was the best of

439
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills roster. It may not look as Josh

440
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: Allen's contract kicks in. It may not look this nice.

441
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: Remember Kansas City had to get to Tyreek Hill s

442
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: various ward the corner, I mean once the once the

443
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: big money kicks in. Cowboys had to let go of

444
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper, the Titans with Tannail how to get let

445
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: go of a J. Brown. So I feel like Buffalo,

446
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: this was the best the roster was going to be.

447
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: Now it's going to have to be leaner. And I

448
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 1: look at Dallas and I say to myself. Okay, they

449
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: can't get out of this Zeke thing. They can't get

450
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: out of this Dack contract. Dalton Schultz is leaving, Tyron

451
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: Smith is expensive and old. Is there an argument this

452
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 1: is the best of the roster. Well, this was the

453
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: best year to break through. I don't know. I think

454
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: they might be able to do some things to help

455
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: the offense. I don't know. I mean in a weird

456
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: sort of way. The injury to Pollard may help them.

457
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 1: When Pollard's a great player, how do you he was

458
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: going to get huge money on the open marketing for

459
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: a running back obviously, right, the value for a running

460
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: back is not what it is an O positions. But

461
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: they were people, yeah, yeah, there are people that were

462
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:05,239
Speaker 1: going to be very interested in him. Well, on the

463
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: open market it might have been even more than that.

464
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 1: I mean, he might have got ten to twelve. But

465
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: now nobody knows what to make of this injury. And

466
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: this is where Jerry's really good. Jerry can come in

467
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: and go, Tony, we've brought you in here. You know,

468
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,719
Speaker 1: we've given you this platform. And Jerry loves to make

469
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: that argument to players if you're if you retire a cowboy,

470
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: you know, you're going to have a job the rest

471
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: of your life because you were a cowboy and all

472
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. Zeke's probably gone. I mean, are

473
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 1: you really gonna keep paying Zeke to be a short

474
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: yardage running back? I mean, there's just really there's really

475
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: no great place for him. I mean there's no there's

476
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: no great fit. There's also not a market for Zeke,

477
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 1: is there. I don't I don't think so. I mean

478
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: they're trapped. He's he's so valuable to them just from

479
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 1: Dak loves him. This sort of leadership. I don't really

480
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: think that transit that wouldn't translate to some of these

481
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: other places I'm trying to think of where some people

482
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 1: that have coached him have gone on to. But no, no,

483
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: he's just I mean, there's no more tread on the tire.

484
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: Just look at the numbers. He was averaging two point

485
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: one yards per carry. Pollard was their home run hitter.

486
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: Now Pollard, as of as our taping, just in the

487
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: past hour or so, he had the surgery. The fibula

488
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: that's going to heal on its own, as I understand it,

489
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: the ankle they had to do some surgery on. He's

490
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: going to be ready by training camp next year. So

491
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: but again we don't know what he's gonna look like.

492
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: Is he gonna have to say burst? Is it going

493
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: to take him a while to get back up to speed.

494
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: This is the killer for the Cowboys is you've got

495
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback on the other sideline in San Francisco.

496
00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: You hold them to nineteen points. He's good, I like

497
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: Broc thirty, but he didn't. It's not like he was

498
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: just unbelievable in that game. He made a couple of

499
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: really good throws, but you hold them to nineteen points

500
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: and you're huge money. Quarterback goes out there in first half,

501
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: it's just like he's walking in the I mean just

502
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: in the woods or something like, hey man, what's going

503
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: on here? Oh man? Sine Clara's nice and he's just

504
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: he's throwing picks and he could have thrown two more.

505
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just demoralizing to an organization. That's why

506
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: treyvon Diggs, j Rod curse de Marcus Lawrence. You could

507
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: sort of watch their body language after that game. That's

508
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 1: not a we're all in this together. That body language,

509
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: even dan Quinn that he's got to be thinking we

510
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: did everything we could, and we were knocking on the door,

511
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: and the sad things for Cowboys fans and the people

512
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: who cover them and everything. We all think it was

513
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: nine to nine Colin, everybody had been a moment in

514
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: your mind where you thought, maybe the Cowboys win this thing,

515
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: go the NFC title game. I would say eighty to

516
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: ninety percent of all Cowboys fans and the people who

517
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: cover them were just sitting there like, Okay, how do

518
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: they lose this game? Which direction is it gonna Is

519
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: it gonna be another interception, There's gonna be a long drive.

520
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: How are they going to lose it. There's nobody that

521
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 1: truly felt like they were going to break through and

522
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: it was nine to nine. I mean they it was

523
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: right there for the taking. So I think you can

524
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: improve the roster. But the problem is, I don't know

525
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: if you ever have a better shot. I mean San

526
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: franciscoes loaded, but they don't have the right I mean,

527
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: they've got a third stream quarterback. Are we all gonna

528
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: sit here and jump now? He may go on to

529
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl and we'll go all right, rock party.

530
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: He's going to be their quarterback in the next five

531
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: ten years. I'm not ready to say that. Well, here's

532
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: the Cowboys dilemma is both the Niners they don't pay

533
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: that quarterback for three more years, so they can keep

534
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: their players. They'll probably move Trail Lands, and the Eagles

535
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: aren't moving. They're not moving any of their players because

536
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: they don't pay Jalen Hurts yet. So Dallas is going

537
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: to face those two stacked rosters again next year. And

538
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: my takeaway is Dallas will be less talented next year. Now,

539
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: if Dallas, you know, they're a playoff teams, so they're

540
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 1: not going to be in a great draft position. And

541
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: most of yours NFL gms have told me for years,

542
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: you run out of first run players somewhere between the

543
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: fifteenth and the eighteenth pick. So Dallas, if you're at

544
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 1: the end of the first round, you know you're it's

545
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: kind of no man's land. But I do think there's

546
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: tight ends and wide receivers in the first two picks

547
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: for Dallas that can absolutely elevate the offense. But the

548
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:46,359
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard situations rough because I think they you can't

549
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 1: let Dalton Schultz walk and not go get a tight end.

550
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: You can't, and you've got to get an inexpensive tight end. Well,

551
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: it's a good The first and second round have about

552
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: four and you know tight ends of historic he dropped

553
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: in the draft. George Kittle was a fifth round pick.

554
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: So I think Dallas is in a weird spot where

555
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: they've really got to hit some home runs in the

556
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: first three picks. Offensively, they also need a second corner.

557
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: Now you can get that in later round. Seattle did

558
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: this year. They got a corner in the fifth and

559
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:22,919
Speaker 1: the sixth round starters. But I do feel like this

560
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: was the year. I mean, Brock pretty by next year, Matt,

561
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: he's going to have multiple starts. This was the chance

562
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: to get him, and by the way they did, the

563
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: defense did get him. Like he It's not like they

564
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 1: went out there and raced up and down the field.

565
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: They got nineteen points and the Cowboys go out there

566
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: and just you know, and put up twelve points. So

567
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: you're right, it was this game. This was so gettable

568
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: and it just kind of makes you think that as

569
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 1: it's currently constructed with this head coach. Now, there are

570
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: people who still think Jerry could make a change a

571
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 1: head coach. I mean, he loves to shape things up

572
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:15,919
Speaker 1: and make people uncomfortable, So I do think Jerry might

573
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: enjoy the shake up of two new coordinators. I don't

574
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 1: think he's going to do anything to Mike McCarthy, but

575
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: it's it, really is. I think he's hold up thinking

576
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: of a way and thinking of a plan. And he's

577
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: the ultimate salesman, so he's thinking of a mantrap or

578
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: what can we roll out there? Now, the old Romo friendly,

579
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll go with the Dak friendly or whatever. But

580
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: this will be about the redemption of Dad. This is

581
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: our guy. He's totally fine. He's a great quarterback and

582
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 1: he just had a bad season. And maybe it was

583
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,080
Speaker 1: he was rusty after missing the five games. But the

584
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,760
Speaker 1: thing is, he missed five games, he's still through seventeen

585
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: interceptions and people say, well, Matt, not all these things

586
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 1: were his fault. That's true, that's true, but there were

587
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: a lot of pick sixes. Three pick six is. Since

588
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 1: Week fifteen, they got a quarterback problem and there's no

589
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 1: easy fix. I mean, everybody here wants a new quarterback,

590
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: new head coach. None of that's happening. I mean, you

591
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,280
Speaker 1: can't move off that contract, so all you can do

592
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 1: is try to build around him. But but you know, Jerry, Jerry, right,

593
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: now he's putting together before he can actually go do

594
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: some things in free agency, he has to put a

595
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 1: marketing plan together, and before he shows up in his

596
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: comfortable meeting with everybody at the owner's meetings or wherever

597
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: the next to combine wherever he speaks next, because he

598
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: will sometimes go into hiding for a little while, he's

599
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: going to come out with a whole new thing, and

600
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: it's going to be about how close they were. Maybe

601
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: he can use this pollared injury or something. But what

602
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: you're about to see is a circling of the wagons

603
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: around deck like you can't even believe. And that's because

604
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: they have no other alternatives. What are they going to do?

605
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: Rip him? I mean, it's just they're going to They're

606
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: going to put everything in deck. You can fire your

607
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: head coach, but right now you can't do anything about

608
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: your quarterback. All right, Chad Millman, CCO Action Network, All

609
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: odds provided by a FanDuel. Well, after hitting fifty five

610
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 1: percent this year, the playoffs arrive, and I don't have

611
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: a feel for any playoff game. I guess I got

612
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: the Jags to late cover, which is what we predicted.

613
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: But let's start forty nine ers at Eagles all throw

614
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 1: out kind of the two things that jump out to me.

615
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: Greg ko Sell, who's my favorite guest maybe ever on

616
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 1: the show, says, the last two starts are starting to

617
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: show some tendencies with Brock pretty they're now on film.

618
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 1: He's scrambling backwards. He now goes consistently to his left.

619
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: He has been incapable of delivering on some really nice

620
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 1: schemed and scripted plays. There are now we are seeing

621
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: limitations and the Eagles are seeing them. Philadelphia has got

622
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: seventeen players who are either Pro Bowl starters or alternatives

623
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 1: at home, significantly more dynamic quarterback. You know, rookies in

624
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 1: this spot have been disastrous McCaffrey, Elijah Mitchell missing practice.

625
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:58,280
Speaker 1: I probably swallow the points and take Philadelphia sharper square.

626
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: I would say, generally sharp. The challenge with the playoffs,

627
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: as you just noted, is someone's going to find a

628
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: reason to like something. And so this line opened it

629
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: around pick on Sunday night, Literally that lasted less than

630
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: five minutes, got up to one and a half. Two.

631
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: I bet Eagles minus two Sunday night. It's landed at

632
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 1: two and a half. Most wise, guys have this power

633
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 1: rated at three, so you're still getting a half point

634
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:38,839
Speaker 1: of value. What's troubling if you're an Eagles backer is

635
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 1: you've seen the money come in on the Eagles and

636
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: it really hasn't hit the three, which means that professional

637
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: money continues to come in on the Niners enough that

638
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: the books are wary of getting to the three because

639
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: they'll just get pounded with money on the nine. Schematically,

640
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: on the field, couldn't agree with you more personally, I

641
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 1: think you're starting to see some as Cosell pointed out,

642
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 1: and I agree. He's one of my favorite guests on

643
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 1: your show. He has pointed out that Brock Purdy is

644
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: starting to show a little bit of why he might

645
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: not be a Hall of Famer yet. And I think

646
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: that you're taking a rookie playing his third game on

647
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 1: the road in the NFC Title Game, and it's not

648
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: Vegas that he's going to where one of his games were.

649
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: It's not Seattle against Geno Smith in a defense that

650
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 1: was really starting to struggle. It's Philadelphia. Like it's Philadelphia

651
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: with ed historically great pass rush and historically great offensive

652
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: line that is getting players downfield, and they have tremendous

653
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: amount of yards before contact numbers, So how do you

654
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:07,359
Speaker 1: not take the Eagles here? It feels like exactly the

655
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: right side. I love the Eagles in this spot. Maybe

656
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 1: I've talked myself into it. I've heard a lot of

657
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: people say they like the Niners, but the majority of

658
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 1: wise guys are agreeing with you. Well, here's something else

659
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: to remember. That Cowboy team went into the second half

660
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 1: without Tony Pollard, a kicker who was in his head,

661
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: and Dallas was on the road. And let's be honest,

662
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: Michael Gallop, it's I would submit to you, he's not

663
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 1: a two, he's a three. So Mike McCarthy, I think

664
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: it's done. Mostly a very good job. But they didn't

665
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: dust the Cowboys off, and Zeke at this point is

666
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:55,879
Speaker 1: a short yardage back. They had one home run hitter

667
00:42:55,920 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 1: on offense and then Niners knew it Ceedee Lamb. It

668
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 1: was a very very limited offense they were facing. Yeah,

669
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: it's a different game with Tony Pollard completely because they

670
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: were playing it close in that game and Dak Prescott

671
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: was terrible. It was really bad. So now now you're

672
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: on the road. A. J. Brown Smith, there's a conveyor

673
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: belt of quality tight ends for Philadelphia Sanders Jalen Hurts,

674
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: it's very likely you will play now from behind. Also,

675
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: if you look at Philadelphia, now this is my concern

676
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 1: with Philadelphia. Let me throw this at you. Okay, So

677
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan is now seven to oz with his third

678
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: string quarterback. That's pretty impressive. Oh yeah, Philadelphia's story to

679
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 1: this point is GM Howie Roseman. Okay, Sirianni doesn't get

680
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: any credit for the roster build and nor does he

681
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: get a ton of credit for this fact. When Jalen

682
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: Hurts was out and very capable backup, Gardner Minshew more

683
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:15,399
Speaker 1: than capable upper third of backups and win games. So

684
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 1: the roster that's Roseman, Jalen Hurts. When he's gone, that's

685
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: when coaching really matters. You don't get the juice at Jalen, Right,

686
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: like Kyle Shanahan winning with Brock Purty, that's not a

687
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 1: Brock Purty story as much as it is a roster

688
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 1: compilation and a Kyle Shanahan story. So you take out

689
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts with this roster of seventeen pro bowler alternates,

690
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 1: they don't win with Gardner Minshew a capable backup. So

691
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:52,760
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, is Kyle Shanahan and Nick Seriani. Let's

692
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: not elevate Nick, who got crushed in the playoffs last

693
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 1: year and beat it completely outmanned giants t I said

694
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 1: today on the show, I like Nick. I was wrong

695
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: on Nick, But if the second half of this game

696
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: Shanahan was playing Chester checkers, you wouldn't be shocked, right, right.

697
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,399
Speaker 1: So that's where I'm a little like I saw him

698
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:23,240
Speaker 1: without jail. It wasn't like he was a chess master, right.

699
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: It's so interesting you look at it from that point

700
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: of view. A couple of things. One, I loved the

701
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 1: video the other day of Nick Sirianni on the sideline

702
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:40,280
Speaker 1: yelling at I don't know who when he was going

703
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 1: for two or lining up to go for two after

704
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: one of the touchdowns, yelling I know what I'm fucking doing.

705
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: But I worry, and I'm you know, being a little silly,

706
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: but I do worry when there's a coach who feels

707
00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:00,120
Speaker 1: like he needs to be yelling that to someone on

708
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: his sideline. Yea, and that is getting that sort of

709
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: uptight about being challenged, right, Yeah. I don't get the

710
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: sense that Sean McVay a responds that way and B

711
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: has someone saying to him, what are you doing? Or

712
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,799
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick has someone's so like, I know, it's like

713
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:18,799
Speaker 1: it's a funny little clip. But I did look at

714
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: that and be like that was weird, Like I just

715
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: that was I don't know any leaders who do that, right,

716
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: and so I thought that was interesting. One. You will

717
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: get no argument for me that Kyle Shanahan is amongst

718
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: the two three best coaches in the NFL. I love

719
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,879
Speaker 1: the guy. I think that they are an automatic Super

720
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: Bowl contender no matter what. And I think he has

721
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: more fun scheming for second and third stringers on his

722
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 1: team probably than any coach in the NFL. Like he

723
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 1: is so creative and so good at it, and we've

724
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: seen it year after year. Name a team that consistently

725
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: this is their quarterback, they're starting left tackle, their best

726
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 1: running back, their best receiver, their entire defense, and consistently

727
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 1: every single year does as well as he does, as

728
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:11,799
Speaker 1: if it's like not even missing a beat, right. So

729
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: I think the guy is brilliant and I think he

730
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 1: love him as a coach. Don't disagree with you at

731
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,399
Speaker 1: all on this, And I think some of what you're

732
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: saying leads me to the next thing I would say

733
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 1: about this game, which is a little bit against the market,

734
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: But I like the over. And the reason I like

735
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 1: the over is because we've started to see some cracks

736
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 1: in the forty nine ers back line pass defense. And

737
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 1: I do think that Jalen Hurts a J Brown, DeVante Smith,

738
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:48,320
Speaker 1: god Or they are a serious quartet of weapons that

739
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 1: can take advantage of some passing defense deficiencies. And that

740
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 1: does not need great coaching. That needs good coordinating, and

741
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 1: it needs good talent. And on the flip side, if

742
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 1: there's anybody who can figure out how to team against

743
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: a really good pass rush, it's Kyle Shanahan. So I

744
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: do think there are opportunities for this game to play

745
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: against Titan. So I did feel Philadelphia was the side,

746
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 1: and I have all week Bingals Chiefs. We have the variable,

747
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: So I've talked about it today on the show. I've

748
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 1: got video of Mahomes. He's a full practice participant. There

749
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: are three levels to high ankle sprains, including grade one,

750
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 1: which is mild. He also played very well hundred and

751
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: eight passer raiding in the game after the sprain, so

752
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: I'm not overly concerned. Also, Will Blackman pointed out in

753
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: the show today, sometimes when Maholmes gets in trouble, he's

754
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: a little scorely. When he extends plays, when you force

755
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:54,720
Speaker 1: him to sit in the pocket, it's pretty good, and

756
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 1: so I don't worry about that. Here's though, why like

757
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: Cincinnati plus a point. Here's why over the last twenty

758
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 1: games in the NFL, there's an argument to be made

759
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's the best second half defense in the league, even

760
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: better than San Francisco. They make adjustments like nobody else

761
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:20,720
Speaker 1: the other and by the way, against Kansas City as well.

762
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 1: They have trailed Kansas City in their last three beatings

763
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: of the Chiefs, but have dominated late fourth or overtime.

764
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 1: I believe Cincinnati's become something that doesn't get a lot

765
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:35,800
Speaker 1: of love. But it was what the Patriots with Belichick

766
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:39,360
Speaker 1: and Brady did. They were the best situational football team

767
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 1: for about twenty years. Cincinnati is remarkably good situationally, like

768
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:50,840
Speaker 1: even better than Kansas City. A lot of its Burrows accuracy.

769
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: So during the off season, remember burrows first year and

770
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:59,760
Speaker 1: a half, once against the Bears, he could be turnover prone.

771
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 1: So in the off season Cincinnati said, you know what

772
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 1: we're gonna peel back some of the deeper routes and

773
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 1: do more intermediate closer. Now, the Bengals give you an

774
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 1: upside with no turnovers. This is what they did to Buffalo.

775
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: So you have the most accurate passer completion percentage in

776
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:23,359
Speaker 1: league history. Borrow a team that's no longer giving you turnovers.

777
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:27,840
Speaker 1: That was Mahome's secret sauce early the best adjusting defense

778
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:32,800
Speaker 1: in the league with absolutely no pressure. These are the Chiefs.

779
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: This is Mahomes, this is read. I think I like Cincinnati.

780
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 1: Sharper square, dude, this game is a roller coaster and

781
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,719
Speaker 1: you're not going to get a consensus. You're going to

782
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: be sharp. You're gonna be with a bunch of sharps,

783
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 1: and there's also going to be sharps who like Kansas City.

784
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: So let me give you the reasons why I think

785
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 1: in Kansas City at minus one is the play. And

786
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: this isn't as much about betting and number shopping and

787
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 1: as we often talk about getting the best of the

788
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 1: number as it is about the side. This game opened

789
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 1: Cincinnati plus three on Sunday night. I bet it Cincinnati

790
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: plus three. Immediately it got bet down to pick Cincinnati

791
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:37,399
Speaker 1: plus one. I mean Cincinnati minus one case plus one.

792
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 1: By Tuesday afternoon, it's Kansas City plus two and a half.

793
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:43,479
Speaker 1: I bet the Kansas City plus two and a half.

794
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: By last night it was back to Kansas City plus

795
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: one this morning. We're recording this on Thursday afternoon. Kansas

796
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: City is a one point favorite because of what we

797
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: saw with Mahomes. You will get wise guys telling you

798
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 1: I am back in Joe Burrow one hundred percent, and

799
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:05,720
Speaker 1: then you will get wise guys telling you I'm playing

800
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 1: my model. My model has Kansas City as a slight

801
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 1: favorite to pick in this game, right, So I'm sorry,

802
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 1: Kansas City is a slight favorite to minus two in

803
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: this game. So you're going to get both sides of it.

804
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 1: It's really going to come down to how do you

805
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:30,359
Speaker 1: feel what's going to make you the least uncomfortable in

806
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: this game. I wish I could give you a consensus.

807
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:36,800
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't in any good conscious Like we

808
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:38,919
Speaker 1: talked about this in the Favorites, today, we did sharp

809
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 1: calls where the wise guys will call us over the

810
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: forty eight hours from Tuesday to Thursday between our two

811
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:46,760
Speaker 1: podcasts and tell us what they think of what we're saying,

812
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 1: and a lot of the wise guys were just like,

813
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: I won't bet against Joe Burrow. The guy's nineteen and

814
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:55,959
Speaker 1: one against the spread as less than a seven point

815
00:52:56,200 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: under dubbed. So the majority of the money in here

816
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:05,360
Speaker 1: came in on the Bengals because of where the number was.

817
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: And that's really what the wise guys did after that.

818
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 1: To anybody's guess, I'll tell you four coaches left, all offensive,

819
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 1: final eight coaches seven offensive. But I do think something

820
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 1: is important here is that all four offenses, to me,

821
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 1: have an identity. I still think one of my biggest

822
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 1: takeaways of this playoff Brandon Staley and Sean McDermott feel

823
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: like those offenses just call plays and that we are

824
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:44,840
Speaker 1: having a revolution in this sport. And I've been talking

825
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:50,880
Speaker 1: about this ad nauseum for two years, is that even

826
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 1: with a third string quarterback, I absolutely believe the forty

827
00:53:56,680 --> 00:54:00,800
Speaker 1: nine ers have an offensive identity physicality, finding an extra blocker,

828
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 1: using multiple weapons at multiple levels, always using motion. With

829
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 1: a third string quarterback, I felt Josh Allen with deep

830
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 1: balls up the sideline in a snowstorm. I had somebody

831
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 1: I had a scouting buddy in this league say in snowstorms.

832
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 1: The hardest thing to catch is a deep ball up

833
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: a sideline. A. It's hard to see what's in what's

834
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 1: not be You're asking players to look up into the snow.

835
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 1: He Shorter routes much easier. I'm staring at the quarterback.

836
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 1: Don't ask receivers to look up in snow. He said

837
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 1: that sounds ridiculous. Tom Brady says snow games are great

838
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 1: as long as there's no wind. He goes, because edge

839
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: rushers A can't get their feet, and he goes, linebackers

840
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 1: get to their positions quicker because they're sliding over the field,

841
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 1: so they give away what they're doing with twelve seconds

842
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: left before the snaff so little tiny think. And then

843
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 1: a scout says, you never want the sideline deep route

844
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: snow flakes lying down. He goes, it's just hard for

845
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 1: these guys. Cincinnati had an identity, quick, precise, eight yards in,

846
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 1: move the clock, take the first downs, and I thought

847
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 1: Buffalo looked absolutely disoriented. And so I guess my takeaway

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Speaker 1: is you start ask yourself about your football team, even

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Speaker 1: if it's flawed. In twenty twenty three, do you sense

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Speaker 1: that you have an offensive identity regardless if you have

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Speaker 1: a great quarterback, it really matters. Because I could argue

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Speaker 1: the Chargers and the Bills lost to teams where they

853
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Speaker 1: had better personnel. I feel like I'll take it one

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Speaker 1: step from it, totally agree with your take, except that

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Speaker 1: kind of don't. And I think that the Bills do

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Speaker 1: have an identity. I think they have the identity of

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Speaker 1: their quarterback, and I think they have the identity of

858
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Speaker 1: being immensely talented, incredibly high strung, and a rollercoaster of

859
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:15,239
Speaker 1: emotions when things are going well. For Josh Allen, he

860
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: shows it. When things are not going well, He's showing

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Speaker 1: it right, pounding the turf, throwing tantrums, looking down the Bengals,

862
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: the ooze confidence. And it's not just Joe Burrow, right,

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Speaker 1: it's Jamar Chase, It's Joe Mixon. And they play with

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00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:40,399
Speaker 1: a physicality that is different than other teams. Jamar Chase

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Speaker 1: is not the biggest guy in the world, but he

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Speaker 1: runs through tacklers when he gets a screen pass. Right,

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00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon like he is just bullying people. Joe Burrow

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Speaker 1: is unflappable, and so I think there's a huge discrepancy

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Speaker 1: in personality and teams take on the personality of their quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and I think we saw that in complete relief in

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Speaker 1: that Bills Bengals game. So I do think there's personalities.

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Speaker 1: I think that the Bills don't have a good personality,

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00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: and so I think I think that's their problem right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they look they came off as a little rigid as well.

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Speaker 1: You know, McDermott comes from that, you know, a little

876
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: bit of that old school play defense, punt field position.

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Speaker 1: I just think it's really hard. I was talking to

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Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy the other day for a Patriot player

879
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 1: and now he's with the Chargers free agent, and he said,

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00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 1: he goes, when I came into this league, guys didn't

881
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 1: want to go over the middle. He goes, everybody wants

882
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 1: to go over the middle now, and it's like he

883
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: goes as a as a linebacker. It's just the tight

884
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 1: ends are more athletic and faster. They don't fear anybody.

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00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 1: The receivers backs, he said, the game has changed in

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00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: ten years. The middle of the field is just a

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00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:56,000
Speaker 1: paradise for offensive players. You and I grew up, there

888
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 1: was a term called alligator arms, and if you had

889
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 1: one receiver Michael Urban willing to go over the middle.

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Speaker 1: That was it. I can remember Philadelphia having a receiver

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00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 1: I liked out of college. He didn't pan out, Freddie Mitchell,

892
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:13,200
Speaker 1: and I can remember a game specifically, and he dropped

893
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 1: a pass and the announcer at the time, whoever it was,

894
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 1: talked about he's not a guy that's comfortable going over

895
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:22,919
Speaker 1: the middle. And I and it just stuck in my head.

896
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:26,760
Speaker 1: That was a lot of players, a lot. The way

897
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 1: to score quickly in the NFL was a deep ball

898
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 1: up the sideline. That's how you did it. That's how

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Speaker 1: the seventies Steelers did at the Swan over the top.

900
00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:37,440
Speaker 1: He didn't have these seam routes, guys going through. It

901
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 1: didn't exist. Just not what you did. And so I

902
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 1: think these offensive coaches they're playing chess. They can completely

903
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 1: manipulate defenses. When Nick Saban years ago in a New

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00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:53,439
Speaker 1: York Times piece acknowledge, yeah, I can't. I can't really

905
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 1: stop up if a quarterback can move and not a

906
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:58,160
Speaker 1: lot I can do. The rules have changed. There's just

907
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 1: limitations on what I can do with receivers quarterbacks the

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00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 1: middle of the field. When Saban's telling you that at

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00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 1: the college level, when Tennessee's dropping forty five or fifty

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00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 1: on Saban at the college level where he has an

911
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 1: athletic advantage, a personnel advantage, and I felt the margins

912
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 1: are small. So I think coaching matters more in the

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Speaker 1: NFL than it ever has. I couldn't agree more. It's

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Speaker 1: interesting you say that about Freddie Mitchell because I agree

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00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:27,880
Speaker 1: with you, and he was a high draft pick I

916
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:30,320
Speaker 1: think out of UCLA at the UCLA I liked him

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00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 1: a lot out of college, and he was supposed to

918
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 1: be sort of the second coming of someone who was

919
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: a great downfield, a lamorous receiver, couldn't go over the middle,

920
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 1: kind of never really developed. But I'm pretty sure it

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00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 1: was Freddie Mitchell who made that miraculous catch down the

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00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: middle on like a third and twenty seven or a

923
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 1: fourth and twenty seven from Donovan Nab during their run.

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00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 1: I think it was what got them to the Super Bowl,

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00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:02,080
Speaker 1: might like late nineties, early two thousands. I got to

926
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Speaker 1: look it up. I'm almost positive it was, which is

927
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:08,400
Speaker 1: just ironic. Now you got guys like Deebo Samuel right,

928
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,640
Speaker 1: who are they live in the middle like as big

929
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 1: as a linebacker. It's scarier for the linebacker the safety

930
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:17,960
Speaker 1: to hit them than it is for them to go

931
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:20,480
Speaker 1: over the middle because they're bigger and stronger. And it's

932
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:23,480
Speaker 1: like when these linebackers and these safeties go into these

933
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 1: guys and they're the ones who just fall down right

934
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 1: and like they and Deebo will gain three or four

935
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Speaker 1: more yards. It's amazing to see. Yeah, a box safety

936
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:40,560
Speaker 1: now like a Jamal Adams can't cover. There's there's arguments

937
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 1: that you can't pay safeties and when you're Jamal Adams

938
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: more of a hybrid safety linebacker, what's the point. And

939
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:50,880
Speaker 1: he's a unbelievably gifted player. But I can remember growing

940
01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 1: up with Kenny Easley and you know, Troy Polamalu who

941
01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 1: were thumpers and that was celebrated and it was necessary.

942
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 1: That guy can't cover in space. Now that guy can't.

943
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 1: You got to be ed reader, Earl Thomas. You got

944
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:07,120
Speaker 1: to go sideline to sideline. The thumper is a relic

945
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,960
Speaker 1: because the middle of the field, now everybody was speed

946
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: wants to go down the middle of the field. The thumper.

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Speaker 1: If I have you know, Seattle gave up two firsts

948
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:18,480
Speaker 1: and a tight end and a third. I think for

949
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:22,320
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams. In retrospect, they got taken to the cleaners.

950
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: Now they took Denver to the cleaners on Russell, but

951
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:28,240
Speaker 1: that in retrospect they gave up way too much for

952
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 1: a box safety. Kenny easily Steve Steve at Water. You're

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01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:39,600
Speaker 1: kidding me, Chuck Sel, Oh my god, are like where

954
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:41,720
Speaker 1: I grew up in Chicago And it was Doug Plank.

955
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:46,840
Speaker 1: They literally named the greatest defense in NFL history after

956
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 1: a hard hitting safety right the forty six. The greatest

957
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 1: defense in NFL history, most dominant defense in NFL history,

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01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:57,240
Speaker 1: Doug Plank was number forty six. You said something really

959
01:01:57,280 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 1: interesting before the Bengals defense and their second half adjustments.

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01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:04,560
Speaker 1: This is not talked about enough, but I can tell

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01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 1: you within the betting community of professional betters, you know,

962
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:12,360
Speaker 1: the Bengals have been on this incredible against the spread

963
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 1: streak and for a lot of betters, when they really

964
01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:19,320
Speaker 1: started to pile on the Bengals and just decided it's

965
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:24,200
Speaker 1: Bengals or bust. DJ Reader coming off the injured list

966
01:02:24,720 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 1: the second half of the year, this team became a

967
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:29,920
Speaker 1: much more dominant team. And you see it every week.

968
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:32,400
Speaker 1: He's pushing the pocket, he's knocking down volves. He's making

969
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: the big stop on third and short against the opposing

970
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 1: running back. This defense sixth overall in the NFL in yards,

971
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: in points per play allowed, fifth in red zone touchdown

972
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: percentage allowed. So if you're thinking about I don't really

973
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Speaker 1: know which thought I want to go here, professionals have

974
01:02:56,880 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 1: bet the under and it's been fascinating. This game opened

975
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 1: about fifty one fifty one and a half. I bettered

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01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 1: at fifty one and a half, got down to forty

977
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Speaker 1: six and a half. Since Mahomes came back, it's back

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01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:10,960
Speaker 1: up to forty seven and a half. For those who

979
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Speaker 1: are invested. Forty seven is a key number in totals, right.

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01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:17,920
Speaker 1: Key numbers are where games tend to land in four,

981
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:22,720
Speaker 1: twenty three, three, seven, ten in totals forty seven, fifty

982
01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:25,800
Speaker 1: one some other ones. If you can get under forty

983
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 1: seven and a half, that's what the wise guys, and

984
01:03:28,480 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 1: that is a It's eight. We talked about pros Joe's

985
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:32,520
Speaker 1: all the time. All the bets are under the over all,

986
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:52,479
Speaker 1: the money is on the under. The volume, make sure

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