Speaker 1: From the King of sports Books comes the Key Sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by Bet MGM. Here's your host, Jerry
Speaker 1: Ferrara and Olivia Harlan Decker. Just when we thought we've
Speaker 1: seen it all, Oh my gosh, was week three crazy?
Speaker 1: This whole season has started so crazy. Jerry Ferrara, my friend,
Speaker 1: can you please do something for me? Can you say
Speaker 1: butt punt ten times fast? You know, I'm usually good
Speaker 1: at this, so I'll take a stroll at it. But
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm gonna all right, here we go.
Speaker 1: But punt but pun but pun but pun but pun
Speaker 1: but pun but put Yeah, I got to like six.
Speaker 1: That's six. God, that should be your social media So
Speaker 1: I think but punt is even more fun than but fumble.
Speaker 1: So Mark Sanchez is off the hook for this one.
Speaker 1: I don't know that butt fumble will still be the
Speaker 1: funniest thing I've ever seen in NFL history more so,
Speaker 1: but he's off the hook for one week, at least
Speaker 1: for one week. Yeah, And Dan Orlovski with Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 1: I mean, we got a lot of like flashbacks of
Speaker 1: history this past weekend. It was a weird week right,
Speaker 1: didn't feel weird like I feel like we also now
Speaker 1: have to start factoring in humidity, like normally as better
Speaker 1: as we factor in like snow. Now you look at
Speaker 1: that Bill's Dolphins game, it's like, oh, we got to
Speaker 1: start factoring in humidity because Stefon Diggs is cramping up.
Speaker 1: Like I've never seen anyone cramped that much in a game.
Speaker 1: A couple of guys were, I mean they said the
Speaker 1: field temperature was almost a hundred. I mean it looked miserable.
Speaker 1: I've worked a lot of early college football games down
Speaker 1: in the South, down all in the SEC, and that
Speaker 1: would be like a major thing. Guys chugging pickle juice
Speaker 1: on the sideline. Have you heard that one for cramping.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that one, but like, yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: that's an old you have. Like I'm trained to only
Speaker 1: look at bad weather. Do we have to start looking
Speaker 1: in those early September games and early maybe even October
Speaker 1: games of like in the South, start factoring in humidity
Speaker 1: and into your bets. I don't know, I've never seen
Speaker 1: anything like it. Weird week but lovely week, Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, so much to get to really, I mean,
Speaker 1: in their every weekend, I always have pictures that stick
Speaker 1: with me, and one of them for this week was
Speaker 1: Bill's offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey having a meltdown in the
Speaker 1: coach's box. I feel like that one's going to stick
Speaker 1: with me, legendary. I'm so glad that they cut to that.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad as fans we got to see that. Gosh,
Speaker 1: we all have to be able to relate. Who if
Speaker 1: you haven't had a meltdown like that in your life,
Speaker 1: you ain't living. I'm sorry that is That's like the
Speaker 1: highest level of frustration. I'm glad you got that on
Speaker 1: Glass and he should get like a marketing deal with
Speaker 1: like Microsoft, Surface book Pro or something, right, because that's
Speaker 1: a commerce shoal. Oh, it was fantastic. Anyone who says
Speaker 1: that it was wrong of the CBS broadcast to show that,
Speaker 1: I think is crazy because they've been showing them all game,
Speaker 1: and those coaches they know they're on camera, and it
Speaker 1: was fantastic. I think football fans loved it because that's
Speaker 1: what we do at home. You know, if if, especially
Speaker 1: if you had money on the game, speaking of which,
Speaker 1: you had another busted parlay, right, another bust at parlay
Speaker 1: by your Kansas City chiefs. Nice money line parlay five teams.
Speaker 1: The only part of it that didn't hit end to
Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey's point, I have like a very safe room
Speaker 1: in the kitchen that I put plastic stuff in that.
Speaker 1: I call it wrecking the locker room. You get a
Speaker 1: bad beat, you go in the locker room and wreck
Speaker 1: the locker room and you're not damaging anything. So yeah,
Speaker 1: why have those cameras in the booth if you're not
Speaker 1: going to show that. So yes, so bad beat by
Speaker 1: your Kansas City Chiefs for me, thank you very much,
Speaker 1: Andy Reid. So if I'm doing my math correctly, you're
Speaker 1: down on the season, aren't you go? No, Because I
Speaker 1: keep hitting teasers. I'm also a sneaky teaser guy. I
Speaker 1: think that there's always room for teasers. In the first
Speaker 1: four or five weeks, I had a three team ten
Speaker 1: point teaser lions like plus twelve and a half Panthers
Speaker 1: in there. I had the Ravens in there. So I'm up.
Speaker 1: But I'd love to hit one of these parlays. I know,
Speaker 1: keep doing it, keep being ballsy. You got you got
Speaker 1: screwed with the Chiefs. No one saw that one coming.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, I looked at updated m v P
Speaker 1: odds because I was curious how Josh Allen's was affected.
Speaker 1: He's still the favorite. He opened at nine to one
Speaker 1: and he's now plus two seventy five. He's also the
Speaker 1: highest ticket percentage at bet MGM. But yeah, I was
Speaker 1: thinking with Patrick Mahomes, his odds have shortened. He opened
Speaker 1: at seven to one, now he's five to one. And
Speaker 1: speaking of pictures, I'm going to remember from week three,
Speaker 1: how about him going into the locker room at halftime
Speaker 1: in Indie arguing with Eric b Enemy. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: really see that often, Eric boy, obviously amazing offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: It I don't know, did you read that as like
Speaker 1: full argument, Like it didn't look contentious in a way
Speaker 1: was unhealthy and they looked very healthy. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you have to kind of say that Mahomes was
Speaker 1: probably correct, and as we saw with some of the
Speaker 1: later calls like the fake field goal and then you know,
Speaker 1: just not being aggressive enough certainly looked like it. It
Speaker 1: factored into that game. Yeah, I don't know. I thought
Speaker 1: it at the time at halftime when I was watching,
Speaker 1: but I really thought it after the game they ended
Speaker 1: up losing by three. I think they should have listened
Speaker 1: to Patrick being more aggressive going into half try to
Speaker 1: get into field goal range. But yeah, I love Andy
Speaker 1: Reid coming up, like, come on, let's just get in
Speaker 1: the locker room. Come on. It's like it's like a
Speaker 1: parent breaking up a fight with siblings or something. You know.
Speaker 1: You mentioned m v P odds, quarterback MVP odds, and
Speaker 1: the jumps. I mean, who right now is your m
Speaker 1: v P through three weeks, which is an awful question
Speaker 1: but one that we all want to know because it
Speaker 1: affects the odds. To me, there's like a clear person.
Speaker 1: So you're saying, if if the sample size was just
Speaker 1: three weeks, if the season was over now. I mean,
Speaker 1: because we're talking about the odds, right, the odds have
Speaker 1: shifted so much from week one until now, So that
Speaker 1: means who's kind of won the first three game MVP
Speaker 1: award that doesn't exist. I mean, it's hard to go
Speaker 1: against Lamar Jackson and what he's been doing. He is
Speaker 1: so fantastic. You can tell every game he's fighting for
Speaker 1: his new contract. But Josh Allen, despite a loss, he
Speaker 1: had franchise record pass attempts. He had four hundred passing yards.
Speaker 1: They double time of possession. I mean there their offense,
Speaker 1: everything he was doing for him was fantastic. Their defense
Speaker 1: was missing five starters obviously, So I guess I'm leaning
Speaker 1: towards Josh Allen still and I know that's chalky, but
Speaker 1: what do you think is your good Well? I look
Speaker 1: at it like, if you can go back to pre
Speaker 1: game one, whose odds would you love to lock in
Speaker 1: if you hadn't locked it in? And to me, I
Speaker 1: think if you could lock in Jalen Hurts at whatever
Speaker 1: was the plus four thousand at one point and now
Speaker 1: plus seven hundred, I think Jalen Hurt is going to
Speaker 1: make a real run at this thing. I don't think
Speaker 1: you'll quite get there. But also he might very well
Speaker 1: be on the team with the best wreck. They look
Speaker 1: completely dominant And this is a big overreaction, but I
Speaker 1: didn't buy it after week one because the Lions played
Speaker 1: them so tough. But yeah, I'm buying the Eagles. That
Speaker 1: team is logit. They really are. He's got weapons. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're exciting. I like Nick Sirianni, You're to getting things going.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to like about the Eagle, So you're right,
Speaker 1: I can get behind that. Yeah, Jalen Hurts now plus
Speaker 1: seven hundred. Lamar Jackson, by the way, opened at plus
Speaker 1: now he's plus five fifty. So three weeks in we
Speaker 1: are seeing a lot of movement, folks. I like it,
Speaker 1: okay and Jerry. The craziest thing just three weeks in
Speaker 1: is there's so much parody. We're seeing teams on the
Speaker 1: radar that we didn't expect, and thirty teams have at
Speaker 1: least one win, and the last time that happened was
Speaker 1: a decade ago. I didn't realize that. And the last
Speaker 1: time before that was two decades ago, So I don't
Speaker 1: know every ten years this happens. But we are seeing
Speaker 1: more cloudy picture, if you will, and games that we
Speaker 1: were excited about, like Rogers versus Brady, just did not
Speaker 1: live up to the billing. Some teams have been disappointing.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're not getting what we thought we'd get,
Speaker 1: especially that game in particular, with two star Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame quarterbacks and maybe their last meeting ever, and they
Speaker 1: have no one to throw too, they have no weapons.
Speaker 1: But as a Packer fan, I'm just glad we got
Speaker 1: out of there with a win, and the only reason
Speaker 1: that game will really matter is getting the tie break,
Speaker 1: as we look at seating at the playoff picture. But
Speaker 1: that's a whole another tangent. But hey, we got someone
Speaker 1: we can ask about this, and it's our guest. I'm
Speaker 1: really excited. You know. I had this thought when I
Speaker 1: was watching football and you popped into my mind because
Speaker 1: you made a whole great take of why maybe the
Speaker 1: Raiders still have life in that a f C West.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if the act as we thought,
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of people's favorites to win
Speaker 1: the a f C West with the Las Vegas Raiders
Speaker 1: who are now oh and three, maybe Davante Adams is
Speaker 1: regretting leaving your boy Aaron Rodgers and and the Packers.
Speaker 1: I mean it only three Packers sitting there to one.
Speaker 1: But here's what I thought about, who's the worst team
Speaker 1: in the NFL and are there really awful teams? Usually
Speaker 1: in years past and betting wise, I would always try
Speaker 1: to find the Jags, the Browns, the Jets, even my Jet,
Speaker 1: like you had teams to fade from the very beginning.
Speaker 1: Who are the worst three teams in the NFL? The Raiders?
Speaker 1: You have to lump them in? Are the Raiders one
Speaker 1: of the worst three teams in the NFL. There's no way,
Speaker 1: there's way too much talent. Are the Texans. The Texas
Speaker 1: should be two in one right now? Texans should be
Speaker 1: two in one. Yeah, the Bears are two in one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I guess you have to say Texans, Raiders and Bears
Speaker 1: are the three worst teams. But you're so right on
Speaker 1: any different day, different circumstances that I think you can
Speaker 1: make a case the Texans and Raiders aren't in that
Speaker 1: bottom three. Who else would you think is bottom three? Well,
Speaker 1: you would say you would put the Giants in the
Speaker 1: Jets in there, and I do think the Jets are
Speaker 1: in there. It's hard to put the Giants in there
Speaker 1: just yet because but to give it, Okay, how's this
Speaker 1: to brow your mind? The Giant either the Giants are
Speaker 1: the Bears are gonna be three and one. They play
Speaker 1: each other coming up, They're one of those teams will
Speaker 1: be three and one. That's just no one had that
Speaker 1: coming into the year. And I do think the Rains
Speaker 1: are still bounce back. I just think they're too far behind.
Speaker 1: And do you think DeVante Adams is regretting leaving the
Speaker 1: Packers and not even that he left. Maybe the Packers
Speaker 1: really weren't going to give him the money he wanted.
Speaker 1: But just as where that franchisees versus where he is now,
Speaker 1: do you think is there a regret? Is it possible? Well,
Speaker 1: let's be clear why he left, and this has been
Speaker 1: well documented and we've talked about it on this show,
Speaker 1: and I've even had people tweet at me like you're crazy.
Speaker 1: It wasn't about Aaron Rodgers, And I get it. Davante
Speaker 1: Adams went to Vegas to be closer to family, to
Speaker 1: have family who had never seen him play in the
Speaker 1: NFL before go to games like there's there's a lot there, right,
Speaker 1: but just on the field. I went back and I
Speaker 1: looked at his first three games last season compared to
Speaker 1: the first three games this season in with Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: So get this, it's pretty crazy. He's had the exact
Speaker 1: same amount of targets thirty four targets, but he's had
Speaker 1: almost ten more catches with Aaron and a hundred twenty
Speaker 1: more receiving yards. That's the three games. So if this
Speaker 1: trend continues, that's the difference of almost seven hundred yards
Speaker 1: this season, So major difference, way more production with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Now you could also look at situational you know, where
Speaker 1: was he targeted, what kind of blocking did he have?
Speaker 1: You could really break it down. But I think those
Speaker 1: numbers say a lot. Yeah, I really have a hard
Speaker 1: time putting the Raiders as one of the worst teams
Speaker 1: in the league. They're not, and we still have a
Speaker 1: lot of games left to play to figure this out.
Speaker 1: But I really, when I'm looking at the board to
Speaker 1: do my fun little teasers and my fun little parlay's,
Speaker 1: it's really hard to find that dog crap team that
Speaker 1: you know you could just fade. It's not like it
Speaker 1: was in years past. I have a noticeable difference through
Speaker 1: three weeks. They used to be three or four of
Speaker 1: those teams you could always count on. I struggle to
Speaker 1: find like one or two, you know, Olivia. We've also
Speaker 1: seen low scoring this year, and look, I get that
Speaker 1: it's probably the maybe the smarter pick. With all these
Speaker 1: unders hitting at a historic rate so far this season.
Speaker 1: I mean, we had a fourteen twelve, we had an
Speaker 1: eleven to ten. It's hard for me. I don't love
Speaker 1: going for the under. Who wants to root for no
Speaker 1: points in the NFL? But what is going on with
Speaker 1: some of these games, like it's it's going under by
Speaker 1: like like a no doubter. Yeah, no, it's so bizarre
Speaker 1: and it it does make you think about the way
Speaker 1: you want to bet in looking at unders, especially for
Speaker 1: this weekend, because I was thinking aheads of the London
Speaker 1: Games and a lot of people think with the time
Speaker 1: change and weird venue and kind of out of your
Speaker 1: element that maybe you look at some unders there. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I would love to pick the brain
Speaker 1: of someone who has been on the field before you
Speaker 1: and I. We are pro NFL watchers, we are not players,
Speaker 1: and our guest this week is going to be the
Speaker 1: perfect person to ask. It's Will Blackman and why I
Speaker 1: love Will Blackman. He's a twelve year NFL VET Super
Speaker 1: Bowl champ. I love him because he played for both
Speaker 1: of our team's Jerry Packers and the Giants. And he's
Speaker 1: really my kind of guy because he's actually a certified
Speaker 1: smalley A. He's a wine guy. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: can we open a bottle of wine all of us individually?
Speaker 1: I think that's totally fair. I think I kind of
Speaker 1: need that today. So having a day. Yeah, we don't
Speaker 1: have to tell anyone what time it is, right now
Speaker 1: like it's wine thirty. We'll just say that. Okay, it is.
Speaker 1: I wonder too, as Will played a London game. Oh
Speaker 1: that's let's see if it's really anything for us to
Speaker 1: think about these guys traveling to London. I mean, you
Speaker 1: just did it and it has not affected your performance whatsoever,
Speaker 1: not at all. And hate to be fair, it is
Speaker 1: wine thirty my time. I have the benefit of the
Speaker 1: time zone here at six thirty my time, so I'm
Speaker 1: in the clear. I usually wait till after we record
Speaker 1: to get my glass of wine. Sometimes you guys have
Speaker 1: even caught me as as we had to jump back
Speaker 1: on to fix something and I already have something board.
Speaker 1: But no, I'm excited to talk with Will again. We
Speaker 1: can get a little insight on both of our teams.
Speaker 1: So do you have some Giants questions ready? I do,
Speaker 1: And I just hope he wears the super Bowl ring
Speaker 1: because he got a super Bowl with my team. I
Speaker 1: don't think he got one. He left. I think just
Speaker 1: in time. I think it was season that he went
Speaker 1: to the Giants, all right, So I mean he ultimately
Speaker 1: got his ring, but yeah, he just missed the Packers. Okay.
Speaker 1: So then after we talk with Will, which is going
Speaker 1: to be so much fun. We have our weekly Entourage
Speaker 1: update and Jerry, I am on season three and I
Speaker 1: have so much to ask you, so I'm really looking
Speaker 1: forward to getting that segment in later. And then of
Speaker 1: course we finished off with our Week four picks with
Speaker 1: bet MGMs betting expert Peter Andrew. We love when our
Speaker 1: friend Pete comes on. We got to see what his
Speaker 1: season total is at in his one challenge. Okay, he's
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl champion who not only played with the
Speaker 1: Eli Manning but also intercepted him. He knows his xs
Speaker 1: and knows just as well as he knows his pinots.
Speaker 1: And Merlote's one of our favorite Twitter follows as well.
Speaker 1: Will Blackman is here. Welcome on, Will. That was I'm
Speaker 1: gonna steal that one. That was legit, very good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm excited. Quick story though, before you guys an't going
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you guys how Entourage saved my career.
Speaker 1: Can I do that really quick? Is that cool? Wow?
Speaker 1: Way to tease it. We don't even have a break
Speaker 1: to say like after the break? Okay, so two ten? Right?
Speaker 1: I get cut from the Packers when the year they
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl, and then I remember I got
Speaker 1: signed by the Giants that year and then ended up
Speaker 1: not finishing the season. Then my knee got worse, and
Speaker 1: so in the following off season I got another surgery,
Speaker 1: and then I could not get on a team, so
Speaker 1: I missed training camp, I miss Otis and missed everything.
Speaker 1: And this was like probably late October, maybe around this time.
Speaker 1: I got insanely sick, right, I got strapped through, I
Speaker 1: got all these things, and I'm just like ruined, and
Speaker 1: so I'm just in bed. My wife left the house
Speaker 1: with the kids because I was that sick, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I haven't seen Entourage. I'm gonna binge
Speaker 1: wash Entourage. So I ended up I binge watched from
Speaker 1: start to finish the whole thing. And then when I
Speaker 1: finished the last season, I remember just finally just feeling
Speaker 1: so relaxed because Entourage took my mind off of like
Speaker 1: not getting signed from a team. The next day or that,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's next week. I got a call
Speaker 1: from the Giants saying, hey, we're gonna bring you back
Speaker 1: this year, and that's the year the Giants end up
Speaker 1: winning the Super Bowl. So winning the Super Bowl with
Speaker 1: the Giants that elevated me to play another what eight years?
Speaker 1: So Entourage was my was like my mental health, like
Speaker 1: it helped me out. So I can't even tell you.
Speaker 1: How can I call you Turtle right now? Real quick?
Speaker 1: You absolutely could right now after that story you have, yes,
Speaker 1: you are, you are presented to call me whatever you want. Um. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's an incredible story. I've never actually had anyone kind
Speaker 1: of put it that way. Like, but then all wow,
Speaker 1: and think about the connection. Turtle was the biggest Giants fan.
Speaker 1: Actually just found that Giants jersey that I think my
Speaker 1: character wore in like season two that's as Turtle on
Speaker 1: the back. Like I got to actually hang that up
Speaker 1: in the office. So wow, Look, I'm glad that we
Speaker 1: could help get you a ring. Ma. Man, that's incredible.
Speaker 1: Another eight years in the NFL. Yeah you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, because Jerry, do you get a cut? You
Speaker 1: get Jerry of what of any earnings after you've been datched?
Speaker 1: I'll just take a just let me just take a
Speaker 1: picture with the ring. I'll be happy. Let's take a
Speaker 1: ruby out the rings. No, well that's awesome. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's what it was. It put me up piece man,
Speaker 1: and I finally let it go and then boom, Jerry
Speaker 1: Rey's called and was like, let's do it. So appreciate
Speaker 1: it anyhow. Hi, Okay, that's an amazing story. What a
Speaker 1: way to kick things off, and even more appropriate now
Speaker 1: because I told everyone to pour themselves a glass of
Speaker 1: wine because you are the wine guy, and now we
Speaker 1: can cheers to that amazing story. And what's everyone got.
Speaker 1: I want to hear everyone's drinking ladies first. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: because you really know your stuff, will you're smalley yourself.
Speaker 1: We'll get into all that. But I went down to no,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you it's not God. You're the person to
Speaker 1: say that. No. This is a skin contact reesling from Slovenia.
Speaker 1: I love skin contact wine. I like funky wine. I
Speaker 1: like cloudy mineral really good. That was my second guest.
Speaker 1: Usually shy away from recling because it's so sweet, but
Speaker 1: this is exceptionally dry and it's really good. Dry reasoning
Speaker 1: is preferred for me. So a quick way to do
Speaker 1: that too, without having to read the label is honestly,
Speaker 1: just look at the back and you can see the
Speaker 1: alcohol percentage anything above, it's going to be a dry wine.
Speaker 1: Twelve and a half can you please just tell me
Speaker 1: real quick before we move on, what does a skin
Speaker 1: contact wine mean? What does that mean? So when they
Speaker 1: make white wine, they pressed the juice straight through and
Speaker 1: then they ferment the white wine. So in this case,
Speaker 1: they pressed the juice and they leave it in contact
Speaker 1: with the skins literally to get some of the structure
Speaker 1: on that wine. And so as you see, it's a
Speaker 1: little bit a little bit of color on their um.
Speaker 1: So either it could be aged to look like that
Speaker 1: or a skin contact. That's also how they make orange wine.
Speaker 1: I just had that for the first time. I didn't
Speaker 1: even know. I thought that was like a prank. I
Speaker 1: just had that for and it was delicious. By the
Speaker 1: way I enjoyed it. It was it was pretty just
Speaker 1: all right, your turn. I mean, look again, I following
Speaker 1: what Olivia just did and said, it's not going to
Speaker 1: be nearly She got super fancy camus cabernet. Nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with that, you know, like the best year wasn't that
Speaker 1: really hot year in l A in California? Right now?
Speaker 1: I thought, for like famus opus one specifically, we're supposed
Speaker 1: to be very good years. So how did I do?
Speaker 1: Did that? Is that? Is that how you know you're
Speaker 1: you're cool. Yeah, so I have a bobarresco. We're in
Speaker 1: Italy right now. Um, we got some nebiolo, which is
Speaker 1: what I just poured using my Corvin And the cool
Speaker 1: thing about this if you like um like high acidity
Speaker 1: and high tannins, this is the way to go nebuolo.
Speaker 1: Well let's backtrack. We've gotten ahead of ourselves a little bit.
Speaker 1: How did you make the transition? I know, I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I got too excited. How did we end
Speaker 1: up here? How did you become so certified? And how
Speaker 1: long after you stopped playing did you really get into
Speaker 1: this passion? I mean I started like getting into one
Speaker 1: probably my rookie year, actually my senior in college. I
Speaker 1: enjoy one. I think I was typical like most people
Speaker 1: are ant like sweet wines. Like that was my start.
Speaker 1: I wanted something that that I can drink in a
Speaker 1: drawer right now. And then it wasn't until my rookie year.
Speaker 1: I remember, I'm in Wisconsin. I'm a packer, and it's
Speaker 1: like it's beer country, right, So I'm like, I'm not
Speaker 1: drinking wine around these dudes, man, Like there's no way.
Speaker 1: So but come to find out, Charles Woodson, who we
Speaker 1: signed that same year I was drafted, was a big
Speaker 1: wine up and that actually made me excited and made
Speaker 1: me more comfortable cause I'm like, no one's gonna say
Speaker 1: anything to Charles if he's drinking one, right, that's how
Speaker 1: that's our best player on the d N team. And
Speaker 1: he was cool because he didn't hate them. He didn't
Speaker 1: hate us, the rookies. He didn't do anything crazy to
Speaker 1: make us like run up a tab on us. He
Speaker 1: actually took us out to dinner. He wined and dined
Speaker 1: us every every road trip, which was super cool. And
Speaker 1: he would always order these really cool and um you
Speaker 1: know expensive wines I had. Yeah, I had no idea
Speaker 1: what they were at the time, but I just thought
Speaker 1: it was cool. Not only it was cool that he
Speaker 1: enjoyed wine, but then to come to find out that
Speaker 1: he actually had his own wine, because I thought, when
Speaker 1: you look at wine, you're like, how the hell you
Speaker 1: get into this business? You know, it seems so like
Speaker 1: not feasible. Do you have to come from a wine family?
Speaker 1: Do you have to have a ton of money to
Speaker 1: even get started? Second part, yes, you do, um usually
Speaker 1: if you're trying to buy a vineyard. But the fact
Speaker 1: that he had his own wine, he was African American,
Speaker 1: he was an athlete, he was a pro bowler, all pro,
Speaker 1: and he was in the business. I thought that was
Speaker 1: super fascinating. So that's kind of how I got started.
Speaker 1: And then, you know, I think, being the youngest of three,
Speaker 1: I'm such a curious George, Like I'm always trying to
Speaker 1: figure out, like like what's going on, super observant, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to know more about this stuff. I kept
Speaker 1: getting invited to, you know, events in Milwaukee, and people
Speaker 1: were taking wine glasses, swerved it at my face and
Speaker 1: talking about the pretty legs, which I found out don't
Speaker 1: mean a damn thing. Um. So if someone's like nice legs,
Speaker 1: You're like, oh yeah, Syrup has legs too, you know,
Speaker 1: Um you could tell him that. And so I wanted
Speaker 1: to learn more. Like what got me into football is
Speaker 1: I was a big football historian. So I used to
Speaker 1: make collect cards. I collect posters like why everything NFL
Speaker 1: films like Jonathan Sunda, He's he was the guy's voice.
Speaker 1: Sam Spence was the composer, Like who knows that ship?
Speaker 1: I do? Did I swear my back? Okay? Like who
Speaker 1: I know that stuff? And It sounds crazy, but I
Speaker 1: really got into studying and trying to learn about wine.
Speaker 1: I buy. I bought all these magazines and books and
Speaker 1: what have you. And then I saw that documentary PSALM
Speaker 1: about the guys blind tasting and become a master Psalms,
Speaker 1: and I was like, Yo, where the hell is that at?
Speaker 1: And one of the master's songs on the movie's name
Speaker 1: was um in the movie's name is Peter Neptune. He
Speaker 1: has a school right by where we live in California.
Speaker 1: So I remember one offseason, I was like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: find this and go take this class instantly. So once
Speaker 1: we were finished, this is when I was in Washington.
Speaker 1: Now UM, I went, came home, took the was like
Speaker 1: an eight week course through the w SET, which is
Speaker 1: Wine and Spirit Education. Trust I learned, do not call
Speaker 1: it w SET because I did a commercial in London.
Speaker 1: It's a British institution and when I said W said,
Speaker 1: they cut the cameras off. They said you need to
Speaker 1: say the whole thing, so if you hear someone say,
Speaker 1: it's w s ET. So yeah, I took that and
Speaker 1: that just totally changed my entire world. Like I, wine
Speaker 1: became so non subjective for me, like it wasn't really
Speaker 1: do I like the wine or not. It was more
Speaker 1: so like I understand it whether I like it or not.
Speaker 1: Is it hard to get So I'm certified because I've
Speaker 1: looked into it for the w S E T. Because
Speaker 1: you can do online courses. I've looked into it. I
Speaker 1: really want to do it. It's really hard. It's harder
Speaker 1: the higher you go. Level like level one, you know
Speaker 1: you could probably have an idea boom second level two,
Speaker 1: step it up a little bit. Love with three is
Speaker 1: absolutely it's it literally is like going from pop Water
Speaker 1: to the NFL's absolutely crazy. Seriously, and so yeah, once
Speaker 1: I took that, I became so nonsubjective and it just
Speaker 1: really opened my eyes. And what people don't know is
Speaker 1: after I took that class, I found out that there's
Speaker 1: a wine region in Virginia. And then I ended up
Speaker 1: um when I came back for O T A S
Speaker 1: in Washington. I actually after act I would go work
Speaker 1: on vineyards Virginia. Like I would put on boots, throwing
Speaker 1: my car by driving in the dirt roads. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's kind of I just I just fell down the
Speaker 1: rabbit hole of wine and and that was it. I
Speaker 1: love that so a good buddy of mine, Ben lyons
Speaker 1: we have this bet every time we play golf together.
Speaker 1: We don't bet money. The bet is you gotta buy
Speaker 1: the winner a bottle of wine that you would take
Speaker 1: to a dinner party at Carmelo Anthony's house. He owes
Speaker 1: me too, He owes me two bottles. He has not
Speaker 1: paid yet. What kind of bottle should I be expecting
Speaker 1: because I don't want him to kind of shorten me here?
Speaker 1: Remember dinner party car Anthony's house. What wine is he
Speaker 1: sending me? I mean, that's tough, because Carmelo he's he's
Speaker 1: into the French wines and the stuff that he Lebron
Speaker 1: and Chris Paul and do you wait of drinking and
Speaker 1: stuff that no one else would ever buy it because
Speaker 1: it's absolutely insanely ridiculous. So hopefully something north, something north
Speaker 1: of nine you should get. So maybe like a first
Speaker 1: growth bordole wine or maybe a Grand Crew Burgundy, something
Speaker 1: like that. I'm glad I didn't know all this before
Speaker 1: the bet because I played relaxed and I smoked him.
Speaker 1: So I think if I knew that, I might have
Speaker 1: felt a little pressure and maybe he wouldn't have played
Speaker 1: so all right, and then yeah, you get it and
Speaker 1: let me know, I'd be like, n he low balled you, bro,
Speaker 1: what's he gonna do? And I have Will Blackman go
Speaker 1: tell them on Twitter that's going to be this is
Speaker 1: so good, this is so good, you know, seriously, Will. Though,
Speaker 1: when we talked about NBA players, there have been now
Speaker 1: articles written and people are really into the fact that
Speaker 1: NBA players on road trips get together and drink these
Speaker 1: really expensive bottles of wine. And now that's such a culture,
Speaker 1: Like it's really cool to be into wine if you're
Speaker 1: a rookie NBA player, where like you talked about, you
Speaker 1: were kind of out of your element. You were kind
Speaker 1: of one of one until Charles came around. But why
Speaker 1: do you think the NBA is a little bit ahead
Speaker 1: of the NFL and that whoa, you can go to
Speaker 1: dinner what to of guys on the team? You can't
Speaker 1: go to dinner with fifty three guys like you know,
Speaker 1: and and they're always on the road and they don't
Speaker 1: practice every day, they have shoot around, so I think
Speaker 1: they have more time to have their leisure, you know,
Speaker 1: to enjoy that stuff. And then too, when the top
Speaker 1: players are setting that trend. It's it's a little different,
Speaker 1: you know. I'm sure if like Brady, Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: you know whoever my homes were and Josh instead of
Speaker 1: playing golf, they were going around to these like wine
Speaker 1: places and really sitting a trend there. Like I think
Speaker 1: if that was the case, Shure now come to find out, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of players into wine. Especially the more
Speaker 1: I got into this business, I found out so many
Speaker 1: people came out of the woodworks like, hey, you know
Speaker 1: I enjoyed this too, But yeah, it's just because the
Speaker 1: main players are into it. You know. Now if Lebron
Speaker 1: and then were into you know, seltzers, you know seltzers,
Speaker 1: can you imagine the high Nuns will be flying a
Speaker 1: bunch of white claws will be the wave to you know,
Speaker 1: by noons? Do I crush high Dunes? This weekend? I
Speaker 1: had about eight of them too. Who's someone who's like famous,
Speaker 1: let's say, who's come out of the woodwork, who's like
Speaker 1: really into their wine. I just found out like Andrew
Speaker 1: Whitworth is really into wine. Yeah he is justin Tuck
Speaker 1: is a big wine guy, like huge, huge. I actually
Speaker 1: curvated his seller a couple of times. Matt Ryan is
Speaker 1: is massive. He has like an eight hundred bottle seller. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I did Matt Ryan seller justin Sucker. I did
Speaker 1: Reggie Bush and Celler. Reggie's like getting he's like interested
Speaker 1: in wine, so because he was kind of like here's
Speaker 1: what I want to spend and kind of I like
Speaker 1: to try whatever. So there's a lot of people like
Speaker 1: trying to understand it or those who are like full
Speaker 1: on like this is what I do. Joey Harrington is
Speaker 1: a is a big, big, big wine person. He actually
Speaker 1: text me, uh he has some old Oregon wines that
Speaker 1: he's into, so yeah, they're all over the place. But
Speaker 1: the real one who people do know is Drew bled
Speaker 1: cell that because he lives he lives on the vineyard,
Speaker 1: so Double Back Wine is his. He makes wine out
Speaker 1: of Washington, Walla, Walla, and it is absolutely dynamite. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like everyone's making wine now. Does that just
Speaker 1: like saturate the market. It does not saturated market. It
Speaker 1: makes the market super fun because here's what happened. Here's
Speaker 1: what happens is like before yes, people were getting into
Speaker 1: the business and just slap their name on the label
Speaker 1: and what have you. Now people are really like celebrities
Speaker 1: athletes are going to these vineyards and trying to learn more.
Speaker 1: Hang up with the wine makers trying to learn more.
Speaker 1: Like like Mary J. Blige has a wine called Sun
Speaker 1: Goddess and she actually went to her for Joli Vedenzia
Speaker 1: in Italy and was on the vineyard. Now, yeah, she's
Speaker 1: still learning about it, but she really went there and
Speaker 1: got to see the product made. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: thought that was super fascinating. Obviously Dwayne Wade, you know
Speaker 1: with his wine. Carmelo's wine is you know, from shocking
Speaker 1: off the pub. So it's you know who else is
Speaker 1: legit is ink? Really pink I'm talking about. She is
Speaker 1: like cat cat management is when you see them like
Speaker 1: stirring the grapes around because you want to keep the
Speaker 1: top of the like cap, you want to keep it moist,
Speaker 1: so you want to stir it around. She has wine
Speaker 1: out of Santa Barbara, Santa Jez An Happy Canyon called
Speaker 1: Two Wolves. And if she's not performing, she is making
Speaker 1: wine Like I'm dead serious, She don't, don't she didn't
Speaker 1: do anything else. Okay, I think I need to make
Speaker 1: wine or you can just custom crush you know, you
Speaker 1: hire someone alternating proprietorship. They make it for you. You know,
Speaker 1: you just fund it. I mean, I'm really good at
Speaker 1: drinking it. I think I could be making it. Should
Speaker 1: we talk some football guys? I'm game, I have I
Speaker 1: am no rush to. Oh, by the way, tell Sam
Speaker 1: that he needs to buy himself a set of darts, okay,
Speaker 1: because it's a big deal out there in the UK
Speaker 1: and at night. I guess, like I hang out with
Speaker 1: this winky people during the day, but then like certain
Speaker 1: days I'll go to like a legit pub, right, and
Speaker 1: it's like it's like going down, like give me some ale,
Speaker 1: give me some of these disgusting fries. Get off the way,
Speaker 1: and it's like Dark Knights. It's the real deal. And
Speaker 1: we think I'm kidding. If you think I'm kidding, We're
Speaker 1: gonna hang out more. Man, we gotta hang out. I'm
Speaker 1: hitting you offline. We're hanging out. Where are you at?
Speaker 1: I could be anywhere. I could be anywhere, Okay, I
Speaker 1: could be anywhere you are. We're hanging out, okay. But
Speaker 1: he obviously is from New York because we were talking
Speaker 1: about with Entourage and the Giants are his team and
Speaker 1: the Packers are my team. And because you played for
Speaker 1: this really works. Okay, be honest, who did you like
Speaker 1: playing for more in terms of city, fan base, colors, everything? Okay,
Speaker 1: So I mented the historian thing. So going to Green
Speaker 1: Bay was like an absolutely like football players like, I
Speaker 1: just loved everything about it. The p what were unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I don't think I paid for dinner in four years. Um,
Speaker 1: it was like this is so. I remember I went
Speaker 1: out to I wanted to a bar in Green Bay
Speaker 1: and I had a little too much and then a
Speaker 1: fan was like, hey, let me drive you home so
Speaker 1: you don't get in trouble. I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: So they drove me to who I am getting my keys?
Speaker 1: Make sure I was good, and and and away I went. Great.
Speaker 1: So but I will say this though, winning a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl in New York is absolutely crazy. And New York
Speaker 1: was cool because being a Giants I really got to
Speaker 1: see like what it was like, the process, like beginning
Speaker 1: that year they were doing so awful and then you
Speaker 1: really got to see what it was like to go
Speaker 1: through and finally get there and win it. So it
Speaker 1: was cool to see, like to see that part see
Speaker 1: like Coughlin's dynamic with the team, how we were, how
Speaker 1: we had just a team, like full of adults on
Speaker 1: both teams. Teams are full of adults and leaders like
Speaker 1: what you really need for a championship team. So it
Speaker 1: was cool to see both because I was there two ten,
Speaker 1: I just got released. Then obviously next year with New York.
Speaker 1: But yeah, overall, I would say Green Bay was absolutely
Speaker 1: tons of fun. But New York dynamite. I've got to
Speaker 1: ask because you were drafted in two thousands six, so
Speaker 1: you were there when Brett Farve kept saying he was
Speaker 1: coming back for two seasons, he was coming back. And
Speaker 1: then Aaron Rodgers crossover. It's been well documented that those
Speaker 1: two have not always gotten along, that those first couple
Speaker 1: of years were kind of awkward. Do you have any
Speaker 1: takeaway from seeing that situation? Yeah, I don't want to
Speaker 1: say like them two didn't get along, because I feel
Speaker 1: like I feel like men know how to be cordable
Speaker 1: despite like whatever kind of like issues may have. And
Speaker 1: for him, Aaron was drafting situation. Farve was still playing
Speaker 1: at the high level and they were trying to kick
Speaker 1: him out, like, bro, all right, we had enough, you
Speaker 1: know it? Actually, when okay, two sick was kind of whatever,
Speaker 1: and they were like, hey, let's move on. He came
Speaker 1: back two seven, we lose the NFC Championship game, like,
Speaker 1: and he's playing at a high m v P level,
Speaker 1: Like you get that far and you're still that good
Speaker 1: and they want you to get out of there. It's
Speaker 1: kind of it was super tough. So it was funny.
Speaker 1: But I would say this, despite whatever the drama, whatever
Speaker 1: dramas going on, we knew like we were good either way,
Speaker 1: Like the far Stay we were good Rogers, we were good.
Speaker 1: So we were like, just Perry pick somebody's even go
Speaker 1: and make some plays. Now I know Aaron's a Scotch guy.
Speaker 1: Did you ever drink wine with him? No? Oh, But
Speaker 1: here's what's funny too, So I so we were, Um.
Speaker 1: I went to a super Bowl party at this house
Speaker 1: in bel Air. It's like this guy who lives right
Speaker 1: across the street from I guess where a Bill Zara
Speaker 1: and used to live that dad whatever that guy's name is.
Speaker 1: And I mean this house was endless and so it's
Speaker 1: so funny, like the most random people there means l
Speaker 1: a right, That's how it is. I remember I was
Speaker 1: hanging out with Julio White and Aaron walks in the
Speaker 1: day after he won an m v P. He has
Speaker 1: like a you know, Scully on and he looks like
Speaker 1: he just speaking of He looked like he was doing
Speaker 1: cat management on Great Fatil Like he just walked in
Speaker 1: and everyone was like, it was just the most random
Speaker 1: thing I've ever seen. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Farv walks into the party. Oh yeah, it was, That's
Speaker 1: what I mean. It was so random. Farv walks in.
Speaker 1: I think like he walked in the same time Vanessa
Speaker 1: Hudges walking. So he walks in. I'm just name dropping
Speaker 1: like crazy. I funds like a dream. She was promoting
Speaker 1: her cactus water at this event whatever, and so yeah,
Speaker 1: them too are at this party again and I'm sitting
Speaker 1: there and then me and Prince Mcamara were just like
Speaker 1: look at this, like these two and they were totally cool.
Speaker 1: You know. I don't upset I didn't get the invite
Speaker 1: to this party because I was in l A at
Speaker 1: this period of time, and I'm a little upset I
Speaker 1: didn't get this. Uh, I feel I feel bad I
Speaker 1: had a party yet Lamartage, So that's oh man, I
Speaker 1: don't even know where to go from there because I
Speaker 1: want to ask a lot more questions about the party,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to. I don't want to live
Speaker 1: in that party. I think I get one more Packer question,
Speaker 1: I think I'm entitled to one more, and then you
Speaker 1: get three Giants questions. Does that sounds okay? Sounds good?
Speaker 1: Why do you think, Well, the Packers can't win a
Speaker 1: playoff game at home? No idea. I don't know. Just
Speaker 1: play the US the Tampa too, didn't they. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's funny because they gave up a lot of points
Speaker 1: for his Tampa. Then they go get Joe Barrett. He
Speaker 1: shares with the defense, and then they don't score enough
Speaker 1: against forty Niners. So I don't know, listen, just keep
Speaker 1: getting there, you know. It's funny when the expectation is
Speaker 1: that high. It's like they can't get the super b.
Speaker 1: But hey, just keep getting to the MT champianship game.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think right now what they're doing.
Speaker 1: They have Aaron Jones and a J. Dillon, like they're
Speaker 1: really leaning on them. I feel like the receivers are
Speaker 1: getting more confident in terms of what they're doing. To me,
Speaker 1: it's it's a long season. It's only week three and
Speaker 1: I feel like I know Aaron. He gets better the
Speaker 1: further they go into the season. So yeah, I think,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think just lean on the runner backs.
Speaker 1: That will help them a lot. Okay, fair enough, Jared,
Speaker 1: you have that conclude the packers segment. I'll find a
Speaker 1: way to get back there a little bit. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta say, well, I have grown up in Wisconsin
Speaker 1: and Kansas City. It's another story, but Wisconsin's home. My
Speaker 1: husband's from Sheboygan, which is about an hour from Green Bay,
Speaker 1: and I worked had a vineyard in Wisconsin. One summer
Speaker 1: I was home from college and we had a bunch
Speaker 1: of tourists always coming up from like Iowa, Illinois. You know,
Speaker 1: did you go to Madison too? No, I went to Georgia.
Speaker 1: We'll talk, We'll talk when you come to London. I
Speaker 1: almost went to Madison, by the way. Really yeah, I
Speaker 1: had too much fun on my visit and I couldn't
Speaker 1: go there. You know that I've heard that happen. I died.
Speaker 1: I died on my visit. Literally I died. I looked
Speaker 1: like it looked like Key first selling than the Lost Boys.
Speaker 1: I look just like him. Was major decision, like this
Speaker 1: is too much, Like this is not for me. This
Speaker 1: is VC is a great party school. I mean Boston
Speaker 1: in general, if everyone just emerges. He got there like
Speaker 1: thirty schools in Boston, but literally I went during like
Speaker 1: I think it was Halloween too, and that's like Madison
Speaker 1: is like yeah, just another world. And I just remember
Speaker 1: I met Jungle Juice. That's a nice person. Afterwards, after
Speaker 1: your visit, you go meet coach Alvarez, right, and I
Speaker 1: remember I go, he has he had this long desk.
Speaker 1: I mean it had to be like a thirty foot desk.
Speaker 1: It was absolutely ridiculous, like it's kind of like it's
Speaker 1: like a last supper table was that long. And I
Speaker 1: remember I sit down and I just I just go
Speaker 1: just like this. I put my head down on my arms,
Speaker 1: and I just hear him walking. He's walking towards me.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's a long table, so it took a long time.
Speaker 1: He was walking for a long time. And finally he
Speaker 1: comes over and he puts his hand on my head.
Speaker 1: He said, I know, son, like I know, like as
Speaker 1: in like as in yes, you had a great time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I told my dad on the plane, I was
Speaker 1: like dude, there's I could. I would, There's no way
Speaker 1: I can go here. They have like a new sports
Speaker 1: medicine facility. I like sports medicine. Like they gave me
Speaker 1: my Jerry Like it was just anyhow, Sorry, it's almost
Speaker 1: too a visit. It was too good. Oh that's so funny.
Speaker 1: But I was kind of like I asked a lot
Speaker 1: of questions on our dinner because they recruited me to
Speaker 1: play running back and they're starting running back. Was a freshman.
Speaker 1: I was like, you have a freshman running back. I
Speaker 1: was like, what if I play receiver? They said, you
Speaker 1: can play receiver. I said, what if IONE play defensive back?
Speaker 1: Could play defensive back too. I was like, well, if
Speaker 1: I want to coach the team, I just want to
Speaker 1: take ankles. Guys, you're not. I was like, they just
Speaker 1: want me here. Oh that is rich. I'm gonna sneak in.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sneak in some giant stuff if that's okay. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's totally allowed. Now. I'm pretty much one of the
Speaker 1: biggest like Tom Coughland guys around. You know, he was
Speaker 1: always they were always kind of calling for his head
Speaker 1: before the Super Bowls. When is he gonna get fired,
Speaker 1: and then we we know what kind of happened from there.
Speaker 1: And I do even remember like the Tom Coughlan time
Speaker 1: thing right and straighthand I think it was always the
Speaker 1: one you said it like if they tell you to
Speaker 1: be in the meeting at nine, you gotta be there
Speaker 1: at Was Tom Coughlin really that kind of coach? And
Speaker 1: did he ever? I don't see playing mind games. There
Speaker 1: was any motivational stuff he would try. Is there like
Speaker 1: a Tom Coughlin time for real? It wasn't mind games.
Speaker 1: It was legit. If you were late, you got fined. Okay, kid,
Speaker 1: you not you have the wrong color socks on, you
Speaker 1: will get fined. If you were if you didn't have
Speaker 1: a tie on, you will get fine. I mean he
Speaker 1: find us for everything. I remember we were traveling, right,
Speaker 1: who were playing? I think it was a saint, But
Speaker 1: I remember I had like a there was a three
Speaker 1: piece suit on, like it was tailor. It was nice, right,
Speaker 1: everything but a tie. But I was dressed up. So
Speaker 1: I remember I looked back at Coach cough and he
Speaker 1: had a neck pillow that you have to inflict yourself,
Speaker 1: and so he was he was he was blowing up
Speaker 1: the neck pillow and then he was turning maroon and
Speaker 1: I I'm like, coach, don't pass on on us. And
Speaker 1: he was like ha ha ha. He's like, where's your tie.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I look clean, Coach, I said,
Speaker 1: a look clean. He goes, you look super nice. Remember
Speaker 1: this is on the way to the game. Get there
Speaker 1: and played the game, come back, come back, blah blah.
Speaker 1: You know, we go to we come back after the game,
Speaker 1: go to our facility and I go put my pads
Speaker 1: in there. You know that I put my I grab
Speaker 1: my other stuff. There's an envelope on my seat. Envelope
Speaker 1: on my seat. Fine for not having remember this was
Speaker 1: no this was on the way to the game, and
Speaker 1: you know we got there, we stayed the night, play
Speaker 1: the next day, and on the way back there was
Speaker 1: an envelope in my locker. But I will say this,
Speaker 1: though he was he was great. He was outstanding because
Speaker 1: he I respect coaches who they are, who they are, like,
Speaker 1: they didn't sugarcoat anything. He was who he was. Um
Speaker 1: I and I get that now. I understand. You know,
Speaker 1: watching I remember watching America's game when they wanted two
Speaker 1: thou seven. How he was so tough and so stern
Speaker 1: and no one really got to like them. And then
Speaker 1: his wife was like, you need to let them see
Speaker 1: how you are. You are with your grandkids. Speaking of grandkids,
Speaker 1: Chris Knee is his son in law. Chris Knee and
Speaker 1: I played to get that Boston College, and I remember
Speaker 1: I remember watching the draft and he gets picked by
Speaker 1: the Giants and we were laughing so hard. We were like, oh,
Speaker 1: taking care of it was great. So it was cool
Speaker 1: because I got to see actually that when I was there,
Speaker 1: like he would come into them, you know, Tuesday's our
Speaker 1: day off for treatment, and he would let us bring
Speaker 1: our kids and he would play with our kids. And
Speaker 1: then he also created his leadership committee. This is what
Speaker 1: I thought was cool, where it was like Eli, you know,
Speaker 1: Ocean Murre, Justin Tug, David Deal, Richie Salbart, like all
Speaker 1: these dudes right and pretty much if if you guys
Speaker 1: can't handle it, didn't bring it to me. But if
Speaker 1: there's any issue of drama, like you guys handle it
Speaker 1: like I don't want to come into my desk or anything.
Speaker 1: And I was saying time like it was handled. So
Speaker 1: I think that that's also what helped our team be
Speaker 1: who it was. But there there was a time. It
Speaker 1: was right before the Super Bowl, right the night before.
Speaker 1: You know, we have a team meeting and you're expecting
Speaker 1: like this crazy Rah Ross speech like oh then and
Speaker 1: beat their ass. You know. The week before he told
Speaker 1: us the Burner ships. I love Burner ships, like burner
Speaker 1: ships when we play, like, let's go, we are not
Speaker 1: leaving without a win this week. I'm waiting for something
Speaker 1: like relatable like that. And what he did he pretty
Speaker 1: much went around the room and highlighted guys who sacrificed
Speaker 1: for the team, and he expressed like how much he
Speaker 1: loved each of one of us. He was damned there
Speaker 1: in tears and that was that was his speech really,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, dude, like let's go, Like
Speaker 1: that's motivating, Let's go, because you know you don't see
Speaker 1: that from him, but yes, he finds you for everything good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's got to be a little more impactful than I mean,
Speaker 1: burn the Ships is great. I love all that stuff,
Speaker 1: but you know, when you get kind of vulnerable the
Speaker 1: coach like that, So definding stuff though, for something as
Speaker 1: simple as like wrong colored socks or not we're in
Speaker 1: the toime? Is that just what? Because of the attention
Speaker 1: to detail that all of you have to have. I
Speaker 1: would say it's attention to detail. It's like, do you
Speaker 1: like respect, attention to detail, like discipline, like it was
Speaker 1: all those things. I get it. It's kind of silly,
Speaker 1: but I get it. I get what it is. It's like, hey,
Speaker 1: like this is this is the Giants, is how are
Speaker 1: we gonna run things? This is everyone is on the
Speaker 1: same page. Everyone is going to buy in, you know,
Speaker 1: literally probably get the buy so you win the super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Is there anyone on the Giants that kind of maybe
Speaker 1: surprised you at some of the after parties like, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: you're have You're having a real good time. I wanted
Speaker 1: to kind of go according to what you you thought
Speaker 1: guys would have been, like, yeah, I was. I was
Speaker 1: so tired, remember yeah, because my whole family was there.
Speaker 1: I was so tired. I think I think Kid Rock
Speaker 1: was performing at our after party, and I got actually
Speaker 1: got pretty cool with DJ Scribble, like he's super cool.
Speaker 1: I got to do him really well. And then that's
Speaker 1: what it was such a blur because then I was
Speaker 1: like hanging up my wife and I'm like, oh, we
Speaker 1: gotta packing like three hours. It's already there was no sleep.
Speaker 1: It's already three in the morning. My kids, my son's
Speaker 1: upstairs with his grandma and my dad there and my
Speaker 1: brother and it's like, man, we gotta pack and load
Speaker 1: up in three hours. It's already like three four am.
Speaker 1: So it was such a blur everything happened SOT. I
Speaker 1: do remember after the game, not the party, but after
Speaker 1: the game in the locker room. I remember like getting
Speaker 1: to my locker and Seal and Heidie Cloone were in
Speaker 1: my locker. I gotta change, guys, have a moment to
Speaker 1: uh change, see I could I feel I don't mind
Speaker 1: it with you too, because like I don't say names ever,
Speaker 1: I think it's so silly, but for you to like
Speaker 1: does wherever? So what were they doing in your locker
Speaker 1: because you know they let people in afterwards, it's super
Speaker 1: so like all the celebrities in afterwards were there and
Speaker 1: also didn't get that invite. I'm over to what you will?
Speaker 1: I'm over to. But hey, real quick, did you ever
Speaker 1: play in London in any of the London games? Twice? Twice?
Speaker 1: Twice in London? Yeah, okay, you like when you're with
Speaker 1: the time, change doesn't matter. I did both trips. I
Speaker 1: did one where you stayed the whole week, and I
Speaker 1: did the one where you came on the weekend. Um,
Speaker 1: they both suck the way because it's like you're there
Speaker 1: all week is like all right, you know this was cool,
Speaker 1: Now let's play and go home. All the other one
Speaker 1: is like you get there and you're like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I just I need to bree So I went with
Speaker 1: Jacksonville in two thousand thirteen when we played the NS
Speaker 1: and got absolutely dragged through the pitch dragged. It was awful,
Speaker 1: But I will say the atmosphere felt like a super
Speaker 1: Bowl because it was Wembley and it was completely sold out,
Speaker 1: completely sold out, fireworks, you've seen the most random jerseys.
Speaker 1: Everyone's excited like they love football out there, like for real.
Speaker 1: And then the second time, which was even worse, I
Speaker 1: was on the Redskins. We played the Bengals and the
Speaker 1: game ended in the tie, which I remember that game, yeah,
Speaker 1: which they didn't mind because like a tie tie. Really
Speaker 1: I was furious, Well, do you think the NFL should
Speaker 1: abolish ties? I mean, I have a kickoff or something,
Speaker 1: you know, like have two kickers just go at it.
Speaker 1: This year, I don't know, that might take longer than
Speaker 1: just playing it out this year, that's fine, but I
Speaker 1: think maybe they don't want to have overtime because for
Speaker 1: player safety, maybe because they don't want to keep playing
Speaker 1: go for to keep switching off go for two. Make
Speaker 1: the coaches do the kickoff, man, now we're talking, make
Speaker 1: the coaches have to go kick off and do something.
Speaker 1: You know who we would drill it. Tom Coughlin would
Speaker 1: drill a thirty five yarder if it was for the win.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that, Okay. Also, what do you
Speaker 1: think about the Pro Bowl now that's changing, getting a
Speaker 1: little facelift. What do you think about the new format? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you might as well do something just to
Speaker 1: make it competitive without the physical aspect of it, because yeah,
Speaker 1: literally it's they go there and they just literally just
Speaker 1: hang out. It's so funny. Last year Almar got arrested.
Speaker 1: This year at well yeah I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: that full story, but it's funny because they got a
Speaker 1: hotel and like Henderson, which is like forty minutes from
Speaker 1: the strip, and I think the second day everyone left
Speaker 1: their rooms and got rooms on the strip, So that
Speaker 1: was super funny. But yeah, just just make it fun
Speaker 1: and little competitive. Things I think would would would make
Speaker 1: it exciting. But yeah, because no one's really trying to
Speaker 1: hit anybody, I gotta pitch for you to make I'm
Speaker 1: all about improving things right in sports the way I've actually,
Speaker 1: I think for fan experience. So the PROB I'm all
Speaker 1: in on the court, Like the skills competition, that's fantastic,
Speaker 1: and later on this show at some point to do
Speaker 1: how to fix the dunk contest, that's another story. But
Speaker 1: for Pro Bowl, Look, we don't want to see I
Speaker 1: don't want to see the game either. I don't want
Speaker 1: to see anyone take on necessary hits. So what if
Speaker 1: you do the skills competition, you pick a few quarterbacks right,
Speaker 1: and then instead of doing the flag football game, you
Speaker 1: really just kind of do drills Like I want to
Speaker 1: go one on one with another actor, but I want
Speaker 1: my quarterback to be Josh Allen. I feel like he
Speaker 1: would do that. So if it's more like backyard football,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen say Jerry's seven yards slant and I don't know,
Speaker 1: Channing Tatum's guarden trying to lock me up, I think
Speaker 1: people watch that. Maybe if it's not me could get
Speaker 1: bigger names. But what if you involve like, just make
Speaker 1: it fun. I didn't want to see them play a
Speaker 1: flag football game kind of All Star Weekend is literally
Speaker 1: like you had all the above, and I feel the
Speaker 1: same way like bringing those those celebrity dunkers the dunk contest.
Speaker 1: You know, that's how we fix it fun. That's how
Speaker 1: we fix the dunk contest. You're right, that's my take
Speaker 1: of how you fix the dunk contest. Bring on professional dunkers.
Speaker 1: Wait here, bro, you guys have a lot of hang out. Okay,
Speaker 1: I have another question because we just saw this weekend
Speaker 1: Bills at Dolphins, heat and humidity playing a major factor,
Speaker 1: and Jerry and I were just talking about it. Have
Speaker 1: you played in the game that hot, that humid and
Speaker 1: is that a real thing? Is that something that betters
Speaker 1: especially should consider before placing their bets. It's funny. I
Speaker 1: would say no, but I guess I guess in this case, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw. I think it was Mike Fabriano said it's
Speaker 1: super unsafe, and I was like, come on, man, like
Speaker 1: it is. But my very first NFL game was in
Speaker 1: Miami actually around this time of year. I think it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it was round the time of year. It
Speaker 1: was on the field. It was absolutely horrible, horrible. I mean,
Speaker 1: I remember I was covering Marty Booker, former Bears, I
Speaker 1: think the Bears, but also a Dolphins receiver, and he
Speaker 1: and I, honestly we looked like two slugs trying to
Speaker 1: defend each other. It was just like, I was like,
Speaker 1: stop running, just people tell me that, right, he goes,
Speaker 1: I'm running it out. Okay, I'm not getting so I'm
Speaker 1: going straight to the water to have a sip. So
Speaker 1: my gosh, Yeah, dude, it was so funny. It was
Speaker 1: so hot. Was my first game, and it was just
Speaker 1: absolutely terrible, terrible. But um, but I have both both
Speaker 1: ends of the spectrum. The reason why I answer your
Speaker 1: question kind of like halfway, like maybe because it's funny.
Speaker 1: Like playing in Green Bay, you always think the opponent
Speaker 1: like it's going to be old for them. Remember like
Speaker 1: every time Miami came up, they would wood green Bay
Speaker 1: in the cold, so it didn't matter. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: actually I prefer I'll weigh a hot game like that
Speaker 1: over a cold game any day. Chicago, it is the
Speaker 1: worst place on earth to play football. I played in
Speaker 1: that game in two thousand I think it was two
Speaker 1: thousand seven. There was two thousand seven. We already had
Speaker 1: a division, we already had a first round by We
Speaker 1: did not need this game. But it's the Bears, so
Speaker 1: we you know, it's the rivalry. And remember the day
Speaker 1: before we got there, it was like minus ten, but
Speaker 1: there was no wind. If there's no wind, there's no win.
Speaker 1: It is all It's all right. The day of it
Speaker 1: is minus sixties miles and I'll win. It was brutal.
Speaker 1: So I remember during it was off. I remember during
Speaker 1: pre game like I'm just like trying to catch a
Speaker 1: point but it's not happening because the ball is going
Speaker 1: over the place. And I look at Brett five, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: Brett Farve never missed the game, you know, took Viking
Speaker 1: and without water, like just absolutely maniac, you know. So
Speaker 1: and so I go over. I'm like, this is not bad, right,
Speaker 1: He's like, well, this is the worst way I've ever
Speaker 1: played in I am cold, and I was like, oh man.
Speaker 1: So I run into the locker room. I'm like, guys,
Speaker 1: I said, Bret's cold. Who's gonna lose today? In that
Speaker 1: would shake me. I said we're gonna lose and we
Speaker 1: got absolutely humbled that game. I remember Ryan Grant. He
Speaker 1: kept scoring touchdowns, so he kept breaking long runs. We're like, dude,
Speaker 1: like just stop, like we're trying to we're trying to
Speaker 1: end this game and get the heck out of here.
Speaker 1: He's like, he's like, I got incentives, Like I got
Speaker 1: a hundred yards, I can get like a million dollars
Speaker 1: something crazy like that. So we'll bringing it back to
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. Do you think after what you saw last week,
Speaker 1: are they for real? I think so. Um, I think
Speaker 1: so because they're they're competing on all levels. You know,
Speaker 1: I think everyone was just waiting, but finally two would
Speaker 1: be in a situation where he can do his thing,
Speaker 1: and now he also has legit playmakers on the outside.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like when Marino had Mark Duper and
Speaker 1: Gary Clark like out there doing his thing. It's like that,
Speaker 1: and they got a guy who legit is is keeping
Speaker 1: the energy chill and they're having fun down there. So
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like you can have all the
Speaker 1: swagger and arrogance long to prepare for it, and I
Speaker 1: feel like that's what's going on with them, so right now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like them. I like the especially the two wins
Speaker 1: they had. You know, the Baltimore, Buffalo, very different wins,
Speaker 1: very different win. Well that was so much fun. Thank
Speaker 1: you for being a good sport. Yeah, yeah, all good.
Speaker 1: And I'm yeah, I'm hoping to cut touch base in
Speaker 1: London because there are a lot of good wine bars.
Speaker 1: I sent you that list. You already knew some of them.
Speaker 1: Thanks for your time. Thank you, will okay, Jerry. Now
Speaker 1: it's the time where we can really break down Entourage
Speaker 1: and I am in season three. I am loving this season.
Speaker 1: By the way, Busy Phillips has a Rottweiler. Your dogs
Speaker 1: meet at the dog park. You guys end up hooking up,
Speaker 1: but then are an old attacks her dog. I mean
Speaker 1: it was a great episode. I was backing up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Every now and then, we always would do these episodes
Speaker 1: where I would be fortunate enough to like where my
Speaker 1: character goes off with Kevin Dillon, Johnny Drama's character for
Speaker 1: these kind of bizarre storylines that have nothing to do
Speaker 1: with like the a storyline of the plot, but also
Speaker 1: Kevin Dillon and Johnny Drama is so brilliant and so
Speaker 1: effortlessly funny. I was just like along for the ride
Speaker 1: that episode, the dog park one where we kind of
Speaker 1: have this meet cute with our dogs, and we go
Speaker 1: back to So I struggled with that because, look, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying all actors are supposed to be able to
Speaker 1: do everything right. I could give me to ride a horse.
Speaker 1: I could ride horse. I am not known for, like
Speaker 1: my love scene slash makeout sare. That's not my skill set.
Speaker 1: That's not why you kind of hire me to do
Speaker 1: a thing. I'm not the heart throbby guy. It's just
Speaker 1: not what. It's not my skill set, right, So having
Speaker 1: a scene like that, I just remember almost in my
Speaker 1: mind just being liked, I really I don't want to
Speaker 1: do this. I felt like, I like also, you like,
Speaker 1: you're just meeting the person for the first time pretty much.
Speaker 1: I've met Busy at one other time. So I's like, hey,
Speaker 1: all right, well now we're meeting and we gotta we
Speaker 1: gotta kind of do it do this. So it's awkward.
Speaker 1: Those scenes are the worst. I always imagine. I would
Speaker 1: just think, God, I don't want my parents and my
Speaker 1: grandparents to watch. By the way, how about this, I'll
Speaker 1: give you one better every year. Uh. You know, we
Speaker 1: have a big premiere for Entourage where they would show
Speaker 1: two episodes, right, they showed that one at the premiere
Speaker 1: in New York, which my whole entire I'm just saying
Speaker 1: to my nineth year old grandmother for that scene. And she,
Speaker 1: to her credit, she was laughing. She was a good sport.
Speaker 1: But I tell you right now, I if you offered
Speaker 1: me an opportunity to Jerry, you know what, you will
Speaker 1: never have another kissing or love scene or anything like
Speaker 1: that ever again in your career. Are you okay with that? Fine?
Speaker 1: Sign me up. I don't want it. I don't need it.
Speaker 1: At those scenes, I just take them out, take them out.
Speaker 1: I don't need it. You're right, nex very convincing. Look,
Speaker 1: it's a funny. It's a funny episode. And she both
Speaker 1: of those both actors is that we worked with in
Speaker 1: that episode were hilarious. So it was a very very
Speaker 1: funny episode. But I was stressful. Oh my god. So good. Okay,
Speaker 1: And then the Fuki Jama episode was so good. Your
Speaker 1: character was a huge part of that plot. Basically, you
Speaker 1: were trying to get these shoes that were special edition
Speaker 1: and then Vince ended up buying them with your name
Speaker 1: for what twenty grand or something. Tell me about that episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that is one of the if I had the
Speaker 1: top five episodes that I get asked about the most
Speaker 1: or come up the most, that one is certainly in
Speaker 1: the top five talked about with like fans on the
Speaker 1: street and what was cool about that one? And Entourage
Speaker 1: did do this a lot back then. This is where
Speaker 1: oh seven, you know, sneaker culture was not nearly what
Speaker 1: it was today as mainstream. Not a lot of people
Speaker 1: knew that people waited online like they were waiting to
Speaker 1: buy tickets for Star Wars for a shoe drop. That
Speaker 1: was news to some people who weren't in that world.
Speaker 1: We showed that on screen, so it definitely opened up
Speaker 1: people's eyes to what that place was. Now. That episode
Speaker 1: with the gold fuki Jamas, the Air Force ones, I
Speaker 1: think there was five or maybe six ever made. Okay,
Speaker 1: I have the ones. People ask me all the time
Speaker 1: if you still have Did you keep those? He's like, yes,
Speaker 1: I kept them. Some of them have been sold up
Speaker 1: the six there's been two that have sold at like
Speaker 1: southebes I think for like a hundred and something thousand
Speaker 1: dollars only for you be a Harlan Decker, because you
Speaker 1: were were fast new friends and co hosts and business
Speaker 1: partners I went into the vault and I had to, Uh,
Speaker 1: I had to bust these bad boys out because everyone
Speaker 1: always asks. And now it has its own language on
Speaker 1: and obviously this this says Turtle. This says Salvatore Assante,
Speaker 1: which is the character's name. You'll find out. And this
Speaker 1: is all cool writing. All the writing on the shoe
Speaker 1: is right here. Jerry, you just told me Turtle's real name.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that yet. No, I didn't. I did not.
Speaker 1: That wasn't it. You've said before you that was That's
Speaker 1: not it. Cut that part out. Can we cut that
Speaker 1: part out of your brain? Could you just delete that?
Speaker 1: But anyway, I have the O G s from that episode.
Speaker 1: These are them. If you ever hear about me selling them,
Speaker 1: that means something really bad probably happened and I needed
Speaker 1: some money. But no, I don't have a plan on
Speaker 1: the only place. Maybe if like the Television Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame ever wanted them, maybe we could talk. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: not giving those bad boys up anytime soon. Okay, Well
Speaker 1: that was really good. I am loving season three. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I feel like I'm right in the meat
Speaker 1: of the show. You are if if there is an entourage,
Speaker 1: heyday you're you're in it, or you're entering the you're
Speaker 1: entering the Heyday, you're entering the I guess our our prime,
Speaker 1: our athletic prime. I love it. Well, we're in the
Speaker 1: prime of this episode. Let's get Peter Andrew alright's time
Speaker 1: for one of my favorite parts of the show. We
Speaker 1: gotta get to some Week four wagering with bet MGM.
Speaker 1: Betting analysts are odds on favorite Peter Andrew. Yes, Peter,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna we're gonna bypass some things last week.
Speaker 1: We're gonna just say we're not gonna really recab. We're
Speaker 1: just gonna call it an over. Was it an over?
Speaker 1: It was an over? I should have known Thursday Night football,
Speaker 1: when were we two Friar Muth receptions away from hitting
Speaker 1: seventeen to one, so close? All downhill from there. Sunday
Speaker 1: was embarrassing and my Niners crush crushed my dreams. Terrible
Speaker 1: game Sunday night that kind of killed me in every
Speaker 1: which way. Yeah, not a great game to watch. But
Speaker 1: I will say you you real, and I said it
Speaker 1: last week. You're getting so close on the single game parlay.
Speaker 1: So that's I'm really going to be interested in hearing.
Speaker 1: So we're not going to spend too much time on
Speaker 1: the recap. It's a new week. That's the beautiful thing
Speaker 1: about football. We kind of wipe this lay clean and uh,
Speaker 1: you have a good smile on your face. Where is
Speaker 1: your head at with these ten units we have, I
Speaker 1: don't even know who you are in the year, just
Speaker 1: so I lost track. We might be down a little bit,
Speaker 1: but listen, there's a good story coming week four. I
Speaker 1: think I think we're gonna get to where we want
Speaker 1: to be. Um, I'll start with what I'm calling the
Speaker 1: Olivia Special. We got a London match about the Packers,
Speaker 1: we got the Chiefs, so I'll start with the London match.
Speaker 1: Saints plus two and a half I think technically their
Speaker 1: home here and over there at tottingh Hotsburg Stadium playing
Speaker 1: against the Minnesota Vikings without Delvin Cook so pretty serious
Speaker 1: shoulder injury. I think it's dislocated, so he may be
Speaker 1: out quite some time. Madison decent backup but here nor there.
Speaker 1: Saints past defense fifth in the league as it stands
Speaker 1: right now, They're going to be throwing the ball the Vikings.
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson. Not a good game last week. I think
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lattimore can do the same that they did last week,
Speaker 1: which is keep them to under fifty yards, keep it
Speaker 1: a lower scoring game. And then on the other side
Speaker 1: of the ball. The Vikings past defense is the fourth worst.
Speaker 1: Christal Lovey amazing game last week a hundred forty plus yards.
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas first two weeks of the year has been
Speaker 1: really strong. This seems very lopsided to me. I was
Speaker 1: kind of leaning Vikings for looking into it a bit,
Speaker 1: just because I think they need this win. But the
Speaker 1: lean is on on the Saints. Given all of that,
Speaker 1: and given the Dalvin Cook injury, I feel really good
Speaker 1: about that. I thought you were going Vikings for sure.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you've switched. I switched. My My head is
Speaker 1: all over the place. I'm just feathers are ruffled from
Speaker 1: last so I so I switched last minute. But but
Speaker 1: I feel good about two and a half. You could
Speaker 1: even take a money line, but play it safe with
Speaker 1: the two and a half points. You go three units
Speaker 1: on that, right units on that. So we'll do the
Speaker 1: same as last week, three units on each of these
Speaker 1: and then will wrap with the one und all the
Speaker 1: one game parlay. All right, there's one. We got two
Speaker 1: to go next Packers ten and a half at home.
Speaker 1: No mac Jones most likely it's a big number. But
Speaker 1: this Pat's team is not that good. Mac Jones high
Speaker 1: ankle sprain. I'm guessing he's out next week. I know
Speaker 1: he played a bit boy like Belichick does. Pat's allowing
Speaker 1: a hundred sixteen rushing yards a game. Aaron Jones very
Speaker 1: quiet last week. A J. Dillon very quiet last week.
Speaker 1: I think the tide shift a little bit. They have
Speaker 1: a really good game. I see this is probably seventeen
Speaker 1: twenty point when doesn't seem like it could be close. Again.
Speaker 1: Pat's team that just underwhelms me a bit, especially in
Speaker 1: that division. They just they don't look like they did
Speaker 1: last year. I think this is a bit of a
Speaker 1: back to Earth kind of season for them. But let
Speaker 1: me ask you this, do you think mac Jones is
Speaker 1: worth however many points it dropped because Brian Hoyer is
Speaker 1: capable and uh in a normal everyday game, maybe playing
Speaker 1: at Green Bay against Aaron Rodgers, it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of both. It's it's obviously let's say mac Jones is
Speaker 1: worth three or four points, but Aaron Rodgers is worth
Speaker 1: seven to ten points in my opinion, so pretty impressive
Speaker 1: game last week against the Bucks. One throw in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter was ridiculous. I think it was the Robertson
Speaker 1: and just literally put it in the perfect spot that
Speaker 1: no other quarterback can do. Don't care if your Patrick
Speaker 1: Homes anybody, no one can do what he did. Really impressive.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I see this as a blowout came and
Speaker 1: to be honest, the first three weeks of the season
Speaker 1: have been very favorable for the sports book. I think
Speaker 1: this is one of those weeks you see a lot
Speaker 1: of the favorites start coming around and winning. Allright, things
Speaker 1: get a little bit more normal now, a little bit
Speaker 1: more normalized, and I think that will take you to
Speaker 1: the last one. So the other three units, which is
Speaker 1: Chiefs minus two and a half at Tampa Sunday Night football,
Speaker 1: I thought it was a very very un characteristic day
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs. The penalties, the off kicks, the fake
Speaker 1: field goal. I mean you can see Mndola replacing Bucker
Speaker 1: missing extra pointments in the field goal. Just was not
Speaker 1: Chiefs football. In my opinion. Mahomes furious at the enemy.
Speaker 1: Weird game, and I think they shape up this week.
Speaker 1: Their money line minus one thirty five. You can take
Speaker 1: the spread at two and a half, but I like
Speaker 1: the money line. Just them to win out right. I
Speaker 1: think it is a relatively close game. But again, that
Speaker 1: kind of is one of those weird games. I was
Speaker 1: all over the Colts, which was great, but it was
Speaker 1: one of those games they should have won seven different
Speaker 1: times and they just left them in. Let Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: kind of stay in the game when he had a
Speaker 1: pretty poor game for most of the first three quarters.
Speaker 1: Most likely, I mean, yeah, just I think it was
Speaker 1: a wake up call for them, so they come in.
Speaker 1: I was on the Colts, so I had that. I know,
Speaker 1: I gotta start getting this text chango and I had
Speaker 1: Ravens two and a half, Colts Muney line, and then
Speaker 1: to finish the parlor was niners. So could have cashed out,
Speaker 1: I didn't. Now this really is and this is an O. H.
Speaker 1: Dlia Harland Decker betting slip. I'm seeing you got the
Speaker 1: Vikings three units minus two and a half in London,
Speaker 1: maybe's Packers minus ten and avers that you got the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: I mean that that's straight up. You might have to
Speaker 1: you might have to ride with that one. Olivia. We
Speaker 1: need MGM we have Listen. I don't know if we
Speaker 1: talked about this, but one of our parent companies, Enting
Speaker 1: is based out of London. We can get your sorted
Speaker 1: on the book if you want to say the word
Speaker 1: Lodbrook's Coral when you name the name the book, we'll
Speaker 1: get the prices up there. Maybe we'll do the h
Speaker 1: D special put it up live for everybody in the UK.
Speaker 1: Never know. So this is what I think your most
Speaker 1: due for everyone. I've been saying it for for a while.
Speaker 1: You're you're knocking on the door, You're buzzing the tower
Speaker 1: like top gun. Okay, with these single Gay Parlay's Thursday
Speaker 1: Night Dolphins in Cincinnati, what do you got for us?
Speaker 1: Because I think this is the week I might just
Speaker 1: auto drop this in a betting slip, Peter Andrew, we
Speaker 1: need you your only hope here there Tursday Night Dolphins Bangled.
Speaker 1: What do you got? And I will say two weeks
Speaker 1: in a row again. If you are opted into our
Speaker 1: one game party insurance, you would have got your steak
Speaker 1: back again because we had everything else last week except
Speaker 1: for Friarmouth, so we would have got you covered this week.
Speaker 1: I'm decreasing the odds a little bit, so it's ten
Speaker 1: to one plus one thousand. I got the over forty
Speaker 1: seven and a half. I have t t Higgins any
Speaker 1: time touchdown plus te Higgins over fifty yards, and I'll
Speaker 1: talk about kind of my rationale there. And then the
Speaker 1: last one, which is a bit off the grain, is
Speaker 1: Micasecki anytime touchdown. So last week ty Conklin tight end,
Speaker 1: you can call him tight end one or two for
Speaker 1: the Jets eight receptions eighty three yards. They could not
Speaker 1: find a way to stop tight ends in the game.
Speaker 1: I think that follows suit this week. So that's why
Speaker 1: I've kind of taken Giseki to to score touchdown in
Speaker 1: terms of in terms of te Higgins. You saw it
Speaker 1: last week a little bit too, when you have a
Speaker 1: cornerback one all over Jamaar Chase doesn't have a great game.
Speaker 1: Savian Howard on Miami probably does the same thing this week.
Speaker 1: So then you look at te Higgins amazing week last
Speaker 1: week coming back from mid game injury. I think fifty
Speaker 1: yards on a touchdown very reasonable. He probably should have
Speaker 1: had that sick one in the end zone last week too,
Speaker 1: So you know, we're decreasing the odds a little bit,
Speaker 1: but plus a thousands still a nice payout. So whatever
Speaker 1: a unit is for you to win, tend to one
Speaker 1: pretty sweet. I feel really good about it, feel really
Speaker 1: good about the Olivia special. Just getting back to basics here,
Speaker 1: I think we get back on the right path. He
Speaker 1: I'm curious we were talking about it in the open,
Speaker 1: all these enders. I mean, I know you're taking the
Speaker 1: over on Thursday night, but what's your reasoning here? Why
Speaker 1: are all these enders hitting? I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: it's worth a conversation with our trading guys, because you know,
Speaker 1: traditionally everybody loves taking the over, so I wonder if
Speaker 1: they've kind of moved line slightly too to match that
Speaker 1: a little bit, and that goes across the industry, not
Speaker 1: just with that MGM, but really really interesting. I think
Speaker 1: it's something like of hit, which is very very abnormal.
Speaker 1: And then you can say the same correlation with dogs
Speaker 1: winning verse first favorites. So this is why I think
Speaker 1: we don't fret kind of too much in the first
Speaker 1: three weeks. I think we get back to reality a
Speaker 1: little bit. This week. I'd expect a tougher day for
Speaker 1: the books and maybe you see a couple more overs,
Speaker 1: a couple more favorites here. Yeah. Right, when you think
Speaker 1: things are going to get normal is when the overseas
Speaker 1: games started. If nothing can be normal at Totten of Hotsburgh,
Speaker 1: come on, see things has always for coming on. That
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. Yeah all right, Olivia, another
Speaker 1: one in the books. I think we're definitely hitting our
Speaker 1: prime here, as you mentioned earlier and before we go, so,
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Speaker 1: good show today, Olivia. That's my favorite one yet. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pour my self another glass. It's almost eight pm
Speaker 1: here in London. This was a fun episode. Finally the
Speaker 1: time change has worked in your favor for this one.
Speaker 1: Thanks everybody. Great show.