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Speaker 2: Welcome in Watch Driving the Great Episode two sixty four,
Speaker 2: our week three gambling show. Our picks kind of found
Speaker 2: their footing last week after a two and three week one,
Speaker 2: after far too many two and three weeks last year. Uh,
Speaker 2: we'll get it to those in about twenty minutes. Demanse's
Speaker 2: teasers are we might have to recalibrate the strategy a bit,
Speaker 2: and I'm here to help. And Demanse, I fear is
Speaker 2: by because I did take a sneak peek this week
Speaker 2: at the potential teaser you were thinking about, and I
Speaker 2: fear you're making a mistake far too many gamblers make.
Speaker 2: Which is it the teasers aren't going great? What if
Speaker 2: I just paid for more points? What if what was
Speaker 2: initially a six point teaser becomes a seven point teaser.
Speaker 2: Now we're to a seven and a half point teaser.
Speaker 2: There's just a lot of things. Well, it was right,
Speaker 2: I understand, but it was it though, I I I understand,
Speaker 2: But that maybe that means if you got to pay
Speaker 2: that much for that key number, maybe that's why there's
Speaker 2: other games you can pick. So again, it's you're your
Speaker 2: own man. It's it's your money, it's your teasers. But
Speaker 2: we are going to it this point, talk it through.
Speaker 2: We're just going to talk it through and I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna give you my two cents on it. So all
Speaker 2: that coming up in the Gambling Show. But first, what
Speaker 2: missed the cut? The one hundred and sixty seven nominees
Speaker 2: for the Pro Football Hall of Fame we're announced. That's
Speaker 2: too many to get into today. Obviously, you guys know
Speaker 2: how much I love the NFL or the Profooball Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame. We'll do that at some point, Jordan, love
Speaker 2: your guy Demanse back at practice. I don't think he's
Speaker 2: gonna play this week. The fact though, that it's even
Speaker 2: possible means he should be playing next week, which is
Speaker 2: great news for the Green Bay Packers, and Woes retires
Speaker 2: from media to be the GM at Saint Bonaventure. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna I have a very quick Woes story, which Demonse
Speaker 2: it involves you direct directly, but I don't even know
Speaker 2: if you know about it. So Adrian Wojanowski, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: I'll do this as quickly as I can. But this
Speaker 2: is my version of a little Woe's tribute, and I
Speaker 2: hope this gets back to him in some capacity. So
Speaker 2: right when I moved to Los Angeles, when I went
Speaker 2: to LA. So it's twenty sixteen and I'm in LA.
Speaker 2: My family's in Houston, kind of commuting back and forth.
Speaker 2: It's the NBA trade deadline, and I tweet out you
Speaker 2: something to the likes of The most diabolical move imaginable
Speaker 2: would be if Mark Stein or whomever the other newsbreakers
Speaker 2: were just tweeted Woge's cell phone number right now as
Speaker 2: a joke, like meaning it would ruin his ability to
Speaker 2: like break news for the day. It was just kind
Speaker 2: of a lark. I thought it was a funny idea
Speaker 2: of like, oh, you're gonna try to break news. What
Speaker 2: if I give a million people your cell phone number
Speaker 2: and cripple your phone on the most important day of
Speaker 2: your year. And it was a total joke that I
Speaker 2: thought everyone to understand. It was a joke. And Woades
Speaker 2: text me and was like, please take that down, and
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, man, like he's was. He
Speaker 2: either didn't know I was joking or thought someone not
Speaker 2: Mark Stein, someone who had his number, might see that
Speaker 2: and be like, oh, that would be a good way
Speaker 2: to screw this guy. So I did, and I apologized
Speaker 2: and he was like oh no, no, no, he was very
Speaker 2: very kind. But that actually was a so maybe he
Speaker 2: DMed me, didn't text me because I didn't. We had
Speaker 2: never spoken before. I've never worked at Es, we've never spoken,
Speaker 2: but that interaction sparked a relationship. If you you will
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, texting, dming whatever. So a
Speaker 2: few months later, Demonse was determining whether or not post
Speaker 2: high school he was going to go play potentially like
Speaker 2: D two college basketball, junior college basketball, or prep school.
Speaker 2: And I knew that woj had a lot of connections
Speaker 2: in those worlds, and so I, having never met him,
Speaker 2: having never spoke to him on the phone, reached out
Speaker 2: was like, hey, here's the situation for my son. Here's
Speaker 2: his basically you know, huddle mixtape, here's you know, his resume,
Speaker 2: if you will, what are your thoughts? And he put
Speaker 2: me in contact immediately with two people from Northeast basketball
Speaker 2: prep schools that he thought potentially could would be a
Speaker 2: fit for you, would work for you, put me on
Speaker 2: a grex with someone vouching for me. Again, we never met,
Speaker 2: and that was for the people who did know who
Speaker 2: did I don't want to talk about him like he
Speaker 2: passed the people who know Wojes personally. It seems like
Speaker 2: there's a lot of anecdotes like that. And it was
Speaker 2: incredibly kind, and it was totally unnecessary, and it was
Speaker 2: for someone who the only reason he had a relationship
Speaker 2: with the me part of it was someone who had
Speaker 2: done something that kind of you know, that wasn't nice. Now,
Speaker 2: it wasn't intentionally mean, but it's not like I had
Speaker 2: ever done him a favor. I had done the opposite
Speaker 2: of a favor, and that allowed me to have his
Speaker 2: number and reach out to him, and then he did
Speaker 2: me a favor. So yeah, I don't even know what
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: I remember the workout if that's if that was the
Speaker 3: connection that he got me with. I remember working out
Speaker 3: with the guy in La some random Jim somewhere. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: shadowt to it.
Speaker 2: So that was that was actually a different one than
Speaker 2: the workout you did. But yes, but it was that
Speaker 2: it was during that time, in that process and all
Speaker 2: of it, and so it was I mean, just great dude,
Speaker 2: and God bless him, man that insider breaking news. Life
Speaker 2: is a tough life. People roll their eyes in it.
Speaker 2: I think at times, like how you make millions of dollars?
Speaker 2: But I the as I've said before, and I'll say again,
Speaker 2: and then we'll get to football. I know this sounds
Speaker 2: callous or thoughtless, for how many people are actively their
Speaker 2: biggest struggle every day is financial related, and I have
Speaker 2: true empathy for that. But for folks once, Woj has
Speaker 2: been wealthy for a long time, has made a lot
Speaker 2: of money for a long time. So the amount of
Speaker 2: stress and time away from your family and all of
Speaker 2: it that the job takes. The money don't fix it,
Speaker 2: so to speak, as much as it would if someone
Speaker 2: who didn't you know what I mean, went from barely
Speaker 2: scraping bite all of a sudden getting money like the
Speaker 2: he's now I would imagine to a place in his
Speaker 2: life where any more money he makes he won't be spending.
Speaker 2: Like every dollar he makes moving forward, you know, is
Speaker 2: for you know, his family, for other people whatever. And
Speaker 2: so that is the holidays and dinners and everything. You're
Speaker 2: just connected to your phone. So God bless him man
Speaker 2: and going to Saint Bonaventure and being able to do
Speaker 2: something with his alma manter, that's a really cool thing
Speaker 2: and I'm super happy for him. Uh And so yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean and the NBA Breaking news space just lost
Speaker 2: the legend. So there's my woes piece demons. Let's now
Speaker 2: get to the football.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, So my Ravens have had their worst starts
Speaker 3: of the season since twenty fifteen. Unfortunately, no team has
Speaker 3: ever won a Super Bowl starting off three on. Only
Speaker 3: one team since two thousand has made the playoffs start
Speaker 3: in zher and three. Now, I don't play down six.
Speaker 2: Teams ever, and only six teams ever have made the
Speaker 2: playoffs starting zero to three, which is wild.
Speaker 3: Go ahead as a low percentage. And yeah, they got
Speaker 3: Dallas that are trying to bounce back off that loss
Speaker 3: to the Saints. Do you think this is the biggest
Speaker 3: the biggest game of the Ravens season this year?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it's hard to see how they come
Speaker 2: back from this and if they were to lose, and
Speaker 2: I you look at the Ravens schedule, demon say, here's
Speaker 2: the problem for Baltimore, and here's why I think. In fact,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna look right now, I bet they are. I
Speaker 2: haven't looked at this. I bet they are underdogs to
Speaker 2: make the playoffs. I bet right, and forget when the
Speaker 2: super Bowl. I bet to make the playoffs. They're underdogs.
Speaker 2: Let me go on. Hold on playoff playoff odds. Baltimore,
Speaker 2: they're a slight favorite there. Yeah, you're They're minus one
Speaker 2: twenty five to make plus one zero four to miss.
Speaker 2: So a slight, slight favorite to make the playoffs. Here's
Speaker 2: the problem they have, to my eye, three just three
Speaker 2: layups remaining. They have a game, uh, they have a
Speaker 2: layup home against Washington, home against Denver, and at the Giants.
Speaker 2: Here is demons. The rest of their schedule non divisional
Speaker 2: games at Dallas home for Buffalo, at Tampa at the
Speaker 2: Chargers home for the Eagles, at Houston, plus six divisional
Speaker 2: games against the Brown, Steelers and Bengals. So four to
Speaker 2: fifteen games left, three layups, six tough divisional games, and
Speaker 2: then six brutal non divisional games. Man, we'll say it again,
Speaker 2: and they're rolling two exactly exactly. That's my point. And
Speaker 2: so if they lose to Dallas, I do think they're cooked.
Speaker 2: I don't think zero to three when you have that
Speaker 2: tough of a schedule remaining is recoverable. And I also
Speaker 2: think that they're right now are some real structural problems
Speaker 2: with the team. It their offensive line. They lost three
Speaker 2: starting offensive linemen in the offseason. That is showing up.
Speaker 2: I did you see the did we talk about or
Speaker 2: did did you see the Zay Flowers retweet?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, souse him not getting the ball enough or
Speaker 3: something in.
Speaker 2: The second half. Yeah, And he's not a big tweeter
Speaker 2: anyone who's they're not active on social media. And then decide,
Speaker 2: like I think he had tweeted twice in the last
Speaker 2: three weeks, decides to hit the old retweet button on
Speaker 2: a you know kind of I don't want to say
Speaker 2: shot at the team, but publicly voice your frustration. That's
Speaker 2: a little concerning to me, especially because I think Baltimore's
Speaker 2: best path demonse is against Dallas at the very least
Speaker 2: is run the damn ball, feed Derrick Henry, play bully ball,
Speaker 2: those things, and defensively right now they're having a real
Speaker 2: adjustment period in Zach Orr taking over for Mike McDonald.
Speaker 2: So I do think Baltimore is in real trouble and
Speaker 2: Baltimore my ever. We were talking about it before the
Speaker 2: year and I said it would be Philly. Now maybe
Speaker 2: Philly could still be on that list, but maybe there'll
Speaker 2: be more than one. But I said when we were
Speaker 2: when we were doing our preseason picks that every year, man,
Speaker 2: we always talk about the team that shocks us in
Speaker 2: a positive way, who's going to be this year's Texans,
Speaker 2: that go from nobody thinks they can be any good
Speaker 2: to where they are. But the flip side of that
Speaker 2: coint is almost every year there's an opposite one of
Speaker 2: those as well, a team that everyone has penciled in
Speaker 2: for eleven twelve wins that falls apart. And I wonder
Speaker 2: if all of a sudden that could be Baltimore, And
Speaker 2: I wonder how badly that blowing a ten point lately
Speaker 2: to the Raiders is going to haunt them, all right,
Speaker 2: go ahead, and what else?
Speaker 3: We can be the team that I think they can be.
Speaker 3: They'll get back in it. I mean, and they're ower
Speaker 3: and two. They kind of could be one on one.
Speaker 3: They play the Chiefs in the first week, so that's
Speaker 3: that's something there.
Speaker 2: Well, they could be. Here's the thing, they could be
Speaker 2: two and zero. They they could have stolen the game
Speaker 2: from the Chiefs and they should have beaten the Raiders.
Speaker 2: So that's the I my analysis of this. Yes, I
Speaker 2: said they have some structural issues, but it's less based
Speaker 2: on the quality of team I think they are and
Speaker 2: more based on how hard, how big of a hole
Speaker 2: they've dug themselves only two weeks in. But go ahead.
Speaker 3: On the Cowboys side of it, They've got a tough
Speaker 3: stretch of games coming up with Detroit, San Francisco, Atlanta, Philly,
Speaker 3: and Houston. So how badly do the Cowboys need this win?
Speaker 2: Not as badly as that makes it sound, because they
Speaker 2: they when we were talking Baltimore, all six of their
Speaker 2: divisional games are tough. The Cowboys, I thinker the softest
Speaker 2: division in the league. The Giants are barely a professional team.
Speaker 2: Washington has major problems defensively and is starting a rookie quarterback,
Speaker 2: and you guys know that I think Philly is I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go ahead and say it mid. I've decided I
Speaker 2: like mid as a phrase I used to make fun,
Speaker 2: but I like it. I like it. I do say
Speaker 2: it a lot. So you've got those games. You also
Speaker 2: have a Panthers game still on your schedule, and you've
Speaker 2: got this at the Steelers. Not easy, but point being,
Speaker 2: I just think the Cowboys schedule is so much more advantageous,
Speaker 2: and I think you might be able to win the
Speaker 2: damn NFC East with nine wins. If I'm right about Philly,
Speaker 2: nine wins could win you the division. So it is.
Speaker 2: It's a weird spot where I think Baltimore and Dallas
Speaker 2: are similar quality of team. Maybe Baltimore is a little
Speaker 2: bit better, if you know, on a neutral field, all
Speaker 2: things considered, But I just think Dallas's path is so
Speaker 2: much easier. All right, let's do one more Ravens question
Speaker 2: here about Harbaugh.
Speaker 3: Uh. Yes, the Ravens fans are calling for Harball's job.
Speaker 3: Who do you think would be a better option for
Speaker 3: head coach of the Ravens?
Speaker 2: All right, So, I gotta tell you my nightmare, and
Speaker 2: I don't think it's likely, but here's my nightmare scenario.
Speaker 2: My nightmare scenario is that the Ravens truly do have
Speaker 2: a season from hell like five and twelve and something,
Speaker 2: because it was If they just have a mediocre year, Harbaugh,
Speaker 2: they're not gonna fire the coach. But if it's truly
Speaker 2: season from hell and it feels like we need to
Speaker 2: shake the snow globe, maybe they would. And I think
Speaker 2: hiring John Harball would be a mistake for them, unless
Speaker 2: it's to hire Bill Belichick. That's my net. They've as
Speaker 2: my quest for the Chiefs to become the greatest dynasty
Speaker 2: in NFL history. Lamar Jackson getting Bill Belichick to be
Speaker 2: his head coach is not something that I want on
Speaker 2: my Bengo card. So I like I will if the
Speaker 2: Ravens start truly spiraling, which again I'm not predicting, but
Speaker 2: if they do, you're gonna find your old buddy Nick
Speaker 2: Wright starting to root really hard for the Ravens to
Speaker 2: I I just I don't want Bill Belichick to coach
Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills or the Baltimore Ravens. Go anywhere else
Speaker 2: you want Bill anywhere else. I already have to deal.
Speaker 3: With Jim Harba so different. Like I feel like Tom
Speaker 3: Brady is very different from Lamar Jackson. Oh, it's not
Speaker 3: about very different.
Speaker 2: I think. Yeah, I don't think he'd be coaching up No, no, no,
Speaker 2: that's not what it is. I don't think he would
Speaker 2: be coaching the quarterbacks. I just think if if you
Speaker 2: paired one of those quarterbacks with Belichick's defense, Belichick's game management,
Speaker 2: Belichick's organizational strategy, now you're now you're really a threat,
Speaker 2: and so that that's what it is. It's it's just
Speaker 2: it's I don't think he would There's much he would
Speaker 2: do on the offensive side of the ball with the
Speaker 2: quarterback Josh or Lamar. I just don't want those two.
Speaker 2: Those two quarterbacks are so uniquely talented and uniquely dangerous
Speaker 2: that if you paired them with the greatest defense of
Speaker 2: mine in NFL history, that's not great for the You know,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs are going to be trying to four peat
Speaker 2: next year. I don't want Belichick and Lamar standing in
Speaker 2: the way next Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So the Falcons are riding high after that Monday
Speaker 3: night football win against the Eagles.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Mahomes is coming off of what you might say
Speaker 3: is his worst game of his career. How do you
Speaker 3: expect mahomes response has done?
Speaker 2: I think that the Chiefs offense is gonna hum this weekend,
Speaker 2: I do. I think that the Chiefs finally have a
Speaker 2: moment to breathe after two games that were the other
Speaker 2: team's super Bowls and now they get an Atlanta team
Speaker 2: that is coming off a season saving emotional win, and
Speaker 2: whether they will admit it or not, they know in
Speaker 2: the back of their head, Okay, we can lose this game.
Speaker 2: We're playing the Chiefs. It's all right, Like we got
Speaker 2: that win over Philly, and I just think that's human nature.
Speaker 2: They are also on slightly short rest, and then there's
Speaker 2: this demon day. Patrick Mahomes has played ten games in
Speaker 2: his career in a dome. What do you think his
Speaker 2: record is in those ten games.
Speaker 3: I'll give them.
Speaker 2: Ten and oh would be correct. Twenty three touchdowns, two picks,
Speaker 2: three hundred and fourteen passing yards per game, a one
Speaker 2: oh five rating in retractable roof stadiums, so controlled climate,
Speaker 2: he's three and one ten touchdowns, one pick with a
Speaker 2: one sixteen rating. So in non outdoor games, Mahomes in
Speaker 2: his career is thirteen and one with thirty three touchdowns,
Speaker 2: three picks, a one ten rating, and three hundred yards
Speaker 2: per game and seventy percent completions. So I, and you're
Speaker 2: gonna have Xavier Worthy on that fast track and I
Speaker 2: love Arrowhead, but it's not you know, it's not necessarily
Speaker 2: a speed field you have. Mahomes also sneaky historically a
Speaker 2: better road quarterback than home quarterback. At home, he has
Speaker 2: a ninety nine rating, one hundred and three touchdowns thirty
Speaker 2: three picks on the road, a one toh eight rating,
Speaker 2: one hundred and nineteen touchdowns thirty three picks. Uh. Crazy,
Speaker 2: insanely his home road record, I didn't realize this. He's
Speaker 2: played forty nine home games forty nine road games. Dude,
Speaker 2: is thirty eight and eleven at home, thirty eight and
Speaker 2: eleven on the road. That's remarkable. And so again these
Speaker 2: are all just regular season numbers. Obviously, he's undefeated in
Speaker 2: his career on the road in the playoffs. Uh, And
Speaker 2: so I, so I think the Chiefs offense against a
Speaker 2: all you have to do is a boy Jesse Bates.
Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead. Do you think it'll be a big
Speaker 3: week for Travis kelce He's come out and said that
Speaker 3: his slow start is on him.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, here's my working theory on Travis kelce
Speaker 2: I think Travis Kelcey has approximately six on the low end,
Speaker 2: ten on the high end, so we'll call it eight
Speaker 2: excellent games left in his body, and he is going
Speaker 2: to judiciously use them as needed. And I that if
Speaker 2: I don't know, if he only wants to play, if
Speaker 2: he wants this to be his last season, then I
Speaker 2: think he could still have an excellent season if he
Speaker 2: wants to fire all those bullets, If he wants to
Speaker 2: play two more years, then I think we're gonna see
Speaker 2: a lot of games like we've seen early in the year,
Speaker 2: where Travis is just out there and I just the
Speaker 2: This is where I remind people that Travis Kelcey, uh
Speaker 2: is he turns thirty five years old in two weeks.
Speaker 2: And Rob Gronkowski, who again has been retired for a
Speaker 2: couple of years, and that was after he retired the
Speaker 2: first time is thirty is thirty five years old. Rob
Speaker 2: Gronkowski is four is five months five months older than
Speaker 2: Rob Grenk. I'm sorry, yeah, Travis kelce is five months
Speaker 2: younger than Rob Gronkowski five months. Gronk retired for the
Speaker 2: first time in twenty nineteen, came back, played two years,
Speaker 2: and has been retired three more years. So I just think, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: that's not what I was trying to do. What you
Speaker 2: don't have to blow out someone else's candle to make
Speaker 2: yours shine brighter. I'm not taking a shot at Gronk
Speaker 2: at all, especially because, as I told you guys last week,
Speaker 2: I'm be playing poke with Gronk in Vegas in November
Speaker 2: at the Big Game on Tour with my friends at
Speaker 2: Poker Stars in the North American Poker Tour. I Uh,
Speaker 2: the point I'm making is it's trying to put in
Speaker 2: context how old Kelsey is. He and Gronk are the
Speaker 2: same age. Gronk first retired six seasons ago, came back,
Speaker 2: and then retired for good three seasons ago. So I
Speaker 2: don't So, I don't think you're going to have week
Speaker 2: to week dominant Travis Kelcey anymore. I think he is
Speaker 2: going to have dominant stretches and dominant games, But I
Speaker 2: also think he only has so many of those left.
Speaker 2: H All right, let's uh go ahead.
Speaker 3: You think you think Gronk gets gets in the Hall
Speaker 3: of Fame before Kelsey retires, or does Kelsey retire before
Speaker 3: Gronk gets in the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 2: No, because I think because Gronk go get in the
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. Wait no, I said that backwards. I
Speaker 2: think Kelsey will retire before Gronk gets in the Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame. This is Gronk's third year retiring, so he's
Speaker 2: got to wait two more years. I think it could
Speaker 2: be the same time essentially. But yeah, so I don't.
Speaker 2: I think I think Kelsey is planning on playing two
Speaker 2: more seasons, That's my guess. I think he's planning on
Speaker 2: playing this season one more, which is one of the
Speaker 2: reasons he has to be so kind of judicious. I
Speaker 2: also this is where I folks can roll their eyes,
Speaker 2: but I believe this. I also think when we talk
Speaker 2: about oh is Taylor Swift is the relationship of distraction
Speaker 2: those things, I don't think people think about it in
Speaker 2: the proper terms. A week ago, week and a half ago,
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift buy Ins and Kamala Harris all of a
Speaker 2: sudden got really thrust into our heinous political vortex in
Speaker 2: a way she hadn't previously experienced. You had Elon Musk
Speaker 2: saying he'll impregnate her. You have people just all this
Speaker 2: nasty ship and I think when people deal with that,
Speaker 2: they go to their closest loved ones to confide in,
Speaker 2: to talk to for support. And do I think that
Speaker 2: Do I think that leading into the Bengals game, there
Speaker 2: was a lot of Travis's time and energy that was
Speaker 2: spent in trying to, you know, help if you will,
Speaker 2: and deal with the fallout that his girlfriend was dealing with.
Speaker 2: I do I think that's I think that's human nature.
Speaker 2: I think you would be crazy to act like that
Speaker 2: doesn't affect people. And so I do look at that
Speaker 2: as a piece of it, and I think that's just
Speaker 2: totally reasonable. I think there are and the fact that Travis,
Speaker 2: like how much was Travis dealing with the fact there
Speaker 2: were those fake tweet like somebody made a fake tweet
Speaker 2: that he threatened to beat up Elon Musk. Then he's
Speaker 2: got to deal with that, Like there's just a bunch
Speaker 2: of stuff that he was thrust into last week that
Speaker 2: I think he was dealing with. And he's super old,
Speaker 2: and so yeah, I just don't think he's going to
Speaker 2: be weak to weak great, but I still think he's
Speaker 2: the most valuable playoff weapon in football.
Speaker 3: Next, Okay, a few unlikely teams are emerging earlier this season,
Speaker 3: but who can turn their hype into actual beliefs? And
Speaker 3: so you got the Bucks here, the Cardinals, the Seahawks, Chargers,
Speaker 3: and the Saints. All these teams came into the end
Speaker 3: of the season as underdogs to make the playoffs. By
Speaker 3: the way, all.
Speaker 2: Right, so I picked the Chargers and Bucks to make
Speaker 2: the playoffs for the year. Think they're both positioned very well.
Speaker 2: I do worry about the Bucks defensive injuries the Chargers.
Speaker 2: I don't want to overrate what the Chargers have done
Speaker 2: beating the Raiders and the Panthers, but I don't want
Speaker 2: to underrat it either that they've won those games without
Speaker 2: Herbert having to do anything. I think the Seahawks are good,
Speaker 2: but in a very tough division that's tougher now because
Speaker 2: of the Cardinals. The Cardinals' offense feels very real, their
Speaker 2: defense feels incredibly beatable. And the one that I believe
Speaker 2: in the least is the one that everyone else in
Speaker 2: the media is getting duped by, and that's the Saints.
Speaker 2: I just guys, if you've been watching football the last
Speaker 2: half decade, you know that occasionally Derek Carr goes on
Speaker 2: these types of heaters, and then he instantly goes back
Speaker 2: to being Derek Carr. Like, it is surprising to me
Speaker 2: that folks are going to be duped by the Derek
Speaker 2: Carr early season heater. We can go back. He has
Speaker 2: looked pretty good. I'm not denying that, but we have
Speaker 2: seen this from him before, and then he comes back
Speaker 2: to being who he's always been, which is just fine.
Speaker 2: In twenty seventeen, Cars started the year off on one
Speaker 2: of these heaters, not to this level, but eleven touchdowns,
Speaker 2: four picks, a ninety six rating, and then he went
Speaker 2: back to and and by the way that year, the
Speaker 2: first two weeks of twenty seventeen five touchdowns a one
Speaker 2: twenty six rating, the rest of the year after that
Speaker 2: five touchdowns, one twenty six rating, the first two weeks,
Speaker 2: the rest of the year seventeen touchdowns, thirteen picks in
Speaker 2: eighty one rating. Did he do that again later in
Speaker 2: his career, well, in twenty nineteen he started the heater
Speaker 2: lasted I'm looking at it. The first half of the season,
Speaker 2: really first half of the year. Car thirteen touchdowns, four picks,
Speaker 2: a one ozho five rating. The rest of the season
Speaker 2: for Derek Carr, he wasn't bad, but it was eight touchdowns,
Speaker 2: four picks, a ninety seven rating. We can give you
Speaker 2: another example of it. He started twenty twenty. First five
Speaker 2: weeks for Derek Carr in twenty twenty a one sixteen rating,
Speaker 2: eleven touchdowns, one interception, again one sixteen rating, eleven touchdowns,
Speaker 2: one pick. The rest of the year sixteen touchdowns, eight picks,
Speaker 2: a ninety four rating. He does these early season, ah man,
Speaker 2: this is the year he's put it all together. He's
Speaker 2: done that before. And it should be no noted that
Speaker 2: in Week two against Dallas, he threw the ball sixteen times.
Speaker 2: That was an Alvin Kamara game. Now, he played great,
Speaker 2: but that was an Alvin Kamara game. And so I
Speaker 2: I just don't believe in the Saints. I don't believe
Speaker 2: in their coach. I don't believe in them. I know
Speaker 2: everyone else does. I'm not one of the everyone else.
Speaker 2: All Right. The last thing I wanted to talk about
Speaker 2: was the CJ streil Stroud Caleb Williams postgame interaction demons,
Speaker 2: and then CJ addressed it yesterday. So I so I
Speaker 2: sat on TV yesterday that I thought, so if people
Speaker 2: didn't see it after the game, you know, the quarterbacks
Speaker 2: do handshakes. But then CJ tried to give Caleb some advice.
Speaker 2: Caleb wasn't really trying to hear it. And then CJ's like,
Speaker 2: come here, come here, and this is the this is
Speaker 2: the quote, stop taking those hits, learn from those mistakes,
Speaker 2: and everything you got, bro, was already in you. Okay,
Speaker 2: So a couple things. One is Wild's pointed this out,
Speaker 2: and it is true. It is not that common that
Speaker 2: in those postgame moments there is referencing to things the
Speaker 2: other guy did poorly. It is usually hope to see
Speaker 2: you later in the year, stay healthy, you know, get
Speaker 2: that type of stuff. That is a little odd. But
Speaker 2: here is the part that I totally understood Caleb not
Speaker 2: wanting to hear it. You know how old Caleb Williams is.
Speaker 2: He's twenty two. He turns twenty three in a few weeks.
Speaker 2: You know how old CJ Stroud is. He's twenty two,
Speaker 2: he turns twenty three in a few weeks. You're not big, bro.
Speaker 2: And now CJ came out and said, that's not what
Speaker 2: he was trying to do. I believe it. I do
Speaker 2: believe him that that wasn't intentional, but that's how Caleb
Speaker 2: took it, and that's how I would have taken it.
Speaker 2: I don't want when I look at us as peers.
Speaker 2: These two guys were in college at the same time,
Speaker 2: both nominated for the Heisman, both on the days together,
Speaker 2: and Caleb won the award. Caleb looks at you as
Speaker 2: his peer, and no doubt about it, thinks I'm better
Speaker 2: than you. Now you can say that's crazy, that's not
Speaker 2: what it is. But when they played in college together,
Speaker 2: he was better than him. And now Caleb obviously has
Speaker 2: had a very rough opening couple games of his career.
Speaker 2: This isn't Tom Brady the Lamar Jackson. This is not
Speaker 2: a let me put my arm around you and tell
Speaker 2: you all the wise lessons I've learned. Even if that's
Speaker 2: what CJ was trying. I think CJ's heart was in
Speaker 2: the right place, but I don't want me personally. You
Speaker 2: can say I'm wrong for this. I don't want advice
Speaker 2: in those types of moments from people that I'm competing
Speaker 2: with after I have failed, that are my exact age
Speaker 2: relative experience, my cut, my contemporary, and I think most
Speaker 2: people understand that if I am going to compete with
Speaker 2: you and lose and then hear a lesson, you need
Speaker 2: to be a generation older than me. Flatly, like, it
Speaker 2: would have been weird if after the Thunder played the
Speaker 2: Spurs this year, if Chet had a good game and
Speaker 2: Wimby struggled. If Chet was like, Cam, here, young fella,
Speaker 2: let me let me, you know, let me give you
Speaker 2: some pointers. Like that's not I I just it would.
Speaker 2: It would bother me. So people are mad at Caleb
Speaker 2: for his body language about it.
Speaker 3: I I would sucks, dude, You're blessed you, thank god
Speaker 3: you got a decent on line. Huh.
Speaker 2: Well, but also do you understand? But do you understand
Speaker 2: what I'm saying? Demons about that? I think I listen,
Speaker 2: and maybe Caleb would have had that reaction no matter what.
Speaker 2: But I would have been more bothered by Caleb reacting
Speaker 2: that way if it were Matt Stafford trying to talk
Speaker 2: to him. A guy, you know what I mean, A
Speaker 2: guy who has looked up to a guy who's way older,
Speaker 2: a guy who has you know, a Super Bowl ring
Speaker 2: those things. Then it's like, all right, listen to him,
Speaker 2: even if you're frustrated. When it's a guy that again,
Speaker 2: you guys are the exact same age. It just felt
Speaker 2: so so in the moment, I thought maybe CJ was
Speaker 2: doing it on purpose, like I'm I'm making clear I'm
Speaker 2: kind of the alpha of these young quarterbacks. I listened
Speaker 2: to CJ as president for Jesterraight. I believe him. He
Speaker 2: was not trying to do that. I believe him he
Speaker 2: was being and trying to be helpful. But I also
Speaker 2: do not blame at all Kleb for not wanting anything
Speaker 2: to do with it. I just I totally understand that.
Speaker 2: All Right, we do our gambling show, and I try
Speaker 2: to talk to Monday out of a bad teaser. Next
Speaker 2: What's Right? All right, welcome back in What's Right with Nick?
Speaker 2: Right time for the Week three gambling show. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm a little bummed. I thought I went three and
Speaker 2: two last week, initially because what the Bears game. When
Speaker 2: I picked it on TV it was six and a half.
Speaker 2: But I forgot when I picked it on Thursday it
Speaker 2: was just six. So that ended up being a push.
Speaker 2: But we can show what I did last week two
Speaker 2: two and one. Bill's plus two and a half at Miami.
Speaker 2: That was as good as I thought it was gonna be,
Speaker 2: and that's pre to a getting hurt. They were running
Speaker 2: away with the game. Coles minus three at green Bay.
Speaker 2: All the trends said that was a square bet, that
Speaker 2: green Bay home dog the floor, all of it. I
Speaker 2: couldn't get over the Milik Willis factor. I was wrong.
Speaker 2: It was bad bet by me. Everything said stay away
Speaker 2: from it. I and you know what, good for Milik
Speaker 2: Willis guy En. It's not like he played great, but
Speaker 2: God bless him and he seems like great kid and
Speaker 2: he didn't hurt his team, so good for him. Seattle
Speaker 2: minus three and a half at New England. I had
Speaker 2: an opportunity there Demonsey to get Week one, I had
Speaker 2: a dog that went to overtime getting four and a half,
Speaker 2: and I didn't cover in the Rams Lions. Week two,
Speaker 2: I had an opportunity to kind of even that by
Speaker 2: having a favorite that could then cover in overtime, but
Speaker 2: instead they just win by three. The hook gets me,
Speaker 2: So I lose that. Bears plus six at Houston. Admittedly
Speaker 2: a little lucky the Bears. I were outplayed, it felt
Speaker 2: in that game by more than six points. But I'll
Speaker 2: take the cover and Atlanta plus six and a half
Speaker 2: at Philly. I told you guys, I liked them to
Speaker 2: win outright, And even if they hadn't executed that final drive,
Speaker 2: thanks to Siriani play calling at the end and and
Speaker 2: kicking that field goal, that cover was basically locked in
Speaker 2: the moment they sent the field goal team on up
Speaker 2: three with a minute forty left. All right, so we're
Speaker 2: two to two and one. Last week four five and
Speaker 2: one for the season. It was still on this five
Speaker 2: and o droute that we've been on for quite some time.
Speaker 2: But I'm feeling it this week. Pal, it just go.
Speaker 2: It smells. I mean, not in a while, it's been
Speaker 2: it's been quite some time. It's been sad I think
Speaker 2: the last time we went five and oh, you were
Speaker 2: sitting next to me. Sadly, I don't think. I don't
Speaker 2: think we've gone five and oh since you have been
Speaker 2: in Los Ange list which is far too long, but
Speaker 2: it is what it is, all right. What's the first
Speaker 2: pick of the week.
Speaker 3: First off, we got Philly plus two and a half
Speaker 3: at New Orleans, So.
Speaker 2: You guys might be surprised by this. You guys know,
Speaker 2: I don't believe in Philadelphia, and now I'm taking and
Speaker 2: how bad their defense is. But this, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: is such a drastic overreaction the look aheadline of this demanse.
Speaker 2: A week ago, this was Philly minus three, and now
Speaker 2: I'm getting two and a half points. I think Philly
Speaker 2: has real structural issues that can prevent them from being
Speaker 2: a championship team, from potentially making the playoffs. I also
Speaker 2: think getting two and a half points when they have
Speaker 2: to be furious about how last week went and New
Speaker 2: Orleans riding a little too high, that's just an opportunity
Speaker 2: that I can't pass up. It looked like you wanted
Speaker 2: to say something so good.
Speaker 3: I was shocked that New Orleans is favorite here too.
Speaker 3: But uh yeah, if they go and play Philly and
Speaker 3: they win, I do think it's I know you think
Speaker 3: their defense is bad, but I think it'll be close
Speaker 3: to starting to take them a little serious. I know
Speaker 3: that week five can't the Chiefs, but yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I agree, I agree, yes, they if they go,
Speaker 2: if they beat Philadelphia this week, then I have to
Speaker 2: reevaluate a bit, you know what I mean my skepticism
Speaker 2: of them, But I don't think they will. By the way,
Speaker 2: Carr is a favorite twenty two thirty seven and two
Speaker 2: against the spread and basically since Drew in late Drew
Speaker 2: Brees era into now New Orleans is one of the
Speaker 2: worst home team's fourth worst home team against the spread
Speaker 2: from twenty eighteen to now. Now Hurts is one and
Speaker 2: eight against the spread and last nine starts, which speaks
Speaker 2: to how overvalued Philly has been. But I think now
Speaker 2: we've gone too far in the other direction. Getting two
Speaker 2: and a half points in New Orleans all take the
Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles next.
Speaker 3: Chicago plus one and a half at Indy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Chicago's better than Indy. I think Indy's
Speaker 2: defense is the exact type of defense you want to
Speaker 2: be up against for Caleb to get right. They couldn't,
Speaker 2: you know, the Everyone knew that the Packers were just
Speaker 2: going to try to run the football against them. Gus
Speaker 2: Bradley's defense couldn't stop them from doing that. They lost
Speaker 2: to Forrest Buckner. I feel like the Bears can just
Speaker 2: run the ball. I also think the Bears defense can
Speaker 2: give Anthony Richardson a lot of trouble. I think the
Speaker 2: Bears win this game outright. The Chicago is six to
Speaker 2: and one against spreading last nine games. That's not I mean, that's,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, not super relevant because obviously it's crossed
Speaker 2: his seasons and quarterbacks. But I think they are a
Speaker 2: little undervalued by vague. I just think they're flatly better
Speaker 2: than Indy by more than a field goal. And I'm
Speaker 2: getting points, so I love Chicago plus a point and
Speaker 2: a half go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, someone who's betting football for about a year, they're
Speaker 3: asking if I've got an advice, advice for Caleb to
Speaker 3: cover the spread, just.
Speaker 2: Win the game. And also, and also Caleb. The other
Speaker 2: thing is this, he he doesn't have to be great
Speaker 2: in this game for them to win. He needs to
Speaker 2: be better. And I thought he was better in Week
Speaker 2: two than Week one. Again, incredibly low bar. I understand that,
Speaker 2: but I still I think that it is Caleb is
Speaker 2: early enough in his career two games in to still wait.
Speaker 2: Your priors of him as a prospect and what he
Speaker 2: looked like in college far heavier than then you wait
Speaker 2: these two games. Now, if you're worried about the Bears
Speaker 2: offensive line, that's totally legitimate. If you're worried about Caleb
Speaker 2: not throwing any downfield to any success er, for eleven
Speaker 2: on targets more than fifteen yards down the field with
Speaker 2: a couple of picks. That's fair. I just don't think
Speaker 2: that he has to be great for them to win
Speaker 2: this game. I think the defense is exceptional. I'll take
Speaker 2: the Bears plus a point and a half.
Speaker 3: Next, got Seattle minus four and a half versus Miami.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is the longest flight in football,
Speaker 2: Miami to Seattle. You know that's relevant to me. It's
Speaker 2: Skyler Thompson starting a game and a week that. Now.
Speaker 2: I understand Miami is on extra rest, but I just
Speaker 2: think Mike McDonald's defense with Seattle is going to give
Speaker 2: Skyler Thompson absolute fits.
Speaker 3: And jump in and say that teams end up in
Speaker 3: these situations where they have a backup quarterback coming in
Speaker 3: and like they got a funny name or you're just
Speaker 3: not aware of them. They I feel like nine times
Speaker 3: out of ten they come in and they prove you're
Speaker 3: wrong in the end them covering that spread. I feel
Speaker 3: like this happened with Tyson Badget at one point. Maybe
Speaker 3: he's right about that. Can happened point back in the.
Speaker 2: Day, I don't know, but it happened with Malik Willis's
Speaker 2: these are all These are all true. What's also true
Speaker 2: is I've seen Skyler Thompson play, and I know I've
Speaker 2: said this before, but he's played with these Dolphins with
Speaker 2: these weapons and has not had success. You're now on
Speaker 2: the road in one of the hardest environments playing in
Speaker 2: the entire league, on the against a team with a
Speaker 2: blitz happy, hungry defense. I think Seattle will score a
Speaker 2: defensive or special teams touchdown. I you know, I'm laying
Speaker 2: four and a half in a game where they were
Speaker 2: two point dogs before Twua got hurt, So that is
Speaker 2: a six and a half point line movement. But I
Speaker 2: think Gino can carve up this Miami defense, and I
Speaker 2: think Seattle can do real damage to Skyler Thompson. So
Speaker 2: I like Seattle minus the four and a half.
Speaker 3: Next, Uh, you got Dallas plus one versus Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I think the producers thought I was picking
Speaker 2: Baltimore because they put good, good, good for these three notes.
Speaker 2: But they're all bad for my bet because it's that
Speaker 2: Lamar's five and two on the road after a loss.
Speaker 2: Lamar is twenty and one straight up against the NFC.
Speaker 2: These are all reasons not to pick the Cowboys. I
Speaker 2: I understand all of that. This is purely that I
Speaker 2: just think this is miss priced and I understand that
Speaker 2: it is only a point and that really it's basically
Speaker 2: a pickham. Who do you think is gonna win? Fact
Speaker 2: of the matter is this, The Dallas Cowboys should not
Speaker 2: be home underdogs to anyone except for the chiefs of
Speaker 2: the Niners. That's it. They are a good team, that
Speaker 2: is his, that is great at home this week this
Speaker 2: past week notwithstanding, they should and the Ravens have real issues.
Speaker 2: So I do like Dallas this week. I do think
Speaker 2: Baltimore falls to zero to three. I do think Dallas
Speaker 2: is the same way that Rashi Rice carved up the
Speaker 2: raven secondary and DeVante Adams carved up the raven secondary. Ceedee,
Speaker 2: Lamb's better than both of those guys. I think he'll
Speaker 2: be able to carve up the Ravens secondary. And I
Speaker 2: don't know if Baltimore is going to stay as committed
Speaker 2: to the run as they should against a Cowboys team
Speaker 2: that that's their biggest weakness. So I know that this
Speaker 2: is one that you disagree with me on demand's but
Speaker 2: Dallas getting points at home is an opportunity I just
Speaker 2: can't pass up even though it's just one point one
Speaker 2: and a half in some places, I'll take Dallas plus
Speaker 2: the one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, never pass up opportunity to lose some money. Next,
Speaker 3: you got Kansas City. You got Kansas City minus three
Speaker 3: and a half at Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this line should be six and a half.
Speaker 2: I think that Mahomes in a dome. We already went
Speaker 2: over the numbers. The Falcons a bit of an emotional
Speaker 2: letdown spot and they're on shorter rest. And as far
Speaker 2: as the Chiefs putting up big points against this defense,
Speaker 2: you gotta avoid Jesse Bates. I understand that I'm not
Speaker 2: worried about their pass rush. The Chiefs have offensive line issues,
Speaker 2: but I'm not worried about Atlanta's pass rush. Isaiah Pacheco's
Speaker 2: injury might actually be beneficial for the Chiefs this week,
Speaker 2: purely because it will force the Chiefs to be in
Speaker 2: a drop back passing game with an angry Mahomes. Because
Speaker 2: Mahomes is got furious with how he played this past week.
Speaker 2: So I think this could be a huge bounce back
Speaker 2: spot for Kansas City. I think Kan City's defense Chris
Speaker 2: Jones Fouctless Falcons have a good to very good at
Speaker 2: times offensive line. I understand that. But at Cousins, even
Speaker 2: though he looks sharper later in that Philly game, does
Speaker 2: not want to get hit, and you know he's not
Speaker 2: fully comfortable that Achilles yet. I think Chris Jones can
Speaker 2: wreak real havoc. I think Trent McDuffie can fully erase
Speaker 2: Drake London if necessary. Jean's a great player. But this
Speaker 2: feels like the first thirty point game of the season
Speaker 2: for the Chiefs and something along the lines of a
Speaker 2: thirty to twenty victory. So I'll lay the three and
Speaker 2: a half with Kansas City, and I just think this
Speaker 2: should be a six and a half point line, and
Speaker 2: the Chiefs are gonna be able to move the ball
Speaker 2: through the air. And so that's where I'm going. What's
Speaker 2: the bonus question, Demanse.
Speaker 3: Dogs of six plus points are eight to no against
Speaker 3: the spread this season. Why are you not interested in
Speaker 3: betting on that? Betting in that trend.
Speaker 2: I don't really bet trends, and I also think that
Speaker 2: will correct itself at some point. And so, and there
Speaker 2: were no there were no the big dogs this weekend.
Speaker 2: Let me just go through them quickly. The Patriots are
Speaker 2: six and a half point dogs tonight. The Giants are
Speaker 2: six and a half point dogs at Cleveland. The Broncos
Speaker 2: are six and a half point dogs at Tampa and
Speaker 2: so and San fran. The Rams are seven point dogs
Speaker 2: at home against the Niners. The Rams injuries are just
Speaker 2: so concerning. But the other dogs, we're talking Jacoby Brissette,
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones and Bo Nicks and so. No, I'm just
Speaker 2: not interested in betting on any of those, which does
Speaker 2: Demand's bring us to your teaser which last week Dallas
Speaker 2: killed you on, which is unfortunate. Yeah, Dampa plus fourteen
Speaker 2: and a half they won outright. Uh so you do,
Speaker 2: obviously whatever you want to do. But I am here
Speaker 2: is what I would say. I think there are four
Speaker 2: teaser legs available to you that make a tremendous amount
Speaker 2: of sense that I will just try to soft sell
Speaker 2: you on. The first one is the Thursday night game
Speaker 2: with the Jets just needing to be the Patriots. You
Speaker 2: guys know, I don't believe in the Jets, but they
Speaker 2: are at home on a short week against Jacoby Brissett.
Speaker 2: Their six point favorites or six and a half point
Speaker 2: favorites you basically get you get them down to a pick,
Speaker 2: and again a six point teaser. You'll only pay minus
Speaker 2: one twenty on a two teamer. Another one that I
Speaker 2: would think about Tampa Bay against bone Knicks. Tampa's secondary
Speaker 2: is all banged up, but Bone Nicks can't throw the
Speaker 2: ball more than five yards downfield. Evidently you can get
Speaker 2: them down to a pick. And then in the other direction,
Speaker 2: the Chargers are point and a half dogs. You can
Speaker 2: get them plus seven and a half against Justin Fields
Speaker 2: and the Steelers. A Steelers team that absolutely can win
Speaker 2: that game, but that is going to be a fast game.
Speaker 2: Both teams just want to run, run, run. You're getting
Speaker 2: more than a touchdown. And then last Philly getting eight
Speaker 2: and a half. You know what, let me take that
Speaker 2: one out. I don't think Philly's gonna get blown out
Speaker 2: by the Saints, but it's on the board that that
Speaker 2: Saints offense against the Philly back end.
Speaker 3: It's funny because Philly was a team that I thought
Speaker 3: of putting in there, but I had to leave it
Speaker 3: as a stay away because the Saints have improved otherwise
Speaker 3: and they lit up Dallas' defense, and I gotta assume Dallas'
Speaker 3: defense is a little bit better than the Eagles.
Speaker 2: That's fair. So you have those, so but those the
Speaker 2: other three, if you were to pick two of them,
Speaker 2: you're laying minus one twenty. I'm I'm just throwing that
Speaker 2: out there now. I don't know if this changes your
Speaker 2: mind or feelings or opinion on anything, or if you
Speaker 2: want to go with the teaser you have in the dock,
Speaker 2: but it is now the.
Speaker 3: Fourth floor, now out of the floor, all right, yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: so uh yeah, So I'm not going to let your
Speaker 3: disbelief in the Ravens get to my head. I'm sticking
Speaker 3: with this teaser because if I go astray of this
Speaker 3: teaser and it doesn't hit, I'm gonna be really upset myself.
Speaker 3: You're the same person that said the last teasers were
Speaker 3: good that fail. I appreciate you looking out for me, Pops,
Speaker 3: but hey, it's a two team, seven and a half
Speaker 3: point teaser. It was a half point. It's not like
Speaker 3: I had to go up to nine and it got
Speaker 3: me to what was it, fourteen instead of the thirty
Speaker 3: and a half.
Speaker 2: But you are six playing minus one sixty minus one sixty.
Speaker 2: Now you're laying But go ahead, So.
Speaker 3: We got a two teams seven and a half point
Speaker 3: teaser at minus one sixty three. We're teased in New
Speaker 3: England from plus seven to plus fourteen, and we've got
Speaker 3: the Jets versus Baltimore. I mean not the Jets. We've
Speaker 3: got Baltimore versus Dallas from plus six to minus one.
Speaker 2: Probably no, no, no, the other way around. You've got the
Speaker 2: plus Timore from.
Speaker 3: Hold on, wait, like minus one and a half, minus one.
Speaker 2: From minus one and a half to plus six, that's right,
Speaker 2: and the Patriots from plus six and a half is
Speaker 2: plus fourteen. Okay, so my teaser great as an f
Speaker 2: you're teasing across the zero. You're not getting the key
Speaker 2: number with Baltimore you're getting You're not getting seven. You're
Speaker 2: not even getting fourteen and a half. I hope you win.
Speaker 2: I would love for the Patriots to win out right
Speaker 2: this week. And I can be right about the Cowboys
Speaker 2: and your teaser can hit. Maybe this is the key.
Speaker 2: Maybe your teasers previously have been too sharp, Maybe you
Speaker 2: need to do these, but you are laying minus one sixty.
Speaker 2: I just and again, the goal, if the goal is
Speaker 2: to win money, I just want to point out minus
Speaker 2: one sixty is I'm trying to find a money line
Speaker 2: that's the equivalent of that. This week is you're laying
Speaker 2: minus one sixty three the Chiefs to beat the Falcons,
Speaker 2: not cover, just win the game is minus one seventy.
Speaker 2: So if you're into laying that type of juice, you
Speaker 2: could just pick you know, the Chiefs on the money line.
Speaker 2: But it's fine. This is your teaser, this is what
Speaker 2: you want to do. And I hope that we can
Speaker 2: play this back next Thursday. And I'm doubting you like
Speaker 2: a fool. I truly truly hope that. All right. What's
Speaker 2: the offer for this week?
Speaker 3: So you've been anti Aaron Rodgers for years now, so
Speaker 3: time to put your money where your mouth is. The
Speaker 3: Jets are on a short weekend, are facing a solid
Speaker 3: Patriots defense that will likely see a lot of time
Speaker 3: on the field. This week's offer is Aaron Rodgers over
Speaker 3: over a half interception plus one oh five or point five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm not gonna take that offer. The I
Speaker 2: just think the Jets are gonna are gonna handle the
Speaker 2: Patriots with relative ease tonight. I think that I don't
Speaker 2: think we were wrong about the Patriots being one of
Speaker 2: the worst teams in football. I understand that they won
Speaker 2: Week one and they played a tough Week two game.
Speaker 2: I'm good with my previous thoughts on the Patriots, and
Speaker 2: I'm not getting good enough juice on that. So apologies
Speaker 2: for not taking the offer for a third straight week,
Speaker 2: but I'm not going to take that offer. We have
Speaker 2: another thing they want to bring to me, so go ahead. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the Teasers obviously had a rough start, as we
Speaker 3: discussed a few minutes ago, so I've turned to the
Speaker 3: mystic arts to find wins in other places. That's right,
Speaker 3: I've enlisted in the help of the Touchdown Genie and
Speaker 3: that will be you.
Speaker 2: Okay. Unlike touchdown Genie, I like that, yes.
Speaker 3: Yes, wait what is that face? Unlike normal genies, he
Speaker 3: doesn't have elaborate rules. He just gives out any touchdown anytime.
Speaker 3: Touchdown scores. So what do you have for this week?
Speaker 3: A few options for you. You got Garrett Wilson at
Speaker 3: plus one, fort Devontae Smith plus hundred. Oh yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 3: those are a couple. Chris Olave plus.
Speaker 2: One, yeah, yeah, you don't have to read them all.
Speaker 2: I like this week. If I were to get if
Speaker 2: I were to pick one, let me see if I
Speaker 2: can find what is Rashi Rice. Can the producers tell
Speaker 2: me that I would like to know Rashi Rice for
Speaker 2: any time? Let me see, Oh that's Patriots jet So
Speaker 2: that's unhelpful for me.
Speaker 3: I the.
Speaker 2: Rashi Rice plus one thirty is the anytime touchdown that
Speaker 2: I will that I would bet I like Rashi Rice
Speaker 2: at plus one thirty for anytime touchdown. Again, I'm not
Speaker 2: actually betting that, but if I were to pick one,
Speaker 2: that's the one that I would go with. So picks
Speaker 2: from the week. Here's what we've got. Trying to get
Speaker 2: above five hundred Philly plus two and a half at
Speaker 2: New Orleans, Chicago plus one and a half at Indy,
Speaker 2: Seattle minus four and a half against Miami, Dallas plus
Speaker 2: one against Baltimore, and can't City minus three and a
Speaker 2: half at Atlanta. Answer some listener questions next, What's right?
Speaker 2: All right? Welcome back in What's Dry with Nick Right Demonie,
Speaker 2: Let's answer a few listener questions.
Speaker 3: Uh, Trey Jenkins, it takes a certain level of maturity
Speaker 3: to take some advice from someone your own age or younger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, talking about strout, Sure, I understand I if they
Speaker 2: are I'm not saying you shouldn't take advice from some
Speaker 2: of your own age or younger. I'm saying no one
Speaker 2: would want to hear advice from someone their own age
Speaker 2: or younger right after you competed against them and lost.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying you can't have someone your age at
Speaker 2: work who works with you give you, you know, pointers
Speaker 2: on things. I am saying if someone your age at
Speaker 2: work and you were both in a pitch meeting and
Speaker 2: gave competing pitches and the other guy won, and then
Speaker 2: when you're walking out of the meeting, he's like, hey,
Speaker 2: here's what you could do better, you might be a
Speaker 2: little annoyed. That's what they yes you. The cauldron of
Speaker 2: competition is a key piece of that.
Speaker 3: Next, mister Brownstone, how about Kyle Pitts. Anytime touchdown score,
Speaker 3: Chiefs abysmal against tight ends thus far this year.
Speaker 2: Listen, the Chiefs have been offul against tight ends, but
Speaker 2: Kyle Pitts at this point, we might have to give
Speaker 2: up the ghost. I just don't know if Kyle Pitts
Speaker 2: is ever going to be the player we saw him
Speaker 2: be at Florida.
Speaker 3: All right, Next one, Brendan McDonald, what are your thoughts
Speaker 3: on the World Series of Poker Computer rally controversy.
Speaker 2: Rail controversy, you know, my yeah, the I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't think anyone did anything wrong given the rules and
Speaker 2: how they were enforced, But in my opinion, they're should
Speaker 2: be no coaching from the rail not and that's not
Speaker 2: just guys using solvers on their laptops that are on
Speaker 2: the rail. I'm talking about coaching entirely. I the I
Speaker 2: think that during the final table of a poker tournament,
Speaker 2: if they want it to be like you know that,
Speaker 2: I think the fairest way to do it is on breaks,
Speaker 2: actual tournament breaks, you can go consult with your team
Speaker 2: and coaches or whatever. But during the flow of play,
Speaker 2: having consulting with coaches, whether they're using solvers or not.
Speaker 2: I understand for the non poker community this makes no sense,
Speaker 2: but I think, uh, I don't like it. So again,
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone did anything wrong. I just personally
Speaker 2: would change the rules. That's that's my answer there, all right,
Speaker 2: last one to Monday.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, good morning, seven forty five am. Lakers fan here, Nick,
Speaker 3: Are we cooked?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Probably? Yeah. The answer to that is probably yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean it's a shame, but and I'm not ready
Speaker 2: to talk NBA yet, but the answer that is yeah,
Speaker 2: probably cooked and not as cooked like, oh, won't make
Speaker 2: the playoffs, but wasting you know, the opportunity to have
Speaker 2: a championship contender when you have Lebron and Ad. Yeah,
Speaker 2: probably cooked on that front. All right, everybody, good luck
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