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Speaker 1: same shirts on. Didn't plan that. It's it's it's because
Speaker 1: you know? Is that why we did that? Right? Because
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Speaker 1: talk about that all week long. Not today though, so much,
Speaker 1: because it's Week fifteen. NFL Guessing Lines is our second
Speaker 1: to last guessing line show of the year because we
Speaker 1: don't really do it for Week seventeen. Not to mention
Speaker 1: that I don't think we're gonna be here for Week
Speaker 1: seventeen that Monday, because I think that's Christmas Eve morning,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken. UM. Anyway, we don't ever do
Speaker 1: it for Week seventeen to begin with, because it's a
Speaker 1: squirrely week. But we will guess week fifteen lines. It's
Speaker 1: a tribute. It's a nod to the old Stardust guessing
Speaker 1: line show with Roxy Rocksboro back in the day, UM.
Speaker 1: And in doing so, we'll look back on Week fourteen.
Speaker 1: What did we learn? What are we outraged by? What
Speaker 1: can't we believe? What are we dumbfounded by? Let me
Speaker 1: just say this right off the top. No team is great.
Speaker 1: Every team at the top has a floor or two,
Speaker 1: and I think everybody can be beaten, UM. And we're
Speaker 1: seeing it more and more now in stark Um, in
Speaker 1: stark View. Even Kansas City, which wins yesterday, gets by
Speaker 1: it over time over the Ravens and all of that
Speaker 1: defense holds up in the playoffs the Rams last night.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that when we talk about the Rams.
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, have you ever seen a quarterback of them
Speaker 1: just absolutely melt in cold weather like that? And we're
Speaker 1: not talking like horrific Ice Bowl conditions. We're talking like
Speaker 1: what was it just below freezing last night? Just uh,
Speaker 1: he just looked like he did not want to be
Speaker 1: anywhere on that field yesterday and as the Rams the
Speaker 1: Saints took him on another half to wake up against
Speaker 1: the Bucks again in the NFC, it's gonna come down
Speaker 1: to who's got home field a f C. I'm not
Speaker 1: so sure the Chargers are this wild card to me,
Speaker 1: not just literally currently, although they got a shot now
Speaker 1: to win the divisions. Ill, a lot will uh, a
Speaker 1: lot will be determined, not be determined, but a lot
Speaker 1: could be determined Thursday night. But the Chargers can keep
Speaker 1: themselves very much in play for a division if they
Speaker 1: went on Thursday night against the Chiefs. Um. But that
Speaker 1: is Uh. The Patriots obviously, what a dramatic ending that
Speaker 1: was yesterday. We'll get into that. Patriots just yeah, I
Speaker 1: know they lost and this is not a results based comment,
Speaker 1: but they're obviously like the the athleticism is lacking. Just
Speaker 1: gas that they've made that they made yesterday that you've
Speaker 1: never seen a Patriots team really may will get in
Speaker 1: all the details, um, some of the other highlights before
Speaker 1: Vinnie gets here, Vinny will be in here, by the way,
Speaker 1: and for Chrissy this morning, Christie and Vinny right now
Speaker 1: feverishly talking to get the lines up here at the
Speaker 1: South Point Hotel Casino. They'll post them here in the
Speaker 1: next couple of minutes. By the way, when we say
Speaker 1: Vinnie is in for Chrissy, I don't want people to say,
Speaker 1: why do we keep saying, uh, Chrissy. As we've talked about,
Speaker 1: is during guessing lines on Monday morning. That's sort of
Speaker 1: the scheduled time for some of his treatments, which Chrissie
Speaker 1: has been very honest about on air. Remember we had
Speaker 1: a blood drive and tribute to him. So it just
Speaker 1: how happens that the scheduling is such where he can't
Speaker 1: be in for guessing lines. You will get to hear
Speaker 1: him and perhaps see him during the week here at
Speaker 1: Visa otherwise, but then he will be in here momentarily.
Speaker 1: Some of the highlights. Todd Dewey did a great job
Speaker 1: at the Las Vegas Las Vegas Review Journal of documenting
Speaker 1: some of the big headlines here in the desert. Uh
Speaker 1: seven figure swing at William Hill alone and a six
Speaker 1: figure swing at MGM on that final Kenyan Drake escape
Speaker 1: the Miami Miracle to win it for the Dolphins outright
Speaker 1: over the Patriots yesterday UM also reporting Todd Dewey did
Speaker 1: that UM over at the win win, Las Vegas Sports
Speaker 1: director Doug Castaneda said it was a solid day for
Speaker 1: those guys, but the Raiders game was definitely icing on
Speaker 1: their cake. They had a lot of play on the Steelers,
Speaker 1: big play on the money line. He said that one
Speaker 1: win Better lost a six figure money line wager on
Speaker 1: the Steelers which closed at minus six fifty. They lost
Speaker 1: out right, of course to the Raiders. Another win Better
Speaker 1: lost the six figure straight bet on the Chiefs a
Speaker 1: t s. They didn't cover one by three and overtime
Speaker 1: six and a half point spread. Um, Todd, do we
Speaker 1: have some good nuggets in that piece there as well?
Speaker 1: Six figure bet Jeff Stone back over the Mirrage that
Speaker 1: took a six figure bet on the Panthers. I didn't
Speaker 1: work out. Public all over the Chiefs there that didn't
Speaker 1: work out. And l A is a gentleman, the great
Speaker 1: Vinny Moliulo in house oddsmaker and gone gaming. And for
Speaker 1: Christie Andrews this morning on guessing lines, how did you
Speaker 1: do at the South Point here, good day, it was
Speaker 1: a It was a good day. First of all, Oh Gil,
Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning to you staff, everybody out there,
Speaker 1: jam with the uh great great crowd. Yesterday a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of a terrific business day. Yeah, for
Speaker 1: the whole weekend. And uh but you know, the scores,
Speaker 1: the scores went the house's way overall. Saturday was it
Speaker 1: was a good day for the public. The Army Navy
Speaker 1: game in particular, we got got middled on the game. Basically,
Speaker 1: yea open six and I didn't last very long, but
Speaker 1: bounced between seven and have some more more sided uh
Speaker 1: slight metal. I mean when you when you consider the open,
Speaker 1: but the six and a half didn't last very long.
Speaker 1: More of a side if you will. Um, but it
Speaker 1: didn't make money on that game. You're doing something wrong.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, definitely. Uh. And then yesterday you you just
Speaker 1: highlighted the key games. Uh you know, guilt so but listen,
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of business. It did not disappoint. It continues
Speaker 1: to just amaze us as to how much business. But
Speaker 1: again look in here speaking for the South Point, just value.
Speaker 1: People love to be here. They have a good time
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, they were, they were able to
Speaker 1: get down. You're in the strange position and eating the
Speaker 1: Rams last night, Christie was saying on Twitter. Yeah, Christie
Speaker 1: was right. You know, it came in late on the
Speaker 1: there was a move on on the Bears, and I
Speaker 1: guess it had had to do maybe whether it was
Speaker 1: a bit of a factor, right the Rams. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure they're thankful they don't have to go
Speaker 1: through Chicago in the postseason. But credit the credit the
Speaker 1: Bears defense. I was, they were outstanding. I mean every
Speaker 1: defense was great, But yeah, I wound up being a
Speaker 1: situation where could have used could have used the Rams
Speaker 1: last night, but could use the Rams. But still you're
Speaker 1: not going to be in a in a position too
Speaker 1: many times to have to need the Rams this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I was just saying before you got in here,
Speaker 1: like I just don't. This was the day where it's
Speaker 1: sort of driven home where every team at the top,
Speaker 1: every team has flows, every one of them. And by
Speaker 1: the way, we could even extend that to saying all
Speaker 1: the teams at the bottom, uh rose up a little, right,
Speaker 1: So nobody is there's no tank it in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Right there, you hit that's the key point. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and and and let me just that with the Raiders,
Speaker 1: then don't lie to us, right, don't don't give us
Speaker 1: this bull narrative. And I called them out on this earlier.
Speaker 1: We're like, oh, yeah, this was the plan all along
Speaker 1: and trade all these players. No, that wasn't your plan.
Speaker 1: You got Jordy Nelson in the off season, your win
Speaker 1: total was eight and a half. You were totally going
Speaker 1: into it with a good attitude. And then uh you
Speaker 1: you you lost a few games and you're like trading
Speaker 1: players left and right, and you're like trying to sell everybody.
Speaker 1: Oh this is the plan along. No you're not. And
Speaker 1: you were so happy with the wind yesterday. So don't
Speaker 1: act like that's all I'm asking. Don't act like that
Speaker 1: was your plan. Well plan or not. The reality is
Speaker 1: these are professionals fighting for their jobs in the future.
Speaker 1: What I think, um, you've got to give a team's
Speaker 1: uh you know, even the Raiders, they compete, they battle,
Speaker 1: and obviously what I think we're seeing big picture here,
Speaker 1: Gil is that the players that are there are buying
Speaker 1: into the culture. That there's a cultural change as there
Speaker 1: with John Gruden and and the players are buying into it.
Speaker 1: I think as a Raider fan, you've got to be
Speaker 1: you know, you've got to be excited about right there
Speaker 1: they're battling. Is there a cultural traction? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I think so. I think they're competing the
Speaker 1: fact that they're competing this late is that that that
Speaker 1: tells you a lot. I mean a lot of teams
Speaker 1: could be could be mailing it into your point. Uh,
Speaker 1: and they're not. And so uh teams, teams are out
Speaker 1: there battling and uh and and and fighting, but they're
Speaker 1: fighting for jobs too. So you want you want to
Speaker 1: see that as a as a as a fan, and
Speaker 1: as a better you want you want you want that
Speaker 1: no team with fewer than three wins in the NFL.
Speaker 1: After you have sterday with both the Niners and the
Speaker 1: Raiders winning their games, out right, giants went again. Um,
Speaker 1: So you know, yeah, that was It was a day
Speaker 1: yesterday where you could see flaws and all the good teams,
Speaker 1: all the all the best teams, and the worst teams
Speaker 1: rose up a bit. The other thing that I want
Speaker 1: to point out another theme that I brought out before
Speaker 1: we start guessing lines for week fifteen, and we'll go
Speaker 1: through all these games yesterday because I got much to
Speaker 1: say about still more say about Jared Goff too, probably,
Speaker 1: But I've talked about the home road splits. This is
Speaker 1: another thing that I've been harping on Vinnie this year
Speaker 1: in the NFL, which is we always reserve that for baseball.
Speaker 1: We typically reserve that for baseball. These this picture as
Speaker 1: home road splits, or this team certainly does. Uh, primarily
Speaker 1: we do with starting pitchers. Man, we should. It's funny
Speaker 1: how we don't. You know, we know home teams. You
Speaker 1: know you're getting points for home field advantage in varying
Speaker 1: degrees when you were making a market price. But Patriots
Speaker 1: six and oh at home, these are straight up number
Speaker 1: six and oh at home, three and four on the road.
Speaker 1: Dolphins six and one at home, one in five on
Speaker 1: the road. You could just go up and down. Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns four two and one at home, one in five
Speaker 1: on the road. Um Titans five and one at home,
Speaker 1: two and five on the road. Again, this is always
Speaker 1: the case, right with with home teams are better at
Speaker 1: home than they are on the road. But the the
Speaker 1: rampantness of this in the NFL this year, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: six and one at home, two and four on the road.
Speaker 1: And don't get me started about the Cowboys and the
Speaker 1: refing in that stadium, although it could be argued that
Speaker 1: it was bad in two different directions for the both
Speaker 1: the last two Cowboys games, the Packers five one and
Speaker 1: one at home, oh and six on the road, the
Speaker 1: Panthers five and one at home, one in six on
Speaker 1: the road. Like, really, is the chasm always been this wide?
Speaker 1: It's incredible. Buccaneers four and three at home, one in
Speaker 1: five on the road. Um, even the Niners three and
Speaker 1: three at home, O N seven on the road. And
Speaker 1: you do get into these, you know, I got into
Speaker 1: with Michael Lombardi a bit this this past week of
Speaker 1: what's at play. You know, in the NBA, it's because
Speaker 1: the refs are right on the court and the crowds
Speaker 1: right on top of them, and there's only there's a
Speaker 1: human instinct to to not want to upset people. Uh
Speaker 1: that's not the case in the NFL, but it just
Speaker 1: seems like the way, you know, because not it's not
Speaker 1: only reffing, it's the fact, Michael says, offensive lines don't
Speaker 1: travel well. Bad offensive lines don't travel. There's all kinds
Speaker 1: of reasons, but this is a we should be talking
Speaker 1: more about home road splits. All of our handicapping discussions
Speaker 1: to be talking about where's the game? That's the first
Speaker 1: question we should ask. Well, there's no question about it.
Speaker 1: And while you hit on a key point to Yil,
Speaker 1: because not every home field is the same for every team,
Speaker 1: but by the same token, you want to pay attention
Speaker 1: to who's who's playing really good on the road. The Saints,
Speaker 1: I think is a good example, right, the Saints. What's
Speaker 1: the Saints road record is is probably one of the
Speaker 1: better six one road records. So now when you look
Speaker 1: at that and you say, well, when you're eleven and two,
Speaker 1: you're playing well, but but yeah, but but the point is, though, right,
Speaker 1: you want to pay attention to that. Even yeah, they're
Speaker 1: they're one of the better teams. They've got they've got
Speaker 1: there the number one seed right now by virtue of
Speaker 1: the tiebreaker with the Rams, because they beat the Rams
Speaker 1: heads up. But who between both the Rams and the
Speaker 1: Saints are eleven and two, who would you say, who
Speaker 1: would you rather have going for you on the road? Man?
Speaker 1: I think if it's cold weather, I think we know
Speaker 1: the answer to that. Who who could win to get?
Speaker 1: Do you give the Saints a better shot of winning
Speaker 1: a game in Los Angeles or the Rams a better
Speaker 1: shot of winning a game in the Dome and in
Speaker 1: the Super Dumb So you want to pay attention to
Speaker 1: that too, because the home road splits are they're really
Speaker 1: well chronicled there. But the real key is do you
Speaker 1: want to zero win on who's gonna who do I
Speaker 1: think can battle on the road? Who's and then of
Speaker 1: course your factory and injuries, who's you know, who's The
Speaker 1: Chiefs are a different team now since the kurreem hunt situation, right, so, uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's it's gonna be interesting to see exactly,
Speaker 1: you know, how all those factors come into play. So
Speaker 1: factor in starting with yeah, where's the get where are
Speaker 1: the games? Home road splits? Wait a second, Who's who's
Speaker 1: decent on the road, who can play well on the road?
Speaker 1: Whose feels the Chargers Chargers don't have a home game
Speaker 1: except doesn't travel doesn't matter? I mean, certainly, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say that. I'm not going to diminish the fact
Speaker 1: that travel is not a factor, because it is. But
Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is, really when you look
Speaker 1: at the Chargers, right, it's either they're traveling to stop
Speaker 1: up center, or they're traveling wherever to play games. We see.
Speaker 1: This is the case I've been making the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks about the Charge, and I have a to
Speaker 1: win a f C tickets on it. I think they're
Speaker 1: the most complete team in football, I really do. I
Speaker 1: think they are and they and it's this weird thing
Speaker 1: whereas you point out, they don't really have a a
Speaker 1: home a cozy confines of a home field, and they're
Speaker 1: getting Melvin Gordon back, and they'll have Gordon and Bosta
Speaker 1: together right legitimately for the first time. So um, all
Speaker 1: is interesting if for anybody was like, oh home road sports,
Speaker 1: of course, team is gonna have a better record at
Speaker 1: home on the road. Yeah, But the the nature of
Speaker 1: all of those and the and the chasm between so
Speaker 1: many of those From our handicapping standpoint, what I'm getting
Speaker 1: at is you almost have to view this football team
Speaker 1: as an entirely different team in one venue versus the
Speaker 1: next for handicapping, and I don't think people do that right.
Speaker 1: People like the Dallas Cowboys are one team at home,
Speaker 1: they're completely different team at on the road. You gotta
Speaker 1: start thinking that one well, that's a that's also a
Speaker 1: good point because but it also speaks to the to
Speaker 1: the aspect whereby the public bets teams and professionals that
Speaker 1: numbers and situations. Yeah, let's do Thursday. Let's start week
Speaker 1: fifteen and again we'll we'll go through all the Week
Speaker 1: four teen games. We got things to say. I know
Speaker 1: this one. This is big matchup the Chargers in the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: By the way, So these are numbers that are in
Speaker 1: UH in the system right now. We just put in
Speaker 1: UH supervisor Louke Argin. Just put him in, Chris Andrews
Speaker 1: on the phone, and UH give the green light to
Speaker 1: open these So these numbers are up on the betting
Speaker 1: board here at the south point right now. Chargers in
Speaker 1: Kansas City to play the Chiefs. Chargers were in this
Speaker 1: spot yesterday. They were coming off an emotional come from
Speaker 1: behind victory against Pittsburgh. UH, and they've got this showdown
Speaker 1: with Kansas City that was gonna happen four days after
Speaker 1: yesterday's game against the Bengals. Anyway, So this was a
Speaker 1: spot yesterday the quintessential what people call trap game or
Speaker 1: look ahead spot or whatever you're your phraseology is on
Speaker 1: that and they go ahead and they beat the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Didn't get it done in any kind of dramatic fashion
Speaker 1: or any really convincing or or uh dominating fashion, but
Speaker 1: they got it done. And there's a lot to say
Speaker 1: about that, a lot to say for that. Rivers nineteen
Speaker 1: twenty one touchdown note picks sacked two times, four field
Speaker 1: goals from Michael Badgeley. That is always an achilles heel
Speaker 1: for the Chargers franchise, including a franchise record fifty nine
Speaker 1: yard or Bengals fifth straight loss by the way, um,
Speaker 1: but the Chargers yesterday by the way badly fourteen of
Speaker 1: fifteen on field goals for the Chargers. Now, man, did
Speaker 1: they solve that problem? Chargers had a hundred sixty yards
Speaker 1: of offense their first two drives rest of the way on.
Speaker 1: And then there's the Chiefs who got it done in
Speaker 1: overtime against the Ravens and only got it done because
Speaker 1: Patrick mahomes Man Fitty made a couple of plays, one
Speaker 1: of which that fourth and nine to Tyreek Hill. Uh
Speaker 1: the way he scrambles the throws across his body and
Speaker 1: then tie re kill shot out of a cannon comes
Speaker 1: out of nowhere to get these Mahomes yesterday thirty five
Speaker 1: of fifty three for three seventies seven, two touchdowns, one pick,
Speaker 1: sack three times. Tyreek a catches one nine four one
Speaker 1: total yards offense. Again, it did go into overtime, but
Speaker 1: a fourth downplay that was designed to go left, then
Speaker 1: Mahomes was scrambled to his right. Ravens in pursuit. I
Speaker 1: was trained on Tyreek down downfielding makes it happen. Just
Speaker 1: an incredible throw, incredible catch. Chiefs get it done, force overtime,
Speaker 1: win it in overtime, and um, now you have this
Speaker 1: game on Thursday night, which is huge because again the
Speaker 1: Chargers have the second best record in the a f C.
Speaker 1: They're in second place in their division. They have the
Speaker 1: second best record in the a f C. If they
Speaker 1: beat the Chiefs on Thursday night, the two teams will
Speaker 1: be tied. They will have split their games their head
Speaker 1: to heads, but the Chiefs will still own the tiebreaker
Speaker 1: based on division record, so they would still need the
Speaker 1: Chargers would another subsequent Chiefs lost to have any shot
Speaker 1: at winning the division. But you start to put pressure
Speaker 1: on a Kareem hunt lists Chiefs team if you never
Speaker 1: know what could happen all of that said, I thought
Speaker 1: about this for a long time because I knew about
Speaker 1: this game for sure. This was this was etched in
Speaker 1: my mind, this game was happening. I have Chiefs by
Speaker 1: three and a half without Melvin Gordon for the Chargers
Speaker 1: here exactly three and a half. Yeah, I thought about
Speaker 1: I no, no Kareem Hunt, obviously, no Melvin Gordon. Three
Speaker 1: and a half in this game three and a half
Speaker 1: exactly what is posted here at the some point by
Speaker 1: the Wakes that tying touchdown. They were back to back,
Speaker 1: if you will, fourth down place by the by the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: two fourth downter versions in a row. That's that's the game.
Speaker 1: This is the game of the week. Is on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: On the on the one hand, it's almost the shame
Speaker 1: because Thursday night games performances are scorely again for lack
Speaker 1: of a better term, but nice first and we've wanted
Speaker 1: primetime game. Remember the last few years we were complaining
Speaker 1: about the Prime games. But we complain, yeah it's here.
Speaker 1: You know. It's a double edged sword because we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: these Thursday nights schedule games, they suck these matchups, and
Speaker 1: then when we have a good one, we're like, I
Speaker 1: wish that was on a Sunday where they actually play better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't have it both way, So all right there,
Speaker 1: that one's on the money. I'm sure I'll embarrass myself
Speaker 1: with some of these other Let's do it coming back
Speaker 1: week fifteen, guessing lines, trying to isolate value. Hopefully we will.
Speaker 1: It's a numbers game right here at Visa. Vinnie in
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Speaker 1: Gil Alexander, broadcasting live from our Visa in studios in
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Speaker 1: Chrissie Andrews, the South Point Hotel Casino sports book director,
Speaker 1: or as Chrissy calls Vinny Vinnie Malo Mayo leo. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got variations many Uh it's Molly Hulo many Greek
Speaker 1: permit maoli, mutations of that my Italian name. All right,
Speaker 1: let's try to guess something here. All right. By the way,
Speaker 1: Christie and I were trying to guess last night, how
Speaker 1: many more like tonight? Will there will be an extra
Speaker 1: point or field goal that actually does hit the upright again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. By the way, how many
Speaker 1: of those have I I have failed? I have failed
Speaker 1: to mention this game tonight. Obviously let me let me
Speaker 1: let's can we do that for a second. Seattle is
Speaker 1: at home, obviously hosting the Vikings. These two teams right
Speaker 1: now in the number one and number two playoff positions
Speaker 1: in the NFC. And uh, guess what if the Vikings
Speaker 1: lose here, They're still in the number two position in
Speaker 1: the NFC wild Card. No matter what happens in this game,
Speaker 1: these will, in some variation, one will be number one
Speaker 1: and one will be number two, no matter the outcome,
Speaker 1: because well the NFC, let's call it mediocre, just to
Speaker 1: be kind. Uh, Seahawks three point favorites. Now, this was
Speaker 1: three and a half or much of the week three
Speaker 1: now on the Seahawks. Uh, look, this is a tough
Speaker 1: place to play. I know there's there's some some math
Speaker 1: guys will tell you really was Is it only a
Speaker 1: tough place when they're good? I've been to a game
Speaker 1: in Seattle this time of year, actually went to a
Speaker 1: playoff game. It is a tough place to play. Uh,
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins has plagued him throughout his career where he'll
Speaker 1: put up some numbers and crunch time, he won't make
Speaker 1: the best decisions. But at three here awfully tough not
Speaker 1: to play the Seahawks the way their planned. Viking so
Speaker 1: one dimensional right now, no running game. This is a
Speaker 1: game where Uh Seahawks get played at three. When it
Speaker 1: gets you mentioned it was three and a half, it
Speaker 1: was it was taken. Uh. The three and a half
Speaker 1: was taken. So uh home field this is one of
Speaker 1: the better home fields in the NFL. Seattle a guilt. Uh.
Speaker 1: The other part of this is to let's remember that
Speaker 1: the Vikings are on that New England trip and then
Speaker 1: followed by a trip to the Northwest. It didn't serve
Speaker 1: the Packers well when they had to do it. They
Speaker 1: did Seattle first and then New England. So, um, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a scheduling. Um it's it's a
Speaker 1: bit of a scheduling challenge I think for the for
Speaker 1: the teams that have had to do it. And again,
Speaker 1: first it was the Packers and now it's the Viking.
Speaker 1: So but not a real huge decision right now, but
Speaker 1: it will certainly get quite a bit of play. It'll
Speaker 1: be busy, it'll be you know again, we're a capacity
Speaker 1: here at the property with the rodeo in town, so
Speaker 1: it'll be uh again. Yes, you notice that. Where's your
Speaker 1: where's your hat? Where's your you know. I came out
Speaker 1: of the studio the other day and somebody say, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of I just wanted to say hello,
Speaker 1: And I said, oh, what are you here for. He goes, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm roping? And I said, you're you're doing what he says,
Speaker 1: I'm roping. No, g By the way, it's an apostrophe,
Speaker 1: and he said, I've been doing this since a little kid.
Speaker 1: I said, h my, hey, by the way, what I
Speaker 1: just decided to start roping today? What might happen to me?
Speaker 1: Because I don't think you want to do that. Gil,
Speaker 1: that's it was not an Oklahoma, he said, Oklahoma by
Speaker 1: you kill Alexander. That's pretty good, buddy. By the way,
Speaker 1: the Seahawks have lost twice at home the year, but
Speaker 1: they lost the Rams in the famous Todd Gurley got
Speaker 1: a first down. No, you didn't get a first down.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna say anything. Try to get another first down.
Speaker 1: Rams and they did. Finally, we're Jared goff to remember
Speaker 1: that spot where you like clearly passed the first time.
Speaker 1: They're like, no, actually it didn't. Try. Announcer said nothing.
Speaker 1: So they lost the Rams, they lost the Chargers. No
Speaker 1: shame in those two losses at home for Seattle thus
Speaker 1: far this year should be a good one. Tonight, Seahawks
Speaker 1: favorite by three. All right, let's get some week fifteen
Speaker 1: Sunday lines. Okay, actually two games on Saturday. Oh, Saturday
Speaker 1: this week. I forgot where that time of ye So
Speaker 1: two games on Saturday this week. Five bowl games in
Speaker 1: two NFL A Pacific and a five Pacific start. All right,
Speaker 1: Texans at the Jets. Jets with a come from behind
Speaker 1: victory yesterday. Yeah, other team battling my uh. I made
Speaker 1: two season win total bets when CG Technology put them
Speaker 1: out first here in Nevada. One was Houston over eight
Speaker 1: and a half. That's a casher already. The other one
Speaker 1: was the Jets. Because I love the number five. I
Speaker 1: got the best of it all of a sudden, it's pushable.
Speaker 1: It's feeling very pushable. Houston lost to the Colts yesterday,
Speaker 1: so Houston's nine game winning streak is snapped their nine
Speaker 1: and four. It's not really much bad to say about
Speaker 1: the Texans. You know, they weren't gonna win every game,
Speaker 1: but they lose twenty four to twenty one. Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: thirty eight for two sixty seven, one touchdown note picks.
Speaker 1: He was sacked five times, though also carried it five
Speaker 1: times thirty five yards. Uh. DeAndre Hopkins held the thirty
Speaker 1: six yards on four catches. That's probably the biggest outlier
Speaker 1: for the Texans yesterday. Houston will visit the Jets here
Speaker 1: and then the Eagles before hosting Jacksonville in the finale
Speaker 1: of the regular season. Even with their loss, Houston still
Speaker 1: has a two game lead on the Colts with three
Speaker 1: to go in the a f C South for Colts
Speaker 1: very much alive for a wild card spot. Um Colts
Speaker 1: started slow in that game Yester, but then and didn't
Speaker 1: have a first down until early in the By the way,
Speaker 1: that looks pretty good. Andrew luck pretty when he's not
Speaker 1: throwing picks. Last year with the injury, started off a
Speaker 1: little slow, kind of looked right that first month kill
Speaker 1: We were wondering, boys, he healed. He's been terrific. I
Speaker 1: have a Colts to win the a f C South
Speaker 1: ticket it's not gonna get there. Boy was, and boy
Speaker 1: am I rooting for them. But you know the Jets,
Speaker 1: as you say, come from behind to beat the Bills yesterday.
Speaker 1: Sam Donald sixty one touchdown, one pick. Uh Elijah McGuire
Speaker 1: running back who was in there because uh, well just
Speaker 1: because there was there was no one else on the roster.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Crowell had left the game with the shoulder injury
Speaker 1: in the second quarter, so he was the next man up.
Speaker 1: He scored on a fourth and goal. Elijah McGuire did
Speaker 1: uh fourth and goal run from the one yard line
Speaker 1: with one seventeen remaining, a KABA drive during which Donald
Speaker 1: completed three of five passes for fifty two yards. That
Speaker 1: was the slowest to develop one yard run you will
Speaker 1: ever see in your life. Last it eternity, but he
Speaker 1: got there. It's just if you had the Jets and
Speaker 1: Bets yesterday, You're like, get there, get there, and he
Speaker 1: there you go. Um Donald very good. Thirty seven yard
Speaker 1: passed on that final drive to Robby Anderson, so he
Speaker 1: had his moment. That's his first start Donald since missing
Speaker 1: three with a strain right foot. He had to leave
Speaker 1: the game in the middle of the first quarter, left
Speaker 1: first series hurting the same foot, came back. Jets snap
Speaker 1: a six game losing streak, um bounce back after a
Speaker 1: week after squandering a sixteen to nothing lead against Tennessee
Speaker 1: which they lost two and uh Todd Bowles selecting the
Speaker 1: gamble after Donald will stop to the one on third
Speaker 1: and goal from the four and the Jets special teams
Speaker 1: is what's getting it done for them. They blocked a
Speaker 1: field goal at the end of the first half, also
Speaker 1: had other big plays. So this is the The Texans
Speaker 1: at the Jets. The Texans will be favored, I will say,
Speaker 1: on the road by six, six and a half right there?
Speaker 1: Good and again seconds Saturday game now the evening game Pacific.
Speaker 1: The Brownies at the Broncos. Broncos so none of themselves
Speaker 1: yesterday not exactly the sexiest games on Saturday, still five
Speaker 1: primetime game. Folks, love they love the love the Browns.
Speaker 1: They the Browns are the they are the NFL darlings.
Speaker 1: Browns five, seven and one, and now the Broncos six
Speaker 1: and seven after going into San Francisco and getting beat
Speaker 1: Did they miss Sanders yesterday? Yeah? And and Chris Harris
Speaker 1: on defense they played. Uh, give the ninerscord A Niners
Speaker 1: a good game. George Kittle on my fantasy opponent destroyed me.
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield for Cleveland yesterday. Cleveland beats the Panthers, will
Speaker 1: get to the Panthers. Baker Mayfield eighteen and twenty two
Speaker 1: for two thirty eight, one touchdown, no picks, sack just once.
Speaker 1: The Browns had a grand total of twelve first downs
Speaker 1: in this game. Beat the Panthers twenty six to twenty
Speaker 1: as a closing pick him here at the South Point
Speaker 1: Hotel Casino. Uh. Brown's keeping their faint playoff hopes alive.
Speaker 1: They're three and two. Get this, Vinie there, three and
Speaker 1: two under Greg Williams, their interim coach. He needed just
Speaker 1: five games to match former Brown's coach Hugh Jackson's win
Speaker 1: total over two plus seasons. Big move to the Browns yesterday.
Speaker 1: Remember we talked last week where the game opened Panthers one.
Speaker 1: I thought there would be a you know, I thought
Speaker 1: it would actually close Brown's favor. Here it ran to
Speaker 1: the Panthers too. There were actually might have been some
Speaker 1: two and a halves out there yesterday Saturday night and
Speaker 1: all yesterday before kickoff. All Browns, All Browns and the
Speaker 1: brown Panters. We talked about with home road splits. Right,
Speaker 1: Brown's four two and one at First Energy Stadium, Brown's
Speaker 1: clinching their first winning home season since seven and one
Speaker 1: under Romeo Crannell back in two thousands seven. But Mayfield
Speaker 1: had a sixty yard pass to Brashard Perryman, excuse me,
Speaker 1: a sixty six yard pick up on this a first
Speaker 1: past of the game, first play of the game. Uh.
Speaker 1: Then he had a fifty one yard touchdown passing the
Speaker 1: traffic to Landry later Baker Mayfield, Man, he just outplayed
Speaker 1: Cam Newton so legitimately, and we'll get to the Panthers.
Speaker 1: But Cam Newton the worst touch of any quarterback I've
Speaker 1: ever seen in goal to ghost situations. Cam, how about
Speaker 1: some finesse on these, but he's like whipping them to
Speaker 1: guys there. Did he make a comment this week and
Speaker 1: again it's got nothing to do with the touch that
Speaker 1: he may have shoulder surgery again in the offseason, Cam, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought so. The Panthers Denver, as we mentioned, they
Speaker 1: go into San Francisco, they lose. Um, they were in
Speaker 1: the driver's seat when we when you looked at their schedule. Yeah,
Speaker 1: on the stretch, they look like they could go nine
Speaker 1: and seven. Ter Denver was two of fourteen on third
Speaker 1: downs and four of seven on fourth Interesting little quirk.
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb two sacks again, twelve on the sea season.
Speaker 1: That breaks the Broncos rookie record that von Miller said
Speaker 1: at eleven and a half back. I'll say the Broncos
Speaker 1: against the Browns. I won't say it's the full three.
Speaker 1: I'll say it's two and a half, three and a half. See,
Speaker 1: that's too much Broncos three and a half. I would
Speaker 1: take the Browns. You're going through the three there. I'll
Speaker 1: take the Browns. Despite what I said about home road splits,
Speaker 1: I'll take the three in the hook because those are
Speaker 1: straight up splits. All right, there you go. Why why
Speaker 1: would the Broncos get the hook there? That doesn't make
Speaker 1: any sense to me. Bounce back spot home road splits.
Speaker 1: Yeah about the hook, I mean, remember those home road
Speaker 1: splits are straight up. Gil, you'll like the Bronze grab
Speaker 1: the hook. I'm grabbing him for sure, I'm grabbing all right.
Speaker 1: Let's let's take a break there, we'll go to Sunday.
Speaker 1: Coming back, Vinny Molilo. I think we have our first
Speaker 1: play there. It is week fifty. I'm sure we'll have
Speaker 1: that all right, Yeah, Saturday, let me grab the hook now,
Speaker 1: coming back Sunday games Week fifty with Vinny in for
Speaker 1: Christie right here on a Numbers game in Visa. Back
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Speaker 1: If any Las Vegas Aviators, it's a triple a team
Speaker 1: once the fifty ones. Now the Aviators And you were saying, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe a little Kyler Murray next year if he decided
Speaker 1: he's the number one pick. He was picked ninth and
Speaker 1: signed with the Open as affiliate. And I think he's
Speaker 1: going to play baseball. It's a good playing baseball player,
Speaker 1: that's what he says. The plan is now University of Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: and uh, I know the the A's are very high
Speaker 1: on him. So we have Don Logan and the president
Speaker 1: of the now Aviators in on Friday, and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. It's a nice It's actually right next
Speaker 1: to the Golden Knights training facility in the northwest section
Speaker 1: of Las Vegas. Yeah, people don't know. You can just
Speaker 1: go see the nights open you want open, open up
Speaker 1: skates for for the fans, and they draw. They're packed.
Speaker 1: Review Journal also reporting that investors are working to bring
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball to Las Vega. Yah, I saw that interesting.
Speaker 1: I had my opinion on that. Hockey, basketball, football, I
Speaker 1: get it. Baseball, what would have to be a domed facility?
Speaker 1: We know the Raiders are. It's not going to be
Speaker 1: a shared venue where they're playing right. Um one home
Speaker 1: dates for two point one million dollar, two point one
Speaker 1: million populated market. Again because the road team fans will
Speaker 1: come for those other sports appointment viewing baseball is a
Speaker 1: different animal, it is. Yeah. Anyway, just my two cents.
Speaker 1: I don't want to kill the the idea. I don't
Speaker 1: want to kill the idea of just big city. Now, buddy,
Speaker 1: are wet stuff going on? All right, what's next Sunday?
Speaker 1: Let's all right? We got the Sunday first game on Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Miami the Miracle, Miami Dolphins, the miracle in Miami
Speaker 1: in Minnesota to play the Vikings. Yeah, first game on
Speaker 1: Sunday again one Thursday to Saturday. Here's the first one
Speaker 1: on Sunday. We had the Miracle, the Music City Miracle
Speaker 1: with the y check back in the day for the Titans.
Speaker 1: We had the Minnesota was the Minneapolis Miracle last playoffs
Speaker 1: with Stefan Digs. And now we got the Miami the
Speaker 1: Drake Escape. They were trying to call it, and then
Speaker 1: somebody said, hey, that doesn't rhyme. Actually, Drake escape does right.
Speaker 1: Miami Miracle. First of all, Ryan Tannehill yesterday, fourteen of
Speaker 1: nineteen for two sixty five. He gets credit for that
Speaker 1: last one. Three touchdowns, no picks, sacked, four times, hit,
Speaker 1: a passer rating of one fifty five point two. He's
Speaker 1: the yard. It's for that last play by Kenny Stills
Speaker 1: eight for one thirty five, eight catches, one thirty five
Speaker 1: touchdown and Drake that one for fifty five and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So sixteen seconds from defeat, In case you missed this yesterday,
Speaker 1: there's the final score. Dolphins thirty four, Patriots thirty three.
Speaker 1: Dolphins not only cover as a nine point dog, they
Speaker 1: win it out right. So sixteen seconds from defeat, Tannehill
Speaker 1: throws a short pass and then watched his teammates basically
Speaker 1: saved the season. Kenyan Drake ran the last fifty two
Speaker 1: yards as the Dolphins scored on a pass and double
Speaker 1: lateral in the final place Sunday to beat the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots. UM magic And as Bill Belichick said after
Speaker 1: the game when they asked him about he goes quote,
Speaker 1: they just they just made one more play than we
Speaker 1: did unquote, in typical Belichick fashion. Yeah, yeah, what a
Speaker 1: play it was, Billy. It was first again of the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Give the Patriots fits in Miami. They do. Um Gostkowski
Speaker 1: missed his first extra point of the year, I believe,
Speaker 1: and a acording to the postgame report that I saw,
Speaker 1: this was a play that the Dolphins have practiced. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, you can practice it all
Speaker 1: you want. The fact that they got, that they achieved.
Speaker 1: It is called another It's called Boise right, it's the
Speaker 1: it's a tribute to Boise State, the play that they
Speaker 1: wanted against with Oklahoma. Curious thing. And again I was
Speaker 1: watching the game and we watched the Chris Andrews during
Speaker 1: Vikaren and I remember specifically because we were at the
Speaker 1: counter and we looked up. We heard all this screaming
Speaker 1: because they, you know, the later games were getting ready
Speaker 1: to start. And I looked at Chris's face and he's
Speaker 1: looking up and he's incredible. He's like, wait a second,
Speaker 1: is this really happened. First of all, what was Kronkowski?
Speaker 1: He was the last defender. I was understand how he
Speaker 1: could be the last defender fleet afoot he is not,
Speaker 1: I mean stumbled on it. So we were trying to
Speaker 1: you know, Christie brought up a good point. He said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, if it's a hail Mary, he's tall, you
Speaker 1: can knock it down. It Tannehill as good as he played,
Speaker 1: Yesterdy wasn't gonna throw seventy five yard haill Mary. Because
Speaker 1: they were on they were under It was very curious.
Speaker 1: I thought, that's the famous Boise State play that they
Speaker 1: ran against Oklahoma in the ballgame they eventually won. Um Tannehill,
Speaker 1: by the way, said after the game, we had him
Speaker 1: right where we wanted. I'm not really surprised some things
Speaker 1: turned out. As he laid down belief. It was a
Speaker 1: fourteen yard passed to Kenny Stills. He lateral to DeVante Parker,
Speaker 1: who quickly lateral to Drake along the sideline. And then
Speaker 1: when you're watching this, there's this weird part where like
Speaker 1: Drake Kenyan Drake Um, he cuts towards the middle and
Speaker 1: then like he's like nobody's in front of him all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, and he just finds a seam great
Speaker 1: blocked by guard Ted Larson at the thirty. And then
Speaker 1: as you went out of beats two Patriots to the
Speaker 1: corner of the end zone j C. Jackson and Rob Gronkowski,
Speaker 1: who stumbled towards him the last defender the prevent defense
Speaker 1: the longest play from scrimmage to win a game with
Speaker 1: no time remaining in the fourth quarter since the merger
Speaker 1: in Um calls to mind, Stanford cal calls to mind,
Speaker 1: Duke Miami. Uh, sorry, dukeyes Um and the Dolphins. They
Speaker 1: came from behind five times in this game to help
Speaker 1: uh their slim wild card chances. UM Brandon Bolden, by
Speaker 1: the way, the four spring running back, spent six years
Speaker 1: with the Patriots. He scored twice in this game, once
Speaker 1: on a fifty four yard or nine consecutive home wins
Speaker 1: for Tannehill. Nine consecutive home wins. Who are they planning?
Speaker 1: The Dolphins are in Minnesota, so we don't We don't
Speaker 1: know about Minnesota tonight, m So we have no idea
Speaker 1: we have we have a number, it's posted. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: a number on this game Minnesota mind without sight unseen.
Speaker 1: And I won't do my Colt McCoy thing. Do you
Speaker 1: remember when I said last week, Benny, Yeah, Um, do
Speaker 1: you remember when I said when when the Redskins hadn't
Speaker 1: played Monday night and we were projecting the head to
Speaker 1: the Giants Redskins line, I said, I don't know Cole
Speaker 1: McQuay could break a lect I know. Yeah, Please don't
Speaker 1: make any Yeah, I'm not gonna say anything. Matt Jones
Speaker 1: is trying to find that audio because I actually said that.
Speaker 1: People on Twitter like, did you just say? What I
Speaker 1: think is that? After that? Um, I don't want that
Speaker 1: kind of power. I'd say Minnesota by six sight unseen eight. See,
Speaker 1: I will have the same reaction to this that I
Speaker 1: had to the other one. Why would it go through
Speaker 1: the seven? Why would they mean more than seven against
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. I'll take the Dolphins there. Give me more
Speaker 1: than seven, all right, and we'll see what happens tonight.
Speaker 1: Obviously during the Vikings Seahawks. When we get to the Patriots,
Speaker 1: I want to go through all the wrong thing the
Speaker 1: Patriots did to make to allow that to happen yesterday too.
Speaker 1: But Bill Belichick, we don't often criticize, right, We criticize
Speaker 1: everybody else for for coaching mistakes. Even the great Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick deserves some blame this time. Again, look at your
Speaker 1: last offender. They just made one more play than we did. Okay,
Speaker 1: thanks Bill, Wait, your imitations today just just was priceless.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that the That's what he said to me.
Speaker 1: I've been roping since I was a kid. What happens
Speaker 1: if I just go out and rope for the first
Speaker 1: time today? That's what I asked him. He goes, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna do It's not gonna go your When I
Speaker 1: came back with like a hoof bruise in my head,
Speaker 1: half my face. Anyway, next next game on these what
Speaker 1: happened slot stools, they don't hurt all right. Here we
Speaker 1: go the Raiders in Cincinnati to play the Bengals. That's
Speaker 1: a great Raiders Bengals. You are not required to watch
Speaker 1: this National Football League game. Well, Cincinnati by three, I
Speaker 1: won't even I won't even say anything by three and three.
Speaker 1: And that's why this game we'll see action because it's three.
Speaker 1: Of course, is there's nothing else this line could be.
Speaker 1: Derek car yesterday was good. Let's point that out. Two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no picks, sacked four times UM Jared Cook seven of
Speaker 1: those catches for one sixteen. The Raiders, though, even in
Speaker 1: victory over the Steelers, thirteen penalties for one hundred thirty
Speaker 1: yards car to Derek Carrier with twenty one seconds left
Speaker 1: before Chris Boswell then slipped on a potential game tying
Speaker 1: forty yard or on the final play of the Raiders
Speaker 1: one outright win over the Steelers yesterday. Steelers were favored
Speaker 1: by nine and a half at the close. Um overcame
Speaker 1: two fourth quarter deficits did the Raiders, and again they
Speaker 1: survived after a forty eight yard hook and lateral pass
Speaker 1: play that's set up that final field goal try for
Speaker 1: the Steelers. It's incredible ending in that game, and UH
Speaker 1: coach John Gruden runs off the field, high fiving Oakland
Speaker 1: fans on the way the locker room. Let's in the now,
Speaker 1: we got it. He's holding up three fingers, three wins.
Speaker 1: Ry the way, have two things. Um steals very curiously.
Speaker 1: They they finished the game with the time out, but
Speaker 1: they didn't use their second time out when the Raiders
Speaker 1: they probably could have saved I want to say at
Speaker 1: least thirty seconds on that Raiders final drive. I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you watch the end of yeah, I did, every
Speaker 1: moment of it, you're like, what what do you? What
Speaker 1: do you? What do you doing? Weren't using your time
Speaker 1: out here? You know how we say the Steelers always
Speaker 1: have one bad road loss. In case you thought it
Speaker 1: was the Broncos. It was almost like they were like, well,
Speaker 1: it's debatable if this was our bad road loss, so
Speaker 1: let's really And they escaped the week before in in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: If you recall, I do recall so Cincinnati. By the way,
Speaker 1: you should be mentioned Jeff Driscoll eighteen of seven against
Speaker 1: the Chargers yesterday for one seventy one touchdown, Noe pick
Speaker 1: sack three times, Joe mixing for over a hundred yards
Speaker 1: touchdown looked like driscal in that game for those who
Speaker 1: care scored. Appeared to score a touchdown with about five
Speaker 1: minutes remaining in the second quarter on a one yard
Speaker 1: scramble what abought the Brangles within four but then replay
Speaker 1: overturned it, saying he was short of the goal line.
Speaker 1: So now this this thing where he's like if he's
Speaker 1: going head first. In the past, that was not considered
Speaker 1: to be giving yourself up, but that rule was changed
Speaker 1: this season, so now if you go forward, it's ruled
Speaker 1: giving yourself up. Anyway, you didn't get the touchdown and
Speaker 1: ended up being a field goal, and that that mattered greatly.
Speaker 1: By the way score safe to say that the the
Speaker 1: Raiders since the blow up on the sideline between Jon
Speaker 1: Gruden and Derek Carr a few weeks back, that they've
Speaker 1: played better. So Derek carrs Derek Carla, anyway, three it is,
Speaker 1: and three is what it is? Alright. Three was my guest,
Speaker 1: And three is what it is. All right, We'll do
Speaker 1: one more coming back. It is a numbers game. Week fifteen,
Speaker 1: guessing lines. We've got a couple already and I think
Speaker 1: are too high. Give me Miami on Sunday? And what
Speaker 1: was the one on Saturday that like, give me Cleveland?
Speaker 1: Cleveland was their first reactions? Reserve the right to change it.
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Speaker 1: Mill with the Yes with the St. Louis Rams. All right,
Speaker 1: let's do one here before the break real quick. Well,
Speaker 1: you've got the Buccaneers in Baltimore to play the Ravens.
Speaker 1: The Ravens yesterday. Buccaneers were at fourteen to three in
Speaker 1: their game at half time against the Saints, and then
Speaker 1: it all went to crapola. Jamis Winston eighteen of thirty
Speaker 1: two touchdowns one pick yesterday, five carries forty seven yards,
Speaker 1: but the Bucks ten penalties eighty four yards. Um. Saints
Speaker 1: blocked a punt, they the Bucks had a missed field goal,
Speaker 1: they forced a fumble. UM another field goal deflected off
Speaker 1: the right, upright in the first half. Just all kinds
Speaker 1: of gas for the Bucks that torpedoed them yesterday. Um,
Speaker 1: they only had thirty two yards in the second half
Speaker 1: the Bucks until the final drive. Good game for the public. Yesterday.
Speaker 1: Saints were bet up to closed nine and a half
Speaker 1: here from eight. Baltimore is we talked about with Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Baltimore was up with four plus minutes left in that
Speaker 1: game by seven. Didn't get it done. Eleven penalties for
Speaker 1: the Ravens for one twelve. They were up with four
Speaker 1: oh four left, but at all uh they got ma
Speaker 1: homes is what they got to a fourth umb plays
Speaker 1: conversions Yeah, Lamar thirteen forty seven sack three times, thirteen
Speaker 1: carries seventy one yards. I'll say Baltimore by a touchdown eight.
Speaker 1: Eight Okay, not as not as much problem with that
Speaker 1: because it doesn't go through a cave, but number but
Speaker 1: okay eight Yeah, alright, you're good. I'm not gonna go crazy. Alright,
Speaker 1: Baltimore seven and six, still a half game out of
Speaker 1: the a f C North League, right behind the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: All Right, we'll come back. We'll do more Week fifteen.
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Speaker 1: the numbers game here at Visa on a Monday morning.
Speaker 1: Guessing Lines Week fifteen are not our tribute to the
Speaker 1: old Stardust Guessing Line show with Roxy Roxburrow back in
Speaker 1: the day, Vinny. Yes, we try to just be a
Speaker 1: fraction as good as they were. Those guys were great.
Speaker 1: It was a terrific, a terrific show at the start
Speaker 1: of Startust. Had some of the early really good radio
Speaker 1: shows here in town. So did the Union Plaza folks
Speaker 1: like Lee Pete. You mentioned Roxy Roxborow. Frank Rosenthal otherwise
Speaker 1: known as left as Mr Rosehal. Yes, Mr Rosinhal, this
Speaker 1: is Chrissie, one of the best story times ever. When
Speaker 1: we use this story times, Christie, other guys like I
Speaker 1: love Mr Rosenthal. He gives me a hundred dollars just
Speaker 1: to start his car every morning. One of the great
Speaker 1: lines ever. That's great. Wouldn't start car? That's phenomenal. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So we try to we try to pay tribute to
Speaker 1: them with this show every Monday morning. Vinny in for
Speaker 1: Chrissie this morning. Chris Andrews, who uh has a I
Speaker 1: mentioned this earlier before you came in, Vinny, who has
Speaker 1: a treatment at the same time as this ship, so
Speaker 1: cannot be with us, but he will be on visa air,
Speaker 1: either by phone or in studio. Yeah, hopefully this afternoon
Speaker 1: we'll have quick Chris was on with us a couple
Speaker 1: of times lest week. He was in all weekend and uh,
Speaker 1: look great, we had a we had of course, we
Speaker 1: had our typical I just want to point out, it's
Speaker 1: not that he doesn't like me anymore. That's what I
Speaker 1: just want to know. You know, you could rest assure
Speaker 1: he not only like he he loves you trust from me.
Speaker 1: And he's listening right now. No, I know. I was
Speaker 1: just went out some people and he's maybe maybe. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he's going to text something and maybe fallen out
Speaker 1: or something. I'm getting you too, Sorry, love that man.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do Let's let's find something value here
Speaker 1: were you've already found value into at least like two
Speaker 1: games over it? I do, all right, because those lines
Speaker 1: are nonsense. I know. Well, listen, what do we know?
Speaker 1: What do I know? Cowboys Colts? Next up? Cowboys Colts,
Speaker 1: Cowboys Colts in Indianapolis. Cowboys yesterday beat the Eagles in overtime.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. By the way, isn't it just typical for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have players named Dak and Zeke Dak forty
Speaker 1: two of fifty four for four fifty five. Let me
Speaker 1: repeat that, forty two of fifty four for four fifty five,
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, two picks, that three times, Zeke fourteen on
Speaker 1: the ground, twelve catches seventy nine yards and then there's
Speaker 1: a Mari ten catches for to seventeen three touchdowns. I
Speaker 1: would say that this AMRII Cooper trade is working out
Speaker 1: just find for the Cowboys. They are undefeated since they
Speaker 1: got him, right they five and oh with Amari Cooper?
Speaker 1: Are they five and oh? Or they're they're undefeated, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. But I think their four now took took
Speaker 1: a lot of heat certainly, you know, hey, he's got uh.
Speaker 1: I still think they overpaid, right, Yeah, but it's it's
Speaker 1: working out for them because it absolutely he's producing, very quietly,
Speaker 1: very very professional. And again the Cowboys are they took
Speaker 1: control of the NFC East yesterday. Gil Oh, it's it's
Speaker 1: I mean, it's already much purposes. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a done deal. Right, One more Cowboys win and
Speaker 1: it is a clincher. Yeah, um or one more, I guess,
Speaker 1: or Eagles and Redskin losses would clinch it as well. Um.
Speaker 1: You know what else I was wrong about about the
Speaker 1: Cowboys this year. I made a big deal about Dan
Speaker 1: Bailey getting cut, and I'm like, for three and a
Speaker 1: half million dollars savings in the league that's decided by
Speaker 1: it's working out quite well for them with with Brett matter.
Speaker 1: But here's something here. The Cowboys out gained the Eagles
Speaker 1: and yards five seventy six to two fifty six, four
Speaker 1: thirty four to two twenty two in the air, one
Speaker 1: forty two to thirty four on the ground, nine d
Speaker 1: three total plays to almost double the amount of plays.
Speaker 1: Cowboys were eight of sixteen on third downs, the Eagles
Speaker 1: were one of nine. But Dallas was minus two in
Speaker 1: turnovers and they committed eleven penalties for a hundred and
Speaker 1: eleven yards. And that's why a lot of the reason
Speaker 1: why I went to overtime. By the way, it did
Speaker 1: go over overtime, and the Cowboys had the ball for
Speaker 1: almost the entire overtime before but they ended up with
Speaker 1: forty seven. The time of possession was for the Eagles
Speaker 1: was twenty two thirty two. Uh Dak Prescott. Uh, here's
Speaker 1: the thing. With all those gaudy stats, he's still terrible pass.
Speaker 1: He holds the ball out were and he fumbles Like again,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys made this deal. They gave a first round
Speaker 1: pay but to one end to win the NFC East
Speaker 1: and then they get blasted in the playoffs. Well, um,
Speaker 1: it depends, Gill. I mean, on on, you know who
Speaker 1: they match up with. They'll have a home game, whereas
Speaker 1: the game's I mean, they've been very good at home.
Speaker 1: They'll have a home we know the home road. And again,
Speaker 1: if whoever they play, maybe how does the turnover what's
Speaker 1: the turnover ratio wind up? There? I mean that'll be
Speaker 1: the key to right so things and all I care,
Speaker 1: let's get just get there, right they gotta It wasn't
Speaker 1: so longer. They were forty one fifty two one in
Speaker 1: some spots right before this this run of theirs. So,
Speaker 1: by the way, in case you missed it, on third
Speaker 1: down there and overtimeer Soul Douglass tipped the pass. The
Speaker 1: Eagles d back tipped the pass into the air. Amari
Speaker 1: grabs it, Marie Cooper grabs it. Clear paths at the
Speaker 1: end zone from Philadelphia seven. Cowboys used almost the entire
Speaker 1: ten minute overtime scoring with one fifty five remaining. All
Speaker 1: three of Cooper's touchdowns the others from seventy five and
Speaker 1: twenty eight yards were in the fourth quarter in overtime,
Speaker 1: and Brett mark sixty two yard field goal Cowboy franchise
Speaker 1: record final play. The first half, he had three field goals.
Speaker 1: Fifth straight win for the Cowboys. There were three and five.
Speaker 1: Now they're eight and five, two game lead over the
Speaker 1: defending Super Bowl champion Eagles, and they got the season
Speaker 1: sweep over the is now And by the way, you're
Speaker 1: Washington Redskins Vinny two game lead over the Redskins. Five
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy six yards for the Cowboys of total offense,
Speaker 1: the most since gaining five seventy eight back in nine
Speaker 1: hundred seventy three. Again, Cowboys clinch with a win over
Speaker 1: the Colts. Here. The Colts, as we mentioned, beat the
Speaker 1: Texans Andrew Lucky forty one um in that ball game.
Speaker 1: T Y Hilton nine catches one forty one for three
Speaker 1: ninety nine for Andrew Luck, two touchdowns, one one pick,
Speaker 1: four thirty six totally yards of offense for the Colts
Speaker 1: in that game against the Texas UH Colts by three period.
Speaker 1: End of story. You're right, thank you. The the threes
Speaker 1: are easy, they leap off the board. Colts are seven
Speaker 1: and six, two games behind the Texans, very much in
Speaker 1: the scrum for the wild card, right, very nicks. The
Speaker 1: next game up Lions in Buffalo to play the Bills.
Speaker 1: That's another bad game, by the way Brent Musburger brought
Speaker 1: up with. But this was this was terrific. I believe
Speaker 1: the Bills put out a notice over the weekend. Going
Speaker 1: in the weekend, any fan that shows up to shovel
Speaker 1: snow and clear out Orchard Park Stadium gets in the
Speaker 1: game for free. Ah. I loved it. That's awesome. Boy,
Speaker 1: there's a good incident because otherwise, Yeah, those fans would
Speaker 1: have been there anyway, because they can't be that. It
Speaker 1: can't be the first time they've done that. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't remember hearing it, but I thought
Speaker 1: it was great. Brent loved it. I thought it was
Speaker 1: Detroit beats Arizona Matthew Stafford fifteen of twenty three for
Speaker 1: one oh one for one oh one, no touchdowns, no
Speaker 1: pick sacked once, still beat the Cardinals. Darius Slay had
Speaker 1: a lot to do with that pick six. Yeah, sixty
Speaker 1: seven yard pick six off Josh Rosen that put the
Speaker 1: Lions up tend to nothing in the third, which was
Speaker 1: pretty much insurmountable at that point the way that the
Speaker 1: Cardinals play offense. The Lions had lost five of six
Speaker 1: before that, and then Buffalo, as we mentioned, they lose
Speaker 1: to the Jets. Josh Allen, though, does this every week now.
Speaker 1: He fills up a stat sheet. He fills up the
Speaker 1: box score eighteen of thirty six for two oh six
Speaker 1: through the air, no touchdowns, two picks, two big picks,
Speaker 1: sack three times, but nine carries for one oh one
Speaker 1: in a touchdown. He threw two picks and he lost
Speaker 1: a fumble. His fumble and first pick led to to
Speaker 1: uh the Jets kicking two field goals, and his second
Speaker 1: picks sealed the loss with fifty nine seconds left when
Speaker 1: he was picked off by Tremaine Johnson at Buffalo's forty five.
Speaker 1: He's just the second quarterback in NFL history, by the way,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is to top ninety yards and three consecutive
Speaker 1: games rushing. But Buffalo, as we mentioned, with the Jets
Speaker 1: shout out to the Jets special teams. Buffalo was undone
Speaker 1: by a Andre Roberts big day from Andre Roberts the
Speaker 1: Jeff's the Jets return man Andre Roberts five kickoffs for
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy six yards in the return game.
Speaker 1: Buffalo was down to their third string running back Marcus
Speaker 1: Murphy because Lashawn McCoy got sidelined by a hamstring injury
Speaker 1: in the first quarter. Then Chris Ivory heard his angle
Speaker 1: ankle in the third. Buffalo by three. For God's sakes,
Speaker 1: what else could it be? Two and a half? Okay,
Speaker 1: there's my answer that you asked, what else could it be?
Speaker 1: Could be two and a half? I guess I might
Speaker 1: get to three. Yeah, it's gonna be probably, Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's do it on the one. Yeah. I don't want
Speaker 1: to really harp on anything else. With the Packers at
Speaker 1: the Bears, a rematch of the opening game. Was that
Speaker 1: opening Monday night, the one where the Packer where Rogers
Speaker 1: was Rogers hurting that game. It was a miracle at
Speaker 1: halftime back and yeah, we didn't know if he was
Speaker 1: going to play. In the second that we thought he wasn't,
Speaker 1: and the and there he came there he came Superman, right.
Speaker 1: Packers want to know with Joe Philbin as head coach,
Speaker 1: they crushed the Falcons yesterday. Man Matt Ryan melts in
Speaker 1: cold weather just like Jared Goff does. Packers winning thirty
Speaker 1: four to twenty. They covered three and a half point spread.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers thirty two, one, two touchdowns, no picks, sacked
Speaker 1: four times. But you know what is it? They beat
Speaker 1: a warm weather team on a cold day at Lambeau
Speaker 1: by building a big lead and winning a turnover margin.
Speaker 1: That's a good formula. Joe Philbin using all his challenges
Speaker 1: within the first ninety seconds of that game. Sweat Joe.
Speaker 1: You can space these out over the full game. Joe
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be the first ninety second defense force
Speaker 1: two turnovers, first takeaways. In three games with the Packers,
Speaker 1: they snap a three game losing streak. Rogers sets the
Speaker 1: NFL record for most consecutive attempts without a pick three
Speaker 1: nine doesn't throw picks. Got lucky though, because Dion Jones
Speaker 1: had a couple of chances to pick off the ball.
Speaker 1: And then there's the Bears last night. Mr Bisky, I
Speaker 1: just say this shout out to Michael Lombardi The Bears
Speaker 1: beat the Rams yesterday fifteen to six, but Mitch r.
Speaker 1: Biscuity was sixteen of thirty for one ten, one touchdown,
Speaker 1: three picks, sacked once After missing the previous two games
Speaker 1: because of the right shoulder injury. Jordan howardes one oh one.
Speaker 1: Bears possessed the ball for thirty six minutes forty nine seconds.
Speaker 1: They beat the NFC West champion Rams UH to win
Speaker 1: for the six time in seven games. Khalil Mckakeem Hicks,
Speaker 1: they had sacks, ro Quan Smith, Prince i'm Mukamara, Eddie Jackson,
Speaker 1: Kyle Fuller, they all had picks against Jerry goff Um.
Speaker 1: But the Bears with Drabinsky like that, Like, I just
Speaker 1: don't think you can. Like how many people are gonna
Speaker 1: bet on the Bears in the playoffs and then Drabinsky
Speaker 1: is just going to let them down. A lot of
Speaker 1: people are gonna bet on the Bears on the playoffs. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I I know there's a lot of UH
Speaker 1: A lot being said about I would say this, I'd
Speaker 1: like to he needs more season I'm gonna give him
Speaker 1: UH the opportunity to get more seasonings. We only played
Speaker 1: thirteen games, right games at Caroline. Now, I have to
Speaker 1: tell you, this defense, whether you're a Bears fan or not,
Speaker 1: it's phenomenal. As a football fan, you've got to appreciate
Speaker 1: this defense. No, particularly it's speed and the way they
Speaker 1: read schemes, and I mean it's it's as it's as
Speaker 1: good at defense as we've seen in in quite some times.
Speaker 1: It's not the eight five Bears, but it's pretty damn not.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what. It reminds you, right, it
Speaker 1: makes you talk about whenever listen, Whenever I say whenever
Speaker 1: I see fifty eight, I always think Wilbur Marshall when
Speaker 1: they're playing, No, for sure, I mean the monsters of
Speaker 1: the Midway or they're all right, yeah, how many times
Speaker 1: have you heard that? This year? So Bears nine and
Speaker 1: four now, um, looking good in the NFC North. They're
Speaker 1: hosting the Packers, who are holding on a slim playoff hopes. Here.
Speaker 1: This is an interesting line to make here because the
Speaker 1: most again recency with the Bears last night, and then's
Speaker 1: the Packers and you're like, okay, well they beat the
Speaker 1: falcon at home again. We just said warm weather team,
Speaker 1: Dome team. I'll say Chicago because it's the Packers, because like,
Speaker 1: you can't make Chicago six here, I'll say Chicago flour
Speaker 1: and a half six and a half. Okay, Chicago by
Speaker 1: six and a half, six and a half Bears? Wow?
Speaker 1: We uh and and Chris texted me. Chris Andrews texted
Speaker 1: me too. There was a thought maybe that to not
Speaker 1: have it quite that high, but after last night, definitely. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's recently play and and again, you know, when you
Speaker 1: think back to that first game, and obviously it was
Speaker 1: the start of the season. Khalil Mack was so it
Speaker 1: was his first game. Um, and we thought the Packers
Speaker 1: would be better the Bears. Really, I thought they got
Speaker 1: a little conservative, particularly in the fourth quarter of that game.
Speaker 1: I thought the Bears the Bears. We should have won
Speaker 1: that game. The Bears were not as conservative. They don't finish,
Speaker 1: you know, have you noticed this about that? They don't
Speaker 1: this game as well. And I think thought the play
Speaker 1: calling got a little too conservative there. But again, hey,
Speaker 1: credit the Packers that night. Weather's not a factor here.
Speaker 1: But these are both cold weather teams, so you can't
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like the you know, the Falcons
Speaker 1: going into Green Bay yesterday or the Rams going into
Speaker 1: Chicago last night. So I don't. I don't think whether's
Speaker 1: enters into it. This is just a matter of you
Speaker 1: know who the the much better team is and certainly
Speaker 1: the better defense here. Rogers certain running for his life here. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But and and re energized Packers without Mike McCarthy has
Speaker 1: been a thing here. That's another factor. Right. Let me
Speaker 1: just say this. Okay, six and a half seem a
Speaker 1: litt high to me, but I'm not gonna go nuts
Speaker 1: about it. I will say this. Last night, warren't Sharp
Speaker 1: tweeted out something finally that me and my buddy E
Speaker 1: have been talking about. He first brought this up to
Speaker 1: my to buy attention. So I give him all the
Speaker 1: credit because this was not something I had noticed, but
Speaker 1: he said to me, so my. My two least favorite
Speaker 1: rules in the NFL are when you fumble through the
Speaker 1: end zone, the other team gets the ball. I do
Speaker 1: not understand that rule. Why it's so punitive. What's the logic?
Speaker 1: Why does the other team get the ball? Does not
Speaker 1: make sense to me. The next worst rule is that
Speaker 1: an offensive player a defensive player comes in the same
Speaker 1: area code as your head or your face mask. It's
Speaker 1: a flag, but an offensive player Derrick Henry to the
Speaker 1: house for ninety nine yards can stick his hand all
Speaker 1: up in your face mask and wrangle with it and
Speaker 1: they won't call anything. Right. That's that's the second most
Speaker 1: The second rule that bothers me, second worst. But the
Speaker 1: third is what my buddy pointed out Warren Sharp finally
Speaker 1: pointed out yesterday on Twitter, because we've been trying to
Speaker 1: like isolate what it is exactly. But the Bears were
Speaker 1: up in this game yesterday, about seven plus minutes left
Speaker 1: in the game, and they set up for a punt
Speaker 1: and they take a false story. They take a delay
Speaker 1: of game penalty. I believe it was or was it
Speaker 1: a fall start here? Five yards of five year ode? Okay,
Speaker 1: false star penalty is what it was. And then the clock,
Speaker 1: their play clock, and the game clock. Most importantly, the
Speaker 1: game clock restarts. And so there is a there is
Speaker 1: a loophole in the rules in the NFL where a
Speaker 1: team that's up and I believe you can do this
Speaker 1: north of five minutes, because my buddy and I, again
Speaker 1: we've been trying to isolate how far down can you
Speaker 1: do this too? But as long as you're more than
Speaker 1: five minutes left in the game. The team ahead can
Speaker 1: milk almost an entire minute off the clock at that point,
Speaker 1: and there's nothing the defensive team can do about it.
Speaker 1: If you decline, the penalty is the clock, but you
Speaker 1: still lose the time. It doesn't matter. So it's a
Speaker 1: gamesmanship thing. There's a loophole in the rules, and they've
Speaker 1: got to do something about that. And the Bears employed
Speaker 1: it last night, and the announcers oblivious as every We're like, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe he just needs five more yards. I had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with that. They were taking. The time means
Speaker 1: more than the five yards at that point in the game.
Speaker 1: Tom in that case, Tom is points right, absolutely so.
Speaker 1: And it's a it's a number, as Michael Lombardi famously says,
Speaker 1: you should equate it to a number of plays available
Speaker 1: to so good good coaching for for Matt Naggy and
Speaker 1: the Bears. And they knew exactly what they were doing.
Speaker 1: So you're saying, it's six and a half, the Bears
Speaker 1: six and a half against the Packers. Let's take a break.
Speaker 1: How many more games we have here? We got three
Speaker 1: six and Monday night six and oh man, well maybe
Speaker 1: let's do one more real quick then, alright, let's do
Speaker 1: the Titans in New York or New Jersey to play
Speaker 1: the Giants. The Giants, the Giants who led the Redskins
Speaker 1: yesterday forty to nothing at one point, and Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: Noel doll Becka with Noel Becka Saturday announced that he
Speaker 1: had a quad pole. Yeah, of course the Titans are
Speaker 1: gonna be on extra rest here the Derrick Henry games.
Speaker 1: Seventeen carries for two thirty eight for Derrick Henry against
Speaker 1: a business decision making Jaguars defense. Four touchdowns for Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry last Thursday night. The Giants yesterday beat the Redskins
Speaker 1: forty to sixteen, and they led, as they said, forty
Speaker 1: to nothing. Eli Manning fourteen of twenty two, three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no picks, act twice, fourteen carries for one seventy and
Speaker 1: a touchdown, four catches seven. By the way, la Letta
Speaker 1: came in for Eli at one point he was over
Speaker 1: five from zero yards, no touchdowns, one pick. I just
Speaker 1: want to point that out. Kwon Barkley is a Ferrari
Speaker 1: seventy eight yard touchdown run for him. He passes the
Speaker 1: one thousand yard mark forty to sixteen rout of the Redskins.
Speaker 1: We'll get into the Redskins later. But Barkley uh twelve
Speaker 1: point one yards a carry yesterday, twelve point one yards
Speaker 1: a carry, uh, single season franchise rookie record with his
Speaker 1: thirteenth touchdown. As you point out, Odell out with the
Speaker 1: quadr steps injury. The Giants are gonna be favored against
Speaker 1: the seven and six Titans, the five and eight Giants.
Speaker 1: I'll say by two and a half, right on two
Speaker 1: and a half. Gill Bengo, Bingo, Bengo. Alright, alright, we
Speaker 1: got that one. We'll come back. We'll do more, hope,
Speaker 1: bunch more to get to week fifteen. Nobody's got buys
Speaker 1: forgot how many games there own? Good lording coming back,
Speaker 1: isolating value. I think we've got value in at least two,
Speaker 1: possibly three, let's go I'll say two at this point.
Speaker 1: Coming back. Vinny Chrissie on a numbers game, guessing lines
Speaker 1: right here in visa, back to a numbers game with
Speaker 1: your host Gil Alexander, broadcasting live from our visa in
Speaker 1: studios in Las Vegas. We have we have the miracle
Speaker 1: in Miami on the screen in front of us. There's
Speaker 1: that moment in that Romer Kenyan Drake is looking almost
Speaker 1: like he's gonna laterally he's looking for somebody lateral too,
Speaker 1: and then he just sort of he he remembers at
Speaker 1: some point he's like, well this is the direction I'm
Speaker 1: going to. Let me just take a peek. And like
Speaker 1: there was no patriot in front of him. It was
Speaker 1: like a prairie exactly. And then there was Gronk and
Speaker 1: there was He looked up and Gronk was not not athletic.
Speaker 1: There can I get another Bill Bell check out of you? Please? Um?
Speaker 1: You know, they just they just made one more play
Speaker 1: than we did. By the way, I love when Chris
Speaker 1: Andrews is listening, and because we could tell him as
Speaker 1: as he's sitting there right now, he's smiling, and because
Speaker 1: we know him so well, you know, his expression's just
Speaker 1: shaking his head right now. These two look he's shaking
Speaker 1: his head smiles, you know what, because we we would
Speaker 1: have so much fun with you know, I have to
Speaker 1: tell you. And you've watched games with us back there,
Speaker 1: I've had the play with Jimmy Carroll and let's face it,
Speaker 1: it's a fun experience. It is a fun I mean,
Speaker 1: it's particularly fun when you guys have something to sweat, though.
Speaker 1: I must tell you it's not fun for you guys,
Speaker 1: but it's fun for me to observe. You mean, when
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl sitting on nine, that's correct, something like that.
Speaker 1: That's specifically when there's a huge like a six figure
Speaker 1: the decision on the game and it's and it's just
Speaker 1: kind of hanging rang nine. You say nine, It can't
Speaker 1: fall nine? What do you mean on nine? For a
Speaker 1: long time? Here? How do they get to nine? There?
Speaker 1: Did Gostkowski miss an extra point at that point? I
Speaker 1: can't remember. I don't know that. I think the other
Speaker 1: team made one more play at that point or something.
Speaker 1: There's a super Bowl against Atlanta where it was not
Speaker 1: by the way, how funny does that look now in
Speaker 1: retrospect that at one point in that game, in the
Speaker 1: second half, where you were sweating a nine and it
Speaker 1: ends up being yeah, left it in the but for
Speaker 1: that moment, Oh man, all right, let's move on. Okay,
Speaker 1: the here we go go. Oh yeah, I know what's coming,
Speaker 1: your beloved Washington Redskins in Jacksonville? These games? How many
Speaker 1: terrible games are there this coming? Way? Listen? You may again,
Speaker 1: they may seem terrible at first blush. But however they're better.
Speaker 1: They're on the board, and pay attention to the number
Speaker 1: associated with them. Um, if you're a Redskin fan like
Speaker 1: I am, it's just comical, right, Like, you can't even
Speaker 1: be upset. It's just funny at this well, it's unfortunate,
Speaker 1: right yeah, I mean and again last week, we'll get
Speaker 1: the tape right out loud. I was like, I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't make this line, Vindean. What if I go
Speaker 1: out and break his leg? Yeah, you don't want to.
Speaker 1: Please don't mention any players here in physical ailments. Mark
Speaker 1: Sanchez yesterday the Sanchi six of fourteen for thirty eight yards,
Speaker 1: no touchdowns in two picks. One was a big six.
Speaker 1: He was sacked five times. His passerrating not his qb
Speaker 1: R out of one hundred, but his passerrating out of
Speaker 1: one fifty eight point three was ten point seven. I'm
Speaker 1: told that's not good. Who's quarterbacking for the Roadskins next week?
Speaker 1: Josh Johnson, Baby, Josh Johnson Johnson, But please, I mean interrupted,
Speaker 1: don't say anything. Yeah, no, no, no, don't say anything
Speaker 1: about Josh Wilson. Don't say anything. I promised. Physical Josh
Speaker 1: Johnson was eleven of sixteen for one. Take that Finnie
Speaker 1: one touchdown one pick seven carries forty five yards. Or
Speaker 1: note the Redskins were penalized fifteen times in this game
Speaker 1: for one thirty five Oh god, um yeah, the Giants
Speaker 1: intercepted in Sanchez twice, Curtis Riley scored a nine yard
Speaker 1: pick six in the first quarter, and then it was
Speaker 1: the gates, the gates. The flood gates had opened. By
Speaker 1: the way. That was Mark Sanchez's ninth career interception returned
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. I just want to throw that in
Speaker 1: ninth pick six for Sanchez. Sanchez was making his first
Speaker 1: start since didn't have a completion longer than ten yards.
Speaker 1: I could continue, But why bother um? Skins lose their
Speaker 1: fourth in a row. Sanchez after the game quote, it
Speaker 1: was tough sledding for sure. I'll say Josh Johnson hadn't
Speaker 1: appeared in NFL game since or thrown a pass since,
Speaker 1: and Jay Gruden quickly after the game said Johnson will
Speaker 1: start the next game against Jackson. There is an executive decision.
Speaker 1: How about that. Here's the thing, Mark, you were really bad,
Speaker 1: so we're not gonna go with you again. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go with this guy who hasn't thrown a pass in
Speaker 1: seven years. Okay with that? Okay, great? Thanks al right,
Speaker 1: tackle Morgan Moses for the Redskins flagged twice for a
Speaker 1: false start. He becomes the NFL's leader and accepted penalties,
Speaker 1: So we're leading in something. There you go. Jordan Reid
Speaker 1: injured his right foot in the first quarter and did
Speaker 1: not return. That's, by the way, that's the kicker for
Speaker 1: all Redskins did the one guy who has been the
Speaker 1: only that he's been hurt his whole career, right, he
Speaker 1: can never stay in the lineup. And the one year
Speaker 1: where everybody else got hurt except for him, and now
Speaker 1: he got hurt too. Jackson listen, Jacksonville, who's four and nine?
Speaker 1: They should be like a six point favorite minimum in
Speaker 1: this game. I'll say six seven Gods, Sorry, I said
Speaker 1: that seven Redskins mathematically alive to win the NFC East.
Speaker 1: This mathematically what a live to win the NFC East.
Speaker 1: I just want to point that out, all right, all right,
Speaker 1: let's move on the Arizona Cardinals in Atlanta to play
Speaker 1: the Falcons. He has nine pick sixes in his career.
Speaker 1: Did I mention that Arizona is Atlantic. God, these games
Speaker 1: are terrible, Vinnie, Who's gonna watch these better? That's Arizona
Speaker 1: had sixty one rushing yards against Detroit. That's all I
Speaker 1: got for Arizona. Julio Jones eight catches for one oh
Speaker 1: six two touchdowns. That was Atlantic. But Atlanta had thirteen
Speaker 1: to leaves against the Packers for one hundred one yards.
Speaker 1: Fifth straight loss for the Falcons guarantees the Falcons a
Speaker 1: losing record for the first time since um and basically,
Speaker 1: uh eight of those penalties, by the way, eight defensive
Speaker 1: penalties for the Falcons Atlanta. Y be labor this, Atlanta
Speaker 1: by seven and a hook. Seven and a half gotta
Speaker 1: be more than seven. It is, but it's much more
Speaker 1: than that. Are you saying eight and a half? Okay?
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, I'm good with that. Okay. Seahawks play tonight,
Speaker 1: but we do have a number posts here at the
Speaker 1: South Point Seahawks in San Francisco to play the nine
Speaker 1: or Seahawks at the Niner Seahawks unseen San Francisco. As
Speaker 1: we mentioned Nick Mullins. In their win, the Niners went
Speaker 1: over the Broncos twenty for thirty three for three thirty two,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, one pick, sat four times George Kittle, Oh,
Speaker 1: George Kittle out of Iowa seven catches two hundred ten
Speaker 1: yards all in the first half for a touchdown two
Speaker 1: hundred ten. He was four yards shy the all time
Speaker 1: yardage record for a tight end, and they targeted him
Speaker 1: once in the second half. You're a fantasy guy, right,
Speaker 1: don't you do. I got destroyed by a guy who
Speaker 1: has George Kittle. My George My opponent had both say
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley and George kill By the way, he sat
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. So I've got nothing to say because he
Speaker 1: destroyed me. And he could have destroyed me even more
Speaker 1: by even more if he had played Derrick Henry. But anyway,
Speaker 1: there there's no going there's no beating George Kittle, No,
Speaker 1: apparently not. But you know, he could have had the
Speaker 1: record ship and Sharp has the NFL record for a
Speaker 1: tight end two fourteen yards receiving. But basically they just
Speaker 1: they stopped going to him. Uh. And Kyle Shanahan apologized
Speaker 1: to him after the game, not once, but twice. He's like, Hey,
Speaker 1: sorry about that, man, Well I want to repeat that. Sorry.
Speaker 1: Somebody on the staff has had eight five yard touchdown
Speaker 1: catch on the way to do the two ten targeted
Speaker 1: once twenty to nothing at halftime. The nine years led
Speaker 1: that game against the Broncos, held on for the win.
Speaker 1: I'll say Seattle against sight unseen, and I won't say
Speaker 1: anything about any player. I won't. I won't give any
Speaker 1: hypotheticals of what could happen to players. Uh, Seattle minus
Speaker 1: four and a half at San Francisco five and a half.
Speaker 1: Again they play tonight, so ballpark, Alright, this next how
Speaker 1: many more games we have? We've got actually two because
Speaker 1: the next game is the Patriots Steelers, and that that
Speaker 1: game is not posted simply because of Ben Roethlisberger's status. Now,
Speaker 1: he was, he was in the game at halftime, right
Speaker 1: before halftime, and we didn't notice he did not come
Speaker 1: back to start the second he he didn't come back
Speaker 1: until I think there's steel his less possession. He didn't
Speaker 1: play for four drives, which was rather curious, and we
Speaker 1: were trying to figure out was a concussion and apparently
Speaker 1: it was ribs rib injury. Yeah, so, um, I don't
Speaker 1: know what his status is. So we don't have a line.
Speaker 1: You don't have a line on this one. New England
Speaker 1: is at Pittsburgh. That's okay. So along with the Thursday
Speaker 1: night game, this is your marquee game. Ah, this will
Speaker 1: be a good game. Yeah, nine and four Patriots two
Speaker 1: game lead in the a f C East, and the
Speaker 1: and the Steelers who have a half game lead at
Speaker 1: seven four and one in the a f C North
Speaker 1: over the race and the Steelers with a don't forget
Speaker 1: they have this game and then I think next week
Speaker 1: they go to New Orleans. Right, yeah, they know they
Speaker 1: have a date with New it's the Saints, but it's
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. It's rough for the Steelers. The Steelers
Speaker 1: on themselves out of the playoffs entirely. Perhaps it could
Speaker 1: be Tom Brady. Actually, can we just well, let's talk
Speaker 1: about this game even though we don't have aligne because
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the Patriots, because I think
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick deserves some criticism. Can I do that? Is it?
Speaker 1: Are we allowed to criticize the Patriots? Well, especially when
Speaker 1: you can, when when you can emulate him so good
Speaker 1: as you do? Wait, made one more play than we did.
Speaker 1: Brady twenty seven forty three yesterday for three fifty nine
Speaker 1: for the Patriots, three touchdowns. Note pics, sack twice, Gronk
Speaker 1: eight catches one oh seven and a touchdown. They were
Speaker 1: nine of sixteen on third down, possessed the ball for
Speaker 1: thirty five minutes four seconds. But here's the deal. Gostkowski
Speaker 1: missed an extra point for the first time in thirty
Speaker 1: eight tries this season. Early in the game. He also
Speaker 1: missed a forty two yard field goal try and then
Speaker 1: his his thirty two yard or. But then he did
Speaker 1: hit a thirty two yard or to cap of fifty
Speaker 1: five yard drive that put the Patriots that had thirty left.
Speaker 1: But here's the delia in this Miami miracle, which the
Speaker 1: Dolphins ended up winning thirty four to thirty three. Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick the greatest coach to some of all time, not
Speaker 1: to me, but to some. He opted to have Gostkowski
Speaker 1: kick a twenty two yard or in the closing seconds
Speaker 1: rather than go for it on fourth down that, if
Speaker 1: it had failed, would have pinned the Dolphins near the
Speaker 1: goal line. Instead, Miami returns the ensuing kickoff to the
Speaker 1: thirty one and on the next play pulled off the miracle.
Speaker 1: Uh and the Patriots, that should be mentioned, squandered a
Speaker 1: scoring chance at the end of the first half, fourteen
Speaker 1: seconds left, no time outs. Brady takes the snap of
Speaker 1: the Miami two and it gets sacked by Robert Quinn.
Speaker 1: The clock runs out, leaving the Patriots with a twenty
Speaker 1: one lead at that point. So so the Patriot blow
Speaker 1: it at the end of the first half, and some
Speaker 1: might say they blow it with the decision at the
Speaker 1: right at the end of the second half. If this
Speaker 1: were another coach, we would murder them for that decision,
Speaker 1: right we might. If it was a guy that we
Speaker 1: are used to, that was Jason Garrett, we'd go after him.
Speaker 1: So if it's Bill Belichick, it deserves to be mentioned. Now.
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't hate it at the time because
Speaker 1: what are the chances? Right? Well, but you would leave
Speaker 1: that little would you even be talking about it? I
Speaker 1: guess the miracle doesn't of course. I think the biggest
Speaker 1: the most curious aspect again though, was Gronkowski is the
Speaker 1: last defender, right? That's the other thing. Just trying to
Speaker 1: understand why, because there was no way to Tannehill was
Speaker 1: going to throw a seventy five yard hail Mary. It's
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake. I swear he's looking for somebody aloud to
Speaker 1: He's like, oh my god, there's nobody here. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: the angle not quite. But the Steelers do go to
Speaker 1: New Orleans next week, so there there. Rode is tough.
Speaker 1: They've struggled against the Patriots. Remember this, this was a
Speaker 1: game last year. I want to say the Steelers, I
Speaker 1: think we're a field goal favorite. And that was the
Speaker 1: controversial no catch. Yes, this is the Jesse James no
Speaker 1: catch catch and uh certainly which would have been a
Speaker 1: catch today. Which yeah, it changed the rule because of
Speaker 1: that incident right in the off season and the UH
Speaker 1: petition committee apparently apparently they changed it beforehand because again,
Speaker 1: as we said, the well different thing. But but anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Steelers are in dire straits right now at this point.
Speaker 1: Steelers Big Bend yesterday twenty five of twenty nine for
Speaker 1: two eighty two, two touchdowns. Note picks Joshua Dobbs in
Speaker 1: his uh in lieu of big ben for I believe
Speaker 1: it was four drives four of nine for twenty four
Speaker 1: and a pass a rating of twelve point zero, no touchdowns.
Speaker 1: One pick. Juju is amazing. Oh yeah, my opponent and
Speaker 1: fantasy all said Juju too. Eight catches one thirty two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I had no shot. Great catch, that touched touchdown catch
Speaker 1: was picture perfect, beautiful. And then that hook and lateral
Speaker 1: to set up what would have been a game tying
Speaker 1: field goal that Boswell slipped on that was unbelievable to
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger returned from a ridge a rib injury to lead
Speaker 1: the go ahead touchdown that car answered. Then he connects
Speaker 1: the short pass to James Washington, who flipped it to Juju,
Speaker 1: who raced down the sideline for forty three more yards
Speaker 1: to set up Boswell's chance, but lost the footing Steelers
Speaker 1: seven five and one. Excuse me, I messed up their
Speaker 1: record earlier third straight loss. They were seven two in one.
Speaker 1: Their seven five and one all decided in the final minutes,
Speaker 1: and Pittsburgh went scoreless on those four drives. It was
Speaker 1: four drives with Joshua Dobbs Boswell, by the way, that
Speaker 1: should be pointed out. The Steelers we're looking at were
Speaker 1: mentioning the very first thing we said on this show.
Speaker 1: Every good team is flawed in this league. There is
Speaker 1: no great team that has no weakness. I even argued
Speaker 1: that the Chargers are the most balanced team. You know what, Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: one of their Achilles heels Is. Chris Boswell has now
Speaker 1: missed six field goals and five extra points. Six field
Speaker 1: goals and five extra points. With his eleven miss kicks,
Speaker 1: that ranks is the worst in the NFL. Boswell had
Speaker 1: this to say about that quote, It's terrible. What else
Speaker 1: do you want me to say? Unquote? I will imagine
Speaker 1: with sight unseen, Pittsburgh is gonna be about a four
Speaker 1: point favorite, that's my guest. No less than three healthy
Speaker 1: if it's Ben. I have to tell you, even with Ben,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that the Steelers are favorite. Here we go,
Speaker 1: really this this this is a team that's got them
Speaker 1: so figured out too when you think about it. Watch
Speaker 1: remember that we talked about it last week with the Chargers.
Speaker 1: How the matchups defensively, Like if you look at Steeler
Speaker 1: games against the Patriots, you say, these guys are wide open?
Speaker 1: How are they because they play so soft. We've gone
Speaker 1: back and forth on this and have some varying opinions,
Speaker 1: but it's it's gonna be tough to make the Steelers
Speaker 1: a favorite against the Patriots given the Patriots success against
Speaker 1: him and the fact that you mentioned the kicking game
Speaker 1: for the Steelers, and I have to tell you their
Speaker 1: defense is not good. New England is three and four
Speaker 1: on the road this year. Straight up, They've lost four
Speaker 1: road games. New England to me is a like the
Speaker 1: the athletics. They're flawed to don't get me work, So
Speaker 1: sorry interrupt, but I'm just saying the teams speed on
Speaker 1: the Steelers versus the team speed on the Patriots day
Speaker 1: and night. I can't you say New England is gonna
Speaker 1: be favorite. It's gonna I don't think. So. We'll see
Speaker 1: power rating wise. It's close to pick them. So you know,
Speaker 1: you would say, well, the Steelers have the home field, right,
Speaker 1: but after yesterday though, I think power reading wise now
Speaker 1: the adjustment is, uh, New England probably one one, maybe
Speaker 1: one and a half power reading and then I like
Speaker 1: the third team. Then I like the Steelers. I really
Speaker 1: do Steelers. Again, the Steelers good, it'll be it'll be
Speaker 1: especially if Roethlisberger plays, it will be one of the
Speaker 1: higher A bit games weekly. If it's just said, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about Roethlisberger play and I have
Speaker 1: to believe he's Please look curiously, because they were struggling,
Speaker 1: we were trying to figure out why didn't come back sooner?
Speaker 1: Why just that? Why that drive? I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a little of that, wasn't I mean, you're
Speaker 1: just kind of going win a second. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a this is a game. They need the game.
Speaker 1: They have to have the game. Uh. If you open
Speaker 1: up the playbook with Big Ben right like immediately you
Speaker 1: open up the rhythm, listen. In fairness to Dobbs, he
Speaker 1: had receivers open. But this is such a everything is
Speaker 1: pretty kated on timing, right, and he was just a
Speaker 1: half second off on his throws and and it showed,
Speaker 1: so Ben the rhythm. It just if you're watching the game,
Speaker 1: you just see a flow of things and look, he's
Speaker 1: It's funny you bring that up. Because there was a
Speaker 1: little bit of that. I was like, well, you're thinking
Speaker 1: at a non show, he's coming back. Well this seems dire.
Speaker 1: I guess I'll come in there, right, I mean it
Speaker 1: was so I thought it was rather curious, to say
Speaker 1: the least. All Right, we got the primetime games and
Speaker 1: the Ravens had already lost. So and the Ravens had
Speaker 1: already lost, We've got two games left were still after
Speaker 1: the breaklest Sunday night and Monday night, all right, let's
Speaker 1: take no flex. We didn't mess up on the flags?
Speaker 1: Did we know? It's? Uh? This next one is is
Speaker 1: staying right where it's okay? Coming back primetime games Week
Speaker 1: fifteen and the National Football League. I got three picks already,
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine the Patriots being favorite, and they don't
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Speaker 1: And the Bowl season starts on Saturday, So you got
Speaker 1: a Bowl action on Saturday in two NFL games. Can
Speaker 1: we just review some of these. I just want to
Speaker 1: NFL catch the favor just if you're not a gambler.
Speaker 1: If let's say, let's say there was no such thing
Speaker 1: as betting, let's let's live in this world. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that was shocking. That didn't even feel right. Things, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, send it quiver on tables, shiver down. All right, Um,
Speaker 1: these would be some of the matchups. Um, just to
Speaker 1: just to let you know, these would be some of
Speaker 1: the matchups this week. Oakland at Cincinnati, UH, Detroit at Buffalo,
Speaker 1: Washington at Jacksonville, Arizona at it LAMB. I mean, just
Speaker 1: like quarter of the schedule has got off. Those four
Speaker 1: games you just mentioned, think about this. Yeah, thank god,
Speaker 1: there is wagering. But look at the number on each
Speaker 1: of those games. It's either a field goal or a
Speaker 1: touchdown in that vicinity. That adds to the to the
Speaker 1: fact that that will help create action because of threes
Speaker 1: and sevens that will enter into the into the mix.
Speaker 1: You know, we're not talking about you know, nines or
Speaker 1: twelves things like that. So I understand I said differing
Speaker 1: baseball season. I would say all the time when I
Speaker 1: would go through, you know, bets, you're not required to
Speaker 1: watch this major League baseball, I will say the same
Speaker 1: of those four games. But you're required the wager you
Speaker 1: are if you are question, you imagine acquirement to water
Speaker 1: on the Let's do Sunday night, Sunday night, the Eagles
Speaker 1: at the Rams. And of course the Eagles, you wonder, uh,
Speaker 1: had they won last night yesterday with this would certainly
Speaker 1: uh have impacted the number. But yes, uh, if the
Speaker 1: Eagles had one, they'd be in a tie with the
Speaker 1: Cowboys with a one game lead over the skinnies. M
Speaker 1: I also want to throw that in, but instead they lose.
Speaker 1: They get If you look at the box score, and
Speaker 1: we went through it earlier with the Cowboys, they just
Speaker 1: dominated in the box score. Cowboys three winners in overtime,
Speaker 1: covering three and a half points. Carson went three touchdowns
Speaker 1: no pick sack twice for the Eagles. Um Wentz answered
Speaker 1: the seventy five yarder Domari Cooper. This is the thing
Speaker 1: about the scale. Okay, there's so much to say here.
Speaker 1: That game yesterday that Dallas got her seventy five yard
Speaker 1: touchdown that was called back for offensive p I. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, after that, you could call them makeup theory
Speaker 1: right after the sequence or minute and a half sequence
Speaker 1: was it was awful. This is three straight Yeah. The
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory roughing the pastor was makeup right after that,
Speaker 1: for sure. This is three straight games in Dallas where
Speaker 1: the refereeing has been horrific. I would argue that the
Speaker 1: one on Thanksgiving was very much against the Redskins. There
Speaker 1: was a offensive and there was a there was a
Speaker 1: p I not called, there was a targeting nut called.
Speaker 1: But I will say the last two against the Saints,
Speaker 1: against the Eagles, it was just both sides bad reffing.
Speaker 1: But that Dallas got her, Like where where was that? Uh?
Speaker 1: The Eagles made up for it. They still matriculated down
Speaker 1: the field and tied it up. But man, it shouldn't
Speaker 1: have taken that. Uh they scored anyway, when's leading a
Speaker 1: more methodical march to his third touchdown past the X
Speaker 1: yard or too? Darren Sproles for twenty three tie Eagles
Speaker 1: out gained to thirty three to seventy before halftime. And uh,
Speaker 1: then there's the Rams, the Rams Los as we mentioned
Speaker 1: to the Bears. Um Golf twenty forty four, no touchdowns,
Speaker 1: four picks, sack three times. It's a career high four picks.
Speaker 1: His passer rating nineteen point one. Jared Golf melts in
Speaker 1: cold weather, Like what happens to that dude? And cold?
Speaker 1: I get He's a Callie kid. Listen, I grew up
Speaker 1: on the East Coast and I lived in California for
Speaker 1: for a long time as an adult, and I even
Speaker 1: say to myself, I've gotten Callie soft with weather. But
Speaker 1: can I just say this, Uh, Like you know, I
Speaker 1: hate to I hate to go, like get off my
Speaker 1: lawn here. But like when I was eight nine years
Speaker 1: old school, I went to back there in d C.
Speaker 1: Like we had mandatory full pad football, even if it
Speaker 1: was ice on the ground. Like we're eight years nine
Speaker 1: years old just getting crushed in ice. We manned up
Speaker 1: Vinny when we were eight nine years old. Jared go
Speaker 1: off as like a professional athlete. He looked, he looked
Speaker 1: like he wanted to be anywhere else. But in that
Speaker 1: game last night I said in my buddy, I was like,
Speaker 1: does he even like he does? It appears that he
Speaker 1: does no intention. He does not believe they can win
Speaker 1: this game, nor does he have any intention of trying.
Speaker 1: Jared Golf's also got the division locked up? Do you
Speaker 1: think that's what was the foot? I'll tell you the
Speaker 1: The speed of that Bears defense definitely played a role
Speaker 1: in uh in in that to go, all right, let's
Speaker 1: you don't like that, let me go to that. How
Speaker 1: about Sean McVeigh only giving the ball to Todd Gurley eleven?
Speaker 1: I gotta yeah, there's no We've mentioned this before on
Speaker 1: the show. That's his That's that is Sean mcveigh's one. Again,
Speaker 1: for lack of a better term, achilles heel. He gets
Speaker 1: away from Girly sometimes he does, he does and and
Speaker 1: had Trabinsky not been below average to game, game one
Speaker 1: might have been really out of hand. Right, So, Girly
Speaker 1: eleven carries for your season low twenty eight yards? The
Speaker 1: Rams only had yards off its credit to the Bears.
Speaker 1: I get it, but but Golf Rams missed the chance
Speaker 1: to secure first round playoff by fell into a tie
Speaker 1: with New Orleans. Now for home field advantage throughout the
Speaker 1: NFC playoffs, with New Orleans now has the time breaker
Speaker 1: because they beat them head to head. M but I
Speaker 1: just I'm gonna get again. It goes back to if
Speaker 1: they're tied, who who do you give That's that's just
Speaker 1: what we talked about at the top of the show.
Speaker 1: Who do you give a team advantage? Who? Sure? Who?
Speaker 1: Who gets who? Who has a better chance of winning
Speaker 1: on the road? Right the Rams in New Orleans or
Speaker 1: the Saints in Los Angeles. I'm gonna do this with
Speaker 1: the Lombardi tomorrows. I don't want to get into it,
Speaker 1: and now we don't have time. But you know, Super
Speaker 1: Bowls are only one by Hall of Fame quarterbacks or
Speaker 1: guys on rookie contracts where you can spend you can
Speaker 1: allocate your the rest of your resources elsewhere and make
Speaker 1: the rest of your team. Alla Russell Wilson with the
Speaker 1: Seahawks make the rest of your team that much better.
Speaker 1: I wonder I'm gonna ask him about the Rams. I
Speaker 1: know the team would never do this, but with a
Speaker 1: team like the Rams. Keep an eye on Jared Golf
Speaker 1: I just don't know if he's awesome or if once
Speaker 1: his rookie contract is over. If they're going to make
Speaker 1: an assessment about him, I'm serious about that. I'm gonnask
Speaker 1: Lombardi about it. McVeigh makes him better, right, So that's
Speaker 1: so I'm just saying, maybe this is the first I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm I'm thinking out loud. Maybe this will
Speaker 1: be the first case study of a team that just churns.
Speaker 1: I don't We'll talk to Lombardi about rams by seven
Speaker 1: rams and nine rams and nine nine ads a little much,
Speaker 1: all right, But I don't have I don't have a
Speaker 1: tearrt No, I don't know. I'm not rushing to play
Speaker 1: the Eagle. The Eagles are done right, it's over. They've
Speaker 1: had nothing to for all in sense of purpose that
Speaker 1: they've got nothing to play for. So that's the problem
Speaker 1: with this time of the year. Like, okay, even if
Speaker 1: the number is not what it ought to be, what
Speaker 1: am I gonna lie hope that they care? I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna put money behind that. Monday Night, Monday Night Saints
Speaker 1: at Carolina to play the Panthers. Saints come from behind,
Speaker 1: beat the Bucks. They were down fourteen at three at
Speaker 1: half time, got it done in the second half, totally
Speaker 1: yards for the Saints that saw they needed. They repeat
Speaker 1: as NFC South champs, come back wind and cover d limited.
Speaker 1: Their defense limited the NFL's number one ranked offense to
Speaker 1: eight one yards in the second half. That's that of
Speaker 1: the Bucks, most of that on the final drive of
Speaker 1: the game. As we mentioned earlier, um and that coming up.
Speaker 1: They started slow a week after they got crushed by Dallas,
Speaker 1: and it was a very strange game. The Saints ran
Speaker 1: the ball nine times for just three yards in the
Speaker 1: first half that they stuck with the game plan, finished
Speaker 1: with a hundred on thirty attempts. And then there's Carolina
Speaker 1: cam Newton, the worst touch of any quarterback I've ever
Speaker 1: seen towards a goal line, horrific. Christian McCaffrey still filling
Speaker 1: up stat sheets. Sixteen carry, sixty three yards, two touchdown,
Speaker 1: six catches, thirty eight Panthers no penalized ten times for
Speaker 1: sixty eight yards. The Panthers have dropp five in a row.
Speaker 1: And the heat is on coach Ron rivera man o
Speaker 1: six and two. They were, they were the team, they
Speaker 1: were the NFC team nobody was talking about. Remember they're
Speaker 1: talking about they're not talking about them now. It really
Speaker 1: still aren't. And this is even worse not to be
Speaker 1: talked about. Saints by four and a half on the
Speaker 1: road on a Monday night in Carolina, SATs six and
Speaker 1: a half. That's too many for all the reasons we
Speaker 1: stayed about being on the road. Okay, I don't think
Speaker 1: they'll get caught in a look ahead spot to the Steelers. Now,
Speaker 1: let's let's review these next. Let's go through these a lot.
Speaker 1: I think there's a value teaming up and down this
Speaker 1: coming back on a numbers game in visa back to
Speaker 1: a Numbers game with your host Gil Alexander, broadcasting live
Speaker 1: from our visa in studios in Las Vegas. Many Sports
Speaker 1: Illustrated has named their sports person of the Year. Who
Speaker 1: is it? I guess it's not longer Sportsman of the Year.
Speaker 1: Sports Person of the Year Golden State Warriors. Why them?
Speaker 1: The article goes on to saying it's subtitle, there's no franchise,
Speaker 1: and it's quite like the Dubs, who were once again
Speaker 1: wildly successful, socially conscious, fun to love, fun to hate,
Speaker 1: and never boring. Sports People of the Year. Sports People
Speaker 1: of the Year. Good for them, that Jones, We're good.
Speaker 1: Oh I thought you were signaling warning I'm calling on
Speaker 1: a play. I thought Matt wanted to say something Matt
Speaker 1: Jones ably producing. That was my fault. All right, let's look,
Speaker 1: do we have the graphic here to us show these?
Speaker 1: I think we got a whole bunch of value. I
Speaker 1: hit Casey San Diego Thursday. I know the money, Casey
Speaker 1: minus three and a half. The first one, though, I
Speaker 1: like the Browns. I thought it would be Denver minus
Speaker 1: two and a half. You're saying it's Denver minus three
Speaker 1: and a half. Three and a half. You give me
Speaker 1: the hook there openers here at the south point Denver,
Speaker 1: MINDUS three and I'll take I'll take Cleveland, all right, Um?
Speaker 1: And then moving on here and nothing there, nothing there? Oh,
Speaker 1: here we go. Oh I like this. Um? What was
Speaker 1: the next one that I like about the Cardinals plus
Speaker 1: eight and a half. Yeah, that's okay, alright, I'm okay there,
Speaker 1: you're good. Um, Miami Dolphins. Dolphins, you're saying it's Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Would be minus eight again, Minnesota site unseen. Give me
Speaker 1: the Dolphins if you're giving me more than a touchdown,
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? This is like the same thing
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins at the Colts when it was nine.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was incredulous. A right, what are you?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? They're not up there for show?
Speaker 1: Go ahead, oh as Chrissie. As Chrissie said, you're not banned.
Speaker 1: Gil appreciate it to the counter. Alright, those two leap
Speaker 1: off the page. Here's a couple of more. Uh, the
Speaker 1: ram seems high, but again, I don't know the Eagles
Speaker 1: are done, so it's like, I'm not gonna all right
Speaker 1: where you see Miami and Cleveland they're they're in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Doesn't think they're done. So the Miami and Cleveland are
Speaker 1: the ones that that stick up to me. Here's the
Speaker 1: other one, New Orleans. You're saying are giving six and
Speaker 1: a half. That seems high to me. So the third
Speaker 1: pick I like the I hate to say this, I
Speaker 1: really do, because it's not fun putting money behind the Panthers,
Speaker 1: but six and a half seems high. I'm not just
Speaker 1: Stanza the women and children out of the way for
Speaker 1: that one. Miami and Cleveland I like better IFNI thank you,
Speaker 1: I pretty welcome. But good be with you is always
Speaker 1: as always been him for Christy. Matt Jones appreciate h