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Speaker 2: McDonald's all Right, Big Show, Big Day. It's our gambling
Speaker 2: show four and one last week, even though we didn't
Speaker 2: do a gambling show. I posted the picks to Twitter
Speaker 2: before the kickoff of the Thanksgiving games. Won the first
Speaker 2: four games with great ease, had an eight and a
Speaker 2: half point dog. They won out right, we'll go through
Speaker 2: that later. Demons's teaser looked great until the last leg,
Speaker 2: which is progress and so Demon's great. The teaser you posted,
Speaker 2: the Thanksgiving Day teaser that you you posted for the audience?
Speaker 3: What post?
Speaker 2: Confused? Yeah you did, Yes, you're sitting right next to me.
Speaker 2: You posted a teaser for the three Thanksgiving games, and
Speaker 2: then Seattle screwed you because they got blown out. You
Speaker 2: didn't actually bet that teaser. The bets you made on
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving loss as well, but you didn't post. Speaking of gambling,
Speaker 2: sorry pal, Speaking of gambling. Oh, such a satisfying gambling
Speaker 2: moment for me yesterday. So I played in my weekly
Speaker 2: poker game and actually crushed. Shout out to Chip Bully,
Speaker 2: my shout out by the way to my guy Chip Bully. Uh,
Speaker 2: my guy Joe Black who no, it's public nowledge. He
Speaker 2: doesn't mind me saying this. He went down to Florida
Speaker 2: this weekend played in a massive the WPT fifteen tournament,
Speaker 2: thirty five hundre to enter, came in twentieth place. That shipped,
Speaker 2: I mean the according to the website, shipped over like
Speaker 2: thirty grand like shout out to him. First place was
Speaker 2: almost a million bucks, and the guy who knocked him
Speaker 2: out in twentieth ended up winning the whole thing. But
Speaker 2: coming in twentieth and a fifteen hundred person were a
Speaker 2: Poker Tour event. But that's not the gambling story. I
Speaker 2: played poker and and did well, but that's again not
Speaker 2: the gambling story. The gambling story is that that more
Speaker 2: before the poker game, we had our fox bowling party.
Speaker 2: The bosses are there, both Carton Show and My show,
Speaker 2: and Wilde's fancies himself quite the bowler. He has a
Speaker 2: little fancy form, he does a whole thing, and I
Speaker 2: do not. I'm objectively a bad bowler. So I did
Speaker 2: the oldest trick in the book, the old you know
Speaker 2: if yeah, it's just a hustle, which and it was
Speaker 2: such a multi layered, brilliant hustle and the fact that
Speaker 2: I did it to Wilds was so glorious. So first
Speaker 2: first match, I'm like, Wilds, lay me forty eight pens,
Speaker 2: so your score minus forty eight to forty seven and
Speaker 2: a half. And he was like, I'm not laying you
Speaker 2: forty eight pins, blah blah blah blah. And so we
Speaker 2: play and he beats me by fifty and we have
Speaker 2: nothing on it. I'm like all right. And Wilds, by
Speaker 2: the way, does not like gambling, and if he does,
Speaker 2: it's like for five or ten dollars. So I went
Speaker 2: to him, I was like, all right, how about this,
Speaker 2: lay me thirty four and a half for one hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: He's like, I'm not betting one hundred dollars, but I
Speaker 2: knew it wasn't betting one hundred dollars. But once you
Speaker 2: throw out one hundred, all of a sudden, fifty sounds reasonable.
Speaker 2: And once you throw out forty seven and a half
Speaker 2: is what you need to be laid and you lose
Speaker 2: by fifty, thirty four and a half sounds like a deal.
Speaker 2: And I got wild to take the bet, easiest money
Speaker 2: I ever made in my life, easiest money I ever
Speaker 2: made in my life. I mean, he beat me by
Speaker 2: twenty pins, but it doesn't matter. He had to beat
Speaker 2: me by thirty five pins and it was fifty dollars,
Speaker 2: and there is I've never had a more satisfying gambling victory.
Speaker 2: Then hold on, let me find the rest of me
Speaker 2: than this. CRISP twenty twenty ten, courtesy of Kevin Wilds.
Speaker 2: Just like an old school pool hustler, just making someone
Speaker 2: think you're bad, getting them over confident. And I am bad,
Speaker 2: by the way, but thirty five pins is a lot,
Speaker 2: all right, Deman, say let's get to the actual show.
Speaker 2: Here's what missed the cut. Lebron gets his first tech
Speaker 2: for flopping. I assume it was unfair. Jimmy Butler files
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Speaker 2: All right, demons, let's get to the actual show.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, yo. So Tyreek tyer Kill had a spicy
Speaker 3: quote or a spicy take, should we say, talking about
Speaker 3: his current Dolphins team. Here's what he said. I feel
Speaker 3: like this is probably the better team than when we
Speaker 3: went than when we won a super Bowl back when
Speaker 3: I was on Kansas City. So Tyreek Hill is about
Speaker 3: to break the receiving record or maybe, but he can't
Speaker 3: seem to keep the Chiefs names out of his mouth.
Speaker 3: By the way, I always see this as like blatant
Speaker 3: mahomes disrespect. But who misses who more between Tyreek Hill
Speaker 3: and the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean that's not even a quite Like here's
Speaker 2: the thing unique take here. I don't think I either
Speaker 2: misses either I think that it actually worked out really
Speaker 2: well for all parties. Now we'll get to the Mahomes
Speaker 2: disrespect part in the moment, because I understand what you're saying,
Speaker 2: but I look at a little bit differently. But Tyreek
Speaker 2: already has a ring. By going to Kansas City or
Speaker 2: by going to Miami, pardon me, he was able to
Speaker 2: check off the following boxes, make way more money than
Speaker 2: he was gonna make in Kansas City, still continue to
Speaker 2: produce at a Hall of Fame level, and you not,
Speaker 2: and his production actually went up a touch. And you
Speaker 2: could argue it's for uh, for a lot of people,
Speaker 2: it's more impressive. Now it's not like, well, you're a
Speaker 2: great player, but you have the best quarterback in the league.
Speaker 2: Everybody believes he is the engine that makes that team go.
Speaker 2: And so he got all of those things and he
Speaker 2: gets to live in Miami, which for Tyreek Hill is
Speaker 2: probably better than living in Kansas City. Like and that's
Speaker 2: no dispecting against my hometown, but particularly you know, for
Speaker 2: not for everyone wouldn't choose Miami over Kansas City, depending
Speaker 2: on the type you know, the environment you want to be,
Speaker 2: or how much you value the weather, whatever it is.
Speaker 2: But I think for Tyreek Kill, it's perfect. The Chiefs,
Speaker 2: on the other hand, have so many resources poured into
Speaker 2: the offense to be able to use Tyreek Hill, to
Speaker 2: get Trent McDuffie, to free up salary cap space, to
Speaker 2: build this young, dominant defense, and win the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: with the first year without him, And if anybody not that,
Speaker 2: there were a lot of questions about Mahomes, but if
Speaker 2: there were, the questions were only, well, he has Tyreek
Speaker 2: Kill and Andy Reid, and like what would he be
Speaker 2: like if he didn't have all these weapons, And his
Speaker 2: first year without him wins the MVP, highest scoring team
Speaker 2: in the league, scores thirty eight in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: answers all those questions. So for right now, I think
Speaker 2: it is a win win. I don't think it's gonna
Speaker 2: feel that way in a year or so because I
Speaker 2: don't think Tyreek's going to have these monster postseason moments
Speaker 2: and I think he's going to miss that to a degree.
Speaker 2: So I think Miami is a good, not great team.
Speaker 2: I think Miami is a team that is not, as
Speaker 2: it's currently constituted, built to go on a deep playoff run.
Speaker 2: And Tyreek Hill was building the resume of one of
Speaker 2: the greatest playoff performers ever. And now last year, obviously
Speaker 2: Skyler Thompson was their quarterback for the one playoff game,
Speaker 2: So what are you gonna do? But even this year,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs are back in the super Bowl and Tyreek
Speaker 2: Hill is home by the divisional round, then I think
Speaker 2: they'll be a little angst if you will. But right now,
Speaker 2: I think it's worked out great for both parties. And listen,
Speaker 2: I love Tyreek Kill the player. He's one of the
Speaker 2: greatest players, not only in Chiefs history, but he's one
Speaker 2: of the greatest players ever. I don't think that's an overstatement.
Speaker 2: I think that he is building the case that he
Speaker 2: should be in the discussion as the third greatest receiver ever.
Speaker 2: He's not there yet, but he's building the case that
Speaker 2: after Jerry and Randy, it could be Tyreek Hill. What
Speaker 2: were you gonna say to Monday? Go ahead?
Speaker 3: Sorry, nothing, No, the pictures are cute. Do you want
Speaker 3: me to ask this next novel?
Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, sure, go ahead. Oh wait, before you ask
Speaker 2: the follow up, you said something about Mahomes. I'spect Mahomes disrespect.
Speaker 2: I think it's really he has been and I give
Speaker 2: him credit for this man since he got there. I
Speaker 2: think he's been trying to build up to us. He
Speaker 2: has said some over the top things, throws the prettiest
Speaker 2: ball as most accurate, all these things, which I really
Speaker 2: just if we remember when Tyreek got there, there were
Speaker 2: real questions about whether I mean the Dolphins tried to
Speaker 2: get to Sean Watson. They were in the Aaron Rodgers discussions.
Speaker 2: They a year before I'm sorry, not Aaron party, the
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson discussion, and they, yeah, they lost a draft
Speaker 2: pick tampering trying to get Tom Brady. So Toule was
Speaker 2: on shaky ground and Tyreek really helped build him up.
Speaker 2: So I don't have a problem with any of that.
Speaker 2: But all right, go ahead.
Speaker 3: The twenty nineteen Chiefs were seven and four heading into December.
Speaker 3: Miami's eight and three. So should this be taken as
Speaker 3: a warning to the rest of the league. Is what
Speaker 3: Tyrek kill is saying is kind of true.
Speaker 2: I so I understand what he's saying. And they were
Speaker 2: similarities in that that was a ben don't break Chiefs
Speaker 2: defense that just got some big stops, wasn't a great defense.
Speaker 2: They had this dynamic offense. All of those things. The
Speaker 2: distinction is the Chiefs knew unequivocally that the postseason. They're
Speaker 2: even in twenty nineteen, they already knew that Mahomes was
Speaker 2: an elite postseason performer because they had seen him in
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen win his first playoff game ever and then
Speaker 2: have three separate or second half comebacks against Tom Brady
Speaker 2: and the Patriots in an all time performance by him,
Speaker 2: and then losing overtime without touching the ball, which we
Speaker 2: only talk about when it happens to poor Josh Allam
Speaker 2: of the Buffalo Bills, probably cost the chief Super Bowl
Speaker 2: that year. They didn't changing any rules for us, but
Speaker 2: set that aside. Two has never played in a playoff game,
Speaker 2: and that is man. That is the other thing about
Speaker 2: these NFL playoffs. That is just bananas right now, if
Speaker 2: the playoff picture holds, Okay, I'm gonna go team by
Speaker 2: team and I'm gonna do this off the top of
Speaker 2: my head, but I think I'm gonna have it right.
Speaker 2: Quarterback playoff experience, Okay, Kansas City Chiefs Patrick Mahomes has
Speaker 2: played fourteen playoff games, has won eleven.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson four playoff games total, one victory. Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 2: two playoff games total, one victory. Tua Tongue of Iailoa
Speaker 2: has never played in the playoffs. Kenny Pickett has never
Speaker 2: played in the play Dorian Thompson Robinson for Cleveland has
Speaker 2: never played in the playoffs. Gardner Minshew for the Colts.
Speaker 2: Has Gardener? Did did Gardner play this one? I got
Speaker 2: to look up did Gardner play in the playoffs? Like
Speaker 2: as a backup one? Like come into a game? No
Speaker 2: he didn't. So right now, as the bracket is, every
Speaker 2: other starting quarterback in the AFC combined combined has two
Speaker 2: playoff victories, and then there's Mahomes with eleven. And by
Speaker 2: the way, you go to Phil you go to the NFC,
Speaker 2: it's it's different, but it's still Jalen Hurts is what
Speaker 2: is Jalen in the playoffs? Jalen Hurts is two and
Speaker 2: two in the playoffs. Brock Purty is two and one
Speaker 2: and the one you can put an asterisk on if
Speaker 2: you want, Like he got knocked out of.
Speaker 3: That game like instantly there.
Speaker 2: Uh, Jared Goff, what is golf in the playoffs? Is
Speaker 2: he four and two? Let me, let me, I gotta
Speaker 2: look at that, because golf obviously had all those playoff
Speaker 2: games with with Detroit. So Golf is a starter is
Speaker 2: two and three, but he came but he came in
Speaker 2: to a game that that they ended up losing. But
Speaker 2: Golf as a starter is two and three in the postseason,
Speaker 2: really only two wins. Yeah, I guess they had a
Speaker 2: bye and went to the super Bowl, so that makes sense. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Desmond Ritters never been in the postseason. Uh, Dak Prescott's
Speaker 2: two and four, GENO zero and zero and Josh Dobbs
Speaker 2: is zero and zero. So Mahomes right now, does Mahomes
Speaker 2: have more playoff victories than every other quarterback combined? That
Speaker 2: would make the postseason? I mean, that's bananas. And in
Speaker 2: the end, the guys with some experience are all on
Speaker 2: the NFC side of things, so that is an element
Speaker 2: for this postseason. Oddly, this all changes if Klee Eland
Speaker 2: sticks with Flacco. Flacco has got a lot of playoff experience,
Speaker 2: but he also hasn't played football in a year, and
Speaker 2: he hasn't played good football in six years.
Speaker 3: All right, next, all right, the Cowboys have been making
Speaker 3: easy work of all the light teams they play a
Speaker 3: falling Seattle tonight, dag has cleaned up his game well up.
Speaker 3: But Seattle's defense is forced to turnover in six of
Speaker 3: their last seven games. Are you worried that this is
Speaker 3: going to be a trap game for Dak Prescott.
Speaker 2: No, I don't. I also wonder typically Thursday night games
Speaker 2: are sloppy games. I wonder how much that changes by
Speaker 2: the fact that both of these teams played last Thursday,
Speaker 2: so both of these teams are on regular rest. One
Speaker 2: of the reasons Thursday night games are bad is because
Speaker 2: teams played on Sunday, they play on Thursday, and on
Speaker 2: a full week of practice, they're beat up all those things.
Speaker 2: But these teams all played Thursday, and or both these
Speaker 2: teams played Thursday, so it's a regular week just in
Speaker 2: the days.
Speaker 3: Seems really need this win. I feel like it's.
Speaker 2: Well for very different reasons, but that's one hundred percent
Speaker 2: correct Seattle. Seattle could fall out of the playoffs. Man,
Speaker 2: Like I thought Seattle was pretty well locked as a
Speaker 2: wild card. But Seattle all of a sudden, that Rams loss,
Speaker 2: that one point Rams loss is such a killer for them.
Speaker 2: After this Cowboys game, demonse, their next two are Niners Eagles,
Speaker 2: So if they lose tonight, a five game losing streak
Speaker 2: is absolutely on the table, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the team that was six and three can be six
Speaker 2: and eight. And the other reason that Rams loss is
Speaker 2: so devastating is the Rams are one of the teams
Speaker 2: chasing them for a wildcard spot. If they finished with
Speaker 2: the same record, the Rams go because well, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, I'm an idiot. They're gonna they play
Speaker 2: the Rams again because or they know actually they are. Oh,
Speaker 2: they lost the Rams twice this year because they played
Speaker 2: them Week one, so I'm right about that. If they
Speaker 2: finished with the same record the Rams, the Rams go
Speaker 2: to the playoffs. They don't, so this could go left
Speaker 2: on Seattle in a big way for the Cowboys. If
Speaker 2: you don't think the Cowboys can catch Philly, then this
Speaker 2: game is really not that important. They're just gonna be
Speaker 2: the five seed whether they win ten games or thirteen games.
Speaker 2: If they're not gonna win the division, they're the five seed.
Speaker 2: The real question is can Dallas catch Philly. But that
Speaker 2: is trickier than it sounds, because here's the deal on
Speaker 2: that Dallas in order to catch in order to pass Philly,
Speaker 2: because Dallas has three conference losses. Unless you assume that
Speaker 2: Philly is going to gag a game against the Giants,
Speaker 2: which they're not going to. Not only do they have
Speaker 2: to beat them Demons, they have to finish with a
Speaker 2: better record Dallas is not going to. If they both
Speaker 2: finish fourteen and three. If Dallas runs the table and
Speaker 2: finishes with the same record as Philly, Philly wins on
Speaker 2: conference record tiebreaker, so that Philly right now has zero
Speaker 2: conference losses Dallas all of their losses are conference losses.
Speaker 2: So the first tiebreaker is head to head. If Dallas
Speaker 2: beats Philly in a week and a half, that'll be split.
Speaker 2: The second record is divisional record, unless you think the
Speaker 2: Giants are gonna steal one from Philly, which they're not.
Speaker 2: They're both gonna finish the year five and one in
Speaker 2: the division if Dallas beats them, so that's tied. The
Speaker 2: next tiebreaker is conference record, and Philly is not gonna
Speaker 2: have three conference losses, and if they were to have
Speaker 2: three conference losses, they're not gonna be tied with Dallas anyway.
Speaker 2: Point I'm making is if Dallas runs the table, for
Speaker 2: Dallas to win the division, the following things I believe
Speaker 2: have to happen. They have to run the table. Philly
Speaker 2: has to lose this week to San Francisco and a
Speaker 2: obviously next week to Dallas, and Philly has to lose
Speaker 2: one of their final four games, which are at Seattle
Speaker 2: home for the Giants, home for the Cardinals at the Giants.
Speaker 3: Do you think there's a chance that the Eagles do
Speaker 3: that We've got it locked up. We're gonna rest Jalen
Speaker 3: Hurts and our starters. I'm ready for the postseason?
Speaker 2: Well, so yes, I do. I Also, this is my
Speaker 2: annual Galaxy brain plea, and this doesn't typically you don't
Speaker 2: usually even have this opportunity. And Philly, let's just say,
Speaker 2: for the sake of argument, Philly beats the Niners this
Speaker 2: week and beats Dallas. They do both of those things,
Speaker 2: they could absolutely have the one seed locked up after
Speaker 2: their fifteenth game in that very n nique scenario. I've
Speaker 2: always thought the smarter thing would be to rest players
Speaker 2: in your second to last seaon and then play guys
Speaker 2: in your last game because you're gonna have a bye anyway,
Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, if you have the one
Speaker 2: seed locked up and you rest guys in your final
Speaker 2: week of the year, then all of a sudden. You
Speaker 2: go three weeks without playing a game, and there's to
Speaker 2: me a real risk of roster is something there. If
Speaker 2: you have the opportunity to rest guys with two games left,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't rest them for both, but I would do
Speaker 2: it in week seventeen, not week eighteen. I don't think though,
Speaker 2: this is gonna well, let me rephrase it. If Philly
Speaker 2: beats the Niners, they could lock this up. With Detroit's
Speaker 2: bad loss, the Niners would then have four losses. Philly
Speaker 2: would have the head to head against San Francisco. I am.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping we get some late season intrigue. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we will. In the AFC, I
Speaker 2: think it will. I think it will be hard for
Speaker 2: the Chiefs to lock up the one seed early because
Speaker 2: they have the three losses, same as Baltimore, same as Jacksonville,
Speaker 2: same as Miami. And even though they're gonna have the
Speaker 2: tiebreaker against all three of those teams, I don't see
Speaker 2: they're being massive separation, all right, Next.
Speaker 3: Forty nine ers a head in a Philly for America's
Speaker 3: Game of the Week in an NFC Championship rematch. Last year, obviously,
Speaker 3: Rock pretty got injured at the beginning of the game.
Speaker 3: Christian McCaffrey ended up being quarterback at one point. Actually,
Speaker 3: but maybe if Rock pretty would have finished that game,
Speaker 3: you would have given him credit this year. So if
Speaker 3: he wins that game, if he goes and he beats
Speaker 3: the Eagles, will you finally give him his credit or
Speaker 3: will you need to see more in the police So again, guys,
Speaker 3: he's if he's trailing to the Eagles.
Speaker 2: Folks, just keep asking me the same. First of all,
Speaker 2: I do not feel I hate to be a broken
Speaker 2: record on this. We are on first things First, we
Speaker 2: are promoting this football game. America's Game of the Week
Speaker 2: is gonna be one of the most watched games of
Speaker 2: the year. Do you know what I'm gonna say to Monsey? Okay,
Speaker 2: So on TV when we have a big football game,
Speaker 2: they show you the games that are being played and
Speaker 2: then the marquee game on the list, like here's the
Speaker 2: one o'clock games, here's the four o'clock games, America's Game
Speaker 2: of the week, Niners Eagles, And whenever we have that
Speaker 2: like tonight, Amazon, if they're running promos, you're gonna see
Speaker 2: Dak and Gino and when the other you know last
Speaker 2: week when it was Jaggs Texans, you saw Trevor and CJ.
Speaker 2: Stroud and it's like, these are the stars. Come watch them.
Speaker 2: For the Niners game Niners Eagles, it's Jalen Hurts on
Speaker 2: one side of the graphic and Christian McCaffrey on the other.
Speaker 2: And you can say, Nick, that's ridiculous, you're being unfair.
Speaker 2: That's a great. It is a data point that even
Speaker 2: the graphics producers like, hey, who's the star of the Niners,
Speaker 2: Who's who's the what's the We almost always put quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: never have the time telling you that's correct. I'm telling
Speaker 2: you maybe maybe a Taylor Swift related one. I'm telling
Speaker 2: you when we that we when we promote Giants games
Speaker 2: last year and it was Saquan or Daniel Jones, they
Speaker 2: would put Daniel Jones on the graphic. You know why
Speaker 2: tie goes to the quarterback, but this ain't a tie,
Speaker 2: so we would The point I'm trying to make is
Speaker 2: we would put these graphics up and talk about Jalen
Speaker 2: Hurts and Christian McCaffery or the star, and then the
Speaker 2: question we would ask on the TV show is is
Speaker 2: brock Party the MVP of the entire league. Me not
Speaker 2: wanting a guy who can't even make the sizzle real
Speaker 2: praphic PRISTI.
Speaker 3: If he wins this game versus Philly, maybe they'll put
Speaker 3: him on the graphic next time. Question is, if he
Speaker 3: goes out there and he beats Philly, are you then
Speaker 3: going to give him credit? Because Philly is clearly a
Speaker 3: good team.
Speaker 2: I've already given him credit, and I don't doubt that
Speaker 2: he can beat good teams. That's the other thing. People
Speaker 2: are are making my brock Party critique into what they
Speaker 2: want it to be. Because my Brock Party critique was
Speaker 2: so one hundred percent spot on that now people are
Speaker 2: trying to straw man against it. They're like, well, will
Speaker 2: you at least say he doesn't suck? I don't think
Speaker 2: he sucks. Well will you? Will you admit he can
Speaker 2: beat good teams? Never said they can't beat good teams?
Speaker 3: Nope.
Speaker 2: My brock Party critique is very very simple. I question
Speaker 2: his ability to play at a high level if all
Speaker 2: of the Avengers are not there with him, and I
Speaker 2: question his ability to play at a high level if
Speaker 2: the Niners are trailing and the defense is not First
Speaker 2: and foremost worried about Christian McCaffrey. They are worried about
Speaker 2: him throwing. That's what I question, and unfortunately for him,
Speaker 2: he has had three games this year where those circumstances
Speaker 2: have popped up and he's zero for three. I do
Speaker 2: not question his ability to play great early in games
Speaker 2: against just about anyone. He rolled Dallas. That was impressive.
Speaker 2: It didn't answer if I'm running out of analogies to
Speaker 2: make for these things. It's like if my worry about
Speaker 2: the When demands moved to LA, I was like, man,
Speaker 2: I'm really worried about him, and I wasn't. I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna I don't want to use another car analogy. I'm
Speaker 2: really worried about him Monday mornings over sleeping for work,
Speaker 2: and then Thursday he calls me. It's like, oh, you're
Speaker 2: still worried. I got in on time to daim Like,
Speaker 2: I wasn't worried about Thursdays. I was worried about Mondays.
Speaker 2: And then in Sundays like, hey, in the office doing
Speaker 2: extra work. You still worried about me? I was like,
Speaker 2: I wasn't worried about you not showing doing extra work.
Speaker 2: I was worried about a very specific thing. And then
Speaker 2: if the first Monday he's got to be there early,
Speaker 2: he sleeps, over sleeps, and the second time he oversleeps,
Speaker 2: and the third time he oversleeps. But then he doesn't
Speaker 2: have to be in early Monday again for six weeks. Like, oh,
Speaker 2: you still worried about that old shit? Yeah, I am,
Speaker 2: because the three times you had the opportunity, you failed
Speaker 2: like that. That's just where we're at. So I don't
Speaker 2: know what people want for me.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be I think the weather's gonna be bad
Speaker 3: in Philly. I think it's gonna be raining, windy and
Speaker 3: all that stuff. I know other quarterbacks in the league
Speaker 3: struggle to play in the rain. It's it's hard I
Speaker 3: keep control of the ball and stuff like that. Is
Speaker 3: that does that add any extra incentive?
Speaker 2: Well, I think that's the only thing that the weather
Speaker 2: sloppy games. Typically, if you're an underdog, you would rather
Speaker 2: the conditions the Oh oh that's yeah, Trevor does. By
Speaker 2: the way, that's a fair indictment with Trevor. Does I
Speaker 2: want to one other thing? I don't even want to
Speaker 2: talk about the weather. I don't care. We'll see, Like,
Speaker 2: if you are a sizable underdog, you want bad conditions
Speaker 2: because it adds variants. Neither one of these teams are
Speaker 2: a sizeable underdog. They're both you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Hard on those teams, I find I don't think. I
Speaker 2: think if either of these teams pass rush doesn't get home,
Speaker 2: they're in trouble because the Niners secondary with Hufanga injured,
Speaker 2: can get got and we know the Eagles secondary can
Speaker 2: get got all year by just about anybody. What I
Speaker 2: do want to say is for folks thinking that I'm
Speaker 2: being picking on brock Purty, I want to be very clear.
Speaker 2: I feel, not to the same level, but very similarly
Speaker 2: about Tua that Tua's numbers tell me he is a
Speaker 2: great player, and I do not know that that's true.
Speaker 2: He might be, but I have real questions about how
Speaker 2: much of Tua is the system, Tyreek and the weapons.
Speaker 2: And so when I'm doing like MVP candidates, I think
Speaker 2: it is very very difficult, almost impossible to have multiple
Speaker 2: league MVP candidates on the same team on the same
Speaker 2: side of the ball. So for the Niners, their MVP candidate,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, is Christian McCaffrey, and for the Dolphins,
Speaker 2: their NBA candidate is Tyreek Hill and If we want
Speaker 2: to make it just a quarterback award, that's fine, but
Speaker 2: then it has to go to the objectively no doubt
Speaker 2: great quarterbacks. And I don't believe brock purty is that
Speaker 2: we'll see. We will see. And again people are like,
Speaker 2: so if they blow out the Eagles, that won't answer
Speaker 2: your questions, No, because that's not the question I have.
Speaker 2: I do. My question is not are they talented enough
Speaker 2: to blow out really good teams? We know they are,
Speaker 2: and guys, we'll I have been. You can say I'm stubborn.
Speaker 2: I've been nothing if not consistent.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, that's that's that's not that's I didn't think
Speaker 3: that was fair that if they blow out the Eagles.
Speaker 3: It's not like they have the tendency, Like look at
Speaker 3: the look at their losses this year. If they blow
Speaker 3: out the Eagles, that's huge, Like that's that's not just
Speaker 3: something that they've just done all the time. It's the Eagles,
Speaker 3: this type of season that they're having this year, Like,
Speaker 3: that's that's not it's not fair.
Speaker 2: I I no, no, no, I will you can say it's unfair.
Speaker 2: Let me make sure we're understanding each other. Blowing out
Speaker 2: the Eagles would be a wildly impressive San Francisco forty
Speaker 2: nine ers accomplishment blowing out the Eagles would not necessarily
Speaker 2: answer my questions about Brock Purdy. I do, I do
Speaker 2: not doubt that he can play almost perfect football when
Speaker 2: everything is rolling right for them. But because and call
Speaker 2: it the scars of Jimmy Garoppolo, because I saw that
Speaker 2: exact same thing from a guy who now everyone agrees
Speaker 2: with me, stinks that I have real questions. That's it.
Speaker 2: Moving on next, all right.
Speaker 3: The biggest question heading into the nd season tournament was
Speaker 3: would the players care? At this point, it's clear that
Speaker 3: they care. They're grinding hard to get the advantages of
Speaker 3: the point differential. So if the attorney is here to
Speaker 3: stay and the Lakers win the first ever one, which
Speaker 3: will be more important to Lebron's legacy the Ncason Tournament
Speaker 3: win or the Mickey Mouse ring.
Speaker 2: Okay, you don't even you didn't even want to read
Speaker 2: that question, but the yeah, I know, I know you didn't.
Speaker 2: This is where the despite us doing one hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety seven shows, the producers and I have a fundamental
Speaker 2: disagreement on what creates the best content. They are convinced
Speaker 2: that trying to irritate me with nonsense is great content.
Speaker 2: I am less convinced of that. So they are trying
Speaker 2: to have me rehash an old stupid Twitter take of
Speaker 2: essentially the Lebron really, if you break it down's got
Speaker 2: no rings. The you know, it's the I forgot even
Speaker 2: the reason.
Speaker 3: People discribe crazy argument.
Speaker 2: But the second one is like ray Allen. The third
Speaker 2: one is Kyrie. The fourth one they put a Mickey
Speaker 2: mouse head. They're like, really, what do you want? I
Speaker 2: don't even know there's a way they discredit the first ring.
Speaker 2: I don't even remember what the way they do it is.
Speaker 2: But no, the here's what I will say. I am.
Speaker 2: I think the nd season Tournament has been a fabulous success.
Speaker 2: People were like, ah, it's gonna be dumb, No one's
Speaker 2: gonna care. The players care, and as we know in
Speaker 2: this league, if the players care, people buy in. And
Speaker 2: I think I don't know if this was done naturally
Speaker 2: or if Adam Silver called in a favor to Lebron
Speaker 2: and Steph specifically, but Lebron and Steph both from the
Speaker 2: very beginning bought in publicly talked about it, you know,
Speaker 2: and Steph was someone asked that I was like Yeah,
Speaker 2: nobody understands it. And Steph was like, well, what's there
Speaker 2: not to understand. It's very simple, take your thirty seconds,
Speaker 2: read it and get it. Those fact that the Stars
Speaker 2: bought in and now if we can throw that bracket
Speaker 2: back up. Here is and Doc Rivers talked about this
Speaker 2: on Simmons podcast. Here is what is going to be
Speaker 2: fascinating and I am excited to see do the coaches
Speaker 2: of these teams, now that we are in single elimination
Speaker 2: go to a playoff rotation? Do they risk the up?
Speaker 2: Doc Rivers talked about this, right. The benefit for the
Speaker 2: coaches is, oh, okay, I get to kind of see
Speaker 2: how some of let's say you're a the Pacers, you know,
Speaker 2: have real playoff experience, and you want to see how
Speaker 2: guys respond in the moment. It's different for the Celtics
Speaker 2: or the Lakers or the Bucks who have been on
Speaker 2: deep playoff runs, you know what I mean? With those guys.
Speaker 2: How our guys respond to these moments. That's a benefit.
Speaker 2: The potential downside is regular season game, you're gonna play
Speaker 2: ten to eleven guys, postseason, postseason elimination game you're gonna
Speaker 2: play seven. Is there a downstream effect if all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, a key piece of your regular season rotation
Speaker 2: gets put on ice in these nd season tournament games.
Speaker 2: Because I if that happens in the postseason and a
Speaker 2: guy's pissed, you don't really care, Like, well, the season's ending.
Speaker 2: If you have a bad attitude, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: we can move on from you after the year. We're
Speaker 2: trying to win. But if I'll use the Lakers for instance,
Speaker 2: even though he had a great game last night, if
Speaker 2: D'Angelo Russell were to get benched in the fourth quarter
Speaker 2: of an nd season tournament game and then a week
Speaker 2: later it's like, Okay, we're back to our regular rotation,
Speaker 2: does that have a negative impact. I'm interested in it,
Speaker 2: and I think you're gonna see guys play big minutes.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be pretty cool. I don't think
Speaker 2: it's right now. Right now, like in season tournament championship
Speaker 2: won't mean anything on a resume, on a like you
Speaker 2: know when you're talking about them. But in twenty years,
Speaker 2: if it becomes, you know, a real thing people care about,
Speaker 2: I absolutely think it won't be anything like a championship
Speaker 2: or even a finals appearance. But I do think people
Speaker 2: will be like, oh, look, how about that? Like what,
Speaker 2: the Nuggets didn't make it this year, which is unfortunate,
Speaker 2: this is the Jamal injury. But I do think this
Speaker 2: could be a thing like, let let's use your Celtics
Speaker 2: just like yes, and let's say let's say the Celtics
Speaker 2: win the D season tournament, finish with the best record
Speaker 2: in basketball, and win the championship. I do think that,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Years later people, yeah, people
Speaker 2: will be like, oh, I mean they they won everything
Speaker 2: you could win that season, right, And so I think that.
Speaker 2: And for a Pacers team that is a good team
Speaker 2: and Halliburton's awesome, they don't I don't believe they can
Speaker 2: win the title this year, but they can win this tournament.
Speaker 2: And I do wonder if that is like a foundation,
Speaker 2: just like I thought the Kings last year making the
Speaker 2: playoffs going to seven with the Warriors was an important
Speaker 2: foundational moment for the Kings or the Pacers, winning this
Speaker 2: tournament would feel like something. And for the Suns, who
Speaker 2: have so little experience with these guys playing together and
Speaker 2: they still don't like, could that be a springboard. So
Speaker 2: for all those reasons, I'm excited for it all right. Next,
Speaker 2: let's just go to the next thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So there's a few other stories and we couldn't
Speaker 3: pack them into We're going to pack them into the
Speaker 3: show before we get to the p block. Yeah. So,
Speaker 3: first off, we got Mark Cuban. He's sell the majority
Speaker 3: of his stake, his stake in MAVs for three and
Speaker 3: a half billion while still leading basketball operations. Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers was cleared to return to practice just out
Speaker 3: of his fortieth birthday, and Caleb Williams said that his
Speaker 3: decision to Claire for the draft is still a game
Speaker 3: time decision. Which one of these surprises you the most?
Speaker 2: Cuban, for sure, Listen, Caleb's it doesn't matter he gets
Speaker 2: the number one pick. Caleb's going. He's going to the draft.
Speaker 2: I there's to me a zero percent chance he doesn't.
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. I I I did something on TV yesterday
Speaker 2: on Rogers that I thought was really clearly caked in
Speaker 2: heavy sarcasm. But Demands and others were a little I
Speaker 2: think thrown off by it and didn't necessarily pick up
Speaker 2: on it. Some did, some didn't. I'm gonna talk. I
Speaker 2: have a very strong opinion on what Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 2: doing it. It is. It is a bit of an
Speaker 2: indictment of him, not a bit of it's a total
Speaker 2: indictment of him. And it's so much so that I
Speaker 2: am because it's my My opinion is I can't prove it.
Speaker 2: It's based, I think on a lot of circumstantial evidence.
Speaker 2: But circumstantial evidence. I'm debating internally whether I want to
Speaker 2: publicly say it. I haven't come to a conclusion on
Speaker 2: that yet. So the Rogers thing I'm going to set aside.
Speaker 2: People maybe all come to a conclusion by the go ahead.
Speaker 2: Reckless speculation here. Okay, that's fine, that's not reckless speculation.
Speaker 3: That's fine.
Speaker 2: No, I was because people were saying other concerns about this,
Speaker 2: and so I want to make sure I so the
Speaker 2: Cuban news broke when I was doing a pod with Colin,
Speaker 2: and Colin just threw at me he's running for president
Speaker 2: and I didn't even think of it. Now, Lebotard's people
Speaker 2: throughout there that they think Cuban this is the canary
Speaker 2: in the coal mine that maybe the NBA's next TV
Speaker 2: deal isn't going to be as lucrative as people think.
Speaker 2: And so the franchise values are going to drop, so
Speaker 2: Cuban's getting out now. The problem with that line of
Speaker 2: reasoning is why would he also be quitting Shark Tank.
Speaker 2: So I don't know the Cuban quitting Shark Tank and
Speaker 2: selling the MAVs isn't It's not nothing. It certainly surprised me,
Speaker 2: but I don't that the running for president thing he
Speaker 2: said he's not. I also I like Mark Cuban a lot.
Speaker 2: I think the thing he's doing with cost plus drugs
Speaker 2: is one of the coolest things anyone could do with
Speaker 2: their money. If people like he basically opened his own
Speaker 2: pharmacy where he charges people exactly what the prescriptions cost him,
Speaker 2: plus ten percent and it saves a lot of people
Speaker 2: hundreds of dollars a month. It's suck, and for him,
Speaker 2: he's like it's smart. He's like, it's an easy business model.
Speaker 2: Our overhead's very low. We still make a little bit
Speaker 2: of money and it's helpful. Collins theory was that is
Speaker 2: a great way to, you know, garner public support, garner
Speaker 2: support with seniors who vote, all those things. I also
Speaker 2: think Mark Cuban is a super sharp guy, and we
Speaker 2: in this in our culture, we in my opinion erroneously
Speaker 2: assign brilliance to wealthy people. Sometimes it's true, but oftentimes
Speaker 2: it's not. Oftentimes someone either got incredibly lucky on timing
Speaker 2: or is brilliant on a very specific thing, but it's
Speaker 2: you know it is their knowledge is a million miles
Speaker 2: deep and two inches wide. Cuban's not one of those.
Speaker 2: Cuban is, I think, very sharp on a lot of things,
Speaker 2: and I do think Cuban could be I don't know
Speaker 2: if he'd be a good president or not, but I
Speaker 2: think his vision and leadership stuff. I let me put
Speaker 2: it like this, I'd listen to it with an open
Speaker 2: mind on any ideas he had or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: But the fact of the matter is, if we do
Speaker 2: politics just for a second, no matter how much people
Speaker 2: wish this was not the case, the next president of
Speaker 2: the United States is either going to be Joe Biden
Speaker 2: or Donald Trump. That that's we are too close or
Speaker 2: too close to the next election. You have an incumbent
Speaker 2: and then you have a guy who is wildly popular
Speaker 2: amongst his party. It's gonna be one of those two guys.
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of wish casting on Could
Speaker 2: a different Republican replace Trump. No, they're not gonna they're
Speaker 2: not gonna beat him. Will Biden step down? No, he's
Speaker 2: not going to like the And so it's gonna be
Speaker 2: one of those two people. Even if a lot of
Speaker 2: people wish there was a viable third option, whether your
Speaker 2: viable third option would be Gavin newsommer Ron DeSantis or
Speaker 2: Nikki Haley or Mark Cuban, In my opinion, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be one of those two.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know what?
Speaker 2: In my opinion that is what'd you say?
Speaker 3: You know what I got from all that?
Speaker 2: What? What's that?
Speaker 3: Sounds like shark Tank needs a new shark.
Speaker 2: Oh, you think you could do it? Do you think
Speaker 2: you could be one of those investors?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 2: Here's the thing. I think you'd actually you have pretty
Speaker 2: good instincts. I think you'd actually be good in those roles.
Speaker 2: The problem is you have no money. Here's about one
Speaker 2: hundred million. If you need one hundred million to be
Speaker 2: one of the sharks, you're about ninety nine million, nine
Speaker 2: hundred and ninety eight thousand short. So aside from that,
Speaker 2: I think you'd be great. Quick break right back to
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Speaker 2: Gambling show, let's talk last week because your guy has
Speaker 2: promised for the stretch. Run got hot stretch. Heia got
Speaker 2: all the data, crunch to the numbers. Can we show
Speaker 2: the picks? So? Oh, looky there, Look who's above five
Speaker 2: hundred for the first time all year? Thirty twenty nine
Speaker 2: and one. Now, yes, with the VIG that means I'm
Speaker 2: down one point nine units. I understand that. And because
Speaker 2: we're real gamblers, we include the vig. We got it.
Speaker 2: You gotta win at least fifty two and a half
Speaker 2: percent against the spread. Thirty twenty nine and one is
Speaker 2: not quite that. But to pull ourselves up out of
Speaker 2: the muck we were in to start the year to
Speaker 2: right now before the calendar even hits December, to be
Speaker 2: above five hundred gives us a great chance at our
Speaker 2: fifth winning year in our last six years of doing
Speaker 2: this on television and on podcast. So what were the winners?
Speaker 2: Green Bay plus eight and a half at Detroit? Was
Speaker 2: that a sweat? Nope? They dominated the entire game. Dallas
Speaker 2: minus thirteen and alfagants Washington was a sweat? Nope? They
Speaker 2: won by thirty five points. Pittsburgh minus a point and
Speaker 2: a half at Cincinnati against Jake Browning was that a sweat?
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. They were up nine to late. That was
Speaker 2: a vintage, never a doubt, even if they had given
Speaker 2: up a touchdown that had one by two. Jacksonville minus
Speaker 2: one and a half at Houston. Bit of a sweat,
Speaker 2: small sweat, but they covered it was no problem. We
Speaker 2: believed in Trevor and Cleveland plus one and a half
Speaker 2: at Denver. I gotta tell you this much right now.
Speaker 2: I know they ended up getting blown out. Dorian Thompson
Speaker 2: Robinson got knocked out of the game on a dirty
Speaker 2: hit when it was a two point game. I was
Speaker 2: right there. I was right where I needed to be.
Speaker 2: Quarterback got knocked out. We'll take a four and one
Speaker 2: and we're gonna build on that. My friends. We still
Speaker 2: don't have the highly coveted five and oh week yet
Speaker 2: this week or this year. I don't know that this
Speaker 2: week's gonna be a five and oh, but I know
Speaker 2: it's coming at some point. So demon and by the way,
Speaker 2: shout out to the Action Network in Evan Abrams for
Speaker 2: helping us with some of these stats. We're gonna give you, demonsey.
Speaker 2: What's the first one.
Speaker 3: Our first one or your first one? You got here?
Speaker 3: Is Houston min three and a half versus Denver?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean your initial reaction is, ooh, three and
Speaker 2: a half like that that hook that could be a
Speaker 2: painful hook. Counterpoint to that, Houston's good, Denver's not. You
Speaker 2: think right now? Denver? Well, I think Houston's gonna win
Speaker 2: the game by a lot. I think Houston's going to
Speaker 2: win the game by more than a touchdown. Denver right
Speaker 2: now is surviving on something that I believe to be
Speaker 2: not sustainable, which is turnover margin. So let me give
Speaker 2: you the games they've played this year and not this year,
Speaker 2: but the turnover situation. So on this winning streak, they
Speaker 2: have turned the ball over a total of three times.
Speaker 2: Credit to him, Credit to Russ not turning the ball over,
Speaker 2: not throwing picks, not fumbling like he was. They had
Speaker 2: no turnovers in their first win against green Bay, one
Speaker 2: against the Chiefs, one against Buffalo, none against Minnesota, one
Speaker 2: against Cleveland. On the flip side, they have forced this
Speaker 2: many turnovers on this winning streak. One against green Bay,
Speaker 2: five against the Chiefs, four against the Bills, three against
Speaker 2: the Vikings, three against the Browns. So on this five
Speaker 2: game winning streak, they are plus twelve in the giveaway
Speaker 2: takeaway forced fifteen, allowed three or committed three. That is
Speaker 2: not going to sustain against CJ. Stroud, who one of
Speaker 2: the things he's done the best this year is take
Speaker 2: care of the football. So you have that going. You
Speaker 2: have fact that Denver wants to play a low scoring
Speaker 2: defensive game. You know what Houston wants to do, air
Speaker 2: that sucker out. You add to it that the Texans
Speaker 2: this week. This isn't really a betting note, but it's
Speaker 2: just interesting. With a win this week, they hit their
Speaker 2: they're over for their preseason win total, which was set
Speaker 2: at six and a half. And I understand CJ. Stroud
Speaker 2: is zero to four as a favorite. I think Denver
Speaker 2: right now is wildly overvalued. I think Denver is going
Speaker 2: to end up being a seven or eight win team
Speaker 2: even as they sit here at six and five. Denver
Speaker 2: at Houston, at the Chargers, at the Lions their next three,
Speaker 2: it feels like three straight losses. This feels to me
Speaker 2: like a twenty eight to thirteen Houston win. I'm laying
Speaker 2: the three and a half.
Speaker 3: Demontse Oh okay, I don't feel super strongly about I'd
Speaker 3: stay away from this game if I were, okay, a
Speaker 3: square better, But I'm a sharp one.
Speaker 2: So wait, I think you got that backwards go ahead?
Speaker 3: Next it backwards Tampa Bay minus five and a half
Speaker 3: versus Carolina.
Speaker 2: And evidently that that line's moved to five h So
Speaker 2: the Bucks, i'll be, are in a bit of a tailspin.
Speaker 2: They've lost what six of seven after starting three and one.
Speaker 2: That part's not good, and there is the slight concern
Speaker 2: of Carolina getting the new coach bounce but I am
Speaker 2: here to tell you this Carolina Panthers team is painfully
Speaker 2: bad on offense, and I'm not I'm not trying to uh.
Speaker 2: I don't take any happiness or joy or pride in
Speaker 2: Bryce's struggles.
Speaker 3: The I might not even Be's fault at this point,
Speaker 3: is what it looks like.
Speaker 2: It's I mean, it's not all his fault. But and
Speaker 2: I don't want to sound like a broken record or
Speaker 2: like an old man on old NFL scout. The guy's
Speaker 2: too small. He can't see the middle of the field.
Speaker 2: He has trouble seeing over his offensive lineman. He is
Speaker 2: not accessing the part all parts of the field to
Speaker 2: make throws, which makes this team incredibly easy to defend.
Speaker 2: You add to it, they don't have any great receivers.
Speaker 2: You add to it, they don't have a great offensive line,
Speaker 2: and you have a team that has scored the following
Speaker 2: points this season ten seventeen, twenty seven shout out thirteen
Speaker 2: twenty four to twenty one. Oh okay, the offense was
Speaker 2: okay to start the year. Since then, fifteen thirteen, thirteen,
Speaker 2: ten ten, Tampa Bay is in an absolute gotta have it,
Speaker 2: must win spot. They are very alive for the division.
Speaker 2: I think Baker has played pretty decent. I think this
Speaker 2: past week he got hurt, fought through it, came back in.
Speaker 2: And this just honestly feels like a seventeen ten or
Speaker 2: twenty one ten Tampa win. You don't love laying five
Speaker 2: points with a bad team, and Tampa's a bad team.
Speaker 2: But Carolina is the worst team in football, and they
Speaker 2: just fired their coach. And there is your mom is
Speaker 2: here now trying to make me laugh, distracting me from
Speaker 2: this verge the important camp. So sometimes you get the
Speaker 2: new coach bounce. So we saw it last year. The
Speaker 2: Broncos got it temporarily after firing Hackett. The Raiders got
Speaker 2: it after firing Josh McDaniel. But that's when a coach.
Speaker 2: The Josh McDaniel thing was the players hated him. I
Speaker 2: don't think the players hated Frank Reich. I think the players,
Speaker 2: if anything, see Frank Wright not even get eleven games
Speaker 2: or get eleven games as the coach and is worried.
Speaker 2: Everyone's worried. This just feels like a Tampa spot.
Speaker 3: All right, Next Tennessee plus one and a half versus
Speaker 3: versus the Colt All.
Speaker 2: Right, Listen, Mike Rabel as a dog. I understand the Titans,
Speaker 2: prior to their recent win, had lost like fourteen of
Speaker 2: seventeen game. The Titans this year are four and two
Speaker 2: against the spreading games with a spread of three or less.
Speaker 2: The I like Will Levis. I don't love Will Levis,
Speaker 2: but I like Will Levis. The Colts are gonna be
Speaker 2: without Jonathan Taylor. I'm getting to me the Titans and
Speaker 2: the Colts. The Colts are better at full strength, but
Speaker 2: they're not at full strength. Jonathan Taylor's gone. Tennessee is
Speaker 2: gonna try to muck this up. It's a divisional game.
Speaker 2: I'm getting a home dog with the better coach. So
Speaker 2: it just checks too many boxes as far as sharp betting,
Speaker 2: better coach, home dog, better quarterback, divisional game. Give me
Speaker 2: the points, and so Gardner Minshew nine and eleven against
Speaker 2: the spreads the last twenty starts. That's not that bad, actually,
Speaker 2: But I'll take the home dog and Vrabel and I
Speaker 2: think the right now. When you look at the NFL
Speaker 2: playoff picture, this is not a sharp betting note. It's
Speaker 2: just the truth. When you look at the NFL playoff
Speaker 2: picture of both conferences, there's one thing that stands out
Speaker 2: that you're like that, that's not right. The Colts are
Speaker 2: a playoff team. Of course they're not. Come on now,
Speaker 2: of course they're not. And they're not even though they
Speaker 2: are right now, because they're gonna lose this game. Give
Speaker 2: me the Titans plus a point and a half next.
Speaker 3: All right, you got Philly plus three versus San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is this is very simple. I absolutely
Speaker 2: demands a can see San Francisco winning this game. I
Speaker 2: absolutely could see the Niners picking apart that bad Eagles secondary.
Speaker 2: If they can't get home, if they can't get a
Speaker 2: pass rush on party Perty, we're probably cooking this game.
Speaker 2: I can absolutely see the Chiefs were able to run
Speaker 2: on Philly Christian and nobody's been able to run Philly
Speaker 2: other than can't see Christian mccaffort's great back. I could
Speaker 2: see him running on Philly. Philly has been playing with
Speaker 2: fire the last month and a half, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, almost daring a team to beat him, and
Speaker 2: no one's been able to do it. So all of
Speaker 2: that is a case to take San Francisco. However, you
Speaker 2: have a ten and one healthy team at home, and
Speaker 2: I'm getting a full field goal. That is just on
Speaker 2: gambling fundamentals, this is a must pick Philly. It's just
Speaker 2: a blind bet a ten and one. In the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl era, there has never been a team ten and
Speaker 2: one are better at home with its healthy starting quarterback
Speaker 2: getting three points or more. It's never happened. The only
Speaker 2: times it has happened is when a team is resting
Speaker 2: starters in week seventeen because they've clinched the buy and
Speaker 2: so that's not their real team. Also, Eagles eight too
Speaker 2: and one against the spread this season. Jalen Hurts in
Speaker 2: his career as Eagles quarterback at home seventeen to six
Speaker 2: and one. Brock Purty is a covering machine at home.
Speaker 2: On the road, he's four and five against the spread.
Speaker 2: And I just I I am not gonna put a
Speaker 2: ton of money on this, but it is just the
Speaker 2: right side to be on. The Eagles, get it. I thought,
Speaker 2: when this game happened, I do the the same thing
Speaker 2: Bill Simmons and cousin sal do the guests the lines thing.
Speaker 2: I do it by myself essentially every Sunday night when
Speaker 2: the game, when the Sunday night football game ends, I
Speaker 2: look at the slate, I open my gambling app I
Speaker 2: cover up the point spreads with one hand and just
Speaker 2: look at the games and then scroll to I guess
Speaker 2: the line and scroll I was five and a half
Speaker 2: points off. I thought it was gonna be Philly by
Speaker 2: two and a half. It was the Niners by well,
Speaker 2: at the time, I wasn't five and a half points
Speaker 2: off because it was the Niners by two. But now
Speaker 2: it's the Niners by three. Philly plus three is a must.
Speaker 2: It's just a must, all right.
Speaker 3: Next? Yeah, Kansas City minus six at Green Bay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the Chiefs are gonna win by more
Speaker 2: than a touchdown. I listen Jordan Love credit to and
Speaker 2: they are on extra rest are the Packers, So that's
Speaker 2: good for them. They're at home, that's good for them.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs started cooking again last week. The Packers are
Speaker 2: a decent team. The Chiefs understand that if they want
Speaker 2: to guarantee they get the one seed, they have to
Speaker 2: win out. They probably can lose a game and still
Speaker 2: get the one seed, but they control their own destiny
Speaker 2: by winning out. And I just this felt like it
Speaker 2: should be Kansas City by seven and a half or eight.
Speaker 2: It's Kansas City by six. I'm laying less than.
Speaker 3: A touchdown slinger on their team.
Speaker 2: Man, well, listen, that is true. However, and Jordan Love
Speaker 2: played great on Thanksgiving. We have seen high highs and
Speaker 2: some low lows from Jordan Love. I think this Chiefs
Speaker 2: defense is gonna light them up, and the Detroit defense
Speaker 2: was not able to do. I don't really have deep
Speaker 2: level analysis on this other than and you guys know,
Speaker 2: I don't pick the Chiefs every week. The Chiefs actually
Speaker 2: are rarely in the picks, and they're almost never in
Speaker 2: the picks if they're a big favorite. This is a
Speaker 2: chief spot to me, this is a vintage Chiefs win.
Speaker 2: This is a thirty one thirteen type of win. I'll
Speaker 2: lay the six points happily. Uh all right, so Demonse,
Speaker 2: let's do the recap. Recap of it was Houston minus
Speaker 2: three and a half at home against Denver, Tampa minus
Speaker 2: five at home against Carolina, Tennessee plus one and a
Speaker 2: half at home against Indy Philly plus three at home
Speaker 2: against San Francisco, and Casey minus six at Green Bay.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, pal, Yeah, you're you want to do your teasers.
Speaker 4: Your Yeah's show the recap of last week. So we're
Speaker 4: going to show the last two weeks Okay, sweet, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you're just gonna show my last week.
Speaker 2: So two weeks ago, two weeks ago you won, Yeah, Dallas,
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh and Detroit. That was a great one, and we
Speaker 2: did weren't able to do a gambling show to celebrate you.
Speaker 2: How did you build on that momentum?
Speaker 3: Pal?
Speaker 2: And how did you out? Did you turn this all?
Speaker 3: Are you serious? Bro?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: What? How did you build on that momentum? Yeah? So
Speaker 3: we had Green Bay plus fifteen and a half in
Speaker 3: Detroit that was covering the entire game, Dallas minus eight
Speaker 3: and a half versus six, Wash six half versus Washington. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then Seattle looked like they could have been covering
Speaker 3: there at the end of the third quarter, I want
Speaker 3: to say, but yeah, after the you.
Speaker 2: Had a little home All right, What are we doing
Speaker 2: this week?
Speaker 3: Pal? This week's teasers at three three teams, seven and
Speaker 3: a half point teaser at plus plus one oh five
Speaker 3: of the odds. So we're teasing Arizona up to plus
Speaker 3: thirteen at Pittsburgh, and then we're teasing Detroit up to
Speaker 3: plus three at New Orleans, and then we're teasing Kansas
Speaker 3: City up to plus one and a half at Green Bay.
Speaker 3: That's the teaser. Tell you what a Detroit.
Speaker 2: And you're just teasing through the zero twice? Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: what are we doing? What are we doing?
Speaker 3: Oh with the kid? What I trust? I trust the
Speaker 3: Chiefs to get the win? Is this not a.
Speaker 2: Just But you're just not getting teaser, You're not getting
Speaker 2: enough value and you're.
Speaker 3: The only thing zero. Okay, I'm gonna make another impromptu
Speaker 3: thing because the last time I did this it actually
Speaker 3: hit and the other one I think lost, the one
Speaker 3: that I took out. So I am gonna take I'm
Speaker 3: taking Detroit out. I'm leaving Kansas City there, I'm taking
Speaker 3: I'm taking Detroit out, and I want I want to
Speaker 3: put Philly in at plus ten and a half.
Speaker 2: I mean, San Francisco ruined you last week. You remember
Speaker 2: that right by blowing someone out? You do remember that
Speaker 2: that San Francisco screwed you. And Okay, by the way,
Speaker 2: at least that has real teaser value. That makes it better.
Speaker 2: You were gonna get your first F teaser grade in weeks.
Speaker 2: Now you're to a solid seat.
Speaker 3: This is a solid sea teaser at Kansas City with
Speaker 3: a pick them. That's kind of crazy, Like it's because
Speaker 3: I'm that's the only ones I have a sea.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because you're you're not getting you have a
Speaker 2: team that's favored by six and now you're teasing them
Speaker 2: through the zero on a seven and a half point teaser.
Speaker 2: I just it's just bad teaser fundaments. But listen, what
Speaker 2: do I know? What do I know?
Speaker 3: Is not? All right? So Daniel was just talking to
Speaker 3: me about his dad going off of vibes with the
Speaker 3: bets this morning. His dad's been hidden. Uh so it's like.
Speaker 2: That's not but I want to know something. It's also
Speaker 2: not solid fundamentals to go off of vibes.
Speaker 3: That's not No, that's That's not the point that I
Speaker 3: was making. I'm just saying that it's Kansas City playing
Speaker 3: Green Bay. Yeah, giving them? All right, one and a half,
Speaker 3: let's one and a half, let's do it. I'm watching
Speaker 3: that up. Chiefs are gonna win, all right?
Speaker 2: Can I just give you a better teaser? Can I
Speaker 2: just give you know what?
Speaker 3: Come on?
Speaker 2: They do two teasers? Since you like, can'tsity just do
Speaker 2: a two team six point teaser? The Chiefs to a
Speaker 2: pick them and the Jags.
Speaker 3: You're just saying, oh, so you're saying the teasing through
Speaker 3: there because of the odds, like it's the better.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, you're paying, you're paying exactly, you're paying a
Speaker 2: price for You're buying all seven and a half of
Speaker 2: those points. But what you're telling is like that you
Speaker 2: only right, that's what That's what I meant by teaser metals.
Speaker 2: You're you're purchasing all seven and a half of those points.
Speaker 2: But with Kansas City, you're like, I don't even fucking
Speaker 2: want the last two of them. I just want them
Speaker 2: as a pick them. Well, then then find a bet.
Speaker 3: So I see what you're saying.
Speaker 2: So it's not that it's that a losing bet, it's
Speaker 2: that you're buying something and paying a premium for it.
Speaker 2: So I a teaser. I like this week is a
Speaker 2: two team six point teaser. The Chiefs to a pick
Speaker 2: them and the Jags, who are eight and a half
Speaker 2: point favorites against Jake Browning and the Bengals to minus
Speaker 2: two and a half. So we get through all the
Speaker 2: key numbers. We need the Chiefs to win and the
Speaker 2: Jags to win by a field goal. That's a teaser.
Speaker 2: I like, I'm adding it to Demanse's card. All right, Uh,
Speaker 2: the offer this week.
Speaker 3: Go ahead pal the offer this week. We are heading
Speaker 3: to college for this one because I saw a line
Speaker 3: so goofy that I had to bring it up. Oh wait,
Speaker 3: this is the thing, yo. So Iowa team total for
Speaker 3: the first half against Michigan is point five and it's
Speaker 3: the same for the second half. I know you don't
Speaker 3: love totals, but are you gonna turn down betting on
Speaker 3: a team scoring one?
Speaker 2: I mean you can't, So listen, here's the thing. I
Speaker 2: absolutely think the under is gonna hit in one of
Speaker 2: these halves. I just don't know which one. I absolutely
Speaker 2: think Michigan will shut them out for at least a half.
Speaker 2: The funniest thing about this this Iowa Michigan game is
Speaker 2: the spread versus the game total. So Iowa Michigan. Michigan
Speaker 2: is a twenty one and a half point favorite, okay,
Speaker 2: but the total for the game is thirty four and
Speaker 2: a half. So what does that mean? They think Michigan's
Speaker 2: gonna win by at least twenty one, but there's not
Speaker 2: gonna be thirty five points scored. So what Vegas is
Speaker 2: telling you is they think this is either this is
Speaker 2: basically a twenty eight to six game. That's the way
Speaker 2: for Michigan to cover and the both numbers. If they
Speaker 2: were to hit essentially on the number they're saying, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be twenty eight to six or twenty eight to seven.
Speaker 2: Is where Vegas lambs on this. I do think, uh,
Speaker 2: my prediction for the game, I think was twenty four
Speaker 2: to three. That's what it feels like. It feels like
Speaker 2: an under and it feels like Iowa goes scoreless and
Speaker 2: at least one of the halves. We answer your questions next,
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Speaker 2: couple of these questions from the chat go.
Speaker 3: Ahead is Isaac Wave asked Nick, do you think the
Speaker 3: Bears are set up in a way going forward they
Speaker 3: could make a leap going toward going towards similar to
Speaker 3: the Texans depending on their quarterback coach Combo.
Speaker 2: They decide absolutely now that it's a big depending on
Speaker 2: But if you get Caleb, you've got the most important
Speaker 2: part figured out now. Part so the Texans cj who
Speaker 2: is the most important part, But they also seem to
Speaker 2: nail the coach higher. Demiko, that part's very very hard.
Speaker 2: So you guys know what I've said the Bears should do,
Speaker 2: which is off for Ben Johnson. The Lions OC buckets
Speaker 2: and buckets of money to come there and be with
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams as his head coach. It has the double
Speaker 2: impact of then you know, weakening your the team that's
Speaker 2: gonna win your division. But yeah, they have a ton
Speaker 2: of money, they have a ton of draft picks if
Speaker 2: they as long as the Panthers continue to be terrible,
Speaker 2: they have I think the Bears are actually set up
Speaker 2: quite well, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Samuel goldass Nick, can you rank every Mahomes chief
Speaker 3: season for most enjoyable to the least enjoyable? Sure?
Speaker 2: His first year as a starter twenty eighteen, the five
Speaker 2: thousand yards, fifty touchdowns, Never see anything like it was
Speaker 2: the first time my lifetime the Chiefs had an amazing
Speaker 2: quarterback and he was just so clearly immediately the best
Speaker 2: quarterback in the league. And they were so high scoring.
Speaker 2: That was the most fun the year. I'm not talking
Speaker 2: about the I'm not doing it based on how the
Speaker 2: year ended, just over the course of the season watching it.
Speaker 2: Defending the championship twenty twenty a forgotten year when a
Speaker 2: he had I think he had thirty eight touchdown, six picks.
Speaker 2: He was fourteen and one as a starter, as the
Speaker 2: defending champion should have won League MVP, and that team
Speaker 2: was a game away from playing to be undefeated. It
Speaker 2: obviously ended in tragedy the way the Super Bowl went.
Speaker 2: That was the second most fun The third most enjoyable,
Speaker 2: uh was last year no Tyreek real questions. They had
Speaker 2: lost to Burrow in the playoffs because Mahomes hadn't played
Speaker 2: well and he just kicked ass and took names all year.
Speaker 2: The fourth most enjoyable would have been the twenty nineteen season,
Speaker 2: where coming off twenty eighteen he was exceptional. They end
Speaker 2: up obviously winning the Super Bowl. The least enjoyable was
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one when he had the six week slump
Speaker 2: in the middle of the season and it was like,
Speaker 2: what's going on with Chiefs? So that's how I'd rank them.
Speaker 2: This one was up to this point is right in
Speaker 2: line with twenty twenty one. But we'll see how this
Speaker 2: year ends.
Speaker 3: All right, Next, Elliott Henry said, Hey, Nick, watching since
Speaker 3: episode one? We appreciate you. I'm going to Kansas I'm
Speaker 3: going to Kansas City in the summer. What's the number
Speaker 3: one thing go I should check out there besides Arthur Bryant's.
Speaker 2: When you go to Arthur Bryant's, go to the Negro
Speaker 2: League Baseball Museum. It's worth half an afternoon. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: It's one of the coolest places in the country in
Speaker 2: my opinion. And it's the history there and the exhibits
Speaker 2: and it's just it's interactive. It's great. And also if
Speaker 2: you're going in the summer, go to Kaufman. It is
Speaker 2: one of those beautiful ballparks in the country. The fountains
Speaker 2: are great, it is a great, great place to watch
Speaker 2: a game. And I mean food wise, yeah, it's Bryant's.
Speaker 2: There's all the barbecue places are obviously unbelievable. And yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean there's there's not a ton to do in
Speaker 2: my hometown, but it's a great it's a great place
Speaker 2: to spend a long weekend. Those would be the number
Speaker 2: one things I would say to check out, do some
Speaker 2: shopping on the plaza. You can do all that type
Speaker 2: of stuff. All right, great show, great job, Demanda, I'll
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