WEBVTT - Beating The Book: 2021 NFL MegaPod Divisional Round Preview 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:13.240 Check it on Man No Down Man. Thursday, January fourteen 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:18.000 one is the Beating the Book Mega pod for Divisional 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:22.040 round playoffs in the National Football League. It's Gill Alexander. Uh. 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.040 This is a special one because we have more than 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:26.520 one rotating guests. Uh. The staples of the show here 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:30.400 as always Mike Palm, Derek Stephen's conciliary here at Circus Sports. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.239 How you doing, Mike? Wonderful? Wonderful? Can we announce your 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:37.360 show that's coming up real quick? We cannot talk about time, okay, 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.640 because the visa and people didn't tell the people who 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:42.879 would affects when they're gonna tell a person he's going 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:45.199 from days to swing that they might want to tell 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.520 him before the day before. Should I have not brought 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:49.440 that up? It's okay, you could say it's not the 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:51.599 time slide. Okay, Well you'll have your own show. We'll 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:53.680 have a show with the Mall Shaw you will go 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.960 that will air Monday through. What is it called? Well, 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.480 I'll tell you right now. The working title is the 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:03.200 Nuts in U t Z I like it? Uh poker 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:07.480 reference it is um Derek wanted odds odds on with 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.679 Mike and am All, but Bill said, you can't protect 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.119 that anything with odds in it. Yeah, Bill wanted the playbook, 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.920 but I think that ignores them all. My personal favorite 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.720 is the Mayor and the Mumbai. But they said it's 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.880 a little risk, gay little risk. That's a really interesting 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.679 choice you got there for co host My kind of interesting. 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.000 Oh that that voice is the other stable of the show, 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.039 Todd wishneb who feels as though he got snubbed. Did 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.760 Hashem get you again? Todd? Is this a Schem's fault? 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.920 By the way, For the gentiles listening again, Hashem what 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:41.360 what renounced? Orthodox Jews like Todd referred to as God? 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.960 My parents who are Israelian, do not use that. I 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:49.120 cannot say God. Isn't it yahweh? Oh? No? No? What 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:54.040 is yahweh? We say Yawei? I know that's something. Yeah, 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.800 that's though. It's something Hashim the name, by the way, 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:02.040 literally Zella what our rotatings. As Aaron Schott said when 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.360 he famously came on this program, he goes, it's gonna 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:05.640 take me a little while to get used to the 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.560 rhythm of the rhythm of the show. Right, it's for 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.160 our offensive lineman who, for the better part of a decade, 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:16.080 played for five different teams in the National Football League. Uh, 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.200 and he's been kind enough to come on a Numbers 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.320 game now on the megapod. Played for Panthers, Vikings, Chiefs, Giants, 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.560 and Lions. Brother Mitchell plays with Kansas City Chiefs. Is 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:28.280 Jeff Schwartz. Everybody, how you doing, Jeff? I am good. 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.760 I feel like I fitted right away. Another another Jew 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.920 on the podcast, and we're very close to him, Minion. 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.320 So it's good to go. You are a true member 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.400 of the leaflet. You are. This is the first time 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:40.920 we've ever had a legit guy on the leaflet. By 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.040 the way, Jeff also has UH. He works for Serious 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:46.440 Does Things with Fox Sports. Has two podcasts. Uh. Jeff 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.119 Schwartz is smarter than you Apple. Name one of them. Jeff, 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.880 have you ever heard the Young Kipper massacre story? Okay, Todd, 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.600 I'm giving the intro. Can we wait for that for 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.840 a second? One more. He's also has a podcast called 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.560 Minus three with Check and Schwartz with former NFL network 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.720 personality Dave Damaet cousin salso was on there. What did 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.480 I miss? Jeff? What else did I leave? Uh? That's 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.200 about enough. Some one office every now and then, But 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:12.080 I want to know about the young keep massacres, one 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:16.120 of the great gambling stories. First, my first appearance on 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.120 the Guilt uh Numbers game show at Visa, I told 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.000 the Young Kipper massacre story, which is a story that 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.160 it can't be made up, but it has to do 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.639 with Jews and gambling, and you will love it. I'll 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:28.799 tell you after the after today's show. You don't want 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.960 to tell it, let's tell you go through the whole thing. Yes, 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.720 but can we introduced Las Vegas Chris first, and then 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.840 we'll do the Young peopor Massacre. Okay, ladies and gentlemen. 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.280 He finished second and fifth in this year's circumillions. He 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.680 also finished with his two entries in the top like 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.120 thirty six last year. He's one contest in Las Vegas 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.920 over the last decade at the Palms at the Win 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.760 he won college football last man standing at stations in 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.760 uh Big Mocher. By the way, it's Las Vegas Chris. Everybody, 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.720 Hey doing Chris, I'm doing well doing. We bring running 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.760 late this morning. But one over a quarter of a 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.440 million dollars altogether in terms of his two entries, his 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.360 his quarterly prize and a hedge on that final game. 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:13.120 And more impressive than all of that were was you 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.520 coming on a numbers game and telling the telling the 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.359 story about the mistake that you made in week sixteen, 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.840 which was very transparent, honest, and more and even more 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:23.680 than that. And I've run this the last couple of 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.920 days on the radio side. You you tweeted out all 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.560 of your picks beyond just the contest, all the football 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.600 picks you've made this year, and you crushed it. There 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:38.160 were only like picks, only nineteen of which were you 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:42.120 negative closing line value on and you were seventeen and 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.719 two in those. Dude, that's unbelievable. Nineteen And you're going 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:47.240 to do a study on previous years for you to 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.040 see if that's like something you've been doing. I actually 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.960 got to it last night a little bit and it's 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.159 not looking the same. So but you you figured it 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.240 wouldn't look the same, right I was. I was hoping 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:03.160 that it would. East Lean. I'm about a third through 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.920 the last season and it's uh, um about fifty fifty 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:08.840 and those that I get the worst of the line. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:10.839 Look at look at this, Mikey, look at this. Seventeen 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.480 and two. Those are the only games he didn't have 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.600 positive closing line value on. Dude, is that's the greatest 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:21.599 season ever? Look at that? Do you remember those two 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:25.560 you lost? Green Bay my November one, Pittsburgh December seven. 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:27.920 That's it. That's the list that he lost on those, 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:32.600 but nineteen total. Good for you, man, congratulations, just grinding, 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.560 just grinding. You're you're the best, man, You're the best 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.760 in the biz. Um. All right, before we do the 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.320 divisional round, let's the show is only going to get 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.680 worse after this. The Yom Kippor massacre from Todd wishnev 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:46.839 one of the great gambling stories of baltime. Have you 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.000 heard this before? Oh, it's the greatest story. Go ahead, Toddy, Jeff. 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.240 The only reason because you say you're a Jew and 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.080 you played in the National Football League. Which that's why 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.200 this story is gonna make is going to be even 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.240 greater for you. And that's why I feel like which 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:03.400 should be told. So here's what happened, Todd. Stop, what 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.400 do you mean he says he's a Jew? What do 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:09.440 you mean by that that you doubt that he's a Jew? 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.560 That he's pretending to be a jew? Jeff? If that 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:17.080 is your day, that's right, you changed it to Schwartz. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.719 In the In the gambling world, you deal with a 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.480 lot of people that are not necessarily who they say 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.120 they are, so I have to be very careful, you 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.520 know what I mean. You never know. Here's a Wikipedia 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:35.640 page he played in the least hitting around bes right 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.279 put on anyway. So here here's what happened, Jeff. It 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.080 was back in two thousand and fourteen. I was betting 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.200 way more money than I should have been betting on 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:49.920 a particular game relative to my bank roll, and I 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.440 absolutely needed to win this game. First of all, it 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.160 happened to be yonme Kipper on the day, okay ki, 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.080 I think it was like October fourth, two thousand fourteen. 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.320 I was living in Los Angeles, and because I am 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.920 a renounced Jew, I do not go to temple on 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.960 yoham Kipper. I don't do any of that nonsense. I 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.160 know it's a Saturday college football. It's a holiday. Because 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.440 there's only about fourteen college football saturdays, you have to 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.800 watch football. I don't care what day it is. So 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.240 I go over my friend's house, who's like a phaghazy Jew, 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:25.040 and uh watching the Uh we're watching the college and 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.680 I have a huge bet. This is about three thirty. 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.239 I have a huge under thirty four and a half 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.760 in the second half of the Arizona State USC game. Okay, 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.640 under thirty four now, so I'm just hoping no points, 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.720 no points, no points. Right, it's late in the afternoon 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:45.680 and USC and in Arizona State only scored thirteen points. 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.040 There's like five minutes to go. There's no way I'm 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.120 losing this game. This is about as easy and I 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:51.520 need to win this game. I have a lot of 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.600 money on this game. There's no way I'm losing this game. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.280 So I said to my friend the Phaghazzy Jew, who 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.600 was fasting even though he's sitting there watching ledge football, 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.120 and you choose fast. And since he's a the gaisy Jew, 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.600 who wasn't actually the temple, he was just sitting there 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.520 in college football with me. So I said to him, look, 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.000 it's getting dark, you kipper, ends it dark. You know, 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.120 I'll go around the corner and get you a sandwich. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.840 Because there's no way I'm gonna lose this game. That's 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.200 how confident I am. I'm winning this game. I go 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.000 around the corner, I get him a sandwich. I come 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.080 back everything's fine. All of a sudden, with about like 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:28.800 three minutes to go, touchdown on site's kick, recovery, touchdown, 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:32.680 another touchdown, all these touchdowns, and I'm like starting to 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.280 get very very nervous. But I'm still fine. I'm still 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:39.199 absolutely fine. There's there's one play left. Arizona State is 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.720 at the forty eight yard line of USC. They're gonna 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.760 throw a hail Mary into the end zone. They'll knock 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.480 it down, game over. It'll be thirty four instead of 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.640 thirty four and a half. Everything will be fine. So 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.240 the quarterback for Arizona State, Mike Berkovici, goes back to pass, 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.320 throws it up into the air at the Los Angeles 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.679 Memorial Coliseum. All the USC fans are expecting him to 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:02.280 knock the ball down. I believe it was Jalen Samuel's 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.640 maybe jumps in the air at the two yard line 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.080 in front of a pack of people, catches the ball 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:12.200 falls in the end zone. The colosseum is dead quiet. 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:16.000 They can't believe what just happened. This insane win for 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.000 air zone stage. But I'm even more crazy because I 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.760 can't even believe that I lost this bet. My friend 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.560 just looks at me, dumbfounded. We can't even believe what 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.439 just happened. We can't even speak. It's just so incredible, right, Okay, fine, 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.200 so that's just a bad beat story. Right, So, Jeff, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.559 you're gonna say that's what's so great about that story. 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.240 It's just a stupid, bad beat story. Right. Well, here's 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:40.320 where it gets interesting. Two weeks later, my friends at 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.880 the coffee shop in Beverly Hills. He goes, you gotta 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.760 come over here, you gotta come over here, you gotta 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.160 meet somebody. I'm like, okay, whatever, First he sends me 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.520 before he I'm sorry, I've screwed up. First, he sends 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:56.120 me an email with a picture of a college football player. 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.480 He's never sent me a picture of a college football 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.160 player in his entire life. He doesn't know anything about football. 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.680 It's a picture of somebody, and I say, do you 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:08.040 know who that is? He goes, no, I said, that's 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.680 the guy who through the Young Kipper massacre pass. That's 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:16.959 Mike Bercovici. He goes, well, I his grandfather's here at 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.120 the coffee shop. That's why I sent you the picture. 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:23.080 I'm like, his grandfather is at the coffee shop. He's like, yeah, 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:24.559 you gotta come over here and tell him what happened. 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.120 Blah blah blah. So I go over the coffee shop. 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.080 This guy named his name is like Ruben. He's like 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:36.679 from Romania, very very thick accent. And we're talking and 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.800 and we're talking about the game. And I said, oh, 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.280 you know, your grand your grandson cost me a fortune 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.600 a couple of weeks ago. And he's like, oh, yeah, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.679 the the what did he call it that? He doesn't 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.320 call it? He goes, the Holy Moly. You're talking about 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.839 the Holy Moly. I said, no, no, no, the Hail Mary. 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:53.760 He goes, no, the Holy Mole. He calls it the 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.120 Holy Moly. I go, yeah, the Holy Moli really cost 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:01.160 me the Hail Mary touchdown pass. So we're talking and 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:03.880 I'm like, wow, that was just one of the worst 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.560 situations of all time. He's like, I said, were you 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.240 at the game? You know, because the guy lives in 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.440 Los Angeles, The grandfather lives in Los Angeles. I said. 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.200 He goes, oh, yeah, I go to all those games, 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.160 but I wasn't at that game. I go, you weren't 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:16.720 at the game. You go to every game and they're 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.840 playing in l A. And now you know that he 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:20.520 goes to Arizona to go to the games, right, He's 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.480 not going to go to the game at the Colosseum. 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.920 He goes, oh, yeah, it was yourm Kipper. I go, 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:30.320 it was young Kipper. What he You're Jewish? He goes, yeah, yeah, 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.080 of course I'm Jewish. I don't go to the game 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.839 on your home Kipper. So I go, wait a second, 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.960 is your your your daughter's Jewish? You're okay? So it 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.440 turns out, you know the way the Orthodox Jews goes, 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.880 It goes to the mom. Right, if the mom is Jewish, 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:50.640 you're Jewish. Very clear, I am very Jewish. I understand this, Yes, okay. Anyways, anyways, 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:55.520 so it turns out that Mike Bercovici is Jewish. So, 0:11:55.600 --> 0:12:00.360 now what happened here is of all the people in 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.640 the world that my friend meets, he doesn't meet any 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.840 college football grandfather's ever in his whole life, he never 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:10.280 has met he meets the grandfather of the guy who 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:14.000 threw throws the home Kipper massacre pass. And the guy 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.400 is Jewish. Now, how many Jewish football players are there, Jeff, 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.520 besides you and maybe Goldberg from the Atlanta Falcons. I 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.920 can't think of too many, not many. I mean the 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.440 moll story here is don't bat, don't put a second 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:31.760 half under in a pack, twelve games anything, Rika co 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.160 and Eddie Goldman. I mean, the Bears are full of 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:37.560 the Jews. You know what I didn't believe. I didn't tell. 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.120 I didn't tell the story as good as I did 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.080 when I was on Girls because I've forgotten some of 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.040 the details. But the point, the point is is there 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:48.280 so few Jews in Division one college football. The guy, 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.560 the guy who throws the yom Kipper massacre pass is Jewish. 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:55.040 It's it's unfathomable. It's hash and telling you don't bet 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:59.160 on That's what some people would say. Mike, you wanted 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.360 to say something reminds me of the great episode from 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.280 All in the Family. But Archie Bunker is talking about 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.600 the Jews this and that, and Sally Strutler says, but 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:11.040 Daddy Jesus was a Jew, and Carol O'Connor said, yeah, 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:16.040 but only on his mother's side. That that, to me 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.480 is one of the great gambling stories ever. I might 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:19.959 have I might have bought it for you when I 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.800 said schmore BERKOVICI so I might have botched that for you. 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:25.959 I didn't tell it as well as as I usually 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:27.360 do because I haven't told it at a long time. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.320 But basically the point is for people who don't understand 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.680 the significance of the story, there are no Jews in football. 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.520 I mean there are very very few. There might be 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.800 one on the screen currently, but in general, there are 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.040 no Jews in football. So of all the guys that 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:43.920 you're ever going to meet their grandfather, first of all, 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.080 you're not gonna meet too many grandfather's a Division one 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.760 quarterbacks in your whole life. And two weeks after that 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.480 they throw the young Kipper massacre story. It's probably even 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.560 less likely. But on top of that, on top of 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:59.920 all that unlikeliness, the guy's Jewish. It's crazy perform There 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.280 more Jewish owners in the NFL than Jewish players. I had. 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.600 I had a trainer on a team, tell me all 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.760 the time. I used, like shorts, you should be owning 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:12.720 the team, not playing for it. Baseball. There's still time, Jeff, 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.880 there's still time. There's still time, all right, Chris, aren't 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.280 you You showed up? You showed up for this, you know. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.600 I listened to podcasts all day long, and I kind 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:22.960 of went off a little bit and I go, wait 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:29.760 a minute, I'm in this one. I take some time 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.560 to get used to the rhythm of this podcast. All right, 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.680 let's start. Let's start. I told you, I would have 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:36.760 told you after you No, I don't know. I loved it. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.760 I think it was worth it. People will enjoy that. Um, 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:41.520 all right, let's start with the first game. We won't 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.400 even do We'll just do them game by game because 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.360 people are gonna have thoughts on each We won't do 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:53.120 the three best bets. The standards. Well it's okay, oy one, okay. 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.080 So basically, they don't want to talk about the fact 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.160 that I crushed them in the playoffs two oh and 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.840 one and both of them went oh and three. And 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.560 let me just say one thing. I want to say 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.360 something sad about the Pittsburgh Steelers. Why aren't the Pittsburgh 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.960 Steelers still playing? Because I love betting against them, even 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.720 though I'm sad they lose. There's such an easy bet 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:16.520 against the Browns plus six. Baby. Listen between Tomlin going 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:22.360 for one instead of two down, hunting with the first 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.840 player on the first play of the fourth quarter, fourth 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.720 and short got into punt formation, sent forty five guys 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.400 in motion like he was gonna like he's gonna fool 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.040 somebody I was in the defense. That was Tomlin's candidacy 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:36.600 for the worst end game coaching moves of the week. Uh, 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.400 Carol had about four gaps in a five minute span, 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.600 challenging the Jared Golf over the line of scrimmage. Um, 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.560 you know there was that. There was the whole his defense, 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:48.560 you know, jumps off sides, first and goal at the 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.880 tend with just over two minutes left. What was the 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.080 other Carol stuff? Oh, they kicked the field goal fourth 0:15:54.120 --> 0:16:00.560 in one, uh twice a short fourth in two wine. Oh, 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.080 and then there was the other thing that dk Metcalf 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:03.800 was whining. So what do you do? You you forced 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:08.040 feed the winding wide receiver pick six the game I did? Okay, 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.880 that was his candidacy. Who were forgetting Rayble fourth and 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:14.440 take right Rayble fourth and two, which, by the way, 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.160 a pro football perspective went back, there has never been 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:22.240 another instance in the playoffs in that situation database where 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.440 someone did that with that little time left in the game, 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.840 down four points, fourth and two and plus territory. And 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:30.240 then uh yeah, Reich with the fourth and goal at 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:33.040 the four going for it at the end of the 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.400 second quarter, and then and Josh Allen matriculates the ball 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:36.920 down the field. I mean, what was what was worse? 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:41.040 Do you ever remember that many on a playoff weekend. 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:44.560 Here's what I love about Chris. Chris is like, I 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.080 don't watch any of this stuff. I don't have to 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.000 deal with the ups and downs. I just just have 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.880 my pick and then I see the result. I watched 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.400 very little bit. I will give Reich this, I thought 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.960 right called a good game. Though even when they were down, 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.000 he still used the run. He knew he could run 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:00.760 the ball, and that's what kicked off those drives that 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.080 got them back into the game. Was actually the running 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.960 game that set Philip Rivers into positive field position, and 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:07.760 they were able they were able to drive them. So 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.040 from a play calling perspective, I thought Rick had a 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.240 good game. But from a game management perspective, the fourth 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.600 and for whatever goal with a non mobile quarterback going 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.040 for two because off on the off sides on the 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.080 extra point and chasing those points was poor. But from 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.359 a play calling perspective, I thought he had a good afternoon. 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.680 You're the You're the refeieve said last week the Bill's 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.920 defense thinks, and I was right about that. But the 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.919 third down, the third down play, by the way, was 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.440 more of a great play by Buffalo than a poor 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.520 play by the Colts. The Buffalo Bills broke a tendency. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:41.560 I broke it down to my Twitter at Jeff Schwartz. 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.000 The Colts motioning guy cross thinking was a man coverage, 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.879 which it was, But the Bills didn't rotate their guys. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.000 They just kind of rotated safeties and there was an 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.719 unblocked guy and Frank Writeson afterwards. We didn't expect them 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.520 to be there. We game plan that he would run. 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.200 So I don't really mind being aggressive because we saw 0:17:56.240 --> 0:18:00.240 what Tomlin wasn't aggressive. Raybow wasn't aggressive, and you lose 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.080 games not being aggressive. I was fine with them going 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:03.639 for you. I was open Pittman. He missed them on 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.400 fourth down, like Rivers has just gotta be better. Missed 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.000 them because Rivers is not a Hall of Fame quarterback. Jeff, 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.040 you can you can make a good throw. You can 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:13.119 make a good throw if you're not a Hall of 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.600 Fame quarterback. But I mean, like he still had he 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.040 still had a guy open, he should have. I'd rather 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.719 be aggressive than not, and they made back the two 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.760 point conversion later anyway, So like I think we've seen 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.880 the NFL that when you play almost not to lose 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:30.360 when you lose, and so I'm fine with coaches being aggressive. 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:31.760 And the coult should have won that game right, four 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.879 and fifty yards, no no turnovers, first team NFL history 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.080 to lose a game in the playoffs with those stats, 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:38.760 they should have won the game. That's why I like 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.159 Baltimore this weekend. We'll get to that later, but I 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.320 just think that, like they the Colts, we're okay to 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.000 be aggressive, execute it happens. This is why I like 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:49.280 having Jeff on the show, because he actually played the 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:50.879 game and knows exactly what happened. The rest of us 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:52.879 are just pretending like we know what happened without you know, 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.639 uh the I we had this thing where I was 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:57.679 on a numbers game and I said Phil Rivers is 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.320 not a Hall of Fame quarterback with Lombardi and already 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.840 went crazy that Phil Rivers is a Hall of Fame quarterback. 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:05.439 There's only been twenty six Hall of Fame quarterbacks and 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.760 he's not one. And the reason he's not one is 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.400 because he missed that fourth down pass. Now granted, any 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:12.199 of course you can make the fourth down pass. But 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:15.680 whenever it's a big, big, big, big big spot, Mr 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.560 Philip Rivers blows it every time. Baby, you could blows 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.040 it it three time. Last thing about the last week, 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:22.560 as I want to get to these divisional round games, 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.360 but you're the you're the referee expert. First of all, 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.960 we talked about all the bad things. Sean McDermott tried 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.800 to save his team twice and I got this all 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.600 these uh, these owners are meeting with the prospective coaches. 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:35.320 I would I don't know how I would do this, 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:37.159 but I would try to ascertain, like who's gonna be 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:39.600 my best guy? In the moment, Sean McDermott called the 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.560 time out to force the review on that Pittman fumble 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:46.479 didn't go his way um, and then they gave him 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:48.320 back the time out because they were like, hey, you 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:50.440 know what, it was really the replay booth that initiated 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:54.720 or whatever, right, and then the clock wound, the Colts 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.000 didn't snap it, and then he used that time out. 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.080 He just got back. In effect like a basketball game 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:00.800