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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the Friday Morning Podcast. Chad Millman Sharper
Speaker 1: Square one of our last three or four editions of it.
Speaker 1: I'm at fifty on FS one, so I gotta have
Speaker 1: a winning week. I like a lot of dogs this week.
Speaker 1: First opinion today Sean McVay. There are rumors that Sean
Speaker 1: McVay is in line to be a TV analyst after
Speaker 1: this year, he's going to take a TV job and leave. Well,
Speaker 1: my first thought is he would probably because he's newly married.
Speaker 1: I want to take something that has limited travel, so
Speaker 1: I think he would do the studio analyst work over
Speaker 1: the game broadcast right. Also, I don't think he'd want
Speaker 1: to criticize players or coaching decisions. And you have to
Speaker 1: do that on a game broadcast. So my takeaway as
Speaker 1: if Sean Payton left Fox and got a great job,
Speaker 1: I think we'd probably call Sean McVay. I don't say
Speaker 1: that with any insight, but that's what I would do.
Speaker 1: If I ran Fox, I'd bring in the local guy,
Speaker 1: Sean McVeagh. He'd be great. He's got great energy, he's
Speaker 1: great looking. He would absolutely be very, very helpful to
Speaker 1: any network. He also has immediacy. He just won a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, so he'd be a great studio guy. I
Speaker 1: don't think Sean McVay. When you do game broadcasts, there's
Speaker 1: an art to it. You've got to be critical sometimes
Speaker 1: of coaching decisions. And Sean is young, he's going to
Speaker 1: return eventually to coaching. I don't think he'd be comfortable
Speaker 1: doing that. Peyton Manning. That's why they do the Manning
Speaker 1: cast on ESPN two. You know, he wants to control
Speaker 1: the broadcast. He doesn't want to be set up to
Speaker 1: criticize you know, friends, coaches, even some opponents. He wants
Speaker 1: to be well liked. So the McVay rumors, I just
Speaker 1: don't think he likes losing twice a year to his
Speaker 1: rival Kyle Shanahan and right now the Rams. It's not
Speaker 1: a total rebuild, but they're not close to San Francisco
Speaker 1: in terms of elite talent unit to unit. They just
Speaker 1: don't have it. They've had too many high priced players.
Speaker 1: They're a little thin at different spots linebacker, offensive line,
Speaker 1: and their stars Cooper cup Stafford, Aaron Donald getting older.
Speaker 1: That's why I think they need to trade Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 1: and get a number one pick or a first round pick.
Speaker 1: So mcvada TV studio I get it, game I don't.
Speaker 1: And frankly, studio jobs don't pay that much. They pay well.
Speaker 1: Terry Bradshaw gets a lot of money, I imagine, But
Speaker 1: for a one or two year deal to be a
Speaker 1: studio guy, I think it's an easier job. And maybe
Speaker 1: McVeigh newly married in La every Sunday, that feels like
Speaker 1: the fit for Sean mcvagh, but I think long term
Speaker 1: he's a coach. Speaking of coaches, Jim Harball released a statement,
Speaker 1: I'm a Michigan man. Harbaugh is either releasing the leaks
Speaker 1: to Carolina Minnesota last year in Denver to help him
Speaker 1: get a raise at Michigan or help him get a
Speaker 1: raise in the NFL. I will say this because both
Speaker 1: jobs have advantages and colledge. You don't have to deal
Speaker 1: with a billionaire owner, you have great power over your personnel.
Speaker 1: In the NFL, you don't have to deal with the
Speaker 1: NCAA kids taking classes, boosters and a lot of silly nonsense.
Speaker 1: And he can make a lot of money at both.
Speaker 1: What I've heard though, through kind of the coaching tree
Speaker 1: is that the SEC and some big twelve schools are
Speaker 1: simply willing to pay more through the NIL and some
Speaker 1: of these classic esteemed universities like Michigan and Notre Dame
Speaker 1: are not as comfortable writing million dollar checks to high schoolers,
Speaker 1: and that some of these coaches. USC, by the way,
Speaker 1: has a very weak NIL program. Caleb Williams makes a
Speaker 1: lot and almost nobody else because LA's biggest boosters they
Speaker 1: don't want to pay off high school kids. In Alabama,
Speaker 1: car dealer, no problem, Texas Tech, some of these programs, Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: car dealers, casino owners, they don't care. They want to
Speaker 1: win football games. College football defines their entertainment dollar. It
Speaker 1: doesn't in LA. And so I wonder for Harbaugh, is
Speaker 1: Michigan a very esteemed university in a good space with nil.
Speaker 1: Some of their boosters just may not be comfortable buying
Speaker 1: high school kids or spending a fortune on a nineteen
Speaker 1: year old high school freshman or college freshman. So I
Speaker 1: think Harbaugh is great for college football, where coaches are
Speaker 1: often the stars over their players. But sometimes a college
Speaker 1: coach is made to feel guilty for making big money.
Speaker 1: An NFL coach never is. You don't even know what
Speaker 1: NFL coaches make. So I think that's very attractive to
Speaker 1: guys like Harbaugh who've always wanted to be well compensated.
Speaker 1: So Green Bay packer icon and quarterback Aaron Rodgers told
Speaker 1: a new newspaper in Wisconsin that he is undecided about
Speaker 1: next season. I think it's interesting how Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: Brett Farve have largely in their playing careers at least
Speaker 1: become the same person. Difficult, threatening retirement, undecided, not willing
Speaker 1: to embrace new coaching styles. I mean, who did Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers want back when Nathaniel Hackett left for Denver, His
Speaker 1: old seventy year old quarterback coach. Aaron doesn't want new things.
Speaker 1: He struggled with bookie receivers at the end. Farv became
Speaker 1: very stubborn, and that's sort of what Aaron Rodgers is.
Speaker 1: I didn't like Aaron Rodgers talking about retirement the previous
Speaker 1: couple of years because I thought a David Bachdiari or
Speaker 1: a Davante Adams who could on the market fetch a
Speaker 1: lot of offers or retire. Bakhtiari could retire he's had injuries.
Speaker 1: If they don't know if you're going to play, they
Speaker 1: may just call it quits, or like Davanta Adams did leave.
Speaker 1: The pers now have their best players locked in, and
Speaker 1: they're young players. Christian Watson and Romeo Dobbs aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 1: I do believe that this draft. If you look at
Speaker 1: the setup of the Packers draft last year, they went
Speaker 1: and concentrated on some defense and offensive lineman. This draft
Speaker 1: is set up for them middle of the first or
Speaker 1: a little later if they get into the playoffs and
Speaker 1: beat the Lions at Lambo this weekend to go. Get
Speaker 1: a Jordan Addison wide receiver at usc first round, get
Speaker 1: a tight end third round. They could use a safety
Speaker 1: also mixed in there, maybe in the edge rusher. But
Speaker 1: this draft has some really nice offensive pieces. I think
Speaker 1: they need another receiver. I think they need another tight end.
Speaker 1: I think I would go get another offensive tackle and
Speaker 1: then safety, defensive end, edge rusher. But I think the
Speaker 1: Packers at this point are strongly considering, especially if they
Speaker 1: lose to Detroit. I think there will be strong considerations
Speaker 1: in the building to move Aaron Rodgers. Hell, they cannot
Speaker 1: make the playoffs with Jordan Love. Right. So I said
Speaker 1: this to Nick Wright a couple of days ago on
Speaker 1: this podcast, is that the dead cap hit is not
Speaker 1: as punitive if Jordan Love plays for two years, because
Speaker 1: you're not paying him anything and a lot of their
Speaker 1: best young players have not gotten the bag yet. So
Speaker 1: if you can trade Aaron Rodgers and just get a
Speaker 1: number one pick this year, a number two pick next year,
Speaker 1: whatever you fetch. If you have two firsts and a second,
Speaker 1: that's three starters. Green Bay as a history of drafting, well,
Speaker 1: I think you go get a tight end. I think
Speaker 1: you get a white It's a very good tight end class.
Speaker 1: It's a very good wide receiver class. It's a very
Speaker 1: good offensive tackle class. Green Bay as a history of
Speaker 1: drafting those positions fairly, Well, you hand it over to
Speaker 1: Jordan Love. I think you got yourself the best roster
Speaker 1: still in the division. If Jordan Love is a B quarterback,
Speaker 1: not a not B plus. If he's a B, if
Speaker 1: he's Ryan Tannehill or close to it, I think they're
Speaker 1: going to consider the move. I mean, you ask yourself
Speaker 1: once again, he comes out, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: want to play. Do you really think these executives are
Speaker 1: fans of this? Do you think they like it? It's
Speaker 1: like Wall Street doesn't like the unknown, even if you
Speaker 1: have bad earnings, if Wall Street knows they're coming, the
Speaker 1: stock market doesn't go down. Executives don't like the unknown.
Speaker 1: And every time Aaron says that, it just comes off
Speaker 1: to those guys as a power play and cringey. I
Speaker 1: think it they lose to Detroit. I think the Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans and green Bay will be on the phone within
Speaker 1: a month. I really do now. I think green Bay
Speaker 1: is gonna win close. But something to keep your eye on.
Speaker 1: All right, let's bring in Chad Millman, c CEO Action Network.
Speaker 1: All odds provided by a fan duel didn't have a
Speaker 1: great week of picks. I'm fifty four percent on the
Speaker 1: year on my blazing five picks. I've tried to get
Speaker 1: somewhere to beIN fifty five and fifty six percent, but
Speaker 1: I do make my picks late Thursday, so that's not
Speaker 1: exactly the best day. No excuses. I need a winning
Speaker 1: week to get to fifty five percent. So here we go.
Speaker 1: This one seems fairly obvious. Jaguars looking ahead of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: Titans in a good rivalry game get six and a half.
Speaker 1: They're beat up. But my takeaway is Vrabel teams are
Speaker 1: tough and play with great pride. Divisional game. I'm still
Speaker 1: with Jacksonville. As much as I love the story, I
Speaker 1: think the story is better than the team. I'd take
Speaker 1: Titans plus six and a half. Sharper Square. You're so
Speaker 1: sharp on this that the line has actually moved down
Speaker 1: to six because the wise guys have come in pretty
Speaker 1: heavy on the Titans. They've been coming in heavy on
Speaker 1: the Titans all week. A couple factors here. Number One,
Speaker 1: you mentioned Vrabel. He's in amaze and coach. We've seen
Speaker 1: that over the years. The way he managed that game
Speaker 1: several years ago in the playoffs against Tom Brady. The
Speaker 1: way he's gotten this team, which is not very good,
Speaker 1: to win seven in a row this year and even
Speaker 1: being contention for the playoffs, this year without a j Brown,
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill taking a step back, Derrick Henry was not
Speaker 1: at his best the entire season. So the wise guys
Speaker 1: they liked Tennessee. They had this game power rated at
Speaker 1: closer to four and a half. I think part of
Speaker 1: this is perception, right the Titans, they lost big to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in prime time with a quarterback they had
Speaker 1: signed eight days earlier. But don't forget Mike Vrabel in
Speaker 1: that game, he purposely rested his starters. This is sort
Speaker 1: of where Mike Vrabel makes himself separates himself from other coaches.
Speaker 1: He knows when the games matter. He wasn't thinking about
Speaker 1: that Cowboys game. He's thinking, I got guys who were
Speaker 1: banged up. Let me get them as healthy as they're
Speaker 1: going to be all year for the game that actually matters.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get caught in the shiny object
Speaker 1: conversation about trying to win every game. Meanwhile, the Jags,
Speaker 1: they beat Zach Wilson, they beat the Cowboys on an
Speaker 1: overtime pick. Vrabel in this spot is also as a
Speaker 1: dog of three or more seventy percent over his career
Speaker 1: thirty games. He's twenty one and nine as a dog
Speaker 1: of three or more so the lean here Colin is
Speaker 1: on the Titans all right, Rams getting six all odds
Speaker 1: provided by a fan duel against the Seahawks. So if
Speaker 1: you really look at Baker Mayfield's numbers, they've been pretty strong,
Speaker 1: the reemergence of cam Acres. Seattle's without their best linebacker,
Speaker 1: and let's be honest about Seattle home Field. I lost
Speaker 1: to Carolina here. I think it's a young team. I
Speaker 1: think mcvay's really clever, and the Rams have played their
Speaker 1: ass off. They're not very good, but this is a
Speaker 1: lot in a rivalry game. I'm taking the six Sharper square.
Speaker 1: I love this. It's totally sharp, and I love that
Speaker 1: you're doing this because in the week's past. Last week,
Speaker 1: what did I beg you to do well? I beg
Speaker 1: you to take the Broncos at plus twelve and a
Speaker 1: half against the Chiefs, because sometimes you bet on the
Speaker 1: bad team, and you bet on the bad team that's
Speaker 1: coming off the huge, huge loss. The Brands just lost
Speaker 1: by three touchdowns. Since twenty sixteen, teams off of a
Speaker 1: loss of three touchdowns sixty one against the spread. Teams
Speaker 1: that are eliminated in the final two weeks of the
Speaker 1: season playing teams that have a shot to make the
Speaker 1: playoffs since in the past thirty two years, they cover
Speaker 1: it a sixty two percent clip. This is all. These
Speaker 1: are basically saying the same thing. The Seahawks are overinflated.
Speaker 1: They beat the Jets last week. Jets are a team
Speaker 1: that everybody was in love with. The Rams are underinflated,
Speaker 1: for lack of a better term. So you got a
Speaker 1: little bit of value here. Take the Rams, hold your
Speaker 1: nose and do it, I know, and then watch it.
Speaker 1: By the way, watch it, enjoy it, feel the satisfaction.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you ended up plane the Broncos
Speaker 1: or not this past week when I begged you to
Speaker 1: do it and you gave me that face, you know
Speaker 1: you get like I'm telling you, watch this game. In
Speaker 1: the first five minutes of that Broncos game, I knew
Speaker 1: I was covering. You're gonna watch this game. You're gonna
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Speaker 1: West Virginia. So the last week they put all these
Speaker 1: division rivalry games out. The NFL did this on purpose.
Speaker 1: They know they matter and they're you know, you don't
Speaker 1: mail it in against the division rival. So the Lions
Speaker 1: are getting four and a half at Lambeaux. So what's
Speaker 1: interesting in Green Bay's four game winning streak. Three of
Speaker 1: the teams are awful and the Vikings are the luckiest
Speaker 1: overvalued team. And the truth is Aaron Rodgers in this
Speaker 1: four game winning streak, his quarterback rating is eighty eight,
Speaker 1: his four touchdowns and two picks. It's a rivalry game,
Speaker 1: too much firepower. I'm going to take the Lions plus
Speaker 1: four and a half sharper square to totally sharp. Love it.
Speaker 1: Here's one thing I would say to you that makes
Speaker 1: this interesting. And I love what the NFL has done
Speaker 1: with the schedule of the way they've remade it so
Speaker 1: that you do get these division rivalry games at the
Speaker 1: end of the year that really have meaning. Did they
Speaker 1: screw up the timing of all these games so by
Speaker 1: the time the Lions play, they're going to know if
Speaker 1: they're in the playoffs or not. So they're either planing
Speaker 1: spoiler or they're playing to play, or they're playing to
Speaker 1: play in the playoffs. But like, as a better it
Speaker 1: makes you reevaluate. I love the Lions at four and
Speaker 1: a half, gotam plan, But I do think if we
Speaker 1: know by the time this game is kicking off that
Speaker 1: the Lions are going to be a spoiler, it's very
Speaker 1: possible this line goes higher because people who don't think
Speaker 1: about this from a betting point of view might say, Okay,
Speaker 1: the Lions are out of the playoffs, they're not going
Speaker 1: to be as motivated. That's why these sort of elimination
Speaker 1: scenarios matter so much. In the last two weeks for betters,
Speaker 1: packers line will go up. You might really get the
Speaker 1: Lions for six six and a half. All right, this
Speaker 1: is almost a pickum Dolphins one. So generally, if a
Speaker 1: team lays an egg, I like them the next week.
Speaker 1: That's my rule. Jets laid an egg. But I look
Speaker 1: at this Dolphins team at home. They've got weapons. I
Speaker 1: like them. They don't ask their quarterback to do much.
Speaker 1: Now Skyter Thompson gets a week of reps, I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Miami minus one sharper square. No consensus here.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're going, if you're going by precedent,
Speaker 1: you take the Jets. I got a great defense. They
Speaker 1: feel like they know they blew it. Robert Sale has
Speaker 1: said as much. They feel really just frustrated. This is
Speaker 1: a chance to spoil somebody else's season of division rivals season,
Speaker 1: and then they are playing for pride, right, So there
Speaker 1: are those elements. But also we have the two things
Speaker 1: I just talked about it Jets are out of it,
Speaker 1: Dolphins have a shot. Jets just got, you know, basted
Speaker 1: by the Seahawks in a way that they didn't expect to.
Speaker 1: You got a couple of scenarios here where they're playing
Speaker 1: to the Jets side. But I wouldn't I wouldn't make
Speaker 1: this a you know, I got to get to fifty
Speaker 1: five percent that I'll throw one at you. I fell
Speaker 1: in love with this one today, I didn't know about
Speaker 1: the Bills minus seven. Now good news with Damar Hamlin.
Speaker 1: This is going to be uplifting for the Bills. They
Speaker 1: are now hearing that he's talking, he's got eye contact,
Speaker 1: he's going to make it, he's recovering quickly. This is
Speaker 1: a strong emotional boost. They are a significantly better team,
Speaker 1: okay now kind of because of that game cancelation, fresh
Speaker 1: and ready to go. They're a much better team than
Speaker 1: New England. I think I think i'd lay the seven
Speaker 1: sharper square. I liked the Bills here, so the line
Speaker 1: was seven and a half. It's moved down. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's a huge consensus to be taking the Bills.
Speaker 1: If anything, the wise guys will be playing the Patriots.
Speaker 1: The Patriots still have a pretty good defense and the
Speaker 1: Bills offense has been very inconsistent. So it's not a
Speaker 1: game that's getting a lot of attention because of everything
Speaker 1: you just discussed. Emotionally, it's too hard to predict, and
Speaker 1: you also don't know at this point the Bills finished
Speaker 1: number one, Are they getting home field? Are they taken
Speaker 1: a bye? Is it a neutral site game? How is
Speaker 1: all that going to factor into it? What is the
Speaker 1: motivation for that? Do they just want to get out
Speaker 1: of the game get into the playoffs healthy? The Patriots
Speaker 1: have more to play for. I think the line is
Speaker 1: way too big, So the lean is the Patriots all
Speaker 1: right for the first time in a long time. Broncos
Speaker 1: plus three is the side the Chargers are locked into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. They have multiple players who have gotten healthy
Speaker 1: but have a history of getting dinged up. Bosa James
Speaker 1: the safety, and their offensive line. I think the Chargers
Speaker 1: rest a lot of starters. I think the game, this
Speaker 1: regular season game means more for the Broncos put good
Speaker 1: stuff on tape. An embarrassing year. I'm going to take
Speaker 1: Denver plus three sharper square, so the good news is
Speaker 1: you're totally sharp. This game was at three and a half.
Speaker 1: I loved it. We talked about it on the Favorites
Speaker 1: earlier in the week on Tuesday, where like you got
Speaker 1: take this at three and a half. It's the right
Speaker 1: side forgetting all the things you said. If this was
Speaker 1: three and a half in Week fifteen, I would have
Speaker 1: taken the Bronchos because the Chargers are not a team
Speaker 1: that plays well when they're ahead. They're not a team
Speaker 1: you can count on to cover their offense has struggled,
Speaker 1: so you would be taking the Bronchos. The problem is
Speaker 1: the line is now Chargers plus two and a half
Speaker 1: because if everything you just said, there is an expectation
Speaker 1: that the Chargers are going to be resting guys. It's
Speaker 1: another one of those games where by the time it
Speaker 1: kicks off, you know the Chargers know whether they're going
Speaker 1: to be in the playoffs or not. So if you
Speaker 1: really like, if you think the Chargers are going to
Speaker 1: need this game for some kind of playoff seating, you
Speaker 1: take the Chargers right now. If not, you stay away
Speaker 1: from it because you already missed the value on the Broncos. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I always end with a game I'm willing
Speaker 1: to be talked into. I would take the Raiders plus
Speaker 1: seven and a half. It's now up to nine and
Speaker 1: a half. Odd's brought to you by a FanDuel against
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Chiefs don't have anything ready to play for.
Speaker 1: I do worry about teams that play the Niners the
Speaker 1: following week are all beat up. But I do think
Speaker 1: Jarrett Stidham Tape wants to look good. Josh McDaniels wants
Speaker 1: to hit into the off season positive vibes. Played the
Speaker 1: Niners well, played the Chiefs well. I would take the
Speaker 1: Raiders sharper square. Talk me into it. Oh, it's totally sharp.
Speaker 1: I'm one hundred percent. I already I think I've bet
Speaker 1: the Raiders at nine and a half. But for me,
Speaker 1: it's an auto. Played it against Patrick Mahomes anytime he's
Speaker 1: a touchdown of a favorite of more than a field goal.
Speaker 1: Since twenty twenty in the middle of November, including playoffs
Speaker 1: nine and twenty four as a favorite of more than
Speaker 1: a field goal against the spread, right, so this year
Speaker 1: he's three and nine. We've got a very very solid
Speaker 1: sample size from which to make these kinds of decisions.
Speaker 1: And like we did it last week with the Broncos
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. Like, I'm just not going to play
Speaker 1: Mahomes as a nine and a half point favorite on
Speaker 1: the road for that matter. Finally, a game that I
Speaker 1: have completely missed on. I don't know why. I think
Speaker 1: it's Cowboys at Commanders. It's probably not tell me the game, Melman,
Speaker 1: I have completely whiffed on. Are you ready? Oh God,
Speaker 1: don't tell me Panther Saints. I'll throw up no, although
Speaker 1: I will tell you that it's really interesting. We talked
Speaker 1: a lot about Panther Saints on the faves, and we
Speaker 1: did our sharp Call segment where the wise guys call
Speaker 1: in and sort of give us their opinions on games
Speaker 1: that we were talking about where they think we're wrong.
Speaker 1: They're loading up on the Saints. You know, this line
Speaker 1: got this line got up from it was at three
Speaker 1: and a half. Wise guys took the Panthers at three
Speaker 1: and a half. Then it got that bad back up
Speaker 1: to four with professional betters loving the Saints. So it's
Speaker 1: a really interesting game. They love them. Why do they
Speaker 1: love them? I think they feel like their defense is
Speaker 1: incredible and they have not like teams have just not
Speaker 1: been able to breach twenty points, fifteen points against this defense.
Speaker 1: It's gotten better and better and better. And I think
Speaker 1: they feel like Andy Dalton is serviceable enough against a
Speaker 1: Panther's defense that is decent against the rum but not
Speaker 1: great against the past. And so I think they think
Speaker 1: there's an opportunity there. All right, but it's not the
Speaker 1: game that I want to talk about. Yeah, Cleveland Browns
Speaker 1: plus two and a half against the Pittsburgh let's just
Speaker 1: do it, man, let's be betting, buddies. Let's turn it on.
Speaker 1: Let's know that it's going to be very low scoring.
Speaker 1: These teams score about fifteen points a game. I'm not
Speaker 1: even saying that. So you're taking the Browns because of that?
Speaker 1: You get the points. Yeah, take the Browns in these
Speaker 1: division games, they are always close. In the AFC North.
Speaker 1: The Steelers defense is amazing. The Browns have been improving
Speaker 1: with Deshaun Watson. I know it doesn't look like it,
Speaker 1: but last week he did play a lot better. He
Speaker 1: had some more accurate throws to Amari Cooper. You're also
Speaker 1: looking at one of these elimination scenarios. The Steelers they
Speaker 1: got something to play for. The Browns don't. So you've
Speaker 1: got a team that historically in this situation is covering
Speaker 1: it a sixty percent clip. Take the Browns, oh yo
Speaker 1: yo yo YOI I guarantee you follow my advice, you'll
Speaker 1: close at fifty five percent. I saw him at fifty
Speaker 1: four point seven percent, which is I always say I'm
Speaker 1: betting on Thursday. If I bet on Monday, I'd be
Speaker 1: at fifty six percent. I think I give myself a
Speaker 1: percentage and a half if I bet the better line
Speaker 1: on Monday. I never I never get the best of
Speaker 1: the line, don't you don't at all. You gotta make
Speaker 1: sent you gotta make some picks earlier in the week. Right.
Speaker 1: The Broncos are a perfect example, the Titans example. If
Speaker 1: it's example, like, the game was at six and a half.
Speaker 1: Now the Titans were at six and a half. Now
Speaker 1: it's at six. The Bronchos were at three and a half.
Speaker 1: Now they're favorites because of various circumstances. The flip side
Speaker 1: is the Raiders were at seven and a half and
Speaker 1: now they're at nine and a half. All I'm saying is,
Speaker 1: go with the Browns, go with the Titans, go with
Speaker 1: the Rams, go with the lines. By the way, forty
Speaker 1: four twenty four, Georgia over TCU. I think TCU emptied
Speaker 1: the emotional bag against Michigan, used dis fact. Now it
Speaker 1: comes down to you can't reboot that. Georgia's way better,
Speaker 1: faced a much tougher schedule, and Michigan, by the way,
Speaker 1: lost the game. As much as TCU want it, they
Speaker 1: outgained them time of possession. I think Georgia rolls them.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about luck, right, we talk about
Speaker 1: luck on this show all the time, and Michigan had
Speaker 1: some very bad luck in the first half of that game.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean luck like it was unlucky that
Speaker 1: they threw a pick six. I mean there were plays
Speaker 1: in that game that don't line up with what expectations
Speaker 1: should be and it changes the entire dynamic of the game.
Speaker 1: And so I agree with you. I mean, look, Michigan
Speaker 1: easily could have won that game. Ohio State easily could
Speaker 1: have beaten Georgia. I think George's in a spot now
Speaker 1: where they're like, we are not taking anything for granted.
Speaker 1: We've we've seen what can happen, you know, put the
Speaker 1: pedal to the metal. Here's my question. I've been thinking
Speaker 1: about this. Do you think Ryan Day losing twice to
Speaker 1: Michigan not making great tactical decisions during the game, should
Speaker 1: be on the hot seat Ohio State. No. Do you
Speaker 1: think remember years ago Urban Meyer I can't remember. Was
Speaker 1: he suspended for a year or whatever it was, and
Speaker 1: Luke Fickle took over that Ohio State team. No, it
Speaker 1: was between urban Meyer coming and trust. So Luke Fickle
Speaker 1: took the team over. Right, So Luke Fickle stays he's
Speaker 1: not online to get that job, Leaves go to Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: proves to be an incredible coach, taking three star talent,
Speaker 1: getting him into the NFL, turning that team into the
Speaker 1: only Nonpower five team to make it to the college
Speaker 1: football playoffs. Now he's going to go to Wisconsin. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to be amazing. And I think in
Speaker 1: three years, Ohio State is wishing they've been smart enough
Speaker 1: to keep Luke Fickle. You with me or against me? No,
Speaker 1: I think Luke's going to crush it at Wisconsin. I
Speaker 1: also think Chip Kelly and Link and Riley are going
Speaker 1: to be a handful. UCLA is quietly crushing in the
Speaker 1: transfer portal. Usc not so quietly is crushing in the
Speaker 1: transfer portal. If hardbos stays and Luke Fickle and Lincoln
Speaker 1: Riley and Chip Kelly, those are good coaches. Those are
Speaker 1: smart coaches. I think if you're a bad coach in
Speaker 1: the Big Ten, when those guys are there, you get
Speaker 1: exposed very quickly. He's a bad coach. Now, as I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he's a bad coach. I'm just saying, if
Speaker 1: you are a bad coach, could be anybody. That kind
Speaker 1: of sounds like you said he's a bad coach that's
Speaker 1: slipped out. That was kind of punitive there. I thought, listen,
Speaker 1: you to create a controversy. I'm down the middle guy,
Speaker 1: I'm very controversial. You are a very controversial person. I
Speaker 1: go to bed at eight forty I'm not controversial at all.
Speaker 1: I eat pop tarts. I'm a grown man eating pop tarts.
Speaker 1: Not controversial. Listen. I can't even tell you how many
Speaker 1: things happened after I go to bed. I wake up
Speaker 1: and the Slack messages are so explosive because so much
Speaker 1: stuff has happened after nine o'clock. Yeah, I'm going to
Speaker 1: dinner to night at seven forty five, and wass Harford.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm going to be eating that lay.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever had dinner. Oh I've probably
Speaker 1: done a corporate dinner at eight or nine, those dreadful
Speaker 1: corporate dinners. But that's how I think. Like my dinners
Speaker 1: are six fifteen to six thirty or I daft cancel.
Speaker 1: I just can't do it. I want to be hungry
Speaker 1: when I wake up in the morning. Yeah I am.
Speaker 1: I'm hungry for power. Well, I know that's why you're
Speaker 1: a mediumogul. It wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to be
Speaker 1: all over the country on every station, to dominate the
Speaker 1: midday airwaves, to go dominate podcast too. All right, Buddy good,
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