Speaker 1: Check it down man now down Now Thursday morning, November
Speaker 1: one up Beating the Book podcast. It's Gil Alexander, it
Speaker 1: is the megapod. Very excited back in the saddle, glad
Speaker 1: to be alive. Uh. And it's always on the show.
Speaker 1: And I'll introduce them all at once because they've been
Speaker 1: so good filling in on a numbers game on Visa
Speaker 1: for me. Mike Palm, Todd, Wishnev and also a rotating guest.
Speaker 1: Today happens to be producing number five, Jeff Parlay. So
Speaker 1: hello to everybody. Mike, thank you for raining Todd in
Speaker 1: the last three days. I'm not sure I've been successful
Speaker 1: at it, although I did make an effort well, and
Speaker 1: effort is all is all you we can really ask for.
Speaker 1: You guys were honestly, you guys were great. You were wonderful.
Speaker 1: I listened to as much of it as I can,
Speaker 1: but the reviews on Twitter seemed to be all spectacular.
Speaker 1: It's important component of Todd being rained in Gil and
Speaker 1: you you know this from experiences. His lack of show
Speaker 1: sort of brains himself in lack of show prep. Uh.
Speaker 1: The willingness, the willingness and almost happy to use the
Speaker 1: show as a vehicle to get people to research for him. Todd,
Speaker 1: what am I missing? Look? I like crowdsourcing. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's anything wrong with that. And uh, I don't
Speaker 1: think there's anybody just more show prep than me When
Speaker 1: I watch eight billion games. Mike just likes to take
Speaker 1: snarky comments at me, snarky shots at me. You know,
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. Now the question is is will you have
Speaker 1: a show when you come back on Monday? Because he
Speaker 1: did fourteen hours of NHL this morning. That was an
Speaker 1: interesting program my choice, But that's wonderful. You guys had
Speaker 1: Matthew Barnaby on, so that's nothing wrong. That's a great guest, right,
Speaker 1: Matthew Bonnaby. A lot of people thought it was great. Gil.
Speaker 1: You know, Todd thinks it was excessive because he doesn't
Speaker 1: know anything about the NHL and he didn't participate in
Speaker 1: any of the three segments. But that's not true. What
Speaker 1: about my question about the five overtime game that that
Speaker 1: was that was great? If somebody posts the number on
Speaker 1: that game twenty years later, you get that on him.
Speaker 1: What about Mike Babcock not being the coach anymore? Uh?
Speaker 1: Within you talking about with that can we do anything
Speaker 1: about that number? Mike. That's fascinating listening. Okay, Todd, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you guys, relationship has been repaired over these
Speaker 1: last three days. I'm glad it's moving forward. The the
Speaker 1: Kevin Harlan like laugh that you hear is that of
Speaker 1: jeff Parlay. What's happening in Jeffrey, Gil, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a pleasure to hear you again. Uh. I will also
Speaker 1: say Todd and Mike have done a tremendous job and
Speaker 1: Jacob Broach has done a tremendous job in my place
Speaker 1: behind the glass on the numbers game to the last
Speaker 1: few days. Well, all of us will be back in
Speaker 1: the saddle sooner rather than later, which is good. Todd
Speaker 1: put Jacob in a really good light at the end
Speaker 1: of the end of Wednesday's program. Here we go. Okay,
Speaker 1: the South Border kicker, m four Fiegal, Jacob, what do
Speaker 1: you think about that? That's not what I said those
Speaker 1: Jackson game. Okay, oh my god. We're all doing the
Speaker 1: show tomorrow together, so I appreciate that you should hear
Speaker 1: my when he finishes up the segment, Gil, you know
Speaker 1: how like, yeah, I really appreciate your you doing the
Speaker 1: show now, because that's so smooth. How you go in
Speaker 1: and out of the commercials and you go in and
Speaker 1: out of the segments where you have to do the reads.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're just a consummate professional. Mike finishes up
Speaker 1: the second with JVT on the NBA and he goes,
Speaker 1: good hit Jonathan, just like rolls, I heard you. I
Speaker 1: will thank you for that. I heard you did end
Speaker 1: one segment with thank you? Was that correct? Well, I look,
Speaker 1: I was thrown to the wolves. I didn't know about
Speaker 1: this whole doing it myself. You know, I have to
Speaker 1: give you a lot more credit. You and Colin Cowherd
Speaker 1: do your own show. It's it's it's fantastic. Well, thank
Speaker 1: you thoughts very nice. Maybe I appreciate it, but I
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys doing it, and thank you for doing it. Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: you guys will have to sit through this twice, so
Speaker 1: I apologize for it. So we'll act tomorrow like you're
Speaker 1: hearing it for the first time. Maybe, but the reason
Speaker 1: that guessing lines was late on this podcast feed and
Speaker 1: the reason that I wasn't on in numbers game, I
Speaker 1: think most are aware that, um, I ruptured my achilles
Speaker 1: tenant for the second time, not not the same one.
Speaker 1: I ruptured one of them twenty three years ago. You
Speaker 1: kind of live in fear. Once one ruptures, that the
Speaker 1: other world rupture. And so finally it happened when I
Speaker 1: played Todd and Tennis. Mike Palm was there about seventeen
Speaker 1: days ago, now actually sixteen days ago. I ruptured the
Speaker 1: achilles then, and you know, okay, I went in, I
Speaker 1: did uh a numbers game. I did the podcast with
Speaker 1: a freshly ruptured achilles. The only day I missed really
Speaker 1: was the day of surgery, and then after that came
Speaker 1: in with the you know, newly repaired achilles. And last
Speaker 1: week during the show, if you were really a keen listener,
Speaker 1: and I don't know that anybody could have figured this out,
Speaker 1: but during first segments of a numbers game, I would
Speaker 1: start to lose my breath. And because I was using
Speaker 1: a scooter. So after this surgery, after the first one
Speaker 1: when I was a young guy, that gave me crutches
Speaker 1: and so I was, you know, going all around San Francisco.
Speaker 1: You're in your twenties, You're like, I get out of
Speaker 1: my way. I'm strong, and this time I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll take the crutches, and they were like, no, you
Speaker 1: should really take this scooter, and so I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll take the scooter. So I'm scooting all around the
Speaker 1: South Point and we just sort of chalked it up
Speaker 1: because it was only the first segment, and Mike, you
Speaker 1: even noticed it one day when you were in with
Speaker 1: me that you know, it was just, oh, it's the
Speaker 1: cardio of going up the ramp, jumping in the chair,
Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff. So you know, it happened
Speaker 1: several times last week, and then on Friday it happened
Speaker 1: in a Miles Garrett segment late in the show after
Speaker 1: Alan Boston was on, and that was a little weird,
Speaker 1: but Parlay sort of said, hey, it was really the
Speaker 1: first segment. You talked a lot, so maybe that was it.
Speaker 1: So anyway, long story short, if that's even possible. Now,
Speaker 1: Monday of this week, I'm doing guessing lines with Chrissy,
Speaker 1: and as people know, I do a lot of the talking.
Speaker 1: Chrissy does a lot of talking. It's basically each of
Speaker 1: us talking for an hour. And I noticed that every
Speaker 1: single segment I lost my voice, like I was gasping
Speaker 1: for air, and I would have to throw it to
Speaker 1: Parlay or to Chrissy prematurely, and if you go back
Speaker 1: to guessing lines, maybe you'll be able to hear it.
Speaker 1: But after the show, I come and I have to
Speaker 1: for the podcast, I have to record a sixty second intro,
Speaker 1: not a sixty second intro, but an intro for the show,
Speaker 1: and then a sponsor read. And there's something about having
Speaker 1: the software in front of me where I could actually
Speaker 1: see the time. I have the time in the studio
Speaker 1: too on the radio show, but I don't really pay
Speaker 1: attention as much. But at home alone with the timer,
Speaker 1: I could sense that I could only get through thirty
Speaker 1: seconds without having to gasp for breath. And at that
Speaker 1: point that was sort of the trigger for me that
Speaker 1: something was terribly wrong. And so my brother happens to
Speaker 1: be a doctor. I texted him and I said, hey, look,
Speaker 1: I'm short of breath. What do you think? And he said,
Speaker 1: you just had surgery, you're not as young as you
Speaker 1: used to be, and you're a fatass. So he threw
Speaker 1: that in, By the way, has nothing to do with anything,
Speaker 1: but he just wanted to take a shot at me.
Speaker 1: You could have a blood clot from your surgery that's
Speaker 1: gone to your lungs. Go to the e R immediately,
Speaker 1: So I did, and so I scooted in with my
Speaker 1: scooter to the e R very quickly after a cat scan.
Speaker 1: And I'm losing my breath right now talking because they
Speaker 1: didn't get all of this, but you'll understand what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. Momentarily, they recognized that I had a massive
Speaker 1: pulmonary embolism. A blood clot because of my surgery had
Speaker 1: gone up my leg in a ten day span and
Speaker 1: had lodged right at the top of my lungs where
Speaker 1: it attaches to the heart, so my heart was being
Speaker 1: pressured too. So essentially what they did is they immediately
Speaker 1: that night were like, first of all, They're like, we
Speaker 1: gotta hand it to you. We don't see people come
Speaker 1: into the hospital on a scooter, just willy nilly on
Speaker 1: a on a with a pulmonary embolism. That said, we
Speaker 1: need to give you a thromb beck to me immediately.
Speaker 1: So they basically went into my femural vein and shot
Speaker 1: up through there to attack my blood clot, and they
Speaker 1: were able to They can't really remove it, but they
Speaker 1: were able to get about half of it, and so
Speaker 1: it saved my life. Period. I you know, you could
Speaker 1: have died. Um. Serena Williams had this inn when she
Speaker 1: was wearing sandals in a restaurant. She stepped on glass
Speaker 1: and she needed foot surgery. She ended up having a
Speaker 1: pulmonary embolism. I don't know if people remember that, if
Speaker 1: their tennis fans. In part, they reminded me that Russell
Speaker 1: Lokung had it this offseason in the NFL, and again,
Speaker 1: pulmonary embolism left untreated could kill you. So anyway, that's
Speaker 1: the long story. That's why I haven't been there, and
Speaker 1: I'm just happy to be alive. Dude, so well, your
Speaker 1: brother with a diagnosis over the phone, so like unbelievable.
Speaker 1: That's incredible, don't you think, Yeah, no, it's it. There's
Speaker 1: two lessons. One it's good to have a doctor in
Speaker 1: the family. That's lesson number one. But the one that's
Speaker 1: more relatable is you really have to listen to your
Speaker 1: body and for you know, the better part of a week.
Speaker 1: You know, I was kind of like, ah, well, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the first segment only and makes sense that you know,
Speaker 1: my heart rate would be up because I'm scooting around
Speaker 1: and I'm going up ramps and you know, maybe that's it.
Speaker 1: And then finally it did get to a point where
Speaker 1: that there's the evidence right in front of you, right,
Speaker 1: and there's no denying. I can't speak for more than
Speaker 1: thirty seconds at a time, and so I just want
Speaker 1: people to remember that when her they have these kinds
Speaker 1: of things, that they should always listen to their bodies,
Speaker 1: because you never know what could be happening to, especially
Speaker 1: in a post surgical situation. So anyway, to everybody who
Speaker 1: wrote tremendously kind things on Twitter, I appreciated. I believe
Speaker 1: I am told I will live now, so this will
Speaker 1: go away, my loss of breath will go away, and
Speaker 1: I will be able to talk at length again, either
Speaker 1: two people's happiness or otherwise. So that's a story, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: So that's why I appreciate you all very much for
Speaker 1: doing and doing the I feel like David Letterman. Remember
Speaker 1: when David Letterman had that heart problem and he thanked
Speaker 1: all his surgeons. I just want to thank everybody at
Speaker 1: Sunrise Hospital in Vegas. Man, it was awesome. That's the story. Well,
Speaker 1: the only thing I would say is if your body
Speaker 1: says to you, give me pizza every half an hour.
Speaker 1: You probably don't want to listen to that one. That's
Speaker 1: a little different. That's a bit of a different problem.
Speaker 1: There you go, Todd, making the near death experience about
Speaker 1: about yourself somehow. All right, Well, at Jeff Well, first though, Jeff,
Speaker 1: I have a feeling your Boddy says that too. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not disagreeing with you, Todd. All right, let's
Speaker 1: start how we always start. Circus Sports. Update from Mike
Speaker 1: Palm the conciliaria over there at Circus Sports. What's the latest, Michael, Well, Gil,
Speaker 1: as you know, this is the final weekend, Final Sunday
Speaker 1: for quarter three, another hundred forty three thousand, seven hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty on the line. We have one entry at
Speaker 1: thirteen point five, two entries at thirteen points, and five
Speaker 1: entries at twelve and a half, so eight within one
Speaker 1: game of the lead we saw in the first quarter
Speaker 1: seventeen and three one, it in the second quarter seventeen
Speaker 1: two and one one, and so I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: be right there around that seventeen seventeen and a half mark.
Speaker 1: What will be remarkable, what will be astounding, is if
Speaker 1: for a third straight quarter, a single person wanted all
Speaker 1: by themselves, really would be and Todd you you sleft off.
Speaker 1: Yes you're not in this. I'm dead. I'm after being
Speaker 1: fifteen and one, I'm now six and one. So I'm
Speaker 1: just hoping to have all the rest of my losses
Speaker 1: this week and then win every single game in December
Speaker 1: to win the December contest. Yeah, and and it does
Speaker 1: bear repeating one more time. The genius of the Circu
Speaker 1: million Circus Sports million is that they have the quarterlies,
Speaker 1: and so for the last five weeks of the season,
Speaker 1: we all started zero and zero. We're all still alive
Speaker 1: for a big prize of close to a hundred fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: So we're pumped about that. As you say, get get
Speaker 1: rid of all your losses right now this week. I
Speaker 1: got a teaser right last week. That's the head I
Speaker 1: was just about to say that. You haven't said anything
Speaker 1: about how you actually hit a teaser to what did
Speaker 1: I say to you? I said, I'm gonna catch you
Speaker 1: wish nev, I'm gonna catch you on the teasers, and
Speaker 1: you laughed at me. You're not for I know you're
Speaker 1: two and nine on teasers, on four, six and one
Speaker 1: on teasers. So I could definitely be caught. Let's be clear,
Speaker 1: Stanford Long is two and eight and teasers, I'm O
Speaker 1: and one. I just want to point that out. All right,
Speaker 1: We'll get to our teasers momentarily. Let's start with Thursday Nights,
Speaker 1: Thursday Night footballers and I we start with the Thursday
Speaker 1: night game, and it is Indian Apples at Houston, which
Speaker 1: in a you know, last week we started out with
Speaker 1: really good primetime games. This one sort of continues that
Speaker 1: the battle for the top of the a f C
Speaker 1: South winner will be the leader of the a f
Speaker 1: C South of you tie well, and they're both on top.
Speaker 1: Did this really open six somewhere? Is that true? Where
Speaker 1: did that open six? I see a six opener? But
Speaker 1: Houston is three and a half in this game. Three
Speaker 1: and a half is the spread? Forty six? Forty six
Speaker 1: and a half Somewhere in that pocket is the total?
Speaker 1: Curious doesn't have to be a best bet, but curious
Speaker 1: of any of you have any real conviction in this game? Jeff,
Speaker 1: any thoughts here? I kind of like first half under here.
Speaker 1: GIL three is the number that MC consensus on that
Speaker 1: Houston's offensive line was exposed again last week against Baltimore.
Speaker 1: I am a feeling they're gonna have a problem with
Speaker 1: Indies defense. Indies defense is starting to play better as
Speaker 1: we've seen over the last few weeks. Uh, Indie will
Speaker 1: still try of the ground and pound offense. I know
Speaker 1: Marlon Mack is on the shelf with the broken hand,
Speaker 1: but that's the only angle. I kind of like a
Speaker 1: slow start on a short week under first half twenty
Speaker 1: three would be the angle I would look at tonight,
Speaker 1: Mikey Kill It's not a play for me because I'm
Speaker 1: conflicted here. I don't know if t Y Hilton is
Speaker 1: gonna go. I think that makes a tremendous difference in
Speaker 1: the Colts offense. If you look at the first game,
Speaker 1: the statistics, the yards gain very even in this game
Speaker 1: we had to Deshaun Watson turnovers. The key difference was
Speaker 1: the Colts were four for four in the red zone
Speaker 1: and the Bill O'Brien's were two for five. I look
Speaker 1: at this game both ways. I think there maybe there's
Speaker 1: a little bit of value in three and a half
Speaker 1: is the number because the look ahead before last week's
Speaker 1: performances at Westgate with five and a half. But I'm
Speaker 1: not playing this game. Maybe an endgame opportunity if we
Speaker 1: see Helton out there. But I'm not playing the game
Speaker 1: pre flop. Yeah, I'm trying to remember what I guessed.
Speaker 1: Oh I did guess five and a half. I guess
Speaker 1: Houston five and a half. So alright, starting to make sense.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to come out of my uh my hospital
Speaker 1: stay to Yeah, I know. I just wanted to say
Speaker 1: that this is the rematch of the game that Jeff
Speaker 1: had the under twenty three a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: and he like barely survived with the push. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you remember that, Jeff. That was the game
Speaker 1: that Deshaun Watson, Deshaun Watson was called in the grasp
Speaker 1: on what should have been a touchdown and I lost
Speaker 1: because of that. Talked about that this morning on a
Speaker 1: Numbers game with with my palm about the in the
Speaker 1: grass touchdown, and I said, yes, I remember it while
Speaker 1: Jeff was freaking out because he had the under twenty
Speaker 1: three and he got a miracle push. Um. What I've
Speaker 1: said about this game on a Numbers game all week
Speaker 1: is I don't want to fat and happy. I don't
Speaker 1: want to fat and happy team against the team the
Speaker 1: Instapolis Colts come in fat and happy with a nice win.
Speaker 1: The Houston Texans come in off an absolute destructive loss.
Speaker 1: And I do not want Indianapolis in this spot. Now.
Speaker 1: Do I want Houston? Probably not either, But I certainly
Speaker 1: do not want to take Indianapolis when I when I've
Speaker 1: got the uh, I don't want the fat and happy team.
Speaker 1: I want the game. Yeah, Houston fell behind Baltimore last
Speaker 1: week thirty four to nothing. For those who need the reminder,
Speaker 1: they came in with four wins in five games before
Speaker 1: that game, had a by even and then proceeded to
Speaker 1: fall behind the Ravens thirty four and nothing. They only
Speaker 1: had a hundred two yards of offense in the first half,
Speaker 1: gave up four sacks to fall behind fourteen nothing to
Speaker 1: the dynamo that is Lamar Jackson. Two of ten on
Speaker 1: third downs in the game, one of four and four down.
Speaker 1: They were out game four ninety one to thirty two.
Speaker 1: They were out time of possession if you will, thirty
Speaker 1: six ninety one. They were sacked a grand total of
Speaker 1: seven times if you add in the seventh to a J. Mccarren.
Speaker 1: But let me just ask you this before we move
Speaker 1: on from this game. How much of that game, and
Speaker 1: I know it was forty one to seven, and as
Speaker 1: I said, it was thirty four to nothing, but that
Speaker 1: non p I which which even withstood a review on
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. This is one of the big sort of
Speaker 1: nuanced debates one has on Twitter, one has with their buddies.
Speaker 1: Yes it was seven, but I'm in the camp that
Speaker 1: if that goes Houston's way, none of us know how
Speaker 1: the rest of that game's going. Probably Baltimore still wins,
Speaker 1: but like the entire complexion of that game, in my
Speaker 1: opinion changed, and I'm curious how you guys come down
Speaker 1: on that. You know, I thought about what you're saying, Bill,
Speaker 1: because I had plus ten and a half with the Texans,
Speaker 1: and I learned during the game that Deshaun Watson had
Speaker 1: never lost a game by more than one possession or
Speaker 1: one score in his entire NFL career until that game,
Speaker 1: and I kept thinking, Wow, if we would have got
Speaker 1: that past interference call, would everything have been different. I
Speaker 1: think it might have been a little different, but that
Speaker 1: game was such a dominant performance by Baltimore. Ultimately, I
Speaker 1: think they still get get killed. Ultimately, I think they
Speaker 1: still get beat. I just don't know. I just don't
Speaker 1: think we can say anything with certainty. I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: Gi well, Gil alsaid, I would have put Houston up
Speaker 1: seven nothing in all likelihoods, right, So then you would
Speaker 1: have had Baltimore chasing the game. I know it was
Speaker 1: still early, but they would have been down a touchdown.
Speaker 1: It's a completely different game potentially, So I'm I'm kind
Speaker 1: of with you, Gil. Uh, We're never gonna know. Baltimore
Speaker 1: probably still wins the game, but it sure as hell
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been a beat down that we saw. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess the point here is, does that then change
Speaker 1: your handicapping if you do feel that way? Right on
Speaker 1: this particular game, sounds like nobody has any real conviction,
Speaker 1: although Jeff has a first half play, let us start
Speaker 1: with the best bets, parlay you get first shot, sir.
Speaker 1: All right, This is as Todd usually says. Gil. It's
Speaker 1: a tough week again in the National Football League, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start. Uh, let's let's go to East Rutherford first.
Speaker 1: My Jets take on the upstart nearly end of a
Speaker 1: f C West leading Oakland Raiders. I'm gonna go over
Speaker 1: forty six and a half here, in this game. The
Speaker 1: Raiders had a slow offensive performance against Cincinnati. I think
Speaker 1: their offense will be able to move the ball against
Speaker 1: the Jets, who just right now we're playing cornerbacks numbers six, seven,
Speaker 1: and eight right now because of injury and just the
Speaker 1: fact that the regular corners stink, they're on their fourth
Speaker 1: and fifth backup linebackers. I feel like Oakland's gonna be
Speaker 1: able to move the ball. They're really gonna be able to.
Speaker 1: I think Jacobs will be able to run the ball
Speaker 1: because of that Oakland offensive line. I know the Jets
Speaker 1: have been good against the run, but I think Oakland's
Speaker 1: old line will figure them out. And I think the
Speaker 1: Jets are gonna move the ball against Oakland as well.
Speaker 1: Uh Donald has played much better the last two weeks
Speaker 1: against bad defenses, and the Giants and the Redskins. Oakland
Speaker 1: is another bad defense. I think Donald plays well. Again,
Speaker 1: this feels like a game where both teams are in
Speaker 1: are in the high twenties. Someone's winning this game thirty
Speaker 1: eight something in that category. So I like this well
Speaker 1: over that forty six and a half consensus that I'm
Speaker 1: seeing right now, over forty six and a half. The
Speaker 1: Jets eclipsing four hundred yards of offense last time for
Speaker 1: the first time in twenty games because they got to
Speaker 1: play the Washington Redskins. Nineteen I thirty was donald for touchdowns,
Speaker 1: one pick. He was sacked twice. Ryan Griffin was his
Speaker 1: big target in that game, five for one on nine
Speaker 1: a touchdown the Raiders. They flirted with disaster with the Bengals,
Speaker 1: but they got it done eventually. Derek Carr had a
Speaker 1: great game two nine two, one touchdown, one pick. He
Speaker 1: was sacked three times, but Joshua Jacobs keeps doing his thing.
Speaker 1: Twenty three carries for one twelve is fourth one yard
Speaker 1: game in the last six weeks. Max Crosby with a
Speaker 1: team rookie record for sacks. The Raiders were seven of
Speaker 1: fifteen on third downs. Third straight win for the Raid
Speaker 1: as all at home, by the way, after a seven
Speaker 1: week stretch on the road, temporarily in a tie with
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs until the Chiefs won that game
Speaker 1: in Mexico City against the char j By the way, Todd,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to learn the Charger song. We'll get back
Speaker 1: to that place. Let's do that as a placeholder. We
Speaker 1: were giggling in the middle of your little capsule there, Jeff,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you caught. Todd chuckled, and then
Speaker 1: I chuckled. The reason is because we get to see
Speaker 1: Mike Palm on Skype video and Mike Hiss holding a
Speaker 1: massive cross with his savior on that cross. What is
Speaker 1: the significance here? Miked become up asked with the cross
Speaker 1: in the background with the rabbit ears around it in
Speaker 1: my office, and so I thought I'd hold it up
Speaker 1: here for good. It's a very for those obviously you
Speaker 1: can't see. It's a very baroque crucifix. Last week I
Speaker 1: thought it was like some new thing where they have
Speaker 1: rabbit ears with a cross in it. It turns out
Speaker 1: that I was right. There are actually rabbit ears behind
Speaker 1: the cross, but they're not put together. But maybe, now
Speaker 1: that we think about it, Mike, maybe you could, you know,
Speaker 1: come up with a new product of rabbit ears with
Speaker 1: the cross. It's like a way to bring Jesus in
Speaker 1: to listen to you better because you get the rabbit
Speaker 1: ears or something. I don't know, maybe we got a
Speaker 1: product there. Stupidest idea I ever heard. God. Todd brings
Speaker 1: up a good point, though, although two thousand years old.
Speaker 1: Christianity is always evolving. Oh wait to save Todd on
Speaker 1: that one. Very nicely done, Mike with the cross in
Speaker 1: his hand with a best bet. Well, I'd like to balance. Uh.
Speaker 1: Mr Parlay, who Todd commented looked much much thinner on
Speaker 1: market Watch yesterday. Then he remembered him his overplay with
Speaker 1: an under. I like the under in the Steelers Bengals game.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know where the points coming from
Speaker 1: in this game. Wait, Mike, you're not going to use
Speaker 1: a hockey pick as your first pick? Done? Todd? Are
Speaker 1: you doing? Okay? Not everybody that tunes into the megapod
Speaker 1: watches a Numbers game when Gil is out. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: get that so that you're you're losing people with these
Speaker 1: references unless you explain them. All right, Steelers Bengals, Uh,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you Gil. I was up the camp
Speaker 1: that when Mason Rudolph came into to replace Big Ben,
Speaker 1: I thought Tomlin was really babying him. And with all
Speaker 1: these as as as Todd says pushed passes that they
Speaker 1: ran on Monday night against the Bengals the first time
Speaker 1: they played, But after watching that performance in Cleveland last week,
Speaker 1: I understand now he's not very good and uh and
Speaker 1: I know that the Bengals defense is not great, but
Speaker 1: they did go on the road and hold a very
Speaker 1: good offense the seventeen points last week um in in Oakland.
Speaker 1: And as far as the Bengals go, as long as
Speaker 1: Dalton doesn't play, I don't see them getting getting past
Speaker 1: ten with Finley at quarterback against a very very decent
Speaker 1: Steelers defense. So I'm gonna go under thirty eight and
Speaker 1: a half. Here is my best bet. First be under
Speaker 1: thirty eight and a half. Todd confirming thirty eight and
Speaker 1: a half. Good number. Yes, yes, I like to Mike
Speaker 1: didn't try to uh, you know, give himself an extra
Speaker 1: half a point, my prick. My first best bet. I
Speaker 1: know we didn't get it last week, but we got
Speaker 1: it the five previous weeks is once again the Miami
Speaker 1: Football Dolphins. The Miami Dolphins. Yep, I'm doing it again.
Speaker 1: And here's the reason that Cleveland Brown should not be
Speaker 1: favored by ten and a half points against anybody Cleveland again,
Speaker 1: coming off that win against the Steelers, I should say
Speaker 1: a game that they desperately tried to give to the
Speaker 1: Steelers but couldn't Baker Mayfield seventeen and thirty two for
Speaker 1: one nine, two touchdowns, no picks, in a sack. Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham was targeted ten times, but they only got the
Speaker 1: ball to him four times for sixty yards. Eight penalties
Speaker 1: against for the Brownies UM one yards and penalties. Dolphins
Speaker 1: coming off a beat down at the hands of the Bills.
Speaker 1: I think it was. Yeah, Miami kept on in teaser position,
Speaker 1: but they were never in cover position. Ryan FITZPATRICKTT five
Speaker 1: three twenty three, no touchdowns, no pick, sacked seven times.
Speaker 1: And the Dolphins and what was the theme last week
Speaker 1: of many teams very few yards rushing twenty three yards rushing.
Speaker 1: I get it, you fall behind, but to completely abandon
Speaker 1: the running game and to completely do nothing on the
Speaker 1: ground is this new thing in the National Football League?
Speaker 1: I guessed you know, this is one of these interesting
Speaker 1: lines that you guess on a Monday, because I have
Speaker 1: the the reference of the previous Steelers Dolphins game in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: which was the most off guests of all time, where
Speaker 1: I guessed Dolphins would be seven and a half point dogs,
Speaker 1: when in fact they were fourteen and a half point
Speaker 1: dogs or four team whatever it was at the time,
Speaker 1: which was just outlandish. I knew that a guest of
Speaker 1: seven and a half here would be short, but that's
Speaker 1: what I would have this number and Chrissie's response Chris
Speaker 1: Andrews South Point Casino Sports with director. He was like,
Speaker 1: I like your number better, but it's not only ten,
Speaker 1: it's ten and a half, and just on principle, Cleveland
Speaker 1: should not be that big of a favorite. I'm taking
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins based on the number here. Not gonna
Speaker 1: watch it. I don't want to have to live through it.
Speaker 1: But Dolphins plus ten and a half is picked number
Speaker 1: one for me. I kind of agree. I kind of
Speaker 1: agree with you, Gil. I'm just a little concerned that
Speaker 1: Miami had covered all those zillion games in a row
Speaker 1: and now maybe they'll have a fallback. But how can
Speaker 1: Freddie Kitchen to be favored by kind and a half
Speaker 1: against anybody? I mean, that's ridiculous. But anyways, you want
Speaker 1: my best bet, I assume because we've had Jeff's over
Speaker 1: and a half and Mike's under thirty eight and a half,
Speaker 1: So my best bet is going to be do you
Speaker 1: ever hear of the um saying if it ain't broke,
Speaker 1: don't fix it. I know what's coming. Tampa Bay. Come
Speaker 1: spoke your Tampa Bay Buccaneers over the total one more time, baby,
Speaker 1: I half for fifty one gil, I see uh is?
Speaker 1: I think is more than fifty one and a half.
Speaker 1: I don't know what Mike palms waving at, but I
Speaker 1: want to just tell you why I want to take
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay over. Tampa Bay has gone over eight
Speaker 1: thousand weeks in a row. They're the greatest over team
Speaker 1: since sliced bread. All. They don't play defense, which is
Speaker 1: great for the other team's offense. They don't they can
Speaker 1: play offense, so they can get you points on their
Speaker 1: side of the football. So it's a fantastic over team
Speaker 1: because every time somebody has the ball, there a threat
Speaker 1: to score immediately. And on top of that, you get
Speaker 1: the beautiful um idea that old Jamis can blow up
Speaker 1: at any moment and throw a pick six for you
Speaker 1: as well. So that's why Tampa Bay is such a
Speaker 1: beautiful over. I'm not sure what their record is. I
Speaker 1: think it's like eight and two or nine and two
Speaker 1: to the over this year, but it's someone goodly record
Speaker 1: and they're not even making us hey that much. Fifty
Speaker 1: one it's not even that high Atlanta. Okay, here's Atlanta.
Speaker 1: The worst defensive team in football beyond the Massachusetts Minutemen
Speaker 1: until the last two weeks, when all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they decided to play defense against New Orleans and whoever
Speaker 1: they played last week I doesn't come to mind immediately,
Speaker 1: but they played South Carolina and they played good on
Speaker 1: defense against Logan. So basically, which Atlanta defense is the
Speaker 1: real defense, the one that didn't play the entire season
Speaker 1: or the one that played for two weeks. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I'll say this, give me Tampa Bay over fifty one,
Speaker 1: thank you and thank you. He ends everything with thank you.
Speaker 1: Go on, I'm gonna do a lot of those thank you.
Speaker 1: People seem to like that. So that came down from
Speaker 1: fifty four and a half. So you're chalking that up
Speaker 1: to the recency effect of the Atlanta Falcons finding their defense?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're chalking that up to? I don't
Speaker 1: know what people are looking at. What in the hell
Speaker 1: are they thinking? Last week the same thing against the Saints.
Speaker 1: They people bet it down. I mean, it's unbelievable. Are
Speaker 1: these people watching the games? I mean, last night again
Speaker 1: in the Toledo Buffalo game. There was. It was at
Speaker 1: the half and they were betting the second half under.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they were seeing because both teams
Speaker 1: were going up and down the field and it was
Speaker 1: so pulled in Buffalo, nobody wanted to tackle anybody. I
Speaker 1: took the over. Guess what we got there. It's ridiculous
Speaker 1: sometimes these people. I had Buffalo in the over in
Speaker 1: that game. Pre flow that worked out. Um, the MAC
Speaker 1: is horrific, by the way, Like these teams in the
Speaker 1: MAC are so bad this year. Whoever gets into bowl games.
Speaker 1: He was mentioning this over the last night. He was
Speaker 1: talking about this. It's almost an auto play against these
Speaker 1: MAC teams. They are so bad this year. Those Tuesday
Speaker 1: Wednesday games are awful. Like you wonder what level football
Speaker 1: you're watching with that just a brief aside. By the way, Jeff,
Speaker 1: we're back to you. I really liked them because it's
Speaker 1: hard to get tickets to the game, so I just
Speaker 1: like to watch them on TV. If you notice, the
Speaker 1: crowds are who they're outstanding, outstanding, Not a ticket remains, Jeff.
Speaker 1: Number two, I'm liking overs today this week for whatever reason, guys,
Speaker 1: and this one it may come as a shock, uh
Speaker 1: to to everyone listening and too you guys there, I'm
Speaker 1: going over in Buffalo and Denvert thirty seven and a half. Now,
Speaker 1: I understand that both of these teams are good defensive teams.
Speaker 1: I know Denver's offense is led by Brandon Allen. I
Speaker 1: know the Bills are led by the erratic Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: But you know what else I'll say this with with
Speaker 1: Buffalo's offense, now that's singletary is healthy. The run game
Speaker 1: looks normal. John Brown has been great as a legitimate
Speaker 1: number one wide receiver for Josh Allen. And I know
Speaker 1: Denver's corners are good, but they really got exposed last
Speaker 1: week in the second half against Minnesota. The third all
Speaker 1: I need to get over and this is is twenty
Speaker 1: is twenty. I feel that's uh, that's more than possible here.
Speaker 1: And Brandon Allen has been pretty good and his two
Speaker 1: starts for the Denver Broncos, which is a sentence I
Speaker 1: don't think any of us would have expected to be
Speaker 1: hearing at any point this year, and for regardless of
Speaker 1: who Brandon Allen would be playing for. But I like
Speaker 1: over thirty seven and a half in Buffalo the weather
Speaker 1: is gonna be good too. It's supposed to be forty
Speaker 1: and sunny, not much wind there in Orchard Park, under
Speaker 1: ten miles an hour, so that we can get field
Speaker 1: goals that without ridiculous wind. So I like I like
Speaker 1: over thirty seven and a half in Buffalo and Denver
Speaker 1: to a f C East a f C West matchups
Speaker 1: over for me, so fun. I appreciate the fact that
Speaker 1: you check your Doppler and check the weather forecast, Jeff,
Speaker 1: because this is a perfect example, Todd, that you would
Speaker 1: be in the middle of your rant on a game
Speaker 1: on and over and you would be like, hey, can
Speaker 1: anybody check the weather for me? Is what's that gonna
Speaker 1: be like in the middle of it? So he, Jeff
Speaker 1: did it before the show. I'm gonna pretend I didn't
Speaker 1: hear the last ten seconds. Go ahead, all right, Mike,
Speaker 1: Mike without a cross. He has Uh decided to converge,
Speaker 1: or at least shun his religion for the moment and
Speaker 1: make another bet. As much as Uh Todd believes in
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay over, I believe been fading Dwayne Haskins. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna lay three points with the Lions on the road.
Speaker 1: Mike try again. You can move the line again, Todd.
Speaker 1: You screwed me on half a goal on Tuesday. L Gil,
Speaker 1: what's the line? It's not three in Detroit? Watch you know.
Speaker 1: And the reason that I know it's three and a
Speaker 1: half is because Mike has jumped exactly on my number two. Bet,
Speaker 1: I'll let it. I'll let Mike go first. It's minus
Speaker 1: three and a half. But do you notice how he
Speaker 1: tries to slide that past to skill in a certain way.
Speaker 1: It brings to mind another person we always love to
Speaker 1: talk about. But he tries to slide those half points.
Speaker 1: But he tried to slide an entire half goal past
Speaker 1: me on on on a numbers game, an entire half
Speaker 1: a goal. That's a huge number five and half to
Speaker 1: sex It's incredible. Like someone get him a respirator. You
Speaker 1: still like it at three and a half, Mike? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do? Uh I just here's what I do, Gil.
Speaker 1: I look at the circuit number right before we go
Speaker 1: on the air, and it was three. So three and
Speaker 1: a half here, Dwayne Haskins is not an NFL quarritor. Now,
Speaker 1: it's a complete joke. The Jets are not a juggernaut
Speaker 1: of a DV They tried to keep Washington in the
Speaker 1: game last week with all their mistakes, and still Dwayne
Speaker 1: Haskins cannot do it. He cannot read a defense. There's
Speaker 1: a very limited playbook for Washington. He just doesn't belong
Speaker 1: in the least. He's not ready. I'm not sure he'll
Speaker 1: ever be ready. Um. You know the Lions. The Lions
Speaker 1: are still gonna put up points with drisk call He's serviceable. Um,
Speaker 1: and I just I have to fade Haskins until Callahan
Speaker 1: decides where the organization decides that he's not the answer.
Speaker 1: So it's just like pictures. When we get these pictures
Speaker 1: in baseball. We hope they don't send them down to
Speaker 1: Triple A. I hope they keep starting Dwayne Haskins every week. Well,
Speaker 1: they the three and a hook with the Lions. Well,
Speaker 1: they are going to start Dwayne Haskins Jr. Every week
Speaker 1: because that's what they said they do, and Daniel Snyder
Speaker 1: wants to be besties with him, So it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: The Lions of lost six of seven. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's Matthew Stafford, I don't care
Speaker 1: it's Jeff drist call. I don't care if it's Greg Landry.
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's Gary Danielson at his current
Speaker 1: age for the Redskins worst ten games or Joey Harrington.
Speaker 1: For the Skins it's their worst ten game starts its
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty one. They were oh nine and one. Apparently
Speaker 1: that year there one in nine right now. Haskins, by
Speaker 1: the way, nineteen of thirty five last week for two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: one pick, and here's the deal. Sacked six times. Redskins
Speaker 1: could only muster two five total yards. They had eleven
Speaker 1: penalties for sixty six yards. Did you see that video
Speaker 1: with Dwayne Haskins pleading with his offensive lineman, tell me
Speaker 1: what I need to do to help you? And the
Speaker 1: lineman just sat there and were either speechless or almost snickered.
Speaker 1: It was so uncomfortable to watch. It was just, what's
Speaker 1: that full frontal lobotomy for Clem? He calls him Clem Haskins,
Speaker 1: former watching a bullet, Former Golden Gopher coach Clem Haskins.
Speaker 1: The Redskins had a sixteen quarter streak of not scoring
Speaker 1: a touchdown until they broke that with the Darius Guys
Speaker 1: forty five yards screen last week in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: The last team we were mentioning this on guessing lines
Speaker 1: this week, the last team to go sixteen quarters without
Speaker 1: scoring a touchdown was, of all things, the two thousand
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens, who started that year five
Speaker 1: and one with Tony Banks and then they had this
Speaker 1: unbelievable drought and that's when they went to Trent Dilford
Speaker 1: and the rest is history. They won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Whereas Redskins fans today like to say, so, you're saying
Speaker 1: there's a chance Skins allowed thirty four points to the Jets,
Speaker 1: by the way, who entered that game with the worst
Speaker 1: offense in the league. And now it looks like Greg
Speaker 1: Modowski's job is in jeopardy. Is decordinator. I'm with Mike.
Speaker 1: I don't care who's playing quarterback. It's three and a half.
Speaker 1: Give me the Lions, prove me wrong, Redskins one of
Speaker 1: those bets. You've gotta be willing to lose Toddy number two. OK,
Speaker 1: here's here's what I'm willing to do. I'm gonna pass
Speaker 1: the hat right now, and I'm gonna offer both of
Speaker 1: you to put money in the hat for me not
Speaker 1: to bet Detroit. This week, because if I bet Detroit
Speaker 1: along with you guys, here's what's gonna happens. Is going
Speaker 1: to go back to past early in the first quarter,
Speaker 1: take a Faroe just hit, be knocked out of the game,
Speaker 1: bringing in yep, that's right, a c Keenum and then
Speaker 1: Edskins go on to victory because I bet the game.
Speaker 1: So if you guys would like to protect your bet,
Speaker 1: I would suggest buying me off from betting that game. Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go. You gotta you gotta protect your bet. No,
Speaker 1: but do you know that if I do bet? Okay,
Speaker 1: so now let me give you my second pick. That's
Speaker 1: why I'm gonna stay off this game. I happen to
Speaker 1: agree with both of you. You have to just keep
Speaker 1: betting against Haskin. He's a gift. He's a He's a
Speaker 1: Christmas gift. You gotta love it now. Um. Also, I
Speaker 1: kind of like what Jeffrey said about the over thirty
Speaker 1: seven and a half Buffalo Denver. I think those thirty
Speaker 1: seven and a half should be reserved for really, really
Speaker 1: really cruddy offensive teams like the Bears. Buffalo and Denver
Speaker 1: are not that bad. So I kind of like what
Speaker 1: Jeffrey had to say too. But I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: my second pick with the Sea Hattle. I mean the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. Fly. Eagles Fly. You faked us out, all right, Philli, Yes,
Speaker 1: messed up there. The Philadelphia Eagles giving one? Is that
Speaker 1: what you have to pick them? Or one? What do
Speaker 1: you have kind of all over the place? Right, there's
Speaker 1: a there's a couple of ones. There's actually more one
Speaker 1: and a half than anything. So we'll say one of
Speaker 1: the halfs. I'll take it at one and a half.
Speaker 1: Then I'll take the Eagles at one and a half.
Speaker 1: And here's why I like the Eagles. To me, I
Speaker 1: can't get out of my head the fact that Seattle
Speaker 1: should have lost to Cleveland on the road in a
Speaker 1: game that Cleveland just gave away. They were up twelve
Speaker 1: late in the first half, going in for another score
Speaker 1: and Jesus Mayfield throws an interception in the back of
Speaker 1: the end zone and totally changes the game. Um, you
Speaker 1: know they barely won that Rams game. I know they've
Speaker 1: got m V P. Russell Wilson. I know he's fantastic
Speaker 1: and everything, But the Eagles to me, are a weird
Speaker 1: kind of team. They seem to play up to the
Speaker 1: level of the competition last week. They could have won
Speaker 1: that game against New England. I mean, they played very
Speaker 1: well on defense. You couldn't really fault them there. They
Speaker 1: just couldn't get anything going on offense. But a lot
Speaker 1: of people have had trouble with the New England defense.
Speaker 1: I mean the New England. Yeah, the New England defense.
Speaker 1: So I'm not that shocked that they lost the game,
Speaker 1: but I thought they kept it close. I think it's
Speaker 1: a real tough place to play. Seattle has to go
Speaker 1: all the way across country to play him. Now. Granted,
Speaker 1: Seattle has an excellent record, as heard on the Numbers
Speaker 1: game uh this morning, doing these these cross country games,
Speaker 1: but you know, one and a half is just such
Speaker 1: a low number. All I gotta do is have the
Speaker 1: Eagles win the game. Practically, I'll take the Eagles. How
Speaker 1: do we feel about Carson Wentz. I mean, the Eagles
Speaker 1: did not have the Shawn Jackson, they did not have
Speaker 1: al Shan, Jeffrey h they didn't have Jordan Howard. So
Speaker 1: there's that. But man, sometimes you look up in Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz is really like some of his throws, I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: I don't really expect that from Carson Wentz. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm curious where you stand on him now. Town. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, I used to think he was like, really
Speaker 1: really good. Now I'm still thinking he's maybe just good. Um,
Speaker 1: But you know, they have had some good games. To look,
Speaker 1: they went into Buffalo, a tough place to to play
Speaker 1: offensive football, and they played really well well on the
Speaker 1: offensive end. So I just think they're They're an incomplete team.
Speaker 1: They went into they went into Green Bay and played
Speaker 1: very well on offense. They're very jekyl and highish. But
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be the first team to have trouble against
Speaker 1: New England defense. And I don't think Seattle's defense is
Speaker 1: that good. So you know, that's why I want the Eagles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I still think they win the NFC East. I
Speaker 1: really do. Much of the chagrin of of Cowboys fans,
Speaker 1: but I just think that they will be the ultimate survivor. Uh.
Speaker 1: Do we know who's playing among those guys? By the way, well, well,
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson season is over, Gil he was. I believe
Speaker 1: he was placed on i R earlier this week, man um,
Speaker 1: but al Jon Jeffrey it seems to be trending correctly though. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was he actually was limited in practice yesterday. Same
Speaker 1: deal with Jordan Howard. Uh. The only non participants yesterday
Speaker 1: were Lane Johnson, who's in concussion protocol, and Nelson agal
Speaker 1: Or was a knee injury. Thank you for that, Jeff.
Speaker 1: I missed all of that while a massive pulmonary embolism
Speaker 1: was being shot out of my my lungs. The the
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson think is interesting though, right because the Eagles
Speaker 1: Patriots game, you can kind of trace that game changing
Speaker 1: on Lane Johnson's exit from that game was tending nothing Eagles.
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson went out final score in New England's seventeen
Speaker 1: Eagles ten. And we've had Lane Johnson's stats in previous
Speaker 1: years in and out of lineup, so it's not like
Speaker 1: it's just that one game with him. So that's big.
Speaker 1: We'll see if he gets out of protocol or not.
Speaker 1: Jeff big number three. Al right, Gil, I'm going to
Speaker 1: I'm going to agree with your first pick here and
Speaker 1: take the Miami Dolphins with the ten and a hook.
Speaker 1: How is Freddie Kitchen a Freddie Kitchens coach team favored
Speaker 1: by double digits against Eddie National Football League team? That's
Speaker 1: that's the question I'll ask here. Even when they play
Speaker 1: a Bengals in a few weeks, they should not be
Speaker 1: favored by double digits. Miami has been playing better. I
Speaker 1: know they never were in cover range last week against Buffalo,
Speaker 1: but they still were compet it if they had a
Speaker 1: two point conversion to get down eight in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter that they didn't convert in the Buffalo went right
Speaker 1: down the field to end the end that game and
Speaker 1: winning by sevent team. But the Dolphins have at least
Speaker 1: resembled a National Football League team now since there, since
Speaker 1: that game against Washington when they put Fitzpatrick back in
Speaker 1: in the second half and something that Mike said a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, but he's not wrong. Um Brian Flores
Speaker 1: has has done a tremendous job down there to get
Speaker 1: that team that is has a roster that's not built
Speaker 1: to win and not built to win for a while.
Speaker 1: Now has them playing hard, has them competitive, and there's
Speaker 1: no they should be able to lose this game by
Speaker 1: a touchdown. It wouldn't shock me if if Cleveland has
Speaker 1: dumb enough to lose this game out right. Is a
Speaker 1: ten and a half point favorite at home. So I'm
Speaker 1: with you, Gil on the Dolphins plus ten and a
Speaker 1: half for my third one this week, all right, I
Speaker 1: like it. Jeff's number three and my number one matchup, Mikey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make another play that's against the team and
Speaker 1: not on a team. I'm gonna take Daniel Jones and
Speaker 1: the New York Football Giants and six points going to
Speaker 1: Soldier Field against this hapless Bears offense that lacks quarterback play,
Speaker 1: that lacks the running game, and lacks a professional field
Speaker 1: goal kicker. Uhs. At this point, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just don't know that the Bear should really be favored
Speaker 1: over anybody other than Dwayne Haskins by six points. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: their their defense is still amongst the top six or
Speaker 1: seven defenses in the league. But I mean, I personally
Speaker 1: don't believe that there was some serious hip injury that
Speaker 1: Mitchell Trobinsky suffered late in the fourth quarter that left
Speaker 1: Naggy to pull him out. I don't under there wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been a need for this emotional conversation to put
Speaker 1: chase Daniel and with two and a half minutes and
Speaker 1: go and tell him keep in bound so the clock
Speaker 1: runs out. Um, it's just too much. I don't know
Speaker 1: that the Bears are gonna score much more than six points.
Speaker 1: I know the Giants secondary is bad, but you don't
Speaker 1: have a quarterback that can take advantage of it. So
Speaker 1: just too many points. I'll take the six. I had
Speaker 1: no argument with him. Strabiskuite practice and full yesterday. He's
Speaker 1: day to day, though officially listed as day to day.
Speaker 1: My third pick was a toss up. Ultimately came down
Speaker 1: to a couple of games, one of which was Baltimore
Speaker 1: minus three against the Rams on the road on Monday night.
Speaker 1: I decided not to make that play, even though that
Speaker 1: was the uh my first cut. I am taking the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons giving four at home against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: High total in this game Todd's over on the game.
Speaker 1: I think it's even higher than that. I agree with
Speaker 1: Todd on that. And whenever you have high games like these,
Speaker 1: I total score games that is, then the scores tend
Speaker 1: to be volatile. I really believe in the Falcons transformation here.
Speaker 1: On defense, they have outscored opponents here in the last
Speaker 1: two games fifty hold on fifty five to twelve, fifty
Speaker 1: five to twelve. That was against the Saints and last
Speaker 1: week against Carolina, So they really shut down Drew Brees
Speaker 1: and remember that game was just at the time, mind boggling.
Speaker 1: And Carolina last week they were plus four in turn
Speaker 1: and overs. They have been nothing short of dominant. They
Speaker 1: have not yielded to touchdown, just four field goals in
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. And Matt Ryan does Matt Ryan things.
Speaker 1: Thirty one last week for three eleven, one touchdown, note picks,
Speaker 1: sack three times. Calvin Ridley was his big target eight
Speaker 1: for one forty three and a touchdown. Julio is still there.
Speaker 1: And then there's Tampa Bay and here's there was a
Speaker 1: quote from Mike will Mike Evans, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: is uncoverable. Let me just say that, but Mike Evans
Speaker 1: last week after Tampa Bay's lost to the Saints, where
Speaker 1: the Saints outgained the Bucks one to eleven while building
Speaker 1: an early twenty to nothing lead, controlled the ball for
Speaker 1: twenty of the games first twenty five minutes and they
Speaker 1: ended up losing. They were minus four in turnovers. By
Speaker 1: the way, they had four turnovers. There were minus four
Speaker 1: in turnovers against New Orleans. They only had thirty six
Speaker 1: rushing yards. Again, this weird thing last week where there
Speaker 1: was a bunch of teams, even in defeat and in
Speaker 1: victory like the Niners, who barely had any rushing yards.
Speaker 1: It was the weirdest thing mass throughout the NFL. But
Speaker 1: Mike Evans said after the game, and and this this
Speaker 1: for some reason resonated with me as just the denial
Speaker 1: that the Bucks are in. He said, quote, it's very frustrating.
Speaker 1: We've got the players. It's never been about the players
Speaker 1: since I've been here. It's just we've been very, very inconsistent.
Speaker 1: And I just think about him saying that. I'm like, no, dude,
Speaker 1: you're not inconsistent. You just don't have winning football players.
Speaker 1: You may be, but your teammates are not. And you
Speaker 1: know the fact that they had Vernon Hargraves and they
Speaker 1: had to just get rid of him for not hustling,
Speaker 1: Like that's a perfect example. You guys are just not
Speaker 1: a winning organization. And Bruce Arians, for all the love
Speaker 1: that he gets, I'm not sure he gets it either.
Speaker 1: In Tampa Bay, I actually believe in the Falcons transformation.
Speaker 1: I think this is more of the team they should
Speaker 1: have been at the beginning of the year than the
Speaker 1: team we were seeing early on. I will give the
Speaker 1: four I will take the Falcons. God, well, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do something here based on the fact that I've seen
Speaker 1: this pattern now where you get these backup quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: they're able to, like, you know, hold things together with
Speaker 1: duct tape for a week or two or three even,
Speaker 1: and then they start to fall apart, like Logan Allen
Speaker 1: and Carolina, and we've got another Alan Alan. Wait, what's
Speaker 1: the guy's name in Carol, Kyle Allen? Whatever? Don't we
Speaker 1: haven't don't we have enough Allan's already? By the way,
Speaker 1: how did you come up with Logan of all names?
Speaker 1: I don't know how I messed up his first name.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but the guy Alan in in Carolina has
Speaker 1: seemed to fall from the heights of Heaven back down
Speaker 1: to Earth, and I think the same thing may happen
Speaker 1: to another Alan. I believe his name is Brandon Allen.
Speaker 1: I'm right about that. I think I think it was
Speaker 1: Mel Allen in this case. Mellow mellow quarterback the Denver
Speaker 1: Flaccio Fangios and uh, you know, quietly, the Fangio Flaccio's
Speaker 1: have covered five out of the last six games, and
Speaker 1: I just have to say, there has to be a
Speaker 1: Fannie pack sighting in the next game because he can't
Speaker 1: cover six out of seven. Come on, Mr Fangio, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that Minnesota. Denver really went in there,
Speaker 1: was up twenty nothing at the half, and then just
Speaker 1: poorly fell Apart to Mike's Hall of Fame team, the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. We had a little argument about the Vikings
Speaker 1: on a Numbers game this week. I contend the quarterback
Speaker 1: is still Kurt Cousins and he's not very good. I
Speaker 1: hurt his cousins anyways. Uh, Mr Cousins is not very good. Anyways.
Speaker 1: Here's the deal. Denver was up twenty to nothing against Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I feel like they really, you know, we're all in
Speaker 1: on that, and then blow the game. Uh. They haven't
Speaker 1: had really a stinker in in four weeks since they
Speaker 1: got whashed by Kansas City. They played well at Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: they beat Cleveland, and then they played that great game
Speaker 1: in Minnesota where they almost had the upset but couldn't
Speaker 1: pull it off. I feel like they're due for a
Speaker 1: stinker and going into Buffalo with a backup quarterback named
Speaker 1: Logan mel Brandon, I don't care what his first name is,
Speaker 1: but his last name is Alan and he's from the Razorbacks.
Speaker 1: I think he might have some trouble against your Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: That Bill's defense is still pretty darn good. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Allen, he keeps getting it more and
Speaker 1: more together week after week. He's tough to he's tough
Speaker 1: to defense. You know, he beats you with his legs.
Speaker 1: He could throw the ball a little bit. Give me
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills minus the four? Is that the correct number,
Speaker 1: gil h That is correct at his minus four, sir,
Speaker 1: Buffalo minus four? Alright, Logan Allen. By the way, a
Speaker 1: quick Google search reveals that he's a pitcher in the
Speaker 1: Indians organization previously, well previously in the Padres organization. He
Speaker 1: might be able to, he might be able to come
Speaker 1: in for you know, a quarter, Logan Allen. Maybe Dick
Speaker 1: Allen maybe maybe more likely. The Broncos first team since
Speaker 1: to not score a fourth quarter touchdown in six straight games.
Speaker 1: They had three cracks at it with ten seconds left
Speaker 1: against the Vikings last week. Because Mike Zimmer and all
Speaker 1: his infinite wisdom, with chaos and the Broncos having no
Speaker 1: time outs and the clock running decides, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'll call it time out and let them work and
Speaker 1: eyes so they get three shots at this. Like, I
Speaker 1: don't think enough was made of that gaff. Everyone's like,
Speaker 1: whot Detroit the exact same thing, and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: they could have been called for pass interference? Who they
Speaker 1: could have been this? How about not calling the time
Speaker 1: out like that? That to me was the biggest thing
Speaker 1: in that. But the Vikings dual race the twenty to
Speaker 1: nothing half time deficit touchdowns on each of their first
Speaker 1: four drives. In the second half, Kirk Cousins uh mr
Speaker 1: Wishnev was twenty nine of thirty five for three nineteen
Speaker 1: three touchdowns. Note Pixy was sacked five times. Uh Stefon
Speaker 1: Diggs was big target five or one twenty and one
Speaker 1: in a touchdown. According to sport Radar, it was only
Speaker 1: the fourteenth time in the history of the National Football
Speaker 1: League that a twenty plus point halftime lead turned into defeat.
Speaker 1: By the way. That does not include by the way
Speaker 1: span of a hundred games including the playoffs, since it
Speaker 1: happened the last time, first time in five years, does
Speaker 1: not include well, the real last time it happened, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't. A twenty plus point halftime lead was the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl between the Patriots and the Falcon. So these
Speaker 1: is really only describing the regular well this is really
Speaker 1: only described me specifically twenty point halftime deficits. But remember
Speaker 1: in that game, New England was down eighteen point. They
Speaker 1: were down eighteen points at the half, and then it
Speaker 1: got to to three and they came all the way back.
Speaker 1: But it gives you an indication, just so we can
Speaker 1: appreciate it one more time. How amazing that Patriots comeback
Speaker 1: was against the Falcons. It just doesn't happen, you know.
Speaker 1: Uh So this was only fourteen such instance of this
Speaker 1: particular thing happening. And again the Vikings were held to
Speaker 1: thirty seven yards rushing. And you can say, well they
Speaker 1: were down twenty to nothing, Gil, but you still have
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook and you still have the whole half. So
Speaker 1: I get it. You don't go to the running game
Speaker 1: as much, but to abandon it completely is a very
Speaker 1: interesting thing. It happened all over the league last week. Alright, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: teaser of the week, everybody, before you go on to
Speaker 1: the teasers. I don't like those stats where people go, oh,
Speaker 1: they abandoned, right, you know who abandons runs and passes
Speaker 1: all the time. Yes, that's right, Billy Belloch. He doesn't
Speaker 1: care about that nonsense. He just matches his guys up
Speaker 1: against Urin's guys and he beats you. Yeah, but the
Speaker 1: other guys aren't doing what Bill Belichick is doing, so
Speaker 1: that's a false comeback. They're not doing it the way
Speaker 1: that Belichick is doing. They're not going, oh, yes, I'm
Speaker 1: going to beat the best thing on the other team.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do this. I'm gonna do that. These
Speaker 1: other guys aren't that smart. They should Well, that's different.
Speaker 1: Time should as different. Alright, Teaser of the week. Everybody
Speaker 1: knows I'm gonna catch Todd, so everybody's waiting for my teaser.
Speaker 1: No one's waiting for Todd's. Jeff, we start with viewers.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Dolphins and the Giants. Gil.
Speaker 1: Put put Miami up the sixteen and a half. Put
Speaker 1: the Giants up to twelve. Gil, when I'm guessing lines
Speaker 1: on Monday, what did I say to you about the
Speaker 1: Bears being as big of a favorite as they were
Speaker 1: on your guests when you guess six and a half,
Speaker 1: My word was, that's gross. I don't think that. I
Speaker 1: don't think the Bears have a chance of winning this
Speaker 1: game by two touchdowns. So I like the Giants plus
Speaker 1: the twelve, and I I like Miami ten and a half,
Speaker 1: So why wouldn't I like them sixteen and a half.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'll go with here. Mike Palmetto, Well,
Speaker 1: despite a really tough spot for the Raiders, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tease them up to eight and a half. I know that.
Speaker 1: It's how do you tease? They're the favorite? They're the favorite? Oh,
Speaker 1: they're the favorite. Didn't this happen last week too? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think it did happen this week. It did happen
Speaker 1: as well. Okay, uh, scratch debt. Okay, let me let
Speaker 1: me substitute Parley's Giants at twelve. There then, for the
Speaker 1: reasons already stated, because I gave the argument. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take the Packers and I do this Todd and
Speaker 1: tease them up to nine and a half. Nine, okay, nine?
Speaker 1: All right? I think that we uh, and everybody's haste
Speaker 1: to say the forty niners, Uh, we're better than we
Speaker 1: thought they were. We have to consider the injuries, especially
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball, to a young
Speaker 1: quarterback not having targets like Sanders and Kittle. I just
Speaker 1: think that although I hate the Packers defense, I think
Speaker 1: that the you know, this game is so big in
Speaker 1: terms of playoff implications, in terms of seeding, in terms
Speaker 1: of you know, really from being a one to a
Speaker 1: two to a five seed UH in these in these
Speaker 1: races in the NFC that San Francisco UH is not
Speaker 1: going to route the Packers in this game. I think
Speaker 1: this is a close game. I think either team can
Speaker 1: win this game. It's a one score game, so we'll
Speaker 1: pick it up to nine. For me, it is New
Speaker 1: England and Green Bay. Green Bay, you know, look nine
Speaker 1: points against these Niners. I'm not sold on Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 1: One week he looks great, another he doesn't. By the way,
Speaker 1: in games, he has moments where he looks great, and
Speaker 1: then I'm like, oh my god, they're never doing anything
Speaker 1: with this guy. But you can be nine points with
Speaker 1: Green Bay. I will take that happily. The New England
Speaker 1: thing for me, which is basically just taking it down
Speaker 1: to a pick them really a half point. But New
Speaker 1: England for me is this is such the mismatch of
Speaker 1: coaching and as we've said many times on a numbers game.
Speaker 1: As we said many times, I'm beating the book podcast.
Speaker 1: If you could only have one NFL handicapping tool at
Speaker 1: your disposal, let it be your coach's power rankings. This
Speaker 1: is Bill Belichick against the brain trust that is Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett and Kellen Moore. I'm sorry, you're just in a
Speaker 1: tease that's just to pick him all day, every day,
Speaker 1: New England along with the Packers Stanford. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you noticed this, but I was watching, you know what.
Speaker 1: We get to the South Point early to try to
Speaker 1: save seats for people. You know, Jeff Parls has always
Speaker 1: asked me, can you save me a seat? And then
Speaker 1: r J wants me to save him a seat, and
Speaker 1: then Miguel wants me. It's like a million people. So
Speaker 1: I get there early to try to save seats, and
Speaker 1: I'm watching the pregame shows, you know, while I'm trying
Speaker 1: to decide last minute things if I want to do anything,
Speaker 1: and there's a you know how, like they have the
Speaker 1: feeds from all the different games. They're right, and they've
Speaker 1: got Garrett on the sidelines. He's throwing the football around
Speaker 1: like he's at the park on a Sunday afternoon and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself, and he's literally doing this for like,
Speaker 1: you know, three or four minutes. He's like throwing it
Speaker 1: like he's gonna be the starting quarterback. And I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty five minutes before the game, this is
Speaker 1: what you're doing. I can't see Belichick throwing the ball around.
Speaker 1: He would be like, you know, coming up with his
Speaker 1: last second offensive lineman, blocking schemes, coming up with great
Speaker 1: special teams plays or something. This guy's throwing the ball
Speaker 1: around like he's in the park. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: I was really shocked by the way. Did you see
Speaker 1: the field? Yates? Before I get off the Patriots for
Speaker 1: a second and the Cowboys? Did you see the field?
Speaker 1: Yates tweet earlier this week the active number of consecutive
Speaker 1: winning seasons for NFL team, So he basically just goes
Speaker 1: zero to nineteen. He just scrolls it down on a tweet,
Speaker 1: and some active number of consecutive winning seasons zero Arizona, Atlanta, Carolina, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit,
Speaker 1: Green Bay, Jacksonville, Miami Giants, Jets, Oakland, Tampa Bay, Washington,
Speaker 1: all coming off losing seasons. How many people have one
Speaker 1: winning season currently and are trying to get to Chicago, Houston,
Speaker 1: Indianapolis and San Francisco. How many have two or have
Speaker 1: gotten to two this year that's also a possibility. Uh, Baltimore,
Speaker 1: the Chargers, the Rams, the Vikings, the Saints, and the Eagles.
Speaker 1: All right, how many have gotten to three? By the way,
Speaker 1: we've we've just got to to There are only six
Speaker 1: teams left in the NFL, so that we haven't mentioned
Speaker 1: so far. Three Dallas and Tennessee. Dallas and Tennessee, which
Speaker 1: might surprise some people, have three consecutive winning seats. We'll
Speaker 1: have four teams left. We skipped four. Pittsburgh has had
Speaker 1: five consecutive winning seasons, that's in jeopardy. Kansas City has
Speaker 1: had six consecutive winning seasons, Seattle has had seven consecutive
Speaker 1: winning seasons, and then you have to go all the
Speaker 1: way to nineteen. For the Patriots. It's just unbelievable. The
Speaker 1: difference between them and every other franchise in this league.
Speaker 1: Just another way to put it in context. From field eight.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was a great tweet from him. Anyway,
Speaker 1: go ahead, that is pretty astounding, especially, I mean, they've
Speaker 1: only been able to change the footballs for the for
Speaker 1: the first fifteen of those seasons, So you know that
Speaker 1: is pretty incredible. Da've been, you know, keep the street
Speaker 1: going for the last four years. What's your teaser, Tidy,
Speaker 1: My teaser is Green Bay as well. I am with
Speaker 1: you a thousands with this Jimmy G nonsense. I think
Speaker 1: he's good, but he's a little too uh interception prone,
Speaker 1: fumble prone. He scares the bit Jesus out of me
Speaker 1: every time he goes back to path. You know, in
Speaker 1: the the offensive line sometimes has problems and you can
Speaker 1: take some big hits. So I'm not a hundred percent
Speaker 1: I think we'll have to be considering betting against Jimmy
Speaker 1: G in the playoffs. And so give me Green Bay
Speaker 1: plus the nine. And then in the other one, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with Indie plus nine and a half, just
Speaker 1: because this feels like a Bill O'Brien ish game that
Speaker 1: will be tight, you know, all the way to the end,
Speaker 1: and so I'll take the nine and a half. Alright,
Speaker 1: final two questions, Speed round, gentleman, because Mike Palm's got
Speaker 1: a roll and there's only four examples of games that
Speaker 1: have spread larger than four points this week, So it's
Speaker 1: very tight. Here are your choices. What is the biggest
Speaker 1: favorite most likely to lose? Cleveland ten and a half
Speaker 1: point favorites against Miami, New Orleans nine and a half
Speaker 1: or ten point favorites at home against Caroline. I might allied.
Speaker 1: It might be five examples. Chicago six point favorites at
Speaker 1: home against the Giants, Pittsburgh six and a half point
Speaker 1: favorites on the road against the Cincinnati Bungles in New
Speaker 1: England six and a half point favorites at home against
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Jeff most likely to lose outright. Of
Speaker 1: those favorites, These Chicago Bears are the most likely of
Speaker 1: that group to lose out right for all the reasons
Speaker 1: we've already stated. They stink on offense, and as long
Speaker 1: as Daniel Jones doesn't throw a pick six in this game,
Speaker 1: the Giants are gonna have a shot at the end.
Speaker 1: So I think to win this game, so I'll go
Speaker 1: to Bears. Have we lost Mike Pom I don't know. No,
Speaker 1: we might have lost Mikey. Mikey might have bounced. He's
Speaker 1: you want me to do pick for him? Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: go do Mike Gonna go with the Vancouver Canucks likely
Speaker 1: to lose tonight. I'm just kidding. We hit the We
Speaker 1: hit the wall with Mike, so we might have had
Speaker 1: to bounce out at the end. My pick, by well,
Speaker 1: you'll go ahead, Todd, you already started go ahead. My
Speaker 1: pick is gonna be the Pittsburgh your Picksburg Stiller's my
Speaker 1: Picksburgh Steelers have one problem. They're good on defense, but
Speaker 1: they don't have a guy who can get the ball
Speaker 1: snapped him. I believe they call that the quarterback. We
Speaker 1: don't have a quarterback. And you know, no team wants
Speaker 1: to go in sixteen in the NFL. This could be
Speaker 1: the week that Cincinnati gets off the schneid. I could
Speaker 1: see the Pittsburgh Steelers on the road losing this game. Um,
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett now this morning claiming a racial slur from
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph. Did you see this? Parland and I on
Speaker 1: Monday before Guessing Lines, we were talking about unless or
Speaker 1: excuse me before the show on Friday morning, after the
Speaker 1: after the game between the Browns and the Steelers the
Speaker 1: previous night, we said, unless there was you know what stated.
Speaker 1: There is no justification for what Miles Garrett did and
Speaker 1: he should be suspended for the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: including the postseason. And that's in fact what happened. There
Speaker 1: was no mention of any rea and if they let
Speaker 1: me finish, Dodd, Todd, let me finish. So here's the thing.
Speaker 1: It wasn't stated then, right, But here we are now
Speaker 1: a week later. A if Mason Rudolph in fact did
Speaker 1: use the racial slur, let's all just get on the
Speaker 1: same page and say, I get it. But would you
Speaker 1: really wait a week? Would you really wait a week
Speaker 1: to mention this? And if it's not the case that
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph actually didn't say it and you're lying about
Speaker 1: it now, you should king be ashamed of yourself, Myles Garrett,
Speaker 1: you really should. I don't know how you guys come
Speaker 1: down on that. Todd. I'm sure you have something to
Speaker 1: say because you wanted to say it two minutes ago.
Speaker 1: I apologize for interrupting you, but you know the I
Speaker 1: got I got out of control there. But you know, um,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. You can call me any racial slur
Speaker 1: that in the world, and racial slurs are terrible. You
Speaker 1: can call me anything you want. I don't think I
Speaker 1: would swing a helmet at somebody's head Okay, I don't
Speaker 1: even but all I'm saying it doesn't look too wrong
Speaker 1: with some right what I'm saying. At least in that
Speaker 1: case you might understand what I'm trying to go. You're
Speaker 1: making a good point. You're making a good point that
Speaker 1: if he says something racial, the guy might lose his
Speaker 1: mind and go crazy. But I still think we have
Speaker 1: to have some kind of you know, control of ourselves
Speaker 1: where we don't swing a helmet at somebody's head. I mean,
Speaker 1: nothing could have killed. You could charge him for assault
Speaker 1: and battery. Legit, he could, he really could. And and
Speaker 1: then the other thing is to how late this comes out.
Speaker 1: This feels like the late call when you're when you're
Speaker 1: you know, playing pick up basketball, and you shoot and
Speaker 1: you you wait to see if it goes in, and
Speaker 1: then you decide whether to call the foul at the end.
Speaker 1: You can't call for a racial slur seven days later.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just not cool, right, not cool if
Speaker 1: it did not happen. By the way, my pick on this,
Speaker 1: and you guys hit on my two top choices for this,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lean with Jeff here. I am going to
Speaker 1: say it's the Chicago Bears. I could see a scenario
Speaker 1: where they lose that out right against the Giants largely
Speaker 1: because of that your biskuy factor. And I agree with
Speaker 1: Mike Palm there was no hip injury. To me. I
Speaker 1: think he just needed to be benched. And I think
Speaker 1: Matt Matt Naggi finally realized that last question. If we
Speaker 1: lived in a bizarro world and we were forced to
Speaker 1: bet aside on each and every one of these football
Speaker 1: games in Week twelve in the National Football League, including
Speaker 1: to night's game Thursday Night, but you were allowed one
Speaker 1: free pass parlay, what would it be? What would you
Speaker 1: not bet at all? Let's let's I'll pass on the
Speaker 1: a f C South matchup that I'm surprised that it's
Speaker 1: not on Thursday Night for the second time this year.
Speaker 1: And jack and that's Jacksonville at Tennessee, UH Titans off
Speaker 1: of by Jags off a bad performance against Indy Gil.
Speaker 1: I have no clue what what either of these teams
Speaker 1: truly are now that folds us back for Jacksonville and
Speaker 1: the Tennessee is really in a bizarro world where Ryan
Speaker 1: Tannehill actually has looked pretty competent the last three games.
Speaker 1: So I want absolutely nothing to do with that AFC
Speaker 1: South Battle one my pick as well, no clue, no reading.
Speaker 1: That was the one guest on Monday where I'm going,
Speaker 1: this has to be three, right, Chrissy, because there's just
Speaker 1: nothing else you can make it, And he's like absolutely
Speaker 1: whenever that game comes up. That's usually the answer to
Speaker 1: this question, Todd, I think you guys have a good answer,
Speaker 1: but I'll throw one other one out of Carolina New Orleans.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm getting from Logan or Kyle
Speaker 1: Allen and Um, you know, I so, I don't really
Speaker 1: know at this point. You know, is it the is
Speaker 1: it the Kyle Aland we saw early who seemed to
Speaker 1: be able to keep it together, or is it the
Speaker 1: Kyle Island we saw the last two weeks? You know what?
Speaker 1: Is that? All? So? I want to I don't want
Speaker 1: any part of that Carolina game. And one other thing,
Speaker 1: the NFL could probably get a bulk rate on a
Speaker 1: therapist or a team of therapist to both talk to
Speaker 1: the entire San Diego l a Charger team along with
Speaker 1: Mitchell Troubinsky and the two both of those guys, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it would just be Rivers and Traubinsky, Um and
Speaker 1: you could do a tremendous business on therapist because those
Speaker 1: guys need tremendous headwork. Drabinski and who Philip Rivers? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers? God bless, isn't he? I mean, did you know?
Speaker 1: I mean I watched. I did not see the first
Speaker 1: half of that game because I was under but I
Speaker 1: got to watch the second half of that game from
Speaker 1: the hospital gurnie. And it was funny because we were
Speaker 1: in a recovery room and so I couldn't see anybody.
Speaker 1: I was looking straight up at a TV and everybody
Speaker 1: else in there was also in beds looking up at TV's,
Speaker 1: but everybody was watching this game. And literally on the
Speaker 1: last drive in that recovery room, people were like, oh god.
Speaker 1: Every time Rivers did something wrong, like you could hear
Speaker 1: people moaning, They're like, oh yeah, same all Chargers. Was
Speaker 1: there any doubt in your mind that there was not
Speaker 1: going to be a good ending for the Chargers in
Speaker 1: that well? How could it be? I had plus six
Speaker 1: and a half on the end game. I was like,
Speaker 1: of course charge will get down to even said it
Speaker 1: before the driver said they'll get inside it then and
Speaker 1: won't get it in or Todd, how about me having
Speaker 1: over twenty seven second half and having twenty two points
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, and it's that is a. That
Speaker 1: is a. I was thinking about that after the game.
Speaker 1: I was thinking if people had the over in this
Speaker 1: second half. I didn't even know you had the over
Speaker 1: and that was just atrocious. Geez, that's horrible, Todd. If
Speaker 1: I had known that information that you had a bit,
Speaker 1: I would have shared that with everybody in the recovery room.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, don't worry, Wishnev's got it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna it's not gonna happen. Everybody nurse to
Speaker 1: their injuries. All right, We've done all we can do.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that we didn't get Mike's answer to the
Speaker 1: last two questions, but we went over time on him.
Speaker 1: But for Mike Palm, for Todd Wishneff, who is learning, Yes,
Speaker 1: you are learning the Supercharger song. For those who have asked,
Speaker 1: Sandy go Supercharger, It's a much harder song to sing
Speaker 1: then mym it dop. Okay, okay, okay, we know you
Speaker 1: like that song. But what I'm asking for you is
Speaker 1: could you learn, And I'm really serious about this, could
Speaker 1: you learn a verse and the chorus of the Supercharger. So, okay,
Speaker 1: I will try to, but I want you to know
Speaker 1: it's really a much diffic much more difficult song to sing.
Speaker 1: I know, but I think people if as long as
Speaker 1: people are enjoying your music, can you at least develop
Speaker 1: a repertoire. And I think as well. Now, I mean
Speaker 1: I might as well. And I think the Supercharger song
Speaker 1: and you have to have a request from my buddy
Speaker 1: E because he was a Chargers fan growing up. There's
Speaker 1: like a part where it's where they say the word
Speaker 1: sky and it's sky I I something like that, and
Speaker 1: you have to nail these little things about the song.
Speaker 1: He's so I really I I started listening to it
Speaker 1: a little bit on YouTube. Um, it's more funk adelic.
Speaker 1: It's a much harder song to sing. But I will
Speaker 1: absolutely try my best to be able to coerce my
Speaker 1: vocal cords into being able to sing it fair enough.
Speaker 1: It's all I could ask for. Mike Palm for Todd
Speaker 1: Wish for Jeff Parlay producing number five was kind enough
Speaker 1: to step in on a short notice here on this week.
Speaker 1: Thank you everybody writing very nice things on Twitter to
Speaker 1: me really appreciate it. We'll talk to you on the
Speaker 1: Numbers game tomorrow. Good luck with all your picks Week
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