Speaker 1: From the King of sports Books comes the Key sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by MGM. Here's your host, Jerry Ferrara
Speaker 1: and Olivia Arlen Decker. Welcome to Unleashed. Coming off another
Speaker 1: great week of sports. I can't wait to dive into
Speaker 1: all of this. You know, we got to give congratulations
Speaker 1: to the Houston Astros on winning the World Series. I
Speaker 1: saw a mattress Mac had that big bet. Jerry, did
Speaker 1: you see that? I did. I was watching him. They
Speaker 1: had a camera on him for for some of it
Speaker 1: at not. Yeah, I would not want to watch a
Speaker 1: game with that dude. It's very stressful. Yeah. God, he
Speaker 1: bets the house and for him, it's not just any house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's one of the most prolific bettors in the country. Right,
Speaker 1: many houses he had on the many houses. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: also I was laughing. I thought of you because the
Speaker 1: l A f C won the MLS Cup And do
Speaker 1: you remember, just a couple of weeks ago we were
Speaker 1: kind of ranking l A Sports teams and we totally
Speaker 1: left them out. What was wrong with us? I think
Speaker 1: that that's on me. Olivia. I gotta I love soccer.
Speaker 1: I love football, soccer, whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 1: you know, as we lose time being parents, the things
Speaker 1: that slipped through the cracks, Like, yeah, my love of
Speaker 1: soccer football slipped through the cracks. That's on me, that's
Speaker 1: on me. Yeah. I like how you're trying to be
Speaker 1: so politically correct soccer football. Why. I just I don't
Speaker 1: want to. I don't want to piss someone off. I
Speaker 1: think we already have. Yeah, we even brought up the
Speaker 1: l A Galaxy, so shame on us. And then, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, we cannot go any further into this episode
Speaker 1: without paying homage to the amazing college football weekend that
Speaker 1: was last weekend. Jerry holy Cow. Number one Tennessee got
Speaker 1: crushed at you g a the new number one they
Speaker 1: never should have left, and Bama really might be out
Speaker 1: of the playoff hunt as they lose their second straight
Speaker 1: not straight, but in conference two SEC games they've dropped
Speaker 1: to L s U and Brian Kelly and then of
Speaker 1: course they lost a Tennessee a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so bizarre. I mentioned last week, I'm
Speaker 1: working the SEC championship game less than a month and
Speaker 1: it's so bizarre that Bama is not going to be there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just you know, there's things that you just always
Speaker 1: kind of count on. And but I do think it's good.
Speaker 1: I think it's good that we get some I don't
Speaker 1: want to say new blood, but just different blood in there,
Speaker 1: because look, respect Obama obviously incredible, but yeah I could
Speaker 1: I could do without for one year. That's fine. I'll
Speaker 1: be will survived, We'll be okay. I like that, And
Speaker 1: just for an kind of updated look, now, so the
Speaker 1: tide according to you know, the Playoff Predictor, which is
Speaker 1: all because really the playoff committee, it's humans, you know,
Speaker 1: making the decision to pick the top four. So it's
Speaker 1: not as cut and dry as maybe some people would
Speaker 1: like it to be. Obviously, we've talked on this podcast
Speaker 1: about expanding the college football playoff and how that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a whole new scenario. I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: that in a couple of years. But so now, Alabama
Speaker 1: has a sixteen percent chance to make that top four.
Speaker 1: And I mean you look at Michigan, U, g A,
Speaker 1: t c U, Ohio State, they're all nine and oh
Speaker 1: in TCU also has a sixteen percent chance to make
Speaker 1: the top four. Like, think about that. Alabama's lost two
Speaker 1: games TCU hasn't lost any They both have the same
Speaker 1: amount of opportunity to make this top four. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think this is what everyone had in mind when
Speaker 1: they first expanded into a playoff system, and I think
Speaker 1: expanding it further will be great because you really get
Speaker 1: some excitement as we enter into the high I mean
Speaker 1: this holiday season. And we'll talk about this when we
Speaker 1: get into the NFL too. You know, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Christmas,
Speaker 1: it all falls on the weekend pretty much, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna be watching lots of sports over this holiday season.
Speaker 1: And college football is gonna be a pretty big component
Speaker 1: of that. Oh yeah, no, it's it's gonna be very exciting. Yes,
Speaker 1: now it's looking like l s U in Georgia in
Speaker 1: the SEC Championship. That's gonna be awesome. Okay, NFL weekend
Speaker 1: another doozy to stay the least. And I know our
Speaker 1: Peter Andrew lost a little bit. I'm gonna assume that
Speaker 1: I was being nice. It was nice, but the Jets.
Speaker 1: The Jets kind of ruined a lot of people's weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's at least one of these every week. I
Speaker 1: thought it might be the Texans as we spoke about
Speaker 1: last week. There's at least one big money line like
Speaker 1: underdog every single week, so if you could start sniffing
Speaker 1: that out, you're doing a little I stayed away from
Speaker 1: the Bill's Jets game. I didn't. I just didn't. I did.
Speaker 1: I did okay. This weekend, I snuck out. I just
Speaker 1: kept my head above water. It wasn't terrible. Peter Andrew,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, is going to be joining us.
Speaker 1: He might need to go get like do it already
Speaker 1: renew his vows with his wife because when he came
Speaker 1: out of the wedding he was hot, and that wedding
Speaker 1: juice is wearing off. Oh my gosh, I know. I
Speaker 1: can't believe the Jets are six and three. They're actually
Speaker 1: the first team in the NFL to hit the over
Speaker 1: on their win total. So yeah, oddsmakers had that at
Speaker 1: five and a half. I want to offer a big
Speaker 1: congratulations to anyone who has cashed in on that. Please
Speaker 1: tweet us if that was you, because I'd like to
Speaker 1: know what else you have cooking for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season, what other futures you have, because something tells
Speaker 1: me you were onto something. You're gonna get a lot
Speaker 1: of tweets from a lot of undisciplined Jet fans who
Speaker 1: put money on the Jets over because you know Jet fans,
Speaker 1: they always thick their team, like this is the year
Speaker 1: we're gonna break through. So now your tweet is gonna
Speaker 1: get your tweets gonna get flooded with unreasonable Jet fans.
Speaker 1: The Jets are fun to watch. I like cheering for
Speaker 1: Robert Sala. I covered him when he was a defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator in San Francisco. Great guy. No one has a
Speaker 1: bad thing to say about Robert Sala. He's such a
Speaker 1: good one, you know. No, I think we kind of
Speaker 1: it's very memorable now everyone talking about the receipts and
Speaker 1: all that. It was a great quote. We all ran
Speaker 1: with it first is like a yeah, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: keep those receipts. I think that really was a defining
Speaker 1: moment for the team in their relationship with their coach,
Speaker 1: where their coach showed went out in public, didn't just
Speaker 1: say like we're getting better every week, like he actually
Speaker 1: said something there and the team really responded. And speaking
Speaker 1: of the Jets, we got to talk later about the
Speaker 1: a f C and NFC playoffs for that matter, because
Speaker 1: I am looking at these A f C, Like what
Speaker 1: you know, seven teams got to make it. The a
Speaker 1: f C is a big jigsaw puzzle of who's going
Speaker 1: to get in and who's not. And it is going
Speaker 1: to be amazing coming down the stretch. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: looking right now at the standings. I see five teams
Speaker 1: with six wins already. I mean, it's yeah, the top
Speaker 1: is thick. It is gonna be it's almost gonna like
Speaker 1: hannibalize itself. It's sad that some really good teams are
Speaker 1: going to miss the playoffs. Yeah, and I think I
Speaker 1: found one that is gonna miss. And so we should
Speaker 1: maybe just go through some of these odds and you know,
Speaker 1: do you think they get in? Do you think they not?
Speaker 1: Because it's tough, The NFC is a little more clear,
Speaker 1: I think, a little not much slightly clearer. Your packer
Speaker 1: stinking has certainly helped um well, it helped who It's
Speaker 1: just made everything more interesting. I mean because now and
Speaker 1: speaking of the NFC North, because I know we we
Speaker 1: focus a lot on the teams that we love and
Speaker 1: the divisions that those teams are in. But the Bears
Speaker 1: and Miami and I'm not talking about Bears making the
Speaker 1: playoffs playoffs or anything, but the Bears looked I and
Speaker 1: that was a shootout and Justin Fields was a monster
Speaker 1: and something is starting to come together that we should
Speaker 1: see the fruit of. I think next season. I know
Speaker 1: I'm going off track here a little bit, but no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm with you, and I listened to a lot. I
Speaker 1: love Mike Lombardi. I think we're gonna get him on
Speaker 1: this podcast in the next couple of weeks, so if
Speaker 1: you really want the deep dive stuff, and you know,
Speaker 1: he made some great points about Justin Fields and how
Speaker 1: the cater the offense to him, which was kind of
Speaker 1: like opposite of what the Titans did with Malie Willis.
Speaker 1: They didn't really run anything for him. The passing is
Speaker 1: still it's better, but it's still wild. But either way,
Speaker 1: that run that he had like just building around that guy.
Speaker 1: And you really look back at that draft class we
Speaker 1: always talk who's the beast. Justin Fields at one point
Speaker 1: would probably say he was fourth or fifth on that
Speaker 1: list of quarterbacks coming out. Now I think he vaulted
Speaker 1: to number one. The Bears got something going and I
Speaker 1: like the Claypool edition and uh yeah, they really got
Speaker 1: something going there. They got a good coach. I think
Speaker 1: I think they have a good coach and I would
Speaker 1: love to know all the nuances because that was one
Speaker 1: of the big storylines the whole trade deadline week. Where
Speaker 1: was Claypool going to go? And I know green Bay
Speaker 1: was I guess close. I don't know. That whole story
Speaker 1: was weird, but I think Green Bay was going to
Speaker 1: be a destination. Yeah, I'm looking at to like the
Speaker 1: Bears are favored at home against the Lions, who somehow,
Speaker 1: you know, beat your pack. I mean, I'm sorry, Lydia,
Speaker 1: and I mean, I I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1: At this point. It's over. Yeah, it's over. It's over.
Speaker 1: But maybe maybe not this season. Maybe like the team
Speaker 1: like it might be time to hit the you know,
Speaker 1: pressing case of emergency button. And I think the Rogers
Speaker 1: trade is like imminent. I don't know what else do
Speaker 1: you do if you're there, what else do you do?
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a great draft pick, you drapp another quarterback?
Speaker 1: Or do you pack it in focus this offseason on
Speaker 1: getting him some weapons. I think your only other option
Speaker 1: is to sit him for you know, maybe not this week.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he could be on the I
Speaker 1: R he has lingering injuries. God knows, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know that brings a big problem though. What
Speaker 1: happens if Jordan's Love comes in and does Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 1: You know, Aaron, go take the rest of the year off,
Speaker 1: go play some golf like we tried, And what if
Speaker 1: he comes in and slightly lights it up? Slightly lights
Speaker 1: it up? Then like this great? Then you're going into
Speaker 1: a tumultuous off season. The whole off season will be
Speaker 1: about trade. No trade. Do you trade Jordan's love now
Speaker 1: and get something for him? Do you trade at like
Speaker 1: it's gonna be insane? Insane? No? I think it's if anything,
Speaker 1: If Jordan's Love comes in and does all right, they
Speaker 1: win a couple of games, get good reps for him.
Speaker 1: But you know you're not fighting with your starting job
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers. You know that's that's a given. So
Speaker 1: it's not a quarterback controversy ever, if he's in the room.
Speaker 1: So I like that. I like that plan, but you know,
Speaker 1: you have to be careful. You don't look like you're
Speaker 1: tanking and all that. But I think it's pretty obvious
Speaker 1: Aaron's got that thumb injury. Put him on I are,
Speaker 1: and let's uh, let's pack it in. I've had friends
Speaker 1: and family who have we're going to be going to
Speaker 1: some Packer games coming up, and they've like sold their tickets.
Speaker 1: They're like, I'm not going. I'm not going to watch
Speaker 1: this team. I don't support this team. Sorrible. The Green
Speaker 1: Bay packeting, Oh, hey Bay packeting. Okay, wait, let's stay
Speaker 1: in the NFC with some teams here. Let's look at
Speaker 1: how about Atlanta Falcons. There four and five to make
Speaker 1: the playoff plus miss it minus two. Now, keep in
Speaker 1: mind they're still tied with Tampa Bay. Of a, Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay holds the tiebreak, and I don't know. Atlanta is
Speaker 1: confusing because they're kind of like flucky. I think it's
Speaker 1: a good word for them. They have a good rushing attack.
Speaker 1: I like some of their players, but they're inconsistent at
Speaker 1: quarterback Mariota. Their defense isn't good. What do you think, Jerry,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say they miss it. So yeah, I I
Speaker 1: leaned toward the miss and I was looking at bet MGM.
Speaker 1: They have it at minus two to not make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: That's a little high. I don't know if I would
Speaker 1: be comfortable laying that plus for them to make it.
Speaker 1: So it's almost a stay away from a betting perspective
Speaker 1: unless you really are willing to lay to it's a
Speaker 1: little heavy. But to me, yeah, I just they've been
Speaker 1: fun and definitely bet them the rest of the year
Speaker 1: in game. But yeah, I think that they're just gonna
Speaker 1: be a little short because we're all planning on the
Speaker 1: Bucks really just making their run now after what Brady did.
Speaker 1: So I think if you're gonna bet, I think you
Speaker 1: maybe throw a little on the on the yes, they'll
Speaker 1: make it, but that's just like a flaw fire because
Speaker 1: I think the minus two a little heavy for the no.
Speaker 1: But at Lee, I think it's him. Now, speaking of
Speaker 1: my minus two, that's Tampa Bay's odds to make the
Speaker 1: playoff and to miss his PLU. Like I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: they're also four and five tied with the Falcons, and
Speaker 1: as Tom Brady put it so eloquently, that was sucking awesome.
Speaker 1: Last week, I that that got me excited. It was awesome.
Speaker 1: I'm still very worried like the drops. I've been complaining
Speaker 1: about the drops from weeks ago because I stupidly in
Speaker 1: the one last high Stakes Fantasy league I stayed in,
Speaker 1: which I sware I wasn't gonna do. I have a
Speaker 1: Brady Evans connection, which has always worked well for me.
Speaker 1: Evans even was dropping touchdown passes a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: The Scottie Miller. Who's walking through that door? That's my
Speaker 1: big concern with Tampa. The defense I think will be fine.
Speaker 1: They can't really run the ball. You're really seeing what
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown and Grounk met like. Who's walking through that
Speaker 1: door to to fill this void? Because I think the
Speaker 1: Rams just flat out fell asleep on defense in that
Speaker 1: last year, or they were just pissed that they shouldn't
Speaker 1: have been back on the field. I know Jalen Ramsey said,
Speaker 1: you know, we shouldn't have even had to go back
Speaker 1: on the field. But I think you gotta just ride
Speaker 1: Tampa now for the division, for the playoffs. I think
Speaker 1: they win the division, but it's not gonna be fun. No.
Speaker 1: I think they're asking too much of Tom Att years old.
Speaker 1: Like you mentioned, they have no run game and there's
Speaker 1: too much expected of him and he has he doesn't
Speaker 1: have the weapons to do it like he has. Okay,
Speaker 1: Giants six and two minus two fifty to make the
Speaker 1: playoff plus two hundred to miss Yeah for me, and
Speaker 1: you know my heart is at stake here, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be very very careful. I think from a betting perspective,
Speaker 1: the minus to fifty, I would not lay for them
Speaker 1: to make it because there still is some talent questions,
Speaker 1: especially at wide receiver. There's some injury problems now as
Speaker 1: we saw what players getting hurt on vacation. Giants players
Speaker 1: need to stay off going on vacation because Javery McKinney
Speaker 1: broke his hand on the a t V or something.
Speaker 1: He does seem like Giants were getting back in a
Speaker 1: few weeks. So betting perspective, just for the value, I
Speaker 1: think the plus two h for not making the playoffs
Speaker 1: is the best value, like because that can actually happen.
Speaker 1: The Giants do have talent issues, but I do think
Speaker 1: they get in and they get in the playoffs. Be
Speaker 1: hard for me to lay to fifty, but I think
Speaker 1: they're the seventh team that gets in. Yeah, I don't know, Jerry,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go against you. I'm kind of more supporting
Speaker 1: your team than you are right now. I think they
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. The minus two fifty doesn't scare me.
Speaker 1: I know it's deep, but they've been a Cenderella story.
Speaker 1: They've been outperforming all expectations. I see no reason why
Speaker 1: it'll stop now. Their past game has to be a
Speaker 1: little concerned. But I like everything else, I'm seen. Oh
Speaker 1: and they just you know, right quick before we move.
Speaker 1: You see, I'm nervous right now. We've got the Lions
Speaker 1: on the schedule. We've got the Texans on the schedule.
Speaker 1: So like the two, I'm always scared of the Texans,
Speaker 1: you know me, I don't like I'm scared of them.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. It's the scariest one win team we've ever
Speaker 1: had in the NFL. I mean, it's crazy. They're six
Speaker 1: and two and they've based teams like Titans, Cowboy Bays, Packers, Ravens.
Speaker 1: They've faced I think the meat of their schedule. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, they still got Philly twice. They got Dallas
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving. This is gonna be the first time and
Speaker 1: we're hosting Thanksgiving this year as a family, with like
Speaker 1: forty of my wife's family coming over. So I'm gonna, like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be watching on my phone. I don't even
Speaker 1: know how I'm gonna get this done. And that hasn't
Speaker 1: been a game on Thanksgiving that's actually mattered to me.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how long so I know my
Speaker 1: birthday the next day. It's the time. But yeah, they
Speaker 1: still got Philly twice. They got the Cowboys. That's going
Speaker 1: to be the real hard part. But yeah, like beating
Speaker 1: the Texans, being the Lions will go a long way
Speaker 1: for the Giants securing their playoff bit. I also like
Speaker 1: how you said, because you host, you can have the
Speaker 1: TV on whenever, wherever, whatever game you want, so I
Speaker 1: know how it goes down in your house. Okay, the
Speaker 1: Rams to make it plus two hundred to miss it
Speaker 1: minus two fifty Rams are three and five after losing
Speaker 1: to TV twelve last week. What do you think, Look,
Speaker 1: there's still a lot of games left that I think.
Speaker 1: I think TV twelve might have just put the finishing
Speaker 1: touches on that Rams team gracefully too, because that was
Speaker 1: one they needed, that was one they had. Their schedule
Speaker 1: doesn't get any easier. And also a kind of look
Speaker 1: at that team, like who's walking through that door. There's
Speaker 1: just too many holes Without Cooper Cup this team is nowhere.
Speaker 1: Stafford's on the run for his life. The defense is
Speaker 1: always going to be good. But to me, it's a no, no, no,
Speaker 1: all all the way home. So I'm looking at real
Speaker 1: quick who they played this weekend? Um Arizona at home? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: there's some wind. There's there's some winds coming for sure.
Speaker 1: But you know they got to go to New Orleans.
Speaker 1: That's not that's not an easy one that you know,
Speaker 1: then to Kansas City. Yeah, that's why the schedule doesn't
Speaker 1: line up. I just at Chargers at Seahawks. They got
Speaker 1: some tuff. He's coming. It's tough for them. I don't
Speaker 1: think they get it. I think they miss out and
Speaker 1: I think they might be listening to McVeigh calls some
Speaker 1: games next year somewhere else. Yeah, he looked a little
Speaker 1: over it. Don't you think they pushed all in for
Speaker 1: last year and this year's sort of They got the
Speaker 1: super Bowl, so you can't say like it's a success.
Speaker 1: They did what they needed to do. They got their
Speaker 1: super Bowl and again, look, there's a lot of games left.
Speaker 1: You can't ever count out a champ, but three and five,
Speaker 1: with the way the Seahawks are looking and the way
Speaker 1: to not in the moves that the Niners have made,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be really really tough. Okay, San Francisco to
Speaker 1: make it minus three fifty, minus three really to miss
Speaker 1: it plus two seventy five their four and four, I
Speaker 1: think they make it. I mean, I still like Seattle
Speaker 1: to win the NFC West, but I think because the
Speaker 1: NFC is weaker, they should make it in there. So
Speaker 1: well coached, they've got all these stars, added Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: Jimmy g always gives you a chance. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a make for me. The only thing that could
Speaker 1: say this is all pending, no or minimal injuries. That's
Speaker 1: always going to be the four Niners issue. If they're
Speaker 1: healthy or relatively how healthy I think this is. You
Speaker 1: got a late to three fifty. I think they're a
Speaker 1: shoeing for the playoffs and there it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: real fun shootout for that division. But it's all healthy
Speaker 1: for them. They're healthy, they're good. Oh look at this.
Speaker 1: Their next five weeks are at home. That's crazy. Their
Speaker 1: next five weeks coming off to buy so they've literally
Speaker 1: will be home and they'll be on the whole holiday
Speaker 1: season they get to spend in San Francisco. Damn, that's
Speaker 1: like a month and a half at home that's pretty great.
Speaker 1: And then at Seattle home against Washington. I just see
Speaker 1: wins here. I mean, I think they're in it. Stay
Speaker 1: healthy there. I like it. I like it. Okay, a
Speaker 1: f C Baltimore Ravens are six and three. What a
Speaker 1: great Monday night football victory over New Orleans. I think
Speaker 1: they win the a f C North. The problem has
Speaker 1: been letting these big double digit leads just slip away.
Speaker 1: We saw that first Miami, we saw that first Buffalo Giants,
Speaker 1: and they got real Kland Smith. I think he's a
Speaker 1: great edition. One game, you know, test sample here, But
Speaker 1: the defense looked great on Monday night. First New Orleans
Speaker 1: in a week spot on that Ravens team has been
Speaker 1: against good passing teams, so you know they can pick
Speaker 1: them apart. They have the fifth worst past defense, but
Speaker 1: when you look at the remaining schedule, they don't face
Speaker 1: any elite passers coming up, so I think they could
Speaker 1: even finish six and two or five and three or
Speaker 1: something like that. I think their schedules really soft. So,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned in our open Olivia, this, I started
Speaker 1: off this little exercise that we're doing here looking at
Speaker 1: and I started with the a f C. That's why
Speaker 1: the NFC have been given some quick short answers. The
Speaker 1: a f C playoffs in general is going to be
Speaker 1: the It was like a Russell Crowe in a beautiful
Speaker 1: mind the way I was writing notes on my board
Speaker 1: trying to figure out which seven teams are going to
Speaker 1: make this playoff? Right, So if you look at the
Speaker 1: divisions for now, if you want to even assume, and
Speaker 1: we'll ask, you know, Ariel Hawani, who's a big Bills fan,
Speaker 1: are the Bills in after that loss? Let's just assume
Speaker 1: for a second that it was a momentary, just bad
Speaker 1: Josh Allen game. Hopefully the injury is not bad. If
Speaker 1: the Bills are in the Chiefs, I think we could
Speaker 1: say are in with the division, right the Titans, you
Speaker 1: look at that game defensively, I know they lost the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to face times that division is
Speaker 1: absolutely terrible. Titans walk away. I personally, then you look, okay,
Speaker 1: so those three we have four teams left to make it. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw teams at you as we do this exercise.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the Ravens. I'm with you. I think the
Speaker 1: Ravens are in. I look at their schedule Panthers, Jaguars, Broncos, Steelers, Browns, Falcons,
Speaker 1: Steelers again and in the last season, the last game
Speaker 1: matchup with the Bengals, that Browns team is still without
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson when they face them, because I remember I
Speaker 1: said that they're bad past defense. Deshaun Watson might come
Speaker 1: in and light some things up. But either way, I
Speaker 1: just don't I don't. I don't see a way the
Speaker 1: Ravens don't get in as long as they stay healthy, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: So assume that those are the four division winners, Bills, Chiefs, Titans, Ravens.
Speaker 1: We have three spots left, and I'm gonna name you
Speaker 1: five teams Chargers, Dolphins, Bengals, Jets, Patriots. Is it currently stands,
Speaker 1: it's the Dolphins and the Jets that are kind of
Speaker 1: holding on to two of those seats, so we can
Speaker 1: go through it. I have all the schedules. This is
Speaker 1: insane because all these teams are gonna play each other.
Speaker 1: Three of them are in the a f C. I mean,
Speaker 1: I told you it's going to cannibalize like this is
Speaker 1: this it's so crazy. With the Patriots, I mean, they're
Speaker 1: five and four from a betting perspective to miss the
Speaker 1: playoff minus two hundreds make plus one. I think they miss.
Speaker 1: I think the Jets, Bills, and Dolphins are all better,
Speaker 1: and I know it looks tighter in that division just
Speaker 1: looking at records, but the fans doing Mac Jones, I
Speaker 1: think says everything you need to know about where that
Speaker 1: offense is headed. I mean, it's it's ugly. I do
Speaker 1: think it's a miss too. I'm very uncomfortable ever picking
Speaker 1: against Bill Belichick. We know this, but m you know,
Speaker 1: they're five and four. Their schedule obviously, now they're at
Speaker 1: home versus the Jets. Their next game, that's no longer
Speaker 1: a pushover. They go into Minnesota. They still got the
Speaker 1: Bills twice, and then they got some you know at
Speaker 1: Cardinals at Raiders. That should be fine. You know, their
Speaker 1: home against the Bengals that's a tough one, and they
Speaker 1: play the Dolphins again. So I just I think they
Speaker 1: barely miss. I wouldn't be shocked if they get in,
Speaker 1: but I think it's a barely miss. Although terrifies me
Speaker 1: to go against Bill Belijack. Okay, so are the Bengals
Speaker 1: one of your fringe teams? The Bengals were the tough
Speaker 1: decision because I really do enjoy that team. Their run
Speaker 1: last year was Seahawks esk almost. Let's say that kind
Speaker 1: of came out of nowhere. The guys together at the
Speaker 1: right time. They are five and four. They've had some
Speaker 1: misses and games that they should have won. Jamaar Chase
Speaker 1: is out. That definitely hurt. Now they're still loaded offensively.
Speaker 1: I have them as a miss. Pull it right now.
Speaker 1: It's plus one twenty to get in, and it's even
Speaker 1: money plus a hundred really to get out. I have
Speaker 1: that as a miss. And here's the number one. They're
Speaker 1: oh and three in their division and three in the
Speaker 1: division A. Right, they still got some games left, but
Speaker 1: that's that's a tough that's a tough start, alright. The
Speaker 1: best they could do is five division. Now they go
Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh, find at the Titans, that's a who knows, chiefs, chiefs, browns, browns.
Speaker 1: They went at Tampa at New England on Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: that Christmas Eve game we just spoke about the Patriots
Speaker 1: in Foxborough Bengals Patriots on Christmas Eve. Massive playoff implications
Speaker 1: in that game. Massive. It could be decided in that
Speaker 1: game potentially, and then they finish up Bill's Ravens. It's
Speaker 1: a really tough schedule, it is. So I have the
Speaker 1: missing I have it as a miss. Do you have
Speaker 1: a missing So then what about the Jets? Is that
Speaker 1: your last fringe team? I mean, I think they're all
Speaker 1: fringe teams as of right and hell, because it's like
Speaker 1: you said, they're all gonna just They're all just gonna
Speaker 1: hurt each other. Yeah. So I have the Jets, shockingly enough,
Speaker 1: I can't believe it, and I have them in. You
Speaker 1: had the Giants out and the Jets making well. I
Speaker 1: know I have the Giants in, but I just don't
Speaker 1: like the odds of Like, I don't like what you
Speaker 1: have to lay for them to be in. I think
Speaker 1: that's very, very expensive. I have the Jets in. They
Speaker 1: still got the Lions, they got the Jaguars, they you know,
Speaker 1: they got the Bears, which I know the Bears are
Speaker 1: playing better. There's some winnable games. They're definitely they go
Speaker 1: in to Buffalo still and Buffalo owes them one. I
Speaker 1: have the Jets sneaking in. I do have the Dolphins
Speaker 1: sneaking in. Dolphins still got Texans. They have to go
Speaker 1: at Niners, at Chargers Packer game really is going to
Speaker 1: help the Dolphins out a lot because that was one
Speaker 1: of their tougher games left on the schedule, and I
Speaker 1: think that they win that one. And I have the
Speaker 1: Charges getting in because also their schedule, you know they
Speaker 1: have Niners, Chiefs coming up. That's gonna be rough. Then
Speaker 1: they go Cardinals, Raiders, Dolphins, Titans, Cults, Rams, Broncos. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of I think there's a lot of wins.
Speaker 1: So I have those teams, I have the playoffs, the
Speaker 1: three wild card teams, Jets, Dolphins, Chargers. I like the
Speaker 1: Charges a lot. I like Justin Herbert a lot. He's
Speaker 1: so tough. You know he's playing through this fractured rib.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. Their defense is horrible. They have thirty rank defense.
Speaker 1: I don't know when you look at what is such
Speaker 1: a tight, tight division, tight conference, I don't know. And
Speaker 1: and both are in second place of what was supposed
Speaker 1: to be the best division in football heading into this year.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I like Charges. I can see
Speaker 1: him making it. But we could sit here for hours
Speaker 1: during dissecting the AFN and you know what ends up happening.
Speaker 1: It will be like the three wild card teams will
Speaker 1: be like the Broncos, the Calls and the Browns. That's
Speaker 1: what Jeff Saturday, You're gonna make it. Oh god, that's yeah.
Speaker 1: I love Jeff Saturday, but yeah, what was this quote? Like,
Speaker 1: I think if you asked Jeff Saturday on this news
Speaker 1: as as an analyst, you can be shocked. Yep, I
Speaker 1: think you're right. It's all right, Olivia. Listen, I've been
Speaker 1: given a lot of thought. I didn't have like a
Speaker 1: clear cut unleashed this week. But then it's just it's
Speaker 1: just kind of hit me today. Maybe it's because we
Speaker 1: had my good buddy Max Greenfield on the show last week,
Speaker 1: who was laying out the beautiful case for Micah Parsons
Speaker 1: as like first half m v P Tyreek Hill. Now, look,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill is not gonna win NFL m v P.
Speaker 1: I get it, I do, Dick. It's time to re
Speaker 1: examine the award as a whole and not just give
Speaker 1: it to a quarterback. Maybe have a separate awar. I
Speaker 1: know we have Offensive Player of the Year that usually
Speaker 1: goes to a position player. Tyreek Hill is going to
Speaker 1: have two thousand yards this year. Barring any injuries. He
Speaker 1: may break the Cooper cut record from last year. We
Speaker 1: all heard when he left Mahomes like, what is it
Speaker 1: gonna mean he's going to play with tah Two has
Speaker 1: been great this year, McDaniel. They've used him perfectly. Tyreek
Speaker 1: Kill is so open he has to literally wait for
Speaker 1: the ball. He actually could have probably another hunter and
Speaker 1: fifty yards statistically this year if two was able just
Speaker 1: to lead him. Remember he didn't have to uh for
Speaker 1: a few games. It's just remarkable what he does to
Speaker 1: an offense. I think he should receive at least one
Speaker 1: m VP vote, just one, as a sign of like, hey,
Speaker 1: we see you. We know you're not just like a weapon.
Speaker 1: You are a game changer. Of all the receivers I've
Speaker 1: watched in my watching experience as a fan, the three
Speaker 1: best receivers I've ever seen in my own eyes, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say Jerry Rice because I saw him at
Speaker 1: on the tail end of his career as I was
Speaker 1: a kid. But obviously Jerry Rice is the goat. Take
Speaker 1: that out of play for a second. It's Randy Moss,
Speaker 1: It's Calvin Johnson, and this Tyreek Hill scariest receiver. I
Speaker 1: think he should get one m v P award as
Speaker 1: just a vote as just a sign of like, we
Speaker 1: see you and what you have done this year, because
Speaker 1: it is InCred what he is doing for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And what's really incredible is his back hand spring after
Speaker 1: his touchdown. I mean he should get a vote for that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and look, it's it's kind of nice because we thought, well,
Speaker 1: we'll see who's better. Mahomes are Hill, who's gonna survive
Speaker 1: without the other guests what they both are surviving and thriving.
Speaker 1: They're both amazing. The fact that they were on the
Speaker 1: same team is kind of insane, and I'm bummed that
Speaker 1: that got broken up. I know, I know, but yeah,
Speaker 1: my homes is showing he didn't really need him. He's
Speaker 1: he's a done well with these new receivers, which kind
Speaker 1: of leads me to my unleashed because no, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to unleash on the Packers doing absolutely nothing at
Speaker 1: the trade deadline. I'm going to unleash on Tennessee volunteer
Speaker 1: fans again. So not even a team, not a player again,
Speaker 1: I'm unleashing on fans because remember a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago when I unleashed on their celebration in the victory
Speaker 1: over Alabama, they threw the goal post in the river, etcetera. Well,
Speaker 1: now they just got whooped by my Georgia Bulldogs and
Speaker 1: what they did before the game is horrible. That's right.
Speaker 1: These fans try to take matters into their own hands.
Speaker 1: Someone got Georgia quarterbacks that's in Bennett's phone number, Jerry, like,
Speaker 1: this is how this is where we're at, and they
Speaker 1: shared it across ball nations. So all night long, fans
Speaker 1: were ringing him up right, trying to wake him up
Speaker 1: and disturb his night of sleep before the game. So
Speaker 1: we saw after he scored the first touchdown, he did
Speaker 1: the call me hands signal to the crowd and it
Speaker 1: was electric. People went crazy. I saw like the decipel
Speaker 1: ranking in Nathans Georgia at Sanford Stadium, like broken new record.
Speaker 1: So in honor of an entrepreneurial spirit and in the
Speaker 1: new age of n i L deals for college athletes,
Speaker 1: Stetson has decided to make a profit off of this
Speaker 1: nonsense and he's now selling T shirts with the logo
Speaker 1: on of him doing the call me sign. It's genius,
Speaker 1: it's it's so good. To my question, Jerry, doesn't everyone
Speaker 1: turn their phone on? Do not disturb at night, Like,
Speaker 1: is that the most weird thing about that whole story? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just turned my phone off. In general, you know
Speaker 1: what I do love about doing the show at Olivia,
Speaker 1: especially on least segments, as you're sort of threshold for fans,
Speaker 1: like you hold fans to a high standard, which I
Speaker 1: think is great. No, I think it's awesome. You know,
Speaker 1: we saw with the World series, you know, pizza places
Speaker 1: and Philly not wanting to feed the Ashal, So I
Speaker 1: think it's great. Wow, it looked fifteen years ago it
Speaker 1: was really bad when they would get like a house
Speaker 1: phone number. I think today it's a little ridiculous that
Speaker 1: they got his cell phone number. He's gonna have to
Speaker 1: you know, send out the whole change it, the whole
Speaker 1: text of like new number, lock me in. He's have
Speaker 1: to do that to his defense. But capitalizing on the
Speaker 1: n I L part I think is is the is
Speaker 1: the rub here that I love? Yeah? I love someone
Speaker 1: making a dollar off of it? Pretty good. Okay, Well
Speaker 1: that's a good place to end. Like I said, we
Speaker 1: could talk forever about it, but let's switch gears because Jerry,
Speaker 1: we've got a really really good guest today. It's m m,
Speaker 1: a expert and really just a big overall sports fan
Speaker 1: and personality to his millions of followers on Twitter and Instagram.
Speaker 1: Ariel Helwani, he's going to join us. I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: He's been with bet MGM about a year now, so
Speaker 1: he's in the family. And as the UFC returns to
Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden this weekend with UFC twenty eight, that's
Speaker 1: a huge card. We'll talk to him all about it.
Speaker 1: He is the guy. I can't wait. I've never met
Speaker 1: him in person. I've never talked to him in person,
Speaker 1: but you've done his podcast. Yeah. Yeah, I've been going
Speaker 1: on pods and talking with him for a lot of
Speaker 1: years now. He's fantastic just also just all around fantastic
Speaker 1: sports fan. And it's not just UFC with him, although
Speaker 1: for me we mentioned last week, you're like sports emergency
Speaker 1: contact list, right, Yeah, anything in the UFC. I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm like waiting for him to off day if he
Speaker 1: does great stuff on like Spotify Live during these events,
Speaker 1: like he's he's a machine and a big Bills fan,
Speaker 1: so it'll be fun to talk to him. I love it.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the interview. Okay, you do such a
Speaker 1: great job covering m m A. We'll get to all that,
Speaker 1: But what else are you following right now? Which teams
Speaker 1: or players are you a fan of? Because I know
Speaker 1: there's a Buffalo connection there. Yes, there's a few connections there.
Speaker 1: Let me just say that I am a huge first
Speaker 1: of all, huge fan of yours, Olivia and Jerry. Of course,
Speaker 1: Jerry was on my show long time ago. Do you
Speaker 1: remember that. Yeah, we've been talking for a long time.
Speaker 1: We got some history you and I. All right, all right,
Speaker 1: I just you know, you talked to a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if I was just a blip on
Speaker 1: the radar. So much love to you both, And if
Speaker 1: I'm being honest, I was kind of sitting back in
Speaker 1: wondering what am I going to be invite it to
Speaker 1: this great show. I mean, I'm part of the family.
Speaker 1: I haven't been invited, and I was sort of starting
Speaker 1: to feel like I was on the outside looking in
Speaker 1: of the cool kids club. So it feels good. My
Speaker 1: ego feels a lot better now that I'm here. Anyway,
Speaker 1: back to the question, I'm a massive Buffalo Bills fan
Speaker 1: and I'm a massive New York Knicks fan. Obviously, the
Speaker 1: Bills are a lot closer than the Knicks right now.
Speaker 1: I was a huge Montreal Expos fan. Unfortunately they are
Speaker 1: no longer with us in eighteen long years. I've sort
Speaker 1: of adopted the Blue Jays. Once I became a dad,
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, I can't be like this bitter,
Speaker 1: cynical fan. I need to have a team so that
Speaker 1: my kids aren't rooting for a team that no longer exists.
Speaker 1: That would be very strange and selfish of me. So yeah,
Speaker 1: those are my three main teams. And I'm not sure
Speaker 1: when this is going to come out, but I am.
Speaker 1: I am petrified right now because there's all these reports
Speaker 1: about Josh Allen's elbow. I asked my kids to say
Speaker 1: a prayer last night for his elbow. They said that
Speaker 1: was very weird. I said, just trust me on this one.
Speaker 1: He needs all the prayers. Will donate our own elbow
Speaker 1: to him if we have to. So it's a bit
Speaker 1: of a tense time right now, but I'm still feeling
Speaker 1: good about our chances. Well, if we assume that the
Speaker 1: Bills are locked in for the playoff and your prayers
Speaker 1: work on Josh Allen's elbow. If they had to play
Speaker 1: in the first round. Who do you want to face
Speaker 1: the least I know Jets come to mind right away
Speaker 1: because they just stole a win from you. But a
Speaker 1: screw the damn Jets, Screw those stupid fans, all those
Speaker 1: people who texted me and d m me over the
Speaker 1: past few days, all of you, congratulations on your Super
Speaker 1: Bowl win in November. You're not gonna be playing in January,
Speaker 1: your pathetic loser franchise with the ugliest jerseys in the league,
Speaker 1: and I hope you all lose the rest of your games.
Speaker 1: Screw all of your Jets fans. All right, I hate
Speaker 1: you guys. Great job you beat an injured Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: Way to go. We didn't have Jordan Ployer Matt Milano either,
Speaker 1: all right, bravo. Anyway, I'm sorry to break the news.
Speaker 1: We're actually not gonna play in the first round. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get the by, all right, So I know that
Speaker 1: was a trick question. We're getting the by. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be the number one seed, and it's all gonna be good.
Speaker 1: I'm not nervous. I'm not nervous at all. It's all
Speaker 1: gonna be good. Here's the thing, guys, Jerry you know
Speaker 1: this as a Knixpan like, I just want one. I
Speaker 1: just want to know what it feels like. That's it.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be one of these greedy Yankee fans,
Speaker 1: these greedy Warrior fans. I want a dynasty. I want
Speaker 1: to I just want to know what it feels like
Speaker 1: on that final day, that final game, to sit back
Speaker 1: and be like, holy crap, my team did it. That's
Speaker 1: all I want. And I've never experienced that in my
Speaker 1: life with any of my teams, and I just I
Speaker 1: don't know what that feels like. And as a dad
Speaker 1: now with two boys who are starting to get into
Speaker 1: it as well, I want to give that to them.
Speaker 1: And last year I will never forget it. The second
Speaker 1: round game against the Chiefs, thirteen seconds gave Davis Scores
Speaker 1: his fourth touchdown. My son, Walter is sitting next to me.
Speaker 1: He's eight years old, and I gave him a hug
Speaker 1: and I started crying, and I said, they are going
Speaker 1: to win. They are finally going to win. Because I
Speaker 1: thought we would host the Bengals in the a f
Speaker 1: C Championship and then we would smoke the Rams or
Speaker 1: whomever it was in the Super Bowl. And I thought
Speaker 1: that was the closest that we have been in over
Speaker 1: twenty years. And then, of course you all know what
Speaker 1: happened next. I just want one you know, brings to
Speaker 1: mind too, because I'm I'm a Knicks fan like you,
Speaker 1: so I do know. I know the exact feeling you're
Speaker 1: talking about. That my whole life of basketball and basketball
Speaker 1: is up there for me in sports. Obviously I've had
Speaker 1: success with the Giants, but then also to you know,
Speaker 1: you mentioned the Montreal Expos earlier and like your fandom
Speaker 1: of that, like they were there that strike ended year,
Speaker 1: like they even did the fake like yeah, and they're
Speaker 1: supposed to be the Yankees too, was like the Yankees
Speaker 1: excellent they were. They were on like this collision course
Speaker 1: and it just never happened. Do I remember it? August
Speaker 1: two was the day the strike happened. Do I remember it?
Speaker 1: I I freaking hold a vigil every single August twelve.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a horrible thing. You know. There was
Speaker 1: this knock against the Expos that we didn't have fans.
Speaker 1: We did have fans, it was just that our stadium
Speaker 1: was in the middle of nowhere. It was built for
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventy six summer games. It wasn't a real
Speaker 1: baseball stadium. And as you may know, there's only like
Speaker 1: two nice months in the summertime in Montreal, and no
Speaker 1: one wants to go in the middle of nowhere and
Speaker 1: sit in a domed stadium and watch baseball. They want
Speaker 1: to be downtown. They want to be having a good time.
Speaker 1: So that team was incredible. In yes, I know, the
Speaker 1: Mattingly season, everyone thought he'd get his ring. It was
Speaker 1: gonna be magical. And then was the following year. We
Speaker 1: had to get rid of all our players, John Wetland,
Speaker 1: Marquis Christom, ken Hill, Jeff Ficero, all these guys were gone,
Speaker 1: and then we were able to restock, and you know,
Speaker 1: Pedro makes his run, and then we get Vladdie a
Speaker 1: couple of years later, and then we had another run.
Speaker 1: But then, of course Major League Baseball screwed us, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Jeffrey Lauria, New Yorker buys the team and
Speaker 1: then he tries to, you know, get the Marlins and
Speaker 1: that whole thing. So, yes, it's been a very tough
Speaker 1: I would argue with anyone that I have had some
Speaker 1: of the worst luck of any sportsman out there. Between
Speaker 1: the expos that don't exist. I will never see them
Speaker 1: win a championship. The Knicks have been unfortunately a bit
Speaker 1: of a laughing stock for the last two decades. And
Speaker 1: then the Bills. People forget the Bills were the last
Speaker 1: team to make the playoffs in the twenty one century.
Speaker 1: It took them seventeen years to make the playoffs in
Speaker 1: the twenty one century. They were the last team. So
Speaker 1: you know, crimea River, Brown's fans, Lions fans, all of
Speaker 1: you guys. It's been a rough go. Okay, So I
Speaker 1: just won't one. We just had Andre Reid on the podcast.
Speaker 1: He was talking about all those years and you've got
Speaker 1: to listen to that one because he gives credit to
Speaker 1: Oh see, Jerry, I knew like this guy the loyal listener.
Speaker 1: So before we but please continue. Sorry, I didn't mean
Speaker 1: to interrupt. You tell us what he said because I
Speaker 1: need that. I need that positivity right now just about
Speaker 1: the bill that Brandon being did and how exciting the
Speaker 1: future is. And I mean nothing but good things for
Speaker 1: the future of the Bills. And I will be joining
Speaker 1: your prayers because the league is better with the healthy job.
Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate that, Olivia. It's very kind of you.
Speaker 1: All right, before we get into like amazing UFC two
Speaker 1: eighty one stuff, I got two more things. One I
Speaker 1: always think, like what championship would you would I trade
Speaker 1: for a Knicks championship if they could win in ninety four,
Speaker 1: I would have easily probably traded like the Yankees. Oh
Speaker 1: nine World Series. I don't really care about that one, Okay,
Speaker 1: So for you, you you get one wish the Bills could
Speaker 1: win the Super bowlers year, the Knicks could win the
Speaker 1: championship this year, or you go back to the little
Speaker 1: kid version of you and the expos would have won
Speaker 1: the World Series, in which one of those times I
Speaker 1: love it. I love it. It's pretty much the same
Speaker 1: as asking me which of my three kids do I
Speaker 1: like the most? That's pretty much That's what I'm gonna ask. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't wait for that one. Hopefully they're not listening
Speaker 1: to this. It's so tough because right now I think
Speaker 1: you would agree like the Knicks are pretty far right,
Speaker 1: and so right now I feel like the closest for
Speaker 1: a very long time, because who knows when the Knicks
Speaker 1: are gonna be able to turn this around. The closest
Speaker 1: I have been in quite some time. Are the Bills right?
Speaker 1: And I feel this emotional attachment to those guys like
Speaker 1: I I love. I've never met Josh Allen, I've never
Speaker 1: talked to him, but I freaking would run through a
Speaker 1: wall for that guy. Like the way he handled that
Speaker 1: loss on Sunday, putting it all on his shoulders. Seems
Speaker 1: like such a great guy. Seems like you see him
Speaker 1: with kids, you see what he does for the community.
Speaker 1: I mean, I freaking love this man. I think I
Speaker 1: have as close to a crush on him as like
Speaker 1: socially acceptable. So I want to see him succeed. I
Speaker 1: want to see him win, and I want that for
Speaker 1: the city of Buffalo, because, uh, you know, let's be honest.
Speaker 1: New York has had some championships over the last two
Speaker 1: decades and Buffalo doesn't have much. They have the Sabers,
Speaker 1: they have the Bills. And I got to actually go
Speaker 1: to my first ever Bills game just a month ago.
Speaker 1: I never been to a home game before. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: this was like, it was like a spiritual experience. I've
Speaker 1: heard so much about it, but I went to Orchard Park,
Speaker 1: I saw what it meant. I was able to show
Speaker 1: my kids, my wife what this means to these people
Speaker 1: because they laugh at me sometimes when I'm going crazy,
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, this is religion. This is like it
Speaker 1: reminded me a lot of the Montreal Canadians back home.
Speaker 1: This is religion. This stadium is their cathedral. And I
Speaker 1: think I got that point across. And so because I'm
Speaker 1: in the moment right now, I would say the Bills,
Speaker 1: but I would tell you this. In the nineties, my
Speaker 1: number one all time were the Knicks. Like the nineties,
Speaker 1: Knicks are my favorite team of all time. Patrick Ewing
Speaker 1: is my favorite athlete of all time. I cried my
Speaker 1: eyes out in ninety four. I cried my eyes out
Speaker 1: with the finger roll in. I despised Michael Jordan with
Speaker 1: all my heart. I hate the Miami Heat with all
Speaker 1: my heart. I hate the India. I hate Reggie Miller.
Speaker 1: The site of his face makes me sick to my stomach.
Speaker 1: I mean, I in ninety four, when I was in
Speaker 1: the sixth grade, I wore a Youing jersey and a
Speaker 1: Stark jersey every every day, and I would rotate for
Speaker 1: the entire playoff front. It was Youing starts, doing starts,
Speaker 1: doing starts, and I had the Spreewald Jersey and I
Speaker 1: or that almost every day as well. I mean, I
Speaker 1: I adored that team. It makes me very sad to
Speaker 1: see what has become of them. I'm hoping for good things.
Speaker 1: You know, they're doing pretty well. Nice one on Monday Night,
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson, great pickup. I kind of wish they did
Speaker 1: the Donovan Mitchell deal, but right now, in short, you agree,
Speaker 1: thank you, it would be the bills. Well, that's a
Speaker 1: tough question. Arry asked questions, and Ariel, you asked tough questions,
Speaker 1: and you're not scared to either, even of Dana White,
Speaker 1: I've seen that. Were you ever nervous asking an m M,
Speaker 1: a fighter, or anyone a question because of how they
Speaker 1: might respond? That is a good question. There have been
Speaker 1: a couple of times where it felt a little uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: I never felt like someone was gonna punch me or
Speaker 1: do anything physical, But I would be lying if there
Speaker 1: were a couple of times. You know, there's a famous
Speaker 1: one in two thousand and eleven. There's a fighter named
Speaker 1: Nick Diaz, the older brother of Nathan Diaz. He's a
Speaker 1: very famous fighter. He wasn't really a fan of mine
Speaker 1: at the time. He sort of marches to the beat
Speaker 1: of his own drum. He's a different kind of cat.
Speaker 1: And he didn't want to interview do an interview with
Speaker 1: me before his fight against Paul Daily and San Diego,
Speaker 1: and it was a bit tense off camera. And then
Speaker 1: once we did the interview and he said yes, I
Speaker 1: asked them on camera, like, do not like me, Nick,
Speaker 1: And he's like, now, you know, I don't like your
Speaker 1: questions sometimes. And you know where I come from, people
Speaker 1: like you get slapped. And he like looked into the
Speaker 1: camera when he said that with a bit of a
Speaker 1: smile on his face. And he's from a rough part
Speaker 1: of town Stockton, California. So in that moment, I was like,
Speaker 1: is he gonna slap me or what's gonna happen? But
Speaker 1: for the most part, you know, I don't know how
Speaker 1: many mm A fighters you guys have met, Like these
Speaker 1: are sweethearts. They truly are salt of the earth individuals.
Speaker 1: They're they're very very kind, very thoughtful, they're not divas.
Speaker 1: They understand the power that they possess, and they don't
Speaker 1: go around just like punching people all the time. So
Speaker 1: it's been a couple of instances here there, but for
Speaker 1: the most part, not really. Yeah, they carry a great
Speaker 1: responsibility with the powers that they have. Similar to you,
Speaker 1: you know then that you mentioned the nineties Knicks, That's
Speaker 1: kind of was my life too. But you mentioned to
Speaker 1: Madison Square Guard, right, So I've been to I think
Speaker 1: three or four UFC events. I think I went to
Speaker 1: like one at Staple, I went to one at the Garden,
Speaker 1: one of the GSP one. So I think obviously I'm
Speaker 1: always partial to Madison Square Garden because it's just where
Speaker 1: I'm from. But you have seen so many fights and
Speaker 1: covered so many as well, What in your mind is
Speaker 1: like even though, is there a top three arena? Because
Speaker 1: UFC is different, right, It's not just like a basketball
Speaker 1: game like some people don't maybe not. They don't love
Speaker 1: to set up as much as m MSG as they
Speaker 1: would somewhere else. So is they What arena stick out
Speaker 1: to your mind for a great UFC event? Oh man,
Speaker 1: that is a good question as well. I would say
Speaker 1: number one is the three Arena in Dublin. They are unbelievable.
Speaker 1: You're not too far away from them, Olivia and that crowd.
Speaker 1: I mean, I saw Connor McGregor fight there back in
Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen and there were ten thousand people. It
Speaker 1: legit sounded like there were a hundred thousand people there.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable, deafening, truly deafening. So I would say
Speaker 1: the three arenas up there. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: so partial to Europe, but man, the O two in
Speaker 1: London is I mean, the European fans are just different,
Speaker 1: Like there's a different kind of passion that they possess,
Speaker 1: and the way they back their own and the way
Speaker 1: they fight for their own and chant for their own.
Speaker 1: It's much like a you know, a European soccer game.
Speaker 1: So I would put the O two up there, and
Speaker 1: if you want like a truly different kind of experience.
Speaker 1: The Saitama Super Arena and Sitama, Japan is so unique
Speaker 1: because they have hosted some of the biggest fights in
Speaker 1: m A history, particularly the ones from an organization that
Speaker 1: is no longer a round called Pride, which back in
Speaker 1: the day used to be the number one organization and
Speaker 1: m m A. And when they like, when the fans
Speaker 1: go to those events, they don't treat it like us
Speaker 1: or even like the European fans. Where there's chanting, there's music,
Speaker 1: there's all this stuff. They treated like we would treat
Speaker 1: going to the theater. They are so quiet during the
Speaker 1: fights and they do like little clapping things in appreciation,
Speaker 1: and then when the fights are over then they'll like
Speaker 1: show true love. But you can truly hear pin drop
Speaker 1: in there because it is just so quiet. The respect
Speaker 1: that they have for the gladiators, the warriors, it's just
Speaker 1: very different. So if you're looking for like the loud,
Speaker 1: boisterous crowd O two three Arena and Dublin, but if
Speaker 1: you're looking for something that almost feels like a religious experience,
Speaker 1: I would suggest these Hi Thomas Super Arena. Oh those
Speaker 1: are great answers. I bet that's kind of eerie, the quietness,
Speaker 1: but it makes it feel like heightened, right, It makes
Speaker 1: it feel so much more important. And they just have
Speaker 1: a great you know, birthplace of Martial Arts Asia, all
Speaker 1: that stuff. And there was a time where those events
Speaker 1: the prime time. It's amazing we don't have this in
Speaker 1: our country. But New Year's Eve was always the biggest
Speaker 1: night for fighting in Japan, and there was a period
Speaker 1: in the early two thousands where they would get no joke,
Speaker 1: like sixty seventy million viewers on television for these fights.
Speaker 1: It was that big of a deal. It was bigger
Speaker 1: than you know. It was like akin to the super
Speaker 1: Bowl here in America. And I never went to those
Speaker 1: particular ones because it was a little bit before my time.
Speaker 1: But I've been since and it's just, you know, unlike
Speaker 1: anything we have here in North America. Well, MSG did
Speaker 1: not make your top three lists, but it is a
Speaker 1: damn good ven you two and Saturday night it'll be rocking.
Speaker 1: The main event Israel Atisania Alex Pereira. Who are you
Speaker 1: betting here? Atrisania is at minor plus? Okay? So can
Speaker 1: I be honest with you guys? Just you know us
Speaker 1: us friends M M A fighters. As tough and as
Speaker 1: great as they are, they are incredibly sensitive. They are
Speaker 1: the most sensitive. And I learned early on when I
Speaker 1: would come on shows and my own show and make picks,
Speaker 1: they'd be like, oh, yeah, I you, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to talk to you anymore because you picked against me.
Speaker 1: I was like, jeez, I was just making it wasn't personal.
Speaker 1: So for the you know, sake of my career and
Speaker 1: you know, my relationship with these guys, I have abstained
Speaker 1: from making picks because I don't want to fracture a relationship.
Speaker 1: You may say that I'm a woss for doing that.
Speaker 1: I would just say I'm being a business savvy. If
Speaker 1: you will, um, I will say this. The backstory is
Speaker 1: unbelievable in this fight. These two guys, in case you
Speaker 1: don't know, have fought twice before, but not in m
Speaker 1: m A. They have fought in kickboxing. Is Hedsonia started
Speaker 1: off as a kickboxer. He's a pretty good kickboxer, but
Speaker 1: Peheta had an actually better kickboxing career than he did.
Speaker 1: And the last time they met. So the first time
Speaker 1: they met, Alex beat him via a decision. It was
Speaker 1: a controversial decision. Alright, all well and good. Then they
Speaker 1: meet for a second time in two thousand and seventeen,
Speaker 1: and is he actually was doing better than him. He
Speaker 1: was this close to finishing him in the second round,
Speaker 1: but then in the third round got brutally knocked out,
Speaker 1: like knocked out, bad head hits the mat like falls down.
Speaker 1: It was bad. Is He hasn't fought in kickboxing since.
Speaker 1: He then transitioned over to m m A and he's
Speaker 1: had this legendary career. He's now the middleweight champion of
Speaker 1: the UFC. Alex stayed in in kickboxing and actually became
Speaker 1: a two division champion. But then it became clear, like, yo,
Speaker 1: there's a money fight here between him and is He
Speaker 1: Because is he's steamrolling through everyone, Let's try to make
Speaker 1: this fight happen. So he switched over to M M
Speaker 1: A a a couple of years ago, and he's looked like
Speaker 1: a killer his first fight back. He had a couple
Speaker 1: of fights very early in his career, but his first fight,
Speaker 1: after a long layoff, I legit thought he killed the
Speaker 1: guy like the guy was on the mat after he
Speaker 1: knocked him out for no joke, like five six minutes,
Speaker 1: and it got uncomfortable. They're usually not on the mat
Speaker 1: for that long. He has a left hand that is
Speaker 1: like straight out of a cannon, and so he has
Speaker 1: been signed by the UFC. He looked good in his
Speaker 1: first few fights, and so they make this fight. And
Speaker 1: the thing is with Izzy, like people are intimidated by him.
Speaker 1: He's such a good striker, He's such a high level striker.
Speaker 1: There's that intimidation factor where a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: are actually losing the fight before the fight. Here you
Speaker 1: have Alex who isn't intimidated by anything. Is he brings
Speaker 1: to the table. He beat him twice, he knocked him out.
Speaker 1: He's the only meant to knock him out in m
Speaker 1: m A or kickboxing. And you could tell there's tension there,
Speaker 1: and you could tell this a rivalry there. And I
Speaker 1: had Iszzy on my show yesterday and he admitted, because
Speaker 1: some fighters wouldn't say this, it is personal. He wants
Speaker 1: to right this wrong. He wants to end this guy
Speaker 1: for his legacy so that people can't hang this over
Speaker 1: his head. So it's fascinating stuff. And to answer your
Speaker 1: question in a roundabout way, I do believe that Izzy
Speaker 1: should be the favorite. And just between us, I'll break
Speaker 1: my rule up. Do you think is he wins the fight?
Speaker 1: Don't tell Alex. Okay, yeah, no, no one's gonna hear this.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. I I can't wait for it
Speaker 1: because also too, I just think that, like you said,
Speaker 1: like these two styles, like it's the kind of fight
Speaker 1: to me where you really just can't turn your eyes
Speaker 1: for one second. Not that you did you ever turn
Speaker 1: your eyes in the fight, but there's some of those fights,
Speaker 1: you know, when it's on the ground. All right, let
Speaker 1: me just grab a handful of pocket. This one I
Speaker 1: just I'm gonna be watching the whole entire time, not
Speaker 1: missing a second of it. What are some This is
Speaker 1: such a great card. Let's just talk about fights that
Speaker 1: you are most excited for. Also, obviously this one, the
Speaker 1: main event is going to be great, but there's a
Speaker 1: co main event. So walk us through a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, just you sitting there, we were watching, What
Speaker 1: are you like? Oh, this is the one, and maybe
Speaker 1: it's all of them who knows. Well, the main event
Speaker 1: is fantastic, like I said, But honestly, I'm just as
Speaker 1: much looking forward to another fight on this card, and
Speaker 1: it involves Dustin Pouria and Michael Chandler. This is something else.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, there's so much M M A
Speaker 1: on these days. It's it's on every week, and there's
Speaker 1: a bit of you know, I think an oversaturation if
Speaker 1: I'm being honest, This is the type of fight that
Speaker 1: gives me like chills. This is the type of fight
Speaker 1: that gives me goose bumps that I get all sweaty
Speaker 1: in my palms for. Because dust to Pourier is an
Speaker 1: o G. He's a legend. He is a guy who
Speaker 1: has fought them all. He has beat a lot of them,
Speaker 1: including Connor McGregor twice as recently as and Michael Chandler
Speaker 1: is this guy who has been in m m A
Speaker 1: for a very long time. He was in Bellatore, which was,
Speaker 1: you know, the number two organization in the United States,
Speaker 1: and then finally in twenty twenty he gets signed by
Speaker 1: the UFC, and he was like kind of viewed as
Speaker 1: the best guy to never fight in the UFC's former
Speaker 1: wrestler from University of Missouri. He's jack, He's freaking tough,
Speaker 1: he's a former champion in Belltore. But we all wanted
Speaker 1: to know, like, just how good is this guy? Right?
Speaker 1: So he comes over to the UFC and he has
Speaker 1: been outstanding. Now, he did win a couple and then
Speaker 1: lose the title shot, but he has been all action
Speaker 1: and none of his fights have been boring. There seems
Speaker 1: to be this sort of tension between them, this sort
Speaker 1: of professional tension, if you will. They cross passed once
Speaker 1: at an event, and you can just tell like, these
Speaker 1: are two alpha males who don't really like each other
Speaker 1: and would rather not be in the same space, but
Speaker 1: at some point they're probably going to have to get
Speaker 1: it on. And now they're getting it on and the
Speaker 1: build up has been great, and the rivalry has been great.
Speaker 1: The back and forth stuff has been great. So Poorrier
Speaker 1: Chandler is fantastic. The co main event, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: involves Carlos Barza, who's the straw Way champion going up
Speaker 1: against Jong Way Lee, who from China. Who's unbelievable. It
Speaker 1: was a former champion who lost her belt and now
Speaker 1: I was trying to get it back. She is jack.
Speaker 1: She picked up Frances and got into the heavyweight champion.
Speaker 1: She's a hundred fifteen pounds and she's picking up a
Speaker 1: two d eighty pound man like it's me picking up
Speaker 1: a banana. It's unbelievable. Got Meatball Molly on the card.
Speaker 1: You've got the return of dominic grace. I mean I
Speaker 1: could sit here like like I said, over saturation, But
Speaker 1: when it comes to the big events, the UFC tends
Speaker 1: to deliver. And when they come to MSG, in particular,
Speaker 1: because you know, New York for so long didn't legalize
Speaker 1: m m A. It's only been since two thousand sixteen,
Speaker 1: they usually bring the big dogs, they bring the big events,
Speaker 1: and this one is no different. Okay, Meatball Molly mccan
Speaker 1: has got to be one of the better nicknames and
Speaker 1: sports tell our listeners how that nickname came to be.
Speaker 1: It's really good. She used to work at a subway
Speaker 1: and when she was done working at the subway, like
Speaker 1: I said, all humble beginnings, all downtarth people. Her training
Speaker 1: partners said that she smelled like, you know, meatball sandwiches,
Speaker 1: and so they there were things to smell like. Although
Speaker 1: like you're wrong with someone on the ground and you're like,
Speaker 1: oh god, you smell like meatballs. So yeah, but she
Speaker 1: is so lovable. She is, Yeah, that is true. She
Speaker 1: is a very She's from Liverpool. She is just a
Speaker 1: sort of working class type of fighter, someone that everyone
Speaker 1: loved and gets behind. And she has had a resurgence
Speaker 1: this year. She's had two fights in London where she
Speaker 1: wanted bea spinning back elbow and so putting her on
Speaker 1: this card with a ton of European fans expected to
Speaker 1: show up is a very smart move. She's very good
Speaker 1: friends with Patty Pimblett, who everyone loves now their training partners.
Speaker 1: He's not on this card, he's fighting in December. But
Speaker 1: she's had a breakout year this year, so it's cool
Speaker 1: to see her on this card. Yeah, this card is amazing.
Speaker 1: But I also you know, I did this whole bit
Speaker 1: last week of like my sports emergency contacts, like the
Speaker 1: people you call when some stuff happens. You would definitely
Speaker 1: be mine for what I mean, Well, I would love
Speaker 1: to call you and ask you a text you and
Speaker 1: ask you, and I'll ask you here on the show.
Speaker 1: Maybe I was just saving it for the show. Okay,
Speaker 1: what's the fight that you think should happen or will
Speaker 1: happen that we want to see that hasn't yet or
Speaker 1: the rematch? Like what do you want to see? There's
Speaker 1: a lot of them, was a lot so like you know,
Speaker 1: but if you really, if you had the power to
Speaker 1: pick one a frame it that way, doesn't mean it's
Speaker 1: not twelve Sure, sure, sure, I'll tell you the one
Speaker 1: that just popped into my mind first, because that's usually
Speaker 1: the most honest answer. It's the heavyweight debut of John Jones.
Speaker 1: John Jones is considered one of the greatest fighters of
Speaker 1: all time, if not the greatest of all time, and
Speaker 1: he has always fought a light heavyweight. He's the greatest
Speaker 1: light heavyweight champion of all time. He hasn't fought since
Speaker 1: February and he has been teasing a move up to
Speaker 1: heavyweight for the last two or so years. And there's
Speaker 1: a guy named Francis and Gun who's out there whose
Speaker 1: contract is about to expire, but if he resigns with
Speaker 1: the UFC, as we all expect him to as of
Speaker 1: next month, when he's a free agent, John Jones versus
Speaker 1: Francis and ghan who would be incredible theater John, the
Speaker 1: greatest light heavyweight champion moving up the heavyweight to fight
Speaker 1: the current king of the heavyweights, who is the scariest
Speaker 1: man on the planet, who can knock you out with
Speaker 1: a pinky. I mean, this guy is like straight out
Speaker 1: of a comic book. I would love to see that happen.
Speaker 1: So a lot come to mind, but they've been sort
Speaker 1: of circling each other for a long time. To me,
Speaker 1: it would be a true travesty if we never see
Speaker 1: John fight at heavyweight, because he's been hinting and teasing
Speaker 1: this for so long, and who better than Frances and
Speaker 1: Ghana to welcome him. So that's the fight that I would,
Speaker 1: you know, I would make and I would love to
Speaker 1: see happened come next year. When you talk about any
Speaker 1: past or upcoming fight, I feel like the individual storylines
Speaker 1: so much dictate how we look forward to some of
Speaker 1: these or how we remember some of these. When you
Speaker 1: look at who could make a great movie or maybe
Speaker 1: a great book, or maybe it's already a book and
Speaker 1: should be a movie. Who is a fighter that comes
Speaker 1: to mind? Really? I mean again it's uh, it's a
Speaker 1: testament to their stories and their their backgrounds. But again,
Speaker 1: I'll give you the first one that comes to mind.
Speaker 1: It's Francis. Francis and Ghanu grew up in Cameroon with nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean, he has shown us pictures of his home,
Speaker 1: his childhood home. To say it's a hut would be nice.
Speaker 1: And this guy had to escaped Cameroon. He was on
Speaker 1: a boat for days on end with no food, no water,
Speaker 1: almost I had multiple times. Makes it to France, sleeping
Speaker 1: in a parking lot in a garage, homeless, completely homeless,
Speaker 1: has nothing to his name. Meets a guy who tells
Speaker 1: him that he's, you know, a coach, wants to be
Speaker 1: a boxer, doesn't know how to start, doesn't know where
Speaker 1: to start. Brings him to his gym. There's m A
Speaker 1: at the gym, and the guys like, forget this boxing stuff,
Speaker 1: you should do this mm A thing because you're such
Speaker 1: a beast. And this guy has nothing to his name,
Speaker 1: truly nothing. I mean, he's training and then he's going
Speaker 1: back to sleep in the parking garage and now he's
Speaker 1: the heavyweight champion of the world. And so you know,
Speaker 1: I mean that's one of a million. I mean, the
Speaker 1: easiest answer is Connor McGregor, who was, you know, on
Speaker 1: welfare when he made his UFC debut. He didn't have
Speaker 1: anything to his name. He was, you know, he was
Speaker 1: working to become a plumber before he started his mm
Speaker 1: A career. And now look at him. You know, he
Speaker 1: is rich beyond his wildest dreams and he's got all
Speaker 1: this money and all this stuff. So that's what I love.
Speaker 1: I love the stories at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like the fights. Like I said, there's so many and
Speaker 1: they all kind of blend together. But these characters, the stories.
Speaker 1: Israel is another guy. He grows up in Nigeria, his
Speaker 1: family moves to New Zealand. He's bullied as a kid.
Speaker 1: He's skinny, he's the only black kid in his school,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, he you know, starts to
Speaker 1: fall in love with fighting and he becomes one of
Speaker 1: the most beard strikers in the world. Like these stories
Speaker 1: of these people who had to overcome all these things
Speaker 1: and are now on top of the world. I mean,
Speaker 1: is he was telling me yesterday the first time he
Speaker 1: fought Alex, he was staying in a seven dollar motel.
Speaker 1: That was his fight week hotel. He's now staying this
Speaker 1: week in some insane look at his Instagram, like some
Speaker 1: insane mansion in New Jersey with an indoor pool with
Speaker 1: a tennis court, Like it looks like something out of
Speaker 1: the X Men, and you know, like he's paying for it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So, like the things like
Speaker 1: that are incredibly inspiring. And that's why I love these
Speaker 1: guys so much, because they truly had to scratch cloth
Speaker 1: and bet on themselves. Right, it's not a team sport.
Speaker 1: You don't rely on others, you don't need others, and
Speaker 1: there's no knock on those guys. But it's like, man,
Speaker 1: this can go you know, you can get knocked out,
Speaker 1: it can all end, or you can continue to claw
Speaker 1: him and build and bet on yourself and pray and uh.
Speaker 1: And here they are headlining MSG. A kid from Nigeria
Speaker 1: who moved to New Zealand is now headlining MSG like
Speaker 1: this is insanity, you know, since we're talking about like
Speaker 1: what would make a good movie and good storylines, because
Speaker 1: I agree with you, I think some of it's countless
Speaker 1: stories to tell. And sports movies are like a funny
Speaker 1: thing for me. They like stick out, there's something that
Speaker 1: are really good, and then when sports movies go wrong,
Speaker 1: they could be really bad. Especially actually the physical acts
Speaker 1: of sport. I came close. I almost had the chance
Speaker 1: to play a fighter. I was deep into looking into
Speaker 1: the Eternal Gaddy story. I had some of the rights
Speaker 1: and I started to train. Yeah, I was training that
Speaker 1: wild card and really feeling the pressure of when you
Speaker 1: were around real fighters and you were maybe going to
Speaker 1: play a fighter. You know, it's honestly, give me any
Speaker 1: other sport because those fires are looking at you like
Speaker 1: you're not a fighter. So I guess now sticking with
Speaker 1: sports movies and fighting movies for instance, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're a big movie guy or not, are there
Speaker 1: fight movies that stand out? Like if you could say,
Speaker 1: like who kind of did it right? Or who's your
Speaker 1: favorite on screen fighter? Obviously Rocky is the easier one
Speaker 1: for example, but if you look at Warrior I think
Speaker 1: like Tom Hardy a warrior, was dope, Like I bought
Speaker 1: him as a fighter completely. Uh do you get to
Speaker 1: watch many? Is there anything that's stuck with you? Maybe
Speaker 1: because we'll start making movies now, well I would love that.
Speaker 1: And by the way, we start with the Gotti won
Speaker 1: Gott he was my favorite boxer of all time from Montreal.
Speaker 1: So so what happened? What happened. What happened was I
Speaker 1: was taking a long time to get some of the
Speaker 1: deal done and he has a great manager, Pat Lynch,
Speaker 1: who was like his brother, and he really wanted to
Speaker 1: see the story done. He shared like all their stories
Speaker 1: with me, and I was training and it took long,
Speaker 1: and I had a scheduling thing, and you look back,
Speaker 1: it's like four years agoe By. I was twenty nine,
Speaker 1: thirty years old, and we started got down. I'm now
Speaker 1: thirty four. I'm like one sixty and a little older
Speaker 1: will slower. I got gray, you know, because we wanted
Speaker 1: to really take him from you know, his journey from
Speaker 1: Montreal and then he became like this back you know
Speaker 1: Jersey guy. You know he had he had the weirdest
Speaker 1: accent of all time and Montreal it was like Italian.
Speaker 1: It was Jersey, So I just got old. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I I kind of aged out
Speaker 1: of it. And you're not that unfortunate because I saw
Speaker 1: Mickey War a few weeks ago and I talked to
Speaker 1: him about and he's like, yeah, that's like the thing
Speaker 1: that's missing from The Fighter. The movie. The Fighter was
Speaker 1: like a turtle side of that. That was a great
Speaker 1: movie as well. By the way, I don't think you're
Speaker 1: that old. I would love to see it happened. I
Speaker 1: would love to see him immortalized like that. He deserves it.
Speaker 1: What happened to him was obviously heartbreaking. I see his
Speaker 1: son sometimes on social media. Have you seen him? Oh
Speaker 1: my god, crazy, absolutely crazy to see how much he
Speaker 1: resembles him. But to answer the question, Tom Hardy was
Speaker 1: gonna be my answer, there haven't been a lot of
Speaker 1: great m m A movies. Here Comes the Boom was
Speaker 1: fun with Kevin Patrick, was Kevin James. Kevin James. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was actually kind of fun. I mean, obviously not
Speaker 1: the same. I don't know if you guys saw Here
Speaker 1: Comes to Boom, but it was. It was a good time.
Speaker 1: M m A hasn't been used boxing. You'd use boxing. Yes,
Speaker 1: so look, I know it's probably an easy one. I
Speaker 1: I do think Michael B. Jordan's does a great job
Speaker 1: with the Creed movies. Those are tremendous. I think Wahlberg
Speaker 1: did a great job. Ali was okay, I've seen most
Speaker 1: of them, you know, Will Smith Ali Um. I'm still
Speaker 1: waiting for the you guys are forgetting like the Oscar winners. Wait,
Speaker 1: Rocky do Oh. Yeah, that was tremendous. That was tremendous. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's my bad. I will say I'm waiting for the
Speaker 1: Jamie Fox Tyson movie. I always see that clip of
Speaker 1: him talk. You never see that clip of him talking
Speaker 1: about the opening scene he's I'm like, man, he sounds
Speaker 1: like him. And where's that movie? I don't know. They
Speaker 1: did the Hulu movie about him, which I guess Tyson
Speaker 1: wasn't happy with. So I'm not gonna Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know whether Jamie Fox went is it? And I continue
Speaker 1: to be marvel and another one who's part of the
Speaker 1: bat MGM family, Jamie Fox. That's I said. I continue
Speaker 1: to marvel at He to me is the most talented
Speaker 1: person on the face even when he's like doing like
Speaker 1: a Trump personation on Instagram like it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he's got it. Bet So if anyone and we've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of Mike Tyson stuff before, right, but if
Speaker 1: anyone could maybe with a new light on it and
Speaker 1: actually make us by it, I think it's Jamie Fox.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for that one too. But you sparked another idea.
Speaker 1: Maybe we get a Truro son in a few years
Speaker 1: to play his dad. You just sparked it. You might
Speaker 1: just right now? Did I just right now? You just
Speaker 1: sparked that idea in my head? Why not just wait
Speaker 1: it out until he, you know, is ready, and you
Speaker 1: just like like, I mean, who knows? That might be
Speaker 1: too painful. I don't know if he would view that
Speaker 1: as a painful thing, because I'm sure there's a lot
Speaker 1: of pain with that he lost his dad. But you know,
Speaker 1: I wonder that what they did with the Gandelfini. Yes,
Speaker 1: his Gafini's son Michael, who have gotten to know a
Speaker 1: little bit, played young Tony soprano in the Sopranos movies.
Speaker 1: So maybe maybe you might have just opened the doors again.
Speaker 1: I just wanted like a special shout out in the credit.
Speaker 1: That's all I don't need. Thanks, just like something at
Speaker 1: the end. Special for making this all happen, you know,
Speaker 1: well bigger thanks, thank you for coming on here and
Speaker 1: talking to him and some buffalo. But I think everyone
Speaker 1: knows obviously how big of an mm A got you.
Speaker 1: I love list and to you even on Simmons talk
Speaker 1: about the Bill. Thanks. I appreciate it. Thank you. Just one.
Speaker 1: I just want one. Can I just have one? Can
Speaker 1: I just be happy once in February. That's all I
Speaker 1: want is one? So sad, It's good. Thank you so much, guys.
Speaker 1: You guys are doing a great job. I'm so happy
Speaker 1: that we finally kind of broke the ice here. I
Speaker 1: was feeling some sort of way about it as I
Speaker 1: mentioned any to get into it again. So thank you
Speaker 1: for having me continued success and really appreciate you guys
Speaker 1: inviting me, and I hope you could do it again soon.
Speaker 1: Maybe when the Bills win the super Bowl, we can
Speaker 1: have a big party. I will definitely yeah, And if
Speaker 1: I come to eight one, I'm I'm going to reach
Speaker 1: out if I come to any perfect Thanks guys, take care,
Speaker 1: Thank you well, I'm not even four. Episode ten. I
Speaker 1: made some good progress this week. It was rainy and London, Jerry,
Speaker 1: I got a lot of entourage and so just as
Speaker 1: shook as I was with the Lisa Rennet episode a
Speaker 1: while back, I was so excited about that one and
Speaker 1: laughed my ass off. I was laughing my ass off
Speaker 1: in this Furry episode. I put it on my Instagram story,
Speaker 1: I tagged you, and I had so many people say
Speaker 1: I love that episode. Oh my god, I'm dying, Like
Speaker 1: everyone knows that episode. Who has watched the show? Now,
Speaker 1: for those who don't know, according to the Internet, a
Speaker 1: furry is someone interested in anthropomorphic animals. This can be
Speaker 1: sexual or not sexual. And yes I did look this up.
Speaker 1: So it's really just folks who are into animals talking
Speaker 1: and stuff. But entreage fans know that that's not what
Speaker 1: this episode is about. So tell me when you first
Speaker 1: read the script for this episode, what did you think.
Speaker 1: I remember exactly what I thought. I thought what I
Speaker 1: thought many times reading the scripts? Are you kidding me? Like?
Speaker 1: I read it and I would say, you get like,
Speaker 1: what are we doing here, guys? And I think, like,
Speaker 1: at first we referenced like a furry, and then it
Speaker 1: was like a plushy, which was like another name used
Speaker 1: for it, and I'm like, God, well, look, let's go
Speaker 1: to the table reading, and you know, maybe they'll rethink
Speaker 1: this once they hear it out loud. And of course,
Speaker 1: the person who always makes this stuff work is Kevin Dillon,
Speaker 1: who plays Johnny Drama. He takes all these storylines that
Speaker 1: are kind of just sort of unbelievable and he just
Speaker 1: grounds them in a way and makes it hilarious. And
Speaker 1: uh yeah, So I think the picture that I put
Speaker 1: up on Instagram and Twitter every year that gets the
Speaker 1: most traffic of all time is on Easter Sunday. I
Speaker 1: always put up a picture of me in the pink
Speaker 1: bunny suit and I wish everyone a happy Easter. I
Speaker 1: do every year for like five years running, and it
Speaker 1: always gets hundreds of thousands of likes and retweets and
Speaker 1: reposts and comments. It is people some of people's favorite episodes.
Speaker 1: And that was another one, and it's just kind of
Speaker 1: the common habit, the ones I'm always like, God, what
Speaker 1: are we doing? Who's going to watch this? People's favorite episodes,
Speaker 1: which adds to the rhyme and reason like you just
Speaker 1: don't know, you don't know what's gonna capture people's attention
Speaker 1: and their interests. But yes, a lot of people have
Speaker 1: that in their top three, like most funniest Entourage episode.
Speaker 1: I just I was so hooked because you go on
Speaker 1: Craig's liist, I believe, wasn't it Craigslist? Yeah, back then
Speaker 1: I to look up what craigslist was. What is this Craigslist?
Speaker 1: This is a real thing. What is this? Oh? I
Speaker 1: love anything like that that dates the show. There's so much,
Speaker 1: there's so much, there's a lot. Oh, it's great. And
Speaker 1: because it's so of the time, Like I wish I
Speaker 1: had watched this in real time because I bet it
Speaker 1: would have just I mean, I know from people saying it.
Speaker 1: It just it was the culture kind of like you
Speaker 1: talked about sneaker culture, like that was like a new thing.
Speaker 1: In this episode. There's just a lot like in the
Speaker 1: furry stuff at the time, you know, like not people
Speaker 1: didn't even know that was a thing. No, and Entourage
Speaker 1: has done that a lot things that people didn't know
Speaker 1: we're a thing. And we do an episode and then
Speaker 1: they go do some research like oh wow, there's a
Speaker 1: whole community of these people who this is how they roll,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, that's and another one put that one
Speaker 1: another one on the list of tough ones to watch
Speaker 1: with the grandma. So I want to watch and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a tough one. I was like, you know, mom, grandma,
Speaker 1: you guys could skip this week's episode if you want.
Speaker 1: And they're like, no, we're not skipping anything now any
Speaker 1: episode that you do something like, it's really just anything
Speaker 1: sexual and like they probably don't care about you, like
Speaker 1: cussing or smoking weed or anything like that, and like
Speaker 1: anyone that's just sexual and like, oh, his grandma, his
Speaker 1: grandma had to watch that. Yeah, my grandmother likes the cursing.
Speaker 1: She was into that, Like it didn't bother her at all.
Speaker 1: But that's what I'm just like, God, And they were
Speaker 1: good sports. They never made me feel weird about it,
Speaker 1: but I always just felt weird. Okay. Something else i'd
Speaker 1: ask you about season four is you had a couple
Speaker 1: of scenes with Gary Busey. What was that like the
Speaker 1: bucy Uh, listen, we we go back to like season
Speaker 1: one with him. I remember the first time we worked
Speaker 1: with him, he was kind of making the script his own,
Speaker 1: changing his words and he's playing himself so fine. And
Speaker 1: then uh, I think Doug Ellen or someone tried to
Speaker 1: give him a note and he said, no one could
Speaker 1: write Gary Busey like Gary buce and basically like kicked
Speaker 1: off the producers. And it was always a little scary
Speaker 1: with Gary because he was very You just didn't know
Speaker 1: where he was gonna go. You just and you didn't.
Speaker 1: The script kind of goes out the window and you
Speaker 1: just don't. One moment in season one, we're doing a
Speaker 1: scene on the beach, he said, you ever play the
Speaker 1: game tickle P? And I'm like, what what is tickle P?
Speaker 1: That's where I so wh I hold you down? I
Speaker 1: tickle you to pe your pants. I'm like, Gary, I'm
Speaker 1: a grown man. Don't touch me. And he's like chasing
Speaker 1: me on the beach, trying to tickle me. No, but
Speaker 1: you know, he was kind of like the mascot in
Speaker 1: a way. It was Yeah, I hadn't loved those days
Speaker 1: with the bucy. Oh my god. Well it did well
Speaker 1: on camera. I'm telling you it was. It's gold and
Speaker 1: he is he's such a random recurring guest. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: again that the Entourage world, which it once you become
Speaker 1: a fan of the show, like you buy in and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some of people's favorite cameos was all the Gary Abusa,
Speaker 1: we were all afraid of him on the show and
Speaker 1: that they in real life a little bit again. And
Speaker 1: then one more person who's been an episode for a
Speaker 1: lot I've got to ask about or sorry season four
Speaker 1: is Anna Ferris on Affairs. What was she like? She
Speaker 1: was amazing. It was a great storyline. I wish that
Speaker 1: storyline kind of lasted even longer. And also another good
Speaker 1: storyline of just like putting a movie together and you know,
Speaker 1: getting an actor who is interested and what they mean
Speaker 1: to like the budget and getting everyone excited and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. I thought it was pretty cool, like the
Speaker 1: inside look of how putting together a movie works. And
Speaker 1: she's just so quick, you know what I mean by
Speaker 1: that is just whatever you throw at her, she doesn't
Speaker 1: even need a second to like process it. Like whatever
Speaker 1: notes or direction or line changes, she's like, god, good,
Speaker 1: let's go. Like she was just in a few moments
Speaker 1: I got to work with her. She's super quick and
Speaker 1: hilarious and makes your job easy. You just gotta stand
Speaker 1: there and just don't just say your lines correctly. She
Speaker 1: makes your job really easy. Oh love, I'm loving Season
Speaker 1: bore alright. Time for one of my favorite parts of
Speaker 1: the show, although we always talk about betting. Here, we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk some week ten wagering with bet MGM analyst
Speaker 1: Peter Andrew. He's our odds on favorite Peter. Listen, buddy.
Speaker 1: Now we're not gonna talk about last week all that much.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say one thing. Maybe you should already
Speaker 1: start planning, you know, renewing your vows with your lovely wife,
Speaker 1: because when you came out of the wedding, you were hot.
Speaker 1: You had all that wedding juice on you. You know,
Speaker 1: I think it's starting to wear off you. Maybe you
Speaker 1: should consider renewing your vows. After a tough week last week, Yeah,
Speaker 1: call me, you're on the hat set. Jeff Saturday is
Speaker 1: looking at your job. But look you you didn't miss
Speaker 1: by much. We loved your parlay. Damian Pierce, you had
Speaker 1: for any time TV. He got down to the one,
Speaker 1: he was right there. Everything else hit as planned. Tried
Speaker 1: to sort of talk you off the Eagles minus thirteen
Speaker 1: and a half, but it was all right. There a
Speaker 1: few different swings and you easily hit that parlay. Yeah
Speaker 1: it's tough. I mean, between that with the one game parlay,
Speaker 1: just missing the bills let me down. Big time on
Speaker 1: the teaser, everything else fell into plan. I mean, would
Speaker 1: I say Titans plus nineteen plus that under in the
Speaker 1: Vikings game, and then of course the late touchdown by
Speaker 1: the Bears had Dolphins minus five and let me down
Speaker 1: so close only counts and horseshoes and hand grenades, I guess.
Speaker 1: So before we get into your picks real quick, can
Speaker 1: we almost expect you know, we watched the Bills, a
Speaker 1: lot of people got lost on teasers and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Could we almost expect a heavy underdog money line winner
Speaker 1: every week because it's feeling like it's starting to become
Speaker 1: every week. Yeah, from a book point of view, we're
Speaker 1: having a great season so far, and it's a lot
Speaker 1: to do with that. It's that one big result each
Speaker 1: week that's really really carrying us. Bills was the great
Speaker 1: example this week, and we've seen a couple of them
Speaker 1: throughout the first seven eight weeks of the year. So
Speaker 1: really interesting. So a really fascinating tweet by one of
Speaker 1: my favorite follows, John Ewing that I shared actually when
Speaker 1: a lot of people bet MGM has seen sharp action
Speaker 1: on the Jets, Bears, and Seahawks in Week nine. The
Speaker 1: Rams are one of our biggest liabilities putting the sports
Speaker 1: book in the rare position of needing Tom Brady to win.
Speaker 1: I just thought that was incredible because I imagine as
Speaker 1: a sports book you're constantly always rooting against Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: and they actually needed Brady to win and he did.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. So John didn't talk about it too much.
Speaker 1: But same thing with Aaron Rodgers, Like, how many years
Speaker 1: have we been talking about needing Aaron Rodgers to lose
Speaker 1: the game? And then this year is just wildly different.
Speaker 1: So we're in a new era now. It's uh. I
Speaker 1: think a couple of these older quarterbacks are kind of
Speaker 1: sad finally on the downfall it is. It's really sad,
Speaker 1: especially because you look at I mean, believe you know this.
Speaker 1: The Packers are obviously a little bit more expected because
Speaker 1: the team law is quite a bit, especially with Davonte,
Speaker 1: but the Bucks are still on paper decent teams, so
Speaker 1: for them to be in this position, it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Okay, let's look ahead to this weekend. First
Speaker 1: of all, you have a two unit, one game parlay
Speaker 1: walk us through this one? Is this for Thursday night?
Speaker 1: This for Thursday Night? Not the best game in the world.
Speaker 1: But we got Falcons at the Panthers, the worst division
Speaker 1: in football. Yeah, so, um, listen to the Panthers look
Speaker 1: bad last week. P J Walker three of nine or
Speaker 1: three of ten for nine yards in the first half,
Speaker 1: and I think as of right now he might be
Speaker 1: starting on Thursday, because all the props are leading towards that.
Speaker 1: If that's the case, I like the Falcons big here.
Speaker 1: So with that said, I've took nothing that is Carolina
Speaker 1: focused because we just don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: I think they even activated Sam Donald back, so there's
Speaker 1: a chance he's playing the next couple of all three available.
Speaker 1: That's how you know things are not good in Carolina
Speaker 1: right now. Cor Daryl Patterson over thirty four and a
Speaker 1: half rushing yards. He's back and healthy. Thirty four and
Speaker 1: a half is one of the lower props that we
Speaker 1: offered in terms of his yardage. I think it's a
Speaker 1: safe assumption, especially if he goes back to some sort
Speaker 1: of form like he was last year. I think we're
Speaker 1: in good shape there. Mariota only over a twenty five
Speaker 1: passing yards, So this isn't this isn't to s this
Speaker 1: is just do the bare minimum. Get me back in
Speaker 1: the green, get me out of the red, get over
Speaker 1: a hundred twenty five yards um. I changed the line
Speaker 1: to an online of Falcons min six and a half.
Speaker 1: Again with what we said about Carolina just not being
Speaker 1: a good team. Instead of the two and a half,
Speaker 1: I pushed it up the six and a half, so
Speaker 1: get plus money there. And then the last thing is
Speaker 1: something I haven't done this year yet, but I really
Speaker 1: like this, especially in soccer. It's a halftime, full time bet,
Speaker 1: so a specific team to lead at the end of
Speaker 1: the half and obviously at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: So I like Falcons to be leading at a half
Speaker 1: and then obviously win the game out right. So added
Speaker 1: all four of those two units, So twenty dollars at
Speaker 1: plus four fifty two win one ten including that steak.
Speaker 1: So right then and there, that hits seems pretty manageable.
Speaker 1: That puts you in the green. And then we focus
Speaker 1: on rest of the bets for the weekend. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: gotta imagine the Falcons are gonna want to get this one,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure the Panthers too. They might as well
Speaker 1: just roll out maybe PJ for the first quarter, Baker
Speaker 1: for the second, Donald for the third, and whoever's playing better,
Speaker 1: you could play the fourth. It's almost like preseason rules,
Speaker 1: I think at this point, because they're like an assessment
Speaker 1: territory at this point, like what do we have a god,
Speaker 1: that's a good you know what that's I like the
Speaker 1: lead at half and at end of game, and um,
Speaker 1: you would think too with the Falcons weapons like Mariota,
Speaker 1: I meane like two screens to Patterson and like a
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts steam route that and it should be done
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. It's in Carolina, Carolina. But I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of an impact that has
Speaker 1: on that base, right, you know, they they were having
Speaker 1: issues with the fan base. I think if we talked
Speaker 1: about that, I think back in like the week one
Speaker 1: in the preseason. So all right, well with you there,
Speaker 1: do you have another teaser for us this week? Because
Speaker 1: you know I love the teasers. I do have a
Speaker 1: teaser year So three teamer again, moving everything six points again.
Speaker 1: So we mentioned Frank Wright in the Colts. Jeff Saturday
Speaker 1: being head coach right now makes absolutely no sense to me.
Speaker 1: I think that's a very weird game for them this week,
Speaker 1: especially since Jeff Saturday I think one of the last
Speaker 1: things he said over media is how bad the Raiders are.
Speaker 1: And guess who they're playing this week, the Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 1: So Raiders just to win. So it's minus point five,
Speaker 1: so all they need to do is win that covers
Speaker 1: the spread. So I've teased that down from that six
Speaker 1: and a half. I will be in San Francisco repping
Speaker 1: my Niners this weekend home against the Chargers. I've teased
Speaker 1: that down to seven. Seven seems like a weird line there,
Speaker 1: given the Chargers are obviously a solid team, So Niners
Speaker 1: down to minus one. I love the Niners at home.
Speaker 1: I think they figured out obviously how to be using
Speaker 1: McCaffrey here and having the week off by week to
Speaker 1: get healthy, I think super important for them. And then
Speaker 1: last one is just keep on rolling with the Eagles.
Speaker 1: I've listened to Jerry here a little bit the thirteen
Speaker 1: and a half of last week. I've learned my lesson,
Speaker 1: so the eleven this week against the Commanders at home
Speaker 1: at Lincoln, tease that down to minus five. Again. Eagles
Speaker 1: best team in football right now. I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: can can argue that one No, So plus one sixty
Speaker 1: right there, So you're getting really good value just to
Speaker 1: teasing those points down fifty so five units to win
Speaker 1: one thirty. Again, I think this is a say this
Speaker 1: every week, but I feel like this is a good
Speaker 1: one right here. Where playing to a lot of strengths,
Speaker 1: and I think the Raiders want is just the interesting one.
Speaker 1: They've looked awful. But but so of the Colts, and
Speaker 1: Jonathan Teller is clearly not right, not healthy. I think
Speaker 1: he's played in maybe three games this year, so I
Speaker 1: think you have an auto fade with the Colts. So
Speaker 1: we're looking for your big bounce back. Here you have
Speaker 1: I think three units left, so very curious to see
Speaker 1: where you go here. Yeah, so Vikings Bills probably one
Speaker 1: of the games of the week, if not the game
Speaker 1: of the week. But you have Josh Allen with potentially
Speaker 1: u c L injury. You saw at the end of
Speaker 1: the Jets game. He just did not look right somehow,
Speaker 1: is still playing the ball seventy yards. Clearly that arms
Speaker 1: Bob and him. I think he's do to have m
Speaker 1: R I today or tomorrow. So I've faded them right now.
Speaker 1: So Vikings plus six and a half Vikings are obviously
Speaker 1: a really good team. They are a top five team
Speaker 1: in the league anyway, I think six and a half
Speaker 1: seemed like a lot of points there. So with the injury,
Speaker 1: I think Vikings were a good on the road victory
Speaker 1: last week. I think they're riding into this week pretty strong.
Speaker 1: And everybody saw that the video of the plane with
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins with all the jewelry on. I mean, there
Speaker 1: the chemistry with those Vikings. I you know, I I
Speaker 1: like to look for chemistry at this point in the year.
Speaker 1: They are all the games that the Vikings typically lost,
Speaker 1: they could have easily been six and one, seven and
Speaker 1: one last year, all the games and the injuries and
Speaker 1: the weird like they blew a seventeen point lead to
Speaker 1: the Lions and lost. Like they're just not doing that
Speaker 1: this year. They're closing the door. It's still getting a
Speaker 1: little weird, you know something with them. You can never
Speaker 1: quite count any team out, as we even saw last week.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the Vikings at this point, I like what
Speaker 1: you're doing because if Alan is not right, that's a
Speaker 1: heavy that's a plus six and a half, so a
Speaker 1: big number to cover with with a quarterback that might
Speaker 1: only be at what you know, Yeah, and I think
Speaker 1: back to the Vikings. They've done this without a lot
Speaker 1: of production from Justin Jefferson. From a touchdown point of view,
Speaker 1: I think there was a point he might not have
Speaker 1: a touchdown since week one. He's obviously getting his yards
Speaker 1: and getting his catches. But when he gets hot, you know,
Speaker 1: a good team turns great. So it's gonna be really
Speaker 1: interesting to see second half of the the year. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can't underestimate the Hockinson trade. I thought that's gonna when
Speaker 1: we look back on this year, if the Vikings really
Speaker 1: do make a deep run, that trade might have been
Speaker 1: the sneaky little interdivision move which we never really see,
Speaker 1: that puts them over. He had nine targets for nine catches,
Speaker 1: like instant impact, and it's just an upgrade a visition
Speaker 1: I loved IRV Smitchy, but it's just an upgrade at
Speaker 1: the position. So all right, Pete, the big bounce back
Speaker 1: for you, buddy, I feel I feel good about it. Though. Well, Peter,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make one tiny suggestion too. Right before the
Speaker 1: game's kick off this weekend, maybe just have a look
Speaker 1: at the wedding photo album or maybe watch the VI
Speaker 1: just gets get some of those fields back I'm telling
Speaker 1: you because I want to make sure that you have
Speaker 1: that that wedding swag coming in. But Peter, thank you
Speaker 1: as always. You're gonna make up for last week right here.
Speaker 1: It's a big bounce back for the kid. I might
Speaker 1: bring the photo of the wedding book to Leavi Stadium.
Speaker 1: So just good vibes and with all my buddies, so
Speaker 1: it looks so weird a half time. What's Pete doing? Pete?
Speaker 1: You want to be her num. I'm really into this
Speaker 1: wedding album right now. Got the Bible and the wedding album.
Speaker 1: Just which one do I go to? No one will know,
Speaker 1: all while wearing a McCaffrey jersey. Thanks, Enjoy, Enjoy san Fran,
Speaker 1: enjoy the game. Yeah, maybe see you this week. Okay,
Speaker 1: another week in the books. That was a lot of fun.
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