WEBVTT - Beating The Book: 2020 NFL MegaPod Week 17 Preview 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:12.440 Check it on Man No Down Man Thursday morning, December, 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:17.239 Happy New Year. It's the Beating the Book podcast megapod 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.560 Live from the D Week seventeen. I mentioned that already, 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:24.119 Skill Alexander, thanks for listening, Mike Palm. Here at the D. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.800 It's our final regular season podcast this year. From this 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:31.960 shield like table at the D. The crowd is just 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.120 at its standing room only here. It really is. You 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.640 would think that we knew about COVID before we designed. 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:39.559 This is the perfect though. I mean, this is this 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.120 is there's a lot of space here. People don't get 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.400 on top of you. It's it's it's built for it. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:50.200 And Sunday we've invited the thirty five remaining survivors Chrissie 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:51.879 and Vinnie and on that whole crew. They can come 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.960 down with us and watch Week seventeen here with Derek 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.360 and I. And we also invited the top eleven in 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.960 circum Allien, in the top nine and the fourth quarter 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.080 to come. So people, if they're in town and they 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.319 want to sweat with the other folks that are in 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:08.160 it will be pretty good time here. I would never 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:09.640 want to do that if I was one of the 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.200 final thirty five. I have some film crewis here, Chrissy, 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.280 would you want to do that? By the way, Chris 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:18.680 andrews Our esteemed guest on the megapod say good, go ahead, 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.319 also do on Sunday, so I don't think. Yeah, he's 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.240 got a gig. It's Todd Wishnet from his mom's cork 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.200 addict with the south point background here and from Pittsburgh, PA. 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.560 How you doing, Toddy. It's good to see you all, 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.720 and uh, hopefully we will be able to impart some 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.840 wisdom to the masses today. Um, would you like me 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.679 to do the recap of the records right now? Well? Yes, 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.240 but formerly Chris andrews is Our is a rotating guest 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.240 this week for the scoreliest of all weeks, week seventeen. 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.080 We have to use the word scorely. Uh, so he's 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.000 kind enough to join us. You guys could be next 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.320 door to each other for all we know. But Chris 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.480 is actually in Vegas, not at his hometown of Pittsburgh. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:59.880 Give us, give us the court stenographer, give us the 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.160 uh I know I went oh in three, give us 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.120 the tally. Well, Chris is actually in the other room 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.720 next to my my old living room, my old living 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.160 room which I used to allow two and ten people 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.840 to sit out with me every day and watch the 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.480 games at the South Point and had the hot dogs 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.360 right there for me. But unfortunately, you know, we've got 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:23.880 something difference. Anyways, here's the records. The records. Coming into 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.280 last week, Gil was in the lead, but Gilly Ice 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.359 took a little oh in three action to move to 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:34.280 twenty to twenty three and three, Mikey one one and 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.160 one to move to twenty two, twenty two and four, 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.000 and I had a bad week as well, one and 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:45.680 two and I moved to and one. But the teaser world, 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.639 which is, of course, who's gonna bet pregame except teasers, 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.799 So that's what really matters. They other records don't matter. 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.000 What really matters is who's the best in teaser and 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.480 I am the best in teasers at eleven and five, 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.440 Mikey at ten and six and Gill at nine and seven. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.640 We all got screwed with Jared Goff. Of course, we 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:07.240 need to start a new UM meeting. Instead of just 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.120 Philip Rivers onymous, there should also be Jared Goff anonymous, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.960 because you have to have a mental illness to bet 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:18.000 on Mr Goff. Jared Goff out this week out not 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:23.440 playing in the Rams damp, wet, dirty, washcloth white uniforms. Instead, 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.640 it will be John Wolford of Wake Forest who decided 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.120 those uniforms were good. Those are the worst. John Wolford, 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.400 who was a two time Alliance of American Football Player 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.600 of the Week. Did you know that at a wake Forest? 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.520 So he's the starter and we don't know if Kyler 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.920 Murray's playing, so that that is the most scorely of 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.880 all the games in week seventeen. By the way, how 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.520 about Derrick Stevens riding in here last week having no 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.000 show prep and going three and oh? He had plenty 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.600 of show prep. We don't find that he didn't Oh, 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:55.000 I didn't read that email. Come on, well the teasers, 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.440 oh and four. We all had the Rams and he 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.480 had the Washington football team. But he did go three 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.280 and oh with his straight up picks. To be fair, 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.400 he had no business winning over forty seven and a half. 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:07.680 I had under forty seven and a half in game 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.920 in the exact same game, in the Raiders Miami game. 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.040 He had absolutely no business winning that game. But whatever. Alright, 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.119 so Christie and I do guessing lines for those listening 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.760 to the podcast. You know, Christie and I have been 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.360 doing guessing lines for I don't know eight years, seven years. 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:23.680 We we lost count uh spawned spawned, multi media is 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:28.600 what it has done, books, best sellers. Uh. Then one 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.640 day Chrissie's book. But we've we've done with our We're 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.120 done with our guessing lines for the year. So I 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.240 thought it would be great to have Christie on the megapod. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.280 And then he reminds me of all the weeks, this 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:38.640 is the week you want to have me on. It 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.640 is really the toughest week. But let's start with well, 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.400 let's let's do Survivor. Let's just update Survivor real quick. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.920 Before we start with Chrissie's first best bet, thirty five 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:53.039 left out of dred and ninety eighteen were bounced this week, 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.240 the most on the Browns. That was a COVID you have? 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.000 Did you have people who put in the Browns and 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.440 then wanted to redo their pick? And one person, only one, 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:03.680 and you said look, and we said no, and we 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.120 showed him the whole history. No one, no one has 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.240 ever been able to change their pick and Survivor um 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.479 the rest didn't you know, the rest picked it with 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:15.039 full knowledge they had planned you know. The interesting game 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.760 was the Texans and the Chiefs. At least five had 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.279 to be eliminated because five had the Texans and eight 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.800 had the Chiefs out of the fifty three survivors, so 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.920 there had to be five go down. Well, Texans didn't 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.440 play the Chiefs. Texans played the bank. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:33.120 I'm sorry. Yes, yes, that's correct, But Chiefs man, those 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:37.120 Chief survivor pickers are very lucky. The interception dropped in 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.800 the inside. Should have picked that ball. And then the 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.600 field goal from Coup looked like it was going right 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.560 down the pipe. And then at the gust of wind 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.200 and that kid is great, but the best the gust 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.360 of winds. So I think my twenty nine and a 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.320 half in trouble. I'm gonna lose the bet to Derek. 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.400 I'll owe him a hundred and he gave me five 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.320 to one plus five dollars on over twenty nine and 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.040 a half. What was your You might be right, it 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.680 might be right. I'm all slightly off with sixty five 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.960 slightly well, And and here's the big lament, and and 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.440 I and I have this going. So we lost on 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:13.120 the rams. He had the Saints. This weekend would have 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.480 been his pick. The Ravens would have been mine. Both 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.000 of those crews, and I had the Coult set up 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.320 for week seventeen is two touchdown favorites over Indianapolis. So 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.200 I hate Jared golf in the Rams so much it's 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.040 not even funny. But I'm not one of the thirty five, Christy. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.000 Apparently on this podcast we let people know that you are. Mike. 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:34.720 You already let the cat of the bag. Well, I guess, yeah, well, 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.960 Derek one of the last thirty five. Derek's been announcing 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.400 about the war's launch crew from the South Point for 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.280 six weeks. Yeah, but we on guessing lines. We're all 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.040 being coy about just like just like crack wins his 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.880 kit about it once he got six thirty five last 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:58.760 I got. Yeah, he's got partners, he did, it's out, 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:08.360 he don't. I have one extremely superstitious about baby names. 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.280 Christ We allowed to ask you if you have any 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.800 good teams left, but you could actually take this week 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.600 and not have to swim it. Well, I mean I 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:23.200 have both the Colts and the Ravens available. Oh so 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:27.440 you so you're looking beautiful, looking looking pretty? Yeah? Wow, 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.440 I got a lot of partners. I don't want anybody 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.000 hitting me up for a loan. I got a lot 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.680 of partners, so believe me, I'm not gonna Chris, is 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.240 it Prince is in an octette? This group that you're 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:42.440 in an octette of of of partners, well act you know, 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:47.160 it's actually a little more now, Oh my goodness, wow 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:50.320 enough to get a good lunch. They all put in 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:57.040 fifty bucket. That's a little important if I can't. Did 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:02.600 you guys buy five entries or three? Chris? Uh, we 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:07.240 bought five, and that contest three and the other one. 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:14.080 But um yeah, it's uh yeah, listen, I hope somebody 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.320 hands me some cash on Monday morning. It's all I 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.880 can tell you. But it's not gonna be as much 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:23.080 as we were hoping for. We were the only ones surviving. 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.800 But evidently, obviously, if it's twenty three people or less, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:32.160 it's still six figures and a half. Who was your 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.800 closest call during the season, Like Gil Gil's closest call 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.000 that he survived was that ridiculous Raiders Jets game and 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.000 then of course Goff got him. Did you have a 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:42.880 game that was like you were on the brink of 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:48.120 in total disaster and you saved it. Well, we lost 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.280 on four of the entries, so no, I'm talking about 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.160 the one on the one you have left. Did you 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.520 have any close calls where you were like about to 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.839 be Disasterville and you saved it. I don't remember any 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:03.040 of you know, and you know Todd, you never remember 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.160 the wins. You only remember the losses, you know, So 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.040 remember let me tell you that will remember the Raiders, 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:14.560 Greg Williams and the Jets forever. Yeah I will, yeah, 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:18.000 Gil will. But I first, personally, we weren't involved in 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:22.520 that game, so that one didn't matter. Well, if you 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.760 know you really can't. If I can't win, Christie, I'm 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.520 glad it's I hope it. I hope it's you, despite 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.920 the fact that you have twenty seven partners. Um, all right, 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.240 let's start with these and uh, we'll have things to 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.320 say about some stuff. I have a John Gruden rant 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.680 that I have to repeat, and Christie will really be 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:41.240 excited to hear me repeat that rant. But let's do. 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.680 Can I just say one thing before we start the picks, 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.360 because I think it's apropos for this week. Please one 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.800 sentence I would like to say, must win does not 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:54.200 mean will win. Must win does not mean will win. 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.400 It's a thank you. It's a great place to start. 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.200 By the way, just now over as we're doing this podcast, 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:04.040 Ben Ruffles Burger will sit against the Cleveland Browns. That's 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:08.480 a little bit surprising to me, really. Yeah, because I'll 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.280 tell you why. Because because the Steelers thing. And by 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:11.880 the way, Todd, that's a very good way to start. 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:13.679 This is Dr Bob used to say, if you're in 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.880 a must win situation, you must not be that good. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:20.440 So that is a very overrated handicapping thing. Um. But 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.440 I'm a little surprised, Chrisie. I'll tell you why. On 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.400 the one hand, they were a team that really needed 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.280 to buy week because they never really got one except 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.280 for in Week three or four or whatever that was 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.040 when when it wasn't supposed to be. On the other hand, 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:38.079 does eighteen minutes of good football allow you to relax? 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.760 You know? I don't know. How about how about what's 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:48.440 you got about sixteen years of great football? Have them 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.559 sit this week? I mean, but you can tell by 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.400 the early number. I mean, the early number was seven 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:57.880 built in you? Yeah, I mean, what you think the 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.760 Browns are seven points better than the Steeler know leg week, 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.520 of course, not well, it was building into the number 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.160 and then in and out and then like everybody went crazy. 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.360 So last I looked, you know, right before I got 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.520 on the podcast, everybody went the nine and a half. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.840 I originally went to seven and a half, and then 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:17.319 I saw everybody, I said, well, I'm not going to 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.319 give him a free shot, so I went to nine. 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.120 So if they want to bet me, they could bet nine. 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.280 I'm just staying under the market because we I mean 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.640 we we knew it was not gonna be Roethlisburg. I 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.760 can't believe that the people rushed into the to bet 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.559 this when they found out officially there wasn't yet. They 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.640 had to read the tea leaves. They weren't gonna play out. 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.960 I thought it wasn't see. I thought it was built in, 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:38.679 and I read the tea leaves wrong. I thought it 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.640 was gonna I thought that he was going to play 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.920 and then it was gonna go the other way. So 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.560 silly me. But you're definitely right. It was built in 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:50.000 for sure, I mean absolutely. Now, how do you feel 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:51.920 about how do you feel about the big brother little 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.480 brother thing? You think the Steelers Still I still think 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:58.520 the Steelers may cover Oh yeah, you know, tid hit it. 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:02.360 You know, the musk wind is not necessarily true. I 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.439 I kind of echoed with Bob said in different verbiage. 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.600 I said, it's the most overrated thing in sports. You know, 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.719 these must win games. You know, I see it, you 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.160 know football for sure, but we see it in basketball 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.200 quite a bit too. Must win and then you know 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.560 there's a reason that, like Bob said, there's a reason 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.640 there must win situation. They must not be that good. 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.240 I think this number is way way out of line. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:27.800 All right, what's your number one best bet? Christie? We 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.200 start with you. Well, I'm thinking about making it the Steelers, 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:32.959 but I'm not gonna go there yet. I'm sure we'll 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.080 talk about that a little later. But I'm thinking it's 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.640 the Seahawks over the forty niners. I think that number 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.240 right now just looks a little cheap. Uh, you know, 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:46.400 five seems to be the consensus. Excuse me. Uh, you know, 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.240 the Seahawks are just playing pretty good football. Their defense 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:53.960 has finally come around after you know, really a horrendous start. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.800 Now they played some weak opponents in the last couple 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:01.720 of weeks, and I'm sure of improved their defense of statistics. 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.120 But nonetheless, you play who you're playing, and this forty 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.240 Niner team, you know, Gil we've talked about it on 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.480 guessing the lines. You know, they've just had so many 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.760 different issues. I think it's a well coached team. I 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.320 think it's a really good organization and all that. But 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.040 they've had as many injuries this year pretty much as 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.880 as many as I can remember a team having. And 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.720 not just injuries, but you know, pro bowlers, all pros, 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.360 and you know, besides the quarterback there down to their 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:34.440 third quarterback. UM, there's just a lot of issues there. 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.079 They've been on the road for the last month, even 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.720 though it's a quote unquote a home game. You know, 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.280 I just think there's a lot of things that I know, 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.000 if I was a forty Niner just mentally have to think, Okay, 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.880 this thing is just about over. Where's the Seahawks? UM 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.199 probably playing their best ball of the season right now. 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.200 I think that five number looks a little cheap, So 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.479 that's gonna be my best bet Seattle. Yeah, San Francisco, 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.320 no fault of their own, just what a what a 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.640 hand they've been dealt this year. Seahawks can clench the 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.720 number one seed. They already clinched the NFC West. They 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.800 can clinch the number one seed with a win, a 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.960 New Orleans loss, and a Green Bay loss to Chicago. 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.559 So Seattle pick number one. Mike Palm, Ladies and gentlemen, Derek, 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:15.880 what are you making it? Five or five and a half? 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:20.680 Five and a half? No man's land, Mike Palm, Ladies 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.880 and gentlemen. The vice president of Operations at at Circus Sports, 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:28.600 Derek Stevens, conciliary numerono. I have to believe that Alex 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.240 Smith is ready to play for the football team. And 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.520 I don't think that Jalen Hurts is going to be 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.800 able to beat them through the air because they're not 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.040 gonna let them run the ball. That defensive front is 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.080 too good. They're gonna make Jalen Hurts throw the ball. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.640 I'm not sure what Phillies motivation is here. You know, 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:48.680 they thought they had this division in the bag all 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.600 year with that tie, and they were always a half 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.560 game ahead, and they were always you know, and you know, 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.240 teach me how to Doug ee at the quarterback whisper 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.680 and all that. So in this Sunday night spectacular to 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:03.360 fin the year, and we won't know who the benefactor 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.960 is of a of a Washington loss until the Giants 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.840 and the Cowboys play for the right to be the 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.720 the right to be the standing if the Philly does 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:14.040 beat them. But I just I have to believe that 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.520 the Washington football team is going to win this game. 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.480 I'm I'm going to step in and say that's my 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.760 number two pick as well. I've already bet it. What 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.280 do you have as a number? The number and a half? 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.640 That's too mainly now, I think Todd I got two. 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.040 I see a lot of two. Yeah to Washington US too. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:33.760 As long as it's under three, I'm all about it. 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:38.200 I already bet it at minus two. Uh. I totally 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.560 believe that they made the Dwayne Haskins move thinking that 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:45.520 Alex Smith will be available. Taylor Heineke would go if 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.760 not Alex Smith. Washington's record since the start of the 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.560 eighteen season. Again, for those who listen to guessing lines, 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.360 for give me for repeating a few of these, but 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:56.960 Washington's records since the beginning of the twenty eighteen season 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.360 ten and five with Alex Smith starting, six and twenty 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.520 with other starting. And again, that's the other big headline 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.960 we should start with here. Today, the NFL has legislated 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:11.760 out the possibility of correlated parlays. So the early window 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.240 on Sunday, all the teams in the a f C 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:15.680 who are either going to be in or out of 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.840 the playoffs, the Miami, Baltimore's and Cleveland's of the world, 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.880 they play in the early time slot, the late afternoon 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.880 time slot. It's a f C South winners. It's either 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.440 gonna be Indianapolis or Tennessee. The team's buying for the 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.720 number one seed in the NFC. Green Bay, New Orleans 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:34.400 and Seattle are playing and the NFC ins and outs. 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.360 Will they make the playoffs? Will they not? Uh? And 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.800 then of course the nightcap is the stand alone between 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.560 Washington and Philadelphia to determine ultimately the NFC East champion, 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.560 with the Dallas Giants winner looking on all right, by 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:51.320 the way, quirks, just since we bring up the Giants, 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.520 the Giants could win the division or pick third in 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:58.560 the NFL draft. That's how big their chasm is. Six 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.240 and ten could win a division in the n SEE 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.240 the East, and eleven and five could miss the playoffs 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.760 in the a f C. So Mikey's number one is Washington. 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:10.480 That's my number two. Todd, you're number one. First of all, obviously, 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:14.000 this week is ridiculously hard. Um, I'll just preface by 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:18.159 saying that I'm gonna take a little team. Um. First, well, 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:19.800 I'm gonna ask you who, what number do you have 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:27.080 for the New York Football Giants plus three? Okay, then 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:31.480 I'm definitely taking it. Give me the New York Football 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.920 Giants plus three against the Dallas cow Girls. Now they 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.240 got to the window for me. Last week, I saw 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:42.520 a star back to Drew Pearson or whatever, Aikman to Irvin, 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.879 I don't know what that was. With the beige water 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:48.280 pistol to uh you know, Ceedee Lamb and whoever else. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.840 Gallup was scoring a touchdown every ten seconds. It was fantastic. 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.960 I don't believe it. The New York Giants are good 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.159 on defense. Now we've got a Dallas team that is 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.200 incredibly up and down all season, with great one week, 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:04.520 terrible the next week, all that other craziness. The Giants 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:08.320 are gonna play defensive football. Now, granted, they're not good 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:11.000 on offense, we all know that. But now you're only 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.000 asking me to be at home and keep it close. 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:16.680 I'm gonna take the New York Giants. I'm gonna take 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:19.400 the plus three. I know Zeke's coming in with, oh, 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.960 I'm great, Give me the porridge. I wanna eat the porridge, 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.680 nonsense and everything. Give me the Giants plus three. Let 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:29.240 Dallas be Dallas. Dallas is who we thought they work. 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:32.000 Who said Dallas is who we thought they were. They're 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:35.040 in consistent. Give me the Giants plus three. Why did 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:38.600 you decide that Zeke was eating porridge in those things? 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:42.000 When he minds that the thing where he gets a run, 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.080 he gets a four yard run and he starts eating 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:48.840 porridge whatever he's eating. It's ridiculous. What was the last 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.560 time you think you had porridge? Todd had's always been 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:55.119 a big Goldilocks fan. Looks like a guy who's like 0:18:55.119 --> 0:19:01.960 eating out of a bowl of I don't know, maybe porridge. 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:08.200 Oliver twist. It's right, it's all Oliver twist. Oliver twists. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:13.560 All right, Christy, you're number two porridge. I don't I 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:17.120 believe I've never had porridge. I'm gonna stand by that. 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:23.679 I think you know. By the way to two little things, 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.200 because we're both games were mentioned. We have two games 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:33.679 where home dogs have gone to road favorites, uh and 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:38.240 one one being the Cowboys and depending on the why 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.159 where you were with you know, and it could be 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:45.520 Washington was also a home dog. Depending anyway, my second 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:47.960 best bet, I think I'm gonna go with the Steelers, 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:49.639 you know, plus the nine and a half. I just 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:54.440 think that's, uh, you know, a ridiculous over adjustment. It's 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.720 still most of the most of the Steelers defense I 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:00.560 think will play. But I mean, you never know what Tomlin. Uh. 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:02.840 But still they have enough in there that I think 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:05.760 that they keep this game close. We're talking about nine 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:08.439 and even nine, nine and a half, whatever number you 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:11.240 want to give me there. It's like Chris, we'll give 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.159 you a ten, right, Okay, Yeah, Well I'm off my 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.280 don best right now. When I when I got onto 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.160 the screen here, I'm still looking. I got the south 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:23.760 point numbers. Here, I got my computer. We are still 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:26.280 at nine, but I got some action on the minus nine, 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.000 so we may be going to ten soon. Anyway, give 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.800 me the Steelers. I just think that's a ridiculous overadjustment. 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.119 One back of the theme we talked about earlier, the 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.040 must win means you must not be that good and 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:40.000 you know, the Browns. You know they've been good, and 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.399 actually part of me even wants to see them in 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.560 the playoff guy kind of like Baker Mayfield. But this 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.160 number is just ridiculously high. So give me the Steelers. 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:52.040 I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I'm gonna tell you right now, 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:54.200 I think at nine and a half. But don't hold 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:56.840 on one second. But let me just make sure you 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.920 guys see nine and a halfs and tens, I see 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:02.600 ten plus. So fine, all right, let's let's give the 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:04.320 man a ten. If you're gonna give him the ten, 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:06.320 that you gotta give me the ten because that's my no, no, no, 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:08.040 I don't want to start that nine and a half 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:11.000 because then you're gonna take advantage nine and a half. 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:14.160 Some I know you, so nine and a half both 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:16.080