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Episode 7: Week 1 is Upon Us! Which Teams Start Off Happy?! · Ruffling the Feathers: An NFL Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode number seven of the
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  Speaker 1: Ruffling the Feathers podcast. In this episode, week one is
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  Speaker 1: finally upon us. Some teams are happy, some teams are not.
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  Speaker 1: The vibe is immaculate in every city in the world.
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  Speaker 1: except probably Miami, Florida. And joining me is my two co-hosts,
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  Speaker 1: Supernova and Brandon. Gentlemen, what is going on today?
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  Speaker 2: It's Labor Day. To be completely honest with you, I've
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  Speaker 2: slept a lot today. That's not something that I get
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  Speaker 2: much of an opportunity to do between full-time work and
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  Speaker 2: full-time college, but I'm very glad that today is quite
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  Speaker 2: literally a day of rest.
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  Speaker 1: What is this sleep word you are talking about? Please
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  Speaker 1: explain it to me.
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  Speaker 2: Something that I have not had a chance to actually
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  Speaker 2: sleep in past 8 a.m. my time and probably the
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  Speaker 2: last double digit years. Oh man.
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  Speaker 1: And Nova, how are you doing today, man?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, rather rough here. Personal things got in the way,
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  Speaker 3: but outside of a little incident, uh, Had a hefty weekend.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I was at Jaden Daniels Stadium on Friday,
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  Speaker 3: and then I was on the call, as I said
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  Speaker 3: from the previous episode, at San Bernardino Valley College, and
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  Speaker 3: gotta say, quite a hefty weekend all around. You know,
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  Speaker 3: saw a couple of junior college updates, and obviously San
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  Speaker 3: Bernardino Valley College. I'm just gonna go ahead and straight
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  Speaker 3: up spoil it. They beat LA Valley 69-10.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. That might as well be an NBA-style game
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  Speaker 1: for three quarters. Gee, Brent, I wonder what happens with
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  Speaker 1: a team that's leading that much after three quarters. I
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  Speaker 1: think they usually win, right?
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  Speaker 2: You would think. You would think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you would think about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Another thing, shout-outs as well to Riverside City College, who
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  Speaker 3: beat the number two team in the state in the
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  Speaker 3: junior college leagues, Golden West, by a score of 20-17.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that sounds like a real good game right there. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Shouts to the Tigers.
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  Speaker 2: Much better.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, now, I'll also say this, because Nova, you've
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  Speaker 1: done the high school reporting as well. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how you guys are on this, but at least for me,
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  Speaker 1: with the high school game that I was announcing on
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  Speaker 1: Friday night, that was a real football game because the
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  Speaker 1: final score was only 7-0. And I know, I know
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  Speaker 1: what you guys are thinking seven, nothing that sounds boring,
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  Speaker 1: but no, it was defense. It was exactly what you want.
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  Speaker 1: That nice old school knockdown drag out battle with the
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  Speaker 1: only touchdown was a 56 yards catch and run on
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  Speaker 1: a screen pass by a kid. Who's apparently a D
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  Speaker 1: one athlete.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: That's pretty impressive. And actually I bring this up as well. Cause, uh,
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  Speaker 3: On the Riverside TV's Friday Night Pep Rally, we did
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  Speaker 3: mention there was a 7-0 score, and we might have
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  Speaker 3: had it better than you did, Talon, because that 7-0
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  Speaker 3: score happened in double overtime.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Brandon, I think he's got me there, dude. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's got me. Double overtime to only get a 7-0?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Double OT nail biters are always the worst to lose on.
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  Speaker 1: That is true. But it's still, it just showcases that
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  Speaker 1: even at the high school level, there's still those defensive battles,
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  Speaker 1: those defensive struggles. I mean, hell, in that game that
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  Speaker 1: I was announcing. Now, Nova, I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: know this off the top of your head. How many
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  Speaker 1: penalties were in that game?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. There's a correct answer.
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  Speaker 2: Where is it? Hold on.
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  Speaker 1: I got it. There it is. Perfect answer right there.
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  Speaker 1: At least in the game that I was announcing, there
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  Speaker 1: were 26 accepted penalties, including at the start of the
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  Speaker 1: second half. I kid you guys not, that game in
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  Speaker 1: the second half, the home team got the ball. An
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  Speaker 1: official play was not registered for the first two minutes
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  Speaker 1: of the second half because it was just penalty, penalty, penalty, penalty, penalty.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: It was a It was ridiculous. But then you add
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  Speaker 1: in also, there were two fourth down stops by the
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  Speaker 1: visiting team inside the five yard line, including one at
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  Speaker 1: the one yard line to end the first half. The
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  Speaker 1: quarterback for the home team through two interceptions, one of
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  Speaker 1: which was, I mean, he might've had Jameis Winston eyesight
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  Speaker 1: because I swear on everything above and I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to knock on a young kid But he did not
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  Speaker 1: see this defender at all. It was like one of
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  Speaker 1: those where it's like, oh, shit, he's there?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: And the kid who intercepted the pass, he nearly had
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  Speaker 1: a crazy one-handed interception later in the game that he
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  Speaker 1: would have been in the freaking parking lot if he
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  Speaker 1: would have caught that ball because that's how fast he
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  Speaker 1: was running. He was still running as he was trying
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  Speaker 1: to intercept it. It was that perfect. of a near interception,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, no. 7-0, a lot of good defensive struggles,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of good stops on fourth down, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of good third downsides. There was also a 38-yard field
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  Speaker 1: goal that was missed. It was either wide right or
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  Speaker 1: wide left, but neither here nor there. Still, 7-0, that's
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  Speaker 1: the kind of game you want, like those old-school knockdown
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  Speaker 1: drag-out fights. Now, if it ever happens in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: I can already guarantee what every person will say about that.
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  Speaker 1: This was boring. I don't want to see punters all day.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Were you referring to the Patriots Ram Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl there?
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  Speaker 3: No, I have a better answer. Vikings Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's got you there, Brandon, Vikings Raiders. But
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  Speaker 1: it's actually a good thing that you brought up that
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  Speaker 1: Patriots ran Super Bowl, Brandon, because I said this right
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  Speaker 1: before we went live, that there is something significant about
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  Speaker 1: this day in sports and entertainment that I will just
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  Speaker 1: preface this. Nova, you may know of what Brandon and
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  Speaker 1: I are going to reveal, but you were not around
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  Speaker 1: when this first happened.
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  Speaker 3: And keep in mind, everyone watching at home, we are
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  Speaker 3: recording this on September 7th, which is Labor Day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so Brandon, what is significant about today's date in history?
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  Speaker 2: The only thing that came to mind, and I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: think about this when you initially asked, but there were
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  Speaker 2: two things that came to my mind throughout sports history.
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  Speaker 2: The least important of which that I can thought of
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  Speaker 2: was Dan Marino throwing his 100th TD pass yesterday. I
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  Speaker 2: think it was at like low to mid 40s games,
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  Speaker 2: which was like an NFL record. And then I want
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  Speaker 2: to say the other one, which is more important, was
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  Speaker 2: I believe that in today's day and history was the
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  Speaker 2: day that the NFL Hall of Fame was enshrined for Kenton,
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  Speaker 2: Ohio specifically.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, those two answers are not what I was looking for. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently on this day in 2001, so, and again, for
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  Speaker 1: those out there that are Brandon's age and my age,
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  Speaker 1: this Friday is the 25th anniversary of the 9-11 terror attacks, which,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Brandon, hard to believe it's been 25 years, right?
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy, man. I was in fifth grade when that happened.
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  Speaker 1: I was sick at home from school, and my mom
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  Speaker 1: had brought my brother to preschool. And even better, my
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  Speaker 1: family is New York, and 9-11 is my parents' wedding anniversary.
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  Speaker 2: Whoop. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, granted, they were married five years before 9-11, but
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  Speaker 1: it's still– it hits closer to home. But, again, on
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  Speaker 1: this day in 2001– It was a sweet, sweet day
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  Speaker 1: in history. And for the first time ever, even though
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  Speaker 1: it's seven episodes in, I'm going to break in a song, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to sing. The winner takes all. It's the
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  Speaker 1: thrill of one more kill.
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  Speaker 3: The last one to fall.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, apparently today is the anniversary of the bubble bowl.
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  Speaker 2: I need my boo button. I need my boo button
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  Speaker 2: because of the Spongebob reference. The Spongebob reference was not
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  Speaker 2: on my bingo card.
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  Speaker 3: You know what we need?
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  Speaker 2: We need an.
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  Speaker 3: Incorrect buzzer sound. You know what you see on these
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  Speaker 3: YouTube clips?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man, I should have gotten one of those. But yes, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: according to the official Spongebob Instagram post, today, on this
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  Speaker 1: day in 2001, Spongebob rocked the bubble bowl. So... I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what that is. Again, Nova, you were too
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  Speaker 1: young for that episode. That was the episode Band Geeks,
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  Speaker 1: where Squidward has to perform with a band at a
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  Speaker 1: Bubble Bowl, which Funnily enough, actually, that episode does have
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  Speaker 1: a legitimate USFL.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about a throwback.
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  Speaker 1: It had a USFL football, like real life situations in
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  Speaker 1: that episode. If I remember correctly, you had the Tampa
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  Speaker 1: Bay Bandits of all teams, which also showcases like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: the city of Tampa Bay had a team that wasn't?
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  Speaker 1: involved with the Buccaneers? And the answer would be yes.
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  Speaker 1: They had the Tampa Bay Bandits at one point.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, it was definitely a fun day in history.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, Nova, I'm sure you've at least seen,
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  Speaker 1: like from that episode, some of the many like quotes
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  Speaker 1: or memes from that episode. The first one is Mayonnaise
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  Speaker 1: and Instrument.
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  Speaker 3: That's actually the first time I've heard that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. All right. So I would like to
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  Speaker 2: say we're only 11 and a half minutes into recording
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  Speaker 2: this episode. And not only is my back hurting twice now, one,
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  Speaker 2: because of the bubble ball reference, two, because it's been
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  Speaker 2: 25 years since September 11th. but three because... That's actually
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  Speaker 2: the first time I've heard that. Well, come on now, man.
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  Speaker 2: My pain reliever's in the car, and I kind of
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  Speaker 2: regret not bringing it inside now. Oh, Jesus Christ. And
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  Speaker 2: a tricycle. What the hell?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. I mean, look, it all paired is like,
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  Speaker 1: that's great. But I can't, I can't believe he's never
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  Speaker 1: heard of that line before. Brandon. That's like one of
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  Speaker 1: the most, uh, what's the word? Iconic, iconic, iconic or
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  Speaker 1: recognizable lines on that. Or like, um, I mean, but see, Nova,
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  Speaker 1: when Brandon brought up that Super Bowl between the Rams
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  Speaker 1: and the Patriots, that was the year that Stephen Hillenburg,
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  Speaker 1: the creator of SpongeBob, had passed away. And there was
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  Speaker 1: a whole petition to get, like, SpongeBob. I heard about
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  Speaker 1: that one.
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  Speaker 3: I heard about that one.
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  Speaker 1: And then they.
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  Speaker 1: Look, for lack of a better term, the NFL fucked
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  Speaker 1: it up. That was a horrible halftime show. It was
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  Speaker 1: only fitting that it was a horrible Super Bowl, even
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  Speaker 1: though the correct NFC team was in that game. The
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  Speaker 1: correct NFC team won that game, won the right to
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  Speaker 1: go to that Super Bowl, mind you.
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  Speaker 3: No, they didn't, first of all. I still think the
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  Speaker 3: Saints got screwed over because the ref missed a no-call
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  Speaker 3: in the Cal River. Nah.
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  Speaker 1: Nah.
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  Speaker 2: However... That's just biased because that man almost committed. That
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  Speaker 2: man almost caught a murder charge on that defensive pass interference.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. I mean, I just don't think the Saints
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: can forgive Nickel Robey Coleman. However, I want to continue
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  Speaker 3: what I say about the hat. It was the most
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  Speaker 3: cursed thing ever because like three different artists turned that down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was right around the time of everything
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  Speaker 1: that was happening with the protests and the flag and
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: shit that we don't need to, uh, re rehash or whatever. But,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, no, they, they, they ruined that SpongeBob. So
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  Speaker 1: it was like, people were like, okay, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: actually get like a good segment of this. And it
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  Speaker 1: was literally like, what was it?
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  Speaker 3: Brandon?
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  Speaker 1: Like, like almost like a 10 second cameo or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. It was like blinking. You missed it. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, that is how you're going to like,
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  Speaker 1: bring this in. Like what the hell?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and not only that, because of all the artists
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  Speaker 3: turning it down, of course they had to turn to
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  Speaker 3: Maroon 5. And then Maroon 5 just somehow didn't understand
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  Speaker 3: the assignment?
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  Speaker 1: No, they did not. But thankfully, that next year at
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  Speaker 1: that Super Bowl, they got J-Lo and Shakira. And boy,
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  Speaker 1: them hips don't lie.
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  Speaker 2: Shakira, Shakira.
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  Speaker 3: Shout out as well to Bad Bunny and J Balvin, too.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know.
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  Speaker 2: If he... If he don't know about the bubble ball,
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  Speaker 2: he don't know about Shakira.
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  Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 1: It's on the radio all the time.
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  Speaker 3: You still hear Hips don't lie on the radio. What
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  Speaker 3: do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about Shakira. I'm not talking about the song.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about Shakira.
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  Speaker 3: She's still mainstream.
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  Speaker 1: She is still mainstream. That is a... A fair point.
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  Speaker 1: But let's try and rehash ourselves back onto the tracks,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: even though it's a lot of fun to just talk
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  Speaker 1: about some random stuff. And who knows, you might find
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  Speaker 1: something fancy during our next recording date for what's so
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  Speaker 1: special about today in history.
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  Speaker 2: But.
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  Speaker 1: We did talk about football, and I think it's only
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  Speaker 1: safe to say before we talk about week one of
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: the NFL and some stuff that has happened, of which
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  Speaker 1: we will get into that later. Probably not. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But we had to talk about the one game that
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  Speaker 1: everybody was talking about, that everybody was losing their collective
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  Speaker 1: minds over a little bit for good reason, too. What
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  Speaker 1: happened at the end of the University of Michigan, University
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  Speaker 1: of Western Michigan football game where the Wolverines were down 12-7.
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  Speaker 1: They throw a Hail Mary pass, and it looks like
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  Speaker 1: the game is over. To every single person in the
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  Speaker 1: room and watching at home, the game was over, and
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  Speaker 1: a MAAC team... beat a big 10 team and not
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: just a big 10 team a big 10 team in
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  Speaker 1: the top 25 of the uh national rankings oh wait
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  Speaker 1: i forgot to set the recording back one second guys.
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  Speaker 3: That was so stupid when i first heard it like
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  Speaker 3: you could see the clocks hit zero and apparently the
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  Speaker 3: ref saw something different.
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  Speaker 1: Evidently, because we do have the quote from the Big Ten,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to read it right now. The statement
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  Speaker 1: from the Big Ten conference, which came at 1246, or
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  Speaker 1: that might be 1248, I'm not 100% sure, 1248. This
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  Speaker 1: is what they posted. Following video review, it was determined
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  Speaker 1: Western Michigan's number 18 started his jump from an established
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  Speaker 1: out-of-bounds position with his left foot and made contact with
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  Speaker 1: the ball with one second remaining on the clock. As
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  Speaker 1: shown in the provided video of what was viewed during
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  Speaker 1: the replay process, a side-by-side view of the play and
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  Speaker 1: the game clock using a direct shot of the game
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  Speaker 1: clock in the stadium was used to determine the final ruling.
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  Speaker 1: 85 minutes prior to the game, all broadcast cameras used
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  Speaker 1: for the replay system, including the camera on the game clock,
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  Speaker 1: are synced using a strobe system to ensure all cameras
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  Speaker 1: are alive. Per NCAA Football Rule 4-2-3-A... Quote, a ball
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  Speaker 1: not in player control other than a kick that scores
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  Speaker 1: a field goal is out of bounds when it touches
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  Speaker 1: the ground, a player, a game official, or anything else
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  Speaker 1: that is out of bound or that is on or
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  Speaker 1: outside a boundary line, and thus the clock is stopped.
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  Speaker 1: Where do we start with that, guys? Where do we start?
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  Speaker 3: Start in the comments section right there. It says we
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  Speaker 3: had money on the game.
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  Speaker 1: Good at it. Honestly, that is a good edit. But seriously,
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  Speaker 1: like I watched this, that play. I watched it back.
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  Speaker 1: I listened to the broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: I listened.
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  Speaker 1: They had fricking Terry McCauley on the call for that.
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  Speaker 1: And even he is like, there is no, like we
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  Speaker 1: have the clock, like our broadcast clock is synced to
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  Speaker 1: the stadium clock. And we've got triple zeros on the board.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't understand how they could add a second
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  Speaker 1: back on the game clock. Like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Help me.
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  Speaker 1: Help me, guys. Help me.
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  Speaker 3: I had to bring this up as well because apparently
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  Speaker 3: I got reminded of this on social media when it happened.
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  Speaker 3: Around the time, and I appreciate this is bad memory
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  Speaker 3: for Brandon because apparently there's this whole, well, Alabama shouldn't
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: have had a second to go ahead and get that
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: field goal against Auburn in the Iron Bowl. But that idea.
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  Speaker 2: We don't talk about that. We don't talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure you wouldn't. But I got brought up
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  Speaker 3: this argument because they're like, didn't the clock hit zeros
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  Speaker 3: for that game too? So it should have went to
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  Speaker 3: overtime and instead it should have never been that 57-yard
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: field goal that should have been attempted. But I just
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: don't get it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like.
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  Speaker 3: And there's this whole separate argument as well where it's like, well,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: didn't Michigan pay Western Michigan or something to play in
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  Speaker 3: this game? And now suddenly you got this whole controversy.
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  Speaker 3: Because in my opinion, I would say I would challenge
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  Speaker 3: this 100%.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Well, they did get paid apparently once million to play
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: this game, which, I mean, for a Mac school of $ 1. 5 million,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: that is a hell of a payday. But at the
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: same time, I mean, look, I read even the Mac
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  Speaker 1: conference president's statement And look, credit to them. They gave it,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: you know, grace and aplomb and handled it, you know,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: professionally and whatnot. But if this was me, I'm raising
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: holy hell. Like, there is no shot that if the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: stadium clock is synced to the broadcast clock and the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: broadcast clock is reading zeroes, Where do you find a second,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: especially when it says 85 minutes prior to the game,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: all broadcast cameras used for the replay system are synced
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: using a strobe system. So you mean to tell us
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: that one of the clocks wasn't synced.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: So to me, my turn, um, To me, this is
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: to kind of tie along with the whole, you know,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Mac school paying to play Big Ten statement. This is
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: one of those, oh shit, we didn't think we would
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: actually come this close to seeing Michigan lose to somebody
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: like this. We need to save face for the college
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: football playoffs.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, the way that they play, they
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: don't deserve to even be sniffing the college football playoff.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, you are 20.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Michigan needs to drop it ranking after this.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: You are a 27 and a half point favorite in
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: this game. And you, I mean, look to every person
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: in the world, Western Michigan lost today, Portnoy, Michigan one,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and we should all shut the fuck up. Yeah.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: See, I want to add onto that. Why did the
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Wolverines fans storm the stadium? I said, they want a
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: big game.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I think it probably was just the fact that it was,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: you know, a miracle Hail Mary. I mean, I don't
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: agree with that either, where they just stormed the field. Like,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: it'd be one thing if that was against Ohio State.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: You get a Hail Mary and you storm the field
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: against Ohio State because that's your biggest rival. But in
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: a match like that, that honestly felt a little... I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: don't necessarily want to say disrespectful or anything like that, but...
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: It damn sure came close.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: It's... Can you imagine if, you know, before we start
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: moving on to the world of the lovely NFL, can
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: you imagine if this exact controversy happened with an SEC
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: team like Alabama?
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: That's why I brought it up, because I think about
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: the whole comparison, so it's like, Well, if that was
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: the case, why didn't the Iron Bowl go to overtime
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: instead of that one-second rollback?
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine if– no, exactly. Can you imagine if
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: in the process of Alabama playing against Eastern Carolina University
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: this weekend, if ECU, who has historically never had a
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: good football program, mind you– and I say that as
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: somebody who almost attended ECU– gave alabama a run for
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: their money like that like sure michigan's one thing but
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: imagine doing against somebody with like the the resume of
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: alabama like people would be setting buildings on fire like
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: philadelphia when they won the super.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Bowl i started to think how a first take segment
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: with steven a would have been like that because we
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: know how much he loves to talk about alabama Like
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: we know how much he loves to talk. We know
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: how much he loves to talk them up. I'm sure
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: he would have, he would have ripped them an asshole. Yay.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Fucking why? If that would have happened in Alabama, but
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I also just want to throw out there. Cause Nova,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: you brought it up with the, the iron bowl, still
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: one of the greatest, I know, Brandon, you probably don't
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: agree with it because Alabama lost that game, but the
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: broadcast for Auburn's radio team for that, one of the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: best broadcast calls for a walk-off I've ever heard.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: No, it was actually a very good call. It was
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: one of those, I love the whole embracing the moment
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: in the moment type calls. Those are like some of
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: the best color commentaries that anybody could have as like
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: a live play-by-play sort of thing.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you always want a call like that to
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: be a thing. So to finally have– or to have
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: something like that happen, I'm definitely a fan of it.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I even heard Michigan's call– of like the, the hail Marion, even,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: even their voices crack, but it's like, it's not the
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: same because it doesn't really feel like you really want anything,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: you know?
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: That's why I feel indifference because like it brings us
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: this whole controversy that I'm pretty sure a lot of
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: NCAA fans on social media are not going to let
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: go for a year.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah. This'll be a big old asterisk for the rest
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: of the season. Probably.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Probably. But let's actually just pull that up because I
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: do want to at least see who the heck does
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Michigan play week two because this just shows how much
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I follow college football. They play Oklahoma.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Michigan's about to start out the season one and one.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: They should start at 0-2.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Getting ticket for that is $ 110 at the big house.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: So that's going to be fun.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: But that's your schedule coming up.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they probably have a tough schedule coming up. But
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: now we get to move on to the good stuff.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: We get to talk about the real football season. Week
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: one is here, guys. Are we hype or are we hype?
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Depends on who you ask. I mean, obviously....
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Go. Go ahead, Nova. Sorry. My bad, Nova. My bad, Nova.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: You started first. I see we're starting the whole debate
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: sections like this. But anyway, Talon and Brandon McGulf, see
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: you on my camera. I have my Ravens gear on.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I'm going to have it on again on Sunday. And, well,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: we're going to have all various opinions. But I hope
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: you all at home can enjoy what we can bring
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: to your table every week. Because from now on, we're
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: going to be going through games. And for this week only,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: it's just going to be predictions.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just going to be predictions this week, but
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: we also have to bring up one thing about week one,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: and that's the get-in prices. We'll be doing that for
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: a little bit of fun, guys. So let's start with
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the first game of the season. Let's do the kickoff game.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: The New England Patriots at the Seattle Seahawks. A rematch
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl. That is one Brandon probably wants
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: to forget. Am I right?
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Man, you could drive a semi through the holes that
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: we left in that line.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: And believe it or not, usually these kickoff games are
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: on Thursdays. But for the first time, I think, ever,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: It's on a Wednesday.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: It is on a Wednesday because we have a game
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: on a Thursday. We still have a Thursday game, but
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: that one is.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: It's Australia.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that one's Australia. But we get to talk about
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the Patriots and the Seahawks. The line right now in
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: this game is Seattle minus 3.5 and the over-under is 44.5.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Brandon.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: It's your team. So I think we need to have
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the floor is yours. You lead us off with this.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: So honestly, honestly, I realistically, if our offensive line has
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: improved any, I expect us to be a better game
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: than what we put up in the Superbowl. We've had
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: a lot of offensive line retooling. We've had, you know, we've,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: we've kind of, you know, improved our wide receiver room
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: to be fair. We kind of really had a lot
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: of flight, you know, For lack of a better term,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: our receivers are not what you would call household names.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Throughout the offseason, we did acquire A.J. Brown from Philadelphia.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: We got Romeo Dobbs. Even though we traded off Kendrick Bourne.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. We traded off Booty is what it is.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Our wide receiver room is a little bit better than
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: what it was, but I still expect Seattle to beat
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: us fairly badly. even though they lost their best running
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: back to Kansas City, I believe. If Sam Darnold's still
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: on top of his game, if Seattle's still on top
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: of their game, if they're doing everything they can to
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: try to prevent that Super Bowl hangover, then the over-under
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: of 44 sounds about right. But I do expect it
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: to be a closer game than what we put up
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl. I would like to see A.J.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Brown come out of that with at least two touchdowns.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Gee, I wonder why he would want A.J. Brown to
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: get two touchdowns, Nova.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: It could be for fantasy reasons, but then again, you
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: do want to get a good start for A.J. Brown
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: and his new team of the Patriots. I mean, I
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: think that's going to be the biggest question mark on
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: the offense alongside that offensive line because, you know, Will
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Campbell still coming out of injury. There's been rumors of
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: him moving to guard and then obviously the case on
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: booty trade. Romeo Dobbs, I don't know how good he'll be.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: And then there's this whole running back debate between Ramond
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Trey Stevenson and Trey Fionn Henderson, although I think Henderson
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: should be the favorite to start. And for the Seahawks, yes,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: they did lose Kenneth Walker to the Kansas City Chiefs
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: in free agency. They did lose a good amount of
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: their secondary as well. I think Kobe Bryant went to
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: the Bears and then got injured.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: And then.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, not the out of Kobe. It's the seed Kobe. Yeah.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: To also touch on it, for what it's worth, I
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: do not have A.J. Brown on any of my fantasy
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: teams at all whatsoever. I do have Drake May on one,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: but I'm just hoping I get to see that the
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Drake May, A.J. Brown chemistry is as what it has
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: been portrayed throughout training games.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, as you're wondering, I have Hunter Henry on fantasy,
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: and I'm probably going to end up starting him because
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: I don't know how much stock I could put in
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: a Pat Fryer move right now. But anyway, I do
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: think I do agree. I think during May, AJ Brown
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: connections got to be strong in order for the Patriots
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: to win this game. But also, they got to be
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: able to stop Sam Darnold, Jadarian Price, because Zach Sharpenay
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: is still in IR. You got to stop Jackson Smith
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: and Chikma somehow, AJ Barner. And then it's going to
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: be a tough game. We did retool our defense, and
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: it's pretty much just a copy and paste of last year. So,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's going to be a little
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: bit better, but at the same time, I still wouldn't
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: be surprised if, you know, Seattle beat.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Us by two scores. It's still really hard to believe
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: that this is the same Sam Darnold that played for
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: the Jets that we would pretty much pick off four
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: times per game every time we played him. Yeah.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: It's interesting how he developed into the quarterback. He is,
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: which thank you to San Francisco for initially starting that journey.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: And then the Minnesota Vikings got him that opportunity and boom.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Now he's a three-year deal, a hundred million dollars Superbowl champion.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: And he's still looking strong to this, to what we
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: hopefully should see in the 2027 season. Although that is
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: still to be determined because, you know, you never know
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: what you're going to have this season, but it should
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: be a fun game. And I, Do you think Seattle
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: will win? But I think, as you said, Brandon, I
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: think it's going to be a lot closer than people think.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I agree with that, but we're all picking Seattle to
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: win this game?
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Against my better judgment, my realistic take would be that
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Seattle is probably going to beat New England in the
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: opening games. What I would like to see, obviously, of course,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: is the Patriots to win. But if the Patriots were
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: to win, I do not think it would be anything
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: closer than a field goal.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's fair. So you think that New England
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: can at least cover the spread?
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: We can definitely at least cover the spread. Our offense
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: is tremendously better than it was last year. The only
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: thing that we have to do really is clean up
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: all the mental errors. And then Drake Mayne needs to
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: shake off whatever nerves he experienced in the Super Bowl
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: and just ball out again this year.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: And do you think they go over under 44 and
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: a half?
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: I think if they come close to the spread, it'll
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: be under. I would probably say it would be at
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: least 37 to 38 would be the spread. But if
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: they do go over, it'll probably be a higher octane
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: game on both sides.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: And what about you, Nova? Do you think they cover
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: the spread of three and a half and over under?
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: See, I'm still relatively new to those gambling odds, so
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: I might not have the best of information or the
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: best of knowledge about the information yet. If someone could
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: type that for me in the chat, I could give
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: an easier answer about somebody explaining it to me.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: So basically with a spread being minus three and a half,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: that means that the Seahawks have to win by four
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: or more to cover. If they win by three or less,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: tie or New England wins, it's New England outright.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody's going to put that in a private chat
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: so I don't have to ask again, but I think
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: the spread can be... I don't think the spread's going
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: to be huge. I think Seattle wins by at least four.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: I think they win by at least four.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Okay. So that means the spread is yes. And do
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: you think the total points will be over or under 44.5?
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Under.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of in the same way. I think I'm.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Hoping Hunter Henry gets a red zone touchdown because Brandon,
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: you know, he's high on Hunter Henry doing that, but
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: who knows about this dark side defense. Yeah.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I love Hunter Henry. He's definitely been
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: the favorite red zone target.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: And the fun thing about this, because like Brandon said
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: that he has nobody in fantasy for this. I've got
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: the Seattle defense and JSA.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: And I'm over here.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, you want them to go ballistic. Get out of
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: here with your bias. You can't get their defense at JSN.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Go on, get.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Well, it's one in two leagues. So I have JSN
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: in one league and the Seahawks defense in a second league.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I'm in three leagues, not counting all of them.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: I thought you were going to say something. I was
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: about to be like, nah, you just want them to
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: go ballistic on us. What are you talking about?
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: And I'm the one over here favoring Brandon because I
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: have Hunter Henry. Alright, well. Also, yes, I expect this
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: to be a normal thing about this episode and the
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: future ones going forward. We may have ruffling the failure
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: segments indirectly in these predictions.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Eh, maybe. But let's move on to the Thursday night game.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: All the way from Melbourne, Australia, Mike. We're going to
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: go have some Outback Steakhouse with some Bloomin' Onions because
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams are hosting Brandon's favorite team, the
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: San Francisco Electric Substation.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: I actually need to bring this up as well. Apparently,
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: the Niners, as they reportedly are in Australia, but apparently
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: the Rams are going to wait for the day before
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: to make it to the land down under. I don't
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: understand that logic.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Apparently about that, I actually saw this tweet about the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: 49ers traveling, and it was probably one of the craziest
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: things I've ever heard.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Is it Raheem Morris?
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's with Raheem Morris. Apparently, he turned 50 years
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: old on last Thursday, September 3rd, which also happened to
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: be the day the 49ers flew to Australia, leaving Wednesday night,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: September the 2nd, and arriving Friday morning, September the 4th,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: local time. The 49ers lost a day, and Morris is
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: still 49 years old.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: That's great.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Hashtag time travel. Marty McFly is shitting himself right now.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Alright, but yeah. If you need to know something else
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: about this game, last year they split the series and
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: both the Rams and the 49ers won on the road.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get off topic here just a tiny bit.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to go into too much detail with it.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: This is a question that's pointed at Nova. Nova, can
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: you tell us who Marty McFly is? The silence tells
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: me absolutely not.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember if I heard that name before.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: I feel like it's like a media thing. I don't remember.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's a media thing, alright.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: I might have heard it maybe once or twice on
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: the internet, but I've never delved too deep into it.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. So whenever you get a chance, and
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: I'll kind of get us back on track here for
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: a little bit, you need to watch Back to the Future.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Why did I?
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. That's why I can barely remember? Come on.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: But no, contrary to, because I'm over here looking at
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: the spread and looking at the matchup predictor for San
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Fran and L.A., It's got L.A. favored to win 60.5%.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: The Rams are favored very heavily in this. Spreads 3.5
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: over under is 48.5. With the amount of injuries that
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: San Fran has had and has many sacrifices that they've
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: had to make to the substation this season, I definitely
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: think that the Niners are going to be very hard-pressed
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: to win this game. Regardless of whatever crazy, weird, voodoo,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: hippie magic that they want to throw into this.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, as I mentioned before, they've split the series last year,
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: each winning a game on the road.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I just think this is going to be very,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: very difficult for for St. Fran to do anything with,
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: even with, you know, Christian McCaffrey seemingly being healthy, because
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: also I don't know if you guys have noticed that
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: as of the day, as of this recording, Puka Nakua
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: is still geared to play in that same game as well.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a little surprised they haven't done more updates
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: about whether or not Pukunuku ends up on the commissioner list,
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: because we might bring this up as well on the
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: later end of the show. There have been a numerous
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: amount of people who ended up on the commissioner's list.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw a whole list of players, but... at
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: least for this game, and I think I said this
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: during the last episode, but I don't remember if I did. Brandon,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: you know how we have joked about how the 49ers
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: are your team because you just love the fact that
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: they're next to an electric substation?
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah, absolutely.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Well, you can't script this any better. Apparently their hotel
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: in Melbourne is next to an electric substation.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: So I also saw the same thing. And of course,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: me being the type of person that if I'm not
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: familiar with something, I'm going to Google it. But no, unfortunately,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: for the memes, it was not a substation. It was
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: actually an abandoned train track. Oh.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: That might be worse.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie. It might be worse. It
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: might be worse. We don't know. But no, yeah. Unfortunately,
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: slash fortunately for the Niners, you know, it was not
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: a substation. It was definitely just, you know, a series
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: of track layouts for everything. But no, that would have
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: been just like the perfect beginning script for the NFL is,
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: you know, training next to a substation and your game
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: one is next to a substation. Let's see how much
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: we can get Christian McCaffrey powered up.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we could have Christian McCaffrey be Pikachu when Nash
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: was trying to beat Brock. You power him up with
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: a wheel and then he learns Thunderbolt and defeats an Onix.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Moving on.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, wait.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: We didn't make predictions.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: We didn't do anything like that.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: I guess we can move on to what we think
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: is going to happen. Yes.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Let's move on to what we think is going to happen.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: First off, what do you guys think on the spread? Again,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: minus three and a half for the Rams.
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: I'm buying it. Yeah. Because I do think that there
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: won't be a four-point spread. I think it's going to
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: be like a seven, if anything. Do I think the
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: Niners have a chance in this game? Yes. Although, we've
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: seen it before last year because, well, somehow they won
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: with Mac Jones as quarterback and whatever the heck Robert
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: Sala was doing on the defensive end.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Mac Jones is not a terrible quarterback. Hold on now.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: He's not the best, but he's definitely not terrible. I
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: never said he was terrible. Okay, calm that down. I
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: never said he was terrible. I'm only saying that because
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Brock Purdy was the starter. And when the Niners beat
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: the Rams that year, Mac Jones was playing. But however,
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: I do think the Rams kind of do run away
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: with the game at the end. I expected it to
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: be close, and then the Rams just pull away in
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, so Nova has the Rams, and you say they
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: cover the spread, and the over-under of 48.5. That's going under.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Going under.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, Brandon, what is your prediction?
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Let me pull this back up. Hold on. I'm on
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: a different tab now.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: I have a side note while you find it. I
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: hope Kyron Williams does well because I have him in fantasy.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, hey, if you got him in fantasy, let's
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: hope he works.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, I have Devontae Adams in a few of
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: my leagues, which is why I grabbed him so high
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: in case Puka does wind up on the commissioner's list
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: for some reason. But personally, I have no bias outside
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: of that in the game. I do think that the 48.5
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: gets exceeded. However, I think at least... 35 of that
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: is going to be from the Rams.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: Oh, so you think the Niners defense is just not
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: going to do well?
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: I think that they have lost so much on the
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: offensive side of the ball that the Niners are just
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: not going to be able to handle what the Rams
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: are bringing week one. You know, with Matt Stafford, you know,
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: sitting on his throne currently. And I just don't think
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: that the Niners defense is going to be able to
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: do anything more than just sit there and watch them get,
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: you know, rained all over while the offense goes three
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: and out constantly.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: So you say the Rams covered the spread.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: I think the Rams more than cover the spread.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: We are in a, we are in lockstep when it
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: comes to overall predictions and the spread.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be at least 35-14 Rams.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say it goes over, so I'm going
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: to join you on that one, but I'm going to
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: say it's closer. I'm going to say 27-24. That's generous.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: I think that's generous.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: I actually have a new question for you guys. How
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: much do you think are we going to buy into
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: the stocks of Miles Garrett and Aaron Donald together on
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: the defensive line?
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, I guarantee that's going to be all over the broadcast.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. No, that's another reason that I think, you know,
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: because of the injuries that San Fran's had offensively, that's
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: another reason I think that they're not going to be
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: able to do anything but go three and out versus
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: that tandem there. Aaron Donald might be old, but he's
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: still there with Miles Gary. Yeah, no. Yeah, no, I
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: think San Fran gets absolutely ran the fuck over, and
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: I think their two scores are going to come in
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: garbage time.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: Poor Brock Purdy, man.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, poor Brock Purdy. Moving on to the Sunday slate.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: The first game on the Sunday slate, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: at the Cincinnati Bengals.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Wait, hold on. You might have that in reverse. No,
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: it isn't. Hold on. I'm checking this right now.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: It's Bengals.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, I thought it was in Tampa Bay for some reason.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: No, Tampa's home opener will be week two against the
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns, so they go through the state of Ohio
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: in the first two weeks.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: Talon, we'll let you take this one. I don't think
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: you've had an opener yet, so let me hear your
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: thoughts on this one first.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Since you love Tampa Bay so much.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, come on now.
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: You're a resident.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a resident, but look, at least for this game,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: what I'm wanting to see is I want to see
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: how this Bucks defense is going to perform because everybody
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: that I'm hearing about, you know, they keep lauding about
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: the fact that Vita Bay is still there. They get
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Sean Murphy Bunning back. The whole thing with Reuben Bain
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: coming out. Honestly, I'm actually really impressed by how Reuben
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Bain looks. This kid looks like a freaking monster off
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: the edge, so he could be a problem, but I'm
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: still not convinced on their safeties. I'm not convinced on
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: their linebacking core, especially the fact that they just lost
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Levante David over the offseason. He finally retired. Good for him,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: by the way. He had a wonderful career in Tampa Bay.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: But when it comes to their offense, I think the
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: big question is going to be, how are they going
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: to replace Mike Evans? Like, how are they going to?
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, Emeka Igbuka is a good receiver. I mean,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: he was popping off during his rookie campaign and all that.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: But outside of him, outside of Jalen McMillan, like, there's
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: really not a whole lot there. And their running game,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, Rashad White has been a decent running
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: back for Tampa. And Bucky Irving has come out in, like,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: droves for them from time to time, but.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: They also have Chris Godwin apparently coming back from injury.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, is Chris Godwin just chopped
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: liver here?
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, frick, I forgot about Godwin, and I had the
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: claim that he was better than Mike Evans.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: And not only that, they still have Kate Otten. Eh,
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: I don't really.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: I don't really hold Kate Otten.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, and they just signed Kenneth Gainwell from the Steelers, too.
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: And Gainwell is actually decently good.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: I'll give it a wait and see on Kenneth Gainwell.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: And I know, like, Bucs fans are really happy that
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Jalen Daniels is the backup and it's no longer Jake Browning.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: I'm actually more surprised you forgot about Chris Godwin because
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: he's been injured for quite some time. I can't believe
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: I forgot about Godwin. Again, I made the claim years ago,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: I'd take him over Mike Evans.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: But now he's wide receiver one, apparently.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, you really don't have a choice there. But,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, on paper, the Bucs might have a better
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: roster than the Bengals. But, I mean, Joe Burrow and
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Jamar Chase, that is still a really nasty combination. But
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: then you don't even just throw in Jamar Chase. You
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: have T.
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: Higgins.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: You have Andre Yoshibash. You've got Chase Brown and Samanjay
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Piran in the back. The real question with Cincinnati has
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: been a question with Cincinnati for years. And, Nova, you
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: can attest to this being in the AFC North. How
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: is that offensive line going to hold up?
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: Not only that, how's the defense going to hold up?
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: Cause that's also been their issue.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, you lose Trey Hendrickson, but you get Shamar
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Stewart back.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: So yay. And you got the tight end trade with
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: Dexter Lawrence. Hmm.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: That, that actually, yeah. The, the Dexter Lawrence trade would
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: be interesting.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: Um, Like, here's the thing. I think the Cincinnati offense,
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: I think, is a bit more talented than Tampa's offense,
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: but it all comes down to that O-line, because, you know,
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: the Bengals don't have a person like Tristan Wirfs on
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: that offensive line. I mean, I don't know if... I
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: randomly heard if Wirfs got hurt, but I don't know
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: if that's entirely true, but that defense with the Bucs
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: does look better than the Bengals. That's always been the
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: question mark, and I really hope Vita Vea shows out
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: and And just shows the Buccaneers why he deserves more
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: than a one-year extension that he got.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: So I'm looking at the injury report right now. Tristan
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: Worfs is not listed on the injury report.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: I think Baker should be a bit better protected than Jaburo.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Should be. And I think it might actually come down
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: to the special teams. So it's probably going to be
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: between either Chase McLaughlin or Evan McPherson.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: Both of which, by the way, have been able to
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: kick from 60 before.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Both have been able to kick by 60 before. I'm
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: going to say Tampa Bay wins this game. But I say, well,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, if I pick Tampa Bay to win, then
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay has to cover the spread because the spread
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: is Cincinnati minus three and a half. But I do
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: not see that over under hitting of 50 and a
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: half at all.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think it's going to be that high either.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: You're underestimating the defense this year. If there's a defense
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: that underestimates 100% the Bengals, it's not the Bucs.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: So, your prediction, Nova, is?
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: I think the Buccaneers do win, but I think this
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: will be down to the wire. What's the over-under?
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: 50.5, and the spread is Cincinnati minus 3.5.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: I think Tampa wins, and then I... I think the
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: 50 might be barely missed. I think it would be
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: like 27 to 26. 27 to 23 or something like that.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Okay. Barely under.
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I wouldn't be surprised if it goes over because,
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: you know, these are suspect defenses. True.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: And Brandon, what's your take?
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: I also think Tampa Bay wins this one for sure.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: And what realistically makes me believe that is kind of
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: glancing at the injury report. I think the Tampa Bay
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: defense is better than the Cincy defense. Early in the season,
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's really much of a conversation, especially
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: since V of A, it's kind of on that prove
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: it or lose it type of deal. But looking at
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: the Cincy report, T. Higgins has a heel injury. Jamar
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: Chase has a knee injury. They're both questionable. You have
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: an offensive tackle and a corner for Cincy that's already
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: on IR. You have one of their DEs that's questionable
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: with a knee problem as well. I think since he's
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: far too injured, you know, and with their security blankets
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: to really kind of try to fight Tampa Bay, I
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: don't think it hits 50. I think it's probably a closer,
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: more defensive, grindy game with offenses kind of stalling out.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: I think it might just turn into a field goal game, honestly.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: That being said, I think the Buccaneers do win, but
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: I think they went somewhere along the lines of like 24-3.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: 24-12 or something of that nature. I see.
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: I was going to mention that. Are you trying to
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: convince you to put Chase McLaughlin in the starting lineup?
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to convince you of anything. I'm saying
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: use your best judgment.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have my lineup ready, but if I have
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: to switch, I will.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: My thing is with Fantasy, I would keep an eye
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: on the lead receivers for Cincinnati, and if they're both
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: going to be GTDs, then I'm probably putting in Cincy's kicker.
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: I haven't been here since we didn't have a field day,
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: I guess.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Well, also, speaking of field, they are at Paycore Stadium.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: How much is the pay to get in, gentlemen?
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: At least $ 90? No, no, no, no, no, no. That's
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: just wrong. No, that could be right, but I think
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: it's like $ 110 or something, actually, yeah.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Okay, Nova says $ 110. Brandon, what is your get-in price?
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: I'm going to... defer that, pun fully intended, and the
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: only reason for that is because I'm actively looking at
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: the GameCast page right now with average game end prices.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to defer that question for that reason.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Got you. So Nova, get end price for this game
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: is $ 134.
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: Okay, I figured $ 90 was wrong because I'm pretty sure
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: there are going to be people willing to pay to
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: see Joe Burrow play again.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, everybody loves Joe Cool.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: Apparently more than Lamar Jackson, which makes no sense.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but we'll be talking about Lamar Jackson in a
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: little bit because the next game on the schedule, the
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints at the Detroit Lions.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: I should have had you take that one to open
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: up with.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: Probably should have had me take it, but instead it's
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: going to be you, Brandon. You're taking it.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: So oh god where do i begin with this one
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: uh over under 48 and a half detroit spread is
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: minus seven i think detroit wins this and i don't
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: even think it's remotely fucking close i don't think new
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: orleans stands a chance in hell of coming close on
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: this game i think it's probably i think there's i
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: think there's at least seven offensive touchdowns by by detroit.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: Damn, you actually say they go the over just by themselves?
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: I think they go the over just by themselves. I
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: think Jared Goff has got a chip on his shoulder
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: because he actively thinks he's probably just as good of
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: a QB as Matt Stafford is, and you have probably
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: the best running back in the league. I think Jared
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: Goff has fit into the Detroit offensive system very well.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: Their head coach also has something to prove as well.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: I think this is a complete and total obliteration of
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: New Orleans, and I think they cover the over-under by themselves.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: And what say you, Noble?
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: I was going to say you might be next, as
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: you are keen on the Saints, but sure, I'll take
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: this one. I do anticipate the Lions win this by
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: a lot, but I don't think they're going to cover
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: the over-under odds by themselves. I think this will go over.
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be more like a three
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: touchdown game for Tyler Shuck, but I do think the
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: Lions run away with this one before then.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: So you have the over Detroit, but you're saying New
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: Orleans covers the seven.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's like 38 to 24 or something
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: That would be Detroit covering the spread.
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: Okay. I do anticipate the Saints having some success, but
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be a little too much
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: for them to handle.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: All right, so looks like we're basically in lockstep, but
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: I'm actually going to say New Orleans. I'm going to
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: take New Orleans plus seven. I'm definitely taking Detroit to
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: win this game, but I'm actually going to say it's
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: the under in this game because... I mean, look, I'm
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: not going to knock on New Orleans. I'm not going
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: to knock. on the fact that I'm a Falcons fan
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: and it's the Saints and it's easy pickings and blah, blah, blah.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that here. I'm going to
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: talk it like a very honest, a very unbiased person.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: And quite candidly, outside of Chris Olave, I don't really
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: know much about the Saints receiving core. Like, I'm going
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: to pull it up right now and... Again, outside of
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: Chris Olavi, their receiving core is.
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: Travis Etienne, because he's a receiving back.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of a little bit, but if we're talking
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: strictly wide receivers, it's Chris Olavi, Devon Bailey, Bryce Lance,
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: Barry and Brown, and Braun Breaker's suspended younger brother, Brock Rechtsteiner.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: Then you throw in their– I mean, look, the tight ends,
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: I'll give them credit. Noah Fant and Jawan Johnson are
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: really good tight ends. I respect what they've done at
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: their positions. It might come down to how the Lions
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: can stop Alvin Kamara because, let's face it, that guy's
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: contact balance is on another frickin' planet.
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: Is he questionable?
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: He might be questionable. I've got it up here. Yeah, okay,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: so he remains sidelined at last Thursday's practice on September 3rd.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: He's questionable. Kendrick Miller is questionable. Jordan Tyson is on
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: injured reserve. That's the star rookie.
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if Travis Etienne kind of
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: has a randomly good game.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't either. I mean, I'm still picking Detroit to win,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: but I would not be surprised if New Orleans covers
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: the spread, but I definitely don't see it hitting the
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: over on 49 and a half. That's kind of like,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: The Tampa Cincinnati game, especially week one, I would say
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: over-unders of that number just feel a little too high
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: to hit an over. It could be a backdoor over hit,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: but I'm locking in the under. I'm going to say
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Detroit wins, but New Orleans is going to cover the spread.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: Fair enough.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Moving on to the next game. This is the bathroom
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: break game of the week because how many people in
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: Nashville and East Rutherford, New Jersey are going to be
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: watching this game?
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: The people that are clamoring just end the season.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: Are you sure they would even be watching this game?
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: They're going to. There's no way they don't.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: Only your die-hard Titans fans are going to be sitting there.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: They have the season tickets every year. They're going to
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: be there that game, pretty much. Plus the random spattering
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: of Jets fans that you didn't even know existed.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: What, you don't believe in Robert Sala?
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: I don't believe in that man as far as I
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: can throw him. I don't care what team he's been on.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: That man is dog shit. I mean.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: When it comes to this game, I mean, this might
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: be the quickest preview that we have of the entire slate.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: Who's the Jets quarterback? Are they any good? The answer
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: is no. Who's their running back? Are there any good?
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: Not really. Is Garrett Wilson going to have maybe a
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: crazy catch?
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: Probably.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: And how's Cam Ward going to look?
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: You have to. Reese Hall is crazy.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: Breece Hall is boo-boo.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: He got paid.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, good for him.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm glad he can afford to put the
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: roof over his head. I mean, that's all we want
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: as Americans, to be able to keep the roof over
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: our head and have a livable wage. He has that
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: because he's the best player on the Jets team. And
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: quite honestly, that doesn't say a lot.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: That doesn't say a lot, but.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: I don't think Breece Hall is awful.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: He's not awful. He's not good, but he's not awful.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: I think this will be a defensive battle, as I say.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: Okay. Anyway, this will be a defensive battle, as I say.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: Probably not a lot of offense. I do expect the
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: Titans to barely win this game.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: What's the over-under?
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: The spread is Tennessee minus one and a half, and
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: the over-under is 39 and a half.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: Oh, this is going under 100%. There's no way it doesn't.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no way.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no way this game goes over 39.5. But
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: this one, so another thing about the spread, Nova, is
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: that the home teams usually get three points automatically when
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: the lines, quote-unquote, open. And then, because if I remember correctly,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: I think the rule of thumb is you get three
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: points if you're the home team because it would be
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: the same as a pick-em for a neutral site. So
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: that's right. So at least for this one, they're essentially
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: saying it's a pick them leading, leaning towards the jets.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: And I had that wrong. I think the Titans win.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So Tennessee and you say
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: they cover.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: I say the scores would be Titans, 20 jets, 13.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: I still think that's generous.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: You're going to see a Cam Moore touchdown. Don't worry.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, you'll probably see.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: And hopefully a Tony Pollard touchdown too.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So Brandon, you've got Tennessee minus one and a
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: half and under.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: I think Tennessee wins that. I definitely think it's under.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: I think this is purely field goals. I don't think
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: this is anything more. I think the offenses are just
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: that bad.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, Jeffrey Simmons is a one-man wrecking crew on
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: that defense. I mean, that's fine.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: This man's going to be running sprints every damn drop.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: Well, now we get to move to the next game
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: on the 1 o'clock slate, which is the Baltimore Ravens
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: at the Indianapolis Colts.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: Please, for the love of God, let the preseason carry over.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: I want to see Jesse Minter's defense dominate against this
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: Colts team. Because apparently there's some people, including yourself, Talon,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: that are keen on the Colts winning the division, which
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: I'm not buying. And I want to go ahead and
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: say that because with this defense being better, of course,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: obviously we're going to probably get Nemanja Mata-BK back. We're getting.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: Hold on.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: Trey Hendrickson, Roquan Smith should be back in form. So
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: the secondary is going to be as dangerous as ever.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: Kyle Hamilton, Malachi Starks, Nate Wiggins. But then this offense
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: under Declan Doyle. And I need to bring up the
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: stats too. In both the seasons, Lamar Jackson won his MVPs.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: They've both been under a new offensive coordinator. In 2019,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: it was Greg Roman. 2023, Todd Munkin. 2026 with Declan Doyle.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: Could he win his third MVP?
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: It's possible.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, Lamar's saying that defenses aren't ready for Declan
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: Doyle's offense, and I would honestly agree. And aside from
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: the Rashad Bateman stuff, you know, Zay Flowers, still on
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: the social, on the media pages, is not being respected
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: as a regular super number one. Obviously, we've got Jacoby
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: Lane as a rookie. Mark Andrews, probably subjective. And obviously,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: we have the best running attack of Lamar Jackson, not
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: only doing it himself, but also Derrick Henry. And we
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: have a better offensive line than Daniel Fala-Lele's gone for
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: Vega Yolane. But Ronnie Stanley should be back up. And really,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: our only question is Tyler Loop. That's really all it is.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: On that note, not to cut you off, though, but
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: on that note, while you were over here going through
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: your motions of the people, I did find a stat
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: on Twitter, or X as it's called nowadays, from various
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: sources of Baltimore Ravens, of people who have been watching them,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: that since the signing of Jake Moody... Tyler Loop has
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: not missed a field goal attempt in practice or otherwise.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: See what bullying does? Look, if signing Jake Moody does
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 3: something to Tyler Loop, it better be positive, I should say, Brandon.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: That's all I'm.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: Going to say. I even reposted an instance on X,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: and this was posted today at 3.12 p.m. Eastern, so
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: literally an hour and three minutes ago. Ravens head coach
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: Jesse Minter said Tyler Loop has not missed a kick
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: since the team signed Jake Moody.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: And that's the understanding that he could be losing his
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: job if he doesn't do well, because he's under the
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: most pressure since Jake Moody, mind you.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's not wrong, Brandon, but I mean, look,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: when I said that I'm probably riding with Indianapolis to
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: win the AFC South, I'm still going to stick with
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: that belief. which is why I'm also going to say
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: Baltimore wins, but Indianapolis covers the spread. So I'm going
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: to say Indian because it's only, it's only three and
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: a half.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's probably fair. Honestly.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: As for the over under, I mean, it's 47 and
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: a half. So I can see that being a backdoor over.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to say over.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see that being in the backdoor over
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: How good is that Colts defense?
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: DeForest Buckner's there. Sauce Gardner's there.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: I don't imagine Sauce Gardner's going to be covering St.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: Flowers all that good.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: Probably not. I'm pulling up their defense right now.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: I know the offense is just getting Daniel Jones back.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: They still have Jonathan Taylor. They lost Michael Pittman, but
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: paid Alec Pierce.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: Now see, that's why I'm going to say Baltimore wins,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: but Indianapolis can cover the spread and a backdoor over.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: Because it's Daniel Jones' first game back from an Achilles tear,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: I can't say that they're going to win the first week.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: But I can see them keeping it close because, funnily enough,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: the last time, and granted we're going to be talking
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: about another quarterback making a return from an Achilles tear
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: and starting in week one in a little bit, but
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: the last quarterback to tear his Achilles in week or
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: in the previous season and come back to play week
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: one was, uh, Kirk cousins from the Vikings to Atlanta. And, uh,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: funnily enough, Atlanta lost that game.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: So the Steelers.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It was still the Steelers. How'd you know?
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: It was week one of that week. It was also
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: his first start with the Falcons, so I kind of
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: remember that one.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Chris Boswell got drug tested after that game
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: because he kicked six field goals.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: The Mike Tomlin experience. But yeah, we don't know how
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: good Daniel Jones is. I think the offensive line for
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: the Colts will be tested because, again, they got to
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: deal with Nomadi Matabike. They got to deal with.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: Why am I not remembering things? Hold on. So Trey Hendrickson,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: Roquan Smith, Calais.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: Campbell, And then in the back, don't forget about Kyle Hamilton,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: the freaking goat that he is as a ball hawk
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: in safety.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously really good. And another note from the Ravens.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: This was just announced by Jesse Minter because there was
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: apparently some injuries with the center position. And where are you?
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: I'm scrolling. It'll be Jovan Gwynn will start at center
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: week one.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: That'll be a test for him for sure.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do think, okay, I think my anticipated score
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: will be the Ravens 34, then the Colts 20, 20?
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: It's just 20. 34-20 is my prediction.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, so Baltimore will cover the spread. You said 34-20?
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: So you are taking the over.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, I am.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: All right, and as for Brandon?
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: I think it's 31-28 Baltimore.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: So that's Baltimore the over, but you are like me.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: You are taking Indianapolis plus three and a half.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: Yep. Sure. I am. All right. Okay.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: I have another look at the defensive line. There we go.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: Broderick Jones, Travis Jones, and then Zion young on the
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: linebacking court, Teddy Buchanan, as well as Mike green. I
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: think the scene is too much talent.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: And this is my personal bias here. This is a
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: rule of thumb that I will live and die by.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: I don't put a lot of stock in the preseason.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: I never have.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: I never will.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: That's why I'm saying I'm hoping that it carries over.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: For sure, yeah. I respect that for sure, but I
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: think Indy is better than what people are anticipating them
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: to be, even with DJ coming off a tear.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: That's why I'm holding... I'd hope on them for the division,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: but okay. So we've got that one. And I'll just
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: tell you guys right now, we are literally lock, stock
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: and barrel on every single game. Like nobody has differed
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: on a game just yet.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's coming.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's, it's probably coming. Brandon, do you want to
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: lead this one? This next game? You want to talk
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: about this one?
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: Which one is it?
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: You know what it is.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: You know what it is.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, let me pull it up. I actually don't have
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: that tab open. Let's see. We mentioned Falcon Steelers. Yeah,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: it's Falcon Steelers. Oh man, I have some opinions about
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: this game.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: Please do.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: I think Talon should say the news. Honestly.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: Actually, no. This is a Talon preferred team. So, Talon,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: why don't you lead this one, and I'll be the second.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: Because, again, we've all led each other's teams. Why don't
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 3: you want to do it, Talon? Are you just that afraid?
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: Not so necessarily I'm afraid. More so that I've got
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: information as to why I'm going to pick this game
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: the way that I'm going to.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: So, if that's the case, I'll keep mine pretty short
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: and sweet and to the point. And I know that
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: some of these opinions, you know, Talon's going to exacerbate
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: on a little bit more. Um, to a talking below
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: as of like, what was it like last night today? Uh,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: name QB one for Atlanta. Then it says it ready.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: Then it's still hurt. Um, and then your backup is
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: just your backup. That will probably only see the field
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: of two. It gets like his 17th concussion of his
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: to being a few years in the NFL. Um, which
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: honestly against the Steelers defense, he might actually do. I
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: hope not because that man's brains are already grits. Um, I, I,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh minus three over unders 42 and a half. I
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: don't think this comes close to the 42 and a half.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: I think Pittsburgh wins. I think Pittsburgh wins somewhere along
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: the lines of like 21, 14. I think both offenses
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: kind of suck. I think Aaron Rogers is too far
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: over the hill. I don't think this man is even
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: going to come close to sniffing Lamar Jackson's towel after
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: his game. Um, I just, I don't know. I don't
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: think this is going to be a good game for
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: either team, honestly. And God help me, as an Alabama fan,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: I hope Tua proves me wrong. I hope Tua proves
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: Talon wrong or right, whichever positive opinion he may have
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: of Tua Tagovailoa. I would like to see Atlanta win.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: I would like to see Tua have one of the
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: best offensive performances of his life since coming out of Miami.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: But my hopes on him are not very high with
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: how injury prone he is. And my hopes are not
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: very high on Pittsburgh with how old they are. I
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: think that the only thing that realistically would make the
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: Steelers win this game is the fact that Mike McCarthy
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: and Aaron Rodgers both already have a relationship and knowing
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: of how each other works. And that's the only reason
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: that I think Pittsburgh wins this game is just because
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: the head coaching QB familiarity already.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: Okay. Nova, do you have anything to add on that?
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 3: Why is Cooper rushed to back up?
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: Well, how is high on Jack Strand?
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: Well, okay. So here's the thing. Pennix is fully cleared,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: but he's not fully ready. According to the press conference,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: from him and from Stefanski, but he's apparently, quote-unquote, really close. So, again,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: the fact that Tua worked all throughout training camp, mostly
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: with the 11s, with the first-team reps, it does make
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: sense that Tua will be the starting quarterback. I'm still
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: saying Penix will be the long-term starter for this season.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say it's because of a 17th concussion.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: But I would not be surprised if, I don't know,
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: maybe next week, Pennix is the starter for the home
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: opener against the Panthers. But there is something about this
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: game that I'm just, again, Nova, you can disagree with
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: this claim all you want that I'm about to say.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: I know I picked Baltimore to win their game against
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: the Colts, and I know I picked Cincinnati to lose
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: against Tampa. I'm saying the Steelers are going to be
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: starting 1-0 this week, but not because it's Aaron Rodgers
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: on one side, Tua Tagovailoa on the other side. It's
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: not because DK Metcalf on one side and The last
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: time DK Metcalf played against AJ Terrell, DK Metcalf made
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: AJ Terrell his bitch. It's a historical reason why I'm
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: picking the Steelers to win. And you all know that
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: historical record?
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 3: Didn't you mention it in one of the episodes as well?
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: I've been saying it for the last couple of months.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: I would have said Pittsburgh wins even if this was
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: week 15. The Atlanta Falcons cannot beat the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: They are 2-16-1. The last time they came even remotely
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: close to beating the Steelers in Pittsburgh, mind you.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 3: They tied.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: Ha ha ha ha!
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: That was in 2002. The Falcons have not beaten the
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: Steelers in Pittsburgh. The last time the Falcons beat the
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: Steelers was 2006, almost 20 years ago, and that was
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: when overtime was still sudden death. Not, you get a touchdown,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: the game is over, but if you get a field goal,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: your opponent gets a shot to possess the ball. So...
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: I am picking the Steelers to win this game. And
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: I'm saying that as a historical unbiased and biased Falcons fan.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: And I'm also putting it on the record right now.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: Like I have said to my family, if the Falcons
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: beat the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, you will be seeing
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: a video on my Twitter feed of me dancing in irons.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: jig in the middle of the street.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 3: Are we going to see video evidence?
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: Yes, they will be recording. However, I will also say this.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: I say Pittsburgh wins. I will say Atlanta covers the
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: three and a half. I will say that. I will
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: say it's a backdoor cover, and I will also say
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: it goes over 42 and a half.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: That's a lot of faith in that offense.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: Again, it might be more on Pittsburgh's offense getting most
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: of the brunt work than Atlanta's offense, but again, I
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: am picking Pittsburgh to win. I have it on audio
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: now of what I will be doing if the Steelers
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: lose to Atlanta on Sunday. But we need Nova's prediction
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be Pittsburgh 17 and Atlanta 13.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: This is not going to be pretty for either team.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: That's easy enough. Pittsburgh covers the spread barely and the under.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: Moving on.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Chicago Bears and the Carolina Panthers. Honestly,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: I think this might be a sneaky good game. Nova,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: you take the lead on this one.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 3: Okay, so we start with the Panthers being shaky for
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 3: the most part. I mean, they did barely win the division,
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 3: although a lot of outside factors happened. You know, Bryce
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 3: Young still on the comeuppance. He did take that fifth-year option,
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 3: so don't know much about that one. I mean, they
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 3: lost Rico Dowdle on the backfield because they still think
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 3: Shuba Hubbard's dead. and start running back. Got the Ted
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 3: Arona-McMillan thing, you know, developing as well. Jalen Coker, Xavier Leguette.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 3: And then the defense got upgrades as well for the Panthers.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 3: They got Jalen Phillips and Devin Lloyd for the linebacking core.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 3: And Ryan Fitzgerald, still a pretty good special teams kicker
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 3: for the Panthers. At least that's on their side. As
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 3: for the Bears, they have to be feeling a lot
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 3: of pressure because, you know, they made it all the
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 3: way through the NFC Divisional round last year. Caleb Williams
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 3: playing arguably near the top of his talent level amongst
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: that 2024 class. You still have probably the best offensive
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 3: line in the NFL. You have Colson Lovell in the title.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: You have Romo Dunze as well on the receiving core.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 3: Luther Burden, I mean, he's injured, but the receiving core
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 3: should still be fine. The running back should still be fine.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 3: The defense... It's weird because they relied on a lot
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 3: of turnovers last year, but their defense was suspect. So
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: I'm not too sure what the thing on either team
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: at surface value based on the moves as well as
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 3: the Kobe Bryant's injury for the Bears.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: And with that, your prediction is going to be?
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 3: Chicago 24, Carolina 20. Chicago 24.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: 24, Carolina 20.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 3: I think this will be closer than a lot of
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 3: people expect.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's Chicago minus three. And the under barely.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: Because the under is 46 and a half.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, jeez.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: All right, Brandon, what's your call?
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: This one... This one's going to be kind of an
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: interesting game to watch. Caleb Williams is coming off his
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: little up-and-up performance from last year. So is Bryce Young.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: I think... Man, this one's kind of... I don't think
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: this is really so much of anything that I would
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: classify as a personal hot take than just low-key trying
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: to be realistic. Because that is something I told y'all
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: that I would do. I was trying to be more
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: realistic for week one predictions. But I do think Carolina
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: wins this game.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 3: And I wouldn't be surprised if that happens. It's hard
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 3: to choose.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: And it really is hard to choose. But what really
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: makes me think that Carolina wins this is, again, deferring
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: to the injury report. Luther Burden, questionable. They're like two
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: or three of their receivers, questionable. Running back, questionable. Safety,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: tight end, IR. They've got a little bit of injuries
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: themselves like the Niners did. But I think the biggest
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: question mark going into this for Chicago is going to
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: be how does Caleb Williams manage having to balance, if
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: he were to play, a hurt Luther Burden? The answer
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: to that is I don't think they handle it very well.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: I think Carolina wins this. but I think it's probably
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: going to be along the lines of more like 21-14
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: or 28-21. I think it's going to be a little
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: bit of a scoring happening by the end of the day,
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: and this might be some hometown bias, but I think
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: Bryce Young kind of continues to step up here.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 3: I thought you were about to say this might come
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 3: down to a Ryan Fitzgerald field goal, but that works too.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, so did you say you want the over
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: or the under in that game?
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: I've got, let's say 28-21. Carolina and it's got let's
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: see 28-21 would cover that would be over.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: I mean you're gonna find it crazy but I'm actually
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: in agreement with Brandon I'm saying Carolina gets the shock
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: upset this week and I'm actually gonna say it's under
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: because of all the injuries but I could see Carolina
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: winning this game over over the bears. I feel like
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: it'll be closer than people give a credit for. And
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: it probably has something to do with, uh, with that
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: injury report. Cause I'm also pulling up, uh, Carolina's injury report. And, uh,
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, Chuba Hubbard's questionable. Jonathan Brooks is questionable. They're
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: starting to, they're starting, uh, tackles are out in Taylor
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: Mona and Ikea Kwanu, uh, Trevor Etienne is on injured reserve.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: Xavier Leguette apparently was partially in a walking boot. Chris
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: Brazel is on injured reserve. I hate that Nick Skirton
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: is hurt because he was really turning the corner for Carolina.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: Brady Christensen is on injured reserve. So technically they're going
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: to have three of their starting offensive linemen out.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can see Carolina winning and barely covering the spread,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: but with that many injuries on an offensive line, it's
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: going to be a hard under, if you ask me.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see that.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay, we have the next one. I think this
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 3: should be a rather quick one. Who wants to talk
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 3: about the Browns and the Jaguars?
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: I think Brandon should leave us.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Is it because we know my opinion on
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: Deshaun Watson?
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 3: It could be.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: It could very well be. Cleveland's trash. I think they
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: go 0-17. That being said, looking at ESPN's matchup predictor,
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: Jacksonville's favored to win at 77.3%. It's not close. It
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: says the spread is Jacksonville minus 7, but the over-under
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 2: is 40.5. I think that's a little high. I don't
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: think that's going to be 40 points in this game,
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: but at the same time, I would not be surprised
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: to see Cleveland get shut out and it still be
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: in under.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm thinking the same thing.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking the same thing. I feel like this one is, uh,
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: an easy Jacksonville across the board with the under in
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: this game. But as for the spread, um, Again, especially
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: for week one, a spread like that where it's– I mean,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: I know you said minus seven, Brandon. I got minus
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: eight and a half on the line for Jacksonville. And
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: anything close to a two-score spread, I find it very
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: difficult to go with that. So I'm assuming you and
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: Nova are going to take Jacksonville minus eight and a half.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 3: I think Trevor Lawrence has a breakout game again.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: Well, I am taking Cleveland. I'm taking Cleveland plus the points.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: What?
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: I say Cleveland covers that spread.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, if there's any reason that happens, it's because
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 3: of the defense.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Again, exactly. Like when it comes to those kinds
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: of spreads for me, and again, I don't even, usually
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: I just make bets straight up. Like I just say,
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: who's going to win, who's going to lose, but. Because
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: we're doing it with the spread and the over-under as well,
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: I have to stick by my guns. And I always
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: had hesitation when a spread was reaching two scores minimum
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: for a cover. Even if a team is really bad
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: and we all don't like that team and whatever. they're doing,
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: it's just difficult to cover a two score spread, especially
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: in the NFL.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: Um, But let's move on to the last game of
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: the 1 o'clock window. And Nova, you can lead off
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: with this one because it is the two teams in
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: the AFC that you are a fan of the most
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: that isn't the Baltimore Ravens. And that is the Buffalo
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: Bills and the Houston Texans.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 3: First of all, that's an outright lie because Brandon can
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 3: also tell me that he hates the Buffalo Bills just
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 3: as I do because it's a Josh Allen thing. Let's
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 3: get that out of the way, Brandon, right?
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: I'll save my opinion.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 3: He did not deserve to win that MVP. I'll just
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 3: put it bluntly. But this is the second time in
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 3: two years that Josh Allen has to face this monster
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 3: of a Houston Texans defense. Of course, they went 0-3
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 3: in the preseason, but that was mostly because their backups
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 3: is mostly the concerning part of the Houston Texans defense.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 3: And then you have CJ Stratton apparently betting on himself.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: He can.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: earn a $ 60 million contract this season. But who knows
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 3: if he can do it against a deceptively good Bills defense.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 3: But I think the bigger concern for Buffalo is how
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 3: good is Joe Brady as a head coach? Because I'm
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 3: still under the belief that he is not the correct
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 3: answer for the Bills short term. Okay.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: And your prediction for this game is.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 3: Uh, you might, this might be a little bit of
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 3: a hear me out. 24, 21 for Houston.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: Okay. So that actually is Buffalo on the spread because
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: the spread is Houston minus one and a half, but
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: you have a barely hitting the over of 44 and
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: a half. Brandon, take us home on this one.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: One and a half on a spread tells me it's
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: going to be a very close game. I am incredibly
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: biased when it comes to Buffalo. Incredibly, incredibly biased. I
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: think that Josh Allen is the only good thing about
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: this Buffalo team. And yes, he has done nothing but
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 2: get better over the years. But I just don't think
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: that Buffalo's coaching staff is it for the long run,
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: like Nova said. I think Houston wins this one. I
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: think Houston wins this, and I think it is a
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: little bit of a closer game, but I think it's
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: going to be one of those games that's going to
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: be decided upon by a missed PAT or a missed
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: field goal by Buffalo.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 3: Who's the Bills kicker, by the way? I think Matt
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 3: Prater was free agent. Is it still... Why am I
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 3: blanking on this thing? Because he wasn't playing last year.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: Their, their, uh, their PK is Tyler Bass. Yeah.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 3: That's how I was. Okay. So he's back.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: Um, uh, but Brent, are you saying they hit the
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: over at 44 and a half?
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: If CJ Straub plays like the money that he thinks
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: he's worth, which is money that I don't believe that
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: he's worth him or Josh Allen. Um, I think they
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: probably hit the over. I think they probably exceed the over.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: And like I said, I think it's, I think it's
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: decided on by a missed PAT or a missed field goal.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, that is the one o'clock window. And
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: now we get to talk about the four o'clock window,
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: specifically the four 25 window, because there is no game
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: that starts at four Oh five.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, thank God for that.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: Um, But the first game on it is another bathroom
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: break game. The Miami Dolphins and the Las Vegas Raiders.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 3: Do we have to talk about that game? Yes.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: We do.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 3: We unfortunately have to.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, God. Miami is trash. I'm not even looking at
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: their thing. Who do they name? Is their starting QB
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: the Raiders?
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins? Yeah, Kirk Cousins.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think this is just going to be
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 2: even a close game. Like, what is it? Hold on.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: I'll look at it. Hold on. Hold on. That's also
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: what I'm going to do for Miami.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 3: But I think Devon is going to have a really
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 3: good game.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: I don't think I don't think Miami's doing shit week one.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: I don't think they're doing shit. Spreads three and a
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 2: half over under 41 and a half. I don't even
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 2: think it comes close to the 41.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: I think both offenses are absolutely terrible. If anything, if
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: they come close, if they come close. Big, strong emphasis
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: on if. It's going to be the Brock Bowers show.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 3: You don't think it's going to be GT?
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: I think GT is going to have a hand in it,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, I think it's
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: going to be Brock Bowers' show. I think Brock Bowers
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: has a hat trick in this game, honestly. Oh.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you have Vegas covering the spread.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Vegas is going to cover the spread,
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: but I think it's going to be under 41.5.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: All right, and Nova, what is your call?
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 3: I do think the Raiders win this one, but I
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 3: think A-chan might have a deceptively good game for fantasy owners,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 3: so I'm going to go ahead and put it bluntly
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 3: and say Vegas 27, Miami 10.
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: And hitting the under. So that one we are completely
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: in unison on, and we didn't have to talk much
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: about it because that game is going to be bad.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 3: It's going to be bad unless you're a diehard Raiders fan.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: They actually exist in Vegas?
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 2: They're all over the world.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 3: There's plenty of them here in SoCal. I don't know
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 3: what to say.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: Well, that's SoCal. They used to be in SoCal.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 3: The fan base is still strong.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: True.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, Ice Cube and his son are diehard Raiders fans, so.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: Uh, there, there is that, but now we go from
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: the bathroom break game of the four 25 window to
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: probably a sneaky good pick for game of the week.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: And it actually is America's game of the week because
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: it's got the aid team for Fox on the call.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: And that is going to be the green Bay Packers
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: at the Minnesota Vikings. How many years now has it
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: been where the Vikings and the Packers have started off
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: the season in week one.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: I feel like I can hear all of us Googling
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: this right now.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm looking at it. I'm literally looking at it
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: right now myself because I'm like, I don't think they
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: started it last year, but they might have. No, okay,
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: last year they started against the Bears. I think 24. Nope,
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: 24 was the Giants. It just feels like they always
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: played the Packers in week one, and in the last
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: three years they have not played the Packers in week one.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: So what the hell am I remembering?
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, what do you want about it? Anyway, you
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 3: want to talk about this one to start?
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. This is going to be a very interesting game
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: because there is no Micah Parsons for the Packers. He
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: is on the pup list until at least the week
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: five game. There's going to be no Josh Jacobs because
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: of his off the field incident.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 3: He's on the commissioner's list.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: And he's on the commissioner's list.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 2: As he should be.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: Anyway i mean so so josh jacobs out colin oliver
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: whoever the heck that is uh he's on ir savion
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: williams a wide receiver ir luke musgrave out micah parsons
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: out Trey Dean III, injured reserve. Jordan Riley, out. Thomas Yasmin, IR.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: Warren Brinson, questionable. Jonathan Baldwin II, IR. Danny Dettis-Sutton, questionable.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: And I almost said Carnington, but it's Carrington, Valentine. He's questionable.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: So literally on their injury report, it's either questionable, IR,
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: or out.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 3: And I said that'd be a concern for the Packers
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 3: early in the season. I said that would be a concern.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, for the Vikings, they're either questionable or IR.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 2: IR.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: Their questionable players are Jacob Thomas, Caleb Tiernan, and Jacoby Thomas.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: But their IR players are Marcus Allen, Jamar Jefferson, Jermar Jefferson.
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: So I know some Minnesota fans are probably like, wait,
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: he just said a Jefferson player? It can't be Justin, right?
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: It can't be Jet, right? Michael Juergens, Tyler Batty, and
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: Jamal Adams. And we remember talking about the Jamal Adams injury.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: because that was just so, so sad and unfortunate for him.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: I think it'll come down to Jordan Love versus Kyler
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: Murray more so than anything else. And this might be
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: a hot take, But I think Kyler Murray is going
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: to be a better quarterback this year than Jordan Love.
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: So I'm taking Minnesota to win. I'm taking Minnesota to
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: cover that one and a half easily. And I'm saying
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: it's an over.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 3: What do I think?
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 2: I don't think that the Kyler Murray take is honestly
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 2: all that bold. I think that's, I would agree with that.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 3: I would, too. And I think the Packers defense will
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 3: be a lot worse than people think. I mean, obviously,
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 3: like a person's injury. I keep I keep saying it's
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 3: like I think it's going to be the big factor.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 3: Why I think the Packers finish last in the north
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 3: is that I do think that defense will be exposed.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 3: And I think this will be a final score of
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 3: Minnesota 30 and the Green Bay Packers 23.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: And that's Minnesota covering the one and a half and
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: the over.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 3: Jordan Addison, please get a touchdown.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: Tell me he has them on fantasy without telling me
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: he has them on fantasy with that.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 2: Call, Brandon. Reach.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 3: What?
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: No, no, he just sounded like sleeper there. I still
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: can't believe the software did that.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 3: Is that actually the first time any of you have
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 3: seen that?
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 2: That's the first time I've seen that.
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: It's the first time I can remember seeing it. I
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: damn sure didn't see it on ESPN.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 3: Nor did I when I first played fantasy in 2015.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 3: I do not remember that at all.
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: All right, Brandon, what is your take on this game?
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, goodness. I think the Vikings went out. I think... man,
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: 44 and a half for the over-under, man. I think
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 2: if they do it, it's just going to be just barely,
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 2: barely doing it. I think it's going to be Minnesota
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: getting it 28-14. That's also an accurate word to think about.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 2: That's technically under, but I.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 3: Just don't... It is under.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 2: I don't really see it being any higher than that
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: on both ends.
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: That's definitely fair. All right. We've got the next game
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: on here. Probably another game that we really don't care
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: all that much about, but might have some hype about it.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: Washington and Philadelphia. Nova, I think you take the lead
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: on this one.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 3: How much do you want to bet Jaden Daniels starts
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 3: his comeback season right here in this game? First of all,
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to ask that question to you two.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: I could give it like a 35% chance of it happening.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: Let me check out Philadelphia's injury report. Andre Sam, IR.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: Ja'Corian Bennett, IR. Grant Calcaterra, IR. Johnny Wilson, IR. Jonathan Greenard, out.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: tucker large out um cooper dejean is questionable i'm i
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: might actually bump it up to 40 on jayden daniels
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: having a return fest against that.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 3: Because like a part hold on i need to double
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 3: check this real quick before i say anything more because
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 3: i do think jayden daniels will have a better season
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 3: this time around hopefully he doesn't get hurt by the
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 3: idiocy of dan quinn oh it's in philadelphia so um
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 3: So that might not be that great, depending on how
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 3: good the defensive line for the Eagles is. But I
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 3: think Jaden Daniels' athleticism should be returning, give or take.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 3: You have Terry McCorn. You got Stephon Diggs. Well, you know,
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 3: he has a safety blanket. What else? That defense should
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 3: be pretty all right. I mean, they have already one
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 3: of the worst defenses. For some reason, they won veterans.
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 3: But I think that's just like the question mark for
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 3: the commanders. How good is Jaden Daniels from injury and
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 3: can he be protective and explosive? The thing about the Eagles,
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 3: this isn't about that their defense is being bad, it's
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 3: their offense. Because they went from arguably one of the
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 3: worst offenses with our coordinator, Kevin Petullo, to a new
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 3: one in Sean Mannion. And as we heard about it
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 3: during the preseason recaps with Brandon specifically, when Quinn Young
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 3: Mitchell got burned by A.J.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: Brown.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 3: It could be a little deceptive, and it also could
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 3: just be like, well, were they saving everything for the
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 3: regular season? Because that offense is the question mark, and
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 3: you know Philadelphia media is going to rival on Jalen
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 3: Hurts the moment he does something bad.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: Are you sure it's going to be Jalen Hurts, or
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: are they going to go after Nick Sirian?
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 2: I think it could be both.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 3: That being said, I do think the Eagles barely edge
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 3: out the Commanders. And it might be a shootout. I
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 3: actually do think it might be a shootout. I think
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 3: it's going to be 28-27.
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: Alright, so you picked the Philadelphia.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 3: Although I wouldn't be surprised if the Commanders still found
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 3: against the upset.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: So you're going to Take Washington with the points then
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: on the spread? Because the line is Philadelphia minus four
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: and a half.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, I do think it will be a very
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 3: close game. I think it's 28-27, but take that for
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 3: what you will. I think it will be the cover
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 3: with that one. They say it'll come down to either
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 3: a field goal or it's going to come down to
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 3: whether or not a PAT is missed.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, and Brandon, what's your take on this game?
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 2: God, I hate Philadelphia so much.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 3: I deeply made that clear.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 2: I hate Philadelphia in every sport. It's not just the Eagles.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 2: I hate, as a Boston Celtics fan, I also hate
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 2: the 76ers with a burning passion.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 3: Welcome LeBron James.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 2: Especially ever since we traded Jalen Brown to them as well.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 2: But I digress. That's for like our Patreon podcast or something.
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 2: Just kidding. We don't actually have that.
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 3: Who knows? Maybe we can extend this into the NBA
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 3: world someday. Maybe.
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 2: But no, I think Philadelphia wins this one. I don't
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 2: think it's particularly close. I don't think it's 46 and
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 2: a half. I think it's under that. But I don't
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 2: think Washington does all that well here. I think Jaden
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 2: Daniels kind of gets a little exposed. To be real,
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 2: I think this is kind of realistic. I think it's
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 2: going to be 24-10 Philadelphia.
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: All right. So Philadelphia minus four and a half with
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: the under.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 3: And I just realized I put the under by a point.
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, you did put the under by a point.
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 3: Now, can we go over to the West Coast? Because
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 3: that's where I live.
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: Yes, we have the last game of the four o'clock window,
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: the last game of the late window. And that is
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals at the Los Angeles Chargers. Nova, you
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: can take the lead on this one.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 3: I think the Cardinals are cooked.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: Now we're talking a nice medium cooked or stick a
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: fork in them, they're well done cooked.
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be medium because I'm putting
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 3: a lot of emphasis here saying that the Cardinals defense
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 3: has not really been impressive and The only thing that's
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 3: worth of note to question for the Cardinals is whether
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 3: or not Marvin Harrison Jr. can get out of his slump.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 3: And how good is Jeremiah Love really? Because he got
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 3: injured in the preseason, obviously. So we don't really know
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 3: much more other than his one preseason game. But for
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 3: the Chargers, Mike McDaniel is the biggest question mark on
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 3: the offense. Because there's heavy implications that Justin Herbert can
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 3: benefit with this offense. With Marion Hampton, Ladd McConkie, as
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 3: well as the rest of the offense. Clinton Johnson, hopefully,
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 3: if he has hands, that Olai should be healthy for once,
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 3: except for the center, because I think I injured the serve.
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 3: But Rashawn Slater, Joe Ault, they should be perfectly aligned
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 3: to help Justin Herbert. The defense, that's another big question mark,
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 3: because Minter is obviously not a team anymore. And then
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 3: you have one of the best kickers in the league
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 3: in Cameron Dicker. Okay, so you got the Chargers... Yeah.
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 3: And I think it'll be like 35 to 30, 35
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 3: to 13. I don't think it's going to be close
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 3: at all. I expect, I expect the fans of the
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 3: chargers in Los Angeles. And so if I say they
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 3: have to leave happy.
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: Okay. Um, I mean, I've also got the Chargers winning,
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: but again, like I said with what game was it?
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: It was the Cleveland-Jacksonville one. I'm not a fan of
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: a spread being that high, especially in week one. So
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: even though I'm predicting the chargers to win, I say Arizona,
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: Arizona gets a backdoor cover. They're going to cover minus 10,
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: but I also say it's going to be under 47
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: and a half in this game. I say 24 to
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: 20 as a final.
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 3: Which just leaves Brandon.
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: Which just leaves Brandon. He is thinking long and hard
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: about his answer.
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 2: No, I'm just kind of listening to this. To be fair,
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 2: I did tell you I'll kind of take this a
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 2: little bit more seriously than my other little villain takes
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: in our prior episodes.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 3: Those were perfect.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 2: What do you mean? No, I agree. But at the
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 2: same time, one of my friends, to kind of reference
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 2: our lovely intertwined connection of the Pokemon world, one of
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 2: my buddies that manages the Carolinas team is a diehard
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 2: Arizona fan. What is wrong with him? I didn't think
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 2: those existed. I constantly rag him about this every time
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 2: that he mentions that. I'm like, Timmy, Timmy, man, you
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 2: got to do something else rather than saying it.
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: And here I thought our friend and tournament judge friend, Jam,
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: because he's a Jets fan. I'm like, wait, those exist?
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 3: They existed until Aaron Rodgers got hurt.
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: The greatest highlight video of all time. Running out with
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: the flag, and that's it.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 2: And it's gone. But no, my friend Timmy is a
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 2: diehard Arizona fan, and he doesn't even think that they're
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 2: really even going to do that well this season. He
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 2: has no faith in Arizona whatsoever.
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 3: The only good thing they have is Trey McBride.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 2: They have Trey McBride. They have arguably one of the
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 2: best tight ends in the league. That's it. That's their team.
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 2: It's Trey McBride. It is the Trey McBride show every game.
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 2: I think the Chargers win this one in a landslide.
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 2: I think Justin Herbert shows that he has the cannon
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 2: that people think that he already has. I think it's
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 2: also going to be the Ladd-McConkie show. I think they
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 2: open up the season. I think it's a pretty resounding... 38-10.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: And that's an over. That is barely hitting the over there.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 3: I don't know if the microphone picked up the whole
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 3: Chargers chant there.
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: Yes, it did. It definitely did there.
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 3: And yes, they do play that at the stadium.
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: How about that? But guys, we got two games left
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: for week one.
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 3: And I think Brandon should delete this one.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Brandon's going to want to. He might
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: not even try to watch this game, but let's be real.
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: We're all going to be watching this game because as
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: the song starts, we've been waiting all day for Sunday night.
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: I am not going to drop into some kind of
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: country twang that Carrie Underwood can do, even though Carrie
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: Underwood is still a goddess when it comes to music.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 2: As someone who has seen her live, I would agree.
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 2: But we don't talk about that.
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: I will also say this, Brandon, and this might be
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: a little bit of an exaggeration, but this is from me.
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: I've actually said this. Lainey Wilson is this generation's Carrie
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: Underwood for country music. When you think about it, very beautiful,
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: blonde hair, blue eyes, that perfect Southern twang in their voice.
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: It's like, it's like, I'm looking in a mirror. All
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: I'm missing is Laney Wilson winning American idol.
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 2: No, I, I would agree with that, but, um, it's
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 2: Cowboys giants that y'all are wondering.
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 2: It's Cowboys Cowboys at the giants to make things a
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 2: little bit more interesting. I love the fact that Dallas
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 2: does not have a week one home game personally. Because
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 2: God forbid that we need the Cowboys fans going, it's
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 2: our year for winning a week one game. Again, looking
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 2: at the game cast on ESPN's page, you know, at
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 2: the time of this recording, the, you know, Dallas opens
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 2: up as a minus 2.5 and the over under, I'm sorry,
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 2: they up up minus three and the over under is
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 2: 48 and a half. 48 and a half feels incredibly high. Yeah.
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 3: Are you just thinking that Cowboys even start to seem
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 3: to remain awful?
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: So....
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 2: So, I'll give you both sides of this. I'll give
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 2: you what I think is going to happen, and I'll
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 2: give you what I want to happen. How's that sound?
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 3: Why haven't we done this from the beginning?
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 2: Well, it's been more realistic. This is one of my
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 2: things because I really hate the Dallas Cowboys almost as
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 2: much as I hate Philadelphia. So you just hate the
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 2: NFC East then? I mean, it's kind of fine, but
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 2: you know, whatever. And another reason is because I get
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 2: to rag on my girlfriend's family because her mom is
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 2: a diehard Dallas fan. So it's that time of year
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 2: where I get to just, you know, call them the
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 2: Dallas Cowgirls and watch her get all riled up. For
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 2: God's sakes, her Wi-Fi password has something to do with
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys. Let's be for real right now. I
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 2: do think, realistically, that Dallas wins this game. I think
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 2: they win along the lines of 20-17. I think both
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 2: offenses are kind of subpar. I think it's going to
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 2: be a little bit closer of a game. Even the
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 2: ESPN Matchup Predictor has Dallas favored at 57.2% to win
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 2: the game. So they think it's going to be a
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 2: closer game, just like I think it's going to be
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 2: a closer game as well. What I would like to
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 2: happen is I would like to see the return of
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 2: Jackson Dart. I would like to see the return of
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 2: Cam Scadaboo. And I would like to see the connection
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 2: that people were already seeing click prior to the two
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 2: of them getting hurt. That being said, I would really
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 2: like to see the Giants prove my 0-17 prediction wrong.
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 2: And I would like to see them beat the Cowgirls
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 2: by at least two scores. But the realistic take is
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 2: I think Dallas wins 2017.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, covers the spread and a heavy under.
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 2: Very heavy under.
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: Nova, how do you want to take this one?
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 3: Do you really want to trust John Harbaugh with anything?
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 3: Let me make that clear first of all.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 2: I do, actually.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: He won a Super Bowl.
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 2: He won a Super Bowl, and he was just, the
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 2: man had no say in how he wanted to run
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 2: things in Baltimore, so why would he not run himself out,
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 2: you know?
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 3: No, he did that to himself. He choked all those games.
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 2: Exactly. He wanted out.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 3: That just doesn't feel true at all. And also, the
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 3: Giants choked so many games last year. How is that
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 3: going to help?
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 2: The Giants were also really decimated with injuries last year.
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 2: Think about all the close games they had. Think about
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 2: all those close games they had, even with all the
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 2: injuries to their starting lineups.
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 3: And all those close games they should have won, but
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 3: they consistently choked.
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 2: Eh, tomato, tomato.
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's close at all. I think Dallas
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 3: wins 24-7.
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 2: No faith in the Giants.
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 3: None.
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, I am kind of.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: Mean i'm in unison with you guys i say dallas
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: wins i say dallas covers the spread i say it's
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: under but i also looked this up the last time
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: the cowboys and the giants faced off in week one
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: in east rutherford new jersey do you guys want to
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: know what the final score of that game was.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 3: What didn't the cowboys put 40 on that game I
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 3: knew I remembered something about that.
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: The final score of that game was 40 to nothing.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 2: Jesus.
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: Now, will that happen again? Survey says no, but I mean,
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: props to Nova for getting that right on the money.
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 3: I knew I remembered something. It was like, oh, I
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 3: think it was the season that the Giants made the
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 3: divisional round that year, and then it got clobbered immediately.
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, Brandon, because he got the perfect guess. Brandon,
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: what do we have for our winner?
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 2: Hopefully an upset.
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 3: Hell no. Awesome. I need to put this out as well.
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 3: Jameis Winston just signed a two-year deal with the Giants.
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 2: Deserved.
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, deserved.
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 2: The man's not really a great QB, but he's a
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 2: damn good leader.
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 3: Take that for what you will. He's probably going to
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 3: be the backup for a while.
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure. Hmm.
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 3: Well, and in other news, I think a Cowboys old line.
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 3: I think Tyler Smith just hit IR today, too.
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it did. He is getting, I think, thumb surgery.
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: I can pull up because I got Ian Rappaport. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: since I have thumb surgery, he's out at least four weeks.
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 2: Ooh, I.
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 3: How good is that Giants D-line that Dexter Horace got traded?
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 3: It's just Abdul Carter and Kate Montevideo?
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 2: Ooh. To kind of go along with the game, I
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 2: just opened up Twitter on my phone. Just kind of
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 2: look at this. And the first report on here six
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 2: minutes ago from Adam Schefter is the Giants released... veteran
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 2: wide receiver Darius Slayton.
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 3: What? I don't think he's that bad, but what?
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 2: This is not a parody account. This is the actual
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 2: Adam Schefter ESPN Insider. Six minutes ago, Giants released veteran
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 2: wide receiver Darius Slayton. Send tweet.
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, hey, I will. I mean, I'll take a
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: one-year flyer on Darius Slayton in Atlanta. Oh, my God.
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 3: I need just to police that offense at this rate.
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 2: You need all the help you can get, brother.
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 3: And then we have the Monday night finale, and this
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 3: is going to be the game I think everyone's going
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 3: to be talking about. It's the Broncos and the Chiefs.
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: It is the Broncos and the Chiefs. Brandon, take us home.
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 2: Oh man, y'all like pinning this particular kind of crap
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 2: on me, don't you? For my past opinions. I mean,
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 2: to be fair, I still think Patrick Mahomes is incredibly mid.
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 2: I'll die on that hill. I do. I do.
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 3: Let's talk about the Chiefs first. Yeah, that's what I'm
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 3: going to do.
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 2: That's exactly what I'm going to do. This is Patrick
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 2: Mahomes' first game back from his ACL tear. Against arguably
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 2: one of the top three, if not top five, defenses
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 2: in the league. This is going to be an incredible
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 2: mental challenge for Patrick Mahomes. Yes, he's had incredible rehab. Yes,
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 2: he's done contact practices or whatnot. Otherwise, he would not
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 2: be in a starting lineup right now if he was
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 2: not clear for any of that crap. It's very hard
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 2: to replicate practice reps. Against incredible defenses. I say this
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 2: with any defense. With how well the Texans did last year.
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 2: With how well Denver did last year. With the Legion
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 2: of Boom. With the team of Destiny from Baltimore. It's
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 2: really hard to replicate reps against defenses.
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 3: And right now with the dark side defense in Seattle.
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 2: Exactly. I think this is going to be one of
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 2: those things where Patrick Mahomes better pray to God his
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 2: O-line stays healthy all game long. Otherwise, this man's either
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 2: going to be spending half the game running for his life,
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 2: or he's going to be spending the other half getting sacked.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 2: And I think the spread is plus three. I'm sorry,
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 2: the spread is plus three on Denver. Over-under is 42.5.
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 2: I don't think... I think it's an under. But I
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 2: think Denver wins it.
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 3: What do you got, Talon?
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 2: Um....
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: You said, uh, so Denver wins and that would be
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: Denver plus three.
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 2: Yep. Denver plus three, but I think it's an under,
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 2: under 32 and a half.
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: I'm in lockstep with you on Denver and that would
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: mean Denver wins with the spread, but I'm actually going
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: to say it's an over. I'm actually going to say that, uh,
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: I feel like with the way Jalen Waddle is going
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: to play and Cortland Sutton, I wouldn't be surprised if
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: Denver gets 30 on the Chiefs defense. And I mean,
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: if the Chiefs get 14, then they cover the spread.
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to say Denver 30 to 14. I
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: could see that.
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 3: I got the Broncos 23-17. I do think Kenneth Walker
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 3: gets a pretty brutal debut, but I think he gets
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 3: one touchdown on the ground. I feel like the receiving
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 3: core for the Chiefs is going to be really tested.
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 3: It's weird, but this is going to be my hot ticket.
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 3: I think Mahomes throws a pick six. Throwing a pick six.
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised if it'd be Riley Moss.
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 2: I could see that.
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: So that means Nova is also picking Denver.
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 3: That 23, 17 is my score prediction.
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: And that's an under. And with that, we have our
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: week one predictions and we're kind of in lockstep with
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of these, these games.
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, the only way we didn't really real was Carolina, Chicago.
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that one, it could have really went either way,
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 2: but kind of going in lockstep with another Adam Schefter
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 2: tweet that people with fantasy options may want to hear
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 2: as well. Oh? For the second straight day, the Patriots
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 2: injury report, wow, I promise I can read, said that
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 2: running back Travion Henderson did not practice due to an
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 2: ankle injury. and that Henderson has now missed two weeks
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 2: of practice.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 2: So, I don't know about some of y'all, but I'm
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 2: fixing to go on my fantasy lineup and flex out
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 2: Travion Henderson. I do not trust a running back of
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 2: any kind, of any variety, on any team that has
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 2: missed two weeks of practice with an ankle injury going
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 2: against one of the best defenses in the league. I
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 2: don't trust it.
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 3: I don't. I mean, I would be inclined to agree.
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: I'm inclined to agree as well. And again, that's week
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: one of the NFL season.
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 3: So we're right, but we're probably going to be wrong.
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 2: Probably.
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's going to be some games that were right.
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: Some games that were wrong about. I know later in
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: this year, I will be doing live watch-alongs of some
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: of the games. Most notably... The Week 5 game? Probably
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: Week 5, but definitely Week 4, because Week 4 is
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: my 30th birthday.
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 2: Welcome to old. Great.
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, welcome to old. I got a month left of
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: the 20s. I'm celebrating and mourning. And actually funnily enough,
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: the saints actually revealed their uniforms for that game. And
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: apparently they are going to be wearing white for that
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: home game. Kind of, kind of interesting. I'll say that
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: for that Monday night game, especially when they're going to
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: be wearing black on the road at Baltimore and wearing
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: black at home against Vegas, and wearing black at home
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: versus Minnesota.
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 3: I see.
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that'll be a... I mean, again, we're talking
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: weeks ahead.
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, for sure.
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking weeks ahead now, but... That is going
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: to be it for week of not weeks for episode seven.
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: I promise I can speak English.
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 3: Are we sure we're through yet? Cause I think there's
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 3: one thing we're missing.
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: What could we be missing?
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 3: And this is, will be a much better improvement because
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 3: through the latest patch notes, the roughly the better segment
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 3: will get stronger from here on out.
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, that is true. So it may not just be...
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 1: You might not hear the police when we talk about it.
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: You're going to be hearing a lot of booing as well.
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 3: So what's one wild thing we could say about any
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 3: of the games from this week one? It could be
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 3: a prediction. Sorry, it's going to be the hot take. Geek,
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 3: I alluded to mine. I think Mahomes does roll a
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 3: pick six.
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 2: Um.
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go with a hot take that this
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: might be a really big hot take here, but I'm
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: going to say which one can I pick on this one?
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 2: I don't think any of y'all are going to pick
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 2: them on, so I'm not too worried about it.
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, if we think about it, sure, but I
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 3: think we're not going to from the looks of it.
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say Lamar Jackson. No, I'm not going
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: to go Lamar Jackson on this one. Actually, you.
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 2: Better not.
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, I picked Buffalo to beat Houston. I'm going
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: to say Buffalo wins and Josh Allen wins. throws seven touchdowns.
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 2: God, Jesus.
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 2: That kind of puts mine in a little bit of
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 2: a dumpster fire. Jesus. I mean, mine was going to
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 2: be a little bit of a hot take, but it
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 2: wasn't going to be something to set the fucking world
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 2: on fire. I don't know. Jesus. What the hell?
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 3: No, he's not going to have a Peyton Manning or
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 3: Nick Foles moment. He's just not. I'd be surprised if
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 3: he did.
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to stick with mine. Jesus, that's a touchdown. No, no,
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 2: not happening. Not a chance in hell does that happen.
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 2: God almighty. Hold on. I need to read. I need
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 2: to kind of put myself back up after this one.
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 3: I'm not even mad at the take. I'm just like,
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 3: what in the world did I just hear?
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 2: This man just pulled something out of his ass. I
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 2: don't know what to tell you on that one. No,
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 2: but my take is, and I kind of decided this
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 2: one whenever I was talking about it. I think Trevor
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 2: Lawrence was a 5TD game. I think he's going to
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 2: be one of the best performing QBs with one of
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 2: the highest QBRs, as well as probably one of the
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 2: best fantasy QBs in week one. Okay. Not necessarily five
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 2: passing touchdowns. I think he has five total offensive touchdowns. Okay.
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: That is going to end the week one predictions of
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: the Ruffling the Feathers podcast. And once again, ladies and gentlemen,
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 1: we want to thank you guys so much for your
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 1: support with the podcast. We are having a lot of
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: fun getting these episodes out for you guys. And it's
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 1: just so great that we have real football this week.
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 1: Ain't it, guys?
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: We have waited long and hard. May have offered a
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: couple of firstborn childs. Nova wants to do the 6'7.
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 2: Jesus.
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we are going to end it there, ladies
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: and gentlemen. Thank you so much. We will be back
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: next week recapping week one of the NFL season and
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: previewing week two. So for Supernova and for Brandon, I'm
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: Talent Master Jay saying we'll see you next time.