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News, Notes & an Undefeated Week | NFL Week 6 Recap & MNF Preview · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the favorites live on YouTube presented by draft Kings.
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Speaker 1: The crown is yours. I'm Brandon Kravitz, your host joined
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Speaker 1: by the first lady, Kendra Middleton week six is almost
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Speaker 1: a wrap super teams going down. The Titans got a
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Speaker 1: win and our producer is about to do something Some
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Speaker 1: really weird stuff. We'll get to all of that receipts, cash, crash, clutch,
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Speaker 1: a word from the Oracle, Evan Abrams, and we will
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Speaker 1: slide in a Monday night football, same game parlay before
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Speaker 1: we get out of here. We do have some gloating
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Speaker 1: to do. At least I do. Kendra on Twitter said
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Speaker 1: she will not be gloating. So I'm curious to see
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Speaker 1: what form that takes. We'll get to that. We will
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Speaker 1: get to that five and oh, in the contest, we
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Speaker 1: will get to that. But Kendra, we have breaking news
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Speaker 1: to get to in the NFL. Stuff's popping off this morning.
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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts went from out for this week to the
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Speaker 1: IR to out for the season with this blood clot issue. Hopefully,
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Speaker 1: everything turns out okay for him. And Chris Ballard, the
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Speaker 1: general manager for the Indianapolis Colts, has been let go.
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Speaker 1: So what would you like to react to first before
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Speaker 1: we break down the card?
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Speaker 2: It's been a.
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Speaker 3: Really crazy morning. I mean, I guess it's not really...
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Speaker 3: Anything to say crazy about Jalen Hurts other than like,
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Speaker 3: I hope that he's doing okay.
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Speaker 2: And I cannot believe.
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Speaker 3: How this medical staff handled this because I think it
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Speaker 3: was our show on Thursday where I was saying I
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Speaker 3: kind of had put together a little bit of the
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Speaker 3: timeline and they knew that he had this blood clot
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Speaker 3: when they got there and still let him fly home
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Speaker 3: with it. It's just crazy to me the way that
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Speaker 3: this has been handled. I feel like somebody is going
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Speaker 3: to have to lose their job, and I'm not just
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Speaker 3: worried about him losing the season. I'm kind of in
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Speaker 3: the conversation now, like, should he keep playing, especially if
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Speaker 3: this is something that is going to continue. If he
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Speaker 3: does keep playing, I think it's probably up to him
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Speaker 3: and his family to have some tough conversations, but I
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Speaker 3: really hope that he's okay, and I just am appalled
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Speaker 3: by the staff. I don't know if you have anything
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Speaker 3: to add to that. I think the conversation here is probably...
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Speaker 3: you know, more so about the Colts and Carly Ursae.
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Speaker 3: I mean, look at her standing down on the sidelines
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Speaker 3: and making some tough decisions. I got to say, I'm
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Speaker 3: surprised it took this.
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Speaker 2: Long, but good for her.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, amazing what losing to the Titans will produce. Heads
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Speaker 1: will roll when that happens. This is from Josina Anderson
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Speaker 1: on the firing of Chris Ballard. My understanding is that
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Speaker 1: Ballard told Carly Ursae Gordon that she should make the
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Speaker 1: change for the good of the organization. So Chris Ballard, Wow.
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Speaker 2: I didn't hear that bit.
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Speaker 1: He knew he was on the hot seat. He had
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Speaker 1: been the GM there for 10 years. She had already
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Speaker 1: come out publicly and said, we need results. Well, losing
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Speaker 1: to the Titans is officially a bad result. He knew
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Speaker 1: the writing was on the wall. I have heard nothing
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Speaker 1: but great things about Chris Ballard, the person. And this
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Speaker 1: just backs that up. I know I'm going to get fired.
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Speaker 1: You know, you're going to fire me. Let's just do
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Speaker 1: this now and put the organization first. I think it
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Speaker 1: really speaks well to him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do, too. I think it honestly looks really
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Speaker 2: good on both of them.
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Speaker 3: The fact that they had such a good professional working relationship,
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Speaker 3: I think, says a lot about both of them.
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Speaker 2: And you know what?
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Speaker 3: Like after the move that he made last season in
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Speaker 3: a division that, you know, let's be honest, is pretty
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Speaker 3: much sucking the season outside of Jacksonville and we're going
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Speaker 3: to get to their game and my thoughts on that
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Speaker 3: eventually at some point. But in a division for, you know,
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Speaker 3: the better part of a decade that you've been a
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Speaker 3: GM and has been terrible and you haven't been able
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Speaker 3: to capitalize on that. I'm sorry, but as much as
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Speaker 3: I like you as a person, if you're not giving
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Speaker 3: me results at some point, we can still sit here
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Speaker 3: and say, love you.
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Speaker 2: Good luck.
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Speaker 3: But it's time for us to part ways. And I
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Speaker 3: just I didn't know that bit about it. I had
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Speaker 3: just heard that they did. had a parted ways, but
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Speaker 3: I think that that says a lot about both of them.
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Speaker 3: I wish them, you know, the best of, I wish
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Speaker 3: him the best of luck. Obviously I hope that the
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Speaker 3: Colts keep sucking, but I love Carly or say Gordon. And,
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Speaker 3: you know, I, I don't know what else to say.
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Speaker 3: I there, I think that that was the first move.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I have faith in the coaching staff, but if they
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Speaker 3: continue to perform this way throughout the rest of the season,
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Speaker 3: then I think that there are probably obviously other conversations
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Speaker 3: that will and have.
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Speaker 2: To be had.
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Speaker 1: For sure. And we see a lot of teams handle
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Speaker 1: it this way. When, The GM gets fired. The coach
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Speaker 1: usually ends up following them out the door because the
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Speaker 1: new GM wants to hire their people. Which of these
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Speaker 1: moves do you think was the worst, the most egregious
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Speaker 1: of all from Chris Ballard? The sauce trade. I know
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Speaker 1: you weren't a big fan of the sauce gardener deal.
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Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson being taken inside of the top five or
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Speaker 1: giving Daniel Jones an extension. Which of those puts you
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Speaker 1: on the chopping block the hardest and the fastest?
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Speaker 3: I think it's got to be Anthony Richardson because that
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Speaker 3: domino led to the Daniel Jones situation. So I think
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Speaker 3: that that's kind of like the first big, what the heck?
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Speaker 3: Because that's the thing too. Like I watched a lot
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Speaker 3: of college football. You watched a lot of college football.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure that you watched Anthony Richardson at Florida. What
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Speaker 3: about Anthony Richardson at Florida made you think that that
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Speaker 3: was the decision to be made then and there?
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Speaker 1: That made me crazy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I am.
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Speaker 1: I'm not a general manager in the NFL. That draft
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Speaker 1: pick made me think that I could do this for
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Speaker 1: a living because I'm looking at that going, guys, I
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Speaker 1: think I watched every Anthony Richardson snap in college. I
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Speaker 1: watch a lot of state of Florida college football, and
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Speaker 1: I never saw first round.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 1: Top five.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 3: No. And that's coming from someone who spent the majority
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Speaker 3: of my early adult life with Trent Bulkey.
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Speaker 2: So let me tell you.
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Speaker 1: You get quarterback wrong, it's really hard to keep your
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Speaker 1: job as a general manager. And he got it wrong twice.
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Speaker 3: I honestly think too, that this is going to be
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Speaker 3: one of those things that we look back at with
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Speaker 3: Daniel Jones getting an extension, the way the Baker Mayfield's
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Speaker 3: extension is kind of playing out. Maybe we can look
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Speaker 3: at Sam Darnold, even though he won a Super Bowl
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Speaker 3: and saying, okay, there's like these quarterbacks who had, you know,
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Speaker 3: a season of lightning in a bottle. That does not
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Speaker 3: mean that you need to pay them long-term.
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Speaker 1: That's the weird thing is that last year, the conversation
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Speaker 1: was we need to stop giving up on these quarterbacks.
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Speaker 1: So quickly look at Baker Mayfield, look at Sam Darnold,
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Speaker 1: look at Daniel Jones.
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Speaker 2: I'm guilty of that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. I had the exact, exact same dialogue on
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Speaker 1: this podcast and others about that exact storyline. And now
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Speaker 1: we're seeing it. We're seeing it reverse in the other direction.
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Speaker 1: And I think the bottom line is it's just really
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Speaker 1: hard to get quarterback, right? It's really hard. And then
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Speaker 1: sometimes you can even get it right and then still
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Speaker 1: be wrong. That is the confusing mindfuck of all of this.
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Speaker 1: Let's check up on the DraftKings contest, shall we?
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Speaker 6: Let's do it.
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Speaker 1: Five and oh, we. Undefeated. Give me the trophy. Texans
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Speaker 1: plus two and a half. Got it. Steelers minus two
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Speaker 1: and a half. Nailed it. Saints plus one and a half.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, John Yastrzemski. Jets.
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Speaker 6: Fuck it.
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Speaker 1: The Jets plus seven and a half. right through the
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Speaker 1: back door and the Raiders plus five and a half.
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Speaker 1: We'll go game by game here. But Kendra, the amazing
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Speaker 1: part about this, and I saw that you added this
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Speaker 1: to our doc as well. What's crazy is that not
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Speaker 1: only did we go five and oh, we left the Browns,
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Speaker 1: the Panthers, the Packers and the Broncos on the cutting
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Speaker 1: room floor. If our contest was nine plays instead of five,
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Speaker 1: we would have gone nine and oh, this was just picture.
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Speaker 1: Perfect excellence from the favorites.
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Speaker 2: And I would like to say Dr. Chow is the
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Speaker 2: freaking man.
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Speaker 3: He told us before the NFL that all of these
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Speaker 3: injuries would be crucial this week. And there was a
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Speaker 3: potential that Lamar wouldn't play. He like, he just knew
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Speaker 3: it all. He knew about, he knows everything.
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Speaker 2: It's insane. He really, really, really helped us secure the
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Speaker 2: bag this week. And for him, I am grateful.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah, he got us to the window on the Browns,
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Speaker 1: on the Panthers, and they weren't even contest plays for us,
8:22
Speaker 1: but still, yeah, tremendous stuff all around. I mean, this was,
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Speaker 1: and this is what feels so good about this, is
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Speaker 1: it wasn't like, oh, it was a bunch of my
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Speaker 1: plays and I had a good week. It wasn't a
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Speaker 1: bunch of your plays and you had a good week.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't a bunch of JJ's plays or all of
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Speaker 1: Chow's advice. This was truly a total team.
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Speaker 2: A group thing.
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Speaker 1: Everybody got, it was our whole.
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Speaker 1: All of the idiot pieces of pie that make up
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Speaker 1: the favorites created this. And our producer said he would
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Speaker 1: do some weird shit if we ever went 5-0. Well,
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Speaker 1: I'm not even going to call out what the weird
8:59
Speaker 1: stuff is.
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Speaker 2: Falls in your court, Giff.
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Speaker 1: I just want you to know. Gifford, would you like
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Speaker 1: to declare us, I don't know, kings of the podcast
9:09
Speaker 1: world or tell us when you plan to devolve into madness?
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Speaker 2: I'm just really excited that we have won 5-0.
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Speaker 6: I couldn't be more jammed up.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Only took us six weeks.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's weird. Gifford sounds really excited today.
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Speaker 2: Only took us six weeks.
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Speaker 1: Well, we did it. And who knows? Maybe another one
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Speaker 1: is on the way. So let's go piece by piece here.
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Speaker 1: Texans plus two and a half. I know you've got
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Speaker 1: a lot to say on this game. This is forever known,
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Speaker 1: even though this didn't necessarily impact the result, the Travis
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Speaker 1: Hunter game. Oh, I N T on defense. The first
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Speaker 1: player since Brian Dawkins in 2002 to do that. You
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Speaker 1: want to wax poetic on this or, or tell me
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Speaker 1: about the refs screwing the drugs. What, what, what Liam
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Speaker 1: Cohen down by three fourth and three.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I have a lot of thoughts about this.
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Speaker 3: And it's easy to sit here and say, well, this
10:09
Speaker 3: is what should have been done afterwards. I think Liam
10:12
Speaker 3: had a bad coaching game. I think when he decided
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Speaker 3: to go for it, he should have kicked it. And
10:17
Speaker 3: when he decided to kick it, he should.
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Speaker 2: Have gone for it.
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Speaker 3: But I really don't hate him deciding to kick it
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Speaker 3: at the end of the game because Trevor wasn't playing
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Speaker 3: well at that point. Your defense wasn't playing well at
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Speaker 3: that point.
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Speaker 2: I think that you take the points and just.
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Speaker 3: Send your guys back out there and hope.
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Speaker 2: I think what else do you do?
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Speaker 3: Like, I know that your defense sucked yesterday. The defense
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Speaker 3: was so bad yesterday. And I hate I said this
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Speaker 3: on Twitter. I hate being the type of person to
10:45
Speaker 3: sit here and complain about the refs. But throughout the
10:50
Speaker 3: day yesterday, just continued once again, and I'm going to
10:53
Speaker 3: talk about it in one of our awards later, but
10:56
Speaker 3: just continued to ruin games yesterday. I'm sick of sitting
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Speaker 3: here on Sundays and something happening and me having to
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Speaker 3: sit here and wait for a flag. That phantom holding
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Speaker 3: call is going to haunt me for eternity.
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Speaker 2: And I just, all right, let me ask you a question.
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Speaker 3: If this game was actually a home game for the
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Speaker 3: Jacksonville Jaguars, and this was played in Jacksonville yesterday, how
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Speaker 3: do you think this would have gone?
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Speaker 1: That's a tough question to answer because are you referring
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Speaker 1: specifically to the way that the penalties were called?
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Speaker 3: No, I'm referring to the home atmosphere, this being a
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Speaker 3: true home game, this being a divisional game at home.
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Speaker 3: There is no way that this game would have gone
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Speaker 3: this way yesterday.
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Speaker 1: If this was actually a home game. I do think
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville wins. I mean, it's hard to say that they wouldn't.
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville has been the best home team in the NFL
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Speaker 1: for at least the last two years, and it might
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Speaker 1: even stretch beyond that, but they've been a good team
11:47
Speaker 1: that's married, good team with good home field advantage for
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Speaker 1: the last two years and that was something that we
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Speaker 1: talked about before the season was that this was the
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Speaker 1: egregious part of this schedule for Jacksonville was having this
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Speaker 1: home game against the Houston Texans be in London and
12:02
Speaker 1: so you know to that point yeah I was on
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Speaker 1: the Texans we were on the Texans as a show
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Speaker 1: I don't I would not have been on the Texans
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Speaker 1: if this game was in Houston and for it to
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Speaker 1: come down to a field goal at the end of
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Speaker 1: the game Um, probably is a win if it's in Jacksonville,
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Speaker 1: but it wasn't. And the Jags have shown some wobbly
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Speaker 1: wheels over the last couple of weeks and the penalties,
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Speaker 1: whether the officials were egregious in their calls or not.
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Speaker 1: you can't deny the fact that the Jaguars have been
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Speaker 1: the most penalized team in the NFL. So even if
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Speaker 1: they've had a couple that shouldn't go their way, and
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Speaker 1: I would agree, Travis Hunter, PI, questionable, the holding call
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Speaker 1: that you mentioned, that was a bad, that was just
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Speaker 1: a bad call.
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Speaker 2: Let me just say something.
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Speaker 1: The Jags are bringing this onto themselves.
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Speaker 3: Oh, you can't beat yourself and the ref. You can't
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Speaker 3: beat yourself and the referees like you just you can't
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Speaker 3: do that. But the thing is, is that the Jaguars
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Speaker 3: were the least penalized team through the first three weeks
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Speaker 3: and have been the most penalized the last three weeks.
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Speaker 3: And I it's hard for me to sit here and
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Speaker 3: conceptualize that.
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Speaker 2: As a fan. I'm not going to make excuses. They
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Speaker 2: didn't win the game.
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Speaker 3: Yesterday, but I just am so sick of sitting here
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Speaker 3: and watching all of these calls back. And genuinely as
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Speaker 3: someone who's consumed the game for 30 years, not knowing
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Speaker 3: what a holding is anymore.
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Speaker 2: I just, I don't. And, and that's the hard part.
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Speaker 3: Um, but yeah, we, we won the Texans.
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Speaker 2: We knew that this is how I was going to go.
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Speaker 6: Yep.
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Speaker 2: Kumbaya.
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Speaker 1: This was, this was just simply, even though the Jags
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Speaker 1: were over in London, they were parked there and that
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Speaker 1: sent a lot of people to the side of the
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars. We said that's being over baked into the line. Um,
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Speaker 1: This is a Texan spot. This was a playoff game
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Speaker 1: for Houston. They could not lose this game. And a
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Speaker 1: credit to CJ Stroud. I thought both quarterbacks played well.
13:51
Speaker 1: CJ Stroud outplayed Trevor Lawrence in this game, and that
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Speaker 1: might have been the biggest difference. I know you're hot
13:58
Speaker 1: on the Josh Hines-Allen discussion. One tackle, no sacks.
14:06
Speaker 3: I said before the season that I got crucified for
14:10
Speaker 3: saying that I wish that they treated him before the season.
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Speaker 3: I love Josh. I love who he is in the
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Speaker 3: locker room. I love that Jacksonville loves him. I love
14:16
Speaker 3: that he loves Jacksonville. I love that he's a family guy.
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Speaker 3: But he is so expensive and doing absolutely nothing.
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Speaker 2: And he's untouchable to the organization.
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Speaker 3: And I think that that's what pisses me off the
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Speaker 3: most is because he is homegrown talent, right? but he
14:33
Speaker 3: disappears for stretches of the only two seasons that he's
14:37
Speaker 3: had that were decent were a contract year. So like,
14:41
Speaker 3: I'm just sick. I'm sick of sitting here saying that
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Speaker 3: he's worth all of this money to do nothing. And
14:45
Speaker 3: I know that, you know, the run defense changes if
14:49
Speaker 3: you get rid of him, but fine, I really don't care.
14:51
Speaker 3: You cannot cost that much money and not disrupt the
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Speaker 3: quarterback whatsoever. Package him and BTJ, send him out and
14:58
Speaker 3: bring me Max Crosby.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's a bad idea. Um, should be noted.
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Speaker 1: The Texans are now 10 and one in the last
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Speaker 1: 11 games against the Jacksonville Jaguars. They've owned this rivalry
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Speaker 1: and they now have the tiebreaker for the moment. And
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Speaker 1: they're only back two games on the division. So all
15:16
Speaker 1: of a sudden we've got a race in the AFC South.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to the Steelers minus two and a half. Boy,
15:24
Speaker 1: all these were sweats. I mean, pretty much none of
15:27
Speaker 1: these came easy, but they all showed up. with dubs
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Speaker 1: Steelers minus two and a half, the box moved to
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Speaker 1: two and 11 all time against the Steelers. And maybe
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Speaker 1: it's because they've only played this team on the road.
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Speaker 1: They're either in Pittsburgh or they're in Tampa Berg. Did
15:43
Speaker 1: you see the crowd in Tampa for this game? I'm
15:46
Speaker 1: not kidding. I think I test it was 70% Steelers
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Speaker 1: fans and they kind of kept them hanging around.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you live in Florida. I grew up in Florida.
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Speaker 3: The number of like weird, just pockets of like Eagles,
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Speaker 3: Patriots and Steelers fans that snowboard down there and just
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Speaker 3: stay really pissed me off because this happened in Jacksonville
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Speaker 3: a lot when I was a kid. Like whenever you
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Speaker 3: had one of those teams playing down there, it would
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Speaker 3: be mostly the majority of their fans. And I'm not surprised,
16:15
Speaker 3: but at the same time, like, do Bucs fans really
16:18
Speaker 3: have something to get out of their house for on.
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Speaker 2: Sundays right now? Like, not really.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 2: And it's probably a cheap flight.
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Speaker 1: They're more focused on their baseball team right now. So
16:30
Speaker 1: the Steelers down 16-3, headed to the fourth quarter. Shout
16:34
Speaker 1: out to Jeremy Bernard. What a game by him. The Steelers,
16:39
Speaker 1: no surprise, find another obscure star wide receiver. That's what
16:43
Speaker 1: this organization.
16:44
Speaker 3: Met calf DK met calf 11 receptions yesterday was nuts
16:49
Speaker 3: he was basically automatic for Aaron Rodgers yesterday I had
16:52
Speaker 3: this in our notes to talk about later but did
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Speaker 3: you see Mike McCarthy go into the blue tent after
16:58
Speaker 3: getting stepped on like I'm.
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Speaker 1: Sorry he didn't do the halftime interview I know.
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Speaker 3: He didn't I don't think he did halftime anything because
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Speaker 3: he was in the tent I want to know who
17:09
Speaker 3: stepped on him. That's like the one piece of this
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Speaker 3: puzzle that I like need for memeing.
17:13
Speaker 2: I need to know who.
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Speaker 3: Stepped on Mike McCarthy and now, and now he's got
17:17
Speaker 3: to get on a flight and go to France like that.
17:21
Speaker 1: Right. Steeler saints in Paris next week. That'll be an
17:25
Speaker 1: interesting one. Speaking of the saints, we had the saints
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Speaker 1: plus one and a half. I feel like, This game
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Speaker 1: says more about the fraudulent giants than it did about
17:35
Speaker 1: the saints. We'll take the win. This was all John Yastrzemski,
17:38
Speaker 1: by the way, you and I hated this game on
17:40
Speaker 1: both sides. We wanted nothing to do with it, but
17:42
Speaker 1: we got walked into it. Uh, they let Tyler shuck
17:45
Speaker 1: come back to life in this game. They only threw
17:48
Speaker 1: 444 yards, but three touchdown passes. They are the worst
17:55
Speaker 1: first place team in the NFL. They could be one
17:57
Speaker 1: of the worst first place teams I've ever seen in
18:00
Speaker 1: They can't run the football. John Harbaugh is denying the
18:03
Speaker 1: fact that he benched Cam Scadaboo, which is obviously a lie.
18:06
Speaker 1: And they have a quarterback controversy now because JJ McCarthy
18:09
Speaker 1: outplayed Jamis Winston. And what a disgusting quarterback quandary to
18:14
Speaker 1: be in. That is your New York Giants will take
18:17
Speaker 1: the win on the Saints.
18:18
Speaker 2: I don't think it's disgusting at all.
18:19
Speaker 3: I don't even think it's a question that you move
18:21
Speaker 3: forward with JJ McCarthy. That was kind of Harbaugh's whole
18:24
Speaker 3: thing about this was He likes JJ McCarthy because he's
18:27
Speaker 3: a hard worker.
18:28
Speaker 2: He's played a lot of.
18:28
Speaker 3: Football for someone being that age and he's moldable for,
18:32
Speaker 3: you know, a new team. I really don't think that
18:35
Speaker 3: it was a fluke that JJ played well yesterday.
18:37
Speaker 2: I think that he needed it.
18:37
Speaker 3: He's one of these classic quarterback or just any kind
18:40
Speaker 3: of position where you're failing somewhere, you go somewhere else,
18:43
Speaker 3: you get, you know, the coaching that you need. And
18:45
Speaker 3: you get the focus that you need and you're able
18:47
Speaker 3: to develop. And I really don't think that it was
18:50
Speaker 3: a coincidence that he outplayed Jameis yesterday. I don't think
18:53
Speaker 3: that you can go back to Jameis. I think that
18:54
Speaker 3: this is now JJ's team. He looked a lot better.
18:57
Speaker 3: And here's the issue that I run into now trying
19:00
Speaker 3: to figure out more about this Giants team.
19:02
Speaker 2: They now go play.
19:03
Speaker 3: They go to Houston to play the Texans who won,
19:06
Speaker 3: you know, a massive game on Sunday. I would be
19:09
Speaker 3: interested to see what this line looks like around the
19:12
Speaker 3: time we do our show on Thursday after JJ is announced,
19:16
Speaker 3: because I feel like the market is probably going to
19:20
Speaker 3: run all over to Houston to get in to bet
19:22
Speaker 3: on them. But if JJ can keep his confidence up
19:25
Speaker 3: and kind of continue that fourth quarter rolling into this week,
19:28
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised if he comes out, you know,
19:30
Speaker 3: a little bit of a shooter early in the game
19:32
Speaker 3: on Sunday.
19:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, the slower pace for me to getting the wagers
19:38
Speaker 1: in has paid dividends, so I'm not putting my chips
19:43
Speaker 1: into anything for week seven just yet, but that's an
19:46
Speaker 1: interesting one to look at because the Houston would be
19:50
Speaker 1: the obvious fade. But I think what we saw with
19:54
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy was, I think a lot of that was
19:57
Speaker 1: just a guy playing free because you're down by 17
19:59
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. They outscored.
20:00
Speaker 2: He needed that.
20:02
Speaker 1: He did. And he, and he started with an interception.
20:04
Speaker 1: So the fact that he was able to sort of
20:09
Speaker 1: come out of the web of that I think was,
20:11
Speaker 1: was encouraging, but that'll definitely be one that we have
20:14
Speaker 1: circled as far as our discussions go for next week.
20:16
Speaker 1: We had the jets plus seven and a half. I
20:19
Speaker 1: went back and listened to portions of our last episode.
20:21
Speaker 1: Johnny Stremski was so hesitant to put this in the contest.
20:25
Speaker 1: His direct quote was Pat surpass for me. but I'm
20:28
Speaker 1: glad that we leaned on Evan for this one. Fuck it.
20:31
Speaker 1: The jets came through and shout out to Aaron Glenn
20:34
Speaker 1: for doing the prudent thing and taking the field goal
20:38
Speaker 1: down by 10 second down 30 seconds left. Glenn says,
20:43
Speaker 1: let's get the cover for the favorites. We appreciate it.
20:46
Speaker 3: I don't know how we I was sitting there sweating
20:50
Speaker 3: this game out yesterday.
20:51
Speaker 2: I'm not even kidding.
20:53
Speaker 3: I literally was like holding the dog like just please do.
20:56
Speaker 2: It, please.
20:58
Speaker 3: I don't have anything entertaining or important to say about
21:00
Speaker 3: this game other than the fact that it was crazy
21:03
Speaker 3: to watch A.J.
21:03
Speaker 2: Brown suck.
21:04
Speaker 3: And he really gave me a heart attack right there
21:07
Speaker 3: when I thought that the Jets were going to get
21:08
Speaker 3: the ball back at the end.
21:09
Speaker 2: I was about to go nuts there. Um, but luckily
21:12
Speaker 2: we also had the seven and a half that really
21:15
Speaker 2: helped us. So I fuck it. The jets.
21:18
Speaker 3: I want nothing to do with betting on the Patriots ever.
21:20
Speaker 3: It was like an absolute heart attack for me, but thanks.
21:22
Speaker 3: I didn't have to think about it or have it
21:24
Speaker 3: be my fault.
21:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was definitely not my favorite play, but it
21:27
Speaker 1: snuck its way in there and we snuck our way
21:30
Speaker 1: out with a win for those that are, that were
21:33
Speaker 1: on the other side of this, that are claiming the
21:35
Speaker 1: NFL is rigged and, That's an Aaron Glenn did this
21:38
Speaker 1: to cover a spread. No, he didn't. This is what
21:41
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do. You're supposed, I don't really necessarily
21:45
Speaker 1: agree with it, but this is something that we see
21:47
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You're down by 10. You take the
21:49
Speaker 1: field goal, you go for the onside kick and you
21:52
Speaker 1: try and get the touchdown on the ensuing position. I
21:55
Speaker 1: feel like that should be backwards, but whatever, this is
21:57
Speaker 1: the way that it's done. And we benefited from it.
22:00
Speaker 1: Raiders plus five and a half. This was my favorite
22:02
Speaker 1: play of the weekend. The bills hold on to win.
22:05
Speaker 1: Josh Allen with some Brett Favre-like creativity, that flick pass
22:09
Speaker 1: he had in the end zone to Keon Coleman, disgusting stuff.
22:12
Speaker 1: This game played out just exactly the way that I
22:15
Speaker 1: thought it would. I figured the Bills would win the game,
22:18
Speaker 1: but their defense would do just enough for us to
22:22
Speaker 1: let the Raiders hang within five and a half.
22:26
Speaker 3: This game was an absolute heart attack. I think that
22:28
Speaker 3: we should send Trey Tucker a fruit basket.
22:32
Speaker 1: I will get to Trey Tucker because I might need
22:36
Speaker 1: a Trey Tucker jersey. That is my new favorite person.
22:40
Speaker 3: There were times yesterday where I just was like, this
22:43
Speaker 3: is over.
22:43
Speaker 2: It's done.
22:44
Speaker 3: And then the fourth quarter, they really just came to
22:47
Speaker 3: life somehow. I just don't understand how Kirk Cousins keeps
22:51
Speaker 3: doing it. I swear I'm like MFing him for half
22:54
Speaker 3: of the game. And then the other half of the game,
22:56
Speaker 3: I'm like, I love him.
22:57
Speaker 2: That's my man.
22:57
Speaker 3: And I just don't know how the polarity unfolds. of
23:02
Speaker 3: cheering for Kirk Cousins is so hard one way or
23:05
Speaker 3: the other. There's really, truly no gray area to feel
23:08
Speaker 3: about him. It is an absolute rollercoaster to watch a
23:10
Speaker 3: Raiders game. But if you're a Raiders fan, you have
23:13
Speaker 3: to feel so good about the direction of this organization.
23:17
Speaker 2: Right now because... the way that they've.
23:19
Speaker 3: Been able to turn it around so quickly and with
23:21
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins as your quarterback too, with, you know, Fernando
23:24
Speaker 3: Mendoza and waiting, I didn't know how that would work
23:27
Speaker 3: out for them this season. I was very much in
23:29
Speaker 3: the camp that I thought by now that fans would be,
23:31
Speaker 3: you know, kind of cheering for Mendoza to come in,
23:33
Speaker 3: but this is exactly how they said that it would
23:35
Speaker 3: go and how they planned for it to go. And
23:38
Speaker 3: I'm just, I'm really happy for Raiders fans because I
23:40
Speaker 3: think that they deserve this.
23:41
Speaker 5: Yeah.
23:41
Speaker 1: They feel like they kind of have their shit together.
23:44
Speaker 2: They feel like there's an adult in the room.
23:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, big time. They feel like a responsible organization. That's
23:51
Speaker 1: the positive. But I've got some receipts.
23:53
Speaker 6: You've got to prove it to me. I've got to
23:57
Speaker 6: see evidence. I'll show you the receipts.
23:59
Speaker 1: You don't believe me? I have the receipt for it
24:02
Speaker 1: right here! So you almost talked us off of the Steelers.
24:07
Speaker 1: You said, I don't trust Aaron Rodgers. Kirk Cousins... You said,
24:12
Speaker 1: I worry about him turning back into a pumpkin. Part
24:14
Speaker 1: of that polarity that you talk about. And maybe it's
24:17
Speaker 1: because I'm in my forties now, Kendra, but you gotta
24:20
Speaker 1: start putting some respect on the old guy's names. Kendra
24:25
Speaker 1: peptides are saving lives. It's time to trust the AARP
24:29
Speaker 1: quarterback community.
24:32
Speaker 3: I just don't because I know that what I think
24:35
Speaker 3: is coming will happen at some point. You know that
24:37
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers is going to fly over to Paris and
24:40
Speaker 3: his computer wife won't be able to make the trip
24:42
Speaker 3: and he's going to throw like three picks and get
24:45
Speaker 3: sandwiched the way he did in the Patriots game a
24:46
Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago.
24:47
Speaker 2: Like, you know that that's coming.
24:49
Speaker 3: You know that Kirk Cousins is going to throw three
24:50
Speaker 3: interceptions in a game and it's just going to be absolutely,
24:53
Speaker 3: you know, dog shit at some point.
24:54
Speaker 2: You just don't know when, but you know it's coming.
24:57
Speaker 1: That is the shit that I wanted to give you,
24:59
Speaker 1: but I do want to give you credit because last
25:01
Speaker 1: week you said that the NFC East was a complete
25:04
Speaker 1: shit show and it has gotten significantly shittier in just
25:10
Speaker 1: a week's time. We'll see what the commanders do tonight,
25:14
Speaker 1: but the giants are complete frauds as they've shown the Cowboys.
25:19
Speaker 2: I don't think that's fair. Their quarterback went down.
25:24
Speaker 1: Yes, but I mean, I specifically mean in their current form.
25:28
Speaker 1: I think if Jackson dart was healthy, that would be,
25:31
Speaker 1: they would be the best team in the division, but
25:33
Speaker 1: he's not. And I, I do not. You talk about
25:35
Speaker 1: not trusting. I don't trust.
25:36
Speaker 3: But I don't think you can call them frauds when
25:38
Speaker 3: their quarterback is out for the season.
25:40
Speaker 2: I don't think that's fair. I can't throw that word around.
25:42
Speaker 1: I'll find a better word for it, but they are
25:45
Speaker 1: not real. They will not finish.
25:48
Speaker 2: Motherfucker is not real.
25:51
Speaker 1: I'm on the plane point of people. They will not
25:54
Speaker 1: finish in first place. The Eagles are, are falling apart
25:58
Speaker 1: at the seams. Every time we open up Twitter, somebody
26:01
Speaker 1: else is out for the season. So they're clearly done.
26:04
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys don't look good enough to win the division,
26:07
Speaker 1: but they're at least, I think, better than the commanders.
26:11
Speaker 1: So by default, we're going to end up, we have
26:14
Speaker 1: had respect for this division for a long time, but
26:17
Speaker 1: we're going to end up with one of those default
26:19
Speaker 1: champions at the end of the year in the NFC East.
26:22
Speaker 3: I think it's just going to come down to who
26:23
Speaker 3: can stay the healthiest and who has the easiest schedule,
26:26
Speaker 3: which to me might be the Cowboys, but I don't
26:29
Speaker 3: trust them. I do not trust them at all. Like
26:32
Speaker 3: last night should have been a moment where they kind
26:37
Speaker 3: of make people believe in them and they'd be competitive again,
26:40
Speaker 3: especially because yeah, Green Bay kind of turned their season
26:43
Speaker 3: around the week prior. And what was the Packers that
26:44
Speaker 3: we expected them to be, but this is the Cowboys schedule.
26:47
Speaker 3: And I don't think that it is the easiest schedule.
26:52
Speaker 3: but like compared to their counterparts who don't have quarterbacks,
26:56
Speaker 3: what do you do? So they are going to play
26:58
Speaker 3: the Eagles this week, which should be a W for
27:00
Speaker 3: them because of everything going on with them. They've got
27:02
Speaker 3: the Cardinals at home Colts on the road. They're going
27:04
Speaker 3: to play the 49ers at home Titans Eagles. Again, Seahawks
27:08
Speaker 3: Rams Jags Giants commanders. That's a tough, like, pocket-y situation
27:14
Speaker 3: but the thing for them is that they have spots
27:16
Speaker 3: to get right outside of that you know Seattle LA
27:19
Speaker 3: Jaguar stretch every time they play a good team they've
27:22
Speaker 3: got moments to get right afterwards which I think is
27:24
Speaker 3: huge coming down the stretch when you're fighting for a
27:26
Speaker 3: division but I don't believe in the commanders because I
27:30
Speaker 3: don't know if Jaden can stay healthy I don't think
27:32
Speaker 3: that I believe in their weapons obviously their run game
27:34
Speaker 3: is dealing with injuries right now too the Eagles are
27:38
Speaker 3: Can the defense carry them through?
27:39
Speaker 2: No, you don't think so? That's kind of my thing.
27:42
Speaker 2: Can that defense, if they can get healthy, maybe carry
27:45
Speaker 2: them through the schedule? But that's a lot to ask.
27:48
Speaker 1: Their team in its current form is the worst team
27:50
Speaker 1: in the division. I would at least put some respect
27:52
Speaker 1: on the commander's name. They're better than this. I wouldn't.
27:55
Speaker 1: Tanner McKee, that is not a real NFL quarterback.
28:00
Speaker 3: Um, so realistically though, the commanders have the easiest like
28:03
Speaker 3: schedule left, but I just don't believe in them. I
28:06
Speaker 3: would have thought it would be the Cowboys, but now
28:07
Speaker 3: that I'm looking at this, it is the commanders. They,
28:10
Speaker 3: they really luck out. They could, they could make some noise.
28:13
Speaker 1: So the commanders right now sitting at one, three and
28:17
Speaker 1: one that stupid tie. Where are they right now? I
28:21
Speaker 1: got to look at the futures market before we move
28:23
Speaker 1: on because them betting them to win the division might
28:25
Speaker 1: not be the worst.
28:26
Speaker 2: No.
28:27
Speaker 1: Plus 450. If the commanders beat the 49ers tonight. No.
28:31
Speaker 1: That would look brilliant because we will fall in love
28:35
Speaker 1: with them with a road win against San Francisco. Just
28:38
Speaker 1: throwing it out there because this division is up. It
28:42
Speaker 1: is up for grabs.
28:44
Speaker 3: I guess it also depends what you think of some
28:47
Speaker 3: of these, you know, fringe teams like the Falcons and
28:49
Speaker 3: the Vikings.
28:53
Speaker 1: Uh, well, you know, I love my Falcons. I don't
28:54
Speaker 1: know about the Vikings, but, uh, this is from Adam Schefter.
28:57
Speaker 1: If the commanders lose tonight on Monday night football against
29:00
Speaker 1: the 49ers, the NFC East would become the first division
29:03
Speaker 1: in NFL history to be winless in consecutive weeks and
29:08
Speaker 1: in consecutive weeks in consecutive weeks in which all the
29:12
Speaker 1: teams in the division played a game and two of
29:14
Speaker 1: the teams played each other. It'd be the first time
29:17
Speaker 1: that that's ever happened. So if the camp commanders win,
29:20
Speaker 1: they can buck that trend. Middleton, what is your one
29:23
Speaker 1: big takeaway from week six?
29:26
Speaker 3: My one big takeaway is that we better never crown
29:30
Speaker 3: a champion preseason the way that we crowned the Rams,
29:36
Speaker 3: because how stupid do a lot of people look right
29:39
Speaker 3: now loving this Rams team that much? Like, I'm so
29:44
Speaker 3: glad that I have their under on the season. I
29:46
Speaker 3: think I need them to lose two more games, and
29:48
Speaker 3: that's already going to cash for me. But just, it
29:51
Speaker 3: truly shows that even, it doesn't matter if you're an expert,
29:55
Speaker 3: if you're a casual, you know nothing heading into the season.
29:58
Speaker 3: Especially since I think that compared to a lot of
30:00
Speaker 3: teams that... They have been rather healthy. And for them
30:03
Speaker 3: to still suck this bad, I think a lot of
30:05
Speaker 3: it obviously is coaching, which it's hard to say when,
30:08
Speaker 3: you know, Sean McVay has the resume that he does
30:10
Speaker 3: and he is, you know, so beloved by so many.
30:13
Speaker 2: But this team is a freaking disaster right now.
30:16
Speaker 3: And everyone at the beginning of the season who I
30:18
Speaker 3: think if I'm not mistaken, Evan probably knows this better
30:20
Speaker 3: than I do. They were like the heaviest favorites in
30:22
Speaker 3: like the like modern era for the NFL, which is crazy.
30:26
Speaker 2: And they absolutely blow.
30:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, Evan, can you back that up? If I remember correctly,
30:31
Speaker 1: it was the Dallas Cowboys in the mid-90s. That's the
30:34
Speaker 1: last time we've seen a short shot like the Rams
30:37
Speaker 1: going into the season. Is that correct?
30:41
Speaker 6: I believe it was. I have to double-check on the
30:43
Speaker 6: actual odds.
30:44
Speaker 5: The thing I did look up is just the fact
30:45
Speaker 5: that in the last 30 years, the only outright Super
30:49
Speaker 5: Bowl favorites entering the season to start two and four
30:52
Speaker 5: or worse are these Rams and then the 2002 Rams.
30:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. So it's a Rams thing. All right, Evan,
30:59
Speaker 1: we're coming back to you later. So hang in there
31:01
Speaker 1: right now. We've got much more to get to cash, crash, clutch,
31:05
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Speaker 5: We're dead in the water.
31:49
Speaker 6: If it crashes, it crashes, right? Never stood a chance. No.
31:52
Speaker 6: It was cash. So clutch.
31:55
Speaker 1: Time to talk about our heroes and zeros from Week
31:59
Speaker 1: 6 in the NFL. Cash. Crash clutch. My cash is
32:05
Speaker 1: my King Trey Tucker. The icing on what was a
32:10
Speaker 1: wonderful cake this weekend. That throw from cousins that catch
32:15
Speaker 1: from Tucker. It was the most beautiful thing I've ever
32:19
Speaker 1: seen in my life. 44 yards of perfection. I framed it.
32:24
Speaker 1: I stared at the photo last night as I went
32:27
Speaker 1: to bed, like the Wolverine meme. It's me and Trey Tucker.
32:32
Speaker 1: I love you.
32:34
Speaker 2: Mine is going to be fucking Jets.
32:36
Speaker 4: We talked about this kind of at length already to
32:40
Speaker 4: open this show. But the way that we just got
32:43
Speaker 4: to this last week as a group, the only thing
32:46
Speaker 4: that it could be for me was the Jets because
32:48
Speaker 4: everything else we found a way to kind of agree.
32:51
Speaker 4: And then we could not find our fifth option because
32:54
Speaker 4: we couldn't agree. And then we all just kind of
32:56
Speaker 4: threw in the towel and we're like, you know what,
32:58
Speaker 4: whatever the Jets and they showed up for us.
33:00
Speaker 2: And that's a crazy thing to say about the New
33:02
Speaker 2: York Jets.
33:03
Speaker 1: Yes, it is. And if you need a good laugh today,
33:06
Speaker 1: if Monday's just not treating you right, go back to
33:09
Speaker 1: our Thursday episode, fast forward to about, I actually did
33:12
Speaker 1: this right before we went live today. It's, it's about
33:15
Speaker 1: an hour and 13 into the episode and just watch
33:20
Speaker 1: or listen to how we arrive on the jets. It
33:23
Speaker 1: will make you laugh. It was so funny. The way
33:27
Speaker 1: that we were all trying to figure out, we got
33:29
Speaker 1: to the end of the episode. We're like, who do
33:31
Speaker 1: we have? What is the contest? Wait, we need one more. Evan,
33:35
Speaker 1: who do you like? And we're going through all these
33:37
Speaker 1: different machinations and we wind up saying, fuck it, the Jets.
33:41
Speaker 1: It was so funny.
33:42
Speaker 3: I think that like my big thing about this is
33:44
Speaker 3: that every other game, we could have come up with
33:48
Speaker 3: a way how we got to that conclusion and why
33:51
Speaker 3: we thought that it would go that way.
33:52
Speaker 2: But with the Jets, we were just like, I don't know.
33:56
Speaker 2: I don't know. Jets.
33:59
Speaker 1: So crazy. And as I mentioned earlier, it would not
34:02
Speaker 1: have mattered. We would have gone unbeaten no matter what.
34:05
Speaker 1: It's crazy. One other note on the cash of Trey Tucker.
34:10
Speaker 1: He fits the mold, the Kendra Middleton mold of two
34:13
Speaker 1: touchdown performers. 24 to 1 if you were out there.
34:17
Speaker 1: I didn't bet that. But if you were out there
34:19
Speaker 1: betting Trey Tucker two touchdowns, Trey Tucker, Tommy Tremble. Those
34:23
Speaker 1: are two of your two touchdowns.
34:24
Speaker 2: We got to start.
34:25
Speaker 3: Whenever somebody scores and looks like they're going to them
34:28
Speaker 3: a lot, just hit the double down live. I really
34:32
Speaker 3: chickened out with Parker last week, and I should have
34:34
Speaker 3: done it with Tootin yesterday, and I didn't.
34:35
Speaker 2: I know better.
34:36
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to do that live.
34:39
Speaker 1: I think I like the idea of just picking. Just
34:42
Speaker 1: pick two players. Just go into the week. Like Trey Tucker,
34:46
Speaker 1: speed demon against a bad defense. It would not have
34:49
Speaker 1: taken much analysis to get us there.
34:51
Speaker 3: I was going to say the Raiders have kind of
34:52
Speaker 3: been like that all season, though, because they had a
34:54
Speaker 3: Cody White to touchdown game like week three or something
34:56
Speaker 3: like that.
34:57
Speaker 1: OK, so I think we because I want that 24
35:00
Speaker 1: to one. I'm not trying to.
35:01
Speaker 2: We should do Brock Bowers next week.
35:03
Speaker 1: OK, I'm down for that. My crash. I don't even
35:06
Speaker 1: need to go into this much because we already talked
35:08
Speaker 1: about it. But the Rams like. How are you doing this?
35:13
Speaker 1: You're the Rams have outgained their opponents by a league
35:17
Speaker 1: best 644 yards this season. They're number one in the
35:20
Speaker 1: NFL yet. They're two and four. They have a loss
35:23
Speaker 1: to the Cardinals. The Cardinals have now won more games
35:27
Speaker 1: in so far than the Rams have. If you told
35:32
Speaker 1: me that we're in week six and the Cardinals have
35:34
Speaker 1: more wins in the Rams stadium than the Rams, it
35:36
Speaker 1: would have been like, stop smoking crack. What are you
35:40
Speaker 1: talking about?
35:41
Speaker 4: Yeah.
35:42
Speaker 1: It's all of the little stuff with this team, special teams,
35:45
Speaker 1: operational pre-stat.
35:47
Speaker 2: Their kicking disaster is crazy.
35:50
Speaker 1: They bring in a new kicker and this guy, because
35:53
Speaker 1: they're in, think about why he got hurt. He was
35:55
Speaker 1: trying to play tough guy, but why was he trying
35:57
Speaker 1: to play tough guy? Because their special teams coverage is
36:00
Speaker 1: so bad. The kicker had to make a tackle and
36:03
Speaker 1: then got hurt. This team is a disaster.
36:07
Speaker 3: Can I say something about Blake Gruby that I just,
36:11
Speaker 3: I don't cheer for injury ever. I hate when people
36:13
Speaker 3: get hurt. I am not one of those people. But
36:15
Speaker 3: did you not play Pop Warner growing up at all?
36:18
Speaker 3: Like I could have made a tackle more form than that.
36:21
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?
36:22
Speaker 3: What the fuck was that? I get that he like
36:24
Speaker 3: knocked him out of bounds, but that was just like,
36:26
Speaker 3: he literally just like shrimp posed and like folded up
36:30
Speaker 3: on himself. What?
36:31
Speaker 4: What?
36:32
Speaker 3: Was that embarrassing for a grown-ass man who plays professional football?
36:40
Speaker 2: I could have tackled him better than that. I'm sorry.
36:42
Speaker 3: Cam Little's probably the smallest kicker in the league. Cam
36:45
Speaker 3: would have hit him with more force than that. He
36:48
Speaker 3: literally full-on just shrimped.
36:51
Speaker 2: I'm not even kidding. Go watch it back. I watched
36:53
Speaker 2: it at least four times yesterday. Full-on shrimp.
36:56
Speaker 1: He looked like a light heavyweight in the WWE taking
37:01
Speaker 1: a bump.
37:02
Speaker 3: My crash is, and I have to hold another L.
37:07
Speaker 3: I had the girls over on Wednesday night to watch survivor.
37:11
Speaker 3: And I had, you know, my two nurses here that
37:14
Speaker 3: I talked about last week, who we kind of went
37:15
Speaker 3: through the timeline of everything with Jalen hurts. I had
37:18
Speaker 3: gotten word that AJ Brown was going to probably start
37:22
Speaker 3: this week. And I was helping my friends at her
37:23
Speaker 3: fantasy lineup. And I was like, He's going to come
37:26
Speaker 3: back this week. You should move him into a starting
37:29
Speaker 3: role on your fantasy team because she had a lot
37:31
Speaker 3: of bye weeks and stuff like that.
37:33
Speaker 2: I need to apologize to my friend.
37:34
Speaker 3: First of all, I'm so sorry if you lost your
37:37
Speaker 3: game because of me telling you to start AJ Brown.
37:40
Speaker 1: But.
37:41
Speaker 3: I don't think any of us would have expected that
37:44
Speaker 3: their biggest signing in the off season would get hurt
37:47
Speaker 3: and come back and have a game that he did yesterday.
37:50
Speaker 3: Not only just failing to play the position, but also
37:55
Speaker 3: on the, you know, kickoff the, he just, he let
37:59
Speaker 3: the ball go and almost caused them another opportunity in
38:02
Speaker 3: the game.
38:03
Speaker 2: I just, what version of him is this?
38:06
Speaker 1: Like I, Oh, it's weird because I'm, I'm watching this game. Actually,
38:13
Speaker 1: let me be more transparent. At the point when A.J.
38:16
Speaker 1: Brown had his fourth drop, I was making my way
38:19
Speaker 1: back from the pumpkin patch.
38:21
Speaker 2: I did see your wife's photos. They were very cute.
38:24
Speaker 1: Thank you. They did a great job. It was perfectly executed.
38:28
Speaker 1: It helps when you're winning your wagers because then that
38:30
Speaker 1: helps kind of like, okay, I can step away from
38:32
Speaker 1: the TV.
38:33
Speaker 2: You get the biggest pumpkin you want, baby girl.
38:35
Speaker 1: Get it. I spent $ 37 on three pumpkins. The pumpkin
38:40
Speaker 1: business is the inflation.
38:42
Speaker 3: I spent like $ 50 apple picking.
38:47
Speaker 1: Okay.
38:47
Speaker 2: I get it. I went last week on indigenous people's.
38:51
Speaker 3: Day and I spent so much money on some freaking
38:54
Speaker 3: apples and I'm pissed about it.
38:58
Speaker 2: Inflation's crazy. I get why the French are popping the
39:00
Speaker 2: fuck off right now.
39:02
Speaker 1: Somebody had to mention it. Yeah. So I'm in the car.
39:05
Speaker 1: I'm on my way back. Thankfully, it was a short
39:07
Speaker 1: drive back from the from patching. And I hear AJ
39:12
Speaker 1: Brown with his fourth drop in the games. I'm listening
39:15
Speaker 1: to the play by play on the way home. And
39:17
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, oh, my God, the Jets must have grabbed
39:20
Speaker 1: hold of a lead. It was 17 to three at
39:23
Speaker 1: that point. They were still getting by without the help
39:27
Speaker 1: of AJ Brown. And then I started thinking. did both
39:30
Speaker 1: of these teams lose in the, the Eagles are worse
39:35
Speaker 1: without him and the, and the Patriots so far when
39:39
Speaker 1: he's on the field have been worse with him. So
39:42
Speaker 1: right now we like to grade the winners of, of
39:46
Speaker 1: trades and transactions and stuff. They're both losing at the moment.
39:50
Speaker 3: They are both losing, but I will take the victory
39:53
Speaker 3: lap on the miles Garrett, Jared verse trade. And me
39:57
Speaker 3: saying that the Browns won that trade because I'm standing
39:59
Speaker 3: 10 toes down on that shit.
40:02
Speaker 1: Yeah. And miles Garrett standing 10 toes down too. Cause
40:04
Speaker 1: he isn't playing. Let's go to our clutch. Old man
40:08
Speaker 1: Rogers for me, Steelers dead to rates against the Tampa
40:12
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. He willed them back with the veteran savvy,
40:15
Speaker 1: the wisdom and, that only ayahuasca can provide. They scored
40:19
Speaker 1: three points in the first three quarters of this game.
40:22
Speaker 1: And still, he finished with 33 completions, 253 yards, two touchdowns,
40:29
Speaker 1: and a game-winning drive. Old man Rodgers.
40:33
Speaker 3: Can I just say that I think that the reason
40:34
Speaker 3: that Aaron Rodgers is having a resurgence in the last
40:37
Speaker 3: couple of weeks is because I think that he has
40:38
Speaker 3: finally accepted his role of being an unk on these teams.
40:42
Speaker 3: I think that that's finally what's happened is that he has,
40:44
Speaker 3: you know, seen the ghost of Christmas past and he's
40:47
Speaker 3: accepted that he is passing the torch. And I think
40:50
Speaker 3: that that's the reason that he has kind of turned
40:53
Speaker 3: around over the last couple of weeks. Um, my clutch
40:57
Speaker 3: is going to be the refs, at least two game
40:59
Speaker 3: changing calls that have been talked about at nauseam yesterday.
41:03
Speaker 3: And there have been many more throughout the season. I
41:05
Speaker 3: don't remember how many, you know, touchdowns Evan said have
41:08
Speaker 3: been nullified because of refereeing over the first six weeks.
41:11
Speaker 3: But I already mentioned the phantom holding call on Brenton
41:14
Speaker 3: Strange yesterday. But the unnecessary roughness call in the Cardinals-Rams
41:18
Speaker 3: game that put the cards into field goal range is
41:22
Speaker 3: another one. That was just absolutely insane. And there were
41:26
Speaker 3: a couple yesterday. I don't remember one of them, but
41:28
Speaker 3: there was another unnecessary roughness called against a quarterback where
41:31
Speaker 3: he just barely flopped over. It's just the refs are
41:34
Speaker 3: absolutely changing the last-minute capabilities of these games, and it's
41:39
Speaker 3: just frustrating, and I've had enough of it.
41:41
Speaker 2: And they are my Clutch of the.
41:43
Speaker 3: Week because they changed at least two games yesterday that
41:45
Speaker 3: I can remember, and I'm sure that there were more.
41:47
Speaker 1: No team in the NFL has had more touchdowns called
41:50
Speaker 1: back than the Jacksonville Jaguars?
41:52
Speaker 4: Yep.
41:53
Speaker 1: So they've got to figure out how to come out
41:56
Speaker 1: on the other side of that. And I'm with you
41:58
Speaker 1: on the Rams' unnecessary roughness. That was... Those, I mean,
42:02
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna, I am not excusing the Rams.
42:07
Speaker 1: They shouldn't be close at the end of a game
42:09
Speaker 1: against the Cardinals, but that was a bad call. Yeah.
42:12
Speaker 1: Who is your diva of the week? He's just a diva. No,
42:16
Speaker 1: I'm not.
42:16
Speaker 2: An impossible diva.
42:18
Speaker 6: What would make you say something like that?
42:20
Speaker 2: It's pretty obvious. Diva alert!
42:23
Speaker 3: My diva of the week is going to be Miss
42:25
Speaker 3: Victoria's Secret for having the Victoria's Secret fashion show on
42:29
Speaker 3: a Sunday night.
42:30
Speaker 2: I think that they genuinely wanted to have.
42:34
Speaker 3: spouses or partners fight last night by doing this? Because
42:37
Speaker 3: what do you mean you're going to have this fashion
42:39
Speaker 3: show on a Sunday night when you're going to be
42:40
Speaker 3: competing with Sunday night football, let alone Sunday night football
42:44
Speaker 3: between the Packers and the Cowboys? And you're going to,
42:47
Speaker 3: you know, have Miss Kylie Jenner walk out in a
42:50
Speaker 3: $ 23 million bra.
42:53
Speaker 2: Like, how does a guy even fight with that? I
42:54
Speaker 2: really don't understand. I didn't watch this.
42:57
Speaker 3: I've been consuming it through social media, but I really
42:59
Speaker 3: am very much in the like, okay, why wasn't this
43:02
Speaker 3: like a Wednesday or a Tuesday night? It's not like
43:04
Speaker 3: the girlies won't come out for the Victoria's Secret fashion
43:07
Speaker 3: show no matter what night it was. I just thought
43:09
Speaker 3: that this was like them trying to steal the spotlight
43:11
Speaker 3: and make couples fight.
43:13
Speaker 2: So that's my diva of the week.
43:14
Speaker 1: Shout out to the multi-view option, though.
43:17
Speaker 3: Imagine you're just like sitting there watching Jordan Love driving
43:21
Speaker 3: and Kylie Jenner is walking out in a $ 23 million
43:24
Speaker 3: bra and Timothee Chalamet is sitting there like, yeah.
43:27
Speaker 1: Wife comes around the corner and goes, what are you doing? Like,
43:31
Speaker 1: I'm locked in right now. Okay. Locked in. This is
43:34
Speaker 1: my Super Bowl. For real. Jim Nance with the bandage
43:38
Speaker 1: on his hand.
43:39
Speaker 3: Yep.
43:39
Speaker 1: That's my diva of the week. He was simulating the
43:42
Speaker 1: peanut Tillman punch on JJ Watt. And I think he
43:45
Speaker 1: legitimately hurt himself.
43:47
Speaker 2: I do, too.
43:47
Speaker 3: I there was like a follow up this morning where
43:51
Speaker 3: once again, I was listening to rap sheet and he
43:53
Speaker 3: was saying that Nance is really sore and people are
43:55
Speaker 3: actually saying he like needs to.
43:56
Speaker 2: Go for an MRI.
43:57
Speaker 3: Because if you listen to the clip back, which I
43:59
Speaker 3: have probably 30 times at this point, you hear him
44:02
Speaker 3: like grunt really hard when he hits that ball. But like,
44:05
Speaker 3: why would you actually even try and punch that? First
44:07
Speaker 3: of all, you're an old man. Second of all, that's
44:09
Speaker 3: probably one of the strongest dudes, pound for pound, who's
44:11
Speaker 3: ever played in this league. And you think that he's
44:14
Speaker 3: not going to go full on right now? That was
44:16
Speaker 3: not an invitation to actually try and punch that ball out. Like,
44:19
Speaker 3: you're an old man.
44:20
Speaker 2: Oh, God. But that was comedy. You could not write that.
44:24
Speaker 1: That was.
44:25
Speaker 3: I would like to see more of the tomfoolery in
44:27
Speaker 3: the booth, but maybe not the injury tomfoolery.
44:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate that because Jim Nance is the he's
44:33
Speaker 1: the consummate professional. And that looked like some shit that
44:36
Speaker 1: I would do. And I appreciate that. I think it
44:39
Speaker 1: humanized dance a little bit, but definitely diva move having
44:42
Speaker 1: to wrap it in the second.
44:43
Speaker 2: That was such a diva move.
44:45
Speaker 3: I'm glad that you put that in here because it
44:46
Speaker 3: was one of my considered options. But I couldn't leave
44:49
Speaker 3: out the fact that there is no way that people
44:51
Speaker 3: were not fighting over the remote in their own home
44:53
Speaker 3: last night.
44:54
Speaker 1: That was definitely, definitely happening. I did this move. Uh,
44:58
Speaker 1: Mallory goes, you know, the, uh, Victoria secret fashion shows on,
45:02
Speaker 1: I used to watch that all the time when I
45:03
Speaker 1: was a kid and I did this like casual, like,
45:06
Speaker 1: so do you like, do you want me to throw
45:07
Speaker 1: it on or titties? I'm here for you.
45:12
Speaker 3: You know, I will say, shout out to Barbara Palvin.
45:15
Speaker 3: She's married to Dylan Sprouse, I think, from Suite Life
45:19
Speaker 3: of Zack and Cody. But she is like three months
45:22
Speaker 3: postpartum and walked in the Victoria's Secret fashion show last night.
45:25
Speaker 3: That's pretty freaking cool, man.
45:27
Speaker 1: Other diva of the week.
45:28
Speaker 4: Yeah.
45:28
Speaker 1: Let's bring in the Oracle, Evan Abrams. Evan, what were you?
45:33
Speaker 1: Where was the remote guiding you last night?
45:36
Speaker 6: Definitely multi-option. I'm the one that brought it up.
45:39
Speaker 5: It's a perfect opportunity for zero points on Dallas' side. Also,
45:45
Speaker 5: if you look at it, same amount of money, like
45:47
Speaker 5: $ 23 million bra. What's Jordan Love? Like $ 40 million? A
45:50
Speaker 5: lot of money on the table there, fellas. Go back
45:53
Speaker 5: to the question that you asked me before. I thought
45:55
Speaker 5: this was an interesting way of looking at it. The
45:58
Speaker 5: Rams obviously entered the season at 5-1 to win the
46:01
Speaker 5: Super Bowl. I looked at teams to enter the year
46:04
Speaker 5: at 5-1 or shorter who didn't make the super bowl
46:07
Speaker 5: the year prior right so like these are teams that
46:09
Speaker 5: we said okay we're gonna elevate them but we haven't
46:12
Speaker 5: seen it so it's like not the mahomes teams.
46:14
Speaker 6: Not so that was the way i looked at it
46:16
Speaker 6: the last.
46:17
Speaker 5: Team to do it were the 2020 ravens before that
46:20
Speaker 5: 2011 patriots so i mean this is on media the
46:25
Speaker 5: betters it's on all of us to be honest with
46:27
Speaker 5: you um because of the age of the team and
46:30
Speaker 5: so many different factors but i just thought that was
46:32
Speaker 5: kind of interesting.
46:33
Speaker 1: Is it salvageable based on any sort of historical context
46:38
Speaker 1: that you have a team that's supposed to be this
46:41
Speaker 1: good that has started two and four.
46:44
Speaker 5: I could take a look at it and give it
46:46
Speaker 5: back to you. I would say the last time I
46:49
Speaker 5: looked at it was like a week ago and it
46:50
Speaker 5: was like 50, 50 for those teams that like higher
46:55
Speaker 5: odds that started that, but it was two and three
46:57
Speaker 5: at the time. This is two and four. So yeah,
46:59
Speaker 5: I could take another look. Let me keep diving here
47:01
Speaker 5: because you had asked a few questions before. I thought
47:04
Speaker 5: these were kind of interesting. So everyone is kind of
47:06
Speaker 5: talking about penalties. So I thought an interesting way of
47:09
Speaker 5: looking at it, just to show how little impact penalties
47:12
Speaker 5: are kind of having, is this season, if you have
47:15
Speaker 5: more penalties than your opponent, you're still winning 56% of games.
47:18
Speaker 1: And.
47:22
Speaker 5: Over the last four seasons, so since 2023, you'd be 55%
47:24
Speaker 5: straight up and 53% against the spread with more penalties
47:27
Speaker 5: than your opponent. If you look from 2002 to 2022,
47:28
Speaker 5: 21 seasons, 20 of those 21 teams were 500 or
47:30
Speaker 5: worse with more penalties than their opponent. Only one year
47:33
Speaker 5: above 500, and it was a single game. It's like
47:48
Speaker 5: over the last four years, we are getting so many
47:50
Speaker 5: more penalties that it just isn't mattering as much in
47:54
Speaker 5: the outcome of games.
47:57
Speaker 6: And I think that's the way I'm looking at it.
47:59
Speaker 1: I would look at the yardage in that too, because.
48:01
Speaker 6: It seems like it was interesting. I looked it up.
48:04
Speaker 5: I looked up yardage before and it wasn't having the
48:07
Speaker 5: same impact in terms of my, that story as total
48:11
Speaker 5: number of penalties.
48:13
Speaker 6: So maybe yardage is more impactful. I think is your point.
48:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with the yardage is definitely something
48:22
Speaker 3: to look at. And I know that I sit here
48:24
Speaker 3: and preach about schedules a lot, but if you haven't
48:26
Speaker 3: gotten to the window and there's any value still on
48:28
Speaker 3: like any kind of Rams under, I don't care what
48:31
Speaker 3: you pick.
48:32
Speaker 2: They have an insane schedule.
48:35
Speaker 3: I know that I talk about schedules all the time
48:36
Speaker 3: at nauseam and people are probably sick of it. I'm
48:38
Speaker 3: going to throw this out there and we can move
48:40
Speaker 3: on just because they're next to like, you know, 10
48:42
Speaker 3: weeks or whatever. Raiders, Chargers, Commanders, Cardinals, this is where
48:48
Speaker 3: it gets tough. They finished their last bit of the
48:50
Speaker 3: season with the Packers, the Chiefs, the 49ers, the Cowboys, Seahawks, Bucks,
48:54
Speaker 3: and Seahawks again.
48:56
Speaker 2: They are not surviving that gauntlet in any way, shape,
48:59
Speaker 2: or form.
49:00
Speaker 3: And to be honest, the Chargers have to win a.
49:02
Speaker 2: Game at some point.
49:04
Speaker 3: And why not against the battle of LA November 1st,
49:07
Speaker 3: a Sunday at four o'clock in the afternoon when probably
49:10
Speaker 3: nobody's going to be watching this game because both of
49:12
Speaker 3: these teams are so bad. I feel like that's when
49:14
Speaker 3: the chargers are going to come to life.
49:18
Speaker 1: Their post bi-week schedule is, horrendous. So there is an opportunity,
49:23
Speaker 1: perhaps if you haven't sold on the Rams yet, just
49:27
Speaker 1: wait until after the bi-week and you'll have another really
49:30
Speaker 1: good opportunity to do that. One of the other things
49:32
Speaker 1: I wanted to throw at you, Evan, you were on
49:36
Speaker 1: gross teams Island this weekend. You liked all of them,
49:39
Speaker 1: the chargers who didn't cover, but the Titans, the jets,
49:43
Speaker 1: the bucks, you were on all of the, uh, the,
49:46
Speaker 1: the nasty squads. Do you want to give us, um,
49:49
Speaker 1: perhaps a review of how that went for you and
49:54
Speaker 1: why specifically in week six, you went all in on
49:58
Speaker 1: the nasty squads.
50:00
Speaker 5: I bet nasty squads every week. It's just how I gamble.
50:05
Speaker 5: I love the gross. It's definitely not just a week
50:09
Speaker 5: six thing for me. I gave three picks to GIF.
50:12
Speaker 5: I think they were Jets. I think the Bucs lost.
50:16
Speaker 5: Either way, I take dogs all the time. But if
50:19
Speaker 5: you just look at what's going on this season, six
50:22
Speaker 5: plus point favorites, now eight, 18, and three.
50:25
Speaker 6: Against the spread, which would be the second worst ATS
50:28
Speaker 6: start since 2000.
50:28
Speaker 5: The division underdogs, 20 and eight against the spread. Second
50:33
Speaker 5: best start in the Super Bowl era, ATS. And then
50:37
Speaker 5: if you just, this is kind of the crazier one
50:39
Speaker 5: to me. If you just look at teams with a
50:41
Speaker 5: double digit win total. So just like the preseason expectations,
50:43
Speaker 5: like the Rams facing teams under that mark, 13 and
50:47
Speaker 5: 25 against the spread. So, I mean, in every sense
50:49
Speaker 5: of the word, it just feels like we're kind of
50:52
Speaker 5: building up the wrong teams, which is intriguing.
50:55
Speaker 1: It's like the theme of the season, Kendra, is no
50:58
Speaker 1: one's that good. Definitely not the Rams.
51:01
Speaker 2: I said that early on.
51:03
Speaker 3: I think one of my big takeaways for, I think
51:05
Speaker 3: it was week three, was everybody actually sucks.
51:08
Speaker 2: Nobody's good. It was week three because I was in
51:11
Speaker 2: my mom's kitchen when I said it.
51:13
Speaker 5: I will say one more thing, and this is the
51:14
Speaker 5: interesting thing. It's not even the fact that we're picking
51:17
Speaker 5: the wrong teams. It's also the fact that the teams
51:19
Speaker 5: that are winning are also not closing. 35 teams have
51:22
Speaker 5: led by more than one possession at the.
51:24
Speaker 6: Half this year. 27-7 straight up, 77%. 22-12-1 ATS, 65%.
51:26
Speaker 6: Both would be the lowest marks through six weeks last
51:27
Speaker 6: 30 years.
51:28
Speaker 5: So even the teams that are winning, winning big, aren't
51:38
Speaker 5: closing the games and covering so it's very difficult to
51:42
Speaker 5: try to figure out week to week who you can
51:44
Speaker 5: trust which I think is difficult.
51:47
Speaker 2: That's actually a really good point.
51:48
Speaker 3: I was listening to Kellen Moore's postgame press conference last night.
51:52
Speaker 3: And one of the questions he was asked was why
51:54
Speaker 3: he decided to bench some of his starters. And because
51:58
Speaker 3: that led the Giants right back into that game. And
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Speaker 3: he very, like, boldly said that they were managing some injuries.
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Speaker 3: So that's also something to consider for next week if
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Speaker 3: you are thinking about the Saints is clearly some of
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Speaker 3: those starters are battling through injury. And I think that
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Speaker 3: that was kind of a little bit of a mistake
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Speaker 3: on my boy's part.
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Speaker 1: Hmm. I mean, longer seasons now, maybe that has something
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Speaker 1: to do with it, where teams are learning to manage
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Speaker 1: their guys differently, but that's definitely something to monitor. Evan Abrams, StatsHound,
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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Evan.
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Speaker 5: Later.
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Speaker 1: I'm for a Monday night football, same game parlay brought
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Speaker 1: to you by draft Kings with a crown. Of course
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Speaker 1: is yours. I had a monster weekend, so I am
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Speaker 1: not touching this Monet with a big bet tonight, but
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Speaker 1: I do like Christian McCaffrey under 14 and a half
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Speaker 1: rush attempts. Commanders top five against opposing running backs, top
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Speaker 1: five and attempts allowed their linebackers and their D line
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Speaker 1: are the strength of the defense. The secondary is where
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Speaker 1: you want to attack them. So this should be a
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Speaker 1: big Brock Purdy game. CMC's peak this year is 15 carries.
53:13
Speaker 1: And that feels very purposeful. I don't think this is
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Speaker 1: a game where they have to unlock Christian McCaffrey to win.
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Speaker 1: So I'll take his under on rush attempts.
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Speaker 3: I got really into the weeds here for this game
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Speaker 3: while looking at stuff because a lot of it felt
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Speaker 3: really yucky to me. I'm going to go over five
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Speaker 3: and a half punts in the game in its entirety.
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Speaker 3: The commanders are averaging five per game. The 49ers are
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Speaker 3: averaging 3.2 per game. And the average in the league
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Speaker 3: is seven. I think that this game is going to
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Speaker 3: be really low scoring. I don't think that the 49ers
53:44
Speaker 3: have a reason to get up here because the commanders
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Speaker 3: are bad. I really even think that the commanders could
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Speaker 3: cover this number. I think that this is going to
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Speaker 3: be a low scoring game. The commanders and the 49ers
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Speaker 3: both have injuries that they're dealing with. I think that
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Speaker 3: this could be an absolute boring punt fest. Or if
53:59
Speaker 3: the 49ers are as good as we think they are,
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Speaker 3: that means the commanders are going to be punting the
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Speaker 3: entire game and they could hit that mark themselves.
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Speaker 1: So now you're making me do some work to find
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Speaker 1: this one.
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Speaker 2: I told you I got really I got really yucky here.
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Speaker 3: I was looking at, you know, total receptions for a
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Speaker 3: couple of guys. I was looking at longest reception and
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Speaker 3: then I found this jam and I was like, that.
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Speaker 2: Feels gettable for a couple of different reasons to me.
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Speaker 1: OK, this is this is in the weeds is our
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Speaker 1: same game. Parley has gotten under 14 and a half
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Speaker 1: rush attempts for Christian McCaffrey over five and a half
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Speaker 1: total punts. over on draft Kings. That is our Monday
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54:59
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