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Paul, Geoff and BlackJack on NFL Trades & Props · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites. I'm black Jack Fletcher, and joining
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  Speaker 1: me today is a legendary human being, a man who
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  Speaker 1: needs no introduction, Paula Duca, PAULI, how are we doing
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  Speaker 1: doing well? Black Jack? How are you? I'm spectacular and
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  Speaker 1: also joining us today. Special guest, a man who has
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  Speaker 1: to be rethinking his retirement after all the contracts given
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  Speaker 1: out this week in the NFL. Jeff Schwartz glad to
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  Speaker 1: be here? Am I a special guest to a podcast
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  Speaker 1: that I was previously a big member of? Yep? Sure
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  Speaker 1: are thanks Chad. Thanks just wondering, but I'm glad to
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  Speaker 1: be back. It's glad to talk. It's been fantastic week
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  Speaker 1: of of NFL Action and we have the turn of
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  Speaker 1: it too, which just sweating out conference championship games. As
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  Speaker 1: we record this, we are we're going to dig into
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  Speaker 1: all of that, but first I just want to let
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  Speaker 1: everyone know that the Action Network we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: out in Las Vegas four March Madness. We're to have
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  Speaker 1: a big event on Wednesday night, seven o'clock Pacific time
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  Speaker 1: at Mabel's Barbecue in the Palms Hotel and Casino. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you heard that right, Mabel's barbecue at the Palms Wednesday night,
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  Speaker 1: seven o'clock. Paul's going to be there. I'll be there, Chad,
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  Speaker 1: that insufferable nerd Darren will be there, some other people.
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  Speaker 1: So make sure you if you're going to be in
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  Speaker 1: Vegas Wednesday night, make sure you stop on by and
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  Speaker 1: come see us. Paul and I are actually heading back
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  Speaker 1: to Las Vegas on Sunday. We were there last week. Um,
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  Speaker 1: PAULI what do you what do you want to tell
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  Speaker 1: everyone about our trip to Vegas last week? How was it?
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  Speaker 1: It was a bundle of fun, it really was. Um.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people stare at you with your hat
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  Speaker 1: and your outfit. You got a lot of compliments. Um.
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  Speaker 1: We had a very good first day. We walk over
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  Speaker 1: to the Golden Nugget. We hit a fifty one shot
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  Speaker 1: and the horses were off and rolling and then just
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  Speaker 1: sort of petered out after that. The fund didn't never
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  Speaker 1: petered out. I don't know, but not at all. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I don't know. Like as soon as I step
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  Speaker 1: in in the state of Nevada, I just like to dance.
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  Speaker 1: This son of a bit did not stop dancing anywhere
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  Speaker 1: we went. We would walk by a bar, he would
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  Speaker 1: hear music and literally just dance his way in right
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  Speaker 1: up to the front, just wouldn't stop. There was a
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  Speaker 1: waitress in the Golden Nuggets I think was terrified of you.
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  Speaker 1: She was a tiny bit terrified, but when she saw
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  Speaker 1: me move my hips, I saw her looking from the
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  Speaker 1: corner of her eyes. Then then Paul and I proceed
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  Speaker 1: to drive across Death Valley to l A from Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: and again Paul did not stop singing the entire time.
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  Speaker 1: See here's the thing. Who's the guy that's late, late,
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  Speaker 1: late night, James Cordon? What's his name? Karaoke? I've been
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  Speaker 1: doing chemical karaoke when he was in diapers. Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: did carpoo karaoke like literally when Instagram started, and then
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  Speaker 1: I sort of shut it down because I got pulled
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  Speaker 1: over by a police officer and the police officer said,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing. I'm like, I'm doing carpool karaoke
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  Speaker 1: and I have a lot of fans I need to
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  Speaker 1: satisfy over here. Okay, why did you just choose the
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  Speaker 1: arbitrary start date of Instagram? I just started singing karaoke.
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  Speaker 1: People love it. If you ever go on on my Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead, Paul. Sorry, my Mike went out there, Paul.
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  Speaker 1: Mike cut out, Paul, are you I could see you
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  Speaker 1: being like a like an eighties music Steve Perry and
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  Speaker 1: Journey got nothing on me, Oh, Paul. The highlights where
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  Speaker 1: Paul singing his walk up song for his entire career,
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  Speaker 1: which is a BIG's song, staying Alive um. And then
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  Speaker 1: we were I don't know if you've ever done that drive,
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  Speaker 1: Jeff from Vegas to l A. But at one point
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  Speaker 1: you kind of turn a corner and you're just like
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  Speaker 1: flying down the side of a mountain and it's a
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  Speaker 1: real steep grade. And that's when Paul chose to sing
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  Speaker 1: It's all coming back to me now by Lean Beyond.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know, I really must have liked it,
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  Speaker 1: because I just found myself dropping the pedal to the
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  Speaker 1: floor and we were flying down that mountain like eighty
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  Speaker 1: miles an hour. Just just blazon. If that that can
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  Speaker 1: be it, That can be a a fun drive. Well not,
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  Speaker 1: it's not really fun. It could be a fast drive,
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  Speaker 1: or can be one accident and be the worst drive
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  Speaker 1: of your life. It is true, it wasn't too bad.
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  Speaker 1: We we did pretty well until we got to l A.
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  Speaker 1: But Paul and I will be out in Vegas starting
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  Speaker 1: on St. Patrick's Day and we'll be out there for
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  Speaker 1: eight days. So uh, if any of you guys are
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  Speaker 1: out there, hit us up, we'd we'd love to meet
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  Speaker 1: up with you. And if you wanted any request, it's
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  Speaker 1: lean Dion is not my only Whitney's out there too,
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  Speaker 1: so like if you want any request of me singing
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  Speaker 1: with Black because I see I am very sports you.
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  Speaker 1: The best part about it is all the videos that
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  Speaker 1: I made. I'm embarrassing the hell out of no, Paul.
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  Speaker 1: Someone had to drive the goddamn car, like someone had
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  Speaker 1: to make sure we didn't die. You were going to
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  Speaker 1: There's only one way, you know. You gotta learn how
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  Speaker 1: to drive when the guy's been entertaining you. And I've
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  Speaker 1: driven with you before and that's why I drove this time.
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  Speaker 1: When I'm taking the role as the designated driver, there's
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  Speaker 1: a problem. But I've driven with you, and you're one
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  Speaker 1: road rage incident after another. I'm not a road rage.
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  Speaker 1: I drive like a New Yorker, which is normal. Paul.
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  Speaker 1: I was on the phone with you. Jeff. I was
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  Speaker 1: on the phone with him when he was in Saratoga
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  Speaker 1: and he got into an argument with another driver and
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  Speaker 1: literally put the phone down and got out of the
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  Speaker 1: car to get into a confrontation. Sometimes you need to
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  Speaker 1: make a point. He's a wild driver. When we were
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  Speaker 1: at the Breeders Cup in Kentucky, He's just screaming at people.
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  Speaker 1: I'm from New York. Get out of the way. Did
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  Speaker 1: they get out of the way? Not really, Paul. Then
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  Speaker 1: I ran over him. I'm sorry. Did we have a
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  Speaker 1: good parket spot? We did? Was accomplished. Did we get arrested? No, no,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't. It was a good day. All right. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get into a little bit about what's been going on
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, uh Jeff. Obviously Odell Beckham is the
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  Speaker 1: big news over the last forty eight hours, traded by
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  Speaker 1: the Giants over to the Cleveland Browns. What what are
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  Speaker 1: your initial thoughts on that? Well, for the Browns is awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I think they gave up obviously at first a third
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  Speaker 1: and starting safety and Jabril Peppers. You added him in
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  Speaker 1: with Landry who they're best friends. You just more weapons
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  Speaker 1: for Baker Mayfield are great. The Giants, I have no
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  Speaker 1: idea what they're doing. They seem to be rebuilding around
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  Speaker 1: a third eight year quarterback, which makes no sense whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: What the Giants should have done. This gonna haunt them
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  Speaker 1: for fifteen years because Sam Donald shares their stadium with them.
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  Speaker 1: They should have drafted Sam Donald last year at two,
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  Speaker 1: drafted a pass rusher this year at six, and kept
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  Speaker 1: Odell Beckham, or don't keep Odell Beckham, don't sign them
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  Speaker 1: last year, just full rebuild instead of drafting Sae Kawon Barkley,
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  Speaker 1: having Eli Manning and then taking I don't know, a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback and six. I don't think they're even beholding taking quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna take best player available. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand it. You know, they're an organization that
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  Speaker 1: forever was just run so well, and they have forgotten
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  Speaker 1: how to run an organization. Yeah them, No, they did not.
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  Speaker 1: I just I don't understand the thinking of whether it's
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  Speaker 1: this year or next you're going to have to bring
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  Speaker 1: in a young quarterback and taking away one of the
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  Speaker 1: best weapons in football that you could possibly give a
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  Speaker 1: young quarterback. I mean, it just doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: I understand the idea by the way of getting rid
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  Speaker 1: of a wide receiver if you're rebuilding, I understand that.
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  Speaker 1: That to me makes total sense because a lot of
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  Speaker 1: teams should do that wide receivers and is a bonus
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  Speaker 1: right you need to have you need the other pieces
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  Speaker 1: in place. The problem is that other pieces aren't in place.
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  Speaker 1: So so you know, I get why they got rid
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  Speaker 1: of him. But again, he's a playmaker and if you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna bring a young quarterback, you must we'll have him
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  Speaker 1: there for for him. Yeah, I agree. So there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of Odell Beckham props Jeff about whether he will
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  Speaker 1: lead the league in receiving yards, touchdowns, receptions, which one
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  Speaker 1: of these props kind of piques your interest a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: So I think over eleven hundred yards, I think this
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  Speaker 1: this morning on I'll take that bet. If you look
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  Speaker 1: at his first three years, he had over thirteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: yards first three years. Now remember they didn't you know,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have anyone else to throw to. I was
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  Speaker 1: there for two of those years. Um, the last two
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  Speaker 1: years he has not been that mark because he's been injured.
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  Speaker 1: So two years ago he missed most of the whole year.
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  Speaker 1: Last year played twelve games but had almost eleven hundred yards.
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  Speaker 1: I think he just gets eleven hundred yards he's a playmaker.
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  Speaker 1: Think about this. He takes short passes to the house
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  Speaker 1: seven yard, ten yards, slant route goes, goes, goes sixty yards.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't need to be catching long bombs to make
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  Speaker 1: this happen. So I think that's a big part of
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  Speaker 1: this is that the ability for him to take short
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  Speaker 1: passes in this offense and go deep. I like over
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  Speaker 1: a hundred yards. Yeah, I like the over eight and
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  Speaker 1: a half touchdowns to his total this past season was
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  Speaker 1: seven and a half. And I think that Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 1: is gonna love having him in the red zone. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's that big bodied guy that you just throw it
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  Speaker 1: up to. I mean, he's He's gonna make life just
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  Speaker 1: so much easier for Baker Mayfield when when they get
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  Speaker 1: close to the end zone he is and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the one question is is do you think that the
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  Speaker 1: yards will have to be split up between Landry and
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  Speaker 1: the Joku and Chubb and all the guys they have
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  Speaker 1: and maybe he doesn't get a little I think that
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  Speaker 1: could be concerned. But again, I think if you're choosing
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  Speaker 1: one prop pro debt over the eleven yard, because he
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be he should not be injured three years in
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  Speaker 1: a row, right, PAULI what what what prop do you
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  Speaker 1: like about this? I liked the over eleven yards as well.
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  Speaker 1: When he was in New York, he was really their
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  Speaker 1: only option. So now with multiple options, and I think
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  Speaker 1: Jeff makes it a very key point. Listen, he went
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  Speaker 1: to college with Landry. I mean they were best friends,
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  Speaker 1: and it seemed like he was like a little bit
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  Speaker 1: tiny bit lost maybe in New York, like sometimes he
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  Speaker 1: did want to be there. He's got that little bipolar
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  Speaker 1: personality every once in a while, so you don't really
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  Speaker 1: know where he sits. And you know, now he's got
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  Speaker 1: his best friend he can go play with in Javar,
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  Speaker 1: who's a very quality receiver as well. I mean, excuse me, uh,
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  Speaker 1: what's his first name? Joe Farr? That's what I said.
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  Speaker 1: Are you guys deaf? His name is not Javar? What's
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  Speaker 1: his name? Oh? Jarvis? Like, what do you like? I
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  Speaker 1: was like Jaffar from the latter You know my phone?
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  Speaker 1: I haven't a jar on my phone? That's why you haven't. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what do you mean? Where do you? Where do you
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  Speaker 1: you tucked out jar of like you've notes? No, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just telling you that Odell Beckham is gonna go over
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  Speaker 1: a level. Yeah, that's all I'm saying. He's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: My point is we're talking about if we're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that him, right and obviously we're gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: about Bell in Antonio Brown. Are they three of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest clowns in all of football? I'm gonna ask you
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  Speaker 1: that question, Jeff, Why are those three guys well? Jeff Levian?
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Levian Bell went to Twitter, hold on, hold on, Paul.
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  Speaker 1: But off of that question, Jeff, you just said that
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  Speaker 1: you played with Odell Beckham for two years. What kind
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  Speaker 1: of a teammate is he? Because we hear all this
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  Speaker 1: stuff that you know he's a problem, and honestly, it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like a lot of nonsense that people are complaining
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  Speaker 1: about in the media. How was he in the locker room?
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  Speaker 1: This is a great teammate. Um. This is why I'm
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  Speaker 1: not concerned about most of what's happening with with their
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  Speaker 1: talking about him being a distraction. That's why he went
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  Speaker 1: to Cleveland. He's gonna be distraction Cleveland. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that at all. I think the Giants vet him as
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  Speaker 1: a distraction for whatever reason. Pat Sherman did not get
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  Speaker 1: along with Odell. I don't know what that was. Um,
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  Speaker 1: he's great in the locker room, is a good leader guys,
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  Speaker 1: lovely works his tail off. You know they talk about
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  Speaker 1: the passion, Yeah, I mean look, yeah, theresicularle overboard. What
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  Speaker 1: would I prefer that a player of mine if I
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  Speaker 1: was an ownershipper and coaching to not proposed or kicking net,
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  Speaker 1: yeah I would. But wide receivers are in a position
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  Speaker 1: where it's very mean centric, right, you have to win
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  Speaker 1: one on one battles all the time, and yes, there's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be more mean centric than other players on the
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  Speaker 1: football fields. I'm fine with his at because he comes
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  Speaker 1: to play on Sundays. I get it that he comes
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  Speaker 1: to play. But listen to me as a coach and
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  Speaker 1: you've been on the field, I don't care how big
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  Speaker 1: of a dick you are. When you're the best player
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  Speaker 1: they had, coaches, you have to get along with him.
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  Speaker 1: You have to. The reason where you gave it a chance,
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  Speaker 1: gave him even a chance to get along. You have to,
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  Speaker 1: even if you hate the guy. The manager has to
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  Speaker 1: get along with your best player. And that was the
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  Speaker 1: problem in New York the whole time with Beckham and
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  Speaker 1: he did stupid stuff on the sideline, like kicking nets.
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  Speaker 1: He did just stupid stuff that projected him as being
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  Speaker 1: a problem. And the worry is is you're right, Shermer. Listen, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you don't like the guy. You don't like the guy,
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  Speaker 1: but for you to win, he needs to succeed. And
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  Speaker 1: you can already tell the Odell Beckham is a guy
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  Speaker 1: that listens to in the media. He is a guy
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  Speaker 1: that is very sensitive. So if you don't like him,
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  Speaker 1: screw you. That's the way. Did you ever not get
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  Speaker 1: along with the manager? Yes, of course, Jack mc can is.
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  Speaker 1: I love Jack as a person. Worst manager I ever
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  Speaker 1: played for. I don't still don't know how he won
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  Speaker 1: a championship. He didn't even know your name. He know
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  Speaker 1: he called me to Luca. I didn't even know my name.
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  Speaker 1: What about Davy Johnson? Davy Johnson was the best manager
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  Speaker 1: I played for, But he hated me. Why do you
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  Speaker 1: hate you? I don't know. I remember who could hit you? No?
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  Speaker 1: I remember in Philadelphia, I was played a game like.
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  Speaker 1: He played me like onervery I made the team that
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  Speaker 1: spring training. He played me like once every twenty days.
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  Speaker 1: I saw him in Philadelphia, and I had a bad game,
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  Speaker 1: and then I played two games in a row because
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  Speaker 1: Hunley was hurt. And then I went like, oh for
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  Speaker 1: eight and struggled, and he just came to the to
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  Speaker 1: the hotel bar and I was sitting there with Hunley
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  Speaker 1: and he just came up to me and bought me
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  Speaker 1: a shot and goes, you suck. You need to be
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  Speaker 1: drunk better. Little did he know that was gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a trend. Alright, So, um Paul mentioned Levyan Bell and
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  Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, and we'll get to individual props on them
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  Speaker 1: in a minute. But Jeff, is something I want to
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  Speaker 1: ask you about because I'm looking at it and I
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  Speaker 1: just can't believe it. The a f C North Division futures,
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns are favorite at plus one, the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: are plus two fifty, the Ravens at plus two seventy five,
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  Speaker 1: and the Bengals at plus eight hundred. Where are you
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  Speaker 1: putting your money on the a f C North teams
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  Speaker 1: to start this season? This is absolutely wild. The answer
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  Speaker 1: is the Pittsburgh Steelers at plus two fifty. I kind
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  Speaker 1: of agree with you, this is crazy. Think about this.
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  Speaker 1: In the NFL, we we use all the time, right,
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  Speaker 1: the winner of March we assume will be the winner
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  Speaker 1: come January. It almost never happens that way. Are the
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  Speaker 1: Browns talented, Yes, they would are talented. I'll give him that.
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  Speaker 1: John Dorseyson a great job. However, the have a second
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  Speaker 1: year quarterback. They have to pull his personalities together. They
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: have a new a new UH defensive corner. And most important,
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Freddy Kitchens is the new head coach. He's never been
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  Speaker 1: a head coach. He's only been accordinator for like eight
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  Speaker 1: games on a team that was they had no pressure whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: The pressure is all on Freddie Kitches. Now remember this too,
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  Speaker 1: this is important. I think no one was trying to
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  Speaker 1: hire him. Okay, I don't think the Browns even wanted
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  Speaker 1: him to be the head coach. He just was kind
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  Speaker 1: of there after everything all of dust settled, like no
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  Speaker 1: one even interviewed him. And I I don't think so
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  Speaker 1: to be the head coach of any other job. But
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: the Browns hired to be their head coach. And let's
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  Speaker 1: let's pump the brakes the Steelers, by the way, where
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  Speaker 1: we're ninth and overall d v O A last year.
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  Speaker 1: That's without leaving on Bell and Antonio Brown was obviously there.
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  Speaker 1: Juju is still there. James Washington play wide receiver. They
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  Speaker 1: lose their tight end, that's a that's a concern. Offensive
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: line is still good, but their defense improved throughout the year.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's wild to you you will not
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  Speaker 1: find better value on on Pittsburgh than you have now. Also,
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers have have maybe the best offensive line in football. Now, Paul,
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  Speaker 1: I heard you grunting a minute ago. What what are
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts on the A F C. North Well, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you look at Baltimore, Okay, what's the Lamar Lamar Jackson's
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  Speaker 1: experiment is is that gonna roll over the year two?
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  Speaker 1: Or team is going to figure that out quickly. But
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore still is going to have a solid, solid defense.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: So I'm with both of you, guys. I think Pittsburgh
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: is the play in here. Um. I truly think since
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: the Antonio Brown Facebook thing a while ago, he's just
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: been a guy in that locker room that yes, he's
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: been the best player, but good riddance. It was good
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: riddance with bell Um midway through the season, and now
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: they can just sit there and play football instead of
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: worrying about all this other stuff. And I get it.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Cleveland did get better. But again, losing has been a
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: disease in Cleveland and until they win, my money is
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: not going there. And you know, something else to talk
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: about with the Steelers is they've been a team that's
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: been an underperforming team when they've been favored most years.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see Pittsburgh this year kind of doubted.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be questioned and I think that's
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: going to motivate them a little bit. Totally agree. Alright,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: so let's talk a little bit about Levian Bell. Obviously,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: he signs with the Jets, uh sixty one million dollar
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: deal with the Jets. There are props on his rushing yards,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: receiving yards, and touchdowns out there. I personally like the
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: prop that he's gonna go over six hundred and a
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: half receiving yards because I think he's the safety valve
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: for Sam Donald that he's been missing. Um, he's a
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: really good pass catcher out of the backfield. He can
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: line up at wide receiver. I don't know about yards
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: on the ground, but I think he does go over
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: six hundred receiving Jeff, what do you think about Levian Bell?
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: So I like this play because I think you'll have
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: more of an impact in the receiving game than than
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: than the rushing game. For for a couple of ways. One, Um,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I do think to your point that he would be
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: used as a blanket for you know, they'll screen pass something,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: They'll use a lot of interesting ways to get him
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: into the offense. But secondly, a more important he has
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: a very unique style of Russian the football. Right. He
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: kind of hides behind the big offensive line that that
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh had, the big old guys, and they run a
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: lot of players. They go vertically right, they go up
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: the field right away, Um, and he's able to hide
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: behind those big guys, find a scene and then go
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: adam gaze the the the Jets head coach, well, they
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: run some of those same plays. He's more of a
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: zone a zone run scheme. He's more diverse run scheme
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: and labland Bell. I don't know if he's good in
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: that because that's more of a one cut and go.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: You know, you can't dance behind a line of scrimmage
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and and and go because the backs has not blocked
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: very well and there's a tiny element to it. So
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I do wonder if, um, that that's gonna be something
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: that takes a little bit of time to work out.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: So I'm interested to see how that plays out throughout
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the season. Polly, what do you what do you got
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: on the Olavian Bell props? I'm with you on the
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: receiving yards. Um. I'm glad that he took the Twitter
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: to like, really go, oh my god, so many decisions
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I gotta make. It was one team he was. That
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: was all media hype to get him more attention. That
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: was that was a joe. No one was trying to
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: sign him. That was a joke. That was for you
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: to go to Twitter and put that out there. Clown
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: clown status already. So but I will give him this.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: He chose not to shy away from the biggest city
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: in the world, so he's going to New York. I'll
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: give him that. There's gonna be a lot more people
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: in his locker room, and the expectations are going to
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: be giant. Listen, New York fans want to win now,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: especially with Beckham gone. Um at the other side of
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the locker room, a lot of Jet fans are hyped.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win this division now, and that's
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the way they Jet and met fans work. When they
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: get something like that, they're like, oh, World Series or championship.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: There there's knee jerk reaction. Um does he make them better?
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Of course, But I still think he's gonna catch a
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: lot of balls out of the backfield. And I'm with you.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be Darnau's safety valve all year.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: All right, So that those are a levy on bell props, Paul,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: you brought up Antonio Brown before obviously he's traded to
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. Jeff. First, before we get to the props,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: let me ask you, what do you think about what
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh got back for him? I mean a third and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: a fifth. It feels like very little for a guy
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: who's been the best wide receiver in football for the
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: last you know, four or five years. A couple of
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: things here is the general public way over values wide
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: receivers compared to the National Football League values in that. Okay,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I do think it's interesting here. I wonder if Antonio
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Brown was kind of playing up the craziness because as
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: soon as he got as soon as he was traded,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: he got rid of the blood mustache, he cleaned up, right,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: he got he looked like he well he definitely his
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: facial hair. I think he got a haircut to like.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: He looks clean, looks well put together. He might just
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: been like playing everybody, but I think that his trade
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: value was so um low because of the added contract
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: and centive. So not only were you getting Antonio Brown,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: you have to pay him more money and a lot
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: of teams were not willing to give that extra deal.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah what what what'll trade for you? Sure we're not
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: giving you extra money. So I think that was a
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: big part of this too, is that, uh, the value
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: of trading for a player like him in his thirties,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: plus the contract demands made it so that teams were
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: just not looking forward to to pay in the play
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: And that's why you got him for three and five. Now.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, Oakland has been easy to kind of
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: mock over the last you know year, But I mean
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: essentially they turned to Marie Cooper into a first round
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: pick and Antonio Brown. I mean I got a hard
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: time criticizing that. I'm not sure that's a fair comparison
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: because when they traded Mary Cooper, which was a good
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: deal for them at the time, there was no thought
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: of Antonio Brown. Right. The question The thing I have
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: about this, though, is that you said you had a
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: plan of rebuilding. Well, this is not a plan of rebuilding.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: What you should have done is you should have paid
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: a Mark Cooper and pay Cleo Mack and you'd have
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a difference maker at defensive end, a premium position National
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Football League, and a young wide receiver who we saw
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: in Dallas was much better as a player than he
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: was in Oakland. So I don't I don't know if
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: if it's I like what they did, but it's not
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: really an apples to apples upgrade because they came about
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: it two different ways. Like you can't say that that
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: they got you know, they basically traded Mark Cooper to
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: get Antonio Brown. Those are two separate transactions and and
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: they kind of and they kind of contradict each other
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: because one of them is more of like, Okay, we're
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: going with youth and where rebuildly don't want to pay
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: our guy to like, well, never mind, we're gonna go
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: ahead and get Antonio Brown. Now, Okay, Antonio Brown ever
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: hugged Ben Roethlisberger like he hugged Derek Carr. I don't
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: wn watch the press conference. What do you mean he
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: went to Derek Carr's house personally and give him a
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: giant hug Twitter. Derek Carr blocked you on what are
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: you too talking about? What do you mean? Derek Carr's
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: house last yesterday and gave him a hug. Do you
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: are you on social media? All right? I'm looking at
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the picture right now. Yes, that that that's a pretty
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: big brace. It's a It's a huge embrace. It's like
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: when you and I see each other in the airport
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: in Vegas, ball exactly. I love you that much, but
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: their pants are on right, Fuck you, Jeff. The best
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: part about I mean these podcasts, by the way, is
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Matt laughing at the background. It's by far chuckling about
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the best thing. I texted Matt like once a week.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I like, dude, you're laughed. This week is outstanding. Um,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: how much for a naked dance on Fremont during March Madness?
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Polly Nolly would do it, though, brother the first the
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: minute he stepped out of the hotel onto Fremont Street,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: he heard the music and just started dancing immediately. I
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: think he wants to go over to the Chippendales. I
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: put on a show. I mean, you haven't seen anybody
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: pull shapes like that in a while, Polly. If you
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: were both you guys, So if you were staying next
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: to my wife and she's playing blackjacket she hit on
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: a hard sixteen um with a dealer showing a five,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: what would your reaction be? I would not just leave
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the table? Well, she actually she actually she actually doubled
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: down um because the last time was in Vegas was
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: like a weekend before you guys, and we're all, here's
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the deal. Are you standing over her? She by herself, No,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I'm was sitting next to her. I was out of
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I had the worst table in gambling and it was
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a five dollar table, and she wants she knew she's
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: a bad gambler, so she's like, I want to go
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: play cheap table. So we left the Cosmo, went to Freemont,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: who actually went to the We went to elk Cortez
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and then went to the Freemont and we're gambling there
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: for three hours and she was just playing with five
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: dollars a hand, and then eventually I was out of
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: money and she hit on a She doubled down on
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: a hard sixteen with dealer showing a five, and she
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: got a four and then won the hand and I
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: turned to someone next to me and said, did that
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: really happen? And they said yes, And I want to
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: get a drink afterwards. I don't drink, and actually her
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: gambling forced me to have a drink that night. I
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: don't drink either. What do you mean you don't drink?
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: We drank every night we were in Las Vegas. Oh, yes,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: we're is good. It's good for after you work out.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: And need to know that. Like a lot of body
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: builders used that they did to drink beer after they
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: work out. That's the Irish fighters used to do. But
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: in the fifteen hundreds, that's what I was doing. But
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: they didn't know anything about like nutrition or anything. It
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: was hundreds. I've been and in ventice and I promise
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: you they're not drinking beer after that. They let me
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: tell you something. You guys need to start googling this stuff.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I was working on in my room going down to
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the bar and getting beer because beer brings me I
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: need to put weight on muscle. It's like what they
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: used to do back in the day. It's like a
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: new thing. It's a new thing, but it's what they
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: did in the hundreds. A buddy of mine who is reading,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I had lunch with him yesterday. He said, well, he
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: was playing. He's lost like a bunch of weight. They
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: said he was playing. He had had two two thousand
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: calorie shakes the day to keep his weight up. I
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: can't believe it. I used to go to spring training
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: and about that problem two and then come home at
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: like one. You weren't drinking enough beer. No, I drink
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of beer. But the problem is, he's just
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: when you're catching a hundred forty games, you just you
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: can't keep the weight on. You just can't. It's impossible,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: all right. So, um, let's move on to Nick Foles. Uh.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Nick Foles signs with the Jaguars. Uh. We've got three
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: props on him over under twelve and a half interceptions,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: over under thirty five hundred and a half yards, and
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: over under twenty one and a half touchdown passes. Jeff,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: any of these intrigue you, I think under twelve and
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: a half interceptions, I mean you brought him in to
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: not throw interceptions. Otherwise you just so I kept Bortles
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: in there. Um, I do not think that Nick Foles
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: is going to be the same player he was in Philly,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: but you brought him in there for that exact purpose.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: And remember the last time he was a full time
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: started going through two interceptions in the year. Now, that's
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: different offense, obviously, but I think I think you're looking
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: at a quarterback they'll throw under twelve interceptions. Mm hmm.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: It is to me this is sort of a double
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: edged sword, right. You bring in a guy um to
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: get rid of Blake Bortles where everybody's been wanting to
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: get rid of forever. And why because Blake Bortles makes
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: so many mistakes. But what is Nick Foles. He's somewhat
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: of a riverboat gambler and is he You don't know.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: That's sort of a good question. I'd probably stay away
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: from any prop um. I think a lot of people
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: think that the Jaguars are gonna be a lot better.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I think they will too, because I like Folds. I
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: just like the way he leads, and he leads like
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: very quietly, but he leads by example and throws a
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: very softball. He's such an upgrade compared to Bortles. And
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I'm talking just upstairs in his head. But I'm a
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: little worried about the interception part in the reason why,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: it's because he'll he'll take a little bit more chances.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I think towards the end Blake Bortles got so scared.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: It's sort of just backfire it on him and he'll
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: probably I'd like that. Do you you this, Jeff, You
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: think that Blake Bortles will ever start a game in
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the NFL? Again, I'm sure he'll be on a team
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: and he'll start at some point, but not as the
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: starter or no. No, I mean like an everyday starter.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I'm talking another he's done with that. Wow, that's crazy,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: all right? So I kind of like the interception one
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: as well, Jeff. I mean, we've seen he can be
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: careful with the football. Um, and I don't think they're
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: gonna ask him to do a lot. Just don't screw
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: it up. I mean, Bortles was just a damn train wreck. Um,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: he was. Paul Um PAULI, we've got conference championships going
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: on in college basketball this week? Do you have Do
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: you have any plays for anyone maybe tonight or tomorrow,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: anything that people should be throwing their money on. Well,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I got place for everybody. I know, what's your best
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Like Washington Huskies today against the USC Chrojans. Maybe a
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: little karma karma y. I don't know, scholarships for the
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: polo team. Oh you're talking okay, Okay, you're talking about
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Ann becky um um. Yeah. The Huskies are the best
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: team in the Pack twelve the Pac twelve. Yeah, it's weak,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: it's could be and they might be an out early.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: But I liked them and the game just went off. Okay,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: So maybe anything a little later in the day, since
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: we're recording this right now. Yes, I'm gonna give you
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: something that's gonna blow your mind. Please do Are you ready? Yeah,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Seaton Hall, Minuster, It's not gonna BlimE mine all right.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I like how you put you you took uh you
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: You like the twenty seven a half points with New
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Mexico State, Yeah, I did half. By the way, I
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: bet us Washington has been awful the last the last
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: five games this season, they have been atrocious. Well again,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: that game is happening right now, so we should probably
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: give people something they can bet later in the night.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like Syracuse. I feel everyone's
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: gonna jump on Duke tonight because of of Zombie and back.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: But I feel like that could be interesting, just like
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the game. Um, you know I like. I like Long
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Beach State Tonight, Long Beach State. There, it is there,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: it is alright. Great. So now it's it's time for
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: everyone's favorite time of the week. It's story time with
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Paula Douka No Paulli. I want to preface this by
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: saying I have not heard this story yet. H It's
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: been told to me briefly by the chuckler. Um. I
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: heard there was a time you got lucky. Maybe some
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: highlight involved. Yeah, this is a good, great spring training story. Um.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I was with two of my friends, Billy Neil and
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: in Mike Metcalf. Now Billy Neil. Yeah, Billy Neil, he
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: was the picture of the year in the Florida State
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: League and Mike Metcalf was a first round pick in
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: ninety six out of the University of Miami. So every
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Wednesday night you'd go to Fort Pierce highlight because it
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: was dollar beer in a hot dog night. God. Fort
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Pierces a shit hole, I think per capita at the time,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: it had the worst. It's the murder ratio. It's not
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: a good place to go. Now. Metcalf was from Orlando,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: so he had a car even though we're living on Dodgertown,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: so we hopped his jeep. The three of us, we
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: go down to the fourth Pierce Highlight. It's Wednesday night.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: We start getting loaded a little bit and we're playing
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: the Ponies. Gonn understand it's an O T B two,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: So we're playing the late night Ponies and the Dogs.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: At that time and night, they're really horses don't really
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: run at like seven o'clock somewhere in that area. Um,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: maybe you'll get the back end of some of the
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: California cards. So we're there to you know, mess around,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: watch the highlights. But here comes out this guy named Timmy.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I'm like Timmy and he's like six ft four pounds.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I mean this guy maybe even more like two pounds.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: So they play singles and they play doubles if you're
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: not familiar with Highlight, So he's playing singles in he's
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: the number one, which means when you're the number one,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: you got a giant advantage. You come around a lot.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: So he gets buried in the first first game and
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: we start laying into him. We're saying, if it was
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: a hamburger, you would have got that. Timmy we're just
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: burying this poor guy. So now it comes back around
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: and here he comes out again, um, and he gets
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: buried again, and we're just absolutely crushing him to the
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: point that when you go to Highlight four Pierce Highlight,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: it's got like a backdrop and it's chicken scratch and
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: it's sort of like theater seeing. So you go all
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: the way up. So there's like a big crowd. This
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  Speaker 1: guy is in our face, m F and us. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna meet you guys in the parking lot afterwards. And
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: we were laughing because you know, we're separated by a
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: chicken scratch and we're drunk. So about two games later,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I look in the program. It's Timmy and Jose they're
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: playing doubles. Now, the one thing that Timmy did have
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: he was so big and strong. He could play the
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  Speaker 1: back line and throw it, so I knew in doubles
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  Speaker 1: he would be a monster. So I look on the program.
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  Speaker 1: He's ten to one on the morning line. So we
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  Speaker 1: go back out there and I tell him Mike Metcalf
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  Speaker 1: because Billy Neil really didn't gamble, he was there to drink.
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  Speaker 1: Go give me twenty one bucks. He goes all right,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: so we went forty two dollars each or each forty
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  Speaker 1: two bucks, and we wheeled Timmy and Jose. They were
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  Speaker 1: the four over everybody in the trifecta. So now he
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: comes walking out and you can see he's staring at us.
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  Speaker 1: We still were ripping on him because we want him
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  Speaker 1: to win. Now they run the table, run the table,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: and then he's looking at us like, you know, like
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I'm showing you guys. Meanwhile, we show him the ticket
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: and he gets even more upset. So now in highlight,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: when you run the table, the four wins. Now they
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: play the rest of the match out for second and third.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: So we're home. But you don't want to be four
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: one two, four one three. You want it to be
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: high numbers because higher numbers are hard to get because
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: you gotta keep coming around. We end up getting like
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: four seven six, and the trifecta pays nine hundred dollars.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: So now we hit for nineteen hundred dollars. That's more
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  Speaker 1: than we made last year, eight fifty dollars a year
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: before a month. Okay, so now we go sign the ticket.
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  Speaker 1: We had a another guy signed the ticket. You do
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: the ten percent rule. You have some vagrant, come in
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: sign the ticket for nineteen hundred, and you give them
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: two hundred dollars. This way, it doesn't go on your
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: record bottom line, and we start getting loaded. Yes, So
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: now what happens in spring training? It's now I look up,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: it's we're about twelve beers deep, maybe three shots all
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: of us. Now you've got to make the decision. You
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: got to go to the local bar or we're going
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: to Dodger Town. Um. Now, when you go to the
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: local bar, you got an hour and an hour and
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: a half to take a chick out of there because
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: you gotta be back at Dodgertown by midnight. So you
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: got to make a decision very very quickly. I can
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: only imagine the decision you made. Well, here's the other thing. Now,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Wednesday night was Ladies night. So but we are for
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Pierce Paul. No, we're driving back to Dodgers. So you go, okay,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: so Vero beach a lot better. Ladies Night is gonna
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: be fifty and over. So we're driving back. We're driving, okay,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: So it's either Miami subs or we're gonna go to
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the club. So Metcalf is driving at this point and
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: we decided to go into the club. Well, here's the problem.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: When you go in the club on ladies night and
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: you play in a ball there's fifty other guys in
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: there now from the organizations that are there also, and
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: there's big leaguers there, so you have no shot. So
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: we walk in and I'm like, it was carols Um,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Tom Ends, a couple other guys were there, and then
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: comes out the challenge. It's about eleven, and I'm like, hey,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: let's go back home, Let's go back to Dodger Town.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: We gotta get out of here. Man Paul Duke of
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the Voice of Reason. Yes, then the little devil came out,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: and I don't want to know what he referred to
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: as the little devil. This is true, this is what happened.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: So there's this girl sitting over there in the corner
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: where her friend. She's obviously the hottest girl in the bar.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Every guys taking every guy is taking a shot at her.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: So now all the guys in the big leagues are
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: ponying up and I'm like, I can get her to
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: dance with me, and they're like, you have no shot.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I'm like, put up the money. So I did a
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: little trick in Australia with Miss Australia, and I was
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: going to pull the same trick. Here's the thing that's
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: going on when I played over in Australia. True story.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Miss Australia was signing an autographs. My buddies put up
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: a bunch of money, said, you can't get her to dance.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: They put up at the thousand dollars. I went up
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: to her, whispered her whisperer in her ear, I am
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: not weird. Please be quiet. You're gonna get five. Be quiet. Yes,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: you're gonna get five dollars. Do not look, do not
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: do anything. I am gonna take you. I'm gonna come
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: back here and ask you for a dance. When you're
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: done signing autographs. Just take the dance and I will
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: give you five dollars. And she said, yes, this is terrifying. Okay.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: So it worked and then we ended up hanging out
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: a couple more times after that. In Misless, yeah, I
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: have that neck on people. So now the gauntlet is
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: thrown down and the big boys are putting down like
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: four or five dollars for me to ask this girl.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: You know, they're like, get her to dance, get her
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: to go. Now, it's like, you gotta get her out
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: of here. I'm like, there's no shot I'm getting around here,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: So I gotta go to my go to move like
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: I've done it five times and I've been hit three
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: times and I've gotten lucky twice. Alright, So yeah, and
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I went up to her and I dropped this line,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: do you want to have a pizza? And fuck? And
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: she just stared at me and chill, but but no,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: and she said, looked at me, and I said, what
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: you don't like pizza? And she lost it. Okay, so
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: I'm home. I'm home. I'm got her on the dance floor.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: She died, laughing. Um, Jeff, thoughts, I don't know what's
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: happening right now. I mean, thought you want to get
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: a pizza? And fuck? Is is that when you still
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: use I can't use it anymore? Too old Now. I've
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: gotten slapped and lit up a couple of times. But no,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: really that's shocking. But when it works, it's gold. You're in.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm sure. What do you think? I mean?
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: That kind of pick up lines a little bold. That
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: was the only way I could do it. It It was like, oh,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: it was five I mean, if she'd hit me in
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: front of fifty fifty guys, that obviously we've been pretty funny.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: But like I mean, it was definitely some alcohol courage
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: going into that line. All right. I really I don't.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to say to that, Paul, I
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: really don't. I mean, that's nothing that that story is. Um,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: it's probably know is Timmy Woncks and and you didn't.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: It didn't even involve a Denny's. No, my Miami subs.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: You ever eaten there? I think I've probably been the one.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Are they even open anymore? Not bad trying that? If
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: you're in all right, Um, this feels like a good
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: time to wrap this up again. If you're in Vegas
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: this Wednesday night, seven to ten Pacific, stop by the
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Palm's Hotel and Casino at Mabel's. Me, Paul, Chad Darren
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: and some other people will be there, so that'll be
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: a good time. Thank you everybody for listening to the
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: favorites for Paul Duke and Jeff Schwartz. I'm black Jack Fletcher.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Make sure you download on Apple Podcasts or radio dot
• 40:20
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• 40:24
  Speaker 1: next time,