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AFC West Betting Preview with Aniello Piro · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the favorites, your go-to NFL betting show, all
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Speaker 1: part of the action network family of podcasts. I'm Brandon Kravitz,
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Speaker 1: your host back at it with the first lady, Kendra
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Speaker 1: Middleton on today's episode, the divisional previews continue to left,
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Speaker 1: both out West to really strong divisions. to break down
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Speaker 1: on Yulo Piro from Denver sports. 104.3 is going to
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Speaker 1: join us today. Kendra added NASCAR to the resume. What's
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Speaker 1: going on out there. I wasn't.
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Speaker 2: I fear that I am now obsessed with NASCAR. I
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Speaker 2: have gotten into all of the bits and the lore
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Speaker 2: about the drivers and their dating lives and.
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Speaker 3: Who hates each other.
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Speaker 4: I watched a guy.
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Speaker 2: Throw a bumper at a guy who hit him a
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Speaker 2: couple weeks ago. The fact that you can fight each
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Speaker 2: other and stuff, I'm kind of in on NASCAR. I
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Speaker 2: love the redneckification, I think I should say, of it all.
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Speaker 3: I felt like I was back.
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Speaker 2: Home in Jacksonville, Florida on Sunday, and I loved every
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Speaker 2: second of it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there is..
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Speaker 2: Wait no i had a bush light in the crowd
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Speaker 2: the only thing that pissed me off they were out
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Speaker 2: of corn dogs before lab 50 and that was the
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Speaker 2: only thing that i wanted and i was very upset it.
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Speaker 1: Is kind of like pro wrestling on wheels yeah i
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Speaker 1: loved it there's a lot of those a lot of
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Speaker 1: those same vibes and people that are out there literally
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Speaker 1: just out there to.
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Speaker 2: Have a good time and the most random sponsors in
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Speaker 2: the world Yes.
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Speaker 1: Well, it was like a, I bet one, it was
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Speaker 1: like toilet paper or something like that.
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Speaker 3: It's so good. Like they're just, I've never even heard
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Speaker 3: of 90% of them.
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Speaker 1: I loved it. The running hot podcast with Nick Giffen
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Speaker 1: out every Wednesday, he is putting together quite the impressive season.
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Speaker 1: Go and check that out. We have a lot of
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Speaker 1: news to get to in just a couple of minutes
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Speaker 1: before we get to our AFC West breakdown. So do
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Speaker 1: you want to do One of our favorite type of
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Speaker 1: formats here where I just hit you with like five topics.
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Speaker 3: And we go rapid fire.
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Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 1: All right. Deshaun Watson named the starter for the Browns
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Speaker 1: over Shador Sanders, despite the fact that he's been awful
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Speaker 1: in the preseason and he also shit on the fans.
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Speaker 1: Love it. Hate it. Don't get it. Where are we at?
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Speaker 2: I think that it is the dumbest thing ever. They
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Speaker 2: are the worst franchise to ever exist in all of sports.
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Speaker 2: And the fact that you don't even have to bring
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Speaker 2: up the fact that he's a predator to have a
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Speaker 2: plethora of reasons why he shouldn't be starting, I think
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Speaker 2: says enough.
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Speaker 1: And the lack of awareness that he shows at the
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Speaker 1: press conference, just a little bit of humility to Sean.
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Speaker 1: It's all people are asking for. If you're going to
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Speaker 1: be bad, you can at least be humble.
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Speaker 2: I am so glad that they are opening the season
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Speaker 2: in Jacksonville because last time that he was there, the.
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Speaker 3: Chance were something. Let me tell you. And if you
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Speaker 3: don't know what I'm talking about, the internet is your friend.
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Speaker 4: Google it.
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Speaker 3: It's worth it.
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Speaker 1: I'm not overthinking week one survivor. I'm taking the Jags
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Speaker 1: and every survivor contest. I'm in Ashton. Gentee news nearly
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Speaker 1: gave me a heart attack on Sunday night. It was like,
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Speaker 1: The team was having candlelight vigils for the guy, and
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Speaker 1: it turns out it was just a sprained ankle.
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Speaker 3: A prayer circle is crazy.
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Speaker 1: For a sprained ankle. I mean, this is Kendra as
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Speaker 1: the leading woman on this show. You've got to let
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Speaker 1: the men know out there. They're being a little dramatic here.
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Speaker 3: You can say the word pussy.
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Speaker 1: It's okay.
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Speaker 3: Like, it's okay. You can really. It's all good. It's fine.
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Speaker 3: You can say that word.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully you weren't drafting at the time when that went
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Speaker 1: down because Mike Washington shot up from sleeper that you
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Speaker 1: could get around round 12 to second round pick in
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Speaker 1: the snap of a finger. Kayshaun Booty traded to the Texans.
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Speaker 1: What's the reaction been in your neck of the woods?
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Speaker 1: Not a surprise that he was traded, but to trade
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Speaker 1: him to another team that might end up representing the
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Speaker 1: AFC is kind of a wild move.
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Speaker 2: I think that that is true, but I hate to
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Speaker 2: say it. I think it was weirdly a Patriots fleece.
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Speaker 2: The fact that you add to your I didn't understand
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Speaker 2: the fact that they wanted to add to the secondary.
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Speaker 2: It makes me have more questions about the Christian Gonzalez situation,
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Speaker 2: especially after pro football focus just voted them the best
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Speaker 2: secondary in the league.
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Speaker 3: But the fact that they also got a pick out
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Speaker 3: of it.
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Speaker 2: I think that they could have benefited by having Cajun
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Speaker 2: on the team, but Mike Vrabel's been very adamant in
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Speaker 2: the last few weeks that there is a universe where
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Speaker 2: they could have carried all seven receivers onto the roster.
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Speaker 2: I personally am in the camp that you don't spend
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Speaker 2: an eighth of your roster on a singular position, but
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Speaker 2: I think it made sense for both sides. I think
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Speaker 2: the Patriots got the better deal out of it, but
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Speaker 2: now the thing is that it adds more questions to
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Speaker 2: the Christian Gonzalez situation, alas.
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Speaker 1: And the Texans needed it because Jaden Higgins was set
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Speaker 1: to have a breakout year, and they add another receiver
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Speaker 1: to a room that is..
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Speaker 3: As a Jags fan, I like it. I got to
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Speaker 3: be honest.
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Speaker 2: I'm more scared of Jaden than I am of Kayshaun.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but they had to replace him with somebody. Oh,
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Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, because you don't know what you're going
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Speaker 1: to get from Tank. Anything you get from Tank Dell
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Speaker 1: this year is going to be a positive.
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Speaker 3: So I like it for the Jags and I like
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Speaker 3: it for the Patriots. Sorry, Houston.
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Speaker 1: Well, speaking of the Jags, they've released their Bold City uniforms.
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Speaker 1: You can look for Kendra's review on her Twitter account
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Speaker 1: or you can get it here. What do you think?
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Speaker 3: I am not jagging off, boys. These are heinous. This
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Speaker 3: is real bad. It's like every piece. Why are they white?
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Speaker 2: First of all, like, I don't care if there are
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Speaker 2: like regulations where you have to have lighter uniforms. They
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Speaker 2: could have gone with cream. Why is this team allergic
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Speaker 2: to teal? It's the best color in the NFL. And
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Speaker 2: the pants look like a pair of Lululemon leggings.
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Speaker 3: And I just, I, you were so close. I don't understand.
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Speaker 3: I hate them. I hate them.
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Speaker 1: And when they released it, they put, was it, Like
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Speaker 1: Cam Little or something.
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Speaker 2: Don't talk shit about Cam Little. Don't start with me.
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Speaker 2: Don't fucking start with me, Kravitz. Don't fucking start.
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Speaker 1: All right. Last thing is today is a holiday for me.
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Speaker 1: It's pumpkin spice latte day at Starbucks.
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Speaker 3: Can we get to the show?
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: I've had enough of you.
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Speaker 1: AFC West breakdown on the way. Best bets and more.
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Speaker 1: Let's head west to the AFC West. Really looking forward
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Speaker 1: to hyper-focusing on this division with our guest, Anilo Piro
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Speaker 1: from 104.3 Denver Sports. Anila, welcome to the show. I'm
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Speaker 1: excited to chop it up today.
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Speaker 4: What's going on?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I was at a Broncos preseason game last Friday,
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Speaker 5: and I was excited to just be back in the
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Speaker 5: arena and be back in the stadium and all that
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Speaker 5: kind of stuff, but I am itching for regular season football,
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Speaker 5: and obviously the AFC West is a fascinating division, so
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Speaker 5: looking forward to unpacking it with you guys here on
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Speaker 5: the program today.
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Speaker 4: Thanks for having me on.
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Speaker 1: Of course, we'll get the vibe check in a moment.
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Speaker 1: I was looking at some of the YouTube clips that
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Speaker 1: you're on and some of the content that that you've
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Speaker 1: put out there. And I saw you talking to one
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Speaker 1: of my idols, Billy Walters, perhaps the greatest NFL better
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Speaker 1: of all time. This was a couple of years ago
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Speaker 1: at the super bowl in Las Vegas, just pure aura.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I just like, I saw you just sort
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Speaker 1: of soaking it in. Do you feel like you were,
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Speaker 1: you know, you were gifted the magic of, uh, of
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Speaker 1: NFL betting from one of the best to ever do it?
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Speaker 4: You know, it was cool.
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Speaker 5: And I'm not sure if you guys have had the
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Speaker 5: opportunity to do the radio row or media row, whatever
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Speaker 5: they call it these days.
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Speaker 3: We're both radio people.
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Speaker 4: Okay, perfect. Perfect.
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Speaker 5: So you understand kind of what that is. But point
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Speaker 5: being is like, it was in Vegas. It was a
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Speaker 5: little bit different, right? But like, most of the people
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Speaker 5: that are there, I feel like we're either new or
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Speaker 5: not really into the gambling aspect of it.
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Speaker 4: Like it's traditional media, right?
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Speaker 5: And I see Billy Walters walk by and I just
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Speaker 5: read his book like three months prior to that. And
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Speaker 5: I'm like the only person like in the room at
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Speaker 5: that point that I understands who's in front of me
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Speaker 5: like everyone else is chasing this player and that player
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Speaker 5: I was like no like I'm gonna go talk to
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Speaker 5: Billy Walters and funny you know just a quick story
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Speaker 5: on that is he was due to do another hit
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Speaker 5: with somebody else but he like looked me in the
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Speaker 5: eye shook my hand he's like I promise I'm coming
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Speaker 5: back like we'll do this hit together because I was
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Speaker 5: working um in the gambling industry at the time and
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Speaker 5: so yeah you know learned a lot of good things
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Speaker 5: believe he called that game correctly too with the question
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Speaker 5: that I was asking him about of course he did
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Speaker 5: but uh one of the all-time greats man it was
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Speaker 5: one of the highlights of my career that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: That's so cool. So we, we do this with every
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Speaker 1: guest that we bring on. When we talk about these divisions,
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Speaker 1: we start with the vibe check. Where are we at
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Speaker 1: in terms of intrigue fascination? It feels like this one
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Speaker 1: is right up there. We have our last two division
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Speaker 1: previews and it's kind of like, Almost feels like we've
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Speaker 1: saved the best for last because we've got the AFC
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Speaker 1: West and the NFC West to get to. And these
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Speaker 1: two divisions play each other this year as well. I
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Speaker 1: imagine peak interest for you. If you could try and
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Speaker 1: remain as objective as possible in your answer.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, look, here's the one thing I will say, because
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Speaker 5: obviously I'm based in Denver, right? And I cover the
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Speaker 5: Denver Broncos for 104.3 The Fan. I also do the
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Speaker 5: Lockdown Broncos podcast as well, but I'm not originally from Denver.
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Speaker 5: So the Broncos are not my team per se. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 5: I'm a long-suffering Dallas Cowboy fan, so that's a conversation
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Speaker 5: for another day. But I try to look at the
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Speaker 5: Broncos and the AFC West as objectively as possible, right?
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Speaker 4: And I think you hit the nail on the head.
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Speaker 5: When you look at this division as a whole, there's
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Speaker 5: three really interesting teams that and the Raiders, who feels
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Speaker 5: like they've been rebuilding for eternity, or at least my
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Speaker 5: entire life, right? And so the Broncos fresh off a
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Speaker 5: 14-1 season, the perceived bounce-back nature of the Kansas City Chiefs,
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Speaker 5: on top of the Los Angeles Chargers, who make some
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Speaker 5: sizable moves at the coordinator positions this offseason as well.
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Speaker 5: I mean, you're talking about three teams that we can
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Speaker 5: sit here and I think make legitimate Super Bowl cases
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Speaker 5: for all three with varying degrees of confidence. But it's
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Speaker 5: one of those two, like I'm sure we'll get into
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Speaker 5: division odds and all that kind of stuff. Like you
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Speaker 5: can make a case one way or the other for
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Speaker 5: all three.
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Speaker 4: Of those teams. So it is loaded to the brim
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Speaker 4: with talent. That's for sure.
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Speaker 3: So let's just stick with the Denver Broncos here. We
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Speaker 3: can go ahead and get them out of the way.
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Speaker 2: Before I think we get too far into this, I
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Speaker 2: need to know off the top, what are your thoughts
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Speaker 2: of Bo Nix? Do you think he is the guy,
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Speaker 2: a guy? What do you think about him? I personally,
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Speaker 2: I'm an Auburn gal, went to Auburn.
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Speaker 1: He was..
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Speaker 2: Uh the replacement obviously for Jarrett Stidham he came the
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Speaker 2: year after I left but I watched him very closely
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Speaker 2: because of that I think that he is just the
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Speaker 2: definition of a guy and the reason that he's successful
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Speaker 2: is all about the coaches that are around him but
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Speaker 2: I'm willing to hear whatever you think about him just
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Speaker 2: because you're so close to the situation but I feel
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Speaker 2: as though last year in that playoff game there just
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Speaker 2: wasn't that much of a drop off between him and
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Speaker 2: Stidham man I'm having a hard time buying in Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And look, that's a pretty common narrative, right? At least nationally.
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Speaker 5: You say that in Broncos country and people are going
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Speaker 5: to look at you kind of crazy because everyone thinks
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Speaker 5: he's the second coming and the savior, right?
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Speaker 4: And I find myself somewhere in the middle, right?
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Speaker 5: And I was kind of like you, I guess skeptical
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Speaker 5: is probably the right word to use, of Bo Nix
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Speaker 5: coming out of college. And obviously it was a revolving
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Speaker 5: door of quarterbacks leading up to Bo Nix ending up
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Speaker 5: at the Denver Broncos. But all the guys... done in
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Speaker 5: his time with Denver's win, right? Makes the playoffs his
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Speaker 5: first year. They lose to Buffalo in the wildcard game. Obviously,
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Speaker 5: last year leads this team to a 14-win season. I
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Speaker 5: believe there were, what, 11-2-1 score games last year as well.
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Speaker 5: So kind of the cardiac kids coming from behind consistently.
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Speaker 5: Does he have the most natural ability in the world? No.
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Speaker 5: He doesn't have the same wow factor as a Josh
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Speaker 5: Allen or a Joe Burrow or a Lamar Jackson, right?
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Speaker 4: And I know this term game manager is something that's
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Speaker 4: thrown around pretty commonly.
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Speaker 5: But if you want to label Bo Nix as a
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Speaker 5: game manager, I don't think that's a bad thing whatsoever,
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Speaker 5: just because he's so effective at leading this team to victory.
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Speaker 5: And really, that's all people here locally care about. And
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Speaker 5: that's what I care about when it comes to betting
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Speaker 5: on teams is can you cover the spread?
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Speaker 4: Can you win these games?
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Speaker 5: So Again, I don't think Bo Nix is like the
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Speaker 5: best quarterback in the league or really even close to that,
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Speaker 5: but he can do everything you need to to win
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Speaker 5: a game. So when it comes to a guy that
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Speaker 5: is a stable leader for this Broncos team, I think so.
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Speaker 5: And you talk about the drop off with Jared Stidham.
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Speaker 5: You know, I understand where you're coming from, but I
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Speaker 5: think if Bo Nix plays in that game, the Broncos
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Speaker 5: are in the Super Bowl. Now, I don't think they
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Speaker 5: beat Seattle, but I think if Bo Nix plays, they
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Speaker 5: find themselves in the big game.
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Speaker 1: I think he's.
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Speaker 4: Everything you want to later.
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Speaker 3: If they kick that kick instead.
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Speaker 5: Well, that's another, that's a conversation for another day, but yeah,
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Speaker 5: I think, I think Bo's a solid quarterback.
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Speaker 4: I really do.
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Speaker 1: Bo Nix, his recovery, he's found himself back in, in,
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Speaker 1: on the field. We saw him play in a preseason game,
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Speaker 1: so that's a good sign, but this is a guy
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Speaker 1: that did injure his ankle pretty severely going into the
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Speaker 1: AFC championship game where he wasn't able to play. Is
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Speaker 1: he going to be, At a hundred percent. Are we
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Speaker 1: having similar conversations about him that we're having with my homes?
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Speaker 1: Or it's like, he's out there, but he's not fully
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Speaker 1: Bo Nix.
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Speaker 4: I think he's a hundred percent.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I've been at, I was probably at 80%
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Speaker 5: of the training camp practices, saw him in the flesh
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Speaker 5: in the preseason game. There has been nothing that I
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Speaker 5: have seen with my own two eyes to suggest the
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Speaker 5: ankle is like really bothering him. Like, I think there's
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Speaker 5: some trust that you're naturally going to have to overcome
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Speaker 5: and work through, but like there doesn't seem anything lingering
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Speaker 5: from the surgery. And he's had procedures on his ankles,
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Speaker 5: which is more so a long-term concern for his career,
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Speaker 5: but this is nothing new to him necessarily because, So
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Speaker 5: I understand why that's a narrative. But again, I could
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Speaker 5: just tell you from my own two eyes, like Bo
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Speaker 5: Nix has looked healthy. I think he's going to be
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Speaker 5: healthy come week one and bearing anything new, he should
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Speaker 5: be ready to go as it pertains to the ankle.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if you're one of these guys who
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Speaker 3: looks too far into the schedule.
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Speaker 2: I feel like it's a very polarizing thing in the
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Speaker 2: NFL media world is either you think the schedule matters
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Speaker 2: or you think it doesn't. I'm very much in the
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Speaker 2: camp that I think that the schedule matters.
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Speaker 3: And I think the.
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Speaker 2: Broncos pulled a really kind of strange draw of it
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Speaker 2: this year. They are in the thick of it until
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Speaker 2: November and then they get a pretty decent break and
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Speaker 2: then they end it in the thick of it again.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if I love or hate the sandwich
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Speaker 2: method here, just because everybody's.
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Speaker 3: Healthy at the beginning of the year.
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Speaker 2: But when the bulk of your schedule comes all at once,
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Speaker 2: that scares me from a longevity perspective. What are your
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Speaker 2: thoughts on kind of the schedule truthers versus the schedule
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Speaker 2: they pulled here?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, look, I mean, their first six weeks, like that's
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Speaker 5: been one of the major talking points here throughout the
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Speaker 5: course of just the offseason. I mean, you open up
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Speaker 5: with Kansas City, you've got Jacksonville, you've got the Rams,
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Speaker 5: like those first three games in and of itself is
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Speaker 5: as brutal as I can remember.
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Speaker 4: But then you've also got Seattle in the mix, right?
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Speaker 5: And a handful of other tough games that kind of
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Speaker 5: get you through that first six weeks. Like I think
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Speaker 5: their first, like nothing's a guarantee, right? But they play
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Speaker 5: the Cardinals on like week seven or something like that.
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Speaker 5: And that's like the first time it feels like you
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Speaker 5: can come up for air with this Broncos team. So,
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Speaker 5: I don't think it's like you're talking about the schedule
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Speaker 5: and that overall dynamic. Like the first six weeks of
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Speaker 5: this season could make or break the Broncos season, which
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Speaker 5: is a crazy thing to say considering they won 14
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Speaker 5: games just a year ago. But they're going to have
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Speaker 5: to get out to a hot start. And ultimately, yeah,
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Speaker 5: it's one of the more front-loaded and back-loaded schedules, as
15:03
Speaker 5: you kind of alluded to.
15:04
Speaker 4: Like there's some soft spots in the middle.
15:06
Speaker 5: But if they get out one and five, you know,
15:09
Speaker 5: or two and four, like what does that mean for
15:11
Speaker 5: them moving forward this season?
15:12
Speaker 4: So it's going to be interesting those first six weeks
15:14
Speaker 4: for sure.
15:15
Speaker 1: I think it's important with all of the teams in
15:17
Speaker 1: this division to look at the swing games because they
15:20
Speaker 1: all play each other, obviously, and they all play the
15:23
Speaker 1: NFC West. So none of them have an easy schedule.
15:26
Speaker 1: I don't care what any of the rankings you look
15:28
Speaker 1: at say, when you have to play the AFC West
15:31
Speaker 1: and the NFC West, they also play the AFC East,
15:33
Speaker 1: which means you're playing Buffalo, you're playing New England. So
15:36
Speaker 1: there aren't a lot of holes on any of these schedules.
15:40
Speaker 1: I would look at the swing games and the swing
15:42
Speaker 1: games are where you landed in terms of the standings
15:46
Speaker 1: last year. The Broncos have a first place schedule on Yulo,
15:49
Speaker 1: but it's not as daunting. When you look at the
15:52
Speaker 1: swing game teams, Jags, Panthers, Steelers, all finished in first
15:56
Speaker 1: place of their divisions. And I don't think any of
16:00
Speaker 1: them are considered the best team in their division. So
16:04
Speaker 1: in some ways, yeah, the layout, when you guys talk
16:06
Speaker 1: about the flow of the schedule, very difficult. But when
16:09
Speaker 1: you put into the context that all the schedules are tough,
16:12
Speaker 1: I actually think the Broncos got out with a slightly
16:15
Speaker 1: favorable look as a first place team.
16:19
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think you're right when you just kind
16:20
Speaker 5: of look at the rest of the division and just
16:23
Speaker 5: the common opponents, right? And like, obviously, Carolina of those
16:26
Speaker 5: teams that have in that division, excuse me, is probably
16:29
Speaker 5: a favorable draw. Like, what is Pittsburgh going to be, right?
16:32
Speaker 5: I think they're going to be competitive, but Denver should
16:33
Speaker 5: have an edge, assuming they're healthy. Jacksonville is a team
16:36
Speaker 5: you can't sleep on, though. Remember, Jacksonville was the team
16:38
Speaker 5: that waltzed in a mile high last year and ended
16:40
Speaker 5: the Broncos win streak. And I know that rubbed a
16:42
Speaker 5: lot of people the wrong way.
16:43
Speaker 4: And I have a lot of respect and think Liam
16:45
Speaker 4: Cohen's a great coach.
16:46
Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean, whichever way you slice it, like
16:48
Speaker 5: we can, we can go glass half full and say,
16:50
Speaker 5: maybe they didn't get the worst of the draws, but
16:52
Speaker 5: the schedule is just, for me, it's those first six
16:55
Speaker 5: games because of how in succession they all are. Like
16:58
Speaker 5: that can be the defining portion of the season for them,
17:00
Speaker 5: which is going to be interesting.
17:02
Speaker 2: As a pod, I think I'm already going to add
17:05
Speaker 2: this to my calendar to bet. The Broncos played the
17:08
Speaker 2: Cardinals on October 25th as a sandwich spot between Seattle
17:12
Speaker 2: and the Chiefs. Coming off of a game against a
17:14
Speaker 2: defending Super Bowl champion against a team that seems like
17:17
Speaker 2: on paper they should be an easy win. I think
17:19
Speaker 2: that's around the time of the year people will be
17:20
Speaker 2: calling for Carson Beck as well. And a look ahead
17:23
Speaker 2: spot against the Chiefs. I think that that is going
17:25
Speaker 2: to be my Cardinals bet. covering the spread moment for
17:28
Speaker 2: the season so the only other thing we gotta add that.
17:30
Speaker 1: To the log we have to we've been creating a
17:32
Speaker 1: futures betting log of of of spots that we are
17:37
Speaker 1: isolating i have one that i'm gonna hit on that
17:39
Speaker 1: i know that we mentioned a couple of months ago
17:41
Speaker 1: that falls in line with one of the teams that
17:43
Speaker 1: we discuss here but I like that. If Evan, if
17:45
Speaker 1: you're listening and you're jotting that down, that's let's look
17:48
Speaker 1: at the Broncos.
17:49
Speaker 3: I think that's the pod bet.
17:51
Speaker 2: Um, I I'm in a camp that I think that
17:54
Speaker 2: this team, it doesn't have a ton of questions surrounding
17:57
Speaker 2: who's going to start where or what this roster is
17:59
Speaker 2: going to look like. Fortunately, but someone I am looking
18:02
Speaker 2: at to kind of move up the depth chart is
18:04
Speaker 2: Jonah Coleman. He's someone I'm waiting for futures to come
18:07
Speaker 2: out on. I actually have that later in our show
18:09
Speaker 2: to talk about. But what do you think about Jonah
18:11
Speaker 2: Coleman and kind of his ability to maybe move up
18:14
Speaker 2: the depth chart and maybe be someone sneaky to bet
18:17
Speaker 2: on through the first couple of weeks?
18:19
Speaker 5: No, that's a good poll. And I'm very curious to
18:22
Speaker 5: see what Jonah Coleman is going to evolve into. He's
18:24
Speaker 5: probably the rookie that's been talked about the most here locally.
18:26
Speaker 4: I can tell you that. And here's the thing.
18:29
Speaker 5: Like RJ Harvey was pretty effective last year as an
18:31
Speaker 5: all purpose back, especially after JK Dobbins went down, but
18:34
Speaker 5: he was good out of, you know, out of the
18:36
Speaker 5: backfield catching touchdowns. We actually saw that in the preseason
18:39
Speaker 5: game as well. And well, JK Dobbins, I'm not sure
18:41
Speaker 5: if you guys have seen the viral clip that went around.
18:43
Speaker 5: He's like pinky promising the media that he's going to
18:46
Speaker 5: be healthy for every single game this year. And he's
18:48
Speaker 5: going to lead the league in rushing, like a lot
18:49
Speaker 5: of wishful thinking.
18:50
Speaker 2: Right.
18:50
Speaker 4: But like history tells us JK Dobbins is going to
18:53
Speaker 4: be healthy. Yeah. Yeah.
18:55
Speaker 5: Like history tells us Dobbins is going down at some
18:57
Speaker 5: point or the other. And that's where I think Jonah
18:59
Speaker 5: Coleman really enters into the equation. Cause I think Coleman
19:02
Speaker 5: has a similar skillset to that of Dobbins. Whereas RJ
19:05
Speaker 5: is just kind of like this do it all Alvin
19:07
Speaker 5: Kamara type of back per se so i'm not sure
19:11
Speaker 5: what the opening role is going to look like for
19:13
Speaker 5: jonah coleman but assuming that dobbins goes down at some
19:16
Speaker 5: point that's where i think you'll see the ascension of
19:18
Speaker 5: jonah coleman but he's really impressed in training camp and
19:21
Speaker 5: he's certainly a guy that if he gets the touches
19:23
Speaker 5: and the opportunities you you can see him really make
19:25
Speaker 5: an impact for this broncos team throughout the course of
19:27
Speaker 5: the season.
19:28
Speaker 1: Andrew's icked out by pinky promises No, it's more so.
19:31
Speaker 3: Just like you can't promise those things.
19:34
Speaker 2: That's like me coming on the air and being like,
19:36
Speaker 2: I pinky promise that all of my bets this season
19:39
Speaker 2: are going to hit like that.
19:40
Speaker 3: Just you can't do that.
19:42
Speaker 2: That feels like you're already jinxing your season before it starts.
19:46
Speaker 5: Yeah.
19:47
Speaker 1: Yeah. That's a good analogy.
19:48
Speaker 4: All right.
19:49
Speaker 1: Let's let's. talk. We could stay on the Broncos forever.
19:52
Speaker 1: I mean, and there's a lot to like about this team, defense,
19:56
Speaker 1: offensive line. They actually, before we jumped to best case scenario,
20:01
Speaker 1: I got to get a read from you on Jalen Waddle.
20:04
Speaker 1: That was my guy. I'm a Miami Dolphins fan. I
20:07
Speaker 1: loved Waddle. He was my favorite player to watch. Loved
20:09
Speaker 1: the penguin celebration in the end zone.
20:11
Speaker 3: It is a good one.
20:13
Speaker 1: He makes his way to Denver. I'm happy for him
20:15
Speaker 1: because it's a mess in Miami. This feels like exactly
20:19
Speaker 1: what they need to really open up this offense. What
20:22
Speaker 1: is your vision of what he brings to the Denver
20:25
Speaker 1: Broncos offensively?
20:27
Speaker 5: Yeah, it feels like the explosive wide receiver was the
20:29
Speaker 5: one thing that they were missing, right? Because they've got
20:31
Speaker 5: a pretty good offensive line with a lot of continuity.
20:33
Speaker 5: The running back room when Dobbins is healthy and RJ
20:35
Speaker 5: in year two is pretty solid. Bo Nix can get
20:38
Speaker 5: the job done. And Cortland Sutton's a pretty steady wide receiver.
20:41
Speaker 5: But now you add Jalen Waddell to the mix, and
20:43
Speaker 5: it's just going to hopefully, theoretically... take this offense up
20:46
Speaker 5: a notch. And I know it was preseason, but we
20:47
Speaker 5: got our first little preview of this Bo Nix, Jalen
20:50
Speaker 5: Waddle connection. It just feels like you haven't had a
20:52
Speaker 5: yak attack type wide receiver over the middle in a long,
20:56
Speaker 5: long time for Denver. Like we're going back to like
20:58
Speaker 5: Emmanuel Sanders and Demarius Thomas. So, So I think Waddle
21:01
Speaker 5: is going to be awesome. The one thing I will
21:03
Speaker 5: say is like Waddle, I think is going to have
21:04
Speaker 5: a good year, but I think it's going to result
21:07
Speaker 5: in big things for like the Cortland Sutton's of the world.
21:09
Speaker 5: Pat Bryant, the second year receiver out of Illinois is
21:11
Speaker 5: another guy that a lot of people are really high
21:13
Speaker 5: on here locally. Like I think Waddle is going to
21:16
Speaker 5: command so much attention because of his speed that you're
21:18
Speaker 5: going to get more 50, 50 balls to Sutton among
21:20
Speaker 5: some other guys. So it'll go around the Broncos offense
21:23
Speaker 5: and it should hopefully take them up to a, to
21:24
Speaker 5: another level. So looking forward to that for sure.
21:27
Speaker 1: Best case scenario for this team. I mean, it feels
21:30
Speaker 1: like I'm not going to call it Super Bowl or bust,
21:33
Speaker 1: but it does feel like a team that could very
21:34
Speaker 1: well be.
21:35
Speaker 3: Playing in a Super Bowl. I will eat so much crow.
21:39
Speaker 3: It's not even funny.
21:40
Speaker 1: I think this I'm all in on the Broncos this year.
21:43
Speaker 1: I do think this is schedules heinous.
21:46
Speaker 3: Grab it.
21:47
Speaker 1: They all are, though. That's my thing is the schedule
21:50
Speaker 1: is tough, but they're all tough in the AFC West.
21:52
Speaker 1: I think this team is loaded top to bottom. So
21:55
Speaker 1: I think the ceiling for them is a Super Bowl.
21:58
Speaker 1: And Yulo.
21:59
Speaker 5: That's what I say, too. I mean, that's been the
22:01
Speaker 5: sentiment and the narrative out here. I mean, you win
22:02
Speaker 5: 14 games, you're in an AFC championship game. If Bo
22:05
Speaker 5: Nix doesn't get hurt, you're probably there anyway. And you
22:08
Speaker 5: add Jalen Waddell, you bring back the defense, which was
22:10
Speaker 5: one of a top three unit last.
22:12
Speaker 4: Year in a lot of different metrics. You've got a
22:14
Speaker 4: good coach, Davis Webb calling plays.
22:17
Speaker 5: To me, it's like an AFC championship game appearance or bust,
22:20
Speaker 5: but this is a team, in my opinion, that has
22:22
Speaker 5: a chance to go out there and win a Super Bowl.
22:24
Speaker 5: That's where I'm at with them. They're solid on offense, defense,
22:26
Speaker 5: coaching staff. and everything in between.
22:29
Speaker 1: Kendra, best way to bet the Broncos. It sounds like
22:34
Speaker 1: you're out on them.
22:35
Speaker 3: I'm so out. I am going to spoiler alert. I'm
22:38
Speaker 3: out on this entire division.
22:40
Speaker 1: Actually, somebody has to win it.
22:42
Speaker 2: I agree, but that's the reason that I don't like
22:45
Speaker 2: it is because I hate to drop a vibe check here,
22:48
Speaker 2: but the vibe of this is just feeling like it's
22:50
Speaker 2: going to be a shit show and somebody has to
22:52
Speaker 2: win it because somebody has to win it, not because
22:54
Speaker 2: somebody is going to be a powerhouse over anybody else.
22:57
Speaker 2: They're going to beat up on each other and everybody
22:59
Speaker 2: else in the schedule and it's going to be disgusting
23:00
Speaker 2: and there's going to be injuries and somebody has to.
23:03
Speaker 3: Win it and that's just how it is.
23:04
Speaker 2: I don't think that these teams, talent-wise, are all that
23:08
Speaker 2: far off from each other, top to bottom.
23:11
Speaker 1: So are you, I guess, under nine and a half
23:13
Speaker 1: is where?
23:15
Speaker 2: I think that that is so sharp that I think
23:17
Speaker 2: that this is a nine win team with this schedule.
23:21
Speaker 3: So I'm not.
23:22
Speaker 2: Willing to be really heavily on either side of it.
23:25
Speaker 2: For me, I'm going to ride the Jonah Coleman thing
23:28
Speaker 2: and I'm going to find pockets in this schedule that
23:30
Speaker 2: I think Denver is going to look ahead just because
23:32
Speaker 2: that's the type of team that I think that they are.
23:33
Speaker 1: What about you, Anila? What do you think? Have you
23:37
Speaker 1: bet the Broncos yet? What do you think the best
23:39
Speaker 1: way is to lay some on this team?
23:43
Speaker 5: I have not bet them yet. I would lean towards
23:45
Speaker 5: the over 9.5, though. I think assuming they stay healthy,
23:47
Speaker 5: they're a double-digit win team. And the fact that I'm
23:50
Speaker 5: getting 9.5, I think, is obviously something to take a
23:53
Speaker 5: look at. The division odds, too, I believe last I checked,
23:56
Speaker 5: they were over 2-1 odds, which I find interesting that
23:59
Speaker 5: Kansas City's the favorite Like you're talking about a team
24:01
Speaker 5: that won the division last year and won 14 games.
24:04
Speaker 5: And again, like the schedule could ultimately be the deciding
24:06
Speaker 5: factor in that. But if they get all these green
24:08
Speaker 5: lights and they stay healthy as they did last year,
24:10
Speaker 5: which is a big, if I think they're going to
24:12
Speaker 5: be in a position once again, and potentially when the division,
24:14
Speaker 5: but if I'm looking at just, I think it's a
24:16
Speaker 5: double digit.
24:16
Speaker 4: Win team of both healthy. So I'd lead towards the
24:18
Speaker 4: over nine and a half.
24:20
Speaker 1: I have a question for Kendra Denver to miss the playoffs.
24:24
Speaker 1: If you wanted to, to look at that on draft
24:26
Speaker 1: Kings plus one 18, what's your question?
24:28
Speaker 2: Do we think that this is giving the new NFC
24:31
Speaker 2: East vibes and that we're not going to have a
24:33
Speaker 2: repeat division winner here for the foreseeable future?
24:36
Speaker 1: We had it for so long.
24:38
Speaker 3: I know.
24:39
Speaker 5: Yeah.
24:39
Speaker 2: But everybody's catching up to the Chiefs or passing them
24:42
Speaker 2: in a way.
24:45
Speaker 1: I think we're going to get back to back. I
24:47
Speaker 1: like the Denver Broncos beyond the division. I like them
24:51
Speaker 1: to win the AFC 10 to 1. That's my squad
24:55
Speaker 1: this year. So I'm glad we brought on a Denver guy.
24:58
Speaker 3: All right, let's move.
25:00
Speaker 1: To the Kansas city chiefs. I think if you go
25:02
Speaker 1: back to the 2024 season, there were pretty clear signs
25:06
Speaker 1: that things were growing stale and that the team was
25:08
Speaker 1: getting old, but Patrick Mahomes and the defense, Andy Reed,
25:13
Speaker 1: it just, they willed this team to a super bowl
25:15
Speaker 1: and then they got demolished by the Eagles. Then they
25:18
Speaker 1: entered 2025, probably with unrealistic expectations. Everybody was saying the
25:22
Speaker 1: same thing. We were all, We're all in an echo
25:25
Speaker 1: chamber going, well, don't worry. It's Patrick Mahomes. They'll be fine. Well,
25:28
Speaker 1: it turns out they weren't fine, and then Mahomes got
25:30
Speaker 1: injured in week 15. Is it a fair assessment to
25:33
Speaker 1: say that this has actually been building for the last
25:38
Speaker 1: couple of years, and we're not really sure what the
25:42
Speaker 1: Chiefs are going into 2026 because they've been stale for
25:47
Speaker 1: two years now?
25:48
Speaker 5: Yeah, and look, the downfall of the Kansas City Chiefs
25:52
Speaker 5: Is this going to be a long-term thing? Are we
25:55
Speaker 5: looking towards Mahomes-Reed era number two? That's probably one of
25:59
Speaker 5: the more intriguing questions is what Kansas City is going
26:01
Speaker 5: to be this season. Obviously, they bring in Kenneth Walker,
26:04
Speaker 5: and you're spot on with the stale nature of it.
26:06
Speaker 5: of what they had been leading up to what ultimately
26:09
Speaker 5: was an extremely disappointing season last year. But I mean,
26:12
Speaker 5: if we're just looking at what history tells us, that's
26:13
Speaker 5: more the outlier than the expectation. And so like, I'm
26:17
Speaker 5: one of those guys, like, I don't think Kansas city
26:18
Speaker 5: is going to be back to like 2021, 2022 form,
26:21
Speaker 5: but I don't think they're going to win, you know,
26:23
Speaker 5: less than six games again this year. I expect some
26:26
Speaker 5: sort of bounce back from them necessarily. I think bringing
26:28
Speaker 5: back Eric B enemy is big. I think you saw
26:30
Speaker 5: Matt Nagy, maybe not just gel as much. I know
26:33
Speaker 5: It's Andy Reid's playbook and all that kind of stuff, too.
26:35
Speaker 5: But bringing in Walker's huge. But they have some big
26:37
Speaker 5: departures on defense as well, in particular in their secondary.
26:40
Speaker 5: So they're one of the more bizarre teams. I'm not
26:42
Speaker 5: going to just rule them out because of what last
26:44
Speaker 5: year was and say it's the end of an era.
26:46
Speaker 5: But they certainly have a lot to prove this season
26:48
Speaker 5: across the board.
26:49
Speaker 2: What scares me with the Chiefs, and this is something
26:51
Speaker 2: I've been talking about on a lot of the shows
26:53
Speaker 2: that I've been doing recently, is I find across sports...
26:57
Speaker 2: there is a point where you have an older roster,
27:02
Speaker 2: an older half of your roster and a younger half
27:04
Speaker 2: of your roster.
27:05
Speaker 3: And in a weird way.
27:06
Speaker 2: When you have that amount of just experience and newness,
27:10
Speaker 2: they find a weird way to mesh. And that's what
27:12
Speaker 2: scares me with this team in particular is that It
27:15
Speaker 2: is really the perfect balance of experience and young guys
27:19
Speaker 2: that if they find a way to click, that's what
27:21
Speaker 2: makes me nervous. But for kind of the average football
27:26
Speaker 2: consumer out there on paper, it feels like this offense
27:30
Speaker 2: is going to be good, if not better than good.
27:33
Speaker 2: But the defense and the injuries that they have are
27:35
Speaker 2: what scares me. Are you more concerned about this offense
27:39
Speaker 2: and their ability to find a way to click with
27:41
Speaker 2: all of just the distractions and everything they have going on?
27:44
Speaker 2: Or are you more concerned about the defense and their injuries?
27:47
Speaker 4: I mean, I hate to cop out. I think it's
27:49
Speaker 4: a combination of the two, right?
27:50
Speaker 5: Like I think that you expect the offense to bounce back, right?
27:54
Speaker 5: Like when you have a healthy Mahomes, assuming he is healthy, right?
27:57
Speaker 5: Adding Kenneth Walker, like that's going to be big for
27:59
Speaker 5: them for sure. But like you look at the departures
28:01
Speaker 5: that they've had on defense, right? And it's specifically in
28:03
Speaker 5: the secondary room, like that's not going to be easy
28:05
Speaker 5: for them to replace. And it's like what Chris Jones is,
28:08
Speaker 5: I think like 32, 33 years old, they're creeping up
28:10
Speaker 5: towards 33 at this.
28:11
Speaker 4: Point in his career. Like it's not the same. of
28:15
Speaker 4: defense that this team has had in years past.
28:17
Speaker 5: I know Spags is obviously an upper echelon defensive coordinator,
28:20
Speaker 5: but part of the reason why I think Kansas City's
28:22
Speaker 5: defense was so good is because they were able to
28:24
Speaker 5: play with leads in years past. And when you kind
28:26
Speaker 5: of look at the yin and the yang of this
28:27
Speaker 5: Chiefs team, it's just like, which unit is going to
28:29
Speaker 5: be the strongest, right? And I'm not, I would feel
28:31
Speaker 5: more confident leaning on their offense than their defense, but
28:35
Speaker 5: there's still questions with that, if that makes sense. So
28:38
Speaker 5: I think you're spot on with the points you made too.
28:41
Speaker 5: going to be up to the offense maybe providing this
28:44
Speaker 5: defense with a little bit of breathing room just because
28:46
Speaker 5: of the injuries along with some of the thinness in
28:49
Speaker 5: their secondary I would say.
28:51
Speaker 1: Big additions you mentioned the return of Eric Biennemi I
28:54
Speaker 1: think that's huge maybe we didn't realize because we gave
28:57
Speaker 1: Andy Reid so much credit all these years the impact
29:00
Speaker 1: that Biennemi had on that offense and then you add
29:03
Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker to the mix when we discuss the staleness
29:07
Speaker 1: of this team There was this trend that hit a
29:10
Speaker 1: couple of years ago where defensive coordinators realized, well, if
29:13
Speaker 1: we just take out the deep ball and make you
29:17
Speaker 1: beat us underneath and with the run game, then offenses
29:21
Speaker 1: are much less explosive. And it felt like right at
29:23
Speaker 1: that moment, we saw my homes go from this like
29:27
Speaker 1: Dan Marino level of statistical Marvel to a dink and
29:32
Speaker 1: dunk Tom Brady passer. And he's great at both, but
29:35
Speaker 1: there was like some of the magic left his game.
29:39
Speaker 1: I wonder if that's why they felt the need to
29:41
Speaker 1: get Kenneth Walker. Cause if you're going to take away
29:43
Speaker 1: the deep ball into the too high safety thing, you
29:45
Speaker 1: have to have somebody elite running the ball. Do you
29:48
Speaker 1: expect that to shift the dynamic nature of this offense? The,
29:54
Speaker 1: the Kenneth Walker edition, the, does that, is that enough?
29:58
Speaker 1: to supercharge things and put them back to where they
30:00
Speaker 1: were a few years ago.
30:02
Speaker 4: Well, I think that's their game plan, right?
30:05
Speaker 5: I got my Kenneth Walker guy, and I think he's
30:07
Speaker 5: going to be pretty effective for Kansas City, and it
30:10
Speaker 5: was time for them to probably peace out on Pacheco
30:12
Speaker 5: and Kareem Hunt.
30:13
Speaker 4: I think that had kind of run.
30:14
Speaker 5: Its course, and obviously Walker, with what he was able
30:16
Speaker 5: to do in Seattle, if you can do that, and
30:19
Speaker 5: then knowing you have the arm channel that you do
30:22
Speaker 5: in Patrick Mahomes, you hope that it kind of opens
30:24
Speaker 5: up some of those down-the-field shots, and just that versatility
30:27
Speaker 5: that you're talking about with Walker, I think overall is
30:30
Speaker 5: what's going to hopefully lead to this Kansas city team,
30:33
Speaker 5: like re-unlocking what they were before, which is a super
30:36
Speaker 5: explosive offense that can just run up points. And you're
30:38
Speaker 5: talking about like Marino LA-esque type of performances from Mahomes.
30:42
Speaker 5: But the question along with Kenneth Walker is his health, right?
30:45
Speaker 5: This is a guy that's been banged up multiple times
30:46
Speaker 5: in his career. And it feels like you're putting a
30:48
Speaker 5: lot of eggs in one basket with Kenneth Walker. So
30:50
Speaker 5: obviously if he's healthy and he's ready to go, I
30:52
Speaker 5: think it'll be very effective, but like Travis Kelsey isn't
30:55
Speaker 5: what he used to be. So like beyond Kenneth Walker,
30:58
Speaker 5: what other weapons do you have to necessarily rely on
31:00
Speaker 5: after Kansas city?
31:02
Speaker 1: No, another factor to this. And, uh, you know, this, uh,
31:05
Speaker 1: sometimes we like to bring up the silly on this podcast.
31:08
Speaker 3: Sometimes.
31:10
Speaker 1: Have as Kelsey got married in the most public marriage
31:13
Speaker 1: of all time, perhaps as well. It does feel like
31:20
Speaker 1: perhaps like the popularity of this team from the mainstream
31:25
Speaker 1: has now gotten so big that like the bubble is bursting.
31:28
Speaker 1: And then on top of it, It has happened at
31:31
Speaker 1: the exact same time that Travis Kelsey is not the
31:33
Speaker 1: same player that he was in his prime. Does that
31:37
Speaker 1: wait on this team at all? In your opinion, that.
31:41
Speaker 2: He put on a lot of weight this off season.
31:46
Speaker 1: That's why he's playing in the free season. He's trying
31:48
Speaker 1: to work it off. Do you think that that carries
31:51
Speaker 1: any weight as far as looking at them? And yeah,
31:55
Speaker 1: there you go. I said it again. You know what
31:57
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say? Does the pressure mount to the
32:00
Speaker 1: point where now like you can't overcome it if you're
32:02
Speaker 1: not great and you have all the swift energy in.
32:06
Speaker 2: The building to sell their wedding video for billions of dollars?
32:10
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about not worried about Kelsey financially, but
32:14
Speaker 1: I mean, is he dialed in? I guess is the
32:17
Speaker 1: more direct question.
32:19
Speaker 4: Why else would he come back?
32:20
Speaker 5: Like, I mean, I dialed in, I don't, there's gotta
32:23
Speaker 5: be some degree of level of focus, right? Because like,
32:27
Speaker 5: if you're married Taylor Swift and you're, I mean, he
32:29
Speaker 5: was set for life even before.
32:31
Speaker 1: You know, with everything.
32:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that's true. That's true.
32:35
Speaker 5: But you know, the stuff that he's doing with his brother,
32:37
Speaker 5: like Travis Kelsey doesn't need to play for status or
32:40
Speaker 5: money or anything like that. So like, you know, maybe
32:42
Speaker 5: it's kind of like having that bad taste in your
32:44
Speaker 5: mouth and you want to come back and kind of
32:45
Speaker 5: give it one last ride.
32:46
Speaker 4: Like, I don't really know.
32:47
Speaker 5: I think I'm just kind of accepting of where Travis
32:50
Speaker 5: Kelsey is at in his career, which is like, he
32:51
Speaker 5: ain't as good as he once was. Right. But he
32:53
Speaker 5: could still be effective hopefully in some spurts, but like,
32:56
Speaker 5: you can't like, if we're looking at 10 out of
32:58
Speaker 5: 10 version of Travis Kelsey, like I don't think he'll
33:00
Speaker 5: ever return to that form, like maybe for a driver
33:02
Speaker 5: or two or a game or two, but like he's
33:05
Speaker 5: taken a step back as he kind of finds himself
33:07
Speaker 5: on the back nine. I'm not sure if that has
33:09
Speaker 5: to do with his, life situation as much as just
33:11
Speaker 5: kind of his.
33:12
Speaker 1: Age as well yeah i mostly asked that just so
33:15
Speaker 1: that um i could i could get the trolls in
33:19
Speaker 1: the comments to call us casuals i just like.
33:21
Speaker 2: To get them i have seen a random teenage girl
33:25
Speaker 2: in a jacksonville florida publics and a swift 87 jersey
33:29
Speaker 2: and i have had.
33:30
Speaker 1: Enough it's crazy Comment below, please.
33:35
Speaker 2: I'm so in on the sport, having more girls and
33:37
Speaker 2: stuff and doing whatever in the fashion of it all. Clearly,
33:40
Speaker 2: I am into that because that's like 90% of what
33:43
Speaker 2: I create online.
33:45
Speaker 3: But just pipe down for five minutes, please.
33:50
Speaker 1: Over under sitting at ten and a half, heavily juiced
33:52
Speaker 1: to the under for the Kansas City Chiefs at minus 140.
33:56
Speaker 3: He's like, what did I get into?
33:58
Speaker 1: Yes, for sure. I'm surprised it took this long. There's
34:01
Speaker 1: still the odds on favorite to win this division at
34:04
Speaker 1: plus one 60. What I find fascinating is that you
34:06
Speaker 1: basically have mirrored odds for them to miss the playoffs
34:09
Speaker 1: at plus one 70. So plus one 60 to win
34:12
Speaker 1: the division plus one 70 to miss the playoffs entirely.
34:15
Speaker 1: So even the odds makers are telling you, we don't
34:18
Speaker 1: know what the hell to do with this team. What
34:20
Speaker 1: is the best case scenario in ELO as far as
34:23
Speaker 1: the Kansas city chiefs go?
34:26
Speaker 5: Look, man, it's like when you have Patrick Mahomes, I
34:27
Speaker 5: want to sit here and say you could win it all.
34:29
Speaker 4: And I guess theoretically, that's always going to be a possibility.
34:32
Speaker 5: But like to your point, like I kind of have
34:33
Speaker 5: to see it to believe it again with Kansas City,
34:35
Speaker 5: which I know is a crazy thing to talk about
34:37
Speaker 5: because like we were comparing Mahomes.
34:39
Speaker 4: To like Brady, right? Like for so long, but that's
34:42
Speaker 4: just kind of where it is right now.
34:43
Speaker 5: So I would say like best case scenario for them
34:45
Speaker 5: is obviously, you know, be the representative of the AFC,
34:47
Speaker 5: be in the AFC championship game. I think the more
34:49
Speaker 5: realistic scenario is fringe playoff team, if not missing the
34:53
Speaker 5: playoffs entirely.
34:55
Speaker 1: Best way to bet him, Kendra. What do you got?
34:57
Speaker 3: I think missing the playoffs.
34:59
Speaker 2: I get that the ceiling of this team could be crazy,
35:02
Speaker 2: but it's the distraction angle for me. You're dealing with
35:05
Speaker 2: the Taylor Swift wedding crap.
35:07
Speaker 3: Mahomes is coming back from an injury.
35:09
Speaker 2: All the drama and the unfortunate circumstances that Eric Bien-Ami
35:13
Speaker 2: has gone through this offseason.
35:14
Speaker 3: The off-the-field arrests and jail time. It's just... It's too much.
35:19
Speaker 2: And then you add into the mix, like the amount
35:21
Speaker 2: of postseason and extra football that the majority of this
35:24
Speaker 2: team has on their body.
35:25
Speaker 3: Over the last couple of years.
35:27
Speaker 2: I'm very out on this Kansas City Chiefs team.
35:30
Speaker 3: I honestly think.
35:31
Speaker 2: That the Raiders could outperform them this season, and that
35:34
Speaker 2: might be a hot take, but I'm very high on
35:36
Speaker 2: the Raiders.
35:37
Speaker 1: I'm not opposed to that. I'm very much in the
35:41
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do with this team. I mean,
35:44
Speaker 1: stats wise, wins wise. I just don't know what to
35:47
Speaker 1: do with this team. So I abstain. I am not
35:50
Speaker 1: betting on or against the chiefs as far as the
35:54
Speaker 1: season long goes. I do like the Broncos in week
35:56
Speaker 1: one plus two and a half though. There I go
35:58
Speaker 1: with the Broncos again, uh, on yellow, anything, any, any
36:01
Speaker 1: hot take on the, uh, on, on the chiefs in
36:04
Speaker 1: terms of how you would bet them in either direction.
36:07
Speaker 4: Yeah.
36:08
Speaker 5: I just think the division odds are, A bit bizarre
36:11
Speaker 5: just because I think you have two teams that are
36:12
Speaker 5: more proven in the Los Angeles Chargers and the Denver Broncos.
36:16
Speaker 5: So the fact that Kansas City to me is more
36:18
Speaker 5: so the favorite is because of their name value and
36:20
Speaker 5: their brand recognition.
36:22
Speaker 4: Like I said, I'd probably lean under 10.5.
36:24
Speaker 5: How is Kansas City's win total 10.5 and Denver's 9.5
36:27
Speaker 5: considering the seasons they both just had? Make that make
36:29
Speaker 5: sense to me? So, yeah, I would lean towards them
36:31
Speaker 5: missing the playoffs. And I hate to keep you on
36:35
Speaker 5: this bandwagon. I think the Broncos plus two and a
36:37
Speaker 5: half line is disrespectful for week one.
36:39
Speaker 4: So I look at that for Denver.
36:40
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree with that. I would I would even
36:43
Speaker 1: sell a game if you're going to take the under
36:44
Speaker 1: on the Chiefs. If it goes bad, it's probably going
36:46
Speaker 1: to go really bad. And I would take the plus
36:49
Speaker 1: money nine and a half. Let's move to the Chargers.
36:51
Speaker 1: We've got two more to get to. Let's fly through
36:53
Speaker 1: these back to back 11 win seasons for L.A. They
36:56
Speaker 1: haven't won a playoff game in eight years. Kendra hates
37:00
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert. That's sort of the story of the chargers.
37:03
Speaker 1: This team always feels talented enough. They rarely feel healthy
37:07
Speaker 1: enough and they never feel like they're ready for the
37:10
Speaker 1: moment when it's called upon offensive fundamental shift though, with
37:15
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, you know, the dolphins have really infused the
37:18
Speaker 1: AFC West with Jalen Waddle and Denver and Mike McDaniel,
37:22
Speaker 1: the offensive play caller for the chargers. What do you
37:24
Speaker 1: expect from this team this year?
37:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're, they're an interesting one, right? And it's kind
37:28
Speaker 4: of like, You're going back to the well once again.
37:31
Speaker 5: I was on the charge in the playoffs, and Herbert
37:33
Speaker 5: did what Herbert does in the playoffs, and it's just
37:36
Speaker 5: got this bad taste in my mouth.
37:37
Speaker 4: But here's the reality situation for a regular season.
37:39
Speaker 5: I don't think Harbaugh has ever won fewer than nine
37:43
Speaker 5: games in a season. So we know the floor is
37:45
Speaker 5: really high for this Los Angeles Chargers team, and I
37:48
Speaker 5: expect them to be back in the mix. I think
37:49
Speaker 5: Mike McDaniel, I know maybe his stock's a bit down
37:51
Speaker 5: because of how his Miami tenure ended, but I still
37:54
Speaker 5: think he's a really good offensive mind. I think he's
37:55
Speaker 5: going to work well. with Justin Herbert, like if we
37:58
Speaker 5: want to play the marriage card, right. Like, you know,
38:00
Speaker 5: Justin Herbert just got married too. So like, or he's
38:02
Speaker 5: engaged rather. So like, the motivation conspiracy theory, if you
38:05
Speaker 5: want to play that a little bit, but I think
38:07
Speaker 5: the chargers are going to be, you know, an effective team.
38:10
Speaker 5: I mean, losing Biotis for what appears to be the
38:12
Speaker 5: entire season, their starting center is going to be brutal.
38:15
Speaker 5: But if you keep Slater and Alt healthy, you're.
38:17
Speaker 4: Going to have a chance.
38:18
Speaker 5: And again, I think their floor is really high just
38:20
Speaker 5: because that's what it is with the Harbaugh led team.
38:23
Speaker 5: But the question is like, what are they going to
38:24
Speaker 5: be come playoff time? Like I'm pretty confident they're going
38:26
Speaker 5: to be in the mix and, you know, be an
38:28
Speaker 5: upper echelon team and have a chance to win the
38:29
Speaker 5: AFC West and But when they get to the lights
38:33
Speaker 5: being bright, that's where I.
38:34
Speaker 4: Think the questions come out for this Chargers team.
38:36
Speaker 3: I agree with you.
38:37
Speaker 2: I think Justin Herbert has a lack of clutch gene.
38:40
Speaker 2: It's just not there for him for some reason. But
38:43
Speaker 2: to be honest, I don't even think we really need
38:44
Speaker 2: to be having that conversation because this offensive line, once again,
38:48
Speaker 2: already decimated before the season starts. You have fucking Cole
38:51
Speaker 2: Strange starting at right guard for you. If you don't
38:55
Speaker 2: have an offensive line, you have nothing.
38:56
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
38:57
Speaker 2: I've been talking about this with the New England Patriots
38:59
Speaker 2: for weeks now. It's the same exact situation that Joe
39:02
Speaker 2: Burrow has been going through for his entire career. You
39:04
Speaker 2: can have the weapons, you can have everything else, but
39:06
Speaker 2: if you don't have an offensive line to keep you upright,
39:09
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. So I just, yeah, like that's kind
39:13
Speaker 2: of where I'm at with this team. I, I think
39:16
Speaker 2: what the most likely outcome for them here is if
39:18
Speaker 2: the defense can be good enough to contribute for them offensively,
39:22
Speaker 2: like on paper, this offense looks great. I just, I
39:25
Speaker 2: agree with you about the regular season thing. I just
39:28
Speaker 2: don't think this offensive line is going. to allow this
39:31
Speaker 2: offense to be who it can be, especially adding McDaniel
39:34
Speaker 2: to the mix. I just, I want to fall in
39:36
Speaker 2: love with them, but I can't.
39:38
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think it makes sense.
39:39
Speaker 5: Like I think it's gonna be interesting to see like
39:40
Speaker 5: what Omarion Hampton looks like this year, right? Like his
39:42
Speaker 5: rookie season was pretty bank. He's pretty banged up. And
39:45
Speaker 5: I mean, he's got a lot of upside as a
39:47
Speaker 5: running back. And we know like, that's the interesting thing
39:48
Speaker 5: to me is like the McDaniel aspect of it is like,
39:51
Speaker 5: how is that going to try to evolve Justin Herbert
39:53
Speaker 5: as a pastor? Because I think we saw under Staley,
39:55
Speaker 5: like one version of Herbert and now under Harbaugh, it's
39:58
Speaker 5: kind of been another version. And it's like, what is
40:00
Speaker 5: McDaniel going to do? And ultimately all roads lead back
40:02
Speaker 5: to the offensive line. So I didn't even be competitive.
40:05
Speaker 5: Like I'd be surprised, like as long as they're relatively
40:07
Speaker 5: healthy beyond the offensive line, like I think they're going
40:10
Speaker 5: to be, you know, 500 or better team. And I
40:11
Speaker 5: think they're going to compete in the AFC West, but
40:14
Speaker 5: I think you're right. Like it all starts with the
40:15
Speaker 5: offensive line and like, they're like cursed when it comes
40:18
Speaker 5: to keeping those guys healthy.
40:19
Speaker 4: It's ridiculous.
40:21
Speaker 2: So what are your expectations for Ladd McConkie this season?
40:26
Speaker 2: Obviously had an electric rookie season, fell off a bit
40:29
Speaker 2: last year. He was someone that I chased as far
40:31
Speaker 2: as the prop market goes last year, and he absolutely
40:34
Speaker 2: burned me. What version of him do you think that
40:37
Speaker 2: we're going to get?
40:38
Speaker 5: I think, I think the natural expectation is for him
40:41
Speaker 5: to bounce back.
40:42
Speaker 4: Like, will he ever be as effective as he was
40:43
Speaker 4: in his rookie season? Like that's obviously hard to project.
40:45
Speaker 2: Right.
40:46
Speaker 5: But like, I would think that last year was a
40:48
Speaker 5: bit more down than what he will generally be. And again,
40:51
Speaker 5: like that's where I think Mike McDaniel, like opening some
40:54
Speaker 5: stuff up with Omarion Hampton, like that's the guy that
40:55
Speaker 5: I'm most excited for just in this Chargers offense, because
40:58
Speaker 5: what is that going to do? Not just for the
40:59
Speaker 5: running game, but also for lab McClunky and the rest
41:02
Speaker 5: of the passing attack for this, this Chargers team. Like,
41:04
Speaker 5: it just feels like we'll get a new version of
41:06
Speaker 5: this Chargers offense and And that could obviously mean big
41:08
Speaker 5: things for the wide receiver room just in general.
41:11
Speaker 1: You know, Kendra mentioned the defense and with so much
41:14
Speaker 1: focus on Justin Herbert and the addition of Mike McDaniel,
41:18
Speaker 1: I think we forget that this is a defense that's in,
41:22
Speaker 1: it's in a little bit of transition. It's also getting older.
41:25
Speaker 1: Jesse Minter is gone. He's now the head coach of
41:27
Speaker 1: the Ravens. Do you worry about the defense taking a
41:30
Speaker 1: step back? Chris O'Leary is taking over. He's a Minter protege,
41:33
Speaker 1: so they're not going to change much. of the scheme DNA.
41:36
Speaker 1: They're going to disguise stuff, post snap rotations, simulated pressures,
41:41
Speaker 1: all that stuff that mentor was famous for. And that
41:44
Speaker 1: got him that job, a key Mesidor. They bring in
41:46
Speaker 1: from Miami, but Khalil Mack, Derwin James, like these guys
41:51
Speaker 1: aren't getting any younger. I just don't really know what
41:53
Speaker 1: to make of this defense.
41:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's fair. And obviously, Minter is a
41:58
Speaker 4: big departure.
41:59
Speaker 5: And I think hiring a protege is probably the best
42:01
Speaker 5: thing they could have done just to try to keep
42:03
Speaker 5: the main thing the main thing and keep it all
42:05
Speaker 5: relatively consistent there.
42:06
Speaker 4: So here's the thing. There's more volatility with the offense.
42:11
Speaker 5: And I think they have a better chance to boom
42:13
Speaker 5: than bust, really just kind of depending on health. But
42:16
Speaker 5: when it comes to their defense, I don't think they
42:18
Speaker 5: should take that big of a step back, if at all,
42:21
Speaker 5: just because of the veteran aspect of their defense and
42:23
Speaker 5: keeping the scheme the same. So I think it's going
42:24
Speaker 5: to be interesting because Minter was obviously really effective as
42:28
Speaker 5: the defensive coordinator. But the fact that you're kind of
42:30
Speaker 5: keeping things relatively consistent, I think, bodes well for the
42:34
Speaker 5: Chargers defense.
42:36
Speaker 1: In this case scenario, I think we would all agree,
42:38
Speaker 1: just win a playoff game, Justin Herbert. That's it. Just
42:41
Speaker 1: go win a playoff game. That's the best thing that
42:44
Speaker 1: we could do. Kendra, how are you betting this team?
42:48
Speaker 5: I'm not.
42:49
Speaker 1: All right. Um, there you have it. I'm going to,
42:52
Speaker 1: this is the one, this is the note, by the way,
42:54
Speaker 1: this is the live bet. They're under wind total after
42:57
Speaker 1: week two Cardinals Raiders is how they open the season.
43:00
Speaker 1: Then it's the bills, Seahawks, chiefs, Broncos, Rams, Texans, Ravens
43:05
Speaker 1: in consecutive weeks. So just wait till week two live
43:09
Speaker 1: bet the under on their wind total. Let's close with
43:13
Speaker 1: the Raiders. Out with the old, in with the new,
43:16
Speaker 1: at least as the head coach goes. Pete Carroll lasted
43:18
Speaker 1: all of one year. Now they bring in Clint Kubiak,
43:21
Speaker 1: fresh off of his Super Bowl win as the offensive
43:23
Speaker 1: play caller for the Seahawks. We escape the scare of
43:26
Speaker 1: the century with Ashton Gentry. It's just a sprained ankle,
43:30
Speaker 1: but I am cautiously optimistic on the Raiders. It sounds
43:35
Speaker 1: like we've got some pot agreement. Are you on board
43:38
Speaker 1: on ELO?
43:39
Speaker 5: I was cautiously optimistic about them last year, and look
43:42
Speaker 5: how far that got. I thought Pete Carroll might be interesting,
43:45
Speaker 5: and I like Jen T, and obviously Brock Bowers is
43:47
Speaker 5: a stud. And yeah, I think in theory, there's only
43:52
Speaker 5: up from here for this Raiders team. Like I said
43:54
Speaker 5: at the beginning of the show, it's been an organization
43:55
Speaker 5: that we've been rebuilding essentially for my entire life outside
43:59
Speaker 5: of the one car season, which was kind of fun.
44:01
Speaker 4: But you know, I think all eyes are going to
44:03
Speaker 4: be on Mendoza.
44:04
Speaker 5: I think you, you would think Kirk Cousins is maybe
44:06
Speaker 5: the most stable quarterback they've had, you know, in quite
44:08
Speaker 5: some time. Although I kind of thought that was, you know,
44:10
Speaker 5: last year too, but to me, like the definition of
44:13
Speaker 5: success for the Raiders this year is maybe seeing what
44:16
Speaker 5: you got Mendoza. Cause I'm assuming he's going to play
44:18
Speaker 5: at some point or the other and just figuring out
44:20
Speaker 5: if you got something with gentee, right? Like there's so
44:21
Speaker 5: many moving parts with this Raiders team that like, you know,
44:25
Speaker 5: I don't think they're going to be a 500 team.
44:26
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if you guys disagree with that, but like,
44:28
Speaker 5: it feels like you can only go up from here
44:30
Speaker 5: and there's no foundation that's been laid with this organization
44:32
Speaker 5: in a long time. So it's like, you need to
44:34
Speaker 5: take your first baby step so you can continue to
44:36
Speaker 5: grow and blossom as a franchise.
44:38
Speaker 2: I think that there's too much of a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately narrative
44:42
Speaker 2: with this franchise. They have building block pieces on the
44:46
Speaker 2: offense and the defense, and all it's going to take
44:49
Speaker 2: is a little bit of get-up.
44:50
Speaker 3: Like, this team, I'm so high on them.
44:54
Speaker 2: The fact that they have Fernando Mendoza, who's supposed to
44:56
Speaker 2: come back at some point, Jenty, who I think is
44:58
Speaker 2: going to be a baller.
44:59
Speaker 3: I know he, what, sprained his ankle yesterday.
45:00
Speaker 2: Brock Bowers is the best tight end in the league,
45:03
Speaker 2: and I don't even think it's really close, in my opinion.
45:05
Speaker 3: They built up the... Oh, oh..
45:08
Speaker 4: Bride.
45:10
Speaker 2: I just i think that after no i think i'm
45:14
Speaker 2: gonna go brock bowers here i think i am i'm
45:16
Speaker 2: gonna go bowers expected and i think that the fact
45:19
Speaker 2: that max crosby is returning to this team is a
45:22
Speaker 2: blessing in disguise i just i think that this is
45:25
Speaker 2: a 500 team boys i'm literally trying to live bet
45:27
Speaker 2: this right now.
45:28
Speaker 5: So she likes the raiders but she doesn't like the
45:30
Speaker 5: broncos that's uh It's an interesting way to look at
45:33
Speaker 5: the AFC.
45:33
Speaker 4: I did not have that one on my bingo card today.
45:35
Speaker 1: That's why.
45:35
Speaker 5: Because you went to Auburn and he was bad with Auburn,
45:38
Speaker 5: but he was pretty good with Oregon.
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Speaker 3: Because of that baby sitting coach.
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Speaker 4: It is all relative.
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Speaker 1: And I look at the AFC as a conference that
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Speaker 1: is going to deliver some weird. The NFC is not.
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Speaker 1: The NFC, it feels like you can basically take 10
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Speaker 1: teams in that conference and And confidently say seven of
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Speaker 1: these are making it into the playoffs. It's it is
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Speaker 1: going to, to between the NFC North and the NFC West,
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Speaker 1: like pretty much the entire post season for the NFC
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Speaker 1: is going to come from those two divisions in the AFC.
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Speaker 1: I think it's going to get weird. And the Raiders
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Speaker 1: jets and Titans are the three teams that I have
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Speaker 1: the Titans.
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Speaker 3: I hate to say it. They really fucked me over
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Speaker 3: on Sunday, but I listen.
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Speaker 1: The general theory is it's the NFL and it gets
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Speaker 1: weird every year. We never get a post season that
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Speaker 1: we fully expect. Somebody is going to break through. I
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Speaker 1: think it's less likely in the NFC. So I'm looking
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Speaker 1: under the microscope in the AFC and I agree with Kendra.
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Speaker 1: I like this roster. They've done a lot. They spent
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Speaker 1: a lot of money on defense, Tyler Linderbaum on the
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Speaker 1: offensive line. So let's just jump right to it. I
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Speaker 1: think best case scenario for them playoffs. I don't think
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Speaker 1: they're going to win the division. But 8-1 to enter
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Speaker 1: the postseason as a wild card. That is how I'm
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Speaker 1: betting the Raiders this year. Anilo?
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Speaker 4: I mean, I could not personally bet the Raiders at
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Speaker 4: this point.
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Speaker 5: Like I said, I'd rather not lose money or just
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Speaker 5: retain money than even put like $ 10 on the Raiders.
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Speaker 4: To make the playoffs.
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Speaker 5: Just because much like I'm kind of feeling like with
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Speaker 5: the Chiefs and the Chargers, you kind of have to
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Speaker 5: kind of show it to me. And I think there's
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Speaker 5: a lot of upside with the Raiders, right? Like I
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Speaker 5: think their floor is going to be a lot higher.
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Speaker 5: And to me, I think best case scenario is like
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Speaker 5: a 500 season, right? I'd be shocked if they make
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Speaker 5: the playoffs and hopefully you guys clip it and prove
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Speaker 5: me wrong when this season is all said and done.
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Speaker 4: Would love that. But I'm just not buying what they're
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Speaker 4: selling right now. I think they'll be better though. I do.
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Speaker 1: Kendra, you with me?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to find a way to log this
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Speaker 2: in action right now, but I can't there. It's not
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Speaker 2: where I want it to be, but I will be
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Speaker 2: logging the over on the Raiders win total and I'm
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Speaker 2: going to be searching for some Jonah Coleman props.
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Speaker 1: Over-under for them sitting at 5.5. Anilo Piro, 104.3 Denver Sports.
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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, AP. Fun chat.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, enjoy the season. Good luck on your bets, and
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Speaker 4: we'll see what happens with the AFC West. Thank you, guys.
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Speaker 1: Time to plant the flag on the AFC West.
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Speaker 4: Plant the flag, get it set up. I'm trying to
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Speaker 4: plant my flag here, okay?
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Speaker 1: You really planted your flag on that thing? Top tier,
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Speaker 1: top of the line. What are you looking at as
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Speaker 1: the best way to represent the Middleton brand as we
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Speaker 1: plant the flag on the AFC West?
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Speaker 3: I said it once, I'll say it twice. I'm looking
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Speaker 3: to log the.
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Speaker 2: Raiders over five and a half in my app for
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Speaker 2: action right now. I'm going to do that on DK
48:37
Speaker 2: as soon as we log off as well. And I
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Speaker 2: will be looking for Jonah Coleman props. I really think
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Speaker 2: that he's going to fly up this depth chart rather
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Speaker 2: quickly on this team.
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Speaker 3: I got to be honest. Maybe even a sleeper fantasy look.
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Speaker 1: I do like Jonah Coleman. He's looked really good in
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Speaker 1: the preseason, but I'm a big RJ Harvey guy. Went
48:52
Speaker 1: to UCF, so a bit of a homer there. Speaking
48:56
Speaker 1: of the Broncos, I like... Denver Broncos to win the
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Speaker 1: division first place schedule. Yes, but they are the most
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Speaker 1: complete team. They have a very real home field advantage
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Speaker 1: and an infusion of offensive talent with Jalen Waddle. I
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Speaker 1: am all in on the Denver Broncos. That is our plant.
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