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NFL Week 1 Preview, Picks & Injuries · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the favorites presented by draft kings the crown
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Speaker 2: is yours we are an action network podcast i'm brandon
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Speaker 2: kravitz your host joined by the first lady of the
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Speaker 2: pod kendra middleton week one full breakdown preview our official
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Speaker 2: plays we've got five that we've got to log into
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Speaker 2: our draft kings contest i'll tell you more about that
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Speaker 2: in a moment dr david chow from sixscore.com We'll give
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Speaker 2: us the injury news that we need to know for
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Speaker 2: this week. John Yastrzemski from New York, New York, joining
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Speaker 2: the show. Great friend of the podcast. We've been pretty
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Speaker 2: kumbaya in the lead up to the season. So we'll
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Speaker 2: see how long that persists, Kendra.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I am surprised so far, but maybe we're just
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Speaker 3: spending too much time together.
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Speaker 1: We'll see how long.
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Speaker 3: I feel like we fight like siblings, and I think
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Speaker 3: that that is fine with me.
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Speaker 2: I think it is the flavor and the zest of
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Speaker 2: the podcast, but we're kind of acting like, I feel
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Speaker 2: like the last couple of weeks, it's been like siblings
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Speaker 2: that hadn't seen each other in a while.
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Speaker 1: And it was those mom and dad told us we're
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Speaker 1: going on vacation.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. If we behave by week four, we're going
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Speaker 2: to be at each other's throats and obvious take to
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Speaker 2: get us going fresh off of Seahawks Patriots guitar anthem
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Speaker 2: over singing anthem 10 times out of 10.
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Speaker 1: 100% not even close.
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Speaker 3: Give me more of that. Maybe I'd actually like the
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Speaker 3: national anthem more.
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Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
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Speaker 2: It's a hot take. All right.
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Speaker 1: It's a bad song. It's a bad song.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's definitely no Canada. But speaking of patriotism,
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Speaker 2: the Patriots with the horseshoes still lodged firmly up their ass.
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Speaker 2: And they couldn't capitalize. I mean, it looked like the
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Speaker 2: Patriots were going to win in a route. They're up 10, nothing.
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Speaker 2: Sam Darnold had been ruled out. Drew Locke looked really
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Speaker 2: rough around the edges early on in, in his tenure
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Speaker 2: into that game, but he settled in the Seahawks defense,
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Speaker 2: shut new England down. The Patriots are the only team
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Speaker 2: in the NFL in the last 30 years to throw
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Speaker 2: three interceptions, take three or more sacks, commit three or
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Speaker 2: more penalties. and score zero points in a single quarter
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Speaker 2: of any NFL game. That was an absolute meltdown from
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Speaker 2: the New England Patriots when they had the champs on
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Speaker 2: the ropes.
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Speaker 3: Living here last night and being on Patriots Twitter firsthand
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Speaker 3: was a delight. However, I don't know if anybody at
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Speaker 3: home is keeping score.
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Speaker 1: Diana, one. Mike Vrabel, zero.
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Speaker 3: Three fourth quarter interceptions in is fucking crazy and i
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Speaker 3: don't want to take away what josh job did last
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Speaker 3: night because everybody's harping on what patrick or what sorry
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Speaker 3: what drake may did last night but we should also
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Speaker 3: be celebrating that catch that was just peak athleticism it
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Speaker 3: was incredible and yes drake may had a bad night
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Speaker 3: But that defense for what they had to do went
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Speaker 3: out there and performed and people should be talking about
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Speaker 3: that way more than we are.
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Speaker 1: It's easy to point to the quarterback.
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Speaker 3: I will say people are melting down up here like
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Speaker 3: Drake Mays, not the guy and whatever. I think it
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Speaker 3: says more about one Josh McDaniels play calling last night.
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Speaker 1: That was horrendous.
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Speaker 3: And two, the fact that, sure, you can go out
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Speaker 3: there and you can get wide receivers, but at the
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Speaker 3: end of the day, if your lines on both sides
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Speaker 3: can't help you out in any way, shape, or form
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Speaker 3: in big games against teams that you're going to play
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Speaker 3: high caliber like that through the stretch of a season, sorry,
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Speaker 3: you're a schedule merchant.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that offensive line that they tried to shuffle around
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Speaker 2: got murdered. Byron Murphy was eating that line for lunch
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Speaker 2: last night.
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Speaker 1: And I said this to you in our pregame show.
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Speaker 3: I have zero issue with us getting beat on the spread,
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Speaker 3: but it is so difficult to get beat by injuries.
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Speaker 3: Having a Sam Darnold pick and him and thank God,
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Speaker 3: you know, I put my money at a book where.
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Speaker 1: Like they refund you for things like that.
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Speaker 3: I will say, let's take a moment to appreciate DraftKings
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Speaker 3: and all that they do to keep, you know, people
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Speaker 3: right with the injuries and whatnot. But the AJ Brown
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Speaker 3: injury absolutely killed me last night. I can take a
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Speaker 3: bad beat, but I hate when it's an injury. I
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Speaker 3: would rather you beat me straight up.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Um, we, we took jobs also.
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Speaker 1: What the fuck?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: We took L's across the board. You had a few
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Speaker 2: bets on the, on the night. One of them was
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Speaker 2: the Seahawks minus three and a half. I was on
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Speaker 2: that as well. And if we needed another neon sign
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Speaker 2: that said, be wary of the three and the hook
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Speaker 2: on the favorite in the NFL, about 15% of the
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Speaker 2: time in an NFL game, the game's going to land
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Speaker 2: on three. That's, you know, we're talking 15 out of
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Speaker 2: a hundred games that can swing your profitability. And as
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Speaker 2: if I needed another reminder of that as an NFL better,
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Speaker 2: we got it right out of the gate. That three
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Speaker 2: and a half should have waited for the three. I
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Speaker 2: regret it, um, would have pushed and walked away with nothing, but, uh,
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Speaker 2: definitely hurts to take the L and night one.
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Speaker 3: The last thing I'll say, one, Patriots in bed jail. Two,
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Speaker 3: I'm about to be on a Matt Collins anytime. And three,
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Speaker 3: when Travion comes back, Ramondre, your ass better be sitting down.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that offense without A.J. Brown and Travion Henderson. We
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Speaker 2: didn't know about A.J. Brown until the middle of the game,
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Speaker 2: but it was what I was worried about with Travion
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Speaker 2: Henderson not playing. No explosiveness in that offense whatsoever.
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Speaker 1: I lied. I also need to bitch about the refereeing.
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Speaker 3: I am sick of those motherfuckers already.
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Speaker 1: I'm sick of it.
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Speaker 3: Like I saw more flags last night than I wanted
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Speaker 3: to see the entirety of the season.
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Speaker 1: I don't care if it was good calls at times.
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Speaker 1: A lot of them were bad calls. I just need
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Speaker 1: less of you. Heads up.
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Speaker 3: That game should not have been as long as it was.
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Speaker 3: That fourth quarter felt like it was 37 days of
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Speaker 3: my life.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. The Seahawks were up against it early on. They,
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Speaker 2: every flag was going against them. They had the Sam
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Speaker 2: Darnold injury and the way that they were able to
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Speaker 2: battle back when it felt like everything was working against them,
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Speaker 2: an admirable win for the Seahawks and without their two
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Speaker 2: starting safeties. If you're a Seahawks fan, Nick Lee, I
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Speaker 2: Time for this week's injury analysis with Dr. David Chow
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Speaker 2: joining us from six score.com. Our go-to source for injury news, information, projections,
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Speaker 2: and pricing. Uh, I need a quick read doc on
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Speaker 2: this Sam Darnold situation. We're going to focus primarily on
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Speaker 2: what's in front of us, but this was big really
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Speaker 2: early on into that first game of the season. Sam
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Speaker 2: Darnold goes down with what looked like an ankle injury
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Speaker 2: to me turned out to be a hip injury. And
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Speaker 2: he did not return. So what's the outlook based on
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Speaker 2: your perspective?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw a lot on Twitter from, quote, Twitter doctors, head, shoulders, knees,
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Speaker 5: and toes, from ankle to knee to PCL. Now, it
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Speaker 5: was a hip injury, a hip potential subluxation. The first
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Speaker 5: bad news has already been ruled out, which is a
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Speaker 5: clear fracture. And that's why the CT scan, because x-rays
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Speaker 5: at the stadium are only two-dimensional. A CT scan is three-dimensional.
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Speaker 5: And with a hip, ball, and socket joint, you need three-dimensional.
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Speaker 5: So that's good news. Now an MRI incoming to rule
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Speaker 5: out bone bruise, microscopic fracture, labral tear, and potential nerve stretch.
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Speaker 5: So there's still more hurdles to come, but at least
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Speaker 5: we've gone from, oh my God, this could be season
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Speaker 5: ending to, boy, he'll be, seems like he'll be back
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Speaker 5: this year. The question is when, and can he even
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Speaker 5: avoid short-term IR? But I think he's going to miss
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Speaker 5: some time, clearly.
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Speaker 2: What about A.J. Brown with the ankle injury? Well, in-game,
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Speaker 2: I don't.
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Speaker 5: Know if you guys are aware, your viewers or listeners,
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Speaker 5: but we do in-game injury analysis from my time in
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Speaker 5: the NFL. I look at injuries in real time. We
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Speaker 5: said that's a high ankle sprain, very hard to continue.
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Speaker 5: And now it's been confirmed as a high ankle sprain.
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Speaker 5: severity will determine how many weeks, but hear what I
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Speaker 5: just said, weeks, not days, right? It would be great
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Speaker 5: news if he could avoid a four-week short-term IR. That
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Speaker 5: remains to be seen.
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Speaker 1: Well, bad news for the Patriots.
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Speaker 3: I guess maybe some unfortunate but good news for the
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Speaker 3: Jacksonville Jaguars in a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: My Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to skip too far ahead here, but
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Speaker 3: I think the biggest thing that we talked about the
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Speaker 3: last time we had you on was Patrick Mahomes.
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Speaker 1: He is indeed going to start week one.
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Speaker 3: What can you tell us about his start?
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Speaker 1: Will he be 100%? Where do you expect him to be?
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Speaker 5: This was an LCL and ACL injury that we said
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Speaker 5: from the war room when it happened in December. This
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Speaker 5: is more complicated than an ACL. It is great news
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Speaker 5: that he is able to play football and he is starting.
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Speaker 5: but there is no physiological way that he is 100%.
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Speaker 5: This is why they were careful. Look, the question is,
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Speaker 5: is it worth playing Patrick Mahomes? They determined that it is.
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Speaker 5: You always want him, but what do they say? You
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Speaker 5: can't win the Super Bowl in week one, but you
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Speaker 5: can lose the Super Bowl in week one. And they're
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Speaker 5: confident enough to let him play with a brace. Look,
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Speaker 5: I think there'll be ball out. They'll have some protection schemes.
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Speaker 5: You're not going to see a lot of scrambling. They're
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Speaker 5: going to say, get down, throw the ball away and
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Speaker 5: play with a modified Patrick Mahomes. Great to see him
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Speaker 5: out there. And I get it. 85% of Patrick Mahomes
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Speaker 5: is way better than most of the rest of the league.
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Speaker 5: So I get why they want to play him. But medically,
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Speaker 5: there's no way he's 100%.
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Speaker 3: I want to talk about the Raiders as well. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: some injury news coming out about Brock Bowers. Ashton Gentry's
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Speaker 3: ankle sprain has been a huge topic of conversation.
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Speaker 1: What do you think about those two?
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Speaker 3: Well, I don't understand why Brock Bowers had something with
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Speaker 3: his meniscus worked on a day or two before the
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Speaker 3: season's supposed to start. And then we just talked about,
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Speaker 3: you know, high ankle sprains, low ankle sprains. What do
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Speaker 3: you expect from Ashton Gentry as well?
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Speaker 5: Much more optimistic on Ashton Gentry returning before Brock Bowers returns.
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Speaker 5: I think Ashton Gentry is probably just a simple low
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Speaker 5: ankle sprain.
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Speaker 2: Look, we do.
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Speaker 5: Something, we follow coach speak very closely. We have a
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Speaker 5: beat on who tells the truth, who lets out what,
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Speaker 5: and by reading the coaches and what they say and
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Speaker 5: looking at their press conferences, And then correlating to what
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Speaker 5: reality is. I don't have a beat on Clint Kubiak yet,
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Speaker 5: but an end size of two, he doesn't say much
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Speaker 5: of anything. Now for Aston Gentry, not saying much of
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Speaker 5: anything has led people to believe that it was way
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Speaker 5: worse than than what I'm thinking. And Brock Bowers, even
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Speaker 5: after the knee scope, he denied there was anything going on.
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Speaker 5: So he's early out of the gate going to be
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Speaker 5: someone who just doesn't say anything. And how do you
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Speaker 5: read into that? It depends on the injury. Brock Bowers,
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Speaker 5: the concern is, look, this isn't a Ricky Pearsall situation
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Speaker 5: where it's PCL reconstruction, but it is a PCL injury.
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Speaker 5: And when the knee shifts some, the PCL, you can
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Speaker 5: tear your meniscus. This is a trim, not a repair.
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Speaker 5: This is not a Max Crosby repair, longer recovery. This
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Speaker 5: is a trim. So I think he can avoid short-term IR.
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Speaker 5: He's going to miss some time, but hopefully he'll be
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Speaker 5: back ahead of the fifth week, which would keep him
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Speaker 5: off of injured reserve.
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Speaker 2: Malik neighbors looks to be giving it a go on
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Speaker 2: Sunday night football for the New York giants. We didn't
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Speaker 2: really see a lot of him throughout training camp in
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Speaker 2: the preseason. Would you be surprised if he had a
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Speaker 2: full snap allotment?
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Speaker 5: Yes, we faded him all this season, offseason at sickpicks.com,
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Speaker 5: unders this, that, the other seasonally. Look, he had a
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Speaker 5: second surgery. He looked a hot mess this offseason. The
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Speaker 5: second surgery has accelerated his recovery, so that's great news.
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Speaker 5: But he's a speed wide receiver that relies on cuts.
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Speaker 5: He's not a big bodied wide receiver positionally, right? And
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Speaker 5: so those guys get affected more by this. So not
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Speaker 5: thinking he's going to do a lot. And we do
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Speaker 5: have injury rankings and projections, and I don't have the
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Speaker 5: number on top of me, but he's probably like minus 27%
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Speaker 5: out of the gate on projections for DFS or fantasies.
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Speaker 1: Last question for me.
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Speaker 3: I just want to know your thoughts on Daniel Jones
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Speaker 3: coming back from the Achilles. I don't know how a
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Speaker 3: 29-year-old is 100% that quickly from a torn Achilles, but
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Speaker 3: I know that the technology has changed in the last
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Speaker 3: couple of years and the recovery and everything like that.
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Speaker 3: So what are your expectations for him ahead of week one?
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Speaker 5: Well, I'm more amazed that George Kittle can play tight
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Speaker 5: end than Daniel Jones play quarterback. You have to understand
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Speaker 5: that Phillip Rivers, my good friend, was way less mobile
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Speaker 5: than Daniel Jones and did a serviceable job at quarterback
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Speaker 5: when he tore his Achilles. So that's part of the equation,
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Speaker 5: the position that he plays. Is he 100%? Probably not.
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Speaker 5: Can he play the position of quarterback effectively? Yes, I
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Speaker 5: believe he will be fine for week one and for
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Speaker 5: this season as The Achilles shouldn't be much of an excuse. Yes,
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Speaker 5: he runs some, but, you know, and that may hamper
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Speaker 5: a little bit of his escapability and running ability, but
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Speaker 5: from the pocket, I think he should be fully effective.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about Jonathan Brooks, a guy that has a very,
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Speaker 2: very rich injury history. He was drafted out of Texas
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Speaker 2: and dealt with injuries coming into the NFL. And then
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Speaker 2: when he was trying to make his way back last year,
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Speaker 2: what are his chances of re-injury? I've seen a lot
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Speaker 2: of that fantasy optimism surrounding Jonathan Brooks, but this is
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Speaker 2: a guy that's had a lot of trouble staying on
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Speaker 2: the field for the Panthers.
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Speaker 5: Well, he had a re-tear of his ACL and not
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Speaker 5: sure of the circumstances of his first ACL, but ACLs
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Speaker 5: fixed appropriately can do well as long as you don't
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Speaker 5: have cartilage damage. So I am one of those guys
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Speaker 5: and I might be one of those guys that may
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Speaker 5: have spurred on the fantasy optimism of Jonathan Brooks, looking
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Speaker 5: at it from a medical perspective. And remember now, this
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Speaker 5: is his second year out, second year back, admittedly from
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Speaker 5: a second ACL, not his first year back. Remember what
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Speaker 5: happened to Saquon his first year back from his first ACL.
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Speaker 5: He didn't do much and everyone hated him for fantasy
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Speaker 5: and everything else. And I was the first, let me
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Speaker 5: have them the second year back. And he had a
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Speaker 5: big year, his second year back.
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Speaker 2: So let's wrap with this is we're going to send
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Speaker 2: some people to six score.com. I've been using this site
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Speaker 2: for the last couple of years. It's one of the
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Speaker 2: reasons I was so excited to bring you onto this podcast.
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Speaker 2: Cause I think it helps a lot. In trying to
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Speaker 2: form a number out of the injuries that impact these teams,
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Speaker 2: not just for the guys that are missing. Cause I
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Speaker 2: think that part is easier, but for guys that are hurt,
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Speaker 2: that are playing through injury and you price all of
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Speaker 2: that in, if you go to your game views, you
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Speaker 2: have a sick edge that favors one team or the
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Speaker 2: other based on injury. Can you just explain the process of.
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Speaker 2: how you distill down to that number and how a
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Speaker 2: sports better should use that in their handicapping.
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Speaker 5: I love coming on your show regularly to be able
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Speaker 5: to talk about this because your audience is educated and
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Speaker 5: we are perfect for an educated audience. Look, everyone knows
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Speaker 5: when a quarterback is injured in the line moves, but
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Speaker 5: do you really know what's happening on the Carolina Panthers
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Speaker 5: and their offensive line, for example, and the shuffle and
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Speaker 5: the injuries that are going on there? We distill that down,
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Speaker 5: not only injuries, but the line movement shuffle. And we
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Speaker 5: literally not only grade every player and every team, we
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Speaker 5: grade every offense and every defense. We have matchups of
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Speaker 5: this week's Miami Dolphins offense against the Las Vegas Raiders defense.
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Speaker 5: We have Miami Dolphins O-line score against the run and
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Speaker 5: the pass defense. against a D-line score or a defensive
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Speaker 5: score against a run in the past for the Raiders.
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Speaker 5: And we put that together. I do the injury scoring
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Speaker 5: with our team, and then we put it in an algorithm,
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Speaker 5: an algorithm that Norv Turner and others help us put
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Speaker 5: together to spit out numbers of value in terms of ranking.
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Speaker 5: So Really, we're that finite in terms of what's happening.
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Speaker 5: And for fantasy DFS world, it's also the.
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Speaker 2: Opponent, right?
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Speaker 5: Look, you need to know if you want a wide receiver,
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Speaker 5: you need to know the health of your offensive line
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Speaker 5: against the pass, the health of your quarterback, but also
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Speaker 5: the health of the secondary that you're facing, right? That's
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Speaker 5: what we have. For the lazy people, we have Sick
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Speaker 5: Picks and whatever and Steve Fezzik. But your crowd is
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Speaker 5: not the lazy crowd. I think your crowd would like
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Speaker 5: the data portion better. the field views offense against defense
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Speaker 5: and do your own deep dive analysis at six score.com.
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Speaker 2: Agree with that wholeheartedly for more from the pro football doc, Dr.
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Speaker 2: Thursday show. No time for news. We're going game by game.
18:52
Speaker 2: If there's anything you need to know, we'll tell you.
18:55
Speaker 2: John Yastrzemski is our guest this week to help us
18:58
Speaker 2: preview the action. You can find John on New York,
19:01
Speaker 2: New York via underscore media. A busy man had a
19:04
Speaker 2: post-game show last night. John, we're going to need you
19:07
Speaker 2: to settle some disputes here as we go game by game.
19:11
Speaker 2: And you're going to nominate one of our five picks
19:14
Speaker 2: that we're throwing in the DraftKings contest this week. How
19:17
Speaker 2: are you doing, my friend?
19:18
Speaker 4: Gang, fantastic. We're running on fuel, running on adrenaline. I
19:23
Speaker 4: think I'm still sweating through my suit from last night,
19:25
Speaker 4: but it's week one and I lose my first bet
19:28
Speaker 4: of the year. So we're off to a high flying start.
19:30
Speaker 4: Let's go.
19:31
Speaker 2: I like to get rid of the L's out of
19:33
Speaker 2: the gate, you know, and build to win. So we
19:37
Speaker 2: were both on Seattle. All three of us were on
19:40
Speaker 2: Seattle minus three and a half. So We'll take the
19:43
Speaker 2: L and we will move on. Let's start with the
19:45
Speaker 2: saints and the lions lines laying seven points here. Total
19:49
Speaker 2: sitting at 49 and a half. It's America's favorite team.
19:53
Speaker 2: The lions have become the darling of NFL fans against
19:56
Speaker 2: America's favorite sleeper. Everyone seems to be in on the
20:00
Speaker 2: surprise year of the saints. This season lions off a
20:04
Speaker 2: disappointing season last year, they finished last place. in the division,
20:08
Speaker 2: new offensive coordinator for them. They reshuffle the old line.
20:11
Speaker 2: Pen a soul is sliding from right to left. Uh,
20:16
Speaker 2: Dan Campbell, by the way, 14 and four ATS in September.
20:20
Speaker 2: I find myself a little bit stuck in the middle here. Kendra,
20:24
Speaker 2: what's your initial read on this game?
20:27
Speaker 1: I also find myself in the middle here.
20:29
Speaker 3: I want to believe in Tyler Shuck, but I think
20:31
Speaker 3: for the first few weeks of the season until I'm
20:33
Speaker 3: really bought into the Saints team, I need to see
20:35
Speaker 3: what he can show me. Just because he was one
20:37
Speaker 3: of these guys didn't start his season last year, but
20:39
Speaker 3: had some really serious momentum towards the end of it.
20:42
Speaker 3: I also think that they retooled, did good things for
20:45
Speaker 3: him in the offseason, but I need a couple weeks
20:46
Speaker 3: of prove it before I can get on such a
20:48
Speaker 3: high number.
20:50
Speaker 2: John, are you willing to lay it with the Lions?
20:53
Speaker 2: Are you buying into that early season mentality Saints with
20:57
Speaker 2: some value as everybody's sexy sleeper team.
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Speaker 4: Okay, gang. So these are two teams that I have
21:03
Speaker 4: futures on. I have the Saints to go and win
21:05
Speaker 4: the NFC South. I bet the Lions over for wins
21:08
Speaker 4: because of the schedule. I think it's very conducive to
21:11
Speaker 4: go on and win double digit games. As far as
21:14
Speaker 4: this week one matchup, Kendra, let's get on the Tyler
21:18
Speaker 4: Shuck bandwagon. I love what I saw over the final
21:21
Speaker 4: eight weeks of last year. I think Kellen Moore can coach.
21:25
Speaker 4: The Saints defense played much better as the season went along.
21:29
Speaker 4: Here's my thing about this game. It's not going to
21:31
Speaker 4: be one of my five, but the reason I lean
21:34
Speaker 4: towards New Orleans, you guys know There are obvious tease
21:39
Speaker 4: candidates that people are going to rush to the betting
21:42
Speaker 4: window and say, hey, I get the Lions down to
21:44
Speaker 4: pick them. There's another game we're going to get to. Oh,
21:47
Speaker 4: I get this team down to pick them. Seems a
21:49
Speaker 4: little too easy. Seems a little too good to be true.
21:52
Speaker 4: And despite all of the prowess and firepower that the
21:55
Speaker 4: Lion offense is bringing to the table, gang, I got
21:58
Speaker 4: serious questions about that defense. I think you're going to
22:02
Speaker 4: be able to move the ball on that defense. So
22:04
Speaker 4: I expect this game to be high scoring. I think
22:07
Speaker 4: there is serious backdoor potential. Not one of my favorite
22:11
Speaker 4: games of the week, but if I'm playing it, I'm
22:13
Speaker 4: going to give you guys a point for every game.
22:14
Speaker 4: That's what we do around here. I would take the
22:16
Speaker 4: Saints plus the points. Yeah.
22:18
Speaker 2: To me, it would be saints or pass. I'm, I'm
22:21
Speaker 2: too bought in on the hype to lay seven with Detroit,
22:24
Speaker 2: even with the injury to cam Jordan. I think they're
22:27
Speaker 2: alive to pull off the upset as well. Are we
22:30
Speaker 2: wanting to put this into our five? So we have
22:34
Speaker 2: already locked in the 49ers plus three and a half.
22:37
Speaker 2: That's one. We've got five to throw into the draft
22:40
Speaker 2: Kings contest. And the Cardinals will get to them plus
22:44
Speaker 2: ten and a half. No doubt. We already know we
22:46
Speaker 2: love the Redbirds on this show. So we've got three.
22:49
Speaker 2: We've got to be pretty selective. We're only on game
22:52
Speaker 2: number one. Are we willing to throw the Saints in?
22:54
Speaker 2: They are seven and a half in the contest, which
22:57
Speaker 2: does make this a little more appealing that we get
22:58
Speaker 2: the hook as well.
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Speaker 1: Kendra, I don't think I can get there. I'd love to.
23:03
Speaker 3: If this were in New Orleans, I would be all
23:05
Speaker 3: over it.
23:06
Speaker 1: But home opener for Detroit can't get there.
23:09
Speaker 4: Can I just say that I love the two picks
23:11
Speaker 4: you guys have made right out of the gate. I'm
23:14
Speaker 4: team Niner gang. Believe it or not, this knucklehead picked
23:17
Speaker 4: the Niners in his preseason picks a few days ago
23:20
Speaker 4: to win the Super Bowl. Cause like giving out chalk
23:23
Speaker 4: is no fun. I went with a John candy Niners
23:26
Speaker 4: over Bengal super bowl. So we'll get to both of
23:29
Speaker 4: those teams later, but I like where you guys are
23:31
Speaker 4: at immediately here. This is good. It's very good.
23:33
Speaker 2: All right. We've got full consensus. Uh, everybody's come by
23:37
Speaker 2: to start the year. It's amazing. For now, the Jags
23:41
Speaker 2: laying eight and a half against the Cleveland Browns total
23:44
Speaker 2: sitting at 40 and a half new year, new coach
23:47
Speaker 2: for the Brownies, Todd Monken's debut game here against the team.
23:51
Speaker 2: That won 13 games last season, seven and two straight
23:54
Speaker 2: up at home. Best record against the spread last year.
23:58
Speaker 2: Our cats, Kendra's Jaguars, Travis Hunter back on the field.
24:02
Speaker 2: Nothing not to like about the Jacksonville Jaguars. I'd be
24:06
Speaker 2: willing to throw the Jaguars into the contest and we
24:09
Speaker 2: get them at seven and a half in contest play
24:13
Speaker 2: line moving in the direction of Jacksonville. Can you talk
24:16
Speaker 2: me off of your team, Kendra?
24:18
Speaker 1: No, I can't. This was going to be one of
24:20
Speaker 1: my nominations.
24:20
Speaker 3: We talked about this slightly at the end of the
24:22
Speaker 3: show the other day. I get that week one is weird,
24:25
Speaker 3: but the Cleveland Browns are weirder. And the fact that
24:28
Speaker 3: it's at home, I've never seen a crowd that hates
24:31
Speaker 3: anybody as much as the Jacksonville Jaguars hate Deshaun Watson.
24:35
Speaker 1: They started.
24:36
Speaker 3: I don't think we can talk about it on this show,
24:37
Speaker 3: even though we are a rather PG-13 R-rated friendly show.
24:41
Speaker 3: But look up some of the chants at the Jacksonville
24:44
Speaker 3: Jaguars versus Browns. home game in Jacksonville last time if
24:47
Speaker 3: you would like a preview I think just the fact
24:49
Speaker 3: that he's complaining about people hating him already in this
24:52
Speaker 3: season it's gonna be real bad real quick I get
24:54
Speaker 3: that I'm all over the Browns this season but I
24:56
Speaker 3: expect Liam Cohen to run it up.
25:00
Speaker 4: Uh this is where I get to be the bad
25:01
Speaker 4: guy sorry guys I can't get there I can't get
25:04
Speaker 4: there listen I know Kendra I'm taking sides against the
25:08
Speaker 4: family here and taking Cleveland in this spot here's my
25:12
Speaker 4: problem Every preseason narrative is looking at Cleveland. Deshaun Watson, toxic.
25:21
Speaker 4: Todd Munkin, coolest. I actually think there's talent on this
25:25
Speaker 4: Cleveland team. And I have games every week. And I
25:29
Speaker 4: think you guys will learn this as we go forward.
25:32
Speaker 4: There are lines that stink to the high heavens. This
25:36
Speaker 4: is one of my rat lines of the week. I
25:38
Speaker 4: think this line absolutely stinks because everything.
25:40
Speaker 1: You get one veto. Is this your one veto?
25:43
Speaker 2: Everybody gets a veto here. So right now, Jack's minus
25:46
Speaker 2: seven and a half is in. If Kendra and I agree,
25:49
Speaker 2: it's in.
25:49
Speaker 4: No, I can't do that right now.
25:51
Speaker 2: No, no.
25:51
Speaker 4: If you guys do, I can't veto game two right
25:54
Speaker 4: out of the gate here. I can't do it. Now listen.
25:57
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no.
25:57
Speaker 1: I have a play to give out that we can
25:59
Speaker 1: agree on.
26:00
Speaker 3: I do personally have logged in the app, the over app.
26:03
Speaker 1: In this game at 40 and a.
26:05
Speaker 2: Half, you talk about disgusting it over in this game
26:08
Speaker 2: with Deshaun Watson operating an offense wide receivers.
26:12
Speaker 3: Because he'll cough it up, but they can run the ball.
26:17
Speaker 3: And Jacksonville will run it up.
26:18
Speaker 1: It's a gross over.
26:20
Speaker 4: I actually kind of like it. I kind of like
26:22
Speaker 4: it to Kendra's point where if you have a couple
26:24
Speaker 4: of short fields, then all of a sudden a game
26:26
Speaker 4: that looks really icky and really gross. Oh, my goodness.
26:29
Speaker 4: How did this team end up with 27 points? That's
26:32
Speaker 4: kind of how you get there. But I am not
26:34
Speaker 4: using my veto power because I feel like I might
26:37
Speaker 4: need it a little bit later on in the segment.
26:39
Speaker 4: But just so everybody is clear, John Jastrzemski will not
26:42
Speaker 4: be betting the Jaguars on Sunday.
26:45
Speaker 2: So trends guy, Evan Abrams, Evan, you also get a veto.
26:49
Speaker 2: If you want to pop in at any point and
26:50
Speaker 2: just strike down any of these picks. I feel like
26:53
Speaker 2: if there's one that you would put the kibosh on,
26:57
Speaker 2: it would be a heavy favorite in week one. Are
26:59
Speaker 2: you willing to, uh, before we move on, I just
27:02
Speaker 2: want to make sure that we're all good. All copacetic
27:04
Speaker 2: on the Jags minus seven and a half.
27:06
Speaker 1: I think if we have one that we agree on altogether,
27:09
Speaker 1: that's better. I would listen. But right now this is
27:11
Speaker 1: that third slot for me.
27:13
Speaker 6: I don't have an issue with this one because I
27:16
Speaker 6: don't necessarily love either side in this game, and I
27:19
Speaker 6: hate to be that guy, but it's more or less
27:21
Speaker 6: like if I'm going to pick a big favorite, I
27:23
Speaker 6: could see Jacksonville covering in this one because of the
27:26
Speaker 6: Watson factor, and I have no interest in Cleveland, especially
27:29
Speaker 6: with a new coach in Munkin.
27:30
Speaker 2: I kind of want to wait and see. My question
27:32
Speaker 2: was going to be a little different.
27:34
Speaker 6: The over in this game or the over in the
27:37
Speaker 6: Raiders game, I think are both just interesting.
27:40
Speaker 4: Same exact number. Evan, I think that's an easy call.
27:43
Speaker 4: Over in the Miami Raider game.
27:45
Speaker 2: I kind of agree.
27:46
Speaker 4: Does anybody know anybody on the Miami Dolphin defense? And
27:49
Speaker 4: I know Brock Bowers is not playing, so it might
27:51
Speaker 4: change the calculus. And the Dolphins, in theory, should be
27:54
Speaker 4: able to score on Vegas. Dude, I love the over
27:57
Speaker 4: in that game.
27:58
Speaker 1: I already met the under.
28:00
Speaker 4: Oh, Kenji, we're fighting already. Jeez.
28:03
Speaker 2: Back to programming.
28:04
Speaker 4: All right.
28:04
Speaker 2: Let's not skip. Let's not skip ahead. Moving on to
28:08
Speaker 2: get to bears, Panthers, Panthers plus three at home total
28:14
Speaker 2: at 47 and a half. Both teams made it to
28:16
Speaker 2: the post season last year. Both won their divisions. One
28:19
Speaker 2: was sub 500 and doing so. But Caleb Williams, the
28:23
Speaker 2: all hype squad, the Madden cover boy this year, his
28:25
Speaker 2: third season in the NFL, second in Ben Johnson's offense.
28:29
Speaker 2: The defense is the question mark with that team. Their
28:32
Speaker 2: bottom five unit coming back from last year. Kendra, the
28:36
Speaker 2: Panthers were our squad last season. No team made us
28:40
Speaker 2: more money than the Carolina Panthers. So I might have
28:42
Speaker 2: to be talked off of them catching a field goal
28:45
Speaker 2: at home.
28:46
Speaker 3: No, I don't want anything to do with this. I
28:48
Speaker 3: feel like the Panthers had their luck last year. Might
28:50
Speaker 3: have been a lightning in a bottle situation. Bad division,
28:53
Speaker 3: but with a happy Baker and things looking up in
28:56
Speaker 3: New Orleans, I don't want anything to do with this
28:57
Speaker 3: team this year.
28:59
Speaker 4: That's fine, Kendra, but for week one, I kind of do.
29:04
Speaker 4: The Bears are the most public sided a week. Isn't
29:08
Speaker 4: that like an auto play on the Panthers? And listen,
29:11
Speaker 4: I know the hype train is off the charts for
29:13
Speaker 4: Caleb Williams and for Ben Johnson, and I get it
29:17
Speaker 4: and I understand it. The Bears defense stinks. Like, Carolina
29:22
Speaker 4: should be able to move the ball and have offensive success. Now,
29:26
Speaker 4: if we were getting three in the hook here, I'd
29:28
Speaker 4: be pounding the table for Carolina. This is another one
29:31
Speaker 4: of these icky ones. To me, this is a Carolina
29:34
Speaker 4: or pass type of spot.
29:35
Speaker 2: Which also is important an important note because in the
29:38
Speaker 2: contest there are no flat lines so it's three right
29:40
Speaker 2: now on draft kings but it's two and a half
29:42
Speaker 2: in the contest that's not something that I think I'm
29:45
Speaker 2: just not I.
29:46
Speaker 3: Also cannot be I cannot be in on a team
29:50
Speaker 3: where their left tackle is out in their running back
29:53
Speaker 3: rooms already decimated I don't care if the defense is
29:56
Speaker 3: good I don't want anything to do with this All right,
29:58
Speaker 3: so it's.
29:58
Speaker 4: A hand wave from Kendra. Okay. That's fine. There are
30:01
Speaker 4: other plays.
30:01
Speaker 2: There are other plays. I thought maybe we'd go like
30:04
Speaker 2: one more time for the road, pour one out for
30:06
Speaker 2: the Panthers, who are definitely not going to be as
30:07
Speaker 2: profitable this year.
30:08
Speaker 1: In the arms of the angels. We're euthanizing those kitties. Sorry.
30:13
Speaker 2: Home dogs in week one, Evan, before we move on completely.
30:19
Speaker 6: Absolutely goddamn nothing. Did this on the other one. It's
30:23
Speaker 6: actually just completely even.
30:24
Speaker 2: It's flat, isn't it? Yeah.
30:27
Speaker 4: So there's not much of an advantage there at home
30:29
Speaker 4: dogs in week one. Interesting. Something that simple isn't.
30:33
Speaker 2: I mean, there's other trends, this, this, and that, but
30:35
Speaker 2: it's not home dogs now. Like divisional home dog is
30:37
Speaker 2: really where you want to look. We'll get to that
30:39
Speaker 2: with Sunday Night Football. Let's go to Pittsburgh where the
30:44
Speaker 2: Steelers are laying three and a half against the Atlanta Falcons.
30:47
Speaker 1: I know what you're about to do to me.
30:51
Speaker 2: I know that it feels like the last five months
30:55
Speaker 2: has been this feeling of like building towards me, trying
30:59
Speaker 2: to convince you to take the Falcons against the spread
31:01
Speaker 2: in week one. I actually hate them this week. And
31:06
Speaker 2: this is a team I have been buying stock in
31:09
Speaker 2: on for the last couple of months. The NFC south
31:12
Speaker 2: is not a good division. So why not take the
31:14
Speaker 2: long shot? I still feel that way, but early in
31:17
Speaker 2: the season is not where I want to fade the
31:19
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike McCarthy, Aaron Rogers. There is some familiarity there.
31:25
Speaker 2: You've got to a, who has not done anything right
31:27
Speaker 2: so far in the off season, trying to learn a
31:30
Speaker 2: new offense, going up against a defense that at least
31:33
Speaker 2: early in the season, they're old. But it's week one.
31:37
Speaker 2: Everybody's fresh. I don't want to fade the Steelers yet,
31:39
Speaker 2: so I'm actually not going to nominate the Atlanta Falcons,
31:43
Speaker 2: which may come as a surprise to any of our.
31:45
Speaker 4: Well, thank goodness, because my veto was coming into play, Krabby,
31:49
Speaker 4: if you threw the Falcons in there. That was not happening.
31:53
Speaker 3: I also have the under in this game. Because everybody's incompetent.
31:56
Speaker 3: I get that the Steelers have a good defense, which
31:58
Speaker 3: helps my argument here, but the incompetence from the top
32:02
Speaker 3: down on both sides, I don't know.
32:05
Speaker 1: There's no way.
32:06
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers is taste.
32:07
Speaker 4: So this is not my nominee, but I love the
32:09
Speaker 4: Steelers in this spot, guys.
32:11
Speaker 2: Okay.
32:11
Speaker 4: Come on. The last time we saw Tua quarterback, and
32:14
Speaker 4: I know the temperature is going to be a little
32:15
Speaker 4: different in Pittsburgh come September than what it was in
32:19
Speaker 4: December or But it was interceptions. It was ducks. It
32:23
Speaker 4: was a quarterback who couldn't escape a pass rush. And
32:27
Speaker 4: I think you get, like, that feel-good story. McCarthy, the
32:30
Speaker 4: hometown boy, week one in Pittsburgh. Aaron Rodgers' body isn't
32:35
Speaker 4: decaying yet. To me, the Steelers.
32:38
Speaker 1: Is it not?
32:39
Speaker 4: I mean, it is and it's not. You know what
32:42
Speaker 4: I mean. It will be worse by November, December. I
32:44
Speaker 4: love the Steelers. I'd lay it. I wouldn't even think twice.
32:47
Speaker 2: All I can think of is that image of Aaron
32:49
Speaker 2: Rodgers running out onto the field with the American flag
32:51
Speaker 2: on his shoulder.
32:53
Speaker 1: Is Joey Porter Jr. going to play?
32:54
Speaker 2: I have not seen him do it.
32:56
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
32:56
Speaker 2: I don't think we know yet.
32:58
Speaker 4: I don't think so. And I don't think it matters
33:00
Speaker 4: because the quarterback has to be able to get Drake
33:02
Speaker 4: London the football. And I'm not convinced that he can.
33:06
Speaker 1: So if anybody else wants to get on the under
33:08
Speaker 1: with me.
33:09
Speaker 4: Kendra, what is it, 41? 42 and a half.
33:11
Speaker 1: 42 and a half.
33:13
Speaker 4: The only question I have about the under is the
33:16
Speaker 4: compromised state of the Atlanta pass rush because they had
33:19
Speaker 4: some big injuries in training camp and how that's necessarily
33:23
Speaker 4: going to play a role. Remember, the Steelers weirdly in
33:25
Speaker 4: week one, if you want to go back to the
33:27
Speaker 4: Jets and the Steelers, which was a very wonky week
33:30
Speaker 4: one game a year ago. That was a game in
33:32
Speaker 4: which the Steelers defense gave up a zillion points to
33:34
Speaker 4: Justin Fields. They didn't cover, and Boswell hit like a
33:38
Speaker 4: 60-something yard field goal to win the game. But Aaron
33:41
Speaker 4: Rodgers was great. That's my only pause and hesitation.
33:45
Speaker 1: He's just so old. I don't even care.
33:47
Speaker 3: He's going to get hit one time and not get
33:49
Speaker 3: back up one of these days.
33:52
Speaker 1: His AI wife is going to have to be revealed.
33:54
Speaker 4: Let's just hope it's not week one because I'm betting
33:56
Speaker 4: the Steelers.
33:57
Speaker 2: All right. Atlanta's only chance to be consistent offensively early
34:01
Speaker 2: on is to get B John going and doing that
34:04
Speaker 2: against the Steelers, a fresh Steelers defense at home. I
34:07
Speaker 2: just think it's going to be tough sledding for him.
34:08
Speaker 2: It would be Steelers under or nothing. And it's probably
34:11
Speaker 2: going to be nothing for me under for Kendra. Easy
34:15
Speaker 2: to move on past that one. Ravens Colts Colts catching
34:18
Speaker 2: three and a half at home.
34:19
Speaker 6: Total.
34:19
Speaker 2: At 47 and a half. Jesse Minter making his debut
34:23
Speaker 2: with the Baltimore Ravens. We'll get our first look at
34:25
Speaker 2: that Declan Doyle offense as well. Lamar Jackson seems revitalized
34:30
Speaker 2: now that he's not under the thumb of John Harbaugh.
34:33
Speaker 2: And the opponent is a fascinating one. Nobody was more
34:36
Speaker 2: Jekyll and Hyde last year than the Colts. Eight and
34:39
Speaker 2: two at the start. Oh, and seven at the finish.
34:42
Speaker 2: Lamar loves the turf. Lamar's great early on in the season.
34:47
Speaker 2: I want to be on the Colts. Every number I
34:50
Speaker 2: project says, take the Colts. I have such a hard
34:54
Speaker 2: time fading Lamar Jackson and the Ravens early on in
34:57
Speaker 2: the season, even with a new coach. This is a
35:00
Speaker 2: really tough one for me. Kendra, you're nodding along. It
35:03
Speaker 2: looks like you're ready to make a nomination.
35:06
Speaker 1: This is my nomination.
35:09
Speaker 3: The Colts were lightning in a bottle last year. I
35:11
Speaker 3: really think that they're going to be the worst team
35:12
Speaker 3: in this division this year. I think that that is
35:14
Speaker 3: probably a hot take for some. I think the Titans
35:16
Speaker 3: are going to make some moves. I have doubts in
35:18
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones at 100%, let alone coming off of an injury,
35:21
Speaker 3: especially because he's a.
35:22
Speaker 1: Sneaky mobile quarterback. That's how he can beat teams at times.
35:26
Speaker 3: Do we outside of Jonathan Taylor and Tyler Warren believe
35:28
Speaker 3: in this offense?
35:29
Speaker 1: I personally don't. And Lamar has a lot to prove.
35:31
Speaker 3: He's great in the beginning of the season. Zay Flowers
35:33
Speaker 3: also on a prove it moment. So it has to
35:36
Speaker 3: start here for them. Got to whoop up on teams
35:38
Speaker 3: like this.
35:40
Speaker 4: John, I have no problem with this pick. Because Lamar
35:44
Speaker 4: has been really good at the beginning of these years.
35:47
Speaker 4: I can think of multiple years in Lamar Jackson's career
35:50
Speaker 4: where he's just absolutely lit it up in the first
35:54
Speaker 4: game of the season. And to me, there's just too
35:57
Speaker 4: much unknown with the Colts because... You guys kind of
36:00
Speaker 4: hit at it. They were an offensive juggernaut over the
36:04
Speaker 4: first 10 weeks of the year. Daniel Jones was Comeback
36:06
Speaker 4: Player of the Year. Jonathan Taylor was a beast. They
36:10
Speaker 4: had Warren going. They had Pierce going. They had Michael Pittman,
36:13
Speaker 4: who's now in Pittsburgh, going. And then Jones gets hurt,
36:16
Speaker 4: and the team completely falls apart. I think it might
36:20
Speaker 4: take Daniel Jones some time to get back into rhythm. And,
36:25
Speaker 4: you know, Jesse Minner knows defense. All of a sudden,
36:29
Speaker 4: Declan Doyle's thrown in some wrinkles that nobody has seen before.
36:32
Speaker 4: I actually think there'll be points in this game. So
36:36
Speaker 4: I kind of like an over here with the Ravens
36:37
Speaker 4: and the Colts, but I'm not talking you off the Ravens, Kendra.
36:40
Speaker 4: I totally get it.
36:41
Speaker 2: I got to veto it.
36:44
Speaker 1: Wow.
36:45
Speaker 4: I have one more. I have one more in the chamber.
36:47
Speaker 1: Your veto's out of the way. So I have one
36:50
Speaker 1: more in the chamber.
36:51
Speaker 4: Wow. Veto. Okay.
36:55
Speaker 2: Evan, the trends as far as Daniel Jones on turf,
37:00
Speaker 2: Shane Steichen at home, it feels like a pretty precarious
37:07
Speaker 2: position to fade a team that has been a good
37:11
Speaker 2: cover when they're healthy, especially at home early on in
37:15
Speaker 2: the season, and it's three in the hook. I mean,
37:18
Speaker 2: if the first game, Seattle and New England didn't teach
37:20
Speaker 2: us anything, if it did teach us anything, it's that
37:23
Speaker 2: that hook matters a ton. It does.
37:27
Speaker 6: There's just lots of stuff both ways here. I mean,
37:29
Speaker 6: you mentioned the indoor stuff, the turf. It's also which
37:32
Speaker 6: Colts team you're kind of getting. And also Colts have
37:34
Speaker 6: been abysmal in week ones in history, which I don't know,
37:37
Speaker 6: says whatever about this team in this current roster. I
37:40
Speaker 6: think it's mostly about Daniel Jones's health. If anything, I
37:43
Speaker 6: think JJ's calling the over. There's a lot of things
37:46
Speaker 6: pointing under, but I feel like 47 and a half
37:49
Speaker 6: down two points from the opener at 49 and a half.
37:52
Speaker 6: I just feel like there's an opportunity here indoors for
37:54
Speaker 6: some points. I'm even thinking based on Kendra's thoughts, like
37:58
Speaker 6: team total over for Baltimore, maybe.
38:00
Speaker 5: Yep.
38:01
Speaker 2: And Lamar 36 and a half on the rushing yards.
38:03
Speaker 2: If you like them on the turf, that could be
38:05
Speaker 2: a good way to look as well. Let's go to
38:06
Speaker 2: the bucks and the bangles bangles minus three and a
38:09
Speaker 2: half total sitting at 50 and a half. This could
38:11
Speaker 2: be a firework show. between two of the better quarterbacks
38:15
Speaker 2: in the NFL. We know Todd Bowles is throwing those
38:17
Speaker 2: exotic blitzes at Burrow, but Burrow's superpower is handling the blitz.
38:22
Speaker 2: Now the offensive line is, you know, always been a
38:24
Speaker 2: little bit shaky, but Burrow reads a defense with the
38:26
Speaker 2: best of them. This is a tough one. The over
38:29
Speaker 2: would be a lot of fun. I kind of like
38:30
Speaker 2: the idea of just taking passing yard overs on these quarterbacks.
38:34
Speaker 2: If you want to get in on the fantasy side
38:36
Speaker 2: of the action of this game, but Kendra, where are
38:38
Speaker 2: you on this one? I I'm not nominating either of these.
38:41
Speaker 3: Now, I don't want I don't want to nominate this either.
38:44
Speaker 3: This wasn't the one I had in waiting. I just
38:47
Speaker 3: I get that Baker Mayfield is deserving of the contract
38:51
Speaker 3: that he got. I think he actually gave him a
38:52
Speaker 3: little bit of a deal, but I don't know what
38:54
Speaker 3: version of him we have. There are moments where he
38:56
Speaker 3: looks like the best version of himself.
38:59
Speaker 1: And when he's bad, he's bad.
39:00
Speaker 3: And it feels like when he's bad, it's for an
39:02
Speaker 3: entirety of a game or at least more than a
39:04
Speaker 3: quarter or two. I'm just not ready to marry myself
39:07
Speaker 3: to Baker Mayfield in a week one, especially when I
39:09
Speaker 3: think that this is such an important game for the Bengals.
39:13
Speaker 3: It's going to be a tough division. They need every
39:16
Speaker 3: win they can get. The AFC is going to be tough.
39:17
Speaker 3: I believe in Joe Burrow, but once again, the offensive line,
39:20
Speaker 3: like you mentioned, is a question. Can they keep him
39:22
Speaker 3: upright long enough to let him do his thing this year?
39:24
Speaker 3: I don't want anything to do with this game. The
39:26
Speaker 3: over is probably the only place I'd look, but I'm out.
39:30
Speaker 4: The over's gotten a little too juiced for my liking.
39:32
Speaker 4: I like Cincinnati here. I don't trust Tampa's defense. They
39:35
Speaker 4: were awful down a stretch. I know people are going
39:37
Speaker 4: to point to injuries. There are a lot of warning signs,
39:40
Speaker 4: losing veteran leaders, my questions about the head coach. I
39:43
Speaker 4: am not in on this Buccaneer team going into the year.
39:46
Speaker 4: I am in on Cincinnati. Bengals are pass.
39:50
Speaker 1: Can I say something?
39:51
Speaker 3: I think that Baker not to like get on the
39:53
Speaker 3: Liam Cohen like train here, but I think not having
39:57
Speaker 3: him last year really hurt Baker.
39:59
Speaker 1: And I'm wondering if that's going to continue.
40:02
Speaker 2: And their offensive line was all banged up. So when
40:04
Speaker 2: you when you add on the fact that the one
40:07
Speaker 2: of the better offensive lines is not healthy and one
40:10
Speaker 2: of the best offensive play callers left the room. It's
40:13
Speaker 2: not a surprise that the Bucs fell off. This is
40:15
Speaker 2: one of those games where something has to give because
40:17
Speaker 2: the Bengals don't cover early on in the season with
40:20
Speaker 2: Burrow and Zach Taylor. But the Buccaneers have failed to
40:23
Speaker 2: cover nine straight games dating back to last season.
40:28
Speaker 1: How short is Zach Taylor's leash? Also a question.
40:30
Speaker 2: Pretty short.
40:31
Speaker 4: They're cheap, so they'll keep them for the year. But yes,
40:34
Speaker 4: if he doesn't win, he should get fired. But they're cheap,
40:36
Speaker 4: so they won't fire him.
40:38
Speaker 2: One of the cheapest franchises out there. All right, let's
40:40
Speaker 2: go bills, Texans, Texans point and a half dogs, total
40:44
Speaker 2: sitting at 44 and a half. This is the game
40:47
Speaker 2: of the weekend to me. We are going to be
40:50
Speaker 2: mark my words. Whoever wins this game will catch so
40:55
Speaker 2: much hype from the media after the fact.
40:59
Speaker 4: It will.
40:59
Speaker 2: Yes, it will be nauseating. Whoever comes out on top
41:03
Speaker 2: will be the darling of the media moving forward. It's
41:06
Speaker 2: Josh Allen against the league's top defense. Official nomination for me.
41:11
Speaker 2: I love the Houston Texans plus one and a half.
41:14
Speaker 2: I'm fading Joe Brady in his debut game. Come on.
41:17
Speaker 2: This defense at home has dogs all over it. Evan
41:21
Speaker 2: and I had this one in May.
41:22
Speaker 3: CJ Stroud looked like he cooped his pants walking into
41:24
Speaker 3: the facility.
41:25
Speaker 4: Kendra, they won last year with Davis Mills as their quarterback.
41:30
Speaker 4: I was also going to make this my nominee. So
41:33
Speaker 4: well done, Kravitz. You stole it from me. Kendra, come on.
41:36
Speaker 4: Texans are winning this game. Their defense is unbelievable. And
41:39
Speaker 4: look at Josh Allen's history playing in this building, going
41:42
Speaker 4: all the way back to his second year when he
41:44
Speaker 4: lost the playoff game to Deshaun Watson. I love the Texans.
41:48
Speaker 4: Best defense in the league. All about that action. They
41:51
Speaker 4: win the game outright. I don't even need the points.
41:55
Speaker 2: But you're out.
41:56
Speaker 4: Kendra, I'm kidding.
41:57
Speaker 2: Don't do it, Kendra.
41:59
Speaker 3: If this were a Week 10 game, I would be
42:01
Speaker 3: all over the Bills here. I want to use this
42:04
Speaker 3: as a veto, but there's one other game I'm worried
42:06
Speaker 3: that you two shitheads are going to be in on.
42:08
Speaker 4: Oh, boy.
42:11
Speaker 2: All right. Then does that mean that it's in?
42:15
Speaker 4: Nominee in. It's got to be, right?
42:17
Speaker 2: Come on, Kendra. I've been wanting to put this in
42:20
Speaker 2: since May.
42:22
Speaker 4: I already bet it.
42:22
Speaker 3: You guys are pissing me off and making me want
42:25
Speaker 3: to veto it.
42:26
Speaker 1: Because you're arguing.
42:28
Speaker 2: Don't crush my dreams, Kendra.
42:31
Speaker 1: You owe me one.
42:32
Speaker 2: It's in. Yes.
42:33
Speaker 4: Let's go.
42:34
Speaker 2: All right.
42:35
Speaker 3: You have to listen to my final nominee, though, because
42:37
Speaker 3: we're getting close.
42:39
Speaker 2: Okay. All right. All right. We got to keep it moving.
42:41
Speaker 2: We're up against the clock here. Let's go to the Jets.
42:46
Speaker 1: We don't need to talk about this. I have the under.
42:50
Speaker 2: Okay.
42:51
Speaker 4: Guys, I know I came on your pod doing the
42:53
Speaker 4: AFC East, destroying the Jets. Now I've talked myself into
42:57
Speaker 4: betting the Jets in week one. It's not my nominee,
43:00
Speaker 4: but it's Jets or pass. The Titans are terrible.
43:04
Speaker 1: I think the Titans are good.
43:06
Speaker 2: The best way to bet this game. This is so easy, guys.
43:10
Speaker 2: It's right under our nose, and it's even money on DraftKings.
43:14
Speaker 2: Ham ward to throw an interception. New offense.
43:17
Speaker 4: Didn't have one all last year. Crabby.
43:19
Speaker 2: That's the point. This is, this should be like minus
43:23
Speaker 2: one 40.
43:23
Speaker 1: You two should kiss.
43:26
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
43:27
Speaker 4: Too much agreement. There we go.
43:31
Speaker 2: Cam ward. I N T even money. All right, moving on.
43:34
Speaker 2: Let's go to the four o'clock window. Commanders at Eagles
43:37
Speaker 2: Eagles laying five and a half. It's four and a
43:38
Speaker 2: half in contest. So I can be talked into Philadelphia.
43:41
Speaker 2: The commander's were the regression Kings last year, NFC title participant,
43:46
Speaker 2: the year prior five win team last year. Curious to
43:49
Speaker 2: see how they bounce back from that divisional game week one.
43:54
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people are going to want
43:55
Speaker 2: to be on the dog here, but I love Philadelphia.
43:57
Speaker 2: I like that. Jalen hurts. Doesn't have to worry about
44:00
Speaker 2: AJ Brown anymore. They can have a little more variety
44:03
Speaker 2: on offense. So I'd be Philly or nothing, but I
44:06
Speaker 2: have a, my gut tells me this one doesn't end
44:09
Speaker 2: up in our contest. Kendra.
44:11
Speaker 3: Now, this number is a little too sharp for me.
44:13
Speaker 3: I think Dan Quinn's going to turn back into a pumpkin.
44:15
Speaker 3: There's obviously distractions around Jaden Daniels, and there's going to
44:18
Speaker 3: continue to be kind of in this early stretch of
44:20
Speaker 3: the season. But I don't believe in either of these sides.
44:24
Speaker 3: I just need to see some more before I can
44:27
Speaker 3: bet on either of them. I'm worried about both of
44:29
Speaker 3: them through the season. I'm still on the Cowboys for
44:31
Speaker 3: the division, but.
44:33
Speaker 1: Gross number. Gross number.
44:35
Speaker 4: Gang, I kind of like Washington. They always play Philly tough.
44:39
Speaker 4: You're talking about a divisional game. I'm getting four and
44:42
Speaker 4: a half points, and I don't trust the Eagle offense.
44:46
Speaker 4: It's not my nominee, but it's Washington or pass to me.
44:50
Speaker 4: I feel like this is a little stinky with the Eagles.
44:54
Speaker 2: Evan, are we missing anything here? I mean, this is
44:56
Speaker 2: a pretty, this is a pretty fat number on a
44:59
Speaker 2: divisional underdog in week one.
45:00
Speaker 6: It is, but the expectations on Washington are kind of
45:04
Speaker 6: like a median between the chaos from last year and
45:07
Speaker 6: the stuff the year before that. If you look at
45:09
Speaker 6: the markets though, everyone kind of likes Philly in this game.
45:12
Speaker 6: There isn't a lot of things on the public side
45:15
Speaker 6: from Washington standpoint. So people are kind of just rolling
45:18
Speaker 6: with the Eagles in this one. So I don't mind
45:20
Speaker 6: JJ's look at the four and a half, but it,
45:22
Speaker 6: It feels like Philly should take care of this one
45:26
Speaker 6: in a seven-point win.
45:28
Speaker 2: I think the Eagles are a sneaky good survivor pick
45:32
Speaker 2: this week. Jalen Hurts, 32-7 straight up as a home
45:36
Speaker 2: favorite with the Eagles, according to the Prima.
45:39
Speaker 4: And he wins week one, too. I feel like he's
45:41
Speaker 4: won a bunch of week ones.
45:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, this should be an Eagles money line parlay, if
45:49
Speaker 2: that's your flavor. I wouldn't mind throwing them in there.
45:51
Speaker 2: Let's go to the Cardinals. And the chargers, this can
45:54
Speaker 2: be quick because we already know that we love this one.
45:56
Speaker 2: This was the first one that made it to the
45:58
Speaker 2: contest for Kendra and I. So a lot of consensus here,
46:01
Speaker 2: the Cardinals breaking in a new coach and Mike LaFleur,
46:03
Speaker 2: but the chargers are breaking in a whole new offense.
46:06
Speaker 2: I like the idea of fading these teams, not blindly,
46:10
Speaker 2: but this is something I look to fade. If you're
46:13
Speaker 2: trying to break in a new offense with the same
46:15
Speaker 2: pieces from last year, it's a lot to learn early
46:19
Speaker 2: on in the season. John, no one's playing in the
46:21
Speaker 2: preseason these days.
46:23
Speaker 4: No doubt, and it's way too many points. And because
46:25
Speaker 4: it's going to be the consensus survivor pick, there's just
46:28
Speaker 4: no way in the world this is going to be easy.
46:31
Speaker 4: Only pushback. Harbaugh's been really, really good in week one. Really,
46:35
Speaker 4: really good, going back to his Niners days and now
46:37
Speaker 4: with the Los Angeles Chargers. But no argument for me.
46:40
Speaker 4: Line's moving in our favor. Arizona will find a way
46:43
Speaker 4: to cover the number.
46:44
Speaker 2: Yep, and it's 10.5 in the contest. It's down to
46:47
Speaker 2: 9.5 now across most books. So, yeah, easy one. for
46:52
Speaker 2: us a layup week one divisional or a week one
46:55
Speaker 2: double digit favorites seven and 14 against the spread since 2000.
46:58
Speaker 2: That is a bet against the chargers. Our dolphins, John
47:03
Speaker 2: catching three against the Las Vegas Raiders. It's Malik Willis
47:08
Speaker 2: versus Kirk cousins, NFL ratings, gold here, two head coaches
47:13
Speaker 2: making their debut. Jeff Halfley, Clint Kubiak. I could have
47:18
Speaker 2: been talked into the Raiders. Not with the current injury situation.
47:23
Speaker 2: Brock Bowers out. Ashton Gentry, not 100%. I want to
47:28
Speaker 2: nominate the Miami Dolphins plus three and a half.
47:30
Speaker 4: Oh, you sick man. You sick man. I think it's
47:33
Speaker 4: the right side in the game. I'm not a Kirk
47:36
Speaker 4: Cousins guy at this stage in his career. The only
47:39
Speaker 4: problem is, are you sure you want to be in
47:42
Speaker 4: on that Miami Dolphin defense? That's my problem. It is
47:46
Speaker 4: a horrifying defense. You can't name one player in a secondary.
47:50
Speaker 4: Can't do it.
47:50
Speaker 2: No, I can't. I follow the team and I couldn't
47:54
Speaker 2: if I tried. But to me, it's a numbers play.
47:57
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just you're talking about a team in
48:00
Speaker 2: the Raiders that still kind of needs to get to
48:02
Speaker 2: know one another. They should not be laying this team.
48:06
Speaker 2: I believe in them season long laying three and a
48:08
Speaker 2: half when you're without the guy that you're building this
48:12
Speaker 2: new offense around. Clint Kubiak is the guy that took
48:14
Speaker 2: Jackson Smith and Jigba to the next level. Brock Bowers
48:17
Speaker 2: is going to be that chess piece in the offense
48:20
Speaker 2: and you don't have him. Michael Mayer is a huge
48:22
Speaker 2: drop off in terms of talent. I think he's, I
48:25
Speaker 2: think Bowers is worth nearly a point to the spread
48:29
Speaker 2: and the number doesn't reflect that. And our number in
48:32
Speaker 2: contest reflects nothing of Bowers not being on the field.
48:36
Speaker 2: So to me, it's a numbers play more than anything else.
48:38
Speaker 2: I like the Miami dolphins plus three and a half.
48:41
Speaker 3: I'm vetoing you. The Raiders' defense is too good for
48:45
Speaker 3: that offense.
48:46
Speaker 1: There's no way. I'm sorry.
48:48
Speaker 3: You're not going to get me to believe in Malik Willis.
48:50
Speaker 3: I've seen everything that I needed to see. I.
48:54
Speaker 1: No, I will say I'm higher on Michael Mayer than
48:56
Speaker 1: you guys, though.
48:57
Speaker 3: I do have the under in this game, but I'm
48:58
Speaker 3: also in on an anytime touchdown for him, plus 280.
49:02
Speaker 3: I think he's way better than you guys are giving
49:04
Speaker 3: him credit for, especially as a red zone threat.
49:06
Speaker 4: I didn't have a problem with Michael Mayer. Hold on
49:08
Speaker 4: a second. I didn't throw any slander his way. I
49:10
Speaker 4: just think Miami's the right side of the game. I
49:12
Speaker 4: don't trust Cousins. That's that's my point.
49:15
Speaker 2: I had a feeling that was that, was that the
49:17
Speaker 2: veto that you were saving? Cause you knew I was
49:19
Speaker 2: going to do that.
49:20
Speaker 5: Yeah.
49:20
Speaker 6: Okay.
49:21
Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't, you know, I.
49:23
Speaker 4: Was going to be banging the table for the dolphins.
49:25
Speaker 4: Come on, Kendra. You should know.
49:26
Speaker 2: The plan wasn't to come in and be the, the
49:28
Speaker 2: Homer of the.
49:29
Speaker 1: Podcast, but, uh, I already be into it with the Jags.
49:34
Speaker 2: Packers Vikings, Vikings laying a point and a half total
49:37
Speaker 2: sitting at 46 and a half. I still have nightmares.
49:39
Speaker 2: betting against the Packers in week one last year, no
49:42
Speaker 2: team was more impressive out of the gate than green Bay,
49:45
Speaker 2: but this is probably going to be a different look.
49:47
Speaker 2: No Micah Parsons, big problem for green Bay. They were
49:50
Speaker 2: Owen five without him down the stretch. If you include
49:53
Speaker 2: the playoffs outscored one 44 to 96 in those games,
49:59
Speaker 2: it is Vikings or nothing for me. And the money
50:02
Speaker 2: seems to be moving in that direction as well. Kendra.
50:05
Speaker 3: Does this feel to anybody else like these two are
50:08
Speaker 3: going to coach their ass off and their quarterbacks are
50:11
Speaker 3: just not going to.
50:12
Speaker 1: Be able to do fucking anything and it's going to
50:14
Speaker 1: be a.
50:15
Speaker 3: Mid-off with coaches just stalking up and down the sidelines
50:18
Speaker 3: pissed off? Because the Packers are so injured and Kyler
50:22
Speaker 3: Murray is little.
50:24
Speaker 4: Well, I don't like being involved in the Kyler Murray experience.
50:27
Speaker 4: He has absolutely destroyed me futures-wise each of the last
50:30
Speaker 4: two years. But you know what I'm about to do, guys?
50:32
Speaker 4: I'm betting the Vikings in week one. I think their
50:35
Speaker 4: depth as a roster may be compromised over the course
50:37
Speaker 4: of the year. But they're healthy going into this matchup.
50:41
Speaker 4: Brian Forrest, I think, forces a couple of turnovers with
50:43
Speaker 4: his defense on Jordan Love. And I think this is
50:46
Speaker 4: a big revitalization game for Justin Jefferson where people watch
50:50
Speaker 4: week one. They're like, Oh yeah, I forgot how good
50:53
Speaker 4: that guy is because he actually has someone who can
50:56
Speaker 4: get him the football. The market is moving with us.
50:59
Speaker 4: It is not my nominee, but if anybody wants to
51:01
Speaker 4: throw it in there, please let's get it on the Vikings.
51:04
Speaker 2: All right. So that's not ending up in the context.
51:06
Speaker 2: I contest. I do think this game will be close.
51:10
Speaker 2: I think I already played the Vikings as a teaser
51:12
Speaker 2: leg and then the line flipped and And I went
51:15
Speaker 2: the other way with it. So I am pot committed
51:18
Speaker 2: to this game being decided by seven points or less
51:22
Speaker 2: on either side. That that's, that's what I need to happen.
51:25
Speaker 2: Just think if you wanted to sweat with me throughout this,
51:28
Speaker 2: I don't really care who wins, but I like, did
51:30
Speaker 2: he like the Viking side? If I was to bet
51:32
Speaker 2: one side, I'd be on the Vikings. Let's finish off
51:35
Speaker 2: with the Cowboys and the Giants. Giants plus three in
51:38
Speaker 2: this one total sitting at 48 and a half Sunday
51:41
Speaker 2: night football. This should be a good one. John Harbaugh
51:43
Speaker 2: makes his debut with the Giants as their head coach.
51:45
Speaker 2: Jackson Dart attempting to learn a new offense under Matt
51:48
Speaker 2: Nagy and the Cowboys roll in his road favorites with
51:52
Speaker 2: the top flight offense rebuilt defense. What are we thinking Kendra?
51:58
Speaker 1: This still isn't my nomination.
51:59
Speaker 3: We're going to have to not preview Monday, but But
52:02
Speaker 3: we're going to have to mention it. I would love
52:05
Speaker 3: to be on the Giants here. But the more that
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Speaker 3: I sit here and look through this Cowboys roster, the
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Speaker 3: higher I am on the Cowboys.
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Speaker 1: I hate to say it. Good for Gifford. I think
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Speaker 1: this team is going to be so good this year.
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Speaker 3: I think the Giants are going to need a couple
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Speaker 3: of weeks to kind of find their footing and are
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Speaker 3: probably going to have a higher upside the second half
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Speaker 3: of the season. I think the Cowboys, if anything, but
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Speaker 3: no play from me here.
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Speaker 4: Brilliant analysis, Kendra. Can I drop it? How about them Cowboys?
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Speaker 4: I love the Cowboys, guys. I can't get enough of
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Speaker 4: this game. I can't get enough of this season.
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Speaker 1: If that's your nomination, there's worse options for me here.
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Speaker 4: That's my nomination.
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Speaker 2: Is this it? Are we in on the Cowboys?
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Speaker 4: I am very in on the Cowboys this year. They
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Speaker 4: own the Giants.
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Speaker 2: I think we all like the Cowboys this season, but
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Speaker 2: we're in on the Cowboys.
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Speaker 4: They have owned, owned, owned the Giants for the better
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Speaker 4: part of a decade. Kendrick, you brought up the idea
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Speaker 4: that Jackson Dart is learning a new offense. I think
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Speaker 4: there is a transition there. Neighbors coming back off the injury.
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Speaker 4: Scadaboo coming back off the injury. Did I mention that
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Speaker 4: the Giants have major questions as far as their ability
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Speaker 4: to stop the run? And I don't trust their corners.
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Speaker 4: Who's guarding CeeDee Lamb? Who's guarding George Pickens? I think
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Speaker 4: Dallas got a top five offense. I think their defense
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Speaker 4: with Quinn and Williams for a full year. Caleb Downs.
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Speaker 4: They make a statement in week one. Cowboys, don't think
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Speaker 4: twice about it. We are laying the three. I don't
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Speaker 4: care if it's a divisional road dog. Cowboys, Cowboys, Cowboys.
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Speaker 2: Let's go. Oh, what a fun way to wrap up
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Speaker 2: our Sunday to have the Cowboys in the contest and
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Speaker 2: to make it even better. It's minus two and a
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Speaker 2: half in the contest with the line moving towards that three.
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Speaker 2: So I am with it. Let's do it.
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Speaker 3: Last but not least, boys, my final nomination is going
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Speaker 3: to be the Denver Broncos at Arrowhead on Monday Night Football.
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Speaker 1: I party so hard with the Broncos in this spot.
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Speaker 3: Kravitz, you can't say anything about it.
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Speaker 1: I love the Broncos here. Their defense, Patrick Mahomes, is
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Speaker 1: not going to be fully healthy. They're old. That defense
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Speaker 1: can shut down those receivers. Get out of here. Easy choice,
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Speaker 1: Denver Broncos.
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Speaker 4: I'm with it. I don't have a problem with it, Kendra.
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Speaker 2: I got to see it from the Chiefs and Mahomes.
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Speaker 4: Got to see it. I'd pick them to miss the
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Speaker 4: playoffs for what it's worth.
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Speaker 1: He's rushing back, man. He's rushing back to a click.
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Speaker 2: I'm with you, okay? I would not veto this. I
54:28
Speaker 2: would be on the Broncos as well. The problem is,
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Speaker 2: is if my math is right, we're already at five.
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Speaker 2: That's the problem.
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Speaker 4: We have the Texans. We have the Cowboys.
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Speaker 1: Cardinals, Texans, Cowboys, Broncos.
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Speaker 2: Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: We said if there wasn't one that we liked better.
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Speaker 4: I'm using my veto on that. There you go. I
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Speaker 4: didn't use my veto. That would be my veto. Done. Okay.
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Speaker 2: Okay. So you're vetoing the Jags and we add the Broncos.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. I like the Broncos. Correct.
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Speaker 1: I feel really good about this. I feel good. Are
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Speaker 1: we Ella fellas? Are we choosing Texas?
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Speaker 4: Texas forever, baby. Friday night lights. If you know, you know.
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Speaker 2: For sure. I mean, you can tell by the way,
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Speaker 2: we're two stepping around the room.
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Speaker 4: If we win both of these, I may have to
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Speaker 4: get a cowboy hat for the next time I come
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Speaker 4: on with you guys. I'll wear it.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to wear a bandana around my neck on
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Speaker 3: Monday if we get.
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Speaker 1: Both of these right.
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Speaker 2: We are. We are cowboys through and through.
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Speaker 3: Just pick something already.
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Speaker 1: If you don't like it, you can just veto it.
55:34
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Speaker 2: We like the 49ers plus three and a half in
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Speaker 2: Australia against the LA Rams. We like the Cardinals plus
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Speaker 2: 10 and a half going to LA to take on
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Speaker 2: the chargers Broncos plus two and a half on Monday
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Speaker 2: night against the Kansas city chiefs Texans plus one and
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Speaker 2: a half with that vaunted defense against Josh Allen and
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Speaker 2: the bills at home and the JJ special, the Dallas
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Speaker 2: Cowboys laying two and a half on the road. against
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Speaker 4: Let's cash them, gang. Enjoy the football.
56:24
Speaker 2: Our guest, John Yastrzemski, will be back on the podcast
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56:31
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