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NCAAB + NHL + NBA + NCAAF Bowls/Playoffs Best Bets Friday 12/19/25 · Toadstool Sports

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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Inside I want to kill myself. We are on OWN
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: seven run over the last two days after tonight.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: It was just complete bullshit. So that's that's I'm gonna
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: start off this show horrible Sunday one and five. I
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: don't even know what to tell you about that. I
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: just don't want to do this anymore. I have never
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: seen anything like this. Man with the slump continuing, two
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: straight losses, not a good day at all. Own four
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  Speaker 1: that have not had a good season.
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  Speaker 2: Man with wookends slump that I'm on, and the slump continues,
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  Speaker 2: I've reached into pink.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Actually, I'm going to burn my brons haack. Man, I
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: don't know what is going on with the bruins. Our shape?
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: Is that what it is? I don't even know it's
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: It's March ninth, I think who even knows? Man, I
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: don't know what data is anymore. I'm not I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know what data is anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Man, back with you after the worst day that I
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  Speaker 2: could possibly have, Back with you as I always am.
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  Speaker 1: Until I die, at least oh and two. Yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: yesterday it did not go well for me. Own five.
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  Speaker 2: The worst month that I've ever had in my eighteen
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  Speaker 2: years doing this.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to even tell you about this anymore.
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  Speaker 2: To the slumpers, the slump discontinues, the slump continues.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody fucking kill me, please.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what I should do at this
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  Speaker 2: point other than potentially end it all. What's up, ebod,
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  Speaker 2: it's towed back with you Toadstool Sports. Friday, December nineteenth,
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: getting into, uh, the Christmas week.
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  Speaker 1: It's come up fast. We're gonna have a lot of
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff going on here.
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  Speaker 2: NFL starts Saturday games, so we're gonna have to talk
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  Speaker 2: about those.
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  Speaker 1: There are two games in the NFL tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: I'll probably have to be back tonight to do a
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: college basketball show unless there's not a lot of it tomorrow.
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: I have not looked at all. There's not much going
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: on today. Yesterday was a winning day on the show.
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  Speaker 2: If you bet the way that I bet, it went
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  Speaker 2: three and three, but we actually got over the threshold
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  Speaker 2: small win just because of the New Orleans Pelicans winning outright.
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  Speaker 2: So if you do what I do and you put
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  Speaker 2: thirty percent of that bet on the money line or not, wait,
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  Speaker 2: not thirty ten percent? Excuse I'm so out of a day,
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  Speaker 2: ten percent of the bet on the money line. Then, yeah,
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: that's what got over the threshold there. Louisiana was a
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  Speaker 2: win in college basketball. That number was up to thirteen
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  Speaker 2: and a half, but they lost by like eight. It
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: was an extremely ugly, low scoring game. I'm like looking
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  Speaker 2: at the score and it was like twenty five to nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, all right, like probably halfway through the
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  Speaker 2: first half, and I'm like, wait, we're like like four
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  Speaker 2: minutes into this second half, it's twenty five to nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, uh, all right, that's a good sign. I
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  Speaker 2: guess that neither team is scoring, which was part of
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  Speaker 2: the handicap. We lost in the Columbus PJS. They suck
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  Speaker 2: pun intended.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say about that. That
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  Speaker 1: was a loss. At least they were an underdog.
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  Speaker 2: We got the win with the New York Rangers in
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  Speaker 2: the other hockey game, thankfully, because they were the favorite
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: and it took overtime to get it done. That was,
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: as I said, I thought that was gonna be a
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: low scoring game. Man, as I said to me, that's
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  Speaker 2: how it ran. Maybe I should just be betting hockey totals.
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: Because my reads seemed to be alright on those. That
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: was a It was a one to one game and
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  Speaker 2: the Rangers scored in overtime to win the game. So
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  Speaker 2: we did get that one basketball NBA.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I should have still gone with the Pacers. They covered,
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  Speaker 2: They almost won the game outright. That was close to
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  Speaker 2: making my card. I think Orlando probably covered as well, right,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't let me look real quick, did they Uh No,
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  Speaker 2: Orlando lost and did not. I think they did not cover.
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  Speaker 2: So never mind on that one. That one almost made
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  Speaker 2: my card as well, and then the fade of the
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  Speaker 2: Thunder would not have worked out. That Thunder team, man,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they just bounced back like nothing. They went
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  Speaker 2: at home. I mean, they're absolutely dominant. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: who's gonna beat them, if anybody, But we.
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  Speaker 1: Went one to one in our place.
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  Speaker 2: The Wizards were kind of hanging around within that number
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  Speaker 2: and then fell flat. They lost by probably twenty something.
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  Speaker 2: The Pelicans came back. The Pelicans were they were getting
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  Speaker 2: blown out. The Pelicans were down by I think at
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  Speaker 2: least twenty points in the middle of that game. They
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  Speaker 2: came back and they won the game outright against Houston,
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  Speaker 2: in overtime, so we got that win with the Pelicans.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, dude, I'm such an idiot. Why am I not
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: where I have a Zion Pelican's jersey. Why am I
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  Speaker 2: not wearing that right now?
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm an idiot. I should be wearing it.
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  Speaker 2: Missed opportunity And this is what I could say about
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  Speaker 2: the Thursday night game, missing that game by a half
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  Speaker 2: point because I never saw anything better than one and
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  Speaker 2: a half. The money line was like minus one twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, Eh, just lay the one and a.
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  Speaker 1: Half, Like, what are the odds that Seattle wins by one? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Well, when it goes into overtime and the other team
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  Speaker 2: gets the ball first, the odds just went way up
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  Speaker 2: because it's a ten minute overtime and you're probably not
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  Speaker 2: gonna You're not gonna get another possession. If you're the
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  Speaker 2: second team that gets the ball, you're not gonna tie
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  Speaker 2: and let the other team beat you with a field goal.
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  Speaker 2: You basically have to go for two with that point.
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  Speaker 2: So at that point, I'm like, oh my god, it
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be a one point game. But I will
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  Speaker 2: say the Rams dominated that game, like I can't believe
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  Speaker 2: that they lost that game.
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: And I'm even more fucking.
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  Speaker 2: Pissed because I spent all this time and energy to
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: be in first place, get the first round by in
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  Speaker 2: my fantasy league.
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: What happens during my bye?
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  Speaker 2: I lose the number two fantasy quarterback in the NFL
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  Speaker 2: Mahomes He's gone, So now I have a mishmash of
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  Speaker 2: bad quarterbacks that I'm gonna have to use. And Jonathan
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  Speaker 2: Taylor lost his quarterback number one fantasy player. He's on
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  Speaker 2: my team, but he doesn't have a quarterback now, so
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea what we're gonna get out of
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  Speaker 2: him this week. And I'm up against my opponent had
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  Speaker 2: Pooka Nakoula last night.
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  Speaker 1: He had like forty fucking points.
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  Speaker 2: What am I supposed to do when my opponent has
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  Speaker 2: forty points from one wide receiver position?
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  Speaker 1: Are you fucking kidding me?
• 6:41
  Speaker 2: It was like the biggest wide receiver score of the
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  Speaker 2: season in a single game by any receiver.
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: And Nikoua is a moron.
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: Because he apologized for doing that dance that was supposedly
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  Speaker 2: anti submitic just because he was rubbing his hands. He
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: comes out and apologizes, what a bitch fuck Nakoula. I
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: hate that guy. I hate him for so many reasons
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: right now, fuck you, fuck all of that. I'm so
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  Speaker 2: fucking pissed. We're gonna talk about today. I got two plays,
• 7:11
  Speaker 2: mister Pinzy, what's up? Thanks for hanging out listening to
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  Speaker 2: my rant college basketball. I don't even know what I'm
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: gonna say about college basketball because I just don't have
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  Speaker 2: anything on this board today for college basketball.
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: This board is a pass for me. I'm bored by it.
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: There's an eleven am game between Datmouth and Sacred Hot.
• 7:31
  Speaker 2: This is an awful game. I mean, who's gonna watch
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  Speaker 2: this game at eleven am?
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  Speaker 1: It's competing with.
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  Speaker 2: The Myrtle Beach Ball as well, which is probably a
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  Speaker 2: better game than this. I don't know what to say
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  Speaker 2: about this game other than it's happening. I mean, these
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: teams are both bad. Diartmuth just beat Holy Cross. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: not an impressive win there. Holy Cross is bad a
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  Speaker 2: New England to battle there. Sacred Heart is also in
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  Speaker 2: New England. They're in floor of their connet Fairfield, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so out of it right now. I believe they're
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  Speaker 2: in Fairfield, Connecticut. Sacred Heart just had a close game
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  Speaker 2: at UMass Lowell. I think U mass Lowell probably, I
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  Speaker 2: would guess, was a small favorite in that game if
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  Speaker 2: I remember correctly. So Sacred Heart failed to get that done.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it looks like the initial line move drops
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  Speaker 2: Sacred Heart from one to a pick them, so there
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  Speaker 2: was an initial move towards Dartmouth.
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  Speaker 1: I got no reid on this game at all.
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  Speaker 2: Money coming in towards the under I mean I probably
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't disagree with that. I mean, I think you're looking
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  Speaker 2: at two really bad teams, so it is potentially going
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  Speaker 2: to be an ugly game. And I don't really even
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  Speaker 2: get why the total is as high as it is
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  Speaker 2: in the mid one fifties.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't see these teams as offensive juggernauts, although Dartmouth does
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  Speaker 2: play fast apparently, but you want to know it.
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  Speaker 1: Based on their scores.
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  Speaker 2: Sacred Heart actually plays kind of a mid tempo too,
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  Speaker 2: But these offenses are not great. But you're looking at
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  Speaker 2: a really bad defense the Sacred Heart side, So I
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: don't know. I mean, maybe the lean is towards Dartmouth
• 9:04
  Speaker 2: there because Sacred Heart just had a more difficult opponent
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  Speaker 2: in their previous game. We have the Chris Paul Black
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: College Tournament, whatever the hell it is, the HBCU thing
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: that's going on in college par Georgia. That thing is continuing.
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: Grambling is playing Houston. I would probably excuse Houston. I
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: am so out of it today, man, I don't sleep Hampton.
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: Grambling is playing Hampton Houston. Houston would destroy them. Grambling
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  Speaker 2: is coming of an upset win over Norfolk State. It
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: did break along lost streak for them. So sometimes when
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  Speaker 2: a team breaks along lost streak, that could be a
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: good thing and it will give them new momentum. But
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: I don't like the spot for Grambling. In fact, if
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna play any college game today, it would
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: probably be Hampton. In this game here, Grambling just pulled
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  Speaker 2: off an upset of Norfolk State.
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: Pretty good win for them. There.
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  Speaker 2: There were some I would guess they were about five
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  Speaker 2: six point dogs in that game. I don't have to
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  Speaker 2: go back and look. But they also have to turn
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  Speaker 2: around in four days and play Ohio State, so that's.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna be a big game.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing that might keep them grounded here is
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  Speaker 2: the fact that they're playing in this tournament thing here.
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  Speaker 2: That's like the only thing because otherwise I see this
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: looking like kind of a sandwich spot.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: The Grambling is in here. Hampton.
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: They just beat our pals at Jackson State. Not really
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: an impressive win there. I'm assuming Hampton was a favorite
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: in that game. They won by seven, I mean just
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: kind of. I mean, nothing to really even read into
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: with that, even though, Yeah, Jackson State, as we keep saying,
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: is better than their record looks. But I think the
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: spot's bad for Grambling, so I would lean towards Hampton.
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: You gotta lay one and a half on it, so
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: you're basically just asking them to win the game, even
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: though it's a low total of one hundred and thirty
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: seven and a half. Looks like it's gonna be an
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: ugly game in that one. And then we do have
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: some five PM games as well. Celt Dakota State at Milwaukee.
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: Celt Dakota State they're probably the better of these two teams.
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: They're coming out of a loss against Wyoming where I
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  Speaker 2: expected sheelth Dakota State to be more competitive there because that.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: Was in Sioux Falls, so it was in celt Dakota's territory.
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  Speaker 2: Wyoming not that bad this year, though, so I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to really knock celt Dakota State too much for that,
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: But they do also have Arizona up next, so though
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: it's not for ten days, but looks.
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  Speaker 1: Like maybe a little bit of a difficult spot for
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: them here.
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: This is the Milwaukee Hoops Showdown though, so it is
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: kind of some tournament here. Although it's in Milwaukee's I
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: think it's in their home arena. It's somewhere in Milwaukee
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: at the very least, so it's in their city at
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: the very least. Milwaukee's coming out of lost to Indiana State,
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: which they're not as good of a team now, although
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: they were. Actually Milwaukee was favored in this game, believe
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: it or not, even though they have the worst record.
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: So yeah, maybe Milwaukee will bounce back here in this one.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way I've been leaning in this one.
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee celt Dakota State's up from a one point favorite
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: to a one and a half point favorite. I'd probably
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: look towards the points there. Milwaukee's also been pretty good
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: at home so far, so except for that last game,
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  Speaker 2: but not a whole lot about that. Garrett, what's up man?
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: Oh No, yeah, I mean again, Yeah, that's that's why.
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: That's why I recommend against parlays, man. I mean, the
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: odds makers don't give you good enough odds on it either,
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: because they know that the parlays always look tempting, because
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: you're always getting like an underdog price. If you're gonna
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: do it, you gotta just resign yourself to knowing that
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: it's almost like a lottery play, Like it's not like.
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: A plus expected value play.
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: You just don't get good enough odds on it, and
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: then yet one leg missing takes the whole thing down.
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I just everything that I do is just
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: straight bets, just straight bet everything, and you know, maybe
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: way each thing a little bit differently.
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: I do not talk boxing. I don't know much about
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: it at all.
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: Actually, I've I've had like a couple of UFC plays
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: that have given on on the show before, but those
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: are very sparse as well.
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: I've probably only given out two or three of those.
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: I don't even know if I've ever given out a
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: boxing play on this show.
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: I just I don't really follow it.
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: Excuse me follow it, oh man, There's just too much
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: to follow, man, oh Man.
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: All right, hold on a minute.
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: I still have my I still have my bowl spreadsheet
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: up right now, because I'm using that for my bol
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: Mania confidence values, which, by the way.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: That Bowl last night, it wasn't even in ESPN's bol
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: Mania game. They're just not the Xbox Bowl. It just
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: doesn't exist.
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: It was kind of a crazy game. The Missouri State
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: almost came back and won. They were down thirty one.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: To seven, and they.
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: Almost only lost by like six, which is kind of insane,
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: or maybe it was eight, whatever, it was all right,
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: five pm. We do also have copp And State at Navy.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: I mean copp and State very very bad team. They're
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: gonna be a big underdog here. They just got blown
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: out by Radford. Radford better than people.
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  Speaker 1: Think they are. Navy has been decent at home.
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  Speaker 2: But Navy did just win against air Force, which is
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: a big deal because the you know, the Service Academy
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: as they always get up to play each other. The Navy,
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming, is the better team than air Force. So
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: maybe not that impressive that they only won by five.
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: Navy's a nineteen and a half point favorite here, but
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  Speaker 2: the totals really low at one forty and a half,
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: so you know, I'm not gonna come in and be
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: and I don't really want to lay points like that
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: with Navy, all right, even though Coppin State is really
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  Speaker 2: really bad. So, I mean, I guess it wouldn't shock
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: me if Navy did win that game by that margin.
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: But it's an ugly It looks like an ugly low
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: scoring game to me.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: These games are all terrible though, So Rams, money line,
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: you went against my play?
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: What come on? Man?
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: We both lost because again I had one and a
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: half on the Seattle and.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: They won by one.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very pissed about it, Like they should have just
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: lost by like two touchdowns. The Rams should have won
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: that game. Statistically, they dominated it, so I.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: Was wrong on that one.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: But the fact that a money line Seattle play would
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: have cashed it really really angers me. Navy's got a
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: good point guard, that's good to know.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: I cannot name anybody on most of these teams, to
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: be honest, which is probably not good. But yeah, personnel,
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: I'm not good with personnel in these games, man. I
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: just look at scheduling spots and whatever. We do have
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: a big East matchup on Fox Sports at six thirty
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: pm Eastern. This is a contrast of styles here, man
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  Speaker 2: Seaton Hall and Providence. Seaton Hall they play slow, Providence
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: they play fast, so usually the home team is gonna
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: win out with the tempo battle. Though, so if Providence
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: is gonna speed this thing up, Seaton Hall might be
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: in a little bit of trouble.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: If that happens.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: People are gonna look at this and see Providence is
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: seven and five, Seaton Hall is ten to one.
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  Speaker 1: But Providence is a favorite.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: So that's gonna look strange to the recreational batter, right,
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  Speaker 2: if they're looking for something to bet, Oh big East game,
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  Speaker 2: all right, let's bet this.
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  Speaker 1: It looks pretty easy.
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  Speaker 2: To take the points with Seaton Hall, right, it looks
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: way too easy, even though actually I do think they
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: are the better team right now.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: I think they are having a bit of a resurgence here.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: The oddsmakers are telling you there's not that much of
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: a disparity between these two teams. Providence has got to
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: get some home court advantage here. I would lean towards
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Providence here. I mean the number just it looks like
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: a trap. It looks way too easy to take the
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: points there.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Seaton Hall. I mean, they still play ugly.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: They do have a couple of decent wins in here
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: against NC State. They played well against USC only lost
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: by two. Beat Kansas State on the road, which is
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: their only true road games so far, so this is
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: not going to be their first true road game.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: And this is an easier place.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: For them to have to go to because it is
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: a conference opponent where they go every year. But they're
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: also coming off a blowout of Rutgers where they look
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: really good in their New Jersey rivalry, and that's a
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: pretty satisfying win, even though Rutgers isn't good like I
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: thought Rutgers was going to be more competitive in that game.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: That's those two teams don't like each other. I mean,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: they're the two big conference teams in New Jersey, and Seaton.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Hall blew them out.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: So it is possible that seton Hall maybe, you know,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: just a little bit overconfident coming into this one.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: But I can't get on board with Providence here either.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: They're coming up that crazy double overtime game at Butler.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Butler I believe was the favorite.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: In that game, even though that was six days ago,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: so it probably was worse for Butler having to turn
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: around and play more quickly after that, but that was
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: still a big game for Providence, Butler was a pretty big.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Favorite in that one.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Providence almost beat them a crazy game they went into
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: double ot So yeah, I'm not gonna jump in on
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: this game at all. I would still need towards Providence
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: just because the line looks ridiculous. Providence is actually a
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: one and a half point favorite now, so you're getting
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: more value on them if you do want to play them.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: I think one on one and a half is probably
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: more of an accurate line than two two and a half.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: As well as ken bom As, Seaton Hall probably about
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: fifteen to twenty ranking spots higher than Providence, so he
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: probably has Providence winning that game by around.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: One to two points.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: So I do with all that information what you want to,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: but I'm not touching that game at all. Unc Ohio Stateium.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk about that on my basketball show. I'm
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: either gonna do that show tonight or in the or
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: it'll be part of the morning show tomorrow.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know which.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Though you want me to talk about it today, I mean,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I have not looked at it yet. I'm not really
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: prepared for it yet, but I'm gonna talk about it
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: on the night show if I do it tonight. It'll
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: be tonight usually that's I mean, I started doing that
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: last week.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: For basketball. I do Saturdays Basketball on Friday night.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: It's a huge College of Basketball show, usually a huge
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: College of Basketball slate, So that is probably when I'll
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: talk about it. I mean, right now, I haven't looked
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: at it at all, so I'd just be really just
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: in the dark on it until I look at it.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Some of these other games are just God Akron. I
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: would look towards Akron in this game against Eastern Michigan. Akron,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: they're coming off what was a barn Burner type of game,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifteen to one hundred, but that was
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I believe that game didn't even go into overtime. They
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: actually lost the game though to Murray State, and Akron
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: was a favorite in that game, so I kind of
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: expect them to bounce back here. They don't have any
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: big games coming up for a while, they don't start
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Mac play for a while, so I think Akron will
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: show up in this game and run Eastern Michigan out
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: of the building. I think they're gonna be pissed off
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: about that loss, so I would lay it with Akron
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: in this one. Eastern Michigan really not that good, although
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: they are probably gonna show up at least because they
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: know Akron's good, so they're gonna want to put in
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: a decent effort there. But Akron up from sixteen and
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: a half to seventeen in that one. I would lay
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: it with Akron. Mount Saint Mary's at Drexel this one,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: I kind of like drexelould bounced back. They just took
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: an ugly loss to Howard. Drexel was coming off playing
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: their Philadelphia one of their Philadelphia rivals in LaSalle. Uh
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: so maybe they were in a bit of a hangover
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: after that loss. They didn't play well against Howard. They
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: took the loss in that one. Drexel is still the
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: better team over Mount Saint Mary's. Mount Saint Mary's did just.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Get a win, an easy win over Loyal in Maryland.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: But people are gonna also look and see, oh my god,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Mount Saint Mary's beat Howard. Now they're getting points as
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: an underdog against Drexel, who just lost to Howard. It
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: looks pretty easy to take Mount Saint Mary's plus the
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: points here, but I would not do that.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I would lay it with Drexel.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: They're right here. Five point favorite. One hundred and forty
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: one is the total there. So I hear sirens out
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: up front, So that's awesome, all right?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: What else do we have going on here?
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Tulsa, Western Kentucky kind of interesting, and Tulsa's off to
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: a really nice start this season at ten and one
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: to start the season. Probably not as good as their
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: record looks though, I mean, they mostly beat up on
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: bad teams. They have not faced a difficult schedule yet,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: coming out of a pretty good win over New Mexico State.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Don't even know which team is favored in that game.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I don't have to actually dig into it. And look,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Western Kentucky is sitting at seven and three, getting a
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: couple of points in this game, but they are undefeated
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: at home, They've.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Been pretty good at home.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: They're coming out of an easy win over some non
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Division one teams, so I'd probably be looking towards Western
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Kentucky in that one. Toulsa looks like they have sixty
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: seven percent of tickets and eighty percent of the cash
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: on them though at two.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: And a half. I mean, yeah, I don't know.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, looks like they're gonna be a public side
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: at the very least, because their record just looks better
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: than they actually are. Probably would lean to Western Kentucky there. Yes, true,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Greg Biffel, that's crazy, dude.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I saw that come out. I'm like, oh my god.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like the plane crash, that's one thing. And then
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: you hear that his family was on the plane as well,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: and they were probably doing some sort of hot travel.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Never want to hear anything like that. That is awful, dude.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I don't even know. Yeah, I don't know what to
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: say about it. Otherwise it's like I don't fall a
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: NASCAR that much. But yeah, it's oh my god, Yeah,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: holy crap, that was right down the street from you.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: That is insane, dude. Man, all right, well, if you
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: want me to look at let me see. I'm gonna
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: bring up the schedule right now. I'll tell you what
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I think about this North Carolina game right now. I'm
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: gonna go over it again tomorrow though. Yeah, North Carolina,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: you know they're gonna be a big favorite here. This
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: is a neutral site game in Atlanta, though, Ohio State
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: uh just beat West Virginia only by one. We had
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: West Virginia in that game, by the way, I've played
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: on three straight Ohio State games and lost the first
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: two of them, so that's.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Great Ohio State.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: That was not a good performance against West West Virginia,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: but part of that handicap was they were gonna be
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: looking ahead to North Carolina. Then the question is gonna
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: be can they actually hang in this game. North Carolina
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: is coming up a pretty easy game against East Tennessee,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: so it's not exactly a bad spot for North Carolina here.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: This is not gonna be a game I'm gonna be involved,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: and I can tell you that already. I don't know
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: if we see what the number is gonna be. We
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: could probably see it on here, though I don't know
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: the numbers not even out yet, so I don't know
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: what the number is gonna be in this one. I
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: mean pay for Ken Bumb by the way, you only
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: have to pay like thirty bucks a year for ken
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: bum Definitely worth it. You know, he's got North Carolina
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: on the eighteen ranking spots higher. I shouldn't be showing
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: this because he gotta pay for it, but he's gonna
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: he is. North Carolina winning that game by three, So
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: the line is actually gonna be a lot lower than
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: you think, so the public is gonna be.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Pouring in on North Carolina.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna expect North Carolina to be maybe like
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: a four to five point favorite there because the books
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: have to skew that number towards North Carolina. And even
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: at that, I think the public is just gonna rush
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: in on North Carolina because they're the ranked team. Ohio
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: State hasn't done anything impressive so far, so the value
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: side and that one is probably gonna be the Ohio
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: State side taking the points.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Am I gonna do it?
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not gonna play that game at all, but
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: those are gonna be my early thoughts on that game.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: All right. Back to the rest of today, we do
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: have what else do we have here?
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: We have Wisconsin and Villanova as the one other Power
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Conference game today with two Power Conference teams on Fox
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: at eight pm. This is a neutral site, well it's
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: not really neutral, it's semi home kind of. It's in Milwaukee,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: so Wisconsin is getting to play not that far from
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: home here. Wisconsin is definitely gonna be the favorite. The
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: public's gonna look at this and think that he looks
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: probably a little bit tempting to take almost five points
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: with Villanova, but the oddsmakers are telling you Wisconsin is
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: the better team. If they're able to control the pace,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: that's not gonna be good for Villanova because Wisconsin actually
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: goes fast the last few years, Villanova likes to play really,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: really slow.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: So I'd be leaning towards wiscon in this game.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: They just got embarrassed by Nebraska as well in their
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: first Big Ten road game, and I thought Wisconsin was
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: gonna be much more competitive than that game. Like, I
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: thought Wisconsin was gonna win that game, and things really
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: fell apart in the second half of that game. I
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: can't believe that game was that lopsided on the final score.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: That is not what Wisconsin really is.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: I expect them to be really angry bounced back after that.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Villanova coming of an easy win over pit I mean,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Pitt's not really that good. It looks like a good
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: win on the scoreboard, though, So again, I think the
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: public is probably gonna be looking towards Villanova and taking
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: the points in this one, and I would disagree on that.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I would I look towards Wisconsin in this one. Let
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: me see, yeah, I mean, Wisconsin's got sixty percent of
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: the tickets as it stands right now, but sixty seven
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: percent of the cash throughout from three and a half
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: to five, it looks like there are four and a
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: half's out there if you do want to lay it
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: with Wisconsin.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: If I was gonna play it, that is what I
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: would do. I would lay it.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: With Wiscons on some Southeast Louisiana probably gonna get up
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: for a game against their in state big brother LSU.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: LSU off to a good start the season, but they
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: faced a pretty weak schedule.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Although they're coming off probably their best wins.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: So far of the season, which was against SMU, so
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: it's still not that impressive, but could be a little
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: bit of a flat spot after that win. You know,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: the little brother Southeast Louisiana, they're gonna show up for
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: this one. They're also not going to be intimidated because
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: they've already played Ole miss Georgia, tack Mississippi State all
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: on the road, and they actually came to within tent
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: of Georgia, attack within seven of Mississippi State. You wouldn't
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: see Wilmington on the road. That's a pretty good team
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: as well. They lost that game, but still I'm not
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: gonna blame them for that they're coming off probably one
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: of the worst losses of the season to East Texas
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: A and M, not a great team. Southeastern Louisiana lost
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: that game at home. I'm assuming they were probably a
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: favorite in that game, and I think maybe they were
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: looking ahead to LSU in that one, So I think
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: it is kind of about smack spot from them here.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I would lean to Southeastern Louisiana on this one.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Getting a bunch of points against Elizue. You're getting twenty
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: four points, fairly low total of one hundred and forty four,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: So I would take the points in that one if
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: I was gonna play that game. Belmont and you see
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Irvine actually one of the better games today. Both of
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: these teams are pretty strong small conference teams. Belmont having
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: to go to the Pacific Coast not gonna be easy.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: They're out of Tennessee, and I think this is gonna
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: be the first time they have to travel that far west.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: They just had a bad game against Evansville though, where
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: they barely won.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Belmont coming up.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Two pretty bad performances, barely beating UIC and Evansville. Those
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: two teams are not good, So in a way, I
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: could see Belmont maybe bouncing back off of those bad performances,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: but having to play a late night game on the
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Pacific Coast not exactly something, not exactly a spot where
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: I would want to play Belmont really when it's something
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: they're not used to doing. You see Irvine still a
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: pretty solid team, they're good at home, They're just staying
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: at home, so they have a much easier travel spot here.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: They just beat cal State Northridge, who is an okay team,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: but not a win that's gonna have them over confident
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: or anything like that. So still probably like you see
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Irvine in this one, they've actually flipped from a two
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: point dog to a two point favorite, So it's more
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: of a not even just to pick the winner now
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: because two does mean something in basketball, But I would
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: probably still lean towards laying it with UC Irvine. Also,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: when the public, if they get involved in this game,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: they're gonna see an eleven to one Belmont team getting points,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: looks very tempting to take that, So again I would
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: lead towards laying it for that reason too, because it
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: looks misleading. Okay, then we have what else do we
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: have here? Florida Atlantic also having to go to the
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Pacific Coast. I think for the first time this year
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: to play Saint Mary's. Don't love that off of Florida Atlantic.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Saint Mary's just lost to Boise is pretty tough team.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: They both of these teams play slow, man, so you
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: kind of had a feeling. You had to have had
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: a feeling that game was going to be close. Saint
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Mary's took the loss. Now, on the one hand, they
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: should bounce back because they were a home favored in
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: that game and they lost. On the other hand, that
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: is still a tough game, So I could see it
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: going both ways for Saint Mary's going both ways thereby
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Florida Atlantic, though, I mean, I don't love the fact
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: that they're going to the Pacific Coast. I believe for
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: the first time this season, it's not gonna be easy
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: for them. So I would be leaning towards Saint Mary's
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: a little bit here. But do you really want to
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: lay points with a team that slows the pace way
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: down with a total of one hundred and forty two
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: and a half, I don't They've also dropped a little
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: bit from fourteen to thirteen and a half, So I mean,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: if you forced me to I would probably say to
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: lay it, but I'm not gonna do anything with that game.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: And then we do have a couple of other in
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: state in city rivalries here San Diego playing UC san Diego.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Who's become the bigger brother san Diego beside San Diego
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: State of course, you see San Diego. They've you know,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: come onto the scene and they've been really good since
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: they've moved up to Division one.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: They're coming off a pretty good.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Win at Loyal and Marry Mount where they were an
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: underdog in that game. I see San Diego stepping up
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: their game for this one, man, because they are the
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: little brother in San Diego. They're coming off a bounce
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: back win that ended a long lost streak for them.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: They beat Northern Arizona.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Not an impressive win really, but good that they ended
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: a lost streak. I think they're gonna show up for
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: this game. So I would take the points with San
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Diego against U. See San Diego and that one, the
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: line is up to fifteen on that the total is
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: in the mid range at one hundred and fifty eight
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: and a half. And then we do have but we
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: do have our boys North Alabama who took that loss
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: we got the win with Alabama A and M in
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: that game.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: North Alabama was coming off.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: That nice win at San Francisco and they had way
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: too much time off.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And they have Loyal and mary Mount.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: They have Loyal and Marrymount next, and that's who they're
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: playing today, having to go back to the Pacific Coast.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: The good thing for North Alabama is they've done it already.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: They went out to San Francisco and they actually won,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: so they're familiar with this travel spot now at the
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: very least, still not.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Going to be easy.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: But Loyal and Marymount, I mean, they're coming off a
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: loss where they were a favor against UC San Diego,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: so I kind of expect them to be in bounce
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: back mode here as well.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: So I think both teams are going to show up
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: for that one.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: So if that's the case, you probably gotta lean towards
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Loyal and Marymount because they are the better team. They're
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: up from nine to ten and a half there. I
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: would lay it if I was going to play that one.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: And then we do have Morgan State at cal Morgan
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: State's an East Coast team, not a very good one either.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: The good thing for them is they just beat Niagara.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: I was an easy win over a really bad Niagara
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: team and that ended a long lost streak for them,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: and that was their first Division One win of the season,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: so in a way, that gets the monkey off their back.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: But now they got to travel to the Pacific Coast
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: to play a really late night game against Cal. Yeah,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be bad. I like Cal in
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: this one. Cal has been very good at home. Uh,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: they've been good against bad teams for the most part,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: and they're coming up a pretty bad performance against Northwestern
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: State where they only won by nine and they were
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: looking like they might actually lose that game at some
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: points in that game.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: They got away with the win. But when a good team.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Like Cal escapes as a huge favorite, they almost lose
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: the game, and they escape, they're usually gonna come with
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: a much better effort because they don't want to let
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: that happen again. So I would lay the points with
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Cal in that one. But it is a huge number
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: twenty six and a half. But it is a big
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: mismatch too. Morgan State's really bad so and the travel
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: spot sucks for them, And then we do have Washington
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: at Seattle to finish this thing.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Off.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: This is a Seattle rivalry. Of course, Seattle is the
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: little brother here to Washington, who is also a Seattle school.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Washington just blew out Southern Utah. This game is not
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: really surrounded by any big games for them, though, so
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: it's not exactly a bad spot for Washington. Seattle always
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: gets up for this game though, and Seattle's been pretty
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: good this year. They just got by UC Davis in
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: the last game. But they are having to travel back
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: up to Washington from California, which isn't that great. Of course, Washington,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: I believe, is just staying in Seattle for this So
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: unless was this game in Salt Lake City, hang on, No,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: it's not. It was in Washington, so the travel spot's
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: better for Washington here.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: You know, I still kind of like Seattle.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Because I think the public is gonna think this line
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: is too short. University of Washington, Oh my god, eight points,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: that's not that much to lay. I'd still probably take
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: it with Seattle. But the travel spot's not exactly that
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: great for Seattle. They're having to travel back, so we'll see,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: but they do. They seem to always get up for
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: that one though. All Right, what's going on, sab you're
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: on Oklahoma and the college Playoffs, Well, we're we're gonna
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: go head to head on that one, So you're you're
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: gonna see my breakdown of that at the end of
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: this show, and hopefully I can get this done before
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: the Myrtle Beach Bowls starts here, because I want to
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: make sure my Bowl entries are set up correctly. You
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: like the t Wolves the Devils. I don't agree with
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: the Devils either. Te Wolves, I probably agree with that one.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: I forget. I don't have a play on either of those.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: You want Abilene Christian, Yeah, I'm not. I have no
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: college basketball plays here. Abilene Christian is at BYU, man,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, playing at BYU is always difficult for these
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: teams that don't play a ton in high elevation, although
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: at least for Abilien Christian they do play in the Whack.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: So some of these teams are high elevation teams, so
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: they're not like totally unused to it.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: But I don't think they've done it yet. This year
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: they're coming up playing Arizona as well. Now they have
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: to go from Arizona to BYU. I know they got
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: blown out, but that type think it take its toll Man. So, yeah,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be laying I'm not gonna be taking
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: the points with Ablin Christian here. BYU is just staying
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: at home and they don't have this game surrounded by
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: anything big. Yeah, I don't like it. Yeah, I see
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: no reason to take avelin Christian there. I would probably
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: lay the points if I was gonna play the game
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: the well, the only reason really.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Is that it's a low total.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: I guess one hundred and forty six and the spreads
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: thirty two. But BYU play somewhat fast, so I don't
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: really understand why that total is that low unless it's
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: like BYUS just gonna not care about the game at all.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: That is the danger if you lay the points here
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: is how much does BYU care about blowing this team out?
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: They probably don't really care, right, Like they could just
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: show up, win by twenty five or something and just
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: get out of there, you know what I mean, with
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: an easy win and non cover.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: So I'm staying away from that game completely.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: But I don't like the spot for rabbling Christian Like
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: it would not surprise me if BYU runs them out
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: of the gym, and even does so without that much
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: f all right, we got NHL here, big game to
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: start it at seven pm. Carolina and Florida. Now, the
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: I think the main part of the handicap in this
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: one really is the playoff revenge aspect of this, which
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: is Florida eliminated Carolina from the playoffs last year in
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: the Eastern Conference finals. So you know, Carolina, they've had
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: this game circle since then and that was the last
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: time these two teams to play. They have not played
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: yet this year, believe it or not. So Carolina absolutely
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: has this game circled. They're on a nice win streak here,
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: but they just have momentum right now. Their last win
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: was an easy win over Nashville. They're gonna show up
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: for this. I like Carolina in this game. I think
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: they're the better team right now at this point as well.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Florida. I mean, it's not exactly a horrible spot for
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: them either. They just return home.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: That was the bad spot when they return home and
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: we lost on that one. I believe with the Kings,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Florida got that win.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Anyway. I thought they were gonna be.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Looking ahead to this game, but they are in that
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: second game back home now, where usually a team is
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: now settled back in, they've done what they need to do.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: They can get ready for the game. Like Florida is
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: not gonna overlook Carolina either. I lean to Carolina in
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: the game, but it doesn't make my card. Carolina's already
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: up from minus one twenty to minus one thirty, which
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: is pretty crazy that Carolina, you know, is laying a
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: price like that on the road against the back to
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: back returning champs. The oddsmakers are definitely telling you who's
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: the better team here, and that is Carolina. Fifty four
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: percent of the tickets, ninety one percent of the cash
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: on Carolina. I do not disagree with that market read there.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Carolina would be the play in that one. If I
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: was gonna play, it would be money line at Carolina.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Revenge is revenge is not the only Yeah, revenge is
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: only a minor factor.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: It's not really the revenge. It's it's what actually happened
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: in that game.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: If you look into the box score, I completely disagree
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: with you on that game. I disagree with you adamantly
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: on this game. The home advantage is nothing as well,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: because we're basing that off of one year of statistics
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: and every single home team last year was more than
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: a touchdown favorite. Is Oklahoma a touchdown favorite here? No,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: they're not so last year. You should not read into that,
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: like the fact that last year every home team wanted
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: a blowout. They all were supposed to win and blowouts
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: like they were all all of them were big favorites.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Indiana was just unbattle tested.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: I thought they were gonna lose by margin against Notre Dame,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: that was a win. Actually I played both of those
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: seven point favorites or whatever. I had plays on both
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: of them, and they both won last year with Notre
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Dame over Indiana. And then I also my bigger one
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: was Ohio State against Tennessee. That also had the factor
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: where Tennessee was having to play in a cold weather game,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: which by the way, is not going to be the
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: case here in Oklahoma today either. So that was just
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: everything about that spot for Tennessee was awful too, and
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: they just got bombed in that game in Ohio State
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: was the best team in college football as well. Is
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma the best team in college football?
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Hell no? And then the other two games were just mismatches.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Like the other two games were basically like the Oregon
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: JMU game and the old miss Tulane game this year.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Those other games were whatever, like SMU and then what
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: was the other one? I don't even remember.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: I can't even remember what the other one. Oh, oh,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Texas and Clemson. Yeah, I mean Texas was a double
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: digit favorite as well. SMU was a double digit dog
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: as well. Those SMU and Clemson just didn't even.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Belong last year.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, no one year where every team was
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: a big favorite. I would not read that much into
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: that at all. Vancouver at the Islanders. Vancouver coming off
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: a shutout win over the Rangers. They've had a couple
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: of days off and they're just staying in New York
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: City though, so the travel spot's not bad for them.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Maybe they get a little bit overconfident though, because they
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: did just beat New Jersey.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: And the Rangers.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Maybe extra time off will hurt their momentum a little bit.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: I don't think that they're not going to show up
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: though against an Islanders team. It's been pretty good as well,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: although the Islanders are obviously the better team here. The
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Islanders just went out to Detroit and took a loss,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: ending their win streak. Finally, because the Islanders seem to
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: just not lose to Tampa Bay. Ever, now they're coming
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: back home only from a single game road trip, though
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: with multiple days off.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: The days off should.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Help them break that losing momentum, but Vancouver has an
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: easier travel spot, just basically taking the subway from one
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: place to the other. Interestingly, though, the oddswegers are telling
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: you the Islanders are not that much better, as they're
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: not getting that much more than home ice here at
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: minus one forties, So it almost looks too easy to
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: play the Islanders here, man. So I don't know what
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: I would want to do with this game. This is
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: a very tough game to handicap.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you forced me to lean like looking
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: at how easy it looks to take the Islanders, I
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: would almost probably lean towards Vancouver as the dog in
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: that one. But I don't love it at all. Winnipeg
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: at Colorado. You know, Colorado is gonna be a big
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: favorite here. It's weird seeing Winnipeg being a giant underdog.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: They do have Hello book back, so in a way,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: I think Winnipeg is probably a little bit underrated right
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: now because they were just losing a ton of games
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: without him. But now that he's back, you should see
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: improvement out of them. They're coming up an ugly loss,
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: or they got shut out against Saint Louis. Saint Louis
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: got their playoff revenge in that one. I think Winnipeg
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: might have been looking ahead to maybe we should have
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: given out a play in Saint Louis in that one. Winnipeg,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: I expect more focus out of them coming into this
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: game though against Colorado Colorado, I think the price that
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: they're laying is just too heavy, even though yes, they
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: are the best team in hockey. Colorado's coming out of
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: an easy win at Seattle, but they are still having
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: a return home from Seattle. They're not returning home from
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: a road trip really was only a single game, but
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: they are still returning home. They have two days off,
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: which might actually hurt their winning momentum.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: It might kind of stall them out a little bit.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: And it is possible that Colorado overlooks Winnipeg because they
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: do have Minnesota next and Minnesota has been on fire.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: So if you're gonna play this game, I would probably
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: look towards puck lining it on Winnipeg. Here, you're gonna
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: get them at a huge underdog price, and I think
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: they do have the ability to come within a goal
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: of the Avalanche in this one? Minus two forty is
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: the price there on that one ninety two tickets ninety
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: nine percent of the cash on Colorado. Unlikely that that's accurate.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: The public is not going to be coming in on
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Winnipeg in that game. I'll tell you that they don't
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: really play hockey anyway to that extent.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Mammoth sneaky play.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: No, yeah, I don't see any reason why the Devils
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: would be would be a good side here, really, Devils.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Devils just wanted to shootout at Vegas. That was a
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: win for us on the show. I thought the Devils
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: are gonna show up big time to start the road trip.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: They had multiple days off. They were leaving home after
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: an ugly loss. Also a win for us on the
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: show with Vancouver. So my read on the Devils has
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: been pretty good recently.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Man, you know it has been so rest the Devil,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: buddy or number one you meet anybody or the Devil
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: the Devil. All right, Devils, Now they're coming up.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: That big shootout win at Vegas, pretty big upset win.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: I could see them being in a letdown mode here.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: They're having to travel into elevation now as well into Utah.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Don't like how it sets up for the devils Utah.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: They just are returning over from a road trip though,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: so you're right. So yeah, okay, yeah, you're right about
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: that part of the read. Yeah, Utah is returning home
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: from a road trip, so I don't like the spot
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: for them either. They've been on the road only since
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Sunday though, so not exact. Actually the longest road trip
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: it did take them all the way to Boston though,
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: took them to the East coast, So yeah, you're right.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to play a team in a return
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: home spot like that either. A lot of times you
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: do get distracted when you return home. So you can
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: see why this game is a pass.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: For me in this one.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: You know, I mean the market read is saying New
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Jersey it's because of the return home spot Utah for
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: minus one twenty seven of minus one thirty five, seventy
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: five percent of tickets on them, fifty four percent of
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: the cash on Utah. Yeah, you know what Fine, I mean.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: I think always I talk about how the return home
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: spot is actually worse than anything else. So fine, New Jersey,
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: very very small lean for me to New Jersey in
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: that one, but I really don't like it very much.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: But if you forced me, fine, I would agree with
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: New Jersey and that one as an underdog. The travel
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: from Vegas into Utah's like that travel leg.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Is not that long either, so there is that, but
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: I don't love it at all.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: By Anyon means this is obviously you can see why
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: this is a pass for me completely. Dallas at Anaheim,
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: this is a big game. Dallas one of the best
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: teams in hockey, if not the best. Dallas is on
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: a back to back though. They just played in San Jose,
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: so they are already in California. But they're having to
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: travel down from San Jose to Anaheim with no time off.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: It's not gonna be that easy.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: And it looks like, I mean, because Ottinger played last night,
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: it looks like De Smith is gonna be in net
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: this time.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: He's been fine though.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, they've won his last couple of games, so
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: they've won his last four games, five games whatever. Actually, yeah,
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: you have to go back to November one to find
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: a game that they lost with No no, wait, I
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: missed one. November twenty second, they lost one with De
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Smith that's the last time they lost, so they've been
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: good with him in net it will probably be him
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: in this one. Dallas is also a very good road team.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: They've been good either way, but twelve two and four
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: on the road very strong. Anaheim, of course, we know,
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: is way better at home than on the though. Eleven
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: and four at home for Anaheim, though, they're returning home
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: from a road trip, So this is the worst of
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: the road trip return spots out of the two because
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: they've been on the roads since December ninth, and they
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: went to the East Coast as well, so they're having
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: to travel cross country. We did just fade them with Columbus.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: We got that win. Anaheim finishing their road trip. This
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: is still not a good spot. I mean, whenever you
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: return home from a road trip again, the distractions come
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: into play, especially you know, getting ready for holidays and whatever.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Although they're gonna be home for a few games here
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: home for the holiday and then they go to La
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: which is just up the roads, they are actually gonna
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: be able to stay home around the holidays here pretty much.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: But still return home spot. You got stuff to do
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: at home. It could be a distraction, but the fact
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: that it is Dallas.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: They're not really a team that you overlook. Man.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: I know Anaheim has revenge against Columbus next, so I
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: don't think that really matters. So I worry about it
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: still because I think they will still show up for
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: a game against Dallas. The spot does set up better
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: for Dallas, though, and Dallas is the better team, as
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: the osmakers are telling you, Anaheim don't. I still don't
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: think they're as good as the record indicates. So if
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: I was gonna play it, I would play Dallas.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: In this one.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: Down for minus one fifteen and minus one twelve on
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: the money line, sixty four percent of the cash on them,
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: fifty five percent of tickets on Anaheim.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, lean Dallas in that one.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Doesn't make my car though, NBA, I do have one
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: play in the NBA out of these games here. That's
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: gonna be one of my two plays. A very small
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: card today. First game up is Miami at my Boston Celtics. Miami,
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: they're coming off an easy win over Brooklyn, but they're
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: on a back to back. Miami played yesterday, so on
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: the good hand for Miami was an easy win over
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: a bad team. They ended a lost streak. The travel
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: from New York to Boston is not that bad.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: So that was all good.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: But I mean, are they gonna Are they gonna overlook
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: the Celtics with the Knicks on deck?
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: I'm not really so sure.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, the Celtics are kind of sneaky right now,
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: like they're one of the better teams in the Eastern
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: Conference and the record doesn't.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Really look that good.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: So but I mean, I don't think a team's really
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: gonna overlook the Celtics, though. I mean, you kind of
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: always get up to play the Boston Celtics because they've
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: been really good the last couple of years.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: There's still the Celtics right now. They're still a winning team.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: But Miami's gonna have to overcome the fact they did
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: play yesterday, and Celtics are gonna have to overcome the
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: fact they just lost to Detroit.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: They're staying at home with a bunch.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: Of days off though, so I think the rest is
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: a big component here. The Celtics have lost their last
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: two games. They haven't won since December seventh. Now they
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: have three days off. They haven't played since Monday, so
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: even though that was a huge game against Detroit, they lost.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: I think the Celtics will show up here and try
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: to split.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: This home stand.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: I think the rest is gonna help them just get
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: off of that, you know, like end that losing momentum.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: So I would look towards the Celtics in this one.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: It also looks kind of weird that they're laying six
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: and a half points when the record is very similar
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: to that of the Heat.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: And remember that the Heat had been without like they.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: Were without out a bio in Hero for long periods
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: of time, so the Heat are more intact right now,
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: I believe. I'll let me see look at the injury
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: report real quick here. Actually my mistake. Hero is out,
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: but he's supposed to be back today. I don't know
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: what's going on with him. Man, he missed the game
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: against the Nets. I think he'll probably play though. If
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: he can play, he's gonna play against the Celtics, So
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: somebody keep in mind there. But I would probably look
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: towards the Celtics in that game if I was gonna
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: play it.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: The game that I'm gonna play is this next one,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: even though we don't even know who's gonna play in
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: this game, but we're still gonna go with the Philadelphia
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: seventies six ers, which I wish I had the Actually
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: I might be able to bring it up. Actually, hang on,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: let me.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: We're gonna try to bring it up here. Actually, maybe
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: I'll do it if they win. How about that, I'll
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: get it if they win the I'm gonna i'm gonna
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: bring up the old Philadelphia, even though I don't like
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: Philadelphia at all, I'm gonna bring up the old seventies
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: like aba sounding Philadelphia theme song, the seventy six ers
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: theme song, Clap your hands everybody for Philadelphia seventies six ers.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: Probably nobody knows what I'm talking about, but I'm gonna.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring that up. It's unironically, it's a banger, dude.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring it up. If Philadelphia gets the job
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: done for us, I'll do it. They're playing the Knicks here.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: We're gonna fade the Knicks. I mean, this is all
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: about the spot the Knicks. I mean, look at what
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: the Knicks are coming off of, dude. The Knicks have
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: not played at home since December seventh, when they beat Orlando,
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: and then they went to Toronto. They beat Orlando. By
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: the way, big win Orlando. They're probably gonna be a
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: playoff team up to Toronto beat them, They're probably gonna
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: be a playoff team.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Then they had to go to Vegas to play the
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: NBA Cup. They beat Orlando. I think this was in Vegas, right,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: I think all these games are in Vegas. Yeah, so
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: the Knicks.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they beat Orlando in the semifinals, again, beating Orlando
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: in Vegas.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: They won the NBA Cop.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: That was a win for us on the show, beating
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: San Antonio. Then they also had to play yesterday in
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: playoff revenge against the team that beat them last year, Indiana,
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: who they hadn't played since then. Even though I know
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: Indiana is bad and I know the Knicks barely escaped
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: for the win there, but that's still a big win, man,
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: when you beat the team that knocked you out of
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: the playoffs last year. The Knicks got that win and
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: that was yesterday. Now they're traveling back home to New York.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: They got this Philadelphia team. It's been just really kind
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: of a mess this year, even though they are above
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: five hundred. They got Miami next in Minnesota, Cleveland, Atlanta.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, they might pay more attention to all the
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: rest of those teams, man, they might not pay that
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: much attention to the seventy six ers.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Yere coming up that run of games, and this is actually.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: A return home spot where they've been away since December ninth,
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: so they have not been at home since ten days ago,
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: and they're gonna have to do stuff now that they're
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: back at home.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Return home spot. Very very bad spot, man.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: I think a major letdown spot after all these wins
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: that they've been pulling off.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: I don't like it at all.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: So we're gonna go with the Sixers, even though we
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: don't even know who's playing in this game.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: I just don't care. Let's take the points Sixers. I mean,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: they've had they've been off since.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Sunday and they lost at Atlanta on Sunday. They did
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: beat Indiana, but I don't think anybody's really gonna care
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: about that. Both teams beat Indiana. Philadelphia they're the way
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: more rested team here, man. I mean, yeah, that's gonna
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: be factoring into the line. It's part of the reason
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: why the Knicks are not a huge favorite. But you're
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: still getting the Philadelphia side as an underdog here with
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: all this rest, four days of rest and having the
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: rest come after a loss. You know, I talk about
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: how that's a positive, and they don't have anything upcoming either,
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: like they just have. All they have really is New
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: York to focus on. They got Dallas next.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Who cares? Big game here for the Sixers, dude. Now
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: the question is now.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: I know the Knicks are on a back to back,
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: but a bunch of their players didn't play yesterday, So
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: that's one thing to keep in mind. The Knicks did
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: rest some of their guys today for that game. Karl
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: Anthony Towns didn't play, Josh Hart didn't play. I don't
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: know if Robinson played either. In that game, he did
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: not play either. So yeah, the Knicks had a bunch
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: of guys not play. So yes, the Knicks are not
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: gonna be that unrested. But that was still a big
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: win for them, man to win in playoff revenge. And
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: now all these guys are gonna have to come back
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: into the line up here. I don't love it, dude,
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: I really don't. Even if they are rested, it's still
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: gonna be that lineup shift or everybody has to come
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: back and get used to playing again.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: I expect most.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Of these guys are probably gonna be back for this game.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: They're all supposed to be. Miles McBride, I guess also
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: didn't play in that game. I think all these guys
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: are gonna be back. If I were to guess for
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: this game, brunts and I think did play yesterday. And
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: then you got to look at the seventy six er
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: side of it. Oubray is not gonna play. He's been
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: out for a while though. I'm fine with that. And
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: then we don't know if Embiid is gonna play or not.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing that he will. He's a game time decision
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: with an illness. But if he can play, he's gonna
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: play against the Knicks. I mean, come on, And yes,
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: I know we're fade. The Knicks are thirteen and one
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: at home. I know it's very difficult to fade that,
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: but this spot is very, very juicy. The Knicks down
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: to a four point favorite now, so you got to
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: probably grab that number.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: I guess why you can.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's possible the line does go back up, though,
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: because if the public's looking to play some games tonight,
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: this might be one of the games.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: That they're gonna be looking at.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: Seventy percent of the tickets around the Knicks eighty seven
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: percent of the cash on the sixers, so the money
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: is on the sixers side.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: That's where we're going.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: We're going with the Philadelphia seventy six ers for my
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: NBA Play of the Day. San Antonio is at Atlanta.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: San Antonio. They're on a back to back. They beat
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: us yesterday covering against Washington.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Now they're on a.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: Back to back with travel having to travel to Atlanta.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: I don't exactly love the spot here man playing a
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: third game in four days, which, by the way, the
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: Knicks also are. San Antonio just had that huge run
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: of games, and I thought their bad spot would be
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: yesterday in what was a return home spot for them.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: They still got it done against a very bad Washington team.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: They'll probably try to show up for Atlanta because Atlanta's
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: been okay, but still Atlanta's almost at five hundred. A
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: lot of it's because Trey Young has missed a lot
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: of time this year though he's back right now though though,
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: and Atlanta's coming off of they played yesterday too, so
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: they were also on a back to back. They're traveling
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: from Charlotte. It's a little bit of an easier travel
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: spot for them, though I would say, and they're coming
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: off a bad loss at Charlotte. I mean, that's a
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: pretty ugly loss they took yesterday. I mean maybe they
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: were looking ahead to this one to some extent. They
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: had had time off, and they were coming off a
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: win over Philly in the game before that. So I
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: lean towards Atlanta in this one. The Spurs are definitely
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: gonna be a public side. They're up from two to
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: two and a half. It almost looks too easy to
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: lay the points with the Spurs. With Wemby back, the
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: Spurs have the way better record eighty two percent of
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: tickets eighty four percent of the cash on them.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: Again, it almost looks like a trap in that game,
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: So I would be looking towards the Hawks plus the
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: points there.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: Not a play or anything, but just a lean in
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: that one. Uh yeah. Not much going on.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: In the injury report except Perzingis is out for the
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: next what the next ten more days with an illness man.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: I mean yeah, I mean I miss him as a
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: Celtic fan, but he just could not stay healthy.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: If I was gonna play another NBA game, it would
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: be this game Chicago at Cleveland.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: This is a zig zag spot.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: Where Chicago just beat Cleveland in Chicago by sixteen points. Cleveland,
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: I assume, was a favorite in that game, a small
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: road favorite. In that game, Chicago got the job done.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: Now they're going to Cleveland in a zigzag. And I
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: talk about the zigzag when the first result is a
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: bit of an outlier like that, the team on the
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: wrong end of the outlier usually makes adjustments and they
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: bounce back from it. Whereas if you're Chicago in this case,
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: you played a great game, So like, what do you
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: have to fix? You have nothing to fix coming into
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: this game. So I think Cleveland's gonna show up here.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: I know Cleveland's record is really ugly right now, but
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: they've been dealing with a lot of injuries. You know
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: what they're doing, Like they're not focused on the regular season.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: Their coach explicitly said they focused too hard on the
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: regular season last year, so they're gonna be focused on
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: this game. Donovan Mitchell was just making sure he played
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: in the last game he did, uh, because if you
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: look at the injury report, he's a question mark right now.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: But I expect that he's gonna play game time decision
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: with an illness.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: I think he's gonna play. Mobile is still out. That's
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: been the case for a while now, though, I think
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: and Merrill same thing. It's struce. I think they've all
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: been out for a while. So for Cleveland, I.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: Expect Mitchell will play. I think that you're seeing that
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: in the line anyway. Chicago has a bunch of guys
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: listening on the injury report too. I'm just not that
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: familiar with Chicago's personnel. I apologize, but I think it's
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: a zigzag spot. I think Cleveland is probably the right
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: side here. I would lay it Cleveland don for May
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: and a half to seven and a half, seventy eight
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: percent of cash on them, sixty three percent of the
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: tickets around the Bulls, So the Bulls are actually kind
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: of a public dog in this game, which seems crazy.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: The real money looks like it's on the calves.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: If this might even drop to seven, making it even
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: better because the sevens is slightly key number in basketball.
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: And then we have OKC at Minnesota. Now, this is
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: still playoff revenge for Minnesota. Minnesota lost to Oklahoma City
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: in the Western Conference Finals last year. Minnesota still has
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: not beaten them. They played once this year and Oklahoma
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: City won, of course, so Minnesota's still looking for playoff
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: revenge here. Now for Oklahoma City, I mean, it's just
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: not really that bad of a spot, except that they
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: did play yesterday. They wanted covered anyway yesterday. I mean,
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: this Oklahoma City team manned. They're hard to beat at
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: home though, especially and this game is not at home. Yes,
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: they played yesterday. Yeah, they're having a travel to Minnesota.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: They got the win in cover yesterday, and it's a
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: bad Clipper team. I mean, they're not really in like
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: a letdown spot though in my opinion or anything like that.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: The bad spot was yesterday and they still covered Minnesota.
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: They are coming up an ugly home loss to Memphis
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: two days ago. Bad loss for them, definitely. Minnesota was
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: a favorite there. Now my knock against Minnesota remains the
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: same though Minnesota. They only have two wins against teams
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: with winning records, I believe this entire season, unless yeah,
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: Golden State doesn't have a winning record right now.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Let me see does Yeah that's it? Yeah, so right, so.
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: There are only two wins against winning teams this entire year,
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: against Boston and San Antonio. Minnesota does not have any
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: other wins against winning teams.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, those both came at home. They were a favorite against.
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: Boston though, and I think Wembo was not in the
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: lineup against San Antonio in that one, So Minnesota, I believe,
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: was probably a favorite in this one too. Yeah Wemby
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: was not playing in that game. So yeah, I mean Minnesota,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: they have not shown the ability to do well stepping
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: up in class man, so I do worry about Minnesota
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: even though. Yeah, they are kind of in a bounced
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: back spot here. Yes, they're an underdog here, so you
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: don't need to win the game outright, But I'm staying
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: away from it. I mean, if you forced me to lean,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: I probably would agree with leaning to the tea Wolves here,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: but I'm not gonna do it. Seventy five percent of ticket,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: sixty one percent of the cash on the thunder seven
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: and a half point favorite here, Yeah, I'm staying away
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: from that one.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: But yeah, of course Minnesota can cover and not win
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: And then we got college football starting in about an hour,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: starting with the Myrtle Beach Bowl between two conference winners,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: Kansas State and Western Michigan. Kansas State won the CUSA,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: Western Michigan won the MAC, so they get a little
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: bit of a I think they both will consider this
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: to be a little bit of a celebration. They get
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: to go to a warm weather location, they get to
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: go to a party town. Now the question is, are
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: either one of these teams gonna be distracted by the
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: fact that it's.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: A party city.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: I kind of don't think so, because I think both
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: teams are happy, you know, about where they are.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: They're gonna consider this to be a decent reward.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: Now for KNASA State, I think they're absolutely gonna show
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: up because I think this is their first Bowl appearance ever,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: Like they're really new to FBS. So this is a
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: huge deal for Kannasaw Man they get a shot at
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: their first Bowl win. I know it didn't work out
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: from Missouri State. It did for Delaware, although Delaware didn't
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: exactly play as well as the final.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: Score looks, so I have some hesitations about it.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: I would lean slightly towards taking the points with Kennasa
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: on this one, but I have some issues with it
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: Knasaw It's gonna be easier for their crowd to show
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: up as well because they're in Georgia, so going up
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: to South Carolina, it'll be.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: Easier for their crowd to show up.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: Western Michigan coming from further away, and a cold weather
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: team like Western Michigan might be more distracted by being
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: in warm weather. In Western Michigan, they go to bowls
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: more often than Kennesaw does. I think Western Michigan actually
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: won a bowl last year. They at least were in
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: a bowl last year. But this is the first time
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: they've won the MAX, So yeah, they get a nice
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: little reward here the first time they won the MAC
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: in a while, at the very least, maybe the first
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: time ever. So yeah, I mean they'll be happy about it.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: They get an ESPN like isolated football game here at
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: eleven am.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: Both teams should be excited here.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: If you look at the opt outs that I'm looking
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: at the other game here, there's not a whole lot
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: going on. Kennisaw has one of their cornerbacks hitting the
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: transfer portal.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: Western Michigan is one of their defensive ends.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: But other than that, the teams are pretty much intact here,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: so the coaches are there, the teams basically want to
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: be here, so I expect for me, it looks like
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: both teams are going to show up, so it's a
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: pretty clean handicap. As far as that's concerned. Western Michigan
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: dropped from four to three and a half. They've gone
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: back up. Actually they were three of this morning, So
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: some late money is coming in on Western Michigan. It
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: looks like right now fifty four percent of the cash
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: on them, fifty one percent of tickets on KENNISAW. I
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: kind of disagree, though, I would look towards taking the points.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: Now it's a low total. It's down at forty six
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: and a half. Money has come in on the under.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: A little bit.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: I don't disagree with that either, because Western Michigan they
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: just they just tend to play a lot of low
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: scoring games.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: They have a good defense and their offense is not
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: very good and they don't throw the ball that well either.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: So Western Michigan they do play a lot of unders.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: Knisau State not that prolific offensively really either. So wouldn't
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: really disagree with an under, although you've lost some value,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: Like if you can get forty seven and get it
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: under that that is one of the key numbers.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: So that's not as bad.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: And Western Michigan, I mean, you could argue they're a
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: little bit correlated to the under though, because they do
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: really play that style of game. They have the better
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: defense here, so there is that, but again there's still
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: the better defense laying points, and I think Kennesaw is
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: gonna be absolutely.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: Motivated here to try to get their first Bowl wins.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna do it, but h I would
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: lean towards Knisaw plus the points. Don't really have a
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: whole lot else to say about that one, but yeah,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: it'll be an interressing one. Yeah, that one's not one
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: that I'm excited about really to jump in and get involved.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: I'm being really selective with the bulls here. Last year
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: it kind of was as well.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: I think I won on the balls last year, although
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: I think I only had like four or five of them.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: The playoff games are actually a little bit better.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: I was.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: I was good in the playoffs last year, except for
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: Texas not covering against Ohio State, which still pisses me off.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: Where they were knocking on the door to tie the game.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: We only need him.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: To We needed him to cover a seven point spread,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: I think, and they were down exactly seven knocking on
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: the door to tie the game and they fumble sixed
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: it the other way.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: I was so pissed about that.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: Anyway, next game up, we have the Union Home Mortgage
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: gas Maria Bowl, which is in Tampa Bay, which is
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Stadium, Raymond James.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: The gas Maria.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: References some historical pirate refe whatever it is. The pirate
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: ship that's there, Gus Maria I think was a pirate
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: I have no idea.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: This is Memphis and NC State. Now.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: My first reaction to this game was Memphis is not
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: going to be that happy to be here. Because Memphis,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, they were on the verge of potentially getting
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: into the American Championship and then potentially even getting a
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: playoff berth, but their hopes were dashed a while ago.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: Like I think once they lost to UAB, I mean sure,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: I guess that was only their first loss, but then
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: when they lost the Chulane, it was definitely over. And
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: yeah they didn't they did not finish the season strong.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: So I actually don't like that. Like sometimes I will
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: say that a team will bounce back because they have
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: a lot of time off and it can kind of
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: just disrupt that losing momentum and you have a lot
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: of time off. But when a team just wasn't playing
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: well down the stretch. It makes it look like they
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: also don't want to be here. For a team like Memphis,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: it looks like once their season was over, they just
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: packed it in, you know what I mean. So I
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: don't like that because they might not be that excited
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: to play in this bowl, although.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: Maybe they will. So the one caveat that I will throw.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: Out there is they get to play an ACC team here,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: so maybe they will be excited for that just because
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: they don't get to play some no name team here,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. They get to play NC State,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: So that's a decent game for them in that regard.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: So maybe they will put a side on that crap.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: Maybe they will bounce back and play well in this game.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: For ncis State, I kind of thought that they would
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: want to be here because they only had an okay
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: season seven and five, and they lost their bowl last
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: year to East Carolina, and that was ugly East Carolina.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, they step up their game against their in
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: state big brother NC State. NC State lost that bowl
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: last year.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: It was ugly.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: NC State did not cover for us in the revenge
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: spot against East Carolina. They did win to start the
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: season they finished the season actually looking like they did
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: want to play, Like after they became Bowl eligible, they blew.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: Out North Carolina.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: But of course for NCI State, you know you're gonna
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: get up for North Carolina. It's a big rivalry game,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: so that was big for them. So now coming into
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: this game, you know, will the extra time off disrupt
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: their momentum a little bit?
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: Maybe?
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: Like do they really care about playing Memphis? I don't know,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: that's the question, Like does NTCA State really get up
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: for a game against Memphis?
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: Maybe NC State remembers last year getting embarrassed a lot
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: of moving parts in this game. And then you got
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: to look at the opt outs, which makes this game
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: even crazier because Silverfield Memphis coach, he's gone. He took
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: the job at Arkansas, so he's not coaching. So then
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: you have to try to gauge that because now you
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: have an interim coach situation, and sometimes it's good. Sometimes
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: the team likes the interim coach and they play hard
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: for him, and sometimes they don't, So you have to
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: try to gauge will they play hard? Now if you
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: look at the opt outs, though, Memphis players are all
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: playing here, Like, they only have injuries as far as
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: their players are concerned, so aside from the head coach,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: their guys are gonna be here. So that kind of
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: indicates to me that their players actually want to show
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: up and play here, whereas NC State has more opt outs.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: And however, that's why the line has dropped. Like NC
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: State was gonna be a five and a half point
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: favorite here now they're three and a half. And that
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: that is because some of their players that have opted out,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: especially Hollywood Smothers, one of the best names.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: Man, he is not gonna play.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: He's the top running back for NC State, so he's
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: one of their best offensive players. They're still gonna have CJ. Bailey,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure their quarterback for this one though, but
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: he has you know, he has opted out of this
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: game as well as they got their tight end, cornerback,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: left tackle, defensive tackles, So they do have some guys
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: opting out here, man, which does make it look like
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: Memphis is the more intact team here. Again, that's being
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: factored into the line move. That's why the line moved.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: But what do we do with the game at that point?
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: This is a really, really difficult one. For me to
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: handicap man. The money is saying Memphis to some extent,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: fifty three percent of tickets, fifty nine percent of the cash.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: This is gonna be in the afternoon on ESPN. So
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: ESPN gets these Bowl games today.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, the money is saying Memphis. I know.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: I disagreed with the money a little bit. I like
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: Kennastoplus the points in their their game. I just see
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: them being more a little bit more motivated. This game
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: is way harder for me to read because my initial
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: instinct with NC State wants to be here. Memphis is
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: extremely disappointed. But now it looks like that might not
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: be the case. Very very difficult game to handicap in
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: that one. So I mean slight lean with the market
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: I guess for now towards Memphis. But yeah, I can't
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: get involved in that.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: What I am going to do is I am going
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: to jump in on this playoff game Alabama playoffs. What
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: playoffs they're starting now? Uh?
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: Playoffs? Don't talk about playoffs? You kidding me? Playoffs? I
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: just hope we can win a game another game.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: Now, you know that I do have Alabama in my
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: playoff bracket, which you guys saw. I don't know if
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna change my bracket at all. I gotta maybe
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: fine tune it before the playoffs start, but it's probably
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: not gonna change that much where I did look though,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: And by the way, more people are picking Ohio State
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: now to win the whole thing than Georgia.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: But Indiana is still that like under the radar team
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: that people aren't really picking.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: So people are actually looking like they're thinking Ohio State
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: will beat.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: Indiana in a rematch. So I think I'm good with
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: my pick of Indiana to win the whole thing. Man,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: we'll see if they can do it.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: But at least with with Ohio State, they do have
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: a really young and experienced quarterback. So but we also
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: do with Alabama, I get it. I know Oklahoma has
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: the more experienced quarterback. Here, we're gonna be on Alabama anyway.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: And yes, I know again Alabama with Simpson. He's a freshman.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: But neither one of these quarterbacks has played in a
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: game like this man Materier for Oklahoma.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: He's a junior, but he played.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: His uh he played basically one season in college football
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: prior to this year, and it was at Washington State.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: So they play a pretty week schedule over at Washington State.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: Now he's faced the SEC. So basically you're looking at
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: two quarterbacks that both have one season under their belt
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: against the SEC. And really I think Simpson was the
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: one who looked better out of the two.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: Matier has not looked good since he got injured, so.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: I don't really trust Matier here. I don't necessarily trust
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: either offense. Both defenses are really good, so there is
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: that Oklahoma probably has the slightly better defense, although I
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: think Alabama has the better offense out of the two. Alabama, Yeah,
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: they're a little bit one dimensional. They throw the ball
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: more often than anything else.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: I do get that.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: So for those reasons, I do like the under in
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: this game as well. You're getting the key number of
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: forty one on this It's a low total, sixty two.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: Percent taket sixty nine percent of the couch on the over.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: But I could only see playing the under here with
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: a lot of kind of offensive question marks on both sides,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: and both both teams are better on deepense than offense,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: So that's what I'll say. But I think Alabama having
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: the better offense than the two does tip the scales
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: in favor of Alabama. The oddsbeakers are telling you Alabama
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: is the better team because this game's in Norman, Oklahoma,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: and Oklahoma is only a one point favorite after they
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: were a one point dog. You can get one and
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: a half out there right now in Alabama. Yeah, it
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: looks like Alabama maybe a slightly public side fifty seven
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: percent of tickets and cash, but it's nothing that I'm
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: really weighing that heavily. We'll see what the market looks
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: like when the game goes off, but it doesn't look
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: like either team is gonna be seriously public or anything
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: A lot of this is gonna be looking at the
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: previous matchup between these two, but a lot of it
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: is also how the situation sets up. I like Alabama
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: for a lot of different reasons in this game. Yes,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: Sab brought up that every home team in this round
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: of the playoffs won last year, but as I pointed out,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: every one of those home teams was a seven point
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: favorite or greater.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: In those games.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: They were pretty much all mismatches in one way or another,
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: So that is not the case here with these first
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: two playoff games. These are much more competitive games. So
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: I think one at least one of these home teams
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: I think is gonna go down in these two games,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: and we'll see which one it's gonna be.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: But I do like Alabama here. I think they're the
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: better team.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: I've had them, like the power ratings guys have had
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: them as the better team basically all season except for
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: after they lost to Florida State. But since then they've
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: been impressive. And yes, one of their losses was to Oklahoma,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: but that's part of this huge handicap.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: It's not revenge.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: Revenge, No, revenge is not going to be a thing here, right, Like,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: both teams are gonna show up for this. We all
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: know this. It's not a revenge thing. It's a what
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: actually happened in.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: This game thing?
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: And it's this game was extremely misleading, dude, Alabama, they
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: lost the game at home. They were probably about a
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: I would guess what were they like close to a
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: touchdown favorite in this game? Probably Alabama was and they
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: lost the game outright, So for one thing, it's about
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: making adjustments, right, So Alabama they know that they have
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: some things to fit after that game, so they can
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: make the adjustments because they got upset at home by
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: this team, man, so that was a bit of an
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: outlier situation. So I do think this is kind of
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: a zigzag spot in that Alabama is the team that
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: can make the adjustments because they fell on the wrong
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: side of this outlier result, Whereas if you're Oklahoma, you
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: don't really have a whole lot to change because you
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: did what you know, you won the game as an underdog.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: But if you look at what happened in this game,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: Alabama was in a hole right from the outset because
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: of an eighty seven yard pick six. Alabama was about
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: to take the lead in the first quarter after they
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: were down three to nothing, and instead it goes six
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: the other way and they're down ten to nothing. And
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: even though yeah, they were recovered, they actually took the
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: lead and they lost on a late field goal. Still,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: that pick six swung the game.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: But look at what happened in this game.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: Statistically, Alabama dominated this game. They had almost two hundred
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: more yards in Oklahoma four h six to two twelve
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: twenty three to twelve, and first downs almost double the
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: first downs time of possession.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: They won by nine minutes, and the.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: Reason they lost was three turnovers like mistakes, and that
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: could definitely be cleaned up. That's you know, a kind
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: of a discipline thing, a mental thing. You can definitely
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: clean that thing up. So Alabama, very very misleading result here.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: Alabama was clearly the better team in this game, even
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: though I know it was at home. But yeah, the
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: very very very misleading final result in this one. So
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: that's something to keep in mind here. Now for Alabama,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: they also looked horrible in the SEC Championship, and I
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: actually like that coming into this game. Oh and by
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: the way, I should point out that, yeah, Alabama was
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: not able to run the ball particularly well in that game,
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: but neither team ran the ball well in that game
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: against Oklahoma, So if you dig into that game, Alabama
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: actually still had more rushing yards than Oklahoma did in
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: that game. So somebody keep in mind there that Alabama,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: like the only reason why it looked like maybe they
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: didn't have a better rushing game than Oklahoma did was
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: that Alabama had a lot a lot of minus sack
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: yardage in that game. Because yeah, Oklahoma's defense is good,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: we know that. But Alabama, I think they're gonna be
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: a lot better at running the football here. Though they're
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: not great at running the football, but they're also getting
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: jam Miller back or is their best running back. I
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: don't believe he played in the SEC Championship, so he's
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: gonna be back. I'm not sure if he played in
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: that Oklahoma game either, so that'll be a boost for
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  Speaker 2: Alabama's rushing attack. But also, Simpson was the better quarterback
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  Speaker 2: against Matier in that game. I know they were losing
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: the games, that was part of it, but he outthrew
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  Speaker 2: Matier in that game by like over one hundred yards.
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  Speaker 2: So Alabama was the better team in that game and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of different respects. Now, as I was about
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: to say, I like that Alabama lost to Georgia and
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: played more recently. So Alabama played on December sixth, so
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: they've had a week off. But I don't think that's
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: not too much time off, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: But they've had basically over a week off, so that's
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  Speaker 2: enough time to fix whatever went wrong in that game
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  Speaker 2: against Georgia, you know what I mean. And I actually
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  Speaker 2: like that Alabama looked really bad in that game against
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: Georgia because people aren't gonna want them after they just
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: saw them lose twenty eight to seven to Georgia and
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: they lost to Oklahoma, the last time they really had
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: any game that was of any sort of magnitude. Except yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know, they beat Auburn in a rivalry game. We
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  Speaker 2: lost on that one. I think Auburn should have covered.
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  Speaker 2: That's beside the point here, though, Alabama. They look so
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  Speaker 2: bad in that game. And again I like that because
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: that's like a that's a data point that's gonna mislead
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  Speaker 2: people in the other direction, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Alabama didn't need to win the game. They were gonna
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: be in the playoff anyway. Sure they would have had
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: a better playoff position if they had won the game,
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  Speaker 2: but that makes them look way worse than they are now.
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  Speaker 2: They have time off to fix whatever went wrong in
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: that game. And I believe, again they were without Miller
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  Speaker 2: in that game, so their offense, they couldn't run the
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  Speaker 2: football at all in that game against Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: But Miller, I believe he's.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna be back in this game. And he did play
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  Speaker 2: in those other two games prior to that, so I
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: think he'll be back. And I again, I don't think
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: he was there for this Oklahoma game either, but he's
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: gonna be there for this one. Even though I do
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: talk about how running backs are plug and play in
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: college for Oklahoma, I do not like the spot for Oklahoma.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, look at how Oklahoma finished. They haven't played
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: since November twenty ninth, so they've been off for almost
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: a month, and I think that's just way too much
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: time off. And they finished the season beating Tennessee, Alabama, Missouri,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: who were all ranked at the time, and then LSU
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: in their final home game on Senior Day, which is
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: still a huge win. Even though LSU is not good
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: this year, it's a.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: Big name still, so Missouri, excuse me.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma finished the game with four straight finished the season
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: with four straight wins.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like that at all.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: Dude, having that much time off, it could be really
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: disruptive to your momentum. So I actually like that Alabama
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: played in the SEC title game and looked really bad
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: in it, cause I think that's gonna give you maybe
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: even a little bit of value on the Alabama side.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: But either way, you're just at who's gonna win the game.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: Pretty much here, I say it's gonna be Alabama. The
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: weather shouldn't be a concern here. Alabama, Yeah, more of
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: a warm weather team, but we're gonna be fine here.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: It's supposed to be in the fifties here and sunny,
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: so it's not gonna be that cold.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: It'll be fine.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, guys, you know, they can put some long
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: sleeves on if they want to.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: Whatever.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: Fifties is very nice weather, man. I mean, come on,
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: it'll be fine for those guys. So it's not gonna
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: be a concern weather wise here. I like Alabama. That's
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: what we're gonna do. That is the way that I'm
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: doing it.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: Man. That is the last play here.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: And they're listed here there are They list the opt
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: outs here, but you know, nobody's opting out of a
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: playoff game. It's just the injury concerns here. But of course, again,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: I know Miller is listed here. Whatever, I'm pretty sure
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: Miller is gonna play, although Oklahoma is getting some of
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: their guys back as well, but both teams are so basically,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: if you look at this list, any of these guys,
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: if they're able to play, they're gonna play in the playoffs.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: So again, the opt out thing doesn't really matter here.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: So yeah, we're going with Alabama in that one. And
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: that is gonna do it for me for today. Man,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: once again. The plays today are the Philadelphia seventy six
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: ers plus the points and Alabama in the college football playoff.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: That's gonna do it, Zach, what's up man? Thanks for
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: hanging out one of your friends in a OU game.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: I don't I do not like that he thinks that
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: they're gonna lose. I don't like that because I like
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: to be as contrarian as possible. But I can't be
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: contrarian against everybody, So I just like it.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: For Alabama. It's on my card for all the reasons.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: I just stayed and similar to what I did last night,
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: even though we probably we did lose, and we deserved
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: to lose on Seattle, they did not deserve to win
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: that game. They got massively outplayed in the game. But yeah,
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: but still, this is a handicapping angle that works. Like
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: that last matchup between the two teams looked looked like
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: it went one way, but if you look at the
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: box score, the box score tells the complete opposite tale
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: of the game. That's what's going on in this one.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: That's what we're gonna do. The team that lost can
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: make the adjustments as well, So that's what we're doing.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: Guys, thanks for hanging out. I got some time to
• 1:21:16
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• 1:21:18
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• 1:21:35
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• 1:21:44
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• 1:22:34
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• 1:22:41
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• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: that's going to do it for now. Have a good day, everybody.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: Let's hope we get another winning day because it's tough
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: to do when you only have two plays, so one
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: in one is basically gonna give you a loss, So
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: hopefully that doesn't happen, but we'll see. The streak may
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: end today, but that's just the way that it is.
• 1:23:17
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