September 6, 2019 • 33 mins
On today’s edition of The Best of Straight Outta Vegas with RJ Bell, RJ and the crew react to the news that Antonio Brown WILL suit up and play for the Oakland Raiders on Monday! Get the reactions to last night’s Green Bay Packers vs. Chicago Bears game, and the guys give you best bets for the weekend!
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three here in Vegas. Well, it's back pick Palooza. What
does that mean? Look it up. But there's a lot
of picks involved. Wow, talk about the drama, Antonio Brown.
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We'll get to that first, get through it fairly quickly,
and then talk about who's gonna win this weekend? Off
a sweet, sweet sweet Thursday night, best bet, a lot
of love. You know, it's so easy. It looks like
you saw the future. People tend to appreciate it. You
would think maybe they'd appreciate just any winner, but it's
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not quite the same as if they feel so smart
playing it. And we had the under Our first half
last night looked mighty good. Sports bettors listen for the money.
Sports fans listen to no more than their buddies, and
in studio the pros who know ad powers in college.
We'll be talking a good bit of college Steve Fasik,
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NFL expert. It's my personal promise where we will deliver
you the Vegas truth. Jonas in l A traffic imagine that.
You know, if he could predict predict the future, he
would have known, right. But he's the voice of the fans,
will be here any minute. Let's talk about Brown. Now,
some of this is math, and math isn't necessarily fun,
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So let's keep this part simple. How much is Antonio
Brown worth as a player. Now, you've got a list
of five players that are non quarterbacks, because quarterbacks are
in their own tier. Some of them worth a touchdown.
Aaron Rodgers and his prime with a bad backup was
worth ten points. Ten points, and no one quite that
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valuable these days. Brady never as much as you might think,
just because Ballotchick's ballotchick. Look what he did with Castle.
So quota X go to one side of the room
amongst every other player, there's only five worth a point
and a half, and everyone else is worth less. Maybe
a dozen worth a point fest Yeah, just about a dozen.
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And you think I think you have a few too
many on This is about thirty worth a half. Point right,
or how many do you have on the list. It's
a little bit more than that. How many I'm gonna
have to get back to because I gotta go back
through the defensive player. Okay, but if you had to
guess a number, Okay, so about thirty he says, no, no, no,
thirty five one point two if his accuracy seems to
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come and go, Steve Fezik, All right, now here's the question.
Where's Brown is? So? Brown is not on the list
of your list of the one and a half points,
the five biggest correct, Okay, not on the list. But
yesterday the line was picked him. It was announced brown
out line goes to two, maybe even two and a half.
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Now we can sit and explain again, and we won't
why isn't quite two and a half? But let's just
say it's less than two and a half by a
little bit, now, Fez, and you can tell me it
was a big surprise that Brown's now supposedly back to playing.
What happened to the line. The total movement was point
half a point and a half. Okay, So what I
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saw was from two to one, went from two and
a half to two, and I was at before after
the announce Okay, so let me ask one more time. So, uh,
from the time of the announcement on how much was
the line on? One point? Got it? Five plus five
equals we got a winning street going. Now here's the
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question he mentioned it. He wasn't asked that he mentioned
that that line did leak. They call it? What was that?
Maybe it's a leak now we really thought of it.
But they say that line is leaking down. I think
it looks like if you just look at the movement.
In fact, we don't attract drawn, we don't wrap our
arms around controversy, but we don't shy from it. Here
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on straight out of Vegas. Would you say that line
move moving a half point down within how much before
the announcement? Was it before? So it seems curious. It's
almost like, uh, city officials say we will be doing
waterfront expansion and then you look and see the city
councilman's brother bought land there the day before. It could
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be a coincidence. Does this feel like this baby late?
Feels like somebody knew and it got leaked. Yes, it
could be. We'll just say could be so on one hand,
because adds more towards one and a half the adjustment,
but still't know what it was yesterday. Why. I believe
yesterday's move was about Brown's value on the field, and
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since he was taken off the field, that would be
a move against the Raiders. But in addition, it was
about team distraction. Who's talking about this, who's thinking about this?
It seems like Gruden has a statement on this every
twenty minutes. I don't know if it's on Instagram, if
he's got his own little camera crew following him at
all times. Is he getting ready for the game. You
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might say, Oh, he's geting ready. It's like, well, yeah,
but Balachik the other good coaches, they're getting ready every
week and moment. So if you take twenty minutes away
from it, it's twenty less minutes to get ready. I
think it's a distraction for the coaches, and now I
think it's more of a distraction because I think the
consensus opinion was yesterday if you watch speak for yourself.
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First things first, the kind of the morning shows on
FS one, the consensus was, you know, I think this
is it with the Raiders. Because as people got into
the contracts details, what they felt like was, well, really
the way, Raiders haven't paid him anything really yet they said,
well a million bucks, but he didn't qualify for that.
But million doesn't even matter in the scheme of what
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we're talking here. So if you can cut this guy
after finding out what you found out about them, I'm
not even sure how that wasn't the auto play. Why
wasn't that standard? Think about it. Imagine if you get
married and to whatever degree you thought the person was problematic,
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you know, personality, temper, smelled at night, whatever, if that
was double was bad or triple was bad, but somehow
you could annul the marriage six months later where there's
no real consequence, at least on paper. To it might
be emotional consequence, but pretty much everything has that that carnage.
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But it's a situation where there's no real cost. To say,
with the new information, I can go back in time
effectively and make a different decision. Who wouldn't do that
unless the decision initially was so clear, was so one
sided there wasn't even another side to it, even with
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double the trouble, double or whatever. You'd say, Yep, fine,
I still want this decision. Could that be the case
with the Raiders, because would you guys agree, and you know,
I'm open to people disagreeing with this and if they
want to be wrong, But would you agree that the
amount of drama, the amount of distraction around a b
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is much more than we expected considering how he did
in Pittsburgh, meaning there were some of it, certainly in Pittsburgh,
but I did not expect this much. Brat like double,
if not more quadruple. He's the headline story once a week,
So it strikes me unless the race and again they
were paying him, you know what is the thirtysome mill guaranteed?
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And again say it again. Three years, five million with
thirty guaranteed. Okay, that feels like a pretty good contract
for a guy his age, fourth highest wide receiver in
the league. And you could say, well, he's been better
than that. Yeah, but he's what thirty right, so year
ago thirty one? He's old. So here's the question. Unless
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the Raiders thought, oh my gosh, we should probably pay
him double this we got a bargain, which is almost nonsensical.
Then on the other hand, you would say, well, wait
now that you see that Brown is double or triple
the trouble and you can get out as if you
hadn't made the decision pretty much to start with, except
you've got all the drama for Hard Knocks without much expense.
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You know, boy, why wouldn't you. Yeah, I'm a little
surprised a little. It's like explained to me the rationale,
like like you are thinking, let's assume things aren't quite
as we think they are. If this is the case,
r J, it makes sense they want him to play.
What would that scenario be? Well, I just think who's
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making the decisions here to come? We know who's making
the decisions. It's Gruden, unless somehow Mark Davis wants to
trump him, which he doesn't seem inclined to do. All right,
So even with Gruden, what is the thought process that
makes this decision logical? Keeping Brown? And by reading it
strikes me the minute they let him ply, all this
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prior actions that they would use to invalidate the contract
go out the window, at least the known ones, because
the assumption is you knew about Brown doing extra y
to mayok, right whatever it was allegedly whatever, Yes we did,
and then you still and you guys suspended him formally correct,
Yes we did. And then you said, you know, we
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reconsider correct. How can you say that's the reason. In
a way, letting him playing this one game seems to
put them back on the hook for the whole thirty mil.
I don't disagree with that. So what could it be
that we'll make getting on the hook for thirty mil
now makes sense? It doesn't. I don't think you can
even make the even a lawyer would have trouble making.
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You know that's gonna take the side he's on. Yeah,
I heard oh news about a B I was almost certain,
oh they cut him. Yeah. If you would have said,
what are the odds from here as of seven am
Pacific that he gets cut next or if he plays next,
I'd say, my three hunter that he got caught. Agreed,
This is a surprise. I don't understand it. We've been
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saying all along, this is straight out of a m R. J.
Bell joined by Brad Power, Steve Pheesick. We've been saying
all along the Raiders have a different agenda. It's not
just winning, it's getting to Vegas. And you might say, well,
why does that matter? Were the Raiders financially with Davis?
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The Davis is as owners, not the most cat or
you know, some would say and again, I don't know
if these numbers are perfect. The least wealthy owner amongst
the NFL's owners, and Oakland has a lot of limitations,
it seems, with financially generating money. For example, our understanding
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is no naming rights to the stadium, so revenue from
that now currently zero. And in Vegas the naming rights
are brad uh million for twenty years, twenty five million
a year, yepey five million a year versus zero? Okay?
And oh, by the way, Denver mile High being a
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famous you know, if you could say casual fans name
a stadium were named stadium names? Wow, how it's gonna
be certainly in the top ten. Yeah, certainly on top
of those how much they're making it. You're just signed
that deal this week. Six million a year, all right
versus six Vegas. All right, there's money here. So how
do you get here with with the least amount of trouble?
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Well they're gonna get here, But do you get here limping?
Maybe Antonio Brown's a building an excuse meaning you have
Brown and you say, listen, we wanted to give him
a chance. He's a great player. Look at all those
years in Pittsburgh and then the season blows up all
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of a sudden. It say that Brown didn't turn out
to be the way I thought he was. Well, you
saw that. Hey, I gave him another chance. Hey fault
me for caring too much about players and trying to
help them through tough times. I don't know. There's nothing
about winning that allows this decision to make sense. There's
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nothing about financial net results, as in pay this thirty
million or don't that makes this decision makes sense. But
maybe the theory is, yeah, maybe he's worth twelve million
instead of thirty at this point with all the trouble,
But that eighteen million dollar difference we're gonna make up
for that in excuse equity have I mean, aren't they
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really setting up right now a build an excuse for
the season. A B two be the scapegoat, he's the patsy, perhaps,
but he's making thirty sticks to be the patsy. That
might not be such a bad decision. Last thing I
heard Jonas laugh, Mr Jonas, give us your quick, you know,
quick overview of the Antonio Brown decision. It just it
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felt like the Raiders had an easy out. It felt
like they could have gotten out of this and kept
twenty nine million dollars, and apparently he was very convincing
with his apology because I can't figure it out. It's
very bizarre, and I think probably you know what they say.
If the logic doesn't work, check your assumptions. All of
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us initially are thinking this through as if the goal
of the Raiders is economically so money's an issue win.
Maybe that's not the goal. The goal is to hit
Vegas with a fresh late, and that fresh late be
a b decided to move to Vegas in the offseason
and work out every day at un O V. Who
knows what. But as long as they can turn the
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page on this year and not hurt the seat licensing,
licensing agreements and all that next year, then the extra
tens of million doesn't really matter because we're talking billions.
We're not talking billions, but we're talking cash. When we
come back, we're gonna start with the picks. It really
is pick Palooza. Ending the show with best bats that's
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Coming up here in just a couple of moments, we
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this week. I haven't got the weather. Let's see what
we got we want to get. You know, we could
make it up, but then what point would that be?
Huh oh? Really a hundred and four degrees? The neon
is crackling, so r J. We got our first taste
of NFL action last night in Chicago was the Packers
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beating the Bears ten to three. So the big question
is what do we make of what we saw our
first dose of NFL action. According to the guys in Vegas,
that I am a heck of a handicapper, no doubt.
I mean right here, listen, we gave it on both
days Wednesday and Thursday. I put it on my Twitter.
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If you're not following my Twitter, it's free. By the way.
At r J in Vegas. It's like you're saying I
don't like money. Remember the old touches saying if you
don't about this game, It's like you don't like well
this is free. Now what was the handicap? And here's
the thing. There's a couple of ways that I could
have approached this. I could have said, oh, yeah, yeah,
that's just that, you know, the fact we were right
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on like a ah, you know. But then it would
have been like if someone wins a hundred bucks and
they say, I know, big deal, you think, wow, that
guy is a big batter. But if they win a
hundred thousand and they act like it's no big deal,
then you know that they're lying and it doesn't really
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matter who it is so after pretty much predicting the
future on national radio. If I acted like it was
no big deal, I think it would be deceptive. I
just want to tell the truth. It was like we
saw the future, more specifically me as you piggybacked it.
We bet a thousand just to get things rolling right
on air on Wednesday. Now you've got my nickel here
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in cash. But somehow I don't see any any percentage
on the pick, like a commission. I mean, come on,
at any point, did you think you know that was
so easy? I did, and I should pay you commit somehow,
But you didn't. And the reason I should. Oftentimes you
make it bet. Sometimes you get fortunate things go right
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for you. This was a case where you came on,
you said, both teams are gonna be rusting. They didn't
play their starters in preseason. I didn't say that. I
don't care about the starters. About quarterback, that's your little thing,
starter start. I don't care, right, because you can't really
quantify unless you give me data that says last year
of this team played their startersent of snaps in the preseason.
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This year it's eighteen. Now I'm gonna say, hmm, there's
something there. But when I hear oh, you know, I
flipped on the game and I didn't see that one lineman,
I tend to be oh wait, he got traded another team. Well,
I guess that's why I didn't see him. I'm not
into that. I'm a dada guy. So quarterbacks, and neither
quarterback had thrown a pass, and it showed both Rogers
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and Trabinsky rough. You notice he's talking a lot, but
at no point is he talking about paying me any commission.
Hold on, I am elma J millionaire. I want to
mansion a ch I mean, that's the beauty of it.
When you have a mansion at no, no, no, when
you have a mansion in a yacht, it's because not
only you win, you're stiffing people along the way, because
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in the end, he's like, they won't be able to
get me. I'm on my yacht and my mansion has big,
tall walls with barbed You always wonder why Physick has
barbed wire on top of his fence. I don't know.
Now I understand, all right, And for all you out there,
I don't want your money, right, I've had probably thirty
times since we started this show, we're coming up on
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our one year anniversary. I've had people say, hey, I
want to send you a fruit basket. I'm like, no,
it's my job. And if you want to thank or
spread the word, and I'll say the same thing to you, guys,
spread the word about the show. The ratings are up, up, up,
but we want to keep going and we appreciate the support.
So I spent like three minutes taking my ballots, but
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I wanted to be sincere. Let's talk about the game.
Let's agree that Trabinsky zero passes in the preseason Rogers
zero passes. Green Bay with a new head coach, which
means transition. You think they might be a little rusty.
I think on the offensive side of the ball, to
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some degree, you have to excuse it. To some degree,
you got to say not a great spot. And Chicago
obviously has a good defense. I excuse green Bay a lot.
Chicago looks so inept on offense and green Bay's defense
being somewhat improved something. But I'm gonna say, let's pause
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on that. To me, the big question I want to
see next week, Week three, how's green Bay's defense look.
If it looks good, I'm gonna give the Bears a
little bit of a break and say, hey, this defense
is much better. So the fact they looks so bad
doesn't mean that they're so bad. But if somehow green
Bay looks bad on d next week, I'm gonna believe
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that more and I'm gonna really stick it in my
handicapping to the Bears offense. Do you agree with that fact?
I agree? And the real big question three big acquisitions
for green Bay on defense? All three of these guys.
So who are the three big acquisitions? A most the
safety they got from the Bears. And two linebackers named Smith.
Both of the lines a man named Smith? Is it?
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John Smith? Preston and Za Darius? Okay, they both got sacked.
All three of these guys had big games, all right,
all right, But that seems exactly the way to make
a mistake about something. You have a little buys coming
in thinking, hey, those guys got a decent contract. Now
to get one sack, and it's like, oh, they must
be good. Small sample. So I agree, whatever optimism you
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had about the Packers defense coming in the season, you've
got to give it an up arrow. Just don't give
it an up arrow without regard to its one game,
and without regard to the fact that Trabinsky hasn't played
all that well in general, and he especially wouldn't play
well when he's rusty, which you had to be zero passes,
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all right, So it's all with a caveat, And I
think that's one of the worst things about talk radio.
You want to say bombastic things at least that what
that's what seems to get the attention. I have no
problem channeling stephen A if I feel it, but if
I don't feel it, I'm not gonna do it. And
I think for guys who are trying to either bet
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or gals or try to be smart about sports, most
of the time, each game is a little piece of
a puzzle. Think about a big puzzle. How good is
the Bears offense? And you hadent of it, maybe offseason
assumptions you look at the roster, but every year, who
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thought Mahomes was gonna be that good entering last year?
Maybe Andy Reid, but not many others. Right, So now
you start getting data and you start throwing in the puzzle,
you know, And here's the beauty. You never have the
puzzle completed. Maybe when you're on your deathbed, fazz. You're
gonna see something and it's gonna be like of course,
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and you're gonna reach the phone to text me, but
then you're gonna expire. But then you had that moment
like at the end of two thousand one of space
obviously where you saw it all. Get the text out first. Yeah,
I mean no, I don't think you can. But who knows.
I've never gotten a tax from anyone telling me they
saw it all. So and it's true. And in a way, guys,
that's why it's so interesting. I've been betting pretty much
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every day since I was fourteen, over thirty years. I
don't have this figure it out more so than I
did thirty years ago, though the line was easier back then.
So so I don't know. I'm actually really down on
the Bears offense. So I mean, let's go beyond what
seems factual. I was listening to calling today and we're
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on Fox Sports Radio with Colin. We're straight out of Vegas,
and he was talking about Naggy. He goes, oh, that
Naggy is sharp. Did you see him move that halfback
over in motion? And then they stopped and there was
another motion. It's like, Okay, it looks like like Don
Corill stuff from the AFL. So it's like, is that
really advanced or is that trying to look like? You know,
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they say movie directors sometimes they get extra fancy. They
want attention, so they do these camera moves that look impressive.
Doesn't really it works. What do we know about Naggie?
That he was under Andy Reid? Now there's two ways
to look at that. Oh, he must be a genius
he was under Andy Reid. Or could it be the
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Andy Reid was the guy that deserved a lot of
credit for what happened in Kansas City. And then if
you look at last year, the assumption is, oh, Traubinsky
is horrible. He's like a dead corpse out there, and
Naggie somehow, probably or maybe it's give another good, good
coach to Traubinsky, he's gonna look a lot better. Which
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of and I'm Joan is whomever? What do we know
because here's part of the assumption, we don't really know
what makes a great o c. There's probably only about
fifty people in the country that do that can look
at an offense and said, oh, here's why this guy
isn't as good as you might think. I'm not one
of those guys. What do we know about Naggie other
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than he's got a good pr agent that makes him
good if we don't. He had limited experience calling plays
in Kansas City. Yeah, and and then the one playoff
game he did appear, and when he was calling plays,
and the knock on him was after his first big
unveil the second half adjustments he wasn't all that effective with.
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And it's why Marcus Mariotte and the Titans won in
Kansas City when they had home field there. Great point
and also Jonas brought up another point for me to
end my thoughts on it. Last year, the book on
Naggie was he came out with a script and it
was mighty good. And if you looked at the first quarter,
the stats were better than the rest of the game.
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Now he's had a whole off season. Shouldn't you now
have another set of surprises and not playing in the preseason.
Maybe you could excuse it somewhat by saying we stayed vanilla,
but now we're gonna spring a trap. But where was it?
Because this was a home game in division against the
team that's dominated the division. There's any statement game it's
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this game. They a statement, we're not very good on
offense the Bears, and we'll see. We'll see if that changes.
They could, but my puzzle for the Bears offense is
about full and Naggie's face doesn't look real good. Be
sure to catch live editions of Straight out of Vegas
weekdays at six pm Eastern, three pm Pacific. I'm r J. Bell,
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We are Straight out of Aga, and I'm Jonah Sknock's
voice of you the fans, So are J. You discussed
the on air this week yesterday before the opener between
the Packers and the Bears. Some of the quarterbacks who
have had zero pass attempts in the preseason, and you've
got some others that will be taking the field coming
this Sunday. Yeah, you know, it was one of those
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moments that you really live for, right, because you know
only you're working so hard to find little edges and
then when you think you have a big edge, you
just wrap your arms around it. You really take off
the rubber band. You know that across the country. Let
me just do the math, right, hundreds of thousands of listeners,
let's say even ten percent bad it I think more,
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but let's say ten, all right. So now let's say
twenty thousand people bad it conservatively, and if they all
bet even ten dollars, that's two K. So I don't
give my best bets lightly, and when I give them,
it's usually And once again, the forces of niceness and
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goodness have triumphed over the forces of evil and roughness.
Let's try to continue that, all right, fat So we
talked about those zero passing quarterbacks. There's three more left, right, correct?
Who's the three? The Rams? All right? So Goff, the
Chargers and Rivers, Rivers and Philadelphia Wentz. Wentz. Now, I
am not as worried about Wentz because he's had so
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many injuries. He's kind of used to coming back in
a way, a little rusty. But I'm gonna let you decide.
As a bonus, this isn't the best bet, but just
to pick if you had to fade one of these teams,
who would have been fade? The Rams and Goff And
here's y r J. Not only they're out of sorts,
little rusty from golf not playing preseason ten am start
time for that West Coast team playing on the East coast.
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Body clock issues also now there's a lot of debate
within the industry. Is that accounted for in the line?
I think typically it is. I think, considering there's some
other disruptions, the rest of it's being one of them.
You know how it is. If you're a little bit hungover,
it's one thing. If you're tired on top of it,
it's another. Maybe there's a compounding effect with the fatigue.
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It's time for a best bet from Steve Fezik looking
ahead to this weekend in the NFL. All right, so
you gave your you know, probably a small bat against
the Rams. Now this is your best bat. Yeah, I
like Jacksonville plus three and a versus Kansas City. I
bet Jacksonville. It is all about quarterback upgrade. Now, it's
obvious Folds he's gonna be a lot better than Blake
Bordles and Cody Kessler. But here's what's not obvious. Not
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only do I expect the offense to be better, that
defense got so discouraged in the second half of the
year for Jacksonville. They did not play as hard because
they knew in their hearts that board they were not
going to be able to win. Yeah, and I think
some of it was they're not gonna be able to
win in a way that matters, as in make the
playoffs and stuff. Remember this was a team Jacksonville and
you're batting him here. That was a good half of
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football away from making the Super Bowl, going into Foxborough
and winning. That's how good this team was. And now
what's happened in the interim, Well, they've upgraded the quarterback
and what else. I'm not sure, meaning so small drop offs. Hey,
this guy didn't resign, but really not much so. I
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think Jacksonville underrated for sure. They got unlucky at some
points last year. Motivation was an issue once they started
playing poorly, and just borders being incompetent was an issue.
I love it. On our podcast, I bet against one
of our other pros, Dave Vesseler, on the over under
for Jacksonville. He liked under. I like over. I'm bullish
on Jacksonville. Finalize your bat. Yeah, I like it Jacksonville.
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I bet Jacksonville plus three and a half. Jacksonville plus
three and a half, guys. Another game taking place in
Florida is the forty Niners at the Buccaneers. This is
a Eastern time kickoff on Fox, and you know, Kyle
Shanahan said earlier that he was surprised and pleasantly surprised
and thankful that the Buccaneers decided to go with the
darker jerseys at home amidst the temperatures being in the
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nineties there in Tampa Sunday. Yeah, So to me, that's
a fascinating element, is the weather in Jacksonville. So what's this? Uh?
And again the Florida teams in general is Jonas is
bringing up, what's the projection for the other nineties? Seven
degrees in Jacksonville may slow down Kansas City, right their offense?
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You're saying, yeah, yeah, that's an interesting point. Yeah, I agree.
Another reason maybe to like Jacksonville. That's fast his best bet.
And guys, we did this every single week last year.
It was Brad Powers. There's no way this could possibly
lose parlay in the world of college football, but sometimes
it does. But here's what we know. Gave it out
all last season and if you them, you won not
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a lot. This is this is a high level difficulty
because there's a lot of favorites here, all right, Brad,
So you've got first pick is perdue minus two fifty
playing Vanderbilt seven point favorite. All right, so you're saying
produced just wins the game. All right, You've got Ohio
State minus eight hundred over Cincinnati and what's the line,
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just gotta win the game? How could that not happen?
All right? You've got Missouri minus five fifty, yeah over
West Virginia. Missouri is a thirteen and a half point favorite.
But they just gotta win. Yeah, I just gotta win.
How could they lose? Last? Irony? Irony? Alright, that's one
Washington minus six hundred. They're playing Cal. Washington is a
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thirteen and a half point favorite. So these are the
four teams. If you win the four, just the game
a hundred wins. You won seventeen. That's Brad Powers. Here's
the picks. Perdue, the Ohio State buck Eyes, Missouri Washington
Perdue Ohio statement, Roy Washington for team er. How could
it lose? Just on the money line, but sometimes it will,
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but it won enough last year to make his money.
Brad Powers, all the college knowledge, physic, NFL expert. I mean,
these are the pros who know this was picked. For
losing me, you're getting nothing more from me. I'm Jonas
has rested on his two and two record last year.
I'm rested after that easy winner last night. If you
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three here in Vegas. Well, it's back pick Palooza. What
does that mean? Look it up. But there's a lot
of picks involved. Wow, talk about the drama, Antonio Brown.
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We'll get to that first, get through it fairly quickly,
and then talk about who's gonna win this weekend? Off
a sweet, sweet sweet Thursday night, best bet, a lot
of love. You know, it's so easy. It looks like
you saw the future. People tend to appreciate it. You
would think maybe they'd appreciate just any winner, but it's
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not quite the same as if they feel so smart
playing it. And we had the under Our first half
last night looked mighty good. Sports bettors listen for the money.
Sports fans listen to no more than their buddies, and
in studio the pros who know ad powers in college.
We'll be talking a good bit of college Steve Fasik,
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NFL expert. It's my personal promise where we will deliver
you the Vegas truth. Jonas in l A traffic imagine that.
You know, if he could predict predict the future, he
would have known, right. But he's the voice of the fans,
will be here any minute. Let's talk about Brown. Now,
some of this is math, and math isn't necessarily fun,
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So let's keep this part simple. How much is Antonio
Brown worth as a player. Now, you've got a list
of five players that are non quarterbacks, because quarterbacks are
in their own tier. Some of them worth a touchdown.
Aaron Rodgers and his prime with a bad backup was
worth ten points. Ten points, and no one quite that
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valuable these days. Brady never as much as you might think,
just because Ballotchick's ballotchick. Look what he did with Castle.
So quota X go to one side of the room
amongst every other player, there's only five worth a point
and a half, and everyone else is worth less. Maybe
a dozen worth a point fest Yeah, just about a dozen.
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And you think I think you have a few too
many on This is about thirty worth a half. Point right,
or how many do you have on the list. It's
a little bit more than that. How many I'm gonna
have to get back to because I gotta go back
through the defensive player. Okay, but if you had to
guess a number, Okay, so about thirty he says, no, no, no,
thirty five one point two if his accuracy seems to
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come and go, Steve Fezik, All right, now here's the question.
Where's Brown is? So? Brown is not on the list
of your list of the one and a half points,
the five biggest correct, Okay, not on the list. But
yesterday the line was picked him. It was announced brown
out line goes to two, maybe even two and a half.
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Now we can sit and explain again, and we won't
why isn't quite two and a half? But let's just
say it's less than two and a half by a
little bit, now, Fez, and you can tell me it
was a big surprise that Brown's now supposedly back to playing.
What happened to the line. The total movement was point
half a point and a half. Okay, So what I
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saw was from two to one, went from two and
a half to two, and I was at before after
the announce Okay, so let me ask one more time. So, uh,
from the time of the announcement on how much was
the line on? One point? Got it? Five plus five
equals we got a winning street going. Now here's the
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question he mentioned it. He wasn't asked that he mentioned
that that line did leak. They call it? What was that?
Maybe it's a leak now we really thought of it.
But they say that line is leaking down. I think
it looks like if you just look at the movement.
In fact, we don't attract drawn, we don't wrap our
arms around controversy, but we don't shy from it. Here
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on straight out of Vegas. Would you say that line
move moving a half point down within how much before
the announcement? Was it before? So it seems curious. It's
almost like, uh, city officials say we will be doing
waterfront expansion and then you look and see the city
councilman's brother bought land there the day before. It could
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be a coincidence. Does this feel like this baby late?
Feels like somebody knew and it got leaked. Yes, it
could be. We'll just say could be so on one hand,
because adds more towards one and a half the adjustment,
but still't know what it was yesterday. Why. I believe
yesterday's move was about Brown's value on the field, and
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since he was taken off the field, that would be
a move against the Raiders. But in addition, it was
about team distraction. Who's talking about this, who's thinking about this?
It seems like Gruden has a statement on this every
twenty minutes. I don't know if it's on Instagram, if
he's got his own little camera crew following him at
all times. Is he getting ready for the game. You
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might say, Oh, he's geting ready. It's like, well, yeah,
but Balachik the other good coaches, they're getting ready every
week and moment. So if you take twenty minutes away
from it, it's twenty less minutes to get ready. I
think it's a distraction for the coaches, and now I
think it's more of a distraction because I think the
consensus opinion was yesterday if you watch speak for yourself.
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First things first, the kind of the morning shows on
FS one, the consensus was, you know, I think this
is it with the Raiders. Because as people got into
the contracts details, what they felt like was, well, really
the way, Raiders haven't paid him anything really yet they said,
well a million bucks, but he didn't qualify for that.
But million doesn't even matter in the scheme of what
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we're talking here. So if you can cut this guy
after finding out what you found out about them, I'm
not even sure how that wasn't the auto play. Why
wasn't that standard? Think about it. Imagine if you get
married and to whatever degree you thought the person was problematic,
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you know, personality, temper, smelled at night, whatever, if that
was double was bad or triple was bad, but somehow
you could annul the marriage six months later where there's
no real consequence, at least on paper. To it might
be emotional consequence, but pretty much everything has that that carnage.
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But it's a situation where there's no real cost. To say,
with the new information, I can go back in time
effectively and make a different decision. Who wouldn't do that
unless the decision initially was so clear, was so one
sided there wasn't even another side to it, even with
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double the trouble, double or whatever. You'd say, Yep, fine,
I still want this decision. Could that be the case
with the Raiders, because would you guys agree, and you know,
I'm open to people disagreeing with this and if they
want to be wrong, But would you agree that the
amount of drama, the amount of distraction around a b
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is much more than we expected considering how he did
in Pittsburgh, meaning there were some of it, certainly in Pittsburgh,
but I did not expect this much. Brat like double,
if not more quadruple. He's the headline story once a week,
So it strikes me unless the race and again they
were paying him, you know what is the thirtysome mill guaranteed?
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And again say it again. Three years, five million with
thirty guaranteed. Okay, that feels like a pretty good contract
for a guy his age, fourth highest wide receiver in
the league. And you could say, well, he's been better
than that. Yeah, but he's what thirty right, so year
ago thirty one? He's old. So here's the question. Unless
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the Raiders thought, oh my gosh, we should probably pay
him double this we got a bargain, which is almost nonsensical.
Then on the other hand, you would say, well, wait
now that you see that Brown is double or triple
the trouble and you can get out as if you
hadn't made the decision pretty much to start with, except
you've got all the drama for Hard Knocks without much expense.
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You know, boy, why wouldn't you. Yeah, I'm a little
surprised a little. It's like explained to me the rationale,
like like you are thinking, let's assume things aren't quite
as we think they are. If this is the case,
r J, it makes sense they want him to play.
What would that scenario be? Well, I just think who's
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making the decisions here to come? We know who's making
the decisions. It's Gruden, unless somehow Mark Davis wants to
trump him, which he doesn't seem inclined to do. All right,
So even with Gruden, what is the thought process that
makes this decision logical? Keeping Brown? And by reading it
strikes me the minute they let him ply, all this
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prior actions that they would use to invalidate the contract
go out the window, at least the known ones, because
the assumption is you knew about Brown doing extra y
to mayok, right whatever it was allegedly whatever, Yes we did,
and then you still and you guys suspended him formally correct,
Yes we did. And then you said, you know, we
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reconsider correct. How can you say that's the reason. In
a way, letting him playing this one game seems to
put them back on the hook for the whole thirty mil.
I don't disagree with that. So what could it be
that we'll make getting on the hook for thirty mil
now makes sense? It doesn't. I don't think you can
even make the even a lawyer would have trouble making.
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You know that's gonna take the side he's on. Yeah,
I heard oh news about a B I was almost certain,
oh they cut him. Yeah. If you would have said,
what are the odds from here as of seven am
Pacific that he gets cut next or if he plays next,
I'd say, my three hunter that he got caught. Agreed,
This is a surprise. I don't understand it. We've been
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saying all along, this is straight out of a m R. J.
Bell joined by Brad Power, Steve Pheesick. We've been saying
all along the Raiders have a different agenda. It's not
just winning, it's getting to Vegas. And you might say, well,
why does that matter? Were the Raiders financially with Davis?
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The Davis is as owners, not the most cat or
you know, some would say and again, I don't know
if these numbers are perfect. The least wealthy owner amongst
the NFL's owners, and Oakland has a lot of limitations,
it seems, with financially generating money. For example, our understanding
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is no naming rights to the stadium, so revenue from
that now currently zero. And in Vegas the naming rights
are brad uh million for twenty years, twenty five million
a year, yepey five million a year versus zero? Okay?
And oh, by the way, Denver mile High being a
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famous you know, if you could say casual fans name
a stadium were named stadium names? Wow, how it's gonna
be certainly in the top ten. Yeah, certainly on top
of those how much they're making it. You're just signed
that deal this week. Six million a year, all right
versus six Vegas. All right, there's money here. So how
do you get here with with the least amount of trouble?
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Well they're gonna get here, But do you get here limping?
Maybe Antonio Brown's a building an excuse meaning you have
Brown and you say, listen, we wanted to give him
a chance. He's a great player. Look at all those
years in Pittsburgh and then the season blows up all
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of a sudden. It say that Brown didn't turn out
to be the way I thought he was. Well, you
saw that. Hey, I gave him another chance. Hey fault
me for caring too much about players and trying to
help them through tough times. I don't know. There's nothing
about winning that allows this decision to make sense. There's
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nothing about financial net results, as in pay this thirty
million or don't that makes this decision makes sense. But
maybe the theory is, yeah, maybe he's worth twelve million
instead of thirty at this point with all the trouble,
But that eighteen million dollar difference we're gonna make up
for that in excuse equity have I mean, aren't they
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really setting up right now a build an excuse for
the season. A B two be the scapegoat, he's the patsy, perhaps,
but he's making thirty sticks to be the patsy. That
might not be such a bad decision. Last thing I
heard Jonas laugh, Mr Jonas, give us your quick, you know,
quick overview of the Antonio Brown decision. It just it
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felt like the Raiders had an easy out. It felt
like they could have gotten out of this and kept
twenty nine million dollars, and apparently he was very convincing
with his apology because I can't figure it out. It's
very bizarre, and I think probably you know what they say.
If the logic doesn't work, check your assumptions. All of
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us initially are thinking this through as if the goal
of the Raiders is economically so money's an issue win.
Maybe that's not the goal. The goal is to hit
Vegas with a fresh late, and that fresh late be
a b decided to move to Vegas in the offseason
and work out every day at un O V. Who
knows what. But as long as they can turn the
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page on this year and not hurt the seat licensing,
licensing agreements and all that next year, then the extra
tens of million doesn't really matter because we're talking billions.
We're not talking billions, but we're talking cash. When we
come back, we're gonna start with the picks. It really
is pick Palooza. Ending the show with best bats that's
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this week. I haven't got the weather. Let's see what
we got we want to get. You know, we could
make it up, but then what point would that be?
Huh oh? Really a hundred and four degrees? The neon
is crackling, so r J. We got our first taste
of NFL action last night in Chicago was the Packers
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beating the Bears ten to three. So the big question
is what do we make of what we saw our
first dose of NFL action. According to the guys in Vegas,
that I am a heck of a handicapper, no doubt.
I mean right here, listen, we gave it on both
days Wednesday and Thursday. I put it on my Twitter.
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If you're not following my Twitter, it's free. By the way.
At r J in Vegas. It's like you're saying I
don't like money. Remember the old touches saying if you
don't about this game, It's like you don't like well
this is free. Now what was the handicap? And here's
the thing. There's a couple of ways that I could
have approached this. I could have said, oh, yeah, yeah,
that's just that, you know, the fact we were right
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on like a ah, you know. But then it would
have been like if someone wins a hundred bucks and
they say, I know, big deal, you think, wow, that
guy is a big batter. But if they win a
hundred thousand and they act like it's no big deal,
then you know that they're lying and it doesn't really
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matter who it is so after pretty much predicting the
future on national radio. If I acted like it was
no big deal, I think it would be deceptive. I
just want to tell the truth. It was like we
saw the future, more specifically me as you piggybacked it.
We bet a thousand just to get things rolling right
on air on Wednesday. Now you've got my nickel here
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in cash. But somehow I don't see any any percentage
on the pick, like a commission. I mean, come on,
at any point, did you think you know that was
so easy? I did, and I should pay you commit somehow,
But you didn't. And the reason I should. Oftentimes you
make it bet. Sometimes you get fortunate things go right
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for you. This was a case where you came on,
you said, both teams are gonna be rusting. They didn't
play their starters in preseason. I didn't say that. I
don't care about the starters. About quarterback, that's your little thing,
starter start. I don't care, right, because you can't really
quantify unless you give me data that says last year
of this team played their startersent of snaps in the preseason.
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This year it's eighteen. Now I'm gonna say, hmm, there's
something there. But when I hear oh, you know, I
flipped on the game and I didn't see that one lineman,
I tend to be oh wait, he got traded another team. Well,
I guess that's why I didn't see him. I'm not
into that. I'm a dada guy. So quarterbacks, and neither
quarterback had thrown a pass, and it showed both Rogers
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and Trabinsky rough. You notice he's talking a lot, but
at no point is he talking about paying me any commission.
Hold on, I am elma J millionaire. I want to
mansion a ch I mean, that's the beauty of it.
When you have a mansion at no, no, no, when
you have a mansion in a yacht, it's because not
only you win, you're stiffing people along the way, because
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in the end, he's like, they won't be able to
get me. I'm on my yacht and my mansion has big,
tall walls with barbed You always wonder why Physick has
barbed wire on top of his fence. I don't know.
Now I understand, all right, And for all you out there,
I don't want your money, right, I've had probably thirty
times since we started this show, we're coming up on
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our one year anniversary. I've had people say, hey, I
want to send you a fruit basket. I'm like, no,
it's my job. And if you want to thank or
spread the word, and I'll say the same thing to you, guys,
spread the word about the show. The ratings are up, up, up,
but we want to keep going and we appreciate the support.
So I spent like three minutes taking my ballots, but
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I wanted to be sincere. Let's talk about the game.
Let's agree that Trabinsky zero passes in the preseason Rogers
zero passes. Green Bay with a new head coach, which
means transition. You think they might be a little rusty.
I think on the offensive side of the ball, to
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some degree, you have to excuse it. To some degree,
you got to say not a great spot. And Chicago
obviously has a good defense. I excuse green Bay a lot.
Chicago looks so inept on offense and green Bay's defense
being somewhat improved something. But I'm gonna say, let's pause
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on that. To me, the big question I want to
see next week, Week three, how's green Bay's defense look.
If it looks good, I'm gonna give the Bears a
little bit of a break and say, hey, this defense
is much better. So the fact they looks so bad
doesn't mean that they're so bad. But if somehow green
Bay looks bad on d next week, I'm gonna believe
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that more and I'm gonna really stick it in my
handicapping to the Bears offense. Do you agree with that fact?
I agree? And the real big question three big acquisitions
for green Bay on defense? All three of these guys.
So who are the three big acquisitions? A most the
safety they got from the Bears. And two linebackers named Smith.
Both of the lines a man named Smith? Is it?
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John Smith? Preston and Za Darius? Okay, they both got sacked.
All three of these guys had big games, all right,
all right, But that seems exactly the way to make
a mistake about something. You have a little buys coming
in thinking, hey, those guys got a decent contract. Now
to get one sack, and it's like, oh, they must
be good. Small sample. So I agree, whatever optimism you
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had about the Packers defense coming in the season, you've
got to give it an up arrow. Just don't give
it an up arrow without regard to its one game,
and without regard to the fact that Trabinsky hasn't played
all that well in general, and he especially wouldn't play
well when he's rusty, which you had to be zero passes,
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all right, So it's all with a caveat, And I
think that's one of the worst things about talk radio.
You want to say bombastic things at least that what
that's what seems to get the attention. I have no
problem channeling stephen A if I feel it, but if
I don't feel it, I'm not gonna do it. And
I think for guys who are trying to either bet
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or gals or try to be smart about sports, most
of the time, each game is a little piece of
a puzzle. Think about a big puzzle. How good is
the Bears offense? And you hadent of it, maybe offseason
assumptions you look at the roster, but every year, who
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thought Mahomes was gonna be that good entering last year?
Maybe Andy Reid, but not many others. Right, So now
you start getting data and you start throwing in the puzzle,
you know, And here's the beauty. You never have the
puzzle completed. Maybe when you're on your deathbed, fazz. You're
gonna see something and it's gonna be like of course,
(23:39):
and you're gonna reach the phone to text me, but
then you're gonna expire. But then you had that moment
like at the end of two thousand one of space
obviously where you saw it all. Get the text out first. Yeah,
I mean no, I don't think you can. But who knows.
I've never gotten a tax from anyone telling me they
saw it all. So and it's true. And in a way, guys,
that's why it's so interesting. I've been betting pretty much
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every day since I was fourteen, over thirty years. I
don't have this figure it out more so than I
did thirty years ago, though the line was easier back then.
So so I don't know. I'm actually really down on
the Bears offense. So I mean, let's go beyond what
seems factual. I was listening to calling today and we're
(24:26):
on Fox Sports Radio with Colin. We're straight out of Vegas,
and he was talking about Naggy. He goes, oh, that
Naggy is sharp. Did you see him move that halfback
over in motion? And then they stopped and there was
another motion. It's like, Okay, it looks like like Don
Corill stuff from the AFL. So it's like, is that
really advanced or is that trying to look like? You know,
(24:49):
they say movie directors sometimes they get extra fancy. They
want attention, so they do these camera moves that look impressive.
Doesn't really it works. What do we know about Naggie?
That he was under Andy Reid? Now there's two ways
to look at that. Oh, he must be a genius
he was under Andy Reid. Or could it be the
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Andy Reid was the guy that deserved a lot of
credit for what happened in Kansas City. And then if
you look at last year, the assumption is, oh, Traubinsky
is horrible. He's like a dead corpse out there, and
Naggie somehow, probably or maybe it's give another good, good
coach to Traubinsky, he's gonna look a lot better. Which
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of and I'm Joan is whomever? What do we know
because here's part of the assumption, we don't really know
what makes a great o c. There's probably only about
fifty people in the country that do that can look
at an offense and said, oh, here's why this guy
isn't as good as you might think. I'm not one
of those guys. What do we know about Naggie other
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than he's got a good pr agent that makes him
good if we don't. He had limited experience calling plays
in Kansas City. Yeah, and and then the one playoff
game he did appear, and when he was calling plays,
and the knock on him was after his first big
unveil the second half adjustments he wasn't all that effective with.
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And it's why Marcus Mariotte and the Titans won in
Kansas City when they had home field there. Great point
and also Jonas brought up another point for me to
end my thoughts on it. Last year, the book on
Naggie was he came out with a script and it
was mighty good. And if you looked at the first quarter,
the stats were better than the rest of the game.
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Now he's had a whole off season. Shouldn't you now
have another set of surprises and not playing in the preseason.
Maybe you could excuse it somewhat by saying we stayed vanilla,
but now we're gonna spring a trap. But where was it?
Because this was a home game in division against the
team that's dominated the division. There's any statement game it's
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this game. They a statement, we're not very good on
offense the Bears, and we'll see. We'll see if that changes.
They could, but my puzzle for the Bears offense is
about full and Naggie's face doesn't look real good. Be
sure to catch live editions of Straight out of Vegas
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We are Straight out of Aga, and I'm Jonah Sknock's
voice of you the fans, So are J. You discussed
the on air this week yesterday before the opener between
the Packers and the Bears. Some of the quarterbacks who
have had zero pass attempts in the preseason, and you've
got some others that will be taking the field coming
this Sunday. Yeah, you know, it was one of those
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moments that you really live for, right, because you know
only you're working so hard to find little edges and
then when you think you have a big edge, you
just wrap your arms around it. You really take off
the rubber band. You know that across the country. Let
me just do the math, right, hundreds of thousands of listeners,
let's say even ten percent bad it I think more,
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but let's say ten, all right. So now let's say
twenty thousand people bad it conservatively, and if they all
bet even ten dollars, that's two K. So I don't
give my best bets lightly, and when I give them,
it's usually And once again, the forces of niceness and
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goodness have triumphed over the forces of evil and roughness.
Let's try to continue that, all right, fat So we
talked about those zero passing quarterbacks. There's three more left, right, correct?
Who's the three? The Rams? All right? So Goff, the
Chargers and Rivers, Rivers and Philadelphia Wentz. Wentz. Now, I
am not as worried about Wentz because he's had so
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many injuries. He's kind of used to coming back in
a way, a little rusty. But I'm gonna let you decide.
As a bonus, this isn't the best bet, but just
to pick if you had to fade one of these teams,
who would have been fade? The Rams and Goff And
here's y r J. Not only they're out of sorts,
little rusty from golf not playing preseason ten am start
time for that West Coast team playing on the East coast.
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Body clock issues also now there's a lot of debate
within the industry. Is that accounted for in the line?
I think typically it is. I think, considering there's some
other disruptions, the rest of it's being one of them.
You know how it is. If you're a little bit hungover,
it's one thing. If you're tired on top of it,
it's another. Maybe there's a compounding effect with the fatigue.
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It's time for a best bet from Steve Fezik looking
ahead to this weekend in the NFL. All right, so
you gave your you know, probably a small bat against
the Rams. Now this is your best bat. Yeah, I
like Jacksonville plus three and a versus Kansas City. I
bet Jacksonville. It is all about quarterback upgrade. Now, it's
obvious Folds he's gonna be a lot better than Blake
Bordles and Cody Kessler. But here's what's not obvious. Not
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only do I expect the offense to be better, that
defense got so discouraged in the second half of the
year for Jacksonville. They did not play as hard because
they knew in their hearts that board they were not
going to be able to win. Yeah, and I think
some of it was they're not gonna be able to
win in a way that matters, as in make the
playoffs and stuff. Remember this was a team Jacksonville and
you're batting him here. That was a good half of
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football away from making the Super Bowl, going into Foxborough
and winning. That's how good this team was. And now
what's happened in the interim, Well, they've upgraded the quarterback
and what else. I'm not sure, meaning so small drop offs. Hey,
this guy didn't resign, but really not much so. I
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think Jacksonville underrated for sure. They got unlucky at some
points last year. Motivation was an issue once they started
playing poorly, and just borders being incompetent was an issue.
I love it. On our podcast, I bet against one
of our other pros, Dave Vesseler, on the over under
for Jacksonville. He liked under. I like over. I'm bullish
on Jacksonville. Finalize your bat. Yeah, I like it Jacksonville.
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I bet Jacksonville plus three and a half. Jacksonville plus
three and a half, guys. Another game taking place in
Florida is the forty Niners at the Buccaneers. This is
a Eastern time kickoff on Fox, and you know, Kyle
Shanahan said earlier that he was surprised and pleasantly surprised
and thankful that the Buccaneers decided to go with the
darker jerseys at home amidst the temperatures being in the
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nineties there in Tampa Sunday. Yeah, So to me, that's
a fascinating element, is the weather in Jacksonville. So what's this? Uh?
And again the Florida teams in general is Jonas is
bringing up, what's the projection for the other nineties? Seven
degrees in Jacksonville may slow down Kansas City, right their offense?
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You're saying, yeah, yeah, that's an interesting point. Yeah, I agree.
Another reason maybe to like Jacksonville. That's fast his best bet.
And guys, we did this every single week last year.
It was Brad Powers. There's no way this could possibly
lose parlay in the world of college football, but sometimes
it does. But here's what we know. Gave it out
all last season and if you them, you won not
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a lot. This is this is a high level difficulty
because there's a lot of favorites here, all right, Brad,
So you've got first pick is perdue minus two fifty
playing Vanderbilt seven point favorite. All right, so you're saying
produced just wins the game. All right, You've got Ohio
State minus eight hundred over Cincinnati and what's the line,
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just gotta win the game? How could that not happen?
All right? You've got Missouri minus five fifty, yeah over
West Virginia. Missouri is a thirteen and a half point favorite.
But they just gotta win. Yeah, I just gotta win.
How could they lose? Last? Irony? Irony? Alright, that's one
Washington minus six hundred. They're playing Cal. Washington is a
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thirteen and a half point favorite. So these are the
four teams. If you win the four, just the game
a hundred wins. You won seventeen. That's Brad Powers. Here's
the picks. Perdue, the Ohio State buck Eyes, Missouri Washington
Perdue Ohio statement, Roy Washington for team er. How could
it lose? Just on the money line, but sometimes it will,
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but it won enough last year to make his money.
Brad Powers, all the college knowledge, physic, NFL expert. I mean,
these are the pros who know this was picked. For
losing me, you're getting nothing more from me. I'm Jonas
has rested on his two and two record last year.
I'm rested after that easy winner last night. If you
missed any of today's show, check out the podcast at
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