January 16, 2020 • 39 mins
RJ Bell and the Straight Outta Vegas crew dive into the latest regarding the cheating scandal in Major League Baseball. RJ also looks at Odell Beckham Jr's battery charge and links it to the MLB scandal in explaining how these judicial systems are being hypocritical. The guys preview a potential regression from Derrick Henry and begin their look towards the Conference Championship game. Plus, Brad Powers gives a Best Bet in college basketball!
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Vegas lead is further information, further what's the right word
for it. Let's just say the plot thickens when it
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comes to the baseball cheating scandal, and to me, we
set it from the first and we were right on front.
This is big because we're talking about cheating in a
way that effects who wins World Series, and ultimately it's
what it's all about. We had another casualty earlier today
in Major League Baseball, and that was Carlos Beltran, who
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was named manager of the New York Mets. This offseason.
Doesn't even get to spring training and he is already
out as manager in New York for his involvement in
the seen cheating scandal and science stealing scandal for the
Houston Astros. You gotta wonder if the Mets were contented
happy with the progress from the hiring. Obviously there hasn't
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been games played, but we all know you've had most
of you have had co workers and such, and it's like, Okay,
I know this guy a day, what do I think
of him, I know this guy a week, I know
this guy in month, etcetera. You get more information and
it feels like, why if we're not blaming players, And
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that's one of the basic premises of Major League Baseball's
approach to this has been Hey, boys will be boys.
These players, you can't hold them account Yeah. No, kindergarten
kids will get held accountable for things, But you can't
hold these players accountable. Wink wink. There how we're they
are how we make the money, right, so we don't
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want them to get punished, star j Come on, but
boys will be boys. Okay. But if your actions are
when you're a player and then you suffer the consequences
now that your management, that seems contradictory to me, meaning
I if you're saying we don't want a manager who
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would have done this as a player, then it's like
that means you're blaming the player. And I thought we
weren't supposed to do that. And you know what, it
doesn't make any sense. It's all a big contradiction, a
big hypocrisy. Who are we kidding? And what we're starting
to see, no doubt, is this thing's unraveling. It's gotten
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enough attention now that ultimately it all is gonna come
out and brad the the idea of the electronic devices
that are now being discussed this man, I think it
would ramp up the intensity the import if it ends
up being true about just how much cheating was going on.
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How much of an effect the cheating would have. Yeah,
So there's been multiple allegations by multiple people saying that
it wasn't just sign stealing. It was guys like jose
L to the actually had like an electronic buzzer device
that would indicate to them what pitch was coming down
the line to him. So think about that. It's one
thing to bang. Where are you laughing at? It's like
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the part Casino where he says open the door with
his head and uh, and the guy comes in there.
He has the electronic device on his leg and he goes,
look what they did to my handman? What are we doing?
It's just ridiculous. The whole thing is crazy. Now do
you throw a right hand in their left hand? Listen,
you're right? And why would this matter? It strikes me
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that it just goes to show you wait a minute now,
if you're getting an electronic signal about you know, let's
just say one buzz is a fastball and two buzzes
is off speed, and you're sitting up there right before
the pitch and the wind up bozz buzz How big
is that? It's huge? I mean, I don't even think
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you can comprehend and now, but when's the conversation start
about evoking the titles. This is worth simpds, this is
worth simpds. And if you can keep guys out of
the Hall of Fame for p d S, you can
give back a trophy and make them return their rings.
And I know that that would be a blemish. I
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get it. But when, and this is what I'm gonna
keep asking this question. When has there ever been in
baseball or another sport? Maybe I'm not even sure. Let's
think of all, you know, all the American major sports
in which we have some level of confidence that the
winner of the ultimate title so benefited and kin because
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it's one thing about p d S and one of
the arguments was, well, if one guy does it, the
other guy gotta do it, because then you have a
competitive disadvantage if you don't. And yeah, that's a horrible
thing that everyone's gonna be, you know, jacked up with
the big next and all that, and it might be
health issues, but if it's all evening out, It's like
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Barry Bonds was probably the most talented player before p DS,
and thus it would only make sense that if he
took pds and everyone else did. He'd still be the
most talented player. Who would suffer would be Roger Marris,
would be Babe Ruth, because that's the contrast that quite frankly,
the greatest thing baseball had was the numbers. How many
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yards rushing? And jonas no sports? How many yards rushing
does Emmett Smith have in his career? Um, you don't know, Yeah,
it's something something, it's something, right, I don't know how
many yards passed? You know, is it Drew Brees? How
many yards passed? These numbers don't matter. They really not
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being number one matters of some degree. I remember France
Harkington for a while, I get that, But sixty one,
sixty fifty six, I mean, if I just say fifty six,
it's to match you, you know it. And even something
as beautiful as three hundred, you know, a career three
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hundred hitter, even as beautiful as four hundred or four
if I say four oh six, everybody in Ted Williams exactly.
And probably the greatest of those numbers was sixty sixty one.
And even that astric was one of the great narratives
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stories in baseball history. Do you know why was Babe
Ruth treated that way. There was you know, a hundred
fifty four verse a hundred sixty two. They didn't account
for anything else that Instead, I don't even know what
the home run record is, right or seven fourteen or
seven fifty five, Hank Aaron, And it all went into
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the crapper, it really did. Do you even know how
what is this this single season homewriunter record? I don't know.
Seventy three wasn't something like that? Again, back to something
like that, and to me, why why did it happen?
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There was a certain point, There was a certain point
the baseball could have said, we are coming in heavy.
Remember Uncle Jr. Said you better come heavy or don't
come at all. To Tony. They could have came heavy
and it would all ended. They could have did three
year suspensions on a couple of people. I don't even
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I'm not even saying I know exactly where it should
have been. But I know they were doing rolling disclosure.
They were trying to manage the story instead of getting
the right answer, and baseball will never recover fully from that.
And here we are again managing the story. But if
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the buzzer thing is correct, I don't know how you
can look at that title. Seriously, you can't. And the
fact you're saying that, and the fact I don't even
hear it being like they it should be revoked. I
don't even hear that as a conversation. I'm R. J.
Bow straight out of Vegas. You know, I grew up
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Bay Spoke was my favorite sport. You know. I was
ten years old in nineteen eighty Man and the Pirates
one and seventy nine, and I grew up around Pittsburgh,
and I it was just about two or three months
ago I was watching an older this weekend Baseball with
that classical music and the violin or whatever at the end,
and Dave Parker strow there. You know, it's America's pastime.
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There's something sanctified about it. It's one thing to get
a little bit slower. It's one thing to lose its
pre eminent position, but man to get to the point
where you can't believe in it, and you gotta give
the whole nineteen nineteen Black Sox scandal a lot of credit.
That the commissioner at the time was draconian, was like,
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we're not putting up with it. Lifetime Band shoelas Joe.
I can't read I whatever by And you might say
it was unfair for Shot for shoelas Joe, and that's
a debate. But man, it made clear. You cheat, you
throw a game, there's consequence. I said it yesterday and
I'll close with it here. You gotta wonder even as
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of yesterday, We'll see where it goes. Would the Houston
Astros GM would the former manager have done it even
if he knew it was gonna get caught. If you
can get a title and a one year suspension, it's
a reasonable trade off. Now, this might become hardcore now
and it might not ultimately be. But the idea that
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you get caught and still maybe you would have done
it means that the punishment is not hard enough. And
speaking about hard punishment, I'll just say it again two words.
Pete Rose literally before this scandal, and this came on
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Bob Cosses his interview with Rich Eyes, and right here,
en f I sorry. Is the idea that the longest
suspense and in the history of baseball for anything other
than the lifetime bands I guess around the Black Sox
was Pete Rose had a thirty day suspension before his
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ultimate lifetime suspension, and before that, no one had ever
been suspended more than thirty days. So I get the
idea that, oh, gambling is bad. You know. By the way,
the only time ever, ever there will be a suspension
over thirty days is if gamblings involved. I think it's
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justified if you're throwing the game. But Pete Rose bet
on himself on his own team. Is that okay? I
don't think so, because you could say, well, if you're
betting on yourself sometimes and not betting on yourself others,
you're effectively saying, I'm in this team is in a
better position this game, and thus maybe your motivate. Does
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Pete Rose maybe burn out his bullpen in a game
in June because he's got a bet on it? Where
maybe he sits and says, let's say the arms till
tomorrow if he doesn't have a bet. I get it,
But man, that's abstractions. This literally with the black Socks,
was we're throwing the World Series lifetime suspension? Great, but
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the only other one was forbetting on yourself. But now
something that that so much more affected who won the
title that year? Is this cheating scandal than anything Pete
Rose ever did wrong. The suspensions one year and we're
being told how tough baseball is being BS. They're not
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being tough at all. They're trying to manage this and
I think the horses out of the barn. But we'll
see when we come back. Speaking of a punishment, potentially,
we've got oh b J and a lot of drama there.
And we had one other football story, right and Tonio
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Brown Antonio speaking of drama, a b back in the
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right now in the strip, Yes, sixty degrees and the
neon is chugging r J. Earlier today, there was an
arrest warrant issue to Odell Beckham Jr. Of the Cleveland
Browns for alleged battery after he was seen on video
slapping a security guard on the backside in the l
s U locker room after Monday nights game against Clemson.
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Is I'm assuming there's no video of this right? What
kind of smack was it? Was it like um, literally,
like thank you sir? May I have another with a
huge wooden paddle? So? Was it like play slap when
somebody's done a good job you've seen? So it wasn't
in any way vindictive? No, I don't think so. And
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he's being he has a warrant for what It's a
simple battery charge? Simple? Does it sounds simple to me?
It's really It's not much, but it feels like and
and the thought is he embarrassed the security guard, so
by taking this direction and this route, they're gonna embarrass
him in return. It just feels like that the legal
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system isn't for this. So I'm not an O b
J guy. I thought Fezik had a great point yesterday.
He'll be back tomorrow, which is with a running type coach.
Now there's gonna be less throws to spread around for
the Browns and it could be a real problem with O.
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B J. I think that his self interest is focused
on himself versus his team. It's something I would not
if you told me Steelers can have as my team
O b J for nothing, I'd say nothing's better. I want.
I don't want that. I think he's an addition by
subtraction guy that said this is this is ridiculous, and
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I think it actually speak as to what we said
the first day about baseball and the cheating scandal. When
the rules and the pursuit of justice are not aligned,
it just becomes instinctual that we don't take the rules seriously.
And really what Jonas said, and not that he in
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any way is backing this or he's being the news
guy that he is when he says, wow, it seems
like they're using the rules effectively the law to send
a message to get a little revet. No, it's about justice.
If there's gonna be a criminal complaint, it should be
about getting justice. And when it is, we all start
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to believe in the rules. But when it's not, it
conspires against the rules. It makes it all a big joke.
And I do think there's a connection. I think the
baseball has been so hypocritical, such foolishness, as Vita Coleon
would say, women and show are in type foolishness. Well,
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actually maybe children. I think it's unfair to anyone that's
normal to talk about and say, well, that's how the baseball.
No baseball has been as hypocritical as any organization can be.
And because of that, no one took the rule seriously.
And now we're seeing the consequence that, hey, these rules
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actually should have prevented cheating and the result being World
Series champions. Maybe that shouldn't have won. That's serious business,
but all the BS obscured that. And for it's like,
oh that's what baseball says. I can't trust that. You know,
who would really say, don't do it? Because Baseball says no,
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they're hypocrites, right. This is the same thing against O
b J. It's hypocritical to use a law to try
to do anything except get justice, and there's no justice here. Bs.
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former guy, Antonio Brown is on the lookout for a
new agent after Drew Rosenhouse conditionally terminated their relationship earlier today. Rosenhause,
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in his statement said that he hopes Antonio Brown seeks
counsel and he'd be open to representing him again. He's like,
I hope I can get ten percent in the future,
but there's no money coming in now, so let's put
let's put a stop to all this. Okay, I mean,
how you could say the Instagram, I mean, I was
blown away by it and that not how egregious it
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was from Brown's perspective, But it was egregious. But it
didn't shock me. What shocked me was he felt like
showing this was a good idea. I mean, imagine someone
that beats his wife and I'm not connecting Antonio Brown
to that at all. I'm saying, just somebody, it's one
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thing to beat your wife egregious, but imagine taping it
and putting it out on into This was a live stream,
so we can debate. I but he knew the stuff
he was saying. It was like as a broadcast. It's
like me say, it's be one thing if for some
hot Mike and I say something crazy. Hopefully not, but
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you could say he didn't think they were recording. But
imagine me saying something crazy and then choosing to put
it out. I mean, am I missing something or Antonio?
Antonio Brown chose to commentate on what was happening and said,
I went the world to see this. Then how can't
we think this person is does not need some type
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of help because no one thinks that's okay, Like no
one does. Uh, there's a laundry list of things that
he's done. This off season, that your off season into
the regular season that you would look at and go,
there's something off with this guy. I agree, But even so,
I mean, it strikes me that everything was within a
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half a half. And maybe I'm forgetting something, but it
felt like everything was within a half of iteration you
could say, or increment you could say. But I see
what he was trying to accomplish there, Like maybe he's
trying to demonize the owner of the Patriots because then
he doesn't look so bad or make it out to
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be some type of racism, and then you get another chance,
you know, those I can kind of see. And I
do think that Rosenhouse leaving now is an interesting point
because he's still he's stuck by all that and now
is saying enough enough now, how much of it is,
how crazy this was, how much of it was, there's
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no more money coming in? Like why overlook it? Right?
We all overlook certain things in our lives, and then
we all resent that we all wish we were in
a position that we could just be how we wanted
it to be. And whenever someone forces us to eat crap,
the minute we can stop eating crap is you know,
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I'm free at last kind of moment you're like, I
enough with you. It feels like it wasn't enough with
you moment. I don't know if this is mental illness.
I don't know if it's is CTE type stuff. You
know that was going around a good bit, the idea
of watch this hit his head getting cracked, and then
it's like, now he's acting crazy. What I can tell
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you as a Steelers fan three or four years ago,
an Tonio Brown had one of the best reputations on
the team as a hard worker that was gonna blow.
I mean, just like the kind of Steeler player I
really like. Antonio Brown is probably my second or third
favorite Steeler three years ago. Did something happen? Did he
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get freed up to be his true self? I don't know,
but man, it's been a change. I don't I don't
know if there are odds on whether or not Antonio
Brown is gonna play in the NFL next season, But
the fact that his agent, who wants his business, wants
anybody's business, is walking away from him now leads me
to believe that even Drew Rosenhols thinks the future is
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pretty bleak or else, he's still maintain his relationship and
still be working with him. Yeah, money's dried up, Baby,
money is dried up. Jonas, I agree with you. And
let's not forget Brown was on the cusp of you know,
his age was an issue entering last year. So another year,
and what you find is when these guys don't play
for the whole year, it really tends to hurt. And
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there's something about cycling in getting ready to go for
the season, and then you're it's easier to bounce back
the next year, which kind of feels counterintuitive because you
might be rest might be a good thing. I think
you reach a certain age, it is hard to get
that fast twitch fiber going again, muscle fiber. How often
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do we see someone miss an entire year and in
their thirties and come back strong. I mean, Jerry Rice did,
but he's freaking Jerry. He was, he is and was
Jerry Rice. And only one r J in the top
fifteen of receiving yards this year, only one player was
under the age of our actually above the age of
thirty one, so fourteen of them in their twenties, one
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thirty or above Antonio Brown thirty two this year, And
who was the one I gotta look at it. Oh well,
he had a how of a staff there. So in
a minute, we're gonna find out who that player was.
This is a impromptu tease. Also though Derrick Henry, we
talked about it. Thirty plus carries three games in a
row for was time in a decade anyone's done that?
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What effect do we expect? Be sure to catch live
editions of Straight Out of Vegas weekdays at six pm Eastern,
three pm Pacific. Okay. Top fifteen receivers last year, fourteen
of them in their twenties. One of them was in
their thirties. Julian Edelman kind of makes sense. And boy
he uh he didn't seem a spry at the end
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speaking a spry or not or not? Derrick Henry, Yeah,
Derrick Henry has been on a historic pace for the
Tennessee Titans, who were in the a f C Championship
Game this Sunday at the Chiefs. The first player in
NFL history with a hundred and eighty plus rushing yards
in three straight games. And if you look at the
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usage rate, how many times does he carrying the ball
and it's historic thirty plus thirty plus thirty plus the
re straight first time in over a decade that any
player in the NFL has carried the ball thirty plus
times three straight games. Now you add in that it's
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the playoffs. Why does that matter. It's because the intensity
of the playoffs is greater. You're gonna get hit harder,
you're gonna fight for more yardage we talked about in
basketball NBA playoff games just more intense, more expenditure of energy.
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And then you add in the Tennessee has played road game,
road game, road game, and this is gonna be the
fourth straight. Literally, there's only been two times this century
that the conference championship game was the third or in
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this case, the fourth straight road game. And I think
that's even more important because again, intensity of the playoffs,
So week seventeen road division or wild card round, road
divisional round road, Conference championship road, it's only happened twice
oh and two straight up, oh and two against the spread.
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And then you add in that you've got a team
reliant upon a running back who has the most usage
in a decade. All these other things road game or not,
playoff game or not not mattering. So what do we do?
Pregame dot Com research and Mackenzie headed this up. He
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looked at Okay, let's find some guys who also had
carried the ball a lot. We had to go down
to twenty two carries three games in a row. So
think about thirty plus thirty plus thirty plus we had
to go to two. I mean that's almost a third less, yea.
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And what happens that fourth game? Twenty two or more
a half a yard less per carry than the season
average that fourth game. So to me, you might say
a half a yard. What's the difference, Well, what's the
difference between an average running back and an elite running
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back over the course of any given game. It might
be a big number, but over the course of a season,
it's gonna you're looking at the average backs getting about
four yards to carry and the elite backs are getting
about four and a half. I mean, there's gonna be exceptions.
You know, a p had years with five, but we're
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talking about some big chunk, you know. And I think, Brad,
I see what you're working on in your computer. I
think that's good instincts. Is what was the average per carry?
And then if you move it of NFL teams this year,
and if you move it by a half a yard.
You're moving from sixteen to what right, My gut feeling
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is you're talking about sixteen and then maybe three or four.
And we'll get some exact numbers on all that, but
that half yard is huge. That's the easy part. The
half yard is huge. And I don't see any way
that Derrick Henry isn't affected by the fatigue. Now. Can
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he have a hundred and eighty plush yards, yeah, can
you have a monster game, yeah, just like I could
play with a sprained ankle basketball and still have Jordan
can have the flu, yeah, but Jordan's wasn't benefiting from
the flu coming into that game. And I don't think
it's possible that Derrick Henry can benefit from this workload.
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And I think the average fan is thinking, you know, ones,
it's not listening straight out of Vegas, not smarter than
their bodies. They're gonna say, oh, he's hot, he's on
a roll, Go Henry, go now. And then you add
in that it's the end of the season. So whatever
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fatigue he has, whatever accumulated injuries, am I anxious to
bet Henry under the over unders out? Actually, Jonas, I
don't think you know this number. What number would you
put at over under rushing yards, Derrick Henry? What would
feel like the right number? Do you? Um? I would
say ninety and a half? Wow, I'd like to Can
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you want to book this? I don't know. I'm just guessing.
I'm terrible at this though. I did see what the
total carries that that is out? The total number of
carries is out? That prop bet Oh you're saying you
saw it? Yeah, I saw the total number of carries?
Is that? And when was that number? Twenty two and
a half. Ohh that's fascinating. See. I would go over there,
you know, I'd rather do that to note So it's
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about a hundred and ten yards on the yard itch, so,
but I'd rather go over twenty. I don't know what.
Here's the thing you got to realize is Ryan Tannehill.
The narrative was he's a backup you know. Oh with
the Dolphins he wasn't very good. Adam Gaze even the
quarterback guru couldn't make it work. Well, maybe we've got
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to reevaluate that with the quarterback guru stuff. But if
you actually look at the last three or four games,
he's not throwing the ball very much. I think he
had eighty yards passing last game, and like seventy yards
a game before Ryan Tannehill. This is the Derrick Henry Show. Now,
if Casey gets up big, does Tannehill have the chance
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to bring it back? Maybe? But what we know for
sure is that's not what they want to do. They
want to run, and I think until they get down big,
they keep running. Henry like crazy, You got something? Yeah,
So the average NFL team averaged about four point four
yards per carry. If you take a half this year,
four point four, four point four sixt team, but if
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you take a half yard off of that, you would
drop to the number twenty four rushing team. So literally
going from average to number twenty four, so sixty four
is about a half a yard. That kind of eight slots.
It's meaningful, it really is. I don't know. We've been
trying to think about what are the game plans here?
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I don't see any game plan for Tennessee that doesn't
involve Henry. Henry, Henry, as long as it's viable. At
a certain point, it might not be viable anymore because
they're down Tennessee. But don't forget last word on this
Tennessee beat Kansas City earlier this year. Tennessee beat Kansas
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City last year in the playoffs. Last two times they play,
Tennessee has won twice. How much of that is just
going to give them confidence? How much of that, though,
is a sign Rabel has got something figured out to
the positive. So if you envisioned this being a tight game,
you gotta like Henry over in any of the props.
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History says, though his usage is so much and it's
historic at this point that he will underperform because of fatigue.
The numbers tell us, History tells us Derrick Henry will
underperform because of fatigue. When we come back, and this
is fun. On the podcast yesterday Impromptu, we came up
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So we said, what should the Super Bowl odds be
generic a f C NFC. So what does that mean? Well,
there's four possible matchups Green Bay, Tennessee, Green Bay, Kansas City,
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San Francisco, Tennessee, San Francisco, Kansas City. There's the four. Now,
what makes it easy year to understand this year now
is because the likelihood of the better team winning is
about the same for a f C NFC. Why because
the spread right around a touchdown. So the theory is
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if one of the better teams better in the a
f C. That means the number two teams gonna be
a little better. This is a little complicated, but here's
what the bat was. The bat was a f C
pick them NFC. And my very simple thinking is this
very rudimentary Kansas City is better than San Francisco. I
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believe the line on that game could be upwards of three,
to be candid, and I think Tennessee is better than
Green Bay. I know a lot of people would disagree
with that. That's what a bet is. A bet is
you saying I disagree with you, Vegas. I disagree with you, Marketplace,
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and I'm willing to bet you. So we put down.
We said fast throughing some bradthrowing some five thou dollars
because I like it a lot, pick them, Brad. We
sent you down, you know, low man as they say, yeah, uh,
seniority wise, it was you would think five thousands the
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Super Bowl would be like waking up ordering eggs. It wasn't. No,
it wasn't at all. So I go down there, I
say what I want to bet. I'm really clear, have
my card ready and everything. Car doesn't work. Gotta get
a new card, then they run the car. They run
the bet needs manager approval. You were you asking for
locks and like grapes or things. Wasn't ask for anything.
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I'm just sitting there being nice, cordial, and now we're seething. Yeah,
so now we're talking about eight nine minutes. I've already
passed and the card goes through. The manager approves the bet.
But once the tickets printed, usually they hand you the ticket,
right r J. Is that you experience when they approve
a ticket they take your money? Yes, I do get
the ticket at that point. Know what this person did
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was hold on, I need one more check of approval.
It's almost like your face scared her. Well, it's like
a lot of people. I mean I'm saying it was
like it's scared them that like, oh this guy knows something.
A we down. So then they asked for my I D.
So I pull out my driver's license, give him my
I D. And then she walks into another room and
it has to get approval again. So all at all,
(37:29):
it's like like twenty minutes to make a five thousand
dollar bet on the Super Bowl. Now, did you at
any point think about saying I'll just give up on this, No,
not at all. I want to get down. I think
you're all in ahead. We're ten hours on the fun
park and you want to bail out. Well, we got
their baby, we got there. So I'll be tweeting out
at our Jane Vegas on Twitter at r j in Vegas,
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the ticket itself, and I'll be interested to hear who
you like? Right, do you would you like the a
f C A pick them or the NFC. Brad, real quick,
you've got an ESPN game tonight Gonzaga. Yeah, and I'm
laying the lumber here. I like and I have bet
Gonzaga minus nineteen and a half. I normally don't do this,
but Gonzaga's opponent, in my opinion, Santa Clara is the
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most overrated team in the entire country. Santa Clara has
got a great record. They're fifteen and three, but Santa
Clara has played the number three fifty two that's three
fifty two schedule in the entire country the second weekest.
I think it's a phony team. I'm gonna lay the
lumber with Gonzaga minus nineteen and a half. Well, imagine
that you're fifteen and three and you're getting nineteen and
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a half. I mean, the market is saying we agree
with you, but it's there's gonna be that group of
people that sees that record and sees that jumbo number
that takes it and Brad say, nah, you're wrong. Gonzaga
laying the lumber best better than Night. The Odd Couple
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Where's Brad? Sports bettors listen for the money. Sports fans
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are j And Yes? Is we inch closer to the
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also got more fallout from around the world of sports
involving an NFL star in the National Championship. But for today,
on a Thursday, what is the Vegas lead? The Las
Vegas lead is further information, further what's the right word
for it. Let's just say the plot thickens when it
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comes to the baseball cheating scandal, and to me, we
set it from the first and we were right on front.
This is big because we're talking about cheating in a
way that effects who wins World Series, and ultimately it's
what it's all about. We had another casualty earlier today
in Major League Baseball, and that was Carlos Beltran, who
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was named manager of the New York Mets. This offseason.
Doesn't even get to spring training and he is already
out as manager in New York for his involvement in
the seen cheating scandal and science stealing scandal for the
Houston Astros. You gotta wonder if the Mets were contented
happy with the progress from the hiring. Obviously there hasn't
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been games played, but we all know you've had most
of you have had co workers and such, and it's like, Okay,
I know this guy a day, what do I think
of him, I know this guy a week, I know
this guy in month, etcetera. You get more information and
it feels like, why if we're not blaming players, And
(02:55):
that's one of the basic premises of Major League Baseball's
approach to this has been Hey, boys will be boys.
These players, you can't hold them account Yeah. No, kindergarten
kids will get held accountable for things, But you can't
hold these players accountable. Wink wink. There how we're they
are how we make the money, right, so we don't
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want them to get punished, star j Come on, but
boys will be boys. Okay. But if your actions are
when you're a player and then you suffer the consequences
now that your management, that seems contradictory to me, meaning
I if you're saying we don't want a manager who
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would have done this as a player, then it's like
that means you're blaming the player. And I thought we
weren't supposed to do that. And you know what, it
doesn't make any sense. It's all a big contradiction, a
big hypocrisy. Who are we kidding? And what we're starting
to see, no doubt, is this thing's unraveling. It's gotten
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enough attention now that ultimately it all is gonna come
out and brad the the idea of the electronic devices
that are now being discussed this man, I think it
would ramp up the intensity the import if it ends
up being true about just how much cheating was going on.
(04:25):
How much of an effect the cheating would have. Yeah,
So there's been multiple allegations by multiple people saying that
it wasn't just sign stealing. It was guys like jose
L to the actually had like an electronic buzzer device
that would indicate to them what pitch was coming down
the line to him. So think about that. It's one
thing to bang. Where are you laughing at? It's like
(04:48):
the part Casino where he says open the door with
his head and uh, and the guy comes in there.
He has the electronic device on his leg and he goes,
look what they did to my handman? What are we doing?
It's just ridiculous. The whole thing is crazy. Now do
you throw a right hand in their left hand? Listen,
you're right? And why would this matter? It strikes me
(05:15):
that it just goes to show you wait a minute now,
if you're getting an electronic signal about you know, let's
just say one buzz is a fastball and two buzzes
is off speed, and you're sitting up there right before
the pitch and the wind up bozz buzz How big
is that? It's huge? I mean, I don't even think
(05:36):
you can comprehend and now, but when's the conversation start
about evoking the titles. This is worth simpds, this is
worth simpds. And if you can keep guys out of
the Hall of Fame for p d S, you can
give back a trophy and make them return their rings.
And I know that that would be a blemish. I
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get it. But when, and this is what I'm gonna
keep asking this question. When has there ever been in
baseball or another sport? Maybe I'm not even sure. Let's
think of all, you know, all the American major sports
in which we have some level of confidence that the
winner of the ultimate title so benefited and kin because
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it's one thing about p d S and one of
the arguments was, well, if one guy does it, the
other guy gotta do it, because then you have a
competitive disadvantage if you don't. And yeah, that's a horrible
thing that everyone's gonna be, you know, jacked up with
the big next and all that, and it might be
health issues, but if it's all evening out, It's like
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Barry Bonds was probably the most talented player before p DS,
and thus it would only make sense that if he
took pds and everyone else did. He'd still be the
most talented player. Who would suffer would be Roger Marris,
would be Babe Ruth, because that's the contrast that quite frankly,
the greatest thing baseball had was the numbers. How many
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yards rushing? And jonas no sports? How many yards rushing
does Emmett Smith have in his career? Um, you don't know, Yeah,
it's something something, it's something, right, I don't know how
many yards passed? You know, is it Drew Brees? How
many yards passed? These numbers don't matter. They really not
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being number one matters of some degree. I remember France
Harkington for a while, I get that, But sixty one,
sixty fifty six, I mean, if I just say fifty six,
it's to match you, you know it. And even something
as beautiful as three hundred, you know, a career three
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hundred hitter, even as beautiful as four hundred or four
if I say four oh six, everybody in Ted Williams exactly.
And probably the greatest of those numbers was sixty sixty one.
And even that astric was one of the great narratives
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stories in baseball history. Do you know why was Babe
Ruth treated that way. There was you know, a hundred
fifty four verse a hundred sixty two. They didn't account
for anything else that Instead, I don't even know what
the home run record is, right or seven fourteen or
seven fifty five, Hank Aaron, And it all went into
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the crapper, it really did. Do you even know how
what is this this single season homewriunter record? I don't know.
Seventy three wasn't something like that? Again, back to something
like that, and to me, why why did it happen?
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There was a certain point, There was a certain point
the baseball could have said, we are coming in heavy.
Remember Uncle Jr. Said you better come heavy or don't
come at all. To Tony. They could have came heavy
and it would all ended. They could have did three
year suspensions on a couple of people. I don't even
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I'm not even saying I know exactly where it should
have been. But I know they were doing rolling disclosure.
They were trying to manage the story instead of getting
the right answer, and baseball will never recover fully from that.
And here we are again managing the story. But if
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the buzzer thing is correct, I don't know how you
can look at that title. Seriously, you can't. And the
fact you're saying that, and the fact I don't even
hear it being like they it should be revoked. I
don't even hear that as a conversation. I'm R. J.
Bow straight out of Vegas. You know, I grew up
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Bay Spoke was my favorite sport. You know. I was
ten years old in nineteen eighty Man and the Pirates
one and seventy nine, and I grew up around Pittsburgh,
and I it was just about two or three months
ago I was watching an older this weekend Baseball with
that classical music and the violin or whatever at the end,
and Dave Parker strow there. You know, it's America's pastime.
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There's something sanctified about it. It's one thing to get
a little bit slower. It's one thing to lose its
pre eminent position, but man to get to the point
where you can't believe in it, and you gotta give
the whole nineteen nineteen Black Sox scandal a lot of credit.
That the commissioner at the time was draconian, was like,
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we're not putting up with it. Lifetime Band shoelas Joe.
I can't read I whatever by And you might say
it was unfair for Shot for shoelas Joe, and that's
a debate. But man, it made clear. You cheat, you
throw a game, there's consequence. I said it yesterday and
I'll close with it here. You gotta wonder even as
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of yesterday, We'll see where it goes. Would the Houston
Astros GM would the former manager have done it even
if he knew it was gonna get caught. If you
can get a title and a one year suspension, it's
a reasonable trade off. Now, this might become hardcore now
and it might not ultimately be. But the idea that
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you get caught and still maybe you would have done
it means that the punishment is not hard enough. And
speaking about hard punishment, I'll just say it again two words.
Pete Rose literally before this scandal, and this came on
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Bob Cosses his interview with Rich Eyes, and right here,
en f I sorry. Is the idea that the longest
suspense and in the history of baseball for anything other
than the lifetime bands I guess around the Black Sox
was Pete Rose had a thirty day suspension before his
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ultimate lifetime suspension, and before that, no one had ever
been suspended more than thirty days. So I get the
idea that, oh, gambling is bad. You know. By the way,
the only time ever, ever there will be a suspension
over thirty days is if gamblings involved. I think it's
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justified if you're throwing the game. But Pete Rose bet
on himself on his own team. Is that okay? I
don't think so, because you could say, well, if you're
betting on yourself sometimes and not betting on yourself others,
you're effectively saying, I'm in this team is in a
better position this game, and thus maybe your motivate. Does
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Pete Rose maybe burn out his bullpen in a game
in June because he's got a bet on it? Where
maybe he sits and says, let's say the arms till
tomorrow if he doesn't have a bet. I get it,
But man, that's abstractions. This literally with the black Socks,
was we're throwing the World Series lifetime suspension? Great, but
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the only other one was forbetting on yourself. But now
something that that so much more affected who won the
title that year? Is this cheating scandal than anything Pete
Rose ever did wrong. The suspensions one year and we're
being told how tough baseball is being BS. They're not
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being tough at all. They're trying to manage this and
I think the horses out of the barn. But we'll
see when we come back. Speaking of a punishment, potentially,
we've got oh b J and a lot of drama there.
And we had one other football story, right and Tonio
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Brown Antonio speaking of drama, a b back in the
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right now in the strip, Yes, sixty degrees and the
neon is chugging r J. Earlier today, there was an
arrest warrant issue to Odell Beckham Jr. Of the Cleveland
Browns for alleged battery after he was seen on video
slapping a security guard on the backside in the l
s U locker room after Monday nights game against Clemson.
(15:28):
Is I'm assuming there's no video of this right? What
kind of smack was it? Was it like um, literally,
like thank you sir? May I have another with a
huge wooden paddle? So? Was it like play slap when
somebody's done a good job you've seen? So it wasn't
in any way vindictive? No, I don't think so. And
(15:50):
he's being he has a warrant for what It's a
simple battery charge? Simple? Does it sounds simple to me?
It's really It's not much, but it feels like and
and the thought is he embarrassed the security guard, so
by taking this direction and this route, they're gonna embarrass
him in return. It just feels like that the legal
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system isn't for this. So I'm not an O b
J guy. I thought Fezik had a great point yesterday.
He'll be back tomorrow, which is with a running type coach.
Now there's gonna be less throws to spread around for
the Browns and it could be a real problem with O.
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B J. I think that his self interest is focused
on himself versus his team. It's something I would not
if you told me Steelers can have as my team
O b J for nothing, I'd say nothing's better. I want.
I don't want that. I think he's an addition by
subtraction guy that said this is this is ridiculous, and
(16:57):
I think it actually speak as to what we said
the first day about baseball and the cheating scandal. When
the rules and the pursuit of justice are not aligned,
it just becomes instinctual that we don't take the rules seriously.
And really what Jonas said, and not that he in
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any way is backing this or he's being the news
guy that he is when he says, wow, it seems
like they're using the rules effectively the law to send
a message to get a little revet. No, it's about justice.
If there's gonna be a criminal complaint, it should be
about getting justice. And when it is, we all start
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to believe in the rules. But when it's not, it
conspires against the rules. It makes it all a big joke.
And I do think there's a connection. I think the
baseball has been so hypocritical, such foolishness, as Vita Coleon
would say, women and show are in type foolishness. Well,
(18:03):
actually maybe children. I think it's unfair to anyone that's
normal to talk about and say, well, that's how the baseball.
No baseball has been as hypocritical as any organization can be.
And because of that, no one took the rule seriously.
And now we're seeing the consequence that, hey, these rules
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actually should have prevented cheating and the result being World
Series champions. Maybe that shouldn't have won. That's serious business,
but all the BS obscured that. And for it's like,
oh that's what baseball says. I can't trust that. You know,
who would really say, don't do it? Because Baseball says no,
(18:46):
they're hypocrites, right. This is the same thing against O
b J. It's hypocritical to use a law to try
to do anything except get justice, and there's no justice here. Bs.
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former guy, Antonio Brown is on the lookout for a
new agent after Drew Rosenhouse conditionally terminated their relationship earlier today. Rosenhause,
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in his statement said that he hopes Antonio Brown seeks
counsel and he'd be open to representing him again. He's like,
I hope I can get ten percent in the future,
but there's no money coming in now, so let's put
let's put a stop to all this. Okay, I mean,
how you could say the Instagram, I mean, I was
blown away by it and that not how egregious it
(19:58):
was from Brown's perspective, But it was egregious. But it
didn't shock me. What shocked me was he felt like
showing this was a good idea. I mean, imagine someone
that beats his wife and I'm not connecting Antonio Brown
to that at all. I'm saying, just somebody, it's one
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thing to beat your wife egregious, but imagine taping it
and putting it out on into This was a live stream,
so we can debate. I but he knew the stuff
he was saying. It was like as a broadcast. It's
like me say, it's be one thing if for some
hot Mike and I say something crazy. Hopefully not, but
(20:41):
you could say he didn't think they were recording. But
imagine me saying something crazy and then choosing to put
it out. I mean, am I missing something or Antonio?
Antonio Brown chose to commentate on what was happening and said,
I went the world to see this. Then how can't
we think this person is does not need some type
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of help because no one thinks that's okay, Like no
one does. Uh, there's a laundry list of things that
he's done. This off season, that your off season into
the regular season that you would look at and go,
there's something off with this guy. I agree, But even so,
I mean, it strikes me that everything was within a
(21:23):
half a half. And maybe I'm forgetting something, but it
felt like everything was within a half of iteration you
could say, or increment you could say. But I see
what he was trying to accomplish there, Like maybe he's
trying to demonize the owner of the Patriots because then
he doesn't look so bad or make it out to
(21:44):
be some type of racism, and then you get another chance,
you know, those I can kind of see. And I
do think that Rosenhouse leaving now is an interesting point
because he's still he's stuck by all that and now
is saying enough enough now, how much of it is,
how crazy this was, how much of it was, there's
(22:08):
no more money coming in? Like why overlook it? Right?
We all overlook certain things in our lives, and then
we all resent that we all wish we were in
a position that we could just be how we wanted
it to be. And whenever someone forces us to eat crap,
the minute we can stop eating crap is you know,
(22:29):
I'm free at last kind of moment you're like, I
enough with you. It feels like it wasn't enough with
you moment. I don't know if this is mental illness.
I don't know if it's is CTE type stuff. You
know that was going around a good bit, the idea
of watch this hit his head getting cracked, and then
it's like, now he's acting crazy. What I can tell
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you as a Steelers fan three or four years ago,
an Tonio Brown had one of the best reputations on
the team as a hard worker that was gonna blow.
I mean, just like the kind of Steeler player I
really like. Antonio Brown is probably my second or third
favorite Steeler three years ago. Did something happen? Did he
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get freed up to be his true self? I don't know,
but man, it's been a change. I don't I don't
know if there are odds on whether or not Antonio
Brown is gonna play in the NFL next season, But
the fact that his agent, who wants his business, wants
anybody's business, is walking away from him now leads me
to believe that even Drew Rosenhols thinks the future is
(23:33):
pretty bleak or else, he's still maintain his relationship and
still be working with him. Yeah, money's dried up, Baby,
money is dried up. Jonas, I agree with you. And
let's not forget Brown was on the cusp of you know,
his age was an issue entering last year. So another year,
and what you find is when these guys don't play
for the whole year, it really tends to hurt. And
(23:55):
there's something about cycling in getting ready to go for
the season, and then you're it's easier to bounce back
the next year, which kind of feels counterintuitive because you
might be rest might be a good thing. I think
you reach a certain age, it is hard to get
that fast twitch fiber going again, muscle fiber. How often
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do we see someone miss an entire year and in
their thirties and come back strong. I mean, Jerry Rice did,
but he's freaking Jerry. He was, he is and was
Jerry Rice. And only one r J in the top
fifteen of receiving yards this year, only one player was
under the age of our actually above the age of
thirty one, so fourteen of them in their twenties, one
(24:41):
thirty or above Antonio Brown thirty two this year, And
who was the one I gotta look at it. Oh well,
he had a how of a staff there. So in
a minute, we're gonna find out who that player was.
This is a impromptu tease. Also though Derrick Henry, we
talked about it. Thirty plus carries three games in a
row for was time in a decade anyone's done that?
(25:03):
What effect do we expect? Be sure to catch live
editions of Straight Out of Vegas weekdays at six pm Eastern,
three pm Pacific. Okay. Top fifteen receivers last year, fourteen
of them in their twenties. One of them was in
their thirties. Julian Edelman kind of makes sense. And boy
he uh he didn't seem a spry at the end
(25:27):
speaking a spry or not or not? Derrick Henry, Yeah,
Derrick Henry has been on a historic pace for the
Tennessee Titans, who were in the a f C Championship
Game this Sunday at the Chiefs. The first player in
NFL history with a hundred and eighty plus rushing yards
in three straight games. And if you look at the
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usage rate, how many times does he carrying the ball
and it's historic thirty plus thirty plus thirty plus the
re straight first time in over a decade that any
player in the NFL has carried the ball thirty plus
times three straight games. Now you add in that it's
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the playoffs. Why does that matter. It's because the intensity
of the playoffs is greater. You're gonna get hit harder,
you're gonna fight for more yardage we talked about in
basketball NBA playoff games just more intense, more expenditure of energy.
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And then you add in the Tennessee has played road game,
road game, road game, and this is gonna be the
fourth straight. Literally, there's only been two times this century
that the conference championship game was the third or in
(26:55):
this case, the fourth straight road game. And I think
that's even more important because again, intensity of the playoffs,
So week seventeen road division or wild card round, road
divisional round road, Conference championship road, it's only happened twice
oh and two straight up, oh and two against the spread.
(27:16):
And then you add in that you've got a team
reliant upon a running back who has the most usage
in a decade. All these other things road game or not,
playoff game or not not mattering. So what do we do?
Pregame dot Com research and Mackenzie headed this up. He
(27:38):
looked at Okay, let's find some guys who also had
carried the ball a lot. We had to go down
to twenty two carries three games in a row. So
think about thirty plus thirty plus thirty plus we had
to go to two. I mean that's almost a third less, yea.
(28:01):
And what happens that fourth game? Twenty two or more
a half a yard less per carry than the season
average that fourth game. So to me, you might say
a half a yard. What's the difference, Well, what's the
difference between an average running back and an elite running
(28:23):
back over the course of any given game. It might
be a big number, but over the course of a season,
it's gonna you're looking at the average backs getting about
four yards to carry and the elite backs are getting
about four and a half. I mean, there's gonna be exceptions.
You know, a p had years with five, but we're
(28:43):
talking about some big chunk, you know. And I think, Brad,
I see what you're working on in your computer. I
think that's good instincts. Is what was the average per carry?
And then if you move it of NFL teams this year,
and if you move it by a half a yard.
You're moving from sixteen to what right, My gut feeling
(29:04):
is you're talking about sixteen and then maybe three or four.
And we'll get some exact numbers on all that, but
that half yard is huge. That's the easy part. The
half yard is huge. And I don't see any way
that Derrick Henry isn't affected by the fatigue. Now. Can
(29:25):
he have a hundred and eighty plush yards, yeah, can
you have a monster game, yeah, just like I could
play with a sprained ankle basketball and still have Jordan
can have the flu, yeah, but Jordan's wasn't benefiting from
the flu coming into that game. And I don't think
it's possible that Derrick Henry can benefit from this workload.
(29:48):
And I think the average fan is thinking, you know, ones,
it's not listening straight out of Vegas, not smarter than
their bodies. They're gonna say, oh, he's hot, he's on
a roll, Go Henry, go now. And then you add
in that it's the end of the season. So whatever
(30:09):
fatigue he has, whatever accumulated injuries, am I anxious to
bet Henry under the over unders out? Actually, Jonas, I
don't think you know this number. What number would you
put at over under rushing yards, Derrick Henry? What would
feel like the right number? Do you? Um? I would
say ninety and a half? Wow, I'd like to Can
(30:33):
you want to book this? I don't know. I'm just guessing.
I'm terrible at this though. I did see what the
total carries that that is out? The total number of
carries is out? That prop bet Oh you're saying you
saw it? Yeah, I saw the total number of carries?
Is that? And when was that number? Twenty two and
a half. Ohh that's fascinating. See. I would go over there,
you know, I'd rather do that to note So it's
(30:54):
about a hundred and ten yards on the yard itch, so,
but I'd rather go over twenty. I don't know what.
Here's the thing you got to realize is Ryan Tannehill.
The narrative was he's a backup you know. Oh with
the Dolphins he wasn't very good. Adam Gaze even the
quarterback guru couldn't make it work. Well, maybe we've got
(31:16):
to reevaluate that with the quarterback guru stuff. But if
you actually look at the last three or four games,
he's not throwing the ball very much. I think he
had eighty yards passing last game, and like seventy yards
a game before Ryan Tannehill. This is the Derrick Henry Show. Now,
if Casey gets up big, does Tannehill have the chance
(31:39):
to bring it back? Maybe? But what we know for
sure is that's not what they want to do. They
want to run, and I think until they get down big,
they keep running. Henry like crazy, You got something? Yeah,
So the average NFL team averaged about four point four
yards per carry. If you take a half this year,
four point four, four point four sixt team, but if
(32:01):
you take a half yard off of that, you would
drop to the number twenty four rushing team. So literally
going from average to number twenty four, so sixty four
is about a half a yard. That kind of eight slots.
It's meaningful, it really is. I don't know. We've been
trying to think about what are the game plans here?
(32:21):
I don't see any game plan for Tennessee that doesn't
involve Henry. Henry, Henry, as long as it's viable. At
a certain point, it might not be viable anymore because
they're down Tennessee. But don't forget last word on this
Tennessee beat Kansas City earlier this year. Tennessee beat Kansas
(32:44):
City last year in the playoffs. Last two times they play,
Tennessee has won twice. How much of that is just
going to give them confidence? How much of that, though,
is a sign Rabel has got something figured out to
the positive. So if you envisioned this being a tight game,
you gotta like Henry over in any of the props.
(33:07):
History says, though his usage is so much and it's
historic at this point that he will underperform because of fatigue.
The numbers tell us, History tells us Derrick Henry will
underperform because of fatigue. When we come back, and this
is fun. On the podcast yesterday Impromptu, we came up
(33:30):
with a bat. We bet five thousand dollars on it.
We'll tell you that bet. It involves the Super Bowl
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if you miss part of the show, you can take
(34:32):
advantage of that right here in FS are that podcast? Okay,
So we said, what should the Super Bowl odds be
generic a f C NFC. So what does that mean? Well,
there's four possible matchups Green Bay, Tennessee, Green Bay, Kansas City,
(34:52):
San Francisco, Tennessee, San Francisco, Kansas City. There's the four. Now,
what makes it easy year to understand this year now
is because the likelihood of the better team winning is
about the same for a f C NFC. Why because
the spread right around a touchdown. So the theory is
(35:14):
if one of the better teams better in the a
f C. That means the number two teams gonna be
a little better. This is a little complicated, but here's
what the bat was. The bat was a f C
pick them NFC. And my very simple thinking is this
very rudimentary Kansas City is better than San Francisco. I
(35:39):
believe the line on that game could be upwards of three,
to be candid, and I think Tennessee is better than
Green Bay. I know a lot of people would disagree
with that. That's what a bet is. A bet is
you saying I disagree with you, Vegas. I disagree with you, Marketplace,
(36:00):
and I'm willing to bet you. So we put down.
We said fast throughing some bradthrowing some five thou dollars
because I like it a lot, pick them, Brad. We
sent you down, you know, low man as they say, yeah, uh,
seniority wise, it was you would think five thousands the
(36:22):
Super Bowl would be like waking up ordering eggs. It wasn't. No,
it wasn't at all. So I go down there, I
say what I want to bet. I'm really clear, have
my card ready and everything. Car doesn't work. Gotta get
a new card, then they run the car. They run
the bet needs manager approval. You were you asking for
locks and like grapes or things. Wasn't ask for anything.
(36:45):
I'm just sitting there being nice, cordial, and now we're seething. Yeah,
so now we're talking about eight nine minutes. I've already
passed and the card goes through. The manager approves the bet.
But once the tickets printed, usually they hand you the ticket,
right r J. Is that you experience when they approve
a ticket they take your money? Yes, I do get
the ticket at that point. Know what this person did
(37:07):
was hold on, I need one more check of approval.
It's almost like your face scared her. Well, it's like
a lot of people. I mean I'm saying it was
like it's scared them that like, oh this guy knows something.
A we down. So then they asked for my I D.
So I pull out my driver's license, give him my
I D. And then she walks into another room and
it has to get approval again. So all at all,
(37:29):
it's like like twenty minutes to make a five thousand
dollar bet on the Super Bowl. Now, did you at
any point think about saying I'll just give up on this, No,
not at all. I want to get down. I think
you're all in ahead. We're ten hours on the fun
park and you want to bail out. Well, we got
their baby, we got there. So I'll be tweeting out
at our Jane Vegas on Twitter at r j in Vegas,
(37:51):
the ticket itself, and I'll be interested to hear who
you like? Right, do you would you like the a
f C A pick them or the NFC. Brad, real quick,
you've got an ESPN game tonight Gonzaga. Yeah, and I'm
laying the lumber here. I like and I have bet
Gonzaga minus nineteen and a half. I normally don't do this,
but Gonzaga's opponent, in my opinion, Santa Clara is the
(38:15):
most overrated team in the entire country. Santa Clara has
got a great record. They're fifteen and three, but Santa
Clara has played the number three fifty two that's three
fifty two schedule in the entire country the second weekest.
I think it's a phony team. I'm gonna lay the
lumber with Gonzaga minus nineteen and a half. Well, imagine
that you're fifteen and three and you're getting nineteen and
(38:37):
a half. I mean, the market is saying we agree
with you, but it's there's gonna be that group of
people that sees that record and sees that jumbo number
that takes it and Brad say, nah, you're wrong. Gonzaga
laying the lumber best better than Night. The Odd Couple
is next on many of these Fox Sports radio affiliates.
We are straight out of Vegas. We will be back
(38:58):
tomorrow for a pick pollut us a full preview of
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