Bernie Fratto Gives A Full College Football Saturday Analysis, Talks Athletics To Vegas, Ponders Patrick Mahomes Superstition, and Much More!!

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com the way tire buying should be Today. College football,
some thought there could be chaos if certain outcomes prevailed. Nope.
Five teams entered the day undefeated. Five teams departed the
day undefeated. Ohio State one convincingly, Florida State one convincingly,

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but suffered a tremendous setback with their quarterback. Washington did
what they needed to do. Michigan. I'll get to in
a minute, but right now, my focus is on Georgia. Yes,
the annual fall right of passion. Folks, if you've watched
Georgia play the rest of the year, playing for second place,

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last week, it was a fifty two to seventeen thrashing
of a way above average Old Miss team. Saturday, the
Bulldogs completely as Kevin Figures would say mollywopped Tennessee thirty
eight to ten in Knoxville. I will tell you a
lot of sharp betters I know had Tennessee plus to

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ten and a half points. I was not one of them.
I'm not getting in front of a speeding train that
combined their last two wins score lines at ninety to
twenty seven, and those are supposed to be two of
the toughest games on the schedule. The Bulldogs are making
a run for a three peat, and I've believed it
since the first week that until somebody beats them, I

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believe they're going to repeat. Now you got Georgia Tech
next week the rivalry game, but all eyes will be
on the SEC title game with Alabama awaiting. And oh,
by the way, Carson Beck, you can call him a
first year starter at this point, call him Carson Beck masterclass.
Two hundred and ninety eight yards and three touchdowns through

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the air. Talk about playing complimentary football. The defense absolutely
stifled Tennessee, held the balls to a total of two
hundred and seventy seven yards of offense. Back to Michigan
last year, if you watched the Maryland game, Michigan beat

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them beat Maryland thirty four to twenty seven. In Arbor
Saturday it was thirty one to twenty four. But if
you watch the game, and I watched the game, it's
maddening watching to his younger brother play quarterback, because he
will flash moments of brilliance and then the next play

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he'll do something so my numbingly stupid. Whether it's a
poor decision that leads to a turnover, this guy is
a walking roller coaster ride. That's just the way it is.
I tell you, I will tell you. Maryland could have
won that game today. Absolutely there were plays where or

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Tuilea will have a wide receiver wide open and miss him.
The guy's gone for six. Michigan's dbs haven't really been
tested all year. You can think whatever you want, live
in fantasyland, and I'll give Michigan credit because they've won
every game. You beat the team that gets off the bus,
and if you're undefeated in November, you earn the right
to get out of respect. But I am concerned. You

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better be very concerned if you're a Michigan fan against
Ohio State next week or should they advance past Ohio State.
But let's take it a day at a time. All right,
Tuilia Tagovoa actually has been one of the best passers
in the history of Maryland, but at the same time
he drives the fan base nuts. Both are on display Saturday,

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in a game Maryland could have won. They put up
twenty four points against Michigan. Maryland did, which is the
fourth fourth highest total output Michigan is allowed in two years. Unfortunately,
while Tualia kept him in the game and also got
an upset, he also ensured it wouldn't happen because he
made multiple questionable decisions that resulted in huge momentum swings,

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and again you had to watch the game to see it.
The first came after Michigan finally took the lead near
the end of the first quarter. Maryland drew first blood
three zip, but under pressure to I'm gonna call him
tou Aalia. It's this guy. I love the name, but
you know I'm stepping all over my tongue. He refused
to throw the ball away on the ensuing possession and

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got eventually stripped for an easy touchdown to make it
a two score contest. So one minute it's three to
nothing Maryland, and the next minute it's fourteen to three Michigan,
and despite throwing two interceptions, talk of a little was crucial.
He did help Maryland score twenty four points stay within
five of the Wolverines in the closing stages, and Michigan

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has rarely been tested this season. But Maryland regained possession
in the final four minutes on their own one yard
line with a chance to drive for a go ahead touchdown,
and then to tou Aaliya commits a cardinal sin for
a quarterback, an intentional grounding penalty in the end zone
that resulted in a safety. So despite giving up to
twenty four points, well above the seven and a half

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on the average Michigan has allowed entering the game this
year against that dreaded schedule they played, Michigan's defense does
deserve a ton of credit because they did force tak
of a Low into poor decisions. They pressured him that
helped swing the contest. And the offense is not operating
at its usual capacity. If you haven't noticed, Jim Harbaugh's
not been on the sidelines. The defensive shouldered the load,

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but they weren't really tested against the Penn State offense.
They couldn't score a hel Seville repute with a fist
full of fifties. The Wolverines on their way back home
with a showdown against Ohio State, undefeated, and Jim Harbaught
will not be on the sidelines. As I reported last night,
Michigan's lawyers demurred. They decided to cut a deal. There

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was no point in carrying this on. Had the temporary
restraining order been upheld, the case would have stayed open
to beat the Big Ten keeps digging and guess what
more stuff would have probably come out. So in Layman's terms,
Michigan would have lost more by winning. Right, You've already
heard about Uncle T coaches allegedly destroying computer evidence, Coach Partridge,

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the linebacker, coach being fired. You get the picture. It's
not a pretty picture, but they've survived Michigan sort of.
The Big Ten aspect of this, the NCAA portion will
come in twenty twenty four, but you need to know this.
JJ McCarthy clearly misses Jim Harbaugh's presence. Jim Harbaugh's now
missed five games this season for discipliner reasons, and McCarthy's

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stats in those contests are decidedly lesser than with Harball
on the field. The completion percentage is less without Harball.
He's throwing seven touchdowns without Harball, eleven with Harball. JJ
McCarthy's throwing four interceptions without Harball zero with Harball, He's

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thrown for sixty yards less per game, as passer rating
is thirty one points lower. In the team under Jim
Harbaugh on the sideline is averaging forty five points a game.
Without them, they're averaging thirty. Last week's game against Penn State,
the Wolverines attempted only one past the second half. That's
an incredible stat in twenty twenty three, even in nineteen

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seventy three. They also proved that Michigan didn't have the
underlying faith in the offensive line's ability to protect McCarthy.
And they're gonna face a pretty good defense next week.
So try running the ball thirty two times in a
row again against Ohio State or Georgia or Texas or
you name it, Alabama. Okay, try that. We'll see what happens. Remember,

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and Harbo's done a great job at Michigan. But facts
as facts, and people don't like to tell part of
the story. I always tell the whole story. He's still
two and five against Ohio State. I know he got
him the last two times, but he did in the
first five. Don't forget to mention that he's won in
six in bowl games and zero two in the playoffs.
You want, you want to, you want to tell me
that they've overcome the hump. Don't tell me, show me,
because the playoffs are just around the corner. As I

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call it, the made for TV Invitational event. Speaking of
a team that will not be in the playoffs, the
USC Trojans. Did you know the USC Trojans are seven
and seven in the last fourteen games. Remember they finished
last season in fine fedal by losing to both Utah
and Tulane, giving up ninety three points in the process.
This year, there's seven and five. Saturday, the UCLA Bruins

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pounded USC thirty eight to twenty. They hand USC their
fifth loss in the last six games. And again, as
I just said, Lincoln Riley seven and seven in the
last fourteen they only win in that stretch. They beat
Cow by one. I think it was fifty two to
fifty one something like that. No one filed out if
you get my drift. Riley is in year two of
a ten year contract with the Trojans, and I would

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say there are people that are wondering should he be
back next year. Dan Mullen, the former Urban Meyer protege,
has gone so far as to say, are they sure
they have the right coaching on the hot seat? In
La Ucla. It only scored twenty seven points in the
last eight quarters of football. They put up thirty eight
against usc You get the picture. I don't need to
pile on. Finally, give it up to Washington's defense. They

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went into Oregon State and got it done. Tornio Rainbower,
swarming Beavers defense, Michael Pennocks junior only one hundred and
sixty two yards passing well when the nation's fifth ranked
offense only gets two hundred and seventy two yards for
the entire game and wins. Anyway, give it up to
the defense. The Huskies keep winning, it gets more dramatic.

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They got Washington State and the Apple Cup next week.
Assuming they prevail, they get Oregon in the Pac twelve
title game here in Las Vegas, and they can already
bet that game. Oregon is a six and a half
point favorite. So there you have it. No chaos and
college football just yet, but you know it's coming. Just

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by the way, we might even mix in a little
F one talk tonight. I think Fez has an fu
for the F one. That's a tease. That's a teaser, folks,
that's what they call that. That's common parlance in the
radio business. I'm Bernie Frattle. We're coming to you live
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Speaker 1 (12:30):
It's the Physick five. These are the five things you
need to hear about now with the only back to
back Hilton Super Contest winner Steve Fsig. Here's Bernie freddo fast?

Speaker 2 (12:46):
How are am my man? And oh, by the way,
before we dive into a very busy NFL slate, couple
of bits of business update this on your very successful
contest standings. And also I am dying to here your
take on the F one, which is nar and away.
I know that because Donnie Osman completed the national anthem

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without a hitch.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
So let's take it one step at a time. Regarding
F one, I've been a very vocal critic. They say
one point three billion dollars will be added to the
Vegas economy. I think they got the number right, They
just got the sign wrong. Bold prediction. The October and
November win rates on the strip in Vegas gambling wise
will be consistent this year with last year. There will

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be no addition because you know what, we'll make a
whole lot more money these three days and a whole
lot less the two months that everyone's been staying away
from Vegas because the traffic has been just absolutely god
awful from all this. So if we're not making any
more money from gambling, the room rates didn't spike it
as expected. Good luck selling a billion dollars worth of
tickets to this thing, especially when they're gonna have to

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refund or get sued for kicking all the fans out
for starting three hours late on the first night of
the event Thursday night.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Well, there's already been a class action suit for what
happened Thursday night, and there have been unprecedented disruptions. There
have been a ton of inconveniences. Some people are calling
this the worst event in twenty five years. But what's interesting,
Fez one thing? Because you are mister Vegas, Well, I
think we both thought the average attendee in Vegas spends
three nights here at about eight hundred and seventy dollars.

(14:21):
They are claiming that the average transient population fan for
F one will spend four and a half nights and
approximately thirty four hundred dollars. Do you agree with that.

Speaker 6 (14:32):
I'm fine with that, absolutely, But it doesn't make up
for the absolute misery that they put forth. All the
people that have been living on the strip and working
on the strip and having extra commutes for forty five minutes,
and all the people came to Vegas the last three
months and said, eh, you know, this isn't much fun anymore.
They do this every year. I'm not coming back anytime
during the fall when the disruption is such and cab

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rights are costing an extra fifty dollars to and from
the strip. I mean, it's just let me say this.
There will be an inquiry one day, I hope. And
there's going to be some people that are going to
be linked to the construction companies that made all this money.
Corruption is rampant on this.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
I'm going to ask you a set of line. After
three years, Vegas has an option to getting out of
this ten year contract. Make a number. Is there a
race here in year four? No?

Speaker 6 (15:21):
Minus five hundred, and here's wifeer. Someone's going to figure
this out. They will run for mayor and they will
have one campaign promise. They say, I will get us
out of this F one contract. I will I will
negotiate or buy our way out of this. Everyone everyone
will vote for him so the mayor. If the mayor
doesn't support getting rid of F one, he won't be
the mayor anymore.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Update the folks on your current performances in the Westgate
Super Contest and the Circa contest.

Speaker 6 (15:50):
So current Westgate tides for eighth, current circum millions tied
per second. It has been a very good start to
the year.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Outstanding Fazi. Let's dive into this NFL slate because I
believe even though Cleveland will start Dorian Thompson Robinson. You
ever notice how they always give assassins three names, Lee
Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes, Booth. I'm not saying Dorian Thompson
Robinson is an assassin, but Fez, Pittsburgh's been out yard

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at every game this season. I think Cleveland's a really
strong place under your thoughts.

Speaker 6 (16:28):
I think Cleveland was a really strong play when it
had dropped all the way down to pick them, and
now the money has come back such and you can say, oh,
what's the difference lay in two and a half versus
pick them? Well, totals thirty three on this game, Bernie.
So with a total of thirty three and a two
and a half spread, Uh, someone's going to win this
game twenty to six the most, I'm sorry, sixteen to thirteen.

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So let's go with the Pittsburgh Steelers on the teaser
full disclosure, I mean I played Cleveland and contest with
that's because I got to play Cleveland to pick them.

Speaker 7 (16:57):
That's different.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Now there you go. Okay, if you teaz Cleveland from
two and a half up to eight and a half,
now you're cooking with grease. All right, they don't look now,
but the Houston Texans, led by c. J. Stroud, who's
been amazing this year, nothing short of amazing. They host
Arizona and they would they would have the tiebreaker over

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the Bengals. It was respect to the playoffs. Your thoughts
on Houston Arizona and.

Speaker 6 (17:24):
I don't think that they're standing with the Bengals. That's
going to worsen as the year progresses. Yes, great offense,
suspect defense. I like over in this game over forty eight.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Wow. Okay, well you know what CJ. Stroud did. Put
up four hundred and seventy yards passing last week. That's
the all time record for a rookie. All Right. The
effervested mercurial Chargers visit Green Bay. Jordan Love is everything
I thought he wouldn't be in less. I can't. I
can't pick aside this game. Gun to my head, I

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think there's a reason the Chargers are a short favorite.
That would be the side. I would look, but I'm
not going to be involved in this. Suddenly gain your thoughts.

Speaker 6 (18:03):
Gosh, well, I tweeted about this game. So I made
the spread on this game right around three and I said,
I really like the Packers. I bet them plus three
and a half. It was never really widely available. There
were some three and a's out there, and I said,
that's a fifty five percent bet. Well, we should bet
the Packers right wrong because it's not three and a
half the lines three currently, which means you're only going

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to win fifty percent of the time. I won't for
you with all the math of it. And sorry I'm
so boring here, Bernie, But for the most part, I'm
a full disclosure. I have not given my clients one
side for tomorrow, not one. If there was a bet
that I thought was worthy of it, believe me, I
would send it out to them.

Speaker 7 (18:38):
I have.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
I'm hoping for a big line move to justify sending
something out. Then this is one of those games. If
they bet the Chargers up to three and a half,
absolutely I would recommend Green Bay.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Well and says, do you take this into consideration? You
grab the Packers plus the field goal. They have suffered
four losses this season by a combined total of eleven points.
Does that, you know, does that help you? Does that
sway you toward the Packers at all? Which I know
you just said, but I mean that is that further evidence?

Speaker 6 (19:11):
The problem is that Chargers do need the game like blood.
They still feel that they're a contender and rapidly falling.
And we know Green Bay is gonna win six games
this year. So I mean, clearly the Chargers are not
just better, but significantly better. I think I need the
three and a half.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Fair enough, and the fact that the Chargers need the
game would make me lean green Bay. I just can't
do it. But he's a great Ernie Coffin once told
me thirty one of the thirty two NFL teams will
lose the game they need to win. I think you
get my drift, all right. Don't look now the Washington
You like to call them the Commandos. I like that.
Let's call them the Commandos. I can't believe it. They're

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laying nine points in a divisional game.

Speaker 8 (19:52):
No.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
I realize New York Giants will start Tommy DeVito. They're
probably better off with Danny DeVito. But I ain't laying
nine point with the Commandos against anybody.

Speaker 6 (20:02):
Your thoughts, Yeah, but you know, I feel bad for
Danny DeVito because he's one of my favorite actors and
other people's money, et cetera, so good, and to be
compared to Tommy, he really has a disservice for him.
The worst quarterback in my ratings, Tommy DeVito. He's six
points worse than just putting an average starting quarterback out there.

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So it's right where I would make it. But I
tell you what, Bernie, I'm starting to get interested in
the lines nine and I'm thinking if they do bet
on Tommy DeVito and knock this down to an eight
and a half, now we get a classic tzer of
Washington down to the two and a half. Can't tease
them down to miles three.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
However, any thoughts down the total that dreaded Giants offense
is averaging eleven point eight points per game. Thoughts on
a total.

Speaker 6 (20:46):
Seems a little high, but Washington is indeed a dead
not over team, and this be true of the NFL
hasn't had enough scoring and that's a concern. You know,
They've been sending memos out to the refs to emphasize
defensive penalty and look away from offensive holding, et cetera.
Because their bread is buttered with the fantasy football leagues,
they need more scoring.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Well, if Danny Dundo was starting at quarterback for the Giants,
he would have one thing in common with Tommy DeVito,
who last week was the first ever rookie to start
a quarterback in the modern draft that wasn't even drafted.
How about them apples, all right? Jacksonville, after their mollywopping
at home against the Giants last week, are laying six

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and a half against mit Rabel. We know how good
Rabel is as a dog, but I can't get in
front of Jacksonville here. But I can't lay the six
and a half either.

Speaker 6 (21:39):
Your thoughts, So it's a great spot for Jacksonville after
getting crushed last week. However, my sources tell me that
Lawrence's does have a knee injury that is being understated,
and although I fully expect him to play, he should
not be mobile at all. So because of that, I
would look towards the Titans to still some plus seven

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laid our fifteens out there. I would look together at.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Them all right, coming up as we're gonna talk Bears, Lions, Dolphins, Raiders, Cowboys, Carolina, Minnesota, Denver,
San Francisco, Tampa, Bay Rams, Seattle, and then of course
we'll look a night to Monday Night and the Kelsey Bowl,
Philadelphia and Kansas City. But first let's go to our guy,
the chef, Kevin Wyre with the latest Yeah over in

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your backyard, Bernie the Formula one Las Vegas Grand Prix.

Speaker 8 (22:28):
They're almost done with it. A couple more laps to go,
and it's Max Verst stopping in the league. Sergio Pirez
just a couple of seconds behind, actually less than a
second behind him, as this one really coming right down
to the final lap, just a couple more laps to
go in this fifty lap event. In college football, really
not a whole lot of surprises. In fact, only one

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ranked team losing on Saturday. That was North Carolina, the
twentieth ranked tar Heels getting up ended by Clemson thirty
one to twenty. Everyone else won, including all the teams
in the playoff field, and most of these games weren't
even close. Number three Michigan did have a fairly tight
one with Maryland, but they did hold off the turf
thirty one to twenty four, but top ring Georgia thirty
eight ten winners at Tennessee. Number two Ohio State demolishing

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Minnesota thirty seven to three. Number four Florida State over
North Alabama fifty eight thirteen, but that did come at
a cost. Jordan Travis, suffering a serious lower leg injury,
carted off the field. No word yet on his exact condition,
but it didn't look good for the Seminoles. Quarterback Number
five Washington punching their tickets to the Pack twelve Championship

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game as they hold off number eleven Oregon State twenty
two to twenty, the Husky scoring on his safety in
the first quarter that ended up being the difference. Number
six Oregon keeping pace with a forty nine thirteen win
at Arizona State bo Nick's six touchdown passes on six
drives in that first half. Number seven Texas a twenty
six to sixteen win at Iowa State. Longhorn's a top

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the Big Twelve Conference all by themselves. Number eight Alabama
over Chattanooga sixty six to ten, so the Iron Bowl
next week, and Auburn losing today thirty one ten to
New Mexico State. Number nine Missouri, kicking a field goal
in the final seconds, they win it over Florida thirty
three to thirty one. Number ten Louisville punches their ticket

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to the ACC Championship Game after they beat Miami thirty
eight thirty one, Number sixteen Iowa Clint the Big ten
West beating Illinois fifteen to thirteen Clint Number twenty one,
Kansas State winning at number twenty five Kansas thirty one
to twenty seven. James matt Is in their dream of
having an undefeated season, Well, that came to an end
of the hands of Appalachian State twenty six to twenty three.

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So at least any chatter of them getting a New
Year six Bowl because of the waiver that they were denied,
and that seems like a moot point right now. UCLA
won at USC thirty eight to twenty Cal one at
Stanford twenty seven to fifteen. NFL News the Miami Dolphins
activating running back to On eight Chan, however, the Vikings

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not activating Justin Jefferson. In the NBA, the Bulls trail
twenty two to one in the first quarter. They come
back to winning one O two ninety seven against the
Miami Heat Oklahoma City over Golden State won thirty to
one twenty three. It's the sixth straight loss for the Warriors.
Milwaukee beat Stallas won thirty two to one to twenty five.
Giannis ATTENSAA COPA with forty points fifteen rebounds. Back to you, Bernie, all.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Right, thanks Kevin, and we go back to our guys,
Steve Zick and the Phasik five as we continue on
with our NFL slate. Uh, Mark, maybe a little bed
here to lighten the mood, Thank you, sir. All Right, Fanz,
I want to go to Detroit, uh, because I'm a
little surprised by this. Justin Fields when it was announced

(25:48):
he was going to start, and you bring his six
and twenty five record as a starter into the game.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
The points spread moved in favor of the Lions. Now,
I don't get this because the Lions are eight and
now against the number at home in their last eight
divisional home games, including five outright wins in a row.
I haven't done anything on this game, but it might
be a good Kees along with Pittsburgh to get Detroit down.
Even though our honestly field fez Detroit wins this game

(26:17):
by double digits. What are your thoughts.

Speaker 6 (26:19):
Yeah, it's an outstanding teasers, So Detroit in teaser lakes.
So as far as the spread moving down, it's just
a matter, you know. It's the difference between Pageants and
Fields about a three point difference. So if Pageant was playing,
Detroit would be laying eleven because Field is playing for
the Bears. Now Detroit's laying eight. But I agree with you, Bernie,
We're going to tease.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Detroit, all right. I think Vegas after their two stellar
wins against New York and New York, which if you
watched both of those games, it was fairly well ugly,
they head to Miami. Miami lay in a boatload, but
the money just keeps coming into Miami. How can you
honestly make a case for the Raiders in this game.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
Only if you just can utilize power ratings. But I've
seen this movie before. Throw the power ratings out the window.
Raiders smoking the cigars celebratory after their first victory against
the New York team and then ditto after a phony
win against the Jets where the Jets pretty much just imploded.
Zach Wilson steps out of bound diving for the pylon,
which would have been a touchdown, they would have ultimately

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won the game. So now F one's in town, VIPs everywhere,
celebrities parties, two and zero, Raiders fat, drunk, happy to
South beats, they go, you know what's going to happen.
In fact, Bernie, I bet Miami will be the highest
scoring team on Sunday. I got five to one on
that wager. I could easily see the Raiders letting the

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Dolphins put a forty burger on them.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Yes, Dolphins are knowing well. And here you might like
Diz Fezan, You're gonna share something with you. You already
know Miami has the number two rush offense in the NFL.
They're running for one hundred and forty eight yards a game,
which obviously olds up opens up passing lanes. Couple that
with the fact they'll be facing the Raiders number thirty
ranked rushing defense not so great. So I think the

(28:08):
Dolphins have their way. Cowboys, isn't Carolina. You know how
it goes. The Cowboys beat up the bad teams. Well,
and you know Carolina's starting a rookie, But I don't
know that. I want to lay the wood on the road.
Your thoughts.

Speaker 6 (28:21):
Yeah, it's a great spot for a horrible team in Carolina.
Here Dallas, looking ahead to next week and Thanksgiving, I
could see Carolina sneaking in under the number, But you
know what, there's better investments to make than trying to
win with one of the absolute worst teams in the
NFL other than the Giants. I'll just leave Carolina.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Even though people lying way to bash brock Purty because
I don't know what their agenda is. He's made plenty
of ten point throws, plenty of high leverage throws that
it takes real arm talent to make. They finally lost
a couple of games, so people see, I told you
it wasn't any good. I think they light up Tampa
Bay Sunday. The line shows it. I may put for

(29:00):
you to Yeah, I've never laid double digits in the NFL,
but this might be a spot where it's too tempting
your thoughts. San Francisco, Tampa Bay and.

Speaker 6 (29:07):
The pros are laying it. It's up from eleven a
half to thirteen. Looks more we look at this, the
more it's like, all right, Debo got hurt. Your lineman
got hurt. Trent Williams, if you weren't one hundred Cemac
was banged up and you lost some close games. So
the Niners are right back at the top of the
NFL power ratings.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Sand Fra Interpass, I think Young and Bulsa are gonna chase,
you know, I think They're gonna chase Baker Mayfield all
the way to peer thirty nine. All right, Denver, don't
look now, but Sean Payton is having a real effect.
Russell Wilson looks better, the defense is reverting back to
their twenty twenty two form. Minnesota comes to town. I

(29:45):
feel like this is a great spot to buy Denver
chief your.

Speaker 6 (29:48):
Thoughts, Yeah, it feels like with Minnesota and Dots doesn't
feel a little bit like the Raiders, where it's not
like the Vikings, you know, are a great team. I
know the defense has certainly improved, but they will those
back to back games with Dobbs just celebrations in the
locker room, et cetera. I could see them going outdoors

(30:08):
to Denver, to altitude and laying an egg in this game,
and frankly, that's what I'm old enough, like I've seen
this movie before. With the Vikings, there are an indoor
based team that whenever they go outdoors later in the year,
they oftentimes disappoint and dubs. Okay, he knows the names
of all the players on this team. He still won
for six round draft choice. So if he was going

(30:30):
to be an MVP, can I do you think the
NFL is that dumb that everyone else, including the Jets
pas in Cleveland path on this guy. So he's a
very capable the second string quarterback, maybe a starting quarterback
on the bottom of tier. Come on now, Denver?

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Nothing all right? Three other quick games. Buffalo hosts the
New York Jets. It's a get right game for Buffalo,
not a dot in my mind. The Jets have had
thirty six consecutive drives without a touchdown. As long as
Buffalo doesn't turn the ball over four or five times,
I feel like it's a double digit win for the Bills.
Your thoughts.

Speaker 6 (31:06):
I did use the Bills minus seven in my circup
millions contest, Bernie, So that's one of the games I'll
be watching very actively. I love the revenge aspect where
they gave away that game opening night, and obviously both
teams need the game desperately. But the Bills, they just
lost the game against Denver where they they absolutely won
the stats. I expect that they'll cover this game, all right.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
So here's an interesting game in Los Angeles. The Rams
are a home underdog. They're home, they're an underdog, and
they're coming off of bye where Sean McVeigh actually thrived
four to zero against the number coming off of bye
and he's home and he's an underdog. I know that's
the Department of redundancy department translation. I think the Rams

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were not right your thoughts.

Speaker 6 (31:51):
Yeah, it doesn't mean they cover because they ain't the
home underdog anymore.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
So the Rams are really is it slept over? That's
what we have.

Speaker 6 (31:59):
Yes, we flipped favorite say and you know this is
people don't want to hear this. People like want to
think if they want to make it so easy that
who do I bet tomorrow? And it's not that easy.
It's basically I thought that this game should be Rams
by about a point point a half, and so I
like the Rams plus one and it's late them in contests.

(32:22):
And now the Rams are laying to and you know what,
I'm getting very interested in Seattle. I'm going to be
teasing Seattle upward. And like I said, you know, people
are like who's this crazy, Fez?

Speaker 7 (32:31):
What does he know?

Speaker 6 (32:32):
Well, I want a million dollars in contests, and I'm
second out of fifty three hundred people right now. So
I think maybe you should take pay a little bit
of attention when I tell you, it's like the stock market,
and with these price valuations and teams, they are almost
never off by very much, just by a little bit.
And that little bit is the difference between living on
a golf course and living in the basement of your

(32:52):
mom's mouse.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
And also, I think you should run for mayor here, Fez,
You've got my vote.

Speaker 6 (32:57):
All all right, f one, everyone will vote for me.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Finally, we go to Monday night. Philadelphia visits Kansas City.
Obviously it's a Super Bowl rematch. Interestingly enough, the Chiefs
return from Germany. They beat Miami, but they were out
geamed by Miami. I don't know the line. It's a
short line. There's no way I can back the visitor here.

(33:23):
But I haven't fired on the home team yet. Give
me your thoughts.

Speaker 6 (33:26):
I'd make the game two and a half, but Andy
Reid is so good off of a bye, I can't
discount that. So if you can still get out of
two and a half. Go ahead and do it now.
They don't want me bet anymore, but you know what,
I'm gonna still send the business their way. Go see
the Hall of Fame Bookmakers over at the South Point
Hotel and Casino here in Las Vegas, where it is
minus two and a half. Layid dollar, Ted, Bernie, I

(33:48):
want to hit that on your way home. That's the
last minus two and a half in the world.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
I love that place. I love that place.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
Delaware Downs has a minus two and a half.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Also great New York Deli E. Vinnie bell Ulo, Chris Andrews.
Yeah we are. We are in agreement. Fes fez as
always enjoy your Sunday. Keep up the great work. We'll
see you next Saturday night, Thanksgiving weekend for another rousing
edition the Phasik five.

Speaker 6 (34:16):
I'll be teasing your lives all over the place. Berni
go lives all.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Right, great stuff. He was always out of Steve Fezi
the Phasik five. Fes and I go back decades, uh
and believe me. He's the only two time winner of
the Hilton No Prestigious Contest Super Contest. Back did it
back to back? You heard what he's doing in the
circle Contest and in the Westgates Super Contest this year,
Fez a fan favorite always coming up. I want to

(34:45):
give you a reminder if you don't realize what an odd, unusual,
idiosyncratic year it has been so far this season in
the National Football League, I'm going to give you a
reminder and some data points. By the way, football fans,
be sure to tune into Fox Sports Radio every Sunday

(35:05):
morning beginning at ten am Eastern seven am Pacific for
Countdown to kickoffers ented by bet MGM, Brian No, Jeff Schwartz,
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We are comedy live from Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio,
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Coming up midnight, Medina Magic Our NBA update, lots to
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you watched the money in that game. It was bad
enough that the Cincinnati Bengals fell to five and five

(36:10):
if you are in fact a Cincinnati Bengals fan, but
that into half of it. Joe Burrow left the game,
came back at halftime, watched the game from the sidelines,
and now we find out that Joe Burrow will miss
the remainder of the season with a torn wrist ligament,
which makes him this second two hundred million dollars quarterback

(36:33):
this week to see his year cut short following the
Sean Watson and his shoulder injury last week. Add that
up with achilles injuries that have now sidelined Kirk Cousins
for the season and Aaron Rodgers, as well as injuries
to Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones, Well you've got nearly

(36:54):
a quarter of NFL and the NFL in their Week
one starters that dealt with major setbacks. That's not the
half of it. There have been ten rookie quarterbacks that
have started games this season. This is a league record
that has now overtaken the nineteen eighty seven strike season.

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By the way, the New York Giants were forced to
elevate Tommy DeVito for Sunday's game against the Dallas Cowboys,
and so now we have got ten rookie quarterbacks that
have started games this season. Again, that ain't the half
of it. What a wild week. Last week was just period.

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The Cleveland Browns, the Houston Texans, the Arizona Cardinals, the
Detroit Lions, the Seattle Seahawks, and the Denver Broncos. What
do they all have in common? They all won with
field goals on the final play of their respective games.
It marked the most game winning scores in a single

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week in the NFL's one hundred and four year history
with no time remaining in the fourth quarter. That means
if final points were scored as a clock ran out, one, two, three, four, five, six,
six games all one with field goals. By the way,
Houston's win over Cincinnati, which was secured by a fill

(38:18):
in kicker named Matt Amandola kicks a thirty eight yard
field goal that puts the Texans ahead of the Bengals
by a tiebreaker and into the AFCs projected playoff field
as a wildcard team. Yes, thanks to CJ. Stroud's unbelievable rise,

(38:39):
he's top ten in passing yards, touchdowns QBR quarterback Rating
and he's only throwing two interceptions and we're at Thanksgiving.
He threw a second interception of the season last week,
but juxtapoles that against fifteen touchdowns to only two interceptions,
and he's on his way to probably breaking who Dak

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Prescott's rookie record. Dak his rookie year through twenty three
touchdowns to four interceptions. So even though he's had some
goofy finishes, and I promise you when it matters most
Dak Prescott will come off small, but he does have
that record. Another stat to make this again, the weirdness

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of the twenty twenty three season. Pre ESPN stats at Info,
no NFL team until last week had won a game
in the twenty first century while trailing for fifty nine
minutes in twenty seconds, but Cleveland did last Sunday as
an underdog in Baltimore. They won out right. Oh, by
the way, not for nothing. The Patriots they lost ten

(39:45):
to six last week, that preventing them from being the
first team to win their first four games ever played
on foreign soil. So be it coming up. Lots to
talk about in the NBA at midnight Pacific. We have
Mark Medina, our NBA Fox Sports Radio Guru. Lots to

(40:06):
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We've got teenagers getting eight rebounds in a game. Another
tall guy who's not getting a lot of love. Meanwhile,
stop the presses. James Harden and the Clippers actually got
a victory. Oh my goodness, Golden State's lost six in
a row. Draymond suspended. Well it must be. It's that

(40:50):
time every Saturday night we go to our NBA guru
here on Fox Sports Radioda Magic on midnight Pacific. Mark,
how you doing, buddy, Bernie?

Speaker 7 (41:04):
You know the answer. I'm doing well because I'm talking
to you and I'm talking to NBA.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
There you go, fellow, That's exactly what I want to hear.
And I'm gonna sign you as my agent right after
the show.

Speaker 7 (41:13):
All right, we've already negotiated that agreed.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Upon beautiful beautiful. All right, Mark, Let's let's dive in
in all seriousness. I want to start with Chad Holmgren.
He missed his rookie season. I saw him play a
lot of Gonzaga. Why isn't he getting more love? He
can really play well.

Speaker 7 (41:30):
I think he is getting love. He's gonna be in
this neck and neck race for Rookie of the Year
with Sextra one Banama. You know, he makes this amazing
turnaround three with one point six seconds left in the
fourth quarter to force overtime against the Warriors untimely ends
up with the career high thirty six points. But it's
not just about this performance tonight. He's been playing at

(41:52):
a really high level this season, and I think it
just goes to show that even though he missed his
entire rookies season, there's a few things here he was
able to spend that time really you know, diving into
watching the game, you know, up close and on film.
And also shows that he would have been a really
good player last season if he was healthy, because he

(42:14):
just has this amazing skill set of being a tall
guy with a lot of versatile skills. And even though
the knock on him is that he's thin, it's not
really that big of a deal because he's so unique elsewhere.
So Victor one Minama is another special player. But it
just seems like this is going to be this collision

(42:35):
course throughout the season, or one player is playing really well,
so is the other, and we'll be traded a lot
of highlights.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Talking with Mark Medina Midnight Magic, Medina Magic gave me
Saturday night, midnight Pacific on the Bernie Frattle Show. All right,
let's not bury the lead because Chad hit a late
three to send the Warriors stunner game to overtime Saturday Night,
and the Warriors lose. They've not lost six in a row. Mark,
I gave a pretty scathing commentary on Raymond Green Friday night,

(43:04):
who has now received this fifth suspension in the NBA.
He's a repeat offender, He's got a body of work.
How much of a parallel or nexus is there between
Draymond Green's antics and the fact that the Golden State
Warriors have now lost six in a row.

Speaker 7 (43:22):
Well, it's gonna just compounded now. In fairness, the reason
why the Warriors have lost six in a row, ironically,
isn't much to do with Draymon's the fact that Klay
Thompson hasn't maturing the ball well, same thing with Andrew Wiggins.
He had a bounce back performance today, but prior to
this game, he was on pace average carrillos and points, assists, rebounds,

(43:45):
shooting percentage, basically all the above. And those two developments
are really critical because Steph Curry he was playing at
the MVP level before his latest injury. He has since
come back, but ironically it didn't really mean much because
he wasn't getting enough scoring help from those two guys.
I think Raymond's been fine defensively, same thing with Kevon Looney.

(44:06):
But I think to the larger point here is Raymond's
got to be better than this. And we've just had
this conversation over and over basically for the last decade now,
where we know, yes, the good outweighs the bad. With Raymond,
he's a heart and soul of the team. But you know,
this isn't even a gray area here of the fine

(44:27):
line of how you ride the intensity. It's very clear
that it's completely unacceptable to be putting Rudy Golbert in
a choke hold right the only rationale here. And I
don't say that Rudy Goldbert's blame was because he pulled
Klay Thompson away, and when you're trying to intervene, you
pull your own teammate away, not opponent. He ripped his jersey,

(44:49):
So I don't fault Draymond for stepping in and dragging
Goldbart out of there, but he did it ten seconds,
fifteen seconds, way too long. Very clear. While you know
I'm not a psychiatrist, psychologist, you know, a mind reader.
I don't think it takes those experts alone to determine

(45:10):
that there was something personal here because Draymond and Rudy
Gobert they've had a lot of history trading insults, and
you know they've gone through this rivalry of Defensive Player
of the Year awards, et cetera, and Draymond's just got
to be better than that. There's no sugarcoating around it.
It's completely unacceptable here. So the suspension was very warranted.

(45:31):
And what's important now is you know, is he going
to finally rate it in because when he's on the
wrong side of it, it's going to produce a really
bad trickle down effect with everything else.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Well, I think the answer is no. He was suspended
in March of twenty twenty three, April of twenty twenty three,
now November. And if you look at Joe Dumar's comments,
I mean he talked about this being a dangerous and
unnecessary act. To your point, if I'm not mistaken, didn't
Rudy Gobert and Raymond Green go out it on Twitter
a while back when I think Olbert complained about an

(46:04):
All Star stub or something like that, and Draamond made
fun of him and clarifying for the audience.

Speaker 7 (46:08):
Yeah, I mean naming home back and forth for a while. Now,
I mean Draymond Green made fun of Rudy Golbert because
he missed the All Star Game a few years ago,
and he was crying when he was asked about it,
and you know, he sub tweeted him and you know,
gave indirect insults to about a grown man crying. Draymond
Green's also made some indirect criticisms of Rudy Golbert's Defensive

(46:32):
Player of the Year candidacies. He really poop pooed the
idea of, you know, evaluing a defensive player who's a
great rim protector, because his argument was, well, if you're
gaining all these blocks and you're you know, you're stopping
guys at the rim, where where is your impact on
team defense and inhibiting players from getting those shots of

(46:56):
the room to begin with. And he's doing this while
trying to bolster him himself up, you know, and rightfully so,
like Draymond's is good at this. He can defend on
five positions. He's really good at keeping his teammates accountable
and organized on a string. But he obviously is making
that point to take some shots to Rudy Gobert. Certainly

(47:16):
when Draymond's had his incidents with Kevin Durantz blown up
and you know, the punch with Jordan Poole, Rudy Gobert
is definitely insulted him there, and obviously this latest episode
when Draymond had him in a choke hold, afterwards, Rudy
Gobert was calling him mcclown and saying, you know, I'm
not surprised they got ejected knowing that Steph Curry was

(47:38):
not playing. He can't play without his guy there. So
basically that's an indirect shot or a direct shot that
you know, hey, Draymond just kind of riding Steph Curry's
coattails here. So yeah, definitely not any love lost between
those two players.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Tally Mark Medina are NBA, Fox Sports Radio Guru Madina
Magic and Saturday Night Midnight Pacific on The Bernie Frattle Show.
Speaking of Pooh Pooh, let's talk about James Harden and
the Clippers. It's clearly not working. It's not clicking. And
I understand that Tyrone Lou had a yelling match with

(48:15):
Paul George the other day and dropped a couple of
f bombs and said, you're not a blue guy. Take
us behind the four walls. You're there in the belly
of the beast in LA. What's going on with the
Clippers and James Harden.

Speaker 7 (48:26):
Well, it was a step in the right direction that
you know, they finally got to win. James Harden made
a game winning shot with the four point play and
the most vintage James Harden fashion possible with step back three,
drawing a foul and then hitting the foul shot. Now,
to clarify with Tyroue, Tyler Lou, he didn't say that

(48:46):
directly to Paul George. It was indirect where he was
talking in a press conference about Paul George's comments that hey,
I'm gonna become the glue guy, and he said, no,
like he needs to be a bad mother, you know what,
you know? I know for sure ty Lou has stressed
the team that it's about winning, it's about sacrifice. But

(49:09):
at this point, I don't think that he's showed specific
players out individually. But no doubt there's been a lot
of frustration with this, with this five game losing streak
with James Harden six games overall, and I think that
for all the works that we saw with Russell Westbrook,
it is to his credit that he is the one

(49:29):
that initiated the idea that he should come off the bench.
You know, it's not something that Ty lou is even
thinking of because I think, in fairness to Russ's role
with the Clippers, he's been playing really well as a starter,
maybe not so much with numbers, but just his impact
with the pace and how his leadership has really affected

(49:51):
the other guy's effort level. But the reality is he
and James Harden have a have a real problem with
trying to play together because they're both more comfort with
the ball in their hands. So I think that this
is a step in the right direction, but it's obviously
only one win. They got to continue to collect those
moving forward.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
So Mark, I've always seen the Clippers play twice, but
even Kawhi Leonard looks out of sync. And I'm hearing
that Tyron lou is sort of experimenting. He's used fifty
nine different lineup combinations. With that lack of continuity. Doesn't
that ultimately spell disaster for this team.

Speaker 7 (50:26):
Well, it can spell disaster if he's going to continue
to experiment with lineup combinations. But if he's able to
find success and continuity with this newest group, you know,
I think it's going to be a step in the
right direction. I mean, we have to keep in mind
here that when the Clippers beat the Houston Rockets with
this starting lineup with James Harden you know, with Kawhi Leonard,

(50:50):
Paul George of Vito Zoobots and Terrence Man. They outscored
the Rockets forty three to twenty three and sixteen minutes
on the flour together. So again it is one game.
But that is a pretty good new adjustment here, and
he was making all those other adjustments because everything else
wasn't working. But again, it is one game. You know,

(51:13):
I've been told for what it's worth. Even though we've
seen James Harden have you know some mixed success with
adapting the roles that people around them say that. You know, look,
he knows what his reputation is. He's trying to shed it,
and he doesn't want to be the guy that's causing distractions.
He wants to play the right way. He wants to
win a championship. I'm in waiting seem with that. But

(51:36):
I think in fairness, so far with the Clippers, all
the guys, including Harden, their weaknesses haven't been them fighting
over touches or fighting over the ball. It's almost them
being too overly deferential to each other, not aggressive enough,
being you know, kind of over analytical instead of just
playing off of instinct. So again, one game sample size,

(51:56):
but it could be the adjustment that they need to
finally move in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
Well, if ty Ron lou can keep this group happy
and they get into the playoffs, not only should he
maybe be Coach of the Year, should win a Nobel Prize.
We'll see what happens as the year goes.

Speaker 7 (52:12):
On, or maybe an extension. I mean I believe he
is in his final year of his contract, so yeah,
if he had success there, maybe they get him a
new deal.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
I think he's a good coach. I just think he
got one flu over the cuckoo's nest there in LA.
So speaking, wrapping it up mark with the other LA team. Now,
I said this tongue in cheek last week because people
make fun of the of the N Season Tournament. I'm
actually it's growing on me, if I'm being honest. But
I made a tongue in cheek comment last week about

(52:42):
how the Lakers seem to be extra focused when they
have tournament games, and now they're the only undefeated team
in the in the N Season Tournament. You sinse there's
some sort of unspoken goal that the Lakers want to
win this NBA Cup.

Speaker 7 (52:57):
Well, I think there's a few things, no doubt, the
players have been saying out loud. Anthony Davis most notably
that this idea that every player can get five hundred
thousand dollars for winning the NBA Cups enticon. It's ironic
because these players, I mean, that's a lot of money
for us, but they make multi millions in their contracts.
But you know, I guess there's no such thing as

(53:17):
people wanting to turn down additional money here. But I
think it's also been the fact that it's been certain
teams that they've caught the right time. The Grizzlies aren't
a good team. The Blazers have been struggling. You know,
they were able to gut it out against the Phoenix
Suns team that wasn't fully healthy. But I think that

(53:37):
there certainly is an extra motivation behind and that's one
of the reasons why the NBA did this in the
first place, that they thought it's not going to solve
everything because now you have you know, whether it's because
it's a back to back or just more normal regular
season games that teams aren't showing that kind of effort,
but it's at least producing a lot more conversation, giving

(54:00):
teams a reason, a try harder, given reason fans to
tune in. But look, they're still a work in progress.
Some of the courts, the colors are way too bright,
I think most importantly, you know Jaylen Brown on the
Celtics saying how the court against the Toronto Raptors on
Friday with slippery I mean that is unacceptable because that

(54:21):
could lead to injuries and I'm not going to downplay that.
But that aside, everything else has been in that positive
When it comes to the n season tournament.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Mark great stuff is always in. Two things to look
forward forward to this Thursday. First of all, gluttony is
no longer a sin on Thursday for that one day.
And we get to have you back. I'll be hosting
the Ben Malashaw. We get you a special Thanksgiving edition
of Medina Magic on midnight Pacific on Thursday night, Thanksgiving Night,
So don't eat too much. Trip to fan buddy, We'll

(54:53):
we need to hear from you.

Speaker 7 (54:54):
I'm looking forward to my friend. I'll be thankful for
you on that day as I.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
Will nice done. I see what you did there? See
you can show it off now, all right, there you
having folks, Thanks so much, Mark, Mark Madina Medina Magic
every Saturday night midnight on the Bernie Fratle Show, and
you'll catch them a Thursday obviously, as you can see
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(55:20):
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(55:41):
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here in Las Vegas. We dive into the NFL. We
are just nine hours and thirty six minutes away from
NFL Week eleven and no more, no more international games
this year. London has done, Germany's done, and we're back
to playing in the good old us of A the
rest of the season. And I want to start by

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giving CJ. Strouds flowers. He's played nine games as a
professional football player, just nine, yet he's a legitimate MVP candidate.
It's mind boggling. He's top ten in passing yards, touchdowns
QBR quarterback rating. He's still on only two interceptions two
straight weeks, tremendous game winning drives beats Joe Burrow and
the Bengals, throws for four and seventy yards the Texans

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five and four. They're on a playoff run. They were
eleven and thirty nine in the last three seasons before
his arrival. This dude is crazy good. Could be happier
for him. I remember Mom Draft Knight his interview. He
is the real deal. By the way, Stroud not the
only quarterback, not the only quarterback of note. In Week ten,

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welcome back Kyler Murray. Here's a guy who's the former
number one overall pick remember CJ. Stroud was the number
two overall pick last year. Murray showed last week it
can still be the franchise quarterback. Had a game winning
drive against the Falcons. Yeah, I know, the Falcons are
only four and six, but Murray tore his ACL last year.
It's his first game back, and frankly, for a lot

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of that game, he looked like the vintage Kyler Murray.
He was Letha with you know, keeping plays alive with
his legs. He was very composed in the pocket, threw
the ball well. Cardinals are only two to eight this season.
Season's probably done, but Murray's performance the rest of the way, well,
I think it could go. Let's just put it this way.

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Arizona's future might not be as bleak if Kyler Murray
in his form returns. And then there's Deshaun Watt Watson.
For the last two seasons, we've been wondering where the
old Watson went. He finally showed Sunday in Cleveland's thirty
three thirty one went over the Ravens. Cleveland's now six
and three. The Ravens are seven and three. Watson showed, well,

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what what's the old country singer's line? I may not
be as good as I once was, but I'm once
as good as I ever was. Something like that. I
don't care, you know what I'm trying to say. But
Watson's done for the year. So again, this is a
this is a year that continues to confound. By the way,
the game of the day was actually in Los Angeles.

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He had Justin Herbert and Jared Goff. They got engaged
in an old fashioned kind of like an old AFL
quarterback duel. You were almost looking for, you know, John
Hadel or Don Corielle or Jack Kemp. I know, my
good buddy Steve Hartman will know those references. But Goff
and the Lions, who are now seven and two, prevailed

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forty one thirty eight. What Both quarterbacks were outstanding. Give
it up to the Lions, living after their preseason hype.
They solidified their playoff position. Meanwhile, the Chargers four and five,
what do you expect. You look up Brandon Staley in
the dictionary, it says mediocre. You look up mediocre and
you got Brandon Staley's picture. Actually he's extremely mediocre. And

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the charge. If you look at that Chargers roster, you
see to yourself, how do you not win more with
that roster. Well, but Brandon Stanley's really smart because he
uses analytics. Yeah, you know, the operation was a success, doctor,
but unfortunately the patient died. How about Josh Dobbs still
a thing? Still a thing, Probably wakes up in the
morning and doesn't know where he lives. He's like on

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his fourth NFL city. But the Vikings now six and four.
Josh Dobbs leads them to a twenty seven to nineteen
win over the Saints. Told you Derek Carr sucked. I
don't care. He might be tacking on a lot of
meetingless yards in the fourth quarter, usually after he's staked
his team to a deafist by throwing first quarter interceptions.
Watch Car in the red zone. Watch Car on third down.

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You'll lose your lunch. Actually in the red zone. They're
putting in Taysom Hill now and they need to make
a play. The Saints are oping five and five. Remember
all Derek Carr need was a defense, right, Yeah, give
it up to the Vikings. Though, really, in all seriousness,
fifth straight win after starting the year one and four,
I knew the pythagoream theorem would come back to roost

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this year. Remember, the Vikings had an excellent season, lost
in the playoffs, but they were thirteen and four, and
they had the distinction of giving up more points than
they scored. That doesn't happen in the NFL. Happened to
the Raiders a year before, happened to the Vikings this year.
Where do I think the Vikings are gonna end up?
Maybe nine to eight, That's why I see it. They
head to Denver. I think Denver actually is trending very

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much upward. I talked about him earlier in the show.
Interestingly enough, though, this streak has come without Justin Jefferson,
who's back Sunday against Denver. But I think deserves a
legit shot to be a starting quarterback in this league. Okay,
by the way, before Derek Carr got hurt, and we
never want to see anybody get hurt. And Derek Carr
is a good guy. I don't think he's a very

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good quarterback. He got hurt. Hopefully he's okay. But before
Carr got hurt, if I'm being honest, he was having
a terrible game. If you didn't watch it, then you
might not know. Just trust me, he was having a
terrible game. Meanwhile, Brock Purdy, the people, the man certain
people love to hate, makes zero sense to me. The
dude can really play this position. Is he undefeated? Is

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he perfect? No? No, And people think, oh, just don't
screw it up. No, no, no, no, no. This guy
can play. He's got arm talent. He's made too many
difficult throws and kid of critical situations to prove to
me it's not just his system in San Francisco. If
it was just a system, why couldn't Trey Lance run it? Okay,
Purdy's better than Sam Donald. I think Sam Donald's Okay,

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I think he's as bad as people think. Shanahan knows
what he's doing there. Okay. The long and the short
of it is when Brock Perty's on and the Diners
bring their a game and he's not perfect, I get it,
But he doesn't need to be. You look how good
this team can be. I will be surprised, barring injury,
if the Niners aren't in the NFC Championship game. Finally,
the opposite side of the coin, the Patriots bench Mac

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Jones for the final possession of the game when they
when they lost to Indianapolis ten to six in Germany,
non no inming unreal. They're two and eight. They're an
absolute dumpster fire. Zach Wilson is trying hard, still throwing
costly interceptions, and that costs the Jets wins. Boy, if
you're a Jets fan, if you're a Patriots fan, if
you're a Giants fan, you've gotta be consuming a lot

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of alcohol on game day. Just don't drink and drive, please,
I get it. You're gonna be hooked up to a
blender all morning getting ready for game day. Just don't
drink and drive. Coming up the Lions, Just one question,
Just one question. I'll ask it coming up after we
go to our guy, the chef, Kevin Wired with the
latest wonder.

Speaker 8 (01:02:57):
If you're catching any champagne over there, Max first stop
in spraying it all around him night as he's at
the fountains of Volagio in the winner circle. That's because
he claimed the first ever Formula one Las Vegas Grand
Prix verse stop in the winner of this fifty lap race.
In college football, every top team except for number twenty

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North Carolina winning on Saturday, the Tar Hills losing Nicklepse
at thirty one twenty, but everyone else victorious on Saturday
that includes top ring Georgia. They roll over Tennessee thirty
eight to ten. Number two Ohio State pounds Minnesota thirty
seven to three.

Speaker 4 (01:03:36):
Number three Michigan's game with Maryland a little bit.

Speaker 8 (01:03:38):
Closer, but the Wolverines do hold off the turf thirty
one to twenty four. Number four Florida State a dismantling
of North Alabama fifty eight to thirteen, but it did
come in as steep cost as Jordan Travis hurting his
leg on what looked like to be a hip drop tackle.
He was carted off the field and there's no word
yet on his exact condition. Dition in the PAC twelve,

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it's Number five Washington qualifying for the PAC twelve title
game as they beat number eleven Oregon State twenty two
to twenty, the Huskies getting the difference in that game
on a safety in the first quarter. Number six Oregon
forty nine thirteen winners at Arizona State as Bo Knicks
had six touchdown passes on six drives in that first half.

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Number seven Texas a twenty six to sixteen win at
Iowa State. The Longhorns all by themselves the top of
the Big twelve conference standings. Number eight Alabama a dominating
win at Chattanooga sixty six to ten. The Iron Bowl
next weekend Auburn for their part of losing thirty one
ten to New Mexico State. Number nine Missouri gets a

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field goal in the final seconds to ed Florida thirty
three to thirty one. Number ten Louisville punches their ticket
to the ACC title game after beating Miami thirty eight.
Thirty one Iowa they'd get their ticket to the Big
Ten Championship punched as number sixteen Hawkeyes beat Illinois fifteen
to thirteen, and the first score for Iowa was on

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a safety, so that was the difference there as well.
Number twenty one Kansas State a winner in their in
state rivalry game with number twenty five Kansas thirty one
to twenty seven. James Madison their dreams of an undefeated
season coming to an end at the hands of Appalachian
State twenty six twenty three after their waiver was denied.
There was talking you know what might have been if
James Madison went undefeated, but those talks now currently moved.

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UCLA in the Crosstown Showdown, beats rival USC thirty eight
to twenty cal beat Stanford twenty seven to fifteen in
the Big Game NFL, the Dolphins activating running back to
von Ah Chan. The Vikings, however, not doing so with
Justin Jefferson. NBA scores Bowls trail twenty two to one
in the first quarter, but they come from behind to

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beat the Heat one oh two ninety seven, as the
seven game winning streak of Miami coming to an end.
Oklahoma City handing the Warriors they're six straight loss as
they win in overtime one thirty to one twenty three
bucks over the Mavericks one thirty two, one twenty five
as Giannis had forty points and fifteen rebounds. After you, Bernie,
all right.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
Chef warm those vocal cords up. Well, see in about
an hour, boy Iowa get to safety. Michigan gets his safety.
There were a lot of safeties today. We might have
to cueue up safety dance by men without hats. He
didn't think I knew that one, did you. You're gonna
get one over on the Uncle Bernie Show. Yeah, you
better get up that mighty late in the afternoon. Just kidding.
We're not going to play that song. We only play

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Motown bumpers here on the Bernie Fratter Show. By the way,
thanks to a tweet from Brian McCarry, he said, no
Jefferson this week for the Vikings. They didn't activate it
from the IR fantastic show. Thanks for listening, Brian, and
thanks for the clarification, because there was talk that Justin
Jefferson would be activated to play in Denver on Sunday,

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but apparently not. I don't know if that's a good
thing or a bad thing. They won five games without it,
but thanks for checking in. Okay, the Lions just one question,
just one question? Okay, not just one look by Doris Troy. See,
I know my music man, somebody out there is going
to recognize HESA these references and if you do, tweet
at me at Bernie Frattle. The Lions outlasted the Chargers

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last week forty one thirty eight. It was an old
fashioned shootout. Both teams combined for nine hundred and fifty
yards ten touchdowns. And give it up to Dan Campbell.
Take notes, Brandon Staley, you can't beat you ain't Dan Campbell.
His aggressive fourth down calls worked. But here's the kicker
is the lack of defense The Lions showed last week,

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potentially concerning with a team with playoff aspirations. Now, the
Lions defense was ranked thirtieth last year, but after one
and six start, we've talked about this, they fired their
dB coach, Aubrey Pleasant. He had this risk reward scheme
that was in effective, costs, communication problems. Lions installed the
simpler system. It worked. They were eight and two down
the stretch and they're seven to two or Lions seven

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to two or eight into whatever they are this year.
Gaudy record over the last twenty games. Okay, Then they
brought in camps Set and they brought on Chauncey Gardner Johnson,
they brought in Emmanuel Moseley, they drafted Jack Campbell. The
Lions have a good defense, but last Sunday they reverted.
Was not a great performance for the Lions defense, though

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you might've been, you know, remembering it. If you'd stop
the Chargers on eighths on their eight straight play inside
the ten yard line the third quarter beginning of the fourth,
it might have looked different. But the truth of the matters,
the Lions do have a better defense than he did
a year ago. Even if they gave up thirty eight
on Sunday. They're only allowed in twenty two points per

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game this year, which is very respectable, certainly enough good
enough to win most games given the fact that the
Lions offense is very good. But what they didn't have
Sunday last Sunday versus the Chargers, they're gonna be needing
better defense performances in their upcoming games. A couple of

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things that stood out. The Lions had no sacks last
week against Justin Herbert and only one takeaway. Only one
takeaway against the Chargers, so their playmakers are going to
have to do more on defense. This again, this re rears.
It's ugly headed and could could theoretically, theoretically be cause

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for concern. Now do I think Justin Fields can take
advantage of that Sunday? No, I do not. But last
week against a good offensive team, the kind they'll face
in the playoffs, the Lions gave up thirty eight points
in four hundred and twenty one yards and they allow
this is This is another thing that's slightly problematic. The
Chargers converted seven of fourteen third down plays in this game. Again,

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on the whole, the Lions defense has been pretty solid
this season, so I don't think you would really classified
as very concerning. They've rebounded nicely, but again I think
the jury is slightly until you see the Lions get
on the field with another elite team. Fortunately, fortunately coming

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up they don't have a lot of top flight opponents.
You got the Packers Sunday, then the Saints, then the Broncos,
and the Vikings twice, and then the Cowboys, who also
have a very good offense. The Cowboys matchup, that should
be a lot of fireworks. The meetings with the Vikings
there'll be a little intriguing. Don't see any reason why
Detroit doesn't finish with one of the top NFC playoff seeds.

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They do have a very aggressive defense, and their linebackers
they run downhill, they attack down hill, and their dbs
like to take chances and jump passes, so they're kind
of a boom defense. But again remember a couple weeks
back before, the Ravens also expose them with play action.
So the defense is a bit of a concern because

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while they statistically have been better, don't have a lot
of playmakers on that side of the ball, and you
need those guys to make an impact in the playoffs.
You don't have to have shutdown defense. You don't have
to be the eighty five Bears because they got a
high scoring offense, but you need to make those opportune stops,
particularly in the fourth quarter and after they score, so

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you play complimentary football. Do I think the Lions can
do that? I think they can. But again, in the
last month, with what happened at Baltimore and what happened
with the LA Chargers, it brings up some memories that
might call cause Lions fans to be slightly concerned. Coming up,

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there are a couple of pressure pack quarterback situations in
the NFL, and I want to explain them to you.
One involves the Bears, one involves the Browns, and I
would say there's real concern in both cities. I'm Bernie Fraddle.
We're coming to you live from the Las Vegas Fox
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Fox Sports Radio. All right back on the Bernie Fraddle Show,
Fox Sports Radio. Come to you live from the TIREC
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to three am Pacific, six am Eastern Justin Fields, and
his six and twenty five record as a starter is back.
He'll start Sunday for the Chicago Bears as if visit

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Detroit is a pretty significant underdog, and I understand there'll
be some evaluation and how his performance will be will
help this side the team's future. He's missed four games
with a thumb injury. There are only seven games left
on the schedule. The Bears are three and seven. They're
on pace to have two of the top five selections,

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and there areltly currently check that two star quarterbacks entering
the draft. So for the second straight offseason, Chicago must
decide if Fields is worth turning down a high value
quarterback prospect. They're hoping Fields shows enough progress in these
seven games to warrant not drafting Caleb Williams or Drake May,

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which I don't think they're the Bears to either. Last season,
Chicago traded the number one pick instead of taking Bryce Young,
who's been a little underwhelming, but I think he can
play a given time. Okay, but if the Bears had
taken number two pick c J. Stroud, who's been amazing,
people feel well, that would have been something you don't
know that you don't know how CJ. Strou would have

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done in Chicago. He's done great in Houston. But it
Fields struggles down the stretch, which I expect I expect,
then the Bears are gonna have a real decision to make.
All right. I like Justin Fields. I have respect for
Justin Fields. I think as a human being he's stellar.

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I think as an Ohio State quarterback, he was stellar.
Justin Fields is a college version of a dual threat quarterback.
His default mechanism is to run. I've never seen him
look comfortable from the pocket, operate from the pocket, move
well in the pocket. I don't think he's accurate. Does
he have a cannon arm, Yes he does. Canny like
to win, yes he does, which is all well and

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good if you're going to enter a punt pass and
kick contest, unless, of course, you're going up against thirteen
year old Andrew Reid. Look it up. If you don't
know what I'm talking about. I don't think Justin Fields
is just starting major league quarterback in the National Football League,
and I've got plenty of evidence. I've seen enough in
thirty one games. He just not built for that position

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to play at the NFL level for what the NFL
for what it requires in the NFL, it's a look
quarterback of the National Football League. You have to have
a base level of talent. You have to have a
base level of athleticism. Of course you do, but it's
a position you play with your eyes. You make mental snapshots,

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You receive the ball and you execute. You're making your
pre snap reads. The ball is snapped, the defense is
designed to fool you. The does the post snap scheme
match what you thought pre snap? Then all of a sudden,
the play breaks down. Do you keep your eyes downfield

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or do you take off and run? Justin Field takes
off and runs. All of his highlights last year were
long runs. You don't want your quarterback getting hit. Look
how many times he's been hurt already. And even when
Fields runs, there's no rhyme or reason. You know. If
you are playing quarterback of the National Football League and
you notice that the defense is in a zone, well

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guess what you run. Latterly, you allow your receivers to
side as their routes and you try to get them
the ball. Possibly, if you notice that the defense is
in man typically their backs are going to be to
the line of scrimmage except for the safety who's thirty
yards away, so you run vertically. Justin Fields is an

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improvisational quarterback, a world class athlete who's one of the
best Ohio State quarterbacks to ever grace the university. He's
not made the transition to the NFL, and I don't
think he is. We've got thirty one starts. We'll see again.
Don't tell me, show me, don't care about the speech,
show me on the field. Hopefully he doesn't get hurt
in the remaining seven games because they're going to be evaluating.

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But I think they already know. The Bears already know
now Cleveland, unfortunately, DeShawn Watson is done a year after
he's done for the year. He had the shoulder injury
last week and that's a major disappointment just in general,
but frankly, on the field, Deshaun Watson's been a major disappointment,

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especially considering the Browns their outrageous investment in a quarterback
who is coming off some questionable activity. We don't need
to go down that road, but they paid him nearly
one hundred million that was fully guaranteed five year, two
hundred and thirty million dollars deal. Can you really be
happy in Cleveland with that? It's hard to imagine Cleveland

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severing ties with the Shawn Watson. His cat hit next
year would be sixty dollars. Jeez, who does you think
he is? Jimbo Fisher not to mention a dead cat
number of two hundred million, But what if Watson returns
even more diminished next season? You might be looking at
three of the most expensive loss seasons in NFL history,

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which is a shame because the Browns have a damn
good defense. Or six and three, this looked like a
promising year. We'll see what Dorian Thompson Robinson could do.
I told you earlier this has already been a unique, odd,
idiosyncratic season. Joe Burrow got hurt again Monday. He's going
to miss the remainder of the season now with a

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torn wrist ligament. That makes him the second two hundred
million dollars quarterback just this week alone to see his
year cut short. Following the aforementioned Deshaun Watson and his
shoulder surgery, together with the Achilles injuries that are sidelining
Kirk Cousins and Aaron Rodgers, as well as injury to

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Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones. Well, nearly a quarter of
the NFL's Week one starters have dealt with major setbacks.
That is a bit of a bummer. Later in the show,
you heard the chef Kevin Wyrett and his update talk
about the F one and max verstop in the first

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ever winner. This has been a weird, weird several months
in Las Vegas regarding the F one race, which finally
got off tonight and it's in the books. There have
been unprecedented disruptions. There have been inconveniences. It's very polarizing.
People have talked about this maybe being the worst event

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in twenty five years. I don't know. These are things
i'm hearing. I would say this that after Thursday night
when the practice run I believe was canceled, I think
there may be even be in a clash action suit.
I'm not sure if there's any there were refunds or whatever. Again,
I'm looking into these things. In a couple weeks, we'll

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have Allen SNeW with the Las Vegas Business Journal join
us because he's covered this event. So anyway, we are
a little over eight hours, nine hours away from Week
eleven in the NFL, and this is stacked with great
matchups and we're gonna cover them all, and we're gonna
get into the week eleven slate including Raiders, Dolphins, Jets,

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Bill Seahawks rams ending with the Eagles and Chiefs. NFL
Sunday is where we turn our attention to next. I'm
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this Week eleven Slate. There are some interesting matchups, starting

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with the Steelers at Browns. The storyline to watch Miles
Garrett and they're gonna need him because no Deshaun Watson.
They're starting Dorian Thompson, Robinson. Miles, Garrett, Todd for the
NFL lead in sacks with eleven. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh's TJ. Watt
has ten and a half. Both Garrett and Watt they've

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been as impactful as any defensive players in the league
this season. Be interesting watching him go head to head.
I say that in it could have a bearing on
the Defensive Player of the Year situation. What do I
like in the game? I like the Browns. The Steelers
have been out gained in every game this season, and
I realize they are starting to Shaan Watson, but it's

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a light number. There's no way I could back Pittsburgh.
Here Bears, the Lions, Bears three and seven, Lions seven
and two. I thought the Lions would go at least
ten and seven this year. At this point, I'm knowing
their future schedule. I'll be very surprised when the Lions
don't go twelve and five. And the Keys are gonna
want to get at least one home playoff game. They should.
They're very much on pace to win the NFC North.

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The returning home the Bears have been a divisional rival,
and the Lions if they if they, if they prevail
Sunday against Chicago, they'll start eight and two. That's their
best ten game mark in sixty one years. Justin Fields
is back. I don't know if that's good or bad.
Miss the last four games that are dislocated right thumb.

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I don't know what you missed. And he was six
and twenty five. You know, you see what you listen.
If a kid comes into the league and play like
a CJ. Stroud, that's what you get. Justin Fields is
not a major league quarterback. I think he struggles against
the Lions. And the Lions, by the way, their defense
was challenged last week against the Chargers, who put up

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thirty eight points, and in a couple weeks before that
against Baltimore. They're not gonna be charged challenged against the Bears.
I'll be shocked if the Bears score more than twenty points.
I don't even think they can get to twenty points.
This feels like a thirty four to seventeen type Lions game,
we shall see the stinky Chargers take their four and
five record to Green Bay. Green Bay's not much better.

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They're three and six. Here's the storyline. Believe it or not.
Believe it or not. Believe it or not. Justin Herbert.
He was drafted sixth overall. Jordan Love was drafted twenty
sixth overall during the first round of the twenty twenty draft.
What does that mean? They were the third and fourth

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quarterbacks taken in the first round of the twenty twenty draft. Now,
in that time, Herbert has fifty eight starts under his
belt since taking over Week two of his rookie year,
while Jordan Love is just making his eleventh career start.
Ten of them have been this season. Now, Herbert doesn't
have a great record as a starter. He was six '
nine in his rookie year and they're twenty nine and
twenty nine overall regular season games. I don't think Herbert's

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the problem. I think Brandon Staley is. Now. Love appears
headed towards a tough rookie year. But I like Love's attitude.
I'm not sure if he can play, but you've come
this far. You got to stick with the guy. I will.
You know he has him and Christian Watson have it
exactly lit it up. If the Chargers blow this game
on the road, you might as well stick a FOURK

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in them. They'll be four and six. You know, you
got Denver barn Down, you got Kansas City, you know
what they can do. I wouldn't be too concerned about
the Raiders, but the Chargers and Brandon Staley, yeah, they're
not a match. It's just not working. I do expect
the Chargers to win, but I expect it to be close.
I really do. Green Bay's lost four games by a

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total of eleven points this season, so a game I'm
staying away from now. A game is just too tempting.
But I can't lay double digits on the road, or
can't lay double digits period, Excuse me. The Dolphins are home,
they're six and three. Day got the visiting Raiders, who
are coming off back to back wins against the New
York Giants and the New York Jets. I think if
you combine those two teams, I'm not sure you have

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an NFL team. The Raiders own the NFL's fourth worst
run defense. They allow almost one hundred and forty yards
per game on the ground. Meanwhile, Miami's run game is
diffed a bit, but they've averaged over one hundred and
eighty five yards a game when they have Devona Shane,
and I believe he's active. He's slated to make his
return from into reserve Sunday. If he plays, I think

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it's going to be interesting. The Raiders defense is improved
this year, but they ain't holding the Dolphins under thirty
five point thirty. That's not call thirty one point point
and I can't see the Raiders scoring more than seventeen.
So there you have it. If you're gonna play the game,
I would say, I'd say you lay the wood, but
you'll never hear me recommend laying in double digits. But

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there is no way, no way I could make a
case for the Raiders. I can't believe it. Yes, yes,
stranger things have happened, just can't name any of them.
The Washington Commanders at four and six, well, they host
the New York Giants at two and eight, Commanders laying
nine and a half nine and a half, by the way,

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and they're lost to the Giants in October. Remember the
Giants beat them in October fourteen to seven. The Commanders
allowed six sacks, and they've actually Sam Howe, who I
think is a future in this league. He's been sacked
forty times this year. He's on a pace for an
NFL record ninety seven. But in the next three games
combined after that New York Giants game, Washington only allowed

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seven sacks. They had a couple of lineup changes. The
Giants have had only nine sacks and nine games this year.
If they can't get the Sam al, I think it'll
be a long day for the Giants. That doesn't mean
I want to lay the nine and a half points.
I think that back door stays open. It could be
like a twenty one to thirteenth that game. You gotta
be careful with these big spreads, all right. Let us

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down now speaking of big spreads, and even on the road,
the Cowboys laying ten and a half at the Panthers. Again,
I don't like laying double legit numbers, but gun to
my head, I lay it more than I take it.
Panthers are only one and eight, Cowboys are six and three.
This is an absolute mismatch at every level. The Cowboys

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rank fourth in points. They only allow eighteen point three
a game. Third, and total defense. They only allow two
to seventy five per game. And when the Cowboys are
playing a team they can bulldy like the Panthers, they
usually do. The Panthers rank twenty ninth in scoring. They're
only averaging seventeen points a game, and this is probably
the best defense they'll face all year in the Cowboys. Meanwhile,
the Panthers thirtieth in total offense. They're only getting like

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two hundred and seventy yards a game. This man's NFL.
That's nothing right. Frank Reich took the play calling duties
away from his OC last week. I don't know what
that does for him. The guy had only had it
for three games. Defensively, again, the Panthers are bad. Offensively,
they're bad. It will not surprise me if you look
up Sunday afternoon and this game is one of the

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early games ten A in Pacific, one pm Eastern. Would
not surprise me if you look up and it's thirty
four to ten Cowboys. Cowboys were laying seventeen last week,
never in question. They pull locks to the New York Giants.
This is what the Cowboys do when it doesn't matter.
At mid season boy Dak Prescott. He looks healthy and
happy and confident. This should be one of those games Sunday.

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Quite honestly, it should be the Jaguars. I look for
them to bounce back Sunday. No, I'm not in a
hurry to lay the seven against the visiting Titans. Mike
Vrabel three and six, but Vrabel's good against the number
as a dog. This game could come down to which
offensive line holds up better and protects the quarterback. Will

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Evis could make a few throws. He's been sacked ten
times in three games. Trevor Lawrence has been sacked twenty four,
three shy of his total last year two years ago. Look,
I would just say this Jaguars are a much better team.
It's a game I don't want to get involved in.
It's a lot of points. They could end up twenty
three to seventeen. So the Jags get their w but

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the Titans get their cover. Mike Vrabel has a has
a knack, has a knack for hanging around. Okay, and
there's one thing that's that should be of concern, and
that's the Jaguars offensive line. This game could go south
quickly for Jacksonville if the Titans pass rush gets going,

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Jacksonville ranks just thirty first and plas a pass block
win rate. The Cardinals two and eight. Of course, you
heard me talk about Kyler Murray. He looked pretty darn
good last year they visit the Texans, break up the Texans. Man,
they're five and four, and I like the way they
play everything about this team. My god, what an amazing

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job Demiko Ryans has done right out of the gate.
And yes, the Houston Texans are laying four and a half.
And the aforementioned Dimico Ryans. Obviously, he's very familiar with
Kyler Murray because when Domico Ryans was the forty nine
Ers defensive coordinator for those two years, he only faced

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Murray once or twice because Murray was injured. But in
their lone matchup, although Murray led the Cardinals to a
seventeen to ten win in no turnovers, I think Demiko
Ryans has an idea what he's got to do to
stop him. This is not going to be an easy
game for the Texans. I consider this to be a
coin flip game. The only thing is that Cardinals on

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to four against the spread the past four road games.
But they didn't have Kyler Murray. Stay away for me,
all right. You saw what the Niners did last week
as double digit favorites in Jacksonville. Game was never close.
Brock Purty makes his first start against Tampa Bay. Check that.
Brock Purty made his first start against the Bucks last

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year and now this is the second time around the league,
another game against Tampa Bay. These teams both do well
in forcing turnovers. They're third in the league in turnover margin.
But I think this game is going to come down
to whether or not Tampa Bay, for some reason, they
do what Derek Carr can't do, and that's score in

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the red zone. Tampa Bay is also first in the
league and keeping teams out of the red zone to
get inside the twenty. But the Niners are very good
inside the red zone. This feels like if the Niners
bring their best game, they beat the Bucks. But I
think the Bucks hang that number. I think the Bucks
hang that number. I think you're looking at like maybe

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a thirty to twenty one type game, maybe a twenty
eight twenty tight game, a lot of points. You're never
gonna see me laying double digits in the NFL. But
after what the Niners did last week. I realize they're tempting,
but I can't do it. Jets and Bills. I expect
the Bills to be to look much different Sunday than
they did the other night, all right. I don't expect

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the Bills to turn the ball over four or five times.
They've turned it over eighteen times this season. Second most
Buffalo doesn't win the turnover battle. They've lost at six
straight games. They're five and five. It's a get right
for Buffalo, but I don't think it's gonna be easy.
But Zach Wilson just can't do much. It's not working
in New York. It's just not They follow to four
and six. I don't know you're hearing. You're hearing rumors

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that Salas lost the locker room. I don't know if
any that's true. But it's a divisional game, and I
think that even though the Buffaloes are home, the Bills
are home, you're gonna get You're gonna get their best
out of the Jets, and you got you know, Sauce Garter,
DJ Reid. Look, it feels like, honest to god, this
feels like a twenty to seventeen tech game. So Buffalo's

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laying seven. You look to the dog here and you
hold your you hold your nose. Seahawks and Rams. I
actually like the Rams in this game. I really do.
Their home. They are underdogs and they're coming off of bye,
and Matt Stafford will play after injuring his right thumb
and week eight against Dallas, and listen the Seahawks defense.

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Pete Carroll's really done a good job up there. But
the Seahawks defense is allowing three hundred and fifty five
yards a game. That's twenty fifth in the NFL. I
think it's something that Rams can take advantage of it,
especially since their home. And I believe Sean McVay is
like four to zero against the number coming off of bye.
Coming up, we're gonna look at Vikings, Broncos and Eagles Chiefs,
and I want to get into Buffalo. What is wrong

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with Josh Allen? This is a good team, they're better
than five and five, but not the way they played.
What gave you our thoughts on what is wrong in Buffalo?
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Speaker 7 (01:34:35):
First?

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
A couple of games of real interest I believe this weekend,
and they're both standalone primetime games. The first one Sunday
night eight twenty Eastern time, the six and four Resurgent
Minnesota Vikings visit the four and five Resurgent. Then for Broncos.

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Broncos remember started zero to three, to one and four
where they've won three in a row and they're looking
better Denver Land two and a half. So this is
about which game can keep the momentum. Josh Dobbs has
been an absolute god send lifeguard for the Vikings since
Kirk Cousins had his torn achilles which ended his season.

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Josh Dobbs has two wins of Minnesota's current five game
winning streak. He already owns one game winning drive on
his brief resume He's thrown three touchdown passes without an interception. Meanwhile,
the Broncos, they're on their first game winning streak in
four years, including wins over the Chiefs and Bills in
the past two weeks. And yes, nine takeaways in those

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first two games, So that Denver defense, it was good
last year, but not so good the first seven games
of this season, seems to have found itself. And those
nine takeaways in the past two games are more than
they add their first seven games combined. I know this
sounds cliche, but I think whoever wins the turnover battle
most likely wins this game. And I feel like it's

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gonna be the Broncos tough place to play in Denver.
I feel like it's gonna be a tough game too.
It feels like a twenty four to twenty one game Broncos.
I can't get real confident about that because can you
really trust Russell Wilson? Can you trust Denver? All I
know is the spirit with which they played Monday night,
and make no mistake, that was an impressively bad way

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for Buffalo to lose Monday Night. I mean, I don't
think they're gonna get over it for a while the
Broncos win twenty four to twenty two, And we might
have been entertaining for Broncos fans, but if you're a
Bills fan, you've still got to have a migraine over
that game. Let me just take you back if you remember,

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remember the final sequence, the Broncos are down twenty two
to twenty one. Russell Wilson drives the ball into the
Bill's territory, but all of a sudden, it's third to
ten from the forty five. Russell Wilson throws an incomplete pass,
but gets a very fortuitous defensive pass interference call that
moved the ball twenty eight yards. Now, all of a sudden,

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they're on the seventeen yard line. First down, they're in
chip shot rains. He got a great kicker and Will
Lutz Denver knows it, just don't screw it up. Wilson
takes three straight knees to set up I think, which
ended up being one of the most stressful field goal
attempts you'll ever see because Denver didn't have any timeouts,
so they had to rush their kicking unit onto the

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field look like a Chinese fire drill. They lined up
and all of a sudden, Will Lust kicks it? Why right?
Forty one yarder? Oh my goodness, Buffalo escapes. No wrong.
The Bills also were caught up in the hysteria of
the Broncos dysfunction. Yeah, twelve mine on the field on
a freaking field goal. So not only does will LUTs

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get a second bite at the apple after a five
yard penalty, they move it up five yards. What happens next?
Will Lutz nails a thirty six yard field goal game winner.
Now Denver four and five after a three game winning streak.
But I still say the focus is on the Bills
Sunday because they're a Super Bowl contender prior to the season.

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They're five and five. They got injuries, they got mistakes
for turnovers, but in the box score and on the scorecard,
Denver was the winner. Can they continue their fortuitous luck?
By the way, it helped Denver tremendously. Give him credit,

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But Josh Allen threw two interceptions Monday night and he
now has a league leading eleven picks on the season.
Unreal game, unreal All right, finally Monday night to Kelsey Bowl.
I wonder if Taylor Swift will be there. This is
the ninth time that teams have played each other in
the Super Bowl will meet again the following season. Typically,

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the Super Bowl defending champ prevails, and in the last
the old or eight times where there's been a Super
Bowl rematch the following year the Super Bowl champs. They're
six and two. Do I think it's going to be
a thirty eight to thirty five high scoring game like
it was in the Super Bowl? No, I do not.
The Chiefs are much improved defensively. They're second in the

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league in points allowed. But oh, by the way, the
Chiefs and their offense isn't really as dynamic and crazy
explosive as it has been in past years. They're a
middle of the pack when it comes to points score,
but they play. They play complimentary football. Something to watch
when the defense is covering Travis Kelcey. In the Super Bowl,

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Darius Lay lined up opposite Kelsey more than anyone. He
was the nearest defender to him. Most of the time.
Kelsey had a good game. You can stop Kelsey. The
Chiefs offense is far less threatening now. By the way,
they also had a linebacker during the Super The Eagles
did name TG Edwards. He's not on the team anymore,
Andy Reid twenty one to three, outright fifteen to nine

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coming off of buy. I just don't think the Chiefs
lose at home in this game, and they're they're laying
a short number. It feels like I'm gonna call it
twenty seven to twenty three. It's not gonna be as
high scoring obviously as the Super Bowl, but I don't
think it's gonna be a you know, a low scoring
snooze fest like you know Iowa Northwestern if you get

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my drift. All right, So some really good matchups this week,
and it's gonna and in Fine Fedal on Sunday Night
when the Vikings play the Broncos in a game that's
very meaningful to both teams. And of course, uh, you know,
you got a situation where, obviously Monday Night, although the
Eagles are eight and one and the Chiefs are seven
to two, regardless of the outcome, both these teams are

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making the playoffs. It's gonna be seeding positioning and how
many home games you might get, So look for it
to be a great contest Monday Night coming up. Let's
take a quick look what the hell is wrong with
Josh Allen, But First, let's go to our guy to
chef with the latest. Ay bet you know you the
girl her for me and all that I want to

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be and her. You go, Chef you and I'm talking
about man, you and you.

Speaker 4 (01:41:28):
Simon Tay you love him? Be there two or three
Simon pains.

Speaker 2 (01:41:36):
The chef Kevin Wired gets a little better every week.
Nicely job, nicely done, my friend.

Speaker 7 (01:41:41):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (01:41:42):
All the attention over there in Las Vegas, Bernie for
the Formula one Las Vegas Grand Prix. It's Max for
stopping at taking the win, showering the champagne over at
the Winter Circle at the Bolaggio Fountains. He wins the
fifty race event. College football really not much of a
shakeup in the rankings, as every ranked team except for

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number twenty North Carolina winners on a Saturday Clemson beating
the tar Heels thirty one twenty, but otherwise really not
too many games even competitive.

Speaker 4 (01:42:14):
Number three Michigan did have.

Speaker 8 (01:42:16):
To hold on against Maryland thirty one to twenty four,
but just about everything else, it seems, was a blowout.
Number one Georgia rolls over Tennessee thirty eight ten. Number
two Ohio State pounding Minnesota thirty seven to three. Number
four Florida State fifty eight thirteen against North Alabama, but
Jordan Travis taking a hit and was looked like a
hip drop tackle when he was hit and it caused

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him to have to leave the game. He had to
be carted off the field with a leg injury and
there is no word yet on his status going forward.
There was one other tight game in the Pac twelve
as number five Washington holding on for dear live against
number eleven Oregon State, but they do win a twenty
two to twenty the Huskies scoring the safety in the

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first quarter, so that ended up being the difference in
the game. Washington now heading to the Pac twelve Championship game,
Number six four again very likely to join them as
they pound Arizona State forty nine to thirteen bow Knicks
with six touchdown passes on six drives in the first half.
Number seven Texas They wre in Iowa State twenty six sixteen,

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so the Longhorn still on top of the Big twelve
with conference standings all by themselves. Alabama rolls to a
sixty six to ten win against Chattanooga, setting up an
Iron Bowl next week. As Auburn coming off a thirty
one ten defeat to New Mexico State Number nine Missouri
with a field goal to win it thirty three to
thirty one against Florida, Number ten Louisville getting to the

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ACC Championship after beating Miami thirty eight thirty win Number
sixteen Iowa setting themselves to Indianapolis for the Big Ten
Championship as they edge Illinois fifteen to thirteen that game,
also making it being decided by a safety. Iowa's first
school was on a safety, so that also was the
difference there. In Kansas, it's a rivalry in state rivalry

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between the Wildcats and Jayhawks, and at number twenty one
Kansas State beating number twenty five Kansas thirty one to
twenty seven, James Madison their season. Their dreams of an
undefeated season come to an end as Appalachian State takes him.

Speaker 4 (01:44:20):
Down twenty six to twenty three.

Speaker 8 (01:44:21):
So at least that puts the rest of speculation on
what might have happened had James Madison received the waiver
to compete in the College Football Playoff. UCLA wins the
Cross Down Showdown against USC thirty eight to twenty cal
In the big game against Stanford twenty seven to fifteen.
NFL News. Big boost for the Miami Dolphins on their
offenses running back to vont ait Chen getting activated off

(01:44:44):
of an injured reserve, But Justin Jefferson is gonna have
to lea wait at least one more week to return
to action for Minnesota, the Vikings declining to activate him
for Sunday's game.

Speaker 4 (01:44:57):
NBA scores.

Speaker 8 (01:44:58):
Bulls were down to twenty two to one at one
point in the first quarter, but they rallied to win
it against the Miami Heat, one of two ninety seven,
snapping the seven game winning streak of the Miami Heat.
Oklahoma City continuing the misery of the Warriors as they've
now lost six in a row, including the overtime defeat
to the Thunder one thirty to one twenty three bucks

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over the Mavericks won thirty two one to twenty five
y honest with forty points and fifteen rebounds.

Speaker 4 (01:45:24):
Back to your Bernie all.

Speaker 2 (01:45:26):
Right, Chef, Another BAFO tour to fourth performance by the
Chef every every Sunday one thirty am on the on
The Bernie Fratto Show. What the Hell's wrong with Josh
Allen and this is getting serious. Issue is getting real.
Bill's some serious danger missing the playoffs, and frankly, Josh

(01:45:46):
Allen is a prete reason why. Through two interceptions in
last week's twenty four to twenty two loss to the Broncos,
he now leads the league in interceptions. He's got eleven
this year. And look, it wasn't that long ago. Twenty
twenty Allen emerged as one of the top quarterbacks in
the NFL. He really helped turn the Bills into serious
Super Bowl contenders. And the Bills, look, the season's not over.

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They've won three straight AFC East Crowns in a row
with an offense it's ranked in the top three scoring
this year. But the Bills have not lost more than
six games in any season since Josh Allen's rookie year.
But yet they are very disappointing five and five this
year after ten games seven games left. They got a

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really tough schedule ahead. What are the reasons that Buffalo
has been so disappointing. They've struggled in first halfs this season.
They scored eight points in the first half Monday night
and seven points in the first half against the Bengals
the week before they are off to slow starts. Buffalo
only managed one first half touchdown Monday night, primarily because

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both of Josh Allen's interceptions came before halftime. Those are killers.
The first one will It halted a pretty good Bill's drive.
They had him in the right on the cusp of
the end zone early in the first quarter. The second
one came on Buffalo's first play after Denver made a
field goal that stretched the Broncos lead to twelve eight

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and a half. Then Broncos take advantage of the short
field to get another field goal. It's fifteen to eight
at halftime. Now there was even another turnover that could
be chalked up. I guess it was a fumble between
the handoff between I think it was Cook, the running back,
James Cook. He had James Cook, Allen and James Cook

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botch the fumble. But the two interceptions are more worrisome
because on the first pick, Josh Allen does what Josh
Allen does sometimes, and that's forcing a highly questionable, risky
throw into a tight window window. It ends up getting
deflected and then it's intercepted by Justin Simmons. The second pick,
he simply it recognized that Fabian a Row was lying

(01:47:59):
in wait and jumped route. He looked his hot re
eating through it. Fabe Moroe jumps the route. Those are
the kind of poor decisions that Josh Allen should not
be making in his sixth season in the league. He
hadn't been making him in the previous three years. Josh
Allen has got to clean that up, because, honestly, the
Buffalo Bills, a team that had designs on getting to

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the super Bowl, They've got a situation now where they
may not even make the playoffs. Speaking of teams that
will not make the playoffs, but yet this particular team
is represented by a coach that, well, his career may
be sinking faster than an anvillain a bugs Bunny cartoon,

(01:48:43):
because this team is two to eight and there may
be a change coming. Am I predicting it? No? But
I'll tell you what's blown in the wind for this
Hall of Fame coach. I'm Bernie Fraddlewick County Live from
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careers in NFL history might be nearing an end, at
least for now. Let's not forget this gentleman won seven
Super Bowls with the Patriots and Bill Parcells never won
a Super Bowl without this gentleman. By a side of course,
I'm talking about the great Bill Belichick and we know

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he doesn't like the media. He's always said the media
have got no use for because if I'm winning, they
can't touch me, and if I'm losing, they can't save me.
But after last Sundays absolutely dismal ten to six loss
to the Colts in Germany, which dropped the Patriots to
the embarrassing record of two and eight on the season,

(01:50:34):
there is all of a sudden much more emphasis on
Bill Belichick and his future and whatever that may be.
The group think echo chamber is frankly working overtime, and
it's because things truthfully have progressively gotten worse for the
Patriots all season. They had their first win of the
season Week three against the Jets, then they follow it

(01:50:57):
up with losses of thirty eight to threety four to nothing,
seventy four to three, and back to back weeks. A
Bill Belichick coach team, surely you jessed, well, not so much,
and don't call me Shirley. They did have a nice
comeback win over the Bills in Week seven, but then
in three games following that, this Patriots team is simply

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unable to build any momentum whatsoever. It really seemed to
hit rock bottom. Sunday in Germany, because the Patriots not
only lost and were not only held to six points,
but they look listless, They look lifeless, and believe it
or not, if this keeps up, the Patriots are absolutely

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running in the running for the number one pick in
the National Football League. Unreal, and if the draft were
actually held today, the Pats would be picking fourth. So
then it leads to a generic discussion with some hard questions,
which maybe they're just simply logical questions. Pick a team,

(01:52:06):
any team, look throughout history, pick your team. What do
teams usually do when they're two to eight and they
have an offense at ranks second to last in the
league in scoring? What do they usually do? Will easily
fire the coach, don't they Usually it's a relatively easy decision.

(01:52:26):
For they had one coach fired this year in the
National Football League, you know there'll be more. But the
calculus here is obviously a lot different. It's far more
complicated for the Patriots because you're talking about Bill Belichick,
and when you consider everything Bill Belichick is accomplished, they
just don't Okay, you're fired, issue a press release and

(01:52:50):
send them packing in the middle of the season. Whether
you like Bill Belichick or not, he deserves a proper sendoff,
whatever that may be. So when you add it all up,
put it in a blender and spit it out. Let's
face it, it leaves the owner of the Pats, Robert Craft,
in a pretty tricky spot. I really believe Robert Kraft

(01:53:13):
will respect in his own way the incredible success that
Bill Belichick was a key part of in two decades.
And yeah, I get that Tom Brady had a hell
of a lot to do with it, but so did
Belichick in those defenses. And you know, they had a
lot of no name guys and they were consistently solid
year after year after year, and even the year Brady

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got hurt, they won eleven games. Well, the year before
they'd won seventeen, So Brady had a lot to do
with their success. So what does Craft do.

Speaker 9 (01:53:47):
He?

Speaker 2 (01:53:48):
I mean, I mean, Belichick really put Craft's franchise on
the map. I get it that New England had gone
to the Super Bowl in ninety seven, they'd gone in
eighty six, But when you consider the two decade dominance
that he presided with in the salary cap era, that's
what really makes this incredible. So when you consider also

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that Bill Belichick is a Hall of Fame coach, and
I believe Robert Kraft will employ sensitivities because you remember
he let Tom Brady go. Bill Belichick wanted to let
Tom Brady go. Remember the Jimmy g situation years ago.
Jimmy G ended up going to San Francisco and Tom

(01:54:31):
Brady won that battle and they actually won a couple
more Super Bowls, but ultimately Robert Kraft was the guy
that waved goodbye to Tom Brady because it was his decision.
Do you really want to be the guy who let
both Belichick and Brady go? So if you are, you
really have to look for some sort of dignified, elegant

(01:54:54):
eskap patch because the Bill Belichick era really appears to
be coming to an end a lot faster and a
lot more unceremoniously than we would have thought. Not a
perfect world, and we don't live in a perfect world.
Because it's pretty obvious New England's going nowhere this year.
They got seven games left. Even if they run the

(01:55:14):
table to go nine to eight, I don't know that
gets him into the playoffs, but that now we're being silly,
because that's not going to happen. So maybe the Patriots
consider something like this. You announced before the final home
game of the season, which will happen to be on
January seventh this year, you announce proactively that Bill Belichick

(01:55:36):
will not be returning in twenty twenty four. Then you
could have a ceremony. You could have a ceremony honoring
Bill Belichick on that final game and it happens to
be against the Jets, and then you send him on
his way. There's not a dot in my mind to
be multiple standing ovations. There'll be cheers the home crowd
and that'll be the lasting memory of Bill Belichick in
New England. But will Bill Belichick go for that? That's

(01:56:01):
the wild card here. You're dealing with an outlier. You're
dealing with one of the most unique coaches, individuals and
history of the National Football League in any sport for
that matter. Would he go for that? It's possible deep
down the coach wants to say goodbye to the fan
base and that would be an announcement right before the

(01:56:22):
end of the season. That might be something that could
actually work. And the other thing we don't know is
if Bill Belichick does depart New England, does he really
want to continue to coach. I'll not say you why.
He's got his three hundredth victory now, and he's behind
two coaches for all time victories, Don Shula and George Hallis,

(01:56:48):
and he's gonna have to win twenty plus more games
to catch those guys. I don't have the numbers in
front of me, but I want to say that Allis
is somewhere around three eighteen and Shole is like three
twenty eight. They're somewhere around that neighborhood. And so should
he continue to coach? Does he want to continue to coach,

(01:57:12):
which I believe he likely does. Well, what does that mean?
What does that mean if he got that record, would
it make sense that he got that record while in
New England or does he perhaps do it somewhere else?
The Jets will play their next game the day well

(01:57:33):
Thanksgiving week, and they're off this week at home against
the New York Giants. Then they got to go to
the Chargers. Then they're check that they're out the New
York Giants, and then they're home against the Chargers, then
they're at Pittsburgh. Then he got the Chiefs at the Broncos,
at the Bills, wrap it up at home against the Jets.
So what are we looking at here? What are we
looking at here? Four and twelve team? Maybe and it's

(01:57:54):
the New England Patriots. There's no easy solution this year.
But when you're presiding over a team that throwes for
one hundred and ninety nine yards a game, which is
twenty second, they're running for ninety four yards a game,
which ranks twenty six, and they're allowing twenty four points
a game that's twenty third. Look, the team stats are
suggesting that not only are the Patriots not winning games statistically,

(01:58:17):
they're not competing in games. You're never gonna like the
way you lose. No one likes the way their career
ends most of the time. Even ask John Elway one
back to back and still maybe wishes he could have stayed.
We'll see coming up, Bernie Fratto and what kind of
brand new fool you? Yep, that's right, you heard the man.

(01:58:37):
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we are at that time of the show two am Pacific,
five am Eastern, the dance sensations sweep in the nation.
You know it as what kind of brand new fool you?
And why would we call it that? Because every day
across this great land of ours, people do things, not
just in the United States, but even around the world.

(01:59:23):
Sometimes they're silly, they're stupid, they're innocuous, sometimes they're more dangerous,
and sometimes they're illegal and they land people in jail.
But anyway, it slice it any way, you characterize it,
any way, describe it. These events, these activities, the behaviors,
Well they leave you scratching your head and asking yourself

(01:59:44):
the question, what kind of brand new fool of you?

Speaker 4 (01:59:54):
What kind of brand new food?

Speaker 2 (01:59:56):
That's right? Well, today we bring it a Yakima, Washington.
Meet Dave Sharp of Yaka Washington, Yakima, Washington. As you know,
the evening started innocently enough, who knows what he was
doing during the evening, But later in the evening, like
way much much later in the evening like around two am.

(02:00:20):
He a little hungry, was looking for a little nash,
so he happened upon a local taco bell and as
he was pulling up the taco bill was closing and
they wouldn't serve him because they were closing at two am. Well,
interestingly enough, after telling mister Sharp that they were closed,
the employee says mister Sharp, who was the driver of

(02:00:41):
the vehicle, became quote immensely upset, screaming that he would
break their windows if they didn't serve him food. Then
he began pounding on the front doors of the restaurant,
saying it was going to break in. Finally, after a
few minutes later, he left, but the employees saw his
pick up part nearby, and as one of the employees

(02:01:02):
began to shut down the restaurant and drive by, they
say they heard a single gun shot. The employee then
called nine to one one saying it was in fact
the man shooting at them. Police were able to quickly
locate the pickup they detained him, thirty year old David Sharp,
and inside the truck, the police say they found a
nine millimeter pistol with a loaded magazine, a bullet chambered

(02:01:25):
in the center console, a loaded twenty two pistol in
a pocket just behind the driver's seat, a glock nine milimeter,
a pistol with an empty magazine, and the rare passenger
seat underneath a bunch of clothing. People then say they
found two nine millimeter casings on the front windshield and
multiple multiple shell casings on the live bullet rounds that

(02:01:48):
were fired into the taco bell. They found a bullet
hole in the building, as well as the second grazing
round on an exterior wall. The story actually goes on
and on and on and on, but the reality of
it is, folks, if there's some advice I can give you,
if you pull up the taco bell at m. Two

(02:02:08):
am in the morning, you might be hungry, you might
want to drop a choloopa in your face, but let's
face it, if they're closed, don't shoot the place up,
Go home and go to bed. Mister David Sharp of Yakama, Washington,
what kind of brand new fool? Are you? All right? Chef?
You're up next here, big fella.

Speaker 8 (02:02:29):
Well, we go to Florida, where a thirty seven year
old man was wanted in a series of car burglaries,
and he actually let a police on a high speed
pursuit in Polk County. He ended up crashing into a building.
And you know what's ironic about this is that on
his neck he has tattooed all gas.

Speaker 4 (02:02:52):
No brakes, well see a check fan.

Speaker 8 (02:02:56):
So he's evacing charges of burglary of an auto occupied
conveyance with an enhancement of crossing county lines, felony, petty theft,
fling to a lude, conspiracy to commit burglary, possession of myth,
possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and resisting arrest
without violence. So it's probably the most accurate tattoo I

(02:03:17):
think I've seen in quite some time. So this was
Polk County, Florida.

Speaker 2 (02:03:24):
You told me, Okay, yeah, Florida always manages to make
the list somehow.

Speaker 8 (02:03:27):
So Timothy Hoague, thirty seven, of Apopka, Florida, what kind
of brand new fool are you?

Speaker 2 (02:03:33):
Wow? Oh gas, no break? I'm sorry, I couldn't help,
but that that that conjured up memories from Hard Knox
earlier this year in Green Bay. I already checked that
in New York Jets. Don't if you guys remember that okay,
Patrick Sweeka, you're a veteran at this game? What do
you got for us tonight?

Speaker 9 (02:03:51):
All right, Bernie and Kevin, we're gonna go across the
Atlantic Ocean to Julie Old England. So here we go
where a man named Thomas Thuaitis I believe that's how
I pronounce it. We're gonna go with Thuaitis Is, a
man who you know what, Bernie, he kind of He

(02:04:12):
was so stressed out with his daily life that he
decided he needed to make a change in his life.
So what did mister Thuaitis do? Well, he decided for
one day, and one day only, he wanted to live
life as a goat.

Speaker 2 (02:04:25):
Oh boy, so you don't mean greatest of all time either, I'm.

Speaker 9 (02:04:28):
No, not the greatest of all time a literal goat.
So mister Tuaitis decided, uh he wanted to go. He
went to uh one of the local farms in his
and his local unnamed town, dressed up as a goat
one on all fours, even got a prosthetic limb or two,
and for a whole day acted like a goat, was

(02:04:51):
doing goat screams and calls, which you know, just like
just out and about eating grass, living life and frolicking
around with other goats. After about a good fourteen hours
of doing that, he realized it was a special kind
of time. But I'm very happy to be back to
normal human life going forward. So, mister Thomas the Waits

(02:05:12):
and Jolly Old England, what kind of brand new fool
are you?

Speaker 2 (02:05:16):
Sir? I gotta tell you that's the last time I
ate go cheese. That's all I can tell you there,
Fella wow. So we got Polk City, Florida, we got Yakima, Washington,
and we got jolly old Dan. What was this idi
in in jolly old England.

Speaker 9 (02:05:29):
I'm not sure they didn't say, but he's near like
a university of I think it's at Salford. University of
Salford is where he was like going to get his
prosthetic stuff, and he's right down the street. They would
not give me. They would not give me much of that.
That's all I can find.

Speaker 10 (02:05:43):
Though.

Speaker 2 (02:05:43):
Maybe we can get the guy on the show someday. Yeah,
maybe maybe maybe. Right, all right, there you have it,
another Rosie edition of He Got Me Flustered? What kind
of brand new fool you? Which of course, Alarles is
to segue into our second favorite bit, which we lovingly

(02:06:05):
refer to as what my name? And the beauty of
it is is that Patrick Sweeka often likes to regaleus
with his Jeopardy style answering questions. So let's get it started,
shall we. I'm the only player in the National Football
League this is this season that has had a fifty

(02:06:26):
yard run and a fifty yard reception. Kevin Wire What
my name?

Speaker 8 (02:06:32):
Player with a fifty yard run in a fifty yard reception?

Speaker 2 (02:06:36):
Correct?

Speaker 4 (02:06:36):
Lemundo, I'm gonna go with Austin Eckler.

Speaker 2 (02:06:42):
Okay, you're on the right track. Not as Eckler. I'm
the only player in the NFL this season with a
fifty yard run and a fifty yard reception. Patrick Sweeka,
What my name?

Speaker 9 (02:06:54):
Who is run? CMC? Christian McCaffrey.

Speaker 2 (02:06:58):
Ooh, not bad?

Speaker 9 (02:06:59):
Good?

Speaker 2 (02:07:00):
Two good guesses. Believe it or not, it's actually Bryce
Hall of the aforementioned New York Chi Wow. Yes, all right.
Green Bay lost in Pittsburgh last week. The last time
Green Bay won in Pittsburgh, I was the starting quarterback
Kevin Wyrett. What my name?

Speaker 9 (02:07:18):
Aaron Rodgers?

Speaker 2 (02:07:19):
Good guess? But not Aaron Rodgers. Sorry, sorry about that. Yeah, uh,
not Aaron Rodgers. We gotta go d I'm gonna give
you a hints. We were going deep into the cookie jar.
But it's a very famous name. The last time Green
Bay won in Pittsburgh, I was the starting quarterback. Uh, Kevin? Uh?
Did you? We just go with you? Patrick? Ke me?
Sorry about that? Patrick's week? And what my name?

Speaker 9 (02:07:42):
Who is mister Bert Favor or Brett Farv?

Speaker 2 (02:07:49):
Okay, not a bad guess. Two good guesses. Guys, We're
gonna go even deeper. It's actually Bart Starr. Bart Starr,
the starting quarterback Alabama's own Bart Starr, the starting quarterback
in the first two Super Bowls. That's the last time
green Bay won in Pittsburgh. And of course, why do
we ask it because they lost in Pittsburgh last week?
All right, let's flip to the NBA. At age forty,

(02:08:12):
I am the oldest NBA player to ever score a
double double in a game. And I'm not talking about
it in a burger. Okay, at age forty, I'm the
oldest NBA player to score a double double. Kevin Wyatt,
what my name?

Speaker 4 (02:08:26):
I'm gonna guess. Vince Carter Vince Carter.

Speaker 2 (02:08:30):
Wow, not a bad guess, Not Vince Carter. At age forty,
I'm the oldest NBA player to score a double double.
Patrick SWEEKA what my name?

Speaker 9 (02:08:39):
Who is the King himself? Lebron James?

Speaker 2 (02:08:43):
Not Lebron Lebron's not forty. Yeah, he's only thirty nine.
It's actually Carl Malone of the Utah Jazz. All right,
you guys are gonna get this one because I talked
about it earlier in the show. Last week, I became
the third NFL rookie quarterback with three games of three
hundred and fifty yards passing and three touchdowns in the

(02:09:04):
same game. Kevin Wyatt? What my name?

Speaker 9 (02:09:06):
C J. Stroud Bam, That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (02:09:15):
Along those same lines, I was the first ever rookie
quarterback in the National Football League to have three games
of three hundred and fifty yards passing and three touchdowns
in the same game in the same season. Patrick Sweek,
what my name?

Speaker 9 (02:09:33):
Who is Aaron Rodgers?

Speaker 2 (02:09:36):
Not Aaron Rodgers. I was the first ever rookie quarterback
of the National Football League to have three games of
three touchdown passes and three hundred and fifty yards passing
in the same game. Kevin Wyrett, What my name? I've
checked that. Okay, this is Kevin wire Turn.

Speaker 4 (02:09:53):
I'm gonna guess Joe Burrow.

Speaker 2 (02:09:55):
Not a bad guess. Actually, Cam Newton's Cam Newton. Guys. Okay, yep,
all right, we'll keep it more recent. I think you
guys might get this one. Last week, I became the
second Dallas Cowboy wide receiver in history to a mass
nine hundred receiving yards in my first nine games of
the season. Patrick Sweaker, what my name?

Speaker 9 (02:10:18):
Who is the reason my fantasy football team is above
five hundred? Cde lamb outstanding?

Speaker 2 (02:10:25):
Nicely done? All right. The Michigan Wolverines feature Blake Korum,
a fine running back who I believe scored his fortieth
career touchdown today. But I am the all time leading
Michigan running back in career touchdowns scored. I have fifty five.

(02:10:46):
Kevin Wyre what my name?

Speaker 8 (02:10:47):
Michigan running backs? H Oh, that's a tough one. Pass
on that one. I wouldn't even be able to guess.

Speaker 2 (02:10:53):
All right, I am the all time Michigan running back
leader in career touchdowns scored with fifty five. Patrick Sweeker,
what my name?

Speaker 9 (02:11:00):
Who is Donovan Edwards?

Speaker 2 (02:11:04):
Not nope, nope, but he's actually good, he said. Okay,
his nickname was the A Trained and we gotta go
back twenty years, but it was Anthony Thomas. I don't
know if you guys remember that name. He had a
decent career in the NFL as well. All right, tomorrow,
we gotta treat because you got a Bulsa, and you
got a Chase Young, and you got TJ. Watt playing.

(02:11:25):
But I am the all time NFL leader for sacks
for the first hundred games played in my NFL career
at one hundred and five sacks and my first one
hundred NFL games played Patrick sweek At what my name?

Speaker 9 (02:11:39):
Who is Daniel Hunter?

Speaker 2 (02:11:43):
Nope, I am the all time NFL leader for sacks
for the first hundred career games I played with one
hundred and five Kevin Wyatt. What my name?

Speaker 4 (02:11:51):
I'm gonna guess Lawrence Taylor.

Speaker 2 (02:11:54):
The Minister of Defense, the late great Reggie White.

Speaker 4 (02:11:58):
That would have been my other guest.

Speaker 2 (02:11:59):
I thought you get that only because here's why, Because
I think it was TJ. Watt, who just played in
his one hundredth career NFL game recently, and he has
eighty eight sacks, which is incredible. But imagine that Reggie
White one hundred and five sacks in his first hundred games.
God rest his soul, all right. The Rutgers Scarlet Knights,

(02:12:22):
they have not beaten a ranked team since two thousand
and nine. The last time they beat a ranked team,
I was the head coach, Kevin Wyre.

Speaker 4 (02:12:28):
What my name, Greg Ciano?

Speaker 2 (02:12:32):
Nicely done. I've been pressed, I can be pressed.

Speaker 8 (02:12:38):
I think he went to the Buccaneers right after that,
if I recall, yeah, and now he's of course he's
back at.

Speaker 2 (02:12:45):
Rutgers as as well. Well, guys, should we keep tradition
and do one more? Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:12:53):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:12:53):
Bring it all right, guys. So we're gonna learn the
Heisman Trophy here in a couple of weeks. The Heisman
Trophy winner two weeks from well, last night Saturday, I'm
the last player to win the Heisman Trophy playing for
the college team who won the national championship. Patrick Sweeker,
what my name?

Speaker 9 (02:13:13):
Who is not Trevor Bauer? It is Bryce Young?

Speaker 2 (02:13:19):
Correct the Mondo. Good job, guys, nicely done, and coming up,
we have got Patrick Sweeka's Player of the day. You
don't want to miss this one. Hint hint, Mud involve
one of the local LA teams. They say his coach

(02:13:40):
is maybe on the hot seat, but maybe the team
they played, maybe the other coach should be on the
hot seat. We'll have a little fun with this one
coming up. Great job, guys, Great job Mark, Great job
is always on. What kind of brand new fool of
you and what my name? And you guys will be
with me Thanksgiving night. We're gonna do it Thanksgiving night
as well. On the Ben Malor Show. Hi Bernie Fraddlework

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Speaker 10 (02:14:54):
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Speaker 4 (02:15:14):
Alex Johnson takes.

Speaker 2 (02:15:15):
It home, and of course I would recognize that voice
to anywhere, the great Josh Lewin. He's been around a
long time. When I got my first radio show in
Detroit back in the early nineties, mid nineties, Josh came
on my show. He was part of the Detroit Tigers
broadcast team. He's an outstanding baseball announcer. Two. I believe
you did Chargers for a while. Gosh, he's been around,

(02:15:38):
but now currently the voice of UCLA says courtesy of
Josh Allen Curtsey of Learfield, but the butt kicking curtsy
of the UCLA Bruins. And so since we have I
believe a UCLA alum here on the show, let's get
let's turn the floor over to our guy and let
him glow a little bit. Patrick Week Patrick, as you know,

(02:16:02):
when the small clear is over southern California, you see LA.

Speaker 9 (02:16:07):
That's a pretty good one. Bernie, Yeah, you do see LA.
And you know you also see with LA a w
for UCLA, because USC, the fabled number six in the preseason,
number sixth ranked USC team has been knocked not only
out of the top twenty five, they have a worse

(02:16:28):
record than the UCLA. Oh and we beat them at
USC turf in the Coliseum.

Speaker 2 (02:16:32):
And you know my biggest takeaway, CLA put up thirty eight,
USC only scored twenty. The thing is, USC usually gives
up fifty every week, but the usually score fifty. Patrick,
UCLA checked at USC's seven and five this year, right,
They're actually seven and seven in Lincoln Riley's last fourteen games.

(02:16:52):
Remember the final two games of twenty twenty two, they
lost to Utah and Tulane, giving up ninety three points
in the process. I got a question for.

Speaker 9 (02:17:01):
You, Yeah, go for it.

Speaker 2 (02:17:04):
Uh. First of all, do you believe Chip Kelly is
on the hot seat? ECLA.

Speaker 9 (02:17:08):
I believe he's on watch, But from what I was
reading and hearing earlier that something with like the ecilely
athletic director was saying they're not gonna fire him. I
don't know, because then everybody was saying he wasn'tna get fired.
I believed it, and then they were saying before the game,
apparently it's bogus.

Speaker 2 (02:17:29):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (02:17:29):
But with this recent win against SC I'm gonna believe
that maybe he's got one more season. Uh. And if
he if it's unsuccessful, then they might can him. But
he's still in the hot seat. It's not very hot.
It's kind of cooling down after this recent win. That's
my personal opinion.

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Just some final thoughts on USC in all seriousness, because
you said they were preseason right number six. I remember

(02:18:06):
one of those college football preview shows. Some knucklehead had
them in the fourteen playoff. I never bought it. So
the question is you know they'll go to a bowl game.
I don't not a great bowl game, probably like the
Minute Bowl, something like that. Where does USC go from here, Well,
I don't know, home dinner, maybe a show.

Speaker 9 (02:18:24):
Home dinner, a show. They'll they'll probably go to one
of those you know you said the Minute.

Speaker 2 (02:18:29):
Bowl, Manute Bowl. Yeah, that was They're right that light.

Speaker 9 (02:18:32):
Over the years, they're probably going to go to like
something obscure like the Popcorn Bowl or the Nacho Cheese
Dorito Bowl or something like that.

Speaker 2 (02:18:41):
Preparation h Bowl.

Speaker 9 (02:18:43):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (02:18:44):
Here's the thing I wanted to get across. In all seriousness,
they went one in five to finish their regular season,
and they really went dangerously close to being five and seven,
not seven and five, because their last two wins they
had to go triple overtime against Arizona to beat them
forty three forty one, and then they should have lost
to Cal they won fifty to forty nine. Both of
those games required two point conversion stops at the end.

(02:19:08):
The truth of the matter is there needs to be
major changes. I've never called for a coach's job, and
I'm not gonna go now, but I will say this,
I am betting that that's the last you've seen a
Kayleb Williams. Yeah, he's not gonna play in the Bowl game.
I just don't think he will. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe
I'm wrong. But we were told that USC's defense was

(02:19:30):
gonna be better. It wasn't and the team wasn't better.
They regressed tremendously and they turned the ball over a lot.
They were they were minus twenty one. They look. The
truth of the matter is is this. The defense was
never able to force the opposing team's offenses to punt,
turn the ball, all that kind of stuff you need,

(02:19:52):
all right, and the Trojans their own, on their own
turn the ball over quite a bit, sixteen turnovers and
that was costly in several games. Okay, I've done it,
left USC bashing. Give UCLA their flowers. They not only
look good today, they won by eighteen and a pretty
big crowd there at the Rose Bowls. So we'll see
what happens. I think the Pac twelve was very good
this year. It's a shame they're going to be down

(02:20:13):
to the pack too, but that is progress. Well. Coming up,
we'll dive into Chris Profet's world of soccer. But first
let's go back to our guy one more time. Tonight
the chef Kevin Wyant with.

Speaker 8 (02:20:23):
The latest Yeah, all the talk in Las Vegas tonight
the Grand Prix and it's max for stopping and winning
the events. So he got the sat got to spray
the champagne over at the Belagio Fountain, so he wins
the fifty lap events. Saturday evening. In college football, we've
just had about every ranked team win except for a
number twenty. North Carolina's Clemson wins it thirty one to twenty.

(02:20:46):
But everyone else victorious on a Saturday, All the teams
in the playoff field the current playoff field winning and
mostly in blowout fashions. Hop rank Georgia a big win
at Tennessee thirty eight to ten. Number two Ohio State
pawns Minnesota thirty seven to three. Number three Michigan had
a tougher time against Maryland, but they get a two
safeties in that game as they end up winning it

(02:21:08):
by seven, thirty one to twenty four. Number four Florida
State they beat North Alabama fifty eight to thirteen, but
it came at a high cost. Quarterback Jordan Travis taking
a hit on what seemed like a hip drop tackle.
That's been a controversial thing both in the NFL and
college levels, and Jordan Travis had to be carted off
the field because of it, and there's no word yet

(02:21:29):
on his exact condition. PAC twelve couple of big games.
Number five Washington escapes against number eleven Oregon State twenty
two to twenty, so they get themselves to the PAC
twelve Championship game in a couple of weeks, the Huskies
getting a safety in the first quarter which ended up
being the difference. Number six Oregon demolishes Arizona State, sticking

(02:21:51):
a fork in the sun Devils forty nine to thirteen.
Bon Nick six touchdown passes on six drives in that
first half. Number seven Texas sixteen winners at Iowa State Longhorns,
all by themselves at top of the Big twelve standings.
The Ray Alabama rolls over Chattanooga sixty six to ten.
So we got an Iron Bowl next week in Auburn.
Who's gonna be playing The Tide lost today to New

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Mexico State thirty one ten. Number nine Missouri Missouri gets
pye Florida thirty three thirty one on a last second
gield goal. Number ten Louisville. They get themselves to the
ACC Championship by beating Miami thirty eight thirty one. Number
sixteen Iowa gets the Big Ten title game. They win
a Big Ten West as they get by Illinois fifteen thirteen.

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Typical Iowa win. The Hawkeys first score on that game
a safety. Another game in which that made the difference.
Number twenty one Kansas State over in state rival number
twenty five Kansas thirty one to twenty seven James Madison.

Speaker 4 (02:22:45):
Their perfect season is no more.

Speaker 8 (02:22:48):
So that kind of quashes any speculation as to what
might have been had they gotten a waiver to participate
in the College Football Playoff. That's because Appalachian State, who
of course is used to big wins. They beatj Madison
twenty six to twenty three the crosstown showdown UCLA USC
the Bruins winning at thirty eight twenty so that might
have maybe reversed which coaches on the hotter seat out

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there in Los Angeles. In the Big Game, it's Caliber
Stanford twenty seven to fifteen. Dolphins getting running back devont
eight chan Back. He's been activated off injured reserve. Justin Jefferson, however,
will have to wait one more week, at least, as
the Vikings choosing not to bring him back off of
injured reserve. NBA scores Bulls beat the Heat one oh

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two ninety seven. They trailed twenty two to one at
one point in the first quarter, and for Miami, there
seven game winning streak comes to an end. On the
opposite side of things, Golden State, they've got lost six
in a row as the Thunder beat them one thirty
to one twenty three bucks over the Mavericks won thirty
two to one to twenty five Giannis with forty points
and fifteen rebounds.

Speaker 2 (02:23:53):
Back to Bernie, Are you a an Adam Sandler fan?

Speaker 4 (02:23:58):
Yeah, I mean I'm not a huge but I like
some of the movies.

Speaker 2 (02:24:01):
How about you, Patrick? You and Adam Sandler fan.

Speaker 9 (02:24:04):
I liked his earlier stuff, like a happy Gilmore. I
was like one of my beloved ones.

Speaker 2 (02:24:09):
You know that after James Madison lost tonight, they actually
interviewed Billy Madison. He said, you blow it all right,
good night, folks. You've been a great audience, all right,
just time every week we bring you.

Speaker 11 (02:24:24):
Chris profests World of Soccer, the greatest goals, the thrilling finishes.

Speaker 1 (02:24:38):
The international drama. It's all here in this report from
the World of soccer.

Speaker 12 (02:24:49):
On this world of soccer, Bernie, We're gonna take you
around the globe. It is yet again another international break.
I don't know how we keep coming up with so
many of these. They seem to just pop out out
of no where. There's nothing I could do about it.
Just repeatedly international breaks interrupt our world of soccer. But
it does mean the US men's national team is in action.

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Here they are playing in the quarter finals here of
the CONCA CAFF Nations League. Now this year, the Nations
League does carry a qualifier for the Copa AmeriCup, which
is going to be held in twenty twenty four here
in the United States.

Speaker 4 (02:25:26):
In North America.

Speaker 12 (02:25:27):
It's going to be a very big deal to have
the Honka CAFF Nations being able to participate in the
Copa America, one of the two greatest off year away
from FIFA World Cup tournaments that exist with the South
American Nations and US got out to a quick start
here from Thursday, where on the quarterfinal leg one, kicking

(02:25:48):
the butts of Trinidad and Tobago two for the price
of one three to Nilo.

Speaker 4 (02:25:52):
They'll be playing again on Monday.

Speaker 12 (02:25:55):
Seeing as the United States have won the last two
finals that have existed out there for the CONCACAFF Nations League,
it seems only fitting that I think there's really no
one else but the United States, who is a heavy
favorite to win this year once again. But there was
actually news from the other side of the American soccer

(02:26:16):
world as the US women's team was granted a new manager.
We had talked about the fallout from the Women's World Cup,
about the dismissal of their previous manager, and now the
US is appointed Emma Hayes, formerly the manager of the
women's side at Chelsea over to become the manager of
the United States women's national team on a contract through

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twenty twenty seven, with numbers that make her the highest
paid women's soccer coach in the world, which is befitting
because really United States should be spending money out there
for its women's product, and indeed part of the extra
pay also comes in that that was also what was
needed to really coax Hayes away from playing at Chelsea,

(02:26:59):
a very big club for the women's Premier League and
for her career, to come to the United States and
get to deal with a new changing of the guard
on the national team. Emma Hayes, well born in the
United Kingdom in London, has coached quite often and been
a manager quite often in the United States, starting mostly

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in a lot of places like Long Island, Lady Writers,
the Iona Gaels, and then spending about three years the
Chicago Red Stars, and for the past eleven years or
so she has brought Chelsea quite a bit of success
for its women's team. She is regarded very well across
the women's soccer world and getting her is nothing short

(02:27:42):
of a coup for the United States. Now, unfortunately, she's
going to be having to leave Chelsea on a bit
of a sour note. Two two very big, incorrect refereeing
decisions ended up batching Chelsea's win in a Champions League
raw with Real Madrid.

Speaker 4 (02:28:02):
She slammed the officiating.

Speaker 12 (02:28:04):
There, said they were robbed, embarrassing, So kind of leaving
there on a bit of a sour note. Once Chelsea
Women's club's season is over. But let's leave the United
States alone. We'll come back to them in a little bit.
Let's talk instead about what's been going on in Euro qualifying.
Euro twenty twenty four is that other fantastic in between

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World Cup tournaments I was talking about. Euro twenty twenty
was a fantastic spectacle. It was on a lot in
the United States and it got people on Fox Sports
Radio talking about it. And it has a lot to
do because the final was between England, one of the
greatest clubs, I mean, one of the greatest nations in
the world for the game of soccer, and Italy historic, storied,

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so many great players that have come through and played
for the Italian national team, and we've got a bit
of a tale of both worlds happen here. For England,
they're at the top of their group for euroqualifying and
they'll be they're considered to breeze on through straight. We'll
see them back here and once again being one of
the strongest sides to take the field in Euros. Italy

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in Group C is a little bit of a different story.
They did beat North Macedonia five to two in the
ninth of ten match days, two goals scored by Federico Chisa,
who is fantastic, wonderful, wonderful to watch. But it's a
bit of a revenge game because we have to rewind
to the World Cup qualifiers of years prior, where Italy

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failed to make the World Cup because of North Macedonia.
And so let's turn back the clocks to twenty fifth
of March twenty twenty two, where coming off of Euro
twenty twenty, Italy was riding high but had an incredibly
disappointing YUEIFA qualifying for the World Cup season, and the

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final blow came where all they really needed was just
to hang on and not lose to North Macedonia and high,
this great Italian team, with a great goalkeeper, with everything
they had behind them, with the Azuri in their prime,
just fell on a one nil loss to North Macedonia

(02:30:20):
that deprived the Italians of their second World Cup in
a row. They have not won a knockout round game
in a World Cup since they last won the World
Cup itself back in two thousand and six. They have
missed the last two World Cups, and to be honest,

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it is a pal upon their entire entire team, upon
their entire nation. This is a country that expects to
be there playing in World Cups. So they have one
more match here coming up. It's against Ukraine. Both teams
have thirteen points sitting and jocking for second place behind
England already through in Group C, so Italy holds a

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lot of the tiebreaker scenarios. So I imagine what they just
need to not lose to Ukraine, which again famous last
words here. If they're not qualifying for euro twenty twenty four,
it could be another rough campaign for the Azurie as
a powerhouse of Europe continues to try to reclaim some
of its glory. And finally, Bernie, we like friendlies, We

(02:31:28):
always like friendlies, and indeed we got some great news
here this week where Barcelona storied, storied Barcelona announced this
week they will be playing a friendly in the United
States at the Cotton Bowl. Yeah, not Jerry's World, the
old Cotton Bowl. Talk about Bowl season. December twenty first,
Barcelona will be taking on the Mexican Giants Club America.

(02:31:51):
That should be a fantastic match. Something can fit in
there with all the other college football bowl games you'll
be watching, So watch out for the other bowl game
coming up here. As we see you next time On
the World of Soccer.

Speaker 2 (02:32:03):
Chris Purfet's World of Soccer takes you on a tripper
on the world the beauty of it is even when
there's not a lot of action on the field, and
there's been plenty in the last couple of years with
the Women's World Cup, the Men's World Cup, etc. And
of course we've got the Olympics coming up in Paris
in twenty twenty four. There's always action off the field,

(02:32:24):
and Chris does a good job, great job of digging
it up and reporting the latest on the world of soccer.
There are superstitions among sports athletes, and there are superstitions
too many to mention. The Phillies once had a relief
pitcher named turkwe Dell who used to eat licorice on
the mountain and then brush his teeth in the dugout

(02:32:45):
when he came off the field. You remember that Wade
Boggs famously a chicken before every game the Miami Heats.
Mike Bibbi used to clip his fingernails during timeouts. There
are superstitions and there are superstitions. But Patrick Mahomes confirmed
this past week that he's had the same superstition for

(02:33:08):
all eighty nine games of his NFL career. I was
a little creeped out. I'll tell you what it is
coming up. I'm Bernie Frattle. We're coming to live from
Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio, Tirec dot Com studios. Keep
it locked right here. You're listening to the Bernie Frattle
Show on Fox Sports Radio. Oh we're wrapping it up
by the Bernie Fraddles Show, Fox Sports Radio Company live

(02:33:31):
from the Tarak dot Com studios. Before I go any further,
I don't think my broadcast team back in Los Angeles.
They have been with me since eleven pm Pacific on
Saturday night. Patrick Sweca and of course Kevin Wyre at
the chef on all the updates, and Mark Ramsey, our

(02:33:51):
technical producer. Great job, guys, has always turning all the Dallas,
keeping us flue together, keeping us on the air. Great job,
brand new fool what my name right on down the line.
Congratulations to your ruins. Patrick. By the way, quick programming note,
Busy week coming up. I'll be on Wednesday night with
Mike Harmon and from seven to eleven Pacific because Jason

(02:34:13):
Smith is off Thursday night, I'll be hosting the Ben
Mallor Show as Ben takes Thanksgiving off. It's become a
tradition I've done in three years in a row. And
then you know my Friday and Saturday show, so busy
Thanksgiving week because I wish everybody a great Thanksgiving. I
have my crew with me here on Thursday night during
the Ben Malor Show, so we'll have a lot of fun.
We'll probably open the phone lines, keeping it up with

(02:34:35):
the Ben Mallor tradition. All right, speaking of tradition superstition,
you heard me talk about some you know, the Wade
Bogs eating chicken and turk, Wendell eating licorice, and right,
there's so many you can't mention them all. Well. Chad Henny,
former chief player who served as the backup to Mahomes
for the last six years, former Michigan guy, been in

(02:34:57):
the league eighteen nineteen years, finally retired. He confirmed that
Patrick Mahomes has had the same superstition for all eighty
nine games of his NFL career. Wait for it again.
You know about Tiger Woods, he wears red shirts on
the final day of as a golf tournament. Michael Jordan,

(02:35:17):
they said he used to wear a lucky pair of
blue basketball shorts from University of Carolina days under his
Chicago Bulls uniform. Well, apparently NFL superstar no question is
a superstar. Patrick Mahomes is no exception. He's now admitting,
wait for it, to wearing the same pair of red
underwear on game day for all eighty nine games of

(02:35:41):
his professional career. And yeah, I know what you're thinking.
He says, he washes them. I want to take him
at his word. Otherwise I got to put my headset
down and kill myself with a chainsaw. Bad visual. Yeah,
I believe he washes him. Of course he does. Well.
He was outed by Chad Henny, and Henny admitted that
apparently in February, it's astition. It's a good luck charm.

(02:36:02):
After a few months of speculation people had asked about it.
He was a rumor started on the Manning Cast with
pe Lion Eton Eli and Peyton Manning. Just recently, when
the Broncos beat the Buffalo Bills twenty four to twenty
two on Monday Night, he admitted, he says, my wife
Britney got them for me, so I'm not throwing you
all down, but I have to wear them. When Mahomes

(02:36:25):
was asked about the superstition at the same time, I
threw them on that first season and man, we had
a pretty good season that season, so he said, you know,
but remember I only wear them on game day, so
one they're not too worn down, and two they're not
like they're nasty underwear because I cleaned them. Thank God

(02:36:46):
for that. But if you're like me, it ain't gonna
look the same when he takes the field in Kansas
City on Monday night. That's right, twenty eight year old
Pat Mahome conceited. Right well. Mali y Elfin said he
might only watch him when the team loses, but for
all eighty nine games of his NFL career, Patrick Mahomes

(02:37:06):
is confirmed the same superstition. He wears the same red
underwear on game day. And I wish I didn't know
that now, and now that I've heard it, I can't
unhear it. Good luck Monday night, Chiefs Eagles in the
Kelsey Bowl. We'll see if there's any Taylor Swift settings.
It's gonna do it for the Bernie Frattle Show. Back

(02:37:26):
on these earwaves Wednesday. Keep it locked, They're great. Andy
Furman up next on Fox Sports Radio.

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