Brian Noe and Jared Smith talk Bronny James and more!

Brian Noe and Jared Smith talk about Bronny’s Lakers debut, some early thoughts on the NFL season ahead, teams that might be most improved next year, the silly charade around Bronny James and his spot on the Lakers, which NFC team the Ravens are most similar to, and more!

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with Jared Smith, my guy. Normally from Saturdays, we've dipped

(00:28):
over into Sunday territory over here Jared Howard, things things.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Are good, He'll double dip right. I don't know where
Jeff is today. He's doing his thing. He'd probably get
right at football season, That's what I'm doing. And we're
talking a little countdown, you know, speaking of countdown to kickoff.
You know, we were talking about the day's remaining. I
feel like I'm pulling my calendar back. Every day is
a day closer to the start of the real ball.

(00:53):
This is fakeball here in the summer. That's right.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
We all know that ball means football. Oh you know,
some of my some of our Fox Sports radio brethren,
they've got it all twisted up. They're like, we think
ball is basketball. I think baseball when someone says ball, No.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
No, definitely not baseball. Baseball is hardball, Like that's the
only ball I would describe baseball with if I was
using like an adjective or qualifier. But I hope I understand. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I agree. I'm a hoops guy, like when I'm talking
about college basketball, when you're discussing it with your friends
or you know, anyone who's not like you know, someone

(01:31):
formal use oops college oops. Yeah, I rarely say college basketball.
Who says college ball? You say college ball for college basketball?

Speaker 4 (01:40):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
I have a friend that works in this business that
calls it college rack and I kind of like that, wow, yeah,
like you know, like a rack attack, Like I I
that kind of I don't know, he's a little out there,
you know. I'm always I feel like the longer you
work in broadcasting, the more weird words you try to
come up with to describe, because it's like you call

(02:01):
it the same fake for years, and it's like variety
is the spice of life.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
Right.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, here's the thing, Jared, I was thinking about starting
off with something I love to begin the show, because
you know me very positive. I don't know if you
have a I don't know, if you have a friend
who's more positive than me. I I sort of wrote
a book on positivity. But the thing that I love
doesn't happen to be a big story. It's not even

(02:26):
a story. It's just an observation. So I'm like, that's
that's not great to lead off with. So I'm like,
all right, what else do we have here? And I
started looking at the storylines and the topics and I'm like, oh, well,
there's something that is annoying me. And it happens to
be one of the biggest stories in the sports world
right now. So I'm like, well, I hate to start

(02:48):
off on a pessimistic foot, you know, on a negative
foods but it's true. Here's the thing. I understand that
Brini James is the story. I get it, but I
don't need the life in times of Bronnie James.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Okay, and that's what we're getting right now.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
There was a story on ESPN last night that read,
quote unquote, butterflies in my stomach Bronnie James takes in
atmosphere of Lakers debut, says he was surprised by the
warm reception from Golden State fans, and then it just
goes from there. Here's Bronni's first bucket. Here's his second bucket.
Those were his only two buckets. Here's lebron reacting to

(03:32):
the first bucket. Here's a follow up story her interviews.
It's like, bro it's too much. I get it, Jared.
We can understand that it's a story for obvious reasons.
Lebron is a massive deal, But I just don't need
the coverage to be so over the top, and I
don't want that for Bronnie, Like Bronni didn't ask for

(03:53):
any of this, And I just hate that a lot
of people are gonna wear completely tired of this.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
I'm tired of it, all right.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
And word yeah, day one of the Summer League here
with Brownie Well, I think.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Once the story broke and he was being drafted where
he was, and then the follow up with the contract, like,
once you draw that much attention to yourself with something
so historic being you know, the first father son duo
and then getting a very lucrative, very favorable, very player
friendly deal as the fifty fifth overall pick, one of

(04:24):
the most lucrative of all time. In that spot, you
knew it was going to be a frenzy. I mean,
just based off of who his dad is, it was
going to be a frenzy. But then you throw all
that stuff on top of it, Like even if he
played for the Pelicans, I think it would have still
gotten a legitimate more coverage than any other you know,

(04:45):
random player who's trying to make his way in the
league is going to get. But the reason why I
think it's getting the max coverage right now is just
nothing else to talk about right Like we're in that
lull of the time. You know what it reminds me of.
It reminds me of when training camp starts in the
NFL and every time Aaron Rodgers sneezes, Yeah, it is

(05:10):
breaking news in New York, every single station start like
it because there's you know, it's the middle of July
and we're begging for football like we are ravenous for it.
So I understand the over I agree with you on
hundred percent, like it's going to be over the top.
I don't think it's going to stop, but I understand
why it's happening.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, I understand it too, And I like how you've
framed it right where it is a lot like NFL
training camp where you just get bombarded with.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Check out this one handed catch shoulder pads.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Great, you get all those videos.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
I can look like that too, right, Like, yeah, we
should do a video training camp of all three of
us just running around looking like rock stars and then
Rich puts on pads and then all of a sudden
we all look puny. Well, listen and you get the
training camp.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Hey, this quarterback was thirteen of eighteen for you get
all the stats and yeah, because there's not a whole
lot going on. So again, I get it. With Bronnie,
it's just so over the top already. And I mean,
just get comfortable because it's gonna be a steady high.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
Just wait till it comes to Vegas. Vegas is a
Lakers town. This place is going to be buzzing when
they get there. I mean, I don't know how the
bracket shakes out with something. I know it's weird, but
I think they're gonna be here. Yeah, they should be.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
But the funny thing to me is if you compare
Bronnie to Caitlin Clark for a minute, right now, think
about this.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
What's true?

Speaker 2 (06:37):
This still is the quote unquote dead time of the
sports year. Yeah, right, we don't have college football, NFL,
we don't have the NBA going on. We've got baseball,
We've got the w NBA, We've got Bronnie James summer highlights.
There's not a ton going on right now. If you're
into that, you get a little soccer, actual little copa

(06:57):
going on here about USA ruining.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Are our hearts, our hearts and minds.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
But think about this where if you compare Browny again,
he's just starting off his NBA career, had two buckets
in Summer League action. Okay, stories left and right, videos
left and right, reaction left and right. Caitlin Clark posted
the first triple double in WNBA history by a rookie.

(07:22):
That that was yesterday against the New York Liberty. This
is a portion of how it sounded on CBS T
Rookie History for the favorite rookie. It's funny to me, Jared,
because you could look at many things. We'll get into
the number of All Star votes that are just up

(07:44):
collectively from last year. They're off the charts this year
compared to last year. The ratings collectively for the WNBA
Caitlin Clark games, they average one point one eight million
viewers all other games four hundred and twenty eight thousand.
But that number is up, and some of that is
due to the Caitlin Clark effect. And the funny thing

(08:06):
is all the attention that Caitlyn is getting, all the
ratings boost, the All Star votings voting increase, A lot
of that is met with like this from Angel Reese.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
I'll look back at twenty years and be like, Yeah,
the reason why we watch it women's basketball is not
just because of one person. It's because of me too.
And I want you to realize that. Yeah, right, So
think about this.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
The other WNBA players are like, Hey, it's partly because
of me too. It's not just because of Caitlin. I
want you to get that straight. What other rookies are
saying that about Bronni right Like? Is any other rookie saying, oh, okay,
I'm here too, It's not just about Bronnie James, right Like.
You're not getting the same thing. And I don't think

(08:48):
you will in the NBA, but you get a steady
die of that.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
In the WNBA you won't. And I think we've discussed
this too. I think a couple of weeks ago we
had a really long segment on it on the Saturday Show.
I think it's almost like when you get that success
for the first time. The WNBA is getting that viral
success for the first real time. This league's been around
for twenty twenty something years. They've been popular, I would say, slow, steady,

(09:17):
organic growth, and now this year the explosion, and a
lot of times it's kind of like Bitcoin, like when
it shot up a couple years ago, it was gonna
come back down, and it's just it's because the entity
itself was not ready for that kind of explosive growth.
When you enhance the amount of attention that a league gets,

(09:38):
like the WNBA, it puts the spotlight on the players more.
There's more of a spotlight. I'm sure people behind the
scenes probably think that about Brownie, but they've been around
the block because a lot of times they're coming from
big programs in college or they're already played in the NBA,
and they're used to the attention. They're used to being

(10:00):
able to say the right thing to the media when
you're inexperienced and you've never really done those big press conferences,
and to be fair, I've never been on the other
side of it. I've been on our side of it
where I'm asking the questions. I've never been in the
hot seat, and I know it can get hot under
that spotlight. And like, Angel just said the wrong thing there,

(10:20):
like like she could have framed that much better. And
I think maybe over time she will gain that experience
and that tenure with the media. But the NBA players,
I think just kind of know how to handle it
a little better.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, I think that what the w NBA players, some
of them at least, have said that are negative comments
toward Caitlin.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
It would make more sense if some NBA.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Players said that about Bronni, right, Like if you said
like about Bronnie, like Kennedy Carter said this one time
from the Chicago Sky about Caitlin. She's the girl who
knocked Caitlyn over right, did kind of like Bill Goldmark's
spear during But then then she put on social media,
what does she do besides shoot threes? Right, Like, I

(11:05):
don't know, I'll get a triple double right, assist Like yeah,
assist basket ability pretty good? But couldn't that argument be
better toward Bronni? Like what is what did Bronnie really do?
He averaged five points in in college and we're getting.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Worked up about this guy.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
If an NBA rookie or an NBA player were to
say that about Bronnie, it would make a whole lot
more sense. But they're not going to because they're not
gonna be as petty.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
And Bronni's a maid man. Let's be honest. You go
after one, you go after the shield. That's true, you know,
it's just what like it's almost like in the mafia, right,
like if you want to take out and ever seen
the movie Goodfellas, you know, and when when they whack
Billy Bats, someone had to get someone had to pay
the price for that. So you go after someone in
a maid in a in a maid clan, and you're

(11:55):
gonna You're gonna pay the price down the road. So
I think it's part of that. And look, let's be honest.
Lebron has his hands on everything. He runs the NBA,
he does, he runs the Lakers for sure, but he
really does have his hand in everything, so he's protected,
whereas Caitlyn's not. I think her dad's like an insurance sale.

(12:15):
I don't know what her dad does, but not the
best player in the history of the game so's it's
like that specter, that shadow where that's that's why people,
you know, don't like nepotism, even though it exists in sports.
It's rampant. It's just one of those things where I
think bron he's gonna get a free pass on a
lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, no, you're right, because it's not just the individual,
it's the you know, it's the whole James exact team
going on right there. But it is interesting to me
that if you look just based on game and you
look at Caitlyn who was one of the best college
players of all time, yep has the most point scored
in women's college basketball history, right, made it to a

(12:56):
championship game twice in a row with Iowa, like the
little engine that could, the underdogs, you know what I mean.
And now she's in the WNBA. She just posted a
triple double first time ever for a rookie in that league,
and yet it's met with a lot of oh gosh,
it's more than just one player this league over here
and YadA. Meanwhile, Bronnie didn't average five points in one

(13:19):
season in college. The coverage is non stop already, and
you don't hear a bunch of jealous players talking trash
about that, right.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Like, no, it's just interesting.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
If you look at them side by side, it's totally different.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
You're right about the pettiness. I've had this converse. I
have a lot of female friends and I've had this
conversation with them, and they say, this is coming from them,
not for me. So if you want to get mad,
get mad at them. Women are more petty than men.
Like it just men can be you know. I won't
use the word, but we were all thinking it. It's
below the waist, but women are more petty, and I

(13:56):
think that's just the stereotype that's playing out here. I
hate the boil it down to that, but this is
a league that is starting to get that success for
the first time. And by the way, I've tweeted this
out before and I stand by it. It might be
childish some of the things that are said, but net
positive for the league because everyone's talking about it. And

(14:16):
whereas the Lakers and Lebron James don't need the coverage,
they're getting it no matter what. The WNBA wasn't getting
it and now they are. And that's why I think,
albeit somewhat slanted in a negative light in the long term,
will end up being a net positive for the WNBA,
which I think, at the end of the day is
the only thing that matters. Kaitlyn Clark's tough. She's handled
this so well, that's the part, that's how we spent

(14:39):
it positive. I think Caitlyn Clark has handled this so
well that people will end up rooting for her in
spite of this, and she'll get new fans because of
this situation, because of how classy she has handled the situation. Now,
that's a good way to tie a bow on it.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Absolutely, and she has been phenomenal for the w NBA.
And I'd love to know if she just went heel,
you know, if she just went nWo. I'm not just curious, no,
I'm curious where it would go if she was just like, yeah,
all these naysayers, all these critics triple double first ever,

(15:19):
what you know, if she just right? Yeah, it would
work either way. And she's been very classy. I don't
see that changing. But it would be interesting to see
what type of buzz it would generate. Uh, it would
be similar, just a different kind. But either way, the

(15:40):
entertainment value is there and the intrigue is there The
numbers prove as much. All right, come it up. Next
we get to something that I love. Jared, Okay, this
is just a random observation. It's not even really a story.
But I'm curious what you think about it. My guess
is you will fully be on board with this. We'll
find out.

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So I thought of you before the show, Jared, because
it was a huge nurfy day in Major League Baseball.
I don't know if you got down, but I was
paying attention here. Yeah, the ten early games, the nurfy

(17:08):
was nine and one. Now, if you're just saying the nurfy,
what the hell? It stands for no run first inning,
so you can bet on the first inning there won't
be a run scored between both baseball teams. And in
the first ten games today, nine and one was the nurfy.
The only team that scored was the Texas Rangers. Nineteen

(17:31):
other teams did not score a run in the first inning.
And then you got the afternoon games and that was
two and two. Yeah, but for the day so far,
heading into Sunday Night baseball, eleven and three was the
nurfy record. So I hope you went crazy and parlayed
a few things together and you.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Oh my gosh, really, I know. And I had two
early ones and then I was on that Rangers one
and the Rangers one was brutal. It was a two
out RBI by Wyatt Langford in the bottom of the
first It was a really rough beat. Lettel hung on.
I don't even know what he hung I was. I'm
blacked out during the during that pitch. But usually so

(18:14):
I bet these every day. I think if you want
something like some people like to go bungee jumping skydiving
for their thrills, Yeah, I bet Nerfe's these are these.
This is gambling on steroids because it's like one mistake,
one anything, and the bet is over. You're dead. Yeah,

(18:34):
and it's it's it's unlike any other wager in sports
because especially like if you think about a football game,
even if you bet on the first quarter of a
football game, team gets the ball, drives down the field,
scores a touchdown, the other team is still gonna get
the ball with plenty of time still to score. So
it just it. It doesn't end immediately. Now, you could
bet the first team to score the first drive result,

(18:57):
which would be the equivalent of this, but those are
just as volatile. This has become a very popular bed
over the last five years now that gamblings become mainstream,
and I understand why we live in an instant gratification society,
and this is an instant death or an instant life.
I'll tell you this.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
The Nerfe slash your fee, which is of course yes
run first inning, like you bet on there will be
a run scored. Depending on which one you go with,
you view the game completely differently, you know what I mean.
If you're on the ur fee and the Rangers game
that you're explaining, you're watching this like we've got nothing

(19:36):
going we don't have base runners. Yeah, it just takes
one home run and we're there, but there's nothing going on.
It's just out, out out, not even a threat for
a hit, and you're like, I don't think we're gonna
get there. If you're on the Nerfy, you're like, hey, thanks,
look great, three up, three down, but we're not there yet.

(19:58):
Until there are six outs, are not home yet. It's
just so funny how you view it totally differently.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
The mindset. It's the same reason why most people don't
like to bet unders, because they want to be hopeful
about something. So when it's two completely different mindsets, when
you're betting an over or a yes run first inning,
you're hopeful at the possibility that there's a run. When

(20:26):
you're betting an under or a no, you are fearful.
It is the two. It's two completely different mindsets. You're praying,
You're hoping that something goes right if you're betting the over,
because you need something to happen, so you're you want
action right, you want to pick six, you want something crazy.
You're rooting for something crazy. When you're betting the under

(20:47):
or a nurfy you just want it to be boring. Yeah,
you are fearful of the craziness. You are praying that
nothing happens. You are waiting for the anvil to drop.
It is a completely now you could say, you know,
it's a little more of a masochistic feel when you're
betting an under. And that's why they call it like

(21:07):
the undersweats, Like you get sweaty when you're betting it under,
whereas when you bet an over you get angry. You're like,
do something I want? Yeah, Nah, you're right. It's a
completely different, like part of your brain that operates. I'll
tell you one thing real fast.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
If I could sit on the couch for a second
and talk about a bad habit of mine, you know
I need to do a better job of this when
it comes to betting, especially baseball betting. If I lose
a baseball bet, I get annoyed by the next game,
right like so an example, last night, I had the

(21:42):
Brewers scoring at least four runs in last night's game
against the Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
It was the.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Last leg of Parlay's plum. Okay, they scored three runs. Oh,
they already have four runs scored today, Coat and I
under standard. Right, you get it too, Jared, This is baseball.
It's a completely different picture. Oh yeah, it's a completely
different scenario. It's a day game versus a night game.

(22:09):
There's so many variables that change. But I can't help
but get annoyed. Where it's like James Paxton stinks he
was pitching last night. I know they'd got the kid going,
Justin Robleski going right now for the Dodgers, But my
brain doesn't say, Hey, new day, new pitcher, new scenario.

(22:30):
It's completely different. It's not tied to yesterday's game at all.
I'm still looking. I'm like Christian Yellich hit a two
run homer today. He came up in a moment later
in the game, runners on first and second. He didn't
do anything for me last night. But I don't have
a nickel on him today, and he hits a two
run homer, I can't help but feel like you, bum where.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Was there was this yesterday? Man?

Speaker 2 (22:52):
I gotta get that straight in my head where it's
just completely different and you can't tie it to to
yesterday's result at all.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
It's hard to do that though. That's what makes baseball
the most difficult sport to bet. I am, and I'm
not just saying like to pick, and I've said this
for years. I think the hardest coming up with picks
is not hard. There's a million picks, there's all this
information out there, there's your gut feel, situation analytics. I mean,
there's so much gambling pick content out there that it

(23:24):
is so easy to find a pick to something to
bet on. The hardest thing to do in gambling is
to then manage the expectations and the bank roll because
those two things are connected. For example, Brian's example, when
he loses something that he feels like you should have won,
and it happens every day, and it happens on the
other side too, where you win something that you feel

(23:45):
like you should have lost and the same exercise can
be applied here. Have you ever seen the movie for
Love of the Game, Brian, It's kind of an obscure
baseball movie with Kevin Costner. I don't think I have.
So it's basically, Kevin Costner's like this old, washed up
veteran pitcher and he's pitching a Yankee stadium and he's
taking you through his pregame routine, and right when he

(24:08):
goes on the mound, he says, clear the mechanism. He
just says those words to himself, and you see the
stadium which is filled with angry Yankee fans. He pitches
for the Tigers in this movie, and they're screaming at
him and go back to Detroit, and he says, clear
the mechanism, and all of a sudden, they do like
a visual effect on the stadium or just goes like
dark and like blurry, and he doesn't hear anything, and

(24:29):
he just completely erases everything that is happening around him,
and he only sees the catcher and the mit and
then he starts pitching. And it's just and obviously it's
hard to do that to me. That's like Jedi mind trick,
ninja type stuff. But the most successful gamblers, the Bill Krakeenbergers,
they could care less. In fact, Bill, I'm sure he

(24:51):
talked about this.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
The thing.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
You don't even watch the games half the time, right yeah,
because it's just he does clear the mechanism. Yeah, Ben
is made, it's over, it's done. Next bet like that's
the mentality. And most people can't do that because we're human.
And that's why football is more preferred, because you get
a whole week to just kind of let it go,
and then you go back on that team the next

(25:13):
week and you don't remember. Most people don't remember what
they have breakfast yesterday. Yeah, no, it's true.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
And look, man, it's funny too, because you can play
mind games with yourself. What's funny to me is I
won't do the reverse. You know, if, for instance, let's
say I bet the under on runs for the Brewers
last night and I was correct, I wouldn't think for
a second right now, like, hey, today they already have

(25:38):
four runs through five innings. You know, good thing I
picked yesterday. You know, I don't think like that at all.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
You should because that I should, you know, the universe,
you know, giving you a pat on the behind.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
I know, absolutely, I should. But it's just when it
goes the other way.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Human nature, Brian, Yeah, you're a human being. I know it.
I know it.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
You gotta be you gotta be robotic, I think to
be very successful, because that's the thing. I'll tell you
this real fast. I just shut it down today. I've
been running cold late the weekend.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Know what. I got some issues on the weekends too.
The week has been much better for me.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah, I'm just gonna, you know, chill today, no stress,
no nothing. You know, we'll recharge the batteries and we'll
get these freaking bastards going.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Forward, right, That's right.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
We got maright attitude that, yeah, the gambling gods will
have no you know, no beef with any of those
words right there.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
They'll be like, yeah, sure, well.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
We'll bless you with lots of profits. Here, we've got
Martin Weiss with us this afternoon. Martin, what is going on, buddy?

Speaker 7 (26:39):
We got tennis right now. Wimbledon's men's side three c
Carlos al Kraz won his fourth Rown match in four sets.
He's advantage to his ninth major quarterfinals appearance. Number one
he Yanic Center also headed to the quarter finals after
defeating fourteen seed American Ben Shelton in straight sets. Center
will face five seeds to no Medvedev. On the women's
side of things, Twelve seed American Mattie and Keys had

(27:00):
to retire in the third set of her fourth round
match due to a leg injury. Nineteen seed American Emm
Navarro upset two seed Cocoa Golf in straight sets to
advance to her first Grand Slam quarter final. In Formula one,
Lewis Hamilton won the British Grand Prix for the ninth time.
He beat Max for Steppid by one point four seconds.
Three times gold medalist Kevin Durant sideline for the start

(27:21):
of Team USA's training camp due to a strained calf.
Per seam Saroniam Wnba the Son beat the Dream eighty.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
To sixty seven.

Speaker 7 (27:28):
Connecticut tied with the Liberty for the best record in
the W at seventeen and four. Aces beat the Dallas
Wings one O four to eighty five. In baseball, the
Braves hit four homers, shut out the Phillies six to nothing,
Tigers five to one, went over the Reds. Guardians came
back I'm sorry Guardians where they come from behind win
against the Giants five to four. Jake Berger had a

(27:50):
walk off three run home run as the Marlins beat
the White Sox seven to four. Cardinals outscore the Nationals
eight to three. Francisco Lindor had two rbi as the
Mets one three to two.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
Baseball game is still going on right now.

Speaker 7 (28:04):
The Milwaukee Brewers and the Dodgers Brewers with a four
to nothing lead in the fifth inning, Baltimore and Oakland
with the Orioles with a five nothing lead in the
sixth Arizona and San Diego Todd one apiece in the
sixth inning, and Seattle and Toronto the Mariners with a
four to one lead in the fifth inning.

Speaker 5 (28:22):
Jared and Brian back to you guys.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Thank you Martin. It is Fox Sports Radio here. Jared Smith,
Brian know with you. This is the thing that I love.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
Jared.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
It's just a random observation.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
I've seen this play out many times in baseball this season,
where blocking home plate, you know how that's the big
rule right now. The rule is if the catcher doesn't
have the ball, he's supposed to allow a lane to
home plate, Like you can't block home plate without the ball.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
And so you'll see this.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
I saw it actually randomly during the Giants Guardians game
today where the base runner was well out and they
challenged it. They're like, hopefully it's a scratch off lottery ticket,
and they'll say the catcher was blocking the plate and
will be safe, and they didn't.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
They've done a good job.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
I think major League Baseball where if the throw beats
the runner by like five steps, yeah, they're not gonna
give you the Well, technically he was blocking, which I
Therefore he's say, yeah, I'm glad that they're not misapplying
this because if you're well out, I don't care that
the catcher didn't provide a lane. And largely that's the

(29:36):
way it has been ruled this year, and I'm glad
about that.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Yeah, that's good, because what are you blocking air? Like,
what are you blocking from the plate. The guys, it's
almost like the scene in Austin Powers when you know
the thing was gonna run him over and he's like
no stop. He's like really far away and he's like,
no stop. I have no I have no qualms about
the rule being put employees. Remember it was the buster
or posy rule. Sure, get what year it was. I

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want to say it was around a decade ago, it
might be even more.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
It's crazy how it gets like that was fifteen year
what really unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Man, we're getting ol'brien. But you look at what baseball
has become now, and it has been I don't want
to say modernized, but I think some of the squeaky
wheels have been greased. Like remember when everyone was up
in arms about the pitch clock, and now it's the
best thing that ever happened. These games are flying by,

(30:28):
and I think the increased stolen base rules, you know
that are kind of favoring guys being able to steal
more bases, taking away the shift, like, I think all
of these little tweaks replay all of these little tweaks.
Now you add them up over time, and I think
the game is much more efficient. The only thing that

(30:49):
really grinds my gears sometimes is the way that they
call balls and strikes, because it seems to be different
for every umpire in every stadium, depending on what team
you're playing, and depending what day of the week, if
the ump maybe has dinner reservation, Like that's the one
thing I'd like to see automated. I think we're getting there,
that's the next step. But for the most part, I
think replay is a net positive. Like some people were

(31:09):
worried it was gonna slow things down in the system,
Like everything that they've done I think has worked out
in the favor of making the game better and more watchable.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yeah, it looks like the Buster Posey injury was in
May of twenty eleven. Oh my goodness, so we're over
thirteen years ago, and that's the thing. Hey, man, I
get it. He got I mean it was his it
was his ankle slash. It was a lower body injury,
and it was bad. He got rolled over pretty bad.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
But I think we get it.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
I used to love the collisions at home plate, but
looking back at it, it's pretty unfair for the catcher.
They're in some very vulnerable positions. Even the base runner too.
You know, it could just lead to injury. We get it.
Sometimes they don't even allow you to do that in football,
to have a running start at a guy who export yeah,
like quote unquote defenseless, not seeing the hit coming.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Like that's what happened with catchers many times.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
So I get that you're not going to have collisions
at home plate, but the byproduct of that is you're
not allowed to block home plate unless you have the ball.
And I'm just glad that that rule hasn't been misapplied
where if the throw beats you by ten feet and
they're like, well, technically he was blocking the plate with
the ball, that generally has not been rewarded.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
So that's what I love. Foolish. That would be really foolish,
and I think that would be a reason for you
to be upset if it was misapplied like that. And
we'd put it back in right, this is the positive
no category and we try that story back into the
negative side there that that side has plenty of fodder.
I like when things are in the positive territory.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yes, you know, I'm just thinking about getting a sound effect.
I don't know if kind of like a ding like
that's one for positive no, Yes, the ding of positive
thing right there. Yes, that's good. We have the I'm
sure we have the negative one over here. I could
get a buzzer for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
I think pretty hard during football season.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
You know, every now and then it has to be said,
you know, there is something that is critical in nature.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
It's us, you know, that's the way it goes. Every
now and then you know, oh yeah, that would be
the negative buzzer, the positive or what's the Mario?

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Now, you wouldn't understand that one, right, like you just did.
I just get an extra life. You know, it's just
got to be a simple thing.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
I think. All right, come it up next.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
It's a blend of good news and bad news at
the same time. We'll lay it out for you. He's
Jared Smith. I'm Brian Now. Hang with us right here
on Fox Sports Radio. It is Fox Sports Radio. I'm
Brian Now. He's Jared Smith. Relyve from the Tireck dot
Com studios here. So this is both good news and
bad news at the same time. So the good news

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is that Yannis Detakumbo he has qualified for his first Olympic.
That's right, Team Grease, they are good to go. They
have qualified for the Paris Games. In the Olympics. Yanna
scored twenty three points to lead Greece over Croatia, and
so Team Grease, pack your bags baby, going to France,

(34:17):
that's right.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Now.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
The bad news would be for the Milwaukee Bucks, who
I would imagine are like yay, awesome Janis who didn't
play a playoff game due to injury. He's logging more
minutes for Team Grease in Paris.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
This can't be awesome news for the Bucks. But it's
what are you gonna do about it? Nothing?

Speaker 2 (34:40):
You can't say, Janis, you didn't play in the playoffs. Man,
forget about this dream of yours to lead Greece to
the Olympics. You know you can't do that when you
have so much player empowerment these days.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
You can't.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
You can't royally tick Janis off to the point where
he's starting to pack his bags away from Milwaukee and
he's gonna leave on the first thing, smoking as soon
as he can.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
Well, it's funny because Andrew Wiggins kind of got the
opposite treatment where he did, and and it's and I
love Andrew Wiggins. He ain't honest, that's exactly right, right,
And it's just I think if you were gonna draw
a line with the upper echelon tier players, I think
he obviously is is yiannest Is obviously on on on

(35:26):
the north side of that, and I would say Wiggins
is on the south side of that of that line.
But it also kind of paints a little bit of
a different picture of what the NBA is. The NBA
is becoming of becoming. It is a very international league,
and obviously Team USA has the most, uh, you know,
the biggest bucket from which to choose players from in

(35:47):
the NBA. But you go watch these Olympics, I mean,
you're gonna see a lot of guys you know, and
you'll see a lot that you don't of course, because
you know, you can't fill out all these rosters with
with NBA talent, and there's just not that many. But
Yiannis was one, right, I know, Luca playing for Slovenia
is another. There's a couple of others, you know, France

(36:09):
being a big one with the Wemby and Gobar duo,
which is a very intriguing duo to watch. But it
just it kind of speaks to what the NBA is
now where Yanni's kind of First of all, it's always
been a player power league. First, the stars have the power.
And Yanni's could have taken the other approach, and he
could have said, listen, I love I love my country,

(36:30):
but we didn't really play that well in the playoffs
last year, and I'd rather take the time off and focus.
But I think these guys err on the side of
country first. That's where especially in some of these sports
that do have Olympics. I don't fault Giannis for doing it,
but definitely the selfish country first, not team first mentality.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
It is interesting and funny at the same time where
you hear so much about lewd management in the NBA,
where it's like, hey, we're just trying to maximize longevity,
you know, minimize injury, so forth and so on. But
the Olympics roll around, and if a player really wants
to be there, all of a sudden, all that talk

(37:14):
about load management, I don't hear a word of it,
you know what I mean, Like, that's a lot of
mileage on your legs, and depending on the player and
if he's been injured recently like Giannis has. I haven't
heard anything about managing minutes or maybe not qualifying doing
the tournament to get to the Olympics.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
I haven't heard any of that.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
So it's just funny that during the heart of the
NBA season, when you are making millions and millions of dollars,
there are a lot of players that will take a
lot of nights off. But if they're invested and they
want to be on their Olympic team, they're gonna be
there and I don't hear one word about load management.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
Then I'm not saying that this is why you hear
about load management more during the regular season, but it's
a theory. The more you hear about load management, the
bigger excuse these agents and the players Union has to
up the price to you know, come back to the
table and say we need more in the Olympics. That's
that doesn't happen. So it's just these guys want to play.

(38:15):
Whereas in the NBA everything is structured. This guy's on
this tier, he makes this much money, he's eligible for
this maximum deal, et cetera, et cetera. And the agents
in the front offices and all the people that are
behind the scenes in the corporate red tape, they will
make sure that there's ways that you can put the
lever up and bring the lever down. Load management is

(38:35):
a low hanging fruit for our guys playing too much.
He needs to get paid more. Or the players are
playing too much. We need to give them a bigger
piece of the pie. Like it's just it. It's the rhetoric,
it's the propaganda. Like load management at its core is
very recent. It is a recent phenomenon. What last decade
or so. This didn't exist in the eighties and nineties.

(38:58):
You think Charles Oakley cared about management. So it just it.
It's become a thing because there's more money involved now
and the more they play, the more they feel they
should get paid, and the owners take a big chunk.
And that's what the players Union exists for for them to,
you know, take what's rightfully theirs.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Well.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
On a side note, Luka Doncic not gonna be in
the Olympics. No, Slovenia did not qualify. They actually got
smacked by Jannis's grease team by Oh that was.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
A qualifying game. I remember they were playing. I didn't
know if that was to get to the epicure of
they were already in.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
They lost by twenty eight points. So no Slovenia. So
I can imagine the Dallas Mavericks like, ah, Luca, that's man, that's.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Yeah's not gonna be there.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
And meanwhile there's Tiger Woods fist pump like all right, yeah, right,
didn't make it. Something else that was funny basketball wise,
Paul George He's gonna be wearing the number eight for
the Sixers. Interesting and he's wrapping the number because of
his idol, Kobe Bryant. So he's gonna wear number eight
in Philadelphia. It's really cool. He was gonna announce this
on his podcast, but the Sixers leaked the news beforehand.

(40:06):
Oh my god, bothed like one of these yeah, photoshopped
pictures and it was welcome to Philadelphia, Paul George in
his number eight uniform.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
So they leaked it. PR guys getting fired, marketing guys, Yeah,
sea ooopsie.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
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tire buying should be. Okay, Jared, So we are not
that far away from the NFL season. What was the
note you said about five weeks from the Hall of
Fame game?

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Is well, the Hall of Fame games the week before.
I think we're four weeks from the Hall of Fame
game or five Sundays from the first preseason weekend. Okay,
the full weekend, right, it's that first. It's actually technically
the second weekend in August. I think it's the ninth, tenth, eleventh,
somewhere in that range.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
So five weeks, yeah, and then we only have like
three full weekends of preseason games.

Speaker 3 (41:23):
Yes, right, so for five weeks.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Away from that, then we only have three weeks or
only eight weeks roughly.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
I think sixty days. Yeah, I think yesterday was sixty one.
So yeah, two months makes sense, right, it's not bad
all week of September. Right, we're in first week all July.
Two months.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
We're inching closer. You know, you gotta get out the binoculars,
and you can see land land.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
See exactly. We could see land, but we're not If
we if we were pushed overboard, we'd still be drowning
in the sea of Nurfy.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
That's right, Yeah, we're still there were there were not
in swimming distance, no.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
Yeah, no, yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Okay, So we're gonna look at the division odds for
the twenty twenty four NFL season, right, and so how
about we started off in style with the AFC East.
Oh yeah, your Jets, my Dolphins of course in the mix.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
It's funny.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
I just looked all this up on BETMGM.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
A lot of this.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
If you're not a better it's fine, you don't have
to be. It's just for context, honey. Even if you're
not a betting I would be very interested in where
the lines are set, right, Like, what do the sports books,
what are they kind of suggesting or sort of forecasting.
So if you hear any of these plus numbers, if
you wagered one hundred dollars, the plus number is the

(42:38):
number you would win. So, for instance, the bills are
plus one sixty five. If you wagered one hundred dollars,
you would win one hundred and sixty five dollars. And that's,
of course, including getting your original one hundred dollars back,
you would profit one sixty five. So when you hear
a plus, that's what it means. You don't have to
bet one hundred bucks. You could bet ten dollars. You

(43:00):
just win, you know, sixteen dollars and fifty cents for
every ten dollars you bet.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
That's all it means.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Yeah, Matt, as the Brewers hit another home run, those
bumps scoring home, Oh, Mike today when I needed them
to score runs yesterday.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
But Blake Perkins, I digress.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
Okay, if we look at the AFC East Bills, they
have the best odds plus one sixty five, followed by
the Jets plus nine one ninety, Dolphins plus two hundred.
The Patriots are twenty five to one. Okay, yeah, don't
bet the Patriots, guys. So it's really the Bills, Jets,

(43:35):
and Dolphins are close to two to one. I close
in the vicinity two to one, Patriots not even close.
What do you think when you're starting Bills, Jets, Dolphins?
How do you break it down?

Speaker 3 (43:49):
Well, the first thing I do when I look at
division odds and you nailed it. Whether you're a better
or you're just a fan, what these odds should do?
And even if you have no interest in betting the
NFL at all, you think betting is silly. I'd like
to have a separate conversation with you, but let's just
say you're of that belief. Listen to Saturday Show for

(44:10):
more on that. To me, what the odds do is
their expectation setters, bar setters. Where do I set the bar?
We just did it on the Patriots, it's at the
bottom of the barrel. You almost can't see it. It's
literally at the bottom, whereas the Bills, Dolphins, and Jets
are at the top. But there's not a lot of
separation there, and in fact, there's less separation than last year,

(44:35):
and that's a good place to start to. I like
to look at year over year and not to say
I'm gonna take anything from last year's numbers and apply
them to this year, but I like to see how
the market has shifted in a year because our brains
have viewed these teams very differently in the last year.
For example, the Bills, I would say, are a notch

(44:55):
below where we viewed them last year. Right, they lose
Stefan Diggs, they lose Gabe Davis, they can cotinue to
struggle in the playoffs, they can't win at home. They
they are still a contender, but they're not as lofty
of a contender. Well, last year they were a shorter
favor to win the AFC East. They were plus one
thirty five in this market, and now they're plus one seventy.

(45:16):
So again it's kind of telling you that the market
expectation on Buffalo's a little lower, it's a little bit
higher on Miami. That's the team that has moved up
from last year's number. They were three to one last year.
Now they're basically two to one plus one seventy five
somewhere in that range. So the Jets are kind of
staying in that same range where they're expected to be
a contender. It's the Bills and the Dolphins that have
kind of fluctuated a little bit, and I think that's fair.

(45:39):
I think it all boils down to how healthy Aaron
Rodgers is. If he's healthy, the Jets are probably live
to win the division. If he's not healthy, they're gonna
look more like the Patriots. Now, they won't look as
bad as last year because the Rod Taylor's the backup.
But the fact that the Jets are the third team
on this odds board and I think they've got the
personnel to be the number one team tells me there

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at least. And no one's talking about him this year.
Last year, everyone was talking about him hard knocks the
whole nine yards. This year, it's been pretty quiet. Aaron Rodgers,
and I don't know where he is doing something. Don't
care show up when the game start, please just don't
get hurt the other stuff. How do you feel about
to them, right, because that that's kind of where the
movement is in this market.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Yeah, that's what stands out is I think, let's just
start with two of these teams and then we'll get
to to what. But I want to start with the
Bills and the Jets. I think the Bills are overvalued
for them to have the best odds to win the
division with as much talent as they lost.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
I just you have Khalil Shakir.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
He's the only wide receiver on the roster right now
that has caught a pass from Josh Allen that he's
the only guy right like, So, is Kean Coleman going
to hit the ground running as a rookie wide receiver? Maybe,
but he's got some big shoes to fill with Fawn
Diggs right there as a rookie To come close to
even the same production that Diggs had last season and

(47:06):
he tailed off down the stretch massively, It's still gonna
be a tough task for Keon Coleman to do that
as a rookie. So I think the Bills are overvalued
having the best odds to win the division. I think
the Jets are undervalued, not necessarily their betting number, but
the feel of the Jets. Like you just said, Jared,
everybody was talking about the Jets last year. They just

(47:29):
got Aaron Rodgers. He's got a real defense man. Kane
Green is back, baby, he lasted four plays. You don't
hear anything about them this offseason. But the same holds true.
Aaron Rodgers doesn't use like sheer Lamar Jackson athletic ability
to be special. He will just dissect you as a

(47:50):
great pocket passer who will have like traces.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Of athleticism here and there, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
But yep, he's more so a mobile ish pocket quarterback.
He can still dice you up right now, even after
the Achilles injury. So I think the Jets it just
feels like a lot of people jumped off the bandwagon
because they were all about him last season and Rogers
got hurt.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
I don't know why that would change.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
You still have Rogers with some good offensive pieces around him,
with a real defense. I think the Jets are absolutely
live to win this division.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
Absolutely. I couldn't agree more. And I think you fixed
the holes up front right. You drafted Fishano, my Penn
State guy in the first round, top fifteen pick, basically
a lottery pick in the NFL. And you also signed
a couple of em I we'll call a middling free agents,
but a couple I think Smith around Smith that has
had a good career, just you know, dealing with injuries.

(48:45):
You know, guys that have Wartz, but guys that can
help on the offensive line. And that's the key. They
didn't go for the brock Bowers, even though it would
have been cool to see brock Bowers in New York.
You know, they kind of stole a pick from the Vikings,
moved back, took Fashanu, went went line like I have
no problems with that. You can never go wrong, especially
when you have a veteran quarterback drafting an offensive line

(49:06):
offensive lineman in the top fifteen. To your point about Buffalo,
here are the numbers on Diggs and Davis uh one,
two receptions, nineteen and twenty nine yards last year for Buffalo.
That's what the Bills will have to replace. Fifteen of
their twenty nine receiving touchdowns out the door Diggs and
Davis last year. So the only other receivers on the
depth chart you mentioned Shakir Curtis, Samuel Marquez Valdez, Scanton,

(49:28):
kJ Hamler, Chase Claypool. You got two thousand yards between
those five guys. It doesn't sound like it, don't. I
don't know. Defensively, it's all on McDermott. Now he's taken
over the full capacity. How does a head coach handle that?
This is now his second year? Right? Fraser quit last
year after they basically threw the book at him and

(49:48):
they blamed him for everything. He retired right after the
season after that disaster in the playoffs last year, not
the previous season, but two seasons ago. Then last season
they were good, not great. Defensively, they definitely took I
don't want to say a step back, but they definitely
didn't take a step forward. And I just I think personnel.
Why is there not as deep of a roster as
they've been in years past? Here is a fun way

(50:10):
you want enough for This is for the gamblers out there.
You want to play the Jets in a fun, creative way.
Sure you can bet two to one on them to
win a division. That's okay, bet one hundred bucks win
two hundred, not bat How about this? Try this on
for sizebino. How about the Jets to be the last
remaining undefeated team at fourteen to one.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
The Jets to be the last one.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
And here's why that bets interesting to me, because the
favorite in that market, besides the Lions, the other favorite
in that market is the Niners. And that's who the
Jets play week one. If they can win, and you're
probably gonna get plus two hundred on the Jets money
line in that Week one game. If you win that game,

(50:53):
look at the rest of the Jets schedule.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
I know you're looking Titans, Patriots, Broncos, Vikings.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
Six and zero. Oh, and the Lions have an easy schedule.
But the reason why I love this bet is because
you're eliminating the other favorite, San Francisco in Week one.
If you win and you're getting way more than plus
two hundred, you could just bet the Jets moneyline week one.
That's fine, that's we're gonna be around two to one.
Let's go for the big cheese. Let's go fourteen to
one here, last undefeated team.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
I don't hate it, but I don't love it because
it's gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard to win, right,
But I like the potential fourteen to win, to pay
out better than two to one, right, like cook, it's
real soft. Four weeks after that first game for the
Jets against the Niners.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
So I like the thinking. I like that we're going on.
This is what the summer's for a right, we just
throw stuff against the wall. We get the schedule.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
How about this real fast with the Fins. You know
a little love for hashtag fins up over here?

Speaker 3 (51:51):
All right? Two things to consider.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
One, I think because the playoff loss was so disappointing
for the Dolphins against the Chiefs, it was like the
Ice Bowl, Yeah, twenty twenty four style, but Tua had
a hard time completing screen passes.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
It was just it was ugly. It was really ugly.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
And I think there might be a tendency to be
even more skeptical of the Dolphins because of that. But
that's where you might see some value here, Jared, where
it's still a lethal offense, don't I don't see what's changed.
The biggest question marks probably to his health. Can he
stay healthy for an entire season again? But you still
have Jalen Waddle, Tyreek Hill, you get Odell Beckham Junior

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as a decent number three option. You get John new Smith,
who's a good receiving tight end. You got the running
backs left and right. They drafted Jalen Wright, who's a
speed demon, like all kinds of fast guys everywhere. So
you might see a little bit of value with the Dolphins,
just because the vibe isn't there. You get them two
to one to win the division. I could see it happening.

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I don't, I'll be honest with you, Jared, because the Trenches.
I don't love their offensive line. Tron Armstead has a
hard time staying healthy. The defensive line is a bunch
of like one year guys. They got off the scrap
heap mostly right. You picked up Kalayis Campbell, who's I
think fifty seven years old now, yeah, but I still

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love the guy. And then you got your pass rushers,
Jalen Phillips Bradley Chubb, both coming off of major injuries.
That's a lot right there. I don't love the Dolphins
to win the division.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
I don't love it either. I think if I was
gonna bet something on the Dolphins, i'd want high upside
because I think it's either one of two things to
a stace it's like best. I don't think there's any
in between with the Dolphins this year. They seem to
be a boom or bus kind of team. It feels
like to a healthy Anthony Weaver settles in as the
defensive coordinator. We all heard they hated Fangio, now they

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love Weaver. Hopefully you guys stay healthy. On the defensive side.
You mentioned Phillips and Chubb. I think they're will vastly
correlate to how successful the Dolphins defense is. I don't
hate the offensive line. If Armstead's healthy, You've got Jackson
on the other side, I like win it left guard.
I think it's all about can you get hot and

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stay hot? Right? The Dolphins remind me of the Warriors
the Splash Brothers. When they're cooking on offense, there ain't
much you could do. I don't care. Even if the
defense is average, it's really tough to defend. And if
they can get in that mode, and we've seen it too,
I had like an eight week stretch last year. You
look like the MVP of the league. Yeah, that's where
the Dolphins need. Winning the division is not good enough.

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They need to be the number one seed. Why because
of what you just said the Ice bol avoid the
Ice Bowl. That's a long shot bet on the Dolphins.
I'd be interested in not for them to win the
Super Bowl, to win the AFC, because they ain't winning
the AFC unless they're the number one seed and they
don't have to go to Arrowhead in December January. Like,

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that's the you got, I will avoid that. So you
want to look for that upside, that explosive profit with
a team that I think has the volatility right, really
high ceiling, very low floor. Well, that's why you go
for the long shot there. So Dolphins two to one
or whatever it is right around that range safe. I
think the explosive upside pick with the Dolphins is for

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them to be the number one seed because they're going
for you know, they need that one seat after what
happened in KC last year.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
You're going for it here with the long shot bets.
I like it real fast. This is what's funny to me.
Aaron Rodgers was on the field for what four plays
last season? Tua played all seventeen games in the regular season.
Which quarterback do you have more injury concerns about this season?

Speaker 3 (55:46):
That's impossible to answer.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Like, right, I still think it's too a hop of
mind for both.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
I think the Jets did here. I'll leave it at
this because I always tell people it's impossible to injuries impossible,
like the way Aaron Rodgers got hurt last year was
so fluky it was possible to predict anything. In that regard.
I give the Jets more credit because they addressed the

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issue more in the offseason by signing too offensive linemen
and drafting one with their first pick. The Dolphins did
not do that, So I think both guys have massive
injury concerns. I think the Dolphins didn't do as much
to address the old line in the offseason as Jets did,
and that's why I would go Jets there. No, Yeah,
I think that.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Look, man, it's still that image in my head with
Tua in the head in the year. That is just
such a different deal. That puts the concern factor a
couple of notches higher in my mind. And I know,
I know Aaron Rodgers is older. You know, he's gonna
turn forty two during the season.

Speaker 3 (56:54):
He's gonna be.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Forty hope as a thirty eight year old. There you
go in December, that's what happens. But I still think
that and two has done a much better job of
getting rid of the football that's made the biggest difference
with him staying healthy. So hopefully it happens again, but
I would still say until I see it another season.
Aaron Rodgers, how many full seasons does he have under

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his belt where he stayed completely well healthy enough to
get back on the field, right, Yeah, I think he's
got many seasons under his belt, so I actually do
have more concerns about TUA.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
I would agree with that. I would agree you do.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
That's good, all right, we got more ball to discuss
here coming up next. Does this guy have the least
to work with in the entire league?

Speaker 3 (57:36):
He's Jared Smith.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
I'm Brian, now keep it locked right here on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
You know who else is ready to roll? Our guy?
Martin Weiss.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
You know he is like a sidewinder middle reliever in
the bullpen, just foaming at the mouth.

Speaker 3 (57:50):
Let me at him.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
Let me that's Martin Weiss. What's going on?

Speaker 3 (57:53):
Martin man?

Speaker 5 (57:54):
You guys hit it right on the head with the music.

Speaker 7 (57:56):
Though, for whatever reason, even the training camp hard knocks
when they start playing it, it sounds like.

Speaker 5 (58:01):
It's the most important thing in the world. Yeah, it's amazing.

Speaker 7 (58:07):
Major League Baseball All Star lineups were announced thirty two
first time All Stars. We'll be down there in Arlington
July sixteenth. Here's some of them. Kansas City Royal shortstop
Bobby with Junior, Cincinnati read shortstop Elie de la Cruz Padres,
rookie outfielder Jackson Merrill, A's closer Mason Miller, Orioles shortstop
Gunner Henderson, and Pittsburgh Pirates rookie right hander Paul Skeins

(58:30):
is a candidate to start on the mound for the
National League. The Phillies led all teams with seven All Stars, Dodgers, Padres,
and Guardians all got five. In baseball games going on
right now, the Brewers have a seven to two lead
over the Dodgers in the eighth inning. Orioles lead the
A's six to three in the ninth, Arizona eight to
one over San Diego in the ninth inning. Toronto and
Seattle all tied up for a piece in the eighth.

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Earlier today, the Braves, they had four home run shut
the Phillies out six to nothing. Tigers had a five
to one win over the Reds Guardians, where they come
from behind win over the Giants five to four. Marlins
beat the White Sox seven to four on a Jake
Berger walk off three run homer. Cardinals outscored the Nationals
eight to three, and Francisco Lindor had a two RBI
single gave the Mets a three to win over the

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Pirates in the WNBA.

Speaker 5 (59:16):
Earlier today, the Sun beat the Dream eighty.

Speaker 7 (59:19):
To sixty seven, Connecticut time for the best record in
the w With the New York Liberty seventeen and four
Aces beat the Wings one to four to eighty five,
with Asia Wilson becoming the leading scorer, are the highest
scorer for the franchise history. Today middle of the second quarter,
six seventeen left the Sky and the Storm Chicago with.

Speaker 5 (59:38):
A twenty nine to twenty three lead.

Speaker 7 (59:41):
In tennis, men's third seed Carlos Alcarez at Wimbledon won
his fourth round match in four sets. He will go
to his ninth major quarterfinals appearance. Janick Center, the one seed,
was headed to the quarterfinals as well after beating fourteen
seed American Ben Shelton in straight sets. Center will face
number five seed to Noel Medvedev in a quarter five finals.
On the women's side, twelve seed American Madison Keys had

(01:00:03):
to retire in the third set of her fourth round
match due to a leg injury, and nineteen seed American
Emma Navarro upset two seed Cocoa Golf in straight sets
to advance to her first Grand Slam quarterfinal. In Formula one,
Lewis Hamilton has just won the British Grand Prix for
the ninth time, beating Max Verstappen by one point four
seconds and per Sham Sharania. Three time gold medalist Kevin

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Durant sidelined for the start of Team USA training camp
due to a strained calf.

Speaker 5 (01:00:32):
Brian and Jared back to you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Good stuff, Martin. It is Fox Sports Radio. He's Jared Smith.
I'm Brian. No so I mentioned this. Does this guy
have the worst supporting cast in the entire league?

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
Giants quarterback Daniel Jones. Now we know Daniel Jones is
not a difference maker. He's not this Studeley quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
We get that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
But he doesn't have a Studley supporting cast either. And
they did draft Molik Neighbors wide receiver out of LSU.
He might be a really good player could be, but
he's a rookie right now. And outside of Malik Neighbors,
what do the Giants really have around Daniel Jones. It's
gotta be one of, if not the worst supporting cast

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in all of football. And that was one of the
themes on this first Hard Knocks episode, where they're like,
we gotta give Daniel Jones a chance. We got to
protect him, we got to give him some playmakers around him.
We got to give him a fighting chance. And I'm
not saying he's a difference maker, but if you flip
flop Brock Purty and Daniel Jones, if you put Daniel

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Jones on the Niners and you put Brockberty on the Giants,
both quarterbacks would look a lot different than they have looked.
And I'm not telling you Daniel Jones walks on water
and I'm not telling you brock Purty.

Speaker 3 (01:01:46):
Is just a hack.

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
But the supporting cast matters, and oftentimes we make it
only about the quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
Yeah, I agree, I think the offensive line is the
real big issue. We'll see what Shane Bowen does, who
kind of, I don't want to say kind of screwed
the pooch, but it's an interesting situation. Now you go
from a very conservative or you go from a very
aggressive defensive coordinator and wink to now, who's someone who's
a little bit more conservative. So we'll see how that

(01:02:16):
transition goes on the offensive side. I mean, what else
can you say? I mean, this is this has been
the issue for the last three seasons. Remember when they
won the postseason game, it was smoking mirrors. They beat
the Vikings in that game on the road, and that,
you know, kind of helped Daniel Jones solidify some kind
of confidence with this coaching staff. But you've got Drew

(01:02:36):
Locke back there now, who's gotten some opportunities in the past,
and I think if things really go south, they won't
hesitate to at least put him in the game. I
think it's it's it's obviously going to beat Jones for
a significant period of time, and they hope that this,
let's call it somewhat improved. I mean, they did add
a top ten pick, but they didn't improve the offensive line. Yeah,

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and that's that's the lifeblood of any team. That's why
the Jets decided to say no to the shiny toy
in brock Bowers. They could have drafted a Dunes, They
could have drafted a bunch of guys in these spots.
They could have gone in a multitude of different directions
if they felt like they needed to. But the Giants
were the ones that pulled the trigger, not only on neighbors,

(01:03:18):
but also bringing in Alan Robinson, who say what you want,
I mean, I just you know, not going to move
the needle. Devin Singletary not gonna move the needle, especially
when you're comparing a mis Saquon Barkley. So yeah, there's
there's a lot left to be desired there.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
Yeah, it's I ran across this where it's just ranking
the supporting cast the last five years, so each of
the last five years, and then it has the total
grade and the Giants ranked second to dead last. The
Jets actually ranked dead last, and so it's the NFL
ranks in supporting cast rating.

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
That's what it's called.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
In terms of average team Pro Football focus, rush, receiving,
pass blocking, run blocking grades, everything except passing. As far
as the blocking grades go over the past five seasons.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
They're pretty they're pretty accurate. Like I use when we
do the Saturday shows and we took a college football
like most of my nerd stuff comes from Pro Football Focus. Yeah,
really good.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
Well, that's the thing is, look at these teams that
rank near the bottom, which supporting cast would you prefer?

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Would you rather have the Giant supporting cast around the
quarterback or the Jets supporting cast around the quarterback?

Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
Jet?

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
Absolutely, yeah, it is it. Would you rather have the
Giant supporting cast or Jacksonville's supporting cast?

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
Well, jackson Will just lost one of their best players,
but they brought in Gay Davis. I think Jacksonville it's easy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
I think Jacksonville too, but it's not as much of
a slam dunk as the Jets. I mean, you've got
Garrett jil think are in that point now where there.

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
Is no like. Super Bowl is the only like where
the Jaguars. I'm not saying that about jackson.

Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
Right, right, right, But Garrett Wilson is a really good
wide receiver. You got Bryce Hall. Tyler Conklin is an
underrated tight end. I'm not saying he's, you know, top five, but.

Speaker 3 (01:05:09):
He's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
He's overlooked. That's more than what the Giants have. Darren
Waller retired. You just don't have a like of a
lot around Daniel Jones Man and the other team that
was ranked very lowly on this the Chargers supporting cast.
They ranked twenty ninth last season. I don't know what

(01:05:31):
all goes into that, if the injury bug goes into
it or not to be.

Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
Eckler was her for a lot of the year. Yeah,
it's gotta be, and he was such a big part
of their offense.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
But hey, man, heading into this season, they don't have
a great supporting cast around Justin Herbert. It's gonna take
a little bit of time, I think for Jim Harbaugh
to do damage again in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
So it's not JJ McCarthy being asked to throw as
many times as you and I did in the second
half of the game against Penn State on the road.
And you don't think that's gonna be the vibe for
the Chargers offense this year.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
No, I don't think so. Hey, if they could run
it as effectively, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:06:05):
Right right, but no, no, Gus Edwards and JK. Dobbins,
I don't know. I don't think that's gonna fly.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
There, but you know, yeah, if it if it would,
if it could, it would, right like Harbaugh would absolutely
ground and bound if that's what they are.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
I like their old line, Alton Slater. I mean that
might be the best tackle duo in the league. Could
be up there, could be. I mean, we don't know
a lot about all. But he was, you know, harolded,
highly pouted as one of the best prospects in the draft.
And they're usually not wrong about those kids.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
Especially when you have Notre Dame bloodline going up exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
They're not wrong about those those uh, those those big
big boys from the Midwest very often. There you go,
All right, we've come it up next.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
This was a great, great response to some unfortunate news.

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
We'll get to that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
He's Jared Smith. I'm Brian No. Stay with us right
here on Fox Sports Radio. It is Fox Sports Radio.
He's Jared Smith. I'm Brian No, coming to you live
from the ti rack dot com studios. So this was
kind of funny here, Jared. You know, Davis Berton's the
Latvian Laser. Love that nickname. I'll stand before so g Yeah,

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he was playing for Team Latvia the other day while
being released by the Charlotte Hornets.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
That's all.

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
So yeah, he was asked about this, like, hey man,
what's uh, what's going on with this. Listen to his reaction.
I love this reaction by Davis Burton's With two or.

Speaker 3 (01:07:38):
Three minutes in the game, it was announced that you
were out by the Charlotte Hornets. What is your initial
reaction that you're not gonna play there anymore?

Speaker 8 (01:07:45):
All, like I say is I really don't care right now,
and my main focuses are right here with the jersey on.
So you know, in a way, I'm really happy that
this right now is the only jersey that I wear.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
I really don't care right now. Charlotte who Hornets?

Speaker 3 (01:08:02):
Screw them? You know, That's basically what Davas was saying.
It's a great reaction you've got to have, right Like
I think as a professional athlete, you have to be
so me against the world mentality because or everyone's coming
for you. Your job is not safe even in your
inside your own locker room. The backups are coming for

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your starting job. If you're a starter. If you're a backup,
then the guys in the G League that are on
the practice squad are coming for your job. If you're
a head coat, like, it's a dog eat dog mentality,
and you've got to have that dismissive. I only care
about the present right now. Anything else is I'll worry.
That's a tomorrow problem.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
You know what's funny to me is I'm just thinking
about Olympic basketball, or at least the qualifying tournament. I
hate not knowing anything about like basketball, you know, like
the rules, No, just the Olympic teams, the Olympic qualifying teams,

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and like I know Team USA and I can project
a couple of things. But if I'm looking at Latvia,
no on, like they beat Cameroon yesterday by thirteen points.
That's when Davis Bretons gave that interview right answer where
he was like, yeah, I really don't care right now
about getting released. And then Latvia turned around and lost

(01:09:24):
to Brazil today by twenty five points. Like it doesn't
bother me that I don't know anything about a multitude
of things, right Like I don't care, but I care
about sports. I care about basketball, and to not know
anything about most of these Olympic teams. We started talking

(01:09:44):
about the points spreads yesterday. It just throw out a
couple of nations where it's like, all right, Lebanon and
the Bahamas. What do you think the betting line is,
and you're like, I have zero idea. That's how I
feel about these teams. I hate not knowing anything.

Speaker 3 (01:09:59):
You'll know, oh, because knowing what I know about you,
by the end of the Olympics, you're gonna know a
lot more than the beginning. Well, I'm just breaking it down.
Watching these games, betting on these games, you're gonna know
who the eighth guy off the bench is for Team Bahamas.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
I'm gonna tell you Egypt plus the points or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:10:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
You know something else that kills me is while we're
talking about Olympic basketball, and it kills me. In this year,
you watch Jared, it'll be the same thing as it
typically is. There will be someone somewhere that says, oh,
the value you're getting with insert the blank non USA

(01:10:43):
basketball team here, Oh the value you're getting with Lithuania,
Oh ten to one? Yes, absolutely, And I'm just like,
but you're not gonna win. I don't care what the
value is if the bet he isn't going to win, right, Like,
do you look at that differently at all?

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
Well, if you asked our pal Crack, he would probably say, yes,
he bets things all the time, and professional gamblers bet
things all the time that are mispriced, and they don't
care about what you're referring to, which is win equity. Right.
We say this in golf betting a lot. Golf betting's
the one sport that I bet a lot of long

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shots in. What is their win equity? Can they actually
win the tournament? Or is it just a price that's
just wrong. I think those two trains of thought is
the biggest gap between professional betters and recreational betters today.
The recreational gamer, they're not to put you in a bucket,
but I think a lot of people think, like you,
I don't care if it's one hundred to one, is

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it gonna win. If it's one hundred to one and
it should be twenty to one, it probably still isn't
going to win because twenty to one is still very
minuscule probability. But if it's supposed to be one hundred
to one, a guy like Crack loves those bets even
though it's probably not gonna win. It's miss priced. So
it's just kind of again it goes back to like
the over unders, like what's your mindset of choice? Do

(01:12:07):
you want to bet for value or do you want
to bet to win. Now, these guys win a lot too,
but they lose a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
Well, here's the thing, though, I get what you explained,
but here's what has to be included. It's a long shot,
but it could happen. It needs to include but it
could happen. Has to for me to say, Okay, that
might make sense to you. We'll give you a long
shot bet that had no chance to be correct. It
was a long shot bet that had zero chance of hitting.

Speaker 3 (01:12:36):
But that was the points we will discuss in just
a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
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So we were just talking about long shot bet.

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
Yep. Now here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
I don't think it makes any sense to take a
bet because of the value if it doesn't have any
chance of cashing.

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
You know, if it's supposed.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
To be twenty to one odds but it's one hundred
to one odds, you still got to convince me that
you think it has a realistic shot of hitting. Otherwise
you know you're just throwing your money away regardless. But
there was a there was a prop bet that had
zero chance of hitting that many people bet on. But

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there was an ulterior motive here. So this goes to
the NBA draft. Ronnie James was a trendy pick to
be the number one overall selection, and it's like there
was no chance of that happening none. He was actually
selected fifty fifth overall. But the twist here, Jared, is

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that some of the people that bet on this, some
of them, they do really well in the prop bet market,
and so they have limits on their sports book of choice.
They're only allowed to bet a certain amount of money,
and so they tried to intentionally bet on Browny James
in an effort to look really square and to have

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their betting limits increase so then it could bet on
other things. They could risk more money and have a
greater payout. So some of it, some was fueled by that.
The other ones are just morons because again there was
no chance. If you're like, oh it's two hundred to one,
it should be more like five hundred to one. Great,

(01:14:50):
you still threw your money away.

Speaker 3 (01:14:51):
You know what I mean, not a huge difference there either,
by the way, and like that's the key is that
five hundred to one and pull out my handy dandy
that's calculator here, Like five hundred and one is basically
saying a point two percent chance of something happening, whereas
two hundred and one is saying point five percent chance.
So like it's gone up like point three of a

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percent that it's not a big enough gap to where
I think people make the bet. What you're referring to
with the limit chasers, I'll call them, or yeah, voiters,
I'll call it whatever you know, add if you want
to use to describe what they're doing to the limits
is very common. In fact, the way that I see
it done in today's you know, betting landscape is parlays

(01:15:38):
you will have because we have this, there's so many
same game parlays that are available, and cracks giving out
some of these same game parlays. Some of them could
be correlated. I you know, we hit one yesterday in
the Netherlands match. You know, some of them could be
kind of sharp sometimes, but if you stack them in
a way where it's multiple legs five ten legs and
it's all over the map different games, like they will

(01:15:59):
profile you. But this only works if it's a new account,
because if the old account was making all these sharp
bets and oh, let's just make one dumb one to
try to throw them off our scent, your profile is
already set where it's hard to kind of reverse course.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
Yeah, that's where it was, like, Hey, here's my quote
unquote square bet on Bronnie to be the for twenty dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:16:23):
All the other ones that are yeah, yeah, that ain't
gonna work. The sportsbooks are pretty smart, dude.

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
Guys, my limits have been raised, you know, I can
have at it now. So it doesn't make all the
sense in the world. But some of that was pretty interesting.
Some of the guys over at BETMGM they opened Bronni
being the number one overall pick at two hundred to
one long shot odds, and some of the quotes were
just great. There's one senior trader from BEDMGM. We were

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debating even putting it up. To be honest with you,
we definitely didn't expect it to strike.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
The most bets when we put it up.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
The most bets were on Bronnie being the number one
overall pick. That's what I'm talking about. There was zero chance.
I don't care what the value is and what the
odds should be. You have no chance to win this bet.
Don't bet it like it's a dumb bet if you
take that.

Speaker 3 (01:17:19):
I think the Draft is the most unique betting event
in all of sports. And the reason that I say
that is because it's the only event where there is
no luck. There's no luck involved. I mean, there's outcomes
that are fortunate and unfortunate. But when I say luck,
I mean like when you're on a nerfe and everything's

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going great. There's two outs in the bottom of the
first inning, and you're doing fantastic, and then some guy
hits a ground ball that like hits a pebble and
goes in the center field, yeah, and you lose. Like
that's what I mean by luck. Like something that is
so unforeseen that not even the sharpest of hand handycappers
could have predicted it. That doesn't happen in the draft

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because the sharpest of handicappers get the information, and if
the information is correct, that's it. Unless the guy trips
on his way up to give the card to the commissioner,
like that's it. The pick is in. There's nothing that's
going to change it. So that's why the draft has
become a very interesting betting event. The sports books are
drastically changing their approach the limits they're putting on each

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bet when they are putting the odds up for you
to bet. The later they put them up, the better
it is for the sports book. The more the longer
period of time that the odds are up, the more
sharps can shape the market and do what you were
talking about with the Bronnie James thing. Throw some pebbles
out there, just to you know, see if there's any movement,

(01:18:50):
or see if they can't trip, you know, trick the
books into thinking that they're actually going one way when
it's really the other.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
Well, sort of building off of the Bronny thing and
going in a slightly different direction. I'm really curious to see,
not know, not necessarily, how this season plays out for Bronnie,
because I have pretty good sense of that he's gonna
be in the.

Speaker 3 (01:19:10):
G League most of the season.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
Right He's gonna get the call up here and there
with the Lakers, but he's not gonna get much playing time.
Probably be a special moment or two with his dad
on the court at the same time, He's most curious,
never know, right, But I'm really curious to see what
the conversation, the mainstream conversation about Bronnie is gonna be

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like this season, because think about what we've seen to
this point. There's this mixture of we just talked about
he was the most bed on guy to be the
number one overall pick in the NBA draft, you know,
so there are some people out there that are delusional
and think he's gonna be a lot better than he is,

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you know. And so if the expectations are pretty high,
higher than they shoul should be, what's the conversation gonna
sound like when the season plays out? Most likely the
way it will, you know what I mean. Where he's
in the G league most of the time. So I'm
curious to find out how that's gonna be. And I
think it's met with the other side, Jared. Where the coverage,

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and we started talking about this to begin the show.
The coverage is way over the top already. Where his
first bucket in summer league, Oh, that's posted, and his
second bucket is posted, and here's Lebron reacting to the
first bucket being posted, here's the side story, and here's.

Speaker 3 (01:20:36):
It's like, oh my gosh, this dude.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
I know he's Lebron's son, but the coverage is already
completely over the top. So this mixture of over the
top coverage met with some people with unrealistic expectations. I'm
really curious how the conversation is gonna sound like throughout
the year.

Speaker 3 (01:20:55):
Probably a lot like it's sounding now, but just on
a lesser scale because there'll be other stories happening, so
it won't get the top coverage, but it will still
be talked about in the same light where he will
be talked about more than any other player in his
situation will be talked about. But in November, you're up

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against NFL college football, the NBA start of the season,
where like when he actually is playing games wherever it is,
there's so much else going on, and eventually it'll wear off. Right,
It's kind of like a shiny new toy if he play,
If he's in the G League the whole season and
he never gets called up. I'm not saying that's going
to happen, but let's just live in that reality for

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a minute. By the time we get to like February.
I think it'll be out of sight, out of mind.
But then if the Lakers struggle, it'll be call up Bronnie,
give Bronnie a chance, like yeah, it'll like the conversation,
like he'll always be present. But I just think the
amount of volume will decrease as other things happen.

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
Yeah, it could be. I think I think two things.
I'll give you one thing real fast. I think that
there are gonna be a lot of critics there already
are with Bronni. And my question would be why why
do you dislike the guy? And I'm sure it would
be mixed met with well lebron It's like, well, that's
not Bronnie's fault. Okay, there's no reason to hate on

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Bronni because you happen to dislike lebron That makes no sense.
And the other thing might be, well, he wouldn't have
gotten that chance if not for dot dot dot And
it's like, yeah, we get it, but nepotism exists, Okay,
like it happens many many areas, not just sports, So
that to me is a get over it type thing.

Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
Yep. So I think that the.

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
Main critics will be hating on Bronni for reasons that
don't make sense. I think we're gonna get a steady
diet of that. I think we already are.

Speaker 3 (01:22:54):
I think that's sports media in general. I just think unfortunately,
there's way more airtime these days than qualified conversators to
fill it, and so it gets filled with a lot
of junk and a lot of noise and a lot
of clickbait. And I'm sure we're guilty of it at
some point. Everyone is. When you do a three hour

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radio show every week, eventually, you know not every segment's
going to be a home run. I think you look
at what he's done. The criticism is fair, but it's
also the world that we live in. And I use
that phrase all the time. This is a world that
we live in. Story Like, am I really gonna get
up in arms about something that is so commonplace in

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the world that we live in. It's like getting mad
about breathing oxygen? Like everyone breathes it, So why are
you gonna get mad? Every single person in sports who
works in sports either two things happened to you in
your career. Either A you got your opportunity because you
knew someone, or b you got passed up for an
opportunity because the other person knew someone. If you've worked

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in sports for longer than five years and one of
those two things hasn't happened to you, you haven't worked
in sports for five years. So it's just something that happens.
There's a guy on a roster somewhere in some far
away land that probably should have been on the Lakers
geeleie g roster, but he's not because Bronnie got the opportunity.
And that's just the way the world works, right, the

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world we live in. That's the kind of story this is.
I'm not gonna get up in arms about something that
is just very common in our society.

Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
Yeah, and in that point of the draft, it's just
complete fly your territory.

Speaker 3 (01:24:29):
I'll say this.

Speaker 2 (01:24:30):
I think that the Lakers haven't done a good job
of decreasing the drama. They've increased it. Some of the
things that JJ Reddick have said. It's just like, bro,
are you serious right now?

Speaker 3 (01:24:42):
It's just like I listen to a lot of his stuff.
I guess I gotta brush up on Oh my gosh,
we'll get you.

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
Here's one thing that you should hear because he's talking
about Bronnie like he's possibly the second coming, you know,
so check this out.

Speaker 4 (01:24:57):
Bronnie has earned this, right, Bronnie talks about his hard work.
Bronnie has earned this through hard work. And for us
prioritizing player development, we view Bronnie as like case study
one because his base level of feel, athleticism, point of attack, defender, shooting, passing,

(01:25:18):
There's a lot to like about his game, and as
we sort of build out our player development program holistically,
he's going to have a great opportunity to become an
excellent NBA player.

Speaker 3 (01:25:30):
Okay, That's what I'm talking about. Was pretty high praise
for a guy that, you know, averaged four points in college.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
That's what I'm saying is like, that's where no one's
buying what JJ Reddick is selling right there. No, Okay,
when you're just waxing poetic, point of attack, defender, passing, shooting.

Speaker 3 (01:25:50):
All the buzzwords like Piper in the draft.

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
Yeah, an excellent NBA player because of our holistic approach.

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
Get out of here.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
Dude, Like you know what I mean, it's not even
believable that I think.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
I don't know, right, Yeah, I like to take long
walks on the beach and listen to the romantic music.

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
Jj'd be so much better off finding the middle ground
of saying, listen, the guy has worked his butt off
and yeah, and that's part of why he's here. Another
part of this is, look, if we're being honest, the
second round, we're just hoping to strike gold, and hopefully
we have, and this storyline is unbelievable. We're embracing this

(01:26:34):
as what, like, just be real, just say what we
know it. You're way better off being real instead of
saying he's got a chance to be an excellent NBA
player because of this, this, this, this, this, and this,
Why is he the fifty fifth overall pick?

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
Then? Man, come on, no one's believing that at all.
I think what you're seeing is two things. First of all,
it's a new coach trying to ingratiate himself to the
to the star player. And I know Brown he's not
the star player, but let's be honest, right, he's part
of the he's part of the family made man. And
the second thing is you're going you're you're getting a

(01:27:09):
glimpse of what the JJ Reddick Lakers are gonna look like. Yeah,
they are going to be a team that probably glosses
over some of the more wrinkly parts of the game
for flowery language and you know, out foxing the media
because I'll be honest and and I I empathize, or

(01:27:30):
I should say I sympathize with the head coaches in
the league. It's lose lose. In the NBA, if you win,
it's the stars that one. If you lose, you're gonna
figure out a way to not blame the stars because
they're the stars and you're the coach, and you're gonna
be out the door. Look at Monty Williams in Detroit,
and I know Detroit doesn't have any stars, but that
situation was absurd. Look at what just happened to the Lakers,

(01:27:53):
Like there's no there, there's no winning. With the media,
it's really hard. I think the the way that the
media US included approaches covering sports today, it's harder and
harder to be a coach because the media is getting smarter.
A lot of former coaches are now part of the media.

(01:28:13):
They're going to ask the tough questions, they're going to
ask the hot button topic that is going to their
job is to go viral and get clicks they're trying
to get you to trip up. It's a very confrontational relationship,
sometimes adversarial at times. And JJ's very good at the media.
I think that's why he got the job, other than

(01:28:34):
his relationship with Lebron. So you're starting to see the
propaganda the big brother kind of come into the room
and say this is how we're going to approach this.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
I'm curious to see how he plays because he is
how it plays out. JJ is media savvy. We all
know that. But some of the stuff he's selling just
isn't even halfway believable. Hey, right, Like, so that's the
thing is, and you put a podcast together and he's
got great basketball insight, and that's fine, but he's playing

(01:29:06):
a different game here.

Speaker 3 (01:29:07):
Yes, you know, and when you're not cast, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:29:10):
When you're trying to sell something that at this point
is not even slightly believable. He's trying to sell like, hey,
Bronni at number one overall. I mean, it's a bet
you might want to make right there. It's like, no, no,
it isn't not at all. Come on, man, like, we're
not dumb. What are we talking about here? So I'm
curious to see how he plays this because again, where
it can get a little bit tricky is if he

(01:29:33):
thinks to himself, Hey, what does Lebron want to hear?
What does he not want to hear? Lebron isn't gonna
want to hear Hey, we did this mostly for the storyline,
you know, and we did this because we wanted to
kind of like appease Lebron.

Speaker 3 (01:29:48):
He doesn't want to hear that.

Speaker 2 (01:29:50):
So it's like, does that alter what you're gonna say
in the press conference? If it does, then that's gonna
bear watching. That's where media savvy. You got to be
team savvy and Lebron savvy at the same time.

Speaker 3 (01:30:05):
It's win Yeah. I think I think any NBA coach
that has a lot of stars on their team, and yeah,
there's a lot of them, you're never gonna win that
battle because.

Speaker 2 (01:30:18):
Well, that's where I would just yeah, I would just look, man,
I I would I would be real more times than not,
and I would find a way to be real in
a in a manner that's not going to just completely
step on toes And I'm not gonna make the right
I'm not gonna sit there and wax poetic as if

(01:30:40):
it's a sham that Bronni was in a top ten
pick because his traits. Bro coach, I was a little old,
I'll be honest, and I haven't heard much of JJ
so far.

Speaker 3 (01:30:49):
I watched a little bit on Draft night that was
very over the top. That was us trying to sell
you a dozen donuts and when you open the box's
only eleven in there. Yea, that's like what happened to
the twelfth on it. It's not even in there? That
quite right?

Speaker 2 (01:31:03):
All right, we got a lot to do coming up next.
There was a stat from last season that is crazy
and might provide some context for this team this season.
We'll share that with you coming up. He's Jared Smith.
I'm Brian Noo. We're live from the Tireck dot Com
studios here on Fox Sports Radio. It is Fox Sports Radio.

(01:31:24):
He's Jared Smith. I'm Brian no. This is like the
music you listen to when you're running up those hills.

Speaker 3 (01:31:30):
There, Jared, Right, Yeah, this is Vegas. Is that heavy stuff.
I haven't done a lot of it. Well, actually, there's
one hill outside my apartment that I do every day.
But I've been doing a lot of Zone two running lately.
For those that are in the fitness game. You understand
what I'm talking about. It's just Zone two running. Yeah,
it's basically like I'm trying to train myself to run.

(01:31:51):
I got to the five k status. I can run
a five k now without stopping. Yay. Took me thirty
eight years to learn how to do that. Next is
the ten k, But you've got to really build a
lot of base fitness before you could run that much,
like over six miles. It's long what, So you've got
to basically set a foundation. So Zone two is just

(01:32:14):
like you're just above like Zone one, which is like nothing.
You're not doing any work, so it's like basically you're
like light jogging for like forty five minutes. Really boring,
but yeah, it's very uh, very formative for your fitness levels.
So I got two things for you.

Speaker 2 (01:32:30):
One I told my girl the other day, be kind
of funny because you see these bumper stickers where someone
will have it's thirteen point one for a half marathon,
twenty six point two for a full marathon. I said,
I think it'd be funny if we had a bumper
sticker that said point one or point two. I had

(01:32:50):
a couple of knee surgeries. My knee is not fond
of me running, especially on herd surfaces. I can run,
but not for an extended period of time.

Speaker 3 (01:32:58):
Yeah. Just I always like it was my fitness level
that prevented me from running, but I just wasn't doing
it properly.

Speaker 5 (01:33:04):
I learned.

Speaker 3 (01:33:05):
I've learned how to run, which is weird because I
was running wrong before. How are you running wrong? Breathing?
The breathing technique I was using was not helping me.
I was too upright and I wasn't leaning forward again,
A little tweaks that, like, you don't think about when

(01:33:26):
you're running. You're just like, I'm gonna start running.

Speaker 2 (01:33:28):
You will wearing those hymns instead of running shoes.

Speaker 3 (01:33:31):
I was wearing loafers. Actually, yeah, because I was a
football guy growing up, so I was always short sprints.
Let's get to point A to point B as quickly
as possible. Now I'm more of a distance runner in
my later years, where I don't really who sprints anymore,
and so it's just like a different mindset. It's like
betting overs the unders. Yeah, there you go. The thing

(01:33:52):
you're with a different part of your brain.

Speaker 2 (01:33:54):
You're gonna be betting your fees like crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:33:56):
Pretty soon we'll get to the postseason, will bet a
lot of your fees. That's when the postseason, the euro
fees are always here to go.

Speaker 2 (01:34:01):
I'm curious, and there's a reason I bring this up
because of what I was doing yesterday. How do you
fare outside?

Speaker 3 (01:34:08):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:34:08):
You're there in Vegas. The sun is just beating down
on you. How do you fare outside? Like with your
skin everything going on over there? Better than I did
the first year. The first year was an adjustment. So
I'm a big bodied, barrel chested. I didn't do well
in the humidity. I lived on the East Coast for

(01:34:28):
thirty six years.

Speaker 3 (01:34:30):
You know, Michigan, which is still humid, is still technically
Eastern time zone, so let's just lump it in with
the East Coast. But I grew up in New York
and South Florida, between those two areas, so obviously South
Florida is very hot. In New York not as hot,
but very humid. And the humidity, just because of my
blood and the way that I'm built, just I always
felt sticky. So when I moved out here, the biggest

(01:34:52):
change that I noticed was even in hot temperatures, I
didn't feel as hot. Right, it's a dry heat. But
let's use the qualifier. When you get north of one ten,
that's when you throw the dry heat nonsense out at
the window. If it feels like someone turned an oven

(01:35:13):
on out, he is oppressive.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
I was outside yesterday. I got some son Jared. Okay,
good for you, Bud, got a little bit of sun.
So this was the story. I was doing some sports radio.
It's doing a fill in show in Indianapolis, and so
this guy Darnell calls in and he had some nice
things to say, and then he invited me out to
see some beep baseball.

Speaker 3 (01:35:34):
And I said, beep baseball? What is that about? Yeah,
I don't even know what that is.

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
And so he's like, Hey, we're gonna be in Champagne.
This is where we're at for you know, a two
month period. He's like, we're gonna be there on Saturday.
I'm like, I'll go, I'll head out there. I'll check
it out. So what it is, it's for some of
the players on the teams, they've lost their sight.

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
They have they don't have vision anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:35:56):
And so everybody wears a mask where you can't see
and the ball beeps, so you try to time it
out and hit the ball that's beeping. And then the
fielders they have masks on as well, and they try
to field the ball. You just find the ball, pick
it up before the hitter will run. I don't know

(01:36:20):
a good distance. I should have asked Darnell how far
it was, but I would guess a good close to
fifty yards, like at least forty yards away. You'll run
to a base that's beeping, so you try to make
it to the base before the fielders grab the ball.

Speaker 3 (01:36:36):
It was fascinating, dangerous.

Speaker 2 (01:36:39):
It's all run danger aspect, but they find a way
to decrease it. If it's a foul ball or something,
just yell stop, like just stop stop running. And they
have zones the fielders. There are six zones, and so
where the ball is hit, they'll be like three, so
you know it's in your zone and you just try
to listen for.

Speaker 3 (01:36:58):
The ball to pick it up. It's crazy. It was
a great time though. I am never against going to
a new sport and watching a new sport because I
I view sports as like my lifeblood, and it's like,
you know, you filled the cup with something new. It's
like a new It's like going to a new restaurant,
never been to before, right, you want to try something new.

(01:37:19):
I in a million years, I never would have guessed
that they could have turned that into a sport. But
it's great because you know, if you're blind, that's it's
almost impossible. It is impossible to play sports in the
traditional sense. But that is really really transformative. I mean,
that's progressive type stuff right there. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:37:39):
And I asked him, I'm like, how long has this
been around. He's like, almost fifty years. It'll be fifty years.
I've never heard of this, I know. He's like, it'll
be fifty years in twenty twenty six. I'm like, wow, man,
that's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:37:50):
I mean, but it was also Olympics, as you know,
variations of the sports that we all know, and you know,
the Paralympics also very similar to that regard. I've never
heard of this before.

Speaker 4 (01:38:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:38:02):
Yeah, And there was a guy from the other team.
There was a team from Saint Louis, a team from Chicago.
He was like that guy over there. He was in
a major league organization before he lost his team.

Speaker 3 (01:38:12):
He get paid for this. Oh oh oh oh, mague No, yeah, right,
what on that.

Speaker 2 (01:38:17):
Now we're really talking no, but yeah, before we bet
this though, isn't it be when your mind works like that?
Were You're like, all right, I should have said, Darnell,
your team got off to a good start eight runs
in the first inning. But I don't know this other team.
You know, they're they're plus yeah, they're plus eight fifty

(01:38:39):
right now, I gotta think about this. They got a
shot to get close. That was a good time. It's
a really good time.

Speaker 3 (01:38:45):
All right. We've got Martin Weiss with us.

Speaker 2 (01:38:47):
I'll get you the stat that blows my mind for
an NFL team last season that could mean something significant
this season. But first Martin Weiss with the latest what's
going on?

Speaker 5 (01:38:57):
But this is a stat that might blow your mind.

Speaker 7 (01:38:59):
Here Angel now the w NBA record holder for consecutive
double doubles. She's got thirteen points and eleven rebounds at
the end of the third quarter. Bad news is though
the Chicago Sky trailing the Seattle Storm sixty to fifty
three at the start of the fourth quarter. Also in
the WNBA earlier today, the Sun beat the Dream eighty
to sixty seven. Connecticut has the best record, tied with

(01:39:22):
the Liberty at seventeen and four Aces beat the Wings
one hundred and four to eighty five. Asia Wilson her
twenty eight points today made her the franchise leading scorer
all time for the Vegas Aces. MLB All Star lineups
announced their thirty two first time All Stars as Bobby Witt, Junior,
Li De La Cruz, Jackson, Merrill, Mason Miller, Gunner Henderson,

(01:39:43):
and Paul Skeens all will be in the Midsummer Classic.
The Phillies got seven All Stars total. Padres, the Padres, Goodness, Dodgers,
Padres and Guardians all got five. Just now, the Toronto
Blue Jays beat the Seattle Mariners and ten five to four.
The tenth inning there, the Orioles double UPDA six to three.
Diamondbacks pounded the Padres at nine to one. Brewers came

(01:40:07):
into Chavez Ravine beat the Dodgers nine to two. Braves
had four home runs when they shut out the Phillies
six to nothing. Tigers with the five to one went
over the Reds Guardians what they come from behind win
against the Giants.

Speaker 5 (01:40:17):
Five to four.

Speaker 7 (01:40:18):
Jake Berger had a three run walk off homer as
the Marlins beat the White Sox seven to four. Cardinals
outscored the Nationals eight to three, mets three.

Speaker 5 (01:40:26):
To two over the Pirates.

Speaker 7 (01:40:28):
Kevin Durant sideline for this tart start of Team USA's
training camp due to a strained calf. In Wimbledon, Carlos
Alcaraz won his fourth round match in four sets. That's
his ninth major quarterfinals appearance. That'll be coming up. Yannick
Center the number one seed. He's headed to the quarterfinals
as well, after beating fourteen seed American Ben Shelton in

(01:40:48):
straight sets. Center will face five seed Daniel Medvedev in
the quarterfinals. On the women's side of things, Madison Keys
was a twelve overall seed. She had to retire in
the third set of her fourth round match due to
a leg injury. American in nineteenth seed Emma Navarro upset
Coco Golf in straight sets to advance to her first
Grand Slam quarterfinal. In Formula one, Lewis Hamilton won the

(01:41:10):
British Grand Prix for the ninth time. He beat max
Versteppin by one point four seconds. And in Sunday Night Baseball,
the Yankees and the Red Sox no.

Speaker 5 (01:41:19):
Score their top of the third inning. Brian and Jared
back to you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:41:23):
Thank you Martin, good stuff, but it is Fox Sports Radio,
Jared Smith, Brian know with you here. This is the
stat that blows my mind from the Jets last season.

Speaker 5 (01:41:33):
Jared.

Speaker 2 (01:41:34):
So, the Jets collectively eleven touchdown passes, fifteen interceptions. They
still won seven games. Eleven touchdowns fifteen picks. Now, it's
not shocking that it was just eleven because you had
Zach Wilson, Trevor Simmey, and Tim Boyle. I'm not stunned
they didn't throw or touchdowns that the Jets last year.

Speaker 3 (01:41:56):
They still won seven games.

Speaker 2 (01:41:59):
Chrazy with that being the case. So ask yourself, if
Aaron Rodgers plays this season and he's healthy, he's gonna
throw in the neighborhood of thirty touchdown passes, right, how
many more wins is that gonna equate to when they
had eleven touchdown passes last season and still won seven
freaking games. That's why I think the Jets they'd be

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my bet to win the division. I'll just say I
think that they are the best bet to win the
AFC East with Aaron Rodgers in a real defense, I
don't know why all these people jumped off the bandwagon
because he got hurt.

Speaker 3 (01:42:33):
I think they have the best chance to win the division.
It's hard to argue with that logic, it really is.
And again, you're not paying a premium for the price either.
You're actually paying the same price as last year. And
I think they're better this year than they were last
year because their offensive line is better. The rest of
the team's pretty much the same, but their offensive line
is better. I just when you look at those divisional odds,

(01:42:56):
usually there's a reason why the price is what it is.
That Week one game is the key. It really is,
like I think it all boils down to that Week
one game. I think if the Jets win that game
Week one, I really think the division is a lock.
And if they don't win it, then they're gonna be
fighting the uphill battle. And I'm not saying that they
can't win it if they don't win Week one, but

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if those two prices are relatively the same, I would
rather take my chances week one. Get that win under
your belt, then they would immediately jump to the favorites role.
Buffalo has a very easy game Week one two. I
think they I want to say, they face someone really
bad at home. Better not be Miami. No, I don't

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think it's Miami. I forget who It is. Seven point
favorite and they're gonna win that game. So Buffalo Buffalo
is starting one to no. If the Jets beat the
Niners in a game that they're a five point underdog.
I think actually that number has gone up a little
bit recently. It's five and a half. It's the same

(01:44:02):
price for them to win the division than it is
for them to win that game. So walk yourself through
the scenario. A. Do I bet Jets money line plus
two hundred Week one against the Niners. B Do I
bet Jets plus two hundred to win the division. If
you go with option A and they win that that's it.
You're done. It's over. The BET's done. Aaron Rodgers can

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get hurt coming out of the shower the next day,
it doesn't matter. You already won your bet. If you
go with option B and you bet the Jets to
win the division and they lose that game week one,
which they are supposed to do, and the Bills win
by thirty against the Cardinals, there you go. You'll get
a better price absolutely in week two to bet the

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Jets to win the Division, So it just kind of
boils down to, you know, six to one, half dozen
to the other, Like, what mindset you want to put
yourself in in Week one? You're gonna if you're betting
Jets to win the division that Week one game, who boy,
you win that game, You're feeling like you're winning that thing,
So you might as well just put a little pull,
a little skin in the game to get some to
get some chips down for that Week one game. I

(01:45:04):
like it.

Speaker 2 (01:45:04):
So this might be your approach based on what we've
talked about earlier in the show. You brought up the
Jets to be the last unbeaten team at fourteen to
one odds, so I'm sensing you might sprinkle a little
bit on that game, thinking if they get the Niners
in Week one, they win that game, it gets soft.

(01:45:24):
The next four games are very, very favorable. So if
you're holding a fourteen and one fourteen to one ticket
in your back pocket and they win Week one, you're like,
this has a real chance.

Speaker 3 (01:45:35):
Oh yeah, but if.

Speaker 2 (01:45:36):
They lose that game, so you sprinkle a little bit
on fourteen to one last unbeaten team being the Jets,
they lose Week one, yep, now you're looking at the
divisional odds and you're gonna get a better price than
two to one. They're like, what plus one ninety right now,
you're gonna get a better price on that. It might grow,
it'd be about I'm like, what plus two fifty?

Speaker 3 (01:45:56):
It's not gonna getting crazy. Yeah, that's not long. Last
week one, depending on how Buffalo looks weak one and
Miami too. And Miami week one, let's see who they
have real fast the top of my head, I don't
think it's an overly difficult opponent. Jay have three and
a half Jags at home, So there you go. That's
all let's say.

Speaker 2 (01:46:13):
Yeah, if you're thinking about the Jets to win the division,
you're right, I mean you might wait after week one.

Speaker 3 (01:46:20):
Wait make one.

Speaker 2 (01:46:21):
That's a tough road game. Miami and the Bills have
favorable matchups at all. So if you're thinking about waiting,
right the Jets at oh and one, Dolphins and Bills
both one and zero, and they play in week two,
someone's losing, Like that'd be the time to pounce on
the Jets. So yeah, maybe wait after Week one against

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San Francisco.

Speaker 3 (01:46:42):
You know, well, then you're shoving your chips to the middle. Like,
that's why I do the matrix. Brian and we talked
about this on the Saturday Show, Like I create this
little spreadsheet that has all the games, all the spreads
for every team, because you can kind of map out
the spots and you can be like, all right, this
is where the season will take a fork in the
road the Jets. That fork just happens to be Week one. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:47:03):
No, you can map it out where it's like, this
is the time to strike exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:47:07):
It doesn't mean you're all knowing, No, Hey, it's kind
of time the market. Timing the market's really hard to do.
But because the way the NFL schedule is, you can
be a little more manipulative. Yep, no, no doubt about that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:19):
All right, Coming up next, Jared, I have an NFL
statement to make. Oh boy, it's somewhat positive, mostly critical,
but it is one hundred accurate.

Speaker 3 (01:47:31):
That is on the way.

Speaker 2 (01:47:32):
He's Jared Smith, I'm Brian. No, hang with us right
here on Fox Sports Radio. It is Fox Sports Radio.
He's Jared Smith, I'm Brian know. And this is a
winning selection by our girl Mary Mack.

Speaker 3 (01:47:44):
Yeah, this is vibes right here. Love this.

Speaker 2 (01:47:48):
This is a way to close a show with some
country vibes.

Speaker 3 (01:47:51):
Are you have country? You like country? There? Love country music?

Speaker 5 (01:47:55):
You do a fun fact?

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
You know? New York City kid then went and move
to South Florida, and then my mom got a promotion
before high school, I moved to DC Northern Virginia actually,
and I played baseball in high school. I never listened
to country music before in my life. Yeah, and then
I moved to Virginia and our head baseball coach was
from like the sticks out there in Virginia, and that's
all he played during workouts. So I was forced to

(01:48:19):
become Kenny Chesney Brooks and done all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:48:24):
I loved it, man, I love what an interesting path
that I was forced.

Speaker 3 (01:48:28):
Upon country music. But it gets catchy, it's dibby. Some's
really good. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:48:33):
So, uh, I've got an NFL statement for you. No, Jared,
it's a little bit positive. You have to read between
the lines. You have to sift for the positive and
magnifying glass.

Speaker 6 (01:48:46):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:48:46):
This is mostly critical, but it is completely accurate.

Speaker 3 (01:48:50):
You ready, let's do it.

Speaker 2 (01:48:53):
The Baltimore Ravens are the cowboys of the AFC.

Speaker 3 (01:48:59):
That's exactly what they are.

Speaker 2 (01:49:00):
Now, let's start positively, specifically, the Lamar Jackson era Ravens.

Speaker 3 (01:49:06):
What do they do well?

Speaker 2 (01:49:08):
They're really good in the regular season, win a bunch
of games, Lamar's winning awards. Then in the playoffs, what happens?
They don't do anything. Nothing. You have Lamar Jackson, He's
got two MVP awards, he's got two playoff wins, his
playoff records two and four. He's got as many MVPs

(01:49:28):
as he does playoff wins. Okay, in six attempts. That's
not good enough. And the Cowboys. What's different is the
Cowboys get vilified and crushed and ah, the Cowboys America's team.
The Ravens aren't called out the same way, but they
are as disappointing as the Cowboys are. When the playoffs

(01:49:49):
roll around, they are It's the Spider Man meme. The
Ravens are pointing at the Cowboys, and the Cowboys are
pointing back at them, because it is a mirrored image.
When we get to playoff results, Ravens the Cowboys of
the AFC.

Speaker 3 (01:50:03):
Yeah, it's hard to argue with that. I think the
Bills also hold my beer. Now, I would say they've
had a little bit more success in the playoffs than
the Ravens and the Cowboys have had. They've been to
the AFC Championship Game. I don't believe the Cowboys have
been to the NFC Championship Game anytime in this millennium.
I don't remember the last time it happened. The Ravens

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have also been to the AC Championship Game last year,
came up short at home as a favorite. I lost
a lot of money on them in that game. Very sad.
I'm still I'm over it now. But the Cowboys, to me,
I think it's the brand that's what causes a lot
of their negative attention, because they get a lot of attention.

(01:50:45):
If they ever won, it would be positive attention, but
they haven't won, so it's negative. When you're America's team
and you haven't won, you're gonna get a lot of
bad pros. Yeah, And that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:50:57):
This is what's interesting to me about if you look
at Dak Prescott, right, I'm just thinking about if he
had two MVPs, yeah, and then he faltered in the playoffs,
what would be said about that. He would be absolutely crushed.

Speaker 3 (01:51:19):
More than he is now because he's crushed a lot now.

Speaker 2 (01:51:21):
Oh, absolutely, okay, he would be oh, just obliterated for
something like that, just like.

Speaker 3 (01:51:28):
Dak can't get it done, Dak can't win the big one.
Dak's not elite. Dak Dak, Dak, Dak dacha. That's kind
of what they say now they do.

Speaker 2 (01:51:35):
But I think it would be even louder if he
had two MVPs. Dak Prescott is two and five in
the playoffs. Lamar Jackson is two and four in the playoffs.
Can you imagine if Dak had two regular season MVPs
and then stinks it up on the road against San Francisco. Yeah,
he'd be vilified even more. It's not the same way
with Lamar though.

Speaker 3 (01:51:55):
The reason why I think it's the Bills more than
it is the Cowboys is because the Ravens have actually
on multiple Super Bowls in the last twenty years. But
that's what I'm saying the Lamar jack It's just if
you want just the last decade, then yes, it's a
very apt comparison. But I still think the Bills are
also in that sphere. Yeah, I'd like to hold my
beer reference as well.

Speaker 2 (01:52:15):
It's well done, all right, Jared, good hanging with you
We're off to listen to some country music I think
right now, and maybe eat some good food.