October 18, 2020 • 48 mins
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NFL Sunday. It's week six and we've got a pack
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focus on the incredible NFL storylines this season that all well,
they all seem to revolve around the same position on
the field. In a minute, I'll take a deep dive
into the historical possibilities that lie ahead of us. Potentially
that's not hyperbole. In about fifteen minutes, Steve Psic will
join via phone as we chop up week six in
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the NFL rapid fire fashion. And of course, later on,
after Brian Finley's epic updates, Sleepy will weigh in on
another best bet he's five and oh by the way,
and I will continue with some more NFL fodder. Of course,
we wrap things up with macin on sports as we
closed down the show with the Thinking Man segment of
the program. Sports are entertainment, but they're more than that.
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There are shared experience as such, people want to talk
about them. So you've come to the right place. We've
had a lot to talk about tonight. This is straight
out of Vegas, the pregame show you always wanted. And
as they say in William H. Macy, Minnesota, it's gonna
be lit alright. Last Sunday night, guess when Russell Wilson
drove the length of the field as time ran out,
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thus ripping victory away from the Vikings in the last
seconds while also ripping the hearts out of the Minnesota Faithful.
He made history in multiple ways for starters. Not only
was Seattle out gained in that game, they became the
first team in NFL history to start five and oh
in spite of being out gamed in yards in all
five games, and the Seahawks, well, they weren't just out game.
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The Vikings managed four hundred forty nine yards to Seattle's three.
The men in Purple, well, they gobbled up a hundred
and thirty six more yards and their opponent, and they
still lost and approved once again, you can't give Russell
Wilson anytime. The Vikings pulled ahead of the Seahawk one
midway through the fourth quarter and had the ball and
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a chance to extend their lead in the final three minutes. Instead,
Minnesota turns the ball over on downs, giving Wilson a
minute fifty seven to take his team ninety four yards.
Wilson only needed a minute forty two, by the way,
and he connected with DK Metcalf for another game winning touchdown.
Now Wilson, Russell Wilson this year has spent much of
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the game, trailing an opponent and trailing opponents with losing records.
But he all he does every week is is basically
cementing his front runner status for the NFL's Most Valuable
Player Award. It's it's very much intact. And by the way,
again last week we pointed out that at four no
being out gained in every game Pete Carroll's bunch, they
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had already made history. Then They're the only other team
to do that in in NFL history were the two
thousand and twelve Arizona Cardinals. They also started four and
oh they were out gaining every game, but had caught
up with him. They finished the season of poultry five
and eleven didn't come close the playoffs. Now when they
write the journal diary for the NFL season, they might
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have to change the old mantra from quote defense wins
championships to quote quarterbacks win championships. Clearly, as we had
toward November, this NFL season is becoming defined, in my
humble opinion, as the year of the quarterback. And I'm
not just talking about game winning drives, super Bowl runs,
or record setting performances. I'm talking about the fact that
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virtually every storyline so far this season has emanated from
the quarterback position. Take Alex Smith. It wasn't that long
ago doctors told Alex he might not only lose his leg,
he could lose his life. Seventeen surgeries later, he took
the field for the Washington football team last week, just
in time to be sacked by Aaron Donald. Incredible. You
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can't make this stuff up. You cannot tell me. You
watch that and you weren't moved. Smith's career was declared
over by virtually every pundit. His team used their first
round pick that off season to get a new quarterback,
and the world moved down. That is, everyone moved on
except for Alex Smith. He's thirty six years old now,
and like I said, he's endured seventeen surgeries. He finally
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got medical clearance just before the season began. He takes
the field Sunday after an injury to Kyle Allen, and
he throws his first official pass for the first time
in six hundred ninety three days. I'm telling you it's
the year of the quarterback. Even Ryan fitz Magic got
into the act last week through for three and sixtys
and three touchdowns while sporting a one pass rating. Fitzpatrick.
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He's had his fair share of ups and downs in
his career and fair share of highlights, but this was
one of his bigger ups. Now. I don't know if
he's got job security too. Was waiting in the wings.
But out of every five games fits Magic seems to
have three good ones, so he may be around for
a while. We'll take Tom Brady. He's got twelve touchdown
passes in four interceptions, not bad for a forty three
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year old. Tampa Bay is three into and even though
Brady is learning a new offense, no t s, no
preseason to workouts, no preseason games, it's gonna take eight
games for that offense too, Mesh, and when they do,
and what do people point at? By the way his
four fingers last week at the end of the Thursday
night game in Chicago, that's the flash point. We can't
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forget the number one overall pick. Hey, Joe Burrow finally
was rer minded last week. He's a rookie. He got
hammered by the Ravens. He took a lot of hits.
Jared Goff, he threw for a three three nine yards
last week in another Rams victory. Well, you're very quietly
reminding us they don't exactly miss Todd Gurley. But let's
not bury the lead. Let's get to the point. Dak
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Prescott's record setting season is over. Prescott he had just
scrambled for a nine yard game in the third quarter
of Sunday's game against the Giants when he had his
legs tangled underneath him and he was tackled. His right
foot appeared to spin around and Dak sat on the
field clenching his calf, and the medical card came out
and we all know it's next. He had tears in
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his eyes. He was take in off the field on
the back of a cart. Incomes in Andy Dalton, who
led the team to a narrow thirty seven thirty four victory.
Now you may remember this back in late at May
I saying the praises of Jerry Jones, who had the
foresight take out an insurance policy courtesy of Native Texan
known as the Andy Dalton Agency. This might be possibly
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another one of the NFL irony's that supplies with an
endless supply of lore. Could Jerry get to the Promised
Land with a backup quarterback? Hey, now, don't shake your
head so quickly less we forget it was Nick Foles
who got Philadelphia the Lombardi Trophy after Carson Wentz went down.
And who could forget the most famous team of all
time the group in nineteen seventy two who went seventeen?
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Oh and oh and it allowed Mercury Morris to become
obnoxious for four decades. Yes, I'm talking about Don Shula's
Miami Dolphins. When Hall of Fame quarterback Bob Greasy went
down that season after Week five, it was a journeyman
Michigan State or backup guy by the name of Earl Morral.
He guided the team all the way back to the
Super Bowl. Um that was Super Bowl seven. Greasey's injury
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guess what he was just located ankle and a fracture
sound from mayor not to be fair, Bob Greasey did
return in time to play in the Super Bowl, but
it was Earl Morrell who saved the day when Greasy
went down and uh in his absence, more win eleven
And oh, so what's the moral here tonight? I'm convinced
that went again. They're write the history books for the season.
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As I said earlier, the headline will be the Year
of the quarterback, and look no further than the Dallas
Cowboys for the center of the plot. The developing story
in Big das simple? Can history repeat itself behind the
comedic stylings of Andy Dalton? I am not joking here.
Before you pooh pooh Dalton's resume, let me share some information.
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I bet you didn't know. Since two thousand and eleven,
Andy Dalton is one of just six quarterbacks in the
NFL to accomplish the following thirty tho yards past and
two hundred passing touchdowns and seventy wins. The only other
five quarterbacks in history to have done that Drew Brees,
Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger. They've all won Super
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Bowls and Matt Ryan, who's been to a Super Bowl?
Now what do they have in common? Like I said,
they've all been to the Super Bowl in four of
the five hoisted the Lombardi Trophy at least once. The
fifth Matt Ryan, he even had a twenty five point
lead on Bill Belichick in Super Bowl fifty and you
know what happened next. But alright, I digress. Not only
that Andy Dalton has actually started a playoff game in
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each of his first four seasons in Cincinnati. The only
other quarterbacks to do that Otto Grant, google them. He's
pretty good. Hall of Fame Joe Flacco, whether you like
him or not, he won a Super Bowl and that
guy just mentioned a minute ago, Russell Wilson. So this
is the company Dalton's in. Breeze Rogers, Brady, Ryan, Roethlisberger,
Otto Graham, Flacco, Russell Wilson. Get the picture. Andy Dalton
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is not a Hammond Egger. Think what you want. So
the sixty four dollar question, can the Cowboys win when
it matters most? In January? With Andy Dalton at the
Helm last Sunday, for the better part of a quarter
and a half, Balton was in control of the Cowboys offense.
He completed nine of eleven passes for one eleven yards,
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and one of the players checked in, rookie receiver Ceedee Lamb,
who basically said, you know what, we trusted him. He's
very calm, he's very composed, like he's been there before.
That's pretty nice praise from Ceedee Lamb. Let's take a
quick glimpse of what Dalton did before he got the
Dallas between twenty and eleven and he started every season
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for the Bengals. In that time. He started one and
thirty three games, and his yearly completion average was never
less than fifty eight percent. It topped out about sixty
seven percent one year over the years nine years at
average to six that's not bad. In those years, Dalton
through two hundred and four touchdowns, only getting intercepted a
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hundred and eighteen times. That gives him a career interception
rate at two point six percent. That's very good. He
was also a three time Pro Bowl quarterback sixteen and
his win loss record with the Bengals. This is the Bengals,
not the seventies Steelers are the eighties Cowboys of the
nineties Niners are actually the eighties forty Niners and the
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nineties Cowboys. You get the picture. The Bengals, he was
seventy and sixty one. He had receivers like oh A. J.
Green and Tyler Boyd. Those were his best receivers. The
best running backs you ever had were Cedric Benson, God
rest his soul, Ben Jarvis green ellis don't tell me
you don't remember that name. The law firm give Chris
Bourbon credit for that one. The law firm of Ben
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Jarvis green Ellis. You might have even had him on
your fantasy team at one point or not. How about
the legendary Jeremy Hill, And then he had a bit
of time with Joe Mixon. Not exactly a murderer's role.
He's got better weapons and alice. So here's the situation.
A picture emerges from all these numbers and all this
anecdotal information. Andy Dalton's pretty good and early in his
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career he was considered very good, good enough to get
himself into the Pro Bowl three times. And Cincinnati has
been a weak team in general for a decade. Now.
That wasn't always Dalton's fault, and I get it, he
didn't save him either. But his career numbers there, well,
let's just say this, their solid, but they're on spectacular.
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But guess what, so we're earl morals. So let's let
the games begin. This is the year the quarterback? Would
it not be the irony of ironies? If Dallas gets
to the Super Bowl with a backup coming up, Steve
Fezik will join us. We're gonna go over NFL Week
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You've been killing it, Steve the Seger special delivery with
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is just fantastic. That's what I'm talking about. Man, tell
your friends, tell your neighbors, Grandpa, put on pants. Let's
go all right, wait to kids to while you're at it, Fez,
let's dive right into this. Carolina. You know they've been
pretty good on her Matt Rule. And the reason I
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say that is they're actually winning the stance battle against
the quality opponents, short line against the Bears. Tomorrow. Yeah,
I leaned to Carolina. The money has been coming on
the Bears, so I'm against the money here. The narrative
on Caroline, I think it was accurate. No continuity. They're
gonna struggle early. They dropped their first two games straight
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up and against the spread. Since then, three straight upsets
a team on the come, a team you'll make money
betting on Lions coming off a by short favorite on
the road, they get to face Jacksonville, a defense you
couldn't stop a nosebleed. Here's what's interesting, Fez, not that
the Lions season is over come on, forget it. No expectations,
no pressure, no anticipation for success. This is when Stafford
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and company are at their best. Do you like tomorrow? Yeah,
I'd look towards your Detroit Lions strength of schedule edge.
The lines have actually played the second hardest schedule by
my numbers in the NFL. Jacksonville the gate easiest, jackson
Will playing worst every week. I looked to the Lions.
Minnesota lands three and a half against Atlanta tomorrow. Mike
Zimmer is twenty one and four against the number coming
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off a loss when he faces a non divisional opponent
Atlanta no more, Dan Quinn And in the NFL, in
the last eleven games when a coach is fired the
following week, team is only three and eight against the number.
I like Minnesota here a lot tomorrow. I do too.
And you know It's interesting. Five straight weekends money has
come in on these Atlanta Falcons. No one really understands why. Well,
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it's not coming in on this week. Money has been
coming in on the Vikings. I think they're the right
side at the Tennessee Titans. I think Mike Brabel is
in a phenomenal job with this team in the last
couple of years. They're four and old, but they've only
covered once. Tomorrow they get the Houston Texans, and I'm
looking towards the Texans, and it's all about the fact
that they their wide receivers have not been healthy. They
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lost Hopkins, that was fine. They got Cooks and four.
When both those guys who are burners are healthy, this
is a good team. Last week was the first week
both were healthy. Got targeted twenty times. Big game. I'd
look to Houston the New York Giants. I had to
do a double take. I've checked with the Ripley's Believe
it or not, people, they're actually a favorite tomorrow the
New York Giants or a favorite against the Washington football team. Well,
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I guess somebody had to be favorite. But but they
didn't have to be favored by two and a half
to three. If you have to play it, take the
points all right tomorrow. This is a game that's really
got my attention. I'm a big Pittsburgh fan because I
don't think they're getting enough credit for how good they
are defensively. They're way better than average in my opinion.
I don't care about their strength of opponent. You can
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only ask them to be do they play as the
last two times the Steelers have started four O they
won the Super Bowl both years that was seventy eight
and seventy nine. They're laying three and a half tomorrow
against this upstart Cleveland team. Yeah, and you were actually
in studio with me when we broke out how the Steelers,
even if you normalize for that easy strength of schedule,
there's still been a darn impressive team with their margin
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of victory and Cleveland with Baker Mayfield his ribs nothing,
Steelers leading the lead, get in sacks uh prediction, Baker
Mayfield does not get out of the game, does not
make it through the game, Pittsburgh covers and let's not
bury the other lead in this game. The last forty
times the Steelers have played Pittsburgh five and one, including
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beating them sixteen. Let me try that to get in English.
The Steelers don't play Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh plays the Browns.
Sixteen straight losses by the Browns at three rivers. Fez, Hey,
it's only a temple of forty. How important can that be? Yeah,
I'm not. I'm sorry. As I said though on Arnie
Show tonight, Cleveland reminds me of the famous actress Lily Tomlin,
who once said I always wanted to be somebody. I
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just wish I had been more specific. I'm not buying
this Cleveland team just can't do it all right, Philadelphia fest.
They played Pittsburgh last week, they actually moved the ball
pretty well. Tomorrow they're getting seven and a half against
another good defense in Baltimore. And this seemed all the
way up to ten because Lane Johnson, a fourth wineman,
is now out for the Eagles. I get it, cluster injuries,
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but Lane Johnson and a hobble already. Lane Johnson is
not worth two and a half points to the spread.
If you better, I take the Birds plus the ten.
Talking with Steve Fazik, the only two time winner of
the Super Contest here in Las Vegas, catching weekdays straight
out of Vegas three to four, Pacific six to seven Eastern. Alright,
let's head to Indianapolis laying a big number against Cincinnati. Finally,
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Joe Burrow looked like a rookie last week against that
Baltimore defense. Now he gets another very tough defense. No
rest for the weary. Yeah, and I think that the
Bengals are in actually a good spot. They're embarrassed so badly,
and frankly, the Colts and Rivers are not the sort
of team that have the weapons to separate. I'd look
to Sincy. Al right, Uh, let's head to Miami again,
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Ripley's believe it or not, Miami is this number. They're
laying nine against the Jets tomorrow. The Jets that bad.
The Jets really are that bad. I had the Jets
the worst team in the NFL, you know, I thought
they were historically bad to all points worse than an
average team. But Miami was actually sixty points worse after
Week four last year. So they Jets still have some
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some bad play to do to equal that level of incompetence.
All Right, San Francisco was embarrassed last week. They were
laying eight and they lost to the aforementioned Carolina Panthers.
But I typically, uh have a lot of respect for
a proud team coming off an embarrassing effort. I get
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this since they bounced back. Tomorrow's a home dog against
the Rams. Your thoughts, this is my best bet. I
am on thet plus the three great spot for the Niners.
Their third straight home game and they lost the first two,
so they'll be TRIPLI focused here and the Rams. Fourth
road trip the last five weeks, three of them were
to the East Coast. Four Niners win the game. I'm
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glad you brought that up. They have done nothing except
criss crossed the country for the last month and a
half that there has to be a cumulative effects on
their legs. No, absolutely and normal you'd say this is
a pretty short road trip, no big deal. It's a
cumulive effect, as you say, that is the issue. All right, Uh,
Denver visits New England. I think this game is actually
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gonna be played Monday at two pm Pacific time? Is
that correct? I have not seen that update yet. Burning Okay, well,
here's where we're at. Belichick off a lot. By the way,
when's the last time New England played a game when
Lincoln was present. I mean, it's been a while, but
Belichick off a loss. But they're laying a big number
here against Denver. It just seems to me like this
game has a lot of, as you would say, unknown,
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So do you even are you involved in this game
at all? You know, I am not. I can tell
you that the money has been pouring in on Denver,
and I think part of that is just that Drew
lock is going to start and he's worth three points
to the line. But with all the uncertainty, I have
not invested in it. Okay, a game that I'm very
interested in because I'm not only very interested in the
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storyline for the remainder of the season with the Dallas Cowboys.
For obvious reasons, they are home Monday again a surgeon
Arizona Cardinal team who this is the third time this
year they've laid points on the road to the only
points on the road on a money night game and
Dallas historically has done pretty well faes as a home dog.
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But there's another aspect of this game. I'd like you
to comment on it. Because it's the third straight home
game for Dallas, put the third straight away game for Arizona.
That's only happened ten or so times in the last
fifteen twenty years. And the road team against the number
in this situation in Arizona's is lane points. The road
team is lane points. That's a bit of a moful there,
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go ahead and respond to that. Props to our own
Mackenzie Rivers, who did all the research on this and
just blindly betting on against the team that has their
third straight road trip. You make money to the tune
of fifty five to fifty six. But what I really
like about this these haven't just been small road trips.
Arizona went all the way back to back weeks and
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now they go to Dallas almost a thousand and miles.
On top of that bold prediction, Dallas is the favorite
come Monday kickoff. Yeah, I wouldn't surprised me. Right, final
game Kansas City and Buffalo Buffalo kind of a weird week.
They don't know who they're gonna player when they're gonna play.
Now they get the Chiefs. Yeah, you know, it's interesting
because this look ahead line was three and a half
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on this game. Now it's four and a half to five,
and I can see it with Kansas City. Off of
that bad loss against the Raiders. They should be focused.
And with the Bills being fat and drunk and uh
not fat drunk and happy, but just um having a
schedule that's completely unstable after the Tuesday game. Really strange
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circumstance for Buffalo. I passed the game. Alright, good stuff, Fas,
Let's do it next week, same bad time, same bad channel.
You're ready, You're the best, Bernie. You want to be
my agent? All right? That's Steve, That's Steve Fessik, folks.
The only two time win are the Super Contest here
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up sleepy with another best bet. Yes he's five and
oh five and oh and I'm going to talk about
one of the games tomorrow where everybody's focused on the
quarterback matchup, and I think they're missing a key aspect
of this contest. And I will break it down for you.
But first, you know, if you had one shot, one
opportunity to see everything you ever wanted in one moment,
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would you capture it or just let it slip. That's
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Could that possibly be the great Interpeanut? Yes, I met
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Game seven of the a LCS to enter the World Series.
Randy a Rosarina hit a two run blast in the first,
ending his seventh jack of the season, which is one
short of a league record. Here's Raised manager Kevin Cash
exploring the phenomenon of nearly blowing a three games to
none lead the last three days. We're pretty agonizing. Uh,
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there's no doubt we definitely added to the you know,
to all of our stress levels. Uh. That's a really
good team over there, And to think it would be
wrong if anybody to assume that we were just gonna
walk through that. But you know, I don't know. I
couldn't tell you. I probably would have rather got it
done in Game four or five than than winning it
in Game seven. The Dodgers have a Game seven in
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their future. After hampering the Braves three one in Game
six of the NLCS, Justin Turner and Corey Seeger pounding
solo home runs in the first inning. In college football,
Number two Alabama scoring twenty one unanswered points in the
second half and rubbing it in against third ranked Georgia
forty one to twenty four. Bama quarterback Mac Jones with
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a herculean four touchdown throws and four d seventeen yards
passing Florida State horrifies Number five North Carolina. The Seminals
second quarter points. Number twenty three Virginia Tech out working
Boston College forty to fourteen. Number eleven Texas A and
M disfiguring Mississippi State to fourteen. The Bulldogs ran from
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minus two yards and finally Cleveland Brown's quarterback Baker Mayfield
wide receiver Odell Beckham junior junior, who were dubbed questionable
this weekend, are reportedly playing on Sunday against the Steelers.
Now back to Bernie Frido, who is the most visited
attraction that Vegas has to offer. Thanks Brian, good stuff,
Buddy all right, Sleepy has another best bet. He's five
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and oh. The first four weeks he gave you player
prop bets. Last week he flipped to a teaser that
connected five and oh. Now he's headed back towards the
player prop side. He's got an interesting one here involving
my beloved Detroit Lions, and frankly, I think it makes
a lot of sense because one particular player should be
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able to take advantage of a the well below average defense.
Let's take a listen, all right, Bernie, I'm recommending a
play coming from your old stomping grounds, Detroit. I'm recommending
a play on Lions running back Adrian Peterson to score
a touchdown. Now we can get Peterson to score TV
right around even money. I believe the lines are going
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to be in a position to run the ball. They
probably won't fall behind, in which they won't have to
be extra heavy in the passing game. The Jaguars rush
defense seventh worst in the league right now, giving up
almost a hundred and fifty yards a game. In the
last two games that Jaguars rush defense, it was lit
up by David Johnson and Joe Mixon for almost two
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hundred and fifty yards a p. I don't know, Bernie,
You tell me. It looks like he has some new
life in those legs. Not only does he look fast,
but he looks very strong. And let me point this
out as well, Peterson, he's looking to move from fifth
all time to fourth all time on the rushing leader list. Yes,
he's still eight hundred yards shy, but I believe he's
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looking to go go ahead and pass the Lions all time
great Barry Sanders as one of Peterson's career goals. Here's
one other thing, Bertie, and I believe this has a
high probability of getting a p in the end zone
as well. Jaguars secondary they were a mess right now
and they're not playing well. Not only are they not
playing well, but they've been flagged second highest in the
league in pass interference calls. So we can get Stafford
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in the red zone throwing balls into the end zone.
I believe there's a high probability we can get a flag,
therefore setting Peterson up at the one yard line getting
ready to punch it in. So Bernie, my best bet
for NFL Week six Adrian Peterson a story touchdown. Alright,
So what's interesting is I actually look for the Lions
to put up about thirty five points tomorrow against that
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bad Jaguars defense. Uh, they're coming off of bye week.
There's no pressure on this team anymore. And this is
actually when they start to do well their win season
total with six and a half, don't be surprised if
they climb over that with a meaningless seven and they
get it done tomorrow against Jacksonville, there's gonna be point scored.
Why not sleep he's on a roll. He's he's five.
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And oh the other game I want to talk about
tomorrow that I teased before Brian's update, Tampa Bay hosts
uh Green Bay. And there have been so many varying
opinions about that game throughout the week from various folks,
and everybody wants to focus on Brady versus Rogers, and
that's fine, I get it, you know, Okay, let's talk
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about that for just a second. Aaron Rodgers, he's having
a career year. I think he's four and over the
third time in his career. He's completing his passes. That's first,
that would rank first, or any of his seasons. His
pass yards per game, he's averaging three yards per game
through the year, that would be second. And then Aaron
Rodgers career per season is passer rating this season a
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hundred point four, that would be first. And you know
the look, there's just no two ways about it. The
hackers are doing what they're doing because of Aaron Rodgers,
and I'm gonna come back to that. Meanwhile, Tom Brady
now his first two games, he only threw for two
yards per game, He had three touchdowns, three interceptions. Is
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passer rating with seventy nine point three. His last three games,
Big jump Brady is now throwing for three six yards
per game, nine touchdowns, one interception is passer rating is
one oh six point seven. You just wait till this
team gets past seven, eight, nine games and this offense
will start to kick in no O t a s
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no preseason to speak of, no preseason games. It takes
a minute for this team to jail. And I talked
about it last week. They're scruffy around the edges, they
commit penalties, they turn the ball over that'll get corrected.
And by the way, Tampa Bay's defense is pretty good
and they run the ball. Well, here's where I think
everybody is neatly omitting what the storyline of this game
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should be. Tomorrow and it kicks off with Eastern Pacific.
Aaron Rodgers sparkling statistics are masking a very below average defense.
If you don't believe me, every time an opponent for
Green Bay has gotten into the red zone this year.
They've scored one of the time, whether it's a field goal,
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whether it's a touchdown, they scored a hundred percent of
the time. That would rank last in the National Football
League teams. And this is gonna bode well for Ronald
Jones tomorrow. Of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Opponents are averaging
four point eight yards per carry against the Packers. That
would rank defensively across the league. And if Ronald Jones
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can run the ball, that's going to open up passing
lanes for Tom Brady and Chris Godwin is back tomorrow.
Here's another advanced stat you don't hear a lot about.
It's called missed tackles. Green Bay is missing ten point
eight tackles a game. That's not good. Again, that ranks
that would rank thirty among NFL defenses. So Aaron Rodgers
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has really put that team on his back. And by
the way, three to the last four games of Packers
opponents have scored twenty one plus points. Tampa Bay is
going to get their points tomorrow. And if they don't
turn the ball over and continue to commit stupid penalties
and self inflicted wounds. I think Tampa Bay wins the game.
We'll see. I didn't bet the game. I'm not making
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any predictions. But everybody thinks that Green Bay just has
to show up, throw their he helping on the field
and win. I'm not seeing it that way. Tampa Bay
should be four and one or three and two. Again,
let's unpack this at the end of the year. Everybody
can save their old man jokes. I don't care to
think whatever the hell you want about Brady. He continues
to confound his critics, and when he doesn't, I'll admit it.
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But for now, I believe in the guy, just like
I did in Tea when everybody said I was nuts
when I said they'd win the Super Bowl, and they did.
By the way, I want to talk about the Steelers
real quickly, because they've really caught my eye. I mentioned
earlier that their four now for the first time in
forty years. The last time they did it was nineteen
seventy eight and again in nineteen seventy nine. They won
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the Super Bowl both years. Can I have special interest
in Super Bowl four team? When they beat the Rams
thirty one in nineteen I was living in Southern California
at the time, and I'll never forget this. This really
started to get me interested in betting. The Steelers opened
up as an eleven and a half point favorite against
my beloved or Rams with Vince Ferragamino. Ferragamo and Wendell
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Tyler and Rams had a real good team that year.
And I went to the game. The game was played
at the Rose Bowl. Well, the Steelers were trailing nineteen
to seventeen heading into the fourth quarter. Then Bradshaw and
company took over scored two fourth quarter touchdowns. The Steelers
win Super Bowl fourteen thirty one in nineteen and yes
they cover and eleven and a half point spread. How
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did that happen? They did it? And that got me
interested in betting. All I know is this Pittsburgh team
remind there's a cultural thing there. They have it. They
have it in spades. They don't even have Antonio Brown
or Levyan Bell anymore. They don't miss them at all.
They're hitting on all three phases. Are they perfect? No?
But Big Ben coming off an injury, he's having an
(37:11):
excellent year. All I guess I'm saying is, don't be
surprised if Pittsburgh's into super Bowl again. As I said,
the last two times they started four and oh they
went to the Super Bowl, even though it's been they
won the Super Bowl, even though that was forty years ago,
and of course they've won since as well. But I
don't hear a lot of people talking about the Steelers.
Something to keep an eye on. Alright, coming up. You
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MacKinnon Sports, we're gonna talk about We're gonna continue this
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you know what I mean. Love McKenley without um the
Thinking Man segment of the show. Welcome in Mackenzie Rivers
and continuing our motif tonight with the Year of the Quarterback,
Mackenzie has ranked all thirty two quarterbacks. But one of
the things I want to dive into here, mackenzie, is
the rankings as they pertain and correlate to possibly get
into the super Bowl. Let's head to Pittsburgh where you've
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got seventeenth ranked Baker Mayfield uh teeing it up against
ninth ranked Ben Roethlisberger, who, by the way, very quietly
ten touchdowns, one interception. He's been flawless, and they're playing
a really a different style in Pittsburgh than he's used to.
A lot of shorter passes and you see a lot
of end a rounds. Click Clay Claypool getting the four
tds last year. It's explosive offense. I really love it.
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I think Big Ben is probably in his late age,
almost as good as he's ever been. You know, Raphaela
dal talks about it all the time. You lose a
couple of steps, but what you gain upstairs is invaluable.
Ben Roethlisberger very much a Super Bowl contender, and he's
won a couple. So that Maddox, all right, I want
to head the money night. This is intriguing. You've got
Kyler Murray ranked six. He'll tee it up. You've only
(42:23):
got Andy Dalton ran. What are your thoughts on how
does that correlate and the how you might kendicap that game.
I don't think Andy Dalton's a bad quarterback. I just
think he's limited and I think frankly, in two thousand twelve,
he was more equipped to get you close to the
Super Bowl into contention in that style football than it
is now and nowadays. Kyler Murray does everything that Lamar
Jackson does, and he is one of the best most
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natural throwers that I've ever seen. He can just he
can just get you anything you want. The only real
difference between that team those teams is the other fifty
four guys on that roster. I mean, it's a small
sample size, but there was one game Lamar Jackson couldn't play,
didn't didn't didn't have to play Week seventeen. They're covered
by fifteen points with r G three in there. They
have an elite defensive front, they have weapons, they have
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running games, they have the offensive line. If you put
Kyler Murray on the Ravens, they'd be the best team
in the league. Kyler Murray is that guy. We just
don't know it yet. Well, clearly that from a skill
set and from the highlight reel, no one can argue.
But they haven't won, you know, super Bowls or men.
And one of the things I want to talk about, um,
remember he Andy Dalton back in two thousand fovels, just
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coming out of TCU. It was his second year in
the league. And I think he's a veteran. Now, ironically,
Dallas will not lean on him as much as it
might lean on Deck to lean more in the running
game Laton Vanderish back. I find an interesting though, because
Dalt might make enough place to win that game. But
be that as it may, all things equal, you'd take
Kyler Murray over over Andy Dalton. I get that, all right.
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Let's talk about Rogers and Brady. You've got Rogers ranked
third behind Wilson and Mahomes in an argument there, and
you've got Brady ranked fourth. And I'm with you, I'm
not I'm not a Brady hater. I don't get this,
so good. Go ahead. Two thousand and eighteen, Tom Brady's
sixth and qbr They score like, I don't know, twenty
eight points a game, and they're like, oh, Brady's okay.
If you look at their games next the year they
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won the Super Bowl. By the way, if you look
at all games they played against playoff teams that year,
I can't belie I couldn't believe it when I saw it.
They scored thirty five points a game. All the guy
does is win. All the guy does is show up
in the biggest moments and execute. He's in a brand
new team, brand new situation. But this list is based
on skill, and I think long term potential. I think
if you're looking at a Super Bowl contender, there's no
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place in the NFC South other than the Temple Bill.
And I was doing the show then and my buddy
Rob Parker said he was dead man walking. He won
a super Bowl. Okay, the last two years commulatively, Brady,
but hetty before this year fifty one touchdowns, seventeen interceptions.
By the way, in the last three games, as I
mentioned earlier, nine touchdowns, one interceptions is passer rating is
one of six point seven. Demand can still play one
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more thing on Brady. These guys do it for a
living Pro Football Focus. Out of all the talk about
how he fell off last year, number eleve and rated
quarterback last year by Pro Football Focus, try number three
this year. Nobody in media is talking about it, but
Tom Brady's actually pretty damn good, still defying Father time.
Got about a minute. But talk about Russell Wilson and
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Tatrick Mahomes. Obviously they both won Super Bowls earlier in
their career. They're just fabulous to watch and they produced results.
I made this list a couple of weeks ago, and
I put I put number one Patrick Mahomes number two.
Patrick Mahomes echoing throughout history because he made some plays
against the Ravens that I've just never seen before, only
in my wildest imagination or with a nerve football, you know.
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I mean, if if you throw behind his back past,
I would not be surprised. That said, looking at some
of the tape with the Raiders game, I mean the
numbers buried out next gen stats. He's number thirty and accuracy.
So I think experience, I think, you know, taking his time,
being calm, cool and collected. I don't think he I
think he's the future Goat. I don't think he is
right now. I think Russell Wilson is the best player
in the league. It's amazing what he does on a
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nightly basis. Mahomes thirteen touchdowns, one interception, one last one.
You've got Cam Newton ranked eighteens, probably about where he
should be. I don't know that that bolds well for
new Eng's postseason chances. You know, I feel like about
him doing the same way I feel about Lebron. He
is so good at certain things no one else can
match it. For example, being one yard away from the
goal line. No one else is even in the stratosphere.
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But you take the whole picture into account. Yeah, I
think he's about eight team good stuff. Mackenzie will maybe
pick up on this next week because there's a couple more.
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focus on the incredible NFL storylines this season that all well,
they all seem to revolve around the same position on
the field. In a minute, I'll take a deep dive
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as they say in William H. Macy, Minnesota, it's gonna
be lit alright. Last Sunday night, guess when Russell Wilson
drove the length of the field as time ran out,
(03:17):
thus ripping victory away from the Vikings in the last
seconds while also ripping the hearts out of the Minnesota Faithful.
He made history in multiple ways for starters. Not only
was Seattle out gained in that game, they became the
first team in NFL history to start five and oh
in spite of being out gamed in yards in all
five games, and the Seahawks, well, they weren't just out game.
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The Vikings managed four hundred forty nine yards to Seattle's three.
The men in Purple, well, they gobbled up a hundred
and thirty six more yards and their opponent, and they
still lost and approved once again, you can't give Russell
Wilson anytime. The Vikings pulled ahead of the Seahawk one
midway through the fourth quarter and had the ball and
(04:02):
a chance to extend their lead in the final three minutes. Instead,
Minnesota turns the ball over on downs, giving Wilson a
minute fifty seven to take his team ninety four yards.
Wilson only needed a minute forty two, by the way,
and he connected with DK Metcalf for another game winning touchdown.
Now Wilson, Russell Wilson this year has spent much of
(04:23):
the game, trailing an opponent and trailing opponents with losing records.
But he all he does every week is is basically
cementing his front runner status for the NFL's Most Valuable
Player Award. It's it's very much intact. And by the way,
again last week we pointed out that at four no
being out gained in every game Pete Carroll's bunch, they
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had already made history. Then They're the only other team
to do that in in NFL history were the two
thousand and twelve Arizona Cardinals. They also started four and
oh they were out gaining every game, but had caught
up with him. They finished the season of poultry five
and eleven didn't come close the playoffs. Now when they
write the journal diary for the NFL season, they might
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have to change the old mantra from quote defense wins
championships to quote quarterbacks win championships. Clearly, as we had
toward November, this NFL season is becoming defined, in my
humble opinion, as the year of the quarterback. And I'm
not just talking about game winning drives, super Bowl runs,
or record setting performances. I'm talking about the fact that
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virtually every storyline so far this season has emanated from
the quarterback position. Take Alex Smith. It wasn't that long
ago doctors told Alex he might not only lose his leg,
he could lose his life. Seventeen surgeries later, he took
the field for the Washington football team last week, just
in time to be sacked by Aaron Donald. Incredible. You
(05:47):
can't make this stuff up. You cannot tell me. You
watch that and you weren't moved. Smith's career was declared
over by virtually every pundit. His team used their first
round pick that off season to get a new quarterback,
and the world moved down. That is, everyone moved on
except for Alex Smith. He's thirty six years old now,
and like I said, he's endured seventeen surgeries. He finally
(06:10):
got medical clearance just before the season began. He takes
the field Sunday after an injury to Kyle Allen, and
he throws his first official pass for the first time
in six hundred ninety three days. I'm telling you it's
the year of the quarterback. Even Ryan fitz Magic got
into the act last week through for three and sixtys
and three touchdowns while sporting a one pass rating. Fitzpatrick.
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He's had his fair share of ups and downs in
his career and fair share of highlights, but this was
one of his bigger ups. Now. I don't know if
he's got job security too. Was waiting in the wings.
But out of every five games fits Magic seems to
have three good ones, so he may be around for
a while. We'll take Tom Brady. He's got twelve touchdown
passes in four interceptions, not bad for a forty three
(06:53):
year old. Tampa Bay is three into and even though
Brady is learning a new offense, no t s, no
preseason to workouts, no preseason games, it's gonna take eight
games for that offense too, Mesh, and when they do,
and what do people point at? By the way his
four fingers last week at the end of the Thursday
night game in Chicago, that's the flash point. We can't
(07:13):
forget the number one overall pick. Hey, Joe Burrow finally
was rer minded last week. He's a rookie. He got
hammered by the Ravens. He took a lot of hits.
Jared Goff, he threw for a three three nine yards
last week in another Rams victory. Well, you're very quietly
reminding us they don't exactly miss Todd Gurley. But let's
not bury the lead. Let's get to the point. Dak
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Prescott's record setting season is over. Prescott he had just
scrambled for a nine yard game in the third quarter
of Sunday's game against the Giants when he had his
legs tangled underneath him and he was tackled. His right
foot appeared to spin around and Dak sat on the
field clenching his calf, and the medical card came out
and we all know it's next. He had tears in
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his eyes. He was take in off the field on
the back of a cart. Incomes in Andy Dalton, who
led the team to a narrow thirty seven thirty four victory.
Now you may remember this back in late at May
I saying the praises of Jerry Jones, who had the
foresight take out an insurance policy courtesy of Native Texan
known as the Andy Dalton Agency. This might be possibly
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another one of the NFL irony's that supplies with an
endless supply of lore. Could Jerry get to the Promised
Land with a backup quarterback? Hey, now, don't shake your
head so quickly less we forget it was Nick Foles
who got Philadelphia the Lombardi Trophy after Carson Wentz went down.
And who could forget the most famous team of all
time the group in nineteen seventy two who went seventeen?
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Oh and oh and it allowed Mercury Morris to become
obnoxious for four decades. Yes, I'm talking about Don Shula's
Miami Dolphins. When Hall of Fame quarterback Bob Greasy went
down that season after Week five, it was a journeyman
Michigan State or backup guy by the name of Earl Morral.
He guided the team all the way back to the
Super Bowl. Um that was Super Bowl seven. Greasey's injury
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guess what he was just located ankle and a fracture
sound from mayor not to be fair, Bob Greasey did
return in time to play in the Super Bowl, but
it was Earl Morrell who saved the day when Greasy
went down and uh in his absence, more win eleven
And oh, so what's the moral here tonight? I'm convinced
that went again. They're write the history books for the season.
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As I said earlier, the headline will be the Year
of the quarterback, and look no further than the Dallas
Cowboys for the center of the plot. The developing story
in Big das simple? Can history repeat itself behind the
comedic stylings of Andy Dalton? I am not joking here.
Before you pooh pooh Dalton's resume, let me share some information.
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I bet you didn't know. Since two thousand and eleven,
Andy Dalton is one of just six quarterbacks in the
NFL to accomplish the following thirty tho yards past and
two hundred passing touchdowns and seventy wins. The only other
five quarterbacks in history to have done that Drew Brees,
Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger. They've all won Super
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Bowls and Matt Ryan, who's been to a Super Bowl?
Now what do they have in common? Like I said,
they've all been to the Super Bowl in four of
the five hoisted the Lombardi Trophy at least once. The
fifth Matt Ryan, he even had a twenty five point
lead on Bill Belichick in Super Bowl fifty and you
know what happened next. But alright, I digress. Not only
that Andy Dalton has actually started a playoff game in
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each of his first four seasons in Cincinnati. The only
other quarterbacks to do that Otto Grant, google them. He's
pretty good. Hall of Fame Joe Flacco, whether you like
him or not, he won a Super Bowl and that
guy just mentioned a minute ago, Russell Wilson. So this
is the company Dalton's in. Breeze Rogers, Brady, Ryan, Roethlisberger,
Otto Graham, Flacco, Russell Wilson. Get the picture. Andy Dalton
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is not a Hammond Egger. Think what you want. So
the sixty four dollar question, can the Cowboys win when
it matters most? In January? With Andy Dalton at the
Helm last Sunday, for the better part of a quarter
and a half, Balton was in control of the Cowboys offense.
He completed nine of eleven passes for one eleven yards,
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and one of the players checked in, rookie receiver Ceedee Lamb,
who basically said, you know what, we trusted him. He's
very calm, he's very composed, like he's been there before.
That's pretty nice praise from Ceedee Lamb. Let's take a
quick glimpse of what Dalton did before he got the
Dallas between twenty and eleven and he started every season
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for the Bengals. In that time. He started one and
thirty three games, and his yearly completion average was never
less than fifty eight percent. It topped out about sixty
seven percent one year over the years nine years at
average to six that's not bad. In those years, Dalton
through two hundred and four touchdowns, only getting intercepted a
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hundred and eighteen times. That gives him a career interception
rate at two point six percent. That's very good. He
was also a three time Pro Bowl quarterback sixteen and
his win loss record with the Bengals. This is the Bengals,
not the seventies Steelers are the eighties Cowboys of the
nineties Niners are actually the eighties forty Niners and the
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nineties Cowboys. You get the picture. The Bengals, he was
seventy and sixty one. He had receivers like oh A. J.
Green and Tyler Boyd. Those were his best receivers. The
best running backs you ever had were Cedric Benson, God
rest his soul, Ben Jarvis green ellis don't tell me
you don't remember that name. The law firm give Chris
Bourbon credit for that one. The law firm of Ben
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Jarvis green Ellis. You might have even had him on
your fantasy team at one point or not. How about
the legendary Jeremy Hill, And then he had a bit
of time with Joe Mixon. Not exactly a murderer's role.
He's got better weapons and alice. So here's the situation.
A picture emerges from all these numbers and all this
anecdotal information. Andy Dalton's pretty good and early in his
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career he was considered very good, good enough to get
himself into the Pro Bowl three times. And Cincinnati has
been a weak team in general for a decade. Now.
That wasn't always Dalton's fault, and I get it, he
didn't save him either. But his career numbers there, well,
let's just say this, their solid, but they're on spectacular.
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But guess what, so we're earl morals. So let's let
the games begin. This is the year the quarterback? Would
it not be the irony of ironies? If Dallas gets
to the Super Bowl with a backup coming up, Steve
Fezik will join us. We're gonna go over NFL Week
six in rapid fire fashion. What does it mean when
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the Super Contest here in Las Vegas. You hear him
Monday through Friday on the weekday version of Straight Out
of Vegas three to four Pacific, six to seven Eastern,
the inimitable Steve Fezi Faz how Alry Budd Bernie. I
am humbled. I've been listening. Arnie has been killing it.
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You've been killing it, Steve the Seger special delivery with
great updates. You know what, Saturday night Fox Sports Ray
is just fantastic. That's what I'm talking about. Man, tell
your friends, tell your neighbors, Grandpa, put on pants. Let's
go all right, wait to kids to while you're at it, Fez,
let's dive right into this. Carolina. You know they've been
pretty good on her Matt Rule. And the reason I
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say that is they're actually winning the stance battle against
the quality opponents, short line against the Bears. Tomorrow. Yeah,
I leaned to Carolina. The money has been coming on
the Bears, so I'm against the money here. The narrative
on Caroline, I think it was accurate. No continuity. They're
gonna struggle early. They dropped their first two games straight
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up and against the spread. Since then, three straight upsets
a team on the come, a team you'll make money
betting on Lions coming off a by short favorite on
the road, they get to face Jacksonville, a defense you
couldn't stop a nosebleed. Here's what's interesting, Fez, not that
the Lions season is over come on, forget it. No expectations,
no pressure, no anticipation for success. This is when Stafford
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and company are at their best. Do you like tomorrow? Yeah,
I'd look towards your Detroit Lions strength of schedule edge.
The lines have actually played the second hardest schedule by
my numbers in the NFL. Jacksonville the gate easiest, jackson
Will playing worst every week. I looked to the Lions.
Minnesota lands three and a half against Atlanta tomorrow. Mike
Zimmer is twenty one and four against the number coming
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off a loss when he faces a non divisional opponent
Atlanta no more, Dan Quinn And in the NFL, in
the last eleven games when a coach is fired the
following week, team is only three and eight against the number.
I like Minnesota here a lot tomorrow. I do too.
And you know It's interesting. Five straight weekends money has
come in on these Atlanta Falcons. No one really understands why. Well,
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it's not coming in on this week. Money has been
coming in on the Vikings. I think they're the right
side at the Tennessee Titans. I think Mike Brabel is
in a phenomenal job with this team in the last
couple of years. They're four and old, but they've only
covered once. Tomorrow they get the Houston Texans, and I'm
looking towards the Texans, and it's all about the fact
that they their wide receivers have not been healthy. They
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lost Hopkins, that was fine. They got Cooks and four.
When both those guys who are burners are healthy, this
is a good team. Last week was the first week
both were healthy. Got targeted twenty times. Big game. I'd
look to Houston the New York Giants. I had to
do a double take. I've checked with the Ripley's Believe
it or not, people, they're actually a favorite tomorrow the
New York Giants or a favorite against the Washington football team. Well,
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I guess somebody had to be favorite. But but they
didn't have to be favored by two and a half
to three. If you have to play it, take the
points all right tomorrow. This is a game that's really
got my attention. I'm a big Pittsburgh fan because I
don't think they're getting enough credit for how good they
are defensively. They're way better than average in my opinion.
I don't care about their strength of opponent. You can
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only ask them to be do they play as the
last two times the Steelers have started four O they
won the Super Bowl both years that was seventy eight
and seventy nine. They're laying three and a half tomorrow
against this upstart Cleveland team. Yeah, and you were actually
in studio with me when we broke out how the Steelers,
even if you normalize for that easy strength of schedule,
there's still been a darn impressive team with their margin
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of victory and Cleveland with Baker Mayfield his ribs nothing,
Steelers leading the lead, get in sacks uh prediction, Baker
Mayfield does not get out of the game, does not
make it through the game, Pittsburgh covers and let's not
bury the other lead in this game. The last forty
times the Steelers have played Pittsburgh five and one, including
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beating them sixteen. Let me try that to get in English.
The Steelers don't play Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh plays the Browns.
Sixteen straight losses by the Browns at three rivers. Fez, Hey,
it's only a temple of forty. How important can that be? Yeah,
I'm not. I'm sorry. As I said though on Arnie
Show tonight, Cleveland reminds me of the famous actress Lily Tomlin,
who once said I always wanted to be somebody. I
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just wish I had been more specific. I'm not buying
this Cleveland team just can't do it all right, Philadelphia fest.
They played Pittsburgh last week, they actually moved the ball
pretty well. Tomorrow they're getting seven and a half against
another good defense in Baltimore. And this seemed all the
way up to ten because Lane Johnson, a fourth wineman,
is now out for the Eagles. I get it, cluster injuries,
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but Lane Johnson and a hobble already. Lane Johnson is
not worth two and a half points to the spread.
If you better, I take the Birds plus the ten.
Talking with Steve Fazik, the only two time winner of
the Super Contest here in Las Vegas, catching weekdays straight
out of Vegas three to four, Pacific six to seven Eastern. Alright,
let's head to Indianapolis laying a big number against Cincinnati. Finally,
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Joe Burrow looked like a rookie last week against that
Baltimore defense. Now he gets another very tough defense. No
rest for the weary. Yeah, and I think that the
Bengals are in actually a good spot. They're embarrassed so badly,
and frankly, the Colts and Rivers are not the sort
of team that have the weapons to separate. I'd look
to Sincy. Al right, Uh, let's head to Miami again,
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Ripley's believe it or not, Miami is this number. They're
laying nine against the Jets tomorrow. The Jets that bad.
The Jets really are that bad. I had the Jets
the worst team in the NFL, you know, I thought
they were historically bad to all points worse than an
average team. But Miami was actually sixty points worse after
Week four last year. So they Jets still have some
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some bad play to do to equal that level of incompetence.
All Right, San Francisco was embarrassed last week. They were
laying eight and they lost to the aforementioned Carolina Panthers.
But I typically, uh have a lot of respect for
a proud team coming off an embarrassing effort. I get
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this since they bounced back. Tomorrow's a home dog against
the Rams. Your thoughts, this is my best bet. I
am on thet plus the three great spot for the Niners.
Their third straight home game and they lost the first two,
so they'll be TRIPLI focused here and the Rams. Fourth
road trip the last five weeks, three of them were
to the East Coast. Four Niners win the game. I'm
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glad you brought that up. They have done nothing except
criss crossed the country for the last month and a
half that there has to be a cumulative effects on
their legs. No, absolutely and normal you'd say this is
a pretty short road trip, no big deal. It's a
cumulive effect, as you say, that is the issue. All right, Uh,
Denver visits New England. I think this game is actually
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gonna be played Monday at two pm Pacific time? Is
that correct? I have not seen that update yet. Burning Okay, well,
here's where we're at. Belichick off a lot. By the way,
when's the last time New England played a game when
Lincoln was present. I mean, it's been a while, but
Belichick off a loss. But they're laying a big number
here against Denver. It just seems to me like this
game has a lot of, as you would say, unknown,
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So do you even are you involved in this game
at all? You know, I am not. I can tell
you that the money has been pouring in on Denver,
and I think part of that is just that Drew
lock is going to start and he's worth three points
to the line. But with all the uncertainty, I have
not invested in it. Okay, a game that I'm very
interested in because I'm not only very interested in the
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storyline for the remainder of the season with the Dallas Cowboys.
For obvious reasons, they are home Monday again a surgeon
Arizona Cardinal team who this is the third time this
year they've laid points on the road to the only
points on the road on a money night game and
Dallas historically has done pretty well faes as a home dog.
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But there's another aspect of this game. I'd like you
to comment on it. Because it's the third straight home
game for Dallas, put the third straight away game for Arizona.
That's only happened ten or so times in the last
fifteen twenty years. And the road team against the number
in this situation in Arizona's is lane points. The road
team is lane points. That's a bit of a moful there,
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go ahead and respond to that. Props to our own
Mackenzie Rivers, who did all the research on this and
just blindly betting on against the team that has their
third straight road trip. You make money to the tune
of fifty five to fifty six. But what I really
like about this these haven't just been small road trips.
Arizona went all the way back to back weeks and
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now they go to Dallas almost a thousand and miles.
On top of that bold prediction, Dallas is the favorite
come Monday kickoff. Yeah, I wouldn't surprised me. Right, final
game Kansas City and Buffalo Buffalo kind of a weird week.
They don't know who they're gonna player when they're gonna play.
Now they get the Chiefs. Yeah, you know, it's interesting
because this look ahead line was three and a half
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on this game. Now it's four and a half to five,
and I can see it with Kansas City. Off of
that bad loss against the Raiders. They should be focused.
And with the Bills being fat and drunk and uh
not fat drunk and happy, but just um having a
schedule that's completely unstable after the Tuesday game. Really strange
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circumstance for Buffalo. I passed the game. Alright, good stuff, Fas,
Let's do it next week, same bad time, same bad channel.
You're ready, You're the best, Bernie. You want to be
my agent? All right? That's Steve, That's Steve Fessik, folks.
The only two time win are the Super Contest here
in Las Vegas, catching Monday through Friday, straight out of
Vegas three to four Pacific, six to seven Eastern, coming
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up sleepy with another best bet. Yes he's five and
oh five and oh and I'm going to talk about
one of the games tomorrow where everybody's focused on the
quarterback matchup, and I think they're missing a key aspect
of this contest. And I will break it down for you.
But first, you know, if you had one shot, one
opportunity to see everything you ever wanted in one moment,
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would you capture it or just let it slip. That's
why we go to the silver Tongue devil, Brian Finley
with the latest that sounds a little bit like eminem
Could that possibly be the great Interpeanut? Yes, I met
Marshall Mathers once, did you Wow? Did the Rays on
their fourth dry closing out the Astros four two in
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Game seven of the a LCS to enter the World Series.
Randy a Rosarina hit a two run blast in the first,
ending his seventh jack of the season, which is one
short of a league record. Here's Raised manager Kevin Cash
exploring the phenomenon of nearly blowing a three games to
none lead the last three days. We're pretty agonizing. Uh,
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there's no doubt we definitely added to the you know,
to all of our stress levels. Uh. That's a really
good team over there, And to think it would be
wrong if anybody to assume that we were just gonna
walk through that. But you know, I don't know. I
couldn't tell you. I probably would have rather got it
done in Game four or five than than winning it
in Game seven. The Dodgers have a Game seven in
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their future. After hampering the Braves three one in Game
six of the NLCS, Justin Turner and Corey Seeger pounding
solo home runs in the first inning. In college football,
Number two Alabama scoring twenty one unanswered points in the
second half and rubbing it in against third ranked Georgia
forty one to twenty four. Bama quarterback Mac Jones with
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a herculean four touchdown throws and four d seventeen yards
passing Florida State horrifies Number five North Carolina. The Seminals
second quarter points. Number twenty three Virginia Tech out working
Boston College forty to fourteen. Number eleven Texas A and
M disfiguring Mississippi State to fourteen. The Bulldogs ran from
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minus two yards and finally Cleveland Brown's quarterback Baker Mayfield
wide receiver Odell Beckham junior junior, who were dubbed questionable
this weekend, are reportedly playing on Sunday against the Steelers.
Now back to Bernie Frido, who is the most visited
attraction that Vegas has to offer. Thanks Brian, good stuff,
Buddy all right, Sleepy has another best bet. He's five
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and oh. The first four weeks he gave you player
prop bets. Last week he flipped to a teaser that
connected five and oh. Now he's headed back towards the
player prop side. He's got an interesting one here involving
my beloved Detroit Lions, and frankly, I think it makes
a lot of sense because one particular player should be
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able to take advantage of a the well below average defense.
Let's take a listen, all right, Bernie, I'm recommending a
play coming from your old stomping grounds, Detroit. I'm recommending
a play on Lions running back Adrian Peterson to score
a touchdown. Now we can get Peterson to score TV
right around even money. I believe the lines are going
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to be in a position to run the ball. They
probably won't fall behind, in which they won't have to
be extra heavy in the passing game. The Jaguars rush
defense seventh worst in the league right now, giving up
almost a hundred and fifty yards a game. In the
last two games that Jaguars rush defense, it was lit
up by David Johnson and Joe Mixon for almost two
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hundred and fifty yards a p. I don't know, Bernie,
You tell me. It looks like he has some new
life in those legs. Not only does he look fast,
but he looks very strong. And let me point this
out as well, Peterson, he's looking to move from fifth
all time to fourth all time on the rushing leader list. Yes,
he's still eight hundred yards shy, but I believe he's
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looking to go go ahead and pass the Lions all time
great Barry Sanders as one of Peterson's career goals. Here's
one other thing, Bertie, and I believe this has a
high probability of getting a p in the end zone
as well. Jaguars secondary they were a mess right now
and they're not playing well. Not only are they not
playing well, but they've been flagged second highest in the
league in pass interference calls. So we can get Stafford
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in the red zone throwing balls into the end zone.
I believe there's a high probability we can get a flag,
therefore setting Peterson up at the one yard line getting
ready to punch it in. So Bernie, my best bet
for NFL Week six Adrian Peterson a story touchdown. Alright,
So what's interesting is I actually look for the Lions
to put up about thirty five points tomorrow against that
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bad Jaguars defense. Uh, they're coming off of bye week.
There's no pressure on this team anymore. And this is
actually when they start to do well their win season
total with six and a half, don't be surprised if
they climb over that with a meaningless seven and they
get it done tomorrow against Jacksonville, there's gonna be point scored.
Why not sleep he's on a roll. He's he's five.
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And oh the other game I want to talk about
tomorrow that I teased before Brian's update, Tampa Bay hosts
uh Green Bay. And there have been so many varying
opinions about that game throughout the week from various folks,
and everybody wants to focus on Brady versus Rogers, and
that's fine, I get it, you know, Okay, let's talk
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about that for just a second. Aaron Rodgers, he's having
a career year. I think he's four and over the
third time in his career. He's completing his passes. That's first,
that would rank first, or any of his seasons. His
pass yards per game, he's averaging three yards per game
through the year, that would be second. And then Aaron
Rodgers career per season is passer rating this season a
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hundred point four, that would be first. And you know
the look, there's just no two ways about it. The
hackers are doing what they're doing because of Aaron Rodgers,
and I'm gonna come back to that. Meanwhile, Tom Brady
now his first two games, he only threw for two
yards per game, He had three touchdowns, three interceptions. Is
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passer rating with seventy nine point three. His last three games,
Big jump Brady is now throwing for three six yards
per game, nine touchdowns, one interception is passer rating is
one oh six point seven. You just wait till this
team gets past seven, eight, nine games and this offense
will start to kick in no O t a s
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no preseason to speak of, no preseason games. It takes
a minute for this team to jail. And I talked
about it last week. They're scruffy around the edges, they
commit penalties, they turn the ball over that'll get corrected.
And by the way, Tampa Bay's defense is pretty good
and they run the ball. Well, here's where I think
everybody is neatly omitting what the storyline of this game
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should be. Tomorrow and it kicks off with Eastern Pacific.
Aaron Rodgers sparkling statistics are masking a very below average defense.
If you don't believe me, every time an opponent for
Green Bay has gotten into the red zone this year.
They've scored one of the time, whether it's a field goal,
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whether it's a touchdown, they scored a hundred percent of
the time. That would rank last in the National Football
League teams. And this is gonna bode well for Ronald
Jones tomorrow. Of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Opponents are averaging
four point eight yards per carry against the Packers. That
would rank defensively across the league. And if Ronald Jones
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can run the ball, that's going to open up passing
lanes for Tom Brady and Chris Godwin is back tomorrow.
Here's another advanced stat you don't hear a lot about.
It's called missed tackles. Green Bay is missing ten point
eight tackles a game. That's not good. Again, that ranks
that would rank thirty among NFL defenses. So Aaron Rodgers
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has really put that team on his back. And by
the way, three to the last four games of Packers
opponents have scored twenty one plus points. Tampa Bay is
going to get their points tomorrow. And if they don't
turn the ball over and continue to commit stupid penalties
and self inflicted wounds. I think Tampa Bay wins the game.
We'll see. I didn't bet the game. I'm not making
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any predictions. But everybody thinks that Green Bay just has
to show up, throw their he helping on the field
and win. I'm not seeing it that way. Tampa Bay
should be four and one or three and two. Again,
let's unpack this at the end of the year. Everybody
can save their old man jokes. I don't care to
think whatever the hell you want about Brady. He continues
to confound his critics, and when he doesn't, I'll admit it.
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But for now, I believe in the guy, just like
I did in Tea when everybody said I was nuts
when I said they'd win the Super Bowl, and they did.
By the way, I want to talk about the Steelers
real quickly, because they've really caught my eye. I mentioned
earlier that their four now for the first time in
forty years. The last time they did it was nineteen
seventy eight and again in nineteen seventy nine. They won
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the Super Bowl both years. Can I have special interest
in Super Bowl four team? When they beat the Rams
thirty one in nineteen I was living in Southern California
at the time, and I'll never forget this. This really
started to get me interested in betting. The Steelers opened
up as an eleven and a half point favorite against
my beloved or Rams with Vince Ferragamino. Ferragamo and Wendell
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Tyler and Rams had a real good team that year.
And I went to the game. The game was played
at the Rose Bowl. Well, the Steelers were trailing nineteen
to seventeen heading into the fourth quarter. Then Bradshaw and
company took over scored two fourth quarter touchdowns. The Steelers
win Super Bowl fourteen thirty one in nineteen and yes
they cover and eleven and a half point spread. How
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did that happen? They did it? And that got me
interested in betting. All I know is this Pittsburgh team
remind there's a cultural thing there. They have it. They
have it in spades. They don't even have Antonio Brown
or Levyan Bell anymore. They don't miss them at all.
They're hitting on all three phases. Are they perfect? No?
But Big Ben coming off an injury, he's having an
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excellent year. All I guess I'm saying is, don't be
surprised if Pittsburgh's into super Bowl again. As I said,
the last two times they started four and oh they
went to the Super Bowl, even though it's been they
won the Super Bowl, even though that was forty years ago,
and of course they've won since as well. But I
don't hear a lot of people talking about the Steelers.
Something to keep an eye on. Alright, coming up. You
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Thinking Man segment of the show. Welcome in Mackenzie Rivers
and continuing our motif tonight with the Year of the Quarterback,
Mackenzie has ranked all thirty two quarterbacks. But one of
the things I want to dive into here, mackenzie, is
the rankings as they pertain and correlate to possibly get
into the super Bowl. Let's head to Pittsburgh where you've
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got seventeenth ranked Baker Mayfield uh teeing it up against
ninth ranked Ben Roethlisberger, who, by the way, very quietly
ten touchdowns, one interception. He's been flawless, and they're playing
a really a different style in Pittsburgh than he's used to.
A lot of shorter passes and you see a lot
of end a rounds. Click Clay Claypool getting the four
tds last year. It's explosive offense. I really love it.
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I think Big Ben is probably in his late age,
almost as good as he's ever been. You know, Raphaela
dal talks about it all the time. You lose a
couple of steps, but what you gain upstairs is invaluable.
Ben Roethlisberger very much a Super Bowl contender, and he's
won a couple. So that Maddox, all right, I want
to head the money night. This is intriguing. You've got
Kyler Murray ranked six. He'll tee it up. You've only
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got Andy Dalton ran. What are your thoughts on how
does that correlate and the how you might kendicap that game.
I don't think Andy Dalton's a bad quarterback. I just
think he's limited and I think frankly, in two thousand twelve,
he was more equipped to get you close to the
Super Bowl into contention in that style football than it
is now and nowadays. Kyler Murray does everything that Lamar
Jackson does, and he is one of the best most
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natural throwers that I've ever seen. He can just he
can just get you anything you want. The only real
difference between that team those teams is the other fifty
four guys on that roster. I mean, it's a small
sample size, but there was one game Lamar Jackson couldn't play,
didn't didn't didn't have to play Week seventeen. They're covered
by fifteen points with r G three in there. They
have an elite defensive front, they have weapons, they have
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running games, they have the offensive line. If you put
Kyler Murray on the Ravens, they'd be the best team
in the league. Kyler Murray is that guy. We just
don't know it yet. Well, clearly that from a skill
set and from the highlight reel, no one can argue.
But they haven't won, you know, super Bowls or men.
And one of the things I want to talk about, um,
remember he Andy Dalton back in two thousand fovels, just
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coming out of TCU. It was his second year in
the league. And I think he's a veteran. Now, ironically,
Dallas will not lean on him as much as it
might lean on Deck to lean more in the running
game Laton Vanderish back. I find an interesting though, because
Dalt might make enough place to win that game. But
be that as it may, all things equal, you'd take
Kyler Murray over over Andy Dalton. I get that, all right.
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Let's talk about Rogers and Brady. You've got Rogers ranked
third behind Wilson and Mahomes in an argument there, and
you've got Brady ranked fourth. And I'm with you, I'm
not I'm not a Brady hater. I don't get this,
so good. Go ahead. Two thousand and eighteen, Tom Brady's
sixth and qbr They score like, I don't know, twenty
eight points a game, and they're like, oh, Brady's okay.
If you look at their games next the year they
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won the Super Bowl. By the way, if you look
at all games they played against playoff teams that year,
I can't belie I couldn't believe it when I saw it.
They scored thirty five points a game. All the guy
does is win. All the guy does is show up
in the biggest moments and execute. He's in a brand
new team, brand new situation. But this list is based
on skill, and I think long term potential. I think
if you're looking at a Super Bowl contender, there's no
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place in the NFC South other than the Temple Bill.
And I was doing the show then and my buddy
Rob Parker said he was dead man walking. He won
a super Bowl. Okay, the last two years commulatively, Brady,
but hetty before this year fifty one touchdowns, seventeen interceptions.
By the way, in the last three games, as I
mentioned earlier, nine touchdowns, one interceptions is passer rating is
one of six point seven. Demand can still play one
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more thing on Brady. These guys do it for a
living Pro Football Focus. Out of all the talk about
how he fell off last year, number eleve and rated
quarterback last year by Pro Football Focus, try number three
this year. Nobody in media is talking about it, but
Tom Brady's actually pretty damn good, still defying Father time.
Got about a minute. But talk about Russell Wilson and
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Tatrick Mahomes. Obviously they both won Super Bowls earlier in
their career. They're just fabulous to watch and they produced results.
I made this list a couple of weeks ago, and
I put I put number one Patrick Mahomes number two.
Patrick Mahomes echoing throughout history because he made some plays
against the Ravens that I've just never seen before, only
in my wildest imagination or with a nerve football, you know.
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I mean, if if you throw behind his back past,
I would not be surprised. That said, looking at some
of the tape with the Raiders game, I mean the
numbers buried out next gen stats. He's number thirty and accuracy.
So I think experience, I think, you know, taking his time,
being calm, cool and collected. I don't think he I
think he's the future Goat. I don't think he is
right now. I think Russell Wilson is the best player
in the league. It's amazing what he does on a
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nightly basis. Mahomes thirteen touchdowns, one interception, one last one.
You've got Cam Newton ranked eighteens, probably about where he
should be. I don't know that that bolds well for
new Eng's postseason chances. You know, I feel like about
him doing the same way I feel about Lebron. He
is so good at certain things no one else can
match it. For example, being one yard away from the
goal line. No one else is even in the stratosphere.
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But you take the whole picture into account. Yeah, I
think he's about eight team good stuff. Mackenzie will maybe
pick up on this next week because there's a couple more.
Derek carr Levin touchdowns, one interception, Josh Allen don't sleep
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