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should be. And just like that, the hopes and dreams
of BYU getting to this twelve team playoff may have
been deflated faster than a Twana breast implant. Maybe we'll
see Kansas goes on the road. They deliver a seventeen
to thirteen upset of number six BYU, and that brings

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the Cougar's undefeated season to a halt right on schedule.
My good buddy Mark Lawrence, who's coined the phrase, when
teams get into November and they're undefeated, the noose is tightening.
I believe Indiana, Oregon and Army the only three remaining
undefeated teams. Look, BYU had been teetering. I think they're
a very good team. I don't know how good they are.

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That's why I love this playoff because it's all going
to be to sat it on the field last year.
Checked that last week they had a miraculous road victory
at Utah and you had to wonder, how would it
carry you over this week? And now we found out
Kansas probably better than our three six record. And by
the way, the Kougs were also pushed to the brink

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of defeat against Oklahoma State about a month ago, and
they pulled off a last minute touchdown drive to stave
off the Cowboys. So where do they sit? Still tied
for first place in the Big Twelve alongside Colorado and
BYU plays at Arizona State next week. They wrap up
the regular season against Houston. We so see what we
shall see. What we saw today in Georgia is as

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they entered the game, they found themselves in an uncomfortable place.
They come off this really unimpressive, emphatic loss to Old
Miss and they were scuffling and we've you know, everything
in life is juxtaposed against expectations. We've become so accustomed

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to listening to or watching George's dominance everywhere they turn.
It's just one of those situations. If they bring their
best and you bring your best. George's best is probably
going to be better, but not so much this year.
And this is a byproduct of nil. This is a
byproduct of or the transfer portal. Teams just don't have

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the depth that they've had in the past. And that's
across the board. Still some very good college football teams,
but not the great, stupid, great, silly dominant teams like
we've seen in the past. Be that as may Carson
Beck and his cronies. They hammer Tennessee thirty one to
seventeen after falling behind ten to nothing, and for a moment,

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Georgia looked like they had looked back. Who's been another
mystery twelve interceptions in his past six games. He looked
flawless Saturday, three forty six, three touchdowns, and more importantly,
he looked comfortable. He looked confident, and he was getting
the ball out of his hand with authority. He wasn't
guiding it. And the truth of the matter is, look,

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they say it matters more in the SEC. It does.
It does. I really don't want to see a playoff
without Georgia, but the SEC is going to get four
teams into it. And if you can't be one of
the top four. It's kind of hard to make your
case right, and that the sec they continue to cannibalize themselves.

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You know, Alabama, Auburn, Texas, A and M and Kentucky
they kind of played their gratuitous annual take a day
off and play a cop, you know, a lesser opponent
and give him a payday. And they wall up those
teams by a combine one hundred and fifty four points.
We give it up to Florida. They're fighting hard. They
beat LSU, and I think after what was the dis

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third or fourth year, I think Brian Kelly's act might
be getting tired. The sidelines caught him yelling at one
player that another player yelling at him, and how was
your day? Meanwhile, the Ducks they continue to play big.
This time their defense played big all right. When Tuesday
rolls around, as you all sit with your snacks and

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your favorite beverage waiting for the committee to select the
new number one team, you won't have to worry about it.
Oregon's defense took care of that. They came up big
and of grueling, and it was a grueling sixteen to
thirteen win. Make no mistake, Wisconsin's better than their five
and five record. Camp Randle's not the easiest place to play. Look,
the win keeps Oregon undefeated. Had a tour to Big
Ten title game birth, but it showed that Orgon beat

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you six ways from Tuesday. And you may say, well,
maybe they're not as good as your thought, and that's
not true. The great Nolan Ryan once said, the mark
of a great athlete, the mark of a great team
is when they don't have their best stuff and they
still find a way to beat you. This win keeps
Oregon undefeated. They held But I need to say this Wisconsin.

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I didn't watch the game, so I can't lie. I
only so I sampled the game, so I couldn't really
break it down. They held the Ducks to just three
hundred and fifty yards, and that's a week after Oregon
musterd just three sixty three against Maryland. That's the first
time Oregon's had back to back games with fewer than
four hundred yards since wait for it, the COVID season. Yes.

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On the other hand, at the end of the year,
when it comes to a signing playoff position and it
comes to wins, they don't ask cal just how many?
All right? I don't have a Heisman vote. I think
my good buddy Steve Hartman does. I'm not sure. I
love Steve. He never mentions it on the air, and
Steve deserves one. He's one of the most knowledgeable people

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you'll ever meet, and I know he'll be fair and
objective with his vote. Steve, if you're listening, and I
believe you are, I don't know how you make a
case against against Travis Hunter played one hundred and thirty
two plays Saturday. What did he do? You know? Caught
a bunch of passes, scored a touchdown, struck a Heisman proposed,

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did the whole deal right? He's a big reason why
Colorado was eight and two. Yes, eight and two. Now,
I might be a little biased here because I covered
the Charles Woodson nineteen ninety seven Michigan team, and Travis
Hunter is Charles Woodson, and I don't know if he's
got Charles Woodson's ceiling in the NFL, because Charles Woodson
is Charles Woodson. He lined up on offense a couple

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of times and caught a couple of passes. I'm waiting
for Travis Hunter to make that one big signature play
like Charles Woodson did in ninety seven against Ohio State
when he went about thirteen feet in the air, pulled
on that interception with one hand, waiting for that kind
of Heisman moment to seal the deal. But I don't
know what you're waiting for, Aston Genti's fabulous. Dylan Gabriel

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shoot or Sanders, pick your pick. I think cam Ward's dropped,
and I think, frankly, maybe Dylan Gabriel might have taken
a hit in the last couple of weeks, because you know,
the stat stuffers will be unimpressed that he, you know,
is perhaps regress slightly, even the Oregon continues to win.
You know, just strike that from the record. You're honor

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I think Dylan Gabriel's fabulous, But look, if you're being honest,
who's the best player in college football? I don't really
know where the hell Dean Sanders is going with all
his hate thing, but you know, you know what him
and angelis get together and say, why is the world hitest? Dude?
I got news for you, man. Most people don't think
about you that much. But as far as me, I
think coach Prime's done a phenomenal job. I think both

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Travis and Schadour, you know, their top five picks. And
I think Travis Hunter stakes a major claim to the
Heisman after his play on both sides of the ball,
not just Saturday against Utah, but the the entire season,
simple as that whole Hall One game. I did watch
sc They're hard to watch, man. They got a lot

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of athletes, they got a lot of talent. They have
some occasional, you know, creative schemes. And I don't know
what Nebraska is, you know, do they make some kind
of fostery and deal with the devil. We'll get to
five wins, but then we're gonna stop it there every year. Yeah,
they haven't been to a Bowl game since Moby Dick
was a minno. And I don't know if they're going
this year, but I still think, you know, I remember

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what they did to Colorado. But it's all about progressing. Meanwhile,
very quietly, finally, Notre Dame keeps rolling along. They throttle
in Virginia thirty five fourteen. They got a very gaudy record.
Now they'll probably find their way into the playoff and
by the way back to USC they still got UCLA
and Notre Dame on deck. So we'll see what happens there.

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Look each week the top twenty five and doors major
shakeups that typically transform the landscape, and sometimes there are
subtle changes as well. We'll see what the committee decides Tuesday.
But anyway, slice it the beauty of this the tournament
this year. It's not up made for TV four team Invitational.
It's an actual tournament to be decided on the field,

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you know, kind of like the NFL. How's that for
a segue? Coming up? Get your pens and pencils ready,
you'll be drinking out of a fire hose. The only
two time winners, back to back winner of the once
Hilton now prestigious Westgate Super Contest, Steve Fasick, will join
us for the physic five and lots of frolicking fun.
I'm Bernie Frattle. We are company line from the Las

(09:28):
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Speaker 1 (09:36):
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Speaker 2 (09:40):
Now we're back on the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports
Radio coming to life from the Tarat dot com Studios
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you're about to drink through a fire hose. It's that time.
The only two time winner, back to back winner of
the once prestigious Hilton now Westgate Super Contest, Steve hasick
time for the physic five.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
The time.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
It's the Phasick five.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
These are the five things you need to hear about,
not with the only backed up back Hilton Super Contest.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Winner Steve Fessig. Here's Bernie Fratto.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
You know, Fez, I've always wondered during the Academy Awards,
if they gave the first five key awards first, like
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, how many people would
stay with that show for the next three hours. But
they're gonna stay with this show because we're gonna start
at the top, Fez, Kansas City Buffalo the marquee matchup
of the week. I'm dying to hear your take on
this very quickly. The Chiefs have the distinction. They're a

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Super Bowl defending champ. They're undefeated. In the history of
the National Football League, whenever a Super Bowl champion defending
champion is undefeated and they are catching points the following season.
They not only got the money all seven times they
want to write six out of seven, and I think
Patrick Maholmes has gotten a memo two. He's fifteen and

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one against the number in his career mark as an
NFL underdog, including twelve and four straight up fanes take
it away, all.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Right, So I make the game buffalo minus two. I
haven't buffaloed the better team, but only by a smidgeon.
So right now with the line two and a half,
it's a Wong teaser. We've spoken about that before. If
you haven't heard about Wong teasers by Stanford Wong's book
Sharp Sports Betting. He's a friend of mine, and it
explains how powerful these are. All Kansas City does is

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play close games, and they usually win them. You don't
care if they win. If you play the teaser from
plus two and a half up to play plus eight
and a half, you'll need some dance partners. We'll talk
about those shortly.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, okay, excellent, I've actually got a good dance partner.
IL suggest in a minute. But irrespective of the teaser aspect, fez,
who do you like? Do you have a thought on
the side? Who do you think comes away with a dub? See?

Speaker 5 (11:58):
This is why I'm a terrible guest because every other
guest has this great take and the like. And if
you I'm on Gil Alexander's show and I do look aheadlines,
and I said, bet Buffalo plus one. Buffalo should be
a small favorite, and now Buffalo is a small favorite.
If I make it Buffalo minus two, it's going to
be really hard for me to find value when the
prep when the prevailing line is minus two to minus

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two and a half, I have to pass it.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Okay. So this is why you're the best guest because
you give an honest, cojin objective answer. You don't feel
the pressure to have an opinion on every single game,
which is today's gambling lesson. You don't have to spray
the board.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
People thanks, and people are gonna get mad at me.
These are all content providers. All these people you're listening
to all week long. They're doing the best they can.
They're working really hard, but they don't bet for a living.
Many of them don't even bet. It's hard to win.
And you know what, it's a lot easier to win
betting on a Monday when the numbers are just coming
out then when you're betting on Saturday night. But however,

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there are a few games that are like and there
are some teasers I like, so good news this week.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Well, I don't how hard they work. If you're telling
me to bet a nine point underdog up to sixteen
and a teaser, your first in line for front of lobotomy.
And some of those people are on TV. But that's
the story for a different day. Fans the Lions, if
you just blindly bet them the last one hundred games,
they're covering fifty seven point six percent of the time.
But you have to be crazy lay fourteen in the

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National Football League. Your thoughts on this game.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
Well, that's why they're laying fourteen, as they played so well.
I can't help but think three weeks ago the Lions
had a real flat spot. They're playing the Titans after
two big games, and the Titans just gave away the
game terrible special teams take returns for touchdowns, game was.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Over at halftime.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
And now the Lions have had back to back really
difficult big games, not difficult, but big games where they've
just won against Houston. The week before they went against
Green Bay. So this is the flat game. I got
to tell you twenty years ago. This is the game
A fourteen point Favre would lose outright. Teams tend to
play better in bad spots like this, but I could

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only look towards Jacksonville. I bet the Jaguars plus fourteen.
I'll give you a bonus pick Jacksonville fourth quarter. You
get plus three and a half. Laydar's thirty at DraftKings burning.
If they get killed, they should be picked them in
the fourth quarter, and you're getting three and a half.
That's a good bet.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
I'm quite sure the books will need Jacksonville. That opened
up at thirteen earlier in the week, and Lions money
is steamed in. You always want to be on the
side of the books when the ball is in the air.
Speaking of that, Denver a nice and tidy seven and
three against the number FEZ in their last ten games. Now,
I gotta tell you, a fella, I don't get this

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line laying two at home against an Atlanta team that
I'm underwhelmed by. And part of the reason is the
last two seasons the Falcons one to five against the
spread in the second of back to back road games
and they're only catching two. You pick the winner here,
you probably have a cash ticket. Explain to me why
Denver's only ling.

Speaker 5 (14:55):
Too, because I've got them as equal teams. Remember Denver's
just two weeks ago they lost to Buffalo by a zillion,
so they're not that good. I've got them both just
slightly better than average. And if you wanted to fade Atlanta,
why didn't you do it last week when they were
a four point favorite for their four point favorite at
New Orleans? So well, I actually did.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
I actually did. It was the dead Cat bombs game
and a new coach, and you got the situation where
you got a visional team getting points at home in November.
Didn't mean to interrupt you, but I did. I did, honest, go.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
Ahead, excellent, But you can see that's where the real
big value was. I make this game Denver minus one
and a half, so I can't bet Atlanta plus two,
but I can tease Atlanta. I need someone to dance
with because I'm teasing Kansas City. By the way, when
you're playing these six point teasers, only teas through the
three through the seven, Stanford want explain to all this
All the other teasers are bad and you can't lay

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more than minus one twenty that's available at places like
Draft Kings and a book maker, so you need to
play at those at those books. Don't play a six
point teaser at minus one thirty. You won't win.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
And by the way, face, I know why they make
the line. It's all about math and power ratings. I
get all that, But I look at teams. I look
at the fundamental factors. I think Boldknix is getting better,
Denver coming off the loss. Denver's not a bad team.
I think they improve every week under Sean Payton. And
I just don't like this Atlanta team. I just think
I see a bad line there. You can call me

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out on it next week. We may have talked about
this last week. I couldn't believe that Michigan State was
only getting two and a half of Milinois today. Bad
bad line. If you look at transit of property and
college football, Illinois killed him. Story for a different day.
Let's talk about the lovable New York Jets, not so much.
They're facing the Indianapolis Colts. I could only look to

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the Colts here. By the way, since Week four fees,
the Jets are one and six, tied for last in
the worst record in the NFL, there averaging a whopping
fifteen points seven points a game tied for last, and
their point differential is minus fifty two, tied for twenty seventh.
Thank you very much, Aaron Rodgers. I kind of like

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the Colts here, but I haven't fired on it yet.
Your thoughts.

Speaker 5 (17:03):
I kind of like the Colts too, and I haven't
fired as well. You know, this is a weird game.
Sharp's laid minus three and a half. Well, correction, some
people laid minus three and a half. Don't beget to
the line. Moves doesn't mean it's sharp money. And some
other group came in and took plus four and it
went down to three and a half, and then another
group laid the three and a half again on the Jets.
Here's the bottom line, Burnie, this is why you watch
the games. Aaron Rodgers is like that guy that you

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have on your INERM your old team, and every time
you made an error would just glare at you and
would be so upset. He's the guy no one wants
to be on his team. And then you look at
Sauce Gardener. There was a play where Sauce Gardner was
wrapping up a tackle and this is the play I've
seen one hundred times in the NFL, and one hundred
times the tackle has made. He's got his hands around
the dude's waist and he's wrapping him up, and he

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doesn't tackle him. He just blows the tackle. Completely fundamentally unsound.
So I cannot bet on an unsound team like the
Jets that once blew three timeouts in the first quarter.
I could only.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Culture, Yeah, yeah, I'll see how I feel when I
wake up. We'll see, all right. Now, this game, we're
gonna spend a little bit amount of time on Baltimore
at at Pittsburgh. Excuse me, Pittsburgh catching three. I've actually
fired on the total and the side I'm gonna explain why. Look,
these things don't lie for whatever reason. Lamar Jackson has

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one and three against the Steelers in his last four
only complete seven percent of his passes, four touchdowns, seven interceptions,
and give them away the ball ten times. The other
thing that caught me, and by the way, we talked
about this last week, Mike Tomlin as a dog, forget it.
As a home dog, forget it even more. He wins
most of those outright, But this really caught me. Fez

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in the last six contests between these games, check that
the last eight contests, they've not managed to get more
than thirty nine points. That the total is forty eight
and a half, which plays into one of my strong trends,
which hitch Thursday night Divisional teams playing in November, and
the total to forty five goes under seventy one percent
of the time. So I'm on the under a forty

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eight and a half. Pittsburgh plus three, you can grade
that play. I will accept whatever you say, mister hand.

Speaker 5 (19:10):
I am alohaone sees Spiccoli. Yeah, he's buy the food machines.
Plus three and under has been the way to go
in the series. If you go back like thirty games,
it's amazing. Under Tomlin, all these teams do is play
twenty to seventeen games, so we see why you like
the under. My only concern is Baltimore is a dead

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nut over team. They're averaging over seven yards per play
and they have a suspect pass defense. You can't run
on them. So Pittsburgh's gonna be throwing those moon balls
to their wide receivers. If they succeed, the game could
go over. If they don't succeed, and then it won't.
I do think that the plus three and you can
get plus three like plus a dollar ten and plus

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one oh five. Right now you can't get three and
a half. I'd love to get three and a half
in a series that always has games decided by one,
two or three points spread.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yeah, we'll see what happens. I know I need two outcomes.
But I got to call him as I see him.
All right, Green Bay Chicago. They have to play the
game because it's on the schedule. The Chicago team may be, uh, fez,
you know, gearing up to be as dysfunctional as the Jets.
How much of that do you factor into it? Fez?

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When when handicapping games, Oh.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
A big time. And I think a lot of the
math geeks like, I'm a math geek, but I'm a
math geek that tries to use art also and so here,
so you nailed it. So they're talking about there's rumors
that some of the Bears want Badge and as their quarterback. Well,
Badging can't play a lick, So that's a big problem
if they think he's an upgrade. One thing for sure
that's always been the case is I'm not a fan

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of Aaron Rodgers. Famously, he wants Sandbag to win a
pro am, so he was a ten handicap. But the
one thing that he's at and gosh, I am a
pebble beach.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
There we go.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
But one thing Aaron Rodgers said that is accurate is
that we own the Bears in Soldier Field. Green Bay
always does well. I think the venue is very conducive
to them playing on the grass, and also lots of
their fans make the trip. And the Bears are so
dysfunctional they're ready to boother team, the Packers. They needed
to buy love, needed to get healthy. I could only

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look towards the Packers.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
All right, I'm gonna call this one. The jamis Winston Bull.
He told everybody he got lay six surgery, and he
can see and he prompt you know, that's why he
threw all those interceptions in the past, thirty interceptions in
one season, and he proceeds to throw three picks at
following games, so he can't see. He just doesn't know
what the hell he's looking at. But somehow Cleveland is

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a short favorite on the road at New Orleans. My goodness, gracious,
you may need therapy after watching this game. But someone's
going to beat at your thoughts.

Speaker 5 (21:54):
Well, this is a game that's very illustrative. I love
pickham games that keep oscillating to one side of the
pick or to the other where a team becomes a
one a half point favorite, because I'll let the oddsmaker decide.
I would have been perfectly happy teasing Cleveland plus one
half up to plus seven and a half, and in
fact they did. And now that Cleveland's become the one
and a half points favorite, now I'm looking towards teasing the Saints.

(22:16):
No hurry. By the way, for whatever reason, there's a
hype about Jameis Winston. There's a hype about Cleveland being healthier.
The Saints do have a whole bunch of injuries. I
think Cleveland's going to keep taking money. Say, if you
like the Saints, bet them at post. But here's the thing.
People say, Oh, I don't care if I took plus
one a half or lay one half in Cleveland, it's
unlikely to land one. Yeah, but they could land one
in either direction. And think about this and a baseball game.

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If you own a baseball game plus one oh eight
and then they became minus one twenty, would you bet them?
Of course not. It's twenty eight cents more. And that's
basically the tax that has moved the Browns. Some fine,
if you bet it earlier in the week, it's too
late now. The only way I could look to play
this game is on the Saints in teasers and possibly
plus the point.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
At post you bring up a lot of extremely coaching points.
I just don't think there's any value in a torn
up ticket somehow Cleveland stuff and to win the game,
and I just can't. I just can't back Winston. I
don't care if they're playing the Hoboken Zephyrs, all right,
it's rare to see this, but maybe not in this
man's NFL, where an under five hundred team is laying
four and a half points down the road. That's a

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long bus ride from Los Angeles to New England, but
I understand the bus has air conditioning. Nonetheless, I'm not
so sure I want to lay that number against New
England with the Rams.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Your thoughts, Yeah, they especially don't want to lay late
in with a Monday night football team that underperformed right
and has had a short weekend now has to have
an early start time against the Patriots team. Hey, my
friend's over at Doctor Cholis Group. Siice they grade teams
on injuries, and the Patriots are still injured, but they
are markedly more healthy than they were about a month ago,

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so they've shown their delta. The change is that they've
gotten horribly injured. It's somewhat injured. So if anything, I've
leaned towards New England. But the Sharps disagree with me.
The Sharps, many of the Sharps, for whatever reason, they
laid the Rams. I don't see it burning.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
And fair enough, I could see the Rams going in
there and went in by a touchdown. But I trust
my eyes. I tell me a lot, and I just
think the Rams get too much love. An interesting game
in Tennessee as Minnesota visits Tennessee and look, Sam Darnold
is having a bit of a regression. But at the

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same time, Tennessee in six points don't look attractive to me.
Why fez, They've burned me too many times. They've burned
me more than red clocks in the Washington Generals. Would
not surprise me if Minnesota just takes care of business
and thumbs, or wouldn't surprise me if the damn back
door stays open. This Tennessee team is too weird. For me,
make it all make sense for us.

Speaker 5 (24:44):
Fez Well, talk about any given Sunday. The Washington Generals
actually defeated the Harlem Globetrotters three times.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
They did. That's right. That's why I think Red Klos
should be in the Hall of Fame. But that's another story.

Speaker 5 (24:55):
The last one in the late seventies when somehow and
the kids were crying and curling. Neal is out and
they played around and they just couldn't come back.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yes, right, but they.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
Were like three eight hundred and sixty eight. So I'm
just just throwing that in there for posterity.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
Exactly. Lay the minus eighty eight hundred money line the
next time they played. But Minnesota, well, let's face this
is comparable to last week Minnesota killed Jacksonville. I know
it was looked close in the final score. I don't care.
Minnesota should have won by like fourteen. They turned the
ball over over and over again. And now they're playing
a comparable team to Jacksonville, so I would think I'd

(25:31):
leaned to Minnesota. I make the game six and a
half though, so at six it's just not a big
of enough delta, and I frankly I'm worried Darnold's going
to be old truck conservative in this game. I'm gonna pass.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Well see, And I'm glad you referenced Minnesota's last two
victories because what they have in common they came against
teams starting backup quarterbacks and that matters in the National
Football League. All Right. The Raiders coming off a bye week,
they fired uh, you know, the water boy, and they
fired the the team mechanic and the chef and everybody,

(26:02):
and so that means nothing will change Dolphin's laying a touchdown.
Dolphins looked very buttoned up the other night, and they
show what their ceiling can be with Tua. Still, I'm
not betting this game. The Raiders are weird thoughts.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Well, I shouldn't have it.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
By the way, I'm.

Speaker 5 (26:19):
Sorry I should know about this because my next door
neighbor is the starting center for the Las Vegas Raiders.
So but you admit to that Adra's Dames is a
great kid. But yeah, yeah, he's nothing but positive when
I when I talked to him, I'm positive. The spot's
great for the Raiders. The Raiders are off a bye
Miami Dolphins Monday night football, So I called a fourteen

(26:40):
to six game, one team with fourteen days off, one
with six days off. I do think the buzz is
that the Raiders are going to get back to their
running the ball, pounding the rock.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (26:50):
And I think Miami, this is a game they don't
want to it to get hurt. And it took a
big hit last game. So I think we're going to
see a lot of tackle with his head. Yes, a
lot of most hurt, a lot of h and a
lot of what's grinded out and not get to it
hurt with both teams running the ball. Bernie, this is
my best bet.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Of the week.

Speaker 5 (27:08):
I like under forty four. And thank goodness, this bet
is actually widely available, but it won't be available. I
don't believe tomorrow morning. You got to bet it now, Okay.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
I can see the game going under that Raiders offense
couldn't score a women's prison with a fifth full of fifties.
And I gotta tell you they may want to run
the ball, but Marvel Hubbard ain't a'd walking through that
door you mentioned. You mentioned a couple of the of
the skilled players for the Dolphins. They have too many
speed skilled players. I would be shocked if the Dolphins

(27:39):
don't have at least five plays of more than twenty
yards and probably at least one for fifty. But look,
it's a National Football League. You give scholarships on both sides.
The Raiders plus seven books are probably gonna need them,
and you know what to do, all right. And by
the way, I'm glad you mentioned the word spot play,
fas I have to take my medicine. Last week for
Tampa Bay at home the big number against the forty

(28:02):
nine ers and they almost choked that away. I mean,
I gotta tell you, fez uh. You talk about a
spot play, banged up, short week overtime game the week
before against and look what happened. They hung in there.
So spot plays, I think we are are something and
I think needs to be recognized with tread with caution.

Speaker 5 (28:22):
Well you know what, I want to comment that because
you absolutely had the right side with San Francisco. If
you watched the game, you missed all those field goals.
The Cifron by the stat should have won by like twelve.
And it's just people don't realize an NFL football gave
us a short sample. Body example, talking about a short sample,
I think one of the judges in the Jake Paul,

(28:44):
you know the fight after. If the sample sizes a
little bit one round, Tyson may have won. Right So there, Yeah,
there's a point a short sample, so anything can happen
in a short sample.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
All right. So, speaking of the aforementioned moody and missing
field goals, Sanfran home against Seattle. Lay in a little
bit of a healthy number. You never know what you're
gonna get with the Seahawks. Your thoughts, all.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
Right, So I make the game seven and a half,
so that means I should be laying this minus six,
which is available at places like Circup, But I can't
do it because the spot's bad for San Fran. Why
because just a few weeks ago, like three weeks ago,
Seattle was home in their crib and they lost by twelve.
And I like that trend. I like when a team
loses at home in a division game and then they
get almost an immediate revenge within a month. That's good

(29:33):
for Seattle. Seattle off of a bye. Road teams off buys,
that's good as well, especially road teams off buys that
are struggling because they tend to not go to Cancun
and drink for a week at least the coaching staff
is all in to try to fix it, and the
players don't go a wall nearly as much. Obviously they're
away from practice, So the spot's good on Seattle. That's
probably worth the point. How boring am I, Bernie? I

(29:55):
have nothing on this game?

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Then all good? Move on last two on the on
the docket. This is not even close. This is my
best bet of the week. I love Cincinnati Sunday. And
there's your other teaser dance partner and a long teaser
partner them up with Kansas City. That scares me to
say it. It almost looks too easy, but I like the
Bengals take the will take it away.

Speaker 5 (30:16):
Yeah, And by the way, Bookmaker, one of the best
books in the world, is telling you that the Bengal
teaser is the winner. Why everybody's dealing this game one
and a half. Draft Kings is dealing one and a half.
Charger's favorite. So you can tease those Bengals up to
seven a half of bookmakers like, no, no, no, I'm
not going to have any of these Bengals teasers. We're
going to deal this game at one. And so, I mean,

(30:37):
obviously you can tease it, but it's a dumb tease
because you're getting the worst number in the world. So
they're they're they're they're blinking the byside on the Bengal teasers. Hey,
when a coach comes out and says, like Taylor did,
this is our season, it's a must win game, coaches
never say that. So you got to expect full effort
from a Bengals team that finally is going to have
their full complements of receivers ready to go and a

(31:00):
healthy Borrow. Let's go, should be super close. What could
possibly go wrong? We'll chiez the Bengals in with these
other dance partners we discussed.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
And Joel Burrow, I trust, I still do. He's fifteen
and six as a road dog. Yeah, it's two point
a half. Not gonna matter. Finally, we go to the
great State of Texas, Fez Houston and Dallas Monday Night.
The Cowboys the distinction of the only team the National
Football League to not win a single home game this year,
and the headlines are is Dion coming to Dallas? I

(31:29):
say no, who wins Monday Night? And who covers?

Speaker 5 (31:33):
Well, I didn't think it's possible that we could have
downgrade for McCarthy. But it's like, who knows if the's
going to be good or bad.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
He's a great college. He yeah, it ain't gonna happen.
He ain't gonna go there and coach Dak for two
more years. But I had to. I had to throw
it out.

Speaker 5 (31:45):
There, go ahead, I'm going under, ID Yes, yes, I
don't know if CD's playing.

Speaker 6 (31:50):
I know this.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
I know that Houston is a under team with a
real good defense and now is struggling offense with their
number one wide receiver banged up. Collins and Dallas. They
have no running game, they have no quarterback, and they
and their number one wide receivers hurt. So let's go under.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
You know, I can't imagine why I'd go under with
the legendary Cooper rush leading them to six points against
the Eagles. So uh, you know, hopefully it's not a
nail better for you there, Faz, Hopefully it's not. I'm
with you. A good call, excellent, Fez always great. Enjoy
your Sunday and we will talk to you next week.

Speaker 5 (32:26):
Thank you, Bernie. Good luck to you and of course
to your listeners.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
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(33:46):
sixty million were tuned into Tyson Paul on Friday night. Yeah,
and society is not infatuated with gladiator sports, irrespective of
the combatants. Hey, you know, people say I don't like
to say I told you so. Of course you do.
You love the people you'd love to tell people I

(34:06):
told you so. We're no different, we all do, all right.
A couple of other tidbits before you step out on
your NFL betting card this weekend. Just a few fun facts,
key trends, by the way, not for nothing. The Chiefs
are no you know, they're nine to zero. They've now
won fifteen straight games, and they are closing in on

(34:28):
the record held by the New England Patriots, the three
four Newion Patriots who won twenty one games in a row.
Twenty one games in a row. Could the Chiefs break that? Yeah,
they could. They'll have a very interesting test in Buffalo
on Sunday, obviously, just a few hours away. A little

(34:51):
over about thirteen hours away from kickoff. Chiefs are fourteen
and three straight up seventeen and one against the number
as road Dogs twenty sixteen. Meanwhile, Josh Allen just one
and three straight up and against the spread in his
career against AFC foes. If they're coming off consecutive wins,
I just can't look at you any other way. But

(35:12):
the Chiefs, you know. Casey Stengel once said that the
reason teams can't beat the Yankees. Of course, he said
this many years ago and the early sixties, after the
Yankees had won like nine out of twelve World Series.
He said, teams don't beat the Yankees for one reason.
They get stuck staring at the pinstripes. I wonder if
the Chiefs have that same kind of mistike over their opponents.

(35:34):
They certainly have over the Buffalo Bills and the Baltimore Ravens.
Joel Burrow is really the only one to crack that code.
But we got a long way to go. Be a
great story. We root for stories here, not for nothing.
The Lakers. The Lakers had thirty three wins in a row,
seventy one to seventy two Lakers. They played seventeen games
at home and sixty down the road, won twenty three

(35:55):
of them by double digits. That was a team that
had Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain, and Gil Goodrich. They played
every game of the street and they put up big numbers.
And you didn't hear me mention Elgin Baylor ironically. And
again this is not iron this is ironic. I already
people always say, hey, you know it's ironic. I saw
Joe at the game. No, that's coincidental. Ironic is when

(36:17):
the firehouse burns down. This is ironic. Elgin Baylor was
one of five future Hall of Famers on that roster.
He retired the night before the thirty to three game
winning streak that the Lakers accumulated back in seventy one
seventy two began. Now that's ironic. And by the way,
not a lot of load management back in those days,

(36:38):
and they traveled commercial. But I digress. Don't say something
stupid like get off my lawn. You got to come
up with a way better analogy than I Just speak
the truth. Man, do with it what you will. The
Packers ten and zero straight up and against the spread,
and their last ten games against dub Bears Chicago ten

(37:00):
against the number. That's their record at home and games
when they're coming off and not right loss as a
home favorite. Yeah, the Bears were actually a favorite last week.
Shame on you if you laid the wood with the
Chicago Bears ever since that three game winning streak, ever
since that Yale Mary, I don't know, man, The Bears
are like a drunk crossing an icy street. They can't
do anything. I know. They want to be somebody. That's

(37:24):
what Lily Tomlin one said. I always I always wanted
to be somebody. I just wish I'd been more specific.
All right now. The Rams are actually the number eleven
seed in the NFC playoff picture the Patriots. They're two
and thirteen against their spread in their last fifteen home games,
including to eight and non division games. Can the Rams

(37:45):
take care of business when they're laying four and a half.
I'd be shocked if the Rams lost, but I don't
know that I want to land the four and a half.
By the way, the Browns another weirdo team, ten and
two against the spread when coming off a home loss.
Call this the j I miss Winston Bowl, A former
Saints starter if you want to call them, that heads
to New Orleans to get his comeuppance. New Orleans one

(38:06):
and eight against the number and their last nine conference
home games now. The Ravens are nine to one of
the over the season, but just two and five to
the over in their last seven division games in Pittsburgh
gets ten and two against the spread when they're coming
off and out right. When as an underdog, I like
the Pittsburgh Steelers at home and I'm going to play
the under I know Baltimore has been a dead nuts

(38:28):
over befoty eight and a half's a big number. There's
a trend I've played for years Divisional teams in November,
if the total is north of forty five, you cash
a lot. About seventy percent of the time. It happened
Thursday night, Dolphins seven and two straight up, six and
two against Check that six and three against the spread
in the series against the Raiders in the last fourteen years,

(38:50):
the Raiders honestly got hard to back them. They're one
and seven against the number in games when they've support
surrendered thirty five or more points. Early in the year,
the defense was respectable. They beat Baltimore and Baltimore, but
this is not the same team. By the way, the
Lions eight and one for the first time since nineteen
fifty four and Jacksonville quarterback Mac Jones. He's only two

(39:10):
in ten straight up against his spread in his last
dozen starts, but he's getting fourteen points on Sunday. Vikings
nine to two against the number in their last eleven
non division games Tennessee two and ten when both teams
are coming off a non division foll You know again,
this is a sharp line. Vikings laying six in Tennessee.

(39:30):
Don't know that I want to lay it, Sure as hell,
don't want to take it. We'll have more on the
forty nine Ers, Broncos, Bengals, Colts, the standings, the bubble teams,
what to think about. We have a ton of NFL
coming up later in the show. But coming up next,
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(40:18):
There are headlines galore, there are backstories galore, and that's
exactly why we bring you our Fox Sports Radio Guru. Hey,
it's that time, Medina, Magic time for Mark Medina every
Saturday night, midnight on the Bernie Fraddle Show, fifty two
weeks out of the year, midnight Pacific. These are Fox
Sports Radio NBA Guru, and of course at this time

(40:42):
you'll hear them all around the network market evening.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
How are you, Bernie know the answer? I'm doing well
anytime I'm talking with you.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Looking forward to a lot to a lot on the
docket tonight, Mark, as usual, I want to start with
some I think breaking news that hit a few hours ago,
something having to do with the new in a TV contract.
And I'm not able to articulate this, uh you know,
coding fashion, but I'll try. Is there is there truth
to the rumor that the former NBA T and T

(41:12):
show with Shack and the crew might find itself as
in some sort of new iteration of that on ESPN.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
It's not might, it's will. Yeah. Inside the NBA, the
whole be on ABC, ESPN, you know, not to get
two in the weeds. So like technically Turner Sports will
still be producing it, but for you know, the sports
viewers purposes, it'll be on ABC, ESPN. And Bernie we've
chat about this, you know, these last few months and
what inside the NBA would be like, and I think

(41:40):
both of us were on the same page that it's
hard for us to imagine that it wouldn't exist because
it's such a great program. You know, Ernie Johnson, Shack Barkley,
Kenny Smith, They're great at what they do. So not
surprising news, but great news for any NBA fan.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Well, and I think the NBA needs it. We continue
to see reports that the you know, the ratings are
not great. What do you attribute that to.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Well, I attribute to a few things. One, you know,
it's more in line with just the fact that cord
cutting is a continued trend with the cable business. You know,
busy lives even with the new in season tournament or
the Emirates Cup, if you will. NBA fans and casual
fans especially don't always pay attention to the NBA and

(42:27):
so Christmas or even after that. But there's also been
a good rash of injuries with some notable star players.
You know, you look at Kawhi Leonard and Kevin Durant
and shut home grinned Uh, there's a lot. There's been
a lot of guys, and so that never helps either.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Fair enough. Talking with Mark Medina Medina Magic every Saturday
night midnight Pacific on the Bernie Fratto Show, one thing
that I don't think anybody should be making fun of
because it is successful, at least so far. It's certainly
one's last year, and that's the NBA Cup. I gotta
believe if the Ivory Tower in the NBA is giddy
with how the NBA Cup started off again this year.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah. Look, I mean we talked about the ratings and overall,
I'm sure that's a disappointment, but it's all about relative
to where you were the EMU up the n season tournament.
That's been good for the regular season because prior to
last year, what would happen is this Bernie Opening Night,
everyone's tuning in, maybe even opening week, Opening week everyone's
tuning in because all Marquee matchups at the beginning of

(43:27):
the season has that first day of school back to
school feeling and After that, everyone just kind of forgets
about and all of a sudden the dog days of
the NBA start here. It prevents that now after that
initial rush of the first few games of the season,
they have something that will add more spice to it.
So I would say, Bernie with exception to the court
designs which give me an eyesore a headache. At the

(43:50):
same time, I think everything about the em Meerchs Cup
and the n season torment screare. It's been great competition,
great marquee games. And you know, it's not the play
It's not like most of the players need it, but
they're motivated to win, partly because they can get an
extra five hundred K out of it. So it's all
good for everyone.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Well, the numbers bear that out. No one can argue
with what took place last year. They've managed to make
November basketball and the NBA more interesting. The players look bored, Gauge.
Some of the games have a playoff atmosphere, right, and
so look, give them their props. It appears to be working.
What's not working is what's happening in Milwaukee. It feels

(44:31):
like this has a hit. It has crossed the new
rubicon because Doc Rivers lost his mind create you know,
he criticized some referees on that Giannis file against the
Melo ball with seven seconds left, Milwaukee loses. Again, Milwaukee's
only four and nine, and if you look at that
team on paper, they shouldn't be four and nine. What's
going on in Milwaukee?

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Yeah, what's going on is they're a terrible defensive team.
I really missed. Chris Middleton, janisant to the Coupo and
Damian Loward haven't built off the windthm that they're supposed
to making. Doc Rivers hasn't been able to manage the group.
All bet the best out of them. I think it's
very ironic, Bernie, that Doc Rivers is criticizing the refs for,
you know, calling a fall Giannis against LaMelo ball, you know,

(45:12):
which you know, obviously when it comes down to one
point game, does that determine the difference. But I remember
when he was coaching the Boston Celtics, he would often
tell his players, you know, don't let it get to
the point where a game can be decided about the
by the referees. In other words, if you take care

(45:32):
of all your business, uh, it's not going to go
down to the wiring. You're not going to be at
the mercy at a call going your way or not.
So I think it is a little rich and irony
that has done all of a sudden he's complained about
a call that decide the outcome.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
Well, I'm absolutely in agreement. And he went on to
say that, he said, you know, lamellow ball just sell down.
I mean, I got to believe the finest forthcoming. Right.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Yeah, that's that's always a uh I think a gray
area because sometimes coaches have a way of lamenting the
officiating without giving direct personal criticism. But I think to
your point, he will get a fine because of these words.
He said, I thought the final play was the ref

(46:22):
blowing a call. I mean that's very direct sometimes where
you can say, oh that was a tough call, or
you know, I don't agree with it. There's some you know,
I think lawyerly language that coaches can say, oh, I
was just I wasn't criticizing the referees competence. I was
just saying how tuugh it was to a stomach it
here he was questioning the referees competence. So yeah, I'm

(46:45):
sure he'll get a nice note from the NBA that
his next paycheck will be deducted for reasons beyond taxes.
It will also be deductive because you know he's going
to make a charitable donation to the NBA Foundation for
in all these fines.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
So I'm gonna have a little fun with some wordplay here.
It looks like Draymond Green is tripping again. Only but
I want to set this.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
Up your server, Bernie well tonight.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Yes, yes, yes, thank you, thank you very much. To
show Saturday folks. All I need is a dog. I
got a good act. Look, here's where I'm going with this,
because Zach Edy quietly has done pretty good job so
far with the Memphis Grizzlies, right, I think there were
some questions about his transition to the NBA. And anyway,

(47:37):
so he got tangled up with Draymond the other night
and and you know Green, I guess dove for a
ball and put his arms between the legs and he tripped,
and ZDI said that was not a basketball play, and
then of course the Lee reviewed it. It is upgraded
to a flickerant one. And here we go with Draymon again.

(47:58):
I mean, you have any thoughts on this, It's only
his first file the season, the first of Mania. I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
Yeah. I have a few thoughts here. First, I've seen
the play. I've watched it over and over again. It's interesting.
I don't fault Draymond for falling. I mean that just happened,
and there could have been a scenario where because he
fell on the floor and it was near Zach Edie,
that could have caused you know, the contact, But that's
actually not what caused the contact. It was Draymond's left

(48:27):
elbow locking his foot, so clearly when he was starting
to get back and transit or get on transition for
a fast break, he didn't allow him. So there was
a lot of intent there. It's disappointing. I'm someone you know,
because I covered the Warriors on a day to day
basis for a few years during their dynasty. I understand
the value that Draymond Green brings, and I also understand

(48:50):
that there's sometimes a gray area of his intensity and
how much rope the Warriors give him. But here there's
no gray area, and I think it's it's disappointing that
coming off of last season to when he wasn't available
mostly because of suspensions, and it was from incidence that
he easily could have controlled. He just don't choke Rigal

(49:11):
there and he don't punch use of Nurkic and you'll
be fine. And so here it's disappointed. Now the Warriors
won the game. He technically wasn't ejected until later on
in the game. But clearly these flagrant foul penalty points
can accumulate, and draymondto is very well how that can
bite you, and you know what, the wrong time because

(49:33):
in the twenty sixteen finals he missed Game five, not
because he got suspended, but because he accumulated too many
points that then warrant to the suspension. So remember, well,
he's got to be better than that, but he is
who he is.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
There's no chance to be better than that. He is.
He is who he is, and we're all just going
to go along with it and turn turn the other way.
But you know, it's it's worth talking about because it
happened to Zachie and zach all had a really sensational
college career. But he looked at me like one of
those guys. I wasn't so sure how his game would translate.
But in the limited minutes he's getting I think he's done. Okay,

(50:09):
how about you?

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Yeah, very much. Though I saw him play this week
in LA against the Lakers. He played really well against
Anthony Davis. I mean I did a piece for RAF
on Sports about this, and you know, within the context of,
you know, defending Anthony Davis, he held him to a
combined three to ten from the field when he defended him.

(50:33):
And I think it's just interesting because there was so
much chatter about can his game translate into the NBA
because he at Purdue was the traditional big man, but
Kenny adapted the speed and a three point shot and
all that. And Taylor Jenkins was telling me that Grizzlies coach,
that they felt like he could be adaptable because he's

(50:53):
been such a quick learner. He started playing basketball at
a late age, and they felt like he had great intelligence.
You know, he has great basketball IQ. What's so fascinating
about this is they selected him Zachi, he told me,
despite the fact that he didn't work out with them
at all. He only talked with him with the Cruizlies
of the Combine. And he was saying to me that

(51:14):
they've been scouting him since he was a sophomore, and
so at the Combine they had a lot of good
conversations where you know, the Memphis front office and Jacins
shared their vision that hey, he's a guy that he
feels can be both a traditional big and a mobile big,
and it is a work in progress. There are some
growing pains with fouls and gain use to the speed,

(51:36):
but he has shown his adaptability and it's not a
coincidence that he has, you know right now favored running
to win a Rookie of the Year.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
Yeah. Well, court sentence and basketball like you and skill
set to me are not in question, but mobility was.
But so far, so good. Speaking of Anthony Davis, he
knocked these with fifty GM bin Yama the other night
and Mby says he's fine, But I'm told by people
that he was hobbling around when no one's looking at him.

(52:05):
Is there anything of concern.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
There you're talking about with Wemby.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Yeah, when he knocked knees with Anthony Davis the other night.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
Yeah, I mean, you know he missed he makes the
game against the Mavericks because of a right knee concision.
So I think that it wasn't considered serious enough because
it was a game time decision and he went through
pregame warmups. But yeah, he did not play against against
Dallas on Saturday. My hunch is that it's a minor injury.

(52:34):
He'll come back soon. But yeah, you never take things lightly,
especially when it comes to big men, because you know
when they have injuries it can be a little bit
more severe because of their body composition.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
And Wenby's averaging twenty two to ten. Are teams more
physical with him this year?

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Just generalities, Yeah, but I think in Saris to Wemby,
he's gotten stronger from you know, off season. I think
the other thing is that you know, obviously he's got
more and more attention, but he's been trying to take
threes and I understand it. It's a skill he has.
It's the modern NBA. The defenses are giving it to him,

(53:14):
but he hasn't really been consistent with that. There's been
games that he's really shot really well from three, and
then recently he has made a lot of threes and so,
you know, Lemnad was asked, you know, I think last week,
you know, what's the line for him as far as
taking threes? And he said, if I'm open, I'm going
to take him. And I know I'm going to make

(53:35):
him so. I think that that epitomizes his confidence. But
I think it also captures the modern NBA player that
even for a big man, the first instinct isn't necessarily
to just go in the post if you have an
open three ticket, because you know the NBA's analytics departments
always tell you that three is better than two.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Switch to the Lakers there so quickly they've won five
in a row. They've looked pretty good to me. I
think JJ ridicks out of the gate pretty you know,
pretty impressively. How much of a correlation is there between
this winning streak and the little tet of tet he
had with Anthony archecked at with D'Angelo Russell. Is there

(54:17):
a causal effect there?

Speaker 3 (54:19):
I hand, there's a cause and effect as far as
the starting lineup change. I mean, obviously JJ Riddick was
upset with D'Angel Russell with his defensive effort and rotations
and some shot selections last week in their lost to Memphis.
But in fairness, D'Angelo and JJ have a really strong relationship,
and I know how D'Angelo has handled emotions under Byron

(54:41):
Scott and Darbnham. It wasn't well here. He was totally
fine with it, and part of it is he's relatively
more mature than in past seasons. They have a better roster,
but I think the bigger thing is that he and
JJ have enough equity that they can get through it now.
I think the bigger thing is the fact that DiAngelo

(55:01):
at this point has proven more effective off the bench.
Because the bench needs a lot of scoring. He can
provide that, and Cam Reddish has been a really great defender.
And it also allows Austin Reeves to have even more
primary primary ball handling responsibilities, and so I think it's
been a great combination with all that and also helps

(55:22):
to have this guy named Lebron James and Anthony Davis
that are still playing at a pretty high level. But Bernie,
the Lakers, I'm not going to say they're championship contenders,
but they have a lot of good ingredients in their
entree right now, and it's not just Lebron ad I
think JJ Reddick deserves a lot of credit for how
he's mastered so far his duties as first year head coach,

(55:45):
knowses and next as and O's really great adjustments, have
good relationships with players, partly because of his pass playing experience,
partly because of his preparation, but also because he is
good at managing people, and so there's going to be
ups and downs. The thing that JJ will tell you
the most is that he doesn't handle the lowes of
the season well by thinking the short term. That can

(56:08):
actually be a good thing because it shows the Lakers
that he cares and it allows him to make adjustments.
I do worry long term if he's going to carry that,
because he'll have gray hair, maybe even bald, be bald
by the end of the season, But in the short
term it is a good thing to inject some intensity
into this team.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
All right, last thing for me. We'll stay with the Lakers.
We'll stay with the name James, but we're going to
remove the name in all seriousness. Now, let's just remove
the name and talking generalities. You got a kid here
who's not NBA ready, he's had sixteen minutes, and you know,
we've had the taster's choice moment. But who decided, with

(56:47):
all due respect, who decided that not getting on United
Airlines planes and traveling with the South Bay Lakers and
shuffling back and forth between the big club in South
Bay and living the life of Riley, not pat Riley
who decided this was actually optimal for genuine development. If
this is what they're going to try to sell us,
this is a serious journalistic question here.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
Yeah, I mean I'll get the answer, I hope. Right now.
I don't know the actual answer this question because you know,
a lot of times sometimes and can be a mixture
of all parties involved. Who knows or you know, if
it is a collaborative decision, where's the percentage pi? The
bottom line, Bernie is I don't like this decision at all.

(57:30):
I'm very much, as you know, been fairly fair about
this whole situation with Bronnie. But the whole mL from
last summer was that Bronni needs to get experience and develop,
and the best way to develop is playing games, and
so the idea that he's going to miss road games,
I will say, is it necessarily unique just to Bronnie.

(57:55):
There are other players that do the same arrangement.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
But I think let's what to.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
Say here though, Bernie is what's unique is that if
not for the whole influence with lebron he would be
on a two way contract and he would be limited
to fifty days with the club. And therefore he would
spend most of his time with the G League. So
I get it. It's not to say it's not valuable
practicing with the Lakers being around the team. Obviously, it's

(58:23):
a cool thing to be with your dad, but the
bigger objective is to develop him, and you develop with
actual playing time in real games, and you lose half
of those opportunities by only confining yourself to home games.
So yeah, I don't agree with it at all.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
And the reason I wanted to remove the name. Let's
just say, you're six foot two, your handles are not
nearly enough to be a point guard, you can't shoot
well enough to be an off guard, a shooting guard.
You've miss five year six shots in sixteen minutes of
garbage time. You're not NBA ready. I don't see an
NBA player here. Forget the name. But he does have
a good work ethic and coachability from what I've heard

(59:01):
and everything I've seen about him. I really like the
way Brianni James carries himself. Remove the name, and I
just gave you the scouting report on the guy. How
does this develop him? Save the answer mark because we'll
talk about it next week. Because this is the story
won't go away. It just won't go away.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
Yeah, I mean we know the answer to it is
that obviously we don't know to what extent Lebron has
the influence, but by name itself is influence enough. And
so I think what would have happened is not for
those variables, he would have had a guarantee contract. He
still I think, would have been on the team, but
on a two way contract, and he would have spent
most of his time with the Juligue. I think the

(59:37):
only other scenario where he has someone who's at the
end of the rotation but still with the team, if
it's a veteran type player and also much different circumstances
of a team that maybe is in the championship hunt
and they want to have good veteran players on that
team that are good practice players. But in this case
it's a young player, and the way to develop young

(59:59):
players is to actually play them.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
Good point. Well, ndit there twenty years old. Everybody forgets
he's twenty years old. Mark, great stuff as always, can't
wait for next Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
All right, Wise, it's Mark.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
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(01:01:38):
when it comes to understanding and analyzing referee stats and
how they tie into against the spread performance total performance
based on the amounts of penalties they call and the
types of penalties they call. Say Alo to Joe Gibbs, Joe,
how you doing, buddy? Are you in Cali right now?

(01:01:58):
Where are you right now? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:02:00):
I me in Los Angeles at the moment.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
Okay, good, We'll see you soon when you get back
into town. So, uh, what I was going to say
here is uh that obviously you have developed so much
more data now than you've had before because of the
many years you've been doing this before we dive into
some specific games where your data will apply this weekend.

(01:02:25):
Take a minute to give the folks a quick thumbnail
sketch exactly what it is that you do.

Speaker 6 (01:02:32):
Okay, So, just I just tried to through ide like
a blueprint for each game, what penalties the crews call,
and as you said, what types of penalties, that's the
most important thing, you know, Giving example, if the penalty.
If the referee crew calls twenty penalties a game, an
all twenty run the offense, well that would tell you

(01:02:53):
straight off the bat that that's probably not good for the.

Speaker 5 (01:02:55):
Over and boss.

Speaker 6 (01:02:56):
But you know, if it's twenty penalties all on the
defense will probably be good for the over. But yeah,
break it down penalty by penalty, mainly in the offensive
line area. That's really the key. Everything starts there. As
you know, offensive line penalties and then defensive back penalties
they get more weight than any other area. And really

(01:03:18):
that's that's really how it works. And then each team
may benefit from that or some negative negatively impacted, and
it just it's like a puzzle I put it. Put
the puzzle to the other each week and give you
the good, the bad, and the ugly for each team
as it pertains to each referee crew.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
Sounds good, Joe, So let's dive into this. The marquee
game of the week, Kansas City Buffalo Land Clark overseeing
the crew. You've got a couple of angles here.

Speaker 6 (01:03:46):
Yeah, So for people who don't know him, he's not
really that well known. The the best example, the best
comparison I can give you would be the Sean Hockey
League crew, which I think most people would know. So
there's an emphasis on the offensive side of the ball,
so higher percentage of penalties are called on the offense.

(01:04:07):
So that's the starting point. A couple of things with
Clark's crew number one for illegal formation and number two
for calling false starts, and that's important in this particular
matchup for one reason. The Buffalo Bills the second most
penalized team for false start penalties. And then compounding that,
the Kansas City Chiefs pre stat penalties, which are a killer.

(01:04:30):
You hear Tom Brady talk about this, you hear Troy
Aikman talk about this. Pre stat penalties. They don't get
a lot of attention, but they're like death by a
thousand cards. It's just those things that up over the
course of the game to really put you in a hole.
The Chiefs is the least penalized team for pre snat
penalties per game, you know, stuff like false starts, legal
shift to legal formation. So it's a huge contrast right there.

(01:04:51):
But Clark's crew, and this is interesting. I did some
numbers on this. The NFL average are calling penalties on
first and second down is sixty two percent. One of
those penalties are assessed on the offense. Clark's crew is
calling seventy one percent of their penalties on first and
second down on the offense. That's almost ten percent Abovevely average.
And that's in an area where Buffalo struggles specifically and

(01:05:13):
Kansas City is actually very good. So right there, there
is an advantage.

Speaker 5 (01:05:17):
For the Chiefs.

Speaker 6 (01:05:19):
Then you go into some other things. He you know,
home teams with Lang Clark have just not done very well.
As I said, they're very similar to the Seawan hockeyley crew,
whether not a good home field advantage team or not
a good home field advantage crew. Home teams twenty eight
forty two and two against the spread in Lane Clark's career.
That's forty percent. Now, this one's getting a lot of
traction on Twitter or X. Kansas City is four and

(01:05:43):
oh with Lang Clark and including three and oh straight
up and against the spread on the road. So it's
a really small sample size, but I put it in
there just for a reference, and that's really what's gotten attraction.
As far as you know, the NFL set it up
for the Chiefs to win. But it's like you got
to pump the brakes on this stuff. That the Chiefs
win a lot of games. They just happened to play
four with Lang Clark that they won. So there's no

(01:06:05):
you know, fixes in or anything like that. But that's
really what's got the attention this week. I like Kansas
City in the game. I don't know what you think.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
I like Kansas City. Joe, Yeah, Joe, did you know?
Did you know that in the history of the NFL
there have been seven instances or a defending world defending
Super Bowl champ was undefeated the following season. Yes, they
found themselves in an underdog role. They got the they
got the money all seven times and won the game
six out of seven. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:06:34):
I just trust them all. You know, it's a matter
of trust, and you know, when it comes down to
those high leverage situations at the end of the game,
I trust the trust Andy Reid, Steve Spagnoller, and Patrick
Mahomes make the right decision. And I don't trust Storm McDermott.
I mean, I've seen him too many times make bone
headed decisions in those late game situations, and you got

(01:06:54):
to figure this is going to be a close game,
and like I said, I trust those three more than
I trust in the Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
You know, coaching staff, Well, think about what you said. Okay,
So Land Clark's crew ranks number one for illegal formation,
number two for false starts the book. The Bills are
the most penalized team for false starts, second most penalized
team behind only the Bears, and the Chiefs are the
least penelized team for pre snap penalties. That's yardage. Al
Davis used to say, if you get eighty yards and penalties,

(01:07:22):
that's given a team eighty yards and free offense. So
this is nothing to sneeze at all. Right, two more
games I want to get in here, Baltimore Pittsburgh. Clay
Martin is the referee here. You've also found a couple
of very outstanding angles here.

Speaker 6 (01:07:37):
Yeah, this one here, we go straight back to the
offensive one again, because again the games, they're all decided upfront,
and so that's really where my primary area of focuses.
So here's the thing with this game. The Clay Mountain
Crew lead the league offensive holding penalties per game. So
straight up the bat, you're like, okay, that's not good
for the offenses. He is the problem. The Ravens and

(01:07:58):
the Steels ranked number three number nine respectively for offensive
holding penalties per game. So right there, I could stop
right there, and that's all you need to know. It's
really going to come down to who's the most disciplined,
who's the most focused tomorrow, and who can avoid those
offensive holding penalties because that's really the penalty equivalent of
taking a sack. So we've got that right there. Here's

(01:08:20):
some other things on the game. The Steeler is the
number one beneficiary of roughing the passer penalties this season,
and on the other side of the on the other
side of the line, the Baltimore defense is the number
one penalizes for roughing the passes. So straight away you're like, well,
that's not good for the Ravens. But the good news
for Baltimore in this one is the Klay Martin Crewe.
I've looked back at this since the start of the

(01:08:41):
twenty twenty season, that's consistently called below average roughing the
passa penalties, so they try to let them play when
it comes to that particular penalty category. And then this
is another big one that could potentially help Baltimore because
you know, the defensive secondary is not good and they're
highly penalized. Only the Sean Hockular crew have called less
defensive past interference and defensive holding penalties this season didn't

(01:09:05):
play Mountains Cruse, so they try to let them play
if they can. I'm not saying they're not going to
call penalties. They're going to call some defensive holding or
defensive past interference penalties here and there, but they're not
going to call them at as high a rate as
some of the crews would and in theory, that should
help Baltimore tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
Talking with Joe Gibbs NFL ref stats one on Twitter,
He's developed quite a following for his phenomenal analysis research
comprehensive knowledge on how a referee may or may not
impact the game based on the tendencies, the types of
penalties they may or may not call, and juxtaposing that

(01:09:45):
against the teams on the field. One more, the forty
nine Ers host Seattle. The forty nine Ers apparently are
going to be they will have a crew presiding over
the game that they've performed well while we're at the
last four seasons.

Speaker 6 (01:10:00):
Brad Rodgers is on this game, and it's funny he's
officiated the forty Niners and the Seahawks the last two seasons,
since it'll be the third straight season that he's officiated
this particular matchup. The last one was last year Week
fourteen of twenty twenty three, and that was a twenty
eight sixteen to forty nine Ers win. Forty nine Ers
have done well divisional home teams. In Rodgers' career, seventeen

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and twelve straight up and against the spread says sixty percent.
He's an interesting one. He's a very good over referee
divisional divisional games eighteen and eleven to the over in
Brad rodgers career is at sixty three percent, which is
way above the league average. This crew is number one
for defensive pass interference penalties per game almost sixteen and

(01:10:46):
a half seventeen yards per attempt or per penalty, which
which is quite high compared to the league average. So
they will call those penalties deep down the field. They
don't call as many offensive holding and false up release,
so it does favor both offenses. Uh defenses will be
penalized at a higher rate, so in theory it should

(01:11:06):
be a highest scoring game. Yeah. The Seahawks are owing
three and divisional game with Rogers's crew, Like I said,
two against San Francisco and then also won against Arizona.
But I had San Francisco last week against who was
at Tampa Bay, and uh, you know, three miss field
goals didn't help my thing, you know, on that front,

(01:11:29):
you know, And so I like San Francisco getting tomorrow.
And as long as you know, Jake Moody doesn't have
the Moody booze.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
He was not exactly a Knight in white satin, was.

Speaker 6 (01:11:40):
He, Joe. Yeah, so three three miss field goals and
a pump by San Francisco cost the cover of last week.
But yeah, I like San Francisco tomorrow. And I'm just
not sold on the Seattle team. I'm not sure about
the coaching. They're very sloppy, the number one penalized team
in the league. Conversely, San Francisco is the twenty fifth

(01:12:02):
most penalized team, so it's a huge gap in this
team discipline. I'm not sold on Geno Smith.

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
I like San Francisco, Joe outstanding, outstanding stuff. We got
to get you on way more often. It's glad to
see you've grown this concept and doing so well.

Speaker 6 (01:12:19):
Thanks Joe, Thanks Berny, have a good one.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
That is Joe Gibbs. Follow him on Twitter at NFL
ref stats one. This is real. We've been doing it
for three years and now other people have found them
as well, and Joe's built quite a following for himself.
All right, coming up, we go back to the Hollywood
story that frankly is not so not so enjoyable for

(01:12:42):
a lot of us anymore. I'm Bernie Fraddle. We are
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(01:13:03):
twelve minutes away from the dance sensation sweep of the nation.
What kind of brand new fool you followed by? What
my name? We're twelve minutes away from diving hot and
heavy into the NFL, Big, big, hot and heavy. We
want to talk a lot about what an interesting year
it's been and the oddities from week ten, how they
carry over, who's trending up, who's trending down? Take a

(01:13:26):
little look ahead at the playoff picture. We are in November,
and we'll dive into the schedule is as well. But
first look, and I know it was fun and games.
Ronnie James, his dad desperately wants him to play in
the NBA, no problem, play a game. Make history. It's

(01:13:47):
manufactured history, but nonetheless history. And now it's changed. And
I think you know, for those who aren't familiar with
the term jump the shark, it's a happy day's term
from a very very popular show from the seventies in
which Henry Winkler, who played the Fawns, once went surfing

(01:14:12):
with his patented black leather jacket on the show, officially
jumped the shark. After that wasn't the same. So whenever
you hear that jump the shark, you know description it
has to do with something. Okay, they've gone too far.
If you want to use a late second round draft
pick on Brownie James, knock yourself out. I've heard the arguments,

(01:14:34):
Oh well, can you name him the fifty fifth pick?

Speaker 1 (01:14:36):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
I can't, and it doesn't matter. Okay. There have been
other wasteful uses of draft capital, including in the first round.
Insert your own Trey Lance joke here. Although players in
the drafted in the fifties in the NBA, meaning the
you know, very into the second round, how often do
those guys get guaranteed contracts? Well, if you're in the

(01:15:00):
right stomach at the right time, and you're born into
a family whose dad is a pretty good basketball player,
you got a shot. So I you know, you want
to give Ronnie James a multi year deal, you want
to draft him, you want to put him on the
floor with his dad. Start the season with the Lakers,

(01:15:21):
allowing Lebron and Brownie to officially become the first fallow
some duel in league history on opening night. And then
how wonderful is it that you know Ronnie James and
coincidentally scores his first points in the hometown of Cleveland
where his father played. Fine, it's all a happy go
lucky story to Disney Movies what it basically is. And

(01:15:44):
then I guess you know who would throw a flag
when the Lakers announced James would basically report to the
G League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers, following the Lakers
road trip. And you know, the G League doesn't start
for like ten days so after the NBA season. So okay,
we get it, we get it. But then all of
a sudden, now the story develops and it's shifting that

(01:16:06):
we find this charade getting a little bit more bothersome,
at least for my tastes. If you want to tweet
at me at Bernie Fratto, let's hear it. If you disagree,
no problem, make a case, or if you agree with me,
I'll read your tweet on the air if you agree
or disagree, but I want to get your thoughts. Now
we find out that Brownie will only play in South
based home games according to Brian Windhorst quote, he's not

(01:16:29):
getting on United airlines and going to fly in these
road games. On his podcast, Windhorse said that, now do
you think that's a good decision? Tweet at me. I
think it's a bad decision. Tweet at me. Regardless of
what you think of the decision, how do you think
it's going to go over? Why would anybody think that's
a good idea? Look, you wanted to make this historical

(01:16:52):
moment sort of do you even have Ken Griffy Jr.
And Ken Griffy Senior, who were legitimate father and son
both outstanding players in the Major League in base and
then you know, if that's what you want up to be, fine,
But now you're trying to make this as if this
is some normal event, and now he's going to be
developed into an NBA player. He's not an NBA player.

(01:17:14):
This is becoming unprecedented. And if you're going to be
an NBA player and you're six foot two and in
your sixteen minutes of garbage time scattered across six games,
you only made one shot out of six, obviously you
can't create any kind of shot on your own with
the ball in your hands. You don't have the handles
to be a point guard period. You're certainly not a

(01:17:37):
shooting guard. Stevie Wonder can see that he's not an
NBA player. Okay, you're telling me he's not today, but
they'll develop. Then you tell me how you're going to
develop him, especially when it's my understanding. Ronnie James has
excellent coachability, and he works hard, and there are some
three and DSE skills that you can be honed. I
don't think his ceiling is very high, but he needs

(01:18:00):
a lot of game experience in the G League, getting
lots of minutes, lots of reps, lots and lots of lots,
and you would think the Lakers would agree with this.
You would think the Lakers would see that even though
this is a hybrid arrangement to begin with, and maybe
it's not the first time it's ever been done, and
the Lakers can do whatever the hell they want. They

(01:18:21):
are their own boss. They don't know me any answer,
they don't have to certainly don't answer to me. But
whoever made this final decision, I you know, maybe they
gave Lebron cart blanche. I don't know. And in Lebron's
primary concern should be winning a championship, find she wants
his son to be developed. This is how you do it.

(01:18:42):
This is how you do it. So maybe Bronnie at
one point was a feeld good story for some. There
were cynics, including me, but I was not against it.
I know people want to defend them, and they're virtue
signaling a little bit too much for my view, But
to explain to me how this is truly gonna develop
Bronnie James into a legitimate NBA player under this arrangement. Sorry,

(01:19:04):
I'm not buying it. Coming up, NFL is upon us
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(01:19:49):
obvious Brownie isn't an NBA player, but Lebron has put
in so much sweat equity into the game, a term
I've actually used on this here many times. I agree
with that, and actually has lived up to the chosen one.
HEIGHT also agree with that when I was living in
Detroit when Brownie broke In drove down to Cleveland, saw
him play in high school once. Very few to do this.

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Lebron will continue to get what he wants, which is
his son to develop into an actual player. And that's
where I draw the flag. Throw the flag. How is
this game plan the best devised to actually develop him
into an actual player? He set a second box to him,
sent a second tweet. Will it happen? Probably not. Is

(01:20:30):
this the right way to do it? Probably not. Home
games only talk about the right stomach at the right time.
But Lebron has done it. So look, we're gonna let
the story play out. I'm open minded. You know, things happen.
You never know, right. Bob Yucker once hit a home
run off Sandy Kofax. But I digress, all right. Week

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ten of the NFL season told many stories. I am
all in on the Chiefs. I like the way they play.
I don't care. They don't drop pick in the score book.
They whether it's offense, defense or special teams, or blocking
a field goal or pay whatever. When this situation demands greatness,
the Chiefs are great. That's why they've won fifteen games

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in a row. They're the only undefeated team remaining in
the National Football League this year, even though their average
margin of victory is only six point four points and
only two of the Chiefs wins have come by more
than seven points, and that knowledge in fifty cents will
gets you a cup of coffee at Burger Chef. They're winning.
They don't ask Kyle just how many they've got DNA.

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You heard me say it earlier. The thing about the Chiefs,
they've got a mistique. Maybe it's a shiny ren helmets.
Maybe it's Andy Reid, the friendly walvers on the sidelines,
whatever you want to call it. Like Casey Stengel said
about the Yankees in the fifties when nobody could beat them,
he said, people can't beat the Yankees, Why well, they
get stuck staring at the pinstripes. We'll see if Buffalo
gets stuck down at the red Helmets on Sunday. Could

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the Philadelphia Eagles be making liars out of a lot
of us their six game winning streak only eclipsed by
the Heat or the Chiefs and Lions are on. The
Eagles showed me something Thursday night that they're a four
quarter team and they can wear you down. And if
Nick Sirianni stops making dumb decisions and arguing with fans
and they let Jalen Hurts cook, you know, russ ain't

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the only one who can cook and and there are
assignmon sound and no commit penalties and blow a sign.
You know, look, the Eagles, if they bring their best,
they're going to be a tough out because the NFC
is wide open. I believe it's wide open. I know
the Lions are the darling and they are they should be.
But what's going on with the NFC West? The Cardinals

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lead that division. Cardinals have won four in a row.
They completely embarrassed the New York Jets thirty one to
six last week. The Cardinals have a dynamic offense, would
because Kyler Murray is healthy and I love their new coach.
There's clearly a different culture there. And more importantly, with

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Kyler Murray making plays on offense the way we always
knew Kyler Murray could if he was healthy, the defense
is also rounding him the shape and you know what,
Arizona is plucky. You've got to get them down and
beat them, and they're not going to beat themselves. Give
it up to Derrick Henry, a fan favorite. What's not
to love about Derrick Henry. He scored a touchdown in

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every single game this season. He's only the fifth player
in the Super Bowl era that's going back to nineteen
sixty six to start a season with a touchdown streak
that long that doesn't happen by accident. Props to Derrick Henry,
by the way, his teammate right now anyway, is the
MVP front runner, Lamar Jackson. He's got the league leading

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passer rating not standing at one twenty three point two.
If that holds, which we don't know if it will,
but if it does, us he would eclipse the single
season record held by one Aaron Rodgers, a won twenty
two point five that was set back in twenty eleven
when Rogers won the first of four league MVP awards.
Mike Williams has found a new home. Aaron Rodgers, former

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teammate that he won of the many he threw into
the bus, found his way to a nice, cozy landing
in Pittsburgh. Didn't take long for him to produce benefits
for his new team, the Steelers. He caught a touchdown
pass the game winning thirty two yard reception at Washington
last week. Somebody better recognized his Steelers team is pretty

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darn good. And if they beat Baltimore later on this afternoon,
and I will not be surprised if they do. They
are a what three three and a half three point underdog,
and we know Lamar Jackson has not done well against
the Steelers in his last four outings. The Bears forty

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two yards last week on offense. That's diffused in more
than three years. But apparently the Bears got a body
at work with their new flashy quarterback Caleb Williams. Second
time they've been held a fewer than one hundred and
fifty yards this season. Long in this man's NFL. When
you can barely touch the quarterback and it's basketball on turf, Yeah,

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I don't know. Man. The Jets may be dysfunctional, but
the Bears aren't far behind, and the numbers don't lie.
I want to go back to Kansas City and they're
nine to zero despite some unusual circumstances. But this is
what happens when you are imbued with greatness. The Chiefs
just simply are everything about that organization and their culture,

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from their ownership to their head coach, to their quarterback,
to their offense, their defense, everything about them. They even
got that one singer that likes to go to games.
I forget her name right now, but it doesn't matter.
You've got a space you can write her name.

Speaker 5 (01:26:02):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
Kansas City is nine to zero. Despite last Sunday, the
Broncos line up for a thirty five yard game winning
field goal with one second left on the clock. The
Broncos played an outstanding game that day. Is eight point
underdogs and the Chiefs block the kick. That is so
on brand for Kansas City to make a play like that.

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Not just listen. You don't go nine to zero without
having a break here and there. What's the old saying
in life? Beat the right place at the right time.
But I got a sentence to that. I put a comma,
beat the right place at the right time. Comma and
do something about it. And the Chiefs always do. Week nine,

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the Tampa bay Bucks score touchdown twenty seven seconds left
in the game. They choose to kick the extra point
to tie the game. I know everybody says they should
have gone for two. I don't blame Todd Bowles. They
don't have the DNA to go for two in the
rain like that. They took their chances, went overtime and
lost because well Patrick Mahomes, that's what he does in overtime.

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But look, with twenty seven seconds to go, the Bucks
tie him up over times, typically a coin flip. Unless
it's Kansas City, you've probably forgotten this. Most of us
have all the way back in Week three, the Atlanta
Falcons were down five points. They had the ball on
the Chief's twelve yard line with a minute left on
the clock, and it was third and one. They had

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two tries and the one hundred and forty million dollar
man Kirk Cousins couldn't connect in either one. But let's
also give the Chiefs defense a lot of credit. In
the past, perhaps their defense, let's all little to be desired,
but their offense and their offensive scale and their will
overcame that this year the Chiefs got a legitimate defense.

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Is I think Buffalo is gonna find out Sunday. Let's
go back to Week two. The Bengals, well, it peered
that they beaten the Chiefs in Week two twenty five
to twenty three after the Chiefs failed to convert on
fourth and sixteen. Chiefs had the ball fourth and sixteen.

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They trailed twenty five to twenty three, and they failed
to convert. But wait, there was a timely pass interference
call against the Bengals, which resulted in a Kansas City
field goal could have miss the field goal right again,
they took advantage. And let's not forget what got this

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whole party started. On that fateful Thursday night, Week one.
The Ravens were an Isaiah Likely toe. His toe was
touching the line away from forcing overtime. The Chiefs hold
on to win twenty seven to twenty final play of
the game. I was standing through by Lamar Jackson. I'm
standing catch by Isaiah Likely out of coast of Carolina.

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Oh my goodness, we're going over time. What a barn burner. Yeah.
Then after further review, his toe was on the line
that listed by that much. Max Smart. And that's not
all the Chiefs is you probably know, have won seven
one possession games and we all picked on the Vikings
for doing that in twenty twenty two. But they didn't

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have Andy Reid, they didn't have Patrick Mahomes, and they
didn't have Travis Kelcey, and they didn't have that you'd
get it. Everybody outside of Kansas City is hating this.

Speaker 6 (01:29:24):
Not me.

Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
I love the story, I really do, because it's death
by a thousand cuts, a thousand paper cuts. Here we are,
we are about twelve hours away, right now from where
I sit, twelve hours away, Kansas City, no doubt will
have their toughest remaining matchup against the Bills, who are
eight and two and are lying in wait. And if

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you're a Bills fan, this sets up for the Bills
to win this game. But I am just not confident
they'll get over the hump. You got finally the two
bohemoths and the AFC CALLI last year this time of
the season, hentering week ten. You know they you know
they were. There were stories then as well. But whatever,

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the Chiefs get on the road as an underdog. They're
fifteen to one against the spread as an underdog and
the Patrick Mahomes Chiefs era and they've won twelve of
those games outright. So Week ten taught us a lot.
Week ten also shared which NFL teams are trending up
and which are trending down. We're gonna chop all that

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(01:31:15):
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We are about eight hours and thirty nine minutes away
from the resumption of NFL Week eleven. Who's on the ups,
who's on the downs? Well, how about those Lions are
eight and one, even though their offensive line has struggled
a bit. Jared Goff through five picks, Detroit was trailing
Houston three to seven. At the half golf well c J. Stroud,

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the Lions storm back nineteen one answer points. They win
twenty six to twenty three. And what does that tell you?
That there are many ways the Lions can beat you
and if they have that home field advantage. This is
why I believe would be their damocles. Last year people
would ask me, can the Lions go to the Super Bowl?

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They said, well, how many games are going to have
at home? And they couldn't close the deal in San Francisco.
They're going to be awfully tough out. Who would you
project going in there and beating them at Ford Field Philly,
San Francisco. I don't know. It's not get too ahead
of ourselves. We'll talk a little about the playoffs and coming up.

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But Jalen Hurts since is bye week five, Jalen Hurts
leads to the National Football League with sixteen touchdowns, eight rushing,
eight passing. He's still in just one pick. The Phillies
are on a six game winning streak and thanks to
Washington's loss, Philly eight and two ranks first in the

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NFC East. Don't look now, Philly's reaching their potential and
they're trending upward. If you had Mike Tomlin as your
coach of the year last August, take a bow. There
are many people, not me, predicting this would be the
year Pittsburgh falls off. Somehow, Justin Fiel's got to glued together.

(01:33:32):
But they'd made the right decision, went with an actual
major league quarterback and throw a forward pass. And the
proof is in the pudding. They scored thirty points three
weeks in a row, three and oh with Russell Wilson.
See how he does against Baltimore. Don't be surprised if
Pittsburgh beats Baltimore. I think Mike Tomlin is very much
on track to get coach of the year. They beat

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the Washington twenty eight, twenty seven, they're three and oh again,
averaging thirty points of games. Since he made what was
an incredibly guts he called to start Russell Wilson. Now,
let's not draw too many conclusions yet, Let's not get
too caught up in recency bias. We're gonna learn a
lot Sunday when the Pittsburgh Steelers hous Baltimore. I wouldn't

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bet against this team anytime soon, though. I like their
act a lot. It's just been a solid organization for
fifty years. Speaking of Coach of the Year, winking and
nod to Jonathan Gannon of the Arizona Cardinals. Cardinals six
and four riding a four game winning streak. Yes, it
was against the Chargers, Dolphins, Bears, and Jets, but they're

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all NFL teams. They lead the NFC West. They are
playing their best football in that franchise for a long time.
They're only losses have come against all playoff teams Bill's, Packers, Lions,
and Commanders. Now do you expect the Cardinals to inch
into the playoffs in January? Yeah? I do because their

(01:34:58):
defense is running into forum. Now do you realize in
their last three home games, the Arizona Cardinals have not
allowed a single touchdown offensive touchdown? Yeah? I think you
can renew your faith in Brock Party. I don't know
why this poor guy has his detractor as well. I know,
but it's not worth diving into. It doesn't matter. There

(01:35:18):
was a poll earlier this season, only thirty nine percent
of people believe Brock Purty was what sixty million a season? Now,
I don't count other people's money. Dak Prescott seems like
a very affable chap unless you're trying to win football
games in January. And didn't win a lot this year either,
But he got a sixty million, didn't he and one

(01:35:41):
of the Cowboys got to show for three wins. It's
only twenty million a win. That's not bad. But rock
Party sure, Rock Purty sure looked the part last week.
Completed seventy percent of his patches through for three fifty
three two touchdowns including and this is what he does
best when he's got his weapons. He engineered a masterful

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forty one second six play drive to push the Niners
into field goal range for the game winner that finally
Jake Moody didn't miss. And you know, apparently you know
this team wants to win. Just ask Deebo Samuel. But
you get the point. Could the Saints be trending up?

(01:36:22):
I don't know, but you can certainly see that. I
don't think you're going on too much of a limb
to imply that Dennis Allen was the problem. I don't
know anything about Darren Rizzy, except the dude is so
he's been mainlining joke cole As and I'm here for it.
He's lit a fire under the Saints the end under

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seven game losing streak with a twenty seven to a
twenty to seventeen win against the Falcons to me the
very underwhelming division leading six and four Falcons. And we'll
see now later this afternoon when Jameis Winston comes to
town for the Jamis Winston if the Packers or checked out,
if the Saints could make it two in a row

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and against the Browns, we'll see. By the way, last week,
Alvin Kamara one hundred nine yards from scrimmage and doing so,
he passed the former teammate mark Ingram to become the
Saints all time leading rusher. By the way, they also
signed Marcus Valdez Scantling and he had a nice debut
as well, one hundred nine yards two touchdowns. So we'll see.

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The Saints are stuck on seven losses. You can't get
the eight loss your odds are winning the next seven games,
not likely, but we'll see. Finally, you've got a couple
of sophomore quarterbacks that continue to struggle. Poor Bryce Young.
He was managed. You know, he only got sacked once

(01:37:50):
by the Giants pass rushers is actually very good and
didn't even have a single turnover. And he got his
fourth win of his career. And I like Bryce Young.
I think in time he can absually think he can develop.
And Will Levis somehow completed eighteen to twenty three, one
to seventy five and two touchdowns. He also won interception free,
which is a minor miracle for the first time this season.

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And Anthony, if your stock can rise by doing nothing,
you know, paging Anthony Richardson. He was on the bench
last week. But Joe Flacco, who some people insist he
sold now that his blood type has discontinued, finally showed
his age turned the ball over four times. In the
home crowd booed, perhaps the honeymoon, the love affair. Joe

(01:38:37):
Flacco maybe can go back to his Barker launder. We'll see, though,
We'll see. Indianapolis will start Anthony Richardson Sunday. Finally, I
still maybe I'm an idiot, but I still believe the
Cincinnati Bengals got a run on him. They lost to
Baltimore last week. But if you really watch the game,
they don't look like a four and six team. Their
next two games later on this afternoon against the Charge

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in Los Angeles and the Steelers. They're critical, but remember
the Broncos are five and five, the Colts are four
and six. They both lost last weekend. Cincinnati is still
on the cusp of the final AFC wild card spot.
All they got to do is win. That's all that's
all you gotta do is win. So for every team

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that trends tends up, there's always a few that trend down.
If you're a Chicago fan, with all due respect, can
you have any kind of faith in this regime? Caleb
Williams was sacked nine times by a Patriot pass rush
last week that had frankly, they'd only sacked. They'd only

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garnered two sacks in the prior month. It's one of
many major issues in Chicago. The Bears don't have a
passing touchdown in nearly a month, and their offense appears
to be broken. I don't call for people's jobs. I
don't do that, but it feels like, I don't know.

(01:40:06):
It feels like their head coach might want to polish
up his resume, and it feels like this, I'm gonna
just say it, Caleb Williams may have been a miss.
Let's give him a chance, let's see, let's let it
play out. But right now, gun to my head. On Sunday,
November seventeenth, twenty twenty four, I think Caleb Williams might
have been a miss. Daniel Daniel Jones in New York.

(01:40:29):
Come on, man, every time you watch that guy, He's
got talent, but he just can't ever really channel it
or harness it in any consistent fashion. After Jones threw
two picks in a twenty to over, they lost to
Carolina twenty to seventeen. The week before, Brian Dable he
said that, you know, the Giants are two and eight, right,

(01:40:52):
but we'll evaluate the quarterback position. What you been doing
the last ten weeks? I like Brian Dable, but the
bloom is off the roads there as well. Right, Hey,
Drew Locke in the wings? Wow? And I was your day.
So here's the final fun fact, fun question. Who's more
disappointing the Jets are the Cowboys? The answer? Sure, you

(01:41:18):
got Dak Prescott out looks like he's out for the year.
Dallas Ws was thirty four to six to the Eagles.
That was clearly the final nail on the coffin in
this season at three and six didn't help. I know
they're gonna blame that CD Lamb lost the ball in
the sun, and you know what, maybe he did, would

(01:41:39):
it mattered? What the hell? They lost thirty four to six.
This team, I said in January or August, nothing against
Mike McCarthy, but I see Barney rubble. He wanders the
side lambs like a gol, like a guy in the
mall parking lot that can't find his car, simple as that.
In high leverage moments in the playoffs, you see what happened.

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Come on, and he's this year without a contract. The culture,
the mental outlook, I don't know how this team, they're
completely dysfunctional. By the way, New York, they're no better,
they're worse. They lost their fourth game in five weeks
since firing Robert Sala and the Jets. Come on. There
was an incredibly damning article in the New York Post about

(01:42:21):
Aaron Rodgers. You are not the savior of The article
was extremely well written. I like Sam Donald, but you
know you can't break the commandment that says Dal showed
not bear false witness. Sam is regressing three total interceptions,
two in the end zone, nearly cost of Vikings. Last

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week they escaped twelve. They beat the mac Jones led
Jaguars twelve to seven. And I like Sam Donald, and
afterward he made a very profound statement, I got to
do a better job of taking care of the football.
You think you think Donald's league leading thirteen turnovers have
to have Viking fans worried even though they are seven

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and two. The Vikings have Tennessee on deck this afternoon.
The Buccaneers, they're just the bad luck franchise. I'm sorry.
Baker Mayfield rolls right, rolls right, rolls right, stiff arms
Nick Bosa converts an impossible ford fourth and seven. It
wasn't enough, though. They end up losing on the field goal.

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The Box becomes just the second team in NFL history
to average thirty points a game in their last six games,
and they only go one in five. There's only been
one other team to do that. It was the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. Yep, if they didn't have bad luck, I
don't know if they'd have any luck. Come up. It's
not too soon. Let's jockey around and based on schedules

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and history, take a look at what the playoff picture
might look like. We are in November. I'll give you
what I think I know. I'm Bernie Fredderwire. Come to
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(01:44:09):
lie after the Tarat dot Com Studios. Here in Las Vegas.
We are twenty minutes away from the dance Sensation sweep
of the nation. What kind of brand new fool you
followed by? What my name? In the AFC? If the
season ended today, the Chiefs would be, of course the

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number one seed and they would have a buye the
number two seed. The Bills would host the Denver Broncos
in a wildcard game. Check that. Yeah, Stealers would play
the Chargers and Texans and play the Ravens. But that's today.
See at this point last season, the Jaguars were six

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and three, the Seahawks were six and three. The Saints
and Vikings were all in line for the playoffs. None
of them made it. They were replaced by the Texans,
who started five and four finished ten and seven. The
Rams Remembers started three and six last season, finished ten
and seven. The Bucks started four and five finished nine
and eight, and the Packers started three and six and

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they went nine and eight. So see, there's still plenty
of time to turn this season on its ear, which
means some teams are currently in good shape, but they
might not remain there for long if passed is prologue.
So who might invite your skepticism? Who might you question?

(01:45:37):
The Chargers might be one. They're getting a lot of love,
and I love Justin Herbert, but they're six and three.
They're currently the number six seed, and if the season ended,
they would face off against in the playoffs if it
ended today against the Steelers. But the season does end
of to day. But you know, the first of all,

(01:45:59):
I always hate it when people say, you know, they
got team's got an easy schedule. It's the National Football League.
It's no such thing as easy. And I get some
teams are better than others, some teams have better rosters
than others, and some teams have better records than others.
But when you get on that field, on proverbial Burt Bell,
former commissioner, once said, any given Sunday, anything can happen,

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and often does. The Chargers still have to play Kansas
City again in their overall remaining schedule. Is not easy,
you see, because if you look at the Chargers opponents
the first ten weeks, half of them had you know,
they had four more wins. But you know, between weeks

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eleven and eighteen, eighty percent of the Chargers' opponents have
four more wins, including key matchups against the Bengals which
is later today and the Bucks. So the Chargers have
done well, but they got their work cut out for them. Meanwhile,
in Denver and they're currently the number seven seeds, you're
five and five. They also got to play the Chiefs again.

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They'll give them home. And it's also in week eighteen
when it's possible the Chiefs are resting their starters, unless,
of course, well the Chiefs are sixteen and oh and
they want to go seventeen and oh, you know they won't.
Then they just won't. The key stretch will be week
sixteen and seventeen. The Bengals have to play the Chargers.
Check check that the Broncos have to play the Chargers.

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In Bengals and road games that might end up determining
their final wildcard spot as far as teams that are
on the outside looking in. And this is the FC.
The Bengals they are now, but they could they could
you know, clemo wildcard spot right quick if they beat
the Chargers and Broncos and then you've got a three
game spletch of stretch of Cleveland, Dallas and Tennessee. The

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combined record of those three teams seven and twenty. That's
what I'm talking about. That helps. Would it shock me
if the Bengals reeled off five wins in a row, Well,
no it wouldn't. But starts later today and it's on
the road against the Chargers. The Colts, they're four and six.
They're not going to sort out their quarterback mess this year.

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Anthony Richardson's back as a starter. He was ten to
thirty two and last game and asked to come out
because he was tired. Okay, fine, but he claims he
thinks he's a great passer. Okay, sure, then't do it
on the field, don't tell me, show me the line.
And the Colts, the Colts might benefit from a schedule

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again based on a record. Between here on out, they
only play one team with the team with a record
of over five hundred. That would be the Lions, and
they get them at home, and so in their final
seven games, Indianapolis has a fighting chance. Now, the Dolphins
are a team might keep an eye on. They're three
and six. They have home games against the Raiders later

(01:48:54):
later today, and then next week against New England. Let's
just for the hell of it, say and six, and
then they have a subsequent four game stretch that looks
on paper to be more difficult Green Bay. But then
you got the Jets, Texans and the forty nine ers.
So are the Dolphins good enough to navigate that? Yeah,

(01:49:17):
but again you still gotta do it. Ain't gonna be easy.
The Jets three and seven. You may not believe this.
They are still mathematically alive. They've lost three other four
games since firing Robert Sala, But the remaining schedule with
it just has one game remaining against a plus five

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hundred team that's Buffalo. So there's some very very very
very faint hope did matter against New England. The Jets
are three and seven for a reason, and the reason
is very technical one. They suck they don't block, they
don't do anything. Name the one thing that Jets do
well except Aaron Rogers everything he wants. Everything's like rush

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ground Pepper. With that, Jets are They're done? Okay, I
mean it's it's a fada complete. If they win the
next seven games. I'm not going to say something stupid
like I moved to Mexico like some of these idiots say,
or no, I'll give them their flowers, but I will
be very, very, very very surprised. I think you got
a better chance of Led Zeppelin re recording the Gilligan's
Island theme song and selling a million copies that Jets

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win their next seven games. But that said, of their
upcoming opponents, the Jaguars, they shoot, they could beat him.
But the Cold Seahawks, Dolphins twice in rams, they're all
playoff contenders, so that merely adds to the mix. So
there's where you're at in the AFC. Let's take a
look at the NFC. If the season were to end today,

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the Lions, they would have your number one overall seed
and a bye. The Eagles would face off against the Packers.
Eagles would be the number two seed. They'd play Green
Bay the number seven seed, the falcon they're the number
three seed currently, they play the Commandos the number six seed,

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the Cardinals. The plucky Jonathan Gannon Cardinals, whose defense is
rounding into shape and Kyler Murray is doing a fine job.
They would currently they're currently the fourth seed. They would
play the Vikings the number five seed. Of course, there
are season long surprises on this list as well. The Cardinals, Vikings, Commanders,
who I just mentioned. Don't look back because someone could

(01:51:29):
be gaining on you. For starters, you can't rule out
the Tampa Buccaneers just yet. It's a shame they lost
their top two wide receivers, but man, they compete. They
just do. They're four and six. They had a similar
start last season, but they managed to sneak into the
playoffs and they can do it all again. They have

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upcoming games against the New York Giants. They get to
play the Carolina Panthers twice. They get to play the
Raiders and the Saints. The biggest test, they still have
to play the Chargers. But otherwise, based on paper, and
I know it's the National Football League, so you'll never

(01:52:13):
hear me say it's an easy schedule, but would you
rather play the Giants or would you rather play the Lions?
Would you rather play the Panthers twice in the Raiders
or would you rather play the Chiefs? Would you rather
play the Cowboys in Saints or did you rather play Buffalo?
You see where I'm going with that. They're not dead,

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but to be nice, if the other wide receivers. Meanwhile,
the forty nine ers four or five and four, I
fully expect them to write this ship. They've won two
in a row. They recently welcome back Christian McCaffrey on nothing.
He's only the twenty twenty three offensive player in the
air and you've seen the numbers. We've talked about him before.
When Christian McCaffrey's on the field, the Niners are way
over five hundred, way over five hundred, and when he's not,

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they're under But the remaining schedule where their opponent with
the worst record is Miami three and six and no
longer using backup quarterbacks, the Niners are gonna be challenged.
They're gonna have to earn it. They're gonna have to
earn it on the field. They do these mock models
and these analytical percentages, and they give the forty nine

(01:53:19):
Ers a forty five percent chance to get into the playoffs.
They only give the Bucks a sixteen percent chance. Have
no idea what any of that means. Maybe someone throw
to darted aboard and say want it's say, alh this
one sixteen percent? Look forget all that. The Niners are
a quality organization that has stumbled this year for various reasons.

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But they always remember what you did in November, and
I expect the Niners to write the ship starting this
afternoon with Seattle. Now, the Rams are four and five.
Last year, they went seven to one following their Week
ten by last season, but they don't have Aaron Donald anymore.
I think it's going to be very difficult for that

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to do. Matt Stafford continues to get all this love.
I swear to God, you know, I think Matt Hasselbeck
would have his baby, and I respect Mats Hassebec, but
enough with the Stafford craziness. Okay, he's thirty nine percent
accurate in the red zone, which is one of the
worst in the NFL. I get he's got a golden
arm and he makes a lot of dumb throws too.
I had my fill of him in Detroit he got

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a Super Bowl. Tekwowski's tart dropped the pass, could give
them their flowers. They did it. Okay, they did it,
and Aaron Donald did it. But they did it. But
if you're expecting Matt Stafford to put a team on
this put the team on his back. No, I'm not
seeing it again. If they do it, I'll give him
the flowers at the end of the year. But I'd
be very surprised me and on the Rams. They have

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upcoming matchups against the Eagles that ain't gonna be easy.
This is after New England there in New England later today.
They're a four and a half point favorite in Foxborough.
Then he got the Eagles. Eh, he had the Bills, Eh,
Colonels forty nine ers. They do get to play the Jets,
Seahawks and the Patriots later today led by Drake May

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you know. I think they played the Saints in there too,
somewhere memory serves, So no one's going to lay down.
But I'd be surprised if the Rams didn't finish about
five hundred, much less sneak into the playoffs. The Seattle
Seahawks they're four and five again, they're not out of it,
not on paper, not on you know, the math. They
also have a difficult schedule and somebody has to win

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the NFC East. Although I don't think it's the Rams.
It could be Arizona. I kind of lean on the
forty nine Ers, but I doubt it's Seattle given their
own two record against division rivals and all three division
road games still to go. Fans are asking, do we
miss Pete Carroll yet? Seriously, No, I don't know they
are there.

Speaker 7 (01:55:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:55:55):
I don't know, but Seattle's gone off the rails. The
reason I didn't mention the Bears here four and five.
They begin a three game NFC North stretch against the Packers, Vikings,
and Lions this week, so this is their time to shine.
But to make matters worse, they play those same three
contenders again weeks fifteen to eighteen. Jim mcmahony walking through

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that door. Why the hell do people always say they
go all the way back to Sid Luckman? Do you
forget Jim McMahon. What a phenomenal job he did, and
now believe that team. I know they had Buddy Ryan
in the forty six defense. McMahon was a spiritual leader.
He made every throw in the field. It was a
different game back then. It's not basketball on turf like
it is now, and the rules were different. You could

(01:56:38):
beat the hell out of a quarterback, you could sack him,
and then you could go after his family. Now you
can't do any of that. So the Bears, Caleb Williams
may be a miss. I'm just saying. I think Chicago
they've got eight games left. I say they win two.

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I say they're going to go two six down the stretch.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Speaker 1 (01:57:03):
So there you have it.

Speaker 2 (01:57:05):
But as I said, there were teams last year sitting
in the catbird seat they managed to not do so well.
By the way, not for nothing, the forty nine ers
are beating the Seahawks by at least eight points in
six straight games. Seattle seventeen and two against the number
is a dog when they're coming off a loss. But
I ain't grabbing the Seahawks and the points, and I

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think I think the Niners hang that number. The Broncos
eight and one against the number after beating the Chiefs,
but they didn't beat the Chiefs last week. They covered
the spread though the Colts nine to two against the
number in games when both teams are coming off non
division fos. The Jets two and eleven when they're coming
off it was not right loss. I would take a

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look at the Colts, but Anthony Richardson very much scares me.
So there you have it. The Chiefs are the king
of the you know, they ruled the roost in the AFC,
and they're nine to zero. But even the Broncos at
five and five currently in this seventh spot, with the Colts, Bengals,
and Dolphins behind Line's eight and one in the NFC,
Packers holding on, Packers, Vikings and Lions, three to four

(01:58:08):
teams in the NFC North would be in the playoffs
at they start today. Some familiar names though, the forty
nine ers on the bubble. We'll see what they do
later today. Keep it locked, brand new fool And what
my name? It's the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.
That's right, you heard the man, Bernie Fradles Show keeps

(01:58:29):
rolling right along. My name is Bernie FRADDLEI are comedy
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(01:58:51):
to that juncture in the week. We've come to that
time in the show. You see around this great land
of ours, from seed to oily s and our staff. Well,
we observe things as you get very one cent. You
can observe a lot by watching, and we do. And
people do things. They engage in behaviors. Sometimes these behaviors
are goofy and odd and silly but innocuous. So other
times they are far more serious. Other times they run

(01:59:13):
a file of the law. They can even land you
in jail. But any way you slice it, any way
you describe it, any way you characterize it, these behaviors
of one thing in common. They always leave us scratching
our head and asking ourselves, what kind of brand new
fool are you now? This one is short, but sweet

(01:59:35):
and is goofy as it possibly gets. You've I'm sure
you've seen or heard of situations where neighbors have feuds
and sometimes they can get serious. I mean, you've never never,

(01:59:57):
you know, fails to surprise me when neighbors have a
dispute and it becomes a hatfield McCoy's and someone fires
a shot. Hell, we had a brand new fool story
here a few months ago where a guy came home
and someone ate his taco, so he shot his uncle. Yeah,
so it happens, right, nicely done, Mark. I'd say we've
all been there, but we haven't. So we've seen violent stories,

(02:00:19):
crimes that don't hurt anyone, nuisance crimes. But this one
takes you to Sheldon, Iowa, where I don't know how
to really set this up, so I'll just blurt it out.
A man in Sheldon, Iowa was sixty four year old
man by the name of Doug, and he's got three names,
like an assassin. I'll just give his first names, Doug.

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He got into a dispute with his neighbor and then
and it turned out to be a little bit more
protracted and prolonged, and they just would not, you know, relent.
So finally Doug got mad one day. What did you
do to it? Even No, he didn't shoot anybody, he

(02:01:03):
didn't attack anybody. He just went to the hardware store
and bought some paint and painted his neighbor's plants. He
painted his neighbor's plants cost him forty bucks. The neighbor
called the cops. Doug admitted going on the property. In fact,

(02:01:26):
there is video of Doug going on the property and
he admitted to the event. The plants are worth about
forty bucks. He was charged with fifth degree criminal mischief
and first offense trespassing. And if you could see a
picture of this dude's beard, oh my no, don't, don't, don't, don't,

(02:01:49):
you'll ruin your day. But Doug from Sheldon Iowa, who
went onto his neighbor's house thanks to a Hatfield McCoy's
dispute and decided to get even by painting their plants.
What kind of brand new food are you? All right,
mister shade? What do you got for us tonight? Bud?

Speaker 8 (02:02:10):
We're going back to our favorite? Yeah, FloriDada?

Speaker 2 (02:02:13):
All right?

Speaker 8 (02:02:14):
Through, Buddy went a little bit seriously. I was looking
through stories and I was like, we need a Florida story,
and I found a couple of good ones, but they
weren't Florida. So this was good enough, and it was Florida,
so I was happy to find this one. We're going
specifically to Bradenton, Florida, where a woman by the name
of Veronica Torres was charged with filing a false public

(02:02:35):
assistance claim, which is basically a third degree felony. And
get ready for this, Bernie, because I don't think anyone's
dumb enough to do this other than this woman. A
forty four year old woman from Bradenton was arrested after
she allegedly used her mother's name, driver license, and social
security information to file for hurricane disaster assistance.

Speaker 2 (02:02:54):
Oh boy, oh boy.

Speaker 8 (02:02:56):
Veronica Torres is charged with filing a false public assistance cream. Again,
it was a third degree felony and police department The
brad Bradenton Police Department reportedly claimed that she was forced
to move out of her home due to a hurricane
damage before her request for around seven thousand or eight
thousand through Bradenton's hurricane disaster Assistance program was approved. Office

(02:03:18):
has said when the woman arrived to the government building
to pick up the money, the attendant said, you look
a lot younger than this picture. Guess what her Guess
what her explanation was, I give up botox treatments.

Speaker 2 (02:03:34):
Oh boy, yeah, that'll do it to you.

Speaker 8 (02:03:37):
So after that was a failed attempt. The employee told
her to come back tomorrow and they'll be able to
get it figured all out tomorrow. When she did arrive,
officers were waiting for her to arrest her right then
and there. She's still waiting for trial. But yeah, it's
it's it's a it's a hefty.

Speaker 2 (02:03:55):
If that's a big serious business man.

Speaker 8 (02:03:57):
Yeah, so Veronica Torres from brandenon Florida. Kind of brand
new fool are you got?

Speaker 2 (02:04:03):
And you know a lot of times these are humor
is and stuff, but this is at someone's expense. I
gotta believe she's doing jail time on my wrong shake.

Speaker 8 (02:04:09):
One's doing jail time.

Speaker 2 (02:04:11):
You can't defraud the guy coming me.

Speaker 8 (02:04:14):
You don't. You don't mess with their money. You don't
mess with the government's.

Speaker 2 (02:04:17):
Money, especially after a disaster like that in front of
God and everybody. Heartless, good good research serage. We were
overdue to go back to Florida. We had we certainly
had quite a ride, you know, on the Visa VI Florida.
Well that will that will conclude another rousing edition of

(02:04:37):
What kind of brand New fool You, which now allows
us to segue into our second favorite bid that we
lovingly refer to as what my name and he we
go got a lot of them tonight, guys, So you're
ready to roll. That is what happened very recently. I

(02:04:58):
just became the UFC record holder by winning my twentieth
fight in a row, Mark Ramsey, what my name.

Speaker 8 (02:05:10):
Is it?

Speaker 9 (02:05:11):
John Jones standing Mark.

Speaker 2 (02:05:13):
It happened earlier tonight, earlier Saturday night. He beat step
A mio Chick. He's now He now holds a UFC
record of twenty fights twenty fight wins in a row.

Speaker 8 (02:05:25):
Stang he looked us tonight, Yeah he did.

Speaker 2 (02:05:27):
He I think he was pissed. He's Stepe called him
a bunch of names.

Speaker 8 (02:05:30):
Yeah, Stepe was hasn't fought in like three years, though
he was he was.

Speaker 2 (02:05:34):
On the edge. I guess he talked about his kids
or something. Yeah, you know, that's not a good thing
to do. John Jones says, all the physical talent in
the world just just amazing. Okay, I'm the last NFL
player to win back to back MVP awards. Here's a clue.
He's still a starter in the National Football League now,

(02:05:54):
uh Shaye, what my name.

Speaker 8 (02:05:58):
Wasn't recent? He's still a starter. Oh, Aaron.

Speaker 2 (02:06:03):
Start tonight, kick an ass and take a name.

Speaker 8 (02:06:06):
Not hint you gave me really helped me out you start.

Speaker 2 (02:06:09):
My wife said I need to get better clues, and
so you.

Speaker 8 (02:06:11):
Know your wife's helping me out here. Thank you very good.

Speaker 2 (02:06:14):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, we all do a great full nation.
All right. This one's a little more difficult, but they
just did a feature on this guy yesterday. If you
watch any college football, I'm a Heisman Trophy candidate. But
I'm the only one of the Heisman Trophy candidates to
began playing football in Italy. Playing football in Italy? Mark Ramsey,

(02:06:37):
what my name?

Speaker 8 (02:06:40):
Who is it?

Speaker 9 (02:06:43):
Anybody related to Franco Harris?

Speaker 2 (02:06:46):
Franco's Italian Army met him once. What a gentleman he was.
Uh so, here's a little clue he might Well, I
think you might get this, Shay. Then I'll give you
guys both the clue. I'm a Heisman Trophy candidate. I'm
the only of the Heisman tropl candidates to have begun
playing football in Italy. Shay, what my name?

Speaker 8 (02:07:06):
He began?

Speaker 2 (02:07:08):
He started out the first time he ever played football. Yeah,
his father was in the military.

Speaker 8 (02:07:13):
Dylan Gabriel's kind of guy like a station in Italy
filling that Dylan Gabriel?

Speaker 2 (02:07:17):
Is it him? Not Dylan Gabriel. I'll give you guys
a clue. He shares his first name with a guy.

Speaker 8 (02:07:22):
Named Kutcher Ashton, Genzy Bam Genty.

Speaker 2 (02:07:27):
He'm on those clues, man.

Speaker 8 (02:07:29):
Wow. Serious? Wait, I didn't even know he's from Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:07:32):
Well he listened. His father was well traveled in the
in the military, and he started out playing in Naples, Italy.
It's like Kobe, he's like fourteen years old. Yeah, it
was a very similar situation. There's a similar situation. All right.
You know we're still waiting on the baseball awards. I'm
the only major league baseball pitcher. Check that. Let me

(02:07:54):
start over. I'm the first major league baseball pitcher in
history to have won four awards in a row. Mark Ramsey,
what my name? Give you clues? In the National League?
Heyday was in the nineties.

Speaker 9 (02:08:12):
It's I'm only think of a guy that played for
the Cubs who.

Speaker 2 (02:08:17):
Would then played for the Cubs.

Speaker 9 (02:08:19):
Actually, I'm only thinking of I can't think of anything,
but he was a Cub then he was a Brave
for a while.

Speaker 8 (02:08:26):
But I can't think well, you're here.

Speaker 2 (02:08:27):
Okay. He was a brave of the first Major League
Baseball pitcher and issued when four say Young Awards in
a row? Shay, what my name? Played for the Braves,
played for the.

Speaker 8 (02:08:39):
No played for the Braves went four in a row?

Speaker 2 (02:08:42):
Whom No Young Awards in a row? Yeah. They just
did a big feature on him in the Major League
Baseball Network in the last month. He's from Las Vegas.

Speaker 8 (02:08:50):
He's from Las Vegas. Greg Maddox, Guys, God, how did
I I'm gonna get myself for that right now. I'm
pinching myself.

Speaker 2 (02:08:59):
So there's only been one other pitcher in Major League
Baseball history that actually won four Siang Awards in a row.
Only one other one, and it's me what my name?
He's a lefty play for a couple of teams. Shay,
you go.

Speaker 8 (02:09:14):
First, Randy Johnson. I just I didn't realize, like I
knew it.

Speaker 2 (02:09:19):
You knew it, you knew it, you got it all right.
I talked about this one within the last ninety minutes
on the show. I'm now the all time New Orleans
Saints leading rusher in New Orleans Saints history. That's the
Department of Redundancy. Department. Mark Ramsey, what my name.

Speaker 5 (02:09:42):
Is it?

Speaker 8 (02:09:43):
Kamara?

Speaker 2 (02:09:44):
It is Camara. Can you get the first name? Some chipmunks,
Alvin Alvin Kamara. Look at you, guys are just showing off.
Now give yourself a round of applause. Here, let's do it.
Come on now, there we go, There we go. Get
you get on your feet. People put some respect in

(02:10:04):
the name. Well, Alvin Kamara had to break somebody's record.
Alvin Kamara broke my record as the all time New
Orleans Saints leading rusher. Mark Ramsey. What my name? I'll
give you a clue. He's got the first same first
name as.

Speaker 8 (02:10:19):
You, mark ingram Bam. Now we're cooking Remsen on fire tonight.

Speaker 2 (02:10:28):
Oh my god, we're just gonna do for now. We're
gonna do this the whole four hours because that's what
we're in the rhythm. Man, all right, I hold I'm
an NFL head coach. I now hold the all time
record for wins as the head coach of the Law
of the Rams franchise. Shave Oggar with my name.

Speaker 8 (02:10:48):
He Sean McVay, really seany.

Speaker 2 (02:10:50):
He just broke it. Good for him, just broke it.
Like within the last two weeks. Oh man, and of
course he had to break somebody's record. Sean McVay broke
my record. Mark Ramsey, What my name? Here's a clue.
He was a famous coach at USC as well, and
he just passed away in the last couple of days.
Sean McVay broke my record as the all time RAMS

(02:11:13):
head coach and victories.

Speaker 9 (02:11:16):
I know I just saw that. I forgot the RAMS
coaches name, but I know you're talking about it. Skips
my name, No.

Speaker 2 (02:11:22):
Problem, okay, Sean McVay broke my record. Sean Obenber what
my name?

Speaker 8 (02:11:28):
Okay? This is this is this has to be way
before my time. Huh. I'm trying to think here.

Speaker 2 (02:11:35):
He's the same last name of a famous baseball player
named Jackie.

Speaker 8 (02:11:39):
He just passed away the other day. Robinson.

Speaker 2 (02:11:42):
Yes, that's the last name. What's the first name?

Speaker 8 (02:11:45):
Robinson?

Speaker 2 (02:11:46):
You don't go to the bathroom, you go to the.

Speaker 8 (02:11:48):
The John John You know that guy. That's funny. Yeah,
he held the record. Oh wow, he was way before
my time though, right.

Speaker 2 (02:11:58):
Uh, well, certainly in the NFL.

Speaker 6 (02:12:02):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:12:02):
And then he had a brief stint coaching at UNLV.

Speaker 8 (02:12:06):
Yeah, I think that ended.

Speaker 2 (02:12:08):
I don't know, two thousand and two, they're thereabouts. Yeah,
he was like, excuse me, he was like eighty eight
years old. Bear with me for a second. Folks, like
most of the folks in the Fox Sports family and
in Nevada and California, you know, I feel like I've
been shot.

Speaker 8 (02:12:23):
So hang on, the grumlins are coming after us.

Speaker 2 (02:12:29):
Definitely, let the bastards get me. But no, Ryan, they're trying. Okay,
one more, guys, one more? How about one more? Are
we ready?

Speaker 8 (02:12:35):
What's fun?

Speaker 2 (02:12:36):
The last? Everybody thinks the Baltimore Ravens could win the
Super Bowl this year? Are you Are you buying the Ravensha?

Speaker 8 (02:12:43):
I am buying the Ravens, which is as upsetting as
a Browns fan to say that.

Speaker 2 (02:12:46):
But you think they could be Kansas City in January
and go through k I'm not buying it.

Speaker 9 (02:12:50):
But so I think their running game continues if they
can get Henry the state to be healthy.

Speaker 8 (02:12:56):
The whole time.

Speaker 2 (02:12:57):
That's a good point.

Speaker 9 (02:12:58):
I think that's an because the passing will be there,
and they have a wide receiver, but that running back,
the quarterback running back, that's the thing that most Super
Bowl teams had, that combination and they usually are successful
if their defense can keep the other team from scoring.

Speaker 2 (02:13:16):
Fair point. I accept that. Well. The last time the Ravens,
the Baltimore Ravens won a Super Bowl, I was their
head coach, Mark Ramsey what my name? It was also
the offensive coordinator for the Vikings when they had that

(02:13:38):
great Randy Moss team that scored like a point every
minute the last time they also has done a lot
of work in the media.

Speaker 8 (02:13:47):
The brother of the other Harbaugh.

Speaker 2 (02:13:50):
Was not John hard not John Harbaugh. The last time
they won a Super Bowl was before John Harbaugh got there.
All right, last time the Baltimore Ravens won a Super Bowl,
I was their head coach Seane moganer what my name?

Speaker 8 (02:14:01):
The last time they won?

Speaker 2 (02:14:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (02:14:05):
Was that not does not? Is that not Harbo?

Speaker 2 (02:14:10):
No, it wasn't Harball. He's never they've number one one
with him. Wait a minute, Wait a.

Speaker 8 (02:14:14):
Minute, Yeah they did.

Speaker 2 (02:14:15):
Did I screw this up? I was one of the
outstanding job guys because that was when he beat his brother.
I was gonna come up with Brian Billick. Oh, you guys,
outstanding job.

Speaker 8 (02:14:26):
Now you were trying to keep us on our toes.
That's that's it. You wanted to make sure we were
paying attention.

Speaker 2 (02:14:30):
Thanks for letting me off the hook. We all know.
We all know. I got a couple of holes in
my game and I just showed a wide one there. Hey,
bafo performance tonight, guys. We had fun performance. Yep, that
was damn fun. I'll tell you that was that was fun. Well,
why don't we do that again next week?

Speaker 8 (02:14:47):
I think we will.

Speaker 2 (02:14:49):
I think we will. By the way, football fans, be
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(02:15:09):
in Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Coming up,
a former Super Bowl winning or a former Super Bowl
quarterback is adamant that a former Super Bowl winning coach
is definitely coming back to the NFL. There could be
some controversy around this. I'll explain. Coming up, I'm Bernie

(02:15:30):
Fraddle were coming to live from Las Vegas Fox Sports
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listening to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio. Hi,
We're back on the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio.
Come to you live from the Taract dot Com studios
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(02:15:52):
Week eleven promises to be a doozy. Some outstanding matchups Sunday,
starting with Chiefs Buffalo and of course Pittsburgh Baltimore right
on down the line. All right, John Gruden's been all
of a sudden in the news quite a bit recently,
and you know by now that he's apparently got himself

(02:16:15):
a nice lucrative deal with Barstool Sports. I would imagine
he'll put butts in seats watching whatever that's going to be.
Lest you forget, he was a fixture on Monday Night
football before he came back to coaching, and very unceremoniously,
and you know why, he did some shameful things. But

(02:16:36):
according to a respected former Super Bowl quarterback, his name
rhymes with boomera Sis and the claims that John Gruden
wants to come back to the NFL, and in fact,
he is garnering interest from NFL teams a pair to
be true. As a matter of fact, Bloomer Science and

(02:16:58):
went on to claim that he believes John Gruden quote
is definitely coming back to coach in the NFL. You know,
just last he might. He must be getting back into
the social graces because just last week, John Gruden was
the guest of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He joined the

(02:17:19):
Glazer family in the owner's box at Raymond James Stadium
during the game last week against the forty nine Ers,
and Boomer Science in who I think is very credible
in my view, during his w FAN radio show, Boomer
and Geo stated, I guess in very emphatic fashion, yes

(02:17:39):
Gruden wants to roam the NFL sidelines again once more
as a head coach. End quote and quote. I'm telling
you right now, this is Boomer Science in talking. I
made a couple of calls last night. I can confirm
that he definitely wants to get back in one percent. Now,
Apparently those comments were born out of a conversation regarding

(02:18:01):
the New York Jets back when Robert Sala was fired
in October, and as you know, Robert Sala didn't take long.
He he has He's now working with the Green Bay
Packers as an offensive consultant. However, Boomer Science went on
to say that his sources and I would believe Boomer

(02:18:25):
side Sizon is credible, and I would believe his sources
are credible, indicated that multiple teams could explore hiring the
sixty one year old. Now that sounds like a platitude.
You know, I don't know if it's ever going to happen,
but no one's saying no. It's not hard to say no.
Apparently this is this has lakes, His story has legs

(02:18:48):
sience in Boomer went you know, also went on to quote,
I can also confirm and I believe this to be true.
This again my opinion after speaking to it these two
different people that are in the coaching searches and things
of that nature, that there are in fact teams that
aren't interesting that are interested in him. Speaking of John Gruden,

(02:19:10):
and it's interesting also to note that it's you know,
this could be relatively imminent. Quote, if it's not this year,
it's definitely next year. But he's coming back. He's definitely
coming back.

Speaker 1 (02:19:22):
End quote.

Speaker 2 (02:19:23):
As you know, Gruden was last seen on the sidelines
in twenty twenty one. He was with the Raiders. He
was let go in mid season. You know the story.
The emails made some incredibly unsavory comments. The lawsuit that
Gruden has against the NFL still pending. We don't know
if it's going to be heard in court or it's
going to be heard in some sort of Roger Goodell tribunal. Regardless,

(02:19:45):
it hasn't been adjudicated yet. Gruden has no stranger to
NFL coaching. He began his coaching career I believe, with
the Oakland Raiders back in nineteen ninety eight for three years,
and he had a good six to seven year run
with the Tampa Bay Bucks and even won a Super Bowl.

(02:20:08):
He beat He beat his old team, the Raiders forty
eight to twenty one. I want to guess that was
two thousand and two, two thousand and two thousand and three.
I think it was Super Bowl thirty seven. That's when
it was. And Gruden won one hundred and seventeen games
as head coach in the NFL. So interestingly enough, although

(02:20:29):
that he was a Gruden was a guest in the
Glazers Box this past week. He was removed from the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Ring of honor three years ago following
the email scandal, in which obviously there were a lot
of very very unsavory comments, vulgar racist that were even

(02:20:54):
directed at one of the bucks owners. So look, you
know about the story, Will Chuck he be a head
coach again, It's hard for me to picture. I'm gonna
be honest, it's just there's just no way around this
is the face of a franchise. Could he be an assistant, Yeah,
that could probably happen. That could probably happen. He does

(02:21:14):
have an offensive mind, and I would not rule that out.
But head coach, M I don't know. I don't know
that this one leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
But you know, I'm not gonna play god here. So
we'll see. We'll see what happens coming up. We have

(02:21:35):
a ton of stuff to get to, including given what
took place in Chicago or checked that in college football,
after what turned out to be in you know, pretty
exciting week, twelve games went down to the wire, A
couple teams got knocked off their perch Saturday had some

(02:21:57):
late disturbances, and how's that going to affect the up
I mean, twelve team playoff projection in the top four seeds.
It's we're gonna take a guess, but it's an educated
guess and you're gonna want to hear it. And there's
one particular team and that will be noteworthy that I'm
gonna mention that no one had going to the playoffs

(02:22:18):
in the beginning of the year. I guarantee it. And
they might not only go to the playoffs, we're projecting
they might even have a first round by But first,
speaking of playoffs, we covered all here on the Bernie
Frodder Show, including the other football spelled Futbol. It's time
Chris Purfett's World of Soccer.

Speaker 4 (02:22:39):
The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drama. It's
all here in this report from the World of Soccer.

Speaker 7 (02:22:59):
It's a been a oddball week, Bernie, because the MLS
Cup playoffs takes a week between when they would be
playing their game threes of some of the quarter finals
and our semi finals are set for the twenty third
and twenty fourth of November, so this isn't off week.

Speaker 1 (02:23:20):
For the MLS.

Speaker 7 (02:23:20):
But we haven't really hit on the MLS Cup playoffs
because they were happening when we were doing our world
with soccer. So let's rebound and talk about what's happened,
because I think a nightmare scenarios happened for MLS. Don Garber,
the commissioner, must be furious that Inter Miami vaunted Inter
Miami Lionel Messi. Inter Miami was knocked out in three

(02:23:42):
games by Atlanta United. Now this is no fault of
Atlanta's to say the least. They did their part. They
were the nine seed coming in here, the very last
team to enter into the MLS Cup playoffs from the East.
They played Montreal in a wild card game, they won
five to four on pks and earned the right to
play number one seeded Miami, and they beat them. They

(02:24:03):
beat them in Miami and in Atlanta to with for
the right to go forward. I have long been a
proponent that if you were going to put in a
playoff structure that does include lesser teams, lesser seeded teams,
you always, always always have to count for the possibility
that they may move forward. There is no fantasy booking

(02:24:25):
in sports. It's just not possible. I say the same
thing about the NCAA March Madness Tournament. If you don't
like Loyla Chicago potentially being there in the Sweet sixteen,
then the tournament tournament shouldn't have them to begin with.
But at the end of the day, it is Atlanta
playing Orlando in the semi finals of the Eastern Conference,
not Intero Miami. And now it is time once again

(02:24:47):
to look at the golden children of the MLS and
wonder what really happened here and how it's going to
really affect things for MLS. Who was banked so much,
so so much on Messi mania and so little of
it seems to just hit home. For three playoff games,
Leonel Messi only had one goal and one assist in

(02:25:08):
nineteen games he played in the MLS season. He had
twenty and sixteen. His shot conversion rate it went from
it went down to five percent. It had been twenty
four percent during the regular season. And to be honest,
it's not just Messi and I'm not here to really
bury Messy on how he played in three games. There
should be other players around him, And yes, inter Miami

(02:25:29):
has been decimated by injuries, and yes, It has been
a long drawn out season for them, just like it
has been for every club in the MLS. This this
game was the third game was tied. Heading down the stretch,
Leonel Messi scoring the equalizing goal for two to two
in the sixty fifth minute. All looked like Inter Miami

(02:25:50):
could go the right way. But you watched Atlanta scythe
down there and in the seventy six minute score the
winning goal, and there was no answer from Miami. There
was digging deep. There was no chance in twenty minutes
remaining to save a season.

Speaker 1 (02:26:06):
There wasn't. It was over.

Speaker 7 (02:26:08):
The MLS needed into Miami to keep selling a playoffs,
a playoffs that has been coming up on terrestrial TV,
but for really only the first time this year. Because
the entire regular season was usually stuck behind Apple TV
and streaming option in a streaming season pass, there was
no terrestrial TV to get people a sneak peek into

(02:26:29):
things like Leonel Messi. It was all on Apple TV
and it was all stuck back there, and when the
playoffs started, they needed the big guns to come out
to show everyone why you wanted to be in here,
and instead we had a wild card game and then
inter Miami bowing out in three. Now, the West has
done its part. Both Los Angeles teams advanced, both Galaxy
and FC and Seattle. Remember that, in spite of all

(02:26:52):
of this, and in spite of how the Sounders have
looked this year, the Pacific Northwest is still the heart
of American soccer fandom, and I believe those games will
carry the excitement moving forward for the league. But it
is not easy to look at this and say that
this is something that MLS was counting on, that they
were counting on their biggest guns being knocked out, And

(02:27:13):
to be honest, I do have plenty of problems with
the MLS's playoffs. Again, we mentioned Apple tvre and while
I'm sure Apple is going to be quite happy with
their numbers this year, no regular season or terrestrial TV
or cable butch has been able to hand out any
information on the league unless you actively seek it out.

Speaker 1 (02:27:33):
On that season pass.

Speaker 7 (02:27:35):
And remember, streaming isn't like live TV. It has its
own risks, much like podcasting or radio. Discoverability starts to
go way down for fans. So I'm sure Apple might
be happy for this year, but what about next year?
What about growth?

Speaker 8 (02:27:48):
Anyway?

Speaker 7 (02:27:48):
The bigger issue is with the playoffs. And I don't
know why this happens, but why are all these games
even playing Saturday and Sunday during the American football season.
Why go up against college ball and the National Football League.

Speaker 1 (02:28:03):
I know this is a Eurocentric thing to do this
on weekends.

Speaker 7 (02:28:06):
It's where the rest of the world plays Soccer is
on weekends, Premier League weekends, et cetera, et cetera. But
the MLS breaks with the European way of doing business
in so many ways. And I understand that weekends are
where you're going to probably get the most foot traffic
into these stadiums, and MLS is still a league that
needs stadiums filled up and gates to make its do.
But like this is where you'll cleave to the Eurocentric way.

(02:28:29):
You haven't thought about maybe that there is some giant,
giant games out there that you can't try to find
some way, somehow to be stand alone, to elevate yourself
so people can see what's going on. I know you
fear you might lose fans for the weekends, but I
think you've denied too many casual sports fans from the
playoffs as well. You're not making it complimentary watching. So

(02:28:52):
that's Miami out of the picture, and in truth, the
rest of the Eastern Conference was a bit of a bloodbath.
The remaining seeds are for six seven nine. That's right.
Every round we had the lower seed beating the higher seed,
so we have seen the except for Orlando. Except for Orlando,
they took care of number five Charlotte. But Columbus is gone,
Cincinnati has gone, and Miami is gone. Should shape up

(02:29:15):
for a very interesting rest of the playoffs. But I
think my attention is fully on the West. Now on
one piece of European interest here before we close up shop.
Paul Pogba is back and is about to be soon
a free agent. Paul Pogba was a very electric if
case you haven't remembered him, a very very electric French
star playing for Italian club Juventus. However, he was hit

(02:29:39):
with a doping band back in September of twenty twenty three,
and originally it was going to be a four year ban,
but the Court of Arbitration for Sport was reduced that
to eighteen months, so he will soon be available. But
just as he's coming off the ban, Juventus has decided
that the they will terminate his contract by mutual consent.

(02:30:03):
He would be there until twenty twenty six otherwise, So
what's a very interesting player suddenly on the open market.
Once again, not something we really get to see too much.
Paul was about turning about thirty one, I believe, so
I'm curious what the market for him will be. But nevertheless,
hope to see him get back into the game very soon.
That'll do it for us, Bernie, We'll see you next
time on the World of Soccer.

Speaker 2 (02:30:25):
You know, not for nothing. When Lionel Messi joined Inter
Miami in July twenty twenty three, he turned the US
soccer world on. It's here. So Messi being out of
the playoffs, fans not getting to see him, that's not
a small issue. If you don't believe me, well, remember
this the number one selling jersey for MLS and probably

(02:30:47):
globally with Adidas, Lionel Messi. So they're going to miss him.
Speaking of playoffs, we had a very exciting week twelve
in college football, and there's going to be a shakeup.
We're gonna look into our nostronomer's prognostication and tell you
what we think is gonna happen. Tuesday, and if you're
in one part of the country, get ready for a

(02:31:09):
pleasant surprise. I'm Bernie Fraddle. We're Comedy Line from the
Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio tarrat dot Com studios. Keep
it locked right here. You're listening to the Bernie Frattle
Show on Fox Sports Radio or wrapping it up on
the Bernie Frattle Show Fox Sports Radio. Be Comedy Live
from the tarrac dot Com studios here in Las Vegas.
Before I go any further this morning, this evening, I

(02:31:31):
want to thank my broadcast team back in Los Angeles.
They'd been with me since eleven pm Pacific time on
Saturday night. Say Morgan Guard our executive producer, and Mark Ramsey,
our technical producer. Great job tonight, guys, turning the dials,
keeping us glued together and killed it, killed it on
Brand New Fool and What My Name? Just a boffo

(02:31:52):
performance on What My Name? We are off and running.
Next week we might just do the whole damn four
hours on what my Name? Yep. Then again, you never know,
all right, Speaking of you never know, Saturday in college
football was a day there were some late disturbances, which

(02:32:12):
means I believe there'll be some shifting in the college
football playoff projections come Tuesday. That happened the course when
number six BYU no longer undefeated. They fell at home
to Kansas. Number seven Tennessee lost at number twelve Georgia.
As a result, I think it's fairly well likely that

(02:32:34):
Notre Dame will almost certainly move well up to the
ranks into the top six when the new rankings and
released Tuesday night. But how about the rest of the
college bracket and get ready for some surprises? All right,
So we know that Oregon survived to scare at Wisconsin.
They were trailing what thirteen to six in the fourth quarter,
but their defense came up big and they got it done.

(02:32:55):
Texas gets by Arkansas. I say that tongue in cheek.
They had trouble with Arkansas. And here's the thing we
talked about this last week. It's hard to picture that
Oregon will travel to Indianapolis and beat Ohio State for
what should end up being the Big Ten championship. Will
all due respect and what they've done in Indiana, we

(02:33:19):
just have to call him as we see him. It
feels like Ohio State wins next week. So all of
a sudden. Now the top four is going to look
like this, and when you hear the fourth name, do
not drive off the road. Number one, Ohio State, number two, Texas,
number three SMU. Again, these are conference champions. Okay, we
move SMU into the role of acc favorite. And who

(02:33:43):
is likely going to pass BYU in the Big twelve?
You got it? The Colorado Buffaloes. Not only do I
think they have a shot to be in the playoffs,
but even have a first round by because they won
the Big Twelve. Well, Oregon had the best shot of
a regular season lost Saturday because Wisconsin HadAM Penn State

(02:34:06):
obliterated Purdue, Notre Dame, handle Virginia. But we're assuming Ohio
State beats Indiana next week in Columbus. But how close
that game ends up will go a long way and
determine how the far the Hoosiers may or may not fall.
Because they're a playoff team. I believe they are. So
right now, we're gonna guess, Okay, one through four, Ohio State, Texas, SMU,
and Colorado five to three, it will be Oregon, Penn State,

(02:34:30):
Notre Dame in Indiana which leads the final four. Now
I don't know how the hell you rank a bunch
of SEC teams that all have the same record? And
that's going to be the biggest conundrum for the College
Football Playoff Committee. After Georgia State alive for the playoffs
by overcoming a ten point deficit and they beat Tennessee
fairly convincingly on Saturday thirty one to seventeen, how do

(02:34:52):
you rank all the teams that have quality wins against
each other? What do you do? And I guess you
maybe look at the who has the worst losses of
the bunch. That's not my problem with sayrs, but we're
gonna take a guess and we believe the nine through
twelve would be Ole, Miss, Georgia, Alabama, and Boise State.
So your first round vibes would be Ohio State, Texas
s CM in Colorado, and oh my goodness, how does

(02:35:15):
this happen? Oregon would be be the fifth ranked team
if they lose to Ohio State in the Big Ten
Championship game. Again, we're just projecting they would play Boise
State at twelve, number six, Penn State would play number
eleven Alabama. Notre Dame at seventh ranked would play Georgia,
who would be tenth Indiana would be the eight nine

(02:35:35):
matchup against Old Miss. Who would we project would move along?
I'll give it to Old Miss, barely to Old Miss
would be the number nine seed. They would play Ohio
State in the second round. Colorado would match up against Oregon.
They're not beating Oregon. Sorry. If it gets as far,
that's some U. Penn State. I'll hold my nose and

(02:35:57):
give it to Penn State, Texas, Notre Dame. I'm taking Texas.
That would leave the final four number one Ohio State
versus five Oregon. Are you serious a third time? Why not?
What the hell? Make it two out of three in
bad meat loaf, and number two Texas would be playing
number six Penn State. That would put the national championship

(02:36:19):
game Oregon against Texas, assuming Oregon would win the rubber match.
We're just throwing it out there, all right. Notre Dame
getting to the top six would be huge, But could
it get by Penn State, they would be remain you know,
they'd be a favorite. The biggest part of BYU's loss
in terms of their impact is it almost guarantees that

(02:36:39):
there'll only be one big twelve make it to the
playoff from that conference. Just one. You can not gotta
have a two to one loss teams or a one
loss team and a two loss team not from the
Big twelve. It's gonna be fun to watch Tuesday. It's
gonna be fun to watch the NFL coming up here
in a few hours as well. It's gonna do it
for the Bernie Friddle Show. I'll be back on these
airwaves next Friday night at eleven PM with plenty of hygienk.

(02:37:00):
In the meantime, keep it locked up next to the
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