The Fellas with Anthony Gargano & Geoff Schwartz talk Top 25 College Football Rankings, NFL Preseason Storylines, & MORE!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio radio. Well, good good morning, buddy, happy, yeah,
yeady Abby. Saturday August is sixteenth, and you know what
that means.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
We're one week away from week zero. That's right, Week
zero is upon us in just a week. Ah, this
is it.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
We got one more.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
We got a full day of preseason today, which was
actually thoroughly enjoyable, even watching Cam last night.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
I don't know. I've just been more in the preseason
this year to ever. So we are here, we're here.
I know a man who is geeked up and cannot
wait to talk all about it. That's my man, Jeff Schwartz.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm Anthony Gargano together right here from the Fox Sports
Radio studies.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Good morning, my brother, Good morning. Good to hear from you.
Going to talk to you, to be on with you.
And yeah, I mean it is football and you don't
want it's been exciting. This preseason is because there's been
a billion points scored. Literally, I think actually one billion
points have been scored last weekend. Last weekend, fourteen of
the sixteen games went over. Actually I think that includes

(01:18):
the whole game, so that that's because the Lions game
was a push because it got canceled, remember early last week.
So I think fourteen of the sixteen games it concluded,
including the Hall of Fame game, were over, and then
last night the first two games flew over the total
because the totals are typically you know, the mid thirties
if they're really low, to high thirties if they're high.

(01:40):
For the preseason. Forty three last night in Atlanta, and
then Seattle alone had thirty three last night against Kansas City.
But can I started with something else quickly? So I'm
I'm a because I'm a sports fan, just like we're
all sports, right, I was talking about I just watched sports.
I went to my first MMA fight last night. You did. Yeah,

(02:03):
the PFL was here. My buddy calls fights to the PFL,
Sean O'Connell on ESPN, and and so I went to
my first five. It was a ton of fun. But
when you go to to something like that, you maybe
don't pay attention to other things. You know that happened
throughout the night. So I'm a baseball fan. I'm a
Giants baseball fan. And I was looking to the update

(02:25):
as we got going, I'm like, oh, I didn't I
didn't check the final score for the Giants. Cay, I
got home, you like eleven thirty last night. You know
it was to be eleven Like you know, you say
goodbye to the nanny and you get in the bed
and you go to sleep. Look, I didn't even bother
to check it. We were up six to three, and
I heard the update. I'm like, oh, the Dodgers lost.
Oh great, Like I love when the Dodgers lose. Like
great news. And I was actually the Dodgers one last night.

(02:46):
I was like, great. You know what, the Giants, who
are one and twelve in the last thirteen home games, okay,
entering last night, had scored five runs in their previous
five games, like the worst home stretch in the history
of the Giants history. The Giants stretch to like eight
teen eighty. Okay, they're an old franchise. They're up six
to three. I knew that before I went into the
arena last night. At some point up six to three,

(03:09):
they lost seven to six. Again, lost a game I
hadn't checked. And I heard the update about the Dodgers winning.
I like, you know what'n tak about Giants? You know,
like I'm an invest I'm a fan. I want to
see what's happening. That's what I went to bed last
night was six to three. That's that's what happened. Went
to bed six to three, lost seven to six. Baseball
is a very frustrating sport. I think it's I think
as a fan it might be the most frustrating sport

(03:32):
to be like a hardcore watcher of Yeah. I mean
we call the late innings and close so many games. Yea,
and when they're bad, it is like it is like football. Yeah, Now,
bad baseball is horrendous as fuddy. I'm a big baseball fan,

(03:52):
and it's uh yeah, but your team's fun, right, I mean,
you know, although in my town if we lose, if
they lose three in a row, it's the sky's falling.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
But it's baseball. I mean, speaking of which, I mean
I was gonna bring this up to Brewers, like, could
you imagine you're Milwaukee right now? This team they've won
thirteen in a row. Last night, Jeff third, down eight
to one through down eighth to one. They score five

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and a third and two and a fourth to tie
the game, and then they scored the sixth and seventh
and Yellows hit a home run to put him out
nine to eight. I mean, I never see anything like it.
I mean his team is just got magic written all
over it. And conversely, the Mets blown. Did you see

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the leads today?

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Blown? So I had to make my mouth yesterday and
the same thing. I was watching the game, like briefly
everything forty five minutes hour, check my phone at the
at the event and I'm like, oh, here we go again.
The bullpen. Isn't it crazy that a bunch of teams
made deadline deals like the Mets, right bullpen, Yankees bullpen

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Giants got devers month before the and that they've just
been terrible since the deals just haven't worked out. Where
like the Mariners got a couple of hitters down. I
think Naylor one of the two has been struggling. And
Suarez they keep playing last night, but yeah, he's been struggled.
They keep winning. Look, it doesn't matter the rally. Uh.

(05:35):
The the Brewers are interesting because like they're they're winning
these games that they're actually good, you know, some times
going wins dreams aren't good. And the expectations are going
to be so high for them this postseason that I
don't know if they can live up to them. I
don't know if they're a championship winning team the way
they're built. And and I say that because I think
you need to have sort of two things kind of

(05:58):
w by the way, still not a favorite to win
the al MVP. I don't understand that. I just look
at that. I want to make sure I look, Aaron
Joe is great and all, but like, how do you
not give it to now? Well?

Speaker 2 (06:09):
The other thing too, is I so back in my
other life when I was a sports writer and I
used to vote for those awards, and I mean I
would take into account the fact that the Mariners are winning, right, Like,
I mean, that's a huge piece of it. I get judged,

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but I mean, you're not doing what you're doing without rally,
are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (06:33):
So I think Raleigh should should certainly be up there.
The Brewers though, Okay, so the things that I look
for in postseason baseball success are really too, right, like, obviously,
how deep is your starting pitching as we know, and
then do you have enough guys that can hit the
big home run? And you look at the rout and

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the rest of the National League. Philly I think is
up there, right, Philly has the starting pitching, they have
the bullpen now trade, and then they have the big hitter,
right the big hitters like that, that to me feels
like a team that can make.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, the back half of their lineup has to contribute
a little bit, uh sure, because that's what killed them
in the last two postseasons. But yeah, and Lozardo has
been not as good lately, right as a him or
Sanchez one of the two has been. Yeah, I mean,
I think they're in a kind of dead arm period.
Wheeler hasn't really gone and it's been himself. I mean,

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he's dominant, but he hasn't been himself. He's velocities down.
I think he's kind of hit a little bit of
a wall. Lozardo's had a couple of spells where he'll
just get hit, tip his pitches. He's had in trouble
out of the stretch and then uh and Suarez is
just thawing off. He he it's his walk ear and
he's kind of showing that he has not put together

(07:50):
a full season and that was a big deal and
and he's fallen off a cliff again.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
So but I think I think they'll they'll they'll get
it back again, this isn't and and then you know
Dodgers and Podgers have those things. And then the Dodgers
I think bullpen is a little bit you know, questionable
heading post season. But I'm not sure that the Brewers
fit that. They have obviously have had big hits this year,
but do they have postseason guys they can do it

(08:16):
in the postseasons? My question? Right, Well, they got one
for sure, they have one and yellow and yellows, but
do they have enough? I think the AL has teams
that fit this mold to a t, right, I mean,
Mariners are one of them, the Astros or one of them.
Know again, how deepest are starting pitching, We'll find out.
My point is I don't know if the Brewers have

(08:37):
that profile exactly. And now when help these games, everyone's
gonna expect them to have a deep postseason run. I
just don't know if they're gonna get there.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah yeah, I mean you remember years ago when the
Mariners win all those games and there an early exit.
Sometimes you have these, you know, these epic seasons, and
because playoffs are so fickle, right, the thing about it's
the most unpredictable of all the postseasons. More than hockey,

(09:07):
you think, yeah, even more than hockey. I mean, like
look at last year. I mean you knew how good
those teams were, Like like how good Florida was, Like
you knew how.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Good they were the Tampa I think in game one,
like five to one, everyone freaked out. Yeah, exactly, Like
it's your point. I mean, obviously there's a lot of
randomness because of a hot goalie. Right, so you get
a hot goalie. But the permit baseball is you play
all these games. And then they added these these other

(09:41):
tiers of playoffs, right this wild card and all right,
you get a buye if you're Milwaukee.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Now what happens is your bats go called because it
seems to hurt the teams, doesn't it. Yes, I've seen
it time and time again.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Man, when you're when you sit for a week, Baseball
is not a sport where you sit for a week.
I was just having this conversation with my son because
his last baseball tournament was was this week in Cooperstown,
which is really awesome, and I hope your boy gets
to go because it's a it's a cool, cool thing.
One hundred twelve year old teams in the ninety six

(10:17):
twelve year old teams go to Cooperstown. They stay in
like a facility of barracks and you know, they play
a ton of games all week, they go to the museum.
It's a really cool experience. Anyway, Like the first the
first two games, he's scuffling and I go, and he's

(10:38):
and he's frustrated, and I go, dude, I go, you
beating football for the last three weeks.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
You take off to go to baseball. I go, you
got to give it a minute, like before you get
back into a rhythm. He's, well, I hit. I go, yeah,
you hit for you know, twenty minutes. I go, you
got to get back into that mindset, like it takes
a minute with baseball. And sure enough, he's do when
I'm having a really good week. But you know, these

(11:08):
teams all of a sudden in the bigs you sit
for you know, five days, and all the live VP
doesn't really work right. It's not game situation. I prefer
simulated games and getting ready. But you gotta it's it's
hard and your bets go and that's it. And they're quick, right,

(11:32):
These series are quick. You're out boom and then you
don't even realize what happened. But to talk about Milwaukee
real quick, I think they do have some magic going on. Nah,
you're you know, you're right, let's see with the postseason.
But they got guys that are just you know, plucky
Contrari's he can get a big hit for you, right,

(11:54):
and you got guys like free Lick and Turang that
that will you know, just pesky man.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
I don't know if that if that translates as well.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
And you remember the Giant your Giants, dude, Cody Ross
and they had that.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, I mean they had magic in those series. They
didn't have magic in the I mean Hunter.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Peggs was her was horrific in the twenty eleven postseason
and then he comes back and he's he's the hero.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
And he wasn't very good. I mean he was a
good ballplayer, but he wasn't great. He was some great hitter. Yeah, no,
we we go. But the difference I think there is
like we had our success or magic in the postseason,
not the regular season. The regular season, Like I think, yeah,
that's true. I think one of only one of the
three years he won the division, the Giants won the

(12:49):
World Series. Yeah, no, I like, yeah, it just happened
that we just had our success in the postseason like that.
So that's the thing that is, like, I just I
agree with you on the Brewer has been obviously very good.
We know that dumb. I mean, they wouldn't they win
all these games? But but there's actually I do want
to like it's about to be expectations like when you

(13:10):
go in the postseason with this long run, you know,
do you is it better to lose a few games
before you get in the postseason, which obviously they will,
But when you go in this hot and all these expectations,
I just don't know if they can live up to that.
But I feel like they're going to have us uh
a postseason with all this expectations, just can't live up

(13:32):
to it. I hear you. I guess I'd never like
to lose. And I hear this all the time, like
with with in football, right where teams go, where fans go, Well, no,
that's no, they need to lose a game before the playoffs. No,
I think that's dumb. It is No. I don't want

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to lose. No, I want that. I need to I
need to magic continue, I need to play good football
or baseball. I prefer again. But it kind of worries
me that they're gonna wind up sitting around, but you know,
because they're gonna get to buy.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
But other than that, yeah, I feel you. I don't
I hate. I don't want to lose.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
To me, it's more about when it comes to the
end this time, the end of the year, it's like,
how are my pitchers feeling? You'll have? How am I
you know? In football? Right? Are we rested? Are we ready?
It's less to me about like winning the last game
of the week the season. It's more about like are
we ready to play in the postseason? Right?

Speaker 2 (14:29):
And listen, that's why you don't play your you know,
obviously you don't play your starters if you have the
division clinched up, right, obviously.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
But.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
You know, the point is, though I would hear it,
you could be I don't know, you know, on a
win streak eleven game where nine game win streak, I
mean I heard it here fans would say, oh, Eagles
need to lose.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
No, and it's like, hey, no, man, they don't need
to lose. They need to keep winning. Just no, I
I'm with you on that. I did. I do not
agree with that with that with that mindset of like
having to lose one end of the season that that's no.
I mean Eagles and Eagles didn't do it either, they
just winning. So exactly what why would you want to
lose before the postseason? You want to rest? Like fine?

(15:16):
Yea other than that, Yeah, I wouldn't. Uh, I wouldn't
want to lose Eagles on preseason today, buddy, you know
it's uh, you fired up, you let your tail get
ready to go. What do we got don't pay their starters?
Who cares? Yeah, I mean you know I'm not going
to go down today. I was at Portunant practice and

(15:37):
do you agree with the boys afterwards? Yeah? Yeah, well
Baldy and Landing, Yeah, I agree it with that. That's the way. Look,
you've been coming ball a long time. I'm old enough
to be a little bit part of that era for
those who missed it. After the joint practices, one of
the players, the off name woman, brought out cooler with
Miller Lite. Yeah, Landed Dickerson brought this cooler. It's a

(16:01):
great cooler by the way, that has old school football there, buddy. Yeah, yeah,
well you would love those dudes like they're rob your
ally I'll be like Landon and Lane because Lane Lane, well, yeah,
Lane's the best. He's got.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
He's got a gym called the barn at his house,
like it's a it's awesome, and he lets anybody.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Go in and work out. Oklahoma, Yeah, no in field
in uh South Jersey. Oh he has one of the
moss one of them. I worked out with him and
oh yeah, we does the same thing in Jersey. He
lives in South Jersey, so he has a a big
property and he has the barn there too. That's awesome. Yeah,

(16:45):
it's cool. He's They're great, great great dudes, like just
great dudes.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
But it was it was, uh, it was a good
week of practice and and uh for for Cleveland, like
Cleveland's front is the Goodlie's defense is going to be good.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
You know, Schwartz knows how to call it.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
And their day had they were they gave Eagles a
lot of problems, especially day two. Now there was no
way Jay Brown and the Eagles line was was not
fully intact. But I mean Miles Garrett, he actually had
to slow down a couple of times because he was
just wrecking practice.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
He is he is that good of a player, and
you know, there was that the e clipped the win
around of him and Lane Johnson doing the one on
one against each other, and like, those guys are just
kind of you know, brother in law as we call it. Yeah,
it taking it because Miles Lay wasn't going on hundred percent,
to be fair, but you know, Miles could have just
thrown Lane into the ground. Yeah, And I mean Miles

(17:46):
is two seventy five. He shredded. He shouldn't be able
to move the way he does it that size, and
dude is a monster. You know how much is fans?
You know, obviously we're fans here or too. Like, what
do you take away from joint practice? I think, I wait,
nothing like I I think if it's so lopside, Like

(18:07):
there's reports that the Lions just for two days murder
the Dolphins, Okay, that's a little bit of an issue,
but otherwise, I don't know if I take much of
a joint practice. Well, you mean, you know better than anybody.
I mean I only did one of them, Dude, I
wasn't there really, Yeah, because I so, you know, we

(18:27):
had double days for the first three years of my career,
so there were no joint practices. Really, you had very
very rare and also too a lot of teams went
away to camp, right, so like the joint practices. I
went to Kansas City. You know, any Reid doesn't do
joint practice ever. And then the Giants weren't doing them
at the time and they do them now. Coughlin was

(18:48):
not about that, and I went my last year in Detroit.
We went up to Pittsburgh and it was Jim collell
was coaching the Lions and Tom and obviously was coaching
the Steelers, and we had the most cordial practice ever,
like I expecting like to fight and like and no,
no one was like the nicest practice ever. It's like,
no one wasn't that physical, just like a practice. So

(19:09):
you know, now obviously you know, the guys seems to
be really important for a lot of teams, But I
never really I never really played. You're playing a less
pre one less preseason game, right, and I didn't, But
yet now everyone does you know I'm talking about now? Yeah, yeah,
I mean there's a reason for it now, I think.
I mean, you're playing the less preseason game.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
The rhythm when you played and you know it better
now and tell you but you know the deal, like
you play a series and the opener, you play a
quarter and change in game two, you play a half
in change in the fair game, and then you'd sit
at the fourth game and that there was your rhythm.
I think the rhythm now is they don't want to

(19:52):
get guys hurt. They don't want to get guys there's starters.
They're so afraid of it, and they want to get
work done a controlled environment. It's so I think that's
why you had the joint practice. You see kind of
gauge where you are with each unit. You could do
simulated stuff so you could see, like you know, I
was joking around about Miles, Garrett and Ruin in practice,

(20:15):
but they literally like he had to go at hand
speed at times so they can work on certain.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Things that that's like in college a Helodi Nodup was
a Cause teammate organ you know, the Ravens defense alignment
for so many years and wood lined as well. He's
like hall of fame talented. I don't know if he
was as a hall of fame as as basically the
way he played, because he wasn't he'd have to rush
the passer, but he he's that good of a player.

(20:42):
He didn't practice, and so his his rap in college
coming out was that he was lazy. And the reason
why is because he didn't practice. He didn't practice because
he ruined it for it. We could not practice, like
he literally ruined practice for the offense that that Mike
Blatti didn't he didn't play. He couldn't practice because he
we couldn't. You know, there's a point of practice. He

(21:03):
had to get work done, like that's the point of practice,
right to work on and Hellodi would just would was
so good, he would ruin it for us, and we
couldn't practice. And so he just didn't practice like that's
why he did in practice. He wasn't lazy, he was
too good. We couldn't get our work done. That's awesome,
all right, let's take quick too. We got lots to
go over. We as always will go over each and

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every team and how everybody looks.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Kind of set the menu up for today because today
you will get a pretty good look at preseason and
then of course we got college starting in a week.
Can out wait to talk to you about that.

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Speaker 2 (22:32):
Welcome back, fellas, Jeff Schwartz, Anthony Gargano from the Fox
Sports Radio studios. I love going into weeds with you, man,
talk talking joint practices. It's the best, man. There's nothing
like that. There's nothing like it. Here's my question to you, though,

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and I think you you partially.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
Answered it.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
This preseason week one, I'm like really enjoyed. I never
really enjoy preseason. I love it, I say it's great,
but in reality, you know, you get bored whatever five
minutes of the game.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
It's been holding my attention. And I've probably watched a
ton of games. I mean, I've been in on most
of the games. Why is that? And I've got the
same reaction from everybody?

Speaker 1 (23:30):
So one three things. One is that we're so happy
football is back. That's one. Okay, of course, like it's ball, right,
that's time of like we're all in on watching as
much football as we can. Okay. Two is that Week
one saw a lot of starters play, so more than usual.

(23:53):
And I think when starters play, and look, they didn't
play a ton, right, Homes played three plays, Okay, week one,
the vibe of the weekend is different. Right when starters play,
But the Bills didn't play, you know, Alan didn't play,
but the rest of the starters played, right, Burrow played
two drives against your Eagles, And so I think when

(24:15):
when the starters play, the vibe is different. For the
game in general, I do think that teams take it
more seriously, like the whole team takes it more seriously
the way they prepare and play when starters are playing.
Even if it's just for a limited amount of time,
I do think. I think that's one thing that knows
about priests and games with were starters in it. And

(24:37):
the third thing is, buddy, there were so many points scored,
Like all preseason games are like, yeah, nine to six,
You're like, oh boy, this is not fun, right right?
There were fifty points scored in multiple preseason games. Yeah.
I mean, heck, the Patriots almost had fifty themselves in
a preseason game. So like that, that I think is

(24:58):
a big reason why they were just been a ton
of points scored. And I don't really have a great
reason afford other than you're at the point that you
know the new kickoff rule is leads to a little
more offense. But then again, the starting field position in
Week one was only twenty nine yard line, so it
wasn't like it was a ton of advantage in that situation.
But you look at at just the the ability to

(25:23):
get into field goal range much quicker when you have
this new kickoff rule. And then I think again, like
a lot of the backup quarterbacks the NFL nowadays are
they're not starters obviously, but they also like aren't terrible backups.

(25:44):
Does that make sense, Like I feel like the backup
quarterback is just a little better now than it's ever been.
And so when you can have you know, for example,
like Tanner McGee for the Eagles come in. I know,
people fall in love with him each and every time
he plays. It's my favorite. The other prec like trade
him to someone who wants him, Like if they wanted,

(26:05):
they would, they would, they would trade for him, like,
but they don't do. They don't want him because he's
a great priest. But like you know, you look at
the Chiefs and Saws real quick, the teams tried to
trade for him. They have oh yeah, yeah, no dude,
why did he give him up? Who cares?

Speaker 2 (26:22):
No, no, no, no, no, because they lived through twenty seventeen,
and in twenty seventeen, I mean everyone remembers, yeah yeah,
Wentz goes down and falls comes in and they in fact,
four teams have tried to trade tried to trade for

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around the draft.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Uh for McKee. I do wonder though McKay's legit. Dude,
you gotta trust me on one thing. He's legit.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Like Kellen Moore, I'll never forget the week Jalen was
hurt and he wasn't going to play.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
And obviously Jalens Jalen right, like he's the guy.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
But I remember Tyn, I remember Kellen talking to Kellen
and he's like, dude, he's going to be good. I'm
really looking forward to it and start in real game.
Game it mattered. It was in December, and he played well.
He played.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
He makes throws man, he puts the ball where his
receivers make plays. He knows he throws a great ball.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
He's got a great feel, he's he's he's pretty athletic
for a pocket guy.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
He's good. He's very good. And when you have a
quarterback like Jalen who will get nicked I mean he's
got nicked up every year, you need a backup like McKay.
So why didn't he play last year? Picket he did play.
He was he was in on a game. No but no,

(27:52):
but he was the number two.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
You're right, Picket was the number two, and everybody said
he should have been the number two coming out of
the season.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
He went wound up being the number two. By the end.
He's much better than Picket. The Browns wanted the Browns
wanted McKee over. I know this for a fact. The
Browns wanted McKee over pick it. Okay, I'm curious what
what there you also do? Like what at some point
the compensation becomes so much you have to trade for it,

(28:21):
you have to give him up. I'm curious what what
they've offered for for for McKee. That's that's also part
of this question too. But to the point what I'm saying,
like a lot of these guys, the backup quarterbacks are
just better now, Like you know the Chiefs and and
and and uh and and Seahawks last night, Like so
Gardner Minshew was this Chiefs backup he started started NFL

(28:43):
games for many years in the NFL. Drew Lock, like
these are the backups and Drew Lock is not is
not great, but he's a serviceable backup of the NFL
former starting quarterback. Like these guys, they're just betting. There's
just better starting quarterbacks now, to be better backup quarterbacks
now that ever before. Because these guys just kind of
hanging around the NFL because of all the injuries, have

(29:04):
started a bunch of games, and so you just get
better quarterback playing the preseason now and that leads, I
think to a lot of the success we're seeing a
lot of points and making it more fun for everybody.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think they. I think you nailed it, man,
I do. I think you you nailed it.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
The backup quarterbacks they've bid for these preseasons and they
could run the offense, so they're they're also they know
the offense, they run the offense. I think you're right.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
So I think the games are more entertaining. Obviously it's
a bit of where football starved. What is this is
something I want to I want to dive in with
you too. But the love affair, I never thought that
it could get even deeper, the love affair that we

(29:59):
have with football, Like I thought they had had reached
and reached an apex, you know, a couple of years ago,
and it's even it's even bigger. And you can't tell
me it's just about you know, gambling and fantasy, because
you could bet on every sport and you can do
fantasy with every sport, So it can't be just that

(30:22):
there is a There is a love affair in this
country with that sport like no other. I mean, I
think it's perfectly configured, but man, we just love it.
I mean, think about the Hall of Fame Game and
the ratings from this past weekend. They killed the NBA Finals.

(30:42):
That's the NBA finals and they killed the NBA Finals.
I think it's a lot of things. One of them
is it's just very predictable, right, and and you know what,
you know what you're getting when you turn on the NFL.

(31:04):
This is not to dog other sports, but it does matter.
Like if I turn on a regular season NBA, I
don't know what I'm getting, you know, Like I are
we trying hard tonight? Like are we are we playing
as hard as we can? Starters playing? Do you care
about winning this game? Those are questions I don't have

(31:24):
for the NFL well, any of those questions. Right, every week,
every week is played like as a super Bowl, So
that that's important I think for fans, right that you
want to feel that as a fan there is urgency
in football where you know every game feels like it
matters because it does.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
It's a short, limited amount of of gameplay that you
have to to win. So all those things I think
are very important to why we get excited for football
and why we watch so much football. Again, it's a
known product, right, we know what you're I think you
know what you're getting each week, you know the rhythm
of the game, you know the players. Obviously, fantasy and

(32:04):
gambling certainly helps to your points. You know, you've been
able to gamble for years. There's nothing it's obviously legal
now for those who who enjoy such a thing. I
would never do. You want, can I tell you a
good live gambling story from last night? So I met
this fight, okay, and they offer live They'll offer live adds, right,
and I'm there in the arena, so I should have

(32:25):
a little I should have a ten second window over
the sports book. Okay. So the fun I told you
about with the the two ladies, the two women with
the son, was sitting in the front row in front
of me, and very clearly after two rounds his mom was,
I thought, and they're going to knock out the opponent,
like she was sort of landing punches to the other opponent,
and it seemed like clear that was gonna it was gonna

(32:46):
happen soon. So I had my sports book opened, okay,
and her she was minus two eighty to win, to win,
to win, to win, to win the fight, all right,
And so I put in a wager. I was comfortable with.
All right, I didn't press I didn't press like wager.
I didn't pressed like the buttons right to hit the wager.

(33:08):
I was gonna wait until she knocked out the opponent. Okay,
ah right, yeah, sure she knocked out the opponent. I
hit the button to put the wager in, and I
got it in before they locked the wagers. Wow. Yeah yeah,
woa to score man. Yeah, like that's obvious something you

(33:32):
do like and I did a very low amount, so like,
you know, I'm not getting my I can't get a
flag for doing that. But uh right. I did also
lose a live wager previously, so I was like wagering
on the event like as it was going on. So
it wasn't like I just like, look like I'm an
algorithm or bought just like purposely. But yeah, I mean
I got very lucky I had. I had seven seconds

(33:53):
to do this and I did it. Yeah. Wow that's
cool man, that's fun. Yeah again, I'm a degenerate, so
take it for what it is. But so I think
I think that's what it is. Like, It's just it's
it's very familiar. Football is very familiar. You know, the
rhythm of the games, you know, you know the rhythm
of what the season is going to be. You know,

(34:14):
each and every week, guys are giving it their you know,
their best effort. Yeah, like it's it's just important to
everyone each and every each and every week. And uh
of course, like there's a masculinity to like the physicality
to the game, which I think is important. You know,
people like watching I mean again like last night. Again,
first I don't talk about a lot, but like my
first ever and I felt like I was like, oh, oh,

(34:36):
they're hitting. Oh, they're hitting each other, Like come on,
let's go. Like it's like a little bit of like
a little juice. You're like, we're hitting each other. Like
it was like it was fun. Man, you did in football,
all right? You get the violence of the football, like
you And so I think that that all matters to
why we like it so much.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's spot on.

Speaker 5 (34:59):
All right.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
Also, so I got to ask you coming up because
I have to tell a story about this love affair
we have with the football now. I was admonished by
it and I got to bring this update because it
was bugging me all week long. Where the fellas Jeff Schwartz,
Anthony Gargana right here on Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back, fellas,

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Speaker 1 (35:50):
All right. So I I had this conversation with an acquaintance, okay, right,
and the guy was admonishing me for spending talking about
football and you know, loving football. I don't know whatever

(36:12):
it was. I was just it does sound like a
friend if they're amont you're talking about ball. Yeah, I know, yeah,
that's why I said the quaints, right, yeah, And it was,
you know, all they want to do talking about you know,
whatever government or whatever, you know, whoever controls the world

(36:34):
is numb you with football. You're just a lemming part
of the masses. And I don't know, there was something
I didn't know. Called me a lemming then, buddy, I okay,
I'm fine with that. It's fine. Call me a lemming,
I'll think you I want I want to tell the

(36:55):
football don't care.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
I know I was the same reaction with was like dude,
like I'm not bothered an body, like leave me alone.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Man, I just want to I just I enjoy it,
all right. It's a happy place. I you know. I
find there's goodness and joy in sports, all right. And
I love it, and you know, I you know, I
like it. I want my kids to do it and
they enjoy it. There's so many life lessons for your

(37:24):
kids in sports. Yes, it's it's so good for them
to play all the sports as many as they can play. Obviously,
your son you said, plays baseball and football, Like, just
play as many as you can't. Never never tell never
have anyone tell you that you know they can't, you know,
do any sport. I remember coaches tell me like, you
just can't play baseball. There's folks on football like, no,

(37:44):
I'm not doing that. Of course, there's a time, right
maybe when you get a little older, seventeen eighteen and right,
there might be time to just shut it down a
little bit. And like I think I got rid of
I got rid of basketball my last year, but I
still play baseball and in high school play all those sports. Dude.
I was a tweeted this yesterday about a tweet that

(38:06):
Mike Flory had a pro football focus a pro football talk,
like anything can be a conspiracy if you want it
to be, Like if you like, if your acquaintance, if
he really wants if he's a conspiracy guy and he
really wants there to be a conspiracy to make the
NFL popular, so we ignore everything else, like you know,
I mean sure, I mean you know, if you want to,
if you want that to be conspiracy, Okay, I mean sure,

(38:28):
you can make a conspiracy. You make any conspiracy if
you want to be a conspiracy guy. You can certainly
find playing things that look like conspiracies or just enjoy
football exactly. And I was like, less. You know, sometimes you're.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Like when you're not really going to move to argue
or whatever, and it's like because then you start to
realize with people that you know, there's no sense, like
you're not going to change their mind.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Right. I had a guy tell me last night that
the uh Duran the Phillies used Duran as the closer
in a six to two game, and he's.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Like, that's stupid, the manager is an idiot. And I
was like, well, no, he even pitched in Sunday and
he needs work.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
No, he the.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
More rest rest is good. I was like, not when
you throw that hard, you need to throw regularly.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Man, he's a throw a couple of days the relievers
close exactly, so like whatever, like after the first after
the pushback, I'm like, you know what, I'm not changing
his mind. So I just all right, like you know,
all good, like you think what you want to fake.
I don't know what to tell you because after a

(39:44):
while you just surrender you like you don't mean it's
you're not it's feudile, right, So why you even bother
trying to change their mind? Like, like I'm with you,
Like if that's what, if it makes you feel good
at night to worry about the end of the world,
God bless. I mean, I don't tell you. I mean

(40:06):
I just want to watch football. Man, leave me alone. Man,
it's there's there's joy in football. Man. Oh sebasted. That's it,
all right.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
We got to get down to some serious business college
rankings with you coming up next Fellas on Fox's Fox
Sports Radio. Good morning, Good morning, good morning, Happy Saturday.
August to sixteenth.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
As we begin to wind down summer the second half
of August, my kids get mad because I get all
excited and they're looking at like, yeah, yeah, football's great,
we're playing, but you know, they gotta go back to school.
I can't wait so soon. We've almost made it. We've
almost made it. Tuesday, my sun goes back Tuesday, my

(40:56):
daughter goes back the week after. The different schedules, they
go different schools now, so it's a little bit different,
but like, well we'll survive.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Jeff Schwartz Anthony Gargano as we hang out, fellas, Uh,
he starts before Labor Day.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
They both do, once in private school this year, once
in public school. So yeah, we've always started before Labor Day.
Really public school starts the week before Labor Day, like
the week of Labor week, like the week before, yeah,
the week before I guess essentially, and then private school starts,
like I said, on Tuesday, and then our public school

(41:37):
is going to the private school schedule next year, because
like it's kind of tough when you have different basically
different bye weeks, when you have different uh different by
we you have different spring breaks. So historically in our
area we always start right after labor Day. I know
there's some parts of especial Yeah, won California where they'll

(42:02):
go back in Phoenix, they'll go back in August. I
think that's a violation. I think you got to give
somebody already have already been back. Yeah, they're already back.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Yeah, Yeah, I like to me, it should be you
got to give him labor day. Summer, it's still summer,
Like Labor Day is right after labor Day.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
It's the perfect time to go back to school. I
am in agreement. Can I say something quickly? So my
son's going to the private school for the first time
he was in public school. Or we love our elementary school.
It's right by the house. My wife went to went
to public school. I went to public school, went to
public college. Like, never experienced private school. It's expensive, don't

(42:50):
get me wrong, but I sort of see why people
like it. Like the uh, the the over communication by
the school of like things. It's crazy but cool. You like,
no information ever about anything that's happening. Yeah, but an
email it's like misformatting, Like it's like hard to read.
I'm frustrating to deal with. We don't know what, we

(43:10):
don't even know when back to school is. I have
no idea. It's some day next week. There's no no
information on it whatsoever. My son's school man, they are like,
it's impressive, the over communication. The other thing, too, is
the food that my son's gonna have to eat every
day at school, Anthony, it's gonna be It's gonna cost
me a lot of money. I have to keep working

(43:31):
Saturday morning shows with you to make up to earn
this money back. His first day of school and Tuesday,
the like the special, okay of the week of the day,
I should say, the daily specials okay is assessame crusted
tuna with a pond Zu glaze. What Yeah, it's the

(43:53):
first day of school on Tuesday. Yeah, that's a special.
That's a special for the day. You like like vegetable,
Like you like a vegetable medley with it some jasmine
rice swear? I swear that's what. Oh my god, we
are vegable with French fries. Oh yeah, well then my
daughter in public school. You know, like we just got
to email yesterday about the cost of lunch. It's like,

(44:15):
you know, two seventy five whatever, it is two fifty
free breakfast, right, which I think is great. I'm actually
in favor of just giving the kids free food. I
was like, you got to, you gotta raise my tax
as a tiny percent to every kid can eat for free,
Simon Pratt. Sure, my liberal heart can can can take that.
And so I'm fine with that. But like it's super cheap.
You know, it's great in public school. But yeah, good

(44:35):
food is in public school is like I don't know,
it's not always good, but yeah, that's I grew up,
you know, like County lunch whatever, you know, and that's
what my daughter does who school this year. But private school, no,
I have like sesame, sesame crusted tuna, the pondzu lace

(44:57):
first day of school on Tuesday for alex. Oh, that's awesome.
Out It's insane, It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
That's uh, that's great. Well listen, it's great nutrition. I mean,
that's that's God bless that's awesome. I went to Catholic
school my whole life, and it's like a cross between
the two. I mean, you know, I mean there was
a lot of pizza on Fridays, so.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
It's just delicious. I would love to I want you
feel like there's a different pizza level. Pizza that my
son's gonna get on pizza day than my daughter gets. Yes,
you're gonna get the whole get the wood fired or
brick oven, the brick oven like customer made to order pizza,
the square pizza style, Get the square pizza. Yeah, at

(45:50):
a little different. That's awesome, that's fantastic. All right, So
let's speak of a school.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Let's dive into it, because Top twenty five came out
this week, all right, and let me just get your
reaction to just the rankings in general.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
And you could say too high, too low, or just right? Okay, okay,
So we'll start at the bottom. I'm gonna go all
twenty five and Boise's twenty five. It's about it's about right.
I mean, obviously they lose gent, but they still have
some The quarterback's back and they still have some pieces
that I think you have to like just and I
think this is like a you know, you had a

(46:29):
good year last year, we'll we'll we'll put you twenty five.
Fire with Tennessee at twenty four. So I'm a little
lower on Tennessee this year than I think a lot
of people are. They obviously have a quarterback they have
to replace and I'm not sure Aguilar is that that good.
He did well at app State. They have to also
replace I think their entire offensive line, Like they lose

(46:52):
a lot of offense wide receivers. It does feel like
a kind of a reset year because next year they
have a five star quarterback that's in the twenty twenties.
It's in this class that's supposed to be the next
quarterback of their future. And so I think I think
twenty four is probably high for them. I don't. I
don't think they'll finish the year ranked, but obviously look again,
but some of this is just based off your success
from last season, and they obviously have earned, you know,

(47:14):
the ability to be this high based off of a
playoff rom last year. Agreed, And I don't think they'll
be ranked at the end. I do think that there
things will look up in two years for them. Uh,
Texas Tech at twenty three, they have a chance to
be pretty good. Yeah, everyone everyone's on them this year.
I think the Big twelve is pretty unpredictable this season,

(47:36):
so I feel like there's a slew of teams that
could win. This feels about right for Texas Tech, right
A team that hasn't you know that it hasn't had
the record to be up here, but that teams people
really think like there are people that legitimately think like
they're gonna win the Big Twelve, like they're one of
the teams that can win the Big Twelve. I don't know.
They're spending money like crazy, though. I'll tell you that
they're obviously benefiting from the new rules for are paying players.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Oh yeah, in a big way. Iowa State coming in
at twenty two. My man Rocco becked.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
Yeah, they So they return obviously Rocco, which is hugely important, right,
you know, they just gotta know Anthony well, right, I
don't know Anthony well obviously, I know him as a
player and I followim on social media. You know, he
coaches obviously in the you know, in the battle at
least he did last start at the Battle Hawks. Fear
he still does, Yeah, he still does. Anthony Beck. We're
talking about former tight end for the Jets. His son,

(48:34):
Rocco is the quarterback at Iowa State and one of
the great people of really good dude. So I don't
know him personally, but I of course I know him
as a player, and so I think you know, look,
when you bring back a quarterback who is that skilled
and who's played football that long, that's a huge bonus. Right.
The thing about Iowa State is that they're just sort

(48:56):
of you know, Matt Campbell gets a lot of love,
as he should, but Dan, actually, we don't win as
many games as we think in a given year. It's
interesting to you know, the Iowa State has it's never
I think, never won ten games like we talk about them.
Let me make sure I have this right. They're one
of the They won eleven in the last year because

(49:18):
the bowl game that was there, there was their most
there was their winning. So they changed from last year
that there was a winning season in history. It was
eleven three last year. Prior to that, they never won
ten games. They never have an entire program history. So
you go eleven and three. They win the pop Tarts Bowl.
Of course you want the who doesn't win the pop
Tarts Bowl. So great success for them. And when you

(49:43):
return the quarterback, I think they should probably be a
little higher. I agree. I agree with you. You know,
it had low compared to it. I think the returning
quarterback is so important to me. It's just it's so
it's such a value you to have. Now I kind
of look at the roster to see if the rest

(50:05):
of the how much they return. I'm looking actually right
now to see returning production ors Big twelve, that returning production. Again,
we're so quickly as we talk about this, returning production
is gonna be something that everyone talks about, right And
it's obviously you know, how many players are you coming
back at each side of the ball, offensive, defense, how
many snaps they played? It's not the be all end

(50:25):
all for success or in the season, because you know,
you the guys that come back, it depends on who
they are, right are Are they coming back because they
just have eligibility? Are they coming back because they're pros
who are staying back another year? Those those all matter
because there's a difference right between like I'm you know,
pros are coming back, like Ohio State had a bunch
of players come back last year right to play. Are

(50:48):
they coming back because they want to win a championship?
Are they coming back just because they're you know, they're
just they don't have any choices, right because they eas
either graduate or you know, or or be done. So
Iowa State loses. I think both their wide receivers are
looking right now and this feels about right for Iowa State.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
All right, let's go to Old Miss at twenty one.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Sure Lane, we know can design, you know offensively. They
lose a lot too, A lot of these you lose
the quarterback to start with. Yeah, we're gonna see We're
gonna see a kind of a trend for a lot
of these teams of just losing a lot. The top
of their of their team feels feels a tad high.

(51:34):
They recruit well though. How about the fighting signettes from
Indiana after the they were in the Darling last year.
I get to do Big tim media Day, I cover
Big Day and I get to go to to Vegas
and whatnot. Every time I hear said Nettie talk, I
just want one through a wall bro that does have

(51:59):
that reaction. Yeah, he's just like he's good. He's he's
also like so honest, like he just says to us,
He's like, yeah, our d tackles have to be better.
I'm gonna watch him in training camp to see who
wins that job for rewarding their season last year. This
feels a perfect spot for them. I will give you
a name to watch this season out of Indiana. Francisco

(52:23):
Mendoza is a quarterback. He's a Cal transfer. Yep, there's
about four people in the country that watch Cal football.
I'm one of them just because I pat twelve guy
and I pay attention. He's really good, Okay, like I
think that he's he's better than Curtis Warwick, who they
had last year. But they do. They did lose like

(52:44):
a lot of production, so it's important positions, and I
just don't know if they've recruited at the level to
sustain the success they had last year. Came out of nowhere,
had a pretty favorable schedule, as we know, which does
matter a great year. But this feels about right for Indiana.
I mean they're looking at probably air Night wins, which
is put you in with the bottom of the top

(53:05):
twenty five.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
How about the Aggies of Texas, A and M coming
in at nineteen.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
It feels about right right, I'll go second season, got
better season went on last year. I'm expected them to
be better. You expect them to be better last year.
It's bect to be better now. I'm expecting them to
be better this year. I felt last year lag when returns.
I think from an injury a couple of years ago,
so they have some better nests there. They returned a

(53:33):
bunch of production on offense.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
I know, I'm expecting them to be better. I haven't
expected them to finish higher.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
But so you like with that right now? I like them.
I like A and M so you know, like Oklahoma's eighteen,
I like them better than Oklahoma. Oklahoma's pretty interesting to
me because Jra Matier can freaking ball. Their quarterback who
they got from Washington State. Now who are watching Washington
played full ball. Dude is a legitimate like he's he

(54:05):
he's so. We also saw Cam Wore last year go
to Miami and them well the draft. I'm not sure
John Mate is going number one in the draft, but
the dude can play. They hired his offensive coordinator too,
which I think is sort of important when you when
you have you know, you bring in your coordinator two sure,
so they got the coordinator there as well. The question, obviously,
I think, is just defensively, like what are you getting

(54:27):
from the defense, which again was was decent last year.
And the other thing too, they were so injured at
wide receiver last season that they're not gonna be that
bad this year in wide receiver. But they just gets
some wide receiver production like that. There, it's not a
defense comes along. Look it should with well venables and
but Tier is that good. I think they got a
chance to be to be better than we think. I think.

(54:50):
I think all right, I like Tier. Obviously it was
a rough week for him with the Venmo scandal. Not
I don't know what it's a make of that. I mean,
so obviously I like the sports wager. I cover it
for a living, it's my job. I so I I

(55:11):
know why leagues are so tough on players who gamble, right,
And the number one reason why is when you watch
a game, right, we're gonna watch baseball today, We're gonna
watch NFL preseason. We're gonna watch there's a one w
n A game. I think there's golf on obviously, there's tennis. Whatever.
We watch these games today, we need we need as
fans to know the game is being played by players

(55:34):
who are who are competing to win and lose. And
that's it, right, It's all they're competing for. And as
soon as you think players are on the take are
fixing games, it ruins the integrity of what you're watching.
That's why sports leagues protected it so much. Right, But
I I fail to get worked up, So I say

(55:55):
that on one side, right, like play, I get why
you know. NFL players can't beat on the NFL, college
players can't bet on college football, so so on and
so forth. I get it. Baseball player shouldn't been on baseball.
But I but I also don't see the harm. If
you're GEOMETERI sitting at home watching UC on USC play
and you want to put ten, fifteen, twenty bucks in
that game, you can like you have no connection to

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that game whatsoever. Right even if even if you have
a connection to the game. I know, people throw stuff
out there Anthony like he might know the injury status
of someone. It's probably unlikely that he knows it and
Vegas doesn't. It's kind of the way it works. I mean,
I hear injury stuff from people I know in Vegas
much quicker than I hear it from anyone who covers
the sport. There's nothing he's gonna know. Oh he knows

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the scheme, I mean not really, I know schemes doesn't matter.
I mean, to me, I win every NFL wager or
college football wager so I'm talking about two sides of
my mouth. There was I agree that we really should
limit players wagering on their own sport, but I also
don't think it's a big deal. If he's sitting on
his couch watching you see USC play Packed one after dark,
he puts a couple of dollars down the game. I like,

(57:03):
I hear you. Did you hear what Michael Porter Junior
said this week? Yeah, well Michael Porter Junior said a
bunch of crazy stuff. So I kind of will I
think I will ignore what he had to say. But yeah,
I mean they'll say he likes I think Andrew he
likes to show women Andrew Dave videos. Let's see how
they react, which is a scud back thing to do.
So I, uh, yeah, I already said. But also again, okay,

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I want to make this point. It is a point
I have real quick just for those people didn't.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
He was talking about how you know it's such a problem,
and especially with taking care of your friends, Like if
you said, well, if I can get my friends to
make twenty grand because I pull off you bet all
my unders and Mike because I strained my calf in

(57:51):
the first quarter, what does it really matter.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
Okay, this is off the John day Porter thing his
younger guy. So here's why I I just it's worth
pointing out. Okay, So with legal sports wagering, Uh, these
sports books could track all your wagers, right, they know,

(58:14):
we know your activity, know who you are, and there's
a thing called limits. Right. So what happens is, you know,
if you win too much, especially, a sports book will
shut off how much you can wager, like I got.
I got shut off by fanatics within like six months
of using their sports book. I'll call them out because
I think it's terrible. I think limiting is a choice

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is for what I wager. It's atrocious. I don't wager
that much money. I should never be limited. I'm a
I'm a drop in the bucket, Okay, And what I
compared to other people that don't even as much money
as I do. They just I don't do it for
the money. I do it for competition, Like I want
to win my wagers. If I lose it, it sucks.
But whatever disclaimer always is right, you can you should

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only wager the amount you're willing to lose. Right, that's
a disclaimer all the time. And so they have these
They thing called limits, right, and they track how much
you wager on things. So Michael Porter said, if I
can make my homies like ten grand, you can't wager
first of all, randomly, like I can't wager just ten
grand and anything randomly, I get flagged immediately. This happens

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to all these cases, right, is you These people are
wagering more than their average. And then if it's a
random thing like a Michael Porter prop, they would be like, well,
that's weird. Why is Jeff Schwartz doing this? Now he
knows something, and those bets get flagged immediately. And now
you could spread the ten grand over seven sports books
and probably not get caught. Put you know, a g

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on on, you know a g and then you put
a little cup extra here and there, like you might
never get coffee spread over seven sports books, eight nine,
ten sports books. The problem is no one ever does that, right,
So or you always wager ten grand everything and they
don't even catch you when you do it. On Michael Porter.
The point is it's a lot harder to do than
he says. Now, if you use a bookie, maybe that's easier, Anthony,

(01:00:07):
I don't know. There's still old school bookies that are around.
But it's not as easy as Michael Porter makes out
to be. It's why these players keep getting caught because.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Well, the class say, the guys on the guardians, the
pitchers that when you're tipping off the ball one, then
all of a sudden that there's and the ball that's
throwing action are betting real money on ball one.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
That triggers the algorithm. So it here's the red flag
and ok, again, I gamble a lot. You gotta be
a pretty big degenerate to Campbell on the first pitch
of an inning. And also like again, the ball was
also you know the man, it's sixty feet six inches
from the rubber to the home plate. When you throw
the ball forty seven feet into the ground, it's pretty
obvious to tell what you're doing too. I mean, they

(01:00:54):
didn't even try to hide it. So I heard what
Porter said, but I think it's import possible to really
pull it off at a level that he claims he
thinks that his homies can get off at. You know
what I mean, Right right now, I feel you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
All right, we will come back and finish the top
twenty five. As we look at our college preview looking forward,
to that man that starts next week.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
We got real football from Ireland, doublin and we have
we also have a a Stanford Hawaii game. I believe,
like Hawaii one we got we got all.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
Buddy, Yeah, and you know a week from Thursday it's
on Nebraska Cincinnati live from Arrowhead As.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
I like Nebraska that one, buddy, Yes, yes, it's it's
it's still six and a half. I might wager on
that today actually before, I don't know. Look, yeah, it's
on my list of things to wager. I got a
couple of week on wagers already.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
Oh well, you got to share it with us, you know,
we'll have the brain on later you can. You can
share it with us and chop it up. Where the
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Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
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Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
Welcome back Fellas, Jeff Schwartz, Oh, Anthony again, I'm hanging
out on a great Saturday, man, looking forward to Obviously
we're talking about it all morning. We started football here
we go, so let's get back to this, Jeff, Let's
get back to the top twenty five. Fascinating. Kansas State

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is seventeen. Hi low, just right, just right? I feel like, okay,
I mean that's just the Big twelve. This year is
going to be fascinating. The seasons. I actually think an
unrated team is gonna win. I'll give you that team
maybe the end of this exercise. But oh, I love that.
I'm okay with Candas State being there. Yeah. Good last year.

(01:03:02):
I always solid program, know what to expect from them,
which is important when I think it comes to top
twenty fives. Yeah. How about at SMU sixteen. Yeah, I
just I don't think they're then have this season they
had last year. But again, a lot of this is
based off what you did last season. So I'm okay
with sort of rewarding them for what happened last year. Sure,

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so this is uh, this is a team I like.
I like Florida fifteen. Well, the problem is you just
don't know what if Blackway's healthier or not.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
Yes, now I'm going on the fact that he's going
to be healthy.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
So this is interesting because you know, there's two ways
to build to build programs, right, There's three ways. One is,
you know, you get somewhere if you're a new coach
and you just you portal heavy early on, which you
sort of have to do sometimes, right, yes, very famously
he has done that. You Purdue this year, right, Barry

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Odom goes to Purdue from U and LV. He has
like seventy new players. Sometimes you have to just you
have to do it. But then you know you want
to as you portal in players and you build your
program early, you also have to recruit the high school kids, right,
so you can do a swe of both, right, high
school players and portal players, and then eventually the portal

(01:04:25):
you get less and less portally. Organ's a good example
of this, Right, they went heavy portal early in Landing's tenure,
and they've gone less portal as his players have developed,
and now time for young guys to play. Right, That's
just the way it works. And or so that's that's
two ways. The third way is you just go young
early and you just struggle early on and you build

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up the young players. You know, Billy Napier has chosen
the last option, right, he's gone young, has hit the
portal terribly hard. And this is the year as guys
are starting to play as young guys are playing now,
so you know, it's a lot of unknown right that
they're hoping that the guys they developed in the program
are ready to give it, to give it their best,

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you know, And I just don't. I don't know. I
thought there's a lot of unknown early on with Florida. Yeah,
a lot of ways good though. If he's healthy, as
always healthy, he's really good. I think they're gonna be
good defensively. I do.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Again, you're right, I mean obviously about the Languay's health,
but I'm going on that premise and I'm wanted.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
For them based off of like the way they played
the last two years.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
Yeah, I know, I know. I just think they're going
to be better. We'll see. Uh, it's gonna be interesting
between them and Miami.

Speaker 1 (01:05:46):
Yeah, Miami is just I think so far ahead of
them talent wise and development of Florida, but.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
Not on the defensive side of the ball. You were
telling me, I don't believe in Miami's defense.

Speaker 1 (01:05:59):
Defense a lot of them Miami though, like they got
some dudes right, I mean, this is the same same
sort of idea like they they went, you know, they
they they're all the young guys are ready to play now.
So like Miami's got some Marle came to recruit, man,
he recruit, so like they got dudes, Like that's Miami's
got dudes. As a matter of you know, let's say

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we'll get to Miami in about five spots. So yeah,
so Michigan at fourteen, oh man, I think they're a
year away. So they're they're so interesting. Obviously, you know,
Sheearan Moore has got more trouble yesterday. But whatever, who cares.
Maybe these guys can pay the players now. I I'm

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just like a barely punished guys. Obviously, if they were
if they were cheating, this was not a payment player thing. Obviously,
if they were cheating at a level to where they
actually got intel on teams that wasn't readily available. I mean,
their signs are readily available, like you can just you
can steal the science. That's not, to me, not a
terrible thing. But if they were doing it in a
way that was a legal which they were, that I

(01:07:01):
have a problem with that a little bit. If it
helped them win games, don't We don't know. Jim got
banned to ten years. He's never come back. So that's
doesn't it Okay, So Michigan is interesting. So you know,
when you win as much as the Michigan went, you know,
won for those hardball years, you have a talent dump

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eventually where all your guys go pro. And that's what
Michigan has had. All their guys went pro. Offensive, defensive line, quarterback,
tight ends, and you have to replace those guys. Obviously,
Now Sharon Moore is done a good job of bringing
in talent. It's a very talented team, but there's a
lot of players that are sort of getting their first
opportunity to start. And to your point about being a

(01:07:46):
year away, it feels like they are the year away
as these guys are now getting the opportunity to get
in the field to make a difference. And obviously quarterback, right,
so Bryce Underwoods eighteen years old, Yeah, it actually might
be seventeen. Still their true victional corp who they paid
obviously very famously paid a lot of money for. And

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their schedule is brutal to start. They have away games
in the first month this season at Alabama at Oklahoma.
They might start Mikey King just so the freshman doesn't
have to play to be in a situation. I mean,
look at your schedule. You brought it up, which is
great and it's the truth. So you open it in
New Mexican, you open home New Mexico. Then you're in Norman.

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That's a tough game.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
Home Central Michigan at Nebraska, that's a tough game.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
So it's Nebraska. It's not Alabama. Nebraska right at Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
That's I'm closting Matt Rules podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
So we just take a couple of episodes. My surprise
team in the big in the Big Ten is them
there there. I've said it very loudly this year. They're
my Indiana of the Big Ten this year.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
I agree with you. Man I Matt in year three.

Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
Well, Roola is I I get it. He looks like
mahomes He but like dude, he gets a little corny
sometimes he tom about it big tip media day. I
asked him, I asked like, well, you know what do
you like? You know what do you want to work on?
Like what'd you see in your game last year? And
he gave the best answer. Again he's he's his true
sophomore and he's gonna relate to braceone in a second.

(01:09:20):
I promise you he mentioned situations two minute third down.
You know, he said specifically, he doesn't have to win
the game in the first quarter, like you know, it's
a long game. Being under control it is. I don't
think we give true freshman quarterbacks the grace they deserve
to have. It's very hard to play the true freshman

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any position, quarterback obviously even more and he played as
a true freshman. Like the amount of experience he means
from that, it's gonna be so valuable. So back to
Michigan quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
Hey, real quick, because you brought something up and it
really bugs me if.

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
They play Bryce Underwood early on as a real quick Jeff,
I want to follow up with something you just said
because it bugs me people giving that kid guph because
he imitates mahomes.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
Kobe imitated Mike when he was I saw Kobe when
he was seventeen. He was imitating Mike's whole life. There's
nothing wrong with imitating greatness. I mean, I don't get
why that kid takes any kind of guf from it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:33):
People are losers. I don't know. They want They want to.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Bob and Dad always Bob is me so anyway, Like,
why wouldn't you want to imitate Mahomes.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
I agree. I think that people look at it and
think it's it's I guess odd, I don't really know.
It's eighteen like his idol's Mahome about why would you
not want to be? And also he gets the opportunity
because of his family, like he has relationships with these
quarterbacks as well, like he talks Matt Stafford, he talks
to Mahomes, like he has the ability to have these

(01:11:02):
relationships too. So like if that's just I know, like
good for him, like be Mahomes, But nonetheless, probably Underwood
eighteen year old for Michigan might being might be seventeen.
They're gonna it's gonna be hard. It's hard to play
the true freshman tough conference. You know, the pieces of
a round him at wide receiver. Are they good enough? Yet?
Lost a lot offensive linement over the years. My point

(01:11:24):
in Michigan is I think they're year away. Like like
you said, this year could be a little bit difficult.
Seven eight wins somewhere around there. Yeah, all right, we
gotta take quick te out man time to just flying U.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
We'll come right back. We'll finish, and I promise we
could spend two hours talking about Top twenty five. A
lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
Man, we're geeking out, that's right, fellas. Jeff Schwartz Anthony
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(01:12:26):
twenty five. Play the game, too high, too low? Just right,
South Carolina checks in at number thirteen. Jeff Schwartz. I
like sellers. I don't know, I feel like it's pretty high.

(01:12:49):
So you look at their schedule, so you know it
is interesting. You got VA Tech to start it off,
then a Cala State vanderblt at Missou Home, Kentucky, and
then at LSU on October the eleven. Easy look at

(01:13:11):
this stretch and this is why I think they're too high.
At LSU home Oclahome home Alabama, then at Old Miss,
then at A and M. That's a rough stretch, man, Yeah,
it is. I'm curious about them, right, I mean, you

(01:13:32):
know when you they're a program that has a little
bit of hype going for them. Yeah, it's a different
off season when there's hype involved. So I'm curious, like
how mentally they prepared for this and gone themselves ready Again,
It's it's hard when you have the hype on you
for the first time in a long time. All right.

(01:13:53):
Uh And then speaking of hype, it doesn't get more
hyped up than Illinois. Who everybody thinks is this year
is Indiana? Yeah, I uh bee him a seems like
he'd be a lot of fun to play for. But
they got They got pretty lucky in a lot of
games last year. So here's my question about them. So

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last season they do you remember the game had against
Rutgers where they needed like it was like the last
one of the last part of the game had a
fluke like touchdown Okay to win that game. Okay, I
forget They're not win that game most most times, right,
I'd say like out of one hundred times they win,
they win it ninety nine. I mean, I mean they

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lose like the Bears washing. Yes, it wasn't a hail Mary,
but they caught a pass and they ran for a while.
It was ridiculous. They lose that game to Rutgers. We
look at their season much differently. They were There were
five and one in one score games, which you know
again that that's a metric to look at at the times.

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It's not the ball. I know, I know they were
turning a ton. They were turning a ton. But to
my point earlier, like are they were turning a bunch
of pro guys, like the guys that decided to come
back they had a chance to go pro. Not really right,
They were turning some good players, but the Altmeyer's fine.
They also they played play basically two teams that had
a pulse. Okay, Penn State. Now the game was the

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final score was I think closer than the game felt.
And they went to Oregon and were down thirty one
nothing to Oregon. I just I just don't think they're
as good as people want them to be. People are
searching terribly for the next Indiana, and I just I
don't think it's them. So I would say that they're
they're too high, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
I would agree with that. Arizona State. I think it's
a little high too.

Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
I think they're high to Scatty. We did so much
of them last season, and I think we're discounting how
important he was to their success.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Miami at he now we touched on them briefly.

Speaker 1 (01:16:01):
You like the Canes. Well, what we're hearing is that
Carson Banks having a great camp. Remember Carson Bank was
like a favorite to win a Heisman, number one overall,
like he was looked at in that way. Their offensive
line is really good. It's a Mario group. We're gonna
go and so again like they're sort of mature, like

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they're all the guys they've added them maturing now, right,
it's a time. It's just what's what happens in this sport.
They have some some wide receivers who they really like. Defensively,
defensive line, you get young players that are getting better.
So I am a fan of Miami. They just have
to I get love Mario guy was Oregon A love

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the way he builds his team. They just can't have
that one loss that they shouldn't have. That's it. And
I think they do be Notre Dame week one, and
I'm excited to watch them. Think the're about I think
they're about right. I think it's seven clumbs at the
top of the a sec.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
So you go, I'm curious through their schedule. You think
they beat Notre Dame.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
Yes, Notre Dame, asked, is losing a lot from last
year and they're going to start a new quarterback, which
is I don't know, man, I don't rely. Yeah, yeah,
I think I liked the Irish in Week one. Yeah, now,
I don't know. I was with Brady Queen all week,
so maybe that I got I got. They got rubbed
off on me, But my boy, I had a lot

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of fun with Brady.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
I like Notre Dame. Here's Miami schedule, So you tell
me give me your give me their wreck. You don't
worry about Notre Dame starting a new quarterback on the
road in week one, obviously, Yeah, but I not. You
like their defense better than I do now they've got
have improved by a lot. That defense was unplayable last year.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
Yeah, it wasn't always great. I'll give you that. It
was awful. Come on, brother, Yeah again, it wasn't. It
wasn't always great. But I think that they have again
to the point of making like a young players ready
to take the next seat. Yeah, I mean, listen, I
mean that could be. They better take a big step,
is my only point. I think. I think Notre Dame

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is stout on both fronts. I hear you on the
inexperience a quarterback, but I think they got both fronts locked,
so they're gonna be a Miami. It's already hurt though,
right the left left tackle got hurt. Right tackle got hurt.
I believe through deep. Their old line is deep. I
mean we'll see. I see it, fellas go show Down

(01:18:29):
Week one. I mean give me. I hope we get
a three. I don't know. I don't know if we'll
get a three, but I'll take a three if I
can get one. It's two and a half. We got two.
You got to two and a half. You want to
two and a half. I'll wait for dinner, you and
I I'll take it. Well. I mean, can I wait
to see if I get a three? At least? No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
This is I'm not I'm not a buck. I'm not

(01:18:51):
a sports book. It's just you and I. The lines
two and a half you want to to you, I'll
give you a two and a half. I'll take two
and a half. All right, all right, dinner for you
and I. Fellas a fella's dinner. Let's do it, all right? Cool?
All right, let's do uh one more. Let's go to L.
S U. I love L s U.

Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
Now, I'm a n Smier fan. I'm a huge nuts fire.
I love that kid. I think he makes all the throws.
He's my He's one of my favorite quarterbacks to watch.
I think they're they're about right. I'll tell you what
we said.

Speaker 1 (01:19:27):
I promise you will do the whole Top ten Fellas
on Fox Sports Radio. Good morning, good morning, good morning,
good morning, Happy Abby, Abby. Uh Fox Football Saturday. Hopefully
everybody's having a great weekend, one of your last remaining
summer weekends.

Speaker 2 (01:19:51):
Jeff Schwartz, he's in for Fitzie. I'm Anthony Garganna together
with a fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio. All right,
my brother, we did a lot of the College Top
twenty five. Of course, the whole hour, and we still
have most of the top ten to finish, So we

(01:20:11):
will do that coming up in just a moment. But
it is a preseason weekend. We sold two games last night.
I guess we saw a little unevenness from Cam and listen,
I hate this stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
So cad Ward was two for seven. He threw a pick.
He also had a long pass that was dropped, that
was thrown on the money.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
It was a great throw. The kid's a player, man.
I think the kid's going to be I think the
kid can sling it. Just give him a minute. He's
in a tough spot with a team not a lot
of talent around them.

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
Just give it a minute. Like I've already been. I
don't know about Cam Woard, just relax. You gotta give
these kids a chance. We have players like Jan Daniels
that come in the league and are so good, so
fast that ruins the timeline for everyone else. Right, you know,
Cam Wore is a guy actually has not playing a

(01:21:11):
ton of quarterback. Right. You know he played in high
school in offense that didn't that didn't didn't pass the ball. Right,
it's gets the incarnate word. They play those sort of
back to back COVID seasons or he played like spring
and fall that year, and then he goes to Washington State,
plays in you know, the run and shoot essentially for
for a couple of years, and goes to Miami. Last

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year was the first year he had played in a
pro style offense. Like give give them, give him time, man, Like,
it's gonna be fine. Is he gonna be the best
quarterback ever? I don't think so. But we're so quick
to put the pressure on the players to be good. Now, man,
it's it. It never was that that way. And the

(01:21:55):
Titans team is not overly talented, so it's not a
lot for him to work with there. I mean, look, look, listen,
I love Jay Daniels. J Daniels special, right like, he's special.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
He could sing, It makes every throw, he's mobile, he's
got a great you know, come from an offense where
it's pro ready as you can get in college.

Speaker 1 (01:22:16):
But you know, Washington had a lot more to work with, absolutely,
you know. I mean sometimes people are just crazy. They
they just want I mean, it's satisfaction. It's just it's
just not the way that it works in college sports.
And just just give him time. He'll be fine. He'll

(01:22:38):
be just fine, all right, Today, let me give you
this slate for today's preseason all the games, quadruple header,
by the way, on the NFL network. So here's what
we got.

Speaker 2 (01:22:51):
We got Green Bay, Indianapolis, Brownson, Eagles, New England and Minnesota, Carolina, Texans, Dolphins, Lions.
Those are all one o'clocks. Then there's a four on
the NFL Network that's the Raiders and Niners at sevent

(01:23:12):
Eastern Needs or Old Eastern Times, Tampa Pittsburgh, the Ravens
and the Cowboys, Jets, Giants, Chargers, Rams, and then the
night raps with Arizona and Denver.

Speaker 1 (01:23:27):
Okay, where are you headed? Which?

Speaker 4 (01:23:32):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:23:32):
Are you? Watching? All of them? As much as I can.
I gotta let's do this exercise. Then all right, I'm
gonna give you.

Speaker 2 (01:23:41):
I'll give you the game and then you give me
what you're interested in watching for both teams?

Speaker 1 (01:23:47):
All right, Okay, Green Bay, Indianapolis, I mean Dan Versus
have a pulse the quarterback. I know, I know Green
Bay cares zera about the season. They're they're just completely
worthless preseason watch, honestly. All right, So you're out on
that one, yeah, I mean, I mean, I'm faster, you're

(01:24:10):
again what Richardson brings to the table today. But yeah,
not not you know again, the Packers just look at
the results over the years. They just care so a
little about the preseason. It's it's it's harder ticket.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
Seriously, all right, Cleveland, Philadelphia, do you know if Gabriel's
playing yet?

Speaker 1 (01:24:30):
I mean it has to be Gabriela. It's not your door.
Well they he is out right, he is out shot door. Yeah,
he's out. So I'm gonna watch Gabriel play.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
I mean, you're gonna see a lot of day of
Dylan Gabriel because Joe got a ton of work in
the joint practices. So they're not gonna play Flacco.

Speaker 1 (01:24:50):
Yeah, so I want to see. That's what I want
to see them. Okay, to get anything on the Eagles, Uh,
the stars aren't playing right, well, Jalin's playing the rest.
They're gonna play like Lane and Saquon. Well, I don't
think Saquon goes, but I think they're gonna. Eagles has
not been to play their starters right very much now.

(01:25:11):
They never play their stars, but they because of steam,
they might want to give its steam is is uh
take it over for Beckton? Correct? Next to lane, so
they might want to give him some work. Okay, Statlin
likes to he likes to play his unit, and it
may only just be it may not be lame, but
he might play, you know, three fifths of it just

(01:25:32):
for continuity, Okay, I mean, it's just it's just so
hard that those stars are not playing to really care
very much about the team.

Speaker 2 (01:25:41):
Well, no, that's fine. So you've got Dylwin Gabriel in
that game. All right, Patriots vikings McCarthy's playing or not.
I probably should keep up with this, but it's hard
to track who's playing who's not playing. But obviously, I
mean mcarthy's playing on this.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
Yeah, well he needs to play, he needs reps. I agree,
So I would like to see McCarthy what he can
do in a week too, He said, last week's pretty
interesting that against his own defense, Brian Ford's defense, in practice,
he feels very sped up, right, because they pressure so much,

(01:26:17):
they put so much that he has to play very
fast in practice, and that he thought he played way
too fast in game one, that you know the way
they again, that they he has a practice that he
played too fast in game one, got through his reas too,
but it just kind of sped him up a little bit.
So I want to see today has to slow down

(01:26:38):
for him at all? Is he you know, is he
making better? Is it is? It? Is he because he
missed them throws that he should make. He h has
some good throws too, But is it slowing down for
him a little bit? That's what I want to see.

Speaker 2 (01:26:50):
How worried about you? How worried about him? Are you
one to ten?

Speaker 1 (01:26:58):
I mean, well five, I don't, I don't. I don't
know what to be worried about yet. Hasn't played, uh,
like a lot of talking to pre a lot of
talking camp. Uh that he's with Scotland, so there was
a lot of time camp that he was swimming. It's
worth bringing up here that like when rookies don't play

(01:27:22):
in year one but playing year two, we tend to
like that they sit Okay, like I think that's fair
to say, right, Like, we like when those guys sit
for a year. It's great it's a rookie. But a
lot of times most of the time in those years, right,
they're they're they're practicing while not playing. Right there on
the practice field. McCarthy didn't practice last season, so he

(01:27:44):
feels almost a little even more behind the most second
year players. So that's what that's what sort of I'm
curious about, like to see like his progression early on
and how quickly he's in the Vikings. Dude, you know
that they're so talented. If he can, if he's good
or on and this team, the sky's a limit for
this team. But while because they're everything around him is

(01:28:07):
good line, great receivers, really good back and not a
great like really good tight end, a great coach. So
there's there's no chance that they they could be good
this year. It really good, really really good. McCarthy can
can be good. I think it's unrealistic to expect him
to be great early on. Didn't do much in college.

(01:28:27):
He has all the tools, but you know they're gonna
ask a lot more of him than he had to
do at Michigan. All right, how about Carolina and the Texans?
I trust he continued progression at Bryce Young. That's what
we will say. He played a little bit in in
week one. Again, I don't know if the problem with
these games this week is kind of interesting. We talked
earlier like a Los star is playing in week one,

(01:28:49):
and I don't think a lot of them are playing
in week two because of the of the joint practices
we saw a lot this week. I just I don't
think a lot of starters are playing in these games
where we saw a lot of week one. I think
we're having less than week two, which is kind of surprising.
That's backwards, it's not what it used to be. You

(01:29:10):
think you could be less today. I think I think
there's gonna be equal nout today. Well, like the chief
Like the Chiefs didn't play their starters yesterday, which is
kind of surprising. I mean, that's what anybody always plays
the starter, So that you missed the saidynymore, that's that's
out the window. He changed he used to always do that.
He played on in week one, though normally played in
week one, he plays in week two. That's so I

(01:29:30):
was kind of surprised he didn't play them this week. Yeah,
he played it for a series. Yeah, No, he played well.
The ones selected ones played the series in the week one.
Most of stars played more than one series. So Canal says, yeah,
here's a story from two weeks ago. Panther starts to
play first two Preseson games. So I want to I

(01:29:51):
want to see. Uh, I want to see more Brice Young. Yeah,
I'm sure they're gonna be interesting. I don't know how.
We were just talking about this on my show in
Philly the South, So I don't know how the Saints

(01:30:12):
don't finish last. They will, like, I don't know how
that's not And we were looking at the In fact,
I had the brain on and we were talking about
the NFC South and it was pretty like to take
the Saints to finish last was pretty easy, like you know, yeah,

(01:30:37):
and I like, I think Carolina well, first of all,
Tampa obviously in Atlanta are way better and then it
comes down to Carolina. I think Carolina chanced to win
the division, so do I.

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
And I look at I look at the Saints. I
just think there's no talent there. I'm a Kellen Moore fed.
I think Kellen is gonna I think he's gonna be good.
But you know, they got a way to turn over
that roster.

Speaker 1 (01:31:02):
Yeah, and the quarterbacks are very good. No, No, So
I'm I'm with you. I thinks have a chance to
win the division. I really do. I think they've improved
a lot. I let the coaching staff. I like the
changes they've made on the roster. They really attack their weaknesses.
I thought in the fregency in the draft, especially the
defensive line. I'm pretty high on them. I think they

(01:31:24):
have a chance to be if Bryce Young can take
the next continue to take those steps, man, they're got
a chance to be really really good this year. All right, wow,
look at that. You know you're down there, so listen,
you know you got a good pulse of it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:40):
Uh, Dolphins and Lions today? Are you worried about the
Dolphins because I am.

Speaker 1 (01:31:45):
Oh, I have a lot of money in there under buddy. Yeah.
So I just you know, when you look at their schedule,
I don't like starting with the premise that that you
can cross off all the games they play in cold
well there is a loss. Don't like it like, oh,
oh well they play oh they're playing cold weather loss?

(01:32:06):
Like just no out out on a team like that, right,
I mean, which immediately out on a team like that,
and then and then you know they're there. They had
no tight ends. Their offensive line is super shaky. You know,
tua Is is so limited because there's just so terrified
he's gonna get hurt. So they really like limit the
offense around him. It's not it's not great. H McDaniel

(01:32:29):
to me seems to sort of not be able to
adjust mid season. He sort of has a player start
the year just never adjusts. And then we talked early
about joint practices. So joint practice are when these teams
meet up and practice for a couple of days together.
I don't know how much to take away from those,
because you know, there's you're the practice gods a little different.

(01:32:52):
You know, how it's a team. How who's trying harder,
what's the goal of each practice? Who knows this stuff.
But the reports out of this of these joint practices
are that the Dolphins got thoroughly dominated for two days
in a row. You've been to these before, you know,
one day one team wins, one day, the next team wins,
sort of like that. Yeah, they said the Dolphins got manhandled. Yeah,

(01:33:15):
and I worried about their line. You brought it up.
I am worried about their line. So I am under
seven and a half wins for them. As we're talking now,
like writing down some wagers to like, I'm gonna put
some more. I'm gonna make you know, the I might
take that that saints the fish last division wager. That
sounds a good way.

Speaker 2 (01:33:32):
In fact, we talked about this. You here's what you
may want to do. So there's there's the props were
how many wins too? There's a Saints prop wins and
exact wins are just exact wins. And I think we

(01:33:53):
went over the schedule and it was you know, like
I could see like one or two. I could even
see zero. Like if you spread up zero one two,
you're getting like really big odds and you make it
come out ahead because yeah, you can bet.

Speaker 1 (01:34:11):
You can bet most most sports books allow you to
bet a actual exact amount of wins. Why have Giants
to have the worst record in the NFL at six
to ones? I I already have that market, like played,
I could play. Really you got that? You think they're
worse than the Saints? No, I actually think it's to me,
it's a schedule issue. The Giant schedule is really really brutal,

(01:34:36):
and there's a situation where implosion can happen pretty quickly.
In my opinion, you start with you start right with Cowboys, commanders, chargers, chiefs,
or go go through. You have a part of you. No,
I haven't memorized, I've talked about this so many times. Okay, good,

(01:34:56):
all right, well we'll tell me good and then start
with it's and Cowboys Chargers Chiefs. Then they're at New Orderlands. Okay, okay,
shout and go one and four, one and four, and
then it's it's then I know it's Eagles Broncos Eagles. Yeah, okay,
at Denver, by the way, at Denver, yeah, I did

(01:35:19):
know that. And then and then I'll tell my head
it's like Niners, Bears, Lions. I think the next three ish,
the Patriots are somewhere around there. Yeah, I mean, so
if they start slow as I expect, Brian Dable's not
long for that job, and Russell Wilfs is not long
for that job. You have Jackson Dart like it just

(01:35:39):
feels pretty bad quickly. It's pretty bad pretty quickly. Well,
but but here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:35:43):
One thing with Dable, I think they just need to
show Jackson Dart upswing towards the end of the season.

Speaker 1 (01:35:52):
Now here's the one thing they have gone for him.
Their defense, Their front is really good. Yeah, yeah, I agree. Yeah,
if the kid could play a little bit, you get
the kid to be able to play, you know, and
you're in an up swing to finish the season, Like
I could see that struggling going you know, one to seven,

(01:36:12):
two and six like something like that, and then getting
a couple wins on the back side on the back
nine type of thing. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:36:22):
You know, they're scheduled by heart, but the back nine
is easier, I think.

Speaker 1 (01:36:26):
But I'm i basically wagering on an implosion early in
the season that just takes them out of even just
really competing in the back half of the season type
of situation we'll see. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
The only thing with the only thing is I don't
don't you think if you're coaching, you know, you can't win,
Like you're not gonna win a division.

Speaker 1 (01:36:47):
You know, you're the fourth team.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
I mean, the whole point of this season is to
develop dark right.

Speaker 1 (01:36:55):
I agree. Yeah, So when you think that they would
have an employe knowing that they're going to groom the
kid to eventually play this year, like we've seen that
with teams that have particularly teams that are decent up
front that had like a little bit of a listen,
I hope you win your your bet. I'm just talk No,
this is a long shot. I have under five and

(01:37:16):
a half wins. I also took him at six to
one to it's a long shot. I mean, so it's
what it is. Well, but yeah, I think I could
see them having a little bit of an upswing towards
the end of the year and then Dable keeping his job.
I like Dable. I'm sorry, I like Dabele.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
I think Dabele's a good coach, and I like the
fact that he's got a coot. I think Dark can
play in the league, and I'm curious to see what
he does with them.

Speaker 1 (01:37:42):
Yeah, I mean, I don't I don't dislike him. I
just I just don't know how good team is gonna be. Yeah, yeah,
all right, let's say quick te out, come right back,
get back to the top ten. All right, we have
to finish that. We're gonna make sure we finish all
of our conversations. All right. We got plenty of time, buddy.

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Speaker 1 (01:38:59):
The Phillies Nats. Here's a schwor.

Speaker 6 (01:39:05):
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(01:39:25):
mark again.

Speaker 1 (01:39:27):
It is schwor Bomb, Phills. You won to win it.
Schwarber hits a home run, cal Rally hits a home run.
Milwaukee comes back, wins again, number thirteen in a row
for the Brew Crew. Mets blow another lead. Crazy uh
could be an interesting Pennant race. It isn't a lot

(01:39:51):
of fun. I'm looking forward to the baseball. I love baseball,
the intensity of at the end of the season, right me,
all these teams to try to make their laces and pushes. Uh,
it's always always a lot of fun to watch. I'm
looking forward to seeing kind of who again. Like there's
a lot of of open races right now, right, I
mean the amount of fluctuation we've seen where you know,
the team was leading the division in June to where

(01:40:12):
it is now, it's kind of nuts. I mean there's
been a ton of changing these standings.

Speaker 2 (01:40:17):
Oh dude, yes, it's crazy. Yeah, I mean it really
is nuts. So the Yankees are struggling mightily. I mean
maybe they eat gotta win, but they were they were,
I mean it looked like there was They're gonna blow
the doors off, and they struggled.

Speaker 1 (01:40:35):
To just held on the wind.

Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
The Jays are up five on Boston and the Yankees.

Speaker 1 (01:40:42):
Yep, Tiger's running away. We run away with the Central
Houston now only up by half game on Seattle. That's
fun divisions, right, that's a great one.

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
Phillies are up six on the Mets, the Mets had
led that division inside ten days ago before they're maybe collapse.

Speaker 1 (01:41:08):
So they're up on the Brewers.

Speaker 2 (01:41:10):
It's unbelievable they've done winning thirteen in a row. They
had now have a nine game lean on the Cups.
That's incredible.

Speaker 1 (01:41:23):
The Reds are five games over over five hundred and
are back fourteen games. Yeah, and then Dodgers POD's going
at it in LA and they are tied this morning
for first place in the West with sixty nine to
fifty three records. Pretty good. So it's a good baseball sase.

(01:41:48):
I hope people are paying attention, you know, I know
it could be long and well, I think the baseball's
done a really good job of changing the game for
the better. Like the pitch clock has been just like
the greatest thing ever. I mean, it's such an it's
it's I mean, we go there's a Triple A team
here in Charlotte, take the kids to man. I mean,
the pitch clock has helped. So I mean we look
up and be two and a half hours and you

(01:42:08):
being the fourth inning still you know, now you're seven
innings in. Like, it has been so good for the
game to do that. Yeah, yeah, did you see the
NBA s guys will come out. I don't care whatever,
You're not a hoop guy. I'm a hoop guy in
when the playoffs start. But I I'm I'm not gonna

(01:42:30):
watch with NBA until until we get to after Super Bowl. Yeah, yeah,
I think that's fair. I think that's I mean, I
watch it. I just think I think that the trouble
have with the NBA is that you will watch like
the last week of the regular season and the playoffs
will start, and the speed of the sport picks up
so much it doesn't look at the same sport. To me,

(01:42:52):
it's like, wow, it's way better now. Playoff basketball is ridiculous. Yea, Like,
if you don't care enough to play that that speed
in the regular season, why do I care enough to watch?
You know what I mean?

Speaker 7 (01:43:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:43:02):
I mean, and like, look, I the load management thing
kind of frustrates me sometimes because you know, I'm a
Lakers fan and I and I want to watch the
Lakers when they come to to Charlotte. I've been burned
a couple of times with like backups playing and it's
just like frustrating where you spend good money for good
seats and all of a sudden, the Stars sitting out. Now,

(01:43:24):
Lebron was better last year about this, so I'm not
as upset about it. But I just, you know, like
when you know, guys, now, I just it's hard to
watch season play basketball fabulous. We're you know, regizing basketball.
Kind of tough to watch sometimes. Yeah, yeah, is your
boy of be going to play this year? Like he's

(01:43:44):
not going to be ready for training camp, that's for sure.
I doubt we see him until December, probably around the
NBA Cup in Philly. Like like last year. It could
be bad, Yes, it could be very bad. Now the
end of days are near.

Speaker 2 (01:44:03):
That that team, that iteration of that run that never materialized,
never happened.

Speaker 1 (01:44:10):
Yeah, you know, it's they.

Speaker 2 (01:44:13):
Are a great source of frustration. They haven't won since
nineteen eighty three, was the last time they won a title.

Speaker 1 (01:44:22):
You Eagles, though, you got Phillies. No, I mean, yeah,
I'm just talking about that team. The Flyers win championships.
I don't know, my Flyers have it once since nineteen
seventy five. Wow, that's Original sixteen right now. But they
were you know, they came in sixty seven, but they're
right after it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
They're gonna be better though, they're they're gonna be good.
But again, to your point, football is really the matters
that baseball might town but you know it's it's football.
It's funny because we're talking about the NBA and you know,
forever I was looking at the Christmas date schedule, I'm like, oh,

(01:45:05):
look this, and it doned on me. You know, there's
three football games, so it doesn't matter, right, Like, it's
funny how the NFL came in on Christmas Day when uh,
that's ours and they just completely stole it from the NBA.

Speaker 1 (01:45:26):
Yeah, nothing that we can do about it.

Speaker 2 (01:45:30):
No, no, I mean they just got clobbered last year.
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:45:36):
It's our day now, yeah, are day? Now? Take that crazy?
I mean, look, I bet on it. I mean I'll
take a peak on in the radio season, but I'll
came up with the Lakers. I mean they played late
at night, which I hear in these coasts were just
kind of a bummer. But I'll keep up on, especially
with Luca now and I could see you being a

(01:45:57):
night ow you know. No, no, no, I'm up for
I I mean I watch sports to stay awake. But
if sports not on I'm not staying up very I'm
not staying up like terribly low. But I'm saying I
can see you watching West Coast games. Now you have
a layer with all you're at with the regular season.

(01:46:17):
Like I'll watch orgon l like up till two or
three in the morning if if if they're on. But
I'm not watching Lakers that lay. Am I watching Giants
that late? I'm not watching no, not the res of season?
All right? All right, that dude, that's like you know,
think about it, like you have kids too, Like they
don't wake up any later because you want to sleep
in Like my dog is not like you were playing

(01:46:38):
last night, buddy, Like I'm sleeping in too with you
and then worked that way. Wait, he wakes my he
wakes my butt up. Everything you like there's no sleep Well, yes, yes,
I mean thing like you just los. I we drive,
We we divvy the kids up for school, Like I
drive my little one to school every day on the
way to work. I drive both of them because my

(01:47:00):
wife has to get to work. So I'm I'm the
I'm the morning school driver. Well then you get but
then you come home and you got free time. Yeah,
I mean I got gym. I got work, I got
I got stuff to do. It's like I just like
sit at home all day. But yeah, I meany theory. Yeah,
I got plenty of time to do whatever I want.

(01:47:22):
But I gotta take one at seven now, I gotta
take one at seven o'clock essentially, and I gotta take
one at at at eight fifteen go to gym. I mean,
I got I got stuff, I got work, start stuff starting.
I mean, I just you know. I mean, look, it's
like I'm gona complain about a good life, So I'm
not going to complain that much. I try to go

(01:47:42):
to bed at the point is of this whole conversation.
I try to go to bed at decent time if possible.
All right, all right, all right, let's get back to
the top ten. All right, at least get to the
top five before the end of the end of this hour.
So I left it. We left in Lsu. I like
Ali Shie with Tom. Where are you at with Lsu?

(01:48:02):
I like them a lot too, Week one tell us
a lot maybe, But the problem is weak one, Brian Kelly.
They stink. So I'm very high in clumbson. We could
get to the clumbson in the second obviously, but yeah, I mean,
look Alis, he plays in a tough conference. Brian Kelly,
it's it's a kind of a make up break here.
I think with with nes Meyer, people super high on
him as well, so you know, should be interesting, all right, Alabama.

(01:48:29):
I hear good things about Alabama. I hear people I
think Ty Simpson is gonna be good. I think Bama's
gonna have a good year, all right. So I wrote
this article for Fox Sports. You go find I did
some some win total stuff on Bama. So Caitlin Debor
before got that job last year, I think I think

(01:48:50):
I wrote it down like one oh four and like eleven.
As a head coach, n ai A Sue Falls. He
won three championships and they lost I believe, like three
games this whole time. They lost one game over the
last four years he was there. The championship game they
won three or four years gets to Friendsno during COVID
three and three. But then he goes nine and three,

(01:49:11):
goes to Washington, takes in the playoff year two, championship
game Year two goes to Bama with nine and three.
Last year kind of a year of upheaval, right. Nick
Saban leaves legend leaves right and you're rebuilding the program
in your own vision. And a big addition this offseason
once he brought Ryan Grubbrack, his offensive coordinator who he's

(01:49:31):
been with nearly his entire career Florida State Washington as
Sue falls as well, it's a big, a big factor
brought grub back. The team is is the second most
talented team, maybe the most in the SEC. Like it's
Texas one and Bama two. They have more talent in
Georgia and LSU like that they do. I agree, And
so the schedule has some some some way in minds

(01:49:53):
as an SEC schedule does. But I'm I'm super high
on Alabama this season.

Speaker 2 (01:49:59):
And let's face it, I mean, mill Roe could be
great at times.

Speaker 1 (01:50:05):
I like, I like Simpson and is a pocket guy.
He reminds me more of what the offense is probably
gonna look like under under Michael Pennox at Washington. It's
gonna be a more controlled passing game from the pocket
less variance because of a mill Roe was just so
high and so low sometimes. So I'm I think Bama

(01:50:28):
if I like the boor as a coach, he's really
good and I think they're gonna be really good this season. Yep, yep.
I like him a ton a ton.

Speaker 2 (01:50:41):
I'll give it a yodar man Eddie Webster to tell
Jeff hello, he said, uh, he looks at the carry.
He goes, what about the Carolina D like the Carolina D.

Speaker 1 (01:50:55):
Or the or the Bill Belichicks. I think they did.
So that was a problem they had right last season.
They went out and fixed it in fregency in my opinion,
plus get Derek brown Back. I think their defense is
a lot. But the thing about the Panthers like they
know what their weaknesses are and they went about trying
to fix them. Now, of course it all has to
come together. They have a great defensive coordinator. I think

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they're going to be fine defensively. All right, let's take
a quick too, come back finish our top five. Curiousy
where you're tied with the Jeff Schwartz top five would be.
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here's the let's finish this top five, So we go
in order. We have Alabama Oregon seven. Where you at
with Oregon.

Speaker 1 (01:52:32):
Ducks? Yeah about right? We got some we got some
question marks. I think they're a little high. Why do
you think that high? I can't wait for Happy Valley.

Speaker 2 (01:52:44):
That's another one of our dinner bets, you and I.

Speaker 1 (01:52:47):
I mean, Oregon's probably gonna lose that game. I don't
think's gonna win that game. We could be eleven and
one and lose the Penn State. I don't what's the
that's unluckily with breaking your stones, that's all we're likely
to win that game. I don't think we're gonna win
that game. Otherwise we should winever. I'll give you I'll
give you the line. Whatever the line is, it's probably
four four and a half. There's my guess. It's it's

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gonna be a tough game. It's our first true road game.
We don't I don't count Northwestern as a road game.
With a lot of new pieces, it's probably it's probably
gona be tough. I don't have any But I don't
think that's gonna be easy game for US and Penn
State defensively. Now, the thing is, I just think we
can match Penn State defensively in that game, right, I mean,
I don't. I just don't know if Penn State has

(01:53:29):
the wide receivers. I know they brought a bunch of
portal guys, but yet again, I don't know. I don't
pay I believe it when I see Syracuse, come on,
I believe we have we have fifteen years of James Frank.
I believe it when I see it. Two stunt backs
coming back for the Knicks. They might not even have
to throw it. The way They're going to be able

(01:53:50):
to run the until it matters and they can't throw
the ball. The problem is terrific. I love not that's
the problem.

Speaker 2 (01:53:58):
He is outside receivers they got three kids they could play.

Speaker 1 (01:54:04):
Look the thing about college football, it's we have often
at times lots of years of data on these quarterbacks
and these quarterbacks and these offenses, right, and a lot
of time, you know, have lots of years because of
the nature of it. It's all like the NFL. But
James Franklin's been there fifteen years. We have enough of

(01:54:24):
James Franklin. He's got a new OC, we have second
year of C and he's holding up the offense. Okay,
you say these things like this, Well it's true. If
it's not true, but doesn't happen. That's my point. It
doesn't often happen when coaches say things like we're gonna
open up the offense. It doesn't happen very well. When

(01:54:45):
you have a new offensive coordinator. It's the second that's new, Well,
second year off OC it means it's it's definitely a change.

Speaker 2 (01:54:54):
They wanted to play more wide open last year. Obviously
they didn't have the receivers to do it, and they
still won a lot of games.

Speaker 1 (01:55:04):
They're well, yeah, but they're gonna win. Penn State, to
me is the most predictable team ever. They win every
game they should and they lose every game they should
and this year is that going to change when it
comes to the postseason, because that's all that matters. Well,
change when they go to Ohio State. Like they're gonna

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be favorite against Organ. They should beat Organ. They're gonna
be a favorite. Yeah, it'll be a white happy valley.
And are they gonna win the game at Ohio State?
Are they win the you know they're gonna win the
playoff game? They're a slight underdog in they win all
the games. Just with James Franklin. When he's a favorite
of like seven between seven and twenty four points, it's
like nineteen and one against the spread. They smash every

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team they should. I'm Julie Me. I know all about Franklin,
all right, James Franklin, Penn State Country. James Franklin, he knows,
he knows the spread. He has to because he's the best.
Like that late touchdown like fair by thirty four, you
know it's it's it's it's thirty five to seven, and
he just like manages to score with with a minute

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left forty two seven. His boosters are happy. They cover
the spread every game, but Yo to Ohio State can't
beat Ohio State. Well, let's see, let's see what happens.

Speaker 2 (01:56:19):
This is a year. You're right, there's a year. This
is a year of no excuses. I don't disagree with
that not working. I think they're ranked where they should be.

Speaker 1 (01:56:29):
All right, Irish, you think the Iris should too high.

Speaker 2 (01:56:34):
Judging from our conversation against with Miami, because we got
you got the Canes and I got the Irish in
that one.

Speaker 1 (01:56:42):
I think they're probably a tad a tad high, but not.
It doesn't really bother me. Georgia the right this should be.
And you love Clemston apparently, yeah, all I'm sitting out.
Do you not like Clemson? I do? They got they

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got a butter height they have. They're just like they
would turn the number of attorney production in college trouble
to offense. Their offensive line for years has not been great.
It's much better now we know what they can do defensively.
I like Clemson. I think the quarterback. I think Club
Nick is a really good college quarterback. Right, but that's

(01:57:25):
all you need though in college.

Speaker 2 (01:57:26):
No, No, I'm saying that as a compliment, Like, yeah,
I think I get why you like them.

Speaker 1 (01:57:33):
I mean, you know, for sure, I think they're right
way they should be. I think Ohio State's a little high, correct,
But they won the championship, So what do you Yeah,
I'm not there's probably but if we're talking about the
probably the two best players in the country on their team, yeah,
I think text number. I think Texas beats in Week
one in the shoe. I mean, I think Texas legit,

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a legit one. I I it's not honestly a wager
on Texas as much as that, I don't think we're
acknowledging how much Ohio State is losing.

Speaker 2 (01:58:09):
Yeah, yeah, A couple that with the fact that I
think Texas is legit. Yes, So I can't believe that.
What's awesome about the playoff is that we get that
game week one. We would never get that game week one, correct,
you know?

Speaker 1 (01:58:26):
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I gotta. I gotta give my boy some love, okay,
because I feel bad for him.

Speaker 2 (01:59:34):
So we've been having a lot of fun, you know,
geeking out. The two of us are getting. We're a
little over the top, I think, right when it comes
to yes, we're fine. So my man superstar Dad was like, yo, guys,
you guys are way over.

Speaker 1 (01:59:55):
The top talking about football. I felt bad because I
think he was supposed to talk about it. No, no, no, no, no,
I don't think he was. He meant that.

Speaker 2 (02:00:06):
He meant more because we were talking about the Christmas
Day games and how what happened between the NFL and
the NBA and how the NFL won. And he's like,
those NFL games sucked on Christmas Day. They weren't good.

Speaker 1 (02:00:27):
Did There wasn't that Ravens. Was that Ravens, She know
that was Ravens. Steelers. Yeah, they were. They weren't good.

Speaker 2 (02:00:32):
They were they were, they weren't normally you know, they
weren't good. But I mean honestly, like I'm not apologizing
for it because I love the NBA and I love
Major League Baseball. I love well, I love hockey, I
love all sports. But there's something when when the season

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is about to start, and this is how I am.
I don't know how you are, but I get like
crazy geeked up.

Speaker 1 (02:01:00):
Look even in the in March, when MLB smart about
to start, I get excited.

Speaker 2 (02:01:07):
I went to the first week of MLB. I'll watch,
you know, I'll be like oh.

Speaker 1 (02:01:14):
D on every game because I've missed it. Yeah, and football,
like I missed the sports when they go away, I
missed them. So right now, you know, I can't him
up like I know, comes Saturday, I'll watch we got
the game from Dublin a week from today, week zero,

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and then we kick off that whole week of college football,
which is going to be an awesome week. I'll watch
as many games I can squeeze in, beginning with the
Dublin game on Saturday, Nebraska Cincinnati from Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday,
and then I'll go through it.

Speaker 2 (02:01:56):
Well, you know we got monster games. I mean Texas,
Ohio State gonna be incredible. Yeah, I'm gonna watch every
second of it. Yes, yes, I'm watching all of it.
I it's what, it's my life. I love football, I
want I'm a fan before I was a player.

Speaker 1 (02:02:15):
There's an excitement for football because you know, the the sport.
There's urgency because you play obviously, you know, once a week.
But there's also like a I think that that there's
just hope in this sport that you just don't get
other sports where NBA Baseball, I think there's a lot

(02:02:36):
of fan bases just aren't very hopeful for success. Where
in football, there's so many ways to convince yourself for
team's going to be good every year, even though it's not.
To me. That's a huge part of the difference in
the sports. And so that's why football is one of
the reason why it's so beloved, is you can just
you can convince yourself a lot of things and and
that you just can't do that other sports quite the

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same way. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:03:00):
Yeah, And there is this because the advantage is is
that the games are an event. Absolutely that and the
reason why Superstar Dad like when you look at because
there's only seventeen NFL games and look, we don't have
to show for the other. The NFL doesn't need Jeff

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and I to show for it, right like it is
what it is. It's it's that when you look at
these games.

Speaker 1 (02:03:29):
That we're talking about in college, and the NFL is
going to kick off through events. And one of the
reasons why I love it is I like to consume it.
I don't know how you do it, but I love
to do a family friends like it could be a
big game or or any game.

Speaker 2 (02:03:49):
And then there's the solitude. I'll watch by myself like
it feels just big. It's just I don't know. I
look forward I honestly like look forward to it. Not
just like the team, your favorite team, but it could
be a Thursday night and I got a buddy of
mine that we grew up together, one of my best friends,

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and he doesn't live too far from me, and it'll
be a Thursday night.

Speaker 1 (02:04:12):
I go, dude game and all week long, you know,
you're working, do your thing, and he's like, yeah, come over.

Speaker 2 (02:04:19):
So I'll go over his house and I'll get there,
you know, eight quarter after eight. Anyone wants Thursday night, thegether.
I have a couple of beers and like, I thoroughly
enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (02:04:31):
Yeah. Every Sunday is family football day. We have family
overhouse every Sunday that watch football. Ah do you really?
I love that? Yeah? Every Sunday. Yeah. Same? Are you cooking? Same? Uh? Yeah,
I cooked the same crew every Sunday. I mix it up.
I get you know, when the weather's nice, I got
to get on the flat top and and uh hibachi

(02:04:52):
tacos burgers whatever. Yeah, we every Sunday. Yeah, plus my
my so, my wife's cousin and her husband. I just
call him my cousin in law. Essentially, he's a huge
Buffalo Bills fan, like like stand he stands to the
TV and watches for three hours type of fan. Yeah,

(02:05:13):
and so I'm a Chiefs fan of not as diehards
as that. So we have a lot of fun like
watching football together, you know. Just you know, I put
the Bills on for him and a dude, I can
only imagine he's Chiefs Bills games. Oh yeah, well we went.
So we went to the divisional game in Buffalo two
years ago, the one the Chiefs won with the field

(02:05:35):
goal at the end, and then the obviously the their
kicker missed a field goal at the end too, and
that was that was Yeah. Being a Buffalo for that
was wild. Yeah, they're they're that place is awesome. I really,
I really think these new stadiums are going to take
a lot of the hopeful advantage away. You know, Heimark

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Stadium was built in the early seven andes, and when
you are there, you are there to watch ball. That's
all you're there for. These new stadiums, with these with
these amenities, man, I think they're going to make home
food advantages disappear quickly. Which I get it. If you're Buffalo,
you want to you know, you want there to be
amendies for your fans. I get that. But I love

(02:06:19):
the vibe without old stadium. Man, it was so much fun.

Speaker 2 (02:06:22):
Yeah, yeah, I do do. Now they said that it's
not going to be it's still going to be outdoors.
I guess she's going to be more underground or any ground.

Speaker 1 (02:06:33):
Yeah, yeah, so this way it'll diminish the wind. But
if you but if you're like Buffalo, like home field
advantage start the playoffs. One of the benefits of it
is you get to play at home in my career. Dude,
you're talking about building a dome in Philadelphia. That's insane.
I think they're going to have it, and I think
they're going to do it. I hear that that they're leaning.

Speaker 2 (02:06:54):
Toward building a dome and crazy hate We saw Eagles
last year in the snowstorm.

Speaker 1 (02:07:03):
Yeah, like, how great is that they can build dome
in the Navy Yard and it's at another stadium there
essentially no place of where the link is. Yeah. Yeah,
they'll reconfigure the whole thing. Yeah, Oh, that would be
such bad news. I know. But they you know, they
want to try to get a super Bowl and try

(02:07:23):
to get Final four. John's an outdoor super Bowl. I
know they will never give Philadelphia the outdoor super Bowl. No, no,
But my point is who cares about it? Most of
the super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (02:07:39):
I only think the super Bowl should be in a
select few cities.

Speaker 1 (02:07:42):
Anyway, I'm with you. I think it should be in
warmer only as a reward for a good season, like
going to playing cold weather game and it's not a
fun city, doesn't feel like a super Bowl award.

Speaker 2 (02:07:53):
No, and and truthfully, we know what that game is
about other than for the participants, it's to celebrate and
it's you know, everybody goes there and it's it's it's
more of a destination. It needs to be somewhere that's
a that's a.

Speaker 1 (02:08:11):
A resort type of town. Strong agree. And that Dome like,
I'm so anti. I'm so anti at dome and in
these Northeast Carter cities. Could you imagine the Steelers playing
in the dome? So the thing about it, I think, actually,
I think all outdoor stadium should have grass, by the way,

(02:08:34):
and the reason my best example for that is that
if Philly and Washington and Green Bay can all have grass,
you can have grass too. Now the grass in Washington
is atrocious, don't get me wrong. In Pittsburgh, the grass
is the here goes on is absolutely atrocious. Like it's
not good grass, but it's grass. Like I live in
the I live in here in Charlotte. Why is there

(02:08:56):
not grass on the field in Charlotte? We had grass forever.
David Tepper comes in, I know he wants soccer at events,
all those things, I get it, But buddy, I think
everything everyone should have grass all the time. Yeah, yeah, uh.

Speaker 2 (02:09:11):
Let me ask you this because I wanted to bring
this up earlier this week. Jerry Jones was at the
premiere of his Netflix, the Netflix documentary right, the America's Team,
and he was talking about the idea of all the
you know, the hype and the circus type atmosphere, right,

(02:09:34):
and he's, you know, there's no no bet and there's
no such thing as bad publicity and the whole nine,
and that's what makes us the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (02:09:46):
And it really, it really struck because.

Speaker 2 (02:09:51):
He's he's wrong, Like, I get the able age, old
marketing thing, but what made the Cowboys the Cowboys was
they had two dynasties in the seventies bleeding into the
eighties and then the nineties, and couple that with the
rise of football, with the Thanksgiving Day thing that was

(02:10:15):
a text ram thing. They just were on and they
were good. What made them so popular was because they
were good, correct, not because they have all kinds of
craziness going on. And like having a contract squabble with
your best player isn't like, well, bad publicity's good publicy. No,

(02:10:39):
it's just stupid. And if you're not going to be
good that's going to erode. I know people say, oh,
they can't get up on the Cowboys. Yeah, until there's
three or four years in a row of unwatchable football.
They were unwatchable when Dak Prescott went down last year.

Speaker 1 (02:10:57):
I'm glad the way you're you're framing this in a
really good way, right, because the reason why any team
ends up being popular originally is they have to win, right,
They have to win. You have to win to be popular,
and that you can retain that popularity after that. But
Jerry Jones seems to have forgotten that that's what made
his team popular, and he he at least refuses to accept.

(02:11:19):
I think that that he needs to to and I
don't think he's making day to day We've talked about
this before, but that he clearly is still involved enough
to where I think it's hurt of the team. You
can't go out in a press conference and say that
we enjoy essentially this mess when you should just pay
pay dude, pay your best player, bro like it the

(02:11:41):
best team in the NFL, Like, what do you want
to take an example from the best teams the NFL.
They pay their best players early because it's cheaper and
it keeps your roster together and it makes everyone happy. Like,
these are all reasons why you should keep and sign
your best players. Dude, exactly, I don't understand it. They

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were unwatchable.

Speaker 2 (02:12:04):
Who were cared about the Cowboys last year when Dak
wasn't there no running game?

Speaker 1 (02:12:10):
And now I don't know what they're runn to be.
I mean, I mean they still have no running game.
I still don't think the run game was answered. Uh no,
they don't have a premiere back. Certainly that's true.

Speaker 2 (02:12:23):
I mean, did you send Javonte Williams before the knee
injury I thought had a chance to be really good
and Sanders last year?

Speaker 1 (02:12:33):
Injuries, man, injuries, it changes everybody, right, change his careers. Yeah,
so I look at him now, I go, I don't
know how good at a goun to be? Not very good? Well,
I mean, I tell you back, the Cowboys I think
are going to be like a nine win team if
Doc is healthy. That when Donalds healthy, they win a

(02:12:54):
ton of games. But like, as far as what I'm
talking about the level of beating a true Super Bowl, go, no,
they're still very far away from that. They're throwing their division.
It's hard to be when you're third in your division. Yeah,
some people are talking about Dallas finishing second. I don't
see you. I'm not on the I'm not on the
Commander's year two. Jadon Daniels struggle thing. I get it.

(02:13:16):
They played some bump quarterback last year, but they were
they won fourteen game, fourteen to five. The legitimately. Glad
you said that, because yeah, this whole talk about Jaden
Daniels becoming the sophomore slump, I don't buy it for
one second. No, no, guys, Jays, Daniels is is really good.

(02:13:39):
I think you see these rankings come out defintely. I
just did an article on it with a rate fifty
NFL personnel. Right, I think Daniels was six or seven.
It's about right. He's he's he is that good. He
is that good as a quarterback already. And I don't
think that we are acknowledging that. People look at what
happened with Stroud last season, I think that's gonna happen

(02:14:00):
with Well, it's it's not. They're different quarterbacks. Daniels is better.
Different offenses, different offensive lines, different coordinators. It's not.

Speaker 2 (02:14:09):
The cjs O line also was bagged not was badly
last year.

Speaker 1 (02:14:13):
This is legitimately James is gonna be one of the
He's really good. Yeah, I agree, I agree. I do
not see a regression. Now.

Speaker 2 (02:14:27):
I don't think they're gonna win all those games, but
I still think they're You can.

Speaker 1 (02:14:33):
You can twelve five the season, they can be eleven
and six and be just as good as last season. Yeah,
it's because it's tough for schedule. Yeah, absolutely, yep. All right,
let's take quick t will take a look at the
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Speaker 1 (02:15:11):
Welcome back, fellas. Jeff Schwartz in for Fitsie, I mean
Anthony Garganham. Were hanging out on a Fox uh pre
seed Big preseason Day Saturday. A lot of one o'clock games.
I don't remember all the one o'clock games pas at night.

(02:15:32):
So this is new. So I'm glad you mentioned this.
I talked to this. I was telling someone this the
other day. So preseason used to be all at night
for a couple of reasons. One, it's a thousand degrees outside,
so they just like like playing a one o'clock game
in Charlotte. It's kind of unfair. It's the top degrees outside,

(02:15:54):
and and the games just were on TV, like that's it.
But simple. Now they're on TV, so they stack them
for the schedules for NFL network. That's that's that's what
it's for us, off for anyone else, right, and that's
why the games are are on during the day. Yeah, wow,

(02:16:16):
that's wild, right, Like it used to it used to
be only and they used to be obviously be on
like everyone played the same day. Maybe there was one Thursday,
you know, well the third week four was always Thursday, right,
There is always Thursday, So I think that's why. Yeah,
that's crazy. Yeah, I felt like there was more Friday
Night Gate, Like there was only two last night. And

(02:16:36):
that's different. They're all spaced out we had, they're all
they're all week there. I mean they're there Friday, Saturday,
Sunday and then it was one Monday night even. Yeah. Yeah,
that's wild. I guess what, buddy, we watched all of them. Yes,
all right, I know what, man, who's watching them? Let's
take a look at sports from a betting standpoint with

(02:16:58):
our man the Bright, Brad feire Burg.

Speaker 5 (02:17:01):
Good morning, Bright, Hey, how are you doing this morning?

Speaker 1 (02:17:04):
My friends? Good? Good buddy.

Speaker 2 (02:17:07):
We were just talking about the preseason and well, you know,
four games, it's a four game slate on the NFL
Network today.

Speaker 5 (02:17:18):
Well, you know, it's funny, guys. You see what the
old Runners went last week? Did you guys see what
it was?

Speaker 1 (02:17:22):
Yeah? And then they went and then overs went two yesterday, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:17:26):
The sixteen and two?

Speaker 1 (02:17:28):
Who seen in two? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:17:30):
Now, it's interesting. There's two ways to look at it.

Speaker 1 (02:17:33):
You know.

Speaker 5 (02:17:34):
Is it just a fluke because in the years past,
the scoring and you know, in pre season, as you
guys know, was like honestly it was almost like impossible, right.
But a theory that you know that I think is yes.
I've been trying to come up with why I think
it is is I think coaches now and again maybe
I'm over putting into it, but they want I think

(02:17:56):
they want to like see what they have at quarterback
more and thattly trying to maybe score more to see, Okay,
if our quarterback is hurt, then we have someone who
actually can come in there and actually do something and
let me try to actually score and make this like
a real thing as opposed to just anything changed other
than that. I don't know. Maybe I'm dead wrong on that,

(02:18:17):
and maybe it's just other issues that are you know,
leading into it, but it's definitely it's something that, uh,
I think if you want to bet an under, I
would certainly bet it a post because I think these
lines will only creep.

Speaker 1 (02:18:31):
Up and up and up, guys, so I need it's
a combination of multiple things. Coaches are certainly more aggressive
in preseason ever before there's goal for one and fourth
out all the time. Now like they just don't they
just don't care. They goal for it all the time.
That that plays a big role, a big role in it.
Quarterback play I think is better for the backup position
now that's ever been. There's just a lot of backups

(02:18:53):
have played a lot of football before, uh, which I think,
which I think is also the reason why. And the
last thing too is they're there's a lot more football
like in like like defense offense. I think it just
feels just for me watching like there's more in like
that's able to be done. Like the defenses are doing
wild stuff for a week one of the preseason last week,

(02:19:13):
like the like concepts, all this stuff, I think all
that matters. So are you changing how you wager? Like,
for example, I know one sharp group like just didn't
bet any totals really at all this week? Are you
changing how you are wagering on these games based off
of the totals we've seen go over so far.

Speaker 5 (02:19:33):
Well, you know, it's funny me being a mathematical geek,
I try to say, what were the chances of what
happened last week with the totals going? Like, you know,
I think last week they were fourteen and two and
it was I got I wrote it there, I forget
what it was it was, so it was incredibly almost zero,
and the EO chances are going fifteen and more than

(02:19:54):
sixteen ohver, like literally basically zero. So basically what I
said to myself was, you know what, I don't think
it was a flute that it went fourteen and two,
that wentwolve and four eleven and five, ten and six.
I'd be like, that doesn't really that to me can
always happen. It's like just if you if you sit

(02:20:14):
to here by yourself and you just flip a coin
sixteen times, how many how many times you get fourteen
heads or fourteen tails in a sixteen game sample, You're
gonna be doing it for a heck of a long time.
I can promise you that. So what I basically kind
of did is kind of what you just said. I
I'm not that one total because I my numbers would

(02:20:36):
maybe think based off previous data that some of the
stuff is too high. But I don't need to run
in front of a train that potentially is just coming
at me because I'm not factoring in enough of what
you know, some of the stuff you just said.

Speaker 2 (02:20:51):
Quarterback, that's real, like the data now is real, Like
what you saw over the week one is real because
coaches are trying to score.

Speaker 1 (02:21:04):
Jeff said it earlier. We were talking about this, but
he's right. The backup quarterbacks are better, they're more they're centered,
they're more positioned in the system now, right, So like
Tanner McKay, well, this is his third year in the system,
of course, so you know there's a degree of being
comfortable and that's going to now allow them to move

(02:21:28):
the ball, and they want to take a look at
young receivers. Like so I look at the Eagles, they go, well,
we got this position battle with receivers. So they're not
going to put dtr or Kyle mccordin. They're gonna put
McKee in because they want to see the kids.

Speaker 5 (02:21:43):
Yeah, it's funny talking about Look, Anthony knows like one
of our favorite players, Jeffers Davies. We love McKay. That's
the guy that we talked about, like, you know, seemingly forever.
Every single time the guy plays, he just plays great.
And it's minds to deal of line. Chris Cardoi does
as touch touchdowns all Tanner McKie does this play. Well,

(02:22:07):
it hasn't gotten a chance, but I'm always gonna one
one day. I think some team's gonna sign that guy
and get a real gym. But I did bet the
Eagles in the first half. I usually don't like laying
numbers whatnot in preseason, but I did here with the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (02:22:22):
I took the.

Speaker 5 (02:22:22):
Minus one in the first half. I really like that
be you know, I just in Cleveland. I really don't
care who plays quarterback for Cleveland. To be honest, but
I feel in the first quarter at least I'll get
McKeith for sure, maybe the entire first half. And if
that's the case, I mean, you know, I even i'm
comfortably i'd go up to a dollar sixty five dollars

(02:22:45):
sixty for sure, I was able to get a dollar forty.
That's my favorite preseason bet.

Speaker 1 (02:22:50):
Are you doing any live way during these games? Depending
on on either reps or sort of how the first
half goes. If it's high scoring, you're going under? Like,
are we look at any live waging opportunities as well?

Speaker 5 (02:23:00):
You know, it's funny, that's a great question, Jeff, I have,
and that's maybe something I should potentially looking at more.
And the reason I haven't and probably necessarily won't, it's
just this reason is that I don't know how much
I can trust whatever I was seeing for those same
players to be in the next series to follow what
I'm saying. Yeah, I just so because of that, I

(02:23:21):
always doing that. It's funny, Jeff, I always say to Anthony,
I go, my favorite thing is till I've wager I
do trust your eyes. Let means of question, Jeff, you
was a great player, played many years in the league.
I'm just assuming you know, you're a smart man obviously,
and you just by playing your athletics your whole life.
I'm sure there are games that when you were just
on the field, you knew you had a team, You're like, okay,

(02:23:41):
like we just have this. This is just our day.
They can't stop us. This is just great. And there's
other days where I'm sure you're like, oh my god,
this guy, we can't. We're struggling this we just whatever
way we can't. We're struggling to block this team. It's
just they seem to know what we're doing. And I'm
just sure there's again there's days like it's like an
forget your sports in life. There's just thing days where

(02:24:02):
just not going your way. I'm a big proponent for
everyone listening live wagering. To me, it trusts your eyes
if you like one of the best. The two best
examples I could ever come up with a knife were
the two Super Bowls for the Cancay Chiefs against the
Buccaneers against Eagles, because if anyone watched those games, and
if you had no bias and you're just watching the game,

(02:24:23):
there would only be one takeaway. You had Kansas City
could Trunt could not block Campa Day's front, and they
could not block Leagles front, and it was it was
gonna be impossible for Cansadity to win those games. Those
are my two favorite examples of live wagering where before
the game he's the favorite of both situations and no
one would have thought it would be impossible for them
to win. But on that day, for whatever the reason was,

(02:24:46):
there was no way they were going to be able
to win those games. So I'm a huge proponent of that.

Speaker 1 (02:24:52):
Well, you're right in baseball's you know, guy has good stuff, right,
the guys pitch him well, like yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (02:25:01):
Always say it's like yeah, if you're, if you're, it's
like it just exactly. People will always just don't give
that enough credit. Again, like, yeah, guy, he's like the
guy from Baltimore. You say he's pitching a perfect game. Okay,
like you know, like he's obviously pitching well. So whatever
the market was favoring Brandon Young and Valdez was the
big favorite in the game. But clearly at that point,

(02:25:24):
if they're like four innings, the guy it's a perfect game,
it's like okay, wait a minute, they're still favoring Houston
by a run and a half. You're like, wait a minute,
this guy is pitching a perfect game. This is not
you have to readjust and they weren't.

Speaker 2 (02:25:36):
And it wasn't and they weren't barrowing them up. They
were they were he was having good at bats like
there's you know, sometimes that can lie because you can
have a lot of.

Speaker 1 (02:25:45):
Loud outs, but there was none of that, Like you know,
you see what they were doing. No, I'm completely with
and I can I give you, guys before we get
out here. I know we're up against how the best
wager at all sports right now? That can I give
it out for you guys? Please please? The Chicago Sky
on a WNBA have covered one of their last thirteen
games since injuries has been out and and they're not

(02:26:08):
covering the games by large amounts, Like you go look
it up. It's the best wager in sports. I've wagered
against the Chicago Sky thirteen straight games. They've covered one
of thirteen games. They don't score without injuries. They are atrocious.
They were down thirty last night in the in the
fourth quarter.

Speaker 5 (02:26:26):
Understand, chef, you know, have the youngerstand just as profitable.

Speaker 1 (02:26:29):
You're not sure.

Speaker 3 (02:26:29):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (02:26:30):
I don't know. There are some games. I bet they're
a team total under as well. I should have done
it last night, but I just I just had so
much money on on their the number that I didn't
do it. And also too, it's worth pointing out again
like again, I probably I'm studying this because I make
money on this on WNBA. The number is also if
you can grab it early, like they opened minus four

(02:26:51):
vaca four. I closed at seven and a half, so
like you can get a good I just wait till
the number pops up. I get it immediately, like and
then it gets a seven half eight so or something
like that. Gets it's wild, bro. Last night they scored
I think like twenty points in total of the second half.
They can't score. They can't score. Wow. And so she
might come back soon. They're talking about injuries coming back

(02:27:12):
at some point pretty soon. But as long as she
doesn't play, the best wayger of sports is fading this guy.
Wow wow, expected check it out. I'm gonna be the
number again, but make sure Reece doesn't play. If she
they're talking about her coming back soon, I don't think
she's coming back. I think she's gonna be out most

(02:27:33):
of the season. Go look at the numbers that they
They're getting freaking smoked in these wid I'm gonna do it,
all right. I mean, what do you got today? Anything
in the preseason strike your fancy like HBI?

Speaker 5 (02:27:49):
Yeah, well the preseason again, I really like the Eagles
in the first half, guys. That's my that's my big
bet of the preseason day today. I bet the Mariners
a dollar twenty five over the Mets. The Mets to me,
I mean talk about the Tom Patty so On free
fall and they that's our free fall. And Wo's been
trifficking here. This is this prop I Beck. It's kind

(02:28:11):
of like what he was just saying. Jeff was just
saying about Angel Reese. Brian Wu They made his old
under seventeen a half outs in twenty three starts this year.
How many times did he gets going over twenty seventeen
nfls A lot twenty three? Yeah, twenty three and oh,
I see no reason the bucket twenty three and oh

(02:28:31):
trend give me Brian ouver seventeen and a half outs.
That literally is a bet that he has never lost.
Quinn Priester picture for the Milwaukee Brewers talk about another
team that literally never loses. Last twelve starts, he's ninety three,
averaging over five strikeouts. The game against the red stream
that does strikeout, get me preachers over in case, and
then Ryan Nelson pitcher Arizona linebacks seventeen three hundred three

(02:28:56):
and half runs. Yes, he's going in Colorado, but Colorado again,
such a bad team. I'll trust it. Nelson doesn't give
up four runs and last but not least, I bet
Max Freedo.

Speaker 1 (02:29:05):
I usually love.

Speaker 5 (02:29:07):
But if last seven starts, stop seven and zero, get
me up over one and a half runs, thirty six
insty one hits twenty four runs. To give up less
than one and a half us have to be pretty
close to perfect. I'm not saying this nigga bombed, but
I don't think he doesn't be close to perfect. Give
me over one and a half runs.

Speaker 1 (02:29:20):
Yeah, he's been scuffling.

Speaker 5 (02:29:22):
Yeah, it's you know, get and you get it. It's
a it's a it's a full season, man, It's it's
it's a it's a it's a marathon, not a sprint.
The truest of all statements.

Speaker 1 (02:29:31):
Do you prestlers three and a half minus one fifty.
Is that what you got?

Speaker 5 (02:29:36):
This one thirty? But I would like when I made
my numbers, I thought it should have been minus one
eighty eight is what I wrote. Three like a fair
two way value was minus one eight eight is what
I wrote. I was able to get one thirty, but
I would still lay one to fifty personally.

Speaker 1 (02:29:53):
I would.

Speaker 5 (02:29:55):
Didn't he have to be above sixty He had to
be above sixty percent for to be a breaking even. Okay,
And I think it's I think this bed is, you know,
closer to sixty five percent. Would you say, Anthony, when.

Speaker 1 (02:30:08):
You say I thought it should be one eighty eight?

Speaker 5 (02:30:10):
Is there as models? These models, and yeah, I have
these models and it breaks out like based on the projections,
I have what the percentages are and all that kind
of good stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:30:22):
So yeah, it's interesting.

Speaker 5 (02:30:24):
It's all like kind of automated for me, but as
good as my projection. It's like it's like, I'll give
you an example. If you're the first pick in the
draft and you picked me, it's the picking cam Ward right,
you know what I mean, Like you have to pick
right or if you're picking like you know, back in
the day twenty managers, second, you know where you know,
you're you're picking Keeley Smith your sim couch. It's only

(02:30:45):
as good as your you know. But if my projections
are good, it tells me exactly what what the guy
is going to do. It tells my you know it's
going to be. It's extremely effective as long as my
projections are decent.

Speaker 1 (02:30:57):
Do you go through like, did you go through the
quarterback rotations like today? Do you look at all you
have to look at.

Speaker 5 (02:31:03):
All that right, Yeah, you got to look through the quarterbook.
Everything is about Yeah, everything in the NFL is about
the quarterback rotation. I did actually bet the Giants also,
guys that line is creeped up, unfortunately, but I did
bet the Giants also. But yeah, look everything.

Speaker 1 (02:31:18):
I also think that car lights to over. Like when
you look at these, like the Giants have a good
quarterback rotation for preseason.

Speaker 5 (02:31:27):
Yeah, it's funny exactly, and it's it's a separation. You're
right for preseason. I'm gonna ask Jeff a quick question, Anthony,
if you don't mind, if you real quick, Jeff, I
told Anthony my hottest take of of any team that
is a long shot that people think I'm nuts on.
I think people are sleeping on the Giants. I think
people are being leazy on the Giant. I don't think

(02:31:48):
the Giants are the scenes. I actually think the Giants
are gonna have a winning record.

Speaker 1 (02:31:51):
Wait time, hold on, hold on, hold on before you answer,
hang on, Well, continue this conversation on the other side,
because this will be interesting, all right, because Jeff gave
his answer earlier in the show, so it'll be an
interesting conversation where the fellas right here Fox Sports Radio.

(02:32:14):
All right, Fellas wrapping it up because he's Jeff. I
want to thank our fine production team, Mighty Mark and
Bree Bree Brianna. By the way, bri you're gonna be
anchoring tonight, right, so FYI yes, saying thank you. Come on,

(02:32:37):
you're gonna kill it.

Speaker 8 (02:32:38):
Took all right, you're gonna kill it all right. We
got our man, the brain and uh, the brain and Jeff.
This will be really interesting because two bright minds on
opposite sides. Question Mark, Jeff, tell Brain, how you feel
about the Giants.

Speaker 1 (02:32:59):
They're gonna have tough season for for I think a
couple of things. One is that I think their schedule
is really difficult and I don't really see a lot
of ways they are going to win early on, and
they don't win early on, I think they have a
really chance to combust pretty quickly. And that's really why
i'm I'm I'm against them, is that if they can't,

(02:33:19):
if they start slipping, were they really it's going to
win their first four games that, I mean, one of
four would be pretty fortunate, I feel like, and then
it just all goes pretty terribly after that, I feel like,
And that's to end up with coaches gone and Jackson
darts starting student the later. And I just I think
that's part of it's a huge issue for them this year.

Speaker 5 (02:33:40):
It look Jeff, obviously, I know you're a very smart guy.
Was now I played in the league. You watch it,
and I know I respect your opinion at a high level.
So please let me first say that. But I you know,
I got to be honest. I think sometimes in sports,
people just look at Okay Giants. Last year, they sucked, right,
they won in fourteen. They didn't bring in freaking like

(02:34:04):
Patrick Mahomes. They brought in a past this crime shot,
Russell Wilson, this team, you know how they going to
be good? Well again, I always say, how can Tomorrow's
newspaper read to me with the Giants, take it easily
read and how I actually think it will read. I
look at the roster. I say to myself, do they
have a good running game? I absolutely know they have
a good running game. They have two good running backs.
I think they absolutely be stunned that they don't have

(02:34:25):
a good running game. Do they have an delete one
number one wide receiver? They absolutely do. Now, if I'm
trying to win a Super Bowl, Russell Wilson probably my
last quarterback I would choose at this point in his career.
But if I need a team to go seven and ten,
eight nine, like the Pittsburgh Steelers last year, I mean
they I think he was nine and three through twelve

(02:34:46):
games or whatever, and the twelve games he played or
whatever it was. Yeah, I think that they can win
seventeen thirteen, seventeen fourteen with their defense. I say to myself, Jeff,
I don't understand. If you look at that defense, I
will be star if this is not a top ten defense,
and I think it's even gonna be potentially top five.
I don't know how you can have a defense line

(02:35:07):
that great and not be legit good. I bet over
four and a half wins. It's one of my favorite bets,
and I actually did. Anthony gave me the idea, even
though he didn't necessarily like it. But I bet the
Eagles to come in first, Sians to come at second
fifteen to one. I think the Washington and Dallas are
both vulnerable, and I think the Giants are gonna win,

(02:35:29):
believe it or not, seven eight nine games, and I
think they can come in second place. And I think
people are just not giving them enough credit that I
just don't think they're bad, is what it is. I
think they're more mediocre as opposed to the Saints. Have
nothing to me. The Giants have an elite defense, and
you ask how they're gonna win, Jeff, They're gonna have
a quarterback that doesn't turn them all over, and they're

(02:35:50):
gonna You're gonna be looking in the fourth quarter and
be like, oh man, it's fourteen fourteen, I can't believe it.
And you know they're gonna win maybe half those games
in the fourth quarter. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (02:36:00):
We are. We are definitely opposite side to the Giants.
I took a six to one worst record in football.
I think there's I think they're going to combust super
fast if it starts very slow. But they're not gonna
stay with Russell Wilson very long if if they go
oh Ford to start the season.

Speaker 5 (02:36:15):
But you know what, that's fine again and listen if
that happens, and you certainly could be correct. But again,
I want the team. I think their defense, I'm just curious.
I think their defense is defense.

Speaker 1 (02:36:28):
So here's here's the thing about about about defense. So
I was looking I was doing this for the Bears.
The Bears went totally every day. I was looking up
their defense. And the defense is really good in the
first half of the season and got bad by the
back half of the season. And the reason for that
is is defense needs support from the offense to be good.
Where the offense can be good no matter what, doesn't

(02:36:48):
need support from the defense. And if the Giants, if
the Giants offense, which again I question Russell Wilson's ability
to pass the ball down the field. We saw it
last week. It just is like dinking, dunk, dn and
dunk didink and dunk. Their offensive line is fine with
Andrew Thomas back Lak Dabers, I think is really is
really good. If the offense doesn't produce, then the defense

(02:37:13):
just over the season gets worse. It's not because the
defense is not is worse. They they're on the field longer,
they're they're not able to rush the passer as much.
They get a little demoralized emotionally. So if the Giants
need keep up offensively, the Giants defense is fabulous. But
that's so I'm going off the premise that I think
there are I think Russell Wilson is cooked, essentially, I

(02:37:33):
just don't trust him. And if Jackson dark comes and
he's a rookie who we all agree needs a little
bit of seasoning. So it look if they start off
two and two, which would be shocking to me, like yeah,
you're you're gonna be absolutely right. I'm gonna be wrong immediately.
I'll know immediately if they're if my wager is going
to be bad or not. I've under five and a
half minutes too, Like, well, i'll know pretty quickly if

(02:37:53):
they start owned four. I feel good if they could
get upset early on. You know, you're you're probably looking right, Yeah, look,
we gotta we gotta get going.

Speaker 5 (02:38:02):
Uh yeah, but I think they'll be able to keep
these games close in the fourth quarter and again I well,
Wilson is not a super Bowl quarterback. I think he's
good enough to not be atrocious. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (02:38:13):
There, you go, all right, brother, good stuff, fat your debate,
you guys. Thanks Brain, We appreciate it. Jeff Ray, A
lot of fun, A lot of fun. Enjoy ball today.

Speaker 1 (02:38:23):
Let's yeah man, you you too, brother, enjoy God, bless
the family, always blazed, hanging with you, everybody. Thanks you listening.
We appreciate it. Have a great week. We'll see you
next Saturday.

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