The Fellas With Anthony Gargano & Geoff Schwartz talk Philadelphia Sports issues, Red River Rivalry + preview Week 6 in the NFL!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'm Anthony Gargano, He's Jeff Schwartz. We come to you
live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. And uh, we
come to it fresh off one of the epic games
in the history of the Major League Baseball playoffs. Last
night the Mariners out last Schooball and the Tigers in

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fifteen innings. Two of the greatest games, I mean, the
amazing baseball, white knuckle baseball. The last two nights, Dodgers
and Phillies and extras, and then Tigers and Mariners out
do them, not eleven, not twelve, but fifteen innings.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
And there were chants after chance after chance.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Seattle had two on, the Tigers had two on with
nobody out in the twelfth, couldn't score, The Mariners two
on in the bottom of the twelfth, couldn't score.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
In the bottom of the.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Thirteenth, the Mariners had two on, nobody out again, and
Eugenio Suarez grounds into with double play to kill the inning.
It was amazing. Back and forth they went every threat.
Dingler doubles in the fourteenth, but Meadows strikes out and

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then Baiez pops out. Finally, bottom of the fifteenth, Crawford
leads off with a single rose of Raina gets hit
by a pitch and both Ghost guys move up. Bases
are loaded one out and Polanco it's been had a
great series, gets a hit to end it and Seattle
moves on to play the Jays in the Alcs still

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had one more NLCS to go. Cubs and Brewers Winter
will face the Dodgers. Good morning, Jeffrey, how are you, buddy.
It's good, buddy.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Since we last talked, it's been it's been a rough
it's been a rough PA week for the for the
PA fans. That's make sure you're okay.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, Well, if I told you that I suffered through
the evil hat trick on Thursday night, that was and
this is a rarity. Never has this happened but one
other time, and it happened to Philadelphia in nineteen eighty three,
where the Phillies were eliminated. The Eagles lose in ugly

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fashion and the Flyers lost their opening game. So the
city of Philadelphia had its evil hat trick. And that's coming
off of a Penn State debacle in which they lost.
So yeah, a lot of losing in my neck of
the woods. Yeah, it was not fun. Thursday night was
a bad night.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
It was a it was a bad night. I mean, look,
obviously I'm not a major league baseball player, but you know,
I mean yeah, for the first basement, you know, it's
like and the worst part about that is that he
the thing about sports, right, like in those moments of
panic and like craziness, like do you have the sort

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of head on right are you? Are you a guy
that sort of can can sort of take that noise
and make it work for you? And uh, the Portfoilies
pitcher man just had a had a mental brain fart man.
Like just it was that simple. I mean that that
he he didn't feel the ball cleanly. That happens right
in baseball. It's hard to feel the ball, but it's
kind of hits you kind of funky, and then just

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lost his brain.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
Men.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
And the worst part, of course, is your catcher are
just pointing a first base the whole time. I wonder
if they said one, you know, like one one one one,
I would like j J. Yeah, No he did. He
not only pointed, but he was he was yelling.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
First, first he was yelling, but you know, I mean
it's a shame, like I feel for the kid of
Ryan Kirkering is his name. He's a young pitcher, he's
you know, he's battled some of that, you know, big prayer,
he's got great stuff, but he struggled a little bit
in those kind of pressure moments. And yeah, man, it
was like kind of a knuckler off the bat he

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does field it, you know, a.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Broken bat, dribbler to the to the pitcher ended the season,
which is kind of a shocking thing to say.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
I know, I know, a walk off error that would.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Have put the Dodgers in a little bit of a
panic mode, right because you go back to Philly right
for that would have been back to Philly for Game five,
all right.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Because because at that point, if they don't score there,
they get out of the inning. Trining has to come
in for the Dodgers and trying it's been a disaster.
So the Phillies would have had had a huge advantage
in pitching, and so yeah, if that would have happened,

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the Phillies could theoretically have a better shot to win
Game four. And then it goes back to Philadelia ever
Game five, which would have been tonight. So yeah, you're
you're you're right about that. It was just a it
was an awful moment for the kid, and uh to
the Phillies credit like they were all out trying to
trying to support them. Have you ever you know, I'm

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sure there's been a quarterback blunder or something like where
you've seen seen something happen where a guy melts down
and you and you want to comfort him kickers, I guess.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, I mean the quarterback thing. Have you ever played
with the quarter in the quarterback back? I play with
bad quarterbacks. I don't know if we ever try to
comfort them, but like I don't know the way. I
don't remember a specific time when we've had to do that.
I'm sure I'm sure I have had to do it before.
But yeah, I mean, you just you know, you just

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try to do your best, you know, and I look,
the thing is, and this is the way team sports work,
right is you just you just say like it's true, right,
like this is this is not all your fault, right
like we were, It's a team game. And you know,
if the Phillies are honestly the opportunities early in the
game to go ahead and right and not have to
worry about waiting to the very end to have to
do this. And they waited, you know, we had to

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wait till the very end to get out of that inning.
So I mean, that's the way you do in your head.
Obviously it looks it's a long game football, basketball, baseball,
one playoff and doesn't define the winner loss. And yeah,
but but but of course we focus on that one
play at the end, right because it's the easiest one
to to to to focus on. So I I do
think that the team does truly feel that way, like

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they try. I think they truly feel like, man, like
we should have won in other ways, not put this
on this young kid to have to make this play
at the end. But that's the way sports though, right,
that's it fined by by by a player or two.
You know, the the Dodgers being the a Phillies is
not surprising. The Eagles game is that was bad. That

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was bad. Uh Oh, I know, you don't even know
the half of it. I know last year, after after
Game four, we had this panic over Nick Sirianni. There
were two and two last year, I probably might have
put out some tweets say they should fire Nick Sirianni.
So it's it's like, I mean, I just the thing

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about it is like, we don't have many CEO head coaches,
right that don't call plays, And if you're gonna be
a CEO head coach, you better be a button up operation, right,
because that's if your job is not the call plays
on either side of the ball, and you're just there,
especially as an offensive guy, to be the you know,
the head point of your team. Your team better not

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play the way that they were playing last season, right,
I mean, that's just that's that simple. And obviously we're
maybe at that point again we're a discussion again. But
the Eagles just a obviously, look, they're not as good
as they were last season, don't. They have most of
the same players, but the offensive line is just not
as good and some of that is attrition. It's I mean, right,

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the left card was out of the game, did not
play the other and that was a huge I will say, man,
I did not think that loss would be as Beaus
ended ended up being. That was a huge loss. Yeah,
because the backup is Brett Toth and he's he's not
but I mean more than that. I look, I can
get the Giants credit, buddy. They they attacked him all game.

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A lot of times oftentime, we go out and like
defenses don't adjust at all, like they're like ill, just
like run on defense. No, no, no, The Giants like they
they were like they were, they were, they were on him. Yeah,
and he gave a couple of sacks and and whatnot,
and they just yeah, it was It was impressive. Watch
what the Giants are trying to build. You know, we're

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gonna glow on the Giants.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
We just happened to start this way, but we'll glow
on the Giants and Scataboo and Jackson Dart who was
sensational with nobody to throw to but practice, why guys,
he was sensational. The Eagles, the champions, have major issues
right now. You brought up twenty twenty, you brought up
last year, and there's eerily similarities to what's going on.

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But there's also eerily similarities to what happened two years
ago when they were ten and one and went on
an epic slide that nearly cast Sirianny his job. In
the off season, and you saw a year which they
had gone to the Super Bowl the year before, lost
to the Chiefs. They come back, they start the season
ten and one. They're going on a terrible slide. There's

(09:40):
back there's infighting and backbiting and everything going on. And
what happened once they had two new coordinators both were disasters. Well,
this year they have a new offensive coordinator, Kevin Pittulo,
and the offense has looked awful, disjointed, no rhythm.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
There's a lot of issues.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
There's already and you know this having played it at
the highest the high levels. But AJ brown Sae Kwon
Barkley and Jalen Hurts have already had a meeting.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Even though Aj said it, well what meeting, it was
a meeting. CA didn't clarify it. It was like a
casual run into each other in the parking lot.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, no, from what Mike Carafulla, reporter of the NFL
Network reported, if thing lasted two hours, there has been
there has been issues, and we know that's between Aj
and Jalen Hurts. So like when you have players, and
you know this, players calling meetings is never good when
you've had it and you have to try to kind

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of clear the air and you look at that offense
and it's not on the same page. Hurts now is
holding onto the ball too long. They're not because of
their line issues. They're not the dynamic downhill run team
they were last year year where they could run against
the stack box and still make you pay. And now

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they need to become a volume throwing team and that's
really not where Jalen strength lies.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, this is you know, this is giving obviously am
to all the people that are like, Hurts is not
that good. I think that's the wrong way to approach
Jalen Hurts, right. I mean a lot of quarterbacks have
things they do well and don't do well, and when
the offense is designed around what they do well, they
situates who they are right and when it's not, they're
going to struggle. And I think that's we've always thought
that about Jalen Hurts, right, that like, when the offense

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is rolling and it's sort of two dimensional, right, you
have the run game in the pass game, jale Hurts
is a top tier quarterback. If one of those things
go away, is not as good. Down to be fair,
take away your wide receiver from Mahomes and he's not
as good either right, like if you if you take
away what like, guys are you know good at our
personnel wise, you're not gonna be as good. And right now,
this feels like that's where they're in. You know, that's

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sort of the you know, the the issues that that
we see with this team is that when the offense
has to go only through Jalen Hurts, it's probably not
the best offense in the NFL. Dude, I mean, you
saw it.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
It was It was ugly, like they got major issues
in the interior of the line and you're gonna run
first and second down sequon inside zone runs Like what
sense does that make? That gets bottled up for no
game and you're looking at third and nine like how
many quarterbacks are built for third and nine? You know,

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I mean, I mean the offense has no rhythm to it.
They it's they all year. It's amazing they were four
and zher and and now after in one week span,
they're four and two. But the issues are is that
they have been playing spotty quarters and spotty halves. They

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haven't really they haven't played a full game yet, and
the offense has looked, you know, haphazard at times.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
So losing it should not be a shock.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
It should And I think it's I think it's just
like how right, It's like how that it's it's the
it's the look of it, right, And that I think
is a lot of times, you know what, what we
look at, not just maybe the end result, but we
look at like how it looked, and it just it
didn't look like the Eagles and and I think too,
like to me obviously just watching from you know, my
my couch. I didn't have to stay awake for that

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game because I had to sign my son up for
a basketball team through his school buddy that was at
I just to sign him up at midnight, Like it's
I was totally gets. So yeah, I was totally gets.
So uh it's so you know, some people sign up
back to saptil midnight to do it, so so I
simp til midnight to sign my kid up for a

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basketball team. So, uh. The thing, it's just there's at
least when I watch Eagles, right, there's a feeling that
once it starts going sideways, they can't get back in
the game. I think that's where we talk about, okay,
like what is the offense?

Speaker 4 (14:05):
Right?

Speaker 2 (14:05):
And of course no, look they did against the Rams,
So I mean, it's kind of silly saying that then
they end up doing it right, But I think that
is like a fair question. It's like what what you know,
what does this team turn into when it's not operating
correctly offensively? And I think that's a really fair point
to make about kind of like where where this team.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
Is right now?

Speaker 2 (14:28):
And defensively there's not as good with all the injuries.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Well, I mean, what happens is they're not a team
that could come back from from bigger deficits. You're right,
because they're not. They're not a throw team. They're not.
They're not a team that's going to come back in
the second half down a couple of scores where you
gotta really throw the ball, you know. I know the
Ram game was it, but that's that was kind of

(14:52):
an anomaly. You mentioned the injuries on defense. You lose
Quinnon Mitchell. I think he's most valuable piece of that
of that team because of what's behind him. He's an
elite corner, but what's behind him is not good. Kaylee Ringo,
you saw a kid just can't cover. I mean, he

(15:13):
he's lost. He had they picked on him. Great job,
by the Giants because they picked on him with Humphrey
a practice squad kid.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Uh, and they.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Picked on them all game and all it was was
a PI or getting beat deep Jackson dart Man, My god,
the kids a player.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
We talked you and I talked about him. We both
thought that he would be.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
We both liked him, we both wanted to move quickly
on him, and I mean, he was terrific. And then
what happens is you got no Jalen Carter, who is
your best pass rusher from the interior, And what happens
if you got your down Quinnon and Jalen, Well, that's
your pass rusher and your cover guy, your best cover guy,

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You're gonna have a disaster.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah no, it's everything you said is exactly right. And
well we'll go obviously get into this more throughout the day.
But this is an interesting NFL season. I feel like
we say this a lot, but like, you know, who
are you who are you buying right now to win,
to win a Super Bowl? Who are you buying to
It's it's very it's very interesting right now because I

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think that it's in a year when there's not maybe
an elite team, there's a lot of teams in the middle,
which was which, to be fair, does tend to be
a lot of the NFL. But it's just an interesting
NFL right now. I think the teams we thought were
gonna be good have struggled a little bit. The teams
we thought were gonna be bad a lot better than
we thought. And it's interesting to see sort of where

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these teams are after five weeks. Now. Of course, we
talk about this in a month, and it's all gonna
be all different, right, because that's the way that's the
way it tends to work in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
But now, I mean with all the injuries, like you know,
you look at the Ravens that all of a sudden
turned into a disaster because you know, you lose all
those guys on both sides of the ball, and then
you lose Lamar for the last two games, right, so
then it just becomes a disaster, correct, right, Like then
it just becomes ugly. We saw it with Cincinnati somewhat

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so that they had to trade for Joe Flacco just
to maybe take a shot with incredible quarterback.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
It's hilarious because the Flacco thing, it's like it's on
social media, it's like just just rearranging the chairs on
the deck of the Titanic. It just what's that going
to do?

Speaker 6 (17:29):
What?

Speaker 2 (17:30):
You know, you went from a quarterback that threw a
bunch of interceptions that was a tiny bit mobile to
quarterback who's not very good and cannot move, and now
you're playing him behind this offensive line. Joe Flacco, guys,
it's been benched in two straight seasons. He got benched
as we know last season as the Colts for Anthony Richardson.

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He came in for Richardson and then got benched for
Richardson to come back in the game. Like that's how
poor he had played. And now he's gonna go to
the Bengals and be good all of a sudden, like to.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
Get out of here. Yeah, I mean, listen, desperate move.
And the one thing I think people are looking at listen,
he's older, right, you know that. I mean two years
ago when he was with Cleveland, they had a bit
of a renaissance because he could throw it. The one
thing he could do is throw the football right like Joe.
I know, Joe, Joe can throw the ball to sleep.

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But you know, at this age, like you said, I mean,
you got no mobility and with that offensive line. You know,
I mean, you can't be counting on a Bengals renaissance.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
So I feel you on that.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
It's a fascinating kind of look at the league. Well,
let's continue it and kind of go through each kind
of team with that in mind, like can this team
make a run because there's everything you thought was going
to be isn't right?

Speaker 2 (18:57):
That's what the NFL is about.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
We saw last week with all those teams, Buffalo losing
them home to New England, right. We saw the Kansas
City Monday night game, how that thing turgled a diamond Jacksonville.
We saw, you know, Thursday night where the Rams lose
to the Niners, that injury play team. So let's go
through it and see where the teams are and who's

(19:24):
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Speaker 4 (20:32):
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me know they're like that.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
Of course, all right, let's do this because the league
is it's actually awesome, Like the drama is high drama.
Here we are as we approach week as we already
entered week six, and we're like, all right, well, who's

(20:58):
who Who's Yeah, you know, like, isn't it It's pretty amazing?
They exactly. They got exactly what they wanted, which is
true parody that you know you don't know usually you have, like,
all right, there's this team, these two great teams in
the NNC and one in the NFC. But now it's

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it's wide open. So let's start in the a f
C and we'll put them in three categories. We'll say contender,
We'll say favorite contender, no shot. Okay, all right, Bill's
obviously a favorite, right.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Favorite, Yes. I I it's so funny, man that the
overreaction to the one loss. I'm like, it's the NFL, man,
Like you lose, like like you lose games. It's fine.
It happens that they're gonna finish thirteen and four. No,
do not overreact. They're gonna they're gonna smoke Atlanta on
Monday Night, New England.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
Uh so you said, uh, favorite contender, no shot.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
To win a super Bowl or just to make the playoffs?
What I mean you make a run? I mean you
can put no shot. I was gonna say contender. You know, like,
do I think they're gonna win the super Bowl?

Speaker 1 (22:14):
No?

Speaker 3 (22:15):
But do I think they're a contender in the sense
of a playoff? And if you make the playoff. You're
a contender, so you have a shot at that. Now
I think they have.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
A shot to be the seventh seed, sure, you know.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
I mean I like what they're building. The kick to play,
and I like what they're building there.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Their schedule is super easy, and I actually like it's
we'll get to the brain. I would imagine at some
point today, like I love the Saints game three and
have at home and Gauts doing them this weekend. What
a time to fade New England everyone on the oh,
I told you, I told you Drake Way, it was good.
I told you everyone was. It's like it's aggressive. Yeah,
good good.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
This will be the public and the sharp kind of
that's the public sharp game right there. Yep, Miami, Now
the two teams did just far. Drek is Miami the
Jets in the AFC. Yeah, I look, man, I said
this about Aeron Glenn on social media the other day,
and I got the pushback I.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Would normally receive, if you know, like, how dare you
talk about you know, a coach like this after five games?
He's he's just like Dan Campbell. He's just trying to
what Dan Campbell to the Lions and here's my thing
about Aaron Glenn. Okay, I've made this point many times
to the listen. I'll repeat it because you might be
the first time listener. Thank you for joining us this morning.
When you, as a head coach, have a side of

(23:38):
the ball, when you're an offensive defensive coach, Okay, you
might not call the plays for that side of the
ball while you're the head coach, but you were brought
in for that side to at least be good. Right Like,
look at all the offensive coach in the NFL, the
defense coach in the NFL. You know, if you've done

(23:59):
it for a while, you're that side of the ball
that you coach is really good. Okay. The Jets, we
know they're personnel on defense is good. We all agree
on that. No one disagrees on that their defense is
atrocious and it is so bad. Okay. Add on to
that penalties, a discipline play, and and I don't know

(24:20):
if if if Aaron Glyde makes it a year two,
he probably he probably will because they'll drop the quarterback
and they can sell them on that. But his team
is getting worse each and every week. When you look
at the NFL, and I know that there's different quarterback
situations here. But Katy Williams and the Bears are getting
better every week. You look at what Liam Cohen's doing
in Jacksonville and and and what and how they're getting

(24:42):
better every week. And then you turn and you look
at at the Jets, and they're getting worse. Say with
the Raiders, by the way, they're all they're both getting tired.
They're both getting worse every week. So the Jets, to me,
are just it's it's the losing is what it is.
You're gonna lose, especially if you're young and you have
a bad quarterback. But it's like how they're losing. It's
just really gross ways to lose these games. Yeah, it

(25:04):
is gross is the word.

Speaker 4 (25:06):
Not in competitive?

Speaker 2 (25:07):
I understand, Like the Bucks game got close, sure, but
it really for most of that game it wasn't close
at all. Like and so yeah, I am, I'm just
out on the air, Glenn thing.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Yeah, no, I listen, I get it. It's it is
pretty gross. Speaking of gross, the AFC North, this division,
you know, it's what happens when the Ravens kind of
fall off the cliff and all those injuries and then Lamar.

Speaker 4 (25:40):
It just buries you and you're sitting at one in four.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
There's still time in that division, I think because we
we went through before the season. If you remember, we
went through the Steelers schedule, and it gets harder as
as the season goes on. Yeah, so I don't think
the Ravens are out. They just need to get healthy.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Uh correct. It's funny because if you look at the
at the odds right now to win the AFC North,
the Steelers are slight favorites, even though that wasn't even
the case early this week. It's it's moved as more
people have been on the Steelers. Once the Ravens get
through this week, I believe their schedule I don't have
in front of me gets much much easier. I actually,
after this weekend, I think that the Rams do smoke

(26:23):
them because the Ravens have sort of just don't have
enough players to be good right now. And Lamar comes
back and they get some of the guys back on defense,
it's gonna be a much different team with the easier schedule.
And I would for sure maybe wager on them to
win the division at that moment because you get a
good number. But as far as yeah, they're a contender,

(26:44):
but some of the injuries are permanent. I think the
guys aren't injured reserve, and it does worry me because
they're pretty important injuries. Like look, Matta Bouquet being out
clearly on the defensive line is a much bigger hope
than we previously thought.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
No, it killed them, It absolutely buried them. Now I'll
ask you, let's go through it. So Steelers, would you
put him as a contender. And again, it contender means
like like, listen, if you win the division or make.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
They're gonna be sure a playoff team. I mean, I
don't I don't trust them come postseason. But yeah, they're
contender because they're they're gonna be a playoff team. At
the moment they are. I mean they're currently up with
three game winning the division, two game win the division,
so yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Yeah, they're three one. The Bengals are two and three.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Cincinnati's interesting because if you could survive, no, and I
know we talked about it, you know, with Flack on
it all. But the idea is just survive and hope
that you know, Burrow comes back.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Bat off. It's a line, no defense. I'm I'm out
of the Bengals. I think Joe Burrow does not make
it very long as their quarter I mean, Joe Flack
doesn't making very long as their quarterback. And I contended
all along, I just don't think Joe Burrow is coming
back this season.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
You said it, You've said it.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
I mean, you know, I mean they're committed to youth,
and yeah, let's see what happens. All right, Let's go
to the South, the AFC South, which is interesting because
at the top the Colts and the Jaguarts. With the
Colts look fantastic. I mean, my god, their point deferential

(28:22):
is seventy four through five games.

Speaker 4 (28:27):
Pretty impressive. What the Cults are doing.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
It is and I didn't think they could do this,
and certainly I was wrong about it. They look really,
you know, like a well oiled machine right now with
Daniel Jones at quarterback, with you know, the the weapons
they have. The defense is playing really well again. I mean,
they've played like three of the worst teams in the conference.
But that's I mean, you should beat those two. I've

(28:50):
said this all the time, like, if you're a good team,
you should win by a lot of points against bad teams.
And that's what they're doing and they put the Cardinals.
Their schedule is super easy. The bad it's it's there,
absolutely tendered out. Am I taking them in the playoffs
against any of the Chiefs Bill's Ravens trio, No, I'm
not so. I don't know if they're a favorite for me.

(29:11):
But they're obviously they're living the division. They're contender Jackson Jacksonville. Yeah,
so they're obviously contender, but I think they're living on
a couple of things that feel unsustainable. Right the defense
of turnovers are it's great, great to force turnovers, but

(29:33):
you know, if they don't the demolo interception, which again
was a great play call, right, the pick six, but
they don't get that, they do about thirty five points
of Kansas City. Like they're living on this turnover thing
on defense, and once the turnovers go away, you're just
not as good. I mean, you just can't be right.
So I would say contender for now. I don't view

(29:56):
them as it's like a long term championship viable team.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Let's uh, let's hone in though, because the one thing
we did see is you're starting to see some finally,
some good quarterback play, right, I mean, out of Sunshine
he actually he's playing, he's playing well, he looks he
the mistakes, he's limiting his mistakes sometimes he well, I

(30:21):
mean compared to what he was correct.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
Oh yeah, right, I mean, like you know, I mean,
let's face it.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah, and I and I wonder how much it doesn't
come down to development and the coaching staff, because the
coaching staff was not good. And I love Doug Peterson's
a great guy, but that staff wasn't a good staff.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
It just didn't work out there. Yeah, clearly. I mean
he's a super Bowl winning coach, knows what he's doing.
He's just it just didn't work out with Jocksonville.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Well, someone has to do with your staff, right, Like
so I saw him after he won the Super Bowl
in Philly, and and again I'm a Dug fan.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
I know him.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
He's a great guy. But the staff, it's so important
in development. And you know, there's a difference like when
you go to Shanahan or McVeigh and that staff that
they have there. You know, you see core Andy, you
see quarterbacks, you see them get developed, and he was
never developed.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Trevor Lawrence. All right, So then you got in Houston.
I don't know what to make of Houston, man. I mean,
they just beat like the two worst teams in the
NFL right now, and it was ugly against the Titians.
Everyone plays weal against the Ravens right now. Yeah, I
would say that they're a contender because Stroud is I think,

(31:37):
still a good quarterback. They have really good parts on defense.
Their offensive line is really atrocious and I think hurts
them in a lot of ways. But I still think
that they're contender for now.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
All right, it's go out west now, Denver on the upswing.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
En route to London.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
They stop in Philadelphia and they beat the Eagles. Now
the Eagles were four and oh going into that game,
and they're trailing. Denver was trailing seventeen to three.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Yeah, shocking results, Imaca. I was stung by that result.

Speaker 6 (32:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, they're a contender, you know, on paper, good on
defense hasn't been quite as good as we thought this year.
Bo Nix is good. I would like to see him
take a next step that I don't think we've seen
really at the moment. But yeah, they're absolutely contender still.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Yes, And you see, I mean, you know, Peyton is
just such a great coach man.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
He's such a yad coach.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
I mean, like you just see like they're down two
scores and it's the it's the beginning of the fourth quarter.
And the thing that's so interesting about him is he
never gets out of his game plan. Well he'll stay.
He doesn't, all right, now, the down two scores are
going to throw it all over the field, go it
stays with the run game, is resolute with his game plan,

(32:58):
and it worked.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
I'm glad you mentioned that because the absolutely is a
huge is a quality of a good coach that we
overlook is basically the panic. Don't panic, right, you have
a game plan, you have time to get back into
a game. A lot of teams and I think this
has been really we talked about contendent pretenders like we
talked about the Ravens earlier. This something the Ravens I
think continually fail at where when things get get bad,

(33:21):
they just immediately go to throw the ball, throw the ball,
throw the ball. And it's like no, like, continue to
run the ball, like you have to, you have it,
Derek Henery, Like, continue to run the football, make a
part of your game plan. And all these games they've
just panicked and immediately start throwing the football and it
really cost them.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
Yeah, yeah, big time. All right, let's take quick too.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
We'll come right back and continue our exercise through the NFL.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
We are the fellas, Jeff Schwartz, Anthony go again.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
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we get back to the exercise of going through all
the teams and kind of label them, because we enter
we are here in week six and it's such a
wide open field.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Jeff Belichick is at the forefront. Right.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
There's a lot of talk about Belichick about leave and
he wants to get out of his contract, and both
Belichick and the University of North Carolina had to put
out a joint statement talking about staying committed to the
whole thing. So my question, and you live there, you're
in the shadows of it. Yeah, it's ugly, I granted,

(34:54):
and there's a lot of circus around it.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
But the idea that people.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Are judging him already on you know, wins and losses,
like I always thought it took a minute to build
a program like like here he's yeah here, so here,
here's what it is. So not me, I'm not wasn't
part of this group? My my also what I what

(35:20):
my expetitions were. So I've always maintained that Belichick he
can still coach ectly O's. But the problem he had
in New England was he couldn't pick the players anymore.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
Right.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
The players he drafted were atrocious. And I found it
curious why people assumed that when got to North Carolina
that problem would be fixed. He could, he could he
picked the right players for his program. I just I
thought that was fool Some people believe that, And what
we're getting, the reports we're getting in all these articles

(35:56):
is exactly that that his team stink like there's no
talent on his team. They don't have any NFL players
on this roster, right, So that's the first of all one,
that's the biggest problem. They're just they're not a talented team.

Speaker 4 (36:07):
Like you have to be.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
You have to talent football players to win. So not
talented team. And Bill Botchucks sold himself on being able
to get talent because quote like everyone wanted to play
with an NFL head coach who's a legendary winner. Right, Okay,
so that's like the first thing we have to start with.
And and he's just not the players there. And I
think people assumed he would just get him. I didn't.

(36:30):
I said from the beginning, I'd be shocked if he
got good football players. The other thing that I think
has really hurt him is that people incorrectly assumed he
was Deion Sanders and he would go to North Carolina
and do what Sanders did at Colorado. Now, to be fair,
like Sandaors only won four games in the year one

(36:51):
in Colorado. He didn't win nine or ten or a
he won nine last season, But his first year there
he won four games. He won the first three. They
won one conference game later in the season against Oregon State,
I believe. And the thing is they.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
Were said miss miss whin they were good.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
They weren't, but there were four. But you know, but
the first three weeks, I remember when they went three
and oh start the season, there was a tweet from
I think the FanDuel's FanDuel, one of the FanDuel accounts
that was like who would win twenty nineteen LSU or
or or it was like it was like, I think
LS you would win. Okay, beyond that point, people incorrectly

(37:29):
assumed it would be the same thing. But remember Dion
Sanders brought with himself a top quarterback in the heis
and winner to Colorado. I don't see those HIGs and
winners on the North Carolina roster like it's just it's
so people incorrectly assumed these two things about Bill Belichick,
that he would bring the good players, which again, high

(37:52):
school players nowadays do not care that you were a
Super Bowl champion. They do not care how much are
you paying me? What's your relationship like with me and
my parents? How do you get me in the NFL?
Like saying that I won in the NFL does not
not fire kids up, doesn't. It doesn't get them going.
Saying that we're running we're the thirty third protein. No

(38:14):
one cares about that, they don't care about. They just
sort of incorrectly assumed all these things about about what
would happen North Carolina. And when you start losing, the
knives come out right like, and then people start leaking
all this stuff and saying these things about what's happening
in the building, which may or may not be true, and
they're just not competitive either. It's all these things that
are leading to where we're at.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
But my point is, like, who builds a program overnight.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Like the well, I mean no, it depends with the
point you got to get start, Yeah, but the portal
doesn't take into place until the next year, coming into
first year. It's hard to kind of go into the
portal with a with a naked program that hasn't been
hasn't been christened. Yeah, I think again, I think. I

(39:02):
think part of the hard thing here is that we
have seen some teams again win some games early and there,
but they're just really really bad too. Like that part
of was like, it's not just that they're losing, it's
that they're losing by getting that. I greet it and
listen and it looks ugly and I get it.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
There there's a circus vibe and maybe he you know,
will leave and maybe it is a disaster. I don't know.
I mean, yeah, without that looks ugly. My only point
is you got to give it a minute before people
start to like attack it as though it's this unmitigated failure.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
Like you know, it's hard to build a program like.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
It just doesn't happen overnight, and it doesn't happen the
first year. It never doesn't.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Clearly there our knives out for a reason though. Someone
wants this stuff to be out and they're super unhappy
with the way things are going right now.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yeah, I just think it's unrealistic. And again it's more
of a big picture thing. Uh, you know, I just
think it's kind of premature. All Right, fellas, we'll be
back back to the NFL next Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4 (40:18):
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(40:45):
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Speaker 4 (40:47):
All right.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Uh, last night, epic, epic game between Tigers and Mariners,
fifteen innings. We had a fifteen inning marathon that preceded
that file a an eleven inning marathon.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
Just like Great Baseball Theater. Yeah, you got to love it.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Yeah, I uh, you would have to carry my ace
off on a stretcher before I pulled him in the
seventh inning. I I don't understand why the Tigers did
not leave school out there. Tiger, I tweeted this sound

(41:31):
Tigers like he he he doesn't pitch. He doesn't pitch
more than one hundred. Ever, they said, I mean in
the box scores and game logs back that up. He
pitches one hundred every now and then, but not all
the time. And they were like, we took he takes
himself out of the game. I go, your ace takes
them out of a must win game, but with a
one releiad in the sixth inning, like, that's yeah that
that I I could root for team I'd be pretty pissive.

(41:54):
I root for what. I root for the Giants. Buddy,
you would have had to drag massive bumguardener off in
a stretcher to get him to leave the field in
a must win game.

Speaker 6 (42:06):
I was.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
I just wouldn't have. It's the last game of the
season for the Tigers to they lose. To pull your
ace like that, then immediately the game gets tied because dug,
I mean, your ace comes out of the game and
see it couldn't hit. I mean at thirteen strikeouts. Dude,
I just don't know why the managers do this. I
I it's this is Analytics in sports are good. They're

(42:31):
a good thing. Okay, they're good. They're great in the
regular season, Okay, I think of the postseason, it's time
to use a little bit of of our gut, you know,
and to use all the experience that we have as
coaches and players throughout our careers, throughout the season, to

(42:51):
use that that gut feeling you have over what the
numbers and the papers tell you and and what you've
done in the past. Because again, like I get it
scoopled of the he was a nine to nine pitches.
You can at least start the seventh inning, you know,
like start the inning off with him and see how
it goes. Maybe he gets out of the inning and
ten pitches. You know, like, is it really a difference between
one hundred pitches and one hundred and ten by this

(43:11):
time of the year. Andrews No, And sometimes you have
to do that in a big game. You break protocol,
you break what you do. And the Tigers, to me,
I know the game was closed and play opportunities afterwards,
but to me, they lost the game on that decision. Yeah,
I agree. I thought that saved them though. Good. I mean,
they'll be ready to go to spring training now. You're like, like,
what are you saving him for? And so he was rolling.

(43:34):
He had thirteen strikeouts. It wasn't like he and people
well his last pitch was he threw so hard to
strike out? Was it might have been me cal Rawley.
So it was just like it was so hard, like, okay,
these he it's the end of the season. Like he
threw a hard pitch in the nine nine pitch let
him go again. I didn't like it. I didn't like
I said at the time. So there's no hindsight there, like, oh,

(43:55):
it's easy to say after the fact. No, I said it.
At the time I tweeted about it. I didn't like it,
and then in the game, yeah, I'm I'm with you.
I hate the overmanaging when your starter, especially when your
starter is dealing. Man, you know, these managers get so

(44:15):
freaked out that if there's a walk or a base
hit right away, they're running to the bullpen. And I
don't understand it when you have when you have a
guy that's dealing, and I like, they all freak out
at the at the century mark. Anytime anybody goes near
one hundred pitches, they freak out, you know. But it's

(44:37):
the playoffs, Like so if you push it to one
twenty so wide, his arms gonna fall off. Cool, It's
just the point you make, Like would you rather be
here today and say we lost because our starter got
hit in the seventh inning? Who's going to cy young?
Would you rather be here today talking about how you
didn't pitch him in the in the seventh inning and
gave up a couple of runs and one run the

(45:00):
game got tied, Like you know what I mean? Like, like,
imagine if you're If you're the Manors, you're probably cheering
that they they took.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
Them out of the game. That's when teams get lifted.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
When their starters taken out, they feel like they have
a new lease all life.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
This is one thing that I sort of judge fourth
down decision making by is like if I'm if I'm
rooting for I'm a Chiefs fan and I'm playing so
and so right and they don't go, oh today, I'm Oregon.
We we play Indiana today. I think Signetty will go for
it a lot. But if he doesn't, Like, how do
I feel as a fan? Am I happy they that
they hit the field goal? Probably every time? I'm happy. Uh,

(45:37):
that means you should have gone four to fourth down.
I know the bar is very it's a unique bar there,
but like that's the way I look at it, right, Like,
if you are going four and a fourth down, I
feel as a fan, I'm worried about that, like I'm
as a family other team. If I'm if I'm the Mariners,
I'm a Mariners fan, Mariner's player, I'm super pumped the
schools out of the game.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
Yeah, I definitely man, without a doubt, without a doubt.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
It's and it's shame because.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
I'm not asking for Nolan Ryan throwing one hundred and
sixty pitches like you know, but in a deciding in
a playoff scenario, I mean, you owe it to your team.
You and most guys are competitors.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Like most guys go like I want the ball man,
they get pissed off like garat Crochet.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
I love that kid man.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
That kid wants to throw and thirty pitches like he
doesn't want to get out of the game.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
Right.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
And there's a difference obviously between like your June start
until you're in game five like right, Like, there's a
big difference in that. And so look that the Manners
are fun. Man. I'm happy they made it through. I
think I thought to me they were one of the
favorites because of the style of play. When you can
pitch and hit big home runs, you have a chance

(46:56):
in every series. I love that team.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
I have to tell you, I just think they're dangerous
because they do have good pitching. And dead lineup is
really I mean the deadline getting nailer at the deadline
as Suarez, Oh yeah, you know, I mean, except Formidable
might have been unaware of how good the Blue Jays are.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
Uh. To be fair, I so like they're Blue Jays.
I don't think it's the Yankees, and people don't think
that they're managed well, and they've had their their issues
in the postseason. The band team at the acting team.
They don't play defense. Well, yeah, we know that be built.
But I think the Blue Jays are. I mean, they
played pretty well because the Yankees the Blue Jays. To me,
it's gonna be a fun series between the Mariners and

(47:40):
and uh and the Jays.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
Like I like Seattle. Yeah, I like Seattle in it.
The Jay's lineup is very good. I still think their
pitching is a little suspect. I like Seattle top the bottom.
I think they're better. I think they have a they
have they play. I think they're cleaner, they have as

(48:06):
good of hitting, if not better, in their lineup, and
I like their pitching better. So I do like the
Jays Penn h but I think it's a good series.
I'll take Seattle on that series. And then tonight in.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
The National League we have a game five Cubbies Brewers.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
Great series, mag great, great series. It's gonna be all
hands on deck for the Cubs. Same thing Milwaukee. I'd
like to see them, you know, he Pat Murphy may
start Kintana, but I like to see Misserawski. I mean,
I know you'll see him at some point. They may
back up Kingtana. Missowski gets hard like you have if

(48:45):
you're a hitter and you gotta face a crafty lefty
and then follow it up with a gas throwing righty.

Speaker 4 (48:52):
Yeah, that's a tough matchup.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
So I guess you're gonna pair them either way with
miz and Kitana.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Yeah. I uh. The result of this game is the
Dodgers are winning the series against any either this team.
So I I it would be fun to watch today
is I don't know, dude, I don't know the Dodgers.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
The Dodgers won a series where like their two best
hitters didn't hit the ball at all, and like I I,
the Dodgers won't. What I mean, do you think Otani's
gonna not hit again? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
Yes, it said not. I have a realm of possibility.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
Sure it's not, but I doubt that they're in that
battle of stuff. I think the Dodgers have eighteen at bats.
He was one for eighteen. The Dodgers have more ways
to win, though, which is the point.

Speaker 4 (49:38):
Oh, they were a better they were a better team.
I agree, But.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
It's a seven five chairs now again, right? Went from
it went from three to five to seven? Yeah, so
seven serious? I definite let the Dodgers in serious?

Speaker 3 (49:49):
Am I tal theated Dodgers are the favorite, Yes, a
substancial favorite. Yes, they have terrific starting pitching. They figured
out the bullpen because you can use your stars.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
Sizaski.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Sizaki has been a revelation right out of the pen
and late innings and leverage situations. But Baseball's funny, dude,
before you get cocky, Baseball's funny.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
I hate the Dodgers. I hope they lose every game ever,
but I haven't say I think. I think they're gonna
be fine. I think Dodgers Mariners will be a fantastic
World series.

Speaker 4 (50:27):
Yeah, it would be. It would be.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Because you are a Mage fan know a Giants fan?
I trigger you, Sorry, Giants, I mean, I just I
just think that Marrion I like watching Mara's player. I
have many friends who are a Mara's fans. I mean,
they've been right figuring out I would love for them
to get uh a win. I mean, you know, it's
just there'd be their fan base has been through a lot,
and they would Yeah.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
Yeah, But Milwaukee. Here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
I think the Dodgers roll the Cubs clubs. They just
don't have any pitching. I you know, I just I
think the Brewers pitching is better, and that Brewers line up.
They're so unheralded, they're so there's such a nameless, faceless
like never die group that makes them dangerous.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Correct.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
I've seen them all year play and I go, how
is this team doing it?

Speaker 3 (51:26):
And then you watch them and they do little things
and they're opportunistic, they're they're a fun team. If the
one thing that we've seen this October with baseball, they
need to go to a seven.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
This rown needs to be a seven games agree, you know,
I would. I would turn the regular season if you
don't feel like that, if you feel like it's two
taxing in the postseason on the yes on everyone? Yeah,
I agree, dude. I saw this video. It's so funny, dude,
U someone talking about rooting for your team in the
in the postseason. For baseball, it's the only sports. It's

(52:02):
absolutely true. Where you actually feel worse as a fan
when you're winning the game versus when you're losing. When
you're It's so true, right, I've had my runs with
the Giants, you had runs with Phillies. Like when you're
winning a game, all you think about is how you're
gonna blow the game as a fan, right right, right,
Like here comes our here comes our bullpen. Now here's

(52:22):
our closer. He's just gonna blow the game. Where if
you're if you're in the other if you're on the
other side, you're like, okay, base hit, Okay, good start
to the ning. We got a base hit. All we
gotta do now is see that fastball. It's so funny
how it's the only sport where you feel that way
as a fan where you are rooting, not rooting, but
you feel as a as a fan it's easier to

(52:44):
root for your team when you're there behind them when
they're winning. It's kind of crazy, right yeah, now it's
it's it's funny, but it's true. You The thing I
love that it's such a white knuckle ride man, baseball
is nothing like rooting for baseball and the posts. I
think it's I think it's the as a Again, I've
been through it all with football and basketball and baseball.
And I'm not hockey guys, I can't give you a

(53:04):
hockey insight into that. But every pitch feels like the
most important pitch you've ever seen in your life in baseball.
Because even last night I was watching the instant for
fifteen as I was watching the ninth inning and one
of the Mariners to win, I kept, you know, at
the ninth inning, Suarez, a nailer hit the ninth inning,
and every pitch I'm like, here we go, hit this

(53:26):
one out someone on the Mariners. Like you feel every
pitch you do right, you feel every pitch.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
It's the reason why is it's the sport that changes
the most from regular season the postseason.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Regular season if it's relaxed. I think NBA. I think
NBA is the portrait is the most from Big Baseball.
I think basketball changes. I mean, basketball's like two different
sports because you play defense. Yeah, but it's important. But
if you if you watch regular season baseball, what's postseason baseball?

Speaker 4 (54:01):
It's not even close. Like the games are two different games.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Madden's differently, it's they get guys riding down at bats
it's every run matters. So I agree that that NBA
and NHL playoffs are football. It's the same, right, Like,
it doesn't change much other than the quality of the team,
but the level of try is completely different.

Speaker 4 (54:30):
It's mostly the same in football.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
Like you know, yes, there's only eighteen games, so you're
you're gonna play the same way you play in October
that you're gonna play in January.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
Yes, I'm with you there, all right, I like it.
Let's do this.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
Let's take a quick t oh, by the way, shout
out to my main Shay from Fox Sports Radio, one
of our great producers at Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
He's a you know, big time Dodger fan.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
That's unfortunate.

Speaker 4 (55:01):
Let's go, let's go Cubbies, let's go Browers. Listen.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
I'm a scored Phillies fan, all right, So, uh, Dodgers
are a great team, great pitching, the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (55:15):
But man, they didn't hit, Oh TODDI didn't hit the.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
Phillies would have gone back to Game five? Will have
been fun, man, whatever it would have been, brood have
been Oh man, you know what, it was interesting all
that series. So Nick Cassiano says that the atmosphere at
Citizens Bank Park was almost too much, like it was
great when things are going well, but when they are

(55:42):
not going well, it's like wind in our face. He said, oh, interesting, Yeah,
he said that because there's a heightened pressure to win,
and it's not like this is like a half empty
Dogger stadium at three at three pm local time the
other night.

Speaker 4 (55:59):
Correct, correct, I don't understand why.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
I mean, I get the point of playing that game
early was probably the getaway factor, right, was to get
the team's back to Philly to play. But they had
an off day, right, So like, I don't get why,
all of a sudden you play a West Coast game
earlier than the East Coast game, which is like never happens.
Now in shadows, you have a half empty Dodger Stadium,
which I know, people like, why why aren't the Dodger

(56:22):
fans there? I mean it's three o'clock. I'm like, like, well, Wednesday,
what do you what do you expect people to It's
a terribly hard place to get to anything. It's a
terribly hard place to get to anyways, And the stadium
seats fifty six thousand, so if ten thousand, fifteen thousand,
fans are there. That's actually more than you have at
a Phillies game. But the tint stadium looks empty because

(56:44):
it's so huge. I don't know people realize that Dodger
Stadium seats fifty six thousand fans. I looked it up.
Since Sinces Big parksing is forty one thousand. It's a
huge difference in fan base. And so when Dodger Stadium
and I look, I get I hate the Dodgers, I
don't hate defending them here, Like when there's less fans
of Dodger games, it looks like the stadium is empty,

(57:05):
no one's there, when in fact they might get forty
thousand fans in there. It looks like no one's there
like that. That's just the reality of Dodger Stadium.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
Yeah, yep, yeah, And I agree with you. The time
of the day, traffic and everything else. The game should
be at night.

Speaker 4 (57:22):
I thought so too. All right, let's say quick too,
will come.

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Speaker 3 (58:52):
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All right, Uh, let's get back to it because we
got a lot of other things to discuss. Because I
want to finish our NFL exercise and then we get
a full slate of college football to talk about today. Jeff,

(59:14):
there are a lot of good stuff happening. Uh, let's
get back to where we stand in the NFL. We're
looking at it's wide open as we are here in
week six. It's it's it's amazing when we look at
how wide open the thing is. So we go to
the West and I mean, obviously, your Chiefs, I mean, listen,

(59:38):
there's no worry in the Chiefs. As long as Worthy
is healthy and there's options, Chiefs are still the Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
Yeah, and once and once they get you know there,
I think they lose this weekend, by the way. I
think once they get past this schedule clears up a
little bit and uh, you know, to get in the postseason.
Right the biggest issue right now is actually is uh
is they can't brust the passer. And I'm curious that
they determined that that's that they can win a championship

(01:00:07):
if they had a pass rusher. And what do they
do and the trade deadline with that?

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Yeah, I mean listen, Spags is gonna be aggressive and
he's gonna blitz, but you know he needs you need
more to Jones, this is what you need.

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
You need, you need somebody else.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
They need the guy that paid a billion dollars to
in George cloft Is to actually hit the quarterback.

Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
Yes, yes, yes, that's true. Kids.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
You just joined us.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
We've gone through the entire AFC looking at the true contenders. Obviously,
the Bills true contender. New England is uh, you know,
they're contender. Steelers are contender, going through with the Ravens
when they get healthy, are contender. The cults are maybe
not the Bills, but the culture legit Jacksonville legit.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
We talked about the Broncos, what about the Chargers? Speaking
of health? Oh line, as I read them, I mean,
you know without protection of Herbert. You saw what happened
on the Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
Yeah, I uh it. It's a problem, buddy. Herbert's on
pace to be hit more than Andrew Luck did as
first six seasons of his career. And they're out there.
They're three top tackles. Essentially, the group that practiced the
other day is going to get him. Now they put
the dolphin, So maybe not this weekend, but not only that.

(01:01:30):
Hampton is injured, right, Clion Mack is injured. Yeah, injuries
just kind of crushing man. So it has always been
I I they're a contender because they're they're they're good,
and they're going to be in the race to have
a walk Art spot in my opinion. But they need
these these offensive linemen to come back as soon as possible.
All coming back at some point. We know Slayers out
for the year. Pimpkins will come back at some point,

(01:01:51):
but until then, just have to try to survive.

Speaker 6 (01:01:54):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
Yeah, you know it's a shame because they desperately need
to get out it. Look how good they were when
their line was playing well well, I mean when the
line was healthy.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
Correct. All right, let's uh now the Raiders are a disaster.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
The bright side is genty genty looks good, right, looks
like you got salted there. Can they turn it around?
I'm not saying to do anything other than can they
turn to have a respectable year?

Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
No, no, Gino is not good. I just don't know
why we pretended he was like he's a good story,
but he wasn't that good in the last couple of
months in Seattle, and he's not good in Vegas. Look, man, I.

Speaker 4 (01:02:40):
Agree with that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
I uh My running back take has evolved over the years. Right.
I was one of those who's like, don't drop them
in the first round, don't pay running backs. Okay, Then,
of course, with with new results and new things, new
facts is changing, you need to change your opinion or
just or you're gonna die on a hill that you
shouldn't die on. Right, So I got to the point

(01:03:01):
where I think this is sort of where I stand
on running backs, right, is that if you have the
infrastructure in place, offensive line, quarterback, play caller, a running back,
and supercharge your offense. Saikwon Barkley. We saw that last year,
right with Saquon Christian McCaffrey, what he done, what he's
doing in San Francisco, supercharged the offense, right, sure, just

(01:03:22):
like full speed ahead. The Raiders don't have the infrastructure
to use acid gent D to the best of their ability, right,
and they don't have the offensive line, and so they
went and drafted a running back sixth overall who they
can't really use properly because they don't have the pieces
around him to make it work. And you're wasting that
draft pick. They should have gone offensive line or trade

(01:03:44):
out and gone offensive line and build up that unit
first before getting the running back, and they did it backwards,
and it's going to cost them. Just like, look, Jamar
Chase is incredible. Okay, I there's no right or wrong decision.
But again, like look at their offensive line. Had they
gone Pie and any other wide receiver, they're probably in

(01:04:04):
the better place as a franchise moving forward than no
offensive lineman and a great wide receiver, right and like
and so. But really, specifically for running back, if you
don't have the instruction in place, like everyone's like the
Giant should should have let Sakuon Barkley go. No, they
had to because their offense al wasn't good enough for him,
you know what I mean. Like, it's not gonna work
out if you don't have the the pieces in place

(01:04:26):
to make it work. And so that's where now and
the Raiders don't have the pieces in place to make
that work right now.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
No, No, I know, it's the truth. It's it's a
it's a big it's a big issue. It really is
a huge issue. All right, let's go to the NFC.
We'll start out West. Look, Niners, amazing that game the
other night was was with Mac Jones was amazing. Now,
imagine when they get healthy what they're going to look like,

(01:04:57):
or they start getting guys back. You got the Rams,
Let's go Niners. First Super Bowl contend their question mark? Yes, yeah,
I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
I think when they're healthy, the boast of things a problem,
probably defensively for them, but I mean they might They
might not even have their top two quarterbacks this weekend. Right,
brock perty is out and then I think Jones McCorkle
is on like a probable They changes his uh his
availability right for this week. So but dude, what a

(01:05:34):
this is an NFL win on Thursday? Right, everyone's against you.
The line moves a bunch, you're injured, you're playing division rival,
and you go in there, just got out of win. Look,
Karen Williams doesn't fumble at the end, you Rams, probably
when they game by seven, but look, you forced to fumble.
Good played by what I think it was. Williams knocked
the ball out, might have punched him in the helmet first,
and such as life in the trenches in the NFL.

(01:05:56):
I sas so funny hit people like all these cam mangles. Now, ah,
he hit him in the helmet. I'm like, yeah, I
don't know It's the NFL, man, it's the trenches. Like
you get hit the helmet. Sorry, I don't I don't
know what you want from us. It's the slow motion
of thing. I look. I love replays. It's great for
a sport, but there's some stuff sometimes I'm like, yeah,
that's football, man. I don't know what you want. I
don't know what you want from me. Like that's just

(01:06:18):
what football is. He pushed him late. Okay, I he
might have crutched his face mask. Okay, I don't want
to tell you man. It's it's life in the trenches.
Like it's not for the week man, like you just
things happen. It's it's the NFL. I so people just dude,
there are people I call him. I'll give a shout
out to my guy, Cole Cube. Like here's a former

(01:06:40):
All burn offensive lineman. He works and does radio in
Birmingham with with Greg McElroy. Great dude, he came with
a great line. Okay. He calls on penalty vultures. Right,
penalty vultures. There's people that watch football that want penalties
to be thrown every play. Those are those Those are
people that should not be your friends. Those who should
not watch football with They're called their penalty vultures. Right,

(01:07:01):
And I don't understand people that watch the game of
football and when I'm looking for penalties, I do the opposite.
I actually want to hate if I watch a game
with zero penalties, sign me up for that for that game.

Speaker 4 (01:07:14):
And there are people that just through they want begging
for a begging for pills.

Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
And I get, Look, I get, I'm a fan, right,
I'm Indiana today. If Orgon gets hellbl' probably be like, yeah, man,
call the call holding. But I'm not gonna after a
game be like the call holding. We lost. Like it's like,
just come on, guys, penalty vultures. You're afraid to use
that one? If you would like, Yeah, I like it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:37):
I like it a lot. I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:07:38):
Yeah, I'm with you. They're the worst. Uh, all right,
let's look at it Seattle. I'm not a believer.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
I'm not really. We'll see what happens this weekend. Kind
of curious. Big game in Jackson this weekend. It is,
it is a big game. I'm just not a believer
in Seattle. I I love Smith and Jigba, right, I do. Uh,
but I just look at that team and they get
some good young players. I just don't. I'm not a believer.
I'm a believer in the Rams, and I.

Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
Think obviously the Rams are the Rams as long as
Stafford's plying, they're going to be dangerous.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
Agreed.

Speaker 4 (01:08:15):
And in Arizona, I'm not a believer.

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
I no, I mean that. I I I lost three
survivor entries on the Arizona this past week and three
hundred dollars like not a big deal. I had a
buddy who lost, you know, the Grand Decimo. Like it's like, well,
Bill Krackenberger, I'm a build next week. He talked about
this on our show. He had Arizona last weekend the
Grand Desmo, which one hundred thousand dollars survivor and he lost.

(01:08:40):
Like god, I lost three hundred bucks. I mean stinks.
Of course, I don't want to lose money, but I
mean Arizona's again, their job's not to win for us.
But that game was so Jonathan Gannon you saw I'm
sure you saw this week right there's oh yeah, I was.

Speaker 3 (01:08:57):
Peaking one hundred thousand, John again, I got fined one
hundred thousand.

Speaker 4 (01:09:01):
We're going after de Marcado, so I uh.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
I'm fine with him yelling obscenities and whatever he yelled
at De Marcado. I'm fine with that. You can't touch
a player obviously, because it's like, you know, we're not
going to hit you, you can't hit us. So it's
mutual respect type of thing. Yeah, and he and he
knows he was wrong obviously, and he apologized. The find
was interesting because teams often don't find coaches and players.

(01:09:29):
The NFL has to do that for you, and they
find him on hundred thusand dollars, which again me makes millions.
It is what it is, But the team doing that's interesting.
What I wonder about Arizona now is they go to
Indianapolis this weekend. Let's say Indianapolis just boat They boat
raced every bad team they've played. Does he lose the
locker room over this incident? Is my question. I would
think no, because I'm sure other players on the team

(01:09:49):
would like to punch him too.

Speaker 4 (01:09:50):
For what you want?

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
I mean, thigure about how selfish that is, Like, you
can celebrate as much as you want, celebrate for minutes,
get a personal for celebration. Let's score a touchdown, dude.
This is a selfish move, right, you're up twenty eight,
you would have been to up twenty eight six. You
probably would have won like thirty five thirteen, right, you
probably would have scored another time, they would scored one time. Whatever,

(01:10:13):
easy win. And then you dropped the ball before the
end and I'm not even sure the ball was out
before the end zone, but the call in the field
was obviously a fumble. And then you allow a touchdown
and then that weird interception fumble recovery for Tennessee. It
was a weird, weird game. Obviously, the playcall was the
play calling at the end. Arizona to me, I mean,
that's just a lot of talk about Arizona. But no,
no contender, no, I you know, I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
Murray, I I'm just confounded by that team. All right,
let's go to the South obviously, Tampa. The Baker, Whi's
not to love about Baker and Buca is ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
Oh yeah, he's a believable man. Every week.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
I mean him and Jigma are two two great young players, man,
my god, and book it's it's there's a lot of state. Man.
They're just trying to those wide receivers, buddy.

Speaker 3 (01:11:09):
Right, It's unbelievable. He's ridiculous. Obviously, they're the best team
in the South. Falcons are a bit of an enigma.
They should be better. We'll see if they can gonna get,
you know, kind of a course going, because they have ability.

(01:11:30):
I like Pennix and I love their skilled people. Their
defense is better. I mean, they should they they I
can't explain to Carolina loss.

Speaker 6 (01:11:43):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
I mean, it's just it's it's one of those we
look back on this year and be like, how that happened?

Speaker 3 (01:11:49):
Right in one of those NFL anomalies Carolina No, and
Saints obviously in the rebuild, right.

Speaker 4 (01:11:58):
Yeah, uh, let's take it quick to you.

Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
We'll do the North and the East, and then next
hour we go to college football. We have the brains,
so lots to get to where the fellas Jeff Schwartz,
Anthony Garganta right here on Fox Sports Radio. Fellas Jeff Schwartz,
Anthony Gargano, Fox Sports Radio Studios. All right, buddy, as

(01:12:24):
we're going through the wild NFL, we're kind of looking
at all the teams. She's so wide open, looking for contenders,
and just many of them. It's like half the leagus
contender and half the leak is is pretty much out
like it's kind of how it's working out. We're down
the two divisions, the North and the East, NFC North

(01:12:46):
NFC EVE East. The North is a great division. It's
the best division in football. Obviously.

Speaker 4 (01:12:53):
The lines are up top at four and one.

Speaker 3 (01:12:57):
And I mean, you know, if there's a favorite, it's
Detroit and Buffalo again.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Yeah, I I think we're not talking enough about Detroit.
Very curious this this weekend because look, the Chiefs obviously
have not played their best football at all, and uh
I and so that that's worth noting. And then they
go to Kansas City obviously tomorrow night. Actually it's a

(01:13:27):
day game tomorrow, night game. It's n It's it's a
night game tomorrow, right, the Chiefs Lions or is it
If it's a night game or day game, it doesn't matter.
But they go to can't say tomorrow. I think it's
the night game, and the Chiefs again have had it's
Sunday night. Get Yeah, the Chiefs issue. We're gonna have
to hear everyone complain about how much Collinsworth likes likes Mahomes.

(01:13:48):
But I mean they've been on and I mean it's
just like every week Sunday night, Monday night, Thursday. Right,
of course it's the Chiefs. But the Chiefs issue has
been this year more than any thing else is they're
losing those big moments with penalties mistakes like errors, which
they had never done before. The Lions, wo have played
the last four games, have played basically teams either dead

(01:14:08):
and the Ravens are bad teams. Right, so this is
a big step up a competition for a Chiefs team
back against the wall. I'm surprised the Chiefs are two
and a half point favorite. I don't understand that. You know,
Vegas knows more than I do obviously about lines and whatnot.
So nonetheless, the Lions I think are fantastic. We forgot
about them. You mentioned the Eagles and coordinator changes, right

(01:14:30):
and how not not in Detroit and did no matter.
I really think Dan Campbell should get more credit for
the offense, and he gets it obviously. Ben Johnson is great,
but Dan Campbell, offensive guy, clearly has a big say
in the offense. And so the lines are playing well.
They're playing well, and so the offense line's coming together
like they're they're developing the way they need you upfront.
The defense is back. You know, they're healthier, they're playing
better than the last season. Should be a fun games

(01:14:51):
Sunday night.

Speaker 3 (01:14:53):
I think it'd be a great game. Yeah, I'm with you.
And you look at the Lions. Dan Camble not get
enough credit. He is a terrific offensive coach. And uh
you look at you, you look at them the same
buttoned up. They're creative.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
Right. You know.

Speaker 3 (01:15:11):
The only thing, the only thing that can hurt them
Sunday night is their secondary is just emaciated again. They're
getting hit with injuries again, right correct. I mean that's
the only thing about that that could that could derail
that team. It's a shame. Ye green Bay, green Bay,
despite the tie with Dallas, the bye last week, I mean,

(01:15:35):
they're legit. To me, they're everybody as contender as anybody else.

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
I agreed this weekend, I'll be they're off a bye,
they should. I like uh Ali Packer's first quarter over
six and a half points. By the way, we probably
will get that with the brain. I like that way
for a lot this weekend. Who they got Bengals? Oh yeah, yeah,
you could say score first drive, you cast your ticket, Minnesota.

(01:16:05):
What do you make of Minnesota with a successful trip
across the pond. Well, they wasn't one to two, right,
it wasn't that's it was one on one. I mean,
did she McCarthy back, who hasn't really played like that?
Thing is like the thing about the season was we
wanted McCarthy to play a lot to see what he has.
He still hasn't played a lot. So I don't know.
I mean, I think there are one teams you just

(01:16:27):
like incomplete great. I don't know what. I don't know
what they're gonna be, you.

Speaker 3 (01:16:30):
Know again, and I know it was Cleveland, so it
wasn't exactly you know, incredible win. They did play, you know,
Pittsburgh tough in Ireland the week before you blew out
the Bengals before that.

Speaker 4 (01:16:43):
I mean, I don't know. I'm with you.

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
You just know everything around them is good, right, Everything
around the quarterback is good.

Speaker 4 (01:16:51):
Their defense is good.

Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
They have all those pieces on offense that surround it
besides the quarterback.

Speaker 4 (01:16:58):
It's gonna be interesting because they're on to buy.

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
This week and then they got the Eagles and it
could be Carson Wentz for the last game against the Eagles,
which would be.

Speaker 4 (01:17:11):
Kind of poetic.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
Yeah, it's in Philly. In Minnesota, Oh god, he get like,
we we get booed in Philly, he would get yes,
he would get riddled with booze. He would get destroyed
in Philadelphia. But the games of Minnesota, I don't know, dude.
The way the Eagles are playing, and they're they got
some fundamental issues. They're dirt right now, in trouble. Now

(01:17:37):
they can get They need to get healthy, is what
they need.

Speaker 3 (01:17:40):
Because if they're healthy, they can they can overcome some
of their issues. But if they're not healthy, they're in trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
Yeah, agreed.

Speaker 4 (01:17:51):
What about the Bears, Well.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
We haven't seen playing so long. It feels like day night.
To want to play this week, I would say, I
would say not a contender, and I just I just
guts a little more. I guess I feel like incomplete
great like we just haven't. We don't. They've played four games.
K Williams appears to be geting a little bit better.
But they've also been the Cowboys and the Raiders, right

(01:18:19):
and they've played and they have a stretch coming up
now where they get commander of Saints, Ravens, Bengals, Giants,
and we should know more about them. A couple of weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:18:27):
Uh, East, So who do you like?

Speaker 3 (01:18:30):
When you talked about the Eagles struggles, you got Washington,
that's kind of you know, just starting to get healthy.
Jaden's back. They fell behind charges last week and then
roared back and win that game. You know, Uh, going away,
who do you like?

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
I still like the Eagles, which makes you with the Eagles,
they're four and two and they have they were a
minus one point differential. Yeah, I mean I I it
would be then with the Commanders. Obviously, I'm not I'm
not picking the Giants or the Cowboys.

Speaker 4 (01:19:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
So I still to Eagles. I'm more of a conservative
when it comes to these predictions. I just sort of
go with what we've seen. I think that works better
than going with the unknown. That it's interesting, you know,
I don't, I don't know. I you know, again, they've
been banged up too, correct, but they look much better
when Daniel's going back in the line up obviously, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:19:28):
Yeah, but the receivers have been back like McLaren's been
banged up. Be interesting, all right, Coming up at College
Hour and The Brain Next with the Fellas on Fox.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
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(01:20:26):
day of college football, my man, some interesting, fascinating games.

Speaker 2 (01:20:33):
We'll start with your team. I have to start with
your team, the Oregon Ducks all my face, the Fighting
Signettes and Indiana.

Speaker 4 (01:20:48):
Yeah, size this up, baby.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
I uh, I think it's it's kind of simple, and
it's not always the best way to look at games.
Because we just saw, obviously the loss of Penn State
to UCA. I think we have to just throw that
result out and we preview the other games. Organ's better.
I just there's they just they just are and you

(01:21:14):
have to play that way. Obviously, when it comes to
an opponent, right, you have to be ready to play
and be able to do that. But I think Oregon
just has more ways to win this game. I think
Oregon has more explosive players. I watched a lot of
film in Indiana this week. They they are a very
well coached team. They play very well together as a group,
but they don't do a lot like their offense. It's

(01:21:36):
it's r PO based. When the run has been stopped.
They don't have many answers passing the football. Mendoza is great,
by the way, but just they don't have a complex
passing attack. If you stop the run. We saw last
we against Iowa, there's not a lot of offense after
you if you stop the run, and their offensive line
can be a little shaky pass protecting, and that's what

(01:21:58):
organ has to do stop. And the run game, by
the way, is also not complex either, Like it's just
a lot of inside zone and RPO and they're not
trying to get to the edges very much. Organs have
to do a really really good job of obviously making
sure that they stopped the run and eliminate some of
the explosives they can have in the passing game. Off
of that, right, So that I think is hugely important

(01:22:23):
for Organ, which again they done. Look I gotta say, man,
I really think that who we do this thing in
sports and that I don't think makes sense where we say, well,
Organ's win is against Penn State's downgraded because Penn State
lost to UCLA and it feels like Oregon beat them twice, right,
Like Penn State clearly and James Tren talked about it

(01:22:44):
like they just were not as mentally focused for UCLA
because of what happened against Organ, and they prepare for
the Organ game for months like that was like the
thing that they were eyeing is like this is our
breakout game, right, We're breaking the top ten team at
home wide out and Oregon just broke their will. Okay,
like that that happens in college football. And so people
then say, well, well that downgrades Organs win. I'm gonna

(01:23:08):
bet an Indiana this game. And I'd just say, look,
Oregan's offensive defensive line stop the runing really well against
Penn State, right, we know they can run the football.
They run the ball well against UCLA, like it was
not like they didn't they didn't score on offense. Right,
So I think Organs run defense is really now. On
the flip side, Indiana's defense seem as the offense, like
some of the parts really really good. They're not great

(01:23:30):
playing straight up like they just don't have dudes on
the defensive line. There again, they're really they're stout, they're strong,
they play hard, but they're not like one on one.
I'm not worried about one individual player, if that makes sense.
I'm worried about them as a whole and the pressure
packages they bring and the sim pressures they bring. But
if we block them up, we're gonna find guys open

(01:23:53):
and against this defense. So I feel good. I'll bet
my son has a flight football game during the middle
organ game, which is like a four clean never plays
at four o'clock, but today he does. So I'll be
at and my son, I'll be. I'll be. I'll have
my phone out. Don't don't worry. I've prepped on.

Speaker 3 (01:24:09):
I'm like, are you getting hit with this nor'easter? Because
we're getting hit with a major storm.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
We don't we don't have any rain. Yeah, we're getting
hit with a major storm. It's going to hit later
tonight actually tomorrow and Monday. Oh, the northath no, it
looks like actually we're gonna miss most of it. It's
not gonna come that far inland. Yeah, we we're getting smacked.
So no, it should be good. I just I didn't
even know. No, I wouldn't No, I would have known
if I know. We had no rain in the forecast today.

(01:24:37):
Actually we got rain tomorrow, but uh, that's not not
much tomorrow midday about that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:24:45):
Yeah, we got a nasty one.

Speaker 5 (01:24:47):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:24:47):
They're talking about potential flooding for the down the shore
and all kinds of stuff. We have a we we
play tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (01:24:56):
Our game is at three thirty, and it's gonna be
a pouring mess.

Speaker 2 (01:25:04):
It's good. They were talking about like it's just downpour.
Like they're talking six and a half inches of rain tomorrow, right, Yeah,
a lot of water. That's gonna be bruto. Yeah, and uh,
oh god, it'll be a mud bowl for us tomorrow.
I told my son, I go, dude, get ready, get ready.

(01:25:26):
You're gonna be grinding it out. There's not a lot
of passing tomorrow. You have to find different ways to win, man. Yeah, yeah,
I said, you're gonna get You're gonna be you know,
I'm actually envy.

Speaker 4 (01:25:39):
I mean it would be.

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
It's actually fun, but you know, standing on the sidelines
for two and a half hours, it's not fun.

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
No, get that get that ring here, buddy, yeah, buddy.
All right, let's continue today. Ohio State in Illinois, which
could be a good one. I know how State's favorite
big but it's in Illinois. You're gonna see. I know
ILLINOI got smashed, but I think this game is gonna

(01:26:08):
be closer. Yeah, I don't agree.

Speaker 4 (01:26:14):
Yeah, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (01:26:16):
I just Indiana and Illinois. I know Indiana smoked them,
but they're they're sort of a good example. I think
of teams that they're really good football teams, but then
there's the level of like winning a championship type of team,
right the Oregon the Miami's. Yeah, and there's not good

(01:26:37):
enough to play those teams for sixty minutes. And the
Illino offensive line is atrocious. And I just don't know.
I don't think they're good enough to competing in Ohio
State for sixty minutes. I think this game is close
for a little bit. Plus the Illinois defense, I'm gonna
pull up. I have my numbers right here. Let me

(01:26:58):
get my my numbers. Out right here. Illinois off defense
this season has played two teams, Indiana and USC. They
can they can move the ball offensively, right and Duke,
you know, Duke move Duke had like five hundred yards
but had you know, four or five turnovers. Right, they
put Indian. They put Indiana who had sixty three points,

(01:27:18):
and USC who had thirty two. They they just haven't
stopped anyone. They can move the ball offensively, put off
twenty seven against them. Duke put up nineteen. But Illinois,
but I remember they turned the ball over five times
in that game. Illinois right now is ninetieth and points
per drive, ninety eighth and yards per drive, which is atrocious.

Speaker 6 (01:27:36):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
They don't stop the pass at all. They don't rush
the passer very well, you know they I just think
Ohio State's gonna score a bunch of point of this game.
To me feels like thirty eight seventeen, thirty eight thirteen.
So we disagree on that obviously, but.

Speaker 4 (01:27:51):
You know, I just think it's a bad spot. I
think it's a tough spot.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
For Ohio State or for Illinois. For Ohio State, you
morally possible they don't. It's not a look at a
game for the name of Wisconsin next week. Yeah, I
mean Ohio State. Though I thought last week would have
been sort of like a trap game for them off
that Washington win. They just dominated Minnesota.

Speaker 3 (01:28:13):
Yeah, yeah, all right, Uh, let's keep going. Great one
Bama missoo. Yeah at noon one. That's a great game.

Speaker 6 (01:28:23):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
Bama's three and a half against Missoo. Yeah. I'll tell
you what, dude, this is a perfect pros versus Joe's
game because every freaking Joe is on Alabama this weekend,
and I took Missouri to cover the spread. Alabama just
has some questions stopping the run, this question on their
offensive line, and this this hearty kid from Missouri. Dude

(01:28:47):
is if people watch him, he's at this world good.
He's so good. And I just think that they're gonna
be able to control the line of scrimmage, be able
to do what they need to do to make Alabama
uncomfortable in this game. Missouri has been good as a
as a road a home dog, and I like Missouri
in this game.

Speaker 4 (01:29:09):
Yeah. I think it's gonna be a good game. I do.

Speaker 3 (01:29:11):
I think it's a tight one. It's gonna be good.
It's gonna be a fun game. You know, I could
see I could see why you like Miszoo, that's for sure.
Uh So else we got, we got Plarta State, pitt Today, the.

Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
Red River Shootout. Well, I'm I'm waiting to get there,
all right. I'm just going, okay, all right, all right, yeah,
I'm going by the time, you know, by early late.
So I started with Oregon because it's you. So I
want to start with work Us. Michigan next we want
to do I love I love a side of that game.

Speaker 5 (01:29:46):
You do.

Speaker 2 (01:29:46):
All right, Well, let's go. Let's go h USC Michigan.
I love Michigan this game, dude, tonight. I Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:29:57):
The thing about.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
USC is they need to win one of these games
before I believe they're gonna do it, and I'll keep
paying to see if they can do it. They don't
beat physical teams, they just don't. And Michigan is gonna
come in there. I know that teams have complained about

(01:30:18):
the travel from from east to west west East, Michigan
will not complain about that's the way they're built. They've
already been to Oklahoma, they've been in Nebraska. There's the
Collseum is gonna feel like a cakewalk for them in
that In that sense, there's gonna be like twenty thousand
Michigan fans there and they're gonna run the ball right
at the USC and say stop us. They rest for

(01:30:39):
Threehuwy York against USC last season without the building to
pass the ball, all USC knew they running the football
couldn't stop. This year, they had Bryce Underwood. Now, you know,
it's a true fashion, basic play since sixty percent of passes,
but they have the build to pass the ball now.
And then on the other side, I believe USC's offensive
line is healthier than against Illinois, which is a big difference.
Their left tackle is really good Eliga Pad She's back
this week. I believe that's what they're ports are saying.

(01:31:00):
Their center, we don't know. But again, like can you
can you block Michigan's front? Are you committed to running
the football, which is what licoln Riley has not been
committed to doing in these bigger games against these bigger teams.
And so I like Michigan, man. I think Michigan wins.
It came out right, Yeah, I think so too. I
like Michigan the game. I like him big. I agree.

Speaker 4 (01:31:22):
I feel the same way.

Speaker 3 (01:31:24):
Uh, let's go to the Red River rivalry, and there's
there's a major mismatch in this game.

Speaker 2 (01:31:34):
I know everybody's on the arch and he's not played well,
but they have four.

Speaker 3 (01:31:41):
Young offensive linemen that and that line is not gelled,
and now you're going up against at Oklahoma front that
is nasty. That's every bit as nasty as Miami's. And
I just don't know how you overcome that, whether who's

(01:32:01):
whether Matier plays or not, I don't know how. I
don't know how Texas overcomes that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
Yeah, this game to me feels like super low scoring
and I know Matier, you know the sort of yes.

Speaker 6 (01:32:16):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:32:17):
So one of the reasons I'm a really big favor
of injury reports and college football is so that we
don't have to hear from the insiders or like Matier
may or may not play. I don't know. We'll see
what happens, like is he playing or not? Yes or no?
And if he plays, obviously the line is moving to

(01:32:38):
where they think he is going to play right or
Oklahoma quarterback. How effective can they be. He's seventeen days
out of a hand surgery on his throwing hand, so
I just I don't know how effective he can be also, Look,
this is the perfect opportunity to buy on Texas. If

(01:32:58):
you think they have anything any fight and he left
in them, this is the time to do it. I know,
I know it might be bold and not something that Dude,
I can't go up against the Oklahoma front. I know.
I'm just saying like, this is this if you again,
if you're gonna do it, today's the time to buy Texas.

Speaker 4 (01:33:17):
Right all right? Yeah, I don't know, dude, that old
lot of Texas old lines bad.

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
Correct, not not good? I agree, yeah, Dad not been
able to recover from the from allusion those guys in
the NFL has not is not come together as fast
as I think. I think all alongs thought it would,
uh all right here else we got through elsewhere through
the top twenty five.

Speaker 4 (01:33:39):
Notre Dame as u NC state. That offense is just nasty,
isn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:33:46):
Notre Dame offense awesome? Oh yeah, it's awesome. Right, Cars
cars got man, I love him and I just love you.
The back's going. They're just a fun team.

Speaker 6 (01:33:58):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:33:58):
What do you think about that?

Speaker 3 (01:34:00):
Because obviously they're they're going to continue to run the table,
I think, and I think there'll be the playoff.

Speaker 4 (01:34:04):
What do you what do you think ultimately their ceiling.

Speaker 2 (01:34:07):
Is uh, probably, I mean playoff, but that's probably. I
mean they gotta go ten to two, right then the
US see it to win actually today and I give
you there, give them a ranked win. So I didn't
I now now we know how good Miami is. Yeah,
I think there's I mean they were in that game.

(01:34:27):
It was like they got blown out. Yeah, I think
that there. We're gonna look at Notre Dame and and
think good team not championship team A and M in
Florida too, right, yeah, really good game. The thing is
about Florida is we just have not seen them play
well on the road offensively, Like last week was great

(01:34:50):
and all, but they look at their road games ten
points l s U seven points, seven points again at
some pointing someone else like, I gotta I gotta see
it on the road, man, right, I mean that's that's
been their problem. It's been for most problem. It's just
not been as good on the road.

Speaker 4 (01:35:11):
Yeah. What was that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:13):
My dog's barking, My dog's going crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:35:15):
I thought it was Halloween decoration up already.

Speaker 6 (01:35:19):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
I ordered my I ordered my son Chick fil A
because I'm on the radio and my dog is like
trying to kill the guy delivering the food. Real life,
real life problems.

Speaker 4 (01:35:29):
Wait a second, you get chick fil A does breakfast
what we're talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
Of course they do. We no idea. I probably we
probably do only order. We probably only eat chick fil
A for breakfast here. We never we don't get out
for breakfast. The chicken minis, you ere at Chicken minis before? No, No,
I mean, if I told you what my my kids
like every king, it's a Chick fil A phenomenon is unbelievable,

(01:35:59):
rights just believable.

Speaker 4 (01:36:01):
But I either breakfast, what's that I have to I
have to.

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
Order them food because I got to go right from
here to my daughter softball game. So like that, we
don't know me to order a ton of like chick
fil A in the house. But bro like chick fil
A minis. It's like it's a chicken. It's a Chick
fil A chicken nugget in like in like a like
a piece of bread that's buttered. It's so good. It's
it's not it's not but it's not like it's not

(01:36:25):
a biscuit though, Like it's not like it's not the
same as their biscuit. It's it's like a no, it's not.
It's like you know how they have like the it's
not the Hawaiian bread because it doesn't tastes like the
Hawaiian bread. But it's like that sort of idea. It's
like a fluffy pastry. It's almost a fluffy pastry with
the chicken nugget in it, and a pastries obviously has
a ton of butter on it. It's so good. No,

(01:36:46):
it's not the same as a biscuit. It's not the
same as the biscuit. Yeah, I never, I mean I
never did the Chick fil a breakfast. I know that
they were open for breakfast be oh yeah, no, we
we probably only we don't eat like their regular food.
Just kids just eat breakfast.

Speaker 4 (01:37:01):
Really, like my kids go not we were here last night.

Speaker 2 (01:37:04):
Like they'll smash game last night. They'll smash like he
just got ten chicken minies. He'll eat like eight of them. Probably.

Speaker 4 (01:37:11):
Yeah, we just had like last night. He had a
game last night.

Speaker 3 (01:37:16):
So on the way home, he's like, Daddy, could we
get Chick fil ag I'm like, yeah, dude, he gets
too chicken sand which is and uh, twelve count nuggets
and a shape.

Speaker 2 (01:37:29):
I remember those days, dude. My son So, so, my
son likes McDonald's happy meals, right, and I'm like, bro,
do you know that they offer a two cheeseburger because
he would like I want two of them? I go,
you know they have a two cheeseburger meal, right, like
they have a two cheesebergermeal. It's not the same cheeseburger. No,
I promise you the same cheeseburger because he wants like
the the one like he doesn't want a quarter Patty
wants at the Oh, my buddy, I promise you the

(01:37:52):
two cheeseburger meal has the same cheeseburgers as the kids meal. Like,
just do you trust me on this? He goes, oh, fine, whatever, Dad,
I order him the too cheeseburger meal. It's what that
wh what I told him it was. Now he gets
two cheeseburgers every time we go to McDonald's. Yeah. So
it's a perfect dad thing, right, like a perfect paired thing. Fuddy,
I promise you this is exactly what I said it's
gonna be. He's like, no, it's not down. I'm like, no,
it is, And I get it for him. He's like, yeah,

(01:38:13):
you're you're right.

Speaker 4 (01:38:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. It takes it takes a minute
to get them to listen to you.

Speaker 2 (01:38:21):
You know. Yeah, he probably smashed most of the chicken.
I get him a ten count, he'll probably eat like eight,
eight of them, nine of them. Yeah, oh good, loves
it all right. Uh, let's say quick to you. We'll
come back with the brain go through the weekend's card
from a betting standpoint where the fellas Jeff Schwartz Anthony
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Speaker 4 (01:39:34):
Alright, jet, let's do it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:36):
Let's talk to our man, the Brain, to take a
look at everything from a betting standpoint.

Speaker 4 (01:39:43):
Good morning, Brain, Good morning.

Speaker 6 (01:39:45):
How are you, my friends? Do you watch that game
last night? I mean I need to wake up the
crackadball and the cheese.

Speaker 4 (01:39:51):
Yeah, no, it was. It was fabulous.

Speaker 3 (01:39:54):
It was great baseball, man, it was I love baseball
postseason and it was incredible. Although it was funny because
Jeff and I were talking about it earlier. Brad Man
School's dominant, right, I mean, six innings, strikes up, thirteen,
you got to push him an extra inning?

Speaker 6 (01:40:12):
Well, from what I heard the post game show with
him and again, look, and I always it's funny I
think about these things. But he made it seem like
he said to him he was done. He left. I
know he's I mean, you, I always go back to
the Grady little Pager Martinez game back in the day.

(01:40:32):
I don't. I mean, I get the guy's telling you that,
what are you gonna say?

Speaker 2 (01:40:35):
Yeah, I know if the guy's telling me he's done,
Like you know he's saying he's cooked, He's cooked.

Speaker 6 (01:40:40):
Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure listen, listen.

Speaker 3 (01:40:43):
But you get my point because it's it's been a
constant theme. You and I talked about this all playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:40:49):
Yeah, I you're you're cooked after one hundred pitches and
the must win playoff game and to keep your season alive.
Though all right, I don't know. Oh no, man, I
don't love it.

Speaker 6 (01:41:02):
You will take a question, Yeah, because you could give
a different perspective than ninety nine point nine percent of
the world here, because you actually played at the highest
level professional sports. Was there when you played? Was there
like maybe like again, I know it's a little baseball
still with a pitch count, I get it, But was
there maybe a games that maybe certain games you played
were you just physically were just you played, but you

(01:41:24):
just you knew probably maybe your back would may have
been better because of how either you were hurt or
injured or just so physically beat that maybe you thought
the back it would be more productive than you Or
is it just like never like that where you just
do that mentality as a football player, you just you
were never going to give up.

Speaker 2 (01:41:42):
It happened once in my career. I'm actually like, it's
like the most of shame I've ever been in my career.
I uh, but I had a legitimate problem. So I
had a nerve issue and a lot of my ankle
after of surgery, and I couldn't fill my foot for
three weeks. And so the third game of this we
were playing in New Orleans and I was again it
was bad. I I just could my whole like lower legs,

(01:42:05):
all the muscles, the calf, the ship just stop working.
I couldn't use my leg anymore. And so I took
myself out of the game. But like that's a little
bit different, I think than what school is going through.
And then I got it, and then I got into
and then I and then I got an injection. The
next week that Monday, and it was fine. I played
we can Sampa Bay. We won. I played on the
next week. I just couldn't. And I'm like, I still

(01:42:25):
feel like shamee. I took myself out, but I I
physically couldn't. My foot wasn't working, Like I couldn't use
my foot anymore. Figured out definitely.

Speaker 4 (01:42:33):
Can't be selfish.

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
I figured out the end of the team, and so
I just think about schoobl like I get it, and
Tigers fans are like, he only throws one hundred pitches
and that's it. I mean an arbitrary number like that
feels like I don't know. I am a Giants fan.
I got to watch massive bum Gardner throws five innings
on two days rest whin the World Series. That's kind

(01:42:55):
of what I think an A should be able to do.

Speaker 6 (01:42:58):
What about from Shade other day? I remember like twenty pictures.

Speaker 2 (01:43:02):
Yeah, just like I keep going till the guys over man,
it's funny brain, you and I share a brain because
I brought him up to Jeff put a crochet up
in that scenario.

Speaker 4 (01:43:11):
All right, boys, let's not get sidetracked.

Speaker 2 (01:43:13):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:43:15):
Let's start off because we're gonna be busy and we
barely make it through the NFL for the next segonment.

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
So let's go.

Speaker 4 (01:43:23):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:43:24):
Let's start in college today, Ohio State and Illinois gets
and started Big newt kickoff on Fox.

Speaker 4 (01:43:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:43:34):
I mean interesting here, guys, the line I think right now,
we're looking at it being fourteen and a half in
most places. Yeah, but something ha fifteen some of fourteen,
but most are fourteen and a half. Well, this line
right now, listen to Ohio State obviously deservedly a big
favorite here. But here's a deal. Illinois. They did beat USC,
they did beat USC. They had that expocious performance and

(01:43:57):
I mean just gone off a performance when they lost
by jazilion to Indiana. How do they do here at home?
I mean, listen, Buckeye defense has been the best in
the nation by far. I can't. I cannot save them here.
I just I know it's a lot of points to
pass to me or Ohio State, because I just I

(01:44:19):
it's be very tough for Illinois.

Speaker 4 (01:44:20):
I think you agree, right right, Jeff.

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
I'm I'm. I haven't laid it with Ohio State yet.
We still have four hours to make that decision, but
I'm leaning towards Ohio State pretty heavily in this game.
I was like, Illinois can score and score in this game.
Stay stay in the Big ten. I think Michigan wins
in the Colosseum tonight. I have got to see USC

(01:44:43):
do it. Just you gotta show me USC if you
can be a team like Michigan. Where do you staying
with USC in Michigan?

Speaker 4 (01:44:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:44:49):
Well, look, line, it's funny. It's interesting. It had there
been so obvious waiting for a three to pop up.

Speaker 2 (01:44:54):
You never came. It's never come.

Speaker 6 (01:44:56):
No, no, Jeff, my friend, well, man, they'll speak off air.
There's some threes out there, my friend. I see multiple threes,
multiple three.

Speaker 2 (01:45:03):
Well, unfortunately I was not able to give a three
and a lot of shows I did this week, so
I had to give two and a half. I yeah,
I'm sure I can. I can easily find a three
if I needed to, But I just it wasn't three
when I was doing my work.

Speaker 3 (01:45:17):
All right, So let's look at sidetrack. Let's let's get
this going. Michigan. You like Michigan.

Speaker 6 (01:45:23):
I think Michigan is. I think it's at least a
fifty to fifty game. And you give me three, I
gotta take three.

Speaker 4 (01:45:28):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:45:28):
We like that?

Speaker 3 (01:45:29):
All right, let's just keep going down. I'm going to
hit you guys with the games. These are top twenty
five matchups. Florida State, Pitt, Who do you like?

Speaker 4 (01:45:37):
Brain?

Speaker 6 (01:45:38):
I have to lean Pitt. I may and I'm putting
too much on last week's performance. I think Pitt getting
that many points. Lean here, Pitt didn't better, but Pit
would be an easy side.

Speaker 2 (01:45:48):
For me, right, Jeff, I don't have a play in
this one, but I will lean toward pit off that
loss from Florida State last weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:45:55):
I oh miss big favoral past that one.

Speaker 3 (01:45:58):
Let's go to the fighting, Jeff Schwartz, Oregon, Indiana brain,
Who you got a big matchup?

Speaker 2 (01:46:08):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:46:10):
That's my biggest bat is Oregon. Uh Hiley, I was
hoping it would go to seven. That did I again?
I Indiana had that amazing performance against ALLINOI I get it.
When they stopped, they had stepped in the class. They
did not look impressive to me at all against Iowa. Oregon.
To me, I think they win the game by fourteen plus.

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
I think it's more likely Organ wins this game by
twenty eight than Indiana covers the spread.

Speaker 6 (01:46:33):
That's the way I feel aboutraised me.

Speaker 2 (01:46:37):
I don't bet. I'd rarely bet an Organ. I have
not done it here, but I think Oregon feels very
comfortable with the matchup.

Speaker 3 (01:46:43):
I think they score. I think they put up a
big number. I think they can score over yeah, their
team total, whatever that is. I'd say over that because
I could see them going up and down the field.

Speaker 4 (01:46:57):
I don't think it Theanna could stop them.

Speaker 6 (01:47:00):
Yeah, the team total is around three and a half.
I believe so. Actually yeah, yeah, I like the over.

Speaker 4 (01:47:07):
In a big way there.

Speaker 2 (01:47:08):
Uh, Oklahoma and Texas Boys red River rivalry.

Speaker 4 (01:47:14):
It looks like the Tiers going to try to go Yeah,
how do you read it? Brain?

Speaker 6 (01:47:22):
Very very tough game, I mean like Texas to me
is just man, I can't stand watching Texas play Oklahoma again,
very tough defensively. Again, this is just to me, it's
games just to pass. Personally, Uh, I don't. I can't
back Ocahoma knowing not how healthy the quarterback is. Texas
to me, I just yeah, remind me of their jersey color.

(01:47:44):
Sometimes I just can't watch them. Just the path for me,
I I.

Speaker 2 (01:47:50):
Think it'd be Texas or nothing. But I really would
rather not bet on Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
You know what the biggest issue is their line brain.
The Texas front is not good, correct. I mean you know,
I don't see how Alklaholma doesn't exploit that well.

Speaker 6 (01:48:10):
The quarterback situation are thinking and we don't know that
to me would be the answer. I don't like dealing
and uncertainly is when I'm putting these you know, these
bends down too much more uncertainly for me.

Speaker 2 (01:48:18):
I uh, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech.

Speaker 6 (01:48:23):
Yeah, I mean yeah, well listen Georgia Tech. Uh you
almost you know lost a week uh Va Tech. This
isn't like not good here at all. Tough game for me.
Here anthy again, he says, I mean, there's other better
games to do than this one. You have a huge
favorite here and Georgia Tech. I mean it's a meaning
this game. I don't know, Jeff as anythink it's nothing.

(01:48:45):
I even had I thought it was the right number.

Speaker 2 (01:48:46):
So there are a couple of people that I fade
when they give their picks out because and so one
of them I fade has Georgia Tech. So I have
bet on Virginia Tech, but like not on my own.
But I just like there's people that I fade you
like this, I know, And what time is what it
is a couple of weeks ago that one of these
people was bragging they had a good week. I saw

(01:49:07):
their picks and they had six picks against the spread.
A couple of weeks ago, I round robin parlayed all
six against them. I faded all six and the person
went oh and six. So I hit a lot of
I made a lot of money fading this person two
weeks ago. I took off last week. I'm back this week.
So this person's on Bama, on Georgia like the most Indiana,

(01:49:27):
all the public sides in the world. So I feel
pretty good about my position again this weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:49:31):
That's great, it's great. I always stake Colorado anything your brain.

Speaker 6 (01:49:40):
Yeah, it's funny. Well, my son section there listening is Buddy.
He's going to be there to speak. Game should be game. Now,
here's the thing. That line is now creeped up to three.
At three, I actually do lean Colorado. I do lean Colorado.
Not again again. Not a game I'm personally betting. Uh,
but I lean Colorado. I Colorado wins a close one.

(01:50:01):
I don't like Iowa State this year.

Speaker 2 (01:50:03):
Colorado's itching for a good game, like they do some
good things. They should have won last week. They turn
the ball over a bunch. I lean Colorado or nothing here?

Speaker 3 (01:50:13):
All right, let me just go quickly through the top
twenty five and guys, just give me your like three
second answer. Florida and A and M A and M
seven and a half. Good game.

Speaker 6 (01:50:26):
I think Florida can went out right none of my
favorite games of the week.

Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
I don't I don't have much for this game. I
gotta see Florida play better offensively on the road. Texas
Tech fourteen and a half Kansas Brain, it's.

Speaker 6 (01:50:41):
A tough one for me. It's Lean here Kansas. But yeah,
not a game I bet.

Speaker 2 (01:50:46):
I haven't bet this game, all right, Auburn and Georgia
Georgia four and a half Brain.

Speaker 6 (01:50:54):
It's tough game. I mean, Georgia is just not the
impress of all year. Lean here, Auburn Bregain. Not a
game I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:51:03):
Betting all nothing, albur or nothing. Yeah, Hugh Freeze needs
to win.

Speaker 6 (01:51:08):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:51:09):
L s U South Carolina. I love Alis shooting this game.
Uh what do you got, Braid?

Speaker 6 (01:51:15):
Well, there's I definitely lean L s U for sure. Uh.
The problem is they've just been so disappointing.

Speaker 4 (01:51:22):
Of definitely to me, I've really but to me it's
L s pass I think to get right, What do
you think, Jeff, I like the under in this game?
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:51:30):
B y uh b y U Arizona, Braid, I didn't
hear you which one, b Yu Arizona?

Speaker 6 (01:51:39):
Yeah, look your line shitting at to two and a half.
Uh again, another another tough game for me. Blight slight
lean b YU because they seem would need kind of
close games, but not a game.

Speaker 2 (01:51:51):
I bet this is a really big look ahead spot
for b YU. You're on the road, you host Utah
next week. I would probably take Arizona or nothing in
this game, and finally Utah Arizona State. I took Arizona
State's team total under eighteen and a half. Even if
Levitt does play, I don't think Arizona State. Arizona State
is one of the worst than the country. Like legitimately,

(01:52:13):
it's surprising, like one hundred and twentieth country on third
down the bat in the red zone, and now Jeff
Simmons might play, I'll take the team total under for
Arizona State.

Speaker 6 (01:52:23):
Yeah, they definitely have been very disappointing. You're right about that,
But at the current numbers, I have to lean ASU.

Speaker 2 (01:52:30):
It's like nine and a half now, right, Yeah, all right,
we'll be back and cover the NFL in rapid fire.

Speaker 4 (01:52:40):
Fellas right here with the brain on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:52:46):
All right, welcome back, fella's Jeff Schwartz Antony I got
out from the Fox Sports Radio studios every week we're
joined by the Brain and we're going through the NFL
are Predict segment. Here we go, boys quickly in London
tomorrow Jets Broncos Broncos six and a half.

Speaker 6 (01:53:09):
Brain, Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean tough game. The
Jets to me have just been that bad offensively. I
cannot back the Jets to me's Denver path hate laying
that many points. But again, Denver, I did all right, Jets.

Speaker 2 (01:53:28):
We got to move quick, so Jeff, yeah, I'm not
better on the Jets.

Speaker 4 (01:53:34):
Denver.

Speaker 3 (01:53:35):
Remember, guys, anything you like, it could be props, it
could be totals. I want to give you the game.
We got to move fast.

Speaker 4 (01:53:40):
So at one o'clock's Pittsburgh Cleveland Brain.

Speaker 6 (01:53:45):
My biggest bet of the week was Pittsburgh minus Fort's
going to five and a half flash six. I still
like Pittsburgh. I thought the line should be at least six.
Tough matchup Cleveland with being off being overseas than Pittsford Appleby.
I think piffridh is better.

Speaker 2 (01:54:00):
I like Jerry Judy over receiving.

Speaker 6 (01:54:02):
I did that.

Speaker 3 (01:54:04):
Ah, nice, you guys, I love it. Miami and the
Chargers Chargers three and a half brain.

Speaker 6 (01:54:12):
I mean it's a shame I have Charger seasons kind
of really going downhill with all the injuries. I feel
bad for them at the under order in the week
slated to lean to the Chargers are passed by not
a game, My bad, exince. I did bed under forty.

Speaker 2 (01:54:25):
Four and a half nothing, all right, Saints Patriots Patriots
three and a half brain.

Speaker 6 (01:54:34):
You can lay. You could lay three Langley follar fifteen
or so with New England and I did it. I
think New England is the better team. And I dare
knew the Saints to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:54:44):
To me, I took to Saints plus three and a half.
I'm I just do it again, New England on the
road when everyone's telling you how good you are?

Speaker 4 (01:54:54):
Interesting, all right?

Speaker 2 (01:54:56):
The bagged up Ravens, No Lamar again, Rams Rams seven
and a half brain.

Speaker 6 (01:55:04):
To me to hold your nose pick. But for me,
I know it sounds I would be Ravens or I
didn't bet it. But Ravens are passed. I'm not laying
seven and a half with on the Rams on the road.

Speaker 2 (01:55:13):
I think you just find a teaser leg for the
Rams to be included in. That's how you play this.

Speaker 3 (01:55:19):
Uh Colts Cardinals, Colts six and a half over Arizona.

Speaker 4 (01:55:24):
Brain, Well, you.

Speaker 6 (01:55:25):
Could definitely still get sevens and I and even some
seven halves up there. I think Kyler is going to play.
To me, it's Arizona or pass.

Speaker 2 (01:55:34):
Lose another week better against the Colts, why not. But
it'll be Arizona or nothing. Jaguars Seahawks, Seahawks one and
a half at Jacksonville.

Speaker 4 (01:55:46):
Brain, And I know you do a.

Speaker 6 (01:55:48):
Lot of the tape work again just watching the games
forgetting anything on Fantasy wise or anything like that. I
think a top three quarterback to your shoes been Sam Darnold.
I think he's been that spectacular to me, settle Pass.

Speaker 2 (01:56:00):
I don't know what to do with this games. I
haven't bet at. I no idea, no idea to do
this game. I like Seattle in the game, I do.
I think it's a good spot for Seattle in this one.
Uh Dallas Carolina, Carol Dallas straight and a half where
you got brain?

Speaker 6 (01:56:17):
Well there, I don't mostly threes now, Anthony, But for
me again, not a game. I bet it's three and
a half. It would be Caroline or passed again, not
a game.

Speaker 2 (01:56:25):
I bet I like the overt Yeah, but just keep
being over in Cowboys games. Feels our good.

Speaker 6 (01:56:29):
Bet makes sense?

Speaker 4 (01:56:31):
Forty and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:56:33):
Yeah, they allow a ton of points. I mean it's
not good either, like they're just they're both are true.
They allowed a ton of points and also score a
ton of points. That's interesting. Raiders and Titans, where you
got brain again?

Speaker 6 (01:56:47):
This line's down three and a half again. That Titans
lost amby Titans win last week in my opinion, history
of the NFL. Strong statement, the most improbable win in
the history of the NFL in my opinion. To me,
it's a pass. I can't believe the Raiders this bath,
but I guess they are. But Raiders are pass.

Speaker 2 (01:57:05):
I will not watch a second of this game. I'll
be quite honest, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:57:11):
H going to Tampa Niners and the Buccaneers. Tampa is
three and a half.

Speaker 6 (01:57:16):
Brain, I lay two and a half of Tampa lean
Tampa even laying three three and a half, I'm staying away.

Speaker 2 (01:57:23):
Yeah, three, I bet on Tampa at three, so I
would I would take Tampa.

Speaker 4 (01:57:27):
Here, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:57:29):
And then the leven four o'clock game, Green Bay Cincinnati
Packers come off by a huge favorite against Cincinnati and
the Flaccos.

Speaker 6 (01:57:42):
Right again, it sounds so painful because Cincinnati's defense. I
wouldn't wish it all my worst enemy, but it would
be My ratings made this closer to fourteen. It's fourteen
and a half fifteen, so I would beat Bengals or
pass for me. I hate to say that, but that's
how I feel.

Speaker 2 (01:57:56):
My favorite wager of the weekend is Green Bay first
quarter over six and a half points. They often get
the ball in the first quarter. They're very good in
the first quarter in general, and I think that they're
gonna off a buy. They're gonna have something to start
fast after that lost last game. So I like the
Packers here first quarter over six and a half points.

(01:58:17):
The Sunday night there is a great one Kansas City
and Detroit. Detroit secondaries banged up, and then the Chiefs
defense needs to show up.

Speaker 4 (01:58:28):
You got a great matchup. Huge total brain.

Speaker 6 (01:58:32):
Where you're at interesting real quick is from a powerings perspective,
this line can't be justified to what the heck you
just house Casey at two and a half points. That
being said, that being said, I did that can't say
lang one and a half. I can't say one to scheme,
but it's just more situation with the injuries to Troy's
having in their secondary. But from the powering perspective again,

(01:58:52):
I'm shocked the line's actually two and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:58:54):
To be honest with you, I like the Lions team
total over the Chiefs defense right now. Cannot rush the passer.
I think the golf is gonna pick them apart. I
just until they brushed the passer. I just think these
good these good quarterbacks, good offenses are gonna score a
bunch against the Chiefs.

Speaker 4 (01:59:07):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:59:08):
Uh, Monday night Buffalo four and a half at Atlanta.

Speaker 6 (01:59:12):
Brain like the total I've been over forty nine. That's
what was my favorite bet here. I think there's a
many points scored.

Speaker 2 (01:59:20):
I only like the bills and the conjecture bills. I
would take the bills covering. Yeah, all right, that's one
real quick. Washington, Chicago, Brain, Yeah, lean.

Speaker 6 (01:59:30):
Here, Washington, Daniels to me, I trust and kil I
don't that simple.

Speaker 2 (01:59:34):
Yeah, I'll take Washington, all right. There was boys, got
great job and it's gonna do it for us. Have
a great week, everybody, We love you, See you next week.

Speaker 4 (01:59:44):
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