The Fellas With Anthony Gargano & Geoff Schwartz talk The NFL Schedule Release, Which Game Should Be Opening Night For The NFL, The NBA Playoffs & MORE!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, Ibby Abby Abby
Fox Sports Saturday.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
As we hang out approach a Memorial Day. That's next week.
It was May sixteenth, and the big story this week
the schedule. All we go from May and fast forward
our lives into September. Jeff Schwartz Anthony Garganto, As we

(00:37):
hang out right here the fellas, and we're gonna talk
a lot of schedules. I promise I won't do Dubbies
and l's for every game, even though I would love to.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Good morning, Jeffrey, Good morning, buddy. How are you this morning?
You're probably better than the Wolves are feeling in the
Cleveland Cavaliers as those were not your before God in
games at home and imagine I feel sorry for the
fan A right, uh, I feel sorry for the Calves fan.

(01:08):
I don't feel sorry for the Wolves. Sorry for the
Wolves fan. Why the Wolves were ten point underdogs? I
mean like they're like, yeah, get ten point? Like they played.
I thought the Calves were dreadful they I think, like
the Wolves play hard, they're just not as good. Right, agreed?
I agree? The Calves got out hustled. The entire game.

(01:28):
They got out muscled, They turned the ball over like
it didn't matter to have the basketball at all. They
played a game that is unacceptable in my opinion, for
a game six at home. Their best player, the guy
that their franchise relies on, six of twenty from the
field eighteen points, the other guy, James Harden, eight turnovers.

(01:52):
You just can't win that way. The Wolves just aren't
as good as the Spurs, and when the Spurs are
hitting their threes, they're unstoppable. Went out of the down.
I completely agree. I feel sort as sorry for the
Minnesota family. I feel sorry they lost, of course, but.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
It's it's hard when you get kicked your teeth kicked
in at home. Now and then if you're clear, and
I agree with this sentiment, which is Cleveland is shameful,
Like that effort shameful, but that you know, I mean,
isn't it amazing? But like you get to the biggest
games and Harden just doesn't play well, like you know, well,

(02:29):
it's surprise you.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
The Pistons win Game seven. Now, I meant nothing of
this series would surprise me because I just think both
teams have really, uh, sort of fatal flaws and they've
all turned the ball over too much. But the Cavs
winning after losing Game six would be rather surprising. NBA
history would show you that this would you know, this
would be a twenty point You know, the Detroit wins
are not Denver Detroit win. The Wolves game though for

(02:54):
their fans at least was over in the second quarter,
Like it was very clear this wasn't gonna be their night.
And you know, again, when the Spurs make forty seven
percent of their threes, it's just you're just not gonna
beat that Wenby. You know, he was fine too. He
wasn't even great on offense. It was fine. He takes
a lot of shots. Eleven shot attempts. I was it
didn't have to shoot the boil on six rebounds. You
hadn't do anything and they still won by thirty. It's

(03:17):
kind of remarkable when the Spurs are on how good
they are, but the Cavs are right, it was shameful, man.
You had you had, I think it was eight turnovers
in the first quarter, you twenty for the game. You
that rebound is effort wise, effort, like we watched games
effort efforts. Wasn't there be try to more assist obviously,

(03:38):
less turnovers, more fast spray points, more points than paint.
They look like the team that was desperate to win,
not Cleveland who should have been desperate to win. And
then you have to go back to Detroit to finish
that game seven. I I know, man, it's it's bad.
It's bad.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Now I look at it like, well, let me just
verse back to where I was talking about feeling sarve
with a fan. Now, part of it is I watched
the fans have to deal with in my town, have
to deal with getting swept on your home floor and
being taken over and then being blamed that they didn't

(04:16):
show up on Mother's Day.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Well, part of that was the Knicks fans are just
obnoxious and loud, and that was very clear that they
were more fans there than than the Sixers.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
But let me ask you a question, like, because I'm
fascinated by your perspective as a professional athlete, the idea
of fans support, like you know, they were complaining about
the fact that date people didn't show up for that
game on Mother's Day. Now I asked you it was

(04:52):
a professional athlete. You're down three to zero, just as
a human being, you're down three oh, it's Mother's Day.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
The games at three thirty.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Would you a go to the game and spend I
don't know, if you're a family of four, spend I
don't know, fifteen dollars.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Right, or or even if you.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Got tickets go for nothing. You know, you still got
to go for parking and concessions. So you're still you're
still out another three on it too, on it, whatever
it is.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
I mean, can you blame these people?

Speaker 3 (05:33):
I'm offended that that these players and coaches and everybody,
they're all blaming the fans.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
I don't care if it's phill of It or Detroit
or Cleveland or you know, la.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
I mean, it's a two way street, like, don't get
blown out, don't don't be down three oh and give
a give a horrible effort a game three at home.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah. So if you're down three to zero on Mother's
Day and people don't show up, that that's just a
you problem if you're the team, right, because you're not
good enough to warrant that, you know. I think if
if it's easier to sell obviously missing Mother's Day right

(06:18):
and a portant celebration for mothers out there, when the
team is up three oh, right, but you're down three oh.
It's a tough sell. Man. Hey, hey, honey, I'm I'm
gonna go to watch the Sixers play today. Are they
gonna win? Probably not. I'm gonna go anyways. You know,
It's just it's a tough sell. And so no, I
don't Maybe they shouldn't have a him on Mother's Day,

(06:40):
by the way, that would also be helpful, I think
for the NBA. But no, I don't think the Sixers
fans were wrong those that weren't there because of Mother's Day. Now,
if you just didn't go, because you didn't go, if you'
the opportunity to be there, but you're like, I don't
want to go. Nothing to do with Mother's Day. Yeah,
you probably should be there. But I understand if you
had plans for Mother's Day and your team stinks in
a series you don't want to go, that makes a

(07:01):
lot of sense. But also just when the whining. As
far as a former player like I never really I
never really noticed when fans weren't there. I noticed when
fans were there for home games on the road. It's
pretty noticeable when your fans are there, right right, that's

(07:22):
that's a lot of fun. That's a lot of fun. Well,
I get it's a bonding.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
It feels like a bonding moment, right, like having like
when you see your like when you're playing for the
Giants and you see Giant fans and you're in Dallas
or you're in San Francisco and you see your career
team at the like, don't you feel a bond with
those people? Yes, you have to, I think yeah, yeah.

(07:48):
I mean also to the Sixers. Next thing, like.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Very clearly, the Knicks fans taking over the arena makes
it make it worse, right, make it worse that That
is why it feels that way. If it was Lakers fans,
and if you're having many Laker fans in Philly, right, like,
it's just not gonna be the same. It's it's a

(08:15):
Knicks fans. And you talk about last last year about
your hatre for Knicks fans like they're a loud, obnoxious men.
And so the last part of that game, when there's
you know, ninety eight percent Knick fans in this in
the arena and two percent extra fans at the end
of the game, like, it's gonna feel much worse too,
write and that's what it was. It was felt much worse,

(08:36):
and so fans have to live with that, and the
organ's got to figure out obviously the way to get
better and and be able to to wain. Also to
the night before, the Flyers played right in the same arena,
and I don't know how many people have tickets to
both basketball and hockey, but it does feel tough. Again,
I saw your family at two straight games, but you

(08:56):
have Mother's Day weekend of going to the arena right
and watching your team play the fly are different points, yeah,
but there are different point We talked about stry, like
the Fires are super young, like you happen to be there,
so it's probably a hard sell to be like, I'm
going to both, you know, so I understand why you

(09:17):
know why you you weren't there potentially, but it's as
a former player, like I never really is a home team.
I played in Carolina here with the Panthers, the Vikings,
the Chiefs, and the Giants. You know, met Life Stadium
with the Giants plays is pretty I don't sorry, what
do you use? It's like an uninspiring home field advantage.

(09:40):
It's just like the stadium is. Have you played there?
Before me.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, dude, I used to work for the Post, so
I was there. It's just it just sounds.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Like a lifeless stadium. Just it's like lifeless stadium. And
so you never really felt any advantage there, but you
didn't felt disadvantage either. Just was kind of just like
a state. You're just playing the Chiefs. You felt an
advantage of Minnesota. You did in Carolina when it got rolling,
you sutinly felt an advantage. So but the Giants like
I didn't play any better or worse. It just was

(10:11):
That's just what me left stadium is. It's not it's
just not built to be a home for an advantage field.
It's a it's a split field, right, it's a corporate field.
It's great for that those type of things. It's great
for boxes and it's got a ton of fans. It's
a clean stadium, and you know, it's the amenities and
stuff like it's a nice place. I want to say,
it's not nice to be there, but it's not the
same as Arrowhead or the same as the Metrodome. But

(10:34):
as a player, you just know that, like that's what
it is. But they'll be fair.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Why let me ask you real quick, because this is fascinating.
Why is an antiseptic, like, because you're right, it's always
been antiseptic.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
I think a couple of things. One is just it's
just gray. Well yeah, I mean the area in now
Jersey's not just like it's just like you're just sort
of in, you know, like the Marshland, You're just like that,
you're just there. And then the stadium itself is just
like there's no personality because it's a dual stadium, right,
so you can't really have like, in my opinion, you're

(11:08):
not going to have a lot of like unique features
with that stadium because what did you just share with
the Jets? And then of course it's also a stadium
where you host college football games or World Cup games
and other and other things like that stadium. And so
there's just not a lot of like uniqueness to the stadium,
right right. Talk about Arrowhead though, and you've been there too.

(11:32):
It's not an amenity the stadium. It's just allowed. It's
just people there to be loud, you know, like it's
just we're just loud. I do. I love it too.
It's just we're just loud, you know, like we're going
to be just loud, and so I think that is
it is part of of why met life is that way.
But again, as a player, I never felt like we
were at disadvantage. I think it'd be really tough if

(11:53):
you played for the Rams or Chargers, though, and you're
in Los Angeles and you know you play the Chiefs
and the Raiders and that place is is just all
fans of the other team that that would feel that
would stick. I mean that that would be bad. I'd
feel some sort of way about that. But you're done.
Like the Vegas I listen, it's just so hard.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
You gotta have to get It's gotta take time before.
But Vegas is such a traging place that you know,
you don't know that it will ever be a true
home field. And you're right about about l A Like
you know you how many times that you know Eagles
fans took over that stadium.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, look, the Vegas thing, it's hard because there's no
there's no fan base in Vegas for the Raiders. It's
gonna grow, like the thinking about any fandom in the city.
The better you play, the more fans are gonna have. Right,
So you're gonna see that the Raiders play better you
get more Rader fans, But Raider fans are in California. Man,
they're not They're not They're not in you know, they're

(12:57):
not in Vegas. And so that place to me is
always I've looked at it as a destination for the
a team like that. That's a place that you imagine
you again, you're in a cold weather city and you
get to go to Vegas in December. And I've been
thinking so many times, I don't think that's over and underrated.
I just don't like necessarily look forward to go as
much as I used to do in the past. You know,
I used to love going to Vegas. But now I've

(13:19):
been there. She's fifty times, probably less than that. I've
been there so many times. It's like it's not doesn't
do anything for me anymore. But if you're you know,
you look at their schedule right now, right so, like
they have Tennessee coming into town in the end of December.
You don't think that the Tennessee Titans fans are like,
we gonna go Vegas for New Year's essentially for Christmas
and New Years. I'm sounding up for that, Like that's

(13:40):
where Vegas is so but the better they play right,
they start playing better though you face the Chargers and Broncos,
and the season you have more fans there. That's simple.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, I agree, I think you're I think you're right
about that completely right. It's so uh, it's so interesting,
like the idea of the fandom and I and again
I just felt bad for like, if you're a Cleveland fan.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
You just go what like at home? Like it.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
I guess it's the three, but I feel like there's
way more blowouts now than ever before in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
What well, it could be as simple as I mean,
one team makes or threes and one doesn't obviously, right,
I mean, the the Wolves cut that to a thirteen
point lead at halftime, to cut of thirteen pointly and
then the third quarter comes out and the Sports score
thirty six points a third quarter. The Spurs yesterday, again
they make a lot of twos. But when they're forty

(14:40):
seven percent three, when they're eighteen to thirty eight from three, okay,
you know, okay, so he's not beating them. You just
you're just not because they're too good on defense. And
you add in, you know Stefan Castle have with thirty
two points, you're just not you're just not gonna beat them.
They're just it's it's a it's really really really gonna
be hard. And the Spurs, I mean, the Wolves just
din't shoot the ball well. The Edwards came out fast,

(15:03):
but really couldn't continue it. You know, the Sumo basically
disappearing for the series and he was hurt, so that
that that definitely that hurt them, right, they sort of
needed that scoring. Dee Vincenzo was out just and it
just it just sort of snowballs. Right after that, we saw,
you know, the end of the Pistons and Caves game,
you know, again, like the Cavs are trying to come back,

(15:23):
they trying to just can't make any of the shots
and turn the ball over and it just balloons out.
And I also think there's especially in Game six like
that between Pistons and Calves, but just the point where
the Caves are just are just mentally probably like okay,
let's let's get ready for the next game, right, like
what's not happening that they're not they're sort of done
and they were done and now makes it much much
more difficult for them. But the Spurs just they just

(15:45):
couldn't stop scoring last night. And if they're gonna score
a hundred and third and nine points, of course they're
gonna win most games, even one hundred and fifteen points.
The Spurs are gonna win a lot of basketball games.
This Spurs Thunder series. I'm sure it's been a series
that has been just as good or hyped up like
this the last couple of years. I cannot wait. An

(16:09):
incredible series. And I don't even know I think I
lean Thunder a little bit here, but wow, I mean
this The thing about is the Spurs, you know, are
young and sort of not supposed to be winning this
series yet, right, like that's sort of the NBA. But man,
I'm excited for Okay, see the play a team that

(16:29):
they can't actually beat them? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm looking
forward to it.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
I can't what it's gonna be great basketball because I'm
looking at the scores from all the games right from
the postseason. There's an inordinate amount of like huge blowouts.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
It's just a three, I mean what it is. Look
at it.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
I'm looking at Piston's magic. I'm just going to count
to double digits, right uh. And and that was it's
a very competitive series, so that was your best series?
Well though Game seven ended in a twenty two point game,
right the.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Oh yeah, I mean jeez, the Nix and Hawks.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
I mean we saw how that ended with the huge scores,
right like you know, I mean New York wins in
game six by fifty one. This this Detroit Cleveland series,
double digits in game one, double digits in game two,
seven point game, Game three to nine point game, Game four,

(17:37):
Game five was great because it went to overtime, and
then last night twenty one point game.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
The last two games of.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
The Sixers Knicks thirty nine point disparity and a thirty
point disparity.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
I mean, the Sixers are very good. That's a that's
a game from this. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
No, but all these teams, like, no, they are in
his son's you know, I think it's thirty five and
twenty eight and thirty.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
I'm looking at all these stings.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
You're the one who said, and you were right that
your friend does this ninety and a half point Yeah.
Uh strategy where he takes both sides minus nine and
a half points. Yes, yeah, I'm sure he made a
killing this year. How to Yeah, I mean, because I'm
looking at all the scores and there's a there's a

(18:26):
million double ditch games.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah, I think it comes down to again the three pointer, right,
I mean a lot of games are determined by that.
And you know, again, you make four or five more
than another team and you're about even at the foul line.
That's fifteen points.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
How is it that d NCAA tournament? It's just closer. Well,
like these guys and those games.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Why, here's why college sports right as where there's college
baseball on right now, big series this weekend for a
bunch of teams as they approach college Truman, there's naa
softball on right now. It's regional time. Right. I watched
a ton of softball because my daughter wants to watch
it all the time. A lot of college sports, I've

(19:15):
come to believe, is less about a team executing to
win the game and more about a team losing the game.
That makes sense, right, What march bads is so much about?
Can we just not can bust the last of the game? Yes,
the NBA and pro sports are more about teams making
plays to win the game rather than teams losing the game,

(19:38):
if that makes sense, right. So like in the NBA,
we often see and there are of course, there are
teams that you know, like the Cows. I didn't play
well last night, but Detroit went to me, went out
and won that game, right, Like they shot the ball better,
durand played better. They hustled like they just were the
better team, and they didn't will down there like they
didn't just sort of kind about which is off of

(20:00):
the teams up twenty and it's sort of like limped to
the finish line. Who win by three? Rightbe is not
like that? Right? The NBA is in pro sports, in
my opinion, teams are making plays to win the game.
That's a big different college sports and professional sports. And
so that's why in March Madness a lot of times
teams all shriveled. Man, you're nineteen years old, eighteen, I

(20:21):
do agree that's why that is.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yeah, I do agree with that. It's just the there
is even in years past. I guess it's just the three.
I guess that's what it is. But that's what I
think it is. It's more of a like you look
at football, and football, I guess it's almost designed. But
these playoff games, like I think back to last year's playoffs,

(20:43):
they were thrilling. Yeah, thrilling. I mean, canleab Williams going
back and throwing. I mean, the games were awesome. That's
what's and that's why I'm hoping that OKA see San
Antonio me because I haven't really gotten that series yet.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
I think we're gonna I think we're gonna see it.
I think it's gonna be incredible. Yeah, I do too.
I think that's the de facto finals. All right, we'll
come back in a minute. And I want to get
into the schedule. I do.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
I don't know how you feel about it. I go
way overboard with it.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
I freaking love it. I do.

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(22:42):
I'm curious from your perspective, because you know, I feel
like half a loser that I just love this day
in May when the schedule comes out.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
I don't know why, you know, the opponents, I get it,
but just.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Seeing it in order, all flashed out, it feels like
I don't know there's order in life.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
And I get to look and I go, holl look at.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
This game, look at that game in Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving
even Black Friday. When you were a player, did you look?
Did you care about the schedule? Did you you know
when it came out, did you look at a dog?

Speaker 2 (23:20):
This is what it is? Absolutely uh type of things. Right, So,
first of all I did. I spent a lot of
time analyzing everyone's schedule. And you either got screwed by
the NFL. That that or you're win the Super Bowl.
Those are those are two options, right, Either got screwed
by the NFL. Right, right, we're playing five teams off
of pies. Well, okay, well we'll get to that analystic

(23:42):
and break down a second. So as a player, first
you looked for was bye week, right, and not because
we don't want to play football, but because you know,
back back in my day, we used to practice a
lot more and and you needed a mental break. Man,
you just need a break and there's just no way
around it. And so you need a mental break. Right.

(24:04):
You went from beginning of August or maybe early end
of July, and you had double days, and you just
had a lot of practice, and you had a lot
of time on the facility, and you need a break.
And I remember when the new CBA came out in
twenty eleven, they mandated we had to have more days
off during by a week. It used to not be
that way. I'm you know, coaches would practice Wednesday Thursday. Now,

(24:26):
I think everyone gets the week off. And you know, when.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
I was in very like, I like, you know, it
depended how you played the week before.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah, he was pretty leaning on that.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
So yeah, he'd be like, I see.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
You next week. Like it was like, yeah cool. Yeah.
So when I was with with Andy Reid in Kansas
City twenty thirteen, we got the week off. I went
to turch and cake House with my wife. We just
were we just were out and the mental refreshman of that,
it's like so nice, like yet I love football, man,
but going and having an opportunity to just sort of

(25:03):
decompress for the week. You come back, and I always
remembered every Monday you'd be back in the silly like
everyone'd be so excited to be back. I went to
the Bahamas with my son the next year. I went
to a Giant's Royals World Series game in one of
my buys as well, Like it's just so refreshing to
get away and so you ideally want your bye, you know,

(25:24):
Week eight, nine, ten eleven, I mean the Chiefs have
a week five by that's so early. It's just not
great so by by and in the same breath like
Thursday and football, right, because there's a football you know,
you have, you know, sort of a short practice week
and you get off a couple days afterwards. You wanted
me personally, I wanted that early and then I wanted
to buy late. My brother was interested. My brother actually
wanted the opposite. He liked the Thursday football later in

(25:47):
the year because he felt like you sort of get
basically no practice per se for basically ten days, right
because Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, I have a Thursday game. You're
not regular practice very much, right. You have to play Thursday,
and you're off typically that weekend. You might show back
up on Tuesday or Wednesday afterwards. So I look at sort
of the time I can tell myself, Okay, if I

(26:07):
get to this point, I could take a mental break
and then I think it varies for every player, But
I did like to look at at primetime games, right,
because that sort of tells you how the NFL thinks
you're gonna go this year, right, the importance and as
much as I love one o'clock games, buddy, oh, you're
just playing in the Central time zone, and you play
a twelve Central game, You're like on your couch by

(26:29):
four thirty. It's incredible, it's awesome. But the primetime games
are nice because you know, a that lets you know
that you know you're gonna be good most often, b
those are games that are often including better opponents, right,
so you sort of have a better matchup and see,
you know fits your family get to watch those games. Right,

(26:51):
So I used to always think an eye for those,
and then I looked at week one, Right, you just
want to see you open up with and sort of
how you can mentally prepare for that that game, and
then just varies from there. Right, guys look at the
revenge games and and sort of you know, going back home,
those type of things.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
That's what we look at as players. You know, it's
important for you was a revenge game, Like, so maybe
there were guys that you knew like, yeah, we're with
a previous a team the previous season and maybe got
down dirty or whatever. The perception.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah, so I think it's I didn't matter a lot.
But the thing about this sport is that it's it's
such a team sport. It's impossible to like really like
revenge something that.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Makes sense, like exactly I get it. Yeah, you're not
getting individual it's not basketball. You can go drop.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
But here's the thing though, and I said this for
a long time, is that to play in the NFL,
you have to have something to motivate you every week.
I know that sounds like, oh, you just be motivated
to play the game. Well, I mean sure, yeah, but
it's a long season, man. You need things to motivate
you every week. And if revenge is motivating you one week, great, right,

(28:11):
If it motivates you to play well because you're playing
with defensive linement from my mindsets who you don't like
or you think it's really good. Great. If your motivation
that week is to just you know, win, you got
to win the game to make the playoffs, great, you
know the motivation you have something every week, right, Just
you can't just have you know, the same message of
basically I'm gonna play her because I want to win.
It's just it's a long season that you just need
something every week. And so a revenge game is a

(28:34):
great way to motivate yourself. Right, this team cut me
or they didn't sign me in fregency, it's a great motivation, right, everyone,
you know, being doubted. I say this often. I think
the superpower of NFL players is making themselves the underdog.
How often do you hear this? Right, Like, no one
believes in me, and no they never We all believe

(28:57):
that you're you're the favorite. And so does superpower of
doing that. Well, that's just a motivation techniqu right, just
a way to motivate yourself, because again, it's an eighteen
week season. You need different ways to do that. So
if a revenge game is the motivation, if the motivation
is I'm going back home to play, I want to
play well, if the motivation is I get my first start,
or you know, I know that because of the other team,

(29:18):
whatever it is, So it's to me, it's just a
motivation factor, right, It's a motivation every week. And if
revenge is the motivation, that we great.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
Yeah and listen, I mean like that's what's cool about
the sport itself, Like if you think about.

Speaker 6 (29:35):
It's such a good com man, we love it it is,
but it lends itself for that sort of thing, right,
like even more than than.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
Baseball and basketball. I'm sure you look, but the fact
that there's so few games and then each game is
such a monumental event. Oh yeah, I think that's what
That's what leads it to something, right.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
We I did another radio show this week, I Mike Northon,
Who's the from Justina. He does the schedule for the NFL,
and he and he made a comment like we because
I have the schedule everyone to go eight and eight
and then week eighteen, you know, and someone gets away
and goes goes down. That's what the NFL is that
they they try to make it to where everyone is

(30:23):
is a five hundred entry week seven, week eighteen. Now
that that's the goal every year. And then when the
NFL drafts and the way that heart salary cap, they
make it so that everyone enters the season as even
as possible. That's what they always try to do. And
that's what makes I think the NFL even more compelling.
Is that and also the hope. You know, there's a

(30:45):
lot of hope in the NFL, and the schedule gives
you more hope. Right you see where you at. You
start thinking about wins and losses and mapping your season
out and so those are things I think that make
it a lot of fun. There are a lot of
things the Internet says are important that I just don't.
I don't buy about the schedule. It's so funny to
see like these people that you go viral with some

(31:07):
tastes on the schedule, and I'm like, I I never
thought once about rest disadvantage as a player. Mm hm,
who think it's about rest disadvantage? Like? What?

Speaker 7 (31:16):
What?

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Like?

Speaker 2 (31:17):
I never thought about travel disparity. These are things that like,
these are things that I think, uh, how.

Speaker 6 (31:25):
Right?

Speaker 2 (31:25):
They haven't even really proven to be like like anything,
you know, we get all these we get all these
people that have these long Twitter threads, right, like this
team travels more than this team, and this team has
more rest than this team. And then the guess super
Bowl champions a team who's the best DVOA in the NFL?
Like like, who care? Are you good or not? You

(31:48):
have a good quarterback? Right, you have a coaching staff?
Do you have depth on your team? Do you have
an offense? TI? If it's a long like yeah, if
you play seventeen straight games where you have a rest
disadvantage potentially, but part of that too, like the rest
disadvantage is typically not I have four days rest and
you have twelve. It's like you have I get six

(32:09):
and you get seven, Like it's not in the end,
it's not that much of a difference. You can't try
and around my way.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
People go, wow, the Eagles have to play five teams
coming off of bye.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
I'm like, well, so what like you know, all right?

Speaker 7 (32:24):
Or four?

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Like who cares? But the Eagles get a full week
of rest before they play those games, right, so they
get a full week of rest?

Speaker 3 (32:30):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Like I agree with you?

Speaker 3 (32:32):
I go because I I slough it off like who cares?
Like you know its sometimes the buye does it go
in your favorite Sometimes you're there's a degree of I'm
called rust, but like you're.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Just not depends on the team yet, yeah, like you're
not in sync. You know.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Sometimes the rest does it well. Sometimes you kind of
lose momentum, Like momentum is a real thing.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
It depends on it depends on the team. I think
for that work like you know, for you know, very famously,
Andy Reid is like twenty and three off of buye,
Like it depends on like that of the team, right,
you're on how you use that by you know, I
played for Andy Reid. The self scouting and evaluation part
of what he does during a bye I've never been
on a team that does a better job of that,
and that's probably why he's probably pretty good during a

(33:17):
bye h and gave the team better. So you get
self scout.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
He used to always I'm fascinated by coaching.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
I love coaching. He was the best self scout I've
ever played for ever.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
I mean, he would poke holes and he just take
to his team every four and you know, you know,
you go buy the four game makerments four weeks. Yeah,
and he would he would poke holes and look at
his team and and look at it honestly like he was.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
He just was pretty awesome. Know we go involved. I remember,
uh we had a week nine by that we were
nine before we had our buy, and I remember we
came back from buy and our alphative line. Coach ran
off our stats for our our efficiency numbers in different
runs and power, which is his favorite play. They call
it God's play. I love power, God's play. Oh that's awesome.

(34:05):
We were like thirteenth thirteen percent officially on that play, terrible,
but outside zone we're like sixty five percent. And so
he just goes, Okay, we're not running power anymore. Like
I don't think I've ever had a coach just be like, yeah,
it's not working anymore. We're not doing Most coaches just
like we're this is what I run. We're we're just
running what I love. And he's like, now we're throwing
it out and we did and we were much better

(34:27):
running the ball afterwards. That that type of stuff. It
comes to Andy Reid, right, he just calls what we know,
like we're gonna do it works, he's great sins. One second,
we gotta take quick deal.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Come right back where the Fellas right here, Fox Sports Radio,
Welcome back Fellas and Jeff what you know what you
know what.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Drives me nuts?

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Like I love Jonas and I love that Jud's great
show and Jonas not terrific.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
But it's like, if you.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Guys are going to do w's and l's, I'm going
to the Liquor Star, I'm out and I'm going and
I hear that take wherever it is. We want to
call it all the time and listen, do I think
w's and l's are stupid?

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (35:15):
I get it, Like it's impossible. We know injuries, we
know you don't know what the team's gonna be. Like
I understand that, Like intellectually get it. But one of
the things that's fun about your team and looking at
the schedule and doing w's and l's is you're just
it's just an exercise and fun.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Why do people.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
Feel the need to just peel on that, Like, I
don't understand why you just can't let people have fun
with that. Like we know it's not real and chances are.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
But you want to talk excuse to talk about it.
I think we should go over two hundred and seven
to two games just for today, just all of them.
I would. I would do that. I would.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
But we know that you know, it's it's wasted breath,
but there's a lot of wasted breath in the and
in the form of entertainment. It's like talking about football.
All we care about is yeah, like I I want
to I want to imagine, Hey, what's going to happen. Yeah,

(36:22):
we don't know the state of injuries and the stated
players and a million things and factors coming to all
this stuff. So there's no crystal ball, But talking about
it in May, it's just something fun to talk about.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
That's absolutely absolutely yeah, that's all it is. It's May,
Like what are we gonna We're not meeting or breaking
down every single thing we saw in sports last night.
This is a great way to to talk about, you know,
the season, right and to break down where we see
teams and look, we have dude, there's there's there's numbers

(36:57):
right now for every game in the game. I can
find you number for every single game. So you know,
let's talk about the games. It's not I think that's
nothing wrong with breaking down schedule, especially for the you know,
for the for the teams that you know that really
we care about, right, you know, and and whatnot. So yeah,
I just.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Think, you know, in a big way, it's just to me,
it's just a good shoot to talk about football, all.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Right, Like, I mean, that's it. I mean, you know,
you know what's funny.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
I had a producer asked me to, uh come up
with a treatment for a story. He's like, what story
in the NFL is always fascinating?

Speaker 2 (37:37):
And like I got a million of them? Right, and
you know we're.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Getting involved TV and films are even getting bigger into sports, right.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Yeah. So I said, I've.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
Always loved the story of Lawrence Taylor and Bill Parcells.
And one of the reasons why is it comes at
a time when football over overtook baseball as America's pastime,

(38:11):
And you know, it was interesting.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
I just want to read it. I wrote a passage,
a paragraph.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
I just wanted to see what you think, because to
me and he capitualized football, and the time, the time
was like the eighties and nineties. And I said, for
nearly a century, baseball had been the country's pastoral religion.
Fathers teaching sons beneath summer skies, transistor radios crackling through

(38:35):
the open apartment windows, scorecards folded into back pockets. Baseball
moved slowly, thoughtfully, like the country wants imagine itself, patient, pastoral, innocent.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Football was something else entirely.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
Football was violence, compression, collision, tribal warfare disguised as entertainment.
And in the nineteen eighties, as America became loud, richer,
more aggressive, and more addicted to spectacle, the country abandoned
the poetry of baseball for the brutality of football. And
standing at the center of that transformation was Lawrence Taylor.

(39:13):
So that's that's what I wrote. And I'm curious to
see your reaction to that. As a football player, as
a gladiator.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Well, obviously, Lawrence Taylor's ability to hit the quarterback and
breaking Feiseman's leg. You know that that that you know, change.
I think we've alsoeen Blindside. I'm not taking away the
plot of Blindside, but like that changed the way that
football was played, right, And it changed the way that

(39:44):
we viewed hitting the quarterback and protecting the quarterback, and
changed the way that you know, offensive lines were constructed,
the defenses were constructed. So it came at a time
obviously went to a point like football started to take
on more of a national relevance. And I absolutely by that.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yeah, you know, and the idea that it's this tribal
warfare disguised and entertainment. That's why we're all different fans
in each team does right, and it's you know, we
use the term warfare and it's you know, it's not
right when there's real wars being played, but we understand

(40:22):
it and we understand the role as human beings that
we like that we love with it all right, big
Alur coming up Max Fellas on Fox Well, good morning, good.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
Morning, good morning, good morning.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
That'd be abby, uh, Fox Sports Saturday May. As we
approach Memorial Day weekend next weekend, and the closer we
get to football, this is about the time where I
start getting like antsy. I don't know about you, buddy,
but this is when I get really antsy and cannot wait.

(40:58):
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(41:21):
Anthony Gargettum fellas, Uh, do you get antsy?

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Like? What do you start to get antsy for it?
So I go to a big ten media day typically
and July. That's that's when you start feeling it. That's
when you get the real itch. Yeah. Yeah, you used
to talk football for you know, seventy two hours straight. Yeah,
that's fun. Yeah, that's so you know, just like you're talking,

(41:47):
we interview every coach, right, yeah, so there's eighteen coaches.
Do you interview the commissioner. Typically you interview, you know,
there's other dignitaries there oftentimes, and so it's so funny,
like you prepare all these notes right for all the teams,
and you get to talking to the coaches, and the
carnage just goes like any in any which direction, Like

(42:08):
there's no all the prep you do, like feels kind
of pointless at the end because you just you know,
you start talking about random stuff and different players they
take you different directions. Signetty has always been like my
favorite interview. He's been so good every year. He's so honest,
and I'm not surprised that Indiana's as good as they've
been under under Signetti.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Yeah, he's fascinating to me, like he does he We
were talking about coaches earlier, and I don't know something
about the football coach of every sport, right the coaches
are are they have their own persona, right like you
see them in film and TV. You know, the manager

(42:47):
with the beer belly and the you know, the gruff
kind of way.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
Yes, exactly exactly. You know, like the mid early nineties,
like Brown was like what a manager was supposed to be. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
And then you look at the basketball coach, and it
was you know, pat Riley or Phil Jackson and you know,
great suits and prefect hair and the whole thing. But
the football coach, just by the nature of the sport,
was always the most important and had the most I
think impact on a game of all coaches. Like you know, listen,

(43:28):
you can become a great basketball strategist who like baseball.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
You know, it is what it is people personalities. Yeah,
that's you know over a.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
Long, long season, one hundred and sixty two games, whereas football,
you know, the exit no matters.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
It means something, it does. It's why it's so important, right,
It's why we talk about these teams in preview teams.
We don't have to talk about the coaching, right. We
don't do as much as that in baseball or in
a basket ball now I would. I think the coaching
almost the strategy of in the NBA sort of in

(44:10):
between games is where the coaches make older money. You know,
football is about all about what you do during the game,
right and how you you know, how you prep on
before that. But you know that it's just dude, it's
it's so valuable. We talk about so much. It matters
so much. It's why there are you know, teams that
we think can be good, but we questioned the coaching
or vice versa. R there's teams that, you know, the

(44:32):
Niners are not the most talented team. They whinever You're
because Shanahans an excellent coach. You know, that's just that's
just what it is. And your your team wins in
spite of their coach, So it's perfect.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yeah, I think the coordinator.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
It's certainly on the defense. I can't state your head coach. Really,
which game is you gonna talk to the fans and
and like which one if you marked down? Which was
gonna yell the opposing fan base on the sideline?

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (44:59):
I feel you. I'm not a big fan of that either.
I Bro, you're the head coach of the fell off
the Eagles. Why are you cussing out fans? Yeah? I agree.
I I you know, be honest with me. You ever
see I put Tom coffer too you. I didn't see
Tom Cofflin cuss out fans. I didn't see any reading
fans in the stands. I didn't say. I didn't see
Belichick do that. So weird, man, it is, It is weird.

(45:24):
You know, yeah, I I listen, I feel you. I
think you're right about that. I I you know, you
know you look at the fiery guys. Look at Mike Tomlin.
Mike Tomlin never did that. No, no, like those guys.
I'm just trying to think about fiery coaches. Like the weirdness.

(45:44):
I'll talk about one of the one of the most
honest plays of my Tomlin's careers when he remember when
he interfered with us a pint return Remember, like he
like stood on the field. Yeah, vaguely. It's like that
such an odd play, Like you're like, what, coach, what
are you doing? Man? Yeah, it's odd. Yeah, the entire

(46:06):
incredible coach weirdly just like interfered with a play for
once in his career. Yeah. Yeah, what was the circuit?
I gotta look that up. It was like they're playing.
It was just playing the Ravens, I think, and he
just sort of stood in the way of of a
tick returner. I think it was he pretended he didn't
know he was on the field. Oh that's great, Yeah,

(46:27):
that's great. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
I kind of remember like one of those things I
have remember one of the weirdest things I remember from
the sidelines. I was on the sidelines, standing behind Andy,
and it was the our security guy. It was pre Dates,
Big Tom. His name was Butch.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
Butch got a flag, uh for the reference into him. Yeah,
the reverie ran into him and the red through him
flag off and he was unhappy.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
Ah wait, dude, the vestis So I'm standing literally behind
Andy so and he let me for like a year,
For a couple of years, I was embedded with them,
and I would do I was writing a book.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
Okay, and he's like, like you could.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
He told me you could come the team meetings, you
could do everything, be a part of the team. I
was on the plane, I did everything with him halftime.
I mean, I was just a part of the team.
And I just stayed with Butch the security guy, right so,
like I was with him twenty four to seven. Right So,
Butch's yellingy cursing, and ref bumps into him throws a flag.

(47:40):
Now Andy doesn't see. He just sees the ref throw
flag right at him, right like, and he doesn't know
what's happening. So he turns around and he looks and
there is Butcher and me right like I'm standing there,
Like I didn't do an, I'm just like, was there
and you know, you know any read well so you

(48:03):
know when he gets mad and his face turns beat red,
oh yeah, and like you know, and you know I
was I'm disrespectful, right, like, I'm like, I.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
Will love him doing it. And I didn't. I didn't
point my fat to do anything.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
I just sat there and if Butch goes, I'm sorry, coach,
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
I was like, oh, fag guy. Mean it's a little timid.
What you think I've been yelling? Yeah, anywhere on the
sideline before.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
Well, he's a great CEO that way, because he can
be that right, like he could be a ceo, uh,
you know, and and kind of get his point across
by just staring at you.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Yes, and he obviously man has that respect. Yeah, I
mean getting a penalty like that is yeah, it's uh,
it's it's crazy. And now Eagles had a security where's it?
Where's where's a thing during the game, a headset just
getting hear the play calls. So quite upgrade there in Philly.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
Yeah, well so Big Tom worked under Butch. Butch groomed
Big Tom. Big Tom was a butcher. Were a headset too, No, no,
but this is what happens. He did, because no security
guard does. Yeah, but he's more like he was. He
was a scout. Yeah, originally he came he's working in

(49:20):
the scouting department and he got and then this was
his opening into kind of full time with the team, and.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
It's he works a headset on the sideline of again.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
Well, I think part of it was there was a
lot of stuff with the NFL and a lot of.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
The stuff he got in trouble. Yeah, if he were
a headset he's now a coach and.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
Right again yeah, right, and there's a there's some some
of that, but there's also like part of it is
like he like people think because he's big and you know,
they it's just oh, it's just big Dom and the guy.
The guy knows football like like we have dinner once
a week. I think I know the guy really well.
Oh I'm sure he's great fall guy he does. Now

(50:01):
does he do his job and make sure players lean
on him? Yeah, I mean he's great at it, like
he could.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
He's a football that well you become a football guy,
right yeah. And he played a coll like he knows
his thing.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
He played two years in college, so you know, like
he knows, he knows what he's doing, but it was
just interesting and part of his job is, so you know,
to keep Sirianni in line.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
M hmm.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
Interesting here it is Mike Tom will find one hundred
thousand Thank you, Nikki. He finds he's final the NFL ones.
They find Mike Tom won one hundred K for interfering
with a kickoff return thursd Night's game against Baltimore. The
one hundred thousand dollars fine whatever is the second largest

(50:49):
reported find ever. Belichick was fined five hundred grand. Remember that,
yet he was standing on the white stripe that borders
the playing field. I took a step onto the field
during Jacobe Jones's kickoff return. Yeah, should have revolted in
fifty Surprised to even get a penalty for it.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
It made no sense at the time. It's like, where's
things I've ever seen a coach do? Like for obviously
a very well respect to the Hall of Fame coach.
You're like, what wait, what what what are we doing here?

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Yeah? So yeah, just it's a weird play for a
coach like that. That's bizarre. That's okay, weave bizarre, all right.
Uh here's what.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
I want to do.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
I want to kind of take you through the schedule.
Uh well just a big games and you know, kind
of go a little bit a week by week.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
But before we.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
Do that, did you like holidays? Like did you look
for that? Like did you hate playing on holiday? Did
you like what was your what was your.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
I don't think I ever really did play. I never
playing Thanksgiving. You know, I'm Jewish, I don't. I don't
care about you know, Christmas would be fine playing for
me on Christmas, you know, I don't, dude. I just
think you play the games man with their schedule, Like
I didn't really have much thought to you know, even
even when you're even when you're when you're not playing

(52:16):
on Thanksgiving, like you practice on Thanksgiving and you press
on Christmas like you don't get those days off.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
Yeah, but there's a difference between you know, coming in
the morning and then you sure you're doing you're with
your family. I don't care what what you know, religion
you are or what you know what whatever holidays right,
you celebrate, whether it's yam Kapoor right, or whether it's Christmas,
or whether I.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
Did knock get young Kipoor off in an NFL.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
No, but you get my you get my pa, right,
like it mats like it matters to people. I just
celebrate because you have a fact.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
You know, you have the thing about the holidays, right,
It's like it's more about you, you know, making sure
your family can still celebrate it, right and maybe not
maybe without you for a little bit, right, and making
sure that they're taking Like in my opinion, that's what
that the holidays are more about, like taking make sure
of your family is taken care of more than New
York because you have a job to do, right, Like
part of the job is you're gonna play on You're

(53:10):
gonna play on Christmas, maybe you're gonna play Thanksgiving and
be traveling on those days. So really it's about making
sure you're, to me, your family can still have the
normal holiday celebration and even if you do have to
do it a different day or like not not taking
that away from your family because you're playing a football game. Yeah, yeah,
that's a great point. But I never really agn We

(53:31):
didn't really ever. I never It's just back when I played,
we didn't you know we play on Christmas obviously if
it was on a Sunday but yeah, we we didn't
have like every like this. Now we have Black Friday game,
a Thanksgiving game, we have a day before Thanksgiving game,
Christmas game, Christmas EVE game, and New Year's game. We
didn't have those games as often unless it was actually

(53:53):
a Saturday, a Saturday or Sunday during December. Do you do?
You know there's a lot of debate in this week?

Speaker 3 (54:00):
You know, I got into it and uh, in fact,
a friend of mine termed the phrase wretched excess and.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
So you know, I don't know what you know, I'm
guilty of it, right, Like, so I go, I don't
care why I love these games, right, So adding a
Thanksgiving Eve game to Triple Head all Thanksgiving and had
a Black Friday, So you have five games in three days.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
I love it. I mean, you know, child days, holidays
and sports to go hand in hand, right, Three about
you know July fourth and baseball?

Speaker 6 (54:39):
Right?

Speaker 2 (54:39):
I was thinking about baseball July fourth, but more a weekend.
There's a ton of NASCAR, right, and there's a ton
of baseball and typically you know NBA finals are on
that weekend. You look at obviously Labor Day and college football.
Now we're getting Presidence Day, it's maybe Super Bowl. You know,
Thanksgiving and and and Christmas have always been foot ball.

(55:00):
Even you know, I grew up obviously a West Coast
sports fan in my parents with UCLA. The Loja Bowl
used to be a lot of fun to watch on Christmas. Yeah,
that was a game you used to I'm used to
watch football. That was usually the only game back in
the day. That was the only game on Christmas. Yeah,
so I don't mind it. I mean, just family wise,
the game the night before Thanksgiving is tough because we

(55:25):
typically go to dinner, we get a Christmas tree and
that night. So look, I'm not maybe in front of
my TV. Yeah when they when they get kicks off.
But I'm never gonna say no to football, dude, I'm
just not. It's just not gonna happen. So, you know,
there's thought obviously that the NFL is getting too fat
and happy with the scheduling. But until fans decide to

(55:48):
not watch the game. Until networks I did not pay
the NFL. Look Netflix and YouTube and they're paying so
much money they're gonna get primetime slots. That's just what
it is. Yeah, yeah they are.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
And again, you know, to me, it's like, you know,
you don't have to watch every game you can watch
now for your team. I get it's a hassle, but
either you building around it, you know, at a time,
and you building around it. Like I'm not in love
with the Eagles playing Christmas Eve because I do a
big Christmas Eve, a big buy house. Yeah right, so yeah,

(56:26):
but you still watch the game, right, I mean well,
I mean ye to we'll have instead of like we'll
have everybody be around the television, eating and hanging out,
and the whole family will be everybody friends and all.
We'll just we'll be watching a game. I mean, that's it.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
Justice schedule around football. Who they playing? Who they playing? Uh? Oh?

Speaker 5 (56:53):
Interested in Houston at home it's in Philly. I won't go.
I will I'll be.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
You won't go because of the of the family dinner. Yeah,
I won't go because Christmas Eve. I'm not going to
go to the game.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
I'm you know, it's too important of a thing for
our family, So I won't go. I'll watch it and
I'll still cook and do everything else. But like I
it's important for the family, and so I will not go.
I will not work. I do a pregame show, but
I won't. I won't work that day.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
You won't do the pregame show from home either, or
you I don't do it. I'm all do from the studio. Yeah,
but I won't do it.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
I'll tape stuff for you know, probably before the week,
but I'm not. I'm not going to work that day.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
I never do.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
It's a promise I made to the family. Like what
my son was what my mother. Yeah, my mother used
to do a a big Christmas Eve thing every year.
And then when she died in eight and I was
getting married and I had a we had a baby,
my Anthony, I was like, I'm gonna I'm going to

(57:58):
do in her honor, I'm going to do the fishes,
do this celebration. See if so, that's so, that's it's
a big part of our lives, right, So that's kind
of what it is. I mean back in the day,
I used to work, like I would work. I would
be in Chicago covering the Bulls games. And you know
when I was when I was a reporter, I always worked,
but you know, having a fact once the kids were born,

(58:19):
I was like, well, you know, I'm gonna make this
my my stance. Right, I'll work any other day of
the year except that day. You know.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
Yeah, that's fair.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Yeah, that's where that comes into play. All right, let's
do this, Let's take a time out. We'll come back
and then I kind of want to go over the
bigger games and kind of look at We'll just go
week by week and and uh and look at the
standalone games and some of the bigger games and some
of the stuff that we love because it's great. And

(58:50):
then a little bit later on, I got a college
football question for you off of this about the month
of August, so we'll tackling that too. It fellas Jeff
Schwartz antery, I got a right here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
Well the mag fella is.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
And yeah, on a Fox Football Saturday.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
How much fun is that going to be? Man? Can
I can? I can? I give you a personal grip
quickly that you it's nothing with football. But I think
you understand this. I just have to I have to
get some of my chest as a sports person. You
are I'm I'm looking at our I'm attend U softball coach.
For those who are new here, Uh, you know your
son's play, your you know what you a game winner today.

(59:43):
We have playoffs coming in this week plus already started.
I'm looking at schedule for playoffs and I have to
grid about how we do how we do our standings here.
I just you go. You gotta help me out and
make sense to this. I just need your helpt Okay.
So there are three of us that tied. It's seven
and three. I'm one of the seventh and three teams.
Three of us. Okay, it's for six, seven and eight

(01:00:04):
and all get a buy well do we have a buye? Okay?
But I'm trying to avoid playing the eighth seed. You
don't want the eight seed because the number one seed
who you play if you win your first playercornd, they're
ten to zer. No one's beating them. Okay. I just
want an opportunity to win our next game. So seven
and three, all right, we lost to one of the
seven three teams, so that they should be ahead of us, right,
they're ahead of you, So they are they're ahead of us.

(01:00:26):
We beat the other seven and three team. Okay, all right,
but we got the worst of the three seeds. We
got the eight seed because of runs allowed, not run differential,
not run scored, but runs allowed, and that doesn't make
any sense to me. I don't feel from this argument
yet to be explained. This is yet to be explained

(01:00:47):
to me. You're right, that makes any sense. It doesn't
make sense. And you're right. It's like that with us too.

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
We're in these tournaments and it's runs allowed, not run
different and I go, who's naked these rules? You're the
dumbest thing in the world. You might have a game
where you go, you win ten to eight, and in
the next game you win thirteen to one.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
What should be differential, Right, that's what it is. So
our commissioner told me the reason why it's that way
is because they're trying to avoid basically teams running up
the score. I don't understand that logic. But we have
a four run but we have yeah, but we have
four runs max per inning, so you can't run up
the score. And by the way, there are three there

(01:01:35):
are three games this year where we were up and
this happened in our very last game. We're up by
five runs, okay, and we're about to go to time
seventy five minute time limit, right, and of course you
can't start a new winning after seventy five, So what
do I do our very last game. Okay, we're up
nine to four, about twelve minutes left in the game,
all right, so the most of the team can score

(01:01:56):
is four runs, so we're gonna win the game, all right.
What do I do? I put our four best players
in the outfield, including my daughter in the outfield. I
move all the girls that have never played in field
all season or play in the Dude, they're beyond happy, right.
I put a pitcher in who is young, who hasn't
really pitched very much, and we allow a bunch of runs.

(01:02:17):
That happened three times this year. I allowed ten runs
in those three innings. And that's the difference between having
basically a better playoff seed versus not because I sort
of do the right thing at the end of games,
because you should do that. So you're ten years old,
you should do this. And I just as I'm looking
right now, I don't know why I decided in this
break to look at it, but I beat a team

(01:02:37):
head to head and got seated below them because of
runs happened, and we scored. We scored more runs than
them and had a better run that we scored the
fourth most runs in the league out of twenty four teams,
and we had a better run differential, and in three
games this year, I basically gave up the last inning
to let other players play.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
And which is which is the admirable and the right
thing that I'm gonnaree.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
I'm sending an email to the league after this season,
and my commission Bason told me that I shouldn't, but
I don't. This doesn't make any sense to me. Like
in the you know, that doesn't make sense. We do
a coaches meeting and they and they say to us
at the beginning of the year, like, hey, you'll play everyone,
like do us stuff. I did all those things. I
did it because I was supposed to. And then my
team's my team gets penalized. And I just understand how
in the head to head I'm not ahead of the

(01:03:20):
team I already beat. Well, that should be number one.
Is it's it's an only counts if all three if
all the teams have played each.

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
Other, right, Well, that's the that's when the three you know,
it's like that in the NFL too, like you know
these playoffs like where you get it's the three team tie, right,
Like the three team tie is different than the two
team tie where it just goes to head to head.
But I'm exactly with you. We do the same thing
and they go by runs allowed and not run differential,

(01:03:54):
and we do the same in our league. Like in
our tournaments, if you're up, I think it goes fifteen
or twelve, fifteen after three, twelve after four, ten after five,
and they call the game right, like if you're up
fifteen after three, the game's over.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
So like you you end the game early, so.

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
And it's like it's like ten after five innings, right,
So that's how they do it. Just let it be
run deferential. I listen, I agree with you. I think
it's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
It's just it just frustrates me. I just did the
point of it. No, it's nonsense. And there's a lot
of that stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
Like, dude, I don't understand half the things since I
got involved in U sports, you know probably, I mean, listen,
I've been doing it since the boys were little, but
like really when they start taking in more serious and
I'm involved more, I mean it's been about seven years.

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
I don't understand half of it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:59):
Like you know, coming from you know the world of
covering pro and big time college, I look at this stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
I go, what are you guys doing? So some of
this stuff makes no sense. So we got in the end,
we got seated below a team that we beat and
scored more runs, I had a better run differential. Then yeah,
it's insane, it's insane. Yeah, it makes no sense.

Speaker 6 (01:05:19):
Like it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
Just sorry, I didn't bring that up. I just I
know you watch it, but I am with it. Just
it that makes someone's gonna explain it to me because
I think that you know, it's my first year coaching,
and I think that actually our leade does a pretty
good job of sort of rules.

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
It goes back to running up the score. That's what
they I heard. I asked the same question.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
But you can't run the score up if you only
score four runs in and high. Now and we have
a time that we you know, often we play even
four innings in a game. I think this year and
ten games, we probably had half of them go even
four innings. Because if you have a game where you
walk everyone, if you play three innings, that's it. Like

(01:05:57):
I I just and there were there were coaches we
played so sometimes if you reach the time limit, dude,
I hate that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:02):
Were they they they going to freeze and they killed time.
Ah well, dude, you know, like not that, Yeah, not that,
but I know, but it was like, is you basically
like you continue the game, but you don't count any
of the runs. So, like I played a couple of
coaches that were like very into that, like, okay, it's time,
we can finish the inning, but we're not counting any

(01:06:24):
of the runs. I was like, okay, I whatever, man,
look I don't care. I guess they cared about I
guess that for them, it was about the playoffs, right,
Like we did a couple of times this year where
just like the game ended, per se and we just
can't finish the inning because I want to get girls
at bats.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
I want to let them pitch. I want to get
them opportunities to like, do you know, play in the
field and whatnot. But it's just a team we beat
score runs then had a better run differentials ahead of
us in the playoffs because of runs allowed.

Speaker 3 (01:06:54):
Yeah it's crazy, I'll tell you something. And I encountered
this all the time when we do this because we
have a time limit, you know, one forty five I
think it is. And once you get toward the end,
the other coach tells him to take pitches, to step

(01:07:14):
out of the box, like all these stuff, like they're
killing time.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Just played the freaking game.

Speaker 3 (01:07:20):
Yeah yeah, Like I like, like I I barked at
at my coach, our coach that like I've had, I'm assistant.

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
We have a head coach and I love him.

Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
But like he was doing this thing where we were,
we were we would have to start another inning and
we were up like two. I don't know what it was, right,
So we starts going. He's like, yo, take pitches, take pitches,
and I go, dude, bleep that. I go, let's play baseball,
Like I know, I don't want to. I don't want

(01:07:49):
to win because of the time limit. I want to
win because we won the game. If we lose, so
be it, Like I want to play ball.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
Yeah, you know the taking pitches thing, Neil, there are
you know, teams in my son's lead to take pitches
just to basically get a good picture to get to
his pitcher limits. Basically like they don't take don't swing
until it's a strike, right, like we take a pitch.
I sort of get that strategy wise, like you want
to make sure if there's a pitch count. But the
time thing. We had one game this year we were
close to time and we were up again by the

(01:08:18):
amount of runs needed. I put a different picture and
just to kill the time essentially. But she does pitch.
It's not like I didn't go any slower. I just
put her in the game knowing it would take longer
for her to finish an inning. But we played ball though.
It's like I didn't call time, I didn't spend all
that stuff. I'm I'm one of the people as a
coach who's like, let's get in and out of the
dougout as fast as possible. I don't want we take
too much time. They actually change the rules this year

(01:08:40):
to basically speed up. I can't get her. Last season
it took four minutes between innings to start the new inning,
which I thought was absurd. Four minutes between innings by
time they catcher got out there and the pitcher warmed up.
And I have so many little tiny gripes about like
I think, I think the kids throw too many warm
up pitches. They don't need eight warmup pitches. Tweetings like

(01:09:00):
what they're nine years old, they get they get they
get four? Like what only eight pitches between innings to
get ready to get out there again. It just threw
seven minutes ago, so uh. But just like just the
stuff like that. It's just like, I've had a great
fun season. We gotta playoff game. I think next week
we gotta buy, so that'd be fun. It's just the

(01:09:22):
strategy of it two at this age for the playoffs
is so interesting, Like do you start the team we're
gonna play if we win, as we're not being that team.
But the only chance we have is if my daughter
pitches the entire game. So I have to figure out
pitch I don't want to get. I don't get the
inning that the girls can pitch forever. We've talked about
this before. They don't get there's no arm wear and tear.
It's just your body gets tired. But but we have
a pitch inning limit and stuff. It's making any sense? Yeah, man,

(01:09:47):
it's they can pitch forever. But my daughter threw one
hundred and nine pitches in a game, not totally fine
the next day, should pitching last and then through one
inning the next day and another game. No point, they
can pitch forever. Off ball, which you see it right
now when you watch off ball in the postseason. There
there are some of the women that throw every game
for their tea. Yeah, it gets natural move natural movement. Yeah,

(01:10:11):
she gets sore a little bit, like at her muscle,
like a little bit like a tricep or maybe like
the back of like kind of like her lat or
like her back like kind of like, but that's it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
Like the way you're on, Yeah, your rotator cuff, like
they have to be careful with that because the way
you're I guess because you're going the opposite way when
you're throwing.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
It's a natural throwing. You're going like you're going like
underneath and you're I mean, you're using It's just you know,
you could feel oh, you could totally feel this straight.
You're not supposed to, you not. And you see like
when you see those pictures that you know, they show
those freeze frames and they're like they're their hand is
like ninety degrees like they're there, I can't do it right,
and I'm trying to do it right now. Like their hand,

(01:10:49):
the flexibility their hand is like all the way.

Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
You know, well, yeah, because you need the you need
the action right eat the arm action to get to.

Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
Torque and then like you're out.

Speaker 3 (01:11:00):
Really it's your elbow like when you're throwing, when you're
throwing like that and you've got that kind of arm action.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Yeah, the stream is on your elbow. It is. It's scary.
And I'm so you know, I'm so interested to see, like,
you know, Paul Skeens has this like elaborate, like hour
and a half routine to warm up. And I'm really curious.
And I know that we've moved in the direction in
sports of like really you know, focusing on the sports
sides of it, right, yeah, you know, and of course
his arm and we see all these young these young

(01:11:26):
guys the sort of get hurt eventually. I'm very curious
about Skins because he's been very consistent now for three
years essentially right, Like his ear RAI is a little
bit up this year because o Neil Cruz can't catch
a pop up in center field in Game one, like
he a lot of five runs basically on an error
because he just didn't play the ball very well. But
like I'm curious if if that sort of excessive warm

(01:11:49):
up routine and body preparation becomes more like normal, if
he doesn't get hurt, Like I just because I'm kind
of curious if he like that idea will sort of
change how pictures prepare. I know that we're moving that
direction anyway. He's not the first guy to have a.

Speaker 5 (01:12:04):
Long elaborate There's a lot of guys to do that,
but to do it for that long and to start
the season he has and Mahomes do it like Mahomes
is Yeah, Holmes is warn up, war up is another
ninety minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
I mean, I know, so I'm curious, like if that
if you know, because the arm feels like it always
gives out at some point we were saying it was
scooball right now right, like it just sort of always
gives out at some point. You sort of have to
get that out of the ways. Delivery smooth, man, I know,
delivery smooth. And every picture you're thinking about all the
pictures like they sort of have have had like one
elbowing during their career. It seems rare that power pictures, don't.

(01:12:39):
Everyone throws so hard man. Yeah, when you watch these
relievers come in, I mean, imagine being a hitter. You
just face the starter for five days and then you
face a reliever and you guys, knows one hundred and two,
and then the next relaver comes in those ninety nine
and next reliever comes in and throws one hundred again.
I don't know how these guys hit. Dude, that Miseroski
from Milwaukee, one hundred and nine pitches in the row

(01:13:01):
whatever it was. Yeah, yeah, with one o three, one
o three, one oh four. And they're not straight. That's
part of it too, that the balls nasty tail to it,
which is not when we look when we were watching baseball,
when you threw hard with Nolan Rone, you threw the
ball straight. Well, right, it was a four seamer. It
was a four seamen. Now these guys throw all the

(01:13:21):
two steamers, which they call them sinkers now, but they're
just two seamed fastballs. They're ninety eight miles an hour.
There are times I watch relievers pitch and watch the catcher.
The catcher doesn't set up on a corner. It just
sets up in the middle of the plate and the
ball just goes wherever it goes.

Speaker 3 (01:13:35):
Yeah, there's no two seams. The worst I mean four seamer.
You I don't care how hard you throw it. It
just goes back to the time. You gotta time it right. Yes,
the two seamer because the way it moves and it
moves across the.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
Plate, it's wicked. It's just wicked. And then if you
if you're pounding the low part of the strike zone,
it's hard. Man, it's hard to hit. I don't know
how these guys do it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:59):
Man, Yeah, it's one of the toughest things in sports.
All right, back to the football coming up next. Oh man,
that's right, as we hang out, Jeff and It on
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(01:14:19):
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Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
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Just search Fox Sports Radio where you get your podcasts.
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off the air. All right, the NFL has released the schedule,
and I want to start going over with you because
it's so much and the primetime games and winners are

(01:14:54):
the Cowboys, aren't they?

Speaker 6 (01:14:56):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
We know that, right?

Speaker 3 (01:14:58):
The Eagles, the usual suspects. They get all the prime
time games. Which you know, to me makes sense. You know, yes,
these are the teams people want to see, so you
play the hits.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
Uh yeah, I think people have a hard time understanding
this idea. But the Cowboys and the most poppy team
in the NFL. Part I work for Fox Sports or
do Fox Sports Radio. They're actually not really like the
same thing. But in the matter, I get numbers, you know,
every quarter if I wanted them about the favorite you know,
the teams that are clicking the most on the on

(01:15:35):
the app or the website, right, and it's a Cowboys
every month. Cowboys, Yankees, Dodgers, Packers, Chiefs. When they're good,
you know it's a Steeler. It's the same teams. And
so whether you love them or hate them, you're gonna
watch the Cowboys play football. And it's probably one or
the other, either love them or you hate them, right,

(01:15:56):
and you want to laugh at the Cowboys when they're bad,
and you want to cheer them when they're good, or
vice versa. Always to be a national television The Giants,
I thought, got a lot of prime time games for
you know, we'll see if they are great or not.
The Steelers got a ton of like standalone games for
some reason.

Speaker 3 (01:16:12):
Yeah, that's the one I don't get. Like, I know,
Pittsburgh does well and you're a great fan base. I
respect them and love them, but they're not interesting. Yeah,
they're gonna want to make Iron Rod that I'm assuming
Roderster is going to go back.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
Yeah, well they're not. They're gonna do with that offense.
So they got they got they got protime, but also
got like, you know, the four fifteen afternoon slot, right,
so it's sort of is like, you know, they play
the Eagles on on is that a that's a yeah,
Sunday four games, so it's not like a prime time
game per se, but it's like the national game on CBS.

(01:16:49):
That's that Sunday afternoon, right, so if you get basically
the entire country gets that game, except your local if
you have a local team playing. Right. So the thing
about Pittsburgh though, is so fascinating because networks could schedule
Pittsburgh knowing what they be and there's a little there
floned team, but you knew what you're getting from a
Tomlin team, you know what you don't know what you're
getting from mcartif. It's it's pretty bold to put them
in this in this schedule without knowing what they're gonna be,

(01:17:12):
especially at quarterback. And you look at again like that
that they played Jaguars in week thirteen in Jacksonville football.
Who's your quarterback? Is it Rogers? Is it Drew Howler?
Is it Well Howard? That felt like aggressive to put
them there. Yeah, yeah, I agree. All right.

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
We opened September ninth. Labor dations late this year, September seventh,
and we opened on September the ninth in England Seattle.
The Super Bowl rematch a lot of debate and consternation. Hey,
a lot of Rabel talk. I mean, I'm fine with it.
I believe let's go like super Bowl rematch. I like,

(01:17:50):
I don't Bowl rematch. I don't like it for a
couple of reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
Okay, One is that, look there, there's no you don't
have to make a schedule for someone's feelings. I get that,
But it does feel a little bit cruel to have
New England lose the Super Bowl then go to someone's
banner night celebrating that loss. Like, I think that's a
little bit like the game's over with that happened, it's done,

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But now you have to go to Seattle, and you
know not even won't be on the field to watch it,
but you're gonna walk in there. The Bannero's gonna be
up there. They just put the banner up. It feels
a little bit unnecessary to do that. To New England,
the very Bolts talk is gonna be there. It's gonna
have to be addressed. I think that game one should
be celebrating the Super Bowl champion, not talking about the

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coach of the other team and the scandal that's surrounding
that coach. I just think the Bear should have been
the team to play that game. I think that would
have been the easy solution all this focus on the football,
focus on Seattle. We also just saw this game five
months ago. I wanted to give me a different game

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starting next season. I feel I would have taken the
I would have taken the Bears. Bears, how about that?
It would have been great, Kayleb Williams, Seattle. It would
have been a great game. I'm not saying this won't
be a great game, but why does this game being
any different than we just on a Super Bowl? Like
what's changed in these teams that did matters so much
that this game won't be the exact same game. We
just saw. The theory A J. Brown makes the game different.

Speaker 3 (01:19:18):
I get that, but I mean, you know, you know
we'll see it all about protection, the protection hold up.

Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
Sure, but I know, I just think we could have
a better game. But the Chicago thing, I listen, I
feel you. I mean I do.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
I think that's a better game probably, But the idea
of the rematch, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
A little bitch has to happen because it's on the schedule.
So cool about there's.

Speaker 3 (01:19:39):
Something cool about starting this season where you ended. There's
something you know about the bookend. The third time they've
done this.

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
By the way, super Bowl rematch week one, it's not
don't happen very often. No people think it does. It doesn't.

Speaker 3 (01:19:53):
Well you they used to do like a weird kind
of NFC championship or AFC championship rematch. Anyway, Uh, that's it.
We'll take it quick to you. We'll come right back
and attack it. Fellas on Fox. Well, good morning, good morning,
good morning, good morning, happy happy Fox Sports Saturday, Love

(01:20:16):
it May Saturday. Hope everybody's having a gonna have a
good weekend, Get out and grill, do your thing. Jeff
Schwartz Anthony Gargand from the Fox Sports radio studios just
joined us talking, uh schedule, you know, we did the
whole thing. Cannot wait for Spurs, okc oh, I do

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right like you get excited.

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
I love it. That's that's the NBA Championship right there. Yeah.
I think the Knicks will be fascinating and I think
they'll you have a team a tough go of it,
but yeah, the Spurs are there. Yes, yes, Spurs and
Thunder or the winner. But I do think that it's
a very fasting matchup with the Knicks because they're gonna,

(01:21:02):
let's be fascinating. That's it. Looking forward to to watching funny.
I don't think. I don't think.

Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
The Knicks are gonna are gonna give okay, see a
game a series.

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
I just uh, they got Brunson. They playing.

Speaker 3 (01:21:19):
Brand agrees with you, So you guys listen. You guys
are just both shot.

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
I don't the brain's gonna have he's gonna be a
little richer day he had he had the Spurs and
Thunder forty to one to mean the Western Conference Finals.
I know he'll be happy, be pumped up today. Yeah,
are you brother? Are you are you a golfer? Are
you making your way to the course at all? The
last couple of days and Philly or not, I was
there pg A well the day before it's Wednesday. We

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did and uh, I mean I don't have time to
do uh to go? We were we did a big
thing on Wednesday. I wanted to go. I wanted to
do Yester or Thursday, Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
Yeah, but then we were doing stuff because we cover everything.
And but the PGA is awesome having a pg in
town put it on. Yeah, it's great. The kid got
her up as a local. He's a Jersey kid who well,
he's playing really well. He's played this course. I should

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have told you this. He's played this course a bunch
growing up, so he knows it inside out.

Speaker 2 (01:22:30):
And I should have told you. I didn't. You know,
it's funny. I wasn't thinking about it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:34):
And then uh, I was telling a buddy of mine,
He's like, why did you say something? I could have
bet it. I was like, I didn't even think about it.
But the guy, the kid is, he's good. Now I
don't know Scotty Scotty. It looks like a Scotty show, Righty.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
Is definitely the favorite. Obviously, like me, he's still a
couple of shots behind. It hasn't played terribly well yet,
he hasn't played well at all. Right, what do you
make of the criticism of the course, because Rory yesterday
about it. You know, you can get a lot of pars.
You really you're going to get much more than a bogie,
but you can't get any birdies. I'm curious today the
conditions are better. Yesterday in the morning was very windy,

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a colder. I'm curious about the conditions today and whether
they change the pin placement to give call for as
an opportunity. I mean, most people thought the winner would
sit between twelve and fifteen under and I did four.

Speaker 3 (01:23:21):
Right now, Yeah, I thought they would wreck the course.
I did. I thought that they would come in and
attack it. But you're right, the weather has been the
wind has been crazy, and you couple that with the greens, like,
the greens are really fast. I thought Thursday morning, the

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the early guys would have an advantage because I thought
the greens would be slower, and they weren't really that
much slower even though it rained. And now they're only
going to get because we're going to get a heat wave,
like a mini heat wave, and today it's like ear
low eighties. Tomorrow it's ninety and it's gonna be The

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greens are going to be fast, Like you see that
one hole where eleven Yeah, yeah, where it'll just move
and it'll put you it'll roll right off of it
off the green and you're in trouble. It's almost like
one of those mini golf crazy holes.

Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
Yeah. Yeah, it's it's been fun so far. It'll be
fun to watch the rest of the rest. It's been.
It's been nice to have like golf on like so early,
like sixt forty five in the morning as the first
tea time. Yeah, it's fun. Now.

Speaker 3 (01:24:34):
The issue, you know, and they're all complaining about, like
Rory was complaining, there's a lack of hazards, right, it's
there's very little trees on the course and there's not
a ton of water, so it's a there's a there's beach,
you gotta use beach, and you know the rough, the

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rough is pretty nasty, so you got to keep it
on the fairway.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
That's the biggest the issue. Well, it's plainly like a
US Open tournament with the rough. That's why I think
people are like, this is not how the Pjchamer is
supposed to look. Yeah, and I don't know, I don't
mean listen.

Speaker 3 (01:25:12):
Rory said that when you don't have a lot of separation,
that's when you know it's a bad set up. Yeah,
you know, I'll defer to him, but you know, I
think the course swallow a lot of people up.

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
It seems like it is. And so far, I think
the scores today have been pretty not great. Obviously we're
early on so far, but yeah, it's a tough course.
I like this sort of in between right where it's
not like you know, a tournament where you get twenty under.
It's also not the US Open or the winner is
barely over par so or barely under par so. This is,

(01:25:49):
you know, what's setting up to probably be you know,
six seven, eight, nine, ten under. I'm fine with that.
I like you.

Speaker 3 (01:25:56):
I don't know, I enjoy I enjoy that Scotty. The
thing about you.

Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
Know, Scotty is gonna make a run at some point today,
and that's what you have to just if you're at
the top of the leader board, you don't have to
just make sure you avoid, you know, following when he
makes that run. How about the guy that was late
in round one? Dude, I I could not believe his
lack of accountability for that. So a young player was

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late to his tea time in round one, and the
rules are if your tea time is six am, right,
you have to be there at six am. If it's
six am and one second, you're late, and if you're
not there for five minutes, you're disqualified. And he was
late by a couple seconds and it cost him two strokes,
and those two strokes the reason why he didn't make

(01:26:46):
the cut. And after the round on Thursday, he complained
basically saying like I wasn't late, and no, you were late,
like you had to be there on time. His his
thing was, I'm hitting third in my group. I wasn't
late for my actual time. I'm teeing off right. He
wasn't where he needed to be at the time of tea.

(01:27:06):
And I think, I think to myself, like this feels
like a very uh. I think it's a gen Z kid,
like a very gen Z kid thing, like just to
not take accountability for your problems, like be on time.
Your job is to be on time. Your two time
was seven eighteen. You knew what it was. You knew
what time is. You know how long it takes you

(01:27:26):
to warm up, You know how long it takes you
to walk from the putting green to the first tea.
You have to be on time. Everyone else was on time.
You weren't on time. That's a you problem. Man. Just
own it and move on. Although it was big that
he would not just own being late. Yeah, I mean,
you know, those are the rules, the rules, that's the
follow the rules men. You know. It was funny.

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
I was talking to a coach right who said, you
know the coach he's like fifty, like he's our age whatever,
and he was fifty, but well you're not, I am, right,
So like, I mean, I just met whatever. So I'm
talking to a coach and we're talking about they're taking responsibility,

(01:28:14):
and he's like, listen, I don't want to be the
old guy, right because I.

Speaker 2 (01:28:16):
Hated to be the old guy, like I hate it
being I.

Speaker 3 (01:28:19):
Hated those those old coaches that would bark at you
and you know constantly, you know, cop your up your
teaster and always talking, and you know, I hated it.
So I don't want to be that guy. But he goes, man,
they test me like I'm just like, I'm telling you
to get like to be here, do your like be

(01:28:41):
here old time, Like listen to what we're telling you,
you know, pay attention to the meetings, like I'm not
asking you. And he's like, dude, like our practices, you know,
not like when we used to practice right.

Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
Like they're a lot easier.

Speaker 3 (01:28:56):
And he's just and it's funny like listening to him,
and he's like, I don't want to be that guy.
And I guess that's just the way the world works,
Like once you reach a certain age, you be called
that guy, no matter what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
Well, I've always been someone who's on time, and obviously
my other job, if I was late, you know, you
get in trouble. If I showed up a couple minutes
late here, you probably would wonder where I was. But
I'm not gonna get a fine from our boss for
being late. Like in the NFL, you're late, you get fined,
you lose money. I the thought of losing a couple
of grand for being late to a meeting, I couldn't
even I couldn't fathom that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:30):
But we're you're kind of wired, they kind of It's like, listen,
nobody liked you know, your coaches, you know, just.

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
Pandled on you and pandled on you, pandled on you.

Speaker 3 (01:29:41):
But what it did was it got you later in life,
it got you like your own time, like, oh yeah, absolutely,
you're like the responsibility. So you know, I think I
think it's almost the right of passage where you gotta leave.
I'm not saying you gotta be you know, like they
were abusive, right, like you don't need to be abusive,

(01:30:04):
but you know, you got you gotta have a certain
responsibility like that kid did not think about how idiotic
that is.

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
He he would have been, he would have been near the.

Speaker 3 (01:30:15):
Lead, after the after the first day.

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
He would have we would have he missed, he missed
the cut he was. So he's not gonna make money
this weekend. I don't think they still. I think even
with the new changes the PJ, they're not paying you
out if you don't make the cut right and central events.
So he's not making money for this week all because
he couldn't show up on time and then took no
accountability for it, which is again, I just just my

(01:30:40):
thing in life is he's gotta t accountability, man like
it's everyone makes mistakes. It's just own the mistake you make.
That's it. I got you.

Speaker 3 (01:30:48):
Uh, all right, we got through one game. Let me
just indulge me for a minute. Yeah, and get through
so many games. So we got we start off with
the rematch. Then we go to Australia forty nine Ers
in rams great game, right, Yes, I.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
Agree, I just don't. I would why so, I would
rather I thought you were trying to rip through them.
I would rather this division game be at home. But
it's a great game, nonetheless.

Speaker 3 (01:31:16):
Yeah, and then Sunday, the first weekend's pretty awesome. You
got some great matchups. I mean, Falcon Steelers, Ravens, Colts Bill's, Texans, Bears, Carolina.
I mean they're all interesting. They're all interesting matchups. I agree,
Green Bay Minnesota. I think it's going to be a

(01:31:39):
great game. What else we got? We got little Dolphins, Raiders,
know and Eagles. Commander's good game. And then you go
Cowboys shine Sunday night.

Speaker 2 (01:31:53):
Yeah. I'm pretty high on the Cowboys in that game
so far.

Speaker 5 (01:31:57):
I think that's a Cowboys heart. Yeah, yeah, I agree.
I actually think that they're gonna they're gonna have a
good year.

Speaker 2 (01:32:05):
I think so too.

Speaker 3 (01:32:06):
I totally agree Denver, Kansas City is your Monday nighter.

Speaker 2 (01:32:13):
Yeah, there was so there was chatter about, you know,
who was hosting this game, and Broncos fans are like,
we deserve the host because we want a division. I'm like,
what that's so? Who cares? Would you rather play Kansas
City or in the season in Kansas City when they're
still figuring out, you know, Mahomes off an injury, play
them late in the season when it's gonna be much
tougher to play there. Now you're gonna get you know.

(01:32:33):
I I'd rather do it this way. But I mean, again,
it doesn't it doesn't really matter. But chieftain prime time
two weeks in a row. So I'd imagine that they
feel pretty comfortable with Mahomes being able to play. Put
a videout yesterday of him golfing, so I guess that
and he can handle some of that torque.

Speaker 3 (01:32:46):
Yes, yes, Uh, Lion's Bills is your Thursday night the
following Wait, that's a great game.

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
The opener home opener of the new stadium for Buffalo.
So that'll be a pretty uh, pretty intense that'd be.
That'd be great. The Lions are on my radar as
a you know, bounce back is the wrong word. They
won nine games, but like, oh the Lions won twelve again,
that's there on my radar.

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
Uh My, my buddy Toots because he laughs at me
and he'll go, he just you're wretched excess.

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
He just sat me. You guys are just wretched access.

Speaker 3 (01:33:27):
Yes we are, and we love it, absolutely love it.
Colt Chiefs, what do you think of Mahomes when you
think he'll be back we won, you think he'll be
ready to go?

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
There's no way they put them week one against Denver
with with I drive those of the quarterback. Yeah, I
felt the same thing. Yeah, Mahomes is posting videos himself golfing.
I think that. I think he's good. I don't think
he posted videos of him golfing if if he wasn't good,
which again not football, I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
But no, yeah, he wouldn't do. I agree with you.
That was my read too, but I figured you'd have
a really good read on it. Giants and Rams is
the Monday Night. A lot of Giant love man.

Speaker 2 (01:34:07):
First two weeks there on National TV. I I don't
I don't buy the Giants. I think it's it's a
pretty tough two games start to start the season, Cowboys
and Rams.

Speaker 3 (01:34:20):
I know, I know the Rio game is Week three
between Baltimore and Dallas. That's a tough to get. That
is top, don't you think? What do you mean day
so he's not to start the season. Yeah, I mean
how far is the flight? I think that the way

(01:34:42):
that that teams travel now and more important, the way
that they value rest and recovery and rehabbing prayer like
I think, I think just teams and players are better
suited to make these long trips than ever before. Yeah, fair, fair,
you would would it wouldn't bother you a Rio trip

(01:35:04):
week through Week three?

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
I don't think. So.

Speaker 3 (01:35:07):
Okay, all right, well that's uh, that is your week
three and then we go to uh the Sunday nighter
is Rams and Denver, and the Monday nighter is Eagles Bears,
which is really worth game.

Speaker 2 (01:35:20):
What if the Eagles Bears. That's a great NFC game.
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:35:25):
The Thursday stee the week four Steelers Browns.

Speaker 2 (01:35:29):
Ew Cleveland I think has won four straight at home
against Pittsburgh. That's an ugly game.

Speaker 3 (01:35:37):
The first of the international games kickoff in October Colts
and Commanders international games. I mean in like in Europe.
I mean yeah, we just did three. Yeah yeah, and
we just did Australia to starting the season. Uh yeah,
the first of the London games, the nine thirty I
kind of was just kind of going off of the

(01:35:58):
nine thirty Eastern stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:35:59):
Yeah, they you know those games are you know they're
on TV. I'll tell you that they're on. They're on
when I'm doing Captain Andy Kickoff. Yeah, you love. Yeah,
it's not always the best football being played, but it's
it's football none the less. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
Detroit and Carolina, what do we think of the lines
this year?

Speaker 2 (01:36:20):
Still a very talented team. Offensive line rebuild. Uh, you know,
they just sort of missed Ben Johnson last year on offense.
And I'm curious if if you know that if they figure,
you know, figure things out this offseason and they're back
healthy on defense. But Hudginson being back is such an
important factor. He's such a good football player. GOP's getting
a little bit older, but they're so really good football team.

Speaker 3 (01:36:41):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:36:41):
They're very talented team. Yeah. Yeah, I keep waiting for them.

Speaker 3 (01:36:47):
I can't believe the window will close on them and
that's it. Because the injuries that they have suffered over
the two it's still almost not fair.

Speaker 2 (01:36:59):
Yeah, I think that. Yeah, I'm I'm in agreement. They
probably can't have it many years. But I do think
that we undervalued previewing the last season, we undervalued the
loss of Ben Johnson. It's why I'm a little bit
shaky on Seattle this year because of Kubiak leaving. And
we can see sort of that parallel where your offense

(01:37:21):
is just a little bit worse. I'm not gonna tell
a lot worse, but yeah, ten to fifty worse. It's
a big difference. I know, I know, No, it really is.

Speaker 3 (01:37:31):
The let me just fanswer in some of the bigger
games because we're of time. We have the Brain coming
up in about twelve minutes, so I'm sure we'll be
doing that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:37:42):
Green Bay.

Speaker 3 (01:37:43):
The Thanksgiving Eve game is green Bay in the Rams.
Like that is a great Listen to these games Thanksgiving Eve,
Green Bay and the Rams, Thanksgiving Day Bears, Lions, Eagles, Cowboy, Chiefs, Bills.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
I mean, that's an amazing four game stretch.

Speaker 3 (01:38:06):
And then the Black Friday game is Deadver Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
Yeah, they these streaming services have paid a lot of
money for these games. They've they've given them good matchups.
I'll tell you that, like they've made take care of
they've made sure to take care of ESPN and Monday Night.
They've given them really great matchups. Down Man forever football
was just matches were not very good. And they when
they got Akman and Buck and they've just given better games.

(01:38:32):
They've given these streamers great games for these holiday matchups.
So you throw going into the NFL and you get
good you know, you get good games.

Speaker 3 (01:38:44):
The first Saturday slate is is December nineteenth, the week
before Christmas. Seattle and the Eagles, the Bears and the Bills.
They're the two Saturday standalone.

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
Awesome. Bear's Bills will be fantastic, I know. I mean
that's it's it really is.

Speaker 3 (01:39:06):
And then uh, you know you have Lions and Vikings
at night and Patriot Cheeps on that Monday. And then
here it is Christmas Eve Houston, Philadelphia, and then Christmas
Day Friday football Chicago, Green Bay, Buffalo, Denver, Ram Seahawks.

Speaker 2 (01:39:31):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (01:39:34):
If you remember the Christmas Day games last year, we're
a bit of a dud.

Speaker 2 (01:39:37):
Well everyone because the quarterbacks were hurt. Yeah, that's the
that's the thing you have to worry about, like at
this time of years, you have to hope everyone's healthy. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:39:45):
Yeah, but there but there are some there's some pretty
uh pretty some pretty good games. I mean, you know
the Christmas Eve game between phillp and Houston, two really
good defenses.

Speaker 2 (01:39:58):
Again, they took care of they took care of these.
So their of their of their brands, man, their their
streamers and there and and some of the some of
these games are on on broadcast television. Like they give
they give them. They're just given us good matchups in
these uh in these windows, and they should they should
prioritize good matchup in these windows.

Speaker 3 (01:40:16):
So I'll ask you to as before we take a
quick t oh, what do you believe my buddy too
says wretched excess? Do you believe the NFL is embarked
on wretched excess?

Speaker 2 (01:40:31):
Yes, but the numbers and the data would show you
that as much as we complain about it, we all
watch the NFL and there's nothing like the NFL and
television and so do I think that's a little bit
aggressive at times? Absolutely, but I'm gonna watch every second
of it. So what am I to complain about it?
You know, Like I like, it's just you know, I
think one of these NFL has done so well is

(01:40:54):
as we know exactly what it's gonna be played. And
that's changing a little bit now, right because the games
are moving a little bit off of their normal time slots.
But there's enough notice to understand this. You know. Again,
they're they're putting them on streaming services, which is fine, right,
but they're doing it, I think at the right time
to put on streaming services. I think on the middle
of a Sunday is a little bit difficult to do that.

(01:41:14):
Standalone games a lot easier. I think about last night,
like the NBA was on Amazon Prime and like Game
six is so like that seems like not the best
set up. The NFL is not doing stuff like that, right,
They're putting them standalone games, you don't you know. The
worst part obviously about having you know, to use a
streaming service for those games is you can't flip back
and forth right between channels. Yes, yes, hey we got

(01:41:35):
to kick quick deal.

Speaker 3 (01:41:36):
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Speaker 2 (01:42:28):
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There was courtesy the Spurs Radio Network. Spurs eliminate the Wolves.
One man, really happy, our man the brain who had
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to meet in the Western Conference file.

Speaker 2 (01:42:50):
He joins us, what do you say their brain?

Speaker 7 (01:42:53):
Hey, good morning, see how you doing today?

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
Congratulations my brother on a great selection.

Speaker 7 (01:43:00):
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Speaker 2 (01:43:01):
Every now and then, right, that's great man, that's cool man.

Speaker 7 (01:43:06):
Yeah, that was that was That was that was. That
was when I was proud up because I liked it
at the time, and uh, forty to one, A lot
of things have to happen, but you know what that
was for forty to one shots by the easiest long
shot bet of my life because they were the two
best teams all year. Looking forward to the series very
very much.

Speaker 2 (01:43:25):
Yeah, yeah, go ahead, Jammer. I I think I would
pick Okay See to win the series, but it'd be
nice to see them actually get tested for once. And
to me, it's one of the things where if the
Spurs started a game off making their threes, that's it,
like you're just not being them. It feels goot series
to live wagering just sort of general thoughts early on

(01:43:46):
when it comes to to Thunder and Spurs.

Speaker 7 (01:43:50):
Yeah, look, I'm jeff, I gotta tell you, like I
know again. Part of the part of my feeling on
this for was okayc was I think if jam Williams
was out, I would have felt borderline cocky that san
Antonio would win. Now that he's healthy, that's a big thing.
That's a really good player for the mother A. J.

(01:44:11):
Mitchell has been playing sensational, but still I still think
the Spurs are. I think the Spurs are the better team.
I think the Spurs are going to win. I bet
the Spurs. I think the Spurs are better than okay See.
It's nothing against Okay See. They're obviously terrific, but I

(01:44:31):
remember watching them play. Also. I think they went four
to h against him this year, if I'm not mistaken,
and they kind of beat him easily most of the games.
I think the Spurs are all that in the bag
of chips. I I really do. Okay See is terrific.
I'm sure it's going to be a great series. I mean,
I think it'll I'd be very surprised if you these

(01:44:51):
two's won in five or less. I think it'll be
a six to seven game, tough series. But as I said, Jeff,
I look, I take seven points right now with the Spurs.
I bet I think the Spurs in Game one. I
think the Spurs are gonna win the series. See how
it plays out. I think they're.

Speaker 2 (01:45:07):
Going out right with the Spurs.

Speaker 7 (01:45:11):
I hear you, I think they're I just think they're.

Speaker 2 (01:45:15):
You've been unimpressed by Okay I have, I have?

Speaker 7 (01:45:20):
You know, it's funny like okay see to me again,
They're obviously great. They start off twenty four to Ohero
or whatever it was, twenty four and one, and I
I think for the last called after that twenty four
game stretch, guys, the last sixty games plus the playoffs,
I think the Spurs have been the better team. And
I don't really know how people would argue that. Quite frankly,

(01:45:41):
I really don't other than just the old adage you
got to pay your dues to win the title in
the NBA, which is I have to admit, kind of
has happened. And people will look at the Spurs, they're like, okay,
they they haven't gone through the battles so to speak.
Whoever O the team when they win the title, seemingly
for the first time, has to go through that carnage
to get there. And okay, so I'm sorry say in

(01:46:04):
front of has not done that yet. But again, I
I think they're gonna win the series. We'll see how
it plays out. I have ticket I have eighty to
one shot in that Anthony and forty to one to
one in the West as well. So not only did
I not hedge it, I doubled down and bet more
on the Spurs.

Speaker 2 (01:46:21):
Wow, eighty the one on San Anceo.

Speaker 7 (01:46:26):
Yeah, that was, that was.

Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
That was.

Speaker 7 (01:46:27):
My two teams before the year were the Spurs and
the the Raptors is long shots and the Spurs has
certainly been quite good. Toronto not as much, but they
still did out expected exceed expectations.

Speaker 2 (01:46:43):
That's cool, man, very good, very good. Uh go ahead,
no god, sorry, no? Go about about Game seven in
the in the other series. I was very disappointed the
Cavs last night. That was like a very poor performance.
My head would tell me that Detroit wins by twenty

(01:47:07):
points in Game seven, But I don't trust them at
all either. I don't trust any team here. I mean,
the under typically Game seven has been a way to go.
I might just auto bet the under and be done
with it. But the Cavs can't stop turning the ball over,
and Detroit has those moments when they turn the ball
over a ton too. I don't trust anyone in this game.
It does feel like I don't know what the total

(01:47:28):
is for this game, like this game is going to
be a complete grind fest. It's yeah, two five, Yeah,
it sounds about right, one hundred and ninety eight, right,
I just I can't imagine a lot of potra score.
How do you handicap this game?

Speaker 7 (01:47:39):
Early on, Jeff, I got it. I'm laughing to myself
internally because I have to tell you, when people be
asking about this series, Jeff, I swear I would be
like I was, my voice is coming out of your mouth. Okay,
I had literally said, no, no joke. I'm like, I
just don't trust either of these teams even a little.
And you know it's it always an anf can relate
to this. It comes down to the ghost of James Harden.

(01:48:01):
You know, James Harden's in a big series. They gat
them for a Hall of Fame player. It just doesn't
make a difference. You know, it's not going to get done.

Speaker 2 (01:48:10):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:48:10):
It's interesting when you look at the series though, and
you're objective about it. Detroit it's clearly outplayed them in
this series. They really should have won in six. I mean,
I can't really be argued, and you could even argue
they should have won five of the six games, certainly
worst case four. They've really outplayed Cleveland. I think they
have shown they are the better team. One thing to

(01:48:33):
me that the Detroit coaching staff. And it's funny, having
watched every one of these games so closely is you know,
Paul Reid X seventy six er has been honestly like
one of their best players, and every time he comes
in he's blown away. Jalen Darn blown him away. It's

(01:48:54):
it is unbelievable. And again I get you a dance
to who Got You there? And Jalen Darn was terri
fick off season, but gosh has he been you forget borderline,
he's been bad in the playoffs. Finally at least played
decently yesterday. But uh, I think Detroit's gonna win. Their
defense is really good, by the way. I got to
tell you guys both one thing watching this series. One

(01:49:17):
of the most impressive defensive players I've ever seen in
my life is watching al Star Thompson.

Speaker 2 (01:49:21):
He is.

Speaker 7 (01:49:23):
His quickness is everything he does defensively. Oh my gosh,
what a phenomenal defensive player that guy is. He really
impresses me. But again, I think either of these teams
against the New York will not be I'll be very
surprised if New York doesn't beat these teams pretty easily,
quite frankly, but I think Detroit wins the game. They're

(01:49:44):
laying four I think they covered as well.

Speaker 3 (01:49:47):
How could are the next is a question that I
have because I don't know I have.

Speaker 2 (01:49:53):
I don't think they've been tested.

Speaker 3 (01:49:55):
I just look at it and go, I know you,
I think it would be closer in the finals.

Speaker 2 (01:50:03):
I do.

Speaker 7 (01:50:03):
I think they will if they get there. Again, maybe
I'm wrong, but I think if they get there, they
can do what Indiana the last year and make it respectable.
They players, any think they're extremely deep. They're extremely deep.
They have a true superstar in Brunson if Og and
Newbs healthy. Again, they're extremely deep, and they're all very good.

(01:50:26):
I kind of think they're underrated, quite frankly. But we'll
see how it plays out. And I agree with you
not being tested, I'll give you that. I do agree
with that.

Speaker 2 (01:50:34):
That's right. I guess that's kind of where I'm at.

Speaker 3 (01:50:36):
I just look at disease and I look at them
and I go, they're good, like you're right, Like they're solid,
but like cat, we'll get in foul trouble all the time, right,
Like Josh Hart's a nice player and a good and
and you know again the little thing great garbage kind
of kid, oh g similar, you know, I like Bride,

(01:51:00):
but you know, I mean he's not an elite wing Bronson, right,
and then their benches scouts, all right, and I just
look at Okay san Antonio just I just think those
teams are much better.

Speaker 7 (01:51:14):
But we'll see, well they'll be a big save Anthony.
Those teams will be a massive favorite. Again, whoever wins,
it doesn't make a difference like whatever team, because you're
gonna look like this on top of it, whoever wins
the series between okayc and the Spurs, it's gonna get
a massive bump. I mean by that is, whoever beats
the other team. These are considered to be by a
mile of two best teams. So whoever wins, there are

(01:51:35):
power ratings and they get more street credits so to speak,
because they beat a team that was considered to be phenomenal,
right right, as opposed to whoever the Knicks beat. If
they do beat, if they even win, they could easily lose.
But if it's Detroit or Cleveland, those teams get no respect.
So it's like the next win it will be like
another series, like beating Philly, like all right, whatever, a
big deal versus this Okay ser Spurs team. It's like,

(01:51:58):
oh my god, you just beat a fun nominal team.
So I would say to people out there who pentry like,
then I'd wait until after the finals are set, because
I think whoever wins the West will even be a
bigger favorite based off the fact that they're going to
get a bump for beating the other other great team
versus the Knicks, being that people don't respect interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:52:18):
It's yeah, it makes sense, makes sense, all right? Uh,
Jeff got you.

Speaker 3 (01:52:22):
The rest of the way, I got a baseball game,
so the kids, the kids playing, Uh, all right, thanks buddy,
the Jeff knows.

Speaker 2 (01:52:32):
The two of us every week we're like, you know,
we got this. I'm with you. We live for this stuff.
Fellas right here every week we love you. On Fox
Sports Radio, we were back on the Fellas Jeff Schwartz
alongside as usual to end every show, the Brain, All right, Brain.

(01:52:53):
NHL playoffs tonight Montreal and Buffalo. Great serious so far
game sixth to night at home? Do you have a
play for us in hockey tonight?

Speaker 7 (01:53:02):
You know, I looked at a very good series and
again it's funny that this series is kind of showing
what I've always said throughout life. Jeff, I always like
taking the road teams in these games because hockey hole ice,
well people want to pay for it really is just
not there. I like the Sabers getting you can get

(01:53:23):
around plus one fifty five ish. I like the Sabers
against Montreal. Now, I know they got absolutely torched in
Game five, but again, I see these games as closer
to fifty to fifty And if you want to give
me a big price because I'm not at home, I'll
gladly take it. I think the Sabers are very live
getting a big price.

Speaker 2 (01:53:41):
I'm looking ahead to Wednesday. There's a fantastic Western Conference
between Avalanche and the Knights. Any thoughts on series price
or this does feel like a seven game series. I
could see maybe the Avalanche winning in six, but it
does feel like a series that might goel the distance.

Speaker 7 (01:53:58):
Yeah, look, I like like I like Colorado the Advance.
I do. Now again they've had some goaltending issues, which
is which is real, But I do think they are
the better team. I think again, I think we're in
my opinion, like kind of like OKC was on a
collision course to be in the conference finals against the Spurs.
I think we're going to be on a collision course
down the Cup finals. In my opinion, at least of

(01:54:20):
the Avalanche against the Hurricanes. I think those are the
two best teams. I think they will win this series,
and I actually do think it'll be in six or less.
I think they're better than Vegas.

Speaker 2 (01:54:29):
Now.

Speaker 7 (01:54:29):
Vegas is playing quite well, I get it, but I
think Colorado just has such an array of talent. Jeff,
I think they find a way to get it done,
and I think they do win the series in six
or less.

Speaker 2 (01:54:40):
They can score so quickly, that's that they justlievable.

Speaker 7 (01:54:43):
That game and they're down at the end the just
they scored two goals, boom boom, like it's just phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
I they're done three nothing, and I thought about taking
them live on the money line. Did I took them
over three and a half goals, so I at least
made some money in that game that they would you
have to score. I mean, I've had some fun. I
had the under in two of those games. In game
two in Game five and both got bet on empty
net goals with under ten seconds left. That's always unders

(01:55:12):
are hard to wager on, so just worth noting. And
the then I had I had a Montre to have
and you can wager on Ben Mgm like you can
wager on a specific team to have empty net goals.
So if I feel like the team is gonna win
some as I'll put some money in that. Like I
had last game Commudian, I thought we're gonna win empty
that goal, like three to one. They had six minutes
at empty net time. They didn't get in to get

(01:55:34):
close button. Nonetheless, no one cares about my gambling losses.
Turn to golf today.

Speaker 7 (01:55:38):
Yes, that's true, I.

Speaker 2 (01:55:39):
Do you do. There's also one last night. You go
to my twitter at Jeff Schwartz. I had Kaitlin Clark
to have a double double should thirty two points and
eight assists. Come to find out they didn't count two
passes that she made for jump shots as assists. I
don't know if that's a stack crash is gonna happen,
but like, do you throw the ball to the player
and the player shot the three without dribble a and

(01:56:00):
it didn't count either one of those. So hopefully we
have some Sach corrections and.

Speaker 7 (01:56:04):
It's yeah, hopefully So that is that is awful? Oh
my gosh, Yeah, that is in the NBA jet there's
actually I don't know the w on but you could
actually send an email like our Twitter thing. There's a
site kind of you could do that, and I know
people will do it and they'll they'll send for a correction.
Don't know how it works in the w NBA though,
but gosh, that seems pretty bad.

Speaker 2 (01:56:23):
It is it is, it is what it is, turn
into it to golf a PGA Championship, Round three and
round four, Scheffler still the favorite, even though he has
not played terribly great, very bunched up group at the top.
I also I had I had Scheffler to be the
round one leader, right and dead heat rules applied. I
think I ended up losing the money even though he
won round one because seven.

Speaker 7 (01:56:44):
Guys it was like a nine way tie or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:56:47):
I was just like, nonetheless, any thoughts on PJ today.

Speaker 7 (01:56:52):
I mean, look, it's such a jumble leader board I
really like. Again, one thing I've learned, at least in
my gambling career is for me speaking for me, I
know it's fun to pick the guy to win. I
get it, and it is right you want to pick
that needle in the hestack of that. But what I
find is much more money making, in my opinion, is
betting tops ten's, top twenties, top thirties. Not as sexy,

(01:57:15):
not as fun, not those crazy payoffs. But it's Jeff,
it's so freaking hard to win a golf tournament. It
is only one person does it right, and it is
so difficult. So look, do I think the most likely
winner is Scott Schuffer? Yes, but again, good luck trying
to pick out one winner when there's like twenty guys
within two shots. That looks like So I just stick

(01:57:38):
with now, Jeff, just doing like top twenties and stuff
like that as supposed to trying to find a winner.

Speaker 2 (01:57:42):
It's too hard. Yeah, I have Schuffler top ten. I
think a minus one ten. That's proba my biggest of
yeah tournament.

Speaker 6 (01:57:48):
So.

Speaker 7 (01:57:50):
Me, that's that has merit, and to me, that has merit,
and that's something you know, if if he just plays okay,
you're gonna win, as opposed to he has to I
think everything has to go right. I mean, if one
guy just gets hot, you lose. You know, I'd much
rather have bets like that and get a little less
of a pay day or a little lot less, you know,
a lot less of a pay day, but at least
you win versus trying to always just win a tournament

(01:58:11):
too hard, in my opinion.

Speaker 2 (01:58:13):
Are you ready to lose money on the Jets at
Titans a Week one in the NFL season? Jets favorite,
Titans favored by three. I'm Jets plus three. Give it
to me right now?

Speaker 7 (01:58:24):
Yeah, I mean it's funny, I do, and I guess
these lines. I thought that line would be closer to
one and a half, so yeah, I'm on the Jets side.
I think that line is too high. I agree with
you fully.

Speaker 2 (01:58:38):
Have you made any Week one wagers yet? The full
slight out right now? DCA think has wagers for every
game for the Tires Sea. Have you done anything yet
I have?

Speaker 7 (01:58:47):
It's fun to have him actually in the Bahamas for
a wedding. I have not as of yet, although I
do have a boatload and I mean a boatload of
NFL season win bets over under stuff like that. I
almost I mean that I have a on but I
will I'm sure be attacking the game one stuff again
hopefully when the limits. But for me, Jeff, a lot
of this is not only betting it, but being able

(01:59:07):
to get down you know not to sound like a pig,
but I'll get it.

Speaker 2 (01:59:12):
I understand.

Speaker 7 (01:59:13):
And sometimes it's gotten heart, you know, people like rushed
to death of stuff, and it hurts me because it's like,
you know, but I want to If I can't get
down a decent amount, like why am I doing it?
I'd rather gamble a little bit weight. Hopefully these limits
go up and then I can bet them for more.
And that's kind of what I'm hoping to do.

Speaker 2 (01:59:29):
About ten seconds here, favorite win total? What team?

Speaker 7 (01:59:34):
Oh my gosh, my favorite drive? All right, I'm gonna
give you a Green Bay under two and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:59:38):
Great, all right, enjoy your time with the Bahamas. We'll
talk to you next week. As usual, this has been
the Fellas. Next up is Countdown Bribe. Rich Ornberger and
Jared s would have a great weekend of watching sports,
listening to the radio. We'll talk to you guys next week.
Take care everyone,

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