August 8, 2025 • 39 mins
Brian Noe talks about what the biggest curveball will be of the NFL season, Chargers Pro Bowl LT Rashawn Slater getting hurt and ruled out for the season, former WNBA star Diana Taurasi saying how criminally underpaid she was, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah, Yes, what's going on? Hope? Everything is going outstanding
for you? Having some fun tonight with the militia. Just
talk to Holler and James. He has all sorts of
fired up for the Vikings upcoming season. I love that passion.
Love it. Feel free to hit us up eight seven
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Also on X at the No Show. If you want
to tweet in, feel free to do so. So every
single year, I rack my brain trying to figure out
what the biggest curveball will be, What will be the
biggest surprise in the NFL season, What team is going
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to shock us the most good or bad. Last season,
biggest curveball easily was the Washington Commanders. They had won
four games the season prior. They won twelve games last
season like they tripled their win total and they made
it all way to the NFC Championship Game. Nobody was
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saying after a four win season, Hey, this guy Jayden Daniels,
he might be the real deal. I'm gonna give him
triple the wins and say they're in the NFC Title Game.
That's what I'm Nobody predicted that, and it happened. It happened.
So that's the thought. Whether it's a team that's expected
to to do a lot this year and just completely
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falls off, or it's a team like the Washington Commanders
not expect expected to do much and they had a
great season made it deep into the playoffs. So to me,
this is just an exercise. We're kind of just throwing
stuff against the wall. And while I'll start with the
teams with high expectations, these are really good teams from
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last season. They project to be really good teams this season.
But if this or that happens, and then maybe they
get off on the wrong foot and they're pressing a
little bit, maybe it unfolds. It don't ravels for them. Right,
So I don't believe put let's put it this way,
I wouldn't race to the betting window to fade all
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of these teams. I'm just saying, open your mind to
the possibility. This is a really good exercise. If you're
just handicapping a game you're trying to figure out, just
open your mind up to the underdog's path toward winning
this game or covering the spread. Does it sound halfway realistic?
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You know, it's something to consider. Okay, so let's start
with some of the good teams. Let's start with the
defending champs, the Eagles. What would it take for the
Eagles to regress greatly to the point where they're the
biggest surprise of the NFL season. Well, it would take
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a couple of things that are realistic. One, it would
take a loss of a lot of talent. The Eagles
lost a lot of talent in the off season. They
had a lot of contributors go elsewhere. Right when you
start looking at you know, the and the roster is
still really, really good. So they reloaded in a few areas.
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But when you lose your pass rush, you lose your
defensive line. Williams, Milton Williams is gone, Sweat is gone,
you know, Darius Slay a little bit long in the tooth.
That's not a crippling loss. You lose Makai Beckton, he
was good on that offensive line. Right, So, just collectively,
the amount of losses could add up and it could
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make an impact. Okay. Also, Saquon Barkley, the guy had
four hundred and thirty six touches last season. It's a
lot of wear and tear. What if Saquon Barkley is
a much lesser version of himself this season certainly possible.
I mean even if he if he rushes for or
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let's say, fourteen hundred yards, that's six hundred yards less
than what he rushed for last season. That's a big difference.
That's a chunk of production right there. In rushing for
fourteen hundred That's still a really good season. So what
if Saquon takes a noticeable step back? Now all of
a sudden, there's a little bit more on Jalen Hurts plate.
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You know, you need Hurts to throw for what somewhere
in the neighborhood at thirty touchdowns? Is that gonna happen? No,
it is not right. So that would be the formula
to me the Eagles high expectations defending champs. Maybe the
formula isn't quite the same for success. I could see
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at least a path for them to be a big disappointment.
I'm not calling my shot again, but I could see
a path toward that. Let's throw a couple of other
possibilities out there. What about the possibilities of the Lions
being a huge disappointment. Well, it would start with a
couple of things. One, their schedule is freaking brutal. Their
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schedule is obnoxiously difficult.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Have you looked at just their road schedule alone, My gosh,
it'll give you nightmares. Don't look at it for more
than one minute, you know, I'll give you, like, you know,
sweating in the middle of the night nightmares. Here's just
their road schedule. No layup, matchup, no like, Oh they
should get that one. At the Packers at the Ravens
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on Monday night, at the Bengals, at the Chiefs on
a Sunday night, at the Commander's, at the Eagles on
a Sunday night, at the Rams, at the Vikings on Saturday.
All right, maybe it's maybe it's sun I don't know
what that is. Maybe it's Christmas Day. I'm not sure
what's going on there. That's a that's a brutal schedule.
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It is Christmas Day. They're at the Vikings. Every road
game is a demanding test. And so if the Lions
they have this hard schedule, maybe the injury like isn't
as bad, but it's still pretty difficult to deal with
throughout the season. They won fifteen games last year and
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their season win total, interesting enough, is much lower. It's
at ten and a half. It's pretty low for a
fifteen win team from the season prior. And it's actually,
if you're taking the over ten and a half, it's
plus money. It's plus one ten So the Jews the
taxes on the under, it's minus one thirty five to
the under of ten and a half. So that's interesting
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right there from a betting perspective, right, Like, sometimes these
betting lines will give you a little bit of a
clue of what's to happen. That doesn't showcase great faith
in the Lions in terms of their season win total number.
And if you're taking over ten and a half you
get plus money. It's like, okay, that that seems a
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little bit like a bear trap potentially, you know, Okay,
let's throw a couple other teams out there. What about
the Vikings. I think this is a strong candidate for
a team that could be a huge disappointment this season. Now,
if you look at the Vikings, it begins with JJ
McCarthy the path toward a disappointing season. Right it's a
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first year starting quarterback. He hasn't attempted a single regular
season pass in his NFL career. Yet, like, that's that's tough.
They play in a really tough division. You play the
AFC North top to bottom, pretty tough division top to bottom.
Also play the NFC East, that's a that's a decent
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division top to bottom as well. I know the Giants
aren't gonna be anything to write home about, but the
Cowboys are talented enough where it's not just gonna be
a layup. And that game's on the road. You just
go to Dallas on a Sunday night and just expect
to waltz through them, win by I don't know, two
or three touchdowns. No, that's gonna be a tough game.
You gotta deal with the Eagles, the Commanders. So it's
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a tougher schedule. And remember it's a second place schedule.
It's which can help them this season. But I don't
think they get layups like some second place schedules are
a little bit more favorable. They host the Falcons, they're
at the Chargers on a short week, and they're at
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the Seahawks. It's a tough place to play. So I
think it's a tough schedule for the Vikings. And I
also think this I said this last night. I won't
go in depth, but I have to a bit. I'll
stick my at least my right foot in these waters,
you know, and no, not even my lower body, just
right foot in these waters. Not to repeat myself, but
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for the Vikings to be potentially the biggest disappointment of
the upcoming NFL season, I just go back to the
expectations for JJ McCarthy. You'll hear all these people say, hey,
we gotta give the guy a little grace. He's a
first year starter. It's almost like with the shoulder shrug, like, hey,
you know, like he's not gonna be a finished product
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come week one. Their voice goes up in octavity. We
just gotta be a little patient. It's like, yeah, come
talk to me in week four. If the Vikings get
off to a slow start and McCarthy's not producing much,
maybe he's turning the ball over a little bit, it's sloppy. Yeah,
you let me know how much patience exist. Then this
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is a team that won fourteen games, that has real
Super Bowl aspirations and they get off to this real
slow start and you think they're gonna be patient. No
chance that will be the case. And that's what I
think is really really difficult for JJ McCarthy. Again, it's
the gift and the curse. The gift is the luxury
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of a great supporting cast, got a lot of weapons
around him to throw to. The curse is with those
weapons to throw to bro we're expecting production. We're expecting
wins from the jump, and if we're not getting them,
people are gonna freak out. I don't buy any of
this talk about patience, you know. So it's the epic
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line from Ed Norton in American History X Right. It's
a you know, it's a serious movie. It's it's it's
a heavy movie. But there's a great line in it
where it's like there's a lot of hard talk and
not a lot of follow through. That's what it's gonna
be like with the Vikings for any Vikings fan, and
it's like, oh, we gotta be patient over for any
just football fan that's like, yeah, you gotta give him
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a little bit of time. It's like, yeah, that's that's
a lot of hard talk and there's not gonna be
a lot of follow through if they get off to
a rough start. I've seen it time and time again.
You have two watching the NFL. It's the best formula
for a huge let down. A team with realistically high
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expectations and high goals that gets out of the blocks
a little slowly, they lose a couple of games, and
then what happens. They start pressing, and then it gets
way worse. The Vikings are at least a candidate to
be the biggest curveball team. A lot of people are
high on them. I could see them being a gigantic disappointment.
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The same thing is fair the complete other way around.
There are some people that are like, yeah, you know,
they're not saying they're gonna win fifteen games, right, They're
not going crazy with their expectations. And if you look
at the Viking season win total, you have just the
betting market here, they're up to nine and a half.
And again the over is plus money plus one ten.
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If you bet one hundred dollars, you would win one
hundred and ten dollars. Typically, Vegas doesn't do you favors
like that, like, hey, you're betting one hundred, here's one
hundred and ten, Like they normally don't do that, Like
you're betting one hundred, here's sixty three dollars and twenty
seven cents. There, you go, enjoy your sixty three bucks
right there, jackass. You'll probably give it back to us tomorrow.
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It's the way it typically goes with betting. But you're
getting plus money to the over nine and a half, right,
So not like epic faith in the Vikings from the
betting market. But I will say that I think you'd
make an argument the other way around for the Vikings
to be the biggest surprise curve ball. Let's say JJ McCarthy,
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he's really good, the talented kid, top ten pick, he
sat for an entire season. Sometimes that's the formula for
success for a lot of quarterbacks. Let's just say based
on great supporting cast, Kevin O'Connell, really sharp, offensive mind,
he puts his quarterback time and time again in great
positions to succeed. Let's say JJ McCarthy does yet Sam
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Darnold revive his career last year? Great success happened for
JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Good. So I'll talk out of both sides of my
mouth when it comes to the Vikings. I think that's
probably the only team you could say this for. I
think they're actually a candidate to be the biggest surprise
team in a good way. I think they're a candidate
to be the biggest surprise team in a bad way
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and be the biggest disappointment. I think they're live for both.
I'm so interested to see the Vikings this season. But
those are a couple of teams high expectations. What's at
least the path, what's the formula to explain a possible
fallof right? Next hour, we'll get positive here. We'll look
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at teams that not high expectations, you know, low season
win totals, but maybe they pull the Washington Commanders. Who
are the teams that are capable of pulling a stunner
where you're like, I cannot believe you fill in the
blank turned out to be the biggest, biggest surprise team
in a good way this season. Who's at least capable
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of doing that? We'll do that next hour. Looking forward
to that. I love trying to find the biggest surprise
team in the NFL. All right, coming up next, it's
a bet that our guy Coop should be making, but understandably,
he will absolutely not be making this bet. I'm Brian
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Speaker 1 (15:08):
It is Fox Sports Radio. I'm probably no in for
Big Ben malor Awesome job by Mary Mack. I love
hanging with you, Mary Mack, because I was just saying
that I I'll flow you back up for a second,
so you're hearing Freedom from Rage in the background right there.
If you're listening to the podcast after the show and
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there's no music, they just have to close your eyes
and pretend you know. Tom Morello with the soothing solo right,
there were my favorite Tom Morello solos. But I gave
Mary a heart attack or a bigger headache, one of
the two during the commercial break, because I couldn't remember
what song that solo was in right, and we traced it.
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We figured it out. It was Freedom, like this very slow,
like Tom Morello kind of uses his guitar as a turntable,
like he's skipping a record or something like that, so
he's doing all this creative, wild stuff. I love that
solo from Freedom, just this like slow, very melodic moodies.
I love that song.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
That's your favorite guitar solo ever?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
No, I wouldn't say ever, but it's up, that's on
the short list. I'd say it's on the shortlist. Man,
that's a good question, though, Mary like greatest guitar solo
at least my favorite. Okay, I like this, I like these.
You love these musical categories too. I know you, Mary
Mac you coop think of your I would say a
couple off the top of my head, A new level
from Pantera, Time Back, Darryl rest in Peace, amazing guitar player.
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One of my favorite solos he does on that song.
It's amazing, man, what else do I love? I love
Voodoo Child from Jimmy. Jimmy so far ahead of his time,
and uh, that was a great solo on that song.
And what else do I love? Those are a couple
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of the top of my head. We did karaoke of
Dittohead a couple of nights ago. But I love the
second solo on Dittohead song from so As I add
to your headache there right there, Mary Mack. But the
second solo, it's got to be Carrie King. He's just
doing a little bit more. He's doing tapping, a little
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bit of shredding. Really well done solo on that song.
I like that one a lot. Coop, you got anything
on the short list for your greatest solos at least
that you like the most.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I'd have to put some serious thought into it. I mean,
right off the top of my head. One that came
to mind is like Welcome Home Sanitarium. Okay, I love
that one. Yeah, I'd have to I'd have to put
some put some thought into it.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, like a lot of people love one. There's a
lot of great solo stuff on the song one from
Metallica and he's doing the tapping, the fast tapping at
the beginning of that. There's a lot of solo stuff
throughout this song too, you know, before it gets fast
and all that. Kirk's goot some Kirk Hammett had some
great solos in there, especially in the early days of Metallica,
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some really good stuff. And you said something else that
that made me think Koop I had another one, like
right there. You know, I was gonna say Slash from
Guns n' Roses, not metal, but you know, hard rock. Yeah,
Slash has some amazing solos, so like to his I
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forget the word that they say. It's it's kind of
like the pacing or the cadence if you will. It's
phrasing is what they say in guitar playing, where you
let it breathe a little bit. You don't just throw
a million notes on me, like the whole solo. It's
just too much. You gotta let it breathe a little bit.
Slash was amazing at letting it breathe and you're still getting,
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you know, entertainment value out of a solo. It's not
just like he had a great feel for letting it
breathe and really building it. Like November Rain is a
great solo. He's got a lot of great solos. A
Sweet Child of Mine is a great solo. Yeah, there,
you got anything on your list there, Mary.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
It's so fun. I actually just pulled it up. Arabella
by Arctic Monkeys is definitely one of my top.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
There, like Shredding Crazy. He's playing the guitar behind his head,
playing it with his teeth, Jimmy style. Sounds like this.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Yeah, that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I'm not impressed at all. I'm kidding. No, it's good.
It's you know, it's upbeat melodics. Fine, I dig it.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
You love a solo, Mary, That's what I love the most. Yeah,
that's good.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Definitely. I'm for like guitar solo. It doesn't have to
think about it. Bass solos for sure. For sure. Oh
Red Hot Chili Peppers and the song is the Adventures
of rain Dance McGee.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Okay, flea is awesome. The flea gets after it. Absolutely,
you would love you. We gotta go old school. I'll
give you a recommendation. Mary, if you haven't heard this one,
but you gotta hear Cliff Burton's solo bass solo Take one.
You gotta hear Anesthesias from the first Metallica record. You
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gotta hear. If you're a fan of bass solos, I
think you would like that one quite a bit. Yeah,
I think you would like Anesthesia and then in parentheses
pulling teeth because we have to name stuff weird things
in metal. I I don't know what two things in metal.
A lot of times I don't get the titles. It's like,
why do we need to be that fancy whatever? And
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how obnoxiously bad metal videos have typically been over the years.
There are some metal videos that are the worst things
I've ever seen in my life. I'm like, who's directing
this stuff?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Man?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
When you see a decent metal video, it's sent from
the heavens. There are some brutal ones for some great songs.
I don't know what they're doing over there, man, but
it happens. Okay. Oh, I gotta bet that Coop should
be making but he will not be making, and I
understand why. So I told Coop off the air, I'm like, bro,
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we were talking super Bowl odds. I'm not gonna talk
about that right here. That was a conversation we had
off the air, but it leads into the same team.
I was telling him about if you look at the
divisional odds in the NFL, it actually the money dropped
a little bit. So it was the Chiefs that minus
won twenty to win the AFC West. And it didn't
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drop a lot, but it dropped to minus one eighteen
on BETMGM. So if you're betting the Chiefs, if you
risk one hundred and eighteen dollars, you would win one
hundred dollars. This is a Chiefs team that's won the
division nine years in a row. They wanted the first
two years without Mahomes, with just Andy Reid there, right,
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they went in it with Alex and then Mahomes takes
over and he's won at seven straight years. They're going
for a decade straight winning the AFC West. And there
was listen some bad news on on Thursday. So the
Chargers left tackle Rashaun Slater. He was carted off the
practice field. Turns out he had season ending surgery. He
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had a ruptured patel attendant. Done for the year, He's
gonna undergo surgery. He's placed on ir SIT. The dream
is over at least for twenty twenty five. And it's
such a bummer for the Chargers for numerous reasons. So
he just signed a huge contract extension a week and
a half ago. So he signed a four year, one
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hundred and thirteen million dollar extension, ninety two million dollars guaranteed.
That deal made him the highest paid offensive lineman in
terms of money per year in NFL history, highest paid guy.
And then a week and a half later, boom, knee injury, gone, done,
done for the season. Just practice, was blocking a teammate
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and apparently is his leg buckled a little bit before
he made impact. It's just one of those, you know,
non impact injuries and he's gone. So what they're gonna
have to do. They're probably gonna have to shift Joe
Walt from the right side to the left side. He
did play left tackle the whole time at Notre Dame.
At least he has experience. They're probably gonna have to
shift around. They probably have to move Trey Pipkins, who
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was a guard the last couple of years ago, got
to move him back out to right tackle, shift things around.
Losing Rashaun Slater is a big, big loss for the
Chargers again. They want to pound the rock. We're talking,
you know, Jim Harbaugh over here, he loves to run
the ball. And when you have you know, Jim Harbaugh
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and Greg Roman, they're like, oh, you know what game plan,
Let's run it. Let's run it. Let's run it some more.
All right, we gotta pay all right, we get to
run in some more. Like that. They love running the football.
I love this quote. This is when they drafted Joe Alt.
This is what the twenty four draft so just last year,
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and instead of drafting Malik Neighbors, who was fantastic for
the Giants last season, they didn't draft a wide receiver
in the first round. They went for Joe Alt, the
tackle out of Notre Dame. And this is what Jim
Harbaugh said at the time.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I know the question's gonna come up, and you're to say, like,
you know, what about a weapon? What about offensive lineman?
We look at as weapons that group when we talk
about attacking, and we talk about attacking on offense, offensive
line is the tip of the spear.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
What a quote right there?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Huh At the end, offensive line is the tip of
the spear.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Offensive line is the tip of the spear.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I want to just throw on some shoulder pads right now.
I might get knocked around. I don't care. I'm fired up.
Jim Harbaugh. I love that quote right there. So yeah,
they look at offensive offensive linemen as weapons, one of
their best, their best offensive weapon. If that's the way
they view it, is down right like they look at
that and it begins with the offensive line. Herbert does
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this thing. Lad McConkey is really good. They have big
hopes for Amari and Hampton, really good running back out
of North Carolina. But with Rashaun Slater going down, that's
a big, big deal. So let's go back to the
division odds you've got. The Chargers are at plus three ten,
The Broncos are at plus three ten. The Raiders are
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seventeen to one to win the division. Look, they've made
some upgrades. They might be feisty enough to win a
couple of division games. They they're not going to really
challenge to win the division. So it's really like the
Broncos and the Chargers, they're both basically at three to one.
Whatever you bet times that by three, that's your payout.
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The Chiefs are close to even money. The Kansas City
Chiefs are at minus one eighteen. That just seems too
good to be true. How do you not bet the
Chiefs to win the AFC West for a tenth year
in a row. How have they fallen off? You've got
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for Mahomes to throw to. You got Rashi Rice, He's
gonna be suspended a few games. We got him, Hollywood Brown,
Xavier Worthy, Travis Kelce, top five scoring defense from last season.
They're not winning the division? What would it take for
that to be the case? I think it would take
significant injury woes for the Chiefs not to win the division.
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And I don't want to make it sound like, you know,
all these other teams have no chance. It's the NFL.
I don't want to make it sound like that, but man,
the Broncos taking that big of a step forward to
win the division. I know that we like have PTSD
from the Chiefs getting blown out by the Eagles in
the Super Bowl. And there are a lot of people
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are like, yeah, no about the Chiefs. They were a
fifteen and two team last season. And you can talk about, hey,
a favorable bounce here, a lucky win there. Okay, you
take away a couple of wins like they're thirteen and four,
there's still a thirteen win team. If you take away
a couple of favorable wins. They're still incredibly good at
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what they do. I love the Chiefs to win their
division again. Have I convinced you to put some money
on the Chiefs in the AFC West coop? I'm guessing
I probably haven't. Hell No, is that more based on
principle or logic? Both both? I think it's more based
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on principle. I get it. You're Broncos guy. You want
to run to the betting window and bet the Chiefs.
No problem with that, But that's based on principle. That's
not based on line. What logical what? What logical argument
do you have to back someone other than the Chiefs?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Broncos should have beat him twice last year?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
And how many times did they beat him?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Once?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Did get him at the end? When? Who was it?
Like Jake Locker's brother was playing quarterback at the end
of the year. That was the the game they didn't
play anybody, right, Yeah, but the game the first game
that was hideous. I mean, you're on the road, gotta
make a I think they were at home. The close
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field goal was that at home? That was on the road, right,
that was in arrowhead. That was an arrowhead. You got
a makeable field goal blocked, right, Yeah, they blocked it. Yep, Yep,
it happens, It happens. Hey, we while we're talking about betting,
let's get Poppy on here right from San Diego. Poppy's
got some bets for us. What's going on, Poppy?
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Hey, you know, welcome to the family. Yeah, I just
I heard you talking about bets, and I have bets
for tomorrow. And look, get the vision. Let me go
before I get the picked out. AFC West is a
tough division, but look, you're saying the Chiefs are gonna
win it ten times in a row, like sooner or later,
someone's got a bet on. Man, the odds with the
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Chargers and the Broncos is looking pretty good. You know,
John Harvall saying that the ship under load. Hey, next
man off for the offensive line. So you've got Justin
Herbert and they look pretty good. And the Broncos they
looked amazing, Like three of the AFC West made the
playoffs and coops teams the Broncos at Bucks, he looked amazing.
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But this rookie year good Kennedy top five quarterback in
my opinion on the rookies, that he should be able
to strive and do good. So like someone's telling me money,
what am I gonna bet? Look, I think Sean Payne
is a great coach with the Broncos, So I think
the Broncos are really gonna get trouble for the Chiefs.
And I would have been surprised if the Broncos coops
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team actually win that division.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
I'd be freaking yeah, I'd be shocked.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
As your all time best call, Hoppy, it's.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
The worst, good job, terrible argument from you, Poppy, like
you you're giving me, Hey, it could happen. I wouldn't
be shocked. That's not good enough.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Well it is good enough. Uh you know, Brian know
because everyone the whole world when the whole world tell
me that, or the casinos just on the numbers, when
he talks the analytics and the numbers. That's kind of
like a red flag. We're like, oh, it sounds too
good to be true. Well guess what, it's gonna be
too good to be true. And the Chiefs are not
gonna win ten years in the row. You don't make
the playoffs, but they're not going to win the division.
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Anc Wes, So red flag for everyone, do not bet
on the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Okay, I got I got a proposal. I got a
proposal for you, mister bet on the Broncos. All right, here,
here's what we do. We'll just use these odds. How
about this, Well, we'll make a bet together.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Typically I don't do this because I don't think any
listener on the face of the earth has ever paid
a bet. Sir, scratch off. You're on my list. The
list is very extent, so every listener has weaseled out
of every payment, always with me. But the proposal would be,
I got the Chiefs, whatever dollar amount we bet. Let's
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say we bet fifty bucks. If I'm right, Chiefs win,
you owe me fifty bucks, Poppy. If your Broncos win,
or any of the other three teams win, I'll give
you three times that amount. That's basically what it would be.
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Yeah, what do you think any of those three teams?
I really like those arts form even as those three teams.
That's been amazing. I'm taking that at anytime because you know,
Andy Reid is getting really targeting closer retirement, Travis Kelsey
having problems with you know, relationship, Katy Perry like this
a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
So I really like he's having problems with relationships, Poppy.
That's what's going on there. What's going on with him?
I thought they were looking for a house, him and
Katy Perry.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
Yeah, well yeah, Katy Perry or whatever. You know, he's
God whatever, his goop whatever, whatever. But yeah, I'm liking
that bet.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
So man, you're crazy, Poppy. So what are we doing?
We're doing fifty bucks, we're doing fifteen hundred bucks. What
are we throwing on this here? Because I'm good for whatever.
I'm ready for to back the Chiefs here.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
Well, whatever you want, it's all good. Whatever you want.
You know, I'll hate to take your money for Hey,
it's gonna come out in my favorite for a reason,
and whatever you want to bet, it's all good with me.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Okay, we won't go crazy. Let's just put one hundred
dollars on it. That was the bet I had with Coop,
and he won because his Broncos weaseled their way into
the top five scoring defense. I don't know how they
did it, but they had a great year, and I
paid up. So what do you think even hundred? You
owe me a hundred If the Chiefs win, I owe
you three hundred. If anybody else wins.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
Oh wow, I like that, you know, with that number.
I like that. I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
We're shaking. We're shaking. We're shaking on this poppy. I'm
shaking my hand. We're figured figuratively shaking. It's the best
we can do right here.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
All right, we're shaking on it up.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, your word is your bond, right, you should say
I will pay up. Unlike sir scratch Off. You know
you don't have to say that. It's implied.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
Okay, Okay, I'm like Jerry Jones. I look in your
eyes and I'm a man of my work.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
That's right, you know, well done by you.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
I love I want to give a pick for tomorrow. Look,
we got to Cleveland Browns and Bryce Young. I really
love shir Door Sanders. He's going to be starting and
I think we know everything at the NFL. The NFL
is scripted, so we know Door Sanders like the Brown's
gonna be looking good. Maybe do a prop bit anytime
touchdown one touch on pound for shir Door Sanders. I'm
really liking that, and I think you'll go over one
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hundred and twelve if that's a prop bit, Brian, I
don't know what it is, but I like that even
the spread, what is it plus six and a half?
The underdog went to and yesterday I really looks liking
the Dogtown and shir Door Sanders what he's going to
do proving against the Carolina Panthers that Carolina with Bryce Young,
I have no faith in the Panthers.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
So wow, Okay, don't be surprised going with Chadur and
the Browns. The one thing I heard today and a
lot of this stuff in the preseason, it's a guessing game,
but I did hear that Chadour is probably gonna be
with twos and threes and they're going up against the
starting Panthers defense at least early. That is a horrible
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but it matters a lot, Bobby. It matters a ton
if you've got twos and threes around you and you're
going up against the starting defense.
Speaker 7 (34:27):
Yeah, it don't matter. You'll remember about this calling. You'll
see he's gonna come against the odd and that's that's
lefty for Door Sanders, like the descript is going to
be in the savor and should do Sander's going to succeed.
They're gonna do good. Dot Town.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Okay, we'll see we'll see if that works out. I
hope he does well, I really do. I just you know,
we'll see. We'll see how it goes. Poppy. But good
hearing from you, buddy. Good stuff. You see that I
made a hundred bucks on tonight's show. Coop. It's good.
It's good. Nice you went in on this. No, okay,
any reason why.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I just.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Don't want it.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
You're betting on your team, you know, it's yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
I'm also betting on the other teams in the division.
I don't know, just just too much.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Hey, weird, listen, I get it. You're petrified of Mahomes.
It makes all the sense in the world. Why wouldn't
you be? He owns the division, like, his record against
the division is insanity. Let me try to fight. I'll
get it on the other side, because you know me
and googling, I can't. I can't do that on the
fly very well. Against the AFC West, he has owned
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that division. So this idea, He's thirty five and five
against the AFC West. So I'm supposed to believe that's
going to change dramatically this season and a team's going
to be a leg up just in the division. Meanwhile,
you have eleven other games outside of your divisional games. Okay, yeah,
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I'm not buying that at all. Give me the Chiefs
all day long, that is what I say. But feel
free to check in. Militia always love hearing from me.
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Coming up next, there was an interesting comment from a
former player and a well known talking head throughout a
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criticism that I actually disagree with, but I see the
logic in it. I'll throw it your way, say what
you think about it. Coming up. I'm Brian noo In
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Speaker 1 (36:36):
Listen to Cliff getting down right there. Absolutely, man, I'm
Brian no In for Big Ben Mallor here on Fox
Sports Radio. That's a classic, right there, pulling teeth anesthesia.
Shout out to Cliff Lake, Cliff Burton. Yeah, So I
ran across some audio and I thought it was an
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interesting comment. The former WNBA player Diana Tarossi. Apparently she's
got a new sort of like documentary. It's a self
titled it's called Tarassi. It's gonna be on Prime Video,
and they're just talking about her career and whatever she
wants to talk about. And there's a clip floating around
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where she's talking about being underpaid during her WNBA career.
So listen to what Diana Tarossi says. And then there
was a reaction from Jason Whitlock, well known talking head.
I thought his comment was interesting, but I don't agree
with it, but I see the logic in it. Here's
Diana Tarossi her original comments here.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Check this out.
Speaker 8 (37:41):
I'm the best player in the world and I have
to go to a communist country to get paid like
a capitalist.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Playing in Europe during the WNBA's offseason, these women were
going for seven or eight months. They were chasing their value.
Speaker 8 (37:53):
One time I came back and I was like, man,
my parers have just gotten older and I've missed a
big part of it. We weren't made that much money,
so generational wealth was coming from going to Russia every year.
Now we have to come back home and get paid
nothing to play in a harder league in worse conditions
against the best competition in the world. The janitor at
Arena made more than me.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yeah, so that was the takeaway at the end, the
EF and janitor in the arena was making more than me.
So Jason Whitlock, he watched the video and he commented
on it on x He just posted, when you're the
best at something that has little real value, clueless, so
clueless and entitled. And so I get where he's coming from.
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Where he's basically saying, hey, two plus two equals four.
Your league wasn't generating money. Players are going to be
paid a little amount. That's kind of the way it works,
right and at least logical, The argument makes sense. But
I don't think that Diana Tarassi was saying it doesn't
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sound entitled to me. She's like, bro, I had to
go to Russia, you know, to chase my value. I
gotta come back to the United States and be a
professional basketball player. And I'm making peanuts. She's not saying
I should get paid what SGA is making. She's not
saying I should be paid like an NBA superstar. She's
just like, I'm not making anything. I think this is
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a classic case of whichever shoes your feet happened to
be in. So Whitlock's feet are in Whitlock's shoes, and
it's easy to say. I mean, give me a break.
Your league isn't making any money. You're not going to
be making any money if you're in Diana Tarassi shoes
and you're like, I'm a pro and this is what
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I'm If you're in those shoes, I think you're saying
the same thing. Is absolutely the way it works out.
All right, come it up. Next, we get back to
the biggest curveball of the NFL style of the NFL season.
Ah, Yes, what's going on? Hope? Everything is going outstanding
for you? Having some fun tonight with the militia. Just
talk to Holler and James. He has all sorts of
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Also on X at the No Show. If you want
to tweet in, feel free to do so. So every
single year, I rack my brain trying to figure out
what the biggest curveball will be, What will be the
biggest surprise in the NFL season, What team is going
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to shock us the most good or bad. Last season,
biggest curveball easily was the Washington Commanders. They had won
four games the season prior. They won twelve games last
season like they tripled their win total and they made
it all way to the NFC Championship Game. Nobody was
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saying after a four win season, Hey, this guy Jayden Daniels,
he might be the real deal. I'm gonna give him
triple the wins and say they're in the NFC Title Game.
That's what I'm Nobody predicted that, and it happened. It happened.
So that's the thought. Whether it's a team that's expected
to to do a lot this year and just completely
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falls off, or it's a team like the Washington Commanders
not expect expected to do much and they had a
great season made it deep into the playoffs. So to me,
this is just an exercise. We're kind of just throwing
stuff against the wall. And while I'll start with the
teams with high expectations, these are really good teams from
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last season. They project to be really good teams this season.
But if this or that happens, and then maybe they
get off on the wrong foot and they're pressing a
little bit, maybe it unfolds. It don't ravels for them. Right,
So I don't believe put let's put it this way,
I wouldn't race to the betting window to fade all
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of these teams. I'm just saying, open your mind to
the possibility. This is a really good exercise. If you're
just handicapping a game you're trying to figure out, just
open your mind up to the underdog's path toward winning
this game or covering the spread. Does it sound halfway realistic?
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You know, it's something to consider. Okay, so let's start
with some of the good teams. Let's start with the
defending champs, the Eagles. What would it take for the
Eagles to regress greatly to the point where they're the
biggest surprise of the NFL season. Well, it would take
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a couple of things that are realistic. One, it would
take a loss of a lot of talent. The Eagles
lost a lot of talent in the off season. They
had a lot of contributors go elsewhere. Right when you
start looking at you know, the and the roster is
still really, really good. So they reloaded in a few areas.
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But when you lose your pass rush, you lose your
defensive line. Williams, Milton Williams is gone, Sweat is gone,
you know, Darius Slay a little bit long in the tooth.
That's not a crippling loss. You lose Makai Beckton, he
was good on that offensive line. Right, So, just collectively,
the amount of losses could add up and it could
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make an impact. Okay. Also, Saquon Barkley, the guy had
four hundred and thirty six touches last season. It's a
lot of wear and tear. What if Saquon Barkley is
a much lesser version of himself this season certainly possible.
I mean even if he if he rushes for or
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let's say, fourteen hundred yards, that's six hundred yards less
than what he rushed for last season. That's a big difference.
That's a chunk of production right there. In rushing for
fourteen hundred That's still a really good season. So what
if Saquon takes a noticeable step back? Now all of
a sudden, there's a little bit more on Jalen Hurts plate.
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You know, you need Hurts to throw for what somewhere
in the neighborhood at thirty touchdowns? Is that gonna happen? No,
it is not right. So that would be the formula
to me the Eagles high expectations defending champs. Maybe the
formula isn't quite the same for success. I could see
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at least a path for them to be a big disappointment.
I'm not calling my shot again, but I could see
a path toward that. Let's throw a couple of other
possibilities out there. What about the possibilities of the Lions
being a huge disappointment. Well, it would start with a
couple of things. One, their schedule is freaking brutal. Their
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schedule is obnoxiously difficult.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Have you looked at just their road schedule alone, My gosh,
it'll give you nightmares. Don't look at it for more
than one minute, you know, I'll give you, like, you know,
sweating in the middle of the night nightmares. Here's just
their road schedule. No layup, matchup, no like, Oh they
should get that one. At the Packers at the Ravens
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on Monday night, at the Bengals, at the Chiefs on
a Sunday night, at the Commander's, at the Eagles on
a Sunday night, at the Rams, at the Vikings on Saturday.
All right, maybe it's maybe it's sun I don't know
what that is. Maybe it's Christmas Day. I'm not sure
what's going on there. That's a that's a brutal schedule.
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It is Christmas Day. They're at the Vikings. Every road
game is a demanding test. And so if the Lions
they have this hard schedule, maybe the injury like isn't
as bad, but it's still pretty difficult to deal with
throughout the season. They won fifteen games last year and
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their season win total, interesting enough, is much lower. It's
at ten and a half. It's pretty low for a
fifteen win team from the season prior. And it's actually,
if you're taking the over ten and a half, it's
plus money. It's plus one ten So the Jews the
taxes on the under, it's minus one thirty five to
the under of ten and a half. So that's interesting
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right there from a betting perspective, right, Like, sometimes these
betting lines will give you a little bit of a
clue of what's to happen. That doesn't showcase great faith
in the Lions in terms of their season win total number.
And if you're taking over ten and a half you
get plus money. It's like, okay, that that seems a
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little bit like a bear trap potentially, you know, Okay,
let's throw a couple other teams out there. What about
the Vikings. I think this is a strong candidate for
a team that could be a huge disappointment this season. Now,
if you look at the Vikings, it begins with JJ
McCarthy the path toward a disappointing season. Right it's a
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first year starting quarterback. He hasn't attempted a single regular
season pass in his NFL career. Yet, like, that's that's tough.
They play in a really tough division. You play the
AFC North top to bottom, pretty tough division top to bottom.
Also play the NFC East, that's a that's a decent
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division top to bottom as well. I know the Giants
aren't gonna be anything to write home about, but the
Cowboys are talented enough where it's not just gonna be
a layup. And that game's on the road. You just
go to Dallas on a Sunday night and just expect
to waltz through them, win by I don't know, two
or three touchdowns. No, that's gonna be a tough game.
You gotta deal with the Eagles, the Commanders. So it's
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a tougher schedule. And remember it's a second place schedule.
It's which can help them this season. But I don't
think they get layups like some second place schedules are
a little bit more favorable. They host the Falcons, they're
at the Chargers on a short week, and they're at
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the Seahawks. It's a tough place to play. So I
think it's a tough schedule for the Vikings. And I
also think this I said this last night. I won't
go in depth, but I have to a bit. I'll
stick my at least my right foot in these waters,
you know, and no, not even my lower body, just
right foot in these waters. Not to repeat myself, but
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for the Vikings to be potentially the biggest disappointment of
the upcoming NFL season, I just go back to the
expectations for JJ McCarthy. You'll hear all these people say, hey,
we gotta give the guy a little grace. He's a
first year starter. It's almost like with the shoulder shrug, like, hey,
you know, like he's not gonna be a finished product
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come week one. Their voice goes up in octavity. We
just gotta be a little patient. It's like, yeah, come
talk to me in week four. If the Vikings get
off to a slow start and McCarthy's not producing much,
maybe he's turning the ball over a little bit, it's sloppy. Yeah,
you let me know how much patience exist. Then this
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is a team that won fourteen games, that has real
Super Bowl aspirations and they get off to this real
slow start and you think they're gonna be patient. No
chance that will be the case. And that's what I
think is really really difficult for JJ McCarthy. Again, it's
the gift and the curse. The gift is the luxury
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of a great supporting cast, got a lot of weapons
around him to throw to. The curse is with those
weapons to throw to bro we're expecting production. We're expecting
wins from the jump, and if we're not getting them,
people are gonna freak out. I don't buy any of
this talk about patience, you know. So it's the epic
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line from Ed Norton in American History X Right. It's
a you know, it's a serious movie. It's it's it's
a heavy movie. But there's a great line in it
where it's like there's a lot of hard talk and
not a lot of follow through. That's what it's gonna
be like with the Vikings for any Vikings fan, and
it's like, oh, we gotta be patient over for any
just football fan that's like, yeah, you gotta give him
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a little bit of time. It's like, yeah, that's that's
a lot of hard talk and there's not gonna be
a lot of follow through if they get off to
a rough start. I've seen it time and time again.
You have two watching the NFL. It's the best formula
for a huge let down. A team with realistically high
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expectations and high goals that gets out of the blocks
a little slowly, they lose a couple of games, and
then what happens. They start pressing, and then it gets
way worse. The Vikings are at least a candidate to
be the biggest curveball team. A lot of people are
high on them. I could see them being a gigantic disappointment.
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The same thing is fair the complete other way around.
There are some people that are like, yeah, you know,
they're not saying they're gonna win fifteen games, right, They're
not going crazy with their expectations. And if you look
at the Viking season win total, you have just the
betting market here, they're up to nine and a half.
And again the over is plus money plus one ten.
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If you bet one hundred dollars, you would win one
hundred and ten dollars. Typically, Vegas doesn't do you favors
like that, like, hey, you're betting one hundred, here's one
hundred and ten, Like they normally don't do that, Like
you're betting one hundred, here's sixty three dollars and twenty
seven cents. There, you go, enjoy your sixty three bucks
right there, jackass. You'll probably give it back to us tomorrow.
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It's the way it typically goes with betting. But you're
getting plus money to the over nine and a half, right,
So not like epic faith in the Vikings from the
betting market. But I will say that I think you'd
make an argument the other way around for the Vikings
to be the biggest surprise curve ball. Let's say JJ McCarthy,
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he's really good, the talented kid, top ten pick, he
sat for an entire season. Sometimes that's the formula for
success for a lot of quarterbacks. Let's just say based
on great supporting cast, Kevin O'Connell, really sharp, offensive mind,
he puts his quarterback time and time again in great
positions to succeed. Let's say JJ McCarthy does yet Sam
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Darnold revive his career last year? Great success happened for
JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Good. So I'll talk out of both sides of my
mouth when it comes to the Vikings. I think that's
probably the only team you could say this for. I
think they're actually a candidate to be the biggest surprise
team in a good way. I think they're a candidate
to be the biggest surprise team in a bad way
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and be the biggest disappointment. I think they're live for both.
I'm so interested to see the Vikings this season. But
those are a couple of teams high expectations. What's at
least the path, what's the formula to explain a possible
fallof right? Next hour, we'll get positive here. We'll look
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at teams that not high expectations, you know, low season
win totals, but maybe they pull the Washington Commanders. Who
are the teams that are capable of pulling a stunner
where you're like, I cannot believe you fill in the
blank turned out to be the biggest, biggest surprise team
in a good way this season. Who's at least capable
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of doing that? We'll do that next hour. Looking forward
to that. I love trying to find the biggest surprise
team in the NFL. All right, coming up next, it's
a bet that our guy Coop should be making, but understandably,
he will absolutely not be making this bet. I'm Brian
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It is Fox Sports Radio. I'm probably no in for
Big Ben malor Awesome job by Mary Mack. I love
hanging with you, Mary Mack, because I was just saying
that I I'll flow you back up for a second,
so you're hearing Freedom from Rage in the background right there.
If you're listening to the podcast after the show and
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there's no music, they just have to close your eyes
and pretend you know. Tom Morello with the soothing solo right,
there were my favorite Tom Morello solos. But I gave
Mary a heart attack or a bigger headache, one of
the two during the commercial break, because I couldn't remember
what song that solo was in right, and we traced it.
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We figured it out. It was Freedom, like this very slow,
like Tom Morello kind of uses his guitar as a turntable,
like he's skipping a record or something like that, so
he's doing all this creative, wild stuff. I love that
solo from Freedom, just this like slow, very melodic moodies.
I love that song.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
That's your favorite guitar solo ever?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
No, I wouldn't say ever, but it's up, that's on
the short list. I'd say it's on the shortlist. Man,
that's a good question, though, Mary like greatest guitar solo
at least my favorite. Okay, I like this, I like these.
You love these musical categories too. I know you, Mary
Mac you coop think of your I would say a
couple off the top of my head, A new level
from Pantera, Time Back, Darryl rest in Peace, amazing guitar player.
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One of my favorite solos he does on that song.
It's amazing, man, what else do I love? I love
Voodoo Child from Jimmy. Jimmy so far ahead of his time,
and uh, that was a great solo on that song.
And what else do I love? Those are a couple
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of the top of my head. We did karaoke of
Dittohead a couple of nights ago. But I love the
second solo on Dittohead song from so As I add
to your headache there right there, Mary Mack. But the
second solo, it's got to be Carrie King. He's just
doing a little bit more. He's doing tapping, a little
(17:20):
bit of shredding. Really well done solo on that song.
I like that one a lot. Coop, you got anything
on the short list for your greatest solos at least
that you like the most.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I'd have to put some serious thought into it. I mean,
right off the top of my head. One that came
to mind is like Welcome Home Sanitarium. Okay, I love
that one. Yeah, I'd have to I'd have to put
some put some thought into it.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, like a lot of people love one. There's a
lot of great solo stuff on the song one from
Metallica and he's doing the tapping, the fast tapping at
the beginning of that. There's a lot of solo stuff
throughout this song too, you know, before it gets fast
and all that. Kirk's goot some Kirk Hammett had some
great solos in there, especially in the early days of Metallica,
(18:11):
some really good stuff. And you said something else that
that made me think Koop I had another one, like
right there. You know, I was gonna say Slash from
Guns n' Roses, not metal, but you know, hard rock. Yeah,
Slash has some amazing solos, so like to his I
(18:33):
forget the word that they say. It's it's kind of
like the pacing or the cadence if you will. It's
phrasing is what they say in guitar playing, where you
let it breathe a little bit. You don't just throw
a million notes on me, like the whole solo. It's
just too much. You gotta let it breathe a little bit.
Slash was amazing at letting it breathe and you're still getting,
(18:56):
you know, entertainment value out of a solo. It's not
just like he had a great feel for letting it
breathe and really building it. Like November Rain is a
great solo. He's got a lot of great solos. A
Sweet Child of Mine is a great solo. Yeah, there,
you got anything on your list there, Mary.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
It's so fun. I actually just pulled it up. Arabella
by Arctic Monkeys is definitely one of my top.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
There, like Shredding Crazy. He's playing the guitar behind his head,
playing it with his teeth, Jimmy style. Sounds like this.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Yeah, that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I'm not impressed at all. I'm kidding. No, it's good.
It's you know, it's upbeat melodics. Fine, I dig it.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
You love a solo, Mary, That's what I love the most. Yeah,
that's good.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Definitely. I'm for like guitar solo. It doesn't have to
think about it. Bass solos for sure. For sure. Oh
Red Hot Chili Peppers and the song is the Adventures
of rain Dance McGee.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Okay, flea is awesome. The flea gets after it. Absolutely,
you would love you. We gotta go old school. I'll
give you a recommendation. Mary, if you haven't heard this one,
but you gotta hear Cliff Burton's solo bass solo Take one.
You gotta hear Anesthesias from the first Metallica record. You
(20:18):
gotta hear. If you're a fan of bass solos, I
think you would like that one quite a bit. Yeah,
I think you would like Anesthesia and then in parentheses
pulling teeth because we have to name stuff weird things
in metal. I I don't know what two things in metal.
A lot of times I don't get the titles. It's like,
why do we need to be that fancy whatever? And
(20:38):
how obnoxiously bad metal videos have typically been over the years.
There are some metal videos that are the worst things
I've ever seen in my life. I'm like, who's directing
this stuff?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Man?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
When you see a decent metal video, it's sent from
the heavens. There are some brutal ones for some great songs.
I don't know what they're doing over there, man, but
it happens. Okay. Oh, I gotta bet that Coop should
be making but he will not be making, and I
understand why. So I told Coop off the air, I'm like, bro,
(21:14):
we were talking super Bowl odds. I'm not gonna talk
about that right here. That was a conversation we had
off the air, but it leads into the same team.
I was telling him about if you look at the
divisional odds in the NFL, it actually the money dropped
a little bit. So it was the Chiefs that minus
won twenty to win the AFC West. And it didn't
(21:37):
drop a lot, but it dropped to minus one eighteen
on BETMGM. So if you're betting the Chiefs, if you
risk one hundred and eighteen dollars, you would win one
hundred dollars. This is a Chiefs team that's won the
division nine years in a row. They wanted the first
two years without Mahomes, with just Andy Reid there, right,
(21:58):
they went in it with Alex and then Mahomes takes
over and he's won at seven straight years. They're going
for a decade straight winning the AFC West. And there
was listen some bad news on on Thursday. So the
Chargers left tackle Rashaun Slater. He was carted off the
practice field. Turns out he had season ending surgery. He
(22:23):
had a ruptured patel attendant. Done for the year, He's
gonna undergo surgery. He's placed on ir SIT. The dream
is over at least for twenty twenty five. And it's
such a bummer for the Chargers for numerous reasons. So
he just signed a huge contract extension a week and
a half ago. So he signed a four year, one
(22:44):
hundred and thirteen million dollar extension, ninety two million dollars guaranteed.
That deal made him the highest paid offensive lineman in
terms of money per year in NFL history, highest paid guy.
And then a week and a half later, boom, knee injury, gone, done,
done for the season. Just practice, was blocking a teammate
(23:07):
and apparently is his leg buckled a little bit before
he made impact. It's just one of those, you know,
non impact injuries and he's gone. So what they're gonna
have to do. They're probably gonna have to shift Joe
Walt from the right side to the left side. He
did play left tackle the whole time at Notre Dame.
At least he has experience. They're probably gonna have to
shift around. They probably have to move Trey Pipkins, who
(23:29):
was a guard the last couple of years ago, got
to move him back out to right tackle, shift things around.
Losing Rashaun Slater is a big, big loss for the
Chargers again. They want to pound the rock. We're talking,
you know, Jim Harbaugh over here, he loves to run
the ball. And when you have you know, Jim Harbaugh
(23:52):
and Greg Roman, they're like, oh, you know what game plan,
Let's run it. Let's run it. Let's run it some more.
All right, we gotta pay all right, we get to
run in some more. Like that. They love running the football.
I love this quote. This is when they drafted Joe Alt.
This is what the twenty four draft so just last year,
(24:14):
and instead of drafting Malik Neighbors, who was fantastic for
the Giants last season, they didn't draft a wide receiver
in the first round. They went for Joe Alt, the
tackle out of Notre Dame. And this is what Jim
Harbaugh said at the time.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I know the question's gonna come up, and you're to say, like,
you know, what about a weapon? What about offensive lineman?
We look at as weapons that group when we talk
about attacking, and we talk about attacking on offense, offensive
line is the tip of the spear.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
What a quote right there?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Huh At the end, offensive line is the tip of
the spear.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Offensive line is the tip of the spear.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I want to just throw on some shoulder pads right now.
I might get knocked around. I don't care. I'm fired up.
Jim Harbaugh. I love that quote right there. So yeah,
they look at offensive offensive linemen as weapons, one of
their best, their best offensive weapon. If that's the way
they view it, is down right like they look at
that and it begins with the offensive line. Herbert does
(25:17):
this thing. Lad McConkey is really good. They have big
hopes for Amari and Hampton, really good running back out
of North Carolina. But with Rashaun Slater going down, that's
a big, big deal. So let's go back to the
division odds you've got. The Chargers are at plus three ten,
The Broncos are at plus three ten. The Raiders are
(25:40):
seventeen to one to win the division. Look, they've made
some upgrades. They might be feisty enough to win a
couple of division games. They they're not going to really
challenge to win the division. So it's really like the
Broncos and the Chargers, they're both basically at three to one.
Whatever you bet times that by three, that's your payout.
(26:01):
The Chiefs are close to even money. The Kansas City
Chiefs are at minus one eighteen. That just seems too
good to be true. How do you not bet the
Chiefs to win the AFC West for a tenth year
in a row. How have they fallen off? You've got
(26:21):
for Mahomes to throw to. You got Rashi Rice, He's
gonna be suspended a few games. We got him, Hollywood Brown,
Xavier Worthy, Travis Kelce, top five scoring defense from last season.
They're not winning the division? What would it take for
that to be the case? I think it would take
significant injury woes for the Chiefs not to win the division.
(26:44):
And I don't want to make it sound like, you know,
all these other teams have no chance. It's the NFL.
I don't want to make it sound like that, but man,
the Broncos taking that big of a step forward to
win the division. I know that we like have PTSD
from the Chiefs getting blown out by the Eagles in
the Super Bowl. And there are a lot of people
(27:06):
are like, yeah, no about the Chiefs. They were a
fifteen and two team last season. And you can talk about, hey,
a favorable bounce here, a lucky win there. Okay, you
take away a couple of wins like they're thirteen and four,
there's still a thirteen win team. If you take away
a couple of favorable wins. They're still incredibly good at
(27:31):
what they do. I love the Chiefs to win their
division again. Have I convinced you to put some money
on the Chiefs in the AFC West coop? I'm guessing
I probably haven't. Hell No, is that more based on
principle or logic? Both both? I think it's more based
(27:52):
on principle. I get it. You're Broncos guy. You want
to run to the betting window and bet the Chiefs.
No problem with that, But that's based on principle. That's
not based on line. What logical what? What logical argument
do you have to back someone other than the Chiefs?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Broncos should have beat him twice last year?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
And how many times did they beat him?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Once?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Did get him at the end? When? Who was it?
Like Jake Locker's brother was playing quarterback at the end
of the year. That was the the game they didn't
play anybody, right, Yeah, but the game the first game
that was hideous. I mean, you're on the road, gotta
make a I think they were at home. The close
(28:34):
field goal was that at home? That was on the road, right,
that was in arrowhead. That was an arrowhead. You got
a makeable field goal blocked, right, Yeah, they blocked it. Yep, Yep,
it happens, It happens. Hey, we while we're talking about betting,
let's get Poppy on here right from San Diego. Poppy's
got some bets for us. What's going on, Poppy?
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Hey, you know, welcome to the family. Yeah, I just
I heard you talking about bets, and I have bets
for tomorrow. And look, get the vision. Let me go
before I get the picked out. AFC West is a
tough division, but look, you're saying the Chiefs are gonna
win it ten times in a row, like sooner or later,
someone's got a bet on. Man, the odds with the
(29:17):
Chargers and the Broncos is looking pretty good. You know,
John Harvall saying that the ship under load. Hey, next
man off for the offensive line. So you've got Justin
Herbert and they look pretty good. And the Broncos they
looked amazing, Like three of the AFC West made the
playoffs and coops teams the Broncos at Bucks, he looked amazing.
(29:37):
But this rookie year good Kennedy top five quarterback in
my opinion on the rookies, that he should be able
to strive and do good. So like someone's telling me money,
what am I gonna bet? Look, I think Sean Payne
is a great coach with the Broncos, So I think
the Broncos are really gonna get trouble for the Chiefs.
And I would have been surprised if the Broncos coops
(29:59):
team actually win that division.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
I'd be freaking yeah, I'd be shocked.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
As your all time best call, Hoppy, it's.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
The worst, good job, terrible argument from you, Poppy, like
you you're giving me, Hey, it could happen. I wouldn't
be shocked. That's not good enough.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Well it is good enough. Uh you know, Brian know
because everyone the whole world when the whole world tell
me that, or the casinos just on the numbers, when
he talks the analytics and the numbers. That's kind of
like a red flag. We're like, oh, it sounds too
good to be true. Well guess what, it's gonna be
too good to be true. And the Chiefs are not
gonna win ten years in the row. You don't make
the playoffs, but they're not going to win the division.
(30:34):
Anc Wes, So red flag for everyone, do not bet
on the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Okay, I got I got a proposal. I got a
proposal for you, mister bet on the Broncos. All right, here,
here's what we do. We'll just use these odds. How
about this, Well, we'll make a bet together.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Typically I don't do this because I don't think any
listener on the face of the earth has ever paid
a bet. Sir, scratch off. You're on my list. The
list is very extent, so every listener has weaseled out
of every payment, always with me. But the proposal would be,
I got the Chiefs, whatever dollar amount we bet. Let's
(31:10):
say we bet fifty bucks. If I'm right, Chiefs win,
you owe me fifty bucks, Poppy. If your Broncos win,
or any of the other three teams win, I'll give
you three times that amount. That's basically what it would be.
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Yeah, what do you think any of those three teams?
I really like those arts form even as those three teams.
That's been amazing. I'm taking that at anytime because you know,
Andy Reid is getting really targeting closer retirement, Travis Kelsey
having problems with you know, relationship, Katy Perry like this
a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
So I really like he's having problems with relationships, Poppy.
That's what's going on there. What's going on with him?
I thought they were looking for a house, him and
Katy Perry.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
Yeah, well yeah, Katy Perry or whatever. You know, he's
God whatever, his goop whatever, whatever. But yeah, I'm liking
that bet.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
So man, you're crazy, Poppy. So what are we doing?
We're doing fifty bucks, we're doing fifteen hundred bucks. What
are we throwing on this here? Because I'm good for whatever.
I'm ready for to back the Chiefs here.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
Well, whatever you want, it's all good. Whatever you want.
You know, I'll hate to take your money for Hey,
it's gonna come out in my favorite for a reason,
and whatever you want to bet, it's all good with me.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Okay, we won't go crazy. Let's just put one hundred
dollars on it. That was the bet I had with Coop,
and he won because his Broncos weaseled their way into
the top five scoring defense. I don't know how they
did it, but they had a great year, and I
paid up. So what do you think even hundred? You
owe me a hundred If the Chiefs win, I owe
you three hundred. If anybody else wins.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
Oh wow, I like that, you know, with that number.
I like that. I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
We're shaking. We're shaking. We're shaking on this poppy. I'm
shaking my hand. We're figured figuratively shaking. It's the best
we can do right here.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
All right, we're shaking on it up.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, your word is your bond, right, you should say
I will pay up. Unlike sir scratch Off. You know
you don't have to say that. It's implied.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
Okay, Okay, I'm like Jerry Jones. I look in your
eyes and I'm a man of my work.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
That's right, you know, well done by you.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
I love I want to give a pick for tomorrow. Look,
we got to Cleveland Browns and Bryce Young. I really
love shir Door Sanders. He's going to be starting and
I think we know everything at the NFL. The NFL
is scripted, so we know Door Sanders like the Brown's
gonna be looking good. Maybe do a prop bit anytime
touchdown one touch on pound for shir Door Sanders. I'm
really liking that, and I think you'll go over one
(33:40):
hundred and twelve if that's a prop bit, Brian, I
don't know what it is, but I like that even
the spread, what is it plus six and a half?
The underdog went to and yesterday I really looks liking
the Dogtown and shir Door Sanders what he's going to
do proving against the Carolina Panthers that Carolina with Bryce Young,
I have no faith in the Panthers.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
So wow, Okay, don't be surprised going with Chadur and
the Browns. The one thing I heard today and a
lot of this stuff in the preseason, it's a guessing game,
but I did hear that Chadour is probably gonna be
with twos and threes and they're going up against the
starting Panthers defense at least early. That is a horrible
(34:20):
but it matters a lot, Bobby. It matters a ton
if you've got twos and threes around you and you're
going up against the starting defense.
Speaker 7 (34:27):
Yeah, it don't matter. You'll remember about this calling. You'll
see he's gonna come against the odd and that's that's
lefty for Door Sanders, like the descript is going to
be in the savor and should do Sander's going to succeed.
They're gonna do good. Dot Town.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Okay, we'll see we'll see if that works out. I
hope he does well, I really do. I just you know,
we'll see. We'll see how it goes. Poppy. But good
hearing from you, buddy. Good stuff. You see that I
made a hundred bucks on tonight's show. Coop. It's good.
It's good. Nice you went in on this. No, okay,
any reason why.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I just.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Don't want it.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
You're betting on your team, you know, it's yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
I'm also betting on the other teams in the division.
I don't know, just just too much.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Hey, weird, listen, I get it. You're petrified of Mahomes.
It makes all the sense in the world. Why wouldn't
you be? He owns the division, like, his record against
the division is insanity. Let me try to fight. I'll
get it on the other side, because you know me
and googling, I can't. I can't do that on the
fly very well. Against the AFC West, he has owned
(35:36):
that division. So this idea, He's thirty five and five
against the AFC West. So I'm supposed to believe that's
going to change dramatically this season and a team's going
to be a leg up just in the division. Meanwhile,
you have eleven other games outside of your divisional games. Okay, yeah,
(35:58):
I'm not buying that at all. Give me the Chiefs
all day long, that is what I say. But feel
free to check in. Militia always love hearing from me.
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Coming up next, there was an interesting comment from a
former player and a well known talking head throughout a
(36:21):
criticism that I actually disagree with, but I see the
logic in it. I'll throw it your way, say what
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Speaker 4 (36:30):
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Speaker 1 (36:36):
Listen to Cliff getting down right there. Absolutely, man, I'm
Brian no In for Big Ben Mallor here on Fox
Sports Radio. That's a classic, right there, pulling teeth anesthesia.
Shout out to Cliff Lake, Cliff Burton. Yeah, So I
ran across some audio and I thought it was an
(36:58):
interesting comment. The former WNBA player Diana Tarossi. Apparently she's
got a new sort of like documentary. It's a self
titled it's called Tarassi. It's gonna be on Prime Video,
and they're just talking about her career and whatever she
wants to talk about. And there's a clip floating around
(37:19):
where she's talking about being underpaid during her WNBA career.
So listen to what Diana Tarossi says. And then there
was a reaction from Jason Whitlock, well known talking head.
I thought his comment was interesting, but I don't agree
with it, but I see the logic in it. Here's
Diana Tarossi her original comments here.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Check this out.
Speaker 8 (37:41):
I'm the best player in the world and I have
to go to a communist country to get paid like
a capitalist.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Playing in Europe during the WNBA's offseason, these women were
going for seven or eight months. They were chasing their value.
Speaker 8 (37:53):
One time I came back and I was like, man,
my parers have just gotten older and I've missed a
big part of it. We weren't made that much money,
so generational wealth was coming from going to Russia every year.
Now we have to come back home and get paid
nothing to play in a harder league in worse conditions
against the best competition in the world. The janitor at
Arena made more than me.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yeah, so that was the takeaway at the end, the
EF and janitor in the arena was making more than me.
So Jason Whitlock, he watched the video and he commented
on it on x He just posted, when you're the
best at something that has little real value, clueless, so
clueless and entitled. And so I get where he's coming from.
(38:38):
Where he's basically saying, hey, two plus two equals four.
Your league wasn't generating money. Players are going to be
paid a little amount. That's kind of the way it works,
right and at least logical, The argument makes sense. But
I don't think that Diana Tarassi was saying it doesn't
(38:59):
sound entitled to me. She's like, bro, I had to
go to Russia, you know, to chase my value. I
gotta come back to the United States and be a
professional basketball player. And I'm making peanuts. She's not saying
I should get paid what SGA is making. She's not
saying I should be paid like an NBA superstar. She's
just like, I'm not making anything. I think this is
(39:21):
a classic case of whichever shoes your feet happened to
be in. So Whitlock's feet are in Whitlock's shoes, and
it's easy to say. I mean, give me a break.
Your league isn't making any money. You're not going to
be making any money if you're in Diana Tarassi shoes
and you're like, I'm a pro and this is what
(39:42):
I'm If you're in those shoes, I think you're saying
the same thing. Is absolutely the way it works out.
All right, come it up. Next, we get back to
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