January 31, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike start looking ahead to next weekend’s BIG Game. The guys explain why we can’t blame LeBron for the over covered Bronny James coverage. And we head out to Vegas to check in with the great Todd Fuhrman for all the BIG Game odds!
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Speaker 1 (00:33):
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minutes ago, gonna give you a stat that's gonna make
you want to take the Eagles to win the Super Bowl.
Right now. I know Frostburg's interested. He doesn't want to
take the Chiefs to do anything. I got a stat
for you. Mike, got a stat.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
You eliminated a referee.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I cleat Blakeman is not going to do this game.
Carl Cheffers will not going to do this game the
last three years. Jalen Hurts is fourteen and one against
the AFC fourteen and one, So.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
He's the inverse Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Fourteen and one.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Okay, who's their loss to?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Not the Jets.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
If I'm asking who's their loss to? I think he's
talking to you. Okay, So they lost to the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
That's the they lost to the Jets. It's the Jets
lost last year. See come on, sent them on and say, look,
that sent the Eagles in a really bad spiral. They
finished the season five and five.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
The Jet, the Jet.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
If the Eagles win the Super Bowl next week, the
Jets should really be the Super Bowl champions because clear hey,
we're the only ast.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
To beat in the last charity game. Doesn't count though
it counts. That's what you're trying to do here.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
The Jets are the real champions. They are just like
Michigan's probably the real national champion of college football. Ohio
State beat everybody they lost to. Michigan, gotta beat You
really think you're gonna win?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Are you forced to say that when you're working from
your home or what? You get shocks? So I get
my old sparky running through you there.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I mean, come on, now, my wife is standing behind
me with a frying pan, so I need to say
certain things. And yeah, uh so, yeah, listen, the Jets
are the real Super Bowl champions. But think about that.
For her, it's fourteen and one against the AFC over
the last three years.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Okay, yeah, because like I said, with with Jet, that's
been one of the things, right, is just you don't
see him and the style that they run from Baltimore
necessarily enough so he's been able to run rough shot.
I mean, they won a lot of games, so that
just speaks to their overall greatness.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Right.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
They were a thirteen win team a year ago, but
Lamar Jackson against NFC teams has been equally as brilliant.
So now the rubber meets the road here as we
get to New Orleans and Jalen hurts a quitted himself
well that the knee wasn't going to be an issue.
Now you get two weeks in a hyperbaric chambers, so
you begin.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Now, I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you something for the Eagles,
and you tell me, you tell me, give me your truthful,
your truthful response to this Okay, truthful response to this.
Not that I haven't watched tell the Truth.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
But no, I mean, look, I've been lying to you
for a lest years.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm really six inches taller than I am. I've just
been crouching down for the longest time.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Well I have been, you know, just more like a
fire plug. It's it's more an attitude.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
The most impressive thing about the Eagles, and we've talked
about this, is that they thrive in chaos. Right, all
the chaos they have had throughout the year the last
couple of years, they thrive in If the quarterback's not
getting along with a wide receiver, if the quarterback's not
getting along with the head coach, nobody likes the head coach.
They thrive in chaos, right.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I wouldn't say they really thrived on it. Last year
the loss of the well, they lost the Jets. They
lost to the Jets man the second half of the year. No,
we we talked about it a lot when it happened.
Was it was it was your high point? Or really
you runed it for America?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
No, dude, I mean really the loss of the Jets.
They went on a spiral. They finished a season five
hundred at that point, right, they were undefeated and everything's great.
They lose to the Jets and suddenly it's, oh, my goodness,
we lost to the Jets. Well, what are you really
going to accomplish this year? If we lose to the Jets?
Are really gonn accomplish anything? And they all quit and
they just said forget it.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
But then you go and you win that game, and
it also becomes in, look how terrible this team is,
so you could really sell the hell out of how
brilliant Saquon Barkley is. To all ends. Take nothing away
from two thousand yards. They had other guys that ran
behind that offensive line pretty well before.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, Jason, when's your apology to saque Remember Boston.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Scott, I said he's the MVP. I said he should
win the MVP?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Well said sorry?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I said, what am I sorry for that?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You were jinxing him by saying he should be the MVP.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Clearly he's that good in that I can't jinx him
by saying he's the MVP.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Well, but it's like you did with the Lions to
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
No, no, no, no, I got that spiral. Oh no, no,
I got that In the Lions haven't been to the
Super Bowl. Let me see. Oh ever, and I picked
it up and they still haven't. And all they had
to do was not keep going for it on fourth
down against the forty nine ers, And they kept doing
it and they kept.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I picked them to upset the Chiefs week one last year.
It was one and I said they were going to
the super Bowl and they should have. Like if you're
the Lions, I really wonder at the end, because we
talked about the window for the Lions being shut, there's
gonna be a lot of change, a lot of change defensively. Uh,
the team is gonna be different, the coordinators are different.
Like you, like you in five years, you might look
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back and go, that was it, Like I know, we
we looked at that moment of the dawn of the
Lions and being maybe one of the best teams in
football the next five or seven years. But you had
a big lead in the second half of the NFC
title game and you kept going for it on fourth
down and you lost by a field goal. Like we're
gonna look back and say, they let that one go,
they let that one get away. Where now there's not
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a lot of talk about as well the Niners one,
and of course you're going for it on fourth down
and blah blah blah blah blah. But in five years
when suddenly it's hey, we've never gotten back to those
heights again because everything changed and we lost Johnson and
we lost Aaron Glennim, we had to replace a lot
of defensive players. We had a lot of new players
coming in, and Jared Goff wasn't quite as good as
he was. Like, you're gonna look back and go we
just blew that right, Like, we completely just blew that game.
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We had it, we had the lead on the road, everything,
the Niners were dead, nothing was happening. But no, no, let's
wake them up, because what have we talked about. Dan
Campbell goes for it on fourth down? Doesn't understand the
impact if you don't get it right, But we always
do it this way, and this is Dan Campbell's fault.
This is campbelling right. Doesn't understand that. Oh if we
don't get it, what's the impact on our team? And
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the impact on the team was the Niners roared back
to life and they won and they went to the
Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
To be fair, go ahead, j Justin.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Okay, Yeah, to be fair, you know, they still had
at some point talked about the concept of playing defense,
So I don't think they were fully unprepared of what
was gonna happen there, except you know, they didn't go
and execute that part of things either. So yeah, for
the Lions there. What's gonna happen next week?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Though?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
And I have to ask because you and I and
and Justin will be in Los Angeles doing our shows
as we do every night, but some of our staff,
some of our colleagues will be on radio row out
there in New Orleans. So Justin, Alex Jason, and answer
this for me. What happens if David Montgomery comes looking
for you? Who becomes the sacrifice? Since you're not there?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Uh? Rob Parker, Rob Parker, Rob Parker, don't sacrifice one
hundred percent? Rob Parker one percent.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Well, I guess they could push him out as a
front man because he's gone against Detroit on a lot
of things.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Oh no, no, I guess he could take the fall there.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
He would just have to tell people he was a
guy that didn't vote for Eachiro and people, because you know,
how do we still not know that?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
How do we still not know who didn't vote for eachiro.
Maybe I'm just gonna start telling people is Rob Parker,
and maybe that will take off and be a thing.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
I'm gonna create my own AI Robert stat opener for
an unsolved mystery.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
But let me get back to my question now. Yeah,
the question I want to ask about the Eagles. Okay,
thriving in controversy, being able to do this, everything has
been terrific. Look, look, look how good they are. As
good as they are, as much as they have accomplished
where they are now, second super Bowl in three years.
If Nick Sirianni got fired tomorrow, I wouldn't be surprised
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like that, Like that's how much I feel that as
good as they are, Like I feel like Nick Sirianni
still is walking on thin ice. Where if there was
a huge bombshell and you find out, hey, Jeffrey Lorie
making the Howie Roseman making this huge move before the
Super Bowl, they're firing Nick Sirianni, I would say, oh,
that's a shocking story, and especially with like you know,
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twelve days ago before the Super Bowl. But okay, but
in the end, I would go, oh, yeah, that's on
brand for the Eagles. Like I can see them doing it.
I could see Nick Sirianni getting it because the team
just won't play for him whatever reason. Like he's he
he is the guy now that has the one foot
on the banana peel. It's gone from the Eagles having
that one foot on the banana peal to Nick Sirianni.
Like if they lose the Super Bowl and he got
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fired right after, I would say, oh, it's kind of shocked.
Did it right after the Super Bowl? Like right on
the field before he could walk off? But am I
surprised that they were playing? No, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I just like Nick Sirianni, I feel like the guy
is is one bad game away from that's it. We
got we need somebody else gotta throw. I gotta have
somebody else in here, you know, And then we'll find
that all these things have been going on and who's
not talking to and who's not getting along Like he's
that club. He's a bad super Bowl loss or a
bad practice at the Super Bowl away from getting fired.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Right on the razor's edge, as it were.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
No, it's it's curious right because it was a cacophony
of voices this week after the Bills fell short again,
that McDermot should be out.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
All the guy's done his win.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Now, he's had some controversy in terms of his meeting
styles and examples and history, and that he likes to
use going for two when you're not supposed to.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
You have all that. Well, clear clearly I went for
the low hanging how.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Are you supposed to be the Reft?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Well, and that's there forced us to go for two.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Now that I would respect him if he said, Sean,
you made two really bad decisions and you cost your
team three points because you went for two and didn't
make it minus one, so you had to go for
two again you didn't make it minus one. And because
the score was twenty two to twenty one when the
Chiefs scored their touchdown, they had to go for two
because they weren't gonna kick the extra point. So you
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really cost your team three points. The score should have
been twenty eight twenty four in the fourth quarter, and
said you were losing twenty nine to twenty two. How
do you explain that? And then he says, we had
to the Refts are gonna screw us. That's gooda Absolutely,
we had I had to go for two every single
time I had to go for two. At least then
some people would have his back and go, oh okay,
I kind of agree with it. I kind of agree,
I kind of yeah. I mean, look, you become a
(11:52):
man of the people. It might build a statue to
you somewhere, but the or.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
At least make mock t shirts of you. But the
idea that they gacked away that with their two point conversion,
chasing points when you didn't need to absolutely back to
the Sirianni question, it's Philadelphia. I think the voices could
get loud real fast again. A lot of winning, a
(12:20):
lot of greatness, but would you suddenly have whispers of
malcontentedness that are out there?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Right?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
The aj Brown we talked with with Jay Gouyzer earlier
in the show and a piece he'll do for the
Super Bowl misunderstood, but many still kind of wondering behind
the scenes, right with the passing game not clicking, is
he satisfied when the target count isn't there? Right, If
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you're winning, it solves a lot of a lot of ills.
But if you're late in the third quarter or early fourth,
you're tied or behind, does that play does that suddenly
create an issue and does it then exposed that there
was always something going on with the passing game that
Sirianni couldn't playkate uh and get through the end of
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the ticker tape parade. So yeah, would it shock me? No?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Man, it's the NFL. Every day is an adventure.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Get ready, get ready? And then and then like Dick
for Meal, would go coach the game. You know, Hey,
we're gonna bring him back. He's gonna coach. That's great. Oh,
that'd be fantastic.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
For you guys.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Do you think he knows how to spell eagles?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Oh ah, that's what could get him fired if he
spells it wrong before the gate, Like like that could
get like at media nighte if he if he spells
eagles wrong, they'll fire him.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
There, dude, you're becoming the mayor.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And they'll they'll replace him with the mayor.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
No, but he becomes the mayor if he if he
leans into that, it's like that's ours now.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
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Speaker 4 (15:41):
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I love the duet he had in Juno. Yes, uh,
you know, yeah, the the up and Down rich Pa Star.
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Speaker 4 (16:08):
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Speaker 3 (16:10):
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Speaker 1 (16:14):
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Speaker 4 (16:24):
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Speaker 1 (16:26):
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Speaker 3 (16:29):
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Speaker 5 (16:31):
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book right now?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Okay, I mean at this point now, can't hey I
just write everything?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I mean, do we need to have any of that?
Can still have the ideas and then it'll just date
from there? No?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Can't they come up with the ideas and then write it.
I thought that's that was AI's also, I really want
to Yeah, I'm I'm a really lazy Hollywood writer. Yeah,
I have AI come up with the ideas and they
I just send the emails out. That's all I end. Yeah,
And I just sent the emails out, that's all. Uh So,
big day in the NBA today, and big day because
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Bronnie James played. Oh my goodness, Wow is Bronnie James playing?
This is the worst story in the NBA. How do
they let him play after what happened last night? This
is awful. The Lakers beat the Wizards one thirty four
to ninety six. All right, this is a game that
was not in doubt after halftime, they outscored the Wizards
thirty six sixteen. In the second quarter, they were up
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by nearly forty and Bronny gets into the game and
he plays about twelve minutes and you know, makes one basket.
But boy was in a basket and then they were
chanting MVP for him. I know, Justin Frostberg has it ready.
He's got his itchy finger on the trigger. Here's Bronnie
James from Tonight Blonde.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
Goes Stanny Ovation standing ovation that time he did get
the defending to rush at Himan. Good absorbing, absorbing the
contact and keeping your concentration on the target.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
That's a real nice play by Bronni.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Three points play. That was Bronnie's second NBA basket. It
was a nice.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Play, Like you said, Ronnie Chaste.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
From the Wizards crowd, chin MVP for Bronny James and
they go to the free throw.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Get on board, dad, absolutely celebrate, celebrate greatness.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Oh that was the best brodya getting MVP.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Chin.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Well, look it's the Wizards. They're six and forty one.
I mean, you got to have your fun where you can, right,
I mean you can't. You can't just come to the
game and sit on your head. You gotta find a
way to have fun.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
But that's where you celebrate rom communism.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
You had me at Wizards.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
So they win tonight, and look, it's it's I mean,
I don't I don't know, I don't know what it's like.
I can't believe they didn't go live to his prescottson
Washington after.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Hey, Bronnie James was here. He's the MVP.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
But this story, the Bronnie James story, is so overcovered
by everybody in the media. And not only that, it's
covered wrongly. And Bronnie James playing for the Lakers, this
is not suddenly the worst thing in the world. That's
a lot of people have trouble with.
Speaker 8 (19:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Our breathren In in sports talk radio is that everything
is not is not liver Die topics. Right, there's some
things you got to understand you just gotta have fun with.
And Bronnie James playing for the Lakers is fun. Right,
It's a fun topic. Not everything. Bronnie James playing for
the Lakers is not the same as uh, we should
the Heat trade Jimmy Butler or keep him, which is
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not as which is not nearly as big as the
Chiefs and the Super Bowl, but everything, and and you
would hear people the last couple of days since Bronnie
had the last bad game a couple of days ago
against the Sixers.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Right, it was a bad game.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Don't get me, I'm not chaying it was a bad game,
but they were terrible against the Sixers who stayed. You
would think that Bronnie James and him playing for the
Lakers is absolutely tearing the team apart. And it's not
the only reason Bronnie James is getting any kind of coverage, obviously,
is because lebron James is polarizing. He's been polarizing since
he walked into the league twenty years ago. Right, He's
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just that kind of guy that stirred that kind of
attention that because it's his kid. This is why every
take is so over the top on Bronnie James. Bronnie
James has played fifty seven minutes this year, fifty seven
minutes right now, fifty seven minutes this month, fifty seven
minutes since the start of the season, and twenty seven
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of those minutes have come in the last two games,
twelve minutes tonight because he didn't come into the game
until it was well decided in the second half twenty
seven minutes. In the last two games, everything else three minutes,
five minutes, five minutes, one minute, two minutes, three minutes,
two minutes, one minute, two minutes, minut it's four minutes.
And then the last two nights with twelve minutes and
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fifteen minutes. It's not like he's getting into games and
he's costing them. Every game he's been up until has
been a game where the Lakers have won or lost handily. Right,
this is not nearly having the impact that people would
have you believe it is. It's irrelevant. It's a fun story.
It's fun seeing Bronny play with with alongside lebron it's
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fun seeing him get some minutes. But the Sixers game,
you'd feel like it was a it was a playoff game,
and it was Game seven, and JJ Reddick just decided, Hey,
let's give Bronnie some minutes. I get why he played
him early. Bronny's coming off a big run in the
G League where he had his best game yet, so okay,
maybe he's ready for a little more minutes now, as
they saw against the Sixers, didn't happen. Right, wasn't ready
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and Tyrese Maxi went right at him when he came in,
lit him up, and it had to get him out
of the game. And Bronni had a really bad game.
So okay, JJ Reddick and the Lakers understand. Okay, maybe
he's not ready for those kind of minutes yet, but
that's what you do. Hey, here's a kid who's come up.
He's tearing up the G League now, playing really well.
Let's see if he's ready for a little bit more.
This is how you check with players. This is how
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you do now. Bringing him in in the first half
that early, eh, okay, but they were gonna do it anyway.
You got to see if the guy is going to
be able to come on a little bit. He's a
second you know, he's a second round pick, right, so
what do you what do you expect? This is how
you deal with guys like this and this is how
they play. And he's had zero impact on this team.
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You can blame Lebron. You can blame AD for a
lot of things, right, you can blame them for every
five minutes they change what they need to win a championship. First,
we need Russell Westbrook. Now I need to shoot him.
We got off the red. Now we need to say,
now the latest thing, we need a center. Right, if
we had, if it was like it was a few
years ago when we had Javail McGee and Dwight Howard
in twenty twenty oh, then we'd win the NBA title. So,
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just so you know, Ad said they were a twenty
twenty Javal McGee and Dwight Howard away from winning from
winning this year's NBA title, right, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
But they can't.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
This is stuff. Hey, you want to blame Lebron and
a D four yet one hundred percent you keep moving
the keep moving the goalpost, because hey, we don't want
you to really blame us for not winning. This is
kind of what we feel we need. That's that's legit.
But this Bronny story, this is not This is not
affecting them on the court. This is not every game
where where where Lebron and Rich Paul and Bronny are
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against Genie Buss and Rob Polinka and and minutes for
Bronny and minutes and and JJ Reddick as well. Reddick
has done exactly what I thought he was gonna do
and what we thought he was gonna Hey, he's playing
him a couple minutes at a time, right, and that
a little bit of extended minutes, Okay, saw that maybe
those extended minutes wasn't a good idea. He's not ready
for it. This has had zero impact on the Lakers season, zero.
(23:41):
But yet you would think that Bronnie James playing is
suddenly ready to tear the Lakers apart of the seams.
And that's not the case.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Yeah, And I think what you get down to it,
it was game what was that forty five? Yeah against
the Sixers that everybody's losing their minds about. Look, you're
only going as far as a D and lebron are
going to carry you anyway.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
And at this point eighty's a bit banged up.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
So the next stretch you navigate with him either unavailable
altogether or limited, is going to determine your fate, not
whether you give a couple of minutes to Bronnie James.
It's it's a story that people have been hated and
have hated upon since its inception, since draft season.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Again, a country built on.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Inserts surname here and sons or daughters businesses for as
long as we've been a country, you know that that
idea of hey, you.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Can get into the family business.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Huh, Bronnie got in pretty good player, just not NBA
ready yet. A right, he's a guy that needs some seasoning.
But when you've got a long, long run of games
as they'd had and successful, mind you, right now up
to twenty seven and nineteen on the year, sitting sitting
pretty good. They're firmly entrenched. You know, going to be
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in that five to six seed. It looks like, in
barring some catastrophe, that that's where they're going to end
up in this thing. And Bronnie James playing a few
minutes again isn't gonna determine it. So you go and
you play against the Sixers. Well, you play MAXI. He's
one of your best guards. Sorry you lose that matchup.
There're the Sixers any good? No, But you thought a
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good test for him and your team around him would
come up and show up. Guess what, Jason, they didn't.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
They didn't. They played terribly. And then you get an
extra opportunity against the Wizards. You know what do you do?
You run it back.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
There's ever a time to get some meaningful minutes again,
meaningful week put in air quotes by how pathetic the
Wizards are. But you got you're trying to find some confidence,
trying to find some rhythm, so you get him in.
You know, for us as observers and living in Greater
Los Angeles, I love the passion that people have for
it one way or another, because, let's face it, there's
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a out of shoulder shrugging on many a thing that
shouldn't in our in our world as a whole, and
sports still gets us fired up. So either stand by
it or you don't. Yet you love or you hate
the Lakers. It seems to be really the thing that
tears it all asunder. But for for Brownie James, he's
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gonna play a few more games. He'll play some more minutes.
That's all fine and good. Again, it's if it's the
playoffs are on the line and they're deciding, hey, now's
your time. We're gonna sink or swim by something this
kid's gonna do in the eight minutes we give him, Well,
then you've already lost.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Okay, Saturday night.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Suddenly if he shows out, and then we'll just have
the he loves the Garden narrative.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
If that happens, I don't think I could ever come
into work again if he scored forty on the Micks on.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
To break Mellow's record at the Garden.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
He's got sixty one through three quarters, what will what
will he do at the fourth quarter? I mean at
fifty seven minutes all season long? And for the crowd,
that's it. Well, the Lakers did a favor for Lebron. Yeah, okay,
big superstars. Teams do favors for right, they do. The
Bucks do favors for Giannis. The Knicks do favors for
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Jalen Brunzel. They brought it all his best friends from Villanova.
We're bringing it all the Villanova guys and we'll trade
the one guy that everybody can't stand.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
But we've been up forever it.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Guys have been going to their friends in free agencies,
yea forever.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
And teams do it all the time with the Bucks
and and and had Giannis's brother for I mean it
was teams do favors. Oh, but it's Lebron the only
way yeah, the only reason Broni's the headline is because
Lebron is polarizing and people just automatically hate Lebron. Whereas
if this was, if this was, if Jannis was forty
years old, right, or if Jason Tatum was forty years old,
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or if Jokic was forty years old, or or Shay
Gilders Alexander was forty and their kid was playing, it
would be it would be undefinable, uncontrollable love for what
a great story this is this guy. You look at
what he did to make his way in the NBA,
What a great star he was, and now he gets
to play with his son. What a cool thing this is.
And look, maybe he gets minutes all, maybe he's getting
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a couple too many minutes in this one individual game,
but it would not be the overall, Oh, Bronny's that
this is awful, This is the worst. That this has
zero impact. And the only reason people are jumping up
and down on Bronny is because it's Lebron's kid. Where anybody,
any other player, I'm saying, any other dude in the
NBA would be what a great story this is other player.
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But because it's lebron and Bronne always should have been drafted.
He's a kid that should have been in college. He
wouldn't have been a second round pick. Okay, you know what,
but again, this is how it goes in the world.
This is the NBA. Every company you're in, a guy
who is really high up pulls a string to get
somebody higher, and it happens. It happens everywhere. If I
was on an NBA team and I could get my
kid to pay, I would I would do it in
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a second. I would try, Oh yeah, this, this would
be an awesome thing. But because it's Lebron, it's it's
a different story, and it shouldn't be, mainly because there
is zero impact on the Lakers a season with this.
Lots again, lots stuff. You can blame Lebron for lots
stuff like that, but this as on the court, absolutely
zero impact. Chase.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Just remember, I mean, we are a very reputable media
right in print and and audio and video. U nobody's
ever used influence to get a friend or family member
with job. Ever, how you how dare you imply that
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that's that's otherwise.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Been the case.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Guys, Brown's an MVP candidate.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
We heard that.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
For the highest free throw percentage in NBA history.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
After tonight, he is, he is, he is right there.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
That's better.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I mean, I gotta put him ahead a big boday.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I gotta sign something, miss to Perfecto.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah, I gotta go to sign mister perfect. Well, he
can't sign mister perfect because that's no, he can't do that,
mister perfecto. Mister yeah, I get him to sign something
now while he's still perfect from the line. Yeah all right,
And congratulations to Bronny. By scoring his five points tonight,
he now has nine points for the season, which are
more points finally than the Wizards have wins. Wizard too,
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good twins. Bronny's got nine points. Get ready the Jazz
are next. They have ten wins. Bronny's gonna take down
the Jazz next time he plays.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
He's gonna have him like a little the little yodeling
guy from Bryce is right, and he's jumping over the
teams as he does with.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
A basketball's hand.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
It's gonna be so embarrassing that the Utah Jazz are
gonna want to change their name. I forget about the
hockey team. We gotta change up, man. Bronny's got more
points than we have wins. We gotta change this. It's
so good, absolutely no good.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Time to find out what is good now from someone
who apparently is a big media in Luin Sir, we
talked last night about the Utah Hockey Club having their
final three teams that they're going to have people vote on, right,
the Mammoth and the Wasatch and the Utah Hockey Club.
We talked about Wassach last night. Wassach, Moncey Belanya is
looking up what Wasach means? We couldn't really understand try
(31:16):
to find Wassach. And today the Utah Hockey Club said, hey,
Wasatch is out. We hear from you because people wrote
in going they didn't want that, they wanted a new
name in there. So now Wassatch is not one of
the choices for the Utah Hockey Club. Moncy, I think
you influenced everybody with that last night.
Speaker 9 (31:34):
I mean you guys of course, because they were listening
to us, but we were all we were like, what
is that? And you don't want that to be a
team name? When everyone's questioning what is that?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Like you know what it was?
Speaker 3 (31:44):
That's what they would say, what's Thatch?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
What? What?
Speaker 3 (31:48):
What? What?
Speaker 9 (31:49):
Just everybody would be making jokes about it.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
So it's a good thing.
Speaker 9 (31:52):
And they took it out.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
They put in Utah Outlaws.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
So that's an option Utah Hockey Club, which is what
they are now, and the Utah Mammoth. But yeah, the
guys they were listening to us. They definitely heard the conversation.
The games in the NBA have wrapped up, and it
could have been messy between the Rockets and the Grizzlies
if you missed it.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
The Grizzlies survived.
Speaker 9 (32:12):
They won it one twenty to one nineteen, but with
about thirteen seconds to go, they had a fast break
and an easy dunk, and the refs ruled that coach
Jenkins of Memphis was calling the time out. He wasn't.
He was just like excited and encouraging the fast break
and the dunk. They stopped the dunk, they didn't count it,
and so the Grizzlies got the ball back. Jaron Jackson
(32:33):
Junior hits two free throws to take the lead and
then the Rockets aren't able to do anything. But it
could have been messy if the Rockets would have won
because he was not calling a timeout.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
So it's all good.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
One twenty one nineteen final score. The Magic just lost
to the Trailblazers one nineteen to ninety the Timberwoods. They
put on a show in Utah one thirty eight to
one thirteen was a final score. Anthony Edwards thirty six
points six rebounds on eleven assists. The Cavaliers took down
the Hawks one thirty seven to one fifteen and the
Lakers and handing the Wizards their sixteenth straight loss of
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the season, one thirty four to ninety six.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
With MVP Brownie James getting in the game and.
Speaker 9 (33:10):
Men's college hoops, UCLA is on top of number sixteen
Oregon seventy four to fifty with one minute to go
in the game and you can catch the final minute
on FS one. Nebraska snapped their six game losing streak
after taking down number eighteen Illinois eighty to seventy four
in overtime, and number nineteen Memphis took down to Lane
sixty eight to fifty six. In the NHL, the Jets
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have won five in a row. They have the best
record in the NHL at.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Thirty Again, the Jets have the best.
Speaker 9 (33:37):
Record yess in the NHL at doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Jets have the best record.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Thirty six, fourteen and three.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
After outscoring the Bruins six to two, the Senators as
the Capitals five to four in overtime, but Alex Ovechkin
did score, so he's nineteen goals away from surpassing Wayne
Gretzky and there's thirty one games left in the season.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
And lastly, here a.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
Group including Peyton Manning, Kansas Parker, Tim mcgron, Faith Hill
want to bring a w NBA franchise to Nashville and
call the team the Tennessee Summit after late Lady Bulls
head coach Kat Summit, which I'm all about.
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Speaker 1 (35:14):
What we want to know about odds. You want to
know what people are thinking right now about the Super
Bowl and more so, let's head to Vegas. Bring in
a long time friend of the show, Vegas Insider. Check
him out on Twitter at Todd Furman. Listen to About
the Board podcast. See him on CBS Todd. What's happening, Buddy?
How are you man?
Speaker 8 (35:32):
I'm doing well, gentlemen. From what I've been told, there's
a big football game taking place about eight or nine
days from now that I'll have the entire sporting world
focusing all eyes on lovely New Orleans and Bourbon Street.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Yep, the Jets and the Eagles again.
Speaker 9 (35:46):
Uh, what.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Have you seen so far with the numbers for this?
In the last couple of days since the since both
teams won, how they won, what have you seen so
far with things?
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Numbers remain pretty steady in terms of the game.
Speaker 8 (35:59):
I'll look had number before we saw all four teams
in action for the conference championship games projected Kansas City
to be a one one and a half point favorite
regardless or excuse me, the AFC to be a one
one and a half point favorite if they drew the Eagles.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
Lo and behold, that's where we are.
Speaker 8 (36:13):
Philadelphia, of course, boat racing Washington, Kansas City outlasting Buffalo.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
The surprising number here.
Speaker 8 (36:19):
And no shot that the initial move has been towards
the under was with the total that most thought would
open in that forty six and a half forty seven
Range'll both games go flying over last Sunday and lo
and behold. This total opens as high as fifty and
a half in some locations, forty nine and a half
on the consensus, and we're now down to forty nine,
with our first couple of forty eight and a half
starting to pop in some national books.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
All right, so tom so, let me ask you that
what's you put this up on your Twitter page? What's
the best early bet for the Super Bowl? Is it
Chiefs minus one and a half, Eagles plus one and
a half, the over or the under.
Speaker 8 (36:51):
It's a great question, and one unfortunate I don't have
an answer to. Otherwise it would be sitting on a
nice tropical island.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Kicking my feet up bed and zipping.
Speaker 8 (36:59):
An overpriced frozen beverage. But the one thing I will say,
when you're looking at a game like this, and typically
when you have such a short number, if the favorite wins,
they do cover, there's probably a little bit more opportunity
and upside to bet Kansas City on the money line,
just in the off chance we see this game go
to overtime like last year's game, and maybe there's a
scenario where a team elects to go for two if
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they score second. I just hope for the sake of
the Chiefs and Eagles, and maybe more so for the Eagles,
they understand the overtime rules this time around so they
don't make the same mistake Kyle Shanahan did in this
game that was played out here in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Nicely done.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
As we go through the what happened last weekend, Vegas
come out, come out ahead, a bunch of prop bets
that had and parlays that had blown up the week.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Before, or how does it look coming into the Super Bowl?
Speaker 8 (37:47):
You know, the overs didn't exactly help ball, with both
games shattering their respective totals, although you did see a
lot of support from professional betters on that Eagles Commander's
game going under the game day move took that from
forty seven down as low as four. But surprisingly, when
you assess the breakdown for how the recreational betters were
approaching those two games social media, they say one thing
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about knowing that Kansas City was destined to win that
game didn't stop folks from trying to bet with their
hearts looking.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
At back Buffalo.
Speaker 8 (38:15):
But more importantly, I mean, we knew that Jaden Daniels
narrative and people gravitated towards that gobbling up the points
with the Commanders, and that was a ticket that lasted
about three drives before the plus six was blown up.
So Books relatively happy, and look, we can only be
so excited for them given the fact that we saw
the financials come out for the month of December, specifically
for the NFL here in Nevada, and Books had their
(38:36):
first losing months since November of twenty twelve. As it
relates to the NFL, so a bit of an anomaly
this season with all of the favorites coming home to roost.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
We so wanted to ask you about, Todd, is that
you know the first time you've had a losing months
in in Nevada since November of twenty twelve on the NFL,
Is it just home teams? Like like what like if
you could look back, I'm sure people are starting to
look at it like what can you to and say,
this is how the sportsbook lost money on the NFL
for the first time in over a dozen years.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
Oh, we can blame the Jets.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
I think that an organization that we can plain that
finger at for you know, being a colossal disappointment going
five and twelve. But all kidding aside, it's as much
about the separation of the haves and have nots. I mean,
we look at all the teams that were able to
amass ten plus wins specifically in the NFC, and it
was one of the more top heavy seasons in recent memory.
And then you had a bevy of teams with four
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wins or less throughout the AFC. So when the general
recreational better can walk to the window and bet the
quote unquote better team, not paying any attention to the
price sensitivity around the number, it's going to create a
complicated dynamic. So we'll see if things correct. The other
thing that stood out a little bit is over the
last you know, ten to fifteen years betting hole underdogs
has been a profitable endeavor. Was not the case this
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year whatsoever. So every now and again the public gets
the better part of the book maker. Nobody cries for
all those fancy towers that are built here on Las
Vegas Boulevard elsewhere. We'll see if there are any slight
adjustments that get made in a week over a week
basis next year. Given the fact that September was one
of the most profitable months for the house with all
of those unpredictable results early on, with underdogs really.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
Biting todd with everybody excited about prop bets. How big
is that book that gets thrown at people with wagers
at this point in the year, and when's the most
advantageous time to start looking at that market place.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
It's absolutely massive, and credit to all the various books
both here in Nevada and across the States and around
the world that are only limited by the level of
creativity that they can put on their odds sheets. Whether
it's crosspot props that'll tie in golf and rugby and
NBA and NHL games, or it's every single player on
a given roster. I mean, these things are absolutely massive,
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you have a lot of the mass combinations that are
out there where books have gotten significantly more sophisticated as well,
and the general rule of thumb al though it's kind
of changed over the last five to seven years. If
you want to best some of the marquee players over
their props, you're better off moving early. If you want
to bet some of those guys under, you're better off
coming in the twenty four to thirty six hours before
the game.
Speaker 6 (41:07):
Because what still holds.
Speaker 8 (41:08):
True is the overall betting trends that the majority of
folks look to bet these games in the twenty four
hours leading up to kickoff.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Todd as always, Thanks Buddy, check them out on Twitter
at Todd Furman Bet the Board podcast as well. Great stuff.
As always, this is where people are leaning with still
a week plus to go before the super Bowl coming
up next. If you had the choice between super Bowl
and MVP, what would you pick? Fox
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minutes ago, gonna give you a stat that's gonna make
you want to take the Eagles to win the Super Bowl.
Right now. I know Frostburg's interested. He doesn't want to
take the Chiefs to do anything. I got a stat
for you. Mike, got a stat.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
You eliminated a referee.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I cleat Blakeman is not going to do this game.
Carl Cheffers will not going to do this game the
last three years. Jalen Hurts is fourteen and one against
the AFC fourteen and one, So.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
He's the inverse Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Fourteen and one.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Okay, who's their loss to?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Not the Jets.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
If I'm asking who's their loss to? I think he's
talking to you. Okay, So they lost to the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
That's the they lost to the Jets. It's the Jets
lost last year. See come on, sent them on and say, look,
that sent the Eagles in a really bad spiral. They
finished the season five and five.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
The Jet, the Jet.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
If the Eagles win the Super Bowl next week, the
Jets should really be the Super Bowl champions because clear hey,
we're the only ast.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
To beat in the last charity game. Doesn't count though
it counts. That's what you're trying to do here.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
The Jets are the real champions. They are just like
Michigan's probably the real national champion of college football. Ohio
State beat everybody they lost to. Michigan, gotta beat You
really think you're gonna win?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Are you forced to say that when you're working from
your home or what? You get shocks? So I get
my old sparky running through you there.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I mean, come on, now, my wife is standing behind
me with a frying pan, so I need to say
certain things. And yeah, uh so, yeah, listen, the Jets
are the real Super Bowl champions. But think about that.
For her, it's fourteen and one against the AFC over
the last three years.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Okay, yeah, because like I said, with with Jet, that's
been one of the things, right, is just you don't
see him and the style that they run from Baltimore
necessarily enough so he's been able to run rough shot.
I mean, they won a lot of games, so that
just speaks to their overall greatness.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Right.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
They were a thirteen win team a year ago, but
Lamar Jackson against NFC teams has been equally as brilliant.
So now the rubber meets the road here as we
get to New Orleans and Jalen hurts a quitted himself
well that the knee wasn't going to be an issue.
Now you get two weeks in a hyperbaric chambers, so
you begin.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Now, I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you something for the Eagles,
and you tell me, you tell me, give me your truthful,
your truthful response to this Okay, truthful response to this.
Not that I haven't watched tell the Truth.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
But no, I mean, look, I've been lying to you
for a lest years.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm really six inches taller than I am. I've just
been crouching down for the longest time.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Well I have been, you know, just more like a
fire plug. It's it's more an attitude.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
The most impressive thing about the Eagles, and we've talked
about this, is that they thrive in chaos. Right, all
the chaos they have had throughout the year the last
couple of years, they thrive in If the quarterback's not
getting along with a wide receiver, if the quarterback's not
getting along with the head coach, nobody likes the head coach.
They thrive in chaos, right.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I wouldn't say they really thrived on it. Last year
the loss of the well, they lost the Jets. They
lost to the Jets man the second half of the year. No,
we we talked about it a lot when it happened.
Was it was it was your high point? Or really
you runed it for America?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
No, dude, I mean really the loss of the Jets.
They went on a spiral. They finished a season five
hundred at that point, right, they were undefeated and everything's great.
They lose to the Jets and suddenly it's, oh, my goodness,
we lost to the Jets. Well, what are you really
going to accomplish this year? If we lose to the Jets?
Are really gonn accomplish anything? And they all quit and
they just said forget it.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
But then you go and you win that game, and
it also becomes in, look how terrible this team is,
so you could really sell the hell out of how
brilliant Saquon Barkley is. To all ends. Take nothing away
from two thousand yards. They had other guys that ran
behind that offensive line pretty well before.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, Jason, when's your apology to saque Remember Boston.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Scott, I said he's the MVP. I said he should
win the MVP?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Well said sorry?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I said, what am I sorry for that?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You were jinxing him by saying he should be the MVP.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Clearly he's that good in that I can't jinx him
by saying he's the MVP.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Well, but it's like you did with the Lions to
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
No, no, no, no, I got that spiral. Oh no, no,
I got that In the Lions haven't been to the
Super Bowl. Let me see. Oh ever, and I picked
it up and they still haven't. And all they had
to do was not keep going for it on fourth
down against the forty nine ers, And they kept doing
it and they kept.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I picked them to upset the Chiefs week one last year.
It was one and I said they were going to
the super Bowl and they should have. Like if you're
the Lions, I really wonder at the end, because we
talked about the window for the Lions being shut, there's
gonna be a lot of change, a lot of change defensively. Uh,
the team is gonna be different, the coordinators are different.
Like you, like you in five years, you might look
(06:29):
back and go, that was it, Like I know, we
we looked at that moment of the dawn of the
Lions and being maybe one of the best teams in
football the next five or seven years. But you had
a big lead in the second half of the NFC
title game and you kept going for it on fourth
down and you lost by a field goal. Like we're
gonna look back and say, they let that one go,
they let that one get away. Where now there's not
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a lot of talk about as well the Niners one,
and of course you're going for it on fourth down
and blah blah blah blah blah. But in five years
when suddenly it's hey, we've never gotten back to those
heights again because everything changed and we lost Johnson and
we lost Aaron Glennim, we had to replace a lot
of defensive players. We had a lot of new players
coming in, and Jared Goff wasn't quite as good as
he was. Like, you're gonna look back and go we
just blew that right, Like, we completely just blew that game.
(07:12):
We had it, we had the lead on the road, everything,
the Niners were dead, nothing was happening. But no, no, let's
wake them up, because what have we talked about. Dan
Campbell goes for it on fourth down? Doesn't understand the
impact if you don't get it right, But we always
do it this way, and this is Dan Campbell's fault.
This is campbelling right. Doesn't understand that. Oh if we
don't get it, what's the impact on our team? And
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the impact on the team was the Niners roared back
to life and they won and they went to the
Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
To be fair, go ahead, j Justin.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Okay, Yeah, to be fair, you know, they still had
at some point talked about the concept of playing defense,
So I don't think they were fully unprepared of what
was gonna happen there, except you know, they didn't go
and execute that part of things either. So yeah, for
the Lions there. What's gonna happen next week?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Though?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
And I have to ask because you and I and
and Justin will be in Los Angeles doing our shows
as we do every night, but some of our staff,
some of our colleagues will be on radio row out
there in New Orleans. So Justin, Alex Jason, and answer
this for me. What happens if David Montgomery comes looking
for you? Who becomes the sacrifice? Since you're not there?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Uh? Rob Parker, Rob Parker, Rob Parker, don't sacrifice one
hundred percent? Rob Parker one percent.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Well, I guess they could push him out as a
front man because he's gone against Detroit on a lot
of things.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Oh no, no, I guess he could take the fall there.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
He would just have to tell people he was a
guy that didn't vote for Eachiro and people, because you know,
how do we still not know that?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
How do we still not know who didn't vote for eachiro.
Maybe I'm just gonna start telling people is Rob Parker,
and maybe that will take off and be a thing.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
I'm gonna create my own AI Robert stat opener for
an unsolved mystery.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
But let me get back to my question now. Yeah,
the question I want to ask about the Eagles. Okay,
thriving in controversy, being able to do this, everything has
been terrific. Look, look, look how good they are. As
good as they are, as much as they have accomplished
where they are now, second super Bowl in three years.
If Nick Sirianni got fired tomorrow, I wouldn't be surprised
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like that, Like that's how much I feel that as
good as they are, Like I feel like Nick Sirianni
still is walking on thin ice. Where if there was
a huge bombshell and you find out, hey, Jeffrey Lorie
making the Howie Roseman making this huge move before the
Super Bowl, they're firing Nick Sirianni, I would say, oh,
that's a shocking story, and especially with like you know,
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twelve days ago before the Super Bowl. But okay, but
in the end, I would go, oh, yeah, that's on
brand for the Eagles. Like I can see them doing it.
I could see Nick Sirianni getting it because the team
just won't play for him whatever reason. Like he's he
he is the guy now that has the one foot
on the banana peel. It's gone from the Eagles having
that one foot on the banana peal to Nick Sirianni.
Like if they lose the Super Bowl and he got
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fired right after, I would say, oh, it's kind of shocked.
Did it right after the Super Bowl? Like right on
the field before he could walk off? But am I
surprised that they were playing? No, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I just like Nick Sirianni, I feel like the guy
is is one bad game away from that's it. We
got we need somebody else gotta throw. I gotta have
somebody else in here, you know, And then we'll find
that all these things have been going on and who's
not talking to and who's not getting along Like he's
that club. He's a bad super Bowl loss or a
bad practice at the Super Bowl away from getting fired.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Right on the razor's edge, as it were.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
No, it's it's curious right because it was a cacophony
of voices this week after the Bills fell short again,
that McDermot should be out.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
All the guy's done his win.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Now, he's had some controversy in terms of his meeting
styles and examples and history, and that he likes to
use going for two when you're not supposed to.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
You have all that. Well, clear clearly I went for
the low hanging how.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Are you supposed to be the Reft?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Well, and that's there forced us to go for two.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Now that I would respect him if he said, Sean,
you made two really bad decisions and you cost your
team three points because you went for two and didn't
make it minus one, so you had to go for
two again you didn't make it minus one. And because
the score was twenty two to twenty one when the
Chiefs scored their touchdown, they had to go for two
because they weren't gonna kick the extra point. So you
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really cost your team three points. The score should have
been twenty eight twenty four in the fourth quarter, and
said you were losing twenty nine to twenty two. How
do you explain that? And then he says, we had
to the Refts are gonna screw us. That's gooda Absolutely,
we had I had to go for two every single
time I had to go for two. At least then
some people would have his back and go, oh okay,
I kind of agree with it. I kind of agree,
I kind of yeah. I mean, look, you become a
(11:52):
man of the people. It might build a statue to
you somewhere, but the or.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
At least make mock t shirts of you. But the
idea that they gacked away that with their two point conversion,
chasing points when you didn't need to absolutely back to
the Sirianni question, it's Philadelphia. I think the voices could
get loud real fast again. A lot of winning, a
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lot of greatness, but would you suddenly have whispers of
malcontentedness that are out there?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Right?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
The aj Brown we talked with with Jay Gouyzer earlier
in the show and a piece he'll do for the
Super Bowl misunderstood, but many still kind of wondering behind
the scenes, right with the passing game not clicking, is
he satisfied when the target count isn't there? Right, If
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you're winning, it solves a lot of a lot of ills.
But if you're late in the third quarter or early fourth,
you're tied or behind, does that play does that suddenly
create an issue and does it then exposed that there
was always something going on with the passing game that
Sirianni couldn't playkate uh and get through the end of
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the ticker tape parade. So yeah, would it shock me? No?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Man, it's the NFL. Every day is an adventure.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Get ready, get ready? And then and then like Dick
for Meal, would go coach the game. You know, Hey,
we're gonna bring him back. He's gonna coach. That's great. Oh,
that'd be fantastic.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
For you guys.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Do you think he knows how to spell eagles?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Oh ah, that's what could get him fired if he
spells it wrong before the gate, Like like that could
get like at media nighte if he if he spells
eagles wrong, they'll fire him.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
There, dude, you're becoming the mayor.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And they'll they'll replace him with the mayor.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
No, but he becomes the mayor if he if he
leans into that, it's like that's ours now.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
We exit out about a Fresca exit small and owing
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But coming up next, what is, without a doubt, the
most overcovered story in the NBA, and it reared its
head again tonight. That's coming up next right here, Jason
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Speaker 3 (15:19):
This is like.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Bumper music on sports talk radio in the nineteen sixties.
That's what this is Fox Sports Radio. The Jay said,
it is excep's what it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
What you Michael Sarah?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
This is Michael Sarah. Yeah, I can hear it now.
Did did lit lit lit a little.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Where people say, yeah, such a bob?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
All right, that's fine, that's fine you all right because
I can hear it now because I because you know,
I love the duet he had in Juno. Yes, uh,
you know, yeah, the the up and Down rich Pa Star.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Uh he did been singing Scott Pilgrim Diddy. No he
didn't sing it. No, I thin the only sing in Juno. Okay,
all right, Michael Sarah. I hope your girlfriend enjoys that song.
But I'm sure you dedicated to.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Her, not that you know about.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I'll sitting here at hey railroad station.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Listen at nine to twenty, I'll play that Michael Sarah
song for you. We were listening to the other night
we were gazing out at the stars and thinking about
our future. I'll play that.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Michael Sarah song for enough hot takes for an hour.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah, I'm good. It's your long distance dedication.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Oh Coles T shirt.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
I have that writing an a AI chapter of a
book right now?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Okay, I mean at this point now, can't hey I
just write everything?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I mean, do we need to have any of that?
Can still have the ideas and then it'll just date
from there? No?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Can't they come up with the ideas and then write it.
I thought that's that was AI's also, I really want
to Yeah, I'm I'm a really lazy Hollywood writer. Yeah,
I have AI come up with the ideas and they
I just send the emails out. That's all I end. Yeah,
And I just sent the emails out, that's all. Uh So,
big day in the NBA today, and big day because
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Bronnie James played. Oh my goodness, Wow is Bronnie James playing?
This is the worst story in the NBA. How do
they let him play after what happened last night? This
is awful. The Lakers beat the Wizards one thirty four
to ninety six. All right, this is a game that
was not in doubt after halftime, they outscored the Wizards
thirty six sixteen. In the second quarter, they were up
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by nearly forty and Bronny gets into the game and
he plays about twelve minutes and you know, makes one basket.
But boy was in a basket and then they were
chanting MVP for him. I know, Justin Frostberg has it ready.
He's got his itchy finger on the trigger. Here's Bronnie
James from Tonight Blonde.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
Goes Stanny Ovation standing ovation that time he did get
the defending to rush at Himan. Good absorbing, absorbing the
contact and keeping your concentration on the target.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
That's a real nice play by Bronni.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Three points play. That was Bronnie's second NBA basket. It
was a nice.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Play, Like you said, Ronnie Chaste.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
From the Wizards crowd, chin MVP for Bronny James and
they go to the free throw.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Get on board, dad, absolutely celebrate, celebrate greatness.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Oh that was the best brodya getting MVP.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Chin.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Well, look it's the Wizards. They're six and forty one.
I mean, you got to have your fun where you can, right,
I mean you can't. You can't just come to the
game and sit on your head. You gotta find a
way to have fun.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
But that's where you celebrate rom communism.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
You had me at Wizards.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
So they win tonight, and look, it's it's I mean,
I don't I don't know, I don't know what it's like.
I can't believe they didn't go live to his prescottson
Washington after.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Hey, Bronnie James was here. He's the MVP.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
But this story, the Bronnie James story, is so overcovered
by everybody in the media. And not only that, it's
covered wrongly. And Bronnie James playing for the Lakers, this
is not suddenly the worst thing in the world. That's
a lot of people have trouble with.
Speaker 8 (19:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Our breathren In in sports talk radio is that everything
is not is not liver Die topics. Right, there's some
things you got to understand you just gotta have fun with.
And Bronnie James playing for the Lakers is fun. Right,
It's a fun topic. Not everything. Bronnie James playing for
the Lakers is not the same as uh, we should
the Heat trade Jimmy Butler or keep him, which is
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not as which is not nearly as big as the
Chiefs and the Super Bowl, but everything, and and you
would hear people the last couple of days since Bronnie
had the last bad game a couple of days ago
against the Sixers.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Right, it was a bad game.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Don't get me, I'm not chaying it was a bad game,
but they were terrible against the Sixers who stayed. You
would think that Bronnie James and him playing for the
Lakers is absolutely tearing the team apart. And it's not
the only reason Bronnie James is getting any kind of coverage, obviously,
is because lebron James is polarizing. He's been polarizing since
he walked into the league twenty years ago. Right, He's
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just that kind of guy that stirred that kind of
attention that because it's his kid. This is why every
take is so over the top on Bronnie James. Bronnie
James has played fifty seven minutes this year, fifty seven
minutes right now, fifty seven minutes this month, fifty seven
minutes since the start of the season, and twenty seven
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of those minutes have come in the last two games,
twelve minutes tonight because he didn't come into the game
until it was well decided in the second half twenty
seven minutes. In the last two games, everything else three minutes,
five minutes, five minutes, one minute, two minutes, three minutes,
two minutes, one minute, two minutes, minut it's four minutes.
And then the last two nights with twelve minutes and
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fifteen minutes. It's not like he's getting into games and
he's costing them. Every game he's been up until has
been a game where the Lakers have won or lost handily. Right,
this is not nearly having the impact that people would
have you believe it is. It's irrelevant. It's a fun story.
It's fun seeing Bronny play with with alongside lebron it's
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fun seeing him get some minutes. But the Sixers game,
you'd feel like it was a it was a playoff game,
and it was Game seven, and JJ Reddick just decided, Hey,
let's give Bronnie some minutes. I get why he played
him early. Bronny's coming off a big run in the
G League where he had his best game yet, so okay,
maybe he's ready for a little more minutes now, as
they saw against the Sixers, didn't happen. Right, wasn't ready
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and Tyrese Maxi went right at him when he came in,
lit him up, and it had to get him out
of the game. And Bronni had a really bad game.
So okay, JJ Reddick and the Lakers understand. Okay, maybe
he's not ready for those kind of minutes yet, but
that's what you do. Hey, here's a kid who's come up.
He's tearing up the G League now, playing really well.
Let's see if he's ready for a little bit more.
This is how you check with players. This is how
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you do now. Bringing him in in the first half
that early, eh, okay, but they were gonna do it anyway.
You got to see if the guy is going to
be able to come on a little bit. He's a
second you know, he's a second round pick, right, so
what do you what do you expect? This is how
you deal with guys like this and this is how
they play. And he's had zero impact on this team.
(22:28):
You can blame Lebron. You can blame AD for a
lot of things, right, you can blame them for every
five minutes they change what they need to win a championship. First,
we need Russell Westbrook. Now I need to shoot him.
We got off the red. Now we need to say,
now the latest thing, we need a center. Right, if
we had, if it was like it was a few
years ago when we had Javail McGee and Dwight Howard
in twenty twenty oh, then we'd win the NBA title. So,
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just so you know, Ad said they were a twenty
twenty Javal McGee and Dwight Howard away from winning from
winning this year's NBA title, right, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
But they can't.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
This is stuff. Hey, you want to blame Lebron and
a D four yet one hundred percent you keep moving
the keep moving the goalpost, because hey, we don't want
you to really blame us for not winning. This is
kind of what we feel we need. That's that's legit.
But this Bronny story, this is not This is not
affecting them on the court. This is not every game
where where where Lebron and Rich Paul and Bronny are
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against Genie Buss and Rob Polinka and and minutes for
Bronny and minutes and and JJ Reddick as well. Reddick
has done exactly what I thought he was gonna do
and what we thought he was gonna Hey, he's playing
him a couple minutes at a time, right, and that
a little bit of extended minutes, Okay, saw that maybe
those extended minutes wasn't a good idea. He's not ready
for it. This has had zero impact on the Lakers season, zero.
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But yet you would think that Bronnie James playing is
suddenly ready to tear the Lakers apart of the seams.
And that's not the case.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Yeah, And I think what you get down to it,
it was game what was that forty five? Yeah against
the Sixers that everybody's losing their minds about. Look, you're
only going as far as a D and lebron are
going to carry you anyway.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
And at this point eighty's a bit banged up.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
So the next stretch you navigate with him either unavailable
altogether or limited, is going to determine your fate, not
whether you give a couple of minutes to Bronnie James.
It's it's a story that people have been hated and
have hated upon since its inception, since draft season.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Again, a country built on.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Inserts surname here and sons or daughters businesses for as
long as we've been a country, you know that that
idea of hey, you.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Can get into the family business.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Huh, Bronnie got in pretty good player, just not NBA
ready yet. A right, he's a guy that needs some seasoning.
But when you've got a long, long run of games
as they'd had and successful, mind you, right now up
to twenty seven and nineteen on the year, sitting sitting
pretty good. They're firmly entrenched. You know, going to be
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in that five to six seed. It looks like, in
barring some catastrophe, that that's where they're going to end
up in this thing. And Bronnie James playing a few
minutes again isn't gonna determine it. So you go and
you play against the Sixers. Well, you play MAXI. He's
one of your best guards. Sorry you lose that matchup.
There're the Sixers any good? No, But you thought a
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good test for him and your team around him would
come up and show up. Guess what, Jason, they didn't.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
They didn't. They played terribly. And then you get an
extra opportunity against the Wizards. You know what do you do?
You run it back.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
There's ever a time to get some meaningful minutes again,
meaningful week put in air quotes by how pathetic the
Wizards are. But you got you're trying to find some confidence,
trying to find some rhythm, so you get him in.
You know, for us as observers and living in Greater
Los Angeles, I love the passion that people have for
it one way or another, because, let's face it, there's
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a out of shoulder shrugging on many a thing that
shouldn't in our in our world as a whole, and
sports still gets us fired up. So either stand by
it or you don't. Yet you love or you hate
the Lakers. It seems to be really the thing that
tears it all asunder. But for for Brownie James, he's
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gonna play a few more games. He'll play some more minutes.
That's all fine and good. Again, it's if it's the
playoffs are on the line and they're deciding, hey, now's
your time. We're gonna sink or swim by something this
kid's gonna do in the eight minutes we give him, Well,
then you've already lost.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Okay, Saturday night.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Suddenly if he shows out, and then we'll just have
the he loves the Garden narrative.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
If that happens, I don't think I could ever come
into work again if he scored forty on the Micks on.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
To break Mellow's record at the Garden.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
He's got sixty one through three quarters, what will what
will he do at the fourth quarter? I mean at
fifty seven minutes all season long? And for the crowd,
that's it. Well, the Lakers did a favor for Lebron. Yeah, okay,
big superstars. Teams do favors for right, they do. The
Bucks do favors for Giannis. The Knicks do favors for
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Jalen Brunzel. They brought it all his best friends from Villanova.
We're bringing it all the Villanova guys and we'll trade
the one guy that everybody can't stand.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
But we've been up forever it.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Guys have been going to their friends in free agencies,
yea forever.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
And teams do it all the time with the Bucks
and and and had Giannis's brother for I mean it
was teams do favors. Oh, but it's Lebron the only
way yeah, the only reason Broni's the headline is because
Lebron is polarizing and people just automatically hate Lebron. Whereas
if this was, if this was, if Jannis was forty
years old, right, or if Jason Tatum was forty years old,
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or if Jokic was forty years old, or or Shay
Gilders Alexander was forty and their kid was playing, it
would be it would be undefinable, uncontrollable love for what
a great story this is this guy. You look at
what he did to make his way in the NBA,
What a great star he was, and now he gets
to play with his son. What a cool thing this is.
And look, maybe he gets minutes all, maybe he's getting
(28:17):
a couple too many minutes in this one individual game,
but it would not be the overall, Oh, Bronny's that
this is awful, This is the worst. That this has
zero impact. And the only reason people are jumping up
and down on Bronny is because it's Lebron's kid. Where anybody,
any other player, I'm saying, any other dude in the
NBA would be what a great story this is other player.
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But because it's lebron and Bronne always should have been drafted.
He's a kid that should have been in college. He
wouldn't have been a second round pick. Okay, you know what,
but again, this is how it goes in the world.
This is the NBA. Every company you're in, a guy
who is really high up pulls a string to get
somebody higher, and it happens. It happens everywhere. If I
was on an NBA team and I could get my
kid to pay, I would I would do it in
(28:59):
a second. I would try, Oh yeah, this, this would
be an awesome thing. But because it's Lebron, it's it's
a different story, and it shouldn't be, mainly because there
is zero impact on the Lakers a season with this.
Lots again, lots stuff. You can blame Lebron for lots
stuff like that, but this as on the court, absolutely
zero impact. Chase.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Just remember, I mean, we are a very reputable media
right in print and and audio and video. U nobody's
ever used influence to get a friend or family member
with job. Ever, how you how dare you imply that
(29:37):
that's that's otherwise.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Been the case.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Guys, Brown's an MVP candidate.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
We heard that.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
For the highest free throw percentage in NBA history.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
After tonight, he is, he is, he is right there.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
That's better.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I mean, I gotta put him ahead a big boday.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I gotta sign something, miss to Perfecto.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah, I gotta go to sign mister perfect. Well, he
can't sign mister perfect because that's no, he can't do that,
mister perfecto. Mister yeah, I get him to sign something
now while he's still perfect from the line. Yeah all right,
And congratulations to Bronny. By scoring his five points tonight,
he now has nine points for the season, which are
more points finally than the Wizards have wins. Wizard too,
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good twins. Bronny's got nine points. Get ready the Jazz
are next. They have ten wins. Bronny's gonna take down
the Jazz next time he plays.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
He's gonna have him like a little the little yodeling
guy from Bryce is right, and he's jumping over the
teams as he does with.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
A basketball's hand.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
It's gonna be so embarrassing that the Utah Jazz are
gonna want to change their name. I forget about the
hockey team. We gotta change up, man. Bronny's got more
points than we have wins. We gotta change this. It's
so good, absolutely no good.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Time to find out what is good now from someone
who apparently is a big media in Luin Sir, we
talked last night about the Utah Hockey Club having their
final three teams that they're going to have people vote on, right,
the Mammoth and the Wasatch and the Utah Hockey Club.
We talked about Wassach last night. Wassach, Moncey Belanya is
looking up what Wasach means? We couldn't really understand try
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to find Wassach. And today the Utah Hockey Club said, hey,
Wasatch is out. We hear from you because people wrote
in going they didn't want that, they wanted a new
name in there. So now Wassatch is not one of
the choices for the Utah Hockey Club. Moncy, I think
you influenced everybody with that last night.
Speaker 9 (31:34):
I mean you guys of course, because they were listening
to us, but we were all we were like, what
is that? And you don't want that to be a
team name? When everyone's questioning what is that?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Like you know what it was?
Speaker 3 (31:44):
That's what they would say, what's Thatch?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
What? What?
Speaker 3 (31:48):
What? What?
Speaker 9 (31:49):
Just everybody would be making jokes about it.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
So it's a good thing.
Speaker 9 (31:52):
And they took it out.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
They put in Utah Outlaws.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
So that's an option Utah Hockey Club, which is what
they are now, and the Utah Mammoth. But yeah, the
guys they were listening to us. They definitely heard the conversation.
The games in the NBA have wrapped up, and it
could have been messy between the Rockets and the Grizzlies
if you missed it.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
The Grizzlies survived.
Speaker 9 (32:12):
They won it one twenty to one nineteen, but with
about thirteen seconds to go, they had a fast break
and an easy dunk, and the refs ruled that coach
Jenkins of Memphis was calling the time out. He wasn't.
He was just like excited and encouraging the fast break
and the dunk. They stopped the dunk, they didn't count it,
and so the Grizzlies got the ball back. Jaron Jackson
(32:33):
Junior hits two free throws to take the lead and
then the Rockets aren't able to do anything. But it
could have been messy if the Rockets would have won
because he was not calling a timeout.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
So it's all good.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
One twenty one nineteen final score. The Magic just lost
to the Trailblazers one nineteen to ninety the Timberwoods. They
put on a show in Utah one thirty eight to
one thirteen was a final score. Anthony Edwards thirty six
points six rebounds on eleven assists. The Cavaliers took down
the Hawks one thirty seven to one fifteen and the
Lakers and handing the Wizards their sixteenth straight loss of
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the season, one thirty four to ninety six.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
With MVP Brownie James getting in the game and.
Speaker 9 (33:10):
Men's college hoops, UCLA is on top of number sixteen
Oregon seventy four to fifty with one minute to go
in the game and you can catch the final minute
on FS one. Nebraska snapped their six game losing streak
after taking down number eighteen Illinois eighty to seventy four
in overtime, and number nineteen Memphis took down to Lane
sixty eight to fifty six. In the NHL, the Jets
(33:32):
have won five in a row. They have the best
record in the NHL at.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Thirty Again, the Jets have the best.
Speaker 9 (33:37):
Record yess in the NHL at doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Jets have the best record.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Thirty six, fourteen and three.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
After outscoring the Bruins six to two, the Senators as
the Capitals five to four in overtime, but Alex Ovechkin
did score, so he's nineteen goals away from surpassing Wayne
Gretzky and there's thirty one games left in the season.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
And lastly, here a.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
Group including Peyton Manning, Kansas Parker, Tim mcgron, Faith Hill
want to bring a w NBA franchise to Nashville and
call the team the Tennessee Summit after late Lady Bulls
head coach Kat Summit, which I'm all about.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
I know, I'm also I know, I know, thanks to
you guys, thanks a bunch of monch Yes, The Jason
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Speaker 8 (34:22):
UH.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Coming up next, the rest of the All Stars were
announced in the NBA, and boy, I'm not always big
for saying these guys got snubbed, but wow, did these
guys get snubbed? That's next Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
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Speaker 6 (35:13):
Well Dreff Cobo.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
What we want to know about odds. You want to
know what people are thinking right now about the Super
Bowl and more so, let's head to Vegas. Bring in
a long time friend of the show, Vegas Insider. Check
him out on Twitter at Todd Furman. Listen to About
the Board podcast. See him on CBS Todd. What's happening, Buddy?
How are you man?
Speaker 8 (35:32):
I'm doing well, gentlemen. From what I've been told, there's
a big football game taking place about eight or nine
days from now that I'll have the entire sporting world
focusing all eyes on lovely New Orleans and Bourbon Street.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Yep, the Jets and the Eagles again.
Speaker 9 (35:46):
Uh, what.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Have you seen so far with the numbers for this?
In the last couple of days since the since both
teams won, how they won, what have you seen so
far with things?
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Numbers remain pretty steady in terms of the game.
Speaker 8 (35:59):
I'll look had number before we saw all four teams
in action for the conference championship games projected Kansas City
to be a one one and a half point favorite
regardless or excuse me, the AFC to be a one
one and a half point favorite if they drew the Eagles.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
Lo and behold, that's where we are.
Speaker 8 (36:13):
Philadelphia, of course, boat racing Washington, Kansas City outlasting Buffalo.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
The surprising number here.
Speaker 8 (36:19):
And no shot that the initial move has been towards
the under was with the total that most thought would
open in that forty six and a half forty seven
Range'll both games go flying over last Sunday and lo
and behold. This total opens as high as fifty and
a half in some locations, forty nine and a half
on the consensus, and we're now down to forty nine,
with our first couple of forty eight and a half
starting to pop in some national books.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
All right, so tom so, let me ask you that
what's you put this up on your Twitter page? What's
the best early bet for the Super Bowl? Is it
Chiefs minus one and a half, Eagles plus one and
a half, the over or the under.
Speaker 8 (36:51):
It's a great question, and one unfortunate I don't have
an answer to. Otherwise it would be sitting on a
nice tropical island.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Kicking my feet up bed and zipping.
Speaker 8 (36:59):
An overpriced frozen beverage. But the one thing I will say,
when you're looking at a game like this, and typically
when you have such a short number, if the favorite wins,
they do cover, there's probably a little bit more opportunity
and upside to bet Kansas City on the money line,
just in the off chance we see this game go
to overtime like last year's game, and maybe there's a
scenario where a team elects to go for two if
(37:19):
they score second. I just hope for the sake of
the Chiefs and Eagles, and maybe more so for the Eagles,
they understand the overtime rules this time around so they
don't make the same mistake Kyle Shanahan did in this
game that was played out here in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Nicely done.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
As we go through the what happened last weekend, Vegas
come out, come out ahead, a bunch of prop bets
that had and parlays that had blown up the week.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Before, or how does it look coming into the Super Bowl?
Speaker 8 (37:47):
You know, the overs didn't exactly help ball, with both
games shattering their respective totals, although you did see a
lot of support from professional betters on that Eagles Commander's
game going under the game day move took that from
forty seven down as low as four. But surprisingly, when
you assess the breakdown for how the recreational betters were
approaching those two games social media, they say one thing
(38:09):
about knowing that Kansas City was destined to win that
game didn't stop folks from trying to bet with their
hearts looking.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
At back Buffalo.
Speaker 8 (38:15):
But more importantly, I mean, we knew that Jaden Daniels
narrative and people gravitated towards that gobbling up the points
with the Commanders, and that was a ticket that lasted
about three drives before the plus six was blown up.
So Books relatively happy, and look, we can only be
so excited for them given the fact that we saw
the financials come out for the month of December, specifically
for the NFL here in Nevada, and Books had their
(38:36):
first losing months since November of twenty twelve. As it
relates to the NFL, so a bit of an anomaly
this season with all of the favorites coming home to roost.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
We so wanted to ask you about, Todd, is that
you know the first time you've had a losing months
in in Nevada since November of twenty twelve on the NFL,
Is it just home teams? Like like what like if
you could look back, I'm sure people are starting to
look at it like what can you to and say,
this is how the sportsbook lost money on the NFL
for the first time in over a dozen years.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
Oh, we can blame the Jets.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
I think that an organization that we can plain that
finger at for you know, being a colossal disappointment going
five and twelve. But all kidding aside, it's as much
about the separation of the haves and have nots. I mean,
we look at all the teams that were able to
amass ten plus wins specifically in the NFC, and it
was one of the more top heavy seasons in recent memory.
And then you had a bevy of teams with four
(39:28):
wins or less throughout the AFC. So when the general
recreational better can walk to the window and bet the
quote unquote better team, not paying any attention to the
price sensitivity around the number, it's going to create a
complicated dynamic. So we'll see if things correct. The other
thing that stood out a little bit is over the
last you know, ten to fifteen years betting hole underdogs
has been a profitable endeavor. Was not the case this
(39:51):
year whatsoever. So every now and again the public gets
the better part of the book maker. Nobody cries for
all those fancy towers that are built here on Las
Vegas Boulevard elsewhere. We'll see if there are any slight
adjustments that get made in a week over a week
basis next year. Given the fact that September was one
of the most profitable months for the house with all
of those unpredictable results early on, with underdogs really.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
Biting todd with everybody excited about prop bets. How big
is that book that gets thrown at people with wagers
at this point in the year, and when's the most
advantageous time to start looking at that market place.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
It's absolutely massive, and credit to all the various books
both here in Nevada and across the States and around
the world that are only limited by the level of
creativity that they can put on their odds sheets. Whether
it's crosspot props that'll tie in golf and rugby and
NBA and NHL games, or it's every single player on
a given roster. I mean, these things are absolutely massive,
(40:47):
you have a lot of the mass combinations that are
out there where books have gotten significantly more sophisticated as well,
and the general rule of thumb al though it's kind
of changed over the last five to seven years. If
you want to best some of the marquee players over
their props, you're better off moving early. If you want
to bet some of those guys under, you're better off
coming in the twenty four to thirty six hours before
the game.
Speaker 6 (41:07):
Because what still holds.
Speaker 8 (41:08):
True is the overall betting trends that the majority of
folks look to bet these games in the twenty four
hours leading up to kickoff.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Todd as always, Thanks Buddy, check them out on Twitter
at Todd Furman Bet the Board podcast as well. Great stuff.
As always, this is where people are leaning with still
a week plus to go before the super Bowl coming
up next. If you had the choice between super Bowl
and MVP, what would you pick? Fox
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