January 16, 2026 • 41 mins
Dan reacts to the Los Angeles Dodgers landing Kyle Tucker as the rich get richer and complaints arise again as the power of baseball tilts even farther. CBS Sports senior writer Matt Norlander joins Dan to talk about the massive scandal rocking college basketball where 29 individuals are indicted for fixing games, and when the gambling scandals start to become routine in sports.
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last night with a big surprise, because I kept thinking
it's gonna be Toronto, It's gonna be the Mets. Kyle
Tucker is gonna get paid. All of a sudden, the
Dodgers got Kyle Tucker. And that salary is I guess
sixty million dollars a year. You're probably not familiar with
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Kyle Tucker. He's a good player. That feels like a
lot of money to. Then you said sixty million dollars
a year. You're probably not familiar with that. Those things
should not go together. They don't normally. But and I
didn't know the Dodgers needed Kyle Tucker. Maybe they needed
him so the Mets and the Blue Jays wouldn't get him.
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But it's sixty million dollars for Kyle Tucker. He plays
right field. I no, I got to I feel like
I have to introduce him.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
To I mean, that's right, you should not have to explain.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, So Kyle Tucker is his average salary, I guess
is sixty million dollars. The only player that is making
more is Shoheyo Tani, his teammate. I also saw the
salaries that are guaranteed for this upcoming season. This is
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total amount of guaranteed money on the books per Major
League Baseball team. The Dodgers, now, this is guaranteed money
two billion dollars two billion, two point one. San Diego
is one point two, Toronto one point two, the Mets
one point one. Philadelphia. Come on, Phillies, they're not even
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a billion. They're at eight hundred and sixty five million dollars. Oh,
you know, it makes it. The Dodgers make the Mets
and the Yankees feel like a mom and pop shop, Like, man,
they're scraping stuff together. It's incredible what they're doing. And
that wasn't that long ago where we looked at the
Yankees and we go, they're ruining baseball. Here Dodgers at
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two billion dollars on the books. Now you got deferred
money that's included in there because most of Shoheo Tani's
contract is deferred. Paulie, would you let America know about
Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
He's been a very good player, four time All Star
the last four years. A couple of years ago he
was fifth in the MVP, hitting two eighty four twenty
nine homers, one hundred and twelve rbi for Houston. Then
he joined the Cubs last year, had a pretty good season,
banged up at the end. Considered a classic hitter. Oh,
the classic beautiful swing day.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, love least classic hitter, twenty eight years old, right,
four year deal?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, Okay, if you're the Dodgers, did you need this
going forward to com to win or do you just
do it to make sure others can't challenge you. I
guess it's a semantics.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Well, the Blue Jays were in the World Series and
they wanted Kyle Tucker. But then I don't know what's
going on with Bob Baschett here, but uh, I mean
I thought maybe if there was a big, big ticket
item as far as the pitcher went, that I could
see the Dodgers doing that. But they picked up Edwin Diaz.
You know, they got him from the Mets. You know,
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when you go shopping, you don't worry about the price tag,
or when you go to a restaurant and you don't
order it by looking at what the price is and
work your way back. That's the Dodgers. They order from
the left side of the menu. They don't worry about
what that price tag is, or if they go to
a store, they don't ask, or you go to a
car dealership, you just say you got that in uh
(04:23):
Dodger blue please?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Seton.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
What else is kind of weird about it too? If
you think about, like a lot of people played Little
League baseball and right field is where the worst player.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
On the team went.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yeah, right field is always where the worst player was. Yeah,
and that dude is just got paid, just gobs of money.
There's something about your youth brain that won't let you reconcile.
Why are you paying that much for a right field
that they're always the worst player?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
But there aren't many left handed batters when you're growing up,
Therefore you don't worry about somebody hitting into right field.
But you get to the major leagues, your best arm
was usually in right field. Some of the best arms
in baseball history were right fielders. Stat of the Day
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dinner last night and I was sitting at the bar
by myself. Behind me are three guys, probably in their twenties,
and I overhear the conversation of they're talking up, they're
breaking down kevin Na Gandhi, the Sports Center anchor, and
they're talking about the pluses and minuses of kevin Na Gandhi.
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Now they know I'm at the bar. The guys came
over and said hello, but I can hear them in
the conversation. Is Sports Center anchors as if I'm going
to turn around and get involved in the conversation. So
I just want to let kevin Na Gandhi, who's a
fan of the show, let you know you were part
of a conversation last night on Sports Center anchors. Yeah, Seaton,
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how'd he do? I think he did pretty well? He did? Yeah, Yeah,
I think so. You know, I think I heard the
expression he's a really good presenter, and I go, okay,
all right, yeah, Paul.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
First Team, all nice guy, kind of that. Reese Davis
Lean broadcast nice guy on and off the court.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Randall Scott, Oh, Randall, K Scott one of my favorites.
David Lloyd. David Lloyd up there on the All Nice
Team legend. Yeah, David Lloyd hadn't aged, hadn't aged a day.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Reese Davis looks about the same age.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, he's letting a little gray hair creep in. You know,
he's got that distinguished look.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
By the way, it's a meat Friday. It's a chicken
and sausage, gumbo, seafood, gumbo, cornbread. Whoooo has it better
than we do? Nobody?
Speaker 6 (07:11):
All Right?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Got our play of the day Nita poll question, Seaton,
what are we going to go with? At least in
the first hour of this award nominated program, for at.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Least the first hour of the show, we are going
to go with which game is most likely to be
a blowout? Broncos, Bills, Patriots, Texans, Seahawks, forty nine Ers, Bears, Rams.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Mm hmm, well, okay, let me give you this betting
stat here from DraftKings. You can bet on which team
will score the most points this weekend. Which team will
score the most? The Rams are the favorites, Then it's
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the Seahawks, the Bears. Broncos and Bills are tied, which
is interesting since they're facing one another. Then you have
the Patriots, Texans and the Niners. The Niners are the
worst odds to score the most points. Here stand the
Day and the Day past Stat of the Day, stat
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Stat of the Day brought to you by Panedi America.
The Bills are getting one and a half the Niners.
It's now seven, it was seven and a half. Sam
Donald has an oblique issue somewhat so that Drew Lock
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took some snaps and that's a big deal. Like you
can hear if you know, a quarterback might be banged
up a little bit, but took all the snaps. Drew
Lock taking some snaps. Drew Lock is the backup quarterback
to Sam Donald. The Texans are getting three against the
Patriots and the Rams favored by three and a half
against the Bears. We do make a big deal about
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the cold weather, and I can speak from first hand knowledge.
The Cincinnati Bengals against the San Diego Chargers with Dan
Fouts and they came into Cincinnati. It's the coldest NFL
game on record, and some of the linemen for the
Bengals came out they didn't have any sleeves on and
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I'm thinking, you guys crazy, And then the Chargers came out.
The Chargers had if they could have played in parkas
they would have, but they came on the field and
you could almost to a man, see them go can
we get through three hours of this and then go
huh like that, we're not gonna We're not gonna do
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well here. Now. Nobody wants to play in the cold conditions,
but I always find it interesting when you get one
or two guys who come out as if to say,
it's not that cold. I don't have a sure h
Tennessee tried to do that against Ohio State, and the
Ohio State players probably went, the cold is in your head,
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not ours. We know it's cold. You're trying to prove
that it's not cold. It is cold, But somebody will
be out there and they'll be warming up and they'll
have their shirt off, and you're probably gonna have players
who go, the cold is in your head, you know
Chicago's going to play in it. I remember talking to
a former Minnesota Viking when they had the outdoor stadium,
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and Bud Grant famously didn't want heaters on the sidelines
because if they had heaters, then the other team got
heaters he didn't want. He wanted his teams tough, and
they were tough. But the player said, we didn't like
playing in the cold, but we had to act like
we liked playing in the cold. And a lot of
these guys who are in shot, like Caleb Williams, where's
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he from? Did he grow up in cold weather? I
guess DC kind of coldish. Or you get guys who
played in California who now play in the Midwest. You
went to college, you know, now you're playing cold weather,
or vice versa. You know, we always talk about Florida
when the Florida teams come up. Then we go, uh,
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they're soft. Now they might be because history is shown
that they don't do well in the cold weather. Or
you get teams from the North who go down to
South Florida and all of a sudden, you know, you go,
Dolphins shouldn't win, but here it is December and it's
really hot. They end up winning the you know, the Patriots,
it felt like, would always lose in South Florida and
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be like, oh man, that humidity. It is weltering. And
guys will say, they'll tell you that I'd rather play
in the cold than the hot because I can add
layers in the cold. There's only so much you can
take off in the you know, when it's sticky, when
it's hot, when it's humid, but somebody is going to
be out there shirt off. They're gonna go okay, but
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it's going to be cold, it'll be windy, it'll be
Chicago weather. Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Couple of guys on NFL Network yesterday saying, you know,
Poka Nakua and DeVante Adams playing with Matt Stafford. It's
tougher for them in the cold to catch his football
is because he throws a hard football. Then the other
guy made the complete opposite case. He said, well, Pooka's
got the best hands in the sport, so if anyone
could catch those balls of the cold, it's him, So
that gives the Rams an advantage. It was like a
direct opposite conversation.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
And then I heard an Annaly state, well, you know
Stafford played in Detroit all those years, and I go, uh,
he played inside. He was inside. You know what, there
are other games in the division. Okay, he played one
game in Green Bay in one game in Chicago, depending
on when it landed on the schedule. So he played.
You know, Minnesota's inside. So it's not like I mean,
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I know Matt had to leave his house to walk
to his car. Maybe the car is in the garage,
so he didn't even have to do that, and then
he parked underneath the stadium. He didn't, you know, have
to face the cold weather. You know, he played in Detroit. No,
he lived in Detroit. It wasn't playing in the elements
in Detroit. So the weather will be an issue. I
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don't know what it's going to be in New England
for the Patriots and the Texans. I don't think it's
going to be anything that's alarming that's going to be
oh my gosh, the Texans, how are they going to
survive in New England? What do we got temperatures in
the thirties Pauling.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, thirty five at kickoff with the Patriots, Bears at home,
seventeen at kickoff, Seahawks forty nine, and Broncos forty one
degrees at kickoff.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Ooh loalmy. And here's another thing that when the Rams
almost beat the Eagles last year, it was in the
snow in Philadelphia. I think if you check the temperature,
it was in the mid thirties, so it wasn't it
was snow, but it wasn't that bitter cold. And you
know that football gets really slick when you're in the
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cold and if you got somebody, you know, players would
talk about Elway and Elway through the hardest football of anybody,
and you know those guys. It's almost like you had
to catch it out of self defense because this thing
is going to hurt. Elway would leave Marx on you.
But the cold weather coming up this weekend, Denver, don't
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have to worry about that. Got to worry about other
things like defense, their defensive line, That's what I would
be worried about. All right, Seaton, did you come up
with the pole question?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
We were telling which NFL game this weekend is going
to be a blowout.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Oh okay, that's what we're going to do this first out.
All right, I'll save my pick. We'll take a break
here when we come back. The college basketball gambling scandal
that broke yesterday while we were on the show, and
I got some information before this went public, talking about
players who were involved, some players who were still playing
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right now involved in this. And we talk about these
smaller schools. I've said it before. If I am going
to fix a game, I'm going to talk to somebody
who knows somebody at a smaller school who may get
ten fifteen twenty thousand in nil. Maybe they don't get
any nil, but those are the players you target, and
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that's what happened in this situation. We'll take a break.
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will tell you the game that could get out out
of hand this weekend. We'll have that for you. That's
our first hour poll question college basketball front and center
not in a good way. Yesterday, seventeen former college basketball
players listed as defendants in an indictment. Fifteen of the
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players participated in the twenty twenty three, twenty four or
twenty twenty four to twenty five seasons, and a few
have actually played this season. And you start to look
at the numbers being thrown around of the amount of
money bet on some of these games. Betting amounts four
hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars for North Carolina A
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and T to lose against thousand, four hundred and twenty
four thousand on Ken State to cover the first half
spread against Buffalo, two hundred seventy five thousand for Southern
miss to not cover a first half spread against South Alabama.
Two hundred and fifty six thousand dollars for Robert Morris
to flop in the first half of a game against
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Northern Kentucky. Now there's a couple things to think about here.
These are smaller schools. You're going to get nil, but
not as much as you think. A lot of these
schools still they do pay nil. But also, you're going
to do this with a first half cover. It's easier
to pull something off like this of not playing well
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in the first half and then you play hard in
the second half. You've already covered the bet, you're going
to get paid, But the fact that you had this
amount of money, I'm surprised that these games weren't flagged.
Our good buddy, Matt Norlander, CBS Sports has been covering this.
These are big numbers, Matt. How did somebody not notice
this when they were actually happening.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
Well, this has been investigated for more than a year.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
I actually expected this story.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
I was told that the FEDS wanted to try and
get the story out before Christmas, but they had the processes.
We finally got this lot out of the bag in
a public forum on Thursday. And if you notice the
games that are affected, and you can go to cbsports
dot com. At the bottom of that story, I've got
every game that was affected.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
It started. The whole thing starts.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
In twenty twenty two with Antonio Blakeney, a former five
star prospect played at LSU, had a cup of coffee
with the Bulls, and now he's playing in China, averaging
more than thirty points a game. And then a couple
of central bad actors there got involved with him to
throw some games. They purportedly allegedly got away with that
for a little while, and then they thought, let's head
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back to the States and see if we can get
some low level college players who aren't making huge anil
deals to toss some first half lines or affect some
game outcomes. And the list of those games it begins
February seventeenth of twenty twenty four, and then the most
recent one in this specific case is January eleven, twenty
twenty five. So I think, Dan, to your question, I
think that they had a line on this. The NS
Double A has also a number of the players that
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were charged in this. They've already been found out, named
in banned from the NS DOUBLEA for life. But it's
the grand scope of this. Now, it's twenty nine games
that were affected in the scheme of things. It's a
very very low number among all divisions games that are played,
and we're talking New Orleans versus Lamar, Robert Morris, Northern Kentucky, Fordham, Ducaine.
But there are I know what the shirt Polly's gone
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on right now, there are a few DePaul former DePaul
players that were caught to this. That's the only Power
Conference program that's affiliated with this. But still twenty nine
is twenty nine, way too many. This is a huge,
huge deal. It's a huge story. And for anyone that
sees the story and thinks, all right, I never watched
Tu Lane play East Carolina, Like, what do I care
about a comp and state South Carolina state game? Remember
Major League Baseball had this issue with its pictures. We
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saw what happened with the huge case Jontay Porter, the
separate case Terry Rogier, Chauncey Billups, with the illegal gambling ring.
So this is pervasive throughout sports. This one right here though,
as it pertains to all of the games affected DAN,
this really stands to be the most widespread game fixing
scandal in the history of college sports.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And yeah, they caught this or this was brought to light,
but you wonder the number of games that have not
been flagged and people got away with this. But once
are they betting it? You know? Are these bets legal?
Like are they offshore account? Because if I see four
twenty four, four fifty eight North Carolina A and T
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to lose against thousand.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Yeah, So I am not someone who is logging onto
the phone and logging bets.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
That's just not what I do.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
But my understanding, obviously is that if you have an
individual game with an individual better that is going to
bet that amount, and almost every single legal online sports
back they're going to flag that immediately and take it
off the board. What they were trying to do here
was have a network, literally a criminal conspiracy to log
these bets. Hope they didn't get flagged. They obviously did.
There's not just the sports books that did this, there's
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you know, third party watchdogs that work with the sportsbooks,
that work with the NCAA that we're tracking this. My
understanding also is that you know, this was a criminal investigation.
They don't want to tip it off too early. They
want to get all the evidence they can get so
that they can bring charges against twenty six people that
came down, many of them former players in general. But yes,
this was all done or mostly done in person at
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sportsbooks online, at a variety of different sports books.
Speaker 8 (21:02):
And this is just what we have here.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
There are still talking to some sources both this week
and back in the fall. There are still believed to
be some other former players that could still be up
for some real trouble here. But this was this was
the big story out of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
and now you know, we wait to see how it
advances and if all that the twenty six charged wind
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up going to prison. The potential prison times vary by person.
But every you mentioned this before, four players in college basketball,
or I should say we're in college basketball played within
the past week, Simeon Cottle at Kennesas State.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
I know most of your audience isn't gonna know who
that is. He was.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
He's one of the best mid major players in America.
So there is a little bit of a shock value
there that you even had guys who had allegedly participated
in this in the previous seasons still playing as recently
as early this week. Obviously, all of those players now
have been suspended. Has he been arrested, he has been charged.
There has not been a release that he has specifically
been arrested. There have been some arrests made, but the
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charges come down, the indictment has come down, has not
specifically been revealed. If Coddle and some of the other
current players have been arrested.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And we're done with prop bets in college, correct, you
would hope.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
So I'm so glad you brought that up, Dan, because
that is the other part of this. So Charlie Baker
has been pushing to end prop bets. I's the president
of the na I've heard you talk about this on
your show as well. He wants to get rid of it,
not just so that players can't be tempted to affect
their own prop bet lines and be induced to do
game manipulation. As you well know, also college basketball players,
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college football players, they are the subject of severe, severe
online harassment out in public in their dms. And eliminating
prop bets at the collegiate level, which needs to be
done by Congress. The NCAA is waiting on Congress to
basically fix all of its issues timeline and that very
much remains to be seen. But that is the hope
and that is the goal. But as you well know,
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even if we do you get to that point in
twenty six, in twenty seven and twenty eight, and prop
bets are no longer a thing in the legal gambling
laps that are out there, it still isn't going to
prevent the idea of someone you know, getting compromised and
someone going to someone and say hey, because these players
were paid ten thousand, twenty thousand, one thousand, sometimes thirty
thousand dollars just to say, hey, make sure that your
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team doesn't cover that first half eleven and a half
points spread so that prop bets can't solve. But it's
kind of a six and one half dozen. And the
other Dan, the fact that gambling and all these ads
and all these.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
Apps out there, it's just everywhere.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
So the fact that it is it makes the watchdogging
and the flagging of it easier to catch. But you
can also make the argument that it makes it that
much more likely that it is just since it is
so pervasive in the culture, that it is that much
easier to find a player or two or in this case,
dozens to participate in a scheme like this, because it's
becoming more and more just an accepted part of the culture.
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And it's why that Supreme Court case that got basically
flipped seven eight years ago was such a massive one
as it pertains to our industry.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Thanks for joining us on short notice, Matt, have a
great weekend.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
Appreciate you, Dan, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Matt Norlander, CBS senior writer analyst, podcast host. Yeah, you
go after the small guy, And as I've said numerous times,
nobody's gonna notice this game. Hey we're North Carolina A
and T. Nobody knows who we are. It's the amount
of money that was bet on the game. Like, right there,
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something's up. I can't imagine that amount of money on
all of North Carolina A and T's games. Four hundred
and fifty eight thousand dollars. And if you're going to
fix a game, you fix it in the first half.
Hey you got up to a slow start, didn't play well.
Next thing you know, Hey we're down fifteen second half,
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Now let's play. You get paid anywhere from ten to
thirty thousand dollars, and these players are getting nil. Now
it's not a lot, but they're getting paid nil. It
might be ten thousand dollars or twenty thirty forty upwards
one hundred thousand dollars, maybe at some of these smaller schools,
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but they are getting paid. But this is where you
think nobody is going to notice it. Gues Ton and
what happens when a.
Speaker 9 (25:23):
Player gets involved once and they realize either they made
a terrible mistake or they just don't want to participate anymore.
Who are these characters that they're dealing with where they
can't just be one and done where they're going to
be expected to continue doing that for them.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, this you go back to the Boston college scandal
back in the seventies. Once you fix one, you're in.
They got you, and what are you gonna do? Call
the cops. You're gonna call the NCAA. Once you're in,
you're in. And you know these are kids once again.
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They they don't think they're going to get caught. Nobody's
going to know this. But you start getting text messages
and then you know, then you text somebody else. Now
you're bringing in more and more. Somebody tells somebody. Then
you have somebody who's going to say to their buddy, hey,
you want to get in on this, all right, and
give me a piece of it too, But go with
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the first half cover, all right. And then that guy
tells somebody, and then that guy tells somebody. Nobody keeps
a secret, yeah, Paul.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
And you know why this might be easier to hide
or keep under the rug these days is because of
a kid from Kennesas State all of a sudden has five
grand on him. He could just say, yeah, it's my
nil money. It could be explained away, and it's from
the betters it's from the gamblers. The nil kind of
covers your bases.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Kennesaw States Simeon Coddle, he is the Conference USA Player
of the Year preseason Conference Player of the Year average
in twenty a game. He's involved in this. There's a
player at Delaware State. There's a player at Eastern Michigan.
There's a player at Texas Southern. They were playing as
(27:02):
of a couple of nights ago. It's not going away.
The watch dogs, you know, you have to rely on
them to make sure that these things are flagged, and
normally they are. Whenever you see a line that is
you know, all of a sudden it goes from like
three to nine or nine to three, and then you go,
(27:25):
what's up with this inside information? You know, then they
take it off the board. Yeah, Marv, that's.
Speaker 10 (27:31):
Like when somebody has four figures on Johntay Porter over
under rebounds John Say Porter, even though he was an
NBA player.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
But that's where somebody tells somebody, and then they tell
somebody and then they'll they'll say this, Hey, don't tell anybody,
but get in on Johntay Porter under five rebounds. Well
it doesn't. You don't have to be a sleuth to go, Hmmm,
something's up here. It's staring you right in the face.
(28:00):
All right. The game that could get out of hand
this weekend. According to DraftKings, the Rams are the one
favored to score the most points in their game. Therefore,
I would say the Rams against the Chicago Bears. Now
I was going to go Seattle against the Niners. I mean,
(28:21):
I'm still amazed what San Francisco is doing, but at
some point the better team is probably going to win.
But the Rams against Chicago, But then you have Chicago.
I mean, this feels like it's going to be one
of those Hey, first team who gets to thirty five
points is going to win the game. Because the Bears
(28:42):
had the third best odds to score the most points
this weekend, Broncos and the Bills are both tied. Damn.
That feels like the Broncos they can either lose this
by one or win this by fourteen. But then I
feel the same way about the Bears. They either pull
off the ups or they lose by two touchdowns. Patriots
(29:03):
against the Texans is tricky, that one. That one feels
like it's going to be close, just because I don't
know how good. That Patriots offense will be against that
Texans defense and the Texans offense against the Patriots defense.
Let's see a couple of phone calls in here. David
in Ohio, Hi David, what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Hey Dan, happy to meet Friday nobody. I've got some
NFL divisional rhyme time here for you, real quick.
Speaker 11 (29:33):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
First one is oh sorry, hold on, let me pull
it up. I'm sorry, Dan. First one is Patriots q
B not real.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Drake fake Drake fake.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Yes. Next one that's for Pauli Bear's running back and cousins.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
What was the second hit?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
There's running back and preasant like a president you.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
Received, swift gift.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Swift gift, yes, all right. Next one is from our
niners QB and time Niners qube time.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Rock clock, rock clock.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
And this one's for the room. Last one him nance
partner type of sandwich.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I don't know, Yes, ton tony bony rhyme time. Uh god,
do you wanna maybe that was fun? Give me some
rhyme time later in the show. Okay, Okay, I just
want to I'm opening it up for you to do that, okay,
(30:48):
if you would like to. Uh, Chemo in Virginia Beach.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Hi, Keemo, Danny, Danny, you stole my best of the weekend.
That sweet sweet flannel snuggy thank you you got made
in the membrane. Right anyway, let's go to this weekend.
All the Danets have standalone games with their prospective teams, right, yep.
(31:16):
The pole question today should be which Dynet makes it
through the weekend or my choices.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
E none of the above.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
But then anyway, statistically.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Now you're talking about their team making it through the weekend,
not Danet's actually making it through the weekend.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Wellspect yeah, their respective teams. Yeah, that's my point. And
it still breaks down to front row back row.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Well, I got Bears and Niners up front. I got
Patriots and Broncos in the back. Thank you for the
phone call, Chemo. Now, how does he want us to
phrase this? Which Danet's team has is the worst chance
of making it through the weekend or the best chance
through the weekend. Uh, we'll figure that out. Buddha in
(32:09):
San Francisco, Hi, Buddha.
Speaker 12 (32:14):
No body happy meet Friday Boys every day in the
Super Bowl, especially for US Niner fans. Tomorrow in Seattle,
Dan and uh, you know all, I gotta say, it's
gonna be We're gonna be big time dogs tomorrow. But
we're looking down and we're looking to take down some
birds on a short week. But hopefully we can make
some ghosts appear for a little Sam Donald to worry about.
(32:37):
But that's not gonna be easy. But let's go, Marvin
and Dan. I gotta tell you, I was working the
floor last night and I felt my phone buzzing and buzzing,
and I looked down and saw several texts, and one
of which was from my man Gusts in La.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
So I clicked on it, saw a couple of links.
Speaker 12 (32:52):
Of the revealed to Kyle Tucker trade, and then I
started to overhear several tables hating on the Dodgers and
talking to complaining about the trade. And then I just
proceeded to giggle my ass off for the rest of
the night. Andrew Friedman man turning into the modern day
Jerry West straight doing work.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Man, Well, all he had to do is just give
the biggest paycheck there. I don't think it was wheeling
and dealing like Jerry West did. It's like, do we
want Kyle Tucker?
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
How much did you gonna cost well, I think the
Mets we're going to give him fifty million. We'll give
him sixty million. I want to order my entree if
I can. Christopher mad Dog Russo will have some thoughts
on this coming up at the top of the hour.
John Harball is still not signed by the Giants. I'll
(33:48):
tell you why. I think it's well, what might be
holding this up? We'll take a break. Play the Day next.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
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Speaker 8 (34:17):
Check this out.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Wagner five straight for the Magic Jackson lost the handleball
deflected off the rim and ended up writing Polo's hands.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Now, ain't the run of the floor.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
Then he throw it down on four Grizzlies.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Anthony Black the International Incident. It's one O nine one
on seven Holy Spunks. Oh, that's the first regular season
game in Germany. Franz Wagner and his brother Moe Wagner.
They combined for twenty five points, but Anthony Black with
(34:48):
the dunk over four players from the Memphis Grizzlies. Hey,
and congratulations. This is the third time this season Memphis
has blown a lead of twenty or more points.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
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from now.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
The game this weekend that is most likely to be
a blowout. Okay, Bill's Broncos Patriots, Texans, Seahawks forty nine
Ers Bears Rams. Right now, Uh, Seahawks forty nine ers
has a slight edge over Bears Rams.
Speaker 13 (35:34):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Uh Sue in Montana, Hi, Sue, what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 11 (35:41):
First time caller, well, first time getting through caller, long
time caller, long time listener, private one.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
I don't know if when many.
Speaker 11 (35:50):
Years I do that, but I felt like I had to.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
It's the first step for recovery. Right, and.
Speaker 11 (35:57):
Ravens fan, big time Ravens fan about John Harbaugh. Eaven
But Gus, you've got to wish him luck. I feel
great about where he landed and if we can just
find the right fit for us. I think a restart
to repress is good for any team, and I'm looking
forward to the future for both him man for the rate.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
All right, well, thank you, Sue. Yeah, John Harball and
the Giants, I think they've agreed to a contract, they
haven't signed the contract. And keep this in mind, this
was told to me yesterday. John Harball hasn't really negotiated
a contract in nineteen years. Now, He's got contract extensions.
This is different now in today's NFL what you can
(36:36):
ask for it's not just money. If you want a
country club membership, if you want use of a private jet,
this is different. And John Harball and his agent probably
not used to asking for these perks. Do you get
a suite at the stadium? So it might be sort
(36:58):
of ancillary thing that he's asking for or they're negotiating. Also,
I talked to somebody yesterday about Mike Tomlin, somebody with
a TV network, and I said, can you see a
scenario where Mike Tomlin's brought into NBC and you use
him through the Super Bowl? And the TV execs said
(37:19):
I don't know if it's a given Mike Tomlin is
going to be in TV this next season. I said, Okay,
feels like it's foregone conclusion. He's friends with Jay Glazer,
maybe Fox, maybe NBC brings him in. Tony Dungeye is there,
or CBS you got Bill Cower there. I don't know
their relationship, but you know, two former Steeler coaches. But
(37:42):
I was told, not a foregone conclusion that Mike is
going to want to do TV next year. I don't
even know if Mike Tomlin has an agent, So really,
I don't even know how you get in touch with
him now. Being serious, but I don't know if I
think Mike. I think Mike wanted to step down from
(38:04):
the Steelers, but I don't know if he's stepping down
saying because I want to do this. I think he
just stepped down from the Steelers, and maybe he's going
to take a little time to figure out what he
wants to do and does he want to do TV.
Let's see Ron in Illinois? Hi, Ron, what's on your
(38:24):
mind today?
Speaker 11 (38:26):
Hello?
Speaker 13 (38:27):
So my name is Ron five eight two fifty. So
how come not more people are talking about this forty
years in the making Bears Patriots Super Bowl sixty.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Well, if they do play, I don't want to see
what was you know what that matchup was like forty
years ago. That wasn't pretty at all? Was that Tony Easton?
Was he the quarterback for the Patriots in the east
of Illinois? Yeah, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 10 (39:00):
The AFC that Sorry, I was looking back at the
eighty Super Bowls and it was just shelack like mollywops. Yeah,
year after year.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yeah. Yeah, So the AFC was just no good. Well
the end of you could look at the other way.
NFC was really good. Maybe a different style of football.
I mean Washington, what Washington did to Denver. I mean
they didn't have the ball that often. They were down
I think ten to nothing, and then you know, Doug
(39:28):
Williams just went crazy. Uh. You know Buffalo when they
played Dallas, they just they got they got in and
then they were in trouble and then it just becomes
this avalanche. But then you had them go toe to
toe with the Giants, you know, with Scott Norwood. So
you you've had competitive games. But there for a while,
(39:49):
we're like, man, what the AFC has got to put
up a fight? Here, and then you have the Buffalo Bills,
you know, with the close game, but also the blowout
game as well, which unfairly mars those players. Now, I'm
glad that the Hall of Fame is open their eyes
to They got to four consecutive Super Bowls that will
(40:10):
never happen again. Like we make a big deal when
somebody goes back to back at a Super Bowl. Yes,
just should be going back to back that absolutely, they
did four in a row. Yeah, Paul, I went.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Back to that AFC title game of eighty five. Is
Damn Reno versus Tony Easton. Easton only threw for seventy
one yards, but he had three touchdowns. They were all
five yard passes. Basically, they ran for like two fifty
and ma Reno just had an off date twenty or
forty eight. Two touchdowns, two picks.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Dang over right, nobody all right, one hour in the
books on this Meet Friday. More phone calls coming up.
Christopher and mad dogarusso he'll he'll be on fire with
Kyle Tucker joining the Dodgers. And if you're watching on Peacock,
(41:05):
it's worth tuning in just to see what Mad Dog's
hair looks like. It'll be a mess. Chris Simms will
join us as well as we get ready for this
football weekend. One hour in the books, Fritzy Seat and
Marv Paula yours truly Hour two right around the corner.
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Made it too a Friday. It's hour one, Ready to go.
Fritzy's here, Seaton, Marv Pauli, yours truly in the backroom, guys,
Christopher mad Dog Russo coming up in an hour from
now in Chris Sims on loan from Football Night in America.
We'll look at the games coming up this weekend, games
on Saturday, games on Sunday as well. Eight seven seven
(00:26):
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last night with a big surprise, because I kept thinking
it's gonna be Toronto, It's gonna be the Mets. Kyle
Tucker is gonna get paid. All of a sudden, the
Dodgers got Kyle Tucker. And that salary is I guess
sixty million dollars a year. You're probably not familiar with
(01:09):
Kyle Tucker. He's a good player. That feels like a
lot of money to. Then you said sixty million dollars
a year. You're probably not familiar with that. Those things
should not go together. They don't normally. But and I
didn't know the Dodgers needed Kyle Tucker. Maybe they needed
him so the Mets and the Blue Jays wouldn't get him.
(01:31):
But it's sixty million dollars for Kyle Tucker. He plays
right field. I no, I got to I feel like
I have to introduce him.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
To I mean, that's right, you should not have to explain.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, So Kyle Tucker is his average salary, I guess
is sixty million dollars. The only player that is making
more is Shoheyo Tani, his teammate. I also saw the
salaries that are guaranteed for this upcoming season. This is
(02:03):
total amount of guaranteed money on the books per Major
League Baseball team. The Dodgers, now, this is guaranteed money
two billion dollars two billion, two point one. San Diego
is one point two, Toronto one point two, the Mets
one point one. Philadelphia. Come on, Phillies, they're not even
(02:24):
a billion. They're at eight hundred and sixty five million dollars. Oh,
you know, it makes it. The Dodgers make the Mets
and the Yankees feel like a mom and pop shop, Like, man,
they're scraping stuff together. It's incredible what they're doing. And
that wasn't that long ago where we looked at the
Yankees and we go, they're ruining baseball. Here Dodgers at
(02:48):
two billion dollars on the books. Now you got deferred
money that's included in there because most of Shoheo Tani's
contract is deferred. Paulie, would you let America know about
Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
He's been a very good player, four time All Star
the last four years. A couple of years ago he
was fifth in the MVP, hitting two eighty four twenty
nine homers, one hundred and twelve rbi for Houston. Then
he joined the Cubs last year, had a pretty good season,
banged up at the end. Considered a classic hitter. Oh,
the classic beautiful swing day.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, love least classic hitter, twenty eight years old, right,
four year deal?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, Okay, if you're the Dodgers, did you need this
going forward to com to win or do you just
do it to make sure others can't challenge you. I
guess it's a semantics.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Well, the Blue Jays were in the World Series and
they wanted Kyle Tucker. But then I don't know what's
going on with Bob Baschett here, but uh, I mean
I thought maybe if there was a big, big ticket
item as far as the pitcher went, that I could
see the Dodgers doing that. But they picked up Edwin Diaz.
You know, they got him from the Mets. You know,
(04:00):
when you go shopping, you don't worry about the price tag,
or when you go to a restaurant and you don't
order it by looking at what the price is and
work your way back. That's the Dodgers. They order from
the left side of the menu. They don't worry about
what that price tag is, or if they go to
a store, they don't ask, or you go to a
car dealership, you just say you got that in uh
(04:23):
Dodger blue please?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Seton.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
What else is kind of weird about it too? If
you think about, like a lot of people played Little
League baseball and right field is where the worst player.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
On the team went.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yeah, right field is always where the worst player was. Yeah,
and that dude is just got paid, just gobs of money.
There's something about your youth brain that won't let you reconcile.
Why are you paying that much for a right field
that they're always the worst player?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
But there aren't many left handed batters when you're growing up,
Therefore you don't worry about somebody hitting into right field.
But you get to the major leagues, your best arm
was usually in right field. Some of the best arms
in baseball history were right fielders. Stat of the Day
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dinner last night and I was sitting at the bar
by myself. Behind me are three guys, probably in their twenties,
and I overhear the conversation of they're talking up, they're
breaking down kevin Na Gandhi, the Sports Center anchor, and
they're talking about the pluses and minuses of kevin Na Gandhi.
(05:57):
Now they know I'm at the bar. The guys came
over and said hello, but I can hear them in
the conversation. Is Sports Center anchors as if I'm going
to turn around and get involved in the conversation. So
I just want to let kevin Na Gandhi, who's a
fan of the show, let you know you were part
of a conversation last night on Sports Center anchors. Yeah, Seaton,
(06:18):
how'd he do? I think he did pretty well? He did? Yeah, Yeah,
I think so. You know, I think I heard the
expression he's a really good presenter, and I go, okay,
all right, yeah, Paul.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
First Team, all nice guy, kind of that. Reese Davis
Lean broadcast nice guy on and off the court.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Randall Scott, Oh, Randall, K Scott one of my favorites.
David Lloyd. David Lloyd up there on the All Nice
Team legend. Yeah, David Lloyd hadn't aged, hadn't aged a day.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Reese Davis looks about the same age.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, he's letting a little gray hair creep in. You know,
he's got that distinguished look.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
By the way, it's a meat Friday. It's a chicken
and sausage, gumbo, seafood, gumbo, cornbread. Whoooo has it better
than we do? Nobody?
Speaker 6 (07:11):
All Right?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Got our play of the day Nita poll question, Seaton,
what are we going to go with? At least in
the first hour of this award nominated program, for at.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Least the first hour of the show, we are going
to go with which game is most likely to be
a blowout? Broncos, Bills, Patriots, Texans, Seahawks, forty nine Ers, Bears, Rams.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Mm hmm, well, okay, let me give you this betting
stat here from DraftKings. You can bet on which team
will score the most points this weekend. Which team will
score the most? The Rams are the favorites, Then it's
(07:50):
the Seahawks, the Bears. Broncos and Bills are tied, which
is interesting since they're facing one another. Then you have
the Patriots, Texans and the Niners. The Niners are the
worst odds to score the most points. Here stand the
Day and the Day past Stat of the Day, stat
(08:12):
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The Bills are getting one and a half the Niners.
It's now seven, it was seven and a half. Sam
Donald has an oblique issue somewhat so that Drew Lock
(08:33):
took some snaps and that's a big deal. Like you
can hear if you know, a quarterback might be banged
up a little bit, but took all the snaps. Drew
Lock taking some snaps. Drew Lock is the backup quarterback
to Sam Donald. The Texans are getting three against the
Patriots and the Rams favored by three and a half
against the Bears. We do make a big deal about
(08:54):
the cold weather, and I can speak from first hand knowledge.
The Cincinnati Bengals against the San Diego Chargers with Dan
Fouts and they came into Cincinnati. It's the coldest NFL
game on record, and some of the linemen for the
Bengals came out they didn't have any sleeves on and
(09:16):
I'm thinking, you guys crazy, And then the Chargers came out.
The Chargers had if they could have played in parkas
they would have, but they came on the field and
you could almost to a man, see them go can
we get through three hours of this and then go
huh like that, we're not gonna We're not gonna do
(09:39):
well here. Now. Nobody wants to play in the cold conditions,
but I always find it interesting when you get one
or two guys who come out as if to say,
it's not that cold. I don't have a sure h
Tennessee tried to do that against Ohio State, and the
Ohio State players probably went, the cold is in your head,
(10:01):
not ours. We know it's cold. You're trying to prove
that it's not cold. It is cold, But somebody will
be out there and they'll be warming up and they'll
have their shirt off, and you're probably gonna have players
who go, the cold is in your head, you know
Chicago's going to play in it. I remember talking to
a former Minnesota Viking when they had the outdoor stadium,
(10:25):
and Bud Grant famously didn't want heaters on the sidelines
because if they had heaters, then the other team got
heaters he didn't want. He wanted his teams tough, and
they were tough. But the player said, we didn't like
playing in the cold, but we had to act like
we liked playing in the cold. And a lot of
these guys who are in shot, like Caleb Williams, where's
(10:47):
he from? Did he grow up in cold weather? I
guess DC kind of coldish. Or you get guys who
played in California who now play in the Midwest. You
went to college, you know, now you're playing cold weather,
or vice versa. You know, we always talk about Florida
when the Florida teams come up. Then we go, uh,
(11:09):
they're soft. Now they might be because history is shown
that they don't do well in the cold weather. Or
you get teams from the North who go down to
South Florida and all of a sudden, you know, you go,
Dolphins shouldn't win, but here it is December and it's
really hot. They end up winning the you know, the Patriots,
it felt like, would always lose in South Florida and
(11:30):
be like, oh man, that humidity. It is weltering. And
guys will say, they'll tell you that I'd rather play
in the cold than the hot because I can add
layers in the cold. There's only so much you can
take off in the you know, when it's sticky, when
it's hot, when it's humid, but somebody is going to
be out there shirt off. They're gonna go okay, but
(11:54):
it's going to be cold, it'll be windy, it'll be
Chicago weather. Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Couple of guys on NFL Network yesterday saying, you know,
Poka Nakua and DeVante Adams playing with Matt Stafford. It's
tougher for them in the cold to catch his football
is because he throws a hard football. Then the other
guy made the complete opposite case. He said, well, Pooka's
got the best hands in the sport, so if anyone
could catch those balls of the cold, it's him, So
that gives the Rams an advantage. It was like a
direct opposite conversation.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
And then I heard an Annaly state, well, you know
Stafford played in Detroit all those years, and I go, uh,
he played inside. He was inside. You know what, there
are other games in the division. Okay, he played one
game in Green Bay in one game in Chicago, depending
on when it landed on the schedule. So he played.
You know, Minnesota's inside. So it's not like I mean,
(12:42):
I know Matt had to leave his house to walk
to his car. Maybe the car is in the garage,
so he didn't even have to do that, and then
he parked underneath the stadium. He didn't, you know, have
to face the cold weather. You know, he played in Detroit. No,
he lived in Detroit. It wasn't playing in the elements
in Detroit. So the weather will be an issue. I
(13:05):
don't know what it's going to be in New England
for the Patriots and the Texans. I don't think it's
going to be anything that's alarming that's going to be
oh my gosh, the Texans, how are they going to
survive in New England? What do we got temperatures in
the thirties Pauling.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, thirty five at kickoff with the Patriots, Bears at home,
seventeen at kickoff, Seahawks forty nine, and Broncos forty one
degrees at kickoff.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Ooh loalmy. And here's another thing that when the Rams
almost beat the Eagles last year, it was in the
snow in Philadelphia. I think if you check the temperature,
it was in the mid thirties, so it wasn't it
was snow, but it wasn't that bitter cold. And you
know that football gets really slick when you're in the
(13:51):
cold and if you got somebody, you know, players would
talk about Elway and Elway through the hardest football of anybody,
and you know those guys. It's almost like you had
to catch it out of self defense because this thing
is going to hurt. Elway would leave Marx on you.
But the cold weather coming up this weekend, Denver, don't
(14:14):
have to worry about that. Got to worry about other
things like defense, their defensive line, That's what I would
be worried about. All right, Seaton, did you come up
with the pole question?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
We were telling which NFL game this weekend is going
to be a blowout.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Oh okay, that's what we're going to do this first out.
All right, I'll save my pick. We'll take a break
here when we come back. The college basketball gambling scandal
that broke yesterday while we were on the show, and
I got some information before this went public, talking about
players who were involved, some players who were still playing
(14:49):
right now involved in this. And we talk about these
smaller schools. I've said it before. If I am going
to fix a game, I'm going to talk to somebody
who knows somebody at a smaller school who may get
ten fifteen twenty thousand in nil. Maybe they don't get
any nil, but those are the players you target, and
(15:09):
that's what happened in this situation. We'll take a break.
More on that coming up. Your phone calls as well.
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will tell you the game that could get out out
of hand this weekend. We'll have that for you. That's
our first hour poll question college basketball front and center
not in a good way. Yesterday, seventeen former college basketball
players listed as defendants in an indictment. Fifteen of the
(16:14):
players participated in the twenty twenty three, twenty four or
twenty twenty four to twenty five seasons, and a few
have actually played this season. And you start to look
at the numbers being thrown around of the amount of
money bet on some of these games. Betting amounts four
hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars for North Carolina A
(16:36):
and T to lose against thousand, four hundred and twenty
four thousand on Ken State to cover the first half
spread against Buffalo, two hundred seventy five thousand for Southern
miss to not cover a first half spread against South Alabama.
Two hundred and fifty six thousand dollars for Robert Morris
to flop in the first half of a game against
(16:58):
Northern Kentucky. Now there's a couple things to think about here.
These are smaller schools. You're going to get nil, but
not as much as you think. A lot of these
schools still they do pay nil. But also, you're going
to do this with a first half cover. It's easier
to pull something off like this of not playing well
(17:20):
in the first half and then you play hard in
the second half. You've already covered the bet, you're going
to get paid, But the fact that you had this
amount of money, I'm surprised that these games weren't flagged.
Our good buddy, Matt Norlander, CBS Sports has been covering this.
These are big numbers, Matt. How did somebody not notice
this when they were actually happening.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
Well, this has been investigated for more than a year.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
I actually expected this story.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
I was told that the FEDS wanted to try and
get the story out before Christmas, but they had the processes.
We finally got this lot out of the bag in
a public forum on Thursday. And if you notice the
games that are affected, and you can go to cbsports
dot com. At the bottom of that story, I've got
every game that was affected.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
It started. The whole thing starts.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
In twenty twenty two with Antonio Blakeney, a former five
star prospect played at LSU, had a cup of coffee
with the Bulls, and now he's playing in China, averaging
more than thirty points a game. And then a couple
of central bad actors there got involved with him to
throw some games. They purportedly allegedly got away with that
for a little while, and then they thought, let's head
(18:25):
back to the States and see if we can get
some low level college players who aren't making huge anil
deals to toss some first half lines or affect some
game outcomes. And the list of those games it begins
February seventeenth of twenty twenty four, and then the most
recent one in this specific case is January eleven, twenty
twenty five. So I think, Dan, to your question, I
think that they had a line on this. The NS
Double A has also a number of the players that
(18:47):
were charged in this. They've already been found out, named
in banned from the NS DOUBLEA for life. But it's
the grand scope of this. Now, it's twenty nine games
that were affected in the scheme of things. It's a
very very low number among all divisions games that are played,
and we're talking New Orleans versus Lamar, Robert Morris, Northern Kentucky, Fordham, Ducaine.
But there are I know what the shirt Polly's gone
(19:07):
on right now, there are a few DePaul former DePaul
players that were caught to this. That's the only Power
Conference program that's affiliated with this. But still twenty nine
is twenty nine, way too many. This is a huge,
huge deal. It's a huge story. And for anyone that
sees the story and thinks, all right, I never watched
Tu Lane play East Carolina, Like, what do I care
about a comp and state South Carolina state game? Remember
Major League Baseball had this issue with its pictures. We
(19:30):
saw what happened with the huge case Jontay Porter, the
separate case Terry Rogier, Chauncey Billups, with the illegal gambling ring.
So this is pervasive throughout sports. This one right here though,
as it pertains to all of the games affected DAN,
this really stands to be the most widespread game fixing
scandal in the history of college sports.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And yeah, they caught this or this was brought to light,
but you wonder the number of games that have not
been flagged and people got away with this. But once
are they betting it? You know? Are these bets legal?
Like are they offshore account? Because if I see four
twenty four, four fifty eight North Carolina A and T
(20:09):
to lose against thousand.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Yeah, So I am not someone who is logging onto
the phone and logging bets.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
That's just not what I do.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
But my understanding, obviously is that if you have an
individual game with an individual better that is going to
bet that amount, and almost every single legal online sports
back they're going to flag that immediately and take it
off the board. What they were trying to do here
was have a network, literally a criminal conspiracy to log
these bets. Hope they didn't get flagged. They obviously did.
There's not just the sports books that did this, there's
(20:36):
you know, third party watchdogs that work with the sportsbooks,
that work with the NCAA that we're tracking this. My
understanding also is that you know, this was a criminal investigation.
They don't want to tip it off too early. They
want to get all the evidence they can get so
that they can bring charges against twenty six people that
came down, many of them former players in general. But yes,
this was all done or mostly done in person at
(20:59):
sportsbooks online, at a variety of different sports books.
Speaker 8 (21:02):
And this is just what we have here.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
There are still talking to some sources both this week
and back in the fall. There are still believed to
be some other former players that could still be up
for some real trouble here. But this was this was
the big story out of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
and now you know, we wait to see how it
advances and if all that the twenty six charged wind
(21:26):
up going to prison. The potential prison times vary by person.
But every you mentioned this before, four players in college basketball,
or I should say we're in college basketball played within
the past week, Simeon Cottle at Kennesas State.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
I know most of your audience isn't gonna know who
that is. He was.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
He's one of the best mid major players in America.
So there is a little bit of a shock value
there that you even had guys who had allegedly participated
in this in the previous seasons still playing as recently
as early this week. Obviously, all of those players now
have been suspended. Has he been arrested, he has been charged.
There has not been a release that he has specifically
been arrested. There have been some arrests made, but the
(22:04):
charges come down, the indictment has come down, has not
specifically been revealed. If Coddle and some of the other
current players have been arrested.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And we're done with prop bets in college, correct, you
would hope.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
So I'm so glad you brought that up, Dan, because
that is the other part of this. So Charlie Baker
has been pushing to end prop bets. I's the president
of the na I've heard you talk about this on
your show as well. He wants to get rid of it,
not just so that players can't be tempted to affect
their own prop bet lines and be induced to do
game manipulation. As you well know, also college basketball players,
(22:37):
college football players, they are the subject of severe, severe
online harassment out in public in their dms. And eliminating
prop bets at the collegiate level, which needs to be
done by Congress. The NCAA is waiting on Congress to
basically fix all of its issues timeline and that very
much remains to be seen. But that is the hope
and that is the goal. But as you well know,
(22:59):
even if we do you get to that point in
twenty six, in twenty seven and twenty eight, and prop
bets are no longer a thing in the legal gambling
laps that are out there, it still isn't going to
prevent the idea of someone you know, getting compromised and
someone going to someone and say hey, because these players
were paid ten thousand, twenty thousand, one thousand, sometimes thirty
thousand dollars just to say, hey, make sure that your
(23:20):
team doesn't cover that first half eleven and a half
points spread so that prop bets can't solve. But it's
kind of a six and one half dozen. And the
other Dan, the fact that gambling and all these ads
and all these.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
Apps out there, it's just everywhere.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
So the fact that it is it makes the watchdogging
and the flagging of it easier to catch. But you
can also make the argument that it makes it that
much more likely that it is just since it is
so pervasive in the culture, that it is that much
easier to find a player or two or in this case,
dozens to participate in a scheme like this, because it's
becoming more and more just an accepted part of the culture.
(23:56):
And it's why that Supreme Court case that got basically
flipped seven eight years ago was such a massive one
as it pertains to our industry.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Thanks for joining us on short notice, Matt, have a
great weekend.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
Appreciate you, Dan, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Matt Norlander, CBS senior writer analyst, podcast host. Yeah, you
go after the small guy, And as I've said numerous times,
nobody's gonna notice this game. Hey we're North Carolina A
and T. Nobody knows who we are. It's the amount
of money that was bet on the game. Like, right there,
(24:30):
something's up. I can't imagine that amount of money on
all of North Carolina A and T's games. Four hundred
and fifty eight thousand dollars. And if you're going to
fix a game, you fix it in the first half.
Hey you got up to a slow start, didn't play well.
Next thing you know, Hey we're down fifteen second half,
(24:53):
Now let's play. You get paid anywhere from ten to
thirty thousand dollars, and these players are getting nil. Now
it's not a lot, but they're getting paid nil. It
might be ten thousand dollars or twenty thirty forty upwards
one hundred thousand dollars, maybe at some of these smaller schools,
(25:15):
but they are getting paid. But this is where you
think nobody is going to notice it. Gues Ton and
what happens when a.
Speaker 9 (25:23):
Player gets involved once and they realize either they made
a terrible mistake or they just don't want to participate anymore.
Who are these characters that they're dealing with where they
can't just be one and done where they're going to
be expected to continue doing that for them.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, this you go back to the Boston college scandal
back in the seventies. Once you fix one, you're in.
They got you, and what are you gonna do? Call
the cops. You're gonna call the NCAA. Once you're in,
you're in. And you know these are kids once again.
(25:56):
They they don't think they're going to get caught. Nobody's
going to know this. But you start getting text messages
and then you know, then you text somebody else. Now
you're bringing in more and more. Somebody tells somebody. Then
you have somebody who's going to say to their buddy, hey,
you want to get in on this, all right, and
give me a piece of it too, But go with
(26:17):
the first half cover, all right. And then that guy
tells somebody, and then that guy tells somebody. Nobody keeps
a secret, yeah, Paul.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
And you know why this might be easier to hide
or keep under the rug these days is because of
a kid from Kennesas State all of a sudden has five
grand on him. He could just say, yeah, it's my
nil money. It could be explained away, and it's from
the betters it's from the gamblers. The nil kind of
covers your bases.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Kennesaw States Simeon Coddle, he is the Conference USA Player
of the Year preseason Conference Player of the Year average
in twenty a game. He's involved in this. There's a
player at Delaware State. There's a player at Eastern Michigan.
There's a player at Texas Southern. They were playing as
(27:02):
of a couple of nights ago. It's not going away.
The watch dogs, you know, you have to rely on
them to make sure that these things are flagged, and
normally they are. Whenever you see a line that is
you know, all of a sudden it goes from like
three to nine or nine to three, and then you go,
(27:25):
what's up with this inside information? You know, then they
take it off the board. Yeah, Marv, that's.
Speaker 10 (27:31):
Like when somebody has four figures on Johntay Porter over
under rebounds John Say Porter, even though he was an
NBA player.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
But that's where somebody tells somebody, and then they tell
somebody and then they'll they'll say this, Hey, don't tell anybody,
but get in on Johntay Porter under five rebounds. Well
it doesn't. You don't have to be a sleuth to go, Hmmm,
something's up here. It's staring you right in the face.
(28:00):
All right. The game that could get out of hand
this weekend. According to DraftKings, the Rams are the one
favored to score the most points in their game. Therefore,
I would say the Rams against the Chicago Bears. Now
I was going to go Seattle against the Niners. I mean,
(28:21):
I'm still amazed what San Francisco is doing, but at
some point the better team is probably going to win.
But the Rams against Chicago, But then you have Chicago.
I mean, this feels like it's going to be one
of those Hey, first team who gets to thirty five
points is going to win the game. Because the Bears
(28:42):
had the third best odds to score the most points
this weekend, Broncos and the Bills are both tied. Damn.
That feels like the Broncos they can either lose this
by one or win this by fourteen. But then I
feel the same way about the Bears. They either pull
off the ups or they lose by two touchdowns. Patriots
(29:03):
against the Texans is tricky, that one. That one feels
like it's going to be close, just because I don't
know how good. That Patriots offense will be against that
Texans defense and the Texans offense against the Patriots defense.
Let's see a couple of phone calls in here. David
in Ohio, Hi David, what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Hey Dan, happy to meet Friday nobody. I've got some
NFL divisional rhyme time here for you, real quick.
Speaker 11 (29:33):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
First one is oh sorry, hold on, let me pull
it up. I'm sorry, Dan. First one is Patriots q
B not real.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Drake fake Drake fake.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Yes. Next one that's for Pauli Bear's running back and cousins.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
What was the second hit?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
There's running back and preasant like a president you.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
Received, swift gift.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Swift gift, yes, all right. Next one is from our
niners QB and time Niners qube time.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Rock clock, rock clock.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
And this one's for the room. Last one him nance
partner type of sandwich.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I don't know, Yes, ton tony bony rhyme time. Uh god,
do you wanna maybe that was fun? Give me some
rhyme time later in the show. Okay, Okay, I just
want to I'm opening it up for you to do that, okay,
(30:48):
if you would like to. Uh, Chemo in Virginia Beach.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Hi, Keemo, Danny, Danny, you stole my best of the weekend.
That sweet sweet flannel snuggy thank you you got made
in the membrane. Right anyway, let's go to this weekend.
All the Danets have standalone games with their prospective teams, right, yep.
(31:16):
The pole question today should be which Dynet makes it
through the weekend or my choices.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
E none of the above.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
But then anyway, statistically.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Now you're talking about their team making it through the weekend,
not Danet's actually making it through the weekend.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Wellspect yeah, their respective teams. Yeah, that's my point. And
it still breaks down to front row back row.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Well, I got Bears and Niners up front. I got
Patriots and Broncos in the back. Thank you for the
phone call, Chemo. Now, how does he want us to
phrase this? Which Danet's team has is the worst chance
of making it through the weekend or the best chance
through the weekend. Uh, we'll figure that out. Buddha in
(32:09):
San Francisco, Hi, Buddha.
Speaker 12 (32:14):
No body happy meet Friday Boys every day in the
Super Bowl, especially for US Niner fans. Tomorrow in Seattle,
Dan and uh, you know all, I gotta say, it's
gonna be We're gonna be big time dogs tomorrow. But
we're looking down and we're looking to take down some
birds on a short week. But hopefully we can make
some ghosts appear for a little Sam Donald to worry about.
(32:37):
But that's not gonna be easy. But let's go, Marvin
and Dan. I gotta tell you, I was working the
floor last night and I felt my phone buzzing and buzzing,
and I looked down and saw several texts, and one
of which was from my man Gusts in La.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
So I clicked on it, saw a couple of links.
Speaker 12 (32:52):
Of the revealed to Kyle Tucker trade, and then I
started to overhear several tables hating on the Dodgers and
talking to complaining about the trade. And then I just
proceeded to giggle my ass off for the rest of
the night. Andrew Friedman man turning into the modern day
Jerry West straight doing work.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Man, Well, all he had to do is just give
the biggest paycheck there. I don't think it was wheeling
and dealing like Jerry West did. It's like, do we
want Kyle Tucker?
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
How much did you gonna cost well, I think the
Mets we're going to give him fifty million. We'll give
him sixty million. I want to order my entree if
I can. Christopher mad Dog Russo will have some thoughts
on this coming up at the top of the hour.
John Harball is still not signed by the Giants. I'll
(33:48):
tell you why. I think it's well, what might be
holding this up? We'll take a break. Play the Day next.
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(34:48):
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has blown a lead of twenty or more points.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
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from now.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
The game this weekend that is most likely to be
a blowout. Okay, Bill's Broncos Patriots, Texans, Seahawks forty nine
Ers Bears Rams. Right now, Uh, Seahawks forty nine ers
has a slight edge over Bears Rams.
Speaker 13 (35:34):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Uh Sue in Montana, Hi, Sue, what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 11 (35:41):
First time caller, well, first time getting through caller, long
time caller, long time listener, private one.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
I don't know if when many.
Speaker 11 (35:50):
Years I do that, but I felt like I had to.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
It's the first step for recovery. Right, and.
Speaker 11 (35:57):
Ravens fan, big time Ravens fan about John Harbaugh. Eaven
But Gus, you've got to wish him luck. I feel
great about where he landed and if we can just
find the right fit for us. I think a restart
to repress is good for any team, and I'm looking
forward to the future for both him man for the rate.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
All right, well, thank you, Sue. Yeah, John Harball and
the Giants, I think they've agreed to a contract, they
haven't signed the contract. And keep this in mind, this
was told to me yesterday. John Harball hasn't really negotiated
a contract in nineteen years. Now, He's got contract extensions.
This is different now in today's NFL what you can
(36:36):
ask for it's not just money. If you want a
country club membership, if you want use of a private jet,
this is different. And John Harball and his agent probably
not used to asking for these perks. Do you get
a suite at the stadium? So it might be sort
(36:58):
of ancillary thing that he's asking for or they're negotiating. Also,
I talked to somebody yesterday about Mike Tomlin, somebody with
a TV network, and I said, can you see a
scenario where Mike Tomlin's brought into NBC and you use
him through the Super Bowl? And the TV execs said
(37:19):
I don't know if it's a given Mike Tomlin is
going to be in TV this next season. I said, Okay,
feels like it's foregone conclusion. He's friends with Jay Glazer,
maybe Fox, maybe NBC brings him in. Tony Dungeye is there,
or CBS you got Bill Cower there. I don't know
their relationship, but you know, two former Steeler coaches. But
(37:42):
I was told, not a foregone conclusion that Mike is
going to want to do TV next year. I don't
even know if Mike Tomlin has an agent, So really,
I don't even know how you get in touch with
him now. Being serious, but I don't know if I
think Mike. I think Mike wanted to step down from
(38:04):
the Steelers, but I don't know if he's stepping down
saying because I want to do this. I think he
just stepped down from the Steelers, and maybe he's going
to take a little time to figure out what he
wants to do and does he want to do TV.
Let's see Ron in Illinois? Hi, Ron, what's on your
(38:24):
mind today?
Speaker 11 (38:26):
Hello?
Speaker 13 (38:27):
So my name is Ron five eight two fifty. So
how come not more people are talking about this forty
years in the making Bears Patriots Super Bowl sixty.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Well, if they do play, I don't want to see
what was you know what that matchup was like forty
years ago. That wasn't pretty at all? Was that Tony Easton?
Was he the quarterback for the Patriots in the east
of Illinois? Yeah, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 10 (39:00):
The AFC that Sorry, I was looking back at the
eighty Super Bowls and it was just shelack like mollywops. Yeah,
year after year.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yeah. Yeah, So the AFC was just no good. Well
the end of you could look at the other way.
NFC was really good. Maybe a different style of football.
I mean Washington, what Washington did to Denver. I mean
they didn't have the ball that often. They were down
I think ten to nothing, and then you know, Doug
(39:28):
Williams just went crazy. Uh. You know Buffalo when they
played Dallas, they just they got they got in and
then they were in trouble and then it just becomes
this avalanche. But then you had them go toe to
toe with the Giants, you know, with Scott Norwood. So
you you've had competitive games. But there for a while,
(39:49):
we're like, man, what the AFC has got to put
up a fight? Here, and then you have the Buffalo Bills,
you know, with the close game, but also the blowout
game as well, which unfairly mars those players. Now, I'm
glad that the Hall of Fame is open their eyes
to They got to four consecutive Super Bowls that will
(40:10):
never happen again. Like we make a big deal when
somebody goes back to back at a Super Bowl. Yes,
just should be going back to back that absolutely, they
did four in a row. Yeah, Paul, I went.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Back to that AFC title game of eighty five. Is
Damn Reno versus Tony Easton. Easton only threw for seventy
one yards, but he had three touchdowns. They were all
five yard passes. Basically, they ran for like two fifty
and ma Reno just had an off date twenty or
forty eight. Two touchdowns, two picks.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Dang over right, nobody all right, one hour in the
books on this Meet Friday. More phone calls coming up.
Christopher and mad dogarusso he'll he'll be on fire with
Kyle Tucker joining the Dodgers. And if you're watching on Peacock,
(41:05):
it's worth tuning in just to see what Mad Dog's
hair looks like. It'll be a mess. Chris Simms will
join us as well as we get ready for this
football weekend. One hour in the books, Fritzy Seat and
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